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FM-ligan i ishockey (finska: Liiga, tidigare Jääkiekon SM-Liiga eller kortformen SM-Liiga) är Finlands högsta division i ishockey.

Historia

FM-ligan, som är en professionell ishockeyserie, hade premiär säsongen 1975/1976 då den ersatte FM-serien i ishockey, som i huvudsak var en amatörserie. De första säsongerna var FM-ligan halvprofessionell. Ytterst få spelare i Finland under 1970-talet hade som heltidsjobb att spela ishockey. De första elva säsongerna kom omkring 900 000 åskådare per säsong och tittade på grundseriematcherna. Säsongen 1986/1987 utökades antalet matcher i grundserien för varje lag från 36 till 44, och säsongen 2000/2001 till 56. Serien utökades till 12 lag säsongen 1988/1989. Under 1990-talet ökade intresset för ishockey i Finland, bland annat genom framgångar för Finlands herrlandslag i ishockey. FM-ligans åskådarantal per säsong ökade till omkring 1,8 miljoner.

I mitten av 1990-talet var alla spelare heltidsanställda och kring år 2000 hade de flesta lagen blivit privata aktiebolag, med undantag av HPK som fortfarande är en registrerad förening.

FM-ligan består av 15 lag. Inför säsongen 2000/2001 "stängdes" FM-ligan, och därmed miste lag i den lägre divisionen Mestis (=FM-serien i ishockey) möjlighet att kvalificera till ligan.

2004 beslutades det att det lag som vinner Mestis ska få möjlighet att flytta upp till FM-ligan. Dock ställdes det krav på att det laget ska ha såväl sportsliga som ekonomiska förutsättningar för spel i högsta serien.

Finländska mästare sedan 1976

Klubbar

Dator- och TV-spel
FM-ligan förekommer i datorspelet Elitserien 2001 tillsammans med lag från Elitserien. FM-ligan har också förekommit i EA Sports NHL-serie sedan NHL 2004 släpptes.

Externa länkar

Ishockey

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Sporting Mischief & Mayhem: Vance Laid Down The Law In Maybe The Greatest World Series Ever
As of Tuesday, October 13, 2015
By Inigo 'Naughty' Zenicazelaya
THE MLB playoffs and World Series are ready to take centre stage with some competitive and entertaining match-ups.
The first round may see all four series going the full five-game set and with the possibilities of some the favourites to win the Series departing earlier than expected. It makes for awesome sports entertainment.
However, I would be remiss if I didn't mention perhaps one of the greatest performances, if not the greatest, in baseball history in any setting.
Adding to its legendary status and place as no.1 above all others, in my opinion, is the fact that it occurred 55 years ago to the day, on October 13, 1960, in the World Series.
Yes, there are tons of memorable, spectacular performances that can be argued as the 'greatest' of all time by the baseball purists, and, yes, we are all entitled to our opinions so nobody's wrong.
I personally feel the aforementioned 'Fall Classic' of 1960 between the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates (the Pirates that Roberto Clemente played on, the same Clemente who we covered in an earlier edition of SMM) was the 'greatest' World Series in baseball history, and that magical, exhilarating, climactic Game 7 made it so.
It was a game that saw the lead change hands four times, most dramatically, of course, with the only Game 7 walk-off home run in World Series history, by Bill Mazeroski.
It was the underdog Pirates, from a blue-collar city bursting with steel mills, and the bright lights, glitz and glam Yankees, with the names Mantle, Berra and Ford sprinkled through the lineup.
It was a game that didn't record a single strikeout (the only time that has happened in World Series history) but there were 24 hits and 19 runs scored.
Despite going to a seventh game, it hadn't been much of a series. The Yankees had won in three blowouts - 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0. The Pirates had won the close games. Pittsburgh, however, did have one advantage. Their ace, Vance Law, was starting; but New York ace 'Whitey' Ford had pitched Game 6, leaving manager Casey Stengel scrambling for a Game 7 starter for the Yankees.
Pirates fans were understandably nervous. Pittsburgh hadn't won a World Series since 1925; the Yankees had won seven of the previous 11. Pirates fans had another reason to be nervous: even though Law had already beaten the Yankees twice, he was pitching on a severely injured ankle that he had hurt during the team's pennant-clinching celebration. Law was Curt Schilling before Curt Schilling, minus the blood-stained socks!
Law went 20-9 that year and would win the Cy Young Award, when only one was given for both leagues. He pitched seven strong innings in Game 1 as the Pirates won 6-4.
In Game 4, he fell behind 1-0 but helped out his own cause with his own two-run double in the fifth that sparked a three-run rally, and pitched into the seventh inning despite the pain, finally giving way to Roy Face, a fork-balling reliever, who finished off the Yankees 3-2 in the Pirates win.
Game 7 got underway with Law starting for the third time. He would again be tough and effective, but after he allowed a single to Bobby Richardson and a walk to Tony Kubek to start the sixth, Pirates Manager Danny Murtaugh went to the mound, and later was quoted as saying: "Winning a World Series is important but not at the cost of ruining a pitcher like Vernon Law." Law was out, Face in. Law left with a 4-1 lead and, eventually, with his third victory joined the elite few to win three times in a single World Series, etching his name in stone alongside names such as Christy Mathewson and Bob Gibson.
The fact that Law logged a full season's worth of innings, en route to his 20-9 record and the Cy Young, he pitched the earlier playoff rounds logging lengthy starts. Couple that with his three impressive World Series outings all on a ruptured ankle tendon (an injury that would require surgery and months of rehabilitation in today's game) and Law has to be given the no.1 spot, or at least a place in the conversation if you happen to disagree with me, when talking about the greatest individual performances in the annals of sports.
Until next week, remember, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Go hard, or go home!
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It depends on where the NJ site is on your server.
Your primary domain's files are at public_html (or shouuld be) and each addon domain has it's own directory (or should) in public_html like public_html/mysite1.com and public_html/mysite2.com So if your NJ site is also an addon domain then the wp-content folder needs to go in that site's folder, not public_htm It shouuld only go directly in public_html if the NJ site is your primary domain.
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Q: Would this JFET+op-amp circuit work? This is Figure 9-3(b) from Motchenbacher - Low-Noise Electronic System Design, so I would expect it to work, but I don't understand it:

The addition of a discrete common-source stage at the input can offer lower noise. Overall negative feedback to the source of a common-source input stage, as shown in Fig. 9-3b, raises the amplifier's input impedance.

It seems like positive feedback to me:

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*Decrease in Vin →

*Decrease in Vgs →

*Decrease in Id →

*Increase in Vd → (like a common-source amplifier so far)

*Increase in Vo →

*Increase in Vs →

*Decrease in Vgs →

*Decrease in Id →

*...

Am I missing something?
For comparison, here's another circuit that is similar, but looks like negative feedback, and has actually been built and works:

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So that picture is from the 1993 edition.  I got my paper 1973 edition off the shelf (no Ctrl+F!), and the equivalent figure is 7-3(b), but with a BJT and the op-amp pins reversed:

Overall negative feedback to the emitter of a common-emitter input stage raises the amplifier input impedance.

This makes more sense to me.  If the collector voltage tries to rise, the op-amp drops the emitter voltage to pull it back down and keep the collector at 0 V.  So I'm thinking the first diagram is just a mistake.

A: I tried your first circuit in LTspice. It didn't work at all as drawn, but works fine with the op amp inputs reversed. I agree with @jbord39 that the pins are reversed in the drawing.

A: I believe the first circuit has DC stability due to the capacitor Cc, and you would get amplification (of ac only) if done right.
The amplification level is closer to the open loop gain of the amplifier, Im not sure where you would use this configuration or if it is incorrectly drawn, but I believe it has a chance of working, although the capacitor would need very low leakage so as to not bias the amplifier into saturation OR require a biasing resistance to trim the bias current out, Im going to guess Cc leakage current is why the spice model of it didnt work.

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Hamlet ****
Hamlet: Dane in Pain
By: JK Clarke
February 16, 2020: There's a moment in the Gate Theatre of Dublin's production of Hamlet (at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn through March 8) when one realizes there are some very different, very unorthodox, things going on in this play.
Ruth Negga, Fiona Bell
February 16, 2020: There's a moment in the Gate Theatre of Dublin's production of Hamlet (at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn through March 8) when one realizes there are some very different, very unorthodox, things going on in this play. No, it's not the appearance of a woman (Ruth Negga) playing the titular role—that's been done, and we'll get to that later. Rather, it's the beginning of the scene when Hamlet visits his mother, Queen Gertrude, in her bedroom, to discuss his madness. Gertrude (Fiona Bell) is wheeled onto the stage on a blood red bed tilted at a 45 degree angle in a pose that can only be described as Christ on the Cross. There's no mistaking it. But why? Is she being sacrificed for the sins of her unkind men? At the very least, the staging is befuddling, and certainly out of the realm of the play's original intent or any known stage directions from the Bard himself. It's just one of several incongruities in this production of Hamlet that is nonetheless quite enjoyable.
Ruth Negga
To be clear, director Yaël Farber (who directed last year's unusual Mies Julie at CSC) doesn't deviate from the script, but there are edits (several scenes are cut and blended together and some famous speeches appear considerably earlier in the play than they're supposed to) and staging that unequivocally announce an interpretation. This is a play about a character bent on righting a wrong, and making others understand what he's doing and why. In the bedroom scene, upon coming down from her cross, Gertrude seems to be ready, readier than in most productions, to take Hamlet as his word. And by the play's denouement, she doesn't need any more convincing. Her usual (and famous) stunned words, "Hamlet, the drink, the drink!" which she utters as she realizes she's been poisoned, are eliminated here; rather, she drinks what she knows to be poison instead of continuing to be complicit in her second husband's great crime.
Despite the play's contemporary setting (reminiscent of the filmed version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2009 version starring David Tenant), featuring characters in contemporary dress—tie-less dark suits with collarless nehru-style shirts, the occasional bowler hat and 50s or 60s style dresses for the women—it is darkly Scandinavian and foreboding, relying on John Torres' moody and powerful lighting to create innumerable extra dimensions on Susan Hilferty's set (she also was responsible for the simple, elegant costumes) which consists of a wall of dark doors (this has been done before) representing perhaps the myriad directions these characters lives could go, depending on which they choose to open . . . "To be, or not to be."
Aoife Duffin, Gavin Drea,
Perhaps this production's greatest asset is the flawless acting and terrific casting. Laertes (Gavin Drea) is swashbuckling and handsome, a bit of a remove from his father Polonius (Nick Dunning), who is here not such a fool as he's often portrayed. Ophelia (Aoife Duffin) is convincingly vulnerable (with a thicker Irish brogue than others, perhaps identifying her as a lower class level than the royals with whom she consorts) and then broken, particularly once she realizes her relationship with Hamlet is over and simultaneously her reputation is destroyed. When she comes unglued, she seems to feel that she may as well seduce anyone who comes along because all will see her as promiscuous anyway. Upon handing out symbolic flowers to all those witnessing her breakdown, she makes sure to hand rue to Gertrude, playing with the double meaning of "regret" and the flower's noted use at the time for causing miscarriages, or abortions. She knows both she and Gertrude have made very bad mistakes in their choice of men.
King Claudius (Owen Roe)—jowly and scowling, walking a delicate line between libertine old goat and evil traitor—is ideally cast. As are the three actors who play both The Players and a trio of ominous Gravediggers (Will Irvine, Ger Kelly, Gerard Walsh), sharing the (usually reserved for one character) famous banter with Hamlet during the "Alas poor Yorick" scene, which is both poignant and effectively hilarious here.
Owen Roe
But it's perhaps one of the best performances of the bunch, Negga's Hamlet, that is the one unfortunate casting choice. Negga is powerful, delivering the seven soliloquies with depth and meaning, but also effectively demonstrating her rage against her uncle, Ophelia or her mother as adeptly as she engages in sword fighting in the final scene. But she doesn't come across as *Hamlet*. Gender isn't the issue. Many women have played Hamlet quite successfully in the past, starting over a hundred years ago with the great Sarah Bernhardt. But Negga is a small woman with a rather high voice who comes across as a pre-adolescent boy, something of a mashup of PeeWee Herman and Ellen DeGeneres. That's not at all who Hamlet is. This isn't a commentary on Negga's acting, which was absolutely stunning. She'd have been better cast as, say, Romeo. Or Richard II. Even Prince Hal. But Hamlet she's not. Either way, her performance is riveting. But Farber has made it Hamlet's play, so it should have been better cast. There's no "Goodnight sweet prince" from Horatio, or the arrival of Norway's army to take control of Denmark. That's all been cut. Instead, Hamlet (and Negga) get the last word. The rest, truly, is silence.
Ger Kelly, Gerald Walsh, Will Irvine
But outside any Shakespeare purists' objections to liberties being taken with the play's interpretation, Farber and company have produced an outstanding, fast-paced and gripping Hamlet—one that will re-inspire audiences' love for the play. In a season with a dwindling number of major Shakespeare productions (so far Theater for a New Audience's Timon of Athens has been the only other), this is raw meat to hungry lions. And it's certainly not to be missed.
Hamlet. Through March 8, 2020 at St. Ann's Warehouse Theatre in Brooklyn (45 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn). Three hours 15 minutes, one intermission. www.stannswarehouse.org
Photography: Teddy Wolff
Gavin Drea, Aoife Duffin, Ruth Negga, Fiona Bell, Owen Roe
The Ensemble (Ruth Negga in the Green Chair)
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Clippers get a rematch against the Grizzlies after excruciating loss
Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley heads the other way after stealing the ball from Clippers point guard Chris Paul in the final seconds Monday.
(Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
By Ben BolchStaff Writer
Reporting from Memphis, Tenn. —
The Clippers didn't have to wait long for a do-over.
Only four days after suffering an excruciating loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, Chris Paul and the Clippers can put the disappointment behind them Friday at FedEx Forum in the quickie rematch.
The enduring image from the Grizzlies' 90-87 victory over the Clippers on Monday at Staples Center was Paul bent over at the waist in frustration and fatigue after Mike Conley poked the ball away for a steal with 1.9 seconds left. Conley went on to make two free throws and the Clippers suffered a second defeat in two games this season against perhaps their most hated rival.
Paul played a nearly flawless game before the final seconds, finishing with 30 points and 10 rebounds, though he described himself as "a dummy" afterward for his failure to take a shot that could have given the Clippers the lead.
On the plus side, the Clippers were not overwhelmed by the interior tandem of Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph even with All-Star forward Blake Griffin sidelined while recovering from elbow surgery.
Gasol had 14 points and Randolph seven after he made only two of 12 shots.
"It was a team effort," Clippers center DeAndre Jordan said of limiting Randolph. "I just tried to make it tough for him playing with length and [Matt] Barnes, C.P., J.J. [Redick] were there making it tough for him as well."
The Clippers have added incentive to beat Memphis because a loss would move them closer to the seventh spot in the Western Conference standings. The likely first-round playoff opponent for the team that finishes seventh?
That's right, the Grizzlies.
A hairy situation
It was a moment to store in the mental vault and pull out next month when the Clippers and Houston Rockets meet again at Staples Center in a nationally televised game.
The Clippers' Paul was defending James Harden with less than a minute left Wednesday night when Paul reached across the Rockets guard's body and appeared to hit Harden's arm.
Harden reacted forcefully, prompting Paul to mimic Harden's response as if Paul was trying to show officials that Harden was flopping on a play that resulted in a foul on Paul. Harden then stepped toward Paul, talking angrily as he moved his famed beard to within inches of Paul's face.
It was a play that could be a flash point in the rivalry between the Clippers and Rockets.
"I don't remember," Paul said after the Clippers' 110-105 loss when asked about the exchange. "I'd have to watch the film."
Jamal Crawford endured a two-month shooting slump before the trade deadline, making more than half of his shots only twice in 33 games. Then the shooting guard learned Feb. 19 that he would remain with the Clippers for the rest of the season.
He has made more than 50% of his shots three times in the four games since, perhaps shedding the mental burden of continually wondering about his status as he tries to win an unprecedented third sixth man of the year award.
Included in his recent performances have been an array of circus shots such as rainbow three-pointers while falling down and crossover dribbles leading to drives to the basket.
Not that those plays are anything special to Crawford.
"Ever since I was younger, those shots I think are difficult for other people — I'm not trying to brag at all — but I don't think they're that difficult," Crawford said. "Sometimes they go in, sometimes they don't, but I'm comfortable taking them."
CLIPPERS VS. MEMPHIS
When: 5 p.m. PST, Friday.
Where: FedEx Forum.
On the air: TV: FS West; Radio: 980, 1330.
Records: Clippers 37-21; Grizzlies 41-15.
Record vs. Grizzlies: 0-2.
Update: Memphis won two of four games on a trip that included a victory over the Clippers but ended Wednesday with a surprising 102-90 loss to the Sacramento Kings. Grizzlies starters Marc Gasol, Mike Conley and Courtney Lee combined to make only 12 of 35 shots in that defeat.
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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999.
Natalie Nakase continues to climb in the Clippers organization
The Clippers trailed the Sacramento Kings by 10 at halftime of their fourth Las Vegas Summer League game, a chance to advance to the eight-team playoffs potentially on the line.
The Sports Report: Kawhi Leonard may not be a Clipper as long as we first thought
Howdy, my name is Houston Mitchell and it's strange having no baseball on to watch in the middle of July.
Cliff Alexander is hoping for another NBA shot, maybe with the Clippers
Cliff Alexander thought he was on the path to NBA stardom in 2014.


A couple of years ago I sold the guitar I used in the original Last Waltz. Last night my friend Cameron Williams who bought it brought the guitar to our Last Waltz 40 show in Red Bank, New Jersey. I used it again -- deeply moved to conquer time.


Stanton said that the Marshall Scholarship program is one of the few programs that allows students to study any subject at the expense of the British government.
With one scholarship, students can study any topic at any university in the United Kingdom without paying a dime, a diplomat told a Marshall journalism class Wednesday afternoon.
"It's a government-funded scholarship that sends students to the U.K. and completely pays for your grad school," said Josh Stanton, deputy head of public diplomacy for the British Government in the United States.
Stanton visited Marshall classes Wednesday to explain how journalism plays a role in his job and to bring awareness to the British Government-funded Marshall Scholarship program.
The name of the Marshall Scholarship has nothing to do with Marshall University and is a "complete coincidence," said Mallory Carpenter, Marshall's program manager of national scholarships.
The application for this scholarship does have a time limit, in regards to a student's graduation.
"You can apply for the scholarship going into your senior year, and then go into the grad program the following year, or you have two years after (undergrad) graduation to apply for the scholarship," Stanton said.
In order to be eligible as a candidate for the scholarship, a student must be endorsed by their university. Stanton said this requires students working with Carpenter to build and submit an application.
Applications will then be looked over by a Marshall Scholarship alumni "selection committee" from one of the eight embassy consulates in the United States, Stanton said.
Chosen applicants will be flown to the embassy to be interviewed by the selection committee, with all expenses paid by the embassy, Stanton said.
The Marshall Scholarship program is one of the few programs that allows students to study any subject at the expense of the British government, Stanton said.
The scholarship could provide a chance for students to immerse themselves in a new culture and to discover a new perspective by meeting new people and furthering their education.
"This is an opportunity to experience a different culture and get to share U.S. culture and West Virginia culture," Carpenter said.
Makaylah Wheeler can be contacted at [email protected].


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Mads Junker (ur. 21 kwietnia 1981 w Kopenhadze) – duński piłkarz występujący na pozycji napastnika. Od 2014 jest zawodnikiem Delhi Dynamos.

Kariera klubowa
Junker zawodową karierę rozpoczynał w 1999 roku w klubie Lyngby BK z Superligaen. Sezon 2000/2001 spędził na wypożyczeniu we Fremad Amager. Potem powrócił do Lyngby. W jego barwach rozegrał w sumie 23 spotkania i zdobył 4 bramki.

Na początku 2002 roku odszedł do Brøndby IF, również z Superligaen. Pierwszy ligowy mecz zaliczył tam 10 marca 2002 roku przeciwko Viborgowi (2:2). W tym samym roku zdobył z nim mistrzostwo Danii. W 2003 roku wywalczył z zespołem wicemistrzostwo Danii, a także wygrał z nim Puchar Danii. W Brøndby Junker grał przez 1,5 roku.

W 2003 roku Junker został graczem zespołu Ølstykke FC (1. division). Rok później przeniósł się do FC Nordsjælland (Superligaen). Zadebiutował tam 25 lipca 2004 roku w zremisowanym 2:2 spotkaniu z Aarhus GF (2:2), w którym strzelił także gola. Barwy Nordsjælland reprezentował przez 1,5 roku.

W 2006 roku podpisał kontrakt z holenderskim SBV Vitesse. W Eredivisie zadebiutował 15 stycznia 2006 roku w przegranym 0:1 spotkaniu z Feyenoordem. 11 lutego 2006 roku w przegranym 1:4 pojedynku z Heerenveen zdobył pierwszą bramkę w Eredivisie.

W 2009 roku Junker został wypożyczony do Rody Kerkrade, a w 2010 roku przeszedł na stałe do tego klubu. W 2012 roku odszedł do KV Mechelen. W 2014 roku został piłkarzem Delhi Dynamos.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Danii Junker zadebiutował 16 sierpnia 2006 roku w wygranym 2:0 towarzyskim meczu z Polską. 11 sierpnia 2010 roku w zremisowanym 2:2 towarzyskim spotkaniu z Niemcami strzelił pierwszego gola w trakcie gry w drużynie narodowej.

Bibliografia

Reprezentanci Danii w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze Lyngby BK
Piłkarze Fremad Amager
Piłkarze Brøndby IF
Piłkarze FC Nordsjælland
Piłkarze SBV Vitesse
Piłkarze Rody JC Kerkrade
Piłkarze KV Mechelen
Urodzeni w 1981
Ludzie urodzeni w Kopenhadze


Israeli born professional jazz pianist Micu Narunsky fell in love with wine while living in France for seven years. His performing career took him deep into the Bordeaux winelands, where he met winemaker Alain Coculet (of Château Phélan Ségur in the St. Estèphe appelation).
Micu's curiosity in the winemaking process led him to visit Château Phélan Ségur during the harvests of 1999 and 2001 and to enrol for courses at the famous Institut d'Œnologie at the university of Bordeaux. There Micu studied with winemaking scholars such as Yves Glories and Denis Dubourdieu.
In 2003 Micu worked as assistant winemaker in the Languedoc region in the south of France at Domaine des Cresses Ricard (awarded the maximum three stars in the prestigious Guide Hachette). It was there that Micu gained his first hands-on winemaking experience, especially with grape varieties such as Syrah (Shiraz), Grenache Noir, Mourvèdre and Carignan. In 2004 Micu moved to South Africa and worked as assistant winemaker at Nabygelegen private cellar in Wellington and in 2005 at the famous L'Avenir wine estate in Stellenbosch under François Naudé (a member of the Cape Winemakers Guild).
It was at L'Avenir that Micu made the first few barrels of his own wine from Portuguese grape varieties Tinta Barroca and Touriga Nacional.
In 2006 Micu ventured on his own to create Micu Narunsky Wines, specializing in premium hand-made wines produced on a very small scale.
Micu makes his wines using the facilities at Stellekaya wine cellar at Bosman's Crossing in Stellenbosch, a few hundred meters from where his grandfather, François Fevrier blended wines and distilled brandy for René Santhagens in the 1920's and 30's (at the historic Oude Molen).
In 2009 Micu was appointed as winemaker of the prestigious wine producer Anatu, specializing in premium wines made predominantly from 'Rhône varietals' (Shiraz, Greanche Noir and Mourvèdre for reds and rosé, Grenache Blanc, Roussanne and Chenin Blanc for white wine).


Glaeser, Edward L, Jose A Scheinkman, and Andrei Shleifer. 1995. "Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities." Journal of Monetary Economics 36 (1): 117-143.
We examine the relationship between urban characteristics in 1960 and urban growth between 1960 and 1990. Income and population growth move together, and both types of growth are (l) positively related to initial schooling, (2) negatively related to initial unemployment, and (3) negatively related to the initial share of employment in manufacturing. Racial composition and segregation are uncorrelated with urban growth across all cities, but in cities with large nonwhite communities segregation is positively correlated with population growth. Government expenditures (except for sanitation) are uncorrelated with growth; government debt is positively correlated with later growth.
Reprinted in Zoltan J. Acs, ed., The Growth of Cities, Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 2006.


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In addition to the Solo game play mode (which pits each gamer up against up to 99 others in a real-time battle), the Duos mode allows gamers to team up with one friend in a quest to defeat all other gamers during a match. Meanwhile, the Squads mode allows teams of four players to enter into a match and work together as they battle against up to 96 other gamers.
The Duos and Squads game play modes are permanent features built into the game, and they've proven to be extremely popular, since Fortnite: Battle Royale is, for the most part, cross-platform compatible. Thus, someone experiencing the game on a PS4 can team up with a PC user, for example, to play against a random section of other gamers, in real-time.
An Encyclopedia of Strategies for Fortniters: Duos and Squads Strategies will be the first book in this unofficial strategy guide series to offer in-depth coverage of Fortnite: Battle Royale's team-oriented game play modes. Thus, this unofficial strategy guide will be chock full of proven strategies and game play tips designed to help teams achieve victory in the Fortnite: Battle Royale matches they participate in.
This expanded (approximately 176-page) guide will include a comprehensive overview of the Fortnite: Battle Royale game, with a special focus on the game's team-oriented game play modes. The full-color book will appeal to readers age 8 and up, regardless of which gaming platform they're using.
Throughout each match, gamers must:
Focus on survival
Avoid the deadly storm
Gather resources
Build structures and fortresses
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Engage in combat against enemy soldiers with the goal of becoming the last person alive at the end of the match
When experiencing any of the team-oriented game play modes, cooperative gameplay (teamwork) and communication with team members become vital. An Encyclopedia of Duos and Squads Strategies will soon be an indispensable resource for gamers experiencing the Duos or Squads game play modes (or any of the other team-oriented game play modes added to Fortnite: Battle Royale on a temporary basis).
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University Magazine Winter 2018
We Should've Known
Deborah Dudley
I love the phrase, "you don't know what you don't know." It has always been my go-to mantra whenever I need to alleviate the guilt of having missed something important in an article. Of course, the University Communications team works very hard to know what we need to know in order to inform and connect alumni and provide important news and information to all of our readers. But, sometimes we miss things. And, when those things are revealed, they often seem so obvious. We should've known.
I honestly appreciate when readers contact us to let us know what we don't know. Like everything else in St. Lawrence magazine, what we missed in the last issue has everything to do with Laurentian connections. In this case, the connection between Fenway Farms and two St. Lawrence alumni, Mark Winterer '02 and Brendan Shea '04, who designed and built the gardens seeded atop the Gate A entrance of Boston's Fenway Park. (see Fall 2017, pgs. 36-37)
Winterer and Shea are the founders of Recover Green Roofs, a company of green roof professionals, landscape designers, horticultural specialists, and craftsmen who transform low-use sites into working green spaces throughout the Northeast.
They met at St. Lawrence in 2000 through the Outdoor Club, building giant sleds for the annual Snow Bowl Extravaganza and became friends while living in the Outing Club theme cottage. They continued to be roommates after graduation before Winterer departed for graduate school in Nashville.
"While I was in school, Brendan used to bounce ideas off of me," says Winterer. "He helped me put together a business model for composting toilets in Bangladesh that a Bangladeshi investor wanted to finance."
Prior to the company's launch, Winterer and Shea each acquired years of experience in industries focused on responsible leadership and business practices, innovative technologies, and sustainable engineering and construction practices. By 2009, their combined talents were formidable.
"Brendan called me after I graduated from business school and asked me to help him start a green roof business in Boston," says Winterer. "Eight years later, we've made the Emerald City greener and have ten full-time and ten part-time employees!"
Since starting Recover, Winterer and Shea have been transforming the urban landscape one building at a time, and their team has been involved in the design, build, or maintenance of more than 100 green roofs and walls throughout the Northeast. The company works with commercial, residential, and institutional clients from elementary schools to universities and hospitals to private residential developments helping each of them capitalize on the engineering, energy savings and harvests of green installations. Opened in 2015, Fenway Farms is a good example: Managed by Green City Growers, the garden is a 7,000-square-foot rooftop farm providing 4,000 lbs. of organic produce to Fenway Park's EMC Club restaurant.
I had to laugh when Winterer called about the photo of the gardens. The magazine staff had been back and forth about whether or not to use it for the SLU Connect-Boston program article and kept asking ourselves, "What's the connection?"
I was a fan of the garden shot because it showed how students were getting a behind-the-scenes look at Fenway operations and the innovative business model of having a rooftop garden and farm-to-table supply in such an iconic facility. What we missed was that the real story was the behind-the-scenes of the behind the scenes. It was the story of two Laurentians who met in Canton, New York, building giant sleds as students and who went on to build an innovative business that is out in front of urban gardening, green architecture, and engineering and sustainability.
When I hung up the phone after hearing Mark and Brendan's story, I couldn't help but think, there is always a Laurentian connection.


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AtascaderoSt. Joseph
The St. Joseph (Santa Maria, CA) varsity baseball team won Monday's home conference game against Atascadero (CA) by a score of 1-0.
Atascadero (21-22)
Athlete Name
Team Totals .087 23 23 0 2 0 0 1 0
2 Brady Page (Sr) .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Johnnie DeBrum (Jr) .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Jack Thompson (So) .333 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
5 Jake Hixenbaugh (Jr) .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Sean Davis (Sr) .500 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
9 Evan Moscardi (Sr) .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Drew Cappel (So) .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Curran Hoxie (Sr) .000 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 Donovan Kerr (Jr) .000 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Hunter Hammond (So) .000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
SH/B
Team Totals 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 2 .087 .173 .261
2 Brady Page (Sr) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
3 Johnnie DeBrum (Jr) 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
4 Jack Thompson (So) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .666
5 Jake Hixenbaugh (Jr) 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
8 Sean Davis (Sr) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 1.500 2.000
9 Evan Moscardi (Sr) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
12 Drew Cappel (So) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
14 Curran Hoxie (Sr) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
22 Donovan Kerr (Jr) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
24 Hunter Hammond (So) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
Baserunning
Team Totals 1
4 Jack Thompson (So) 1
Team Totals .875 24 18 3 3 0
2 Brady Page (Sr) 1.000 3 3 0 0 0
3 Johnnie DeBrum (Jr) 1.000 6 6 0 0 0
4 Jack Thompson (So) .500 2 1 0 1 0
5 Jake Hixenbaugh (Jr) .667 3 0 2 1 0
9 Evan Moscardi (Sr) 1.000 4 4 0 0 0
12 Drew Cappel (So) 1.000 2 2 0 0 0
14 Curran Hoxie (Sr) .667 3 1 1 1 0
22 Donovan Kerr (Jr) 1.000 1 1 0 0 0
Team Totals 0.00 0 1 .000 1 0
22 Donovan Kerr (Jr) 0.00 0 1 .000 1 0
24 Hunter Hammond (So) 0 0 1 0
Team Totals 6 3 1 0 1 6 0 24 23
22 Donovan Kerr (Jr) 6 3 1 0 1 6 0 24 23
Team Totals .130 .167 1 0 88 0 0 3
22 Donovan Kerr (Jr) .130 .167 1 0 88 0 0 3
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St. Joseph (21-22)
St. Joseph has not entered stats for this game.
California High School Baseball - St. Joseph sneaks past Atascadero
May 9, 2022: Santa Maria, CA 93455
The St. Joseph Knights (Santa Maria, CA) baseball nipped the visiting Atascadero Greyhounds (Atascadero, CA), 1-0 in Monday's league contest.
Coming up next, the Knights play the Atascadero Greyhounds (Atascadero, CA) in a Mountain contest, on Wednesday, May 11. St. Joseph will attempt to better on its 9-17 season record. The Greyhounds enter the contest with a 6-17 record after their 1-0 league loss to St. Joseph (Santa Maria, CA).
The Greyhounds now sport a 6-17 record. They take the field next when they host St. Joseph for a Mountain contest on Wednesday, May 11. Atascadero will play a Knights squad coming off a 1-0 league win over Atascadero (Atascadero, CA). The Knights record now stands at 9-17.
Sec. Div.
League %
8-19-1 5-13 6-9-1 2-10 .304 .278 110 216
Atascadero 1.0 .4 .4 .6 .5 .9 .2 0 3.0 3.9 7.8 2.7
St. Joseph .5 1.0 .6 .4 .6 .5 .4 0 - 3.9 6.0 2.1
St. Joseph won on 5/9/2022
5/9 @ 4:30p
The Atascadero (CA) varsity baseball team lost Monday's away conference game against St. Joseph (Santa Maria, CA) by a score of 1-0.
Atascadero won on 5/11/2022
The St. Joseph (Santa Maria, CA) varsity baseball team lost Wednesday's away conference game against Atascadero (CA) by a score of 5-3.
St. Joseph won on 5/13/2022
The Atascadero (CA) varsity baseball team lost Friday's away conference game against St. Joseph (Santa Maria, CA) by a score of 6-0.
#1 Skyler Silva.419
#5 Jake Hixenbaugh.456
#10 Jaden Grosz1.000
#12 Drew Cappel.500
Common Opponents
Common Opp. Rec.
Atascadero 4-13 St. Joseph 7-9
2/24/22 Atascadero Nipomo (L) 6-2 3/15/22 Nipomo St. Joseph (L) 2-1
3/2/22 San Luis Obispo Atascadero (W) 8-7 3/9/22 St. Joseph San Luis Obispo (L) 3-1
4/6/22 Atascadero San Luis Obispo (L) 6-5 5/4/22 San Luis Obispo St. Joseph (L) 6-3
4/8/22 San Luis Obispo Atascadero (L) 17-5 5/6/22 St. Joseph San Luis Obispo (W) 7-2
3/10/22 Stockdale Atascadero (L) 16-2 3/1/22 St. Joseph Stockdale (L) 14-1
3/14/22 Arroyo Grande Atascadero (L) 13-2 3/21/22 St. Joseph Arroyo Grande (L) 5-4
3/16/22 Atascadero Arroyo Grande (L) 5-3 3/25/22 St. Joseph Arroyo Grande (L) 10-0
3/18/22 Arroyo Grande Atascadero (W) 5-3
3/21/22 Righetti Atascadero (L) 13-2 3/30/22 Righetti St. Joseph (L) 9-1
3/23/22 Righetti Atascadero (L) 7-2 4/1/22 St. Joseph Righetti (L) 12-2
3/25/22 Righetti Atascadero (L) 12-3 4/2/22 Righetti St. Joseph (W) 7-2
3/30/22 Templeton Atascadero (W) 8-7 4/25/22 Templeton St. Joseph (L) 4-1
4/1/22 Atascadero Templeton (W) 5-0 4/27/22 Templeton St. Joseph (W) 9-4
4/1/22 Atascadero Templeton (L) 8-3 4/29/22 St. Joseph Templeton (W) 10-1
4/25/22 Atascadero Paso Robles (L) 5-2 4/4/22 St. Joseph Paso Robles (W) 10-0
4/27/22 Paso Robles Atascadero (L) 8-2 4/6/22 Paso Robles St. Joseph (W) 3-1
4/28/22 Atascadero Paso Robles (L) 10-1 4/8/22 St. Joseph Paso Robles (W) 10-6


On July 25, 2017, BILSTEIN Cold Rolling Mill, parent company of the family-owned BILSTEIN GROUP in Hagen, Germany, awarded SMS group the order to supply a complete four-high reversing cold mill. This high-performance cold rolling mill is designed for reduction and skin-pass (RCM/SPM) operations. The SMS group plant design combines powerful, robust mechanical systems with intelligent, future-oriented process control.
BILSTEIN will receive a high-performance reversing cold mill of the proven CVC® plus design featuring the well-established X-Pact® electrical and automation system. The RCM/SPM is designed to roll and skin-pass a wide range of demanding materials in widths between 600 and 1,350 millimeters and minimal final thicknesses of up to 0.20 millimeters. The plant will be able to roll and skin-pass 290,000 tons of cold strip annually.
In order to achieve the required performance as well as reliable and efficient rolling, the four-high stand will be equipped with small-diameter work rolls. The Sieflex® HT drive spindle, designed to transmit extremely high torques via small-diameter work rolls in order to achieve great pass reductions, even with higher-strength materials, is among the system's many highlights. Another feature of the plant will be the X-Shape flatness measuring and control system, which plays a crucial role in achieving outstanding flatness results.
Special characteristics of the plant include its future-oriented upgradability, allowing, for example, innovative rolling assistance systems to be integrated or the degree of automation to be increased in the future. Process reliability and output will be further enhanced as a result.
Alongside the cold rolling mill and its auxiliary equipment, the peripheral equipment, such as the demineralized water unit, fire extinguishing system, closed cooling water circuit and air treatment systems for balanced shop air management, including preheating and heat recovery, is part of SMS group's scope of supply.
SMS group is also responsible for final erection and commissioning of the new plant. BILSTEIN will benefit from the extensive pre-erection work and tests performed in the SMS group's Hilchenbach facility. This also includes the full assembly of the mill stands as well as testing of the hydraulic valve stand and the hydraulic positioning system. Only previously tested units will be delivered to the customer. All automation hardware and software will be commissioned in advance in the SMS group test field. As part of these Plug & Work tests, BILSTEIN's personnel will also receive prior training in the operation of the plant. All these measures will ensure quick and smooth assembly and commissioning and a fast plant startup, and guarantee that BILSTEIN will be able to produce marketable material on the new RCM/SPM from September 2019.
The cooperation between SMS group and BILSTEIN will extend beyond the equipment installation. Both partners aim to establish a long-term partnership based on process-oriented service engineering. The objective of this cooperation is to drive forward the future-oriented systematic refinement of the plant and related processes towards greater system integration.
Performance, process efficiency and sustainability are features characterizing BILSTEIN's new combined reversing cold rolling and skin-pass mill and making it one of the most advanced plants of its kind worldwide.
Illustration of the concept for the new combined reversing cold rolling and skin-pass mill for BILSTEIN.


He 'gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist' (Romans 4:17)!
We see Him doing that right from Genesis 1! What is more mind-blowing though, is that He calls us to do the same. Jesus told His disciples to go and heal the sick and raise the dead. The Lord told Ezekiel to prophesy over a dead nation so it would rise again into a mighty army. The gift of prayer is given to us to call things that don't yet exist into existence with Him.
Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like the loud peals of thunder, shouting "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns".
Our voice can be one with His voice! He wants us to speak into the desert and bring fruit, into the dead and bring life!
We in Nations feel that we are coming into a new season. For around twenty years we have been working to help birth and nurture indigenous mission movements. This will not change. It is a great privilege and a calling that we cherish. We are basically called to help others succeed. However, the ways and means and speed at which these things can happen will change with the seasons and with what we allow the Lord to do through us.
One of the principles that Rowland Evans, our founder, put into us, was the concept of honouring the seed of 'life' that the Lord has put into each person. That seed may just be in the form of a longing or a groaning that, when nurtured and encouraged, will find its way into a visible work of God.
As a result of providing this 'seedbed' approach, where people can safely express their heart, their longings and their fears, new works have been started, and we have had the joy of blessing many people into their next steps.
We feel that there is a 'spring' season coming now after what has been a long winter. It is time to call things into existence! Things that are not yet, or at least are not seen yet. It is an exciting period of discovery. There are new mission movements to be born. There are books to be written. There are new people to join our team. Some of them we are already aware of, some we haven't yet discovered.
In this letter we can't cover everything that is happening with all our 'family' of mission movements, but we would like to give you some highlights.
... a Korean mission movement, started from a dream in leader 'Jake', now has more than 100 missionaries and trainee missionaries in different parts of the world (Asia, Europe and the Middle East). Jake will often start with young and/or broken people, and encourage them to find what the Lord has planted in them. He and his team, with input from the Nations team, help them to call it into being. After months of research and 'spying out the land' they are just about to launch their first team into Germany.
This January Frontline Nations will be running their first English-speaking 'Introduction to Mission' course in our Llanelli base. In this new season they feel they should stretch out to help train and mobilise into mission, people of other nationalities as well as Koreans.
... is one of the first mission movements Nations helped to birth, and the 'mother' movement of much of the Korean work we are associated with. Years ago they moved their HQ from Llanelli to a city in Turkey. They are still at work there and in other Middle Eastern and European nations, but recently have been offered a building in Shrewsbury (UK). This will be used to train young people in mission and using business in mission. It will also become a prayer and worship base.
... have had another successful summer training people how to witness to Arabs and then leading outreaches in London. Hundreds of Arabs have received literature or DVDs etc. Many have had personal conversations. Some have made commitments and a new discipleship group has been formed.
Some of the people they have trained have gone on to continue witnessing in Turkey, Syria and Egypt. They testify of amazing hunger for the truth in the Middle East and say that the only thing restricting more people coming to the Lord is a lack of workers.
EMP are now holding regular meetings for workers to share the opportunities and learn from each other. They are also holding some training in Middle Eastern nations. Invitations for them to send teams are coming in from all over Europe at the moment, especially in the light of the refugee crisis.
Another new project in this new season is the development of a TV series for the Middle East that they want to make in co-operation with Nations. Our working title is 'Potential: You can change the World'. We hope to speak to the longing innate in everyone that our lives are meant to be meaningful, and that there is only one way to find the true meaning of life. If you are interested in knowing more about this project, or would like to support it in some way, please do get in touch.
... Though, with all our hearts, we would like to report a new 'spring' season here, it seems that this beautiful land and people are still locked in winter's cycle of destruction and death. Some of the missionaries we work with have lost loved ones. Many have had their homes ransacked or even burnt down. They suffer along with the general population as anarchy rules and the blood-letting continues whilst the international community of 'peace keepers', for the most part, simply stand and watch. However, in the midst of it all, Nations en Marche, the mission movement we are involved with, is a shining light, and because of them many are finding practical help as well as comfort, hope and faith.
... our ninth Celebration for the Nations took place in Korea last August. This worship intercession gathers people from the nations to worship together for a week. The Lord has told us to gather the people together so that He could give us water (Numbers 21:16-18). Our part is to worship, to 'sing' to the wells of His purpose.
For seven years we were in Wales, interceding, worshipping, working alongside local churches, evangelising and believing that the Lord will again come in revival power. This work continues through the Celebration Mobile Team, local meetings and street worship.
For the last two years, the Celebration has been in Korea. The Welsh Revival of 1904 was very linked with the Korean revival of 1907 which started in Pyongyang, now the capital of North Korea. Our worship intercession is for reunification and revival. Again this work is continuing in Korea, as well as other nations, in worship, prayer and evangelism.
... Nic and Louise Vanderlinde are joining us from Canada at the beginning of next year. Louise's family is originally from the Llanelli area. They are leaving children and grandchildren on the other side of the world and following the Lord's calling to join us in Llanelli, first helping with Celebration for the Nations Israel, but also becoming a part of the Nations family. They are still waiting on the Lord to discover if this is a long-term direction for them. Please pray with Nic and Louise for all they will need emotionally, spiritually and financially as they move forward with the Lord.
... The Joo family, Hyun il and Jung Sun and their two boys, were due to join us last summer. Then Jung Sun developed cancer. They have stayed in Korea for her treatment, and are involved in helping Celebration for the Nations from that end at the moment. Please stand with us for her healing.
In our season of new beginnings, Nations ran its first ever CrossRoads week in October. Nine people, of six nationalities, who wanted to go deeper with the Lord, joined us for a week of teaching, community living and discovery. It was a wonderful, restful time for all of us as we sought the Lord together. Everyone left with a deeper sense of God's presence and calling.
... I just want to say "Thank you" from the bottom of my heart to the Nations team for taking the trouble of organizing CrossRoads and for all the teaching and fellowship you provided. Thank you also to all my fellow students, you all taught me so much!
... (I) arrived absolutely exhausted. My first night in St Elli was truly transformative; I would say my health, vitality etc improved overnight from about 50 to 85%!
... Thank you all so much for my time at CrossRoads, it was indeed transformative and gave me the direction I sought.
A growing work means more space is needed to house and train people. Praise God for finance given recently that will enable us to replace the fire escape in St Elli House giving proper safe access to redevelop the top floor of this accommodation. We will do this bit by bit as finance comes in. We see that we will soon need more training space as well and are praying for answer on this!
Next week, 23rd – 27th November we have our team retreat ion Llanelli. Both teams, Wellingborough and Llanelli, will meet to seek the Lord, and to evaluate before Him where we are now and where we feel He is leading us. Please remember us in prayer.
We don't say it enough, but we really appreciate all of you who stand with us in prayer and in other practical ways!


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RAMP–SCREW ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME.
Posted on February 24, 2019	by asknod
I was running into somewhat of a pickle on the 20th of February. With the inauguration of the new RAMP program (aka Appeals Modernization Act or PL 155-15), I was in a quandary as to what to do. I dutifully read Chris Attig's thesis on which VA form to use but had to face this controversy on my own. I had a client whom I filed a supplemental claim for (loss of use of the upper extremities) on Saturday-well past the cutoff date for legacy appeals. This put me into the new program with that loaded moniker "Appeals Modernization Act". That's like military rations. Remember the misnomer (and three lies in one) of MREs? Meals as defined by whom? Ready as in "some preparation required" and Eat as in questionable cuisine versus high quality dog food. We used to sit around in Southeast Asia in the evenings idly conjecturing on what the "C" in c-rations stood for. Cardboard, contaminated and a few other sobriquets came to mind. I once almost opened and ate my personal favorite-canned peaches- until someone noted that the can was swollen and misshapen. Baaaaad idea- as in ptomaine poisoning. Gosh. What happened to safety in canning? The peaches were only eighteen years old. I'd eaten many with a 'born on' date of 1952. This one was 1956.
As with anything you do in VAland, it pays to read all the literature VA mails you. Gone are our old friends the VAF 21-526b and the newer VAF 21-0958-after February 14th. Yeppers. You no longer file a notice of disagreement (NOD) on a VA Form 21-0958… well, that is, if you got the decision before February 14th , 2019, yes you do..VA quit work on the 14th and began again on the 19th so any decision on or after February 19th fall into the new AMA system. The use of the 0958 ceased on February 14th, 2019 at midnight for what was then RAMP. Confused yet? You now have what appears to be two 21-0958-like choices. In reality, the truth is you are going to be funneled into two equally distasteful scenarios. Either one is a poor fit compared to the old method. But first, let's look at the demise of our venerable VA Form 21-526b.
The New 526EZ as a Initial Supplemental Claim
At first glance, as Mr. Attig pointed out, you have to file another 21-526EZ in its stead because the 526b is no longer valid or recognized by VA. Talk about a time waster. If VA can't find their ass with a methane detector as it is, what hope do we have they will be able to "construe" your intent using a 526EZ refiling as a "supplemental brand new claim' (which is inextricably intertwined) with your pending claim? I can see your earlier assigned effective date of claim going down the drain immediately. It will take six months of haggling to correct it. Meanwhile, while it's in contention, your claim goes nowhere. Remember that intent to file you put in last July 2018? Gone with the wind, Cowboy. Why, you just asked VA to reopen it last week with your new 526EZ. VA assumes you are abandoning the original filing and asking for a new reopening. Screw July '18, dude. You clearly and unmistakably asked VA to start over. VSOs do this fairly regularly to speed up a NOD. In essence, you just abandoned the present claim and opted in to a new, Fully Developed Claim (FDC) to avoid that 24-month delay, a new denial and a SOC. Hoo, doggies. Welcome to the new AMA, Jose. Remember the Who song "Won't Get Fooled Again"? Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Phase II-the New "NOD" Format
The Supplemental Claim Path
The only thing that changed on February 19th, 2019 was VA's introduction of three new forms- the VAFs 20-0995, the 20-0996 and the 10182. They also finally opened the path promised us a year ago to go directly from a denial at your local Fort Fumble to the BVA. This essentially is all that has transpired. RAMP and Legacy closed down on February 14th. A week went by and now we have the AMA. As most know, VA is fond of rebranding their products to make it look as though they have magically reinvented the wheel as we know it. I remember back in the 90s when McDonnell Douglas' DC-9s began having troubles staying airborne. The repair order was simple-rebrand it as the MD 80. Poof. Gone was the onus of a problem aircraft and all the negative PR. It simply metamorphosed into a butterfly with a new name. As you will read below, this is exactly what is afoot. But worse, there's a subtle difference between the legacy system and the new RAMP that does not portend well.
The duty to assist has taken a mortal blow. I speak of our first newly developed Appeals Management Act -AMA for short- VA Form 20-0995. Read the instructions below that accompany the new form and note that you now have to provide "new and relevant" evidence to continue your notice of disagreement. In the old legacy system, you could simply file your VAF 21-0958 NOD without any new evidence-material, relevant or otherwise- and complain of whatever inequity they had visited on you without the submission of new evidence to buttress (and justify) your disagreement. VA says switching the term 'relevant' for 'material' is merely an upgraded semantic reality. They assure us the terms are interchangeable. 'Relevant' is simply more 21st Century in VA's mind and won't confuse low-intelligence Veterans. If so, why the need for an update? We've managed to stumble through this process since the War of 1812 without any semantic confusion. We shall see. There's far more here than meets the eye as I point out. Summed up, to file your NOD, you need something new that VA has never seen before. If you have nothing new, the default setting is the new Higher Level of Review (HLR) lane. It doesn't pass my smell test as being "modernized". It smacks of a lack of due process. It reeks of a failure in the duty to assist. You can't ask VA to go back to a VA hospital in West LA to retrieve 'new and relevant' evidence. No sir. Welcome to the new VA-inspired Fox TV series-Roadtrip…with children. You get in your car, drive to LA and get it yourself. Duty to assist? We don't have no stinkin' duty to assist.
I had you all going there for a spell. No, if you tell VA precisely where these records are at which VA hospital/medical clinic/psychiatric ward or other private provider, they'll go get them. The kicker in the small print says they won't pay for them. Obamacare started a huge new industry of records reproduction providers. VA isn't going to pay Franciscan Health $150 for a complete, unredacted set of your medrecs so you're doomed to failure by presuming they will. But, as I said, you can go to back there and get them yourself or figure out how to get them mailed to you.
Supplemental Claim Instructions
VAF20-0995 SCF
The Higher Level of Review (HLR) Path
I fear the new HLR appeals track many of you Veterans are soon going to end up taking by default. Not everyone has a reservoir of endless new and relevant evidence to delve into and present to VA. Remember the VA admonishes us to submit everything we have to them at the beginning. This is akin to asking for a Decision Review Officer review (the old DRO review)-with the notable difference that you are going to attempt to argue for a favorable decision with nary a shred of new evidence. Of course, if you suddenly find you have new and relevant evidence that might hope to convince her/him, you can't opt out of the HLR path and switch over to the supplemental path! I have yet to see a favorable DRO review without some new exculpatory evidence that will sway your rater into granting your claim. I make exceptions for CUE claims if you have a 38 CFR cite like §3.951 that is unequivocal. Twenty years cannot be construed otherwise. With that said, I had a Vet with 27-year protected claim reduced from 20 to 0% after a DRO review. I even called the DRO in Houston and told her what was going on. She said thanks and pushed the "Rating Decision Complete" button. That's the new HLR reality.
Essentially, a Higher Level of Review (HLR) is nothing more than a new decision made by anyone higher (in GS rating) than the gomer who did your initial rating denial. How's that for semantic sleight of hand? It certainly does not confer on you the former legacy model of rating by a true RVSR or DRO with much more experience. It might be (and probably will be) that you're going to get that HLR from a GS-12, step 8 VSR rather than the GS-12, step 2 VSR who did it the first time. In any event, it's going to be far less than a true HLR with a GS-13 step 5 regardless of what that HLR moniker implies. This is what many experienced litigators call the "What part of 'no' is it you don't understand?" VA attitude. HLR opens up vast ratings resources for waaaay more VA raters to pretend to be more intelligent and versed in the machinations of VA law. This is the 'new' way VA is clearing out the backlog of DRO reviews. Everybody dresses up like a DRO and begins rating your claims like one. Bingo. No more backlog. Well, no more backlog at your local Fort Fumble, anyway. Keep in mind, also, that VA took 10 (count 'em- ten) Regional offices offline- out of the business of rating claims and appeals. Their production was focused only on RAMP appeals until February 14th. That was a pretty light workload for 3,000 raters because very few of you "opted in" to RAMP. Things will pick up now that the AMA is the only game in town. Remember, RAMP and Legacy are now finished. There is no RAMP opt-in. Legacy is gone with the wind. The only game in town is now the AMA.
Boiled down to its essence, everyone above a GS-12 step 5 is now essentially a de facto designated HLR reviewer and that's all she wrote. I can't begin to count how many pissed off Vets who suddenly came to the realization that switching over to RAMP last summer garnered them nothing more than an expedited denial by an inexperienced reviewer. The downside was that they had to sign their legacy appeals path away and are (prematurely) permanently stuck in the AMA with no exit. Granted, that is all water under the RAMP bridge now as of February 19th, but opting in to the earlier HLR path mistakenly dissuaded them from staying in the legacy system or choosing to submit new and 'relevant' evidence under the Supplemental claims path. Their only option after an HLR denial is to take the long road to a BVA-expedited AMA appeal, submit that new independent medical opinion they neglected to obtain and wait all over at the BVA for what they perceived earlier as the pronto repair order for a two-year wait locally. Can you say bait and switch?
HLR Instructions
VAF 20-0996 HLR
The Transition From Old NOD to New NOD
If you aren't lost yet, hold on. If you are still in the old, original Legacy system, and recently got a decision but have not yet filed a NOD, you will continue to use the old VAF 21-0958. You will have to wait for a grant or a denial and the issuance of a SOC or SSOC in order to opt into the new AMA system. At that time you would logically choose the Board of Veterans Appeals option and get the hell out of your local Funhouse.
The New AMA BVA NOD Path
This reform is now essentially the most important new arrow in a Veteran's legal quiver. I intend to use it extensively for all my claims- most especially CUE claims. Yes. I'm a sucker. Many of you come to me with really egregious examples of getting screwed back in 1970. You could have been creamed by a satchel charge or a 60mm mortar like Butch Long of LZ Cork fame and been given a 10% "gift" for a moderate SFW wound from your magnanimous ratings board at the Puzzle Palace in Whacko Texas. Whereas, in reality, you took SFWs in 8 muscle groups and the records are unequivocal this was the case. In Butch's case. they solved this in 1970 by avoiding going back to St. Louis and getting his STRs from the NPRC. How his records avoided the Friday the 13th July 1973 barbecue was pure luck. Here's the info on the new BVA direct NOD procedure. It's the only substantial reform I can see that is positive. The other two above can only be seen as regressive measures to limit our ability to fight our denials equitably.
And be careful. You don't send a BVA NOD Appeal to Janesville, Wisconsin 53547. No sir. You have to mail it directly to the Board of Appeals or it will probably end up in the dead letter office.
Here's the address:
Board of Veterans Appeals
Wash. D.C. 20038
or fax 844-678-8979
And here are the instructions that come with the BVA NOD path.
BVA NOD Instructions
VAF 10182 BVA review
There's a lot of debate on just how "expedited" the BVA process will be. Many BVA staff attorneys have been burdened with far too heavy an appeals load and suffer from burnout. Worse, the BVA taskmasters all but advocate their staff ignore de novo review and 'gitterdone'- and be quick about it, mind you. I can't imagine being sold down the river like this. The Big Six VSOs (DAV, VFW, VVA etc.) all pushed this AMA/RAMP crap hard. Congress, in 1989, via the VJRA specifically granted us "one review on appeal". To me that ensures an unbiased, fair, de novo review-not the new 'in by 10, out by 3' Chinese laundry approach.
Speed of adjudications, and by extension, appeals, should emphasize correctness. As it stands, 67% of all decisions at the agency level in Regional Offices are riddled with errors. The CAVC implies it's as high as 74%. Speeding up the process almost guarantees even more errors. The reason is simple. Let's say you live in Seattle. The National Work Queue (NWQ) instituted several years ago created a miasma of fustercluck mini-adjudications. A claim is dumped into a Bingo Ball hopper where a rater in Sioux Falls, S.D. pulls it out and checks to see if you were boots on the ground in Vietnam to ensure your entitlement to Agent Orange claims. S/he promptly throws it back in the hopper as ineligible. Your 214 did not specifically say 'stationed in RVN'. You could have a Purple Heart listed on it and still lose. Another rater in Jackson, Mississippi pulls it out a month later and schedules you for a c&p exam- hopefully in Seattle- based on your qualifying under a "direct" Combee path. I've heard of Vets being asked to travel to Portland, Oregon to attend the c&p. After the results come back 60 days later, another rater in San Diego pulls it out of the NWQ and anoints it as RFD (ready for decision). Note the San Diego rater doesn't actually do the rating. S/he merely certifies it as ready. Several months later, another rocket scientist in Winston Salem, N.C. will state there was no evidence you had served in ARPAC. You file a NOD with evidence of your having "stepped foot on the landmass of Vietnam" (so much for VA comprehension of the English language). 26 months later , you get the 10% rating for prostate cancer as you are recovering from the prostate surgery that removed the objectionable gland. You file a new 0996 for the 100% temporary surgery rating and then the 40% rating due you and wait another 125 days (if you believe VA). If you're lucky and the prostate cancer doesn't metastasize into your bones and kill you, you might survive long enough to enjoy the money. Or… they give you the 40% but deny the 100% temp. rating for the surgery and you have to appeal to the BVA. The error possibilities are endless. That's how the M 21 was constructed.
The RAMP cum AMA, coming on the heels of the NWQ and the FDC, is an ugly harbinger of things to come. VA was screwing this up before the advent of the FDC without any trouble. With the advent of RAMP last year, they proposed going to lightspeed. As of Tuesday the 19th of February, I see nothing to prevent a 98% error rate. I will reserve judgement until I begin receiving BVA decisions under the new program. If the error rate at the AOJ level was any indication after the introduction of the 125-day, 98% FDC-guaranteed accuracy rate, the AMA may prove to be an unmitigated disaster.
How the BVA hopes to create a streamlined Fully Developed Appeal process that eliminates a 3-7 year delay is the million dollar question. I, for one, am an undying optimist but reserve judgement until all the facts are in and a track record is established. How VASEC Robert "Call me Bob 2" Wilkie intends to generate more decisions faster with the exact same number of Veterans Law Judges (VLJs) should be intriguing. If you believe the BVA bean counters, we're talking 137,383 backlogged (docketed) appeals in their refrigerator and an AMA avalanche building up at Regional Offices across the Fruited Plain. If VLJs are cranking out 2.5 decisions a day as we speak, explain how a new, expedited BVA appeals process that permits the exact same BVA hearing and submission of new evidence is going to be the panacea to the backlog. Anyone? How about we temporarily promote all the BVA staff attorneys to Brevet Veterans Law Judges and let them adjudicate their brains out until there are no more appeals pending. Problem solved. You can see they're also going to have to expand the CAVC from 9 judges to 39 if they do. VA doesn't seem to understand the concept of eighteen years of continuous war and a heaping helping of Agent Orange and Burn pits. The present dilemma is the lump-in-the-python problem they've created. The FDC procedure simply pawed it off on the BVA and resulted in moving the lump up to the appellate level. It won't be long before it appears on the front doorstep of the CAVC. What next? An AMA for the CAVC?
Remember, folks. I'm the one that predicted this insanity almost four years before it happened. Granted, it was more tongue in cheek back then-but not by far.
And that's all I'm gonna say about that.
As usual, I thank Army Vet Dennis for the following humor he provides us so regularly.
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5 Responses to RAMP–SCREW ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME.
A veteran just can't win which is heartbreaking.
Ray parker says:
Speechless🖕
Thomas Banks says:
I went with the new Ramp Program. Scheduled a phone appointment to present my case and facts. Set up for an appointment for 11:00 AM, Eastern time. They called at 7:00 AM and due to being disabled, I could not get to my phone in time to answer it. I tried to call back and no luck. I called the VA and they basically told me you are screwed and could care less. In 10 days they sent me another denial for Agent Orange related health issues. I have been dealing with this for years. Just one big circle. Such a shame as to how Veterans are treated!
Thank you for allowing me to vent my ongoing frustration with all of this!
Finally, I feel the government came up with all of these new procedures to make it more difficult with the ultimate goal of making us just go away.
I have been waving people away from RAMP as much as possible prior to the deadline to remain in legacy. Why anyone would believe that anything the government gets its fingers into could work more efficiently and serve the better interests of veterans is beyond me. We can't expect the same people with the same skills set (or lack of them) to suddenly become smarter just because the VA invented a new procedure to push claims through faster. They will continue to make the same errors they've always made, only now, they will make them more quickly. The Board is going to be swamped with appeals even worse than it is now, as will be the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims subsequent to that.
jeffrey ward says:
I had the same nasty feeling about HLR that you spoke to. It seems that there is a problem of all G2 (intelligence) and no gee whiz.
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Pine victorious over Independence
Published 1:47 pm Tuesday, November 3, 2020
By Chris Kinkaid
DAILY NEWS PHOTO/Chris Kinkaid Pine's Brandon Sprehe prepares to throw a pass in a game this season. Sprehe threw for 50 yards and ran for 40 yards and a touchdown in Friday's game.
Pine's Raiders defeated Independence, 40-15, in a District 9-2A contest held Friday on the road.
"I thought it was an overall team win. We had over 400 yards offense and held them to 150," Pine coach Bradley Seal said.
Niki Lee led the team in rushing with 106 yards and two touchdowns.
Adrianuen Johnson tallied 82 yards on the ground with two touchdowns.
Audrelique Dural ran for 70 yards and a score. He also led the team in tackles defensively with 11.
Brandon Sprehe threw for 50 yards and ran for 40 with a touchdown.
Pine's next game will take place on Friday against Kentwood on the road in a district match up.
"Kentwood is a really good team and a really good program, so anytime you play them, it's a big game, so we'll need a good week of practice and to play a good game to win," Seal said.
Kentwood is 3-2 this season after defeating Varnado, 47-16, last week.
Pine won last year's game, 31-26.
Kentwood is among those also receiving votes outside of the top 10 in the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Class 2A poll.
Pine will have two regular season games after this week.
Both are at home and are against Amite and Varnado on Nov. 13 and Nov. 20.
Bowling Green defeats Columbia Academy
Bowling Green wins against Columbia Academy
MDWFP revenue is up, Game wardens issue 1,296 citations
Varnado defeats Thrive Academy


Prepare, Like They Do at Faire!
The Renaissance Faire is just another trade show! As casual and spontaneous as it may look from the guest's point of view, a lot goes into making sure all who enter have the best experience they possibly can that day. In order for that to happen, strict rules are placed on both the vendors and actors.
Weeks before The Renaissance Faire begins, the organizer presents three mandatory workshops for new vendors: Orientation, Costuming and Elizabethan Language.
Every day one hour before Faire opening, all royals, puritans, beggars, street jesters and all stage other actors are required to attend a brief meeting, preparing them for the theme of the show and special events of the day.
Exhibiting can be very expensive if your staff is not ready and able to accomplish your trade show goals. Your sales representatives are bright and great at what they do, but they can't read your mind or you theirs. Let your staff in on your expectations and give them the tools to perform. Most probably they won't be speaking Elizabethan; they need to be conversing in a language to bring your customers closer to a sale. They won't be a peasant, a royal, or a pirate, yet they ought to be dressed the part of representing your company brand with the proper attitude, focus and attire.
Prepare your merchants to increase sales in and out of the booth.
A jousting fight to the death is optional!


Andy Murray has won his first match in almost a year after beating Stan Wawrinka 6-1 6-3 at the Nature Valley International.
The former British no.1 made his long-awaited return last week, but lost over three sets to Nick Kyrgios at Queen's.
But the 31-year-old came racing out the blocks in Eastbourne against Wawrinka and impressively took the opening set 6-1.
The Scot twice broke Wawrinka's serve and convinced on his own as he built a sense of momentum.
His movement was also encouraging, even if his Swiss opponent was far from his best.
The second set then proved similarly straightforward for Murray, who secured the victory in only one hour and 17 minutes.
He therefore progresses to the second round against Kyle Edmund, who in Murray's absence became the new British number one.
The Scot had last won almost 12 months ago, in the fourth round of Wimbledon where he defeated France's Benoit Paire, also in straight sets.


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Aston Martin, News
The past, present and future of Aston Martin is to be honoured through a year-long celebration of the iconic British brand's 110th anniversary.
Sunday 15 January is exactly 110 years since founders Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford officially formed the partnership that went on to create the first Aston Martin car, igniting more than a century of automotive intensity, cutting-edge British innovation, and high-octane racing success.
Born on the track and inspired by its founders passion for racing, Aston Martin has risen from humble beginnings in a small workshop on Henniker Mews, London to become one of the world's most renowned automotive marques, synonymous with inventive design, luxurious craftsmanship, thrilling performance and scarce exclusivity.
In photographs released to mark the anniversary, Aston Martin has brought together two of the most iconic and innovative models from its 110-year bloodline, highlighting the brand's commitment to pushing the boundaries of performance and applying engineering from Grand Prix racing to the road.
One of the brand's oldest surviving racing cars, the record-breaking 1923 racer Razor Blade is pictured alongside the uncompromising Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar.
One of the earliest cars to be specifically designed with aerodynamics in mind, and propelled by an Aston Martin Grand Prix specification engine, the trailblazing Razor Blade took numerous class records at Brooklands in 1923, a year on from Aston Martin's Grand Prix debut with TT1 – the car nicknamed 'Green Pea'. A century later, Aston Martin continues to innovate with its thrilling high-performance models, bringing modern Formula One™ engineering to the road through its era-defining Aston Martin Valkyrie.
The brand's historic 110th anniversary is to be celebrated through the launch of a new, strictly limited, exclusive Aston Martin model, to be unveiled later this year. The milestone will also take centre stage of this year's British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and other major events across Aston Martin's key regions, as part of a global marketing campaign entitled 'Intensity: 110 Years in the Making'.
2023 promises to be a monumental year, as Aston Martin prepares to unleash the first of its highly anticipated next generation of sports cars, which will further enhance Aston Martin's focus on ultra-luxury, high-performance and driving intensity.
Amedeo Felisa, Chief Executive Officer of Aston Martin Lagonda, said: "In 1913 Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford came together with a shared vision of racing cars and using learnings from the racetrack to push the boundaries of automotive innovation.
"110 years and little over 110,000 cars later, that spirit continues. Our 110th year promises to be just as exciting as our first, as we turn a new chapter in Aston Martin history with the launch of our next generation of sports cars and the reveal of an extraordinary special model later this year that will celebrate this unique milestone." The 110th anniversary is one of several notable landmarks for Aston Martin in 2023, with the year also marking 75 years of the DB bloodline, 60 years of the iconic DB5 model and 20 years of Aston Martin's Gaydon headquarters, the purpose-built facility serving as a centre of excellence for world-class sports car design and engineering.
Nev Luff January 9, 2023
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(Photo by John Cook) Animal Magic, Inc. owner and CEO Mark Rosenthal calls Popcorn, a 70-pound binturong, his "best friend." Here, Popcorn kisses Rosenthal's forehead during a performance Friday at the Caro American Legion hall.
Mark Rosenthal brought several friends to the animal shows he hosted in Caro Friday evening.
One slithered, another hung from a tree branch and one was much larger and hairier than folks around these parts are used to seeing.
One thing they had in common: Each brought a separate, and usually a delightful, response from the audience, most of which were children. Oh, and each of Rosenthal's friends was not human, with the exception of his co-host and girlfriend Misty Fortner.
Rosenthal, owner and CEO of Animal Magic Inc., of metro Detroit, was in town to host two performances Friday – one at 6:30 p.m. and another at 8 p.m. – as part of the Caro Gingerbread Village Festival.
About 250 people piled into the Caro American Legion hall for the 6:30 show, and about 50 had to stand along the walls to watch the show as all the seats were taken. The event, like all events at the Gingerbread Village, was free.
Animal Magic, Inc. owner and CEOMark Rosenthal, and cohost Misty Fortner, hold a conversation with Nico theMacaw Friday during a performance at the Caro American Legion hall, part of theCaro Gingerbread Village Festival.
At the onset of the program, Rosenthal explained to the audience that the most common phobias among humans are the fear of snakes and spiders. The host then brought out a large, black, hairy tarantula. The arachnid was larger than Rosenthal's hand, received mixed expressions from the audience, especially the folks in the front row, who received an up-close look at the spider.
But as part of the show, Rosenthal educates attendees about his animals. Tarantulas, he said, are not the monsters many believe them to be. In fact, "Nobody has ever died of a tarantula bite," he said. Rosenthal even stated that a tarantula makes an excellent pet.
After a brief performance with a milk snake, Rosenthal reached into an animal carrier and delighted the audience with a green – and chatty – macaw. Prior to his appearance, Nico the Macaw – a 26-year-old bird that had been rescued recently after his owner passed away – could be heard throughout the hall talking, laughing and even crying. Of course, Nico was just mimicking the speech he had previously heard.
Mark Rosenthal shows off Seven thesloth to a packed crowd Friday at the Caro American Legion Hall. Rosenthal,owner and CEO of Animal Magic, Inc., touts Seven as the only traveling femalesloth in the U.S.
Two exotic mammals rounded out the 6:30 show. First, Rosenthal introduced Seven the Sloth, a 40-pound, nearly 17-year-old animal native to the tropical rain forests of Central and South Americas. Rosenthal touted Seven as the only traveling female sloth in the United States. Rosenthal displayed Seven with a specially-designed synthetic tree branch, which is fitting since sloths spend their entire lives in trees.
Finally, Rosenthal brought an animal he called his best friend – a 70-pound binturong, also known as a bearcat – named Popcorn.
Binturongs are an endangered species native to south and southeast Asia. Popcorn walked around stage, ate marshmallows and drank Mountain Dew from the bottle. Rosenthal interacted with the animal much like a dog owner would interact with his canine.
The second show was originally set for teenagers and adults, but enough children hadn't secured a spot in the hall for the first Animal Magic show, so Rosenthal and Fortner performed a second child-oriented show at 8 p.m.


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