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Brad Seely Talks Taiwan Jones, Familiarity With Trindon Holliday
Special Teams Coordinator Brad Seely addressed the media following Wednesday's practice at the Oakland Raiders Napa Valley Training Complex.
It was the first time Coach Seely has spoken to the media since the beginning of Training Camp 2015, and during his time behind the microphone he addressed a variety of topics including his excitement for the upcoming season, as well as the progress of punter Marquette King.
EXCITING TIMES FOR THE SILVER AND BLACK
Coach Seely is entering his 27th season in the NFL, but his first with the Oakland Raiders.
Following practice, he talked of his excitement about wearing the Silver and Black.
"It's been really fun. I think it's a great organization, I'm excited to be here, I'm excited about our players and I'm excited about the season, so we'll see what happens."
BEING AGGRESSIVE ON SPECIAL TEAMS
When asked about his style, Coach Seely said it was aggressive, although his special teams units weren't going to be careless about attacking the other team.
"We want to be aggressive and attack a team. Now, we're going to pick our spots where we rush, but we want our guys to be schooled up on the technique so that if they have the opportunity… You see a lot of chances in the league where guys are free and they come free on the punter and they just don't finish the play because they don't quite know how to finish."
FAMILIARITY WITH TRINDON HOLLIDAY
Wide receiver Trindon Holliday joined the Silver and Black this offseason with the hopes of earning the job as the return man for the Raiders.
Coach Seely talked about Holliday and their history in the league together.
"He's still the same player I thought he was when we played against him and I had him at the 49ers. He has incredible talent. He's always got to work on ball security; that's always been a situation where he has to improve on, and he knows that and he's working on that."
THE VALUE OF TAIWAN JONES
While running back Taiwan Jones moved back to the offensive side of the football this season, his true value is on special teams.
When healthy, he is one of the best gunners in the league, and Coach Seely is happy to have him at his disposal in 2015.
"I'm excited about having Taiwan. He's one of the better special teams players in this league because No. 1, he's tough, No. 2, he's extremely fast, and No. 3, he wants to be a good player. If you have all of those things all converging, you're going to have a good football player. We can't have enough of those."
Entering his third season as the punter in Oakland, Marquette King has impressed Coach Seely with his work ethic and his willingness to learn.
"I think he's been doing really well. I think, again, Marquette is kind of a mirror of the rest of the team; he's an extremely hard worker, he wants to get better, he always likes to be coached, and I think he's done a nice job. We'll see as the games progress if that carries over to the games, because it has in practice."


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The Tipsy Vegan Q & A with Best of You Today
Turn Every Vegan Bite into Happy Hour With John Schlimm
(Originally Posted on BestOfYouToday.com)
So, how do you make a vegan dish sexy? Spike it with a little booze, says John Schlimm, author of The Tipsy Vegan: 75 Boozy Recipes to Turn Every Bite into Happy Hour. Schlimm, who has written several cook and entertainment books as well as a novel, believes that a little alcohol adds fun and flavor—to recipes as well as hanging out with friends and family. With recipe categories that bear titles like "Plastered Party Starters", "Boozy Soups", "Staggering Salads" and "Drunken Desserts," the book takes you on a humorous, creative and delicious adventure into vegan dishes that have, well, a little somethin' somethin'.
BOYT: The Tipsy Vegan: 75 Boozy Recipes to Turn Every Bite into Happy Houris not the typical cookbook. Can you give us a run-down of what this unusual book is all about?
John Schlimm: HA! Nothing I do is "typical" – What's the fun in that?! My goal with The Tipsy Vegan was to create the ultimate party-in-a-book; a party that everyone is invited to—whether you are a lifelong vegan, an occasional visitor, or merely hungry. Reality is checked on page 1 and its party-time from there on out. I also wanted to redefine what vegan food is. I think the word "vegan" is mysterious and even scary to a lot of people, and it shouldn't be. The Tipsy Vegan is about smashing through those tired stereotypes and misconceptions and getting down to what really matters: friends, family, great food, and LAUGHTER!!! There's a lot of humor that ties this book together.
BOYT: Why did you choose this particular kind of cooking for the book?
John Schlimm: Food and alcohol literally run through my veins. I'm a member of one of the oldest brewing families in the U.S. My great-great-grandfather, Peter Straub, founded our Straub Brewery in St. Marys, PA, in the 1870s. Today, it's one of the few remaining breweries to still be owned and operated by its founding family. I'm very proud of this heritage, which initially inspired me to write a few beer cookbooks several years ago, including The Ultimate Beer Lover's Cookbook, which is the largest beer cookbook ever published and was awarded both "Best Beer Book in the U.S." and "Best Beer Book in the World" by Gourmand International. The Tipsy Vegan is very much the next evolution in my affinity for boozy entertaining, and was the result of my transition to a plant-based lifestyle. The Tipsy Vegan embodies my new lifestyle, and my overall outlook on life as an adventure to be lived to the absolute fullest!
My own journey through various career paths leading to The Tipsy Vegan has been very much influenced by my great-great-grandfather, who at age 19 left everything he knew in Germany—his family, friends, home—and went off in search of the American Dream, with nothing more than a few pieces of gold sewn into his jacket and a recipe for beer. One hundred forty years later, his dream is still alive and putting smiles on people's faces. This immigrant's story is one that has played out in just about all of our families, and is one from which we can all garner hope and inspiration when in pursuit of our own dreams!
BOYT: As a vegan, what is the message of The Tipsy Vegan?
John Schlimm: The message of The Tipsy Vegan is to live life to the absolute fullest, no matter who you are, no matter what your circumstances, and no matter what pathway you choose. And, to LAUGH as much as possible! After all, we only pass this way once and it's for such a brief time! We need to make the most of it!
BOYT: Recipes with alcohol are influenced by the flavor; what kinds of qualities do they bring to vegan meals?
John Schlimm: Alcohol should be thought of as an amazing and flavorful seasoning for dishes, especially vegan dishes. It supercharges dishes and adds a zip that wasn't there before. For example, the combination of rum and hummus for the Carousing Cucumber Rounds with Rummy Hummus is a perfect marriage of two smooth, beautiful ingredients. In this case, the rum infuses the more modest hummus with a power punch of flavor that will dazzle as much at a fancy cocktail party as it will around a campfire. People shouldn't hesitate to add a dash or swig, as it were, to their dishes. Besides great flavor, alcohol turns dishes into electrifying conversation points.
BOYT: What beverages are good for flavoring what kinds of food? For instance, what is vodka good for and what kind of quality does it bring to the dish?
John Schlimm: Just about any alcohol can be added to something. For example, beer as an ingredient works with just about everything short of maybe cereal (But then beer is kind of like liquid cereal if you think about it–HA!). Also, the Cointreau in the Slur-Baaaaked Peaches, the amaretto in the Party Monster Pancakes, the dark rum in the Chugging Pumpkin Soup, the tequila in Tequila Seduces Guacamole, the wine in the Cockeyed Cranberry Compote, and so on all add their special magic to the dishes, transforming them into a special occasion on the plate.
And, VODKA(!!!), which is one of my favorites, takes salsa, gazpacho, roasted potatoes, pasta, and so much more in The Tipsy Vegan to a whole new level of boozy decadence.
BOYT: You also include recipes for cocktails in your book. Are these unique cocktails that you developed, or are they simply some of your favorites from among more common recipes?
John Schlimm: I started every chapter in The Tipsy Vegan with a cocktail recipe to drive home the point that cooking should be just as fun as eating. I had fun playing around with various concoctions to create the drinks, and I didn't have to look very far for willing samplers, I might add—but I also enjoyed taking a classic like the dirty vodka martini, which is one of my all-time favorite drinks, and switching it up by adding jalapeno juice instead of olive juice, thus resulting in the FAB and fiery Extra! Extra! Dirty-Hot Martini!
BOYT: You also have a new novel, Twang, about the world of country music and you used to be a country music publicist. How did you get from publicist to vegan writer to novel writer?
John Schlimm: That's the beauty of this life—it's an amazing adventure that can lead you in a million different directions, one more fantastic than the next. Once upon a time, I was a publicist in Nashville for various country music superstars, which was a wonderful experience and taught me more than I can ever explain (and before that, I worked in then-Second Lady Tipper Gore's communications office at The White House). In fact, while I was a publicist deep on the inside of the celebrity machine, I pretty much saw and heard everything you can imagine, which was eye-opening, to say the least, for this kid from a small town. The eccentric and marvelous characters I had the pleasure (most of the time) of interacting with while in Nashville inspired me to pay homage to them and the country music industry in Twang: A Novel. The novel is very much my sizzling and humorous love letter to Nashville, which just happens to have everyone from theNew York Post's Page Six to other media and fans across the country playing the ultimate guessing game.
However, I decided to leave Nashville and pursue my secondary teaching certifications in English and speech communications, and ultimately my master's degree in education at Harvard. After Harvard, I returned home and taught public relations at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. It was during this time that I published my first boozy cookbook, The Straub Beer Cookbook, which then led to another, and another, and another…And here we are now with The Tipsy Vegan!
BOYT: Lastly, can you share your favorite Tipsy recipe or meal?
John Schlimm:
Carousing Cucumber Rounds with Rummy Hummus
These little ditties will have you and your guests spinning round, round, round while the good times roll. The crunchy cucumbers cool down the assertive and spicy, lightly rummy hummus, bringing balance and satisfaction to your tummy.
1 (14-ounce) can of chickpeas, rinsed and drained thoroughly
2 canned chipotle peppers, stemmed if necessary, with a teaspoon of the adobo sauce they were canned with (add more peppers, if desired)
1 large garlic clove, coarsely chopped
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
3 tablespoons tahini (mixed well before measuring)
2 tablespoons white rum (or more to taste)
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more for sprinkling
1 large English (seedless) cucumber (usually plastic-wrapped at the supermarket)
1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted in a dry skillet just until golden brown
In a medium bowl, place the chickpeas, chipotles, garlic, lemon juice, tahini, olive oil, white rum, cumin, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Puree with an immersion blender, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary, about 2 minutes, until the mixture is smooth and fluffy. Or use a standing blender (see note below).
Use a vegetable peeler to peel the cucumber skin lengthwise at 1/4-inch intervals to create a striped pattern around the circumference of the cucumber and slice it crosswise into 1/4-inch rounds. If the cucumber skin is tough, peel the entire cucumber. Arrange the cucumber discs on a platter.
To assemble, just before serving, lightly salt the cucumber rounds. Top each round with a generous teaspoon of hummus. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Yield: ABOUT 35 HORS D'OEUVRES
Note: Don't be tempted to use a food processor to make this spread because you won't get that perfectly smooth texture.
About John Schlimm
John Schlimm is a member of one of the oldest brewing families in the United States. The award-winning author of several books, including The Ultimate Beer Lover's Cookbook and The Seven Stars Cookbook, Schlimm holds a master's degree from Harvard and lives in Pennsylvania.
Website: http://johnschlimm.com
Twitter: Follow @JohnSchlimm on Twitter
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Summary: Must one choose lentils over Turkish Delight? In most cases, the answer is "yes." But the author here stresses balance in life. Health, with a strong emphasis on balanced, wholesome living, is a non-negotiable for stewards of the Kingdom.
In his classic Christian series for children of all ages, C. S. Lewis tells how the White Witch of Narnia meets Edmund, one of the four children who accidentally enters Narnia through the wardrobe, and puts him under her spell.
Edmund's appetite is his downfall—for he becomes the witch's captive when he greedily eats a whole box of Turkish Delight and begs for more. In the original The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the artist clearly captures what one might look like after devouring a whole box of sugary candy.
This illustration puts me in mind of another story on the effects of diet. Four bright, young men were offered what was considered the best food and wine around—taken directly from the table of the king himself! But Scripture says, Daniel stepped out, determined that he would not defile himself by eating this rich fare [Dn 1].
Instead, he and his friends requested a ten-day trial of simple food and water. Depending on the translation, the food has been called pulse, lentils, or vegetables. You would think that such a short time might not do the trick. But "at the end of the ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food" (Dn 1:15). Not only did the lads pass this short-term test, but after the three-year training period, they proved to be far superior to their peers in knowledge and skill—in both books and life.
In this issue of Dynamic Steward we take up the topic of health and reflect on its relationship to stewardship. We know that how we care for our bodies—both physically and emotionally—shapes the quality of life we possess.
In order to live a life to the fullest and serve God faithfully, we need a balance of healthful practices in our lives— fresh air, sunlight, moderation, rest, exercise, proper diet, pure water inside and out, confidence in His power—all of these are remedies for optimal health (Ministry of Healing, p 128).
Magic spells aside, perhaps "Turkish Delight verses Lentils" is no way to title this writing after all. For there is room for most things, in moderation. But health, with a strong emphasis on balanced, wholesome living, is a non-negotiable for stewards of the Kingdom.


To be more successful, productive and creative, Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, explores four rules for embracing meaningful work.
Breakthrough ideas require new ways of thinking and new ways of working. Unlimited resources and limitless possibilities can produce incredibly innovated products. But, more often than not, the most creative problem solving occurs within a set of boundaries.


I've been invited to join the Read 'Em & Reap Blog Hop by author Lisa Medley. The blog hop takes a look at tons of cool reaper stories, just in time for Halloween. Take a look through the links and meet your next favorite scary book!
For my part of the hop, I'll be answering Lisa's questions about my books. I've also included an excerpt from MY SISTER'S REAPER to pique your interest, in case you haven't had a chance to give my books a look. Leave a comment telling me who your favorite supernatural creature is for your chance to win paperback copies of My Sister's Reaper and My Tethered Soul! There's also a rafflecopter you just can't miss out on!
Lisa: What first piqued your interest in writing about reapers?
Dorothy: All books need a bad guy, right? When I developed the concept of my protagonist, I had to make sure I picked a worthy antagonist. Zadie, in the Reaper's Rite series, is a Vila—half witch/half faery. She can make things happen, like magical willpower. I needed a creature or being that would match her power and challenge her. I figured a grim reaper would be a pretty challenging being.
Lisa: What makes your reaper different?
Dorothy: What sets my reapers apart from others lies within the Reaper's Rite—a contract made between a witch and a Reaper Lord centuries ago. Not only do the reapers in my books take the souls of deceased humans, but they also crave the souls of Vila. Vila have something special in their blood that makes them more appealing to my reapers.
Lisa: Are your reapers Heroes or Villains?
Dorothy: Big time villains, and creepy as heck!
not to have either a book in hand or her fingers flying across a laptop, she also enjoys spending time with her family. She believes you are never too old to enjoy a good swing set and there's never a bad time for some dark chocolate. She is represented by Sarah Negovetich of Corvisiero Literary Agency.
Interview with Sarah Bromley, Author of A Murder of Magpies!
Good morning! It's the day before Halloween! Oooooooo! What better way to prepare for the spookiest holiday of the year than to hear about an awesome book? Today, we are lucky to have Sarah Bromley here to answer a few questions about her new book, A Murder of Magpies!
Hi, Sarah! Welcome to We Do Write. Tell us a bit about yourself.
I'm a displaced northerner living near St. Louis with my husband, our three children, and my three dogs. There are woods and water by our house. I'm good with a paintbrush and am too short to reach anything above the second shelf without a stepstool.
Tell our readers a bit about A MURDER OF MAGPIES.
It's a dark, little book about a girl, Vayda, and her twin brother who have far too much psychic power for their age, and the catchall name they have for their powers is Mind Games. There are old family secrets, murder, birds trapped in an attic, and a very cold Wisconsin winter, and through it all, Vayda finds herself deciding how many of her secrets she is willing to share with Ward, the boy next door who sometimes sits on his roof and watches the Aurora Borealis. All secrets come with a price.
Wow! So excited to read this one! How did the idea of the story come to you?
There's Romani on my mother's side of the family, and she was pretty superstitious. As am I, so a lot of that played into the development of Vayda's family. There's also a strong line of intuition and just "knowing" that follows the women in my family, and I played a little with that as well. Vayda came to me as a scream, a girl waking up screaming, and I had to find out why.
I'm a plotster. I pants the first fifty pages or so of a project so that I know its rhythm and voice uninterrupted. Then I sit back and look at all the threads I've made and figure out how to braid them together.
I hate drafting. Hate it. I have it all right here in my head and wish I could just dump out my brain box in one go instead of it, you know, taking time to type out.
A cup of coffee and one of my three dogs either in my lap or warming my feet.
I've just recently read BETWEEN THE SPARK AND THE BURN by April Genevieve Tucholke, and I'm due to crack into THE CURE FOR DREAMING by Cat Winters any day now. Both Cat and April are amazing authors, and I love their work. They could write graffiti, and I'd find it stunning.
Hmm, I think I'd go with the power to heal. I think there's a lot of good that could be done with such a gift.
As someone who writes horror and rather dark books with murder, I've had to Google a lot of ways that people can die, either by misadventure or by others' hands. For a recent project, I was looking up both farming accidents and toxic plants native to Missouri.
…herding three small children or volunteering at the stable for disabled riders.
I'm extremely grateful to my husband and kids who've tolerated a lot of, "Just let me finish writing this scene …" and my agent who plucked me out of the slush pile and remains solidly in my corner. The YA Scream Queens, SS Sisters, and the BookYArd have helped navigate me along this journey, and I would be lost without them. My real-life sister and mother-in-law are my break from the writer world, and I'm also really grateful to my editor, Courtney Koschel, who championed this book.
Today we are so happy to welcome pub sister and all around awesome person, Kelly Hashway! Kelly's newest book, a Middle Grade Adventure entitled CURSE OF THE GRANVILLE FORTUNE, just released and she is here to answer a few questions.
Howdy, Kelly! Welcome back to We Do Write! Tell us about CURSE OF THE GRANVILLE FORTUNE.
So fun! In CURSE OF THE GRANVILLE FORTUNE, your main character is a middle-school aged boy. Did you have any trouble identifying with him?
Oddly enough, no. Even though J.B. is a boy, I really identified with him. Like a lot of kids his age, he worries that he's different, a freak even. I think we all have felt that way at some time or another. J.B. struggles to find himself and protect the people he cares about, and the fact that he has mind-numbing visions makes everything that much more difficult. While I've never had visions, I do believe in ESP and think kids are more in tune with it than adults.
What challenges did you face writing this story?
This was the first book I didn't write linearly. I wrote the final chapter first, and then went back to the climax, and then to the beginning. I was all over the place because there were key scenes I needed to get down in order to tie all the pieces of the puzzle together. Once I had them drafted, the rest of the story came much more easily, but it was definitely a challenge to break free from my usual pattern of starting from chapter one and writing to the end.
I also write linearly and would probably feel the same way, if I had to break that mold. Who would you say your biggest influences have been?
I feel like I talk about Rick Riordan a lot, but he was a huge inspiration for this book. The Percy Jackson series was by my side while I wrote Curse of the Granville Fortune. I was constantly rereading my favorite parts of those books to make sure I had the voice and pacing right for middle grade readers. I owe Riordan a big thanks for mentoring me through his novels, so to speak.
I'm such an open book I'm not sure what I haven't shared online. I can recite the alphabet backwards, I can run a 5K race in 18 minutes, my fingernails grow insanely fast, and I was 34 before I ever dyed my hair. How's that?
I know you have quite a few published books under your belt, but think back to the beginning and tell us a bit about your journey to publication. What was your experience?
Curse of the Granville Fortune was actually the book I queried agents with. It wasn't the first book picked up by a publisher though because I ended up going out on submission with my YA novels first. But CotGF did land me my first agent after years of rewriting the book. It went from an adventure story to a fantasy and saw a tense and POV change. Basically, I rewrote EVERYTHING. But it was worth it in the end.
Plotter, but the extent to which I plot depends on the book. I have to know the beginning and the end at the very least. Sometimes I'm good with just that. Other times I need pages and pages of notes before I start drafting.
Both. I'm always reading two books, one on my Kindle and one paperback or hard cover. I love both formats.
White chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or no chocolate?
I'm with you on that one! Is there anyone you would like to thank for supporting you in you journey?
Oh wow, so many people. My family, critique partners, friends, agent, publishing team, my street team, the bloggers who are helping to spread the word about my books, and of course my readers.


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Paul C. Dougherty
President/Chief Investment Officer
Paul is the President and Chief Investment Officer of PRP, the private real estate alternative investment firm he founded in 2005. As such, he is responsible for the general oversight of the firm as well as for PRP's commingled funds and separate accounts. In his role as President, Paul leads the company's strategic growth, managing its daily business operations, setting corporate strategy and maintaining and building relationships with the firm's stakeholders: lenders, investors and advisors.
For the past 30 years, Paul has structured investments with an asset value of over $20 billion. PRP's four commingled discretionary investment funds and separate account investment vehicles have invested in $4 billion in real estate investments across 17 U.S. markets. This portfolio includes 5 million square feet of single-tenant and multi-tenant office, medical office, logistics, retail and data centers, and over 5,000 units of multifamily, condominium and assisted living properties. PRP's investments are owned in commingled real estate funds and separate accounts with institutional investors.
Prior to forming PRP, Paul was Managing Director of the Eastern Region of CBRE Capital Markets. While at CBRE, Paul founded CBRE Realty Finance (NYSE: CBF), a commercial real estate mortgage REIT. Before that, he was the founder and National Director of the Finance & Capital Markets Group for Insignia/ESG, Inc., where he led a national team of real estate investment bankers involved in the project financing, bond financing, joint venture equity structuring and project development financing of investment-grade office, retail, industrial, lodging and multi-family projects. CBRE acquired Insignia/ESG in 2001. Paul started his career in 1987 at Barnes, Morris & Pardoe in Washington, DC, a company that was acquired by Insignia/ESG in 1997.
Paul was a founding director and formerly served as a member of the Director's Loan Committee for the Bank of Georgetown. Additionally, he formerly served as a Board member of the Children's National Hospital, the Board and the Executive Committee of the Children's National Hospital Foundation, the Board of the Starlight-Starbright Children's Foundation Mid-Atlantic, and a founder and former Board member of the First Tee of Washington, DC. Paul is an active member of the Economic Club of Washington and multiple real estate trade organizations.
Paul is an alumnus of the University of Southern California and American University and holds a certificate in Real Estate Management; Finance, Design and Leadership from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
When he's not spending his time with his kids Luke and Cate or enjoying a great meal, Paul spends his free time golfing, gardening, hiking, skiing, fly fishing and tending to his koi pond.
Richard Romar
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Rick joined PRP in 2010. He's responsible for leading a team that oversees all reporting and analysis, as well as the day-to-day operations for the funds and the firm. He also serves as a member of PRP's Investment Committee. A family man and avid basketball fan, Rick also enjoys spending time hiking and playing golf.
Rick has more than 25 years of experience in financial management, reporting and analysis, accounting operations, business planning and strategy, venture negotiations and structuring, tax structuring, forming off-shore blockers and Sharia-compliant finance. Prior to joining PRP, Rick was Chief Financial Officer of BV Group Ventures, a firm with investments in private equity, fund of funds and real estate. BV's real estate investments included 28 operating properties and three development projects totaling more than 6MM square feet leased primarily to the GSA, owned directly or through joint ventures. Earlier in his career, Rick served as Chief Financial Officer of Venturehouse Group, a Washington, DC–based investment firm, CFO of the consulting division of KPMG, held several senior financial roles with NYNEX Corporation (now Verizon) and began his career on the audit staff in the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Rick received his BS in Accounting from Syracuse University, an MBA in Strategic Business from Pace University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Tamara Axelrod
Director, Asset Management
Tami Axelrod oversees asset management for PRP. With more than 12 years of commercial real estate experience, she works with PRP's staff on asset oversight, budgeting and investor reporting. Tami is a movie lover and avid traveler, and in her free time, she enjoys spending time in Washington, DC, with her husband and daughter.
Prior to joining PRP, Tami worked for the Montgomery Housing Partnership (MHP), where she oversaw all aspects of renovation projects owned by the organization from inception to completion — including securing financing and evaluating the feasibility and redevelopment potential of properties within the organization's existing portfolio. Prior to her time at MHP, Tami held various positions with Bonaventure Realty Group, including positions in compliance, acquisitions and asset management.
Tami received her BA from the University of Pittsburgh and a Masters in Real Estate Development from the University of Maryland.
Stephen Muller
Managing Director/Investment Director
Steve joined PRP in 2014 and is responsible for sourcing and executing office investments. He serves as a member of PRP's Investment Committee. Steve enjoys skiing, playing golf, Peloton cycling and eating Tex-Mex cuisine. On weekends, he likes to watch the NY Giants and read The Sunday Times.
Steve has more than 30 years of experience acquiring, leasing, managing, developing and redeveloping more than 2.5MM square feet of office and multifamily — including 1301 K Street, 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, the XM Satellite Radio headquarters and Fairway Park.
Prior to joining PRP, Steve was Founder and Managing Principal of Union Realty Partners and Vice President and Regional Manager for Prentiss Properties. Steve is past Chairman of the Franklin Square Association and past Director of both the DC Building Industry Association and Action 29-New York Avenue Metro Station, a public–private venture created to finance the new metro station.
Steve received his BS from Babson College and an MBA from Columbia University.
Development Executive
Richard joined PRP in 2014. He's responsible for sourcing and executing multifamily investments and serves as a member of PRP's Investment Committee. Richard has two daughters — Sarah and Eliza — both recent college grads now working in Nashville and Washington, DC. He likes to spend time sailing, skiing, cycling, playing tennis and hiking and camping with his two dogs. He's also renovated a number of old houses and boats and has a home for retired horses on his farm in Virginia.
Richard has more than 25 years experience developing and stabilizing $1B of multifamily (4,000 units) and mixed-use projects, as well as three office-to-residential conversions with a total cost of $240MM.
Prior to joining PRP, Richard was Senior Vice President for Vornado/Charles E. Smith, where he directed DC residential development and planning. He also founded Piedmont Ventures and worked as Managing Director at Capital Properties. Richard is a member of ULI and is on the Board of Directors of the Montgomery Housing Partnership.
Richard received his BA from Vassar College and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Georgetown University.
Joseph Neckles
Joseph Neckles is a Managing Director with PRP and focuses on originating single-tenant office and industrial acquisition opportunities for the company's investment vehicles. He works out of PRP's New York City office at 800 Third Avenue, which he opened in 2018. He lives in Rye, New York, with his wife Maureen and three young daughters. Outside the office, Joe enjoys long-distance running, and has finished two marathons — one in NYC and one in Harrisburg, PA.
Prior to joining PRP, Joe was a Vice President at VEREIT, Inc. (NYSE: VER) focused on single-tenant office and industrial investments. Prior to VEREIT, he spent ten years in various roles at Lexington Realty Trust (NYSE: LXP). Throughout his career, which spans more than 14 years, Joe has been responsible for sourcing, underwriting and structuring direct equity, joint venture, sale leaseback and build-to-suit transactions nationwide. During that time, he has executed more than $1.1 billion in commercial property acquisitions across the United States.
Joe received his BA from Fordham University and a Masters in Real Estate Finance and Investment from New York University.
Jake Ying
Jake joined PRP in 2015 and is responsible for the firm's acquisitions, development and asset management activities. In his free time, he enjoys playing soccer and hanging out with his pug.
Prior to joining PRP, Jake was an Analyst at Greysteel, a commercial real estate brokerage firm. Jake was responsible for underwriting more than 150 multifamily investment sales properties in the Mid-Atlantic region while at Greysteel.
Jake received his BS in Accounting & Finance from Syracuse University and a Master of Accounting from William & Mary.
Chris joined PRP in 2020 and is primarily responsible for the asset management activities of the firm's office portfolio. When he's not working, he enjoys soccer, running, biking, skiing and spending time with his wife and two kids.
Prior to joining PRP, Chris worked as an Associate in Cushman & Wakefield's Capital Markets Group, where he participated in over $3 billion worth of investment sales transactions. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Chris was a Senior Associate in the audit and assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Chris received his BS in Accounting from the University of Maryland. He holds his Real Estate License in DC, MD and VA and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Ben Vick
Associate, Aquisitions
Ben Vick joined PRP in 2021. He is responsible for sourcing and executing investments, and assisting with asset management. Outside the office, Ben enjoys golfing, strength training, and anything that gets him outdoors.
Prior to joining PRP, Ben worked as an acquisitions and asset management associate at a regional investment firm with commercial real estate holdings in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia. Before that, he served as associate general counsel at a Northern California investment firm with real estate and restaurant assets located across the country. Throughout his career, Ben has been responsible for evaluating and executing a wide variety of complex commercial transactions.
Ben received his BA from Santa Clara University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He also received a JD from Boston University School of Law and an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Bjarki Juliusson
Bjarki joined PRP in 2019 and is responsible for the reporting and analysis of the firm's office and residential portfolio. Bjarki enjoys playing golf and playing guitar. He's a close follower of the English Premier League and is working on reading his way through the entire Stephen King bibliography.
Prior to PRP, Bjarki worked as Project Accountant for JBG Smith, where he prepared and reviewed monthly financial statement reporting packages for Legacy Vornado assets. Before JBG Smith, Bjarki oversaw residential portfolios as a Portfolio Accountant at Pinnacle Property Management Services.
Bjarki received his BS in Accounting from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida.
Landon McKenzie
Landon joined PRP in 2020 and is responsible for the firm's acquisitions and asset management activities. Outside the office, Landon likes to play golf, surf and snowboard.
Prior to joining PRP, Landon interned as an analyst for Atollogy, an integrated technology start-up company in Silicon Valley. Landon was responsible for analyzing market expansion opportunities. While working with Atollogy, he participated in deals which resulted in doubling the company's valuation.
Landon has a BA from Dartmouth College, where he was also a member of the men's lacrosse team.
Colleen Ramsey
The newest member of the PRP team, Colleen joined the firm in September of 2020 as Office Manager. She brings more than 20 years of executive experience to the firm and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day functions of the office as well as supporting all team members in their varied roles.
When Colleen isn't working, she enjoys watching her son play baseball for the University of Maryland. She loves reading mystery novels and motivational books — usually alongside a big cup of coffee on weekends. Colleen credits her passion and motivation to her daily morning fitness routine, and she tries to start every day with fresh air. Above all, her family is her support system, and she values the time she spends with them walking, exploring new places and eating meals — as well as the occasional post-dinner Scrabble game.
Prior to joining PRP, Colleen managed a tax law firm and worked as an account manager for Pacific Life Wholesalers.
PRP is committed to being a positive force in the communities in which we live and operate. Our employees are proud to give their time, talents and resources to local and national causes, and PRP helps to provide tools and programs to support this community engagement. PRP has worked extensively with the following organizations: Children's National Medical Center, Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless, DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and Make-A-Wish Foundation.
We are a cross-disciplined team with an average of 25 years in institutional capital management.
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Parallel to the development of the Surf Culture and its way of life since the 1950s in France
and around the world, the Surf Art has evolved to become a multidisciplinary artistic genre : graphic and plastic arts, digital media, cinematographic or advertising, music, everyday objects etc …
The origins of this culture and related art date back more than 3000 years.
A culture with a specific identity continued to evolve over the centuries,
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The Bordeaux non profit Culture S and Vagabonde have become references in the surf culture landscape in France since 2014, dedicated to the organization of artistic and cultural events , with surf culture and environmental values as foundations.
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The Transportation Safety Administration's Puppy Program selectively breeds, raises and prepares puppies to be future explosives detection dogs within the National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program. Dogs that graduate from training are assigned to airports and mass transit systems nationwide. The program is located at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
The program depends on volunteer families in San Antonio and Austin, Texas to raise puppies from age nine weeks to 12 months, when they can enter explosives detection training. During this time, families are responsible for providing their pups with a well-rounded, socialized and nurturing environment. To help the families, there is an orientation and a puppy raising guidebook, and the staff is available anytime for questions or emergencies.
The program also supplies food, equipment and medical care for the puppies while in foster care. The puppies are returned to the program for one week each month for medical and behavioral evaluation. The program provides feedback to the foster families on how the puppy is developing. At approximately one year of age, the pups are returned to the program to start their official training.
Potential puppy foster families must have a secure fenced yard, a vehicle in which the pup can be transported, and no more than two other dogs in the home.


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California wildfires claim several marijuana farms, threatening growers with financial losses
By John Schroyer | Mjbizdaily.com | August 21, 2020
The series of wildfires ravaging Northern California have inflicted major damage on several marijuana farms, with possibly more outdoor grow operations threatened in the region.
"There are a ton of farms that are located in the fire's path. No one's out of the woods yet. This is just starting," said Keala Peterson, whose small, family-run cannabis operation, Sweet Creek Farms in Sonoma County, was damaged by the fires.
Peterson noted that many of the largest fire complexes were either not contained at all or only slightly contained by firefighters, a situation that exposes cannabis farmers to significant financial losses because the outdoor crops aren't necessarily insured.
Peterson said Sweet Creek Farms lost about four-fifths of its marijuana crop to the fire on Wednesday but noted that firefighters were able to save part of her family compound.
"It looks like a wasteland," she said. "Pretty much, it's a total loss."
Peterson said her cannabis crop isn't insured, and she estimated her family will likely absorb about $150,000 in losses, perhaps more, if they aren't able to salvage the unburned marijuana that has yet to fully flower.
"We're guardedly optimistic that those (unburned marijuana plants) could come to term, but with smoke damage, if the bud has set enough, it'll just be smoky marijuana, and nobody wants to smoke that," Peterson said.
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PBR Names Executive Director of New Performance Centre
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New State of the Art Training Facility to Serve Athletes Within and Outside Western Sports
PUEBLO, CO (May 3, 2019) – Antwon Burton has been named Executive Director of the PBR Sport Performance Center, a new state-of-the-art facility providing sports development,training, fitness and recovery programs for athletes.
Burton, a former NFL defensive tackle, oversees operations, athlete training recruitment and camp scheduling for the 18,000 square-foot facility, which officially opened today within the newly expanded Pueblo Convention Center.
The PBR Sport Performance Center aims to be an incubator for future bull riders, other Western sports athletes, and amateur and professional athletes across a range of sports who will participate in extensive fitness, nutrition, training and recovery programs utilizing advanced equipment and technology. Camps for athletes in traditional club sports will also be held regularly for athletes ranging from youth to established professionals.
As part of the Pueblo Convention Center expansion, the facility has the ability to host camps in sports such as wrestling and gymnastics, where a large, open indoor space is needed for training.
Burton, a graduate of Temple University in 2006, spent six years playing professional football, including with the Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams and Carolina Panthers.
After leaving the NFL, he continued his passion for the game by training at some of the most prestigious and innovative athletic training centers in the country, including FitSpeed in Weston, Florida and Exos in San Diego. He is certified in neuromuscular activation and holds a certificate from Exos Sports Performance, one of the top sports performance franchises in the country.
Burton has opened his own gym, Next Level Performance in Pueblo, CO, and is director of athlete performance for More than Football, a combine and life skills program that trains and guides college athletes with the skills and abilities needed to succeed in professional football and also in life on and off the field. In addition to rigorous physical training, athletes who complete the program also participate in financial, emotional, spiritual and career driven educational courses.
"As an athlete who relied on blue-collar grind and grit to make it to the top of his sport, an innovative athlete trainer across major sports, and an entrepreneurial business owner, Antwon is uniquely qualified to build the PBR Sport Performance Center into a world-class training facility for athletes in western sports and beyond," said Sean Gleason, CEO, PBR. "The PBR Sport Performance Center is another milestone in the history of our sport, and we're excited to work with Antwon in building this unique, one-of-a-kind facility for athletes in and outside of western sports."
"PBR truly understands sports, marketing and entertainment, and with the growing star power of western sports athletes who are on par with those of any professional sport, I believe the sky is the limit for this sport's growth," Burton said. "I'm so excited to be working with the PBR team to make an impact on both PBR's growth and the community here in Pueblo."
IMG Academy helped plan, design and program the PBR Sport Performance Center. Bradenton, Fla. based IMG Academy, an innovator in how athletic training is delivered over the past 40 years, and PBR are part of the Endeavor Network.
About PBR (Professional Bull Riders)
The world's premier bull riding organization began as a dream of 20 bull riders 26 years ago and now competes in five countries. On its elite tour, the organization features the top 35 bull riders in the world and the top bulls in the business. The televised PBR Unleash the Beast tour, along with the PBR Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour (RVT), the PBR Touring Pro Division (TPD) and the PBR's international circuits in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico have paid more than $184 million in earnings to athletes. Thirty bull riders have earned more than $1 million, including two-time PBR World Champion J.B. Mauney who has become the top-earning athlete in Western sports history with more than $7.3 million in career earnings. PBR is part of the Endeavor (formerly WME | IMG) network. For more information on the PBR, go to PBR.com, or follow on Facebook at Facebook.com/PBR, Twitter at Twitter.com/PBR, and YouTube at YouTube.com/PBR.
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It's the part of the year when African journalists are recognized. The nominations for 2013 edition of the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist are out. Among the nominees are two Ghanaian journalists, Gifty Andoh Appiah of Joy News TV and Rebekah Awuah of GBC 24.
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one common route up New York's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills?
rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter set off a race riot in 1935 in Harlem, New York?
much of the recorded rowdyism in New York of the 1820s took place at the short-lived Lafayette Circus?
in order to end the dispute over jurisdiction of Fort Orange, Pieter Stuyvesant created the village of Beverwijck in 1652, which eventually became the city of Albany, New York?
historian Sue Eakin published an edited version of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a free black taken from New York into slavery in Louisiana?
in 1967, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the world's second human heart transplant, in a procedure on a 19-day-old infant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York?
since 2002, New York's Middletown High School has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?
singer Eva Tanguay was reportedly booed off the stage in her first appearance at Cohoes Music Hall in New York?
the golf course (pictured) around the buildings of the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District in Garrison, New York helps preserve their historic rural character?
the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849?
the Dobbs Ferry post office (pictured) has an unusually high level of ornament compared to most Colonial Revival-style post offices in New York?
the Delmar post office is the only one of the 13 in New York designed by Louis Simon in the Colonial Revival style without a cupola?
the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation?
the acoustics at the South Granville Congregational Church (pictured) in New York are so good that community concerts are often held there despite other churches in the town being larger?
every major street in New York's Downtown Albany Historic District (17th-century map pictured) has a major building as a focal point?
during the American Civil War, Pennsylvania provided over 360,000 soldiers who served in the Union Army, more than any other Northern state except New York?
a New York appeals court recently ruled that Sneha Anne Philip died in the collapse of the World Trade Center even though she had been missing since the night before the attack?
a house was held to be haunted by poltergeists as a matter of law in the 1991 New York case Stambovsky v. Ackley, making the Nyack, New York house the only legally haunted house in the United States?
a 2008 study concluded that the Ramapo Fault in New York has the potential to cause a magnitude 7 earthquake and billions of dollars in damages?
a 150 year-old weeping beech tree, considered to be the source of weeping beeches in the United States and declared a landmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park at Kingsland Homestead in Queens, New York?
Culver Randel manufactured pianos at his mill (pictured) in Florida, New York?
Judge Ronald Cicoria of Livingston County Court in Geneseo, New York (courthouse pictured), retired in 2005 as the longest sitting judge in New York State?
a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko in the uniform of a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary Army is featured at the Polish American Museum in Port Washington, New York?
a replica of the château from the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beauregard was constructed for the Guggenheim family on Long Island, New York?
at the height of its popularity, New York's Easter Parade drew crowds of over a million?
despite being set in New York, All Good Things has been filmed mostly in Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?
as New York's General Counsel, Michael C. Finnegan ended a century-old debate over New York City's water supply when he brokered the New York City Watershed Agreement?
after the First National Bank of Brewster, New York, closed in 1964 the Town of Southeast made the building its new town hall?
advertising executive turned vintner Robert Palmer was one of the first to export overseas wines produced in the North Fork of New York's Long Island?
the village of Montgomery, New York, was originally named Ward's Bridge?
the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution?
the Rome Laboratory in New York is one of four superlabs run by the U.S. Air Force?
the historic district in the Village of Monroe includes the factory where Velveeta was first made and the oldest Masonic lodge in New York state?
the Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway is the only reference route in New York owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation?
the Patroon Creek was listed in 1993 as one of the top 10 most polluted rivers in New York, and heavy metals such as depleted uranium were found in the creek in 2003?
the Montgomery Worsted Mills, a Registered Historic Place in Montgomery, New York, now earn most of their money by generating hydroelectric power from the nearby Wallkill River, rather than the manufacture of textiles?
the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown, New York, features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state?
the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany, New York, has an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack and assure continuation of the New York State Government?
the Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in New York's Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District?
the largest derrick in New York State at the time was used to build the Broadway Theatre in Kingston?
when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?
the busiest ATM in the entire Buffalo, New York, region is in the hamlet of Snyder?
the assembly of the Vermont Republic voted in June 1781 to expand its borders into parts of New Hampshire and New York during the Haldimand Affair?
the abandoned O & W Railroad Station at Port Ben, New York, is so well-preserved that coal remains in its bin more than 50 years after it closed?
the Mid-Delaware Bridge (pictured) over the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New York is the uppermost four-lane bridge on the river's main stem?
the Little Red Schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, served as a one-room schoolhouse from the 1830s until 1952?
the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, New York is home to the only known Type 82 Lozier in existence?
the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions allowed the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck in New York, which lasted for over two centuries?
the BMW R1150GS motorcycle was used by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 2004 Long Way Round ride from London to New York?
the African Grove theater was founded by free blacks in New York City in 1821—when New York was still a slave state—and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge?
the Salem, New York, historic district was the site of one of the earliest churches built in New York north of Albany?
the U.S. state of New York offers a school tax rebate program that saves homeowners money by reducing the assessed value of a home when calculating the property tax?
the Dutch Reformed Church (pictured), a Greek Revival building in Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis that still largely reflects his original vision?
the Esopus Wars led to the creation of the boundaries of Native American lands in 17th century New York?
the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 led to wind gusts in excess of 100 mph across New York, New Jersey, and New England?
the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New York?
the Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies, such as vegetable-powered vehicles, solar vehicles, and organic farming exhibits?
the Garrison Union Free School in New York traces its origins back to 1793?
the Garfield School, a 19th-century schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, is considered unique for its time period because its design was commissioned?
American artist Tony Sisti (1901–1983) traveled with Ernest Hemingway and was also a New York State boxing champion?
Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, the organ of the exiled Russian Menshevik Party, was published from New York until 1965?
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens, the son of novelist Charles Dickens, died in New York in 1912 while on a lecture tour celebrating the centenary of his father's birth?
Charles J. O'Byrne, Secretary to Governor David Paterson of New York, is a former priest who officiated at the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996 and presided over their funeral in 1999?
William Michael Rooke's opera Amilie, or the Love Test enabled New Yorkers of 1838 to appreciate "a broad new repertoire"?
federal authorities in New York may have gambled that there would be no legal challenges to their unexpected seizure of $34 million from 27,000 bank accounts in the United States?
shipping magnate Samuel Garner Wilder started in the business by sailing guano from Jarvis Island to New York?
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally oversaw the design of the post office (pictured) in Poughkeepsie, New York?
Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for Jimmy Carter as President?
Orange County Route 9 in New York is, by itself, longer than five of the county's state highways?
George "Snatchem" Leese was a member of the Slaughter House Gang who was known for being the official "bloodsucker" at prize fights in New York?
George W. Taylor assisted unions by mediating more than 2,000 strikes, but also helped draft New York's Taylor Law—which banned strikes by public employees?
Frank H. Schwarz's murals for the Oregon State Capitol, including Lewis and Clark at Celilo Falls (pictured), were painted in New York and sent across the continent for installation?
Edward Laurillard produced musical comedies in London and New York in the early 20th century, in partnership with George Grossmith, Jr.?
Danskammer Generating Station (pictured) was among the top ten releasers of pollutants by weight in New York, releasing 560 tonnes of hazardous emissions, in 2000?
Schenectady's Stockade Historic District (statue of Lawrence the Indian pictured) was the first one created by a local government in New York?
Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it?
comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York's comedians?
Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector?
Bernt Carlsson, the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York?
Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms (pictured) that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?
New York Governor David Paterson's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday?
New York's "Timothy's Law" mandated that New York health insurance plans provide coverage for biologically-based mental health conditions comparable to coverage for physical ailments?
New York's Panther Mountain (pictured) was the site of a prehistoric meteor crash?
New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?
New York noise-rock band Flux Information Sciences's 2001 album Private/Public was recorded before an invited audience of 50 friends who stood around the studio naked and blindfolded?
New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans?
Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank?
SS President (pictured) became the first transatlantic steamship to founder when she disappeared in 1841 en route from New York to Liverpool with 136 people on board?
Slabsides, John Burroughs' historic log cabin in West Park, New York, is only open to the public two days every year?
Captain Robert Waterman set three speed records for sailing from China to New York in the 1840s?
Richard Ravitch was appointed Lt. Governor of New York on July 8, 2009, in a move that New York's attorney general claimed was unconstitutional?
Penelope Wensley, who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York?
Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is famous for his heavy French accent and even gives readings of French poetry at the museum?
The Falling Man is a photograph by Richard Drew depicting a man who had jumped from the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York?
The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
Street News, sold by homeless individuals in New York beginning in 1989, became the prototype for street newspapers worldwide?
The Independent Journal, a New York newspaper and journal edited and published by John McLean, was the first newspaper to publish the first of the eighty-five Federalist Papers?
Dos Abend Blatt was first Yiddish-language socialist newspaper in New York?
William Burnet, Governor of New Jersey and New York, obtained his position of governorship by trading his job as comptroller of the customs with Robert Hunter?
Union College in Schenectady, New York, has the first comprehensively planned college campus and had the longest-serving college or university president in the United States?
Patsy's Pizzeria first served up its coal oven pizza pies in 1933 and vies with Rao's to be the "best bite" in New York's Spanish Harlem?
Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, New York, is the resting place of the progenitor of Uncle Sam, Samuel Wilson, financier Russell Sage, and educators Emma Willard and Amos Eaton?
Joseph H. Allen, a volunteer infantryman and the 21st supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York, was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (pictured) is an ancestor of the van Rensselaer family of New York, which included two Lieutenant Governors, five Congressmen, and the tenth-richest man in American history?
Joe Massino, formerly the head of New York's Bonanno crime family, was described as a real-life "last don"?
Joan Snyder, a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, has had her paintings exhibited at Jewish Museum in New York?
Isaac Newton Van Nuys of New York founded Van Nuys, California, United States in 1911?
Jerry Rosenberg, New York's longest-incarcerated inmate, was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot?
Lake Washington, the main reservoir for Newburgh, New York, holds enough water to supply the city for a year?
Moffat Library (pictured) in Washingtonville, New York, was formally opened in 1887 but did not have any books until bookcases were bought a year later?
Maryam Jameelah, a New York-born convert from Judaism to Islam, became a prominent female advocate for conservative Islam?
Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York?
14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
Question 1: The remaining death sentence was commuted by the court to ________ in 2007, in People v. John Taylor, and the death row was disestablished in 2008, under executive order from Governor Paterson.
Question 2: senators, 29 members in the ________, and 31 electoral votes in national presidential elections (a drop from its 47 votes during the 1940s).
Which of the following came before New York?
What office has New York held?
What is New York's nickname?
What role did Katrina Kaif play in the videomovie New York?
Which of the following is Southwest of New York?
Question 8: Following heated debate, New York was the 11th state to ratify the ________, on July 26, 1788.
Who played Michael Angelo Cassidy the videomovie New York?
Which of the following is South of New York?


On Nov 3rd, Minister Zhu Qin of the Chinese Embassy in UK gave an interview to SINO Broadcasting Station. Mr Zhu Qin introduced the main content and the historical significance of the 19th National Congress of CPC, recalled the great achievements China made in the last five years and talked about the main challenges China is facing on its way ahead.
SINO: We have just seen the 19th CPC National Congress taking place in China. What happened at the Congress?
Zhu Qin: The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was successfully held between 18th to 24th Oct. This meeting is truly a historical milestone. The key message is that socialism with Chinese features is entering into a new era. It not only shapes China's future, but also has a far-reaching impact on the world.
First, the Congress adopted the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era. This is the latest adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context. It is the CPC's understandings of the laws of social progress of mankind and it answers the question of how to adhere to and how to continue building socialism with Chinese features.
Second, the Congress rolled out a blueprint for China's future development. After decades of hard work, the CPC solved the subsistence issue for over one billion people. According to the goals set out by the Congress, China will put in place a moderately prosperous society in 2020, realize socialist modernization by 2035, and build China into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by the middle of this century.
Thirdly, the Congress elected the new CPC central leadership. In a big country like China, development and progress would be impossible without strong leadership. The new CPC central leadership with Xi Jinping at its core is confident and determined in leading the Chinese people into a new era and realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation.
I think a stronger and wealthier China will stay committed to the path of peaceful development for mankind, work for the building of a common community of shared future and make more contribution to the development of the whole world.
SINO: There is a bit of discussion about the changes in China in the last five years. What kind of changes have that been in China in the last five years and how we see that reflected in the Congress?
Zhu Qin: In the past five years, China has made remarkable all-around achievements and also widely-recognized contribution to the world. The achievements of the past five years have touched upon every area and broken new ground, and the changes in China over the past five years, we can say, have been profound and fundamental.
In the field of economic development, we have worked to deepen reforms comprehensively and implemented new visions for development. China's economy ranks the second in the world and contributes to over 30% of world growth. China has been one of the leading nations in trade, overseas investment and foreign reserve.
In the field of life improvement, China has followed through a number of policies to deliver tangible benefits to the people, boosting their sense of fulfillment, happiness and security. In the past five years, more than 60 million people were lifted out of poverty and more than 13 million urban new jobs have been created. Middle income class is expanding. More and more people in China enjoy much better health and medical services and facilities. Steady progress is also being made in building affordable housing.
In the meantime, China is strengthening institutional building and exercising full and rigorous Party self-discipline. We have acted with resolve to "take out tigers", "swat flies" and "hunt down foxes". With the strong backing of the Chinese people, China's anti-corruption drive has gained an overwhelming momentum.
I think China's success offers other countries and nations a new path from development to modernization. This is an example of China's wisdom and solutions in response to the challenges of the whole world.
SINO: What kind of challenges do you think China is facing going forward?
Zhu Qin: While recognizing the great achievements of our country, we are also somber-minded of the challenges and difficulties ahead. Our major task is to address the unbalanced and inadequate development in order to meet the people's ever-growing need for a better life. I am referring to the fact that growth still needs a stronger and self-sustaining momentum, economic and financial risks requires serious attention and pollution remains a daunting challenge. In the fields of housing, education, health, pension, food and drug safety, income disparity, there is still much room for improvement.
Beyond China, the world today is short of growth momentum. Regional hot spots are cropping up and unconventional security threats such as terrorism, cyber security and climate change are looming large. Those are the external challenges that we have to face.
To address the above challenges, China will work hard to improve the quality and efficiency of its economic growth, meet the people's growing need in the political, economic, cultural, social and environmental fields, and to deliver well-rounded development for every individual and social progress in all aspects.
At the same time, China will stay committed to the path of peaceful development and opening-up in order to build a community of shared future for mankind. China as a big country will play a responsible role in the reform and development of the global governance system and continue to contribute its part to world peace, development and prosperity.
SINO: Thank you very much.


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The Murdered Coachman.
As the family of Joseph Blair of Montclair, New Jersey, dined on June 26, 1879, their houseguest, Miss Rebeca Draper, remarked that she had seen two men in the Blairs' wagon the previous day. The men went into a saloon and when they came out, they drove away furiously, the driver whipping the horses at least a dozen times. Joseph was not happy to hear this and after dinner decided to go out to the stable and have a talk with his coachman, John Armstrong.
What happened next was seen or heard by several witnesses and there were some discrepancies in their stories, but all agreed that Blair and Armstrong had an argument in the stable which grew increasingly belligerent with John Armstrong using language unprintable by the newspapers. This is Joseph Blair's version of what was said in the stable:
"I went about half way down the passage, in the rear of the barn and said, 'John, what way did you come home last night?' John replied, 'I came by the road.'
"'By what road, John?'
"'It's none of your damned business so that I got here,' he replied.
"'The reason why I ask you is that the wagon was seen, last evening in front of a beer saloon and I don't wish my wagon to be seen standing at a saloon.'
"'God damn the ______, can't a man have a drink if he wants to without the _____spying after him?'
"He then swore that Montclair was the God damnedest place he had ever been in; John then said, 'Pay me my money and let me go;' I said, 'I will pay you if you will go away at once;' he replied he would go as soon as he got ready, and no God damned ____ like me could make him go.'"
"About this time my wife came to the stable door. She said, 'Oh! John don't swear so!'
"John said, 'You damned slut, if you were a lady you would not be here.' I told John he must not swear that way in the presence of my wife, and John swore that if I came into the stable, he would blow my brains out."
Blair returned to the house and the cook, Ophelia Dyer, said to him, "Oh, Mr. Blair, don't get out of patience with that man."
"Ophelia, shut your jaw," he replied, "I'm running this business. When a man tells me he will shoot, I can be the first to shoot."
He went back into the stable with a revolver in his pocket and demanded that Armstrong return his keys. After some more words, Armstrong went up the stairs that led to his room above the stable and Blair followed him. The two were alone together and a few minutes later two gunshots were heard from the upstairs room. Blair came downstairs and said he had shot Armstrong. "As sure as there is a Heaven above," he said, "if I had not shot that man, he would have shot me." Armstrong died in the hospital a few hours later.
An inquest was held on July 2, and after hearing the witnesses' testimony the coroner's jury was torn between justifiable homicide and manslaughter. In the end, they charged Joseph Blair with manslaughter.
The light charge did not sit well with John Armstrong's peers who felt that Blair should have been charged with first-degree murder. A few days later, placards were posted around Essex County, New Jersey:
Workingmen, rally!
Workingmen's meeting, corner of Fourth street and Harrison avenue, East Newark, on Tuesday evening, July 22, at eight o'clock. Enter your protest against the murder of John Armstrong! Raise your voice in the interest of justice! Down with the arrogant scoundrels who shoot the workingman down. Eminent speakers will address the meeting.
The New York Herald called the rally, "One of the most ridiculous meetings ever held in New Jersey…arranged wholly by communists and greenback demagogues," but at least 2,000 workingmen attended. The men expressed their anger with calls of "lynch him" and "string him up" but the goal of the meeting was to raise funds to hire an attorney to represent their interests and assist the prosecution of Joseph Blair.
John P. Stockton.
It does not appear that the attorney was ever hired, but the movement may have had an impact on the prosecution of Blair. When the case went to trial in October, the charge had been raised to first-degree murder and the prosecution team was led by New Jersey Attorney General, John P. Stockton.
There was no question that Joseph Blair shot John Armstrong, at issue would be what actually took place in the upstairs room and whether Blair went to the stable armed, intending to kill Armstrong. Blair claimed he did not fire until he saw Armstrong reaching for a pistol that was on the shelf. He fired the second shot at close range as he was trying to wrest the pistol from Armstrong's hand. The prosecution said that if this were the case, there would be powder burns on Armstrong's clothing and body which were not found by the coroner. Peter Edward Rosselot, the gardener, testified that Blair came downstairs holding both revolvers, but other testimony implied that Blair went back up later to retrieve the second gun.
The most damning testimony against Blair came from Ophelia Dyer who stated that Blair told her he intended to shoot first. Her testimony lost credibility when it came out in court that she and her father had visited Hall Blair, Joseph's brother, and proposed that for $500 she would leave the country and not testify. Hall Blair had refused the proposition but told the story on the witness stand.
Joseph Blair's trial lasted seventeen days with three days of impassioned closing arguments for and against conviction his conviction of first-degree murder. But those who had wished to see Blair punished for the murder should probably have stuck to the charge of manslaughter. Blair was found not guilty and would pay no penalty for killing John Armstrong.
"[Coachman; Mr. Blair; Mr. Joseph; Armstrong; Heaven]," New York Tribune, June 30, 1879.
"The Blair Trial," National Police Gazette, October 25, 1879.
"Denouncing Joseph A Blair," New York Tribune, July 23, 1879.
"For Killing His Coachman.," New York Herald, October 9, 1879.
"Indictment of Blair," Jersey Journal, September 13, 1879.
"Inquest Trial," Cleveland Leader, July 4, 1879.
"Investigating a Tragedy," Sun and New York press, July 3, 1879.
"Jersey Demagogues," New York Herald, July 23, 1879.
"The Montclair Homicide," New York Herald, July 20, 1879.
"The Montclair Tragedy.," New York Herald, October 7, 1879.
"The Montclair Tragedy," New York Tribune, October 17, 1879.
"The Murdered Coachman," New York Herald, October 14, 1879.
"An Unwise Demonstration," New York Herald, July 21, 1879.
"Verdict Of Manslaughter," New York Tribune, July 4, 1879.
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Uncategories Ayade mourns Paul Adah, withdraws from Campaign for Two Days
Ayade mourns Paul Adah, withdraws from Campaign for Two Days
12:22:00 am 0 The Daily News Ng
Cross River State Governor, professor Ben Ayade has expressed utter shock and Sadness Over the Death of APC Chieftain, Chief Paul Adah.
As mark of respect to the late Politician, the governor announced his withdrawal from the Peoples Democratic party PDP, Campaign activities for two days.
The governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Christian Ita , said Chief adah's demise was devastating and painful not only to him but to the people of Cross River State as a whole.
The statement quoted professor Ayade as describing the late Adah as a statesman whose life was defined by service to his state and country.
Ayade while praying for the repose of Adah's soul, urged his immediate family to see his demise as an act of God and asked them to uphold the cherised values which Paul was known for while alive.
"Paul's politics was anchored on the philosophy that it can be played without bitterness and this was exemplified by his popular Alias 'Paul For All and All For Paul' which the general public knew him for until his death.
"I'm devastated not only because we have lost a worthy Cross Riverian, a two term former member of House of Representatives, a former NDDC Commissioner, a fellow Obudu man and until recently a governorship aspirant, but because I have lost a soulmate with whom I shared a common political philosophy; politics with ethics," the statement quoted the governor.


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One surface will offer stands on one side of the ice surface and an indoor, heated viewing area on the other side. This area can also be converted into an indoor street hockey/basketball surface during the summer months.The second surface will offer stands on three sides and will be a premier, spectator ice surface for year-round hockey. This surface will also house regional tournaments. The New England Sports Village is thrilled to welcome Mike Buckley's GDS Goaltending Development Services to
The second surface will offer stands on three sides and will be a premier, spectator ice surface for year-round hockey. This surface will also house regional tournaments.
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Q: What causes excessive anonymous method closures (c__DisplayClass1) in C#? Eqatec shows several thousand anonymous method closures being called each time a method is called that includes a simple LINQ 'Where' statement in my program. Pseudo code example:
Class1
{
    //foo and bar are both EF model classes
    List<foo> aList; // n = 2000
    List<bar> bList; // n = ~4000

    void aMethod()
    {
        foreach (var item in aList)
        {
            Class2.DoSomeWork(item, bList);
        }
    }
}

Class2
{
    static void DoSomeWork(foo item, List<bar> bList)
    {
     var query = bList.where(x => x.prop1 == item.A && x.prop2 = item.B).toList(); // <--- Calls thousands of anonymous method closures each method call.

     if (query.any()) <--- Calls only 1 anonymous method closure.
        DoSomethingElse();
    }
}

I don't understand why 2,000 calls to 'DoSomeWork' called some 8 million anonymous method closures (even 1 causes several thousand).
As a fix, I simply rewrote the statement without using LINQ which eliminated the need for closures and produced a 10x fold increase in performance.
I would still like to understand why this occurred in the first place if anyone has some theories they would like to share.

A: I think the 8M is referring to the number of times a method was executed on a closure class, and not the number of closure instances created. Firstly, let's make the code compile:
class Class2
{
    public static void DoSomeWork(foo item, List<bar> bList)
    {
        var query = bList.Where(x => x.prop1 == item.A && x.prop2 == item.B)
                         .ToList();

        if (query.Any())
            DoSomethingElse();
    }
    static void DoSomethingElse() { }
}
class foo { public int A { get; set; } public int B { get; set; } }
class bar { public int prop1 { get; set; } public int prop2 { get; set; } }

Now, we can discard the original " // <--- Calls only 1 anonymous method closure." comment, because actually no anonymous method closures are used by the .Any() - that just checks whether a list has contents: no closures required.
Now; let's manually rewrite the closure to show what is happening in the compiler:
class Class2
{
    class ClosureClass
    {
        public foo item; // yes I'm a public field
        public bool Predicate(bar x)
        {
            return x.prop1 == item.A && x.prop2 == item.B;
        }
    }
    public static void DoSomeWork(foo item, List<bar> bList)
    {
        var ctx = new ClosureClass { item = item };
        var query = bList.Where(ctx.Predicate).ToList();

        if (query.Any()) {
            DoSomethingElse();
        }
    }
    static void DoSomethingElse() { }
}

You can see that 1 ClosureClass is created per DoSomeWork, which maps directly to how the only captured variable (item) is scoped at the method level. The predicate (ctx.Predicate) is obtained once (only), but is invoked for every item in bList. So indeed, 2000 * 4000 is 8M calls to a method; however, 8M calls to a method is not necessarily slow.
However! I think the biggest problem is that you are creating a new list just to check for existence. You don't need that. You can make your code much more efficient by moving the Any earlier:
if (bList.Any(x => x.prop1 == item.A && x.prop2 == item.B)) {
    DoSomethingElse();
}

This now only invokes the predicate enough times until a match is found, which we should anticipate to be less than all of them; it also doesn't fill a list unnecessarily.
Now; yes, it will be be a bit more efficient to do this manually, i.e.
bool haveMatch = false;
foreach(var x in bList) {
    if(x.prop1 == item.A && x.prop2 == item.B) {
        haveMatch = true;
        break;
    }
}
if(haveMatch) {
    DoSomethingElse();
}

but note that this change between Any and foreach is not the critical difference; the critical difference is that I've removed the ToList() and the "keep reading, even if you've already found a match". The Any(predicate) usage is a lot more concise and is easy to read etc. It isn't typically a performance issue, and I doubt it is here either.

A: In the line
var query = bList.where(x => x.prop1 == item.A && x.prop2 = item.B).toList();

with bList having 4000 elements,  x => x.prop1 == item.A && x.prop2 = item.B is going to be called 4000 times. If you want the .Any() to be evaluated lazily, remove the .ToList().

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Q: Displaying inflated child views in Eclipse UI preview I have created a custom ViewGroup that inherits from FrameLayout. Whenever this view is inflated, I want it to automatically inflate and add a child view as the background view. I have accomplished this in the following way:
public class CustomViewGroup extends FrameLayout
{
    private View background;
    public CustomViewGroup(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
        inflateLayout(context);
    }
    public CustomViewGroup(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context,attrs);
        inflateLayout(context);
    }
    public CustomViewGroup(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        inflateLayout(context);
    }

    private void inflateLayout(Context context)
    {
        LayoutInflater layoutInflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        background = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.background, this);
    }

}

This works just fine when I am running on an emulator or on a device, but in the Eclipse UI previewer the background child view doesn't get rendered (there are no errors in the log). I would prefer not to have to use "android:background" so that the background view can be edited in the XML.
I assume that the previewer just doesn't know about the child view so it doesn't draw it. Is there some function that I can override so that the child view will be displayed in the previewer?


Christenson, B.W.; Mroczek, E.K. 2003 Potential reaction pathways of Hg in some New Zealand hydrothermal environments. p. 111-132 IN: Simmons, S.F.; Graham, I.J. Volcanic, geothermal, and ore-forming fluids : rulers and witnesses of processes within the earth. Littleton, Colo: Society of Economic Geologists. Special publication / Society of Economic Geologists 10.
Short CV Dr Ed Mroczek has been a practising geochemist for 26 years in all areas of geothermal chemistry for clients in New Zealand, Indonesia, Turkey, Philippines and Japan. He has published 40 papers and conference abstracts, over 100 confidential client reports and 2 provisional patent applications. He has had extensive experience in the design and running of large-scale field experiments and laboratory scale hydrothermal experiments to determine reaction rates of geothermal fluids in reinjection aquifers. His present work includes geothermal resource evaluation and assessment, production chemistry monitoring and environmental geochemistry.