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Karan Madhok
Karan Madhok is a die-hard basketball junkie, in love with everything hoops, from the cracked cement outdoor courts in Varanasi to the polished maple-wood court at the Madison Square Garden. He is the author of the 'Hoopistani' blog on Indian basketball and beyond, and is also a regular contributor to NBA.com/India and SLAM.
In light of recent men's team success, India needs to beware not to let women's basketball trail behind.
Former Indian Senior Women's Basketball team Head Coach Francisco Garcia shares a moment with the final 15 probables before their departure for the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship for Women.
In the course of one historic week, India's men's basketball team defeated the Philippines, China, and Chinese Taipei at the 2016 FIBA Asia Challenge, the first time that they upset three higher-ranked teams in the same tournament. For good measure, they added a victory over Kazakhstan, too, and when the dust settled, India had completed their finest international basketball performance in twenty-seven years with a seventh-place finish.
The squad received well-deserved adulation and praise back home, and the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) decided to reward the team for its achievement with a Rs. 5 lakh bonus. The result was the latest bit of positive news from the Indian basketball circuit, a miracle achieved despite some of the backroom troubles that plagued the BFI's executive committee last year.
In recent years, India's men's teams have performed wonders, beating China at the 2014 FIBA Asia Cup, making it to the Quarter-Finals of the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship for the first time in twelve years, seeing one star drafted into the NBA (Satnam Singh), another win a D-League contract (Palpreet Singh), and two more play professionally in Japan (Amrit Pal Singh and Amjyot Singh). Vishesh Bhriguvanshi and Rikin Pethani took their pro talents to the Maldives, and back home, the UBA Basketball League provided opportunities to several athletes to play in short pro leagues.
Youth prospects are getting their chance to develop their game abroad, too, including Harshwardhan Tomar, who has signed a contract in Italy, and Prince Pal Singh, who got a scholarship to study and play in Ohio, USA. Last week, the NBA announced global academies to develop youth talent around the world, including in India. And of course, our national team returned with laurels and success from the FIBA Asia Challenge.
All of these achievements and interest towards Indians in basketball have been a positive consequence of improving grassroots development, coaching, and investment towards basketball in India. Alas, all of these achievements also only involve men.
While India's women may still rank much higher on the FIBA rankings (40) than the Men (53), the numbers don't tell the full story. At the domestic level, India's women have always lagged behind the men in terms of job placement opportunities at units around the country. Now, suffering from a lack of attention at the grassroots and fewer opportunities to play against top teams abroad, the international performances have suffered, too.
Back in 2013, the picture was much different, and women's basketball proudly stood toe to toe with the men in India. India's women's team had completed history, under the tutelage of Coach Francisco Garcia, who helped them finish at their best-ever 5th place finish at the FIBA Asia Championship in Bangkok and win their first-ever game in Level 1, against Kazakhstan. Around the same time, the duo of Geethu Anna Jose and Anitha Paul Durai had gotten an opportunity to play professionally in Thailand. At the international 3×3 stage, India's women truly made their mark, winning gold medals at the Asian Beach Games, the 3×3 FIBA Asia Championship, and performing well in several other tournaments.
But a couple of years after the historic FIBA ABC in Thailand, Jose – an Indian basketball legend and Arjuna Award winner – stepped away from the game, leaving a huge void in the center position with no clear successor. Meanwhile, the BFI tensions led to the end of Garcia's tenure in 2015, and even though he returned for one more FIBA ABC at the end of last year, the team had lost their positive momentum.
By the 2015 FIBA ABC, India had lost their magic touch. The squad went winless at the tournament in China and were relegated down to Level 2. The pain of defeat stung a little extra when Garcia left the team for good right after.
And ever since then, for over a year, India's senior women's team has not played in a single competitive match. Even in a year without the FIBA ABC, the Men's squad still got a chance to play in the South Asia Qualifiers for the FIBA Asia Challenge, the William Jones Cup, and then the FIBA Asia Challenge itself. There was no equivalent tournament to the FIBA Asia Challenge for Women and unlike the men, the Indian women's team wasn't invited to Chinese Taipei for the Jones Cup.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment, however, were the South Asian Games in February this year. The event was organised by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) who have been in conflict with the current committee of the BFI. The IOA selected teams to represent India for the basketball tournament at the South Asian Games without the BFI's approval; FIBA – the international basketball federation who have recognised this executive committee of the BFI – reacted by cancelling the basketball tournament at the Games altogether. The victims of all this drama were India's international players. After spending time in camp in preparation for the Games and then flown to Guwahati to take part, India's teams had to settle for friendly exhibition matches that weren't officially recognised by FIBA.
While young male players from the country are starting to garner hype domestically and abroad, there has been little attention to develop individual women's talent in the same way. During her career, Geethu Anna Jose got to play professionally in Australia, Thailand, and work out with three WNBA teams. But now, with the exception of high schoolers Pallavi Sharma and Anmolpreet Kaur getting a run in Japan, there has been little other positive news for the top players getting a chance abroad.
For the NBA, it makes commercial sense to promote Satnam Singh, who became the first Indian to be drafted into the NBA, and Palpreet Singh, who won the (men's only) ACG-NBA Jump programme and has signed on to a NBA D-League contract. But with lesser opportunity and financial backing, Indian women haven't received the same attention.
Back home, the UBA League, which has completed its third season this year, is still only a men's competition. Indian women have no other professional option and have to settle for the few jobs – like Railways – available in the basketball quota.
Pratima Singh, one of the star players for Delhi's state team and the Indian national squad, rued the opportunities missed for India at the international level, including the most recent failed trip to Guwahati for the South Asian Games.
"Indian women need more exposure to play basketball abroad, and more practice, to rise up to the level of our competitors," Pratima said, "A great example is Geethu, who became even better when she returned from her pro stint in Australia, her game and fitness improved considerably. We have seen the same improvement in male players like Amjyot Singh and Amrit Pal Singh who have played in Japan. More players need this experience. It is not an impossible task, and with some initiative, we can get there."
Where the women have a potential advantage over the men is in the relative parity of competition. For years, India's women's team has ranked higher in the continent, particularly because of the lack of competition from Middle Eastern teams that India's men face in Asian tournaments. Furthermore, in larger, global 3×3 meets, India's women have shown that they can compete with and upset some of the top teams in the world.
Pratima's older sister Prashanti Singh, a former captain of the national team and one of the most decorated athletes in the country, believes that domestic growth will eventually positively influence international results.
"If the same effort is put in the women's game in India as the men, there will be much more success for us, because the competition is lesser worldwide," said Prashanti, "In India, there are about twenty employers for men's basketball and just two for women. If we add more domestic teams, we can definitely get a podium finish at FIBA ABCs. If there is a domestic league and more tournaments for women, then there will be more participation, and more quality will come forth."
In 2017, India's women will finally get a chance for competitive action again, most notably in the FIBA Asia Championship. The team needs to prepare in advance for this upcoming challenge to ensure that they overturn the disappointments improve on their rankings again.
In the past, the BFI has always maintained the importance of gender neutrality in basketball, providing the same level of foreign coaching, infrastructural access, and competitive experience to both men and women. India's rise in the men's version of the game has been a pleasant surprise. But in the light of their recent success, India needs to beware not to let women's basketball trail behind.
[KARAN MADHOK]
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Jacques Nutan was born in Belgium, the son of two teachers. A consummate artist always, from his early teens he was close to local artist, writer and Art Publisher Andre Blavier. Through him he associated with most of the Belgian and French Dadaist and Surrealists Painters and Writers, including Rene Magritte, Raymond Queneau, Paul Scuttenaire, Jean Queval. These greatly influenced him at an early age, and he went on to study first painting, and then Photography at art college. This saw him travelling widely, and on one early Irish assignment in 1969, he landed on a Dutch fishing boat in Killybegs, fell in love with Ireland, the light and the pace of its life, and returned to live there in the early 1970s, in a variety of places. He was naturalized as an Irish citizen in 1978, and settled in Kinvarra in 1992. He spent two years in Brussels as a stringer for The Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune and the French Photographic agency Gamma.
He has worked as a Lecturer in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, The Sligo Art School, The Waterford Art School, G.M.I.T and has given many photographic workshops. His work and assignments have taken him all over the world, during which period he spent five years following Sean Kelly and Stephen Roche on all the continental cycling races, working for French and American Press Agencies. Although he continued painting throughout his life, the reputation he has established has been in photographic journalism. He has published many books and worked for most of the world's major photo orientated magazines (Paris Match, Geo. Time, Stern, etc.).
He is a member of RAPHO, the exclusive Parisian Photographer's agency. He spends considerable time digitizing and archiving his life's work, and takes commissions for varied projects. His most recent book is launched in April, 2016, a collection of black and white images of Ireland in the end of the 1960s.
1964- 1966 – Studied painting and awarded Graduate degree at the Academy des Beaux Arts de Verviers, Belgium.
1966-1969 – Studied photography and awarded BA at Institut St- Luc in Liége, Belgium.
2005-2006 – Ran photographic and digital workshops for Castlerea prison.
2004 – Ran photographic workshops for professional Portuguese Photographers 2003 – organized and ran workshops on the West Coast of Ireland for American Photographers.
2000-1998 – Photographic Lecturer, GMIT, Galway.
1977- 1980 – Lecturer in Photography, Sligo Art College.
1980-1978 – Lecturer in Photography, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
The Sunday Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Stern, Airone, National Geographic, Geo, Zeite Magazine, The Figaro Magazine, The London Independent Magazine, The Observer Magazine, The New York Times, Armen, Le Chasse Marée, Country Living.
2016: Irlande 66/69 – Images of Ireland in the late 1960s. Bruxelles: Yellow Now – Les Carnets.
2011, 2010, 2006 – Places of Irish Architectural Interest. OPW, Dublin.
2006 – The Islands of Ireland, Thames and Hudson, London .
2006 – Iles d'Irlande, Editions Hoebeke, Paris.
2003 – L'Eternel Irlandais, editions du Chêne, Paris.
2002 – La Chevauchée des Kids, editions Hoebeke , Paris.
2000 – The Irish to-day, Cadogan, Dublin & New York.
2000, 1999, 1998 – Ireland, a Photographic journey, Graphique de France, Boston, USA, and Paris, France.
1998 – The Blooming Meadows, the world of Irish Traditional musicians, Town House and Country House, Dublin.
1987 – Une Saison 4 Etoiles, Winning Productions, Bruxelles, London & New York.
1985 – The Great Races, Edition Winning Productions, Bruxelles, London, New York.
1979 – La Bretagne, Editions Artis Historia, Bruxelles and Paris.
2004 – Biarritz, festival de l'Image, silver medal for "the most beautiful photographic book of the year" ,(L'Eternel Irlandais).
1997 &1994: Eircel, P.P.A.I Awards Winner, People category.
1990 – Winner, Benson and Hedges Gold Awards, London.
1969 – Pentax Gold Award, Bruxelles.
2009 06/07 – Rapho Photographers, festival de l'image. Arles, France.
2009 01 – Rough Cuts and Notes, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin.
2008 06 – The Best of Rapho, Perpignan, agence Rapho, Festival de la Photo.
2005 03 – L'Eternel Irlandais, Centre de la Vallée, Paris, France.
2004 04 – Animals" , group show, Russel Gallery, Ballyvaughan.
2003 03 – L'Irlande de Nutan. Athys Mons, Belgium.
2000/2001 – Blooming Meadows, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
1999 07 – Blooming Meadows, the Library, Drumshanbo.
1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 – Force 10 Group shows, Sligo, Dublin and Leitrim.
1999 03 – Blooming Meadows, St Patrick's day Festival, Saint- Savinne, France.
1997 07 – The Traditionals, Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay.
1996 07/08 – The Traditionals, Galway Arts Festival, Town Hall Theatre,.
1996 – The Traditionals, Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin.
1973 – Art Photographers of Belgium, Knokke, Belgium.
1979 – Art Photographers of Belgium, Musée des beaux Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium.
1969 – The Living Theatre, Galerie de L'Etuve, Liége, and Galerie de L'escale, Verviers, Belgium.
1968 – Images in Black and White, Musée des Beaux Arts de Verviers.
2006, 2005 – Cill Riallaigh Art Gallery, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry.
2005,2004,2003,2002 – Gallery's Artists, Kenny's Art Gallery, Galway.
2004, 2003 – Boyle Arts Festival.
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 – Force 10 group exhibition, Sligo.
2009 – Rough Cuts and Notes. Feakle Festival.
2002 – Carrots" Galerie du Rivoli, Paris.
2000 – Irish Bogs and Aerial Landscapes", Gallerie du Dauphin, Liege, Belgium.
1998 – Blooming Meadows" Drumshanbo county Library.
1998 – Blooming Meadows", Model Art Gallery, Sligo.
1968 – Oil Paintings of my home town", Escale Gallery, Verviers, Belgium.
Guinness Peat Aviation. Shannon and Dublin.
Cill Riallaigh trust, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry and Harcourt street, Dublin.


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Description: Modern SJ shape and bracing pattern. Silky Western Red Cedar top. Gorgeous waterfall Cocobolo back and sides. Peruvian Walnut binding with Paua Abalone accented top purfling, back strip, and boxed continuous-grain Cocobolo end wedge. Paua shell accented three ring rosette with radial Cocobolo background. Five piece Mahogany, Maple, and Rosewood neck with hand-carved traditional pyramid style volute. Bound Ebony headstock faceplate. Cocobolo headstock backplate. Bound Ebony fingerboard with Paua fretboard markers. Gold Gotoh 510 tuners with ebony buttons. Hand cut mother of pearl logo. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Ebony bridge, unbleached bone pins with Paua dots. Scale length: 25.34" Nut width: 1.75 Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
This guitar was sold by Fine Luthiers in South Korea. Click the link for photos, sound and visual clips, or to purchase.
Description: Traditional OM shape and bracing pattern. Lutz Spruce top. Koa back and sides. Walnut binding with Maple/Walnut traditional style accented top purfling, back and sides purfling lines. Walnut boxed Koa end wedge. Maple/Walnut accented three ring rosette. Figured flamed Maple neck with Walnut laminate strips, hand-carved traditional pyramid style volute. Bound figured Koa headstock faceplate, custom "FJ" mother of pearl logo inlayed in Walnut medallion inlayed in flamed Maple truss rod cover. Desert Ironwood fingerboard with gold ring inlays. Silver Waverly tuners with polished silver buttons. Hand cut mother of pearl logo. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Desert Ironwood bridge, unbleached bone pins. Scale length: 25.5" Nut width: 1.75 Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: A modern SJ shape and bracing pattern. Premium Adirondack Red Spruce top with three ring rosette. Back and sides are highly figured fiddleback Honduran Mahogany. Honduran Rosewood binding accented by Rosewood purflings on top, as well as back and side purfling lines with a boxed figured Mahogany end wedge. Gold Gotoh 510 tuners with Ebony buttons. Bound figured Ebony fretboard and faceplate. Matching abalone dot inlays on fretboard face and side markers. Ebony heelcap. Mother-of-pearl logo. Ebony bridge. Bone pins with abalone dots. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Scale length: 25.34" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: A small bodied Parlor shape and bracing pattern. Premium Sitka Spruce top with three ring rosette. Back and sides are highly figured fiddleback Honduran Mahogany. Honduran Rosewood binding accented by vintage purflings on top, as well as back and side purfling lines with a boxed Honduran Rosewood end wedge. Gold Waverly tuners with Ebony buttons. Bound figured Ebony fretboard and faceplate. Pearl shell handlebar inlay pattern on fretboard. Ebony heelcap. Mother-of-pearl logo. Ebony bridge and pins with Parisian mother-of-pearl dots. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Scale length: 25" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: Traditional OM shape and bracing pattern. Adirondack Red Spruce top. Brazilian Rosewood back and sides. Ziricote binding with Paua shell style-42 top purfling, Paua shell back and sides purflings. Paua shell boxed Brazilian Rosewood end wedge. Paua shell three ring rosette. Figured Honduran Mahogany neck with hand-carved traditional pyramid style volute. Triple-bound Brazilian Rosewood headstock faceplate and fingerboard with traditional style-42 fingerboard inlays. Gold Waverly tuners with Ivoroid buttons. Custom Paua shell logo. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Brazilian Rosewood bridge, unbleached bone pins with Paua dots. Scale length: 25.5" Nut width: 1.75 Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: A modified OM body shape and with traditional bracing pattern. Incredible high-grade Sitka Spruce top with three ring rosette backed by radial cut Honduran Rosewood. Back and sides are a beautiful ribbony W. African Mahogany. Honduran Rosewood binding accented by purflings on top, back, and sides, with a boxed Honduran Rosewood end wedge. Gold Waverly tuners with Ebony buttons. Bound Ebony fretboard and faceplate. Gold circle side marker dots. Ebony heelcap. Mother-of-pearl logo. Ebony bridge and pins with Parisian mother-of-pearl dots. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Scale length: 25.5" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
This guitar was available at The Guitar Gallery in Nashville, TN. Click on link to be redirected to their site for more photos and sound clips for a limited time.
Description: This OM-H offers a true flattop Western Red Cedar top braced in an Olson style. Back and sides are straight-grain, quartsawn Padauk. Three ring rosette with radial cut Padauk background. Peruvian Walnut binding accented by purflings on top, back, and sides, with a boxed Peruvian Walnut end wedge. Honduran Mahogany neck featuring a hand-carved traditional pyramid volute and a two way adjustable truss rod. Gold Waverly tuners with Ebony buttons. Bound Ebony fretboard and faceplate. Ebony heelcap. Mother-of-pearl logo. Ebony bridge and pins with Parisian mother-of-pearl dots. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Scale length: 25.34" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: This OM-H offers a true flattop Western Red Cedar top braced in an Olson style. Back and sides are Indian Rosewood. Three ring rosette with radial cut Rosewood background. Curly Maple binding accented by purflings on top, back, and sides, with a boxed Curly Maple end wedge. Honduran Mahogany neck featuring a hand-carved traditional pyramid volute and a two way adjustable truss rod. Gold Waverly tuners with Ebony buttons. Bound Ebony fretboard and faceplate. Ebony heelcap. Mother-of-pearl logo. Ebony bridge and pins with Parisian mother-of-pearl dots. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Scale length: 25.34" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 1/4"
Description: A modified OM body shape with traditional bracing pattern. Adirondack Red Spruce top with segmented Cocobolo rosette. Cocobolo back and sides. Curly Maple binding and end wedge with purflings accenting top, back, and sides. Honduran Mahogany neck with hand-carved traditional pyramid style volute. Bound Cocobolo headstock faceplate. Gold Waverly tuners with Ebony buttons. Mother-of-Pearl logo. Ebony fingerboard with Mother-of-Pearl tiny dot fretboard inlays. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Ebony bridge and pins with Parisian Mother-of-Pearl dots. Scale length: 25.5" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: Traditional OM shape and bracing pattern. Adirondack Red Spruce top. Three ring Paua shell rosette with radially cut Panama Rosewood background. Panama Rosewood back and sides. Bolivian Rosewood binding with Paua shell top purfling, back and sides accented with purfling. Boxed Bolivian Rosewood end wedge. Darkened Honduran Mahogany neck with hand-carved traditional pyramid style volute. Bound Ebony headstock faceplate and fingerboard. Gold Waverly tuners with Ebony buttons. Mother-of-pearl logo. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Ebony bridge and pins with Parisian Mother-of-Pearl dots. Scale length: 25.5" Nut width: 1.75 Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: A traditional OM body shape and bracing pattern. Bearclaw Sitka Spruce top with three ring rosette backed by radial cut Panama Rosewood. Back and sides are quartersawn Panama Rosewood. Bolivian Rosewood binding accented by purflings on top, back, and sides, with a boxed Bolivian Rosewood end wedge. Honduran Mahogany neck with hand-carved traditional style pyramid volute. Gold Waverly tuners with Ebony buttons. Bound Ebony fretboard and faceplate. Ebony headplate back veneer and heelcap. Mother-of-pearl logo. Ebony bridge and pins with Parisian mother-of-pearl dots. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Scale length: 25.5" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 5/16"
Description: This guitar was built in the shop of Jim Olson. A mighty thanks goes to Jim for his generosity of materials, tools, shop space, and time in the construction of this instrument. It is based directly on the Olson SJ body style and bracing pattern. You can even see the "O" engraved tuners supplied by Jim in the photo gallery. This guitar was build pre-"H" headstock logo design, and so it carries a triad inlay in its place. A Western Red Cedar top with a three-ring Paua shell rosette. Brazilian Rosewood back and sides. Rosewood binding and end wedge with purflings accenting top, back, and sides. Signature Olson 5 piece Rosewood, Maple, and Mahogany laminate neck with traditional pyramid style volute. Bound Ebony headstock faceplate. Gold Gotoh 510 tuners with Ebony buttons. Bound Ebony fingerboard. Unbleached bone nut and saddle. Ebony bridge and pins with Mother-of-Pearl dots. Scale length: 25.34" Nut width: 1.75" Saddle spacing: 2 1/4"


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Ross Bridge HOA Saves Energy and Maintenance with LED OmniMax
Cover Story August 24, 2020 August 24, 2020
THE ACCLAIMED RESORT COMMUNITY of Ross Bridge, located in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama boasts the third longest golf course in the world. Elegant amenities, beautiful outdoor spaces and stunning views delight its many visitors and residents. When the developer designed the streets in the Ross Bridge Village Center, they purchased and installed the Lumec Ancestra decorative streetlights that are in operation today.
The stylish pendant and post top fix- tures used 175W metal halide lamps, the leading choice at time of construction. The light quality of metal halide is still popular, but the energy consumption and the maintenance to maintain it less so.
Several years ago, Wayne Lewis, a Ross Bridge Village Center resident who is retired from a local electric utility, noticed the streetlight across from his house had gone out. As part of his previous job, Wayne had designed several street lighting projects for the City of Birmingham, Alabama.
"I worked with the property manager in order to get the lamp in the fixture across the street replaced. It lasted six months and went out again," said Wayne. "In my experience this seems indicative of a ballast problem. I suggested they replace the ballast which they did. The light lasted a year before the ballast had to be replaced again."
Over time, other streetlights began to go out, costing the Homeowner's Association a couple hundred dollars each time a contractor replaced a ballast. "Even then, the ballasts didn't last. It was getting expensive." Wayne spoke with his contact at Associa-McKay Management, the Ross Bridge HOA management company. "They had already gotten a quote from a company to replace all the lights with LED, but it was going to be expensive. We didn't have the money in the budget, and I had a lot of questions." With permission from the management company, Wayne consulted with a lead engineer at Alabama Power concerning their issues. "He suggested to me, if you want to go with LED take a look at the Evluma OmniMax. So I did."
Retrofitting HID Decorative Lighting with LED
Like any lighting project it is important to understand the expectations and requirements when it comes to updating decorative outdoor HID lighting to LED. Energy savings is often the leading concern, with maintenance saving second and the aesthetics frequently last. For Ross Bridge, the need to engage a contractor to service the lights put the maintenance savings qualities of LED first. This meant an easy-to-install lamp with robust electronics and a long-life driver in place of a traditional ballast. The need to fit a specific fixture and match the light quality was also a requirement. The aesthetics needed to match community expectations.
For LED retrofits there are multiple options, yet few are long-life, utility-grade products backed by a 10-year comprehensive warranty. Extreme heat can shorten LED lifetime. A lamp's ability to thermally manage itself directly contributes to lifetime. Thermal protection circuitry, the means by which the lamp monitors its own temperature, in addition to active and passive cooling should be taken into account, especially when working with closed fixtures. Reviewing a payback calculator from the manufacturer along with TM-21 data and L70 lifetime expectations can give project managers the information they need. Photometric files including spectral power distribution, or a measurement of the lamps CCT, can indicate overall look and visual performance. A sample test install provides a valuable on-site perspective.
Working with Neil Patterson of Gresco Utility Supply, Wayne obtained two samples of the 70W OmniMax. The lamps were installed at the beginning of 2019. The differences in light quality between the original metal halide lights and the OmniMax were indistinguishable. He also tested a competitor's 80W 'corn cob' style lamp. At 80W "the competitor's lamp put out more light, but the labor to install it was significantly greater because the diameter of the lamp was such that it wouldn't fit normally. We would have had to take the fixture apart to install it. The OmniMax easily fit the opening." A retrofit kit option was also considered from yet another vendor, but the cost was too high and the two-part lamp and driver installation was too complicated. "The OmniMax 10-year warranty was also a plus. The others simply had a 5-year warranty." Gresco facilitated the final Ross Bridge HOA OmniMax order. "Neil was great to work with," said Wayne.
The Evluma OmniMax
Released in 2016, the OmniMax has been thoroughly field-tested by Evluma's core customer base of electric cooperatives. With the large number of historic and decorative light fixtures on university campuses, planned communities, HOA's and municipalities, the OmniMax has grown in popularity because of its soft, diffused light, ease of installation and long lifetime. It's novel radial light engine places the burn center at the same location of a traditional HID filament utilizing the refractive optics and materials as originally intended. The OmniMax comes in six different color temperatures ranging from 2000K-5000K CCT. Ross Bridge chose 4000K for their project.
The OmniMax is 120-277VAC auto- sensing with 20kV/10kA surge protection. It is also available with Evluma's patented Photocontrol Failsafe, a feature first implemented in Evluma's Area- Max street and area light. "Photocontrol Failsafe means never having to replace a failed photocontrol ever again," said Janine Soper, Evluma's Regional Sales Manager serving Alabama. "This patented feature saves on maintenance and eliminates unsightly and energy-draining dayburners, the result of photocontrol failures." The OmniMax Premium features Photocontrol Failsafe along with the Bluetooth compatibility for ConnectLED, Evluma's wireless controls app. "With ConnectLED the OmniMax can be quickly dimmed or programmed with a dimming schedule offering further energy saving opportunities," said Janine.
A total of 158 fixtures were updated from 175W metal halide to 70W LED OmniMax as of March 2020. The Ross Bridge fixtures are controlled by contactors at seven service points, each with a single photocontrol. From 10 to 50 fixtures are controlled by each contactor. Dimming was not a requirement, so the HOA chose the OmniMax Standard. The LED OmniMax will save 60% in energy costs, approximately $8,535 annually or $85,535 over the warrantied life of the lamp. The expensive maintenance required to change out metal halide ballasts and lamps are a thing of the past, saving $4,125 annually. Moving to OmniMax from metal halide will save $12,657 a year, a three year ROI.

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On July 1, 1987 WHN became WFAN at 1050 on the AM dial. Back then it was the only all-sports station in the USA. Now there are over 700 stations as the format has gravitated to the FM dial. This weekend the station is celebrating its heritage by featuring many of its former hosts and New York sports stars over the past 25 years. Back in the early days of the station, people felt that the format could not be sustained. The move from 1050 to 660 AM really helped since it went to a clear channel frequency.
We I listened about 9:30 this morning former station executive Joel Hollander phoned in. I immediately turned off the radio since I didn't want to hear that low life speak. Even though it was over 7 years ago, I can not forgive him for the insensitive hijacking of WCBS-FM and his laughing it up when he was interviewed on CNBC.
Over the years I have been an irregular listener of the station. When I do listen it is rarely for more than 30 minutes. I have never attempted to phone the station since I have heard that callers are often put on hold for a long time. There is a regular called "Bruce from Flushing", who is not me.
My Three Sons was one of my favorite TV shows while growing up. It actually ran on network TV from 1960-172 and was rerun on Nick at Nite's TVLand in the 1980s. Don Grady who played Robbie just passed away at age 68.
Here is a Beatle's trivia question. Besides the Fab Four who starred in A Hard Day's Night, Help, and Magical Mystery Tour? The answer is Victor Spinetti who recently died at age 82.
I m glad that the U.S. Supreme Court approved of the Obama healthcare plan. Lee is able to be on my medical plan until he is 26.
In Boston radio station WODS at 103.3 FM changed format from classic hits to Top 40. I listened to Barry Scott's Lost 45s on that station. It looks like the big radio executives just want their stations to appeal to a younger audience.
I guess I needed a new toy or a backup for my laptop, but I bought a Kindle Fire. I was tempted to get an iPad, but the cost was $500 vs $200 for the Kindle Fire. Certainly the iPad has more capabilities, but many of the apps exist for both products. It will take me some time to learn the capabilities of my new toy.
Instead of several tweeting several times, I will post one journal entry of more than 140 characters. By the way you can follow me on Twitter at @bruces8852.
The Subway Series is over as the Yankees won two out of three. The Mets were terrible last night against the Chicago Cubs as they committed three errors in one inning and lost 6-1.
In December 2010 I bought an Amazon Kindle. I have found it very useful for reading books. It is certainly much lighter than a traditional hard cover book. It make commuting a little easier. Of course, after you buy an electronic device, a better one comes out as the Kindle Fire was introduced.
A few weeks ago I received an iPad from the NJIT Library to try out. I really enjoyed using it, but it costs about $500 plus tax and accessories. Today, my colleague Heather brought her Kindle Fire to work. She let me experiment with it for a while. Certainly the iPad has more capabilities, but I decided to economize and bought the Kindle Fire for about $200. It will give me another toy.
I don't have to repeat the details of the story of Roger Clemens being acquitted of all charges of perjury in saying to Congress that he did not take performance enhancing drugs. In a criminal trial the prosecutor must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Wealthy people like Roger Clemens and OJ Simpson can afford to hire attorneys to raise enough doubt so that the jury acquits them. Roger Clemens was accused in the 2007 Mitchell reports of being injected with steroids and human growth hormone by his personal trainer Brian McNamee. Apparently his attorneys were able to "demonize" McNamee in the eyes of the jurors.
The one big question - will Clemens be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame? What about the others like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mark Mcguire? Will Clemens be invited to future Yankee Old Timer games? Time will tell.
I still hate Clemens for the two incidents in 2000 when he threw at Mike Piazza. He had pinpoint control and threw at Mike's head in the regular season game and threw the broken bat in the World Series.
In March 2009 I reported in this journal that Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan were to record together. Obviously, this never happened. Apparently it was a rumor that just never materialized. Anyway, I wish Sir Paul a very happy 70th birthday, but what Bob Dylan song should he record. I think back to the Nashville Skyline where a reviewer said about Dylan "That young angry kid has gone romantic." I am thinking of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You would be a good song for Paul to cover. The version seen below is from the Rolling Thunder Revue. It is a little rough and not as mellow as the original studio version.
Lee and I went to Forest Park earlier this morning to play basketball and walk through the park. At 9 AM as usual I phone my friend Roy in Brooklyn. Later today we will go to see Rock of Ages at the local multiplex. A few years ago we saw the Broadway show. After that we will go to Ben's Deli in Bayside where today dads can eat for 40 cents. I think I have given them enough business over the years, so I have earned a free meal from them.
If course I miss my Dad who passed away in 1997.
Below is a Youtube video of Color Him Father by the Winstons. A few years ago Lee sent an e-mail to Sue O'Neal to play it on Father's Day on WCBS-FM. Last night Cousin Brucie played it on SiriusXM.
Right now I am listening to Tell it Like it is by Aaron Neville on Sirius 60s on 6. This is one good oldie that doesn't get much play on terrestrial radio.
I can tell that my mother is in relatively good health since she kept complaining that Lee needs a haircut. As soon as we arrived home he took a walk to the barber shop. Marc, the barber, said that I have very good hair. It's nice to know that.
I watched part of the Yankees 14 inning game against the Washington Nationals. This is the first game they have won all season without hitting a home run.
We will likely see the movie Rock of Ages tomorrow. We saw the Broadway show a few years ago. There are soundtrack albums for both the show and the movie.
The young girl from Prudential. About 8 months ago, she was about 8 months pregnant and I thought she would be a stay at home mom. I saw her today.
There are many others who I name after people they resemble. There seems to be an unwritten rule that strangers don't converse on public transportation.
I have a three day weekend coming up, so I don't have to worry about amusing myself on public transportation until Monday.
Bringing it All Back Home first released in 1965 is certainly one of Bob Dylan's finest albums. I first purchased it on vinyl in the 60s. After I while, I wore out the grooves, so I bought it again on cassette tape in the 1980s. I still have a record player and a cassette deck, but lack CDs for many Dylan albums. Last week I started to order two CDs from Amazon.com that reached $23. I needed $2 more to get the free shipping, so I ordered Bringing it All Back Home for about $7 so I could get the free shipping.
From Maggie's Farm: "Well, I try my best To be just like I am But everybody wants you To be just like them."
From Outlaw Blues: " Don't ask me nothin' about nothin' I just might tell you the truth"
In any organization whenever a person leaves a position, there is a search someone to succeed not replace the person who has left. A new person will bring a new personality, somewhat different skills, and an insight to the position. Today WFUV General Manager Chuck Singleton announced that Don McGee will succeed the late Pete Fornatale as host of Mixed Bag heard on WFUV from 4 PM - 8 PM on Saturdays. I am very much pleased with this decision. The management did accept suggestions from listeners on this decision. I even received personal e-mail from Chuck Singleton thanking me for my feedback. Would a commercial radio station do this?
I certainly wish Don well in this new endeavor. I am certain he will preserve the format of Mixed Bag and add his unique personality to the show. I have always enjoyed listening to him when he filled in for Claudia Marshall or Pete in the past.
I listen to many radio stations on the air, online or on satellite. I always to find time to listen to WFUV. Keep up the good work.
Last Friday Johann Santana pitched a no hitter, but last night he gave up 4 home runs as the Mets lost to the Yankees 9 - 1. Robinson Cano was the star of the game as he hit two home runs.
When a baseball team has a bad game, they usually have to only wait for one day until they can start again. The worst team will win at least 50 games, while the best will lose at least 50 games. The Mets are still bove the .500 mark about 1/3 of the way into the season. Injuries have hit the Mets hard again this season.
The God it's Thursday. I can say that for the next 10 weeks since we have Friday's off at NJIT until late August. For several years now the school closes on Friday to save energy. The university administration stated that $200,000/year is saved.
For about a year the library lets students and faculty borrow iPads. Since the library is very slow over the summer, I was given an iPad until the middle of August. This will give me a chance to experiment with it to judge if I should buy one for myself.
The Mets are selling reprints of the ticket to Johann Santana's no-hitter. It seems they are trying to cash in on this event. They are selling reprints of the ticket for $50. If there is a buck to be made, someone will try to make it. I think they should take the proceeds and give it back to Madoff's victims.
This album was just released today. I could have downloaded it from iTunes or Amazon.com, but I decided to be "old school" and purchase it online. I am in no hurry for it, so I'll wait for my package in the postal mail.
I found out today that Richard Dawson just passed away at the age of 79. I will refer my readers to the article in the Los Angeles Times for more information about him. I remember when I was between jobs in the summer of 1976 first watching his version of the Family Feud. I always enjoyed games shows and the Family Feud was no exception. According to the Encyclopedia of TV Games shows he hosted the show from 1976-85. He was always very funny in his role as host. After a while though his "schtick" of kissing the woman contestants got somewhat boring. The show made an encore in 1988 with Ray Combs as the new host. Richard subsequently returned, but without kissing on the show. He earlier had a role in Hogan's Heroes.
There is a syndicated version that is seen on My9 in NYC, while reruns are still seen on the Game Show Network.
I was a senior at Forest Hills High School anticipating my graduation in a few weeks. It was the day that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band was released. Many consider it the best album that was ever recorded. In honor of that anniversary please see the video of Joe Cocker singing With a Little Help From My Friends. I heard both Darren De Vivo and Bob Radil play it today on the radio.


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CRR Interview with Alessandro Del Vecchio
Interview with Alessandro Del Vecchio....
If you don't know who Alessandro Del Vecchio is then shame on you! Singer, performer, writer and producer are just the main four talents. I'm guessing he is probably Italy's best chainsaw juggler as well! He has been in Edens Curse, and is a current member of Hardline, and fronts his own band Edge Of Forever. When he's not performing, he is Serafino Perugiono's (head of Frontiers Records) go to guy for producing, performing and writing. If you want to witness Ale covering all 4 of these bases bases, then look no further than Frontiers Jan release of Revolution Saints where he singly wrote 8 of the 12 songs and had a hand in writing the rest, produced the whole caboodle, performed as keyboardist and provided backing vocals. He even sung one on his own, the Journey-esque 'Way To The Sun.'
I caught Ale on a train ride home….
CRR – 'Ciao Alessandro, I think I have lost count of the number of albums I've heard this year where you have had a presence. You don't have to name them individually but exactly how many albums have you appeared on in 2014 as a producer, writer & performer?'
Alessandro Del Vecchio – 'Well….let me think Paul…mmhh….I guess a lot:-) Surely this year has been crazily busy, but busy is good in this business.'
CRR – 'I've changed my mind, please name them!!??'
ADV – 'OUCH!!!! Moonland, L.R.S., Rated X, Three Lions, Bailey, Mother Road, Faithsedge, Ez Livin' and more I guess.'
CRR – 'How on earth do you get the time to do all of these things, your calendar must be rammed full?'
ADV – 'Well. It's tough but I am not able to say no. I'm in love with music and music is what keeps me alive. And also, I gotta add I work better under pressure:)'
CRR – 'I suspect you have a very understanding partner?'
ADV – 'Yes, I do.'
CRR – 'What gives you the most satisfaction – writing, performing or producing?'
ADV – 'All of them. I am easily annoyed if I do the same thing all over again. So shifting from one task to another makes me active and focused.'
CRR - 'Ive seen you a few times with the likes of Edens Curse / Hardline / Issa, and your voice is fantastic. Would you love to be more front of stage?'
ADV - 'Sure I do. I've been singing on tour with Ian Paice of Deep Purple, Bernie Marsden of Whitesnake, Carmine Appice and with my own band Edge Of Forever. After the summer we will enter the studio with Edge Of Forever for our 4th album. That's my vocal home. I'm also recording as a singer for 2 albums. One is a metal record and it's kind of a nice challenge. Vocal parts are more like Russell Allen's work on "The Damnation Game" than my usual melodic thing. The other one is with Domink Pfizer of Shakra. I also gotta add, I sing on a song on the forthcoming Revolution Saints record. The song is called "Way To The Sun" and Neal Schon of Journey plays a marvellous solo. I guess, you shouldn't stop dreaming!'
CRR – 'How did the tie in come to your Frontiers work? I guess the Italian melodic rock community is a tight knit one.'
ADV – 'Well. I guess I knocked the door on the right time. We knew each other already as I did 2 albums with Edge Of Forever on MTM which was distributed by Frontiers back when MTM was a top label. I was looking for a label to work for and they were looking for a producer and songwriter.'
CRR – 'I guess you cant say no to Serafino?'
ADV – 'Serafino is great. I mean, our music would be dead without him and the people at Frontiers. How could I say no to the amazing works he makes me do? I owe him a lot. I respect him for he trusted my work and abilities and pushed me to be the producer I am today.'
CRR – 'Out of all the above work you have done in 2014, which is the one thing that has stood out for you?'
ADV – 'Writing, producing, recording, playing, singing and experience my top work ever with Revolution Saints. Being in the studio with Deen Castronovo, Jack Blades and Doug Aldrich is more than I could dream of. Not bad for an Italian:-)'
CRR – 'What are your plans going into next year?'
ADV – 'I'm in the studio now with Craig Goldy and Vinny Appice for Livin' Out Loud, their new band. I'm actually completing writing the new Hardline record and we should start recording in spring if inspiration helps me on the last few touches on the song. In February we should start working on the new solo record by Ted Poley. I'm also producing the finest voice in metal which is gonna be awesome:-)'
CRR – 'Despite being the hardest working man in ROCK, what is the one thing you would like to do as a performer/writer/producer?
Is there one person/band etc you would love to work with, or just one thing you would desperately love to achieve?
ADV – 'Ok, Santa. Please let me enter a big act like Whitesnake or Foreigner, produce and write for Journey and be the guy who is taking Steve Perry back on a record. Hey, didn't I say you shouldn't stop dreaming?' Or should that be Believing??
CRR - Any last message to the AOR community?
ADV - 'I would like to thank all of the people who supported me through the years buying my music and helping me being who I am today. My biggest challenge is to keep my love for music fresh and alive every day and be the guy who is gonna help people feel better with my music.'
So there you have it. Talented songwriter (His songs for Revolution Saints are the type of quality that Neil Schon would kill his cat for), great producer, in demand performer for keyboards and BVs, but most of all a truly great singer who deserves to be heard by many more. To top it all of, he is also one of the nicest, down to earth people I've had the privilege to ever meet. I wish him great success in 2015 and beyond
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"It's time to get up; it's half-past eight." And out she went, shutting the door quietly after her, to gloat over her triumph, he supposed.
He rolled over in the big bed, his heart still beating in quick, dull throbs, and with every throb he felt his energy escaping him, his—his inspiration for the day stifling under those thudding blows. It seemed that she took a malicious delight in making life more difficult for him than—Heaven knows—it was, by denying him his rights as an artist, by trying to drag him down to her level. What was the matter with her? What the hell did she want? Hadn't he three times as many pupils now as when they were first married, earned three times as much, paid for every stick and stone that they possessed, and now had begun to shell out for Adrian's kindergarten? . . . And had he ever reproached her for not having a penny to her name? Never a word—never a sign! The truth was that once you married a woman she became insatiable, and the truth was that nothing was more fatal for an artist than marriage, at any rate until he was well over forty. . . . Why had he married her? He asked himself this question on an average about three times a day, but he never could answer it satisfactorily. She had caught him at a weak moment, when the first plunge into reality had bewildered and overwhelmed him for a time. Looking back, he saw a pathetic, youthful creature, half child, half wild untamed bird, totally incompetent to cope with bills and creditors and all the sordid details of existence. Well—she had done her best to clip his wings, if that was any satisfaction for her, and she could congratulate herself on the success of this early morning trick. One ought to wake exquisitely, reluctantly, he thought, slipping down in the warm bed. He began to imagine a series of enchanting scenes which ended with his latest, most charming pupil putting her bare, scented arms round his neck, and covering him with her long, perfumed hair. "Awake, my love!" . . .
Often she thinks, were this wild thing wedded . . .
and upon the word "wedded" he burst into such a shout of triumph that the tooth-glass on the bathroom shelf trembled and even the bath tap seemed to gush stormy applause. . . .
Well, there was nothing wrong with his voice, he thought, leaping into the bath and soaping his soft, pink body all over with a loofah shaped like a fish. He could fill Covent Garden with it! "Wedded," he shouted again, seizing the towel with a magnificent operatic gesture, and went on singing while he rubbed as though he had been Lohengrin tipped out by an unwary Swan and drying himself in the greatest haste before that tiresome Elsa came along along. . . .
Back in his bedroom, he pulled the blind up with a jerk, and standing upon the pale square of sunlight that lay upon the carpet like a sheet of cream blotting-paper, he began to do his exercises—deep breathing, bending forward and back, squatting like a frog and shooting out his legs—for if there was one thing he had a horror of it was of getting fat, and men in his profession had a dreadful tendency that way. However, there was no sign of it at present. He was, he decided, just right, just in good proportion. In fact, he could not help a thrill of satisfaction when he saw himself in the glass, dressed in a morning coat, dark grey trousers, grey socks and a black tie with a silver thread in it. Not that he was vain—he couldn't stand vain men—no; the sight of himself gave him a thrill of purely artistic satisfaction. "Voilà tout!" said he, passing his hand over his sleek hair.
That little, easy French phrase blown so lightly from his lips, like a whiff of smoke, reminded him that someone had asked him again, the evening before, if he was English. People seemed to find it impossible to believe that he hadn't some Southern blood. True, there was an emotional quality in his singing that had nothing of the John Bull in it. . . . The door-handle rattled and turned round and round. Adrian's head popped through.
A few months ago Reginald had spent a week-end in a very aristocratic family, where the father received his little sons in the morning and shook hands with them. Reginald thought the practice charming, and introduced it immediately, but Adrian felt dreadfully silly at having to shake hands with his own father every morning. And why did his father always sort of sing to him instead of talk? . . .
"Don't you want any bacon?" he asked.
"Oh no, that's not it!" Reginald pretended to smile. "You do the work yourself, because, for some extraordinary reason, you love to humiliate me. Objectively, you may not know that, but, subjectively, it's the case." This last remark so delighted him that he cut open an envelope as gracefully as if he had been on the stage. . . .
I feel I cannot go to sleep until I have thanked you again for the wonderful joy your singing gave me this evening. Quite unforgettable. You make me wonder, as I have not wondered since I was a girl, if this is all. I mean, if this ordinary world is all. If there is not, perhaps, for those of us who understand, divine beauty and richness awaiting us if we only have the courage to see it. And to make it ours. . . . The house is so quiet. I wish you were here now that I might thank you in person. You are doing a great thing. You are teaching the world to escape from life!
"Oh well, don't let us quarrel," said he, and actually flung out a hand to his wife.
Very well—very well—let there be open war between them! But he was hanged if he'd be the first to make it up again!
He walked up and down his room, and was not calm again until he heard the outer door close upon Adrian and his wife. Of course, if this went on, he would have to make some other arrangement. That was obvious. Tied and bound like this, how could he help the world to escape from life? He opened the piano and looked up his pupils for the morning. Miss Betty Brittle, the Countess Wilkowska and Miss Marian Morrow. They were charming, all three.
Punctually at half-past ten the door-bell rang. He went to the door. Miss Betty Brittle was there, dressed in white, with her music in a blue silk case.
But she broke down, and blushed more brightly than ever.
"Dear lady, I shall be only too charmed," said Reginald, bowing her out.
Glorious girl! And when they had stood in front of the mirror, her white sleeve had just touched his black one. He could feel—yes, he could actually feel a warm glowing spot, and he stroked it. She loved her lessons. His wife came in.
There she was—off again. Now she was standing up for Adrian against him.
"Oh," said the Countess Wilkowska, "the stairs. I have not a breath." And she put her hand over her heart as she followed him into the music-room. She was all in black, with a little black hat with a floating veil—violets in her bosom.
"They fade so soon—they fade so soon," played Reginald on the piano.
"May I put them here?" asked the Countess, dropping them in a little vase that stood in front of one of Reginald's photographs.
She began to sing, and all was well until she came to the phrase: "You love me. Yes, I know you love me!" Down dropped his hands from the keyboard, he wheeled round, facing her.
"No, no; that's not good enough. You can do better than that," cried Reginald ardently. "You must sing as if you were in love. Listen; let me try and show you." And he sang.
"Certainly. Do not be afraid. Let yourself go. Confess yourself. Make proud surrender!" he called above the music. And she sang.
"And you are forgetting your violets," said Reginald softly.
"Yes, I think I will forget them," said the Countess, biting her underlip. What fascinating ways these foreign women have!
"And you will come to my house on Sunday and make music?" she asked.
"Dear lady, I shall be only too charmed!" said Reginald.
sang Miss Marian Morrow, but her eyes filled with tears and her chin trembled.
"Don't sing just now," said Reginald. "Let me play it for you." He played so softly.
No, she wasn't; she was awfully miserable.
Why weren't all men like Mr. Peacock?
"Ænone Fell is speaking. Mr. Peacock, I have just heard that you are singing at Lord Timbuck's to-night. Will you dine with me, and we can go on together afterwards?" And the words of his reply dropped like flowers down the telephone.
What a triumphant evening! The little dinner tête-à-tête with Ænone Fell, the drive to Lord Timbuck's in her white motor-car, when she thanked him again for the unforgettable joy. Triumph upon triumph! And Lord Timbuck's champagne simply flowed.
"Have some more champagne, Peacock," said Lord Timbuck. Peacock, you notice—not Mr. Peacock—but Peacock, as if he were one of them. And wasn't he? He was an artist. He could sway them all. And wasn't he teaching them all to escape from life? How he sang! And as he sang, as in a dream he saw their feathers and their flowers and their fans, offered to him, laid before him, like a huge bouquet.
"I could have any one I liked by lifting a finger," thought Peacock, positively staggering home.
But as he let himself into the dark flat his marvellous sense of elation began to ebb away. He turned up the light in the bedroom. His wife lay asleep, squeezed over to her side of the bed. He remembered suddenly how she had said when he had told her he was going out to dinner: "You might have let me know before!" And how he had answered: "Can't you possibly speak to me without offending against even good manners?" It was incredible, he thought, that she cared so little for him—incredible that she wasn't interested in the slightest in his triumphs and his artistic career. When so many women in her place would have given their eyes. . . . Yes, he knew it. . . . Why not acknowledge it? . . . And there she lay, an enemy, even in her sleep. . . . Must it ever be thus? he thought, the champagne still working. Ah, if we only were friends, how much I could tell her now! About this evening; even about Timbuck's manner to me, and all that they said to me and so on and so on. If only I felt that she was here to come back to—that I could confide in her—and so on and so on.


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KENNEBUNK — Defense may win you a lot of games and it may be the biggest factor in determining a state champion, but the Kennebunk High School football team would like to add a bit of offense to help its fortunes this season.
The Rams are coming off a 2-6 season that saw them score just 112 points — only Westbrook (1-7), Scarborough (0-8) and South Portland (0-8) scored fewer. But Kennebunk's defense allowed just 137 points — seventh-best in the 16-team Western Maine Class A ranks and nearly the equal of the regional champs from Gorham, who allowed 131 points during the regular season.
"The last couple years, our problem has been scoring points. We've done nothing consistent offensively," said Kennebunk coach Joe Rafferty. "I think it's more just being able to make big plays offensively."
If the preseason is any indication, the Rams may be in for another year where points are hard to come by — not only for themselves but also for their opponents. They scored a 20-6 win at Portland last Friday, with two of their touchdowns coming courtesy of their defense.
Defensive back Rob Rouillard had a game he'll long remember, intercepting four passes and running two of them back for touchdowns. Senior running back Kyle Bertrand added the Rams' other touchdown and the defense limited the Bulldogs to just six points.
"We have a lot of kids back defensively," said Rafferty who's entering his 29th season with the Rams. "Seven or eight of them started for us at one time or another last year."
And it wasn't just those veterans who caught Rafferty's attention against Portland.
"I was impressed with some of the speed I saw from some of our younger kids on Friday night," he said.
Kennebunk doesn't have the 1,000-plus student enrollment that many of the Class A schools have, and that creates some issues when it comes to numbers on the field. As in years past, the Rams will have a number of players going both ways.
The offensive line will include seniors Buck Murray (LT), Raistlin Delisle (C) and Ralph Leach (RT), and juniors Taylor Hunter (LG) and Isaac Brown (RG).
The split ends will be senior Chris Dube and junior Ben Robinson, and the tight end will be senior Max Marshall. The running back position will feature Bertrand, Ryan Gendreau and Jake Ferreira, and junior D.J. Stockbridge.
Junior Christian Plunkett or senior Tim Steltzer will start at quarterback.
The defensive line will include Delisle (DE), Marshall (DE), Murray (DT) and Leach (DT). The linebacking corps will include Brown, Ferreira, Gendreau, Bertrand and Stockbridge. And the defensive backfield will be manned by seniors Rouillard and Tim Steltzer, and sophomores Nick Philbrick and Nick Gross.
This season marks the fifth year that the Rams will play a Class A schedule. Kennebunk had a 4-4 regular season record in 2004 and made the playoffs, where they dropped a quarterfinal at Bonny Eagle.
The Rams went 2-6 in 2003, 4-5 in 2004, 4-4 again in 2005 (without a playoff appearance) and 2-6 a year ago.
Since 2003, the Rams have four straight wins against Scarborough (all in the season finale) and are 2-0 against Cheverus.
They are 2-2 in their series with Sanford and Massabesic and they own one win against Marshwood and another against Gardiner (when Gardiner was a Class A school). The Rams have yet to defeat Biddeford, Thornton Academy or Noble.


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S. Allen Chambers Jr., "Kingwood", [, West Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/essays/WV-01-0007-0002-0001.
Settlement began here in the first decade of the nineteenth century, and the town was incorporated in 1811. Although it became the county seat, it remained a small community until 1888, when a short-line railroad connected it to the main line of the B&O at Tunnelton, four miles southwest. With the railroad, the area's phenomenally rich timber resources began to be tapped, and a boom ensued. By 1941, however, the WPA guide to West Virginia noted: "The virgin forest is no more, leaving posterity a mute reminder of ruthless exploitation." Although timber obviously helped build Kingwood (witness its name), some of its most impressive structures are constructed of local sandstone.
Kingwood is a Main Street community and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Kingwood Historic District. The town, which comes alive during the annual fall Buckwheat Festival, grew steadily throughout most of the twentieth century. Its 1990 population, 3,243, was the highest ever recorded. The 2000 figure was 2,944.
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Red Cross YTF supports NVTC
Red Cross YTF is hosting a book drive for the residents of NVTC.
Anshula Rudhraraju, Entertainment Editor
After slight setbacks in planning and organization, Red Cross Youth Task Force (Red Cross YTF) managed to pull through and start a children's book drive to help support the residents of the Northern Virginia Training Center (NVTC), a facility that provides a home for the mentally handicapped.
Every Wednesday evening there is a reading group for the intellectually disabled at the NVTC. However the lack of books at the residency leads to constant repetition at the readings over the years.
"Since sophomore year, I have been part of a reading group," senior Heun Min, the secretary of the club, said. "As I became more involved, I noticed that a number of the books at the NVTC library was dwindling, so I thought that it would be nice to help organize a book drive at Jefferson to increase the variety of books that the volunteers can read to the residents."
This isn't the first time that Red Cross YTF has hosted a book drive. Last year, many students donated old children's picture books, but this year Red Cross is hoping for even more success.
"The people who volunteer at the NVTC do incredible work to make the resident's lives as enjoyable as possible," vice president and senior Nathan Williams said. "These books will go a long way in helping them achieve this goal."
The drive will be officially running from Nov. 11 until Thanksgiving break. Donors will receive one National Honour Society (NHS) hour for every three books donated for a maximum of three community service hours.
"We think this book drive will be successful because we have faith in the TJ community. Plenty of people have old children books littering bookshelves at home, covered in blankets of dust," Williams said. "There's no reason not to donate and help out the community."