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NFC Coaching Changes And The Draft Impact
August 22, 2011 by Greg Brosh
Fantasy owners should always keep coaching changes in the back of their minds at all times. A run-oriented head coach and/or offensive coordinator could easily drop the value of a top receiver when going to a more conservative offense. On the flip side, a pass happy coach can boost the value of a receiver who normally might fly under the radar (Josh McDaniels and Brandon Lloyd). Below are the coaching changes that occurred in the NFC earlier in the year and also how their presence will affect the skill players on their new team.
Head Coach Jim Harbaugh replaces Mike Singletary
Offensive Coordinator Greg Roman replaces Mike Johnson
The signing of Harbaugh was supposed to breathe new life into Alex Smith, whose career has been lackluster so far, but Smith hasn't exactly endeared himself to the new staff. The team used a fourth-round pick on Nevada QB Colin Kaepernick, but he is a bit too raw to take the starting job. However, Harbaugh has officially opened up the starting job and it was also revealed that the 49ers were courting, now Titans, Matt Hasselbeck. Not to mention the team had brought in Daunte Culpepper in for a workout. So while Harbaugh had been able to use his magic on players like Andrew Luck and Buccaneers backup Josh Johnson, there might not be enough to make Smith a competant starter.
Frank Gore's role doesn't change with the coaching change. He will continue to be the bell cow in the backfield and should reach another 1000-1100 yard season, but health is always a factor. Harbaugh was able to turn Toby Gerhart into a top player, so he should be able to keep Gore alive as one of the league's leading rushers. But, again, Gore has to remain healthy to do it.
The passing game was supposed to have improved, but Michael Crabtree has already gotten bit by the injury bug when he suffered a foot injury early in practice. The team, worried about Crabtree's availability, signed former Jets receiver Braylon Edwards to a one year deal. Once Crabtree comes back, current No. 2 Josh Morgan could kick into the slot in three-receiver sets. Tight end Vernon Davis could easily lead the team in receptions in 2011.
Interim Head Coach Leslie Frazier named head coach
Offensive Coordinator Bill Musgrave replaces Darrell Bevell
After much speculation regarding the quarterback situation, the Vikings finally settled on former Eagles/Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb as the stopgap until rookie Christian Ponder is ready to take over the reigns. McNabb showed last year that he is clearly on the decline, but Musgrave will still use what arm strength he has left to stretch the field and make more down-field throws.
Just weeks after Frazier's promotion, it wasn't much of a surprise that he officially announced that the offense would run through Adrian Peterson. As the top back in the backfield, expect AD to flirt with 300 carries and close to 1300 rushing yards. And now that Musgrave is calling the offense, Peterson could start seeing an increase in receptions if he can show he can stay in on third downs, which AD has been lobbying for in training camp.
With Sidney Rice gone, Musgrave will use Percy Harvin a lot this year, moving him around in certain situations and creating mismatches. Unfortunately, outside of Harvin, this receiving unit is going to need to be coached up a lot in order to have any success. Bernard Berrian is pedestrian, Michael Jenkins is a better blocker than receiver and Greg Camarillo is just okay. Because of the lack of talent, Musgrave will use more two-tight end sets with Visanthe Shiancoe and rookie Kyle Rudolph. This will also help McNabb as he has shown in the past that he loves throwing to tight ends.
Head Coach Ron Rivera replaces John Fox in Carolina
Offensive Coordinator Rob Chudzinski replaces Jeff Davidson
Rivera will have some work to do for an offense that had troubles at all the skill positions last year.
Starting with quarterback, it's still a tossup as to who will start Week One between rookie Cam Newton and Jimmy Clausen. Neither has shown enough in the preseason that made one stick out from other other. As far as fantasy owners are concerned, Newton should only be owned in Dynasty leagues. Don't expect this team to pass much in Rivera's year one as the head coach.
Somehow the Panthers managed to bring back running back DeAngelo Williams, who was the hottest free agent on the market after the lockout ended. With Williams locked up, expect Rivera and Chud to use a lot of the ground game in 2011 to easy the passing game slowly into the fold as the season wears on.
Along with Williams, the Panthers also managed to appease receiver Steve Smith to the point where his trade demands disappeared. As the lone wide receiver with any sort of legitimate talent, Smith is going to see a lot of defensive attention this year.
The biggest plus that Rob Chudzinski gives the offense is that the tight ends will be used a lot in the passing game. As a former tight end and a former tight ends coach at San Diego, Chud will make good use out of guys like Greg Olsen, who was mostly used as a blocker in Chicago. We already saw the tight ends make some noise in the first preseason game after Olsen and Gary Barnidge led the team with four targets a piece. And if Newton winds up being thrown to the wolves Week One, he will need the tight end safety net to make it through.
Offensive Coordinator Josh McDaniels replaces Pat Shurmur
With Pat Shurmur now in Cleveland as the new head coach, McDaniels brings his pass happy offense to St. Louis. This will be huge for the development of Sam Bradford, who had already grown leads and bounds in his rookie year. Bradford should easily match his passing numbers from 2010 and should see an uptick in passing touchdowns from the eighteen he threw last year.
Steven Jackson is Steven Jackson. A hard runner and one of the better pass-catching running backs in the league. The upside is that McDaniels will continue to use Jackson as the featured back in the running game. The bad news is that Jackson's receptions might not be there this year. To find a running back who had more than 50 receptions in a year, you have to go all the way back to 2008 when Patriots running back Kevin Faulk had 58. Jackson is also starting to get a bit long in the tooth and is slowly breaking down, but he should squeeze out one more year of production.
St. Louis has a lot of receivers on the roster, but only a few of them possess enough talent to even be considered every-week starter. Newly-signed Mike Sims-Walker figures to end up landing one starting spot, but Brandon Gibson has really looked good in the preseason. The lone guy who I absolutely love is Danny Amendola. After 85 receptions in 2010, he reminds me a lot of a poor-man's Wes Welker, who McDaniels had coached before going to Denver. If Bradford can continue to play well, Amendola will easily lead the team in receptions. Rookie tight end Lance Kendricks has the most upside of all the tight ends on the roster and will have a big role early.
Interim Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator Jason Garrett named head coach/offensive coordinator
Talking about Garrett and the Cowboys will be short and sweet. Expect Tony Romo to bounce back from an injury-plagued 2010. Felix Jones, if he can stay healthy, should enjoy his best season yet as a pro. Miles Austin, Dez Bryant and Jason Witten will all be huge assets in the passing game. Since Garrett called the plays near the end of last year, don't expect his offensive philosophy to change.
Only difference between Garrett and Wade Phillips? Don't expect the practices to be like eating a slice of blueberry pie. Garrett will push these guys to the limit unlike Phillips, whose practices were considered "creampuff."
Offensive Coordinator Darrell Bevell replaces Jeremy Bates
Bevell goes from Minnesota to Seattle with the same title and will take his West Coast offense with him. This offense looks good on paper, but head coach Pete Carroll's affinity for sticking with Tarvaris Jackson as his starting quarterback is going to kill this entire offense. I beg of you Pete, PLEASE GIVE CHARLIE WHITEHURST A CHANCE!!!!!!!
Marshawn Lynch, an early sleeper of mind, will get most of the workload if he can find running room in Tom Cable's zone blocking offensive line. But with Leon Washington expected to get an expanded role and Justin Forsett still lingering, this backfield could become a committee if Lynch doesn't get going early in the season. And with the huge question mark at quarterback, defenses will be ready for the run.
In a perfect world, Sidney Rice will benefit the most as Seattle's version of Percy Harvin. Newly-acquired tight end Zach Miller will see an expanded role in the passing game after John Carlson fell out of favor with the coaching staff in 2010. Unfortunately, I find it hard to believe Big Mike Williams will be able to improve his numbers from 2010.
Offensive Coordinator Mike Miller replaces the OC vacancy
With Miller calling the offense, the passing game will be a major factor this year. The signing of Kevin Kolb finally gives the quarterback position some legitimacy is severely lacked last year. Larry Fitzgerald will be the center point, but there really isn't anyone else who sticks out. Andre Roberts? Stephen Williams? Please.
Outside of Fitzgerald, the second highest passing option, in my opinion, will be Todd Heap, who finally gives this offense a talented option at tight end that it hasn't seen under head coach Ken Whisenhunt's tenure.
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A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news…
Photos from the Post Office railway tunnels
A decision on whether to allow flats to be built on Tube station car parks has been pushed back to the new year. Local Independent
From late next February, Piccadilly line trains won't be stopping at South Kensington tube station while escalator replacement works are carried out. ianVisits
An 82-year old tube roundel still in its original design has been restored outside Uxbridge tube station. ianVisits
Elizabeth line / Crossrail
The beleaguered Crossrail project reportedly risks being "mothballed" if further financial support is not provided soon by the Government, transport bosses have said. ITV
Crossrail has confirmed that it's on target to start trial running of trains through the tunnels as soon as possible next year following successful tests in the past few weeks. ianVisits
London businesses urged the Government to "stop playing games" as concerns mounted that Crossrail would have to be mothballed due to an unresolved financial crisis. Standard
Spending Review: London's Crossrail 2 funding stopped BBC News
Mainline / Overground
Millions face Christmas rail chaos during 'lockdown lifting' Independent
The first of South Western Railway's fleet of 90 Class 701 trains will not enter service in December as planned. Rail
Network Rail has taken advantage of the lack of passengers during the lockdown and are using the extra-time for improvement works across two of London's busiest railway lines. RTM
HS2 has invited five firms to bid to design, deliver and maintain almost 300 low-energy lifts and escalators for the first phase's four major new stations. Construction Enquirer
Eurostar has appealed to the UK government for urgent financial support, warning it is "fighting for survival" with just one train a day now running from London to Paris. The Guardian
Solar power will be used on a major railway line into London from early 2022, the company behind the project said Reuters
The Battle to Save the UK's Ancient Woodland from a High Speed Train Vice
TfL has an order for a fleet of new DLR trains to replace over half of its older trains and expand the size of the fleet, and the first images of the new trains have been released. ianVisits
London Tube whiteboard messages 'make people less alone' BBC News
Manchester sanitiser firm supplying London Underground sees turnover grow 2,000% this year BusinessLive
And finally: William Muir and the World's first Railway death FOBLC
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5 comments on "London's weekly railway news"
Brian Butterworth says:
So… if Crossrail 2 has been mothballed, perhaps we could do the Lea Valley bit of it on the cheap?
If you could link up the Crossrail 1 section from Stratford to STAR (Stratford to Angel Road) you could achieve the capacity increases in the Lea Valley around Angel Road?
It's can't be that hard to link platforms 10 and 11 to the Crossrail tunnels, can it? Then just double the work done for the Lea Bridge to Meridian Water. That was done for £25 million.
Then if the money comes back the northern section of Crossrail 2 can just be the Seven Sisters to Southgate bit. Since the loss of the "Palace Gates" line Wood Green has a very poor public transit.
jason leahy says:
27th November 2020 at 10:35 am
This weeks BBC World Service, People Fixing The World episode Riding the solar railway, is about solar powered trains, Riding Sunbeams solar farms, train in Byron Bay,Australia with rooftop pv panels and Indian Railways plans to install solar, there is also a 3 min vid on the website.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04d42vf
Melvyn says:
Perhaps now is the time to accept that Crossrail 2 has outlived its time and I given it is estimated to cost £30 billion due to the length of tunnels whether if you had £30 billion if it would be best way to spend that money or would several smaller schemes provide better VFM ?
It's a pity that the Victoria Line which covers a similar route to Crossrail 2 wasn't built to mainline size but given tunnelling techniques it might have not been possible at the time.
So first call on £30 billion would be a major upgrade to Victoria Line with all stations made accessible, fixed middle stairs replacement with escalators and major rebuilding of Finsbury Park , Highbury and Islington, Oxford Circus with Euston due at part of HS2 .
The section of Crossrail 2 to Meridian Water could be linked to the Overground at Stratford together with upgrades to route with removing level crossings where possible.
As for capacity at Euston for HS2 then extension of the DLR from Bank could provide better value and might even attract funding from Canary Wharf ?
While upgrades to SWR lines destined for Crossrail 2 together with extension of Elizabeth Line from Heathrow to SWR would be a start !
Victoria Line says:
27th November 2020 at 4:05 pm
Crossrail should be a lesson for HS2. Of course, the money will be found but it's way over budget and well past the projected opening date.
Mark Norrington says:
It's can't be that hard to link platforms 10 and 11 to the Crossrail tunnels, can it?
Well yes it is! Firstly there's no capacity through Crossrail 1 for new routes and more importantly to get from the Crossrail tunnel portal to platforms 11 and 12 means crossing all the other lines at the west end of Stratford. You might be able to do it on a flyover but Im not sure there's enough room for a ramp straight out of the tunnels or if you tunnelled it would have to be very deep to get below the International Station box. The disruption to existing serivces would be enormous and way beyond any benefits gained.
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Q: for loop keeps looping when there is a break I'm trying to make a carpark program and one of the functions is to move a vehicle. It is working, the object is changing position in the array, it's just that the loop continues and it crashes because parkingLot[i, j].RegNummer is null the second time it loops through it. How do I stop it from looping again after I have "moved" a car? I want it to break and go back to the menu. (This is in a switch case connected to a menu)
Console.WriteLine("Enter the licensenumber of the vehicle that you want to move: ");
                        string lNumber = Console.ReadLine();
                        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
                        {
                            for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
                            {
                                if (lNumber == parkingLot[i, j].RegNummer)
                                {
                                    Console.WriteLine("Enter the space you want to move it to: ");
                                    int space = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
                                    int space1 = space - 1;
                                    if (parkingLot[space1, 0] == null)
                                    {
                                        parkingLot[space1, 0] = parkingLot[i, j];
                                        parkingLot[i, j] = null;
                                        Console.WriteLine("The vehicle with licensenumber {0} has been moved to space {1}", lNumber, space);
                                        break;
                                    }
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    Console.WriteLine("The vehicle with licensenumber {0} could not be found!", lNumber);
                                    break;
                                }
                            }
                        }

A: Your break statements exit the inner for loop, if you need to exit the outer for loop, I'd suggest using a boolean, and checking if it's true to exit the outer loop. When you meet a condition on the inner for loop, set it to true:
 string lNumber = Console.ReadLine();
 bool exitOuter = false; //Use boolean to exit outer for loop
 for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
 {
     for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
     {
         if (lNumber == parkingLot[i, j].RegNummer)
         {
             Console.WriteLine("Enter the space you want to move it to: ");
             int space = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
             int space1 = space - 1;
             if (parkingLot[space1, 0] == null)
             {
                 parkingLot[space1, 0] = parkingLot[i, j];
                 parkingLot[i, j] = null;
                 Console.WriteLine("The vehicle with licensenumber {0} has been moved to space {1}", lNumber, space);
                 exitOuter = true; //Set boolean to true to exit outer for loop
                 break;
              }
         }
         else
         {
              Console.WriteLine("The vehicle with licensenumber {0} could not be found!", lNumber);
              break;
         }
      }

      //Check boolean to break outer for loop
      if(exitOuter)
         break;

 }

A: So, the problem is that you break just from the inner loop.
                                   if (parkingLot[space1, 0] == null)
                                {
                                    parkingLot[space1, 0] = parkingLot[i, j];
                                    parkingLot[i, j] = null;
                                    Console.WriteLine("The vehicle with licensenumber {0} has been moved to space {1}", lNumber, space);
                                    break;
                                }

You must inform the outer loop that the car has been parked and it must end the task.
You can implement a flag for that.
        Console.WriteLine("Enter the licensenumber of the vehicle that you want to move: ");
        string lNumber = Console.ReadLine();
        bool carParked = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
            {
                if (lNumber == parkingLot[i, j].RegNummer)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Enter the space you want to move it to: ");
                    int space = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
                    int space1 = space - 1;
                    if (parkingLot[space1, 0] == null)
                    {
                        parkingLot[space1, 0] = parkingLot[i, j];
                        parkingLot[i, j] = null;
                        Console.WriteLine("The vehicle with licensenumber {0} has been moved to space {1}", lNumber, space);
                        carParked = true;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("The vehicle with licensenumber {0} could not be found!", lNumber);
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (carParked)
            {
                break;
            }
        }

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SoundStage! Access | SoundStageAccess.com (GoodSound.com) - Eric Johnson and Mike Stern: "Eclectic"
Bill Milkowski's liner notes for Eric Johnson and Mike Stern's Eclectic call them "two guitar heroes from disparate worlds -- Mike Stern from jazz and Eric Johnson from rock." The distinction is almost meaningless -- Johnson has always displayed the harmonic sophistication of a jazz player, and Stern has long shown a strong rock influence. But the word eclectic applies to both players, and this album is a thrilling collaboration. What could have been a mere guitar shoot-out -- and there's plenty of flashy playing here -- ends up being a well-thought-out display of virtuosity that emphasizes memorable songwriting.
Any doubts about Johnson's ability to play over the changes are dispelled by Stern's "Remember." The extended chords give both players ample space to stretch out, and Johnson's melodies flow easily over Stern's backing. Stern's solo features some impressive octave runs, and builds to an aggressive finish that shows his rock influences. Stern, like Johnson, writes songs that have ear-catching melodies that aren't predictable or saccharine, and leave space for inspired improvisation.
Eclectic's well-paced shifts of style help keep it unpredictable. Johnson's "Benny Man's Blues" is a Western swing tune that gives both players a chance to play without guitar effects in a clean, old-fashioned style. "Tidal," another Johnson composition, gives the guitarists an opportunity to play in a traditional setting. He states the melody in a series of Wes Montgomery octave runs that set a warm tone, and his solo shows a great appreciation and understanding of Montgomery's approach.
Every track shows the two guitarists to great effect, and their contrasts in style complement each other. Stern is often more aggressive, with a surprisingly strong blues streak; and Johnson's lap steel in Stern's "Sometimes" isn't something Stern himself would have done, but it enriches the tune and enhances its beauty. And Stern brings enough edginess to Johnson's "Hullabaloo" to keep it from being too cloying. The only misstep is a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Red House" that has too many guitar pyrotechnics and a boring roadhouse arrangement.
Otherwise, Eclectic flows easily, and is a welcome addition to these guitarists' discographies. Kelly Donnelly engineered the recording sessions at Johnson's studio, in Austin, and Paul Blakemore mastered it. The sound is clean and spacious, with a wide soundstage that gives the instruments room to breathe.


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The last two years have been nothing short of an emotional roller coaster. And do you know what I learned from that? That is what life is supposed to be. Many years of my life went by where I wasn't really in tune with what I was feeling. It is refreshing to have that back. Being aware of my emotions helps me work through them quickly. On to the next. When I'm feeling strong emotions, sometimes it helps me to write about it in the form of a poem. I thought I would share a few from last year.
"Is it a dull pain, or a sharp one?" the doctor asks.
But why he asks I cannot understand.
For reaping never ends where sorrow is sown.
A flower to blossom and wither.
But one thing you don't do is slither.
Calming flood and, "Peace, be still."


In this month's edition of our newsletter, we feature innovation as a key topic. As a fundamental guiding principle to EDI, rather than focusing on building products first, we take a step back and think about the problems our customers face and how we can right-size EDI technologies to best solve their challenges.
This month we've captured some of our latest customer stories, corporate news, and market updates.
The mantra "innovate or die" certainly sounds extreme when taken on its own, but when you're working to position into a new market, it's absolutely essential. It's a driving force that leads to the fresh products and technologies that capture the attention of the marketplace and which also creates new opportunity for end users and suppliers alike. It also avoids the situation where the primary competitive strategy is only cost -which in turn can produce negative margins, weak companies, and technology stagnation which creates yet another negative spiral.
At the same time, Innovation can't just be about adding technology, features, and functions either. It has to be about creating real solutions in exciting new ways that the market cares about and which offers value that rewards the customers who acquire them.
A key aspect of EDI's progress in rolling out new solutions has been the focus we've maintained on working with our customers to realistically assess market drivers and requirements and then to apply our technologies with a focus on innovation that leads directly to our customer's ability to capture new markets, increase their market share, or to disrupt the status quo with something that provides new choices.
Working to the mantra of "innovate or die" while focusing on our customer's understanding of their market environments, has allowed EDI to develop exciting new products such as the PHEV highway buses which can have fuel savings of over 40% in the city, PHEV CNG buses and trucks which run on dual alternative fuels, new PHEV work truck solutions which have the ability to reduce emissions by over 80%, or electric vehicles which operate with smaller lower cost motors when using our special transmissions.
"Innovate or Die" is both a strategy and a core belief at EDI and we are excited and incredibly full of anticipation in seeing what we will co-create with our customers in the months ahead.
Recently, EDI revolutionized the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) space with the development of the world's first light-duty, 4-mode parallel-series PHEV truck. Now, building on that foundation and in collaboration with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), EDI has developed the first Class-5, 4WD PHEV utility work truck.
PG&E was looking for a way to reduce the emissions of its 20,000 pound work trucks by at least 80%, while maintaining complete vehicle functionality. With a daily duty cycle that includes roughly 35 miles of driving, and 8-10 hours of jobsite engine idling to power the boom life and other accessories, these trucks are the workhorse of PG&E-and responsible for a significant amount of the company's GHG emissions.
EDI has partnered with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission to develop a variety of innovative work truck solutions based upon EDI's world-first medium-duty PHEV drivetrain. Built upon a Ford F-550 platform, the new PHEV work truck possesses 30 miles of all-electric range and enough battery capacity to operate vehicle accessories—including the boom—for up to 10 hours a day without idling the base diesel engine. Available in two major configurations—both of which come standard with 35+ miles of all-electric range—the new work truck offers more power and performance than PG&E's conventional diesel work trucks, while enabling PG&E to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent.
Recently, a group of executives from the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) paid a visit to our Dixon, California Innovation lab. Accompanied by the PG&E team sponsoring our utility work truck project, members of the EEI were able to view a live demo of the trucks in action.
The demonstration featured two of EDI's world's first innovations: Class-5, 4WD PHEV utility work trucks, the first with enough battery capacity to power the vehicle accessories for up to 10 hours, without ever idling the base diesel engine, and the second with the ability to export up to 120kW of AC power, enough electricity to power a neighborhood. Viewers were able to see the trucks operating in real-case scenarios, with the boom and many of the vehicle accessories fully functioning 100% on electricity, and the power export truck charging 6 hybrid vehicles, industrial strength fans, and more.
The EEI became interested in viewing the latest EDI innovation as a result of positive feedback from PG&E. "We have worked with many manufacturers, but EDI is the first company that has been able to deliver a vehicle that meets all of our requirements. This new work truck will not only improve our fleet operations, but also help us better serve our customers," said Dave Meisel Senior Director of Transportation and Aviation Services for PG&E.
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is responsible for advocating public policy, expanding market opportunities, and providing strategic business information related to the electric power industry. The association comprises membership of all US investor-owned electric companies, with its member base providing electricity for 220 million Americans in all 50 states.
Talk about glass half empty, glass half full! That phrase could have been coined to describe attitudes towards the state of the natural gas fueling infrastructure in the United States. One thing everyone can agree upon, however: We need more infrastructure. It is growing, however. And while government policy has been the main impetus behind fueling infrastructure expansion, as more private companies add natural gas vehicles to their fleets they are also becoming important drivers in the growth of natural gas stations.
"Infrastructure is the main barrier to greater usage" of natural gas as a commercial vehicle fuel, says Frank Ziegler, director of sales and marketing at Greenkraft Inc.
Greenkraft produces a wide range of compressed natural gas and liquid propane gas-fueled trucks as well as a fuel delivery system that goes on top of GM and Ford platforms to convert heavy-duty pickups to natural gas or propane.
California has 228 CNG stations, according to the America's Natural Gas Alliance website. The Alliance is composed of North America's leading natural gas exploration and production companies. By comparison, Utah has 84, Texas has 36, and Iowa has zero CNG stations.
The lack of a good refueling infrastructure has made the natural gas-fueled vehicles at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach very unpopular, says Ricardo Long, sales manager at the Freightliner Used Truck Center at Selecttrucks Las Vegas.
There are two types of natural gas fuel, compressed natural gas and liquid natural gas. CNG is more widely used because it is easier to store. LNG provides longer range, but must be cryogenically held. Handling it requires training and special clothing. It is predominately used in Class 8 vehicles, says Long.
Clean Energy Fuels Corp, a Nasdaq-listed company whose business is to build CNG and LNG stations and to manufacture equipment for itself and others, is naturally in the glass half full camp. According to the Newport Beach, Calif.-based company it opened 27 natural gas in the first half of 2014, and has approximately 200 fueling stations nationwide. Clean Energy is developing "America's Natural Gas Highway," a network of stations across the country.
It issues a steady stream of press releases announcing new fleet customers and new stations. For example, in mid-June Clean Energy announced the opening of a new CNG station in El Paso, Tex. Heavy-duty LNG trucks can now travel from Los Angeles to Houston on the I-10 using its stations, claims Clean Energy. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, there are currently 1,422 CNG stations in the U.S. representing a growth rate of 84 percent since 2009. There are 99 LNG stations, a growth rate of 175 percent. "The growth rate is strong and can be directly correlated to the discovery of natural gas in the United States," says Charlie Riedi, director of transportation and equipment at the America's Natural Gas Alliance.
High-mileage, heavy-duty vehicles are the fastest growing segment of vehicles using natural gas, says Riedi. But, he says, the return on investment makes the most sense for vehicles that travel 30,000 miles a year. Refuse, public transit, and regional haul fleets are the primary segments adopting natural gas, says Riedi.
An underlying design principle in EDI's technology is to retain the proven vehicle control systems of the past, while new intelligent electronically controlled systems are implemented to increase accuracy, controllability and effort. By maintaining the fundamentals of the original control system that has been tried and proven, EDI technology satisfies all liability laws, but is also enhanced with electronic and computer controls for robustness. Alternatively, companies developing new technologies have to prove physical fail-safe measures within the liability courts before they can enter the mass market. Recent events in the auto industry are examples of advanced technology failures, where the backup systems are no longer present, or behave in an uncontrollable fashion causing injury and sometimes death.
EDI designs incorporate the proven methodologies of the past but are electronically advanced, providing higher functionality and fidelity, but revert to original concepts in the unlikely event that electronic systems suddenly fail. Driver safety is ensured, while providing higher performance and features not otherwise attainable.
The company continues to focus on the Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle, PHEV, as a major area of design. The Philosophy is to design for liquid fuel displacement with electricity and energy efficiency simultaneously while minimizing the cost and system complexity. EDI will continue to design systems that are advanced in concept, but which also maintain the safety and reliability of existing vehicle systems.


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Eric has directed three episodes of Glee in the show's second season two episodes in season three (so far).
2.04 Duets
The glee club works on a duet assignment, and Finn and Rachel plan to throw the competition so that Sam can have a shot at winning. Meanwhile, a love triangle between Mike, Tina and Artie develops.
WRITTEN BY: Ian Brennan
AIR DATE: October 12, 2010
2.14 Blame It on the Alcohol
Principal Figgins teaches the student body about the danger of underage drinking, and the glee club is personally touched by the message. Meanwhile, Mr. Schuester and Coach Beiste indulge in a little fun of their own.
AIR DATE: February 22, 2011
2.20 Prom Queen
When the entertainment for prom falls through, Principal Figgins asks New Directions to perform at the dance much to prom coordinator Sue's dismay. Things get heated as the competition for prom king and queen draws closer, and Jessie St. James returns.
AIR DATE: May 10, 2011
3.01 The Purple Piano Project
It's fall and that means back to school for the students and faculty at McKinley High. The New Directions clan returns after a devastating loss at Nationals, so Mr. Schuester assigns a project to get them back on track. Meanwhile, Sue Sylvester starts her congressional campaign.
WRITTEN BY: Brad Falchuk
AIR DATE: September 20, 2011
3.06 Mash Off
Sue starts a smear campaign to take down her biggest competitor for the Congressional seat. Meanwhile, Puck has a crush, and Will and Shelby Corcoran encourage some friendly competition.
WRITTEN BY: Michael Hitchcock
AIR DATE: November 15, 2011
3.10 Yes/No
Mr. Schuester contemplates proposing to Emma; Sam tries to win back Mercedes; Becky Johnson sets her romantic sights on Artie.
3.15 Big Brother
Much to Blaine's chagrin, his big-shot Hollywood actor brother, Cooper (Matt Bomer), comes to visit.
AIR DATE: April 10, 2012
3.19 Prom-A-Saurus
Brittany goes into high gear as class president to spearhead the prom. Then, after prom king and queen nominations are announced, the kids kick into campaign mode, and some of the outcasts organize a rival celebration.
WRITTEN BY: Ryan Murphy
AIR DATE: May 8, 2012
3.21 Nationals
The hard work also comes with a bonus. "Of course, there's pressure on the new season," Monteith says. "But the show requires so much of us that it becomes a wonderful place to hide. It limits our exposure to the hype. I think this whole experience would be a lot more difficult if I had more free time."
Stoltz, who also directed an episode of Murphy's previous series, Nip/Tuck, has another theory about that. "Remember the Viking ships that would chain the slaves at the bottom to row the galleys? These kids have been chained together for a couple of years and I think they've got Stockholm syndrome. They're in love with their captors."
On the other hand, he also understands them. "We were shooting a mash-up of 'Get Happy' and 'Happy Days Are Here Again,' and I got chills, which is rare for me because I've been around a long time," he says. "But when it does happen, I mean, it's what we live for." — TVGuide.com
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New South Wales, July 2019 - March 2020
Bushfires - Black Summer
26 Fatalities
$1.88 Billion Insurance Costs
2448 Homes Destroyed
The 2019–20 bushfire season was the worst New South Wales (NSW) has recorded. Higher than average temperatures and low moisture levels in bushfire fuels following several years of drought enabled devastating fires to burn across much of the state, with intense bushfire weather conditions continuing through most of the fire season. Over the course of a few months, 26 lives were lost, 2,448 homes were destroyed and 5.5 million hectares (ha) of land was burnt. The impact on NSW communities, farmers, local businesses, wildlife and bushland was unprecedented.
The length and intensity of the bushfire season and the scale of the fires challenged the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) and other NSW agencies like never before. On 8 November for example, there were an unprecedented 17 fires for which emergency warnings – the highest alert level – had been issued. Due to the unusually dry conditions, fire behaviour was more erratic and less predictable than in previous experience, often meaning that well-tested firefighting techniques were not always as effective as in the past. Such challenges were compounded by worsening drought conditions and an unprecedented number of fire initiated thunderstorms.
From 1 July 2019 to the end of the bushfire season on 31 March 2020, there were more than 11,400 bush and grass fires across NSW. The fires burnt 6.2 per cent of the state – the largest burnt area recorded in a single fire season in eastern Australia.
Tragically, the season also resulted in the loss of several lives, including 20 civilians: three in October, five in November, four in December and eight in January. Six firefighters also died, including two RFS volunteers killed on 19 December when their fire tanker rolled down an embankment, one RFS volunteer who sustained fatal injuries in a freak weather event on 30 December, and three American citizens who were killed when their plane crashed during water-bombing operations on 23 January in the Snowy Monaro area.
Building impact assessments were conducted on 81 fires between 11 August 2019 and 1 March 2020. Assessments were completed on foot and by drone, helicopter, boat and trail bike by more than 70 RFS staff and 15 volunteers, assisted by numerous other agency personnel.
As well as burning down 2,448 homes, the fires destroyed 284 facilities and 5,469 outbuildings, and damaged 1,013 other homes, 194 facilities and 2,042 outbuildings, with the majority of property losses occurring in southern NSW. In areas assessed by the RFS, an estimated 14,519 homes, 1,486 facilities and 14,016 outbuildings were saved by firefighting protective measures.
Losses experienced by the agricultural community were also grave, with thousands of farms affected by significant losses of livestock, placing further strain on a sector already suffering wide-spread effects of drought.
More than three billion animals, more than one billion of them in NSW, were estimated to have been killed or displaced in the fires, including some rare or threatened animal, plant and insect species, with the complete loss of some species believed to be permanent.
The RFS was supported in its firefighting efforts by personnel from Fire and Rescue NSW, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Forestry Corporation of NSW, the State Emergency Service and the NSW Police Force. In addition, 5,728 interstate and overseas fire and emergency service personnel were deployed. Many other government and non-government agencies also supported the effort in many ways.
On 8 November and following multiple bushfires across eastern and south-eastern Australia, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) declared the fires a catastrophe, enabling related insurance claims to be processed more rapidly. On 28 May 2020, the ICA advised that insurance claims from the bushfires in 2019–20 across NSW, Queensland, Victoria (VIC) and South Australia numbered 38,181, with estimated losses of $2.32 billion. NSW accounted for 81 per cent of these losses, or $1.88 billion.
A wide range of disaster assistance payments and allowances were made available through joint Commonwealth-State arrangements to assist individuals, primary producers, businesses, non-profit organisations and local governments that had been impacted by the bushfires.
Due to the ongoing and significant impact of the fires, on 6 January 2020 the Australian Government committed $2 billion to the National Bushfire Recovery Fund to provide further assistance to individuals and communities impacted by the fires, bringing total government assistance available to almost $2.65 billion.
On 20 February 2020 the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements was established.
Understanding Hazards
Learn more about bushfires
ABC's Big Weather Understanding hazards: Bushfire Major Incidents Report Recovery Matters webinar series National Bushfire Recovery Agency
Black Summer bushfires, QLD, 2019 Black Summer bushfires, VIC, 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, SA, 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, TAS, 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, ACT, 2020 2019 - Bushfire - NSW - Tingha Plateau fire Bushfire - Black Saturday, Victoria, 2009
This collection brings together resources, information and publications focused on recovery in Australia and internationally.
Specific fire events
Northern NSW
Long Gully Road fire in Tenterfield
Bees Nest fire in Clarence Valley
Busbys Flat Road fire in Richmond Valley
Liberation Trail fire in Clarence Valley
Carrai Creek in Armidale
Carrai East in Kempsey
Kian Road in Nambucca
Stockyard Flat in Armidale
Myall Creek Road in the Richmond Valley
Gulf Road in Tenterfield
Kangawalla in Glen Innes
Mt McKenzie fire in Tenterfield
In northern NSW, 1,136,815 ha burned, representing 20.6 per cent of the total area burned in NSW during the fire season, and 703 homes (21.3 per cent of the total) were lost in the area. Homes destroyed in the Liberation Trail fire in the Clarence Valley alone totalled 169.
From July until the end of December, there were approximately 15 declared bushfire emergencies in northern NSW and 46 total fire bans affecting various LGAs. Several fires reached emergency warning status during the fire season, with some lasting for several days at a time
Greater Sydney and the mid-north coast region
Mid-north coast
Hillville Road
Bills Crossing Crowdy
Failford Road Darawank and Rumba Complex fires
Three Mile fire on the central coast
Green Wattle Creek fire (Wollondilly)
Ruined Castle and the Green Valley fires in the Blue Mountains
Morton fire (Wingecarribee)
Gospers Mountain fire
Fires in this region burned 1,286,126 ha (23.3 per cent of the NSW total), and destroyed 308 homes (12.6 per cent of the total lost).
During the Green Wattle Creek fire south-west of Sydney, two volunteer firefighters were killed when their fire tanker rolled late during the night of Thursday 19 December at Buxton, leaving three others injured in the accident. Their truck had been part of a convoy when the accident occurred.
The Gospers Mountain fire destroyed 90 homes across the Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains, Lithgow and Singleton LGAs.
From 1 July to 31 December, the Greater Sydney and mid-north coast regions experienced approximately 11 declared bushfire emergencies and 26 total fire bans. Emergency warnings were issued for several fires, some lasting for several days at a time.
Southern NSW
Badja Forest Road fire
Currowan fire
Dunns Road fire in Snowy Valley
Good fire in the Snowy Monaro region
Green Valley Talmalmo fire
Werri Berri fire in the Bega Valley
Border fire in the far south
Clyde Mountain Upper Turon fire
Combined, these fires burned 1,506,193 ha (27.3 per cent of NSW's total area burned) and 1,523 homes (58 per cent of the total).
The Badja Forest Road fire destroyed 418 homes, of which 289 were lost in the Bega Valley alone. The community of Cobargo was the hardest hit, with 70 homes lost, five facilities destroyed, 168 outbuildings lost and a further 33 homes damaged. Of the areas assessed by RFS across these fires, 5,705 threatened homes remained untouched.
The fires also claimed the lives of three American crew members, killed when their aircraft crashed during water-bombing operations on the Good fire in the Snowy Monaro region.
A volunteer RFS firefighter sustained fatal injuries at the Green Valley fire on 30 December.
From 1 July to 31 December, southern NSW experienced eight declared bushfire emergencies and 21 total fire bans. Emergency warnings, some for several days, were issued for several fires during the fire season.
Content warning – viewers are advised that the stories and images in these videos may be distressing to some people.
New South Wales Rural Fire Service: 2019/2020 bush fire season comes to a close.
ABC: After the inferno The ABC was given access to an RFS helicopter for a flyover of the New South Wales Southern Highlands. ABC: The bushfires' path of destruction Before-and-after photos show the deep wounds catastrophic fires can leave in less than a fortnight. New South Wales Rural Fire Service: Bush Fire Bulletin Volume 42, No. 1 (2020) This edition of the Bulletin is devoted to the unprecedented and devastating 2019/20 fire season. Climate Council: The Summer of Crisis report NSW/ACT The Summer of Crisis report is a comprehensive overview of the devastating climate impacts Australians experienced this summer.
NSW Bushfire Inquiry and public submissions
NSW Bushfire Inquiry Final Report
Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements
Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements: Interim Observations
Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements: Draft Propositions
Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements: Published Submissions
This incident was included in the Major Incidents Report 2019-20 (AIDR 2020). See the report for further information on the incident. The report acknowledges the following sources: New South Wales Rural Fire Service; Bureau of Meteorology; Insurance Council of Australia.


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Glossary of SCA Equestrian Terms and Acronyms
For general equestrian terms, try this site: Glossary of Equine Terms
For general SCA terms, try this site: Glossary of SCA Terms
- a -
Advanced Rider - A rider that has qualified to ride the games at a canter.
amble - a slow easy gait.
ambler - a type of medieval horse.
An Tir - A kingdom in the Society for Creative Anachronism. See the Kingdom of An Tir web site at http://www.antir.sca.org.
authorization ride -
autocrat - an individual responsible for organizing and running an event.
- b -
bards - another term for caparison or barding
barding - a cloth covering or metal armor for a horse.
barrier - The divider between two jousting lanes. It is intended to keep the horses from colliding.
baston course - the same type of tournament as a kolbenturnier, but in France. Known in England as a "baton course." Late 15th century.
Beginnner Rider - A rider that has qualified to ride the games at a walk.
behead the enemy - an equestrian game, aka "Beheading the Infidel" that involves riding a weaving pattern between stanchions with detachable heads and knocking off the heads with a wooden or padded sword. It is a timed event.
behord - a type of medieval tournament. Sometimes used in the SCA to refer to mounted combat. See the mounted combat entry.
berfois - the ladies of rank that attend and judge an emprise.
blue card - The SCA membership card that indicates that the bearer has a signed waiver on file at the SCA corporate registrar's office.
boffer - a type of weapon that is constructed of lightweight material and significant padding.
- c -
caparison - a cloth covering for a horse.
carousel - a performance of equestrians, similar to a quadrille
chamfron - armor that protects the horse's face. aka Shaffron.
charter - the governing ideals of the guild. See the Guild Charter.
cheque - a score card
controi - a group of riders
course -
courser -
crest - see the article, Building Crests for Mounted Combat
cup race -
- d -
- e -
EM - Acronym for Equestrian Marshal, see the "equestrian marshal" entry.
EMIC - Acronym for Equestrian Marshal-in-Charge, see the "equestrian marshal -in-charge" entry.
EMIT - Acronym for Equestrian Marshal-in-Training, see the "equestrian marshal-in-training" entry.
emprise - a formal competition based on a 15th century style tournament.
Emprise of the Black Lion - A formal emprise that has been presented yearly since 2000 by the Shire of Midhaven. See the site at: http://www.9v.com/crystal/Emprise/
equestrian autocrat - also known as the equestrian liaison or equicrat. See. equestrian liaison
equestrian liaison - a member of the autocrat team, who works with the EMIC and the autocrat team to manage horse activities at an event.
equestrian marshal - A person who has trained and been qualified to
equestrian marshal-in-charge - An EM that is in charge of the equestrian aspects of an event. Often works in conjunction with an equestrian liaison.
equestrian marshal-in-training - A person who is training to become an equestrian marshal. In An Tir, most EMITs have a sponsoring EM.
equicrat - also known as the equestrian autocrat or equestrian liaison. See equestrian liasion.
"Equusi! Equusi! Equusi!" - MEG's motto. A bastard version of Latin intended to mean "horsie, horsie, horsie."
equine - in the SCA, this term includes horses, ponies, miniature horses, mules, donkeys, and zebras.
Estrella War - A HUGE war held in Goodyear, Arizona on the President's Day weekend. The war is traditionally between Atenveldt and Caid, but now also includes Artemesia and the Outlands.
event -
- f -
fechtbuchs - Fechtbuchs (often mispronouced "fight books") are manuals and treatises on fighting styles, including sword, hand to hand, and mounted. Famous fechtbuchs include Fiore's Flos Duellatorum,.
foot attendant - a person who assists a mounted equestrian.
- g -
gait - The paces at which horses move, usually the walk, trot, canter and gallop.
gallery - where the spectators watch the competitions
games - a generic term that encompasses all SCA equestrian activities.
green card - The equestrian authorization card for riders, groundscrewman, equestrian marshals-in-training, and equestrian marshals.
groundscrew - someone who assists in setting up and resetting the game equipment and assisting the riders. See the article, Groundcrew101
guild - (with a lower case "g" An group of people organized to promote the study and practice of some particular Art or Science.
Guild - (with a captial "G" An organization chartered in a groups to promote the study and practice of some particular Art or Science. See the Charter.
guild head - the person in charge of organizing the guild and reporting.
guild member - If you participate in the equestrian activities in the Barony of Madrone, no matter where you live, you can consider yourself a guild member.
Gulf Wars - A large war in Meredies that is well known for their high-profile equestrian events.
- h -
harness -
hastiludes - "Spear games" a term that covers all games that test the riders skill with a "spear or lance."
heads - another name for the game, "Beheading the enemy"
- i -
IKEQ - acronym for Interkingdom Equestrian competion.
insurance rider
Interkingdom Equestrian Competition - a standardized set of games that allow equestrians from different kingdoms to compete and submit their scores.
intermediate rider - A rider who has been qualified to ride the games at a trot.
- j -
javelin - a short spear that is usually thrown at a target.
joust - A martial competition where two riders on either side of a barrier, ride towards each other with the intent to strike each other with a lance.
- k -
KEO - An acronym for Kingdom Equestrian Officer. See Kingdom Equestrian Officer.
Kingdom Equestrian Officer - (KEO) The officer in charge of equestrian activities within a kingdom. In An Tir, the KEO also uses the title "Royal Equestrian."
knock-a-knight - a type of quintain that is knocked over.
kolben - A German mace or cudgel that is usually made of wood in a tapering octagonal shape with a small handguard and roundel. Used in the Kolbenturnier in the late 15th century. In the SCA, if it is made of foam, it is an attractive alternate to the sword for Mounted Combat.
kolbenturnier - a popular type of German tournament at the end of the 15th century. It involved striking the crest off an opponents head with either a kolben (mace/cudgel) or a blunted sword. It is believed to have been to the destruction of the crest (usually made of leather, light wood, or plaster). Known as the baston course in France and the baton course in England. Special large helmets with large grills were developed for this type of tournament.
lance - 1) a spear-like weapon 2) a group of riders 3) "Golden Lance" - a proposed inter-kingdom award
lane - The prescribed track that a horse and rider travels. Used in jousting, reeds, archery, and other games where traveling in a straight line is required.
list - 1) all of the competitors in a competition 2) another term for a jousting tiltyard
list field - the area that the competition is held.
list minister - the person who tracks the participants in a tournament and their scores.
- m -
Madrone - The name of the group that sponsors the guild. An SCA barony in the Kingdom of An Tir. See the website, http://www.baronyofmadrone.org.
Madrone Equestrian Guild - The recognized and chartered equestrian Guild of the Barony of Madrone that encourages equestrian activities in the barony. See our Charter.
MEG - acronym for Madrone Equestrian Guild, see Charter.
MEG-Head - The head of the Madrone Equestrian Guild
minor - The SCA defines a minor as any person under the age of 18.
mounted archery - target archery from horseback.
mounted combat - sometimes known as a baston course, a kolbenturnier, or a behord. A competition that involves knocking a detachable crest from another rider's helmet with a padded sword, while avoiding the same fate.
mundane - Used as an adjective referring to everything and a noun referring to everyone still part of the 20th Century world
- n -
non-member waiver roster
- o -
Ordo Equis - An Tir non-armigerous Equestrian Award, see Ordo Equis page. Originally presented as a grant-level award, in the Dec AS 40 edition of An Tir kingdom law, it appears as a non-armigerous award. The name has will also be changed pending approval by the College of Arms.
pas d'arms -
pass - A single encounter between two riders. There are usually three passes per turn.
pigs - a foam target that lays on the ground.
pigsticking - a game that involves plucking a "pig," a foam target, off the ground with the end of a long spear.
pilgrimage - a costumed trail ride. Sometimes supplemented by "stations" that feature a display or some amusement.
Pluviel -
portable paddock - a paddock that can be transported to a site and set-up. There are two types of portable paddocks: panels and electrical.
practice -
processional -
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quadrille - Performance given by a team of four, six, eight or more riders, involving riding an intricate pattern to music.
qualifying - Proving riding skill at a specific level
qualification ride
quest - a type of activity that combines a trail ride with puzzles and challenges.
quintain - a training tool consisting of a vertical pole topped with a vertical cross arm with a target. The arm rotates when struck. Scoring is based on the number of turns. Also see racing quintain, shock quintain, and knock-a-knight.
quintain lance - A specialized lance used for striking quintain. It is usually heavier than a ring quintain with a blunt end.
- r -
racing quintain - A vertical pole with two arms with targets. The arms are attached to the pole with mechanism that causes one arm to fall when the opposite target is hit. It is a race to hit the target first. Also see quintain, shock quintain, and knock-a-knight.
reeds - a game that involves running in a straight-line between two lines of stanchions with a detachable portion, and knocking as many tops off as possible. This is a timed event.
regional practice
rental - a rental horse
roster waiver
Royal Equestrian - see Kingdom Equestrian Officer
runout - The areas at either end of an lane where a horse and rider start and end their pass.
- s -
SCA - Acronym for Society for Creative Anachronism
seatbones
seneschal
shock quintain - a training tool consisting of a vertical pole with a target. It is used to acclimate horse and rider to striking another rider. Also see racing quintain, quintain, and knock-a-knight.
sidesaddle
sideseat - a type of saddle used mainly by women during the medieval periods.
Society for Creative Anachronism - A non-profit educational organization that recreates the middle ages and renaissance See http://www.sca.org.
- t -
tenant - at an emprise, the defending competitors of the field.
thread the needle - A game that requires tossing a spear through an upright ring balanced on a stanchion, and catching it on the otherside without upsetting the ring.
tilt - Verb; to tilt as an alternative to joust. Noun: the barrier, or the whole tiltyard.
tiltyard - The entire field used for jousting, including the barrier, the lanes, and the runout.
tourney cheque
- u -
"unofficial" practice - a practice that is not under the auspices of the SCA. It isn't covered by the SCA insurance or SCA equestrian certificate.
- v -
vamplate - The guard on a lance that protects your hand.
venant - at an emprise, the challenging competitors.
- w -
waivers - Official document signed by all attendees at SCA events, indicating that they understand the risks inherent in the activity and agree not to sue if those risks result in injury to themselves or their property. For equestrian activities, you must have waivers for both attending the event, and a separate waiver for participating in equestrian activities. Waivers can be individual waivers (one per person) or roster waivers (a single sheet that multiple people sign.)
war saddle
waster - a wooden practice sword.
white card - an SCA membership card that indicates that the bearer does NOT have a waiver on file at the corporate SCA registrar's office. To attend events and practices, a waiver must be signed.
Xenophan - a Greek equestrian who is considered the father of horsemanship.
- y -
yahoogroup - A bulletin board/list service hosted by Yahoogroups.com.
- z -
zebra - an equine
This page is part of the Madrone Equestrian Guild Web site
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Every week in /Answers, we answer a new pop culture-related question. In this edition, we're celebrating the release of Red Sparrow by asking "What is your favorite movie about espionage and undercover work?" Naturally, more action-oriented spy movies were disqualified.
Earlier this year, The Departed producer Roy Lee said there was a TV series adaptation of Martin Scorsese's Best Picture-winning crime drama in the works. At the time, the producer said they were trying to figure out if they were going to make it a network series or a cable series, but it turns out it won't be either.
Over the past 20 years, there have been more remakes than Hollywood has seen before. Sometimes they turn out fantastic like The Departed (a remake of Infernal Affairs) or True Grit (a remake of the John Wayne western of the same name). But it seems more often there have been duds such as Len Wiseman's Total Recall, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Spike Lee's Oldboy, and Jose Padilha's RoboCop.
Reports of a possible sequel to Martin Scorsese's The Departed have been floating around pretty much since its release, but we haven't heard any solid news about a follow-up in quite some time. In a recent interview, however, screenwriter William Monahan re-ignited the conversation by revealing his thoughts on a possible storyline for the sequel — though he was also careful to warn that he thinks it may never happen. Read more after the jump.


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Books Reviews Short Fiction
Isiah Lavender III Reviews Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, & Zelda Knight
December 31, 2022 November 18, 2022 locusmag 0 Comments Isiah Lavender III
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, & Zelda Knight, eds. (Tordotcom 9781250833006, $27.99, 528pp, hc) November 2022. Cover by Manzi Jackson.
In Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight magnificently produce what I see as the successor to Thomas's groundbreaking and award-winning Dark Matter anthologies. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones showcase the creative brilliance of Black speculative fiction writers largely from the US. These two anthologies, along with Nalo Hopkinson's Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, signaled the beginning of the colored wave of speculative fiction that has been continuously expanding since that foundational moment. Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian writers, among others, have produced wonderful anthologies of their own. Accordingly, the African continent plays a leading role in this ongoing wave with Ivor W. Hartmann's three AfroSF collections, Nerine Dorman's Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa, Ekpeki and Knight's Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, Wole Talabi's Africanfuturism: An Anthology, and Ekpeki's The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction. These are only the ones I already know about and own in my personal collection. Unsurprisingly, a body of race criticism, largely focused on science fiction, has also emerged, advancing various theories, ideas, and directions for engaging racial constructs such as afrofuturism, africanfuturism, Pan-African science fiction, black quantum futurism, afrotopia, etc. But I find it impossible to categorize Africa Risen for fear of potentially limiting its audience.
I have no doubt that Africa Risen will be every bit as important a collection as the Dark Matter anthologies. Here's why: it's got virtual reality; it's got robots; it's got dragons; it's got shapeshifters; it's got time travelers. My goodness, it's also got lizard people. It's got climate change. It's got cool visions of technology as well as critiques of capitalism. It appraises race and racism, gender and queerness, and religion too. It challenges its audience through stories of rituals, initiations, and spiritual beliefs. It's got star gazing, hover buses, underwater adventures, hauntings, love affairs, magic and science in equal measure. By golly, it even has a story featuring a spaceship named Biscuit. I could not put the book down. It's got everything in 32 stories by both famed and unknown writers, comprising 495 pages, deriving from the African continent and its diaspora. Africa Risen is simply a gorgeous anthology and it's well worth the wait.
Naturally, the well-known and veteran writers such as Steven Barnes, Maurice Broaddus, Tobias S. Buckell, and Tananarive Due bring the funk. How could they not? In "IRL," Barnes's protagonist Shango/Garrett escapes daily into a virtual world, drifting away from his father as they mourn the loss of his mother. Shango unwisely takes on a virtual enemy, who creates a simulated game that mirrors a real-world crime and pins it on Shango's father. Ultimately, Shango burns all of his virtual capital to save his father's life in the real world. In Broaddus's "Ruler of the Rear Guard," Sylvonne Butcher, a young black woman, quits America for Ghana under a new Pan-African Law. Buckell's "The Sugar Mill" features ancestral spirits that prevent a light-skinned man from selling his inheritance to real-estate speculators after a hurricane because many of his enslaved forebears died at the sugar mill on the land. And Due's "Ghost Ship" presents an African girl, named Florida, who's boss books her passage to the United States on an ocean liner. Florida carries an illegal package, a bio-engineered cat she names Burden that eventually escapes from the room after a power fluctuation and perhaps causes a disease outbreak that kills everyone onboard except Florida. As I said earlier, these provocative stories deliver on the thrilling introspections I expect from established pros.
But I'm much more interested in highlighting the new talent, that is new to me talent. To my way of thinking, the lifeblood of speculative fiction has always depended on its short stories to allow its audience to discover new authors and to allow those authors to develop their talent before moving on to longer form writing. American Russell Nichols creates a fascinating climate fiction story in "Mami Wataworks," where an event known as the Filth causes a long-lasting global drought and a young girl named Amaya invents a device to harvest water from tears after losing faith in the great rain long ago predicted by the village (weather) forecaster. Trinidadian Canadian Franka Zeph's "Door Crashers" features stolen time-travel technology, an elite military intelligence unit, human-passing automatons known as melanoids, a desperate attempt to save the world, and betrayal. Motswanan Tlotlo Tsamaase's "Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition)" concerns an oppressive rap song created by a failed rapper named Motsumi, who makes a Faustian deal with his own trauma by using muthi-tech, a kind of computer software that changes reality. Motsumi traps the spirits of 129 women to achieve wealth and fame with his song and video until he takes on the wrong woman in Sewela. The story's title refers to the 17-song album she makes from wearing Motsumi's skin. "The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library", by Nigerian Tobi Ogundiran, describes the failure of travelling salesman Wande Badmus to return the overdue Things Fall Apart. Somehow a unibrowed librarian tracks him from city to city and Wande meets a tragic fate, death by the lizard people who'd been wearing the librarian's skin. As it turns out, Wande's partner Donatus picked up the book at one of their stops, and the cycle begins again. Mame Bougouma Diene & Woppa Diallo's story "A Soul of Small Places" involves a teenaged Sengalese girl named Woppa who becomes a man-eating djinn in response to nearly being raped along a river bank on the way back from school with her little sister.
Honestly, I would talk about every story if I had the space. For example, Nigerian Ada Nnadi's "Hanfo Driver," relates an instant attraction between Fidelis, the man hired by Oga Dayo to drive the first hover bus in Lagos, and Dayo's mechanic nephew, Timi, who comes to fix the hover bus after it breaks down on its first day in service. But I simply don't have the space to match my inclination to talk about Wole Talabi's "A Dream of Electric Mothers" or Chinelo Onwualu's "The Taloned Beast" or Dare Segun Falowo's "Biscuit & Milk" or any of the others. This collection truly contains outstanding stories. I won't be shocked when Africa Risen picks up a variety of awards in the near future. To end with a bit of vernacular – Africa done rose and den some!
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