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Shalane Flanagan Picked Her Parents Well And "Trains Her Butt Off"
By amby burfoot
Every once in a while, a plan comes together. In the right place, at the right time. These things aren't easy to achieve, and they can never be predicted. A runner never steps on the track knowing he or she will succeed, because every runner has had one of those ... bad days. But when a plan comes together, as it did for Shalane Flanagan Friday night, it produces a race of compelling beauty.
Virtually no one I know had Flanagan picked for a medal. We track fans tend to be hard-core realists. There were five runners in the field with faster PRs than Flanagan. I figured she'd run well and finish maybe seventh or eighth, right around Kara Goucher and Kim Smith.
But the great thing is, I didn't get a vote. And more important people had different visions. I had heard that Flanagan might run halfway and then, if not feeling good, drop out. After all, she'd suffered from food poisoning three days earlier, and she still faces the 5000 that begins on Tuesday. After the race, I asked her coach, John Cook, if this had indeed been the plan. "We never even discussed it," he said. "The plan was to run as fast as possible as efficiently as possible for as long as possible." Write it down somewhere; that's a damn fine strategy.
I've been writing a bit in recent days about possible genetic contributions to distance-running success. You know: "Pick your parents carefully, and ask them to grow up in the Rift Valley of East Africa." Flanagan didn't follow the script precisely, but she sure as hell did a fine job selecting her parents. Her mother, Cheryl Treworgy, was the first woman to break 2:50 in the marathon. The first. Ever. Her father, Steve Flanagan, was a 1:50.8 half-miler, a 4:07 miler, a three-time member of the U.S. World Cross Country team, and a 2:18 marathoner.
And then there's this tantalizing little tidbit. "We were living in Boulder when Shalane was born, and I ran all the way through my pregnancy with her," says Treworgy. "The Africans have got nothing on Shalane."
The morning after Shalane's bronze-medal race, the second ever for the U.S. in the event, matching Lynn Jennings's bronze in Barcelona, I spoke with both her parents, who are no longer married to each other. Cheryl, a freelance track photographer who attends many meets, is in Beijing, and was sitting in the stands Friday night. Steve, a sporting goods sales rep in Marlboro, Mass., is at home taking care of several other kids and several aging parents. Cheryl sounded giddy on the phone, and couldn't stop laughing heartily as she re-lived the race for me. Steve's more reserved, though he claimed he was "bubbling." Here's how they experienced their daughter's amazing race.
Cheryl's ticket said row 3, near the 1500-meter line, but she moved to the bottom row for the 10,000, and got no hassles from Chinese security. As the race started, she was mainly worried about Shalane's strength after the food-poisoning incident. "I was concerned that she was not fully well, and maybe dehydrated," she said. But the longer the race went on, the more she liked what she saw. "I looked into her face each lap, and it didn't change. It looked strong. The expression stayed the same."
In New England, Steve the Dad was driving from Boston to Brooklyn, Connecticut, to pick up Shalane's grandmother. He wasn't expecting to hear any immediate news about the 10,000, but then his phone rang. It was a Canadian friend, Bruce, who was watching the race on Canadian TV. Bruce said he'd call back in about 15 minutes with a 5000 split time. Steve's phone rang again at the expected time. "Bruce said the 5K split was 15:10 and Shalane was in eighth place but not that far behind," Steve said. "And he told me that she was looking good. Now I'm having a very hard time concentrating on my driving. Bruce said he'd call back at the end of the race."
When Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse grabbed the lead from Lornah Kiplagat at 6400 meters, the pace grew more erratic--fast and slow. And the pack began to stretch out. As it did, Flanagan was in the caboose position, still in about eighth place. This looked like trouble. But Cheryl the Mom noticed something else. "Shalane wasn't covering the surges, but she was making the ground back when things slowed a little," Cheryl said. "I thought, 'Okay, she's not going to let them walk away from her. She's going to hang in there.' She's always been such a smart racer. I grew up in Indiana, and we always said Larry Bird had a great 'ball sense.' That's the way Shalane races."
About six laps later, Shalane had moved into fifth place. And the two Kenyans ahead of her, Linet Masai and Lucy Wangui were beginning to struggle. The bronze medal was in play. The grand plan was beginning to unfold. "I can't stop myself from yelling for Shalane at meets," said Cheryl. "I know she probably can't hear me, but... I was yelling: 'Hang tough. You're making it happen. The medal is yours to take."
With two laps remaining, she took it, moving strongly past Masai. There was no stopping her now. The gold and silver were out of reach, but Shalane's 30:22.22 lowered her own American record by 12 seconds, and was run in conditions (and pressure) far worse than she faced last May at Stanford. On her victory lap, she spotted her still yelling Mom and ran into the trackside moat to embrace her with a sweaty hug.
Steve the Dad was still driving down the pike when his phone rang again. His Canadian friend. Only this time Bruce was screaming incomprehensibly. You know those Canadians, so out of control, right? :-) "Hey, calm down, what's going on?" Steve asked. Bruce managed to rein himself in and deliver the news. "I was just arriving at my mother's house," said Steve. "So I popped the door open, and ran up and down the driveway with my arms raised in victory. My mother thought I had gone crazy. But I haven't stopped smiling since."
Steve Flanagan says that he wasn't expecting his daughter to medal in Beijing, but he wasn't totally surprised either. When she was young, he carefully nudged her into team sports, because he recognized a fierce competitive fire in her and didn't think it should be channeled into individual sports at an early age. Time, there's always time. In fact, there's still time. Steve the Dad thinks his daughter has only begun to tap her potential. "Her best days are still in front of her," he says with a clinical edge to his voice. "She'll run under 30 in the 10,000 and under 2:19 in the marathon when she decides to move up. She could even chip away at her American record in the Beijing 5000, if she makes the final.
"She's on a roll now, and momentum means a lot. She knows anything's possible. She's got a great team around her, she knows how important they all are, and they all get it. They want to take a measured and careful approach with her. Shalane won't over-race. She won't compromise her goals. She's gotten a taste of success now, and the sky's the limit."
If Dad seems high on his daughter, she returns the favor, to both parents. "I couldn't have better role models than my mother and my father," she said after her race Friday night. "They've always been there for me, they know how much I've been through, and even if I finished last, they'd still love me."
She'll go far, this one, in part because she chose her parents carefully. But also because, as she says, "I've trained my butt off forever." The one without the other means nothing. The two together allow for the creation of elaborate plans--plans that sometimes unfold perfectly. As they did for Shalane Flanagan in the Beijing Olympic 10,000.
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Let's Move Quad Cities: How To Grow Older & Stay Active At The Same Time
Posted 10:03 pm, July 25, 2016, by Angie Sharp, Updated at 10:23AM, August 17, 2017
When people retire, they want to be active. However, for some, the aches and pains of growing older get in the way.
Mike Owens knows exactly what that feels like. The retired Moline Athletic Director and former all-star athlete loves to play golf and play with his grandchildren, but knows there's a price to pay.
"There's this old friend when we get this age named 'Arthritis,'" he explains. "He's around all the time. He's in the fingers and the hands and the legs."
At the age of 78, that old friend has moved to Mike's left knee, which is where his other old friend comes in - Dr. Edward Connolly with ORA Orthopedics.
"He keeps me wired together," says Mike.
"It's like your mechanic for your car - this is the guy I take my car to," explains Dr. Connolly. "This is the guy I take my legs to, my back to."
Mike has been an ORA Patient for awhile. He's had a hip replacement, several shoulder surgeries, and may soon need a knee replacement. However, he says every time it's worth it and it could be for you, too.
"I think if they're hurting and they're not feeling well and they want to do something - get it done," says Mike.
"The most common thing you hear from people is - 'Why did I wait so long to do this?'" adds Dr. Connolly. "It really makes a difference in their lives and that makes it very gratifying for us because patients say – 'You changed where I was at before and now I can do things I couldn't do before' - so that's the fun part of our job."
But he explains that growing older is cyclical.
"The purpose of doing what we do is so you can stay active and it`s kind of that trade off," explains Dr. Connolly. "You stay active and things go wrong and we make you better so you can stay active and keep going that way."
"I love Dr. Connolly's Philosophy," says Mike. "He says - 'Mike, I can't make you perfect, but I can make you better' and he's done that."
"As we get older our function decreases, our strength decreases, our sense of balance decreases and the way to combat that is to stay active, keep doing things, keep your muscles strong, keep your balance and Mike is a good example of - if you do it, this is where you can be at at his age with things," says Dr. Connolly.
ORA Orthopedics leads the Quad Cities in total joint procedures - performing approximately 1,900 replacements every year.
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In 1870, a pair of German immigrants, Peter Spacher and Frederick Weisshaar, purchased the 120 acres of land that make up present-day College Terrace. Seventeen years later, sensing an opportunity as construction began on nearby Stanford University, San Mateo farmer Alexander Gordon purchased the property.
Gordon subdivided the land into town lots and named the streets, in alphabetical order, after well-known colleges and universities. Originally, Gordon named his development "Palo Alto", which raised the ire of Leland Stanford, who wanted the name for his own development. Eventually, they came to an agreement with Stanford's "University Park" development becoming Palo Alto and Gordon's renamed as College Terrace.
Map of College Terrace, circa 1900. Note that, at the time, both Oxford and Cambridge Streets went through to Amherst.
The neighboring town of Mayfield annexed College Terrace in 1891. When Mayfield itself was annexed into Palo Alto in 1925, streets that had the same name as those in Palo Alto had to be changed. In College Terrace, Washington Street was changed to Cornell Street (which is why that street is now out of alphabetical order), Palo Alto Avenue became College Avenue, and Lincoln Avenue became California Avenue.
For those interested in exploring our neighborhood's past, Palo Alto Stanford Heritage has published a self-guided walking tour of historic College Terrace (a docent-led tour is typically offered each October).


This date has been changed twice already due to weather and booking issues. This event will definitely be on April 28th. This on-going Cars 'n Coffee event is a casual, relaxed fun day in a golf course setting near the 18thgreen and clubhouse. Coffee and donuts will be provided and/or you can visit the Bear Trap Grill in the clubhouse for a more sumptuous breakfast. The $15 fee just covers the expense of renting the area and providing the refreshments.
This on-going Cars 'n Coffee event is a casual, relaxed fun day in a golf course setting near the 18thgreen and clubhouse. Coffee and donuts will be provided and/or you can visit the Bear Trap Grill in the clubhouse for a more sumptuous breakfast. The $15 fee just covers the expense of renting the area and providing the refreshments.


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Q: Cocoa: User Notifications never being delivered I'm trying to deliver a local notification, it looks something like this:
NSUserNotification *notification = [[NSUserNotification alloc] init];
//set title, subtitle, and sound
[[NSUserNotificationCenter defaultUserNotificationCenter] deliverNotification:notification];

But the notification doesn't appear. I know sometimes notifications are not presented if the app is frontmost but at the time of delivery it's not. In system preferences I made sure that notifications from my app are allowed, and I even overrode the userNotificationCenter:shouldPresentNotification: method to always return YES but it still doesn't present the notification.
What is most confusing is that everything was working fine until I updated to Mavericks. I suppose something has changed in the update but I can't figure out what.
Thanks for the help.

A: my guess is that something is nil. make sure you are either assigning a (valid and non-nil) title, or informativeText.
I imagine that having invalid values for other properties such as otherButtonTitle might prevent the notification from being displayed as well.
Are there any error messages in your console?
Use the debugger or NSLog() statements to assess the values assigned to the notification. You could also see this problem if the NSUserNotification pointer is nil (not the case from the code you posted, but worth mentioning).
Here is a minimal test for an app delegate that works on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks):
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
    NSUserNotificationCenter* unc = [NSUserNotificationCenter defaultUserNotificationCenter];
    unc.delegate = self;

    NSUserNotification* notice = [[NSUserNotification alloc] init];
    notice.title = @"title"; // notifications need a title, or informativeText at minimum to appear on screen
    //notice.informativeText = @"informativeText";

    NSLog(@"notification: %@, notification center:%@", notice, unc);
    [unc deliverNotification:notice];
}

// The notifications will always dispaly even if we are in the foreground
- (BOOL)userNotificationCenter:(NSUserNotificationCenter *)center shouldPresentNotification:(NSUserNotification *)notification
{
    return YES;
}

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Q: SQL/DB2 getting single row of results per employee with a UNION I'm currently using a UNION on 2 select statements and while I'm getting the correct data, it's not exactly what I actually need when it comes time to use it in a front-end view
I'm currently using this query:
SELECT
    T.employee as employee,
    'Orders' as TYPE,
    SUM(CASE WHEN t.order_count < QUANT THEN t.order_count ELSE QUANT END) as DATA
FROM schemaOne.order_list T
 WHERE t.order_date > CURRENT_DATE - 35 DAYS
group by t.employee

UNION

select
       T.employee as employee,
       'Sales' as TYPE,
       sum(price * quant) as DATA
from schemaOne.sales T
WHERE T.sales_date > CURRENT_DATE - 35 DAYS
group by T.employee
order by data desc;

with these dummy tables as examples and getting the following result:
order_list

employee  |  order_count  |  quant  |  order_date
--------------------------------------------------
123       |   5           |    1    |   2022-03-02
456       |   1           |    5    |   2022-03-02

sales

employee  |  price        |  quant  |  order_date
--------------------------------------------------
123       |   500         |    1    |   2022-03-02
456       |   1000        |    1    |   2022-03-02

Result
employee       |      type     |     data
------------------------------------------
123                Orders            1
123                Sales             500
456                Orders            5
456                Sales             1000

Is there a way to use a UNION but alter it so that I can instead get a single row for each employee and just get rid of the type/data columns and instead set each piece of data to the desired column (the type would instead be the column name ) like so:
Desired Result
employee   |   Orders   |   Sales
---------------------------------
123        |     1      |    500
456        |     5      |    1000

A: Try adding an outer query:
select employee,
       MAX(case when type=Orders then data end) as orders ,
       MAX(case when type=Sales then data end) as  Sales
from (
       SELECT  T.employee as employee,
               'Orders' as TYPE,
               SUM(CASE WHEN t.order_count < QUANT THEN t.order_count ELSE QUANT END) as DATA
       FROM schemaOne.order_list T
       WHERE t.order_date > CURRENT_DATE - 35 DAYS
      group by t.employee

   UNION

       select  T.employee as employee,
              'Sales' as TYPE,
              sum(price * quant) as DATA
       from schemaOne.sales T
       WHERE T.sales_date > CURRENT_DATE - 35 DAYS
       group by T.employee
    ) as t1
GROUP BY employee;

Note that I removed order by data desc it has no effect inside the union

A: You can join tables through employee columns such as
SELECT o.employee,
       SUM(CASE
             WHEN o.order_count < o.quant THEN
              o.order_count
             ELSE
              o.quant
           END) AS Orders,
       SUM(s.price * s.quant) AS Sales
  FROM schemaOne.order_list o
  JOIN schemaOne.sales s
    ON s.employee = o.employee
   AND s.sales_date = o.order_date
 WHERE o.order_date > current_date - 35 DAYS
 GROUP BY o.employee


Seeing that your skin is aging not as gracefully as you wish it would? Are dark spots, fine lines and wrinkles taking over your skin? Here are some helpful to turn things around!
When it comes to skin care, there's never a too early time to stick to a proper regimen. Early caring for the skin can actually help prevent wrinkles, age spots as well as melasma from taking over. If you're not too familiar with the term melasma, this is basically a discoloration on the skin brought about by too much time under the sun. It's a good idea to practice lathering on broad spectrum sunscreen everyday come rain, snow or shine early on. For every day wear an SPF 30 would be enough while when heading to the beach or when going on an outdoor fun an SPF 45 would be more ideal. The sun's UV rays are your skin's worst enemy as they do much damage creating lines, creases and dark spots on your skin.
Prevention is No Longer an Option?
Don't feel too sad and hopeless when you have not practiced preventive measures early on and you're seeing fine lines, dark spots and wrinkles on your skin. When this is the situation you're in you should go on the offense. There are numerous anti-aging serums, lotions, creams, moisturisers what-not out in the market these days. See to it that the product you choose contains ingredients that promote cell regeneration and faster cell turnover. Look for Vitamin E, Vitamin A or Retinol in ingredients as these nutrients are miracle workers when it comes to fighting skin aging.
The Moroccan Argan oil is an excellent choice in anti-aging products. The oil contains a high amount of Vitamin E and other nutrients that promote cell regeneration such as essential fatty acids, Squalene, Sterols and Polyphenols. These nutrients will help minimise the appearance of fine lines, dark spots and wrinkles and protect the skin from further damage.
Exfoliation is one key to smooth and youthful skin. Exfoliate at least once or twice a month to get rid of dead skin cells that have piled up. Doing so will bring out newer and more youthful skin. There are exfoliating scrubs you can get readily available but you can also make your own from kitchen ingredients. Remember to be gentle when scrubbing your skin!
If you don't mind paying a much steeper price to get your skin looking more youthful then you may want to get help from medical professionals. There are various treatments available that can get your skin looking younger. Intensive Pulsed Light skin treatment for example effectively minimises dark spots on the skin. The treatment will take several sessions for you to see results so you'll need to be patient. Remember to only go to reputable medical professionals.
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Exceleram - the Highend MemoryBlacksmith in Landau / Germany announces the availability of 3 new parts of the EP-Series, and expanded its product range. "The EP series includes memory(kits) based on timing latencies of (currently) 1333mhz, but with "air" up to the top, so that overclockers have their fun." says Steffen Eisenstein, Product Manager at Exceleram.
We start with 3 models: the EP3001A, a 2GB 1333MHz CL9 single module. Followed by a 4GB (2x 2GB) 1333MHz CL9 Memorykit and a 6GB (3x 2GB) 1333MHz CL9 kit, both with the known "Rippler" heatsink. The voltage is 1.5 volts and all are exclusively equipped with the famous Power Chip Rev. D 128 x 8 chips.
What speeds are available, one can read the high score list on the Web site from Exceleram (here).
The currently peak is at 2214MHz. "We have no expense or effort spared to provide the review sites and printed magazines our new EP3001A in a large quantity. The only way we can provide the performance of the selected Exceleram chips for the first memory of the EP series demonstrate "added Steffen Eisenstein.


Buy MindTree Ltd. at a price target of Rs 1010.0 and a stoploss at Rs 969 from entry point.
Manas Jaiswal of manasjaiswal.com has a buy call on MindTree Ltd. with a target price of Rs 1010. The current market price of MindTree Ltd. is Rs 980.2 Time period given by the analyst is Intra Day when MindTree Ltd. price can reach the defined target. Manas Jaiswal recommended to keep stoploss at Rs 969. MindTree Ltd., incorporated in 1999, is a largecap company with a market cap of Rs 16093.84 crore.
MindTree Ltd. key Products/Revenue Segments include Software Development Charges which contributed Rs 4752.60 Crore to Sales Value (100.00 % of Total Sales)for the year ending 31-Mar-2017.
For the quarter ended 30-06-2018, the company has reported a Consolidated sales of Rs 1639.50 Crore, up 11.99 % from last quarter Sales of Rs 1464.00 Crore and up 27.14 % from last year same quarter Sales of Rs 1289.50 Crore Company has reported net profit after tax of Rs 158.20 Crore in latest quarter. The company's top management includes Mr.Akshaya Bhargava, Mr.Bijou Kurien, Mr.Krishnakumar Natarajan, Mr.Milind Sarwate, Mr.N S Parthasarathy, Mr.Rostow Ravanan, Mr.Subroto Bagchi, Ms.Apurva Purohit. Company has Deloitte Haskins & Sells as its auditoRs As on 30-06-2018, the company has a total of 164,019,626 shares outstanding.


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Q: rust tokio: calling async function from sync closure I have the following problem:
I'm trying to call sync closure from async function, but sync closure has to later call another async function.
I cannot make async closure, because they are unstable at the moment:
error[E0658]: async closures are unstable
so I have to do it this way somehow.
I found a couple of questions related to the problem, such as this, but when I tried to implement it, im receiving the following error:
Cannot start a runtime from within a runtime.
This happens because a function (like `block_on`)
 attempted to block the current thread while the
thread is being used to drive asynchronous tasks.'

here is playground link which hopefully can show what I'm having problem with.
I'm using tokio as stated in the title.

A: As the error message states, Tokio doesn't allow you to have nested runtimes.
There's a section in the documentation for Tokio's Mutex which states the following (link):

[It] is ok and often preferred to use the ordinary Mutex from the standard library in asynchronous code. [...] the feature that the async mutex offers over the blocking mutex is that it is possible to keep the mutex locked across an .await point, which is rarely necessary for data.

Additionally, from Tokio's mini-Redis example:

A Tokio mutex is mostly intended to be used when locks need to be held
across .await yield points. All other cases are usually best
served by a std mutex. If the critical section does not include any
async operations but is long (CPU intensive or performing blocking
operations), then the entire operation, including waiting for the mutex,
is considered a "blocking" operation and tokio::task::spawn_blocking
should be used.

If the Mutex is the only async thing you need in your synchronous call, it's most likely better to make it a blocking Mutex. In that case, you can lock it from async code by first calling try_lock(), and, if that fails, attempting to lock it in a blocking context via spawn_blocking.


Puppetry is a skill that lets you create an empathetic link between a puppet and someone else. By making this link stronger through repeated refinements of the puppet, you can affect that person from afar. Puppetry is often confused with the Shaman skill of Vodun, though one would do well to remember that puppets are not dolls, and vice versa.
The skill of Puppetry is available to members of the Jester class, along with Pranks and Tarot.
Fashion Fashion puppets from wood.
Details: In order to fashion a puppet, you first need to get yourself 2 wood commodities. After you fashion the first time, you will have for yourself a crude humanoid puppet. In order to make it actually useful, you must then wield the puppet, and FASHION PUPPET OF <target>.
As you fashion your puppet of an adventurer over and over, you'll notice that it gets closer and closer to being a semi-living puppet. Further, the more fashions you have with your puppet, the more Puppetry powers will be able to be channeled through the puppet.
Additionally, your puppet will decay at a rate of 50% every 6 minutes after the last fashion. This effect does not occur for puppets of allied adventurers.
If you find yourself in need of destroying a puppet that is no longer in your possession, you may unravel it from afar. Note that this is a difficult feat, and will result in being thrown off balance for a long period of time.
Gripping Grip your puppets tighter than ever before.
Details: While using this ability, you will prevent items from being knocked out of your grip.
Details: This will cause your victim to become mentally confused.
Details: Curse your victim with the dizziness affliction.
Sleep Put someone to sleep.
Details: Either put your victim to sleep, or remove a sleep-related defence.
Details: Cause your puppet's namesake to see something specific. You may embed a single newline by including the characters \n at the appropriate spot.
Details: Get a view of what's in your target's surroundings. If your puppet is above 30 fashions this skill requires nothing to use.
Details: Through your puppet, you may see the health and mana of your target.
Details: This ability will strip a defence from your puppet's namesake.
Details: Paralyse the nervous system of the victim.
Details: With this ability, you may break both the arms or legs of your victim.
Throttle Choke the life out of your victim.
Details: As long as the puppets living twin is in the area you may wrap your fingers tightly around your puppets throat, and watch in joy as its likeness asphyxiates.
Details: With this ability, you'll cause your victim to think he or she is always on full health.
Tickle Tickle the feet of your puppet.
Details: By tickling the bottom of your puppet's feet, you will cause your victim to laugh convulsively.
Details: Set your victim alight!
Details: Cause blood to begin pouring from the pores of your unlucky opponent.
Travel Instantly travel to your target.
Details: With this ability, you may cross a continent to travel to your victim.
Cripple Break all the limbs of some unlucky victim.
Details: Break all the limbs of a victim.
Command Make a victim obey your orders.
Details: Command your victim to perform a specific action.
Slow Make a victim move in slow motion.
Details: Slow the movement of your victim through time.
Puncture Damage your target's internal organs.
Details: Push your fingers sadistically into the gut of your victim, damaging their torso in the process. Sometimes this damage is enough to cause them to no longer be able to eat.
Details: Blackout some of the senses of your opponent, temporarily.
Details: Summons your puppet's model to you, providing he is in the same area or an adjacent room.
Details: Tie up a victim through your puppet.
Details: With this ability, you'll be able to hear anything anyone who is in the room with your victim says.
Details: See the possessions in the inventory of your victim.
Imbibe Prick your target to make them sick.
Details: Imbibe a venom directly into the bloodstream of your puppet's model with a pin. You must have a vial of whatever venom you wish to imbibe with in your inventory.
Mangle Viciously mangle one of your victim's limbs.
Details: Though breaking someone's limb is certainly painful, mangling it is far worse.
Concussion Give your victim a concussion.
Details: An extremely potent affliction, the concussion gives one afflicted with it amnesia every second.
Leech Leech the experience from your victim.
Details: This interesting and useful ability will allow a Puppetmaster to leech experience from a victim who is in a hunting party. What it essentially does is give experience to the Puppetmaster as if he or she was a part of the hunting party that the victim is in.
Truefashion Fashion faster than ever before.
Details: With TRUEFASHION, you have achieved a level of skill whereby sometimes you can get two fashions in the time it normally takes to get one.
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Maidel Amador Canales (Loiza, Puerto Rico; 30 de diciembre de 1983), más conocida como La Sista, es una productora, compositora y cantante estadounidense.

Biografía
Comenzó en el mundo de la música a sus 14 años, siguiendo los pasos de su hermano y primo. Creció en una familia de músicos siendo su padre trompetista y su hermano cantante. A los 19 años participó en el 'reality show' "La Casa Under", donde logró ganar la segunda posición de la competencia que buscaba a la nueva estrella del género del reggueton.

Luego de su destacada participación en la competencia, La Sista comenzó a trazar lo que sería su nuevo camino en el de la música, llamando la atención de muchos lo que se concretizó en recibir oportunidades profesionales para trabajar con distintos exponentes del género.

Su primera canción fue en una participación junto al reconocido cantante Eddie Dee en el tema Ahora Es Que Es publicado en 2005. Del mismo modo, ha participado en los discos Contra todos de DJ Blaster, "The Show Mistake", "El mundo es nuestro", "La Calle", "Los Mero Mero" y "Los Cocorocos".  tales como Residente, Ñejo y en las producciones musicales de famosos como Domingo Quiñones, Jerry Rivera, Andy Montañez y Anaís. Del mismo modo, ha participado en los discos Contra todos de DJ Blaster, "The Show Mistake", "El mundo es nuestro", "La Calle", "Los Mero Mero" y "Los Cocorocos".

Su trabajo discográfico "Majestad Negroide", fue su primer disco como solista. La adversidad la inspiró y luego de una pausa de dos años regresa mostrando un estilo "fresh" sin perder su escancia.

Artículos

En una entrevista realizada a la revista Rolling Stone, mencionó sobre los casos de racismo y de machismo que siguen ocurriendo en varias discográficas, junto a Ivy Queen destacaron la figura inicial de Tego Calderón de vocalizar aquellas injusticias.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/reggaeton-black-history-ivy-queen-la-sista-tego-calderon-952508/

Apareció #37 en la lista de Las 100 mejores canciones de reggaetón de todos los tiempos de la revista Rollingstone

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-reggaeton-songs-1234579826/

Discografía
Álbumes de estudio

 2006: Majestad Negroide

Referencias

Músicos de reguetón
Cantantes de reguetón de Puerto Rico
Raperas

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Roy Always Gets His Man
After stealing coal from the House of Lords, fourteen-year-old Roy Smith began serving a four month sentence at the Joplin city jail. What was notable about the young African American's stint at the city jail was that no one filed a complaint against him and he was not tried for theft in police court. Instead, Smith's guilty conscience led him to serve a self-imposed sentence. Deputy Chief Frank Sowder remarked it was the, "strangest case on record."
Roy's friends tried to convince him to "shake" the police after a few days, but he stubbornly stayed at the jail. He busied himself sweeping the police courtroom, building fires in the station in the morning, and running errands for the officers. When asked, Roy told a reporter that he planned to follow the law and serve his sentence.
Officers who may have thought Roy was good at keeping the jail tidy found out that he had even more to offer. Two small paperboys arrived at the jail and reported they had been assaulted by two black boys who pelted them with rocks and struck them with their firsts. Roy, whom officers had nicknamed "Cooney," listened to their story. He then volunteered that he could identify and find the two black boys. Chief McManamy granted Roy permission to go apprehend the suspects, laughing at the boy as he headed out the jail. But the chief found himself surprised when ten minutes later he heard a "terrible commotion" in front of the jail. Looking outside, McManamy saw Roy dragging two "much larger negro lads by the coat collars."
Roy proudly announced, "Here they are." He then proceeded to drag the two boys into the jail. According to Roy, he used the power of verbal and physical persuasion to get the two boys to accompany him to the jail. Roy, who had observed officers over the last few weeks, took every precaution: He searched his prisoners before he handed them off to Chief McManamy, who performed the duties of desk sergeant. A few minutes later, Roy announced he "had scared them into making a complete confession."
Roy formed a close friendship with Bosco Busick, the assistant deputy poundmaster and patrol wagon driver. The two of them would fall asleep in the big cushy armchairs in the jail at night after talking for hours. Despite fleeting moments of relaxation, Roy continued to serve as Joplin's junior Sherlock Holmes.
A few weeks later, Roy was called to service once more. When the police needed to question a young African American girl about the whereabouts of some suspected criminals, the officers brought her to the station, put her in the sweatbox, and pressed her for information for over thirty minutes. She professed ignorance. Roy, who had been out buying tobacco for one of the officers, arrived and observed the interrogation. He winked at Night Captain Loughlin and began to talk to the girl. Soon he had obtained the information the officers sought. His task finished, Roy grabbed a broom and started sweeping the jail, which was now decorated with pictures and cartoons he had drawn for the officers.
Like many of Joplin's other characters, we're not sure what happened to Roy Smith, but it's clear he made quite the impression on the Joplin police. One can only hope he stayed on the straight and narrow.
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Alabama Regional Preview
While several of the regionals this year could produce an unexpected nationals qualifier that we will pretend signals the beginning of a new era until next season when everything returns to normal, the most exciting changing of the guard will happen in Alabama. Though some of the challengers elsewhere, like Denver and Minnesota, haven't qualified to nationals for a few years, the teams in this regional have been stranded in the desert for much, much longer. Cal has been absent from the national championship since 1992, and Boise State and Kentucky have been absent since always. In fact, with three all-time nationals appearances, #5 seed West Virginia is the second-most accomplished team in the competition.
Competing teams (starting event)
[4] Alabama (bye before bars)
[10] Cal (beam)
[15] Boise State (floor)
[21] Kentucky (bye before floor)
[26] West Virginia (bars)
[34] Bowling Green (vault)
Competing individuals
SEMO (Alexis Brawner – AA; Lauren Israel – AA; McKinzie Jones – FX)
Northern Illinois (Andie Van Voorhis – VT; Jamyra Carter – UB; Lauren Africano – UB; Megan Greenfield – BB)
Arizona State (Allie Salas – AA; Taylor Allex – VT, FX)
Illinois-Chicago (Mikailla Northern – AA)
Illinois State (Amanda Mohler – BB)
The favorite – Alabama
Alabama is Alabama. Competing at home against a relatively unheralded squadron of challengers and coming off an impressive second-place showing at SECs should really be all we need to know about Alabama's qualification outlook. Coleman may no longer the impenetrable home fortress it once was, now the site of previously unheard of losses to LSU and Arkansas, but the idea of Alabama getting upset at home by two whole teams in this meet is difficult to fathom.
Unsurprisingly, Alabama had its best meet of the season at SECs, which happened to coincide with actually getting all the good people in the lineups simultaneously for the first time. Amazing how that works out. Winston returned on three events, all the top-scoring floor workers competed, and Bresette was able to show her Omelianchik, which is a higher-scoring option than her full. All of this combined to make Alabama look like a peer of Oklahoma, Florida, and LSU in the title race rather than the leader of the challenging pack. These lineups still don't look fully finalized (you can't quit depth exploration cold turkey), as I'd still perhaps like to see Winston vaulting and, critically, that was not the highest-scoring beam lineup Alabama could put out. Sanders did an excellent job of suddenly being a gymnast now, but hit routines from Beers and Bailey are going to score higher than what she (and potentially Brannan) can bring.
It's an issue of hitting (both Bailey and Beers fell the week before), but if the coaches feel comfortable putting Bailey and Beers in the lineup, this team looks more formidable and closer to 198. If not, Alabama may be giving up a crucial tenth or two on beam, the rotation that knocked them down below Florida's at SECs.
The fight – Cal v. Boise State
This meet represents a brand new phenomenon for Cal. We've seen Cal perform well in significant meets against strong teams over the last three seasons, but for the first time I can remember, Cal will enter a significant meet not as an upstart, or an underdog, or a spoiler, or a sentimental favorite but as a favorite. Cal should finish second here and should qualify along with Alabama. Not doing so would be a disappointing result given the wonderful opportunity to make nationals presented before them. Welcome to expectations, Cal. It's nice to have you here.
That's not to say it's going to be a walk. Boise State has been in many ways the surprise of the season (after being the punchline of the preseason when one coach voted BSU #1), scoring a 197.025 at conference championships—at home—which bested the 196.725 Cal put up at Pac-12s. Boise State does, however, remain the least proven entity among the contending teams, having gone the whole season without facing any school seeded 1-3 in any of the regionals. We don't really know how these routines are going to be evaluated when Boise State is suddenly not the biggest and the best in the arena for the first time. The Broncos' last challenging road meet also came at Alabama, in 2015, when they did prove quite competitive through three events and were on high-196 pace until a floor meltdown.
Boise State has done well to continue improving this season even without stars like Perkins and Morris (and with critical freshman Sarah Means limited to beam), which seemed like a recipe for a regression year. Still, keeping pace on vault has been a challenge and the 48s do occasionally pop up. They have a few vaults that can take advantage of the new values, Bennion's "arabian" and Bir's handspring pike 1/2, but Cal has done the better job of the two teams, probably the best in the country, at exploiting the new values through a heterogeneous 10.0 SV vault lineup. Cal's lineup really does squeeze every possible tenth out of a roster that doesn't have a whole lot of big vaulting power aside from Toni-Ann. Cal will expect to venture over 9.850 more often than Boise State on vault and grab some tenths there.
The other advantage for Cal in this meet looks to be beam. Cal. Advantage. Beam. I know, it's a brand new world. After a string of beam disasters pretty much single-handedly ended Cal's season last year, beam has become…if not exactly a strength, then at least a value-neutral event. It still can be a worry, and the team is still susceptible to the wobbly-9.6 monster, but it's much less scary and has featured some moments of brilliance from the likes of Howe. The return of Emily Richardson only helps to reinforce. For Boise State's part, beam is also much less scary this year than it was last year, when both Cal and Boise State participated in the Regional of Beam Hell in which every team scored a 3.8, but less scary for BSU constitutes a 49.025ish score, so Cal will still look to pick up ground.
Really, if this were a three-event meet and bars weren't a thing, Cal would be the heavy favorite. But then again, Alicia Sacramone would also be world champion. That's not the world we live in. Boise State's best event is bars by a hefty margin, as it always is. That's where the Broncos will look to make up a ton of ground that may be lost to Cal on the power events. Bars is not a bad event for Cal by any means, but Boise State can still gain multiple tenths there because 49.4 should be the expected score.
BSU won't head to bars until the fourth rotation, so we won't necessarily know how competitive the meet is until that point because much of Boise State's potential to get that high 196 is based on bars. Even a 98.300 after floor and vault in the early rotations (not a particularly formidable score in a regionals context), may actually be a useful pace. Cal will already have gone on its highest-scoring event (floor) by that halfway point and will expect to have a lead of at least a couple tenths to guard against what Boise State might gain in the fourth rotation. Then again, Boise State does end on beam, so…
Both of these teams entered the Berkeley regional last year as the spoilers, hoping to take advantage of a Georgia beam disaster (the more things change the more they stay the same) to qualify. This year, the dynamic between the two teams themselves is much the same, but they're fighting for an actual spot now, not hoping for someone else's mistake.
The spoiler – Kentucky
We saw a good Kentucky team at SECs, one that is supremely capable of playing the spoiler role in this regional, if not joining the fight with Cal and Boise State outright. That good performance at SECs, however, was worth 196.250. It will take more than that to take the second qualification spot. Kentucky ends up just a little too 9.800 to challenge the 49.2 rotations that the other contenders will expect to put forward. Still, the margin between them is not large, so a counting fall would certainly bump either Cal or Boise State behind Kentucky. It may not even need to be a counting fall. A beam rotation with a couple 9.6s thrown in may be enough to bring Kentucky in because Kentucky should score over 196. Anything in the 195s would constitute a disappointing meet.
For the most part, the goal for Kentucky will be to go steady, steady, steady through four events and hope that weak performances from the other teams make that a competitive strategy. There's not one event on which Kentucky stands out or specifically needs a huge score, so it's more about staying in the 49.1s across the board. Beam may be an exception to that because now that Waltz has returned the lineup, she creates a pretty high-scoring triumvirate with Dukes and Hyland at the end.
Beam is where Kentucky finishes, and it's relatively realistic to hope for more than a 49.1 there to put a crown on this meet.
West Virginia is a fairly tough #5 seed though has failed to break into the 196s with enough frequency to be seen as a true spoiler. They had one crazy home meet when everyone got a 9.9 on floor, but other than that this season has been a predominately 195.8 type affair. The power events are where West Virginia excels and should break 49, with the help of Zaakira Muhammad and standout freshman Kira Koshinski. It won't be enough for a qualification score because 9.8s are much harder to come by on the other events, but it wouldn't be shocking to see WVU finish in the top three on both vault and floor here.
Bowling Green made regionals, which is cause for bacchanalia for a team that traditionally hangs around 50th place and rarely ever makes a ripple on the national scene other than qualifying Alyssa Nocella to regionals every year. It was far from a sure thing for most of the season, but a huge score in the home finale followed by a solid mid-195 at the MAC Champs sealed a historic result. It will go no further, but be sure to watch that beam rotation if time and attention allow. Laura Mitchell remains a triumph, and Nocella and Ellingboe provide supporting scores that should make that beam rotation competitive even in this company.
Based on scores and the season results, Cal should qualify as a team, but if not, things could get a little muddy because of the Toni-Ann situation. She's currently not in the beam lineup, even though she's Toni-Ann Williams, and therefore could not qualify as an all-arounder. That means if Cal doesn't make it, she would be left with trying to win floor to qualify as an event specialist. All of this is complicated by the Test Event, which takes place the same weekend as NCAA nationals and which Toni-Ann is supposed to attend as Jamaica's representative to try to earn a spot at the Olympics. What happens when she makes nationals? Like I said, muddy.
If Alabama and Cal do qualify, then we'll have quite a race for the AA spots among a number of individuals capable of scoring in the 39.3 range. The highest-ranked of the group is Dukes for Kentucky, and I do think she's the most likely to go through, but her teammates Stuart and (sometimes) Hyland are also capable of similar scores. We could have an interesting competition for the AA spots just within the Kentucky team, but then there's also Shani Remme (though she did not vault at conference champs) and Sandra Collantes from Boise State, who are both known to venture into the 39.3s as well. It may be harder for Bowling Green's AAers, Nocella and Feely, to reach the 39.3s, but they've both done it before. West Virginia has an occasional AAer in Goldberg, but vault isn't really her thing, which usually keeps her total down a few tenths lower than the others.
Basically, the unseeded teams should be hoping that Alabama and Boise State qualify out of this regional (if they themselves don't qualify, obviously), because that will take several tough challengers out of the individual race and leave it open for the individuals from Kentucky and Bowling Green to slug it out among themselves for the two spots.
As I say every time, it's wildly challenging to qualify as an event specialist, but of note, Taylor Allex is competing here as a vault and floor specialist. She boasts the difficulty on both events to challenge for serious scores. It's unlikely that she'll beat the whole Alabama and Cal teams, but she has a better chance than most of the gymnasts heading to regionals without a team.
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Is Brittni Watkins competitive for AA qualification this year?
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Watkins needs to hit beam. If she does, she'll have a chance.
Also? Bresette's Omelianchik is nice and all, but how she scored the same as Brittany Ward (with the same vault) is mind-boggling.
Mind-Boggling? I am not sure which vaults you were watching but the vaults were very similar. Both had legs and were off center but were high and deep and were both good vaults. I think the scores were right on. I love watching that vault because you don't see it much in college.


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Spain tops the list of dream destinations where Brits would choose to start a new life
Revealed: Spain tops the list of dream destinations where Brits would choose to start a new life followed by New Zealand and Australia
A survey polled 2,000 Brits to see where they would like to start a new life
Spain came out on top with 13 per cent choosing it as a place to call home
Other countries where Brits would want to live include USA, Canada and Italy
By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline
Published: 10:45 BST, 1 July 2019 | Updated: 10:46 BST, 1 July 2019
Spain has beaten New Zealand and Australia to top the list of dream destinations where Brits would choose to start a new life.
The European country, famous for its sun, sea and sangria, is currently going through a blistering heatwave.
And it remains a hot destination for those in the UK – with 13 per cent of Brits choosing Spain over any other country as a place to call home.
Spain has beaten New Zealand and Australia to top the list of dream destinations where Brits would choose to start a new life. Pictured is the Costa del Sol in Spain
New Zealand, recently named the second most peaceful country on earth, was named the second most popular country to move to.
The Commonwealth nation, which takes 24 hours to reach by air, boasts extraordinary scenery, stunning deserted beaches and imposing mountains.
It polled 12 per cent along with its neighbouring nation Australia.
Other popular moves on the wish list compiled by AnyVan.com, which polled 2,000 Brits, included USA (10 per cent), Canada (nine per cent), Italy (seven per cent) and France (six per cent).
Angus Elphinstone, CEO of AnyVan, said: 'It's nearly a national sport in the UK to dream about moving.
'From flicking through property prices and listings on Rightmove to sitting down to watch one of the vast number of primetime TV shows offering advice to those looking to change homes for a place in the sun.
A map showing the top 10 destinations where Brits would want to move to for a new life
'Our research highlighted where people dream to move to, but there were still 16 per cent of residents who didn't want to move anywhere.
'With such a vast number of different landscapes, coastal views and green spaces, it's easy to see why so many are living their dream in the UK and don't feel they need to move elsewhere.'
The removal company's research revealed age is a major factor in determining the popularity of the locations Brits want to move to.
Young adults prefer countries with more opportunities for lucrative career prospects and lavish lifestyles.
The USA came out top choice for under 34s, with 16 per cent listing this as their favourite, followed by Australia and then Spain.
Australia came third in the ranking with 12 per cent of Brits saying they would want to start a new life Down Under
Dubai was also more popular with younger adults, with four per cent dreaming of a move to the Middle East.
For adults over the age of 55, New Zealand (14 per cent) came out top of their dream move.
It also emerged that Spain topped a list of removal enquiries for AnyVan.com, followed by France, Germany, Italy and Ireland.
Alongside furniture, appliances and general house removals, they also had dozens of requests to transport pianos onto the continent.


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The Kids Issue
At least once a year, someone like Time or Newsweek does a feature about, "What's up with teenagers, anyway?" They always wind up asking kids a load of horseshit questions like, "Do you think you have enough free time?" or "Are you...
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At least once a year, someone like
does a feature about, "What's up with teenagers, anyway?" They always wind up asking kids a load of horseshit questions like, "Do you think you have enough free time?" or "Are you worried about college?" They never get to the stuff that matters like, "What are punks wearing these days?" or "What happened to all the metalheads?" or "Who's zoomin' who?"
We were sick of this media blackout, so we went out to
contributor Chris Nieratko's store, NJskateshop, to ask
some local kids what the current high school scene is like. Then we asked some kids who started school ten years ago to tell us what the deal was when they were in high school in the same area (northern New Jersey). Then we went even further and asked a few ancient dudes (30 and 31 years old) to tell us what it was like back in the Paleolithic era. Basically, this is cultural anthropology but about stuff that we give a shit about.
Let's start with the old and work up to the new…
Guidos:
Both guy and girl guidos (guidas?) wore almost nothing but Z. Cavaricci button-up shirts and pants (those ones that bunch down into the crotch like it's a black hole). Sometimes the ladies would mix it up with a tasteful-by-comparison Benetton combo. Both genders used an obscene amount of product in their hair, though to opposite effect: The guys gelled theirs into slick, impenetrable black helmets while the gals sprayed theirs out as high and wide as it would go, framing in their excessive makeup. All guidos adorned their exposed cleavage with gold cross necklaces, and they always had shoes on that were way too fancy to wear to school—usually leather loafer-type things with shiny buckles for the guys, heels for the ladies. The guys all drove suped-up Trans Ams from which they would blast the early favorites of the 90s mainstream house scene (LaBouche, Snap, and C+C Music Factory).
The girls mostly caught rides from the dudes. A lot of the guys were juicing to aid their body-building, and made a little extra car-money by selling off their excess 'roids to the jocks. Along with some of the football players and the burnouts, the guido guys were the only honest-to-god tough kids at school, though most of the fights they'd get into were with each other. Unless you've been avoiding TV for the past 20 years, you should already have some idea of how relentlessly yappy the girls were.
Punks and Hardcore Kids:
The kids into punk and those into hardcore were definitely distinct elements, but because there were so few of each they were all generally buds and hung out together. Also, because the suburbs were still really tame back then and just wearing a bunch of buttons was enough to be considered "weird," both crews' looks were very subdued. Typically, just jeans and a band shirt, then a pair Vans or Docs, were enough to make you a punk alternateen. Nobody gave a shit about either the skinhead thing with the Docs or any sort of "skate cred" with the Vans like in some other places. They were just fucking shoes. The kids who were more into skateboarding would wear looser clothes and shoes like Vision Streetwear or Skate Rags and Ghetto Wear.
The chief differences within the big group were that the hardcore kids were generally into NY guys like Agnostic Front, Youth of Today, and the Cro-Mags, and they shaved their heads. The punks pretty unanimously rocked a haircut we called "the Surge" (hair trimmed down really short except for one swooping bang across the eye) and were big on classics like the Exploited, the Misfits, and Dead Kennedys. DRI was also really huge with the punks (people were always doing that stupid fucking dance from the logo). Roughly 99 percent of the punks and HC kids were straight-edge, so "party-time" generally consisted of going to shows, playing shows, or sitting around at the Chicken Holiday where there was a curb to skate. (Though that's not to say they wouldn't show up at parties thrown at the local clay pits.) These kids would every so often borrow the parental car, but their transportation was mostly limited to skating, bikes, and walking.
Theater Crew:
For some reason during this period, drama club was a haven for latterday Deadheads and early 90s hippie revivalists. Maybe it was something to do with herd mentality or a collective response to acid experimentation, but everybody who got involved with theater ended up in tie-dyed Doors shirts and torn-up jeans or those loose hippie dresses, smoking weed out behind the aforementioned Chicken Holiday.
Goths:
There was a tiny goth contingency, almost entirely female, who were buds with a lot of the punk kids. Bauhaus and its assorted offshoots were still their big musical guys, though there was also a lot of support for folks like Nitzer Ebb and
Pretty Hate Machine
-era NIN. Both girls and guys shied away from ostentatious deathrock-y stuff and just wore really long and blousy black shirts and dresses, the bare minimum of makeup, and long and tangly dyed black hair. They also often did this haircut where they would make a tight ponytail and then shave everything below it in the back. The general vibe could be pretty well summed up as "witchy." There was a fair amount of crossover between them and the theater kids, which was probably either the result of or paved the way for their occasional dabbling in acid.
For all the importance placed on football, you'd have thought we were going to school in mid-50s Texas. A little bit of Z. Cavaricci would sneak into the mix when jocks were feeling classy, but for the most part they dressed in t-shirts, jeans, and their varsity jackets. They kept their hair short and in gelled spikes and acted like they owned the place. They got up to more shit than the popular kids, who had to worry about not pissing off their parents to keep up their financial support, but weren't quite as tough or balls-out as the guidos, presumably because they didn't want to fuck up their place on the team.
The jocks were also generally more working-class than the straight-up popular kids, so instead of a brand-new Jetta they'd usually drive some parental hand-me-down like an old Buick or their father's Oldsmobile. Also for some reason, every time they hosted a party you were guaranteed to hear most, if not all, of the Eagles' Greatest Hits.
Burnouts:
Mainly longhaired dudes in tight jeans and denim jackets. The other key components of their outfits were ratty Reeboks or work boots and a hair metal shirt, typically either Def Leppard or Bon Jovi. There was a subsection of burnouts who were into heavier shit like Slayer and Sepultura, as established by their shirts, and were a little more sullen and intense-seeming than the rest of their ilk. A lot of the burnouts were walkers, but those who had wheels either had old 70s muscle cars they tooled up in auto class (where they could smoke) or trucks with huge fucking tires they'd take out mudding in the woods. They were easily responsible for the bulk of the school's weed, acid, and pills consumption.
Nerds/Dorks:
If the popular kids' style was just a toned-down take on the guidos', these guys were the next step down the restraint chain. They stuck with plain jeans and button-ups or sweatshirts and Reeboks with the tongue sticking out over unrolled cuffs. Because it was kind of a small school, there wasn't that much shit being dished out to these guys from the popular kids and the jocks, and a lot of them would make stalwart showings at bigger house and pit parties.
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1996 - 2000 Jocks and Cheerleaders:
The de facto heads of the school. The guys who were on the team took football really seriously, but nobody else gave a shit. About half the guys and girls in this group weren't really involved sports, and could better be described as something like "friends of jocks." This was at the height of that baggy, vibrant preppy thing's popularity with white kids, so the guys were all decked out in Hilfiger cargo jeans and big Nautica polos and jackets, while the girls wore CK or DKNY shirts under a pair of overalls or those flared black stretchpants with a Wet Seal blouse and jellies. On weekends they'd head to the house of whomever's parents were out of town to binge drink. The biggest cars with them were Celicas and Accords—you could tell the gender of the driver from a distance by the presence or absence of a spoiler. The slightly timid girls would often go more in the direction of "cute" with one of those then-new VW Bugs or Jettas. Hair was always pretty basic: The girls folded theirs back into an alligator clip, while the guys ran one dollop of gel straight up the front and left the rest untouched, making it look like they were wearing an invisible visor.
At this stage in guido evolution, the guys wore wife-beaters with really thin ribbing, multiple gold chains, and Paco jeans or shorts. The girls were big proponents of the scrunchie, using it to cinch their dyed-platinum hair into so tight a ponytail that they had the constant appearance of mild surprise. They generally wore something along the lines of a bright pink scoop-necked FCUK shirt with black Blue Asphalt stretch flares, though it bears mention that breakaway track pants were a pretty big guido unisex option. By the time they were old enough to get a license every one of them had at least one eyebrow ring. Also, sometime between the early and mid-90s the Trans Am was fully replaced by the Honda Civic as the tricked-out guidomobile de rigueur.
South American Immigrants:
Not sure what caused the glut of these guys at this time, but they easily outnumbered the Asian and Indian kids you'd expect to dominate the immigrant scene. Learning English wasn't too big a priority for most of them. They seemed to know only the bare minimum to avoid being kicked off the soccer team.
For all their fervor in trying to imitate American hip-hop culture, none of them seemed concerned with nailing down the details. The result was a hodgepodge of slight missteps, like shorts with not one NBA team's logo but all of them, and hair gelled straight up, which ran straight down into a sloppy fade. The girls may have been similarly cribbing the black girls' disgust with their classmates, but nobody could ever be sure since they would not speak to anyone except for each other.
Hip-Hop Kids:
In tribute to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Latrell Sprewell, everybody on the basketball team had cornrows that hung stiffly off the back of their heads like braided pipe-cleaners. Another big thing with the ballers was tattoos, mostly consisting of a boastful word or phrase in gothic typeface and often misspelled (one particularly huge dude named Arsernie had a piece on his arm reading "Un-Stopable" that no one ever called him on). If not really buds with the football jocks, the black guys at least were chill with the rest of the kids in school, whereas the girls absolutely hated the white kids they were surrounded by and made their feelings expressly known very, very often. Because the regular cheerleading squad didn't cater to their more boisterous and rhythmic style of spirit, they had a separate group called "Drill Squad," which was way more accomplished than any of the other athletic programs at the school.
The basic guy outfit consisted of some manor of outsized denim pants, a replica jersey of their fave player (meaning those really expensive authentic ones with the lettering stitched in and all the official patches, no ratty bootlegs), and a weekly rotation of brand-new Nikes. The girl version was basically the same clothing but extremely tight instead of billowing and with logo tees subbed in for the jerseys.
It was not uncommon to see them hanging around the school parking lot in velour jumpsuits
after classes had finished.
Neohippies:
The Dave Matthews crowd. These guys were all old buds from Jewish summer camp and would typically hang out in the backyards of the condo buildings their parents lived in, smoking copious amounts of weed and talking about how there was no more acid around anymore. Maybe sublimating their parents' aspirations for them, they rocked kind of a pre-collegiate vibe: Light beer at all the parties, ultimate Frisbee in the park, visors, flip-flops, and khaki shorts year round. The girls they mixed with were generally more low-key about their pot intake and into the tail end of the jam-band spectrum, like Guster and MOE.
Skaters/Alternateens:
The advent of grunge, coupled with skating's rise to mainstream glory, made it acceptable for the type of dudes who earlier might have been burnouts to fraternize with the popular scene—or at least try to fuck their girls. These guys preserved the weed-smoking and long hair of their forerunners—parted buttwise straight down the center—but drifted away from torn-up denim toward bowling shirts and Pac Sun-style skatewear with Etnies or DCs shoes. Thankfully by this time pants were deflating down to more sensible volumes. The majority of these kids were jamming out to middle-of-the-road third-wave ska like Goldfinger and the Suicide Machines.
Sweatpants:
Marching band mostly drew its participants from this pool of saddies, though some of them managed to spread out into the math scene a little bit. Their social development had been permanently arrested at age 11. Their hair was always dirty and messed-up, none of the guys seemed to know how to shave, and they'd wear those shirts that have the front of Bugs Bunny or whoever in a backwards cap and overalls on the front and then his back on the back. The only kids who were a bigger bum-out were the "special needs" students, and at least they were kept in their own wing most of the day and away from everyone's merciless ridicule.
By this time, all the goths were in full-on spooky kid/rave mode, which was actually a little impressive. Hot Topic hadn't hit the local malls quite yet, so all those red pleather bustiers and UFO pants and bondage crap probably took a fair amount of scrounging at some sketchy and out-of-the-way locales to come by. All of them wore kind of tatty, poor-fitting trenchcoats, which caused about three seconds of concern after Columbine. In evidence of their complete obliviousness of being at the absolute ass-end of the pecking order, most did their hair into huge neon red and blue anime swoops then strutted into school with this asshole beacon bobbing on top of their head. A few exhibited a modicum of humility and just went with growing their hair really long on top then shaving up the sides.
RYAN DUFFY, WEST ORANGE NEW JERSEY HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF 2000
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Football and baseball are the big sports still, even though everyone realizes our football team is a joke. Wrestling was big my freshman year, but after that it kind of died out. The jocks will do that thing where they act all tough and try to push people around in the hallways and outside of school, but then the second a teacher or someone's around they're like the biggest suck-ups. In any case they never get into fights, it's all just acting. A big part of it is they don't want to get in trouble with their parents 'cause they'll stop giving them money or take away the Jeep they gave them when they turned 16. They all tend to wear sports shirts and Abercrombie gear and listen to really established white-kid rap like Biggie and Tupac and Dipset.
MATT KOMAR, EDISON NEW JERSEY HIGH SCHOOL, SENIOR
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Caroline Pam and Tim Waite with some of Kitchen Garden Farm's products, now sold across the country.
Caroline Pam gave the jar a half-turn.
That was how she started to answer a question, the one about what makes her company's salsa and sriracha (hot sauce) stand out in a market crowded with competitors.
The answer, or at least a big part of it, was to be found on the back side of the jar in front of her, the one containing Kitchen Garden Farm's ghost pepper sriracha, made from a blend of ghost peppers, red chilies, and habanero peppers — the one with the words 'super hot' and a small skull and crossbones on the front.
Those words on the back — "Our sauces are hand-crafted from organic peppers grown on our family farm" — resonate with many constituencies, said Pam, co-owner of Sunderland-based Kitchen Garden Farm along with her husband, Tim Wilcox. And that helps explain why the product is now sold across the country.
What it doesn't say on the label, although this is also an important part of the company's progress to date, is that these salsas and srirachas are produced and packaged at the Western MA Food Processing Center (WMFPC) in Greenfield, a facility that has helped spawn a number of food labels — and business success stories.
Tucked away in an industrially zoned area about a mile from Greenfield's Main Street, the food-processing center was launched in 2001. It was an ambitious undertaking and a response to a request from the state for a facility to help its agriculture industry and entrepreneurs within the very broad realm of food and beverage take concepts from their farms, family recipe books, and even the proverbial back of a napkin and turn them into business enterprises.
That response came from the Franklin County Community Development Corp., said its executive director, John Waite. He told BusinessWest the agency cobbled together more than $800,000 from various sources to create the commercial kitchen and adjoining warehouse and distribution facilities.
Over the years, more than 350 clients, by Waite's count, have made their way down Wells Street to the center, and collectively they have registered varied amounts of success. Some didn't find much of it for various reasons, he said, noting that there's nothing easy about turning a food or beverage product into a business. But many have, and it has come in different ways.
Some have been using the facilities for years to bring a value-added product, or several, to the marketplace and scale up, sometimes in a big way. Kitchen Garden Farms falls in that category — Pam said the food processing center enabled the farm to go from making 400 bottles a year at a small commercial kitchen it was renting five years ago to 19,000 last year — as does Herrell's Ice Cream in Northampton, which contracts with the center to produce its popular hot fudge sauce for retail sales.
And then, there are those who have done so well, they've 'outgrown' the center, if you will, and created their own production centers.
Topping that list would be Real Pickles, the venture launched by Dan Rosenberg, who started selling batches of organic dill pickles to a few dozen local stores in 2001. He came to the food processing center the following season and started producing value-added products such as organic sauerkraut and ginger carrots and expanding sales across the region. That venture did outgrow the WMFPC and moved into its own facility — right down the street, actually — in 2009.
There's also Hillside Pizza, which also started in 2001, using the center to produce small pizzas used in various fund-raising initiatives. Today, it has three locations, in Bernardston, Hadley, and South Deerfield.
John Waite says the WMFPC supplies pots, pans, and freezer space — but also the many kinds of technical support needed to help entrepreneurs convert food and beverage products into businesses.
Hillside now employs more than 40 people at those locations, said Waite, adding that this number contributes to a larger one — more than 100 by his count — when it comes to the number of jobs created directly or indirectly by the food-processing center, perhaps the best measure of its success, although there are many.
For this issue and its focus on entrepreneurship, BusinessWest paid an extended visit to the food processing center to get, well, a taste of how this unique facility has become a force in efforts to foster entrepreneurship, create jobs, sustain local agriculture, and, yes, put some intriguing products on the dinner table.
When Liz Buxton tells someone she's chief cook and bottle washer, she's not just summoning that battle-worn phrase to describe someone who wears a lot of hats.
She is the chief cook — at least for much of the work that is contracted out to the food processing center — and she also washes bottles on occasion. She also drives the fork truck regularly. And she monitors and repairs equipment. And … well, you get the idea.
As director of operations, she really does wear a lot of hats — although mostly she's in a hairnet, an important part of the dress code at the facility.
And her presence at the center — as well as all those hats she wears — drives home the point that this facility is much, much more than a large, well-appointed kitchen. Indeed, the center is a resource; it exists not to help clients create a large batch of barbecue sauce, jam, salsa or cider, or just to do that. No, it exists to help those clients succeed in business.
This is pretty much what the Mass. Department of Agriculture had in mind when it issued a request for proposals for what it called a 'commercial kitchen' at the start of this century, said Waite, adding that the Franklin Country CDC, in submitting its bid, thought such a facility would be a natural extension of what it was already doing, as well as a means to directly support what was, and still is, a big part of the Franklin County economy — agriculture.
Joanna Benoit says scaling up — taking a family recipe, for example, and turning it into a product and a business — is an involved process for which entrepreneurs need many forms of support.
But the name Western MA Food Processing Center was chosen to reinforce the fact this is, indeed, a regional facility, he went on, adding that there have been several clients from Berkshire and Hampshire counties as well, and even a few from more-urban Hampden County, although not as many as he would like. Meanwhile, some clients drive across the state to reach Greenfield, and still others arrive sporting license plates from Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
The facility meets federal, state, and local standards, and is well stocked with modern equipment, including two 100-gallon and three 40-gallon steam kettles; automated hot-bottling and filling; large-capacity mixers, choppers, and shredders; dry, cold, and frozen storage; a vegetable wash, prep, and blanching area; a quick-freeze production line; vacuum sealers; shared office space and equipment; 24-hour secure access; and more.
But these are only the tools of the trade, said Waite, adding that the center also provides other forms of support, especially all-important help with scaling up and taking a product across the region or even across the country.
"In the beginning, we were going to teach people how to use the equipment and have an FDA-certified kitchen," he explained. "They would come in with their own recipe — they knew what they were doing, we assumed — and we would teach them. And we still have some people doing that.
Still, despite these adjustments the center made, it wasn't seeing many of the region's farmers it hoped would use the facility to make products like tomato sauce, for example, from their tomato crops.
"They said, basically, 'we're not cooks, we're farmers; we don't want to be in the kitchen,'" said Waite, adding that these sentiments inspired those at the WMFPC to add co-packing solutions to its portfolio of services and have hired staff make those products for the farmers who want to devote their time to the fields.
And many businesses, such as the aforementioned Herrell's, have taken advantage of those services, he went on, adding that, through this work, the center became quite adept at all aspects of food production.
This know-how is then passed on to the many clients, like Kitchen Garden Farm and countless others, who travel to the center, rent its facilities for $45 per hour, and handle their own production, said Waite, adding that, as a business venture itself, the WMFPC continues to grow and evolve.
And, thanks to the addition of an $800,000, 2,800-square-foot cold-storage facility last December, the center should succeed with something it has struggled to do — break even on the bottom line, said Waite.
The new storage space will eventually become a solid revenue stream, he went on, adding, for example, that area farmers can now use it as a meat warehouse, rather than traveling to facilities in Westfield, Chicopee, and New York.
When Liz Buxton says she's chief cook and bottle washer at the WMFPC, she means it. Yes, she also drives the fork truck on occasion.
Indeed, he probably did that at least a half dozen times, partially in an effort not to overlook anyone, but also because there are so many of these stories it's easy to lose track — until you see that bottle on the shelf.
• Saw Mill Site Farm, makers of horseradish products, which is still using the WMFPC a dozen years after starting there.
These ventures, which offer some good insight into the very wide variety of products processed at the center, are at various stages in their development, said Waite, but the common thread is that the WMFPC has been an important partner in whatever success they've enjoyed and will enjoy down the road.
And as a partner, again, it provides more than those 100-gallon steam kettles.
And some entrepreneurial spirit, said Joanna Benoit, Food Business Development specialist for the WMFPC, who also wears a number of hats.
Indeed, much if her time is spent managing the ambitious Pioneer Valley Vegetables program, whereby the center processes fruits and vegetables from a number of local farms for sale to a number of clients, including area schools.
But she also helps onboard new clients to the center, assisting them with everything from business-plan creation to marketing to scaling up a product from what is often family-kitchen scope to commercial scale.
And there is a lot that goes into this process.
Elaborating, she said there is much more that goes into it than taking the ingredients from a family and multiplying the amounts for each by 10, 100, or 1,000. It's not that simple.
There are all those other considerations, such as labeling, marketing, branding, and distribution, but there are also the many factors in scaling up that recipe.
And that's where Buxton, chief cook and bottle washer, comes in.
She had spent more than 30 years in the food-service business before coming to the WMFPC, and took an intriguing path to employment there. Indeed, she was working as food and nutrition director for a local school district, and became introduced to the WMFPC when that district started buying produce from it through Pioneer Valley Vegetables.
"When this job came open, I was very interested in it," she recalled, adding that there was a lot to like, especially the opportunity to use her vast experience to help clients reach whatever goals they have set for themselves — and support local agriculture at the same time.
No two days are alike, she told BusnessWest, adding that she works with clients to help them meet FDA and labeling regulations, find the right pH level to maintain proper shelf life without the use of preservatives, and more.
"Many of these things are very hard to do without guidance," she said, adding that the ongoing work of helping clients navigate what can sometimes feel like whitewater is rewarding on a number of levels.
Pam told BusinessWest that Kitchen Garden Farm has a number of ambitious goals for the future. And one of them is to join that list of distinguished clients who have actually outgrown the WMFPV and created their own commercial processing center.
She doesn't know exactly when that will happen — 2019 is the goal — but she's confident that it will.
Meanwhile, one thing she does know is that the food-processing center has played a pivotal role in the farm's profound growth, brand building, and ability to sell its products on both coasts and countless places in between.
As noted many times earlier, and in many ways, there have been a number of success stories like this written over the past 18 years, and the best news is that there still many more waiting to be penned.
That's because the WMFPV provides its clients with all the other ingredients they need to thrive.


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FND 250 | Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: Building an Engaged Online Community
What is peer-to-peer fundraising, and how can nonprofits leverage this strategy to reach new audiences organically, build community, and raise more money online? This course will help participants develop long-term strategies to engage their entire community – donors, volunteers, staff, board members, and beneficiaries – through online platforms, and equip them to become passionate advocates and fundraisers for the organization.
How to conduct a digital audit
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Define peer-to-peer fundraising, crowdfunding, and DIY fundraising.
Explain the steps of the digital fundraising cycle.
Identify motivations for online giving.
Board members, especially those serving on fundraising committees
Fee Freeman is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Fee Freeman Consulting, where she helps nonprofits to develop ethical and engaging digital storytelling strategies and campaigns that raise money, build community, and inspire people to action online. Fee is a bold and creative strategist and storyteller with a decade of experience in nonprofits and political communication, working specifically with refugees, immigrants, young people with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations. She has secured media coverage for nonprofits in top outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN, and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from individuals through online fundraising campaigns. For the last four years, Fee has managed communications, advocacy, and digital fundraising for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Atlanta and served as the Communications Chair of the Coalition of Refugee Service Agencies (CRSA). Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, Fee first came to the U.S. in 2007 when she was selected as a Georgia Rotary Student Program scholarship recipient, and spent a year studying at Georgia Southern University. She went on to earn a BA in Journalism with a Minor in Human Rights from the University of Roehampton in London and a MA in Political Communication from the University of Leeds. Fee was honored to be included in the Green Party of England and Wales '30 under 30' Class of 2012, the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network - Atlanta Chapter '30 under 30' Class of 2018, and the Georgia Center for Nonprofits High Potential Diverse Leaders Class of 2017.


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NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JAMES HATCH, age 50, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to traffic 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced HATCH to a term of imprisonment of 160 months, followed by five years of supervised release.
HATCH is one of eleven defendants charged in a 23-count federal indictment. Specifically, the indictment alleges that HATCH conspired to sell large quantities of methamphetamine with codefendants Stefen Daigle, Jeffrey Clines, Peter Giandalone, Paul Melancon, Julien Polk, James Hatch, Angel Renee Vidaure, Eulalio Torres-Cadenas, Delio Alfredo Lopez-Lopez, Lindsey Lopez, and Jacob Higginbotham. The indictment also alleges a number of individual acts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, as well as firearm offenses for codefendants HATCH, Vidaure, and Lopez-Lopez. Law enforcement developed evidence against this group of defendants using controlled purchases of methamphetamine, traffic stops and seizures, consensually recorded text messages and phone calls, search warrants, cooperator information, and self-incriminating statements.
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Entertainment One Television Enters First Look Deal with Mark Ford and Kevin Lopez' Creature Films for Unscripted Programming
Following a year of rapid growth and success in its Alternative Programming Division, Entertainment One (eOne) is expanding the unit further by entering into a first look agreement with veteran unscripted television and film producers Mark Ford and Kevin Lopez and their Creature Films banner.
Under the deal, Ford and Lopez will bring their industry expertise and instinct for innovative, fresh content to develop and produce unscripted programming with eOne. The announcement was made today by Tara Long, SVP of U.S. Alternative Programming, eOne Television.
"We have strategically built out eOne Television's Alternative programming business in a way that supports our partners and serves as a creative home for top producers to innovate, and we are proud to forge this partnership with Creature Films. We look forward to joining forces with Mark and Kevin to develop and produce a slate of new, original and inspired projects," said Long.
"We're thrilled to join the stellar team at eOne. We feel like it's a match made in heaven and we're excited to dig in and get started on a bunch of interesting projects together," said Ford and Lopez.
Ford and Lopez founded Creature Films as a full service film and television production company in 2004, and together they have produced over one hundred hours of television for many networks including MTV, VH1, Bravo, Oxygen, TV Land, History Channel, and TLC. Their producing and show-running credits include MTV's Laguna Beach and Taking the Stage, VH1's long running Emmy nominated series Behind the Music, Bravo's Kandi Factory and upcoming There Goes the Motherhood. They have also produced and directed acclaimed music documentaries like NWA: The World's Most Dangerous Group, Let's Spend the Night Together, and Uprising: Hip Hop and the LA Riots, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and won multiple awards. They are currently producing a new music biography series called The Ride for MTV International and they have more than a dozen projects in development.
Creature Films joins an esteemed group of producers focused on Alternative programming who hold first look deals with eOne Television, including Kevin Healey (Scare Tactics), who is developing and executive producing David Spade's reality prank show Fameless for TruTV under his deal with eOne, and Riaz Patel (How Do I Look?).
Since eOne Television's US Alternative Programming division launched in 2012, Long and her team have developed and produced an impressive and successful slate of shows, with many additional series in various stages of production and development. The division' slate of successful projects includes Nellyville (garnered BET's #1 non-scripted series among 18-49 year olds over the past two years); It's A Mann's World (BET); Ball Up: Search for the Next (Fox Sports Net); Mary Mary (WE tv); SWV Reunited (WE tv); The Sheards (BET); a series of specials of Big Surprise! on E! Entertainment featuring stars such as Nick Cannon and Macklemore; one-hour biographical special Knight Life with Gladys on OWN; and Chill for TruTV, among others.
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