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Our People - Purdue Engineering
Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Awards
Every year, the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University recognizes alumni who have demonstrated excellence in industry, academia, governmental service, or other endeavors related to mechanical engineering. Honorees have shown outstanding character and leadership and have accomplished great things. Since 1991, 294 alumni have been honored with the prestigious Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award.
Congratulations to all our 2020 OME recipients for showing us the best that Mechanical Engineering has to offer!
Eckhard Groll
William E. and Florence E. Perry Head and Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Bill Conley | Bill Cummings | Ashish Gupta | Robert Kohr | Peter Konieczny | Chuck Krousgrill | Carl Leshock | James McCarthy | Pinar Menguc
BSME 2003, PhD 2009
Senior VP and CTO, Mercury Systems
Dr. William G. (Bill) Conley left the halls of Purdue University as a budding young dynamicist, yearning to impact national security and defense. Just over a decade later, Dr. Conley has realized, and continues to realize, that goal, shaping the technology of electronic warfare in an attempt to make the world a safer place.
After leaving Purdue, Dr. Conley joined the technical staff at Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane Division, where his background in signal processing and dynamical systems proved highly advantageous in the development of electronics suitable for disrupting the electronic triggers of radio-controlled improvised explosive devices (IED) at a time when such technology was desperately needed. He quickly drew the attention of Pentagon leadership, who would honor him as the DoD's Outstanding Employee with a Disability in 2011; and the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), which would subsequently offer him a Program Manager role based on his professional efforts to date.
From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Conley led efforts at the DARPA Strategic Technologies Office (STO) to revitalize their electronic warfare research portfolio. With a balanced blend of strategic development, technology innovation, and business acumen, Dr. Conley led the program through an era when asymmetric electronic threats would become increasingly relevant within global context.
In 2015, based on his success at DARPA, Dr. Conley would move to the Pentagon and eventually assume the role of Senior Executive – Director, Electronic Warfare within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In this role, Dr. Conley was responsible for the programmatic execution of the DoD's electronic warfare portfolio, which is statistically the most complex portfolio in the DoD based on interdependencies. This included coordination of various subject matter experts, acquisition, program management, policy development and governance, road mapping activities, and budgeting – an approximately $7B annual activity.
In 2019, after a decade of public service, Dr. Conley stepped away from the government to join Mercury Systems, as its Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Dr. Conley currently serves as the technical leader of a global aerospace and defense contractor with more than 1,000 employees and approximately $500M in annual revenue.
Dr. Conley quite simply has changed the face of modern electronic warfare, making each of us just a little bit safer each day.
Bill Cummings
MSME 1986
Global Defense Aerothermal Capability Manager, Rolls-Royce
William "Bill" Cummings is the global Rolls-Royce Defense Aerothermal Capability Manager. In this role, Bill ensures the functional design of current and future products across all of the aero disciplines including fans, compressors, combustors and turbines. In parallel, he also oversees the research, technology and capability development in the same disciplines. Bill is the foremost technical expert in combustion aerodynamic design in Rolls-Royce North America. His contributions include multiple patents and publications. He is recognized throughout the gas turbine industry, as illustrated by his recent invitation to be a technical panel member during the 2020 AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum.
Prior to his role in management, Bill worked on the AE3007, focusing on NOx and UHC reduction for regional jet applications, successfully meeting the Class 5 requirements of the Zurich airport; the F136 for which he served as a CFD specialist and then combustion aero tech lead; and the Trent 1000, for which he oversaw external aerodynamics, i.e., the airflow emanating from the compressor and flowing around the combustor. His work on the Trent 1000 took place during an assignment to Rolls-Royce Derby in 2004-2005. Subsequent work back at Indianapolis included combustion aero for a supersonic business jet program sponsored by NASA, alternative fuels programs, and the Rolls-Royce Derby team that set the course for future large engines as recently demonstrated in the Advance 3 technology demonstrator.
While the depth of his technical achievements is worthy of recommendation, Bill is best known for his kindness, approachability and teamwork. He is uniquely curious. A characteristic that has led to interests outside of engineering including beekeeping, bird watching, pipe organ construction, conservation, baseball, bicycling, etc. His outside interests allow him to connect with many people and aid in his remarkable ability to mentor young professionals.
Bill continues to give back to his alma mater. He played a vital role in securing funding for the establishment of an aerothermal turbine research center at Purdue University's Zucrow Laboratories, which includes a world class two-stage rotating turbine rig and a world class annular cascade rig. In addition, he has secured funding to pursue advancements in rotating detonation combustion, rotating detonation combustor/turbine integration, alternative fuels and advance turbine blade tip optimization. In his position at Rolls-Royce, he overlooks all the research at Purdue related with compressors, combustors-fuels, and turbines.
Ashish Gupta
PhD 2004
Director of Thermal and Mechanical Solutions Group, Intel Corporation
Dr. Ashish Gupta leads all thermal and mechanical architecture, execution and innovations development for $37 billion Intel Corporation's full portfolio (Notebooks, 2 in 1s, Thin and Light, Gaming, Graphics, Desktop, Workstation etc.) His special focus on delivering generation over generation leadership products, technologies and system solutions to meet customer needs. He is currently managing a growing team of more than 100 people across six US and International sites.
Since becoming a Manager in 2010, Ashish has maintained a close relationship with the Cooling Technology Research Center at Purdue ME. He has sent several members of his team to conduct research at Purdue, and has recruited PhD students to work at Intel.
Ashish currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Mechanical & Material Engineering Department, Washington State University. Previously he has also served on Board of Advisors of ME Dept., Univ. of California Riverside. Ashish has been elected as a Senior IEEE member, is the executive organizer of international IEEE ITherm conference. Ashish has 9 patents, 3 trade secrets, and has published more than 70 papers at Intel and outside.
Ashish has been active in multiple charities in Arizona and in Oregon. He is married and has one daughter. He and his family are residing in Hillsboro, OR.
Robert Kohr
Former professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Robert Harvey Kohr was born in Washington, D. C. in 1925. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Between 1954 and 1960 he worked at General Motors, concentrating chiefly on analysis and simulation of vehicle dynamics. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 1962 and achieved the rank of Professor in 1967. Robert Kohr's life was extraordinary, especially considering it ended tragically just as he was approaching the peak of his intellectual insight and vigor.
Robert Kohr was the consummate classroom professor. The courses he taught at Purdue attracted the best and brightest students, both undergraduate and graduate students. His meticulously-prepared lecture notes and articulate style made every class meeting a stimulating experience. He advocated the heuristic approach to problem solving, a philosophy that attracted undergraduate students to consider graduate school and graduate students to seek his commitment to mentor them through their studies and research.
Robert Kohr was an exemplary research adviser. He required of his doctoral students a solid background in mathematics and supporting course work from outside the School of Mechanical Engineering. He expected well-thought-out research proposals from candidates before initiating their thesis research. He demanded rigorous attention to facts and details. The success of his teaching, research and mentoring styles led several of his doctoral students to seek careers in the academic community.
Robert Kohr was a gentleman, devoted husband and father. He was respected by his students, colleagues and social and professional acquaintances as a man of high moral character, a loyal and trusted friend and a solid citizen. He died in a mid-air collision near Shelbyville, Indiana on September 9, 1969. He was 44 years old.
Two awards have been established in honor of Robert Kohr in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, the Robert H. Kohr Award in recognition of Outstanding Work in Dynamics, Simulation and Automatic Controls in 1973, and the R. H. Kohr Graduate Student Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering in 2019.
Peter Konieczny
President, Flexibles Europe, Middle East and Africa
Peter Konieczny is currently a Business Group President within Amcor, a global packaging company that develops and produces flexible packaging, rigid containers, specialty cartons, closures and services for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical-device, home and personal-care, and other products. The company employs more than 50,000 people and has revenues in excess of $13 billion from sales and operations in 200 locations in over 40 countries, including several locations in Indiana. Peter is responsible for all of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and his organization has approximately 10,000 employees and accounts for 40 percent of the Flexibles business.
Peter joined Amcor in 2010 after six years as President of Silgan White Cap. In the latter part of that appointment, he was located at the company headquarters in Downers Grove, Illinois. Silgan White Cap manufactures and supplies consumer goods packaging products for the food and beverage industries. Peter previously held Chief Executive Officer and Chief Finance Officer positions in the heavy industrial equipment industry. In particular, he was Managing Director of Noell Cranes, directing their construction and installation of shipping port cranes in China. Prior to that he served as Assistant to the CEO of Preussag AG, a German steel company, which he joined after working for four years as a Management Consultant for McKinsey and Company.
Peter obtained his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Leibniz Universität in his native Hannover before joining Purdue at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories for two years, where he performed his MSME research on the optimal design of low-noise centrifugal blowers. That project was funded by IBM, and resulted in several well-cited publications and presentations, and he received the Institute of Noise Control Engineering Student Paper Award for his presentation of the work at the 1990 National Noise Control Conference.
Chuck Krousgrill
BSME 1975
Tebbe Family 150th Anniversary Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Charles M. Krousgrill received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 1975 before going on to complete his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 1976 and 1980 respectively. Upon graduation from Cal Tech, he accepted a position as assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. He rose through the ranks and became Professor of ME in 1997 and currently holds the Tebbe Family 150th Anniversary Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Professor Krousgrill is an exceptional researcher, who has led many research projects and has collaborated with many faculty members within Mechanical Engineering and at various other engineering schools at Purdue University. He has received more than $10.1M in research grants and contracts with his share more than 50% of this total. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers and has given many presentations in industry, government and international conferences.
However, Professor Krousgrill's great impact in academia and true love is teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. He has excelled in educating students and is world renowned for his teaching contributions. Professor Krousgrill received the H. L. Solberg Best Teaching Award for the first time in 1985 and has won this award nine more times. He has won the A. A. Potter Best Teaching Award from the Purdue College of Engineering four times. In addition, Professor Krousgrill won the Charles B. Murphy Undergraduate Teaching Award, the highest teaching award at Purdue University in 1994. In 1999, he was inducted into Purdue's Book of Great Teachers. He served as the cooperative education coordinator for more than 20 years in total. Furthermore, Professor Krousgrill has made exceptional teaching contributions to the development and contents of numerous courses at Purdue University, pioneering new teaching methods. On top of all of this, he has made lasting contributions by personally mentoring a large number of undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Mechanical Engineering.
Carl Leshock
Vice President, Barclaycard
Carl Leshock completed his BSME at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and then attended Purdue for his MSME, where his thesis was "Temperature Measurement and Analysis during Turning." After graduating from Purdue, he joined Ford Motor Company in 1995. He promoted data driven analysis and decision making for product and process improvement, and completed five Black Belt projects which reduced customer dissatisfaction by 20 Things-Gone-Wrong per thousand, saving Ford $1.7 million in hard and soft savings.
After a few stints at GGB Bearing Technology and Southco, Inc., he joined Barclaycard, a credit card company in 2014, where he rose to the rank of Vice President for Contact Center Strategy, Optimization and Control. As VP, he is leading the development of strategic planning and integrating processes across Customer Care operations network to ensure continued improvement of the control environment, to generate operational and cost efficiencies, to optimize the customer experience, and further advance the colleague agenda. He also provides leadership, management and facilitation of initiatives resulting from strategic planning and/or directed by Senior Management and external stakeholders.
James McCarthy
BSME 1990, MSME 1991, PhD 1995
Chief Engineer, Eaton Corporation
James' career has been all about engines, starting at Detroit Diesel in 1995, and moving to Eaton Corporation in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he has worked for the last 17 years. Specifically, he has led the charge for diesel cylinder deactivation, technology that selectively disables certain cylinders in a diesel engine to increase fuel economy, improve engine efficiency, and decrease carbon emissions. Government regulators are promoting diesel cylinder deactivation for 2027 emissions standards, while some customers may become early adopters in 2024.
In this capacity, he has worked closely with Purdue University's Herrick Labs, who have a 7-year research program with Cummins for Advanced Engine Combustion and Aftertreatment Using Variable Valve Actuation. This investigation helped shape engine technologies that are most viable for upcoming emissions regulations while preserving/improving fuel economy.
James has built key relationships with government, industry, academia, and media, showing that Eaton is a trusted advisor for existing and new technologies. His executive leadership in the energy sector has led to conserving fossil fuels and reducing emissions by creating organic growth solutions through innovation, product development, intellectual property and publications.
Pinar Mengüç
Director of Center for Energy, Environment and Economy, Özyegin University
Professor M. Pinar Mengüç is an internationally known scholar in thermal transport, particularly in radiative transport. He received his BS and MS from ODTU/METU in Ankara,Turkey, and his PhD from Purdue University in 1985, supervised by Prof. Raymond Viskanta. The same year he joined the University of Kentucky (UK), and promoted to the ranks of associate and full professor in 1988 and 1993, respectively. He was a visiting professor at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy during 1991 and at Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, during 1998-99 academic year. He was awarded an Honorary Professorship at ESPOL, in Ecuador in 2006. At the end of 2008, he was promoted to Engineering Alumni Association Chair Professor at the University of Kentucky, which he still holds (as emeritus).
Professor Mengüç joined Özyeğin University, Istanbul in 2009 as the founding Head of Mechanical Engineering, a position he held until 2019. In 2009, he also established the Center for Energy, Environment and Economy (CEEE/EÇEM) which he is still directing. His current research areas include radiative transfer, nano-scale transport phenomena, applied optics and sustainable energy applications. He is an elected member of Science Academy of Turkey, a fellow of both ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineering) and ICHMT (International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer), and a Senior Member of OSA (Optical Society of America). He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2018 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the highest award bestowed to individuals in heat transfer. In addition, with the Center (CEEE) he is directing, he received the First Place Award on 'Efficiency' from the Ministry of Industry and Technology of Turkey (in November 2019), and the First Place Award on 'Energy Efficiency' from the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey (in January 2020). Both awards were based on a Sustainable Energy project CEEE/EÇEM has completed, which was funded by European Union and was one of the largest grants received by any center in Turkey.
He is the author of more than 150 published articles, has co-authored more than 200 conference papers and two books. He has worked with more than 60 MS, PhD and Post-Doc researchers, and had more than 130 invited/keynote lectures delivered. He is a member of the executive committees of several NGOs, including ICHMT and Science Academy, Turkey. He is one of the three Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT), a Handling Editor of Physics Open, and Honorary Editor of Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer. He was the Turkish delegate to European Union for Energy Programs (2010-2016), and a delegate of Turkey to Climate Change Conferences (COP, 2010, 2019).


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WipeoutZone Forum > The Games > WipEout Pure > Score boards.
View Full Version : Score boards.
Will there be a scoreboard for this WipEout too? It's the only WpEout I'm gonna have so I'm wondering.
it's a ghost sharing site, and it works as a record table for purE, too.


This year will mark the 27th consecutive Veterans Day that the Central Washington University Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) senior class will honor the country's prisoners of war (POW) and others missing in action (MIA.
The 24-hour vigil, which commemorates those who are 'Gone, but not Forgotten,' begins Thursday, November 10, at midnight and continues through midnight on Veterans Day. During the vigil, cadets will live in meager conditions in a tent near McConnell Hall.
This year's vigil will conclude with a candlelight ceremony Friday at 11:45 p.m., which will feature members of the CWU music department performing Taps. CWU and all Kittitas County community members are encouraged to view the POW/MIA displays throughout the vigil and visit with participating cadets.
Phipps noted that both CWU's Air Force and Army ROTC cadre members will be represented and participate in the Ellensburg Veterans Day Parade.


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Songs By Sofi Tukker, Lorde, G-Eazy, More Reach Top 50 At Pop Radio
"Best Friend," "Homemade Dynamite," "No Limit" and "End Game" enter pop radio's Top 50.
by Brian Cantor Nov 12, 2017, 10:17 pm
Sofi Tukker by Shervin Lainez / Fancy PR
Sofi Tukker's "Best Friend (featuring NERVO, The Knocks & Alisa Ueno)," Lorde's "Homemade Dynamite (featuring Khalid, Post Malone & SZA)," G-Eazy's "No Limit (featuring A$AP Rocky & Cardi B)" and Taylor Swift's "End Game (featuring Ed Sheeran & Future)" officially enter the Top 50 at pop radio.
Played 519 times during the November 5-11 tracking period (+326), "Best Friend" ranks as the Mediabase pop panel's #44 song. It was #59 last week.
Up six places, "Homemade Dynamite" earns #47. It received 448 tracking period plays (+147).
Credited with 425 spins (+54), "No Limit" climbs three places to #48.
Taylor Swift's "End Game (featuring Ed Sheeran and Future)," which did not even arrive until the sixth day of the tracking period, earned enough spins (391) for #50.
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Khalid's "Saved" Ranks As Rhythmic Radio's Most Added Song
Post Malone's "Rockstar" Spends 8th Week At #1 On Billboard Hot 100
G-Eazy, ASAP Rocky & Cardi B's "No Limit" Officially Earns #1 At Rhythmic & Urban Radio
Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran & Future's "End Game" Repeats As Pop Radio's Most Added Song
Taylor Swift's "End Game" Enters Top 40 At Pop Radio
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Gaming Safety
Guide to the Best Disney Online Kids Games
Other Disney Games / By Sheri Newton / Disney Games
Disney's website offers free kids games that are fun for kids of all ages to play. Find which ones are the most fun and interactive to keep you child entertained.
Games Featuring Alice
The Disney Alice in Wonderland games are very fun and include a great amount of content for a free game offered on the Disney website. If you've seen the movie, you would enjoy playing these games because they use the characters in the movie and it's free!
Disney Alice in Wonderland Games – Adventures in Wonderland
In "Adventures in Wonderland," you have the option to play the game as either Alice or the Mad Hatter. It is a fun adventure and has a high re-playability factor, which is always a big bonus.
Disney Alice in Wonderland Games – Hidden Secrets
This is a game where you find the hidden pictures to advance further in the game. It is sort of like an "I Spy" type of a game, but only involves Wonderland related scenes. It isn't a very hard game, and even offers "hints" that you can use if you can't find something. This could possibly even be a good free preschool online game, and is one of the best Disney online kids games offered on Disney's website.
Disney Alice in Wonderland Games – Rose Race
The "Rose Race" is a puzzle game where you play against the Queen. You have to hide roses and spades. If you find all of the roses first, you win. It is pretty hard to beat the Queen though, so it will take patience to master this one!
There are some other Alice in Wonderland games that are also available both offline and online, but those are not free. They would offer more content, but for browser based free kids games, Disney does a fantastic job with these games.
The Disney High School Musical games are fun and include a great amount of content for a free game. If your kids have seen the movie, they would enjoy these games because it uses the same characters in the popular movies. If your kid wants to play more of the High School Musical games, just browse around on the Disney website, there is a huge assortment to pick from!
High School Musical Games – 3 Minute Game Show
This game is a game show where you will be answering trivia questions on the High School Musical movie. See if you can beat your friend's scores with this game!
High School Musical Games – Troy's Super Team Tryouts
This is a popular game that you get to shoot some hoops in. It takes some practice to get the hang of it, but eventually, you will score points and perhaps even make the team!
Disney Pixie Hollow
The fairy games on the Disney main website and on Pixie Hollow are fun and include a great amount of content for free games offered on the website. If your kids have seen the Disney Fairies movies, or just love Tinkerbell, and perhaps even Sims 3 fairy wings (if they play that too), they would absolutely love the Disney Pixie Hollow games and website! If you sign up, you can even have them create their very own fairy.
Flitterific Fairy Fortunes
This is such a cute game on the Disney website. It is basically a gemstone match game, but it gives you a fortune at the end of it. It is like a fairy delivering you your very own virtual fortune cookie each time you play it, who wouldn't like that?
Tink's Fairy Tag
This is also able to be played right on the main Disney website. You don't need to be a part of the Pixie Hollow website to play it. You essentially just move the mouse around and try to avoid the other glowing dots (fairies). Not a hard game, but kids enjoy it.
Firefly Light Up
This is a Pixie Hollow game where you have to find the light to put on the firefly. You get points and can pick a prize at the end that you can use in shops or as an ingredient to make something with. This is a very cute game that can be found in the "Springtime Orchard" area of Pixie Hollow.
Harvest Hustle
This is another one of the free Disney Pixie Hollow games that is on the Pixie Hollow portion of the Disney website. It is a matching game that will also give you rewards when completing it. If you are a free member, you can only play the "Easy" option though.
All screenshots for this article were taken by Sheri Newton, the writer of this article, while playing the games.
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Home Op-Ed Why care about housing?
Why should you care about housing if you have acquired your piece of Martha's Vineyard? Or locked down a 12-month lease you can afford? You did it, why can't everyone else? If you need to work multiple jobs, so be it. It was a struggle, but you made it.
The more time passes, the more expensive this Island becomes. Two facts about this rock. One, it is a second-home market. Chilmark is 76 percent seasonal. Less than one in four reside year-round. Two, it is a world-known tourist destination that causes the population to swell during the summer months. Island-wide, more than half of our residential properties are occupied with part-timers or visitors.
Unless we fill in Vineyard Sound, the Island is not gaining any more land. It might be accreting some sand at Dogfish Bar in Aquinnah, but it is eroding around the edges elsewhere. And so is our population of workers, like grains of sand, going back into the sea. If housing is not available here, the ferry is their shuttle to shelter. Problem solved, right?
No. Imagine a circuit fails in your house: Do you want the electrician riding the waves to get here? Or a pipe bursts, and the plumber states, "Sorry, can't get a boat." Perhaps, after a surgery, you must go off-island for physical therapy.
The Island shuffle is a term many understand. Shelter is a need for all strata of society. Should you be entitled to live here? No, that goes against our idea of freedom. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is what the Founding Fathers thought was essential to life. Yet without a roof over your head, a stable domicile, how does one achieve those unalienable rights?
To determine a path forward on the housing front, all the towns came together — selectmen, planning boards, affordable housing committees, and the Martha's Vineyard Commission — to fund the creation of a Housing Production Plan (HPP) for each town. An HPP is a working document, a detailed blueprint for creating more housing.
An HPP will force us to address some big issues about zoning, density, and wastewater. Public input and consensus are needed. To do this, your town will have a series of three workshops. Each workshop builds on the prior one. First, housing vision, next, development of goals, and last, development of strategies. Find the dates for your town at mvcommission.org/housing-production-plan and put them on your calendar. Each HPP is per town, as the solutions are not necessarily the same for all areas.
No one will show us the way; we need to make the way. How? Exercise your right to speak, to demand change, to vote for change. If you don't participate, then don't complain if things remain the same.
We control our destiny with housing.
Mr. Seidman is chairman of the Tisbury Planning Board and a member of the housing work group. —Ed.


This coastal city, located in southwestern Los Angeles County, resides south of El Segundo, and north of Hermosa Beach. A hotspot for beach volleyball and surfing, the city hosts the Manhattan Beach Open Volleyball Tournament and the International Surf Festival annually in August. It's also home to some of the top performing schools in the district, ranking third in the state of California.


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Court ruling in Montana rape case reveals deep troubles in United States
The recent court ruling of Montana Judge G. Todd Baugh is creating a maelstrom of activism and public outcry in the United States. As CNN reported earlier today, the National Organization for Women (NOW) organized a protest outside of Billings Courthouse on Thursday, Aug. 29th. Baugh is being asked to immediately resign for handing down a sentence of 30 days in jail to former teacher Stacey Dean Rambold. Rambold faced this sentencing for the alleged rape of Cherice Moralez in 2008, a 14 year old student at the time of the incident. This situation raises many questions as to why children in the United States are being treated as mature enough to make sexual decisions.
Baugh has already had to apologize for statements which blame the victim. As reported by the Los Angeles Times on Aug. 28th, Baugh referred to the victim as being "older than her chronological age," insinuating that Moralez was emotionally capable of consenting to the sexual relationship with Rambold.
According to an article published by the Huffington Post on Aug. 27, Cherice Moralez took her own life in 2010. This casts further doubts on Judge Baugh's assertions regarding Moralez. In "The entertainment industry is no place for children," published Aug. 28th on ventwing.com, questions are raised as to why American society allows children to be exploited by the entertainment industry. As adults, acting out is often blamed on these people who have been systematically victimized from a young age.
Is this case with Cherice Moralez symptomatic of the same problems? Children are treated as adults on screen, sexualized by the entertainment industry, and young teenagers are portrayed as being capable of making adult decisions. The popular television series "Pretty Little Liars" portrays a 14 year old girl having a sexual relationship with a teacher. The show seems to convey the message that the young character is emotionally mature enough to make the decision to have a sexual relationship with an adult.
Judge Baugh's decision sends a message that teachers bear little to no responsibility in such situations. In 2004 Debra Lafave took advantage of a 14 year old male student, completely avoiding jail when the victim did not testify in court. There is a pattern arising here, and cases such as these will only make it more difficult for students to come forward if they find themselves in a situation where they are being taken advantage of by an adult. Perhaps it is time to stop talking about individual cases and begin trying to situate these incidents within the larger picture of American society.
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If Dexter knew where to find Arthur, when his car broke down, how come he didn't know that Arthur was on his way from Dexter's house? He just accidentally came across him on that road? Used a batman tracer dart / homing beacon?
Or if Arthur went there by cab (as he left his van in the car park), he would have done the job before he went to pick up the car, but yet it was light when he picked up the car – and Rita left the message about the moonlight – how would she know it was a beautiful moon if she was already dead?
It feels rushed and cheapens the whole experience. Any decent writer could pick holes in that shambles.


Don't look now, but is that a camera over there?! As the long-awaited opening day of the new Whit's End approaches, all eyes are on Whit and the gang - including some that are uninvited. As more sinister developments unfold, Whit and Connie face trial and tragedy among those closes to them. Jason's life is no picnic either: a trip back to war-torn South America lands him in jail! Meanwhile, Mandy and Sarah stumble upon an old friend who vanishes, leaving behind a strange secret message with a warning about "Andromeda." What is going on?


This Remembrance Day weekend, Ultimate Canada held the western component to its U23 national team tryouts. Fittingly, they took place at Memorial Oval Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was also one of the most exciting selection trials I've ever observed.
The frost crept up surreptitiously at first, but before long, every surface at the fields sparkled with it. It lent a ceremonial majesty to the occasion, and it turned every layout into a slick skid. It turned every disc into a slippery enemy — cold and rigid, they would bite and bruise your fingers before trying to slip your grip.
The park filled with a small army of some sixty motley youths in mismatched uniform. I recognized quite a few, and it surprised me to remember such good players are still just in their early twenties. It's a stunning shift in perspective: I know them because I've competed with them already, and struggled for points against them. They're getting better, and there are more coming up through the system every year. Maybe the confusion went both ways, since someone asked me if I was trying out. No. I'm 30.* Present as an administrator, I stood steely-eyed and humorlessly at the sideline. The part of me that is a player and competitor struggled to continually remember these kids were two-thirds my age, and hungry.
Several ingredients combine to make a tryout as exciting as this. The first ingredient is talent, which goes without saying.
The third is raw ambition. And this is what I value most — the underlying, unteachable fuel to the chaotic fire. Remember: this is not one of those local tryouts wherein players stop in "just to try to learn something." And Vancouver is not strategically located in the midst of sprawling metropolitan web quite like, say, Toronto. Most attendees of the eastern tryouts drove; some drove for a while, but they mostly drove nevertheless. The western tryouts encompass a catchment area including such ultimate hubs as Edmonton, Calgary, and Winnipeg. And those cities were well represented. That means those kids (mere students, mostly!) flew across the nation for this chance — and nothing but a chance — at the national team. Furthermore, there is no tournament, no coverage, and no medals to be won. If that is not the mark of uncompromising ambition, I don't what is. Any 22-year-old who ventures that kind of commitment is to be respected and feared on the field, for they will stop at nothing. I was impressed and touched by the very thought.
Recently in Sarasota, a friend and I opined on the subject of Canadian ultimate, and our talent pool. He gravely remarked that it was a deep, but small pool — good, but narrow, and growing older. After this weekend, I disagree. I've seen you. You possess strength, smarts and ambition. You will replace us, and that is somehow curiously comforting.
This Sunday, there is one particular verse of John McCrae's that sounds doubly poignant to me, and it's funny that it stays stuck in my head. He spoke of capital sacrifice and extraordinarily tragic circumstances, though. That is what we are always taught to remember. Today, I am also remembering a happier, less-underlined theme — there is also always a future, and someone to pass it to.
Please observe a minute of silence this Sunday. We will.
*Pro Tip: you can tell by the gray hairs and the way I roll my eyes when you speak.
** I don't actually watch basketball, but I have it on good authority this is an appropriate simile.


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NTPC, India's largest power generating company, has been ranked 25th in India's Great Place to Work for 2018.
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New Delhi [India], June 29 (ANI-NewsVoir): NTPC, India's largest power generating company, has been ranked 25th in India's Great Place to Work for 2018. Also Read - Live Cricket Score Ind vs Aus 4th Test Day 3 Today's Match Live Updates Gabba, Brisbane: Rahane-Pujara Eye Solid Start
NTPC is the only PSU among top 25 and has made a quantum leap from 38th position last year. NTPC has also been recognized as the Laureates for consistently getting featured in the list for 10 years in a row. Also Read - Vaccination Drive Suspended in Maharashtra Till Monday Due to CoWin App Glitches
Amongst the top 100 companies in the country, NTPC has appeared in this coveted list of winners for successfully building and sustaining high trust-high performance culture with only 5 companies given this recognition. Also Read - Day 1 of Largest Vaccination Drive Ends as Over 1.9 Frontline Workers Get First Jabs | 10 Points
The award was received by Rajesh Kumar, RED, West-I, NTPC in an glittering award ceremony held on June 28th in Mumbai. This achievement showcases NTPC's commitment to enhance professional growth of its employees by setting new standards in the company's work culture. The annual Best Workplaces List of the Great Place to Work institute is considered the gold standard certification for defining, assessing and recognizing great workplaces based on their people management practices.
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Derwent Living Deliver Coronavirus Solution in Three Days
When coronavirus struck, Derwent Living needed to implement significant changes to their tenant communications – and fast. With Voicescape, the housing association has dramatically improved engagement with tenants in the Midlands, Yorkshire and the South East of England.
Derwent Living recognised that lockdown was going to be detrimental for many of their tenants. An increase in Universal Credit claims was just the start. There was a whole range of information that they needed to communicate.
The social housing provider wanted to react quickly and scale up tenant communications to deal with the increased workload, but they knew that not all tenants have access to a mobile phone.
They needed to find a way to contact customers en masse and direct them to useful information – without drawing resources away from other areas of the organisation…
"We were looking for a system that we could control, that would allow us to communicate with tenants at the necessary scale, primarily unidirectionally, while maintaining high levels of customer service and satisfaction." Richard Cookson – Head of Income, ITC and Processing, Derwent Living.
We knew that the 'voice' telephone channel would be the most effective way for Derwent Living to engage with tenants – especially the most vulnerable. This would also allow us to automate a communications journey that could be updated as the coronavirus situation developed.
Within three days, we had adapted our product offering to create a dynamic process that allowed the housing association to handle varying levels of capacity within their internal call centre.
The system signposted tenants to information on the Derwent Living website, providing the level of engagement required during this period while relieving call-handling teams from a surge of inbound enquiries.
By listening to Derwent Living's needs and taking a consultative approach, Voicescape were able to quickly develop a cost-effective, technological solution for a very current problem.
The success of the project was further driven by speed of implementation and the ability to adapt to a dynamic and rapidly changing environment that is really impacting tenants and landlords.
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"One of the extra benefits of this campaign is that tenants have the assurance of receiving reliable information; they are not going off to sources that could potentially be inaccurate or unnecessarily overloading other public services that are already overstretched. If our tenants want to speak to a member of the team, that is still always an option." Richard Cookson – Head of Income, ITC and Processing, Derwent Living.
"One of the extra benefits of this campaign is that tenants have the assurance of receiving reliable information; they are not going off to sources that could potentially be inaccurate or unnecessarily overloading other public services that are already overstretched."
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On Monday, March 19, 2018, the Grand Theater - National Opera in Warsaw hosted the 100th anniversary of the ZAiKS Association of Authors. The most outstanding Polish artists, including the greatest stars of Polish classical music, entertainment and jazz, took part in it. Recognized representatives of Polish culture appeared on the stage as well as among the audience.
During the gala ceremony, the 100th anniversary awards of ZAiKS for Krzysztof Penderecki, Tomasz Stańko, Mirosław Bałka, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ryszard Horowitz, Jacek Cygan, Janusz Gajos, Agnieszka Duczmal, Leon Tarasewicz and Wiesław Myśliwski were presented.
On this occasion, ZAiKS's Honorary Memberships were also granted. They were received by Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Adam Makowicz, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Emil Wesołowski, Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, Joanna Kulmowa, Janusz Majewski and Polish PEN Club.
The hosts of the evening were Sonia Bohosiewicz and Artur Orzech.
The gala was graced by a two-hour Concert of the 100th Anniversary presenting the achievements of ZAiKS members performed by the greatest stars of the Polish stage. More than 300 artists have appeared on the stage. Representatives of several generations of diverse genres and musical traditions met in the Grand Theater. Especially for this occasion, a new series of songs has been prepared.
Fragments of nearly seventy unforgettable works written by over a hundred Polish artists have been presented.
The Orchestra of the Grand Theater - National Opera in the fifty-member band, the forty-member Choir of the Grand Theater - National Opera and many other instrumental musicians appeared on the stage.
The 100th anniversary concert was opened by a pre-war retrospective written by Marcin Masecki, followed by a bigbeat bunch from the 1960s and 1970s by Kayah, Kuba Badach and Katarzyna Cerekwicka, and a unique selection proposed by Magda Umer in tribute to the great authors of the Polish song - Agnieszka Osiecka Wojciech Młynarski, Jeremia Przyborze, Jerzy Wasowski, Jonasz Kofta and Zbigniew Wodecki - performed by Maryla Rodowicz, Hanna Banaszak and Stanisław Soyka. One could also hear a rock collage from the 80s with Katarzyna Nosowska, Tomasz Organek, Krzysztof Zalewski and Natalia Sikora in the company of the Titans of the Guitar.
Tribute to Polish jazz and Krzysztof Komeda, he made a super band under the direction of Tomasz Stańko, next to which were performed by Leszek Możdżer (photo), Michał Urbaniak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Wojciech Karolak, Sławomir Kurkiewicz and Cezary Konrad.
There were also film compositions by Wojciech Kilar, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy "Duduś" Matuszkiewicz, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Krzesimir Dębski and Michał Lorenc. And all this in the performance of Zbigniew Namysłowski, Edyta Krzemień, Anna Jurksztowicz and the Orchestra of the Grand Theater - National Opera under the direction of Krzesimir Dębski.
A song of the genius of Fryderyk Chopin's music was also performed. His work has been an inspiration for many generations of composers. This time, the artist's work was interpreted by a Polish musician of world renown - Włodek Pawlik. Igor Herbut, Kaliber 44, Anna Lasota and Katarzyna Wilk with a choir and orchestra conducted by Aleksander Maliszewski took us on a more contemporary musical journey - from the 90s to the latest sounds.
The musical culmination of the 100th anniversary of the Association of Authors ZAiKS was a fragment of Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater performed by opera singers: Iwona Hossa, Małgorzata Pańko - Edery and Jarosław Bręk with the choir and orchestra conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk. Paulina Bidzińska - a soloist of the Polish National Ballet and the Eurovision ballet winner - made a choreographic arrangement by Emil Wesołowski.
Guests also listened to the moving interpretation of the song It's time for a dream by Jeremy Przybora and Grzegorz Wasowski performed by 166 children from children's choirs under the direction of Agata Steczkowska - among them Alla Pollaca, Animato, Conquest of Music, Warsaw Thunder and Children's Choir Agata Steczkowska.
The authors of the arrangements for symphony orchestra were Krzysztof Herdzin, Jakub and Dawid Lubowicz, Aleksander Maliszewski, Marcin Masecki and Krzesimir Dębski. The musical setting of Gala was based, among others, on the motifs from Mieczysław Karłowicz's symphonic poems. Episode on the Masquerade op. 14.
The spectacle was highlighted by a unique visual setting - several hundred archival photographs depicting the most outstanding Polish artists of the last century. Also shown are films presenting the achievements of ZAiKS Authors' Association and the most important challenges that lie ahead of it, as well as film impressions with the participation of outstanding artists.
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Having traveled the globe, there are many sights that take my breath away, but the northern lights top the list. On this night, for four hours, from horizon to horizon, overhead, I was ecstatic, speechless, and in ecstasy. Words cannot convey the magic of this night.


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Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands
By Roger D. Hodge
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In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph.
A New York Times Editor's Choice of the Week
In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family.
What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph.
A thoughtful portrait of a hard and beautiful place: part ethnography, part literary criticism, part family and regional history, always personal… Sincere, accurate, and open-minded, sometimes intimate, this book qualifies as a true primary source. After the present of Texas Blood has become past, Hodge's observations and summations will still be well worth reading. —William T. Vollmann, author of The Dying Grass
Texas Blood blends the personal and the historical to create a vivid portrait of a place unable to transcend its violent past. Roger D. Hodge is a very gifted writer, and he tells his story with the energy of a perfectly paced novel. —Ron Rash, author of Serena
In Texas Blood, Roger Hodge takes the reader on journeys through intricate maps of the past and present, through politics and luck and greed and death, but always returning to the beautiful, unforgiving land of his heritage. —Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon
Roger Hodge has crafted a masterful alloy of memoir and reportage, of social criticism and regional history. Texas Blood is an unforgettable foray into our most mysterious, violent, myth-soaked state, a portrait of enormous talent and skill that reveals precisely what America is. —William Giraldi, author of Hold the Dark
Hypnotically written, deeply researched, profoundly elegiac—the adverbs pile up, and with good reason. Roger D. Hodge has written a wonderful book about our most vexed and peculiarly American state, with an eye for detail and anecdote that's as loving as it is merciless. —Tom Bissell, author of Apostle
A fusion of historical narrative, memoir, exposé, and lament, Texas Blood is a rigorously-researched, compassionate examination of one of our country's most polarizing states. Hodge casts an unflinching eye on the violence of the borderlands, yet does so with the tender lyricism and spiritual acumen of the best Cormac McCarthy. He deftly traverses the panoply of his home state's shifting histories and landscapes while never losing sight of the individual: a suppliant walking barefoot, a child's forgotten grave, the murdered body of a family friend. Texas Blood is a timely, important work: in grappling with Texas, Roger Hodge is holding America's own deeply-troubled feet to the fire. —Jamie Quatro, author of I Want to Show You More
[Roger D. Hodge is] smart, observant, and skeptical. . . . 'Texas Blood' is a rich journey. —Stephen Harrigan, The New York Times Book Review
This is part elegy, part picaresque, part memoir and part history, all bound together in prose that is by turns lyrical and slashing. . . . We're all just passing through this barbarous country. Splendid writers like Hodge, with a sharp sense of history and a loving but unsparing pen, help us understand what we're seeing as we go. —Dallas News
Heartbreaking and mesmerizing… Hodge combines a journalist's eye with a native son's love to give readers clear insight into southwestern Texas's past, present, and future. —Publishers Weekly
Imagine finding out that the land where Cormac McCarthy set one of his most brutal novels was your family's ranch . . . I've read loads of books about Texas but rarely encountered one so deeply of it, so deep the story escapes and becomes a treatise on the twisted American past, and the force exerted by that on our complex present. —John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead
All [of Roger D. Hodge's] effort has produced a book that will be beloved by Texans and fascinating to anyone else who wants to understand why the strange geographical category of 'state' still matters in our ostensibly globalized age. . . . How wonderful it would be to have not only a 'Texas Blood' but a 'California Blood,' then a 'Pennsylvania Blood,' then a 'Puerto Rico Blood,' slowly shading in the vast and mysterious American map. —Craig Fehrman, San Francisco Chronicle
Author Bio: Roger D. Hodge
Roger D. Hodge is deputy editor of the Intercept and author of The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism. Formerly he was the editor of the Oxford American and Harper's Magazine. His writings have appeared in many publications, including Texas Monthly, the London Review of Books, Popular Science, the New Republic, and Harper's. His essay "Blood and Time: Cormac McCarthy and the Twilight of the West" was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for criticism.
Publisher: Random House Audio


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Karlie Kloss Is the New Brand Ambassador for Swarovski
by Kristen Heinzinger May 24, 2016
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Mod extraordinaire Karlie Kloss has been tapped by Swarovski as its newest brand ambassador, and to no surprise, the whole team is "already in love with her," said creative director Natalie Colin. She was picked for being "someone young women look up to—her use of social media makes her accessible to a broad audience" and Swarovski considers accessibility a major part of its DNA. "Karlie has an innate understanding of the digital world; we can't wait to leverage her creativity to share inspiring stories about our jewelry and capture those emotional moments in life," Colin added. "Besides her amazing beauty, she stands for modernity, freshness, self-confidence, elegance and spontaneity. Everything that we convey through our collections."
To kick off the partnership, Kloss and Swarovski created a video where she takes a few shots at pronouncing the brand's name, which is one of the most FAQ about Swarovski on Google, as part of the #HowYouSayIt campaign. Check it out, below.
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Patriots Week 2 opponent preview: Meet the Seattle Seahawks
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With opening week in the books, the New England Patriots can start turning their attention to the challenge that lies ahead — and it will be a formidable one: after beating the Miami Dolphins on Sunday, the club will travel to Seattle to take on the 1-0 Seahawks at CenturyLink Field for a Sunday Night meeting. The game takes place on September 20, at 8:20 pm. With that said, let's take a closer look at New England's upcoming opponent.
Record: 1-0 (t-1st place NFC West)
Points scored: 2nd (38.0/game)
Points against: 19th (25.0/game)
Head coach: Pete Carroll
Coordinators: Brian Schottenheimer (OC), Ken Norton (DC)
Led by the NFL's oldest head coach, who also used to work for the Patriots from 1997 to 1999, the Seahawks have an experienced coaching staff. Carroll took over in 2010 and led Seattle to a Super Bowl win in his fourth season, while Schottenheimer and Norton are both in their third year at the gig. Another name that needs to be pointed out is Larry Izzo: a core member of New England's Dynasty 1.0, the former special teams ace is currently serving as the Seahawks' kicking game coordinator.
Week 1 at Atlanta Falcons: W 38-25
Seattle started its 2020 season in perfect fashion by defeating the Falcons 38-25 on the road. While the game was a close one in the first half — the teams headed into the locker rooms with the visitors atop 14-12 — the Seahawks pulled away after intermission by scoring 17 unanswered points on offense and registering a takeaway and turnover on downs on defense in between.
Including playoffs, the Patriots and Seahawks have met 18 times so far:
Patriots wins: 9 (1 playoff win)
Seahawks wins: 9 (0 playoff wins)
The biggest game of the series so far is undoubtably the teams' meeting in Super Bowl 49. One of the best championship games ever played, the Seahawks jumped to a 24-14 lead in the fourth quarter before Tom Brady led the Patriots to two straight touchdown drives against the best defense of its era. Seattle almost came back to take the lead late in the game, but Malcolm Butler's goal line interception sealed the game in New England's favor.
The Patriots are traveling west with a 4-3 road record in Seattle.
Projected starting lineups
QB Russell Wilson; RB Chris Carson; WR DK Metcalf, WR Tyler Lockett, WR David Moore; TE Greg Olsen; LT Duane Brown, LG Mike Iupati, C Ethan Pocic, RG Damien Lewis*, RT Brandon Shell
*rookies
The biggest name in Seattle's projected starting lineup is, of course, Russell Wilson. One of the best quarterbacks in the game today, the 31-year-old is leading an attack that features an intriguing mix of experience and talent — from established veterans such as himself, Greg Olsen or Duane Brown, to young talent like DK Metcalf, Chris Carson and Damien Lewis. One question will be who fills the third receiver role: while David Moore caught three passes last week, ex-Patriot Phillip Dorsett II might be back this week to take his spot.
DE L.J. Collier, DT Jarran Reed, DT Poona Ford; DE Benson Mayowa; OLB Bruce Irvin, MLB Bobby Wagner, OLB K.J. Wright; CB Shaquill Griffin, CB Quinton Dunbar; SS Jamal Adams, FS Quandre Diggs
Seattle's defense may not have the start power of the former "Legion of Boom" but it still features considerable talent — especially at the middle linebacker position manned by perennial All-Pro Bobby Wagner and at strong safety where former New York Jets first-round draft pick was added this offseason. Despite the unit surrendering 506 yards against Atlanta last week, it proved itself an opportunistic one that is capable of making life hard for the Patriots' offense on Sunday night.
K Jason Myers, P Michael Dickson, LS Tyler Ott; PR David Moore, KR Travis Homer
As is the case elsewhere on the Seahawks' roster, its special teams crew also features plenty of experience. The name to point out is Tyler Ott, who started his career in New England: Ott spent parts of the 2014 and 2015 offseason with the team before carving out a successful career in Seattle. He arrived late during the 2016 season and last year agreed to a three-year, $3.3 million contract extension.
Three things to watch
1. A confirmation of Week 1: Opening week is naturally a time for overreaction in the NFL. Week 2, meanwhile, can serve as some sort of confirmation for the trends that were seen the previous game. In New England's case, this spans from personnel employment to whether or not the run game and secondary can keep up the pace they set against the Dolphins on Sunday. While the Patriots' game plan against the Seahawks will be a different one, some general developments can probably still be observed.
2. Will Russell Wilson cook? Even if you have not seen the #LetRussCook hashtag on Twitter, the Seahawks' fans wish to have the team use its quarterback more efficiently as a passer is no secret. The team's Week 1 outing was a step in that direction: Wilson completed 31 of 35 pass attempts for 322 yards and four touchdowns — all while also leading Seattle with 29 rushing yards on three carries. But should the veteran QB again get this many chances to throw the football despite going up against the NFL's best secondary? That is a question Seahawks offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer will have to ask himself.
3. The absence of (real) crowd noise: Seattle's CenturyLink Field is one of the hardest places in the NFL to play: the stadium was built to reflect the crowd noise back onto the field, making it hard for offenses to operate. With no fans in the stadium and the league's "crowd noise from a can" not allowed to exceed 75 decibels, the situation looks a lot different — and is putting the offense in a more favorable position than it otherwise would be when playing the Seahawks on the road.
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Why I Have Decided To Support Kevin O'Leary
Well now it's official. Kevin O'Leary has finally announced that he does indeed want to be the leader, or the new King of the Harper Party.
He claims ordinary rubes Canadians are excited and grateful that he's going to save them from the Liberals.
And he wants Justin Trudeau to know that he is going to be his worst nightmare.
And that the next election is going to be an exorcism.
Kevin O'Leary doesn't just see himself as becoming the next prime minister of Canada. He sees himself as the one who can rid the country of current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his majority Liberal government.
"This is not going to be an election but an exorcism," said O'Leary. "Where is it written in the Constitution we have to settle for mediocrity and incompetence? I am scraping that all away. We deserve so much better. I will get rid of the malaise of Trudeau."
"You won't remember his name when I am finished."
But sadly for O'Leary, he can't escape his sorry record.
And the Globe's Tim Kiladze is just the latest reporter to remind us that Mr Wonderful's claim to be a great businessman is mostly hot air.
Like Donald Trump, he tries to project an image that suggests every business he's touched is wildly successful. As we uncovered in Report on Business magazine, the reality is much less rosy.
Mr. O'Leary's billion-dollar sale of his software company in 1999 proved to be a disaster, his track record on Dragon's Den was spotty, and the investment fund company he co-founded roared out of the gates, only to fall out of favour with investors and their advisers.
And as his former Dragon's Den cast member Arlene Dickinson also reminds us, when O'Leary claims that all the outrageous things he's said on TV, like union members should be jailed or economic inequality is "fantastic," were just show business bluster.
Don't believe him.
For Dickinson says what you see is who he is...
A greedy, grubby hustler who only cares about himself, or making money.
And as Press Progress reminds us, is only a legend in his own mind.
And not as brilliant as he imagines...
Watch Kevin O'Leary bomb every question on Celebrity Jeopardy for 2 minutes straight #cdnpoli #canlab #cpcldr pic.twitter.com/Mwoij2yQDF
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More like as dumb as a spoon.
And when I saw that, and I heard that Peter MacKay is worried that O'Leary could destroy the party he sold to Stephen Harper.
And he should know eh?
That's when I decided to support O'Leary's campaign to be the new King of the Con clowns...
Once I thought that Kellie Trump would be the one to destroy them.
You know, our useful idiot.
But now I think Mr Wonderful will do an even better job...
Labels: Con clowns, Con Leadership Race, Kevin O'Leary, The Death of Con Canada
This is why progressives always lose. The exact same thing happened with trump. We will promote this guy all the while spending the next 2.5 years tearing Justin Trudeau down because he is not ideologically pure. We will probably also latch onto to an "email" scandal or two. Many fucktards will hype the no chance ndp and the vote will split in this douchebag's favour and we will all be so fucked. No more pension and American style health care. Do not say I didn't warn you. There are many idiots in Canada who think "he's a bidness man he knows bidness!"
The future is so very bleak.
Simon 7:23 AM
hi anon...cheer up, progressives don't always lose. Thanks to Trump and some of the things that are going on in Europe, we are going through a dark period. But Kevin O'Leary is no Trump, and while he might win the Con leadership, he will never beat Justin Trudeau. Our Canadian values will protect us, and while the present is bleak, the future still belongs to us...
Anon 8:38, one person's "tearing Justin Trudeau down because he is not ideologically pure" is another person's holding Justin Trudeau to the promises he made or moving him to a more progressive agenda.
One of the reasons the GOP is so far to the right is that the Tea Party attacked RINOs with as much gusto as it did Dems. You see a similar dynamic here, with Con supporters attacking Red Tories. Instead of copying what obviously works, so-called progressives worry about criticizing Trudeau instead of holding his feet to the fire. Sad.
Trudeau ran as a pipeline-supporting, free-trading, Keynesian, social progressive, centrist. He expanded the pension and rolled it back to age 65 from 67. His child benefit cheque represented the single biggest drop in child poverty in history.
I am at the bottom rung of the middle class, so these changes had a huge effect on my life. I don't know what I would do if they were rolled back. I wish I was as delusional or as privileged as you so I could play the Both Side™ bullshit card every time I didn't agree with something the Prime Minister did, but I can't.
Marmalade 9:51 AM
Anyone not bringing in a 6 figure income is Doomed! Carry on!
hi Kathleen...well I don't know if I can carry on after that. ;) But what I do know is that we just have to fight even harder against those who would turn us into slaves, and create a more just society...
rumleyfips 10:55 AM
It's almost a month late, but what a birthday present for Trudeau.
hi rumleyfips...yes Justin really is spoiled. First he gets Kellie Trump as a gift, and then he gets Kevin O'Leary....
Thank you Arlene Dickinson for confirming what I already knew. O'Leary is as big an asshole in real life as he is on tv.
What I find truly bizarre is that he took "guidance" from has been Mike Harris and Harper enabler Crooked Marjorie Lebreton. She's so crooked they'll have to screw her into the ground after she croaks. She lied like a thief to cover Harper's tracks and save herself during the Duffy scandal so as credibility goes, she's bankrupt.
So thank you Mike and Marj for helping to foist O'leary on us. Maybe now the Con media will focus on the Con eat Con leadership race as opposed to JT's "scandalous" helicopter rides and use of French in Quebec.
hi JD...yes that was pretty devastating wasn't it? And O'Leary has been confirmed, if anyone still doubted it, as an absolute asshole. The story about the poor kids really says it all. And partnering up with people like Mike Harris and of all people Marjorie LeBreton, tells us all we need to know about where Mr Wonderful would lead us if he ever became prime minister. But thankfully he never will, and no matter how hard the Con media hammer Justin Trudeau, he is going to be Prime Minister for a long long time...
the salamander 2:43 PM
.. Sorry Simon .. I choose to pimp for Blanery & Scheery.. as a WWF tagteam.. If there's a 3some for sure I want Peter Van Loan's ex paramour Kristinn Kellie & her trusty sidetwitch Nicodemonic Kookoovalis.. But. i like the horse's arse you got yer money on.. He got panache.. even if he don't know what it is.. Let's tell him panache is found inside falafels.. see if that gets him spinny eh!
hi salamander...you know I keep forgetting that Kellie Trump once dated the Con toad Peter Van Loan. Surely that should also be held against her, for it clearly demonstrates, if further proof is needed, that she has absolutely no judgement.... ;)
aweb 3:16 PM
Terrible idea. Elected leaders get taken seriously even when they shouldn't. FFS did you not liveblog the slow motion train wreck in the US the past 18 months...
hi aweb...don't worry, I'm not really serious about supporting Kevin O'Leary. I'd rather cut off my right arm before I support any Con. I'm only hoping he wins, because NOBODY could take him seriously, and he would cripple the Cons for a generation...
A Political Junkie 3:17 PM
When I saw the headline of this posting, I nearly had a stroke. Then I realized the brilliance of Montreal Simon and can do nothing but agree with your strategy!
Thanks for posting the Jeopardy clip of our next "dumb as a bag of hammers" Conservative leader for our amusement. I loved the part where he had to be "given" $1000 to stay in the game; that strikes me as welfare of the worst type.
hi political junkie...I'm sorry I was a bit naughty. I only wanted you guys to briefly think that I had lost my mind, not give you a stroke. But thank you, I'm glad you agree with my master strategy to destroy the Cons. Give them enough O'Leary and they'll go down screaming. And wasn't that Jeopardy game great? Give the loser $1000 to stay in the game, and watch him blow that too. Forget about Mr Wonderful and let's start calling him Mr Zero... ;)
What I found most disturbing was that this idiot's ego couldn't stop him from hitting the buzzer when he clearly didn't have a clue what the question was.
An incredibly stupid buffoon. What is Kevin O'Leary?
hi JD...I know wasn't that hilarious? He jumped on that buzzer as aggressively as he would, only to be made to look like a fool. And yes indeed what is O'Leary? The only quiz show I enjoyed more than that one was when Stephen Harper appeared on Reach for the Top, and was humiliated by a kid from a poorer school than his. And I only wish that Harper and O'Leary had appeared on a quiz show together, so they both could have looked like idiots... ;)
Forget about that deal where Mattel way overpaid for O'Leary's software company and services, and their $112 million loss in just one of the years. Small beer. Somehow O'Leary although sued got away and Mattel took it all on the chin.
Remember O'Leary Funds, launched in 2008 on the Exchange with fragrant Deep State Host Amanda Lang? Yes? Oh, yes, O'Leary funds, THE MOST FANTASTICAL thing ever invented. "You'd better believe it!" quoth the man hisself.
The same small brain crowd I heard today on a CBC Halifax Maritime Noon phone-in show saying thing like, "I guess a businessman would sort things out in Ottawa", subscribed to O'Leary Funds, the Dividend Dispenser, to the tune of $1.5 BILLION.
Then, it was discovered the Fund Dividends were being paid out of the Fund itself. Naughty, Kevin, using capital to pay dividends. Illegal. The fund value continued to go down until it was worth only $800 M, as depositors got their money out of that Kevin shit show before it all hit the fan. You can google the details.
Anyway, this self-obsessed knob, whose carnival huckster blowhard I'm Mr Wonderful show is English only, is out of luck in Quebec. He can't put on a fact-free boastful act in French to fool our compatriots, because he's unilingual. Scared to expose his weakness. And if you can't fool them out there with ridiculously self-serving oratory, you're just another Anglo ex-Canadian Yankee parachuted in from Boston with no hair and an ego whose translated ravings make no sense on the printed page. Whose TV visage is a contorted sneer of derision at the FOOLs. A winning attitude for sure.
Exorcise General Malaise is his new motto, and would probably make a good barbecue sauce for kippers. I'm relying on French Canada to refute this buffoon if he becomes CPC leader, because he couldn't be assed to even try to speak French and is due no consideration whatsoever from them.
hi BM...yes, you make a lot of good points, and it is stunning that anyone with a record like O'Leary could fool anyone into thinking that he's a good businessman. That whole Mattel affair bordered on fraud or misrepresentation. And had he not got away with that he'd be nowhere today. He is in fact just a poor man's Trump, a reality show host with a big mouth. And for some annoying reason a tacky ad where he offers to make you rich seems to follow me around everywhere. And if I ever bothered to click on it and find out more, I'm sure it would just be another scam. But don't worry the last person Quebecers are going to vote for is a cheap hustler who doesn't speak French, and is on record as saying he doesn't think speaking French is necessary. Bye bye 78 seats, bye bye O'Leary, bye bye Cons...
I don't understand why you say you support O'Leary. Did I miss something?
hi anon...yes you did miss something, but it's my fault. I was so intent on having some fun, that I wasn't clear enough. The only reason I'm pulling for O'Leary is that at this time I think he is the leadership candidate that can do the Cons the most harm. I may be wrong, and if so I'll go back to cheering for Leitch. But I fear that her virulent racism could poison our country, so I'd much rather see the buffoon O'Leary blow the Cons out of the water. Of course, if all things fail, there's always Brad Trost... ;)
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Q: Proving a set exists or not I am struggling to comprehend how to prove the difference between a set existing but containing no elements (the empty set) and a set not existing.
I understand the proof that the set of all sets does not exist, but when it comes to proving whether a specific set exists I do not know how to show the difference.
For example how do I prove whether the set { x : $\forall$ y (x $\in$ y) } where x is a set exists or not?

A: The difference comes down to the axioms of set theory. Any mathematical system will start from a certain list of axioms, from which everything else is derived. The Peano axioms, for instance, define the natural numbers as used in number theory. And the most common (in my experience) axioms for set theory are called ZFC: the axioms proposed by Zermelo and Fraenkel, including the Axiom of Choice.
These axioms define precisely what is a set. Anything which the axioms don't cover, isn't a set. For example, the ZFC axioms don't say anything about negative numbers, so negative numbers aren't sets. Similarly, they don't say anything about penguins, so penguins also aren't sets.
More subtly, one of the ZFC axioms is the Axiom of Regularity: every non-empty set $\alpha$ contains an element $\beta$ such that $\alpha \cap \beta = \varnothing$. This is the axiom which kills Russell's Paradox, since it means no set can contain itself.
Proving that a given set "exists" (can be formed by following the axioms of ZFC) is a rather complicated process. You can either start from the axioms and build your set from there, in which case you've proven it exists. Or you can show that your set violates one of the axioms, in which case you've proven that it doesn't exist. But in most cases you'll encounter in everyday life, you can assume that all the sets you come across must exist. "Sets that don't exist" (that is, things that look like sets but can't be constructed within ZFC) are the rare exception, not the rule.
EDIT: I was asked how regularity implies that no set can contain itself, and the proof is short and sweet so I'm including it here. Let $S$ be an arbitrary set. By the axioms of ZFC, $\{S\}$ is a non-empty set. By regularity, $\{S\} \cap S = \varnothing$. Thus $S \notin S$.

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