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|| SportsShooter.com: News Item: Posted 2006-09-05
Seattle Times staff photographer Dean Rutz returns from serious injury
By Dean Rutz, The Seattle Times
Photo by Jennifer Buchanan / Everett Herald
Dean Rutz at a recent Snohomish vs. Cascade high school football game on September 1, 2006.
This is not the place I wanted to be.
Back to work just a few days, and the pool camera for the funeral of Joselito Barber, a Seattle Police officer killed while on duty in the collision of his cruiser and another vehicle just a few days prior.
Me, in a cemetery. The ironies were not lost on me.
Walking to the gravesite I passed a memorial for World War II dead. The monument had inscribed in it a drawing based on Joe Rosenthal's famous photo - and Rosenthal had just died the night before.
And then there was before me the grieving family and the casket of a young man who died from massive trauma. I felt a profound sadness watching the parents and girlfriend beside the casket.
Could have been me, I thought.
I haven't been too maudlin too many times since my accident April 20 of this year. But this was definitely one of those times.
It is, of course, a miracle that I'm here to write a single word about my experience the past few months. I had a sense that might be true when Bert first asked me to write about being hit in the head by a baseball and suffering a massive trauma as a result of it. But I wrote about that very early on in the experience, and each week that followed it seemed to bring another revelation.
The biggest one was that I was one lucky sonofabitch.
I liken it to a switch. One moment I was talking to Ferndale High School athlete Jake Locker. And just like that came the crush of the baseball against my head.
One moment I was listening. The next my entire being was consumed by the incredible rush of painful sensation. Light went to dark in the flick of a switch.
It was loud. When the ball that fractured my skull hit me the sound and the pain were equal, and they consumed me. I have never experienced anything like it before, and hope never to again. It closed my eyes. I was standing, but it might just as well have been an out of body experience. I knew everything that was happening to me, but the agony I felt was so numbing, and the shock so overwhelming, that my body didn't know what to do. I don't know how long that went on. But as awareness set in, so too did the urgency for me to do something. I could only grasp that I needed to get to the ground. I knew I wouldn't be vertical very much longer.
My body knew it too. And I collapsed to the ground, partially wrapped in the arms of a baseball scout.
They tell me I convulsed on the ground for about a minute. I don't remember that.
But I remember being on the ground, and seeing all the people standing above me. And I was embarrassed for being in that situation.
I wasn't anywhere I wasn't supposed to be. I was off the field of play at the high school game between Ferndale and Anacortes, there to do a story on Locker, the University of Washington's quarterback of the future. I was well off the field and behind a fence, standing with Locker and his father and maybe a half dozen other people when the ball flew in and struck me in the right temple. It was terrible luck that I was struck in the weakest place in my skull.
To this day people ask me if I've heard from Locker, or from the kid from Anacortes High School who threw the ball that hit me.
No I haven't, but that shouldn't surprise anyone.
I was lying on the ground and awake. I was stunned, but alert enough to be making bad jokes. An ambulance was called, but I could still tell the reporter where my car was parked, where my gear was, and hand him my keys. It appeared to everybody that I would be just fine.
The reporter, John Boyle, called the picture desk back in Seattle to tell them I'd been hit by a baseball, but that I was okay. I was awake, talking, and headed to the hospital as a precaution. A bit of bad luck the editors thought as they huddled. But there was no sense of urgency.
Not yet anyway. That would of course change. Barry Fitzsimmons, just days into his new job as director of photography, was about to experience his first crisis.
No one on the baseball field had any idea of what was to come - least of all me. But things changed moments after I was loaded into the ambulance.
It's difficult to describe the sensation I first felt being hit by the baseball. Your entire body locks up and is consumed by paralysis and pain. Nothing existed other than that for several moments.
It's similarly difficult to describe the sensation that came over me in the ambulance. At this point medically a hematoma had formed in my brain. I didn't know it of course, but I knew something was terribly wrong. I suddenly began losing my sight, and I was feeling something was about to overtake me.
I told the paramedics "we need to go." And then my body began trembling uncontrollably.
I thought I must be in shock. But the trembling and cold I felt was so foreign that I tried to roll to my left side, strapped to the gurney, and grasp the hand of the paramedic with massive hands named Jerry. I reached for him because I didn't know what else to do. I was fading.
And then I was gone. I lost consciousness and would not regain it for five hours.
Though not conscious, I was fighting with the paramedics Jerry would tell me two days later. As the ambulance sped down Interstate 5 on the 15-minute ride from Ferndale to Bellingham, I was seizing. The most violent of those seizures lasted three minutes. I fought with Jerry so much that he felt he had no choice but to fill me with enough sedative "to drop a horse."
Whether that stopped my breathing, or whether it was the trauma and seizure, I don't really know. But I did in fact stop breathing. And now the paramedics had a new problem.
"There wasn't any oxygen getting to your brain," Jerry would say later. A decision was made to pull over on the freeway and intubate me. That single decision both saved my life and saved my person from likely debilitating brain damage.
Photo by Karen Ducey / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Dean Rutz during his first night in the hospital.
Stable but swelling on the right side of my face, doctors at St. Joseph's Hospital quickly performed a CT scan to see how bad the damage was. It was about that time that longtime friend and Seattle Times columnist Ron Judd showed up at the hospital. Ron lives in Bellingham and was asked by the picture desk to check up on me.
The doctors were arguing, Ron said later. The radiologist was certain the artery in my brain had been severed in which case I was dead unless surgery was immediately performed.
The neurosurgeon disagreed. Dye was injected into my veins and I was sent back to have another CT scan done.
The hospital called the picture desk that at the time only knew that I'd suffered a nasty knock on the head.
The hospital told Barry I was no longer able to make medical decisions for myself, and that a next of kin needed to be contacted immediately.
Imagine that for your first week on the job!
Barry said he went running out of his office and downstairs to human resources to find my parents' contact information. Word quickly spread through the newsroom that something had gone wrong.
"You should have seen the shock and concern that fell over the newsroom," copy editor Laura Gordon would later email me. I've heard from so many people that they immediately began praying that I would survive.
Things got worse for Barry when HR realized the information I'd given them regarding my parents was outdated. They had since moved and there was no forwarding information available. Managing Editor David Boardman huddled his investigative reporting team together and instructed them to find my parents. It didn't take them long.
About that time, Times staff photographer Rod Mar had found my girlfriend, Karen Ducey, a staff photographer for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She was on a ferry headed out of the city. Rod calmly explained my situation, but said she needed to start heading north to Bellingham quickly. He and online editor Kari Shaw were preparing to do the same.
I remember waking up just about the time that Karen arrived at St. Joe's. I remember opening my eyes and seeing my neurosurgeon left, and Ron Judd to the right. But I couldn't stay conscious, and I faded away.
I recall now my name being called, and the sound of beeping. I tried to open my eyes again, but I was so weak I couldn't stay awake, and I fell unconscious again.
This happened two or three times before awareness set in, and I recognized my name being called. And that the sounds I heard were alarms on the machines I was hooked up to.
Awareness gave way to understanding. The alarms were because each time I faded away I wasn't breathing anymore. I became aware I was in trouble. And I became aware that now was the time to wake up and fight.
The room was crowded. And I was strapped to the hospital bed, unable to move. The tube in my throat was crushing my windpipe, and the fluid that was collecting there I couldn't swallow. I began to panic. The neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Lawrence, asked if I wanted the tube removed. I nodded yes.
Ron left the room at that moment to speak with Karen privately in the hallway. "You don't want to see this," he told her.
The doctor told me to take a big breath and push the tube out. But the fluid prevented me from getting a deep breath, and I began vomiting into my tubes. I was vomiting faster than they could suction it out, and I could no longer breath through my mouth. Panic set in again, and I began to breath through my nose.
Dr. Lawrence was quite at ease however. "Somebody's been eating Chinese," he said as he suctioned out my throat.
Well, as a matter of fact, I had. A weird observation I thought, but it took my mind off my predicament for a moment.
I inhaled hard one last time, and the full tube came out of my throat for good.
Ron and Karen came back into the room. Rod and Kari came a short while later.
I had only been conscious a short time, but I didn't know how long I'd been out. I'd assumed not long. I thought I was probably just fine.
A profound sadness came over me as I lay there looking into the eyes of my friends, and seeing fear there.
I was obviously not okay. And I could not bear to see the people I love suffer like that.
Dean Rutz at home with his nurses: Sandy, Dillon, and Tucker.
It was the same sadness I felt months later covering that policeman's funeral. His grieving family and friends reminded me of how I felt lying helplessly in that bed.
Still, they all put up a brave front. But I could tell.
A few hours later Rod would send a very personal thought to my pager. Reading it moved me to tears because I realized people were saying things they needed to say - just in case I didn't make it through the night.
I still think about those things. And they still move me.
Four days later I was released from St. Joe's. My neurosurgeon was very upbeat. No driving for two weeks he said.
Two weeks? Seriously?
Two days released from the hospital it became apparent to everyone that nothing would be resolved in two weeks.
I could barely walk. I was in bed up to 16 hours each day, but couldn't sleep because each time I laid down I felt the pain of those fractures.
Also, a terrible dizziness set in; a violent vertigo in which my entire world could - in an instant - turn upside down. I would be sitting on the couch speaking with someone when suddenly they would begin to spin, and I would lose all sense of horizon. That often led to a lack of control over my body and I would fall over.
I was admitted to the emergency room of Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, one the west coast's best trauma hospitals, where another round of CT scans was performed. I was assigned to the intern team of Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, himself a renowned trauma specialist. They performed hours of tests and an additional CT scan.
They described a fracture above my right ear that looked more like a spider web. "Imagine a glass ball, and tapping it with a hammer" the attending said. "The way the glass cracks from that point of impact is essentially what your fracture looks like." It extended upward from the ear, curved down and below the ear, and toward the base of the skull.
Worse, a fracture was found in the orbital roof of my right eye.
"There's not much we can do for you there," another specialist said. "It's misshapen. But we think your eyesight will become good again once the swelling goes down."
The fracture had punctured my brain, and bone pushed five millimeters in causing significant blood loss.
The assessment of how long I would be out of work was now about to grow considerably from the one I'd been given in Bellingham.
Six months to one year.
The new assessment still came with a caveat from the doctors. It could take anywhere from six months to one year for me to feel like myself again.
But there was also a chance that I would never adequately improve to ever photograph again.
I wrote the picture editors at the Times and told them that, even with that prognosis, I intended to be on the sidelines for the first game of the college football in September; fully five months beyond the accident.
Even so, I considered taking another path.
What if I couldn't ever return to photography again? What would I want to do?
I told Managing Editor David Boardman that I wanted to begin retraining immediately in web development. If I couldn't go back to photography, I wanted to move in to SeattleTimes.com and do multimedia and design at the very least for the length of my convalescence.
The Times was initially fully supportive of my ambition but, for reasons quite apart from my injury, distanced themselves from it over time.
Undaunted, friends helped me acquire a copy of Studio 8 for Mac. I signed up for online courses in Dreamweaver and, as I had time, began tinkering with web design.
My goal was always to return to photography. I never wavered from saying I'd be ready for the fall season, even as the Times surmised I couldn't possibly recover that quickly and assigned the front end of the fall football season without me in it. I understood why, but I wasn't happy about it. An important part of recovery is setting goals. And yes, I might be setting goals I couldn't possibly attain or, for that matter, could be detrimental to my wellbeing. I understood that too.
But doggone it, if you don't set goals, if you don't work to achieve them, if you don't consider alternative futures - and if the company doesn't overtly support them - then just what is the motivation to get better?
It was going to be hard beating the odds. But if I was going to do it, there needed to be a reward at the end of it.
It's not surprising the Times and I didn't agree on what was best for me. And it wasn't the injury talking either. I didn't get to be a pain in the ass overnight. It took 18 years here for me to achieve that rep.
I was released from Harborview feeling that we were on the right course. I was referred to the University of Washington Medical Center Neurology Clinic for an evaluation now of what was going on behind the fracture. Just why was I so dizzy?
My insurance company had by now assigned a case manager to oversee my care. Fortunately for me, I got a great one. Mary Sussex had, among other things, done head trauma for the Seattle Seahawks. She was aggressive about my care, and her actions undoubtedly sped my recovery.
The doctors at the University had a theory.
My dizziness, they surmised, was caused by bone fragments that had broken free by the impact of the ball and were attacking nerve endings in my inner ear.
This can be sometimes corrected through a simple procedure referred to as an "Epley Maneuver."
Essentially, the doctor puts you on your head and, through a series of four aggressive maneuvers, attempts to steer the fragments back to their proper place.
Imagine a snow globe and turn it slowly, and watch the crystals fall to another location of the globe. That was what the doctors wanted to do to me.
Unfortunately for me, there was far too much swelling and blood for those crystals to find zero gravity.
Almost from the first time the doctor attempted the maneuver my body went into shock. Inverting my head caused my entire world to spin out of control, and my body with it. "Focus on the wall," the doctor said. But I couldn't see the wall. I couldn't see anything. And I had no sense of where my balance lay. I began to fall off the table at which point Rod Mar, who had taken me to the hospital, jumped up to grab me. The doctor gestured to him that he had me in his arms, and Rod watched as I flailed and hyperventilated for minutes until I could focus my eyes and regain my breath.
The doctors at the university determined I was no longer a candidate for the Epley, and said I was going to be off my feet for months. In fact, they decided not to even make a follow-up appointment for another two months. And they also declared that I would be banned from driving for at least six month, which is the law in Washington following any seizure.
"Two months?" I asked. I wanted to be more aggressive about my treatment than that, but they declined. Two months between visits? No MRI, no EEG, no treatment of any kind? They wanted to just wait and see how I progressed.
My nurse case manager challenged the doctors.
"What criteria are you using to base your treatment of Mr. Rutz?" she asked. "I've been researching his condition and can't find any data to support this."
There wasn't any, the doctors said. Quite simply, no one had ever studied trauma-induced seizures before.
We didn't know until some time later that was because, generally, people don't survive that kind of trauma.
As we exited the doctor's office, Mary said, "we're out of here." And she set out to find a new neurologist who would be more willing to aggressively treat me as I had asked.
Within a few days I was in the office of Dr. James Gordon, whom I came to like very quickly.
He knew my work, and he liked sports. And he quizzed me about players and batting averages and statistics.
"You realize that was all a test," he later conceded. "I wanted to test your cognitive thinking."
Gordon said he respected the University doctors greatly. But if I was willing to be more aggressive, then so was he.
An EEG study and MRI were both scheduled immediately. Days after leaving the University Karen, Mary Sussex and myself were back in Gordon's office.
Curiously too, Gordon was the only doctor to actually let me see my x-rays. He was the only doctor to show me film and point out all the damage.
Gordon sat looking at the films, hand under his chin.
"So, tell me about your surgery at St. Joe's," he said.
I didn't have any I told him.
"Huh." That was all he said, but it sure sounded knowing to me.
Why do you ask, I said.
"Well, the injury you have, the explanation of what you remember, it's all conducive with a particular type of hematoma. You get hit, you pass out, you wake up, you're lucid and alert…"
"…and you die within an hour if surgery isn't immediately performed."
I didn't even hear that last part.
Karen, Mary and I all looked at each other, speechless. "You die within an hour" was the 100-pound gorilla in the room with us. It took a minute or two for me to regain my composure.
Gordon pointed to the MRI.
Photo by Elaine Thompson / Associated Press
Karen Ducey and Dean Rutz with Dillon, Tucker and Sandy.
"Here's the break; this point pushes into the brain." He rotated the 3-dimensional film on his computer to show my eye socket. "See the breaks here and here?" A part of my eye became essentially a lever, broken on two ends and slightly tilted.
"And all these white spots on the film. These are where blood has pooled in your brain." There were at least a half dozen sizeable pockets of blood. "You may still be bleeding," he said.
The damage was catastrophic.
And a cyst was discovered on the opposite side of my brain. It would never have been found had the MRI not been done.
Yet here I was, talking without slurring my words. Walking, albeit with a cane.
Yes, I was one lucky sonofabitch.
I don't even ask why anymore. It doesn't really matter. I'm simply grateful that I am lucky. And loved.
Over the months that followed, so many people stepped up to help me that I can't even begin to name names. But Karen and I kept a diary of the hundreds upon hundreds of cards, letters, emails and gifts that poured into our home. It was humbling on a massive scale. Forget Christmas. The fireplace was covered with many more times the cards and well wishes.
Karen began referring to the fireplace as "the shrine."
People ask me what I've learned. "Do you feel like you need to live each day like it's your last?" is a frequent question.
No, that wasn't really the message in all of this.
First of all, who can live every day like it's their last? Who can live up to that kind of pressure?
No, the lesson I learned was the power of generosity.
I cannot begin to tell how much the flow of kind words, prayers, cards, and gifts sustained me over the four months that followed. Every day something new was on my doorstep. A bouncing ball from Smiley Pool of the Dallas Morning News, a pint of gelato from Jay Gorodetzer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, a basket of food from the Eugene Register-Guard, a batting helmet from Seattle Mariners Manager Mike Hargrove.
Every day for weeks someone at the Seattle Times would bring food for Karen and me, or walk our three dogs. Elaine Thompson from the Associated Press, who was a frequent visitor, would suddenly be in our yard mowing. The managing editor of the Times would show up almost unannounced with a pizza.
How can I thank Karen for everything she's done? She's the unsung hero of this column. There isn't sufficient space to account for her good works. Through it all, and despite the demands of her job, she cared for me, cared for the dogs and our home, cooked and cleaned, and generally earned two of three credits required for sainthood in the Catholic Church. She will always have my undying love and gratitude.
Actually, because it was me, she probably gets a free pass on that third credit.
And Rod? Sports Shooter regulars know he's a good guy. But you don't know the half of it.
It was off the chart.
I have never been on the receiving end of such generosity; such love and genuine kindness. It is sometimes difficult for me to process because I cannot see anything in my life to justify the outpouring.
"People need to do it more than you need to get it," Rod would say. "So just sit there and shut up."
Maybe that's it. We all want to do something to help, however small and seemingly insignificant it might be.
But it's not insignificant. Having been on this side of your collective generosity I cannot begin to tell you all how much it means. But it means everything.
The six months to one-year estimate I got on recovery? Forget it. I'm back to work just about four months after being hurt.
There was a sudden break in my dizziness a few weeks ago. The fog lifted, and my strength began to return. It mystified the doctors. It mystified me too.
Is that the result of all your kind wishes and prayers? How could it not be?
Bert says I should use this space to say thank you. I really wish I could, but there are so many of you.
Please know though that I am grateful to every one of you who took the time to wish me well. I know who you are, and I will never forget you. And I can never adequately repay you.
But I hope someday to pay it forward.
Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that the power of generosity is beyond medicine and physical therapy. It's immeasurable, really. I never used to put a lot of stock in get-well cards. Too impersonal I used to think.
But being on the receiving end I can tell you I read - and savored - ever one.
Every email, every phone call, every surprise. They made my day, and that's saying something when you're looking at months and months of recovery. (By the way, if anybody wants to know what was on "Oprah" all summer long, just ask me.)
No, you can't live every moment like it's your last. But if you're kind and generous and loving, then, if it really is your last moment, well, I can't think of a better way to go out.
(Dean Rutz is once again working as a staff photographer at the Seattle Times.)
'Few people survive that kind of brain trauma - I was beating the odds…'
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The CGS delegation, headed by Executive Vice President Prof. Wang Xiaolie, paid an academic visit to the U.K., Denmark and Spain from 13 June to 22 June 2016, during which bilateral MoU/Agreement was signed respectively between CAGS and the University College London, University of Copenhagen and Complutense University of Madrid to further strengthen bilateral collaboration in geoscience research and education.
According to the signed MoU/Agreement, CAGS,CGS and the above-mentioned universities will promote bilateral cooperation in geoscience research and education/training through (1) exchange of academic visits; (2) exchange of published scientific and technological information, geological publications, specimen and standard samples; (3) joint sponsorship and organization of seminars, conferences, or training projects on topics of mutual interest; (4) joint initiation and implementation of geoscience research projects; (5) joint education projects, awarding double degrees for Doctorate theses from each party and exchanging post-doctoral researchers; (6) exchange, on a reciprocal basis, of postgraduate students for limited periods of time for the purpose of research and/or education; (7) exchange of information on teaching, learning materials and other literature relevant to their education and research projects.
During the visit to the University College London (UCL), the CAGS delegation met with Prof. Lars Stixrude, Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Prof. Graham Shields-Zhou, Professor of Geology from the Department of Earth Sciences, Prof. Peter Sammonds, Director of the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and other representatives. The two sides exchanged views on potential cooperation in geophysics, isotope geology, stratigraphy, paleontology, natural hazards and pollutant studies, discussed the possibility to apply for cooperative projects jointly funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the U.K. Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), and exchanged information on the scholarship program jointly supported by UCL and China Scholarship Council.
During the visit to theUniversity of Copenhagen, the CAGS delegation met with Prof. John Renner Hansen, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Prof. Claus Beier, Head of the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources Management, Prof. Hans Thybo and Prof. Irina Artemieva, Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. The two sides explored cooperation opportunities in continental scientific drilling and deep Earth geology and discussed pragmatic cooperation means of postgraduate education and training. The CAGS delegation also visited the Royal DanishAcademy of Sciences and learned the history and functions of the Academy during its stay in Denmark.During the visit to the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, the CAGS delegation met with Prof. Isabel Duran Gimenez-Rico, Vice Rector of the Complutense University of Madrid, Prof. Lorena Ortega Menor, Dean of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, and Prof. Jose Calvo, the Secretary General of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The two sides exchanged views on cooperation potentials in stratigraphy, paleontology, geophysics, geochemistry etc. and discussed pragmatic cooperation means in geoscience education/training, such as joint field courses. The CAGS delegation also visited the GeologicalMuseum and Library of the Geological Survey of Spain.
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This past January, Verizon completed its first interoperability trial of NG-PON2 technology at its Verizon Labs location in Waltham, MA. During the trial, Verizon demonstrated that equipment from different vendors on each end of a single fiber—one on the service provider's endpoint and that the customer premises—can deliver service without any end-user impact.
In an October 16th press release in advance of the Broadband Forum's Access Summit, Verizon said NG-PON2 represent a paradigm shift in the access space and a more certain path towards long-term success.
"Technologies such as NG-PON2 present exciting new opportunities for vendors, such as delivering residential and business services on multiple wavelengths over the same fiber," said Vincent O'Byrne, Director of Technology at Verizon.
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At the Broadband Forum's Access Summit, The Verizon executive will address how the fiber access space is constantly evolving, with emerging PON technology providing solutions to some of the issues around cost and reliability during the Broadband World Forum, at the Messe Berlin on Tuesday, Oct. 24th.
Verizon has been an active participant in driving awareness about how NG-PON2 can work in a real-world carrier environment. The company completed NG-PON2 interoperability with five vendors for its OpenOMCI (ONT Management and Control Interface) spec, bringing it one step closer toward achieving interoperable NG PON systems.
The mega telco plans to offer it's own OpenOMCI specification , which define the optical line terminal (OLT)-to-optical network terminal (ONT) interface, to the larger telecom industry.
Note 1. OpenOMCI specification was developed and is owned by Verizon, rathr than a formal standards/spec writing body like the ITU-T or Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). Is this the new way of producing specs (like "5G" used in trials)?
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2019 New York Rangers Draft Grades
By Joseph Fortunato@JoeFortunatoBSB Jun 27, 2019, 8:00am EDT
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Welcome to year five of draft day grades, everyone! We're celebrating the fifth year with some Kaapo Kakko, which is just the best. If you want a trip down memory lane, see the first three year's worth of links below:
(Mike and I broke down the 2019 NHL Draft on this week's podcast — Ep. 146. Listen to that here.)
As is tradition, I will now grade my own grades a year out from the 2018 NHL Draft, which you can review here.
Vitali Kravtsov — I graded Kravtsov with an "A" despite the Rangers passing on Oliver Wahlstrom to draft him. I highlighted some of the reasons why the high-upside pick made a ton of sense even though it was a different name called than what we wanted:
Before the draft started, Adam tried to explain that while the Rangers might not pick the players we want them to, that doesn't mean they're bad players. Did I want Wahlstrom? Yes. Did I have Kravtsov as one of my sleeper picks in the first round? Yes, yes I did. So much so that a month and a half ago I said I would be fine with the Rangers taking him at nine (presuming Wahlstrom was off the board). Even if leaving him there (where the Islanders eventually took him) stings, the Rangers swung hard for talent. And there's evidence to suggest Kravtsov might be one of the best players in this class.
There is a belief, and take from it what you will, that Wahlstrom's historic season was helped, in part, to being part of the most talented USDP team the country has ever churned out. That he benefited from being the next guy after teams focused on next year's 1st overall pick Jack Hughes. That might be people making excuses for how far he slid, but it's something out there that at least has some logic behind it.
Jeff Gorton and Gordie Clark, a year out, look like geniuses. Wahlstrom had a semi-catastrophic season with Boston College, and Kravtsov was dynamic for his age/team being terrible in the KHL, and signed an ELC this summer to join the Rangers. This was a huge win for the Rangers.
I loved: The selections of K'Andre Miller and Nils Lundkvist. Both players blew post-draft expectations out of the water, and rounded out an absolutely grand slam of a first round for the Rangers last year. Miller was one of the highest scoring defensive freshman in the NCAA last year, and Lundkvist had a top-10 season for a U18 player in the SHL in terms of offense. Both players will likely rank very high on Adam's New York Rangers Prospect Rankings (coming soon!), and the Rangers' pool has never been deeper, so it's not even by default. What a huge win by the Rangers here.
I also loved the Riley Hughes selection as a very late sleeper. Hughes plied his trade in the BCHL where he had 28 points in 53 games, then put up 21 points in 15 playoff games. He dominated in the way we expected him to dominate a lesser league. He'll play for Northeastern next year, where we'll get a better idea of where his trajectory is.
I liked: The picks of Joey Keane and Jacob Ragnarsson. Ragnarsson put himself on the radar of potentially having an NHL future, and Keane got off to a skyrocketing start in the OHL before he was traded to London mid-year and lost some of his offensive edge. Still, Keane signed an ELC this summer and should have a crack at making a point about himself in Hartford. Ragnarsson (who I gave a C, more because of who was passed over to get him) might grade out to be an NHL defenseman somewhere down the line.
I also liked Lauri Pajuniemi as a later round skill pick. Pajuniemi had very little growth in Liiga this year (seven points in 32 games two years ago, and 13 points in 44 games in his post-draft year) so this one doesn't look good a year out. Obviously a lot can change, but you'd still like to see a bigger jump from him year to year.
I hated: Nico Gross (graded at a D), and actually failed the selections of Olof Lindbom and Simon Kjellberg. Kjellberg, the son of a Rangers' scout, wasn't an NHL prospect a year ago and isn't one today. He put up a whopping five points in 58 USHL games, and will play at RPI next year in the NCAA. I wouldn't pay too much attention to him.
Lindbom was another player who had his selection graded based on who was left on the board. The Rangers passed up on at least three first-round rated talents to select him 39th overall — when most experts didn't even have him atop the goalie rankings of the 2018 draft. Lindbom had injuries that derailed this past year, but put up semi-respectable numbers when he was playing. Goalies are voodoo so who knows, but he will take some time.
As for Gross, I didn't understand the pick then and I'm not sure I do now. He had 20 points in 56 OHL games, and two assists in seven games for Switzerland in the World Juniors — where he wore an "A." Gross was always a character pick, but I'm not sure there's an NHL player here.
I will, once again, give myself a very good grade on last year's grades. I'm giving myself an A.
Now onto this year.
Kaapo Kakko (F) in the 1st Round (2nd overall)
Draft Coverage | BSB's draft ranking
Grade: A++
Analysis: Yes I put two "+" signs after the "A." I would put a million if I can, but I think SB Nation's dashboard would freeze and not publish, and then you all would complain because you live for these grades.
Anyway, back to Kakko.
We have spoken about him extensively since the Rangers won the draft lottery, and for good reason. He changes everything, literally. He outscored players like Patrik Laine and Aleksander Barkov in Liiga in his draft year, while playing on a worse team. He's an ox of a human, even at the young age of 18. Kakko's also fresh off a gold medal in the World Championship this summer where he scored six goals and added an assist in 10 games — his second gold medal of the year, as he won the 2019 World Junior Championship with Finland in a tournament where he had five points in seven games. Oh, he also won the U18 World Juniors with Finland last year with 10 points in seven games.
He's projected to be a star in the NHL (again, franchise-changing prospect and generational are two different things, Kakko is the former) and the type of scoring winger the Rangers haven't had in a long, long time. There's not much more to say here, the Rangers got Kakko and we should all be thanking the Hockey Gods for that every day.
Matthew Robertson (D) in the 2nd Round (49th overall)
Draft Coverage | Adam's Knee-Jerk Reaction
Analysis: I'm torn on this pick. Robertson is one of the highest-floor players in the draft (aside from the obvious exceptions), meaning he's almost a safe bet to be an NHL defenseman. Getting a guy like that 49th overall isn't bad at all, and the only thing keeping this from being an "A" for me is personal bias because Nicholas Robertson (taken by the Leafs 53rd overall) was one of the youngest players in the draft; he's a known shot-generator who had over a point per game for Peterborough in the OHL last year. I love betting on young talent with upside (similar to Filip Chytil).
That said, Matthew Robertson was projected mid-year to be a first-round talent, and remained that on some boards. By all accounts he's one of the smartest players in the draft, an excellent skater, and actually a "mobile two-way defenseman." I say actually because that terminology is often thrown around for guys who simply aren't that type of player at all. A loose comparison for Robertson is someone like Anton Stralman, a defenseman who can actually skate and makes a great first pass.
I would bet part of Robertson's drop off in the rankings came from his "lack" of offense — with 33 points in 52 games. He did add eight points in 16 playoff games, but the offense isn't what you should be looking at with him.
Robertson is a possession monster, and can make moves to keep the puck on his stick and get it out of the zone. He defends well, can make a nice spring pass, but most of all he's reliable with the puck on his tape. Almost all of these things are cliche comments for defensemen who are big, hulking, and don't possess much skill; for Robertson they're actual talents. Oh, he's also 6'4" and 201 pounds. Size is a secondary concern for me, but when the talent is there it's nice to have (like Kakko).
Karl Henriksson (C) in the 2nd Round (58th overall)
Draft Coverage | Adam's Knee-Jerk Reaction Here
Analysis: The more I read about Henriksson and looked into pre-draft notes/rankings, the more I fell in love with this pick. Henriksson fell to the end of the second round for two reasons: 1) he's an undersized forward and teams still avoid those players like the plague (look at Paul Fenton gushing about all his selections being taller than him despite the Wild having a bad draft ... wonder why), and 2) he played on a line with Lucas Raymond who is expected to be a top-five pick in next year's draft.
A deeper dive into the numbers shows a different story about Raymond's impact. Evan has a model that shows where offense comes from for specific players. The bigger the line to the name, the more offense runs through that player. Where Henriksson has a line to himself, there's only his primary assist on the goal (meaning there was no secondary assist).
NYR picked Frolunda forward Karl Henriksson in the 2nd round yesterday.
I wasn't sure how much of Henriksson's 49 points in 45 SuperElit games had to do with him playing with 2020-eligible stud Lucas Raymond, and it looks like Henriksson scored a lot without Raymond's help. pic.twitter.com/fugem0JTRb
— Evan Oppenheimer (@OppenheimerEvan) June 23, 2019
As you can see, Henriksson distributed his offense pretty fairly, and it's safe to say he wasn't relying on Raymond for his offense. Henriksson was one of the highest scorers in the J20 SuperElite with 49 points in 45 games (he also had nine points in six playoff games). Henriksson was also one of the top players in the U18 WJC where he had nine points in seven games. Corey Pronman called him "one of the best playmakers at that level" when talking about the SuperElite league.
Scott Wheeler also spoke to Henriksson's talent in his review of the Rangers' Day 2.
The Karl Henriksson pick at No. 58 fits that same mould too. He's a little guy with loads of talent as a passer. If he can get a little stronger and learn to go to the net, he'll be good.
Zachary Jones (D) in the 3rd Round (68th overall)
Analysis: Jones is another undersized prospect who is loaded with skill — a dramatic and welcome change from previous Rangers' drafts. Jones dominated the USHL last year for Tri-City, posting 52 points in 56 games, plus five points in six playoff games. He will play at UMass (Amherst) next year in the NCAA.
Wheeler had Jones as one of his sleepers of the draft, and Pronman raved about his skill level and hockey sense:
Jones was one of the best defensemen in the USHL this season. He's not the biggest or fastest defenseman, but he's great with the puck on his stick. Jones has a high skill level, great offensive instincts, and is not afraid to try and make a play. He often joins the rush, pinches off the blueline and can thread difficult passes. His awareness with the puck is fantastic. He finds seams consistently, his point shots find teammates sticks, and I've even seen an assist where he banked a point shot off the boards and around the net intentionally.
Jones is another skilled pick, and the Rangers took a big swing on a player for upside rather than "intangibles" that don't mean much (more on that, sadly, in a minute). Jones has the ability to beat guys on the rush, can make those seam passes that have you out of your seat, and has enough hockey sense that he was able to cover gaffs consistently. How much he'll need to work on the defense remains to be seen, but guys with OK skating and great hockey sense get by just fine in the NHL; still, it will take some work to get there. He'll get plenty of chances at UMass where he might be asked to step in right away.
There were some concerns that Jones saw his numbers explode due to 30-goal defenseman (no, that's not a typo) Ronnie Attard. Once again we go to Evan...
NYR drafted d-man Zac Jones from Tri-City in the USHL in the 3rd round.
A big deal's been made about Jones playing with 30-goal-scoring d-man Ronnie Attard (2019 PHI 3rd rounder).
A fair # of Jones' primary assists went to Ronnie Attard for goals, but nothing crazy. pic.twitter.com/4XNobUSWCV
There is some expected offense running through Attard (who was an "overage" for the USHL), but like Evan said it's not crazy. This was a really good bet by Gorton and company.
Hunter Skinner (D) in the 4th Round (112th overall)
Draft Coverage Here | Adam's Knee-Jerk Reaction
Analysis: I am happy to say that Skinner is the first — and only — pick I did not love in this year's draft. Skinner is a former forward to converted to defense, and that's why this grade doesn't get a straight "F."
The only drafting service that had Skinner ranked at all was NHL Central Scouting, which had him ranked as the 120th NA ranked prospect in the draft. He was taken 153rd overall by Muskegon in the USHL Futures Draft in 2017 and didn't really do anything to justify being taken 41 slots higher in the NHL draft.
Once you enter this stage in the draft, there are a lot of crap-shoots anyway, so using a flyer on a hulking not-that-great-of-a-skater defenseman isn't something to explode about. But when it comes at the expense of, say, Tuukka Tieksola getting taken nine picks later, it's bad. The Rangers are very clearly banking on Skinner's lack of positional experience turning him into a gem, but Skinner is not K'Andre Miller — who was also a recent defensive convert. This feels like another one of those Gordie Clark "we know better than you" specials that we'll all be scoffing at in a year.
Leevi Aaltonen (F) in the 5th Round (130th overall)
Analysis: In a draft that saw the Rangers grade well-to-excellent from all notable pundits, Aaltonen was the team's biggest plus pick. Meaning, he was the player who was ranked the highest that the Rangers got lower than they should have. According to Wheeler, Aaltonen was picked 39 spaces after he should have been.
Keeping with the trend of undersized skill, Aaltonen and all of his 5'9" frame boasts outstanding skill and speed. He had 36 points in 29 Jr. A SM-liiga games for the U20 KalPa team, and scored a point per game in the U18 WJC for Finland. I said on this week's Bantering the Blueshirts that Aaltonen's underage numbers in the Finnish junior leagues reminded me a lot of Aleksi Saarela. Let's hope he has that kind of impact for the Rangers (and doesn't get traded for an ageing Eric Staal).
Adam Edstrom (C/W) in the 6th Round (161st overall)
Analysis: Edstrom is a hulking forward who can skate and has a scorer's touch. His numbers in the SuperElit didn't blow anyone out of the water (16 points in 20 games, but 11 of those were goals). He did spend 15 games in the SHL, but he averaged less than five minutes a night and recorded just one assist.
A loose comparable to Edstrom is a fourth line center with some offensive pop like Brian Boyle. That's a fine player to grab in the sixth round, and this draft wasn't exactly loaded with higher-upside players once you passed the first round. This is a fine selection for this part of the draft.
Eric Ciccolini (RW) in the 7th Round (205th overall)
Analysis: Two years ago Cale Makar fell to 4th overall in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft because teams were worried his eye-popping offense and ability was "too good to be true" because it was coming in the AJHL and not a more traditional feeder league. Two years later Makar had 49 points in 41 games for UMass (Amherst) and then posted six points in 10 playoff games for Colorado.
I am not comparing Ciccolini to Makar in skill, but I am saying that Ciccolini might have fallen to the seventh round for the same reasons Makar fell fourth. Ciccolini will play for Michigan University next year, but he played 48 games in the OJHL last year, which raised some eyebrows. There, he had 62 points in 48 games (added five points in five playoff games) and won the league's "Prospect of the Year" honors.
Pronman raved about his skating, but called his skill and vision "mediocre." Again, we're not talking about Makar here. That said, other scouts have told me they see a little more offensive sense/skill than others do, and think some might have walked away with a bad taste in their mouth due to him playing in the OJHL. For what it's worth, Ciccolini seemed to draw markers all over the map. McKeen's Hockey had him ranked 178th, while Hockeyprospect.com had him at 79th, and two more in the middle.
For a seventh round flyer, this is a totally acceptable pick.
Final Review
The Rangers got the biggest grab in Kakko, but the rest of the draft was excellent. Almost everyone in the space agreed the Rangers had one of the best drafts of any team, and that's even excluding Kakko in some respects. The Rangers finally drove toward skill rather than size, and they got some very good lottery tickets in the process.
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VOD film review: The Stolen
Alice Eve stars as a widow searching for her baby in this engaging New Zealand revenge western.
Matthew Turner | On 12, Dec 2017
Director: Niall Johnson
Cast: Alice Eve, Graham McTavish, Jack Davenport, Gillian MacGregor, Emily Corcoran, Mikaela Rüegg, Richard O'Brien
Certificate: 15
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If watching Godless on Netflix has put you in the mood for more female-focused westerns, you could do worse than check out this engaging New Zealand horse opera from writer-director Niall Johnson and co-writer / co-star Emily Corcoran.
Alice Eve stars as Charlotte Lockton, a well-to-do British lady who's struggling to adjust to married life in 1860s New Zealand. When intruders murder her husband and steal her new-born baby, Charlotte is devastated, but hope arrives in the form of a ransom note, which provides clues to where the kidnappers are holding her son.
Determined to recover her baby, Charlotte pays rugged trader Bully (Outlander's Graham McTavish) for passage and joins a wagon full of lively prostitutes – including Heather (Gillian MacGregor) and Honey (co-writer Corcoran) – on their way to a small frontier town. However, the journey is fraught with peril and Charlotte realises she needs to form allegiances if she's going to survive.
Alice Eve makes an engaging and likeable lead, even if the dialogue doesn't do her too many favours. Similarly, there's colourful support from MacGregor, Corcoran and Mikaela Rüegg, while McTavish (who maintains his Outlander accent) is good value as Bully and Rocky Horror Show's Richard O'Brien makes a rare screen appearance as the town's bar-owner, giving the part a nicely off-beat touch of weirdness.
The film's strongest element is its tight focus on the female perspective, which considerably heightens the sense of constant threat, not least because the majority of the men are less than salubrious characters. That said, the script doesn't quite play up the female solidarity element the way it should and there are a handful of wasted opportunities in the latter section.
The other key element in the film's favour is Alun Bollinger's gorgeous cinematography, which takes full advantage of the picturesque New Zealand locations and gives the impression of high production values that would otherwise have been out of reach of the project's budget.
Aside from some ropey dialogue and the occasional continuity error (such as an apparently busy bar seemingly emptying within minutes), the film's main problem is a coldness in the direction, which leads to a curious lack of emotion, meaning the film never hits quite as hard as it should, despite the dramatic potential inherent in its premise.
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Q: How to convert Gremlin query results into Pandas/Python dataframes? I want to prettify my results from Gremlin queries by converting them into dataframes.
Gremlin outputs results that (at least to my untrained eyes) look like the Json format. As an example I'll borrow the answer to one of my previous questions that uses the air-routes graph:
g.V().
  group().
    by('code').
    by(
      outE('route').
      order().by('dist').
      inV().
      group().
        by('code').
        by(
          outE('route').
          order().by('dist').
          inV().
          values('code').fold())).
  unfold()

with the results looking something like this:
1.  {'SHH': {'WAA': ['KTS', 'SHH', 'OME'], 'OME': ['TLA', 'WMO', 'KTS', 'GLV', 'ELI', 'TNC', 'WAA', 'WBB', 'SHH', 'SKK', 'KKA', 'UNK', 'SVA', 'OTZ', 'GAM', 'ANC']}}
2.  {'KWN': {'BET': ['WNA', 'KWT', 'ATT', 'KUK', 'TLT', 'EEK', 'WTL', 'KKH', 'KWN', 'KLG', 'MLL', 'KWK', 'PQS', 'CYF', 'KPN', 'NME', 'OOK', 'GNU', 'VAK', 'SCM', 'HPB', 'EMK', 'ANC'], 'EEK': ['KWN', 'BET'], 'TOG': ['KWN']}}
...

How can I convert this into a data frame that looks like this?
Home Stop Dest
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SHH  WAA  KTS
SHH  WAA  SHH
SHH  WAA  OME
SHH  OME  TLA
SHH  OME  WMO
SHH  OME  KTS
SHH  OME  GLV
SHH  OME  ELI
SHH  OME  TNC
SHH  OME  WAA
SHH  OME  WBB
SHH  OME  SHH
SHH  OME  SKK
SHH  OME  KKA
SHH  OME  UNK
SHH  OME  SVA
SHH  OME  OTZ
SHH  OME  GAM
SHH  OME  ANC
KWN  BET  WNA
KWN  BET  KWT
KWN  BET  ATT
...

I've been able to use a combination of list operations and pandas to achieve this, but is there a more straightforward way?
Note: It would be fine to re-write the query if that makes things easier, as long as the output is similar.
I'm running Gremlin in an Amazon Neptune environment with Neptune Python Utils.

A: You can easily import Gremlin maps, or lists of maps into a Pandas Data frame. For example consider the following line of Gremlin Python.
vm = g.V().has('airport','region','GB-ENG').valueMap().by(unfold()).toList()

Using the air-routes data set, the query finds all airports in England.
Having been run, the vm variable will contain a list of maps with values such as:
[{'code': 'LTN', 'type': 'airport', 'desc': 'London Luton Airport', 'country': 'UK', 'longest': 7086, 'city': 'London', 'lon': -0.368333011865616, 'elev': 526, 'icao': 'EGGW', 'region': 'GB-ENG', 'runways': 1, 'lat': 51.874698638916}, {'code': 'SOU', 'type': 'airport', 'desc': 'Southampton Airport', 'country': 'UK', 'longest': 5653, 'city': 'Southampton', 'lon': -1.35679996013641, 'elev': 44, 'icao': 'EGHI', 'region': 'GB-ENG', 'runways': 1, 'lat': 50.9502983093262},

You can then create a Data Frame using code like this
import pandas as pd
from pandas import DataFrame

df = DataFrame.from_dict(vm)
df.sort_values('code',ascending=False).head(10)

and the result will be of this form:

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great pictures - really nice format/setup! what did you use to decide the categories? did the "players" know beforehand?
i can't wait to listen to the podcast.
Good stuff! I listened to the entire podcast while writing my New Course Proposal for next semester...very interesting (but if my course doesn't get approved I'm blaming you guys).
Well, I'm not getting a blog post done because I listened to the entire thing. But it did give me a post idea, so I can call it research.
That was fun to listen to. Thanks.
I love that Justice DK.
I had no idea Donruss made the big cards in 1983 too.
Apparently, Bob Bonner is a missionary in Zambia and Jeff Schneider is a professor at Carnegie Mellon.
This was a fun listen. I hope this is a running series here.
Great listen. Looking forward to the next one.
I'd be up for doing one myself as well. Have a similar size collecting history as these guys.
The player thrown out at first base was Michael Taylor of the A's by Frenchy of dayf's Braves.


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Save and Restore Lamb House
Lamb House is one very interesting residence! And it is uncommon to find such architecture in Brisbane still intact.
StateLibQld_1_110380_Home,_also_known_as_Lamb_House,_Kangaroo_Point,_Brisbane,_ca._1904, B&W image held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12662188
Lamb House needs restoration.
A heritage-listed villa, Lamb House is situated at 9 Leopard Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Alexander Brown Wilson and built from c.1902 to c.1908. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 and has been languishing unattended ever since.
Brisbane City Council is proposing amendments to some of its citywide provisions in Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan) and submissions are now open for Major amendment package K – Lamb House. Council has opened consultation for Lamb House character protection.
Queensland Heritage Register states that "Lamb House, erected c.1902, is a rare surviving example of a grand, intact Federation period residence in the Brisbane district" and this Wikipedia entry practically screams Period Drama—
"Lamb House is a large, two-storeyed, red brick residence with a multi-gabled roof clad in terracotta tiles. Conspicuously situated above the Kangaroo Point Cliffs at the southern end of the suburb, overlooking the South Brisbane and Town reaches of the Brisbane River…"
"Queen Anne influences are evident in the timber and roughcast gable infill designs, the ornate cement mouldings to the entrance portico-cum-observation tower, and the elaborate chimney stacks and tall terracotta chimney pots."
"The original plans indicate vestibule and stairwell, dining, drawing and morning rooms, kitchen and service areas on the ground floor, and six bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor." Plus "The residence has substantial grounds with mature trees and gardens."
Lamb House, Kangaroo Point, colour image by Unknown author – State of Queensland: Queensland Heritage Register: Home, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53132101
The proposed changes to Lamb House (situated on Leopard and Wild Streets, Kangaroo Point with a stunning view of the Brisbane River, city botanical gardens and CBD) support Council's commitment to protect the unique character of Brisbane, considering the property's local landmark identity, and the character and streetscape values of the area.
These proposed changes include:
Zoning changes to lots held by Lamb House to become Character residential (Character zone precinct)
Updates to overlay maps to apply the Traditional building character overlay.
Adding the Significant Landscape tree overlay to the weeping figs on the lots on Leopard Street, Kangaroo Point.
Please consider making a submission because community input is vital for informing major amendments to City Plan; and Brisbane City Council is now seeking feedback on the proposed changes. You can HAVE YOUR SAY and submissions must be received by 11.59pm on Sunday 13 December 2020.
Residents can talk to a Council planner to ask questions or seek clarification on the proposed changes. Register for a free Talk to a Planner session from 23 to 25 November 2020 at these locations:
Monday 23 November in Brisbane City
Tuesday 24 November in Upper Mount Gravatt
Wednesday 25 November in Nundah
For more information visit the Brisbane City Council website, email the project team, telephone Council on 07 3403 8888 or write to Strategic Planning.
Lamb House, built in 1902 for Queen Street draper John Lamb (one half of Edwards & Lamb Emporium specialising in Drapery, Millinery, etc) is still owned by the Lamb family, Joy Lamb. Heritage-listed Lamb House and surrounding gardens are well worth preserving in my opinion. It might make up for the destructive Joh Bjelke-Petersen era and the wrought iron lace which disappeared during the midnight demolition of the landmark Bellevue Hotel in 1979, and give Brisbane a proper past for the future to appreciate.
Journalist Tony Moore wrote an interesting Opinion Piece with some eye-opening photographs:
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/lamb-house-is-a-mess-but-it-could-be-a-brisbane-tourism-highlight-20200605-p5500x.html
Outstanding info with house and grounds images 'Save Lamb House' Jon Ruwolt, August 2020
https://www.federation-house.com/post/save-lamb-house
More colour images from © 2009 the foto fanatic
http://www.yourbrisbanepastandpresent.com/2009/04/lamb-house.html
If you are interested in Queensland history, visit Thom Blake Historian website
https://thomblake.com.au/index.php
Rose O'Brien takes a personal look at Queensland's past and present
Queensland Stories https://roseobrienwriter.blog/
Lamb House, Kangaroo Point, image from Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/LambHouseHistory/
IF HISTORICALLY INCLINED, PLEASE CONTACT BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL.
I ADORE OLD HERITAGE LISTED BUILDINGS – THEY MUST BE PRESERVED.
BUT I HAVE NO CONNECTION WITH DECISIONS REGARDING LAMB HOUSE.
I WATCH FUTURE EVENTS WITH INTEREST,
AND SINCERELY HOPE THIS UNIQUE OLD HOME CAN BE REVIVED.
GBW 2020.
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An interview with Thomas Sullivan who has recently made his Off-Broadway debut in Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola's play STRAIGHT.
Q: Congratulations on this being your Off-Broadway debut. Can you tell us a little bit about what this experience has been like for you?
A: This whole process has been an absolute thrill. From the audition to opening night, I've grown as a person and as an actor. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with such talented people day in and day out. As cliched as it sounds, it's been a dream come true.
Q: As a Los Angeles born actor what are the biggest differences and/or similarities that you have found between Los Angeles and New York?
A: Los Angeles was an incredible place to grow up; lots of space, plenty of sunshine, by the beach, etc. That being said, I love New York. It's just well rounded in a way LA isn't, and commuting is a breeze. I know plenty of people who don't mind sitting in their cars for hours and hours a day, but give me the M train any day of the week. Anything but the never ending rush hour out west. It may seem like a trivial complaint, but some of the best advice I was ever given was "enjoy where you live". If you don't, you drag that anxiety into the audition room with you.
Q: STRAIGHT deals with a lot of relevant and sometimes sensitive topics in today's culture. How did you, as an actor approaching work of this kind, prepare for such a role?
A: I approached STRAIGHT as I would any other play; 'sensitive' topics are an actor's bread and butter, so naturally I was thrilled to get to work on this fluid, charismatic character.
Q: What is it that you think audiences will leave with after having seen STRAIGHT?
A: Audiences will certainly leave with 'What Ifs' after the show. I've never been a part of any project that has so consistently garnered such a response. We've been told people debate the finer points of the production the entire train-ride home, and that just thrills us.
Q: What is the most important thing that you hope to convey to audiences with your performance?
A: My performance is just one part of a multi-faceted production, filled with the talents of dozens of people. If there was one thing I wished people would take away from the production as a whole, it'd be the almost forum-like discussion that is created at the theatre after some shows. The atmosphere after the curtain inspires dialogue between the audience members in a way I've never seen before, and it's very, very exciting to be a part of.


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Efficient and economical public transit is a key element of a livable, future-oriented and equitable city. Affordable and efficient ways of getting around can mean the difference between getting and holding a job, getting through school, making medical appointments, accessing appropriate food, and participating in programs and activities.
While OC Transpo ridership declined by 6.7% between 2011 and 2016, it remains higher than the ridership levels seen in the mid- to late-2000s. Per capita ridership in Ottawa is relatively high compared to major Canadian transit systems, third to Montreal and Toronto.
Para Transpo is the public transportation alternative for people who are unable to take conventional transit. Of the 56,000 registered Para Transpo clients, 24% actively use the service. About 70% of the active users are over age 65.
The Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) uses service area population to calculate their per capita ridership estimates. Service area population is defined as the population of a city that lives within 400m of a transit route.
OC Transpo Annual Performance Report 2014. Accessed April 11, 2016.
Singer, Geoffrey and Cherise Burda. Fast Cities: A Comparison of Rapid Transit in Major Canadian Cities. Pembina Foundation for Environmental Research and Education, for Pembina Institute. September 2014.
Edmonton Transit System 2018. Adult Fares. Accessed June 1 2018.
In the last five years, most of Ottawa's transit pass prices have increased more than the rate of inflation. The largest pass cost increases have been for the Community Pass, followed by the Regular Adult Pass. In 2018, Ottawa's single transit fares were higher than the fares in the other five large Canadian cities.
In 2017, Ottawa launched the EquiPass, its first affordable monthly transit pass for individuals living on lower incomes. The Community Pass is available to those receiving Ontario Disability Support Program benefits and the Access Pass, which is the same price, is for registered Para Transpo clients.
OC Transpo 2018. Tickets. Accessed June 1, 2018.
OC Transpo 2018 - Tickets. Accessed June 1, 2018.
Societe de Transport de Montreal 2018. 1 Trip. Accessed June 1, 2018.
Toronto Transit Commission 2018. Prices. Accessed June 1, 2018.


The chances are that when you were a child, on more than one occasion, you drew how your dream house would look. You most probably took inspiration from Barbie's dream house and created home designs that were very pink and pretty. Today, however, your dream home probably looks very different to the images you created as a child, but nevertheless, you still have ideas of what you would like your ideal home to look like - don't we all!
While some of us dream of having a heated pool and complimentary hot tub, others of us aspire to own a home that is completely sustainable or built with many natural elements to it. Regardless of what you would like your dream home to look like, designing and building a home from scratch would be a dream come true for most of us. That's why, if you have the opportunity to build a home from scratch, taking advantage of it is so important.
If you have the choice to build a home from scratch, naturally you want to ensure that you build an awesome property. After all, you have the opportunity to build a home that is a perfect fit for your needs, which is why ensuring that you get the design and features just right is so important. For a few ideas and pieces of inspiration, read on.
When it comes to building your home from scratch, one of the most important steps that you can take is to choose a theme or style. You may already have an idea of the type of property that you would like to live in, such as a beautiful redbrick house, an ultra-modern wood and glass combination, or a building that is completely unique. You may want a normal house shape, or you may prefer the idea of a building that is totally revolutionary. Take the time to sit down and think about what you want your new home to be like - this isn't something that you want to rush, it's a process that you need to take seriously. After all, once you have picked a style for your home, it's not something that is easy to change. Make sure that you think practically when selecting a design style, and choose something that will stand the test of time.
Don't make the mistake of purely thinking about the design and features that you want your new home to incorporate. It is also important that you take the time to think about the different aspects of your new home. Things like what central heating you will have in place, and whether you will need to install oil tanks, for instance, is important. Will you be having a fire and chimney built in? Then there are the electronics to think about - what approach do you want to take? Do you want to consider having a home that's run partly on solar power, or wholly on solar power even? There's also the water pipes to consider and where your bathroom and kitchen can be situated within the property. These are all the kinds of things that it can be beneficial to discuss with a professional contractor and property designer, to ensure that you have thought every aspect of your home's creation through.
Another aspect of building your home from scratch that you need to think about is room designs, including sizes and layouts. There are some incredible ideas for unique rooms online, from bedrooms with glass floors to bathrooms with walk-in bathtubs, there are some amazing ideas out there. Whether you want to incorporate a spiral staircase and slide into your property, a treehouse bedroom, or a staircase with pull out storage, taking the time to think about your new home's design is vital. You don't want to rush the process and miss out anything important, do you? Which is why taking the time to ensure that you get each room design perfect is vital. For ideas and inspiration, Pinterest is an amazing tool to use.
Remember, when it comes to choosing features for your home, it is important to be selective about what features you opt to incorporate. A mistake that you don't want to make is choosing features that look 'cool' now but will be outdated and look strange in a few years time. Think long-term when it comes to the design of your home, and ensure that you select features that you know will continue to look good, and be practical, for many years to come.
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking purely about the home that they are building and not about the outdoor space that comes with it. So it is important to ensure that you take your outdoor space into account when designing and building your new home. Because the fact is that you want to ensure that you have plenty of garden space to play with and that your home doesn't overtake the entire plot of land. As for what you can do with your garden, that will depend on the size and shape of it. Think about what you've always dreamed of having, such as a swimming pool or hot tub, for instance, and find a way to incorporate those ideas into the design of your garden.
When it comes to building a new home from scratch, it isn't easy to come up with a design for it. Sure, you may have some ideas about the type of place that you want to create, but that doesn't mean you know how to create an amazing space. Coming up with a house design is a process that takes time, and shouldn't be rushed. Hopefully, when it comes to designing your home design, the tips and ideas above will help to make the process easier and less stressful.


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Ole Petter Söderberg (geboren 20 juli 1990) is een Zweeds voetballer, die als doelman uitkomt voor IFK Göteborg. Hij is voormalig jeugdinternational voor Zweden.

Biografie
Söderberg is geboren in het Zweedse Norrköping, in 1990. Zijn broer Tom Söderberg was eveneens profvoetballer.

Carrière

BK Häcken
Söderberg begint zijn carrière bij de Zweedse club BK Häcken. In 2007 tekent hij een contract dat hem tot 2010 bij de club moet houden. Als een tiener speelt hij vijf duels voor het Zweedse elftal voor spelers onder 17 jaar.

Newcastle United
Söderberg tekent in januari 2008 een vierjarig contract bij Newcastle United, dat op dat moment uitkomt in de Premier League. Mede door blessures dringt hij nooit door tot het eerste elftal. Hij breekt zijn pols in september 2008 en ondergaat in 2009 een operatie nadat hij enige tijd last heeft van zijn meniscus.

Toen Steve Harper - de eerste doelman van Newcastle - in september 2010 geblesseerd raakte, werd Söderberg tweede keeper van de club, achter de Nederlander Tim Krul. De Zweedse doelman zat tijdens 19 duels op de bank.

Verhuurperiodes
Tijdens zijn periode bij Newcastle wordt Söderberg twee keer verhuurd. In oktober 2011 vertrekt hij voor een maand naar Darlington FC, waar hij tijdens zes competitiewedstrijden onder de lat staat. Daarna wordt de doelman voor een maand verhuurd aan Chesterfield FC. Voor die club debuteert Söderberg op 5 november 2011 in het met 2-2 gelijkgespeelde duel tegen Yeovil Town.

Molde FK
Op 30 maart 2012 bevestigt Söderberg op Twitter dat hij een contract heeft getekend bij de Noorse voetbalclub Molde FK, waar op dat moment Ole Gunnar Solskjær de trainer is. Söderberg debuteert op 30 juni 2012 in de competitiewedstrijd tegen Odd Grenland.

Kalmar FF
Op 3 januari 2014 meldt Kalmar FF de komst van de Zweedse sluitpost op haar website. Door blessures raakte Söderberg in het seizoen 2017 zijn basisplaats kwijt aan Lucas Hägg Johansson. Söderberg besluit daarop om na afloop van het seizoen 2018 bij Kalmar te vertrekken. De sluitpost kwam tot 53 wedstrijden in de Allsvenskan voor de club en 9 duels in de Svenska Cupen.

AFC Eskilstuna
30 januari 2019 tekende Söderberg een contract bij AFC Eskilstuna. Daarvoor was de doelman op proef bij Helsingborgs IF.

Terugkeer naar Kalmar
In juni 2020 keert Söderberg terug bij Kalmar FF. Hij wordt aangesteld als keeperstrainer voor de jeugd. Daarnaast is hij in noodgevallen beschikbaar voor het eerste elftal.

IFK en GAIS Göteborg
Op 15 januari 2021 werd bekend dat Söderberg zijn carrière vervolgt bij IFK Göteborg. Na een seizoen vertrok de doelman bij de blauwwitten, waarna hij aan de slag ging bij GAIS. Hier zal hij onderdeel uitmaken van de technische staf en fungeren als back-updoelman.

Zie ook
 Lijst van spelers van Kalmar FF

Zweeds voetballer


To make the caramel: Using a food processor, pulverize the granulated sugar into fine powder/dust. In a pot, heat water on medium. As water begins to slowly heat, carefully pour pulverized sugar into the center of the pot, creating a mound. Do not touch or mix the sugar into the water, let it dissolve on its own. Once sugar-water begins to boil, keep a close eye on it: in a few minutes the water will boil away and then the sugar will begin to boil. Watch closely, the second the molten sugar begins to turn a light brown/caramel color, take it off the heat and add whipping cream and butter. Careful, it will spatter. Whisk until smooth. Add a big pinch of fleur de sel and whisk some more.
To make the French toast: In a big bowl, combine eggs, milk, vanilla bean, sugar, and sea salt. Beat these ingredients together. In a frying pan, heat the unsalted butter over medium heat. Fry the bread for about 1 minute per side or until golden. Turn the heat down to medium low and cook for 1 to 2 minutes on each side.
Serve the French toast in stacks slathered with caramel and topped with a dollop of crème fraiche or sour cream.


As a cofounder of the Cosmic Grooves Charles has a love for community and for alternative physical, emotional and energy therapies. He also runs and operates thesoulmechanic, which is a life coach program.
Being a therapist since 1999, Charles has honed and focused his skills on teaching, lecturing, holding workshops and coaching, with specialization in Esoterical Energy, Knowledge and Work on spirituality and, that which is beyond spirituality.
Charles has published five books and is the innovator of Electrical Theology(C) and The Soul Mechanics(C) programs.
Lori Starr has been a licensed massage therapist since 1994. She has practiced massage in California, Arizona, and North Carolina.
The Cosmic Groove Massage developed as a means to share her love of massage therapy with the Asheville community. As the initial massage therapist of The Cosmic Groove, she feels a special connection with the clients who have supported the business since the beginning.
Creating an environment where massage therapists are able to express their unique talents while also providing quality affordable services to the community was and still is an important factor in the business operation.
Although you will not find her doing much hands on massage therapy these days, she continues to educate herself in all healing modalities. In 2018, she will be offering yoga classes at the Hendersonville location along with a variety of workshops and seminars for those interested in the various arenas of health and wellness. She will also be offering wellness coaching/advocacy at the South Asheville/Arden location. She is an emerging force in the health and wellness field.
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Most recently Danny has been recreating Caravaggio's biblical painting 'The Entombment' using Barbie dolls and Action men. He has built an installation in which he has composed and dressed the dolls to fit the characters in the painting. Danny has constructed a blacked out box reminiscent of a theatre set to house the figures, then recreated the correct lighting. This echoes the chiaroscuro style of the baroque as pioneered by Caravaggio. From this installation Danny has endeavoured to create several life studies including a 5ft by 4ft charcoal drawing – he is planning to produce a large scale hyper realist painting from this drawing and the installation. It is a sort of homage and a pastiche perhaps? This is an ongoing project and new images will appear shortly.