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Scott Hutchinson, Art Guild Director
Scott Hutchinson,
Art Guild Director
by Bill Weaver
photo by Cindy Steele
Visitors enjoy returning to Brown County. It has something to do with the romance of the place, the people that have called it their home. People like artists Carl Graf and Genevieve Goth Graf; V.J. Cariani and Marie Goth.
"What amazes me about Marie Goth," says Scott Hutchinson,"is, when you look at all the decades that she painted, she continued to improve. She went from good to great. You have to admire that."
Hutchinson was a third-grader living in Plainfield, Indiana when, one spring afternoon, his mother brought him to Brown County. "I fell in love with the place," he remembers. He returned often, eventually attending nearby Indiana University and settling into a job with the City of Bloomington Community and Family Resources Department.
Hutchinson worked with, "about 40 different not-for-profit organizations a year for 10 years—400 chances to get it right," he smiles. "I helped organizations when they were just getting started or when they had jumped off the track and needed some help with strategic planning, fund raising, grant writing, or board development."
He brings this experience to the Brown County Art Guild where, last August, he accepted the position of executive director. "Getting out in the community, forming partnerships, pursuing grant funding, creating a community of donors and interested volunteers—that's the kind of stuff I can help with," he says.
The Guild—a branch of the original 1926 association of Brown County artists—is custodian of the Marie Goth Estate Collection located in the historic Minor House on Van Buren Street. "When she passed in 1974 she gave us more than 2000 paintings that she and others had done. It's a rich tradition not shared by many communities throughout the country."
The paintings are rotated regularly by gallery manager Roberta Chirko so that there is always something new on display. "I would like to see a Marie Goth t-shirt," Scott laughs. "One of the things we want to make sure of is that everyone who comes for this experience can go back with something in hand to remember us by."
The Guild has 43 working member artists and 6 artisans, exhibiting three times a year in February, June, and August. Each month, coinciding with the Second Saturday Village Art Walk, Guild artists display in the upper loft gallery. There is also a yearly Patron and Senior Show and April 11 (Slow Art Day) will feature a Plein Air Picnic.
"Certain places in America have a rich historic tradition of art and creativity. Brown County had one of the first art colonies in the country," Scott says, adding that that tradition fosters a "culture shed"—community space for displaying, teaching, and enjoying the arts, one that includes outreach and education.
"In a place like Brown County, when a young person shows some talent for art we need to feed that fire," he says. "We have our Annual Youth Show in March and April and we're going to collaborate with the Waycross Center to have Youth Camp June 28 through July 4. We're trying to get established artists in contact with coming young artists. If we can make a difference in a young person's career, then that is what we're interested in—teaching kids to be producers as well as consumers."
Another way to promote culture shed in Nashville will be to convert the Guild's parking lot behind the building into a pocket park, "with seating and shade, raised gardens, and a water feature," he says. "We want families to have experiences that last a lifetime."
Of his new job Scott says, "It's in a beautiful space and I'm surrounded by beautiful paintings. I enjoy working in an organization and community that has respect for its past, that is also working to make new things happen for the next generation.
"I am the luckiest man in the world."
The Brown County Art Guild is located at 48 South Van Buren Street in Nashville, (812) 988-6185. Visit
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Author to tell Hernandez story on CBS
BOSTON (AP) Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's life and death will be the subject of a one-hour special episode of "48 Hours" to be broadcast on Jan. 20.
The CBS program will be told by best-selling author James Patterson, who is writing a book about Hernandez.
Once one of the top players in the NFL, Hernandez was convicted for the murder of Odin Lloyd, who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fianc�e. Hernandez hanged himself at the age of 27 in the Massachusetts prison cell where he was serving a life sentence. After his death, he was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which can cause depression and violent mood swings.
Patterson calls it "the most fascinating, complicated and troubling crime story of our times."
The book "All-American Murder" is due out Jan. 22.
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Today the draw was made and the 2015-2016 fixture list released. The 2015-2016 Serie A season starts the weekend of August 22 and ends on May 15th.
Milan open the season at Fiorentina and end it at Roma. The first derby is on week 3, September 13th, and the return at the end of January. Week 13, November 22nd, features Milan at Juve with the return being in April. Milan play both first time Serie A teams Carpi and Frosinone in December, on the 6th and 20th of the month respectively.


With headlines about gun violence, bomb threats and abductions popping up almost daily, the matter of keeping schools safe becomes more of a priority.
In Magnolia ISD, the Precinct 5 Constable's Office allots eight contracted deputies and one canine unit for the whole district.
While businessman and former military policeman Logan Gatewood feels one officer per campus is enough, Magnolia Police Department Detective Brian Clack thinks having two officers on each campus would be better, and incumbent Precinct 5 Constable David Hill said the need for campus security is evaluated regularly by campus officials as well as the constable's office.
"I believe there is no greater mission than the protection of our families, but I also believe there are inherent misconceptions with the idea of throwing more bodies at a problem," Gatewood said.
The best way to ensure the best school safety, according to Gatewood, is by developing a strong reserve of officers who can work any shift and respond the fastest in case of emergency.
"Magnolia Independent School District has contracted with the Montgomery County Precinct 5 Constables Department for armed deputies to provide safety and security on several campuses," Hill said.
Gatewood and Clack both agree that there would need to be annual active shooter training implemented for officers along with Fire Department and EMS officials, and faculty and staff should be trained on what their role would be in an emergency situation.
Hill noted that all deputies assigned to work for the district are trained to be prepared for an active-shooter scenario, and they attend the Texas School Based Law Enforcement conference annually.
Campus security in Magnolia ISD is currently provided by licensed and commissioned peace officers who are armed and paid for by the school district on a 200-day contract.
"This provides a well trained presence on each campus," Gatewood said.
When asked how they felt about teachers and administration being armed on school campuses, the Precinct 5 Constable candidates had mixed feelings.
"We work closely with Magnolia Independent School District to establish security guidelines and feel that the decision for teachers and administration to carry weapons will be a joint decision between both administrations," Hill said.
Clack feels school security is there so that teachers and administrators don't have to have that responsibility.
Gatewood thinks with appropriate training and screening processes, certain school personnel could be allowed to be armed on campus, but not any time in the near future.
Gatewood, Hill and Clack will face off in the March 1 primary. The winner will be the presumptive constable-elect as there are no Democratic opponents.


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Weekly Wellness Tip: Get Off Social
By Olivia Land • Columbia Barnard Contributor • Wellness February 22, 2018 at 11:45pm
It's no secret that everyone and their mother is addicted to social media. In the last week alone, I can't tell you how many conversations I've overheard or been a part of about the frustrations of a new Instagram algorithm or the latest celebrity Twitter rant. But how do you think it would feel if we stepped away from all that for a bit, and had conversations about something other than what so-and-so was doing last night on Snapchat? I recently started deleting Instagram from my phone for several days at a time every few weeks, and I love it. It's incredibly liberating to spend time without the constant pull of the blue light and comparing myself to everyone else's "feed life." If you're looking to eliminate some stress and let go a bit this week, take the plunge and delete your social media apps for a bit. You'll be surprised (or maybe not!) to learn that you won't even miss them.
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A self-proclaimed dark chocolate hoarder living and learning in Manhattan. A book-lover at heart, Olivia can most often be found reading, doing yoga, or destressing on the swings in Riverside Park.
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I had been writing on a daily basis. I had been at my prolific peak typing down as much as 4k words each day. I was writing blog posts crossing 2k words in length, which meant writing 2k words germane to the same topic/subject. And, my head would never disappoint me. My grey matter would keep on shooting up ideas, thoughts and points to include in the next paragraph as I would be typing with my fingers. In a nutshell, I was all into writing, and writing was all into me.
Then, my examinations came closer. I had to slow down. I had to pare my time devoted to writing each day. I had to begin preparations for exams. So I did that. And, that proved to be a costly affair for my prolific writing habit. Once the exams were over, about ten days later, I got back to my chair. I clicked open my WordPad and began typing. And, as I reached maybe 500-600 words, my head stopped shooting any more ideas to write about.
I was clueless. I could not think of things to write on the topic which I had begun with. Writer's block had got on to me and I was vacuous over what else could be typed out on the concerned subject. My writing muscle which earlier used to keep popping out ideas one after another had run out of practice. I tried to think a lot, but I remember I closed the post at 843 words unlike ten days back when I had been habitual to stretching up to 2k words easily. My writing muscle had atrophied and I was off my game.
It took me another fifteen days to improve my word count and thinking ability but I am still nowhere close to my heydey. And, every time I give up practicing my writing muscle, I have to undergo this process of convalescence every single time. I know it because it has happened to me a number of times earlier. And, that's what happens when you don't work out any of your muscle.
It's the same as what happens when you get a fracture on your leg and don't walk for fifteen straight days. Your legs run out of practice and atrophy. The moment you get up on your feet fifteen days later to walk again, your legs don't work and balance just as they used to. In most cases, one has to exercise the legs for a few days to get back in perfect walking condition, and in other cases, it may need physiotherapy.
The essence remains the same with every muscle. Be it the aforementioned leg muscle, the writing muscle, or the idea muscle, they needed to be exercised. To keep a muscle in ever perfect and active form, one has to keep it training and sweating. Regular practice is the key. And, that principle explains what it takes to transform oneself into an idea machine. One has to exercise and sweat the idea muscle every single day. It has to be a daily ritual!
It can be about anything. Literally about anything. It may be ten business ideas or book ideas. Or, ten ideas to surprise your father or ideas to enchant your spouse in the bed. Maybe ideas to make a business meeting fun and interactive or ten ideas to start a conversation with a strange random person. The base principle is to make your brain think. To put some pressure on it and make it break through any form of resistance to your potential thinking abilities. To expand your thinking horizons.
So, write about ten ideas to close a letter in a fun way. Ten ideas about how can Amazon do a better job. Ten ideas about how you can help your maid's child with no monetary help. Ten ideas to write a blog post about. Ten ideas of things you can donate or get rid of. There can be endless such possibilities. However, as you would be thinking and writing the ideas, you would most probably find yourself stuck and exhausted by the time you are done with five or seven points, depending on your understanding of the subject.
And, that is when your brain would start to experience the sweat and pressure. That's the training we need for our idea muscle. And, pushing ourselves, and hence our grey matter to pop out another idea at that moment is what will make you grow as a thinker and eventually turn you into an Idea Machine. And, as time passes and your brain develops the propensity to generate ten ideas easily, you could probably extend that count to fifteen ideas. Then twenty ideas, and so on and on and on.
That's because our brain is a powerful tool with immense potential. But, that potential is seldom harnessed. Ergo, if we keep exercising our idea muscle, our growing thinking power would keep surprising us. No matter what situation you would be in, what problem you would be facing, what challenges may exist on your course to conquer that problem, your idea muscle will surprise you with a way out every single time. You would have non-stop solutions to tackle every situation.
In the beginning of this exercise, your ideas may seem to be prosaic and not that exciting. But, as time passes, your ideas would keep getting better. Especially the ones you write down at the bottom of the list at point numbers 8, 9 and 10. And, you will be a walking body of solutions to whatever ordeals you may face. Your life would be easier, and troubles would get smoother to pass by. And, that would happen because you would have evolved yourself into a badass Idea Machine!
I have been doing this for several months now. At times I had to take a hiatus for several exogenous factors, one being the irritating examinations every 40-45 days. But, each time I got back to the practice. And, my quality of life too evolved with the strengthening of my idea muscle. I am in no way an idea machine yet. But, I am definitely not the old prosaic self who was nowhere close to being an idea machine either. I am somewhere in between and I already feel that no situation can intimidate me enough no more.
Ten Ideas to approach your crush and break the ice.
Ten Ideas to make a stranger on the street smile.
Ten Ideas of activities that make you afraid or uncomfortable.
Ten Ideas of things which would make your parents proud of you.
Ten Ideas of subjects/topics which you could teach someone.
Ten Ideas of social events you can organize in your society.
Ten ideas to approaching a sponsor to fund your college festival.
Ten Ideas of mobile applications that don't exist but should.
Ten Ideas to make the society more inclusive for homosexuals.
Ten Ideas to surprise your parents without buying them anything.
So, now you have ten additional subjects to think, ponder and jot down ten ideas about, other than the several ideas aforementioned in the post. So, don't squander another iota of time. As soon as you end reading this post, start writing ten ideas on any of these topics. Or, maybe think of a topic of your own which piques your interest. Let nothing stop you from being the great Idea Machine you have the immense potential to be. Bliss!
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How can i split this data by control characters such as ^B or ^A?

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Traffic Cone Bag: Made in the Garment District, New York
After numerous false starts my Traffic Cone Bag has finally gotten a green light.
Traffic Cone Bag Central
Making it in NYC article on FastCompany.com
It's being made in the famous yet increasingly impoverished Garment District of New York City - at a non-sweatshop price.
"This use to be the fashion capital of America," said Caroline, who's made clothes for some big names in couture including Calvin Klein, Baby Phat and Tracey Reese.
Like many immigrants she worked her way up from scratch to supervising a large cutting room staff and knowing every computerized cutting machine in the business. Then she was laid off.
"The fashion companies shipped everything offshore, fired everyone - now look what's happened."
The "now look" she's referring to isn't the latest way to team a sarong with a business suit and get away with it.
Caroline (left) meets my mother (right) , a veteran of the clothing business herself, having worked in women's retail fashion since she was 17. Small wonder I find myself working a casual gig at EMS
It's the slump in the clothing sector – the very people who are meant to buy those clothes – the American public – haven't got the money. According to Caroline, it's because companies are sending labor offshore, and rents are become luxury-condofied.
In a small, unluxe room in a rabbit warren of a building on 37th St, she sits among the bolts and bobbins of her trade, showing me photos of a dress she constructed for a first appearance by Hilary Clinton.
"I came here with no English and $300 in my pocket," she said. She waves away my probing for more "story".
"Every immigrant has a story," she says.
Caroline's quote is higher than it would be if made in quantity offshore. In fact, a friend of mine showed me a highly constructed bag he got through his bike club, complete with club logo "for $6.50".
"I'm pretty sure they were made in New Jersey," he said. We all conceded that if they were, someone poor seamstress was being paid in coffee and bagels.
If sweatshops still abound in the city, Caroline isn't spending time dwelling there.
"I just do my own business, do it the best I can, be honest, be reliable."
She also waves away my questions about how much my bag would cost if made in China, her home country.
"The best thing you can do for this country is to do what Obama says – buy local, get things made local," says Caroline. "Then people will have jobs, they will have money to buy food, clothes, make this economy more stable."
That sounds pretty logical. Did she read that somewhere? Caroline stabs her temple with a finger.
"No, I've just thought about this!"
She tells me she's making no money on my project – she wants to keep her talented understudy occupied and she likes to support personal creative endeavours.
"Work on your own ideas, you own business. You get a high paid job, you can lose it overnight. When you have your own business, your own good ideas, you can make your way."
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Generational gaps in motion. A pair of father and son monkeys dressed in tennis attire almost look the part as they pose on a painted pink and red backdrop.
"It's like describing a generation gap between us and our primal ancestors"


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World of Warplanes Preview – The First Hour in the Air
Wargaming.net are expanding on the phenomenal success of World of Tanks by throwing their lumbering World War II machines into the air and hoping everything isn't going to come crashing down. Adopting the same model as its predecessor, World of Warplanes has you accruing credits to buy new, faster, flashier planes with which to dominate the airspace with. But nailing the slow, ponderous pace of tanks where terrain and positioning are just as important as skill and teamwork isn't quite the same as achieving success once the theatre of war is dogfighting and bombing runs.
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The instant you're hit, the certainty of your continued existence goes out of the window. The fundamental difference between a tank and a plane is that, once the engine of a tank stops working, it's still a pretty dangerous threat, because it's going to sit there with its big old cannon firing big old shells in your general direction. You can still get kills with a damaged engine, in World of Tanks.Get your engine hit, or your engine on fire, or your wing shredded into a useless frame of wood and metal, and you can't turn into a stationary turret, firing on incoming fighters. You are going to /drop/. You're going to struggle to keep this writhing animal in the air, and you aren't going to be doing anykilling.Once you're hit, the dice start rolling. And it's everything you can do to keep yourself from becoming a smear on the ground of mainland France.
It's this uncertain fragility that makes World of Warplanes altogether more thrilling than it's slower paced older brother. Playing through my first few games, there was something liberating about being one of the smaller, more agile biplanes. All the big boys, the players that have played for months and months, had vast fighter bombers, or at least something that is built more for speed and durability than manoeuvrability. It means you can turn tighter circles, and spin speedier barrel rolls once they're on your six.It also means you're basically a paper plane, waiting for some dick with a BB gun to come along and punch some holes in your delicate aerodynamics. You go down fast, and you go down hard. The trick is staying out of strafing lines.The credits come in fast, though, giving you more than enough to upgrade within a few victories, or a few more defeats. You can grab yourself a Warhawk, somewhere on the fighter-bomber spectrum, but much closer to fighter than bomber. The difference is immediate, and drastic, leaving you tailing behind as the lighter fighters on your team start to elevate, headed for the heavens so that they can rain down hell. You're stuck in the purgatory of a thousand feet or so, which is right in the firing line.Altitude is what separates the classes of plane, like oil and water. The big guys stay low, headed for the enemy emplacements, while the little guys flit among the clouds, duelling with one another before swooping down to mop up the cumbersome heavies.
Each game has a pair of victory conditions, each one leading you to the win screen if you can pull it off. Either you can destroy enough of the enemy base to slip into victory, or you can wipe out the entire enemy force, or at very least achieve air superiority, should they be cowards and hide down in canyons and low, rolling hills.It means there's this odd mix of all out gunning it at one another and hanging back, waiting for the more heavy-hitting bomber classes and then dealing with those. If all your fighters climb and climb to deal with the opposing swarm, you're going to be left defenceless when those big bastards come creeping up your flanks. But if you don'thead up, you're sacrificing the higher ground to the enemy, and you're going to end up dive bombed to oblivion.The difference in plane type makes itself abundantly clear the instant you find yourself in the pilot seat, too. The smaller the plane the easier it pitches and yaws, whereas they might find their engine pootling out before you even reach 400kmp/h. On the other hand the bigger chassis take a bit more work to wrestle into a turn, but their larger engines let them zip along. The controls themselves seem intuitive enough, although there's more than enough functions in the bindings to make me ignore a vast swathe. Instead I just mapped the essentials to my gamepad, and got straight to work.
There is a threat that by sacrificing hills and towns for wide open spaces a lot of the tactics that make World of Tanks so compelling are going to be lost, but by that same token those hills and towns are still there, they're just a thousand feet below you. I've seen planes sweep down into a canyon to lose a tail, only to surge upwards and force themselves into a stall, so that they can end up behind their pursuer. The availability for tactics is still there, it's just more esoteric this time around.Similarly, right now there's a problem in a frustrating amount of time between each game, for the most part taking upwards of two or three minutes before it finds a game. Sometimes it's absolutely fine, with only a few seconds between hitting the button and finding yourself in a game, but so far it's the most glaring, obvious flaw. But then this is a beta, and that's precisely the sort of thing that will improve over time.There's no reason to think World of Warplanes isn't going to mirror the success of Wargame's previous title, as it's very much doing the same thing, only with a different kind of vehicle. And the fact that this particular kind of vehicle is so much more immediate, spectacular and thrilling really isn't going to hurt it any, either.


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MM60 is key for Leeds Rhinos
March 12, 2018 /in Media/by chrisbassett
MM60 is key for Leeds Rhinos. Ryan Golding, head groundsman at the Emerald Headingley Stadium – home to Leeds Rhinos rugby league and Yorkshire Carnegie rugby union clubs, believes that Limagrain's MM60 grass seed has been integral to the success of the pitch.
Ryan has been working at the stadium for fifteen years and has occupied the position of head groundsman for the last four. With two deputy's underneath him – Dan Connor and Leon Pearson – Ryan and his team tend to the stadium pitch, two first team pitches, four academy pitches, a 3G pitch and the Stanningley rugby league club – where the Rhino's academy teams play.
"On average with both first teams and academy games we host around 50 – 60 games," says Ryan. "In addition to that we also have under 19 games, community games, disabled rugby games, and also events. This year when in mid-season the pitch was transformed into a Bollywood film set as a 1930`s hockey pitch. It is a very intense work place and it never stops but it's interesting, challenging and enjoyable."
With such a heavy fixture list, renovations largely depend on available windows but Ryan tends to aim for June each year. However, where many groundsmen may have extended periods throughout pre-season, Ryan has as little as 26 days to get the pitch up and running again.
"Getting the right seed is key and that is why I use Limagrain's MM60," he says. "We had been with another seed supplier for a number of years but I felt we needed a change to keep on improving. I looked into it and spoke with other groundsmen who use Limagrain and received nothing but excellent feedback.
"As a groundsman I'm very open to what I use and I don't mind taking a risk but I'll do my research first. Before I did anything I got some samples of MM60. We trialled it in a tough area in the North East corner which is consistently in the shade and we saw great recovery rates."
Limagrain's MM60 grass seed is renowned for producing an excellent playing surface in a stadium environment. It is a 100% Ryegrass formula which is perfect for renovation and divot repair, has a high disease resistance, fantastic aesthetic qualities and offers extremely fast germination – which is boosted by the inclusion of Headstart® GOLD. Developed using the latest scientific findings and field experience, it is a natural revolutionary grass seed treatment that ensures rapid germination and is perfect for enhancing performance on grass seed coatings for sports fields, golf courses, lawns and amenity turf.
"The germination is incredibly fast and I've noticed a particular improvement in the centre spot," says Ryan. "You would not believe the hammering that area gets. A lot of the time you find that kick off's go straight out which means that there are scrums straight over the centre spot. It was always a problematic area in the past but MM60 has made a noticeable improvement especially when combined with sheets and lighting rigs.
"I've also noticed that it doesn't fray the leaf edge when compared to our previous seed so we tend not to get as much disease – we hardly encounter any leaf spot as a result from stress and there is no yellowing of the leaf either.
"I think my priorities have changed as I've got older and wiser. It's all very well wanting the pitch bright green throughout the year but you are stressing the pitch in doing so and is it really needed for a game that isn't televised? I'm not so sure. For me, aesthetics isn't my priority sometimes, it's all about the recovery and germination and MM60 provides me with this."
Furthermore, Ryan was quick to praise the customer service he receives from Limagrain.
"Suppliers have to understand the needs of the pitch and the Limagrain team know the standards here which certainly helps – the back-up is great. I can call them whenever I want and we will normally start with a general discussion about rugby before going into the technical side of things. Personally, I think that Limagrain treats each and every customer the same – and that is a fine art if you ask me."
For further information, please contact Limagrain UK on 01472 371471 or visit the company's website www.lgseeds.co.uk/amenity
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Coat inside of slow cooker with cooking spray. Add all ingredients to slow cooker (save the Topping packet for garnish). Stir, cover, and cook on low for approx. 7 hours (slow cooker times can vary). Spoon oatmeal into bowls and sprinkle with Topping packet. To reheat single servings: Put 1 cup cooked oatmeal in microwavable bowl. Add 1/3 cup milk and microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir and serve warm!
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Hi, I apologize if this is discussed elsewhere, I did not see it in a quick review. Are there any plans to support new low cost VR devices launching this year like the Trimersion HMD and Novint Falcon? Also, is there any direct support for Wiimotes planned?
We are always willing to integrate new devices into our toolkit. The HMD you mention might already be compatible if it uses a standard stereo mode. If you want the raw accelerometer data, then we would need to write a plugin that accesses it.
We currently don't support the Falcon device. We do support haptic devices by SensAble.
We are already considering adding wiimote support to Vizard. There are no guarantees when it will be available though.
Do you already have any of these devices?
Actually I should not have included the Trimersion HMD in the question, becuase it is driverless and just uses mouse and WASD inputs as if it was a keyboard.
I do have a NovInt Falcon, and have been using Wiimotes with other 3D apps through hacks, but that does not provide the full set of inputs with a sensor bar, just a couple of degrees of rotation.
I have been impressed with the quality of the Falcon, especially given the very low price. The SDK is out now, so I am hoping to see more apps pick up support, it will be a very useful device.
We already have a working plugin for the wiimote that supports all the features, including the extensions. It will be available with the next release, which will be out at the end of this month.
I know this is an old thread, but as part of a University module we have been experimenting with the free (well, the clue is in the name ) FreeTrack tracking software, which emulates (as far as I can tell) NaturalPoint's TrackIR head tracking product. We have got it to work with Vizard using mouse emulation, although the lag is terrible and it ain't that accurate, so was wondering about the possibility of it working directly with Vizard?
Are you sure the lag is introduced through the mouse emulation mode, and not just the software itself? I can't imagine that much lag being caused by sending the data through the mouse position. Either way, you can download the Vizard SDK from our website and create your own sensor that connects to the FreeTrack software.
Thanks for the prompt response farshizzo, I shall look into that.
Hi nige777 and farshizzo, I see this is a very old thread, but if either of you are still around and see this, could you let me know how your mouse emulation has gone? Our lab has just purchased the TrackIR system with the intent of pulling it into Vizard to drive the orientation of a Sony HMZ-T1 visor. How did you connect TrackIR to Vizard in the first place, and secondly, did you find a solution to the lag issue you mentioned?
have you tried your HMD yet with Track-IR?
from my tests (and that was with a version of Track IR a few years ago, and with a lower end HMD than the Sony) the Track IR was working reasonably well in a limited range in front of the sensor (camera).
in general, for head orientation tracking, we find that in order to get a good VR experience, this needs to be very smooth and stutter free and with as little lag as possible. this is why we use for almost all our integrated solutions either intertial/magnetic orientation trackers (like Intersense, InertialLabs, xSense, Trivisio, etc.). Also electromagnetic trackers are good for that reason like Polhemus.
For position, we at Worldviz have our own camera based large area position tracker system called PPT ( http://www.worldviz.com/products/ppt ) which you are probably aware of. However, such a system is a completely different price point than Track IR, its much more expensive, and it's normally used to smoothly and accurately track whole and large rooms for free walking around (10m by 10m or more).
(www.vizapps.com ) which sells for $2990 and includes the Sony HMD, an InertialLabs orientation sensor (which we physically integrate with the Sony HMD, so that it's not in the way and there is only one cable), and a Microsoft Kinect for position tracking of head and hands.
We combine this with a version of our software Vizard that's filtering / piecing together the data.
The WIRKS solution gives a surprisingly smooth immersive experience (see movies at the bottom).
So we can say with confidence that for a limited volume (about 2m x 3m) the Kinect combined with a high end motion sensor is an acceptable solution for immersive virtual reality.
I reallize that this post does not exactly answer your question about how to integrate the mouse movement for head movement and i hope someone else helps out on that end. but i just wanted to post what my experiences are with those respective systems.
Just to give you a bit of background on where I'm coming from with my question since I was very vague in my original post in the interest of being brief: our lab actually already possesses the Cadillac setup, complete with the SX111 and PPT Studio, which we've had for just over a year now, so I'm pretty familiar with all the nice high-end components. My primary conern right now is in the interest of developing as low-cost of a solution as possible (which could potentially be duplicated several times over) and distributed to our friends, and then all networked together to create a shared virtual reality environment.
Last summer I think our lab actually did a quick test drive of the InertiaLabs sensor, which seemed to do quite a nice job with orientation, though we were comparing to the IC2 on our SX111, to which of course it is a slight step down. while it is a great device, I still wanted to try something even cheaper and more accesible, and came across this TrackIR system, which so far seems to be doing a remarkable job, especially given it's price point. Simply within the TrackIR software, I've run the tracker in first person mode while wearing the Sony HMD, and the responsiveness is nearly instantaneous and exceptionally smooth.
I've read up on the WIRKS package and watched all the demo videos, and it does seem to be a nice all-encompassing system, but for the sake of our research, we'd like to see if we could do something even more cost effective than that, and since the orientation tracker seems to be the most expensive component of the WIRKS system, that's what we'd like to slash first.
I've already managed to get the Kinect and the Sony HMD pulled in and coopoerating within Vizard, but as I'm sure you guys know, the Kinect doesn't do well at all with mapping the orientation of the head node, hence the need for the InertiaLabs sensor or the TrackIR system. And so, having these two pieces in place and working, I want to mute or override the orientation data (at least for the head node) coming from the Kinect and substitute in it's place the orientation from the TrackIR via it's mouse emulator mode.
The TrackIR is able to output full 6DOF tracking info, but of course I'd cut that in half and only take the orientation data and stack that onto what I'm getting from the Kinect.
Back to the issue of simply getting the data from TrackIR into a form that will play nicely with Vizard: I mentioned that they do have a mouse emulator, but the trouble with that is that I'll only get two degrees of freedom translated through, with being X-axis movement of the mouse being Yaw and Y-axis being Pitch, and will be missing out on the Z-axis Roll data.
I understand that TrackIR still hasn't joined the VRPN bandwagon yet with their sensor, otherwise this whole issue would almost be a no-brainer, so I'm just really trying to see what potential solutions there are for getting TrackIR to give me Yaw, Pitch, and Roll, in a method which Vizard will understand.
Are there plans to support the NaturalPoint TrackIR 4 Pro in Vizard?
We have a number of those quite well performing and affordable trackers and are considering to use them as 6DOF trackers within Vizard soon (if possible).
I'm in the same boat as you. I'm actually working with the TrackIR 5, but it only seems to be a slight upgrade in hardware compared to the TrackIR 4, otherwise pretty much exactly the same. I'm still trying to find a solution, but haven't gotten any concrete or detailed responses on here yet, and am not having much success trying to figure something out on my own. I'm working with a C++ programmer in our lab to try and write our own back-end VRPN program which will take the data from the TrackIR and put it into that standard format for Vizard to understand. If we're able to figure it out, I'll see if I'm allowed to post our results. In the meantime, if anybody else reading this has a sure-fire way of connecting the NaturalPoint hardware into Vizard, I'd love to hear how you managed it.
Hey Chris -- I appreciate your prompt response to this! I am at the time talking to the Worldviz support to see what we can do on this end, possibly have a module ordered if need be (I'll let you know as this progresses). In the meantime, I am investigating the FreeTrack software a bit more to see if it is of any use to us.


Donald Trump, Republican, won the presidential election with 276 electoral votes, compared to Hillary Clinton's 218, according to the Associated Press as of 5:19 AM PST, Nov. 9, 2016. There are still 44 electoral votes still available, but not enough to get Clinton to the required 270 votes. Currently, Clinton is winning the popular vote.
In Washington State, Hillary Clinton won 72.68% of the vote, while Donald Trump took 20.9% of the vote. The remainder of voters split their votes among Independent candidates, per King County Elections.
Incumbent Jay Inslee (Democrat) retained his seat with 70.13% of the vote. Republican Bill Bryant received 29.72% of the vote.
Cyrus Habib, Democrat, won the seat with 71.76% of the vote, compared to Marty McClendon, Republican, who received 28.05% of the vote.
Democrat Tina Podlodowski won the Secretary of State, unseating current Secretary of State, Kim Wyman, Republican.
Duane Davidson, Republican, won the State Treasurer's office with 60.34% of the vote, winning over Michael Waite, Republican, who had 37.96% of the vote.
Democrat Pat McCarthy took the State Auditor's with a sizable lead – 65.73% of the vote – against Mark Miloscia, Republican, who received 34.15% of the vote.
Democrat Bob Ferguson retains his seat as Washington Attorney General with 80.45% of the vote over Libertarian Joshua B. Trumbull who received just 19.35% of the vote.
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After the success of the 2018 Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, a new music biopic on the legendary Elton John seeks the same success. The film does an amazing job depicting John's life as musical fantasy, portraying his real-life experiences of music, loneliness, and substance abuse. The actor portraying John, Taron Egerton, not only gave a passionate performance, but also covered classic Elton John songs perfectly for the soundtrack. The movie was emotional and made me feel for John and the work he had to put in to overcome his issues with addiction and suicidal thoughts. Even if you don't enjoy classic rock, this movie is a must-watch, especially now that it is available for purchase.
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Imagine waking up to find out that one of the most influential bands in history never existed. When struggling songwriter Jack Malik experiences this phenomenon, he takes advantage by using the Beatles' songs to make his career take off. This movie goes in a different direction than recent biopics, and, although there is no problem with music biopics, it was a fun change to see. The acting was Oscar-worthy at some points and bland at others, which proved to be the biggest problem with the movie. Nonetheless, the movie was an interesting way to introduce Beatles music to a younger generation and a fun movie to see with friends.
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After the epic and shocking events of Avengers: Endgame, Spiderman: Far From Home is the first movie to be released since the end of the "Infinity Saga" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it did just what it needed to do. In the most recent installment of the Spiderman franchise, actor Tom Holland gives his best performance of Peter Parker to date. The movie explores how Parker struggles to balance his life. As a teenage boy, he just wants to go on his European field trip with his friends. However, he has his life as a superhero, where people are looking for him to step up as one of the leading members of the remaining Avengers. The cast's great chemistry makes the whole film enjoyable, and, as usual, the visual effects were stunning. This film not only predicts the future success of the next stage of superheroes, but also returns Spiderman to one of cinema's top heroes.
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Quentin Tarantino's ninth film features Leonardo DiCaprio as actor Rick Dalton and Brad Pitt as his stunt double as they try to make their mark on Hollywood. The movie is lengthy but well worth the time investment. All the A-list actors bond brilliantly to make you laugh one minute and put you completely on edge another. The only downside is that the movie's plot can be hard to follow. However, this adds an air of unpredictability because you never know what direction the movie will go next. While not Tarantino's best film, it shows the height of hippies, 60's nostalgia, and the rise of the infamous Manson cult through talented acting and an ending that will leave you with your mouth wide open.
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Q: Sequilize - Delete ManyToMany Associations I'm using Sequilize to program a common Student - Course relational database in NodeJS.
The 2 Models are associated through the automatically generated relational table student_course:
Course.belongsToMany(Student, {
  through: "student_course",
});

Student.belongsToMany(Course, {
  through: "student_course",
});

In order to update the courses associated to a Student I am used to delete all the entries in the association table where: {studentId: "id of the selected Student"}, and insert the new associations that the user posts.
Looking at the Documentation I can see that

When an association is defined between two models, the instances of those models gain special methods to interact with their associated counterparts source

and one of these methods listed under the paragraph "Foo.belongsToMany(Bar, { through: Baz })" is the fooInstance.removeBars() which I thought would be the perfect choice to my needs.
But student.removeCourses() generates the following SQL query:
DELETE FROM `student_course` WHERE `studentId` = 6 AND `courseId` IN (NULL)

and because of courseId IN (NULL) condition the query is not working, i.e. nothing is deleted. It works if I specify the courseId like for example student.removeCourses([1,2,3]).
But how do I delete all the entries associated to one students? Should I query all the Courses and fill an array with their id?
Please let me know if I should post some example code.
Thank you!

A: If you want to remove all associated courses of one student, use student.setCourses([]) instead


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High school senior Frank Li is a Limbo–his term for Korean-American kids who find themselves caught between their parents' traditional expectations and their own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance–"Date Korean"–which proves complicated when Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful–and white. Fellow Limbo Joy Song is in a similar predicament, and so they make a pact: they'll pretend to date each other in order to gain their freedom. Frank thinks it's the perfect plan, but in the end, Frank and Joy's fake-dating maneuver leaves him wondering if he ever really understood love–or himself–at all.
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OMG, you guys, Frankly in Love was a HIGHLY anticipated YA novel and I couldn't wait to read it!
I was not disappointed!
I fell in love with it.
I laughed out loud with it.
This book deserves a place on my TOP 10 YA books of all time shelf!!!
Yes, it deals with high school seniors, first love, college choices, family pressure and all that drama you normally expect from YA books, BUT (yes, there's a but) it somehow talked about some heavy issues too, without being a total emotional meltdown. The sense of humor sprinkled throughout the book, was just the right amount and the main characters were so LOVABLE!
Frank Li is a first generation Korean-American and his parents immigrated from Korea in search of the "American Dream". Frank often feels like he lives a double-life. One, where he can be himself with his friends, and a different one, with his parents, where he's expected to follow Korean traditions and find a nice Korean girl to date.
But, like Selena Gomez once sang "The heart wants what it wants" ❤
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It's truly impressive to think that this book is a debut for David Yoon and I can't wait to see what he comes up with next!
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Hurt and hope: For left-wing British Jews, UK election is a moment of reckoning
With the U.K. at its most divided in living memory, progressive British Jews are facing a choice between a socialist Labour Party beset by anti-Semitism scandals and a Conservative Party empowering the far right, while battling communal divisions over political allegiances.
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When Rob Abrams made it known that he would be voting for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in the upcoming elections, some in his community called him a "kapo," the term used to describe Jewish collaborators in Nazi concentration camps. One person told him that he hoped Abrams' mother would say Kaddish, the Jewish mourner's prayer, over him in the near future.
"It's very painful, I feel very much stuck between a rock and a hard place," says Abrams, a British Jewish left-wing and anti-occupation activist based in London. "On the one hand I get accused by people of being this and that and of seeing anti-Semitism everywhere, and on the other side I see people who don't see anti-Semitism."
Abrams is one of over 260,000 British Jews who on Dec. 12, along with the rest of the British electorate, will be choosing between incumbent prime minister Boris Johnson's Conservative party and the Labour Party headed by socialist Jeremy Corbyn.
While much of the attention has been on their parties' approaches to Brexit, the NHS, taxation, and the climate crisis, there has also been considerable focus on the U.K.'s small Jewish minority and the allegations of anti-Semitism within Labour's ranks that have engulfed the party. While not isolated to his reign, since Corbyn's rise to leadership in 2015, the party has been rocked by repeated accusations — and a subsequent media storm — that have drastically intensified in the run-up to this election.
On Nov. 7, a front-page letter in the Jewish Chronicle, the British-Jewish newspaper of record, called on non-Jewish Brits not to vote for Labour, citing that 87 percent of British Jews consider Corbyn to be an anti-Semite, and that 47 percent would "seriously consider" emigrating should he be elected prime minister. A similar sentiment was echoed by U.K. Chief Rabbi Efraim Mirvis a few weeks later, when he broke with convention to declare Corbyn "unfit for high office."
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaking in London, March 24, 2015. (Foreign and Commonwealth Office – Chief Rabbi/CC 2.0)
For those British Jews on the left, the saga has the added dimension that the right has turned the situation to its own political advantage, often by those figures noted for their own murky associations with anti-Semitism. Of note are Johnson's own historic ties with figures like former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon and the Brexit Party's Nigel Farage, who is also closely associated with the U.S. president.
Yet amid the noise of the mainstream press and a political class more concerned with finger-wagging, the human dimension of this story has often been overlooked. The mainstream media's endless column inches on the "Jewish community" have stripped British Jews of their ethnocultural, religious, socioeconomic, and political diversity, boxing them into a homogenous bloc. Missing from the story is what it feels like to be both Jewish and a part of the left — with all the "shades of opinion" that entails.
One crisis too many
Many British Jewish left-wing voters feel caught between two warring realities, one in which people believe the anti-Semitism allegations and denounce Labour, and the other in which people see no anti-Semitism and denounce the allegations.
Several who plan to vote Labour are doing so with a heavy heart. Those who find the decision easier are guided by political values that they feel are best represented by the Labour manifesto and Corbyn, or by the moral imperative they feel to stop Johnson's Conservatives. For many who simply cannot endorse the lack of leadership on an issue which has inundated Labour, they must instead sacrifice some of their ideals and vote for another party. This stance was mostly found among voters in what are considered "safe" Labour constituencies.
For Neil Nerva, a Labour councilor in Queen's Park, London, the election season has been marked by a feeling of shame. "What I've lost is the adrenaline and the confidence to try and persuade people how to vote. What I'm ashamed of more than anything else — I'm ashamed of the party I'm a member of and advancing — is that the vast majority of the Jewish people, and many others, do not have the confidence to vote for Labour." Neil's persistence in this election is down to his confidence in his local MP, Tulip Siddiq; if it wasn't for her, he admits, he wouldn't be "out and active."
Amos Schonfield from London, active with Jewish groups including liberal advocacy organization Yachad and the Board of Deputies, says there has simply been one crisis too many, and plans on voting Green. Schonfield gave up his Labour membership in 2018 when a member of the party's governing body, Peter Willsman, was re-elected after being recorded in July 2018 blaming anti-Semitism allegations in the Labour party on Jewish "Trump fanatics," dismissing their veracity, and asking "the rabbis" to provide evidence.
In May 2019, he was again recorded at a meeting in which he labeled the "crisis" a smear campaign targeting Corbyn and claimed that the Israeli embassy had orchestrated an open letter from 68 rabbis regarding their concern about anti-Semitism in Labour. This time, the party suspended him.
"[Willsman] showed blatant disregard of Jews, and then to see him elected with 70,000 votes — I could no longer say it was a case of one bad apple in the Labour party," says Schonfield. "There was widespread dismissal of racism in favor of faction.
"I want to see Corbyn's manifesto delivered, I want to be part of that movement, but you can't deny that there's institutional failings with anti-Semitism," he continues. "And when a party that calls itself an anti-racist party can't deal with anti-Semitism, you can't have confidence that it will deliver. I support people who vote Labour and do so knowing they need to make the party better, but I'm not prepared to do so."
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at a protest by junior doctors, London, April 26, 2016. (Garry Knight/CC 2.0)
A similar story is told by Joel Hart, a PhD candidate at Oxford who supports Labour's manifesto but feels that he cannot vote for the party, and is also considering voting for the Green Party from a Labour safe seat. He names Corbyn's 2012 defense of an East London mural featuring anti-Semitic tropes as "one of the first things that led me away from far-left circles to start with, despite having very radical views on the economy." Despite later omissions of regret from Corbyn, for Hart it opened up a doubt that has "stuck with me ever since."
Hart's brother, Samson, echoes this sense of a torn identity. An activist and farmer residing in Frome, he initially joined Labour to vote for Corbyn in the last election. But unlike his brother, Samson is not prepared to abandon the party. "I've been struggling like many Jews… there was a big period in the last election when I felt let down by the Labour party," he said, citing a BBC exposé that aired last summer in which eight Labour whistleblowers claimed that efforts to tackle anti-Semitism were consistently undermined by the party. "So, I kind of distanced myself, and I read everything there was to read. I wanted to be able to defend my own position as someone who believes there is clearly anti-Semitism within the Labour party, yet also someone who often identifies as anti-Zionist and has been engaged in anti-occupation activism," he said.
When asked what brought him back into Labour's fold the answer is clear: "I need to be on a side, it's too risky not to. I need to put aside the difficulties and vote for hope."
While many interviewees express dismay and disappointment at Labour's handling of the anti-Semitism complaints, many also voice a genuine desire to see its manifesto implemented.
For Liane Aviram, a student and film editor from south London now residing in Berlin, her Jewish identity informs her decision to vote for Labour.
"I grew up in a household that promotes a Judaism of love, respect and solidarity," she explains. "That's what Judaism has taught me and I think this is reflected in the new Labour manifesto," noting the call for greater funding for the protection of synagogues and Jewish security bodies such as the Community Security Trust, as well as the work to challenge anti-Semitic rhetoric from the far-right and European governments sympathetic to it, such as Hungary and Poland.
For some, there is a strong sense of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to steer the U.K. down a fairer and more equitable path. Rob Weiss, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in London, refers to Labour's manifesto as "a brave and radical document which can deliver real change for the people of this country." Rivkah Brown, editor of Vashti, a new progressive, British-Jewish website, emphasized the importance of addressing wealth inequality and "social justice enacted through redistributive economics that taxes the rich in order to feed the poor."
Furthermore, Samson Hart asserts the idea that voting for Labour means tackling anti-Semitism, not promoting it. "Anti-Semitism should be fought alongside all other forms of racism and discrimination and we need to be vigilant [about] how those come together, and how they benefit each other. It felt like a very selfish position to just be thinking about anti-Semitism.
"I vote with a willingness to hear out my community, and yet an understanding that our oppression is better fought alongside all oppressions, and that there is more to fear in the far right that the only other governing alternative is pandering towards," he says.
A similar story is conveyed by Emilie Goldman, a media professional in south-western England of Ashkenazi descent, whose name has been changed to protect her identity. While allowing for the complexity of the relationship between Jews and whiteness, particularly where Jews of Color and Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews are concerned, Goldman indicates that her position as a white-skinned non-visibly-Jewish person yields a personal responsibility to vote against Johnson and the racism he courts. "I can walk down the street and not feel like someone is going to attack me for being Jewish, whereas someone who's not white is never going to know what that feels like," she says.
Weiss also points to the relatively unexamined racism among the Conservatives. "There is a huge level of hypocrisy when a party that has, historically, been committed to anti-racism and equality is criticized for prejudice, while the Conservative Party, whose leader is on record for his inflammatory racist rhetoric, is barely held to account," he says.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson at the Prime Minister's House in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
Flora Feldman, who works in tech in London, agrees: "There's all kinds of anti-Semitism and racism in the Tory [Conservative] and also Liberal Democrat parties. It's not a Labour problem – it's a problem."
Blindness of the left
Samson Hart expands on the idea that anti-Semitism is not restricted to Labour or the broader left, describing anti-Semitism as "inherent in British society."
"Europe has been a place of endless anti-Semitism and historic persecution of Jews, and we would be crazy to think that those structures, much like all forms of racism, don't continue to reverberate across our institutions," he says. "There needs to be a deepening in understanding of the wider structures, to see how anti-Semitism is formed and how it manifests."
Rob Abrams, who has experienced anti-Semitism on the left, asserts that anti-Semitism in the U.K. "comes from this British attitude of ignorance towards Jews and our history."
"Unfortunately, the left wing in the U.K. think they're impervious to anti-Semitism," he explains. "No particular part of the spectrum has a monopoly on anti-Semitism. The part of the political spectrum that threatens us is the far-right.
"The anti-Semitism crisis got a lot worse when there were a few comments that notable individuals made," Abrams continues. "They could've apologized and it would have been over, but it was the defensiveness and the viciousness of that defensiveness."
Abrams, who appeared with Corbyn in a Rosh HaShanah video earlier this year and was at a Passover Seder attended by Corbyn, to much fanfare and ire alike, notes that "a lot of non-Jews don't appreciate a lot of the historical trauma that Jews carry."
"Whether or not you believe certain accusations are smears or not, it doesn't change the fact that people are hurting and their historical traumas are real," he adds.
Samson Hart puts part of this defensive attitude down to "the cult of Corbyn," which makes certain supporters "unwilling to accept any accusation of anti-Semitism." Such blindness results in erasure, which he feels is the antithesis of how to bring the Jewish community back into the Labour fold.
The threat of the far-right
The sense of crisis is bolstered by the potential for this election to result in a strong Conservative majority — one that would boost Johnson's hard Brexit plan and could further empower the nativism he has courted since becoming prime minister. For many British voters, the election is not simply over a new socioeconomic direction for their divided country, but whether the U.K. remains an open and tolerant society.
Johnson, mired in his own history of racist and Islamophobic comments, has already become a poster boy for a new strain of English nationalism.
For Yair Wallach, a senior lecturer in Israel Studies at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, these are dire times.
"It's not a usual election. Brexit is a huge risk, so you have to take the route that seems the least risky," he says, even if that means giving a boost to a leadership that in his eyes has largely failed. "I would not normally vote Labour given what we've seen over the last four years, but it's been suggested that if you vote Labour you don't care about Jews or anti-Semitism, and I think that's not the right way to look at this," he continues. "People can care about all these things and be aware of these things — we're talking about lesser evils. Any vote that facilitates the Conservative majority is far more risky."
Nerva, the Labour councilor, agrees. "There's this real fear of Boris Johnson: a right-wing populism which could unleash very dangerous forces," he says. As Joel Hart points out, "People have died in the West due to far-right anti-Semitism. It's unbelievable that the Chief Rabbi hasn't made that the focus of his fears."
Nerva concedes that the Jewish community has been slow to identify the Conservative Party's weaponization of anti-Semitism. But whereas these tactics are not surprising to him or the others we spoke to, the "whataboutery" on the left is what really hurts. "I'm in the Labour Party because I expect better," he says. "This is our benchmark — a right-wing party that for a large part of the 20th century was not a natural home for Jewish people?"
"I feel very uncomfortable that the issue [of anti-Semitism] is being used for that purpose by people who don't actually understand the sensitivities," says Joel Hart. "If I broke it down, [they] probably don't care about Jews. And the fact that it is becoming a big issue within the general election also frightens me. It should not be on the center stage and the only reason it is is because it's being used as a political football."
Many of those we spoke with expressed reservations or discomfort around sharing their voting intentions and views. Those voting Labour recounted the disgust or disdain sent their way by those in the Jewish community and beyond who think their support laughable or irresponsible. Yet those who feel they cannot bring themselves to vote Labour are treated by parts of the left as facilitators of continued Tory austerity far-right policies, regardless of whether they're voting in a marginal constituency.
Feldman, who intends to vote for Labour, admits to being "more afraid to discuss politics with my friends than my family" for fear of the fractures that might result — fractures which Samson and Joel Hart already see. "The general narrative in the Jewish community is that a vote for Labour is the worst possible thing we can do," says Samson. "It's been quite difficult, you get seen as a self-hating Jew."
Vashti's Rivkah Brown describes the impact of her support for Labour on her relationships as "a mixed bag," from family members who feel hurt to those expressing their solidarity and appreciation. "Perhaps the most significant impact of the 'Labour anti-Semitism crisis,' however, has been to mobilize the Jewish left, including me," she says. "This mobilization, and the organizations, movements and campaigns that embody it, have created a close-knit network of progressive Jews, in a way that is much bigger than this election." Brown is referring in particular to Vashti, the anti-occupation outfit Na'amod, and the grassroots campaign Jews Against Boris, three groups that have been active in the run-up to the election.
Moving forward in muddy waters
Several interviewees noted that Britain's Jewish communities need to have a much more open conversation on Israel-Palestine. Rob Weiss, touching on the conflation of hatred of Jews with criticism of Israel, says he is "astonished and saddened that there doesn't seem to be a possibility to have a reasoned and thoughtful discussion about Israel-Palestine without being accused of anti-Semitism."
Members of Jews Against Boris, a grassroots campaign aiming to unseat incumbent U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in London, November 17, 2019. (Jews Against Boris)
For Abrams, bringing nuance into this conversation requires that parts of the Jewish community "realize that supporting the self-determination of Palestinians and recognizing the inherent persecution of Palestinians is not anti-Semitic." At the same time, he cautions that dismissing concerns of anti-Semitism as being purely motivated by Zionism "recalls that fifth column, disloyal trope which has been used against Jews historically."
Backlighting the fraught conversation on Israel-Palestine activism and anti-Semitism has been the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. The probe was launched earlier this summer, after a preliminary investigation in March, following official complaints made by the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) and the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism. Last week, the JLM's submission of testimonies to the EHRC was leaked — testimonies which, for Wallach, "demonstrate that the majority of anti-Semitic incidents and problems are not Palestine-related."
"The common refrain is that the accusations are due to Corbyn's credentials as a supporter of the Palestinian cause. This does not stand up to scrutiny," Wallach explains. "Harassment, Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories are not pro-Palestine activism. Systemic failure in dealing with them is not pro-Palestine activism.
"Clearly there are aspects or incidents which are Palestine-related, mainly dealing with Corbyn himself (his participation in a PLO commemoration in Tunis; his reference to Hamas and Hezbollah as 'friends')," he continues. "Whether we count these as anti-Semitic or not is open to debate. But the main thing is that is a very small part in an overall picture which is mainly about widespread anti-Semitic abuse, mainly on social media, which the party has tolerated in recent years."
One Jewish filmmaker, who lives in London and asked to remain anonymous, is similarly frustrated by the argument that anti-Semitism on the left can be put down to pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli sentiment. "There are people on the outside looking in who can't see the idea that you can be pro-Palestinian rights and statehood but still have a conception of Zionism that is incredibly critical in the strongest possible terms of a Netanyahu government and historical injustices against the Palestinian people, with a desire to right those injustices," he says, adding that the charge of anti-Semitism is inconsistently applied for this reason. "The Tories get an easy ride because as long as they say, 'we're broadly pro-Israel,' then they've 'dealt with' the issue of anti-Semitism."
[Editor's note: This article was originally published with the filmmaker's name in full. He requested his name be pulled from the article out of fear for his livelihood.]
Brown believes this dynamic emphasizes the need to "engage with the community in a real and everyday way" and rebuild trust with traditional left-wing allies like Labour. She cites her Member of Parliament for 27 years, Diane Abbott, who does this "excellently" with the ultra-Orthodox community. Corbyn, she says, may need to go further than his "open door" approach to Chief Rabbi Efraim Mirvis, and to "interact more proactively with the community — particularly those corners of it that don't share his politics."
"The onus is on Labour to educate itself in anti-Semitism, understand the nuances, and knock this on the head," says Eve Barlow, a Scottish music journalist based in Los Angeles. Barlow sees no way forward with the current leadership still in place — and others agree. "The level of bad faith has reached such a point that the only thing that would satisfy the Jewish community at large would be for Corbyn to resign," says Schonfield.
Abrams calls instead for a period of "transitional justice" that would include hard facts and reality. "The leadership is not changing and the community is hurting and that has to be dealt with, with Corbyn. I don't believe in this whole naïve idea of changing the leader and it will all go away.
"The only way we can rebuild trust and faith between the left and the Jewish community," he continues, "is through emotion and understanding and listening and empathy."
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The 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report "Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work" is now available from our website.
Travelling through rural areas in countries like Ethiopia, as I did last year, you frequently meet young women who have never been to school. If a young woman in a poor rural area has completed education, you can be sure she will have overcome huge obstacles. Early marriage, ensuing childbirth and pressures of running a household can be enough to diminish her opportunities for education and prosperity.
This lack of education and resulting lack of skills affects both girls and boys. Today, the new Education for All Global Monitoring Report shows us that 200 million young people never even completed primary school. This means 20% of young people in developing countries – a large segment of the world's youth population – are ill-equipped to find work.
Young women, however, bear the worst burden of all; one in four are affected, while among young men the ratio is one in six. In countries where fewer overall have been to school, young women make up even larger majorities. This is true even in some middle income countries. In rural areas in Turkey, 65% of young women do not complete lower secondary school, compared with 36% of young men.
The 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work was published today.
Rural areas host the over 70% of the world's poor. Remoteness, the effects of climate change, and stunted economic opportunities leave many in desperate situations. As the young people I met in Ethiopia lamented, land is being sold off, leaving youth today with farms that are too small to make a living. This is true in other parts of the world too. The average-sized farm in China today can feed just three people in a household, for example. Even in India, farms on average can feed a family of six but no more.
But there is good news for these young people. The EFA Global Monitoring Report this year offers a well-signposted way out. Young women like Aamina can and should get another chance. Although there is a skills deficit now, the report identifies skills development programmes that are succeeding in overcoming even the worst disadvantages.
Bichera Ntamwinsa, 23 picks berries from her coffee plants in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Farmer field schools and agricultural cooperatives can help smallholder farmers gain skills while strengthening their common voice.
The non-governmental organization BRAC, for example, helps women living on less than $0.35 a day in countries with widespread rural poverty, such as Bangladesh. The organization gives rural women assets such as a cow, along with training in business and marketing skills so they can make the most out of their new asset. The combination of skills and micro-finance brought lasting change for those who benefited from the programmes; income per household member nearly tripled between 2002 and 2008.
Other programmes are tackling social stereotypes faced by women directly. In Egypt in 2008, a fifth of rural women aged 17 to 22 had less than two years of schooling. Many are likely to marry young. Ishraq, another NGO, supports these young women with skills training, while educating rural families and local leaders about the needs of women in their communities. Over nine out of ten of the first graduates of these programmes passed their final exams.
For those in agricultural work, farmer field schools can make a concrete difference. In Kenya, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania, training in new farming technologies for young women and men helped those who took part increase the value of their crop by over a third; their income increased by 61% on average.
These programmes are proof that, with skills development, even the most remote of rural areas, cut off from markets and punished by climate change, can foster profitable start-ups and engage young entrepreneurs. Even farmers with small plots of land have a chance of producing more crops and the right crops for their climate. They can give young people opportunities that make living in a rural area attractive, avoiding a need for them to migrate to urban parts of the country.
While delivering training in remote rural areas is sometimes hard, technology such as mobile phones, radio and television can help bridge that divide. It can be particularly beneficial for women who are often restricted from attending regularly scheduled classes. In southern India, a programme run by a non-governmental organization uses mobile phones to train women with limited schooling in how to care for and get the most from their animals.
The barriers that young women like Aamina face can be difficult to overcome. Yet I hope the examples I've offered here will inspire those working to support development in rural areas to make sure skills training is a key part of any their programmes. I also hope that it will inspire governments and aid donors to work together to scale up successful programmes such as these to ensure they reach the 200 million young people in urgent need of such support.
our latest EFA Global Monitoring Report: "If someone can give me the skills and the possibility to start work, I know I can achieve my goals".
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Dear Lori, You could explore both the Cuban adult literacy programme in the Caribbean 'Yo si puedo' http://www.unesco.org/uil/litbase/?menu=4&programme=93 but also take a look at the full list of programmes from Latin America and the Caribbean at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning website: http://www.unesco.org/uil/litbase/?menu=16.
Very profound and thought provoking post! When I visited Bihar, an eastern state in India, the women had similar complains that their farms are too small and they are exploited by the middle-men (traders) as they do not know any calculations or doesn't have information about the Markets.
Quite acurate examples! when I met young women in Nairobi they just explained how much local trainings and exchanges with skilled professional were important. I was amazed how aware they are about basic marketing and finance training needs. Now how can we engage National and transnational skilled young professionals to support those programmes in areas hard to reach! New technologies are just often a " dream" or out of use in villlages with no energy to fill batteries.
We often reminded a IEEP a few years ago, the administration and government members had a "duty" to "give back". Most of them did receive grants or had easier access to Education, they cannot rely only on International NGOS with local branches. Even if the seed programmes work, sustainability will appear with major human and financial help from national and local help, securing longer projects with young women's training for empowerment. Your forum is great this year and so easy to reach. Thanks Pauline, we shall try to forward your messages as soon and far as possible.


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ASIC cancels licence of WA risk firm
The corporate regulator has cancelled the licence of a WA-based risk advice firm after it failed to lodge its financial accounts for the past three years.
by Sarah Kendell - June 01, 2020 0 comments
In a statement, ASIC said it had cancelled the licence of Personal Risk Management as of 21 May.
The regulator said the firm had failed to lodge its financial accounts for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 financial years.
"AFS licensees are required by law to prepare and lodge a profit and loss statement, balance sheet and an auditor's report annually," ASIC said.
"Licensees must do this to prove that they have the financial resources to provide the services covered by their licence and to conduct their business lawfully.
"Under the Corporations Act 2001, ASIC may suspend or cancel an AFS licence if the licensee fails to meet their obligations."
Personal Risk Management had been licensed to provide advice on life insurance, general insurance, super and deposit products since 2004.
ASIC said the firm could apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for a review of its decision.
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Q: finding limits using the epsilon delta definition without sets Just to be clear, I'm asking this for curiosity, not for any actual usefulness.
I found a post doing this:
Calculating limits using the $\epsilon$-$\delta$ definition.
But I had an idea how it might be possible without the set operations (that I don't really understand tbh).
I'll be using the example from that post of $f(x)=\frac{x^2-4}{x-2}$ when $x\to2$. We end up with $|x-2+l|$ to be compared to $\delta$ where $l$ is the answer.
So my vague idea is, is it possible to prove that if the limit exists, the only way to finish the proof would be to set l = 4? Since (to my knowledge) to finish the proof you need a $|x-2|$ somewhere to get an ineguality using $\delta$ and the absolute value is a pretty rigid function in certain ways, it feels like it should be possible but I can't think of any steps towards it.
Also I'm not certain that this logic even holds up, any insight into that would also be appreciated.


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Legends of Tomorrow: Progeny
Well, at least I loved the clothes
"No litter, no street crime, no smog. How soon can we leave?"
Let's kill Hitler!
I found this episode frustrating. Rip said they had to kill Per Degaton because he's going to cause the end of the world, except that Per is still a kid and they can't kill him because heroes don't do that. And then they somehow made the end of the world even worse.
The thing is, Rip's realization that he couldn't kill a child, even a future king Joffrey and even to save his own child, wasn't exactly a big surprise or anything. If Rip was capable of doing such a thing, he wouldn't be hero material, which everyone, even Mick, pointed out. It was an ill conceived and ultimately botched plan. So what was the point?
Vandal Savage continued to underwhelm me, too. He's squarely in the mustache-twirling category of villain. The kid, Per Degaton, actually wasn't bad; he was a good enough actor that it was clear from nearly the beginning that he was a total bad seed. He had such an evil-sounding name, too. What do potential evil dictators do when they're born with a name like, say, Oswald Cobblepot? Do they quietly change it before they start their evil careers, or give up in frustration? Okay, so they come up with a cool nickname, but you know what I mean.
The "lost child" theme continued with Ray's realization that he'd left a child behind to found an evil robotics company. I was confused about that one, too. Did Ray have a girlfriend back then that we didn't know about? The timing with Felicity wouldn't have worked, would it? Am I forgetting an Arrow character? Help me out, guys.
This "omigod, they've turned my ATOM suit into a race of RoboCops" story thread gave us a few fun things, though: (1) Jewel Staite from Firefly as Ray's great great great great grandniece Dr. Brice, who unlike Per Degaton, turned out to be a good guy; (2) Ray introducing himself as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, which made me laugh out loud; and (3) discovering that Ray has an opportunistic brother named Sidney who looks a lot like Ray. That came out of left field, because I'm pretty sure Ray has never mentioned a brother before.
Since she would be sensed by Vandal Savage, Kendra had to wait out most of the mission on the ship. She used her time to continue with the "lost child" theme and have flashbacks to her life in the 1920s with Carter and their son, future professor Aldus Boardman. At least they didn't do what I thought they would with this one: Ray and Kendra didn't break up. Not yet, anyway. I get the feeling that some version of Carter will be showing up soon, though.
The most interesting exploration of couple issues and the possibility of change turned out to be Leonard Snart and Mick Rory, of course. Sara, who seems to be able to get through to Snart, told him to "stop being an ass and go deal with" Mick, and he did -- even if it was just with his fists. More accurately, Snart did some deliberate penance by letting Mick stomp all over him. And now Mick is sorta kinda back on the team because of a brand new common enemy: inhuman mercenaries called "the Hunters." Because our guys needed another serious problem.
Honestly, I'm glad that Mick is back. I missed him. And I'm glad that Kendra and Ray didn't break up already. But our team of Legends managed to bring on Per Degaton's reign and the release of the deadly virus five years earlier than before. This week's mission was a blazing failure, and I was disappointed. Especially after last week's episode, "Left Behind", which was probably their best so far.
Everybody remember where we parked:
-- This week: 2147, the Kasnia Conglomerate. Where was it? The map had Turkey on one side and Italy on the other, which would make "Kasnia" the countries of eastern Europe. I think.
-- Apparently, corporations took over the government in 2080. I don't know why they didn't just make it 2077 so that it would be a clear homage to Continuum.
-- In his role as royal tutor, Vandal told Per only half the story of Oedipus Rex. He left out some pretty important points.
-- Mick was imprisoned in the "Vanishing Point" where time doesn't seem to move and eons can pass.
-- It was nice to see Jewel Staite again, but didn't the producers even consider her cancellation curse? Maybe they did it because Legends has already gotten a second season, like every other show on the CW.
-- Jax always seems to mention the clothes, doesn't he? I really did like the understated futuristic gray and navy wardrobe.
-- Apparently, Gideon can monitor dreams. That would make me terribly uncomfortable.
-- In the 1920s flashback, Kendra got stuck with an absolutely terrible wig. I don't have anything eloquent to say about that, except that during the flashback scenes, all I could think of was, wig!
Ray: "Great. We've gone from infanticide to child abduction. Progress."
Stein: "Thank you for showing us around, Dr. Brice."
Dr. Brice: "It's my pleasure. We don't get very many visitors from Central City ever since the S.T.A.R. Labs Corporation took it over."
Ray: "I can't believe it. I'm like the Werner von Braun of robots."
Ray: "We don't need weapons."
Stein: "He's right. We have superpowers."
I don't know why, but this one made me laugh.
Snart: "People seem to think we should have a heart to heart."
Mick: "We don't have hearts. Where does that leave us?"
While entertaining, this episode was a big step back from last week's. Two out of four unsuccessful missions,
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Kendra and Ray have won me over..they are so cute.
Glad Mick is back and that he didn't kill Snart. Not that they'd let him.
Savage left out most if that tale, yes. Let's hope the kid doesn't marry his mom. Eugh.
Sara dreamt of her nurse..aww.
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Josie Kafka said...
So many parts of this episode didn't make sense.
But I love Wentworth Miller's wholehearted dive into pure deadpan snark. He's approach Ben Linus levels of wry implication.
Monday, April 11, 2016 at 10:50:00 PM EDT
An Honest Fangirl said...
Yeah, Savage left out just a FEW bits of the Oedipus tale...
I wonder why Ray was so convinced that he had already had a child as opposed to going to have one in the future after he's done Legends-ings. Wouldn't that be the more logical answer? I was right when I thought that Ray and Kendra's love is doomed. The flashbacks to Carter couldn't have been a coincidence. He has to be coming back soon, right? Side note: Wow, I forgot how much I disliked Carter.
Loved Snart's line about his feelings about Sara. More of that, pretty please!
Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 9:54:00 PM EDT


Working on a pet project to gather as much of a list as I can of all the players who have ever scored 100 or more points in their high school hockey career in Minnesota (and yes, I know that the number is way into the hundreds and I'll never ever get them all, but it doesn't mean I can't try).
I'm looking for input on the list from all the historical geniuses on the board!
But under that is when it gets dicey. Some programs have a good list on their websites (Anoka, Brainerd, Eastview, Hopkins, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, Rochester Lourdes until 2006, St. Cloud Tech, Tartan, Thief River Falls and Spring Lake Park), but the vast majority do not.
FYI - the lists on the team websites are not always kept up to date.
Anoka actually has 15 - 100 point career scorers (this data came from their 2011-2012 official game program - also included on their website, but included under news & notes - game programs.
Tod Hartje. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176 pts.
Steve Magnusson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 pts.
Steve Alley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162 pts.
Ryan Forbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147 pts.
Cory Belisle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146 pts.
Berkley Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 pts.
John O'Neill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 pts.
Jerrid Reinholz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 pts.
Reg Berg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 pts.
Ben Hendrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 pts.
Jon Manthey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 pts.
Todd Manthey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 pts.
Jon Coe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 pts.
Bill Lester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 pts.
Nate Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 pts.
dueling21 wrote: Working on a pet project to gather as much of a list as I can of all the players who have ever scored 100 or more points in their high school hockey career in Minnesota (and yes, I know that the number is way into the hundreds and I'll never ever get them all, but it doesn't mean I can't try).
Not sure where you are getting the numbers from but I am suspect. As an example, Neal Broten had roughly 125 his senior year alone and was on varsity for at least 4 years. I can find out the number though and let you know.
You don't think Reg Berg breaks that career record if he sticks around his Sr year do you?
hockey59-which Anoka team was better? 98 or 03?
Thanks for the list, hockey 59. I did know that most weren't current, but Anoka's had seemed pretty recently updated. Guess not. That's why it's such a tough task!
Gretzky9 wrote: Not sure where you are getting the numbers from but I am suspect. As an example, Neal Broten had roughly 125 his senior year alone and was on varsity for at least 4 years. I can find out the number though and let you know.
Most are from very reputable sources, but the ones with asterisks are truly just that, estimates. If there is better documentation on those guys, I'd love to have it!
Here's the start of those with between 100-199 points...please help me fill it in!
Reg left during his Jr year.
I know. That's why I was sarcastically saying that. He was great.
Since Reg Berg only would have needed to score 44 points as a senior to reach 177 points...most likely he breaks it if he stayed...but he moved on to the USHL.
I believe (but I'm not 100% positive) that the top 4 - Hartje, Magnusson, Alley and Forbes put up their numbers in 3 years; as did O'Neill and Berg...while Hendrick, Reinholz, Scott and Belisle played 4 years of varsity hockey...I believe the others (Jon & Todd) Manthey, Coe, Lester and Miller played 3 years.
It should be noted that the 1998 and 2003 Anoka teams were made up of players from Anoka and Andover (prior to the split) and both were excellent teams...but the edge has to go to the 2003 team because they closed the deal at State.
Reg left early in his jr year and only played 2 1/2 years. Ryan Forbes played 4 yrs. Right on the rest of the players.
Yeah I think you're correct SAT81...I seem to re-call...they were actually playing Reg on D for a while during his junior year (due to no depth at that position) and at some point during his junior year he left (not sure if it was after Christmas break or at the end of the regular season) for the USHL. Certainly at great player...as he proved playing for the Gophers.
Conspicuous by their absence are any dudes, or many dudes, from Moorhead, Hill Murray, Grand Rapids, IFalls, Hibbing, Eveleth, Southwest, Johnson, et al. Not an easy task you've begun.
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Guess I was wrong on Welch having more HS PTs than Taffe.
Terry Steinbach as in former MLB catcher? Didn't know he played hockey.
mnmouth wrote: Conspicuous by their absence are any dudes from Moorhead.
Nick Larson (2007) 161 career pts.
Tyler Zepeda (2009) 148 pts.
Ben Bahe (2011) 137 pts.
Garrett Reagan (2003) 137 pts.
Jay Cascalenda (2004) 120 pts.
Mike Hoeffel (2006) 114 pts.
Ryan Guentzel (2005) 114 pts.
Brian Arrigoni (2006) 111 pts.
Dan Cecka (2008) 106 pts.
Ryan Furne (2008) 106 pts.
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The reason I know the answer to this question is because I moved to Ramsey in the summer of 1994 and my (two houses down the road) neighbor (Mike Johnson) played on the 1994-1995 Anoka MAHA Bantam A State Championship team. Reinholz was a 9th grader in 94-95 and graduated in 1998, but was not a member of this Bantam A team (as he was playing on the high school team).
One name I see missing that should be on there for sure is Matt Niskanen (Virginia - 2005).
My guess is that he had enough to get over the 200 point mark with his freshman and sophomore stats.
Keep 'em coming guys! Thanks a ton.
One thing that I've noticed is that stats from the frosh and soph years are tough to come by for most guys, but their big point-getting years (jr and sr) are more available.