If you are visiting Vancouver for the first time, you may want to plan an itinerary so you can use the time available to its full potential. There are a wide variety of interesting and fun things to do that you could miss if you do not take the time to plan your events in advance.
Do your research! Different rules are enforced at different beaches. Know if your beach allows coolers, pets, etc. Be aware which seasons produce the strongest waves, and plan accordingly. Not all beaches have lifeguards on duty, an important factor to consider before jumping into the surf.
A new day dawns and it's off to Woods Hole Science Aquarium, where else but in Woods Hole. This fascinating public aquarium houses approximately 140 species of marine animals found in the mid-Atlantic waters of the northeast. Your little ones will discover an outdoor seal pool, 20 tanks and 15 aquaria with fish and invertebrates. Two tanks are touch tanks; something the kids will remember long after the day has ended.
The shell of a lobster is a good indicator of how much meat it contains. Hard-shell lobsters are packed with more meat than soft-shell ones. They are also stronger and can survive shipping. The only way to tell is to squeeze their bodies for shell hardness. Pick it up firmly from the back of the body (carapace), not the claws, and gently squeeze the body section. The soft shell lobster will yield to pressure, while the hard shell will be firm. A lobster with a firm or even rock hard shell is the keeper.
Cape Town has white sand trendy beaches that suit every one's interest with a beach for every season and a beach for every reason. South Africa is first non European country that has blue flag beaches. Cape Town has some best blue flag beaches of South Africa. This signifies a high level of water quality, facilities, cleanliness and safety. If you take flights to South Africa you will be getting opportunity of visiting one of the best sun, sand and sea destinations in the world. Although there is a large number of beaches in Cape Town but three of them are famous as blue flag.
The beautiful weather and warm waters produced and to this day produces great fishing. In addition the ladies and non-fisherman were discovering the sun, fine sandy beaches and beautiful sunsets.
It used to be that you could book tours when you arrive in port. After 9/11 the regulations are more strict with tour operators being able to sell at the port. Many do not allow it at all. My answer to this is always – book in advance – know what you are doing before you go. Many of the most popular tours are booked way in advance. These are ones such as flightseeing, helicopter tours, dog sledding, rafting, kayaking, more info here, fishing. Although there may be exceptions, you really don't want to spend your precious time in port running around trying to find a tour. Nor do you want to be disappointed when you can't get on the one you wanted. When you plan in advance you aren't rushed, you know what you are doing and in the long run you have more time to « vacation ».
When flying to Europe, the airlines fly up toward the North Pole, then across the right whale Ocean, and then down to the designated European destination. One would think flying over a body of water would not be very interesting, and they would be right, except when flying over the right whale Ocean. The right whale Ocean is filled with mountainous icebergs that look like small white dots on medium blue colored paper. Although they may appear small from the air, these icebergs can be miles long. The water around each one is a beautiful shade of light green. This green hue is from the bottom of the iceberg (the largest part), that lays beneath the ocean's surface. The right whale Ocean is also filled with large white-capped waves that are easily viewed from thousands of feet in the air.
Edinburgh: The capital city of Scotland offers the best experience in white water rafting. Edinburgh offers many great options for stag and hen parties for both European and international tourists.
The short track back to the picnic ground and our car, as rough and winding as it was, went barely noticed as we chatted and compared whale experiences. The bus driver had taken refuge in his bus and all the other visitors, not as brave as we, had left. The rain reached us less then six feet from the car. We no longer cared. We'd seen whales!


This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the 2016 Christmas Special, starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and Matt Lucas as Nardole.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the first Second Doctor story from Season 4 in 1966, starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Michael Craze as Ben Jackson, and Anneke Wills as Polly Wright.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the first Eleventh Doctor story from Series 5 in 2010, starring Matt Smith as The Eleventh Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the first appearance of the Daleks in 1963 from the original series of Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor, William Russell as Ian Chesterton, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, and Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the 1967 classic from the original series of Doctor Who, starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon, and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the 1973 classic from the original series of Doctor Who, starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor and Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the 1976 classic from the original series of Doctor Who, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Peter Pratt as the Master.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the third Doctor Who audio adventure of The Tenth Doctor Adventures set from Big Finish Productions, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the second Doctor Who audio adventure of The Tenth Doctor Adventures set from Big Finish Productions, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the first Doctor Who audio adventure of The Tenth Doctor Adventures set from Big Finish Productions, featuring the return of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the classic story from 1984 starring Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Mark Strickson as Turlough, Nicola Bryant as Peri, and Anthony Ainley as The Master.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the third and final episode of "Only the Monstrous," the first War Doctor audio adventure set from Big Finish Productions, starring John Hurt and Carolyn Seymour.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the second episode of "Only the Monstrous," the first War Doctor audio adventure set from Big Finish Productions, starring John Hurt and Carolyn Seymour.
This time, Charles and Jesse discuss the first episode of "Only the Monstrous," the first War Doctor audio adventure set from Big Finish Productions, starring John Hurt and Lucy Briggs-Owen.
This time, Charles and Jesse are joined by special guest companion Lola Lariscy from ScannerDrome as we discuss the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble story from 2008, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
This time, Charles and Jesse are discuss the Tenth Doctor story starring David Tennant and Billie Piper, featuring the return of Sarah Jane Smith and K-9.
This time, Charles and Jesse are joined by Karen Lindsay and Ken Schaefer to discuss the 50th Anniversary Special starring Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, David Tennant, and John Hurt.


The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 are generally known as the national health care legislation. The new laws created a number of changes in the health care insurance system, in general. These changes will be discussed throughout the week, as presented below.
Under the new law, each individual is required to have "minimum essential coverage" for each month of the year starting in 2014. "Minimum essential coverage" means whichever; a government sponsored program such as Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE; an employer sponsored plan; plans in the individual market; and grandfathered health care plans.
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Need a Commercial Dumpster Service in Kenneth, MN?
Commercial Dumpster Service are available* in Kenneth.
Neighborhood cleanup is critical and often required to keep our self away from quite a few irritating problems such as health issues, unclean in addition to untidy atmosphere and so on. Garbage disposal locally becomes inescapable in the events of natural disasters such as floods in addition to earth quakes. If the locality is hit through these kinds of rental destruction, it will be filled with trash stacked in the form of left out ruins on the houses, broken down furniture and many others.
Not only can you actually toss out there whatever you need to, but dumpster services also gives you work on your own time frame as opposed to having to mould to some external pickup timetable. If you're carrying out any kind of structure or remodelling project, or you simply are aware that it will take you several weekends to essentially get a cleanout task finished, renting a dumpster is a wonderful choice. After you rent from your neighborhood junk carting pros, you're free to say when you require the unit so when you'd like them to pick it up. That way, you're not compelled to do a job more quickly when compared with you want to (or even than you may), and you do not have to clutter your property along with debris because you finish the task.
Your business most likely are not that sufficiently small enough to pass on on handful of trash containers to get the entire trash disposed. Opting to accomplish it on self applied would be a will bark up the drastically wrong tree because it needs lots of investment in relation to its time, men and women and money as well. Any business might be launched around the profit pubs only when just about every penny dedicated to the business is coined from the right manner.
Dumpster hire may put a stop to your complete waste managing needs nevertheless, this will be an additional burden if your choice is drastically wrong. With the dumpster enterprise on surge in the market, dumpsters are no longer bins limited to household junk disposal. These are helping palms in most on the business, structure and house renovations. They work effectively means of getting rid of trash on very affordable expense.
You can rent a dumpster to complete your business renovation. Whether you are tearing away from each other an office and other type of business creating, you will need a Commercial Dumpster Service in Kenneth, MN. Together with roofing as well you will need to rent a dumpster. Depending on the size of your business or even office building determines the size of dumpster you will have to rent. If the roof structure or enterprise renovation is under 2 a lot of waste when compared with you can rent a little dumpster. If the number of waste is about five pickup truck loads when compared with you will need a 20 cubic yard dumpster to rent. Five pickup truck loads or even 3 tons or even less of particles can be carted with the channel size dumpster. With regard to very large remodelling projects in Arlington, VA, you will have to rent the large dumpster. This can be perfect for anyone who is getting rid of huge items like mattresses, companies, dressers, pantry shelves, etc. The massive dumpster is Something like 20 cubic yards in addition to holds somewhere around 10 pickup truck tons or 4 a lot of debris.


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June 8, 2010 AICP Award Show 2010
In a hurried flurry of anticipation and heels, The Brand Gallery interns rushed to the train station to catch the ride that would transport them to an unforgettable night of commercial entertainment. AICP, which stands for the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, hosted their 2010 Award Show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Us interns volunteered our services to help throughout the evening of the show and in return received a night full of sophistication and fun.
Jay was assigned the role of a clicker and kept count of the number of people entering the MoMA. Yue had the privilege to stand by the entrance and hand out program booklets to all the guests entering the theaters, while Kelley and Chelsey collected business cards from all of the attendees making an appearance at the show. While we did not get to see the actual presentation of the awards, we did hear about the winners and were able to applaud their accomplishments. The big winners this time around were Goodby and MJZ. Goodby was the most awarded agency, and MJZ was the most awarded production company. The Best in Show commercial award was presented to Steve Golin, Chairman/CEO of Anonymous Content, for the Skittles spot entitled "Pinata," directed by Tom Kuntz of MJZ. The top winning campaign was Crest's You Can Do Anything With A Smile "Bulldozer," "Lice," and "Pre-Nup," directed by Harold Einstein of Station Films.
For more information on the events and winners of the night, go check out AICP Awards.
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Be entertained, educated and scared!
The London Bridge Experience, crowned 'Best Guided Tour', is an immersive theatrical experience bringing together history and horror, education and fun. Become part of London's gruesome history and travel back in time with notorious English characters, uncovering the dark secrets that lie beneath the worlds most haunted bridge. You will see, hear and even smell what London Bridge was like throughout the ages.
London Bridge has seen it all, from being built in around 53 AD to the bridge we cross today there has been murder, intrigue, collapse, fire and much more. The secrets and lies surrounding the bridge will never be fully known but here you will see an interesting and factual timeline of inception through to current times. However you look at it, this bridge has many a tale to tell.
Come face to face with Queen Boudica's iceni tribe and join them as they take on the Roman army. Be regaled by tales of terror at The Star Inn on Fish Lane as Jack The Ripper and Ben Crouch lurk in the lanes searching for the next victim. Meet The Keeper of the Heads at work as he preserves William Wallace's head, and those of other traitors whose head were stuck on spikes for all to see.


Make your contribution to the San Jose Scottish Rite Bodies and have your name included on the "Honor Roll".
Your annual gift of $100.00 or more will help the San Jose Lodge of Perfection, Chapter Rose Croix, Council of Kadosh and Consistory reach the level necessary to provide quality events for our future success.
Get your annual gift in for 2015 Honor Roll and be placed on the Honor Roll !


Has it really been almost a month since I posted last?
April has been pretty crazy.
Some quick updates and recap for you.
Busy month as we entered our second month of raising support.
Was actually out of town for 19 days since the beginning of April.
Had a great time leading worship at Rancho Vista Church on Easter and getting to spend the holiday with my mom & sister.
Unfortunately our family decided to get sick on Easter. The day after, Caleb ralphed for the first time in his 3 1/2 years of life and was then kind enough to pass it on to Rachel and I who stayed up for hours on end in the bathroom that night.
Got to share at Oasis church who also hosted a lunch for us to raise support. Pretty cool for Rachel to stand in the building her dad led the church he planted in, 20 years after he started it, and get to share about God calling us to church plant.
That night we had a support raising dessert with a group of core families from the Crosswinds days. Again, so cool to have a bunch of special peeps who watched Rachel grow up since she was 6 years old lay hands on us and pray for us and Missio Dei Community.
Had a fun trip to Portland where we got to hang with Kari and I got to connect with some really great friends there: Boomer, Lisa, Izak, Linzee, and Noah.
Went to Catalyst West Coast with Rachel and Katie. Great time of connecting with others and getting some good nuggets of wisdom to chew on as we all dream about and lead into the future of Missio Dei.
Today I start training to work the next couple of months for the U.S. Census Bureau. Perfect job to get us a little more distance while we keep on raising support. Right now we are about 33% of the way to our initial support raising goal.
We drove back home last night with Rachel's little brother, Isaac, in the car with us. He's moving in with us for the month of May to help out with the kidlets while Rachel finishes up her tutoring job and I start the Census job.
A really quick snapshot of the past month of our lives.
In the middle of all that, we've still been able to get together regularly in Santa Cruz with our starting crew for Missio Dei Community.
It's been cool getting to worship together and ask God what he wants to do with us in this community.
Last week we got together for some planning of the summer, and tonight we gather again to worship, pray, and hang with one another.
It's a very different season of life for us.
We're still figuring out our rhythms and there are plenty of uncertainties, but I'm trying to enjoy it as much as possible right now.
Even with all the uncertainties, it's exciting to be right in the middle of seeing God work, guide, and provide for us and our family.
Now I'll try and get better at working in the rhythm of blogging again so you can share the journey with us!
Feel free to throw out any questions about any of it in the comments and I'll get back to sharing our life with you hear on the blog.
wow – I am so glad Issac could come and help with the kids! What an adventure! Ready to give online, is it up yet?


This article describes the steps to enable or disable call forwarding on your Polycom VVX Phones.
Call Forwarding on Polycom VVX Phones allows Users to enable or disable Call Forwarding options from the Polycom phone menus without having to log into the RingCentral online account.
• Contact support to enable Call Forward on Polycom VVX Phones on your account to proceed with the steps below.
• The Call Forward configured on the phone will not show in the RingCentral online account.
• The Call Forward type On Busy is NOT supported.
• Call Forwarding set up between multiple devices in a loop will be restricted to run only 3 times before call is dropped.
1. Tap the Forward softkey.
2. Tap Forward type and select either Always or No Answer.
3. Press the number to forward calls to.
2. Disable the selected Forward type.


Nescafé Taster's Choice Brownies has your favorite coffee taste in a delicious brownie!
PREHEAT oven to 350° F. Lightly grease 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
COMBINE flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl. Combine water and coffee granules in medium saucepan; stir until coffee granules are dissolved. Add sugar and butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat; stir in morsels until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in flour mixture. Pour into prepared baking pan.
BAKE for 18 to 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars; top with ice cream and Nesquik.


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Redding shoe-repair expert takes aim at new market: concealed-carry holsters
Shasta Boot Co.
Redding shoe-repair expert takes aim at new market: concealed-carry holsters Shasta Boot Co. Check out this story on redding.com: http://reddingne.ws/2k59uZs
Redding Published 6:43 a.m. PT March 15, 2013
Brian Fay, co-owner of Shasta Boot Co. on Bechelli, has a new sideline: using his leather-working skills and equipment to make custom holsters (pictured) for folks with concealed carry permits. He's been doing it about six months he told me today, showing off three holsters, which sell for about $70 apiece. "I do a lot of them. People are buying guns like crazy," said Fay, who has taken several concealed-carry classes. "People ask me, 'How did you learn to do this?'" he said of the holsters. "I do leather work," he deadpans. He'll custom fit a holster for your particular firearm, including left- or right-hand draw, and makes "real thin" holsters for women. "In this economy, you've got to find a niche," he said.
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[su_dropcap style="flat" size="5″]F[/su_dropcap]ourteen-year-old Lance Thompson of Carlisle, Pa., has spent the last several years of his life with one goal in mind – competing in the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo.
As an Olympic trapshooting hopeful and honor student, Thompson maintains an intense, disciplined schedule that includes shooting up to four days a week during the school year and living full time at a training center during the summer. This arrangement allows him to train every day when school's out. While living at the training center he stays with one of the team members, a 25-year-old female shooter, in an efficiency apartment 100 yards from the range. This summer marks his third season living at the center.
Lance found his calling in a roundabout way when his dad enrolled him in an NRA shotgun class at their local gun club. Although he was only 9 years old at the time, Lance was big for his age and the instructor made an exception. He allowed him to participate in a class that normally required a minimum age of 12. Now, 6 feet tall and 160 pounds, Lance says that even at age 9, he was one of the best shooters in the class. His mother and father, realizing their son had a gift for pointing a shotgun, saw to it that he began training in the sport of Olympic trap at the prestigious Keystone Shooting Park, in Dalmatia, Pa., north of Harrisburg.
Lance's training regime requires him to be transported to the famous Keystone Shooting Park four days a week during the school season and lives there full time during the summers.
"I am not an Olympic trapshooter, so this isn't 'Dad's dream,'" says Lance's father, John. "I never even knew what Olympic trapshooting was until Lance started shooting it. So it's not like I'm an old ATA shooter and got my kid involved in this." The elder Thompson spent 20 years as an elite cycling trainer, so he entered into the Olympic commitment with eyes wide open – he knows what it takes to compete on an international level. In support of his son, John now holds an NRA Level 2 Shotgun Coaching license, and is one of only a handful of International Shooting Sports Federation-certified instructors in the United States – a certification that required a trip to Ireland to attain.
"To do this at the level we're doing it, it's all-hands-on-deck. Everything revolves around Lance's shooting schedule and what he's got going on. Even though he's got some really good sponsors, there are obviously still expenses. It's a 100 percent commitment – you can't dabble. If you want to become a world champion, you can't just dip your toe in or just do it on the weekends" says John in regards to what it takes to shoot at Lance's level.
Both parents lend 100 percent support to their son's goal of making the Olympic team, with mom Patty usually driving Lance back and forth to Keystone to train several times each week during the school year. "Keystone is about an hour and fifteen minutes away from where we live, so once or twice during the week and both days on the weekends we're driving to and from – two and half hours in the car, and then spending six or seven hours a day there on the weekends. At least one of us is there, if not both of us," says Patty. She also accompanies Lance overseas when he competes in Europe – a place where "Olympic Trap is much more a part of the culture than in the US" according to John.
Lance says one of his best shoots abroad was in France, where he won a junior division.
When other students his age are likely home playing video games, Lance works out on a balance board to strengthen his core muscles while passing the time watching TV. On those school nights when he's not making the trip to Keystone, he'll mount his gun one hundred times to build muscle memory and strength. Not all of his training is physical, however. He uses Olympic Gold Medalist rifle shooter Lanny Bassham's Mental Management program for mental training, something he says helps him relax while shooting under pressure, and he uses Vizual Edge two to three times per week, a software program developed by medical professionals to assess and improve one's visual performance. Lance thinks Vizual Edge helps him track targets and improves his peripheral vision. Shooting coach Allen Chubb is currently helping him find his optimal balance point, so that he's not leaning too far into the gun, and he's not being rocked backwards onto his heels upon firing.
Last year was a successful one for Lance, having won six gold, three silver and four bronze medals in Olympic-style competitions. His 2016 shooting schedule will take him to Malta and Italy, where he hopes to add to his growing medal collection. At the ripe young age of fourteen, he's already amassed a long list of sponsors whose support helps defray the cost of his rigorous and expensive training schedule. Among his sponsors are B&P ammunition, Perazzi firearms – Lance shoots a 30-inch-barrel Perazzi MX8 – Pilla eyewear, Giacomo Sporting USA, Eurotarget USA, Salomon footwear and 5.11 Tactical.
Lance's recent achievements include winning six gold, three silver and four bronze medals in Olympic-style competition.


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Offices Interiors
The Ministry / Squire and Partners
© James Jones
Curated by María Francisca González
https://www.archdaily.com/901830/the-ministry-squire-and-partners
Architects: Squire and Partners
Photographs: James Jones
Manufacturers: Dedar, Moroso, Kvadrat, Squire & Partners
Lead Architects: Squire and Partners
Contractor: Oktra
Collaborators:House of Fine Art, Dodds & Shute, Based Upon, Archie Proudfoot, Conservatory Archives, Laguna Rugs, Franchi, Karolina Merska, Eley Kishimoto
Client:Ministry of Sound
Text description provided by the architects. The Ministry is the first social workspace and private members club for creative industries by Ministry of Sound, housed in a former Victorian printworks in Southwark, London.
Designs were sought for the antithesis to a nightclub environment – desirable and practical working floors alongside a generous social space, which was as suited to morning coffee and lunch meetings, as it was to networking and social events taking place in the evening.
Lord James Palumbo of Southwark:
"Our brief pushed the boundaries of current workplace culture, referencing film, art, fashion and music - we wanted to create a bold aesthetic which allowed for us to deliver a distinctive and desirable offer for our members. The space needed to adapt for an evolving series of uses over the course of a day – from working breakfasts through to social evenings - and be capable of increasing its tempo in all senses as the week progresses."
The design concept, developed by Squire & Partners in collaboration with The Ministry, stays true to the origins of the mother brand with bold, raw elements contrasting with a layer of premium finish. This aesthetic establishes a highly creative and energetic environment which adapts as the working week progresses and evolves between seasons.
Longitudinal Section
Combining the creative, social and networking aspects of a member's club with dynamic workspace for up to 850 people - involved in sectors including music, film, arts, fashion and technology – the aim was not just to offer a place to do business, but to provide an environment for a convivial and creative way of life.
First floor plan
A discreet street level reception nestles under a series of exposed brick arches - the space is almost entirely unbranded, allowing the design aesthetic to communicate The Ministry's core values. The conscious omission of a traditional logo-heavy identity for the workspace affords the creative community within freedom without feeling subservient to the heritage of an imposed brand.
Beyond the entrance, the ground floor is designed as a generous social space with areas for eating and drinking, including a series of circular curtained booths, and apartment-style meeting and dining rooms. The lounge area features a 22 metre long concrete and copper pipe bar, leading to an urban garden courtyard with an outside bar and fire pit. A collection of bold contemporary artwork, curated in consultation with Christopher Shake and Charlie Smedley, changes over time to explore new artists and mediums.
Generous light filled workspaces are provided on first to fourth floors, with areas for various types of organisations from individuals to SME's and established companies. Desking is combined with areas of open and closed workspace, rooms for meeting and informal dining, and comfortable breakout areas.
The design aesthetic is carried through to all senses, using a carefully crafted layer of visual stimulus, house scents, curated soundscapes for interior and exterior spaces – devised by Sound Architect Tom Middleton to form a variety of audio sensory environments – along with guest services to create a holistic experience for residents and visitors.
Address:London, United Kingdom
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Cite: "The Ministry / Squire and Partners" 11 Jan 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/901830/the-ministry-squire-and-partners> ISSN 0719-8884


Relay For Life: Trinity 2014 is almost here! By now, we probably all know about Relay For Life, but just in case you don't, let us tell you about it. This event is a special community gathering dedicated to raising money for cancer research, celebrating cancer survivors and remembering those who are no longer with us. It is an event like no other. As you walk around the track, you will be greeted by various community organizations, non-profits, local businesses, groups of friends, local high school teams and more. You will see people from "all walks of life" join together to share stories, draw encouragement and look forward to a cancer-free world. Come join everyone at Mitchell High School in Trinity, Florida at 6:00 pm on May 16, 2014.
We eagerly anticipate this event every year, and absolutely love getting to meet so many of our neighbors face-to-face. In addition to the socialization, we also like to bring in as much money as possible! One of our favorite ways to accomplish this is through our Flat Screen TV raffle. See all those happy winners!
If you want to be our next winner, you need to buy tickets!
The more you buy, the greater your chances of winning AND the cheaper the ticket. Such a deal?! Now, this year we are going to have three different ways for your to purchase raffle tickets.
1. Come to Relay For Life: New Port Richey and buy them at our tent.
2. You can come by our office and buy them (2049 Welbilt Blvd, Trinity Fl 34655).
3. You buy them by donating to our team online here. (We will consider all donations to be raffle ticket purchases unless you state otherwise).
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email us . Good luck everyone! See you there!


FunMail. Joy in a Decorated Envelope. Surprises. Smiles.
The joy of receiving a letter, a post card, a greeting, a happy note in your mailbox - share that special feeling with others.
Email is convenient. FunMail says you care.
Lots of original artwork. Specially selected inserts. Many hand decorated envelopes. Even some original poetry.
The time, the thought, the effort invested with smiles. Every letter, every card, every note is made with the receiver in mind.
We love fun. We love to celebrate every day. We love snail mail. We love art.
What's in a FunMail ?
Click the plain envelope just above to see sample FunMails.
Everyone loves to receive mail.
FunMail surprises people with a tidbit of fun and joy to inspire and uplift.
FunMail reminds them you are thinking of them and care.
Celebrate the Day! Bring a smile to others.
Have us send a FunMail.
YES, we will snail mail your email.
Send your email to us with your instructions. We will convert your email to snail mail and send it in one of our specially decorated envelopes and even wrap it with a "bow"- so to speak.


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Michael Sauschuck | Commissioner of the Maine Department of Public Safety
June, 2019 | Photography: Christina Wnek
As police chief in Portland, Michael Sauschuck was known for engaging with community groups to address the complex causes of crime. He has spoken publicly about how the war on drugs was a failure and how the opioid epidemic needs to be treated as a public health crisis. In an effort to address the opioid epidemic, the department hired a substance use disorder liaison in 2016 to help police approach addiction from a medical standpoint, and officers now carry naloxone, a drug that can reverse overdoses. One of the lessons Sauschuck learned while in Portland is that recovery from opioid addiction is possible, but when you're just focused on individual crises, "you don't get a chance to step back and look about at the tens of thousands of success stories that occur," he says. "We're trying to solve problems with long-term solutions rather than short-term solutions." Earlier this year he was nominated and confirmed to lead the Maine Department of Public Safety. Sauschuck became police chief of the largest municipal police department in the state in 2012, and served in that position until becoming Portland's assistant city manager last year. He has also served on the boards of Milestone Recovery and the Maine Gun Safety Coalition. Sauschuck has received numerous awards over the years for his police work and his holistic approach to law enforcement. In 2017 he received the Law Enforcement Partner Award from the Maine chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the Maine Association of Police's David W. Pickering award for police chief of the year.
← Stephen Smith | President + CEO of L.L.Bean
Kevin Strong, MD | Founder, President + Chief Pediatrician of Dunk the Junk →


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VOTE: Who is your favourite Miss India?
Last updated on: May 20, 2014 19:00 IST
From Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen to Neha Dhupia and Priyanka Chopa -- vote for your favourite!
This is the 20th year of Sushmita Sen's and Aishwarya Rai's crowning. As part of a series, celebrating India's success at the two prominent international pageants -- Miss Universe and Miss World -- we start by looking back at some of the most prominent faces who've represented the country at various global pageants since 1994.
Don't forget to vote for your favourite at the bottom of each page.
Kindly click NEXT to continue...
Tags: Miss India , Aishwarya Rai , VOTE , Priyanka Chopa , Neha Dhupia
She was the dark horse at the 1994 Miss India pageant who managed to sweep the crown right from under Aishwarya Rai's nose.
Since then Sushmita Sen has dabbled in movies, been involved in charitable work and has been a poster girl for adoption -- both her daughters are adopted.
Occasionally when she isn't being a rockstar in real life, she takes to the runway and makes us skip a heartbeat.
Doesn't she deserve your vote?
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Image: Sushmita Sen
Photographs: Courtesy Lakme Fashion Week
Tags: Sushmita Sen , Aishwarya Rai , She
She was tipped to win the Miss India crown in 1994.
In fact, the organisers had been trying to persuade her to participate the previous year and the year before.
On hearing the news of her participation, several models backed out of the contest.
Then Sushmita Sen won.
But life didn't turn out so badly for Aishwarya Rai either.
After a slightly bumpy ride in Bollywood, she not only got a foothold in the business but also went on to become the highest paid actresses in the business.
Two decades after shooting into the limelight, Ash continues to remain the face of top international cosmetic brands and a much-sought-after brand ambassador.
Not bad for someone who hasn't had a single release in the last four-odd years eh?
Image: Aishwarya Rai
Photographs: Eamonn M McCormack/Getty Images
Tags: Sushmita Sen , Aishwarya Rai , Miss India , Bollywood
In the final round of Miss World 2000, when she was asked to name the living person she admired the most Priyanka Chopra named Mother Teresa, who had passed away good three years ago.
She was, nonetheless, crowned.
Like her predecessors, Chopra also had a dubious start at the box office. Most of her initial films flopped but she stuck on.
Today, Priyanka reigns supreme in Bollywood.
She has, over the years, also made a mark for herself in the music business, having collaborated with international musicians including will.i.am and Pitbull.
And in 2010, she joined the ranks of Michael Jordan and Bono among others as UNICEF's goodwill ambassador for Child Rights.
How's that for someone who goofed up in the final question at an international pageant?
Image: Priyanka Chopra
Photographs: Courtesy Perfect Relations
Tags: Chopra , UNICEF , Mother Teresa , Michael Jordan , Bono
Gul Panag
From winning Miss India (1999) to fighting the Lok Sabha elections, Gul Panag has done it all.
Along the way, she has also fought for several causes including gender equality and education among others and has been an active participant in the India Against Corruption movement.
She also happens to be a marathoner and looks a million bucks.
Does she get your vote?
Image: Gul Panag
Photographs: Abhijit Mhamunkar
Tags: Miss India , Gul Panag
Diana Hayden
She was the third Indian to win Miss World (1997) after Reita Faria and Aishwarya Rai.
She never went on to achieve the star status of Rai or Priyanka Chopra but Diana Hayden remains as stunning as she was 17 years ago when we first saw her.
So will you vote for her?
Image: Diana Hayden
Photographs: Rediff Archives
Tags: Diana Hayden , Reita Faria , Priyanka Chopra , Aishwarya Rai
From the moment she won Miss India Asia-Pacific in 2000, comparisons were drawn between Dia Mirza and Aishwarya Rai, even though the two looked very, very different from each other (and Ash towered over Dia).
Dia may not have seen great success as an actress but she continues to remain active in spreading awareness on various social issues including female foeticide, animal welfare among others and has lent support to PETA, CRY and the Naramada Bachao Andolan.
Image: Dia Mirza
Tags: Dia Mirza , PETA , Naramada Bachao Andolan , Aishwarya Rai , CRY
India began the new millennium with a bang.
Priyanka Chopra won Miss World, Dia Mirza, Miss Asia-Pacific and Lara Dutta walked home with the Miss Universe crown.
Neither could match the success of Chopra who remains one of the busiest actresses in the business.
After trying out her hand at acting in movies, Dutta eventually moved to producing (Chalo Dilli and its upcoming sequel Chalo China) them.
She's also starred in a prenatal yoga video, which we assume is the reason why she looks the way she does even after delivering a baby!
Image: Lara Dutta
Tags: Lara Dutta , Priyanka Chopra , Chalo Dilli , Dia Mirza , China
Yukta Mookhey
Yukta Mookhey won the Miss World pageant in 1999.
When she crowned her successor, Priyanka Chopra the following year, she was only the third beauty queen in the pageant's history to crown her fellow citizen.
Prior to this, Miss World 1951 Kerstin Hakansson from Sweden crowned May-Louise Flodin the following year and 1964 winner Ann Sidney from the United Kingdom and crowned Lesley Langley the following year.
Like most other beauty queens, Yukta too tried her hand at films but failed.
Image: Yukta Mookhey
Photographs: Pradeep Bandekar
Tags: Yukta Mookhey , May-Louise Flodin , Ann Sidney , Lesley Langley , Kerstin Hakansson
Celina Jaitly
When she won Miss India in 2001, Celina Jaitly seemed like she'd had the Miss Universe pageant locked down.
Sadly, she ended fifth.
The grey-eyed beauty never made it big in the movies either but has been a vocal supporter of various causes including equal rights for the LGBT community in India and the ethical treatment of animals among others.
Now married to an Austrian businessman, Celina is a mother of twin boys.
Image: Celina Jaitly
Photographs: Vickky Idnaani
Tags: Celina Jaitly , LGBT , India
Neha Dhupia, the 2002 Miss India Universe, like the others, also tried her hand at the movies soon after her win.
While she's received moderate success at the box office, Dhupia is active on Twitter and manages, somehow, to stay in the news.
Image: Neha Dhupia
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Next, we have the 2007 Miss India International, Esha Gupta who delivered two-back-to-back hits with Jannat 2 and Raaz 3D.
Gupta also happens to be a Kingfisher Swimsuit model so we really don't know what more to say to get you to vote for her.
Image: Esha Gupta
Photographs: A still from Jannat 2
Tags: Esha Gupta , Miss India International , Jannat
Manasvi Mamgai
After being crowned Miss India in 2010, Manasvi Mamgai went on to represent the country at Miss World but was unplaced.
Mamgai, who is a regular on the Lakme Fashion Week runway, is now looking forward to her big screen debut -- Prabhudeva's Action Jackson in which she stars opposite Ajay Devgn.
ALSO READ At six she dreamt of being Miss World
Image: Manasvi Mamgai
Tags: Manasvi Mamgai , Prabhudeva
Sarah Jane Dias
The spunky model-turned-actress was crowned Miss India in 2007.
It would however be a good few years before she'd make her big screen debut in the Tamil romantic comedy, Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai (2010) and some more time before her Bollywood film Game (2011) hit the screens.
Though her film career may not necessarily be anything to speak of, we do quite like some of her runway appearances. Like this one for instance. Don't you agree?
Image: Sarah Jane Dias
Photographs: Hitesh Harisinghani
Tags: Theeradha Vilaiyattu Pillai , Sarah Jane Dias , Miss India
Yet another Miss India who's been hoping to make it big in Bollywood is the 2008 winner -- Parvathy Omanakuttan.
While success has largely eluded her, we're quite looking forward to her upcoming film, Pizza a remake of the eponymous Tamil hit produced by the maverick filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar.
Image: Parvathy Omanakuttan
Tags: Parvathy Omanakuttan , Bejoy Nambiar , Bollywood , Pizza
Nicole Faria
Miss India 2010, Nicole Faria went on to win Miss Earth, made her Bollywood debut with Yaariyan recently AND was featured in the latest Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar.
If that doesn't make the cut for you, we really don't know what does!
Image: Nicole Faria
Photographs: Atul Kasbekar for Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar
Tags: Nicole Faria , Yaariyan , AND , Miss Earth
Rochelle Maria Rao
Rochelle Maria Rao won Femina Miss India in 2011 and was probably the secret reason why many of us watched the previous season of IPL, wasn't it?
Alsoe see: Meet IPL hottie Rochelle Maria Rao
Image: Rochelle Maria Rao
Tags: Rochelle Maria Rao , IPL , Femina Miss India
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Quick Answer: Who Is The Ancient Greek Goddess Of Corn?
1 Who is the corn goddess?
2 Who was the ancient Greek goddess of grains?
3 Who was Ceres?
4 What was Dione the goddess of?
5 Who is the Aztec god of death?
6 What does corn symbolize?
7 Who is Zeus the god of?
8 Which Greek God is the God of love?
9 Is Ceres a girl or boy?
10 Who is god of darkness?
11 Who was the god of fire?
12 Did Zeus and Aphrodite have a child?
13 What does Dione mean in Greek?
14 Which God holds up the world?
Who is the corn goddess?
Chicomecóatl, (Nahuatl: "Seven Snakes") also called Xilonen ("Young Maize -Ear Doll"), Aztec goddess of sustenance and, hence, of corn ( maize ), one of the most ancient and important goddesses in the Valley of Mexico.
Who was the ancient Greek goddess of grains?
Demeter appeared most commonly as a grain goddess. The name Ioulo (from ioulos, " grain sheaf") has been regarded as identifying her with the sheaf and as proving that the cult of Demeter originated in the worship of the grain mother.
Who was Ceres?
Ceres, in Roman religion, goddess of the growth of food plants, worshiped either alone or in association with the earth goddess Tellus. At an early date her cult was overlaid by that of Demeter (q.v.), who was widely worshiped in Sicily and Magna Graecia.
What was Dione the goddess of?
DIONE was the Titan goddess of the oracle of Dodona in Thesprotia, and the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus. Her name is simply the feminine form of Zeus (Dios).
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Who is the Aztec god of death?
Mictlantecuhtli, Aztec god of the dead, usually portrayed with a skull face. With his wife, Mictecacíhuatl, he ruled Mictlan, the underworld.
What does corn symbolize?
In the Bible, the word " corn " is used for grains, in general, and is used symbolically to indicate spiritual goodness. With its many seeds, corn is also a symbol of fertility and rebirth.
Who is Zeus the god of?
Zeus is the god of the sky in ancient Greek mythology. As the chief Greek deity, Zeus is considered the ruler, protector, and father of all gods and humans.
Which Greek God is the God of love?
Cupid, ancient Roman god of love in all its varieties, the counterpart of the Greek god Eros and the equivalent of Amor in Latin poetry. According to myth, Cupid was the son of Mercury, the winged messenger of the gods, and Venus, the goddess of love.
Is Ceres a girl or boy?
The name Ceres is a girl's name of Latin origin. Little known name of the goddess of the harvest, a possibility for the parent seeking something original, but with the aura of Roman myth. Her Greek counterpart is Demeter.
Who is god of darkness?
God of Darkness
Parents Chaos
Siblings Nyx Tartarus Gaia Eros
Who was the god of fire?
Hephaestus, Greek Hephaistos, in Greek mythology, the god of fire. Originally a deity of Asia Minor and the adjoining islands (in particular Lemnos), Hephaestus had an important place of worship at the Lycian Olympus.
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Did Zeus and Aphrodite have a child?
Aphrodite's Affairs In Greek mythology, Zeus married Aphrodite to Hephaestus because he feared that her beauty would cause a war between the gods for her affection. She also had an affair with the mortal Anchises, a Trojan. She seduced him and slept with him and the two of them conceived Aeneas.
What does Dione mean in Greek?
Dione (/daɪˈoʊniː/; Ancient Greek: Διώνη, romanized: Diṓnē, lit. 'She-Zeus' or δῖος dîos means 'divine one') is the name of four women in ancient Greek mythology, and one in the Phoenician religion described by Sanchuniathon.
Which God holds up the world?
Atlas (mythology)
The Farnese Atlas, the oldest known representation of the celestial spheres.
Abode Western edge of Gaia (the Earth )
Parents Iapetus (father) Asia or Clymene (mother)
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If users want, say, 16-bit PRNs with equidistribution, they should use both low and high words of the XORO32 output. If they want 16-bit PRNs without equidistribution, they should use the 16-bit subset of the 32-bit output with the best PractRand score, which is not known yet.
On that basis, we'd need to produce a distribution run for each and every score on the existing 16x16 grid before even starting on double spacing it.
The existing grid doesn't really test XORO32, which is why I suggested the new tests earlier today. We would need to compare the PractRand scores with the distributions and I might be able to do the latter. There are 17 possible 16-bit tests and maybe we should run those for [14,2,7,5] as that's what in the P2?
For contiguous 16-bit subsets, the number of the lsb is 0-16 thus 17 tests.
We've used PractRand as a comparison tool to choose [a,b,c,d]. That's fixed now in the P2 to [14,2,7,5] so we could just do 17 distributions but I'd like to see how they compare to the PractRand scores and what the highest score is. Taking eight bits from one output and eight from another [lsb = 8] might be the least correlated and hence most random.
I've been working on your earlier requests. I gather you want me to change tact.
PS: [14 2 7 5] isn't necessarily fixed. I'm happy to keep the options open for a revision.
I'm just outputting ideas as they appear!
Most if not all the development here recently has been aimed at finding the very best [a,b,c,d] and [3,2,6,9] appears to be a tiny bit better than [14,2,7,5]. The first version of the P2 will use the latter and there is testing we can do just on that but I'm not saying we should ignore [3,2,6,9] or others.
I've resurrected the single summing scrambler functionality again. It had been disabled and not maintained for many months.
Gotta say, auto-culling went through real quick!. I don't remember it being that little an effort historically. I guess it's a case of so many of the unknowns are sorted and built into the automation now.
There is no effect on the equidistribution if the sample is entirely within one xoroshiro32++ output and in order to disturb the equidistribution the sample must contain data from both outputs. For an equal mix of 8/12/16-bit samples the lsb is 12/10/8. However, the results above show that a half-and-half mix does not lead to the biggest variances, which are very small for 8 or 12 bits and so any PractRand tests should concentrate on 16 bits. To make things clear, the [3,2,6,9] sample above is for bits [24:9] of the double-iterated output.
Here's the 10 grids for Xoroshiro32+ and a collection of distribution reports for Xoroshiro32+ and 32+p that I generated a couple days back. I still have to do some scripting fixes to do the grid run for 32+p without overwriting what I've got now.
1. Rotating the xoroshiro32+ 16-bit samples one bit to the right to move bit 0 out of the lsb produces a considerably improved score. Still not great but I think this shows that PractRand gives extra importance to bit 0, which has been mentioned before probably.
2. The high byte score of 512M for xoroshiro32+ [14,2,7] is not bad at all and the 8-bit scores in general show how much better the higher bits are than the lower ones.
3. The pair distributions for xoroshiro32+ and xoroshiro32+p are identical for three sets of constants I've looked at. Is the parity code correct?
4. Pair distribution for xoroshiro32+ [3,2,6] is terrible, which highlights the huge quality gain possible with the extra rotation and addition in the ++ scrambler.
I've had a look at the code itself and can't see what could be wrong. The report files are correctly showing the p and not p, and that gets generated by the 'c' code directly, so the logic seems to be working as intended.
Having said that, I've just gone back and compared generator output data to https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1423960/#Comment_1423960 and found neither, with or without parity, fits! Both have occasional single bit flips, at different places, that at least shows the parity control is functioning and the engine is fine. I guess my "+" single summing scrambler must have a bug.
I've checked my XORO32 output data twice today with no issues showing for the ++ double summing scrambler.
The data at https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1423960/#Comment_1423960 are correct for xoroshiro32+p [14,2,7] with PRN calculated after state is iterated.
The parity trick inverts bit 0 50% of the time and it's possible these inversions "cancel out" to give identical distributions.
Oops, that linked data is with parity. EDIT: Ha, I see you've also noticed that.
And here's my Xoroshiro32+p [14 2 7]. It definitely has bit zero discrepancies from the linked data.
I'll assume the discrepancy with the parity data is acceptable given it's never been given a thorough workout in the past. I'm gridding this at the moment.
We can declare all as good again I presume.
I've had some new scripting bugs with the extra logic for the parity switches so I've had to rerun things a bit. Turns out I hadn't previously been doing any string based conditional logic and got it quite wrong on first attempt. This meant all the newly added parity logic couldn't test true so defaulting to untrue at all times.
This didn't affect the frequency distribution code - It's separate and nearly all C.
The few lines of code below the #ifdef PARITY_BIT is all that was added for parity handling. And that was verbatim copied from the old testing code from back when it was being used.
Here we go. Seems the earlier grid scores were fine. That must have been before the parity switch was added.
A detail: The best possible exponent average is 33.41785.
These are not correct, half the bit 0 values are wrong. I tested the pair frequency distributions of 00000000-000000FF for xoroshiro32+ and xoroshiro32+p and they are different.
I'm most interested currently in which 16-bit subsample of double-iterated xoroshiro32++ [14,2,7,5], i.e. the P2 v1 XORO32 instruction, has the highest PractRand score. Frequency test results below suggest it will be [25:10].
How much better will the top score be than [15:0] or [31:16], I wonder?
Ha, I understand the bug now, and even why it has occurred during this resurrection. It's the "rngword_t" data type declaration I introduced recently. For a 16-bit shifter it is only 16 bits. This was changed from everything being 64-bit with masks to improve execution speed a small amount.
The parity calculation relies on extended carry existing but the current 16-bit data type has no room for extended carry. I'll switch back to the original 64-bit data type I think.
I've wiped all the parity sourced Practrand report files and started the culling and gridding runs afresh.
EDIT: Here's the culled tables, both with and without parity, for comparison. Notably [11 10 12]s parity scores means it shouldn't be included now but I've thrown it in to fill the final score chart.


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Pedro M. Reis
Office: MED 0 1226
Pedro Miguel Reis is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he moved to on November 1st, 2017. His research group, the Flexible Structures Laboratory, is dedicated to the fundamental understanding of the mechanics of slender structures and their intrinsic geometric nonlinearities.
Prof. Reis received a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Manchester, UK (1999), a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics (Part III Maths) from St. John's College and DAMTP, University of Cambridge (2000) and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manchester (2004). He then moved as a Post-Doc at the City College of New York (2004-2005). Between 2005 and 2007 he was a CNRS Post-Doc at the ESPCI in Paris. He joined MIT in 2007 as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics. In 2010 he moved to MIT's School of Engineering, with dual appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering, first as the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor and, since the summer of 2014 as Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor. In October 2013, the Popular Science magazine named Prof. Reis to its 2013 "Brilliant 10" list of young stars in Science and Technology. He has also received the 2014 CAREER Award (NSF), the 2016 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award (Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME), the 2016 GSOFT Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research (APS) and he is a Fellow of the APS.
When not playing with slender structures, Prof. Reis spends his time being silly with his twins and enjoying the Swiss Alps.
A more detailed Curriculum Vitae can be found here.
Paul Johanns
Ph.D. Graduate Student
Website: Paul Johanns
Paul Johanns is a Ph.D. student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), starting from April 1st, 2018. He got his B.Sc. and M.Sc. both in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Paul performed his Master Thesis in Prof. Chiara Daraio's lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) working on tensegrity-inspired structures for impact protection. His research at EPFL's fleXLab focuses on the fundamental understanding of the topological influence on the mechanics of complex knots, and is supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg 12439430.
Paul likes to play music – trumpet and organ – and to go scuba diving in his free time.
Arefeh Abbasi
Website: Arefeh Abbasi
Arefeh Abbasi is a Ph.D. student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where she moved to on February 15th, 2019. Arefeh got her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Solid Mechanics) from Shiraz University, Iran, in 2014, and her M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Applied Design) from Shiraz University of Technology, Iran, in 2017. During her graduate study in Iran, she worked on finite element analysis of plates, shells, and smart structures. Now, her area of interest at the fleXLab focuses on the buckling of shells.
In her free time, Arefeh enjoys cooking, biking and traveling.
Fani Derveni
Website: Fani Derveni
Fani is a Post-Doc at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where she moved to on June 1st, 2021. She obtained her Diploma (5-year degree) in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2017), and she spent six months studying at Cracow University of Technology, Poland. Fani completed her M.S. and Ph.D. studies in Structural Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, US (2019 and 2021, respectively), focusing on the mechanics of thin-walled metallic structures: from plate-lattice architected materials to cold-formed steel shear walls. At EPFL's fleXLab, she is mainly interested in shell buckling.
When she is not in the lab, Fani enjoys traveling, running and hiking.
Website: Michael Gomez
Michael is a Post-Doc at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), having joined in August 2021. He completed a BA in Mathematics at Christ Church, University of Oxford in 2013, followed by a MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing in 2014. Michael then moved to Pembroke College, Oxford where he completed a DPhil in Mathematics in 2018, supervised by Dominic Vella and Derek E. Moulton. He was also an awardee of the EPSRC Doctoral Prize scheme for six months based in the Mathematical Institute, Oxford. Prior to joining the fleXLab, Michael was a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge between 2018-2021, where he was a member of the Biological Physics and Mechanics research group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). Michael's main interest is in elastic instabilities and the dynamics of slender elastic structures. His PhD research was dedicated to 'snap-through' instabilities; other projects he worked on in Oxford include the behaviour of spherical shells under point indentation and electrostatic 'pull-in' instabilities in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). More recently, Michael has studied the role played by elastic instabilities in biological contexts such as bacterial locomotion. His current research at the fleXLab focusses on developing reduced-order descriptions of slender objects (rods, plates, or shells) with complex internal structure.
In his free time, Michael enjoys walking, fantasy literature and checking how many views his cat video has on YouTube.
Eduardo Gutiérrez Prieto
Website: Eduardo Gutiérrez Prieto
Eduardo is a Ph.D. student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), starting from October 1st, 2021. He got his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Valladolid. He then worked for a year and a half for the company SEADM, developing a device to determine the size and count the number of nanoparticles emitted by combustion engines. He then moved to the Netherlands, to TU Delft, to pursue an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering specializing in fluid mechanics. During his master thesis under Prof. Daniel Tam supervision, he developed a mechanical model to explain how the beating of eukaryotic cilia and flagella naturally emerges from the internal structure. His research at fleXLab focuses on the exploitation of flexible materials properties to develop tools for fluids control.
When not in the lab, Eduardo continues experimenting -but culinarily- in his kitchen, and enjoys doing any kind of outdoors sport -especially if it rains.
Luna Lin
Website: Luna Lin
Luna is a Post-Doc at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), starting on November 1st, 2021. She received her B. A. in physics from Barnard College of Columbia University, in 2015. In 2021, she received her Ph. D. in applied mathematics, supervised by Prof. Chris Rycroft, from the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. During her Ph. D. studies, she modeled and developed numerical methods for a wide range of systems, including fluid—structure interactions between highly deformable solid structures and incompressible fluid, and bacterial competitions facilitated by subcellular nanostructures that directly inject toxin to kill neighboring cells. From 2016 to 2020, she was a fellow of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, which allowed her to research in high performance computing numerical methods at the Berkeley National Lab, supervised by Dr. Ann Almgren. She was also a graduate fellow of the Harvard Quantitative Biology Initiative from 2020 to 2021. Now at fleXLab, she is interested in using experimental approaches to investigate the functions of porous, elastic, slender structures in locomotion such as flying and swimming.
Outside of the lab, Luna enjoys being outdoors, petting animals, reading a good book, and playing ukulele.
Noelia Simone
Website: Noelia Simone
Noelia is the Administrative Assistant of the Flexible Structures Laboratory at EPFL. From 2016 to 2020, she also managed the administrative and finance coordination part of an H2020 European project with Prof. A. Radenovic (EPFL STI IBI-STI LBEN). In March 2020, she joined the management of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. In 2014, and after her Commercial Business apprenticeship at EPFL (EPFL SB ISIC LCOM), Noelia received her Federal Certificate of Proficiency (CFC) in Commercial Business. In 2020, she received her Federal Diploma of Higher Education (brevet fédéral) of Executive Assistant. She also got the chance to work in the private domain, for the startup Abionic.
Apart from her varied and exciting job, Noelia loves traveling and would dream to travel around the World.
Alumni from the fleXLab
Dong Yan
Postdoctoral Associate at the fleXLab, EPFL (2017-2022)
Now: Scientist at the Silicon Austria Labs
Florian Choquart
Master's Thesis Student at the fleXLab, EPFL (2022)
Nicolas Minazzo
William Gueissaz
Samuel Poincloux
Now: JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo
Claudio Boni
Exchange Ph.D. Graduate Student at the fleXLab, EPFL (2021)
Now: Ph.D. Graduate Student at University of Parma
Paul Grandgeorge
Now: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Washington, US
Tian Chen
Now: Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, US
Tomohiko Sano
Now: Junior Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Japan
Pierre Leroy-Calatayud
Master's Thesis Student (2019-2020) and Research Assistant, Master Valorization Program at the fleXLab, EPFL (2020-2021)
Armelle Keiser
Now: Engineer at CEA Grenoble, France
Matteo Pezzulla
Now: Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark
Changyeob Baek
Visiting Ph.D. Graduate Student at the fleXLab, EPFL (2018, 2019 and 2020)
Now: George Carrier Fellow in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, Boston, US
Caroline Gay
Student internship at the fleXLab, EPFL (2019)
Now: Master's student at ESPCI Paris, France
Lilian Cruveiller
Now: Master's student at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)
Postdoc at the fleXLab, EPFL (2018)
Now: Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Benjamin Rahm
Master's Project Student at the fleXLab, EPFL (2018)
Mazen Al Achkar
Mark Guttag
Now: Exponent, Boston, US
Visiting Postdoc at the fleXLab, EPFL (2018)
Now: Postdoc at the fleXLab, EPFL
Bartosz Kaczmarski
Visiting Undergraduate Student at the fleXLab, EPFL (2018)
Now: Undergraduate Student at Princeton University, US
Alumni from the EGS.Lab (our former home at MIT)
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2015-2020)
Thesis title: "Geometry-driven Filamentary Structures: Elastic Gridshells, Weaves, Clasps, and Knots"
Thesis title: "Aerodynamic Drag on Deformable and Active Structures in High Reynolds Number Conditions"
Thesis title: "Fabrication and Buckling of Thin Spherical Shells Containing Precise Geometric Imperfections"
Now: Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Joel Marthelot
Postdoc at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2014-2017)
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Francisco López Jiménez
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Grace Goon
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Now: Ph.D. student at MIT
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Now: Ph.D. student at University of Colorado Boulder
Rashed Al-Rashed
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Visiting Professor at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2015-2017)
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Latoya Oliver
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M. Khalid Jawed
Thesis title: "Geometrically Nonlinear Configurations in Rod-Like Structures"
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Laelia Kim-Lan Vaulot
M.Eng. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2015-2016)
Thesis title: "Form Finding in Elastic Gridshells"
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Connor McMahan
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Rebecca Fowler
Connor Mulcahy
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Thesis title: "Rotation of a Slender Rod Injected into a Cylindrical Constraint"
Now: Boston Scientific
Noor Khouri
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MIT Class of 2015 (Course 1: Civil & Environment Engineering)
MIT Class of 2015 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering).
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Alice Nasto
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Marie Rice
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Peter Dieleman
Visiting Graduate Student at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2014)
Now: Ph.D. student at Leiden University, Netherlands
Sharon Lacey
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Romain Lagrange
Instructor in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2012-2014)
Now: Researcher at CEA, France
Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2010-2013)
Now: Research Scientist, Schlumberger Doll Research, Cambridge, USA
Denis Terwagne
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Joao Lopes
Sabbatical visit at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2013)
Now: Structural Engineer CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Amy McGuire
Now: Renewable Energy Project Coordinator Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
Tianxiang Su
Arnaud Lazarus
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Miha Brojan
Post-doc and Fullbright Fellow at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2011-2013)
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Adrien Bresson
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Carmen Castanos
Undergraduate Student, UROP at the EGS.Lab, MIT (Spring 2013)
MIT Class of 2015 (Course 1: Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Matthew Santer
Sabbatical visit at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2012-2013)
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Matt Metlitz
Undergraduate Student, UROP at the EGS.Lab, MIT (2012)
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Sarah Southerland
MIT Class of 2013 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering and Course 4: Architecture)
Tommy Tran
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Miho Kitagawa
MIT Class of 2014 (Course 2A: Mechanical Engineering)
Breanna Berry
Undergraduate Student, UROP at the EGS.Lab, MIT (Summer, Fall 2011)
Bastiaan Florijn
Master 2 Leiden University, Netherlands
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MIT Class of 2013 (Course 1: Civil & Environmental Engineering)
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Visiting Graduate Student at the EGS.Lab, MIT (Fall 2010)
École des Mines de Paris, France
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I have many friends who relish all that time making memories with their kids during the summer school holidays. And please don't get me wrong, so do I... to a point.
But the truth is that I find the school holidays much more challenging than term time, when my offspring are ensconced in a world of learning and play that I don't have to provide all the planning and resources for.
Why don't I completely love endless, unstructured days with three people I created? Here are my reasons.
Some say going back to making school lunches is pure torture. You know what I think is torture? Three permanently ravenous boys opening cupboards and the fridge ALL DAY, me getting up and down to cut fruit for the one too young to cut it and then having to make a full family dinner after being asked for food all day. Either that or being nagged for expensive food and drinks while out, despite packing it from home.
Give me serve-themselves cereal for breakfast and packed lunches any day! Dinner is a doddle after that.
This image pretty much sums it up, except I'd add another three hours of summer time eating demands for people who have teens.
My kids LOVE structure. They're athletes who look forward to training, to watching the clock, and to doing things in a certain time period. Endless days of trying to think of things to do when money and (my) energy is in short supply gets tired.
I also find by the end they want to get back to their mates and seeing them every day instead of every now and then. I look forward to that too.
Soccer goes back - us parents converse over a sausage sizzle. Happiness! Seeing people I like on school pick up or drop off and having a natter. Wonderful!
It's these small snatches of adult time seeing people I like that actually fulfills me as a person, as an individual, despite most of my activities revolving around my kids.
In the school holidays, so many people go away. In fact most of my closest friends were away for 3 to 4 weeks. As much as I love my kids, I like more of a balance. Adult time is awesome, just as kid time is great. Give me both please!
I have a teen who isn't eligible for holiday care. The middle one will be in high school next year. As many parents of a 12 or 13-year-old will tell you, they're not quite old enough to leave them on their own for full days on end. And hanging out with an obliged family member is not their idea of a good time.
We often have to save our leave for sports tournaments, so this year a long summer trip was not on the cards. It's a reality for many families, who can't spare the leave or money.
The work/school juggle can be enormously stressful for people, especially those with no family help and especially in the summer holidays which can stretch on for weeks.
I know one day I'll miss the chaos. There are days I already do. I also love the focus of my brain on a mission - be it to write an article, to clear out the shed without four (yes that includes my husband) people trying to sabotage me.
With the youngest up early and the teenager up until very late at night, it's often I don't get my own company until close to midnight, after a 14 hour stint in the company of children. I know those with babies and toddlers can relate - I have also done my time in that space.
I'm not actually designed to be in the company of anyone for that long, let alone people who constantly demand things from me.
I love the yin and the yang of term time. I work, I parent, I cook, then I arrange, I admin, I read, and sleep. I enjoy the headspace to do all of it in its own time. I embrace the chaos and then I enjoy the peace of creating order and settling my mind. As an introverted extrovert, the ebb and flow is exactly what I need to maintain my wellbeing.
School holidays by their very nature disrupt this rhythm in a profound way, so that's why when school starts back I feel some control over my life again.


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Terrorism In Overtime: "Sudden Death" Turns 25
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Pittsburgh fire marshal. What could go wrong?
By Matty B.
The city of Pittsburgh's acting resume isn't terribly long, but it is memorable. Best known for character roles, the Steel City portrays a backdrop of industrial grit to Jennifer Beals' welder-turned-dancer in Flashdance and lays out thrilling rivers and hillsides for Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker in Striking Distance. There is one other city-set film from the era that doesn't quite carry the same name-brand recognition and didn't generate a "Take Bigelow!"-like catchphrase, but should exist in everyone's short list of iconic Pittsburgh movies.
Sudden Death isn't just "Die Hard on ice." No, the big-budget karate and terrorists, bombs and hockey action thriller caught the city of Pittsburgh on a post-Stanley Cup high with the Penguins back-to-back victories in 1991 and '92. It places the old Civic Arena (aka "The Igloo") front and center as the playing-itself real-life home of the Penguins and an unlikely target for home-grown terrorism. Despite all this, Sudden Death rarely gets mentioned as a great action movie, let alone a great Pittsburgh one. Here, on its twenty-fifth-ish anniversary, we attempt to right that wrong.
Original film poster for "Sudden Death"
Sudden Death took Die Hard's guy-alone-against-terrorists action movie playbook and made it darker and French-Canadian … by-way-of the lower Hill. It was also the only "Die Hard in a [fill in the blank]" movie set in and around a sporting event. These films typically play out over the course of one day or one night, so the end is always finite. This makes the stakes that much higher.
The film also continued the trend of making the hero an unassuming, smalltime, meat-and-potatoes guy. In the opening scene, we learn that Frank McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) was once a Pittsburgh firefighter who failed to save a young girl from a wrenching blaze. Presumably, that's why he's been demoted to fire marshal at the Civic Arena.
One of the best shots in local movie history comes just a few minutes in. It features McCord walking to pick up his kids for Game 7 of the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals. McCord, now divorced, cautiously approaches his ex-wife's house as he sees the step-dad and his son Tyler playing street hockey. The shot only lasts for a few seconds but it features Tyler shooting the puck on steep Fritz Street in the South Side slopes. The sun is beaming down on the city in the background, a slither of which can be seen in the shot, along with the churches and redbrick buildings of the South Side, below.
Pittsburgh at its Pittsburghiest: steep hills, rivers, bridges, and a kid playing street hockey. Scene from "Sudden Death."
This scene's refusal to "ooo-ahh" you is what makes it stick. You can tell it's either late spring or early fall and includes a what's-what of Pittsburgh scenery: hilly streets, bridges, and an eclectic mix of downtown skyscrapers. Aside from a few other establishing shots, Pittsburgh's daylight coverage vanishes as game-time approaches and night takes over. Peter Hyams, who served as both director and cinematographer, lit the film's few moments of light with such unpretentious flair that one can't help but revel and soak it in.
Sudden Death saves its best lines for scene-stealing villain Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe), a bitter ex-CIA officer-turned-mercenary who's out for revenge against the country he allegedly sacrificed so much for. He too, like many other '90s action foes, was a disgruntled, home-grown foot soldier gone rogue. Like McCord's break with the fire department and his inexplicable Belgian-French accent, Hyams spares viewers from any pesky character development so we never actually learn what went south between Foss and the government he feels wronged by.
Revenge is a dish best served … ON ICE! Powers Boothe as mysterious villain Joshua Foss
Most of McCord's screen time is spent on the periphery of the action, lingering among pipes, maintenance rooms, and power generators of the Civic Arena. In a matter of hours, McCord wills himself to become a bomb-disarming expert, seeking out explosives distributed throughout the arena. Peter Hyams was shrewd enough to let "the muscles from Brussels" focus on his dexterous ability to kick ass, but McCord finds enough spare time to speak French with former Penguin and (future) Hall-of-Famer Luc Robitaille.
The action in Sudden Death comes at the viewer fast, hard, and absurdly dressed as Iceburgh, the Penguins mascot. There are preposterously over-the-top situations that call for Van Damme suiting up as goalkeeper for the Penguins, zip-lining through the arena, crashing through plate glass, deploying both deep fryer and commercial dishwasher as tools of self-defense, and finally–inevitably–up through the old Civic Arena's retractable roof to a bazookas-and-helicopters finale that will have the explosions-and-smoke teenager in you hoisting your fists in the air.
Van Damme v. Iceburgh
Perhaps more implausible than some of the fight scenes is the fact that Sudden Death was conceived as a story by Karen Elise Baldwin, the daughter of then-Penguins owner Howard Baldwin, who was a producer of the film. It is wild to realize the owner of a major professional sports franchise championed a film that involves terrorists taking hostages in the middle of a Stanley Cup Final game, where the city's mayor perishes, and his own team's mascot is basically beheaded. The history of originally-scripted action movies by women has a short history in Hollywood but this is one hell of a film to have your name attached to.
Original "Sudden Death" story author Karen Elise Baldwin with the Oscar she *should have* won
"I was an actress and then I started writing and producing. We had the Penguins, we had access to the Civic Arena, and the building was unique in that the roof opened up," said Ms. Baldwin in Sports Illustrated's oral history of the film in 2015. She was right: Civic Arena was singular for its of-another-era, simple design and retractable roof. Hyams thought there was no way to pull off directing this film in the Arena until he realized the story was concocted by the owner's daughter–then it was game on.
Likely capitalizing on JCVD's Street Fighter prowess from the year before, Sudden Death was a modest box office success and a film whose long run of cable replays cemented its place, at worst, as a cult favorite. As if having a high-octane sport set among a brigade of bomb-setting terrorists wasn't enough, the game does eventually head to sudden death overtime. The Jumbotron reads as such in big bold letters for several seconds. The cinematic angles Hyams captures early in the film and the circling police helicopters that swivel their way over the arena and downtown expertly set the stage for what a hockey night in Pittsburgh actually feels like. Though the game itself, in the movie, feels secondary to what takes place on the margins, casting real-life Penguins broadcasting duo Mike Lange and Paul Steigerwald as themselves was a thing of beauty. Lange's archetypal "Scratch my back with a hacksaw" and "call Arnold Slick from Turtle Creek" catchphrases are sprinkled throughout.
90 minutes until face-off, but the ass-kicking starts *now*. The old Civic Arena. Sigh.
I feel proud knowing that Jean-Claude Van Damme's last great movie was made in Pittsburgh. Like the actor himself, Sudden Death has a propulsive energy and is centered around one of the things that makes Pittsburgh so special–its fanaticism for athletes in black and gold. Sudden Death, in its muscle-flexing eye-winking self-reflection, is the city's most iconic. It's small-time, blue collar, but full of big and brash ideas all at the same time. Even if JCVD's accent gives off a man-from-somewhere else vibe, he stands tall, undaunted, unashamed, and ever surprising as the underdog ready to be a hero.
Matty B. is a self-described "lawyer, Alanis Morrissette enthusiast, avid card player, East End Pittsburgh native, and cinephile/writer whose work can be found at TheThirdTake.com."
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5 thoughts on "Terrorism In Overtime: "Sudden Death" Turns 25"
Paul Schifino says:
Thanks, Wills for this review of such sudden DEPTH!
vegaskev (@vegaskev) says:
Small correction, it's Jennifer Beals.
Pittsburgh Orbit says:
Thank you for the correction. Our fact-checkers will be flogged.
Chris Field says:
I was an extra in this movie! They gave us unlimited free donuts and a handsome paycheck. I never saw the film.
Exciting! Did you see JCVD?
P.S. The library has 9 copies of the DVD, but you have to get on a list because they're always checked-out!


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Q: Returning XML/JSON in Jersey @GET @Path("/ids/{printerid}")
@Produces({"application/json", "application/xml"})
public Printer getPrinter(@PathParam("printerid") String printerId) { ... }

is a piece of a code example found here: https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/jaxrs-resources.html#d0e2089
What I understand is:

*

*the method getPrinter is called when the HTTP method GET is called on the path /ids/{printerid}

*the method Produces either a json or an xml result

*the method returns an Object of type Printer, identified by the ID provided in the URI
What I don't understand is, how the returned Printer is represented as an xml/json document. We return a Printer in this method, so how do we get an xml/json file from that?

A: This is the whole idea of Jersy layer / spring controller, they encapsulate it and convert the class to JSON. You can have the same result with Gson
Gson gson = new Gson();
String json = gson.toJson(printerObject);
System.out.println(json);

Not sure if Jersy is using Gson, but the logic will be probably the same

A: When you request for a service from clien side you always mentioned content type there which indicates the response accepted in xml or json.
$http({
        method: "GET",
        contentType: "application/json",
        url: baseUrl + '/xyz' + id
      }).success(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
        // you can also use
        console.log(JSON.stringify(response);
      }).error(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
      });

A: Based on "Content-type" in the request, jersey will decide the representation.
There are many frameworks that provide support for xml/json representation for jersey. Jackson and JAXB are very popular and efficient frameworks for JSON and XML processing in jersey.
Take a look to official Jersey documentation for different frameworks :
https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/media.html
You can find many articles related to XML and JSON support in jersey here :
http://www.mkyong.com/tutorials/jax-rs-tutorials/

A: You need to send the header "accept" in the request with the desired value: "application/json" or "application/xml".

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