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BACK-TO-BACK! Baseball Clinches Share Of Second Straight GLIAC Championship With Sweep At Saginaw Valley
Northwood (33-14, 20-7) 2 5 0 1 0 4 0 12 13 0
Saginaw Valley (20-27, 5-21) 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 7 1
HR: Ryan McClelland 2; Brian Dombrowski; David Vinsky
2B: Todd Paperd
2B: Ryan McClelland; Keaton Sackett; Ryan Chargo; Travis Janes
3B: Travis Janes
HR: Ryan McClelland; David Vinsky; Javier Martinez 2; Colin McClelland; Keaton Sackett; Nick Palmer; Kyle Ziegler
HR: Jon Quinlan
OVERVIEW – SAGINAW VALLEY
SCORE: Northwood Timberwolves 24, Saginaw Valley State Cardinals 1/Northwood 12, Saginaw Valley 2
RECORDS: Northwood 33-14, 20-7 GLIAC / Saginaw Valley 20-27, 5-21 GLIAC
LOCATION: SV Baseball Complex – University Center, Mich.
RECAP: Northwood clinches a share of their second-straight Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) championship Saturday afternoon (May 5), using a record-breaking performance to win game one 24-1 before posting a 12-2 victory in the nightcap.
Northwood got things going right away, scoring a pair of runs in the first inning on a home run in the first inning by Javier Martinez.
A two-out dropped fly ball in the second inning broke the game open – two runs scored on the play for Northwood and kept the inning going. That play was followed by a three-run homer by Javier Martinez and a solo shot by David Vinsky to make the score 8-0.
The Timberwolves plated three more in the third, starting with a solo home run by Nick Palmer.
Ryan McClelland then had an RBI double, followed by a Brian Dombrowski RBI single to push the lead to 11-0.
Northwood plated six more runs in the fourth, thanks to three-run homers by Keaton Sackett and Ryan McClelland to make the score 17-0.
A two-run homer by Kyle Ziegler in the fifth pushed the lead to 19-0.
Saginaw Valley got on the board thanks to a solo homer in the bottom of the fifth, but Northwood came right back with four more runs in the top of the sixth. Colin McClelland hit NU's eighth homer of the day, a two-run shot, to make it 21-1. Travis Janes followed with a two-run double to make the score 23-1.
Northwood rounded out their scoring in the top of the seventh thanks to a Ryan Chargo RBI single to make the final 24-1.
Runs/Hits/Errors – Northwood: 24/21/0, Saginaw Valley: 1/6/2
Runners Left on Base – Northwood: 8, Saginaw Valley: 6
Winning Pitcher – Tyler Jandron (8-2): 6 IP, 5 H, 1 R, BB, 3 K
Losing Pitcher – Mason Schwellenbach (3-7): 2 1/3 IP, 9 H, 11 R, (5 ER), BB, 3 K
Martinez: 2-2, 2 HR, 3 R, 3 RBIs
R. McClelland: 3-6, 2B, HR, 3 R, 4 RBIs
Vinsky: 2-3, HR, 2 R, 3 RBIs
C. McClelland: 1-3, HR, 2 R, 2 RBIs
Sackett: 2-3, HR, 2B, 2 R, 3 RBIs
Palmer: 1-4, HR, RBI
Ziegler: 2-4, HR, 2 R, 2 RBIs
Janes: 3-5, 3B, 2B, 3 R, 2 RBIs
The eight home runs hit in the game set a pair of significant records: the total is a new school record as well as a new record for home runs hit in a GLIAC game. The old GLIAC mark was seven, set by SVSU (at Lake Erie – 4/7/12) and Ohio Dominican (at Walsh – 4/12/17).
Already the school record holder for wins in a career, Jandron became the first pitcher in school history to reach the 20 victory mark with his win in the game. His two-year record at Northwood now stands at 20-3.
GAME TWO HIGHLIGHTS
After hitting eight home runs in the opening game, the Timberwolves wasted no time getting rolling in game two. Ryan McClelland and Dombrowski opened the game with back-to-back homers, giving Northwood a 2-0 lead after the opening inning.
Ryan McClelland struck again with a big hit in the top of the second inning. His grand slam to centerfield extended the advantage to 6-0. It was his third homer of the day and fourth of the series.
Later in the second, Palmer walked with the bases loaded to put NU on top 7-0 after two.
The Cardinals got a two-out, two-run single in the third inning to cut the Northwood lead to 7-2.
The Timberwolves responded with their 12th home run of the day in the top of the fourth, as Visky hit his second homer of the day. His solo shot gave NU an 8-2 advantage.
Northwood got to double-digits with a four-run sixth. Martinez started the scoring with an RBI single, which was followed by a run-scoring single by Colin McClelland. Palmer then plated both Martinez and Colin McClelland with a two-run hit to make the score 12-2.
GAME TWO STATS
Winning Pitcher – Jake Gross (2-3): 6 1/3 IP, 6 H, 2 R, BB, K
Losing Pitcher – Alex Millhisler (1-7): 5 1/3 IP, 12 H, 12 R (10 ER), 5 BB, K
R. McClelland: 2-5, 2 HR, 5 RBIs
Vinsky: 3-5, HR, 2 R, RBI
Dombrowski: 1-2, HR, RBI, 3 R
C. McClelland: 2-3, R, RBI
Palmer: 1-3, 3 RBI, R
Janes: 2-4, R
This is the second straight GLIAC Championship for Northwood – they had never won a conference title in the first 50 years in program history.
Northwood hit four more home runs in game two, giving them 12 for the day. They entered the doubleheader with 35 homers in 45 games.
With their 47 homers, NU has set a new school record for home runs in a season. The old record was 46, which was set last season.
NU actually ended up with three wins on the day – the two teams completed the final out of last night's 21-3 nine-inning victory prior to the start of the doubleheader.
Northwood still needs to win their final regular season game to clinch the outright GLIAC Championship – the Timberwolves remain one game ahead of Davenport with one game remaining.
Northwood will finish the regular season with a nine-inning game against the Cardinals. First pitch is set for Noon.


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Adding adjacent terms odd+even and even+odd are both odd. Adding adjacent odd+odd gives even. So the pattern E,O,O in the original row when spread and added gives E,O,O again in the next row.
Return the $i'th value of the sequence.
Return two values ith($i) and ith($i+1) from the sequence. As described below ("Ith Pair") two values can be calculated with the same work as one.
Return true if $value occurs in the sequence, which means simply integer $value>=0.
Two successive sequence values are maintained and are advanced by a simple operation.
The form by Newman uses a floor operation. That suits expressing the iteration in terms of a rational x[i]=p/q.
For separate p,q a little rearrangement gives it in terms of the remainder p mod q, as per formula a(n)=a(n-2)+a(n-1)-2*(a(n-2) mod a(n-1)) by Mike Stay OEIS A002487, November 2006.
In terms of the Calkin-Wilf tree this method works because the number of trailing right leg steps can be found by m=floor(p/q), then take a step across, then back down again by m many left leg steps. When at the right-most edge of the tree the step across goes down by one extra left, thereby automatically wrapping around at the end of each row.
seek_to_i() is implemented by calculating a pair of new p,q values with an ith_pair() per below.
This is the same as the Calkin-Wilf tree descent, per "Calkin-Wilf Tree" in Math::PlanePath::RationalsTree. Its X/Y fractions are successive Stern diatomic sequence values.
If only a single ith() value is desired then a variation can be made on the "Ith Pair" above. Taking the bits of i from low to high (instead of high to low) gives p=ith(i), but q is not ith(i+1). Low zero bits can be ignored for this approach since initial p=0 means the steps q+=p for bit=0 do nothing.


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Causeway in 1950 opened up Padre Ballí's remote island
Before the Causeway, Padre Island had always been a remote place. It was nearby, but a world away.
Causeway in 1950 opened up Padre Ballí's remote island Before the Causeway, Padre Island had always been a remote place. It was nearby, but a world away. Check out this story on caller.com: http://www.caller.com/story/news/columnists/murphy-givens/2016/07/05/causeway-in-1950-opened-up-padre-balls-remote-island/91528906/
Corpus Christi Caller-Times Published 4:00 p.m. CT July 5, 2016
Contributed photo The beach on Padre Island was crowded on July 4, 1950, the first holiday after the Padre Island Causeway was opened to traffic two weeks before. The causeway toll in 1950 was $1 for car, $2 for car and trailer, and 10 cents for bicycle.(Photo: Contributed photo)
The Padre Island Causeway was opened to traffic on June 17, 1950. The first to pay the $1 toll was Frank Morris, a cotton farmer from Portland. The long skinny island that was once the haunt of Karankawas, Spanish explorers, pirates and cattlemen would never again be as isolated and mysterious.
Before the Causeway, Padre Island had always been a remote place. It was nearby, but a world away. In 1847, a schooner carrying John V. Singer, his wife and two children were caught in a storm and washed ashore on Padre Ballí's island. They built a house of driftwood and became a Crusoe-like family. The Singer homestead was on the site of Padre Ballí's Rancho Santa Cruz, which the Singers called Las Cruces Ranch. The Singers left during the Civil War and never returned.
After the Singers there was the Curry Settlement, started by preacher Carey Curry and extended family. Their place was 17 miles below Corpus Christi Pass. In the 1870s, a meat packing plant was built on Packery Channel, during the hide-and-tallow era when packeries did a killing business along the coast.
Pat Dunn moved his cattle to the island in 1879. The cattle grew fat from sedge grass and whatever they could find in the surf. Their hides showed spots of tar from the tar blobs that washed up on the beaches. Dunn sold the island in 1926 to Sam Robertson, who planned to develop it into a tourist resort, until the Great Depression and a hurricane put an end to his dream.
The new causeway that opened in 1950 was built by Nueces County; the $1.2 million cost was repaid through a $1 per vehicle toll. After the bonds were paid off, the causeway was turned over to the state and it was later renamed the JFK Causeway.
Bernard Brister, a reporter in the 1930s, foresaw the future for the island when he wrote that, 'Padre is to become one of the biggest watering places in the nation. Two causeways will connect it with the mainland to admit artesian streams of restless tourists. Back in the sand dunes, radios will send music floating out through the tall sea grass and the tourists, settling down in their trailer cars for the night, will quarrel shrilly.' That prediction started coming true when the Padre Island Causeway was opened to traffic on June 27, 1950.
FERRIES ON THE NUECES
In 1847, the first official act of the newly formed Nueces County Commissioners Court was to set ferry tolls on the Nueces River and Rio Grande, since Nueces County took in all the territory in between. Tolls were fixed at 25 cents for a pair of oxen, 25 cents for a horse, and 25 cents for every wheel on a wagon.
The main ferry on the lower Nueces was at the Santa Margarita crossing below San Patricio. The Paso de Santa Margarita, an ancient crossing, was a good place to ford, where the river was wide and shallow with a rocky bottom.
In the 1850s Samuel Reed Miller ran a ferry at Santa Margarita. During the Civil War, Miller's Ferry was a major stopping place on the Cotton Road. Wagons loaded with cotton were too heavy for the little ferry barge so when the river was high the drivers would camp and wait until it was fordable.
After the war, Sylvanus Gerard Miller ran a ferry at Lagarto. For a few years there were two Miller's Ferries on the Nueces. By the 1870s Samuel Reed Miller's grandson, Alonzo Quinn, took over and the ferry was known as Quinn's Ferry.
Borden's Ferry was above Nuecestown, near where Calallen is today, a half-mile from Sharpsburg. Sidney Borden owned the ferry and a store. At Nuecestown was O.H. Hearn's Ferry. The road leading to the ferry was called Hearn's Ferry Road. Below that was Bitterman's Ferry at the mouth of the Nueces. Borden's Ferry was the last still in use, until 1913, after which bridges were built across the river.
ROPING A WILD TURKEY
Vaqueros taught the cowboys how to handle the half-wild longhorns, which is why the language of the cowboys is filled with mangled Spanish root words. Another skill the vaqueros taught the cowboys was how to make and handle rawhide lariats and bullwhips.
J. Frank Dobie described how these were made. He said no machine ever invented could cut the leather cords like a vaquero. A large hide would be stretched on the ground. A small hole would be cut in the center and strips cut round and round until there were four strands of equal length. The strips were scraped of hair, soaked in ashes and water, greased, and plaited to make a bullwhip or a lariat.
It took great skill to know when to widen or narrow the strips, depending on the thickness of the hide, so that when they dried they would be the same width. For texture, flexibility, balance of weight, and beauty, wrote Dobie, rawhide bullwhips and lariats (la reata) could not be equaled.
There was also great skill in using them. A vaquero, it was said, could pick a fly off a fence post with a rawhide bullwhip. The pop these whips made sounded like a pistol shot. J. Williamson Moses, a mustanger of the 1850s, saw Cristobal Benavides, brother of the later famous Confederate general from Laredo, Santos Benavides, rope a wild turkey as it lifted to fly.
'We had seen a couple of fat gobblers between the Pintas and San Fernando creeks, and gave chase,' Moses wrote. 'Cristobal, spurring his pony, threw his cabestro over the turkey, just as he was four or five feet from the ground, with his wings spread. It caught him around the neck and under one wing. It was a beautiful throw of the lasso, neatly and gracefully done.'
In the book 'Rincon' by Maude Gilliland, a family traveling to the Rio Grande Valley by wagon came on a flock of wild geese. As the geese took wing, the vaqueros traveling with them spurred their horses to ride into the midst of the geese, popping their bullwhips in the air. They brought down several wild geese, plucked from the air by men on horseback with rawhide whips. The geese were cleaned and mixed with flour and water (to make gravy) and cooked in an iron pot covered with hot coals, which made them a fine supper.
Murphy Givens is the retired Viewpoints Editor of the Caller-Times. Email him at givens.murphy@gmail.com.
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Gwynedd Council, the first council in Wales to call for the People's Vote
In Gwynedd's full council (6 December) Gwynedd Councillors voted for a referendum to give the people of Gwynedd, Wales and the United Kingdom, the choice regarding our future relationship with the European Union. It was agreed that the referendum should offer residents the choice to remain within the European Union.
Gwynedd under the leadership of Plaid Cymru is the first county in Wales to call for the People's Vote.
Pictured is Councillor Judith Humphreys, Penygroes
Plaid Cymru Gwynedd demands a stable environment for farm businesses
Today (6 December) Gwynedd Plaid Cymru Councillors will call for the support of the full Council in urging the Welsh Labour Government to secure a stable environment for farm businesses after Brexit.
"Here in Gwynedd, small family farms are a cornerstone of the county's rural communities," said Councillor Paul Rowlinson, "and generations of our people have farmed the land and produced high quality food that is sold to the public."
"Agriculture is an essential part of Gwynedd's rural economy and supports many families in the county. Any changes in agriculture that result from Brexit are certain to have a direct impact on the local economy, our rural communities and the Welsh language," explained Councillor Rowlinson, who will propose a motion asking for the support of the full Council in demanding that the Welsh Government provides stability for farming families in the county.
November 15 2018, 12:24 PM
Plaid Cymru team work as one to save Blaenau Ffestiniog to Llanrwst bus service
Blaenau Ffestiniog Councillor Annwen Daniels, is delighted that team Plaid Cymru has worked behind the scenes with Gwynedd Council to safeguard the X19 bus service from Llanrwst to Blaenau Ffestiniog and back, for an interim period.
"I'm really pleased that discussions and collaboration has ensured a solution for the time being so that this essential bus service continues," explains the Councillor who represents Bowydd and Rhiw Ward in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Pictured is Blaenau Ffestiniog Councillor Annwen Daniels
Collaboration is the solution to avoid losing the Gerlan bus service
Collaboration is the answer to avoid losing a public bus service travelling from Bangor through Bethesda and to Gerlan, according to local County Councillor Paul Rowlinson.
"There is a parking issue at Gerlan during the evening that has an impact on Arriva's local bus service," explains Plaid Cymru Councillor Paul Rowlinson.
Photo: Councillor Paul Rowlinson at the junction of Ffordd Gerlan and Stryd Morgan where buses are finding it difficult to turn due to parked vehicles.
October 11 2018, 12:12 PM
£1m investment to 100 homes at a Gwynedd housing estate
After less than a year, a £1million investment has been completed on 101 homes at a Gwynedd housing estate.
A joint scheme between Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd and Gwynedd Council to update the water infrastructure at Pentref Helen estate in Deiniolen has benefitted from the investment.
Councillor Elfed Williams of Deiniolen is grateful to local residents for their patience as work progressed on the estate
Plaid Cymru led Gwynedd County first in Wales to demand 28 day limit on immigration detention.
Plaid Cymru led Gwynedd Council has today become the first Welsh County Council to pass a motion calling on the Government in Westminster to put an end to the indefinite detention of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.
Pictured is Councillor Catrin Wager, Menai Ward representative
Local concerns about proposal for holiday cabins at Coed Wern-Tŷ-Gwyn, Glasinfryn, Gwynedd
Gwynedd residents are being urged to share their thoughts on current proposals to develop Glasinfryn woods between Bethesda and Bangor into a 40 new holiday cabin business.
Pictured are Plaid Cymru Gwynedd Councillors: Menna Baines, Pentir & Dafydd Owen, Tregarth & Mynydd Llandygai
August 01 2018, 10:28 AM
Local Councillor four year lobby case, at last, sees pedestrian safety prioritised at Penrhyndeudraeth
Plaid Cymru's Penrhyndeudraeth Councillor, Gareth Thomas has, after four years of hard lobbying to the Welsh Government, received news that the A487 trunk road in the centre of Penrhyndeudraeth will soon see pedestrian safety prioritised as yellow lines are introduced on parts of the road.
Pictured is Penrhyndeudraeth Councillor, Gareth Thomas
July 20 2018, 6:45 PM
Plaid Cymru Dyffryn Ogwen supports change of emphasis on Penrhyn Castle history
Plaid Cymru's Dyffryn Ogwen Councillors support Cylch yr Iaith's calls for the National Trust to strengthen its Welsh perspective at Penrhyn Castle and ensure that the cultural history and heritage of the location is presented to visitors.
Plaid Cymru Dyffryn Ogwen Team, Councillors: Paul Rowlinson, Dafydd Owen, Rheinallt Puw and Dafydd Meurig
Two change roles at Plaid Cymru Gwynedd
Councillor Elin Walker Jones, Glyder, Bangor has been elected the new Chair of Plaid Cymru's Gwynedd Group, as Morfa Nefyn Councillor, Sian Hughes stands down to develop her nursing career.
Outgoing chair, Cllr Sian Hughes, Morfa Nefyn welcomes Glyder Cllr Elin Walker-Jones as new chair, with Plaid Gwynedd Leader, Cllr Dyfrig Siencyn pictured


For years, security experts have outlined the best practices for privileged access management in an effort to reduce problems associated with the abuse of privileged credentials. Despite this, IT organizations continue to struggle with privileged access management. Take a look inside any large enterprise and you'll likely find that passwords are still not under complete control, users with administrator privileges are still causing problems and far too many system vulnerabilities open pathways to privileged accounts.
BeyondTrust conducted a Privileged Access Management survey. Having analysed the results, we've compiled a list of the Five Deadly Sins of Privileged Access Management. Think our title is too dramatic? Consider this: These five deadly sins cost the typical enterprise nearly $4M annually resulting from lost productivity, costs to mitigate incidents and legal or compliance issues. Join this session to learn more about those five deadly sins and how to rectify them.
In a time of rapid digital transformation, a lot of organizations face challenges managing privileged accounts. To strictly control, protect, monitor, and manage them, such companies use Privileged Account Management (PAM).
Typical stipulations for the handling of privileged identities and users as well as accounts can be found in industry-specific standards as well as in regulations and laws. Stricter legal regulations and regulatory standards require aggregation of data and event management information. These require the ability to identify and eliminate internal threats that can arise from the misuse of privileged user rights.
Companies must increasingly be in a position to provide privileged access on demand (Least Privileges / Need-to-Know) in a secure way: Based on specific roles. This is the principle of the least privileged rights: access to the right resources at the right times and for the right reasons.
Integrate this policy into a security management framework. This framework defines those responsible for ensuring that security management policies are adhered to.
Systematic and consistent inventory of privileged accounts.
The most interesting topic for plant managers and industry responsible are how to reduce downtime and how to protect industry systems for attacks.
In this presentation we will go through hints how PAM (Privileged Access Management) solution can help to reduce downtimes of industry machines while increasing the whole security. PAM as an alternative to VPN and older remote access solutions.


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Q: CSS: adjusting checkbox size Is there a way to adjust the dimension of an <input type="checkbox" />
I already tried it using style="width:30px; height:50px;" approach, but it didn't work.
Any ideas? Is this even possible?

A: No, i don't think there's a way of doing it by only using html / css.
You could just make an overlay (div) which is positioned right over the checkbox and makes it visible. Using this overlay you could add an own checkbox graphic and change it's image (=it's visible value) whenever the user clicks on the image. Furhtermore you'll then have to update the real checkbox's value manually to assure that the form can be send containing the checkbox's form value.
This technique is often used by RIA frameworks like QooxDoo, ExtJS, etc.
here you'll find a really nice example of how to use the described technique.

A: Yes, it is possible.
You can change the size of a checkbox using the scale function of the transform CSS property, which can magnify or shrink the check box.
Firefox 16.0+ and Internet Explorer 10.0+ support direct invocation of the transform property while older versions and Webkit-based browsers (Chrome, Safari) require their own prefixes (more on browser compatibility).
Simple example:
<style type="text/css">
  input[type="checkbox"] {
    /* Double-sized Checkboxes */
    transform: scale(2);         /* FF 16+, IE 10+ */
    -webkit-transform: scale(2); /* Chrome, Safari 3.5+, Opera 15+ */

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Student honored for educational program
Jacob Shuman recognized for efforts educating kids about honey bees and agriculture
Student honored for educational program Jacob Shuman recognized for efforts educating kids about honey bees and agriculture Check out this story on chillicothegazette.com: http://ohne.ws/1hIBHUH
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CHILLICOTHE – Merck Animal Health, headquarterd in New Jersey, has announced its 2015 Young Advocates for Agriculture Award has gone to Unioto student Jacob Shuman.
Shuman, who was featured in a Gazette story during Ross County Fair week for his work with honey bees, was recognized for his TEACH Bs (Teens Educating Adults & Children About Honey Bees) program. The program, designed to help educate local youths about honey bees and their contribution to agriculture, involved Shuman making presentations at local elementary schools explaining the different roles of queen, worker and drone bees and discussing how bees pollinate crops.
"We need to educate others, especially our youth, that our work is not just about farming," Shuman said. "I've learned that many people don't know a lot about where their food comes from, how it's raised or the value the industry brings to our world. Since I live and work in agriculture, I understand that I am responsible for helping to tell that story."
The award, which is given to a high school student for grassroots advocacy efforts in support of agriculture, was presented to Shuman at this year's Cattle Feeders Business Summit.
"It is vital that we help provide enriching educational experiences like these to future generations of industry leaders," said Jim Miles, of Merck Animal Health. "By teaching these students about the importance of sharing their experiences and perspectives, we hope they will be inspired to advocate on the industry's behalf – today and in the future."
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I was experimenting with a GPS module, and decided to see how hard it would be to create a GPS disciplined 1MHz square wave - and it takes about 100 lines!
If you connect a GPS module's PPS pin to JA1, a 1MHz signal will appear on JA2. The output signal cycles will be either 1.00 us, 0.99 us or a 1.01 us pulse as it adjusts to make it close to 1MHz as possible.
The LEDs show the status. The top four LEDs show is the PPS pulses are being received. The lower 12 show a binary representation of the absolute error in 10ns steps (or 0.01Hz steps) away from 1MHz. Without referencing to the PPS signal, my FPGA board's onboard 100MHz oscillator averages out at approximately 100,000,877 Hz, and with the PPS input the 1MHz input goes from 1,000,008.77Hz down to 1,000,000.0Hz +/- ~0.5Hz.
With a bit of careful analysis this could be improved quite a lot.
The size of the 'error' signal needs to be match with the worst possible case from the FPGA's clock.
Use a Block Ram to convert the error value to something on the 7-segment display, to display current error as -9.99 to 9.99 Hz.
Using a SERDES block, and creating a a few more "nco1_a" phase accumulators you could get the jitter to about 1ns.
With a bit of reworking, so that the fractional part of nco1_a had the phase of the 1Mhz signal (not the 100MHz unit it currently works in) you could then drive an DAC to generate a 1MHz sine wave, and avoid most of the jitter.
Currently the accumulated error in nco2_a gets dropped when the PPS pulse comes in. If instead of resetting to -100,000,000 it subtracted 100,000,000 from current nco2_a value, you could ensure that the long term cycle count is 1 million cycles per second (e.g. no extra pulses will be added or dropped). This would most likely alter the stability quite a bit, and increase settling time.
Currently the error accumulator has a bit of a dead band - it ranges from -800,000,000 to 800,000,000 but then jumps back close to zero when it it hits these limits. This should really be closed down to -400,000,000 to 400,000,000.
It could be optimized for resources, mostly by moving from decimal constants into binary ones - eg 800000000 could be 536870912, binary 001000000000000000000000000000, making the comparison and addition far less resource hungry.
A DDR register could be used for sampling the incoming PPS signal, improving its accuracy.
You could analyse the latency (which is fixed) and attempt to phase align the reference signal with the long-term average of the PPS signal.
It is possible that with a pathologically poor PPS clock you can drive the NCO values so far out of whack that it will never be able to recover and track a valid signal.
-- The PPS edge has been seen.
-- Rembering the current PPS signal so we can detect the edge.
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Clint Gage counts down CineFix's picks for best uses of color in cinema.
Color is one of the most effective tools in a storyteller's arsenal. From fiery red, to the coldest blue, a great filmmaker knows just what colors to paint on the screen. Move over light and shadow, lets take the color wheel for a spin! Here are the very best uses of color in a movie ever!


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Giant red spinel crystal discovered in East Africa.
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"When the stone finally arrived, the miner´s legs were bloodied from holding the heavy sharp-edged rock on the motorcycle".
They dug it out of a farmer´s field in Mahenge. An enormous red spinel crystal weighing over 52kgs. If may be the largest red spinel ever unearthed!
Mined at depth of 10 meters, the pyramid shaped rough was discovered by a group of miners in the alluvial deposit. Mining in the area is normally conducted by loosely organized syndicates of small miners funded by local entrepreneurs.
The discovery almost sparked a riot as hundreds of other diggers moved in for a piece of the action. Besides being lucky, the finders of the really special stones also need to be strong and fast – everybody wants stones like that and they´re willing to fight for them too! After escaping into the bush on a motorcycle, the miner and the motorcycle driver were forced to lay low without food and water for several days before making their way on to Morogoro. From there, they traveled on to Arusha to show their rock. The buyer who wishes to remain anonymous said "when the stone finally arrived, the miner´s legs were bloodied from holding the heavy sharp-edged rock on the motorcycle".
The impressive crystal was the vibrant orangey pinkish red color that is considered to be top for spinel. Although most of the crystal was included, it was obvious that significant chunks of clean gem material could be cobbed from it. Even though the yield is expected to be as low as 3%, the sheer size of the rough still translates into several thousand carats of gems.
The gemmy chunks are being faceted in Thailand and several clean stones of over 30 carats. have already been cut and sold. Although most of the stones are small, a significant number of stones ranging in weight between 5 and 20 carats have already been faceted and the cutting continues. One piece is expected to cut a near clean stone over 50 carats. Ultimately, this one giant crystal will cut many exquisite gems and dealers have been lining up to buy first. Although the color of Burmese spinels can be exceptional, clean stones as large as these are unheard of in Burma.
Many of the stones are expected to be sold in Europe where the strong euro makes gem prices especially attractive right now. As the processing of the rough continues, a good selection of stones will also be available online at www.multicolour.com.
Historically, the large spinels of the Russian and European Royal collections contained spinels from the Pamir mountains in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. As gemological science was in its infancy and ruby was yet to be defined as corundum, they were called rubies at the time. Britain went to war with Spain over the Black Prince of Wales Ruby, which is a fine spinel polished en cabochon and a part of the Crown Jewels.
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A few weeks ago I posted a blog that gave you a sneak peak of my daily habits. I shared what I do every morning in order to start my day in a positive way, daily menus and bedtime routine. It was a huge success! So many of you responded with requests to share more.
In today's video I'll show you the food staples I keep in my kitchen in order to have hearty, healthy breakfasts every day that fuel me appropriately for the needs of my day. You'll learn what I eat on mornings that I have back to back appointments with little opportunity for snacks, as well as what I grab on the go on days that I have more command of my time. What I hope you'll gain are not only ideas, but how best to organize your pantry and fridge so that you always have what you need to create variety in your menu, keeping your diet clean, healthy and delicious.
Variety is one of the greatest challenges my clients face. Because their hectic lives make it difficult to cook, they'll identify one or two easy options for breakfast, lunch and dinner that they can grab on the fly and then stick with those day in and day out until they grow tired of the same old thing. From the get-go I offer them options so they can always enjoy something different while still staying on plan. Being prepared is key, and following through is essential.
In addition to the video, you'll find a shopping list below of all the foods I'd recommend you keep on hand. I also provide links to the recipes I mentioned. Pick one or two recipes, stock the necessary ingredients and give them a try. Next week, try something different. As you explore these recipes, you'll begin to establish a healthy breakfast pantry of your own.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for the staples I keep in my kitchen for easy, delicious lunches that you can bring to work and dinners that are easily whipped up at the end of a busy day. It's not hard to stay healthy with a little creativity, planning and determination.
I look forward to hearing your comments and feedback on the recipes! Till then, enjoy your Monday and I hope you have a happy week!
This entry was posted in Healthy & Nutritious Recipes, Putting it into Practice, Video, Weight Management on July 10, 2016 by Barbara Mendez RPh MS.
So happy I found you… I have moderate psoriasis since 2006. Gave up gluten 4 years ago. Breakfast is always the same. Warm lemon water with organic honey, 30 mins later I juice 4 carrots,1 beet 1 apple/ piece ginger. 30 mins later I make a kind of porridge without oats.. tablespoon chia seeds/milled flax/milled quinoa add1 tablespoon coconut oil add goats milk and warm in a pan, leave for 20 mins or so to thicken. Then add coconut milk and honey. After this I have homemade bread toasted. with a small amount of marmalade. The bread is made with coconut flour/almond meal/pumpkin seeds/sunflower seeds. needs 8 eggs. Last is a cup of black filtered coffee. No need to eat for hours. Can I Improve on this or make changes… If I have no time in the morning… I usually scramble 2 eggs with pepper and tumeric with olive oil.
This sounds super healthy! It's also though, high in carbs, some of which are high on the glycemic index which may be feeding an imbalanced gut bacteria that could aggravate the psoriasis. Perhaps do a green drink (cucumber, kale, broccoli stem, apple, lime, ginger and turmeric) more often and the carrot less often. Alternate the eggs with the homemade bread. Have almond butter rather than marmalade… see where you can reduce some of the more "sugary" options. But the quality of this meal is obviously solid and you are clearly conscientious about what you're eating, which is great.
I eat steel oats with bananas nuts yogurt cinnamon. I cook the oats the night before and just warm up in the morning.
I also love eggs & veggies in the morning!
Helps me to start my day strong!
Thank you for all that you share with us!!
I usually have Irishcut oatmeal with a glass of Almond milk and an apple or banana. I am wondering if I should add to that.
Add a little cinnamon to that and some slivered almonds for a little more balance…. that should help slow down it's digestion and keep you blood sugar stable.
Thanks for all these suggestions. I have to make some adjustments as I have allergies to eggs, chocolate and nuts. My breakfast is organic grain cereals, either hot or cold. I make various salads for lunch. And try to eat healthy dinners of meat and vegetables. I make all my own food due to my allergies. I make a very healthy black bean brownie for dessert. Sometimes I just eat fresh fruit.
I've been on a reasonably healthy diet for a few years now. It's helping me keep my skin in good shape and my weight where it should be. My allergies cause dermatitis and eczema so I need to be careful.
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Keeler Turntable ???? …. Help
North American Narrow Gauge; West of the Rockies (including Canada; Mexico).
Randy Hees
Post by Randy Hees » Fri Jul 13, 2018 8:24 am
In May 2014, a couple of days before our Lone Pine conference, our (then) president asked a question about the location of the Keeler turntable on the SPng yahoo group… Now in July 2018, the question has been asked again
We have all heard that there was a turntable located at Keeler (assumed to be) somewhere in the vicinity of the engine house. We have not seen a depression in the ground that resembles a turntable pit as we see at other locations. Why not?
We have also heard that it is possibly the turntable at Keeler was moved to Owenyo, the one we see in so many photographs of Owenyo. Considering that Owenyo did not become a railroad location until 1908 or so, why don't we see any photographs of the turntable at Keeler before being moved to Owenyo. I mean there are 1000's of photographs of this railroad.
I have a photo dated 1904 of Keeler, but there is no turntable in the view. Maybe the date is incorrect on the photo.
What evidence or documentation is there that tells us there was a turntable at Keeler??? Any thoughts, documentation, photos, or anything else regarding this mystery turntable????
A few days (and 12 email messages) later Dennis made the following (tongue in cheek) pronouncement…
to -spng-
OK all, we have put together a so called inspection team and we are going out to Keeler to look for any signs of the turntable pit during the conference. Randy, Andrew, Mike, Ron, Ellen, and myself so far...We might even let Brian come along..
I find these sort of historical mysteries fun… and the president appointed me to the committee…as a result I have been doing a bit of research…
Keeler & Owenyo Turntables – A Mystery… A time line with notes and sources
Introduction… our Common Knowledge says that the Keeler turntable was built in 1883, and removed in 1910 when the Jawbone branch reached Owenyo to be reinstalled at Owenyo. Unfortunately, a review of the 1916 ICC valuation survey does not show a turntable at either Keeler or Owenyo, and does not list a turntable out of service awaiting installation elsewhere (it does list other material not yet installed). To date, our research has not produced a photo of the Keeler turntable (there is a rumor of a photo…) , nor does it identify the location of the turntable in Keeler. As noted in Dennis' original question we have looked… we can't find evidence on the ground…
This leaves two open questions; 1) Was there a turntable in Keeler, and if so where and 2) what is the origin and history of the Owenyo turntable… I suspect that there are two unrelated answers…
The first question, concerning the Keeler turntable, can likely be answered yes, there was a turntable in Keeler, based on (so far 2nd hand) newspaper reports, but particularly on an invoice from the V&T for repairs on the Hawley turntable… (some have suggested that the invoice may relate to a 24" gauge turntable used by Inyo Development, but IDCo wouldn't be founded until 1886, 2 or three years after the repair invoice was issued)
If we accept that there was a Keeler turntable, it still leaves the questions of, where it was located and when it was removed open. It appears that the wye in Keeler was early, so the need for the turntable was limited, and it likely just went out of use before being removed… It was likely long gone before Owenyo needed a turntable, and logically did not end up there… A map in Ferrell's Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge (p 124) shows the turntable on the engine house lead, directly in front of the engine house… During the convention at least two groups visited Keeler, looking for evidence of the turntable… none was found on the engine house lead or elsewhere, so the question of location is still open…
The origin story for the Owenyo turntable says it was moved from somewhere else… generally Keeler… The style of the Owenyo turntable, without a ring rail supports the idea of an earlier turntable, likely from the C&C… in general SP turntables used a ring rail. The Laws turntable, built under SP management in 1906 has a ring rail… The Owenyo turntable built c.1919 does not…
If the Owenyo turntable is not the Keeler turntable, then where is it from… There were a limited number of turntables on the Carson & Colorado, later SPng Railroad… in the Owens Valley turntables were found at Keeler, Owenyo, Laws, and Hammil. The original Laws turntable dates to the opening of the railroad in 1882… but that original turntable was moved in 1889 to Hammil… leaving Laws without a turntable until a new SP style turntable was installed in 1906. The Hammil turntable was in use until 1913… In 1916 a wye was installed (and shown on the 1916 ICC Val. maps…) This leaves the question about where the Hammil turntable was between 1913 and 1919 if in fact it is the turntable found later found in Owenyo…
Outside the Owens Valley the C&C didn't use many turntables… One was found in Candelaria at the end of the branch, where it was presumably out of use by 1905… The Candelaria branch was not scrapped until 193X. We can presume that the Candelaria turntable would also have been available…
Both the Hammil and Candelaria turntables would have been the same design as later found at Owenyo.
March 1875 US Gov. land grant to the C&C for Keeler includes right of way for wye (in the shape of the wye)
August 1, 1883, The C&C reaches Keeler, and presumably a turntable is built "Even though the depot, turntable and engine house were still under construction, regular train schedules to Hawley (Keeler) were initiated on August 1, 1883." (Myrick, Railroads of Nevada and Eastern CA, Vol 1, p 174, submitted by Bob Wallace via SPng Yahoo group)
Dec. 14, 1883, V&T Invoice to C&C for turntable repairs at Hawley (in Turner, Narrow gauge Nostalgia, p 57 or High Country Narrow Gauge, p 48, submitted by Alan Borchardt via SPng Yahoo group)
1885, Inyo Development Co. organized. 2.5 miles of 24" gauge railroad including a turntable built.
November 7, 1889, 50' turntable from Bishop (Laws) moved to Hammil (Inyo Register from Serpico, p 107)
March 1900 C&C sold to Southern Pacific
Oct 8, 1903, Inyo Register reports that the turntable at Hammil will be moved to Laws (this apparently didn't happen) (Serpico, p 107)
SP employee timetable of 11-12-09 indicates a turntable at Hammil. (Brian Norden)
Oct 1910 Jawbone branch built to Owenyo, town founded, railroad facilities built.
Sept/Nov 1913, turntable at Hammil removed (Serpico p 108)
SP employee timetable of 6-15-15 does not indicate turning facilities at Hammil (water and phone listed) (Brian Norden)
1916 ICC Valuation – maps show at
Keeler: wye (land for wye granted 1875), no turntable
Owenyo: std gauge wye, no turntable
Laws: 56' turntable (with ring rail)
Hammil: wye (land purchased June 1916)
Between August 1919 & Feb 1920, a turntable was installed at Owenyo by SP (per Bader, via SPng Yahoo group)
SP employee timetable of 11-14-20 indicates a wye at Hammil (Brian Norden)
1947-48 Owenyo turntable removed (Serpico)
Owenyo turntable does not have a ring rail. SP turntables generally used a ring rail, while C&C turntables did not (by 1916 the Laws turntable did). This suggests that the Owenyo turntable was older, built by the C&C, and moved from another location (photo of interest, Turner, Narrow gauge Nostalgia, p 57 or High Country Narrow Gauge, p 48, submitted by Alan Borchardt) shows Owenyo turntable.
Photo of interest, Myrick Nevada & Eastern CA, p 191, showing caboose/business car No 2 with a turntable in the foreground. Location believed to be Hammil… A frame (shadow) with a pit with vertical boards, no ring rail.
Finally, in May 2014, the "team" did walk the ground looking both for evidence of a turntable, (we found none) and separately, where such a turntable (assuming a 50' "standard" C&C gallows turnable) could be located... We were carrying a 100' tape measure, and ICC track maps which include real estate information... and were trying to see if the turntable could be fit on the engine house lead (it would but would likely interfere with the location of the ash pit)... We came to the conclusion that it might best fit on the turntable lead, beyond the engine house... where the ground sloped away, so no pit would be required, so less ground disturbance would have occured, so less evidence might be left, which while is not a great location but not unknown. This would also place it out of sight, so possibly less likely to be photographed. That location would put it beyond the railroad's right of way... strangely, a corner of the engine house extends off the railroad's right of way, onto lots number 5 & 6 in town, which are NOT owned by the railroad. I note that if on the turntable lead beyond the engine house that we could predict within a few feet where the turntable center pin and associated foundation would have been located... and did search for that, and did not find it...
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Re: Keeler Turntable ???? …. Help
Post by Brian Norden » Wed Jul 17, 2019 9:21 pm
Comment I recall hearing about the Laws turntable from the people who worked on the replica turntable at Orange Empire. The style/design to the "spider" center casting on the bottom of the table or bridge is different from the design shown in the Southern Pacific drawings. This probably meaning that this casting was reused from an older table even through the upper works are in the SP design. All the castings for the TT at Perris are from the patterns created for the TT at NSRM in Carson City and developed from the SP drawings at CSRM.
Solomani
Post by Solomani » Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:27 am
Thanks Randy, Brian and team. This is an interesting read.
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The best alternatives to Skype 9 more free applications for video telephony
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If you are thinking of a video call, almost certainly the first one to come to mind will be Skype. The service introduced in 2003 is the most widely used application for video calling on the Internet. Whether it's on PCs, notebooks, tablets or smartphones, you can get in touch with other Skype users virtually everywhere. For video calling you need a video camera and microphone device, free Skype software, and an Internet connection.
However, there are many other free IP telephony applications (ie, Internet telephony, also known as "VoIP"), which also allow the transmission of video between two interlocutors. Most of these alternatives to Skype are equally as free. Some are characterized by features and data protection measures that can not be traced back to the market leader. But which of these alternatives to Skype are really valid? We will illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of Skype and other 10 applications for video telephony.
Best alternatives to Skype: 9 free programs for your video calls
First of all, it should be clarified that many video chat applications are discussed as Skype with regard to privacy management. However, there are some providers in this field that focus on the security of communications content. Some services specialize in privacy, while others, due to numerous criticisms and public pressures, have been forced to change privacy data protection provisions to meet more users, including encryption techniques.
However, leaving behind the debate on data privacy, there are many alternatives that are valid to Skype, which are characterized by their useful and creative functions. All the video chat applications described below are completely free. Let us not show its merits and defects.
ezTalks Cloud Meeting
ezTalks Cloud Meeting is one of the most competitive alternative to Skype. It is also available in almost all the platforms. It is one of the world leading video conferencing solutions. You can interface with up to 99 participants over video gathering for nothing, and associate with up to 499 participants with its paid arrangement.
OoVoo can do almost anything that Skype does: in addition to video and IP telephony, ooVoo lets you chat with other users, swap files, and use the pay-per-view mobile network. Video calls are possible with up to 12 accounts. According to the provider, the so-called "superclear" technology ensures optimum image and audio quality. In addition, the service offers some functions not available on Skype, such as the option to accept video calls through the application. In the desktop version you can watch YouTube videos along with your interlocutor.
The service is available on Windows for both mobile devices and desktop, macOS, Android, and iOS operating systems. Overall, ooVoo is a good alternative to Skype, since it looks like most of the features and ooVoo even adds additional features.
However, with regard to data security, the application is completely disappointed: there is no encryption of communications, a choice motivated by the provider on the website with the reason that the quality of the broadcasts would be affected. In addition, the video conference limit of 12 participants alongside the lack of desktop-sharing option loses to ooVoo the comparison with Skype. Another lack comes from its low spread. Perhaps, contrary to Skype, you must first get some contacts to use the application before you can communicate via ooVoo alternative.
The other Zoom elective you can utilize is GoToMeeting alternatives. This is an across the board correspondence application for organizations that you can use on various stages. It is cloud-based and can support as many as 100 participants.
Jitsi's open source software addresses the users who are very much in the heart of the security of their conversations regarding video telephony. All calls, both with and without video, are encoded. You can also enable content encryption in chat. There is no official limit on the number of participants in a videoconference, as this depends solely on the computer's ability and the speed of the Internet connection. Surprisingly, Jitsi does not need to subscribe to the service, but you can simply use the Jitsi Meet browser variant: the conversation opens with a click, and then a link is created with which the interlocutors can add to the conversation.
Jitsi can also be used through clients for Windows, MacOS, and Linux operating systems. On the other hand, however, there are no clients for mobile device operating systems, even if you can use the browser version even from smartphones and tablets.
In 2013, after the NSA interception scandal, an anonymous developer began working on the Tox program. Already the logo shows how much privacy is important to the service: in fact, any kind of communication within the application is secured through end-to-end encryption. This ensures that in addition to the participants in the conversation, no one else has access to the contents of communications. The IP address is only visible to the conversation partners. In addition, data transmission is not carried out through a central server, but through peer-to-peer technology, where data exchange takes place directly between the computers involved.
This should disincentive external users to gain access to conversations and data exchange. Developers understand their software as counter-design to most other chat and video telephony applications that do not provide total protection against interception, but instead collect data. In addition, attention is drawn to the fact that behind the program there is no hidden commercial interest.
Next to the usual (video) call, chat and file transfer capabilities, Tox also offers a desktop sharing option available for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Contact information is exchanged with other Tox users through a special Tox identifier. Video chat is currently only available between two users; However, with the continuous growth of software, it is expected that this aspect will change soon. Due to the Tox Beta Development Stage, it is likely that errors still appear in the application; As the same creators of the software admit. Those who attach absolute importance to the security of video calling, VoIP, and chat should not be intimidated by this, because in the Tox, they offer particularly powerful and functional security measures: it is almost impossible to ask for better privacy than this.
The Yahoo messaging service is another program on this type of market, whose basic functions are similar to those of Skype: for example, the chat function operates through data transmission and there is access to the web app through the browser . Video calls can only be made between two profiles.
For the rest, Yahoo Messenger is an alternative to Skype that is absolutely adequate, with the ability to integrate with Yahoo's email service. In addition, sent messages can be deleted, otherwise known only on Skype. Yahoo Messenger is a highly mature video chat and messaging application featuring Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS clients. However, Yahoo does not overlook the negative criticisms of privacy, which is why messaging software is not considered safe.
Skype also strongly reminds Viber's features. The program manages VoIP with and without image transmission, as well as instant messaging and file transfer. Even if you can make paid calls, you only offer video telephony between two accounts. Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry are available.
Nonetheless, Viber has caught attention by recording an unusual amount of user data: the service has broken the EU's privacy law. Even information about people who were not even registered at the service was saved. End-to-end encryption is offered since 2016, but fixed or mobile phone calls are excluded, which is a guarantee for content security.
Overall, Viber is a very functional application that, like other valid Skype alternatives, has few users and behaves in a dubious way about privacy.
Many do not even know that through the most popular social media chat you can make a video call to other Facebook users. This option exists both in the desktop version and in the Facebook Messenger app for Android and iOS. With the app you can make common VoIP calls with up to 50 different profiles, but video telephony is only allowed between two Facebook accounts. The huge spread of Facebook is one of the points in your favor: you will most likely already be connected with some of your friends and acquaintances, so to facilitate the action of making a (video) call. The big lacuna lies in the lack of data security, where Facebook has often been criticized: communication is not yet encrypted according to standards, although it is planned for the future.
With FaceTime Apple offers its own video chat app, exclusively for its devices, such as iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The application is very essential: in addition to Internet telephony with or without video, FaceTime alternatives does not contain any additional features. As with Facebook Messenger, Apple's app can not make video calls with more than one contact, but you can still call up to 10 contacts in an audio conversation.
Hangouts app is generally viewed as a Google attempt to enter the instant messaging market to compete with WhatsApp. Google Hangouts is available as an app for both Android devices and iOS devices, and as web app on the browser. In all variants, you can not only chat and exchange files with other Hangouts users, but also conduct video calls with up to 10 participants. From the end of 2015 you can invite unregistered people to join a call via the browser.
Because of the services released in 2016, Google Duo and Google Allo, another instant messaging app, increase the number of promises that Google Hangouts progressively gets into the background until they are completely replaced by the two new apps. Google has said that Hangouts alternative will be more focused on business.
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I hope that you have had the chance to personally experience an AIMS professional learning opportunity. We AIMS facilitators have multiple goals as we lead workshops. We provide classroom teachers an opportunity to increase and/or strengthen their own content knowledge, explore their teaching practices, and we strive to help teachers find ways to improve their own students' learning. Most of us AIMS facilitators are classroom teachers ourselves, working to accomplish the same goals in our own classrooms.
Chris Franklin, a 5th grade science teacher in Houston, Texas, is a first year AIMS facilitator. He embraces these AIMS workshop goals and is focused on them in his own classroom this year. He is working to deepen and increase his own content knowledge, including the Next Generation Science Standards. He is exploring and becoming reflective about his own teaching practices. He is looking for ways to increase his own students' learning. Chris is working to hone his craft as he prepares to facilitate AIMS workshops for schools and districts.
Chris' students continue to use AIMS investigations in his classes. The expectation for fifth grade students in Texas is to be able to recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to the Earth's surface by wind, water, and ice. During the investigation Carving Canyons, Mr. Franklin was pleased with the students' level of engagement, excitement, and understanding. The students exhibited quality science inquiry while using appropriate tools and methods, to explore landform phenomena. This AIMS investigation helped them delve deeply into this Texas standard.
Chris Franklin is yet another AIMS facilitator that I am happy to call my colleague. The AIMS Center values his commitment to becoming the best AIMS facilitator he can be. By using AIMS science investigations in his classroom again this year, he continues to expand his first hand experience and knowledge of how the investigations work with students and he is excited to have the opportunity to share his knowledge with workshop participants – colleagues.
Which AIMS science investigations are you using with your students?
You're a gifted.teacher and this is your passion. Hopefully your districk recognized the gift they have in tou. Your students surely do. All the best!
So excited to hear this news that a Hands-On approach to Science has the students more engaged in their science, and excelling to new heights. Wonderful news for teacher and students!!
I have had the honor of working with Mr. Franklin for the past three years. Each year he accepts the challenges our campus faces by researching and seeking new inventive methods to support our children. Mr. Franklin has truly embraced the AIMS approach. Under his leadership, students are able to apply the concepts of science to real, hands-on experiments. The experiments and activities have allowed our students to think abstractly, opposed to concretely. Student morale has increased as confidence levels are soaring high throughout our campus. Students are excited about learning, which is one of the greatest joys of teaching.
Great job Chris!! Nice to hear about the improvement in your students engagement as well as their scores. Kids love science when you get them hooked. Hands-on investigations keep their focus. Thanks for sharing.
This year I have the pleasure of teaching all the fifth grade students on my campus. I use this opportunity to expand their understanding of science via incorporating the AIMS activities. Prior to this year, science scores were in the fiftieth percentile, which did not meet district averages or expectations. However, thus far, we noticed ten percent increase in student scores. Students are enthusiastic about the activities and take an inquisitive approach to learning. The lessons are very intuitive and sustainable for my students.


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2018 Country Music Preview: 30 Most Anticipated Albums and Tours
From new LPs by Kacey Musgraves and Dierks Bentley to tours by Miranda Lambert and Kenny Chesney
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A new album from Kacey Musgraves and headlining tours by Kenny Chesney and Miranda Lambert are among the anticipated highlights of 2018.
For fans of country and Americana music, 2018 is shaping up to be a bountiful year. Groundbreaking Nashville artists like Kacey Musgraves and Dierks Bentley are returning with new albums, while up-and-comers like Lanco and Devin Dawson unveil debuts that should make them strong additions to the format. In Americana, BJ Barham's American Aquarium ready their first release with a new lineup, Australian chanteuse Ruby Boots drops an eclectic LP and Anderson East bares more of his soul on his sophomore album. There are also a ton of tours to keep an eye on. Here are the shows and records we're most excited to see and hear.
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Tour: Unapologetically Tour
Dates: February 8th – March 27th
"I'm excited to sing about who I am right now," Kelsea Ballerini told Rolling Stone on the eve of releasing Unapologetically, the star singer's bold and mature new album that in addition to providing her diehard fans with new anthems in the title track and "Legends," signaled to Nashville that she had far more than fizzy teenage anthems up her sleeve. In 2018 the newly-married 24-year-old is taking her album on the road: the Unapologetically Tour, which includes Walker Hayes and Bailey Bryan as support, kicks off February 8th in Alabama, features a choice Valentine's Day gig at the Ryman, before wrapping in April at the Stagecoach Festival. And once being a devoted concertgoer herself, expect Ballerini to leave it all on the stage. "I remember working extra to save up enough money to go buy concert tickets to sit in the nosebleeds," she said. "I was such a dedicated fan. That was me." D.H.
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Brothers Osborne
Album: TBA
Date: TBA
The success of Brothers Osborne is one of modern country's true highlights – they write killer songs to playful, bluesy melodies, sing about getting high as often as heartbreak, and make sure to leave as much room for John Osborne's ace guitar work as TJ's perfect baritone. And if their new single, the dirty and dangerous Southern rock jam "Shoot Me Straight" is any indication, the follow-up to their debut Pawn Shop is going to be just as exciting, full of ample give-no-fuckeries: the "single" clocks in at nearly seven minutes, after all, and follows John into a mind-melting solo. It's an appetite-whetter of the finest order. M.M.
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Album: The Mountain
For his ninth album, the Arizona native headed west, setting up shop in Telluride, Colorado, and finding inspiration in its remote, rustic vibe. A longtime bluegrass devotee, Bentley mixes the organic instruments of his 2010 string-music departure Up on the Ridge with the polish of his last album, 2016's Black. "This record covers more ground in that Up on the Ridge area than I thought it would," he tells Rolling Stone Country. "The most successful part of my career is in large part due to [songwriter-producer] Ross Copperman, and these sounds and ideas that he has. But we've reached a place where we've pushed that as far as we can, so how do we grab some of the stuff I love from the first part of my career and blow that up even more." Bentley has already debuted songs from The Mountain live onstage, including the ballad "Living" and the anthemic "Burning Man." J.H.
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Tour: Livin' Like Hippies Tour
Dates: January 18th to March 24th
Of all the songs from Miranda Lambert's big, bold double-LP The Weight of These Wings, "Highway Vagabond" is the one she's gotten the most mileage out of – at least in literal terms. The namesake of her 2017 tour, her new run of shows this winter also takes its name from a line in the chorus, the Livin' Like Hippies Tour. Jon Pardi joins Lambert on each of the 24 dates, but there will be an array of other acts hopping on the country caravan at different points, including Brent Cobb, Turnpike Troubadours, Lucie Silvas, the Steel Woods, Sunny Sweeney, Ashley McBryde and Charlie Worsham. While the tour runs from coast to coast, it focuses its attention in the Midwest and on the West Coast, wrapping up just in time for summer – when Lambert will join Little Big Town for the co-headlining Bandwagon Tour. J.G.
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Album: Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves' second album, Pageant Material, was one of 2015's most celebrated country releases, earning her a Best Country Album nod at the 2016 Grammys. Since then, fans have been eager for a follow-up, and in late 2017 Musgraves announced that they'd get it this year. Golden Hour doesn't have a release date yet, but the details Musgraves has shared are intriguing. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly announcing the album, she revealed that Golden Hour would be "trippy," with not-so-country artists like Sade and the Bee Gees serving as influences. Though uber-songwriters Luke Laird and Shane McAnally co-produced Musgraves' first two albums, Nashville underdogs Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian took the reins on Golden Hour, another move to shake things up. "On this record, there's the lonely girl, the blissful girl, the new wife, the girl that's missing her mom, the angry girl, the sarcastic girl, the Sixties-sequined Cruella de Vil with the beehive, the shy girl, the life of the party, the winner, the loser," she told EW. "They're all characters on this record." B.M.
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Album: Shooter
For his latest album, the follow-up to his adventurous tribute to Giorgio Moroder, Countach (For Giorgio), country-rock-electronica mad scientist Shooter Jennings looked to his outlaw lineage, cutting an album of stripped-down classic country in the vein of his dad Waylon and one of his heroes, Hank Williams Jr. He also returned to where it all began, re-teaming with Dave Cobb, who produced Jennings' 2005 debut, Put the 'O' Back in Country – the first album the Grammy-winning Cobb ever produced too. Simply titled Shooter, the LP will be released sometime this year via Cobb's Low Country Sound imprint on Elektra. Says Jennings, "It's the most country album I've ever done." J.H.
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American Aquarium
Album: Things Change
BJ Barham's American Aquarium have been cult favorites since releasing their debut album Antique Hearts in 2006. Taking their name from the Wilco song "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," the band trades in a similar kind of early-aughts alt-country that also recalls Lucero, Ryan Adams and Drive-By Truckers. For American Aquarium's seventh album, though, Barham found himself forced in a new direction after the rest of the band called it quits. Appropriately titled Things Change, the album, recorded in Tulsa and produced with John Fullbright, is Barham's first since 2015's Wolves and chronicles the drastic life events – new band included – Barham encountered since. "I got married, I got sober, I had an entire band quit on me, I had an entire new band join me on the road," Barham says. "The new band brings such different things to the table. We feel like we have something to prove. I'm rejuvenated and hungry again." B.M.
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Lindi Ortega
Album: Liberty
Lindi Ortega's music has always been the sonic embodiment of the red cowboy boots she's often seen wearing: a fiery and dramatic take on modern country that's impossible to ignore. Her fourth LP, Faded Gloryville, was no exception, but things got a bit more mysterious when she released a sober, stark EP last year that included a cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting 'Round to Die" and her own reflections on the difficulties of the creative life. For her forthcoming LP, Liberty, Ortega – now married and living back in Canada after a stint in Nashville – finds both a profound connection to her past (specifically, her Mexican and Irish heritage) and her future with her new husband through a concept album that follows a character from misery to triumph. As Hope Sandoval as it is Dolly Parton, it sure sounds liberated, too. M.M.
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Album: Dark Horse
Release Date: January 19th
Once best known for a medley of Taylor Swift tunes that racked up more than 30 million views on YouTube, Dawson spent 2017 making the jump from computer screen to stage. Now, with a self-titled EP and dozens of arena gigs under his belt – including opening dates on the recent reboot of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's Soul2Soul Tour – he's ready to release his full-length debut. Dark Horse, with its stunning title track, leaves the stable on January 19th. Produced by Jay Joyce, it's a forward-thinking album that occupies the outermost orbits of country-pop, with songs influenced by R&B's beat and bluster. "I learned how to write songs just by listening to country music and how to set up words," Dawson says. "The weight of the words we have in this genre is unlike anything." R.C.
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Album: Wouldn't It Be Great
The Country Music Hall of Fame vocalist delayed the release of her already-recorded new album Wouldn't It Be Great until 2018 after suffering a stroke last May. Like the Grammy-nominated Full Circle that preceded it, the LP was co-produced by John Carter Cash and Lynn's daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and cut at Johnny Cash's cabin studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Boasting new songs like "I'm Dying for Someone to Live For" and "Ruby's Stool," written with songwriter Shawn Camp, Wouldn't It Be Great also includes new versions of Lynn staples "Don't Come Home a-Drinkin'" and "Coal Miner's Daughter." "You can't get them anymore," Lynn told Rolling Stone in 2016 of her decision to update her classics. "You've got fans that want it. So we will give them to 'em."
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Tour: Trip Around the Sun Tour
Dates: April 21st – August 24th
The king of summertime stadium shows is returning to the road after mainly staying put in 2017. "Over the years I feel like I've had a pretty good finger on the pulse of when to hit it hard and when to back away a little bit," says Kenny Chesney. "Sooner or later, I figure I'll want to pull the guitar out of the case." Kicking off April 21st, the Trip Around the Sun Tour offers everything its name suggests: sweat, spectacle and sunny vibes, all delivered by a man who loves Jimmy Buffett and hates shirtsleeves. The gigs cut a cross-country trail through the end of August, with a rotating group of openers — including Dierks Bentley, Thomas Rhett, Old Dominion, Brandon Lay and Brothers Osborne — beefing up the bills. Those who can't wait until the warmer months can pregame now with Live in No Shoes Nation, Chesney's recently released concert album. R.C.
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Joshua Hedley
Jack White proved he had impeccable taste in country's unsung voices when he signed Margo Price as Third Man's first artist in the genre. Now Joshua Hedley, known around Nashville for years as a top-rate fiddle player (he's supported Jonny Fritz and Justin Townes Earle) and a veritable jukebox of traditional country music (his nickname is actually Mr. Jukebox), is the label's next foray into twang. And it's a smart one. Hedley's got a voice that could sing the phonebook and make it sound like a Sixties gem straight from Billy Sherrill's lost 1960s archives, which he demonstrated in spades when he played his entire new record, due sometime this year, during Americana Fest this past fall. Hedley's not trying to play an outlaw: but he has enough respect for the rules of tradition that he can break them, too. M.M.
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Album: Seasons Change
Release Date: March 16th
Things weren't looking too good for Scotty McCreery in 2016. After the disastrous single "Southern Belle," he parted ways with label Mercury Nashville, and was in danger of getting lost in a crowded, male-dominated Nashville. Instead, he reassessed and rallied, co-writing the excellent "Five More Minutes," a poignant, relatable song about stretching out life's special moments that cracked the Top 20 without the push of a major label. Now partnered up with Triple Tigers Records, he's releasing the type of country music he prefers – the classic, more mature stuff – on his new LP Seasons Change, proving he's in the midst of a welcome reinvention. J.H.
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Album: Solid Ground
Release Date: February 9th
Country music wouldn't be what it is today without the influence of Texas artists. It's not so surprising, then, that a Waco-born singer-songwriter like Wade Bowen would plot an entire album paying homage to his deep Lone Star State roots. Solid Ground, Bowen's first release via Thirty Tigers, finds the artist exploring all the sounds that make Texas tick, including classic country, Red Dirt rock and south of the border Tex-Mex. An early standout: the evocative "Day of the Dead." "The imagery and mood that this song conjures up transport you directly to the deep West Texas desert that I've grown to know and love," he says. Though Bowen has plenty of Texas cred of his own, he tapped Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram and Jon Randall as guests on what turned out to be a pretty star-studded LP – the album also features co-writes with Angaleena Presley, Charlie Worsham, Waylon Payne and Andrew Combs. B.M.
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Cody Jinks
Cody Jinks' 2016 indie release I'm Not the Devil surprised many with its strong sales and its equally popular tour by the former thrash-metal singer. His tales of drunken nights and hungover days resonated with those in search of a bona fide outlaw country artist – not one who merely plays the part. "We go all over the United States, man, and people tell us, 'Thank you,'" Jinks told Rolling Stone Country in 2016. "There's no bullshit in our show. We get out there and we rip people's faces off." Now, Jinks is putting the finishing touches on Devil's spawn, tweeting earlier this month that he was headed back into the studio to wrap up recording on a new album. Expect something apart from the norm by one of country's most inventive artists: his "Black Hole Sun" tribute to the late Chris Cornell with Paul Cauthen proved he's not afraid of turning songs on their head. J.H.
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Ashley McBryde
Ashley McBryde had been cutting her teeth in Nashville's bars and writer's nights for more than 10 years until Eric Church brought her on stage during his Holdin' My Own Tour and turned her performance of "Bible and a .44" into a viral sensation – and saw the beautifully tender "A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega" make waves on the iTunes charts. "Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all," she says. "Even though I have been doing this for 11 years, I'm new to most people." Now, Church's longtime producer Jay Joyce has partnered up with McBryde for her debut full-length LP, which will contain plenty of bare bones, gut-honest songwriting that drew Church to her in the first place. Expect to see her autobiographical crowd favorite "Girl Goin' Nowhere" and other detail-laced tracks that position McBryde to be one of 2018's breakout songwriter sensations. M.M.
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Album: 61 Days in Church
Release Date: April 21st
Few things last year were as exciting in music as watching Eric Church take a steel-toed boot to the country-rock soul of every damn arena with each stop on his monumental Holdin' My Own Tour. No openers, two sets and three-hour-plus gigs, complete with choice covers. Yes, Chief outdid himself in 2017. Luckily he documented it all for his 61 Days in Church live release. Previously available only via digital platforms, last year he announced a massive 15-LP vinyl box set. The first three installments became available December, and this year, if you join his record club, the remaining 12 vinyl releases will be shipped out once a month through the entirety of 2018. Not up for joining the club? This April, on the occasion of Record Store Day, Church will be releasing a special 8-song vinyl LP featuring select covers from the game-changing tour. D.H.
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Outlaw Country Cruise/Cayamo Cruise
Dates: Outlaw Cruise: January 22nd to 26th; Cayamo Cruise: February 4th to 11th
These days in the country music world, January and February means cruise season. Rather than hibernate while waiting for summer festivals to roll around, some of the biggest names in the business hit the high seas for a week at a time, often for cruises coordinated by Atlanta company SixthMan. The Outlaw cruise (with the likes of Blackberry Smoke, the Mavericks and Shooter Jennings) and Cayamo (including John Prine, Brandi Carlile and Lee Ann Womack) both set sail from New Orleans under the SixthMan banner on their way to Mexico (and in Cayamo's case, on to Belize). But, booming industry that it is, there are other cruises to be had as well this winter, including the Country Music Cruise presented by the Grand Ole Opry, which sails from Fort Lauderdale for the Caribbean and boasts Alabama and the Gatlin Brothers on its bill. J.G.
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Mike and the Moonpies
Album: Steak Night at the Prairie Rose
Release Date: February 2nd
Mike and the Moonpies' front man Mike Harmeier says the group's new album, Steak Night at the Prairie Rose, is all about the band and recreating its live show, which is a more than apt decision for this group of Texas road warriors. Recorded in less than a week outside Austin, last spring with producer Adam Odor, the songs that have premiered so far from the new LP – "Beaches of Biloxi" and "Road Crew" – are high-octane tributes to logging in those long-distance miles, something the Moonpies are more than familiar with. Harmeier wrote or co-wrote all but one of the 11 tracks, with the lone exception going to old buddy Jonathan Terrell, who contributes "The Last Time" and previously wrote "Damn Strait" on the band's The Hard Way. Steak Night is their fifth album and first since 2015's Mockingbird. J.G.
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Ruby Boots
Album: Don't Talk About It
Sorry, fellas, but no one does outlaw country these days quite like the ladies do. That point was drive home time and time again in 2017, thanks to shit-kicking albums from Nikki Lane, Jaime Wyatt and Margo Price. Next month, kindred spirit and Nashville transplant Ruby Boots (a good friend of Lane's) adds a Down Under twist with Don't Talk About It, her first release with Bloodshot Records. Ruby Boots, the alter-ego of Australian Bex Chilcott, does more than throw a foreigner's view into the mix; it brings sass, swagger, and a rock & roll edge to the party. A party that is sure to be a rowdy one, too, if the album's crunchy lead single "It's So Cruel" is any indication. J.G.
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Margo Price
Tour: Nowhere Fast Tour
"Nowhere Fast" is a hugely misleading way to describe where Margo Price finds herself these days. Hot off the release of All American Made, which landed the Number One spot on Rolling Stone Country's list of the best country albums of 2017, Price's Nowhere Fast Tour should be one of the most anticipated this winter. Price makes the trek from Kentucky through Texas and Colorado on her way to the West Coast, making a detour via the Cayamo Cruise along the way in February. She bookends the tour with a visit to the U.K.'s Country 2 Country festival in March and has already sold out two shows at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in May. Expect the tour to be as sonically diverse as her latest LP. "Making this album, we really didn't want to limit ourselves to any one genre," she says. "There's so much musical history in America, styles that were developed here. If it was good, we just decided to do it." J.G.
Album: Hallelujah Nights
The road to Lanco's debut album has been long for both the band and their fans. The group signed to Arista Nashville way back in 2015, releasing a debut EP, Extended Play, the following year. Since then, they've built buzz with engaging live shows and big singles, like "Greatest Love Story," which became Lanco's first chart-topper. That song, written by frontman Brandon Lancaster, also appears on Hallelujah Nights, as do the EP's three additional tracks. Lancaster wrote or co-wrote all 11 of the album's songs, which marry evocative, narrative lyrics with infectious, Southern-rock–influenced arrangements – all bearing Lancaster's signature raspy drawl. "Country music is about finding people where they're at right now," he told Rolling Stone last year, "working a 9-to-5, going through hard times, questioning life." B.M.
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Tour: Still the Same Tour
Dates: May 4th – September 8th
"It feels like we've been here before, right?" Kristian Bush asked Jennifer Nettles at the 2017 CMA Awards, while both stood onstage at the Bridgestone Arena — Nashville's 14,000-seat hockey arena, which Sugarland sold out back in 2011 — to present the evening's award for Vocal Duo of the Year. The two bandmates will share the spotlight throughout 2018, too, thanks to a 48-city reunion tour. The cross-country trek marks Sugarland's first real activity since 2012, when both members began focusing on solo careers. Also on the horizon: a newly-inked contract with Big Machine Records and an upcoming Sugarland album, whose lead single, "Still the Same," has already cracked the Top 40. R.C.
John Oates
Album: Arkansas
Since putting down roots in Nashville, Eighties pop-and-R&B icon John Oates has carved out a sweet spot for himself in the Americana community. His 2013 album Good Road to Follow was an underrated gem, with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member (he and Daryl Hall were inducted in 2014) acquitting himself nicely as a roots-music artist. He further mines that genre on the new Arkansas, an LP of mainly covers by Jimmie Rodgers and Mississippi John Hurt, and traditionals ("Stack O Lee" is a highlight). The title track, an Oates original, pays tribute to the state's musical legacy, informed by its border on the Mississippi River. "My entire musical life has been influenced by the music that has flowed up that river from New Orleans through the Delta," Oates says. "It occurred to me that Arkansas was the last rural stop on the musical journey northward." J.H.
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Album: By the Way, I Forgive You
Release Date: February 16th
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Cyril "ANGE1" Karasev spoke about the trips of HellRaisers to DreamHack Tours 2017 and DreamHack Austin 2017. In an interview with RuHub, he also shared his opinion about the rumors surrounding his transition to Natus Vincere G2A.
About the lost final DreamHack Tours 2017
"It was very difficult to play on the French stage against the French. There was probably the most tough support against which I played. There were no soundproof cabins and this atmosphere was very pressured. At the same time, she pressed on us and encouraged G2. We lost a lot of dueling, pistols, clutches were given constantly. On maps, we generally do not really understand. When you have a seven-card mappool, it all depends very much on how prepared you are for the tournament. But at the same time, readiness can not be a 100% indicator, since you did not play these cards on the LAN. "
About the failure on DreamHack Austin 2017
"I will say so, these two tournaments [in Austin and Tours – approx. Ed.], Are not indicators in the context of the level of play of our team. Austin was probably the worst tournament in terms of comfort for the players. It's a terrible meal, tables: I play with bondik, we can not put our hands on the table properly, holes are drilled where I have to lay the carpet. These are the headphones that do not work. They had a sponsor there, I will not call it ugly, they gave soundproof headphones, the microphone in which they worked through the word. And it was absolutely all teams, and [the organizers] could not do anything about it, because "sorry, everything has been paid for". "
About the topic of the transition of ANGE1 to Natus Vincere G2A
"Honestly, before the" major "I'm not going to consider anything. No hands to "major" will not, and then I will think very hard, even if this happens. Because when you make such decisions, you take into account many factors: the potential strength of the composition, and the potential tournaments that you can be invited to, and, of course, salaries, team opportunities, bootcamps, trips. Such a decision should always be made taking into account all factors. But to be honest: I believe that my youth are now in the team, let's say, perhaps, they have a lower bar than Na'Vi players, but we and Johnta correctly teach them. They are not hard workers, but right workers – they work correctly.
We do not spoil them as players. On the contrary, they will become stronger and stronger with each stage. And it is unclear what is best: when you steadily grow a player and he reaches a certain level, or a person who is basically, that's the style of playing Na'Vi now, it's more from the skill, from one. What if I put these Na'Vi players in the framework of these players, will they be able to play these positions and roles? Or will it again be a constant quarrel with s1mple, discontent, etc.? ".
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