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It might take a few years, but the West is going to surpass the East as the B1G's best division
Dustin Schutte | 2 years ago
Every year we've made the case that the B1G West's depth is growing. And by "we," I mean that's the argument I've made while you've read, probably rolling your eyes as far back into your head as humanly possible.
This time, though, the West is truly on the rise and there's some hard evidence to prove it. Perhaps the results from 2018 don't exactly present the best argument, but the second half of the season — including the postseason — and recruiting certainly have raised the level of expectation.
Bowl success might be the best place to start for the West, finishing 4-1 this postseason. Purdue was the only team out of the division to endure defeat, getting laughed off the field by Auburn at the Music City Bowl, 63-14. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Northwestern were all winners.
Quick Lane Bowl: Minnesota def. Georgia Tech 34-10
Pinstripe Bowl: Wisconsin def. Miami 35-3
Holiday Bowl: Northwestern def. Utah 31-20
Outback Bowl: Iowa def. Mississippi State 27-22
The B1G East, by the way, finished 1-3 with Ohio State's 28-23 Rose Bowl victory over Washington being the lone win.
Really, things started to shift before the postseason. Go back to the midway point in the season — approximately Oct. 20 — and look at some of the feats that occurred since that time.
Purdue defeated then No. 2 Ohio State 49-20 in Ross-Ade Stadium. Nebraska won four of its final six games, which included victories over Minnesota, Bethune-Cookman, Illinois and Michigan State. Entering the last three weeks at 4-5, Minnesota posted wins over Purdue and Wisconsin to finish 6-6 and earn bowl eligibility. It was the Gophers' first win over the Badgers since 2003.
Credit: Thomas J. Russo-USA TODAY Sports
Northwestern lost only one game when the calendar flipped to October — a 31-21 loss to Notre Dame — winning its first West title and punching its ticket to the B1G Championship Game.
Thanks to all that late-season success, we're entering the 2019 offseason without a favorite to win the division. Even Big Ten Network analyst J Leman thinks six of the seven teams have a legitimate chance to stake claim to the West. He's not wrong, either.
All of that generates a lot of momentum heading into the offseason. We haven't even mentioned the stars that are returning in the division, or the big names joining the league via recruiting or transfer.
Purdue's Rondale Moore led the nation in receptions (114) and was a consensus All-American for his explosive rookie campaign. Adrian Martinez was the first true freshman to start at quarterback in a season opener in Nebraska history. He finished the year as the sixth FBS freshman in history to average 200 passing yards and 50 rushing yards. Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor led the nation in rushing with 2,194 yards. Other division running backs Mohamed Ibrahim (Minnesota) and Isaiah Bowser (Northwestern) also came on strong at the end of the year.
Just for good measure, here's a list of some of the notable recruits joining the division next fall:
Wisconsin: Logan Brown, 5-star OT
Purdue: George Karlaftis, 4-star DE
Nebraska: Wandale Robinson, 4-star APB
Minnesota: Rashad Cheney, 4-star DT
Iowa: Jestin Jacobs, 4-star LB
Illinois: Marquez Beason, 4-star ATH
Those are just a few names, and it doesn't include the likes of former 5-star QB Hunter Johnson (Northwestern) or former 4-star WR Jeff Thomas (Illinois) who transferred and may or may not be eligible for the upcoming season.
Are you on board with the West being on the rise yet? If not, there's probably nothing that's going to change your mind that the real beasts are in the East, and it will forever and always be the premier division in the B1G. You're probably more focused on the uniform more than the makeup of the team. Outside of Nebraska, there really isn't a program in the West capable of competing with the brands of Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State.
Admittedly, this has been a bit of a brain dump. I've inundated you with fast facts about why the B1G West is an up-and-comer and why it could — and probably will — surpass the B1G East. But it's also an overwhelming amount of evidence as to why a division that has been shooed out of college football's national spotlight is just now beginning to scratch the surface.
It's not just me who's buying stock in the West, either. CBS Sports recently released its "way-too-early" top 25 for the 2019 season, listing eight B1G teams in its rankings, with five coming from the West. The only two omitted were Purdue and Illinois.
Credit: Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports
Change isn't going to come instantly. The ugly duckling didn't transform into the graceful swan at the flip of a switch. It's going to take a few more recruiting classes before we starting saying "the best is out West" when it comes to B1G football.
None of this is to say the B1G East — most notably Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State — is going anywhere. The Wolverines, Buckeyes and Nittany Lions still own the league's top three recruiting classes. Jim Harbaugh, Mark Dantonio and James Franklin are still really great football minds, and new Ohio State leader Ryan Day has a bright future, too.
When it comes to coaching creativity and charisma, the advantage is out West. Scott Frost, Jeff Brohm and P.J. Fleck have all benefitted from their offensive mindsets. They've all recruited well because of it.
We didn't even mention Kirk Ferentz, Paul Chryst, Pat Fitzgerald and Lovie Smith. Three of those guys have won a division title, by the way.
The West has never won the B1G Championship. Only two teams from the division — Wisconsin and Iowa — have played in a New Year's Six bowl game in the last five seasons. None have ever reached the College Football Playoff.
All of that will change. The question is no longer "if," but "when?" Eventually, the West is going to be the B1G's most dominant division, and one of the best in the sport.
I won't be the only one acknowledging it, either.


The exhibits in Hanoi include Rodriguez's colourful water paintings on indigenous Cuban butterflies.
NDO – An exhibition of the paintings and poems by Cuban hero and artist Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez opened in Hanoi on April 24, as an event to mark the 57th anniversary of the Cuba's Hiron victory (April 19, 1961).
Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez was one of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters to be awarded the Hero of the Cuban Republic distinction. During his time in detention and prison, Rodriguez made poems and paintings. He has released 11 poetry collections and has held 13 exhibitions on different topics.
The exhibits in Hanoi include colourful water paintings on indigenous Cuban butterflies, which can be found across the country from the urban to rural areas.
The exhibition also introduces Rodriguez's poetry collection entitled "The truth names me", which has been translated into various different languages.
Addressing the exhibition, Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez said he was moved to see his works being displayed in Hanoi.
He also praised the Vietnam – Cuba solidarity, which was nurtured by Presidents Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro.
Nguyen Duy Cuong, Vice President of Vietnam – Cuba Friendship Association, the event's organiser, said that the exhibition was held to introduce the artworks of the Cuban hero to Vietnamese people, thus helping visitors to grasp a deeper understanding about the land, culture and people of Cuba, as well as the time-honoured friendship and solidarity between the two countries.


Well, that at least was what I intended to do when I first found out what was behind the exceedingly odd list of Hugo nominations this year. What, no Asimov's? No F&SF, Strange Horizons, Interzone, or any of the other big names besides Analog? And who in the blue blazes is this John C. Wright person, who has THREE nominations in the novella category, as well as one each in short story and novelette? I cannot think of a single heavy-hitter in SFF in my lifetime who has dominated the ballot that way. And how in the world is some unknown publisher by the name of Castalia House so prominent among the nominations? And PATRIARCHY HOUSE? Where in the world are we now? How can this possibly be the specfic world I know and love?
I haven't been very active in the SFF community for a number of years, although it is still what I read and write. But aside from the Villa Diodati workshop for writers of specfic in Europe, which I founded almost a decade ago, I don't often go to the places where writers in my genre hang out anymore, aside from a few intimate spots on the Internet. Before all this crap hit the fan, I hadn't even heard of the poor Sad Puppies (not not to mention their more rabid counterparts, the Rabid Puppies), who feel so irked and threatened by ethnic diversity and literary SF that they started a campaign to free "their" genre from the yoke of what they call "SJWs" (Social Justice Warriors, a term I also only learned today) and lead it back into the "Golden Age" of SF.
The problem is, it's my genre too. And I never liked the "Golden Age" of SF. In high school, I cut my teeth on The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, still two of my favorite books. Those books are all full of politics and gender issues and sexual diversity. The freedom to make up worlds like that was what I always loved about speculative fiction.
This new big uprising of the dinosaurs hit me out of the blue. And I tried to ignore it, I really did. But then I realized I had to add my 2c just so I could get all this crap out of my brain and get back to important stuff like writing and translating and preparing for the next trip.
As for the SJWs, they think that racial, religious, and sexual diversity is a supreme good that somehow magically increases the sum total of human happiness, but is this really the case? As sci-fi fandom has grown more and more heterogeneous in nature, it also has become more and more divided against itself, at least to judge by recent developments. And if diversity makes people more miserable rather then less, then the SJWs are doomed to failure, no matter how noble their intentions.
Um, no. I don't have any noble intentions. I don't vote for what I think is best for world peace, I vote for what I like. Certain tropes bore me and make it impossible for me to read to the end — while for some readers it will be precisely those tropes that will make them clap their hands enthusiastically. There should be room for both of us, for all of us. I like diversity. I realize that there are many people out there who do not, but that does not mean they are liberating me from some onerous chore when they impose their uniformity on me. I don't feel any misery in the online and face2face SF community I have, despite our national, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and religious diversity. We get along just fine, thank you, despite our differences. Sometimes we even learn from each other.
I also like "literary" SF. I admit, I have a PhD in English Literature, (luckily the eggs that will now be thrown at me are only virtual) but that doesn't mean I don't want to be entertained. For me, SF with a literary sensibility gives me the best of all worlds: great plots with beautiful language exploring meaningful themes. Not tough guys stomping out monsters or conquering new planets. Of course there is a place for that for people who want to read it, but how in the world did it become something that involved some poor sad sock puppies hijacking the Hugo ballot?
This all reminds me of a little kerfuffle in the SFF community 10 years ago which inspired an article I wrote with Jay Lake for IROSF, which is still online, although the zine has folded, "Tough Times for Beset Manhood: Or, Where Has Good Old Golden Age SF Gone?" The Sad Puppies movement is definitely (among others) a male thing. While the poor deprived male puppies put a handful of token women on their slate, the list is predominantly male authors. With the exception of one woman writer (whom I know and like), I can't find a single woman who supports these poor puppies.
This is much bigger than the few flame wars on various discussion forums that inspired me and Jay 10 years ago, however. It has deprived a number of writers whose names were not on the sock puppies list of a chance to be nominated for a major award.
I feel like a sad puppy today too.
A wild country inhabited by monsters, an old couple who must leave their home without knowing exactly why, a sense that important things have been, perhaps must be, forgotten… Such images and moods could well embody a story about the approach of old age to death, and indeed I think that is at least in part the subject of the book. But so generic a landscape and such vague, elusive perceptions must be brought to life by the language of the telling. The whole thing is made out of words, after all. The imaginary must be imagined, accurately and with scrupulous consistency. A fantastic setting requires vivid and specific description; while characters may lose touch with their reality, the storyteller can't. A toneless, inexact language is incapable of creating landscape, meaningful relationship, or credible event. And the vitality of characters in a semi-historical, semi-fanciful setting depends on lively, plausible representation of what they do and how they speak. The impairment of the characters' memory in this book may justify the aimlessness of their behavior and the flat, dull quality of the dialogue, but then how is it that Axl never, ever, not once, forgets to address his wife as "princess"? I came to wish very much that he would.
Read more at "Are they going to say this is fantasy?".


Bond rotation within molecules is regarded as one of the nonradiative decay pathways and is detrimental to high photoluminescence quantum yields. In this work, a bulky and rigid blue emitter (Spiro-F) with five spiro-carbon linkages is synthesized. Spiro-F can serve not only as an active component of blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), but also as a host and blue emitter of white OLEDs. The WOLED offers a low turn-on voltage of 3.5 V and a high current efficiency of 3.6 cd A−1, together with CIE coordinates of (0.29, 0.33). This work proves the potential of super-rigid oligofluorene emitters for OLEDs.


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In Progress: Access and Museums Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:00 pm – Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 8:00 pm
A group of children, some pushed in wheelchairs or using crutches, touches strands of an artwork ...
Short A group of children, some pushed in wheelchairs or using crutches, touches strands of an artwork hanging from the ceiling.
Children from the Jane Neil School visit the MCA's 1971 exhibition Jesus Raphael Soto. Photo © MCA Chicago.
Participate in a conversation about museum access and inclusion with museum workers and academics from a range of Chicago institutions. Along with MCA Interim Director of Learning and Public Programs, Marissa Reyes, panelists include Jason Pallas of the Smart Museum and Carrie Sandahl of University of Illinois at Chicago.
In Progress is a new series of public programs that gives visitors a glimpse into the working practices of artists, curators, and creative thinkers.
Jason Pallas is an artist, archivist, curator, and educator concerned with the intersection of the personal, the popular, and the political. In addition to working as Manager of Community Engagement and Arts Learning at the Smart Museum of Art, he has also worked with the Teen Creative Agency (TCA) at the MCA as a lead artist and is editor-in-chief at the Institute for Encyclopedic Amalgamation. He earned an MFA from the University of Chicago and BA degrees from Rice University.
Carrie Sandahl, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she founded and directs the Program on Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities. She also directs Chicago's Bodies of Work, an arts consortium that supports disability culture. Her research focuses on disability identity in live performance. Sandahl's anthology coedited with Philip Auslander, Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Performance (University of Michigan Press), garnered ATHE's award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy in 2006. She is currently collaborating on a documentary film about Hollywood representations of disability, Code of the Freaks.
This program has been made possible by the generous contributors to the Allen M. Turner Tribute Fund, honoring his past leadership as Chairman of the MCA Board of Trustees.


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> 'Teva has no choice but to fire its workers'
'Teva has no choice but to fire its workers'
Economist Benzion Zilberfarb tells Arutz Sheva most Teva employees will be able to find employment elsewhere, layoffs unavoidable.
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Economist and former Finance Ministry Director-General Benzion Zilberfarb spoke to Arutz Sheva this week about Teva Pharmaceuticals' announcement that they are planning on firing 25% of their global workforce, including 1,750 Israeli workers.
In his estimation, the strikes and protests will not help, since Teva will have "no choice" but to fire workers.
"Our hearts are with Teva's employees, but the fight won't help," Zilberfarb said. "At the end of the day, Teva will have no choice but to fire employees. The pressure might push the government into doing something to limit the number of employees fired, but as soon as things settle down, everyone will think more clearly and the fight will turn to ensuring those laid off receive good conditions, such as pension and retraining for those interested in absorption into other factories."
Zilberfarb also said Teva's decision to acquire rival Allergan two years ago did not prove a wise one, and caused a company crisis.
"Teva today has a huge problem, which the company itself created in 2016, when then-CEO Erez Vigodman decided to support the directorate's decision to make Teva into the largest generic-drug company in the world and buy a generic-drug company larger than itself for $40 billion," he said.
"Most of this money didn't actually belong to Teva, and to complete the purchase, the company had to take a loan of $35 billion. In addition, the number of funding sources dropped, both as a result of the weakness in the market for generic drugs, as well as in the loss of Teva's exclusivity in selling Copaxone, which previously brought in huge profits."
Currently, the only way to prevent Teva from declaring bankruptcy is to reduce expenses.
"If the company wants to continue repaying its debt from the Allergan acquisition without going bankrupt, it will have to reduce expenses, and that's what we're seeing now.
"There was a failure of Teva's management and directorate, but that's already spilled milk, and we can't do anything about it. Agreements were signed, and we need to think about how Teva can remain a stable company. Teva needs to repay $6 billion by 2018 and $12 billion by 2020, and if it doesn't succeed, it'll collapse.
"To repay these debts, Teva needs cash, and that means either increasing income or decreasing expenses. When the drug market is weak, the only way to do that is to make things more efficient and reduce expenses."
According to Professor Zilberfarb, Teva's crisis will not affect the Israeli market.
"Maybe it'll make us wince, because Teva was a symbol of Israeli success as a small company which became an international company. It might harm our prestige, but it won't harm how attractive the Israeli market is to foreign investors in the fields of cyber and hi-tech.
"The Israeli market is strong, and in the scheme of things, this won't have a huge influence. At the end of the day, the number of unemployed is impressively low, and it's very likely that a large portion of the employees who will be laid off will be able to re-enter the industry."


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Measles: Potential exposure locations and times
A nurse prepares vaccine shots against measles at a clinic. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Following the recent outbreak of measles in Southern California, here is a list of potential exposure locations and times released by health officials:
CitiBank, 430 Arneill Rd., Camarillo
Monday, Jan. 12 - Wednesday, Jan. 15
Century RiverPark 16 Theaters, 2766 Seaglass Way, Oxnard
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 7:10 p.m. showing of the movie, Selma
Carl's Jr., 2301 N. Oxnard Blvd., corner of Vineyard, Oxnard
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Albertson's, 920 N. Ventura Rd., Oxnard,
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 10 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.
Little Explorers Preschool, 5165 Cochran St., Simi Valley
Cal State Channel Islands, 1 University Dr., Camarillo
Toppers, 2701 Peninsula Rd., Oxnard
Thursday, Jan. 22, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Andrea's Seafood, 1449 Spinnaker Dr., Ventura
Saturday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m.- 10 p.m.
El Torito, 1720 E. Ventura Blvd., Oxnard
Sunday, Jan. 25, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Vons, 1291 S. Victoria Ave., Oxnard
Monday, Jan. 26, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
BG Restaurant, 428 S. A St., Oxnard
Tuesday, Jan. 27, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Target, 27320 West Lugonia Avenue Redlands, CA 92374
Sunday, Feb. 8 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 13 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Sushi Mac, 7243 Boulder Avenue Highland, CA 92346
Walmart, 4210 E. Highland Avenue Highland, CA 92346
Sunday, Feb. 8 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Loma Linda University Medical Center, 7223 Church Street Suite C-1 Highland, CA 92346
Monday, Feb. 9 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 10 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 12 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Loma Linda University Medical Center- Lab, 11370 Anderson Street Loma Linda, CA 92354
Tuesday, Feb. 10 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 12 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Dollar Tree, 25670 Redlands Blvd. Redlands, CA 92354
Friday, Feb. 13 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Parliament Chocolate, 16 East Redlands Blvd. Redlands, CA 92373
Friday, Feb. 13 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Trader Joe's, 552 Orange Street Redlands, CA 92374
Friday, Feb. 13, 2015 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Stater Bros., 1085 W Highland Ave. San Bernardino 92405
Wednesday, Jan. 28 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 29 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 30 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Jack in the Box, 1141 W. Highland Ave. San Bernardino 92405
Wednesday, Jan. 28 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 29 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
TAD San Bernardino, 2050 N. Massachusetts Ave. San Bernardino, CA 92415
Wednesday, Jan. 28 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 29 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 30 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Beaver Urgent Care, 7000 Boulder Ave. Highland 92346
Friday, Jan. 30 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Target, 23080 Sterling Avenue San Bernardino 92404
Friday, Jan. 30 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Inland Center Auto Body, 181 S. Arrowhead Ave. San Bernardino 92408
Thursday, Jan. 22, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 23, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 24, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Elgin and Fagan Bar: 336 W. Highland Ave. San Bernardino 92405
Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Game Stop: 1100 S. Mount Vernon Ave. Colton 92324
Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Montclair Plaza, 5060 E. Montclair Plaza Lane, Montclair 91763
Harkins Theater, 3070 Chino Avenue, Chino Hills 91709
Saturday, Jan. 17 10:30 p.m. - Sunday, Jan. 18 1:30 a.m.
Casino Morongo, 49500 Seminole Drive, Cabazon 92230
Sunday, Jan. 4, 6 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Magic Wok, 12029 Central Avenue, Chino 91710
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Jimmy's Warehouse Sportscard (Swap meet in Westminster), 12327 Whittier blvd, Whittier 90602
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 3 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Pomona Valley Health Center- Urgent Care, 3110 Chino Avenue Suite #150, Chino 91709
Thursday, Jan. 8, 3:56 p.m. - 5:05 p.m.
The following locations are for the time period between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 3.
Total Wellness Club, 6447 E. Spring St., 90815
Stater Brothers, 6501 E. Spring St., 90815
Bank of America, 6351 E. Spring St., 90815
Wells Fargo, 6402 E. Spring St., 90815
Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park, Anaheim
Dec. 17-20, specific time periods are not known
Huntington Beach High School, 1905 Main Street
Jan. 6-8
UC Irvine Ayala Science Library
Sunday, Jan. 4, 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Spectrum Pharmacy, 18 Endeavor, Irvine
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Target Store, Starbucks and Pharmacy, 3750 Barranca Parkway, Irvine
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 8:40 a.m. - 10 a.m.
CHOC Children's Hospital Emergency Department, 1201 W. La Veta Ave., Orange
Monday, Jan. 5, 8:25 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.
Starbucks, 184 S. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach
Sunday, Jan. 4, 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Fingerhut Gallery, 210A Forest Ave., Laguna Beach
Sunday, Jan. 4, 2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 4, 10:45 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
University of California, Irvine Ayala Science Library
Quest Diagnostics Laboratory, 1010 W. La Veta Ave., Suite 140, Orange
Saturday, Jan. 3, 12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
CHOC Children's Hospital, Fourth Floor, 1201 W. La Veta Ave., Orange
Friday, Jan. 2, 12:01 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 1, 3:40 p.m. - 12 p.m.
St. Joseph Hospital Emergency Department, 1100 W. Stewart Drive, Orange
Tuesday, Dec. 30, 6 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
San Clemente Post Office, 905 Calle Negocio, San Clemente
Tuesday, Dec. 30, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Ralph's Grocery, 811 Avenida Talega, San Clemente
Tuesday, Dec. 30, 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Anyone who suspects they have measles should call their medical provider before going to the medical office to avoid exposing others to the measles virus.
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package edu.ucla.wise.commons.databank;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import edu.ucla.wise.persistence.data.WiseTables;
import edu.ucla.wise.utils.SQLTemplateUtil;

public interface DataBankInterface {

    Connection getDBConnection() throws SQLException;

    String getStudySpace();

    WiseTables getWiseTables();

    SQLTemplateUtil getSqlTemplateUtil();

}

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Be productive and responsible professionals in their field capable of communicating effectively with coworkers and clients.
Engage in lifelong learning, in a field characterized by rapid developments, including through research and graduate work.
Adhere to the highest ethical standards and demonstrate an involvement in professional activities and public services.
An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering principles.
An ability to design and conduct experiments, to analyze and interpret data.
Wired and Wireless Communication Systems.
Microwave, Radar, and Optical Fiber Systems.
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Stuart Birks elected NZAE Life Member
It is with great pleasure the Association honours Stuart Birks with the award of life membership of the NZ Association of Economists. Stuart arrived at Massey University in 1978, after a stint working in Israeli kibbutzims. He had a BA (Hons) from Essex and an Msc from London. A specialist in mathematical economics and econometrics, having studied under stalwarts like Michio Morishima, Amartya Sen, Frank Hahn, Meghnad Desai and William Gorman, among others, Stuart started increasingly to feel uneasy about the usefulness of the accepted methods and beliefs of economics generally and quantitative economics in particular. He switched to economic policy instead, using the tools of economic theory in a critical manner.
Stuart has taught economic theory and public policy at Massey for almost 35 years – his past students include many current members of the Association. He has made valuable research contributions and has been an active member of the Association. In making this award we wish to honour Stuart for his service to the profession and the Association in particular. Stuart's contributions to the Association have been of high quality and quantity over a sustained period.
Stuart's contributions to the Association and the wider New Zealand Economics community include (but are not restricted to) the following:
While Stuart was not the first editor of the Association newsletter, Asymmetric Information, he did take over the editorship from Nancy Devlin only eighteen months later in November 1999. He has been the stalwart of this newsletter since then. Initially he co-edited with Gary Buurman, and then solely since November 2004 until the end of 2011. During his tenure he has, at various times, written significant content, twisted arms to build up the stable of regular contributors, moved to the professional colour format we all enjoyed and ensured plenty of food for thought, debate and controversy – all exactly what the newsletter was designed to do.
He has provided service and leadership to the Association by serving as Council Member from 1999 until 2011.
He and a steady stream of students and some colleagues have examined a range of social, political economic and, increasingly, legal issues of contemporary NZ. Many of these have been published, either in printed or internet versions. The Massey department supported his idea to have a dedicated research centre, known as the Centre for Public Policy Evaluation, to operate as a forum to address policy issues of relevance to NZ. The late Gary Buurman was his most enthusiastic research partner in this, as in many other ventures. A very wide range of topics from higher education, economic inequality and poverty to gender issues, family court and the legal aspects of marriage, divorce and shared child-care has come to form the basis of the Centre's on-going research agenda, most of them bearing Stuart's name as a contributor.
A team of colleagues from around Massey University and elsewhere in NZ collaborated in bringing out, in the late 1980s, a comprehensive collection of chapters examining different areas of the NZ economy. The NZ Economy: Issues and Policies (Palmerston North: Dunmore press) was co-edited by Stuart and his colleague Srikanta Chatterjee. The book had gone through four editions between 1987 and 2000 before a change of ownership of its publishers stopped a fifth edition going forward.
Stuart has, in recent years, come to study the connections between the law and economics in a societal context. After several disparate publications in the area, he decided to embark on a unified study examining the methods of the two disciplines to shed light on their mutual compatibility or otherwise in policy contexts. This has resulted in a doctoral thesis, which he successfully defended in late 2010.
Outside of his academic interests, Stuart is a keen swimmer, a chef in several distinct culinary traditions, an active Rotarian and a critical observer of political and social events around the world.
The Association honours Stuart for his economic citizenship and has pleasure in awarding him life membership of the Association.


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Keywords: kumamoto | amakusa |
The flag of the city of Amakusa is white with symbol.
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http://www.city.amakusa.kumamoto.jp/reiki/reiki_honbun/r351RG00000003.html
http://www.city.amakusa.kumamoto.jp/one_html/pub/default.asp?c_id=7
The city emblem and the flag were adopted on Mar 27th 2006 by Notice No 1 and No 2. The white flag has a green, a blue and a light blue three color city emblem in the center. The city emblem is a stylized katakana ア A of Amakusa in a form of an island and waves. The waves symbolize the vigorous citizen and the city's development. Three colors represent Japan's treasure island with rich nature Amakusa City.
The flag proportion is 2: 3. The height of the emblem is 65/100 height of the flag.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 03 December 2014
Hondo City / 本渡市
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The flag of former city of Hondo was blue with mark.
The former Hondo City became a part of Amakusa City on Mar 27th 2006.


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New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve.
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MINIEX 2020 will be held at the RA Centre on Thursday, February 6, 2020, from 6 p.m. (room to be confirmed).
MiniEx is an annual community event designed to showcase and celebrate the activities and work of the members of the stamp clubs in Ottawa/Gatineau and the surrounding area. It includes exhibits, an auction, and a public program. Visitors are welcome.
MiniEx is organized and administered by a joint committee of the RA Stamp Club, the APO Stamp Club and the Ottawa Philatelic Society and with participation of local dealers and the local collecting community.
MiniEx is especially designed to encourage collectors who wish to develop and display exhibits, and members of all clubs in the region are invited to enter their exhibits at MINIEX.
Exhibits can be 1 Frame with 1 to 16 pages, and will be accepted in the following categories:
1- BNA (which includes Canada)
2- World
3- Postal History
4- Topical (any topic, any form of presentation)
5- Small Exhibit (one or two pages only)
6- Other (Display, Post Cards, etc.)
Guidelines for exhibitors
For all MiniEx exhibitors the rule is that what is shown must be an exhibit offered for the first time outside the member's home club. MINIEX especially welcomes first time exhibitors, and it also encourages exhibits that consist of philatelic material easily affordable by all.
Each exhibit will be assessed by a panel of judges and given a grade: Platinum (95-100 points), Gold (85-94), Silver (70-84), Bronze (1-69). The assessment by the judges will be based on the following guidelines and percentages:
Does the exhibit set a goal and successfully reach it, that is, does it do what it sets out to do - for example, tell a story, explore an argument or thesis, analyze an issue? 40%
Overall presentation: 30%
Condition and quality of the material (regardless of "value"): 10%
Scope of the material (philatelic elements): 10%
Personal research, philatelic and related knowledge: 10%
In each category the exhibit earning the highest number of points will be awarded a prize. Other awards to be given are: a Grand Prize for the exhibit with the highest total of points; a New Exhibitor award; and, an award for the Most Popular Exhibit award covering all exhibits in all categories that will be determined by an attendee ballot vote.
Exhibitors should:
Familiarize themselves with these guidelines.
Assist with the judging by filling ouy the attached MiniEx Exhibit form, which should be given to the Exhibit's Coordinator one week in advance of MiniEx.
Bring their exhibit to the Exhibits area from 3:00 to 5:30 on the day of MiniEx.
Time permitting, the judges will discuss the merits of any exhibit with the exhibitor. This will be especially valuable for those who wish to take exhibits to a higher level, but is available to all.
Electronic Fillable MiniEx Exhibit Form
Download, fill in and print
See Exhibit rules, above
MiniEx Exhibits form-2018.docx
MiniEx Exhibit Form - PDF
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MiniEx Exhibits form-2018.pdf
The MiniEx Auction
The Auction, which is organized by the OPS and run by volunteers from the OPS and the RA Stamp Club, is a popular feature of MINIEX. A member of any club in the region may offer up to fifteen lots in the MINIEX Auction. All sales will be subject to a seller's 15% fee. Lots must be registered, assigned lot numbers, and be available for display not later than 7 p.m. Maximum 15 lots per member. The MINIEX lot sheet and the regulations covering the Auction are appended.
MiniEx Lot Sheet
MINIEX Lot Sheet.pdf
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MiniEx Lot Sheet word document
Miniex lot sheet 2017.docx
MINIEX Auction Rules and Regulations
A member of any club in the region may enter lots in the MINIEX Auction.
Members wishing to enter items in the auction must register, giving their name, phone number, email address, and club, information that is required to ensure that all lots remain connected to their correct owners. Registration of lots will begin at 6.00 p.m. and end at 7:00 p.m.
All items entered should have a MINIEX lotting sheet securely attached to it. Click on the link above to download the MINIEX lotting sheet. Do not use the OPS lotting sheet!!
A member may enter up to 15 items [i.e.: 15 lots] in the auction.
Members will be assigned their lot numbers when they register.
Up to 400 lots may be entered in the auction, and when the registrar has assigned 400 lot numbers no additional lots will be accepted.
If there are not 400 lots by 7:00 p.m., members who have already entered 15 lots may enter an additional number of lots. Therefore when members register their initial 15 lots, they must inform the registrar if they have additional lots they wish to enter. If there are not 400 lots by 7:00 pm, the registrar will call members with additional lots back to assign additional numbers. This will be done in the order that the initial lots were registered; i.e.: first come, first served.
Members filling in the lot sheets should identify the year of the catalogue they used to value their item; for example: Scott 2015.
Persons wishing to bid must register when they arrive and pick up their bidder's number.
Viewing at the auction begins at 7:00 p.m.
Persons who wish to bid must write their bids in the spaces provided on the lot sheet using the bidding increments at the bottom of the MINIEX lot sheet.
A lot will be sold to the highest bid on the lot sheet.
Bidding will close at 8.00 p.m. sharp.
Successful bidders will be able to pick up and pay for their purchases once the evening's program is completed. MINIEX Auction will retain 15% of the sale price of each lot sold.
Sales receipts and unsold lots will be available for pickup after the payments from successful bidders is completed.
The Auction is administered by the Ottawa Philatelic Society. Rulings and decisions of the MINIEX Auction Administrator appointed by the OPS are final.
Congratulations to our members!
APO winning members who exhibited at the 2014 Orapex Exposition, Ottawa, Ontario
Ronald Lefebvre received a Silver-Bronze for: The 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal;
Jonathan Gauvreau received 2 Silver for Titanic and First Canadian Prime Airmail Stamp;
Nicole Lacourse received a Silver-Bronze for Tonga and Vermeil for: Unusual Stamps of Bhutan;
Reva Qiu granddaughter of our member, Yucheng, won Vermeil for: Pets through time. In addition, she received an Award of Excellence, the Grand Prize for the best exposure for the youth and the Grand Prize for Youth (American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors).


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There's no city in America quite like Miami. The southeastern city is more South America than American South. To many people, it's a steamy, sweltering, oceanside playground full of models, all-night parties, and lost inhibitions. To others, it's the gleaming beacon of American freedom. It's the largest immigrant city in the US, where you'll hear five different languages while standing in line for a Publix sub. It's also a judgment-free zone where people don't blink twice when someone stumbles out of a club at 7:00 AM. Miami has some of the best arts, culture, and food in the world, so visiting no longer means just laying out on the beach and staying out all night. Or it does, if that's what you're into. Because remember it's not YOUR-ami, it's Miami. So take our advice, then do whatever suits you best.
The weather in Miami is (almost) always sunny, so you've got a pretty good chance of having at least one good beach day any time of year. Except June. June is the month Miamians forget when they say stuff like, "It rains hard in Miami, but only for an hour." An hour and all of June. Imagine Seattle inside a sauna, and that's June in South Florida.
The rest of summer can be painfully hot and humid, but it generally only thunderstorms around 4:00 PM, much like the rest of the year. It may thunderstorm more frequently during August and September - the height of hurricane season and the low point for tourists - so you can save a ton of money if you come during those months.
The best weather will be from November to April when temperatures are in the low-to-mid 80s and the humidity is manageable. February and March bring the biggest events of the year but also the highest prices. But if it's guaranteed sunny days and non-sticky clothes you're after, it may be worth the splurge.
Miami is a Latin American city that happens to be in the US. It will take you literally 45 seconds after getting off your plane to figure this out when you hear airport announcements in Spanish and encounter airport personnel who will not always be able to respond to you in English. You can either get mad about it or brush up on your high school Spanish before you come to town. If you're not fluent, don't panic; most people speak English well, and nearly every sign will be written in English. But you will never go a day without coming into contact with someone whose first language is Spanish, so knowing a few key phrases will go a long way, particularly when it comes to making friends with locals.
Like any city, Miami has its good parts and bad parts. It's not the murder capital of America like it was in the 1980s, but Miami's not New Zealand either. Stick to the tourist-heavy areas and don't try and find the "real" Miami, and you'll be fine. Venture out on your own and you may find yourself in dicey areas, especially around Wynwood and Coconut Grove.
The good news is that Miami has a somewhat-fully-functioning Metrorail that goes directly to the airport. The bad news is that it doesn't go much of anywhere else you'd want to go to. The orange line will take you to downtown Miami, the financial district in Brickell, Merrick Park and the University of Miami in Coral Gables, and the Hialeah Race Track if you're big into quarter horse racing. Past that? Not much.
There's also a Metromover that runs through downtown, which is completely free. The good news here is that you don't have to pay for it. The bad news is that nobody else does either, which means it's not at all uncommon to find yourself trapped on a tiny train with a guy who smells like he hasn't showered since the Obama Administration. And in Miami, that can make you pretty ripe. That said, it's a useful way to get through downtown and Brickell as traffic there is only slightly better than Jakarta.
If you're going to Miami Beach and staying there, you can take a taxi from the airport. You can also grab a rideshare at MIA, but there's not a designated pickup zone. Once in Miami Beach, everything is pretty walkable, and you can also get a Citibike and pedal around. Miami also has Uber and Lyft, which can be one-fourth the cost of a taxi and are generally a better move. In Miami Beach, you'll find they arrive almost instantly.
If you want to explore South Florida, the city also has the snazzy new Brightline train, which whisks you up to Ft. Lauderdale from downtown Miami in 25 minutes, all the way up to West Palm Beach in just over an hour. It's got a bar and WiFi and enormous, high-tech bathrooms, plus the nicest train stations in America that smell like a fresh citrus garden. This is not an exaggeration.
The buses are useless. Don't even try.
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A good deal discovery app takes you places, literally.
HOI approached us to design Good Things Must Share (GTMS), a deals app for users to share dining experiences. From its vibrant style to personalised features, we designed for GTMS to be the go-to app for deals and discounts.
Red. That was the only requirement we were given.
to differentiate ourselves from similar apps dominating the market.
easy on the eyes, users did not need to take long to make a decision (or two).
Goody even appears as a loading animation, entertaining users with its antics. Load time is no longer frustrating.
Besides creating Goody, the brand logo and app icon were also carefully designed for better brand recognition. We made Goody synonymous with good food, good deals and Good Things Must Share.
the stamp of approval from users? Functionality would be the deciding factor.
We integrated a review and rating system from reputable media sources for each restaurant. Snaps taken by other patrons were also featured, helping users decide whether a restaurant was worth visiting.
Beyond plain food photography, the photo-editing function allowed users to customise their snaps with borders and Goody stickers created by us. These unique and branded photos could then be shared on social media.
Even with the added features, the app remained easy to use with its seamless redemption process.
User engagement was our design priority. Loading the app with game-like incentives and the addictive appeal of social media paved the way to a unique style. Coupled with the custom-created mascot, logo, and stickers, we developed an iconic brand image for GTMS. As all good things must be shared, GTMS is now ready to take on the competition.


US aircraft conducted two air strikes inside Yemen within a week, bringing the total number of strikes in that country to 80 in about two months. On April 23, a US drone strike hit al Qaeda militants in the southern part of the country. On April 18, another strike targeted al Qaeda fighters in the north. The US is continuing " to conduct a series of sustained operations" targeting al Qaeda in the country, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said Monday. While the US has a continued ground presence inside Yemen, there has not been a "kinetic ground operation" since the Jan. 29 Navy SEAL raid that resulted in the death of Chief Special Warfare Operator William Owens.


The Road Zipper is up and running. Yesterday, we went to the Golden Gate Bridge to see what it looked like during its weekend long closure. The moveable barrier was installed and the road was EMPTY of car traffic! It was so quiet and a little erie in the dense fog on Sunday morning, January 11, 2015.
We parked down by the water's edge by the Coast Guard station and hiked up the long road to bridge and road level around 8:30am. Luke and a couple of friends were game for the adventure since it's a once in a life time event to actually see the Bridge closed. There were quite a few walkers, many speeding cyclists and a handful of doggies (they are not allowed on the bridge, by the way). I took lots of photos, barely able to see even one of the towers close up, as we walked the 1.7 miles across to San Francisco. The SF Bay was quite calm, no waves, no wind, no sail boats - an unusual day for sure.
As we reached the San Francisco end of the bridge, we saw the Road Zipper in action, right in front of us! Here is a link to a short video of it in action. Notice how smoothly in operates! It's big and YELLOW! It's about time we have a center divide on our heavily travelled span. It will make using the "suicide" lane a lot safer for those who drive it! Here is a link to the Road Zipper traveling north to south (Marin to SF) during another practice run.
The bridge was noticeably empty of the normal amount of tourists. The bridge's closure was all over the local news and so many stayed away. It was a perfect opportunity to do something "touristy" like walk across the span! It was an opportunity that doesn't come along very often! The cyclists had to share the "city side" walkway, which is different from their normal biking side. Most were curtious, with a shout out "on your left". Some were upset that people and strollers and families were there at all. But that's a whole other blog post! Enjoy the slide show below!


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by Steven Doyle | February 17, 2015 · 11:12 am
Taqueria La Ventana To Open In Dallas Farmers Market And Addison
Taqueria La Ventana, the funky taqueria concept offering everyday Mexican street food which currently has a successful downtown Dallas location, has announced it will be expanding in 2015 with two new locations. Specific dates for the openings will be released in the near future.
Taqueria La Ventana has recently signed a lease at the Dallas Farmers Market in The Market, in the heart of downtown Dallas. Scheduled to open in early summer 2015, the restaurant will offer 21 indoor seats as well as 28 seats on the outdoor patio. It will be one of the four anchor restaurants in The Market, which will also offer additional seating in a common dining area. Approximately 20 to 25 employees will be hired for this new location.
In addition, Addison will soon welcome Taqueria La Ventana to 4180 Beltline Road. The 2,344 square foot restaurant and bar will seat 60 guests while the 945 square foot al fresco patio will offer seating for 32 diners. It will share the real estate site with a sister Firebird Restaurant Group concept, Snuffer's Restaurant & Bar. The company will hire between 30 to 35 employees for the Addison site. Continue reading →
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by Steven Doyle | December 10, 2013 · 11:27 am
Pat Snuffer Responds to FRG Court Action Barring Opening of Pat's Burger and Cheddar Fries
You may have seen Robert Wilonsky's story over at the Dallas Morning News concerning Pat Snuffer and the controversy surrounding the opening of Pat's Burger and Cheddar Fries that was scheduled to open the 16th of December. As we reported Firebird Restaurant Group took over the Snuffers brand through the bankruptcy court late November of 2013. The same hour, actually almost to the minute, both Firebird and Pat Snuffer's agencies fired off a press release in what looked like a harmonious and orchestrated effort. Firebird announced the take over, and Snuffer announced his new restaurant on Greenville Avenue at the same location where the original Snuffers stood before it was demolished earlier this year.
A tipster sent word at noon yesterday that Snuffer, along with his partners Steve Cole and Patrick Snuffer had been served an injunction that would prevent the opening of Pat's. Specifically, the 159 page document (see below) asserted "the defendant is operating a copy-cat version of its restaurant on Lower Greenville called Pat's Burger & Cheddar Fries". I called Snuffer and spoke with him just before he was to appear in court. He promised a call afterwards with the results. Early yesterday evening Pat Snuffer told us that the judge did not rule, instead issued a temporary restraining order and set a hearing for December 19, 2013.
Today, Snuffer issued the following statement to craveDFW: Continue reading →
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♫QUEENSLANDER!♫ State of Origin: The Musical is coming.
QUEENSLAND, we have an anthem.
It will be first heard sung in public at the beginning of the State of Origin series this year and it's one of 18 songs in the new show Home Ground: The State of Origin Musical, which will have its world premiere in Brisbane in June.
The song is called We Bleed Maroon and it was written by the team behind the musical - journalist and author Hugh Lunn, his wife Helen and director John Senczuk.
Any song that includes words such as "Born and bred in Queensland, Australia wide it's known, That here in bloody Queensland, We all bleed maroon" is alright by me. That gets you where you live, right?
I had a sneak peak at the tune being sung by cast members at the Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre in South Brisbane on Monday. The show will open there n June 23.
It is the brainchild of Hugh Lunn, who began his career working at The Courier-Mail and was with The Australian in Brisbane when the first state of Origin match was played in 1980.
Lunn, 75, has a knack for telling Queensland stories and his memoir Over The Top With Jim is one of the state's best-loved books.
After the floods in 2011 Lunn says we needed "something to wake the soul and mend the heart" and a musical about our sporting rivalry with New South Wales was the obvious choice.
"The only thing I could think of that connected the whole state from Queen Street to the loneliest cattle yard was State of Origin," Lunn says. "It's a drama and the universal story of a people who won't give up."
It's also a coming of age story about a young footballer called Wally Lewis (we are not worthy) who grew up to become The King.
Young Toowoomba star Chris White, who has toured with Hi-5 in recent times, is playing Wally and he says it's a great honour.
West End is starring as the baddie, infamous New South Wales Rugby League boss Kevin Humphries.
As for Queensland Rugby League head honcho Ron McAuliffe, the godfather of Origin, we won't know who plays him for a week or two, when we'll also find out then who is playing Artie Beetson.
The score was written by local musician Bradley McCaw.
As for the signature song, well here are the words to get you in the mood.


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Caroline Azar is a director and playwright. She was the lead singer, keyboardist and co-lyricist/composer of the band Fifth Column.

Career
The all-women punk band Fifth Column began in the mid-1980s in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band self-released two albums, To Sir With Hate and All-Time Queen Of The World.

Azar has acted in a number of stage productions, including The Molly Murders by Anthony Furey, for which she was selected "Outstanding Performer" by Now Magazine.

She worked as directorial assistant for the Judith Thompson productions of Perfect Pie, Habitat, Capture Me and Body and Soul, story editor, and dramaturg for other writers, Azar has also written several plays, including Satan's Mistress, The Surreal Detective vs John Nothing and Man-O-Rexic. Man-O-Rexic featured songs written by Azar and recorded with Fifth Column alumni G. B. Jones and Beverly Breckenridge along with Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras.

In 2012, a documentary film by Kevin Hegge, called She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column was released featuring interviews with band members Caroline Azar, G.B. Jones, and Beverly Breckenrige, with commentary on the influence of Fifth Column by Kathleen Hanna and Bruce LaBruce.

Azar launched her live workshop production of 'Dink' at The Next Stage Theatre Festival in downtown Toronto at The Factory Theatre in January, 2015, starring the broadway stage star David Keeley. The show received mixed reviews.

Films
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column directed by Kevin Hegge (2012)
She's Real directed by Lucy Thane (1997)
 Donna, video for Fifth Column, directed by Friday Myers (1994)
Airplane On The Highway video for Bob Wiseman, directed by Caroline Azar (1994)
The Yo-Yo Gang directed by G.B. Jones (1992)
No Skin Off My Ass directed by Bruce LaBruce (1991)
Like This video for Fifth Column, directed by Bruce LaBruce and Fifth Column (1990)
The Troublemakers directed by G.B. Jones (1990)

Discography

(For Fifth Column recordings, see Fifth Column)
 Apple Strudel Man, Jolly Tambourine Man (1984)
 It's A Wonderful Record!, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet (1994)
 Kickstand, Kickstand (Queenie) (1994)
 Messing With Greek Buck, Greek Buck (1998)
 Bucquiem, Greek Buck (2003)
 Mississauga Goddam, The Hidden Cameras (2004)

References

External links

Official Caroline Azar You Tube channel

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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian people of Russian-Jewish descent
Canadian people of Lebanese-Jewish descent
Canadian people of Italian-Jewish descent
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Canadian film actresses
Canadian rock keyboardists
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Simply had to use my (new) favourite colours for my favourite styles.
I've already sent in my CLA, I wanted to do that before I submitted.
I'm pretty proud of this one. Though someone told me that the colours show up a bit yellow-ish on some monitors, so feedback on that if it does for anyone else would be good.
I had been working on a theme a while ago, for DW Transmogrified. It morphed into two themes, Tehotenion, a purple and White and black theme named in honor of my Dad, and a black and white one with shadows. They aren't done, and they are messy - code-wise.
This needs testing on Windows machines, (IE in particular) and Linux.
This is the polished version of my very first colour theme, Ocean. It uses mostly the same colours, but I got rid of the hard black borders, corrected the contrast of the links and made it a bit prettier.
I love that one and thought I'd offer it here, too, to either replace the original version or as an additional theme. What do you think?
Because I love Transmogrified and it clearly needs more green. Two themes - one light on dark, one dark on light.


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The Three Monarchs
By: Anthony Horowitz
An original Sherlock Holmes short story from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Silk and Moriarty--one of the only writers to earn the seal of approval from Conan Doyle's estate.In this e-original short story, Sherlock Holmes and James Watson come together once again to uncover the motive behind a robbery gone awry. When an elderly man shoots an intruder he finds in his home, it seems like a clear case of self-defense. What's not so clear is why the robber was there. His bag contains no silver or jewelry--only three crude ceramic figurines of Queen Victoria which were mass-produced for her Golden Jubilee. When two of the figurines are traced to other houses on the same street, it's Sherlock Holmes who sees the key to unlock the mystery.Three Monarchs includes a preview chapter from Moriarty.
2014 Anthony Horowitz
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In wake of conversion recognition controversies, Chief Rabbinate to change process.
For several years, increasing numbers of converts from North America who have immigrated to Israel have found their conversions questioned and even rejected when they have come to register for marriage or other religious services.
In July this year, the Supreme Rabbinical Court declined to recognize a convert who converted through Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a prominent Orthodox rabbi in New York. Lookstein also oversaw the conversion of Ivanka Trump, daughter of President-elect Donald Trump, and the rejection of his convert by the rabbinical courts in effect cast doubt on her conversion.
In September, the Chief Rabbinate rejected a convert who had been approved by the most senior rabbinical judge of the Orthodox Beth Din (religious court) of America, Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz. One of the central problems that critics of the Chief Rabbinate have pointed to is that there are no set criteria by which it and the rabbinical courts make their decisions on the issues.
The announcement on Wednesday comes in response to a legal petition by the ITIM religious services advisory and lobbying group demanding that the Chief Rabbinate reveal either criteria or the list of rabbis whose conversions it accepts.
In the statement, Yosef said that together with fellow Chief Rabbi David Lau, they had decided to hold a conference next week of all the judges on the Supreme Rabbinical Court together with the rabbis of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate in order to establish criteria for recognizing foreign Orthodox converts.
The statement is likely referring to Rabbi Itamar Tubul, the head of the Chief Rabbinate's Marriage and Conversion Department, who has been in charge of evaluating, investigating and ultimately accepting or rejecting conversions performed in the US.
Until now Tubul has retained the backing of Yosef, who has authority over the Marriage and Conversion Department, although Wednesday's statement seemed to imply a reprimand for Tubul.
In July, however, Lau was publicly critical of Tubul and said in a letter to him that he should accept conversions authorized by Schwartz.
The statement issued by Yosef's office said explicitly that in a situation like Ivanka Trump's, the convert's conversion would not need any further clarification or investigation.
ITIM welcomed the Chief Rabbinate's announcement, saying it could alleviate "the increasing crisis between the State of Israel and these rabbis and their communities.
"We hope that the process produced by the Chief Rabbinate will reduce the chaos and bureaucracy and make life easier for those seeking to tie their fate to the State of Israel," the organization said.


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Marquise Goodwin flashed his fantasy upside in 2017 ending the season strong, from Weeks 9 through 17 he had 39 receptions for 613 yards and two touchdowns which was good for WR17 during that stretch. His finish to 2017 is a significant reason why I'm confident Goodwin will be a fantasy football breakout in 2018. San Francisco showed this offseason they trusted Goodwin as one of the teams top wide receivers after not bringing in any free agent receivers and signing Goodwin to a three-year extension. It was a good deal for him and a win for the 49ers, an overall "Goodwin" for both sides.
So why am I so confident in a receiver who has 105 receptions, 1,742 yards, and eight touchdowns in his five-year career to be a breakout in 2018? His chemistry with quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. Gold on the periodic table is labeled as Au, so I say Au ("hey you") look at how Goodwin was with Garoppolo, some would maybe even call him "Greatwin." How great you ask? This tweet below illustrates how great he was with Jimmy G last season.
Those numbers are fantasy gold. With Garoppolo Goodwin averaged 8.6 targets, 5.5 receptions, 77 yards, and 0.2 touchdowns per game. Which if you extrapolate that for a full 16-game season it looks like 138 targets, 88 receptions, 1,232 yards, and three touchdowns. Only 10 wide receivers finished with more than 138 targets, only eight finished with more than 88 receptions, and only six finished with more than 1,232 yards in 2017. Want more convincing on how special those numbers are? Only Michael Thomas, Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, Keenan Allen, and Adam Theilen had at least 88 receptions and 1,232 yards in 2017.
Usually, when a wide receiver finishes the season this strong and has a quarterback with as much hype as Garoppolo, it raises his draft stock. Yet Goodwin is WR38 in standard, WR44 in PPR, WR43 in half-PPR, and his ADP is 87.
His situation this year is a little different because Pierre Garcon will be there hopefully for a full 16 games and the 49ers invested in Dante Pettis in the 2018 NFL Draft which could impact his overall target share. With that being said, Goodwin is a big play receiver who can take any play the distance. He averaged 17.2 yards per reception in 2017 which was the third best in the NFL. Sustaining such high yards per reception with 56 catches (962 yards) showcases his big play ability.
Still not sold on Goodwin's freakish speed? What if I told you Goodwin was a sprinter for Team USA? Or maybe that he owns the fifth fastest 40-yard dash time at the NFL combine with a 4.27? Last but not least after crushing his NFL combine he finished in the 92 percentile for SPARQ according to PlayerProfiler.com.
But being fast in the combine and on the track is different than running in pads and with the football in your hand. So here are the fastest times reached in the NFL with the football in their hands from 2017.
Do you see who number four is? That's right, Goodwin, and he hit 21.68 mph last year.
If you're still not a believer in Goodwin, maybe you will believe in Kyle Shanahan and his offenses. The Shanahan system is a complicated offense that usually takes a year for the quarterback and team to learn and execute. Below are how the passing offenses ranked under Shanahan in the first and second year of the system.
So two of those three seasons, a Shanahan-led offense saw an increase in production from year one to two. The 49ers last season ranked second in attempts, ninth in yards, and 28th in touchdowns. I expect the offense to be better with more talent at the skill positions and a full 16 games from Garoppolo under center.
A better offense means more chances for the team to score points and touchdowns were the only area of improvement for Goodwin last season. The 49ers don't have a true red-zone target so if Goodwin can continue his chemistry with Garoppolo this offseason and work on finding that connection in the red-zone, Goodwin's season could be special. Goodwin flashed his talent at the end of last year, but if you don't start buying tickets for the Marquise Express, it may streak right by you.
Mitchell Renz is a featured writer at FantasyPros. For more from Mitchell, check out all his fantasy football articles and follow him on Twitter @mitchellrenz365.