TK Parker has announced he will be managing a new Tag Team Sept 24 but has yet to announce who they are. When Parker was asked he said 'They Are going to be the Biggest thing to hit UCW in a while, almost as big as an event as when i won the Heavyweight title'. TK refuses to say who is in the team 'You will just have to come and see' Parker Said.
As UCW ventures into its 15th Year, New avenues have arisen. Over the Past 2 months we have been Working Hard on Infrastructure to support our New Direction. With this comes new Sponsors, New Investors and a New Attitude. On Sept 24 UCW will announce 2 new hires as support staff that have a combined 45 years of experience with the WWE from in ring to Production to Marketing.
TK Parker had a few words to say this weekend to Dave DuPonte; which included some very interesting notes on a couple ECW originals!
Click below to hear what he had to say!
Tickets have gone on sale for the next UCW Live Event, Saturday, April 9, 2016!
Tickets are available at Fresh Tix HERE.


Another week, another bunch of outfits! Discover what I wore for a trip to Ikea, Copenhagen city and a flea market in Antwerp.
Coffee & cake at Butchers Coffee, Antwerp. Omnomnom.
My 10 favourite Antwerp hotspots!
Brunch & coffee at Charlie's – so good I forgot to take a picture of the full table. Life happens, you know 😉 Happy Friday!
At one of Berchem's finest places, Walvis. Have a lovely weekend!
This was SO good. Head over to Walvis in Antwerp for a delicious Sunday brunch!
Yup, Tinsel is still my number one breakfast spot in Antwerp! This homemade porridge with blueberries, banana, pumpkin seeds, maple syrup and so much more is a favourite of mine. Omnomnom!
Hope you're having a relaxed Saturday too! And if you're not familiar with Bar Vert yet, you should go and check it out. Maybe I should write a little hotspot piece about it?
Fridays at Tinsel are the best. Have a lovely weekend!


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The William B. Carlin Trust Transfers Five Major Works of Art to Weir Farm National Historical Park
Published on Tuesday, 29 November 2022 11:22
Weir Farm National Historical Park (NHP) located at 735 Nod Hill in Wilton and in Ridgefield, are the proud recipients of five important works of art created by the Impressionist painter, Julian Alden Weir: Portrait of a Lady (Anna Dwight Weir in White), The Open Barway, Foggy Morning or Sunrise in Fog, Branchville, Connecticut Birches, and Ella Sewing.
Weir Farm announced the news over the weekend via social media.
The paintings were passed down from the artist and his descendants and ultimately transferred to Weir Farm National Historical Park by the William B. Carlin Trust in cooperation with the William B. Carlin family and the Weir Farm Art Alliance, Weir Farm explains.
"By its participation in the transfer of these artworks, the Weir Farm Art Alliance wishes to honor the memory of the late Charles Burlingham, the Alliance's longtime president and grandson of the artist."
Weir Farm beckons you to visit the home and studio of America's most beloved Impressionist, J. Alden Weir, and walk in the footsteps of generations of world-class artists. Weir Farm boasts 60 acres of beautiful woods and walkways and is a national legacy to American Impressionism, the creative spirit, and the historic preservation of the legacy of Julian Alden Weir.

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03 Jan 2011 209 blogs, opinion
There may be some hiccups in the December, 2010 District Assembly (DA) elections, a key face of Ghana's 23-year-old decentralization exercises, but the programme reflects the grand attempts to let Ghanaians take profound hold of their progress from within themselves and not imposed on them from the Big Men in Accra. This is to cut-down the historical Leviathan central government that unrealistically dictates to the average Ghanaians' progress and let Ghanaians have the ultimate say about what they actually need in the face of competing priorities. This is against the set of backward social infrastructure. In some parts of Ghana children still hold classes under trees. Despite this, Accra don't get it and still closely controls the DAs that make the effectiveness of people taking hold of their advancement weak. The idea that "all by-laws are approved by the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development … The President has the power to dissolve defaulting or non-performing DAs without consulting the electorate …The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development has power to issue guidelines, in respect of fees to be charged by the DAs for the service and facilities provided, licenses and permits issued or rates levied by DAs" make local voices minimal in their very affairs that are to affect their well-being. This make the decentralization project still encircled in autocracy and yet to have full traditional Ghanaian cultural accoutrements weaved into it as deeply as practicable. While the decentralization programme was born under military dictatorship and quasi-one party autocratic system, the ensuing never-ending schisms facing the programme, 23 years after its birth, shows it is yet to have a deep democratic face, where local Ghanaians actually drive the programme themselves for their well-being against their competing priorities. I saw this first-hand in September when I was staying off the T-junction at Mile 7, New Achimota, in the Greater Accra Region. My observations there are symptomatic of the challenges of the decentralization exercises Ghana-wide. A week before my T-junction abode, I read an article by Joe Klein in the USA-based Time magazine entitled How Can a Democracy Solve Tough Problems? to consider in relation to Africa's development. Joe Klein is concerned about how complex decision-making has become in the United States. The central concerns are how "credible" and "conclusive" are Americans taking hold of their development process against the impasse of gridlock. The solution: Klein found one among the ancient Athenians, using the work of Stanford University Professor James Fishkin. The Athenians called it kleroterion. It worked by randomly picking people (mostly males) everyday and delegating them to make major decisions that affect their well-being. The Chinese coastal district of Zeguo (pop. 120,000) has adopted and improved upon the kleroterion. Yearly, 175 people of Zeguo are randomly selected to reflect its population. "They are polled once on the major decisions they'll be facing. Then they are given a briefing on those issues, prepared by experts with conflicting views. Then they meet in small groups and come up with questions for the experts - issues they want further clarified. Then they meet together in plenary session to listen to the experts' response and have a more general discussion. "The process of small meetings and plenary is repeated once more. A final poll is taken, and the budget priorities of the assembly are made known and adopted by the local government. It takes three days to do this," explained Joe Klein. Over the last 5 years the process has grown remarkably: "from a deliberation over public works (new sewage-treatment plants were favored over road-building) to the whole budget shebang .. By most accounts it has succeeded brilliantly, even though the participants are not very sophisticated: 60% are farmers. The Chinese government is moving toward expanding it into other districts." I had the kleroterion in mind when I observed the development process at T-junction. Where I was staying, the road is unasphalted. This has made the beautiful modern houses in the area dusty as vehicles ply the road and blow dust all around. I asked residents about the road and they told me it has "no name" and "the houses have no addresses." Most of the schools are full, most rotate the children from mornings to afternoons to evenings; despite this some children in the area cannot get access to education. The electricity is erratic and this has affected businesses in the area. Water is a big issue at the T-junction area. The normal, official water system runs through the pipes only three days per week, sometimes nothing comes. Most times the water isn't drinkable. People use it to wash clothes and for other domestic chores. People drink from bottled water and ones in sachets. Each day, early in the morning, I saw people carrying big buckets, moving back-and-forth, to buy water up the road. Sometimes the water sellers may not be around and the residents have to wait painfully for hours. At the T-junction area, the dirty gutters are choked with rubbish dumped in them over months and the ensuing rot brewing menacing mosquitoes. People get whacks of malaria often, some dies as a result. This has made malaria tablets fast sell at the T-junction area. In front of a house, there is a toilet erected beside the road that spews terrible odor. In the night, the street lights are dim, in some places there are no street lights. The darkness creates perfect cover for criminal activities. Over night, Spiritual Churches and Mosques create unbearable noise from their God businesses. As the District Assembly elections are announced, there is a bridge being hurriedly re-built in the rainy season that has created huge crater, floods and misery for the residents. Twice, I saw a teenage girl and a middle aged women fall into the big cavern by accident as they try to cross over the plank mounted over the vast gutter. Once I went to see off some visitors, on my return home a drunk driver, perhaps coming from a Ramadan party, sped pass the road leading to the unfinished bridge and run into the massive gutter created by the re-construction. A horrible scene, there was pandemonium at the T-junction area as the good people fall over each other to help the poor driver. At the T-junction area, the builders of the bridge being re-constructed had misguidedly cut-off the Internet cable that transmits Internet interchange, and for almost two weeks Internet access was off at the T-junction area. I asked Linda (she gives me only her first name), a convenient store operator around the opposite my dwelling, who the Assembly Member of the area is. "I don't know him … I have never seen him … I don't even know his name … He doesn't come here … I understand he comes here when elections are coming, that's every two years or every four years … We don't have deliberations with our Assembly Member and our Member of Parliament about our development concerns so most of the problems have been there for years." Linda and most of the courteous people I spoke to are smart and know from first-hand the development challenges facing them at the T-junction area. It is as simple as that. There are no complications. The Mile 7's T-junction development dilemma reveals the lack of "deliberative democracy" in Ghana's 18-year democracy despite all the ingredients, especially the traditional institutions and values, there to be appropriated for progress. "The public is very smart if you give it a chance," Prof. Fishkin told Joe Klein. Prof. Fishkin has been conducting experiments on "deliberative democracy" in a number of countries that gives local people actual hold of their development concerns. "If people think their voice actually matters, they'll do the hard work, ask the experts smart questions and then make tough decisions. When they hear the experts disagreeing, they're forced to think for themselves." According to Joe Klein, "In Texas, he ran a deliberative-democracy process for a consortium of utilities, from 1996 to 2007, which gradually transformed the state from last to first in the use of wind power." "Over that time, the percentage of people — and these were stakeholders, utility customers - willing to pay more for wind went from 54% to 84%," Prof. Fishkin says. The kleroterion scheme, as a way of un-entangling the clogs in the development process, is being discussed in South Africa as a way of making people get firmer grip their development. Bert Olivier, professor of philosophy at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, thinks the kleroterion method is ripe for South Africa in the face of arrogant Big Men from the center ordering those in the periphery around. Writing in the Mail & Guardian Online, entitled People are tired of the elites telling them what to do, Prof. Olivier said he was reminded, after reading Joe Klein's piece, of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Multitude (2004), that explains what they described as the "crisis of representation" in democracies. "What they mean by such a "crisis," has to do with the fact that democracies in today's world are so populous that any kind of "direct" democracy, where people "represent themselves," seems to be out of the question, and hence it is taken for granted that "representative democracy" is the only viable option. Such representation, they argue, falls woefully short of the democratic ideal of "government of the people, by the people," or "government from the bottom up," as it were. Instead one finds that, at every level of "representation" - local, regional, national and international - the "people" are never truly represented." New Achimota's T-junction's Linda, like most Ghanaians hungry for progress, will agree with Bert Olivier. In a situation where "representatives" are likely to be loyal either to the main opposition National Patriotic Party or the ruling National Democratic Congress "interests or policy, or worse, milk the system for their own material benefit, with scant thought of the poor constituents that they supposedly "represent," as Bert Olivier argues, the kleroterion, mixed with traditional Ghanaian values, would resolve some of the inadequacies in representative democracy and Ghana's development process. In the real Ghana, most of the challenges facing the decentralization programme that emanates from the "crisis of representation" would be solved if traditional values are skillfully coupled to the decentralization processes. Kwamena Ahwoi, Ghana's leading light on its decentralization programme, has proposed that the power given to the President of Ghana to make 30 percent appointments to the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies, under the decentralization programme, should relatively be given to traditional rulers. Why? Against the backdrop that the assembly model is supposed to be non-partisan, Ahwoi's argument, partially a reflection of the kleroterion, is that the traditional chiefs are non-partisan, live with the people in the communities, and "know the competent ones" who could drive the decentralization programme. But the President, a party member, according to Ahwoi, "is likely to be influenced by political interest to appoint his party members who might not be qualified enough" for the decentralization jobs. The Athenian kleroterion via deliberative democracy is no more or less different from the Ghanaian/African traditional systems, especially if worked out from the traditional structures and local development challenges. As Paul Evans Aidoo, the Western Regional Minister, would say, if this could be done (the traditional, the democracy and the kleroterion appropriated proportionally), the deepening of local level deliberative democracy would have been rationalized. This would strengthen the decentralization exercises for the larger progress of Ghanaians.
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Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (2016-present)
Culturally Diverse Environmental Engagement (SOWK 402)
Large Client Systems (SOWK 402), Ande Nesmith, Social Work
The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) seeks to more effectively engage culturally diverse residents in promoting water quality through programs that resonate with and are beneficial to residents in their daily lives. Students in Large Client Systems will create a logic model to guide MWMO's outreach with culturally diverse populations that both benefits the community and advances MWMO's mission of promoting water quality. MWMO will identify the community (or communities, depending on number of students) to create a targeted logic model for cultural engagement.
Project Overview Poster
Final products: Report and Logic model
Examining Land Use Scenarios for Vacant Lots (ESCI 310)
Environmental Problem Solving (ESCI 310), Chip Small
Students will examine the effects of various land use scenarios on stormwater runoff and pollinator habitat connectivity. Specifically, students will examine possible effects of the conversion of vacant lots in North Minneapolis to alternative uses (e.g., urban agriculture, pollinator habitat, raingardens, or a combination of uses) on stormwater runoff rates. Students will also examine optimal and minimum spatial distances between pollinator gardens. Finally, students will explore co-benefit scenarios for combinations of different land use practices. Students' analysis will be used to inform the targeted selection of locations for these alternative land uses and to provide justification for the conversion of vacant lots to alternative uses within MWMO's management boundaries.
From the SCP Blog: Converting Vacant Lots to Urban Agriculture Plots; From Vacant Lots to Pollinator Gardens
Final project reports: Stormwater Runoff Benefits of Urban Agriculture; Prioritizing Spatial Configuration of Pollinator Gardens to Increase Pollinator Biodiversity Within the Greater Minneapolis Area
Stormwater Best Management Practices Curriculum Units (TEGR 528 & EDUC 327)
Engineering in the P-12 Classroom (TEGR 528 and EDUC 327), Deb Besser, Center for Engineering Education, and Debbie Monson, Teacher Education
The Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization's (MWMO) education and outreach program seeks to "provide information, services and products to promote responsible stewardship of water and natural resources by the watershed community." As part of this goal, MWMO would like to develop curriculum units for stormwater management best management practices (BMPs) that can be shared with both formal and informal educators. Currently, MWMO shares general resources with educators (e.g., resources from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources or the U.S. Geological Survey), but MWMO does not have the capacity to develop curriculum units for specific BMPs in their watershed.
Students in Engineering in the P-12 Classroom will be invited to develop engineering design curriculum units for BMPs in MWMO's watershed boundaries. Curriculum resources tailored to stormwater management BMPs that are installed on sites within MWMO's boundaries may increase and facilitate educators' and the public's engagement with these sites and practices. Curriculum units that educators can use at specific sites in the watershed would also support the goal of place-based education.
Project film
Urban Agriculture Ethnography Project (GENG 672)
Ethnographic Writing (GENG 672), Todd Lawrence
The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization seeks to understand why and how residents within their watershed engage in urban agriculture, including motivations, barriers, and benefits, in order to more effectively engage other residents in urban agriculture. MWMO's overarching goal is to improve water quality by reducing the volume and speed of stormwater runoff. Urban agricultural practices may reduce the volume and speed of stormwater runoff by changing compacted soils that cannot infilitrate water to healthier soils that can absorb stormwater.
Students will investigate engagement in urban agriculture through ethnographic research with residents of North Minneapolis. Based on this research, students will create narratives of residents' stories of engagement with urban agriculture. In the process of writing these ethnographies, students will explore themes about motivations for and meanings of engaging in urban agriculture as well as barriers residents experience. This study will provide rich, qualitative data upon which a further study examining motivations to engage in urban agriculture can be developed and messages to encourage residents' engagement in urban agriculture can be built.
From the SCP Blog: Urban Agriculture in North Minneapolis
Sample ethnography: Visual Ethnography for Kids
Mississippi River Corridor Habitat Assessment (ESCI 430)
Environmental Science Senior Research Seminar (ESCI 430), Lisa Lamb and Sami Nichols
The Mississippi River corridor is an ecosystem of connected natural and urban habitats, which provides benefits to both wildlife and humans. The "Above the Falls" stretch of the Mississippi River shoreline has historically been industrial, but the Mississippi River Management Organization (MWMO), the Mississippi Riverfront Partnership (MRP), and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) would like to restore this area to provide habitat connectivity along the river corridor. Property ownership complicates this goal; property along this stretch of the river has multiple owners and uses (e.g., residential, industrial, parks, vacant Brownfields). "Postage-stamp" parks have been created along this stretch, as the MPRB and partners purchase land along the river in a piecemeal fashion, when available.
To achieve restoration goals in this context, the corridor as a whole needs to be assessed for wildlife function. For example: What wildlife species are currently present? What is a meaningful corridor (size/length) to maximize wildlife habitat and to provide habitat conveyance? Finally, the complexity of property ownership and public access needs to be considered. How can the corridor be restored considering the current context of multiple property owners along the river? How can restoration goals be achieved while still providing an accessible riverfront for the public?
From the SCP Blog: Mississippi River Corridor Habitat Assessment
Final Report: Habitat Requirements and Spatial Planning for Urban Wildlife
Organizational Communication with Volunteers (COJO 320)
Organizational Communication (COJO 320), Xiaowen Guan
The Freshwater Society's (FWS) Master Water Stewards program (MWS) develops, certifies, and supports community volunteer leaders to manage stormwater at a neighborhood scale to improve water quality. FWS is wrapping up the third year of its partnership with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and is preparing to expand the MWS program to seven watershed districts and one city in the coming year, including the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization. To support this expansion, FWS would like to develop a set of recommended communication practices for its new partners to use to develop and maintain engaged, interested, and involved water stewards after they have completed their certification. Students will examine how FWS has set up communication with MWS volunteers to identify and analyze what works well and what can be improved to develop and maintain engaged, interested, and involved water stewards after they have completed their certification. Based on this research, they will create a set of recommended communication practices or blueprint for communication for new local government unit partners to develop and maintain engaged, interested, and involved water stewards.
Final report: Volunteer Retention in the Master Water Stewards Program
Public Media for the Master Water Stewards (ENGL 304)
Analytic and Persuasive Writing (ENGL 304), Lucia Pawlowski
The Freshwater Society's (FWS) Master Water Stewards (MWS) program develops, certifies, and supports community volunteer leaders to manage stormwater at a neighborhood scale to improve water quality. FWS is wrapping up the third year of its MWS pilot partnership with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and is preparing to expand the MWS program to seven watershed districts and one city in the coming year, including the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO). To support the expansion of the program, FWS would like to increase the public visibility of the program to recruit future MWS participants and to share stories of current MWS projects and activities. Students in Analytical and Persuasive writing will create different media to help achieve this goal, including live tweets of watershed tours and narratives of Master Water Stewards' journeys from "0-10" in their understanding of watersheds.
Student Narratives: How I Came to Understand FWS; Three Keys of Becoming a Sustainable Water Consumer; Communication is Key to Protecting Minnesota Waters; What Can I Do?
River Stories Exhibit: The Mississippi River and Ideas of Sanctuary (ENGL 121)
Critical Thinking: Lit/Writing (ENGL 121), Michael Raimondi
The Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization's (MWMO) education and outreach program seeks to "provide information, services and products to promote responsible stewardship of water and natural resources by the watershed community." As part of this goal, the MWMO seeks to promote community connections with and understanding of the Mississippi River system. The MWMO's building serves as a learning center. In addition to permanent installations of stormwater best management practices and green infrastructure that promote water quality, the building has an exhibit space where they host art/writing installations about water and the river. Exhibits are created by local artists with the goal of fostering community connections with and understandings of the river and to engage the community in actions to promote river health.
English 121 students, in partnership with 6th grade students from College Prep Elementary, Saint Paul, will create an interactive exhibit (e.g., written pieces or other forms of artwork) that engage people around the concepts of river stories and sanctuary. College and elementary students will present their exhibit to family and friends at the MWMO to advance the MWMO's goal of engaging people from diverse communities with the Mississippi River and fostering deeper understandings of and connections with the river.
Designing Stormwater Management and Water Quality Surveys (PSYC 313)
Psychological Testing (PSYC 313), Tonia Bock
The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) would like to better understand attitudes and perceptions about stormwater management practices and water quality of the Mississippi River in general. Students in Psychological Testing will design, create, and gather evidence of the validity of a new survey that addresses a specific question related to these general topics. Students will be provided with example survey topics; they may choose from these topics or seek to create their own topic within the MWMO's general issues of interest. This is an optional project topic for their lab work to create a survey and assess its validity.
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Discovering people's attitudes about issues like water quality, stormwater management and the environment generally is a persistent need and challenge for the MWMO. The surveys designed by these students offer a blueprint for future research into these areas. The MWMO is looking at doing a survey in the near future about business owners' attitudes about stormwater BMPs, and will design this and other future surveys with the students' insights in mind. MWMO may also use the surveys about environmental attitudes with some of their outreach groups in an effort to gauge the attitudes of audiences like Master Water Stewards, grant recipients and other key audiences.
The Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization's (MWMO) education and outreach program seeks to "provide information, services and products to promote responsible stewardship of water and natural resources by the watershed community." As part of this goal, MWMO would like to develop curriculum units for stormwater management best management practices (BMPs) that can be shared with both formal and informal educators. Currently, MWMO shares general resources with educators (e.g., resources from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources or the U.S. Geological Survey), but MWMO does not have the capacity to develop curriculum units for specific BMPs in their watershed. Students in Engineering in the P-12 Classroom will be invited to develop engineering design curriculum units for BMPs in MWMO's watershed boundaries. Curriculum resources tailored to stormwater management BMPs that are installed on sites within MWMO's boundaries may increase and facilitate educators' and the public's engagement with these sites and practices. Curriculum units that educators can use at specific sites in the watershed would also support the goal of place-based education.
Evaluating Stormwater Management Graphics (COJO 372)
Environmental Communication (COJO 372), Mark Neuzil
The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) has a library of graphics for stormwater best management practices. The MWMO uses these graphics on signs, flyers, and other communication materials for the public; these communication materials seek to engage the public in implementing stormwater best management practices to promote infiltration of water into the ground and prevent runoff to the Mississippi River. Other watershed districts in the area are interested in collaborating with the MWMO to use this set of graphics across watershed districts so that they will become more recognizable to the public and so that watershed districts can build momentum around them. However, before the MWMO proceeds with this collaborative effort, the MWMO would like to assess whether the graphics are effective in achieving their desired responses/goals in different communication settings. Students in Environmental Communication will evaluate these graphics with respect to the MWMO's goals and provide their analysis and feedback to the MWMO to inform their work.
MWMO staff met in May 2017 to review and discuss the focus group's comments. The students' feedback provided insights that challenged the level of confidence MWMO had in some of the symbols they had been using. It also gave MWMO a roadmap for improving those images and bringing a higher level of consistency to their iconography. MWMO plans to do additional research with other audiences and ultimately redesigning several of the icons.
Questions about SCP?
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Office of Sustainability Initiatives 2115 Summit Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA 1 (651) 962 6391 medahmus@stthomas.edu


Q. For all three of you, you guys have been playing great defense all year, including the two games here. When it did that become a point of pride for you guys to play defense that way?
JORDAN POOLE: Me personally when I got on campus they made a major emphasis on defense, Coach Ya came in and I think that's what turned everybody around, everybody brought in and guys from last year on the team still and bringing it to the team this year is something that we have bought into and something we pride ourselves on.
Q. I don't know how many times Florida players had good looks to the basket and they significantly altered their shot or passed it out. How nice is that?
CHARLES MATTHEWS: It's huge, and last year we had Mo and he wasn't blocking those shots. He will tell you that, I'm not Blake Griffin, bro! Just having him down that helps us to pressure the ball and we know if we make mistakes, he's behind us and can cover it up.
Q. They came out, hit six threes in the first half and then shot 3 of 14, 21% in the second half. What changed defensively? Did you smell blood in the water? What happened?
JON TESKE: They got a couple of easy looks. Couple of ball screens thrown over the top. We were just trying to shut that water off. Six threes in the first half is a lot for us. We only give up two or three a game and we don't let that happen.
Q. Jordan, last year in the second round you had that game winner against Houston, this year 19 points. What is it about the second round? Were you thinking about that going into the game?
JORDAN POOLE: I'm just excited to go to California. Being in the position where we win this game we went to LA last year and now I think we go to Anaheim, I think that was really about it.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, gentlemen. Questions for Coach?
Q. Coach, perhaps just your perspective on the difference in defense in the second half, especially 5 and a half minutes without them scoring a point at a point where it had gotten down to 7. Anything change? Intensity? What?
JOHN BEILEIN: They have three guys on their team that we talk about they can get their own jump shot. We have a guy in our league. Carsen Edwards at Purdue is like that. They have three of them. They're so quick and what happened is they were on running great ball screen action and we only had a single tag and it was so high we kept missing it and gave them really good shots. That was a big difference, gave them really good shots.
Q. Coach, they all three said "shut the water off" talk about that. Is that something you guys talk about or did they make it up on the fly?
JOHN BEILEIN: I think we mentioned it, but it's not a catch phrase with us. But it is something that we're really proud of, our defensive numbers and there is all the analytics out there, but I think we're one of the very top 10 in the country if not 1 or 2 in DER, et cetera. Charles and Zavier, Jon protects the rim, Charles and Zavier are "on" guys. Iggy and Jordan are growing defensively. It's not just the coaches. Those two are on them all the time to make sure they buy into this idea, you can win scoring 64 points, right? If you hold them to 49.
JOHN BEILEIN: There is no question. Charles came off and gave up a three. He was so upset with himself. Andrew Nembhard hit the 3 behind that scene he should have never gone behind that screen and he was upset with himself and he was telling everybody we can't give them anymore threes and they didn't get too many open ones.
Q. John, playing defense the way you have not just in the tournament but over the whole season obviously takes buy-in from the players. Did you have to do a sales job to get them to play this way? Or was it easier than that?
JOHN BEILEIN: I think our 33 wins last year was the sales job. They knew it, right? We had a team with veteran players, Muhammad-Ali was a really good defender and Duncan Robinson became a good defender. People used to pick on early and he got so smart with his defense and they saw it firsthand that that a team could beat really good teams last year, really good teams, with defense.
Q. Obviously you build the season to peak for these moments these couple of weeks. Assess the performance of these first two rounds. The scoreboard and everything would say that it may be went close to script. Would you agree with that?
JOHN BEILEIN: You guys are scripting it. I'm not. I thought Montana was a terrible match-up for us. I think they had all those shooters. They were all over the place. We continue to, but that's how I think all the time. I'm always thinking what could happen in this game.
Q. Coach, you talked about that 1-3-1. It seemed in the first half you got good looks, shots just didn't fall. Did you do something differently in the second half?
JOHN BEILEIN: I thought the looks were good, but they were a little deep. We settled. Maybe we could have got, we have some guys that have the dog fences on there. They get to the NBA line and they stop instead of shooting no further than they needed top. But we changed just the geometry of our approach and changed it several times just to keep giving them different looks and we discovered during that time when we went to spot A or B they went man-to-man. This helped us out. The first half had we saw it three possessions all year and saw it 10 in the first half. It was really the secret to our success at West Virginia in particular because nobody sees it that played that way.
I see Beilein put on some dry clothes.
Loved it at about the 3:00 mark when Poole and Teske were giggling and Matthews just looked at them and shook his head like "What is WRONG with you children?".


Are you a serious Minecraft fan? Come to the ACL to meet other players, discuss your favorite mods and tricks, and play together on a private server.
To play on the server you will need to bring your own laptop and have aMinecraft account. Those without computers are still welcome to hang out, check out the ACL's new Minecraft books, and play pocket edition on their mobile device.


Sweden-based Lundin Petroleum's wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway has begun drilling of the first development well on the Brynhild field in PL148, located in the Norwegian North Sea.
The Brynhild field is situated about 210km from the Norwegian mainland.
The field is estimated to contain gross reserves of around 23 million barrels of oil equivalent, while gross peak production is almost 12,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
Hydrocarbons produced from the field will be processed at the Haewene Brim floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel before being offloaded for further transportation.
Lundin Norway has plans to drill four development wells to develop the field with a subsea tie-back to the Haewene Brim FPSO vessel situated at the Shell Pierce development in the UK sector of the North Sea, about 38km south of the field.
The wells will be drilled using jack-up rig Maersk Guardian, while drilling operations are expected to continue until the second quarter of 2014.
First production from the Brynhild field is expected in final quarter of 2013.
Lundin Petroleum has a 90% working interest in the Brynhild field and is the operator, while Talisman Energy is the partner with the remaining 10% interest.


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Design With a Purpose: Catch & Release Opens in Lower Manhattan
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By PrintMagPosted January 10, 2014 ∙ 3 min. read
By: Zachary Petit | January 10, 2014
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy fell upon the South Street Seaport neighborhood in lower Manhattan, bringing with it a destructive 7-foot wall of water. Apartments were devastated. Shops, bars and restaurants ruined. The community at large—one of the worst-hit areas of New York—was battered.
And now, alongside the other ongoing projects in the area, AIGA/NY is launching a new design installation this weekend to help rebuild in its own way. "Catch — & — Release" is part of the organization's Design/Relief initiative established to support areas hit hardest by the storm.
All images courtesy of AIGA/NY Design/Relief-Seaport
In a vacant space under the FDR at John Street, the installation (which runs through Feb. 2, and is backed by an innovation grant from ArtPlace America) invites visitors to come together and share thank-you notes in a conceptual and visually stunning design for those who impacted their lives following the storm.
"Catch — & — Release aims to capture, make visible and celebrate the resilient spirit and agency of the South Street Seaport community," program director Laetitia Wolff says. "We hope [it] helps the Seaport community imagine a shared vision for its future while celebrating its roots—cultural, historical, social, architectural, etc.—in ways that can make this place a more attractive, vibrant, desirable destination."
After visitors pen their notes, the thank-yous are hooked—"caught"—and suspended in the air on a system of pulleys—a design inspired by the area's deep maritime roots. As more notes are added, the cords will link and cross within the installation, which Wolff says will create a dynamic illustration of people's connections to one another. The team also plans to set up a camera to document the changing space, and the associated concept of positive evolution.
"As messages accumulate, this installation will become a visible symbol of the unity, shared visions and social network of the South Street Seaport community," explains Yeju Choi, the project's lead designer.
Alongside the physical thank-you note system, Wolff adds that the project will blossom digitally when the team collects data to "visualize the connections that were made during the efforts post Sandy," and plots them onto online maps.
Moreover, the installation represents only the dialogue-centric "Catch" phase of the project—"Release" will follow. Wolff says the collected stories and testimonials will inform the next phase of design and engagement.
Overall, "We hope to demonstrate design's potential in defining and expanding creative place-making to positively transform communities, reinvigorate and re-establish their sense of place and identity, one site at a time," she says of Design/Relief. "We truly hope that the trust we've gained over the past three months with local community organizations will build into a better understanding of design's capacity to respond to community needs."
Catch — & — Release was developed by Yeju Choi (designer), with Francesca Birks and Josh Treuhaft / ARUP (community engagement strategists), and Cristian Fleming and Stephanie Lukito / THE PUBLIC SOCIETY (storytellers). This installation was built by Yeju Choi, with Chat Travieso, Heechan Kim and Chris Fox.
The opening party is set for 2–6 p.m., Jan. 11. Opening remarks and presentation are scheduled for 3 p.m. The installation will be open regularly 11 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday to Saturday.
The Design/Relief Creative Placemaking Winter Roundup will also be held 6:30–8:30 Jan. 14 at the Theresa Lang Auditorium – Parsons. The event is free for AIGA members, and $5 for nonmembers.
For a roundup of other proactive community-baseddesign projects—and how you might start your own—check out HOW's Changing the World With Design: Inspiration and How-to Advice for Design Activism.
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Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière  (, 12 September 1725 – 22 October 1792) was a French astronomer who discovered several nebulae and was appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences. He made unsuccessful attempts to observe the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus from India.

Biography
Guillaume Le Gentil was born in Coutances and first intended to enter the church before turning to astronomy. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).

He was part of the international collaborative project organized by Mikhail Lomonosov to measure the distance to the Sun, by observing the transit of Venus at different points on the earth.
Edmond Halley had suggested the idea, but it required careful measurements from different places on earth, and the project was launched with more than a hundred observers dispatched to different parts of the globe, for observing the transit coming up in 1761. A part of the French expedition, Le Gentil set out for Pondicherry, a French possession in India. He set out from Paris in March 1760, and reached Isle de France (now Mauritius) in July. However, the Seven Years' War had broken out between France and Britain in the meantime, hindering further passage east. He finally managed to gain passage on a frigate that was bound for India's Coromandel Coast, and he sailed in March 1761 with the intention of observing the transit from Pondicherry. Even though the transit was only a few months away, on 6 June, he was assured that they would make it in time.

The ship was blown off-course by unfavorable winds and spent five weeks at sea. By the time it finally got close to Pondicherry, the captain learned that the British had occupied the city, so the frigate was obliged to return to Isle de France. When 6 June came the sky was clear, but the ship was still at sea, and he could not take astronomical observations with the vessel rolling about. Having already completed the trip from Paris, he stayed for the next transit of Venus, which would come in another eight years (they occur in pairs 8 years apart, but each such pair is separated from the next by 121 or 105 years).

After spending some time mapping the eastern coast of Madagascar, he decided to record the 1769 transit from Manila in the Philippines. Encountering hostility from the Spanish authorities there, he headed back to Pondicherry, which had been restored to France by peace treaty in 1763, where he arrived in March 1768. He built a small observatory to view the transit. On the day of the event, 4 June 1769, the sky became overcast, and Le Gentil saw nothing.

The return trip was first delayed by dysentery, and further when his ship was caught in a storm and dropped him off at Île Bourbon (Réunion), where he had to wait until a Spanish ship took him home. He finally arrived in Paris in October 1771, having been away for eleven years, only to find that he had been declared legally dead and been replaced in the Royal Academy of Sciences. His wife had remarried, and all his relatives had "enthusiastically plundered his estate". Due to shipwrecks and wartime attacks on ships, none of the letters he had sent to the Academy or to his relatives had reached their destinations. Lengthy litigation and the intervention of the king were ultimately required before he recovered his seat in the academy and remarried.

During the time he spent in India, Le Gentil examined local astronomical traditions and wrote several notes on the topic. He reported that the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 was predicted by a Tamil astronomer, based on the computation of the size and extent of the earth-shadow (going back to Aryabhata, 5th century), and was found short by 41 seconds, whereas the charts of Tobias Mayer were wrong by 68 seconds.

He died in Paris in 1792.

Play and opera
Le Gentil is the subject of a play by Canadian playwright Maureen Hunter. Transit of Venus was first produced at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1992. It was subsequently made into an opera of the same name with music by Victor Davies, presented by Manitoba Opera in 2007, and Opera Carolina in 2010.

Tributes
Boulevard Legentil-de-la-Galaisière, one of the main streets in his home town Coutances, was named after him in 1866. Le Gentil crater on the Moon was named in his honour in 1935, and asteroid 12718 Le Gentil in 2004.

Further reading
A detailed account of Le Gentil's expedition was published in a series of four articles by Helen Sawyer Hogg
Le Gentil's own account was published in Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, fait par ordre du Roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque du Soleil, le 6 juin 1761 & le 3 du même mois 1769 par M. Le Gentil, de l'académie royale des sciences. Imprimé par ordre de sa Majesté, two volumes, Paris 1779 and 1781.

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References

External links
 Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde. Tome 1 Tome 2

People from Manche
18th-century French astronomers
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Transit of Venus
1725 births
1792 deaths

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Santos, Lira win in HISD runoff; Stallworth captures HCC board seat
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Educators Santos, Lira capture seats; Stallworth on HCC
Jacob Carpenter Dec. 9, 2017 Updated: Dec. 9, 2017 10:13 p.m.
Two current educators, Elizabeth Santos and Sergio Lira, won seats on the Houston ISD school board, according to preliminary results from Saturday's runoff election.
Voters also chose Pretta VanDible Stallworth, a business consultant and adjunct professor, to fill the final seat on the Houston Community College board, based on the unofficial results.
With the elections of Santos and Lira, who didn't face incumbents, the Houston ISD board will have three new faces next year as the district stares down major academic and financial challenges.
The board will be tasked with helping the district avoid state intervention due to a handful of chronically failing schools, navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and crafting a budget in the face of dwindling state aid.
Their victories also mean six of the district's board members will have experience teaching in primary or secondary school classrooms — a point of emphasis for both candidates.
Santos, an English literature teacher at Northside High School, appeared to cruise to victory over Gretchen Himsl, a policy analyst for Children at Risk, an education and child-welfare advocacy nonprofit. She would represent District I on Houston's northwest and north sides.
Santos campaigned on allocating more funding for teachers and classroom instruction, emphasizing the community schools model and offering a diverse voice from the district's east side, which is largely Latino. The 35-year-old Houston ISD schools graduate had the endorsement and financial backing of the largest national and local teachers unions.
"It's been incredibly special to me, to be able to really anchor myself inside the community," Santos said. "Not everyone has had their voice heard in this district, and to be able to have that voice, that's one thing I'm absolutely hopeful and excited about."
In November's three-candidate general election for District I, Santos earned 45 percent of the vote, with Himsl receiving 34 percent.
Lira, an assistant principal at Bellaire High School, looked to score a come-from-behind victory Saturday after finishing in second in the general election for District III, which represents the district's southeast side. Challenger Jesse Rodriguez earned 40 percent of the general election vote to Lira's 34 percent.
Lira, 56, emphasized his experience as an educator on the campaign trail, contrasting it Rodriguez, a customer care manager and volunteer radio host. With the win, Lira says he will resign from his job.
"I have an exuberant feeling, like when you finish a marathon," Lira said. "The difference this time was that we were a lot more prepared, had a lot more support and had a lot more volunteers."
The District III seat opened up following the death of former trustee Manuel Rodriguez Jr., who died of a heart attack in July.
In the lone Houston Community College Board of Trustees race, Stallworth was poised to win by a wide margin Saturday over Eugene Peck, one month after she finished second to Peck in the general election.
She will represent District IX on Harris County's south and southwest sides.
Stallworth, a business consultant and adjunct professor, served on the college's Board of Trustees from 1989 to 1993. She would replace Christopher Oliver, who hasn't attended a board meeting since his guilty plea to a federal bribery charge.
Jacob Carpenter
Jacob Carpenter joined the Houston Chronicle in June 2017 to cover K-12 education. Prior to arriving in Texas, he spent a year as an investigative reporting fellow for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He reported for the Naples (Fla.) Daily News from 2011 to 2016, covering criminal courts and long-term investigative projects. A native of suburban Detroit, he graduated from Michigan State University in 2010.
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Q: SQL syntax errors when importing database into phpMyAdmin (MAMP) In order to import a 120Mb database into phpMyAdmin with MAMP I split it up using the following:
split -l 100 /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/test/database_test_wordpress.sql /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/test/dbpart-
However when importing the second part I get the error:
Error
SQL query:

CREATE TABLE  `wp_comments` (

 `comment_ID` BIGINT( 20 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
 `comment_post_ID` BIGINT( 20 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT  '0',
 `comment_author` TINYTEXT NOT NULL ,
 `comment_author_email` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT  '',
 `comment_author_url` VARCHAR( 200 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT  '',
 `comment_author_IP` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT  '',
 `comment_date` DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT  '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
 `comment_date_gmt` DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT  '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
 `comment_content` TEXT NOT NULL ,
 `comment_karma` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT  '0',
 `comment_approved` VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT  '1',
 `comment_agent` VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT  '',
 `comment_type` VARCHAR( 20 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT  '',
 `comment_parent` BIGINT( 20 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT  '0',
 `user_id` BIGINT( 20 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT  '0',
PRIMARY KEY (  `comment_ID` ) ,
KEY  `comment_post_ID` (  `comment_post_ID` ) ,
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#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 18

Do I need to upgrade the database somehow? Or am I way off?! Sorry, new to this :-)
Note: I first tried increasing upload_max_filesize, memory_limit and post_max_size in MAMP's php.ini but on import I got a MySQL server has gone away error.

A: split is a linux command that will just slice text. You can't just do that and expect an import to work. In your particular example, the creation of a table is not being properly finished by a ;, which means you are most likely missing the creation of indexes or constraints below the cut part of the text.
I wouldn't slice the file at all and import the whole SQL file from the console instead of using php for that. This should do the trick:
mysql -u username -p database_name < file.sql

A: Thanks guys for pointing out that split was not the way to go!
Instead I managed to upload the original 120Mb file by editing the following limits before restarting MAMP:
In MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/conf/php.ini I changed the memory_limit to 200M, the post_max_size to 200M and the upload_max_filesize to 120M.
I then copied MAMP/Library/support-files/my-large.cnf to MAMP/Library and renamed it to my.cnf before setting max_allowed_packet to 100M
Was pointed in this direction MAMP FAQs and https://stackoverflow.com/a/13613140/767761

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Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can't control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive to get filming back on track, or risk its cancellation. On Tayback's advice, Cockburn drops the actors into the middle of the jungle to film the remaining scenes but, unbeknownst to the actors and production, the group have been dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of heroin-producing gangs.
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Former India international Franco Fortunato explains what it was like playing alongside, and against the great PK Banerjee.
After a career-defining season with Chennai, Gaurav Bora is ready for the next chapter in his life with India's U23 squad.
The absence of an AFC slot coupled with uncertainty over I-League's future, Super Cup risks becoming completely relevant.
BFC CEO Parth Jindal talks about the financial struggles of ISL clubs, the future roadmap for I-League and need for transparency.
While other teams remained tight-lipped, Minerva cited the "unfair treatment" by the AIFF as the reason for their decision.
All season long, questions were asked of Chennai City's character and temperament. All season long, Chennai City answered them.
Despite uncertainty, before this season and in the coming months, East Bengal showed tenacity in taking the title race to the final day yet again.
The I-League title race went the distance, with Chennai City and East Bengal in tight battle till the very end. Here's how the action unfolded.
Chennai City beat Minerva 3-1 to win the I-League while East Bengal also won in a dramatic final day of action in the I-League.
How will an Indian club seek to benefit from this association, as and when it comes through?
The AIFF says Minerva Punjab, who pulled out of the game against Real Kashmir in Srinagar in February citing security concerns, will get a rematch.
East Bengal moved within a point of leaders Chennai by beating Minerva. Here's how things stand ahead of a mouthwatering final day.
Churchill Brothers beat Chennai in a five-goal thriller to keep the title race alive.
Real Kashmir's title challenge ended after a loss to East Bengal, but coach Robertson says they've already exceeded expectations.
The I-League functions at a surprising level of anonymity in Coimbatore, leaders Chennai City's adopted home city. But that is slowly changing.
Not only are Chennai favourites to beat Bagan, the fixture itself tells the story of the two teams' contrasting seasons.
Eight of 11 clubs have written to AIFF president Praful Patel requesting a meeting on February 20 to "seek answers" regarding the I-League's future.
Following the Pulwama terrorist attack on Thursday, Minerva want their match vs Real Kashmir in Srinagar to be postponed or shifted.
Real Kashmir's home game on Sunday has been postponed and stranded Gokulam Kerala may not reach Kozhikode in time for their next fixture.
Wins for Churchill, Real Kashmir and East Bengal has thrown the I-League title race wide open. Here's what each team needs to do to stay alive.
From polite enquiries on Pakistan's absence to meeting a Manchester United fan from Ghana, Debayan Sen writes on his UAE adventures.
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Beavan, R.J. 1996 Kinematics of the New Zealand plate boundary : field report on the 1996 GPS survey of the Copland and Rangitata networks . Lower Hutt: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences science report 96/12 154 p.
Abstract: During the last two weeks of January 1996 the Copland GPS network was remeasured and an adjacent new network - the Rangitata network - was established and first measured. The Copland network was established was established in January/February 1994 and consists of measurements at a mixture of preexisting trig stations, a number of roadside benchmarks, and a number of points newly established and a number of points newly established in 1994. The Rangitata network consists mostly of points newly established in 1996 but with some reoccupation of existing trigs and benchmarks, particularly near the coasts. The Rangitata survey was designed to provide deformation information along strike of the Southern Alps as well as across strike. In this it differs from the Copland network immediately south and the Christchurch-Hokitika network immediately north. Taken together, these three networks should provide over the coming decade a very complete picture of the deformation field within the central Southern Alps.


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SAILLE to release "Gnosis" in March
January 14, 2017 News
"Gnosis" contains 9 tracks of epic black metal. Song titles set to appear on the effort include "Benei ha'Elohim" (based on the Book of Enoch – Man mixes with fallen angels, who gift them with knowledge and children), "Pandaemonium Gathers" (inspired by Paradise Lost (Milton) – Satan convinces his fallen comrades to take revenge for being expelled out of heaven), and "1904 Era Vulgaris" (after The Book of the Law (Crowley) – A brief description of some of the basic concepts of Crowley's Thelema).
Comments SAILLE guitarist Reinier Schenk: "Our previous cd "Eldritch" was a good album, but we felt it had to be darker, we had to bring SAILLE to another level. The logo has been modified as a statement; the 'curls' were removed, both in style and music. The listener can expect a more defined SAILLE, with an own identity. The tracks are more compact and powerful, meanwhile referring to the feel of our 2nd cd "Ritu", but more intense and extreme this time."
The new album also depicts SAILLE as a five-piece for the first time. Founding member Dries Gaerdelen decided to leave the band to focus on the bookings. Drummer Kevin De Leener states: "The orchestral part will remain an important part of SAILLE, but there will be no keyboard player on stage anymore." Concerning the recording of the drums for this album he says: "Well, it is definitely faster, which I think is awesome, and finally I am very satisfied with the natural sound of the drums on this record."
'Gnosis' is a concept album again. SAILLE frontman Dennie Grondelaers explains about the writing process and lyrics: "With 'Gnosis' (Greek for 'knowledge') we venture into the world of the Promethean ideal and its Luciferian counterpart. This album explores a multitude of historical, mythological and fictional sources that tell us about the strife for knowledge and its (potentially devastating) consequences. We also visit several creation myths and scratch the surface of Aleister Crowley's Thelema. The concept was born during research into Russian composer Alexander Scriabin and his works. His 'Prometheus: The Poem of Fire' didn't serve as a direct source for the lyrics, but it lit the fire that made us venture into above topics."
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D Nick Hagglund returning to FC Cincinnati on two-year deal
Defender Nick Hagglund will return to FC Cincinnati after signing a contract through the 2023 season.
A Cincinnati native, Hagglund is an original member of the club, which entered Major League Soccer in 2019. The team acquired him via a trade from Toronto FC on Jan. 23, 2019.
He is the club's all-time leader in minutes played (4,215) and second all-time in appearances (57).
"We're thrilled to have Nick back with FC Cincinnati," general manager Chris Albright said in a news release Friday. "He culturally embodies how we want to build our team, and his leadership and experience are important for our group."
Financial terms of the deal weren't announced, though the club said Hagglund also will serve as a club ambassador to further his and the team's work in the Cincinnati community.
Hagglund, 29, made 24 appearances for FC Cincinnati last season, starting 17 before a broken wrist ended his season. He scored one goal.
In his MLS career with Toronto (2014-18) and Cincinnati, Hagglund has made 145 appearances (112 starts) with seven goals and four assists.


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INDIANAPOLIS COLTS TO INDUCT JEFF SATURDAY INTO TEAM'S RING OF HONOR
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The Indianapolis Colts will induct former center Jeff Saturday into the team's Ring of Honor during halftime of the Colts Monday Night Football contest against the New York Jets on September 21, 2015.
Saturday spent 13 seasons in a Colts uniform (1999-2011) and ranks tied for fifth in team history in games played (197). He also ranks third in franchise history with 132 wins, sitting behind Reggie Wayne (143) and Peyton Manning (141). Saturday was named to six Pro Bowls (five with the Colts), was a two-time Associated Press First Team All-Pro (2005 and 2007) and was a three-time PFWA All-Conference choice (2005-07).
"Jeff represented both the organization and the City of Indianapolis with a tremendous amount of class for 13 seasons," said Colts Owner & CEO Jim Irsay. "The passion for which he played the game was infectious and he quickly developed into one of this game's great leaders. His performance on the field matched his dedication and service to the community. Jeff is extremely deserving of this honor and I'm thrilled to add his name with the others who have represented the Horseshoe in extraordinary fashion."
"I am very honored and excited," said Saturday. "When you start playing this game, you never really envision this occurring in your career. I tell people all the time that my career was much better than I deserved. That's really the way I feel about it. This is just another thing to add to it. I've been so blessed to be an Indianapolis Colt. To be there as long as I was and for as successful as it was, not only personally, but for the teams that I had the chance to play for, all the men that I got to suit up beside and run out on the field with, I can't say enough good things. I'm just humbled by it and really excited about it."
Saturday was part of a team that produced 115 regular season victories from 2000-09, the most wins by an NFL team in a single decade in league history. During his career in Indianapolis, the club made 11 playoff appearances, won eight division titles and appeared in two Super Bowls. Saturday and the Colts also won the franchise's fourth World Championship with a victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.
In seven seasons, Saturday was part of an offensive line that ranked first in the NFL in fewest sacks allowed (1999-2000, 2004-2006 and 2009-2010). He started all 16 games at center in 10 seasons and helped the Colts offense record 5,000-plus net yards in 12 consecutive years from 1999-2010. In addition, Saturday and Peyton Manning started 170 games as a quarterback-center duo, which is the most in NFL history. The duo recorded a 120-50 record together.
In 2011, Saturday played an instrumental role in ending the NFL lockout as a leader among the players' executive committee. Currently, he is serving as an NFL analyst for ESPN.
Saturday becomes the 12th member inducted to the Indianapolis Colts Ring of Honor and joins Robert Irsay (1996), Bill Brooks (1998), Ted Marchibroda (2000), Chris Hinton (2001), Jim Harbaugh (2005), 12th Man (2007), Tony Dungy (2010), Marvin Harrison (2011), Edgerrin James (2012), Eric Dickerson (2013) and Marshall Faulk (2013).
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As we celebrate today the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, this is something that, as Catholics, we have grown up with and take for granted; but we do not always recognize the necessity and the importance of the Trinity. We recognize that all three Persons of the Trinity are God, equal with one another. There is but one God, so all three are completely perfect. There is nothing in one that is lacking in another. All three are God.
Yet there is a necessity that there be three instead of one. What we see in the Old Testament is that God chose for Himself a people. Of all people on the face of the earth, He revealed to one people, the Jewish people, that He is one. Every other society had a multiplicity of false gods. The Jewish people themselves initially had all kinds of false gods. Over the years, they were able to work all of those things out to believe in one God. And so it was necessary that God had to show Himself to be one.
But even then there were indications that God was more than just one. It was a necessity that God be more than just one because one cannot be merely in love with one's self. That is what we would call narcissism, and we would say that is a sin - and it is. Even the psychologists would say that narcissism is a psychological problem. Are we going to suggest that God is just sitting up there being a narcissist, focused on Himself and nothing else? No, one cannot be in love with one's self. It cannot happen.
When we look in the Old Testament, we see that there are different names for God. One of the names that is very commonly used, even very early on in the Book of Genesis, is "Elohim". Elohim is plural; God's name is "El". So on any of the names that come out of Hebrew like "Daniel" or "Gabriel" or "Michael" - all those words that either begin or end with "el" like "Elizabeth"- that "el" is "God". That is what it means. But when you put that into a plural form it becomes "Elohim". That is the way God is known, as "Elohim". There is a plurality of Persons, not a plurality of gods. God is one. That is what the Jewish people understood: that He is one God. But He has demonstrated many times over, even in the Old Testament by promising that He would send His Son who is also God, that there are more than one.
We know that God's Holy Name is not to be pronounced. The Jewish people had such a profound respect for the Name of God that even now they do not pronounce it. The Church, recognizing that same thing, has also passed that along to us. If you look at the first reading today, you will find the word "LORD". God passed by Moses and pronounced His Name and it says, "LORD". Then he says, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God." The word LORD is not actually there. That is why the Church has put that in uppercase letters, because it is not the word for Lord; it is God's Holy Name that is there. Out of respect for the Holy Name of God, as the Jewish people would never pronounce His Holy Name lest it came out even with the slightest imperfection, the Church, continuing in that tradition, gives it to us in a translated form and just simply puts "LORD". But you will notice further down in the same reading that the name "Lord" comes up again. While the "L" is in uppercase, the "ord" are all in lowercase letters because it is a different word that is used there. When you are reading Scripture, always keep that in mind: Whenever you find the uppercase letters, the word that is there is not actually "Lord", but rather it is the Holy Name of God that is not to be pronounced.
Even with these different names - the Holy Name saying that God is one, "Elohim" telling us that God is a plurality of Persons even though He is but one God - why do we need to have a multiplicity? As I have mentioned already, by the very nature of love, by the way that God has made things, God, who is love, is the One who shows to us what love is about. For us, love cannot remain in one person. As I have mentioned, you cannot just simply be in love with yourself. It is narcissism. But neither can love remain merely with two. You can be in love with another person, but the nature of love is that it is a relationship. It is a reciprocal, benevolent relationship. It is two people looking out for the good of one another and giving themselves to one another.
We know, therefore, that by the nature of love, God has to be at least two Persons because love cannot reside merely in one. But love overflows any boundaries; all one needs to do is look at a family. A man and a woman who are in love with one another and are joined together so that the two become one in imitation of the Holy Trinity are going to be life giving. That love overflows the boundaries of the two and becomes life giving for children. Even in those couples where there are struggles with fertility, the love still overflows and becomes life giving in other ways because that love is going to overflow the individual. Therefore, there must be at least three. There need not be any more than three for the perfection of love, but there must be at least three by the very nature of love. And God, who is perfect, must therefore be at least three Persons to be able to love perfectly.
Therefore, we have the revelation of the Most Holy Trinity – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: perfect love, giving and receiving one another so perfectly that the Three are One without distinction, without separation, without division of any kind, the only distinction being the distinction between Persons. In no other way is there any distinction. There is one mind in God. There is one will in God. Even if you want to look at it that way, for God to make an act of the intellect and for God to make an act of the will are two separate acts. And so, the Father making an act of the intellect is the Son, and for the Father to make an act of the will to love is the Holy Spirit. So again, you see that we have three for the perfection of what a person truly is. A person is a living being with a mind and a free will. God is three Persons with a mind and a free will; so we see the Three who are One.
Now, the question we need to ask is what does this have to do with each one of us? It is a wonderful thing to know that God is one God who is three Persons, but what difference does that make for us? It makes all the difference in the world. First of all, because we can begin to understand the nature of love as I have already explained, but it also shows to us where the relationships with God are. All we need to do is look at Our Blessed Lady and we can see that. If you ever look at an icon - those beautiful pieces of art from the East - whenever you see Our Lady, normally she is going to be shown holding her Son and you will see upon her head, and upon the other shoulder where her Son is not held, a star. If she is not shown with her Son, you will see three stars: one on her head and one on each shoulder. The one on her head is because she is the daughter of the Father. The Son that she is holding demonstrates that she is the Mother of the Son. The third star on the other shoulder demonstrates that she is the spouse of the Holy Spirit. And so [it is] her relationship with the three Persons, a human person in relationship to the three Persons of God.
But the Holy Trinity also dwells within you because you are baptized - not merely into Jesus Christ, but you are baptized in a Trinitarian formula: In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Note what Jesus teaches us in that: there is one name. He does not say, "Baptize them in the names of…" but rather "...in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit." One name for God. And so you have entered into Jesus Christ. But Jesus is one with the Father and the Holy Spirit, therefore, you have entered into a union with the Most Holy Trinity in your baptism. God is our Father; that is how Jesus has taught us to call Him. Therefore, Jesus is also our Brother; we are one with Him. He is God and yet He is man; so He is our Brother in that sense. And the Holy Spirit has been given to us to unite us with one another and with God. For each one of us, there is something of a spousal relationship with the Lord who has united Himself with us in our souls and made us one with Him.
And so we see that we have something of that relationship to the three Persons similar to the way that Our Lady had it. For her, it is perfect. For us, we recognize it in a relative form. Nonetheless, [we need] to be able to see that it is there and to be able to enter into a relationship, then, with each of the three Persons of the Holy Trinity. To pray to one is ultimately to pray to all three. But each of us needs to be able to recognize the headship of the Father and the lordship of Jesus Christ and the union and love which is ours in the Holy Spirit and the working of the Holy Spirit in each of our lives. We cannot reject or deny any one of them. We cannot truly have a relationship with Jesus apart from the Father and the Holy Spirit. "No one can say 'Jesus is Lord' except by the Holy Spirit," Saint Paul said. So if we are going to acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Master, if we are going to recognize that He is God and man, it is only through the Holy Spirit that that can be done. Saint John, in the Gospel, tells us that we have salvation because of Jesus and anyone who believes in Him and His Name has salvation.
Now to believe in His Name is not merely to say, "Intellectually, yes, I believe that Jesus is God; therefore, I'm going to Heaven." That is not what it means at all. It means to say, "Jesus Christ is Lord. Therefore, I believe in who He is, and He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Therefore, I believe that every word that comes from His mouth is true, and I will accept every single word that He teaches. He alone is the Way. Therefore, I am going to unite myself with Him because He is the only way to Heaven." He alone is the Life and only when we are in the state of grace do we have the life of Jesus Christ in us. So it is not merely sitting back, believing, and saying, "As long as I believe in Jesus I can go out and do anything that I want. I'm going to Heaven anyway." Not at all. It is to say, "If I profess my faith in Jesus Christ, I must change my life and I must live the life of Jesus Christ, who came, empowered with the Holy Spirit, to do the Will of His heavenly Father." That is precisely what God wants from each one of us: to live the life of Jesus Christ, which can only happen by the power of the Holy Spirit, and to seek in all things to know and to do the Will of our heavenly Father.
That is the glory that God has called each one of us to. That is what He wants for each one: salvation in Jesus Christ. But that salvation is going to be found only through union with the Lord, [by doing] His Will. And that Will is going to be done only through the working of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Each one of us, then, can look to Our Blessed Lady as the exemplar for our lives to be able to see how she did it - the spouse of the Holy Spirit, perfectly united to Him, so perfectly that Jesus Christ could become incarnate in her and be made in her image and likeness as she is already made in His because she did the Will of God perfectly.
So too for us, the Holy Spirit has been poured forth into our hearts so that we can cry out "Abba! Father!", so that each one of us can be formed and molded into the image of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and the intercession of Our Lady, so that each one of us can live the life of Jesus Christ. We can follow the example of Our Blessed Mother and we can follow the example of her Most Holy Son and we can live the Trinitarian life, a life of love, because we are created in the image and likeness of God, who is love. Love is not alone by ourselves, but rather, love goes out to others. Therefore, we are to love God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - and we are to love our neighbor. That is what God is calling each one of us to. It is only in this that we can truly say that we believe in Jesus Christ: when we are living the life of Christ, loving God, loving neighbor, and living the life of the Holy Trinity- a life of love in union with one another.


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Cascadia Poetry Festival - San Juan Island - 2020
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For the 7th iteration of the Cascadia Poetry Festival, SPLAB moves its bioregional cultural investigation to The Multiverse on San Juan Island. A gallery and island cultural center run by Jennifer, Ian and Gavia Boyden will provide a more intimate setting for festival attendees to go deeper into the intersection of poetics and bioregionalism. May 1-3, 2020, poets and literature fans will gather to celebrate the Life and Legacy of Robin Blaser and delve into The Practice of Cascadia/The Practice of the Self.
Robin Blaser biography
Robin Blaser's life and legacy will be one of two panels at CPF-SJI-2020.
In addition to poetry readings, an open reading and panel discussions, there will be several breakout sessions: lectures, workshops, a Sunday morning meditation session and discussions related to the two main organizing themes and/or to poetics and Cascadia.
Poets and scholars scheduled to appear include Blaser biographer and literary executor Miriam Nichols (Vancouver, BC), Beat Nun Mary Norbert Körte (Willits, CA) Daphne Marlatt (Vancouver, BC) Sharon Thesen (Kelowna, BC), Bill Yake, (Olympia, WA), Barry McKinnon (Prince George, BC), Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma (Vashon Island, WA), Laura Yon (Seattle) our hosts: Jennifer, Ian and Gavia Boyden, of San Juan Island, Matt Trease, Nadine Maestas, Peter Munro, Cate Gable and others.
One of the breakout sessions will cover the rare Islands Marbles Butterfly, once thought extinct, but found on San Juan Island. This breakout session will be facilitated by the National Parks Service.
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The Embodied Imagination: An Experiential Workshop on the Practice of Cascadia
The Japanese Zen master Dogen once distinguished between what could be translated as not-thinking, the mere negation of thinking, and nonthinkingthat which points beyond or beneath thinking. With this as our starting point, well explore how poetry can issue from ones deeper body-and-mind, rooted in the earth beneath ones feet. Well take a meditative approach to an awareness of body and breath, and play with some unusual exercises for freeing ones voiceboth ones speaking or singing voice and ones voice as a writer. Well also consider how this exploration connects with a practice and poetics of place. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a notebook and something to write with. Facilitated by Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma.
The Holy Forest as Method & Practice
Taking off from the title of Robin Blaser's collected poems, this workshop will discuss Blaser's use of the words holy and forest as a main focus, in addition to other mid-century spontaneous approaches, including Blaser's and Spicer's practice of outside and Charles Olsons projective verse, along with Frances Boldereff's rarely acknowledged contribution to the latter. Participants are encouraged to bring a poem they'd like to workshop.. Sharon Thesen
Big Poetry and the Public World
This break-out session invites participants to push off from the Big Poetry section in chapter 7 of the Blaser biography (A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor). In that section, I contrasted Blaser's push for big poetry with some common literary-theoretical positions of the mid-1990s which would seem to preclude anything so ambitious. By big poetry I mean a poetry of cosmosone that speaks the world as do the creation stories, myths, and epics of the worlds cultures. Blasers own model was Dantes Divine Comedy. The context of this section is the 1995 conference held in Blasers honor in Vancouver at the Emily Carr College of Art and the published proceedings of it, both titled The Recovery of the Public World (edited by Edward Byrne and Charles Watts, published by Talonbooks). The arguments that I selected from that publication which would seem to render a big poetry unthinkable are as follows:
From Adorno scholar Robert Hullot-Kentor: a critique of the titular concept of the conferencea public world as a façade for economic manipulation and of identity politics as the abandonment by progressives of class-based social change.
From Steve McCaffery: a Deleuzean reading of Blaser that emphasizes the end of the discrete entity. Blaser's poetic sensibility rests on the polarization of self and world which would seem to assume a universe of definable entities rather than one of continuities and intensities.
From Charles Altieri: A critique of poetry as unable to offer anything but negation. If all idealizations are ideologically suspect, all histories contaminated, and all worlds partisan then the poet is left with negation of what is or a formalism that endlessly exposes its own devices.
The point of bringing these arguments into contiguity with Blaser's oeuvre is not to defeat them in Blaser's favour, but to explore the premises of Blaser's position which I think come from a different starting point. The purpose of the seminar is to discuss those elements of the above arguments that participants find compelling and current in the context both of Blasers work (and by extension that of New American poets close to him) and contemporary cultural landscapes: heterogeneous, globalized, presentist, unequal. Moderated by Miriam Nichols.
Sunday 8-9am Gentle Pre-Breakfast Yoga
In this session, we will practice gentle yoga, conscious breathing and somatic meditation. Attending to the body, breath, mind and heart is the fundamental focus of yoga. Flexibility is not required! Laura will bring some mats and blankets, but if you have your own, please feel free. Facilitated by Laura Yon.
The processional aspect of the world: some pointers from Robin Blaser on writing now
This will be a session that talks about what might be involved in writing our actual present. It will begin with a brief talk that unfolds from the above phrase taken from Blaser's germinal essay, The Fire. This session begins with the question: how write out of both the personal and the so-much-larger than personal in our crisis-riven time? It will include a reading from one of his serial Image-Nation poems. There will be time for discussion of these ideas and how they might be relevant to ones own writing practice in the present. If further time allows, there will be a prompt for an on-the-spot writing session. Facilitated by Daphne Marlatt.
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The Island Marble Butterfly A Cascadian Endemic and Inspiration (handouts)
Believed to be extinct until rediscovered at American Camp on San Juan Island in 1998, the Island Marble Butterfly is a true endemic limited (as far as is known) to San Juan and Lopez Islands. One of the last colonies persists on National Park Service (NPS) land just a couple of miles from the Multiverse site of the 2020 Cascadia Poetry Festival. Like us, its future is precarious. In this breakout session we plan to visit American Camp where NPS staff will show us how they are working to grow this the Island Marble colony by hand-raising butterflies from eggs, preserving their food plants, and improving their considerably abused habitat. It is not an easy task. We should also have some time to consider the role of butterflies and moths (ephemeral, evasive, and often pale) as they have inspired a range of poems and poets including examples from Vladimir Nabokov, Robin Blaser, Jim Morrison, and several poets native to Cascadia. Participants should bring a notebook (Rite-in-the-Rain might be best given weather uncertainty), a pen/pencil, outdoor clothing and sturdy shoes. Binoculars and a camera might also be helpful. Facilitated by Bill Yake
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Someone sent me an article by Karl Bode published recently by Motherboard explaining the reasons why my Congressman Marsha Blackburn is likely to lose her bid to replace retiring Senator Bob Corker in the Senate race in Tennessee. It's well worth a read.
Congress's Biggest Opponent of Net Neutrality Is Getting Destroyed in Midterm Election Polls – Marsha Blackburn is trying to jump from the House to the Senate—and is losing by 10 points to a Democrat in Tennessee, a state Donald Trump won by 26 points.
I thought I would contribute to the understanding of "on the ground" economic details of why Blackburn is in political trouble. Given the facts, it's likely to get much worse after the August primary when Blackburn has to face off against former Tennessee Governor and Nashville Mayor Phil Bredesen.
Bode refers in his piece to pressure on the Republicans to persuade Corker not to retire. The Republican Senate majority is holding on right now by one seat – making a Blackburn loss particularly painful for the Republican Party and administration.
Unfortunately, this is a loss that will be well deserved. I say unfortunately as Blackburn first went to Washington as a friend to small business who voted against the bailouts twice. If you look at the quality of my telecommunication services and the costs, you will understand why I say that Blackburn is no longer a friend to small business.