How to Go from $52,000 to Retired in 5 Years?
Phil Town (author of Rule # 1 Investing) talks about his approach to Value Investing as a way to achieve a minimum (presumably, long-term) 15%+ compounded return in the stock market.
I am 30 years old no debt and have a net worth of $52,000 cash. My goal is to be retired by 35 years old. To reach that goal is now the time to go all in?
The time frame is too short to stockpile stocks and be sure to retire in 5. We need more like 20 to make that work. So you're going to trade using Rule #1 strategy and tools.
1. You'll live to 95, so retirement is 60 years.
2. You'll need at least $50,000 a year in 2009 dollars.
3. Assume you're trading and making 30% adjusted for inflation (so 34% or so before inflation).
4. Assume you're adding $10,000 a year for next 5 years.
5. In 5 years you'll have $283,000 in 09 dollars.
6. You'll have to make 18% after inflation to get $50,000 a year in 09 dollars.
7. Conclusion: Doable, but you are not retired clipping bond coupons on some beach in the South Pacific. You're still investing. Better if you had more in the nest egg in 5.
So, Phil's basically demonstrated that it's not doable … at least not with stocks; it MAY be doable with a very high risk (read: great deal of luck) aggressively trading options and / or business startup strategy.
Q: How to get more when you have less?
A: Leverage. Other people's money.
Q: How do you get other people's money?
Trade on margin: 50% loan. You'll more than double your return to $558,000.
Put half the money in a startup and help make it go big.
… I guess Phil agrees: 5 years from $52k to any number that's likely to yield a reasonable retirement requires a super-high annual compound growth rate, and that only comes from the strategies that I mentioned earlier; and, of these, business is clearly a better path than trading stocks and options on margin … there's simply too much luck involved in trying to aggressively mix it with the stock-market pro's.
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My re-examination of an old forgotten portfolio chimes in to some extent to this post.
I couldn't understand why this particular portfolio hadn't been decimated in the market crash – how could it be ?
The answer may have some influence on how quickly you can meet you goals from trading in the stock market.


Our third day at Barcelona was a Sunday. On Sunday Barcelona markets & most shops are more or less closed except few tourist shops along with few bakeries and pastry shops. On searching for information, we found Maremàgnum mall and some flea markets are open on that day. So we planned to visit Columbus Monument, Port Vell, Maremàgnum mall were all the attractions during the morning hours and booked our evening ticket to Sagrada Familia. As soon as we got down from the Metro, at Liceu (Green Line, L3) we saw the desolate and closed La Boqueria market.
Along the La Rambla we saw some human Live statues. This street is filled with street actors who paint themselves in various colour paints and props to amuse the spectators. Since it was early on a chilly windy day, the street was not yet get filled with them.
Most prominent landmark there is the Columbus Monument (Monument a Colom). The Columbus Monument is a 60-meter tall monument to Christopher Columbus at the lower end of La Rambla. It was constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) in honour of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The monument serves as a reminder that Christopher Columbus reported to Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand V in Barcelona after his first trip to the new continent.
At the very top of the monument stands a 7.2-meter tall bronze statue atop a 40 meter tall Corinthian column. The statue was sculpted by Rafael Atché and is said to depict Columbus pointing towards the New World with his right hand while holding a scroll in the left. The statue is situated in a current way simply to have Columbus point out to sea underscoring his achievements in naval exploration. The statue is atop a socle, on which the word "Tierra" (land) is inscribed.
The column hung with a device bearing an anchor, stands on an octagonal pedestal from which four bronze winged victories or Phemes take flight towards the four corners of the world, above paired griffins. Four buttresses against the octagonal pedestal bear portrait medallions that depict persons related to Columbus. Seated against the buttresses are four figures that represent four realms of Spain: the Principality of Catalonia, and the kingdoms of León, Aragon, and Castile. Against the base of the pedestal between the buttresses are four additional statues.
The canted octagonal plinth is inset with eight bronze bas-relief panels that depict important scenes in Columbus's first voyage to the Americas. Alternating with the bas-reliefs are eight coats-of-arms representing locations that Columbus visited. The base of the monument is a 20-meter wide circle, with four staircases. Each staircase is flanked by two lions.
Port Vell (Old Harbor) is a waterfront harbour in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and part of the Port of Barcelona. It was built as part of an urban renewal program prior to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Before this, it was a run-down area of empty warehouses, railroad yards, and factories.
The Maritime Museum of Barcelona is located in the building of Drassanes Reials de Barcelona, the royal arsenal of Barcelona, dedicated to shipbuilding between the thirteenth century and eighteenth century. It shows the history of the navigation from the early days together with the history of the Spanish Navy since the Catholic Monarchs, in the 15th century, up to the present. It also hosts several navigation instruments, weapons, portolans and paintings. The museum was declared Museum of National Interest by the Government of Catalonia. The building is of Gothic style, its construction was carried out in a first stage between 1283 / 1328 and the second between 1328 / 1390. Subsequent reforms and extensions have been made, basically keeping the original structure.
Port Authority Building is now under structural repair. The demarcation of La Rambla's southern end and the wooden bridge called Rambla de Mar is this bright yellow façade with "Port of Barcelona" emblazoned in the arched pediment. Junta d'Obres del Port was a passenger terminal and customs house when it opened in 1907. It now serves as headquarters for the Port Authority of Barcelona.
In front of the Port Authority Building is this unique statue of Rómulo Bosch i Alsina, who was mayor of the city at the beginning of the 20th century. It is a sculpture of great expressive force, very far from the neoclassical sculptures with which these types of characters are usually represented. This Catalan politician and businessman, besides having been mayor of Barcelona in 1905, was president of the port works council for about 10 years, being responsible for the design of Port Vell, the port that today belongs to the old part of the city, the district of Ciutat Vella. This sculpture, inaugurated in 1992, is the work of the Luxembourg architect Robert Krier.
Port Vell which translates to Old Harbor is a waterfront harbour in Barcelona. It was built as part of an urban renewal program prior to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Before this, it was a run-down area of empty warehouses, railroad yards, and factories. 16 million people visit the complex each year. A pedestrian walkway, Rambla de Mar, connects La Rambla to Port Vell. It incorporates a swing bridge, in order to allow ships to enter and exit the harbour.
Construction of the first "transversal" dock, where the Moll de Barcelona (Barcelona Dock) now stands, was completed in 1882. This dock later housed Torre Jaume I, the cable car tower for the Port Vell Aerial Tramway, built across the harbour for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, a World's fair, but opened only in 1931. The Port continued to grow, stretching past Mount Montjuïc towards the Llobregat Delta with the construction of an inner harbour on the river bank, precisely where Barcelona's first port activity had its origins.
The port's Statute of Autonomy was approved in 1978 when the site took on the official title of Autonomous Port of Barcelona, and in 1987 work began on drafting the Strategic Plan, an ambitious project to develop the whole port. Under the Strategic Plan, the port is structured around three main areas: the commercial port, the logistical port and the old port. The plan pays particular attention to the last of these, the Port Vell, with a view to reviving a historic old site made obsolete by large-scale extension work in recent decades and relegated to serving traditional purposes.
Port Vell is now a focal point of the city and tourist attraction, containing the Maremàgnum. Maremagnum is much more than just a shopping mall. To begin with, it's location already makes it special; almost completely surrounded by water and accessible through a sophisticated wooden lifting bridge – for pedestrians only.
It features a large variety of shops and boutiques including homeware, clothing, jewellery, toy shops, cosmetics and shoe shops, even one of the official Barça merchandising stores it's here.
Every hour and sometimes at a special request, this wooden bridge opens for approximately 8 to 10 minutes in order to let the boats in the Marina sail to the open sea, meaning that all pedestrian circulation is closed during the passing of the ships. Unfortunately, due to rough sea, we could not see the opening of the bridge.
In the true spirit of the Mediterranean, Maremagnum is a very transparent structure, allowing the sun and the sea breeze pass through, making shopping into a very pleasurable experience. The Maremagnum offers a comprehensive range of shops and restaurants, boasting more than 50 fashion, footwear, jewellery, accessory and decor stores as well as shops selling confectionary, technology, toys and video games. All the shops open daily from 10 am to 10 pm. The centre is home to national and international brands such as H&M, MANGO, Jack&Jones, Lacoste, Swatch-Swarovski and Imaginarium, as well as F.C. Barcelona, which has its official shop here. Gastronomically speaking, the Maremagnum has something to suit all tastes. The diversity on offer means visitors can choose between restaurants offering the Mediterranean, Italian or Oriental cuisine as well as tapas bars, fast food, pubs and cocktail bars, etc.
The 2nd floor of the centre, known as theMaremagnum Terrace, is specially dedicated to dining and has an area where outdoor concerts and live shows are held. The entertainment offer is completed by the Cinesa Maremagnum cinema, which has several screens. The Maremagnum is located on the Moll de Espanya, close to other attractions such as Barcelona Aquarium, one of the world's largest aquariums, housing over 11,000 fish and 450 species of marine creatures, and the Port Vell Imax, a cinema screen equipped with three gigantic film projection systems (Imax®, Omnimax® and Imax®3d).
After a lot of shopping, we wanted to have lunch. On the way, we saw this curious art deco umbrella shop, Casa Bruno Cuadros. It used to be an umbrella shop of Barcelona in its time. Its style, similar to modernisme with its use of colour and the delicacy of its decorations, makes it unique.
It was 1883 when the architect Josep Vilaseca undertook the refurbishment of the Casa Bruno Cuadros and the umbrella shop on the ground floor. It was just a few years before the 1888 Universal Exhibition and Barcelona was in the throes of expansion, with interesting buildings being built all over the city. The Catalan home-grown art-nouveau movement, modernisme, was gaining momentum and, with it, the taste for Oriental decorations. The Casa Bruno Cuadros of Barcelona, known by locals as the Casa dels Paraigües (House of Umbrellas) is an example. Vilaseca combined the prior style of modernisme with all kinds of architectural elements inspired by other cultures in an eclectic building which amazes everyone who walks along La Rambla. The Casa Bruno Cuadros's balconies and the top-floor gallery are replete with Egyptian imagery. The façade features elaborate sgraffito work and stained-glass windows as well as reliefs of umbrellas and fans made of cast-iron. Orientalist motifs impregnate the outer walls which feature intricate carpentry, enamelled glass and paintings of people taken from Japanese prints. The Casa Bruno Cuadros's most opulent decorative element is the ornate Chinese dragon on the corner of the façade. It was used to advertise the shop, together with the umbrella below it. The building was refurbished in 1980, and a bank now has its premises in the stunning umbrella shop of Barcelona.
We realized after having food at one of the roadside sitting places that, La Rambla is not a good place to have a meal. That giant goblet of sangria for €15? It's not going to do much for you apart from giving you a terrible sugar hangover the following morning. Also make sure to avoid the neon-yellow, frozen paella served by the boatload along La Rambla. After a terrible meal accompanied by loads singing Hare Krishna devotees with loud boom box we returned back to the room for a short rest before heading to The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família is a large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. That is the story left for my next blog.
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Planned Parenthood is suing the state of Idaho in an attempt to invalidate its ban on telemed abortions.
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands contends that the law, which prohibits so-called "webcam" abortions in which doctors do not have to be physically present when a woman takes an abortion-inducing drug, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.
"The ban, therefore, will force some women to seek abortions later in pregnancy, will force others to travel further to access abortion which will result in delay and increased medical risk," the lawsuit states.
Telemed abortions are controversial because they run counter to the Food and Drug Administration's protocol for dispensing mifepristone and misprostol, and because pro-lifers argue that doctors who are not physically present are not in a position to promptly address possible complications from the abortifacients, such as internal bleeding and hemorrhaging.
The Idaho Attorney General's office did not comment on the lawsuit except to say it was still reviewing it.


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Gonzales' stories and historical information are preparing the pre-K class to present what they have learned about the Tuscarora Nation at the school's Cultural Night on Feb. 17 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.


"Mipping": A Strategy for Reporting Iffy Bugs - Satisfice, Inc.
That's very interesting to me, more the clients and their direction than your response to it.
Contrast that with something I did a couple years ago – wrapping up for a maintenance release of a product I asked the developers, QA folks and other product touching people to put into the issue system everything they knew of or could think of, problems, issues, missing information or stuff that maybe wasn't in scope as defined but probably should have been, and BTW not being crystal clear about what's in scope or not is itself a problem. That's one of my favorite non-standard defects: "don't know." Anything that's "don't know" without also being "don't care", well we're missing something.
I wonder if your client wasn't looking to focus attention for a team smaller than the mind-space of the problem. (That's usually the case, actually – the system is usually bigger than our heads.) Maybe it was "get the workflow going at all" time. Or maybe it was "wrapping our brains around our screwed-up architecture" time. Or maybe it was "installer guy is off having a baby" time.
– Defects tend to cluster. Any time you have a hot-spot of questions, issues, misbehaviors, missing information, abandoned coding conventions, whatever, it is more likely that the rest of that chunk is in trouble and you just don't know it. Throw away information and these hot-spots are that much harder to find.
– We're not reporting installer issues right now. But, we have lots and lots of them. So, along with the installer probably being hosed in general, we know one thing and may reasonably suspect another. We know the state of the installer is getting in our way doing work. We're chewing up time every time we hit an installer problem while we're developing or testing. We may reasonably suspect that we're bad at making installers. So, if installers are a necessary part of our product, well . . .
"Mention in passing" is an excellent strategy. There's a need for focus sometimes and many, many testers are unable to let their pet thing of the moment pass in aid of a larger, immediate problem. I do a lot of triage & recovery work. Picking what you are going to deal with first is part of that game. Often, the disaster has been caused in part by folks arguing that "My Thing is Important" all needing to be first.
Yet, I think someone should want to keep the data around. First off we paid for it. Second off, it may be useful later when we can pay attention. So, as a client, boss or "engineering guy", while I might ask you not to make a big deal about installer bugs *right now*, for example while we're whacking the code base into any kind of run-time stability at all, I'd also ask you to record everything you find, well enough so we can pick it up later. I'd be inclined to ask everyone, actually, to work with that kind of perspective and focus. Get it recorded, but let it go for now. Maybe "record in passing" or RIP which seems a bit ominous.
On my better days I hope I'd remember to thank you, both for noticing broadly, and for being willing to be the caretaker of this information that we can't address this instant, because our brains are full right now.
[James' Reply: Excellent points Mr. Bullock. One reason I will MIP is when I'm worried that the effort to report the problem formally is too much. In some bug tracking regimes, some processophiliac has decreed that there shall be 38 fields filled out, just so, for every problem. Then again, sometimes programmers feel judged and oppressed by metrics and/or sheer paperwork, and I'm trying to get them on my side (or have them accept me as on their side).
I think it's kind of reprehensible to hire people to test your software but then tell them to just ignore certain kinds of bugs. You want alert testers, testers who automatically notice when things are wrong, and you want them to have a kneejerk response to tell you if something is broken. (Yes, yes, you may have a requirement that they search for a duplicate report before they file. Fine. And they must assign a severity and use their judgment. Good.) But I think it's a bad precedent to tell testers to start ignoring things. If you make your category of "ignorable" things a bit too mushy, they won't report stuff you wanted to know about. And if you start training their brains to ignore some things… they may subconsciously decide to ignore other things.
Now I need to write a memo to my boss about that new suggestion the Upstairs Folks had about "usability bugs"….
Ah, Mr. Bach, once again we are in violent agreement. One day we must work together more closely than we have. The exercise of day after day allowing space for us both to be right would do me good, for sure.
– adjust the perception of how useful and necessary these fields are so that *only* entering 38 fields (in swahili, engraved on granite with a file) seems like a small amout of work for something so important.
The problem isn't so much the 38 fields it's the literally insane mismatch of the agenda embodied in the automation and the working reality, respectively. What really leaves them stunned is when I go for this solution *as the QA guy* brought in to fix the mess in QA.
You shouldn't be alone in this. The engineering management needs to frame the relationship between the testing activity and the developers, for the developers. "They found buckets of stuff." is oppressive in some contexts, less so in others.
Whatever the mechanism, you shouldn't be alone in this. Not that I'm surprised.
I liked the idea of MIP to handle the issues which I usually observe while testing but no one from development team is willing to listen to them. MIP can be used as a place where we can dump all such issues for future reference.
Although, I got a lot of appreciation for the bugs which developers thought were very minor and i virtually fought with them to convince them. Later those bugs contributed in build crashes on client site.
I will certainly try to implement this idea in my project and will share my experience on this with you.
I couldn't agree with you more; "mipping" is a necessary strategy in all projects. As software testers, we should be obligated to report all bugs/defects (that are repeatable or not repeatable) and let the business/stakeholders decide their ultimate severity/priority (based on accurate and detailed information provided by the tester about the issue).
My interpretation of serving the project, is to identify all bugs and communicate them within the agreed upon structure of the project (email, defect reporting database/software, verbal). I believe it is also the QA practitioner's responsibility to clearly define the potential impacts to the related components of the application/system/environment (based on the QA'a knowledge, experience, or additional exploratory testing). This will give the stakeholder the required details to make an informed decision.
Many projects may feel threatened by the many 'small' bugs that get reported due to the impact on the reporting metrics, and be tempted to eliminate, filter or hide them. But really, if the reporting is done right, these "mippings" should be documented for future reference (warranty, support or future projects) and used by testers to expand their knowledge of the product and perform better tests.
My team often has to strike a balance between two situations: One is where the customer just doesn't want us to test this or that, like your examples, and the other is where we have coaxed the development team to let us see a module early, even if integration has not been yet achieved.
In the former case, we prefer to log everything, and in cases where the dev team has some mystical issue with open defects (or more likely, their managers have issues with holding open defects over their heads) we can assign the defect with a status that keeps it handy but not "Open".
In the latter case, we don't record bugs that are outside the scope of the module/part we are testing. Those things are incomplete and unready, so we don't spend our time and theirs on things unfinished and outside our target. My customers view this as a service to them.
I wanted to mention a time where we do not record everything, even though all other times I can think of we would.


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Your Halifax guide to the FIFA soccer World Cup
Where to watch it, who's in it and why you should care.
By Martin Bauman
Photo: Canada Soccer
Canadian phenom Alphonso Davies will carry his country's hopes as Canada's mens team embarks on its first World Cup appearance since 1986.
When Canada's men's national team takes to the soccer pitch against Belgium on Wednesday, Nov. 23, it will make history—not just as the first Canadian men's side since 1986 to qualify for the world's largest sporting event, but as the fastest-climbing team in global FIFA rankings in 2021-22. Led by global star Alphonso Davies, a rising 22-year-old talent whose day job is playing for German professional team Bayern Munich, and coached by John Herdman, a firebrand from Northern England who oversaw the Canadian women's team's climb to perennial contenders, Les Rouges will enter the 2022 World Cup with the highest expectations they've ever faced.
The World Cup is nothing if not a spectacle. More than half of the world—literally—watched the 2018 tournament in Russia. And if you're pub-crawling downtown in the next four weeks, you're virtually assured to meet a multi-coloured medley of jerseyed hooligans hurling obscenities at a TV.
Nearly two-thirds of Coast readers who took our survey this week said they'd be tuning into the tournament—if not for the whole shebang, then at least for Canada's matches.
Here at The Coast, we've got you covered with the Haligonian's guide to keeping up with the World Cup—from the good to the ugly of the tournament, to where to watch it, to when Canada's playing and everything you need to know to be smarter than your friends and family.
What's the big fuss about Canada's team?
It's been 36 years since Canada last qualified for the World Cup—a moment in our country's soccer history that, believe it or not, happened on Atlantic soil. (Hat tip to George Pakos and the muddy King George V Field in St. John's.)
Accomplishment aside, that 1986 team fizzled out of the global tournament without scoring a goal. That figures to change with this Canada squad. There's a strong argument that our country's soccer talent pool has never been deeper—nor has it boasted as much star power.
Davies is the team's undisputed star (just watch these 80 seconds if you need a primer), but he's far from the only member of The Reds turning heads at the sport's highest level. Ottawa-raised striker Jonathan David is in the midst of a goal-scoring tear in France's Ligue 1 and has been linked to transfers to European giants Real Madrid and Manchester United. At 22 years old, and with just 34 appearances for Canada, he's already vaulted to second on Canada's all-time scoring list. Meanwhile, Brampton-born Tajon Buchanan and Leamington's Stephen Eustaquio have been making waves in Belgium and Portugal, respectively, at Club Brugge and FC Porto.
Are there any Scotian connections?
Not this time, but it was close. Port Williams' Jacob Shaffelburg (who plays professionally for Major League Soccer's Nashville SC) has made four appearances for Canada's senior men's team and was part of the group that helped Canada qualify for the Qatar World Cup—but alas, his name was left off Herdman's final 26-player roster. (Those are the breaks when you share a position with Alphonso Davies.)
Former HFX Wanderers FC gaffer Stephen Hart coached the club to a Gold Cup semifinal in 2007. But Hart's last involvement with the senior men's side came in 2012.
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If you're looking to adopt an honourary Scotian this tournament, you could do worse than one whose name already sounds like he was born in New Glasgow or North Sydney: Defender Alistair Johnston. The 24-year-old only earned his first call-up to the senior men's side in 2021, but he has become a back line fixture under Herdman's watch. (Plus, the fact that he wore short sleeves in Canada's infamous Iceteca match means he could handle a Halifax winter.)
What's the controversy with Qatar hosting the tournament?
Where to start? Three former FIFA officials have been accused of accepting bribes in exchange for supporting Qatar's hosting bid. Amnesty International ran a spotlight on the country's treatment of migrant workers in the lead-up to the tournament, accusing Qatar of subjecting workers to "forced labour" to prepare the World Cup venues, confiscating their passports and leaving them with "appalling living conditions" and salaries that, on occasion, "aren't paid for several months." A 2021 Guardian report found those very conditions had killed an estimated 6,500 labourers. And the country's official World Cup ambassador has been widely denounced for homophobic comments after calling homosexuality "damage in the mind."
None of this, if you've followed FIFA through the decades, is particularly shocking for the sporting organization. Corruption has been endemic in soccer's governing body for years.
For some, however, the 2022 tournament's abuses represent a final straw. Fifteen percent of voters on our website poll said they would be boycotting the tournament entirely. Twenty-six percent said they wouldn't normally watch the tournament, but they'll be tuning in for Canada.
When is Canada playing?
Canada is guaranteed three opening round matches against its opponents in Group F: Wednesday, Nov. 23 against Belgium (3pm Atlantic time); Sunday, Nov. 27 against Croatia (noon AT); and Thursday, Dec. 1 against Morocco (11am).
If Canada finishes in the top half of its group, the men's side will advance to the knockout stage of the tournament for the first time ever. From there on, every match is win-or-go-home.
Should I pick Canada in my World Cup pool?
Only if you like a dark horse. Oddsmakers have Canada (+20,000 odds, a massive longshot) as the 20th-most likely World Cup team to win it all, ahead of only 10 other nations and even with Wales and Morocco. If you're looking for the surest pick, oddsmakers favour Brazil (+400) to win, followed by Argentina (+550) and France (+600).
But if you want the hipster pick, then sure, go with Canada. It's more fun to cheer for an underdog anyway.
Where can I watch the games in Halifax?
HFX Wanderers FC is hosting a series of viewing parties at HFX Sports Bar & Grill (1721 Brunswick Street). Proceeds support United Way Halifax and Extra-Time Society, an arm's length organization to the Wanderers that aims to "positively impact the community through sport." Reservations include entry into draws for Wanderers tickets and signed merch.
🌊🍁Featuring a giant 235-inch screen, the best place in Halifax to watch all of Canada's matches is at our viewing parties @HFXSports 📺
Reserve your table in advance to beat the rush!
All proceeds support @UWHalifax & Extra-Time Society 👊
Details: https://t.co/1q7kQTRZHG pic.twitter.com/jQGlpJyVDz
— Halifax Wanderers FC (@HFXWanderersFC) November 14, 2022
If you want to hang with the Halifax members of The Voyageurs, Canada's unofficial soccer supporters group, they'll be watching every match at Niche Lounge (1645 Granville Street).
You can also find the games at The Old Triangle (5136 Prince Street), The Brown Hound (1450 Ironstone Ln), The Maxwell's Plum (1600 Grafton Street), Big Leagues (920 Cole Harbour Road), and… well, just about any bar or pub that carries TSN.


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Kosher Winery And Vineyards Scorched By Raging California Wildfires
Image by JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images
By Liza Schoenfein October 10, 2017
The raging wildfires that have left a trail of destruction across northern California's wine country have been fickle when it came to kosher wineries.
One vineyard, Hagafen Cellars, sustained serious damage. The other, Covenant Winery, was largely spared by the devastating blazes that have killed at least 15 people and driven thousands from their homes.
"Compared to our colleagues to the North in Napa and Sonoma, we're in very good shape," said Jeff Morgan, co-owner of Covenant, as he stood outside his Berkeley winery, 70 miles away from the fires.
Still, the air was full of smoke. "I'm not just smelling it; I'm in it," said Morgan. "I wish I could say it was a purple haze but it's a gray haze, and it's hanging over the San Francisco Bay area. But we're lucky because our winery is here [in Berkeley], and our home is here, and so it's not threatened by the fires."
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Hagafen Cellars, in Napa Valley, fared worse, though owner Ernie Weir said he is still uncertain about the full extent of the damage. The winery building was affected mainly in the back, where the wine is made. "I can't tell the extent of it until I can turn on the power and take a look at it," he said. "The building is standing and it's very well insulated and the wine inside and in barrels and in the tanks is all fine," he added.
The vineyard, 12 acres in all, was mostly already harvested. "We did lose about an acre," he said, "and we lost our guest house, all of our agricultural equipment, and we lost the chicken house, and the chickens, a lot of things that were on the rear perimeter of our property. They are burned in some cases beyond recognition. It was devastating."
Covenant had also harvested most of its grapes, which come from Sonoma and Napa (as well as Lodi, which is not in the fire zone). "The good news is that 90 percent of our harvest was over; the grapes are fermenting happily away," Morgan said.
A Splendid Syrah
There will be long-term repercussions, both financial and emotional, for all the wineries involved. "Vineyards can be replanted, but that takes time and money. Wineries can be rebuilt, but that takes even more money if not less time."
Covenant does have two vineyards whose grapes were affected by the fires. "We were picking them on Monday morning and we didn't realize until five in the morning that we couldn't do it," he said. We have some cabernet and petit verdot that didn't get picked. The cabernet is hopefully coming in tomorrow once the roads are open, and I think it will be okay, but the petit verdot in the Sonoma Valley got toasted."
The upcoming holiday of Simchat Torah presents an additional challenge.
"For kosher wineries in particular, the big challenge is to get it off the vine and picked and processed in our winery before the chag (holiday). We only have until about 6 p.m. tomorrow night and then we have a three day chag. That's the one great challenge with kosher winemaking, that we have to adhere to halachah (Jewish law)."
Weir concluded an email he sent to friends, family and colleagues by saying, "We have been humbled by nature once again but we remain resilient, adaptive, creative and happy to be alive."
Liza Schoenfein is food editor of the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @LifeDeathDinner
Liza Schoenfein is a former food editor of the Forward and author of the blog Life, Death & Dinner. Follow her on Instagram @LifeDeathDinner
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On hosting men's orgies in NYC
Frequently UNASKED Questions
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Party Tonight 7PM
Sunday FUSION tonight, 7PM to 11PM (doors 10PM). The following party will be...
Friday NOONERs are back! 12PM to 3PM. Best to arrive before 1:30. Scroll down for the schedule.
Email me at theorgyguy@gmail.com, for details.
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Please always get your information from the host, not from another source. If it isn't on the schedule I've published, then there isn't a party.
Please only text me when you're at the building's front door, ready to be buzzed in. No calls and no questions or comments. All information is in the emails, and this blog is the place to come if you're wondering if the party's cancelled.
Be sure to get your info directly from the host (i.e., my emails and blog), instead of relying on an outside source, like a friend or someone else's sex blog.
Please do not give my cell number or address to anyone. If you think someone would like the parties, then have them go through the regular process by emailing me. I don't respond to calls or texts for info.
Note that, upon arriving at the building, please text "Here" to me to be let in; do not ring the bell and don't call. I'll immediately buzz you in. The buzzer goes for 6 seconds; please get through both doors on a single buzz. Please don't follow someone else in; use the text system so I know you're coming up and not making someone in the building feel uncomfortable about letting in a stranger, and so I know you're coming up the stairs.
The building is 449, be sure you're at the correct building.
Please also note the hours.
Thank you, guys.
All parties are in Manhattan
Sundays: 7PM to 11PM (doors 10PM)
Fridays: 12M to 3PM
Sunday, 7/7: FÜSION
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ERUPTIÖN Fuck any way you want, but this one's for the barebackers.
FÜSION For both safers and barebackers.
NÖÖNER For guys who don't have their evenings free.
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How the Pride Parties Are Different, Sunday NOONER, Chris Cornell – Post #76
Note that there won't be a party on Tuesday 6/27, Thursday 6/29, Friday 6/30, or on Tuesday 7/4.
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This is the 9th annual PRIDE sex party I've hosted. The first one was in 2009.
There are two main things which make these parties different from the other ones: the number of guys and groups.
The increased number of attendees is a given. There's Black Party weekend, New Year's Eve, out-of-towners during the holidays and a PRIDE-driven uptick in June, but PRIDE Sunday is the big one.
If you don't like a dense crowd, this one probably isn't your speed; but if you are into numbers…and are into my parties…this is the best party I'll host all year.
The very fact that, at any given party, guys actually come into my home, take off their clothes, jerk off and have sex, is completely amazing to me and a downright privilege…
Sunday's PRIDE party is even greater.
Doing what I do, for as long as I have, I'm pretty accurate at determining whether or not a guy is a fit for this party, as soon as they come through the door. Hopefully during the online screening, but there's only so much you can tell.
Most individual guys who come fit in well and usually enjoy the experience.
Some don't and I can usually tell when I see first greet them. If it's a strong sense, I'll just tell the guy outright. Some of that depends on what's happening at the party, at that given moment, on that given night. Like in hockey, the move you make is determined by the facts on the ice at that moment.
I have no interest in duping anyone or gaining from someone else's troubles. I always try to treat people the way I want to be treated, equalize expectations of each other. Sometimes that means cutting one's losses sooner than later.
While any given individual coming to a party (who's screened and been screened) usually leaves with a satiated smile, a group of friends coming to a party together often does not. It's very rare for a guy, in a group or not, to actually voice any displeasure, but the signals are there to be read. And I'm cool with that.
But that doesn't mean I don't want to avoid it; and I assume you do, too.
If four guys arrive together, but who don't know one another and just happen to have arrived concurrently, that's great: more guys at the party. But when four friends come, it usually looks like this:
The leader of the group – the one whose email address I have and who received the info – confidently walks in first, followed by two or three guys who aren't nearly as sure of the situation as the first guy.
Heads bobble around, eyes dart in every direction, stupefied smiles…nervous first timers tend to look like Stevie Wonder singing "Isn't She Lovely" to a room full of birds. Now picture them in a group.
Again, nervous first timers happen all the time, but as individuals, they usually (usually) do what they need to do to get into the experience, leaving happily.
But groups are different. They quickly wind up standing in a corner whispering to each other. Their heads will pop up, look around for a second, then get back to their huddle. For some reason, individual guys can get past their own misgivings better than those of another. The one who's not thrilled is the one who's deferred to. In other words, the squeaky wheel gets greased.
It's often true for couples, too. They seem to do better when they divide & conquer.
This isn't to say that it's impossible for a small group of friends to come and have a great time – I have seen it – but a lot of why I've been able to host parties for so long is knowing how to play the numbers.
So just keep this in mind if you're coming with a group.
Switching the NOONERs to Fridays from 3PM-6PM has been a success, so for July, we'll keep that schedule. The Saturday NOONERs will probably come back after Labor Day, but possibly sooner if I have scheduling needs.
Speaking of NOONERs, let's try something different.
One of the guys who came to a party, this week, asked if I'd consider hosting a Sunday NOONER. "I do most of my stuff on Saturday so I have nothing to do on Sunday afternoons. On Sunday evenings, I like to be home and 'tucked in.'"
So we're having one in July, on Sunday the 9th. We'll still have a NOONER on Friday the 7th, because they'll attract two different groups of guys: those who leave town for the weekend and those who don't. No party that Sunday evening.
I feel like I keep saying this, but just in case, I am soooo appreciative of you guys. You really are angels.
And you truly are a privilege.
Happy PRIDE, misters.
Finally, a nod to Chris Cornell, who recently died and who was the singer for Soundgarden.
1991 to 1994/95 was a real sweet spot in music, youth culture, politics, and in my own life. I'm in the age group of the grunge rockers, and when that scene hit, my life was also…hitting: graduation from college, moving out of my parents' house, first real job, first long-time boyfriend, first real love. At that age, everything is new and, therefore, sort of sensitive to the touch. In heat and on fire.
Soundgarden was one of the first of those early 90s Seattle bands. In relative collaboration with the other grunge-era greats – notably Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Temple Pilots -- they not only created the proverbial soundtrack to a lot of our lives; they also gave us an identity. Granted, it was whiney and entitled (which we were too young to identify), but the enormous power and newness and originality were like a giant wave. Some got eaten up by that wave, but I think that for most of us, it was a totally outrageous fuckton of fun.
I saw a lot of shows, including Woodstock '94, but I never got to see Soundgarden back then. My band played a club on Long Island in 1990, the night before Soundgarden played there, but I didn't go to a Soundgarden concert (nor any Chris Cornell act), until 2014 at Jones Beach. I'm so glad I went.
By all accounts, Chris was a really great guy. A great father and husband, friend, philanthropist of his time and talents as well as his money, and out-and-out fucking rock god.
I've found that life is, among many other things, a series of hellos and goodbyes. Goodbye Chris. And thank you.
Among so many of his great performances, this one's my favorite.
Have a positively superlative summer!
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Matchers is Coming Friday 9/23! And About How I Came Out – Post #75
Last blog, I asked you guys to call or email The Center to ask about Matchers. It was meant to peak the interest of the folks at the front desk, there. Create a little buzz.
Well I went to The Center, today, to get our supply of condoms, and upon mentioning to someone new at the front desk that I host the event, she happily exclaimed, "Everybody keeps asking about Matchers!"
Thanks guys! I appreciate it.
The next Matchers event will be Friday, September 23rd, from 7:30 to 9:30PM (arrive between 7-7:20PM). Room 310. Email me at matchers4men@gmail.com for details. The following date will be Friday, October 21st, same time, same venue, same room.
Here's the blog post dedicated to it.
Gay men don't have very many places where it's mostly gay men, where we can meet other guys. Mostly bars and gyms. Sex parties, too, but there's usually not a whole lot of talking going on there. The Center, of course, but Matchers is the only dating event there, too.
In conceptualizing this event, I'm going with the philosophy used by the members of the band, KISS, which is to create the event that I'm super-excited to attend. So that's what I've done.
Matchers is going to be a lot fun. A cross between a talk show and a town hall meeting, where gay men get to share their opinions on a variety of hot topics (politics, social issues, entertainment), then get to fill out forms to select which guys he'd want to get to know better. Whichever guys pick him, as well, are his matches.
I'm no longer billing this as an event for the exclusive purpose of looking for a partner. That can feel contrived and uncomfortable, like "Are you my next boyfriend?!" I'm happier with it being for any relationship, even if it's platonic. But ostensibly guys will go to Matchers more for dating than for casual friendships.
Casual sex is usually on gay men's menus, too, so there's also that. ;)
More information is coming, so please stay tuned to the blog dedicated to Matchers: matchers4men.blogspot.com. Or email me at matchers4men@gmail.com.
Thanks again and I hope to not only see you, but to finally get to hear you, at the next Matchers.
Also last blog, I wrote about how I realized I'm gay. Guys sometimes tell me that they like my blog (which is always surprising, since I sometimes think, Who reads this shit?), but I received more feedback from this one than maybe ever. I'm glad.
So I figure I ought to follow it up with, How I Came Out.
I've already written about my initial experiences at the Long Island Expressway Exit 49 Park & Ride. That's where I…er…cut my teeth. A dude I met there took me to my first gay bar, a few months after my 21st birthday (when I discovered cruising and became sexually active), called Pal Joey's in North Bellmore. That's the same bar Henry Marquez was at just before he was murdered by Andrew Esposito, for being gay. That incident led to a fairly large protest, which I marched in. I also happened to move right up the street, about a year later.
From the summer of 1990, until Christmas of '91, I created a gay social life of mostly sex and bars and cars and more sex, apart from my straight life, which was college, working, and being in a rock band. It wasn't until January of '92 when I came out to my family, which was really the high watermark for my coming out process: once they knew, then telling my straight friends would be pretty easy.
My father was a police officer. Very straight-edge and conservative, but thankfully not religious. I figured my mother, with whom I'd had many sophisticated supper conversations throughout my teen years (while Dad was working the 4PM-12AM shifts), and since she liked Phil Donanue and Oprah Winfrey, I figured she'd be cooler with it than my father would be.
I remember being in my bedroom, getting my stuff together to take a shower, when my mother knocked on my door. I let her in, she pulled out my desk chair, and said, "I don't mean to upset you, but I've got to ask you a question. Are you gay?" My initial reaction – like that very first second – was to look up at the ceiling and start to make a facial expression conveying, "WTF, are you kidding?!" but when I looked back at her, I just gave up and said, "Yes." I literally felt weight come off my shoulders.
She was shocked. I think I followed it up with, "Now we can talk about anything." And boy did we! We talked for about an hour, and I told her things she was totally not ready for. I'd assumed that the coming out part was like the pinnacle of anything taboo I could talk about with my mother, and that anything else would be easy for her to take, by comparison.
Nah, she needed time to absorb the mere fact that her son just almost completely changed right before her eyes. I was too naïve to get that. She needed a lot of time to deal with it, so I moved out later that month.
January '92. What a winter that was! What a year that was! Life is so exciting, dramatic, and seemingly unprecedented when you're 22.
So my mother needed time. Before I moved out, one afternoon, I walked into the kitchen and saw my mother lying on the den floor. Her two hands pressed together, under her head, the way a child would. She was awake, thinking…worrying. Obsessing.
She stood up and said she wasn't "taking this well," so we sat at the kitchen table and talked some more. She said some things, which today would be considered "toxic" and "homophobic," but she was just processing too much information, with too many concurrent emotions, and having an honest experience. She came around and has been great, ever since.
My father, though. He was way different. In a good way. First of all, he'd been asking my mother for a while about why I'd never had a girlfriend. Mom would tell him, "If you want to know, just ask him." But she didn't believe I was gay, so she figured s/he had nothing to lose. Finally, after he'd asked again, she went upstairs and knocked on my door.
My father was a police officer, so he'd already seen so much Life, had great perspective. His third kid being gay wasn't the end of the world, even as I feared he would think that way.
After my mother and I finished our first conversation, when I came out to her, I said I was afraid to come down for dinner because by then my father would know I'm gay. My mother was about to officially confirm it. That concept was a real trip, and a scary one. She said she'd go down and speak to him. I took my shower.
When I got out and returned to my bedroom, my Dad was waiting for me. I only remember him saying, "It's OK to come down for dinner." No gruffness or attitude, he was understanding.
I knew it was going to be alright.
He died in 2006, and it's only since then that I've realized that my father likely already knew. He probably picked up on things from when I was growing up. Like I said, he'd seen a lot of life.
One instance, I thought for sure he was going to find a couple of gay magazines I had in my car. I woke up at around noon, looked out my bedroom window and saw my car backed up the driveway, with my Dad's legs sticking out the driver's side door, his head under the dashboard. He was fixing the turn signal, which he'd already told me he was going to do, so stupid me for keeping them under my seat.
Our driveway was slanted, so the back end of my car (a metallic orange '75 Chevy Malibu, which I bought from my father for $1,000) was higher than the front end. Gravity. There were two magazines, the kind you find in gay bars, under the driver's seat.
This is what I saw when I looked out the window, having just woken up.
I totally thought he would've seen them, but since he hadn't said anything, I'd always figured he hadn't seen them. But all these years later, I'm pretty sure he did see them. And I'm really glad he acted as a catalyst to get the truth out in the open. Good job, Dad.
The day before my mother asked me, funnily enough, I had just come out to my sister. The very day before!
Lori had just given birth to her daughter, on Christmas Day, and I went over to visit in the afternoon. I think we watched "Blazing Saddles." Or "History of the World."
But I'd already written her a coming out letter, which I'd brought with me. I was so nervous, I practically threw it at her as I was leaving, running to my car and speeding away.
I'd always felt super-safe around my big sister, which is obviously why I chose to come out to her, first. She later said how much she was worried because A) We had just watched Blazing Saddles and she was afraid maybe she'd laughed at something gay and B) I'd think she told my mother. But of course she hadn't.
Coming out to my older brother, Vic, worried me more. I was certain he wouldn't kick me out of his life, but he was an ex-military, NRA, fundamentalist Christian, conservative, Ted Nugent-loving hunter-of-Bambis. Even with all of that, I was secure that he'd be at least aiight.
He lived in Wurtsboro, NY, and we planned for me to visit, that Saturday. I didn't want to come out to him, face-to-face; so, like with my sister (and as likely would have been with my parents, had they not asked), I wanted to tell Vic in a letter. But it was already late in the week, so getting him a letter via regular mail wouldn't work. There was no email yet.
I quickly wrote a coming out letter to my brother, rushed to the post office, and had it next-day shipped. Now that I write this, I'm thinking about how so very little money I had right after I first moved out, but it was less of a price than having to say it straight to my brother's face.
Anyway, when I got to the house, he said that when he received it, he immediately thought "something was up." He was mostly very cool about it all. I don't think he ever tried to change me or whatever. Pretty sure I'd remember that.
It wasn't easy coming out to my best friend, Larry. He and I were also in a band, called Tempest Rising. Larry was a long-haired, crotchety conservative kid, but we were great friends.
I'd already told our mutual friend, Rob, with whom I'd just moved in to my first place, a house on 25A in East Setauket. I waited at the corner bar, called Country Corner, while Rob broke the news to Larry, next door at the house. I sat at the bar with a bottle of beer, and after about a half hour, Larry came in, sat at the next stool. We didn't say anything for a few seconds. I think the first thing he said was, "You know, I used to throw bottles at people like you."
That broke the tension and, like with what my Dad first said, I knew it was going to be cool. Larry and I, like most male friends, throw these types of barbs at each other to ease tension and to be playful.
Larry was, and still is, very conservative. He used to say, "I just don't get it." Which was fine. I tried explaining it to him several times, but it got to the point where, since it hadn't been part of our relationship before, why start now? We just proceeded with our same friendship and let it play its course.
The extended family just kinda looked at me sideways, when they thought I wasn't noticing. But they were fine, too. Granted, it's Long Island, where the general perception of gay is a couple of decades behind Manhattan, but it's been all good.
That was a loooooong time ago. Sheesh. It's really something, how far we've come.
How far we've all come.
Finally, here's an email someone forwarded to me, which he'd received from someone who's been to my parties. I don't know who it is, but I'm sure glad someone feels this way. "hi - saw your posting on CL. I've always had good luck at parties hosted by Scott. You can email him for details - scott@theorgyguy.com ...he has an apartment midtown west, charges $20 but worth it. Usually a dozen or so guys, good mix, and hot action, you can get as into it as you want, ok just to hang out as well. Hosts parties several times a week."
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From the railway station the Hotel Regit is just at 150 mt.: after leaving the station main entrance go to the right to central town trough Via Cappuccina; at the traffic light the hotel is 50 mt. on your left.


The breath is always now.
The snow has come, the arctic cold has gone, and I am back at yoga class. A deep soul-cleansing sigh was heard around the world.
It's been a little more than a month since I last was at a yoga class. I did a class online, and lots of stretching and other exercise in between, but there is something to be said for an in person class with like minded folks. The oms are just so much better!
This session we are focusing on the five steps that Kripalu yoga teaches as a way to deepen your practice. Kripalu is a non profit organization dedicated to helping people through yoga in Stockbridge Ma. I would love to go to one of their R&R retreats sometime; but until then, I will learn a bit right here at home. Here they are, the steps toward a deeper practice.
So, don't these look like 5 steps toward a more peaceful life? A more robust life? A more you are here life? To me, they look like a mantra I can use in difficult or stressful situations to remind myself that I am here to be and to have all the feelings, but not to let them take control. I can watch them come, and I can allow them to go.
We also heard this today: "The breath is always now." Come back to your breath. Don't linger in the past. Don't worry about the future. Breath. The breath is always now.
Be present even if . . .


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Composites Communications
Cement and Concrete Composites
Composite Structures
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Composites Part B: Engineering
Composites Science and Technology
Composites Communications - Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Li Min Zhou
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Dr. Ulf Breuer
Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tianxi Liu
Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China
Prof. Dr. Adrian Mouritz
RMIT University Aerospace Engineering and Aviation Programme, Carlton, Australia
Prof. Dr. Hua-Xin Peng
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Prof. Dr. António Ferreira
University of Porto Department of Mechanical Engineering, Porto, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Jang Kyo Kim
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Yiu-Wing Mai
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Members of Editorial Board
Dr. Chamil Abeykoon, PhD
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Dr. Giuliano Allegri
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Altstaedt
University of Bayreuth Department for Polymer Engineering, Bayreuth, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mitchell Anthamatten
University of Rochester Department of Chemical Engineering, Rochester, New York, United States
Prof. Dr. Reza Bagheri
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Dr. Avinash Baji
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Prof. Dr. Celina Bernal
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Emiliano Bilotti
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Timotei Centea
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Dr. Jianguo Dai
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Faculty of Construction and Environment, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Aravind Dasari
Nanyang Technological University School of Materials Science and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore
Prof. Dr. Hua Deng
Sichuan University College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Chengdu, China
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Institute of Polymer and Composites of the Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Shao-Yun Fu
Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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Texas A&M University Department of Mechanical Engineering, College Station, Texas, United States
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Northwestern Polytechnical University School of Science, Xi'an, China
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Shiraz University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Shiraz, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Institute for Materials Resource Management University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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Dr. Haitao Huang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Applied Physics, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Tokyo University of Technology, Ota-Ku, Japan
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North Dakota State University College of Engineering, Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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Tongji University School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Shanghai, China
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Zhejiang University Institute for Composites Science Innovation, Hangzhou, China
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University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bath, United Kingdom
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Leibniz University Hanover, Hannover, Germany
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
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Sungkyunkwan University, Jongno-gu, Korea, Republic of
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University of Exeter Environment and Sustainability Institute, Penryn, United Kingdom
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University of Nottingham Composites Research Group, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies, Madrid, Spain
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University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan, China
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Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
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For the last eight years, I have accomplished all of my New Year's resolutions. The resolutions tended to fall into three categories: something to do with my weight, a project to build, and a list of books to read. I have built trunks out of pine, drawn pictures in charcoal, put on weight or lost a few pounds. I always take pride in crossing twenty to thirty books off my annual reading list, but I take even more pride in crossing off my resolutions.
However, this year is going to be a little different — I don't have any New Years Resolutions.
I am not going to concern myself with a few items on a list. I could write down "get published" or "be in a film", but why bother? I am working towards big goals and I don't think writing them down will make them happen any faster.
Instead, I am going to focus on my heart and my mindset.
I am going to get mentally disciplined and build the focus I need to chase goals that are bigger than any list. Goals like "loving people fiercely" and "breaking down mental barriers", which require concentration and mental clarity. I have to open my heart up to my friends and my collaborators if I am going to share my passion. And keeping an open heart will help me love people fiercely and without reservation, which seems like a nice way to live.
My attitude and my passion are far more important than reading twenty novels or building a coffee table out of an old barrel. So this year I say goodbye to the list of goals and embrace the kind of change that will make me a better friend, creator and person not just this year for for years to come.
I'm ditching resolutions and I am becoming resolute.


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Q&A: Jessica Cavanagh
The actress and playwright on her first play, Self Injurious Behavior, opening at Theatre Three.
by Shelby-Allison Hibbs
published Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Photo: Jeffrey Schmidt
Jessica Cavanagh
Dallas — Local actor Jessica Cavanagh has spent the past few years developing Self Injurious Behavior, a play inspired by her own experiences a mother with a child on the autism spectrum. Theatre Three offered readings and workshops to develop the script and now the time has finally arrived for the world premiere of Cavanagh's play (you can read our interview with Cavanagh before the play's first reading in 2016, here). Self Injurious Behavior follows Summer, a woman who makes a difficult choice for her son's wellbeing. She recalibrates her life in order to rediscover her own identity as a mother and flawed human being.
While Cavanagh is enthusiastic about the production, she also demonstrates nervousness as the play directly ties to personal experience. TheaterJones sat down with Cavanagh to discuss her aspirations for the work and what she has learned as an emerging playwright.
TheaterJones: I had the opportunity to see a reading at Theater Three's basement space months ago. Has the script evolved since that reading?
Jessica Cavanagh: It's changed so much. What's so funny is at that point I wouldn't imagine that it would [change]. I've added things that I think "amp up" the story. It's been kind of a long road for me, traveling towards making Summer as flawed as she needs to be for this play to work. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that she's based on me.
From the beginning I thought, "I'm laying all out there." But, I'm not. In the rehearsals, I ask myself "Why haven't I talked about that or that?" Each thing I decide to reveal takes more risk.
It was a very PG-13 weekend [in the reading]. I needed her to make a really bad mistake in order to get away with the title. It's really changed a lot, but it's been interesting to see how long it has taken to cut some of those corners.
How has it been working with Marianne Galloway as your director? Has it been easy working with script changes and seeing your play come to life with her leading the charge?
It's been incredible. We have one of those kinds of rare relationships where nothing is really sacred. I cannot imagine being offended by anything she says. If she says, "I think we need to look at this," or "I think we need to change this," I'm going to do that.
And, if she has something that she wants to do [directorially] and I say, "I don't know about that choice," she totally listens. It's been a really great partnership.
You're not just the playwright but you also play Summer. How has it been taking on those two roles? Do you enjoy the fact that if you want to change a bit of dialogue that you can simply do that?
It's really fun. The production team, they tease me. Our PA is on book and I'll switch up a line or something. But I'm the playwright. They're like, "Is that going to be your excuse every time you drop a line?"
It's great because in the middle of rehearsal, there might be someone who is really struggling with a line like, "Why is it written this way?" I can change that. I try not to do it all the time, but I think I've found a good balance with that.
What do you think you'll take away from this experience as your first fully produced play?
I think several things. Nothing is sacred. You have to kill your babies in order to make a better play. [You can write something] and think it's the "end all, be all" and realize that it's not serving the play. And just being willing to let it go is what I've learned.
And I'm not looking at it as a loss, but a step I needed to go through to get to the next place. It took me a little time to get there, but now I'm happy with how easy it is for me to be objective about the work. Learning that "nothing is precious" and "nothing is vital if it doesn't work" has been really valuable.
The most profound moment with that happened recently. I was putting the character list together at the front of the play; the characters are listed with short description. I had written "Benjamin" at the top as the kid. After it, I wrote "Summer: his mother."
Suddenly, I realized the play is about her. Why is she not the first character listed? Subconsciously, I think I wrote these characters based on their relationship to the little dude in the show.
Afterwards, I re-wrote the descriptions with all the characters based on their relationship to Summer. That was kind of a real moment to me. I want to write plays that are about women like me.
When you say that you want to write plays like that, I think of our conversation more than a year ago during the first reading of SIB. You spoke about dissatisfaction with current character roles for women in their 30s and 40s. What are your thoughts on that now?
It's been really fun pushing myself to be as honest as possible about the "not pretty parts" of being a woman. Particularly, a woman who is 40, dealing with motherhood, and trying to live your life. You are trying to figure out who you are still; you can be a geeky nerd who still loves Star Wars. These are all things you don't think of when you think of "40-year-old woman."
When it comes to casting, sometimes directors get in their heads what "40s" are. Sometimes I get told, "You don't even look 42." Well maybe you don't know what 42 looks like. I think people have an [image] in their head of a "40-year-old woman" that's closer to 50. I still wear Converse and graphic tees; I'm not walking around in high heels and sweater sets.
I want these moms to look just like women, not our idea of what a mom is. Get away from all those weird stereotypes and just write us. Otherwise, we will keep getting put into these little pigeon holes that we don't fit in.
Has this experience encouraged you to write more plays?
I love this I can't wait to finish my next one, just having people sink your teeth into your words and bring it to life. This is addictive. I feel like I've discovered a new passion of mine. I'm 42 and have this new thing I'm obsessed with.
What's the next play you're working on as a playwright?
It's about sexual harassment in theatre, actually. It's called The Kindness of Strangers. It's set backstage during a production of A Streetcar Named Desire and it takes place during the 2016 election.
What do you hope audiences take with them after they see Self Injurious Behavior?
I hope they check themselves the next time they are in public and they see a kid melting down in a grocery store, when they judge people for being "bad parents." I think most people do have empathy but sometimes the first thing we leap to is judgement.
We don't know what anyone's situation is. I don't know why you are making the decisions that you are making. Maybe I should assume that everyone is struggling, like I am. Not just about kids, but in the broader sense. Have a little bit of empathy all around.
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Well, here we are approaching the "unofficial" end of summer and it seems that it's going out with a bang, these crazy temps over 100 degrees are too much for me. With the Labor Day holiday it seems that this weekend is a little light on the shows, so I'll give you a "save-the-date" for Sept 16-19, the 21st Annual Route 66 in San Bernardino, Thurs and Fri 6pm - 10pm, Sat 10am - 9pm, Sun 10am - 4pm, during the weekend the show will feature a burn out contest, a neon light contest, an open header contest and more, checkout the Route 66 website for all the shows details at www.route-66.org. They will be giving out the Crusin' Hall Of Fame 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award to DJ Charlie Tuna. Now for this weekend, on Sat Sept 4th and Sun Sept 5th the Ventura Nationals Hot Rod & Motorcycle Show will be held at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 West Harbor Blvd, gates open at 9am and admission is $10 general, $5 active military and children under 12 are free. The show will feature live music, a silent auction, a pin up contest and a model car contest. I would also like to remind everyone that we here at THE SPEED SHOP have devoted and entire section of our website to promoting car clubs and making sure that we provide the info to these clubs to anyone interested in joining one, so if you are involved in a car or truck club please email me so that we can include your club on our site. Also we are very proud to be able to showcase our customers along with their cars on our Our Customers page on our site, so if you haven't already come by here to have us get pictures please stop in we'd love to add you. I hope you all have a safe and fun Labor Day weekend.