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'Young Justice' Episode Guide: Season 2, Episode1: 'Happy New Year!'
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Teenage 'Kicks Episode 201: Happy New Year!
How do you do, fellow teens? Because you demanded it, Young Justice is returning for a third season in 2017, and that means that there's no better time to get caught up on the first two seasons. Elle Collins, who has seen the entire show and likes it a lot, and Chris Sims, who hated the pilot and never went back, are sitting down to watch the entire series before it makes its triumphant return.
This week, the invasion begins as we start in on Season 2! "Happy New Year!" was written by Greg Weisman, directed by Tim Divar, and originally aired on April 28, 2012.
Young Justice Episode 201: Happy New Year!
Chris Sims: It's season 2, and things are dramatically different! We've had a five-year time jump since the end of last week's episode, giving us a completely new roster and a new set of team dynamics: The team has expanded to include Bumblebee, Mal Duncan, Beast Boy, Blue Beetle, a brand-new Robin, and Lagoon Boy, who's now in a relationship with Miss Martian that leaves Superboy even grumpier than he was when they were together!
Most of our old favorites are back, but there are some differences there, too. Kid Flash doesn't seem to be around anymore (at least this week), Dick Grayson has graduated to Nightwing, and Miss Martian has a new haircut. Conner, on the other hand, is still rockin' those cargo pants, because some things are eternal.
We've got new enemies, too: Lobo shows up to attack the UN, and after revealing that the Secretary-General was secretly an alien in a robot suit, G. Gordon Godfrey — voiced by Tim Friggin' Curry in what might be the show's best bit of casting since Danny Trejo as Bane — starts stirring up anti-alien resentment.
The "Invasion" theme of the new season continues to build when we get a visit from Adam Strange reporting on some unusual doings out in space, and the reveal that whatever happened during the heroes' missing 16 hours from when they were controlled by Starro-Tech has turned the entire galaxy against the Justice League. If they're going to get to the bottom of this, they're going to have to turn to heroes who aren't official members of the League — it's time for Team Still-Doesn't-Have-A-Name-After-Five-Years-Are-You Serious-With-This to go into action!
Elle: It just occurred to me that if the first season was set the same year that it aired, then this season is set last year, even thought it aired five years ago. So the upcoming season could be set in the present, but follow immediately after this season. On the other hand, they may just decide to set it in 2021 anyway.
Chris: If this team couldn't save us from 2016, then honestly, Elle, what good are they? Seriously though: Does Season 2 actually rule? Because this episode kind of ruled.
Elle: Maybe it does! I'm excited about the prospect. I enjoy the more expansive team, which almost feels like "Young Justice Unlimited." And one of the new additions, Wonder Girl, is voiced by Mae Whitman, an actor I'm always happy to see (or hear) anywhere she turns up.
Chris: Yeah. With the roster expanding like this in a single episode, it's hard to keep up with who's in. In addition to the ones I mentioned above who appear on the core team, we've got Batgirl and Wonder Girl showing up, too, and Zatanna and Rocket apparently graduating to the League. Artemis and Kid Flash, though — you don't have to spoil it for me, but do they show up again or are they gone for good?
Elle: Kid Flash is definitely still around, he's just not in this episode. What they didn't do, but it would have been fun for us Wally West fans, is have him missing after the time jump, and then reveal that he's the Flash in the Justice League now. But that's just me fantasy booking --- he'll turn back up as Kid Flash. Things with Artemis and Aqualad (who's also not in this episode, by the way), are a lot more complicated. But like you said, I don't want to spoil it.
Chris: It's probably pretty bad that I literally did not notice Aqualad wasn't in this, huh?
Elle: I wouldn't worry about it. This is the season where they figure out how to make Aqualad interesting. But again, no spoilers.
Chris: One thing that really sticks out to me is that they actually handle the five-year gap really well. It's kinda hard to get around the fact that this show was taking place during DC's New 52 era, and I fell like the Five-Year Gap — the same kind of thing that we saw between the first two arcs of Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's Justice League — is a product of that. But I do think it's done a lot better here than it was there.
My big problem with the five year jump in the comics was that nothing really changed — Five years is a long time, and when we came back to the League, we still had the same roster. Here, it really does feel like everything's different. Plus, we get to skip over five or six origin stories, Beast Boy notwithstanding.
Elle: I like the way aging is dealt with here too. Dick Grayson, being the youngest team member, is like a whole different person now. He even grew into his ears! But most of the older kids are pretty much the same. Although Megan did cut her hair short and dresses in black all the time now (instead of just on stealth missions), but those are the sort of choices that happen as teens get older.
Chris: I am Here For Goth Miss Martian. "Hello, Megan! Death comes for us all." But yeah, I'm seeing why everyone appreciates the longform storytelling — Dick going from being unsure if he wants to be like Batman to just easily being in command of the team in the span of five years is a really nice touch. Aside from the fact that it still takes place entirely in dimly lit rooms at night, there's a lot to love about this new season and how it picks up on the plot threads we saw before.
Elle: There's a lot of stuff in this season premiere that seems designed to appeal to longtime DC Comics readers (in short, us). They don't explain Blue Beetle, or Bumblebee, or Wonder Girl, because they want you to say "Oh cool, it's that character I know!" as soon as they show up.
But one of the best examples of that is the way you hear Tim Curry's voice, and then G. Gordon Godfrey's face and name pop onto the screen all at once. And viewers like us immediately understand the implications of his presence.
Chris: This was another one of those times where I was texting you while I watched it and just flipping out about how excited I was. Combining Legends and Invasion! is a solid idea for a season-long arc, and Darkseid being involved in the Light — something that was hinted at when the Forever People showed up but never really explored in that plot — is really good. And he's one of the few characters (along with Vandal Savage and Ra's al-Ghul, I suppose) for whom taking five years to put a plan into motion makes a lot of sense. What's five years to an immortal god?
Elle: On the subject of the Invasion plot, I do want to make one complaint about the design aesthetic of this show, which is that Kroloteans look too much like Genomorphs from Cadmus. I'm pretty sure there's no actual story connection there; it's just that the designers on this show seem to have one setting for "gobliny creature."
Chris: No kidding — until you said it just now, I was 100% expecting there to be a connection there. But here we are. Which, since we're talking about the Kroloteans, means we should probably cover Lobo. Are you a Lobo person? By which I mean a fan, not a werewolf.
Elle: I'm not a Lobo person. Never been my thing. He serves a good story purpose here though, especially when he tears the Secretary General apart by the arms to reveal a major plot point. But I'm not a fan of the way he throws around the word "fem" as an insult, even if it is supposed to be Interlac or whatever.
Chris: I'm not really into Lobo either. I kind of like that Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire version that puts on the hyper-macho front but really just wants to hang out in space with his space dolphins, but the idea of the Wolverine parody that eventually became indistinguishable from a genuine attempt at badass didn't really land for me. But I do like him as a blunt instrument for the plot, and the scene where he tears the robot apart is some genuinely awesome animation. It's really shocking until you can tell it's a robot!
Elle: And it leads to that wonderful instant replay with Tim Curry narrating: "The big alien pulls apart the fake secretary to reveal... the little alien!"
Chris: You know what genuinely surprises me? That "G. Gordon Godfrey," which is a super '80s reference, has stuck around as long as it has. I mean, I know G. Gordon Liddy is somehow still out there, but you'd think it would've switched over to Glenn Godfrey or The O'Godfrey Factor by 2010.
Elle: The disturbingly popular web series AntiLifeWars, with your host, Godfrey Jones.
Chris: So I think that wraps us up for this week. We've got a compelling new plot that's kicking off with some interesting shakeups and a real reason to send the kids instead of the League, a five year gap that feels like a five year gap, and cosmic threats looming on the horizon. Believe it or not, I'm pretty stoked to see what's next!
Elle: So am I, especially since it involves a trip to Rann!
Chris: I'm sure it will be My Greatest Adventure!
Elle: A+.
Chris: Oh, one more thing.
Elle: Yes, Columbo?
Chris: The Bad Netflix Subtitles for this show have become something of a recurring gag here at Teenage 'Kicks, but in this one, they refer to shape-shifting Batman villain Basil Karlo as "Cliff Ace," and now I really want to see Batman having to fight an evil rock-climber.
Elle: I don't usually have the captions on, so I missed "Cliff Ace," but I turned them on partway through this episode because I couldn't tell whether or not Lobo was speaking English. So I was there for the introduction later in the episode of that classic Justice League International character, Katherine Gobert.
Chris: Oh my golly, I didn't even realize it was her because of the captions!
Elle: That was indeed Catherine Cobert, it's just that the captioners clearly don't realize how important alliterative names are in comics.
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Filed Under: G. Gordon Godfrey, Lobo, Teenage 'Kicks, Tim Curry, Young Justice
Categories: Animation, DC, Television, TV Recaps

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Turns out, having your outside foot back while cornering is faster, but not for you! Or me, or three-time World Cup Champion and three-time World Champion Greg Minnaar). Confused? Well, in a second I will explain why having your outside foot back in a corner can help you a little bit but first I have to explain what will help you a lot! The number one thing that determines cornering exit speed (your goal) is vision. As you enter a corner you should be looking at least five feet past the exit of the corner and up to 30 feet past if possible (I know, in dense woods you often can't even see the exit from the beginning of a corner, in these cases you have to look as far as you can, then as you enter the corner look further). Next you must finish all of your braking in a straight line before the corner and be in proper body position (that is a blog article in itself). Doing those things consistently is tough and why Greg Minnaar, Aaron Gwin, Cody Kelly and Mitch Ropelato are so consistently on the podium, they do this 100% of the time!
Greg Minnaar nailing the big picture elements of cornering.
Can you consistently corner as well as those four racers? Even though I have coached three of them I can't consistently corner that well and neither can most other pro downhill racers, very few if any pro cross-country racers and very few riders of all levels/experience. I have video of hundreds of pro racers (including me) and thousands of amateurs racers looking at the apex or closer as they enter a corner. The same videos show most racers, pros and amateurs alike braking in the corner and often out of position. These racers/riders are missing 98% of what creates exit speed. Having their feet in the right position (outside foot trailing inside foot) at the entrance might make them corner 2% faster but looking through, braking before the corner and maintaining the correct body position would make them 50-100% faster! Since we all have a limited amount of practice time (drill time, not riding time) our time would be better spent working on the big picture,(looking through the corner, braking before the corner and using perfect body position) before we worry about a little detail like which foot is forward.
Why can be faster to enter a corner with your inside foot forward and outside foot trailing? It allows you to easily distribute your weight exactly where you want it, by simply "letting" the outside foot drop to where you feel most balanced (from 50% of your weight on either foot to 60-40, 70-30, 71-29, etc., and you can slowly shift your weight to the outside foot or quickly shift your weight). This is much harder when your forward foot is your outside foot (for me this is a right hand corner as I ride left foot forward) as you really have two choices, outside foot level with inside foot or outside foot down. The micro adjustments are much harder with your forward foot making turning away from your forward foot a little more awkward than towards your forward foot. If you could switch which foot is forward instinctively, with zero thought, cornering towards your forward foot would be faster (a little bit!) but in my 15 years of coaching over 3,000 students I have yet to find a student who can do this effortlessly. Even my fastest student, Greg Minnaar cannot do this without thinking and then screwing up a more important element of cornering. I do believe as the world cup gets more and more competitive racers will start adjusting which foot is forward as they enter corners to gain that extra 10th of a second or two tenths. This is something that will take a YOUNG racer years to master. Your time and my time would be better spent perfecting the more important elements of cornering!
BetterRide student Aaron Polly getting the picture skills right!
How your body deals with this is interesting. After 40 plus years of riding left foot forward (biking, skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing) I have twisted my legs, hips, back and neck. Despite years of yoga, stretching, foam rolling, massage therapy and chiropractic care my right hip is WAY tighter than my left and back gets sore quickly. With this in mind I have started riding awkward foot forward on the easier sections of trail. While this won't make up for the imbalance in my body it might keep it from getting worse!
So focus on the Big Picture techniques like vision, balanced and neutral body position and braking before the corner. IF you ever master these then you can worry about which is forward as your enter a corner or switchback.
Well done, Gene. I like your measured tone.
Just wanted to drop a line to say thanks! I am a newbie to bicycling. I became a daily commuter 6 months ago & am approaching 1k miles riding the roads on a touring bike. Thanks to your lessons on hill climbing, cornering etc…etc. I can ride better, make fewer mistakes & enjoy it more! Note that your guidance on maintaing a balance neutral position while riding solves a lot ills in technique for me. Thanks Again!
Nice read and quite insightful as a continuing effort we all owe ourselves as we continually promote both our sport and individual accomplishments.
I, too, began switching it up quite a number of years ago, for a pretty different reason though. As my lefty son grew up, struggling with some skills in sports, I decided to augment my skills and experiences by doing almost everything 'backwards'. My biggest problem was, and still is, getting a goofy foot forward; whether it is cornering or just regular straight shots when not pedaling. Thinking after the read, in hindsight of course, how good could I have been in the early 80s racing BMX with this information…?
I also suffer from much tighter hips…especially the hip flexor on the right side. I would guess this is fairly common because I believe a chief cause of it is all the time we spend driving our cars. Most people use their right foot almost exclusively to do the accelerator and brake pedals. It has been my observation that I keep tension in my right leg as to be poised for a quick adjustment in speed or braking. I now try to use cruise control as much as possible and consciously relax while driving to minimize it's effects on my muscle imbalances.
I've been working on switching forward foot posittion for left and right turns based on which position allows me to twist my hips into the turn better. I believe I'm more effective at turning my hips into the turn with the outside foot forward.
As you may already know Brian Lopes agrees with you on foot placement.( I would say he knows a thing or two about going fast). Gene, you should write a book, like he did. I would be the first to buy it.
Gene, I took your class in last year in Marin county with Dylan Renn and I have to say my cornering has improved 110% from before using outside foot down. Busy doing 4 triathlon's this year, coaching my 17 year olds baseball team I finally entered my first mountain bike race of the year last week and finished 2nd place (not bad for a 58 yr old)!!! Easy to make up time in the corners now and is real fun. Dylan was a great coach and I cant thank you enough and am looking forward to the next class.
Outside foot down is best option no matter what the corner is like (bermed , flat , off camber) unless of coarse you don't have the ground clearance (rock gardens , roots , breaking bumps). Outside foot back is a close second because it maximizes your ground clearance and you finish your turns clean . Think about how your profile looks when you tabletop your airs . If your opposite foot is back (laying it over to the left so right foot back) you can really lean it over .
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I'm guest blogging on our collaborative blog, The Primary Punchbowl. I wrote about a few ways that I use The Five Little Pumpkins in the classroom and included 3 versions of a mini book as a free download. Go check it out HERE.


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AWS re:Invent Announcements and The Alliance
8 months ago December 3rd, 2018
re:Invent is always an exciting time for me. AWS always announces large batches of new features during it. This year is no different, and at The Alliance, part of our job is to evaluate whether or not any of these new features fit into our infrastructure.
Transit Gateway is a service that helps facilitate a hub-and-spoke networking model to connect networks across accounts or premises.
At The Alliance, we use multiple AWS accounts to isolate our resources. For example, our prod deployments exist in an AWS account with no other resources and tightly controlled access. This isolation is great for security, cost-reporting, and just general separation of concerns. However, some of our services depend on services from other accounts.
For most of our cases PrivateLink fits the bill perfectly. We just stand up a network load balancer in front of the dependency (often using this template) and create an endpoint service from it. Then dependent services can use a private endpoint to connect to the other service. Nothing has to be exposed to the open Internet and we can maintain fine-grained access controls.
But what if we need to connect more than just two services together? What if we want to connect two VPCs together? Without Transit Gateway, this would be done via VPC Peering or VPN.
We have a service deployed to its own account that creates additional servers on-demand that we need to be able to access from our intranet. VPC Peering almost works for this; if we connect the service account to our intranet via VPC Peering, resources within our intranet will be able to access it. But users connected to our intranet via VPN Gateway or remote access VPN won't be able to access the service (see VPC Peering's unsupported configurations).
Enter Transit Gateway. Transit Gateway connections are transitive. This means if we use a Transit Gateway to connect the two AWS accounts, everything in our intranet, including VPN Gateway or remote access VPN users, will be able to access the service. It will truly be a first-class citizen. From there, we can use network ACLs, routing tables, and security groups to lock down traffic to and from the service to our liking.
Global Accelerator
We need the connections to and from our API to be fast and reliable. This means that we need a CDN in some form. When we first deployed our API it was served directly from an ALB. This works fine, but we really want our users to be able to connect to a nearby endpoint rather than making connections to endpoints on the other side of the country.
Unfortunately, Global Accelerator doesn't preserve client IP addresses when routing traffic to endpoints. IP addresses are valuable to us for auditing, so Global Accelerator is out for the API. It might have a place elsewhere though, such as for AV ingestion.
CloudFront Websocket Support
This isn't actually a re:Invent announcement, but it's a pretty important one. Now that CloudFront supports WebSockets (which we will be using), using it for our API is possible. Connections made through CloudFront have their IP addresses made available via HTTP header, making it more viable than Global Accelerator for us. As of today, our production API is now using CloudFront.
Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
As mentioned in this article, we'll be using Snowballs on game-day for archiving and compute power. Now we have more options for our Snowballs. The increased compute power isn't that interesting as our in-stadium compute needs are pretty modest. However, the option to add a GPU to the Snowball is a more interesting one since we will be processing video in the stadium. It's getting a bit too late to make drastic hardware changes for season one, but there might be a place for Snowball GPUs in season two.
DynamoDB Transactions
Our API uses DynamoDB as a primary data store. With a bit of cleverness, we can keep things fault-tolerant and safe for concurrent access without built-in support for transactions. After all, Amazon has always had a library that provides transactions for DynamoDB. But the built-in support for transactions allows us to make things much simpler and more robust overall.
DynamoDB On-Demand Capacity
Prior to this announcement, we were relying on scheduled actions and auto-scaling to manage our DynamoDB capacity. The new on-demand capacity allows us to get rid of all of that. In our simulations, it performed just as well as or better than auto-scaling for large bursts of unexpected traffic, so we switched all of our environments over to it almost immediately.
On game days, when we can count on large traffic spikes, we may switch our tables over to maximum provisioned capacity just to be safe, but on-demand capacity is serving us well.
Lambda ALB Targets
We've been tinkering with making our API serverless for a while. Our only big barrier to that has been the need for WebSocket support on the same domain. Until now, there was no simple way to direct requests for a particular path to Lambda function and requests for another path to an EC2 service. But with Lambda ALB targets, we can easily route paths to serverless API implementations. We'll almost definitely be making use of this for season one.
AWS Client VPN
AWS made several presentations about an OpenVPN-based remote access VPN solution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnxXNZdf6ew&t=1165
This was something that had been on my wishlist for a while, but mysteriously no release or even preview announcement has been made. Once this is released, we're likely to use it internally though.
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Mikayla Woods, Hendrickson girls basketball team race past Cedar Ridge
By Butch Hart / American-Statesman correspondent
Dec 23, 2018 at 10:42 AM Dec 23, 2018 at 10:56 AM
Mikayla Woods scored 22 of her 26 points in the second half as top-ranked Hendrickson raced away from Cedar Ridge 75-47 in a District 13-6A showdown Dec. 21 at Hendrickson High School.
In a meeting between two of the three teams without a loss in district play, Hendrickson (23-0, 7-0 District 13-6A) outscored Cedar Ridge (14-6, 6-1) by 25 points in the second half to remain perfect in district play. The Hawks are tied for first place with Vista Ridge, which had its district bye Dec. 21 and visits Cedar Ridge Jan. 2 before finishing the first half of district by hosting Hendrickson Jan. 5.
Against Hendrickson, Cedar Ridge slowed the tempo early and played almost evenly with the Hawks, trailing just 24-21 at the half. Hendrickson coach Norma Sierra credited Cedar Ridge coach Kevin Lewis with implementing an effective strategy.
"(He) does a great job, they played their game, and we took a lot of forced shots," she said. "I told the girls at the half that we had to push the ball and play better defense."
Woods and the Hawks must have listened. The reigning American-Statesman's Central Texas player of the year scored 14 points and three assists in the third quarter alone as the Hawks opened the second half on a 13-2 scoring run and took a 49-33 lead into the final period.
"We played much more effectively in transition and pushing the pace," Sierra said.
The Raiders scored six of the first eight points in the fourth quarter, but it was all Hendrickson down the stretch as Sierra emptied the bench.
Kaile Lacey added 15 points for Hendrickson while Zoe Nelson had 12 points and transfer Naomi Pierce had six points and six rebounds in limited playing time.
Senior Taryn Wills scored 23 points for the Raiders, while Jordyn Marshall added seven points. Wills scored 16 of the Raiders' 26 second-half points and managed seven steals with six rebounds.
Elsewhere, Crockett improved to 19-2, 3-0 by racing past McCallum 76-22 and Lampasas improved to 17-3 by bearing Hutto 53-50. Hanna Wheeler scored 11 points and freshman Shelby Hayes added 10 points as Cedar Park (15-2, 3-0 District 17-5A) defeated Weiss 46-24. Pflugerville kept pace with the Timberwolves by beating Glenn 55-20 as all 11 Panthers scored. London Clarkson and Sheridan Bostic had eight points each for the Panthers (15-6, 3-0 District 17-5A).


Today we are taking inspiration from the Big 5 nations, selecting Germany as our focus. The nation first made their debut in the first year of Eurovision itself and incredibly the nation has participated in every single contest since then. In total they have achieved two wins, the first in 1982 and the latest in 2010. Today we will be looking closely at the latest three entrants, and then it will be up to you to decide the Best of the Bunch!
After Germany's win of the contest in 2010, we saw lifted results from the Big 5 nation at Eurovision, up until 2015, where Germany finished in last place with nul points. The positive is that you can only go up from there, and it was up to the young artist Jamie-Lee to turn things around with her entry Ghost. Visually it was very unique, especially when we look at Jamie-Lee's outfit, but the song fell flat on stage. Unfortunately, once again we saw Germany finish in last place, although at least they received some points!
With two last places in a row, the pressure was on to avoid the trifecta of bad results. Germany decided to shake things up with their national selection, using an interesting format whereby artists were all expected to perform two pre-written songs, with the best song-artist combination to win the competition. That ended up being Levina with the song Perfect Life, but all was far from perfect for Germany. In the context of the competition, it was not strong enough to dramatically improve Germany's results. Thankfully, Germany avoided the trifecta, but only by 1 place, as they finished in 25th place with just 6 points.
That brings us to the most recent German entry, and the most successful entry we have seen from Germany since their win back in 2010. Through a national selection (which was once again revised from the previous years) it was decided that Michael Schulte would represent the nation with the personal and touching entry You Let Me Walk Alone. It was clear that this entry was destined for bigger things than the previous German entries, and the results reflected the quality of the entry. For the first time in years, Germany finished in the Top 10, having achieved 4th place with a total of 340 points.


Premier Subaru president Bob Alvine presents a check for $53,552 to Shaun Heffernan, who is director of Camp Rising Sun, a program for children with cancer. Photo courtesy of dealership.
A Connecticut Subaru dealership continued to enhance a charitable program orchestrated by the OEM, resulting in a donation of more than $50,000 to an organization near the store.
Premier Subaru has built off of the automaker's Share the Love event, and this week the dealership presented a check for $53,552 to Camp Rising Sun. Having raised funds for the organization for four years in a row, total contributions from Premier Subaru to Camp Rising Sun now have exceeded $200,000.
Camp Rising Sun was designed to provide a safe nurturing environment to children ages 5 through 17 who have been diagnosed with cancer. Camp week takes place at Camp Jewell YMCA in Colebrook, Conn. A number of "Senior Campers" have become "Leaders in Training" to help with the younger campers and plan activities.
Camp Rising Sun has been around since 1983 and has grown to more than 100 campers. The funds provided by Premier Subaru, during the most recent Share the Love program, will support more than 40 campers this year.
"Thanks to Bob Alvine and the entire Premier Subaru Team, we will be able to provide an awesome summer camp experience to even more kids with cancer," Camp Rising Sun director Shaun Heffernan said.
"Being a small volunteer organization without a national sponsor, fundraising is always a challenge. Bob and his team's hard work will help put smiles on the faces of our campers this summer," Heffernan continued.
In 2013, Subaru of America gave dealerships the option to add a local charity, and Premier Subaru took the opportunity to align with Camp Rising Sun.
Along with Camp Rising Sun, Premier Subaru has also been involved in a number of other philanthropic endeavors, including The Branford Jazz on the Green series, Toys for Tots, Jane Doe No More, and the American Cancer Society.


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A pre-dawn state television broadcast claiming that Gaddafi's forces had recaptured Ras Lanouf, Benghazi, and Tobruq was met with heavy gunfire in Tripoli, even near Gaddafi's compound. The gunfire was followed by a flood of Gaddafi supporters waving flags and firing guns in the streets for several hours. The victorious message seemed to be an attempt to rally pro-Gaddafi forces as the rebels continue their progress toward the stronghold of Sirte, and it was quickly proven false, as residents and journalists in the three cities said there were no Gaddafi forces in the area. In Benghazi, up to eight British soldiers were captured by rebels as they attempted to escort a diplomat to the leaders of Gaddafi's opposition. (They were later released.) Meanwhile, rebel forces have fought on the ground and been attacked from the air as they advance on Sirte.
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Lumber Liquidators Donates Flooring to Project: VISION and Explorations V Children's Museum
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TOANO, Va., June 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- With school out for summer, Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL), the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring in North America, marked the official start of summer with its recent donations of new flooring to two organizations that provide services to children.
The company donated 1,200 square feet of Tranquility Malted Oak luxury vinyl plank (LVP) to Explorations V Children's Museum to update its lobby. The museum, located in Lakeland, Florida, creates a hands-on, fun-filled adventure in learning through art and science. The museum invites more than 50,000 children to play each year.
"We want to give our children the best experience of learning and fun, and this donation from Lumber Liquidators is very meaningful to improve our space and create a welcoming environment for all," said Kerry Falwell, Executive Director of Explorations V. "The new flooring is beautiful and truly adds to our museum and we can't wait to invite children to play during the summer."
Lumber Liquidators also donated 1,500 square feet of LVP to help complete Project: VISION's basement. Project: VISION is a Chicago non-profit dedicated to providing the city's youth with tools for educational, personal and civic development. The organization recently moved into a new facility that is not only safer and more accessible for its students, but also has more space to serve additional youth. However, the basement of the new space needed to be complete to ensure the youth would have a comfortable environment to experience the organization's programs.
"We cannot express how grateful we are to Lumber Liquidators for generously providing the flooring to help us complete our basement," said Sandy Guan, Associate Director of Project: VISION. "Thanks to the goodwill of Lumber Liquidators, we were able to finish our classrooms for the 190-plus students we serve each year and provide a much-improved, student-friendly place to help even more kids in the future."
Lumber Liquidators' support of these organizations was administered through its philanthropic program, Lay It Forward, which supports organizations that benefit generations to come. This principle also inspires the lasting quality and sustainability of Lumber Liquidators' products.
About Lumber Liquidators
Now with more than 400 locations, Lumber Liquidators is North America's largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring. The company features more than 400 varieties of floors in the latest styles, including solid and engineered hardwood, bamboo, cork, laminate, waterproof vinyl plank, and wood-look tile. Additionally, Lumber Liquidators provides a wide selection of flooring enhancements and accessories to complement, install, and maintain your new floor. Every location is staffed with flooring experts who can provide advice, pro services and installation options for all of Lumber Liquidators' products, much of which is in stock and ready for delivery.
With premier brands including Bellawood and Morning Star Bamboo, Lumber Liquidators' flooring is often featured on popular television shows such as HGTV's Dream Home and This Old House. For more information, please visit www.LumberLiquidators.com or call 1.800.HARDWOOD.
Lumber Liquidators aims to be the industry leader in sustainability. For more information, please visit www.LumberLiquidators.com/Sustainability. Learn more about our corporate giving program at LayItForward.LumberLiquidators.com. You can also follow Lumber Liquidators on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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I was already dealing with the Monday blues, to top it was going through a complex piece of code which I originally thought was one of the greatest scripts one has written. However, half an hour passed I realized it was doing way more than what was required and was the cause for a functionality failure at many places for the product. In the next 20 minutes, I was already feeling the need to have someone get me out of that seat and punch me in the face for originally liking that junkie!
10 years back when I used to think of software, for me it was like something so cryptic and complex written that no one else could understand, other than me. In fact, sometime it was worse. Anyway, when I later started writing commercial code and fixing thing in others code, I realized code readability is so much important. My next myth busted when one of the customer said, "The functionality you have provided in the website is great add-on, but actually I wanted something else which woes my customers – definitely the stuff you have provided is great for the geeks, but actually my site is going to be viewed and used by no-brainers". End of the story – my complete effort of 2 night outs have gone in vain, I will have to throw the code into "Recycle Bin" and my friends are going to "kick my", for skipping the booze party.
I think this oxymoron of a concept has stemmed from various myths about how software needs to be authored. I am no scientist to write a specification on that… but surely I feel User Experience is the ultimate thing. This UX and Usability are tied together, no matter how stable and sturdy your kernel (software that runs your laptop and computers) is, if you can't reach to the consumer, you have just wasted enormous amount of time and efforts, which could have been used to add a usable functionality and have expanded your customer list.
Most of the programmers write code without knowing about what is the actual business need. For them it's more of completing an agile task in hand for the day and that's it! This accumulates over time and the final product is completed with "hacks and wrecks". When product is consumed by the customer, he knows his business better than anyone out there and then he starts finding flaws resulting in higher number of issue reporting and lower customer satisfaction.
Business drives technology and it's never upstream. So understand the business.
Use technology like a hammer – it is not meant for learning and dumping a big fat code which would finally land in trash, you should just know how and where to use it effectively to nail customer needs.
Keep a holistic approach – Don't write a single piece of code until you understand the business need. If possible start with business test cases.
DO NOT over engineer, it kills big time! Always code for User Experience, Performance and Scalability, and meet the need of the hour, max tomorrow, and not day after and henceforth!
Okay enough of lecturing to my senses, time for a coffee break, after all I still come back and need to cope up with the trauma of fiddling with that rocket science that has been put into, just to search a node in a directed graph. Damn it! I opened my eyes, leaned forward, picked up my dear mug and headed to the coffee corner.
Do let me know what do you think of complex code and also share your similar experience.
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In this article, I will be sharing my understanding and some information that I have gathered around from the world of clouds. The intended audience here is more or less those who are new to this buzz word and would like to know more on what exactly is it and why is it so important to know about it.
I will be keeping it as simple as possible and try not to introduce new terms until it's an absolute need.
I have always been searching around pages over the internet on where to find the roots and what kind of liquid – definitly not water, actually evaporated to form these clouds. So lets take a joy ride into the clouds and find whats inside it.
Before we buy the tickets, lets first decide our route to our destination and understand if we would require any other life jackets in case we find turbulence in the way out. We may stop at certain stations to stretch a bit have a cup of "Cofee" is required and move on!
Okay, we are at the station (pre-requisite) called "Fundamentals of Networking and know what Operating System and Software are And what are the demands of todays end users ".
Halting Stations What are we entitled to buy in the Shops?
Virtualization Definition Market Demands Tools Going hand in hand!
Grid Computing Definition What is it? Looks familiar? Ended?
Total cost: An Hour of interesting escalation. Happy Journey!
So what say, interested in coming along? Or, you may wait for another advance journey (Technical) in the next week. I am really going to tear the Clouds apart in my next trip.
Softwares (Wikipedia Says)– Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions telling a computer what to do and how to do it. We can also say software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software.
Hey I am already using this!
Of course you are – every other application you are using on your personal computer is driven by a program at the back. Even when you are reading this, you are actually making use of a screen that is working for you and whose pixels are also showing characters and graphics with a use of programs.
Have you ever thought, would not that have been a great thing if I did not have to buy my personal computer and what ever I wanted to read could have been in front of me always! May be on my TV or appearing on the wall in front of me.. cool isn't it.
What if you did not have to buy the operating system to run your Internet explorer just to check your mail. Or, did not have to even buy a PC altogether and could just asked someone for a PC and he delivers your machine at your door step with a nominal fee?
Well yes, there are renting agencies which are doing this business for a while now, call them – Internet Café Owners. But if, you want your software to reach the world you will have to sell it out to all the Café owners and let them have it on their machines. Yes. That's a good idea. But, hey wait a second – do you think your software is going to reach maximum people? Do you think the Café owners will advertize for you? – Well, no untill you give them a fat check to do so.
So what should I do then? Why not let your software float on the web – introduce your software through electronic media and let the people know about it. Reach out to the maximum people you can and help them understand why is it important to them. Great? Not yet. Didn't I forgot to think about the cost factor. My software is no small software of few lines of code. It depends on a number of dependable items like Hardware, Plugins, infrastructure and to add to keep my software running I also need a dedicated team to work 24×7 to ensure the backbone of my software is never broken.
Now I am thinking of a place where all of my OS, Hardware, team requirements are well taken of and I am sure there will be other people like me would have the same problem – Customers come in various sizes and shapes!
And so I look in the sky to talk to God to help me with a brilliant idea. Yes, of course though I can't see him, I see some "Clouds" hanging here and there.
Software as a service referred to as "On demand software," is software deployed over the internet and/or is deployed to run in DMZ. With SaaS, a provider licenses an application to customers either as a service on demand, through a subscription, in a "pay-as-you-go" model, or (increasingly) at no charge when there is opportunity to generate revenue from streams other than the user, such as from advertisement or user list sales. This approach to application delivery is part of the utility computing model where all of the technology is over the Internet as a service.
I was just wondering about all these things and then suddenly an announcement grabbed my attention – "We will now be heading to our next stop – Traditional Harwares". Mr. Penguin was very happy than was I to the next station. He told me how he used to be part of this hill station from long back. He also told me how he used to party with the other x86 neighbours and famous intel microprocessors at the new station we were going to visit. It was his favourite place to be and the stories were interesting. "Hey did you hear that", Mr. Penguin said.
And I peeked out of the Window to see large Mainframe industries all arround the place with millions of people staring into the "Green Screen Terminals" to mange them. I think we have just reached – "Traditional Hardwares".
While Mr. penguin was looking for someone from his neighbourhood, I decided to take a walk into this whole set of people maintaining large infrastructure of machines. I could also see some people bringing in thousands of machines and memory sticks to support a new company that had recently entered into the software arena and was requiring theinfrastructure from this town.
For each and every Company they were maintaining, large computing power houses and found a lot of people trying to fix and load required softwares replicas on them.
I wondered when every one was needing the same softwares to work on why don't they share it, like I share my car with my neighbour to same office and share on the fuel price. Well, though I do understand its just not that simple as said. Why did I had to take this route to clouds? I think I got a fair answer here – existence of clouds have a reason and so I am happened to see all these people hard wiring for their own cause even for running something small of their own.
To meet the ever-changing and growing market of demand for better hosting, software and hardware platforms and continued competition to lower down the cost of maintaining them, we need to think of some supply management which is effective, green, saves cost, save energy, and save the hassle of maintaining such a large infrastructure with so many skilled labours who are ready to ask for more every 6 months ;) .
God save IT! Looked up and this time again, there were only small patch of cloud over my head. I was about to say hello to those small creature however… a voice broke from the crowd – "Mr. Traveller, we are leaving for the next metro station. Hurry up!". This was Mr. penguin, waving his hand to me and standing on the door.
Okay. The next moment I was discussing traditional hardware issue over tea with Mr. Penguin in his compartment when he told me, from the next Station – Virtualization, we will be travelling by Air, as the it's a bit Cloudy ahead.
Time flew like anything and before we could have finished out our second cup, we were at Virtualization.
We decided to take our quick discussion through a walk way, which was near by. Mr. penguin, showed me a new world there. I was quite amazed to see a lot of Virtualized things in this new town. Virtual Servers, Virtual LANs people getting multiple platforms to work on while using the shared hardware. Hey, its is really cool, so doesn't that means people may get new platforms on demand on the hardware which is compatible enough and can scale easily. So the cost of installing your own hardware decreases tremendously. Imagine a large IT Park having a number of incubation centers within it and helping small companies to rent out as many Development Machines, Area, Parking Lots they want for their employ, and just paying the nominal fee for using that place, instead of owning it – could be really great for start ups.
Hardware virtualization or platform virtualization refers to the creation of a virtual machines that acts like a real computer with an operating system. Software executed on these virtual machines are separated from the underlying hardware resources. For example, a computer that is running Microsoft Windows may host a virtual machine that looks like a computer with Mac OS X operating system. Subsequently, Mac OS X-based software can be run on that virtual machine.
With Virtualization it is also possible to provide more machines as on demand within minutes and provision them to run as required. You may be able to let the client (user) set up his development bed within minutes which involved multiple machines and LAN connectivity. It becomes transparent to the client as far as functionality is concerned that if he is running his software on concrete or virtualized hardware.
I think the best example would be like you are in absolute need of a server m/c for an hour but by the time you will go through the process of companies supply chain management, raising tickets and ordering. Your dedicated hour would have been over. And to add to the irony, you paid the complete price of the hardware which is of no use after an hour. So virtual servers are of help here, create Virtual servers within minutes use them for an hour, and discard them – and to follow, you paid almost 80% less in comparison.
Citrix – ESXi (Though more inclined to clouds) and many more.
Say install Virtual box on your Windows7 m/c and load a Linux mage into the Virtual Box. Once done, you will be able to start your Virtual Machine VM (Linux) in Windows. More or less, it's the similar stuff for other vendors as in case of this oracle product.
So is it something that is cloud composed of primarily – Virtualization? Is that the master key to shared services all over the globe both in terms of hardware and software? Are we there? – I am just so excited to know all these answers now. However, there is more to it. Let's not jump to the last chapter of the novel to spoil our journey. For now lets say "Yes" to all the answers for the moment but I would still say there have always been some differences and may be Cloud is not about the hardware and software but about the end user who uses it. So, in simple terms, its user centric and not hardware or software centric. We will later discuss more on type of Cloud categories which will clear the mist further. To name a few, Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), Platform As A Service (PaaS) and Software As A Service(SaaS).
The announcement – "This is the last and final Boarding Call for Mr. Traveller for flight to Grid Computing…", just caught my ears and I was found running to the boarding counter to show my boarding pass – "Wooh, I was just about to miss this flight". I had just grabbed the window seat and bucked up the belt to hear a familiar voice from the back, "Welcome aboard, I thought you would miss this fun!". "Oh geat! Mr. Penguin, good to see you again. I had almost lost this informative company of yours." – Said I.
I was surprised to see that the new stations were not traditional stations, but were simply few altitudes through which we could see the same old towns from way high and could also look at the bigger picture.
When we reached arround 10000 Feet above Virtualization, I could see multiple Virtualization Towns and many Traditional Hardware and Networking Towns below. These towns were connected to each other and were actually working together to be look as a grids of machines both Concrete and Virtualized for a common cause of providing large infrastructure and scalable environments to those who needed it. But yes, they were centric enough to target multiple cause for multiple clients and delivering powerful computing. The Myst was still there but was getting dispersed. Collective Computing to give more computing power was a great idea in networking.
Remember it is easier to write programs can run on parallel computers (Grid Systems) than to write a program for a supercomputer having dependency on a specialized Operating system and hardware (if any). Grid Computing or Parallel Processing Computer on the other hand, have different hardware resources like CPU, disks, warehouses, Ethernet cards etc. and connected to one another via LANs or MANs to deliver high computing power.
"Please stick to your seats and keep your belts fastened as we are expecting some turbulence soon…" – Well I was kind of expecting it because we were entering the Clouds of large capacities. I could co-relate this turbulence to the one in my mind since I had started the journey to know what is cloud computing and why do I need this? – I was getting answers to my questions one after another and the turbulence too was decreasing both in and out!
As soon as we were arround 25000 feet, I could see the sunlight passing through a bunch of clouds and reminded me of the time I was looking at the sky from the town named "Softwares". This was beautiful and at the same time quite informative. I was at my last stopage and was looking though the clouds, I was now not able to see any towns below, all I could see was large set of vaporised content floating in the sky ready to sprinkle rain in different parts of the country – probably who needed it (as per ecology).
And then I turned to Mr. Penguin, and saw him smiling. I got close to him and asked him, tell me about what you see from here … and then he explained me Clouds like a charm.
Cloud computing is computation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers the services. Parallels to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid where end-users consume power resources without any necessary understanding of the component devices in the grid required to provide the service.
Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, service-oriented architecture, autonomic and utility computing. Details are abstracted from end-users, who no longer have need for expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them.
Cloud Computing or more specific clouds, are just a mechanism to delivering services to the end user as required with or without the use of actual virtualization of hardware/software/storage resource. In fact, virtualization can be delivered via mechanisms other than cloud computing as well and users can still benefit from it.
So for me it's a technological advancement in the field of computing which is service-based, scalable and elastic, shared, metered by use, and uses internet technologies.
I remember I read a great example somewhere – Just imagine a simple use case where you wanted to deploy a web application which you have no idea what kinds of loads will be facing at any given time say facebook or orkut. Today you'd want to write it in a manner that will leverage the most of the hardware and then deploy your solution in a horizontally scalable manner – Server clustering may be. To save cost and to be able to handle a surge (or multiple surges) you'd want to put it on something like Amazon's EC2 and set up automatic scaling.
The benefit you get is the service is mature enough, cost effective and helpful and then you can consider dedicated hardware to handle most of the load. Then when you experience spikes, you can offload to the cloud for expansion.
"Hmm… makes sense to me", Said I.
"So do you see those different clouds in there?", said Mr. Penguin. " Yes I see them, what do they tell you ?" – They are smaller, and may be specific to a town or may be specific to the street itself.
Public cloud – resources are dynamically provisioned on a fine-grained, self-service basis over the Internet, via web applications or may be via web services, from an off-site third-party provider who bills on a fine-grained utility computing basis.
Hybrid Clouds – Private and Public mix clouds. With the proliferation of cloud computing (both private and public) and the fact that IT departments must also deliver services via traditional, in-house methods, the newest catch-phrase has become hybrid cloud computing.
Combined Clouds – Two clouds that have been joined together are more correctly called a "combined cloud". A combined cloud environment consisting of multiple internal and/or external providers"will be typical for most enterprises.
Next prime area to focus are Legal and Compliance issues for now. But one thing for sure – the Cloud Computing is yet to be leveraged and will be the technology of the future.
Hope you enjoyed the journey with me. Next time I will take you to another place, another thought, another technology and just another complex buzz words made easy to a layman.


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There was mass pandemonium as the gunman opened fire.
There was mass pandemonium, people running, Kelly told The Associated Press. "One officer -- the first into the classroom -- told me he could still smell gunpowder."


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Two billion years ago, Andromeda 'ate' a sister-galaxy of the Milky Way
The findings could topple our current understanding of how galaxies merge.
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Our closest galactic neighbor, Andromeda, seems to like the taste of its brethren.
The Andromeda Galaxy imaged through a hydrogen-alpha filter.
Image credits Adam Evans.
Researchers from the University of Michigan (UoM) report that the Andromeda galaxy smote and consumed one of its brethren some two billion years ago. Although its victim was shredded almost completely, the team pieced together evidence of the collision from the thin halo of stars that spans the gap between Andromeda and its enigmatic companion, Meiser 32 (M32).
The discovery helps further our understanding of how galaxies like the Milky Way evolve, and of their behavior during large mergers.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and our closest neighbor, Andromeda, are the two largest members of a group known as the Local Group (of galaxies). The extended family includes some 54 different galaxies — most of them dwarf galaxies acting as satellites for their larger relatives — all orbiting around a point roughly between Andromeda and the Milky Way.
It may sound idyllic, but researchers have found that at least one member of this group found its demise at the hands of Andromeda. This once-galaxy, christened M32p, was the third-largest member of the Local Group — a distinction that now falls on the galaxy Triangulum.
The team started their research using data pertaining to the halo of stars around Andromeda. It's not a unique feature; many galaxies harbor such wispy-thin groupings of stars around their bulk, the final remnants of smaller galaxies that they absorbed over time. Since Andromeda is so large and rich in matter (it has over double the diameter of the Milky Way and double its number of stars), the researchers expected it to have consumed hundreds of smaller galaxies — which they thought would make it impossible to study a single such meal.
Size comparison between M32p and today's M32.
Image credits Richard D'Souza; for the image of M64: NOAO/AURA/NSF.
However, the team's computer simulations revealed that although Andromeda did dine on many of its companion galaxies, most stars in the outer halo originate from a single, large galaxy. Piecing the evidence together to peer back in time, the team found that M32p would have been massive — likely the third-largest in the Local Group, after Andromeda and the Milky Way. The paper adds that M32p was at least 20 times larger than any galaxy the Milky Way ever merged with.
"The stars in Andromeda are very metal-rich and considerably young," Richard D'Souza, lead author of the paper, explained in an e-mail. "In general, the larger the galaxy the more metal rich the stars are. We suspected that since the stars in the halo of Andromeda were so metal-rich, it must have come from a large metal-rich galaxy."
One big bite
A metal-rich halo large enough to encompass a galaxy such as Andromeda could only be formed "through a single large merger," he adds, noting that "there are not many smaller galaxies in the Universe to build up to the mass of the halo".
"In terms of a business analogy, galaxies also grow through mergers and acquisitions. In order for a major company to grow at a very fast pace, it would need to acquire a similar large company into its business. Such was the case with Andromeda," D'Souza adds.
The findings call into question our models of how mergers between two massive galaxies play out. Until now, astronomers believed that such an event would flatten the disk of a spiral galaxy into an elliptical one, but Andromeda's disk evidently pulled through still very spiral-shaped. Some effects of this collision can still be seen, D'Souza told me. Among them are the thickness of Andromeda's disk and the higher speeds its stars travel at (90 km/s compared to around 30 km/s in the Milky Way).
The process of shredding of the large galaxy M32p by the Andromeda (M31) galaxy which eventually resulted in M32 and a giant halo of stars.
Image credits Richard D'Souza; M31, courtesy of Wei-Hao Wang; Stellar halo of M31: AAS/IOP.
Still, he admits that it came as "a major surprise" that Andromeda could retain its spiral shape following this collision. One explanation could be that the particular angle of the collision between the two galaxies helped keep Andromeda spiral-like, "but we need to run more computer simulations to see which set of orbits helps preserve the disk".
Beyond this, it helps us better understand Andromeda's evolution over time. The timing of the merger coincides with a burst of intense star formation in Andromeda two billion years ago. All this star-forming activity also suggests that M32p must have been gas-rich in order to supply enough building blocks.
Finally, the findings point to Andromeda's mysterious, compact, and very dense, satellite galaxy M32 (the one today) as the last sliver of the once-mighty galaxy — the naked core. This piece of data could help explain why we see so few galaxies similar to M32 zipping around in the universe.
"M32 is a weirdo," co-author Eric Bell, UoM professor of astronomy, said in a press release. "While it looks like a compact example of an old, elliptical galaxy, it actually has lots of young stars. It's one of the most compact galaxies in the universe. There isn't another galaxy like it."
"Galaxies like M32 are considerably rare in the Universe," D'Souza adds. "The term used for them in the literature is called 'compact ellipticals', and they are one of the most rarest galaxies in the Universe. We do know a dozen or so compact ellipticals in the nearby Universe, and we have inferred that further out (where we cannot resolve them), the number is equally low."
As part of the paper, the team also found that the merger scenario could help explain the scarcity of M32-like objects. It seems the secret is not just in the merging process itself, but also in the particular makeup of the galaxies involved. "What one really needs is a galaxy with a high central surface density of stars comparable to M32," D'Souza explains. It seems to be quite a rare occurrence — the team only identified 8 potential progenitors for M32-like objects.
Their study may alter the traditional understanding of how galaxies evolve, the researchers say. The realization that Andromeda's disk survived an impact with a massive galaxy flies in the face of our current models, which suggests that such large interactions would destroy disks and form an elliptical galaxy.
It went so fundamentally against the grain of our understanding of galaxy-formation that, previously, we didn't even consider the possibility that this scenario could have ever occurred.
"Astronomers have been studying the Local Group–the Milky Way, Andromeda and their companions–for so long. It was shocking to realize that the Milky Way had a large sibling, and we never knew about it," Bell concludes.
Such investigative methods can be applied to other galaxies as well, the team explains, to help us tease out the merger history of other galaxies besides Andromeda.
The paper "The Andromeda galaxy's most important merger about 2 billion years ago as M32's likely progenitor" has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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You need to wear something that gives you room so you aren't mad at yourself for going in for that second plate. Here are a couple of my go-to looks for Thanksgiving to keep you feeling comfortable even when you've overeaten!
The first look is a way to incorporate leggings in a dressy way. These Spanx Faux Leather Leggings give me life! Blog post on why you need these in your life coming soon to the blog! Any type of over-sized tunic works perfect with these leggings. Throw on a cute fall scarf to hide even more and some chunky booties and you are all set to hang with the family!
The second look is a casual faux suede dress. Same idea with this dress as the tunic. You don't want to wear something too tight, so forget those body-con dresses! Finish this look with my current obsession, over-the-knee boots and you are looking fab!
Hope this helped you come up with the perfect super cute and comfy look for eating all the things, watching all the football and hanging with the family! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!


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Written by Lazy Gramophone on Thursday the 28th of March 2013
Five Things is a series of short journal posts introducing each of the writers and artists involved in our up-coming Time project.
Since the project's inception, the idea has been to create an environment where independent writers and artists could come together in order to share their work. The result of this endeavour is a collection of stories, images and poems based around the theme of time, its pages placing particular focus upon the relationship between words and pictures. By sharing in this way we hope to inspire each other as well as those around us, to draw a diverse audience and so help to illuminate the work of alternative artists and writers everywhere.
Stacie Withers began writing so she could be like her idol, Lynda Day. When this showed itself to be the pipe dream it had been all along, she switched to poetry, because it's good for the digestion. Stacie says she writes, mainly, so she doesn't have to talk to people. After studying Creative Writing at BSU, where she wrote for and edited the now discontinued 'Pegasus' zine, and went on to complete post graduate studies in Library Management at Northumbria University, which indulged her twin passions for libraries and promoting open access to literature. Her work often focuses on themes of decay and the passage of time, although her experiences of motherhood have also influenced her work over recent years, and she explores the implications of each of these ideas within her poetry and short fiction. She has written articles for various online publications and is also author of a 'mummy blog', focusing on her experiences parenting a child with ASD. She lives in the Wiltshire countryside and eats far too many biscuits.
Stacie's work can be found here: http://www.lazygramophone.com/stacie_withers/
Five Things that have Inspired my Writing.
Good Bones - M. Atwood
Margaret Atwood played a major part in my adolescence, and my writing. She shares my interest in the passage of time, and the simultaneous process of development and decay. This collection of short stories deals with the realities of nostalgia and the roads not travelled; a subject which fascinates me and features heavily in my work.
The Common Years - J. Cooper
I'll be honest, I've never read any other Jilly Copper books. But I was lent this one, years ago, to read on a rather long train journey. I loved every single word and it began my interest in the minutiae of life, the day to day and the wonderful details we barely notice.
Mortal City - Dar Williams
Dar Williams confessional brand of song writing has been major influence on my work, and I have been a huge fan of hers since I was a teenager. Her interest in the ongoing changes to feminism and in the process of personal evolution and self awareness mirrors my own fascination with the lessons we learn the hard way.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - T, Stoppard
(there is also a wonderful film, starring Tim Roth and Gary Oldman).
I am, I confess, a bit of a Stoppard fan girl. Arcadia was my introduction to his work, and remains one of my favourite plays, but Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is so utterly wonderful, so fast paced, so intricate and perfect, that I keep going back to it again and again. Stoppard understands the importance of rhythm, of how words feel in the mouth as well as how they sound to the ear, and, as a poet, I have learned a lot from the principles of his play writing.
An odd choice to finish off, as I am not hugely fond of Heaneys' poems. Being made to study them endlessly throughout my time in school, college and university means that any emotive response they may have elicited has long since departed and they now leave me rather cold. However, I feel strongly that being a writer, or an artist of any discipline, requires work and a desire to perfect the form. Instinct is vital, it's the thing that first prompts you to pick up a pen and say something, but it needs to be fed and nurtured beyond that initial stage. By studying the 'craft', for want of a less pretentious word, you learn about the precision of good poetry, the care with which the right word is chosen for the right reason. You learn about rhythm and metre, and the way to play with these concepts to best present your message. The easiest and most effective way to study poetry is to read it. Read lots of poetry, by many different poets. Over time, you start to pick out the good, and the not so good, and you start to understand technique and style. Heaney is a master of his craft and studying his poems has taught me about cherry picking words, not just because of their meaning, but because how they flow and fit within a verse.
The Time Project.
1. Time Book Launch Lazy Gramophone Events Page
2. Time Book Launch Facebook Page
3. View our Clock page (counting down to the release of Time)
4. An introduction to Time
5. Contributors' Five Things Journal Posts:
- Adam Green
- Bryn Hall
- Inua Ellams
- Zoe Catherine Kendall
- Andrew Walter
- Laura Dockrill
- Mat Lloyd
- Sorana Santos
- Will Conway
- Hannah Stephenson
- Matt Black
- Claire Fletcher
- Carl Laurence
- Zophiel Webb
- Jude Melling
- Stacie Withers
- Tom Hirons
- Megan Leonie Hall
- Vincent J Prince
- Kaitlin Beckett
- Guy J Jackson
- Eliza Gregory
- Jeannie Paske
- Jo Tedds
- Maria Drummey
- Tom Harris
- Liz Adams
- Lola Dupre
- Kirsty Allison
- Alexander Aspinall
- Paul Bloom
6. Buy Time from the Lazy Gramophone Shop
7. Press/Reviews
(Click the links below to read each article in full)
Huffington Post:
'An intriguing book project from one of the most innovative groups of creative people in the city.' ~ Huffington Post
Fabric Magazine:
'...we'll bet you've never seen time as it's portrayed in this stunning new publication.' ~ Fabric Magazine
Rooms Magazine:
'Time is a treasure box brimming with creativity and fresh talent.' ~ Rooms Magazine
Annexe Magazine:
'Lazy Gramophone's anthology, Time, lives up to the high bar it sets for itself.' ~ Annexe Magazine
For more on The Time Project tweet us @lazygramophone or #TheTimeProjectLGP or visit our Time Facebook page.
Tags for this post: Stacie Withers, Time, Lazy Gramophone, Five Things, Inspiration.
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On Tuesday 4 July 2017, at Le Tank: Thibault Caizergues, Olivier Alexanian + Veronika Burian. Facilitator: Mathieu Réguer.
Olivier Alexanian is a art director and graphic designer. In 2015, he studied graphic design processes for his final graduation project at École nationale des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) under the guidance of Ruedi Baur. In 2017, he followed by a "communication et en industries créatives" graduation at Sciences Po Paris. Right at the end of his studies, he joined En Marche! in the early day of the movement back in 2016. He took care of the art direction as well as the presidential campaign of Emmanuel Macron.
Veronika Burian is a type designer and co-founder of the independent type foundry TypeTogether with José Scaglione, publishing award-winning typefaces and collaborating on tailored typefaces for a variety of clients. She is also involved with Alphabettes.org, a showcase for work and research on lettering, typography and type design by women and continues to give lectures and workshops at international conferences and universities.


Today on the bus, I was two men.
A teen sat on the seat across from me, sitting with his headphones on and bobbing to the music that only he could hear. After a couple of minutes, snatches of phrases of the song started to escape from his mouth. At first they were quiet, but they started to get louder and louder.
The first man in me heard the bits of music and thought, "This guy is crazy. Doesn't he know you're supposed to wear earphones on the bus? I guess the rules don't cover singing... but still the driver ought to say something. What if he's bugging people on the bus. Is he bugging me? He shouldn't be singing out loud. He's making a scene."
The teen started to sing out the chorus of his song with full voice. The bus wasn't very full. He didn't seem self conscious.
The second man in me thought, "His voice isn't bad. It's actually pretty good. The bus isn't too full and he isn't singing something offensive. Isn't it great that he's feeling the music so much? Isn't music a blessing?"
The first man in me turned his head to look straight at the singing teen, perhaps to shame him with a glance. The second man in me smiled at the teen when our eyes met.
The chorus was over and the teen lapsed back into silence. Still, I smiled the smile of the second man until I got off the bus.


This week's Gazette features a range of Cambridge events over the following couple weeks, as well as panel discussions, and work and volunteering opportunities. If you have questions, suggestions, or items to add to the Gazette please do not hesitate to email me at mcr-secretary@chu.cam.ac.uk.
1.2 [23/Feb/2015] IDENTITY: A discussion group.
2.1 [26/Feb/2015] Panel discussion: What is the role of the charity sector within education?
Speakeasy, 'Cambridge's most popular poetry slam', is BACK for our penultimate show this term, this Sunday 22nd February in the ADC Theatre Bar!
We've got more fantastic feature poets, and the return of the open poetry slam. Anyone can sign up to read 3 minutes of their own poetry, and compete for the title of Speakeasy slam winner.
Whether you're already a huge fan of performance poetry, or just fancy something a little bit different, come along! Have a drink, have a listen, if you want to perform get up and speak – it's easy.
If you want to perform in the slam, just get in touch via the facebook event, or email Charlotte Higgins (ch571)!
[23/Feb/2015] IDENTITY: A discussion group.
Discussion Group: 8-10pm, 23rd Feb, Barbara White Room, Newnham.
UniCORNS social: 8pm, 10th Mar, Vaults.
The University of Cambridge Open Relationship and Non-monogamy Society (UniCORNS), new this term, is devoted to non-monogamy, polyamory, open relationships, or any other member of the huge family of alternative relationship styles. We organize fortnightly alternating discussion groups and socials, open to everyone, regardless of how you do relationships.
Our next meet up is called 'Identity'. We'll be considering what it means to identify as preferring alternative relationship styles, and the relationships between it and sexual orientation, romantic orientation, gender identity, and other components of our identities. It'll take place on the 23nd February, 8pm, in the Barbara White Room, Newnham. Latecomers and early leavers welcome!
Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1509663809272352/ to hear the latest.
Our next social will be on the 10th March, from 7 until we get bored of each other, at the Vaults.
The Cambridge Impronauts, in collaboration with Cambridge RAG, are proud to present an alternative and completely, er, original vision of romance in the 21st century!
No rehearsals. No woman, no cry. No problem.
This event will be a fantastic opportunity to learn more about what a career in consulting could mean for you, and is primarily aimed at first and second years but anyone is welcome to attend.To sign up, just tell us your name and what kind of sandwich you'd prefer! There'll be other food available too.
[26/Feb/2015] Panel discussion: What is the role of the charity sector within education?
CUSAFE and FERSA are hosting a panel discussion to examine the process of selecting and funding charities, and the impact they make on promoting education equality.
We want to understand what role the charity sector plays within the education sector. What are the cultural, economic and social impacts of westernised forms of giving?
And how are our decisions guided by evidence or 'what feels right'? These issues and many more will be addressed by our expert speakers.
CUSAFE is a society comprised of college teams which raise money for education-based projects throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. To date, CUSAFE has supported hundreds of charities with the aim of tackling the educational deficit within SSA.
Location: Cambridge University Faculty of Education, Room GS4.
So come along to join this informal discussion accompanied by wine and nibbles!
Worker applications to Trinity Hall June Event are still open. The June Event is offering five different paid full night positions and a limited number of half on/half off roles. The June Event is a unique event in May Week, famed for its lively and informal atmosphere. Should you feel that your May Week budget can't quite stretch to cover another ticket, though, working is great way to enjoy the event and to make some money in the process.
In the UK, just 1 in 3 children from low income backgrounds leave school with basic qualifications. It takes just 1% of Cambridge University's most outstanding students to make this a thing of the past in Cambridgeshire.
1. Train. Learn a range of leadership and teaching skills.
2. Apply. Use the skills you learn to provide small group tuition to children from low income backgrounds. You can also become a committee member or Schools Officer to create an active movement for change on your campus.
3. Develop. Gain an accredited qualification and, in some cases, be fast-tracked to an interview with a leading employer.
If you are available on Tuesday afternoons and want to tutor GCSE pupils in Maths or Science then you'll be fast tracked to phone interview within 48 hours. We only require your commitment until Easter so this is a great short term voluntary opportunity!
Be part of a national movement. Interviews and offers are made on a rolling basis, so apply now at www.teamup.org.uk/apply.
If you don't know who we are, Cambridge Hands On Science (aka CHaOS) is a student society which aims to show children and families that science can be fun and exciting, and something that they can understand.
We're now recruiting volunteers for our biggest annual event, "Crash, Bang, Squelch!"- this a huge hands on science day that we run during the Cambridge Science Festival. We'll be taking over the Zoology Department in the New Museums site (on the right when you enter through the arch) on Saturday 14th March 2015. We'll have lots of own exciting experiments, and we'll need lots of enthusiastic student volunteers to help demonstrate them to the public. Saturday 14th March is after the end of lectures, so you can have fun helping out without worrying about work.
We've got a huge number of hands-on experiments that we've designed to demonstrate interesting scientific principles. You might find yourself demonstrating how bridges stay up, why some things glow in the dark or even introducing children to Boris the skeleton. The ideas are simple, but with enthusiastic and interested demonstrators we can show children that science isn't a 'boring' subject.
You can choose to demonstrate in the morning or afternoon, and if you choose to do the whole day we'll even provide you with a *free lunch (whoever said there was no such thing?). Even better, there is a *free party* in the evening for all the demonstrators.
The sign up page is on our website at http://www.chaosscience.org.uk/node/1663. You will be able to select which experiments you want to do after your initial signup, and there's lots of other information about CHaOS and the experiments on our demonstrator website (http://www.chaosscience.org.uk/volunteers_home)- please have a look to find out what we do! Also, why not get your friends to sign up too?
No experience is necessary, and every year we have loads of people who haven't done CHaOS before. If you're a scientist (including mathmos, vets, medics, engineers or compscis) you already know more than enough to demonstrate. The experiments have interesting and useful descriptions to explain the science and if you are unsure you can always ask one of the friendly committee members.
If you've got any questions about Crash Bang Squelch!, or about CHaOS generally, please get in touch with us at contact@chaosscience.org.uk.
Thanks for reading all the way to the bottom- we hope to see you at a CHaOS event soon!
A PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge is currently carrying out a research project related to students' use of mobile wireless devices such as smartphones, tablet PCs and laptop computers for learning also known as "mobile learning".
The survey is hosted via online for your convenience and it will take only 15 to 20 minutes to complete. Your participation will enable you to enter in a draw for an Amazon gift voucher. If you click the link to survey below, the first page of the online survey has a description of what participation in my study will entail, the terms for participating in the study, and a discussion of the rights of any study participant.
If you have any questions or require more information, please do not hesitate to contact me at djs226@cam.ac.uk. Thank you for taking the time to read this information and I will look forward to get your responses.


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MUSIC.FILM RECORDINGS AND VARÈSE SARABANDE TO RELEASE 'SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO' – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK
Redação / June 20, 2018
(June 20, 2018 – Los Angeles, CA) – Music.Film Recordings and Varèse Sarabande Records will release the SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally and on CD June 29, 2018 and on LP on August 31. The album features original score composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir (MARY MAGDALENE, CHERNOBYL).
The late Jóhann Jóhannsson received an Oscar nomination for the music he wrote for SICARIO (also available via Varèse Sarabande). Guðnadóttir had collaborated with Jóhannsson on SICARIO and many projects over the years. "Jóhann and I worked together very closely on almost every single project we both did for about 15 years," she said. "He passed away so recently, so I have not really digested that he is no longer here. But I don´t feel like I have picked up a baton, I am simply carrying on with the work that we were already doing. That feels both natural and very surreal, for lack of better words or digestion."
With SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO, the series begins a new chapter. In the drug war, there are no rules – and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin's daughter to inflame the conflict – but when the girl is seen as collateral damage, her fate will come between the two men as they question everything they are fighting for. Directed by Stefano Sollima. Written by Taylor Sheridan. Based on Characters Created by Taylor Sheridan. Produced by Basil Iwanyk, Edward L. McDonnell, Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill, and Trent Luckinbill.
"I think SOLDADO is more emotional than the previous film, and the score follows that direction. This one is a bit more of a 'classical' score, with musical themes that follow certain emotional landscapes. That is something that was important to Stefano [Sollima, director]," Guðnadóttir explained that SOLDADO has "a bit of a different feel as a score because the function of it is different. That is also a direction that was important to Stefano. He was also very vocal about the fact that he did not want to recreate the SICARIO soundtrack, so he often wanted to go in very different directions from SICARIO."
Hildur Guðnadóttir is an Icelandic cello player, composer and singer who has manifested herself at the forefront of experimental pop and contemporary music (e.g. with the band Múm). In her solo works she draws out a broad spectrum of sounds from her instrument, ranging from intimate simplicity to huge soundscapes. Her career as a film composer is soaring, having just signed on to score HBO's limited series, CHERNOBYL, after recently completing the highly anticipated sequel, SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO, set to release summer 2018. Hildur's film, MARY MAGDALENE, directed by Garth Davis (Australian nominated director for Lion) stars Joachem Phoenix and Rooney Mara, embodies an awesome soundtrack currently in release by Universal Music and will see a late fall US domestic release. Her Nordic film, TOM OF FINLAND, premiered at Tribeca this year, her score to THE OATH garnered a Best Nordic Composer nomination and her score to JOURNEY'S END awarded her the Best Music Award at this year's Beijing International Film Festival. In addition to scoring, Hildur has performed in a number of film scores such as THE REVENANT (2015), SICARIO (2015) and ARRIVAL (2016).
Among others Hildur has performed live and recorded music with Skúli Sverrisson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, múm, Sunn O))), Angel, Pan Sonic, Hauschka, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, The Knife, Fever Ray and Throbbing Gristle. Gudnadóttir began playing cello as a child, entered the Reykjavík Music Academy and then moved on to musical studies/composition and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and Universitat der Kunste in Berlin. Hildur has released four critically acclaimed solo albums: Mount A (2006), Without Sinking (2009), Leyfðu Ljósinu (2012) and Saman (2014). Her records have been nominated a number of times for the Icelandic Music Awards. Without Sinking was chosen as one of the albums of the year at the Kraumur Awards. Hildur's albums are all released on Touch.
Hildur has composed music for theatre, dance performances and films. The Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Icelandic National Theatre, Tate Modern, The British Film Institute, The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and Gothenburg National Theatre are amongst the institutions that have commissioned new works by Hildur. She won Gríman (The Icelandic Theatre Award) in 2011, for her music for King Lear. And 2012 she was nominated for the Robert Prize (Danish Film Award) for her original score for A Hijacking. She was nominated for the Nordic Music Council Prize as composer of the year 2014. "Guðnadóttir takes a cello and gentle voice and, through software manipulation, scales simple phrases up to celestial heights" – The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music.
Sony Pictures presents SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO in theaters on June 29, 2018. Varèse Sarabande will release the SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally and on CD June 29 and on LP August 31, 2018.
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen clings to a tenuous 3-point lead over GOP challenger Scott Brown but falls short of the magic 50 percent mark, despite an attack ad bombardment that has left Brown's public image reeling, an exclusive new Suffolk University-Boston Herald poll reveals.
With just a little more than two weeks before Election Day, the Democratic incumbent leads Brown by a 49-46 percent margin among 500 likely New Hampshire voters in a race that could tilt the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
The margin is hardly comforting to Democrats since it shows Shaheen's support has remained stagnant over the last few months. In the last Suffolk-Herald poll in June, Shaheen held the exact same level of support – 49 percent – among likely voters.
Brown's support has increased by 7 points since June. But Brown's favorability has taken a major hit in the rough election campaign, with 48 percent of likely voters viewing him negatively. He needs a late surge to catch up, because most voters have already made up their minds, according to David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University's Political Research Center.
"He's got to get most of the (6 percent) undecideds," Paleologos said in on Boston Herald Radio's "Morning Meeting" show.
In one of the most surprising results of the Suffolk-Herald poll, Shaheen is winning more than 40 percent of Republican primary voters who supported one of Brown's GOP challengers. That indicates many conservatives and other GOP voters still hold some animosity against the former Massachusetts senator who just moved to New Hampshire.
"The assumption was those (voters) are going to Brown," Paleologos said.
In the New Hampshire governor's race, Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan's once overwhelming lead has dropped dramatically since the last Suffolk-Herald poll. Hassan still holds a 10-point margin over Republican Walt Havenstein – 49-39 percent – but she held a 30-point lead in June.
The Suffolk-Herald poll shows one of the biggest reasons for Shaheen's failure to close the deal with voters is the continuing decline of her party's unpopular leader, President Obama. Just 4 in 10 New Hampshire voters approve of Obama's job performance, while a jaw-dropping 56 percent disapprove, according to the poll.
Obama carried New Hampshire by 6 points in 2012 but has been anything but an asset for Shaheen's campaign. Brown's campaign ads have almost exclusively targeted Shaheen's nearly perfect voting score for Obama's agenda, and 35 percent of likely Granite State voters say that record has made them less likely to back the Democratic incumbent. But 44 percent of voters say Brown's ads have made no difference in their decision.
The Shaheen campaign's single-minded strategy of questioning Brown's record on issues important to women, such as abortion, has also had a limited impact on the race, according to the poll. Forty-five percent of New Hampshire voters say they trust Brown to stand up for women's rights, while 44 percent don't trust him.