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The Locker Room Isn't Just A Bar, It's Family
Noelle Abrahams | November 14, 2019
Topics: Austin Fitch, dive bars, jello shots, karaoke, Lisa Ann Peters, The Locker Room, The Pitts
Old-school dive bars may seem like relics from another time in 2019, but in South Richmond, The Locker Room continues to thrive. In fact, the family is growing.
A human-sized cardboard pack of Juul Pods sang Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" while a demonic nun smoked a cigarette and played a game of pool. Bernie Sanders belted out The Who's "Baba O'Riley" and did some impromptu campaigning during the instrumental breaks. A "straight bachelorette," dressed for her party in a robe and a sash, put an unexpected yet delightful screamo twist on Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White And Blue." Even the solo bartender, Austin Fitch, gave his best Anthony Kiedis impression in "Give It Away" from behind the bar, while sporting a skeleton suit and mask.
Wednesday, October 30 was like any other karaoke night at The Locker Room, but with one obvious exception: nearly everyone in the bar was in costume. It was a "scary-aoke" Halloween party, complete with a costume contest that awarded prizes for categories including scariest, which went to Bernie Sanders, and most MacGyver, bestowed upon the straight bachelorette.
Aside from some unconventional costumes and a collection of witch hats and spider webs for decoration, it was a typical night at the self-proclaimed, patron-confirmed "dive bar" in the Westover Hills neighborhood of South Richmond. The relatively small group of people, most of them regulars, were content to be shooting the shit over mugs of cheap draft beer and cigarettes as usual.
Yes, you can smoke inside at The Locker Room. It has all of the other hallmarks of an authentic "dive" too, making it one of the last left of a dying breed in Richmond. It's located on the end of a small strip mall on Forest Hill Avenue, with an oddly charming interior that's reminiscent of a public school built in the 60's or 70's: laminated wood-paneled walls, fiberglass ceiling tiles, and thin brown carpeting throughout.
The drinks are cheap, there's almost always Jello shots in stock, and the food is not exactly worth mentioning. They've got a pool table, a jukebox, a dart room with several skill machines, and a few flatscreen TV's — which are usually playing sports — for a touch of modernity. Even if you go there only semi-regularly, a good portion of the crowd on any given night will soon become familiar.
A tight-knit group of long-time regulars is the lifeblood of The Locker Room. Owner Lisa Ann Peters calls them "The Locker Room family." There's a story Peters tells about a regular coming in one day with the news that she was getting evicted. Everyone in the bar mobilized immediately, leaving their drinks behind, and went to help her move out. When a member of "the family" passes away, The Locker Room posts an obituary on their Facebook page. On a ledge above the row of low booths, there's a collection of photographs memorializing some of The Locker Room's most well-known and well-loved personalities throughout its 40 year history.
At the Halloween party on October 30, Victoria Carll accepted her prize for funniest costume as the Swedish Chef while standing across the room from a framed portrait of her late mother, Dottie Jensen, on the exact date that she passed away a year before. Jensen is a storied member of The Locker Room family, having worked as a bartender there for many years. Near her photo on the ledge, there's a wine glass full of unlit cigarettes collected in her honor.
For members of The Locker Room family, it's the bar where everybody knows their name. But while it does sound a bit like "Cheers," this cozy, homey neighborhood haunt differs from the famous sitcom archetype in an important way: not everyone in the room is white. "A multiracial, working-class coalition" is how Wilson Nelms affectionately describes The Locker Room, his favorite bar. There's a sign on the wall that reads "Not permitted here: racism of any kind. Homophobia."
The patronage isn't the only thing that's a family affair–the legacy of ownership is too. Peters' uncle Donald "Donny" Guza bought The Locker Room in 1979 and ran it with his sister Jean Jones, Peters' mom, until his death in 2013. Jones died two years later, so Peters and her brother, Larry Pitts, took over in 2015. Then Pitts passed away unexpectedly in June of 2018, leaving Peters as the sole owner. However, she's proven herself to be quite enterprising in the short time since the bar became hers.
Peters added a dart room and weekly trivia and karaoke nights to the list of things that The Locker Room has going for it. Since her ownership began, social media accounts for the bar have been created on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, which are used for posting about events and sharing a reasonable amount of memes.
Last November, Peters and her husband opened The Pitts on Broad Rock Boulevard, also south of the river, which is known as The Locker Room's "sister dive." Named for her late brother, it's a burger/barbecue joint that serves breakfast all day and has a fenced-in, sandy outdoor lounge area with cornhole and patio tables; it's the kind of thing you'd find at a bar in a sleepy beach town.
As the gentrification process that has already taken hold in Manchester spreads outward, the future of Richmond's Southside is still unclear — but there is reason to speculate about it. Directly across from The Locker Room, two buildings are currently under construction that will house new locations for The Veil Brewing Co., Blanchard's Coffee Roasting Co., and Charm School ice cream. Will the southern migration of popular businesses based north of the river bring new clientele to places like The Locker Room, or just drive up the rent with little reward? Only time will tell, but with a dedicated fan base that spans generations, it's hard to imagine The Locker Room ceasing to exist.
Though newcomers at The Locker Room are probably less common than they are at most bars in Richmond, they're met with the same unassuming, genuine attitude that greets any other patron. Everyone has their own reason for what initially brought them there, whether it was proximity, word of mouth, family tradition, or even the internet. One night there was a man there named Michael, who had recently moved to South Richmond from Michigan. He said he Googled "bars nearby" and The Locker Room looked cool, so there he was. Michael from Michigan said he'd definitely return.
Regardless of how they found the place, there are obvious common themes that keep people coming back. Kenny Miller, a young regular that lives within walking distance, said he goes to The Locker Room "to get drunk." But watching him shuffle around the bar from conversation to conversation, talking and laughing with old friends and fellow regulars, it's clear that there are motivations deeper than the surface-level initiative of getting a buzz without breaking the bank.
It's not just the affordability that leads people to frequent The Locker Room. It also offers an appealling neighborly camaraderie and a laid-back, sincerely judgement-free atmosphere. If you don't find cigarette smoke offensive and you're in search of a bar in Richmond that is the antithesis of pretension, The Locker Room is that bar.
The Locker Room is located at 5035 Forest Hill Ave, and is open from 11 am until 2 am seven days a week.
Photos by Noelle Abrahams
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Noelle is a senior at VCU, a stereotypical Tarantino fangirl, and honestly thinks that Miller Lite tastes good. She lives with her cats, Donnie Darko and Big Girl.
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About an hour later, I was presented with a bucket of reddish hair. I finished off my bobbin, put in an empty, and went to town. Lots of dandruff, no carding, just reach in and go (I'll write up a more detailed report later for my records). I navajo-plied the singles, then presented the surprised owner with the resulting 3-ply skein. (Short skein....I ended up with maybe 20 yards of yarn.) Then, I went back to the wool.
Spun for a bit, joined the parade (it was...different. The pipers walked by, picking up the clans as they passed the tents. Strange.) Spun some more - I got lots of attention, explained the workings to quite a few curious men, told the kids no, don't touch - no, I didn't KILL the sheep, just gave it a haircut, found 2 new cousins (MacDuff got a page full - I'd bring 'em in, he'd assimilate them.)..normal festival stuff, just on a smaller (and slower-paced) scale.
Contest time. I brought my groupies. *eg* There were 6 of us - 2 men, 4 women. Clan Young went first (and, gypsybaby1, I need to ask you about him - he's a Scarby regular), then a girl with a pink fox tail, then me, then Clan Wilson, then the other 2 women. We were supposed to "explain" our garb, and how it was "authentic". Um....yeah. I bounced up, said "This is generic Ren-wench. Cotton for the most part - and this is my sheep. (I had a small sheep purse on my belt. She's cute.) I'm hunting Scotsmen - this is my bait! :simper:" They had to wait for the crowd to quit laughing. I was asked what I would do when I caught one, so I explained: "I'm the founder of the Texas Catch-and-Release program; when I'm done with him, I'll set him free in the world so we can study him in his normal habitat! You just wouldn't belive how they live (with a cute frown and pout)- it's pretty messy!" More laughter. The other 3 did their spiels....then we had to line up. Clan Wilson started to vamp, so I did, too - I popped up the skirt to show some bloomer'd leg. *eg* The bloomers did it - I won. (!) They're supposed to send me a check (!!!)..we'll see.
Back to the tent for more spinning - and some major flirting. There's something about this bodice, methinks.
Got interviewed twice for different papers today, and had numerous pictures taken. Handed out lots of business cards - we'll see what happens.
We packed up at 5....and made the only mistake of the day. We stopped at Chili's for supper....the service sucked, it was slow, I had to beg for water.....irk.


New Delhi [India] Apr 2 (ANI): As Ajay Devgn turned 50 today, Kajol, who is known for her witty comments and amazing sense of humour, wished her "dauntingly serious" husband in a beyond adorable post, giving us major wife goals!
"Happy birthday to my dashing debonair dauntingly serious husband. I just SERIOUSLY wish you a wonderful day and year ahead. And I SERIOUSLY think you're more awesome at 50:)," she captioned the post.
Despite his serious expression, Ajay is also known for pulling some hilarious pranks on his co-stars and his witty one-liners are also quite popular. In fact, he also won an Audi at the latest season of 'Koffee With Karan' for taking a dig at host Karan Johar during the rapid fire round. The doting husband did not spare Kajol either.
Apart from Kajol, many other actors including Abhishek Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Suniel Shetty, and Divya Dutta showered Ajay with love and wishes.
Kajol and Ajay tied the knot in 1999 and are proud parents to Nysa and Yug. Before their wedding, the couple co-starred in films like 'Ishq', 'Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha' and 'Dil Kya Kare' to name a few.
The duo has also starred in films including 'Raju Chacha' and 'U Me Aur Hum'. The power couple will be next seen together in 'Taanaji: The Unsung Warrior.' Ajay recently produced 'Helicopter Eela', which featured Kajol in the lead role.


The giant radio galaxy Centaurus A as observed by the Murchison Widefield Array telescope. Credit: Credit ICRAR/Curtin.
"We used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and Parkes—these radio telescopes both have large fields of view, allowing them to image a large portion of sky and see all of Centaurus A at once. The MWA also has superb sensitivity allowing the large-scale structure of Centaurus A to be imaged in great detail," he said.
As the closest radio galaxy to Earth, Centaurus A is the perfect 'cosmic laboratory' to study the physical processes responsible for moving material and energy away from the galaxy's core. Centaurus A is 10 million light-years away from Earth--just down the road in astronomical terms--and is a popular target for amateur and professional astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere due to its size, elegant dust lanes, and prominent plumes of material. Credit: ICRAR/Curtin.
"As well as the plasma that's fuelling the large plumes of material the galaxy is famous for, we found evidence of a galactic wind that's never been seen—this is basically a high speed stream of particles moving away from the galaxy's core, taking energy and material with it as it impacts the surrounding environment," he said.
LOL. I told you so, long, long, ago. Massive winds from the core. And stars migrating outward as a result.


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Franklin Ridgeway Aydelotte (October 16, 1880 – December 17, 1956) was a U.S. educator. He became the first non-Quaker president of Swarthmore College and between 1921 and 1940 redefined the institution. He was active in the Rhodes Scholar program, helped evacuate intellectuals persecuted by the Nazis during the 1930s and served as director of the Institute for Advanced Study during World War II.

Early and family life
Aydelotte was born in a small town in Sullivan County, Indiana, the son of William Ephraim Aydelotte and Matilda Brunger Aydelotte, and had at least one sister. He attended Indiana University where he was an English major, a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, earned a varsity letter in football and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1911. In 1907 he married Marie Jeanette Osgood. Their only child was William Osgood Aydelotte.

Career

After graduation, he became an English professor first at a teaching college in California, Pennsylvania now called California University of Pennsylvania, then at Vincennes University and Louisville Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky. He became one of the first Rhodes Scholars and studied at Brasenose College, Oxford University.  Aydelotte was the American Secretary to the Rhodes Trust from 1918-1952, overseeing the American program of the Rhodes Scholarship.

President of Swarthmore College

By 1921, Aydelotte was president of Swarthmore College where he successfully blended the educational processes he learned at Oxford with the traditional Hicksite Quaker values the college was founded on. He expanded the college to an economically viable size and developed a broad-based liberal arts educational curriculum that stressed academic excellence.

He introduced the Honors program at Swarthmore, based on his experiences at Oxford. Based on the premise that the only true education is self-education, the system created seminar courses for selected students that were more challenging than the regular curriculum. These students would not receive grades or examinations, but took oral examinations at the end of the senior year given by external examiners. This replaced the lecture method of teaching for the advanced students, and introduced the notion of the students reaching the faculty. This method of teaching has become the signature of a Swarthmore College education.

Institute for Advanced Study
Upon retiring from Swarthmore in 1940, Aydelotte directed the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey during and immediately after World War II (1940-1947). He had served on the Board of Directors since 1930. During Aydelotte's time as the Institute's director, notable faculty included: Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann and James Waddell Alexander II.

Aydelotte was a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry that recommended Britain allow significantly more Jews to emigrate to Mandatory Palestine after World War II. In his diary, he wrote: "I left Washington pretty strongly anti-Zionist... But when you see at first hand what these Jews have done in Palestine... the greatest creative effort in the modern world. The Arabs are not equal to anything like it and would destroy all that the Jews have done... This we must not let them do."

Publications
Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds, Clarendon Press (1913)
Frank Aydelotte, The Religion of Punch, The Nation, Volume 100, Issue # 2601, (May 6, 1915)
Frank Aydelotte, The Oxford Stamp and Other Essays and Articles, Oxford University Press (1917)
Frank Aydelotte, What the Americans Rhodes Scholar gets from Oxford, s.n (1920)
Lawrence A. Crosby and Frank Aydelotte, Oxford of today: A manual for prospective Rhodes scholars, Oxford University Press (1922)
Frank Aydelotte, Honors Courses in American Colleges and Universities, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (1924)
Frank Aydelotte, Honors Courses at Swarthmore, Columbia (1931)
Frank Aydelotte, The Educational Program of Swarthmore College, The College (1933)
Frank Aydelotte, Elizabethan Seamen in Mexico and Ports of the Spanish Main, The American Historical Review, Vol. 48, No. 1. (Oct., 1942), pp. 1–19.  URL: JSTOR Stable
Frank Aydelotte, Breaking the Adademic Lock Step, The Development of Honors Work in American Colleges and Universities, Harper & Brothers (1944)
Frank Aydelotte, The American Rhodes Scholarships: A Review of the First Forty Years, Princeton University Press (1946)
Frank Aydelotte, The Vision of Cecil Rhodes, A Review of the First Forty Years of the American Scholarships, Geoffrey Cumberlege (1946)

Death and legacy
Aydelotte died in Princeton, New Jersey on December 17, 1956 after several years of failing health. His papers are held by a library. His niece (who attended Swarthmore during his tenure), Mary A. R. Marshall became a leader opposing Massive Resistance and an influential delegate in the Virginia General Assembly.

References

An adventure in education; Swarthmore College under Frank Aydelotte, Macmillan, (New York, 1941)
Frances Blanshard, Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Ct. (1970)

Dan West, Nancy Harrison, Frank Aydelotte: Architect of Distinction - Swarthmore College Bulletin
Bibliography for Frank Aydelotte story
 Frank Aydelotte

Further reading
 Michael G. Moran. Frank Aydelotte and the Oxford Approach to English Studies in America, 1908-1940. University Press of America, 2006.
 Michael G. Moran. "The Road Not Taken: Frank Aydelotte and the Thought Approach to Engineering Writing." Technical Communication Quarterly 2.2 (1993): 161-75.
 Michael G. Moran. "Frank Aydelotte: AT&T's First Writing Consultant, 1917-1918." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 25.3 (1995): 231-241.
 Ann Rinn. "Rhodes Scholarships, Frank Aydelotte, and Collegiate Honors Education. Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Spring/Summer 2003: 27-39; Online at http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/127

External links

 Frank Aydelotte Papers, 1905–1956, Swarthmore College

Presidents of Swarthmore College
Directors of the Institute for Advanced Study
American Rhodes Scholars
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
California University of Pennsylvania faculty
Vincennes University faculty
Honorary Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1880 births
1956 deaths
20th-century American academics

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Well, goodbye Maggie Thatcher. End of a British era and all that.
I'm not sure what my American readers think of Maggie – the Washington Post says this of her: Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter whose overpowering personality, bruising political style and free-market views transformed Britain and transfixed America through the 1980s, died Monday after a stroke, her spokesman said in a statement. She was 87.
a) 'Thatcher, Thatcher the milk snatcher' – the chant we sang at school when I was about 5 or 6 years' old, when she stopped letting us have milk in our break times. Boo hoo.
b) The Miners' Strike – all the politics really went over my head because I was more interested in Fame, Diff'rent Strokes and Degrassi High at the time, but I remember it being a little unpleasant with lots of very upset people, and Arthur Scargill's hair.
c) Spitting Image – the puppet was probably most of what I took in about Maggie T. Hang on, how come I was allowed to watch that? It's mainly to do with this insane song, which I might well use in Zumba as a tribute to her….
Oh my, I know all the lyrics to this song. Such memories…..
Whatever your view of Maggie is/was, she's a British 'legend' now. Ta'ra Magster.
I am sad to have missed this – WHAT FUN!
Yep, beers, burgers and BBQs took precedence this weekend – and rightly so, with the sun shining. Maryland peeps are saying this is typical – spring doesn't really get a look-in – it just goes from Winter to Summer, and man it is hot!
We like, we like! It's hitting 83 degrees (that's farenheit of course, Brits) on Wednesday. I shall be sunbathing.
Hoorah for the Daisy Dukes!
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Well it's so hot today I have gone into the mall to cool off….not complaining tho!
And one more thing have to say L O V E GREAT BRITAIN, parents from Hasting,East Sussex.and can't wait to see my cousins in August.
I'm back in July and August too!
Maggie was pretty well regarded in the U.S. especially for her relationship with Reagan and for being the first female PM, politics aside. Keep in mind that Tories to us are still pretty liberal, at least compared to U.S. conservatives.
Yes they were great chums weren't they! He has a very funny Spitting Image puppet too!


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By Law-Dawg, March 26, 2010 in Hurricanes Talk
caniacbeej
LocationHuntersville NC
As I stated in another thread, the youth movement has been taking place continually since november. Its funny to me how so many in the "tank the season" crowd, crowed for weeks about how so many moves should be made, and this started in December, while the moves were being made right before our eyes, but they were too busy fussing about throwing the season to notice it WAS taking place, and being done the right way too. All these youngsters have been brought along slowly without feeling any pressure to perform, and they have responded for the most part, like professionals. JR knows a little about player development on the NHL level also and the performance of the kids slowly getting better each call-up is indicative. As for winning games that many of you wish we had not, the development of our youth movement, in many instances, has not been responsible, but has allowed that to happen. So thats what some of us were talking about when we said to those who wanted the team to somehow throw the season away, that you have not been able to "have your cake and eat it too." You could not wish for a youth movement to come to this level and have the kind of success that would allow them to stick, and wish for the team not to be successful. Those two things just do not go together, never will. The winning environment the kids have helped to establish and have found at this level will carry this team farther in the long run than any one draft pick will all by himself.MJ needed help; Bill Russell needed help; Magic Johnson needed help;Crosby,Ovechkin need help. Stamkos was a great pick but in a losing locker room and environment , guess what, he needs help. Give me the way this season has played out, with a team of great character and spine, pulling it together too late for a serious playoff run; but continuing to stand for something and personify a winning attitude even when things were bleak. I'll take that over first draft any season,every season.
LazyCaniacFan
Draft Pick
LocationHelsinki - Finland
I tell you what, we are getting pretty loaded up on young talent at both the AHL and NHL levels...Dalpe now signed, he and Samson, Sutter, Boychuck, Bowman, Tlusty, Osala, and McBain, are all 22 or younger. Next tier of Rodney, Staal, Pitkanen, Ward, Peters, and Carson all 24 or 25...Then we move to the "old guys" like Jokinen, Ruutu, Larose, Gleason and Harrison at the ripe age of 27 or so. Mix that in with a lottery pick and 3 2nd rounders for next years draft, I'd say the future looks pretty bright for this organization.
I think McBain and Carson are definately in the top 6 of our D-Lines next year; Boychuck will be on the top 3 lines; and Dwyer will center the 4th line. As for Dalpe, Tlusty, Osala; and Bowman, I think they will fight for one or two open slots...should be a heckuva pre-season in 2010.
I'm sorry to inform but Pitkänen is also an "old guy" like Jokinen, Ruutu, Larose, Gleason and Harrison since he is born the same year as Jokinen and Ruutu
carteretcaniac
You have a mix of youth and veterans. I like what has been done this season. I think it bodes well for the future. We have found out what we have in these young guys and have not "tanked" but played brand of hockey that is enjoyable to watch.
First, as to the topic, it does look as though we have a LOT of potential, especially up front, but also with McBain on the back. Of course JR has his own plan, but according to my plan we only need 2 of these guys to pan out as 3rd liners or better next year to go with Sutter to form that third line, or Sutter to the second and ?Cullen on the third. Thus of Boychuk, Bowman, Tlusty, Osala, (?Dalphe, maybe too early), only two of them need to develop to at least third line productivity. I think Boychuk is pretty much already showing it, so just one more and we are set.
As for the never ending "tank the season vs. win at all costs because it teaches the young guys how to win" debate. If it comes down to winning at all costs vs. drafting the best player. It's not even close. The logic about a "winning attitude" is nice, but it all resets with the new season. One would have to say that winning the Stanley Cup would be the ultimate in creating a "winning attitude". We came out the next year and tanked. Yet at the end of the year we had amazing runs at the end of every season. Still missed the playoffs two straight years. Last year, the run of runs. Talk about building a winning attitude. How did that carry over to the start of this year? How about the year the team went to the Stanley Cup Finals and lost to Detroit? Lots of winning attitude from that year. How did that cary over?
No question that a winning team needs the right character, but at the end of the day you need the best talent also. Teams that lose year after year have neither.
The run that we just had was nice at the moment, but is meaningless when the year endes. What if years ago Washington had nice little winning streaks that kept them from getting Ovechkin, Backstrom, and Semin in those drafts? Would they be where they are now based on getting that winning feeling instead?
We CAN get the young guys a good experience and still get a top pick. There is no expectation for them to win games. As long as they play well and give a strong effort a loss is just fine.
Add an elite player from the draft and one solid free agent winger, and this team can win next year. Oh and how about this very team's turnaround from that dismal post finals year. How did that happen? Perhaps largely due to a #2 pick in the draft named Eric Staal.
Despite our nice run, we are 3 points from the #2 pick* but also 5 points from the #9 pick. All the second round picks in the world won't move us up from #9 to #2, but maybe from #2 to #1 if needed? The playoffs are gone. Winning streaks by minor leaguers don't translate into winning next year. Picking up a superstar to go with Staal and Ward will lead to winning for years to come.
*ya, ya the lottery, but the #2 slot.
witchking-ch1
LocationHolly Springs
No doubt about it that we've gotten younger and, as a result, faster. That speed was one of the main reasons we went on the tear we went on that got us out of the basement.
The only concern I have is that when you look at our roster, you see quite a few guys who are under 5'10" and/or under 190 lbs. I mean, we have some small dudes: LaRose, Boychuk, Dwyer, Samsonov, Sutter, Whitney. I think Sutter will continue to get a little stronger and build some muscle. But when you look at the roster of the Capitals, the only guy who fits this bill is Scott Walker... hmmm, where did they get him?
I applaud JR's move to start drafting some size, because our little guys definitely get moved off the puck by bigger teams. You can definitely see it in the last couple of games with LaRose and Boychuk on the 1st line... they are forced off the puck because they simply don't have the weight against bigger foes.
But yes, the youth movement is on, and I think it's great that these guys were able to get significant experience at the NHL level instead of toiling away at Albany all season.
It bodes well for our future... in fact, I think we can be a contender in 2010-2011. Rebuilding through your own organization is a much faster way to see success (and cheaper) than trying to do it via free agency.
Root Administrators
LocationCary, NC
Remkin, I agree with you to a point but three things stand out to me.
1) While it does look like the top picks in this draft have the potential to become elite players, there is never any guarantee it will happen. We can argue all we want about what happened with Andrew Ladd and who was at fault there but he's a perfect example of how it just never worked out. I'd love to get that top pick at this point too but banking on getting the next Ovechkin/Crosby is a crap shoot and can't be the only thing to hang your hat on when building for the future.
2) Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I disagree that going on this late run wasn't a good thing. With all the kids in the line up now, its important they find their way at this level to build confidence, make some mistakes and learn what it takes to succeed at the NHL level. You're right that the late surge did little to help them in the standings but now the coaching staff, the vets and the young players are all getting a chance to see what they have and what's needed moving forward. If the kids came up and didn't make a difference or show that they were capable of playing at this level, where does that put us heading into the summer? They've shown that the team doesn't need to be blown up like Montreal or Toronto and has enough home grown talent to work with in the rebuild.
3) This fan base deserves a team that will play its heart out regardless of what's at stake. The Canes have made their mark in Raleigh and now are right up there with college basketball and compared to other markets that are having a tough season, our arena has been full of fans ready to cheer at any time for anything, even in the worst of times. If you're trying to build a strong season ticket holder base, you need a team that will show up ready to compete every game and at the very least play an entertaining brand of hockey. With the transitions this team has been through, it would be a lot to think they could play at a consistent elite level but it gives the fans hope for the future (and maybe sell a few more tickets) to see that there are many nights this team can play with the best of them and it will only get better with more experience.
1) While it does look like the top picks in this draft have the potential to become elite players, there is never any guarantee it will happen. We can argue all we want about what happened with Andrew Ladd and who was at fault here but he's a perfect example of how it just never worked out. I'd love to get that top pick at this point too but banking on getting the next Ovechkin/Crosby is a crap shoot and can't be the only thing to hang your hat on when building for the future.
2) Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I disagree that going on this late run wasn't a good thing. With all the kids in the line up now, its important they find their way at this level to build confidence, make some mistakes and learn what it takes to succeed at the NHL level. You're right that the late surge did little to help them in the standings but now the coaching staff, the vets and the young players are all getting a chance to see what they have and what's needed moving forward. If the kids came up and didn't make a difference or show that they were capable of playing at this level, where does that put us heading into the summer? They've shown that the team doesn't need to be blown up like Montreal or Toronto and has enough home grown talent to work with.
3) This fan base deserves a team that will play its heart out regardless of what's at stake. The Canes have made their mark in Raleigh and now are right up there with college basketball and compared to other markets that are having a tough season, our arena has been full of fans ready to cheer at any time for anything. If you're trying to build a strong season ticket holder base, you need a team that will show up ready to compete every game and at the very least play an entertaining brand of hockey. With the transitions this team has been through, it would be a lot to think they could play at a consistent elite level but it gives the fans hope for the future (and maybe sell a few more tickets) to see that there are many nights this team can play with the best of them and it will only get better with more experience.
TSA,
You make excellent points. I particularly agree with the last one.
On point one. Certainly the top pick is not a guarantee. It is all about the percentages. The last ten years the top 2 picks have almost all panned out as elite players. Ladd is a good example of picking say 4th or lower being more and more crap shoot every notch down. Further the vast majority of the super elite players were picked at the top of the draft. No guarantee, but much better odds, and in the end that's all it ever is.
On point two. I do see some value in the young guys "learning what it takes to win". But not much. The Canes are not really in the playoff hunt. They are still taken lightly by most teams. They have little pressure on them. What it takes to win under these conditions is very different from a true playoff run. Plus, there just doesn't seem to be much carry over from year to year, especially since the team will be so different next year. I DO think this. Having the young guys come up into a team that has thrown the towel in would be a true negative. I do think that the team giving a decent effort most nights is important. Just don't think they needed to go 17-7. Great effort and .500 would have been just as good in the end.
On point three. Cannot agree more. This is the one thing that I do feel some regret about going for the top pick. I am a season ticket holder. I am at many games and I do think that the players and coaches owe this fan base their best effort. I pay to see that. Considering how bad this year has been our fans have been extraordinarily supportive. That's why the players and coaches cannot mail it in. I have never supported that. That kind of malaise is too damaging to the team and the fanbase.
I still feel that the best outcome (this year only) is to win just enough games to keep the players from mailing it in for a large stretch of the season. To keep the effort there, just not actually win too many games. I think this has already been accomplished as we are only 7 games from the end. Going 2-5 to finish would have no effect on the team's attitude next year, but might land an elite player in Raleigh for years to come.
It's not guaranteed, but its a darned good bet.
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This is where I have trouble following you. If a team is giving their best effort aren't they playing to win? Its pretty black & white imo and if you're mailing it in, you're not playing to win. It can't be both like you're suggesting though I can certainly understand the conflicted thinking, I've bounced in between the same logic myself all season long with all its ups and downs. The conclusion I came to: I want to see good entertaining hockey and would be very disappointed to see my team mail it in. With that, and as much I'd love that top pick in the draft, I can live with letting the chips fall as they may because its impossible to expect the best effort and want to lose games at the same time. At least that's how I feel about it.
To get back to the topic of youth being served, it has been served well and the Canes are now one of the youngest teams in the league again. With all that youth, spark and speed will come some inexperience too and giving these kids the opportunity now can payoff for next season when the slate gets cleared.
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TSA']Remkin, I agree with you to a point but three things stand out to me.
This is my opinion. The players must play to win every game. Having players mail it in is too much of a negative. The players won't play to win if it is obvious that the coach would just as well lose, so the coach has to coach to win, at least on a game by game basis.
Further I must be clear that I very rarely favor going for the draft pick as a strategy. This is because given the parity in the NHL, the playoffs are a realistic possibility for most teams even late into the season. This year was the rare exception to the rule since we dropped so far so fast, as to be realistically out of the playoffs just over a month into the season. Again, this is key. If we were say 1/5 chance of making the playoffs, I still say go for it, but we were 1/50. Further, we were committed to the coach, so firing the coach was apparently not an option.
As to how to do it. I have always maintained that it had to come at the GM and Owner level and they had to keep it mostly to themselves and not let it spread to the coach. How? Trades, lots of call ups, resting veterans with any minor injuries, start the back up goalies, etc. To be fair JR for the most part did this (other than not moving Whitney, I can't complain). The team won anyway. Nothing to do about that.
But that leads into a subtle reframing of the question that can confuse the issue which is when people phrase it as "what would be best for the team?". That's a different question than "should the players tank"? I think hard fought losses with the youngsters showing great signs is best for the team. But I don't think that anyone can or should try to make that happen (other than JR putting those guys out there).
I was calling for JR to move all veterans with unrestricted status for picks, call up minor leaguers and play the back up goalie more. Not for the coach or the players to tank. For the most part JR did that. I want the players to play hard and try to win the rest of the year. But I am hoping for 2-5 on hard fought losses to be what actually happens. We can play hard and fairly well and still lose. That's my hope, but ONLY for these last few games.
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The only concern I have is that when you look at our roster, you see quite a few guys who are under 5'10" and/or under 190 lbs. I mean, we have some small dudes: LaRose, Boychuk, Dwyer, Samsonov, Sutter, Whitney. I think Sutter will continue to get a little stronger and build some muscle.
Sutter is 6' 3". Yeah he's under 190, but he's not exactly a small dude.
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Remkin and TSA, it's ironic that both trains of thought are being realized right now. We are winning over the top teams, in exciting fashion i might add, the RBC is putting butts in the seats, the younguns are here, and we are 3rd from the bottom. What could be better?
Speaking of stocking your farm system ....... check out the Hershey Bears if you get a chance. The Caps are loaded with talent.
Coastal you are entirely right. I was thinking after my last entry that what would really be best for the team would be that every team around us goes on a huge winning streak and we get to drop one more spot and still win a bunch of games. Not too likely though.

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Channel 4 buys lock of Hitler's hair from Holocaust denier in ''sick and tawdry'' stunt
Bosses paid reviled historian David Irving £3,000 for the snipping so they can have DNA tests carried out on it for new show Dead Famous DNA
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Furious critics have slammed Channel 4 for paying Holocaust denier David Irving thousands of pounds for a lock of Hitler's hair.
Bosses paid the reviled historian £3,000 for the snipping so they can have DNA tests carried out on it for a new show.
Tonight Labour MP Ian Austin – whose Jewish father lost his family in the Treblinka extermination camp – blasted the "tawdry" stunt.
He said: "This sounds sick. It's appalling that Channel 4 would get involved with a Holocaust denier in some bizarre and tawdry show purporting to be entertainment.
"It's disgusting, and raises questions about Channel 4's public broadcasting remit."
Irving, 75, caused outrage in 2009 when it emerged he was trying to flog Nazi memorabilia online, including the hair – supposedly collected by Hitler's barber using sticky tape on the sole of his shoe.
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The sick trade is illegal in France, Germany, Austria and Hungary, and there were calls to ban it here too.
Irving has claimed the Nazi leader did not know about the Holocaust until 1943 and never ordered the annihilation of Jews. Austria found him guilty of denying the Holocaust in 2006.
Channel 4 did not mention its deal with Irving in advance publicity for new series Dead Famous DNA, fronted by Mark Evans, which starts on Wednesday night. But bosses insisted they were not trying to hush it up.
A spokesman said the DNA tests could provide a "key biological component" to the dictator's biography.
He added: "We believe the potential importance of the scientific and historical insight justified the purchase."
Other historical figures featured in the series include Marilyn Monroe, Napoleon and Charles Darwin.
The BBC interview with Irving below was broadcast in 2000
This article was originally published on 23 March 2014
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Heliconia plant only allows certain hummingbirds to pollinate it
When it comes to sex, most plants aren't picky. They take just about any pollen that lands in the right spot. But Canadian scientists have found a tropical flower that's surprisingly fickle, holding out for an encounter with just the right kind of hummingbird.
Picky tropical plant is selective about which pollinator turns it on
Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Mar 02, 2015 4:31 PM ET | Last Updated: March 3, 2015
The researchers found that green hermit hummingbirds had much greater success than humans or other hummingbirds at pollinating a plant called Heliconia tortuosa. (Matthew Betts/Oregon State University)
When it comes to sex, most plants aren't picky – they're happy to take just about any pollen that lands in the right spot. But Canadian scientists have found a tropical flower that's surprisingly fickle. Heliconia tortuosa has encounters with many kinds of pollinators. But it only puts out after an encounter with just the right kind of hummingbird.
Despite being a plant, it seems to have found a way to recognize two preferred pollinators, the green hermit hummingbird and the violet sabrewing hummingbird.
"It's pretty interesting," said Adam Hadley, one of two biologists from New Brunswick who made the discovery. He noted that being choosy is something we mostly associate with animals, not plants. "It's almost like decision-making behaviour."
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Heliconias are popular houseplants with large leaves and bright flowers. They're tropical plants native to South and Central America.
We've sort of almost thought about it as some kind of hummingbird foreplay that's required. - Adam Hadley, University of Toronto
The species that Hadley studied is from Costa Rica, where it's considered a "keystone" species – a crucial part of the ecosystem that the entire food web depends on, especially pollinators like hummingbirds.
Hadley, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, and fellow New Brunswick native Matthew Betts, an associate professor at Oregon State University, were trying to find out how deforestation was affecting the interaction between the plant and the hummingbirds that pollinate them. The hummingbirds tend to avoid clearings that separate fragments of forest more and more as trees are cut down.
Coming up: Matthew Betts talks to Quirks & Quarks March 7 at noon on CBC Radio One
As part of their research, they wanted to hand-pollinate a group of plants, which they thought to represent the maximum possible amount of pollination. They intended to compare that to hummingbird pollination in smaller and larger patches of forest.
Unfortunately, the plants weren't having any of it.
"Our pollination… would barely work at all," Hadley recalled.
But the plants were surprisingly co-operative when it came to hummingbird pollinations.
The violet sabrewing hummingbird is one of two pollinators that seems to be preferred by the plant Heliconia tortuosa. (Matthew Betts/Oregon State University)
At first, the researchers wondered if the hand pollinations had been a little too rough and had damaged the flowers.
But controlled experiments in an aviary showed that the hand-pollinated flowers were perfectly fertile – provided they got a little attention from a green hermit or violet sabrewing hummingbird afterward.
The researchers also found out that some other kinds of hummingbirds didn't have the right touch.
"The flower only turns on when it's visited by the right kind of hummingbird," Hadley said. "We've sort of almost thought about it as some kind of hummingbird foreplay that's required."
The researchers tried to figure out how the plant was distinguishing between the green hermit and violet sabrewing hummingbirds and everybody else – other hummingbirds and humans.
Nectar giveaway
They realized that the two special species had long, curved beaks that can reach deep into the flowers and suck out more nectar than the other species. Could that be how the flowers were identifying them?
To test that idea, the researchers used a long pipette to extract nectar as they hand-pollinated the plants. Sure enough, the flowers were fertilized.
Hadley and his colleagues think it may be advantageous for the plants to choose pollen from only their favoured hummingbirds. Those species tend to carry pollen from longer distances than other species of hummingbirds, reducing the chance of inbreeding and resulting in healthier offspring.
He says it's the first time this kind of choosiness has been observed in a plant. But he suspects it may not be the only case. Many researchers have reported problems with hand pollinating certain plant species, but they always think that has to do with not using the right technique to apply the pollen.
"Looking back on some of those," he said, "potentially, it may be more widespread."
The research, co-authored by Betts, Hadley and John Kress at the Smithsonian Institution, was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.
Summary of the paper in PNAS


Finnish Lapphund is an old breed which have been used by the nomadic Saami people of Northern Scandinavia and Karelian Russia, possibly even as old as the sighthounds of Asia. Their original purpose, as with any dogs, were guard dogs but eventually were trained to assist the Saami in reindeer herding. The Saami people employs two type of lapphunds in guarding and herding, the long haired variety which is now known as the Finnish Lapphund (and Swedish Lapphund) and the short haired variety which is commonly referred to as the Lapponian Herder.
Life of the Saami people slowly changed in the 20th century. They became less nomadic and started settling down on permanent homes. Modern technology have resulted in less reliance on dogs for reindeer herding and increasingly more into using of snowmobiles and in some degree helicopters. Some of the Saami farmers that still use dogs had also selecting short-coated dogs to assist them with their herd. It was also at this point when the utility of the reindeer herding dog to the Saami were diminishing, the interest on the same indigenous dogs was growing from the rest of Scandinavia.
Just after the Second World War, the Finnish Kennel Association have began the work of creating and recognizing a breed that will be based from the reindeer herding dogs of the Saami. The breed was referred to as Lapponian Herder. In collaboration with the Lappish Kennel District and the Finnish Spitz Organization, the association scoured the reindeer farming area of the North and scrutinized dogs that fits to the standard of the aforementioned Lapponian Herder.
In the early 1960's saw the unification of the various Finnish Kennel organizations to form the Finnish Kennel Club. All the different lapphund dogs that were registered in the various kennel organizations were accepted into the same breed register. However, breeders came to realized that some of the lines have shorter coats and while others are definitely long-coated. The "lappish breed" was reassessed in 1966-1967 and it was decided that dogs were to be separated solely on the basis of their coat length. The short coated Lapponian Herder (Lapinporokoira) was first officially recognized in 1966 and the long coated dogs identified as the "Lapinkoira" was designated as a distinct breed in 1967.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Marri Vainio of the Peski Kennel had made use of her good knowledge of the breed and took on the task of identifying individual dogs in the Laplands and made a significant contributions in breeding and stabilizing the "type" of the Lappland herder. A number of the early Lapphunds that were exported outside of Scandinavia were offsprings of the original Peski Kennel dogs brought down from the Lapplands.
The standard was further revised 1975 and again in 1993. It is also in 1993 when the official name of the breed has also been changed from Lapinkoira to Suomenlapinkoira (Finnish Lapphund). In Finland, the breed registry is still open, allowing unregistered dogs to be admitted if they meet the breed standard.
It is quite possible the first Finnish Lapphunds in Canada were pets brought along by Finnish and other Scandinavian immigrants even as early as the 1960s but were either not registered or records mis-identified them as a different breed.
In spring of 1995, Diana Kinsey imported from the US, the first known Finnish Lapphund in Canada, the male Sugarok Echo of Jesse. It is worth noting that Jesse was from the kennel of Linda Marden, who is the pioneer in the organized and formal attempt to get the breed recognized in North America. A year later, Diana Kinsey imported the blonde female Sugarok Vaaleaverikko (Sasha). Despite a lot of pioneering work by Diana to get the attention of the CKC on the breed, both dogs were never bred.
In 1998, Catherine Healey adopted the female Sugarok Kewpie Pie which was 6 years old at that time, the third known Finnish Lapphund in Canada Unfortunately, Kewpie unexpectedly died in 2001 and Linda Marden have intended to have one of her retired dogs, Sugarok Annisette (Annie) as a replacement. At almost the same time, Johanne Parent, an Eurasier breeder was also interested in adopting and hopefully show and breed Finnish Lapphunds. An idea was struck to have Annie bred before being brought up to Canada. Johanne would take care of the pregnant Annie till it whelped and the puppies weaned before finally going to her permanent home with Cat Healey. Annie whelped on late Dec 2002, and her puppies became the first Finnish Lapphund litter to be registered with the Canadian Kennel Club.
Since then, interest in the Finnish Lapphund breed had grown not only here in Canada but in the entire North America. Janice Thomaschewski also adopted another bred female Lapphund from Sugarok (Sugarok Susa) in early 2004 whose litter became the second litter to be registered with the CKC. From that litter came My Sidekick Alera, who in June 2006, produced the first Canadian bred and born Finnish Lapphund litter.
In December 15, 2006, the CKC approved a decision for the Finnish Lapphund to be a "listed" breed effective July 1, 2007. This decision meant the breed was allowed to compete in CKC sanctioned events. The club gained accredition afterwards and is currently working on behalf of the breed to gain full recognition with the CKC in the near future.


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In 1896, the company was re-branded and incorporated as Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Ltd. By the mid of 20th century, Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed up in a contract with Meguro Motorcycles, an old Japanese motorcycle manufacturing firm to take over the consortium. In 1952, Kawasaki Machine Industry produced its first motorcycle engine, the KE-1. It was a 148cc, Single air-cooled, OHV, 4-stroke engine generated a maximum power of 4 PS at 4,000 rpm. In 1953, Kawasaki began the mass production. In 1956, Kawasaki launched its first motorcycle, the KB -5A, with the brand logo 'Kawasaki'. In 1960, Kawasaki founded a dedicated factory with all facilities to build motorcycles and commenced sales of Kawasaki 12 New Ace. The Pet and the 125B7 were unveiled in 1961.
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As I type, I'm sitting in a "borrowed" home eight hours away from my house with The Weather Channel playing in the background. We've watched it faithfully, glued to its forecasts and information about hurricane Florence and the flooding that has ensued.
I didn't really mind at first, but now we find ourselves stuck, unable to go home yet. So, we wait.
I don't know when I can return, and I'm a little worried about that (I just got a job!), but I do know this: we will go home and until then there are four things I need to do during this interruption.
Use this time to bless other people and receive blessings.
Get some extra work done.
So . . . our evacuation from Wilmington sent us to a small town in Georgia where the borrowed home waited for us. We've been blessed beyond our imaginations with this place to stay, but God also made this interruption an opportunity to meet some wonderful people who follow this blog and watch my Bite of Bread live teachings.
Do you find it hard to accept blessings from others? It's hard! For me, it's so much more comfortable to give than receive.
Interruptions test our patience and can be frustrating, but when we live our lives believing that every person we meet, every place we go, every good thing and hard thing that interrupts our lives is an invitation from God, we will live lives full of purpose. And when we go through these interruptions trusting God's timing and goodness, peace can flood our hearts. Holy Spirit can lead us during the interruption.
Romans 8:28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.
Lamentations 3:23: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[ his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Psalm 31: 24: Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!
Colossians 3:15: And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
1 Peter 5:6: Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Check out the prompts on the printable to deepen your time with God this week.
"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you" (1 Peter 5:6).
When our life is interrupted by congested traffic, storms, sickness, even just frustrating things like your computer not working as fast as it should, trusting that God cares helps us handle those situations.
Be aware that he may be steering you to another direction to help someone or receive help. Listening for his direction and trusting he's working for good can settle the anxious, impatient thoughts and emotions interruptions can evoke.
Thursday Night Live will be postponed until I get back home where the internet works! LOL! We'll have a lot to catch up on when I get back and life is back to normal in North Carolina. Thank you for your prayers and kindness. Please continue to pray for all who are dealing with flooding and keep those who have lost loved ones in this storm close to your hearts.
Love this post Andy. This past hurricane was definitely an interruption to all of us Wilmingtonians but it turned our focus to others. It also gave those of us who didn't have more than yard debris and boards to remove an attitude of gratitude. These posts were so timely. Thank you Andy!!
Thanks Karen! It is amazing how hardships can turn our eyes on the Lord and others. Yes, we are so thankful. Thanks for stopping by! What a blessing.
Amen! Hey Debbie, yes, it was therapeutic to write this post. That's one of the blessings of writing. So glad Florence did not affect you. I'll be praying for all of your interruptions and praying this post will help a little in your perspective. Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Love you, dear Andy! You remain in my prayers. I so much admire your faithfulness to continue writing and ministering even when Hurricane Florence interrupted your routine. I'm so thankful you are safe. God is using you, precious sister in Christ. P.S. I love your gorgeous web site!
Thank you, Emily!The Lord is faithful! Thank you for stopping by today. I so appreciate your prayers.
Leave it to you, Andy, to make lemonade out of lemons ( even though I think lemons are just fine just that way they are— with a little salt!). So glad you got to meet Linda and Pam during this blessed interruption. Thank you for the wise and inspiring words about sudden changes and how God seizes the opportunity to help us branch out. I love you and am praying for you to return soon to an intact house!
So glad you and your family are safe, Andy. And I'm sure you will meet the challenges waiting for you when you return to Wilmington with the grace and strength God will provide. Thanks for sharing this special perspective. I'm thankful you have a place to stay and hope you accomplish the work you mentioned.
Thank you Cheryl! Thanks so much for stopping by. God is good. He always has blessings for us even in the hardships.


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Richie Koh () is a Singaporean actor and a contracted artiste under MediaCorp and China's LongAllStar Entertainment Group.

Personal life
Koh graduated from Ngee Ann Polytechnic with a Diploma in Financial Informatics in 2014. He completed his national service in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).

Career
In 2013, Koh was scouted when Channel U's Hey Gorgeous team went to various campuses in Singapore looking for suitable contestants. He garnered much support during the competition and emerged as first runner-up.

In 2017, after serving National Service, Koh started his career by debuting in Channel 8's army-themed drama When Duty Calls, a major role that charmed viewers' hearts. Fans sang praises of his natural acting and good looks, factors which landed him his first nomination for Best Newcomer in Star Awards 2018. October that year saw Koh jetting off to Changzhou, Jiangsu for a month to film China-web movie The Legendary Detective of the Shanghai Bund where he played an assistant to the agency detective.

The following year, Koh made cameo appearances in long-running Channel 8 drama Life Less Ordinary, & Toggle series Die Die Also Must Serve. In addition, he wrapped up filming on 118 Reunion and made a special appearance in local movie Wonderful! Liang Xi Mei directed by Jack Neo. His role as a gangster boss in the movie saw him gain new fans both here and across the Causeway. Koh also acted in several Toggle Original productions such as Star Crossed, and he took the lead role in Divided as well as The Distance Between. In addition, Koh acted in a Gilbert Chan movie 23:59 The Haunting Hour as a soldier tasked to kill a snake spirit.

On 30 August 2018, The Celebrity Agency announced that Koh would be expanding his career to China after it signed a co-management contract with China's LongAllStar Entertainment Group. The actor will be based in Beijing after filming Toggle Original series Playground, but there are plans for him to head back to Singapore when he has a local production to shoot.

In 2021, Koh starred as Zhu Yongjie in Live Your Dreams, where he was nominated MyPick! Favourite Male Show Stealer and Favourite CP in Star Awards 2022.

In 2022, Koh soared to fame after starring in the immensely popular Your World In Mine as an intellectually disabled Zheng Tiancai, where he receives his first Best Actor nomination in Star Awards 2023. Koh was also nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Asian Television Awards in 2022.

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This week's big release isn't in stores, as it is The Master Trials DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild; for those that have paid out on the Expansion Pass on Wii U or Nintendo Switch it's finally time to enjoy some new content.
For players keen to play the game yet again (like this writer) there'll be the Hard Mode, and a big attraction is the Trial of the Sword, which is about 45 rooms of challenges to tackle in order to have a permanently charged up Master Sword. Along with a few other features there'll also be new outfits, which are the focus of a series of official articles from Nintendo.
In these features key members of the development team introduce these outfits and give some context around their creation. In the Korok Mask post we learn a bit more about how the idea for having the little creatures in the game came together.
In the Phantom Armor post we're given some background and history on how these characters featured in the DS games.
Are you looking forward to the Breath of the Wild DLC this week?
This game just blew me the hell away so more is always good.
It's gonna feel like the longest week in the year, well this week and the week leading up to Mario Odyssey.
I'm waiting for the second DLC. For $20, I want something a little bigger than "beat the same game again, but more difficult".
I'm only really interested in the 2nd DLC pack. The real proper DLC. The costumes are nice, apart from the creepy Tingle outfit. And apart from the Korok Mask, none of them have any function that isn't already in the game. It's all too late anyhow, I've 100% cleared the game and collected all 900 Korok seeds so the Travel Medallion and Hero's Path Mode are no good to me. The Trials and taking on a Gold Lynel could be fleetingly interesting. Speaking of which, shouldn't a Gold Lynel be a new separate entry in the Compendium?
I want to see the real DLC before I think I'll pay. The 1st pack should have largely been free and there at launch. So you're really paying €20 for something that will be a tiny fraction of the main game. I put roughly 490 hours into the game. Will I get 220 hours from the DLC, which is 45% of the price of the game versus the price of the DLC? I don't think so. I doubt it'll even be a quarter or that.
Don't know if I'd want to play through the whole thing again on hard mode after putting so much time in already doing all the Shrines but might give the Master Trials a go closer to when the story DLC arrives. Phantom Armour does look cool, will suit the two handed weapons nicely I think.
Every time I get out...they pull me back in!
@Bunkerneath "If you wear this Phantom armor in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it will increase Link's attack power."
@SLIGEACH_EIRE 1st DLC pack seems real proper DLC. Whining endlessly in every article. Are you getting paid for that?
I'll definitely have to toggle Master Mode when the DLC comes out. Imma gonna fight me some Gold Lynels. Once the end of year DLC gets released and I complete that, then I'll be inclined to start a new game.
Bought it yesterday after defeating Ganon.
Still have a lot to do in Hyrule, so some more content is always welcome.
@Cosats Says the guy who whines endlessly at my comments.
You are that whining all the time !
Don't believe me ? Ask the mirror on the wall, who like to whine a lot in this site ?
Anyway, the Korok mask ??
These are simply just add ons, so while I'm excited to get back into Zelda, arguably this should have been in it from the start, or added as a free update. The real DLC the we paid for is coming in the winter.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Are you referring to the three treasure chest that should have been free or this particular DLC?
@UmbreonsPapa Both. Those chests and the Switch T-shirt were embarrassingly bad.
There's 3 DLC packs. The one this week is really pack 2.
I've put about 120 hours into the game and I still have one more Devine Beast to tame and maybe 3-4 unexplored regions to do before moving on to the final castle. This DLC is arriving just at the right time for me! I don't expect to 100% everything, but keep the good times rolling!
Are you against Switch ?!
Said Switch T-Shirt was embarrassing bad means you hate Switch actually.
God dangit. I JUST finished the game last night (save one shrine and a few pieces of armor I haven't upgraded yet) and now THIS comes along! As Al Pacino once famously screamed, "Just when I was out...they PULL ME BACK IN!!"
Other than the Korok mask (which I know makes it easier to detect Koroks), do the other armors actually do anything special?
This upcoming DLC is very weak. Every time I see someone overly happy xcited about this I think it's either a Nintendo plant or someone who has never gotten real DLC from another Dev.
Looks like I'm boxing up my Switch until Mario Odyssey is released. The long drought has begun.
I'll decide about the season pass once the final pack is out later this year.
I wonder if they add some kind of side quest for the new armor or if they just place some chests somewhere that you have to search for on your own.
@Anti-Matter But the Switch shirt WAS embarrassingly bad! It doesn't do anything special, only gives you one point of resistance and you can't even upgrade it at a fairy.
I stopped coming on so regular because I was sick of the switch hype train bullying people who weren't on it. I , like many others have an opinion and not a switch which is apparently a BAD thing. Please think before you post. Negative opinions are as valid as any other and Should be respected. Opinion sniping is just disrespectful and shows you don't respect others right to their own opinion, it's just childish.
This community has been very respectful in the past and a pleasure to contribute to but I'm not sure how many times I will return just to see the likes of @SLIGEACH_EIRE get bullied for no reason other than having a different opinion to the 'average' fan. Sad times.
I've spent 155 hours on Zelda and have not managed to find all Korok seeds. I was hoping to do so before the DLC release (just pride of not needing the Korok mask) but am still around 500 short.
Really looking forward to the trials!
I do take on board that some things maybe should have been in a free update, but the trials alone are enough for me to buy the dlc now, knowing that there's also more to come along the line. I really, really appreciate the game, so more is good.
But at least, it's a Casual T-Shirt.
I like casual t-shirt like that with Switch logo on front.
Of course I will not wear that t-shirt for Serious battle like Lynell.
Unless... you know, there are some Cheap Trick to defeat Lynell.
My kids paid for the game, I told them I'd buy the Expansion Pass when this released, so I will.
It does feel like I'm paying $20 to turn an invisible line green though as nobody will play hard mode in our home. This holiday will even things up.
"Expansion Pass" still feels like stuff Nintendo lumped together b/c it was a last minute decision and they didn't know how to distribute it all.
T-shirt and 3 chests - seem like a pre-order or Day 1 bonus. Nintendo even calls all them "bonus" before 1 and 2 but until this day they've never explained hown they are a bonus. If everyone who pays $20 gets them they aren't a bonus, just part of the pass. MK had a bonus for buying 2 at once rather than 1 at a time. Anybody buy it recently, is the shirt still there?
Hard mode, green line, Trials - hard mode should have been in the game to start, maybe unlocked after you beat the main story. Green line on the map is apparently already there just invisible, not sure why anybody needs to pay for that, makes no sense if 200 hours is retroactive, but it should be included for ALL who spent $60 on the game. Trials could be $4.99 DLC.
Story mode - That looks like a nice stand alone $15 add-on by industry standards, which I suppose is where they got the $20 from. But it just seems explained and bundled poorly on their part.
And then unlike most games out there you have all the amiibo. I still haven't purchased Wolf Link, he's hard to find as they discontinued him, but it locks the pet wolf behind it. Why not include it in the expansion pass? Plus all the other amiibo items from the hard to find amiibo, Guardian sold out everywhere when it released. They lock things behind nearly impossible to find toys, they lock things behind an Expansion Pass. It adds up, and all for an offline only single player game.
Still dreading the Mario Odyssey pass, we already have at least 3 amiibo. Or maybe it's 5? Hard to keep up.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I always thought the Switch shirt in the Wii U version was a bit of a kick in the teeth for players on that platform. We pretty much know it was delayed because of Switch. A Wii U shirt would have been nice, but I guess it was advertising. Advertising like that is always a bit dubious: "Enjoy your Wii U version. Enjoy it more on Switch."
Also, would have been nice if they had given the shirt the same stats as another piece of armour and made it upgradeable so that it had value but wasn't a pay-to-win thing.
I'd like the map feature to unlock when you have all parts of the map. That would make sense. And the Korok mask could be a gift from Hetsu when you've collected say, a hundred korok seeds.
@Anti-Matter I didn't like the switch t shirt on BOTW. Is that ok with you. Does that mean I don't like the switch as a console. Am we allowed to have a opinion without you constantly whining.
@Anti-Matter thank you very much for letting me have a opinion.
I am in the same boat. I've got 420+ seeds but I'll be DANGED if any of the 500 remaining are remotely obvious. I'd imagine some are those accursed stones in trees, single stones sitting in the middle of nowhere, and perhaps puzzle types (like the "field goal" types I've done once or twice) that I'm too dumb to notice. 900 seeds, of which 50% aren't even useful. For collectaholics, it's hair-pulling time!
@Gamer401 so do you only buy triple A retail games? There are currently over 60 games available for the switch- hardly a drought. At least one excellent game is released on a weekly basis. I have over 20 games and none of them are Zelda as I have it on Wii u. Start reading some reviews and checking out some videos- you're missing out on some gems.
Nintendo started their foray into DLC so strong. Pikmin 3 extra maps were reasonably priced and offered good play value. Mario Kart 8 DLC blows most other DLC expansions out of the water. Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors added new characters at good intervals and were reasonably priced compared to the rest of the industry too.
But now in more recent times we get things like this, Fire Emblem, and (while not paid) limited distribution of mega stones that are tied to your current save file in Pokémon. Nintendo went from arguably the best, to arguably one of the worst in such a short time.
@ULTRA-64 He gets "bullied" because he comes on Every. Single. Switch. post with negative comments. We get it. He doesn't like the Switch. That doesn't make it any less annoying.
Seriously, just go and check the articles covering positive milestones for the Switch and there he'll be with a negative comment along the lines of, "Yeah, but it's not this or it's not that" or "The Wii did it better".
What's wrong with someone being consistent? Wouldn't it be much worse if he gave in because he gets bullied and stopped criticising something he isn't happy with?
Even worse, it would be very undemocratic if someone with a different opinion would get shut out of discussions (or feel unwelcome and stop participating in them) just because his opinion differs from the mainstream.
The point of democracy is creating an atmosphere where a minority feels safe (and not bullied) to challenge the conventional/dominating views and where the majority will endure/tolerate (and listen to) those deviating views.
So in that regard, I find your comment highly alarming.
So what if he does it under every single Switch-related article? So what if it's annoying? That's the whole point. It's actually a good sign if it's annoying because that means there's still a discussion going on and not a total synchronization of beliefs.
Nah not really. I dont think its a good dlc yet and i have enough to do with arms. But later this year ill try to 100 % it again (broken joy con made me fail it this time) on the highest difficulty.
Lol the first time I saw the Phantom Armor I thought it was Shovel Knight.
@darthstuey I buy titles that I'm interested in. I like open world games mostly, with a few Sci-Fi games thrown in there. I like racing games to, but not the rubber banding in Mario Kart.
When Nintendo puts out games like Pilotwings, F-Zero, Waverace, Excitebike, and Metroid I'll be back. If they ever get any 3rd party games from R*, Take 2, Bioware, or any open world games like Just Cause 3 I'll take a look. But looking at what Nintendo is doing it will be a very, very long time before I buy another game for the Switch.
I just remembered, back when Game Explain was doing their hour long videos dissecting the first BotW trailer, they made comparisons to the Hayao Miyazaki film Princess Mononoke. I find that even more so now with the way that the Korok mask shakes and rattles.
In any case, does anyone have any idea how much space this DLC pack is going to take up?
@shani This has nothing to do with democracy, and in many cases it's not even a discussion. Articles will merely be stating facts, like the Switch sold X number of units or Nintendo's stock is hitting a high--but there he is, ready to drop some negativity, no matter how irrelevant it might be.
Having an opinion and a discussion is great, but he is that guy at a party who is constantly trying to poop on everything.
@nomstar bigot - A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.
We all how a choice on how we behave. The world will always have an opinion different to yours, you don't have to offended. Tolerance is a choice we chose to make.
@ULTRA-64 lol wow. Just wow. That is quite literally the saddest thing I've read in a while.
If me commenting on how it is annoying that he is always posting negative comments and trying to bring others down makes me a bigot, I guess you're right... I'm definitely a bigot. Thanks for the lecture in tolerance from up on your high horse while you throw "bigot" around, I guess.


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Moderator: Darren Dunne (SBBC); Speakers: Sandra Lee (NSCSS), Diane Shaher (founder, PHRSH Threads), Max Rivest (founder, Wize Tea), and Tom Conway (CEO, SBBC) at the Small Business BC offices, Vancouver.
NSCSS Communications & Development Manager, Sandra Lee, spoke as a panelist at Small Business BC's premier event on 2SLGBTQ+ Entrepreneurial Leadership – and creating safe and inclusive workplaces as responsible leaders.
Though our agency primarily focuses on domestic violence, many of our clients are working professionals who often carry their trauma with them when they clock in. Support systems play a pivotal role in women escaping abuse. It could be a co-worker, frequent Uber Eats driver or your supervisor who gives you the strength to step forward about abuse and seek support (link: how to support someone experiencing abuse).
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Equipping 2SLGBTQ+ leaders with the right tools to create conscious workplace cultures will lead to more safe and inclusive spaces for everyone. Operating under the overarching culture of community, love, and safety (with a healthy smidge of rebellion), 2SLGBTQ+ entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned to create this change that we've been yearning for.
Panelists spoke of their personal experiences as 2SLGBTQ+ entrepreneurs and employees, as well as recommendations for creating inclusive and conscious policies.
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Whether you're a for-profit company, a social enterprise, or a non-profit organization, investing in leadership is absolutely the best way to create and sustain change. Change Management is difficult, and how these policies benefit your bottom line won't be obvious to everyone. You'll need leaders who can dream up these new policies, defend them as a united front, and lead by example.
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Upon writing your employee evaluations, consider your predetermined benchmarks. Furthermore, write your evaluations with enough data so that the reasons behind your ratings can be easily understood by a third party. Members of a majority (in-groups) are often given the benefit of the doubt and judged on their potential, while out-groups must prove their worth. As part of management, it's even more important that you check your biases and ensure that your perceptions of performance is separate from potential, as is personality from skill sets.
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Harvard Business Review published a study on the effectiveness of DEI programs, and found that most employees in underrepresented groups — women, racial and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ employees — don't feel that they've personally benefited from their companies' DEI programs. Their obstacles continue to be underestimated by members of the majority group – particularly the pervasive, day-to-day bias – that diverse employees face.
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This is a nice 100km race over the New Year's holiday. I have done it for the past 3 years now.
Entry is open and closes on December 6th.
Last year theDude and I represented TCC.
Would love to do this one again, fun race. Cold.
Definitely want to do this again--like I said in the 2010 report, have unfinished business there. But probably not this year unfortunately.
It is a fun event, definitely recommend it.
Hi Doug, thanks for posting details about that race.
I'm interested in signing up for the 100km race (in the 40-49 age category). I have raced lots in London, but I'd like to try a race in Japan.
I'll be in Nishikawaguchi, Saitama (on holiday from London) at that time.
How could I travel from Nishikawaguchi, Saitama to the race track? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a rinko.
Great to hear that you are interested. We will be in the same category. I still have extra space in my car, and will be willing to give you a ride, so I will PM you for the details.
I would like to do this but alas I am again out of the country at that time.
BTW there are a few cheap pensions right outside the gate to Motegi that are decent.
Doug, thanks for the offer of a lift in your car. Let's arrange the details by PM.
To take part in the 100km race, do I need to show any documentation (e.g. my British Cycling racing licence, medical certificate)?
I have a 3rd category racing licence in the UK. Do I need to be put into a particular category for this 100km race?
Or is it just assumed, for this 100km race, that everyone has similar racing ability/experience and only age categories are relevant?
Sanctioned by JBCF but it is a "Citizens" race so no documentation required.
You have two choices, expert class or age group. No difference in start time, so everyone runs together.
There is a very wide range of experience level present at this event. =ride at front to stay out of trouble. It is motorpaced for the first one or two laps to settle things down, then it blows open and you will be passing the slow people within a few laps.
Last year there was a break with 15km to go and the only ones who made the break were expert class.
Today, I signed up for the 100km race (in the 40-49 age category). I do not understand what "Expert Class" means, so I didn't select that option. Can anyone please explain what "Expert Class" means?
I'm looking forward to taking part in my first race in Japan and also my first race for TCC.
Expert is generally self determined, as far as I can tell.


MP for Cheadle, Mark Hunter, met Christian Aid partners from the Philippines and Bolivia, to hear first-hand what it is like to live with the reality of climate change and how it is affecting the world's poor most acutely.
Mark met Voltaire Alferez, who runs a group of organisations campaigning on climate change in the Philippines, and Elizabeth Peredo, Director of Fundación Solón which campaigns on climate change in Bolivia. The meetings were part of Christian Aid's Hunger for Justice weekend, which will see hundreds of events around the country aimed at raising awareness of the need for action to tackle climate change.
"We were very glad that Mark took the time to meet Voltaire and Elizabeth. Climate change is a truly global problem with global causes and a global solution. In our ever more interconnected world it is important that our political leaders hear from the people that are affected by our actions.
"Emissions of greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide causes climate change and it was industrialised countries like those in Europe burning fossil fuels which has created much of the current problem. That's why Christian Aid is calling for the UK to push the EU to commit to at least a 40 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 when Heads of State meet on October 24, and then to work to push this further towards 50%.


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In the final video of our Coronavirus Preparedeness Series, Wes Coulson discusses the new Illinois Medicaid "Provisional Eligibility."
This the last of our series of COVID-19 related videos. I really wish I could tell you because we were past the Coronavirus pandemic. We're not, it's just lingering on past the number of videos I could come up associated with that, so who knows when we will be past that.
Right now I want to talk about something that is in place only because the pandemic, and that is that Illinois now, if you you apply for Medicaid long-term care costs, they will grant something called "Provisional Eligibility." And when they're doing that, they're just looking at some really quick basics of information so that the nursing home can get paid because they are way behind, because otherwise in processing applications, they're not looking at your assets to see whether you have too much in assets, they're not doing the lookback for transfers, they're just saying, "ok, right now it looks like you meet the basic requirements, so we're going to give you provisional eligibility."
It's good, in that it means that as long you've applied and gotten that, the nursing home is not going to be pressing you for payment because they've gotten paid. But, it also can also give people the really false sense of security because when they say that, "Oh great, it only took a month and a half, and I've already been approved for Medicaid." Well, they are still going to go back and complete that process. When, we don't know exactly.
But, if you are over resource and you've said, "Well they've let me have this extra money" and you've gone out and spent it on other things, you may have to come up with it to pay the nursing home bill. If you've made transfers and you've said, "Good, they didn't catch me. I got a way with it," no, that's not the case yet and you may have to come up with money to pay for your care during a penalty period that instead of starting in the month in which you entered the nursing home, which would otherwise be the case, it's now going to start whenever they have finally processed the application.
Even for elder law attorneys, people who process people who process Medicaid applications, including the people who work for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, its kind of a brave new world, and we are feeling our way through.


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On 7/22/15 Parlour Bells helped one of Boston's legendary venues say goodbye after over 40 years in business. TT the Bear's Place opened in 1973 and was relaunched in 1984 as a rock club in Central Square, Cambridge MA. The venue would go on to host such legendary rock acts as Jane's Addiction, Arcade Fire and Boston's own The Pixies. Parlour Bells performed their first show at the club as a warm up gig to prepare for the 2012 Rock n' Roll Rumble. The Rumble has been held at TT's since 2011, and in 2012 Parlour Bells was selected to compete. Parlour Bells were joined in their farewell by a reunited Ad Frank and the Fast Easy Women, Cujo (featuring Jen Trynin), The Lights Out, and Francine. At the close of their performance, Glenn invited his 19 year old nephew Michael (also an aspiring musician) to join him on stage as a tip of the hat to the next generation, with the hope that they would restore a vibrance to the music community where it has recently fallen short. The venue closes its doors on 7/25/15.
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Yes, that includes the tin snail 2 CV and its posh brother, the Dyane.
Not surprisingly, the narrators put a whole lot more emphasis on active safety –roadholding and handling– than passive safety. All Citroëns were always pretty good at the former: like a DS, a GS won't flinch during a blowout.
Crashing's a different matter, but it's not too bad, considering. Though they've clearly selected the best shots, I think those little 2CV boxer engines do seem to drop to the floor while the bonnets absorb the impact by crumpling. Still wouldn't want a DS t-bone me in a Dyane, if it's all the same.
It's also an interesting snapshot of where we were circa 1970-1974: they did have crash test dummies called Oscar, some analogue electronics and even a very early airbag in an SM.
Before you get your polyester shirted boom chakka groove on, beware that some more SMs were harmed in the making of this video.


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