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Kepler goes 4 for 4 in Twins' 9-5 win over Angels
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins have sought consistent starting pitchers all season behind Ervin Santana and Jose Berrios.
Another continues to emerge.
Max Kepler tied a career high with four hits, including a home run, Adalberto Mejia earned his third straight win and the Twins beat the Los Angeles Angels 9-5 Monday night.
Joe Mauer also homered and Miguel Sano had three hits for Minnesota, which won for just the third time in nine games.
Mejia (4-3) allowed nine hits and three earned runs in seven innings. He's given up five earned runs in 22 1/3 innings over his past four starts after allowing eight in a June 12 start. His ERA has dropped from 5.53 to 4.32 in that span.
"Really just being calm, relaxed, being able to throw strikes. Tell myself to throw strikes is what really has kept me focused," Mejia said through an interpreter.
Prior to Monday, no Twins pitcher other than Santana or Berrios had thrown at least seven innings since Mejia on May 21.
"It's one of those things where he's faced some good teams and he's held off some pretty good lineups," manager Paul Molitor said. "I just think he's starting to trust that his stuff can play up here. It's nice when he's using all his pitches."
Sano hit a two-run double in the sixth for a 7-2 Twins lead in front of 36,182 fans, Minnesota's largest crowd since Opening Day.
Luis Valbuena and Martin Maldonado homered and Andrelton Simmons had three hits for Los Angeles, which has lost four of five.
Angels starter Alex Meyer (3-5) allowed six hits and five earned runs in five innings. The former Twin also walked four and hit a batter.
One strike from getting out of the second inning, Meyer's balk allowed a run to score. Mauer hit the next pitch out for a two-run home run.
Meyer admits frustration got the better of him.
"You got to be better at handling it probably than I was. I was confused; I honestly didn't know what I did. Umpire's telling me I was moving my leg and I didn't think I was. I'll have to look at it."
Kepler, who hit .215 in June, had an RBI double in the third to make it 4-0 and added a solo homer in the fifth. He's 8 for 13 in four July games with a home run and four doubles.
"You trust your preparation," Molitor said. "He's got a beautiful swing. He's got a quick bat. He's got a good enough eye. It's just a matter of going up there and trusting it."
Simmons had a two-run single in the fourth for the Angels to end a streak of 13 2/3 scoreless innings for Mejia. Valbuena crushed a solo shot midway up the right field grandstand in the seventh. Maldonado hit his career-high ninth home run in the eighth, a two-run shot off Tyler Duffey.
WELCOME SIGHT
Hall of Famer Rod Carew returned to Minnesota for the first time since having a heart and kidney transplant on Dec. 16, 2016. Carew played with the Twins from 1967-78 and Angels from 1979-85. Both teams have retired his No. 29. He threw out a ceremonial first pitch as Minnesota celebrated the 40th anniversary of Carew's 1977 MVP season and 50th Anniversary of his 1967 AL Rookie of the Year season.
Angels: OF Mike Trout will not play in next week's All-Star Game as he continues to rehab from a left thumb ligament injury suffered May 28. ... Starting RHP Matt Shoemaker is expected to throw three or four innings in his first rehab start Tuesday with Class A Inland Empire. He's been on the disabled list since June 15 with a right forearm strain.
Twins: 2B Brian Dozier was a late scratch with lower back tightness. He's listed day to day. ... IF Ehire Adrianza was activated after the game with 1B/DH Kennys Vargas sent to Triple-A Rochester. Adrianza had been on the disabled list since June 22 with abdominal issues.
The Angels' JC Ramirez (7-6, 4.60) is scheduled to face Minnesota's Kyle Gibson (4-6, 6.11) in Tuesday's holiday matinee.
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2020 American League West Standings
Oakland 36 24 .600 0 W1
Houston 29 31 .483 7 L3
Seattle 27 33 .450 9 L1
Los Angeles 26 34 .433 10 L3
Texas 22 38 .367 14 W3
2020 American League Central Standings
Minnesota 36 24 .600 0 L1
Chicago 35 25 .583 1 L1
Cleveland 35 25 .583 1 W1
Kansas City 26 34 .433 10 W1
Detroit 23 35 .397 12 L1
MLB needs more Black managers. Here's why it won't be me right now
As a former player with an Ivy League degree, Doug Glanville checks all the boxes. But as a Black father in 2021, he's not comfortable taking a job in the dugout.
Former Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart bids $115 million on share of Oakland Coliseum
Former Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart submitted a bid to buy a share of the Oakland Coliseum with plans to develop the site should the A's leave the ballpark.
Tri-City ValleyCats suing Major League Baseball, Houston Astros
The Tri-City ValleyCats, who operated as a short-season affiliate of the Houston Astros for 18 seasons before being dropped, have filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball and the Astros.
LHP Martin Perez returns to Boston Red Sox on one-year deal, source says
Veteran starter Martin Perez has agreed to a one-year, $5 million guaranteed contract to return to the Boston Red Sox, a source confirmed to ESPN's Jeff Passan.
The MLB teams with the most serious work still to do this offseason
The Mets did their work by adding Francisco Lindor. Now, the spotlight moves to those who have big holes to fill. Enter the Twins, Phillies, Blue Jays and Red Sox.
Why LeMahieu, Yankees is a 'marriage made in heaven'
Jesse Rogers explains why the Yankees remain the perfect fit for DJ LeMahieu.
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DOVE AND CUT THROAT synopsis
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Dove and Cut Throat (176 pages) is one of Fina Casalderrey's more recent novels, first published in 2007, which has been translated into Spanish. It is divided into twenty-two chapters. A teenager, André, is bullied at school by Raúl Pernas and others, and has difficulties knowing how to present himself in order to avoid problems. To a friend, Halima, he admits he needs help lifting himself off the ground from time to time; to others, he presents himself as more aggressive, someone they shouldn't mess with. He has another friend he chats with on the Internet. Her chat-name is Dove, and he is Cut Throat.
To gain extra marks in class, André reads a story Dove has sent him about illegal immigrants arriving in Spain from Morocco. The story tells of a girl who travels with her mother in a rubber dinghy full of people. They spend hours at sea until coming within sight of the Spanish coast, but the coastguard appears and they have to swim. Her mother doesn't survive, but the girl is adopted by a Spanish family and attempts to live out her dream. Halima likes the story and tells him so. It seems the teacher is also impressed, but André doesn't dare admit the story was sent him by a friend.
André has arranged a meeting with Dove in person. While getting ready, he remembers the time before his sixth birthday when his father left home. He didn't understand what was going on or why his father was taking everything with him, including the Panama hat he used in summer when it was only a few weeks before Christmas. All he saw was that he was allowed to have control of the TV remote and, when his mother took him to the park, to run around under the rain and splash his feet in puddles owing to his mother's distraction. His mother accused his father of having no aspirations, but for André and his fifteen-year-old sister, Davinia, having a father on the door of the local disco was a bonus envied by their friends.
After a few weeks, André's father comes on a visit. He has a beard, and André finally understands why he's had to go away. He is one of the Three Wise Men who bring presents at Epiphany (the tradition in Spain is for children to receive presents at Epiphany as well as on Christmas Day). André gives him a long list of the presents he wants, but when his mother and sister return, Davinia points out that the reason their father has had to leave home is because he was unfaithful. André spends an increasing amount of time at his grandparents' restaurant, The Birdhouse, where his grandfather has a hospital for birds in the garden. André's mother is increasingly irritable; his father talks to him like a man and blames his mother for their troubles. At school, he shows Raúl Pernas and the other bully, Héctor Solla, a cannabis plant he found in his grandfather's garden, but they force him to eat it and he is ill for two days.
André's father buys a new flat in Pontevedra, where André goes to watch a Real Madrid-Barcelona derby, after which they let off bangers to celebrate the goals each team has scored. On an outing with his friend Curro, André discovers a wounded cut-throat finch, which he rescues with his grandfather and names Garuda after a book his father used to read him about the mythological creature. The boy and bird become inseparable, but one day the bird is accidentally killed and André is inconsolable. After an argument with his mother, he goes to his father's new flat, hoping to live with him. He finds a room with a low bed and a portable computer – exactly what he wanted! But when his father comes home, he discovers the room belongs to Nuria, the daughter of his father's new girlfriend. At school, Raúl Pernas pushes him around and forces him to smoke a joint and lick his shoes. André is sick and, when that evening his mother tries to warn him about the ill effects of smoking, he lets her think it was his decision to smoke and not because he was made to. André's mother fails to pass her exam to become a nursing auxiliary while Davinia is caught shoplifting. André decides he has to change his lifestyle and the first thing he can do is get lower marks at school. Maybe then he won't be bullied so much.
André is called in by the school counsellor for upsetting the music teacher. Neither the counsellor nor the teacher knows that André is being forced to do cruel things so that Raúl Pernas and Héctor Solla will leave him alone, but somebody in his class informs the teacher and she agrees not to have him disciplined. André practically moves in with his grandparents, who are aware of his problems at school. His grandfather teaches him how to look after the birds and they go to Padrón together to buy a parrot for André from the pet shop. They compare the way birds and humans behave when it comes to nesting and raising their young, with obvious ramifications for André, whose parents are divorced.
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Barack Obama has reportedly agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference for almost half a million dollars.
The former President, who left the White House almost 100 days ago, is said to be appearing at Cantor Fitzgeralds LP's healthcare conference as a keynote speaker in September.
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See If You Understand Radioactivity
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Radioactivity and Radiation Science Quiz
Can you pass this quiz covering the basic concepts of radioactivity and nuclear reactions?. Yagi Studio / Getty Images
by Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
Dr. Helmenstine holds a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and is a science writer, educator, and consultant. She has taught science courses at the high school, college, and graduate levels.
1. Uranium isotopes have different:
atomic numbers
atomic masses
numbers of protons
numbers of electrons
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Isotopes share the same atomic number, which is the number of protons. However, they have a different number of neutrons. The atomic mass is the sum of the number of protons and neutrons, so this value changes depending on the isotope.
2. Marie and Pierre Curie discovered which radioactive element?
Although there are radioactive isotopes of chlorine and hydrogen, these elements are mostly stable. Marie and Pierre Curie actually discovered two radioactive elements: radium and polonium.
3. The combination of two atomic nuclei into one, accompanied by a release of energy, is called:
radioactive decay
a chain reaction
Combining two atomic nuclei is called fusion. When the nuclei get close enough, the strong attractive force overcomes the electrostatic repulsion of the like-charged protons. A large amount of energy is released.
4. Nuclear changes differ from normal chemical changes in that all nuclear changes:
absorb energy
release energy
produce explosions
involve the protons and/or neutrons (nucleus) of an atom
Nuclear changes involve the atomic nucleus, which contains protons and neutrons. If electrons are involved, it's a chemical change.
5. An alpha particle is a:
helium nucleus
fast electron
high energy photon
An alpha particle consists of 2 protons and 2 neutrons, so it's essentially a helium nucleus or a He2+ ion.
6. Carbon-14 dating could be used to estimate the age of all of the following except:
ancient scrolls
Medieval tapestries
Carbon dating is based on comparing the relative amounts of carbon-14 and carbon-12 in an item. Enough time needs to elapse to get any kind of accurate result, so an item from the Medieval time period wouldn't appear much different from a modern one. You could use the technique to tell the tapestry was old, but it would be hard to pin down its exact age using this method.
7. Whether or not a nuclear fission reaction becomes self-sustaining depends on the release of:
alpha particles
You need neutrons to turn a fission reaction into a chain reaction. It's the neutrons that initiate fission in neighboring atoms.
8. Atoms of Uranium-235 and Uranium-238 differ by three:
Both atoms are from the same element, so they each have the same atomic number or number of protons. It's the number of neutrons that's different.
9. The hydrogen in a hydrogen bomb is converted into:
tritium
A hydrogen bomb of H-bomb is a fusion bomb. While it would be a neat trick to fuse hydrogen into heavier elements, this device combines two hydrogen nuclei (atomic number 1) to form a helium nucleus (atomic number 2).
10. A beta particle is:
a proton
a neutron
an electron
a photon
a helium nucleus
A beta particle is an energetic electron (negative charge) or positron (like an electron, except with a positive charge).
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Good job! You completed the quiz, so even though you didn't know the answers to all of the questions, you know a lot more about radioactivity and nuclear reactions. If you're a little unsure of some of the concepts, you might want to review the basics of radioactivity and radiation. When you're ready, try another radioactivity science quiz to test your understanding.
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Who knows their sexuality, rather than their preferred behaviours?
But surely Foucault isn't denying that we like, or prefer, some things or people. So in what way is post-seuality relevant?
Does it amount to the rejection of an identity to behaviour?
In what way can doing so still be "confessional"?
Identity is changing, fluid, performed rather than in-built. This means that our behaviour (which is a series of different events rather than a one-off phenomenon) shapes our identity. Therefore the question 'what is your identity' is inherently wrong/misleading, because it presupposes stability that simply does not exist.
It is confessional in a sense that power is purposefully used to create discourses in order to regulate individual's sexual behaviour/preferences. That way it successfully attempts to inform public's perception over what is dominant/acceptable and what is deviant. Priests, teachers and psychologists/doctors reinforce this idea of 'putting labels' on activities/preferences that were previously seen as normal and not deserving a separate name to distinguish them from something different (e.g. homosexuality now seen as opposed to heterosexuality).


I did not initially make the decision to create and sew my own garments with my hand dyed or ecoprinted silk. The creation of the fabric designs alone is labor intensive but I enjoy the process and it is no problem to roll up my shirtsleeves and hand paint, dye, collect leaves and botanically print them onto my fabrics. But how many scarves do you need at a show? You have to offer more than one thing and clothing was perfect! My skills were adequate-I had sewn clothing off and on for years. But hiring sewers to do the construction work seemed to make sense while I concentrated on creating the fabric designs. What I had not considered was my deadlines. No one will ever work as hard as yourself and eventually I knew that in order to compete and have clothing ready for my shows, it was time for me to bite the bullet!
It does not get much slower than how I do it! I choose certain days to collect my leaves and ecoprint my fabric. (Weather plays a part in this) I choose other days to hand paint my fabric or create designs on the silk. Then I will choose yet another day to sew. In that way I slowly but steadily work on creating my fashions for the shows I attend or for the custom orders I receive.
So the logistics of sewing with silk are simple. It's hard, it's slippery and I discovered that no amount of YouTube videos was going to teach me like just doing it! I dusted off my Brother CS6000i. I should add that as a self employed artist I am rich in art and poor in cash. So this very cost effective sewing machine is under $200. For most of us, whether your machine has 16 or 600 stitches starts to become irrelevant in basic, good construction. Re-homing my old skills meant a lot of practice and learning new things in new machines.
Serging is no longer the "to do before hemming" part of sewing. (ie: serge, fold up hem, sew again) A good tight, serged edge IS the hem!
But there are a few other workhorses now in my arsenal of machines. Nothing beats an older machine-all metal and sturdiness for additional, harder sewing. For instance, the Brother CS6999i cannot handle my leather. No problem.
I bring our my 1954 Singer featherweight. These little workhorses have become expensive and the darling of the Quilting world :-). But you can find them reasonably priced if you look hard enough. With a leather needle, mine can handle basic leather trim and embellishment on my clothing. But when I move into heavier leather and my ecoprinted hides, I pull out the super workhorse! My 1908 Singer 29-4! These were built to last! A table makes it easier to work flat but with only foot power to run it, well, it can be used anywhere! This is for my heavier leather such as my shoes and handbags.
I found that with patience and practice, the silk I most worked with could be easily managed. From 8mm Habotai to 12mm charmeuse to the much heavier silk noil, all require some machine adjustments and tweaking.
But the end results are beautiful garments designed to showcase not just talent but determination, perseverance and pure hard work in an ethical, slow clothing movement. And nothing feels better than to have accomplished it all by yourself!


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In summer 2013 I travelled for the first time alone. I went to the US for three months. When I was at the airport I still could not believe this trip is finally going to happen. I was very nervous. Not sure if I was happy or sad. I guess both.
I did not plan much besides my first three nights in New York City. I knew which cities in the US I would like to visit but not when and for how long.
Mostly I travelled with the greyhound bus. My longest bus ride was 48 hours from Chicago to Seattle. Transfer four times.
Public transportation (bus, metro): Between 1.50 and 2.50 dollar. It can be profitable to buy a one week public transportation card.
Las Vegas: An interesting city. Many hotels have pool parties (mostly free for girls/women) and if you want you can party 24 hours.


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package org.springframework.boot.convert;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;

import org.springframework.core.convert.ConversionService;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

/**
 * Tests for {@link CharArrayFormatter}.
 *
 * @author Phillip Webb
 */
@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
public class CharArrayFormatterTests {

	private final ConversionService conversionService;

	public CharArrayFormatterTests(String name, ConversionService conversionService) {
		this.conversionService = conversionService;
	}

	@Test
	public void convertFromCharArrayToStringShouldConvert() {
		char[] source = { 'b', 'o', 'o', 't' };
		String converted = this.conversionService.convert(source, String.class);
		assertThat(converted).isEqualTo("boot");
	}

	@Test
	public void convertFromStringToCharArrayShouldConvert() {
		String source = "boot";
		char[] converted = this.conversionService.convert(source, char[].class);
		assertThat(converted).containsExactly('b', 'o', 'o', 't');
	}

	@Parameters(name = "{0}")
	public static Iterable<Object[]> conversionServices() {
		return new ConversionServiceParameters(new CharArrayFormatter());
	}

}


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public class Love6
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
	}

	/**
	 * The number 6 is a truly great number.
	 * Given two int values, a and b, return true
	 * if either one is 6. Or if their sum or difference is 6.
	 * Note: the function Math.abs(num) computes
	 * the absolute value of a number.
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	 * love6(6, 4) → true
	 * love6(4, 5) → false
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	public boolean love6(int a, int b)
	{
		return 6 == a || 6 == b || 6 == a+b || 6 == Math.abs(a-b);
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At that point, that's all we've got from this entertaining ODI series. India won by a margin of 3-0 and now it's time to move to a faster T20 format as we prepare for the three match T20I series. The first T20I will be played at Ranchi and will be played on January 27. The action starts at 7pm IST (1:30pm GMT) and don't forget to join the build up to that game. Until then, goodbye and cheers!
India's skipper Rohit Sharma says that in the last six matches they have played, they have done well in most parts of the game. Adds that they have been consistent with both the bat and the ball and that always pays off. Mentions that they wanted to give chances to the players on the bench while Shami and Siraj were not playing and says that although they had a good total on the board, they think bowlers bowl well under pressure. Says Shardul bowled brilliantly and adds that he is called a magician in the team. Also applauds Kuldeep Yadav and says that every time he has given the ball to Kuldeep, he has delivered and he just needs to give more games under his belt. Also credits Gill for the way he performed and adds that Gill's ability to start over in each innings is quite good and also says it means a lot to get the 30th century on a personal note. States that the Australia series would be a great challenge, but they would like to give their best in that series.
Shubman Gill is PLAYER OF THE SERIES for scoring 360 runs from 3 innings including a century and a double century. He says it always feels good to perform. Adds that he hasn't changed his approach and it's all about turning starts into big ones. Shares that he tries to play according to the situation and it's about how to score against a certain bowler. Thinks it was a good wicket to hit and bowlers bowl very well on this wicket.
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Shardul Thakur is the PLAYER OF THE MATCH. He says he is loved by his teammates. Tells that everyone is here to play cricket and at some point the opponent will come after him and it is important to believe in one's plans in such situations. Mentions that it is essential to be ready to perform in any situation and signs off by saying that he likes to hit.
New Zealand skipper Tom Latham says the start with the ball was not good. Adds that it was a good effort to get it from there. Thinks it went wrong for them to be bowled out within 40 overs. Feels that the guys exposed in such conditions will help us in the World Cup. Also says they are building good depth. Ends by saying he hopes his side can take the lessons to the T20I series.
Time for the presentation.
Hardik Pandya is in for a flash interview. He says he always enjoys bowling the new ball. Adds that it gives him satisfaction when he can swing the ball both ways. Feels working on alignment has enabled him to swing the ball. Shares that his body feels great and that he was able to express himself in this series. Mentions that Shardul Thakur showed confidence in him during their partnership. Ends by saying he would like a challenging wicket with some grass at this venue.
New Zealand, on the other hand, also had an inexperienced bowling attack and India took full advantage of that. At one point India looked to be over 400 but the positive for the Kiwis from this game would be how they limited India under 400. Three wickets each to their pacers, Tickner and Duffy, but both were very expensive. With the bat, Conway was absolutely fantastic hitting 138 off 100 balls, but he fought a lonely battle as no designated hitter could support him for a long time. The rest of the hitters like Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell and Bracewell all got starts but they needed more than just starts to chase a total of 386 and unfortunately for the Kiwis they couldn't muster that in this game.
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India was put to bat by Latham after winning the toss on a very flat deck in the hope that chasing would be easier under light. However, India has done very well batting first in the last few games and they did that again in this game. They managed to put together a mammoth total thanks to a 212-run opening stand with Rohit and Gill crushing both centuries. Hardik also provided the finishing touch with the bat and then backed it up with a wicket in Finn Allen's first over. However, Conway and Nicholls put up a nice century stand and it was Kuldeep Yadav who broke that partnership in the 15th over. However, Kiwis still went at a decent pace, but Shardul Thakur, the man with the golden arm, concocted a match-changing spell with three wickets in quick succession to break the backbone of this chase. Kuldeep and Chahal also finished with five wickets between them, again showing their wicket-taking abilities and generally a convincing bowling performance from India on a flat deck despite the absence of Siraj and Shami.
India whitewashed Kiwis in this three match ODI series and this will give them a lot of confidence with the World Cup not far away. They also move to the top of the ICC ODI rankings as they continue their dominance at home. New Zealand, on the other hand, would feel they have not performed to their full potential in this series and need to go back to the drawing board to better handle Indian conditions when they return here later in the year for a marquee.
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FROM! CAPTURED! THAT IS IT! India wins by 90 runs to win the series 3-0! Yuzvendra Chahal serves this fuller to the stumps, Mitchell Santner frees his front leg to slog it over the line. Can't get it off the middle part of the bat and goes out to Virat Kohli in the deep middle of the wicket, who does the rest.
Rolled up, short and off the outside, Mitchell Santner thinks it's too wide and leaves it alone.
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DROPPED! Flatter and faster on the run, Mitchell Santner goes for a hoick but gets it out of the outside part of the bat. The ball flies straight to the point where Suryakumar Yadav doesn't hang on it. Santner singles and saves the hit.
FOUR! Short and angular in the batter, Mitchell Santner slams it over the ground. Makes up between long on and deep mid-wicket for a boundary.
Full and on the pads, Mitchell Santner plods over the line, but is hit on the back leg.
FOUR! Fleeing, slower and full out, Mitchell Santner goes for a mighty swell but gets an outside edge running to the third man fence for a boundary.
Fully fired at the pads, Mitchell Santner gets to work, but misses. The ball comes off his pads and rolls towards the fine leg rail, but Santner denies the single.
SIX! Kuldeep Yadav throws it up, full around, Mitchell Santner frees his front leg and stamps it on the ground. Dump it as far as possible over the long fence.
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NNSA purchases LeMond building
Posted at 7:03 pm December 29, 2021
The National Nuclear Security Administration has purchased the LeMond Carbon building at Horizon Center in west Oak Ridge. The building is pictured above in August 2016.
Note: This story was updated at 9:45 a.m. Dec. 30 to correct that the building has been purchased.
The National Nuclear Security Administration has purchased a building in west Oak Ridge that has been the site of two major industrial announcements, one by CVMR and the other by LeMond Composites. Both projects had promised at least $125 million in investments and hundreds of jobs, but neither has proceeded as expected.
In the five or six years since those announcements, there have been few signs of activity at the facility when Oak Ridge Today has stopped by, although company executives have held out hope, when contacted, that their projects could still proceed.
The LeMond Carbon Facility is on Palladium Way at Horizon Center. The NNSA plans to use the building for the development organization at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge.
The sale price was $6.9 million, and the NNSA had 18 months to buy the building under an option-to-purchase agreement, the first of its kind for the agency. The sale was completed December 15. The NNSA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and it maintains the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, among other activities.
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Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge, Premium Content, Slider, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: carbon fiber bicycle, CVMR, Greg LeMond, Horizon Center, Jim McConnell, LeMond Carbon, LeMond Companies, LeMond Composites, LeMond Real Estate LLC, metal refining, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex
Dodson, Wilson, others to be honored by Oak Ridge Chamber
The Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce will honor area business leaders and businesses during an awards dinner in January.
It's the second annual An ExtraORdinary Evening Installation and Awards Dinner. It's scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Friday, January 7, at the Oak Ridge Children's Museum. The cocktail hour will begin at 6 p.m.
Jim Dodson and David Wilson will be presented with the Chamber's most prestigious awards at the event, a press release said.
Dodson will be the recipient of the Eugene L. Joyce Lifetime Achievement Award, the press release said. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Business, Community, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge Tagged With: awards dinner, David Wilson, ExtraORdinary Evening, Jim Dodson, Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce
Santa, Mrs. Claus plus Christmas carols in Jackson Square
Posted at 11:16 am December 18, 2021
Santa and Mrs. Claus will be in Jackson Square from 3-5 p.m. Saturday, December 18, and members of the Oak Ridge Choral Society will lead people in Christmas carols at 4 p.m.
The celebration is being sponsored by the merchants of Jackson Square.
"Come join us as we gather around the tree," a press release said.
"Giving and receiving are an important part of the holiday season and our 'Lights of Hope Tree Decorating Contest' is currently going on until December 30," the press release said. "There are seven trees secured to lamp posts around the Square. Each tree was decorated by a nonprofit in our area. You cast votes by donating dollars. Each vote is worth one dollar."
Filed Under: Business, Community, Front Page News, Holidays, Oak Ridge Tagged With: Christmas carols, Jackson Square, Mrs. Claus, Oak Ridge Choral Society, Santa
Cook's Comfort Systems donates heat, air unit to Oak Ridge Nursery School
Cook's Comfort Systems installs a heat and air conditioning unit at Oak Ridge Nursery School on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. From right are Lisa Shortridge, Oak Ridge Nursery School director, with her son Brennen; Jawrell Cook, owner of Cook's Comfort Systems in Oak Ridge; lead installer Bryan Vick; and installer Louis Baillargeon with his son Lucas. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
Cook's Comfort Systems of Oak Ridge donated a heating and air-conditioning unit to Oak Ridge Nursery School, and workers installed it this month.
The donation, which included the labor of two workers, was valued at about $8,000, said Jawrell Cook, owner of Cook's Comfort Systems on Union Valley Road in Oak Ridge.
"They need the help," Cook said of Oak Ridge Nursery School. The pandemic has been difficult for many organizations, Cook said.
He said he had three sons attend Oak Ridge Nursery School more than 20 years ago, and one of his employees has a son at the nursery school now.
Filed Under: Business, Community, Education, Education, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge, Slider Tagged With: Bryan Vick, Cook's Comfort Systems, heat and air, heating and air-conditioning, Jawrell Cook, Lisa Shortridge, Louis Baillargeon, Oak Ridge Nursery School
Promo Joe by Jessica named Small Business of Month
Promo Joe by Jessica was named the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Month for December. Craig Peters of Enrichment Federal Credit Union, sponsor of the monthly award, is pictured with Jessica Diveto, owner of Promo Joe by Jessica. (Submitted photo)
Promo Joe by Jessica was named the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Month for December.
The monthly award is sponsored by Enrichment Federal Credit Union.
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Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Oak Ridge Tagged With: Enrichment Federal Credit Union, Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, Promo Joe by Jessica, Small Business of the Month
Campbell retiring, Boatner to be new ETEC president
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Jim Campbell, president of the East Tennessee Economic Council, is retiring March 31 after serving as president for 26 years. ETEC's vice president, Tracy Boatner, has been selected to replace him.
The leadership change was announced Friday morning by Buddy Heins, ETEC board chair.
"We thank Jim for his many years of consistent and effective guidance of ETEC," Heins said in a press release. "The growth and influence of Jim and ETEC in Oak Ridge, East Tennessee, and beyond have been truly remarkable. I, along with the Executive Committee, look forward to Tracy's leadership of the organization in the months and years to come."
ETEC members met in person to celebrate the 2020 winners of the Muddy Boot Award and Postma Young Professional Medal, originally awarded virtually last December. Also announced was the date for ETEC's 2021 Annual Meeting and Awards Celebration, which will be February 4. At this end-of-year celebration, both Campbell and Boatner spoke about the leadership change.
"This has been fun," Campbell said. "The metamorphoses of this region over the last generation are a wonder, and there are only greater things in store for the Oak Ridge Corridor in the generation to come."
Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Buddy Heins, East Tennessee Economic Council, ETEC, Jim Campbell, Tracy Boatner
NNSA awards Y-12, Pantex contract
Posted at 2:43 pm November 29, 2021
The sign at the main entrance to the Y-12 National Security Complex is pictured above on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (File photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)
A contract worth $2.8 billion per year has been awarded to Nuclear Production One LLC to manage and operate the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge and Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration announced the contract award on Monday.
NPOne is a limited liability company that consists of Fluor Federal Services Incorporate and AECOM Energy and Construction, an Amentum company, a press release said.
"For over 40 years, the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas has been the nation's primary nuclear weapon assembly, disassembly, and life-extension center," NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby said in the press release. "The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has been strengthening our national security and reducing the global threat from weapons of mass destruction since 1943. I look forward to NPOne helping us accomplish our mission."
Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, National Nuclear Security Administration, Oak Ridge, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: contract, Y-12 National Security Complex
General Fusion locating U.S. headquarters in Oak Ridge
General Fusion Corporation will locate its U.S. headquarters in Oak Ridge as the company advances plans for a commercial pilot plant, Tennessee officials and company executives announced Wednesday.
The headquarters decision was announced Wednesday by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe, and General Fusion Corporation executives.
General Fusion Corporation is based in Vancouver, Canada. The company says fusion could provide a carbon-free power source that would meet the growing global energy demand while fighting climate change.
The U.S.-based subsidiary of General Fusion Incorporated will initially invest $539,000 and create 20 new jobs in Anderson County during the next five years, a press release said. It's the first private fusion company to establish an office in Tennessee, General Fusion said. The new headquarters in Oak Ridge will be near Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a science and energy lab that is home to the U.S. ITER program. ITER is an experimental fusion device being built in southern France through an international collaboration and planned to be the first such device to produce net energy.
In Oak Ridge, General Fusion said it will collaborate with "world-leading fusion scientists and tap into key engineering talent."
Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Bill Lee, Christofer Mowry, Chuck Fleischmann, fusion, General Fusion, ITER, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL
Small business of month: Acato Information Management
Posted at 10:22 am November 5, 2021
Acato Information Management, located at 173 Mitchell Road, is the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Month for November 2021. (Submitted photo)
Acato Information Management, located at 173 Mitchell Road, is the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Month for November 2021, a press release said. The award is sponsored by Enrichment Federal Credit Union.
"Service, integrity, and joy—those are the core values of Acato Information Management," the press release said. "Owner Cathy Toth says those values drive everything they do."
Launched in 2010, Acato is a software company focused on software quality. The company provides software testing for clients and government contractors.
"Traditional software testing revolves around executing tasks and resolving defects," Toth said. "The value we bring is figuring out how well you know if you got what you wanted and then how you will confirm that you got what you wanted. It's that analysis and then building tests to do that is really where we bring more value to the client." [Read more…]
Filed Under: Business, Front Page News, Oak Ridge Tagged With: Acato Information Management, Enrichment Federal Credit Union, Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, Small Business of the Month
Oak Ridge Chamber's Christmas Parade is Saturday, Dec. 11
Santa plans to participate in the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce's annual Christmas Parade. This year's traditional parade will be held on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, beginning at 6 p.m. (Photo credit: Ray Smith.)
The Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce will have its annual Christmas Parade on Saturday, December 11.
This year's theme is "The 12 Days of Christmas."
The sponsor of this year's parade is The Cowperwood Company.
There is no cost to participate.
The Chamber will be accepting parade entries online through Tuesday, December 7. You can register by visiting the Chamber's website: www.oakridgechamber.org. [Read more…]
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Spa One Seventy has ribbon-cutting
Posted at 2:10 pm November 1, 2021
The Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Spa One Seventy on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. (Submitted photo)
The Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Spa One Seventy on Tuesday, October 26.
Spa One Seventy is located at 170 West Tennessee Avenue, Suite 200.
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Donation gets STEAM rolling
Evelyn Andrews
Boothbay Region High School will get over $84,000 in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) equipment thanks to a donation from Paul Coulombe through Boothbay Region Education Foundation. The gift is part of over $128,000 Coulombe donated to enhance kindergarten through twelfth grade STEAM education.
Gifted and Talented director and science teacher Emily Higgins, engineering teacher Chip Schwehm, math teacher Ben Powell and science teacher Chris Liberti were among the many teachers from BRHS and Boothbay Region Elementary School who compiled the wish list which includes a rotary attachment for a new CNC router, three new 3D printers and filtration systems, 30 fully equipped laptops for computer aided design (CAD) programs, 12 new Vex robots, 11 upgraded sensors and parts for robots, manual mill, thermal cycler, two FlashGel electrophoresis systems with cameras, four single-well and double-well Lonza gel DNA cartridges, two digital micropipettes, white light illuminator, platform rocker, freezer, 5500 lumen projector and outfitting and funds to build a makerspace in part of the BRHS basement cafeteria.
The teachers said they still can barely comprehend Coulombe's generosity and the breadth of STEAM capabilities the Community School District will have. BRHS will have the capability of and maybe the upper hand on any STEAM program in the state, said Powell, whose most coveted item on the list is the rotary attachment for the laser cutter so it can work three-dimensionally.
"It really can't be overstated how incredibly generous this was," said Powell. "It literally blew my mind when I saw that they were going to give us this much money for all the STEAM stuff. It's crazy – it's so cool – I'm so excited for us and I'm so excited for the kids."
Powell said because BRES already has 3D printers and will get a new laser cutter with nearly $45,000 in funds from Coulombe, BRHS will have incoming freshmen already been exposed to CAD and other knowledge. Powell will be incorporating the 3D printers and laptops into his CAD class and potentially other areas while Schwehm will use the laptops to segue rising freshmen in his intro to engineering class.
"Every kid in the building will have experience with CAD and that should grease the way to use some of these other amazing tools we now have," said Schwehm. "That's key: Everybody needs to be able to draw a little bit."
The teachers said the laptops and makerspace will be central to just about everything STEAM related, especially Powell's CAD class, Liberti's robotics class, Schwehm's engineering and shop classes and Higgins' many gifted and talented uses and support of other programs. Said Schwehm, "We're going to have another classroom that's clean, it'll be set up with computers, it'll house Chris's robotics class and the best part of all, I think, is it allows other teachers to come in and occupy the shop. So, if I've got a class going, somebody can come in and use the equipment … It'll allow the kids to do more things and probably the biggest thing of all … we can keep all the things we have already and we're not losing the more well-rounded aspect of the space."
The new robotics equipment will keep the program current with new developments, said Liberti. Moving to the makerspace will free up the computer lab to other classes and the new fleet of robots will bring more students into the fold, he said. "A lot of kids, with the way their schedules fall or by the time they realize they have interest, might do this once, so they're trying to learn in one semester how to design this thing, how to build it, how to program it, how to troubleshoot it … (Now), that baseline knowledge is something more kids can come into robotics with so they can then go that much further."
Higgins said even teachers outside the STEAM program are finding more uses and relevance to the equipment. "We're not just going to use these things each in our little spots, eventually we will be using them together … The timing I think is really key where the technology is now enough out in the community and in the world that it's easier to see how you can fit it into your classes."
Liberti said much of the equipment would have taken years to get via the school budget, even with a historically hardworking administration and generous school board. "Our school and our community was supporting a shop space and supporting that instruction when many others weren't … I don't think the future is just high-tech either, I think it's the marriage of the two and the support we've had historically is what's allowing us to do that."
Said Higgins, "Our high school is regularly rated one of the top high schools in Maine and the pandemic has brought us even more students. I think this adds to the tremendous things that this high school offers. The pre-K through 12 programming that we already have will (be enhanced) with this gift and further enables us to nurture 21st century-literate citizens."
- Reprinted from the Boothbay Register


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hoakley December 9, 2017 General, Life, Painting
The Golden Home: 400th anniversary of Gerard ter Borch, 1
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), Mother Combing the Hair of Her Child (Hunting for Lice) (c 1652-53), oil on panel, 33.5 x 29 cm, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.
The Dutch Golden Age must have been an exciting time to live, when every decent-sized town seems to have had its own Master painter, and even the middle classes were keen to buy their work.
This month marks the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most important Golden Age artists who you (probably) won't have heard of: Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), also known as Gerrit ter Borch, Terborch, or even Terburg. His work was important to that of Vermeer, and to figurative painting as a whole.
Ter Borch was born in the central Netherlands city of Zwolle, his father being a master draftsman and artist who had the same name, so technically his father was 'the Elder', and he 'the Younger'. He was precocious in both drawing and painting, and was soon making excellent drawings. His father appears to have been his main teacher, particularly during his early training, although he is thought to have spent time as an apprentice with others too.
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), Man on Horseback (1634), oil on panel, 54.9 x 41 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Wikimedia Commons.
Ter Borch painted this Man on Horseback in 1634, when he was only seventeen, basing it on a drawing which he had made when he was only eight.
Soon after this, ter Borch is thought to have visited London, then to have made his way to Rome by 1641. In those locations, and others in Europe, he concentrated on painting portraits, but a period spent in Münster, Germany, coincided with peace negotiations there, and led to one of his masterpieces.
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648 (1648), oil on copper, 45.4 x 58.5 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.
For the thirty years between 1618-1648, central Europe had been engulfed in a bitter war between the Habsburg states, including the Holy Roman Empire and Spain, and their enemies, including the Dutch Republic. Ter Borch's magnificent painting of The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648 (1648) recorded the moment that the Thirty Years War ended, with the ratification of this treaty between the Dutch Republic and Spain. It also marked the birth of the Dutch Republic as an independent country.
The artist even seized the opportunity to include himself among the ranks of dignitaries: he is at the far left, with long hair and looking directly at the viewer. Although this may look a large and grand work, ter Borch painted it on copper, and it is little larger than a miniature.
Ter Borch's portraits were also generally small, and often full-length, a relatively novel format for the time; they were significant in popularising the format and developing portraiture as a distinct genre. In the late 1640s, he spent a little time in Madrid, but seems to have left there in something of a hurry, perhaps as the result of an intrigue, and returned to the Netherlands.
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), Portrait of Helena van der Schalcke (1646-1671) (c 1648), oil on panel, 34 x 28.5 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.
This charming Portrait of Helena van der Schalcke (1646-1671) was painted in about 1648, when she must have been little more than two years old. Nevertheless she is dressed as if fully-grown, with a small wicker bag on her arm.
During the 1650s, ter Borch evolved these full-length portraits into domestic genre scenes, which were influential on Vermeer's work, and of lasting impact.
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), Seated Girl in Peasant Costume (c 1650), oil on panel, 28 x 23 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.
Ter Borch's Seated Girl in Peasant Costume from about 1650 sets the style. Using his younger half-sister Gesina as his model, she sits in the near-blackness of a domestic interior, a pet stretched out on a cushion behind her. She has been reading the sheets held in her right hand, looked up from them, and now gazes in thought into the distance to the left.
Ter Borch leaves the viewer to speculate as to the underlying story. Is this a letter that she has been reading? Was the news good or bad, or is she now trying to get her head around a difficult situation?
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), The Messenger (Unwelcome News) (1653), oil on panel, 66.7 x 59.5 cm, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.
The Messenger, popularly know as Unwelcome News, from 1653, develops this more explicitly. The young man at the left is still booted and spurred from riding to deliver a message to this couple. Slung over his shoulder is a trumpet, to announce his arrival and importance. The recipient wears a shiny breastplate and riding boots, and is taken aback at the news which the messenger brings. His wife leans on her husband's thigh, her face looking serious.
The scene is the front room of a house in the Golden Age. Behind them is a traditional bed (typical in living areas at the time), with some of their possessions resting on a table between the couple and their bed. Hanging up on a bedpost is the husband's sword, and behind them is a gun and powder horn. Is the letter news of his recall to military service, perhaps? Will he soon have to ride away from his wife, leaving her to bring up their family?
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn (c 1652-54), oil on panel, dimensions not known, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA. Wikimedia Commons.
At about the same time, ter Borch painted A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn (c 1652-54), which incorporates its own still life of everyday farming objects such as a winnowing sieve and an axe.
Ter Borch's Mother Combing the Hair of Her Child shows a regular domestic routine, expressed more bluntly in its alternative title of Hunting for Lice (c 1652-53). The mother is looking intently at her young daughter's hair for traces of lice and nits, and running a fine-tooth comb through it to remove any.
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), The Van Moerkerken Family (c 1653-54), oil on wood, 41.3 x 35.6 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Wikimedia Commons.
His portrait of The Van Moerkerken Family (c 1653-54) shows another interesting scene. The father holds two clues to his identity and importance: a decorated cap, and a small egg-like accessory, which might have been a watch or a keepsake, perhaps. His wife looks at that, rather than their small girl, who stands in front and fixes the viewer in her gaze.
At about this time, in the early 1650s, ter Borch met the young Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), although it is not known how much of ter Borch's work Vermeer may have seen, nor whether they maintained contact or friendship.
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), Three Figures Conversing in an Interior (Paternal Admonition) (c 1653-55), oil on canvas, 71 x 73 cm, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Wikimedia Commons.
Three Figures Conversing in an Interior is another of ter Borch's narrative genre works, more popularly known as Paternal Admonition (c 1653-55). Standing with her back to us, wearing a plush going-out dress, is the daughter. To her left is a table, on which there is a small reading stand with books, almost certainly including a Bible.
Her parents are young, and they too are fashionably dressed. Her mother appears to be drinking from a glass, but her father is at the very least cautioning his daughter, if not giving her a thorough dressing-down. He wears a sword at his side. Behind them is a large bed, and to the right the family dog looks on from the gloom.
Ter Borch's rendering of the daughter's dress is remarkable, and illustrates one of his great strengths. Other fine detail in the clothing is shown with great care and realism.
By 1650, ter Borch settled in Deventer in the Netherlands, where he married in 1654, and was to remain until his death.
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What key decisions have you recently made? Are you a clear and effective decider? We each face these inescapable questions. You make personal decisions; you make relationship decisions, and you make work-related decisions. Have you discussed the art of decision making with your son or daughter and with the people you mentor? Decision making should be taught in the fourth and fifth grades as a fundamental skill. But unless you've had an enlightened mentor, it's unlikely you engaged in this conversation at age 10 or even 15. Can you imagine how different your life would have been had you mastered the art of decision making at the age of 12?
Please print out and keep this KEY to improve decision making and create a conversation with your family and with your team about decision-making blind spots. Encourage them to put into practice these insights. Coach and help them develop the mastery of decision making.
Here are the first five blind spots and mistakes people make when approaching decisions. We will share with you the next five blind spots in a future key. Please introduce these critical concepts to a young person this week. The exercise will help you internalize these for yourself and begin to create a legacy of wiser decisions.
The first blind spot is failing to recognize your biases and personal preferences, and how they influence your evaluation. We all have biases and preferences. The point is to become aware and get to know your biases. If you don't, they control you and prevent you from seeing the full picture and from making optimal decisions.
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him," said Aldous Huxley. What makes us humans is awareness and our ability to discern and separate the response from the stimuli. All forms of life have the capacity to react to stimuli. But reacting is not choosing. We have the capacity to consider options and choose how to respond.
Being unclear about your overarching purpose – your "Why" – can leave you rudderless and without a compass. Purpose provides criteria and a framework to determine objectives and options. You don't see Steve Jobs and Apple planting apple trees or Japanese gardens. Apple's purpose is not to plant cool gardens; they are in business to delight and transform people's lives with cool and innovative technology. Purpose outlines direction and defines criteria against which all decisions can be measured. People and organizations we admire lead with purpose; their "Why" guides their decisions and is evident in all that they do.
A decision is choosing between alternatives. If you are not clear about the "What" (objective) it's difficult to choose. By clarifying what success looks like (desired outcome) you form a set of measures to more selectively choose among the options. Years ago when we planned a family trip from Seattle to Boulder, our first choice was to drive and not to fly because we wanted to visit Yellowstone on the way. Our objective defined the route. The next choice was to drive through Montana because our second objective was to visit hot springs on the way. We then chose to stay an additional few days in Yellowstone and settled to seeing the Tetons from the road. The objective was to experience more of what we found in Yellowstone over the expediency of rushing to the next thing. Clarifying objectives and desires in our family discussions helped us make optimal decisions together.
Confusing "wants" for "musts." Purpose and objectives ought to provide clarity and distinction of musts from wants. Musts are deal breakers. Wants are nice to have. Failing to clarify a few definitive musts and separating the wants by order of importance makes any decision a lot more difficult. Specifically, large purchasing decisions like buying a home ought to be guided by defining first the musts and then ordering the wants by weight of importance. Clarifying musts and prioritizing wants is a great process and skill to practice. Write down your musts and wants to clarify, reason and prioritize them.
Now it's your turn. Turn the Key. Mentor and coach your family and your team in the art of decision making. Help them put to practice these insights and gain the confidence and self-esteem found in decision-making mastery. Create a future that will make you and your people proud.


In my web notes in M-Brane #1 and in my editorial in M-Brane #2, and now on the blog, I am recommending Rudy Rucker's webzine Flurb. Issue #7 is online, and it's full of good stuff. I really like this one because of its attractive readability and its fine content. One little thing that I don't like about it is that it does nothing toward what I increasingly see as the important agenda of finding good and fair ways to monetize short fiction. Flurb is entirely free to the reader...and it's a non-paying market for its writers. It does, however, have a prestige factor (imparted by Rucker) that's way beyond what a lot of free, non-paying webzines can offer.


Dental implants are used to replace lost natural teeth and are a complex form of cosmetic dentistry and oral surgery. The most pressing concern for many patients is cost but other factors, such as tooth location and the level of reconstructive work, should be considered. Here are six things that everyone should know about implants.
1. What is the General Cost for Dental Implants?
The cost of implants can vary by among dentists and surgeons, ranging from $800 to $5,000. Those who live in bigger cities or more affluent areas can expect to pay more, and the price can rise considerably for those who are in need of multiple implants. Most dental insurance plans will only cover 50%, making it worthwhile to create a payment schedule with the dentist office you choose.
2. What Makes Dental Implants Cost More?
While most implant procedures are handled by a single dentist and location, however, there may be situations that require consultation with another specialist, which, in turn, incur extra lab fees or need extensive restoration. All of these will factor into the overall cost of your dental implants.
3. What Happens During the Procedure?
In the first phase, the cosmetic dentist or oral surgeon will numb the area and open the gum at the site of the implant. The area will then be drilled to create space for the implant, which is inserted afterward. The gum is stitched up and the patient will need time to heal before receiving the prosthetic tooth.
4. Is There Any Pain Involved with the Procedure?
5. How Much of My Time Needs to be Invested?
After the implant is placed, you should expect to invest several months for the implant to merge with the jawbone, which is a process called osseointegration. Once this completes, the prosthetic tooth is placed in the implant and other reconstructive work can be done.
6. How Do I Choose the Right Cosmetic Dentist or Oral Surgeon?
In most cases, a patient's family dentist can make a referral in the case of cosmetic dentistry work, if not already performed in their office. If this is not possible, asking friends and family or going online can yield positive results. Always choose a board-certified surgeon or cosmetic dentist called an Implantologist, with extensive experience in implants procedures and knowledge.
Patients who are interested in an implant procedure should visit our Monroe dentist for a consultation and further information.


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Q: Cloning a SQL Server database to another collation I'm not sure if this is the best way to migrate data to another collation but I've done the following:
1) Scripted the source database and changed the collation in the script to my required one
2) Ran the script and created the new database with the wanted collation (along with all the tables,triggers,indexes etc.
3) I tried to 'Export Data' from the SQL Server management studio but I got an error related to code page differences.
4) Since Export/Import Data didn't work, I resorted to using bcp to mass export all the tables in the source database to txt files. After that I began importing the rows using bcp but I saw some errors related to truncation and invalid characters.
What's the best/proper way to migrate the data from a database with a different code page & collation after creating the clone from the scripted source?

A: I once had to change the collation of a whole database... Wasn't easy...
These were the steps:

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*copied the db

*deleted everything besides the naked tables (indexes, views, functions, procedures, constraints, trigger ...)

*changed the collations of textual columns semi-automatically (-> INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS are good to start off)

*used a tool (red gate ?) to compare with the copy and find all differences.

*this tool creates a difference script and - that's important! - one can configure to create this script without collation hints.

*Finally I applied the diff script (some manual work left...)

It might be easier to go the other way round and start of with a create script for just your tables without collation hints and do the rest against this... But my approach made it possible to let the data untouched.
Good luck!

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This is the intro from the old site. Some stuff needs to be reworked to accommodate the new system and changes to the story.
During "The Experiment" the Phayons discovered that the entire Quizorthian civilization had a special ability. The ability to use very powerful magic. This put fear deep into the Phayon government, which at the time, the Phayons had a large civilian presence on Quizorthia. As a result there was a Phayon Civilization Meeting called on Phayon in which the top Phayon leaders and figures decided what should be done to help their race. After a few days of discussions, the committee decided the only way to save their race was to put considerably large bounties on any and all Quizorthians. Upon the return to Quizorthia from this meeting, an accident had occurred on board the Diplomatic Cruiser. The Phayons, afraid the Quizorthians had caught them activated the ship's self-destruct mechanism in order to prevent the Quizorthians from finding out more information. Luckily, the information aboard the ship was collected by the Phayons, and passed to those in power for immediate Executive Action.
On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 the Phayons initiated a project that would kill every last Quizorthian in the Selena System and maybe even the known universe and perhaps to save the universe from certain potential doom. To provide proper preparations and planning, the war would not start until another 80 years or a Quizorthian attack before the official start. This time would allow the Phayons to conduct underground studies and experiments to determine Quizorthians' weaknesses... However the Quizorthian Monarchy suspected the Phayons to be up to something since the presence of Phayons on Quizorthia had suddenly dropped. According to rumor, the Quizorthian Monarch began to organize a defense system that remained unknown by the Phayons called the QSDA.
The Phayons employed an excellent research scientist to find the Quizorthians' greatest weaknesses... After a few days of research, a weakness was quickly discovered. The weakness was the Quizorthian's mental state. Quizorthians are found to be somewhat "depressed" and the research team developed a perfect solution, a solution if effective would wipe out all Quizorthians in existence. During the studies, the research team used dead Quizorthian bodies and also discovered that the Quizorthian bodies could be very valuable resources. Since he Quizorthians could become such a valuable resource, the research team told the Phayon government to offer more money for intact bodies. The problem though, Quizorthians cannot die easily by conventional means. They would need to be paralyzed. The doctor discovered a way to render a Quizorthian defenseless and make them even more depressed. By shoving a blade up a Quizorthians' spine the Quizorthian would become permanently paralyzed. To protect themselves from magic attacks the Quizorthians would need to be disoriented by stabbing them through the ears with 11-inch long ice picks. Since the head researcher did have a soft spot for Quizorthians he developed a special item called a [explain item=Life Gun], because of this the doctor mandated all Quizorthians to arrive at the [explain location=Isicander Outpost] alive (since they are paralyzed they cannot defend themselves).
Only one thing stopped the war from happening right away. The problem was the "Planetary Civilization Protection Pact" signed many centuries ago by Phayons, Quizorthians, Helfins and many other sentient races in the Selena System. This pact specifies that as long as a visiting race has an "official" presence on a planet, they cannot declare war and/or receive any tactical assistance from allies. Since the Phayon government wanted to keep this operation under wraps, they had to stick with this pact. Because of this pact there was a secret base established on the [explain location=Sea of Navarone] on Quizorthia. The code name was Isicander Outpost, which was named after the head researcher who masterminded the whole core operation, [char=Dr. J. Isican]. Dr Isican was considered an extreme genius by Phayon standards and became the "Chief of Command" for the Isicander Outpost. Construction on this secret Base continued for 20 years before it was found by a Quizorthian. The Phayons official story was "This is our defense against the evils of the universe". The Quizorthian Monarchy thought nothing of it and continued about their business. Since Quizorthia is such a vast planet full of resources, the Phayons had to do little transporting materials and supplies and most resources could come from areas local to the outpost.
After over 86 years of patience, paranoia, and backbreaking work, the Isicander Outpost was finished and operational. At the time, this was the largest, most sophisticated, self-supportive city in existence.
By the end of 2130 the dust settled... The war was over... Little did the Phayons know Quizorthians evolve quickly, in which they can make evolutionary steps on a generation scale. The surviving hidden children became stronger both mentally and physically. Because of the war the Quizorthians also learned extremely powerful spells. When the Phayons discovered that there were more Quizorthians alive then they originally anticipated, the Phayon Government officially and publicly announced another battle to finish them off because the Phayons thought this new generation was just as weak and defenseless... The set year was on New Years day 2140 for "Operation: 2 The Xtreme", just several months away.
Little does anyone know 2140 is also the beginning of something else. Another pure evil will rise and threaten all life, as it is known. Extremists on all sides seem to believe it is Armageddon, better known as the showdown between all evil and all holy that will destroy all life in its wake. The last questions are: Will the Quizorthians be at their knees begging for mercy, or will the universe be at its knees.
What side will you join?
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The Twin Pine Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol (CAP), based at Trenton-Mercer Airport, has been selected as Civil Air Patrol's National Squadron of Distinction for 2018.
Founded in Pennington in 1971 and a perennial fixture of the Mercer County aviation community, the Twin Pine squadron serves the community through cadet programs, emergency services and aerospace education outreach.
The Civil Air Patrol has been called "America's Best Kept Secret" in regard to the organization's service to local communities and its development of the nation's youth. Currently, former Twin Pine cadets attend both the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy. In addition, former Twin Pine Squadron cadets are currently serving in every branch of the U.S. armed services.
While the National Squadron of Distinction Award primarily recognizes Twin Pine for success in its Cadet Program, Twin Pine senior members train for emergency response, search and rescue, disaster relief and aviation missions in support of numerous federal and state agencies.
The squadron, based at the National Guard and NJ State Police Aviation Facility at Trenton-Mercer Airport in Ewing, meets Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9:30pm.