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The only time I was nervous about going on the ice
It was mid December, 1976 and it was snowing like crazy in the Tri Cities. I'd driven into the Civic Center with my dad so he could drive his Zamboni at that evening's Gears game. As we arrived, dad headed up to the front office and I put on my skates and gloves to go out and have the ice to myself for a while. Armature hockey had just ended and the ice was in fair condition so I just blasted out there and started shootin' around. No sooner had I gotten started than my pal Dennis Wenzel appeared at the Zamboni doors.
Dennis and I were line mates on the Junior B team with him being on the left wing and me being on the right side- our center was a guy named Mark 'Grif' Griffore. The three of us really clicked that season and were simply having a good year- and a lot of fun. Dennis asked if he could come out and skate with me. He'd been in the building refereeing the armature games and had all of his stuff out back in his car. Of course, I owned the ice for that 20 or so minutes and so I told Dennis to get his stuff and get out here. He did, and we screamed around the rink. Dennis, Grif and I were rapidly getting to the point where we could think alike on the ice. I had the quirk of doing this under the arm, around the back blind pass thing that our coach just hated- but I could hit either Dennis or Grif every time. In one game I was deep in our zone, near the hash mark, and picked up the puck at the boards- popped it out, blind, behind me, rink wide and hit Dennis right on the tape as he was breaking just short of red line. He took it all the way in on a clean break and scored. We giggled all the way to the bench- where we met a not-so-happy coach. "I wish you guys wouldn't do that." he said flatly shaking his head. Anyhow- it was always fun to skate with Grif and Dennis- they were just plain good. So it was that this evening Dennis and I ripped around the ice at Wendler Arena until my dad came back and signaled us back in. We both gave up our sticks and gloves and dad made Dennis walk the nets with me as payment for the ice time.
While the game preparation went on and the crowd began to file in Dennis and I hung out. We watched the Gears players file in sheepishly one by one. Then the visiting team came piling in through the back door- they were a bit late due to the snow. In fact, the snow seemed to be impacting the attendance as there were only about 1,200 odd fans in the seats. I recall Dennis leaning over to me and quietly asking "Am I gonna need a ticket?" I replied, "Ticket? What's that?" We laughed... our lightheartedness was also about to be impacted by the snow.
As game time approached and the players were finishing the warm-up skate, it became obvious that something was missing... the officials had not arrived. Keep in mind that this was almost two decades before the cell phone. There was no way to make a call and find out where the referee and linesmen were, or what their arrival time would be. By the time the players were coming off the ice, Gunner came out of the Gears room and had a serious chat with my dad and a few of the team officials. They came up with a plan where the fellow who was the head armature referee, a person named Harvey Packard, who just happened to be attending the game, would referee the game, and he would need two linesmen. My dad came over to me and said "Go get your skates... and find your buddy from your team and have him get his too- you're about to be linesmen." The two teams had agreed to have Harvey referee and to have two players from the local junior team skate the lines... Dennis and Me.
Dennis was coming down from the concession stand with a popcorn and a Coke when I broke the news to him that we were gonna skate the lines in the Gears Game. He lit up at the chance- I was scared to death. I wasn't worried about skating in front of a crowd, or skating in the big arena (hell, I'd grown up in that building), I wasn't even worried about skating with the pro.s- I was scared I'd make a bad call. We were herded into the referee's dressing room and putting on our skates. Harvey came in and briefed us that he had spoken to both teams and warned them that he had two kids from the juniors on the lines and so if any ruff stuff started he would simply shut down the game and everyone would go home. Then he gave both Dennis and I a quick lesson in calling the lines in a professional game. I needed that way more than Dennis did. Of course we both knew the rules by instinct, but still- Harvey wanted to keep our brains clear. He told us to get into game mode- ignore the crowd, skate your zone, call your line- period.
Gunner came in and tossed two yellow practice jerseys at us. Those would serve as our linesman's sweaters. The game was already delayed by nearly an hour and everyone was waiting on us. I was thankful that the crowd was small as I put on my yellow jersey. Dennis just looks at me and say's with a smirk, "You ready?" I put on my best game face and said "Hell yeah." We stood up...
At that moment, the door to the referee's locker room burst open and in rushed the three IHL officials clad in the best polyester "goin' to work the game" clothes! They'd been caught in snowbound traffic on I-75, which was down to one lane each way. Faster than I could breath a sigh of relief, they were changing into their official's outfits like three supermen in a large phone booth.
Harvey, Dennis and I got out of our skates and stuff and went back to being just fans. I did my best to fain disappointment- but I don't think that Dennis bought it. The blizzard blew, the Gears played, the fans cheered and rang their cowbells as the game played out. Dennis kept saying "Man, that would have been so cool." I kept agreeing... I don't think he bought that either.
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Wes,
I 'grew up' watching the Gears games, just like you. Your article's bring back so many fond memories and I was shocked when you mentioned my name and our 'line' that played together that one season. Finding out the truth about the streaker, 30 + years later, was hilarious!
Mark 'Grif' Griffore
GRIF!!!!! Holy crap! It's terrific to hear from you! Hope all is well. Indeed, we had a terrific line... not because we were good, but because we clicked and had fun. I recall, however, one game- coach kept starting our line, game after game, and you were standing at the center point just before the faceoff and I skated casually up and you said "God, I hate to start." and I agreed that I felt the exact same way. Of course we never told the coach. Drop me an e-mail when you can! Wes


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Today is the start of LGBT History Month across the UK. A time when we can reflect on both the sacrifices and the achievements made by past generations in their quest for equality, regardless of a person's sexual orientation. This year is particularly important. We acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the the Stonewall riots, that took place around the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood of Manhattan. Events that became the catalyst for the modern 'gay liberation and pride' movement.
This evening, Pride Saltire East Lothian, start their series of joint-events with The Brunton in Musselburgh to celebrate LGBT History Month. To ensure that the Pride Saltire volunteers are visible in the theatre foyer, [gawr-juhs] applied the branding that we created for them to hoodies and pop-up banners. So if you attending tonight's performance by funny-man Craig Hill, or one of the Pride Saltire film screenings during February, don't forget to stop and say "Hello!" to their hard-working volunteers.


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The War Archive of Trevor Greenwood
Diary Preface
Letters Preface
Field Service Postcard 23.6.44
BWEF address card 24.6.44
Daily Mail report 14.8.44
Memorial Service 30.9.44
Cornelese card 16.3.45
Thea Cornelese card 20.3.45
Cornelese letter 6.5.45
Eindhoven, 11.10.44
Roosendaal, 26.11.44
Schüttorf, 5.5.45
Bentheim Mansion, 17.5.45
Paris Exhibition, June 45
DP Trains, June/August 45
Gümmer, August 45
Ringelheim, October 45
Trevor and Jess
Diary Postscript
No. 7925934. Sgt. Greenwood, R.T.
9th Battn. R.T.R.
B.L.A.
Friday evening
Jess Darling: Your letter today tells me that Aunt Ciss has now seen Barry… "Trevor's son". But why not "Jess's son"? Maybe I am suspicious minded, but I can't help feeling that her comment was in some way indicative of that strange prejudice against Jessie Whitaker which used to be so thinly veiled amongst certain members of my family. It seems rather amazing to me that people were so ready to believe whatever it was that father had against you in the past:- particularly in view of his own domestic record. Dorothy, and maybe Kath, (RTG's sisters) are the only ones who have remained completely unaffected and loyal to both of us, although I suppose both Toddy and Marjorie (RTG's other siblings) have by now realised that I am indeed fortunate in having been allowed to marry and love you. I have wondered whether Aunt Ciss's remark hurt you at all, Jess. I am sure its significance would not escape you… but I imagine that such littleness on the part of a petulant old lady would leave you unaffected. I hope so, anyhow.
But I must not dwell on the old dear's faults. After all, we know her and I think we understand her. I am glad she has seen Barry… because I am extremely proud of him, as I am of his mummy. I want everyone to know that our son has a splendid mother:- a fact which must be self-evident to everyone who sees him. I was glad to read that he was so happy during his outing: he is a grand little fellow, Jess. I'm sure Auntie must have been impressed, probably more than she admitted. I was glad to hear, too, of your resolve to go out with him more often. But don't wait until the summer. Start right now taking advantage of the fine days as they come along, and to hell with the visitors. Please dear, don't become a slave to the house, or a lacky for thoughtless visitors. At present you are virtually a prisoner… attending to baby on the one hand, and slaving for past and potential visitors. You must regain your freedom, my darling. It is essential for the well-being of both of you. And don't become a slave to my letters. Your health is the most important thing on earth… please look after it, if only for the sake of Barry and I. We need you, Jessie Mine.
I am not pretending that your letters are not the most important thing in my life over here, but I should hate to think that your free time is being badly curtailed because of them. Why not try writing brief notes to me from some place in the country. You could easily stick a note pad in the pram, and write to me from some convenient log… Speaking of logs… a recent letter of yours reminded me so vividly of the past. Yes… we owe a lot to a certain log, dear one: it is so nice to recall the happy hours we spent there… often star-gazing… sometimes as miserable as sin, but often very happy, and always together. There was so much beauty in our friendship – there always has been: I believe there always will be. And now we have another little chap to share that friendship. Somehow, I feel that you don't object to this tiny intruder: I don't think I do either! But I wonder if his beautiful mummy has some subtle reason for introducing him to the delights of log-sitting so early in life?!
Once again, I have no special news for you, darling. Life has suddenly become very uneventful over here. Major Holden returned to the squadron this morning… he has been acting as Battalion second-in-command during Major Massey's absence on leave. He spoke to us all about his D.S.O. and thanked us all for what we had done. As I said yesterday, he insisted on referring to it as an award for the squadron… he being the lucky man privileged to wear the medal. Nevertheless, there isn't a man in the squadron who has more frequently defied death, or one who has had a greater responsibility: he has certainly earned the decoration.
On Sunday, we are having a sort of full-dress parade and 'march past' the brigadier. It is a bit of a nuisance having to prepare for these stupid functions, but it is preferable to being in the front line. We have at least the comfort of civvy billets, apart from the absence of danger. Speaking of the 'Brig', reminds me of a funny story told us by the colonel. It concerns the Brigadier and a major commanding one of our tank squadrons. The Brig. happened to visit some billets newly vacated by the squadron in question and found them very dirty. He sent for the major and played hell about his filthy squadron. The poor major couldn't say a darned thing in self defence, because the evidence was too obviously that left behind by tank-men. Finally, they came to a corner of a building where there was a little pile of human excreta. "Look at that" stormed the Brig., "the place is a shit-heap". But here the major thought he could try a little self defence: the excreta bore no infallible hall-mark. "No sir" he said "that has been done by the infantry who came after us". "Infantry be buggered" roared the Brig., "why man, any bloody fool can see that's an armoured turd!!!
That is the joke, my dear… but I fear that it will not really appeal to you because you will find it difficult to imagine an angry brig… and a crestfallen major. Perhaps I should add too that a "turd" is the slang expression for a human "sausage"!! I must go now dear… I may be able to write at greater length tomorrow because there is a rumour that the day will be a holiday.
Good night, my love.
Your Trevy.
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What Workouts Burn the Most Calories?
If we had the time to spend hours at the gym, working on our strength and health, we definitely would, but you know how it is. Your busy schedules get in the way and you end up falling into a rut, doing the same quick, old moves just to get the workout over with. To really maximize the time you have for workouts, focus on those that burn the most calories by boosting your metabolism and leading to weight loss.
So what are those workouts that melt away calories? The ones ahead elevate your heart rate and lead to more fat burn.
One of the best ways to burn through calories quickly is by doing sprints. I know what you're thinking — I hate running, too. The beauty of sprints, though, is that they are done at quick intervals of 20 to 30 seconds and then there is a resting period, so you're getting that maximum calorie burn without having to run a marathon.
Want to kick it up a notch? Try hill sprints. Sprinting uphill not only uses all of the muscles in your body but also adds resistance to build more muscle. "For each degree of incline added to your hill, you will burn 10 percent more calories. A 160-pound person on a five percent hill at a five-mph pace will burn roughly 400 calories in a half hour," says Jessica Tranchina, a physical therapist, NASM-certified personal trainer, and cofounder of Generator Athlete Lab in Austin, TX.
If you're looking for something more low impact but still effective, indoor cycling classes are your new best friend. The beat of the music and being surrounded by people there to work will motivate you, but the workout also just gets your blood pumping.
If you're not into cardio at all, lifting weights is great for torching calories. When you strength train, you're maximizing calories burned because of excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), also known as the afterburn effect — basically, when increased oxygen requires increased energy, you burn more calories.
If you like a little bit of everything or feel like mixing it up, try compound exercises (multijoint movements that target large muscle groups). Compound exercises tone your body by burning fat and building muscle simultaneously. Movements like burpees require more energy, and therefore your body burns more calories.
U.S. Daily News: What Workouts Burn the Most Calories?


Fujifilm has produced a good number of fixed lens compact cameras over the years. The most popular is the X100 series which was the only one to house an APS-C sensor until the X70 was released in 2016. Then, two years on, a third APS-C compact camera hit the market, the XF10. It has a simpler appearance than the X70 and retains the small form factor of its "unofficial" predecessor.
In most cases, the difference in lens, size and price should be sufficient to help you decide which one to go for. But if you are curious to know a little more, we invite you to read through the ten most interesting differences between the XF10 and the fourth generation X100F.
When choosing a fixed-lens compact camera, the focal length can play a crucial role in deciding which model to get, especially when dealing with primes. So it's only natural to start with the different lenses used by these two cameras.
The XF10 has a 18.5mm f/2.8 lens that gives you the same angle of view as a 28mm lens on 35mm format. It's one of the street photographer's favourite fields of view but is wide enough to be used for other genres too such as landscape or architecture. It has the same optical design as the lens found on the X70 which means that it should provide excellent sharpness at the centre and good sharpness in the corners when stopped down. I'll be curious to see if resistance to flare has been improved. The minimum focus distance is 10cm.
The X100F features a 23mm f/2 lens which is equivalent to a 35mm lens in full frame terms. It's another favourite for street as well as reportage. The fastest aperture gives you a one-stop advantage in terms of exposure and shallow depth of field, the latter being further enhanced by the longer focal length. It's the same lens found on previous X100 cameras. In our experience, it is excellent except for sharpness at short distances and the AF motor which lacks some speed by today's standards.
If you want to get a better idea of how these two cameras compare from an optical quality point of view, check out our X70 vs X100T full comparison where we compare the lenses.
To give you more versatility, Fujifilm also introduced a function called Digital Teleconverter. The camera crops the sensor to reproduce a narrower field of view and upscales the image to maintain the same 24MP of resolution. There is a loss in sharpness – especially at the longest setting – but it can be useful when you don't want to bother with cropping in post production. The XF10 has a 35mm and 50mm (equivalent) mode whereas the X100F has a 50mm and 70mm mode.
Note that – unlike the XF10 – the X100F has the possibility to mount different accessories on the lens including two optical converters available for the X100F, one with a 28mm and the other with a 50mm equivalent field of view.
While the resolution and ISO sensitivity remain the same (24MP, ISO 200-12800 with extended 100, 25600 and 51200 values), there is a key difference between the sensors found inside each camera.
The XF10 uses a standard bayer array whereas the X100F uses Fujifilm's X-Trans technology. The difference regards the organisation of the RGB pixels. On the XF10 each row/column houses two colours out of three, whereas on the X100F each line has at least one red, blue and green pixel.
The X-Trans array allows the sensor to ditch the AA filter for improved sharpness and the unique arrangement of pixels produces less colour noise at high ISOs. However X-Trans RAW files can be more difficult to post-process depending on the software you use. For example, Adobe Lightroom tends to render mushier details in comparison to Capture One or Iridient.
Another key difference regards the viewfinder. The XF10 doesn't have one and the lack of a hot-shoe on top means that the optional VF-X21 can't be used either.
The X100F on the other hand features a hybrid viewfinder that allows you to switch between an electronic and optical version. The electronic version has 2,360k dots and a magnification of 0.65x, whereas the optical version is a reverse Galilean type with 92% field coverage. The OVF includes real time parallax correction for the frame and autofocus point. You can also activate a small digital screen at the bottom right (called ERF) to check focus among other things.
Moving to the rear monitor, neither can be tilted in any way as they are fixed but the one on the XF10 has touch sensitivity. You can use gestures to activate functions, move the AF point, select settings or take a picture.
Both cameras feature a hybrid autofocus system with 91 points, with the central 49 being phase detection points. On the X100F you can sub-divide the points further into a 13×25 grid (325 points) in certain shooting modes. Zone AF and Wide/Tracking are available on both as well as the single point that can be adjusted to 5 different sizes.
The X100F has a more advanced processing engine (X-Processor Pro) that should guarantee a quicker AF speed. The camera can also shoot faster in continuous mode with a maximum of 8fps versus 6fps on the XF10, and has better buffer capabilities (60 vs 13 JPGs).
There is one new feature that is exclusive to the XF10 however (as of now): the Snapshot mode. It sets focus and aperture to 2 metres and f/8, or 5m and f/5.6, to give you lots of depth of field and ensure that the subjects captured at those distances are always in focus. It's a similar concept to the zone focusing method you can apply by looking at the hyperfocal scale on the barrel of many manual focus lenses.
The XF10 inherits the same video capabilities as the entry level X-T100 interchangeable-lens camera. It can record 4K video but only at 15fps. In 1080p you can choose up to 60fps while in 720p you can select the High Speed Movie mode that goes up to 100fps.
Thanks to the 4K mode, the XF10 has a 4K Burst Shooting function that allows you to save any frame recorded at 15fps into a JPG, which isn't dissimilar from the 4K Photo mode found on many Panasonic cameras.
The X100F can record in Full HD up to 60fps but lacks 4K and high speed capabilities.
The XF10 has 11 film simulation modes including Classic Chrome but lacks the Acros monochrome profile found on the X100F.
You also have 15 advanced filters on the XF10 including the new Rich & Fine and Monochrome (NIR) modes, which aren't found on the X100F.
In addition to 3:2 and 16:9, the XF10 has a 1:1 aspect ratio to suit popular social media formats such as Instagram and the Instax Square printer.
Unlike the X100F, the XF10 inherits advanced Bluetooth integration. You can control the camera remotely, or maintain a constant connection and transfer images to a mobile device as you're shooting. You can also pair the camera with an Instax printer.
Now let's talk about design and functionality as there are some big differences here as well. First the size and weight: the XF10 is lighter and smaller than the X100F.
The design of the XF10 is simpler and resembles a traditional compact camera. It lacks the dedicated exposure dials and rings found on the X100F and doesn't feature a focus mode selector on the front. On the rear, the button layout has been simplified to the essentials but there is an AF joystick just like on the X100F, which can be used to navigate the menu system.
The X100F has a more resistant construction with a magnesium alloy top plate but neither is weather sealed. It comes in silver or black whereas the XF10 comes in black or champagne gold.
The XF10 uses the NP-95 battery which is an older type used for the X70 and the first three iterations of the X100. That being said, Fujifilm rates the battery life at 330 frames per charge (CIPA standards) whereas the X100F, which uses the larger NP-W126S, only reaches 270 frames with the EVF or 390 frames with the OVF.
The NP-95 never really impressed us and you'll want at least one spare with you to avoid running out of juice at the end of the day.
The NP-W126s is definitely a good upgrade for the X100F. Of course with intense use I would still advise carrying a spare.
The XF10 is available for the retail price of $500 / £450 / €520 which is definitely more affordable than the X100F which sits around $1300 / £1200 / €1170. For many, this final point might be the ultimate deciding factor.
The XF10 has the appearance of a simplified X70 but it lacks the unique design and various exposure dials that help Fujifilm products stand out from the crowd. We always thought of the X70 as the little brother of the X100F but it's definitely harder to define the XF10, if not as a cheaper alternative to all the other premium compacts in the range.
Money and lenses aside, it's difficult to advise which one you should get. Personally I've always been a fan of the X100 series and the shooting philosophy it embodies so I know which one I would buy. That being said, small cameras like the XF10 have seen success before (see the Ricoh GR II) and the price is very appealing, so I'll be curious to see how much fun this new addition to the X Series will be.


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Aspen Skiing Co. passes will include Ikon Base Pass for 2019-20
News | April 2, 2019
Scott Condon
The Aspen Times
A snowboarder enjoys a bluebird day at Aspen Mountain.
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Aspen-area skiers and riders who have complained about the Ikon Pass this season will find themselves in an interesting position next ski season.
Aspen Skiing Co. announced Tuesday that many of its season passes for 2019-20 will include the Ikon Base Pass, which allows unlimited skiing and riding at 12 resorts owned by Alterra Mountain Co. as well as up to five days of skiing or riding at 25 affiliated resorts.
Ikon Pass users had limited access — seven or five days, depending on the type of pass — to the slopes of Aspen Skiing Co.'s four ski areas this season. Many local skiers and riders blamed Ikon users for creating weekend crowding. Now, people who have done the complaining may become part of the perceived problem at other resorts.
"We've been talking about reciprocity since the (Ikon) pass came into being," Jeff Hanle, Aspen Skiing Co.'s vice president of communication, said Tuesday.
It took a while to figure out how to set up the system with so many players involved, he said.
On Tuesday, Aspen Skiing Co. started selling 2019-20 season passes that are not eligible for the chamber discount. The "super early price" will be offered through May 31.
The premier pass is $1,899 for 2019-20. The premier adult, chamber, senior and parent passes will include the Ikon Base Pass.
Passes that are eligible for a discount for employees of businesses that belong to a chamber of commerce in the Roaring Fork Valley will go on sale Aug. 12. The prices haven't been announced yet for those passes.
The double flex is $1,539 and the flex, good for one day per week, is $1,049.
The scheduled opening days for next season are Nov. 29 at Aspen Mountain and Snowmass and Dec. 7 for Highlands and Buttermilk.
This is a developing story that will be updated.


The progress & development of a region is strongly based on the prevailing education system. But as for now the situation are drastically poor because all the claims & progression charts are fabricated behind the closed walls of government offices, which has no relevance to the reality. Mehnaun, a small constituency of Gonda district with a total population of around 1 lack have an average literacy rate of mere 58.71%. The region still lags behind in absence of proper educational institute at both primary & secondary level. Children who are willing to study needs to travel several kilometers, whereas hundreds of students are deprived & drop out of their studies especially the girls who are restrained to travel far from their homes, this all happens because of government's ignorance & poor attitude towards providing better educational facilities to children which is their fundamental right. Among all the failures of providing quality education to the children of Mehnaun, Gonda one important factor is the absence of qualified teachers.
Whereas one section of the country is benefiting with the prevailing digitation, there is another face of the society alike Mehnaun where people are still unaware of the basic concept of smart education & digitization. In a place where people are still struggling for basics like shelter, water & electricity. In such conditions the impractical policies of Laptop & Smartphone distribution can't change the lives of people. But accepting a universal fact that nothing is for permanent we can conclude that this situation will also change with the upraising of a new friendly & cooperative government under the able guidance of Behen Mayawati Ji. BSP so far has been known as a people party, dedicated to work for the betterment & welfare of the underprivileged segments of the society.


I try to reinvent as few wheels as possible. So, when I started to create a submission tracker this morning, because I can not remember what story I sent to a certain press in August, I hit the internet.
I have to say Matt's Reading Logs made me hyper jealous. And I'm curious about the book Wolf Parts because, uh, Fairy Tales and Wolves. So many books, so little time not at my day job.
Happy submitting! And may the Road to Acceptance rush to meet you.
Recently, I listened to Eden Robinson's Son of a Trickster, the first book in her Trickster Trilogy. It is wonderful and funny and dark and beautiful and interesting and moving. I have heard Eden Robinson read before. She is hilarious. We stood and line at lunch at IAIA and laughed, a lot. There are so many authors who I would much rather hear read their own books. Eden is one of them, though the reader for Son of a Trickster is fabulous. I just love listening to Eden.
So, it was with great joy I was able to almost immediately read the sequel to this book, doing so with the voice of Eden Robinson in my head.
Trickster Drift is such a great ride.
Dr. Theo Van Alst is cool and smart and ready to fight if he has to. I like this about him and his writing. Sacred Smokes is confidently unapologetic. It smokes in the apartment. It doesn't do the dishes. Native Lakota kid Theo survives in Chicago and Chicago survives in Dr. Van Alst. Theo has a distinctive voice and you can hear a bit of it in Theodore Van Alst – Reading Fall 2016 where he reads some of "Push It," a story included towards the end of Sacred Smokes. What I enjoy is how different his work is from a lot of the work I read by native writers. Theo's work is just Indians being Indians in the world.
He is also a supporter of other Indian writers. I doubt anyone has done more to spread the gospel of the greatness of writer Dr. Stephen Graham Jones. Check out "The Faster Redder Road" for a few bites. (Website http://www.demontheory.net/ or Twitter @SGJ72).
Rebecca Roanhorse and me catching up in Santa Fe.
I was able to first meet the writer Rebecca Roanhorse at KWELI-The Color of Children's Literature in April. She was on at least one panel.
If you don't know her writing here's a sample: Welcome to Your Authentic Indigenous Experience This piece is soooo good. This is the kind of piece I read to people and forward like crazy. She's off to the NEBULAS this weekend which is awesome. She's going to be on some cool panels: Deconlonizing SFF, The Joys and Hazards of #Ownvoices, The Evolution of a Writer.
Rebecca is a supersmart woman with an interesting origin story. But that's not mine to tell. Check out her work. Also, make sure to ask your local library system to order the work of the Indigenous writers you want to see on your shelves.
Tommy Orange's polyphonic novel ties together the lives of several urban Indians as they gravitate towards The Big Oakland Pow Wow. It is beautiful and heartbreaking and funny and true and sad.
It comes out on June 5.
You should preorder it from your favorite indie bookstore. Nevertheless, here's that super convenient non-indie bookstore link.
Laura has also made it part of her work to create an online community for Indigenous writers. She has created a platform that amplifies our voices and brings us together. Fifteen Native writers from the North American continent showed up. Traci Sorrell (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) and Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh /African American) participated on panels, as well. Julie Flett (Cree/Metis) skyped in.
Back row: Brian Young, Art Coulson, Kevin Maillard, Joseph Bruchac, Rebecca Roanhorse, Alia Jones Front row: Andrea Henry, Cheryl Savageau, Skyler Kuczaboski, Yvonne W Dennis, Marcie Rendon, Carole Lindstrom, Anna-Celestrya Carr, and Traci McClellan-Sorell Julie Flett was there via Skype to talk about her books. And Kim Rogers is there, too!
I'm looking forward to going to KWELI in April 2019.
I am a student in the Low Residency program at The Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
The Low Rez program is amazing. I have had several kind and amazing writing teachers. I'll go more into that in a later post.
My mentor this semester is Tommy Orange. His debut novel, There There, will come out form Alfred A. Knopf on June 5, 2018. You should pre-order it from your local independent bookstore now.
In our brief time working together, I have learned so much from Tommy. Lessons that are making my writing better.
One of his suggestions was to listen to a Podcast made by The New Yorker. I've listened to some great fiction on this podcast. I love being read to. Some of the most fun bits are when writers choose a story by another author, talk about it, and then you get to hear the story. The craft of writing is on the dissection table. But it's fun.
Tommy was featured on the podcast recently. I have heard Tommy read before and he never disappoints. Tommy Orange reads "The State" from his forthcoming novel, There There.
Sadly, a certain amount of benign neglect makes for an interesting life. Feel stupid having bought my family this book when l went to school and left them alone for 9 days in a cabin in the woods. You know. On a mountain. With no phone. No electric.
So, all this is to say, go do stuff.
above/top: Cover of 4 Kids Walk into a Bank.
4 Kids Walk into a Bank was unputdownable. My only complaint is the publisher should have included a Cracker Jack box with a magnifying glass prize so you can read one character's word bubbles because they are font size 3 or something.
This book is pretty much what the cover says it is, "a torrid tale of child crime." Think Scorsese directing 11 year olds foiling, then planning a Bank heist.
I can't take credit for finding this on my own. Stephen Graham Jones over at http://www.demontheory.net/ is a writer who consumes a lot of cool things. And then he writes a lot of cool things. I don't think he sleeps.
Order it at your favorite comic book store or book store or wherever you like to buy stuff.


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They have taught or provided comprehensive psychoeducational and autism evaluations at various independent school districts, and currently conduct research and train future providers.
Comprehensive evaluation and therapy services for all ages with a multidisciplinary team.
We tailor evaluations and treatment to each individual.
$65 / social skills group session and individual therapy rates: $85-175 depending on therapist or student therapist with sliding scale and pro bono cases as well as Texas Workforce Commission (TWC). Out of network providers.
Our staff has expertise navigating Admissions, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) and 504 Meetings, in addition to testifying in Due Process Hearings.
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Spectra Therapies + Evaluations is one of the few clinics in North Texas to provide services across the lifespan.
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Thinking outside the category boxes of black and white, we see our clients as individuals, with individual strengths and areas for improvement, along a spectrum. Often, people experience overlapping symptoms, which is more often the rule than the exception.
Taking this spectrum approach, providers at Spectra Therapies meet each person at a point on the continuum, ranging from mild, non-clinical to greater difficulties, to help alleviate the distress of symptoms, increase skills, and improve quality of life.


Exactly how far over the 'red line' does Assad need to go?
Gruesome slaughter of children and now the lastest apparent use of chemical weapons prompts Nabila Ramdani to ask why exactly will prompt the world into action.
It is now more than a year since I reported on the massacre of young children including a four-month-old baby girl in the besieged Syrian city of Houla. Graphic pictures revealed how Hassan Abdel-Razzaq found his entire family - his wife Ghaida and their five offspring - slaughtered by militiamen loyal to Bashar Al Assad. Shots to the head and slit throats were among the methods used in a barbarous escalation of the conflict. Many insisted that the Syrian head of state had overstepped the mark, making intervention by foreign powers inevitable.
Despite the sheer horror of the images that emerged, nothing changed at all. The war carried on, thousands more died, and world leaders continued to offer little more than vain platitudes.
Rather than infanticide involving small arms, Barack Obama suggested that the use of chemical weapons was the "red line" which Mr Al Assad had to cross. The US president was characteristically vague about what the crossing of this line might entail, but it was suggested that he meant some form of intervention.
Pedantic arguments about the science of killing aside, we are now faced with overwhelming evidence of hundreds of boys and girls, including babies, being killed by chemical weapons. Dead bodies in reams of harrowing pictures reveal no blood and no cuts. Instead all appear to have died from asphyxiation. Those near to death are shown twisting and shivering, with foam around their mouths and noses. Pupils are contracted and facial expressions frozen in horror. These are all the signs of a human being having had their life sucked out of them by a nerve agent.
The Obama administration is "appalled" and "horrified" by the reports, now suggesting there is "very little doubt" that chemical weapons have been used. British foreign secretary William Hague concurs, saying it is further evidence of the barbarity of the Assad regime.
All of this outrage is qualified, however, by both the US and Britain insisting that UN weapons inspectors are given the near-impossible task of verifying that toxic agents were indeed used in the attack on the outskirts of Damascus.
The video evidence is indisputably compelling, yet there still seems to be a suspicion that young children may have somehow faked their own deaths. The major western powers want 100 per cent scientific verification of chemical weapons being used.
After days of procrastination, Mr Al Assad has now given the green light to the UN inspectors. This has ensured there has been ample time for evidence to be destroyed or to disappear naturally. He is also alleging that it was the opposition Free Syrian Army who dispatched the outlawed chemicals.
Mr Obama, meanwhile, cites "rules of international law" and the need for unanimity at the United Nations Security Council before any form of intervention can take place. Sabre-rattling includes a cruise missile-armed US warship remaining in the eastern Mediterranean, within striking distance of Syria. But would surgical strikes from afar really put an end to the slaughter? Surely exacerbation is a far more likely consequence.
The reality is that Mr Obama is at a loss at how to end a civil war that has so far claimed well over 100,000 lives, and created two million refugees.
Dithering inaction has become the hallmark of western foreign policy towards Syria since the start of the Arab Spring in 2011.
The country's location at the centre of the Middle East tinderbox, combined with its leader's powerful allies, mean military intervention could escalate into an all-out regional conflict.
Iran is already threatening "severe consequences" if the West "crosses the red line" (that phrase again). There are already clear signs that extremists are fighting the civil war by proxy in neighbouring countries like Lebanon. Mr Al Assad's trading partners, Russia and China, have pitted themselves against his enemies from day one, and both have vetoes on the UN Security Council.
The most confusing aspect of all this is that Mr Obama has in fact stated that the intervention "red line" had already been crossed on numerous occasions. This, more than anything else, highlights his ineffectiveness.
The inspectors' job would be an onerous one at the best of times - remember the difficulties their colleagues had before the Iraq invasion. Iraq was a relatively peaceful country at the time, while the civil war in Syria is being fought everywhere. Ceasefires are not guaranteed, and there are no clear lines of demarcation between opposing forces. The rules of engagement are certainly not those of conventional armies fighting each other. The inspectors have already been shot at and mortared.
In the absence of absolute proof that Mr Al Assad is using chemicals to kill his own people, the international community will have a perfect excuse to stall further on effective intervention. Mr Obama certainly does not want to risk his growing reputation as the president who "brought the boys back home" from blighted war zones like Afghanistan and Iraq. The start of a protracted war against the well-equipped and highly disciplined Syrian Army would certainly lead to hundreds, if not thousands of American servicemen dying in action, together with their allies.
The disturbing reality is that the faces of Syrian children whose lives have been cut short by some of the most horrific weapons known to man are unlikely, in the short term at least, to be enough to finally stir the international community into ending these massacres.


I guess I should explain the design.
• The cross on the front is 3 crosses but I tied it together. It represents the theif's and Jesus in the middle. I tied them together in a interweaving pattern representing togetherness or something like that.
• On the back words say Fist on site Last to leave. This is sorta a play on the last will be first verse. I have highlighted First and Last giving meaning to it. I thought this saying was fitting because we are usually the first ones on site and the last to leave when we strike.
• Verse is just a placeholder for now.
• Broadcast I highlighted AD because well... After Death. Yes I know it means Anno Domini or "in the year of the Lord,"
• I also made the font to look like iron or metal because broadcast is basically the metal of Mosaic. We depend on the other groups within Mosaic but we are the frame and we build frames.
That was pretty much the thought process.


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Der Curé ist ein Fluss in Frankreich, der im Département Charente-Maritime in der Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine verläuft. Er entspringt beim gleichnamigen Ort Curé, im östlichen Gemeindegebiet von Saint-Georges-du-Bois, entwässert generell Richtung Nordwest und erreicht nach etwa 16 Kilometern den Regionalen Naturpark Marais Poitevin. Ab hier wurde er Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts zur Entwässerung der Sumpfgebiete im Marais Poitevin kanalisiert und wechselt auch seinen Namen auf Canal du Curé. Er quert bei Andilly den Schifffahrtskanal Canal de Marans à La Rochelle und mündet schließlich nach insgesamt rund 42 Kilometern im Gemeindegebiet von Charron in der Bucht von Aiguillon in den Atlantischen Ozean.

Orte am Fluss
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 Curé, Gemeinde Saint-Georges-du-Bois
 Saint-Georges-du-Bois
 Vouhé
 Bouhet
 Les Rivières-d'Anais, Gemeinde Anais
 Anais
 Angliers
 Nuaillé-d'Aunis
 Sérigny, Gemeinde Andilly
 Andilly
 Les Portes, Gemeinde Charron

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We've made some exciting enhancements to the Realtors Property Resource™ (RPR) training program, and invite you to come see for yourself. RPR trainings are offered 5-days a week; with staggered starting times to help accommodate your busy schedule. Each session is limited to 25 attendees, because we now offer the ability to call-in from your phone or use your computer microphone. The smaller class sizes allow each participant to be part of an interactive discussion; asking questions when the need arises.
Topics include RPR basics, where you'll learn how to search properties, refine values, and generate reports. There is a class on RPR mobile; which is demonstrated using an on-screen smart phone simulator. And for MLS staff and Trainers, we also offer special sessions geared specifically towards your needs.
If you're looking for something a little different, we invite REALTORS® to join us for a special session each Friday we call QA Roundup. We'll answer the most-asked questions received by the RPR support staff. The format also allows session participants join in on the questions.
If your MLS needs a little something extra to get local REALTORS® up and running on RPR, we will work with you to create a custom webinar class, using your local data, that can be recorded for use as a training tool. Contact Nikki Baldwin, Training Manager, nikkib@narrpr.com for more information.
We've also created a RPR Help Desk and Training Facebook application that will allow any MLS or Association to post the support tools directly on their Facebook page. Of course this is purely optional, just one added resource we created to make sure every REALTOR® has access to the help and training resources. See what it looks like here, or install the resource to your Facebook page by clicking here and choosing "Add to My Page" from the lower left-hand navigation.


How Might We Use Design Thinking To Build Outcome- Oriented EMM Programs?
• Empathize - Research users' beliefs and behaviors, which is fundamental to helping them.
• Define - Distill your research into clearly-articulated problems your Users face.
• Ideate - Come up with as many solutions to those problems as possible. Blend and adapt these ideas to create more solutions.
• Prototype - Get representations of your solutions in front of real users. Watch your users try to use your solutions.
• Test - Iterate through your prototypes, asking for feedback every step of the way.
• Implement - Turn your test findings into tangible, completed solutions.
Often underemphasized, the first step, empathy, is where product managers and designers often find the most surprising insights. In 2016, James Vasquez, Associate Dean and CIO at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, brought in innovation consultancy MO Studio to initiate a design thinking process to better understand the USC Annenberg students, using a qualitative approach to supplement Annenberg's traditional quantitative surveys. MO Studio initiated a bottom-up review of how—and more importantly, why—students use technology in their daily school lives. To foster empathy, they hosted ideation sessions with students and full-time team members to frame and inform areas needing exploration. Using these insights, MO deployed a comprehensive survey to students both online and offline.
These prototypes and iterations thereof might reveal additional insights that driver further value for students, including debunking presumptions about how value has been delivered in the past. And if in fact that's true, it's a massive win for the process. Consider the typical alternative: a conscientious group of managers, interviews, and surveys a vast swath of their co-workers and from the responses identifies a number of problems. For each problem, they identify a solution and go about initiating programs to solve it. But by jumping from problems and ideation straight to implementation, they've missed two important opportunities: the opportunity to use prototypes to verify that their solution solves the problem better than how users were already solving it, and the opportunity to iterate on those initial ideas to come up with better solutions. Not only is the design-thinking process a way to creatively solve new problems, it also manages execution risk by placing small, and manageable bets to test which solutions best meet the needs at hand.


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News Impact
No comments? NPR's decision highlights difficulties in evaluating news engagement
Last month, NPR decided to remove comments from its site altogether, noting that user engagement was higher through other channels, and that comments were frequently not leading to productive conversations.
NPR is certainly not the first organization to make such a move—last year, Nieman Lab chronicled what happened after seven prominent news sites removed their comments sections. But these decisions reflect one of the thorniest questions for evaluators of journalism impact. At what point is engaging the public a measure of success—and at what point does engagement cross the line into trolling that can undermine an outlet's legitimacy?
As NPR Ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen observes, "NPR stands for National Public Radio, so a decision to limit 'public' input at NPR.org seems especially jarring." However, internal research revealed that the user base for comments was comparatively small. In July, NPR.org recorded nearly 33 million unique users, only .06 percent of whom were commenting. What's more, more than half of all comments in May, June and July combined came from 2,600 users—many of whom, readers complained, were employing a tone not in keeping with NPR's more reserved approach to reporting.
While the comments have come down, notes Jensen, NPR will continue to explore other modes of public engagement, including via social media and the Hearken platform, the development of which has been supported by a number of foundations, including Wyncote, MacArthur, Knight, Ford, New Media Ventures, the McCormick Foundation and the Doris and Howard Conant Fund for Journalism.
Striving for civility
It's not that people aren't using comments across the board. According to research from the Engaging News Project, 55 percent of Americans have left a comment online and 77.9 percent have read the comments on an article at some point. Comments can be a useful way to facilitate direct interaction between journalists and readers and surface multiple viewpoints. It's just that, all too often, comments sections require intensive moderation to prevent them from devolving into uncivil—and sometimes unsafe—attacks.
Some major news organizations like the New York Times use strategies such as human moderation and limiting which articles have comments and for how long. But just because major news organizations may have more resources to deal with the onslaught of negative comments—ranging from unproductive to abusive to illegal—doesn't mean they don't deal with the same challenges.
Earlier this year, the Guardian ran an interactive feature called "The Dark Side of Comments," which took a deep dive into the Guardian's own comments sections. It revealed that women and minority reporters received a disproportionate share of abusive comments on their articles, which were often "crude, bigoted or just vile."
In addition, certain sections of the site were more likely to generate comments that had to be blocked by moderators than others, including World News, Opinion, Environment, and—interestingly enough—Fashion. Certain specific subjects were also more likely to end up prompting uncivil comments: Israel/Palestine, feminism, and rape. (In contrast, comments on subjects like crosswords and jazz remained polite.)
The Guardian's research reveals not only what journalists have to encounter in terms of threatening and deeply personal attacks in the comments section, but also the level of constant intervention required to keep comments at the most basic level of respect.
For news organizations that don't have the resources of the Times or the Guardian, is removing comments the best option? Researchers from the Engaging News Project interviewed journalists, surveyed commenters, and analyzed millions of online comments to uncover some evidence-backed ways to use comments for good:
Journalist involvement: The majority of journalists interviewed saw the value in engaging with users in the comments section, and the presence of the journalist in the comment thread tended to increase the civility of the tone.
Changing the structure of comments: Readers prefer three-column comments sections such as the one the Times employs—which allows you to choose from "All," "Readers' Picks" and "NYT Picks"— and are more likely to leave a comment in this kind of structure.
Experimenting with new approaches to moderation: Employing code to weed out destructive comments has the potential for reducing some of the heavy burden of in-house monitoring.
Providing background info and facts on political articles: Users expressed more interest when they felt that the information presented was accurate and that discussions would be civil, and background information with pro/con arguments made users feel calmer and more satisfied than strict factual information.
Funders who want to increase positive conversation online may wish to explore some of these strategies, considering the vast resources it takes to maintain a productive comments section on a news sites.
Just because it's difficult doesn't mean it's not important. As Amanda Zamora—the Texas Tribune's chief audience officer—told attendees at Poynter's recent 10UP event, comments have changed as opportunities for engagement have morphed, and polarization has become a major factor in online publishing. Still, "as we continue to innovate with social platforms and mobile tools and events and so many other avenues for user participation, I think it would be a huge mistake to discard one of the most fundamental connections we have with our readers. And that is their ability to have a voice on our own pages, with our own journalists and with each other, and to participate in a diverse, constructive dialogue around the news."
The topic will be a hot one at this week's Online News Association conference, where Josh Stearns of the Democracy Fund's Public Square Program will be leading a session on Designing Journalism for a Digital Conversation. Also on the docket: lessons on how to "do audience" better from the Coral Project, a collaboration between the Mozilla Foundation, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation. Both sessions are part of an Audience Engagement and Analytics track at the conference that's sponsored by the McCormick Foundation. We'll be live tweeting from the conference; keep an eye on @mediafunders for highlights.
Have some thoughts on how to best use comments to increase impact, and what funders can do about it? Or are we all better off without comments altogether? Leave us a comment and let us know!
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Jessica is a research consultant for Media Impact Funders, and the founder and director of media production/strategy firm Dot Connector Studio. She is also currently a senior fellow at the Norman Lear Center's Media Impact Project. Previously, she served as the media strategist for AIR's groundbreaking Localore project, the director of the Future of Public Media project at American University's Center for Media and Social Impact, and a Knight Media Policy Fellow at D.C.-based think tank the New America Foundation. Over the past decade, she has led research and convenings with high-profile universities and national media networks, including NPR, PBS, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, MIT, and USC's Annenberg School for Communication. She is the co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (The New Press, 2010), and a longtime independent journalist.
Katie is a research consultant for Media Impact Funders and associate director for media strategy and production firm Dot Connector Studio. She formerly served as associate research director at American University's Center for Social Media (now the Center for Media and Social Impact), and as senior research associate at the University of Rhode Island's Media Education Lab. Katie has led impact evaluations for many media organizations including PBS, Working Films, and the National Association for Latino Independent Producers. She has conducted extensive impact research, particularly on the power of documentary film, and has written about the power of media to make change for numerous academic and journalistic publications. Katie has created many educational toolkits that use media to dig into social issues, including curricula addressing youth and gender, substance abuse, and gender-based violence.


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'Monsters of Rock' could once again rock Joe Albi Stadium
Erin Robinson
Posted: January 7, 2020 11:25 AM
by Erin Robinson
SPOKANE, Wash. – The "Monsters of Rock" could once again rock Joe Albi Stadium.
Sammy Hagar, front man for Van Halen, was there on that special day in 1988 when rock legends of the time gathered at the Spokane stadium for an epic night of music.
The stadium is now used for high school sports games and will soon be replaced, after voters chose to knock it down and rebuild a new one.
Hagar recently heard about the stadium's impending demolition and raised the possibility of producing a second Monsters of Rock concert as a celebratory closing event for the venue.
During a stop in Spokane this summer, Hagar mentioned his idea and was met with enthusiastic crowd. Now, a small team of entertainment professionals are working with his management team to make "Monsters of Rock 2020" a reality.
A proposal submitted to Spokane Public Schools, which owns Joe Albi, includes a potential production plan.
According to the proposal, Hagar is working to create a lineup for concert. The venue would be rented by WestCoast Entertainment, which would be fully responsible for the venue and all liabilities, and suggests donating $1 of each ticket sold to SPS.
Organizers have asked that SPS consider alcohol sales during the concert, which will be discussed this at a special board meeting on Wednesday.
The possibility of this has people excited to re-live history. Richard Gordon Terzieff has been working in music for decades, and he actually couldn't make it to the show in 1988.
He does remember the day after the concert vividly, because he worked at a pizza shop at the time.
"The day after, I remember answering the phone and everybody had the flu," Terzieff said. "I'm like 'no you're not sick, you're hungover like everybody else. Get down here we need you making pizzas."
Terzieff said he definitely plans to be there this time around if it happens.
According to Washington Filmworks, a 'Monsters of Rock' movie has also been in the works, and it has already been approved for production.
The concert just may have something to do with that.
"You can have moments where aerial shots are going to be perfect for it," Terzieff said. "I think it's a wonderful tie in with the community."
"Spokane surprised the world in 1988 when the original Monsters of Rock tour made a stop when no one, especially young music fans living in the Inland Northwest, expected to see a spectacle that large fronted by the most famous rock bands of the day," the proposal reads. "The event will be a totally unexpected celebratory send-off of a Spokane landmark tinged with event memories that will last another 32 years."


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Garner Returns to Defend NDC Points Jersey
Up and coming British star Grace Garner has confirmed that she will return to defend her National Dairy Council Points Classification in this year's An Post Rás na mBan.
Garner, who won two stages on her way to a narrow one-point victory over Scotland's Eileen Roe in last year's An Post Rás na mBan, has been recruited by the Yorkshire-based Cliff Pratt Racing Team for this September's 11th edition of Ireland's top stage race in Kilkenny.
The 19-year-old used last year's six-stage event as a springboard to her participation with the British junior team at the 2015 World Road Race Championships in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
This season the Leicester-born rider has further outlined her ability by taking overall success in the British Tour Series and victory in the Essex Giro 2-Day stage race in July.
Garner returns to An Post Rás na mBan where she won the opening stage into Ennis last year and backed that up with another sprint success into Scarriff, County Clare.
This year's event moves to County Kilkenny for the first time with six stages over five days from September 7th to 11th including a stage three summit finish on Mount Leinster and a city centre circuit race in Kilkenny on Saturday evening 10th September.
The National Dairy Council returns to support the points classification for the fourth successive year. The NDC Points Jersey is worn by the rider who accumulates points in each of the bunch stages during the week. It rewards consistent performances across the event and often goes to a rider with ability in the high-speed group sprint finishes.
Announcing the continued support for Ireland's top women's international stage race, NDC Nutritionist Caroline O'Donovan said:
"The National Dairy Council is delighted to support such a renowned cycling event that additionally celebrates women in sport.
"The integral role of nutrition for optimum performance is well-recognised, with research into the role of dairy in this area gathering pace.
"As milk is an excellent source of high quality protein and provides natural carbohydrate and electrolytes in a fluid form, it is gaining attention particularly in the area of recovery nutrition.
"Studies are exploring specific areas of interest including the potential effectiveness of skimmed milk as a re-hydration drink and the beneficial role of milk and milk-based products in recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage.
"Additionally milk provides a number of important nutrients such as calcium, protein, phosphorus, potassium, iodine, vitamin B2 and vitamin B12."
An Post Rás na mBan moves to County Kilkenny in 2016 when it will mark the 30th anniversary of the first Irish international women's stage race, the John Hearn Memorial held in Tipperary in 1986.
The race consists of six separate stages over five days from September 7th to 11th including four road races, an individual time trial and a Kilkenny City Centre Cycle Race on Saturday evening, 10th September.
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March 16th, 1987 - Show at the Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, CA.
March 29th, 1987 - GN'R plays at the The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA. or as the flyer said: "Geffen Recording Artist Guns & Roses 1 Final Blowout Show".
May 10th, 1987 - The Drunk Fux show at the Stardust Ballroom in Los Angeles, CA.
June, 1987 - During June, the band arrives in London, UK for their first shows outside of the USA. The band stays in two apartments on Allen Street in Kensington.
June 15th, 1987 - The band's first single, "It's So Easy" and "Mr. Brownstone", is released by Geffen in the UK.
June 19th, 1987 - The band makes their European debut at the Marquee in London, UK. The first show is a disaster. It was on a Friday night and the crowd was very drunk. The press didn't help GN'R much by printing all kinds of sensational stories about them. A headline in the Star: A rock band even nastier than the Beastie Boys is heading for Britain!
Axl tells the crowd to stop throwing things or they'll leave. Before Nightrain he tells a story about getting thrown out of the Tower Records store because he sat down. First performance of Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
June 22nd, 1987 - Second show in London, UK at the Marquee.
June 28th, 1987 - The band's last show at the Marquee in London, UK was the best of the three. The audience enjoyed the covers (AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" and Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door") and GN'R played better than on the two first shows.
July 21st, 1987 - "Appetite For Destruction" is released in the US by Geffen Records. The record was produced by Mike Clink who had been working with Ozzy Osbourne and Heart. The cover art featured a painting by Robert Williams which got censored.
August, 1987 - "Appetite For Destruction" is released in the UK.
August 1st, 1987 - GN'R's first video, "Welcome To The Jungle", is shot at Park Plaza & 450 S. La Brea, Hollywood.
August 2nd, 1987 - Second day of the "Jungle" video shoot.
August 14th, 1987 - The first show opening for The Cult in North America is in Halifax, NS. The band will be on tour with The Cult in August and September.
August 15th, 1987 - Opening for The Cult in Moncton, NB.
August 17th, 1987 - Show in Montreal, QC at the Verdun Auditorium. The Cult headlines.
August 18th, 1987 - Opening for The Cult in Kitchener, ON at the Superskate.
August 19th, 1987 - GN'R are the opening at The Cult's show at the CNE Grandstand in Toronto, ON.
August 21st, 1987 - Opening for The Cult in Detroit, MI at the State Theatre.
August 22nd, 1987 - GN'R were scheduled to open for The Cult at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL. But had to cancel.
August 24th, 1987 - Another Canadian date opening for The Cult. This one is in Winnipeg, MB at the Winnipeg Arena
August 26th, 1987 - GN'R are in Edmonton, AB opening for The Cult at the Edmonton Convention Centre.
August 27th, 1987 - Show in Calgary, AB at the Max Bell Arena. Opening for The Cult.
August 29th, 1987 - Opening for The Cult in Vancouver, BC at the Coliseum Theatre.
August 29th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction debuts on the Billboard 200 chart at number 182.
August 30th, 1987 - Show as opening act for The Cult in Duff's hometown Seattle, WA. The venue is the Paramount Theatre.
September 2nd, 1987 - The first Californian show on the tour opening for The Cult is in San Francisco at the Warfield Theatre.
September 3rd, 1987 - Show opening for The Cult in Santa Cruz, CA at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium.
September 4th, 1987 - GN'R are playing at the SDSU Open Air Theatre in San Diego, CA as the opening act for The Cult. Axl introduces Nightrain with "I got a tip. If you ain't got no money, and you wanna get fucked up, you find these liquor stores that the winos hit up you know? And right beside Thunderbird, you'll find a bottle of Nightrain. That'll fuck up you twice as bad as that Thunderbird and it's only a buck and a quarter. If you drink a quart, I don't care how bad you are, you're gonna black out. This is called Nightrain."
September 5th, 1987 - Show opening for The Cult in Long Beach, CA at the Long Beach Arena.
September 5th, 1987 - On the Billboard 200, Appetite For Destruction had climbed 40 positions to number 142.
September 11th, 1987 - First show in Texas on the tour opening for The Cult in San Antonio at the Sunken Garden Amphitheatre.
September 12th, 1987 - GN'R are in Austin, TX opening for The Cult at the Palmer Auditorium.
September 12th, 1987 - #100 is the position of the week for Appetite For Destruction on the Billboard 200. It had climbed 42 positions since the previous week.
September 13th, 1987 - Opening for The Cult in Dallas, TX at the Bronco Bowl Auditorium.
September 16th, 1987 - Show in Houston, TX at the Houston Music Hall. The Cult are headlining.
September 17th, 1987 - The last show as the opening act for The Cult is in New Orleans, LA at the Sanegar Theater.
September 19th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction is at #92 on this week's Billboard 200.
September 26th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction climbs 18 positions and is at #74 on the Billboard 200.
September 28th, 1987 - Welcome To The Jungle is released as a single in the UK. The B-side is Whole Lotta Rosie (live), recorded at the Marquee in London, UK on June 28th, 1987. It peaks at #67 on the UK chart. The video for the song was shot in August 1987 at Park Plaza & 450 S. La Brea, Hollywood.
September 29th, 1987 - The European tour starts at the Markethalle in Hamburg, West Germany. The band plays shows in West Germany, The Netherlands and a five date UK tour with Faster Pussycat. This tour was originally going to be headlined by Aerosmith, but they pulled out at the last minute.
September 30th, 1987 - Show at Tor 3 in D�sseldorf, West Germany.
October 2nd, 1987 - GN'R plays at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Before the second song Move To The City, Axl talks about how some older generation rockstars got a lot of shit to say about GN'R. He says GN'R aren't trying to be nobody but themselves and that "people like Paul Stanley from Kiss can suck my dick! And some of these old guys, that say we're ripping them off, maybe they should listen to some of their earlier albums and remember how to play them".
October 3rd, 1987 - On the Billboard 200, Appetite For Destruction is at #70.
October 4th, 1987 - The first UK show on this European tour is in Newcastle at the Newcastle City Hall.
October 5th, 1987 - Show at the Rock City in Nottingham, UK.
October 6th, 1987 - GN'R plays in Manchester at the Manchester Apollo.
October 7th, 1987 - Show at the Colston Hall in Bristol, UK.
October 8th, 1987 - European tour ends with a show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England. After the European shows the band returns to tour in the US.
October 9th, 1987 - Slash and Izzy are interviewed by The Power Hour on Super Channel while in the UK. The interview was broadcast on October 24th.
October 10th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction gains a few positions and is at #64 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
October 16th, 1987 - During October, GN'R plays a bunch of shows on the East Coast with EZO opening. The first show is in Bayshore, NY at the Sundance.
October 17th, 1987 - GN'R's debut album, Appetite For Destruction, stays at #64 on the Billboard 200.
October 17th, 1987 - Show at the Airport Road Music Hall in Allentown, PA.
October 18th, 1987 - GN'R plays in Baltimore, MD at Hammerjacks.
October 20th, 1987 - Philadelphia, PA show day at the Trocadero Theatre.
October 21st, 1987 - Show in Albany, NY at the Palace Theatre.
October 22nd, 1987 - Guns N' roses are in New Jersey for a show at Obsessions in Randolph.
October 23rd, 1987 - Guns N' Roses' first show in New York City, NY is at the legendary venue The Ritz.
October 24th, 1987 - GN'R appear on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. The people at MTV told GN'R to destroy the set as a joke. As a result, GN'R tore down the whole set!
October 24th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction is now at #60.
October 25th, 1987 - Show at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY.
October 26th, 1987 - Show in Providence, RI at a venue called The Living Room.
October 27th, 1987 - The show in Boston, MA is at the Paradise Rock Club.
October 29th, 1987 - Another show in New York City, this one is at L'Amour in Brooklyn, NY.
October 30th, 1987 - GN'R plays an acoustic set at CBGB's in New York, NY.
October 31st, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction drops five places to #65.
October 31st, 1987 - Show at The Lost Horizon in Syracuse, NY.
November 1st, 1987 - Show day in Washington, DC, at The Bayou. This is the last show on this leg before the band starts their tour opening for Motley Crue.
November 3rd, 1987 - The first show on the tour with Motley Crue is in Mobile, AL at the Municipal Auditorium.
November 4th, 1987 - Show opening for Motley Crue at the Civic Center in Albany, GA.
November 6th, 1987 - Opening for Motley Crue at the Cajundome in Lafayette, LA.
November 7th, 1987 - GN'R plays a show opening for Motley Crue in New Orleans, LA at the Lakefront Arena.
November 7th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction climbs to #61 on the Billboard 200.
November 8th, 1987 - Opening for Motley Crue in Jackson, MS at the Mississippi Coliseum.
November 10th, 1987 - Opening for Motley Crue at the Von Braun Civic Center in Huntsville, AL.
November 11th, 1987 - Show opening for Motley Crue in Birmingham, AL at the Jefferson Civic Center.
November 13th, 1987 - Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls tour with GN'R as the special guest, reaches the Savannah Civic Center in Savannah, GA.
November 14th, 1987 - Show at the Carolina Coliseum in Columbia, SC on the Motley Crue tour.
November 14th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction climbs one place to #60 on the Billboard 200.
November 15th, 1987 - The band is in Greensboro, NC opening for Motley Crue at the Greensboro Coliseum.
November 17th, 1987 - Opening for Motley Crue at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, TN.
November 18th, 1987 - Show at the Jefferson Civic Center in Birmingham, AL on the Motley Crue tour.
November 20th, 1987 - Opening for Motley Crue at the The Omni in Atlanta, GA.
November 21st, 1987 - Opening for Motley Crue at the UTC Arena in Chattanooga, TN.
November 21st, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction climbs one place to #59 on the Billboard 200.
November 22nd, 1987 - GN'R and Motley Crue return to Atlanta, GA for a show at The Omni.
November 24th, 1987 - First of two shows at the Lakeland Civic Center in Lakeland, FL with Motley Crue.
November 25th, 1987 - The second show opening for Motley Crue at the Lakeland Civic Center in Lakeland, FL.
November 26th, 1987 - Another show in Florida opening for Motley Crue. This one is at the Jacksonville Coliseum in Jacksonville.
November 28th, 1987 - GN'R plays at the Lee County Civic Center in Fort Myers, FL. They open for Motley Crue.
November 28th, 1987 - Another week, another one place climb for Appetite For Destruction on the Billboard 200. At #58 this week.
November 29th, 1987 - The last show opening for Motley Crue on the Girls, Girls, Girls tour is at the Hollywood Sportatorium in Pembroke Pines, FL.
December 3rd, 1987 - The first show on the tour opening for Alice Cooper. It's at the La Villa Real Special Events Center in McAllen, TX.
December 4th, 1987 - Show opening for Alice Cooper in Dallas, TX at the Fair Park Coliseum.
December 5th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction is at #56.
December 5th, 1987 - Opening for Alice Cooper at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, TX.
December 7th, 1987 - Show opening for Alice Cooper at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, TX.
December 8th, 1987 - Show opening for Alice Cooper in Midland, TX.
December 12th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction is at #55.
December 12th, 1987 - Show at the Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY. GN'R is opening for Alice Cooper.
December 17th, 1987 - Opening for Alice Cooper at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, MN.
December 18th, 1987 - On tour with Alice Cooper, show at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, IL, USA.
December 19th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction drops a few places to #58.
December 19th, 1987 - Show opening for Alice Cooper at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, WI. Steven Adler can't play due to a broken arm and is replaced by Fred Coury of Cinderella.
December 22nd, 1987 - Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue arrives back in Los Angeles, CA from their tour. He meets up with Slash and head to the Cathouse club. Later on they go to the hotel where GN'R is staying and Nikki ends up overdosing on heroin. Slash's girlfriend tries to revive Nikki before the paramedics arrive. Eventually Nikki is pronounced dead before he's brought back to life by a double dose adrenaline shot in the ambulance.
December 26th, 1987 - GN'R plays the first of four shows at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, CA. Fred Coury fills in for Steven Adler at these shows.
December 26th, 1987 - Appetite For Destruction ends the year at #52 on the last Billboard 200 of 1987.
December 27th, 1987 - Second show at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, CA with Fred Coury on drums.
December 28th, 1987 - Third Pasadena, CA show at Perkins Palace. Once again Fred Coury is filling in for Steven.
December 30th, 1987 - Last of the four shows at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, CA.
December 31st, 1987 - A New Year's Eve show at The Glamour in Los Angeles, CA. Jane's Addiction and Jetboy were among the list of other acts on the bill.


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Q: Ruby: Insert Multiple Values Into String Suppose we have the string "aaabbbccc" and want to use the String#insert to convert the string to "aaabbbccc". Is this the best way to insert multiple values into a Ruby string using String#insert or can multiple values simultaneously be added:
string = "aaabbbccc"
opening_tag = ''
opening_index = 3
closing_tag = ''
closing_index = 6
string.insert(opening_index, opening_tag)
closing_index = 6 + opening_tag.length # I don't really like this
string.insert(closing_index, closing_tag)

Is there a way to simultaneously insert multiple substrings into a Ruby string so the closing tag does not need to be offset by the length of the first substring that is added?  I would like something like this one liner:
string.insert(3 => '', 6 => '') # => "aaabbbccc"

A: Let's have some fun.  How about
class String
  def splice h
    self.each_char.with_index.inject('') do |accum,(c,i)|
      accum + h.fetch(i,'') + c
    end
  end
end

"aaabbbccc".splice(3=>"", 6=>"")
=> "aaabbbccc"

(you can encapsulate this however you want, I just like messing with built-ins because Ruby lets me)

A: How about inserting from right to left?
string = "aaabbbccc"
string.insert(6, '')
string.insert(3, '')
string # => "aaabbbccc"

A: opening_tag = ''
opening_index = 3
closing_tag = ''
closing_index = 6

string = "aaabbbccc"
string[opening_index...closing_index] =
   opening_tag + string[opening_index...closing_index] + closing_tag
#=> "bbb"
string
#=> "aaabbbccc"

A: If your string is comprised of three groups of consecutive characters, and you'd like to insert the opening tag between the first two groups and the closing tag between the last two groups, regardless of the size of each group, you could do that like this:
def stuff_tags(str, tag)
  str.scan(/((.)\2*)/)
    .map(&:first)
    .insert( 1, "<#{tag}>")
    .insert(-2, "<\/#{tag}>")
    .join
end

stuff_tags('aaabbbccc', 'strong')  #=> "aaabbbccc"
stuff_tags('aabbbbcccccc', 'weak') #=> "aa<weak>bbbb</weak>cccccc"

I will explain the regex used by scan, but first would like to show how the calculations proceed for the string 'aaabbbccc':
a = 'aaabbbccc'.scan(/((.)\2*)/)
  #=> [["aaa", "a"], ["bbb", "b"], ["ccc", "c"]]
b = a.map(&:first)
  #=> ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc"]
c = b.insert( 1, "")
  #=> ["aaa", "", "bbb", "ccc"]
d = c.insert(-2, "<\/strong>")
  #=> ["aaa", "", "bbb", "", "ccc"]
d.join
  #=> "aaabbbccc"

We need two capture groups in the regex.  The first (having the first left parenthesis) captures the string we want.  The second captures the first character, (.).  This is needed so that we can require that it be followed by zero or more copies of that character, \2*.
Here's another way this can be done:
def stuff_tags(str, tag)
  str.chars.chunk {|c| c}
    .map {|_,a| a.join}
    .insert( 1, "<#{tag}>")
    .insert(-2, "<\/#{tag}>")
    .join
end

The calculations of a and b above change to the following:
a = 'aaabbbccc'.chars.chunk {|c| c}
  #=> #<Enumerator: #<Enumerator::Generator:0x000001021622d8>:each>
  # a.to_a => [["a",["a","a","a"]],["b",["b","b","b"]],["c",["c","c","c"]]]
b = a.map {|_,a| a.join }
  #=> ["aaa", "bbb", "ccc"]


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Q: Installing OpenCV for xCode issue I could not install/build openCV for xCode. I get this following error in the last command given in this installation document link. http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/introduction/ios_install/ios_install.html
Error is   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 540, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd
When giving python opencv/platforms/ios/build_framework.py ios command. Can you please suggest help on this ? Have installed cmake using homebrew.

A: Hi I was facing the same problem but was resolved.Please check out same question asked by me.A guy answered this question.Please check out this link and let me know if it helps
OPEN CV iOS installation

A: After cmake installaion, I directly downloaded openCV for mac and used its framework.


Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag (Greek: άργυρος árguros, Latin: argentum, both from the Indo-European root *arg- for "grey" or "shining") and atomic number 47.
Two carts collide and bounce apart. Cart 1 had a momentum of –6 kg • m/s before the collision. Cart 2 had a momentum of 10 kg • m/s before the collision.
Silver (symbol Ag) ek chemical element hae jiske [[atomic number] 47, aur atomic weight 107.86 a.m.u. hae. Iske symbol Ag, Latin me silver ke sabd, argentum se aais hae. Ii ek transition metal hae.
ABOUT GOLD AND SILVER Basic physical and chemical properties of gold. Chemical symbol: Au (Aurum) Atomic number: 79 Relative atomic weight: 196,96655 g/mol Density: 19 290 kg/m3 Melting temperature: 1 064 °C Boiling temperature: 2 856 °C. Gold is noble metal of yellow color. It is very well resistant against usual air and water impact.
The chemical symbol for silver is Ag, coming from the Latin word for silver – Argentum . Interestingly, it is the same root word for the French word argent, which means both silver and money, telling us a lot about the historical affinity between wealth and precious metals.
The symbol is based on the widely used alchemical symbol for silver. In the background is a detail from the 'Gundestrup Cauldron', the largest known example of European Iron Age silver work. ... Cottrell, The Strengths of Chemical Bonds, Butterworth, London, 1954.
Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European h₂erǵ: "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal .
In relation to the chemical elements, a symbol is a code for a chemical element. [nb 1] Many functional groups have their own chemical symbol, e.g. Ph for the phenyl group, and Me for the methyl group .
Other elements have symbols that don't seem to relate to their names at all! For these elements, the symbol usually refers to an older element name that isn't used any more. Here's an alphabetical list of element symbols with the corresponding element name.
Silver is the metallic element with the atomic number 47. Its symbol is Ag, from the Latin argentum. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it however, possesses the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal.