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Bernie Moore RBSA
Shropshire based Bernie Moore is an elected member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA). He has won the RBSA national first prize and the GMC Trust Award.
Joanna Commings
Working in acrylics, Joanna enjoys discovering a new landscape around the north and south Devon coasts, the Blackdown Hills, the Quantocks and the Mendips. She exhibits across the south.
Dr Trudy Barber FRSA
Aside from her 30 year career as a university lecturer Trudy continues to follow traditional Fine Art practice with ongoing paintings, drawings, installations and film making.
Jane Corner
"My inspiration comes from my surroundings, living in the New Forest and being a 10-minute drive from the sea," says Jane. "I am obsessed with trying to evoke movement and passion."
Tom Cotcher
Tom Cotcher's seascapes have a strong Turner influence, his landscapes have more to do with the Dutch school and his highly colourful interiors are painted in naive Matisse style.
Gerry Defries
Gerry discovered his interest in painting around 15 years ago, primarily as a relief from the stress of his professional life. He attended the Hampstead School of Art for 11 years.
Dominic Fondé FGE ARMS
Glass blower and engraver Dominic Fondé is a Fellow of the Guild of Glass Engravers and an Associate member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.
Austen Pinkerton
Austen Pinkerton studied at the Oxford School of Architecture and Goldsmiths College, London University School of Art, graduating in 1976 with a Batchelor of Arts in Fine Art (Painting).
Liz Watts
While living in France, Liz Watts studied decorative porcelain painting, ceramic work and sculpture. Prior to this she worked as a veterinary surgeon in farm and small animal practice.
Linda Saul
Linda works in water based mixed media. Her theme is the built environment and the passage of time - decay, weathering, adaptation, repair and construction.
Kate Thelwell
Kate's work aims to create a living atmosphere of unfolding flora, pollen and debris blowing on the breeze, insects buzzing and vapour evaporating in the heat.
Roger Griffiths RBSA
Roger uses watercolours and acrylic-based mixed media. He studied geography and geology, then landscape architecture and practised as a landscape architect.
In 2012 British painter Sarah Graham was commissioned by the British band Kaiser Chiefs to paint the album cover of their singles collection 'Souvenir', which was released worldwide.
James Eddy
James Eddy is a sculptor, painter and site-specific artist who has been following a broad and varied artistic journey since graduating with an Environmental Science degree.
Amanda Jackson
Amanda is a painter versed in traditional atelier skills. The play of light, the tug of emotion in those fleeting and memorable moments are reimagined in a way our cameras simply cannot catch.
Jill Barthorpe
Jill Barthorpe is a graduate of the Slade School of Art and her paintings are often selected for 'Critics Choice' exhibitions and sold through Christie's contemporary art sales.
Anthony Hopkinson
A long time painter, Anthony took up printmaking about 18 years ago. Printing is now his main artistic activity. He started with screenprinting, which can be carried out cheaply, simply and safely.
David Grimbleby
David's work draws on disparate and idiosyncratic influences ranging from underground comix art, outsider art, surrealism, symbolism, nature, and both eastern and western esoteric sources.
Liz Graham-Yooll
Landscape painter Liz relocated from Tuscany where she lived for many years, to the little known département of Aveyron, part of the larger Occitanie region in south west France.
Ferha Farooqui
Ferha's work is informed by life in Newham where she has lived, almost continuously, since 1969 and attempts to reflect its changing character and mood including the borough's disappearing landmarks.
Richard Blacklaw-Jones
Richard Blacklaw-Jones creates abstract art from plastics, fibreglass, rubber, trainer shoe soles and flip flop soles. These materials are retrieved from beaches then worked and mounted on plywood.
Margaret Jones
Margaret has a Master of Fine Arts degree in tapestry weaving from West Dean College. She has won the Valerie Power Award at West Dean College and the Cordis Showcase Prize.
Ben Dobson
Ben is an artist who has fallen in love with the beauty that lies within, invisible except through the microscope. The beauty in this world is more intense in tiny places, he says.
Ted Hallett
A painter of light and colour, Ted is self-taught and with a life-time of experience. He has successfully combined careers as a design engineer and as an artist, painting full-time since 2002.
Paula Sharples
Paula uses colour and pattern, working on gesso prepared board with acrylics, ink and graphite in layers. She uses a combination of still life with landscape background.
Lydia Milford
Devon based Lydia Milford trained in illustration at St. Martins, London. She works in watercolour and mixed media and is inspired by the coast and countryside of Devon and Cornwall.
Romanvs
Romanvs, a mechanical engineer and specialist in mathematical analysis of physical processes (especially thermodynamics) looks for hidden beauty in his creative work.
Making large, hand built, Raku fired ceramics for over 40 years, David attempts to transform a long ceramic tradition into a vibrant and contemporary art form relevant to the 21st century.
Elaine Peto
A graduate of Exeter College of Art & Design, where she studied animals via livestock markets and the abattoir, using the media of photography and drawing to record the structure of the carcass.
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In Sprint Planning, How Do You Prioritize the Requirements in the Backlog?
In this post, an Agile expert discusses how to go about deciding what are the most important items in your backlog, and how to plan accordingly.
Having worked with many Agile teams, I find that every team has a slightly different approach to prioritization, and some teams are better at it than others. I've recently observed a Sprint planning session where a team couldn't agree on priorities, and it was an unpleasant place to be. My mission in writing this article is, therefore, to share some personal experiences with prioritization, specifically some techniques and considerations during and outside of Sprint planning. I hope that these suggestions can help you avoid the sticky situation of not knowing how to prioritize during Sprint planning.
Have you ever been stuck in a Sprint planning meeting, where everyone has a different opinion of what to do first in a Sprint?
Prioritization is one of the most important aspects of any form of development work because choosing the right thing to do allows you to maximize the value delivered in a Sprint. Having a shared understanding of priorities empowers a team to move in a uniform direction towards a common goal.
There isn't a "one-size-fits-all" approach to prioritization but here are some general things you can do outside of Sprint planning to help prioritization decisions.
Continually groom your product backlog.
Apply learnings from the Sprint review.
Have a "Split of work" working agreement in place.
If at all possible, you should avoid the prioritization conundrum in a Sprint planning meeting. Remember, the Product Backlog is shaped like a triangle, with the most refined and high priority user stories on the top of the backlog, and the least important and least refined epics on the bottom. Continually prioritizing and refining the product backlog, through the practice of frequent (usually mid-Sprint) "Product Backlog Refinement" sessions, means that Sprint planning is less of a prioritization discussion than a "what's the best way to do the work" session.
It's important to consider the feedback from a Sprint review. They could invalidate the top items in the product backlog, making for an unfruitful Sprint planning session. By feeding these learnings into your product backlog, you will ensure that the product backlog items are always relevant when it comes to time for Sprint planning.
In their book, A Coach's Guide to Mastering Backlogs, Karen Greaves and Samatha Laing describe any type of work to be largely classified as one of four types.
Past and Business: work on existing features, or items that customers would care about. This type of work focuses on the retention of customers versus getting new ones.
Future and Business: work to get more customers in the future.
Past and Technical: Technical work that doesn't bring in revenue but is important for maintainability, performance, and efficiency within the team.
Future and Technical: Forward-looking work with a technical slant such as upgrading to a new version of .NET.
When it comes to prioritization at the Sprint planning session itself, here are some possible questions that can help guide your decisions.
Which items provide the most customer value?
Which items provide the most benefit to the business?
What is the lowest-hanging fruit?
Which items are the riskiest?
Which items result in the highest cost if not done now?
What are the dependencies between items?
Which items contribute most to our Sprint goal?
Working this out is simple, and can be done in several ways, such as having a verbal discussion, validating the user needs through user testing, and surveying what current solutions lack through market research. You can simply have a discussion around those activities or use a framework such as "Importance versus Satisfaction." Dan Olsen describes the framework in his book, The Lean Product Playbook, as a useful one for thinking about how to create customer value in a rigorous, analytical manner.
The framework compares Importance (the measure of how important a particular customer need is to a customer) and Satisfaction (how satisfied the customer is with a current solution that provides customer benefit).
Business value is the cumulative sum of things that affect the health of a business. It entails many things such as Shareholder Value and Customer Value.
Factor in the effort for a piece of work into the discussion. Tackle the "low-hanging fruit." If two pieces of work are of comparable business value, pick the one with less effort.
Look ahead and consider de-risking high-risk pieces of work by doing a "spike" (an investigation or proof-of-concept). You may want to prioritize higher risk items to mitigate the risk early on in a project or Sprint.
Consider the cost of not doing certain items, such as loss of competitive advantage, or inability to use a new piece of technology further down the line.
There may be a natural order in which items need to be completed. For example, you might need to do a user survey to sound-check a new layout before implementing it.
Last but not least, remember that Sprint planning should happen around a Sprint goal. Every item in a Sprint backlog contributes to the Sprint goal, some more than others. Consider prioritizing the items that contribute most to the Sprint goal.
Zhi Lee is the owner of Teamworx, a consultancy based in Auckland that provides Agile Coaching services.


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Hon. Andre Ouellet (Papineau):
Mr. Speaker, on June 22, the Minister told this House:
We are confident that Canadian security was not compromised and that
Canadian authorities have acted to preserve our security.
Can the Minister still maintain this position and confirm for us that this statement made last week still stands today?
Topic: ORAL QUESTION PERIOD
Subtopic: NATIONAL SECURITY
Sub-subtopic: STATUS OF INTERNAL SECURITY
Charles Joseph Clark (Secretary of State for External Affairs)
Progressive Conservative
Right Hon. Joe Clark (Secretary of State for External Affairs):
Yes, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Jack Harris (St. John's East):
Mr. Speaker, the Deputy Prime Minister stated in this House last Monday that the railway workers of the Newfoundland Railway supported the financial package which closed the Newfoundland Railway and would provide $70 million for labour adjustment. Was it because they had been deceived by the statements of the Minister for International Trade and the President of CN into thinking that the $70 million was available for negotiated benefits over and above what their collective agreement or employment contracts required?
Will the Deputy Prime Minister end the uncertainty among workers and confirm, first, that there is no extra $70 million available to the employees in addition to the contractual obligation of CN; and, second, that this money is not part of the Government's contribution since CN is already obliged to make these payments to its workers?
Subtopic: RAILWAYS
Sub-subtopic: NEWFOUNDLAND RAILWAY DISBANDMENT-COMPENSATION FOR WORKERS
Gerry St. Germain (Minister of State (Transport))
Hon. Gerry St. Germain (Minister of State (Transport)):
Mr. Speaker, I believe the Hon. Member knows that the negotiations will take place on July 5. I think anything that we do at this point in time could possibly damage any negotiations that will take place. The package that will be put in place will be one of the most generous that this country has ever seen.
GOVERNMENT POSITION
Mr. Speaker, the confusion that the Government has created among the workers of CN in Newfoundland is astounding. The workers were convinced that the Government has a package of $70 million over and above their contractual obligations. I now hear that this is not the case. Why does the Minister not come clean and tell the people the truth?
Oral Questions
Subtopic: GOVERNMENT POSITION
Mr. Speaker, I repeat again that it would be premature and irresponsible to make any statements until we have sat down and properly negotiated the agreements as laid out.
Alan Redway
Mr. Alan Redway (York East):
Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of State for the Treasury Board. It involves the disposal of federal surplus lands. When the federal Government is disposing of surplus lands it has a policy of offering them first to provincial Governments, and then to municipal Governments, before making them available for housing.
Will the Minister direct the Bureau of Real Property Management of the Treasury Board to adopt a housing first policy so that when surplus lands are disposed of, particularly in areas where there is a housing crisis such as Metropolitan Toronto, they will be offered first for badly needed housing before anything else?
Subtopic: HOUSING
Sub-subtopic: DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS FEDERAL LANDS IN METROPOLITAN TORONTO
Douglas Grinslade Lewis (Minister of State (Government House Leader); Minister of State (Treasury Board))
Hon. Doug Lewis (Minister of State and Minister of State (Treasury Board)):
Mr. Speaker, the House should know that since we took office in 1984 we have adopted a policy of reviewing the federal Government's landholdings and wherever possible disposing of excess federal property. To date we have sold some 492 properties. That has returned to the Treasury some $171 million.
Specifically with respect to the Hon. Member's question, I would tell my hon. friend that a review of federal landholdings in the Toronto area is presently under way. Once that is completed it is a question of discussing the matter with the provincial and municipal authorities and deciding on the best use of that property. That decision will be taken at that time.
Jacques Guilbault (Deputy House Leader of the Official Opposition; Liberal Party Deputy House Leader)
Mr. Jacques Guilbault (Saint-Jacques):
Mr. Speaker, I would like to raise the issue of the operators' and technicians' strike at Bell Canada, which threatens to affect telephone services for about seven million Canadians who reside in Quebec, Ontario and the North West Territories. Those most likely to be affected are people with a hearing disability and the physically disabled who need operator assistance to make a call. Furthermore, people who are trying to communicate an
emergency situation cannot make do with a tape recorder that answers "This is a recording".
Subtopic: LABOUR RELATIONS
Sub-subtopic: BELL CANADA STRIKE-SERVICE FOR THE HANDICAPPED-GOVERNMENT POSITION
Richard Grisé (Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Privy Council)
Mr. Grise:
Don't call us, we'll call you.
Mr. Guilbault (Saint Jacques):
I therefore want to ask the Government, which certainly has a responsibility to ensure that such services are maintained, to inform the House what it intends to do so that the disabled can continue to make calls during the strike and emergency situations can still be reported.
Barbara Jean McDougall (Minister of Employment and Immigration; Minister responsible for the Status of Women)
Hon. Barbara McDougall (Minister of Employment and Immigration):
Mr. Speaker, I understand from my colleague, the Minister of Labour, that officers of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service have been in contact with the parties and are following the developments in the dispute. There was a conciliation process in place earlier that failed to win the support of the union members.
I understand that under its terms of licence the company must continue to provide service and that it is prepared to do
We will of course continue to monitor the situation. It is a legal strike. My colleague, the Minister of Labour, will be following the situation to ensure that for those in need there will be the necessary services.
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Mr. Guilbault (Saint-Jacques):
Mr. Speaker, while I was asking my question, the Member for Beauce thought he was being funny when he said: "Don't call us, we'll call you!" That shows the extent of his concern for the disabled.
Sheila Maureen Copps
Ms. Copps:
The clown from Beauce.
CONCILIATION COMMISSIONER'S REPORT
We are aware that a report had been commissioned from Mr. Warren Edmunson, a conciliation commissioner. We know the Government has a copy of the report in hand. I would like to ask if the Government is in a position to table the report forthwith, or at least to release the essential elements of the report in order that Canadians may better understand the issues at stake, especially as they threaten a service that they have paid for and to which they feel entitled?
Subtopic: CONCILIATION COMMISSIONER'S REPORT

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"When boarding, please move to the center of the car."
If you have heard that short phrase, then you have taken the Metro. Whether it was to go to your internship, work, somewhere for your class, Union Station, DCA or just anywhere in general, you have probably taken the Metro. Also, like most people, you probably have been frustrated with the Metro in some way or the other. And you have every right to be. From minor issues such as single tracking or escalator outages, to major ones such as deadly accidents due to mechanical issues and poor maintenance, the fact of the matter is that the Metro needs to improve.
The answer to solving the ailments of the Metro is not a simple hashtag or tweet at the Metro's Twitter feed, but rather lies with its creator: the federal government. In the 1960s, one of President Johnson's initiatives was building a mass transit system in various urban cities, including the U.S. capitol itself. The Metro officially opened in 1976; however, construction on the original design would not end till 2001. To this day, the Metro as we know it is not under the control of a single state or local government, but a board of over a dozen members representing D.C., Virginia, Maryland and the federal government. In light of a string of increasingly publicized accidents, Metro has recently initiated the Safe Track program to identify and repair any damages to prevent any further tragedy. But there is more that the Metro needs to do, and the federal government needs to take note. It is essential for the system to become more reliable and less of a hazard. But Metro can -- and should -- be more than that.
Metro can take note from the mass transit systems of other global cities and make their systems as they are designed to be: user friendly. For example, the Metro can add more digital displays in cars to show which stop the train is at and which ones are ahead, like the transit system in Tokyo. Metro can also modernize by having more cars with rubber flooring, such as the tube in London, to prevent stains and black spots from forming, as seen in the carpet interior of most Metro railcars. Additionally, the Metro can be designed to be more soundproof to make the ride quieter and smoother like the subway in Hong Kong. These are small steps for Metro to take to improve the rider experience and begin to move forward in embodying the system's original vision: to provide access to mass transit and be an alternative to driving for the average citizen.
Now, does the fact that the Metro drastically needs to improve mean the current system is the worst means of transport in DC? The answer is a downright no. However, to make it better, it should not be simply passing the responsibility to someone else or taking your anger out behind the comfort of a social media handle or platform. If you think the Metro can be better and be cleaner and safer, take action: contact your representatives in Congress or start a White House petition. Congress has a stellar record of putting their hands into D.C. home affairs. The more calls for the federal government to reform the Metro leads to more track that can be laid for a better system. Perhaps you can tell your member of Congress to work with other legislators, transportation experts and other appropriate parties on creating a Metro that works.
With the Safetrack initiative, Metro can identify and fix various maintenance issues, but it desperately needs a long-term vision of what type of system it can be in the coming years of the 21st century. A 20th century aging system is not the solution for a 21st century reality. In a country in which pundits, politicians and engineers have deemed infrastructure to be subpar and in dire need of improvement, repairing the capital's transit system must be a top priority, representing an important step in developing the nation's infrastructure. Modernizing the Metro may require further single tracking, but it is for the best to create a lasting, better system for generations to come.
Sameer Chintamani is a rising senior in the School of International Service and an opinion columnist for The Eagle.


Who isn't at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley media mogul fest this year? Believe it or not, New York Times DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin, who is covering the confab from afar -- hitting the phone lines and Twitter -- like most of the rest of us.
For better or worse, I couldn't make it out to Sun Valley this year because I'm chained to my desk for the next couple of weeks trying to finish my upcoming book, "Too Big to Fail."
Given the market jitters — and resulting deal drought — we made the decision to cover the event from afar this year. I'm trying to stay up to date on the latest machinations out there by speaking with a half dozen of the invitees daily by phone and email — some of whom have already tapped out notes by Blackberry from inside this morning. (We actually might have a pretty interesting Sun Valley story up on DealBook in the next 24 hours.) We're also running a series of Twitter feeds from other news organizations on DealBook's homepage. And we plan to run several Sun Valley photo slide shows, as we've done in year's past.
As Kafka notes, because of the secretive nature of the whole get-together, real-time coverage is probably overrated. But you can keep an eye on our Sun Valley Twitter stream here.


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The Obamas Are Following Politicians' New Endgame: Becoming Content Creators
Barack is podcasting with the Boss, and Michelle is making TV with puppets.
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In this morning's announcement that he is co-hosting a podcast with Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama says he plans to explore the pair's "parallel journeys," to connect their identities with the larger story of America. The trailer for Renegades: Born in the USA hits a note of tempered uplift, capturing the tough-hope vibe of Trump-era Obama. The former President still believes in America as a nation singularly situated to keep perfecting its union, but he knows what's gone down. He positions the show as a potentially helpful project: Two deeply admired Americans chopping it up about their "fundamental belief in the American ideal—not as an act of nostalgia, but a compass, for the hard work that lies before us." Together, Barack and the Boss just might help American ideal get up off the floor. Such is the star power, charm, experience and good intentions of all involved, that it seems, particularly as "Born in the USA" comes crashing in, like there might be something to it—but there's only the further entwining of politics and content creation, which are already as skeevily involved as kissing cousins.
When Trump won the presidency— his second choice—his major policy goal was to make himself the show.
Renegades is made by Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions, which is also responsible for Michelle's Spotify podcast and a string of well-regarded documentaries: Crip Camp, the Oscar-winning American Factory, and Becoming, a polished look at … Michelle Obama. The company recently announced a number of upcoming scripted and unscripted Netflix projects that sound as inspirational, wholesome, representation- and change-minded as one would expect the Obamas' output to be. One of their series, based on a Young Adult book, is about a Native American teen investigating a crime on her reservation; another is an animated series based on the children's book Ada Twist, Scientist, about a little Black girl scientist; another is an adaptation of the literary/sci-fi/immigration novel Exit West.
These projects are explicitly trying to help change the kind of television that gets made, who we see on television and in what contexts, and—who knows!— some of them might even turn out to be good. Superficially, they are a well-intentioned win–win for Netflix, Spotify, and the Obamas, burnishing the platforms' profiles while giving the couple a lucrative, creative, fun, soft-power way to reach a lot of people about issues that matter to them. In March, Netflix will premiere Waffles & Mochi, a children's show starring two felt puppets and featuring Michelle Obama, that's all about the virtues of healthy eating, her signature issue going back to her days in the White House.
The Obamas are producing far more content than any other former politicians, but they're not the only ones. Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have formed a production company of their own, Hidden Light Productions, which recently sold a show called Gutsy Women to Apple TV and is producing a series about an all-female Kurdish militia, turning fallout from a war she helped authorize into prestige TV. Unlike more par-for-the-course book deals and, lately, podcasts—the list grows every day: Mike Pence announced one just recently, joining Barack, Michelle, Hillary, Pete Buttigieg and Cory Booker among others—luxe TV content arrangements are one of the perkier spoils that can accrue to former, future, and semi-active politicians. But though it's a rare privilege, exercising it is not without consequence. It suggests that one of the juiciest spoils of a life in public service is the chance to make TV, while also suggesting that making TV, and content more generally, is one of the better uses of their considerable social and political capital—all at a time when so much of public service already seems dangerously oriented around starring in television.
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What's at issue here is not just whether or not Renegade or Exit West are good unto themselves—if they change people's minds, if they give us something to listen to while making dinner or even, in the case of Renegade, if they're as corny as an extra-large with butter. What's also at issue is what happens when we suture TV and politics even further together. Many politicians already treat politics primarily as a mode of performance, every moment and every policy as an occasion to play to the Fox News crowd, their social media followers, the base. The idea that political work is not passing legislation or concretely helping constituents, but becoming a voice, a personality, a brand, is a big part of our dysfunctional political culture, and how someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene can say she's doing her job just by becoming a major cable news protagonist.
Content can be good and, in some instances, it can even do good, but content is not, itself, "good." Any reading that privileges individual shows, podcasts, production slates (or subscription-based podcast networks) over society-wide ramifications is obtusely, perversely selective, attending to, say, Orange Is the New Black and not the man who recently departed the White House. Trump, after all, had his own kind of production deal, a show, The Apprentice, that did CPR on both his finances and his reputation. It set him up to take the White House, even though what he really wanted was a cable news network of his own. When he won, his major policy goal was to make himself the show.
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Early Look: Raiders and Chargers Renew AFL Rivalry
Jerry Knaak
Team Historian
Raiders vs Chargers: Through The Years
An exclusive look at the AFC West rivalry that is the Oakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers through the decades.
Lester Hayes squares up to deliver a big hit.
Lester Hayes sprints down the sideline.
Marcus Allen makes an acrobatic attempt to save the ball during a 1985 game against the Chargers.
Howie Long applies pressure to the San Diego quarterback during a 1983 contest.
Tyrone Wheatley rumbles towards the end zone during a 2004 match-up against the Chargers.
James Harris and Darrell Russell take down the San Diego ball carrier in a 1999 contest.
Ricky Dudley celebrates scoring a touchdown during a 1996 match-up with the Chargers.
John Madsen escapes the Chargers defender and heads upfield in 2007.
Terdell Sands brings down the Chargers quarterback during the 2008 regular season.
LB Khalil Mack applies pressure to Philip Rivers, nearly bringing the quarterback down.
Philip Wheeler and Omar Gaither make sure the San Diego receiver won't gain any more yards on the play.
FB Marcel Reece takes to the air to get past San Diego S Eric Weddle.
Andre Holmes sprints towards the end zone against in the Raiders game against the Chargers earlier this season.
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The Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers renew hostilities Sunday, October 25, at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. The two longtime rivals wrap up the season series Christmas Eve in Oakland.
Perhaps the darkest period of this rivalry came between 2003-09 when the Chargers won 13 straight against the Silver and Black. I only mention it because one of my favorite memories of this series is when the Raiders snapped that streak 35-27 in Oakland and went on to win three in a row.
The late 1970s and early 1980s saw so many great match-ups between these two teams – Dan Fouts for the Chargers, Kenny Stabler and Jim Plunkett for the Raiders. There always seemed to be something important on the line…a playoff berth, a Super Bowl berth. The Holy Roller was my favorite as a kid. Tight end Dave Casper's reaction after recovering that fumble in the end zone for a touchdown was priceless. I have never seen a player more stoic after scoring the game-tying touchdown.
The key to beating the Chargers always seems to be getting Rivers off his game. When the Raiders have had success against the prolific Chargers quarterback, pressure and causing turnovers are the two major factors. Second-year LB Khalil Mack, who got his first career sack against Rivers, and the Raiders retooled defense will need to disrupt Rivers.
Here are some interesting facts about this year's match-ups:
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This will mark the Raiders' sixth contest against the San Diego Chargers on a Thursday night, with the last one coming on Nov. 10, 2011. Oakland holds a 4-1 record in those games.
The Raiders have faced the Chargers 110 times, the most of any opponent. They have faced the Broncos and Chiefs each 109 times, as they only played each team once during the strike-shortened 1982 season.
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Oakland will be seeking its first win at Qualcomm Stadium since Nov. 10, 2011 (24-17). The Raiders are 29-25-1 (.536) all-time at the Chargers.
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In Week 6 last season, QB Derek Carr became the first rookie in NFL history to complete four touchdown passes in a single game against San Diego, as he threw for 282 yards on 18-of-34 passing with a career-high four scores and one interception.
Safety Charles Woodson returned a fumble 25 yards for his 13th career defensive touchdown, tied for the NFL record, against San Diego on Nov. 6, 2013.
Wide receiver Andre Holmes recorded the only multi-touchdown game of his career vs. San Diego on Oct. 12, 2014, tallying four catches for 121 yards (30.3 avg.) and two touchdowns, including a 77-yard score. His career totals in three games against the Chargers include 11 receptions for 211 yards (19.2 avg.) and two touchdowns.
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One thing that my HTC Inspire Android phone running CyanogenMod 7 lacks that my 5th gen iPod running Rockbox had is the ability to speed up podcasts and audiobooks so that they can be listened to in half the time. Fortunately there's an app for that. It's called xSpeedPlayer and it's a free app on the Android Market.
I use xSpeedPlayer for speeding up podcasts to 1.5X or 2X speed, depending on how fast the hosts are already talking. It's great for getting through a long podcast and absorbing the information without wasting a lot of time on the chit-chat and off-topic stuff some podcasts get into on occasion. I'm able to understand and retain information just as well at 1.5X speed as I am at normal playback for most podcasts, and some slow ones I can play at 2X speed without missing anything.
xSpeedPlayer doesn't alter the pitch of the hosts voices so they don't sound like chipmunks when you alter the playspeed. This app is exactly what I'd been looking for on Android. You can playback your mp3 podcast files faster or use the app to save the faster speed audio to a new file.
I expect that overtime as I learn to listen better to higher speed audio playback I'll be able to start shifting more podcasts to 2X speed for even more time savings. So long as I'm able to understand and retain the useful information in the podcast it's worth doing. I'll have more time to play games! xSpeedPlayer can speed up podcasts all the way to 4X speed, but I think that might be too fast for most people. Cutting listening times in half is already such an improvement though.
You also have the option to playback audio at a slower speed, though I can't imagine what this would be used for. Decoding high speed burst transmissions maybe? Probably better to use Audacity on a desktop for that.
xSpeedPlayer works with downloaded mp3 or wav files, so you can't use it on streaming audio, but that's a minor gripe. Although I suppose there could be some way around that by using a podcast client that lets you output files to external audio players.
You can also apparently set xSpeedPlayer to playback multiple files in order, though I haven't yet used this functionality myself.
Anyone who listens to podcasts on an Android device should get xSpeedPlayer. You'll get used to the faster audio really quickly and if you listen to a lot of podcasts the time savings will add up. You won't want to go back to standard speed podcasts once you're used to 2X playback. This is really something that should be built into the core Android media playback framework, but until/unless that gets implemented this is your best bet for speeding up podcasts on Android.


So I got my new 2x6V transformer to the lab finally and hooked it up. As expected from a wound coil of wires it works perfectly. I was, however, briefly mystified by the plethora of wires emanating from this chunky beastie and wondered why the hell the secondaries were reading half a volt AC when it should have been much higher.
Transformer wiring can be confusing to the novice (or drinker) and generally you don't want to mess it up like I did once by plugging the (low resistance) secondaries into the mains blowing the breaker and marring the plug where it melted due to arcing.
Like many transformers, this one was manufactured with two sets of primaries and two secondaries, allowing for a variety of connections. The two primaries are meant to select between US and Euro mains (~120V and ~240V respectively), and the two secondaries meant to deliver the stepped-down voltage to be filtered and regulated.
Each set is nothing more than two terminals and a coil of wire wound around an iron core – an inductor. When current is run through the coil, it generates a magnetic field that inducts a current on the secondary side converting it back into electricity. The voltage on the secondary is function of the primary voltage and the ratio of the number of turns between the primary and secondary.
When presented with two sets of primaries, it's a bit confusing to figure out how to wire it into a two wire plug from four terminals. The best way I find is to think of it like batteries (though the same rules hold true anywhere in electronics): voltages in series add and currents in parallel add.
Practically, this means that if you wire the two primaries in parallel you can double the current output of the transformer, and if you wire it in series you double the voltage and halve the current.
This particular transformer is meant to convert 117V to 6V, and has two sets of these. Coming from it are 8 wires, four primary and four secondary (two for each coil). This is quite customizable and could be wired in a variety of ways depending on your application.
For 240V euro mains, I would wire the primaries in series, essentially combining the two coils into one allowing a greater step down to still get the desired secondary voltage. For North American mains I would wire them in parallel to keep it at 120V.
On the secondary side, I could keep the two coils independent and get 6V each, or wire them in series to get 12V, or wire them in parallel to get 6V at double the current output.
Here's where the fun comes in: if I were to wire the primaries in series (as for euro) and keep the secondaries in series, what would I get? Instead of the expected 12V, I would get 6V because the number of effective winds between the primary and secondary is doubled.
What I ended up doing is wiring the primaries in parallel (making two 120V primaries) and wiring the secondaries in series (making a 12V secondary).
What I am glad to note is that many transformers are rated at just below the typical mains voltage on the primary side, so when it receives a typical mains voltage, the secondary voltage is likewise a bit higher. This is helpful considering voltage regulators have a dropout voltage that must be overcome to regulate the desired voltage and takes care of any irregularities or variances in your home mains voltage.
Couple this with the fact that when you rectify and filter (using a bridge rectifier and capacitor) the secondary AC voltage, you end up bumping it up a bit so you will always get higher than the expected voltage which (hopefully) overcomes the dropout voltage of your regulator.
In my case, I wired it so that the 117V -> 12V transformer, when fed my home 120V mains, then rectified and filtered with a 1000µF cap, yielded 18Vdc and change. Wow, half-again my expected voltage! This is hardly a problem and will work great for my application.


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Q: A function that has a derivative but is not integrable How is it possible that the function $F(x)$ defined by :
$$
     F(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{ll} x\sqrt{x}\sin\frac{1}{x}, & x> 0 \\
         0, & x=0\end{array}\right.
$$
$$
     F'(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{ll} \frac{3}{2}\sqrt{x}\sin\frac{1}{x}-\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}}\cos\frac{1}{x}, & x> 0 \\
         0, & x=0\end{array}\right.
$$
has a derivative, which  is not Riemann- integrable on any interval $[0,|b|]$, the function is continuous and every continuous function should have a R-Integral?

A: Lebesgue's criterion for Riemann integrability states that a function $f: [a, b] \longrightarrow \Bbb R$ is Riemann integrable if and only if it is bounded and continuous almost everywhere on $[a,b]$.
In the present case, $|F(x)| \leq |b| \sqrt{|b|}$ on $[0, |b|]$ and $F$ is also continuous on $[0, |b|]$, so by Lebesgue's criterion $F$ is Riemann integrable.
On the other hand, $F'$ is not bounded in any neighborhood of $x = 0$, so by Lebesgue's criterion it is not Riemann integrable.
The point of this example is that you can't always integrate a function just because that function is a derivative of some other function.

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LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) would contest the next general elections with the cooperation of religious parties to defeat secular and liberal parties.
He was talking to the media at London airport on his arrival from Lahore. He also addressed the party workers present to receive him.
Sirajul Haq said that so far, the secular and liberal parties ruling the country had greatly harmed the country's ideological character; thus trying to waste the huge sacrifices the nation had offered for the creation of this independent Muslim homeland.
He said that the country's constitution called for the supremacy of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah, but the rulers had always imposed dictatorship in the name of democracy through unconstitutional ways.
When questioned about the possibility of electoral alliance with the PTI in the next elections, the JI chief said that the MMA would contest the 2018 elections by taking other religious parties of the country on board, the ones having a neat and clean record besides unwavering faith in the ideology of the coun.
Haq said the JI had been struggling for a corruption-free Pakistan. "JI wanted the country to regain its image in the comity of the nations and be able to run its affairs as an independent and sovereign state," he added.
He said the present rulers had plunged the country into despair, poverty, illiteracy and lawlessness. He hoped that the MMA would emerge as a big force as it did in 2002.
To a question about Model Town killings, he said the JI was the first to raise voice against this bloodshed.
"This was not for any political gains but purely on humanitarian grounds," he explained.
He said that all those responsible for these killings—whoever they were—must be punished in accordance with the law.
Asked about the performance of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, where the JI was an ally with the PTI, he said that the people of the province were the best judge of that.


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Question received on Fri, October 12, 2001 11:18:13 PM
Artemis writes...
(sorry, no questions this time, but)
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU (and all those other people) for all the Scottish history in the show. Because of it, I am totally facinated with the topic. It's even better that I know cuz I am from scottish decent (as well as a little english and irish), and my other side came from france (sounds like someone in the show, ne?)
Also, it has inspired me to read Macbeth, and I used to hate Shakespeare!
So thanx again to you and all the little peoples!
And while I'm on the topic of scottish history, can you PLEASE finish "Once Upon a Time there were Three Brothers"? I'd make me very happy!
As I've mentioned before, "Once Upon a Time There Were Three Brothers" is kind of finished. For starters, there are only two brothers left. And although it wasn't necessarily my original intent, the piece wound up being more of a prologue to DARK AGES. So I took Three Brothers right up to the point where Dark Ages begins. And I stopped. To keep going would in fact be to begin Dark Ages, which is a HUGE project, that I'm not prepared to take on right now.
But I'm glad you liked it. It was, I think, my first and only attempt at Fan Fiction.
Response recorded on February 19, 2003
Question received on Thu, October 11, 2001 01:30:00 AM
matt writes...
couple questions about Demona in "Awakening 1 and 2"
1. when Goliath says hes going to find the Vikings, Demona says, "... let me come along, at least!" why would she say that? if shes so worried about following 'the plan' why would she volunteer to 'abandon' her clan as Goliath does?
2. and when Goliath does leave, he leaves Demona in command of the clan. as Second she has authority anyway, but when Goliath goes, she is effectively in charge. so using that command, why didn't she just order the clan to leave and follow 'the plan' Demona had to think of that, right? i mean, she ran away herself, and almost told at least Othello and Desdemona. in those last few hours before sunset, why didn't she gather the clan and get out of there? did she really trust the Captain THAT much? did she not trust herself THAT much?
1. She's trying to make the best of a bad situation, in her own self-involved frightened way.
2. Goliath gave an order for them to stay. For her to countermand that order, even as Second, would probably -- at least in her mind -- required some explanation. Plus, on some level I think she felt she HAD to trust the Captain. Because if she didn't why was she doing ANY of this. And yet on another level, she clearly recognized that she couldn't trust him completely -- else why would she flee herself. What it comes down to is that whether or not she'd ever be willing to admit it, she KNEW on some level that she was betraying a trust herself. That rippled into all sorts of levels of deceit and insecurity. She was MIND-F**K'D, basically by her own choices. Tragedy insues. You get the drift.
It's all very complex, I admit, but I think that's why Demona is so interesting.
Question received on Tue, October 09, 2001 02:35:50 PM
Corrie "Cormak" McDermott writes...
First of all thank you so much for Gargoyles. It's had a wonderful impact on the lives of my sister and myself as well as 8 children I used to take care of. I apologize if any of my questions have been asked and answered in the past. I actually read all the FAQs and the archives to make sure. I didn't see them there, but I could be wrong. (I did read a lot in one day!)
1. I know that you had nothing to do with the Goliath Chronicles with the exception of "The Journey". I find the Quarry Men an interesting organization and a very real threat to not only the Gargoyles but to Elisa Maza as well. I'm curious as what you would have planned for this group in the future. Would they have been a long term force to be reckoned with?
Yep. Centuries long. I hesitate to say this because I don't want to trivialize something as evil and insidious as the KKK, but that organization was my inspiration for the Quarrymen.
Response recorded on January 31, 2003
I have some questions about Goliath and Elisa.
1. You've said that Goliath started falling in love with Elisa pretty early on. And that he fell in love with her before he even understood how attractive she was physically. By Elisa's reactions in various episodes it seemed that she knew he was falling for her and she tried to deny the truth for a while. Not only his feelings but hers as well. Obviously by what happened in Hunter's Moon I , II and III she realized that she was in love with him and she let him know. Did she fall in love him because of the way he has protected her and his personality?
1a. Did she find him attractive physically?
1b. or both?
2. I've read your comments that Elisa and Goliath would realize that their relationship before it really started was impossible and they would date members of their own species, possibly at a Halloween party. Would this party have been the first time they dated since the breakup?
2a. Also would it be at this party that they would both realize that they still loved each other?
2b. or would that have been later on down the road?
3. Does Elisa know that Goliath was watching her and Jason in her apartment? (Hunter's Moon Part II)
3a. If not, would Goliath ever tell her?
1. Well, I think Elisa probably thinks he's good looking too, but yes, it's who he is inside that really attracts her. In my opinion, anyway.
1a. I think so.
1b. Both, yeah. I gotta start reading ahead.
2. I think so. But it's not a party so much as a night out. At least in my mind.
2a. Yes.
2b. I don't think they ever stopped loving each other, but they tried to let logic and reason dictate their feelings. By the end of this Halloween adventure, they'd realize that it was pointless to supress their feelings. Certainly unfair to their dates.
3. Not sure. Don't think so.
3a. It seems unnecessary now.
Question received on Mon, October 08, 2001 10:34:22 PM
gargoyle fan writes...
hey greg i have been wondering about demona lately so here are my questions
1.In the episode city of stone why did't demona stay in wyvern was in it much safer then in a cave or it it would bring to much painful memories
2.I notice that in city of stone in the cave where demona and her clan lived there was a beach behide it so i am wondering since castle wyvern was next to a beach was the cave near wyvern
3.does demona approve of angla's relationship with broadway
4. in vows why did't demona use the phenoix gate to stop
the death of her clan
1. The phrase "The Horror. The Horror." comes to mind.
2. I don't recall a beach behind that cave, and I always thought of that one being more interior to Scotland. But in any case, no, it wasn't Wyvern.
3. Well, as of when I left the show, Demona didn't know about Angela's relationship with Broadway. Only Angela, Broadway and Brooklyn knew. But assuming she found out, I think she'd have mixed feelings. Broadway is a Goliath loyalist, for starters.
4. A careful viewing would show she couldn't. If you're asking why she didn't try, I think one answer is that she did. Not by going back to the daylight hours of the massacre, when she couldn't have done anything anyway, but by going back to a point when her past self might -- had time travel worked that way -- have been able to change everything from that point forward.
Are the space-spawn planetbusters mass produced?
Just curious how does it blow up a planet?
When did the space-spawn develop such a potent weapon?
1. I doubt it's that simple, but keep in mind they've been in business for awhile, so they've probably got plenty.
2. I don't know yet.
3. Centuries ago.
Question received on Mon, October 08, 2001 03:25:31 AM
i was wondering what your timeline looks like around the time the Clan left the Eyrie Building in Fall 1994.
i watched "Double Jeopardy" tonight and saw that Owen acquiered Goliath's blood samples on November 15. that means the gargoyles left the castle after that, but i also saw that Elisa was there and not on crutches as she was at the beginning of "Enter Macbeth" which makes me think that the "Double Jeopardy" flashback also occured before "Deadly Force". i didn't realize that so much of the first season (six out of the eight episodes, not including "Awakening") happened after mid-November. of course, its even stranger cuz if all that is accurate, there actually is a small flashback in "Enter Macbeth" of Xanatos in his cell cuz his calendar shows late October, weeks before "Deadly Force" and the rest of "Enter Macbeth" would have happened.
is all that right?
when in 1996 (1997?) did the rest of the first season episodes occur? do you have that in your timeline yet?
Hey matt -- in fact, hey everyone. I'm still pretty busy these days, and the backlog is intimidating, but I figured, if I NEVER got started, I'd never get started, if you know what I mean.
So I'm just going to try to answer one question every week-day.
Anyway, matt, here's an abreviated version of the timeline for this period:
10-28-94 Xanatos anticipates being released by Oct. 31st, the date of his next pre-trial appearance. [There is an outdated calendar on the wall of his cell that fits neither 1994 or 1995. It may not even be his.] (Enter Macbeth)
10-31-94 Xanatos plea bargains a six month sentence with every hope that the sentence will be reduced to three months for good behavior (including time served). (Thrill)
11-4-94 Lex makes contact with the Pack. (Thrill)
11-11-94 Brooklyn tests out the motorcycle and encounters Demona. (Temptation) Xanatos' sentence is officially recorded. Elisa checks out the clock tower.
11-12-94 Elisa informs Goliath that Xanatos will be out in a month. (She is exaggerating for effect, as it will actually be closer to two.) Later Demona, casts a spell on Goliath. (Temptation)
11-13-94 Elisa frees Goliath from Demona's spell. (Temptation)
11-15-94 Elisa again attempts to get Goliath to leave castle. Owen gets a cell sample. (Double Jeopardy)
11-18-94 Broadway accidentally shoots Elisa. (Deadly Force)
12-27-94 The clan enoys a pleasant night at the castle. Xanatos is still counting down days in prison. (Enter Macbeth)
12-31-94 Sevarius begins to clone Goliath. (Double Jeopardy)
1-3-95 Macbeth attacks the clan at the castle. (Enter Macbeth)
1-4-95 The gargs move to the clock tower. Xanatos is released from jail. (Enter Macbeth) Later, he checks in with Sevarius. (Double Jeopardy)
As for the rest of the first season...
The Edge, Long Way To Morning and Her Brother's Keeper all take place in January '95. Reawakening takes place in February of '95.


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The Welcome Directory
According to the UK Prison Population Statistics Briefing Paper, in December 2016 69.2% of the prison population in England and Wales identified as belonging to a religious community. As well as allowing individuals to continue practising their faith whilst in custody, belonging to a religious community whilst in prison provides them with the opportunity to meet and spend time with others who share their faith. Such support can be vital for many during their time in prison.
So what happens to these individuals post-release? Separated from the community of which they have been a part whilst in custody, many struggle to find a faith community that can offer them much needed support and practical guidance, as well as an open and welcoming place in which to practice their faith, during the resettlement period and beyond.
The Welcome Directory was created to address this very issue. The charity was launched in October 2016 after receiving input from a variety of stakeholders, including: prisoners and former prisoners, prison chaplains, prison staff, prison governors, criminologists and faith leaders. The idea for the directory was inspired by a resettlement project in Singapore, the Yellow Ribbon Project, an initiative which has led to increased levels of acceptance and support for people on release from prison.
The Welcome Directory aims 'to help faith communities welcome and support people leaving prison and to enable people who are looking for a faith community to call home upon release and to easily search for and find one.' Its purpose is connection: connecting people to ideas and to each other. It achieves this through its three main features: a geographical resettlement research tool; a community; and a movement.
A geographical resettlement research tool:
The Welcome Directory is a nationwide directory of faith communities who have identified themselves as places that will provide genuine welcome, will nurture faith and offer appropriate practical support for people upon release from custody. The directory can be accessed by: prison chaplains, on behalf of prisoners; resettlement agencies; charities; and people who have left prison. Providing quality information in the form of an app about communities, including where they can be found and meeting times, it is a way for former prisoners looking for a faith community to easily search for and find one.
A community:
The Welcome Directory is more than just a research tool. It is creating a community of people who want to be involved in resettlement in a positive way. By introducing powerful ideas about the impact that a good faith community can have upon someone leaving prison and by bringing a variety of faith communities in a region together in prisons across England and Wales to meet one another and engage in future collaboration, The Welcome Directory is helping to positively shape communities.
Each community within The Welcome Directory will have identified people who have undergone training to increase their awareness of the needs of former prisoners. Safeguarding policies will have been put in place and local resources identified that might be helpful to someone making the transition to life in the wider community.
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By creating these communities that appreciate the positive impact that a faith community can have on a former prisoner, The Welcome Directory has the ultimate aim of bringing about broad attitudinal change. The hope is that attitudinal change will grow and spread through congregations and beyond, into the wider community.
Becoming part of The Welcome Directory
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1. Session 1 – introduction
Introduction to themes, ideas and information that will increase understanding of the issues surrounding imprisonment and release
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Individuals from the community attend their nearest prison (located by The Welcome Directory) and meet the chaplaincy team as well as prisoners who belong to the faith community within prison. This session allows the outside faith community to get to know individuals in prison on a personal level and celebrate their shared faith communities.
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This session helps communities think about and imagine what kind of support their community can offer and how their community could join with other communities and supportive agencies in the area to share their resources.
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Biography and Background
Highlights as of June 2011
• Competed in 119 triathlons
• Competed in 6 and completed 4 IronMan competitions in Hawaii, finishing 1st for USA and 3rd in the world (1992-97)
• Inducted into the East Carolina University Athletic Hall of Fame (1993)
• Multi-Year member of the USA Triathlon All-American team (since 1993)
• Member of the age 60 and over mile relay team that broke the world age group record (4:43) (1982)
• Selected by the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science and featured in the Wisdom of the Ages exhibit as one of 27 senior citizens outstanding in their field (2005)
• Official ITU world age group champion for Olympic distance (2001 Edmonton & 2005 Honolulu)
• Oldest Person to Finish a USA Triathlon-sanctioned Duathlon and Triathlon (May and June 2011 at age 90)
An Active Life of Accomplishments
• Born August 9, 1920 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
• Raised in Greenville, NC.
• Elected president of the Varsity Club at East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville (now East Carolina University).
• Captain of the Baseball Team at East Carolina – batted .404 during his senior year.
• Graduated East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville (now E.C. University) June 1, 1942.
• Entered U.S. Air Force June 2, 1942. Served 45 months active duty as a physical training instructor at Bainbridge, GA airbase. Discharged December 1945.
• Attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1946. Played on the varsity baseball team.
• Left school to play professional baseball in the Coastal Plain League.
• Began high school coaching in Laurel, MD in 1947.
• Coached all major sports (including soccer, a sport he had never played!).
• Started high school football at Laurel High School in 1949 (there was no H.S. football prior to this). His football teams did very well. His 1955 football team was undefeated and ranked 7th amongst all high schools in the Washington, D.C. area.
• Retired from senior high school coaching in 1958. Began a career of classroom teaching in US history and government in junior high school (equivalent to middle schools in Texas). Continued to teach boys physical education.
Note: One of Charlie's students at Montgomery Hills Junior High School was Sylvester Stallone in 8th grade history and Physical Education. He was 13 years old, and was a tremendous athlete even then. He later of course, went on to fame as Rocky, then Rambo, and many other movie characters.
• Pursued and obtained a Master's Degree in Education from Univ. of Maryland in 1962. Held highest available teaching certificate from state of Maryland's Department of Education.
• When Charlie retired from teaching in 1976, he weighed 226 lbs.
• Took up jogging in 1978, with a pair of $3 shoes bought on a bargain table at a discount warehouse. He made it almost all the way around the block on his first jog. This was the beginning of his running career.
• In 1980, he ran his first road race, a 5K run (3.1 miles) in Safety Harbor, FL. He surprised himself by actually finishing the race.
• Since 1980, he has competed in over 400 road races of varying distances. From 5Ks (3.1 miles) to marathon distances (26.2 miles). Most races have been 10Ks (6.2 miles). He has competed against many famous runners, such as Boston's John Kelly, who ran in over 50 Boston Marathons, and Jim Ryun (pronounced as "run"), who is well known for being the first high schooler to break the 4-minute mile (not to be confused with Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, who became the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes).
• In 1982, Charlie was a member of a mile relay team of athletes age 60 and over. They broke the world record for that age group in a time of 4 minutes 43 seconds flat (4:43:00). In that event, they were competing against the Men's 50 and Older Puerto Rico National Team.
• For many years, he trained in the mountains of western North Carolina near Asheville with Lynn Edwards, one of the top senior female athletes in the world, and with Jim Ward in Florida, also considered a top senior triathlete in the world.
• Jim Ward got Charlie interested in doing triathlons in 1985, when he was 65 years old.
Over the years, Charlie has competed in many prestigious triathlons around the US.
• In 1992, Charlie entered his first World Championship IronMan® event in Kona, Hawaii.
• In his first IronMan® race, Charlie finished 3rd in the world for his age group, and 1st from the US. The two fellows who beat him then were from Germany and from Australia.
• In 1994's IronMan®, Charlie was 3rd in the world again.
• Charlie competed in 6 consecutive IronMans 1992-1997. He completed 3 official races, and one unofficial one.
• Charlie has competed in other IronMan® distances in the US since then.
• He won the world championship Olympic distance (1 mile swim, 25 mile bike race, and a 10K run) for his age group in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 2001 when he was 81 years old.
• In 2005, he won the ITU (International Triathlon Union) world championship in Honolulu, HI for his age group when he was 85.
• Over his racing career, Charlie has been on many All-America teams named by USA Triathlon, the governing body for triathlons in the US, and by Inside Triathlon magazine.
• In 1993, Charlie was inducted in the East Carolina University Athletic Hall of Fame.
• In 1999, Charlie moved from Brevard, NC to The Villages in central Florida.
• In 2005, Charlie was selected by the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee, FL, as one of the 27 senior citizens age 80 or over, who were outstanding in their field (Charlie's was athletics), to be featured in the Wisdom of the Ages exhibit, sponsored by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. This exhibit was on loan to museums around the US, and was being considered for loan to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
• In 2006, Charlie was ranked #1 in his age group by USA Triathlon.
• Charlie has been featured in several magazines and newspaper features as a top senior triathlete. M edia features have appeared in the Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Highlands Today, and many others. More ...
• In April 2007, Charlie competed in his 17th St. Anthony's Olympic Distance Triathlon in St. Petersburg, FL.
• Charlie won 12 medals in the 2011 Florida Senior Games, qualifying for the National Senior Games in Houston, TX in the 500 Freestyle, the 50 Backstroke, and the 200 Freestyle. He set a Florida Senior Games record in the 500 yard freestyle swim for men 90 and over.
• On May 14, 2011, Charlie became the first person over 90 years old to complete a USA-Triathlon sanctioned Duathlon with a time of 2:09:07 at the Central Florida Duathlon Series in Clermont, Florida.
• On June 11, 2011, Charlie became the oldest person to ever complete an officially sanctioned Triathlon at the Central Florida Triathlon Series in Clermont, Florida, with a time of 2:18:38.
• Charlie was married to his very supportive wife, Peggy since 1946. They celebrated their 62 years of marriage on November 9, 2008, before she passed away at age 93 in January 2009.


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Tommy Hilfiger and his wife have decided to sell their 14,000 square-foot beachfront mansion just four years after acquiring the property. The official address is "605 Ocean Boulevard, Golden Beach, Florida" which just about says it all. It is part of a luxury community which is home to an array of famous celebrities who enjoy their privacy as well as their own taste in decor. So, what do you get for $27.5 million?
The property itself was designed by Martyn Lawrence Bullard and is ultimately a showcase of the Hilfiger couples extensive artwork collection. Even the quickest glance at images of the estate will show you that it is inspired by the 60s and 70s psychedelic colours and eye-catching artwork. The fact it also has seven bedrooms perfectly illustrates the size of this multimillion dollar mansion but there is more to this property!
When you bear in mind how much property costs in this area, and it's vicinity to the sea, can you imagine a property just 100 feet from the sea? The official brochure promoting the property also confirms that one of the bathrooms has a "scratch and sniff" wallpaper although exactly what aroma this releases is unknown.
It is difficult to know where to start because many of the images in the brochure do actually seem like portrait pictures. The attention to detail and the colours are very different in each room and while who would have thought that a green sofa would go with a wooden floor together with surfboards on the roof? Yes, this is the sea front room leaving you literally just a hop skip and a jump from the sand.
There is a very ornate dining room with a psychedelic black-and-white floor, long silver table and red padded chairs. While in normal circumstances the crystal chandelier might look out of place, everything is so different in this room that it actually all goes together. The designer must have spent hours on each individual room because the attention to detail and the contrasts are amazing.
One of the restroom is well what can we say, psychedelic! The walls and the ceiling are adorned with blue-and-white triangles and multisided shapes which are contrasted by the rainbow artwork on the wall. The fairly benign cream sofa offers yet another contrast and the designer tables and chairs finish off this particular room. There is so much colour, so much happening that it can be difficult to give a real impression of the room.
Moving into the main living area this is dominated by a mirrored ceiling, psychedelic carpet and an array of seating around the outside of the room. The artwork is perfectly positioned taking centre stage in the room which offers both a colourful yet extremely spacious experience. There seems to be a "yellow design" going on in one of the bedrooms and we can only assume adjoining bathroom. This is different, this is eye-catching and this does seem to be a trend right through this Hilfiger house!
Will the asking price be achieved in full?
While we have only touched on the immense attention to detail right through this house it will be interesting to see whether the $27.5 million asking price is achieved in full. What we do know is that the buyer will certainly have a colourful, eye-catching and extremely well-designed property.


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