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Joan Haseltine is a lens-based artist residing in Big Timber, MT and Los Angeles. Born in Chicago, IL, her work explores alienation and loneliness through a feminine gaze, using a cinematic approach. She received a BS in Accounting from Florida State University. She comes to photography after motherhood and a career on Wall Street. Her first camera was purchased in 2015. She has studied at the Los Angeles Center of Photography and The International Center of Photography.
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The Girl Who Escaped and Other Stories is a staged narrative of alienated women whose outwardly immaculate appearance disguise their vulnerability, insecurity and possible treachery. As women, we confine ourselves and limit our mobility in our attempt to be attractive. We become prey. I seek to make the viewer a complicit voyeur to these lonely women.
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García De Marina
Born in Spain in 1975. Since the year 2012 uses the object like expression way. This Poet of the Prosaic made the leap from social networking to the galleries in a few months' time. His creativity has not gone unnoticed in Spain as well as the foreign media, having his work published in several countries in the world. He has made a number of individual exhibitions and taken part in different collective exhibits, in addition to diverse art fairs. His lens is profoundly irreverent with the real: it seeks to transform and stamp objects with new identities; it challenges the obvious, and pays heed to the grandeur of the everyday. The bareness of his photography endows objects with a leading role, while they are stripped of their essence to be reinvented. The artist does not carry out any photographic manipulation on the images. From the minimalist perspective, the inventiveness of his gaze lays claim to another reality. In 2015 the artist was one of the chosen ones, by the Spanish Embassy, to participate in the "Photo Week Washington D.C.". In 2017, the Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla León in Spain (MUSAC) selected three of his pieces for the "Constellations" exhibition, experimental poetry in Spain (1963-2016), where for the first time, the presence of visual and experimental poetry in Spain from the 1960s to the present is addressed. During last years the artist has participated in some Festivals of photography, in Spain and abroad as Photo Week D.C. in Washington (2015), Photo Romania Festival (2015), Photometria Festival in Greece (2016), Festival of the light in Argentina (2016), Bucharest Foto Week (2016), Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia (2016), Uppsala Foto Festival in Sweden (2017) and Yangon Photo Festival in Myanmar (2018). In 2018 presented his exhibition "Diálo2" in the Barjola's Museum in Spain together with one the most important visual poets of the 20th century in Spain, Joan Brossa."
Sirli Raitma
Sirli Raitma is a London based photographer. She was born and grew up in Suure-Jaani in Estonia. Sirli's images span portraiture, landscapes and interiors, but portraiture - especially involving ambiguity via costume or displacement - is her heartland. Project - Eha EHA is a series of portraits of my mother, portrayed in a series of unusual situations, poses and attire. Eha was born in Estonia in 1950. Widowed, suffering from epilepsy and lacking great command of English, Eha stayed tightly involved in our lives. In 2015 Eha began to suffer from depression. Life became bleaker. Something had to be done. I came up with a plan to give her something new to focus on, beyond her new procession of doctor's appointments and medications. The 'EHA' project was born. 'Eha revealed herself to be a natural model, happy to play along with my increasingly imaginative visual fantasies. The 'EHA' project has had an effect on both of us. It is encouraging to see that the results for us are also having a resonance for others. The project has featured in UK and Estonian magazines. The feedback from readers has been fantastic and is consistent it that it has prompted many to look at their own family situations and how they treat each other.'
Lara Wilde
Lara Wilde dances in her projects between the themes of raw human emotions and the complexity of the outside world. As a photographer and psychologist she is interested in what moves us as humanity on an individual level. Besides an intensive involvement with her protagonists, she stands for technical perfection in the execution, which has earned her several awards. Since 2016 Wilde is working as a fine art photographer and creative director. Statement A few years ago I moved from a Norwegian village back to Berlin to study photography. What I didn't know back then is that you unlearn being a city person when you are gone long enough. I really thought I would die in the anonymous streets of the city I once loved so much. As you know, when we are determined to solve a problem, we go deeper into it. So I wanted to meet strangers and see how they feel outside of their awesome social herds. A lot of nights I now invited myself to other peoples houses, men and women, all strangers, drinking coffee and photographing them in the process. I shot them in longterm exposures, first, because I didn't want to bring a lot of equipment, but later I enjoyed the slow process, sitting there in darkness and waiting for the picture to come through. For some people, it was torture sitting around in the darkness, confronted with their thoughts without their smartphones, friends or busy surroundings. For me they looked like something was missing when they were just sitting by themselves. It felt really personal watching them trying to get comfortable in this inputless scene, to see them struggle, or to see them think and sometimes sharing the feelings that were coming forward. All these conversations with strangers, waiting around in the dark, gave me a feeling of togetherness, becoming a tiny particles of their lives and giving them something that they normally didn't have: Stillness. They were so open and thankful for conversations and most of the times we talked about the real shit: About being lonely, about dying, about calling our parents and our first love. All the stories found their way into the pictures and reminded me of everything we talked about. But I personally got my Berlin back. Not at the streets, but at the dark corners of their homes. Everything in their homes told their stories as loud as they did and I had the honor of being part of it for a short period of time. I get you now, Berlin-people: You are kind and giving, but you are afraid of being used. You are interested in others, but don't want to be tangled up in other peoples problems. You want to show yourself, but want to be accepted. And if you like it our not, the people around you want that too.
1936 | † 2008
Born in Rhuddlan, Wales, Philip Jones Griffiths studied pharmacy in Liverpool and worked in London while photographing part-time for the Manchester Guardian. In 1961 he became a full-time freelancer for the London-based Observer. He covered the Algerian War in 1962, then moved to Central Africa. From there he moved to Asia, photographing in Vietnam from 1966 to 1971. His book on the war, Vietnam Inc., crystallized public opinion and gave form to Western misgivings about American involvement in Vietnam. One of the most detailed surveys of any conflict, Vietnam Inc. is also an in-depth document of Vietnamese culture under attack. An associate member of Magnum since 1966, Griffiths became a member in 1971. In 1973 he covered the Yom Kippur War and then worked in Cambodia between 1973 and 1975. In 1977 he covered Asia from his base in Thailand. In 1980 Griffiths moved to New York to assume the presidency of Magnum, a post he held for a record five years. Griffiths' assignments, often self-engineered, took him to more than 120 countries. He continued to work for major publications such as Life and Geo on stories such as Buddhism in Cambodia, droughts in India, poverty in Texas, the re-greening of Vietnam, and the legacy of the Gulf War in Kuwait. His continued revisiting of Vietnam, examining the legacy of the war, lead to his two further books 'Agent Orange' and 'Vietnam at Peace'. Griffiths' work reflects on the unequal relationship between technology and humanity, summed up in his book Dark Odyssey. Human foolishness always attracted Griffiths' eye, but, faithful to the ethics of the Magnum founders, he believed in human dignity and in the capacity for improvement. Philip Jones Griffiths died at home in West London on 19th March 2008From en.wikipedia.orgJones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan, to Joseph Griffiths, who supervised the local trucking service of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and Catherine Jones, Rhuddlan's district nurse, who ran a small maternity clinic at home. He studied pharmacy in Liverpool and worked in London as the night manager at the Piccadilly branch of Boots, while also working as a part-time photographer for the Manchester Guardian. His first photograph was of a friend, taken with the family Brownie in a rowboat off Holyhead. Jones Griffiths never married, saying it was a "bourgeois" notion, but that he had had "significant" relationships. Survived by Fanella Ferrato and Katherine Holden, his daughters from long-term relationships with Donna Ferrato and Heather Holden. He died from cancer on March 19, 2008. Journalist John Pilger wrote in tribute to Griffiths soon after his death: "I never met a foreigner who cared as wisely for the Vietnamese, or about ordinary people everywhere under the heel of great power, as Philip Jones Griffiths. He was the greatest photographer and one of the finest journalists of my lifetime, and a humanitarian to match…. His photographs of ordinary people, from his beloved Wales to Vietnam and the shadows of Cambodia, make you realise who the true heroes are. He was one of them." Griffiths started work as a full-time freelance photographer in 1961 for the Observer, travelling to Algeria in 1962. He arrived in Vietnam in 1966, working for the Magnum agency. Magnum found his images difficult to sell to American magazines, as they concentrated on the suffering of the Vietnamese people and reflected his view of the war as an episode in the continuing decolonisation of former European possessions. However, he was eventually able to get a scoop that the American outlets liked: photographs of Jackie Kennedy vacationing with a male friend in Cambodia. The proceeds from these photos enabled him to continue his coverage of Vietnam and to publish Vietnam Inc. in 1971. Vietnam Inc. had a major influence on American perceptions of the war, and became a classic of photojournalism. The book was the result of Griffiths' three years work in the country and it stands as one of the most detailed surveys of any conflict, including descriptions of the horrors of the war as well as a study of Vietnamese rural life and views from serving American soldiers. Probably one of its most quoted passages is of a US army source discussing napalm: 'We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The original product wasn't so hot - if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off. So the boys started adding polystyrene - now it sticks like shit to a blanket. But if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they started adding Willie Peter (white phosphorus) so's to make it burn better. And just one drop is enough, it'll keep on burning right down to the bone so they die anyway from phosphorus poisoning.' The South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, criticized Griffiths' work, remarking "Let me tell you there are many people I don't want back in my country, but I can assure you Mr. Griffiths name is at the top of the list." In 1973, Griffiths covered the Yom Kippur War. He then worked in Cambodia from 1973 to 1975. In 1980, he became the president of Magnum, a position he then held for five years. In 2001 Vietnam Inc. was reprinted with a foreword by Noam Chomsky. Subsequent books have included Dark Odyssey, a collection of his best pictures, and Agent Orange, dealing with the impact of the US defoliant Agent Orange on postwar generations in Vietnam. After becoming aware of his terminal condition, Jones Griffiths launched a foundation to preserve his archives. His daughters helm the foundation, which as of July 2008 lacked a permanent home. Source: www.magnumphotos.com
Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, she took night classes in photography, and in 1970, she began doing work for Rolling Stone magazine. She became Rolling Stone's chief photographer in 1973. By the time she left the magazine, 10 years later, she had shot 142 covers. In 1983, she joined the staff at Vanity Fair, and in 1998, she also began working for Vogue. In addition to her magazine editorial work, Leibovitz has created influential advertising campaigns for American Express and the Gap and has contributed frequently to the Got Milk? campaign. She has worked with many arts organizations, including American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her books include Annie Leibovitz: Photographs (1983), Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970–1990 (1991), Olympic Portraits (1996), Women (1999), American Music (2003), A Photographer's Life: 1990–2005 (2006), and Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008). Exhibitions of her images have appeared at museums and galleries all over the world, including the National Portrait Gallery and the Corcoran Gallery, in Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography, in New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Centre National de la Photographie, in Paris; and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Leibovitz has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress and is the recipient of many other honors, including the Barnard College Medal of Distinction and the Infinity Award in Applied Photography from the International Center of Photography. She was decorated a Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She lives in New York with her three children, Sarah, Susan, and Samuelle. Source Vanity Fair
Richard Murai
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes." Marcel Proust, 1923, La Prisonierre The world's sacred sites are visually rich and historically significant and provide sanctuary for spiritual reflection and creative exploration and discovery. They're striking archeological sites but first and foremost, they serve as vital and revered centers of pilgrimage, prayer and meditation. These images are excerpts of my visits to these sacred spaces and are evidence of an ongoing journey that examines intense spiritual devotion and religious fervor, past and present, within unique and distinctive cultures. They are multi-dimensional and compelling for both the photographer and the viewer and document golden ages of past millennia and cultures seeking to reconcile ancient traditions with conflicting modern values. Devotees seek serenity and escape from centuries of conquest and political upheaval, or the effects of poverty, global climate change and modernization. As we confront a perplexing, irrational and precarious world situation ongoing geo-political unrest and violence has caused fractious dissension and a difficult emotional time for all. Reluctance to accept diverse cultural, political, religious attitudes both here and abroad adds to the fear, cynicism and confusion. Becoming sensitive to unfamiliar cultures can quell much of this anxiety and may encourage tolerance and compassion. After transitioning from thirty-five rewarding years in photographic education, Richard lives in Monterey, CA, and continues to passionately pursue his creative artmaking. His ongoing fascination with world religion and culture has generated repeated visits to locations within India, Asia, South America, the Middle East, Russia and Europe. His work has been exhibited widely, has garnered awards from All About Photo, Center for Photographic Art, Spider Awards, and Travel Photographer of the Year, and have been featured in respected publications including B&W Magazine, Silver Shots International, Shots, Photographer's Forum and multiple issues of Lenswork print and special editions. His photographs are included in various private and corporate collections and is represented by the Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA
Maria Svarbova
Maria Svarbova was born in 1988; she currently lives in Slovakia. Despite studying restoration and archeology, her preferred artistic medium is photography. From 2010 to the present, the immediacy of Maria's photographic instinct continues to garner international acclaim and is setting new precedents in photographic expression. The recipient of several prestigious awards, her solo and group exhibitions have placed her among the vanguard of her contemporaries, attracting features in Vogue, Forbes, The Guardian, and publications around the world; her work is frequently in the limelight of social media. Maria's reputation also earned her a commission for a billboard-sized promotion on the massive Taipei 101 tower, in Taiwan. Maria's distinctive style departs from traditional portraiture and focuses on experimentation with space, colour, and atmosphere. Taking an interest in Socialist era architecture and public spaces, Maria transforms each scene with a modern freshness that highlights the depth and range of her creative palette. The human body throughout her oeuvre is more or less a peripheral afterthought, often portrayed as aloof and demure rather than substantive. Carefully composed figures create thematic, dream-like scenes with ordinary objects. Her images hold a silent tension that hint at emergent possibilities under the lilt of clean and smooth surfaces. There is often a sense of cool detachment and liminality in Maria's work. Routine actions such as exercise, doctor appointments, and domestic tasks are reframed with a visual purity that is soothing and symmetrical and at times reverberant with an ethereal stillness. The overall effect evokes a contemplative silence in an extended moment of promise and awareness—a quality difficult to achieve in the rapid pace of modern life. Maria's postmodern vision boldly articulates a dialog that compels the viewer to respond to the mystery, loneliness, and isolation of the human experience. Nevertheless, deeply embedded within the aqueous pastels, Maria's compositions hold to a celebratory elegance that transforms the viewer's gaze into an enduring reverence for life's simple beauty. Hasselblad Master 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 Winner of International Photography Awards 2016 All about Swimming Pool In the Swimming Pool is Maria's largest series yet, originating in 2014 and continuing to develop to date. Sparked by a hunt for interesting location, her fascination with the space of public swimming pools contributed to developing her visual style. Sterile, geometric beauty of old pools set the tone for these photographs. Each of them pictures a different pool, usually built in the Socialist Era, in various locations in Slovakia. There is almost cinematographic quality to the highly controlled sceneries that Maria captures. The figures are mid-movement, but there is no joyful playfulness to them. Frozen in the composition, the swimmers are as smooth and cold as the pools tiles. The colours softly vibrate in a dream-like atmosphere. Despite the retro setting, the pictures somehow evoke a futuristic feeling as well, as if they were taken somewhere completely alien. There is no disturbing emotion, there is no individuality in their stillness. The artificial detachment, created by Maria's visual vision, allows unique visual pleasure, unattainable in real life.
Idan Hojman
Idan Hojman was born In Israel in 1980. He started making photography at the age of 21 while traveling in Asia. Idan uses a Rolleiflex analogical camera of medium format, mainly shooting in Black & White. He currently lives in Barcelona, Spain. Artist Statement: "For me photography is a form of meditation, a simple observation of what is happening around us, a way to connect with the present moment from instant to instant. There is so much beauty in this world; one has only to open his eyes and heart in order to see it."Source: www.idanhojmanphotography.com
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Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Raul Arantes is a multidisciplinary creative director, photographer and filmmaker, currently based in Singapore. His experience spans over 18+ years working in Brazil, the UK, mainland China and Hong Kong. He holds a Master's degree in Visual Effects, but he has worked in different areas for a wide range of agencies, businesses and clients. His wide experience allowed him to develop a number of interdisciplinary projects and stories in Ukraine, Iran and Hong Kong.
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Maggie Moore (1851-1926), actress, was born on 10 April 1851 as Margaret Virginia Sullivan in San Francisco, daughter of James Edward Sullivan and his wife Bridget Mary, née Whelan, who had migrated to Sydney and then to California. Starting early as an actress, she became a local favourite. At 20 she met J. C. Williamson. Together they were earning up to £200 a week, and married on 2 February 1873 at St Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco.
In September G. Coppin engaged them for an Australian tour. They sailed in the Mikado on 27 May 1874 with a new play Struck Oil, in which they had succeeded in California. The Williamsons, Maggie's brother Jim and a whole company played in Honolulu and Fiji, and arrived in Sydney on 1 July and Melbourne on the 8th. On 1 August they opened with Struck Oil with Williamson as John Stofel and Maggie as Lizzie at the Theatre Royal, supported by The Fool of the Family. The critics were lyrical, specially praising Maggie. The season included other plays and ended on 21 December, Struck Oil having played for fifty-seven nights. The Williamsons' share of the profits was £6000.
After success at Ballarat, Geelong, Castlemaine and Sandhurst the company left on 1 March 1875 for Sydney. Opening at the Queen's Theatre with Struck Oil on the 10th, it drew large crowds and played for forty-four nights. In Adelaide from 28 August they had 'crowded houses and enthusiastic applause'. After the season closed on 2 October they played in India, Egypt, Italy, France and Germany, opening in London with Struck Oil at the Adelphi Theatre on Easter Monday 1876. Critics praised the Williamsons' acting and the season ran for a hundred nights. They had added to their repertoire Boucicault's Arrah na Pogue, which with Maggie in the title role was almost as successful as Struck Oil. After two years in America they returned to Melbourne on 15 August 1879 with the sole Australian rights to the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas.
Threat of legal action prevented piracy of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas and, as the first authorized performances of a Savoy opera, the Williamsons presented H.M.S. Pinafore in Sydney on 15 November, Melbourne on 14 February 1880 and Adelaide on 15 May. Maggie created the role of Little Buttercup but her favourite part was Josephine. Among other operas Maggie played Ruth and sometimes Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Lady Jane in Patience, Katisha in The Mikado, Fairy Queen in Iolanthe and the Duchess of Plaza Toro in The Gondoliers. On 24 November 1883 she created perhaps her best operatic role as Bettina in La Mascotte, in which Nellie Steward played Fiametta. In 1890 Maggie was brilliant as Meg in Meg, the Castaway. In 1887 on a visit to her mother in San Francisco she won great success in her performances; with Williamson in 1891 she toured India but he was then turning to organization.
Relations between Williamson and Maggie became strained, and she formed her own company. In 1894 she defeated an injunction by Williamson who tried to prevent her production of Struck Oil. From May 1897 Williamson lived with Mary Weir and on 29 May 1899 Maggie divorced him. She continued to travel but her 1900 season in San Francisco failed. On 12 April 1902 in New York she married Harry R. Roberts.
In 1903-08 Maggie travelled in North American and Britain. She returned to Sydney and under J. C. Williamson Ltd starred in seasons from 1908 to 1912, sometimes reviving Struck Oil with Roberts. In 1915 she joined the Royal Comic Opera Company as Mrs Pitt in After the Girl, and toured Australia with it, crowning her career as Mrs Karl Pfeiffer in Friendly Enemies in 1918; she also played Lizzie Stofel in the Pugliese Enterprises film of Struck Oil, with Roberts as Stofel. In July 1920 she had success with Roberts in Gregan McMahon's production of Charles Kenyon's Kindling at the King's Theatre, Melbourne.
For the fiftieth anniversary of her first Australian appearance, a lavish testimonial jubilee was staged at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, on 1 August 1924. Maggie played the second act of Struck Oil, Nellie Stewart appeared and Dame Nellie Melba attended; the proceeds exceeded £1500. Next year she retired to California to live with her sister. On 16 March 1926 she was run over by a cable car in San Francisco. Her leg was amputated but she died at noon.
Vivacious and ebullient, Maggie was a national favourite. Her acting was better than Williamson's and is reputed to have made his fortune. Extremely versatile, she had a fine voice, a perfect sense of comedy, much skill at dancing and a charming personality. An animal lover, she kept a menagerie at her Rose Bay home. Most significantly she retained her popularity with audiences to the end of her theatrical life.
Maggie Moore's manuscript (State Library of New South Wales).
Richard Refshauge, 'Moore, Maggie (1851–1926)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moore-maggie-4235/text6833, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 26 April 2019.


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Q: $wpdb query outputs php code instead of executing it I'm using the following code in WordPress HTML page in Azure:

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 global $wpdb;
 $result = $wpdb -> get_results ( "
 SELECT 'VillageLeadersName'
 FROM wp_villageleaderdb
 WHERE VillageID = 'V001' AND VillageLeaderPosition = 'Sarpanch' LIMIT 0, 100
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The following image shows the resulting screen:

The query works fine on admin console. The resulting page shows the code instead of results. Where I am going wrong?

A: Your web server has probably some misconfiguration regarding the execution of PHP files, but regardless, what you are trying to do probably falls under "doing it wrong". Front end HTML generating files should almost always be part of a theme, what you probably need to do is to develop a page template to be used for this specific page.

A: It's very clear that your file is not executing PHP functions, and the problem probably is because you are saving this file as something.html, storing it inside your theme or WordPress installation directory.
What you can do, is to wrap this as a function or shortcode, and then create a page and use that shortcode or function inside it.
Here is a simple example to develop shortcode from your query:
add_shortcode('my-shortcode', 'create_my_shortcode');
function create_my_shortcode(){
    global $wpdb;
    $result = $wpdb -> get_results ( "
        SELECT 'VillageLeadersName'
        FROM wp_villageleaderdb
        WHERE VillageID = 'V001' AND VillageLeaderPosition = 'Sarpanch' LIMIT 0, 100
        " );
    return $result[0][1] . "
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}

Put this code inside your theme's functions.php file, and then head over to New > Page and create a page. Afterward, you can use this shortcode inside your page:
[my-shortcode]

This will execute and output your code. Also note that you can not echo content in a shortcode, you must return it.
Another approach is to simply wrap it as a function without creating a shortcode, and then call that function inside your templates.
function create_my_shortcode(){
    // Your code here
}

Now, make a copy of your theme's page.php, rename it to page-whatever.php and modify it the way you like. After you finished editing, use create_my_shortcode() anywhere you want. In this method you can echo the content too.
Afterward, you can use this template while creating a new page in the back-end.
UPDATE
As stated in your comments, the results might be an array. To print the array, you can use a foreach like this:
$data = '';
foreach( $result as $single_result ){
    $data .= $single_result;
}
return $data. $row['VillageLeadersName'] . "
";

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On Saturday, April 18, 2020 Rick D. Jennings, loving husband and father passed away peacefully in his home at the age of 49 after a courageous battle with cancer. Rick was born on January 16, 1971 to David and Kathleen Jennings of Caledonia. He was a graduate of Caledonia High School in 1989. Rick attended Western Technical College and graduated with an Associate Degree in Electronics in 1992. Rick married his high school sweetheart, Shannon Westby on June 11, 1994 at St. Luke's Church in Eitzen, Minnesota. Rick worked as an electrician at G. Heileman Brewing Company from 1992-1999. He then started at Dairyland Power Company in January of 2000 as an electrician at the Alma location. Rick transferred to the Genoa plant as an instrument technician foreman where he worked until September of 2019. Rick and Shannon were blessed with the birth of their son Kyle on June 27, 1997. Rick cherished his time with family and friends. He enjoyed participating in 4-H in his youth and shared that passion for showing animals with Kyle. They spent a lot of time together at his parent's farm raising fair pigs and beef steers. Rick enjoyed spending time outdoors, whether it be hunting, snowmobiling, 4-wheeling, or helping his dad on the family farm. Rick found the most joy on the farm doing fieldwork. He also enjoyed classic cars, especially his 1969 Chevelle. Rick will be forever loved and missed by his wife, Shannon, son Kyle and his fiancée Sierra Olinger, his parents David and Kathleen Jennings, siblings Mike (Lisa), Barbara (Darren), and Mark (Sandy), nieces and nephew Brittney, Haley, and Tyler Jennings. Mother in law Jean (Karl) Stokman, Father in law Jim (Brenda) Westby, Brothers in law Rob (Renee) Stokman, Kasey Stokman, and Carl (Stephanie) Westby, Sisters in law Karla St. Mary, Clare (Mike) Manuel and their children. Rick was preceded in death by his baby brother Daniel, grandparents Lloyd and Wilma Jennings and Oswald and Jeanette Peter, and his nephew Brandon Jennings. Friends and family will be able to drive their vehicles from 3 to 7 pm on Tuesday April 21, through the south parking lot of St. Mary's Catholic Church, 513 S. Pine St., Caledonia to pay their respects to Rick and greet the immediate family from a safe distance. A private family service will be held. A celebration of life for family and friends will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Houston County Swine Barn Building project in memory of Rick. Building a new swine barn for the future of 4-H youth and their livestock projects was very important to Rick. He was a founding member of the building committee. Donations can be mailed to: Houston County Fair Building Project Fund, P.O. Box 91 Caledonia, MN, 55921. Make checks payable to Houston County Fair Building Project.
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While contracting at Which? Ltd I wrote a library in Ruby to access REST APIs in a very flexible, almost ActiveRecord style. This was agreed (after long discussions with the legal department) to be released as open source.

Unfortunately after leaving Which? the gem was used less and less as I believe they were re-architecting to not rely on backend servers built in Java anymore.

In October 2015 I decided that I didn't want this gem that I'd built to fall by the wayside, so I forked under the name Flexirest (which wasn't listed as a gem at RubyGems.org) and released it.

Since then I've continued to update the library with fixes and some minor new features (it's working really well and is pretty functionally complete, so there isn't much to add there at this point), but some people continue to post bugs/pull requests on the ActiveRestClient GitHub page.

So, if you've seen this link on https://github.com/whichdigital/active-rest-client/ the chances are I've sent you a link to it to show you the reasons why you should switch to Flexirest and how...

## How to change

The first step is to change the line in your Gemfile from:

```ruby
gem "active-rest-client"
```

to read:

```ruby
gem 'flexirest'
```

and then re-run `bundle install`.

The second step is to find and replace across your codebase all instances of `ActiveRestClient` with `Flexirest`.

The third and final step is to clear your Rails cache. The easiest way of doing this is to type `Rails.cache.clear` in a Rails console.

That's it, you've now switched over to Flexirest with a)lots of bug fixes, b)support for PATCH requests and c)someone actively continuing to support it!

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Iann Dior Grabs Machine Gun Kelly & Travis Barker For 'thought it was' Single
Published on: Jan 18, 2022, 1:08 PM PST
by Michael Saponara
While the world waits for Iann Dior's on to better things album's arrival on Friday (January 21), the "Mood" artist unleashed a final appetizing single on Tuesday (January 18). "Thought it was" finds Dior teaming with a couple of familiar faces in Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker.
The trio last worked together for Iann Dior's "Sick and Tired" in early 2020 and are reuniting on the alternative-leaning cut, which samples Semisonic's 1998 hit "Closing Time."
"Chasing the feeling in the hills at night/City of Angels, but it hurts sometimes/Finally made it, but it don't feel right (Don't feel right)/Don't feel like I thought it would," The 22-year-old croons on the catchy chorus.
MGK takes the baton and candidly opens up about using drugs to cope with the chilling lows of life's loneliness.
"I'm by myself, in a room with a million faces/I can't find home, and I've been to a million places/All I've ever known was the/black hole that I call my soul/This my last hope, before I let go/I can't breathe, I'm sinking low/So I use smoke to get high," the newly-engaged Ohio native pensively states.
"Thought it was" features production from the Blink 182 drummer — who makes a pair of additional appearances on the album — and Omer Fedi, who also co-produced Iann Dior and 24kGoldn's No. 1 smash "Mood."
24KGoldn & Iann Dior's No. 1 Song 'Mood' Was Made By Accident
Iann Dior's sophomore album on to better things releases on Friday (January 21). His Industry Plant debut peaked at No. 44 on the Billboard 200 in 2019. The forthcoming 15-track effort includes the previously released single "V12" featuring Lil Uzi Vert.
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I think after the chemical weapons proliferation to Salisbury & Assad's continued use of chemical bombs that the West would have to show their disapproval.
Where Trump is a well run Putin asset with a back-channel link from a Trump Tower server linked to the Kremlin controlled Alpha bank, I'm sure it was all agreed beforehand, which is why Syria had allegedly evacuated all personnel from the targets well before they were attacked.
The end result is that the West have shown they will do an ineffective something. Corbyn was played & has played the fool again. Putin was able to show his belligerence and bolster his importance to his economically suffering domestic audience & along with Assad was able to claim that their joint military might 'shot' them all down at the cost of all the 'weak' buildings at the targets collapsing as a result of the 'mid-air interceptions'. So all sides are happy with this 'dishonourable' draw. The West/Trump have shown he will do something that the weak Obama/Dems wouldn't & will keep reminding voters of this as we approach the November 2018 mid-term elections & has also reminded the world what has been known since WWI that airborne bombs will always get through, Putin is happy as he was able to strut his importance on the world stage again, Assad had a few buildings destroyed & will continue with his vile chemical attacks & other crimes against humanity as the worst that could happen to him is a few more life sentences at The Hague & life goes on for everybody else.
The technical term for the whole charade is called grandstanding.
Here endeth the lesson for the day.
Trump is imposing even more sanctions on his boss in the Kremlin tomorrow.
Theres a server in Trump tower which passes orders to Trump from his masters in Russia, and the powers that be in the U.S don't know about it ?
Ive heard fish fart and seen the bubbles.
These are whoppers......whale farts if you will.
Of course it is known about and has been since 2017. There is nothing inherently illegal is having direct links between servers and many companies do, not only to different company locations but also to third parties for data analysis and off site backups etc. What is illegal is if you use it for illegal activities. The talk and allegations are that this has been used for passing illegal hacked state voter lists to Russia to have the data 'preserved' by the FSB/GRU and washed for use by Cambridge Analytica for directly targeting voters. If true, this will form part of any collusion prosecution. It is still used according to traffic analysis and maybe being used as a Trump / Putin back channel which the NSA or more likely other 5 eyes countries may have SIGINT from.
Hillary Clinton has also had her illegal server and email scandal while Secretary of State and may also end up prosecuted over this and it cost her the election. When the US electorate only had the choice of two crooks for president in the November 2016 election it shows the danger of the GOP/Dem monopoly over US democracy.
Saw an interesting survey of UK folk. Question asked was should Uk have got involved with this action over chemical weapons?
Result was very roughly a third yes, a third no and a third don't know. On expat forums there is mostly vitriol for Mays actions - she is after all the person guiding the UK out of the EU. Mind you the same forums spout theories that the CIA and Boris Johnson were behind the Salisbury poisonings and the Russians are the injured party!
There are 20 or 21 Tornados still at RAF Marham (depends if ZA449 is still in service or not), and 8 out in Cyprus. All of these are 'airworthy' although on any particular day some are bound to be broken. Tornado out of service date is believed to be the end of May 2019. The first few (rumour is 8 ) RAF F-35's are supposed to arrive at Marham in late May 2018 (which probably means mid June!). These may be (but probably won't be) operational by the time Tornado is binned, but won't be Storm Shadow capable for the foreseeable future, if ever.
Typhoon is currently in trials for Storm Shadow, and last I heard these should be cleared to service later this year. Suspect a Typhoon will only normally carry 1 though due to the fact it has to be mounted on a wing pylon which is usually used for a fuel drop tank. Carrying 2 would means internal fuel only, thus restricting useful range.
Cheers for that for the time being, lets hope the numbers don`t twindle any lower.
True, but centre line tank is only 264 gallons/1200kg. Wing tanks can be double that size at 528 gallons/2400 kg. Internal fuel is 1500 gallons / 6800 kg.
The extra drag from carrying external fuel means it's usually only 'worth' about half what internal fuel is, so adding 264ga to an internal 1500ga only adds about 10% to the range.
Early mock-ups showed two Storm Shadows being carried on the heavy inboard pylon, leaving the middle 'wet' pylon for a drop tank. However, all the photos of test flights show the missile fitted to the middle (wet) pylon, so presumably there is some issue with fitting it inboard.
Tornado can carry 4 Storm Shadows, but in practice it never does because it needs the extra pylon space for fuel in drop tanks.
His boss has obviously had a quiet word on why he installed in the WH as Trump has deferred the new sanctions.


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On this week's Berkhamsted Revisits, LG meets anti bullying campaigner Harnaam Kaur. After developing polycystic ovary syndrome (or PCOS), Harnaam started to grow facial hair. She battled with its side effects and the bullies throughout her teens, but eventually embraced her lady-beard (as she refers to it) after quite the journey.


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Rome Review And The Return
Posted on November 29, 2015 by zamoaproductions
It's hot as Hell here, the city lies in ruins and the Pope's not taking my calls.
Rome was great 🙂 (ya get it?), but I have to tell you the principal memory I will retain is of us being thrown around in the crowded and hot old trams on our way to and from Roma Termini (Central Station) and the suburb in which we stayed. The drivers braked, accelerated and threw their vehicles around the tracks with a clear lack of consideration for their cramped contents – Tch tch, such reckless abandon, while all around were ancient ruins. There are ruins everywhere around Rome, each in various stages of decay.
Curiously, we saw nobody paying any fare whatsoever for their tram rides (nor on buses). There is a coin operated, single-ticket machine on board, and also a validation machine for those who carry pre-purchase tickets (we bought one each for seven days' use – tram, bus, or Metro – at 28 Euros each); we seem to be the only suckers. At the Metro I saw a young Italian (taller than me) nonchalantly leap the ticket barrier; obviously paying public transport fees is for tourists. There is certainly no way a conductor could force their way through the crowd of passengers to check tickets anyway.
But, this subsequent lack of revenue for the city is perhaps symptomatic of an evident, visible decay in such simple things that one takes for granted in other cities. Take the upkeep of footpaths: around the central hub of the Rome's rail, bus and Metro area, 'Termini' – a hub where millions of tourists as well as locals and migrants perambulate – the footpaths are in a woeful state. Actually, where we are staying, which is two and a half kilometres away from there, the footpaths and paving are also in a woeful (and very dangerous) condition – and let's face it, the streets are dirty. It is as though the councils have given up.
Around Vatican City, St Peter's, the Colosseum and the other extensive areas designated 'tourist-worthy and revenue collecting' however, the footpaths are as immaculately maintained as the fable of Mary's conception to produce that bloke Jesus; a glossy face of Rome presented to the tourist world.
But the real Rome, out in the burbs where people live ain't that pretty – it's gritty. It has, however, plenty of excellent bars and restaurants if you can avoid the obvious tourist sucks. Our suburb out on Piazzale Prenestino 15 had a really good food-and-drink scene going.
Rome Explained
Overall, Rome is a vast, sprawling and (in summer) dirty city. We have heard many people speak in awe of central Rome and its 'wondrous sights', expounding its beauty and fabulous buildings. Well, I think these people are either 'believers' under the spell of the Pope, or they have not been to Italy's other 'fabulous' cities: Cities like Florence, Assisi, Pisa, Milan and Sienna, all more manageable, cleaner cities with absolutely stunning architectural gems. As for the remains of Roman structures, towns and cities – why, they exist all around the Mediterranean shores and even further afield in diverse conditions, some almost intact. Of the many we have seen, four spring to mind for their stunning location, integrity, or for their unusual reach: beautiful Taormina's theatre on Sicily's eastern shore; Itálica (near Seville – a near whole Roman city); Mérida, also in southern Spain; and Lixus, just north of Larache in Morocco (mostly 'ruins' but you can see the whole city's foundations and comprehend its function).
Yet the extent of Rome's ruins exceeds all we have previously witnessed, they are spread over hectares.
Ancient Rome, the city, was huge, and much of its walls, buildings and edifices have been saved, resurrected, reconstructed, built-upon, or at least uncovered. Vast as its spread is and big as some of the remaining parts are however, it is impossible to get a full impression of how grand it once really was – to contextualize it. Two or four times a day on our trips into and out of the city, our tram looped in and out of the Porta Magggiore, one of Rome's ancient outer 'gates'. These massive and still decorative portals joined to large parts of the associated walls are still quite intact but, like all the other large monuments, walls and bridges here, the busy streets and the modern buildings crammed around them distract and detract from any possible understanding of how grand this city must have been. You'd have better understanding by looking at a tiny, scale model of the old city.
I recently saw Rome's more modern and grand buildings presented as architecturally beautiful (but sterile) on a local TV programme. But then, they spent ten minutes praising the architecture of the new, ultra-modern Sheraton Roma hotel – something that didn't endear me to their presentation. The reality, when you have your feet on the ground and in the grime, is a lot different. There are many poor souls sleeping on the streets (even a regular on Termini's tram platform), and large groups of Italians (not migrants) are sleeping on the banks of the turgid Tiber River under the shelter of the city's many bridges. Their sanitary arrangements leave you in no mind as to the quality of the Tiber's water, but its condition is exacerbated by the long summer's placement of fashionable 'temporary' bars along its city stretch. Rome's Tiber has some beautiful bridges spanning its city reach, but then, many, many other European cities can boast the same.
The Chinese have taken over masses of shopping space along Rome's portico-ed central streets around Termini – masses. After having seen them in their small shops in the remotest and strangest of places throughout Spain and wondering what the hell they were dong there, I posed the question to Bernard Lima, a relative of mine in Gibraltar. He laughed, and explained that there had recently been an exposé on TV. Hundreds of Chinese were arrested in Madrid and shopping trolleys full of Euros were wheeled out as evidence of an apparent money-laundering scheme of massive proportions – ex drug money. Well, that makes sense, perfect set-ups to launder money, but the media 'bust' must have just been a political jack-up, because these Chinese shops are clearly here to stay and continue to proliferate to the extent that, here for example, there is very little Italian left of the whole shopping district of which I have mentioned – and that is a major, central district.
I'll leave you to ponder it all and come to your own conclusions. I do enjoy Chinese food 🙂
'The Church' and Art – a little philosophising
I am equally awed, disgusted and bewildered by the stupendous (and fabulous) artistic creations inside the 'churches' we have entered in these Mediterranean countries – artworks of both the Grotesque and Phantasmic styles. But I am forced to wonder if such artistic talent (in stone, wood, plaster and/or with brush and paint) would ever have found an outlet if it were not for the support of the ill-gotten gains of the religious orders of the day.
As always, artists need patrons: the wealthier the patron, the more the artist is permitted to express his or her talent in their own medium. This, I can applaud (until I ponder the source of 'the church's' fabulous wealth).
But, would these/those incredible artists (and it would seem there were many in their day) have found a means of expression were it not for this wealthy patronage? And it also begs the question – were it not for 'the church's' patronage and artistic direction, how would their art, their talent have evolved?
We know how the Renaissance artists' works evolved, freed from religious bounds (and patronage). How, I wonder, would such awesome talent of that early period of religious bondage have expressed itself? There were stunningly talented sculptors in both wood and stone; painters like Michelangelo; architects and stonemasons of immense talent; and let us not forget the splendiferous plaster and paint works of the Muslims and Hindus. The Muslims even turned their religious prose, in script form, into wondrously decorative architectural art.
So, what if . . . no religion . . . no patrons . . . just more starving artists? And would the artists just have created art forms and designs without 'direction' . . . or at all?
On the matter of patronage we need only look to the cathedral or basilicas' stone masons works with marble: the marble cut, split, turned, polished, carved, and mounted in your average church (not even in a 'glorious' cathedral) would have cost in today's terms millions of dollars. Stunning amounts of finance would have been required to create these marvels we travellers and tourists gawk at these days. Food for thought?
Roma Termini Station to Bologna Centrale Station by Frecciargento High-speed Train
Impressive, and it's almost all over . . .
Oh How We Hate Long-haul Flying
The airports are mainly in out-of-the-way places requiring an hour or so's travel; we are subjected to interminable waits in boring terminals in which prices seem to be universally hiked; the flight itself – where one is deprived of any actual sense of forward motion and during which the only excitement is derived from exterior natural causes which can frequently be 'quite disturbing' (has the planes trajectory taken on a sharp decline . . . that lightning is beautiful and dramatic, but what if it strikes the aircraft?); and then, upon landing, the baggage wait and officialdom and a long ride to where you're going. Buses and trains are much more preferable.
We usually do Europe via Singapore and take a good break there both ways; this time there were no substantial breaks and the return trip, especially, was a drag and a drain:
Up at 0330hrs in Bologna to catch 0735hrs flight to Rome (only 1 hr flight). 3 hours in Rome airport then 2 hour flight to Abu Dhabi then 2 hours in their transit hall awaiting 11 hour flight to Perth. But we were fit and healthy from our travelling lifestyle. It's just a shame we tried to burn the candle at both ends in the last few days and didn't have sufficient sleep on the planes (so many movies :).
We landed back in Perth shaken, but not stirred, (I'd watched another Bond film on board) and still in good shape only to be struck down a couple of days later. Rachel now has a bad case of shingles (very ugly blistered rashes on chest and neck plus neck and nerve pains) and I'm struck down with some male fluey thing – the worst kind. Bugger, eh. Thank you all for your understanding and sympathy.
Electric cars being charged in Rome
Ohhhh, and I must get this final GRUMP in . . .
On Solar Farms
I have commented on Spain and Italy's inspirational uptake of Solar Farms as a renewable energy supply before. You will also have heard me lament the lack of direction, foresight and downright pig-headed rejection of wind and solar as renewable energy sources in that "Lucky Country" – Oz.
But what I haven't commented on yet was that while driving about a relatively limited area of England – Buckinghamshire, on our recent visit to the UK (that country so traditionally beset by greyness and wet that we know its countryside well by its very greenness) I was shocked to see several large Solar Farms.
In fact, I couldn't help but comment to my Uncle, "That's a bit optimistic, isn't it?"
But no, Britain's government is not stupid – it is conservative but very progressive – and apparently you don't need a great deal of sunshine for Solar Farms to pay their way. Germany led the way in using solar as a renewable energy source many years ago and I can still remember our getting out of an aircraft on the tarmac at Munich Airport to board a bus to the terminal only to find ourselves walking in deep snow.
For christ's sake, doesn't Australia have any sunshine or enough non-productive land on which to erect Solar Farms? You know the image of the ostrich with its head in the sand – blind to all about it? Well I picture an Aussie Emu with its head stuck down a coal mine!
I know, I know, I'm banging the same old drum. But jeez, when are Australians going to wake up.
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Louisiana 3-car crash kills 2, hospitalizes 2 others
On Behalf of The Law Offices of Tim L. Fields, LLC | Oct 13, 2014 | Car Accidents |
A three-car accident in Louisiana left two people dead and two others injured on Oct. 5. Police said that charges were pending against one of the drivers involved in the accident.
The accident occurred just after 12 p.m. on Louisiana Highway 107 east of Pineville. A 1995 Nissan Sentra carrying three people was traveling north when the driver, a 68-year-old Pineville woman, slowed down to make a left turn. A 2000 Ford F-250 that was traveling behind the Sentra reportedly failed to decrease speed and rear-ended it. The impact forced the Sentra across the center line and into the southbound lane where another 2000 Ford pickup truck crashed into it.
The Sentra's driver and one of its passengers, a 67-year-old woman, died as a result of the accident. Another passenger in the Sentra, a 68-year-old Pineville man, suffered moderate injuries. An emergency crew transported him to Rapides Regional Trauma Center in Alexandria. The driver of the second Ford pickup truck suffered minor injuries and was also taken to RRTC. The 57-year-old Deville man driving the Ford F-250 suffered no injuries. Police were unsure if the deceased passenger had been wearing her seat belt.
Louisiana State Police Troop E was still investigating the accident at the time of reports. They ordered toxicology tests, which were still pending.
Intoxicated drivers' negligence causes thousands of fatal car accidents each year, leaving families in the difficult position of mourning their lost loved ones while they struggle with burial costs and other expenses resulting from a death in the family. Personal injury attorneys are sometimes able to give victims' families advice on filing wrongful death suits, which may provide some monetary relief.
Source: TheTownTalk, "2 women killed in wreck near Pineville", October 05, 2014


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Speculative Enterprise
London Stage Database
My book project, titled Speculative Enterprise: Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688-1763, is forthcoming in 2021 from the University of Virginia Press. This project grows out of my dissertation, which was awarded a Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2015. Additional archival research was supported by a 2017 grant from the Center for Women and Gender at Utah State University.
Speculative Enterprise contends that the conceptual nexus of theater and finance was vital to early modern economic and political thought, and that it became a critical site for theorizations of London's emergent publics at the turn of the eighteenth century. At a moment when the formal discipline of political economy was in its infancy, the theater and its media landscape provided a discourse zone for understanding complex economic systems—one that stressed risk, contingency, and the potential irrationality of markets rather than quantification and reason. As I find, the features of the theater that mirrored financial markets and alarmed contemporaries were the very features that allowed new kinds of counterpublics to emerge there: its hyper-commercialism, its dependence on a fragile and volatile collective opinion, its accessibility to members of different classes and genders, and its ability to circumvent processes of rational-critical debate in which cultural elites held the advantage. In telling this story, my book combines methods from literary studies, theater and performance history, media theory, and work on print and material culture to provide a fresh understanding of the centrality of theater to public life in eighteenth-century London.


Cooler Master has announced the launch of its MK850 gaming keyboard, the first to include the company's Aimpad analogue sensor technology - which, it claims, offers double the range-sensing compared to its competitors.
Cooler Master's Aimpad technology, which allows keys on a keyboard to sense how far down they're being pressed rather than a simple on-off binary switching, was first seen back in October as part of the crowdfunded ControlPad. Where the ControlPad was an add-on macro pad, though, the company has now brought the same technology to a full-size keyboard in the form of the MK850 - which suffers from a naming collision with Logitech's own MK850.
Those competitors: The Wooting One, which launched on Kickstarter in May 2016, and its successor the Wooting Two.
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Post-performance picture at the Oxford Christmas Lights Festival, 2016.
The Arcadian Singers celebrated their 40th Anniversary this year with a grand reunion concert featuring current members and alumni, and including a performance of Tallis' Spem in Alium.
The selection of posters below give a snapshot into some of the choir's recent successes. Please click to get a closer look at the repertoire we have explored and the venues at which we have performed.


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Salt Lake Bees still searching for First Win
by Tai Justice
The Salt Lake Bees fell to 0-2 on Friday night in the opening weekend of the 2021 season. They lost the second game of a six game set 8-7. The Bees lost despite their bats coming alive yet again.
Friday, May 7, 2021:
They slugged two home runs on the night and scoring seven in total. The game started off with a bang just like it did on Thursday night Jo Adell, the top prospect in the Angels' organization, blasted a home run to left-field which gave the Bees an early 1-0 lead.
The runs came early and often in the crisp Salt Lake City air. Aces infielder Christian Lopes the scoring flurry for the Aces. He knocked one out of the park to deep right-center field to tie the game 1-1 in the top of the third.
At the top of the fourth, the Aces really took over the game. They crushed three home runs in the same inning as Seth Beer, Domingo Leyba and Lopes (his second on the night) all hit home runs. This gave the Aces a 5-1 lead. Fan favorite Josh Reddick sent one over the right field wall in the fifth and trotted around the bases to a scattering of boo birds. However, he still extended the Reno lead to 6.
The Bees started to come alive on offense in the sixth as Kean Wong made it a four-run game off an RBI single. Brennon Lund followed that up with an emphatic run to right-center field. Suddenly it was a 6-5 game in the bottom of the sixth. The Bees continued to be haunted by their pitching and poor defense. The Aces scored two more runs in the top of the seventh.
The Bees made an attempt at a late rally once just like they did on Thursday night. Matt Thaiss hit a RBI single to make the score 8-7. It was still too little too late for the second straight night as they fell to 0-2 on the young season.
Saturday, May 8, 2021:
After dropping the first two of the six game set against the Reno Aces, the Salt Lake Bees were back in action at home on Saturday night. They were searching for that first win of the season.
Early on, it looked like they were going to get it as they jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the third behind a three-run blast from Scott Schebler and a RBI double from Jake Gatewood.
The Bees' pattern continued throughout the series as the Aces matched them in the top half of the fourth. The result came off a grand slam to right field from Juniel Querecutp to tie the game at 4-4. The Aces added an RBI double and RBI triple in the top of the sixth. In the blink of an eye, the Bees' 4-0 lead was gone as they trailed 6-4 heading into the bottom of the sixth. They then had to work to mount a rally again.
Kean Wong continued his hot start to the season with an RBI single to cut the lead in half. That's where the theme continued for the Bees so far this season. They lost by one point again with the score this time ending in 6-5. They have now dropped to 0-3 on the season.
The Bees hand the ball to Jake Faria on Sunday afternoon as they still search for their first win of the season. The Aces are giving the start to Josh Green. First pitch is set for 1:05 at Smith's Ballpark.
The Salt Lake City Bees took the field Sunday afternoon for a Mother's Day matinee against the Reno Aces. The Bees were still searching for their first win of the young season after dropping the first three games of the series. They would leave Sunday's game still searching for that first win.
After two scoreless innings, the Aces plated two runs in the top of the third inning behind a two-RBI single from one of the top prospects in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, Domingo Leyba. That make the score 2-0 after three. The Aces would push the lead to three before Brennon Lund cracked his second home run of the year. This one was a solo blast and it cut the deficit to two for the Bees.
That wasn't going to be enough. The Aces broke game open in the seventh and eighth behind Trayce Thompson (brother of star NBA player Klay Thompson) and Ranae Martinez. They exchanged doubles before the star throughout these four games so far came through again. Leyba slapped a ball down the left field line and just like that it was 7-1 Aces.
It was 8-1 heading into the bottom of the ninth. The Bees would get one more across and the final score was 8-2 Aces. Catcher Francisco Arcia was one of the lone bright spots so far for the Bees on Sunday. He finished the game 3-4 at bat. That included the RBI single in the ninth inning.
The Aces came into Smith's Ballpark and took the first four games of the six game set. The teams are set to face off again tonight at 6:35 PM Mountain Time with Zach Lee on the mound for Reno. The Bees have yet to select a starter for this game.
Featured image courtesy Deseret News
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package org.olat.course.nodes;

import java.util.List;

import org.olat.core.CoreSpringFactory;
import org.olat.core.gui.UserRequest;
import org.olat.core.gui.components.stack.StackedController;
import org.olat.core.gui.control.Controller;
import org.olat.core.gui.control.WindowControl;
import org.olat.core.gui.control.generic.tabbable.TabbableController;
import org.olat.core.id.Identity;
import org.olat.core.id.OLATResourceable;
import org.olat.core.id.Roles;
import org.olat.core.logging.OLog;
import org.olat.core.logging.Tracing;
import org.olat.core.util.Util;
import org.olat.core.util.resource.OresHelper;
import org.olat.course.CourseFactory;
import org.olat.course.CourseModule;
import org.olat.course.ICourse;
import org.olat.course.condition.ConditionEditController;
import org.olat.course.editor.CourseEditorEnv;
import org.olat.course.editor.NodeEditController;
import org.olat.course.editor.StatusDescription;
import org.olat.course.groupsandrights.CourseGroupManager;
import org.olat.course.nodes.cp.CPEditController;
import org.olat.course.nodes.openmeetings.OpenMeetingsEditController;
import org.olat.course.nodes.openmeetings.OpenMeetingsPeekViewController;
import org.olat.course.run.navigation.NodeRunConstructionResult;
import org.olat.course.run.userview.NodeEvaluation;
import org.olat.course.run.userview.UserCourseEnvironment;
import org.olat.group.BusinessGroupService;
import org.olat.group.model.SearchBusinessGroupParams;
import org.olat.modules.openmeetings.manager.OpenMeetingsException;
import org.olat.modules.openmeetings.manager.OpenMeetingsManager;
import org.olat.modules.openmeetings.ui.OpenMeetingsRoomEditController;
import org.olat.modules.openmeetings.ui.OpenMeetingsRunController;
import org.olat.repository.RepositoryEntry;
import org.olat.repository.RepositoryManager;

/**
 *
 * Initial date: 06.11.2012<br>
 * @author srosse, stephane.rosse@frentix.com, http://www.frentix.com
 */
public class OpenMeetingsCourseNode extends AbstractAccessableCourseNode {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 8680935159748506305L;
	private static final OLog log = Tracing.createLoggerFor(OpenMeetingsCourseNode.class);

	private static final String TYPE = "openmeetings";

	// configuration
	public static final String CONF_VC_CONFIGURATION = "vc_configuration";

	private transient CourseGroupManager groupMgr;

	public OpenMeetingsCourseNode() {
		super(TYPE);
	}

	@Override
	public void updateModuleConfigDefaults(boolean isNewNode) {
		// no update to default config necessary
	}

	@Override
	protected String getDefaultTitleOption() {
		// default is to only display content because the room has its own room title
		return CourseNode.DISPLAY_OPTS_CONTENT;
	}

	@Override
	public TabbableController createEditController(UserRequest ureq, WindowControl wControl, StackedController stackPanel, ICourse course,
			UserCourseEnvironment userCourseEnv) {
		updateModuleConfigDefaults(false);
		CourseNode chosenNode = course.getEditorTreeModel().getCourseNode(userCourseEnv.getCourseEditorEnv().getCurrentCourseNodeId());
		// create edit controller
		OpenMeetingsEditController childTabCntrllr = new OpenMeetingsEditController(ureq, wControl, this, course, userCourseEnv);

		NodeEditController nodeEditCtr = new NodeEditController(ureq, wControl, course.getEditorTreeModel(), course, chosenNode,
				course.getCourseEnvironment().getCourseGroupManager(), userCourseEnv, childTabCntrllr);
		nodeEditCtr.addControllerListener(childTabCntrllr);
		return nodeEditCtr;
	}

	@Override
	public NodeRunConstructionResult createNodeRunConstructionResult(UserRequest ureq, WindowControl wControl,
			UserCourseEnvironment userCourseEnv, NodeEvaluation ne, String nodecmd) {
		updateModuleConfigDefaults(false);

		Roles roles = ureq.getUserSession().getRoles();

		// check if user is moderator of the virtual classroom
		boolean admin = roles.isOLATAdmin();
		boolean moderator = admin;
		Long resourceId = userCourseEnv.getCourseEnvironment().getCourseResourceableId();

		if (!admin) {
			ICourse course = CourseFactory.loadCourse(resourceId);
			RepositoryManager rm = RepositoryManager.getInstance();
			RepositoryEntry re = rm.lookupRepositoryEntry(course, false);
			if(roles.isInstitutionalResourceManager() || roles.isAuthor()) {
				if (re != null) {
					admin = rm.isOwnerOfRepositoryEntry(ureq.getIdentity(), re)
							|| rm.isInstitutionalRessourceManagerFor(re, ureq.getIdentity());
				}
			}
			moderator = admin
					|| rm.isIdentityInTutorSecurityGroup(ureq.getIdentity(), re.getOlatResource())
					|| isCoach(re, ureq.getIdentity());
		}

		// create run controller
		OLATResourceable ores = OresHelper.createOLATResourceableInstance(CourseModule.class, resourceId);
		Controller runCtr = new OpenMeetingsRunController(ureq, wControl, null, ores, getIdent(), admin, moderator);
		Controller controller = TitledWrapperHelper.getWrapper(ureq, wControl, runCtr, this, "o_openmeetings_icon");
		return new NodeRunConstructionResult(controller);
	}

	private final boolean isCoach(RepositoryEntry re, Identity identity) {
		BusinessGroupService bgs = CoreSpringFactory.getImpl(BusinessGroupService.class);
		SearchBusinessGroupParams params = new SearchBusinessGroupParams(identity, true, false);
		int count = bgs.countBusinessGroups(params, re.getOlatResource());
		return count > 0;
	}

	@Override
	public Controller createPeekViewRunController(UserRequest ureq, WindowControl wControl, UserCourseEnvironment userCourseEnv, NodeEvaluation ne) {
		return new OpenMeetingsPeekViewController(ureq, wControl);
	}

	@Override
	public StatusDescription[] isConfigValid(CourseEditorEnv cev) {
		String translatorStr = Util.getPackageName(ConditionEditController.class);
		if (groupMgr == null) {
			groupMgr = cev.getCourseGroupManager();
		}
		List<StatusDescription> statusDescs = isConfigValidWithTranslator(cev, translatorStr, getConditionExpressions());
		return StatusDescriptionHelper.sort(statusDescs);
	}

	@Override
	public RepositoryEntry getReferencedRepositoryEntry() {
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public StatusDescription isConfigValid() {
		if (oneClickStatusCache != null) { return oneClickStatusCache[0]; }

		StatusDescription sd = StatusDescription.NOERROR;
		if(groupMgr != null) {
			OpenMeetingsManager openMeetingsManager = CoreSpringFactory.getImpl(OpenMeetingsManager.class);
			Long roomId = openMeetingsManager.getRoomId(null, groupMgr.getCourseResource(), getIdent());
			if(roomId == null) {
				String shortKey = "error.noroom.short";
				String longKey = "error.noroom.long";
				String[] params = new String[] { getShortTitle() };
				String translPackage = Util.getPackageName(OpenMeetingsRoomEditController.class);
				sd = new StatusDescription(StatusDescription.ERROR, shortKey, longKey, params, translPackage);
				sd.setDescriptionForUnit(getIdent());
				// set which pane is affected by error
				sd.setActivateableViewIdentifier(CPEditController.PANE_TAB_CPCONFIG);
			}
		}
		return sd;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean needsReferenceToARepositoryEntry() {
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public void cleanupOnDelete(ICourse course) {
		// load configuration
		OpenMeetingsManager provider = CoreSpringFactory.getImpl(OpenMeetingsManager.class);
		// remove meeting
		OLATResourceable ores = OresHelper.createOLATResourceableInstance(course.getResourceableTypeName(), course.getResourceableId());
		try {
			provider.deleteAll(null, ores, getIdent());
		} catch (OpenMeetingsException e) {
			log.error("A room could not be deleted for course node: " + getIdent() + " of course:" + course, e);
		}
	}
}


FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) Falcons center Mike Person, who left Sunday's win over Washington with a sprained ankle, is expected to miss Thursday night's game at New Orleans.
Falcons coach Dan Quinn says "it'd be tough" for Person to return from the injury in a short practice week.
James Stone, who took over at center against Washington, is expected to start against the Saints. Gino Gradkowski will be Stone's backup.
Person, Durant and Jones did not participate in Monday's practice.


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Dad Spends Over A Year Making This Magical Reading Tree For His Daughter's Bedroom
DIY by Michelle Hambiliki
When I was a kid, my bedroom was decorated to the bare minimum. I had pale pink walls, a plain black desk that I rarely used, a wardrobe and a few other bedroom essentials. It was livable, yes, but very run-of-the-mill.
Considering how big a Disney fan I was, I would have loved it if my room had an air of magic and wonderment to it. Sort of like this breathtakingly striking bedroom a father made for his little girl.
Credit: Imgur / radamshome
It was back in 2016, that a father built his daughter a "magical reading tree" for her bedroom. She had dreamed of having her very own tree to climb, sit on and most importantly to read inside, and her father made those dreams come true - as any true fairy godmother would do.
The doting dad - who works as an artist in the video game industry - posted the enchanting snaps on his Reddit page, under the handle radamshome.
This is what his daughter's bedroom looked like before the spellbinding refurbishment:
Credit: Reddit / radamshome
"My daughter wanted a fairy tree in her room that she could sit inside and read books," he explained on the social news site. "I was kind of unprepared for the physical realities of this project."
Nevertheless, after a painstaking amount effort, spanning 18 and a half months, radamshome managed to build the entire thing entirely on his own.
The ambitious father started by sketching out a Disney-inspired design:
He then made a mini model of what he hoped the finished product would actually look like:
After a great deal of planning and measuring, radamshome made a steel rod skeleton for the tree.
So dedicated was the creative dad that he had taken welding classes to ensure the skeleton was as best it could be. It also had to be strong enough to climb.
The next stage of the project included covering the skeleton in water, cement and polymer fluid.
Radamshome then painted the tree. He had painted miniatures in his youth, and so used the skills he had acquired back then to paint the tree. The addition of tiny, glowing windows is a testament to his attention to detail.
And for a little bit of authenticity (it may be "magical" but it's still a tree) radamshome included a birds' nest and butterflies:
He also added cute, little lights to the branches:
Needless to say, radamshome's daughter was very happy with her new bedroom. Hopefully, she will still appreciate all that effort years down the line when she's a teenager.


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Fashion x Cosplay
2017, Blog, Cosplay, Cosplay x Fashion 2017, Fashion x Cosplay, GAAM Show	cosplay, gaam
Special Guest & 2017 GAAM Cosplay x Fashion Cast Member: Ms Valentine
Special Guest & 2017 GAAM Cosplay x Fashion Cast Member: Blythe Brumleve aka Guys Girl
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Special Guest & 2017 GAAM Cosplay x Fashion Cast Member: Ashley Hovatter
Special Guest & 2017 GAAM Cosplay x Fashion Cast Member: AWS Craft
2017 GAAM Cosplay Cast Member – Fluffy Butt Arts
We've known Fluffy Butt Arts for a while now, and she never disappoints us. When she was given the task of recreating Windwaker Link for the 2017 GAAM Cosplay shoot, she delivered hard! Not only did she show up in cosplay…but the painting to herself to recreate the look of the game…and the props (which you'll see at GAAM), were simply outstanding!
You'll see a bunch of other posts about Brit, mostly because she refuses to spend a moment NOT creating, and is involved now in the Invitational Charity Art Auction, she's a GAAM Fabricator, and she'll probably get involved in something else before the show starts up on Aug 12.
Lastly, here's what Brit had to say about GAAM. It's very sincere.
"GAAM is good
GAAM is great
Let us thank him for this food
Amen indeed, Brit. Amen indeed.
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GAAM Fashion X Cosplay Super Model – Panzer Cosplay
Jayson "Panzer" sizzled like a slab of bacon onto the cosplay scene back in 2008 but he didn't snap, crackle, and pop into his own until 2012 when his MCU Loki cosplay was debuted. It proved such a colossal success as that it led to his continued vested interest in the hobby as he thrives best amongst his creative peers.
When he isn't cosplaying, Panzer can be found sitting by a roaring fire with a bubble pipe and some fine Russian Romantic literature to keep his mind active. That is assuming of course that he isn't busy liberating thousands of zealous aliens intent on annihilating all life in the universe through the activation of halo arrays from their mortal coils.
The interest Panzer holds in GAAM started out innocent enough. Lystrade convinced him to participate alongside her with the promise of free beer. What he learned along the way, however was that GAAM was much more than the glorious promise of free beverage; it was a celebration of all the things that make the gaming community great. From indie games to artists, music, and cosplay, GAAM respects the lot of em without favoritism which has led to Panzer's love and loyalty to the organization.
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/PanzerCosplay
Instagram –http://www.instagram.com/panzer_cos
GAAM Fashion X Cosplay Model – Alexander Salas
Hello! I am Alexander. A carpenter, fan-boy of the late 80's to 90's games, mediocre cinephile, and collector of ties.
GAAM. GAAM is what gives Jacksonville a chance to be something other than the city you avoid on your way to your true destination. It's the gathering place for people who love the escape of gamming, the culture of art, and the heart of music.
To be part of this GAAM world is basically like feeding the poor, but the poor are people hungry for popular culture. I've met so many people who share my interest, and have had conversations about crafting that I don't find the opportunity to have anywhere else nearby.
GAAM is where you go to enjoy the best side of Jacksonville. It's the side that's too easy to miss. Hope I'm not too cheesy, but people love the hell out of cheese.
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/AWS-Craft/593695363986021?ref=hl
Twitter – https://twitter.com/greenaws
Instagram –https://instagram.com/greenaws/
Deviant – http://greenaws.deviantart.com/
GAAM Fashion X Cosplay Super Model – Joyce "Lystrade" Kay
It can easily be said that gaming runs in Joyce Roberson's blood, since opening up that Super Nintendo Entertainment System one Christmas morning, to the many years of arguing who would be Mario and who would be Luigi that followed. Spending the majority of her free time as a child playing games with her siblings (both of which took different paths to being competitive gamers, one in League of Legends, the other in DOTA), Joyce began exploring the different worlds of MMORPGs and RTS games. When she isn't masterminding strategies to conquer her foes in the latest RTS, she is riding across Hyrule, Skyrim, or some other distant land to get her fix of adventure.
This love of games has led to her adoption of cosplay as a hobby, where she can represent her fandom in new and exciting ways. Cosplaying for over 10 years, Joyce self-taught herself to sew, apply stylized make-up, draft patterns, style wigs, and even create intricate pieces of armor.
Cosplay led Joyce to team up with GAAM for their cosplay photo-shoots, starting at the Legend of GAAM (Zelda-themed) shoot (both as a character and fashion-themed model) and continuing at the GAAM-Fantasy shoot (Final Fantasy-themed) as a character.
"What I love about GAAM is the community. Everyone I've met has been incredibly friendly and passionate about the work they put into GAAM and any hobby or goal they dive into. Friendship!"
GAAM Fashion X Cosplay Model – Ted Ohrt
I am a huge fanboy. I love fantasy, sci-fi, comics, and so on. I have always enjoyed costumes. I have been a hobbyist costumer since making a Superman costume on my own in 1998. Originally the costuming I did was for Halloween and then for local, themed events. I began attending Con's in costume with The Three Muses at MegaCon in 2012. Since then I have learned a great deal about the art of building, buying, and wearing costumes. My costumes include a wide range of genres: comics, Sci-Fi, fantasy, horror, anime, steampunk, and even cartoons. I have expanded my skills to include crafting costumes for others and even building props and fabricating costume pieces out of Worbla and EVA Foam. I have had the opportunity to be a panelist at WasabiCon and to be panelist and a 'Guest Judge' for a costume contest at ConJure 2014.
GAAM represents an interesting venue for the Jacksonville scene. It's not a traditional convention, since it has a smaller focus, but it isn't closed minded about the attendees. I like that there is an overarching theme, so that even if it is something I am not familiar with I can learn about it and still participate. GAAM not only encourages local artists and talents, it bolsters them. I have been to all four GAAMs and even participated behind the scenes for one. I have enjoyed each of them and look forward to their continued growth and expansion.
You can find out more about Ted on his facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/ironmanjax


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Texas Bans Commercial Wild Turtle Trapping
Texas is the latest in a growing list of states — including Missouri, New York and Iowa — that have ended unlimited turtle collection.
Big news out of a big state: The Center for Biological Diversity and allies have just won a lifesaving victory for Texas turtles. After 98 percent of public comments urged the state to outlaw commercial freshwater-turtle trapping, the Parks and Wildlife Commission voted unanimously to ban that harvest. The decision follows a petition filed by the Center and our partners in Texas.
"I'm so grateful Texas has adopted these badly needed protections for its native turtles," said the Center's Jenny Loda. "This is a big victory for the health of the state's wildlife and waterways."
Scientists have documented that freshwater turtles can't sustain any significant level of wild collection without dangerous population declines. Texas is the latest in a growing list of states — including Missouri, New York and Iowa — that have ended unlimited turtle collection.


Route 1 shows you the most beautiful flower fields within 5 kilometers around Keukenhof. This route is perfect for when you do not have too much time and still want to see the most beautiful fields.
Route 2 leads you along the most beautiful flower fields within 15 kilometers around Keukenhof. It is a beautiful trip for those along wide fields. Enough nice spots to enjoy the flowers for a while.
Route 3 is the most extensive route that leads you not only along the flower fields, but also brings you the sea and the dunes. This route gives you the ultimate bulb region experience. Discover the beach and the dunes by bike and you might even spot one of the many deers.
Route 4 is an alternative route if you would like to see the other side of the bulb region. With this route you cycle along the flower fields on the southern side of Keukenhof. Definitely worth it!
When 25 kilometers is not enough and you want to enjoy more of the beautiful colors and great smell of flowers that the region has to offer, try these great cycling routes of 32km, 39km, or 42km.


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Judicial estoppel precluded debtor from pursuing (on behalf of the United States) False Claims Act retaliatory claims against the Tangipahoa Parish School Board, even though the action arose after...
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This lesson is for advanced students who would like to improve their English through reading/watching the news.
I will send you an article from BBC's online newspaper before our lesson. Please read it over and make notes of any difficult vocabulary or grammar. Then, on the day of the lesson, we will read the article together and go over any problem areas. Lastly, we will finish with a discussion of the text.
I will send you short clips one by one from BBC's Youtube page. (Note: I will NOT send them beforehand. But rather when we have the lesson.) I will have you watch the short news clip once or twice. Then, you will summarize the clip for me and answer some questions. Lastly, we will go over vocabulary and discuss the content of the news clip.
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Learn with colourful and fun photos!
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Break out of your English shell and learn some phrasal verbs!
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Browsing: Cavalry FC
Cavalry FC signings – Calgary's Canadian Premier League soccer club building roster for inaugural season
Updated March 13, 2019 – Cavalry FC, Calgary's new professional soccer team, has started signing players…
Cavalry FC releases membership ticket pricing and stadium layout
Cavalry FC has announced its season ticket levels and pricing and presented the design of…
Cavalry FC president provides stadium and ticketing update, hints at ticket pricing
Ian Allison, Cavalry FC president, and Tommy Wheeldon Jr., Cavalry FC head coach and general…
Cavalry FC coach discusses Canadian Premier League trials and how to build a pro soccer team
More than 220 soccer players hoping for a professional career participated in the Canadian Premier…
Cavalry FC makes changes to roster to face FC Edmonton in Al Classico 2nd leg
Cavalry FC has announced the roster of players to face FC Edmonton in Saturday's second-leg…
Cavalry FC and FC Edmonton play first match at Spruce Meadows, draw 2-2 in Al Classico
Cavalry FC 2 Pasquotti (35), Own goal (-) FC Edmonton 2 Khabra…
Cavalry FC announces prospects roster to face FC Edmonton in 'Al Classico'
Cavalry FC has released a roster of players to face FC Edmonton in Saturday's prospects…
Cavalry FC presents new pitch, club president gives update
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Calgary Foothills FC won the Premier Development League (PDL) championship with a 4-2 victory over…
Calgary Foothills FC beat Chicago FC United, advance to PDL championship final
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CPL table – Fall season
x-Cavalry FC 2 2 0 0 4 2 6
Forge FC 2 1 0 1 4 4 3
FC Edmonton 2 1 0 1 3 3 3
York9 FC 2 1 0 1 2 2 3
HFX Wanderers 2 1 0 1 1 1 3
Valour FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pacific FC 2 0 0 2 4 6 0
x-Cavalry won spring season, qualifies for CPL Championship to be played after fall season
Spring season ran from April 27, 2019 to July 1, 2019. Fall season runs from July 6, 2019 to Oct 19, 2019.