I usually shy away from using bright, bold lip shades because I always thought they made my lips look super small and thin. I mean, my lips are super small and thin, but they would look really thin. I finally figured out some techniques using makeup to make my lip shape look more plump… no lip fillers, injections or tingling lip products required! Since using these tips, my lips have looked larger and thicker… and a lot nicer in lip colors.
Keep reading for my tips on how to make lips look bigger and fuller.
1. Prep: Lips always look best when they're moisturized– no one likes dry lips. I've been using lip scrub treatments and ChapStick 100% Natural Lip Butter, which contains sunflower oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, olive oil, shea butter and beeswax in a yummy Green Tea Mint flavor, to keep my lips hydrated and healthy looking.
2. Highlight: Add a swipe of highlighter in a light, shimmery shade in a v-shape to the cupid's bow (area above the lips) to help create the illusion of larger, more plump lips. After applying lip color, you can then go back and add a smidge of highlighter to the center of your bottom lip as well.
3. Contour: Next, using a lip brush or small-tipped makeup brush, apply a touch of bronzer or light brown eye shadow on the outer edge of your lower lip. This will create a shadow, helping to give the illusion of fuller lips.
4. Liner: Using a liner that matches your lip color, start by lining the cupids bow creating a V, then pulling it up into the arch. Finish by lining around the entire lips using soft strokes just outside the natural lip line. Don't go too far outside the line or it will look too fake and noticeable. I really like NYX Lip Pencils as they have a variety of shades available at low prices.
5. Lip Color: Fill in by using your favorite lip color that matches the liner. I've been liking the more matte lip look lately, but you can also add a dab of gloss to center of lips to make them look even more fuller.
What are some products and lip shades you use to make lips look great?
*I received Chapstick samples courtesy of Influenster for review purposes. All opinions are my own, no monetary compensation has been provided. Thank you for supporting brands that support A Good Hue.


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Fierce backlash against plans to reduce East Sands Leisure Centre opening hours
Fife Sports and Leisure Trust has announced reduced opening times by nine hours at the East Sands Leisure Centre in St Andrews and 12 hours across the week at Cupar Leisure Centre.
St Andrews councillor Brian Thomson questioned the need for the changes. He said: "The benefit of sport is widely recognised, particularly in terms of maintaining and improving health, and the £84,000 that the move is projected to save is insignificant when measured against the savings in healthcare costs that can arise by encouraging people to participate in sport and exercise. If we're going to be serious about getting more people active in Scotland, cuts to valuable sports facilities need to be resisted and some joined-up thinking needs to take place."
Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, said it was "astonishing" to see the changes "rushed through with little meaningful consultation. He said: "I have received complaints from across the constituency which have included clubs like the Step Rock Swimming Club in St Andrews who will have to cancel training sessions and competitions, to people who enjoy an early morning swim to keep them healthy. We need an explanation as to how on earth they reached this decision. We have invested a lot in these facilities, we should make sure they are available to keep us healthy and boost sport."
Stephen Gethins, MP for North East Fife, has also written to trust chief executive Ed Watson and Fife Council chiefs asking them to find a solution. He said: "I am aware that in times of continuing austerity local authority budgets are being squeezed and that savings have to be made. Despite this I think it is important to make the point that North East Fife is an area comprising many rural communities where leisure centres act as important and valued community hubs, used for swimming lessons and fitness classes as well as by many of our exceptionally successful and well-supported swimming and triathlon clubs.
Wendy Watson, Chief Operating Officer for Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, said changes had been agreed following consultation with staff, stressing the trust had to balance its budget according to funding announced by Fife Council. She said: "The funding package, coupled with projected income which can be generated from centres and their programmes, means the trust will not be able to maintain the current levels of existing services."
Tags Councillor Brian Thomson, east sands leisure centre, Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, Stephen Gethins, Willie Rennie
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I've written elsewhere about my enthusiasm for Joe Hill's debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box.
Bob Minzesheimer recently interviewed Hill -- and assorted friends and family -- for USA Today.
Part of what Hill revealed about himself:
Hill says his father [Stephen King] and his wife, Leanora, remain his first readers. They often agree on what he should cut out. (At lunch, Hill says, "You may have noticed — I tend to go on.") He adds, "You know what they say about marrying your mother? I married my father."
Read the entire article.
Last April, Anthony Rainone interviewed Charlie Huston for January Magazine.
The opening exchanges:
Anthony Rainone: I find it interesting when actors talk about their Oscar nominations, and they recount how they first learned they were in the running for the award. This year the Mystery Writers of America is spending money on publicity and building the Edgar up, so let's equate it with the Oscars. And I'll ask you: where were you when you found out you were nominated for an Edgar?
Charlie Huston: I remember the nominations came out in late February [2006], and they weren't even on my mind. My wife and I had come home from somewhere, and it was very late. I checked my e-mail, and I saw three or four e-mails. Almost all of them [had] "Edgar" in the subject line, and one was from the Mystery Writers of America; the others were from writers I knew. I assumed what it was probably going to be. I opened [the e-mail] from the Mystery Writers of America, and they just send out a list of all the nominations, and all the people who had been nominated, and I saw [my name] and thought that was really cool.
How does it feel to be nominated?
It's great, obviously. It's one of those things where it's extremely flattering and just cool. I don't indulge in any false modesty, or things like that. I do think that in art competition, whether it's writing, or sculpture, or fine arts, or performance art, there's no way to [qualitatively compare] art. And undoubtedly there are published books that slipped through the cracks, and undoubtedly unpublished books that nobody knows about. And so [it has] relative meaning in terms of being a mark of quality. I don't want to denigrate the award itself, but it's hard for me to think of it [as an absolute value]. But like I said -- it's great. The other big component to it is that it's a nice career thing to have. To get a nomination early on with one of my earlier books is a nice thing. I have no clue how far outside mystery circles the Edgar name penetrates. I don't know if it's stamped "Edgar Winner" on the cover of a book that the average Joe, picking up that book, will have any greater reaction, than to any other mystery award stamped on the [cover]. Commercially, I have no idea. It certainly couldn't hurt [to win the award].
Read the entire interview.
Philip Hawley, Jr.
David J. Montgomery interviewed Philip Hawley, Jr. about his debut novel, Stigma.
The first question:
Q. You already have a successful career as a pediatrician at a prestigious children's hospital in Los Angeles. What made you want to be a writer? Temporary insanity?
A. Looking back, yes, there was a moment of insanity. It came when I was re-reading Robert Ludlum's The Matarese Circle and I thought, "Hey, I can do this. I can write a thriller novel!" Of course, the naiveté and ignorance that allowed me to so grossly underestimate the Mr. Ludlum's accomplishment also protected me from giving up when a rational and well-informed appraisal of the soul-smothering challenge that lay ahead might have caused me to quit before writing the first paragraph.
David Shenk
Howard Goldowsky interviewed David Shenk for Chess Life Magazine.
Howard Goldowsky: What inspired the structure for your book — every other chapter focusing on the history of chess, and every other chapter a combination of memoir and explanation of The Immortal Game?
David Shenk: The Immortal Game is an extraordinary human drama and also a great excuse to walk through the fundamentals of chess. When I began researching chess history, I knew almost immediately that I wanted to convey its astonishing intellectual and cultural breadth and also to pay a lasting tribute to the game itself. Chess insiders don't need any lesson from me on how the game works or why it's so great, but there are millions of others who are more casually interested in the game or who are related to a serious player. I aimed to write a book that would hold the attention of the most serious player but also never confuse or bore the complete neophyte.
David put The Immortal Game to the Page 69 Test over at the Campaign for the American Reader.
Mark Coggins
Back in 2000, an interview with Mark Coggins appeared in the online noir magazine Plots with Guns.
Here is the opening part of the interview:
PWG: You've taken the PI form, as developed by Hammett and Chandler, and decorated it with the stuff of our own modern times—S&M bars, computers, virtual reality, etc. This works nicely, since most contemporary detectives have nutzo sidekicks and a guilty streak. What draws you to the hard-boiled tradition, and tell us about how you came to write The Immortal Game.
Mark Coggins: I came to writing mysteries because of my admiration for the work of Raymond Chandler. I was introduced to Chandler in my first creative writing class at Stanford—a class that was taught by Tobias Wolff.
Wolff was making the point that certain writers have a very unique style and he was reading from various works to back up his assertion. One of the things he read was the first chapter from The Big Sleep. I didn't know anything about Chandler before that reading, but I very much liked what I heard.
Later that week I went to the college bookstore and bought a copy of The High Window. I can't tell you now why I picked that instead of The Big Sleep but I did. I devoured the book and quickly ran through the rest of Chandler and all of Hammett too.
The next creative writing class I took was from Ron Hansen. In it, I wrote a short story in the hard-boiled tradition titled "There's No Such Thing as Private Eyes." I shopped the story around and a number of years later it was published in The New Black Mask, volume 4. The New Black Mask was a revival of the famous pulp detective magazine that gave Chandler and Hammett their start. It was edited by Richard Layman (one of Hammett's biographers) and published in trade paperback format by HBJ. As you might expect, I was very pleased that my first published story appeared in the same magazine that first published Chandler and Hammett.
The private eye in the short story—August Riordan—is the same character in The Immortal Game. In fact, The Immortal Game started out as a follow-on story for New Black Mask, but the magazine folded before the story was published.
Obviously, I expanded and revised the story considerably in the process of converting it to the novel form, but the link with "There's No Such Thing as Private Eyes" is still there: in the first chapter of the The Immortal Game, Riordan and his client discuss an event that happened in the short story.
Diana Vickery interviewed Vicki Lane for the Cozy Library.
Part of their exchange:
Cozy Library: On your web-site, you mention a community college professor who said you didn't have the passion to become a writer. Have you spoken to him since you published the first Elizabeth Goodweather novel? If you have, has he eaten his words?
Vicki Lane: I emailed Bill when I got a contract and he told me that now I'd probably leave the farm and run off with a saxophone player. Fortunately, he was wrong about that too. Then I saw him later at a book fair and he said to a friend, "Do I know how to pick 'em or what? Taught her everything she knows."
To be fair to Bill, I probably didn't have the passion it takes -- until he made that snarky comment.
Read the whole interview.
Keith Raffel
Julia Buckley interviewed Keith Raffel about his debut novel Dot.Dead and related topics.
Two excerpts from the interview:
You spent twenty years working for "high tech companies, big and small." Did you like working in Silicon Valley?
Starting my own company, building it up to success, working with an enthusiastic team – wow! That was terrific even if it transformed me into a monomaniac. At times, though, I have found myself tied up like a dogie on the range in the bureaucracy of larger companies. In those cases I just remind myself – like a caveman of yore going hunting mammoths with a club – that I am doing it to feed my family.
What's the premise of your mystery?
Ian Michaels is a Silicon Valley hotshot. One lunchtime he comes home to find a young, beautiful woman stabbed to death in his apartment. Gwendolyn Goldberg was a stranger to Ian, but her family, old boyfriend, and the Palo Alto police seem to think they were lovers. He waits for the police to start looking for the killer, but realizes they are building a case against him. It's up to him. As the investigation heats up, so does Ian's interest in Gwendolyn's sister, Rowena. By the end of the book, Ian realizes that there are far more important things in life than stock options and business success.
John Nadler
John Nadler's A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces, is due out in paperback in March.
Last year the novelist Olen Steinhauer asked John five questions about his writing, including:
Your previous book, Searching for Sofia, deals with the Kosovo War in the late nineties. As a war correspondent during that time it makes sense that you'd tell this story. What brought you back in time to the story of the First Special Service Force in A Perfect Hell?
I always wanted to write a WWII book mainly because my parents were of that generation. They spoke of the war a lot when I was growing up, and over time I felt somehow connected to that epoch. My mom talked about the war years more than my dad. She of course spoke of watching the boys leave for Europe and the Pacific, and the helplessness and fear of waiting on the home front. This is one element I tried to inject in A Perfect Hell: showing the connection between the men on the frontline and the families at home. One thing I learned was that nothing on a battlefield happens in isolation. Every casualty reverberates somewhere else: creating grief, changing lives, sometimes destroying lives. As much as anything, the book helped me to come to terms with the legacy of the WWII generation, now that this generation is disappearing.
Read the entire Q & A.
John put A Perfect Hell to the Page 69 Test over at the Campaign for the American Reader.
Duane Swierczynski
Sandra Ruttan interviewed Duane Swierczynski about his novel, The Blonde.
Sandra: I've heard some say that authors are fundamentally unhappy people using their writing to work out the problems in their lives. So, tell me about your problems. What are you trying to work out with The Blonde?
Duane: I don't know if I was specifically trying to work out any problems with The Blonde. But it does play around with the idea of intimacy a bit. And its opposite: privacy. I keep telling people—this is my chick lit novel! (With exploding heads.)
Sandra: Did you channel every evil woman you'd ever known into the blonde?
Duane: Evil? I think the blonde in The Blonde is the heroine. So I modelled her after the resourceful, beautiful, ass-kicking women I know. Especially my wife.
Salon recently published an interview with Barbara J. King about the central ideas in her new book, Evolving God.
The opening part of the interview:
Why would an anthropologist who studies apes be interested in religion?
I think religion is all about emotional engagement and social action. And we can get a whole new read on the evolutionary history of religion by asking the kinds of questions that we ask of language and culture. We can see that way back in our past -- literally, millions of years ago -- some practices are visible in the archaeological record that reflect the deepest roots of religion. And apes today are pretty good stand-ins for those very early human ancestors. So when I go to the National Zoo in Washington, or spend time in Kenya looking at monkeys, what I see is very social. It's about emotional connection that's at the very ancient roots of religion.
Read the entire interview; it is followed by an audio link to an NPR interview at the end.
Marcus Sakey
I've recently finished Marcus Sakey's excellent debut novel, The Blade Itself. If you like quality crime writing, check it out.
A few months ago I clicked on Marcus Sakey's online bio and was struck by how many of the authors he name-checked on his site that are also among my favorites: Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, Lehane, Palahniuk, Cormac McCarthy, Pete Dexter, Ian McEwan, etc etc.
These are not only writers I like: I've read every novel they've written (OK, maybe two or three have slipped by), some three or four times.
Something else caught my attention: only one woman writer made Marcus's list.
Now, I don't expect most people who love Ellroy to love Penelope Fitzgerald--in fact, I once posted an item saying just that. But when I think about a fine genre-busting novel like Mystic River, I also think of (say) Patricia Highsmith's great The Talented Mr. Ripley. When I think of Pelecanos' Washington DC, I'm reminded of Laura Lippman just up the highway in Baltimore.
When I think of McEwan--whose Atonement may be the best novel I've read that was written in the last quarter-century--I'm reminded that I liked Kate Atkinson's Case Histories better than McEwan's Saturday.
So I asked Marcus: why so few women on his favorite authors list?
Read his answer.


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Jordan Peele & 'Get Out' make movie history
LOS ANGELES - Get Out is scaring away the competition all the way to the bank … and the record books.
The movie's breakout success just made Jordan Peele the first black writer/director to have their first film earn over $100 million at the box office.
If that wasn't enough, Get Out only cost $4 million, so that's already a $96 million profit. Forget black and white, it's all about the green, people!
Get Out is also the first Blumhouse Productions – whose niche is micro-budgeted projects – to make it to the $100 million mark.
In addition, the social thriller continues to hold down a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
There's no question Peele and co. have a lot to scream about.


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The panel featured The Hon. Charles A. Gonzalez (J.D. '72), Chief of Public Engagement for VIA Metropolitan Transit System, and Darryl Byrd, President and CEO of SA2020.
The conversation was moderated by Richard Perez, President and CEO of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
After the program, there was a question and answer session with the audience. Community Conversations events are held on the St. Mary's campus in the University Center, Conference Room A. The events are free and open to the public.


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Mike Oliva
Writer of "THE BLITZ" at MiamiDolphins.com each and every day during the Miami Dolphins season. Growing up during the "Marino-Era" had me hooked on this team since I was a child and I have never looked back. As a life-long die-hard fan of the Miami Dolphins I only can count down the days until this team wins a Super Bowl during my lifetime. I entered the Dolphins Fan-Site business back in 2001 and was interviewed and had a write-up on my then site in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 2003 by NFL Reporter Alex Marvez about when I recruited Ricky William's mother, Sandy Williams, to be a contributor on my then website. After the 2004 season, I took a long break from running a Miami Dolphins fan-site and then started DolphinsTalk.com up in 2011. Through my many connections with players, agents, media types, and front office personal and with the help of the tremendous staff that has come on board I have grown and guided DolphinsTalk.com into the amazing website you see today. I am the creator of the DolphinsTalk.com Podcast which won the inaugural Webbie Award for best Miami Dolphins Podcast at Web Weekend XIV in 2017. I am the lead columnist and managing editor here on the website and a Host of the DolphinsTalk.com Daily Podcast, the most listened to daily Miami Dolphins podcast on the Internet.
Tom Ernisee
Born and raised in Rochester, NY, I became a Dolphins fan in September of 1989. I have contributed to DolphinsTalk.com for over 3 years as a writer and was the original host of the DolphinsTalk.com Podcast. Follow me on twitter @DolphinsTalkTom
Randy Savage
Manager of Sales/Marketing
Born and raised in the city of Miami, Florida, I am South Florida sports fan who so happens to love the Miami Dolphins a little more than the others. I have been a Dolphins season ticket holder for the past five seasons and I also was the original co-host of the DolphinsTalk.com Podcast.
Ryan VanHoover
From Syracuse, NY and have been a Dolphins fan since I was 6 yrs old watching Dan Marino. I'm a passionate diehard Dolphins fan no matter what. Want to see this team win the Super Bowl in my lifetime.
Ian Berger
I am a banker by day and a husband, father of two girls, and die-hard Miami Dolphins fan by night. I began rooting for the team during the 1985 season, and I have become more obsessed ever since. I became a season ticket holder during the 2012 season, and have not missed a game since (including preseason games). In addition to attending the NFL's longest game in NFL history on September 9, 2018 (and staying until the very end), I also attended the Miami Miracle game in its entirety on December 9, 2018 and have attended a few away games as well. I began writing and podcasting on various internet sites in 2015, and I continue to write opinion articles with an optimistic theme. My 14 year old daughter recently asked me "why do you root for a team that always loses"? And my response was that one day, our Miami Dolphins will be winners again. And when that day comes, I'll still be around rooting for them and we'll have one heck of a party!!
Follow me on twitter @Ian693
Cameron Sparks
I am 25 years old from Russell, KY, and have been a life-long Dolphins fan. My family growing up lived, breathed, and ate up all things sports, especially when it came to the Aqua and Orange. From as early as I can remember I have been inspired to know anything and everything regarding my favorite leagues, and teams. My earliest memories of the Dolphins were watching Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor wreak havoc in the AFC, as well as watching Ricky Williams almost hit 2k rush yards in a season. I currently work as an Inventory Control Specialist in South Point, Ohio. I have a Bachelor's in General Business at Morehead State University and worked with Morehead State's Athletics Department as a Media Relations Manager. Follow me on Twitter @Cam3ronSparks for entertaining/positive Dolphins' content. Fins Up!
Landon and Jeff Neubarth
Landon is a lifelong Dolphins Fan about to enter the 7th grade. He is like the 1972 dolphins in that the team has a perfect record in games he has attended in person. His weakness is acquiring jerseys only to have the player traded.
Jeff attended his first Dolphin's game in 1983 in the upper deck of the Orange Bowl. He has experienced the greatness of the Marino-era and the tough times ever since. He wants nothing more than to see the Lombardi trophy return the south Florida. Seriously, nothing. Jeff is also a TV producer by trade currently working as Executive Producer at Callaway Golf's media company and has been fortunate enough to win 3 Sports Emmy's for his work in the industry.
Evan Morris
Even as a long-distance fan from Bozeman, Montana, I grew up watching Dolphins games every Sunday with my uncle and aunt across town. My first year of being a serious fan was in 2007 when I was eight, and I vividly remember Cleo Lemon hitting Greg Camarillo across the middle in OT to beat the Ravens and get our only win of that season (I wore my orange Ronnie Brown Jersey to school the next day and everyone made fun of me — it was worth it). Fast forward to now and I'm training to be a naval aviator after graduating from the Naval Academy in 2021. I'm a bigger Dolphins fan than I've ever been, and I can't wait to see where McDaniel and Tua take this once-great franchise. I'm beyond excited to share my thoughts here with you and grow my knowledge of the game. Check me out on Twitter at @EvanMorris72 and as always, Fins UP!!!
Carl C.Crowley
Blessed. I live with 4 women. Dolphins fan since '75. Yes, 1975. Old enough to never remember them winning a Super Bowl. Was at the "fake spike" game. Follow me on twitter @carlccrowley
Josh Katzker
Podcast Co-Host
My earliest memory of the Miami Dolphins is listening to my father swear at the TV while the team was being systematically dismantled by the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XIX. That late January evening was a life-changing event. All of five years old, I became a passionate fan and would remain one forever. Born and raised in South Florida, I lived through the glory years of Marino and the Marks Brothers and the ups and downs of the generations that have followed. The trends of the last 15 years or so of Miami Dolphins football led my brother and I to reformat our old general sports and wrestling podcast, "The Brothers of Destruction," to be purely Miami Dolphins-focused. The result, "The Same Old Dolphins Show," is much needed catharsis for both of us.
After graduating from the University of Central Florida (2017 NCAA Football National Champions – Go Knights!), I spent time in Central NY, Central Ohio, Phoenix, and Chicago before finally settling down just outside of Syracuse, NY where I now reside with my wife (a Seahawks fan) and 20-month old son, whose football loyalties remain divided.
When not agonizing over the Dolphins, I'm agonizing over the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Blackhawks, Miami Heat, Seattle Sounders, Manchester United, and professional wrestling. You can read my complaints and my takes on Twitter @AmplifiedtoRock.
Aaron Katzker
Aaron Katzker AKA Aaron the Brain (named for longtime heel wrestling manager Bobby Heenan) is a lifelong Dolphins fan (well… since he was about 5 years old in 1989). Growing up as a Dolphins fan in the 90's breeded a certain amount of positivity about the team and an expectation that they would always be in the hunt. As the years went by, and playoff failures mounted, and the page turned to the new Millennium, and playoff failures turned into regular season disappointments, he gained a fair bit of skepticism, which he and his brother Josh carry with them into their bi-weekly podcast "The Same Old Dolphins Show".
Aaron has previously written for Al's Sports Blog and covered the Dolphins for Scout.com. He is also a graduate of Connecticut School of Broadcasting.
You can follow him on Twitter at @Aaronthebrain
Stefan Mangone
Born and raised in South Florida and have been an avid Miami Dolphins fan since I first saw Marino play in the 90's. Former securities trader, so it says a lot that watching the Dolphins on Sunday's have given me more near heart attacks than big dips in the market. Long for the days of Ryan Tannehill being a wide receiver and Chad Pennington hitting Brian Hartline on curl routes.
Follow me on twitter @S_Mangone1032
Adrian Bello
My name is Adrian Bello, and I've been a loyal Dolphins fan for over 20 years now. I am a husband to my amazing wife (who is an avid Bills fan) and father to one beautiful girl. We hope that one day we can expand our family by one more in the near future. Sundays are a sacred day in our household, a day which includes going to church and then enjoying some Miami Dolphin Football (and Buffalo Bills football). We are the epitome of Faith Family and Football.
Professionally, I am a Fire Medic (Firefighter and Paramedic) in the Tampa Bay Area. I am originally from Miami, and still have roots there. I am excited to have the opportunity to share my passion, knowledge, and love for the Dolphins with the community! #FinsUp
Armando Velez
I was born and raised in Miami (West Kendall) in 1993. Lover of all sports, that I even worked in Sports with 8 years of Golf TV Experience. Started following the Dolphins in 2002 when My third-grade teacher had a tradition of "If the Dolphins lose, I'm going to wear all black on Monday." So to mentally prepare for Monday's, I started watching the games, and I fell in love with the Dolphins, especially witnessing Ricky Williams rush for almost 2000 yards that season. I missed out on the whole Dan Marino era, and have only seen 2 Dolphins playoff appearances in my 18 years of being a fan, but still loyal to this team through and through. I am also a fan of the Miami Heat, Miami Marlins, Florida Panthers, Florida State Seminoles, and Orlando City SC. Follow me on Twitter @Mandoman12 for more news, analysis, and hot takes on your Miami Dolphins. #FinsUp
Bryan Teegardin
As a true Miami loyalist, Bryan has pretty much seen it all when it comes to chronicling 37 years' worth of Dolphins football, except a Super Bowl victory. He experienced the birth of the Marino-Era and has endured all the highs and lows along with scattered greatness embedded in decades of mediocrity. Ever hopeful, Bryan remains as committed as ever to the Miami Dolphins and will forever bleed the aqua and orange.
A native of Rochester, NY, Bryan is used to being a "fish out of water" among herds of Buffalo. Nonetheless, he's traveled well with his Dolphins over the years having attended games in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, New England, and of course Buffalo. Excited about the dawn of a new era, Bryan is taking the plunge into the deep end of the fish tank to swim with these Dolphins! Enjoy the ride and the reads!
Dan Jablonski
Born and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey, and been a Miami Dolphins fan since 1995. I currently coach High School basketball and love inspiring young adults on a daily basis. My passion for the Miami Dolphins runs deep and I have aspirations of covering the team on a professional level from the South Florida area in the near future. 2021 marks the first year I became a season ticket holder for the Dolphins so look out for me at every game at Hard Rock Stadium! I also created and host my own Podcast, The Splash Zone with Dan Jablonski, and it is available anywhere you get your podcasts.
Follow me on Twitter for free giveaways, the latest breaking news, and all my Dolphins' opinions and predictions!
@dan_jablonski
Andy Davies
My name is Andy (left) and I have been a writer on the website for over a year. I went to my first Dolphins game in London last year and will be going to three more during the 2022 season as I am set to embark upon a three-month 20-game tour of America. My favourite current player is Mike Gesicki and my favourite all-time player, even though I wasnt alive for his prime, is Dan Marino


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Adult, 2 children die in San Jose mobile home fire
Bay City News
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Officials have confirmed that two people, including a child, have died in a mobile home fire in San Jose Tuesday evening. Firefighters say they are searching for a second child that may be caught in the burning structure.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Three people, including two children, died this afternoon due to a fire at a San Jose mobile home, according to a captain with the San Jose Fire Department.
The blaze was first reported at about 12:30 p.m. at the Golden Wheel Park, located at 900 Golden Wheel Park Drive, Fire Capt. Mike Van Elgort.
Upon arrival, firefighters found that a mobile home was completely engulfed in flames and had partially collapsed. Firefighters, however, were able to knock down the blaze about a half hour later.
Initially, only two victims were confirmed dead in the fire, a man and a child. Another victim, a child, was initially unaccounted for, however, that victim was located later.
The man was reportedly the grandfather of one of the child victims. The other child victim was described as a relative, according to Van Elgort.
"It's a terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with the family for their loss," Van Elgort said. "This is tough to handle for the fire department as well," Van Elgort said.
According to a neighbor, the adult victim was inside the mobile home when a loud noise was heard before the blaze broke out. The neighbor said it appeared as if the man himself also caught fire, according to Van Elgort.
Van Elgort said that mobile homes, because of their lightweight construction, tend to burn faster and more aggressively.
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By Leo Kolivakis October 06, 2015
Back in July, Chris Flood and Chris Newlands of the Financial Times reported on CalSTRS's private equity woes:
The second-largest US public pension fund has admitted it has failed to record total payments made to its private equity managers over a period of 27 years.
The admission by Calstrs, the $191bn California-based pension fund, prompted John Chiang, the state treasurer of California, to declare he will investigate the failure, which poses serious questions as to how pension fund money is being spent.
The news comes a week after FTfm reported that the state treasurer had voiced "great concern" that fellow pension fund Calpers, the US's largest at $300bn, also has no idea how much it pays its private equity managers.
Mr Chiang said he would demand clear answers from Calpers over why it does not know how much has been paid in "carried interest" or investment profits over a period of 25 years to the private equity managers running its assets.
A spokesman for Calstrs, which helps finance the retirement plans of teachers, said the fund does not record carried interest. "What matters is the overall performance of the portfolio."
Following questions from FTfm, Mr Chiang said he would demand Calstrs look into payments of carried interest to its private equity managers.
"Disclosure [of carried interest fees] is very important," said Mr Chiang, who sits on the administration board of both Calstrs and Calpers.
The revelations come just weeks after US regulators issued an explicit warning to the private equity industry to expect more fines for overcharging investors.
Calpers, which uses more than 100 private equity firms, identified a need to track fees and carried interest better in 2011, but it has taken until now to develop a new reporting system for its $30.5bn private equity portfolio.
But Calstrs, which manages a $19.3bn private equity portfolio and has 880,000 members, said it has no plans to upgrade its systems for tracking and reporting payments to private equity managers.
Margot Wirth, director of private equity at Calstrs, said it used "rigorous checks" to ensure private equity managers took the right amount of carried interest.
All of Calstrs' partnerships with private equity managers were independently audited, Ms Wirth added. She said the pension fund carried out its own internal audits and employed a specialist "deep dive" team to look at private equity contracts.
Professor Ludovic Phalippou, a finance professor at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, who specialises in private equity, told FTfm last week: "Calpers' total bill is likely to be astronomical. People will choke when they see the true number."
Prof Phalippou said the same would be true of Calstrs, which first invested in private equity in 1998.
Ms Wirth argued it was "wrong to conflate the fees paid to private equity managers with carried interest".
She said: "Carried interest is a profit split between the investor and the private equity manager. The higher that carried interest is, then the better both the investor and private equity manager have performed."
The fear is that if sophisticated investors such as Calpers and Calstrs faced difficulties in obtaining accurate information, then it could only be harder for smaller pension funds, endowments and wealth managers that are less well resourced.
David Neal, managing director of the Future Fund, Australia's A$128bn sovereign wealth fund and one of the world's largest investors in private equity, said: "There just are not enough decent private equity managers around to justify the fees."
He added: "We negotiate fee arrangements that transparently reward genuine performance and drive alignment of interest. Where managers cannot meet those expectations, we do not invest. While we work hard at the arrangements with our managers, the industry still has some way to go."
Fast forward to October where Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism just put out another stinging comment, CalSTRS Board Chairman Harry Keiley, in Op-Ed Rejected by Financial Times, Gave Inconsistent and Inaccurate Information in Carry Fee Scandal (added emphasis is mine):
The staff and board members of California public pension fund CalSTRS continue to embarrass themselves in their efforts to justify their indefensible position on private equity carry fees.
Readers may recall that the biggest public pension fund, CalPERS, had a put-foot-in-mouth-and-chew incident when it said it didn't track the profits interest more commonly called "carry fees," which is one of the biggest charges it incurs on its private equity investments. CalPERS added to the damage by falsely claiming that no investors could get that information. After we broke that story and a host of experts and media outlets criticized CalPERS over the lapse and the misrepresentation, CalPERS reversed itself. It asked its general partners for all the carry fee data for the entire history of all of its funds, and obtained it all in a mere two weeks, with only one exception out of the nearly 900 funds in which it has invested.
So what has the second biggest public pension fund, CalSTRS, done? Like CalPERS, it has admitted that it does not track carry fees. But in a remarkable contrast, CalSTRS is attempting to justify inaction by misleading beneficiaries as to how much information it really has and saying that it's thinking really hard about what (if anything) to do.
The dishonesty of the CalSTRS position is evident in its e-mails with the Financial Times after the pink paper reported that CalSTRS, like CalPERS, did not track carry fees, and California Treasurer John Chiang, who sits on both the CalPERS and CalSTRS boards, said he would press CalSTRS to look into the matter. I became aware of the contretemps when an FT reporter called me to thank me for my work. I asked him how CalSTRS was taking his story. He said they weren't happy with it and they'd offered CalSTRS the opportunity to publish an op-ed, which was running early the following week. When I failed to see any such article, I contacted the reporter, who said his editor had rejected the article. I then lodged a Public Records Act request (California-speak for FOIA) for the op-ed and all e-mails between CalSTRS and the Financial Times from the date the Financial Times ran the article on CalSTRS' carry fee tracking.
It's important to remember that CalSTRS had said, flatly, that it does not know what it pays in carry fees. From the Sacramento Bee on July 2:
Ricardo Duran, a spokesman for the California State Teachers' Retirement System, said CalSTRS can estimate the fees "within a couple of percentage points" but doesn't report the figure.
"It's not a number that we track," Duran said. "It's not that important to us as a measure of performance."
Memo to CalSTRS: if you are estimating, you don't know for sure.*
After the Financial Times ran its CalSTRS story, Ricardo Duran, CalSTRS' head of communications, sent a clearly-annoyed e-mail to the Financial Times' Chris Flood. Duran tried objecting that the so-called carry fee was not a fee because….drumroll..it was not paid directly by CalSTRS to general partners:
The following paragraph talks about [California Treasurer and CalSTRS board member] Mr. Chiang's demand of CalPERS about how much has been "paid in carried interest." Carried interest is not a payment but a profit split. I believe [head of private equity] Margot [Wirth] mentioned that distinction as well.
The language throughout the piece conflated carried interest with management/manager fees. That's fine if that's the way you want to characterize it. I only ask if you write about CalSTRS and carried interest again, you specifically mention this and attribute it to me or Margot.
So get a load of this: CalSTRS demanding that if the FT ever dare report on CalSTRS' carry fee reporting again, that it include the staff's pet position that a carry fee is not a fee, even when that contradicts statements by board members who oversee CalSTRS. Since when do mere employees a California agency have the right to undercut on-the-record statements of top California government officials?
And that's before you get to the fact that this "carry fee is not a fee" position is bogus. As Eileen Appelbaum, the co-author of Private Equity at Work, wrote:
The email exchange in which CalSTERS argues with the Financial Times over the question of when is a fee not a fee has a certain Alice in Wonderland quality. The CalSTRS representative insists that a fee is not a fee if it takes the form of profit sharing. But profit sharing is clearly a performance fee – a fee paid to the PE investment manager based on the performance of the PE fund.
And as an expert who has been writing about private equity fees for decades said:
Private equity general partners put up around 1% of the money in a fund once you back out management fee waivers. They get 20% of the profits. The part over and above their pro-rata share is clearly a fee. As we lawyers like to say, res ipsa loquitur.
But the best part is Duran's wounded claim that the FT "conflated" interest with management fees, as if that were inaccurate. This is from the very first limited partnership agreement I looked at from our document trove, KKR's 2006 fund:
The Partnership will not invest in investment funds sponsored by, and as to which a management fee or carried interest is payable to, any Person….
Gee, KKR says in its own agreement that carried interest is indeed "paid" just like management fees!
But this is all a warm-up to the op-ed that the chairman of CalSTRS' board, Harry Keiley, submitted to the Financial Times. It's troubling to see a board chairman defend staff's delaying tactics after another board member has demanded answers.
Other public pension fund trustees thought the odds were high that the article was either originally drafted by staff or had staff input. If staff did indeed provide text that Keiley assented to have run under his name, that has the effect of committing him to their position, even if he was privately not fully aligned with them.**
Moreover, it is peculiar to have a defense of CalSTRS' position on carry fees come from someone who is almost certain never to have seen a private equity fund's financial statements or reviewed the language in limited partnership agreements that describe the distribution "waterfall," as opposed to the officers who are responsible and who presumably have expertise.
The full text of Keiley's submission is at the end of this post. Here are the telling parts (emphasis ours):
We at CalSTRS are in favor of more, rather than less, transparency and disclosure as our history and current checks and balances show. We agree that it's important for the public to know the estimated amount of carried interest investment managers are earning, tracked as net profits, which a majority of public pension plans report. Almost all private equity partnerships split profits, with the investor (e.g. CalSTRS) taking at least 80 percent and, at most, 20 percent taken by investment managers. Typically, a partnership must earn a minimum of 8 percent return for its limited partners (e.g. investors) before an investment manager earns any carried interest. Also, there are several large, publicly-owned private equity investment managers that report their earnings to delineate their carried interest income. I am confident that the CalSTRS board will continue to examine the issue of reporting carried interest in the context of its overall private equity disclosure practices to ensure we are taking all necessary steps to have full awareness and understanding of both fee and profit structures.
The boldfaced section is simply wrong. At best, it's a laughably inept effort to mislead the audiences CalSTRS is most concerned about: its beneficiaries and California legislators. Net profits to investors like CalSTRS are after carry fees have been taken by the general partner. Tracking net profits tells you absolutely nothing about carry fees. And Keiley effectively admits that in the next paragraph:
Within our private equity program, we have always reported our returns net of all costs and fees.
From Eileen Appelbaum via e-mail (emphasis original):
What strikes me in the CalSTRS op-ed and their correspondence with the Financial Times is the complete lack of consistency in what CalSTRS' board is saying. Mr. Keiley, Board Chair of CalSTRS, says that the pension fund agrees that it is important for the public to know what the pension fund pays to its investment fund managers. He finishes that sentence, however, by saying that CalSTRS fulfills that obligation by tracking and reporting net profits. I don't know what subject Mr. Keiley teaches, but is it possible that he doesn't understand that this is the crux of the matter? Tracking net profits is not the same as tracking all fees, expenses and carried interest the pension fund pays to private equity managers.
After trumpeting CalSTRS commitment to transparency, Mr. Keiley goes on to baldly contradict himself by asserting: "Within our private equity program, we have always reported our returns net of all costs and fees." If Mr. Keiley is to be believed, the problem is not that private equity firms don't provide information on the amount of carried interest they collect; indeed, he asserts that they "keep investors [like CalSTERS] fully informed as to the carried interest shared with their investment managers." Astoundingly, one is left to draw the conclusion that CalSTRS has that information but chooses not to share it with California's taxpayers and teachers.
Remember, as we stressed with CalPERS, California taxpayers are ultimately on the hook for public pension fund shortfalls. CalSTRS' double-speak about transparency and its tracking of carry fees reveals that staff and a complaint board are more worried about keeping relations with limited partners friction-free rather than putting the interests of their beneficiaries, Calfornia schoolteachers, first.
I encourage you to send this post to people you know in California, particularly public school teachers. Urge them to e-mail Keiley to give him feedback on the terrible arguments he presented. Tell him that CalSTRS has no excuse for dragging its feet on obtaining carry fee data given that CalPERS has done just that. It would also help to tell him that it does not reflect well on him or the board to mislead the public, as he intended to do had the Financial Times not saved him from himself.
Given the e-mail address, I am highly confident that this contact information (p. 11) is indeed Keiley's. I request that you NOT call him unless he fails to respond to an e-mail after two attempts.
Harry Keiley
Board Chair, CalSTRS
Mobile Phone: (310) 428 3624
Email: hkcalstrs@aol.com
Thomas Jefferson said, "When government fears the people, there is liberty." There's clearly no fear at CalSTRS. I hope you instill some.
* Many private equity funds actually do disclose their carry fee payments in their quarterly distribution notices, so in those cases, CalSTRS would have good data. But CalSTRS uses the same private equity management system that CalPERS does, State Street's Private Edge. Private Edge does not have a field for recording carry fees. One of CalPERS' excuses for not capturing carry fees was that it didn't have a system for doing so, as if it would be too difficult to keep it in a speaadsheet in Excel.
** There is a considerable body of research that shows that people become persuaded of a point of view they advocate, irrespective of whether they originally believed it or not. For instance, trial lawyers who represent clients they strongly suspect are guilty come to believe they may be or even are innocent as they develop arguments supporting a "not guilty' plea.
By Harry M. Keiley,
Mr. Keiley is the chair of the Teachers' Retirement Board, the governing body of the California State Teachers' Retirement System. Mr. Keiley is a high school teacher with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, and was elected to the Teachers' Retirement Board in 2007.
With assets of $191.4 billion and nearly 880,000 members, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is the largest public pension plan in the world dedicated solely to serving educators.
In addition to being one of the largest public pension plans, CalSTRS has one of the most comprehensive private equity programs globally. Begun in 1988, the current market value of our private equity portfolio is $19.3 billion. Since inception, our private equity program has generated over $21.8 billion in profits for the benefit of our members.CalSTRS' highest returning asset class, private equity has returned on average 12.3 percent per year over the last ten years – well above the plan's overall ten-year average of 6.8 percent and that of broad-based stock indices which averaged approximately 8.2 percent. Given its healthy performance over the past decade, the private equity program has also played an important role in the total CalSTRS portfolio by contributing excess returns above our long-term earnings assumption of 7.5 percent, thereby having a positive impact on the system's overall funding.
In addition to a commitment to transparency, CalSTRS also places utmost importance on internal control measures and prudent audit practices and, as such, our private equity program adheres to U.S. Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) standards and General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Additionally, all cash flowing into and out of the CalSTRS private equity portfolio is accounted for and certified by annual independent audits. Within our private equity program, we have always reported our returns net of all costs and fees. In all cases, CalSTRS receives and regularly reviews independently audited financial statements of its private equity partnerships. It is important to note that, many times, details of those private equity partnerships are confidential due to the agreements signed by the various investors which are funding the limited partnership. However, as referenced above, capital investors involved in limited partnerships are provided with audited financial statements that disclose carried interest distributions made by the partnerships to the investment managers. As such, there is an established system of strong checks and balances to keep investors fully informed as to the carried interest shared with their investment managers.
CalSTRS has been, and continues to be, a leader in the private equity industry. Bringing innovation and diversity to our overall investment portfolio, the CalSTRS private equity program is a leader in transparency and disclosure, and acts as a fierce defender of investor rights when negotiating partnership agreements. CalSTRS is steadfastly committed to reviewing all of the checks and balances outlined above to see if we can improve upon our long track record of transparency and accountability in our disclosure practices. And, we will continue to apply our high standards, expectations, and drive for results to our ongoing and new investment partnerships in an effort to reach and exceed our private equity performance benchmarks.
Wow, where do I begin? First, let me praise Yves Smith (aka Susan Webber) for lodging a Public Records Act request (California-speak for FOIA) for the op-ed and all e-mails between CalSTRS and the Financial Times and bringing this to our attention.
Second, in sharp contrast to other tirades, I completely agree with Yves Smith, these emails and that editorial are a total embarrassment to CalSTRS and either show gross incompetence on the part of CalSTRS's private equity staff (Keiley didn't write that without their input) or more likely, a pathetic attempt to misinform the public on how much has been doled out in management fees and carried interest ("carry" or performance) fees throughout all these years.
Third, and most importantly, I do not buy for one second that the private equity staff at CalPERS or CalSTRS do not track all fees doled out to each GP (general partner or fund) to the penny. If they don't, they all need to be immediately dismissed for gross incompetence and breach of their fiduciary duties and their respective boards need be replaced for being equally incompetent in their supervision of staff (except keep JJ Jelincic on CalPERS's board as he's the only one doing his job, grilling CalPERS's private equity team and asking tough questions that need to be answered).
I'm not going to mince my words, it's simply indefensible for any large public pension fund investing billions in private equity, real estate and hedge funds not to track all the fees paid out to the GPs as well as track any hidden rebates with third parties which these GPs hide from their clients, effectively stealing from them.
You might be wondering, how hard is it for a CalPERS or a CalSTRS to track fees and other pertinent information from their private equity fund investments? The answer is it's not hard at all. Over the weekend, I was looking at buying a few more books in finance (not that I need to add to my insanely large collection) and was looking at one called Inside Private Equity.
I was attracted to the book because one of the authors is Austin Long of Alignment Capital who I met back in 2004 when I was helping Derek Murphy set up private equity as an asset class at PSP Investments. I liked Austin and their approach to rigorous due diligence before investing in a private equity fund (like on-site visits where they pull records off a deal thy pick at random to analyze it and pick a junior staff member at random to ask them soft and hard questions on the fund's culture).
Anyways, I was reading the foreword of the book which was written by Tom Judge, a former VC investor and inductee to the Private Equity Hall of Fame (1995), and he was writing about how it used to be complicated tracking over 100 partnerships for the AT&T pension fund until he met Jim Kocis, another author of the book, and founder of the Burgiss Group which provides software-based solutions for investors in private equity and other alternative assets (click on image to read passage):
Today the tools Burgiss Group developed support over a thousand clients representing over $2 trillion of committed capital.
Why am I writing this? I'm not plugging Burgiss Group because I simply don't know them well enough and haven't performed a due diligence on them but obviously it's a huge firm with excellent experience in tracking detailed information of PE partnerships on behalf of their clients, providing them with the transparency they need to track their fund investments.
Again, in 2015, it's simply mind-boggling and inexcusable for a CalPERS or a CalSTRS not to be able to track detailed information on all their fund investments going back decades. This includes detailed information on management fees and carry.
What are CalPERS and CalSTRS hiding? I don't know but I think John Chiang, the state treasurer of California, is absolutely right to investigate and inform Califonia's taxpayers on exactly how much has been doled out in private equity, real estate and hedge fund fees over the years at these two giant funds which pride themselves on transparency.
Below, I embedded the three investment committee clips from CalSTRS's September board meeting. In the first clip, Chris Ailman, CalSTRS's CIO, discusses their risk mitigation strategies and Mike Moy of Pension consulting Alliance, discusses the performance of private equity in the third clip.
I know they're excruciatingly long (you can fast-forward boring sections) but take the time to listen to these investment committees as they provide a lot of excellent insights. Not surprisingly, nothing was mentioned on how exactly CalSTRS is going to track and disclose all fees paid to their private equity partnerships (however, in the third clip, Mr. Murphy, a teacher representing the California Federation of Teachers did mention this issue was a huge concern).
If the staff at CalSTRS, CalPERS or anyone else has anything to add, feel free to reach out to me at LKolivakis@gmail.com. I have my views but I don't have a monopoly of wisdom when it comes to pensions and investments and I welcome constructive criticism on all my comments and will openly share your input, good or bad.
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George Frederick McKay began teaching at the University of Washington in 1927 and remained as Professor of Music for 41 years. His students included Earl Robinson, who successfully composed popular hits and film scores (Ballad for Americans, The House I Live In, Black and White) recorded by such stars as Frank Sinatra and Paul Robeson. He was the first composition professor of William Bolcom, a Pulitzer Prize winner and composer of symphonies, rag-time, operas and movie scores. Goddard Lieberson, another of McKay's students was the first record producer for West Side Story and South Pacific. McKay also mentored John Cage in the late 1930's in Seattle and composed some works for The Hilarious Dance Concert, a production by Bonnie Bird and Cage at The Cornish School. The youthful dance troupe at Cornish included Merce Cunningham and McKay's daughter Georgianne. The style of McKay's modern dance music of the late 1930's era is captured in his Dance Suite No. 2, recently recorded on NAXOS Records by William Bolcom. University of Washington faculty composers Gerald Kechley and Ken Benshoof also studied with George Frederick McKay.
During the period 1925-1970, George Frederick McKay's Music was presented by many leading conductors, including Sir Thomas Beecham, Leopold Stokowski, Howard Hanson, Fabien Sevitsky, Milton Katims, and Carmen Dragon. Arthur Benjamin conducted McKay's works on CBC from Vancouver, Canada. McKay's string orchestra suite Rocky Harbour and Sandy Cove is a tribute to Newfoundland folk music. McKay also conducted his own works with the Seattle Symphony for several premiere performances, and directed the CBC Orchestra and the University of Washington Symphony in various concerts. In the United States there were broadcasts of his compositions on NBC, CBS and Mutual Radio. His orchestral pieces were often performed at the National Gallery of Art (Smithsonian) in the period 1940-1965 under the direction of Dr. Richard Bales. McKay was prominent in the movement to evoke American folk-song in serious music, and spoke often with other composers on this subject. One notable and lengthy friendship and philosophical exchange was with William Grant Still, with the two composers carrying on substantive correspondence from 1937 until McKay passed away in 1970. Professor McKay also sponsored a Concert and Lecture by William Grant Still at the University of Washington in 1948. Other musical figures that McKay brought to the University to influence the academic community included Bela Bartok, Frederick Fennell, Thor Johnson, Andor Foldes, and Sir Thomas Beecham. George Frederick McKay was also a visiting professor at other major universities, including the University of Southern California on three occasions, the University of Oregon, the University of Michigan (Interlochen), and Drake University. At Interlochen in 1943 he taught with Percy Grainger and Ferde Grofe. As part of his interest in the educational world, McKay became well-known as a composer of children's pieces for piano, violin, orchestra and band. He and his wife Frances with their five children spent summers on Bainbridge Island on the beautiful blue salt-water straits across from Seattle and truly lived the Northwest life-style, and eventually the long summer days of swimming, fishing, and ferry-boat travel drifted into the professor's music. In 1940 he composed a grand Violin Concerto for the Jascha Heifetz Contest in New York. It was recently given a modern performance by Richard Hickox of London with the Seattle Symphony, and has also been recorded for release in 2005 with John McLaughlin Williams conducting the National Symphony of the Ukraine with Brian Reagin, Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra as Soloist in a dynamic performance.
McKay authored books concerning orchestration and harmony, and wrote many articles concerning modern music and the American scene. He published a very fine article concerning Christian Sinding's stay in America for Etude Magazine in 1944. In his later years he composed many excellent chamber works such as Carson City Sonatine for Violin and Piano, that reflected his retirement in the Lake Tahoe area. He often composed music that was inspired by natural environment and he was commissioned to compose the Centennial orchestral work for the City of Seattle by the Seattle Symphony in 1952, known as the Evocation Symphony (Symphony for Seattle). McKay traveled to Japan in the late 1960's and after returning to America composed his last work, The Bears of Hokkaido, for piano, which was inspired by a Japanese souvenir woodcarving of a comical orchestra of miniature bears playing instruments, which he kept on his writing desk.
George Frederick McKay's legacy is a treasure of original musical compositions reflecting the 20th Century as well as a great number of works with important historical references to the poems and folk-songs of the American nation and the world. He is remembered by his students, friends and family as a man who loved his country, respected originality in the arts, and influenced others with kindness and a warm sense of humor. Currently his music is being broadcast over the radio waves of the world again on stations in England, Canada, France, Australia, Spain and in the United States, enriching the cultural tradition of America.
MCKAY IN THE 1930's, NEAR THE TIME HE RECEIVED THE ALCHIN CHAIR OF MUSIC APPOINTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, FOLLOWING SCHOENBERG AND HANSON IN THAT HONORARY TEACHING POST.
Evocative scene reflecting McKay's "From A Moonlit Ceremony" premiered by Leopold Stokowski in the Hollywood Bowl during the concert series of 1946.
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Location The Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM) is located in the 9storey PrachadhipokRambai Barni Building on the campus of Chulalongkorn University, in midBangkok. Nearby points of interest include a number of major shopping centers, including Siam Square, Siam Paragon Mall, and Mah Boon Krong Plaza.
The Asian Research Center for Migration (ARCM) is a unit of the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University. Established as the Indochinese Refugee Information Center in 1987 and reconstituted as ARCM in 1995, the Center was recognized as a Chulalongkorn University Center of Excellence in 2007.


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Photo-Sharing Platform Instagram Raising $50 Million During Series B Funding
April 6, 2012 by James Johnson
Instagram has become a behemoth of a photo-sharing site and based off its more than 30 million users and the release of its Google Android based app version last week the company is believed to be close to a new round of massive funding.
According to AllThingsD the San Francisco-based startup plans to grab $50 million in Series B funding which would be led by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and which would valuate the company at $500 million.
You may recall that back in February 2011 Instagram raised $7 million from Benchmark Capital and a group of big name tech guru's including Square and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
During initial funding Instagram had just 1.75 million registered users.
While the company is looking for massive funding the size of its workforce is rather small with just 13 people occupy the company's office. Instagram took its first big people steps recently when it moved out of Twitter's old offices into its own space in the South Park District of San Francisco.
Almost every other picture I see online now has an Instagram effect applied to it and various company's are using the Instagram API to create fun and interesting applications that incorporate the company's photo platform, I wouldn't be surprised if the company nears 100 million Instagram users by the end of the year, especially with an Android app finally available for the platform.
Do you think Instagram is worth a valuation of $500 million?
Author: James Johnson
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The Dunn Museum provides a chronological walk through Lake County's history from prehistoric times to the present, as well as directs visitors to explore the land on which the history took place. The Museum is named for Bess Bower Dunn (1877–1959), Lake County's first official historian who traveled throughout the county photographing historic sites and meeting with residents to record their stories. She personally acquired many of the artifacts and documents that are now part of the Dunn Museum's priceless collections.


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Pupils from the Canterbury High School were invited to take part in the opening ceremony of the Appeti Tennis Centre. The Centre was formed after a successful application by the school to fund a community tennis programme via the Government's Sports Match programme.
Our intention is to provide an open access tennis facility to the local community.
Sports Match works by meeting private sponsorship pound for pound.
Thank you to Ash Corporate Finance who provided the private sponsorship. In total £100,000 was raised and will last for three years.
The new Centre, in conjunction with the Canterbury High School, will embark upon a district wide promotion of grass roots tennis, involving 32 primary schools and students from the Canterbury High School.
The primary schools initiative, 123 Junior Tennis, will provide youngsters with the opportunity to become involved with tennis minus the difficulty and expense often faced.
Appeti Tennis coaches will visit the schools delivering a course of tennis coaching as part of the existing PE lesson. Affordable sessions back at the Centre will be offered as party of the programme.
The funding will also help two new coaches to be trained.
<a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHskrR7Pfq"target="_blank">Click here to see photos from the launch.


Well. I must admit that i'm not very in the submission stuff. I'm doing the League but not submitting yet.
Thx for answering , Hugues. I was just wondering whether on the forum somebody said something about posting scores, that's all. But since you say that is something often required... then we'll have to wait, I imagine.
Last time he said it was updated was on may the third... don't know if he did some since.
Hi Julia, scores have been updated.
By the way, it seems that an italian team scored an amazing monster trophy score. Don't know if it's your team, but if, did you send the number of monster trophies, or the cumulated strength of those monster trophies ? Some of the guys are wandering on the forum, cause your score is very high.
Jokes aside, we should tag team something, someday. Could be fun!
And.. I checked your scores. Quite impressive, but... eight investigators? I thought you always play smaller parties!
No. Board control makes one bored.


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To familiarize you with the basics, we will describe the simplest possible configuration for a functional NDB Cluster. After this, you should be able to design your desired setup from the information provided in the other relevant sections of this chapter.
In this directory, create a file named config.ini that contains the following information. Substitute appropriate values for HostName and DataDir as necessary for your system.
# 1 management server, and 3 MySQL servers.
# the sake of completeness.
# If you don't know the hostname for your machine, use localhost.
# respectively. [db] is deprecated and should not be used in new installations.
For command-line options which can be used when starting ndbd, see Section 6.32, "Options Common to NDB Cluster Programs — Options Common to NDB Cluster Programs".
By default, ndbd looks for the management server at localhost on port 1186.
Wait a moment to make sure the MySQL server is running properly. If you see the notice mysql ended, check the server's .err file to find out what went wrong.
The row numbers shown in the preceding example output may be different from those shown on your system, depending upon how your server is configured.
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The Scarlet Blade
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For other uses, see Scarlet Blade.
The Scarlet Blade (released in the United States as The Crimson Blade) is a 1963 British adventure film directed by John Gilling and starring Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley and June Thorburn.
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September 1963 (1963-09) (UK)
March 1964 (1964-03) (US)
It is a period drama set during the English Civil War.
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When King Charles I is captured by Roundhead forces led by the tyrant Colonel Judd and his right-hand man Captain Sylvester, it is up to a band of locals loyal to the King led by a Robin Hood–type character named the Scarlet Blade to try to rescue him. They are helped by Judd's daughter Claire who secretly helps them in defiance of her father.
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Lionel Jeffries as Colonel Judd
Oliver Reed as Captain Tom Sylvester
Jack Hedley as Edward Beverley, the Scarlet Blade
June Thorburn as Claire Judd
Michael Ripper as Pablo
Harold Goldblatt as Jacob
Duncan Lamont as Major Bell
Clifford Elkin as Philip Beverley
Suzan Farmer as Constance Beverley
John Harvey as Sgt. Grey
Charles Houston as Drury
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When Posting your parcels this Christmas, here's a list of the latest recommended posting dates to ensure safe, secure and on time parcel delivery for Christmas 2018.
With Christmas being on Monday this year there will be no parcel deliveries Saturday and Sunday. Here's a simple list of last recommended days to post your Christmas Post and Parcels.
Christmas Day is on a Tuesday this year.
However the last possible delivery day will be Friday 21nd of December.
Parcels may be delivered if posted after these dates, our carriers really do burn the midnight oil to try and make sure everyone gets their Christmas presents, but we know as efficient Pharos Parcel clients you like to be organised!
If using DHL you can send your UK parcels on their express next day service right up to Thursday 20th December, but they are sent by air so no liquids in your gift sets or bottles. That means no perfume, aftershave, nail varnish or bath sets.
However none of the courier companies will guarantee their services the week before Christmas because they just can't.
We lead the world in online shopping. More of us shop online than any other country and with us all living on such a small crowded island, the expectation on the carriers to deliver on time to suit us is becoming more and more difficult to achieve.
When I started this business the average driver would be expected to collect 60 parcels a day.
Their targets are now double that.
This is one reason why we occasionally get calls for a failed collection saying the driver had disappeared by the time one of our customers have got to the door.
They are under so much pressure to collect and get back to the depot in time for their onward journey.
A way to help these overworked and stressed out delivery drivers is if you take advantage of the carriers arrangements for drop off and collect shops.
They tend to be based in town centres or out of town shops with free parking.
UPS DPD and DHL all have drop in points all over the UK you can find your nearest one here. Just type in your postcode. All you need to do is make your order with us as normal and ping us a quick email to let us know you are dropping it off.
Much as we'd love to track all your parcels for you we simply don't have the time!
Last posting dates for your letters and Christmas cards with Royal Mail.
We've partnered up with Citysprint this year who will do same day delivery for you if that vital present just has to get there no matter what.


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Q: Where is the OpenJDK Implementation of sun.management.ThreadImpl#findDeadlockedThreads0 I am trying to find the OpenJDK (7 or 8) implementation for sun.management.ThreadImpl#findDeadlockedThreads0 as I want to understand how it locates all the java.util.concurrent.locks.ReadWriteLocks in a system and interrogates them to find deadlocks.
I realise this is implemented in Native code, however having browsed the Mercurial repository for OpenJDK 7, I am struggling to find the real C/C++ code that does this.
I managed to get as deep as this - http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/file/9b8c96f96a0f/src/share/native/sun/management/ThreadImpl.c#l112
But I can't seem to find the implementation of jmm_interface->FindDeadlocks. Can anyone put me on the right track?

A: The implementation is in the JVM part, see:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/modules/hotspot/file/9646293b9637/src/share/vm/services/management.cpp#l1795

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