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14 May, 2012 Club Championships
Another good Club T & F Championship Sunday
Clonliffe Harriers club Track and Field Championships took place in a windswept Morton Stadium yesterday. Highlights included some excellent performances from the huge number of juvenile athletes taking part and a cracking 800 metre race won by Jayme Rossiter.
As always with the club championships proceedings got underway with the tiny tots race and then headed into the juvenile programme proper with over 30 titles up for grabs. In the U/10 boys Gavin O'Brien made it a clean sweep taking gold in everything – 60m, 300m, ball throw and long jump and needed a strong neck to carry home all those medals around his neck. Jordan Broy was almost as successful in the U/12 age group winning the 80m, 500m and long jump. In the U/14 boys age group there was a more even spread of honours, Joseph Hession was an impressive winner of the 100m and 800m in particular whilst Keelan Twomey did a jumps double in the high and long jump. Cathal Doyle impressed in the U/16 1000m from Adam O'Brien with Sean Carrig just on his shoulder. In the long jump Sean Carrig reversed the placings with Brian Flanagan 3rd and then in the high jump Adam O'Brien was first with Cathal Doyle second.
In the girls championships Aoife Hession was dominant on the track winning both the 60m and 300m, Hope Sumola showed that she has a good turn of speed finishing second in the U/12 80 metres and of course, as would be expected, winning the 500m. In the U/14 age group 100m Amy Connolly was first with Ruth Bergin 2nd and Caoimhe Reilly 3rd and in the distance race Ruth Bergin was first from Lauren Carr and Cliona Cooley. Ella Cooley was very good in the technical events winning both the U/10 ball throw and U/10 long jump. In the U/16 age group Kate Hession after her Friday night league success was crowned U/16 100m champion. There was a great race in the 1000m where Laura Tuite came home first ahead of Sally Aherne and Alanna Cooley.
The conditions had not improved at all by the time the senior championships started with high winds really interfering badly with the pole vault competition which really turned into a 'non event' and was won by Ian Rogers with a best of 4m from high-jumper Andrew Heaney 2.4m (it was unclear whether Andrew availed of the pole for this particular jump).
There was much interest in the 400m as it was to be Kris Valters first home race, unfortunately there were only two in the race but Chris was an impressive winner in 51 seconds dead especially considering that the final 100 was ran into a gale force wind. There were two good 800m races. The men's 800 featured a gripping battle between Jayme Rossiter and guest Jake McDonnell of Raheny Shamrocks with the Clonliffe man grimly holding on to his lead to win by a margin of maybe half an inch in a time of 1.57, a good run also by Aaron Hanlon who was second in the Clonliffe championships with a PB of 1.58.3 and Liam Ashton making a welcome return to action after illness running 2.08.
In the women's 800 Lorna Begley was the winner in a time of 2.24.6 a winning margin of 0.4 over Orna McGinley with Roisin Leahy third.
Larry Brady was a very comfortable winner of the men's 3000 in a time of 9.52 from Niall Sherlock 10.19.4 and Johnny Bradley-Ward 10.32.8. In the Masters category Phillip Doherty was the winner in a time of 10.32.8 from Tom Monks and Colm Breen.
In the field events Megan Coomber won the long jump with a best of 5 metres from Shauna Reilly and Leah Bergin whilst in the men's long jump Daniel Doran won with 5.20 from high jumpers Liam Conway and Andrew Heaney.
In the high jump Andrew Heaney was the winner with a best of 1.85 from Liam Conway and Ian Rogers (minus the pole vault) 3rd.
In summary from a juvenile perspective the championships were extremely successful with all of the Clonliffe juveniles, our guests from Skerries A.C. and parents and friends thoroughly enjoying the day. Having said that, however, it must be said that the turnout for the senior championships was a source of considerable disappointment. Maybe the senior championships require a rethink?
Results 2012 Clonliffe club championships:
To view the results of the Club T&F Championships please click on the link below.
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Reilly fastest as Brennan beats handicapper in GP mile
Clonliffe athletes medal in Morton Stadium at Leinster Schools


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Now Showing: Adam Gildar gets straight to the art
Patricia Calhoun
Patricia Calhoun | October 2, 2012 | 8:58am
For Now Showing, our fall arts guide inserted in the September 27 issue of Westword, we asked dozens of luminaries on the local arts scene -- including winners of the Westword MasterMind awards -- to take a survey about the state of the arts. We published many of the responses in Now Showing, but answers keep coming in, so we're sharing them on Show and Tell.
Getting straight to the art today: Adam Gildar, a 2011 MasterMind who's the owner of Gildar Gallery, where Powers of Ten, a show of works by Pattie Lee Becker, is on display through October 20. See also: - Now Showing: Our fall arts guide - MasterMind: Illiterate/Adam Gildar - Jill Hadley Hooper gets straight to the art
Westword: Aside from your arts organization (or yourself), who is doing the most interesting work in metro Denver right now?
Adam Gildar: I think a lot of people and organizations are doing interesting work in Denver. I find that I particularly gravitate to those who consistently push for new horizons, challenging the expectations of their audiences and also themselves.
Right now the artist who regularly pushes me to see differently is Ethan Garton. He's sort of Denver's Rimbaud in visual form -- an untamed and passionate outsider confronting the conflicts inherent in attempting a sincere existence amid a post-industrial urban setting. There's a certain grotesque beauty in that struggle that he's been able to capture in his drawings, paintings and his life, for that matter. That's a mad mouthful, and you'll get another if you sit down with him at his studio for tea and a hand-rolled cigarette sometime. Of course, he is really one of many people making interesting work.
That's what I love about Denver. Per capita, there is an incredible amount of creative energy here, and the list of individuals dedicating themselves to their own odd vision is impressive and, I'd venture to say, growing.
On the organizational level, right now I've been liking what's happening with free literary, music and comedy events at Deer Pile, plus their logo still makes me blush, which is a good thing. I'm a big fan of the MCA's programming this last year. I think its director, Adam Lerner, is this very endearing weirdo who wears smart tailored suits in a casual cowtown (yes, I said the dreaded CT), and isn't afraid to take some major chances questioning the role of what it means to be an art institution while still putting on potent exhibitions.
I also think in the wake of the Lab leaving Belmar, the 'burbs are getting a good dose of experimental art, whether they like it or not, with Fraction Gallery and Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Cortney Stell, the gallery director over at RMCAD, is doing some amazing work showcasing both national and local talent. She always puts out the coolest custom show cards for exhibitions that I regularly add to my "awesome shwag" file. Last up, I'm not sure if Boulder counts as Denver metro, but if it does, BMoCA is another favorite, bringing some much-needed strangeness to that comfortable culture. When you go out on the town, what's your favorite cultural activity? I tend to get pretty caught up in the visual-art world when going out, seeing what other galleries and institutions are up to, going to talks and fundraisers and the like. When I go out with no agenda, though, I like to see films at the Mayan theater in my neighborhood, which is just one of the most wonderful places to see a movie, with its "art deco Mayan revival" decor, not to mention you can have a beer with your popcorn -- a pretty perfect cinematic experience, in my opinion.
What's the one thing you'd like to see happen over the next year to improve the local arts scene? The one thing I'd like to see happen to improve the local art scene? I'd love to see an art press emerge in Denver. Even something not in print, like a dedicated contemporary arts blog that incorporates the Denver scene into the larger art-world dialogue, would be great. It would also be great if there was funding to pay talented (and probably equally poor) writers to populate it with relevant content. I also think it would elevate the cachet of the whole city to see a living Denver artist sell a million-dollar object.
Read dozens of other responses to our Now Showing arts survey here.
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Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she's been the editor ever since. She's a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles's Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.
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There's no secret antidote to procrastination or to mental laziness, but there IS a way to overcome it. Strengthen your "WHY" and you'll strengthen your results.
They say that procrastination is the thief of time. But I would dare to say that procrastination is also thief of dreams. So many times, we want to receive the best, but we often put off or fail to discipline ourselves to take the necessary steps to obtain it.
A question I'm often asked by men (particularly young men) is, "How come it's so hard to get and stay motivated towards your goals?" They usually go on to say, "It's not like I don't want to be successful, but sometimes I just don't 'feel' like doing what needs to be done; I'm just going through the motions."
I can hear the frustration, and often disappointment, in their voice as they seek to understand what that secret key or formula is for "staying motivated." I have to assure them that "lacking motivation" is actually normal, and there's nothing wrong with them. Unfortunately, there's no secret cure to procrastination or mental laziness, but there is a way to break out it and that's through awareness and understanding.
See, the first step to solving any problem is to admit you have one. The next step after that is gaining an understanding of the root cause of the problem. I once heard a saying, "If you're not happy with the fruit (what you're producing in your life), you must change the root (i.e., what you're planting in your life)." So, if you're like me and you're not afraid to acknowledge that you suffer from chronic procrastination, then we can explore (together) why we actually do it.
At the risk of oversimplifying the problem, the main reason most people procrastinate is either they lack a strong enough reason (i.e., a purpose or pleasure to be gained – called your "WHY") or they associate too much pain to actually doing it. For the sake of simplification, let's pick something many young men struggle with when it comes to a lack of motivation or chronic procrastination: success in school/college. (Note: You could easily replace school with work/business). Allow me to explain how procrastination steals our motivation to succeed.
Success in school is NOT based on a person's IQ, but rather on his "I WILL." And unfortunately, most students lack a strong I WILL (even the smartest ones) because they don't have a strong enough "WHY" for succeeding in school. Your "WHY" for anything is the key to your success, not only in school/college, but also in life.
See, once you have a strong "WHY" for doing something, the "HOW to do it" becomes relatively easy or fairly obvious. So what I'm saying is that whenever we use the excuse, "I don't know HOW to do something (successfully) or WHY I'm not motivated to do it," it's because we haven't developed a strong of enough WHY for doing it in the first place. Your WHY, whether to avoid pain or gain pleasure, will always "motivate" you to figure out a way. Allow me to show you this concept in action.
I was the first person in my family to graduate from high school – let alone go to college. And I wanted to go to college, but I had no clue how to succeed if I ever got there (I barely graduated from high school). But my WHY for going to college became:
"To move my mother out of the projects and to become a positive role model for my younger sister."
Was that WHY strong enough? For me, Yes! It motivated me to graduate early from college at the top of my class and got me voted "Student of the Year" in my major. Not only did I move my mother out of the projects (a year after I graduated), my younger sister went on to become the first doctor in our family. The HOW revealed itself after I got to college, not before. And that WHY pushed me through my battles with procrastination and kept me motivated (consistently).
My point is this, if you see mediocre results in your life, always check your WHY. More than likely, mediocre results spring from a mediocre WHY (or misdirected one). Great results usually spring from a great WHY. Just look back on history – Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Ghandi, Mother Theresa, etc. Even Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan. Strengthen your WHY and you'll strengthen your results. Yes, it's that simple.
I must also note, there's actually no such thing as a "wrong" (or even "right") WHY; there are only weak ones and strong ones (to you). See, what's right for me could be wrong for you, and vice versa. Moving your family out of the ghetto may not "motivate" you. However, when it comes down to it, a STRONG WHY will motivate you to break records or even break laws and a WEAK WHY won't. Does that make sense?
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the lazy man will be put to forced labor. – Proverbs 12:24
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Reading in Context: Cultural Backdrop for Peter Watts' Blindsight (2006)
A few weeks ago, a Twitter conversation about Ray Nayler's new series of author-chats launched a surprising confluence of SF&F-community excitement around Peter Watts' Blindsight (2006). This book, which explores a first-contact scenario that asks serious questions about human consciousness and its relative cosmic value, won a handful of nominations when it was published — but it wasn't one I got around to reading at the time. It was so adored and strenuously recommended by folks involved in the aforementioned conversation, though, that I downloaded a sample immediately, and was hooked by the craft: the clever ways in which Watts establishes an engaging tone for a book packed with scientific and related philosophical discourse.
Today on Twitter, we're hosting a "book club" around this piece: two fresh readers of the work (me, and one other published SF&F writer), and folks who read Blindsight closer to when it came out.
Here, I'd like to jot down a few peripheral observations, because my reading of Blindsight sits at a remove from the experiences of many who engaged with the text in its original cultural moment. This fact by itself is a pretty nifty reminder that we as writers are in an ongoing conversation. To go back and read older canon can be a bit mystifying for this reason, because a lot of a text's power lies in its publishing climate — especially when a given book happens to be among the first of its kind. "Golden Era" classics, for instance, will sometimes seem simplistic on a conceptual level to SF writers today, but that's only because the former were laying broad-strokes imaginative foundations on untried land. Now the rest of us are building skyscrapers upon their work.
This doesn't mean that earlier works can't still pack a wallop, of course (again, I quite enjoyed Blindsight's craft, and hope to focus on those aspects during the conversation on Twitter), but it does mean that a wildly acclaimed work can underwhelm precisely because it already did its work: it moved the needle in cultural consciousness. It paved the way for other work to follow, building upon and otherwise normalizing its revolutionary ideas.
Watts was plainly inspired by a wealth of works come before him, too. This is evident in both the wide range of chapter-starting quotes and in the main text's ideas. When I started reading Blindsight, I didn't know there'd be a full appendix at the end, but I kept encountering concepts that reminded me of a wide range of non-fiction I'd been exposed to, growing up surrounded by computer science and empirical discourse. Aspects of the text quite plainly invoked, for instance, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind (1989), Richard Dawkins' The Extended Phenotype (1982) and to a lesser extent The Selfish Gene (1976), Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), Matt Ridley's The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1993), and Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works (1997), plus a host of surrounding complexity discourse. I was quite chuffed to see that three of these recalled texts even made it explicitly to Watts' reference section. I was even more pleased to have a few things fleshed out for me in some related subfields (for instance, I knew about Alan Turing's work with emergent complexity, but not about Kolmogorov's computational complexity).
But alongside these invocations of major 70s and 80s scientific paradigm shifts, which so clearly formed a discursive foundation for Watts' sci-fi, another distinct cultural moment came to mind while reading this book: the thriving, heated discourse of New Atheism in the first years of the 21st Century — and in particular, some of its argumentation around "free will".
Now, "free will" was always a ridiculous concept to me, but bear with me during this walk down memory lane, because the surrounding debate has a lot to do with Blindsight's protagonist.
I was and remain a firm believer in its non-existence, but at the turn of the century I was surprised to discover how many people not only disagreed with me, but were also quite disturbed by the idea that we didn't have free will. It was one of those odd moments when one finds oneself more closely allied with the Calvinists than with most fellow atheists — and it took me longer than it should have to realize why many folks in New Atheism were reluctant to cede free will entirely.
As a teen thrown into the thrill of university philosophizing, I used to outline whole bodies of research supporting the view that our supposedly conscious choices are biochemical responses probabilistically shaped by habit and environment. In subsequent years, studies continued to illustrate the ease with which someone could influence neuronal activity to shape another's "decisions" — but I also knew my history, and work like T.H. Huxley's "On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and its History" (1874), an essay illustrating that even complex activities could be performed unconsciously, shows that we've known our mechanicality for a while.
As far as I was concerned, then, we in the early 21st Century were reinventing the wheel with this debate about the role and value of supposed consciousness. So why did we keep having it?
We don't anymore, not really, because such debates tend to be resolved quickly and quietly when science tips the scale. To this end, Robert M. Sapolsky's Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017) is easily the most accessible and comprehensive account we now have of how much our consciousness is a bit player in all the activities underpinning individual "choice". Starting with the moment of a given "decision", Sapolsky works backward to identify the factors minutes, days, years, and lifetimes past that invariably inform the actions of an instant. And it's a positive and joyous account, too — perfectly illustrating that the world doesn't become an awful place just because our consciousness isn't the central and most important driver of our actions.
But back in the throes of the New Atheism movement — around when Watts' book would have been conceptualized and written — "free will" was huge, and I saw quite a bit of resistance among many prominent atheists to the idea that it didn't exist. When Daniel Dennett claimed that admitting we had no free will would consign us to the worst moral outcomes, his argument seemed as poor as the whole "If there is no god, one must invent one" spiel. So why did he advance it?
For me, the idea that I have no free will is itself an input that informs the system, meaning that simply knowing I'm the sum total of biochemical routines acting probabilistically on a given environment is enough to change my outcomes. I don't choose to keep my biochemistry in mind when trying to improve my outcomes; the knowledge that biochemistry informs outcome has simply become part of the internal algorithm shaping my probabilistic response to new events.
What is the rest of "me" doing? What function does consciousness serve? I had a line from The Expanse as my Twitter handle for a while, because it so perfectly summed up the nuisance of consciousness amid all this deeper functional processing: we're all just "whistling in the dark", filling the void with chatter that we come to convince ourselves signifies more than sound and fury.
So here's where Blindsight comes into play: In it, we have a figure who is very much like a certain stereotypical atheist from the turn of the century. Siri Keeton is supposedly the perfect rationalist, an observer who can see systems and create compelling impressions of all other players within them without actually being a part of any of them. Mimicry and synthesis without empathy, without true understanding. That's what he claims, at least, and even though his speech patterns routinely suggest far more reactivity to his circumstances than one would expect from such a figure, most everyone around him accepts his (John Searle's) "Chinese Room" analogy for how he processes symbols without truly understanding or being a part of them.
Everyone, that is, except for Jukka Sasastri, Homo sapiens vampiris: a fabricated apex predator in this universe, and a being whose view of Homo sapiens sapiens as prey allows it greater insight into human behaviour — and in particular, into the lies we tell ourselves to keep ourselves going.
Without spoiling the book, then — this chewy scientific and philosophical jaunt into a first-contact scenario with a truly alien alien, and a motley crew of Terran lifeforms with widely different neurologies — Keeton's central discovery relates to how incredibly wrong he was to think that he's in that Chinese Room. That he can even imagine what it's like to be in that Chinese Room.
The rationalist, the outsider, the supposedly superior thinker when it comes to seeing how humans and their systems intertwine… is biased. Is complicit. Is part of the system he's spent most of his life convinced he stands apart from. Is human, for better and in this case probably for worse.
Do you see now how perfectly situated Watts' Blindsight would have been in 2006?
The biggest reason I fell away from New Atheism, despite how enamoured I was with its debate circuits and the rhetoric of compelling argumentation, was the realization that its major actors had convinced themselves of an antiquated view of rationalism — needed that view, even, in order to see everything they said and did and observed as equally informed and insightful. They had seen past the illusion of religion and god-belief by virtue of their greater, more abstracted reasoning and intellect, and by golly, this meant that they were more resistant to bias in other fields of discourse, too. Airport security profiling? Western versus Islamic civilization? What qualifies as torture? No problem for these chaps. Just more ideas that they could reason over from a higher plateau.
Meanwhile, we know that reason and emotion are intertwined on a neurological level. We know that there is no communicative processing fully removed from our sense of "self", with all its biochemically and environmentally moored biases. And so, the more I bore witness to New Atheists overconfident in their rationalism, the less I felt that its form of discourse was the most rigorous in its application of empiricism — full empiricism — to our world's most pressing problems.
It wasn't just New Atheism, though: There are many fields in which we still toss around this illusion of perfect, superior rationalism… and in so doing, delude ourselves most of all.
In Blindsight, another domain for this kind of processing error emerges in Keeton's reflections on past behaviour, and especially on his relationship with Chelsea. There, he tries to insist that she's the one not being honest, by not admitting that all romantic interactions between men and women are adversarial by evolutionary design. He even claims that he doesn't understand why their relationship didn't work, despite his refusal to go along with the ways in which she was trying to "manipulate" him into sexual congress and meeting the family and sharing his feelings. Shouldn't she have appreciated that he recognized the intrinsic combat of male-female dynamics, and was open with her about it? Why wasn't that enough to ensure relational success?
Keeton's ideas here are part of a dangerously active school of thought that again claims superior rationalism while blatantly overlooking how unfit this strategy is for social thriving (let alone for successful genetic propagation). If Keeton really believed that the intrinsic state of male-female relations was one of relentless contest — and if he truly wanted to be part of that contest, to connect, as he admits that he did — then why hadn't he optimized himself to be a better contestant? To manipulate as good as he perceived that he was being manipulated, instead of driving her away?
In both domains — heteronormative relationships and New Atheism — the answer is simple: because asserting and maintaining the illusion of superior rationalism is the real objective. Because the singular SELF must be secured against encroachment, that it may be elevated above all others.
And yet, Blindsight blows both the feasibility and the value of that objective clear out of the water.
Suffice it to say, then, arguments about the relative/non-existent value of consciousness in Watts' Blindsight were not at all new to me — but novelty is overrated anyway. What I found far more interesting is the fact that the book so powerfully synthesizes a body of research from one exceptionally formative period of 20th-Century scientific philosophy, and wields it against a pressingly relevant vein of narrow-minded intellectualism ascendant at the time of its publication.
And now? Now I'm looking forward to seeing what others have to say about this book's contents, its craft, and its cultural context — because I don't doubt that everyone who takes part will have a different set of resonance points when it comes to the impact of Watts' work. That's pretty much a given, frankly, considering we're all semi-discrete, slightly yet significantly varied biochemical organisms that have been differently habituated by a wide range of environmental exposure sets.
I think we'll all whistle pretty well together, though, in the dark.
M L Clark looks at the context informing Peter Watts' Blindsight, as a precursor to online discourse about its themes, style, and impact
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Dad says NJ cop left pregnant daughter $100 tip
Photo courtesy Brian Cadigan
By FOX 5 NY Staff
Posted Feb 18 2019 12:43PM CST
Updated Feb 19 2019 05:40AM CST
NEW JERSEY (FOX 5 NY) - A man took to Facebook to share a photo of a receipt showing a $100 tip a police officer left his pregnant daughter at the diner where she works.
Brian Cadigan says his daughter, who is seven months pregnant, is working at the Lamp Post Diner in Gloucester Township to save as much money as she can ahead of the birth of her first child.
On Friday, Courtney English, 23, served a Voorhees Township police officer. When he was done eating, he paid the $8.75 bill and added a $100 tip along with the note: "Enjoy your first, You will never forget it."
Cadigan ended his post with the message:
"What a wonderful person to not only leave a VERY generous tip, but a lovely message, I don't know you Mr Police Officer, but you made my little girl cry, and made her year. Thank you, I always had the utmost respect for Officers, but you went above and beyond not just an officer, but a beautiful human being. God Bless."
A New Jersey pizza shop has been receiving an "outpouring of support" for posting flyers of lost pets on its pizza boxes.
John Sanfratello, owner of Angelo's Pizza in Mantawan, New Jersey, said he first saw online last week the picture of a missing cat named Hazel. He said the owner was distraught.
"We had had our cat run away a few years back and we went through a similar thing. My kids were younger. There was a lot of crying, a lot of anxiety," he said.
By Austin Williams
Following a viral Facebook event purportedly planning to raid the top-secret military base, Area 51 in southern Nevada, which attracted over a million people saying they would storm the heavily secure military facility, a rival Facebook event has started in a similar vein to storm the Bermuda Triangle because "it can't swallow all of us."
RELATED : 'They can't stop all of us': More than 250K pledge to storm Area 51 to uncover alien secrets
Since the event was created on July 12, it has amassed over 40,000 people who are either interested or actually say they're going to descend upon the mysterious oceanic region where a number of aircraft and ships have disappeared due to alleged paranormal reasons.
By Gabrielle Moreira , Colleen Killingsworth
Bud Light will create a special-edition beer can just in time for people who are preparing for the Area 51 raid - if they can get 51,000 retweets on Twitter.
"We'd like to be the first brand to formally announce that we will not be sponsoring the Area 51 raid," the beer company tweeted .
It soon followed that tweet with a cheeky change in stance.


Breaker, the centerpiece of the show, mounted on a pedestal, is a large hollow shape reminiscent of a whale, made by pouring puddles of colored plaster into a tinfoil mold every day for five months. The multicolored amalgam in a wall-mounted wire basket in Breadbasket could have been fashioned from Play-Doh but is actually an accumulation of tinted pancake batter. Untitled, which drapes on the wall like a fishnet, is made from plastic sheeting, rubber cord, and cotton cord, and suggests something found floating in the ocean, its original purpose washed away.


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The Rochester International Association's International Lunch program at the Rochester Family Y begins on Wed. Oct 12 at 11:30 AM. This month's presentation is on India. The title is "India : Unity in Diversity". We will see how diversity is respected and appreciated in India.
Reservations needed by Oct 10; call Betsy at 289-3359.
Cost for the luncheon (Indian menu) by Fred Regal is $7.50 ($6.50 for members of RIA or the Y).


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SEMA News—September 2021
The Boninfante Group hired Tom Kundrik as ProTorque's director of motorsports and sales. In addition to fielding customer service calls and offering technical support over the phone, Kundrik will also travel the country to attend drag-racing events and provide on-site service and support for customers. He will also facilitate the launch of several new product lines, including supercharger-specific torque converters for ProTorque. Kundrik comes from Mickey Thompson Performance Wheels & Tires as the motorsports manager.
Speedway Motors announced four recent promotions within the company. Richard Thomas (left) was promoted to director of operations. Thomas, who held various leadership positions in the U.S. Navy, first joined Speedway Motors in 2018 in the compliance department, where he helped oversee regulatory compliance. Andrew Boellstorff (second left) was promoted to director of digital product and technology. With more than 15 years of experience, he's held positions at GT Exhaust, EMIT Technologies, Nebraska Book Company and Spreetail. Brandon Bisch (second right) was promoted to director of e-commerce. Bisch held numerous positions in the company since 2005. Kaitlin Mathison (right) was promoted to director of marketplaces. She first joined Speedway Motors in 2015.
Banks Power announced Matthew Gamble as its design, assembly and testing manager for its DMax engine programs. Gamble will help design, develop and launch the high-performance, turnkey variants of the Banks D866T engine in his new position, and he will also lead performance and durability demonstration events, among other duties. He arrives at Banks from Edelbrock, where he managed the company's cylinder head and water pump lines. Previously, he managed 15 successful launch campaigns of Delta IV rockets at Rocketdyne and oversaw the health monitoring systems at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
Warn Industries announced the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Fabtech Industries Inc., a manufacturer of aftermarket suspensions for light trucks, Jeeps and SUVs. Fabtech's product offerings include suspension systems, shocks and leveling kits. The company was founded in 1989 as a custom fabrication firm specializing in racing suspension systems and prerunner builds, cages, bumpers and other products. Today, the company has more than 2,000 SKUs in its portfolio.
Holley announced that Dominic Bardos was appointed CFO. A financial executive with extensive public company experience, Bardos will serve as a member of the executive leadership team and report directly to President and CEO Tom Tomlinson. Bardos recently served as vice president of finance for Tractor Supply Co. He previously served as CFO for Cambridge Franchise Holdings. Additionally, he held several leadership positions at ServiceMaster, including three years as the divisional CFO for Terminix, its largest division.
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The Wheel Group (TWG) announced Gerry Geronimo as its new marketing manager. His past positions were most recently leading the marketing efforts at Vision Wheel. Prior to that, he spent nearly a decade in multiple marketing functions at Wheel Pros as well as other companies outside of the industry. Geronimo will lead the marketing efforts for all 17 proprietary brands in The Wheel Group's portfolio.
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) technical department announced the addition of Lonnie Grim as the new national tech director. Grim comes to the NHRA with more than 15 years of experience within the sport of drag racing. He most recently served as the competition/series tech director at the Professional Drag Racing Association. Grim joins the technical department led by NHRA Vice President of Competition Ned Walliser.
McCarthy Tire Service purchased the assets of Tire Sales LLC, an affiliate of The TSS Group LLC, which specializes in services to the mining and aggregate industries. Tire Sales' product and service operations will be merged into McCarthy Tire's current commercial locations in nearby Levittown and Trainer, Pennsylvania. The five key service team employees of Tire Sales will join McCarthy Tire Service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Race Winning Brands Inc., a portfolio company of Kinderhook Industries LLC, announced the acquisition of Victory 1 Performance, a supplier of manufactured and forged high-performance titanium and alloy valves. Victory represents the eighth add-on acquisition for Race Winning Brands. Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, Victory has been a source of valvetrain components for engine builders, cylinder head manufacturers and racers for nearly three decades.
MagnaFlow announced the hire of Cary Redman as director of retail sales. Before joining MagnaFlow, Redman served as vice president at Edelbrock, where he oversaw brand management activities along with the conceptualization and implementation of market segment strategies. Prior, he spent nearly 15 years in sales management with Prestolite Performance and Holley Performance. Redman reports to MagnaFlow Senior Vice President of Sales Kevin German.
Lubrication Specialties Inc. (LSI) announced the addition of Hollie Maxymillian, a veteran automotive retail marketing specialist, to serve as the company's new Hot Shot's Secret product manager. Reporting to LSI President Brett Tennar, Maxymillian will review all current Hot Shot's Secret distribution to capitalize on retail advertising opportunities, co-op programs, shelf placement, in-store and e-commerce promotions.
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On a cold and windy Wednesday afternoon, Merrow bowlers (and their supporters) travelled to Mayford Hall for a match of four triples.
The green is a little smaller than Merrow's, so we all had to adjust our deliveries. However, the green soon started to turn, which helped build the heads.
The match was a good natured affair, with many familiar faces from Wey Valley. Despite this being a friendly, no quarter was given by either side, as witnessed by the final score, with Merrow winning 62 – 68.
A welcome warming tea at half time was provided by Jim and Ian.
We look forward to our return match on 4th July.


Taro Sushi has a limited delivery area. Current coverage area for Japanese food and sushi delivery is stated on the order page.
Payment must be in £ sterling.
Upon submitting your order details, you are making an offer to us purchase the item(s) you have specified in your order form. We reserve the right to refuse your offer should it be necessary.
In the event of Taro Sushi needing to issue a refund we will endeavour to credit your account within 7 - 10 working days.
Although great care has been taken to remove all bones from chicken and fish, some may remain. Minimum order value applies. The minimum order value for £17.00 and you will be notified when you reach the 'order' if your order is below the minimum value.
Our goal is to provide the best Japanese Foods delivery service in the area which includes an excellent reputation for on-time delivery i.e. delivering Japanese Foods at the time we quote.
Unfortunately things don't always go to plan and factors, such as, weather and traffic conditions occasionally prevent us from achieving this.


I have a question about giving at the office. Someone has had a house fire; then someone's sister got terminally ill, etc, etc. I would like to give but financially am not able to keep doing this. What is the best way to handle this?
Thank you for visiting my website! This is not an easy predicament to deal with. The challenge is you have to work with the individual soliciting the money as well as those who been affected by some sort of tragedy. I'm sure you don't want to come across looking like a person who just doesn't care, and I certainly understand that.
The best way to tell a person that you do not want to give at the office is to simply do that just - tell them. The thing is your words have to drip with concern and care for the situation. So your tone of voice is important. Keep in mind less is more. Don't go into a lot of detail and try to give a long winded explanation. It will only prolong an uncomfortable moment. It's best to just get it over quickly by keeping your statement short and to the point.
You can simply say "I apologize but I'm not in a position to give right now. If there's anything else I can do to help please let me know". Now of course, only offer help if you're actually willing to do so otherwise leave it at that.


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Q: How to Recover API Test Case in TOSCA in case of authentication failure? I am working on a hybrid framework having UI as well API test steps in TOSCA, I am facing an issue where my API Test Steps fails intermittently due to 401 Authentication failure.
I want to retry this failure 3 times before termination my script as it works on retry.
I have added Do loop in my test step, in the loop part i have added my Request and Response and in the response i am capturing Response Code in buffer.
In the codition i am verifying that ResponseCode is != 200 OK then run the loop for 3 times.
Now i am facing this problem as in case of failure the loop response itself fails due to other parameters not getting found in the response and my loop is not running again.
Please help how to resolve this issue, so that in case of any failure other than 200 OK the steps will retry for 3 times.
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How Michael Jordan May Have Ruined This Player's Career
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By Cody Copeland/Oct. 30, 2020 2:43 pm EST
It was cute back in the 1990s when all those kids in the Gatorade commercial sang, "I wanna be like Mike." At the time being "like Mike" meant dedicated, talented, and possessing a winner's attitude and smile. Little did we know back then that to more precisely emulate Michael Jordan, you would have to be a trash-talking, teammate-bullying inveterate gambler who makes an enemy of just about everyone who crosses your path. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar couldn't stand Air Jordan for the megastar's failure to use his global platform to speak out against issues involving racial injustice. Steve Kerr wasn't a fan of the black eye Jordan gave him during training camp in 1995 (that's right: they were on the same team).
Jordan's mouth was legendary among the ballers who played both against and with him during his 15 seasons in the NBA. And it appears as though his trash talk game was as vicious as his physical one. According to Viral Hoops, Jordan ruined several players' careers with words alone. One former teammate (who remained unnamed, possibly in fear of a form of retribution only someone "like Mike" could think up) said that Jordan "practically ruined [reserve forward] Rodney McCray for us" by screaming at him, "You're a loser! You've always been a loser!" That's right, McCray was also on Jordan's team. On the roster, at least.
Michael Jordan reportedly destroyed Muggsy Bogues's career with one un-PC remark
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Another player Michael Jordan was said to have "ruined" was Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues. According to his Fandom bio, at just 5"3", Muggsy was (and still is) the shortest player to ever dribble a ball on a professional court. He made up for his height with his extraordinary ball-handling skills and a 44-inch vertical, which he used to rack up a total of 39 blocked shots during his career, including one against seven-foot-tall Patrick Ewing. (Fun fact: as a rookie for the Washington Bullets, Bogues played alongside Manute Bol, a 7'7" giant who was the league's tallest player at the time.)
Although Muggsy seemed capable of standing up to even the tallest titans in the league, there was one opponent that ultimately and irreparably crushed his spirit: Michael Jordan's ruthless mouth. According to Deadspin, former assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls Johnny Bach allegedly let spill a few beans about Jordan at a dinner in 2011. One of those beans was what MJ said to Muggsy when he had the ball during a playoffs game in 1995. Bogues had the ball, and his team, the Charlotte Hornets, was down by one. Despite Muggsy's killer jump shot, Jordan backed off and said to him, "Shoot it you f****** midget." Muggsy missed the shot, and the Hornets lost both the game and the series.
Jordan's remark ruined more than the Hornets' chance at a championship
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The year after that fateful missed shot, Johnny Bach went from Chicago to Charlotte, where Bogues reportedly told him that he believed that his shot never recovered from Jordan's intimidating remark. A look at his stats on Basketball Reference reveals that Bogues's field goal average dropped dramatically after that. He finished the 94-95 season sinking 4.5 shots per game. In the next season, that stat was just one per game, and he never averaged more than 3.1 per game after that until the end of his career in 2001. As Essentially Sports reported, Bogues's points per game average fell from double digits in the three preceding seasons. But that doesn't mean he wasn't a benefit to his team. According to his official bio on his website, Muggsy Bogues retired from the court as the 16th all-time assist leader in the league.
Considering his height, that couldn't have been the first time Muggsy got some flak for being the little guy among giants. Nevertheless, he admired Jordan, just like the rest of the world, and the rough treatment by his idol hit him hard. The image of Michael Jordan created by the Gatorade commercials and Wheaties boxes involved an inherent belief in his good sportsmanship, but the reality was that he was quite the bully. And Muggsy Bogues isn't the only former NBA player who can't stand Michael Jordan after playing either with or against him.


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At this CHCB site, we offer Homeless Healthcare Program services including medical and mental health/psychiatry at no-cost for adults and families experiencing homelessness.
Parking is available in the small lot on the side of the building, as well as the larger lot across the street, on the corner of King Street and South Winooski Ave.
Medical, Psychiatry & Mental Health Services
Safe Harbor Appointments: (802) 860-4310
Safe Harbor Nurse Line: (802) 264-8477
Medical Hours by Appointment:
Tuesday8:00am – 11:30am
Wednesday8:00am – 11:30am
Friday8:00am – 11:30am
Nursing walk-ins and appointments are available on the above days from 1:00pm – 2:30pm.
Counseling Hours by Appointment:
Monday8:00am – 4:00pm
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Kerry Goulette, PA-C, MHP graduated from College of Holy Cross and received her Physician Assistant certificate and Master of Health Professions from Northeastern University. Before her arrival at the Health Center in 2006, Kerry worked for Lynn Community Health Center and Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. Her professional interests include adult medicine and preventive health. Kerry is currently focusing her practice on the adult homeless population in our community. Kerry speaks Spanish and loves to spend time being active with her family. Accepting new patients.
Lincoln Heath, MD was born and raised in Vermont. He did his undergraduate education at McGill University where he received a BS in biology and a minor in social studies of medicine. He was awarded his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 2012 and stayed to completed residency training at UVM Medical Center, specializing in Family Medicine. Dr. Heath is excited to provide Obstetric and Newborn care, Pediatrics, and Adult medicine. He is passionate about caring for families, New Americans, refugees, and those in need. When not at work he may be found hiking, climbing, camping, eating good food, or spending time with family. Accepting new patients.
Psychiatry Providers at Safe Harbor
Alexander Johnston, PMHNP received his Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Connecticut. A few years later, he completed a Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Five Branches University and then attended postgraduate study in Hangzhou, China. After managing a private Chinese medicine clinic in central Vermont, he completed his Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Vermont. He is board certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and has been working in community mental health. His professional interests include co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders, impact of trauma on mental health, and supporting individuals with chronic mental illness. When not at work, Alexander is often hiking, biking, traveling or finding other ways to enjoy family, the sun and the outdoors.
Sarah Morse, PMHNP was born and raised in Vermont. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD where she majored in Women's Studies and then attended University of Vermont's post baccalaureate pre-medical program. She continued on to pursue her Master's of Science in Nursing from Yale University School of Nursing in New Haven, CT with a specialty in Family Psychiatric and Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing.
Krysten Farrell, LICSW received her BA from Saint Michael's College and MSW from the University of Vermont. She has worked in community-based, residential and medical settings with folks between the ages of 12 and 98, including at Safe Harbor Health Center's permanent supportive housing program, Beacon Apartments. Krysten returned to the Safe Harbor team in 2020 to provide individual therapy and social work coverage during medical clinics.
Leighton Johnson, LICSW, LADC is the Homeless Health Care Program Behavioral Health Supervisor. He received a BA from Hobart College and MSW from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. Before coming to CHCB, Leighton worked in North Carolina on an Assertive Community Treatment Team with individuals who had severe and persistent mental illness and who were often homeless and struggling with substance abuse issues. Leighton has been with CHCB since 2010 and works at the Safe Harbor Health Center with individuals who are homeless and in transitional housing. Leighton provides social work coverage for Safe Harbor's medical clinics and individual therapy with a focus on treating depression, anxiety, trauma and substance abuse issues using cognitive behavioral and motivational interviewing techniques.


In other words, $25,000 in 1850 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $814,750.00 in 2019, a difference of $789,750.00 over 169 years.
The 1850 inflation rate was 1.30%. The current inflation rate (2018 to 2019) is now 1.86%1. If this number holds, $25,000 today will be equivalent in buying power to $25,465.63 next year. The current inflation rate page gives more detail on the latest official inflation rates.
This chart shows calculation of buying power equivalence, often referred to as "the value of a dollar" over time for $25,000 in 1850 (price index tracking began in 1635).
Inflation can also vary widely by country. For comparison, in the UK £25,000.00 in 1850 would be equivalent to £3,337,565.57 in 2019, an absolute change of £3,312,565.57 and a cumulative change of 13,250.26%.
Compare these numbers to the US's overall absolute change of $789,750.00 and total percent change of 3,159.00%.
$25,000 in 1850 has the same "purchasing power" or "buying power" as $814,750.00 in 2019.
You may use the following MLA citation for this page: "$25,000 in 1850 → 2019 | Inflation Calculator." U.S. Official Inflation Data, Alioth Finance, 21 Apr. 2019, https://www.officialdata.org/1850-dollars?amount=25000.


Four students entered the room. Only three came out. The next week, someone said only three students entered the room and they all went out. A year later, the bones was found but they never knew the cause of death. The question is why the CCTV recorded five people coming in?
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Paula Arntzen graduated in Artez Academy where she was selected as one of the best students. She has also been selected for the exhibition "Talent 2009", an exhibition where the 125 best graduates of Europe present their work. Her graduation project for Arnhem Mode Biënnale was her first assignment and also a success. Her current work is presented in Intermezzo gallery in Dordrecht (Holland) from 10 December until 24 January 2010.
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A Bunch of Fives
Helen Simpson
'Lorrie Moore with a BBC accent' Jay McInerney
Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny and penetrating stories take on the full stretch, from birth to death and everything in between, in writing of remarkable originality and clarity.
Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters, follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010). A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London.
Also by Helen Simpson
Praise for A Bunch of Fives
Simpson's meticulous fragments of contemporary self-delusion make beautiful narrative shapes out of the ordinary horrors of domestic life
John Mullan, Guardian
Grimm Tales
The Champagne War
Fiona McIntosh
The Godmothers
Monica McInerney
The Searcher
The Yield
Tara June Winch
The Giver of Stars
Amor Towles
The Testaments
Daisy Jones and The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid


A world renowned explorer who literally put Newfoundland and Labrador on the map is being recognized for his work 250 years later.
James Cook surveyed most of the province from 1763-1767, charting areas unknown to the British at the time.
"He spent 1763 at Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the Strait of Belle Isle, returned in 1764 and finished that area," said Paul Wylezol, organizer of the James Cook 250 celebrations.
Cook was named the surveyor of Newfoundland and his maps were so good they are still used today.
"His maps were really the first truly accurate maps, you could still navigate with these maps. Until you got into GPS really, that whole stream all comes from Cook," said George French, archivist at the Corner Brook Museum.
The museum has a Cook in Canada exhibit that explains how he mapped the province. This summer his work is being celebrated across the globe.
Those celebrations include the western part of Newfoundland with new signs and map replicas going up at the Discovery Centre in Woody Point and museums on the North Shore and the Bay of Islands. Two hiking trails near York Harbour and Lark Harbour will be renamed in Cook's honour.
Wylezol says marking the 250th anniversary of Cook's work is an opportunity to both educate residents and tourists.
James Cook 250 celebrations tie in with Canada 150 and the Tall Ships Regatta that's coming to Corner Brook and the Northern Peninsula the end of July.
"Coincidentally, the greatest tall ship mariner of all time surveys our coast [250 years ago] this year. It's quite an interesting connection," said Wylezol.


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Idiodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1858.

Species
Some species of this genus are:
Idiodes albilinea (Thierry-Mieg, 1907)
Idiodes albistriga (Warren, 1899)
Idiodes andravahana Viette, 1968
Idiodes andriana Viette, 1968
Idiodes andrivola Viette, 1968
Idiodes apicata Guenée, 1857 (Australia)
Idiodes avelona Viette, 1968
Idiodes fletcherana Viette, 1968
Idiodes flexilinea (Warren, 1898)
Idiodes gracilipes Herbulot, 1954
Idiodes herbuloti (Viette, 1981)
Idiodes idiocrossa (Turner, 1947) (Australia)
Idiodes oberthueri (Dognin, 1911)
Idiodes pectinata (Herbulot, 1966)
Idiodes radiata Herbulot, 1957
Idiodes saxaria (Guenée, 1858)
Idiodes siculoides Walker (1860) (Australia)

References

Lithinini

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