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Franciscans Announce Departure from 9 Ministry Sites on the East Coast of the U.S.
NEW YORK — Jan. 3, 2020 — The Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province (HNP) are withdrawing from nine Fraternities-in-Mission in the northeast and southeast regions of the United States. Ministerial responsibilities and administrative operations of each of the nine ministry sites will be turned over to their respective dioceses this summer. For most of these sites, among them parishes and a mall ministry, it ends decades of Franciscan presence and pastoral service by the friars.
The announcement of the departure from these Fraternities-in-Mission, which represent nearly one-third of the ministerial sites served by Province friars, was the culmination of a more than two-year collegial process that HNP called "Fraternal Ecology" – an initiative that engaged the participation of virtually all friars, as well as local dioceses and lay partners, in evaluating the future sustainability of the Province's 30 Fraternities-in-Mission, among them parishes, elementary schools, colleges, urban ministry centers, soup kitchens, and other pastoral and social justice ministries.
HNP's Administration cited the challenges of a declining friar population, whose insufficient numbers make it difficult for the Province to staff all of the Fraternities-in-Mission it has served in the past. The diminished friar numbers, coupled with the current number of Fraternities-in-Mission, also make it impossible to maintain a core component of the Franciscan Order – friars living and ministering together in fraternal community.
In 1985, just 35 years ago, HNP had 708 friars, a number that dropped to 443 in 2001, and currently stands at a little less than 300. While there are a number of men in the initial formation process, just three friars have professed their solemn vows since August 2018.
The ministries from which HNP will withdraw this summer include:
St. Francis Chapel – Colonie, New York (a mall ministry that is closing)
St. Mary of the Angels Parish – Anderson, South Carolina
Catholic Center at the University of Georgia – Athens, Georgia
St. Anthony of Padua Parish – Greenville, South Carolina
Parish of the Holy Name of Jesus-St. Gregory the Great – New York City
St. Joseph-St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish – Orlando, Florida
St. Francis of Assisi Parish – Raleigh, North Carolina
St. Paul and St. Joseph Parishes – Wilmington, Delaware
Assumption of Our Blessed Lady Parish – Wood-Ridge, New Jersey
"This was a deliberate, measured and comprehensive process that consisted of dozens of meetings and site visits, and dialogue with all interested parties, which generated studies and reports that ultimately helped guide the Provincial Council's final decisions on the Fraternities-in-Mission where friars would remain, and those where they would be withdrawn," explained Fr. Kevin Mullen, OFM, provincial minister of the New York City-based Holy Name Province, the largest Order of Friars Minor community in the U.S. whose members model their life after the Roman Catholic saint, St. Francis of Assisi, who founded the Order 800 years ago.
"It was collaborative and transparent discernment marked by frank discussion and honest assessment and evaluation by our friars and lay partners in ministry, as well as the dioceses where our Fraternities-in-Mission are located. The council made its final decisions after careful thought and prayerful reflection," Fr. Mullen said.
"Our departure from these ministries inevitably will bring disappointment and sadness – which are natural emotions because of their longtime association with the Franciscans. The decision to withdraw from these faith communities was not taken lightly," continued Fr. Mullen, "and, in fact, was very difficult and painful. But despite our long history and rich tradition – our friars have been present from three decades to nearly a century at most of these ministry sites – the reality of our declining numbers, and the challenges and strain it places on our ability to fulfill our fraternal charism, made each of these decisions pragmatic and necessary."
The provincial minister added, "We have been spread too thin for quite some time. The 'Fraternal Ecology' process has allowed us to reset and right-size our ministerial commitments. Since our fraternal life is central to our vocation – living in community and serving together as brothers – this will help our friars more effectively serve the people in our ministry environments and Fraternities-in-Mission, as well as the Church."
Fr. Mullen said the Province was grateful to the "good and faith-filled communities for the support, collaboration, generosity and warm embrace" extended to friars during their service. "We are confident that we are leaving these ministries stronger and more robust than when we arrived," said Fr. Mullen, who noted that the transition to the local dioceses later this year would be seamless.
The Province has friars in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and other locations in the U.S., as well as missions in South America and Asia.
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Holy Name Province is the largest of seven entities in the United States belonging to the Order of Friars Minor. The Order, founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi, commemorated its 800th anniversary in 2009. Today, St. Francis, whose feast day is Oct. 4, remains one of the most widely known saints, revered for his affection for nature and care for creation.
Information about Holy Name Province can be found on www.hnp.org. News about the friars and their ministries can be found on the Facebook page of the Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province.
Interview and photo requests should be directed to Jocelyn Thomas, HNP director of communications, at 646-473-0265 ext. 321 or jthomas@hnp.org.
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Current Crisis Accelerates Industry's Push to E-Commerce
Dear Client:
Alcohol under-indexes in online sales especially compared to other CPG categories. With on-premise effectively shuttered for now, the number of bev alc companies making the move toward e-commerce has accelerated.
In fact, the number of large brands that have sought out Thirstie's services has multiplied by nearly 5X.
"We're hearing from major players in the industry, as they now believe e-commerce is their only avenue for hitting their quarterly and annual projections," Thirstie co-founder and ceo Devaraj Southworth tells WSD.
Earlier this year (pre-pandemic), Thirstie launched a new turn-key solution, called Thirstie Access, that allows independent alcohol brands to build, manage and grow its online storefronts within 24 hours. Brands are able to create customized storefronts, gain access to Thirstie's API integration, consumer data analytics and its full retail fulfillment network.
To be able to launch that kind of solution in a matter of days is the kind of quick response time a lot of companies are looking for right now.
"For many of these brands, it's their first jump into e-commerce," he adds.
The "current situation has undeniably expedited this shift [to e-commerce], as the entire nation has turned its attention to the power of e-comm. In the past two weeks, we've seen a mass migration towards that mission, a trend that will result in Thirstie exceeding our annual projections by over 6X," says Devaraj.
"I've never seen an industry shift focus so dramatically."
Retailers are reaching out as well, says Devaraj. "We do feel a responsibility to do what we can for our industry on the brand side, we're doing everything possible." On the retailer side, they're trying to ramp up their retail development in a "responsible way."
Similarly, Bottlecaps, a retailer-focused platform that provides white-label, store-branded, mobile apps and web solutions for beer, wine and liquor stores, has also seen a spike in new client inquiries. Sales on the platform were up 800%, per a release.
When asked if this 'new normal' is giving alcohol e-commerce the push it needs, Devaraj said yes, adding "I feel like this 'new normal' is going to be the normal."
"I absolutely think e-commerce–I've always felt this way– it's the future of our industry….The focus has been moving that direction, but the mix absolutely will change. I don't think [companies will] be 100% e-commerce. But the mix will change."
KENTUCKY DIRECT SHIPPING BILL HEADS TO GOVERNOR
On Thursday, the Kentucky General Assembly passed a bill to open up alcohol direct shipping in the state. The bill passed the Senate 21-11 and previously passed the House in a 52-33 vote, reports a local publication.
The bill would allow in-state and out-of-state distillers, wineries, and breweries to ship directly to Kentucky residents. Retailers and distributors would not be eligible for the shipping license.
The bill also limits the amount consumers can buy within a month – 10 liters of spirits, 10 cases of wine and 10 cases of malt beverages.
"Right now the bourbon tourism industry is flat on its back, closed because of COVID-19," says Senate Republican Floor Leader Damon Thayer. "The same goes for tours of small-farm wineries and our craft brew locations around the state. This will create a new revenue stream for those producers on the other side of this COVID-19 crisis."
"This direct-shipping bill has been in the work[s] for many years," said state Sen. Thayer. "It has been the subject of …a numerous number of interim committee meetings over the past few years and a lot of behind-the-scenes work to get us where we are today."
Now the bill heads to the governor.
HEAVEN HILL TO BOOST BARREL CAPACITY IN $18 MILLION PROJECT
Heaven Hill Distilleries plans to invest $18.3 million to build two or three new barrel aging warehouses in Kentucky, increasing capacity by about 168,000 barrels, reports Louisville Business Journal.
The distillery will also receive $250,000 in tax incentives from the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority as part of the Kentucky Enterprise Initiative Act.
Heaven Hill currently has about 1.7 million barrels aging in 60 warehouses. They distill about 1,300 barrels a day, and the new warehouses will help the company "keep up with this level of distillation," according to Heaven Hill spokesperson Emily Gahafer.
WSD BRIEF:
14 HANDS LAUNCHES LIMITED EDITION ROSE BUBBLES IN UNICORN CAN. Ste. Michelle Wine Estates' 14 Hands Winery has released a limited-edition rose bubbles in a unicorn can, following the release of its 14 Hands brand in cans last year. "We're leaning into key consumer trends with the launch of the unicorn rose bubbles," says director of marketing Amanda Wygal, adding, "Research shows the preferred type of wine in a can is sparkling rose wine." It will be on grocery shelves nationwide while supplies last.
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." – Aldous Huxley
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Steelhead are accessed in freshwater primarily at the Out camp and by fly-out. Once on the scene, fishing is done by wading and walking along the banks. At AlpenView, we fish steelhead on the fly. Favorite rods vary from six weight single hand to twelve weight spey rods. Lines vary from floating to fifteen foot sink tips depending on water levels.
The steelhead on Kodiak Island are all natural, wild fish. Fishing is quite challenging, but the rewards are worth it. Season after season, year after year, we have averaged 2 steelhead per day per angler. Many silver salmon and Dolly Varden are taken while fly fishing for steelhead.
Kodiak steelhead average 6 pounds and some can push 20 pounds. Steelhead are available from late September through October. The best fishing is generally October.


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Marcus Corp
The Marcus Corporation Reports Record Revenues and Operating Income for Fiscal 2018
MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 21, 2019--The Marcus Corporation (NYSE: MCS) today reported record revenues and operating income for the fiscal year ended December 27, 2018 and record revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018.
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2018 Highlights
Full Year Fiscal 2018 Highlights:
"As highlighted by our record revenues and operating income, fiscal 2018 was another great year for The Marcus Corporation. Both divisions contributed to the improved performance, with Marcus Theatres achieving record revenues and operating income for both the fourth quarter and full year and Marcus Hotels & Resorts delivering record revenues during both periods as well," said Gregory S. Marcus, president and chief executive officer of The Marcus Corporation.
The company's fiscal 2018 results were impacted by nonrecurring acquisition and preopening expenses in the theatre division and nonrecurring preopening expenses and accelerated depreciation expense in the hotel division in the fourth quarter. "If not for these one-time expenses, we would have achieved both record revenues and operating income for the fourth quarter and our hotel division would have reported a sizeable increase in fourth-quarter operating income," said Marcus.
Revenues for Marcus Theatres increased 6.2% in the fourth quarter and 10.8% for fiscal 2018 and operating income increased 2.8% for the fourth quarter and 10.4% for fiscal 2018, compared to the prior year periods. A particularly strong October enabled the division to achieve record results for the fiscal 2018 fourth quarter, in spite of a weaker December holiday movie slate than in the prior year. The overall revenue increase was also driven by higher concession revenues per person, which reflects the continued success of the company's distinctive food and beverage concepts. The division's record operating income during the fiscal 2018 fourth quarter and full year would have been even greater if not for the previously described acquisition and preopening expenses related to the Movie Tavern acquisition.
On a comparable theatre basis, the division's box office was in line with the industry for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 (after adjusting for new theatres) and outperformed the national box office by nearly two percentage points for the full year, according to data received from Rentrak.
On February 1, 2019, Marcus Theatres completed the acquisition of the Movie Tavern circuit, adding 208 screens at 22 locations in nine states and increasing its footprint by 23%. "Movie Tavern is an attractive addition to our circuit and we are especially excited to enter nine new states and expand our portfolio of in-theatre dining locations. We believe the Movie Tavern business will be accretive to earnings, earnings per share and cash flow in the first 12 months after closing," said Marcus.
The division continued to invest in its theatres, expanding its signature features and amenities to more locations. During fiscal 2018, Marcus Theatres added DreamLounger SM recliner seating to seven theatres, including three Marcus Wehrenberg locations. As a result, the company ended fiscal 2018 with DreamLounger recliner seating in approximately 75% of its company-owned, first-run screens, a percentage believed to be the highest among the largest theatre chains in the nation. In addition, one existing screen was converted to an Ultra Screen DLX ® auditorium and eight existing screens were converted to Super Screen DLX ® auditoriums at seven theatres, including four Marcus Wehrenberg locations, during fiscal 2018. The division also opened one new Take Five SM Lounge and two Zaffiro's ® Express outlets during the year.
"The ongoing investments in our theatres were a major contributor to our record fiscal 2018 results. In addition, our innovative pricing strategies, Magical Movie Rewards SM loyalty program and creative marketing programs, along with excellent teamwork and strong operational execution, continue to be a successful combination for us," said Rolando B. Rodriguez, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Marcus Theatres.
The five top-performing films for Marcus Theatres in the fourth quarter were Dr. Seuss' The Grinch, A Star is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, Halloween and Ralph Breaks the Internet. For the full year, the top performing movies were Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Incredibles 2, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Deadpool 2.
"As anticipated, the first quarter of fiscal 2019 is off to a slower start than last year due to a difficult comparison against several strong holdover films in the prior year and last year's top film, Black Panther. We are looking forward to the opening of highly anticipated films including Captain Marvel and Us later in the quarter. Overall, the film slate for 2019 is expected to be quite strong, particularly during the second half of the year, with potential hits including Dumbo, Avengers: Endgame, Aladdin, The Secret Life of Pets 2, Toy Story 4, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Lion King, It: Chapter Two, Frozen 2, Jumanji 3 and Star Wars: Episode IX," said Rodriguez.
Marcus Hotels & Resorts' revenue per available room (RevPAR) for comparable company-owned properties increased 1.9% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 and 1.4% for the full year. Revenues increased 4.9% in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 and 4.1% for the full year, primarily driven by increased group business as well as higher food and beverage revenues and management fees.
"Operating income was down for the fiscal 2018 fourth quarter and full year due entirely to preopening expenses and accelerated depreciation expense related to the transformation of the InterContinental Milwaukee hotel into Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel. Excluding these expenses from fiscal 2018 and operating results of the newly opened SafeHouse ® Chicago from fiscal 2017, operating income for the division for fiscal 2018 would have been up approximately 23% from the prior year, reflecting our focus on strong cost controls, while maintaining our high standards for quality and service," said Marcus. "With the increases in revenues and comparable operating income, fiscal 2018 was a very good year for Marcus Hotels & Resorts."
"The InterContinental Milwaukee has been closed since early January for the renovation into Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel. Saint Kate will be an independent hotel focused on the arts in its many forms. We are very excited about this concept and the impact we believe it will have on the arts scene in Milwaukee when it opens in late spring," added Marcus. He noted that the hotel division will incur additional preopening expenses during the first half of fiscal 2019 as a result of the hotel closing and renovation.
Marcus Hotels & Resorts added three new management contracts in fiscal 2018: the Murieta Inn and Spa in Rancho Murieta, Calif. and the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel El Paso Downtown and the Courtyard by Marriott El Paso Downtown/Convention Center, both in El Paso, Texas. The additions increased the company's footprint to 21 owned and/or managed properties.
In 2018, numerous Marcus Hotels & Resorts hotels and restaurants were recognized by prestigious organizations for their commitment to excellence. Three properties received the coveted Condé Nast Traveler 31 st annual Readers' Choice Award, four hotels earned the AAA Four Diamond Award and 20 hotels and restaurants received the TripAdvisor ® 2018 Certificate of Excellence.
Return of Capital to Shareholders
"Yesterday, we announced a 6.7% increase in the cash dividend rate, which, combined with an increased number of shares outstanding, will result in an increase in total dividends paid of over 17% compared to the prior year. The new dividend rate is nearly 90% higher than it was just five years ago. Our strong balance sheet gives us the ability to return capital to shareholders, while at the same time continuing to invest in our two businesses and pursue additional growth opportunities, such as our recently completed Movie Tavern acquisition," said Douglas A. Neis, executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of The Marcus Corporation.
Marcus Corporation management will hold a conference call today, Thursday, February 21, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. Central/11:00 a.m. Eastern time. Interested parties may listen to the call live on the internet through the investor relations section of the company's website: www.marcuscorp.com, or by dialing 1-574-990-3059 and entering the passcode 5256459.
A telephone replay of the conference call will be available through Thursday, February 28, 2019, by dialing 1-855-859-2056 and entering passcode 5256459. The webcast will be archived on the company's website until its next earnings release.
Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation, Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA have been presented in this press release as supplemental measures of financial performance that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, GAAP. The company defines Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation as net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation adjusted to eliminate the impact of certain items that the company does not consider indicative of its core operating performance and the tax effect related to those items. The company defines Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation as Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation divided by diluted weighted average shares outstanding. The company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation before investment income, interest expense, other expense, gain or loss on disposition of property, equipment and other assets, equity earnings or losses from unconsolidated joint ventures, net earnings or losses attributable to noncontrolling interests, income taxes and depreciation and amortization, adjusted to eliminate the impact of certain items that the company does not consider indicative of its core operating performance. Reconciliations of these measures to the equivalent measures under GAAP are set forth in the attached tables.
Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation, Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA are key measures used by management and the company's board of directors to assess the company's financial performance and enterprise value. The company believes that Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation, Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA are useful measures, as they eliminate certain expenses that are not indicative of the company's core operating performance and facilitate a comparison of the company's core operating performance on a consistent basis from period to period. The company also uses Adjusted EBITDA as a basis to determine certain annual cash bonuses and long-term incentive awards, to supplement GAAP measures of performance to evaluate the effectiveness of its business strategies, to make budgeting decisions, and to compare its performance against that of other peer companies using similar measures. Adjusted net earnings, Adjusted diluted earnings per share and Adjusted EBITDA are also used by analysts, investors and other interested parties as performance measures to evaluate companies in the company's industries.
Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation, Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP measures of the company's financial performance and should not be considered as alternatives to net earnings or diluted earnings per share as a measure of financial performance, or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP and they should not be construed as an inference that the company's future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. Additionally, Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA are not intended to be measures of liquidity or free cash flow for management's discretionary use. In addition, these non-GAAP measures exclude certain non-recurring and other charges. Each of these non-GAAP measures has its limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider them in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of the company's results as reported under GAAP. In evaluating Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation, Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA, you should be aware that in the future we will incur expenses that are the same as or similar to some of the items eliminated in the adjustments made to determine Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation, Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA, such as acquisition expenses, preopening expenses, accelerated depreciation and other adjustments. The company's presentation of Adjusted net earnings attributable to The Marcus Corporation, Adjusted net earnings per diluted common share attributable to The Marcus Corporation and Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed to imply that the company's future results will be unaffected by any such adjustments. Definitions and calculations of Adjusted net earnings, Adjusted diluted earnings per share and Adjusted EBITDA differ among companies in our industries, and therefore Adjusted net earnings, Adjusted diluted earnings per share and Adjusted EBITDA disclosed by the company may not be comparable to the measures disclosed by other companies.
About The Marcus Corporation
Headquartered in Milwaukee, The Marcus Corporation is a leader in the lodging and entertainment industries, with significant company-owned real estate assets. The Marcus Corporation's theatre division, Marcus Theatres ®, is the fourth largest theatre circuit in the U.S. and currently owns or manages 1,098 screens at 90 locations in 17 states. The company's lodging division, Marcus ® Hotels & Resorts, owns and/or manages 21 hotels, resorts and other properties in nine states. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.marcuscorp.com.
Certain matters discussed in this press release are "forward-looking statements" intended to qualify for the safe harbors from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may generally be identified as such because the context of such statements include words such as we "believe," "anticipate," "expect" or words of similar import. Similarly, statements that describe our future plans, objectives or goals are also forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties which may cause results to differ materially from those expected, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) the availability, in terms of both quantity and audience appeal, of motion pictures for our theatre division, as well as other industry dynamics such as the maintenance of a suitable window between the date such motion pictures are released in theatres and the date they are released to other distribution channels; (2) the effects of adverse economic conditions in our markets, particularly with respect to our hotels and resorts division; (3) the effects on our occupancy and room rates of the relative industry supply of available rooms at comparable lodging facilities in our markets; (4) the effects of competitive conditions in our markets; (5) our ability to achieve expected benefits and performance from our strategic initiatives and acquisitions; (6) the effects of increasing depreciation expenses, reduced operating profits during major property renovations, impairment losses, and preopening and start-up costs due to the capital intensive nature of our businesses; (7) the effects of weather conditions, particularly during the winter in the Midwest and in our other markets; (8) our ability to identify properties to acquire, develop and/or manage and the continuing availability of funds for such development; (9) the adverse impact on business and consumer spending on travel, leisure and entertainment resulting from terrorist attacks in the United States or other incidents of violence in public venues such as hotels and movie theatres; (10) a disruption in our business and reputational and economic risks associated with civil securities claims brought by shareholders; and (11) our ability to timely and successfully integrate the Movie Tavern operations into our own circuit.. Shareholders, potential investors and other readers are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements made herein are made only as of the date of this press release and we undertake no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
CONTACT: For additional information, contact:
Douglas A. Neis
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INDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENTERTAINMENT TRAVEL LODGING FILM & MOTION PICTURES GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY COMMERCIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE
SOURCE: The Marcus Corporation


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Kaʻū News Briefs, Thursday, August 29, 2019
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The annual memorial DDD Surf Contest, last weekend at Kāwā Bay, drew families.
See winners and more photos, below. Photo by Jaimie Ferner
COMMUNITY PLACEMAKING was one of the topics Sunday at the county Planning Department SpeakOut, held in Nāʻālehu and designed to gather input for the update of the Hawaiʻi County General Plan. Read the draft plan at hiplanningdept.com/general-plan. Submit questions and comments to generalplan@hawaiicounty.gov or Planning Department,
101 Pauahi St. Suite 3, Hilo, HI, 96720
. Here are some of the public comments and questions regarding Community Placemaking in Kaʻū from Sunday's SpeakOut:
Need more strict enforcement of historic and cultural preservation laws. Need comprehensive management plan for South Point with its many unsurveyed archaeological sites. Need to consider danger in the cliff jumping at South Point.
Develop a master plan of scenic viewsheds to protect.
Volcano community has been trying to develop design guidelines – needs county assistance.
Need more "Friends of" for cultural sites. Preserve Nāʻālehu Theatre. Convince owner to apply to put on register of historic sites.
Hospital needs to expand services, including ability to offer blood transfusions, and cardiology. Need for access to health care, especially for seniors. High turnover of homeowners in DiscoveryHarbour attributed to lack of health care.
Need services to deal with mental health issues.
Need more medical specialists on the island – always have to go to Oʻahu. Need airline competition to lower airfares.
Need limitations on building heights, including for hotels.
Concerned about "non-local misinterpretation and disrespect" of cultural, historic sites. Need to "restrict outside changes to historic sites – protect and preserve."
Need to make sure new sewage plants are not near burial sites.
General Plan needs to address volcanic hazards and vog concerns as "Volcanoes are not in the plan."
Hospitals need to be more resistant to earthquakes and natural disasters. "Shelter ability is negligible."
Deal with public access issue at PohueBay.
For senior living, give more support for active senior centers for seniors to socialize and engage so more can "live in place."
THE DDD MEMORIAL ANNUAL SURF CONTEST at Kāwā Bay drew many families and competitors on Saturday, Aug. 24. The memorial meet honors lost surfer and fisherman Devin Johnson; the late owner of FBI Delta; and the late bodyboarder Davie Boi. DDD stands for the names.
ʻOhana sit at picnic tables as surfers head out over the rocky
shoreline of Kāwā to try the waves. Photo by Jaimie Ferner
Winner of the Men's Open was Goddy Leopoldino.
Winner of the Women's Open was Starsea Kahikina.
Winner of the Guys Surf 13-18 Division was Nalu Alameda.
Winner of the 13-18 Boys Bodyboard was Manoa Dawson.
Winner of Men's Bodyboard was Willy Petrovich.
Sponsors are Nathan McCasland, organizer of the event and provider of bodyboards; DVM - dedicatedtovisionaryminds.com, with its deck pads and stickers; Pacific Vibrations for its Hawaiian flag; Keikai Organics, for its sunscreen and lotion; Kalae Coffee, for its gift cards; Thomas
Foley, for his surfboards; and Concious Riddims, for the sound system.
Boards and braddahs hang loose at Kāwā during the DDD Surf Contest.
Photo by Jaimie Ferner
McCasland said that many friends gathered for the event and offered fresh fish and potluck foods for all to enjoy. Donations included a sound system, stages, and music. A post-contest beach cleanup at Kāwā showed "Malama da ʻĀina with perfect weather and many waves for all."
PUBLIC ACCESS ROOM IS IN OCEAN VIEW Tuesday, Sept. 10, noon to 1 p.m. at Ocean View Community Center, 92-8924 Leilani Circle. The free session will help residents understand the legislative process, deadlines, and power dynamics at the state Capitol. Residents can also learn how to effectively navigate the legislature's website to find pertinent information.
Surfers of all ages had fun at the DDD Surf Contest. Photo by Jaimie Ferner
The free session offers: tips and techniques on effective lobbying, testimony, and communication with state senators and representatives; helpful handouts, guides, and resources; and experienced, non-partisan guidance on how to participate in the legislative process.
Every year, about 3,000 bills are introduced at the state capitol, and some bills will affect Kaʻū residents. Newcomers, seasoned advocates, and everyone in between are welcome to come learn more about the process and to get involved.
Other Hawaiʻi Island locations will host outreaches: Kona, Sept 9; Pāhoa, Sept. 11; Waimea, Sept. 12; and Hilo, Sept. 13, all from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Wave caught. Photo by Jaimie Ferner
Questions? See lrbhawaii.org/par; par@capitol.hawaii.gov; or toll free, 808-974-4000, ext. 7-0478.
Kona, Sept 9; Pāhoa, Sept. 11; Waimea, Sept. 12; and Hilo, Sept. 13, all from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. , will also have outreaches.
A FREE CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY EVENT kicks off Child Passenger Safety Week, at the Nāʻālehu Community Center on Saturday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Certified Child Passenger Safety technicians will be there to demonstrate proper car seat installation, selection, and usage. Seat Belt Fit tests will also be done on-site, to demonstrate proper usage of booster seats.
The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, together with all four county police departments and child passenger safety advocates, will participate in National Child Passenger Safety Week, September 15 through 21. This campaign is dedicated to "helping parents and caregivers make sure their children ride as safely as possible – every trip, every time."
Three of the youth competition winners.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), most parents are confident that they have correctly installed their child's car seat, but in most cases – 59 percent – the seat has not been installed correctly. However, if installed correctly in passenger cars, car seats reduce the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for toddlers one to four years old. For infants and toddlers in light trucks, the corresponding reductions were 58 percent and 59 percent, respectively.
According to NHTSA data, in 2015, about 25.8 percent of children 4 to 7 years old were prematurely moved to seat belts, when they should have been riding in booster seats.
To keep all children safe, states NHTSA, parents and caregivers should use a child safety seat that best fits their child and vehicle. Complimentary public educational events will be held statewide, starting with one in Nāʻālehu.
Nathan McCasland, center, with other organizers and
families of the surf tournament. Photo by Jaimie Ferner
In Hawaiʻi, children under 4 years old are required to ride in a child safety seat; children 4 through 7 years old must ride in a child passenger restraint or booster seat. Violators are required to appear in court, and if convicted, must attend a four-hour class. They may also be assessed a penalty of up to $500.
Parents and caregivers can check the following to determine when a child can be moved from a child safety seat to a booster seat: the shoulder belt should lie snugly across the shoulder and chest, and not cross the neck or face; the lap belt must lie snugly across the child's upper thighs, not the stomach; the child's knees bend comfortably at the edge of the seat when his or her back and bottom are against the vehicle seat back; the child can stay seated properly during the entire trip.
NHTSA recommends registering all car seats and booster seats with the manufacturer for a notification in the event of a recall. For more information on car seat safety and to locate a certified child passenger safety technician, visit nhtsa.gov/carseat.
Hawaiʻi has more than 300 certified child passenger safety technicians, including firefighters, law enforcement officers, medical professionals, and parents. All technicians have been trained to provide instruction on choosing the right car seat, installing it, and using it correctly.
Nationwide child passenger safety statistics from NHTSA states that:
A child under 13 years old was involved in a passenger vehicle crash every 32 seconds in 2017. From 2013 to 2017, there were 3,313 children under 13 killed while riding in passenger vehicles. Fatalities decreased in 2017 from 2016, the first decrease since 2014. On average, nearly two children under 13 were killed every day in 2017 while riding in cars, SUVs, pickups, and vans. In 2017, over one-third (35 percent) of children under 13 killed in passenger vehicles were not restrained in car seats, booster seats or seat belts. In 2017, among children under 5, car seats saved an estimated 312 lives. A total of 371 children could have survived if they had been buckled up 100-percent of the time.
NHTSA's latest research shows that nearly two out of three car seats are misused.
Child Passenger Safety Week is sponsored by NHTSA. For more on child safety, as well as a list of child restraint inspection stations and community car seat checks, visit kipchawaii.org or safercar.gov/parents.
WE ARE ALL KAʻŪ: ʻO KAʻŪ KĀKOU is the subject of this month's Coffee Talk tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 30, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Visitor's Center in the Kahuku Unit of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Learn about all of their many community projects and find out how to get involved.
Formed in 2006, OKK is a grass-roots, 100 percent volunteer, community-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to serving the people of Kaʻū. From the Nāʻālehu 4th of July parade, to the Keiki Fishing Tournament, to the Kaʻū Coffee Trail Run, to providing scholarships for Kaʻū kids – only a very few of their projects – OKK promotes a healthy community through education, culture, and economic opportunity. Their biggest project to date is developing much-needed, low-cost senior housing on two acres of land in Nāʻālehu. "Remember Uncle Wayne Kawachiʻs ʻslippa' walk to raise funds?" asks the event announcement.
Coffee Talk at Kahuku is an opportunity to get to know the Park and neighbors. Join informal conversations on a wide variety of topics. Kaʻū coffee, tea, and pastries will be available for purchase. Entrance located just south of the 70.5 mile marker, on the mauka side of Hwy 11.
2019 Kaʻū High School Athletics Schedule through September
See khpes.org/athletics-home for details and updates
Football, Division II:
Sat., Sept. 7, 2 p.m. , HPA hosts Kaʻū
Sat., Sept. 14, 11 a.m. , Kaʻū hosts Kohala
Thu., Sept. 19, 7 p.m. , Pāhoa hosts Kaʻū
Girls Volleyball, Kaʻū District Gym:
Wed., Sept. 4, 6 p.m. , Christian Liberty hosts Kaʻū
Fri., Sept. 6, 6 p.m. , Kaʻū hosts Kamehameha
Tue., Sept. 10, 6 p.m. , Kaʻū hosts Kealakeha
Fri., Sept. 13, 6 p.m. , Honokaʻa hosts Kaʻū
Tue., Sept. 17, 6 p.m. , Waiakea hosts Kaʻū
Thu., Sept. 19, 6 p.m. , Keaʻau hosts Kaʻū
Tue., Sept. 24, 6 p.m. , Makualani hosts Kaʻū
Fri., Sept. 27, 6 p.m. , Kaʻū hosts HPA
Sat., Aug. 31, 10 a.m. , @Christian Liberty
Sat., Sept. 7, 10 a.m. , @Kamehameha
Fri., Sept. 13, 3:30 p.m. , @HPA
Sat., Sept. 21, 10 a.m. , @Kealakehe
Sat., Sept. 28, 10 a.m. , @Keaʻau
Coffee Talk at Kahuku: 'O Ka'ū Kākou - We Are All Ka'ū, Friday, Aug. 30, 9:30-11a.m. , Kahuku Unit Visitor Contact Station. Learn about OKK and all their community projects. Free. nps.gov/havo
Hawai'i Wildlife Fund Ka'ū Community Clean-up, Saturday, Aug. 31. Free; donations appreciated. Full – waitlist only; B.Y.O.-4WD okay. R.S.V.P. required. 769-7629, kahakai.cleanups@gmail.com
Food from Wood: Growing Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms on Logs, Stumps, and Wood Chips with Zach Mermel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 9a.m.-2:30p.m., Volcano Art Center and Shaka Forest Farms. $50/VAC member, $55/non-member, includes take home shiitake and King Stropharia mushroom kits. Pre-registration required. 967-8222, volcanoartcenter.org
Paths and Trails, Sat., Aug. 31, 9:30-12:30pm, Kahuku Unit, HVNP. Free, moderately difficult, 2-mile, hike. nps.gov/havo
Healing Through Words creative writing workshop with Dr. Heather Rivera, Saturday, Aug. 31, 10-11:30a.m., Volcano Art Center. $30/VAC member, $35/non-member. 967-8222, volcanoartcenter.org
Bon Dance Festival and Twilight Lantern Parade, Saturday, Aug. 31, 6-10p.m., Nā'ālehu Hongwanji Buddhist Temple. Lantern Parade at 7:30 p.m. Taiko drums, Hachimaki headbands, saimin, teriyaki bowls, vegetable bowls, and fun for the whole family. First time the temple has held this event in over 10 years, a Celebration of Remembrance. All are welcome. Free. Temple President Robert Kobzi, robertkobzi@aol.com
SUNDAY, SEPT. 1
Ka'ū Art Gallery and Gift Shop Opening, Sunday, Sept. 1, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., behind Nā'ālehu Ace Hardware. Corrine Kaupu, 937-1840. kauartgallery@hawaiiantel.biz, kauartgallery.com
Pu'u Lokuana, Sunday, Sept. 1, 9:30-11a.m. , Kahuku Unit, HVNP. Free, short, moderately difficult, 0.4 mile hike. nps.gov/havo
Ham Radio Potluck Picnic, Sunday, Sept. 1 – 1st Sunday, monthly – noon-2p.m., Manukā State Park. Anyone interested in learning about ham radio is welcome to attend. View sites.google.com/site/southpointarc or sites.google.com/view/southhawaiiares/home. Rick Ward, 938-3058
MONDAY, SEPT. 2
Empower Meeting, Monday, Sept. 2 and 16 – 1st and 2nd Monday monthly – 3-4:30p.m. , PARENTS, Inc. office, Nā'ālehu. Empowering girls group. Registration required. Diana, 935-4805
Ocean View Volunteer Fire Department Mtg., Monday, Sept. 2, 4-6p.m., Ocean View Community Center. 939-7033, ovcahi.org
TUESDAY, SEPT. 3
Hawai'i County Council Mtgs., Tuesday, Sept. 3 (Committees), Wednesday, Sept. 4 (Council), Hilo. Ka'ū residents can participate via videoconferencing at Nā'ālehu State Office Building. Agendas at hawaiicounty.gov.
Ka'ū Coffee Growers Mtg., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 6-8p.m. , Pāhala Community Center.
Wildlife Recovery and Restoration, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 7p.m. , Kīlauea Visitor Center Auditorium. Park Botanist Sierra McDaniel discusses recovery and restoration efforts after the Keahou Fire which ignited near HVNP and burned nearly 4,000 acres in 2018. Free; park entrance fees apply. 985-6101, nps.gov/havo
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4
Hula Voices with Kumu Hula Sammye Young, Wednesday, Sept. 4 – 1st Wednesday, monthly – 5:30-7p.m. , Volcano Art Center Gallery. Desiree Moana Cruz moderates the talk story session. Free. 967-7565, volcanoartcenter.org
Women's Expression Group, Thursday, Sept. 5 – 1st Thursday monthly – 3-4:30p.m. , PARENTS Inc., Nā'ālehu. Women welcome to drop in. Free. Lindsey Miller, 333-3460, lindsey@hawaiiparents.org
Registration Open: Finger Puppet, Thursday, Sept. 5-10, Ka'ū District Gym multipurpose room. Program for grades K-8 takes place, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 3:30-5p.m. Free. 928-3102, hawaiicounty.gov/pr-recreation
Ocean View Neighborhood Watch Mtg., Thursday, Sept. 5, 6-7p.m. , Ocean View Community Center. 939-7033, ovcahi.org
'O Ka'ū Kākou Mtg., Thursday, Sept. 5, 6:30-8:30p.m. , Aspen Center. okaukakou.org
Applications for Grants to Steward PONC Protected Lands on Hawaiʻi Island are open through tomorrow, Friday, Aug. 30. In Kaʻū, areas of the Kahuku Coast, Kahua Olohu, and Kāwā Bay are eligible. Only 501(c)3 non-profits or organizations that operate under the umbrella of a 501(c)3 non-profit should apply.
Applications are available at records.hawaiicounty.gov/weblink/1/edoc/95324/2018-19%20PONC%20Stewardship%20Grant%20Request.pdf. Information and applications are also available at the P&R office, Aupuni Center,
101 Pauahi Street, Suite 6, Hilo
. Completed applications must be submitted or postmarked by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 31, 2018. Questions? Contact Reid Sewake at 961-8311.
Talk Action, Take Action Surveys Deadline is Saturday, Aug. 31. The surveys ask for information regarding 2018's Kīlauea eruption recovery. Hawaiʻi County residents are encouraged to take the surveys at recovery.hawaiicounty.gov/connect/impact-status-survey-suite. Hard copies of the surveys can also be picked up at Council member offices, the Department of Research & Development, and the Planning Department. Unless one chooses to be contacted individually, the information from the surveys will be anonymous.
Volcano Winery's Annual Fundraising Harvest Festival Tickets are on sale at volcanowinery.com or (808) 967-7772. Proceeds benefit Volcano School of Arts & Sciences; last year's event sold out. This sixth festive evening of live music, food, wines and craft beers under the stars happens Sunday, Sept. 8, 4-7p.m. The $50 per person tickets include live music entertainment by Young Brothers; delicious food and drink from local restaurants; award-winning wines and teas from the Volcano Winery; tours of the vineyards and a huge raffle.
Applications are Open for Tūtū & Me Traveling Preschool in Nā'ālehu and Wai'ōhinu, at Kauaha'ao Congregational Church on Mondays and Wednesdays, 8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Limited space available. Pāhala Home Visits also available. Call 939-8573 for Nā'ālehu, 929-8571 for Pāhala. pidfoundation.org
Exhibit - Nani Ka 'Ikena by Volcano local photographer Jesse Tunison, daily through Sunday, Sept. 15, 9a.m.-5p.m., Volcano Art Center Gallery. Nani Ka ʻIkena, that which is seen is beautiful, features vibrant colors and crisp, wide vistas which highlight the character and drama of Hawaiʻi Island's landscape. The collection of ten photographs were captured over the past decade by Tunison and also document the dynamic changes which have occurred in such a short period of time. "While the landscape has changed the beauty has endured." Free; park entrance fees apply. 967-7565, volcanoartcenter.org
6th Annual Ka'ū Coffee Trail Run Registration, webscorer.com/register?raceid=166020. 5K, 10K, 1/2 Marathon races through mac nut and coffee fields along slopes of Ka'ū starting at 7a.m., Saturday, Sept. 21, Ka'ū Coffee Mill. Sponsored by Ka'ū Coffee Mill and 'O Ka'ū Kākou. Prices increase after July 9. okaukakou.org, kaucoffeemill.com
Tutoring for Kaʻū Hugh & Pāhala Elementary is Available to All Students of the school, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. , Monday through Thursday. Grades Kindergarten-2nd will be in room 3; grades 3-6 will be in room 6 on Mondays, room 11 on Tuesdays through Thursdays; middle school students, will be in building Q; and high school students will be in room M-101 in the science building. Contact khpes.org or 808-313-4100 for more.
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The National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) is a non-profit college sports organization that organizes boxing fights for student athletes. The association falls under the auspices of USA Boxing. After 1960, the NCAA no longer sanctioned boxing. In response, the NCBA was founded in 1976.

NCBA member schools are encouraged to develop their instructional and intramural programs with emphasis on the teaching of fundamental novice boxing skills. In order to be eligible to participate in an NCBA member school, a collegiate boxer must be a full-time student at an accredited institution at which he/she is attending for graduation.

Participating schools
Participating schools are divided into three sub-associations, by region:

Eastern Collegiate Boxing Association
Norwich University
Kutztown University
Lock Haven University
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg
Shippensburg University
United States Military Academy (Army)
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
University of Connecticut
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Salisbury University
University of Hartford
Hartford, CT

Formerly
United States Coast Guard Academy (boxing team disbanded in 2018)

Midwest Collegiate Boxing Association
Iowa State University
Miami University (Ohio)
Ohio State University
United States Naval Academy (Navy)
University of Cincinnati
University of Kansas
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
West Virginia University
Xavier University
University of Iowa

Far West Collegiate Boxing Association
 Boise State University
 California State University, Northridge
San José State University
Santa Clara University
United States Air Force Academy (Air Force)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Washington
University of Oregon
Oregon State University

Weight classes

National tournament
Contestants for the national tournament are decided by a regional tournament for each NCBA region, with the first- and second-place boxer from each weight class in each region advancing to the national tournament. It is possible for a boxer to advance to nationals by walkover if they have no opponent.

At nationals, the team scoring is conducted as follows:
 Each team automatically receives 1 point.
 Each boxer who wins a quarterfinal match earns 1 point for their team.
 Each boxer who wins a semi-final match earns 3 points for their team.
 Each boxer who wins a final match earns 5 points for their team.

National team champions

See also
College club sports in the United States
Collegiate Nationals
NCAA Boxxing Championship

References

External links

Amateur boxing organizations
College boxing in the United States
College sports governing bodies in the United States

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By Maksym Tatariants, Data Science Engineer at MobiDev.
Human pose estimation refers to a technology – fairly new, yet evolving quickly – that's playing a significant part in fitness and dance applications, allowing us to place digital content over the real world.
In short, the concept of human pose estimation is a computer vision-based technology able to detect and process human posture. The most important and central part of this technology is human body modeling. Three body models are most prominent within current human pose estimation systems – skeleton-based, contour-based, and volume-based.
Skeleton-based Model
This model is made up of a set of joints (keypoints), such as knees, ankles, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and the orientation of the body's limbs. This model is notable for its flexibility, and as such is suitable for both 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional human pose estimation. With 3-dimensional modeling, the solution uses an RGB image and finds the joints' X, Y, and Z coordinates. With 2-dimensional modeling, it's the same analysis of an RGB image, but using the X and Y coordinates.
Contour-based Model
This model makes use of the contours of the torso and limbs of the body, as well as their rough width. Here, the solution takes the body frame's silhouette and renders body parts as rectangles and boundaries within that framework.
Volume-based Model
This model generally uses a series of 3-dimensional scans to capture the shape of the body and converts it into a framework of shapes and geometric meshes. These shapes create a 3D series of poses and body representations.
How 3D Human Pose Estimation Works
Fitness applications tend to rely on 3-dimensional human pose estimation. For these apps, the more information on the human pose, the better. With this technique, the user of the app will record themselves participating in an exercise or workout routine. The app will then analyze the user's body movements, offering corrections for mistakes or inaccuracies.
This type of app's flowchart typically follows this pattern:
First, gather data on the user's movements while they perform the exercise.
Next, determine how correct or incorrect the user's movements were.
Finally, show the user via the interface what mistakes they may have made.
Right now, the standard in human pose technology is COCO topology. COCO topology is made up of 17 landmarks across the body, ranging from the face to the arms to the legs. Note that COCO is not the only human body pose framework, merely the one most commonly used.
Source: https://mobidev.biz/blog/human-pose-estimation-ai-personal-fitness-coach
This type of process typically makes use of deep machine learning technology for the extraction of joints in estimating the user's pose. It then employs geometry-based algorithms to make sense of what it's found (analyze relative positions of the detected joints). While using a dynamic video as its source data, the system can use a series of frames, not just a single image, to capture its keypoints. The result is a far more accurate rendering of the user's real movements since the system can use information from the adjacent frames to resolve any uncertainties regarding the position of the human body in the current frame.
Out of the current techniques for using 3D pose estimation in fitness applications, the most accurate approach is to first apply a model to detect 2D keypoints and subsequently process the 2D detection with another model to convert them into 3D keypoint predictions.
In the research we posted recently, a single video source was used, with convolutional neural networks with dilated temporal convolutions applied to perform the 2D -> 3D keypoint conversion.
After analyzing the models currently out there, we determined that VideoPose3D is the solution best tailored to the needs of most AI-driven fitness applications. The input using this system should allow for a 2D set of keypoints to be detected, where a model, pre-trained on COCO 2017 dataset, is applied as a 2D detector.
For the most precise prediction of the position of a current joint or keypoint, VideoPose3D can use multiple frames over a short sequence of time to generate 2D pose information.
To further boost the accuracy of 3D pose estimation, more than one camera can gather alternate viewpoints of the user performing the same exercise or routine. Note, however, that it requires greater processing power as well as specialized model architecture to deal with multiple video stream inputs.
Recently, Google unveiled their BlazePose system, a mobile device-oriented model for estimating human pose by increasing the number of keypoints analyzed to 33, a superset of the COCO keypoint set and two other topologies – BlazePalm and BlazeFace. As a result, the BlazePose model can produce pose prediction results consistent with hand models and face models by articulating body semantics.
Source: https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/08/on-device-real-time-body-pose-tracking.html
Each component within a machine-learning-based human pose estimation system needs to be fast, taking a maximum of a couple of milliseconds per frame for pose detection and tracking models.
Due to the fact that BlazePose pipeline (which includes pose estimation and tracking components) has to operate on a variety of mobile devices in real-time, each individual part of the pipeline is designed to be very computationally efficient and run at 200-1000 FPS.
Pose estimation and tracking in the video where it is not known whether and where the person is present is typically done in two stages.
At the first stage, an object detection model is run to locate the presence of a human or to identify their absence. After the person has been detected, the pose estimation module can process the localized area containing the person and predict the position of the keypoints.
A downside of this setup is that it requires both object detection and pose estimation modules to run for every frame which consumes extra computational resources. The authors of the BlazePose, however, devised a clever way of getting around this issue and efficiently utilize it in other keypoint detection modules such as FaceMesh and MediaPipe Hand.
The idea is that an object detection module (face detector in the case of BlazePose) can be used only to kickstart the pose tracking in the first frame while the subsequent tracking of the person can be done using exclusively the pose predictions after some pose alignment, parameters for which are predicted using the pose estimation model.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/08/on-device-real-time-body-pose-tracking.html
The face produces the strongest signal as to the torso's position for the neural network, as a result of the relatively small variance in appearance and high contrast in its features. Consequently, it is possible to create a quick, low-overhead system for pose detection through a series of justifiable assumptions grounded in the idea that the human head will be locatable in every personal use case.
Overcoming Challenges of Human Pose Estimation
Making use of pose estimation in fitness apps faces the challenge of the sheer volume of range of human poses, for instance, the hundreds of asanas in most yoga regimens.
Further, the body will sometimes block certain limbs as captured by any given camera, users may wear varied outfits obscuring body features and personal looks.
While making use of any pre-trained models, note that unusual body movements or strange camera angles can lead to errors in human pose estimation. We can mitigate this problem to a certain extent by using synthetic data from a 3D human body model render, or by fine-tuning with data specific to the domain in question.
The good news is that we can avoid or mitigate the majority of weaknesses. The key to doing so is picking out the right training data and model architecture. Further, the tendency of development in the field of human pose estimation technology suggests that some of the issues we face now will be less relevant in the coming years.
Human pose estimation holds a variety of potential future uses outside the area of fitness apps and tracking human movements, from gaming to animation to Augmented Reality to robotics. That doesn't represent a full list of the possibilities but does highlight some of the most likely areas where human pose estimation will contribute to our digital landscape.
Source: www.unite.ai
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Episode #106: An Appreciation Like No Other - A love for the outdoors, hiking and coding with Rafael Monroy
An Appreciation Like No Other - A love for the outdoors, hiking and coding with Rafael Monroy
In this episode we interview Rafael Monroy who is a tech developer by day and nature junkie by night. Growing up in Southern California Rafael didn't know his love of tacos would turn into a self made career. He wanted to create an app that helped find all the amazing hidden taco spots around California. With no coding experience he spent evenings and nights teaching himself to become a developer. While that particular app never worked out, he found a new career. But there was still something missing. It wasn't until the shutdown that he discovered what it was - the outdoors. A couple of family trips and he was instantly hooked. Short hikes soon turned into weekend camping trips - and those turned into conquering mountains that few attempt. For Rafael he has the perfect balance of solving advanced problems in the tech world and pushing his body in the hiking world. If you've ever wondered why it's so important to find balance, or how the outdoors can give you a true appreciation of how easy we really have it, then this ones for you!


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The Emmy Award-winning 1970's pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage! The action begins when a young school teacher nervous about his first day of teaching, tries to relax by watching TV. Suddenly the Schoolhouse Rock bunch appear in his home and help him to instruct his students on a variety of subjects including Math, Science, History, Politics and Grammar. Through a series of classic songs like "Unpack Your Adjectives", "Just A Bill" and Conjunction Junction" this multimedia treat shows a whole new generation of young people that learning can be as fun as you choose to make it.
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Jim Gavin to be awarded Freedom of the City after his achievements with Dublin
Former Dublin manager Jim Gavin is set to be honoured with the Honorary Freedom of the City for his achievements with the senior football team.
Gavin stepped away from the team in November after seven years in charge having won six All-Ireland titles with the inter-county panel.
Dessie Farrell has since taken on the role, but just because his predecessor has stepped out of the frame, it doesn't mean that Gavin won't go without an award for his efforts.
Jim Gavin is getting the Freedom of the City after winning six All-Ireland titles. Pic: INPHO/Oisin Keniry
The ceremony for Gavin's Freedom of the City will take place on Saturday, January 18 at the Mansion House.
Both the Lord Mayor Paul McAuliffe of the city as well as the Dublin City Council are paying tribute to Gavin's 'contribution to public life and service to his county and country both on and off the pitch', their statement says.
On top of six All-Ireland titles, the 48-year-old also won five National league titles and seven Leinster Championships.
Jim Gavin is set to be award the Freedom of the City award. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
As a player, Gavin also won an All-Ireland title with the Dubs in 1995 and now finds himself up for an award previously given to Kevin Heffernan, Bono, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, John Giles, Brian O'Driscoll and Charles Stewart Parnell.
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\section{Introduction}
The geosciences have been transformed in recent years by a substantial growth in the quantity and quality of available data. This has spurred interest in machine learning methods for seismological tasks, and especially in deep learning models, as powerful feature extractors (see, for example, the benchmarking study of \cite{munchmeyer}). However, as 'black box' models, they do not provide an easy means to understand how a decision is reached. The aims of this paper are first to demonstrate the power of a 'white box' model and second to directly compare this model to a deep neural network.
Using data from the Groningen Gas Field in the Netherlands, we build on the logistic regression model of \cite{waheed} by the addition of four further features. We then evaluate the performance of the augmented model relative to the CNN of \cite{shaheen}, pre-trained on the Groningen data, on progressively increasing noise-to-signal ratios. We discover that, for each ratio, our logistic regression model correctly detects every earthquake, while the deep model fails to detect nearly 20 \% of
seismic events. It may thus be concluded that deep models should be treated with a degree of caution, since, in addition to their lack of transparency, they may not always perform ideally well.

\section{Data and Methods}

\subsection{Data acquisition, pre-processing, and partitioning}

The data used in this study, as in \cite{waheed} and \cite{shaheen}, were derived from the G-network, a network of 70 seismic stations set up by the Dutch government after public protest over increased induced seismicity due to gas extraction from the Groningen Gas Field. Each G-network
station has four geophones, between 50 m and 200 m, and we gather data from all four geophone levels as the comparison model of \cite{shaheen} requires this.
We downloaded seismograms for event examples from web services hosted by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), applying the same date and magnitude ($\geq$ 0.2, resulting mean 1.05) selection criteria as in \cite{waheed}. This resulted in 2300 seismograms recording 47 events.
We were unable to obtain 4000 noise samples, as used in \cite{waheed}, from the 2017-18 period of the studies of \cite{waheed} and \cite{shaheen} and so used the same time of year in 2020-21. Additional negative examples for the increasing noise-to-signal phase of this study were drawn from this same period, with
38100 new samples collected. All waveform data were detrended, demeaned, and bandpass-filtered to frequencies of 5-25 Hz as in \cite{shaheen}. In addition, in order to be compatible with the CNN of \cite{shaheen}, the resulting seismograms were then downsampled by a factor of two.
We chose to segregate our train (60 \%), validation (20 \%), and test (20 \%) datasets by event rather than seismogram (seismogram-based segregation having been used in the studies of \cite{waheed} and \cite{shaheen}) in order to prevent data leakage from test to train datasets. Hence, for example, our test set may not contain
20 \% of the seismograms, as events are detected by varying numbers of G-network stations. This difference, and the differing time period from which noise data were derived, are not problematic for internal comparisons within this study. However, they should be borne in mind when comparing our
results directly with those of \cite{waheed} and \cite{shaheen}.

\subsection{Machine Learning Models}

The primary model used in this study is logistic regression (LR). The major appeal of this linear model is that its fitted weights can be used to understand the role and importance of different features. An
elastic net penalty
\[
 [\alpha \sum_{i=1}^{p}\left|\beta_{i}\right|+(1-\alpha) \sum_{i=1}^{p} \beta_{i}^{2}]
\]
 where the $\beta_{i}$ are the (external inputs + 1) weights of the model, may be added to the LR loss function; for a suitable setting of the hyperparameter ${\alpha}$ this can encourage not only smaller weights but variable selection. In our work the elastic net penalty was used only for this latter purpose, as a means to filter new candidate features according to their importance, our final model being a simple, interpretable LR model as in \cite{waheed}.

We benchmarked against a convolutional neural network (CNN), a type of deep learning model originally designed for image data, and used in \cite{shaheen}. The CNN was not retrained as it had already been trained on data from the Groningen Gas Field. The CNN of \cite{shaheen} was designed to take advantage of the multiple geophone levels used in the G-network, leveraging the potential of the moveout pattern of energy to distinguish between disturbances originating underground (more likely to be seismic in origin) and ones originating at the surface (more likely to be noise).

\subsection{Performance measures}
In order to explore the behaviour of the models for increasing amounts of noise it was important to use a performance measure that is robust for imbalanced data. Accuracy is not a good choice in this respect, though we quote it as a secondary metric in our results as it is widely used elsewhere even for imbalanced datasets. Our preferred measure will be the more robust Matthews Correlation Coefficient, defined by
\[
MCC =	[TP*TN - FP*FN]/[[TP + FP]*[TP + FN]*[TN + FP]*[TN + FN]]^{1/2}
\]
where $TP$ denotes true positives, $TN$ true negatives, $FP$ false positives, and $FN$ false negatives. An $MCC$ of 1.0
corresponds to a perfect prediction, a value of 0.0 either random prediction or an assignment of all examples to a single class. It is this last behaviour that makes the $MCC$ valuable for imbalanced datasets, as the tendency of most machine learning models is to over-assign examples to the majority class.

\subsection{Use of the HCSTA and catch22 software packages}
Most of the work that has been done in earthquake detection with LR models has used seismologically derived features (see, for example, \cite{miranda}, and references therein). But it is also of interest
to explore statistically-derived features, as was done by \cite{waheed}, who used features from the HCTSA (Highly Comparative Time-Series Analysis) package of \cite{hctsa}. HCTSA offers around 7,700 candidate features, with the four used in \cite{waheed} being selected by a mixture of mechanisms integral to the package and qualitative judgement.
The catch22 MATLAB package \cite{catch-22} contains a subset of features the HCTSA authors found to be best-performing for time series classification. Because there are only 22 of these features it is easy to add them to the inputs of an LR model with an elastic net penalty and use this model's inherent feature selection ability to highlight potentially useful new features. This means of feature selection differs from that used in \cite{waheed} to choose the original four features, and it seemed
possible it could discover some potentially valuable features the selection method of the earlier paper had missed. In fact this was so, as will be shown in the Results section to follow.

\section{Results}
\subsection{Feature discovery using elastic net}
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\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.8]{experiment_4_model_plot.png}
\caption{Distribution of feature values for the 72 best-performing elastic net models.}
\label{fig:g_config}
\end{figure}

200 runs of the elastic net model (which had 26 inputs, the original four HCTSA features from \cite{waheed} plus 22 new features from the catch22 package) were carried out. It was discovered that there was no single best set of weights; there were in fact many elastic net models with identical best
performance in terms of the validation MCC. The distribution of weights for each feature for these 72 equally well-performing models is shown in Figure 1, above. This figure confirms the value of the original four HCTSA features (W1 to W4), but also suggests the potential value of four catch22 features
(C10, C11, C14, and C15), with C11 especially promising. These four new features were added to the original four. The 18 less influential catch22 features and the use of the elastic net penalty were then discarded in order to have an interpretable LR model as in \cite{waheed}.

\subsection{Comparison of the logistic regression and CNN models at low noise-to-signal ratio}
Both the LR model of \cite{waheed} and our augmented LR model were trained at the noise-to-signal ratio of 1.73:1 used in \cite{waheed}. The CNN of \cite{shaheen}, which was not retrained by us, had been pre-trained at a ratio of 1.47:1. Both models were tested in this subsection at the ratio of 1.73:1 used for testing in \cite{waheed}. From Table 1 it can be seen the original LR model is able to achieve an MCC of 0.9691, but that our augmented model is even so able to statistically significantly improve on it. However, the CNN does substantially less well. From the confusion matrices in Table 2 it can be seen that the CNN is very effective (having no false positives) in classifying noise, but makes a substantial number of errors (false negatives) on earthquake data, failing to detect around 20 \% of the earthquake examples. As will be seen in the next subsection, the CNN's focus on correctly detecting noise becomes only more problematic as the proportion of noise to signal increases.

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\begin{table}[!ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
\textbf{Model} & \textbf{Model description} & \textbf{Model type} & \textbf{Test Acc.} & \textbf{Test MCC} & \textbf{Significant at 5 \%}\tabularnewline
\hline
\textbf{1} & Model of \cite{waheed} & LR & 98.56 & 0.9691 & -\tabularnewline
\hline
\textbf{2} & As above + selected catch22 & LR & 99.18 & 0.9824 & Yes (2 > 1) \tabularnewline
\hline
\textbf{3} & Model of \cite{shaheen} & CNN & 82.94 & 0.8648 & Yes (3 < 2, 1)\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{extend_test}Test performance at noise ratio 1.73:1 of the three models considered, in terms of both accuracy and MCC, where > (<) denotes that one model is statistically significantly better (worse) than another.}
\end{table}

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\label{tab:cf_1}
\centering %
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
 & Predicted negative & Predicted positive\tabularnewline
\hline
True negative & 1313 & 5\tabularnewline
\hline
True positive & 0 & 763\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption*{Confusion Matrix: LR Model of \cite{waheed} + Selected catch22 Features}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[!h]

\centering %
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
 & Predicted negative & Predicted positive\tabularnewline
\hline
True negative & 1318 & 0\tabularnewline
\hline
True positive & 127 & 627\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption*{\label{cf_2}Confusion Matrix: CNN Model of \cite{shaheen}}
\caption{Confusion matrices for the better-performing of the two logistic regression models (model of \cite{waheed} + selected catch22) and for the benchmark CNN model of \cite{shaheen}.}
\end{table}

\subsection{Performance of the models on less balanced datasets}
Table 3 shows that as the noise ratio is increased all the models, which were trained on low ratios as described above, find classification more difficult. It can be seen, however, that the four catch22 features are of increasing value as the noise increases: at the highest noise-to-signal ratio considered in this study, 50:1, the augmented model's MCC is around 36 \% better than that of the original model.

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\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
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\textbf{No.} & \textbf{Model description} & \textbf{1.73:1} & \textbf{5:1} & \textbf{10:1} & \textbf{25:1} & \textbf{50:1}\tabularnewline
\hline
\textbf{1} & Model of \cite{waheed} & 0.9691 & 0.7663 & 0.4062 & 0.2388 & 0.1642\tabularnewline
\hline
\textbf{2} & As above + selected catch22 & 0.9824 & 0.8203 & 0.515 & 0.3164 & 0.2227\tabularnewline
\hline
\textbf{3} & Model of \cite{shaheen} & 0.8648 & 0.8921 & 0.8998 & 0.9045 & 0.9061\tabularnewline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{extend_test}Test MCCs for the two LR models of \cite{waheed} and the benchmark CNN of \cite{shaheen} as the noise-to-signal ratio is increased from the baseline of 1.73:1 used in \cite{waheed}.}
\end{table}

It is not a surprise that the LR models find prediction on less balanced data harder. What is a surprise is that the CNN appears to find it easier. However, inspection of the confusion matrices for the higher noise ratios explains this: at these higher ratios the CNN makes the same errors on the earthquake
examples as it did at the starting ratio of 1.73:1, but continues to classify all noise examples perfectly; as the proportion of noise increases, the CNN therefore necessarily appears to do better.

\section{Conclusions}
This study benchmarked an eight-input logistic regression (LR) model (four new input features, discovered via the use of the catch22 software package combined with an elastic net feature selector, having been added to the model of \cite{waheed} against a convolutional neural network (CNN)
pre-trained on data from the same source, the Groningen Gas Field in the Netherlands \cite{shaheen}. Tests were carried out both at the low noise-to-signal ratio of \cite{waheed} and at higher noise ratios. While the CNN scored higher as this ratio increased, as measured by the Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), the mistakes made by the LR model were notably all false positives, which can be reduced by seismological agencies using pre-existing or easily adoptable \cite{miranda} processes, while the mistakes made by the CNN were the more serious and problematic false negatives. We do not claim deep learning models have no place in seismology. They can be remarkably powerful; the EQTransformer model of \cite{earthquake-transformer} has been shown particularly effective in
recent benchmarking trials \cite{munchmeyer}. However, deep models need to be trained with care and have yet to be proven on substantially imbalanced datasets. A degree of caution may thus be warranted and the time may not yet be right for such models to be deployed in practice.

\section{Acknowledgments}
The authors would like to thank Umair bin Waheed for helpful discussions and advice, and Ahmed Shaheen for the provision of the pre-trained CNN model used in \cite{shaheen}.

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Cut-leaved Crane's-bill (Geranium dissectum) and Dove's-foot Crane's-bill (Geranium molle) are the two crane's-bill species most commonly found as weeds of arable crops, although round-leaved crane's-bill (Geranium rotundifolium) and small-flowered crane`s-bill (Geranium pusillum) may also be found as weeds. Many other Geranium species also occur in the UK, but rarely as arable weeds. Both cut-leaved and dove's-foot crane's-bill occur in a variety of habitats throughout most parts of the UK but cut-leaved crane's-bill is the species more commonly encountered and has become increasingly common as an arable weed during the past 30 years.
Cut-leaved crane's-bill is a short/medium, semi-upright or sprawling hairy annual up to 60 cm tall with pink-purple flowers. The leaves are deeply dissected almost to the base and the fruits are hairy or downy. Dove's-foot crane's-bill is similar, but tends to be shorter, up to 40 cm tall, and the leaves are more rounded and less deeply dissected, usually only to about half-way to the base, and the fruits are hairless. The cotyledons (seed leaves) of both species are broader than long, slightly asymmetrical, long-stalked and noticeably hairy. The two species are hard to tell apart at the seedling stage but the second true leaf of cut-leaved crane's-bill has additional, small secondary lobes which are absent in dove's-foot crane's-bill.
Crane's-bills are moderately competitive species, with similar competitive abilities to groundsel, red dead-nettle and speedwells. It has been estimated that, on average, a population of 62.5 plants2 can cause a 5% yield loss in wheat crops. They may be more competitive in winter oil-seed rape. See other information sheet: How competitive are different weed species. In the past, crane's-bill seeds were often serious contaminants of seed crops, especially clover, but improved seed cleaning has greatly reduced this risk.
As annual broad-leaved weeds, crane's-bills are propagated solely by seeds. Both species flower from April to September with seeds being shed from June. The numbers of seeds produced per plant in a competitive crop situation is normally less than 500 but, in the absence of strong crop competition, many more (>2500 per plant) may be produced. Some seeds can germinate soon after shedding and consequently seedling emergence tends to be highest in August/September. This may help explain why crane's-bills are often associated with early-sown winter oil-seed rape crops. However, some seeds show greater dormancy, resulting in a more protracted germination period which tends to peak again in late spring.
Seedlings can only emerge from seeds within the surface 5 cm of soil. Persistence of cut-leaved crane's-bill seed in the soil is generally considered to be relatively low (<5 years) compared with many other broad-leaved species. Seeds of dove's-foot crane's-bill are more persistent (> 5 years).
See other information sheet (Broad-leaved weeds: occurrence, agro-ecology and management) for the best approaches to integrated weed management of crane's-bills. The limitations of these mean that control is largely dependent on herbicides on most farms, so maintaining the availability and efficacy of a wide range of herbicides is essential. It is worth emphasising that, as explained above, prevention of seed return over a period of years should greatly reduce the threat from cut-leaved crane's-bill as the seedbank should decline more rapidly than for many other major broad-leaved weeds (e.g. charlock and poppy).
Herbicides and resistance
Several herbicides are available for control of crane's-bill, at least in major arable crops. However, with some of these, good control can only be achieved pre-emergence or by applications to young plants. Consequently, a primary aim must be to treat crane's-bill plants while they are small.
Some pre-emergence herbicides applied primarily for black-grass control in winter cereals, such as prosulfocarb, also give useful control of autumn emerging crane's-bill but are unlikely to adequately control plants subsequently emerging in spring. Prosulfocarb can also be used to control crane's bill in potatoes.
In cereals, sulfonylurea herbicides such as metsulfuron+tribenuron can give good control of small plants but restrictions on application to after 1 February may mean that plants are too large for effective control. Sulfonylurea and related herbicides which can be applied in autumn, such as pyroxsulam+florasulam, may be a better option.
The formulated mixture of chlorotoluron+diflufenican+pendimethalin can also control crane's-bill species in cereal crops.
The older synthetic auxin herbicides, such as MCPA and mecoprop, give poor control of crane's-bills, but the new synthetic auxin herbicide halauxifen-methyl ('Arylex'), formulated in mixture with fluroxypyr or florasulam, gives good control (although only small-flowered crane's-bill is on the label).
In winter oil-seed rape, clomazone+napropamide (pre-emergence only), and dimethenamid (only available in mixtures with metazachlor and/or quinmerac) can give good control of crane's-bill post-emergence. Imazamox+quinmerac (applied before 9th true leaf stage of the crop) also gives control but can only be used in 'Clearfield' varieties.
No cases of herbicide resistant crane's-bill (or other Geranium spp.) have been detected in the UK or, indeed, worldwide. Consequently, crane's-bill can be considered a 'low resistance risk' weed based on global experience but should not be consider a 'no resistance risk' weed due to the high dependency on herbicides for control. If resistance is suspected, collect a seed sample and have it tested.


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In 1948, a group of Jewish American pilots answered a call for help. In secret and at great personal risk, they smuggled planes out of the U.S., trained behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia and flew for Israel in its War of Independence. This ragtag band of brothers not only turned the tide of the war, they also embarked on personal journeys of discovery and renewed Jewish pride. ABOVE AND BEYOND brings together new interviews as well as stunning aerial footage to present a fascinating, little-known tale filled with heart, heroism and high-flying chutzpah.


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Fat Chance - Fat Chance (1972 us, excellent brass rock, 2019 korean remaster)
"In '68 or '69, [Bill and I] started this group called Fat Chance," Eaton said. "We got a job at this place called Large David's that used to be over by The Downtowner. One night, Phil Garonzik [a sax player] and Fred Sherman [a horn player] showed up looking for a job. They sat in with us, and it was incredible. It changed the whole group."
Within a few months, the members of Fat Chance took a chance. They packed up their horns, guitars, drums, keyboards and iconic '70s rock sound and moved to Los Angeles. It was 1972, and bands like Chicago, Transit Authority and Blood, Sweat and Tears were radio mainstays. Fat Chance's music was a perfect fit.
Shortly after arriving in L.A., Fat Chance secured a gig at The Troubadour. Luck was still on their side because that night, they were signed to RCA. Before the ink on the contracts could dry, they were touring the United States, opening for British prog-rock band Yes.
Fat Chance's rise to success was followed shortly by a fall. For Eaton, the story of the band's break-up is really no story at all.
"We broke up for stupid reasons," Eaton said enigmatically.
LaBounty moved back to Nashville and would forge an impressive career, not only performing but also writing songs for the likes of Patti LaBelle, Jimmy Buffett, Brooks and Dunn, The Judds and Tim McGraw.
Eaton went on to record solo, releasing 1974's Hey Mr. Dreamer and a self-titled follow-up on Capitol Records.
by Amy Atkins
Originally released by RCA in 1972, the sole full-length by a talented band from Boise, Idaho is now revived on CD! Fat Chance managed to combine soft-rock with jazzy brass-rock, resulting in this appealing self-titled album.
1. One More Time (Bill LaBounty, Steve Eaton) - 3:53
2. We Are The People (Bill LaBounty, Steve Eaton) - 2:59
3. Funny Hats (Bill LaBounty) - 3:29
4. Oh Lavinia (Wayne Bennett) - 3:41
5. That's Not Love (Bill LaBounty) - 2:34
6. Hello Misery (Steve Eaton) - 4:29
7. Country Morning (Steve Eaton) - 3:06
8. Pirate (Bill LaBounty) - 4:30
9. Love Sick Rag (Steve Eaton) - 2:32
10.Lovin' Kind (Bill LaBounty) - 3:21
11.It's A Crime (Bill LaBounty, Dale Borge) - 4:22
12.Beauty (Kathy Deasy, Mike Deasy) - 3:25
The Fat Chance
*Dale Borge - Bass, Vocals
*Steve Eaton - Vocals, Guitar, Harp
*Phil Garonzik - Woodwinds
*Gordon Hirsch - Drums
*Bill LaBounty - Keyboards, Vocals
*Fred Sherman - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
ProgMusic Paradise said...
Gooooooooooood! Thanks!
Awesome!Great music,unknown to me and this is what I like.Thank you so much "MARIOS"...
Alexandr said...
Thanks, Marios.
too much thanks, cheers
lencarrinhar said...
Excellent,never heard, thaks a lot.
Betto Skin said...
MArios, thanks for the best rock albuns!!! Anyone chance to repost links in Depositfiles again?
What has happened to the chat boxes?
JoeyFeelgood said...
Wow! Thanks for sharing. I never knew Bill LaBounty had a group before.
Fat Chance - Fat Chance (1972 us, excellent brass ...


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This is the first in our series of stories previewing the 2019 Washington State Cougars football season. For later installments, click here.
Sometimes, we don't know how awesome something is or was until it has passed. Other times, though, we're acutely aware of what we're living through — complete with the proper appreciation for just how fortunate we are.
That's where we find ourselves in this moment with the Washington State Cougars as we launch our 2019 edition of the CougCenter WSU Football Preview — a story a day from now until the season kicks off in Pullman on August 31.
Nearly everything we hoped for when Bill Moos dumped tens of millions of dollars into the program and lured Mike Leach from Key West to Pullman has come to fruition.
Never before has WSU been to bowl games in four consecutive seasons, over which time Leach has won 37 games. The only coach to win as many as 30 in a four-year span was the legendary Babe Hollingbery, who won 32 games at the onset of the great depression. Mike Price, who has a pair of Rose Bowls to his name, could only ever muster 27. His .551 winning percentage ranks second among coaches with seven or more seasons at the helm, trailing only Hollingbery.
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We are truly in the golden era of WSU football.
A fifth consecutive bowl game is much more likely than not, as the Cougars begin the season ranked for the second time in three seasons. That, in and of itself, is remarkable — outside of Leach's tenure, it's only happened two other times in WSU history (2002 and 1952).
Even more remarkable, though, is that the Cougs are ranked despite having some pretty significant questions — most notably at quarterback. Historically, the graduation of a successful QB like Gardner Minshew II has indicated a rebuild at WSU. But under Leach, the assumption is simply that whoever ends up back there will be, at worst, pretty good. (And maybe even awesome.) Even if it's a guy who transferred in from a junior college with minimal fanfare in 2016 who has accumulated just five career passes — in mop-up duty.
The defense also has some significant holes, what with the departures of Peyton Pelluer, Jalen Thompson, and others.
But Leach's track record at both Texas Tech and now WSU has earned him — and us! — the benefit of the doubt. Instead of seeing holes, we see a loaded wide receiver group that will send waves of talent at helpless defensive backs. We see a sophomore running back in Max Borghi who could be on a trajectory to be one of the program's best ever. We see an offensive line with at least a couple of future NFL draft picks. We see a defensive front that will terrorize quarterbacks.
We'll explore all of that over the next two weeks. Read along with us.
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