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Chris Broussard's (ESPN) height, wife, salary, parents, Wiki Bio
By Benjy P. July 19, 2019
1 Who is Chris Broussard?
2 Early Life and Education: Growing up…everywhere?
3 Career: From written to spoken comments
3.1 His career after ESPN
4 Love Life: Who is his wife?
5 Bible commentator
6 Is Chris Broussard homophobic?
7 What is Chris Broussard's Net Worth?
8 Social Media Presence
Who is Chris Broussard?
Broussard under the sign of Scorpio on the 28th of October 1968, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA, Chris is a 50-year-old African-American sports analyst and commentator, of Louisiana Creole descent and Christian beliefs. He is perhaps best known to the world for his significant presence on the TV screen, and across the media outlets due to being an extremely frequent face and voice on and behind sports events on television, for most of the last three decades. He has had a great number of successes over the course of his sometimes lucrative journalism career since 1990.
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Early Life and Education: Growing up…everywhere?
Chris was initially brought up in Baton Rouge by his father Edward Broussard, who was a personnel manager for Traveler's Insurance Co., and his mother of an unknown name and profession. As for any siblings he may have, Chris is thought to be an only child. Due to the nature of his father's business, Chris had to traverse a great deal of mileage with his family, and he thus spent time in Indianapolis, Indiana; Cincinnati, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; Syracuse, New York; and ultimately Cleveland, Ohio. As for his education, he had to change his high school just as often, but he kept his grades up nonetheless until he finally matriculated from Holy Name High School in Cleveland in 1986. While there, he was well-known for his skill in football as well as basketball, and was inducted into the high school's Hall of Fame in 2016. He furthered his studies by enrolling into Oberlin College, from where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English in May 1990, prior to which point he played point guard for the college's basketball team.
Career: From written to spoken comments
Broussard's first professional engagement began right after his graduation in 1990, when he joined The Plain Dealer, the major daily Cleveland newspaper, covering various sports topics. He kept this position until 1994, at which point he was offered a spot at the Akron Beacon Journal, one of Ohio's morning newspapers, with the task of covering numerous National Basketball Association (NBA) happenings. He stayed here as a Cleveland Cavaliers beat writer for just over two seasons, then in 1998 started working for The New York Times, which was a massive step up from his previous positions. There, he covered everything involving the New Jersey Nets for two years, as well as the New York Knicks for three years, and overall NBA events for a year.
Six years later, in 2004 he joined ESPN The Magazine, as both a writer and a TV NBA insider and analyst, and sometimes as a panelist during "First Take", where he addressed sports subjects alongside columnist Skip Bayless. Later on, he also began sideline reporting for various games that were nationally televised, both on ESPN and ABC, retaining these duties for the next 12 years.
His career after ESPN
In 2016 Chris left ESPN to join FOX Sports 1, where he claimed he had a much better offer, and that the specific reason for his relocation was the fact that he'd been a simple reporter at ESPN, while FOX Sports1 made him more of a commentator and an analyst, and it allowed his true colors to shine. On this channel, he is a frequent panelist during "Shannon: Undisputed", as well as "The Herd", "Lock It In" and "First Things First". Two years after he joined, he also started co-hosting a daily international radio show entitled "The Odd Couple" alongside Rob Parker, who is also a sports analyst from FOX Sports1. Their show is featured on FOX Sports Radio and Sirius XM Channel 83, and in this position Chris maintains today, and he has as of yet expressed no desire to change it, at least not publicly.
Love Life: Who is his wife?
As for Chris' romantic involvements prior to the current one, according to his staunch support of Christian conservativism, he is likely to never have been with anyone other than his wife. Regarding his marital partner, he met Dr. Crystal Naii Collins, who is an African-American surgeon with a medical degree that she earned from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, when he was in his upper 20's. They dated for almost three years before marrying on the 3rd of June 1995, in a private ceremony in a local church, with only family and close friends being invited to the event. Together they have twin daughters of an unspecified age, whose names are Alexis and Noelle. There has thus far been absolutely no controversy whatsoever surrounding their union, and they liveapparently happily at an undisclosed location.
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there holding it down! pic.twitter.com/oeEXStpnPl
— Chris Broussard (@Chris_Broussard) June 17, 2018
Bible commentator
Chris is a very devout Christian, and even has his own religious group, called "K.I.N.G. Movement", which is a national Christian men's organization that has the goal of empowering men in their Christian beliefs and an appropriate lifestyle. The 'K.I.N.G.' part of the name is an acronym for 'Knowledge, Inspiration and Nurture through God'. His organization is spread all across the US, with facilities in various cities of several states, while his religious speeches at schools and other public places are often attended by other celebrities who follow his movement, such as Troy Vincent, Bernard King, Brian Dawkins and Darryl Strawberry.
Is Chris Broussard homophobic?
In April 2013, during a live broadcast of ESPN's "Outside the Lines", upon hearing that NBA player Jason Collins came out to the public as a homosexual, Chris stated 'If you're openly living in unrepentant sin…I believe that's walking in open rebellion to God.' He said this after explaining that any kind of sexual openness, such as pre-marital sex, as well as homosexuality, is sinful behavior and against the teachings of the bible. His comments sparked evident outrage, not only among the viewers, but also worldwide. Chris later released a statement in which he acknowledged that not everyone agrees with him, and that he respects the opinions of others whatever they may be. Ultimately, it doesn't seem as though Chris made negative remarks strictly against gay individuals, since he mentioned homosexuality only as one of the segments of the type of behavior his beliefs don't support.
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What is Chris Broussard's Net Worth?
Have you lately given a thought to just how rich Chris Broussard would be around the middle of 2019? With a look at some of the most authoritative sources available, the answer to this inquiry suggests that Chris' wealth is reaching well over $800,000 at the moment, and that his salary and therefore wealth keep growing yearly. He earned this fortune by lending his journalistic expertise to several prominent media outlets through his career as a sports commentator, most prominently to FOX Sports 1 as a commentator in various programs. Seeing as his career is nowhere near a halt, the specified amount will very likely continue to grow.
Most celebrities nowadays live in a time when it's extremely important to be active on social networks, the main reason being, for those whose earnings depend on popularity at least, the fact that more followers generally means more income. As the grasp of a person's fame expands and they gain a larger audience, the projects they become involved in are bound to have more early consumers upon their release. For that reason, someone as famous and publicly active as Chris simply must be active on social media, right? Exactly so, it looks like Chris is as engaging as one can possibly be across his social media profiles. His Facebook has almost 40,000 followers, his Twitter nearly 1.5 million, and his Instagram just over 135,000 fans.
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But Brattleboro police chief John Martin told an angry neighborhood gathering last night that Paul Canon acted on his own in making the tapes.
In fact Martin says he asked Canon to stop taping, after Clark Street residents complained that he was violating their privacy.
But Martin says Canon isn't breaking any laws, as long as he tapes from his own property or a public space.
Members of the neighborhood association say Canon singles out people of color and innocent teens for his surveillance. They've accused the Brattleboro police of similar profiling.
Canon says he's not a racist.
(Host) State representative Daryll Pillsbury represents the district.
He says he's willing to look into legislation that could force Canon's to stop.
(Host) Pillsbury was one of several speakers who publicly asked Canon to stop taping.
Canon said afterward he'll hold off for now during the day. But anything that wakes him up at night will be recorded.


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Fresh off its public debut last week, Google Capital is putting more money to work this week with the announcement of a $50 million investment in real estate marketplace Auction.com. The valuation of the company post-money is $1.2 billion, and a representative from Google Capital will join the company's Board of directors and another will take a board observer position.
Similar to other real estate marketplaces, Auction.com connects buyers and sellers of real estate. And the company has sold $26 billion of property since inception. What differentiates Auction.com is that the real estate transaction actually happens online. It's been described as an "eBay for real estate." Financing options remain the same as in the offline world (it happens via a bank). Similar to eBay, the highest bidder wins on these auctions.
Another unique factor to Auction.com is that it lists a broad swath of inventory, from luxury homes, to multi-story office buildings, to a foreclosed home, or a self-storage facility. Auction.com actually handles tens of thousands of transactions across commercial and residential real estate for customers ranging from the largest financial institutions to individuals and brokers.
Launched in 2008, Auction.com only started expanding in Silicon Valley last year, with the company's headquarters in Southern California. And while Auction.com has raised money from private equity, it hasn't used much of its unvested capital and is profitable.
Of course, you can draw comparisons to other real estate marketplaces like Zillow or Trulia. As Jake Seid, president of Auction.com, explained in an interview, "Trip Advisor is to Priceline as Zillow is to Auction.com." He sees sites like Zillow as compliemtary.
The site says it vets sellers and buyers and requires proofs of funds and other checks before enabling any transaction, and Auction.com takes a 5 percent cut of each transaction.
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Earlier, his appeal was turned down by the trial court. On November 3, Kumar was sent for medical examination at Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital by the trial court judge who was hearing the matter where Kumar had been defending himself in a motor vehicle accident case for a decade.
Ram Kumar. Iimage: India Today
During the arguments, he entered into an altercation with the advocates of the other party that led to his detention at the mental hospital. After a brief examination based on his argumentative behaviour, he was referred to the psychiatric ward of the hospital for further medical examination.
The doctor stated that "no psychopathology was detected" while examining Kumar. Following this, Kumar was once again produced before the magistrate who after a brief interaction with him concluded that he had to be kept under observation at IHBAS for another 24 hours, as he seemed violent.
The judge also stated in the order that Kumar was not able to provide the whereabouts of his family.
The judges, who were hearing the matter noted the violation of the Mental Health Act by the magistrate court that ordered Kumar's detention and even extended it without issuing the mandatory mental illness certificate.
During his detention at IHBAS, Kumar maintained that he was not a patient and refused to sit on his bed. When Kumar was again produced before the magistrate in front of his two sons on November 5 and November 20, the orders of keeping him under detention till January 5, 2018, were passed after it was stated that his medical evaluation was still in progress at IHBAS.
The bench observed that though the final report revealed that Kumar had no high-risk behaviour, even then IHBAS did not instruct the prosecution to bring this fact before the magistrate at once. Kumar's sons told the high court that their father was a heart patient and underwent traumatic experience at the mental health hospital.
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With a new Epson V800 scanner beside me, I'm now able to show you my first attempt at Solargraphy (imaging the sun's path). A few months ago I designed and 3D printed a pinhole camera to fit some Ilford Photo Paper (3.5×5.5in). Having made a couple of unsuccessful trial images (the images were okay but didn't capture the sun..) I pointed the camera West for a few days to make the image you see here. The process is quite unique in that the paper is not exposed/developed like a traditional print. A negative image is burnt into the paper over time (anything from a day to 6 months). Once retrieved it is then fixed (optional) and scanned to produce a positive result. The really unique aspect of this process is that it also captures the percentage of sunlight seen in a location over a given time. I hope to make a few more images during 2017.
As the title suggests, I've made a start on preserving my Dad's entire film collection. Daunting to most, it's an absolute must if you wish to retain those family memories. Unfortunately, most peoples film experience was cheap 35mm Kodak Gold and 1hr processing at the local chemist. This means silly 4 frame strips of film and adhesive tape between rolls which, if not removed, can leave a sticky residue. About 80 rolls of film later and some wonderful archiving products from a local Adelaide company Albox, I've managed to sleeve everything over the course of 3 or 4 evenings. Far from finished, this has at least saved the negatives which were stored together and allowed me to get a feel for the extent of the project. It's also re-affirmed the importance of doing this and lack of care taken by old hourly processing labs (finding a good pro lab is a must! I'm lucky to have Atkins Pro Lab around the corner). For the keen eyed, you may also notice some single perf film as well as the standard 35mm. So what's next? Well there's a box of 6×6 Ektachrome slides to sort and sleeve and then its time to buy a scanner. This is where the time consuming part really starts! It will take a long time to digitise all of this but, when it's done, the smile on my parents (and brothers) faces will be worth every penny.
I often travel with 2-3 cameras and as many lenses. Not a lot by professional standards but it is enough to occasionally get in the way of creativity. This is amplified when using different formats and mediums. For example, I will carry my Nikon Df (digital) plus a Nikon 35mm body (F3/4/5) and if I want some large negatives the Fuji GW690III will also be packed. This means juggling each camera, sometimes for a specific image or simply to record an image on each medium. This is hardly practical when the light is brief, the weather is changing and only one tripod is available. I find the problem is further complicated when using different film speeds between 135/120. The solution is simple, just take one camera. But that's not always going to work for me. However, there are ways to make things easier. Shooting the same film or same ISO/ASA really helps. Fujifilm Velvia 100 and Acros 100 in a couple of Nikon F3's with lenses to share would give you everything you need. The GW690III is for special images, leave it in the bag unless you need it. Don't just take a picture on every format available.
I was recently given this book as a present after eyeing it off for some time. Self published by Robert Shanebrook, a former Kodak employee of 35 plus years, this is a must have resource for those deeply passionate about the analogue way of life. It's relatively technical and contains many unseen images of the Kodak production facility but leaves a lasting impression as to just how complicated the process of film manufacturing really is.
Well it's been a while since my last post due to work/travel so here is a bit of an update. We're now more than halfway through 2016, my year of shooting only black and white film or at least that was my resolution. Have I stayed true to that commitment? Not quite, but when there's a chance to shoot some Kodak Aerochrome (I actually have some more tucked away!), I couldn't say no. That aside, I have just finished a roll of Ilford SFX 200 and Kodak 400TX. With a good stock of Tmax 400 and Tri-X 400 in the fridge, I'm happy that I can say 2016 will be 'mostly' shot in black an white. It has certainly allowed me concentrate questions like what makes an good image, should I go for contrast or tone and what do I actually want in an image? It's relatively easy for me to head into the city (Adelaide) and look for some street photos, old buildings, silhouettes and shadows etc. However, my real passion is minimal landscapes and the adventure that goes with them. I'd love to spend every other weekend exploring the Flinders Ranges but that's probably not going to happen. I'm still making good use of my Nikon F5 and also managed to use one of the Ilford Single Use cameras (HP5+ film through a fixed plastic lens). Not bad if you need something cheap and in a hurry but I'd rather something optically better (like a Nikon 35Ti). The small little camera did fit in my pocket which I will say was refreshing!
Here's something a little different. Whilst I'm not ready to wade headlong into the world of video, this is at least a start.
Reflecting on what has been a busy year all round, 2015, photographically speaking, was a good one. It started with a trip out to Lake Eyre, a place of harsh yet fascinating beauty. There is something deeply alluring about the endless horizon of salt and sky. Although, it is a mere entre to the billions of stars that reveal themselves after dark. I'll be back.
I then bit the bullet and sold most of my 645 setup to purchase the Nikon 58mm f1.4G with the crazy idea that I should try my hand at street photography (and I don't mean pictures of those less fortunate that many pass off as street photography. I mean the relentless pursuit of decisive moments in between the light and the shadows). Turns out this was probably the best move I could have made. Wandering around the streets of Adelaide has taught me more about making good images than any landscape trip (since Nepal). It's a theme I'll continue in 2016 along with my desire to shoot only black and white film (above water).
The other highlight of 2015 was the chance to use one of the last rolls of Kodak Aerochrome (false colour infrared film). I really wish I have come across this emulsion earlier as I fell in love with the results immediately. So much so that I bought another roll just before it ran out (in the camera as I write this).
So what does a monochromatic 2016 look like? Challenging and hopefully just as rewarding. The Nikonos shall definitely see some more use along with some much needed business growth. Whilst the fun part of photography is exploring and capturing moments, printing and selling goes a long way!
A year shooting only black and white film (excludes digital and underwater). Sounds simple but for those that know me and my love of colour it won't be easy. However. it's just what I need to challenge my ability to create powerful images. You only need to look at the most iconic images in history to see that they were made on Kodak black and white film and probably with a Leica M3 or Nikon F3. I can't wait so stay tuned! I have my first roll of Tri-X 400 ready to go.
With another 35mm roll through the Nikon F5 and back from the lab it's been a productive weekend sorting images and uploading metadata thanks to Meta35. Now that I've used the software a few times, it couldn't be easier and is well worth it! In terms of work flow it's as simple as; shoot, develop, scan, embed, edit and make a contact sheet. If you have a compatible camera and shoot film even on an irregular basis, this product is a must.


The DSP are High Performance microprocessors and have significant advantage among the normal general purpose microprocessors: they execute all their instructions at single clock, they have ample resources to do math jobs including hardware multipliers, instructions for working with tables etc.
The Digital Signal Processors are High Performance microprocessors and have significant advantages over the normal general purpose microprocessors: they execute all their instructions at single clock, they have ample resources to do math jobs including hardware multipliers, instructions for working with tables etc. So do not wonder why the Fast Fourier Transformation or Filter design made in assembler for DSP takes few lines of code and executes hundreds of times faster than on normal general purpose processors. Another neat feature is that DSP peripherals are *very* fast. You ask why - because these powerful devices are made to be feed fast with input info data and to be able to send back the processed info fast. The TMS320 C2000 base line for instance has microcontrollers with two build-in 12-bit ADCs with a sampling speed from 3.75 to 12.5 MSPS and enhanced PWMs with 150 ps resolution! The SPI and serial ports are also at least 10 times faster than the similar peripherals on general purpose microcontrollers.
OK, then if the DSPs are so good and the price the same as that of a normal 8-bit controller but offers so many more features, why are they not as widely used as PICs or AVRs?
Here is the catch - there were no low cost entry tools and starterkits for DSPs (until now). To start working with DSP you had to buy US $500-1500 JTAG emulator, to buy C development IDE for $500, and development board for another $500. To spend $2000 just to start learning new architecture is not a problem for an established company, but totally out of range for small startup companies, students, hobbyist and amateurs.
Now this is about to change! Olimex with the kind support of Texas Instruments releases the world lowest cost DSP development tools: TMS320-JTAG jtag and TMS320-P28016 development board.
We intend to put links to some interesting projects with Texas Instruments DSPs.
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Properties of isolated single crystalline and textured polycrystalline nano/sub-micrometre Nd2Fe14B particles obtained from milling of HDDR powder
Pal, S. K. and Güth, K. and Woodcock, T. G. and Schultz, L. and Gutfleisch, O. (2013):
Properties of isolated single crystalline and textured polycrystalline nano/sub-micrometre Nd2Fe14B particles obtained from milling of HDDR powder.
46, In: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, (37), IOP Publishing, p. 375004, ISSN 0022-3727, [Online-Edition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/46/37/375004],
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/46/37/375004
Textured, polycrystalline Nd2Fe14B powders, produced by dynamic hydrogenation disproportionation desorption and recombination (d-HDDR) were further processed by wet and surfactant-assisted ball milling. After 4 h of milling at 400 rpm in absolute ethanol and heptane + oleic acid, the polycrystalline d-HDDR particles had disintegrated, via intergranular fracture, into the individual grains i.e. isolated single crystalline particles of size 200 to 500 nm. An excellent degree of alignment was produced in the single crystalline particles using an applied magnetic field. This was reflected in the remanence of the field-aligned single crystalline powder (148.1 emu g−1) which was far higher than that of field-aligned un-milled d-HDDR powder (119.5 emu g−1). Milling the single crystalline powder further at 800 rpm in the same media produced polycrystalline flakes of size 0.2 to 1.0 µm. The polycrystalline flakes showed (0 0 l) in-plane texture and thus oriented edge to edge in an applied field.
Pal, S. K. and Güth, K. and Woodcock, T. G. and Schultz, L. and Gutfleisch, O.
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Material Science > Functional Materials
11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Material Science
11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/46/37/375004
doi:10.1088/0022-3727/46/37/375004
The authors are grateful for the financial support from Siemens/DAAD Post Graduate Programme
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FAMILY BATHROOM with panelled bath, shower cubicle, pedestal wash basin, low flush WC, towel rail radiator, tiled flooring.
BEDROOM 3 17' x 7'8 with end gable double glazed window, radiator, undereaves cupboards.
STUDY or small 4th Bedroom 8'9 × 8'4 with radiator, shelf unit and undereaves storage.
OUTSIDE: The property stands in a lovely rural position on the edge of the village with excellent views and access via a 'No Through' road onto the nearby Bredon Hill where there are many bridle paths and good outriding. It has plenty of garden and landscaped gardens with beech hedging and patio areas.
There is an excellent SHED/STORE attached to the property.
SERVICES: Mains Electricity, Water & Gas.
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Playing it forward: Guelph singer/songwriter brings his songs of hope to the Drop In Centre (5 photos)
Don Sawchuk comes to the Welcome In Drop In Centre twice a week to sing about hope and courage
May 7, 2018 8:00 AM By: Tony Saxon
1 / 1 Don Sawchuk performs at the Welcome In Drop-In Centre Saturday, May 5, 2018. Tony Saxon/GuelphToday
It's a busy Saturday morning at the Welcome In Drop In Centre on Gordon Street.
People line up for a decent meal as a sign on the wall lets them know that meal cost "75 cents or whatever you can pay," adding that no one will be refused.
A man with a fresh black eye enjoys a cupcake at one table while another sleeps at his. A woman lets it be known loudly that she doesn't want her picture taken.
In the corner stands Don Sawchuk, a Guelph-based singer/songwriter who for the past month has been coming in every Wednesday and Saturday with his guitar and sing his songs.
"I kind of was in that spot and met all kinds of great people that were struggling just like I was," says Sawchuk, 51, of what brings him to such an unlikely venue.
"I know what it's like. I thought that maybe this would reach some people and maybe lift them up and give them some courage and hope."
Many years ago Sawchuk would eat once a day in a Thunder Bay soup kitchen, saving what money he could for his wife and young child living back home in Kitchener.
He met lots of people in that soup kitchen, he understands that the struggles they face do not make them any less of a person.
Sawchuk, whose second full-length album Underdog comes out next month, admits he both gives and gets by spending time playing his music in the room.
"People come here for a meal, but I get fed too. It's just not food," says the father of three.
Sawchuk is here by choice. He has a good job with a local firm that makes animal pharmaceuticals and is talented enough musically that he could play in much more traditional locales.
"I sit at a desk job and shuffle papers all day. It's just not the same as connecting with people," he says.
It has taken a while, but people at the Drop In Centre are starting to warm up to him, and trust him. Some have thanked him. Some have told him that the words in a song struck a chord with them.
"There was certainly a feeling-out period," he says. "But I meet new people all the time. It's more of a one-on-one type of relationship building here.
"They're in their own struggle and this is just something that maybe lifts them up a little bit. They appreciate that."
Sawchuk wants to be here because he knows how much it means to this particular audience.
"Thematically the album is about people who have been disenfranchised and faced struggles and challenges," he says.
"I thought 'I could go out and play this album in the bars and in the clubs and all that stuff,' but people want to hear cover songs while they drink their beer. I was looking for somewhere I could play this music where there would be a listening ear, someone I could connect with the messages of the song."
A Windsor native, Sawchuk's musical eyes were opened by his older sister Judith, who encouraged him and introduced him to all kinds of music.
He started playing guitar at the age of 12. Performed classic rock covers in a church basement in high school. Started busking while taking a teaching degree a few years later.
His sister was murdered in 1985 when she was 25, eight years older than her brother.
"I still listen to some of the records she gave me," Sawchuk says.
"She really like music and she saw that I had a passion for creating music and she wanted me to pursue that and encouraged me to do it," Sawchuk says.
Underdog is dedicated to his sister.
The loss of his sister, hardships he has faced in life, and overcoming those things are all thematic in his songs, as the titles on Underdog would attest: Mercy, Drowning in Tears, Where Are You Now, No Place To Go and Love Is are just some of the titles found on the album, which is a hybrid of 70s classic rock, adult contemporary, blues, ballads and gospel.
Music publisher Steve Thomson of Backstage Productions International has been in the music business a long time.
He was struck when a mutual acquaintance forwarded him some of Sawchuk's music.
"He's a true songwriter. He's got great performance skills and he's got heart," Thomson says.
"He wants to give back. That's really what's it's all about."
The title track of Underdog can be heard here.
Movie Review: Dolittle


Even in The Big Apple, good paying Monday night gigs are about as rare as a blown save by Mariano Rivera. Over the past year though, I've logged a few dozen of them thanks to my role as a guitar sub on Broadway's longest running musical, the ABBA-based Mamma Mia!
I got the gig thorough a little initiative and a lot of luck back in December of 2009. Looking for a new Broadway gig and lacking any leads, I logged on to the Local 802 Musicians Union website, found the names of the guitarists in all the pit orchestras and began e-mailing. I was fortunate enough to hear back from among others, Rock of Ages' Joel Hoekstra (who offered kind words about the YouTube clips and MP3s I sent but said he didn't need any subs at the moment) and Mamma Mia's Jeff Campbell who said he might be needing a new sub soon and invited me down to the pit to shadow.
You may not know Jeff Campbell by name but I'll bet some of you saw his incendiary "Little Wing" solo when he performed with Sting on Saturday Night Live back in 1988. In fact, Jeff was Der Stingle's guitarist during the late '80s and early '90s, circumnavigating the globe as part of the Amnesty International "Human Rights Now!" Tour. I had seen Jeff onstage with Sting at the Nassau Coliseum when I was a college freshman and can distinctly remember pondering exactly what pinnacle of six-stringed awesomeness he'd have to have reached to be the first guitarist to tour with Sting after Andy Summers! Now I was hooking up with him backstage at the Winter Garden Theatre in the hopes that he might possibly consider trusting me to play something remotely resembling a reasonable facsimile of what he plays in his absence.....Bitchin'!
Despite his impressive resume (which also includes recording and/or performing with everyone from Bon Jovi and Aretha Franklin to Michael Buble' and Southside Johnny, and can be further explored at jeffreyleecampbell.com) Jeff is easygoing and amicable with an unpretentious manner and we quickly developed a good rapport. During the intermission he told me one of his subs was leaving to become the full-time guitarist for American Idiot and that if I was interested in joining the rotation, he'd give me a shot.
Unlike Moving Out (but LIKE almost every other Broadway show), Mamma Mia's nine-person pit band is led by a conductor. As a result, keeping your peeps front and center is pretty darn crucial—that is unless you actually want to come back in from a vamp at the wrong time, begin or end a song before everyone else, or cause any other type of unwanted extracurricular musical mayhem.
...Ok, so I didn't exactly nail them all on my first (or second, or third...) time subbing the show. Thankfully though, Mamma Mia's principal conductor Wendy Bobbitt Cavett is patient, friendly, patient, encouraging, patient, takes the time to offer useful feedback, and, oh yeah, did I mention she's pretty patient too?
Eventually, even a dunderheaded rocker like me starts to catch on. Soon I'm rockin' the 12-string while handling the simultaneous tempo change and modulation to Db in "I Do, I Do, I Do" with some degree of competence.


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Photo courtesy of Ride Atlanta, Inc. dba The Reece Center for Handicapped Horsemanship
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Inducted: 2013
Whether someone knew horses or not, they could tell Goldie was special. Her love and compassion were always amazing to see and even more amazing to experience. She was the perfect example of what a therapeutic horse should be.
Perhaps it was her own personal history that made her so special. "When Goldie first arrived at Ride Atlanta, also known as the Reece Center for Handicapped Horsemanship, outside of Atlanta, Georgia, the mare had a sad look in her eye," recalls Wade Wheeler. Wade had rescued her from a neglectful situation. "We showed her what it was like to be loved. In turn, Goldie poured out more love than imaginable. She turned into a happy, playful horse that understood her purpose in life and loved it."
That purpose was providing Equine Assisted Psychotherapy to hundreds of riders. Goldie was a once in a lifetime horse for those involved with the program, and she would do anything that was asked of her. She was careful with riders and would stop on her own when they would become off balance, not moving again until they were safely in place. She was the horse who was used to introduce new riders who were tentative or afraid of horses. When something new was thrown her way, Goldie never flinched, never balked and never worried. She did what was asked of her, did it happily and confidently. Her wonderful spirit, attitude and love for what she did showed through and kept her going for 42 years. Witnessing what she could do and would do for new and experienced riders alike was truly like watching a miracle unfold. She knew her riders were special, she knew her job was important and it seemed that she gloried in all that she did.
Goldie wasn't all work and no play; the mare had a mischievous side as well, sneaking out of her stall better than Houdini. She never went far though, as she was usually just headed to the feed room to get herself a snack. She definitely had her own ideas of what her feeding schedule should be!
When it came to work though, she was all business. She settled into being a therapeutic horse both physically and mentally. She loved what she did and it showed every day.
In 1996, Goldie carried a Paralympic rider and torch as they passed through the town of Thomaston, Georgia. Prior to that day, due to past unfortunate events with horses in parades, the city officials did not want any horses in the parade. But Goldie's demeanor and presence were so impressive to the entire town during that parade that the city council overturned their no horse policy.
The following year, the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship recognized Goldie as the 1997 Equine of the Year. To say that Goldie made an impression on people is like saying the Olympics is just another athletic competition. Goldie left a lasting impression of love and generosity on the hearts of everyone she came into contact with. She spoiled many people and will always be remembered and missed.
The EQUUS Foundation and the United States Equestrian Federation would like to express
its appreciation to Blackburn Architects, P.C. for use of its rendition of the stables at
Sagamore Farm.
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Race Marshal Doug Grilliot has made the decision to rescind Bib #4, Jerry Joinson's eight-hour penalty which was assessed in Circle for use of a replacement sled. In this situation, mushers have the option to repair the sled with no penalty, or to use the replacement sled with an eight-hour penalty. At the time, Joinson was unaware of the repair option.


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Heavymetalowy umlaut (żartobliwie röck döt) – dodawany do nazw zespołów heavymetalowych znak przegłosu (umlaut), graficznie zapisywany w postaci dwóch kropek nad samogłoską.

Przykładami grup używających w nazwach heavymetalowych umlautów są Motörhead, Blue Öyster Cult, Hüsker Dü, Mägo de Oz, Queensrÿche, Green Jellÿ (pierwotnie Green Jellö, tytuł pierwszej płyty: Triple Live Möther Gööse at Budokan) czy Mötley Crüe.

Użycie kropek i innych znaków diakrytycznych w nazwach zespołów nie oznacza zmiany wymowy tak oznaczonych samogłosek, jest to zabieg wyłącznie graficzny. Według Reebee Garofalo umlaut budzić ma skojarzenia z dziedzictwem kultury germańskiej i odwoływać się do stereotypów "gotyckiego horroru", siły i potęgi, przypisywanej tradycyjnie takim ludom jak wikingowie.

Dodawanie znaków diakrytycznych do nazw zespołów obecnie występuje również poza muzyką heavymetalową. Przykładem jest pisownia nazw zespołów Ztvörki lub Püdelsi. Amerykański zespół Green Jellÿ literą ÿ zastąpił literę o, w wyniku procesu o naruszenie praw do znaku towarowego Green Jello wytoczonego zespołowi przez koncern Kraft Foods Group.

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Variability models, feature diagrams (FDs) ahead, are commonly used to document product line (PL) requirements. They are also often used during product derivation where they are fed to configuration tools which support semi-automated feature selection. Configuration tools facilitate this task by automatically propagating the decisions made and by ensuring their overall consistency. However, most feature-based configuration (FBC) tools assume that there exists a single monolithic FD and do not account for configuration processes that are distributed among various stakeholders who have specific concerns and who intervene at different moments. Our collaborations with industry have confirmed the need for techniques and tools that support such complex configuration processes and better chunking of the FD into coherent views. We recall the basics of multi-view FDs and feature configuration workflows before delving into the details of our extensions to SPLOT and YAWL.
How to use views in SPLOT?
How to use FCWs in SPLOT?
Two challenges that FBC techniques fail to address in a satisfactory way are (1) tailoring the configuration environment according to the stakeholder's profile (knowledge, role, preferences...) and (2) managing the complexity resulting from the size of the FD. We address these challenges by extending FDs with multiple views that can be used to automatically build FD visualisations. A view is a streamlined representation of an FD that has been tailored for a specific stakeholder, task, or, to generalize, a combination of such elements--which we call a concern. Views facilitate configuration in that they only focus on those parts of the FD that are relevant for a given concern. Using multiple views is thus a way to achieve separation of concerns (SoC) in FDs. SoC helps making FD-related tasks less complex by letting stakeholders concentrate on the parts that are relevant to them while hiding the others. Further tailoring of the visualisations can be achieved through the selection of three alternative visualisations: (1) "greyed out", (2) "pruned" and (3) "collapsed".
Let us illustrate the concept of multi-view FD on the Spacebel case. Spacebel is a Belgian software company developing software for the aerospace industry. We collaborate with Spacebel on the development of a SPL for flight-grade libraries implementing the CSSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP) [Hubaux2009]. CFDP is a file transfer protocol designed for space requirements, such as long transmission delays and specific hardware characterised by stringent resource limitations. Spacebel built a SPL of CFDP libraries, where each library can be tailored to the needs of a specific space mission. A simplified excerpt of this FD appears in the upper part of Figure 1. The principal features provide the capability to send (Send) and receive (Receive) files. The Extended feature allows a device to send and receive packets via other devices. The Reboot feature allows the protocol to resume transfers safely after a sudden system reboot. PUS stands for Packet Utilisation Standard, part of the ESA standard for transport of telemetry and telecommand data (TMTC). The PUS feature implements the CFDP related services of this standard.
Figure 1 - FD of the CFDP with three alternative visualisations for the view of the TMTC integrator.
CFDP typically handles five different stakeholder profiles. Spacebel decides which features are mature enough for the mission, while leaving as much variability as possible. The Reseller can, depending on the contract, or for other commercial reasons, further configure the product. The system engineer makes initial high-level choices and passes the task of refining these choices on to the network integrator and the TMTC integrator who handle the technical aspects of the CFDP. The configuration options of interest for each of these profiles are thus different and limited in scope.
A major problem is that access rights to these configuration options are currently informally defined and FDs offer no way to do so. In the absence of clear access specifications, a simplistic policy has been implemented: all profiles have access to all configuration options. A reported consequence is that sometimes the system engineer does not have sufficient knowledge to fully understand low-level options and make decisions. The results were incorrect settings, e.g., inappropriate CPU consumption or excessive use of memory for a given hardware. Similarly, the integrators were not aware of general decisions and could make inconsistent choices wrt. the missions' goals. The changing context also demands flexible definitions of access policies. For in- stance, there can be variations in the access rights (e.g., the integrators are granted access to more features) or stakeholder profiles (e.g. a dedicated File System integrator might be needed in some projects).
Solving that problem requires being able to specify which parts of the FD are configurable by whom. This can be achieved easily by augmenting the FD with a set views, each of which consists of a set of features. But this makes views abstract entities. To be effectively used during FBC, they need to be made concrete, i.e. visual. We call a visual representation of a view a visualisation. The goal of a visualisation is to strike a balance between (1) showing only features that belong to a concern and (2) including features that are not in the the concern but that allow the user to make informed decisions. For instance, the PUS copy feature is in the view of the TMTC integrator, but its parent feature PUS is not: How will that influence the decision making process? To tackle this problem, we see three visualisation alternatives with different levels of details. Figure 1 shows the views of the System Engineer, TMTC Integrator and Network integrator. Let us zoom in on the three possible visualizations and illustrate that on the view of the TMTC Integrator.
The greyed visualisation is a mere copy of the original FD in which the features that do not belong to the view are greyed out (e.g. P, S, SF and SA). Greyed out features are only displayed but cannot be manually selected/deselected. In the pruned visualisation, features that are not in the view are pruned (e.g. S, SF and SA) unless they appear on a path between a feature in the view and the root, in which case they are greyed out (e.g. P ). Pruning can have an impact on cardinalities. As shown in Figure 1, the cardinality of CFDP is <0..1> whereas it is <1..5> (or-decomposition) in the FD. It has to be recomputed to ensure the consistency of the FD. In the collapsed visualisation, all the features that do not belong to the view are pruned. A feature in the view whose parent or ancestors are pruned is connected to the closest ancestor that is still in the view. If no ancestor is in the view, the feature is directly connected to the root (e.g. P C and P R). Similarly, cardinalities have to be recomputed for consistency reasons.
There are essentially two ways of specifying views. The most obvious is to enumerate, for each view, the features that appear in it, or equivalently, to tag each feature of the FD with the names of the views it belongs too. These are extensional definitions, which might be very time-consuming and error-prone if the FD is too big. A natural alternative is thus to provide a language for intensional definitions of views that takes advantage of the FD's tree structure to avoid lengthy enumerations. A simple query language like XPath is a good candidate to define views and retrieve the corresponding features. SPLOT supports that latter alternative, which is available in View Specification. Visualizations can be selected to configure views in the Interactive Configuration menu.
Views are only one side of a two-sided story. The second side addresses the scheduling of the configuration process. In essence, the idea is to specify the configuration process with a workflow, aka. business process. The combined formalism of the workflow with a set of views is called a feature configuration workflow (FCW). An FCW is thus composed of three basic elements: several views, a workflow and a mapping between them.
Among the variety of workflow languages, we picked YAWL as it is formal, has extensive tool support and is known to cover a large variety of real-world modelling patterns. YAWL is inspired by Petri nets. Its principal constructs are conditions and tasks, which roughly correspond to places and transitions in Petri nets. There are two special conditions, start and end. In Figure 2, each task, except for (loop) and Product release, denotes a configuration activity, and is annotated with the name of the stakeholder performing the configuration. Spacebel is split in two with a XOR split, meaning that only one of the outgoing transitions is executed, which captures well the optional nature of Reseller. System Engineer joins both paths and then splits again, but this time with an AND split, meaning that the TMTC and Network Integrator run in parallel. From there, the configuration process is either finished (Product release) or continues with System Engineer.
Figure 2 - Example of FCW applied to the Spacebel scenario.
The views reported here are all derived from Figure 1 to which we added two actors, namely Spacebel and the Reseller. The mapping between the workflow and the views is defined separately for each view. The task denotes the starting point of the configuration whilst the condition represents the point at which configuration has to be finished. The task and condition are respectively called the start and stop of a view. In Figure 2, the Final Satellite stop, to which three views (System Engineer, Network Integrator and TMTC Integrator) point, indicates the group formed by these modules: as long as the stop is not satisfied, the loop has to continue. The two other views, including the optional Reseller view, map onto the output condition since their configuration time does not matter.
SPLOT does not support workflow edition, analysis and execution. That part of the job is handed over to YAWL. The coming sections describe sections how it can be achieved in YAWL. Once a valid YAWL workflow is available, SPLOT can import it via the Workflow Management menu. Once imported, the workflow can be linked to the views of a given FD in the View Specification menu. The configuration can then be driven by YAWL.
The toolset we propose provides full-fledged support for workflow-driven FBC. Figure 3 captures the core components of the toolset. Before going through a typical use case scenario, let us first describe the role of the FCW Engine. The FCW Engine is a Java-based system that drives the configuration process. The duty of the engine is to manage the communication between YAWL and SPLOT. The FCW engine controls and records the progress of the FCW instances, the status of the tasks and conditions, the state of the configuration, and the log of the configuration activity. It also provides a control panel that allows to monitor all the FCW instances and to resume sessions that were closed.
Figure 3 - Illustration of the main components of the toolset with a typical use case scenario.
The scenario depicted in Figure 3 highlights the essential steps of the specification of a complete FCW (1-3), followed by the initialisation of the configuration session by an extension of YAWL (4) and the complete execution of the workflow resulting in the complete configuration of the product (5-10).
The installation of the toolset requires the installation of YAWL and the FCW Engine. The FCW Engine can either be connected to a local instance of SPLOT or an instance available online, like http://www.splot-research.org/.
Download YAWL and follow the instructions for your operating system here. All the extensions have been tested with YAWL 2.1 with no guarantee of support for older versions.
Go to ./YAWL4Study-2.1/bin, start the YAWL engine (StartEngine) and start the control centre (ControlCentre). This will start Tomcat and load all the necessary dependencies.
Log in YAWL. By default, the login is admin and the password is YAWL.
Download the latest version of the Feature Configuration Workflow Service. The Feature Configuration Workflow Service is a service that maintains a communication bridge between YAWL and the FCW Engine.
(II)./apache-tomcat/webapps if you would like to run YAWL and Feature Configuration Workflow Service on different instances of tomcat.
At design time, in the YAWL editor, every atomic task in a workflow specification has to be associated with a Default Engine Worklist service. Figure 4 shows how a Default Engine Worklist is assigned to a task of a workflow.
Figure 4 - Default Engine Worklist assignment in the YAWL editor.
At design time, also, in the YAWL editor, for each task in a workflow, the URI of the Feature Configuration Workflow Service's responsible servlet to handle the communication, has to be assigned. Figure 5 shows how FeatureConfigurationWorkflowServlet of Feature Configuration Workflow Service as a custom form, is assigned to a task of a workflow.
http://localhost:pppp/FeatureConfigurationWorkflowService/FeatureConfigurationWorkflowServlet?action=prepare_configuration_process. pppp is to be replaced with the actual port number of the container which hosts the Feature Configuration Workflow Service.
Figure 5 - Custom Form URI assignment in the YAWL editor.
Download the latest version of the FCW Engine.
(II)./apache-tomcat/webapps if you would like to run YAWL and the FCW Engine on different instances of tomcat.
The Control Panel provided for the FCW Engine is illustrated in Figure 6 and can be accessed at http://localhost:pppp/Coordinator/index.html. pppp is to be replaced with the actual port number of the container which hosts the FCW Engine. It allows to monitor the configuration status of the different tasks and stops.
Figure 6 - Control panel of the FCW Engine.
http://localhost:pppp/FeatureConfigurationWorkflowService/registartion.html. pppp is to be replaced with the actual port number of the container which hosts Feature Configuration Workflow Service.
Fill out the FCW Engine URI field as the URI of the FCW Engine instance. The value of this field should be in the form of http://localhost:pppp. pppp is to be replaced with the actual port number.
Fill out the YAWL URI field as the URI of the YAWL instance. The value of this field should be in the form of http://localhost:pppp. pppp is to be replaced with the actual port number.
Figure 7 shows the registration page of Feature Configuration Workflow Service to fill out the YAWL and FCW Engine's URI.
Figure 7 - Registration page of Feature Configuration Workflow Service.
Download the latest version of SPLOT.
Move SPLOT.war into./apache-tomcat/webapps. Note that SPLOT must run on a different instance of tomcat than the other components.
Change the paths to models and logs according to your environment.
Go to the FCW Engine's registration page at http://localhost:pppp/Coordinator/registartion.html. pppp is to be replaced with the actual port number of the container which hosts the FCW Engine.
Fill out the SPLOT Instance URI field. The value of this field should be http://localhost:pppp/SPLOT for local host and http://gsd.uwaterloo.ca:8088/SPLOT for the online SPLOT instance. pppp is to be replaced with the actual port number.
Active instances identify which FDs are involved in the configuration process. An example of SPLOT instance registered in the FCW Engine is shown in the upper right part of Figure 8. The figure also shows the current configuration sessions.
Figure 8 - Registration page of the FCW Engine.
The video below showcases a typical use case of the toolset. It starts with the creation of a workflow in YAWL, it registration in SPLOT, the creation of the views and their mapping to the workflow. Then, the configuration process starts until the completion of the configuration of the final product. Finally, the monitoring controls provided by the Control Panel of the FCW Engine are quickly explored.
Video 1 - Getting Started.
An Interactive Multi-perspective Toolset for Non-linear Product Configuration Processes (tool demo), Ebrahim Khalil Abbasi, Arnaud Hubaux, Patrick Heymans, in Proceedings of the 15th International Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC'11), Munich, Germany.
A Toolset for Feature-based Configuration Workflows, Ebrahim Khalil Abbasi, Arnaud Hubaux, Patrick Heymans, in Proceedings of the 15th International Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC'11), Munich, Germany.
Towards Multi-View Feature-based Configuration, Arnaud Hubaux, Patrick Heymans, Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Dirk Deridder, in Proceedings of 16th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'10), Essen, Germany, collection LNCS.
Workflow-driven Product Derivation (invited talk), Arnaud Hubaux, Ebrahim Khalil Abbasi, Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans,in First International Workshop on Product Line Requirements Engineering and Quality (PLREQ'10), June 30, 2010 , Essen, Germany.
Analysis of Feature Configuration Workflows (poster), Andreas Classen, Arnaud Hubaux, Patrick Heymans, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp. 381-382.
Formal Modelling of Feature Configuration Workflows, Arnaud Hubaux, Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans, in Proceedings of the 13th International Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC'09), San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 221-230.
A Formal Semantics for Multi-level Staged Configuration, Andreas Classen, Arnaud Hubaux, Patrick Heymans, in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS'09), pp. 51-60.


Most useful learnings: Have a methodology for testing while writing new code.
Exercise improvements: Have copy of possible solution to revisit these exercises once more used to the concept of TDD.
Start tomorrow: Yes and already started during the workshop.
Challenges to applying: Amount of potential code to be tested.


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Q: Very strange behaviour of IE9 when loading JSON with jQuery I have a web application that has to load JSON objects with help of jQuery. I am using this code to get JSON objects:
$.getJSON(url, function(data) {
    ...
}

As usual, it works on FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera, but not in Internet Explorer (I only tried IE9).
What I found out, if I open the F12 Developer Tools in IE, show console, refresh the page, it works properly. And I think this is pretty strange. I asked some colleges to check and they were able to reproduce this. What changes when the developer tools are opened? Why is it working then?

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Example of a JSON object that I receive from my servlet:
{"product":[],"signaling":[],"vendor":["HP","SUN","IBM"],"capacity":[],"backup":[],"availability":[]}

A: I had some console.log() outputs for debugging, and it seems like it is a bug of Internet Explorer. In my opinion, a browser should work, even though console.log is there. This is just ridiculous Microsoft!
After commenting all console.log(), it works.

A: If you have any calls to console.log(), remove them.
I had the exact same issue with IE.  Spent hours on this until finally removing any console.log() code and it worked right away. Most frustrating.

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