Ramona is waiting for spring, so is Harper. Yesterday it got up to 66 and we carried them out over the snow to the bare garden. Ramona yelled while I carried her, afraid I would fall in the snow.
Kitten season is in full swing. These guys should find homes, it's the older ones that I hope will also go. The sociable adult cats can move into the community room, which houses about ten in peaceable comfort with climbing trees and cubby holes to nap in. Of course, I have always gone for kittens but as I get older it is only right that if I adopt any more cats (No!, says Ramona) they should be adults.
Someone dropped fourteen cats and kittens off at the shelter either at night or just without warning. One is a Himalayan I haven't seen yet.
Raul, an elegant House Panther if I ever saw one.
Oscar, obviously a real character here.
This little guy is in the group of four kittens in their own private room. He's not related to them. I don't remember the details of his story but he was injured and he might be deaf. He has a purr loud enough to make your heart vibrate.
He's the first kitten I've come across with a grade A Fergus personality. He climbed up on my shoulders and head while I was trying to get his photo, purring all the time and then he happily wanted to play play play.
He's a funny little thing with those extra toes. I'm sure he won't be at the shelter long, if any cat lover with the eyes to see how wonderful he is meets him.
Yes, I'd take him home in a blink of a kitty eye. And just think of the havoc it would create around here.
They steal your heart and break it into little kitty bits, don't they?
These guys are too much. If I remember the story correctly, Ollie is the kitten found at a dumpster who survived being poisoned. A trap was set to catch him and huge Atlas was the surprise catch. It seems these two are bonded buddies and they are currently sharing a nice large condo with a screen porch at the shelter while they wait for someone who connects with them as a pair.
They're pretty darn nice if you ask me.
It's been ages since I had any time at all to run down to the shelter and get some photos. Nothing but a long list of video projects to get through. And now it's garden time. Harper and Ramona are seizing every second of the days in their fenced in yard. They wait for us to do boarder patrol in the morning (the bears are coming over the fence almost every night) and they know 6PM is dinner time and they (usually) come when I call them. By then they are ready to eat and run for a sleeping spot. They'll be crashed out until morning when they are ready to do it again.
I really believe cats need to be able to be outdoors in a safe way. They just come alive with the smells and sounds of the outside.
Little Lady waits for someone. When I entered the kitten room where there were four, the soft sound of purring rose to my ears. These guys are sweet.
This is Janis, she is five and was found as a stray.
And Ziggy, who is ten.
And Priscilla whol had just arrived with siblings.
Dancer has moved into the community room, which gives him room to move around and be sociable with the other cats in there. When I was there he was sound asleep. It is a good place for him to be at this time.
Spring finally begins to arrive up here in the Frozen North and we emerge into the light. Of course, we've been outside most of the winter skiing but now we can actually sit somedays with our summer chairs embedded in the receding snow. Olof gets out the camera and catches some of the action. There was a flock of turkeys too, to keep things lively, but the bear seems to have chased them off. We've all warned to take in the bird feeders in early spring, because once a bear learns to associate people with food they are in trouble. There's a large campground across the river. So no sympathy for hungry bears.
Ok so this isn't about cats except it is about someone we think is a pretty cool cat, our President. This morning the NY Times posted two photos, one where his hair is black and one showing it as rapidly turning grey under the job stresses. Below is a link to the story on the Times.
Well. Olof knows a bit about photography, yanno. He looked at the two photos and saw that the exposure on the greyish one was way off for the skin tone. So he corrected the grey one and voila, no grey hair.
This is Olof's corrected photo matching the skin tone, voila, no grey hair.
What do all you cool cats think?
This was taken a few days after we all arrived home from the thousand mile journey. Three years ago. They are grown up lovely, loving cats now. Ramona is still sweet and mysterious and wants to be with us. Harper is the huggiest boy cat I ever had. His favorite sleeping place is next to me with my arm around him. You can forgive a cat like that anything. Good thing, since when he is upset he sometimes poops on the rug. Yeah, I caught him doing it so I know it is not Ramona. As if Ramona would ever do anything so undignified.
I am just working my way through a pile of projects. I will be writing a full length video on steam trains. Should be fun. That is after I edit the German and French recordings.
The sun is higher now and it is the good time of winter. The buds on the trees are just starting to swell and the turkeys in the yard and figuring out who gets to keep the ladies. We have light from about 6:45 to after 5. It's nice. I got out the packets of seeds and I am trying to see which ones I think will germinate and which ones I really should buy fresh. I'm being thrifty, well as much as I can be.
We've been slogging through our winter routine here but it will end soon with the first day you can open the windows. That will probably be in March.
And then we'll fix the fence and everyone will stumble out into the sunlight. ahh spring is on the way out there somewhere.
Harper and Ramona are raising heck this morning. How can two cats make such thundering paws? And there is a lot of mrrr mrrrs and floofy tails going on. I think it is spring fever since we saw a robin yesterday though the snow is way up over my knees.
Not a whole lot of news here, we're just working away and watching the snow pile up. I'll be editing the translation of my audio tour in German and French and then I have a large writing project that will take me to spring. And we are dealing with those tedious internet issues when you have a bunch of domain names and web sites.
The felines have adjusted fairly well to being indoors, though it drove Harper nuts at first. Sometimes we take him over to visit next door. He likes that.
I'll catch up with blogging when I have something that resembles free time.
Things are fairly quiet at the shelter right now. Kitten season is over and there are empty cages. Dancer was pretty speakative, he is living in a ground floor condo and was lively when I was there, chirping and chortling. He is still having occasional seizures, sadly, and his urine is too dark. I hope he will get out of the shelter and be able to have some kind of a good life. Remember, he has been in the shelter since he was a young kitten. If any of you out there know how I can get enough money to build a sanctuary, let me know. The organization I work with (The Rozzie May Animal Alliance) really wants to do it. We can probably get land, bought or donated. I would like to have a place where cats like Dancer, who don't have good chances of being adopted, could have a decent life with room to roam and people to spend time with them. This would be a different set up from a shelter, with long term living arrangements for the felines.
Speaking of cats whose adoption chances aren't great, this is Abby, who has been returned. I hate to see cats coming back. Personally, I like cats with attitude, it shows they have pride and self respect. Every cat is an individual and if you want a relationship with them you have to understand them. A cat is not a dog! Abby can come to my sanctuary too.
There is one little room with six orange cats in it, all very scared, since they were rescued from a hoarding situation. Even though I would love to have more cats, it is better to understand how they get along and how they can get stressed if there are too many in a living place. Just like people! So all six of these beautiful cats have those big scared eyes. This is Tootsie.
It is a challenge as a photographer to go into a room (with pink walls) and try to get a decent photo of a frightened cat. You can't really do them justice, you just have to try to get something that shows their beauty and help them get adopted over Petfinder. Her name is Juniper.
This little girl cat should get adopted pretty quickly. Her chances are good. Sweet Josephine.
And another scared cheese kitty named Saffron. (I'm just mad about Saffron) If you know who sang that song then you are my age.
The biggest challenge for me is getting decent photos of the black cats. The light isn't good, the cats are in motion and I am not a good enough photographer to deal with it well. I just bought some books on photography and I am going to work at it and maybe redo all my black cat portraits. This one came out the best that day at 1/60 shutter speed. ISO 1600 and f5.6. It did not look good in my camera but looked better when I got it in the computer. I end up using a high ISO because of the lighting but I try to go lower in the shelter when it will work. This is Odessa and she has wonderful soft fur that doesn't translate to this photo.
Another from the cheese group, named Curry.
And Tonka. Boy, if you want a nice big cat this boy is a twenty pounder and its not fat. With personality to boot.
And my favorite and the one in my I'd take you home in a second list. Victor is a kitten, he and his mom were found wild and he is thinking about how he is going to deal with this new situation. Look at those eyes. There is a feline person there.


The Darren band is a VB made Men's wedding band. This Flat Men's Wedding Band is 5.8mm wide and designed to sit flat to the finger for a super comfortable fit! It is made in the perfect hue of 18kt yellow gold (made to match the VB-made engagement rings and bands) and finished with an antique polish in the center and angled polished edges.
Super sleek with a modern-minimalist theme for a very timeless and classic look.


Uncertainties over safeguard duty on Chinese and Malaysian solar panels and modules and other issues, in general, have led to a drop in import orders and installations even as the average selling price (ASP) of modules softened in the last quarter.
The government has scaled down the componentmanufacturing requirement under its first such solar tender where developers must also agree to locally produce equipment to win projects.
India's coal import rose 11.9 per cent to 78.7 million tonnes in the first four months of the current fiscal.
After the successful installation of roof-top solar power plants on district court buildings, Jharkhand will soon take a lead in harnessing solar energy on water bodies by installing Floating Solar Power Plants (FSPP) on the water reservoirs.
India's coal import rose 11.9 per cent to 78.7 million tonnes in the first four months of the current fiscal.
A high-level European Union delegation will be here next week to explore collaboration with India in green businesses and promote circular economy which aims to limit wastage of natural resources.
MSEDCL has started converting agricultural feeders to solar.
Union minister of petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan promised people he would soon find a solution to the nagging problem of ONGC pipelines passing through Surat airport.
When India's top telecom company, Bharti Airtel features in Credit Suisse's list of stressed companies, with an interest cover (Ebit-to-interest) of less than one, you realise just how financially stressed the telecom sector is.
ONGC-owned state-run oil marketer Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) will award the licensor agreements this week to 10 of the 12 vendors it needs for the upcoming Rs 43,130-crore project Barmer refinery in Rajasthan.
With consumers demanding cost-effective and fuel-efficient vehicles, and the government pushing for cleaner fuel as well as reducing import dependence, the onus is now on auto makers and oil refiners to offer such products.
Gujarat has connected close to 15 lakh households through a well-developed Piped Natural Gas Network (PNG) said Saurabh Patel, Minister (Energy), Gujarat, while adding that "those who are unable to digest the success of Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Limited (GSPC) have been thoughtlessly opposing various activities of GSPC."
The Centre has issued "mandatory parameters" for electrical components used in metro rail system like lifts, escalators, tunnel ventilation and environmental control system with an aim to achieve standardisation and indigenisation.
After facing resistance due to local politics, demand for "government jobs" and doubts in villagers about the compensation package, the bullet train project has finally started seeing some progress in Palghar and officials are confident that the December deadline for land acquisition will be met.
Indian Railways (IR) has traditionally been saddled with dual expectations: being a public utility that transports citizens of a largely poor country on the one hand and a commercial entity that must be profitable on the other.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has simplified the process of reclaiming smart cards, which are not readable at the time of entry at Automatic Fare Collection gates due to technical issues.


Eeva Tikka, prose-writer, poet and story-teller, seeks her material in the most everyday subjects, the countryside of middle Finland, and the internal landscapes of middle-aged and middle-class people. But she is no simple kitchen-sink realist: she places here and there challenging and dangerous will o'the wisps, passions, jealousies, disappointments, terrors. The austerely calm surface of life cracks, breaks and deepens.
The midwinter Finlandia contest is followed in Finland with almost as much excitement as the Booker Prize in Britain. The fourth Finlandia Prize – 100,000 Finnmarks – was awarded in January to the poet and prose-writer Helvi Hämäläinen, 80, for her collection of poetry Sukupolveni unta ('Dreams of my generation', WSOY).
Hämäläinen was tipped as favourite among the ten contenders. All the same, the award was a pleasant surprise, for the author had not published a word for twenty years. To the new generation it was as if she were making her debut.
Kaija Valkonen is a journalist, editor and writer who lives in Helsinki. She has specialised in biographies and books on literature and culture.


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Who the F1 is Alice?
Me. That's who.
ALICE RECAPS THE CHINESE GRAND PRIX
Nǐ hǎo and welcome to China!
Apologies for no Bahrain recap – it was on at 2am local time and I have a full time job that doesn't allow me the luxury of staying up until 4am to watch the grand prix. Also, I'm too old and too tired to wake up mid-sleep to attempt to write a semi coherent blog post. Admittedly, I could have watched a replay or a highlights package but it's just not the same when you already know the outcome, fam.
But never fear! I was wide awake are raring to go for this weekends race…
LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO!
We got yet ANOTHER race start with a clean first lap. That's right ladies and gents, no crashes and no retirements. Astounding.
Sebastian Vettel in the Ferrari bolted out the gate, popped in a fastest lap and essentially said "Bye Felicia" to the rest of the field. It is however worth mentioning that he squeezed his teammate Kimi Raikkonen like a fresh orange out to the track limit which was, in a word, rude.
The Renault's of Carlos Sainz and Nico Hulkenberg decided that the real race was actually just between the two of them and Lance Stroll in the Williams somehow made up five places is one lap with is a mammoth effort by the young maple leaf.
Not a lot happened for a while in the early stages of the race if I'm being perfectly honest. McLaren's Fernando Alonso took on Romain Grosjean in the Haas a few times but never quite managed to make the overtake stick, a few people pitted, stuff happened IDK.
Red Bull went double dutch on Max Verstappen AND Daniel Ricciardo's pit stops, meaning they changed eight tyres in the space of about 10 seconds. I can't even put shoes on my own two feet within 10 seconds.
Mercedes then went for the undercut on Ferrari in response to Red Bull, or as I like to call it the "Oh shit, someone else pitted now we gotta do that too".
Ferrari decided to stay out and enjoy being in first and second position for just a lil longer, essentially delaying the inevitable. Eventually they pulled Sebastian Vettel in for a fresh set of tyres and the pit stop was understandably a little on the slow side which resulted in him re-joining the race in third behind the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas. The commentators claim that Ferrari we're "caught napping" and stuffed up their race, but true tifosi know that this is now simply referred to as "The Ferrari Strategy".
I feel it's worth noting that Kimi Matias Raikkonen stayed out on his first set of tyres until lap 28 which was one hell of an effort but also, just, like, WHY FERRARI?
Further down the field the Sauber of Charles Leclerc spun, and the two Toro Rosso's of Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley had a fender bender resulting in a SAFETY CAR!!!!!!!!
Drink every time there's a safety car in F1.
Red Bull yet again pulled the double dutch in the pit lane with Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen who, not wanting to waste a single second in the pits, overtook Pierre Gasly in the pit lane entrance.
The safety eventually car buggered off on lap 35 and it was on for young and old in the mid-field with Fernando Alonso in the finally getting around Romain Grosjean, then towards the front Daniel Ricciardo lunged past Kimi Raikkonen for fifth position.
Max Verstappen went in on Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes but had to run wide after the door was firmly closed on his overtaking efforts.
True blue Aussie legend Daniel Ricciardo, on the other hand, gets the job done on Lewis Hamilton and absolutely sends it through the hairpin only to charge like a literal bull at Sebastian Vettel who he overtakes for second spot and set his sights on the number one spot aka Valtteri Bottas' Mercedes.
Max Verstappen, freshly inspired by his teammate, flew past the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and honed in on Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari.
It was at this moment he knew he fucked up.
Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel made contact and spun in a beautiful display of synchronised driving. Said spin opened up a gap for Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen and those boys know an opportunity when they see one.
From here on in the race was wild y'all.
Daniel Ricciardo overtook Valtteri Bottas to lead the race thanks to yet another magic overtake, Max Verstappen got back in the game and overtook Lewis Hamilton for fourth spot but copped a ten second time penalty for his pirouette and then Kimi Raikkonen activated Battle of the Finns mode and got all up in Bottas' grill to challenge for second.
You still with me?
Hartly retired with only three laps to go which was a bit shit because by some blessing of the F1 gods we had managed to keep all 20 cars running in China up until that point.
AND THEN Fernando Alonso. Overtook. Sebastian Vettel. For Seventh.
Finally, after some truly fantastic final laps… CHECKERED FLAG!
The Australian anthem played on the podium, Daniel Ricciardo cried and shoeys were drunk.
What a result for Dan the Man, the dude barely made it on track for qualifying after a turbo failure in free practice and then put in a masterclass performance to stand atop the podium.
Next stop BAKU! Keep your fingers and toes crossed that this year's Azerbaijan grand prix is as batshit crazy as last year…
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Is it true that Craig McDermott or Jason Gillespie are in the running to be India's bowling coach?
Not sure if this is true but at work today heard some Indians talking about Indias bowling coaching and that McDermott or Gillespie are in line to get the job? I didn't know India was/is looking for a bowling coach?
As of now haven't heard anything like this.
this is a version of Kabbadi played in Punjab haryana India. You were talking about AFL so wanted you to gain some perspective about India as a whole.
Such uncivilized people playing in mud without clothes. In Australia we play in proper sports attire on green grass.
Nothing compared to AFL, look up AFL on youtube, Kabaddi looks good but you don't need as many skills as you do it AFL.
You need to be super fit and strong, you need to be able to run for 120 minutes and then throw in all the other skills you need and on top of that getting hit hard.
Just some of the skills on display here, you can look up AFL on youtube.
I agree. We do things like tamper with the ball. But we dress up and look real pretty while doing it.
I frequent bigfooty. Wanted you to understand that not all Indians look like the geeks who come to australia to study.
I know that, but Indians aren't physical, the Indians that were born in Australia the 1st, 2nd generation are but not the Indians who have recently arrived here. And most of them don't tend to play AFL, they stick to soccer or non-contact sports.
Again you are genralising the whole country with around 20 nationalities. How does top of your class geeks look like in your country ? Who plays afl all the mensa club ? Studious middle class students from the cities make certainn specific choices in sport and rugged ones from working community make other. Its there to see for some one with an open mind and marginal intelligence in the matter.
Because those second generation Indians are still offsprings of those middle class blokes and were brought up in the same culture.
Both are just average bowlers. It's better if India could get a supreme bowler as Mc Grath as bowling coach.
Having a world class bowler doesn't mean that bowling unit will transform into world beaters look at Donald or Waqar both were poor as coaches.


T-shirts in sizes S, M, L, XL in either navy blue or light grey, featuring a map of the Myra Canyon are available for $15.00 plus $6.00 for shipping and handling.
This book celebrates the unsung heroes who built the stretch of the KVR from Myra Canyon to Penticton – through mountains, up impossible grades and along trestles across deep canyons. These men, also called navvies or blanketstiffs, toiled with pick and shovel, sledge and scoop. They engaged in the tough work of levelling grades, blasting and filling holes, digging foundations and pounding spikes. Here, Williams tells their story. He tells us where they came from and provides new details on life in the construction camps as well as highlights of their workday. He writes of those who cared about the navvies, revealing the life of those who truly built the Kettle Valley Railway.
Maurice Williams is Professor Emeritus (UBC).
Hard cover – collector's copies of Myra's Men are available only from the Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Society. Each copy is numbered (only 200 printed) and is signed by the author.
Sale Price: $35.00 plus $10 shipping and handling.
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A print of "The Spirit of Myra Canyon" or the framed original is available from Picture Perfect in Kelowna or Vernon.
The limited edition prints sell for $100 each, or a framed limited edition print is available at the special price of $325. The framed original is priced at $1200.
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Last week they'd had a surprise party and Marjorie hadn't realised that she was the surprise guest. Andrew had tied her naked to the bed and frankly that wasn't difficult. She liked being tied down and fucked. Don't we all? He'd also blindfolded her and the other guests had tiptoed into the room naked and she nearly died (of joy?) when Andrew took the blindfold off.
The guests, particularly Desmond, who had a sixteen inch cock and was thus a favourite of Marjorie had queued up and fucked Marjorie to a standstill, something that nobody could ever recall happening. In fact, even Susan and Doris had both fucked her twice too.
Andrew was keeping score on her tits. Every time one of the blokes come in her mouth or pussy, Andrew would make a mark on her with a black magic marker (it turned out to be a permanent one!). At every fifth cumshot he would make a slash across the previous four to make the fifth before starting again. And so on. Halfway through they turned Marjorie over and doggy fucked her and Andrew was a bit miffed when he couldn't reach a breast to make his mark. So he had to start again using Marjorie's bottom as his canvas. When it was all over she'd taken thirty cumshots and four from the girls. He hadn't marked them as he wasn't sure how. The obvious answer was to change the magic marker to another colour for the women, of course. In fact the total count was thirty four, which wasn't too bad for a party.
Sorry, I got a bit off message there. Back to the plot. After the party, Andrew and Susan took Marjorie to bed and he wanted to teach Susan about Marjorie and Doris's favourite fucking position. It really all started with Marjorie, (didn't it always?) who liked to mount Andrew on top and slowly fuck him and bring on her own orgasms without making him cum. It was a risky business as a wiggle out of the ordinary might make Andrew deliver a "bucket load," as he would say. And that was the end of the story as they had to start again. Which wasn't that hard anyway. Doris decided to get in the act and found Andrew as satisfactory as Marjorie did.
I very much enjoyed this position as I was in a constant pre-orgasmic blur of lust, just avoiding the killer cum which would end it all. I like fucking Susan and had been doing so since Susan was twelve years old when her brother Alan and I used to spitroast her. She had thoroughly enjoyed it from day one and five years later, she was ready to try anything. Everything in fact.
Susan had grown from a scrawny flat-chested kid to a shapely young woman with good shapely tits and a tight ass. She was another one who enjoyed my "bucket loads" and was quite capable of bringing me off at will. She'd also developed a taste for Doris and Marjorie and become adept at fucking them as well. Unusually for a women Marjorie and Doris's arses really turned her on.
So after Susan and I had washed our shattered and now spotlessly clean Marjorie and tucked her into bed, we followed, one each side of her to comfort her.
Susan said, "Andrew, that party has made me very horny. Can we do something about is with Marjorie in the bed?
I replied, "I wouldn't worry about Marjorie. She'll either fall asleep or join in
Marjorie said, "I heard that, I won't interfere as my pussy is so sore and what were those marks you wrote all over me, Andrew?"
I replied, "That was the score, darling. I had to start a new score on your ass when the guys turned you over to doggy fuck you."
Marjorie said, "so how many times was I fucked Andrew?"
"Thirty blokes fucked you darling and the four red marks were two each from Doris and Susan who sort of joined in towards the end. And I missed out completely."
Marjorie said, "Then you can do Susan with my blessing, I'm going to sleep now. Enjoy, Susan"
I gently slid out of bed and got back in next to Susan. "Now did you say you were a bit horny, beautiful?" She was lying on her back and her large breasts were jutting out, beautifully firm and I started kissing her nipples which arose alarmingly under my lips.
"She said, "That's lovely Andrew, before we get down to it, could you go down on me?"
I said, "I'd be delighted, come and sit on my face." Which she did. "Susan, what a pretty cunt. I remember it was a lovely part of your body when you were twelve. I never thought that one day, you'd be sitting on my face. Susan, you taste and smell delicious."
She said, "Andrew, what are you doing down there? Are you sucking my clit into your mouth? It's exquisite. Why aren't you saying anything?"
I pulled my lips away and said, "Stop talking Susan. Go with the flow, relax and I'll be listening to you come to the boil very soon." I picked up her clit with her mouth and started the slow steady rhythm again. Susan was starting to get steamed up and it wasn't going to take long. I pulled my mouth off and kissed her vagina. She went wild and I went back and sucked up her clitoris again. Boy, she was wet and I reckon she's going to cum any minute now."
Susan cried, "Oh Andrew I'm cumming, oh God, what's happening to me Andrew." And she came.
She was quite a cummer too. I reckon she came about half a cup of fluid. It was white and milky and sweet to the tongue. She obviously enjoyed it because she sort of slumped on my face. She lifted her head up. She said, "Fuck Andrew, that was incredible. Nobody's done that to me before"
I replied, "Well Susan, there's a little more to our repertoire than we knew before. Just lie back and relax. The main course is coming up so you'll need all your self control and it could take a couple of hours. Marjorie can go for at least that and usually stops when I cum."
Marjorie said sleepily, "I was awake through all that Andrew. You brought her off beautifully and I think you've probably got a lover for life darling. I know the rest, now back to sleep."
It was a prophetic statement. Marjorie and I were lovers for five years and after that Susan and I shared our lives and though I was very upset when Marjorie "threw me out" I can see why she did it and we stayed casual lovers until I moved overseas. By that time Doris had died of Leukaemia and in my arms. Ron had left her for Jenny, even though he knew Doris was sick and Ruth had gone to the Slade and had no interest in her Mother. Roger had been killed on his motorbike on the way back from University. So why wouldn't I see her out. Doris was one of the dearest women in my life.
Susan had migrated overseas. No wonder I went with the flow.
I was ready for Susan's new experience now. So I said, "Susan, mount me."
She looked a little confused so I helped her to straddle my cock and encouraged her to slide her pussy down my cock and all the way in. She felt wonderful, that tight little pussy stretching around my cock, and I enjoyed putting my hands around her ass and pulling her in tightly and snugly to me. Her pretty and very large nipples were on my chest and our mouths together as we kissed.
She said, "Ooh Andrew, this is lovely. I've only experienced you on my back or doggy. Or in my mouth of course. So this is lovely."
I said, "Remember Susan, it's your job to cum and you do that by pulling out of me most of the way and I pull you right in again. With any luck, you'll have your first orgasm."
Marjorie said, "Susan, it always works for me, but take it easy as my darling boy will cum if you make the wrong move."
I said, "I thought you were asleep, Marjorie."
She said, "Darling, how can I possibly sleep while this is going on. I've never seen it third hand, as it were and I'm getting very horny again, but don't worry I'm too sore to join in. Susan. Enjoy!"
Susan pulled out of me and I cupped her delicious bottom and pulled her right back in.
She moaned, "Oh God Andrew, I'm cumming again. This is wonderful. Two hours you said?"
I said, "I'm OK and try fucking me very slowly too. All the way in and out. I can handle it but go very slowly or we won't last." She slowed down and moved in and out of me inch by inch. The feeling was delicious and I think a bit more sensual than Marjorie or Doris as she was younger and sweeter.
I said, "Are you OK Susan?" She nodded and closed her eyes. I could feel that she was concentrating and about to cum again. She opened her eyes wide and I could feel another half cup squirting over my thighs. It was lovely. She collapsed on my chest and I thought she'd gone to sleep. When Marjorie and I first did this, she really did go to sleep!
We went pretty well, Susan was cumming regularly now and was showing a bit of expertise. But I was starting to cum myself, my reaction to Susan being so strong and perhaps more emotional. We'd been fucking for about an hour now and thought I'd better let her know what was happening at my end.
I said, "Darling, it's going to be a short session as you're making me cum and I can't hold out any more. Are you ready for me?"
Marjorie chipped in again. "Susan, it looks like Andrew is finished. Give him a fast, deep fuck and he'll deliver that "bucket load" into your pussy like he does for me."
Susan looked at me. I didn't realise her eyes were so dark blue. Maybe it was the passion. She fucked me hard and deep as Marjorie had recommended and within a minute I was cumming my heart out in her pussy and pulling out, I had enough cum left for a good mouthful down her throat.
She was soaked and I hoped we had clean sheets. We'd been through a few pairs lately and I want her to be comfortably, dry and warm. Half an hour later with dry sheets we cuddled up with Marjorie and slept the sleep of the dead. It was a night and she said to me later that she thoroughly enjoyed the day; Marjorie twice and Doris once ("I must have missed that one.") she'd experienced very good oral sex on my face and enjoyed several orgasms and a huge load from me to finish. Her final little murmur was:
"Andrew, we must have more parties."
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As some of you know, Alli and I are separated: she left me 3 months ago. I came to Adelaide for Arabella's birth, then I'm going back for a couple of weeks to pack up the farm, then returning to Adelaide because Arabella is here. I hope we manage to raise Arabella OK despite our split.


HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – West Indies, boosted by the return of regular captain Jason Holder and fast bowler Kemar Roach, have a plan for young India opener Prithvi Shaw in the second and final test in Hyderabad, all-rounder Roston Chase said yesterday.
Eighteen-year-old Shaw smashed a fluent 134 on his test debut last week, setting the tone for India's victory by an innings and 272 runs in the series opener in Rajkot.
India's biggest test victory came against a West Indies side who sorely missed the injured Holder and Roach, who had gone home following a family bereavement, as the hosts went 1-0 up in the two-match series.
"It's always good to have the captain back," Chase, who made a fighting 53 in West Indies' first innings in Rajkot, told reporters on the eve of the second test.
India batted only once in Rajkot, amassing 649 for nine before declaring, and West Indies crumbled under the mountain of runs to lose inside three days.
Denying India a flying start will be crucial to their hopes of levelling the series in Hyderabad and Chase, who bowled 26 overs of off-spin for the lone wicket of Ajinkya Rahane in Rajkot, said his team would be better prepared for Shaw.
"We had a long chat after the first test and came up with some plans," the 26-year-old said.
Shaw's dream debut prompted comparisons with fellow Mumbaikar and Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar.
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The 69.3m motoryacht, Suerte, has been listed for sale with Kevin Merrigan of Northrop & Johnson and Michel Karsenti of Yacht-Ology. She is on the market for an asking price of €59.9 million.
In 2015, Suerte was launched to high acclaim by up-and-coming Italian shipyard Tankoa Yachts, at its facility in Genova, Italy. She was constructed with a steel hull and an aluminium superstructure, featuring the architectural work of Vincenzo Ruggiero. At 1,457 gross tons she has significant interior capacity, equivalent to that of three 45m – 50m superyachts.
The exterior styling was completed by renowned Italian designer Francesco Paszkowski, whilst the interior was a collaborative effort with Margherita Casprini. There is accommodation for 12 guests over six staterooms on board. On the bridge deck is a penthouse-like master stateroom with 180-degree views, a study, an en-suite bathroom, a private deck and a Jacuzzi. On the main deck there are five additional staterooms, comprising two convertible staterooms, two double staterooms and a VIP suite.
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Fantasy Freestyle: Using FIP to Find Value
Wilson Karaman
Well, it's that magical time of year. The season is winding down, and here we sit preparing to begin our annual stare into the frozen, dead abyss of a fantasy-baseball-less winter. Fortunately, those of us in keeper and dynasty leagues are somewhat exempt from this situation because, as the saying goes, there is no offseason. This is actually, legitimately one of my favorite times of the year for those formats, as it's the time when we can start to analyze the breakouts and the disappointments of the past season and begin to construct rudimentary target lists for upcoming trade talks over the winter and, in shallower formats, drafts next spring. I play primarily in head-to-head leagues, and particularly in this format I've found the following exercise to be quite valuable as a quick and dirty starting point. Since head-to-head championships are determined by player performances during weekly format playoff matchups the it tends to open up opportunities for acquiring players on the relative cheap who performed poorly down the stretch and may have contributed to a league-mate losing his or her final matchup. This "recency bias" plays off exactly the kind of negative memory impact my colleague Jeff Quinton took a long and engaging look at last offseason, and I highly recommend the read for context.
One of the primary places I like to direct my efforts at the start of each off-season is the FIP bin of second-half pitching performances. Particularly given that starting pitchers will usually only get one shot, maybe two, to contribute in a head-to-head matchup a poor finish to the year can sting that much more. And the metric also provides a valuable opportunity to sniff out some emerging talent among guys who may have started to come into their own at the big league level but might not quite have the production (or, subsequently, the hype) to back it up just yet.
To this end, here are the top 20 pitchers with the biggest gap between their second-half ERA and FIP numbers:
ERA-FIP
Scott Kazmir
Trevor Cahill
Clay Buchholz
A.J. Burnett
Kyle Gibson
John Danks
David Price
Hisashi Iwakuma
Marcus Stroman
Gio Gonzalez
Jake Arrieta
Justin Verlander
Drew Hutchison
Brett Oberholtzer
Bartolo Colon
Danny Salazar
Rubby de la Rosa
Tim Hudson
It's an interesting list, to be sure. On the one hand you've got a few of the higher end starters that you'd expect to see posting strong FIP numbers. Guys like Price, Iwakuma, Gio Gonzalez, and even one of the year's big breakouts in Jake Arrieta posted solid independent numbers even down the stretch when they may have gotten the short end of the luck stick in one way or another to ding their overall effectiveness. You obviously aren't as likely to be able to use the numbers here for leverage in trade negotiations, as we're dealing with higher-priced assets and helium guys who aren't likely to come at a discount going forward.
And on the other end of the spectrum there are some older veteran guys who pitched pretty poorly but still probably deserved better. Guys like A.J. Burnett, John Danks, Bartolo Colon, and Mark Buehrle aren't generally all that interesting for a conversation like this. They're pretty well-known quantities, and while their general stability at the back of your deep-league rotation or as streaming options in shallower formats has a place for appreciation, there's really no upside or surplus value to be found in targeting any of them.
But there are a few noteworthy names here, starting at the very top of the list with Nathan Eovaldi. Eovaldi entered the season as a somewhat under-the-radar sleeper pick on account of his high-octane fastball, but his inconsistency with secondary pitches and general inability to get lefties out consistently had held him back. And for the first month of the season it looked like he might just pay off with a legitimate breakout, as he posted a 2.19 FIP and 35-to-5 K:BB ratio over 38 innings to open the season. The wheels started to fall off in May, however, and he never really did regain his April footing outside of a four-start stretch in August. It's tempting to look at his .356 second-half BABIP as a sign of impending regression and lump Eovaldi into the "target" list, but at the same time that inflated was well-earned on account of a 26 percent second-half line-drive rate. Both his fastball and slider—the pitches he throws a combined 85 percent of the time—have yielded line drives on over 30 percent of balls put in play, and despite their high-octane velocity, both rate as below-average pitches per PITCHf/x calculations. It's frustrating given the arm strength, but I'd just as soon avoid putting too much stock in an Eovaldi breakout for next season.
On the flipside, Kyle Gibson is a name that actually looks pretty interesting that I probably wouldn't have otherwise bothered to check in on without this exercise. He's a former three-time member of the BP101, most recently checking in at number 64 heading into 2013. Since coming back from Tommy John surgery in late 2012 he's added a couple miles an hour to his fastballs, and despite generating less-than-average whiffs from his secondaries, he's shown an elite ability to induce weak ground-ball contact in his career. Two interesting things about Gibson's second-half struggles: on one hand, he's been terrible at stranding runners. For whatever reason he's pitched very poorly out of the stretch, and it's an issue that has haunted him throughout his big league career. And second, he's seen a wholesale collapse in the effectiveness of his slider. The pitch rated as the eighth-best slider among all starters for the first half of the season, yet has regressed to a slightly below-average offering since the break. The negative value is largely the produce of a vicious spike in the line drive rate he allowed with the pitch in July and August. Insert small sample size warning here, but in September he appears to have cured what was ailing him, as he's burning worms at a staggering 78 percent clip (though in turn getting brutalized to the tune of a very unlucky .333 average against the pitch). While he's never going to be a big-time strikeout guy, it is worth noting that his whiff rate has risen about three percentage points in the second half as well. If he can maintain his whiff rate above 15 percent—that is, somewhere more or less north of 6.0 K/9 per—with his elite ground-ball tendencies and a dose of normalized batted ball luck, he has the makings of a cheap, attainable mid-rotation AL-only guy, and someone with the profile of a Kyle Lohse or Henderson Alvarez for the back end of mixed-league rotations. I wouldn't get too excited until he shows he can maintain his effectiveness better with runners on, but the raw materials are there for a nice undervalued asset.
Marcus Stroman is probably the most exciting name on this list in terms of upside, and this winter may just be your last chance to get him on the (relative) cheap. He's shown some typical inconsistencies from start to start that have led to five second half starts in which he's allowed five or more runs. Those clunkers have helped to inflate his baseline ERA despite independent metrics that suggest he's been one of the best starters in the American League during that time. His combination of limiting walks and inducing groundball contact has been a potent one, and it has only gotten better as he's begun relying more heavily on his sinker as his primary fastball since the beginning of July. It'll probably always be an open question if his small frame can hold up to a 200-inning season until he shows he can do it, but he's at 160 and counting this year and hasn't shown any decreased velocity or increased arm-angle variation thus far in September. If you want him the time to pounce is probably now, while his slightly inflated ERA may help mask just how dominant he's become.
And finally, Stroman's rotation-mate Drew Hutchison makes for another tantalizing option for those in search of potential breakout targets. Hutchison generated some buzz this past spring after showing off a velocity bump in the Grapefruit League, and the increase has largely held to the tune of about a mile and a half on his fastball this year. His three pitch mix has induced a strong double-digit swinging strike rate, leading to nearly a strikeout an inning and his continued deployment in mixed leagues throughout the season despite poor ERA and WHIP returns. I don't think the strikeouts are a fluke, and his whiff rate has actually risen to an exceptional 26 percent rate in the second half despite his overall struggles. But what may very well turn out to be a fluke is the combination of a poor 68 percent strand rate and gross 12.6 percent HR:FB clip in the second half. His BABIP has decreased by 14 points, the whiff rate has taken a sizeable step forward, he's lopped a percentage point off his walk rate… and yet, his ERA is almost a full run higher in the second half on account of that ugly combination. It doesn't add up given the skillset he's shown, and given how uneven the topline production has been he might just make for the best option on this list for buying on the cheap this off-season.
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The presence of three Jays on the list doesn't seem like a coincidence. Their defence this year has been terrible. While they may regress, without defensive upgrades, Jays' starters may continue to have higher BABIPs.
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Not sure raw FIP is that useful (vs. ERA) over such small a small sample:
http://www.hardballtimes.com/occams-razor-and-pitching-statistics/
FIP still uses HR rates, which are highly erratic over a half-season. Better would be to use xFIP after adjusting for park HR rates.
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BuckarooBanzai
I went back and forth about this very question when I started including this particular exercise in my annual end-of-season itinerary a couple years ago. The way I came down on it is that HR rate as a variable is something I'm more interested in looking at secondarily with these pitchers. I've never entirely loved xFIP as a blanket stat because certain players are more consistently prone to homeruns than others, and it's an element of pitcher performance I like to look at on a case-by-case basis rather than normalizing. Ultimately this is only meant as a quick and dirty starter activity in the long process of a compiling an off-season target list. It's been helpful for me, and hopefully using it (or similar baseline derivatives like xFIP or FRA) can help jumpstart the offseason for others as well.
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Posted By: Ribicon, 10/23/2021 2:59:59 PM
Fully-vaccinated Pennsylvania Rep. Glenn Thompson announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday afternoon and was admitted to Walter Reed. Thompson, 62, made the announcement on Twitter and said that he had been experiencing cold-like symptoms which prompted a COVID test for him. The Republican lawmaker was taken to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to treat his symptoms in the 'breakthrough' case. He is one of at least eight House Representatives that has tested positive for the virus since early August.(Snip)Fellow federal lawmaker Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who is also vaccinated, tested positive a month before. Following his diagnosis, he urged
The US Congress is exempt from the nonexistent vaccine mandate that is nonetheless being forced on employees nationwide, so Rep. Thompson at least took the shot on his own. Was he not current on his regular boosters? Also remember that the unvaccinated need to get the shot to protect the vaccinated, which in modern times makes perfect sense.
Reply 1 - Posted by: Come And Take It 10/23/2021 3:04:53 PM (No. 955316)
Fully vaccinated with saline? I doubt very much our betters are taking the clot shot.
Reply 2 - Posted by: GoodDeal 10/23/2021 3:08:41 PM (No. 955318)
Statistically more fully vaxed people that catch Covid die in greater numbers than those that are un vaxed.
Reply 3 - Posted by: Luandir 10/23/2021 3:13:01 PM (No. 955321)
Today's vaccine success story.
Reply 4 - Posted by: DCGIRL 10/23/2021 3:30:24 PM (No. 955332)
This is NOT news.
Reply 5 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/23/2021 3:34:26 PM (No. 955337)
The operative words here are: Fully-vaccinated
Reply 6 - Posted by: Howard Adams 10/23/2021 3:48:05 PM (No. 955355)
If he has not received Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine in the 1st 3-5 days of symptoms, then I am worried about him.
Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 10/23/2021 3:51:29 PM (No. 955361)
The Shot does not prevent infection with the virus. The Shot does not prevent passing on the virus to someone else, vaccinated or not. The Shot does not prevent getting seriously ill from the virus. The Shot does not prevent dying from the virus. The Shot may kill you or maim you, all by itself.
Reply 8 - Posted by: Toby Ten Bears 10/23/2021 4:09:15 PM (No. 955390)
It's not a vaccine so he was not "fully vaccinated".
Reply 9 - Posted by: Aubreyesque 10/23/2021 4:10:27 PM (No. 955391)
Oh, IowaDaaaaad...your lies are calling....
Reply 10 - Posted by: 3XALADY 10/23/2021 4:24:58 PM (No. 955415)
That about covers it, #7.
Reply 11 - Posted by: lakerman1 10/23/2021 5:22:47 PM (No. 955467)
NW Pa has two congressional districts. Now both congressmen have contracted the Kung Flu. Or as the Chicoms might say, the Kung Fku.
Reply 12 - Posted by: Barbara Joy 10/24/2021 10:18:09 AM (No. 955955)
Sure wish they would say which vaccine the person received when we see these cases of breakthrough.
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Right-hand privilege presentation at university
goes viral 28 replies
Washington Examiner, by Sydney Shea Original Article
Posted by NorthernDog — 10/24/2021 12:23:25 PM Post Reply
Check your privilege, especially if you used your right hand to open this article. That's according to a presentation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that has gone viral. Using one's right hand as the primary mode of grappling objects "makes life easier" and gives one more "opportunity" and "advantage," according to the presentation. It also said being right-handed apparently makes one have a sounder "sense of belonging" in the world. The lecture took place Monday, Newsweek reported . It has garnered more than 2,600 "likes" on a popular Twitter account. (Tweet) The presentation was part of training
Biden delays release of JFK assassination
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The women's sprint event at the 2018 World Singles Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania on 23 May 2018.

The defender of the title was the Pole Beata Włodarczyk, who did not take off in Cluj after the end of her career and therefore did not have the opportunity to defend the championship. The new champion of the world became Croatian Ines Maričić, after defeated her compatriot Mirna Bosak in final. The bronze medals was won by Hungarian Anita Méhész and Swedish Jenny Smevold.

Results

Starting places

The starting places have been allocated on the basis of each team's achievements during the previous championships.

Draw

The players were drawn into pairs with the reservation that competitors from the same country can not play in the first round against each other.

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News from Pearland | Friendswood
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UHCL anticipates growth for Pearland campus in master plan
By Haley Morrison | 7:00 am April 18, 2018 CDT Apr 18, 2018 | Updated 9:09 am April 18, 2018 CDT
A University of Houston-Clear Lake master plan released in November shows the Pearland campus' growth trending upward in the next 20 years and also allows for a third building, if there is a need.
The UHCL-Pearland Campus, a branch of UHCL, still has plenty of space on its 40-acre property, which opened in 2010. This has not been an issue given the enrollment of the school, according to Ward Martaindale, associate vice president for facilities management and construction.
The university is building a Health Sciences and Classroom Building, the second building on the campus. It will be finished in time for spring 2019 classes and will provide more space for freshman and sophomore classes, as well as additional space for the school's nursing program.
According to Provost Glen Houston, the hope is the nursing program, which began in fall 2014, will draw students to UHCL-Pearland and will lead to stronger relationships with Pearland, the city's hospitals and the Texas Medical Center. There are 38 students enrolled in the nursing program.
"You'll see through the master plan, we talk about the relationship with the city and connecting the properties. The city owns quite a bit of property around this and with the partnership —the relationship—we have had with the city, [that is]reflected in that look to the future, and [we]make sure that we make the best use of resources for us and the city together," Martaindale said.
With new campus additions, programs and the growth of the school and the city, UHCL-Pearland and the city can benefit one another, Mayor Tom Reid said.
"Pearland is being recognized now as not only a quality place to live, a place where it's easy to get to, it's got a lot of options for growth and your family, but it's becoming an educational mecca as well," Reid said. "We have quality schools that are highly recognized and a four-year college with a graduate school right in town, and I think what that does—it says that Pearland has the development of our community as one of the premier communities around the Houston Gulf Coast Area. I think a lot of cities would kill for that."
UHCL's health sciences and classroom building will offer more space for the nursing program, space for biology and chemistry seminars and shell space for another possible program.
Enrollment at the Pearland campus does not yet support the need for the third-floor space, according to UHCL's master plan. In fact, the Pearland campus enrollment has been trending down slightly since 2013, but officials are hoping for a turnaround. Enrollment in 2017 dropped by eight percent.
"I am anticipating immediate growth in the nursing program," Houston said. "If that happens, that will be significant revenue generation, that will be partnerships that we will probably have announcements about as well. I could see that program growing, and long term, we will probably need some more nursing faculty out there, and who knows, maybe even graduate programs."
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Enrollment declines were partly to blame for putting UHCL at risk for a budget shortfall of $13.9 million in fiscal year 2018. However, by leaving open staff positions vacant and cutting costs, the university has offset the shortfall, university officials said.
Officials are hoping that implementing new marketing strategies will help grow enrollment.
Houston also said the university hopes the growth at the Pearland campus will continue to offset any shortfalls. Part of that strategy involves creating new programs that attract more students, a process that will begin this fall, he said.
As with nursing, Houston hopes the new program will have a medical or business spin.
"One of the things that could happen—and I don't know if it will happen—there could be a degree that is joint between health care administration and nursing," Houston said. "Our strategic planning will be looking at what new programs are going to be out there, what new staff and faculty need to be out there, and of course, those are all revenue projections but those will decide what needs to go out there."
The health sciences and classroom building will be supported by several site improvements, according to the master plan. They include more parking and an additional campus entrance from Pearland Parkway.
The new building also provides space for biology and chemistry labs and lecture halls, which officials hope will soon house classes for freshmen and sophomores, which the main campus began offering in fall 2014. As of now, the only underclassmen at the Pearland campus are Alvin Community College students who can easily transfer into UHCL under an agreement between the schools.
"Our partnership with the University of Houston-Clear Lake Pearland Campus provides students with an opportunity to obtain credit from ACC at the same facility when they're pursuing their bachelor's degree. This is a benefit to students in the Pearland region who are looking to complete their education without a costly commute," ACC President Christal Albrecht said.
According to Houston, the new biology and chemistry classrooms will offer ACC the opportunity to offer those classes to their students who take classes at UHCL-Pearland.
City relationship
According to Houston, the extension of the Clear Lake campus into Pearland was due largely to Tom Reid.
"I said you know the one thing—if I were going to build a city, what would I want to have? I wanted to make sure we had good access to good academic facilities, and we've got great schools, some opportunities for our students, but we don't have a college here," Reid said.
Reid spoke to the members of the University of Houston System and then-president of UHCL, Bill Staples, and showed them Pearland Parkway, which had recently been built, and the land nearby.
"I said, 'Well, we could possibly make some property available for you, and so our final decision was we would make 40 acres on Pearland Parkway [available]. … They loved it and followed up on it," Reid said.
The city built the original building in 2010 and has a bond agreement with UHCL that gives the land to the university after 20 years in 2030. The city donated the land for the second building to the university, as state law would have prohibited the university from building on the land otherwise.
The campus also contributes to the economic growth of the city, particularly with the addition of the Lonza facility and the Mitsubishi Compressor Plant, Reid said. Lonza and Mitsubishi will need employees with certification in different medical and engineering fields, respectively, as well as certified lab technicians. With the Pearland campus nearby, employees can earn degrees and certifications, and have a job in the same city, Reid said.
"When that college is finished in September, it's going to be a four-year college and, of course, it has a graduate school, and opportunity to get your doctorate. You can graduate from high school in Pearland, go out and get your bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral and never leave town. That's a plus," Reid said.
UHCL-Pearland contributes to the economic growth of the city, as well as appealing to outside business looking to open a Pearland location, said Matt Buchanan, president of the Pearland Economic Development Corporation, which used to be located at the campus.
"We obviously promote that the campus is here and all of the education opportunities in our region, so it's beneficial at every level," Buchanan said.
According to Buchanan, the nursing program is beneficial to the city as well.
"We were always focusing on health science as one of our development strategies," Buchanan said.
As it stands, there are no plans to build a third building at the Pearland campus, Martaindale said. However, there is room for a third building if the university has a need for one in the future.
"The third floor is being shelled out and that gives us a tremendous amount of space for new programs to grow into," Martaindale said. "There will be sufficient space in the existing building and the health sciences building to accommodate that growth for several years."
The next level of growth for the Pearland campus will be filling the shell space on the third floor. The school will begin discussions about how to fill the shelf space in the fall. However, it might be years before the space is filled, as it depends on the needs of the university and community.
Reid named engineering and medicine as two studies that would fit in well with the community.
"The options will develop and will only enhance Pearland as an education location. I think it's fitting with our vision of what Pearland should be and what it can be, and I think that's a very positive step in that direction," he said.
The enrollment numbers used in the master plan were based on a head count that was predicted to reach 1,270 over the next 20 years.
While there is projected growth for the Pearland campus, there has not been a discussion about dorms on the Pearland campus, Martaindale said. Without dorms, the Pearland campus will remain a commuter campus, despite the addition of freshman and sophomore programs.
The master plan identified student service and student life space on campus, meeting areas for students, shaded areas and outdoor seating and an option to make a left turn from the campus to Pearland Parkway in order to access Beltway 8 as potential needs for the Pearland campus.
"I think it's going to be one of the big factors that makes Pearland stand out as one of the developing, outstanding, cosmopolitan communities in the Gulf Coast area. And we've got the land to do it," Reid said. "We're in the right place at the right time. In future years, people are going to say, 'Wow, how in the world did that ever happen to us? Aren't we lucky?'"
Haley Morrison
Haley Morrison came to Community Impact Newspaper in 2017 after graduating from Baylor University. In her tenure as a reporter, she has primarily written about education, health care and transportation.
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Jason Bateman and Oscar nominee Rachel McAdams lead the cast in this riotous comedy.
John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein are directing the film, marking their second film as co-directors, following the criminally-underrated comedy Vacation which starred Ed Helms and Christina Applegate.
Joining Bateman and McAdams in the cast of Game Night are Billy Magnussen (Bridge of Spies, American Crime Story), Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe), Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Kylie Bunbury (Under the Dome), Jesse Plemons (Black Mass, Fargo), Chelsea Pereti (Brookyn Nine-Nine), Danny Huston (Wonder Woman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), with Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) and Kyle Chandler (Manchester by the Sea).
Bateman and McAdams star as Max and Annie, whose weekly couples game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's charismatic brother, Brooks (Chandler), arranges a murder mystery party, complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all part of the game…right? But as the six uber-competitive gamers set out to solve the case and win, they begin to discover that neither this "game"—nor Brooks—are what they seem to be.
Game Night is written by Mark Perez (Accepted). John Davis (Joy), John Fox (The Blacklist), Jason Bateman and Jim Garavente (Bad Words) are producing, with Marc S. Fischer serving as executive producer.
The behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Barry Peterson (Central Intelligence, We're the Millers), Oscar-nominated production designer Michael Corenblith (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), editors Jamie Gross (Vacation), Gregory Plotkin (Get Out) and David Egan (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return), and costume designer Debra McGuire (Vacation).