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History and excitement: a nice mix for the Super Bowl
Thu Jan 30 2:37pm ET
By BARRY WILNER
AP Pro Football Writer
Players: Emmanuel Sanders, Travis Kelce, Jimmy Garoppolo, Sammy Watkins, Raheem Mostert, Tyreek Hill, Deebo Samuel, Patrick Mahomes, Mecole Hardman
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo speaks during a media availability Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Miami, for the team's NFL Super Bowl 54 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle speaks during a media availability, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Miami, for the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman gestures as he speaks during a media availability, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Miami, for the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, in Aventura, Fla., for the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, in Aventura, Fla., for the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Kansas City Chiefs strong safety Tyrann Mathieu (32) speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, in Aventura, Fla., for the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan speaks during a media availability, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Miami, for the NFL Super Bowl 54 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
MIAMI (AP) Few Super Bowls in recent memory have appeared as competitive as the San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs.
No wonder there's a little more buzz about this one.
History and excitement are a nice combination for any championship game.
The history stems from the Chiefs seeking their first title since 1970, when they won the fourth Super Bowl in the final matchup of AFL-NFL. The full merger took place the next season - and Kansas City hasn't been back to the Super Bowl for which its founder, Lamar Hunt, provided the name.
"I think he would be amazed," said his son, Clark Hunt, who now oversees the Chiefs. "He and my mother actually talked about that at one of the last Super Bowls they attended together about 15 years ago. He said, 'I always knew it was going to be big, but I didn't know it was going to be this big."
Then there's Andy Reid, whose NFL head coaching resume goes back to 1999 in Philadelphia. He has a Super Bowl ring from work as an assistant coach in Green Bay, but Reid is 0-1 in the big game.
"Just getting him here isn't the goal," star tight end Travis Kelce said. "Winning this thing for him is."
San Francisco is seeking its sixth Vince Lombardi Trophy, which would equal the record held by Pittsburgh and New England. The 49ers also are looking to be only the second team to go from 4-12 the previous season to the top of the heap.
"It's been quite a journey," said halfback Raheem Mostert, who himself has had quite the sojourn in the NFL. He was cut by seven teams and was a special-teamer for the 49ers before getting a chance - and taking off running with it. Mostert rushed for 220 yards and four touchdowns in the NFC title game.
"This franchise has a lot of history and accomplishments. Of course we want to add to that."
Mostert is one of a field full of players who will push the thrill throttle to the floor and keep it there. So is Kelce.
But Kelce might not be the best tight end in the game. It's close, but 49ers All-Pro George Kittle is just as capable of breaking open this Super Bowl with something spectacular.
And celebrate it almost as adeptly as J-Lo and Shakira will fill the halftime stage.
"I think we both have a really good time playing football," Kittle said. "You can see that on the tape. We both just enjoy being out there with our teammates. We both make plays when we're asked to, and I think we both make plays when we're not asked to."
Both teams have wideouts capable of swinging momentum in their team's favor. For the Chiefs it's perhaps the speediest group the NFL has seen. Tyreek Hill is sure of it.
"If I'm healthy and my mind is in the right place, I'd go try out for the Olympics, put together a relay," Hill said. "We'd show these track guys, 'Hey, we football players can do that, too.'"
He's put fellow receivers Sammy Watkins and rookie Mecole Hardman on that relay.
"It almost looks like they got their roster from the Olympic relay team and threw them all on the football field," 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh said. "Not to say they can't run routes and catch either, because they can do that. They're a special group and you can see why they're there."
Still, the 49ers have a clutch receiver in veteran Emmanuel Sanders, a rookie with no fear of going anywhere on the field - or above it - to make a catch in Deebo Samuel, and an emerging talent in Kendrick Bourne. Just like with Kansas City, they're capable of making a difference.
So is San Francisco's defense, and it will need to be at optimal precision to deal with perhaps the most electrifying player of them all in this Super Bowl: Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
The 49ers have a powerful pass rush sparked by a deep front four that includes a sack threat at every spot - including one rookie, Nick Bosa. A year ago, the Niners were so bad they had the second overall draft pick. They took edge rusher Bosa, and look where they are now.
The Niners have 57 sacks including the playoffs, with veteran linebacker Dee Ford, Bosa, Arik Armstead and DeForest Buckner all having at least 7 1/2.
Fred Warner has developed into a versatile linebacker and Richard Sherman remains one of the NFL's great cornerbacks - an action guy who will love taking on Mahomes.
"We believe in each other," Sherman said. "We believe in the scheme. We believe in what we've done all year, and we plan on going out there and putting a good product on tape and seeing how it goes."
For Kansas City, whose defense performed particularly well down the stretch of the regular season but hasn't been so stingy in spots during the postseason, how it goes Sunday very possibly will depend on how successful Mahomes is. The 49ers don't need their QB, Jimmy Garoppolo, to be extra special; he's been more of a caretaker behind that monstrous running game and defense in the two postseason victories.
Make no mistake about Mahomes: Kansas City needs him to be, well, vintage Mahomes.
Which means big plays with his arm, thrown from angles we didn't know existed. Howitzer throws as he rolls out - even to his left - and doesn't bother fully planting his legs. Maybe even the tightrope kind of run down the sideline that still has NFL folks shaking their heads in wonder.
"You have to accept the excitement that it is," Mahomes said this week as he stood on a podium and spoke to reporters. "It's amazing to be here, to be in this atmosphere, to be at this podium. It's where you want to be when you start training camp in St. Joe, Missouri. For me, to be in this moment, I'm just enjoying it as much as possible."
Chances are, Mahomes and his teammates, along with the 49ers, will produce one of those enjoyable, memorable, perhaps even classic Super Bowls.
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Analysis: Backup QBs saw plenty of action in NFL playoffs
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Signs point to Saints entering new era in 2021
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A Message From The SMAC Executive Director
TO OUR SMAC FAMILY:
I hope this note finds you all healthy and well as we continue to weather this challenging time. It is my pleasure to reach out to you today as SMAC's first Executive Director.
The past six months have been filled with a number of SMAC milestones, including the launch of SMAC's central office and our exciting new expansion campaign. We were thrilled to be profiled on national television and across various news outlets which helped spread the SMAC mission and message to new communities across the country.
We were inspired to partner with a number of incredible organizations—such as The Valerie Fund, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Camp Quality, and The Jay Fund - in order to expand SMAC's capacity for impact. Finally, we were excited to connect and reconnect with so many of you in our SMAC family.
Shortly thereafter, however, our country was overwhelmed by COVID's powerful sweep. Since then, we have all embraced a difficult new normal. School closures and social distancing have placed new burdens on students and parents alike. Teachers have been forced to find new ways to teach and connect with students. The 2019-20 school year ended with distance and virtual learning, and the shape of the 2020-21 school year remains just as uncertain and unsettled.
Despite these circumstances, SMAC has forged ahead, innovative and thriving. Our chapters have launched virtual fundraisers, provided support to front line workers, and devised new ways to help those battling cancer in the face of the COVID threat.
We have already added new chapters to the SMAC network and are looking forward to welcoming more next school year. From Henrico High School in Virginia to Somerville High School, Governor Livingston, and Summit Middle School in New Jersey, we are thrilled to see the SMAC network grow.
We would also like to note that three members of the SMAC Board of Directors - Dr. Barie Salmon, Dr. Tracy Salmon, and Abby Price, RN-BSN - answered the call as frontline medical workers in New York City during the peak of the crisis and made us all proud.
Additionally, over the past two months, so many have raised their voices to protest widespread racial injustice. Through these demonstrations, we have seen the power of grassroots movements and the impact that people - especially young people - can have in effecting change. SMAC, too, hopes to do its part to address racial injustice. In the coming year, we plan to commit resources to empower students and communities to fight back against cancer's devastating, disproportionate impact on BIPOC communities by organizing new chapters and promoting cancer awareness and prevention campaigns.
We believe that SMAC can have a profound impact on our students and communities, inspiring and empowering people to make a difference in the fight against cancer and beyond. That is why we are eager to meet these challenging times with enthusiasm and resolve.
We look forward to keeping you apprised of the exciting things SMAC will undertake in the coming months. Please accept our heartfelt gratitude for all of your support this past year and our wishes for a brighter, healthier second-half of 2020.
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Scientists have created a triple-stage "cluster bomb" technique for delivering the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, through nanoparticles designed to break up when they reach a tumor. The particles have not been tested in humans, although similar ways of packaging cisplatin have been in clinical trials.
What makes these particles distinctive is that they start out relatively large, 100 nanometers wide. This is to allow smooth transport into the tumor through leaky blood vessels. Then, in acidic conditions found close to tumors, the particles release "bomblets" just 5 nanometers in size.
Inside tumor cells, a second chemical step activates the platinum-based cisplatin, which kills by crosslinking and damaging DNA. Doctors have used cisplatin to fight several types of cancer for decades, but toxic side effects – to the kidneys, nerves and inner ear—can limit its effectiveness.
The finding is the result of a collaboration between a team led by professor Jun Wang, PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China, and researchers led by professor Shuming Nie, PhD in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.
Nie is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics research program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. The lead authors are graduate student Hong-Jun Li and postdoctoral fellows Jinzhi Du, PhD and Xiao-Jiao Du, PhD.
The researchers showed that their nanoparticles could enhance cisplatin drug accumulation in tumor tissues.
When mice bearing human pancreatic tumors were given the same doses of free cisplatin or cisplatin clothed in pH-sensitive nanoparticles, the level of platinum in tumor tissues was seven times higher with the nanoparticles. This suggests the possibility that nanoparticle delivery of a limited dose of cisplatin could restrain the toxic side effects during cancer treatment.
In the metastatic breast cancer model, treating mice with cisplatin clothed in nanoparticles prolonged animal survival by weeks; 50 percent of the mice were surviving at 54 days with nanoparticles compared with 37 days for the same dose of free cisplatin.
Enhanced efficacy in three different tumor models demonstrate that this strategy may be applicable to several types of cancer, Jinzhi Du says.


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Ken has been awarded the prestigious Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) Designation by the Council of Residential Specialists, the largest not-for-profit affiliate of the National Association of REALTORS®. REALTORS® who receive the CRS Designation have completed advanced professional training and demonstrated outstanding professional achievement in residential real estate. Only 29,000 REALTORS® nationwide have earned the credential. Moreover, Ken is also a certified FAA part 107 drone pilot, which allows him to offer his clients a unique opportunity to incorporate the fast growing and popular drone photography into their real estate transaction.
Ken is a family man, with a devotion to his beautiful wife, and their two young boys. He is an avid outdoorsman who loves to take advantage of the year around outdoor activities that Northern Nevada has to offer. His outdoor passions include snow skiing, mountain bike riding, hiking, running, and swimming in and around the beautiful Lake Tahoe Basin. It is not uncommon to see the Angst Family eating dinner and swimming at Sand Harbor on Sunday evenings during the summer.
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Recent visitors to the Ronald Reagan Birthplace, Tampico, IL., were exchange students from Gdansk, Northern Poland, under the leadership of Marcin & Dorota Furgalski. Following their tour of the Birthplace, the group presented the "Solidarity" banner to Joan Johnson, Director of the Birthplace.
Would you allow your family tree to be sold?
Let's suppose you uploaded your family tree to one of the many websites that offers online trees. How would you feel if that website then sold your tree to another website?
Did you realise that when you create an Ancestry family tree, even if it's a private tree, you "grant Ancestry a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicenseable, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to and otherwise use such material, including, hosting and access on co-branded services of that material, and to use the data contained in that material as search results and to integrate that data into the Service as Ancestry deems appropriate"?
That comes from Ancestry's Terms and Conditions http://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/legal/termsandconditions?AID=10402952&PID=1793701 - which I suspect a lot of Ancestry users have never even read. The key words are transferable and sublicenseable. You might trust Ancestry with your data (just as, a few years ago, you might have trusted your bank), but can you be absolutely sure that Ancestry won't sublicense your information to someone who you don't trust?
For example, Helen wrote to tell me how annoyed she was to discover her family tree at a site called Mundia. In this case the Mundia site is owned by Ancestry, but it might not have been - Helen had inadvertently given them the rights to license her information to absolutely anyone.
Interestingly, when I read the Mundia Terms and Conditions I noticed that - although they are broadly similar to Ancestry's - the word 'perpetual' has been added. This means that they can go on selling your data even after you've removed it from the site.
Now, before anyone accuses me of waging a vendetta against Ancestry, they aren't alone in this. Another site which claims to be "the world's largest family network" includes in their Service terms the provision "by posting content on the Website, you grant us a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual and non-exclusive license to host, copy, post and distribute such content."
The mailings went out the first week in July. If you did not receive the brochure for the new Whiteside County History Book in-the-making, then contact Don Mulnix, coordinator. dsm_1944@yahoo.com Each town should have some at their historical society & possibly other merchants as well. I left some in Tampico at the Ronald Reagan Birthplace, PNB bank & the Historical Society. I will be checking with the other merchants in town to see if they will keep some on hand as well. I've left copies in Kickback, R & B Dutch Diner, PNB & Reagan Birthplace as well as in the Historical Society. You are allowed 500 words + one photo for free. $15 for each additional photo. You do not have to have lived here for a very long time. There are already history books that cover the pioneers, etc. Think 50 yrs. from now...YOU are the history to them. Tell us about you, your family, etc. Guidelines are in the brochure. Especially hoping to get a lot of Tampico families in there.
I do not have time to itemize as I usually do - I will be working on retrieving the information on the Message Boards.
PLEASE NOTE - YOU CAN NOT "REPLY" TO THIS NEWSLETTER. It is sent out by an outside service. If you need to contact us, send email to our president, Joan Johnson, garyjoan@thewisp.net, 815-622-8705 or to Denise McLoughlin, tampicohistoricalsociety@gmail.com, 815-590-2143.


Opening with a "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Wild Thing" mashup, Liz Gherna took the crowd at Saint Rocke from zero to sixty in under an hour, leaving Super Diamond with a packed house cheering for more.
The set list continued with originals "My Life on Fire" and "Tears of My Own" as more people left the comforts of their seats and headed for the stage. The phones came out and captured videos and pictures to light up Facebook, Instagram and Twitter the next day.
Neal Shelton posted "REAL TIME GIG PHOTOS" incuding some adorable crowd photos of friends and fans having fun, featuring Francesca Brooks, Elizabeth Baker, Mike Yurko, Eleanor Boucher and Liz Gherna.
Denise Lavell was the very first one to broadcast –almost live really — putting a video up RIGHT after the show ended.
The band also played "Til There Was You," slowing it down a bit, with Liz even putting down the guitar for this Music Man hit. This was followed by "Bossa Nova," a Liz Gherna original song.
They closed with "Louise," a Bonnie Raitt song, and a fitting goodnight for the very fun evening. Thanks to all our friends, family and fans that came out for the show!


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HomeMark Hetfield, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society – Salary Survey 2015
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Mark Hetfield
The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society supports refugees around the world. Founded in 1881, HIAS has helped generations of Jews immigrate to the United States and adapt to their new lives. Today, HIAS operates in 14 countries — including Ecuador, Kenya and Israel — and helps refugees of all religions resettle, receive citizenship and integrate into society. The agency offers a variety of services to refugees, including legal assistance, trauma counseling and humanitarian assistance. In Washington, D.C., HIAS advocates for fair immigration legislation and dignified treatment of refugees.
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Mark Hetfield is the president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. After joining HIAS as a Russian-speaking caseworker in 1989, Hetfield served in a variety of positions at the organization, including Washington representative and, most recently, senior vice president for policy & programs. Hetfield also worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, and served as a senior advisor to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Hetfield received a bachelor's and a law degree from Georgetown University and worked as an immigration lawyer at Fulbright and Jaworski. Hetfield's 2014 salary includes a $43,472 housing allowance for the CEO, who works out of both the DC and the New York offices.
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President Barack Obama has chosen one of his longtime economic advisers, Austan Goolsbee, to be the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, a White House official said.
Obama was expected to announce the appointment at the beginning of his news conference on Friday. The official spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement had not been made.
Goolsbee, a University of Chicago professor of economics, is one of three economists on the council. He already has been confirmed to the council by the Senate.
He replaces Christina Romer, who left the administration last week to return to her teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley.
ABC reported late Thursday that Goolsbee would be named to the post, a key position as Obama focuses on the economy ahead of November elections. Voters may be in the mood to blame the president's Democratic Party over the sour economy and unemployment.
Goolsbee, 41, was Obama's senior economic policy adviser during the 2008 presidential campaign. A graduate of Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is considered to be a centrist economist.
He gained unwanted visibility during the campaign after a Canadian consulate memo asserted that Goolsbee privately told Canadian officials that Obama's public statements on trade were "political positioning." Goolsbee disputed the claim.


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The world's most expensive flat on sale for £150m
A 15,000 sq ft home in the historic Grade I listed Admiralty Arch in the capital could fetch up to £150m.
Dubbed as the world's most expensive flat, the property boasts 12 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
Spanish developer Rafael Serrano bought a 250-year lease to the Grade I-listed building from the Government for a reported £60 million in 2012.
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Internal NASA Memo From Charlie Bolden: Reaching for New Heights in 2017 and Beyond
Filed under NASA HQ, US
As someone who served for decades in the United States Marine Corps, it always gives me great pride to see our fellow Americans exercise the most sacred right in our democracy – a right that good men and women have fought and died for since the earliest days of our country – the right to vote.
As a proud member of the NASA Family, it gives me great hope and joy to know that as our country transitions from a long campaign to the hard work of governing, our agency will continue to reach for new heights for the benefit of all humankind.
One of the things I've noticed over the last couple years, is that more and more of the people I meet are getting behind the important work you and I have been doing together: from our Journey to Mars to the International Space Station to Earth Science, exploration of our Solar System and Beyond, cutting edge Aeronautics and our work to develop the technology that drives both exploration and economic growth.
Less often are people saying, "Why don't you try things my way?" More often they are asking, "How can I be a part of this?" The Pluto-mania we experienced last summer, the excitement over Scott Kelly's Year in Space, the Mars momentum that has entered the public's consciousness – these are but a few examples.
In times when there has been much news about all the things that divide our nation, there has been noticeable bipartisan support for this work, our work – support that not only reaches across the aisle, but across the public, private, academic and non-profit sectors.
For this reason, I think we can all be confident that the new Trump Administration and future administrations after that will continue the visionary course on which President Barack Obama has set us, a course that all of you have made possible.
When I reflected on the state of our NASA at the beginning of this year, I shared one of my favorite quotes, words once said by Andrew Carnegie: "Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. [But] take away my factories [and] leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory."
I could not agree with these sentiments more when it comes to our NASA.
I maintain that the state of our NASA is as strong today as it has ever been. The reason I say this is simple; it is because of you.
You, along with our fellow employees, contractors and partners are making aviation cleaner, greener, safer and quieter. You are unlocking the mysteries of places like Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, Jupiter, Europa, the sun, Saturn, her moons and Mars. You are discovering more and more about our own planet's oceans, atmosphere, surface, energy cycle, water cycle, carbon cycle, weather and changing climate. You are supporting our astronauts as they work off the Earth, for the Earth. You are building a robust commercial market in low-Earth orbit and making commercial cargo and crew a reality. You are helping develop thousands of new technologies and helping partners spin them off and transfer them into the market where they are impacting people's lives and creating jobs. You are encouraging more young Americans – including women and people of color – to pursue study and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
You are the reason that we are closer to sending human beings to Mars today than anyone, anywhere, at any time has ever been.
Perhaps most importantly, you are continuing to make NASA the #1 best place to work in the federal government.
You are the reason that my granddaughters will someday raise their own children in a world where the air is cleaner, our planet's waters are healthier, NASA-developed technologies are making a difference in people's day-to-day lives, commercial airline travel is quicker, safer and more fuel efficient and a continuous human presence on Mars is an everyday fact of life. You are the reason we may even find the answer to the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
In 2010, as many of you will recall, President Obama came to the Kennedy Space Center and challenged NASA to embark on a Journey to Mars that would bring astronauts to the Red Planet in the 2030s. Few could have imagined that just a few years later we would have made such incredible progress on this journey and on all our important work on behalf of discovery, innovation and human progress.
So as 2016 comes to a close, I want to invite you to take just a brief moment to reflect on all that we have done together and all the wonderful things to come for NASA, and for humanity.
Thank you for making the impossible possible. Thank you for turning science fiction into science fact. Thank you for making the state of our NASA so very strong.
I am honored to be your colleague and your friend.
Charlie B.
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Jack Brabham won the World Championship three times (1959, 60 & 66).
His 1966 victory was in a self-designed car.
He won the Constructor's Championship (for car design) twice.
Jack Brabham was selected as Australian of the Year in 1966 and was knighted in 1979.
She was beaten only twice in her 20 year career, once in a NSW State championship in 1959 and once in the final of the Scottish Championship in 1960.
She retired in 1979 after losing a set for the first time in five years during the British Open.
She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1979.
Ken Catchpole is regarded as Australia's greatest Rugby Union halfback.
He was made Australian captain in 1961 but thereafter was vice-captain.
Jimmy Carruthers won the World bantamweight championship in 1952 by knocking out Vic Toweel of South Africa after 139 seconds of the first round during which he threw an estimated 147 puches.
He successfully defended the title four times in 1953 & 1954.
Jimmy Carruthers retired undefeated in 1954 but was defeated attempting a comeback in 1961.
and World featherweight champion in 1969.
He is the only World feathereight champion never to have been knocked out.
This prompted Ampol Petroleum to sponsor the firstt official World Surfboard Championship which Midget Farrelly also won in 1964.
Kel Nagle won 55 major tournaments between 1938 and 1978.
Peter Thomson won 57 major tournaments between 1949 and 1979.
the Canada Cup (now called the World Cup), with Kel Nagle, twice (1954 & 59).
He retired from tournament golf in 1979.
He was the first person to win the title who was not a resident of the host country.
He retired from competitive surfing in 1990 and set up a resort near Yamba, New South Wales.
Bill Northam took up sailing at the age of 46.
He won the 5.5m Olympic gold medal in 1964 in "Barrenjoey" becoming the oldest person (at 59) to win a gold medal.
He was knighted in 1976 and died in 1988.
Bill Roycroft learnt to ride as a child but did not begin entering competitions until middle age.
He competed in five Olympic games from 1960, where he won a gold medal in the three-day event.
He won Olympic bronze medals in the same event in 1968 & 72.


As the end of the school year approaches (here in Denver, at least), I thought I'd share the chalkboard covered journals that Burke and I made as a gift for his teachers. They are easy to put together, inexpensive to make (I think I spent $2 on each one) and such a hit!
I blame my days as a classroom teacher for this-I have tons of opinions about the best ways to show teachers how much you appreciate them. I tend towards practical gifts (think Starbucks gift cards) and also love any chance to express heartfelt, personal thanks. I especially love pairing the two of those.
These journals (we made them into Quote Books so that Burke's preschool teachers have a spot to record the hilariousness that they hear every day) plus a Starbucks gift card fit right into that sentimental-plus-practical category.
Would you like to make a chalkboard notebook for a teacher in your life?
First gather your supplies- a plain composition notebook, chalkboard contact paper (I got mine on Amazon), and scissors. Lay your opened notebook on top of the contact paper to measure how much you'll need. Give yourself a border of at least an inch all the way around the edge. Also, close the notebook while holding the contact paper in place to measure how much you'll need for the spine. Once measured, cut the contact paper. Notch the corners so you won't have excess contact paper overlapping at the corners. To adhere, peel up one edge of the contact paper backing and place the back cover of the composition book in the center (again, leaving the perimeter you cut all the way around your cover). Carefully roll the spine of the comp book onto the contact paper, covering. Unpeel the rest of the contact paper and smooth onto the front cover of the comp book. Now, fold the excess around the edges of the book, trimming the excess on the spine and on the corners (if they're rounded).
Now the fun part- grab a chalk pen and some chalk and decorate the notebook (I did the front- Burke did the back), wrap up with a bow (and a gift card) and deliver to the teacher you appreciate!
ADORABLE!! Jonah's last of school is tomorrow, so I don't have time to pull this one off. But I'm definitely tucking this idea away for next year!
These are wonderful – and I don't imagine there's a teacher out there who hasn't heard her pupils say something hilarious now and then, so what a great idea to give her a dedicated journal to record it!
I think you make a great point too about practical gifts. Gift-giving etiquette varies slightly between our two countries, but I think your point applies to both; something like a gift card is always great for someone whose personal tastes and/or hobbies you may not know.
You know, Melissa, cone to think of it I do sometimes write down funny conversations I've had with my nephews, kids have such a different perspective on life, they're great!
I love this… I would love to have a record of the funny things my kids/cousins/etc. say.
Cute cute cute!!! Love this!


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On November 19, 1928, our Mighty Wurlitzer organ played for the first time at the grand opening of the new Orpheum Theatre. The organ, new and gleaming, was an exciting showpiece as the theatre welcomed patrons back for the first time since the original structure had burned to the ground five years before.
Since that day, the Wurlitzer has been a fan-favorite attraction, rising from its own hydraulic lift in the orchestra pit to the delight the crowd. We invite you to learn about the history of this 92-year-old instrument and why it's so precious to all of us at the Orpheum.
The Rudolph Wurlitzer factory was located in North Tonawanda, NY, a suburb of Buffalo. Every organ manufactured by the Wurlitzer Pipe Organ company was assigned a serial number, or in the terminology of the company, an Opus number. Our organ holds the Opus number of 1956. Only 2,143 Wurlitzer pipe organs were produced by the firm between 1910 and 1943. Of those, the Orpheum's organ is one of only 12 worldwide that remain today in the same building in which they were originally installed.
These organs were created because theatre owners at the time wanted their audiences to hear the sounds of a full orchestra but did not want the ongoing expense of paying one. Wurlitzer organs allowed a single musician to have the sounds of an entire orchestra at their disposal.
The Orpheum paid $19,000 for our magnificent pipe organ. It arrived in Memphis in September 1928 in preparation for the November theatre opening. On opening night, November 19, 1928, the Giant Wurlitzer, as it was then advertised, was played by organist Earl Estes.
In 1940, vaudeville had given way in popularity to talking pictures, and the Orpheum Theatre was sold to M.A. Lightman, who made the theatre his flagship Malco movie theatre. The house organist was a man named Milton Slosser, who unfortunately departed the theatre in 1943. His departure left the organ largely unused and it fell into general disrepair.
In the 1950s, a stage curtain caught fire and fell on the organ console, badly damaging the finish. Two brothers, Harlan and Philip Judkins, offered to repair the organ, and Richard Lightman agreed. The brothers found extensive damage caused by humidity and coal soot, which was found throughout the organ, from the basement blower to the caps of the pipes. Harlan and Phillip, however, were undeterred and performed the herculean task of cleaning the organ and the pipes thoroughly.
In the fall of 1959, the Wurlitzer was finally once again in good playing condition.
The Malco hired Ernest Nichols from Clarksville, TN, as the house organist, and the sounds of the Mighty Wurlitzer were heard once again in Memphis.
In the early 1970s, the MALCO was fortunate to have Bill Oberg maintain the Wurlitzer. He extensively repaired and revived the organ through the theatre's final years as the Malco.
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After the theatre was purchased by the Memphis Development Foundation in 1975 and its name reverted back to the Orpheum, the organ slowly declined as the decades passed. Despite loving care by its organists, by June 2017 time had taken a toll, and the organ was, for all practical purposes, unplayable. The Orpheum Theatre Group, the successor organization to the Memphis Development Foundation, launched a fundraising campaign to totally rebuild the Mighty Wurlitzer.
JL Weiler, Inc of Chicago was commissioned to disassemble the organ down to the smallest piece, ship all those pieces to their shop, repair or rebuild every piece, and then reassemble the organ back at the Orpheum. The total cost of this massive project was approximately $500,000.
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The award, given by the Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy, recognizes researchers who are conducting sustained, exemplary multistate activities and enhance the visibility of the multistate program. One of the lead investigators is Tom Fernandez, a professor in the MSU Department of Horticulture, who studies the sustainability of wholesale production nurseries, water management and water quality.
Creating management strategies to address the decreasing availability and quality of water for irrigation in the ornamental plant industries.
Investigating water conservation methods and improving nutrient management practices to reduce usage and reduce impacts on runoff water quality.
Discovering ways to reuse water or return clean water to the surrounding water systems. Concerns include agrichemicals, abiotic and biotic factors, substrate and nutrient management, and environmental, economic and social issues.
Developing appropriate management strategies to mitigate urban environmental situations that degrade water resources.
The collaboration includes 31 researchers and 22 institutions across the nation. Nineteen members have served as principal investigators on 41 grants totaling more than $21.6 million from USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and other sources.
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Trackhouse not entering Project 91 entry into Daytona 500
Justin Marks, team owner of Trackhouse Racing, confirmed on Twitter that the team will not enter its Project91 car into this year's Daytona 500. Rather, he wants to put the team's emphasis on the cars for Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez.
In a program that was announced last May to inject racecar drivers from all around the world into NASCAR for one-off races, the Project91 entry has competed in just one race. Last August, Kimi Raikkonen finished 37th at Watkins Glen International after wrecking out of the 90-lap race early.
Marks hinted that there are some announcements forthcoming regarding its Project91 team for 2023. He stated last summer that he hopes to run the No. 91 entry in six to eight races.
We took a hard look at the Daytona 500 with @THProject91 but at the end of the day decided to focus on the road courses and the 1/99 @ Daytona. We have some exciting P91 stuff being finalized.
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Q: High memory consumption in unlist of list-of-lists of POSIXct I have around 500-2000 lists of POSIXct dates in a list of lists looking like this:
ts <- lapply(c(1:500), function(x) seq(as.POSIXct("2000/1/1"), as.POSIXct("2017/1/1"), "hours"))

I need a list of unique dates. I have tried several things:
t <- unique(do.call("c", ts))

This preserves the POSIXct class, but takes very long and uses 7-8GB of memory; even though he whole list of lists is like 500MB or so.
t <- as.POSIXct(unique(unlist(ts, use.names = FALSE)), origin = "1970-01-01")

This goes much faster, though the memory consumed is roughly the same. So I tried to split it with this:
t <- lapply(split(ts, ceiling(seq_along(ts)/30)), function(x) {
  return(unique(unlist(x, use.names = FALSE)))
})
t <- unique(unlist(x, use.names = FALSE))

Same consumption and it seems to me like the memory comes from the unlist() or unique() call on just one of "small" lists.
Is there a way to achieve this memory efficient? Processing time matters, but just a little. If the list size doubles (which is likely) this may cause serious problems.

A: The unique(do.call("c", ts)) call uses < 4GB (3869.9 - 606 ~ 3GB) of RAM on my machine. And the ts object is 568MB.
R> ts <- lapply(c(1:500), function(x) seq(as.POSIXct("2000/1/1"), as.POSIXct("2017/1/1"), "hours"))
R> gc()
           used  (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb) max used (Mb)
Ncells   221687  11.9     460000  24.6   392929   21
Vcells 74925836 571.7  112760349 860.3 79427802  606
R> t <- unique(do.call("c", ts))
R> gc()
           used  (Mb) gc trigger   (Mb)  max used   (Mb)
Ncells   221729  11.9     460000   24.6    392929   21.0
Vcells 75074953 572.8  413082177 3151.6 507227169 3869.9
R> print(object.size(ts), units="MB")
568.8 Mb
R> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Setting recursive = FALSE and use.names = FALSE makes it faster and drops the memory consumption to ~2GB.
R> ts <- lapply(1:500, function(x) seq(as.POSIXct("2000-01-01"), as.POSIXct("2017-01-01"), "hours"))
R> gc()
           used  (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb) max used  (Mb)
Ncells   221686  11.9     460000  24.6   371201  19.9
Vcells 74925836 571.7  111681359 852.1 80924280 617.5
R> u <- do.call("c", c(ts, recursive = FALSE, use.names = FALSE))
R> gc()
            used   (Mb) gc trigger   (Mb)  max used   (Mb)
Ncells    221725   11.9     460000   24.6    371201   19.9
Vcells 149446409 1140.2  413082872 3151.6 373009943 2845.9

Using unlist with the same arguments is a little lighter on memory consumption:
R> ts <- lapply(1:500, function(x) seq(as.POSIXct("2000-01-01"), as.POSIXct("2017-01-01"), "hours"))
R> gc()
           used  (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb) max used  (Mb)
Ncells   221686  11.9     460000  24.6   371201  19.9
Vcells 74925836 571.7  111681359 852.1 80924280 617.5
R> u <- .POSIXct(unlist(ts, recursive = FALSE, use.names = FALSE))
R> gc()
            used   (Mb) gc trigger   (Mb)  max used   (Mb)
Ncells    221695   11.9     460000   24.6    371201   19.9
Vcells 149446337 1140.2  358453576 2734.8 298487368 2277.3

Adding alexis_laz's comment, you can see that memory consumption is a measly 230MB:
R> ts <- lapply(c(1:500), function(x) seq(as.POSIXct("2000/1/1"), as.POSIXct("2017/1/1"), "hours"))
R> gc()
           used  (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb) max used  (Mb)
Ncells   218429  11.7     460000  24.6   389555  20.9
Vcells 74922694 571.7  111432506 850.2 81226910 619.8
R> u <- Reduce(function(x, y) unique(c(x, y)), ts)
R> gc()
           used  (Mb) gc trigger  (Mb)  max used  (Mb)
Ncells   218893  11.7     460000  24.6    389555  20.9
Vcells 75072416 572.8  111432506 850.2 111399894 850.0

A: Instead of creating a large vector with do.call(c, .)/unlist(.) and a single large hash table which have a high memory usage as shown in Joshua's answer, we could follow the less time-efficient but more memory-efficient way of processing "ts" iteratively:
ff1 = function(x)  ## a simple version of `Reduce(unique(c()), )`
{
    ans = NULL
    for(elt in x) ans = unique(c(ans, elt))
    return(.POSIXct(ans))
}
system.time({ ans1 = ff1(ts) })
#   user  system elapsed
#  11.41    1.25   12.74

"ts" has identical elements. Though this ideal is not generally the case, we could try to avoid some concatenations if possible:
ff2 = function(x)
{
    ans = NULL
    for(elt in x) {
        new = !(elt %in% ans)
        if(any(new)) ans = c(ans, elt[new])
    }
    return(.POSIXct(ans))
}
system.time({ ans2 = ff2(ts) })
#   user  system elapsed
#   6.65    1.12    7.93

On the same note, fastmatch package has a very interesting but, unfortunately, not exported, high level hash table functionality that we could try using here. It should, also, be more light on memory consumption.
First define some convenient wrappers:
HASH = function(x, size) fastmatch:::mk.hash(x = x, size = size)
APPEND = function(x, what) fastmatch:::append.hash(hash = x, x = what, index = FALSE)
HTABLE = function(x) fastmatch:::levels.fasthash(x)

And build the same concept on it:
ff3 = function(x, size)
{
    h = HASH(double(), size)
    for(elt in x) h = APPEND(h, elt)
    return(.POSIXct(HTABLE(h)))
}
system.time({ ans3 = ff3(ts, sum(lengths(ts)) / 1e2) }) #an estimate of unique values
#   user  system elapsed
#   4.81    0.00    4.87
system.time({ ans3b = ff3(ts, length(ts[[1]])) }) #we know the number of uniques
#   user  system elapsed
#   2.03    0.03    2.10

And to compare:
all.equal(ans1, ans2)
#[1] TRUE
all.equal(ans2, ans3)
#[1] TRUE

On a smaller example to illustrate:
set.seed(1821)
tmp = split(sample(1e2, 26, TRUE) + 0, rep(1:4, c(6, 3, 11, 6)))

identical(unique(unlist(tmp)), as.double(ff1(tmp)))
#[1] TRUE
identical(unique(unlist(tmp)), as.double(ff2(tmp)))
#[1] TRUE
identical(unique(unlist(tmp)), as.double(ff3(tmp, 1e2)))
#[1] TRUE


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English 12 with Curtis will focus on diversity in readings with selections from Indigenous writers, writers of colour, voices from the LGBTQ community and various other groups. Crucial to the course's outcomes will be an understanding of rhetorical strategies and manipulative techniques used by media of all kinds in the contemporary digital environment. Students will learn to identify credible sources while developing the tools needed to evaluate information for its relevance and accuracy in their research, and while working to incorporate that same information into their own original writing. The class will be rich in discussion and focused on student's engagement with course materials and expression of interpretations and analysis.
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Curtis LeBlanc was born and raised in St. Albert, Alberta. He is the author of Good for Nothing (Anstruther Press, 2017) and Little Wild (Nightwood Editions, 2018). His fiction and poetry have been published in print and online, both in Canada and the United States. In 2010, he moved to Vancouver to pursue his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at UBC. He recently completed his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at UBC as well. During that time, he taught a wide range of topics to students at the elementary, high school and post-secondary levels, including English, Poetry, Fiction, Songwriting, New Media and Sports Writing. He loves adapting his lessons to students' interests and opening the door to an array of materials and critical viewpoints. When he's not working on his own writing, you can find him performing his songs or reading his poetry around Vancouver. He's also a huge hockey fan, with a special interest in analytics and sports culture, and has covered the NHL for a variety of publications.
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A disc exploring the work of three twentieth-century composers whose work was crucial to the Anglican choral tradition.
This trio of English composers are perhaps better known for their creative output in other fields, yet they played a crucial role in the development of the Anglican choral tradition in the twentieth century. James O'Donnell and The Choir of Westminster Abbey present this recording centred on Finzi's Lo, the full, final sacrifice: the other works may be less familiar but no less moving.
"The choir's diffuse tone – breathier in the upper voices than rivals at New College or even King's Cambridge – is very effective"
"Fine performances from all involved in this recording of English church music"


By younger we mean, of course, those whippersnappers between the ages of 50 and 54.
"Additional increases are from chronic liver disease, suicide, cirrhosis of the liver, along with poisonings. The overall epidemic surrounding these clusters is addiction as the cited death spikes relate to opioid abuse, alcohol abuse, and heroine abuse."
The article is two years old so it misses the way millennials have been throwing themselves into the sea like lemmings ever since.
A good look at today's teens doesn't look to promising either....especially if you leer.
That age group, 50-54, would have been the 1980s young party people. Rave and DJ culture; organized zombiedom. Hey, life is hard and it still is not a new world.
(5 hours ago)UniqueStranger Wrote: That age group, 50-54, would have been the 1980s young party people. Rave and DJ culture; organized zombiedom. Hey, life is hard and it still is not a new world.
Yeah. Today they are loaded up with prescription meds and bombarded with electronics, such as wearing an additional phone as part of their job along with their personal phone that increases their need for the drugs. Women carry their second phone in their purse at least which might be why they aren't dying as fast as the men.
(Yesterday, 03:05 PM)UniqueStranger Wrote: That age group, 50-54, would have been the 1980s young party people. Rave and DJ culture; organized zombiedom. Hey, life is hard and it still is not a new world.
@ Nasewa - to post videos you, just copy/paste the address, nothing more need be done.