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Former U.S. Little League champion Red Land to leave organization for Cal Ripken
Red Land won the U.S. Little League championship in 2015.
Former U.S. Little League champion Red Land to leave organization for Cal Ripken Red Land won the U.S. Little League championship in 2015. Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/baseball/2018/12/18/little-league-baseball-red-land-leaving-organization-cal-ripken-llws/2354295002/
Matt Allibone, York Daily Record Published 5:09 p.m. ET Dec. 18, 2018 | Updated 12:14 a.m. ET Dec. 19, 2018
"Red Land's Chayton Krauss (25) is surrounded by his teammates after hitting the walk-off run Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015, after the Little League World Series U.S. championship game featuring Red Land Little League of Pennsylvania and Pearland West Little League of Texas, in South Williamsport. Red Land defeated Pearland 3-2 in a walk-off victory to move on to the world championship game against Tokyo Kitasuna of Japan.(Photo: Chris Dunn - Daily Record/Sunday News)
The York County community that produced the 2015 U.S. Little League champion won't be making any return trips to Williamsport anytime soon.
Red Land Little League has left the Little League Baseball and Softball organization and plans to affiliate with Cal Ripken Baseball. Red Land Little League president Jim Janovich confirmed the decision in a phone interview Tuesday.
Janovich said the organization's board voted to leave Little League on Nov. 30. While he declined to give an exact vote count, he said that out of the board's 15 members, two abstained and "nobody was against the vote."
"There was a lot of discussion and everyone struggled with the decision," Janovich, who doesn't have a vote as the board's president, said. "As far as the decision, we decided that Little League doesn't make Red Land great. The players and parents make Red Land great and this is what is best for the kids."
Red Land's decision to leave Little League is similar to why many communities have parted from the organization in recent years in favor of leagues like Cal Ripken.
In Little League, the 11-to-12-year-old majors division — which competes in Williamsport every August in the worldwide famous Little League World Series — plays on a field with a pitching distance of 46 feet and bases 60 feet apart. Base runners are not allowed to lead off and can only steal bases after a pitch is released.
This differs from Cal Ripken, where teams of the same age group play on fields with a pitching distance of 50 feet and bases 70 feet apart. The base-running rules are the same as in high school and beyond, which allows pitchers to pick off runners and pitch from the stretch.
Bottom line: Many feel Cal Ripken does a better job preparing young players for the transition to the standard field (60-foot pitching distance and 90-foot base paths) used in higher levels of the game.
"With 13-year-olds going to the 60-90 field, this really helps bridge the gap," Janovich said. "This is what is best to get our kids playing real baseball at a younger age."
Janovich added that Red Land has seen a drop off in the number of kids playing baseball after their Little-League years. Cal Ripken also has all-star teams for the specific ages of 8 through 12, instead of grouping ages together such as 9-to-10 and 11-to-12.
While Janovich couldn't give an exact cost difference, he said Red Land's organization will spend about half as much on Cal Ripken as it did on Little League.
"It's a substantial difference," he said.
Photos: Red Land Little League winners now in high school
Red Land's Jake Cubbler slides into third base while Colts Raon Garcia leaps into the air. Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York May 8, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Catcher Dylan Rodenhaber catches a ball before Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York on May 8, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Ethan Phillips watches from the dugout while Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York on May 8, 2018. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Adam Cramer, right, runs into home base. Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York on May 8, 2018. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Braden Kolmansberger, left, congratulates, Jake Cubbler after running the bases. Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York May 8, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Braden Kolmansberger warms up to bat. Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York May 8, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Red Land JV coach Tom Peifer watches Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York May 8, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York on May 8, 2018. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Camden Walter in the dugout during a game between Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York May 8, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Braden Kolmansberger throws from center field Red Land plays Cedar Cliff at the PeoplesBank stadium in York on May 8, 2018. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Cole Wagner holds off on a swing as a ball passes during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Cole Wagner grabs a ball near the pitching mound after it was hit by a Mifflin player during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
From the left, assistant coaches Kyle Wagner and Aaron Walter watch Cole Wagner warm up before a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Jason Henline watches from the dugout during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Cole Wagner up at bat during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Cole Wagner watches from the dugout during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Brett Wagner, right, watches his son Cole play baseball during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
A plaque on the side of Red Lan High School celebrates the 1990 State AAA champions during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018. Brett Wagner, Cole's father was part of that team. Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Red Land player Cole Wagner, a member of Red Land's 2015 U.S. championship Little League team, pitches during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School on April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
From the left, Assistant coach Aaron Walter watches the game while Red Land player Kyle Hannon listens to assistant coach Kyle Wagner during a game with Mifflin County at Red Land High School Tuesday April 10, 2018 Paul Kuehnel, York Daily Record
Noah Miller, 7, center, grins as he watches Blake Shultz, 6, get an autograph from Cole Wagner, a member of Red Land's 2015 U.S. World Series Championship team on opening day of Red Lan Little League in Newberry Township Saturday, April 16, 2016. Members of the 2015 U.S. World Series Championship team were honored during the celebration and presented with rings. Kate Penn, York Daily Record
Members of the Red Land Little League team pose for a photograph. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Members of the Red Land Little League team pose for a photograph. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Red Land Little League team member Kaden Peifer signs an autograph. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Red Land Little League team member Kaden Peifer signs an autograph. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in York, Sunday, September 20, 2015. PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Red Land Little League team member Chayton Krauss signs an autograph. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Red Land Little League team member Chayton Krauss signs an autograph. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Amaya Lagana, 12, of Conewago Township, far left, watches as Red Land Little League team member Cole Wagner autographs her sign. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Amaya Lagana, 12, of Conewago Township, far left, watches as Red Land Little League team member Cole Wagner autographs her sign. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Red Land Little League team members exit through the outfield fence on their way to a group of pickup trucks waiting to drive the team back into the stadium and around the field. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Red Land Little League team members exit through the outfield fence on their way to a group of pickup trucks waiting to drive the team back into the stadium and around the field. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Red Land Little League team members, Cole Wagner, left, and Zach Sooy, center, talk with scoreboard operator Tom Clark as they drive around the field in the bed of a pickup truck. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Red Land Little League team members, Cole Wagner, left, and Zach Sooy, center, talk with scoreboard operator Tom Clark as they drive around the field in the bed of a pickup truck. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Red Land Little League team member Jaden Henline tips his cap as the team is introduced to the crowd. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Red Land Little League team member Jaden Henline tips his cap as the team is introduced to the crowd. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Red Land Little League team members, Cole Wagner, left, and Zach Sooy, center, wave to the crowd as they drive around the field in the bed of a pickup truck. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Red Land Little League team members, Cole Wagner, left, and Zach Sooy, center, wave to the crowd as they drive around the field in the bed of a pickup truck. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
Red Land Little League team member Ethan Phillips eats water ice while hanging out in the dugout with Revolution bench/third base coach Enohel Polanco prior to the start of the game. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. Paul Chaplin - For the Daily Record/Sunday News Red Land Little League team member Ethan Phillips eats water ice while hanging out in the dugout with Revolution bench/third base coach Enohel Polanco prior to the start of the game. Little League World Series U.S. champions Red Land are honored prior to the York Revolution's final game of the season against the Somerset Patriots at Santander Stadium in Yrork, Sunday, September 20, 2015. PAUL CHAPLIN;PAUL CHAPLIN
The 1974 Red Land Little League team became the first team from York County to win the Pennsylvania state tournament. One of the team's players, Danny Sheaffer, went on to play in the major leagues. This year's Red Land team is the first York County team to reach the Little League World Series in South Williamsport. The 1974 team, pictured from left, are, front row: Danny Sheaffer, Mike Borocz, Tony Jeremias, Steve Anderson, Dennis Shoffner, Karl Otto; back row: coach Bill Moore, Jeff Horoshak, Paul Slifko, Craig Stambaugh, Kevin Nomina, Wayne Hackenburg, Bob Shull, Robin Summey, manager Mike Borocz. Coach Phil Lafferty (not pictured). Courtesy of PAYouthSports.net The 1974 Red Land Little League team became the first team from York County to win the Pennsylvania state tournament. One of the team's players, Danny Sheaffer, went on to play in the major leagues. This year's Red Land team is the first York County team to reach the Little League World Series in South Williamsport. The 1974 team, pictured from left, are, front row: Danny Sheaffer, Mike Borocz, Tony Jeremias, Steve Anderson, Dennis Shoffner, Karl Otto; back row: coach Bill Moore, Jeff Horoshak, Paul Slifko, Craig Stambaugh, Kevin Nomina, Wayne Hackenburg, Bob Shull, Robin Summey, manager Mike Borocz. Coach Phil Lafferty (not pictured). Courtesy of PAYouthSports.net submitted, York Daily Record
Members of the Red Land Little League team watch the Blue Band's pregame performance from the south end zone before an NCAA Division I football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, at Beaver Stadium. Red Land Little League won the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. championship game over Pearland, Texas, in August and were invited to the Penn State game to be honored. Members of the Red Land Little League team watch the Blue Band's pregame performance from the south end zone before an NCAA Division I football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, at Beaver Stadium. Red Land Little League won the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. championship game over Pearland, Texas, in August and were invited to the Penn State game to be honored. Chris Dunn, York Daily Record;York Daily Record
Members of the Red Land Little League team stand in the south end zone before an NCAA Division I football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, at Beaver Stadium. Red Land Little League won the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. championship game over Pearland, Texas, in August and were invited to the Penn State game to be honored. Members of the Red Land Little League team stand in the south end zone before an NCAA Division I football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, at Beaver Stadium. Red Land Little League won the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. championship game over Pearland, Texas, in August and were invited to the Penn State game to be honored. Chris Dunn;Chris Dunn, York Daily Record;York Daily Record
a parade celebrating the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. Championship winning Red Land Little League team on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Jeff Lautenberger ? For The Daily Record/Sunday News a parade celebrating the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. Championship winning Red Land Little League team on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Jeff Lautenberger, York Daily Record
The community celebrated the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. Championship -winning Red Land Little League team with a parade. Jeff Lautenberger — For The Daily Record/Sunday News
Maple Donuts is making doughnuts that look like baseballs to celebrate the Red Land Little League team. "It's just really an exciting time for everyone in York County," said Luke Burnside, sales and marketing manager for the business. Maple Donuts has a location in Newberry Township where the youth come to have a doughnut. "We wanted to do something special for them," he said. "We want to support them." Eileen Joyce - Daily Record/Sunday News Maple Donuts is making doughnuts that look like baseballs to celebrate the Red Land Little League team. "It's just really an exciting time for everyone in York County," said Luke Burnside, sales and marketing manager for the business. Maple Donuts has a location in Newberry Township where the youth come to have a doughnut. "We wanted to do something special for them," he said. "We want to support them." Eileen Joyce, York Daily Record
The family of the Red Land little league team is acknowledged during the pep rally held for the team at the Red Land High School on Friday, August 28, 2015. Jason Plotkin - Daily Record/Sunday News The family of the Red Land little league team is acknowledged during the pep rally held for the team at the Red Land High School on Friday, August 28, 2015. Jason Plotkin - Daily Record/Sunday News Jason Plotkin;Jason Plotkin
The fans of the Red Land little league team come together to sing the high school alma mater during the pep rally held for the team at the Red Land High School on Friday, August 28, 2015. Jason Plotkin - Daily Record/Sunday News The fans of the Red Land little league team come together to sing the high school alma mater during the pep rally held for the team at the Red Land High School on Friday, August 28, 2015. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Fans of the Red Land little league team warm up before the pep rally held for the team at the Red Land High School on Friday, August 28, 2015. Jason Plotkin - Daily Record/Sunday News Fans of the Red Land little league team warm up before the pep rally held for the team at the Red Land High School on Friday, August 28, 2015. Jason Plotkin - Daily Record/Sunday News Jason Plotkin;Jason Plotkin
Members of the Red Land Little League team watch the Blue Band's pregame performance from the south end zone before an NCAA Division I football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, at Beaver Stadium. Red Land Little League won the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. championship game over Pearland, Texas, in August and were invited to the Penn State game to be honored. Members of the Red Land Little League team watch the Blue Band's pregame performance from the south end zone before an NCAA Division I football game Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, at Beaver Stadium. Red Land Little League won the 2015 Little League World Series U.S. championship game over Pearland, Texas, in August and were invited to the Penn State game to be honored. Chris Dunn;Chris Dunn, York Daily Record;York Daily Record
Members of the Red Land Little League team, including, from second from left, Camden Walter, Cole Wagner, Jarrett Wisman, Adam Cramer and Dylan Rodenhaber, sign a T-shirt Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at the Grace Milliman Pollock Performing Arts Center in Camp Hill. Movie producers Jameson Hesse and A.J. Ferrara announced they will begin production of a feature film based on the Red Land Little League team that won the Little League World Series U.S. Championship in 2015. The film, titled "Against the Odds," will rely on fundraising and will be filmed in the area, with a portion of the profits going toward a new youth baseball complex for Red Land Little League. Chris Dunn, York Daily Record
As previously stated, Little League has lost many local communities over the past decade or so. Reports have stated the organization — which has existed since 1939 and long been synonymous with the youth game — has gone from more than 3 million players in the 1990s to around 2.4 million in recent years.
For many communities, it's not a hard decision.
But most communities haven't gone on a run like Red Land did in 2015.
That group of kids became the first team from Pennsylvania to win the U.S. championship since Shippensburg in 1990. Red Land ultimately lost to Tokyo Kitasuna of Japan, 18-11, in the international title game.
The team's incredible ride led to meet-and-greets with the Penn State football team and the Baltimore Orioles. There has even been talks of the team's story being made into a movie, though talks have stalled.
Many of the kids from that 2015 squad are now standout players for Red Land's high school team.
More: Growing up: Red Land Little League champs now seeking high school successes
Simply put: It was an experience that kids and parents across the country dream of. And an opportunity that not everyone wants taken away.
Jim Janovich said that as news of the decision has leaked out in the community, there has been minor pushback. He estimated that about 25 people have reached out to him, with only one having an issue with the decision.
"Part of the discussion when we made the decision was that there could be people who look at it as having their kids' dream taken away," Janovich said. "I certainly understand that. But we have to look at what is best for the close to 400 kids in our organization, and this benefits everyone."
Members of the Red Land Little League team, including, from second from left, Camden Walter, Cole Wagner, Jarrett Wisman, Adam Cramer and Dylan Rodenhaber, sign a T-shirt Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at the Grace Milliman Pollock Performing Arts Center in Camp Hill. Movie producers Jameson Hesse and A.J. Ferrara announced they will begin production of a feature film based on the Red Land Little League team that won the Little League World Series U.S. Championship in 2015. The film, titled "Against the Odds," will rely on fundraising and will be filmed in the area, with a portion of the profits going toward a new youth baseball complex for Red Land Little League. (Photo: Chris Dunn, York Daily Record)
Janovich noted that Cal Ripken features numerous national tournaments, with the closest equivalent to the Little League World Series taking place in Bronson, Missouri, every August for the 12-year-old division.
Red Land will officially join Cal Ripken Baseball when the organization opens up chartering in January. Red Land board members have already told Ripken officials that they plan to join. Coaches will have to go through the same process of background checks as they did in Little League, but it will be free of charge.
Red Land's organization is in the process of officially changing its name to Red Land Youth Baseball and is waiting for the name's legal approval.
"There will be additional all-star opportunities for our kids and this will be beneficial," Janovich said.
"Red Land's Adam Cramer and Ethan Phillips carry the U.S. champion flag Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015, after winning the Little League World Series U.S. championship game featuring Red Land Little League of Pennsylvania and Pearland West Little League of Texas, in South Williamsport. Red Land defeated Pearland 3-2 in a walk-off victory to move on to the world championship game against Tokyo Kitasuna of Japan. (Photo: Chris Dunn - Daily Record/Sunday News)
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Home / Industry / Architecture / Designers to pay tribute to Louise Slaughter, Rochester architecture during Fashion Week
Designers to pay tribute to Louise Slaughter, Rochester architecture during Fashion Week
By: Diana Louise Carter	September 13, 2019
Fashion Week raises hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for the Center for Youth. This year's extravaganza will celebrate the late Congresswoman Louise Slaughter and Rochester's iconic buildings. (Provided)
Because it's the 10th anniversary, the flashy Fashion Week Rochester (Oct. 14-19) had to shake things up a bit.
The five-day extravaganza, which raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for the Center for Youth, became a six-day event, starting with a children's show on Monday. And now on Friday night a Rochester-themed show, "Runway to Rochester," is scheduled, featuring two special collections.
What could be more Rochesterian than a tribute to the Kentucky-born Louise M. Slaughter, who represented Rochester in the House of Representatives for 31 years?
"Runway to Rochester," will include a collection of women's suits and clothing created by a Hickey Freeman executive and clothing designer in tribute to the late congresswoman. Ten outfits — most of them suits with skirts or pants — will be exhibited to pay honor to the woman who saved Rochester's best known clothing manufacturer more than once.
The show will also include a joint effort by local architects and interior designers, as well as support from national materials suppliers to create structures and clothing inspired by buildings in Rochester. Local chapters of the professional organizations representing both of those groups are working together on a concept that has been featured in other city's fashion shows. But here, expect to see something reminiscent of the winged Time Square building, the First Federal Plaza, the Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Bridge, the former Rochester Savings Bank building, the Strasenburgh Planetarium and other iconic Rochester structures.
Jeffery Diduch, vice president of technical design at Hickey Freeman, had promised to make Slaughter a jacket after seeing an interview with her in a documentary about the history of Rochester's garment industry. In that documentary, "Tailor Made," Slaughter noted how her male colleagues in Congress often flashed the linings of their suits to her when passing, acknowledging they wore suits made by in her home district by Hickey Freeman. Diduch met Slaughter when she visited the factory to see the Olympic uniforms created by the menswear manufacturer and tried on one of the jackets.
But Slaughter died not long after her visit, and before Diduch could make good on his promise.
"I like to do what I say I'm going to do, so I felt bad about not making it," Diduch said. Slaughter "was really somebody who did help the company out a lot. So it was important to do something to honor her memory."
He approached Fashion Week to see if he could make an outfit or two as a tribute to Slaughter. But Elaine Spaull, the city councilor who also is executive director of the Center for Youth, was thinking bigger. She thought of Slaughter's immediate support for the homeless (including some of the center's clientele) once she got to Congress in the 1980s. She also thought of her involvement in finding federal aid to keep Hickey Freeman from closing down.
"She basically saved the factory twice," Spaull said of Slaughter. "She used to say she was their Washington office."
With Spaull's encouragement, Diduch's one or two outfits became an entire collection, "For Louise."
He's having all the outfits made in a winter white shade of Italian wool crepe.
"It went from a very small idea to a big thing in the space of 48 hours," Diduch said, after Spaull quickly gained approval from others working with Fashion Week and from Slaughter's family.
The decisions to go with an entire collection were made just before the Hickey Freeman plant closed for summer break, so Diduch himself cut and sewed some of the garments — something he often does when new garments are being created — during his vacation. He's having some of the garments made at the factory now that it's up and running again.
Diduch has designed the garments like menswear in that they have sufficiently wide seams to allow for alterations over the lifetime of the clothing.
"We make luxury clothing. It's not inexpensive," and should be able to be altered for the wearer as her body changes over time, he said.
The line should appeal to women of various ages, Diduch said, and the models will reflect different ages and body types.
"Some of the pieces were designed to appeal to somebody like Louise … some of them were just made for show," Diduch said.
And what about after the show? That has to be worked out. Diduch has purchased crepe in black, navy and red as well as the white that will be shown in the Fashion Week show. People who are interested can contact him through a web page that has been established for the Louise Slaughter Collection.
One of the outfits is inspired by the Times Square building. (Provided)
At the same time that the Louise Collection was coming together, Jason Streb, an architect with the CPL firm who is president of the Rochester chapter of the American Institute of Architects, reached out to Fashion Week to see if designers from that realm could participate in some way.
When Blynn Nelson, an interior designer who works for the CJS Architects, heard about Streb's idea, she came up with the way the architects' professional organization and the Rochester chapter of a similar organization for interior designers, the International Interior Design Association, could participate. She suggested something she'd seen in other larger cities before: a product runway.
"Outfits are curated and designed from raw materials that vendors supply to (architects and interior designers.) They really have to create a dress or garment out of carpet, for example, or tile," Nelson said.
But some of the materials may be unrecognizable on the runway. Streb said carpeting, for instance, might be stripped of all the cushy materials so the designer can use the flexible, shimmery backing on the underside.
Nelson said commercial products meet different standards than those used in home construction, so the carpet backing can be quite different than what homeowners are familiar with and have the appearance of leather.
Streb said 12 teams of interior designers and architects are participating. Each team has been assigned two product suppliers, one providing hard material, and one providing soft. Some are local, like glass artist Nancy Gong, who is working with the team inspired by the planetarium, but many of them are national companies.
"It's kind of a wild concept that has never been done here," Streb said.
Marrying the product runway idea with a community's local architecture is unique to Rochester, Nelson said.
It's unlikely any of the garments will go into production after the show, but Nelson said the organizers are looking for a gallery to show them again.
Megan Mundy, the "chief fashion officer" for Fashion Week, said she is often asked after each Fashion Week how the organizers will top the show next time.
"We're so lucky that people like Jason reach out and say, 'I've got this idea,' and Jeffery. I've learned to be open to every single idea," Mundy said. "We've always just had these amazing ideas just come to our doors."
Friday's show will begin with architecture-inspired garments, followed by Rochester-area firefighters and then the For Louise collection. Other groups and designers will also show that night, including craft breweries, several fashion-oriented businesses, and Indian fashions, ending with the traditional wedding gown.
Spaull said every afternoon and night of Fashion Week is meant to feel like a party, even though the fundraising is for very serious needs. For the first time this year, each night will have a theme related to one of Center for Youth's programs, such as its crisis nursery, or shelter for homeless youth who are in the LGBTQ community.
"We're going to say something every night about the program," Spaull said. Last Fashion Week raised $825,000; this year's 10th anniversary goal is $1 million. Costs are high for an event like this, Spaull noted, but kept as low as possible by many outright donations and deeply discounted services. The event is held under a tent constructed on a parking lot owned by Midtown Athletic Club.
Spaull holds that Fashion Week is about community more than fashion. Tickets to each event are kept reasonable — $35 to $100 — and they're even free for teens coming to Wednesday's show, which features teenagers on the runway. "We never want teenagers to be left out," Spaull said. Some shows sell out — they hadn't yet this week — but individual tickets are usually available even after ringside tables are all gone.
While fashion is the draw for Fashion Week, even those who are not into fashion should feel comfortable attending, Spaull said.
"This is not a fancy pants world. This is bringing together the most amazing assets and the most amazing vibrancy of the city," she said.
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Fashion Week Rochester
Fashion Week will be held Oct. 14-19 with six shows benefitting six different Center for Youth programs. Go to fashionweekofrochester.org for more information and to purchase tickets.
Monday, Oct. 14 — A Family Affair. Benefits Crisis Nursery and Owen's House.
Tuesday, Oct. 15 — Afternoon Rendezvous. Benefits Safe Harbour.
Wednesday, Oct. 16 — Lead The Way. Benefits Street Outreach and Safe Place.
Thursday, Oct. 17 — On the Edge. Benefits Arnett House—By Their Side.
Friday, Oct. 18 — Runway to Rochester. Benefits Our Rochester—Expanded Host Home.
Saturday, Oct. 19 — The Final Look. Benefits Emergency Shelter.
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A Discovery Of Witches: 13 Things You Need To Know About Your New Fave Show
Supernatural, sexy and surprising: here's everything you need to know about the huge new show, direct from San Diego Comic-Con 2018.
Rebecca May
The hype is real: based on the best-selling series of supernatural drama novels, A Discovery Of Witches is primed to be your new fave show.
The upcoming fantasy romance follows the story of Diana Bishop, a reluctantly powerful witch, and Matthew Clairmont, a vampire, in a world where vampires, witches and demons live hiding in plain sight amongst totally unaware humans. When Diana discovers a lost book that all creatures are desperate to get their hands on, things go from weird to chaotic to deadly in no time – and that includes her meeting Matthew as a result. It promises to be sexy, grown up and totally binge-worthy.
A Discovery Of Witches is going to be your new TV obsession / Sky One
The show's stars, Teresa Palmer, Owen Teale, Alex Kingston and Valarie Pettiford, as well as author Deborah Harkness and producer Lachlan MacKinnon, took to the stage today at pop culture event of the year, San Diego Comic Con, to show us just why we're gonna be obsessed when it hits our screens.
Here's everything we learnt about your new fave show…
It may be about witches, vampires and demons – but it's rooted in real history. Yes, really!
Author Deborah Harkness is an IRL historian, and a professor at the University of Southern California. Inspiration for the A Discovery Of Witches series struck ten years ago, when she was in an airport book store on holiday in Mexico, and realised that fantasy novels were everywhere. "I started wondering, if there really were vampires, what do they do for a living? And how would they date?" she explained during the show's Comic Con panel. Hey, it's a question we've often wondered!
Matthew Goode stars as vampire Matthew Clairmont / Sky One
Sparks will fly… literally with magic! But also, with pure sexy chemistry!
"The spark between us was there from the start," said Teresa Palmer (Diana Bishop) during the panel, when speaking about making the on-screen magic with her co-star Matthew Goode, who plays Matthew Clairmont, "We had really good banter and I felt so comfortable with him to explore these characters. It felt magic from the start."
Diana is a witch and Matthew is a vampire - and that means their relationship is forbidden / Sky One
Diana and Matthew's relationship is going to be passionate AF
"Its forbidden love: their love is so intense, they have a need for each other… there aren't words to describe that kind of passionate connection. It goes against everything that she's been taught in her life, but she cant help herself – the pull is just too strong," says Teresa Palmer, "It's chaotic and beautiful and passionate and romantic." "And dangerous!" added Doctor Who star Alex Kingston, who plays Diana's aunt, Sarah.
It was almost a movie before it became a TV show
"We pursued a movie first, but it became really clear that A Discovery of Witches was not going to fit into a 90 minute time frame," said Harkness at Comic Con. If you've picked up the nearly-800-page book, you'll understand!
Diana Bishop is a professor at Oxford University / Sky One
The story is set in places like Oxford and New York, but the Brit production was actually filmed in Wales
And that meant recreating Oxford University's iconic Bodleian Library there too: not a small task, as the real one is the second largest in Britain, and one of the oldest in Europe. "We actually built that in the studio – the entire Bodleian Library - and Deb knows the Bodleian Library like the back of her hand," reveals producer Lachlan MacKinnon, "So when Deb came into the set for the very first time, she was quite overwhelmed."
Teresa Palmer learnt real life skills to play Diana Bishop
As well as being an all-powerful witch, Diana Bishop is an alchemical history professor at the University of Oxford. And it turns out, you don't just pick up a Special Collections book, learnt Palmer, there's a specific art to it: "They showed me how to turn pages, the way you would place the weights so perfectly, you don't just pick up a book like that.! No one else knew how to handle the book, so on the shoot, when Ashmole came out, I was like, 'No, you place the weight, here!' The director was like, 'Um, that's actually taking a really long time!' I was like, 'No, this is how it has to be done!'
Owen Teale stars as Peter Knox / Sky One
Game of Thrones star Owen Teale plays villain Peter Knox – but don't judge him too harshly…
On playing witch Peter Knox, Owen Teale said at the show's panel, "You might look at him as the villain of the piece, but he has tremendous integrity, and his cause is to put back his species where they rightfully belong, on an equal setting to vampires…. If we created vampires originally, as I believe is in this book, then we can uncreate them. Call me a baddie if you like! I'm going to stick up for my character!"
Get to know the Ashmole 782: The lost manuscript that's kind of a big deal
Speaking on the Comic Con panel about his character, Owen Teale said, "The book is everything and I've been looking for it for a very long time, and there's many rumours about where it exists in the Bodleian Library." To which, Teresa Palmer pulled out THE book, with a cool "Is this what you're looking for?" "You can't buy that on Amazon," said Teale. Well she IS a witch…
Valerie Pettiford and Alex Kingston star as Diana's aunts, Emily and Sarah / Sky One
The characters are diverse, and Diana's aunts Sarah and Em are no exception
On Sarah and Emily's loving relationship and the way sexuality is portrayed in the show, Alex Kingston revealed, "In the world of the creatures, in a sense, sexuality is not a problem at all – the racism is between the actual different species. So there's no questioning of Sarah and Em's love, the questioning is between a witch and a vampire, and that is the thing that is absolutely forbidden. And the same with ethnicity, there's absolutely nothing… so it's very interesting, because it addresses the same problems that humans have, but they're in different ways. Its just a given that Sarah and Em are together." Valarie Pettiford, who plays Emily added, "they love each other, period."
Diana has super strong Witch powers... but she can't control them / Sky One
Bringing the supernatural story from the books to the screen presents new challenges
It's one thing to imagine magic on a page, but its another to show it actually happening. Teresa Palmer revealed the challenges that playing a witch on screen brings, "She has all these incredible powers. We had to create the way in which we showed these powers. We had wire work, we had to do a lot of stunts. Luckily, we had Deb at our fingertips, so I could message her and say 'How do you see this unravelling. How does this power come out of Diana?'"
It's going to air in the UK in September
You'll be able to watch it on Friday 14th September on Sky One and Now TV.
And here's how to watch it in the US
It was revealed at Comic Con that the show will be airing on the Sundance Now and on Shudder in the US.
Matthew and Diana's relationship is set to be super passionate / Sky One
Fans of the books should prepare themselves for some changes between the novels and the TV show
Author Deborah Harkness got real about the fans' worries about the beloved series being adapted for TV: "I'm sensing a lot of anxiety! I can't tell you how those changes are going to register for you. So things that I was OK with, you might be like, 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE BASE BOARDS IN THE BISHOP KITCHEN ARE NOT BROWN?'" She added, "It is an adaptation, and what an adaption does is take a work and change it so it an be enjoyed in a different format. So it' s never going to be exactly what's in the book. My recommendation to everybody is to sit there and keep calm and just enjoy the ride."
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Top 2016 College Hockey Free Agents
By: Ben Kerr | March 3, 2016 January 13, 2021
Its that time of year. The NCAA hockey season has come to a close and conference tournaments are in full swing. NHL teams are now salivating at the chance to sign the top undrafted college free agents as their teams play their final games of the season.
These prospects don't always have an impact at the NHL level, but the chances of finding a diamond in the rough ala players like Matt Read, Danny DeKeyser, Chris Kunitz, Andy McDonald, Dustin Penner, Tyler Bozak, Jason Garrison, Mike Condon, Ben Scrivens, Torey Krug, Christian Folin, Frank Vatrano, Daniel Carr and others who have been uncovered in recent years is always a chance that NHL teams seem willing to take. At worst they give out an Entry Level contract, pay a player to play for their minor league club for a couple years, and then let them go. At best they get a player who can contribute at the NHL level, for a relatively low cap hit, without using a draft pick, or trading other assets. These players are low risk/big reward and so the competition to sign them will be fierce.
With that said, who are the top Free Agents available? I've listed them in alphabetical order by last name for ease of reference. I'll be doing 33 names in three parts.
Gavin Bayreuther, Defence, St. Lawrence Saints, Junior (6'1″ 194 lbs)
A cousin of Ben Lovejoy of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Bayreuther followed up a very good freshman season (36 points in 38 games), with a more pedestrian sophomore campaign, putting up 16 points in 34 games. This year he's back putting up big numbers with 10 goals and 27 points in 34 games. He has an outstanding slap shot, with excellent power and accuracy. He shows the ability to be a power play quarterback with solid puckhandling skill, good vision, and strong passing ability. He is a very good skater showing good speed and the agility to walk the line and open up shooting and passing lanes. Bayreuther could use some extra upper body strength as he can be manhandled along the boards and in front of the net in his own end of the ice. He could choose to return to school, as he has another year of eligibilty remaining.
Drew Brevig, Defence, Ohio State Buckeyes, Junior (6'2″ 194 lbs)
Brevig isn't a big scorer, as the 23-year-old has just two goals and 14 points in 30 games this season. However he is a smooth skater, with excellent agility, pivots and edgework that allow him to cover a lot of ice. He plays strong positionally, cuts down passing lanes, and is wiling to block shots. His quick stick causes turnovers and he makes a good first pass out of the zone and is willing to join the the rush at times. He needs to work on his slapshot.
Joey Benik, Centre, St. Cloud State Huskies, Senior (5'10" 174 lbs)
The 24-year-old Benik has great first step quickness and excellent speed. He can be both a goal scorer, with a strong, accurate shot and good release, as well as a playmaker with good vision and passing skills. He has put up 19 goals and 38 points in 34 games so far for the Huskies. Benik has strong fundamentals, including good face-off skills and solid two-way play. There is some question about his size and strength and if he will be overpowered in the pro game though. He certainly will need to add some muscle to his frame going forward if he hopes to continue to make an impact at the next level.
Drake Caggiula, Left Wing/Centre, North Dakota Fighting Hawks, Senior (5'10″ 185 lbs)
Caggiula has had a fantastic season for North Dakota with 17 goals and 36 points in 29 games for the North Dakota Fighting Hawks. He is an extremely good skater, and plays a very physical game especially for his size. He creates havoc by getting in quickly on the forecheck, and causing turnovers. When his linemates have the puck, he gets to the front of the net and creates traffic. He has the soft hands and good hand eye co-ordination to bury rebounds or tip in shots. Size is the big concern and scared teams off from drafting him, but someone should be willing to take a chance on the 21-year-old with a pro contract.
Brian Christie, Left Wing, Merrimack Warriors, Senior (6'2″ 181 lbs)
Christie is having another solid season. The 23-year-old has 7 goals and 22 points in 34 games this season. Christie has excellent speed, he can beat defenders wide and cut to the net. They have to back off and respect his speed, and as a result he also gets the room to unleash a strong wrist shot. Christie needs to add some muscle to his frame as he has some issues along the boards and in front of the net. He's got the height, if he can put on some more strength he could be an NHLer down the road. That said he's got some serious development time ahead of him.
Ralph Cuddemi, Right Wing, Canisius Golden Griffins, Senior (6'1″, 187 lbs)
Cuddemi, the captain of Cansius, the 23-year-old right wing has had an excellent season with 19 goals and 38 points in 34 games. Cuddemi is a strong skater, with good speed and acceleration. He has good core strength which gives him excellent balance and the ability to fight through checks and take the puck to the net. He also has a very good shot with a strong release. There will be questions about the level of competition, but all Cuddemi has done is score over his time with the Golden Griffins.
Brandon Denham, Right Wing, Robert Morris Colonials, Senior (6'4″, 216 lbs)
The 24-year-old has excellent size and has put up a strong season with 20 goals and 38 points in 34 games so far for the Colonials. He has attended prospect camps for NHL teams including the Penguins last summer. Denham has improved his skating during his time in college, and moves well for a big man. He puts good pressure on opposing defenders on the forecheck, and can use his size to throw hits and win battles in the corners. He's also effective at establishing position in front of the net, and banging in rebounds and getting tip ins. There is some question about the level of competition he has faced in the weakest NCAA conference.
Andrew Gladiuk, Right Wing, Bentley Falcons, Senior (6'1″ 190 lbs)
The 22-year-old put up 16 goals and 36 points in 34 games. Gladiuk has a strong wrist shot and excellent release. He is a natural sniper who finds soft spots in the defence and can finish plays. He also has decent vision and passing skills. Gladiuk is a decent skater and this helps him to score points in the transition game and off the rush. Questions as to the quality of opposition in the Atlantic Hockey Conference will be raised here. He has attended the Vancouver Canucks prospect and development camp in the past.
Matt Grzelcyk, Boston University Terriers, Defence, Senior (5'9″ 174 lbs)
Grzelcyk was drafted in the third round by the Boston Bruins in the 2012 draft. However he could become a free agent, going the same route as Mike Reilly and Justin Schultz. Grzelcyk is undersized, but brings plenty of offense to the table with 19 points in 22 games this season, and 38 points in 41 games last year. Grzelcyk skates extremely well, with good speed and acceleration in both directions. His pivots and edgework are excellent allowing him to cover a lot of his. Grzelcyk has good stick handling ability and can move the puck out of his in zone by skating around forecheckers or making a good first pass. He is also able to join the rush, and has good vision and passing skills as well as a strong shot. Grzelcyk will need to add muscle before playing at the NHL level.
Jordan Gross, Right Defence, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Sophomore (5'10" 190 lbs)
The Sophomore defenceman has put up huge numbers for the Fighting Irish this season with 8 goals and 30 points in 34 games this season. Like, Grezelcyk he is a little undersized, but has excellent skating ability. Gross has very good vision and hockey sense, thinking the game very well and he almost always makes the right play with or without the puck. He also has an excellent wrist shot and one-timer, with a knack for getting them on net through traffic. Gross could stay in school as he has two more years of eligibility remaining.
Hampus Gustafsson, Centre, Merrimack Warriors, Junior (6'4″ 205 lbs)
The 22-year-old Swede plays a straight-line power forward game, scoring 25 points in 34 games. He has a good skating stride, and generates decent speed; but is much more willing to bowl over a defender to get to the net, then to try and stickhandle around him. He punishes defencemen on the forecheck. He can also effectively use his size and balance to shield the puck on the forecheck and grind out a possession game. Gustafsson has good defensive skills, including strong positioning; a long, active stick and good face-off skills. That two-way game, coupled with his size will certainly have NHL teams making offers, and he will need to choose between going pro and returning for his senior season at Merrimack.
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TL;DR: Two parallel efforts at modernizing the way government approaches technology are taking foothold in the Beltway: 18F and the U.S. Digital Service (USDS)
You may have noticed two parallel efforts at modernizing the way government approaches technology taking foothold in the Beltway over the past several months: 18F and the U.S. Digital Service (USDS). Although similar on paper, the two approach the challenge with two very divergent goals: one was created to ship culture and the other was created to ship confidence. It's the age-old saga of geeks vs. suits.
A long time in the making
The story of 18F and USDS (and their divergence) begins about three years ago with the introduction of the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program. Modeled after Code for America and the Presidential Management Fellows program, the PIF program was designed to parachute 18 skilled, private-sector technologists into government for six-month stints at a particular agency, technologists that wouldn't otherwise consider a career in government. The goal was simple: burst the stereotypical beltway bubble and expose government employees and bureaucratic workflows to mainstream technology thinking.1
The PIF program was a success, and soon after a group called 18F was created within the General Services Administration (GSA) not only to house the PIFs, both physically and bureaucratically,2 but also to continue and augment their efforts — to centralize forward-thinking technologists in government under one administrative umbrella, and to provide a vehicle for change that wasn't tied so closely to the administration and the highly political world in which it operates on a daily basis.3 In practice, 18F attracts the same type of outside-the-Beltway talent that the PIF program was designed to attract, and embodies a similar open-source-first mentality, but unlike the PIF program where many fellows simply took sabbaticals from their private-sector jobs, members of 18F traditionally jump ship and are in federal government for the long-haul, signing up for significantly longer terms than PIFs do.4
18F — Here's the best way to build software (and you can too!)
18F is an odd duck, at least when compared to how bureaucratic entities normally interact with one another. There's a bit of nuance in how 18F maintains engagements with "partner" agencies (just as a private sector firm might have "clients"),5 rather than embedding technologists in the agency itself (like the PIF program did), but the play's essentially the same.
18F's secret sauce is that it is insistently dogmatic about collaborating in the open, and after expending a great deal of organizational energy painting a picture of a citizen-centric future and doing their best to inspire agency stakeholders that the way 18F approaches technology is vastly superior to the status quo, they will simply refuse to work with an agency unless the agency agrees to adopt 18F's culture and workflow, at least for the project at hand.
For 18F, the goal isn't simply to deliver the piece of software that they were asked to create, but to leave the partner agency with a better sense of and appreciation for what modern software development looks like outside the Beltway. For them a win might be their name on the front page of the Washington Post talking about a new citizen-facing service that they launched, but an even better win would be that the partner agency's name was the one in the headline, spiking the football for 18F's work (and continuing 18F's vision once the engagement concludes).
Sure, it's leading by example, but it's also the teach-a-CIO-how-to-fish strategy, and for them, culture's a first-class deliverable right alongside the open-source code that the very culture necessitates. Think of them like the "consultant" in the movie Hitch: they're the guy behind the scenes whispering a few pointers in your ear to help you be the best you can be (except without all the food poisoning and rom-com drama).
The healthcare.gov wake up call
To get a better sense of the full picture, let's take a step back for a second: On October 1st, 2013 healthcare.gov happened. While surely it wasn't the impetus for modern IT reform efforts, it certainly made them a priority among non-technical decision makers. The administration quickly realized that simply throwing more money at "enterprise grade solutions" wasn't a defensible strategy, at least not in the long run. The West Wing knew that the government needed to get smart about technology, and needed to get smart fast, not to mention, coming off the tech-centric 2008 and 2012 campaign cycles, there was a legacy as "the technology president" at stake.
Although healthcare.gov was the first time that a recent policy initiative risked failure due to our inability to execute from a technical perspective, it was far from the first time change agents in government pushed for the need to rethink how we approached technology. You see, the dirty secret of government IT is that most agencies don't employ developers or the types of folks that read Hacker News over their lunch break to stay abreast of industry trends, and if they do, they're certainly not invited to the types of meetings that decide things like how to launch healthcare.gov. Instead, many IT executives are life-long bureaucrats, promoted from within the government ranks, with agencies primarily employing what we'd call program managers in the private sector, contracting out the overwhelming balance of development and subject-matter expertise (read: technical know-how) to a small cadre of government contracting firms for both the high-level system architecture and low-level application implementation.
Imagine that it's October 2013 and you're one of the President's senior advisers. You're getting asked questions about healthcare.gov, which is currently the lead story on just about every news channel globally. Your immediate concern is putting out the fire — getting the site back up — and if we're honest, being able to report to the press that you've righted the wrong so that you can get it out of the news. But once the crisis subsides, you're going to start to be asked a second round of equally disconcerting questions: How'd this happen? What's going to be the next healthcare.gov and how can we prevent it?.
USDS — We're on it boss (okay, listen, here's what you're going to do)
That's where USDS comes in. At least in the near term, the US Digital Service exists to prevent the next healthcare.gov.6
Unlike 18F, which is approached by agencies asking for help, USDS has a shortlist of administration priorities that it actively pursues. They're the administrative talking points you're used to hearing at stump speeches — immigration, veterans, social security, student loans, healthcare, and small business concerns. If it doesn't fit into one of those buckets, it's unlikely to get USDS's attention.
Think about it practically: bureaucratically, physically, and technically, USDS is part of and must respond to the ever-changing political desires of the White House (in contrast, 18F reports to, and is supported primarily by career civil servants). Whereas a win for 18F might be for a partner agency to grace the front cover of the Washington Post, for USDS, the goal is the exact opposite: to prevent a short list of technology-backed policy initiatives from making the news, at least not from a technology standpoint.
USDS's strategy is to bring best-of-class, private-sector engineers into government for time-limited tours of duty, parachute them into agency positions outside the traditional reporting structure, and task them with bringing a modern perspective to key technology initiatives. Sound familiar? Although, unlike the PIFs approach, from what I understand, like those that parachuted in to save healthcare.gov, their role seems to be inspired by the likes of Nick Burns ("your company's computer guy"), demanding that agency CIOs and other technical leads step aside, and they have the political capital to do it. After all, by definition, USDS projects are those already at risk of failure and those that require radical redirection.
Think of USDS like the Men in Black (although as far as I know, there's no adorable pug at the office). To them, the planet's always 24-hours away from destruction by an Arquillian Battle Cruiser or a Corillian Death Ray, but if they do their job right, you'll never know it. And that's the point.
18F and USDS have divergent goals (getting on the front page, versus not getting on the front page), but there's more than that. I'd break the difference in approaches down to three key-value statements implicit in each team's culture:
1. Transparency as an asset versus transparency as a liability
When others outside your organization can see what you're working on, you provide them with the right to criticize your work. You also provide them with the opportunity to improve it.
18F clearly falls in the "transparency as an asset" camp. Almost without exception, they work in the open, list the names of the humans behind their efforts on their homepage, and talk regularly about why they work the way they do. By doing so, they impact not just those they engage with (and I suspect raise their own expectations internally), but have a real shot at shifting the conversation around how we approach IT here in the Beltway by simply showing what's possible. As someone who fights to modernize government day in and day out, I can assure you that .gov URLs are a powerful weapon when going up against agency myth.
USDS on the other hand falls on the "transparency as a liability" side of things, or at the very least, working in a way that captures and exposes process is lower down the list of organization priorities. Nearly six months after USDS launched, the group was criticized for not having a web presence of its own, spooled one up a few weeks later in coordination with the State of the Union, and to my admittedly unobservant eye, hasn't changed much since. Beyond their recruiting materials, it's admittedly hard to tell exactly what they're up to, an odd arrangement for any "startup" today, let alone a government initiative riding on the coattails of the White House Open Government, Open Data, and Digital Strategy efforts.
Whereas 18F uses its position to paint an opinionated vision of federal IT, USDS seems to use its single-page web presence almost exclusively for recruitment. An important task, don't get me wrong, and I'm sure they've got more pressing, more immediate fires to put out, but there's something to be said for the fact that if you google "USDS", the first result (after their Twitter feed) is a page entitled "US Digital Service Recruitment" (with the first heading being "Join the US Digital Service"), while the first result for "18F" is "18F Digital Services Delivery" (with the first heading being "Building the 21st century digital government").
2. Show versus tell
In creative writing there are two ways to convey an idea. You can tell your reader explicitly, or you can explain the facts to your reader, and let them draw their own conclusion. Technology is no different. It's the reason we write instructional manuals.
For 18F, the play is "show". For one, it's the only way they will ever scale. They maintain no dominion over agency CIOs, and can't realistically have an ongoing engagement that covers every IT project. If they're going to do their part to push government in a more technocratic direction, they've got to leave agencies with a Swiss Army Knife of cultural tools so that change agents within the agency can carry the torch forward once 18F leaves. Not to mention, as an engagement-based agency, marketing their efforts is critical to maintaining a pipeline of partner agencies and the political capital it brings.
For USDS, the play is "tell". For one, they're in a position to do so. Whether recruiting for their own ranks or architecting an agency site, a call from the White House is an insanely powerful thing. For another, coming from a management-point-of-view, they have the unique ability to change agency org. charts when they need to, placing the technologists they trust in positions bureaucratically that allow them to bypass the "show" step. They've also got enough political runway to ride things out until the end of the administration, without the need to prove their value, internally or externally.
3. Management versus hacker
Crazy successful startups are founded and run by geeks — think Zuckerberg, Gates, Brin and Page to name a few. When creating an organization dedicated to building software, there's something to be said for optimizing for developers above external constraints. I've written before about the distinction between geeks and suits. Nowhere is that more apparent than when you look at 18F and USDS. It's product delivery versus management consulting.
To me, 18F embodies the hacker ethic, with geeks being at the top of the organizational food chain (whether developer, designer, UX-expert, whatever) and managers adopting a servant leadership approach to supporting their efforts. For 18F, change begins bottom up, by those closest to the problem. Not to mention, they've clearly embodied the UK Digital Service's "delivery is the strategy" ethos. From this outsider's perspective, 18F was built by geeks, for geeks, and that fact shows in how they work and what they choose to work on.
USDS may be strongly influenced by non-geek technologists, but that also provides them with a unique opportunity not afforded to 18F. It'd be an understatement to say that there's a lot going on below the surface of USDS. While today USDS is tasked with primarily playing catch-up on too-big-to-fail-type projects, in the long run USDS's vision is to create a much wider-reaching digital service corps, with USDS being the bureaucratic umbrella, providing managerial air cover for non-career technologists at each of the household name agencies (DHS, VA, HHS, etc.). Each agency has been tasked with establish a digital services team by this October, and the size of the corps is budgeted to swell from about 40 today, to 500 by 2016.7 For USDS, the play is a top-down reimplementation of how the federal government approaches IT, at least from a human perspective.
Which one's better
Is 18F better? USDS? You're asking to compare Apples to PCs. They exist to serve different masters, and that's a great thing. For all that separates their efforts, they share much more in common, both in form and in function. They've both brought some of the smartest, most passionate technologists I've ever met into government to serve their country, and as any student of organizational change will tell you, a two-pronged, top-down-and-bottom-up approach is the only way to unstick the world we find ourselves in today (USDS) while simultaneously bringing about the world we want to live in tomorrow (18F).
If you're a technologist and looking at the way our government approaches technology gives you the same nails-on-a-chalkboard feeling it gives me, I encourage you to give in to your sense of civic duty and lend the federal government a hand for a three-month, six-month, year-long, or lifetime sprint. As you can see the stakes are high, the potential impact is immeasurable, and it's all but guaranteed to be the most meaningful IT experience you'll have.
Full disclosure, I was a member of the inaugural round of fellows, but since then, work in the private sector. These are my own observations, reading public-facing representations, and being intimately familiar with government IT reform efforts. Your experience may vary. ↩
As a result, I'd be surprised if the PIF program survived the next administration in its current form, but that's neither here nor there. ↩
Anecdotally, the White House's digital efforts are more highly scrutinized, both internally (read: lawyers and White House Comms), and externally (read: trolls and political analysts). As a result, it's not uncommon for public facing content — from site launches to blog posts to comments and commit messages — to go through several layers of bureaucratic review prior to release. ↩
Technically speaking, most members of 18F are full time government employees (FTEs) hired under "direct hire" hiring authority for non-competed positions. That means that they are term-limited to two years, with an option to renew for two more, but when you're attracting 20- or 30-somethings, 2–4 years is a non-negligible percent of a technologist's life, and very possibly a plurality of their professional career. ↩
Since 18F is funded primarily by its client work, not Congressional appropriations, its business model makes it more likely to survive until 2017 and beyond. ↩
I suspect USDS has broader, HQ-distinguishing, all-government-innovation-effort-encompassing plans for themselves in the long run, but for now, based solely on what little information has been made publicly available, this is their apparent raison d'être. See Fn. 7. ↩
While certainly splitting hairs, there's already indication that OSTP's broader IT modernization efforts, and yes, even 18F's, are being branded as part of the USDS portfolio (see, for example, the staffers listed on the public-facing USDS page). As USDS lead Mikey Dickerson pointed out, "For these reasons, we have proposed in the President's 2016 budget a total of $105 million to create copies of the U.S. Digital Service team inside all of the 24 major agencies, for a total of around 500 people." It's also worth noting that the White House has given agencies until Oct. 1st to stand up their own digital services teams "modeled after those at the General Services Administration under 18F". ↩
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Soledar Battle Continues To Rage As Kremlin Undercuts Wagner Success Claims
The Russian defense ministry and the Wagner Group seem as interested in claiming credit and undermining each other as they are in actually capturing Soledar - which they have, so far, failed to do. JL
Holly Ellyatt reports in CNBC:
There were confusing reports Wednesday as to whether Russian and Wagner Group forces had taken control of the town, after the head of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his force had captured the town. The Kremlin said Wednesday, however, that reporters should await a statement from the Ministry of Defense on the status of Soledar. Later, the ministry said its own elite airborne units had surrounded Soledar. The update from the Russian Ministry of Defense was seen as a bid by the Russian military - which has been criticized by Prigozhin - to undermine the Wagner Group leader.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again rejected Russia's claims to have to have encircled and captured the salt-mining town of Soledar in Donetsk, saying fighting continues to hold the town.
"The fighting continues. The Donetsk direction is holding out. And we do everything, without stopping for a single day, to strengthen Ukrainian defense," he said in his nightly address.
There were confusing reports Wednesday as to whether Russian and Wagner Group (a private Russian military company) forces had taken control of the town, after the head of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed Tuesday that his force had captured the town.
The Kremlin said Wednesday, however, that reporters should await a statement from the Ministry of Defense on the status of Soledar. Later, the ministry said its own elite airborne units had surrounded Soledar from the north and south and that "assault squads" were fighting in the town center.
The update from the Russian Ministry of Defense was seen by analysts as a bid by the Russian military — which has been criticized by Prigozhin — to assert its authority over, and to undermine, the Wagner Group leader. In addition, President Vladimir Putin's military reshuffle on Wednesday, in which he put loyalist Gen. Valery Gerasimov in charge of troops fighting in Ukraine and replacing Gen. Sergei Surovikin — who was supported by Prigozhin — has also been seen as part of this power struggle between the Russian military, and Prigozhin and his Wagner Group.


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Imagine if your product inspired the same level of loyalty that Apple, Disney and Starbucks receive from their customers. Now imagine you can actually engineer that loyalty right into your brand – it makes your head spin a bit, doesn't it?


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This is an archive of a past election.
See http://www.smartvoter.org/ca/sba/ for current information.
League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Santa Barbara County, CA November 2, 2004 Election
Measure D2004
Leasing at Isla Vista Community Center
Isla Vista Recreation and Park District
Advisory Vote
4983 / 78.92% Yes votes ...... 1331 / 21.08% No votes
See Also: Index of all Measures
Results as of Dec 2 8:23am, 99.9% of Precincts Reporting (355/10)
Information shown below: Impartial Analysis | Arguments |
May the Board of Directors of the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District lease, license, or grant concessions or permits for community recreation use, including but not limited to child, youth, teen, adult, elderly, intergenerational and family programs, at the proposed Isla Vista Community Center on District property commonly known as "Estero Park" and "Tipi Village"?
Impartial Analysis from the County Counsel
On November 3, 1998, the voters of the Isla Vista Recreation and Park District (the "Park District") approved the Park Protection Initiative by a two-thirds vote. The Park Protection Initiative prohibits the sale, lease or other transfer of park and recreation property of the Park District without approval of two-thirds (2/3) of the voters of the of the Park District.
The Board of Directors of the Park District proposes to develop and construct the Isla Vista Community Center. The center will consist of buildings, recreation facilities, landscaped space, parking and related facilities on Park Property commonly known as Estero Park and Tipi Village.
This measure, if approved by two-thirds (2/3) of Park District voters voting on the measure, will authorize the Park District to lease the proposed Isla Vista Community Center for community recreation uses or to grant concessions, licenses or permits to others for community recreation uses of the proposed Isla Vista Community Center.
The financial impacts from the measure, if approved, are unknown and would depend upon the uses permitted by the Park District and the terms and conditions of any leases entered into, and any concessions or licenses granted by the Park District.
s/ Gustavo E. Lavayen, Deputy County Counsel
Contact FOR Measure D2004:
Friends of Measure D (805) 882-2484
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Arguments For Measure D2004
FOR 26 YEARS, ISLA VISTA HAS BEEN ASKING FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER. WE NEED YOUR VOTE TO BUILD IT! This will be at no cost to you. A Yes Vote on Measure D will help make this longtime dream come true!
Designed by the community, for the community, the current proposal in Estero Park includes a SKATEBOARD PARK, SOCCER FIELD, BASEKTBALL COURTS, CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS, COMMUNITY GARDENS AND PICNIC AREAS. There will be facilities for the TEEN CENTER and CHILD AND SENIOR CARE. The center will have a LARGE MULTIPURPOSE HALL AND KITCHEN for community festivals, theater, parties, weddings, student events and many other activities to bring Isla Vistans together. There will also be classrooms for dance, yoga, art, and community meetings. Measure D would allow the Park District to lease park property to a partnership of non-profit agencies. These agencies will provide much-needed services and programs at the community center, benefiting area children, teens and seniors.
The IVRPD was created in 1972 to provide parks and recreation for all of Isla Vista. In 32 years, we have built and maintained more than twenty parks where Isla Vistans play and relax in beautiful surroundings. Additionally, the District has acquired open spaces for restoration, habitat preservation and nature study. We continue to help to make Isla Vista the beautiful and unique community that it is today.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO VOTE YES ON MEASURE D. HELP MAKE THE DREAM OF A COMMUNITY CENTER IN ISLA VISTA COME TRUE! MEASURE D IS NOT A TAX MEASURE. A YES VOTE COSTS RESIDENTS NOTHING.
VOTE YES ON MEASURE D!
s/ Harley Augustino
s/ Logan Green, Board of Directors, Isla Vista Recreation & Park District
(No arguments against Measure D2004 were submitted)
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This item is part of the R. Owen series and the Jack Collection. It depicts aspects Australian life in the 1970's.
This oral history collection consists of 20 interviewees, and over 25 hours of interview. Here, participants were asked to think about their own personal connection to war or conflict - whether it be through direct personal experience or through through own personal heritage. We asked the participants to reflect on their reasons for remembering and forgetting aspects of the experience of war in order to better understand the nature of commemoration.
Here, we learn that George Argo Jr, attended Scotch College in Melbourne between 1931-1937, and that is parents (George Argo Sr and Bertha) were British. they all live at 3 Hotham Street East St. Kilda at this time.
This letter details the affection Pat has for G. A Jr. He appears to be residing at 'Hoppings',( rehab or hospital?). Pat may be pregnant at this time.
This collection documents correspondence and official documents of the Turner family, of Victoria. This collection dates between the 1930s and 1960s. Please note, featured are three generations of G.A Turner's, grandfather, son and grandson. This collection includes death and birth certificates, military correspondence, personal letters writer between family members and other official documents relating to the physical and mental health of the subjects, military service and everyday life.
This collection consists of documents relating to the life of Col G.A Turner. It includes official letters, personal correspondence between the subject and loved ones, police reports, birth and death certificates and military documents.
This item for part of series 13 (26 items) of the 'Jack Collection'. This series depicts life in Australia between the 1930's and the 1980s. Photographs are from one family.
The house half built Macedon.
To Dear Lily, With love and Christmas greeting from Reg & Lois "Xma 1949".
This series (0004.01.01 - 0004.01.10) forms part of the 'Jack' Collection. This series depicts aspects of Australian life and recreation in the 1940's.
This series (0004.01.01 - 0004.01.10) forms part of the 'Jack' Collection. It depicts aspects of Australian life and recreation in the 1940's.
This series (0004.1.01 - 0004.1.10) relates to Australian recreation and holidays in the 1940's. These negatives form part of the 'Jack' collection.
These items form the Hannigan series, from the Jack Collection. It depicts aspects of Australian life in the 1970's. This looks at a visit to Lake Eildon and surrounds.
This item is part of the R. Owen series and the Jack Collection.


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8-2-8: GENERAL CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS:
A. Standards And Principles: All construction in the rights of way shall be consistent with applicable ordinances, codes, laws, rules and regulations, and commonly recognized and accepted traffic control and construction principles, sound engineering judgment and, where applicable, the principles and standards set forth in the following IDOT publications, as amended from time to time:
1. "Standard Specifications For Road And Bridge Construction";
2. "Supplemental Specifications And Recurring Special Provisions";
3. "Highway Design Manual";
4. "Highway Standards Manual";
5. "Standard Specifications For Traffic Control Items";
6. "Illinois Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices" (92 Ill. adm. code section 545);
7. "Flagger's Handbook"; and
8. "Work Site Protection Manual For Daylight Maintenance Operations".
B. Interpretation Of Standards And Principles: If a discrepancy exists between or among differing principles and standards required by this chapter, the village director of community development shall determine, in the exercise of sound engineering judgment, which principles apply, and such decision shall be final. If requested, the village director of community development shall state which standard or principle will apply to the construction, maintenance, or operation of a facility in the future.
C. Identification: All personnel working at any construction site in the village on the behalf of a utility shall carry identification cards and copies of all required permits for the execution of said construction. All identification cards shall identify the laborer's employer and the utility by which he or she has been contracted to perform the construction services. (Ord. 2007-102, 11-1-2007)


Shaker collaborates on centralized initiatives for attracting and sourcing candidates with the skill sets sought by McDonald's for its corporate offices, company-owned restaurants, and franchises. In managing so many different elements of their recruitment marketing efforts, we provide a consistent approach to reaching and interacting with candidates from all walks of life.
Higher conversation rates. Improved SEO. Faster and more convenient. And oh-so-much-more attractive. That's what we have achieved in designing and developing this user-focused site for professional/managerial careers. We created a database on the McDonald's career site and used customized filters to pull job descriptions from the existing ATS, and branded them with the company's visuals and language-working hand in hand with their IT team to ensure that our work blended smoothly into their IT eco-system.
At this custom site, McDonald's recruiters conveniently access service and text-message request forms, a creative library of print templates, and Shaker team contacts-everything they need to expedite their hiring and ad-placement efforts.
In addition to managing advertising strategies for job boards and social media, Shaker has implemented text-to-apply campaigns that are available for all restaurants, and consolidated global programs for talent-acquisition initiatives at McDonald's U.S. and international locations.


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Q: Timelike, spacelike etc. for higher-order tensors Vectors $V^\mu$ in relativity can be classified into those which are timelike, spacelike and null. A similar classification is available for tensors: A tensor
$$T^{\mu_1\mu_2...\mu_p}_{\phantom{\mu_1\mu_2...\mu_p}\nu_1\nu_2...\nu_q}$$
Can be called timelike if $T^2<0$, spacelike if $T^2>0$ and null if $T^2=0$ where
$$T^2=T^{\mu_1\mu_2...\mu_p}_{\phantom{\mu_1\mu_2...\mu_p}\nu_1\nu_2...\nu_q}T_{\mu_1\mu_2...\mu_p}^{\phantom{\mu_1\mu_2...\mu_p}\nu_1\nu_2...\nu_q}$$
How should we think about these notions for tensors of rank greater than one?
For vectors, there is a proper, orthochronous Lorentz transformation taking $V^\mu$ to $-V^\mu$ iff $V^\mu$ is spacelike, is this true for tensors of higher rank?
This classification is certainly useful, for instance, the existence of a frame in which the electric (magnetic) field vanishes is equivalent to the Faraday tensor being spacelike (timelike).

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package org.apache.geronimo.testsuite.v20.ui;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import org.apache.geronimo.testsuite.common.ui.AbbotHelper;
import org.apache.geronimo.testsuite.common.ui.Constants;
import org.apache.geronimo.testsuite.common.ui.ProjectTasks;
import org.apache.geronimo.testsuite.common.ui.ServerTasks;
import org.apache.geronimo.testsuite.common.ui.WorkbenchTasks;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.IWorkspaceRoot;
import org.eclipse.core.resources.ResourcesPlugin;
import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.IDialogConstants;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

import abbot.swt.eclipse.junit.extensions.WorkbenchTestCase;
import abbot.swt.eclipse.utils.WorkbenchUtilities;

/*
 * @version $Rev$ $Date$
 */
public class RunOnServerTest extends WorkbenchTestCase {

    Shell workbenchShell = WorkbenchUtilities.getWorkbenchWindow().getShell();
    AbbotHelper abbotHelper = new AbbotHelper(workbenchShell);
    boolean success = false;

    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        super.setUp();
    }

    protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
        super.tearDown();
        deleteProject();
        deleteServer();
    }

    public void testRunOnServer() {
        createServer();
        startServer();
        createProject();
        copyCodeToProject();
        deployProject();
    }

    private void createServer() {
        success = false;
        try {
            WorkbenchTasks workbenchTasks = new WorkbenchTasks(workbenchShell, abbotHelper);
            // so we are sure that we are looking in the desired perspective
            workbenchTasks.showJEEPerspective();
            ServerTasks serverTasks = new ServerTasks(workbenchShell, abbotHelper, Constants.SERVER_V20 );
            serverTasks.createServer();
            success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        assertTrue( success );
    }

    private void startServer() {
        success = false;
        try {
            ServerTasks serverTasks = new ServerTasks(workbenchShell, abbotHelper, Constants.SERVER_V20 );
            serverTasks.startServer();
            success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        assertTrue( success );
    }

    private void createProject() {
        success = false;
        try {
            Shell wizardShell = abbotHelper.clickMenuItem (workbenchShell,
                                                           new String[] {"&File", "&New\tAlt+Shift+N", "&Other..."},
                                                           "New");
            abbotHelper.clickTreeItem (wizardShell,
                                       new String[] {"Web", "Dynamic Web Project"});
            abbotHelper.clickButton (wizardShell, IDialogConstants.NEXT_LABEL);
            abbotHelper.setTextField(wizardShell,"", "DynamicWebProject");
            abbotHelper.clickButton (wizardShell, IDialogConstants.FINISH_LABEL);
            abbotHelper.waitForDialogDisposal(wizardShell);
            success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        assertTrue( success );
    }

    private void copyCodeToProject() {
        success = false;
        try {
            IWorkspaceRoot aWSRoot = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot();
            IProject aProject = aWSRoot.getProject ("DynamicWebProject");
            String fileDir = aWSRoot.getLocation().toOSString() + "/src/main/resources/run-on-server";
            IFile aFile = aProject.getFile("WebContent/index.jsp");
            aFile.create(new FileInputStream (fileDir + "/index.jsp"), true, null);
            abbotHelper.waitTime( 1500 );
            success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        assertTrue( success );
    }

    private void deployProject() {
        success = false;
        try {
            Shell deployShell = abbotHelper.rightClickItem(workbenchShell, "DynamicWebProject",
                                                           new String [] {"&Run As", "&1 Run on Server\tAlt+Shift+X, R"},
                                                           "Run On Server");
            abbotHelper.clickButton (deployShell, IDialogConstants.FINISH_LABEL);
            abbotHelper.waitTime( 10000 );
            abbotHelper.clickCombo( workbenchShell, "http://localhost:8080/DynamicWebProject/");
            success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        assertTrue( success );
    }

    private void deleteProject() {
        success = false;
        try {
            ProjectTasks projectTasks = new ProjectTasks(workbenchShell, abbotHelper);
            projectTasks.deleteProject ("DynamicWebProject");
            success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        assertTrue( success );
    }

    private void deleteServer() {
        success = false;
        try {
            ServerTasks serverTasks = new ServerTasks(workbenchShell, abbotHelper, Constants.SERVER_V20 );
            serverTasks.stopServer();
            serverTasks.removeServer();
            success = true;
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        assertTrue( success );
    }

}

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Q: Reference image in Numbers? I have found that I can add images to cells as background in Numbers in various sheets.
I'd like to reference these images in these cells from another sheet.
Is this possible?

A: I don't believe it is possible to reference the image in a cell of another table but you can simulate the effect with an appropriately filtered overlapping table.
One solution is to copy each of your images into a row or column with formulas in each cell deciding if the picture should be shown and use filter/sort options to show only the chosen sets. The formula results can be made transparent so only the image is seen. Conditional highlighting with custom transparent background can also be used to knock some sets out of view while preserving absential space so the images line up as they should, or alternatively to have a toggle switch to show/hide the picture.
Here are some tips I've found useful:
If your images change frequently it's helpful to use the same formulas for all cells using col() or row() as index holders for one dimension and a reference to header column or row as an index in another dimension. This minimizes maintenance time when new images are added. In this example, the 11 columns with olive-toned headers are all separate tables of one column and many rows. The formulas in each cell checks if a given title (represented by the position index) is present in a column of a book display (in the yellow table identified by the number in each olive header row) and the tables are then filtered for true values.
BTW, Here is the formula in each picture cell:
CHOOSE(IFERROR(MATCH(LOOKUP(ROW()−1,Paperback Lookup::Table 1::$A,Paperback Lookup::Table 1::$B),CHOOSE(A$1,Book Plan::B,Book Plan::C,Book Plan::D,Book Plan::E,Book Plan::F,Book Plan::G,Book Plan::H,Book Plan::I,Book Plan::J,Book Plan::K,Book Plan::L),0)^0,2),TRUE,FALSE)


The Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant that builds the Cadillac CT6 is devoting production of that luxury sedan through June 1, 2019, to the V-Series version powered by the marque's new 550-hp, 4.2-liter twin-turbo double overhead-cam V-8 engine. Production of the Chevrolet Impala also continues there until June 1, while the Buick LaCrosse and Chevy Volt end production at Hamtramck on March 1, 2019.
Cadillac "expects to meet sales demand" for the CT6-V Blackwing V-8 with production that has been allocated through next summer, a spokesperson told Automobile magazine.
The Chevrolet Cruze hatchback and sedan end production at GM's Lordstown Assembly in Warren, Ohio, on March 1 of next year, and production of the Chevy Impala and Cadillac XTS end production in the GM Oshawa, Ontario, Canada assembly plant in the fourth quarter of next year.
The early, unexpected demise of the CT6 will leave Cadillac with two car models. The new models include a replacement for the ATS, and both will be produced at GM's Lansing-Delta Township assembly plant in Michigan, a spokesperson confirmed.
The SuperCruise Level 2 autonomous system that made its debut in the CT6 last year will be added to future Cadillac models, and one of GM's Chinese assembly plants will continue to build the CT6 there for the Chinese market only after production ends in Hamtramck. GM's Chinese Cadillac plant has been the exclusive factory for the plug-in hybrid version of the CT6.
"Contributing to a cash savings of approximately $6 billion are cost reductions of $4.5 billion and a lower capital expenditure annual run rate of almost $1.5 billion," GM said in its press release.
Unlike the Ford marque, GM isn't getting out of sedans altogether. Past 2019 at least, it plans to continue production of the Chevrolet Malibu, Sonic and Spark, Buick Regal and the two new Cadillac sedans, as well as the Chevy Camaro and Corvette.


Evan Isaac Lipkin is an instructor for Studio Institute Global. He received his BA in Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University and then his MFA in acting from University of Los Angeles, with a stop in the Chicago theater scene in between for good measure. Evan has studied extensively with the SITI Company, having the pleasure of being directed by Leon Ingulsruud and J. Ed Araiza.Recent stage productions include Polixenes in The Winter's Tale (The Porters' Of Hellsgate) and Ross/Witch in Macbeth (Savage Players). Evan has also appeared in numerous short films and web series including Lucky Day (dir. Paul Reisinger) and Last Call (Room8 Productions).


Winter is unpredictable and storms can disrupt electrical service without warning. Your power may be off for a few hours or, in extreme cases, a few days. Be prepared in case your power goes out this winter.
• Assemble an emergency kit and store it where it will be easy to find in the dark. Include items like a flashlight with extra batteries, candles, matches and a portable radio.
• If your power goes out, check if your neighbours have electricity. If they have power, check all fuses or circuit breakers to rule out electricity issues inside your home.
• Once you're sure it's an outage, report it to Manitoba Hydro at 1-888-MBHYDRO.
• If you use a mobile device, you can follow Manitoba Hydro on Twitter to receive power outage updates.
• Never use a barbecue or generator while indoors or in a confined space. They can create dangerous levels of toxic carbon monoxide very quickly. This also applies to any other fuelburning equipment that is not connected to a chimney or vent.
• Turn off all electrical appliances when your power goes out. Pay special attention to those you may have been using when the power went out – like the stove or oven.
• Unplug electronic equipment to protect it from a voltage surge when power is restored.
• Keep one light turned on, so you will know when the electricity is back on.
• If you see a downed power line, report it to Manitoba Hydro immediately.
• Know that in the event of a power outage, emergency crews are working as quickly as possible to restore your electrical service.
For more tips on how to prepare for a power outage, visit hydro.mb.ca.