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The Middle East Studies Center (MESC) is part of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo.
MESC supports research, teaching, and outreach across a range of disciplines. MESC administers the BA, Diploma and MA program in Middle East Studies, whose alumni span academia, the private sector, NGOs and government service. Through a variety of curricular and extracurricular activities, we aim to build on our international reputation and location as a natural hub for Middle Eastern studies. Our organization and participation in conferences, lectures, and workshops serve to present groundbreaking research on anthropology, religion, history, political science, economics, gender, law and literature.
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Forecasting the Middle East for 2023
"The trajectory of rising discontent driven by economic pressures is the other critical development to watch. Whether such discontent leads to a renewed wave of Arab-spring-like movements against incumbent regimes, or remains as isolated cases of protest is difficult to predict, however." Karim Haggag, professor of practice and director of Middle East Studies shares his views on forcasting the middle east for 2023.
AUC has been granting Bachelor of Arts in Middle East studies since 1974 and the Master of Arts since 1980 and you will find that many leading professors have taught at AUC sometime in the course of their careers. MESC supports research, teaching, and outreach across a range of disciplines. MESC administers the BA, Diploma and MA program in Middle East Studies, whose alumni span academia, the private sector, NGOs and government service.
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Middle East Studies is an interdisciplinary program. Middle East Studies courses are taught by faculty members from Anthropology, Arabic Studies, Economics, History, Management, Political Science, and Sociology.
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Middle East Studies Center supports research, teaching, and outreach across a range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish and strengthen relations between the Middle East Studies Center and other leading Middle East Studies centers/universities through joint research projects, conferences.
The Syria Reader is a document-based compendium on the Syrian crisis. The digital library serves as a research tool for practitioners and scholars of issues related to policy surrounding the Syrian crisis and regional security in the Middle East. The approximately 400 official documents housed in the digital compendium date back to the beginning of the crisis and mark significant points in the political process.
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Unconditional Love can only exist in a non-reactionary state.
Too often Love is construed or mistaken for how we react to another person. Someone we have positive feelings for gives us a gift, and so we have a warmth that glows within us. Someone we have passion for caresses and kisses us, and so a fire consumes us. This is not Love … not in the truest sense; that being Unconditional Love. This is merely a reaction to someone else's action. When your heart's foundation is based in reactionary love? Whatever relationship you have will eventually either cease to exist or be rewarding.
As an artist (that being someone in the world of art, not necessarily a painter) I find that I am more prone to grandiose statements or actions. I feel more (or at least I think I do) and since I also communicate my feelings for a living, I communicate all those feelings … sometimes without much of a filter (lol). In some ways this is what many find charming about artistic/sensitive people … and in other ways, it is what people find threatening. There is a flip side to every coin.
So today I made a statement that was, for me, simply a statement of fact … a reflection of the Love that is within me. The other person's reaction was dismissive. Given the wide-open state of my heart in saying what I had said, my immediate reaction was to stiffen internally … somewhat akin to the reaction one would have after being slapped, except I don't believe I had any outward reaction at the time. What I really wanted to do was just get away … go somewhere (preferably away from this person) where I could meditate and sort through what had just happened and my feelings about it. For the next half hour or so I was somewhat cool and withdrawn, and my heart CERTAINLY was not wide open any longer.
This is an example of reactionary love. I closed my heart, and in doing so I stopped the flow of Love to this other person … and I ALSO closed off the original flow of Love coming to me. That is what happens when you choose to close your heart … you are closing yourself to God's Love.
A sense of Divine peace washed through me and so I went through what has become a daily practice for me. First, I acknowledge whatever it was that happened. Second, I allow that event to be … I let go of trying to fight against it. Thirdly, I accept whatever happened as something that is now in the past … and therefore something that can no longer be changed. Lastly, after having acknowledge, allowed, and accepted this event … I let it go. Once I have done this I am left with my True Self, who I am outside of reacting to whatever the event may be.
Having taken this course of action, I was simply able to move forward as my True Self … and that person is someone with an open heart, who gives Love freely. So after that half an hour of withdrawal, I simply went back to expressing my Love freely. I didn't even need to have a conversation with the other person … in a sense that is a condition … a condition that things must be worked through satisfactorally for me to move forward with an open heart again. No, I just let it go … I opened my heart wide open, and continued to allow the flow of Love to move through me freely.
That is an example of Unconditional Love. It took me a little bit of time to get there, but the end result is all that matters. Sometimes it can be difficult, and this is usually in direct reaction to the depth of your feelings to whatever the person, or scenario is. The important thing is to focus on keeping your heart open … if your heart gets closed, that is ALL on you. Your closed heart is not the other person's responsibility, no matter what it is that they have done … only you can keep your heart open.
Had I not taken this series of actions, I would most likely have had a closed heart for the entire day. I may have grown resentful and held on to that hurt feeling until such a time where I could express it … in such a scenario, the likelihood would be that such an occasion would not conclude positively. A closed heart acting in a reactionary way is never going to result in the other person having an open heart … negative does not beget positive. Love is the only force that produces Love … if what you want is Love? Well, you'd better look at the conditions you are basing that on … and let go of them. If there are conditions what you have is not really Love (with a capital L).
– This post is an addendum to a prior post, "Unconditional Love!".
Eckhart Tolle ◦ What is Self?
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Eckhart Tolle ◦ What is Self?.
– pic by Emil Brikha.
A beautiful space to create within … and allow to spill out :-).
and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
THANK YOU OmnipresentLove for these beautiful words!
taking one a day for the next 23 days.


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By Jason B. Cutshaw, USASMDC/ARSTRAT Public Affairs - February 1, 2018
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Lt. Gen. James H. Dickinson, commanding general, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, and commander of Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense, addressed the 23rd annual membership luncheon of the Air, Space and Missile Defense Association Jan. 30.
"Research and development of new capabilities has been one of SMDC's core tasks since it began, 60 years ago," Dickinson said. "SMDC's 60th anniversary coincides closely with another 60th anniversary, the launch of the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1. Explorer's effect on the course of our history can't be overstated."
Dickinson spoke to the audience of more than 250 about his pride in the Army's legacy. Soon after building the nation's first space program, the Army provided the core facilities, material and personnel NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center would become in 1960.
He explained how The Army Ordnance and Missile Command and Army Ballistic Missile Agency transferred 4,700 Army civil service employees and more than $100 million worth of buildings and equipment to the Kennedy Space Center and on Redstone Arsenal.
Read more: SMDC Leader Addresses Local Space and Missile Defense Community
When: Sunday, 2 July 2017 – Friday, 7 July 2017
Where: Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama. See www.spacecamp.com for more information.
Who: Any child, age 9-11, of a parent or guardian currently assigned to USASMDC/ARSTRAT, JFCC IMD, PEO-M&S, AMCOM, AMRDEC, MSIC, NASA Marshall, or MDA. Military, government civilian, including matrix personnel, and contractors working for corporate members of ASMDA can apply. Visit our webpage at www.ASMDA.us and click on Corporate Members. Military and government personnel must apply for free membership to ASMDA to be eligible.
Selection Criteria: Essay, school grades, interest in science/space, location (goal of 2 HSV, 2 COS, 2 Kwajalein, 2 Alaska, and 2 Other), and financial need
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The ASMDA Space Camp Scholarship Class of 2016 just completed their week at Space Camp. A luncheon was held in their honor on 6 July attended by Mayor Battle of Huntsville, Mayor Trulock of Madison, MG Hughes of MDA and other dignitaries from Redstone and the Huntsville community. ASMDA's annual Space Camp Scholarship program is part of our STEM outreach and we sponsor a full class of 9-11 year olds at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. This year we had students from Kwajalein (2), Alaska (2), Colorado Springs (2), Huntsville (8) and Omaha and Virginia (16 total). ASMDA Space Camp scholarships are open to all organizations supported by ASMDA as well as employees of corporate members of ASMDA. Applications open in April and are typically due 1 May. Applicants are evaluated on school grades and a handwritten essay covering a variety of space related topics.
Published: Monday, 25 July 2016 17:46
As a part of the 14th Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference held at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala., last week, the Air, Space and Missile Defense Association inducted four new members into the Space and Missile Defense Distinguished Civilians Wall of Honor Aug. 16.
Two of those new members were former U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command employees.
The Space and Missile Defense Distinguished Civilians Wall of Honor recognizes past members of government organizations dedicated to supporting efforts in space and missile defense. It is designed to honor selected civil servants who made a significant engineering, scientific, technical, analytical, management, or administrative contribution to the research, development, test, and evaluation of missile defense and space technologies or systems. Selected civil servants must also have consistently displayed a professional integrity and maintained a high level of commitment to the nation's missile defense and space missions.
Read more: Two Former SMDC Employees Inducted Into ASMDA Wall of Honor

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What's coupled with that however, is a mature understanding of responsibility, respect and what it takes to be great.
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China refuses to apologise for doctored image of Australian soldier tweeted by government official
By political reporter Matthew Doran
Posted MonMonday 30 NovNovember 2020 at 8:24amMonMonday 30 NovNovember 2020 at 8:24am , updated MonMonday 30 NovNovember 2020 at 9:34amMonMonday 30 NovNovember 2020 at 9:34am
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Australia should offer an "official apology" to the Afghan people. (Supplied: MOFA)
China has refused to apologise for one of its officials posting a graphic image Prime Minister Scott Morrison has labelled as "repugnant", demanding instead that Australia do some "soul searching" in the wake of a damning war crimes investigation.
A Chinese Government spokeswoman says it is Australia who should feel ashamed of its soldiers' actions
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman tweeted a picture showing an Australian soldier threatening to kill a child
Scott Morrison has demanded the Chinese Government apologise for the tweet and asked Twitter to remove it
On Monday, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokesman Zhao Lijian tweeted the picture created by a Chinese artist, depicting an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to the throat of an Afghan child.
The post was in response to the findings of the long-running Brereton inquiry, which recommended 19 current and serving special forces soldiers face criminal investigation for the murder of at least 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners.
Shortly after the post, Prime Minister Scott Morrison described it as "outrageous", demanding it be removed and an apology be issued by the Chinese Government.
Such a response was not forthcoming.
This image was tweeted by Chinese Government spokesman Zhao Lijian. It has been blurred by the ABC. (Twitter: Lijian Zhao)
"The Australian Government should do some soul searching and bring the culprits to justice, and offer an official apology to the Afghan people and make the solemn pledge that they will never repeat such crimes," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.
"Earlier, they said the Chinese Government should feel ashamed but it is Australian soldiers who committed such cruel crimes.
"Shouldn't the Australian Government feel ashamed? Shouldn't they feel ashamed for their soldiers killing innocent Afghan civilians?"
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Scott Morrison says the tweet from a Chinese Government spokesman was "repugnant".
In releasing the findings of the war crimes investigation earlier this month, Australian Defence Force (ADF) Chief Angus Campbell "sincerely and unreservedly" apologised to the Afghan people for the "wrongdoing" of special forces.
"The Australian side is reacting so strongly to my colleague's Twitter — does that mean that they think the cold-blooded murder of Afghan innocent civilians is justified while other people's condemnation of such crimes are not justified?" Ms Hua said.
"Afghan lives matter."
Read the redacted IGADF report here.
The criticism of Mr Zhao's post came quickly, with allegations of hypocrisy by Beijing for seizing upon the findings of the Brereton inquiry.
China has been accused of gross human rights violations against the ethnic Uyghur minority in Xinjiang province, characterised as "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide".
The irony of a senior official using Twitter to launch such a political attack was also raised, given the censorship of the social media platform by the Chinese Government.
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This guy again. In December of 2017, George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor who said, and I quote, "All I want for Christmas is white genocide," stepped down from his position as a politics professor at Drexel University. Good freaking riddance. He cited the combination of "death threats" and "nearly a year of harassment by right-wing, white supremacist media outlets and Internet mobs." You poor, racist, murderous baby.
Ciccariello-Maher just can't quite figure out why people are so upset at what he said. And this guy's a supposed professor. SMH. As Truth Revolt put it, after the end of his employment as an anti-white, homicidal demagogue, the professor said at the time that he would continue "to support and work with [students] informally, whether in reading groups, in the streets, or both," fighting against "Right and White Supremacists" via the "establishment of the Campus Antifascist Network." Antifa anyone?
"Staying at Drexel in the eye of this storm has become detrimental to my own writing, speaking, and organizing," he continued on Facebook. I bet.
The official web site for New York University states that the Institute is "a collaborative, multilingual, and interdisciplinary consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists throughout the Americas. Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic expression, and politics, the organization explores embodied practice—performance—as a vehicle for the creation of new meaning and the transmission of cultural values, memory, and identity." And you can major in white genocide evidently.
Classy until the end, when Ciccariello-Maher was asked by Campus Reform for further comment on his resignation from Drexel, he gave quite the scholarly response: "F**k y'all." Right back at ya buddy and I mean that with every fiber of my white being.
He tried to claim on CNN last week that his murderous, racist tweets were a joke. You'd have to be stone stupid to believe that. As CNN reported: He said the tweet was a joke, a "satirical jab at a certain paranoid racist fantasy and that white genocide does not exist." Right… not buying it. But evidently NYU President Andrew D. Hamilton does. I'm sure he'll be right at home at NYU.


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Updated: May 12, 2018 9:15 AM EDT
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The winning numbers in Friday's Lotto Max draw for an estimated $60 million: 11, 22, 28, 33, 39, 43 & 47.
Bonus 23.
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When I designed the Semester hextube bamboo bike for HERObike a few years ago, I was frustrated with the costs of components- wheels, tires, chainset, saddle- everything! Trying to keep a simple bike affordable was an incredible challenge. But then someone told me that Walmart sold a pretty decent fixed/ single speed bike for $100 retail. With the help of my students at the University of Kansas, I quickly devised a way to hack this bike, replace the top tube and the down tube with bamboo/carbon fiber hextubes and Voila! the Walmart Hack was born. You're still probably looking at $200 by the time you're finished, but you have a unique single speed/ fixie with a smooth, vibration-free ride!
Start with an inexpensive fixed gear bike. Look for steel frames that are filet brazed with small top and down tubes. The Walmart Thruster 700c is a good candidate.
Check out my other Instructable about making bamboo/carbon fiber hextubes. If you have big bamboo growing nearby, you're in luck! Otherwise, look around for bamboo strips that are about 2' long, minimum 1" wide, and approximately 1/4" thick. If all else fails, get some nice hardwood (maple is a good choice), have it planed down to a 4-5mm thickness. You need to calculate the size of your strips based on the dimensions you need for your hextubes.The inside diameter of the hextube must be slightly larger than the diameter of the tube you are replacing. Let's say you are replacing a 28.6mm tube. The inside diameter of your hextube should be slightly larger- say 30mm.If you are using 4mm thick bamboo, the outside diameter of the hextube (flat to flat) is 38mm.If we use a little math (or an online calculator) we know that each side is 21mm. That is the width of our strips. Length should be a couple inches longer than we need to allow for trimming.
Scary step, but not difficult. Just make sure you measure everything.
First, measure your top and down tube diameters. The down tube is going to be a little bigger so you need to make your tubes different sizes. You will use these measurements to calculate the size of your hextubes. Next, carefully measure the length of the top tube and the down tube. Usually, tube lengths are measured center-to-center. This way, when you install the hextubes you won't change the geometry of the frame. Use a Sharpie to mark your cuts, so your lugs are 80-100mm long, then saw your frame. Rough up the "lugs" that will go inside our hextubes, and tape off the rest of your frame to protect it.
Dry fit your hextubes and carefully shape the hextube to fit tightly to the steel frame pieces. I usually mark with a pencil, cuut with a coping saw, then shape with a rasp. Keep checking the fit to make sure your finished frame will be the same size as the old one. The care you take in this step will determine the overall quality, look and feel of the finished bike. When your tubes fit dry, pull them apart, clean the tubes to make sure there is no grease anywhere, them slather a generous amount of JB Weld or PC7 on the lugs and inside the hextubes. Check to see that your frame is square. Leave overnight. Then take off the tape and reinstall components.
This is the best part. Be careful at first, in case the frame got misaligned or one of your epoxy joints wasn't set right. Slowly increase speed and distance. Notice how smooth the ride is. Because the hextubes are made by fusing two dissimilar materials (bamboo and carbon fiber) vibration in these tubes is nearly eliminated! Enjoy!
Cool Idea, for those who don't know Bamboo absorbs the vibration from the road in much the way a suspension does and makes the ride smoother. Google it folks.
It's not the same. Bamboo provides short travel dampening of high frequency vibrations while a regular suspension provides long travel dampening, adds weight, and reduces drivetrain efficiency when it has a rear suspension.
In other words only a fool picks a bike with a suspension for road use and only a fool picks a bamboo frame mod alternative for mountain bike use.
For someone who wants to do a little of both casually on the same bike, the best compromise would be leave the frame alone and go with a hardtail (with front suspension).
Call me a fool, but I love full rigid mountain bikes and I feel like a bamboo full rigid would be a pretty darn fun ride.
I don't think so because, it is weak instead of the steel so i think it is danger.
Note that there's carbon fiber too. People do make bike frames out of carbon fiber tubes alone without the bamboo over them. "IF" done right, the weakest link (unless you run into a tree or get hit by a car) tends to be the epoxied together ends, not the material used. It might be kind of retro and amusing if the ends of the tubes had hemp rope lashings over them for reinforcement.
There are lots of these out there. You might notice in one of the photos a group of students who all built their hacked Walmart bikes as described. Of course, any bike frame improperly built is dangerous!
you haven't really explained the benefits of cutting up a perfectly well built and properly welded steel frame bicycle.
epoxy can be extremely brittle under impact loading such as you would get in the joints you are cutting.
JBWeld is fairly brittle but there are many common epoxies that aren't, unless it is very, very cold. Regardless I wouldn't feel nearly as safe on a DIY frame mod without lengthly testing, failure, and redesign to get it right for each particular bike frameit's to be used on. One thing I am fairly confident of is the first try will not be anywhere near as durable as the original frame was, but then on a road bike some people never get close to needing a frame as durable as the original is.
Even so, I'm not disagreeing that cutting up a perfectly good bike is not the right answer for everyone and that includes me. I'd wear padded gloves and padded shorts or seat if I decided that the vibration was excessive on a particular route.
What's the reason for creating a cool looking bike like this? is it the looks, or is the riding behavior improved as well?
When it's only the looks, could you not glue the bamboo around the tubes, without cutting the bike in half?
Did you not read the text? If done right it's supposed to dampen vibration for a more comfortable rid.
heh, replace "rid" with "ride" above.
So you pour more time and expense into something that's junk.
I couldn't disagree more. As silly as it is to make this frame mod, if it's worth doing then it's worth doing right.
Do it to a bike with decent components so what you end up with is a good bike rather than junk that's still junk except for the frame mod.
Hint: If there weren't dozens of things wrong with $100 department store bikes then nobody would pay multiple times as much. A bicycle is a modest expense considering it can last a lifetime and promote health while doing so.
If you have time to ride you have time to get a job and earn a few hundred for a decent entry level major brand bike, -OR- go used major brand but not so much at Salvation Army or Goodwill (unless you live in an area where bicycles are EXTREMELY prevalent and can't even be given away) but rather eBay, Craigslist, or a local bike shop.
Actually, bamboo is a fibrous material composed mainly of carbon - is it not?
Talk about "carbon fiber", please check this out. Don't know how the pedal arms are made. Probably the most highly stressed components.
I am not sold on the bamboo bike concept. The argument about sustainability etc. don't appeal too much. The steel or alum. used in a bike frame could be recycled over and over. To me it does not make sense to build a bike from bamboo and use a ton of chemical adhesives. If it was practical, it would already be done by the industry, especially in the lands where bamboo is plentiful.


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In Tel Aviv, a Russian cartoonist draws upon the old country for inspiration
Think of him as today's Dostoyevsky, only animated. Oleg Kuvaev is the creator of Masyanya, a stick-figure in a mini skirt, whom he uses to poke fun at life in modern Russia — minus the politics.
Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, the 50-year-old now crafts his commentary on Russian society from sultry Tel Aviv. But he'll be making his way to the Limmud FSU conference in New York for the first time this week, where he's scheduled to speak about cartoons and the history of cartoon-making. Kuvaev promises that it will be entertaining — something like a stand-up comedy performance.
"It would be strange if I talked about cartoons in a serious way because cartoons are supposed to be funny," he says, before pausing to laugh — a frequent occurrence from the jocular illustrator.
Kuvaev claims his hometown of St. Petersburg breeds a sarcastic sense of humor different from anything one might encounter elsewhere in Russia.
Although he grew up in the USSR, Kuvaev says Soviet cartoons — in which carnivorous animals often take on human personalities — had no influence on him whatsoever.
"Soviet cartoons are slow. It looks like the people who made them were on tranquilizers," Kuvaev says dismissively. "I would have rather watched 'Tom & Jerry' if it was shown on Soviet TV."
Another thing Kuvaev can't stand about Soviet cartoons is that they were made for children. This is definitely not the case with his work. In fact, he says he has a very hard time trying to explain his own cartoons to kids — they just don't get them.
In one cartoon, Masyanya decides she urgently needs to get a gun to scare away traffic so that she can cross the street and hopefully get to work on time. The plan works. But by the end of the cartoon, she forgets the gun and joins a protest calling on the government to outlaw all cars in the city.
In another cartoon, Masyanya gets talked into a trip to the countryside to look at an old oak tree, only to get lost on a road that isn't even on the map. She spends the night in a car stuck in a manure-smelling field. In a third clip, she tries to make her morning coffee before fully alert and ends up almost setting her apartment on fire.
Before becoming a cartoon-maker Kuvaev says he worked at so many odd jobs the interview would take all day to list them all. He's studied mathematics and physics in the USSR, served in the Soviet army (though he's reluctant to expound) and even worked as a night guard at a kindergarten — which he says was fun because he got to wander around in the dark and play with children's toys.
Asked if this was another one of his jokes, and why a kindergarten would need a guard at night, Kuvaev is stumped.
"I don't know," he admits. "Perhaps it is to keep vandals and punks out. I guess in Israel they don't have night guards in the kindergartens."
Kuvaev also worked in the 3D gaming industry in Russia, specializing in virtual racing.
He says it's not a good idea to stay in one job for more than a year and a half because that way you miss out on the opportunity to try out all kinds of occupations.
After returning from his army service, Kuvaev veered from his science and technology background and became an artist. He says he started making cartoons after learning Flash while building a website to promote his art.
What he likes the most about making cartoons on the internet is the freedom — something that he appreciated as the Soviet Union collapsed.
"It was totally free. Drugs, porn, anything — no one cared what you talked about online," he says excitedly.
When asked about why he moved to Israel from St. Petersburg, where all of the Masyanya cartoons are set, Kuvaev says that it was probably his karma. For one, he married an Israeli.
"I think I made the right decision because I'm still alive!" he says.
Alive — unlike many of his Russian classmates and coworkers who have been dying off "like ants" lately, not just from serious diseases like cancer, but unexpectedly, from things like "sudden cardiac arrest," says Kuvaev.
"Everyone [in Russia] is dying, it's like an epidemic without obvious causes," he says.
As for Kuvaev himself, he says he is happy with his personal life now. He is married to an Israeli woman and has two small children. And he says he's thinking of making a new episode for his cartoon, where Masyanya might finally travel outside of St. Petersburg. Say, maybe to Israel or New York.


In the minds of the subcommittee members, no one exemplifies this ideal better than Anne Hammick. In the words of a nominator, "she has done more than anyone else in the past two decades to foster and encourage ocean cruising and promote the objects of the Ocean Cruising Club." Anne has edited the OCC journal, Flying Fish, since 1991, inspiring readers to see the places and share in the adventures described therein. Beyond that, she has made a major contribution to the safety and enjoyment of cruisers through editorship of RCC Piloting Foundation cruising guides.
As the author or co-author of numerous cruising guides including Ocean Cruising on a Budget, the Atlantic Crossing Guide, The Baltic Sea, Atlantic Islands, Islas Baleares and Atlantic Spain and Portugal, Anne has guided numerous sailors on adventurous journeys for decades. As a sailor, Anne Hammick has sailed offshore for over 20 years. Since her first Atlantic crossing in 1975, she has completed a further seven Atlantic passages, six as skipper/navigator.


Overall rim height: 78.7" – 120"
Overall height with backboard: 118"-141.7"
The height of the pole and the rim can both be adjusted. This item is perfect for playing basketball with your neighbors, friends or family outdoor or indoor due to its easy portability with the attached wheels. The base can be filled with 243 lbs water and 265 lbs sands to keep it upright and stable.
Notes: When adjusting the height, the holes (4 in the poles and 5 in the rim bracket) need to be aligned to the rotary knobs.
Easy to assemble and use!
This is a very good buy for the money. Assembly was fairly easy (all the parts were included) and it was put to use quickly. It is the perfect size for my son and he loves it so much that he plays with it everyday!will consider to buy one for my nephew.


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import { mountMixinWithStore } from '@vue-storefront/unit-tests/utils';
import { Payment } from '../../../components/Payment';

describe('Payment', () => {
  let mockStore;
  let mockMountingOptions;
  let mockMethods;
  let mockHooks;

  beforeEach(() => {
    jest.clearAllMocks();

    mockStore = {
      modules: {
        cart: {
          getters: {
            isVirtualCart: jest.fn(() => true)
          },
          namespaced: true
        },
        checkout: {
          state: {
            shippingDetails: {}
          },
          getters: {
            getPaymentMethods: jest.fn(() => ([])),
            getPaymentDetails: jest.fn(() => ({
              paymentMethod: '',
              firstName: '',
              company: '',
              country: ''
            }))
          },
          namespaced: true
        },
        user: {
          state: {
            current: {}
          },
          namespaced: true
        }
      }
    };

    mockMountingOptions = {
      propsData: {
        isActive: true
      },
      mocks: {
        $bus: {
          $emit: jest.fn()
        }
      }
    };

    mockMethods = Object.entries(Payment.methods)
      .reduce((result, [methodName]) => {
        result[methodName] = jest.spyOn(Payment.methods, methodName as keyof typeof Payment.methods)
          .mockImplementation(jest.fn());

        return result;
      }, {});

    mockHooks = ['beforeCreate', 'created', 'beforeMount', 'mounted', 'beforeUpdate', 'updated', 'beforeDestroy', 'destroyed']
      .reduce((result, hookName) => {
        if (Payment[hookName]) {
          result[hookName] = jest.spyOn(Payment, hookName as any)
            .mockImplementation(jest.fn());
        }

        return result;
      }, {});
  });

  it('can be initialized', () => {
    const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

    expect(wrapper.exists()).toBe(true);
    expect(wrapper.isVueInstance()).toBe(true);
  });

  it('exposes computed properties', () => {
    const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

    expect((wrapper.vm as any).currentUser).toBeDefined();
    expect((wrapper.vm as any).shippingDetails).toBeDefined();
    expect((wrapper.vm as any).paymentMethods).toBeDefined();
    expect((wrapper.vm as any).paymentDetails).toBeDefined();
    expect((wrapper.vm as any).isVirtualCart).toBeDefined();
  });

  describe('hooks', () => {
    describe('created hook', () => {
      beforeEach(() => {
        mockHooks['created'].mockRestore();
      });

      it('should initialize payment method as "cashondelivery" if payment method is not configured', () => {
        mockMethods['notInMethods'].mockReturnValue(false);
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentMethods.mockImplementation(() => ([]));
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
          paymentMethod: ''
        }));

        const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

        expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment.paymentMethod).toBe('cashondelivery');
      });

      it('should initialize payment method as "cashondelivery" if payment method is not supported', () => {
        mockMethods['notInMethods'].mockReturnValue(true);
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentMethods.mockImplementation(() => ([]));
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
          paymentMethod: 'not supported payment method'
        }));

        const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

        expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment.paymentMethod).toBe('cashondelivery');
      });

      it('should initialize payment method as first one from all payment methods if it is not configured', () => {
        mockMethods['notInMethods'].mockReturnValue(true);
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentMethods.mockImplementation(() => ([
          { code: 'first payment method' }, { code: 'second payment method' }
        ]));
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
          paymentMethod: 'not supported payment method'
        }));

        const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

        expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment.paymentMethod).toBe('first payment method');
      });
    });

    describe('mounted hook', () => {
      beforeEach(() => {
        mockHooks['mounted'].mockRestore();
      });

      it('should initialize billing address if payment is from individual customer and then change payment method', () => {
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
          firstName: 'example first name',
          company: ''
        }));

        mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

        expect(mockMethods['initializeBillingAddress']).toHaveBeenCalled();
        expect(mockMethods['changePaymentMethod']).toHaveBeenCalled();
      });

      it('should mark invoice generation and do not initialize billing address if payment is from company and then change payment method', () => {
        mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
          firstName: '',
          company: 'example company'
        }));

        const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

        expect(mockMethods['initializeBillingAddress']).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
        expect(mockMethods['changePaymentMethod']).toHaveBeenCalled();
        expect((wrapper.vm as any).generateInvoice).toBeTruthy();
      });
    });
  });

  describe('watchers', () => {
    it('should call copyShippingToBillingAddress method if "send to shipping address" flag is configured', () => {
      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ sendToShippingAddress: true });
      (wrapper.vm as any).$options.watch.shippingDetails.handler.call(wrapper.vm);

      expect(mockMethods['copyShippingToBillingAddress']).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });

    it('should not call copyShippingToBillingAddress method if "send to shipping address" flag is not configured', () => {
      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ sendToShippingAddress: false });
      (wrapper.vm as any).$options.watch.shippingDetails.handler.call(wrapper.vm);

      expect(mockMethods['copyShippingToBillingAddress']).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
    });

    it('should call useShippingAddress method if "send to shipping address" flag is changed', () => {
      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      (wrapper.vm as any).$options.watch.sendToShippingAddress.handler.call(wrapper.vm);

      expect(mockMethods['useShippingAddress']).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });

    it('should call useBillingAddress method if "send to billing address" flag is changed', () => {
      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      (wrapper.vm as any).$options.watch.sendToBillingAddress.handler.call(wrapper.vm);

      expect(mockMethods['useBillingAddress']).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });

    it('should call useGenerateInvoice method if "generate invoice" flag is changed', () => {
      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      (wrapper.vm as any).$options.watch.generateInvoice.handler.call(wrapper.vm);

      expect(mockMethods['useGenerateInvoice']).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
  });

  describe('methods', () => {
    it('sendDataToCheckout method should emit an event and set flag', () => {
      mockMethods['sendDataToCheckout'].mockRestore();

      const paymentDetails = {
        firstName: 'example first name',
        company: 'example company',
        country: 'example country'
      };

      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => paymentDetails);

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      (wrapper.vm as any).sendDataToCheckout();

      expect(mockMountingOptions.mocks.$bus.$emit).toHaveBeenCalledWith('checkout-after-paymentDetails', paymentDetails, undefined);
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).isFilled).toBe(true);
    });

    it('edit method should emit event if flag is set', () => {
      mockMethods['edit'].mockRestore();

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ isFilled: true });
      (wrapper.vm as any).edit();

      expect(mockMountingOptions.mocks.$bus.$emit).toHaveBeenCalledWith('checkout-before-edit', 'payment');
    });

    it('edit method should not emit event if flag is not set', () => {
      mockMethods['edit'].mockRestore();

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ isFilled: false });
      (wrapper.vm as any).edit();

      expect(mockMountingOptions.mocks.$bus.$emit).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
    });

    it('hasBillingData method should inform if current user has default_billing own property', () => {
      mockMethods['hasBillingData'].mockRestore();

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      mockStore.modules.user.state.current = { default_billing: true };
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).hasBillingData()).toBe(true);

      mockStore.modules.user.state.current = {};
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).hasBillingData()).toBe(false);
    });

    it('initializeBillingAddress method should init payment properties with empty strings if current user and payment details are not set', () => {
      mockMethods['initializeBillingAddress'].mockRestore();
      mockMountingOptions.computed = {
        currentUser: jest.fn(),
        paymentDetails: jest.fn()
      };

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      (wrapper.vm as any).initializeBillingAddress();

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment).toEqual({
        firstName: '',
        lastName: '',
        company: '',
        country: '',
        state: '',
        city: '',
        streetAddress: '',
        apartmentNumber: '',
        postcode: '',
        zipCode: '',
        phoneNumber: '',
        taxId: '',
        paymentMethod: ''
      });
    });

    it('initializeBillingAddress method should copy billing address from address id from current user', () => {
      mockMethods['initializeBillingAddress'].mockRestore();
      mockMountingOptions.computed = {
        currentUser: jest.fn(() => ({
          default_billing: 123,
          addresses: [
            {
              id: 123,
              firstname: 'example first name',
              lastname: 'example last name',
              company: 'example company',
              country_id: 'example country',
              region: { region: 'example region' },
              city: 'example city',
              street: ['example street', 'example apartment number'],
              postcode: 'example post code',
              vat_id: 'example vat id',
              telephone: 'example telephone'
            }
          ]
        })),
        paymentMethods: jest.fn(() => ([{ code: 'example payment method' }])),
        paymentDetails: jest.fn()
      };

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      (wrapper.vm as any).initializeBillingAddress();

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment).toEqual({
        firstName: 'example first name',
        lastName: 'example last name',
        company: 'example company',
        country: 'example country',
        state: 'example region',
        city: 'example city',
        streetAddress: 'example street',
        apartmentNumber: 'example apartment number',
        zipCode: 'example post code',
        phoneNumber: 'example telephone',
        taxId: 'example vat id',
        paymentMethod: 'example payment method'
      });
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).generateInvoice).toBe(true);
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).sendToBillingAddress).toBe(true);
    });

    it('useShippingAddress method should call copyShippingToBillingAddress if shipping address is set', () => {
      mockMethods['useShippingAddress'].mockRestore();
      mockMountingOptions.methods = {
        copyShippingToBillingAddress: jest.fn()
      };

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ sendToShippingAddress: true });
      (wrapper.vm as any).useShippingAddress();

      expect(mockMountingOptions.methods.copyShippingToBillingAddress).toHaveBeenCalled();
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).sendToBillingAddress).toBe(false);
    });

    it('useShippingAddress method should not call copyShippingToBillingAddress if shipping address is not set', () => {
      mockMethods['useShippingAddress'].mockRestore();

      const paymentDetails = {
        firstName: 'example first name',
        lastName: 'example last name',
        company: 'example company',
        country: 'example country',
        state: 'example region',
        city: 'example city',
        streetAddress: 'example street',
        apartmentNumber: 'example apartment number',
        zipCode: 'example post code',
        phoneNumber: 'example telephone',
        taxId: 'example vat id',
        paymentMethod: 'example payment method'
      };

      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => paymentDetails);
      mockMountingOptions.methods = {
        copyShippingToBillingAddress: jest.fn()
      };

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ sendToBillingAddress: false, sendToShippingAddress: false });
      (wrapper.vm as any).useShippingAddress();

      expect(mockMountingOptions.methods.copyShippingToBillingAddress).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment).toEqual(paymentDetails);
    });

    it('copyShippingToBillingAddress method should copy data from shipping address', () => {
      mockMethods['copyShippingToBillingAddress'].mockRestore();

      const paymentDetails = {
        firstName: 'example first name',
        lastName: 'example last name',
        country: 'example country',
        state: 'example region',
        city: 'example city',
        streetAddress: 'example street',
        apartmentNumber: 'example apartment number',
        zipCode: 'example post code',
        phoneNumber: 'example telephone'
      };

      mockStore.modules.checkout.state.shippingDetails = paymentDetails;
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentMethods.mockImplementation(() => ([
        { code: 'first payment method' }, { code: 'second payment method' }
      ]));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      (wrapper.vm as any).copyShippingToBillingAddress();

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment).toEqual({
        ...paymentDetails,
        paymentMethod: 'first payment method'
      });
    });

    it('useBillingAddress method should copy billing address from address id from current user', () => {
      mockMethods['useBillingAddress'].mockRestore();
      mockMountingOptions.computed = {
        currentUser: jest.fn(() => ({
          default_billing: 123,
          addresses: [
            {
              id: 123,
              firstname: 'example first name',
              lastname: 'example last name',
              company: 'example company',
              country_id: 'example country',
              region: { region: 'example region' },
              city: 'example city',
              street: ['example street', 'example apartment number'],
              postcode: 'example post code',
              vat_id: 'example vat id',
              telephone: 'example telephone'
            }
          ]
        })),
        paymentMethods: jest.fn(() => ([{ code: 'example payment method' }]))
      };

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ sendToBillingAddress: true });
      (wrapper.vm as any).useBillingAddress();

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment).toEqual({
        firstName: 'example first name',
        lastName: 'example last name',
        company: 'example company',
        country: 'example country',
        state: 'example region',
        city: 'example city',
        streetAddress: 'example street',
        apartmentNumber: 'example apartment number',
        zipCode: 'example post code',
        phoneNumber: 'example telephone',
        taxId: 'example vat id',
        paymentMethod: 'example payment method'
      });
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).generateInvoice).toBe(true);
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).sendToShippingAddress).toBe(false);
    });

    it('useBillingAddress method should copy billing address from payment details if address is not set', () => {
      mockMethods['useBillingAddress'].mockRestore();

      const paymentDetails = {
        firstName: 'example first name',
        lastName: 'example last name',
        company: 'example company',
        country: 'example country',
        state: 'example region',
        city: 'example city',
        streetAddress: 'example street',
        apartmentNumber: 'example apartment number',
        zipCode: 'example post code',
        phoneNumber: 'example telephone',
        taxId: 'example vat id',
        paymentMethod: 'example payment method'
      };

      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => paymentDetails);

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ sendToBillingAddress: false, sendToShippingAddress: false });
      (wrapper.vm as any).useBillingAddress();

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment).toEqual(paymentDetails);
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).generateInvoice).toBe(false);
    });

    it('useGenerateInvoice method should clear company and taxId fields if generateInvoice is not set', () => {
      mockMethods['useGenerateInvoice'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
        company: 'example company',
        taxId: 'example taxId'
      }));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ generateInvoice: false });
      (wrapper.vm as any).useGenerateInvoice();

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment.company).toBe('');
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment.taxId).toBe('');
    });

    it('useGenerateInvoice method should not clear company and taxId fields if generateInvoice is set', () => {
      mockMethods['useGenerateInvoice'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
        company: 'example company',
        taxId: 'example taxId'
      }));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      wrapper.setData({ generateInvoice: true });
      (wrapper.vm as any).useGenerateInvoice();

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment.company).toBe('example company');
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).payment.taxId).toBe('example taxId');
    });

    it('getCountryName method should return country name from payment', () => {
      mockMethods['getCountryName'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
        country: 'PL'
      }));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      const countryName = (wrapper.vm as any).getCountryName();

      expect(countryName).toBe('Poland');
    });

    it('getCountryName method should return empty string if country has not been found', () => {
      mockMethods['getCountryName'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
        country: 'invalid country code'
      }));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      const countryName = (wrapper.vm as any).getCountryName();

      expect(countryName).toBe('');
    });

    it('getPaymentMethod method should return payment name', () => {
      mockMethods['getPaymentMethod'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
        paymentMethod: 'second payment method'
      }));
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentMethods.mockImplementation(() => ([
        { code: 'first payment method', name: 'payment 1' }, { code: 'second payment method', name: 'payment 2' }
      ]));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      const paymentMethod = (wrapper.vm as any).getPaymentMethod();

      expect(paymentMethod).toEqual({ title: 'payment 2' });
    });

    it('getPaymentMethod method should return empty name if it is not found', () => {
      mockMethods['getPaymentMethod'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
        paymentMethod: 'invalid payment method'
      }));
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentMethods.mockImplementation(() => ([
        { code: 'first payment method', name: 'payment 1' }, { code: 'second payment method', name: 'payment 2' }
      ]));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      const paymentMethod = (wrapper.vm as any).getPaymentMethod();

      expect(paymentMethod).toEqual({ name: '' });
    });

    it('notInMethods method should inform if given payment method is not supported', () => {
      mockMethods['notInMethods'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentMethods.mockImplementation(() => ([
        { code: 'first payment method', name: 'payment 1' }, { code: 'second payment method', name: 'payment 2' }
      ]));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);

      expect((wrapper.vm as any).notInMethods('second payment method')).toBe(false);
      expect((wrapper.vm as any).notInMethods('invalid payment method')).toBe(true);
    });

    it('changePaymentMethod method should emit an event when there is paymentMethod', () => {
      mockMethods['changePaymentMethod'].mockRestore();
      mockStore.modules.checkout.getters.getPaymentDetails.mockImplementation(() => ({
        paymentMethod: 'payment method'
      }));

      const wrapper = mountMixinWithStore(Payment, mockStore, mockMountingOptions);
      (wrapper.vm as any).changePaymentMethod();

      expect(mockMountingOptions.mocks.$bus.$emit).toHaveBeenCalledWith('checkout-payment-method-changed', expect.anything());
    });
  });
});

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Our Intramural Sports Program offers over 20 individual and team sports throughout the year, with flag football offered in the fall, basketball in the winter, outdoor soccer in the spring, and softball in the summer. All sports are separated between two to three divisions in order to accommodate a wide variety of skill levels and experience in each sport. Divisions include:
Division I (D1): High Competitiveness
Division II (D2): Moderate Competitiveness
Division III (D3): Low-to-Recreational Competitiveness
Our staff reserves the right to move a team up or down a division to level the playing field. Players are not able to play on two teams in the same division.
All leagues are open with no gender restrictions. Leagues typically run 4-6 weeks for the regular season with 1-2 weeks for playoffs, concluding with a single elimination tournament to determine the team champion. This can vary based off of facility access and weather. Games are not typically rescheduled unless deemed necessary by the Competitive Sports Office.
All leagues and sports are on first come basis. Limited space is available and we encourage you to register during the first day of registration. All participants must have a SUID to participate in Intramural Sports. Courtesy card holders need to email Chris Thomas at chris007@stanford.edu to register.
Registration takes place on the IMLeagues website.
Register and Create an Account Here
Please note that you will need to create a IMLeagues account.
Reminder: Your team is confirmed once you have the minimum number of players and have paid for the league. Your status will be pending until you have done so.
Competitive Balance
Teams are recommended to enter into the proper level of competition. If a team is playing out of their competitive level, the Intramural Sports Office will immediately counsel that team and has the right, at their discretion, to move a team up to the next class level for playoffs. Players are allowed to play on one D-1 team and one D-2 team or one D-3 team. The IM office reserves the right to remove players from rosters if found violating this rule.
1. All teams eligible for the playoffs cannot have a forfeit in the regular season
2. Must be over .500% winning percentage to make the playoffs
3. On rare occasions, we will take teams who are at .500% winning percentage
4. Sportsmanship will count in all sports and will be used to determine tie-breakers
5. Teams must have a sportsmanship rating of a three or higher to make the playoffs. There is no exceptions to this rule
6. A rating of a 3 is rated as an average sportsmanship game as the benchmark for the rating
League Details
Leagues are typically 4-6 weeks long, with every team playing one game per week. Teams are then ranked based on record, sportsmanship, and point differential and seeded in a playoff bracket. The playoffs last one to two weeks and result in one league champion.
Before the start of each sport, there will be a mandatory captain's meeting. These meetings are designed to equip team captains with the necessary information on to successfully participate in our program. It also allows our staff to provide quality services and our leagues to run efficiently. Topics covered in these meetings will include, but are not limited to:
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In memoriam: Tom Donlinger
West Coast drummer passes away at 63
Artist biography Tom Donlinger
Tom Donlinger was born in an industrial, 'low-end' section of the south side of Chicago; two blocks from a steel mill. It had a constant incessant hammering day and night that Tom feels could be the reason his timing developed early on.
At the age of 12, Tom would take a train to downtown Chicago every Saturday to study with jazz drummer, Harold Jones. His early music education also came from his older brother Jim (who uses the name James Vincent). He became a successful solo guitarist/singer/songwriter in his own right, with five albums on Columbia and Caribou Records.
Right out of high school, Tom Donlinger toured and recorded two albums with Chess Records' Rotary Connection, featuring Minnie Ripperton and producers Marshall Chess and Charles Stepney.
Then at the age of 19, Tom joined Aorta, a Columbia Records rock group, replacing Billy Herman. Tom and his new band toured behind two albums doing pop festivals with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Creedence-Clearwater, and the like.
While recording and touring with Rotary Connection and Aorta, he earned a Bachelor's of Music degree in Percussion from The American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He would be the first to tell you it took years to unlearn some of his classical habits.
After a stint with another Columbia group (Cryan' Shames), Tom Donlinger was invited to relocate to Marin County California to join a Bill Graham backed group, Lovecraft. After an unsuccessful album, Tom moved to Los Angeles to fully 'embrace' the music business. He did many projects in his three years there, including Chi Coltrane (a Columbia one-hit wonder) and worked out of numerous studios.
Tom Donlinger was invited back to the San Francisco area to work with a growing music scene that fit his musical tastes. In his first year, Tom worked with Jerry Garcia, Howard Wales, Mike Bloomfield, and Keith and Donna Godchaux (from the Grateful Dead) and James Vincent. At the same time he attended San Francisco State University to finish his Master's Degree in Percussion Performance.
As things settled down, Tom Donlinger committed a year to touring and recording with Brian Auger, a master B-3 organist. Shortly, thereafter he was invited to audition for Van Morrison; a musical relationship that lasted for five years and five albums. This included working with one of Van's finest collection of musicians, including Pee Wee Ellis, Mark Isham, and John Allair.
At the end of this period, Tom Donlinger chose to stay 'in-town' more and focus on teaching and drum clinics in the area, working out of Drummers Tradition and Just Percussion in Marin County to focus on raising a son and enjoy not sitting in airports and waiting for sound checks.
A few years later, after sensing a need for change, Tom Donlinger moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico for a year, and is now currently in the Denver, Colorado area where he started working on his own African-Brazilian influenced cd geared towards drummer-percussionists, and playing a variety of guest artist venues.
Tom Donlinger's ability to change style from R&B to jazz to fusion to C&W over the years made him a valuable commodity. He successfully worked in four major markets: Chicago, LA, San Francisco, and the Denver area.
Tom Donlinger proved his ability to be flexible and easy to work with, without sacrificing creativity on projects.
Tom Donlinger passed away on April 20 following a long struggle with a terminal illness. He was 63.
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In Current Events
Missing-Persons Statistics: When the numbers don't add up
I'd like to welcome my first guest poster here atMath for Grownups, Carole Moore. Carole is a fellow writer and the author ofThe Last Place You'd Look: True Stores of Missing Persons and the People Who Look for Them, which hit bookstores in May. Her book is a gripping account of a variety of missing persons cases around the country. A former police detective, Carole knows her stuff.
Carole Moore's most recent book.
She also knows how darned scary missing-persons statistics can be. And so she's offered to take a closer look at these numbers and what story they really tell. This is a critical way that we can use math without even being aware. See, as scared of math as many of us are, we may also be inclined to trust numbers. Unfortunately, without some perspective and context, numbers don't mean a thing. Keep reading…
When it comes to crime, statistics can be misleading. The truth is in how you break down the numbers. Let's look at one example: According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 797,500 children under the age of 18 were reported missing in one year's time. That's an average of 2,185 kids per day. What's more interesting is what those numbers don't say:
First, the category of the report from which they're drawn (NISMART-2) specifies "reported" missing. That means that some kids who disappeared in the same time bracket were not reported within the reporting period. It doesn't necessarily mean they weren't reported at all – although many aren't. Illegal immigrants often won't call police out of fear of reprisals, and the children of the mentally ill, transients, the homeless, prostitutes and drug users, as well as foster kids, often escape the count. So, while the figure 797,500 sounds huge, the actual number of missing children in a year well exceeds "reported" missing.
Now, look a little closer at those numbers, starting with family abductions, which account for 203,900 children reported missing, and 58,200 kids classified as non-family abductions. That leaves 535,400 children unaccounted for – of these children only 115 were considered "stereotypical" kidnappings. (Examples of stereotypical kidnappings are usually extreme and include cases such as those of Jamie Duggard and Adam Walsh.) The remaining 535,285 children fit in none of these specific categories.
The children left are grouped miscellaneously. For example, a child reported missing after stopping at a friend's house following school (and who didn't notify a parent or caretaker) would now be a reported missing child for statistical purposes. So would a child who becomes lost or hides out whose disappearance is reported – even if the child is really not missing in the truest sense of the word, they would be classified as "reported missing."
My point is that while the statistics here don't lie, they also don't tell the whole story in and of themselves. Many missing children are never reported missing, while many of the reported missing really aren't missing at all. To truly understand crime stats, it's important to dig deeper than the numbers.
Carole Moore is a former police detective and current freelance writer, as well as contributing editor and columnist at Law Enforcement Technology. You can learn more about her atwww.carolemoore.com.
Do you have questions about crime statistics? Ask them in the comments section!
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Firearms instructors in Plymouth, MN have various levels of expertise, training, experience, and many specialize in particular shooting disciplines such as; revolvers only, automatics only, a combination of both types of handguns, rifles, shotguns, hunting, precision shooting, long-distance shooting, and the list goes on. In addition to a firearm instructors training, experience, and shooting discipline that they teach it is important to find out if they also are currently certified, and who was the certification organization or agency, do they have references they can provide, how many students have they taught in the past, and are they insured?
Remember, you're asking this individual to not only teach you about the proper use of a firearm and firearm safety, but also many of the laws in Plymouth, MN that will pertain to your gun ownership. You have every right to investigate them thoroughly. Any firearms instructor that is not willing to answer all of your questions or to invite you to their facility so you can observe a training class is an instructor that I would not recommend and I would be very leery of.
US Precision Defense maintains a large database of Firearms Instructors in Plymouth, MN and from all across the country, find a link on our Firearms Instructors introduction page for a complete list of NRA Certified Instructors in your area by Clicking on the "Shoot For More" link below.
Plymouth MN – A husband and wife were bound, beaten and robbed after three men forced their way into the couple's home, fleeing only after one of the suspects apparently was shot by one of the other suspects!
The three men, described by police as armed and dangerous, left behind a trail of blood when they fled with wallets, cellphones, and the victim's vehicle…. The victims did not have a gun and could not defend themselves.
Plymouth MN – What if criminals knew that workers were armed, do you think that crimes like this would take place? According to a Plymouth Police press release, three suspects entered the restaurant and placed the McDonalds' employees in the freezer. The suspects obtained an undetermined amount of money and fled the restaurant.


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