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On the market: 5-bedroom home in Madison for $1.7M
In this week's "On the market" property, we feature a colonial home in Madison with almost 5,200 square feet of living space. The home is listed for $1,675,000. According to its Trulia listing, the taxes are estimated at almost $34,000. The two-story home...
In this week's "On the market" property, we feature a colonial home in Madison with almost 5,200 square feet of living space.
The home is listed for $1,675,000. According to its Trulia listing, the taxes are estimated at almost $34,000.
The two-story home features five bedrooms, two full bathrooms and one partial bath.
The average listing price for all homes in 07940 is $1,010,380.
Rajeev Dhir may be reached at rdhir@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @googasmammoo. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
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Eric Baudelaire: The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra
Eric Baudelaire
Tabakalera
Eric Baudelaire. The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra.
The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra
June 23–October 15, 2017
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Tabakalera presents The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra, the first large scale solo exhibition by Eric Baudelaire in a public institution in Spain.
The exhibition draws its title from a fictional conductor whose radio performance was continuously disrupted by newsflash broadcasts heralding an alien invasion in Orson Welles' rendition of the War of the Worlds, aired in 1938. Spanning a decade of artistic production including installation, print, photography and film, the exhibition follows Baudelaire's sustained attempts to find a form that accommodates the catastrophic complexity of contemporary life, interweaving fiction with considerations on fear, the media and the power of words and images.
Eric Baudelaire's work often creates or exploits tension between stories and histories, the objective and subjective, text and image, underlining the ways in which political narratives are constructed. In his latest film, Also Known As Jihadi (2017), co-produced with Tabakalera's support, and screened at the exhibition, Baudelaire extends his interest to judicial narratives. The film follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France where he is currently incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. The work employs the so-called landscape theory (fukeiron in Japanese). This theory originated in the film AKA Serial Killer (1969), co-directed by Masao Adachi, who was the subject of Baudelaire's film The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images (2011) (screening at Tabakalera on 30th June). Also Known As Jihadi is a possible story of a man told through the places he has lived in. A series of landscapes contextualized by extracts from court documents: police interrogations, wiretaps, surveillance reports and so on. Together, they form a new kind of genre film, a slow legal thriller that translates Baudelaire's sense of loss in the face of the incomprehensible, a feeling matched by the intuition that the incomprehensible must nonetheless have its reasons.
The exhibition also includes Baudelaire's 2014 project The Secession Sessions, a hybrid installation that reflects on the question of statehood through the prism of the stateless state of Abkhazia. The work is composed of several elements. The first is the film Letters to Max, based on a correspondence between Baudelaire and Maxim Gvinjia, former Foreign Minister of Abkhazia. The second is the Anembassy of Abkhazia, operated in person by Maxim during the first week of the exhibition, and via skype for the duration of the exhibition. The Anembassy is a performance with no official function that operates as a ritual that is both real (after all, Max was Foreign Minister) and a fiction, but a fiction meant in a very political sense: fiction as a territory of resistance for those who have no space in the real.
The exhibition has been co-commissioned with Witte de With Contemporary Art Centre in Rotterdam where it ran from last January to May.
Parallel activities
June 23: 9pm, Abkhazian Variations
After the opening, there will be a chance to taste Basque chef's free interpretation of Abhkaz cuisine, based on food stories told to him by Max Gvinjia and Eric Baudelaire.
June 24: Noon
Anna Colin, indenpendent curator, and Eric Baudelaire in conversation
June 24–July 2: The Anembassy of Abkhazia
Every day for the first week of the exhibition, Maxim Gvinjia, the Anambassador, will hold regular office hours at Tabakalera.
As part of the project, The Sessions is conceived as a series of invitations to local journalists and researchers to discuss the question of statehood through the prism of the stateless state of Abkhazia. These talks will take place at the exhibition hall.
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The Wrap – CES Day 4 (Best Of & Trends)
byLeigh :) Stark
Our fifth and final show for CES 2020, we're checking out the trends that emerged and the best tech we saw. From new TVs to a smarter home, this is what CES 2020 was all about, all in five.
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For the last day of CES 2020, you're listening to The Wrap, Australia's fastest technology roundup, and every day this week, we've been recording from Las Vegas to check out what is arguably the biggest technology show on the planet.
If you've ever been curious about what's going to happen for the year in tech, this has been the place to be, with trends, insights, and a whole bunch of products getting talked up from the world's biggest names in electronics, as well as some of the smaller ones you might not be familiar with.
Now CES is big. It's so big that by the time the show was over, we had walked a good 100,000 steps across Las Vegas. It's so big, we haven't been able to see every stand in every hall, though not for a lack of trying. CES covers the Las Vegas Convention Centre and quite a few hotels, and it brings people from all over the world.
They're all coming to see what's going to be big that year, and what the trends will be. And this year, CES has made those trends pretty clear: 8K TVs are properly here, and 5G is going to be driving us forward.
In the 8K world, everyone had them. If someone made TVs, you can bet they were showing off new TVs over at CES that supported 8K, and possibly a projector or two. Every brand you know and some you don't, including Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Hisense, TCL, Sharp, and plenty of others.
We still don't have an amazing amount of content for these 8K TVs, but we do have upscaling driven by AI, and we have the AV1 codec, which is being served by YouTube to get 8K video to your TV.
The arrival of 8K in 2020 isn't totally surprising, though. The first 8K TVs rolled onto shelves last year in 2019, and this year, there are more of them. 8K projection is also a thing this year, and the results are massive. Seen on at least one stand, the 8K projection can mean a big picture, and is practically leading to building your own cinema.
The 8K TV trend is just one of the obvious TV trends this year, with improvements to TV all around. While OLED is still the one to beat, Hisense's Dual Cell LED is a curious play, providing a secondary layer of black and white pixels, which pushes the contrast of the screens that much more. Overall, TVs seem to be getting better on the whole, and while 4K is the minimum you should be considering in the TV world, the good news is that TV technology should be better this year than it's ever been.
Another trend of CES is the proliferation of 5G, and just how we're all going to use it. Telstra announced there are a good 100,000 devices on its network for 5G, and while faster speeds for downloading cat videos on your phone aren't the be-all end-all of what 5G can deliver, and so companies are looking into making 5G more useful in other areas.
This year, you should be able to connect 5G to your home, thanks in part to network gear from Linksys and D-Link, among others, while chip makers are starting to pave the way for rolling out 5G connections in our cars and other places.
The idea is that eventually, you should have connection in more places and everywhere you go.
That'll be good for being out and about, but it'll also be great for the home, which saw the continuation and evolution of the smart home this year. You have smart speakers and displays, well now you can prepare for smart frames and smarter appliances, as the whole home steadily comes together to be smarter and more connected.
And as for what was best this year, best of CES 2020, that is, we think there are a few areas that stand out really well. Samsung's Micro LED TV concept is just a remarkable idea, allowing blocks to make up a TV mounted to a wall, while LG's massive 88 inch OLED TV is without a doubt one of the nicest TVs we've ever seen.
The Hisense TriChroma Laser TV is a spectacular thing, able to project a big screen with such a short throw, great for those home cinema setups you've always wanted to do.
We're fans of the Withings ScanWatch, because it seems like it can do so much in an elegant way, and we're also delighted by Belkin's Gallium Nitride chargers. If it seems crazy that we love laptop charging bricks so much, you only need to look at the charger for your laptop and see why we'd love a smaller one.
And we really, really like LG's Smart Door, because even though it's clearly a way off, it has so much going for it. If you're designing a house from scratch, it's a compelling option.
There are other technologies we loved this week, such as an interactive medical device from Anatomage to teach, the sheer number of foldable computers coming, and the Zero Mass Source water concept that uses thermodynamics to wrench water from air.
There's a lot coming and a lot that's good, and some of it should even make it to Australian store shelves in the next few months.
But that's also it for CES 2020 in Las Vegas. Thanks to the Consumer Tech Association for helping to get us here, and we hope you've liked one week straight of CES episodes of The Wrap.
Next week, The Wrap returns to its regularly scheduled program of the weekly tech news and reviews in just five, as opposed to one episode for every day. For now, have a fantastic week, and all that jazz. We'll see you next time on The Wrap. Take care. See you next time, Vegas!
Leigh :) Stark
A technology journalist working out of Sydney, Australia, Leigh has written for publications including The Australian Financial Review, GadgetGuy, Popular Science, APC, PC & Tech Authority, as well as for radio and TV since 2007.
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The first process of photography was called heliography which was invented by Nicephore Niepce in the year 1824. In this process, images are obtained after several days by bitumen of Judea on a silver plate.
In 1829, Niépce relates to Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in his research.
Origin of the camera
There were several scientific inventions that took place for the betterment of people. One of the best achievement was the invention of the camera which can catch human activity. Photographic technology is changed over many generations.
It starts with camera obscura and then extends with the introduction of new technology including calotypes, dry plates, daguerreotypes, and today digital cameras. Digital cameras have completely changed the history of photography because it produces the best quality of images.
In Latin word, the Obscura means a dark room, which was used to take the picture from the other side of the camera. This concept was taken from a Chinese concept to where images are projected on a surrounding wall.
(an example of camera obscura)
Working of camera obscura
It was an ancient optical device which was used to capture an image. It was the most basic form of a camera which was quite simple. In a dark room, a small hole was placed on the opposite wall such that whatever be outside, was appeared on the wall but the image captured was upside-down or inverted.
(an image generated by camera obscura)
While capturing the images, the size of the hole present in the darkroom played a very important role. If the size of the hole was small, then a sharp and well-focused image had appeared on the wall and if the size of the hole was larger, then a bright image was produced but that was very less focused.
Due to the rectilinear propagation of light, the light travelled in a straight line. Later on, Vermeer and Canaletto two artists worked on brightness and clarity of an image.
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Seiji Kanai is perhaps best known for Love Letter, a game that manages to contain a surprising amount of strategy in only 16 cards. Eight Epics is one of his new releases this year, a cooperative game about saving the world from destruction. Eight powerful Avatars of Hope, mortal champions who have been blessed with powerful abilities, are reincarnated every 40 generations in Elzarr. They are sent to face the eight Avatars of Woe, who threaten the world with destruction. The Avatars of Hope have always triumphed in the past—but will they save Elzarr this time?
At a glance: Eight Epics is a cooperative game for 1 to 8 players, ages 14 and up, and takes about 30 minutes to play. It is published by AEG and retails for $19.99; it is available now in game stores and from Amazon. The game can be played by younger players, though probably best with a more experienced player involved. There are some creepy-looking monsters on some of the cards, but nothing more graphic than other fantasy games. The gameplay involves getting the right combination of dice for each threat using a combination of luck and dice manipulation with powers.
All of the cards are tarot-sized, so there's plenty of room for large artwork, and fortunately the text is legible. The threat cards use a sort of shorthand to indicate how to resolve them, and you'll be referring to the rulebook frequently for those because they're not entirely intuitive. However, after a few plays, most will make sense without having to check the rulebook. I do wish that, for the cards that have several identical lines of text, that they had put some sort of markers so that they're easier to count.
The artwork is nice, with full-color illustrations for the avatars and threats, and scroll-like illustrations for the event cards. The dice are 12mm six-sided dice, nothing particularly fancy. The whole thing comes in one of AEG's small boxes, making it pretty portable.
The goal of the game is to defeat all of the epic threats as a team before all of the avatars run out of life points.
To set up, each player takes one of the avatar cards and places it in front of themselves; all unchosen avatars are placed in the center of the table as common avatars. Place a red die on each avatar card, with its value matching the starting life points shown on the card. Remove the Witch Trials threat card (that's for a variant) and shuffle the rest of the threat cards to form a threat deck, and then remove 2 at random and return them to the box.
Turn the top threat face-up as the active threat. Each threat card has a number of challenges that must be resolved in order, and each challenge indicates how many dice should be rolled and placed in the dice pool. For instance, "6D" means that the players must meet the challenge using 6 dice.
The game takes place over 5 rounds, though within each round each player may have more than one turn.
When it's your turn, you first select an avatar, either yours or a common avatar, and place the "active avatar" card next to it. Rotate the selected avatar card to indicate that it is exhausted. You may not select an avatar that is already exhausted. If there are no avatars available for you to use, your turn is skipped.
Then you enter the reroll phase. You may choose up to three dice from the dice pool to reroll. Roll the selected dice. Then, choose at least one to place back into the dice pool, and roll the rest. Continue this until all of the selected dice have been returned to the dice pool (so at most you will get three rerolls, if you selected three dice and only put one back each time).
You may then spend life points from the active avatar to take another reroll phase—decrease the red die, and then repeat the reroll phase. You may also spend the avatar's life points to activate its special ability. Each avatar has its own unique ability. You may spend as many life points as you wish, but once the avatar has no life points left, you must stop, and the avatar will be returned to the box at the end of your turn.
Auriel: Restore 1 life point to another avatar.
Jarroth: Choose up to 2 dice to flip over to their opposite faces.
Leafwind: Return 1 avatar to its ready state, and then reroll up to 2 dice.
Sylliph: Choose a number, and increase or decrease all dice with that value by 1.
Khantos: Add or remove 1 die from the pool.
Gron: Change one die to a 6.
Caroosh: Change one die to a 1.
Ophinia: Use the power of another avatar.
If you fulfill the requirements for the current challenge, then you resolve the challenge: immediately proceed to the next challenge and roll a new set of dice for the dice pool. (Use an extra die or provide your own tokens to keep track of which challenge you're currently on.) You then go back to the "spend life points" phase of your turn—you do not get to select a new avatar, and you do not get the free reroll phase. If you successfully defeat the last challenge on a threat card, the round ends.
When a threat is totally defeated, the round ends: the threat is discarded and placed to the side. All exhausted avatars are returned to their ready state, and then draw the next threat card. The active player must end their turn now.
During the fifth round, you reveal both of the remaining threats. These two threats must be defeated in one round, without the benefit of refreshing exhausted avatars in between threat cards. The active player starting the fifth round may decide which threat to attempt first, but the team must defeat that threat before attempting the other.
The game ends either when all threats have been defeated, or when all avatars have been defeated.
The rulebook also includes instructions for increasing or decreasing the difficulty of the game and playing a solo variant. There's also an event variant: each round, you draw an event card to accompany the threat, which will describe some limitations for the avatars. However, when you overcome the threat, you gain additional abilities as a reward.
Finally, the Lost Witch scenario is a special event variant. You shuffle in the Lost Witch scenario card into the event deck, and you start the game without Ophinia. When the Lost Witch card is drawn, the Witch Trials threat becomes the active threat. Ophinia is added as a common avatar after the Witch Trials threat is defeated, or after the end of the fourth round (whichever is sooner).
Eight Epics is a little bit like playing Yahtzee, but it's cooperative, and with special powers, and the world will perish if you lose.
Okay, so maybe it's not quite like Yahtzee.
Let me try that again: Eight Epics packs a whole lot of terrible bad guys into a little, unassuming package. You open it up and think, hey, that's some cool artwork. Hmm, there are some numbers and letters on this card—I guess that's how you defeat the threat. Okay, let's try this… And then a few minutes later, you're pulling your hair wondering how you're going to get 7 dice to total 9 or less. And when you succeed at that, you need to get 8 dice to total 8 or less. Good luck!
The game requires a mix of luck and strategy. Luck, of course, because you're rolling a lot of dice and trying to get them to conform to a particular result. The strategy comes into play when you're deciding which avatar to use and how to spend its life points. Buying a reroll with a life point will allow you to reroll up to three dice, but using the avatar's special ability often gives you more control, though potentially with fewer dice.
Each of the avatars pairs up well with one of the threats (as seen on the cover of the box). For instance, Gron's ability to turn dice into 6s is the most helpful against Hronthar the dragon, who requires very high totals. But he's useless against Durge the meteor, who requires a series of very low rolls. For Sylliph's power to be most effective, you want a lot of dice showing the same number, because she changes all of them at once.
It's also important to know when to end your turn and pass to the next player, because each player gets one free reroll action without spending life points. However, each time a turn passes, another avatar is exhausted unless you can defeat the current threat—and if you run out of avatars, the game ends. So, basically, you have about 8 turns (one per avatar) to complete each threat. Of course, with Leafwind's ability to refresh avatars, you can squeeze a few more turns out of it when necessary, but there's a ticking clock for each card. It's a tricky balance to maintain, defeating the threats in time without spending too many life points.
The events are pretty crazy: while they're active, you have some severe limitations—only using your power once per turn, or having to spend two life points to use your power, or even immediately defeating an avatar and removing it from the game! When—or if—you defeat the threat, the event card then becomes a one-time-use ability. The abilities are powerful, to be sure, but I think including the events definitely increases the overall difficulty of the game.
The theme of the game doesn't feel closely tied to the mechanics—you don't have any sort of feel for what the dice represent, or how getting certain values defeats these epic threats, even if you read the provided lore in the back of the rulebook. They feel more like a series of abstract mathematical tasks, particularly when you're adding up eight dice and trying to make sure they've reached a certain threshold. It's a little more abstract than I usually prefer, but the dice-matching requirements can be a fun puzzle. However, even with the thematic disconnect, there's still a palpable tension with each roll of the dice, and I can attest that there were often enormous cheers when a player managed to roll exactly the number we needed without having to spend life points for rerolls or to change the dice.
The game is fairly difficult (with options, of course, to make it even more difficult, like prohibiting any table talk after the first couple rounds) so you will need a good amount of luck no matter what your strategy. I do think the game would be incredibly difficult without the ability to discuss strategy, but at the same time, shutting down the table talk would help prevent the alpha player problem, where one person basically takes over and directs everyone else's turns.
Eight Epics probably won't unseat popular bigger-box cooperative games like Pandemic, but Love Letter wasn't a replacement for bigger strategy games, either. Rather, they're both small games that may surprise you with their depth, and once again Seiji Kanai shows that he can do a lot with a little.
In short: if you like tough cooperative games and rolling dice, Eight Epics provides a nice challenge in a portable package.


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Fort Worth , TX 76116 (817) 223-3451
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Meet Glenn Hadsall and Christi Brownlow – a husband and wife team and proud Franchise Owners of Primrose School of Fort Worth West. Glenn, Christi and their three children, TJ, Mackenzie and Gigi, are thrilled to bring the Primrose experience of premier early education and care to families in the Fort Worth community.

Glenn and Christi were first introduced to Primrose in 2010 while searching for a high-quality child care provider for their youngest daughter, Gigi, whom they had recently adopted from India. After visiting several schools, Glenn and Christi fell in love with Primrose School of Firewheel, which was close to their home at the time, and felt the Balanced Learning® curriculum and caring, nurturing atmosphere were the right fit for her.

Seeing how quickly Gigi was not only developing, but flourishing at Primrose, Glenn and Christi began to consider opening their own Primrose school. They started the process by reaching out to Patriksha Rigley, who owned Primrose School of Firewheel.

 "Patriksha's passion for education and love for Primrose is infectious," said Christi. "We knew this was a unique opportunity for us to make a difference in our community and provide a positive learning environment for all children."

When Glenn and Christi learned there was a growing need for quality care in West Fort Worth, they jumped at the opportunity to move back to an area that is very special to Glenn's side of the family. Glenn's mom grew up in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth and met Glenn's father while he was stationed at the Carswell Air Force Base. In 1954, Glenn's parents married and moved into the apartments that once sat on the location of Glenn and Christi's new Primrose school on Westridge Ave. Two-thirds of a century later, Glenn and Christi were excited to build their new school on the foundational elements their parents and grandparents built so long ago – literally.

"It mean so much to us to be able to build upon the character traits our parents shared with us, including the value of a quality education," said Glenn. "We get to forge an even stronger path – one that not only will impact our family but also influence the community around us."

Glenn and Christi have always shared a love of learning with each other and their children. Christi graduated from Oklahoma University with a degree in Business and Glenn graduated with a degree in Design Communication from Texas Tech, where their son, TJ, graduated with a degree in Finance. Their daughter, Mackenzie, is also a Red Raider and is studying Accounting.

Glenn and Christi's goal is to ensure Fort Worth children are loved and cared for in an environment that fosters a lifelong love of learning. Primrose School of Fort Worth West will provide an atmosphere where children can grow their Active Minds, Healthy Bodies and Happy Hearts®.

Primrose School of Fort Worth West features the Primrose Balanced Learning® curriculum for children ages 6 weeks old to 6 years old, as well as after school and a summer program for children up to age 12. Developed by and taught exclusively at Primrose Schools, the research-based curriculum blends teacher-guided and child-initiated activities with a special emphasis on character development.

 Primrose School of Fort Worth West is located at 3777 Westridge Ave., Fort Worth, TX, 76116.

Glenn Hadsall and Christi Brownlow
Parents Looking for Child Care in Fort Worth
We aren't just a daycare in Fort Worth – we are a premier early education and child care experience for children and families. We are conveniently located just minutes down the road from Ridglea Plaza and Ridglea Country Club on Westridge Avenue.
Our programs (ages 6 weeks to 12 years)
Infant, Toddler, Early preschool, Preschool, Pre-kindergarten, After school, Summer adventure club
At Primrose, your child will get more than an infant daycare experience. Our teachers help your child develop and grow, building one skill upon another, which is why we are the leader in infant child care.
Teacher Guided Virtual Learning for FWISD Students
FWISD schools will start on September 8th with virtual-learning for the first four weeks. Primrose School of Fort Worth West is here to help with teacher-guided virtual-learning for children kindergarten through third grades. If you're a working parent, wondering how virtual learning might be possible for your family, this is a wonderful option to consider. Our innovative teacher-guided remote learning classroom will provide educational support for your student. It will also allow parents to have peace of mind at work knowing their student is continuing their education in a healthy, supportive environment. Primrose School of Fort Worth West will have a dedicated classroom with a full-time teacher who will assist your student with their ISD-assigned online lessons while they attend our school. Our teachers will enhance your child's day with science, art, PE, music, outdoor play, and more. Each student will bring his/her electronic device and headphones each day and any printed materials required for use by the child's ISD teacher. Lower student-to-teacher ratios will increase safety and allow for personalized academic support. Students remain in their dedicated classroom and will not mix with other groups or classes. Breakfast, lunch, and two snacks are provided. Each parent will also have access to Procare, a free app that keeps parents updated on their child's daily progress. A Before and After School program included in the same classroom. Primrose School of Fort Worth West is committed to accurate, transparent communication with our families about health and safety in our school. It is our goal to provide a vibrant learning experience while we protect the health and safety of our students and staff. Spaces are limited! Call today to reserve your spot!
Fort Worth Hailed as National Model for Early Education
The National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers selected Tarrant County as one of three national models for early education. It's an honor to live in a community that has consistently worked toward building a city that is a great place to raise children beginning at birth.
Grounded in research, fueled by fun
Our new exclusive Harmony & Heart™ program integrates our proprietary music and books in a variety of thoughtful ways each day. Through learning about music, while simultaneously being exposed to concepts in math, language, and character development, your child will grow as a musician, a student, and a person.
Banana Granola Cake Pops
Copy:Banana. Granola. Cake pops. Need we say more?
Wrapping Paper Gift Bags
These cute DIY gift bags are a present all by themselves.
Health & Safety First
Each Primrose school is held to high standards of safety and cleanliness while maintaining a caring and nurturing environment where children can thrive.
Science Fun: Ice Melting with Salt
Ice melts easily (even in the winter!) with the science of salt!
Finding the Perfect Childcare
Great article from the Fort Worth Mom's Blog about finding the perfect childcare.
What Are "QI Skills," and Why Does My Child Need Them?
Create Problem-Solving Games
We live in a fast world. Sometimes teaching a child to solve problems is as easy as slowing down.
Fall Bucket List
Ring in the cooler weather with these easy fall activities for the whole family to enjoy!
How We Teach Math at Primrose
It might seem odd to think about your preschooler exploring data analysis and algebra.
How to Find an Amazing Babysitter
Saying goodbye to your child to be hard, but it's easier when you know they're in good hands.
I Tried Meditating with My 3-Year-Old. Here's What Happened.
One dad sets out to teach his 3-year-old yoga. Here's how it went.
Why Balanced Learning® Works
It's a fact: children learn better when they are engaged. That's why purposeful play and nurturing guidance from teachers are key components of Balanced Learning. See how this time-tested approach with a strong emphasis on life skills and character development can help your child develop and excel.
Science Fun: Magic Ice
We're learning about both liquids and colors at school this month! Join the fun with this fizzy at-home experiment.
"I'm Not Ready" & Other First-Day-of-School Mom Thoughts
A Primrose mom shares mixed emotions about her daughter's first day of school.
Musical Milestones for Babies, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Keep an eye out for these common milestones when it comes to your child's musical development.
Primrose Moments: Finding Your Girl Squad
We love seeing friends get their start here. #PrimroseMoments
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CFD Simulations
1 Internal combustion engine flows for motored operation
2 Best Practice Advice
2.1 Key Fluid Physics
2.2 Application Uncertainties, Computational Domain and Boundary Conditions
2.3 Physical Modeling, Numerics and Recommendations
2.3.1 Numerics
2.3.2 Physical models
2.3.3 General considerations
2.4 Recommendations for future work
Internal combustion engine flows for motored operation
Application Challenge AC2-10 © copyright ERCOFTAC 2020
Key Fluid Physics
Flows within internal combustion engines are still challenging for numerical simulations. The key fluid physics which need to be captured are:
Location, size and intensity of the recirculation zone between the intake valve and the cylinder wall (left of the intake valve in Figure 19)
Orientation, size and strength of the intake jet (right of the intake valve in Figure 19)
Location and strength of the tumble vortex
Application Uncertainties, Computational Domain and Boundary Conditions
The boundary conditions have an influence on the in-cylinder pressure especially on the peak-pressure. The influence of following boundary conditions on the peak pressure was evaluated:
The compression ratio and valve timing were verified experimentally. The uncertainties were found to be negligible.
The influence of blow-by was found to be negligible.
A large uncertainty was found for the total in-cylinder mass at intake-valve closing. Because the temperature of the incoming air is 23° C and the cylinder head was set to 60° C the temperature of the intake air is uncertain. A variation of the intake temperature in the range of 23–60° C has a significant influence on peak pressure. Air temperature measurements within the cylinder have therefore been performed recently [11].
An uncertainty remains for the heat transfer over the walls because it is difficult to measure and difficult to assess in an LES, where accurate boundary layer modeling for momentum and heat transfer is still not fully solved.
For optically accessible engines the piston crevice has a strong contribution to heat losses because it is typically very deep to prevent the piston to ride over the glass liner. This results in a large surface-to-volume ratio. Therefore it is not advisable to delete the piston crevice and to adjust the compression ratio through geometrical changes elsewhere. It is important to take into account the influence of the piston crevice on heat transfer as well.
The computational domain should include parts of the intake and exhaust pipe. A comparison of simulations using the entire intake and exhaust port pipe with a length of 1680 and 1080mm (measured from the flange of the cylinder head up to the pressure plenum) and a shortened version with a length of 192 and 122mm revealed similar results for the in-cylinder pressure, mass and velocity field [10]. For this test case the short ports were found to be a good compromise between accuracy and computational costs.
Physical Modeling, Numerics and Recommendations
From experience and previous studies in the literature, it is quite obvious that the intrinsic unsteadiness and anisotropy of the flow field in IC engines renders scale-resolving approaches such as LES more suitable than RANS for the numerical simulation of such configurations, even though the high computational costs remain a real issue for routine design and optimization procedures.
Three simulations of the same test case were presented. However, a direct comparison is challenging because
there are many differences between the simulations concerning physical models and numerical approaches and
the in-cylinder flow processes are coupled non-linearly.
Numerics and physical modeling are closely intertwined with each other in scale-resolving simulations. In the view of the authors, dissipation should be prescribed by the subgrid scale model and not by the numerical scheme. This implies that scale separation through implicit filtering is defined by the turbulent viscosity rather than the numerical diffusivity. Other approaches and viewpoints consider a much closer coupling of numerics and physical modeling, which might make it even more difficult to quantify the individual contributions and draw general conclusions.
In the following, we give some recommendations concerning the numerics and the physical models. Finally, some general considerations concerning the more practical aspects of IC engine simulations and the analysis of results are given.
The use of second or higher order schemes minimizes numerical dissipation and this allows to accurately resolve the large-scale flow structures. Further, dissipation is exclusively controlled by the SGS model. This approach can be compromised by any upwind contribution that increases the amount of numerical dissipation. Formally, schemes with upwinding (QUICK, TVD, ENO, ...) can still achieve high orders of accuracy, but this order is mainly relevant for grid convergence - something that is (almost) never achieved with LES, where the underlying solution is typically poorly resolved, as the underlying solution will gain smaller scales with a smaller filter-scale or grid-refinement. Similarly, time-integration schemes that induce dissipation (e.g. non-central schemes with a bias to an implicit scheme) should be avoided. For engine cases where higher Ma numbers occur (e.g. detonation waves), robust schemes are required, and one option is Ma-number dependent blending as demonstrated by [21].
At the present time, only very few engine LES have shown the ability of achieving robust momentum transport with central schemes without artificial stabilization (which in turn increases the amount of numerical dissipation) - but these tend to reduce accuracy near the walls instead [30]. This means that there is still a clear need for further research on numerical schemes for engine LES!
Quality estimators, for example by comparing the resolved to the modeled turbulent kinetic energy, cannot be trusted. Much work has shown, e.g. [23, 24] or [30] that the criteria tend to be optimistic, and that they are usually misleading if used with (dissipative) non-central schemes: in these cases, numerical dissipation will reduce the turbulent kinetic energy on the smallest resolved scales, so that a reduced sub grid-energy is predicted - falsely implying that the unresolved part of the turbulent kinetic energy is low, whereas it is only underestimated due to poor numerics.
Depending on the amount of numerical dissipation, combustion models may need to be adjusted, in particular the modelling of wrinkling factors, and effective grid filter-widths may need to be considered, which may be higher than the "ideal" (Schumann) case where the filter width is proportional to the cell-size [28].
Physical models
Many models for e.g. spray and combustion were originally developed for RANS applications and were subsequently adapted for LES. This also applies for many turbulence subgrid scale models, especially the ones based on an eddy viscosity. Especially for scale-resolving engine calculations, it is not yet possible to give clear recommendations which models or model combinations are best suited. This would require a thorough comparison of physical models using the same numerical approach and the same CFD solver, an example of such an investigation can be found in [8]. Such detailed one-by-one comparisons are rare in the literature for IC engine simulations. However, a few general recommendations are summarized instead, which have been addressed in more detail in the ERCOFTAC "Best Practice of IC Engines" (Chapter 5) [3].
Experience has shown that a minimum mesh resolution can be estimated from RANS simulations (conducted on either a moving or static mesh) by cautiously (see above) considering quality indices under motored conditions.
Subsequent to any verification, a comprehensive validation of the CFD approach (which includes both the numerics and the physical models) represents an indispensable prerequisite. This is essentially achieved by comparing the simulation results with experimental data in order to demonstrate the simulation accuracy and to deliver the main characteristics of the system under study.
Besides all the classical requirements for well-qualified RANS and LES, there is a special challenge for IC engine simulations related to cycle-to-cycle variation processes. To ensure that meaningful, fully converged flow statistics are collected, it is recommended to extend the statistical sample by carrying out consecutive multi-cycle computations. Appropriate parallelization strategies are available [3]. The required number of cycles strongly depends on the quantity of interest. For lower order moments, only a limited number of cycles need to be computed while for rare events, the number of cycles can increase dramatically. In general, it is good practice to provide error bars from simulation results, e.g. based on the estimated deviation of the average and the variance [21]. Furthermore, when performing scale-resolving simulations, the first 5 - 10 cycles should be discarded to ensure statistical independence of the flow structures from the initial conditions.
Recommendations for future work
The presented experimental and simulation work revealed several open issues in IC-engine simulations as discussed in the uncertainties section and the physical modelling section which can be summarized as follows:
Further research is needed on robust and accurate numerical schemes for engine LES.
Many models were originally developed for RANS applications and were subsequently adapted for LES. A thorough comparison of such physical models is needed to give clear recommendations which models or model combinations are best suited.
There is still a lack of accurate boundary layer models for momentum and heat transfer.
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Contributed by: Carl Philip Ding, Rene Honza, Elias Baum, Benjamin Böhm, Andreas Dreizler — Fachgebiet Reaktive Strömungen und Messtechnik (RSM),Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Contributed by: Brian Peterson — School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Scotland UK
Contributed by: Chao He, Wibke Leudesdorff, Guido Kuenne, Amsini Sadiki, Johannes Janicka — Fachgebiet Energie und Kraftwerkstechnik (EKT), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Contributed by: Peter Janas, Andreas Kempf — Institut für Verbrennung und Gasdynamik (IVG), Lehrstuhl für Fluiddynamik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Contributed by: Stefan Buhl, Christian Hasse — Fachgebiet Simulation reaktiver Thermo-Fluid Systeme (STFS), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany; former: Professur Numerische Thermofluiddynamik (NTFD), Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
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John Thomson (1778 – 1840). A View in Scotland. Pencil, watercolour and gum arabic on paper. 172 x 321 mm. Original in the Tate Gallery, London. Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection 1996.
In 1791 at fourteen years of age, John was shipped off to Glasgow University and in November 1793 he was entered at the University of Edinburgh to continue his study for the Ministry. Whilst in Edinburgh he lodged with his brothers Thomas and Adam and it was during this period that he became acquainted with many persons who later rose to eminence, amongst them Walter Scott a friend of his brother Thomas. During his last month in Edinburgh, John took lessons under Alexander Nasmyth, the celebrated Scottish Landscapist.
On 17th July 1799, John Thomson was licensed by the Presbytery of Ayr as a preacher of the Gospel. His father had died on 19th February the previous year, and a strong influence was brought to bear on the Crown, with whom lay the patronage of Dailly, and he was presented by George III to his father's place as Minister of Dailly, his ordination took place on 24th April 1800.
Within twelve months of his ordination, John married Isabella, daughter of the Rev. John Ramsay, Minister of Kirkmichael, who bore him two sons and three daughters. Their eldest son, Thomas, became a physician and was for some time Mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon. The youngest son, John, attained the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy and later served in the East India Company Maritime Service. Isabella, the youngest daughter, married the celebrated Scottish artist Robert Scott Lauder RSA.
Following the death of his wife Isabella, John married Frances Ingram Spence widow of Martin Dalrymple to whom she had five children. The second marriage had issue of a further four children, in all a total of fourteen children, or three families in one. When introducing the children to visitors Mrs Thomson would say, "That's my family, that's John's family but these are ours". At this point John would interrupt saying "They're a' Jock Tamson's bairns", and thus he coined the well-known Scottish phrase.
As minister of Dailly, John Thomson neglected his parish duties and often had to be searched for by members of the Kirk Session to remind him to attend his services. His love of painting took him to the local estates with easel or sketchbook and when not engaged in painting he spent much of his time playing the violin and cello. Neither of these pastimes endeared him to his staunch Presbyterian flock and when a vacancy arose at Duddingston moves were made to get him to accept the charge.
His move to Duddingston brought him into closer contact with the men of eminence that he had met during his university years. All of the paintings done during his time at Dailly were given away by him to his friends in the parish, and it was only on his arrival at Duddingston that he started to sell his works, which brought him an annual income of £1,800 in addition to his stipend of about £300 making him a wealthy man.
The Rev. John Thomson died at Duddingston on 28th October 1840 aged 62 years, having spent forty-one years in the ministry.
© David M Hunter FSA Scot., 2001
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Weighing in on the Paul George versus Damian Lillard Feud
The on and off the court beef between Los Angeles Clippers' Paul George and Portland Trail Blazer's Damian Lillard has been making waves right now.
The two exchanged words through Instagram when George commented on a post quoting Lillard's post-game interview stating that he sent the 6x Nba All-star and his Oklahoma City Thunders home during last season's playoffs through a buzzer-beating shot.
The feud started during the game between the Clippers and the Blazers. Lillard was sent to the free-throw line to give his team a chance to tie or win the game. However, there was no "Dame time" this time.
After the missed free throws, the Clippers bench was seen celebrating specifically, Patrick Beverly. Beverly was seen laughing on the bench and saying "Dolla Time" which is a shot against Lillard who uses "Dolla" as his rap name.
While George was also seen imitating the "dame time" gesture pointing to his wrist referring to the gesture made by Lillard after sinking the dagger to eliminate the Thunders last season.
George vs Lillard: Who's better?
While both are established stars in the NBA. Both have their shining moments in their careers.
George torched the Miami Heat during the Big Three era and it can be argued that he could have a better career if not of the Big three. On the other hand, Lillard has been carrying Portland for years to cement their place as a consistent playoff team since he arrived.
The farthest that both of them have reached is up to a conference finals. In that category, George may have an upper hand. He reached conference finals twice already, while Lillard only did it once.
It is hard to compare two players who are contrasting types of players. One is a one-team career type of player with exceptional talent and skill, the other is a franchise level player who jumps from team to team to team up with friends or where ever he feels makes him happy.
Another consideration is the position they play in. There may come a time that they guard each other, but it is hard to compare the two as they play different positions, and they play different roles in their respective teams.
All in all, since they are almost equal in terms of trophies, little can be said about the comparison between their careers. Besides, they are still at the peak of their careers, many things can still happen. For now, let's enjoy it while it lasts. Competition is always exciting, especially as a fan.
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Government Stops Unlawful Social Security Suspensions; Agrees To Repay More Than Half A Billion in Back Benefits
More than 200,000 people eligible again through court settlement
Oakland, Calif. – The Social Security Administration has agreed to repay more than $500 million in benefits that were unlawfully withheld from 80,000 people whose benefits have been suspended or denied since January 1, 2007. The agreement is part of a class action settlement preliminarily approved by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken today. In addition, people whose benefits were suspended or denied between 2000 and 2006 will be notified of the new policy and given a chance to re-establish eligibility. All told, more than 200,000 people may see their benefits reinstated and/or receive back payments due to the settlement. All beneficiaries must continue to be eligible in order to receive payments.
The settlement resolves a lawsuit, Martinez v. Astrue, challenging SSA's method of implementing a narrowly drawn provision of the Social Security Act. The law seeks to prevent people from using government benefits to flee from arrest. Rather than trying to figure out which Social Security recipients were actually fleeing prosecution, SSA used a computer matching system that matched names in warrant databases to those at SSA. Many of the matches and automatic benefit suspensions involved false or unproven allegations, minor infractions or long-dormant arrest warrants. Although regulations provide for an appeal process, individuals losing benefits were routinely, inaccurately informed by SSA staff that they could not appeal.
Under the agreement, SSA has stopped, as of April 1, 2009, suspending or denying benefits due to the mere existence of a warrant – unless the warrant is issued in a criminal proceeding on a charge such as flight or escape. This change in policy will benefit thousands of additional people every month from now on.
"The vast majority of class members were not fleeing at all; many never knew that criminal charges were pending against them, let alone that a warrant had been issued," Gerald McIntyre, attorney with the National Senior Citizens Law Center (NSCLC), one of the organizations that represented the plaintiffs, said. "A common fact pattern was when someone who does not balance his checkbook is charged with writing a check with insufficient funds and doesn't learn of the criminal charges until after receiving a notice from SSA that his Social Security benefits were being suspended. Most of the people relied on these benefits for most or all of their income and ended up destitute or, in some cases, homeless when the benefits were stopped."
In a more egregious case, the SSA automatically cut off benefits to Rosa Martinez of Redwood City, California on January 1, 2008, due to a 1980 Miami drug warrant flagged in the government's system. Ms. Martinez had never been arrested, never used illegal drugs, and had never even been to Miami. In fact, the arrest warrant describes a woman 5'4" tall when Ms. Martinez is only 4'8."
The Social Security office told Ms. Martinez that she could not appeal and refused to give her an appeal form. "They said I had to take care of the warrant and made me feel like a criminal," Ms. Martinez said. "When I finally did appeal with help from Legal Aid, they ignored my appeal, while I worried about keeping my apartment and buying food."
During the past five years courts from Maine to California have declared the policy unlawful. Yet SSA continued to suspend the benefits of thousands of individuals each month. The impact of these suspensions was exacerbated by the fact that SSA often fails to process appeals in these cases.
While Rosa Martinez went without benefits for only a couple of months, others were not so lucky. Plaintiff Roberta Dobbs, a 75-year-old woman in Durant, Oklahoma who is on oxygen therapy 24 hours a day, went for three years without her Social Security Retirement benefits. During all this time her appeal was never processed. She exhausted her modest savings and had to rely on an open flame space heater to heat her home.
"What's remarkable about this case is the sheer number of individuals who were unfairly denied benefits and the size of the financial settlement they will receive," said David H. Fry of Munger, Tolles & Olson. "Hundreds of thousands of impoverished seniors and people with disabilities will once again receive their benefits, and countless others will avoid the same problem in the future. Most important, this settlement will enable many elders to regain their cherished sense of independence and dignity for their final years."
In addition to granting preliminary approval of the settlement agreement, Judge Wilken ordered a final fairness hearing to be held on September 24. At that hearing, Judge Wilken will hear any objections from class members and then make a final decision about whether to approve the agreement. The agreement will not take full effect until after Judge Wilken grants final approval and the appeal time has run.
The plaintiffs in the case are represented by the National Senior Citizens Law Center, pro bono counsel from the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, the Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center, Disability Rights California, and the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County.
For more plaintiff profiles, please visit Martinez v. Astrue. There you will also find a copy of the complaint, the settlement agreement, and the motion for preliminary approval.
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The thing about the Maniak Title was that we could do whatever we wanted with it. With Sabbath having Morganna and �The Damned� always with him, a lot of his defenses were in multi-person matches. Be it tag team, 6 man tag, or even 8 man tag the Maniak Title saw a lot of contenders come for it. In this one we see Sabbath defend with Morganna and the one time appearance of Julian The Warlock in MEW against Alto, Reaper, and I believe what may have been Whipme�s last MEW show. It�s not a bad little match. Outside of Julian, the other five people in this match ended up worked against each other quite often as the last half dozen or so MEW shows wound down. Then the match just goes haywire. Julian kills Alto on the outside. Whipme gets the win over Morganna in �con-tra-vers-al fashion�. This was supposed to set up two matches. Whipme vs. Morganna, which ended up being where Pink Taco debuted, and Alto/Reaper vs. Sabbath/JTW which ended up being the debut of �Dimension�. At least I think that�s how it all was supposed to go. I�m having enough trouble remembering how it actually went.


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Volvo Partners With Sweden's Northvolt to Produce EV Batteries
Following announcements earlier this year that Volvo plans to go all-electric with online-only sales by 2030, the company has just shared plans for a new partnership to mass-produce batteries for its upcoming zero-emissions vehicles.
On Monday, Geely-owned Volvo announced a new partnership with Swedish electric vehicle (EV) battery maker Northvolt, both of which will build a new European factory to develop energy cells, according to Yahoo Finance UK. The plant's location has yet to be revealed, though the companies say it will employ 3,000 people.
After raising $2.75 billion in equity this year, Northvolt also plans to establish a factory within its home country of Sweden.
The production facility, which will largely supply Volvo's electric brand Polestar, will reportedly be able to produce up to 50-gigawatt hours (GWh) per hour upon beginning production in 2026 – thought to be enough batteries for about 500,000 EVs.
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— TeslaNorth.com (@RealTeslaNorth) October 23, 2020
Co-Founder and CEO of Northvolt Peter Carlsson said, "Volvo Cars and Polestar are industry leaders in the transition to electrification and perfect partners on the journey ahead as we aim to develop and produce the world's most sustainable battery cells." Carlsson continued, "We are proud to become their exclusive battery cell production partner in Europe."
Northvolt was founded by former Tesla executives, and the company has previously had contracts with companies like Volkswagen, BMW and Scania, with a valuation of roughly $12 billion (8.7 billion Euros).
Along with its ambitious 2030 goals, Volvo is hoping 50 percent of its sales be EVs by 2025.
Tesla is currently constructing a production facility in Grünheide, Germany, while Volkswagen has announced plans to build six new battery factories across Europe.
Volkswagen Won't Cut Prices Like Tesla, Says Exec
Tesla has left Volkswagen in a tough spot on the veteran automaker's home turf after recently dropping the prices of its Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles (EVs) by up to 16.8% in Germany. The discounts, which Tesla said were a result of "normalizing" inflation, have led to increased demand for and interest in […]
Cruise, Waymo Face Pushback on Robotaxi Expansion in San Francisco
Transportation officials in San Francisco are trying to slow the rollout of robotaxis in the city, arguing that they can pose a road hazard to other drivers and that more data is needed before they can be allowed to freely roam the streets — reports NBC News. San Francisco has become a bit of a […]
Lucid Motors Stock Price Climbs 43% Amid Saudi Takeover Rumors
Lucid Motors saw its stock price jump by as much as 98% on Friday, closing at $12.87 per share (up 43%), as rumors of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) considering a full takeover of the luxury electric automaker made the rounds — reports the Silicon Valley Business Journal. The news represents a breath of […]


Who Was That Namir, Anyway?
Who was Kelly's soul-mate, this cat named "Namir" who she met and still remembers?
She'd only lived with dogs before but came to adore the friendly and affectionate little kitten. Christmas break came and she offered to take care of the kitten while they were away and…just never managed to give him back. And possibly because he was suddenly neutered he really didn't care for that carefree lifestyle anymore. Oh, and the food, that was definitely a plus over the bachelor diet of mashed potatoes and beer.
He wasn't very cat-like at the time, no playing, no bathing, but she'd never owned a cat so she didn't notice because he was really friendly and affectionate, enjoying brushings and being carried around. But he also had some specifically cat-like traits such as removing the screens from windows, opening locked doors and finding any other means of escape. He just needed a way to find a small rodent to sacrifice and bring its head to his human as proof of his gratitude for rescuing him, or perhaps as a threat to what might befall her should she fall from grace, she was never certain which it might be.
As I've mentioned, Namir was the inspiration for beginning this blog, and is the kitty in the header. He had a long list of medical conditions by that time, idiopathic cystitis, herpes in his bladder, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, I told him he just liked to use big words, and while nothing slowed him down his care was constant and complicated. At the beginning, being new to blogging, I didn't feel that writing about his many conditions and his care was appropriate. By the time I finally felt comfortable he was at his end and I didn't have the time to share him while he was alive, or to relate his illness and care in a way that would benefit others.
During my period of grieving him, I decided what I would do with this venue and my cats within it and began posting articles more and more frequently, and introducing my cats. When Peaches was diagnosed the following spring with chronic renal failure I began immediately to write about the disease, her treatment, and our experience from that point, through the course of the illness to her death that autumn.
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Bernadette, thanks for the post on Namir. I tried to look at the stories at the last 2 links, and neither one worked when I clicked from my email. Now that I'm at your website, though, both work. Usually the links work from either place.
Susan, thanks for letting me know about the links. I actually write the stories in Word on my computer and include the links there, then I copy and paste into the WordPress post so that may have something to do with it when you read in your e-mail, the links may not compose correctly. Next time I'll check the links once I get them into WordPress and update them. I just have an annoying habit of forgetting them entirely or missing a few if I wait until I get into WordPress where I'm all into placing phtoos!
"suddenly neutered"!!! lol Great story. Loved it!
Carolyn, he had the greatest sense of humor. You're right about his name, don't know how it moved on to being "swift cat" in certain languages but I guess that's just an extension of meaning.
So much love in those "bedroom eyes"! Thanks for sharing him with us.
Cynthia, a couple of my friends used to let him climb into their coats and start to walk out with him, he was that enchanting.
Namir reminds me of Boyzie – my cat in a gray flannel suit! Boyzie was just a ball of fluff when he tumbled through my backyard two years ago. He is the sweetest cat and practically falls over in ecstasy when you pet him. His coat is so soft and luxurious, and he has gorgeous almond-shaped eyes. He's definitely got some Oriental in him!
Vicki, Namir had prize-winning almond-shaped eyes, must be something about them! And isn't it funny how they could live through their rescue experience and not seem to have any negative effects!


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