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A memorable win for UB football
Posted October 22, 2022 by Budd Bailey
The Bulls and Rockets played an instant classic on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
A closed door was no match for the sound generated by the University at Buffalo football team after Saturday's game against Toledo.
The Bulls were in the locker room, and let out a group roar that could be heard throughout the football complex in UB Stadium. And why not? They had come back from a 27-10 deficit with 15 minutes to play to defeat the Rockets, 34-27. If it caught the attention of anyone walking the nearby hallways at that exact moment, imagine what it was like to be in the room.
"There was a lot of joy, a lot of happiness," running back Ron Cook said. "That feeling – winning for your brothers, winning for each other – there's nothing like it. Win as a team like that, especially like that – there's no better feeling. We emptied the tank, kept our poise, and kept fighting."
Those that left the stadium early to find better things to do on a fall afternoon – and their ranks were reasonably large – missed a game to remember. Trying to rank sporting events in terms of excitement is a futile gesture, but this one must be in anyone's top five of UB games in recent years.
That's in part because of the way the game developed, but also because of the situation. Both teams came into the game undefeated in Mid-American Conference play at 3-0. When the Bulls won, they not only became the team to beat in the entire conference, but they improved their record to 5-3 overall with their fifth straight win. That's one win away from bowl eligibility.
For quite a while, such a day seemed unlikely. Toledo, which had rallied from an early 21-0 deficit last week to beat Kent State, 52-21, looked like a team that was ready to pick up where it left off the previous week. The Rockets scored first late in the first quarter on a 26-yard pass from Dequan Finn to Jamal Turner, and added a field goal early in the second quarter.
Falling behind
The Bulls received a shot of adrenaline when Jahmin Muse took a fumble 72 yards for a touchdown. Yet the big play had no after-effects. Toledo methodically went 75 yards in eight plays for a score, with Finn running 15 yards to conclude the drive. When the Rockets added another field goal late in the half to make it 20-7, it certainly didn't seem like the Bulls' day. Finn wasn't taking complete control of the game like he did last week, when he accounted for seven touchdowns (six by the air). But he was good enough. At least Buffalo wasn't hopelessly out of it.
"Hats off to the defense for keeping us in this game," quarterback Cole Snyder said. "You talk about playing complimentary football. Some games are like that. They don't always go the way you want to, but you just have to keep fighting. This team does not give up."
UB opened the second half with a field goal, but eventually Toledo responded with an unhurried drive of 42 yards for a score. The 27-10 margin might have felt bigger than it was, as if it was time to at least warm up the coroner to do the postmortems on the Bulls' winning streak.
Therefore, the UB rally was about as unexpected as a hurricane arriving in town on an absolutely perfect day for fall football. The Bulls had enjoyed little success throwing medium-length and long-distance patterns, as receivers had rarely been open. Therefore it was time for Plan C – throw it short. Suddenly Snyder and the offense found some rhythm.
"I think that's fair to say," head coach Maurice Linguist of the Bulls said. "I think the execution picked up a bit. We did go to some more free-access throws that they were giving us. A couple of times we tried to push the ball down the field when it wasn't right there at the moment. We just regrouped … and took what they gave us."
Buffalo marched right down the field, with Snyder running the ball into the end zone from six yards. Toledo went three-and-out, and UB again marched down the field – looking confident in the process. Snyder hit Jamari Gassett for 30 yards and a touchdown, and the Rockets' lead was 27-24. Hmm. And when Marcus Fuqua made his second interception of the day for the Bulls, UB was in business again. Four plays later, Cook was in the end zone after a 30-yard run. The Bulls had scored 21 points in a preposterous seven minutes to take a 31-27 lead.
"It was crazy," Snyder said. "You could just feel the energy on the sideline shift. We knew at halftime we had to make some adjustments, and we came out swinging."
His team was cooking
Linguist's biggest problem during that burst might have been to keep his emotions somewhat in check. He obviously was excited, but there was still work to be done.
"Everything in life has a balance to it," he said. "You've got to have humility, because that's where everything begins. And humility gives the ability to see things in the right way. But when we step on the football field, we want to be supreme and confident. I think you have to have intensity that's off the charts, but also have poise in the moment.
"It's like making a cake – some of the things that go into it might not taste so good on their own. But put it all together and it tastes pretty good."
Toledo picked up a couple of first downs to move the ball on its next drive, only to stall. Even when Buffalo fumbled, the Bulls had an answer – Fuqua, with career-best pick No. 3. "I think I might have had two (in a game) in high school," he said. "You have to make the plays when they come your way."
The Rockets had time for one last drive and pushed the ball to the UB 22, but its last-gasp pass was intercepted by … UB's Caleb Offord. Well, Fuqua couldn't get every pass on this day.
"We knew that this could be a big game," Cook said. "Now we know that the MAC runs through Buffalo."
Finally, the Bulls could enjoy the unlikely victory. When they got into their locker room, they did exactly that.
"The feeling you get after a win, I don't know in life if there's any other situation that you feel that," Snyder said. "I think that's why people love sports and why people are part of that. It's something special, and something you can't replicate in life."
UB's next chance for celebrations will come on November 1, a Tuesday night at Ohio University.
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Thank you to the many thousands of people who have visited Placebook in BDP's 50th anniversary year, and to those who have joined in the voting, taken part in discussions, and who have nominated their favourite BDP buildings.
We have been delighted by the passion and debate, surprised by some gems from BDP's early years, and had a lot of fun too.
Below are the 52 nominated projects in order of popularity.
As a 61 year old Glasgow cab driver who was born 300 yards away from the centre, I remember what it used to look like in the 1950s.
The Berrick Saul Building, on the University of York's main campus was designed to bend around a single tree. Pro-Vice-Chancellor John Local also admires the environment within.
BDP's task to make it more accessible and create 35% more gallery space was arduous.
The BDP Manchester Studio has helped rejuvenate a rather drab site just near to Piccadilly Station. The building sits on the edge of the canal which has now become an attractive place for the people of Manchester to use (both on and beside the water) as well as providing a soothing and inspiring vista for the people working inside.
Having followed the progress of this building from erection of the steel shell through to the final placing of the pebbles on the foreshore I feel I very much know it inside out.
Head of Communications Sheri Besford is one of BDP's longest-serving employees and arguably has the most projects to choose from.
Such a very difficult task to choose my favourite BDP building because I've been round long enough to have lived with so many, so I will have to qualify this as being one of my favourites.
I know it's a refurbishment and not architectural in the most obvious sense of the word, but what an honour it must have been to be involved in the four year programme of deep investigation and repair of what is regarded as the finest surviving Elizabethan town house in Britain – Plas Mawr.
The integration of the lighting into this development is exemplary.
What would uncle George have thought?
My wife's uncle George owned an umbrella shop on this spot for decades. But BDP triumphed where the IRA failed. They demolished the building (George's brolly business was long gone by then) to make way for this scheme, threaded through the heart of Belfast.
This is a place. Its genius is being a place within a place, and achieving just what BDP's masterplanners envisaged at the outset.
I'm surprising myself with this nomination, I never thought I would find concrete so seductive. I've always been a lover of all things wood, I blame my Finnish mother for that. I was sent to Abito on a photo shoot and a surprising thing happened when I walked through the doors and stood in the atrium.
The 'Paleiskwartier' is a typical example of a Dutch urban renewal project where former industrial activity has made way for inner city redevelopment. The district owes its new reputation largely to the expressive image of the 'Armada Housing' designed by Tony McGuirk.
BDP masterminded the addition of two spectacular stands among many improvements to the home of the Grand National. Executive Director of Ask Developments, Alan Burke is one of its many admirers.
BDP Preston office, Vernon Street is my favourite BDP place: home of 'the BDP family', a great place to work, the origin of so much integrated interdisciplinary output, and the cradle of today's BDP offices.
As an occupier of this mixed-use development – SKV own two units of the ground floor offices – how can I not nominate this, my place of work?
Chapelfield rejuvenated the site of a former Nestlé factory close to the heart of Norwich. Retail developer Duncan Bower calls it innovative.
This award winning town centre development was the culmination of years of effort by the City Council to rejuvenate a core area of the city. Previous proposals put forward by developers were rejected by the citizens of the city and the Council. BDP were appointed with consultant surveyors to bring forward proposals more in keeping with the existing townscape and yet incorporate the demand for additional modern retailing with car parking.
A wonderful example of how nearly a century of brutal alteration, changes in architectural fashion and neglect can be sensitively and imaginatively reversed by interdisciplinary working to create a 21st century performance and rehearsal space in a mid 19th century structure.
From Led Zeppelin in 1968 to PJ Harvey earlier this week, the Hall has always been a magical place for me personally and BDP's major refurbishment and huge extension of "back of house" facilities has ensured that this genuine icon remains in successful use for all to properly enjoy a "performance" rather than the remote, cold, dead experience of watching a video screen several hundred meters away at the O2 and the like.
Completed in 1991, Hull's Combined Courts Centre brought together four Crown Courts and one County Court plus ancillary accommodation under one roof.


A suicide bomber was shot dead by the Afghan security forces before he manage to carry out an attack in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office said the suicide bomber was shot dead in Kot district earlier this morning.
Provincial security chief Gen. Zarawar Zahid quoted in a statement by the provincial government media office said the suicide bomber was looking to target the Afghan National Police and Afghan Local Police forces.
Gen. Zahid further added that the suicide bomber was shot dead after he was identified by security forces in Janjal Ghhodi area.


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Isn't it a shame that some crooks are now using clown costumes to do their evil deeds. Some areas are even banning those costumes from being sold. The Ronald MacDonald clown has even temporarily been retired from service. He's very sorry that this happened and didn't plan to rob anyone."Lee said McGregor had no motive to rob anyone because he had a well paying job as a manager at Which Wich and had cash with him that night, according to police testimony.According to evidence and police testimony, he went to Del Taco less than 30 minutes after the shooting, ordered two steak tacos and hung out in the restaurant less than six blocks from the shooting for 12 minutes, chatting with people and filling up a soft drink.McGregor said he then went to University Hill Deli Market to buy cigars before returning to Which Wich, where he made a bed out of aprons and fell asleep, Foster testified.McGregor told Foster that he had been "heavily intoxicated" that night and was still feeling hung over the next day.Detective Chuck Heidel testified that a woman who worked with McGregor at Which Wich called police hours after the shooting to report suspicions that he was the gunman. When the woman called, she was at work with McGregor, according to Heidel, and she said she knew he had a gun and a sweatshirt matching the one worn by the suspect."She described the hoodie as being part of his personality," Heidel said. "He always wore it."But he wasn't wearing it the afternoon of March 18, she told police, and he was acting quiet.Employees checked the false ceiling where they knew McGregor hid his gun and found it with three bullets in the magazine, Heidel said.Nearly 40 of Walker's friends and family members were in the courtroom, along with some friends and family members supporting McGregor.
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14 Movies You Must Watch if You Love 'Project X'
Marta Pereira
If you like comedies, you must have heard of "Project X". In this movie, Thomas Kub is about to turn 17, so, he decides to throw a small party while his parents are away. Although they want to throw a party they will never forget and make a name for themselves, things begin to spiral out of control, leading to an uncontrollable situation. If you are a fan of teen comedies here's the list of movies similar to Project X that are our recommendations. You can watch some of these movies like Project X on Netflix or Amazon Prime or Hulu.
14. Movie 43 (2013)
Screenwriter Charlie Wessler has surprisingly managed to get a meeting with studio executive Griffin Schraeder. "Movie 43" is a series of short films that Charlie pitches to him, with insane plots and famous Hollywood stars. This is a comedy movie for those with a strange sense of humor. You will either love it or hate it, but it is still worth a try since it is very unique. Because it does not take itself too seriously and because it has a lot of unbelievable situations, "Movie 43" manages to captivate the audience. The cast includes Seth MacFarlane, Kate Winslet, and Dennis Quaid.
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13. That's My Boy (2012)
Donny fathered a son, Todd, when he was young and raised him as a single parent. However, after Todd's eighteenth birthday they lost contact for several years. Now, Todd must deal with his adopting father when he appears out of the blue, just before his wedding. Starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, "That's My Boy" is a comedy that will make you laugh out loud several times. With solid performances and a strong (and silly) script, it is a "feel-good" comedy for fans of "Project X" and "Superbad".
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12. Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
"Can't Hardly Wait" is a teenage comedy about high school graduates with different agendas on graduation night. 500 high school seniors look forward to graduation party while, in the meantime, a boy wants to get a girl he's in loved for years who just broke up with her boyfriend. We follow this night, where people have sex, drink, and go along with most of the guidelines of a high school graduation party. The cast of this film involves Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Seth Green, and Lauren Ambrose.
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11. American Reunion (2012)
"American Reunion" marks the comeback of Jim, Michelle, Stifler, and their friends from "American Pie". They reunite for their high school reunion and many hilarious and unexpected things happen while they are there. As good as the other movies from the franchise, "American Reunion" continues to have a great cast, hilarious jokes and entertaining characters. The story is all about five guys and their relationship with women and sex. But the talent of all the cast and screenwriters makes the plot original and engrossing. A great ending to a hilarious franchise.
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10. The To Do List (2013)
Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) has just graduated from high school where she excelled in every subject, except real-life sexual education. Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced, Brandy makes a list of things to accomplish before going to college. Although this film does not bring anything new to cinema, it does innovate by putting female characters as the leads. With competent direction, solid cast and good dialogue, "The To Do List" is a teen comedy men and women will find entertaining and hilarious.
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9. The Watch (2012)
Four suburban men come together to escape their boring lives one night per week. However, one night, they discover their town was invaded by aliens posing as ordinary people. Therefore, they create "the watch" to save their neighborhood and the world. Starring Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn and Richard Ayoade, "The Watch" is an original comedy that used absurdity and improbability to surprise the audience. If you are looking for an entertaining and hilarious movie with a touch of sci-fi, you have found it!
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8. The Sitter (2011)
"The Sitter" follows Noah, who is a college student that ends up babysitting the kids next door. What should be a boring and quiet night ends up being a wild night full of adventures. Jonah Hill has already become a legend when it comes to dumb teenage comedies. His amazing comedic talents turn every movie he participates in a hilarious ride. "The Sitter" is no exception. It is a fun treat from director David Gordon Green.
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7. Neighbors (2014)
Kelly and Mac just moved to a new house in a quiet neighborhood with their newborn baby. What they soon realize is that they have a fraternity house as their neighbors. Because of all the loud parties, the couple decides they have to do whatever they can to take them down. "Neighbors" is a fun movie that joins two improbable genres: college and family movies. Besides having a witty and clever dialog, it also uses a lot of satirical elements in its comedy. The cast includes Zac Efron, Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Dave Franco. If you are a fan of any of these actors, you just have to watch "Neighbors".
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6. The Dictator (2012)
"The Dictator" follows the leader of The Republic of Wadiya, Hafez Aladeen, who is very eccentric and oppressive. Because of that, he is extremely hated by everyone in his country. When he goes to New York to speak about his nuclear program, things get out of control… If you are into comedy, you must know how talented Sacha Baron Cohen is. His characters are surprising and unique. And he is an incredible comedian. "The Dictator" is a satire of the real world but it is filled with silly and vulgar jokes and peculiar characters. It has a great script, an incredible cast, and a good direction.
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5. 21 Jump Street (2012)
In high school, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was a dork and Jenko (Channing Tatum) was the popular jock. After graduation, they both joined the police force. Because they are young, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs. "21 Jump Street" is a brilliant movie with a well-developed storyline and an outstanding cast. It is filled with sincere laughs from start to finish, helped by the chemistry between cast members. To anyone looking for a good comedy, I would recommend "21 Jump Street".
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4. The Hangover (2009)
One of the best comedies ever made, "The Hangover" follows three friends, Doug Billings, Stu Price, and Phil Wenneck, that head to Las Vegas for a promising epic bachelor party. The morning after, they wake up with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. "The Hangover" is an eccentric, hilarious comedy starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, and Ken Jeong. Director Todd Phillips and writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore created a modern movie that will stay on all the lists of best comedies for a long, long time. It has a witty, hilarious script, brilliant performances, and great direction.
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3. Superbad (2007)
Seth, Evan, and Fogell are three teenage guys who love to drink and desperately wish to get laid. When a girl that Seth really likes, asks him to get the drink for her party, he sees this as a perfect opportunity to make her his girlfriend. However, the night does not go as planned. Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, "Superbad" is a great teen comedy that focuses more on sex and alcohol jokes. One of its best qualities is that "Superbad" relies on hilarious performances and good characters to create an original and entertaining story. Also, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, and Bill Hader have great chemistry.
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2. Animal House (1978)
In 1962, Dean Vernon Wormer of Faber College is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, a disreputable frat house that will take anyone. He asks for the help of another fraternity, full of white, rich young men to take them down. "Animal House" is a classic comedy that serves as inspiration for many movies nowadays. Director John Landis brings in starts John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, Donald Sutherland and Mark Metcalf in a brilliant way. It is a comedy about a group of rebels and misfits in a campus and that was original and unique at the time. Although a simple film, it is a hilarious and entertaining one that should be watched by all cinema lovers.
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1. 21 & Over (2013)
Jeff Chang is a straight-A college student who is about to turn 21. Despite having an important medical school interview next morning, he and his two best friends go out to celebrate his birthday. However, a quick beer quickly becomes a wild night. Following the same formula as "Project X" or "The Hangover", this comedy is able to win its audience through crude humor and improbable and incredible situations. "21 & Over" is not only creative and original but also has a good cast. It shares several aspects with "Project X", and that is why you should watch it.
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President Bush to Nominate Two and Appoint Seventeen Individuals to Serve in His Administration
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate two individuals and his intention to appoint 17 individuals to serve in his administration.
The President intends to nominate Randy Paul Ely to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Texas. Ely has served with the Ft. Worth Police Department since 1972 and has advanced through the ranks to Chief Deputy. Ely earned his bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Texas.
The President intends to nominate James E. McMahon to be United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota. McMahon is currently a sole practitioner in Sioux Falls and from 1981 to 2002, he was a Partner with the Sioux Falls law firm of Boyce, Murphy, McDowell and Greenfield. He served as an Assistant Attorney General in the South Dakota Attorney General's Office from 1978 to 1981. McMahon received a B. S. degree from Morningside University and a J. D. degree from the University of South Dakota.
The President intends to appoint the following five individuals to serve as Members of the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Mortgage Corporation for a term ending on the date of the next annual meeting of the stockholders in 2003:
Cesar Benito Cabrera of Puerto Rico, as the Real Estate representative
Michelle Engler of Michigan, as the Community Interests representative
David James Gribbin, III of Maryland, as the Public representative
William Dodd Powers of New York, as the Mortgage Lending representative
Catherine Lynne Stepp of Wisconsin, as the Homebuilding representative
The President intends to appoint the following three individuals to serve as Members of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Access Board for the remainder of a four-year terms expiring December 3, 2005:
Bruce Growick of Ohio
James R. Haring of Florida
Janice Tuck of California
The President intends to appoint the following five individuals to serve as Members of the Board of Directors of the Federal National Mortgage Association for a term ending on the date of the next annual meeting of the stockholders:
Victor Henderson Ashe of Tennessee, as the Community Interests representative
Molly Hering Bordonaro of Oregon, as the Real Estate representative
William Robert Harvey of Alabama, as the Mortgage Lending representative
Manuel J. Justiz of Texas, as the Public representative
Taylor C. Segue, III, of Michigan, as the Homebuilding representative
The President intends to appoint the following three individuals to serve as Members of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise:
Robert J. Cottrol of Virginia, for the remainder of an eight-year term expiring January 18, 2005
Timothy M. Hagle of Iowa, for the remainder of an eight-year term expiring January 19, 2009
Allison H. Eid of Colorado, for the remainder of an eight-year term expiring December 24, 2010
The President intends to appoint William Grayson of California to be a Member of the President's Commission on White House Fellows.
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Crime Details: Sometime overnight between 10-19-07 and 10-20-07 actor(s) broke out a window and gained entry into the school. Once inside, two Apple I-Mac computers, two keyboards, two mice and one Hewlet Packer Scanner were Stolen. Actor(s) most likely exited through the font entrance to the school carrying the items. Anyone who may have information regarding this Burglary is asked to please contact Trp.Bernier at 355-7545 State Police Rockview Barracks, or Centre County Crimestoppers at 1-877-992-7463.
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Request to view at the Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H , Case EDUCATION, Shelf 12.2
Papaver Orientale
1852-1854 (made)
Atkins, Anna (photographers)
Great Britain (made)
As a botanist and early photographer, Anna Atkins quickly realised the benefit of using the cyanotype process to record specimens of plant life, such as this poppy. Cyanotype was invented by the astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1842. The following year, Atkins became the first person to print and publish a photographically illustrated book, British Algae, Cyanotype Impressions, part 1. To make a 'photogram' with the cyanotype process, the photographer laid an object on paper impregnated with iron salts, then exposed the paper to sunlight for a few minutes. When washed in water, the area where the plant had blocked the light remained white, but the area that was exposed came out a rich blue.
read Cameraless photography Cameraless techniques have been exploited and reinterpreted by successive generations of image makers and continue to be used by contemporary artists today. While related to the conventional practices of photography, cameraless images offer an alternative, experimental, radical and often r...
Additional title Poppy, from Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns (1854) (generic title)
Cyanotype print of a poppy.
Blue and white photographic image (photogram) of a poppy
Cameraless Photography Anna Atkins (1797–1871) Papaver Orientale from British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns c.1854 Cyanotype 35 x 24.8 cm Museum no. PH.381-1981 At the time of its invention, the cyanotype process was little used, except for printing 'photograms', like this example. From the 1880s it was used for copying engineering and architectural drawings, giving rise to the term 'blueprint.'
One of 160 plates removed in 1981 from a unique album, Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowering Plants, inscribed by the artist in 1854 as a gift to her family friend and collaborator, Anne Dixon, second cousin of the novelist Jane Austen. Provenance: The artist; Anne Dixon; Sotheby's Belgravia, London, October 28, 1981
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Happy Spring Everyone! Today I am happy to say that Spring is finally here after a week of cold rain and dreary days. The sun is out and it is in the low 60's. Woohoo! I hope this keeps up!
I love upcycling furniture and today I want to share a couple of pieces I completed a few months back. When I had my shop space last summer we needed some more display pieces and I came across this pitiful looking bookshelf. Although it was pretty droopy looking, it was a solid piece. It just needed some TLC.
I decided to paint it a cute bubble gum pink and added a whimsical floral fabric to the back for some added interest.
I think this Whimsical Bubble Gum Pink Bookshelf turned out great. I almost wish I had a place in my own home for it. I can envision it in a brightly colored beach house here on the Crystal Coast or perhaps in a little girl's room!
Oh, and I didn't stop there. I loved the pink and wanted to do more with it. I bought a small dresser with the intention of cutting it down to nightstand height for my master bedroom but changed my mind. I wish I had a before picture to show you but I DON'T! UGH! The small dresser was painted white and a bit beaten up. I painted it the same Bubble Gum Pink and then got a little creative.
I did some fun stenciling on the front and added some cute drawer pulls.
The bottom of the dresser was damaged on the sides so I disguised it with a piece of cute aqua blue contact paper I cut in a scalloped pattern.
With a few lime green accessories placed on it, this Whimsical Bubble Gum Pink Bookshelf and Dresser could really liven up a room!
Waste Not Want Not: I wrapped a lampshade with some leftover fabric from the bookshelf, painted the base of a small ceramic lamp aqua blue and created a matching Aqua Blue Table Lamp! Too cute!
I love working with bright colors. Adding colors to an ordinary room with bright accessories and painted furniture can make the space come alive. I am sure these pieces will find a new home soon enough and I hope they bring a smile to a face or two. I had a ball redesigning this whimsical collection.
Has Spring visited you in your neck of the woods yet? If not I hope these brightly colored upcycled finds brought a little sunshine into your day.
where did you find the aqua quatrefoil contact paper? Been searching for the exact paper – my sister-in-law found some at TJMaxx, but I've had no such luck.
I found it at Marshall's awhile back.


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Changing job market could benefit from worker 'Superfund'
Posted on: May 19th, 2016	by rjohnson
Bill Knight
Originally appeared in the Journal Star and can be found on billknightcolumn.blogspot.com
There's understandable tension between jobs and the environment in situations like switching from polluting, coal-fired power plants, fracking, and the Keystone XL pipeline. Changes can mean jobs lost – and also jobs gained.
Some say it's time for an effective transition program for workers displaced by innovation, and it's an old idea that could also apply to a changing economy.
The late, great labor leader Tony Mazzocchi of the old Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers (now part of the Steelworkers) in the '90s envisioned a program to help workers who lose jobs to otherwise-beneficial changes. Mazzocchi focused on changes from environmental improvement, but it could also address a more general economic objective.
To provide a just transition for workers harmed by environmental policies, Mazzocchi proposed the idea of a "Superfund for workers." The fund would provide financial support and educational opportunities for workers displaced by factors beyond their control.
"There is a Superfund for dirt," Mazzocchi said 23 years ago. "There ought to be one for workers.
"Paying people to make the transition from one kind of economy to another is not welfare," he continued. "Those who work with toxic materials on a daily basis … in order to provide the world with the energy and the materials it needs deserve a helping hand to make a new start."
A broad-based workers' Superfund could strengthen the hit-and-miss responses of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, which is supposed to help workers who lose jobs because of policies tied to NAFTA and other "free trade" pacts. TAA provides displaced workers an average of $10,000 over a two-year period, in addition to unemployment compensation, health coverage, etc.
"A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate-protection policies," said author Jeremy Brecher (whose books include "Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Alliance of Labor and Community" and "Common Sense for Hard Times").
"Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a 'just transition'," he added.
Whether tied to environmental innovations or corporations locating overseas, such a Superfund could be structured to provide for full wages and benefits for a transition period, possibly years; for years of schooling, including living expenses; and for decent pensions and health care for those near retirement age.
"Such a program would in many ways resemble the GI Bill that provided education and training, loan guarantees for homes, farms and businesses, and unemployment pay for veterans returning from war," Brecher wrote in Dollars and Sense magazine. "The program was first established in 1944 for returning veterans of World War II and has been revamped repeatedly. It was critical for the economic boom that followed World War II and for the ability of returning veterans to integrate back into American society. A similar program is needed today for those who are displaced from their jobs through no fault of their own."
Communities would benefit, too since they're adversely affected by the individual casualties of job cuts. A decade ago, the federal government conducted a widespread closure of military bases, but that was accompanied by comprehensive government assistance to affected communities and individuals, again targeted to a specific, if widespread, phenomenon.
"Workers dislocated by base closings also received extensive support," Brecher said. "The Department of Defense provided advance notification of job cuts, counseling, a hiring-preference system with federal agencies to re-employ qualified displaced DoD employees, and financial incentives to encourage early retirement of those eligible. Workers affected by base closings were also eligible for help under a variety of financial support and retraining programs."
Others could get similar attention – and have, at least in one non-military example. In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Energy eliminated 47,700 contractor personnel at 13 major sites as a result of downsizing the nation's nuclear weapons complex, Brecher wrote.
"The DoE conducted a Worker and Community Transition Program that provided grants and other assistance for communities affected by the shutdown of nuclear facilities," he said. "The goal was to assist displaced workers and provide economic recovery and diversification assistance to the affected communities."
Maybe something like that could work for Americans who lose their jobs because Caterpillar retrenches or Maytag or Oreo shifts work to Mexico.
It doesn't seem outrageous to ask, "Shouldn't U.S. workers be treated at least as well as dirt?"


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WHF was started in Moria camp by its founder, Zekria Farzad, a journalist who escaped from Afghanistan and arrived on the isle of Lesvos in Greece with his wife and 5 children in February 2019. He immediately felt the urgent need to provide attention and education to children in the camp and started teaching english to them with just a whiteboard on a bench in the Olive Grove, the hills of olive trees surrounding the refugee camp of Moria where the camp had spreaded.
Thanks to the support of the local refugee community in Moria, that firstly offered their own tents to host lessons and then helped building the first official class of the school (a 25 square meters tent made of scrap pallets and plastic sheets), Wave of Hope for the Future have grown steadily, offering classes in English, Greek, German, French, Music and Art (from 7.30am to 22.30 Monday to Friday) with 44 teachers to over 2.700 students at the time that the school was burned down during the fire that destroyed Moria camp on the 8th and 9th of September 2020.
In the meantime also some of the refugee teachers were moved to other camps in mainland Greece and started new schools there.
After just one and a half year WHF operates schools in five refugee camps across Greece with over 4.000 refugee students: Lesvos (inside the One Happy Family community after the fire destroyed the school and the entire camp of Moria in September 2020), Athens (Malakasa and Ritsona camp), Thessaloniki (Nea Kavala camp, Dimitri Hotel) and also in Afghanistan (in the Farza district, one hundred kilometers north of Kabul), where we are rebuilding and refurbishing a school that was destroyed and abandoned when the Taliban were occupying that region.
Our schools have become an important support platform for our people, not only for education but also for community organization and emergency aid. Since the fires in Lesvos island, for example, we have been organizing emergency food distributions and since march 2020 we are running the Covid-19 Awareness Team to educate refugees on the virus and distribute PPE to the community.
THE CONSTITUTION OF WHF
The fast multiplication of these self-organised Schools under the umbrella of Wave of Hope for the Future led us to register as an association. As refugees and asylum seekers, we could not register the school under the Greek law.
In July 2020, with the help of international volunteers that have supported WHF since the beginning, we finally managed to register as an association and to open an official bank account in Italy with Banca Etica.
Wave of Hope for the Future is now officially a network of self-organised and run schools of refugees for refugees. From a single school in Moria, Wave of Hope for the Future (WHF) became a wider project that aims to facilitate the creation of new schools run by refugees for refugees over Greece and around the world to provide emergency education and to show the world the level of humanity and talent that refugees have, despite all the difficulties they have been through and that they are still facing inside the camps.
HOW ARE THE SCHOOL ORGANIZED?
Every school in the WHF network will be constituted by a school board of 3 to 5 refugees that will act as school directors, manage operations, register new students, distribute educational materials and a team of refugee teachers that will run classes and propose and coordinate educational and recreational activities and distribute materials to students.
WHF will assist the school staff sending to the school one or more international volunteers to support operations and contacts with authorities, other associations and local players in order to organise events and new projects, as well as produce daily pictures, videos and reports of school activities.
WHF will provide the school staff with all the support needed to construct and run the new school: we will provide the financials to construct and refurbish the school, provide educational materials for the students, send a WHF start-up team to assist in every need during the first months of activities.
The school will have to offer at least classes of English, Music, Art and recreational activities for children. Optional classes can be German, French, Greek, computer, yoga, or any other activity proposed by the community.
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League Winners: Finding Undervalued Running Backs
Jonathan Bales
Jonathan Bales is the author of the Fantasy Football for Smart People book series and the founder of RotoAcademy—a new fantasy football training school.
The degree to which we can attribute success to skill in any field is inversely proportional to the amount of randomness inherent to it. That is, when luck doesn't play a significant role in outcomes, we can be confident that results are a reflection of talent.
If I compete against a professional poker player for a few hands, I have a decent chance to beat him because there's so much variance there. We couldn't be confident that the results would reflect our relative talent. If we were to play 1,000 hands, however, there would be far less luck involved, meaning we could be fairly confident the better player would win out.
Football is filled with randomness. On the season-long level, there's more variance than in every other major sport because there are only 16 games. Even if the best teams win the majority of the time, lots of weird things can occur when your season is less than 10 percent as long as that in baseball.
There's lots of variance in team results, but there can be just as much for individual players as well. Further, that luck which so strongly defines the path of certain players differs on the positional level, too; some positions are just more susceptible to randomness than others. One of my main goals in launching RotoAcademy is to help people identify and exploit that volatility.
Running Back Randomness
In certain ways, running back is the flukiest of all skill positions. Running backs have decent week-to-week consistency because they usually see a high number of touches relative to receivers, but they aren't as consistent on the seasonal level.
For one, they get injured more than any other position, and for the most part, we can't predict injuries. Second, they're very reliant on a bunch of different things for their success: play-calling, offensive line play, overall team strength (since winning teams run the ball more), and so on.
With so many variables, there's a ton of variance in running back results, which decreases the amount of confidence we can have in identifying talent. We see this in the NFL draft, as teams are very inefficient at figuring out which running backs are best. It's really difficult to separate their play from that of their teammates.
Running Backs Sorted By Conference
In the past, I did research that suggested running backs who played at non-BCS schools have had more NFL success (relative to their draft round) than big-school players. Here's a refresher showing running back approximate value.
These results aren't all that surprising when you consider 1) since teams can't accurately spot running back talent, they generally just side with big-school prospects when they probably shouldn't and 2) since running backs continue to be dependent at the next level, there's a lot of variance in NFL results as well.
In any random situation, it's best to maximize opportunities at the cheapest possible cost. Instead of drafting a first or second-round running back, it would probably behoove teams to side with a pair of mid/late-round rookie runners. Individually, they might be just as likely as the earlier pick to produce in the NFL, and combined, it's no contest.
Non-BCS running backs are more likely to be overlooked in drafts, and since running back production is so dependent and random, they usually offer more value than their BCS counterparts—not because they're better, but because they cost less.
To expand on that idea, take a look at rookie running back efficiency for players drafted from 2003 to 2013, broken down by college conference.
Four of the top five conferences are non-BCS schools. Those players don't necessarily have elite bulk production because they often aren't provided with the same workload as BCS running backs, but the numbers suggest they should see more touches. When you have a non-BCS back who figures to see a normal No. 1 workload (Chris Johnson, Matt Forte, etc), he'll probably offer quite a bit of value as a rookie.
Looking at the conference breakdown further, we see this trend continue even in regards to bulk stats.
Combining the five small-school conferences on this list, we see 29 backs drafted since 2003, compared to 131 big-school running backs.
Although only 18 percent of all backs drafted were from small schools, the non-BCS running backs have posted plenty of NFL production. Take a look at 1,000-yard rookie seasons.
Of the 1,000-yard first-year rushing seasons from 2003 to 2013, one-third came from small-school backs. That's significant for two reasons. First, you just saw that big-school backs outnumber small-school backs by more than four to one. That means the small-school running backs were nearly twice as likely to rush for 1,000 yards as big-school backs during their rookie years.
Second, we know that non-BCS players typically get drafted lower than their BCS counterparts. Thus, small-school backs have excelled despite being severely outnumbered and drafted low.
It's not just yards, though. The scoring effect is even greater.
Of the rookie running backs to rush for at least eight touchdowns in their first NFL season, 42 percent were from a small school.
Career Outlook for Small-School Running Backs
Let's look at how rookie running back success extends throughout an entire career. I've broken up career rushing data according to college conference.
For the most part, these numbers are even. Small-school running backs have rushed for more career touchdowns than big-school backs, and they've also had a higher probability of starting 16 games. Big-school backs have averaged slightly more total games played.
Again, the important thing to remember here is that, on average, non-BCS backs get drafted lower than BCS ones. The fact that they've been able to remain consistent with them in terms of bulk production is pretty incredible; on a per-carry basis, small-school backs have out-produced BCS running backs after we account for draft round.
Are small-school running backs better than big-school running backs? No, of course not. However, they do offer more value as a whole because they drop too far in the draft (which leads them to fall too far in your fantasy draft, too).
They're undervalued primarily because running back is such a dependent position, making it very susceptible to swings in variance. If 90 percent of a running back's production is due to the quality of his offensive line and only 10 percent is due to his own skill, does it really make sense to draft one that high? Not only are they simply not that important (in real life football, that is), but it's also very likely that they're assessed inaccurately because it's so difficult to untangle their talent from that of their teammates.
The latter point is the most important. Running backs who fall in the draft are usually dropping for the wrong reasons. They're every bit as likely to play efficiently in the NFL as those drafted highly. Small-school backs are the most likely of all running backs to fall because of the perceived risk surrounding them—risk which doesn't exist (or at least isn't any greater than that for BCS backs)—meaning rookie running backs from non-BCS schools can and do offer value to fantasy football owners.
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THE MADEMOISELLE OF THE FRENCH SONG – Françoise Hardy, the yéyé generation and the 45-rpm musical hits
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Shy, style icon and narrator of the sufferings of love
A private music school, the Petit Conservatoire, directed by Mireille Artyush, was chose by her parents as a suitable place for her to have professional musical knowledge. In her spare time, she devoted attention to psychology and astrology, publishing books and participating in radio broadcasts. Bob Dylan mentioned Françoise Hardy http://www.francoise-hardy.com/ in a poem and the poet Jacques Prévert wrote her a text for the program at Olympia. Writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán wrote her a poem bearing her name, while Japanese singer Yumi Arai wrote and recorded a song in homage to her.
FOR FRANCOISE HARDY – For Françoise Hardy at the seine's edge a giant shadow of notre dame seeks t grab my foot. Sorbonne students whirl by on thin bicycles, swirlin' lifelike colors of leather spin. The breese yawns food, far from the bellies, or Erhard meetin Johnson, piles of lovers. Fishing, kissing lay themselves on their books, boats. Old men clothed in curly mustaches float on the benches. Blankets of tourist in bright nylon shirts with straw hats of ambassadors. Cannot hear Nixon's dawg bark. Now will sail away as the sun goes down, the doors of the river are open I must remember that. I too play the guitar. It is easy t stand here, more lovers pass on motorcycles, roped together. From the walls of the water then I look across to what they call the right bank, an envy your trumpet player.
A woman with good manners and a pleasant voice, in the sixties she was in great demand in the French art world. In 1973, she published Message personnel, written by her and, among others, by Serge Gainsbourg and Georges Moustaki. Among the books she has written, the autobiography Je chante donc je suis, the novel L'amour fou and a treatise on astrology entitled Les rythmes du zodiaque. Among Françoise Hardy's studio albumshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJS7o4DabXg, we like to remind you Tous les garçons et les filles, Et si je m'en vais avant toi and Personne d'autre. She has not made movie soundtracks; however, many of her songs have been feature on popular movie soundtracks.
TOUS LES GARCONS ET LES FILLES – So many friends that I happen to see have been steadily falling in love. Oh, how I wish it could happen to me, and I'm asking the stars up above won't you find me a boy, just a nice looking boy, who will show me the way, who will teach me to say "I love you, yes I do", and who'll promise me too that he'll always be true, so that I'll never be blue. I just wish for a gentle boy, someone who is sweet and kind, just a nice sentimental boy, that's all that I'm really longing to find so many friends that I happen to see have been telling me all about love. Oh, how I wish it could happen to me is the only thing I am thinking of. So I'll find me a boy, just a nice looking boy who will show me the way, who will teach me to say "I love you, yes I do", and who'll promise me too that he'll always be true, so that I'll never be blue. So I'll find me a boy, just a nice looking boy who will show me the way, who will teach me to say "I love you, yes I do", and who'll promise me too that he'll always be true, so that I'll never be blue.
Always extremely elegant, in the 1960s she became famous wearing Yves Saint Laurent, Courrezh and Paco Rabanne garments. Pushed to return to record, in 1996 he released a new album entitled Le Danger. In addition to writing songs, she became interested in astrology, wrote several books and acted as an actor in musical films. Born in Paris in January 1944, Françoise Hardy https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/17/francoise-hardy-argues-for-assisted-suicide made her debut with immediate success at the age of 18. Her musical repertoire, always characterized by melancholy melodies, gravity of objections, questions, anxieties, torments of sentimental relationships and nostalgia.
LE DANGER – You thought you were safe from danger, you had closed the door, and everything was put away. Drawn a few lines, erased portraits. Crossing out, smudges, camouflaged the wounds of your life, everything tidied up. How could you sense the danger? You recited your lesson, without moving, never late for homework. Apply the instructions without reading between the lines of your life, without moving. You will not have seen the danger coming. You have nothing left: change everything. Review your copy, stir friends, troubles, desires, desires and meanings of your life, and change everything. I would like to bring you everything that feels good to be able to redraw the lines of your hand. Ward off misfortune be strong enough for two, but I hold back my tears, my dreams, my cries. And I would like to tell you, it will be better tomorrow. Tear a smile out of you but you no longer hear anything. It is perhaps the fear that makes you blind and deaf that strangles love that forever stifles its cries.
The Italian teenagers of the sixties were all a little in love with her. Capricorn with Libra ascendant, as a teenager she thought of taking refuge in a convent, however, for her good academic performance she received a guitar from her father. She sang in English, Italian, Spanish and German. Françoise Hardy https://www.ondarock.it/popmuzik/francoisehardy.htm made her debut in 1962 with the single Tous les garçons et les filles, a song that she became a real flag of adolescent distress. The following year, at the Eurovision Song Contest she ranks fifth with L'amour s'en va.
HOW TO SAY GOODBYE – Under no circumstances do I want to have unhappy reflexes. You need to explain to me a little better how to say goodbye. My heart of flint quickly catches fire. Your Pyrex heart resists fire. I am very perplexed, I do not want to resolve to say goodbye. I know that an ex love is unlucky. Or so little, but for me an explanation would be better. Under no circumstances do I want to overexpose my eyes in front of you. Behind a Kleenex, I would know better how to say goodbye to you. You have blacklisted our sleepless nights, our grey-blue mornings, but for me an explanation would be better. Under no circumstances do I want to overexpose my eyes in front of you. Behind a Kleenex, I would know better how to say goodbye to you.
Enrolled in the Sorbonne, she improvised herself as an aspiring singer, debuting on television and in the jukebox with the Vogue label. In 1967, he created his own production company, thus publishing, among other things, Comment te dire adieu, containing a song translated by Serge Gainsbourg, a great success of 1969. In a music video of 1970, Françoise Hardy https://www.umbriajournal.com/arte-e-cultura/i-racconti/%E2%9C%8D-i-racconti-francoise-hardy-malata-non-cantero-piu-e-stata-la-cantautrice-degli-amori-giovanili-402895/ appears together with Renato Balestra, well-known Italian designer. Abandoned tours and concerts, her appearances in public sleep exclusively on television and radio broadcasts.
TELL ME ABOUT HIM – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWG7lYcvtw. Tell me about him, you know he is my whole life. Oh, please do not hide anything from me. What is he doing there? Is he bored without me? Does he have any friends? Tell me about him, tell me the words, the words he said. Tell me why he does not write to me anymore. I do not understand, I do not understand anymore, I feel so bad about him. Tell me about him, when you saw him yesterday in the street. Did he have someone, someone on his arm? Take a good look at me and answer me. You do not say anything, so tell me if she is pretty prettier than I am. And he in his eyes, was he happy? Oh, please, even if I am in pain, tell me about him, tell me about him and tell me.
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Christina Romer addressed the issue while making the cable news rounds Friday.
Romer disputes friction at W.H.
By KENDRA MARR and MATT NEGRIN
Council of Economic Advisors Chairwoman Christina Romer on Friday pushed back against speculation that her frustration with National Economic Council Director Larry Summers's direct line to President Barack Obama led her to resign.
Romer, who has a 13-year-old son entering high school in the fall, told MSNBC her decision to leave the West Wing and return to teach at the University of California at Berkeley "was purely for family reasons," and not the result of friction inside the administration. She insisted to Bloomberg TV that Summers had become one of her "dear friends."
"Everybody knows we're all strong personalities," Romer told The Associated Press. "We don't hesitate to have a very aggressive back-and-forth. But I think one of the things that we have done is absolutely find our groove. We're a wonderful team."
The consensus among people who worked with Romer is that she would lobby for Austan Goolsbee, a member of the council, to be the next chairman, according to people familiar with the situation. "It would be an injustice if Austan didn't become chair," one person said. "It would be a shame for him not to take the next step."
Romer's public assertions come in the wake of the National Journal's Hotline.com report that she quit in frustration because she felt Summers's access to Obama undercut her authority — a story that ultimately sent the White House scrambling to announce her resignation. White House aides insisted into late Thursday night that the story, based on anonymous sources, was unfounded; Summers even released a statement that declared Romer an "extraordinary friend and colleague at the White House."
However, clashes between the two influential economists have been no secret.
In "The Promise," Jonathan Alter's book on Obama's first year, Summers allegedly tried to stop Romer from attending meetings with the president. "Don't you bully me," Romer is quoted as saying.
Amy Siskind, president and co-founder of The New Agenda, an organization working to advance women in leadership roles, said Romer's departure speaks to a "boys' club" vibe within the White House. Siskind pointed out that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner had initially been hesitant to endorse Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Protection Bureau, and that Summers stormy, five-year tenure as president of Harvard University ended amid allegations he was insensitive to women — charges spurred by a 2005 remark that "issues of intrinsic aptitude" among women lead to poorer performances than those of men in math and science.
"There's a pretty unambiguous pattern here," Siskind told POLITICO. "They're clearly unable to work with women."
While making cable news rounds Friday morning to explain the new jobs report, Romer addressed the tension.
"I know there were lots of reports of some fireworks early on, but the truth is we are great colleagues and been a good team and fought for many of exactly the same policies," she told Bloomberg TV.
People familiar with the situation said that while "some tension" existed early on between Romer and Summers, they eventually worked out their differences. "When everyone's brand new, everyone's trying to figure out their place in the world," one person said.
"Christie and Larry have formed a very good relationship," the person said.
Romer's job, however, has not been without its own frustrations.
At the Treasury Department's May symposium on women in finance, Romer said what she "definitely noticed in the White House and elsewhere is just [a] difference in how people communicate" to make their point. "I've never had to interrupt people before in my life … sometimes, you've got to speak up, even when there isn't a gap in the conversation."
At the same time, chairing the White House Council of Economic Advisors isn't typically a long-term gig; Romer's year and a half is actually the norm.
President George W. Bush had five CEA chairs, ranging from Harvey Rosen's 3 1/2-months to Ed Lazear's three-year stint. President Bill Clinton had four, each of whom served an average of about two years.
For many chairs, who typically hail from academia, two years or more away from campus is just too long. And often, universities mandate that their professors quickly return, said Lazear, noting he served an unusually long tenure because of the financial crisis.
"It's not that these people aren't loyal Americans," he told POLITICO. "It's just the nature of the people who take these jobs."
An administration typically experiences turnover going into its second year, said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington-based think tank. "It's ridiculous to think that they're jumping ship" if they leave the White House, he told POLITICO.
He added, "I don't expect any shifts in policy moving forward, and, you know, the people that are making the decisions — the president, the vice president, [Chief of Staff] Rahm Emanuel, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers — are all the same people in place."
But Republicans pointed to Romer's departure as proof of turmoil within Obama's economic team.
"Combined with the disappointing economic numbers, this departure highlights the inability of the Obama administration to get a handle on the country's economic problems and decide the best course of action to get the economy moving in the right direction," RNC spokeswoman Katie Wright wrote in an e-mail.
Greg Mankiw, who served as chairman of Bush's council, said Romer must be experiencing some "mixed emotions."
"On the one hand, it is an exhilarating experience to be a member of a White House team, a part of history, and the leader of a staff of smart, hardworking economists at the CEA," he blogged. "On the other hand, in jobs like this, one loses a great deal of autonomy. People who choose academia as a career often do so because they enjoy the personal and intellectual freedom it offers. Having spent two years without it, I appreciate that freedom all the more. I bet Christy will feel the same, after she recovers from Beltway decompression."
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Emergency responders just can't catch a break in Queen Charlotte.
One month after a house exploded on Spruce Point, residents woke to a strange sight across the water and warnings of an explosive hazard on Sunday, Sept. 9 — this time from a floating HaiCo fishing lodge that somehow drifted loose from its anchor buoy in Alliford Bay and crashed onto the rocky east side of Lina Island during a storm.
All mariners are warned stay at least 0.2 nautical miles away in all directions.
No injuries were reported, and as of Tuesday afternoon, no gas or diesel has been seen leaking into the ocean. The barge has an estimated 18,000 litres of gas and 15,000 litres of diesel aboard.
But besides a spill, responders are grappling with the challenge of keeping crews safe while dealing with a barge hold where enough gas vapours have leaked that it has some potential to explode.
"Once they figure out this issue with the gas and make sure it's not a danger to workers, we've got a lot of resources in place, both locally and with other people coming," said HaiCo CEO Bob Brash, speaking Monday afternoon just as a specialized contractor was heading out to test the air inside the barge.
"People here are pretty resourceful, so I'm not too worried about patching the hull and pumping out the fuel — all those things we have to do before we move it back to Alliford Bay," Brash said.
Anchored off Hippa Island during the fishing season, the lodge and Tasu I barge are owned by HaiCo's West Coast Resorts and were scheduled to overwinter in Vancouver. Brash said it wasn't yet clear why the Tasu I went adrift — the company has three lodges in Haida Gwaii and moves them several times a year without trouble.
"We've used that anchor buoy for many, many things, including barge tie-ups and logs. It's sitting out there fine as can be," he said, adding that the problem must have been the barge ropes, or something else.
A HaiCo staff person was aboard the barge all Saturday, including when it started drifting around 9 p.m. Overnight, an easterly storm blew with gusts of up to 90 km/h going straight into Skidegate Inlet.
The person managed to alert others that the barge was drifting, but the tugboat that delivered the Hippa Island lodge to Alliford Bay was away on the west coast collecting the other West Coast Resorts' lodges.
Later on Saturday night and Sunday morning, local crews inspected the barge and were met by overpowering smells of gas. They saw the hull had been breached in several places after hitting boulders, and left with the person who had been on the barge. There was no sign of damage to the lodge itself.
The Eagle Bay Sentinel, a skimmer vessel, was dispatched Sunday by the West Coast Marine Response Corporation from Prince Rupert, and the Coast Guard vessels Gordon Reid and Cape St. James are also on scene.
Brash said once the contractor finished the air test, HaiCo will work with its contractor and other agencies to come up with a salvage plan. Without any big tides in the forecast, he said so long as the fuel issue is taken care of, they should have time to do the neccesary work on the barge.
"It ain't moving anywhere," he said.
Working on the response are the Haida Nation, Transport Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans, the Village of Queen Charlotte, and the B.C. Ministry of Environment.


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Defence and Security in an Unstable World
General Sir Nick Parker KCB CBE
Monday, 30 October 2017 - 7:00PM
How To Spot A Roman Emperor
Professor Mary Beard FSA FBA
Thursday, 26 October 2017 - 6:00PM
Shakespeare's London and Ancient Rome
Professor Sir Jonathan Bate CBE FBA
Tuesday, 17 October 2017 - 6:00PM
The History of Pain
Professor Joanna Bourke
Wednesday, 11 October 2017 - 6:00PM
The Guitar in Tudor London
Professor Christopher Page FBA
Roman London's First Voices
Dr Roger Tomlin
Discovering the Port of Roman London
Dr Gustav Milne
Wednesday, 27 September 2017 - 1:00PM
The Conservative Party
Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE
Tuesday, 26 September 2017 - 6:00PM
Multimedia 1900: Experience and Entertainment in Everyday Life
Professor Ian Christie FBA
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From Royal Highway to Common Sewer: The River Thames and its Architecture
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Q: R replacing names in a dataset I have this R script for data mining:
`FAO_AreaName <-"TLS"
news_url <-   paste0("http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/common/allnews/en/?iso3=", FAO_AreaName,"&allnews=no&limit=2")
news <- fromJSON(news_url)
title <- news[3]
date <- news[6]
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content_TLS <- news[5]
TLS <- cbind(FAO_AreaName, FAO_AreaName_1, date, title, content_TLS)

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In this example, TLS stands for "Timor-Leste".
I am using the following packages:
rvest,
stringr,
tidyr,
data.table,
plyr,
xml2,
selectr,
tibble,
purrr,
datapasta,
jsonlite.
In any case, I have a long .csv list of country name codes (e.g. USA, ISR, ITA, etc) I should replace to TLS to complete the script.
Any suggestion before starting replacing manually?

A: Wrap it in a function:
do_my_task <- function(FAO_AreaName) {
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    content_TLS <- news[5]
    cbind(FAO_AreaName, FAO_AreaName_1, date, title, content_TLS)
}

areas <- c("TLS", "USA", ...)
my_datasets <- lapply(areas, do_my_task)

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I just heard today that I have been selected to participate in a design workshop run by the founder of Designer's Republic, Ian Anderson. In order to covet one of the 14 spots in the workshop I had to complete a brief set by Ian Anderson himself: Rename Ian Anderson. I had to think of a way to rename the designer as if he were a product and his name was reflective of his functions or characteristics.
By definition "quixotry" means an act that is idealistic or ambitious yet impractical. In competitive scrabble, players would usually drop the letter Q as although it is high scoring, it is not very compatible- the player who waits for the miracle word loses. Cresta (the man who scored with quixotry) held on to the elusive Q throughout the game, dreaming that he would soon pick up a T and a Y. In a 513/1 chance, Cresta picked both a T and a Y in the same turn and played the legendary "quixotry". His actions are perfectly reflective of the word's meaning.
Ian Anderson explained he was looking for designer's with the ability to THINK and solve problems, so for the duration of the brief I was more concentrated on the idea rather than the design itself. But at the end of the day, I am happy with the quirky outcome. Graphic design is tougher than you might think peeps!


Dreams becoming real to my husband and will not believe me he was dreaming. How do I handle this?
He becomes obsessive about the dream.
Your profile says that your husband has dementia. Sometimes, their waking time may feel like a dream and they do get confused. Of course, I'd report any change in mental status to his doctor.
I recall in the early days of dementia, my LO would ask me if she was dreaming. She said things were dreamlike and they confused her. I would tell her that things were real and not a dream, but, that seemed to bring her comfort and didn't bother her, but, if it would have made her happier to think it was a dream, then, I would have gone with that. Because, it's all about keeping them as content and unagitated as possible.
Is there some reason that you can't just agree with him and keep him calm? Sometimes placating is best. And, if he's agitated or too obsessive, I'd discuss it with his doctor. Perhaps, medication could help him. People with dementia can obsess about a number of things. My LO obsessed about her cat. It was a huge deal. Medication and time resolved it though.


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Patrick Rodgers  is een Amerikaanse golfprofessional.

Patrick is de zoon van Charlie en Judy Rodgers en de broer van Caroline. Charlie werd in 1963 geboren in Avon, Indiana.

Amateur
Hij studeerde van 2011-2014 aan de Stanford-universiteit en speelde drie jaar college golf. Hij heeft zijn studie niet afgemaakt. Zijn gemiddelde van 70.55 slagen is een record en beter dan het vorige record van Tiger Woods (70.96). Rodgers won voor Stanford 11 toernooien, net als Tiger Woods.  En net als Tiger Woods ging hij voor het Nike-team spelen.

In 2013 bereikte hij de laatste 16 bij het US Amateur. Hij versloeg Sean Dale met 3&2, maar verloor in de volgende ronde met 5&3 van de Canadees Corey Connors. Uiteindelijk won Matthew Fitzpatrick.

Rodgers volgde na het winnen van The Prestige in februari 2014 Matthew Fitzpatrick op als de nummer 1 op de wereldranglijst. In april werd hij uitgeroepen tot Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Year. Hij werd onderscheiden met de Jack Nicklaus Award.

Gewonnen
 2009: AJGA - SAP Junior Open
 2011: Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational
 2012: Western Intercollegiate, US Collegiate Championship, OFCC-Fighting Illini Invite
 2013: Western Amateur, Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters, John Deere Classic (beste amateur), Erin Hills Intercollegiate
 2014: SH Collegiate Masters, Pac-12 Championship, NCAA Eugene Regional, The Prestige at PGA West (-9), Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters

In 2011 en 2013 speelde hij in het Walker Cup team.

Professional
Rodgers speelde als amateur al 4 proftoernooien: Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship, het Travelers Championship, het United Leasing Championship  en de John Deere Classic, waar hij 15de werd.
Na het spelen van het US Open werd hij in juni 2014, professional.

Amerikaans golfer

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International Trade Finance Awards 2019
Following a year of geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption and competition, the 2019 International Trade Finance Awards by Trade Finance Global recognise and award those who have succeeded and provided an outstanding contribution to international trade. Trade Finance Global Excellence Awards are totally independent and judged by an expert panel of trade specialists.
Best Financiers Category
Best Trade Financier – Commerzbank AG
Best Receivables Financier – Stenn International
Best Invoice Financier – Bibby Financial Services
Best Alternative Financier – GapCap
Best Export Credit Agency – UKEF
Best Islamic Financier – Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
Best Supply Chain Financier – Demica
Best Finance Providers by Geography
Best Business Finance Provider in Europe – Citi
Best Business Finance Provider in Africa – African Development Bank
Best Business Finance Provider in Asia – Mizuho Bank
Best Business Finance Provider in North America – J.P. Morgan
Best Business Finance Provider in South America – Bank of America
† TFG Methodology and Process
Best Trade Services Category
Best Foreign Exchange Provider – Ebury
Best Trade Credit Insurance Provider – Euler Hermes
Best Trade Finance Recruitment Company – Johnson Associates
Trade Finance Deal of the Year – Allen & Overy
Best Trade Finance Law Firm – Sullivan & Worcester
Technology & Innovation Category
Innovator in Global Trade – ICC Banking Commission
Best Shipping Company – A. P. Moller – Maersk
Best Treasury Management Platform – Kyriba
Best Trade Finance Software Provider – HPD LendScape
Best Trade Technology Company – Export Enterprises
Best Trade Content Category
Best Trade Finance Education Provider – Institute of Export & International Trade
Best Trade Finance Publisher – TXF
Best Trade Editor – Shannon Manders (GTR)
Best Invoice Financier
Bibby Financial Services
Bibby Financial Services helps ambitious SMEs to grow and thrive.
Following a year of macroeconomic uncertainty, we saw Bibby continue to invest in people, processes, infrastructure and CSR. BFS continues to strive for excellent customer service, flexible finance and a personal approach. With relationships at the heart of Bibby, both internally and externally, it's clear that the turnaround since 2017 has had a positive impact in the last year.
What were your recent successes?
"- To offer additional support to those trading overseas amid the backdrop of Brexit, we extended our Trade Finance proposition to include Invoice Discounting for commercial businesses with turnover of up to £5m.
– In addition, we expanded the product to include prepayments which allows importers to pay overseas suppliers in advance of goods being manufactured and shipped. This move came after we saw a 22% uplift in demand for Trade Finance since the end of 2017.
– In 2018, we saw further integration between our Trade Finance, Export Finance and Foreign Exchange products, enabling us to enhance our support for businesses trading internationally, irrespective of whether they need support with cashflow, working capital, international credit control or managing the impact of currency fluctuations."
Edward Winterton, UK CEO, Bibby Financial Services
"Amid the backdrop of Brexit, international trade remains an incredible important consideration for UK SMEs in order to unlock new growth opportunities and find supply chain efficiencies. Through our Trade and Export Finance expertise, coupled with our integrated FX solutions, we're now in a fantastic position to support even more businesses trading overseas, whether they require support with trade finance, working capital or foreign exchange services."
Paul Fraser, Sales Director – Specialist Products, Bibby Financial Services
"We're absolutely delighted to be awarded as Best Invoice Financier Award at the International Trade Finance Awards. As a global business supporting more than 10,000 businesses worldwide, this award is a testament to the hard work and commitment of our teams across the world, and our expertise in supporting SMEs trading internationally."
What are the biggest challenges that Bibby Financial Services faces in relation to trade right now?
Economic uncertainty. Data from our SME Confidence Tracker report shows us that confidence amongst UK businesses continued to decline throughout 2018, due – in part – to uncertainty surrounding the UK's exit from the European Union. While this provides an opportunity for our teams to support businesses trading both internationally and domestically, we are seeing more and more businesses delay investment decisions and recruitment, which will undoubtedly impact the UK economy over the weeks and months ahead.
Colleagues are at the heart of everything we do so attracting, retaining and developing leading industry talent is critically important to our success – particularly in relation to our specialist products, such as Trade Finance. In a competitive market-place, this is always a key challenge but both our placement in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For poll, and our continued investment in people help us to overcome this.
What should we be looking forward to in 2019 at Bibby Financial Services?
"In 2019 we are launching a flexible pay-as-you-go insurance product for SMEs, enabling them to have closer control over their cover needs. Not only will this development enable us to services the needs of a greater number of businesses, it will also enhance the service we provide to our existing clients."
What is the strategic focus of the company in the short to medium term?
"Our vision is to be the independent financial services company with which every ambitious business would love to work. To do this, our focus in the short to medium term is to grow our product portfolio, enabling us to build a broader based financial services business to support SMEs across the world."
Methodology and Process
Trade Finance Global (TFG) takes the judging of the International Trade Finance Awards to be a serious matter. In the interests of transparency around the selection process, the methodology is detailed below.
TFG have a team of both in house analysts and external consultants who would've conducted a mixture of quantitative and qualitative reviews on a number of trade finance banks and liquidity providers, as well as SAAS companies, fintechs / non-bank liquidity providers, law and insurance firms.
1. TFG announces a 'call for award nominations' which is published as an advertisement with email alerts also sent out
2. The award nominations that are received and also selected are then sorted into respective award categories. A staff member passes these nominations to the first stage TFG internal judging team and then to an internal member of staff to further judge
3. The TFG judging team, independently of each other, read each of the submissions and decide if it (A) Meets the criteria of the category (B) Is worthy of being a finalist
The TFG judging team grades each submission 1 to 5 (with 5 being the most suitable for the finalist list). The first stage judges pass on the top three nominations for each category, unless the total nominations exceed ten, in which case four go on to the second stage. If there are less than three entries all nominations go on to the second stage of judging
The marking criteria were based on a mixture of, public information on deal volumes, and transactions numbers by market, as well as the company's ability develop innovative finance structures and products in the changing market
TFG also looked at public reviews on client satisfaction, the quality of, and content produced (on site) around their products, as well as brand share in the category, looking extensively at social coverage and brand advocacy
1. The Advisory board members are industry experts from the field and academia in structured trade and commodity finance, fintech and technology or law. A staff member sends a packet of the finalist selections to each advisory board member for each award category they have selected to judge
2. With attention to confidentiality, the awards submissions are returned rated 1 to 5 and a staff member sorts the information, notes the winners and prepares the information for the final awards campaign and relevant press releases
3. In the unlikely event of a tie following the second stage of judging, the tie will be broken by an impartial industry expert on the TFG staff or contributing editorial board
See the full terms and conditions here, or download the Trade Finance Excellence Awards Brochure. Find out about the 2019 Awards here.
Currency Awards 2016
Product Awards 2016
Recruitment Awards 2016
Shipping Awards 2016
International Excellence Awards 2017


Full video of the swearing in of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. She was sworn by Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court building, not the White House. This is the FIRST TIME, that this event has been caught on video.


Have you ever read something and it just seemed routine, and you forgot about it shortly, and then later you read it, and wow, it popped off the page to you, and seemed so meaningful?
I mean we often are so busy, that things just don't sink in, because our mind are going in so many different directions.
I often think this could be part of the problem not only with our relationships but with our spiritual life. We get wrapped up in everything except something that profits our soul.
Suppose for a minute we could clear our mind of the clutter. Suppose we shut off the problems filling our heads and worrying us, suppose we shut off the thinking about things we need to do, suppose we shut off thinking about others, or how upset we are or what they did, or what they should have done. Suppose we held up a mental stop sign and said Quiet everyone… I'm cleaning house. Sudden quiet.
Now… I can take time to listen for God.
If we did this each morning, even for a brief time we would see immediate results in the way we deal with life, others, and most certainly it would give God time to impart peace into our spirit. And hope, and inspiration. And.. reassurance.
What if you made this your goal this week? Just a quiet time with God every day. Where you raised a stop sign and quieted everything in the world, but meditation upon God. And listen for that precious still small voice. Oh how we need this my friend.
Think about it, don't you need refreshing in your spirit? Don't you need fresh hope? Don't you need encouragement? Well what are you waiting for? Don't neglect the One who loves you more than anyone else does, and has the answers to all you need. Take time for God!
Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage, and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait and hope for and expect the Lord.
Remember your source of strength is Christ, you cannot run the race of life successfully without a close, enduring, daily, ongoing vital relationship with Him.
With our God we shall do valiantly!


Named by Frommer's as one of America's 10 Best Ice Cream Factory Tours, Velvet Ice Cream's Ye Olde Mill welcomes 150,000 visitors each year for tours, tastings, events and live entertainment on weekends. Family-owned and operated, Velvet produces and distributes more than five million gallons of ice cream every year from its headquarters on the grounds of Ye Olde Mill.
Velvet Ice Cream's Ye Olde Mill in Utica, Ohio.
MAY 1 — The first guest to arrive at Ye Olde Mill on Wednesday, May 1, will receive complimentary lunch for two and Velvet's signature ice cream sundae, the Messy Mess Sundae, a massive goblet, dripping with hot fudge, rolled in peanuts and filled with Original Vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, whipped cream and a cherry.
MAY 11 — Free Cone Day on Saturday, May 11 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., where each guest will receive one free kid's cone of their choice at Ye Olde Mill's ice cream parlor and full-service restaurant.
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND — The Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival draws about 30,000 annually for a celebration of ice cream, including contests for kids, ice cream eating contests, over 90 local artisans, pony rides, classic car show with more than 400 cars and live entertainment. And of course, the fun is all topped off with ice cream.
Velvet Ice Cream milkshake served up at Ye Olde Mill.
If these don't work, you can plan a visit anytime. Ye Olde Mill is open in May from 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; June-Aug., 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; September, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.; and in Oct., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Throughout the season, Velvet visitors can enjoy family-friendly events, such as live music and entertainment on weekends and holidays; Mother's and Father's Day specials; and special deals during July for National Ice Cream Month.
Hours: Ye Olde Mill is open in May from 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; June-Aug., 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; September, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.; and in Oct., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.


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Home Locations Baltimore Review: "Seussical the Musical' at Charm City Players
Review: "Seussical the Musical' at Charm City Players
"Now, imagine a curtain and what lies behind; the kind of a place you might see in your mind… From the page to the stage, come along and enjoy — this tale of an elephant, a bird, a Cat in the Hat, and a boy!"
Seussical the Musical, (with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens), where all nineteen books from Dr. Seuss merge into one and come to life stage! Charm City Players takes a unique approach in bringing this story to life from the top of the show. Unlike most performances that have been done over the years, the opening number here starts with Jojo (Logan Dubel) opening this huge "Cat in the Hat" book and the Cat coming off the page and onto the stage.
As the opening number starts you hear the live orchestra conducted by Gregory Lauer and a larger-than-life set created by Steven Napp and Annmarie Pallanck. Center stage you see a stack of books, one on top of the other from various Dr. Seuss stories, leading to the top where "Whoville" is located. This created a multilevel set used to let our imaginations wonder into the start of our story.
The cat, played by Joseph Haddad, narrates us though the world of Dr. Seuss with the starting number "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think," which urges boys to open up his mind to a world full of possibilities and wonders. The Cat introduces other various characters that we will see through the story. He tells the boy to think of an Elephant named Horton (James Gilbert), think of the Whos and Whoville too tiny to see. Mr. Gilbert is that loveable teddy bear that everyone loves and fits this role perfectly. As Horton meets the Whos, the Cat brings the boy into the story to play Jojo, son of the Mayor of Whoville (Jeff Baker) and Mrs. Mayor (Christina Napp).
As the story progresses, Jojo faces trouble in Whoville for thinking too much, and the jungle animals mock Horton for believing that the invisible Whos exist. We see this in the Jungle of Nool number where Sour Kangaroo (JacQuan Knox) plays a soulful rendition of "Biggest Blame Fool" with the other jungle animals. Some of those animals including a menacing and mischievous group of monkey brothers, the Wickershmams (Chris Fotis, Brandon Shaw, and Tate Tiemann). Horton's persistence and dedication catch the eye of his shy neighbor Gertrude McFuzz (Grace Kane), who uses just enough quirkiness in her role to have the audience laughing as she tries so hard to get Horton to notice her.
The cast of 'Seussical the Musical.' Photo courtesy of Charm City Players.
Horton, on the other hand, has no time for Gertrude. He is too busy egg-sitting for the flighty Mayzie La Bird (Hannah Gutin-Creech), who does a wonderful job playing the attention seeking, diva. Ultimately, all the characters gather for a trial against Horton for foreseeable, but satisfying conclusion.
The Large cast of 50 worked very well together in which 30 of them are kids. Everything was well staged by Director Stephen Napp. Highlights of the show included "The Military Academy" led by John A Gurtshaw who had an extremely strong performance as General Genghis Kahn Schmitz, "Alone in the Universe" Sung by Horton (Gibert) and Jojo (Dubel) and "Notice Me Horton' Sung by Gertrude (Kane) with some amazing vocals.
A few dancers that particularly stood out were Rozelle Polido as a bird girl with her polished dance moves along with Sandra Boldman and Maggie Flannigan as ensemble members.
Seussical the Musical plays through March 20, 2016, at Mercy High School – 1300 East Northern Parkway, in Baltimore, MD.. For Tickets call (410) 937-2935, or purchase them online.
As a restaurant manager by day she's been her free time as an actress, choreographer, and model. Kristin Rigsby has been involved in theater for over 15 years, and when this opportunity arose to be a reviewer, she was excited to see her thoughts brought to life.
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