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Already pushed to the limit, Cubs need Wade Davis to be calm in middle of storm vs. Dodgers
By Patrick Mooney October 14, 2017 2:51 PM
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Wade Davis knew Bryce Harper desperately wanted to be the hero, to finally change the perception of the Washington Nationals in October and take down the defending World Series champs.
The Cubs closer noticed how hard the young superstar swung through a first-pitch cutter, a 97-win team now down to its final out, Thursday night at Nationals Park already turning into Friday morning.
Harper took the next pitch, fouled off a 94.8-mph fastball and then stared at two more (93.4 mph and 95 mph), working the count to 3-2 while Davis pushed himself toward a seven-out save, something he had never done before.
Davis, who talks to himself on the mound but never really shows his true emotions, unleashed an 89.9-mph cutter that looked like it fell off a table, Harper whiffing as the exclamation point to a 9-8 game and a fantastic National League Division Series and the start of a wild celebration.
"You're trying to stay relaxed," Davis said. "He put such an aggressive swing (on it) the first swing. I was kind of hoping he would stay that aggressive and maybe use that to our advantage. We got to the last pitch and he was still pretty aggressive."
The Cubs will absolutely need that ability to be the calm in the middle of the storm, make adjustments in real time and neutralize the Los Angeles Dodgers who got a "Best. Team. Ever?" Sports Illustrated cover in late August (before losing 16 of 17 games).
Aroldis Chapman came close, but even he didn't throw 44 pitches in a playoff game during last year's World Series run.
It's not a great look when the Cubs drop from the playoff roster their big move to strengthen the bullpen at the July 31 trade deadline (Justin Wilson) and add an ex-closer clearly outside Joe Maddon's circle of trust (Hector Rondon) for this NL Championship Series rematch.
The Cubs had two chances to eliminate the Nationals and Maddon deployed a $155 million middle reliever (Jon Lester), used Saturday night's Game 1 starter at Dodger Stadium (Jose Quintana) and pulled his top setup guy in the middle of an at-bat and after walking one hitter on five pitches (Carl Edwards Jr.).
The Cubs faced 190 total batters during that five-game series against the Nationals and 91 percent went to the playoff rotation (Kyle Hendricks, Lester, Quintana, Jake Arrieta) or the late-game bullpen (Davis, Edwards, Pedro Strop).
"Of course, we've got to be really mindful of Wade," Maddon said, explaining why the Cubs would lean against adding another pitcher for the NLCS. "But you need the bench to match up like we were able to match up in some of these games — the pinch-hitting being aggressive, the defensive maneuvering being aggressive.
"It's just the way of the world right now. The days off still are beneficial, two on, one off, three on, one off. It's still beneficial regarding keeping your bullpen in order."
The 2017 Dodgers are a more dynamic team than the one that put up a major-league worst .622 OPS against left-handed pitchers last season, boosting that total 167 points during a 104-win campaign. These Dodgers also apparently have enough depth to keep All-Star shortstop Corey Seager (back injury) off their initial NLCS roster.
Between Maddon's reputation (fair or not) and Davis about to become a free agent, the Chapman comparisons will be coming. But maybe think of Davis as this year's Kenley Jansen, who pitched multiple innings and covered for weaker spots in the bullpen and willingly went outside his comfort zone.
It wasn't enough to get the Dodgers to the World Series for the first time since 1988 — and the Cubs aren't in the business of matching almost-recording-setting contracts for closers — but Jansen did return to Los Angeles on a five-year, $80 million deal.
That is a discussion for the winter, and when the Cubs see Davis jogging out of the bullpen, they feel like their playoff run is only just getting started.
"He's a stud," said Ben Zobrist, who played with Davis on the 2015 Kansas City Royals team that won a World Series title. "He's got the postseason experience. And everybody knows he's got ice in his veins, so there's no moment that's going to get the best of him."
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Forget winter of change, 'status quo' might be the new normal for Cubs
By Tony Andracki January 17, 2020 9:26 PM
For the second straight offseason, Theo Epstein teased a winter of change after a disappointing end to the campaign.
And for the second straight offseason, the Cubs showed up for the annual fan convention without many significant changes to the roster.
The fanbase has grown impatient and frustrated and itching for ways to improve upon a 2019 team that openly admits it did not perform up to its potential.
"I understand the frustration," Epstein said Friday at the Sheraton Grand Chicago. "There's a lot of days I'm frustrated, too, where you look out and there's a great fit on a player who you know you can recruit and sign a reasonable deal that he's worth and you can't get that player and that's frustrating.
"But that's the reality. Every club every winter has a certain landscape, certain paramaters they have to operate under. There are going to be times that we're gonna be really aggressive and have a ton of flexibility and every player is a possibility for us. We knew this was gonna be one of those offseasons where we were gonna be more active in trades than free agency and so there are days where we wake up frustrated or go home at the end of a long day frustrated.
"So I certainly understand that from the fans, but then, I also look at the talent that we have on paper and I talk to our players and I get excited about how good of a team we can be."
The parameters the Cubs are working under includes a payroll that is already projected over the luxury tax for a second straight season, which the club wants to get back under and reset. That means the Cubs have yet to commit one single dollar in guaranteed big-league money this offseason, instead operating on the fringes of the roster to take fliers on pitchers (like Casey Sadler, acquired Friday) or position players (such as Hernan Perez on a minor-league deal) rather than re-signing Nicholas Castellanos or adding a bullpen piece with a long track record of success.
Epstein knows this isn't an ideal way to build a contender, but the Cubs aren't blowing it up, either. They're stuck in something of a baseball purgatory, trying to win in 2020 but also recognizing the need to improve the long-term health of the franchise. That means resetting the luxury tax, adding long-term pieces and potentially trading away short-term assets.
"We were an 84-win team last year, but underlying stats projected out, we were probably a 90-win team," Epstein said. "Not to say we didn't have issues — we did. Not to say we don't have holes now — we do. But there's significant upside with this group of players. We're not gonna whistle past a graveyard. We're gonna carry more risk into this year than we want to. More risk into this year than we traditionally have in the past and it's our job to operate our way around that.
"...We're gonna carry risk in the 'pen this year and we have to find a repeat where we find value in guys and guys improve and step up. We have risk with our rotation health. We don't have the type of depth and redundancy you'd like to have. And then at a couple positions, there's gonna be some risk with guys with real upside, but guys who if things don't break our way, we could have holes out there. And so that's on us and something we have to continue to plan for every single day. But we have real upside at every position, too."
Fans can laugh and scoff as Epstein and David Ross and the players talk about the potential for the 2020 Cubs to win the World Series or exclaim they're hopeful for the season ahead. But what else do you expect them to say? It'd be silly for the president or a manager or the star of a team to say "No, we don't expect to win this year." Especially when a team has as much talent on the roster as the Cubs have...even if there are holes and risks and not an ideal amount of depth.
Epstein is right — the 2019 Cubs *should have* finished with a 90-72 record instead of an 84-78 record. That's projected based off the Cubs' +97 run differential. The 89-73 Brewers, meanwhile, were projected for only an 81-win season based on their +3 run differential.
However, those numbers are ultimately meaningless. The reality is the Brewers were in the playoffs (even if only for one game) and the Cubs spent the entire last week of the regular season knowing they weren't going to be partaking in any October action.
After another disappointing finish, Epstein and the Cubs brass wanted change. In a perfect world, they'd already have it — a reshaping of the roster to shake things up and get a different mix than the team that has fallen short of expectations the last two seasons.
But this isn't a perfect world and the Cubs front office isn't going to force things. They won't make a change just for change's sake.
"We're not in a position where we have to do anything," Epstein said. "I think you want to always avoid being put in a corner where you have to make a deal and your back's against the wall and you're gonna take any deal that's out there. We're not at all in that position, but looking at the horizon of the next two years, I think you would be wise at some point to do something that looks out a little bit more for the long term and a little bit less for the short term. But that doesn't have to happen now. We're not in a position where we have to move anybody.
"...What's most likely is status quo — it's hard to get long-term extensions done, it's hard to get trades done. We have what we feel is a pretty good club. We're trying to compete this year and we're not in a position where we have to do anything."
That's certainly a change from the tone set forth by Epstein in his end-of-season presser on the final day of September. But while the roster is essentially intact, the Cubs gave the rest of the organization a major face-lift, from the coaching staff to the scouting department to the strength and conditioning staff.
Status quo is a good thing for those Cubs fans hoping Epstein's front office doesn't trade away their favorite player.
Kris Bryant is in attendance at Cubs Convention this weekend, but he's also dealing with a bout of the flu, so he did not speak to the media and had to pass on his now-annual segment on the Ryan Dempster show (which was anything but..."boring").
Epstein joked they might be doing a Muhammed Ali rope-a-dope where the Cubs lull everybody into the idea that nothing will happen this winter only for some major news to come down in the three weeks between the Convention and spring training.
Things can change in a hurry when it comes to trade talks, but it's becoming more and more likely the Cubs will report to their complex in Mesa, Ariz., on Feb. 11 with a "status quo" roster.
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Cubs grant Astros permission to interview coach for manager
A few hours before the 2020 Cubs Convention kicked off, Theo Epstein's front office was hard at work adding another pitcher to the bullpen mix.
It's not a big name fans are itching for, but the Cubs acquired right-handed pitcher Casey Sadler from the Dodgers Friday afternoon. The Cubs sent minor-league infielder Clayton Daniel to LA in return.
Sadler, 29, was designated for assignment by his former team earlier in the week. He has 42 career MLB appearances under his belt, 33 of which came last season between the Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays (1 start).
Sadler performed well in 2019, posting a 4-0 record, 2.14 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, but only had 31 strikeouts in 46.1 innings. He had more success missing bats in Triple-A, with 12.3 K/9 in 38.2 innings last year.
This brings the Cubs' 40-man roster to 39 with a little less than a month before pitchers and catchers report to spring training. The move fits the theme of the offseason where Epstein and Co. are taking fliers on all the buy-low pitchers they can as a volume-game approach to building a pitching staff.
Sadler is out of minor-league options, so he should get a shot at cracking the big-league bullpen out of camp.
At the moment, Craig Kimbrel, Rowan Wick, Kyle Ryan and Brad Wieck look like the only locks for the Opening Day bullpen, but a host of others will be in the mix in Arizona, including:
Ryan Tepera (free agent)
Trevor Megill (Rule 5 pick)
Dan Winkler (free agent)
CD Pelham (waiver pickup)
Brandon Morrow (minor-league free agent)
Duane Underwood Jr. (out of minor-league options)
Alec Mills (out of options)
Adbert Alzolay
Dillon Maples
James Norwood
There are a lot of question marks building a bullpen out of that group, especially considering the proven names the Cubs lost from last year's club (Steve Cishek, Pedro Strop, Brandon Kintzler).
Daniel, 24, was the Cubs' 31st-round pick in 2018 out of Jacksonville State University. He reached Double-A Tennessee last season and hit .305 with a .799 OPS, 2 homers and 21 RBI in 67 minor-league games a year ago.
Tags: Theo Epstein, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs
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Uncertainty is permeating every aspect of modern life and work. The clashes of civilizations and cultures, geopolitical volatility, unpredictable markets, and rapidly shifting situations on every front have made a rational and planned approach to affairs increasingly difficult and possibly even impossible.
In many respects, this was true – narrow, ponderous, set-in-stone, five year central planning did die during the 1990s. But many organizations threw wisdom out with their abandonment of "large notebook planning," forgetting they still needed intelligent, thought-through, guidance for their enterprises. Rapid change and ongoing uncertainty requires no less planning, but a different approach to such planning. Yet, when we are faced with such uncertainty, and all of the rules are changing, we often do not know how to think about it effectively.
Executive management cannot abdicate on the responsibility of leadership just because the planning of the past has become ineffective. Leaders still need to successfully negotiate the future.
How can we identify the new ways to think and plan? One way is by studying the responses of leadership in the enterprises that are most challenged to successfully adapt to uncertainty, and then scale and adapt their responses to our, possibly, lesser needs.
While originally founded during the middle of the 20th century under the specter of nuclear war and superpower brinksmanship, scenario planning was a sophisticated form of strategic planning reserved for complex situations. As the threat of nuclear war passed, scenario planning largely fell into disuse. Today, as the playing field for business spans the globe, and becomes hopelessly complex, blindsiding us again and again with its uncertainty, scenario planning may be coming back into its own.
Scenario planning is a practice for managing through uncertainty, and now, all times are uncertain times.
Founded by Pierre Wack at Royal Dutch Shell in London, and Herman Kahn at the Rand Corporation in southern California, "scenario planning" is a sophisticated strategic planning practice employed by many successful organizations and enterprises of all sizes.
That many different futures are possible at any one moment in time, contingent upon how various elements work out in any given situation.
That planning generally is about what we want to happen, and is accomplished with inadequate regard to the complexities of the situation.
For Wack, Kahn, and their associates, scenario planning was an every day, all day, constant deliberation and study of the market, the industry, the environment, the surrounding politics, and whatever had any appreciable impact upon the business or the situation. It was a very ambitious, full-time undertaking with a total belief in how much rational study could uncover about the future. In its original form, it was an enterprise continued until the mid-late 1980s, when the nascent post-modern uncertainty began to replace all forms of long-term planning with the absence of planning characteristic of the 1990s.
Today, in a less think tank format, scenario planning can be employed as a technique for achieving the 360 degree due diligence that is necessary to provide the most complete perspective possible and from which to plan and decide. While it was originally a tool for modeling answers to the biggest of questions, today it can be used to see into the future, insofar as such a thing is possible, and to inculcate organizational flexibility and resilience.
An image that is helpful in understanding scenario planning is to think of the organization as a pack of wolves, with executive leadership at the front of the pack. The wolves in front are continuously looking, watching, sniffing, scouting out developments, moving in tune with the environment, and telepathically signaling the rest of the pack, who, on their part, are ready to move and change and adapt in both broadly scripted and unscripted ways. The wolves that are at the front of the pack are those who are best at seeing into the future. Because they have modeled innumerable scenarios, and considered the likely and the unlikely, they possess the talent and acuity, the intuition and prescience to ensure the flexibility and resilience of the organization. The wolves that follow, have been rehearsed on the most likely scenarios, and understand in an instant how to respond, improvise, and change in new ways to remain competitive and viable and to recover from discontinuous change to adapt again.
Thus, scenario planning involves the development of "scenarios," or images of the future, that included the best-case and worst-case, likely and unlikely options. The scenarios are then organized with next steps and plans to move the organization forward, ever remaining flexible and resilient.
Today, after both its historical ebb and flow, scenario planning is re-emerging as a technique for enhancing the effectiveness of strategic action and long-range thinking. Increasingly, it is being adopted within corporations, governments, NGOs, and non-profit organizations to explore the future and derive what prescience is available for those who fly far enough above the landscape to grasp the true significance of situations and opportunities. Scenario planning is a practice which should matter to those who desire to survive successfully in today's increasingly discontinuous world.
Many may say, "Isn't that what leaders already do?" The truth is that few leaders or executives actually achieve such acuity, or if they do, it is only for a short time, possibly during the "annual planning cycle." While better at any time, than not at all, the real benefit of scenario planning is found in always being ready for uncertainty. The strength scenario planning imparts is that, in having thought about some of the shapes change and uncertainty may take, an organization gains flexibility in the face of uncertainty, and becomes resilience in its aftermath. Being able to negotiate uncertainty provides a competitive advantage, and a greater likelihood of surviving than rivals may possess.
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In B.C. civil dispute, two down pillows and a 'Magic Wand' vibrator test the legal definition of a 'gift'
Rachel Hannaberry must return various items to ex-boyfriend Glen Pedersen which he insisted belonged to him — including a sex toy
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British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal Member Trisha Apland did not believe the woman's claim that her ex gave her the items as gifts. Junial Enterprises - Fotolia
Edwin Hughes, a retired miner from Timmins, Ont., had always been careful with his money. When he died just before Christmas, 1998, he had a bank account of over a million dollars, which he had made joint with his daughter Paula.
Twenty years later, in December of 2018, British Columbia resident Glen Pedersen's romantic relationship of a few months with Rachel Hannaberry came to its conclusion.
The stories are unrelated, except that when the Supreme Court of Canada finally decided in 2007 who rightly owned Hughes' money, it laid down rules that govern the legal nature of gifts in Canada, and guide the dispersal of family fortunes great and small.
According to a new lawsuit in B.C., those rules also now require Hannaberry, at her own expense, to return to her ex-boyfriend Pedersen two down pillows that he kept at her home because he did not like synthetic, and a Hitachi Magic Wand, a cordless vibrator that they used together, all of which he claimed belong to him.
This is the decision of British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal Member Trisha Apland, who did not believe her claim that he gave them as gifts. She must also pay him $125 plus interest for fees.
She cited the Hughes case in her ruling, because it affirmed, roughly, that it is the recipient's duty to prove a disputed asset was a gift, as opposed to a trust.
After his death, when Paula's marriage to Michael Pecore ended, their dispute over her late father's intentions went through three levels of court. If the bank account was a gift, it was Paula's alone. If it was held in trust and still part of his estate, it was rightly shared with Michael.
It took nearly a decade for the Supreme Court of Canada to finally rule in Paula's favour. The onus was on her to prove it was a gift, which she was able tp do.
Usually, the person bringing a lawsuit has the burden of proof. But in Pedersen and Hannaberry's case, it was clear that he bought the items, and she received them, so "the burden shifts to the person alleging the items were gifts, in this case the respondent (Hannabberry)," the tribunal found.
This put Hannaberry in the unusual legal position of having to prove, on a balance of probabilities, that items she possessed were gifts. Under the law, that means proving the transfer of the asset was "inconsistent with any other intention."
I find this argument does not support her position. Instead, I find it suggests she may not have accepted the Magic Wand as a gift even though she had possession of it
On this point, the judge referred to the case of a family dispute over whether a $50,000 payment, taken against the value of a deceased woman's house, was given to her daughter as a gift or a loan.
The types of evidence about the alleged gift-giver's intent will vary, this Supreme Court said in the Pecore case, and the weight given to any one factor should be at the discretion of the trial judge.
In Pedersen and Hannaberry's case, the fact they were in a romantic relationship was "relevant, but not determinative," Tribunal Member Apland found.
"For there to be a legally effective gift, three things are required: an intention to donate, an acceptance, and a sufficient act of delivery," Apland wrote.
Hannaberry's evidence was that the couple "were originally pretending the Magic Wand was not a gift because she felt 'weird' about gifts."
"I find this argument does not support her position. Instead, I find it suggests she may not have accepted the Magic Wand as a gift even though she had possession of it. Again, acceptance is required for a legally effective gift," the Member wrote.
Hannaberry presented text messages in which she thanks Pedersen for the vibrator as evidence he intended it as a gift, but the Member said this was "not determinative." In other texts, he refers to it as "his," and she asks permission to use it, which the Member accepted was role play, and that Pedersen "meant to maintain control over the Magic Wand."
She also tried to claim that the vibrator is gender specific for women, which the Member rejected. Originally marketed as a muscle relaxer, the Hitachi Magic Wand is better known as a sex toy.
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Global distribution of muddy coasts using a hybrid classification model
Global distribution of muddy coasts using a hybrid classification model: An automated method that employs multispectral satellite imagery and globally available coastal datasets
Hulskamp, Romy (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences; TU Delft Geoscience and Remote Sensing)
Lhermitte, S.L.M. (mentor)
Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (graduation committee)
Luijendijk, A.P. (graduation committee)
Moreno Rodenas, A. (graduation committee)
Geoscience and Remote Sensing
The coastal area provides important services such as valuable habitats for wildlife, resources for regional development, and buffer zones for the land against natural disasters such as storm surges. But these narrow coastal areas experience pressure from both land and ocean side. In order to regulate sustainable coastal development, protect coastal areas from natural forces, implement ecosystem protection strategies and mitigate the impacts of climate change on coastlines, it is crucial to observe and quantify the changes along coastlines that are vulnerable to these pressures. Among the various coastal environments, the focus of this master thesis is on muddy coasts. A muddy coast is defined as a coastal depositional environment that is usually formed along an unsheltered coastline exposed to low energy conditions and that consists mainly of fine sediments, which are smaller than 63 micrometres in diameter. So far, few methods have been developed to detect sandy coasts and the rate of change of sandy coastlines at global scale, but little is known about the detection and behaviour of muddy coasts. The main objective of this thesis is to develop an automated classification method to identify muddy coasts along all the coastlines of the world. The main objective can be translated into the following research question: How can a reliable global mud classification be obtained by analysing the characteristics of muddy coasts using publicly available satellite remote sensing techniques and globally available coastal datasets? To obtain a reliable global mud classification, a method based on the spectral properties of individual mud patches and on the physical geographical characteristics of muddy coasts is proposed.
The spectral properties of individual mud patches are studied at pixel level using multispectral satellite images and the physical geographical characteristics of a muddy coastal system are studied using seven globally available coastal datasets. The information from the multispectral images and the information from the coastal datasets are used as the input of the development of a hybrid coastal transect classification model, in order to obtain a more reliable and robust classification model that can detect muddy coasts at global scale. With supervised machine learning the hybrid coastal transect classification model is developed, which can classify global coastlines into five coastal types: plain beaches, muddy coasts, coastal cliffs, vegetated coasts and other. 85 percent of the muddy coasts are correctly recognised by the hybrid classification model. The accuracy of the hybrid model is still increasing significantly, meaning that the model could perform even better if more training data is added to train the model. The large amount of training and validation data at both pixel and transect level resulted in a reliable, robust global mud classification model. With the addition of the coastal datasets, the model performs better than when only the multispectral satellite images are used for classifying muddy coasts. The hybrid classification model is used to classify 100000 global coastal transects from which 12 percent are classified as muddy coasts; 60 percent of the classified muddy coasts are in the tropics.
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Tourists return to Swiss mountain destinations Feb 5, 2019 - 11:03 Overnight stays in Swiss Alpine resorts have increased for four consecutive seasons since winter 2016/17, with summer destinations doing better than winter destinations. Lucerne topped an international study of 145 resorts. Overnights in the Swiss Alpine region grew by 5% in 2017 and 3.3% in 2018, according to a study, BAK Topindex, by the BAK Economics research institute. The Topindex looks at the competitivity of the Swiss tourism sector as part of the Alpine region, which comprises Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Liechtenstein and Slovenia. Alpine resorts in Switzerland were hit badly by the financial crisis of 2008 and the so-called Frankenshock of 2015, with tourist numbers dwindling as many preferred to go to more affordable destinations, often Austria or France. The 21 million overnights in 2017 were the highest level since 2011, although still off the record of 23.1 million in 2008. Summer vs winter Five Swiss resorts made it into the summer top 15: Lucerne (1), Interlaken (4), Weggis (9), the Jungfrau Region (12) and Lago Maggiore and surrounding valleys (14). When it came to winter resorts, Switzerland was, as usual, comfortably beaten by Austria; only Verbier (10) placed in the top 15. Lucerne also came top overall in the Topindex 2017 thanks to its summer tourism, beating Kleinwalsertal in Austria. The only other Swiss resort in the overall top 15 was ninth-place Zermatt, thanks to its high booking rate and above-average profitability. Of the 145 selected destinations, 34 were in Switzerland. Of these, 29 improved their ranking.
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Switzerland's tourism industry balance came in negative for the second consecutive year in 2017, according to official figures published on Thursday.


The term "estate planning" can be misleading because it suggests that if you do not have a large "estate" you do not need to have a plan for what happens in the event of your incapacity or death, and that is not the case. Planning ahead is good advice for everyone.
Have you considered what would happen in the event of physical or mental incapacity? Who would have the legal authority to write checks, pay bills or make health care decisions? With a Durable Power of Attorney and Health Care Proxy, you may appoint someone you know and trust to make legal, financial and health care decisions for you, in the event of your incapacity. You may make your wishes known regarding life support and end of life treatments, as well as your preferences regarding burial, cremation and funeral and memorial services, by executing a written Declaration of Intent. These simple documents ensure that your wishes are known and followed. If you do not select someone of your choice to act for you in the event of your incapacity, a court may have to make that decision for you by appointing a guardian or conservator.
A Simple Will is a basic estate plan that provides for the disposition of your property upon your death. In a Will, you select your choice of Executor to execute the terms of your Will, and appoint the persons you trust to serve as Guardian of any minor children. In order to be given effect, a Will must be probated, which is the formal judicial process in the Probate Court by which a Will is formally presented and allowed by the court. Until the Will is allowed and the executor is appointed, no one has legal authority to deal with probate assets, which may delay the ability to access cash for the payment of expenses.
If you want to avoid probate, plan for incapacity, defer a loved one's inheritance, or have a more comprehensive plan, then a Trust would be an appropriate estate planning vehicle to consider. With a Revocable Grantor Trust, you, as the "Grantor" would establish the trust and retain the reserved power to revoke or amend the trust as you please during your lifetime. You could serve as the initial Trustee, and the trust would designate successor trustees, to serve in your place in the event of your incapacity or death. Upon your death, your property would be distributed to your named beneficiaries, as set forth in the trust. If you transfer your assets to your trust during your lifetime, you would be able to avoid probate.
For larger estates, that exceed either the state or federal taxable threshold, more complex trusts that incorporate Marital Trusts and Credit Shelter Trusts are designed to minimize or eliminate estate taxes.
Irrevocable Trusts, Special Needs Trusts and Charitable Trusts are additional tools available to accomplish specific estate planning goals and objectives. Irrevocable Trusts may be used to own life insurance policies on the life of the Donor; gifts made to the trust may be used by the trustee to pay life insurance premiums; upon the death of the Donor, the life insurance proceeds may pass to the beneficiaries, free of estate taxes. A Special Needs Trust is customarily established to benefit a disabled individual, without adversely impacting the individual's ability to receive governmental benefits. For the individual or family that wants to benefit a particular charity, or general charitable purposes, there are numerous types of charitable trust options, including Charitable Remainder Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts and Charitable Annuity Trusts and Family Charitable Foundations. A planned charitable gift, as part of an estate plan, may also provide enhanced income tax and estate tax benefits.
If you own or have an interest in a family business or family compound, succession planning will ensure that your family's legacy is passed on to the next generation in a tax efficient manner that avoids disruption or family conflict.
There is an overlap between general Estate Planning and Elder Law. Elder Law focuses on the special issues and concerns of the elder client. In addition to planning for incapacity and for the orderly and tax efficient disposition of an elderly client's assets, elder law includes long term care planning and planning for the protection of the home and other assets. The attorneys at Connolly & Connolly are experienced in preparing Medicaid trusts and advising clients regarding the Medicaid regulations.
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Talking totem poles, with Levi Nelson
When Levi Nelson entered his piece, Anthropology, for the IDEA Art Award competition in March this year, he only told the judges half the story.
Anthropology, by Levi Nelson
The contest winner would have their painting bought for $5,000 and installed at the Joseph and Rosalie Segal Family Health Centre, the mental health wing at Vancouver General Hospital. It was meant to be calming. And non-confrontational. So when 32-year-old Nelson wrote the artist statement to accompany his 36 by 48 inch oil painting of the three ancient totem poles from Haida Gwaii that stand at the entrance to UBC's Museum of Anthropology, he gave a diluted version of his journey to create the painting.
"There was more to the story," says Nelson, "but it just seemed too political."
For Nelson, the painting wasn't just about the totem poles as a celebration of his culture, the resilience of his people, the stories of the totems or animal energies that humans can call upon. It was also about decay and collapse and rebuilding and cultural appropriation and theft and destruction and dismay and a million other impossible-to-capture emotions in words.
It was a reclamation, he said, of something that was taken away. "A lot of the First Nations' artifacts that are housed in museums were essentially stolen or confiscated. By painting them, I am, in a sense, taking them back."
It's not that anything in his artist statement was untrue. When he wrote to the jury, "I believe art is therapeutic," the second-year art student at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design meant it. No holds barred.
"I've been on this path of trying to find out what I want to be or do, this inner need to have some kind of legacy."
One day, labouring over the dish-pit where he was working, he had a breakdown. "I was like, this can't be my life, I can't stop here, I need to be doing something."
He applied to art school. "I looked through my life and realized, since high school I've been painting. I would just get this need to paint and I'd create something."
Even if there were no art supplies on hand. Like when he grabbed an empty pizza box, and a piece of charcoal and sketched out a portrait of a wise Indian wearing a gas mask to create a piece he called Indian Pizza Company, which is now hanging in the Reforming Art show at Emily Carr, where he's mounted it ironically in an expensive glass shadow box — a wry commentary on the way First Nations art has been revered, even as its creators and community have been disdained.
Indian Pizza Company, by Levi Nelson
"I was so excited when I got the letter of acceptance. It was freeing, a chance at making something better of myself," he says.
At Emily Carr, he's been wowing his professors, acing his exams, generating buzz amongst the senior critical studies students, selling art, being featured in shows, but most importantly, finding a space to consider this moment in place and time, and his place in it.
"I'm just now starting to realize my angle on the world as an artist. What does it mean to be a First Nations artist who didn't go to residential school, whose first language is English, who's been educated at a top university? What does it mean to navigate through the urban city as a First Nations person? I'm still trying to figure that out. I'm taking trips to the Museum of Anthropology — one of those trips inspired the Anthropology painting. I saw these totem poles, snapped this picture, printed out a photograph and decided it would look great as a painting, without even realizing (how deep that would take me)."
As Nelson began to work on the piece, he learned about the missionaries and government officials who confiscated ceremonial masks and totem poles in the beginning of the 20th century.
"They'd see these totem poles lying on the ground, and think, 'oh the people aren't taking care of it. We're going to take it away and put it in a museum.' They did not realize that one of the practices with totem poles is that once they fall over, that is its life. It's left to deteriorate back into the earth," he says.
Fallen Totem, by Levi Nelson
Art collectors and museum curators rescue these fallen totems and refurbish them and protect them from decay, housing them in facilities where the light and the air temperature are controlled, so the artifacts are protected and preserved. This is very important to museums and art galleries — that the pieces are frozen in time. And as they gain value, the pieces become too valuable to allow them to be repatriated to the communities that created them, often because of a pervading sense that these broken communities just won't know how to take care of them, won't understand how important these artifacts are.
"When I go in and paint these totem poles," says Nelson, "it's my way of taking them back out of the museum, but through a different avenue. Regaining agency over the powers that took them away from our people a couple of hundred years ago. It's very sad to me — I'm speaking to you in English, which is my first language. I think in English, I'm getting A pluses on my art history exams, but I still have this connection to my culture, through dancing with my mom's Iswalh dance group and singing our songs which are thousands of years old, but I'm living in western society, with a Facebook account and a cellphone. It's just weird to think about sometimes."
Nelson is using his art to travel the parallel universes that he's caught between and in doing so, he nudges us all towards a realization that there are different ways of loving and revering and valuing art, and that ultimately, it's all here to remind us of love, belonging, survival and decay. The endless cycle of life and loss, and the making in between.
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Combined Services team to face Barbarians at the Rec
The 23 best players have been selected from the combined might of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force rugby teams, and the squad is all set to face the famous Barbarians at Bath Rugby's picturesque Recreation Ground on Tuesday 11th November.
Bath wing Semesa Rokoduguni, this week named in England's matchday squad to face New Zealand, has represented the Combined Services in the recent past, indicating the talent the Armed Forces can draw on.
With Rokoduguni absent on England duty, the Royal Air Force's Flying Officer Lloyd Owen gets his chance. Owen, currently undergoing his pilot training with the RAF, is a rather more literal flying winger. Owen said: 'It's a real honour to be selected for the Combined Services. Rugby in the military doesn't get any better than this - and the Premiership talent in the team this year is exceptional. The Remembrance Day match is played to raise funds for the Royal British Legion. This, and knowing that we represent those who serve, who have served and who have sacrificed, makes selection mean even more.'
The squad to face the Barbarians also includes up and coming stars such as Navy and former London Welsh prop Gaz Evans, Ospreys Rugby's Army hooker Matthew Dwyer, and two Aviva Premiership players from London Welsh: Army prop Ricky Reeves and RAF lock Josh McNally.
Some of the greatest names in world rugby have played for the Barbarians – including the likes of Lawrence Dallaglio and Richie McCaw – and, as strong as this year's Combined Services are, they are likely to face an equally formidable line up when the Barbarians squad is announced in the coming days.
This year will be the first year that the Barbarians also sport the poppy emblem on their shirts, in commemoration of the outbreak of the Great War 100 years ago in 1914.
In pulling on the Combined Services shirt Captain Dave Pascoe (scrum-half) will be joined in this year's squad by his Royal Navy teammates Kye Beasley (prop), Gaz Evans (prop), Marsh Cormack (second row), David Fairbrother (number eight), Nathan Huntley (fly-half), Joshua Terry (prop), Ben Priddey (hooker), Jonny Stephen (second row), Jonathan Humphrey (fullback) and Matt Tichias (inside centre).
The Army contingent includes: Matthew Dwyer (hooker), Ricky Reeves (prop), Darrell Ball (second row), Jack Prasad (fly-half), Peceli 'Naka' Nacamavuto (outside centre), Gerhard Wessels (inside centre), James Dixon (fullback), Chris Munday (flanker), Robert Lennox (flanker), Ledua Jope (number eight).
Meanwhile, the Royal Air Force can boast Dave Manning (prop), Josh McNally (second row), Adi Gillespie (wing), Lloyd Owen (wing), Toby Mann (hooker), and Tim Coghlan (prop).
Tickets are available now from www.bathrugby.com/tickets or by calling 0844 448 1865.
Prices are £15 covered, £10 open and £5 for under-18s.
Pre-match entertainment will be provided by the band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.


Jeff Garlin is about to become pretty, pretty, pretty single.
According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star filed for divorce on Tuesday. He cites irreconcilable differences for the split.
Garlin and his wife, Marla, had been married since 1994 and he lists the date of separation as July 25, 2017 … one day after their 23rd wedding anniversary.
The couple has two sons together, Duke and James, neither of whom are minors.
Garlin is willing to pay Marla spousal support but wants each side to pay their own attorneys' fees.


Last week the crew leaders and I spent some time going over season logistics, meeting our agency partners, developing leadership skills and self-awareness, and establishing a vision for the season.
Monday we spent the day reviewing Conservancy expectation, going over training materials surrounding gender inclusivity and diversity, and sorting through gear. That's not to say we didn't have an opportunity to get outside and practice communication and tent-building skills with a series of blindfolded tent exercises.
Shelby, Red Feather Crew Leader, wrestles with the rainfly during the blindfold tent build.
Blake, Estes Crew Leader, finishes up his blindfold tent build.
Tuesday focused on developing self-awareness about personal skills, leadership tendencies, and areas of improvement. This was coupled with a visioning exercise, where the crew leaders developed there shared mission for the upcoming season. To break up the day, crew leaders got outside for a game of ninja before beginning an afternoon of vehicle training.
Wednesday centered around meeting with the agency partners and liaisons. This is the first opportunity for the crew leaders to meet with the National Park Service or USDA Forest Service staff they will be working with for the summer. It provides a time for the crew leader to get to know the agency folks, project planning to occur, and logistics/expectation setting to take place.
On Thursday, after a three-days of office work, the crew leads hit the trail for the day completing twelve miles round-trip on the North Fork Trail out of the Dunraven Trailhead. This allowed us to look back on some of the work completed by the RMC-CC in years past and get a taste of USFS and NPS trail systems. Initially, this was intended to be an overnight, but because of poor weather forecasts we cut it to a day. The best part…we had the trail all to ourselves!
Blake, Shelby, Izzy, Gus, Garret, and Lucas (Left to Right) enjoy a rare quiet day on the North Fork Trail.
After a long weekend in Estes, the crew leaders are back at it today welcoming their crews to Moraine Park Campground and gearing up for a summer full of conservation work! Stay tuned next week for updates on the Crew Orientation Week and National Trails Day before the RMC-CC head out to the field for the summer.
Last week all of the crews returned to Estes Park for our final week of the season. The week was filled with wrap up activities, career development, and bittersweet feelings.
To kick the week off, the Corps was all hands on deck for the Annual Conservancy Member Picnic on Saturday, August 6th. At this event the Corps plays a critical role in set-up, take-down, and picnic logistics. Fortunately, its not all work for them. They all get a chance to interact with members, staff, and donors of the Conservancy, enjoy delicious barbecue, and present their experience. Despite the dreary conditions, it was a great day. On Sunday, the crew were back out in the field for their last day of work. This time they were joined by Conservancy members and the Poudre Wilderness Volunteers who were guiding the project. We worked on the upper section of the Lion Gulch Trail, which was heavily damaged by the 2013 floods and continues to be closed for repairs. The work consisted of establishing new trail tread, clearing corridor, and constructing retaining walls to hold in new trail. With Monday as their only day off, many of the crew members took advantage of the opportunity to hike in Rocky Mountain National Park. The leaders were occupied by the incredible opportunity to summit Longs Peak via the historic Cables Route with the Colorado Mountain School. For most of the remainder of the week, the crews invaded the Field Institute for a days of resume building and reflection writing, with two exceptions. On Wednesday, we partnered with the National Park Service to lead a Junior Ranger Day on Leave No Trace. And to finish out he week, the Corps hiked "CCY" in Rocky Mountain National Park to celebrate the successful season.
With the season all complete, I am left with a quiet office wishing to be back on trail with these thirty-six inspiring young people. Now onto reading their reflections and compiling our end-of-season portfolio and stats. Stay tuned for our annual slideshow and report!
All of the crews took a break from the field last week to return to Estes Park for Education Week. During Education Week, the crews get a chance to learn more about career opportunities in public lands and the natural and cultural history of Rocky Mountain National Park.
The other half of the crews, spent the morning with Rachel Balduzzi, Education Director for Rocky Mountain Conservancy. Rachel guided them through the National Park Service headquarters area at RMNP providing insight into all of the different divisions and career pathways within the National Park Service.
For the second half of the day the two groups switched: those volunteering met up with Rachel for the afternoon, and the crews that spent their morning with Rachel headed out to manage invasive thistles.
For the rest of the week the crews were divided up taking classes on topics ranging from primitive survival skills to tundra ecology and medicinal plants to geology. I am still awaiting photos from the classes, I think the crews might have been too focused to even pull out the phones for a photo opp!


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Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015
2015 c. 26
Investigations by Adjudicator
Correction Slip - 26/11/2018
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, Section 58.
58Financial penaltiesE+W
This section has no associated Explanatory Notes
(1)If the Adjudicator chooses to enforce through imposing financial penalties, that means imposing a penalty on the pub-owning business of an amount not exceeding the permitted maximum (see subsection (6)).
(2)The financial penalty is imposed by giving the pub-owning business written notice specifying—
(a)the grounds for imposing the penalty,
(b)the amount of the penalty,
(c)the period within which it must be paid, and
(d)how it must be paid.
(3)The pub-owning business may appeal to the High Court against—
(a)the imposition of a financial penalty, or
(b)its amount.
(4)Financial penalties under this section are recoverable by the Adjudicator as a debt.
(5)Financial penalties received by the Adjudicator must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
(6)The Secretary of State must make regulations—
(a)specifying the permitted maximum, or
(b)specifying how the permitted maximum is to be determined.
I1S. 58 in force at 6.4.2016 for specified purposes by S.I. 2016/321, reg. 4(d)
I2S. 58 in force at 21.7.2016 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2016/532, reg. 3
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Connor is the son of the owner, Margie Worrall. He is in charge of stocking the vending machine and making the facility a clean and friendly environment.
Margie Worrall is the owner of Snap Fitness of Avondale. Before her venture into the fitness industry, Margie worked at MBNA America (now Bank of America) for 19 years where she was a senior manager in a variety of departments: Credit, Customer Satisfaction, Business Development and Finance.
Margie is dedicated to helping each of the members meet their fitness goals. She also owns the Kennett and Oxford Snap Fitness locations.
Hi, my name is Nina ParkerBrison. I am a certified ISSA (International Sports Sciences Association) Elite Fitness Trainer/Coach who specializes in working with clients who need to manage various health conditions, weight-loss and or improve their health. I am AED/CPR certified. In addition, I hold certification's in Exercise Therapy and Fitness Nutrition. I have many years of experience working with clients who needed help managing medical conditions, losing weight, and motivation to make a lifestyle change. I love and believe in the power of fitness. And I enjoy helping others improve their overall health and learn how to live healthier. I use up to date proven fitness methods to help my clients get results. If you are looking to improve your fitness and/or health, become more active, need help managing health conditions then I am the trainer for you.
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Welcome to Snap Fitness of Avondale conveniently located in the London Grove Village Shopping Center. We are your neighborhood fitness center offering personal training, group classes, nutrition consultation and tanning at very affordable rates.
The facility is incredible! It is equipped with all the state-of-the art cardiovascular and resistance training equipment. You will enjoy a clean, non-competitive environment with a staff that is friendly and knowledgeable. Each member receives individualized attention as they strive to meet their fitness goals! Our fitness professionals will help you get the results with one-on-one training or join our Group fitness classes and have fun, meet new people while getting a great workout.
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We know Andalucia by heart and cannot wait to share with you our passion for this rich region. We try to blend together a few essential ingredients in all our trips: great location, authentic local experiences, gastronomic experiences and spectacular accommodation with style and personality. All of this combined with our excellent customer services, passionate and professional team of guides, gives us the confidence that our customers will have the best possible travel experience when choosing us. We have an array of signature experiences all over Andalucia that differentiates us from all other local tour operators and travel agencies.
Trust and quality are at the very core of our business. We operate with full liability insurance. The safety of our travellers is a priority, therefore we make sure that all accommodation facilities, activities and vehicles included in our programs meet the globally accepted standards. We strive to provide the highest standard to our services and create unforgettable experiences for all our customers.
We are committed to sustainable tourism, to protecting the places and communities we love so much. We prefer to work with local suppliers and accommodation facilities, to include local activities and show the unique Spanish culture and traditions to keep them strong and avoid their disappearance. We are socially responsible and think of the tourism as a way of giving back to the local communities.
Jose left his office job back in 2010, for a new and exciting life enjoying fully this stunning region. He opened the first Stand-up Paddle and Surf School in Marbella. It did not take long until the team started to grow, and went on to create different experiences and active programs for Corporate Clients, Schools, Local Administration, and more and more travellers every year.
It seems like such a long time since then, NaluSur having grown in both size and especially experience, by serving all types of customers, from corporate to individuals. NaluSur has opened its horizons much further than Marbella and Costa del Sol and opened its wings all over Andalucia, keeping on doing what we love most, adventure tours and holidays with a touch of Andalusian culture and rich gastronomy.
We believe in people, we believe they are the engine of our business, thanks to them all of this is possible. This is why we choose so carefully the members of our team. Our team is formed of experienced travel professionals and highly creative and motivated tour guides. We all share the same values, have common interests and above all are amazing people, all of us complementary. From the founder of NaluSur, Jose, our expert guides, down to the temp on work experience, we all love what we do, and how we make a difference.
We know better than anyone our homeland, and are proud to have the opportunity to show this to the rest of the world. Let us design your trip of a lifetime, using all the knowledge and experience we accumulated so far, and let us show you what perfect holidays are made of!
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Q: Impedir que un elemento se elimine si es que existe en una tabla Tengo una tabla productos que tiene un id_categoria que esta relacionada con la tabla categoria. Mi pregunta es cómo tengo que hacer si quiero que al intentar eliminar una categoría, si esa categoría está relacionada con un producto, no dejar que se elimine. Si por lo contrario no tiene ningún producto relacionado eliminarse la categoría.
Migracion productos
    public function up()
{
    Schema::create('creates', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->bigIncrements('id')->unique();
        $table->string('nombre');
        $table->string('descripcion',5000);
        $table->string('foto');
        $table->bigInteger('id_categoria')->unsigned()->unique();
        //$table->foreign('id_categoria')->references('id')->on('categorias')->onDelete('set null');
        $table->foreign('id_categoria')->references('id')->on('categorias');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

Migracion Categorias
   public function up()
{
    Schema::create('categorias', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->bigIncrements('id')->unique();
        $table->string('nombre');
        $table->foreignId('id')
        ->references('id')->on('productos')
        ->onUpdate('cascade')
        ->onDelete('restrict');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

pero como hago un if para para validar?

A: En la migracion puedes añadir los bloqueos necesarios en caso de que renombren la llave primaria y/o la quieran eliminar
$table->foreignId('user_id')
      ->references('id')->on('users');
      ->onUpdate('cascade')
      ->onDelete('restrict');

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/migrations#foreign-key-constraints
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/timestamp-initialization.html
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Ok, la validacion de datos no se hace en las vistas, se tiene que hacer en el controlador y de alli llamar la vista correcta, por ejemplo:
/**
 * Remove the specified resource from storage.
 *
 * @param  \App\Models\Product  $product
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
public function destroy(Product $product)
{
    try {
        $product->delete();
        return view('product');
    } catch (Illuminate\Database\QueryException $e) {
        $error_code = $e->errorInfo[1];
        return view('product_error',['error' => $error_code]);
    }
}

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Partisan Leftists Sow Seeds of Division In America's Heartland Regarding Cannabis Reform
Published on September 7, 2017 in News by Shane Trejo
The marijuana legalization movement has built a tremendous deal of momentum in recent years, but partisan leftists can't help but ruin a good thing.
Trish Bertrand, an anti-capitalist activist who advocates regulating and restricting the marijuana industry in her state, held up a sign saying "COPS AND THE KKK GO HAND IN HAND" at a protest in Springfield last month. With Missouri cannabis lobbyists working diligently to gain law enforcement support toward legalizing medical marijuana, her disgraceful move could drive a stake through the heart of the entire reform effort in the Show Me State.
Bertrand is the President of the Springfield chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). She was removed from her post at New Approach Missouri after her shameful, divisive actions became known to the public. Additionally, Bertrand claimed that fellow marijuana activists were aligned with alt-right due to their association with close Trump ally and long-time GOP operative, Roger Stone, who is leading a bipartisan cannabis reform effort across the country.
"In Missouri Roger Stone's presence on cannabis has been a unifying presence, not a divisive one," said Eapen Thampy, the leader of Americans for Forfeiture Reform, to The Liberty Conservative. He has been involved in cannabis reform politics in Missouri for many years.
Thampy is a libertarian-leaning Republican who helped to fundraise within the cannabis reform community for Rand Paul's presidential campaign last year. Although he is happy to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats and liberals on like-minded issues such as ending cannabis prohibition and civil asset forfeiture, he has found that those on the opposite side of the political arena are not nearly as amenable to the idea of putting differences aside and working together.
"We've seen conservatives unite with libertarians and liberals to achieve a common goal of ending prohibition in 2018 and it's being done with the support of law enforcement that sees that cannabis policy reform allows for fundamental improvements in the practice of law enforcement," Thampy said. "This is real change for the people of Missouri and we hope that our friends on the West Coast can join us in celebrating that."
While most drug policy groups have claimed to be non-partisan throughout the years, they have shown their true colors since the election of Trump. Organizations with close ties to George Soros – such as the Drug Policy Alliance and the Drug Reform Coordination Network – have focused their ire on the President and the GOP to the point of superseding and undermining the alleged focus of their organizations.
It remains to be seen if the cannabis community can put this pettiness behind them, and unite for the benefit of the millions of Americans suffering due to prohibition.
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"Timpview goal keeper Nisha Bindraban (1) watches as a Mountain View shot from a direct kick bounces into the net during the second half at Mountain View High School, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2010. Timpview lost, 4-3."
I should preface, blog posts will be slow this week.
This past week, following an injury playing soccer myself, I visited the emergency room. Unfortunately, I have a disc herniation in my lower back. This has left me basically immobilized and in serious pain since Tuesday.
With that, I will be traveling back to Maryland for treatment and will be out of work until I fully recover.
As for this picture, it reminded me of Robert Green, the England goalkeeper who let a rather simple shot by the U.S. in the World Cup to slip through his hands and into the goal.
The only difference being that this shot got by the goalkeeper completely, untouched and was from a high school girls game.
Funny what life can resemble sometimes.
Small victory
"BYU wide receiver O'Neill Chambers (4) gets a gasp from the crowd as he pulls in a one-handed catch during practice on Friday, Aug.13, 2010 on the campus of BYU in Provo."
Everyday is a challenge in photojournalism.
Every morning I find out what I am shooting, but there is no guarantee that those assignments will stick.
Even if they do, the ways of assignments change. Such as BYU football practice the other day.
I am not sure what changed, but I wasn't allowed inside the ropes at practice the other day.
Every time I slipped under, a field enforcer would tell me I wasn't allowed to be where I was. I even explained many times who I was shooting for and that I was out of the way of spectators.
I became frustrated. I did my best to seek out the best vantage points behind the ropes and still do my job.
That's when I saw our video guy where we normally were able to be. So I ran out next to him. But since we're are only allotted around 30 minutes to shoot, I was running out of time on the field.
Despite being on the wrong side of this play, I felt good to get something this visual and the talk of the day of practice in such a short period of time.
A small victory for the assignment, day.
"A student makes her way around the campus of BYU in Provo on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010."
Last week, I was assigned to venture over to BYU to shoot education week.
My instructions were straight forward: find a nice moment on campus.
The only problem, most people were in classrooms or lectures simply gazing at the speaker. It wasn't very visual.
So I roamed. And walked. Then searched some more. I couldn't find anything that lent itself to being a moment per say.
I spent just over an hour on my feet seeking something worthy of a feature for education week.
At one point, I started shooting any and everything. Trying to get my creative juices flowing. The above being something I liked, but obviously not for the paper.
In the end, I found a girl quietly reading in the hallway, next to a big sign that asked those outside the lecture to, well, be quiet.
Rain is a good thing
"In an attempt to stay dry, a young girl ducks underneath a carnival game as heavy rain falls during the first day of the Utah County Fair at the Spanish Fork fairgrounds, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. The fair is open daily through Saturday. The fair hosts events like the Miss Utah County Scholarship pageant, horse and junior livestock show, 4-H and open class exhibits, antique car show, and more."
It doesn't rain much in Utah.
When it does, it's usually brief and then dry within the half hour. I certainly haven't seen a full days rain like back in Maryland.
That changed for the first time since I've been out here. Last week, it literally rained all day long. The sun never came out. It was dark and wet from the minute I rolled out of bed.
As the day went on, it got worse. By the time I ventured down to the county fair for a feature, it was hailing and flooding.
But I took advantage of the weather, slapped on my raincoat and hat, covered the camera with my Aquatech and ventured through the fair.
Despite feeling soggy afterward, I had fun. The above was my favorite frame of the afternoon.
As for the title, "Rain Is A Good Thing" is a song by country singer Luke Bryan. They kept playing it over and over (or so it seemed) at the fair.
It only felt fitting.
Out?
"Orem Owlz catcher Drew Beuerlein (10) shows the umpire that he didn't drop the ball after he and Great Falls Voyagers' Ryan Hamme (18) collided at home plate during the fourth-inning at Brent Brown Ballpark in Orem, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Hamme was called out on the play, which ended the inning."
One good thing about the high school sports season starting? Baseball has to almost be over. Maybe?
I am not sure what the schedule looks like for the local minor league baseball team - the Orem Owlz - but I am glad it has neared the end.
While I've had a fairly good season shooting baseball of all levels, I am ready for soccer and football every other day.
The other night I decided to change up my normal shooting positions, which led me to some clean backgrounds in the outfield.
But go figure, the last inning of the game I returned to my favorite spot and ended up grabbing a decent play at home.
First hit of the year
"Pleasant Grove tight end Bryon Bingham (46) is hit by a pack of Timpview defenders in the first quarter at Pleasant Grove High School, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Pleasant Grove was defeated, 24-7."
It feels good to be shooting some action-packed sports again.
With the return of Friday night lights, otherwise known as, high school football season, I know I'll be shooting some fun action while on night shift this month.
While I shot the same exact home-opening game last year, I was still pumped.
Tensions ran high as the season opened up and I had a great time shooting the first game of the new school year.
I only wish the nice light lasted more than two quarters. It will slowly dwindle as the season progresses.
The curse lives on
"Timpview's Ulysses Bradfield (13) tries to focus before the season opening game against Pleasant Grove at Pleasant Grove High School, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Timpview, the 2009 defending state champions, defeated Pleasant Grove, 24-7."
Last year, Trent discovered a Utah high school football curse: Deny a photographer access to the locker room and you just might lose tonight's game.
Well, it looks like Timpview learned their lesson from last year.
I was granted access to the locker room, or in this case, the grassy knoll outside of the locker room, by all around good guy and coach, Louis Wong.
And well, they started the season off right - they won.
Now only if I started off right it would have been a great night. I was killing it from the minute I showed up. The light was great. The access was granted. The weather was perfect. Then my great mood and shooting went to, well, shit.
Decided I had more than enough after the first half and went to my car to transmit. But as I dumped my cards - one is corrupt. First time in my life its ever happen.
I then realized I have no roster because I shot the roster on the corrupt card. So I run back in and they are out of rosters.
Well, I didn't have my phone, so I shoot them on a friend's iPhone and e-mailed them to myself.
Then I tone my photos. Deadline is close. Time to caption. I can barely read small roster print from the iPhone pictures. But I got it done. Correctly.
If that wasn't enough, the FTP was down, so I start e-mailing to the copy desk and sports; and it's super slow. I start freaking out. I am responsible for A1 and sports front.
I call the desk to see if they have them. Surprise. No internet at office. So I have to drive the opposite way of home and back to Provo.
If that wasn't enough, my card won't dump on sports desk. Try again. It works. I let out a large, but deserved, sigh of relief. Then I hit traffic...twice.
But I made it home. Alive and still sane. I had a good shoot. Now if I can only uncorrupt (is that a word) my one memory card.
Welcome to football season!
"Easton Franz, 3, of Santaquin, patiently waits for the Santaquin Orchard Children's Parade to begin in Santaquin, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Participants up to 12-years-old decorated their bikes, tricycles and wagons as they paraded down to the local park. Hundreds of kids showed up and many fun awards were given out. "The best part is getting people in the community out to ride their bikes and decorate them," council member Filip Askerlund said. "We tell the kids it's a parade every year, and it always turns into a race."
I work at a community paper. Despite the size of Utah County, our coverage area is relatively small.
Often I run into the same people, same families and I would presume a lot of folks know who I work for when they see me due to our small photo staff.
With that, there isn't much hard-hitting news out here.
In a way Utah County reminds me of Japan. In Japan, you are taught to respect your family and never bring them embarrassment. What I am essentially saying is - it's safe.
Why it may not be true, I believe the concept is the same here in Utah, but with the focus on not demoralizing the religion.
Don't color me ugly, there is nothing wrong with living in a safe community, it just can be at times a bit of a bore with no "real" crime or news. I grew up in Baltimore. I like chasing news. I like corrupt politics. I like big time sports. I like things fast.
And I see all that in friend's photos. I look their images from major metros and I am jealous. Their photos have deep meaning and tears, they're from in-depth stories, groundbreaking issues, and other fast paced news. And again, I am not saying it's not out here, it is, just not in bulks.
But I don't let that bring me down. I still have a job to do and I do it with passion.
And while it may not include sadness over a death, a slaying in the city or high crime, I've learned out to seek out photos that still tell the small stories, the lighter side of things and the moments that matter to those that live here - And I do it with pride.
I love this job - big or small - exciting or not - because in the end, it's all about telling the story truthfully, honestly and visually.
"Patrons walk through the Museum of Ancient Life during "Two Dollar Tuesdays" at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Every Tuesday in August is "Two Dollar Tuesdays" at Thanksgiving Point."
Let's face it, some assignments just sound as boring as they are.
We sit in the office minutes preceding or in bed the night before trying to visualize moments that will never come. We try to think of the lighting that will be nowhere close to what it is. And we try to convince ourselves that we'll come away with something spectacular.
I used to do that a lot when I first started shooting. I'd literally stay up hours on end trying to conceptualize what I was hoping to see. But I quickly found out that I was always setting myself up for disappointment. Nothing is ever how we picture it before hand. It's life.
So why I decided to over-think this essentially mundane assignment is beyond me.
From the minute I stepped onto the grounds of Thanksgiving Point, fundamentally a large museum and petting zoo, I was down on myself. Granted I had some other worries on my mind at the time, nothing seemed to pan out.
My images of children petting animals bored me. The angles were wrong. The light was harsh. I was being too critical of my images.
Instead of dwelling on this aspect of the assignment, I put my camera in my car, and walked into the museum. I had to look without any pressures of my camera.
It's amazing what I saw. I simply meandered through the gallery of artifacts as a visitor. I wasn't forcing myself to take pictures or find moments.
After one walk through, I returned to my car, grabbed my camera and made maybe 40 frames.
I think it's a good exercise to see without your camera. And sure, it's not always ideal with tight deadlines and multiple assignment days when time is tight. But hoping to run into something great is not going to happen everyday. Sometimes it just has to be a no pressured scavenger hunt.
"Photojournalism is an adventure that falls somewhere between cultural anthropology and a scavenger hunt." -Don Bartletti, LA Times
Helper, Utah
"A cutout of Marilyn Monroe leans against a window of a business on Main St., in Helper, Utah, Aug. 1, 2010."
Driving back from Moab a couple weeks ago I wanted to stop in a couple small towns.
The problem, which turned into a blessing in disguise, is that I missed the usual turn toward home.
In turn, I drove up an alternative route toward Helper and got to see a couple various small towns.
Helper was the last town I stopped in. Unfortunately, the main road was under construction. So I made 36 frames in a 10 minute stroll up the block.
"Alayna Garrity of Highland auditions for the Highland dance contest at The Pointe - Performing Arts Academy, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010."
From a dance competition.
The funny thing is that everyone there seemed to be more worried about me than the dancers.
They kept asking me why I wanted to shoot outside the room when I was allowed inside. But at one point a woman asked what I was doing, and another responded, "He likes shooting the window."
I wonder what they thought when they saw this in print. I wonder if they got the picture. Literally.
"Photographer James Roh pedals around barefoot in Salt Lake City, Sunday, July 24, 2010."
What can I say? Summer is just about over. Well, I guess I don't really consider it over until I can stop swimming.
But when I was in high school, once fall sports began, I considered it over.
While I still expect one last end of summer bash with friends, I found the going away party of friends Beth and Ramin a great excuse to finish off a roll of 120 film I had sitting my Holga camera for three years.
With some luck, all 12 frames came out correctly exposed. I was banking on light leaks galore and over exposed film. But as I mentioned, it all came out perfect.
This was my favorite frame of the roll. Now I need to get some more film.
"A worker attempts to untangle branches and wires following a rain storm near Quepos, Costa Rica, Tuesday, July 6, 2010."
Last month I ventured to Central America for the first time.
I landed in Costa Rica and traveled around as much as possible in the 10 days I had.
The minute I touched down it was an adventure. From trying to comb through the cobwebs when it came to speaking Spanish again, to navigating at times impassable roads, and trying to not gain 10 lbs., a day eating rice and beans, it all made the journey unforgettable.
The trip began in San Jose, then traveled northwest to Monteverde, northeast to La Fortuna and then southeast to the Manuel Antonio area before heading back toward the San Jose for the last day.
Each town featured their own natural wonders; from a cloud forest, to an active volcano, to lovely beaches and national parks.
Not many downsides to the trip aside from it being rainy season. But when you live in the high, dry, desert like Utah - rain is nice. Humidity is another thing.
Overall, without dabbling into much detail, Costa Rica is a friendly, eco-tourist rich place to visit. While I didn't pick my camera up as much as other international travels, it's worth revisiting and recommending to others.
Like any other travel, I want to shoot pictures - show others a world they've never witnessed for themselves.
But I believe we as photographers have to sometimes see things without a camera. And while I still had my camera with me everywhere we went, I opted to take things in more than worry about making frames.
So the above is a very rough, way too many, out of order edit of some of my favorites from the trip. From the small towns to the large rain forests - this is what I encountered. I'd love to hear what images you like the best.
And one last thanks to friends, photogs David Hobby, Glenn Fawcett and Justin Kase Conder for the tips and lodging suggestions.
"In front of Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, a man stands motionless facing south as the sunsets, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010."
I miss the real city. Salt Lake City isn't much of a city per say, but it does the trick.
Every time I am on foot trekking through the city, I remember how much life and how many characters there are on the streets.
Tonight I was shooting a work related assignment downtown, which is rare. It wasn't that exciting, but after my shoot, with no deadline, I found myself clicking pictures of strangers - Street strangers as I call them.
I am not sure why this ended up being my favorite from the evening.
Other frames I have are in the face of complete randoms. They are, well, closer and had more interesting faces. This is neither.
But this kept catching my eye again in the edit. Maybe it was the fact that I passed this guy on the way to my real assignment and he was still there on my way back?
Nonetheless, I need to spend more time on foot, less time on bicycle and by car, shooting those in my new city.
"A visitor stops to take in the view of one of many windows at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, Saturday, July 31, 2010."
This image is nothing to write home about, but I visited Arches National Park in Moab last weekend.
I had been to Moab once before to mountain bike and explore a little, so it was nice to get back and do two new things.
One obviously being Arches National Park. Yet that wasn't the purpose of the trip.
The main reason for the pilgrimage down south was to skydive for the first time.
I could litter this post with useless words and sentences, so I'll sum it up the best I can:
Best thing I've ever done in my life; so far.
Keep your eye on the ball
"A young fan is struck with a foul ball during the Orem Owlz Vs. Casper Ghosts game at Brent Brown Ballpark in Orem, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010."
On a lighter note than my last post, foul balls have the potenetinal to get the most of people.
I haven't shot sports in about a month, which has been a bit odd. So to say I was a bit rusty is an understatement.
But last night this foul ball kept me laughing and having a good time. I saw the fan get up, so I don't think there were any serious injuries, umm, down there.
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"On Wednesday, Chris Curtis and another griever visit the scene where his cousin Brandon Curtis, a Springville High School football player, was fatally injured in a rollover accident at the high school on Tuesday. Curtis was later taken off life support and died Wednesday afternoon. Photo taken, Wednesday, July 28, 2010."
It's never easy as a photojournalist to cover an accident - especially when it's fatal.
On Tuesday, I heard the talk of multiple injuries in Springville. Brandon Curtis, 18, and three other Springville High School students had been hurt in an accident on campus.
According to police, all four were injured in a Jeep rollover in the parking lot. The police said the teens had been "spinning doughnuts," but not at a high speed.
On Wednesday, the talk was that Curtis was at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Curtis, a football player and wrestler, had spent more than 24-hours in critical condition and on life support.
Surrounded by his family, he was later taken off life support and died Wednesday afternoon.
Shortly after, I was called by my editor to head to Spingville High School to help tell the story visually. As one could expect, the tensions and emotions were extremely sensitive at the school.
I had to work fast to help the community understand the heartbreak, sadness and loss for everyone involved.
I tried to show my condolences to staff of the school and students I encountered. But after a couple frames, I, and the other media that were beginning to enter the parking lot, were all told to leave the campus.
This made my job difficult to tell story. But I understand that it also gave emotional students more room to grieve. I hope my images helped others in the community understand the pain everyone went through on this very sad day.
My heart goes out to the family, friends, teammates, and everyone who knew Brandon Curtis.


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Arlington Heights police responded about 9:04 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a man with a gun near La Tasca restaurant, Vail Avenue and Davis Street. A male subject came through the back door of the restaurant and asked for a subject by name. He immediately fled out the back door, but witness did report seeing a gun.The offender was described as a male/unknown race, age 25-30, short, heavy set, wearing gym clothes with a gun in the jacket, and carrying a guitar case. Exited a side door.
Multiple police units responded, and had the subject outside on the ground in custody within three minutes. The man was transported in custody to Arlington Heights Police Department Headquarters for investigation.


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Holloway Press records
Aug 25, 2016By Libraries and Learning Services Posted in: GeneralTagged in: Cultural Collections, Special Collections
Holloway Press type. MSS & Archives 2014/15, 8/1. Special Collections, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.
The Holloway Press was established in 1994 under the Department of English by poet and printer Alan Loney with Associate Professor Peter Simpson (English) as co-Director. It was set up in the library at the University of Auckland's Tāmaki Campus using equipment and materials generously donated by its namesake, Ronald Holloway, printer and publisher of The Griffin Press.1
Alan Loney left The Holloway Press in 1998 and it remained inactive until it was revived in 2001 by Peter Simpson in the role of publisher and renowned graphic designer and printer Tara McLeod as designer and printer.2
In 2014, after 20 years, the Press closed having produced 40 publications involving an impressive number of New Zealand artists, poets, writers, printers and designers.3
Archives relating to these printing projects were donated in batches to Special Collections and now form The Holloway Press records collection.4 After substantial processing, researchers can now use the online finding aid for the collection and access the records in the Special Collections reading room. The material includes original manuscripts, cover designs, printer's proofs, photographs, correspondence, paper samples, launch invitations, and more.
As Francis McWhannell noted in 2014, 'the Press has not only participated in the tradition of fine press printing in this country, it has furthered it considerably'.5
The Holloway Press archives and its published works, held by Special Collections in the New Zealand Glass Case, make up a rich and comprehensive resource reflecting this important publishing legacy.
Leah Johnston, Special Collections
1 University of Auckland. (1994). Press keeps alive traditional printing techniques. University News, 24 (10), p.27.
2 Ibid.
3 Dart, W. (Summer 2007-08). Building on a tradition, Auckland's Holloway Press. Art New Zealand, 125, p.56.
4 The Holloway Press records. MSS & Archives 2014/15. Special Collections, University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.
5 McWhannell, F. (2014). The Holloway Press, 1994-2013 : a checklist of publications. Auckland : Holloway Press.
Note:This is an edited version of a post of 24 February 2016 from the now-retired Special Collections blog


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Because the suburban campus had been difficult for city-based students to access, UConn sought proposals to bring the campus back to Hartford's struggling downtown. The HB Nitkin Group, a private developer, and Robert A.M. Stern responded with this 1.6-acre project, which includes new buildings and public spaces in addition to historic rehabilitation.
"The campus is designed to contribute to the revitalization of Adriaen's Landing, a 30-acre area at the easternmost part of downtown, by locking into adjacent commercial development and developing synergistic relationships with nearby cultural institutions," according to the project team.
Shopfronts facing front street. Source: Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
Following the meticulous restoration of the Times building façade, with its grand staircase and podium facing City Hall Park, the building now forms the entrance of a campus with 160,000 square feet of academic facilities.
Inside the main entrance, the visitor is treated to a dramatic three-story atrium that connects the historic structure to a new five-story building and serves as the social hub for the campus, as well as a special events venue. The largest new building is clad in buff-colored masonry that takes cues from historic downtown buildings.
"The campus is going to connect parts of Hartford that have been disconnected for many years, and I think it's a critical piece of the puzzle to making our city the vibrant, active downtown that we all want it to be," says Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin.
Publicly accessible courtyard. Source: Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
The campus will be "part of the backbone of Hartford: a place of learning, engagement, and discovery, and a vibrant part of this neighborhood," notes UConn president Susan Herbst.
The new block is pervious—inviting students and community members to experience the campus as a public space. A public courtyard at the center is an amenity for the community.
UConn Downtown Hartford is a great example of how institutions can revitalize the urban core with mixed use, preservation, and placemaking that connect them with their surrounding communities.
Top photo: The new downtown campus fits right into the community. Source: Robert A.M. Stern Architects.


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Q: codeigniter mail not sending This the function in my controller, which is called:
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    $message = $this->input->post('message');

    $this->load->library('email');
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I get no errors, but the mail isn't incomming in the mailbox.
When i do a print, everything seems to be fine..
In another controller, this code is working fine, my host supports mailing..
I've been looking so long to it, what an I overlooking?


Hello, My name is Sheri Glover and my dear friend Kathleen Hembree has made an all-natural Shea Butter Hair Oil Treatment, designed specifically for Black American Women. I found this product to be "superior" to all other products that I have used. I have switched to all natural chemical free hair and hair products. My hair is now 13 to 16 inches long and I thought I was going to have to cut my hair, because I could no longer comb through my hair after washing it. I was literally ripping my hair out in an attempt to comb through it after I had washed it. This is how I use the Shea Butter Hair Oil Treatment: Once I have washed my scalp, co-washed and deep conditioned my hair, I apply the Shea Butter Hair Oil Treatment from the top of the hair (near the scalp) all the way down the shaft to the ends of the hair, while it is still wet. Making sure the ends are well covered. To apply the Shea Butter Hair Oil place a dime size amount into the palm of your hand and rub the palms together to melt the Shea Butter, then apply it to your hair. Through the entire process of washing my scalp, and co-washing/ deep conditioning my hair, I leave my hair in seven braids or Bantu knots and I take one braid or knot down at a time and apply the Shea Butter as described above and then immediately braid the hair back up and allow it to air dry overnight. Now the moisture is locked into the hair.
Because my hair is in a protective state of braids, every 2 or 3 days, I spritz clean (bottled or filtered) water onto my hair to dampen it and then I apply the Shea Butter Hair Oil Treatment from the top to the ends of the braids. This stops the hair from drying out which causes breakage.
My niece also uses this product on her daughter's natural hair. She actually washes her daughter's hair with regular shampoo, which strips the natural oil from her hair and causes her hair to coil up into a tight spring. She then applies the Shea Butter Hair Oil and combs through her hair with ease. She said that the product makes the hair very easy to comb through. It truly cuts down on detangling time/wear and tear to the hair. It also leaves her hair very soft and manageable.
I also use Kathleen's "Clarifying Shampoo" to wash my scalp. I originally used the shampoo to detox my hair due to a buildup of hair care products. Now I use it as my only shampoo to cleanse my scalp.


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the road.  BTW, I'm running 34 PSI all around.
Now for a question.  I've been having a cold start problem for about a month.
the car runs perfectly with no idle problem, etc.  Any ideas?
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