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On Ball State Football, CFB Playoffs, and Clemson Punters
Posted on December 7, 2015 by Alan
Well, hello there, friend. How are you? Enjoying your pre-holiday festivities? That's delightful. Yes, it's been a while but that isn't without reason. Frankly, this football season left a quite sour taste in my mouth, and it's hard to be my usual beacon of positivity and Card-riffic fanfare when you are oscillating somewhere between a murderous rage and general befuddlement about how and why this season went so off the rails. I'll be the first to admit that my preseason prediction with Jason on the OTPcast of 10-2 was being my usual extremely optimistic self, but not even in my most negative thoughts did I see 3-9 as a real possibility. I would have bet darn near anything I had that at worst the Cards were 5-7 and even then I'd feel like it was a sucker bet for whomever was on the other end of the wager.
So now I, like most Cards fans, sit and grumble about the 2015 campaign as the gap between the Cardinals and the upper echelon of the MAC continues to widen. For whatever reason, the Cards just can't seem to crest the hill. Conference brethren BG, NIU, and to some extent others seem to be able to consistently win. Wins that come regardless of personnel, coaches, and details. Year in, year out, W after W. That hasn't been Ball State in the past, isn't Ball State now, and frankly, may never be Ball State, and that's a tough pill to swallow.
Speaking of coaches, no news out of the nest on coaching shake ups, additions, or reorganizing. Admittedly, it has only been a week or so since the Cards' last game, but I would be shocked if there wasn't a shake up of some sort on the coaching staff. If there isn't, there's your sign that Coach Pete Lembo (CPL) has decided it's ride or die with the group he has, and while noble and loyal, may be the decision that years from now people point back to as the tipping point of when things really went south.
The key thing now is holding a recruiting class together and somehow figuring out how to cobble together an offseason that will set this group who remains up for success in 2016. The excuses this year were ready-made in a tough schedule, two relatively new coordinators, so on and so on. But with each year that passes, the excuses get smaller and smaller. 2016 is a critical year for this program, this staff, these players, and this fanbase. A successful season means 2015 was a blip on the radar and the prior years when everyone was ready to sell off Letterman memorabilia to raise money to keep CPL is the norm. A season that doesn't meet expectations says that mediocrity may very well be the new norm. Another disaster like this season and I don't even want to think what that's going to look like. The Cards' fanbase is small but mighty, and when it's angry mobbin' time, we do it with the best of them.
Regardless of the outcomes, it's going to be a fall not to miss.
The Playoff
Well, whoopy-ti-do we got ourselves a final four! Fans of Clemson (more on them later), Alabama, Michigan State, and Oklahoma can now lord their playoff appearance over their non-playoff-participating-friends. Is this group the four best teams? Eh. Cases could be made for probably three or four others (Stanford the most notable) but on the whole, I'd say those four are just as qualified as any other. My gut says the final will be Oklahoma-Alabama, but Michigan State has seemed like a team of destiny most of the year. Hard to pick against the Sabanbot though.
Dabo Screams at a Punter, the World Explodes
In case you didn't see the ACC Championship game on Saturday, you missed Clemson's punter deciding to fake a punt. The aftermath…
Right on cue and predictably so, the world seemed to explode immediately with an undercurrent of "Dabo is so mean!" or "How can he treat a player like that?!", all of which makes me weep for our society if that's what we've come to. Andy Teasdall, though I'm sure a delightful human being and great punter, decided to freelance a play in a championship game where his teammates and coaches were counting on people playing as one. That's not championship football, it's not a winner's attitude, and it's selfish. That, in my mind, isn't up for debate. The outcry is what is most unnerving and makes me wonder if this is more placation for the fragile snowflakes today's youths. Did the punter's feelings get hurt? Too bad. Don't be a selfish asshole and life dramatically improves for you. Best you learn that now, Princess.
The amount of coddling and insulation from failure or critique for students of today is one of the biggest cancers in higher education. It is a breeding ground of students that are neither equipped to handle failure nor capable of solving their own problems. We are doing a disservice to students when we don't prepare them for the world, a world that on the whole is a cold, heartless, and cruel place that cares approximately dick about your feelings. Don't like your place in the world? Change it. Don't like how you get treated? Address it. Don't be bitter, be better. And don't blame the people who are trying to make that so.
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Coaches Poll Contemplates Doing Exact Opposite of Sensible
Posted on May 7, 2009 by Alan
Disclaimer… This is not another BCS rant. That lifeboat in the blogosphere, the S.S. Hate, long set sail from this port. OTP is against the "playoff" conversations, because it's just another half assed attempt to fix an unfixable inherently flawed situation. Ranting about the BCS is ridiculous, a waste of time and keystrokes, and is akin to bitching about the clouds. Complain all you want, it isn't going anywhere.
However, the components of that BCS are at bare minimum open for discussion, especially given what's at stake beyond a berth in the national title game. When Texas loses out on an opportunity to play for the Big 12, because computers and polls rank a team with an equal record, who Texas beat, ahead of the Longhorns, someone, somewhere has to look at how those numbers are computed. If staying within the current system is a given, and to me, it is, then the only viable solution is to ensure as much transparency, accountability, and reasonable thought/logic goes into the various components of said less-than-ideal current situation.
What doesn't even remotely compute within this conversation is the proposed shift in the Coaches Poll. The poll itself has undergone myriad changes over it's 59 year life span to get to its current spot in the football universe. The identities of those voting is not a secret, their votes are (with the exception of the final regular season ballot), and the participating coaches are required to put the BCS Championship Game winner #1 in their final ballot of the year.
On the table for the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), based upon a recommendation from Gallup, is a total shroud of mystery draped over the entire thing. Identities would be concealed, votes remain secret, and transparency would go from its current "sort of" to a marked "absolutely none". How can this be good for the sport? The simple answer is that it cannot.
The Coach's Poll, in and of itself, is a bit ridiculous to me. For one, you are asking a group of professionals who are totally focused only on their own team and their opponents in one week bursts to evaluate the play and performance of 119 others over the course of an entire season. That's asking a lot, unless you want them to pawn it off to an SID or an intern, which I wouldn't be surprised to see happen far more often than not.
Second, you're asking coaches to be non-biased. A great theory, but nearly impossible, given that these polls play into the BCS rankings, and therefore BCS selections, and therefore BCS paydays which are split amongst fellow conference schools. If I'm a head coach who can let my school potentially have another million bucks for voting conference mates ahead of others, you can bet your ass I'll do it. Anyone would. It's human nature.
So for the coaches poll to have any "credibility" to begin with, we, as fans, are asked to assume that coaches will be informed, participatory, and non-biased. And the only way to ensure that's happening is to ensure that the public can see exactly how these non-biased informed voters are voting. More transparency is the answer. More mystery, more cloak and dagger, more smoke and mirrors does nothing. It only serves as yet another way for the major conference powers to be territorial, possessive, and discriminatory while playing in their BCS sandbox.
But perhaps what is most troubling, and this to me is the crux of the argument against these proposed changes, is that this is just another little roadblock thrown up to prevent fans from getting too close. Watch, but not too close. Support, but not too close. Come, but not too close. Because when it all boils down to it, athletics in general, and specifically college football, it's the haves and the have nots. And this, like most decisions made, show all of us fans exactly where we are and where we're expected to stay.
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4 More Days to Complain About the BCS
Posted on January 5, 2009 by Alan
3 more games is all that stands between all of us and a cold and bitter winter/spring of no football. What this means, of course, is that time will have to be spent working, or entertaining family and friends, but I've got approximately 86 hours until I have to acknowledge that I've let some things slip over the course of the last 4 months. As far as I know I am still gainfully employed, maintaining a semblance of a normal relationship, and my ass hasn't merged itself with the sofa yet, so this break may in fact be coming at a semi-decent time. Though with the recent purchase of Rock Band 2, I make no promises that assmerging will not, in fact, occur.
Tonight, however, we cherish one-third of our remaining games as Texas does battle with Ohio State. We use the term "do battle" loosely, if Ohio State's recent performances in any game of a worthwhile nature is an indicator of what is about to happen in the Arizona desert. The Buckeye Band may play "Hang on Sloopy" but only because there isn't a song created entitled "Dear Sweet Jesus Please Make the Men in Burnt Orange Stop Ripping Our Anuses Apart With Their Football Excellence".
What this wind down also means is that on Friday morning, after the dust and coke have cleared from South Florida, we will have one fan base claiming to be national champions and at least 2 more totally and utterly flamingly pissed off.
As Orson at EDSBS points out, and we agree with, Utah has staked a viable claim to a portion of the national title with this little nugget-O-truth:
Award Utah a fourth of the national title. This is not 2004 Utah, a team that turned a fluffy schedule and a victory over a palsied Pitt team into an undefeated season. Utah beat 5 ranked teams and embarrassed the SEC West champion. They did not lose a game this season. They had a defense that dealt out harm to all they faced and boasted one of the more accurate quarterbacks in the nation. They beat people with spread-option tactics executed with wishbone brutality.
If you want more from a team, you're either unreasonable, a total flaming asshole, or both. In lieu of a playoff, we have to resort to fractions, and to be fair: one fraction is just as good as another.
To be fair, Texas can lay their claim to another 1/4 (arbitrary) of the title should foot meet ass as I expect tonight in the Fiesta Bowl. And God help us all if Oklahoma should muster the sheer luck to beat Florida on Thursday. It is then, and only then, really, that Texas fans have a legitimate bitch with their lot in the whole football universe this season.
Head to head matchup results sound good and they fire up the fanbases. I will give you that it makes a much stronger argument than "Roll Tide, faggot!" or something else wittily crafted in the dark corners of the typical football fan's soul, but in all reality, all those arguments are equally worthless. Should Texas have played for the Big 12 title? Probably. But they didn't, and that really sucks, and that's too bad for Texas. Yes, I know they beat Oklahoma. Kentucky beat LSU in 2007, but no Kentucky fan was claiming a part of that title.
Football, much like life, is unfair at its most basic core principle. You'll hear people moan and groan about the BCS system and insist that a playoff is "more fair". Of course, this is completely untrue, as a playoff, by sheer nature, is unfair. Is it "fair" that a team can have one poor game and not win the title? What if, given the 2008 situation, a team like BYU, ranked 16th in the last BCS standings at 10-3 had 4 good games and won a title? Is that fair? I can promise you that the resounding sentiment from the 15 schools above them in the standings would be a loud "Fuck no."
So that leaves us with the choice of one shitty system (the current BCS situation) or changing gears to another shitty system (a playoff). For the teams that get screwed under the current system, there's an easy fix… don't lose. For fans, the media, or the blogosphere to sit back and bemoan the lack of inherent fairness in the BCS system is total buffoonery. It was never designed to be fair. It was designed as an imperfect fix to a situation that no perfect fix exists for. College football, by design, is subjective. And that, the fundamental nature of the sport we love, is the reason that a playoff is no better.
Complaining about the BCS not being fair is akin to bitching when the rainstorm outside didn't litter your front yard with gumdrops and half naked strippers. Why? Because that isn't what rainstorms are intended for. They bring rain. And your option is to accept that fact and move along without bitching about things totally outside your locus of control or you can stand on the lawn with your brass poles and your nipple pastys and hope things change. As for me? I'll take my BCS rainstorm and just thank whatever deity resides above me that I have this wonderful crazy obsessive sport to complain about in the first place.
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Show 39: Cynthia Dill, attorney, former Maine U.S. Senate candidate
Air date: Saturday, December 1, 2012
Guest 1: Cynthia Dill
Guest 2: Jon Hinck
Maine attorney, state representative and former U.S. Senate candidate Cynthia Dill came on TideSmart Talk with Stevoe to discuss Maine politics, her experience running for Senate and plans for the future. Cynthia Dill was the 2012 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Maine. She currently serves in the Maine Legislature as a State Senator for District 7.
Attorney and former U.S. Senate candidate Cynthia Dill discusses her experience running for office.
An accomplished attorney, Dill has managed a private civil trial practice, representing clients in New England for 20 years. In 2011, Dill was elected to the Maine Senate, winning 68 percent of the vote in a special election. Prior to that, she served in the Maine House of Representatives and was a member of the Judiciary and Ethics Committees, and chaired the Broadband Strategy Council. As a leading proponent of the expansion of broadband, Dill was instrumental in obtaining more than $35 million of investment that will bring high-speed Internet access to rural parts of Maine. At the national level, Dill has been appointed Vice Chair of the National Conference of State Legislature's Communication, Financial Affairs and Interstate Commerce Committee, and is a member of the Executive Committee Task Force on State and Local Taxation of Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce. As the Democratic nominee in the 2012 race for U.S. Senate from Maine, Dill finished third with 13%. After the race, Glamour magazine invited Dill to attend its "Women of the Year" awards where she was recognized for her commitment to public service. An award-winning civil rights lawyer, she lives in Cape Elizabeth with her husband and two children.
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Heather Sperling
Heather Sperling is the co-owner of Botanica, a restaurant and market in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. She opened Botanica in 2017, alongside partner Emily Fiffer, as a destination for nourishing hospitality — a culinary and business philosophy that permeates every aspect of Botanica's existence, from its obsessively farmers market-centric menu to its dedication to respect, equality, inclusivity and healthfulness as core operating tenets.
Botanica has garnered numerous accolades and international recognition for its vibrant, wholesome cooking and ambitious natural wine program. In addition to its brick-and-mortar space, Botanica has a digital recipes publication (BotanicaMag.com) and a thriving online retail program.
Prior to diving into the restaurant world, Heather spent a decade as a restaurant-focused editor for culinary publications — and on the side, served as a writer for dozens of others and a consultant for chefs, markets and culinary brands. Her love for vegetable-centric cookery is lifelong, in part informed by her Lebanese heritage and a stint living in India as a child. When she's not at Botanica, she's at home reading to her daughter, digging in the dirt, or undertaking unreasonably ambitious culinary/entertaining projects with her husband.
Heather is a founding board member of RE:Her, and is proud to lead an all-female management team at Botanica.


The following information was compiled from the records at the Osage County Courthouse May 9 through May 13, 2016.
Joshua Mullin and Jamie Mullin to U.S. Bank. Lots 1-4, Block 12, Original Vassar.
Deanna S. Attkisson to Brad D. Meek and Andrea K. Meek. Tract SE ¼ 10-16-14.
Donald R. Allman and Rebecca M. Allman to Jennifer M. Piper. Lots 3 and 8, Block 30, Osage Carbon Company's 2nd Addition, Osage City.
Secretary of HUD to Paul J. Boydston Sr. and Kitty I. Boydston. Tract NE ¼ 7-15-17.
Thomas D. Herrmann and Teresa J. Herrmann to Joseph R. Anderson and Della J. Anderson. Tracts SE ¼ 12-15-15 and Tract SW ¼ 12-15-15.
John E. Thompson and Shellanne H. Thompson to Allison J. Burghart. Tract SW ¼ 24-14-15.
Teresa Ann McCoy and Timothy J. McCoy to John W. Tramell. E ½ Lot 29 and W 4" Lot 27, Block 17, Wetherell's Addition, Osage City.
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'We're used to such kind of pace' – Maxwell says no need to fear Archer and Wood
By Shahid Rasool
Glenn Maxwell feels Australia have nothing to worry about when they come up against Jofra Archer and Mark Wood at Lord's on Tuesday.
Maxwell believes Australia's top order will be more comfortable facing fast bowling than anything else in the mega-event.
"I think they'll be more excited by that (Archer and Wood's speed) than someone bowling 120s (kph, 74 mph)," Maxwell said.
"That sort of pace suits our batting line-up a bit more -- a bit more pace on the ball and something we're a bit more used to.
"It's a challenge we're up for," he added. "We certainly get enough practice in the nets, that's for sure."
Yet Maxwell, ahead of England's group game against Sri Lanka, termed Archer as a 'hell of an athlete' and a 'quality package'.
'Warne slams Australia's conservative approach'
Australia proved too much for Bangladesh after smashing 381-5 at Trent Bridge on Thursday, with David Warner's 166 off 147 balls seeing him topping the batting charts in World Cup.
Maxwell added firepower to Australia's innings with a stunning 32 off 10 balls, before he fell short of his ground in a mix-up with Usman Khawaja.
Warner took 110 balls to reach three figures but Australia great Shane Warne wasn't impressed by their 'conservative' approach in a series of posts on Twitter.
"Ps I still believe Australia can challenge India & England for the World Cup trophy, but not with this game style or batting order," Warne said.
This very conservative approach by Aust is very odd, especially on a small ground with a super quick outfield & as the ball hasn't spun or seamed. Leaving way to much for Maxwell, Stoinis and Carey to do. Only a wicket down, Aust should be going after the bowling big time !
— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) June 20, 2019
"Awesome from Maxwell & a stunning 100 from Warner too. Khawaja doing great, but ridiculous he didn't run," added the former leg-spinner.
"Why wasn't this happening 20 overs ago? As I said in previous tweets, Aust has the firepower but have decided to play conservatively till the last 10 overs! Why?"
But Maxwell, when told about Warne's tweets, said: "I think we went at 13s (runs per over) for the last 14 overs so I don't think we went that bad."
Warner said he had always respected Warne's views but it is about going out and putting the best effort.
"I always respect what Warne says," he said. "For us it's about going out there and doing the best we can.
"And whether or not we're batting slow or fast, I think you're going to get some form of criticism somewhere."
Warner added: "But I felt the way we batted today (Thursday), we tried to take it as deep as we did and we ended up getting 380.
"That's just the way we're playing at the moment and we can only adapt to the conditions that are in front of us."
#CWC19#Match 32#ICC Cricket World Cup 2019#Australia


Pringle Richards Sharratt has unveiled its £3.3 million overhaul of the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading.
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the redesign has allowed the museum's collection to be revitalised through 10 new galleries with each space designed to incorporate different learning styles and areas of focus to draw visitors into the stories and landscape of the English countryside.
Changes include an improved welcome area as well as additional educational, display and storage areas supplement opportunities for more in-depth learning.
The scheme was carried out for client Reading university.


According to the news, things are pretty bleak around here. The media is so depressing that I have taken to getting what news I need by looking at yahoo and only opening the headlines that look safe. I read the New York Times, but limit the front page stories I take in. TV is awful, so I might watch Meet the Press or Jim Lehrer. At least with the later I'll find out about a good book to buy.
So when I hear about someone taking a vacation, or getting a job, or having a baby on purpose, or especially, someone getting married, I am thrilled. My friend, Joanna, and her new husband have been together for years, and just decided fairly recently to tie the knot.
Why this particular marriage had such a big effect on me is a mystery. I think it could be because it is so hopeful for two wise, intellegent adults to take such a big step when what they had been doing seemed to be working well. You have to know them, too.
Joanna is one of those no nonsense women who don't suffer fools gladly. She is English, I mean really from across the pond, the accent and tea and the whole ball of wax. She has dimples like you've never seen and the body and posture of a gymnast. A good word to describe her betrothed is 'strapping'. Their body language made it clear to all who looked upon them that they are in love with each other. His hand rarely left the small of her back.
They are the perfect couple. Choosing now, at this time, in this strange world we live in, to get married, just makes sense.
They chose a courthouse wedding, by a judge. Forget everything you would think about it. Besides the fact that she made a beautiful bride, I was really moved by the ceremony. Whether the judge wrote the words himself or was reading from a script prepared by someone else, I was brought to tears by what he said to the two as they stood before him.
He reminded them to be kind to one another, to put the other before self. He said he hoped that being married to each other would enrich their lives, that the difference between united and untied was the placement of one i (I). He spoke very briefly about the sanctity of their love. It was quite remarkable that such simple surroundings could be transformed by the presence of a woman in ivory and her handsome lover. I felt honored to be included among the few guests to witness their marriage.
Thank you for posting this. Wish I could have been there, too Best wishes to the newlyweds!
Such a Beautiful Bride and Handsome Groom!
I am Joanna's Mother. We did not attend the wedding because they wanted a very quiet, simple ceremony. Your words reduced me to tears. I am so pleased that Joanna and Richard are so highly thought of amongst their friends and I feel a little better knowing this.
Thank you for providing the bit of good news that makes the day, and the hope for the future, a little brighter.


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Q: PhoneGap store HTML Files on Device I have to build an App for Windows Mobile and iOS. So I decided to create this with PhoneGap.
The app should only display HTML-Files.
These files are stored on a server and can change every day.
So I created already an API which delivers the files.
My solution would be:
In my PhoneGap-App I use AJAX to get the files (this is no problem and should already work...).
To the question:
How can I store the files on the device? Is this possible with PhoneGap?
The app have to work offline too (because of this I need to store the files)...
And if this is possible: It should sync only the differences (between device/app and server) --> keyword rsync??
Thank you for your help!
Emanuel :)

A: Have you checked here?
You can definitely store files locally on android platform.(I have already done that). However, I haven't done it on IOS.
So please investigate, if features I gave the link above, available for safari (IOS).
Synching only diff should be implemented on the server side and should be responsibility of your API.

A: Yes you can store files locally.
I would recommend the Phonegap File Transfer plugin for downloading files. It supports iOS and Windows phone 7 and 8 and can download and save the file locally. At the Cordova file plugin github you can see the paths where you can save the files for iOS, I haven't found a table for windows phone yet.
But I would not recommend you download the HTML files since they can be very big. You should dynamically create the mobile pages you need, since you would only need to download the displayed text and attributes for some HTML-tags.
The way you can do this is by having a server back-end where you can change the content of the pages. The plain HTML should then be saved in a database with a creation and modification timestamp(needed to check if you have the latest updates). You would then pull the data out of the database with your PHP and echo it as a JSON. Your app just has to make a AJAX-GET request to the server and save the data locally in a database. I would recommend the Cordova SQLite Storage plugin for the local database. Whenever a page is opened you should dynamically create a mobile page.
This way your app doesn't request huge amount of data from a server, which can be more appealing to your app users.

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Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is home to over 370 gorillas, accommodating almost a half of the world's population of mountain gorillas. A tour to this park enables you get up close and personal with the rare species. This safari will give you an opportunity to see these rare and threatened gorillas.
After lunch you will go for a museum tour where you will get an insight into cultures of people in western Uganda then proceed to Bwindi impenetrable forest. Dine at your place of accommodation and relax the rest of the evening as you prepare for a thrilling experience of Mountain Gorilla Tracking the following day, the reality is that tonight you actually are sleeping within an African Rainforest which is habitat to half the population of the world's endangered Mountain Gorillas.
Dinner and overnight at Buhoma Lodge (High end), or Engagi Lodge (Midrange) or Buhoma Community Bandas (Budget end) Meal Plan (Dinner).
The tracking / trekking can entail some thorough climbing as well as hiking although when you come face to face with the tranquil yet potent Mountain Gorillas, watching them only a few meters away from you observing the group, the baby with the mothers, the gorillas partaking their everyday routine just right in front of you is all very overwhelming. You can never find any mountain gorillas living in the zoo, save for just in this not large area of Africa where a number of the remnant mountain gorillas can be seen. Luckily because of too many efforts, this population is thriving and well surviving within the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and visitors get the opportunity of observing them at close proximity.
Dinner and overnight at Buhoma Lodge (High end), or Engagi Lodge (Midrange) or Buhoma Community Bandas (Budget end) Meal Plan (Full Board).
Very early today, you will head out for a couple of hours trek. Right in the center of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest under their umbrella organization called the Batwa Development Program, the Batwa pygmies have started a fascinating authentic experience that is called" The Batwa Experience".
At the experience, you will enjoy an incredible day hike in the rain forest with Batwa guides, see how the Batwa lived and hunted, learn about medicinal plants, and watch for animals and birds. Return to your lodge for a late lunch. Spend the afternoon relaxing and preparing for the long drive the day after.
After breakfast, early morning drive back to Kampala with lunch en-route. Later proceed to your next destination. Meal plan (B & L).


Andrew Levitt, who created the drag character, says he's going to focus on Nina full-time.
It's a big job being Nina West.
So Andrew Levitt, the Columbus resident who created the persona and built it into Ohio's most beloved name in drag, is making a move to focus on full-time on his character.
He promised in capital letters—"YES, I still will be at Union and Axis"—to continue as a show director and host at the Short North gay nightspots but said "it is time to take the office 'hat' away so that my wig can really fly.
"A new chapter is about to begin," Levitt said.
Lahoti returned the love in comments shared with Prizm.
Nina West's new show, "The Wonderful World of Nina," opens on Friday, April 20 at Axis and runs through Sunday, May 6.


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In January of 1994, Debora Stephan drove her silver minivan to a remote park outside Cardston, Alta.
The 40-year-old had been suffering from bipolar affective disorder for nearly a decade. And although she took a cocktail of medications, she still shuttled between depressive and manic episodes — spending all day in bed, then frantically cleaning the house until early in the morning.
According to an account by one of her daughters, Debora had once piled several of her young children — she was the mother of 10 — into the back of her car and driven them all into the river. "We'll all feel better soon," she told them, although she backed out at the last minute.
This time, however, Debora left the kids at home.
According to her family, she placed a suicide note on the seat beside her, then ran a hose from the exhaust to the window before she turned on the engine, pumping deadly gas into the cabin until she was asphyxiated.
Her body was found the next day.
David Stephan would have been about 10 years old at the time of his mother's death. But the fallout of that tragic event is still in play more than two decades later — as he and his wife Collet face up to five years in prison.
The sentence, to be handed down June 13, is for the couple's "failure to provide the necessaries of life" to their son, Ezekiel, after the toddler contracted meningitis. Instead of taking him to a conventional doctor, David and his wife relied on naturopathic medicine and nutritional supplements.
In addition to those treatments, Ezekiel regularly took several supplements, including one called EMPowerplus. It's the same pill David's father developed after Debora's death. The same pill that David has been selling as vice-president of his father's company. The same pill that has made the Stephan family heroes to their customers and adversaries of the government.
Some of the groups here subscribe to old-fashioned dress codes, home or community schooling and a distrust of modern medicine. There is a notoriously low co-operation with vaccination schedules, and outbreaks of whooping cough and measles are becoming more common.
But most residents are hard to distinguish from mainstream Albertans, or from any other rural Canadians.
The Stephans are well-established Mormons. But while the Mormon church advocates for modern medicine, including vaccines, there is a strain of the faith that believes in a more naturalistic approach to healing, based on religious texts. After Debora's suicide, the Stephans became among its most vocal proponents.
Soon after his mother's death, Joseph Stephan, then 15, began to wander around town, swinging a baseball bat and getting into fights. He suffered panic attacks, delusions and fits of rage. The family claims he was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder; when Joseph refused to take his prescribed lithium, he "lapsed" into severe mania and panic.
Debora's daughter, Autumn Stringam, who was in her early 20s and married at the time of her mother's death, says she also showed signs of bipolar affective disorder — suffering hallucinations and fantasies about killing her newborn.
The family patriarch, Anthony Stephan, grew desperate to save his children.
"My family was literally coming unglued before my eyes," he says in Letters from Generation Rx, a documentary about psychiatric drugs released last year.
With his family struggling, Anthony, then a destitute property manager and pet food distributor, began his transformation into an unlikely hero of alternative medicine — in particular, a champion of using rare minerals, amino acids and other micro-nutrients to cure psychiatric disorders.
After spending a year researching and praying, he met David Hardy, a livestock feed salesman who volunteered at one of the local Mormon churches. Hardy had noticed that farmers who fed their pigs nutritional supplements could often cure bizarre behaviour, like tail-biting disease.
Anthony wondered whether mental disorders in humans could also be caused by a lack of nutrition — and decided to test the theory on his children.
He began development of a mega-vitamin from off-the-shelf supplements, eventually feeding his son a liquid that looked like rust-water. After some trial and error, Joseph seemed to calm down. Joseph himself described a moment as if a cloud had been lifted; he had, it seemed, been cured.
But after a second hospitalization, when Autumn was released only on condition that she be subject to round-the-clock adult supervision, her husband took her to David's house. Her father and a friend, whom Autumn said was a psychiatric nurse, "stuffed me with a bunch of Ativan and put me to bed nicely sedated." Then, they began to force-feed her the same nutrient cocktail as her brother. Her recovery was recounted in her tell-all book, A Promise of Hope, published in 2009.
Within days, both father and daughter say, Autumn, too, was cured.
The legend of the "pig pills" was born.
Stephan and Hardy tinkered with their formula throughout the late 1990s, and early versions of their miracle cure went on sale through their website in 1996. Stephan created the Synergy Group of Canada and a sister company, Truehope Nutritional Support Ltd., to conduct research. Two decades later, the pig pills remain the company's star product, now branded the EMPowerplus supplement.
Truehope claims the supplement is "scientifically proven to treat" a host of mental disorders, ranging from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression to bipolar disorder and autism, all thanks to a blend of 36 nutrients that includes vitamin A and biotin. The company further claims it has developed a specialized process of "micronization" and "helation" that makes these nutrients easier to absorb than regular multi-vitamins.
Products are sold through the website, truehope.com. A bottle of 228 capsules costs about $80, shipped from a manufacturer in the U.S. A call centre in Lethbridge, Alta., was staffed by people who claim to have been cured by the pills, and can advise customers how to mega-dose on EMPowerplus and wean themselves off conventional drugs, just as they had.
Court documents show the pills have been extremely popular. According to an affidavit submitted by Anthony Stephan, in 2010, Synergy had revenue of $10.9 million, with gross profit of $6 million. In peak business years, according to Hardy, he and Stephan had personal incomes "well above" $500,000 a year.
Truehope's origin stories have been retold in countless documentaries, TV shows and articles. The suicide of Debora Stephan, a failure of conventional medicine, would become the inspiration for a whole new paradigm for mental health.
In a 2015 clip from Letters from Generation Rx, the camera pans to Debora's grave, where the company's foundation story is etched in stone.
As the reach of Anthony's "pig pills" grew, the company knew it needed more than anecdotal successes to support its claims about the supplement's effectiveness. So began a quest to gain funding, research and legitimacy.
In 2000, Stephan convinced the Alberta government to fund a two-year study on the effectiveness of EMPowerplus, However, Health Canada refused to approve the trial because the supplement was not an approved drug. That kicked off a long conflict with the federal department, which raided Truehope's offices in Raymond in 2003 and began intercepting shipments of the supplement at the U.S. border.
The Stephans fought back in the media and with an unsuccessful lawsuit against Health Canada, alleging that the attempt to restrict access to EMPowerplus amounted to a discriminatory attack on the mentally ill. In 2004, Health Canada charged the company for selling the supplement without the proper approvals.
But the same year Truehope was charged, Health Canada changed the rules on natural health products in a way that allowed the company to sell EMPowerplus without the level of approval required for a drug. Ultimately, Truehope won.
"The defendant provided a vital and essential support program, seeking to avoid serious incapacitation or death (in the patient) due to mental illness," the judgment continued.
Anthony's charisma, personal tragedy and dogged perseverance against red tape would seem to make him a perfect hero in a David and Goliath drama.
And, of course, he is not alone in his suspicion of Big Pharma and its capacity to treat mental illness — which is still so imperfectly understood. There are well-documented concerns with the efficacy of drugs, and how they are marketed. Letters from Generation Rx include awful tales of happy-go-lucky sons committing suicide and loving fathers killing their children after starting on anti-depressants.
There are a few problems, however, with Truehope's claims for its supplement.
In an email to the National Post, Anthony Stephan said EMPowerplus had been independently examined by 45 researchers in four countries, and in 30 medical journals. This is true; however, James McCormack, a professor in the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of British Columbia, who reviewed many of the studies of the supplement, found they were almost all cohort or case studies — some involved only one person, others were described as "open label" (meaning participants knew what they were taking).
McCormack did note one randomized, double-blind study, which examined the effect of the EMPowerplus on ADHD. He said that three in 10 people who took the drug — there were 80 participants in the trial — appeared to show some benefit over those taking a placebo. This is a promising result, certainly, but the study would need to be replicated by independent researchers to confirm the results.
Even then, McCormack says, caution should be used when employing the word "cure" for mental illness.
"We cure pneumonia. We can sometimes cure cancer. We can sometimes cure a broken leg by setting it," he says, but psychiatric disorders remain a black box, with no Holy Grail available as yet to simply eradicate them.
Health Canada has also reported 14 adverse reactions to the various formulations — most of them serious, and correlated with withdrawal from standard psychiatric medications, which the company advises.
In 2011, for example, Jordan Ramsay, a 27-year-old B.C. man diagnosed with schizophrenia, killed his father after switching from prescribed medication to EMPowerplus. The B.C. Supreme Court found him not criminally responsible.
To complicate matters further, Hardy and Stephan split the company in 2012 after differences over business strategy.
During their acrimonious corporate divorce, questions arose about the legitimacy of the products. Anthony, for instance, launched a new supplement called EMPowerplus Advanced, which claimed to be as effective as the original at half the dose. But Hardy alleged the new product was identical to the original.
He then presumably added to the acrimony by hiring a woman recently divorced from a member of the Stephan clan to handle his marketing. The anger building up between the parties resulted in back and forth attacks.
The new marketing manager claims she was stalked and intimidated by the Stephans, although charges were never filed. In his own affidavit, Anthony Stephan accused Hardy of slanderous mudslinging.
Anthony Stephan declined to speak to the Post about any of these allegations, or for this story, citing the newspaper's "unethical and past history with Truehope." He did not say what he believed was unethical about the Post's coverage of Truehope and the Stephans.
Even the origins of the EMPowerplus supplement are more complicated than the story of the "pig pills" suggests. While Anthony has always acknowledged his wife's bipolar disorder, initially he didn't blame conventional medicine for her death.
In 2000, he told the now-defunct magazine Alberta Report that what had truly pushed his sick wife over the edge was the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
At the time, Anthony told several media outlets that he planned to file a civil claim against the CCRA alleging "wrongful conduct and harassment." And for a short while, the Stephans' cause was taken up by the anti-tax crusaders in Alberta's conservative political movement of the day, including then-Canadian Alliance MP Jason Kenney.
As Truehope grew more successful, the story seemed to shift.
Initially, it was the tragic tale of a mother, hounded to death by the taxman; in later tellings, the woman became the victim of a cruel cocktail of medication.
Even Debora's gravestone has changed. The original, captured on film in a 2000 Radio-Canada documentary show, Zone Libre, was flat, rough-hewn and covered in pink flowers.
When it appeared in the documentary Letters from Generation Rx 15 years later, it had been replaced, conceivably as a loving tribute by a better-off Stephan family — but with an inscription that could read as a marketing line for EMPowerplus.
If Anthony has shaped the Stephan family's story, the duty was now passing to his son David, a vice-president at Truehope.
The face of the attractive, well-spoken man also appears on marketing materials for EMPowerplus and the company's other supplements. He is active on social media, too, frequently posting inspiring memes about living well, and news stories casting doubt on vaccines or GMO foods.
His wife, Collet, also worked at the company before becoming a stay-at-home mom after the birth of their first son.
But the poster boy for Truehope became a different kind of symbol when the couple's third son, Ezekiel, died of meningitis in 2012. The next year they were charged with failure to provide the necessaries of life.
Family members claimed the Stephans' belief in their nutritional supplement was behind an "overzealous" prosecution. Long missives appeared on a Prayers for Ezekiel Stephan Facebook group that implied Health Canada might be interfering with the case, retaliation for losing its court battle all those years ago.
To defend them in the criminal proceeding the family even hired Shawn Buckley, the same lawyer who represented Anthony in his case against Health Canada.
And, as before, longtime supporters of the Stephans rallied behind the family, this time pointing out what they perceived as flaws in the Crown's case.
The child's brief recoveries could have fooled any parent, they claim; they believe the toddler died of an untreatable form of viral meningitis, rather than bacterial. They suggest that he could have been saved had the ambulance called to the Stephans' home had a properly fitting air mask.
But these claims are at odds with the findings of the medical examiner who performed a postmortem on Ezekiel. And they don't speak to the charges against the parents — which are not manslaughter, but the much more nuanced crime of failure to provide the necessaries of life to their child.
The legal question jurors were required to answer was whether or not the parents accessed medical care quickly enough, given the information they had at the time.
By all accounts, Ezekiel appears to have been a bright and healthy child before he caught meningitis in 2012. Collet had never had him vaccinated, nor taken him to see a doctor. She delivered him at home during a water birth, with a birth attendant who was also a registered nurse.
On Feb. 27, 2012, the boy's breathing became wheezy. His parents asked a family friend, the birth attendant, to listen to him on the phone. She suggested it could be a case of croup, a viral illness that is typically left untreated unless it becomes severe.
David and Collet treated Ezekiel with fresh air and a humidifier. They made smoothies for him with naturopathic remedies for viral infections, including "olive leaf extract, garlic and methylsulfonylmethane," according to the physician's report, as well as supplements like EMPowerplus.
Over the next week, the boy's fever and wheezing continued. His appetite waned, and Collet and David were forced to use an eyedropper to give him fluids.
Then, on March 5, Ezekiel seemed to have at least partially recovered. He went to preschool and ate solid food for the first time in a week.
The next day, however, he seemed especially lethargic and lay in bed the entire day.
It was also on March 6 that Collet said she noticed what she described as a "neurological symptom" — that Ezekiel pulled at his diaper and rubbed his cheek in a way that seemed involuntary. She thought this might be related to his lack of food.
Then again, between March 7 and March 10, Ezekiel seemed to improve and herbal remedies were stopped.
Anthony Stephan testified the little boy seemed lethargic, but was otherwise fine.
On March 11, however, he worsened once more. He would not eat or drink. He was lethargic and his body grew stiff.
By March 12, he was so stiff that his back arched and the parents called their nurse and birth attendant back. She told the court she thought Ezekiel could have meningitis, and told David and Collet to take him to a doctor.
Instead, they gave him an electrolyte and amino-acid supplement, called Total Reload, and treated him with olive-leaf extract, garlic and methylsulfonylmethane, They also called a naturopath in Lethbridge who suggested a supplement called BLAST.
On March 13, on the way to Lethbridge to pick up BLAST and run errands, Ezekiel was so stiff that he couldn't fit in his car seat. The family put him on a mattress in the back of the car. They did not take him to a doctor.
At 8:30 that evening, though, Ezekiel was having so much trouble breathing, David and Collet called 911 — as they were living in a remote area, they decided to drive him to the hospital, placing him, again, on the mattress in their car.
En route, the child stopped breathing, and Collet began to give him chest compressions and emergency breathing as they called 911; now they drove to meet the ambulance. They gave the child CPR for 10 minutes, but he was blue by the time they met the ambulance.
Ezekiel was eventually flown to the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary, where he was declared brain dead on March 15 and removed from life support three days later.
Physicians are obliged to report cases of suspected neglect or abuse. By the time the child died, the physician's report noted that both Child Protective Services and the police had interviewed the parents.
On April 26, the court found David and Collet guilty of the charges against them.
Their supporters reportedly gasped as the verdict was read out. Some went so far as to claim conspiracy; that a local radio station knew the verdict before it had been announced, or jurors had been bought off.
Ian Stewart, vice-president of the Natural Health Products Protection Association and a close friend of the Stephans, says there is no tragic family history that explains the toddler's death.
"There isn't a philosophy or bias against medical doctors at all. (David) stated on the stand that when it comes to emergency care or infectious diseases, today's medical advances are superior to what would be termed the natural health model," he told the Post.
There was never any doubt the Stephans loved their son. Prosecutors acknowledged in their closing arguments they were well-intentioned, doting parents. Two jurors cried when the verdict was announced.
But something happened between Feb. 27 and March 13, something that crossed the line beyond tragic accident. So David and Collet await sentencing and word on custody of their remaining children.
They did not file an appeal, but in a "Dear Jury" letter posted on his Facebook page just days after the verdict, David takes no responsibility for his son's death. He shows no remorse. Instead, he uses the letter to continue the crusade his father launched after his mother's death — against what his family sees as a flawed medical system and a complicit government.
Since Ezekiel's death, David and Collet have moved their family to Nelson, B.C. But back home in Cardston, a temporary tribute remains to their son: Ezekiel Jasher Stephan. Born August 20, 2010. Passed away March 18, 2012. 1½ years.
It sits at the foot of Debora Stephan's grave.


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UCL's Arts and Culture Journal
Modernizing the Medieval
by SAVAGE December 28, 2017 January 19, 2018
OLIVIA BOUZYK explores the intersection of memes and manuscript marginalia.
Memes are an all too relatable aspect of our everyday life in this hyper-visual internet age. They catch our eye as they pop up on our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram feeds; whether we have been tagged in one or not, memes are in our constant periphery, providing a humorous mode of communication amongst friends and followers. Whilst these images may combine Post-Modern theory with strange looking pets or Kermit the Frog, recently the medieval image has found its way into this digital territory. This intersection of the Medieval image and Modern communication is surprisingly not the most unlikely combination – in fact, it is a partnership that makes complete sense.
Facebook pages such as Classical Art Memes and Medieval Reactions appropriate the Medieval image and caption it with amusing (and painfully relevant) anecdotes; 'Me at 8pm: "I'm only having a few and I'm deffo getting the last bus home"; Me, drunk at 5am in Maccies…'. The images have been torn off the manuscript page and inserted into a virtual sphere, making it somewhat hard for the modern viewer to appreciate the original context. The images in discussion here are manuscript illuminations that would have featured mainly in religious texts. These images were not deemed to be 'art'. Art, as we think of the term today, did not exist within the context of the medieval period; instead, craft was considered the main visual form. Art and craft were interchangeable with life and worship. Just as the meme is not acknowledged as an important 'high art' form today, neither was the manuscript illumination.
The Medieval period is, to most, one of mystery. Frequently referred to as the Dark Ages or Middle Ages, the period approximately spans from the 5th to the 15th century. Whilst this period is often referred to as 'backward', this is not true. It was a time of great social change and turmoil. The Middle Ages in European history is largely ignored because it is sandwiched between two more academically fashionable periods: Roman civilization and the Renaissance, stages we might view as more 'technologically advanced'. However, this revival of Medieval imagery in meme culture may counter this previously accepted view.
Regarding the visual culture of this period, the average person would not have seen many images in his or her normal day-to-day life. We, on the other hand, are so oversaturated with the visual that it aggressively confronts us wherever we go. For the Medieval viewer, images were only encountered within the space of the Church, and so they had highly religious resonances and connotations. The image held great power over the viewer and could influence the viewer's mind, body and soul. Images could even affect the physical health of the viewer: pregnant women, for instance, were especially susceptible to the power of the image and were warned against the sight of monstrous images, as it could affect the wellbeing of their unborn child. The eyes were believed to be the gateway to the soul. The intensity with which the image was viewed is lost on a modern audience – even the unsightly images on cigarette packets seem to have no power in discouraging the smoker.
The images used by popular meme pages today would have originally engaged the viewer in not only a visual but a corporeal manner; it would have been a totalizing, synesthetic experience. The parchment manuscript page was made from stretched animal skin and thus had a distinctive touch; images were caressed, rubbed and kissed. The manuscript page choreographed the reader to engage all senses, something that can be compared to the virtual reality technologies of today. The Art Historian Michael Camille has commented on the similarity between the multi-sensory manuscript page and the interactive screen in emerging technologies in contemporary society. The touch screen makes us interact with images in a similar manner: just as the medieval viewer would have stroked the manuscript page, the modern viewer swipes the screen on his or her smartphone.
Through the appropriation of Medieval images in memes, readers are engaging with visual culture from over 1000 years ago. However vast this temporal distance may be, it is interesting to note that we still find these images as amusing as they were initially intended to be. The illumination usually provided a break from the text, acting almost as an advert on the margins of a newsfeed. The marginal images thus provided light entertainment for the reader, just like the easily digestible, relatable content of memes. Later in the Medieval period, the role of illuminator and writer was occupied by two separate people. In the production line of the manuscript, the illuminator would handle the page after the writer, allowing them the opportunity to play on the meaning of the words, making visual puns around the text. These images were largely crude, subversive and base, often juxtaposed with the serious religious nature of the writing. Interestingly, for the production line of memes, it is now the illumination that precedes the text, with caption acting as the space for subversive commentary.
Whilst Facebook and Instagram pages appropriate images from all periods in history, it is interesting to notice that the original reaction from a medieval viewer to an image in a manuscript can still have the same effect on a modern viewer. Whilst the illuminated image was marginal in its original function, being an addition to the main text, the meme too is marginal in its relation to what is considered 'art' today. These images reveal an engagement with humour that is inherent to both contemporary and medieval visual culture. The medieval image intersects with this modern visual culture, achieving similar responses from its audience across time.
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A poem by LAURA DIGNUM-SMITH. To all the zygotes I've lost before Dear womb-lice, With your eggs and your sperms You think you made..
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Chris Gain assists clients in the marketing and sale of their businesses. He has over 12 years of mergers and acquisitions experience working with middle-market clients in all aspects of the transaction process including evaluation, marketing and deal execution.
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Houston Astros, Major League Baseball, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions
Houston Astros outfielders George Springer and Michael Brantley are two of the more high-profile players on the Major League Baseball free agent market this offseason. Springer, 31, will likely command a long-term deal, whereas Brantley, who turns 34 in May, will likely command a short-term deal.
The two outfielders are among the premier players at their respective positions, but who's the better value?
The Case for George Springer
Springer is in the thick of his prime and has been a walking model of consistency: an All-Star-caliber outfielder.
From 2016-19 Springer totaled 124 home runs and 334 RBIs while posting an .859 OPS and a 132 OPS+. Furthermore, he finished in the top seven percent of MLB in barrel percentage (14.1 percent) in 2019. Springer is a line-drive power hitter. He has a quick, impactful swing that generates slug and has been an indispensable part of the Astros' offensive attack. Defensively, he's a recurring gem.
Whether it be making plays in the gap, executing relays, or getting behind fly balls, Springer is an elite defender. Last season he posted a six DRS in center field and posted a seven DRS at the position in 2019. All the while, Springer has extensive experience starting in both center and right field.
Springer is an offensive mainstay and an outfielder commander. He's going to be one of the faces of your franchise for the entirety of his contract. Whoever signs Springer is getting the backend of his prime. The player he has been in recent memory is the player a team is signing up for across the next half-decade.
The downside? He has appeared in no more than 140 games in a single season since 2016.
The Case for Michael Brantley
Brantley has been Steady Eddie over his entire big-league career.
Brantley is a smooth, contact hitter. He puts the ball in play at a high level, makes considerable contact, and is one of the best pure hitters in MLB. Across the last three seasons (two with the Astros and one with Cleveland) he has posted a combined .309 batting average and a .852 OPS.
It's rare to see Brantley strikeout. For his career, the outfielder has posted a 1,425:573 hit-to-strikeout ratio. That is astonishing. Meanwhile, he's a proven commodity in left field. Last season he posted a five DRS in left and an 11 DRS at the position in 2019.
Brantley is a worthwhile short-term investment even if his price tag reaches as high as $20 million per season. It's difficult to find many players who are better pure hitters, and Brantley has been the same player over his entire career. One could argue that he has been playing the best baseball of his career over the last few seasons. Whoever signs Brantley is getting the remainder of his prime.
The downside? He has consistently missed time due to injury across the last six seasons. From 2016-17 he was limited to a combined 101 games due to injury and hasn't appeared in 150-plus games since 2014.
The Verdict: Michael Brantley is the Better Value
Both of these outfielders are highly productive, reliable everyday players, but Brantley gets the edge on being the better value signing.
You know what you're getting with George Springer and Michael Brantley, which is beneficial when you're giving out eight-figure salaries. They each field their positions well and have produced at steady rates at the plate across their respective careers. Their likely contracts are what lean in Brantley's favor.
If we extrapolate their careers across the length of their presumed contracts, Brantley is more likely to meet the expectations of a short-term contract than Springer is of a long-term contract. There's more factors and hypotheticals across a five-to-six-year deal than a two-to-three-year deal.
Let's say Brantley preferred a longer deal in terms of years: his average annual salary would likely go down because he's roughly two and a half years older than his former outfield comrade. Also consider that Brantley got a two-year, $32 million deal with the Astros coming off a season where he hit .309, posted an .832 OPS, and totaled 76 RBIs with Cleveland: how much larger can his contract demands be with two seasons that were a shred better than his 2018 campaign now under his belt? In a sport that values slug over contact, Brantley is an inevitable steal. He's one of the best at what he does.
Springer and Brantley can each play into their paydays, but Brantley is the safer bet to do damage across the entirety of his contract.
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Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is the most common cement used in general concrete construction when there is no exposure to sulphates in the soil or groundwater.
Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world, used as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and most non-speciality grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the mid 19th century and usually originates from limestone.
To retard the faster setting time of cement resulted from (C3A) compound a percentage of raw gypsum(selenite) is added during the grinding of the clinker.
OPC is environment friendly as well as economical.
Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC-53, OPC-43, OPC-33).
Non-structural works such as plastering, flooring etc.
Portland Pozzolana Cement also commonly known as PPC cement. These types of cement are manufactured by using pozzolanic materials as one of the main ingredient. The percentage of pozzolanic material used in the preparation should be between 10 to 30. If the percentage is exceeded, the strength of cement is reduced.
Pozzolana is a natural or artificial material containing silica in a reactive form. It may be further discussed as siliceous or siliceous and aluminous material which in itself possesses little, or no cementitious properties but will in finely divided form and in the presence of moisture, chemically react with calcium hydroxide at ordinary temperature to form compounds possessing cementitious properties.
It is essential that pozzolana be in a finely divided state as it is only then that silica can combine with calcium hydroxide (liberated by the hydrating Portland Cement) in the presence of water to form stable calcium silicates which have cementitious properties.
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