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LSU loses ace and falls to Fla. St., 6-4, in Super Regional opener - must win 2 straight
The Tigers fell to Florida State, 6-4, in a best-of-three Super Regional opener Saturday afternoon at Alex Box Stadium and now must win two straight
LSU loses ace and falls to Fla. St., 6-4, in Super Regional opener - must win 2 straight The Tigers fell to Florida State, 6-4, in a best-of-three Super Regional opener Saturday afternoon at Alex Box Stadium and now must win two straight Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/lsu/2019/06/08/lsu-super-live-tigers-lead-florida-st-2-0-but-henry-leaves-game/1394237001/
Glenn Guilbeau, Lafayette Daily Advertiser Published 3:14 p.m. CT June 8, 2019 | Updated 12:07 p.m. CT June 9, 2019
LSU pitcher Cole Henry (18) throws in the first inning against Florida State in Game 1 of the NCAA college baseball super regional tournament in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, June 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Photo: Gerald Herbert, AP)
Florida State's Reese Albert (23) is greeted at the dugout after his solo home run, his second home run of the day, against LSU in the ninth inning of Game 1 of the NCAA college baseball super regional tournament in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, June 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Photo: Gerald Herbert, AP)
BATON ROUGE - LSU is home, but it is in trouble.
The Tigers lost a best-of-three Super Regional opener to Florida State, 6-4, on Saturday afternoon in front of 11,636 at Alex Box Stadium and now must win back-to-back games today and Monday to advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
The LSU Tigers take on the Florida State Seminoles in the 2019 NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional.. Saturday, June 8, 2019. (Photo: SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network)
"You need to win or your season's over," LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. "I told the kids, 'Look, don't think about winning two games. That's a daunting task. Just win one game.' If we win (Sunday), then we shift the pressure to them, and we're the home team again."
MORE: Home usually means advancement for LSU
Game two will be at 5 p.m. today on ESPN2 with the Tigers as the visitor. Should LSU (40-25) win, there will be a third game at 7:30 p.m. Monday on ESPN.
LSU will start freshman right-hander Landon Marceaux (5-2, 4.64 ERA) against sophomore right-hander DJ Van Eyk (10-3, 3.71 ERA).
"This doesn't decide anything," Florida State coach Mike Martin said of the win, but he does have two chances to win one..
The Seminoles (40-21) took a 5-4 lead in the eighth inning when reliever Zack Hess allowed a sacrifice fly to ninth batter Tim Becker. Matheu Nelson walked off LSU reliever Devin Fontenot after one out to start the rally, and Nander De Sedas singled, bringing Hess to the mound. Hess immediately walked Carter Smith on four pitches to bring up Becker. LSU pitching totaled 10 walks in all to three by FSU.
Fontenot (5-3) took the loss. Reliever Antonio Velez (4-2) picked up the win in relief by pitching the seventh without a walk. J.C. Flowers pitched out of trouble in the eighth and ninth with one walk to earn his 12th save.
Chris Reid led off the LSU ninth with a single and reached second on a wild pitch after pinch-hitter Giovanni Digiacomo flew out to center. Josh Smith then struck out before Zach Watson walked on five pitches to put the tying run on. But Antoine Duplantis popped up on a two-ball, no-strike pitch to Nelson at catcher to end the game.
"It definitely hurts," Smith said. "We're going to have to win the first one before we can win the second one. It's been done here before."
MORE: Matthew Beck's first game at LSU was the last one at the old Box
LSU lost the opener of a home Super Regional to California-Irvine, 11-5, in 2008 in Mainieri's second season and came back to win, 9-7 and 21-7, in the last games at the original Alex Box Stadium to advance to the CWS. The Tigers also lost a Super Regional opener in 2003 to Baylor, 4-1, under Coach Smoke Laval and came back to win, 6-5 and 20-5, to advance to Omaha.
"Not many guys are too down on themselves. We know we're going to get another game to play," Smith said.
Florida State's Reese Albert opened the top of the ninth inning with a home run - his ninth of the season - off Hess for a 6-4 lead.
Albert's previous home run broke LSU's back as the left-hander tied the game in the seventh inning. His three-run bomb off reliever Trent Vietmeier cleared the bleachers just under the "Intimidator" sign that lists LSU's six national championships. The Tigers had led 4-0 after five innings and 4-1 after six.
"Once it got to a 3-2 count, I was pretty confident he wouldn't come with anything but a fastball," Reese said. "He finally just gave me the pitch I could do some damage with."
Reese fouled off five pitches before the homer in an epic, 11-pitch at-bat against Vietmeier that took five minutes and 35 seconds.
"I felt like every time I fouled one off, he was getting more nervous than I was," Albert said.
"I think Reese kind of smelled blood in the water," said Drew Mendoza, who was on deck. "You see it in their pitcher's eyes. You see the body language."
And Martin, who is retiring after this season at age 75, smells his 17th trip to Omaha. He is one win away from his last shot at his first national championship after 40 seasons at Florida State with runner-up finishes in 1986 and '99. He also won his 40th game in a season for the 40th straight season, having started as the Seminoles' coach in 1980.
"In the great environment that LSU has, that was just about as good as it gets," Martin said. "That was a heck of a ball game. There were a lot of people, including myself, wondering how it would turn out."
It looked like LSU through the first six innings as Florida State was held without a hit through the first five and a third innings, and the Tigers took a 4-0 lead with single runs in the second, third, fourth and fifth.
And that was with LSU losing ace starter Cole Henry after two innings as his arm soreness returned. The fire balling freshman right-hander left the game as his velocity dipped to the low 90s as opposed to the 95-97 mph range he showed in the early innings last week.
MORE: LSU plays its ace in Super Regional opener
"He told me later he started to feel some discomfort in the first inning," Mainieri said. "I didn't know that at the time. I didn't suspect it. He threw well in the first inning."
Henry (4-2, 3.51 ERA) started just his third game since a month layoff due to arm soreness that began two days after he struck out 12 in a 13-1 win over Florida on April 19. A week ago, Henry looked great, striking out six and allowing two hits and three walks through a five-inning shutout against Southern Mississippi in the NCAA Regional round.
Q&A: Scouting Florida State with its beat writer
Henry retired the side in order in the top of the first with two fly balls and a looking strikeout of Mendoza. His velocity went down a tad in the second inning, and he walked three around a fly out. But he struck out Nelson looking for the second out and struck out Becker looking to end the inning.
Mainieri thought something was wrong and hurriedly sent Todd Peterson to the bullpen just as the top of the second inning ended.
"Cole came in and sat down, and I asked him how he was feeling," Mainieri said. "And he told me, 'Not good.' He pointed to his arm, and I'm not going to take any more chances with the kid. It was heart breaking to have to take Cole out of the game with some arm soreness. There was no decision to be made. He had to come out."
Peterson retired the side in order in the third as he got Mike Salvatore to ground out to shortstop, then dove for a grounder from Albert and tossed to first on his knees before striking out Robby Martin looking to end the inning.
"Todd Peterson came in and was absolutely heroic," Mainieri said. "I mean, he was phenomenal. I thought he was great, and he gave us the extension that we needed to make up for having to take Cole out."
Peterson extended himself, throwing 79 pitches through four and one-third innings with three strikeouts. But he walked three and allowed two runs on three hits. LSU relievers combined to walk seven in all.
"Nobody expected we'd be losing Cole Henry after two innings," Mainieri said. "So, it's going to stress our staff."
The Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the second off Florida State lefty starter Drew Parrish, who hit Daniel Cabrera to start off. After Saul Garza lined out to third base, Cade Beloso walked. Both runners moved up a base after catcher Nelson's passed ball. Brandt Broussard followed with a bloop RBI single to center.
LSU made it 2-0 in the third when Smith led off with a double, reached third on Watson's ground out to shortstop, and scored on Duplantis' RBI ground out to second base.
The Tigers took a 3-0 lead in the fourth on a two-out RBI single by Chris Reid, but could have had more. Garza reached on an error at second and would have reached third on a single by Beloso, who reached second on the throw to third. But Garza missed second base on the way to third and was called out on an appeal.
"We should have had second and third with no outs," Mainieri said. "Instead, we had a runner on second with one out."
Broussard flew out for the second out before Reid's RBI single. Then Hal Hughes popped up to end the inning.
"That's the first time we had a runner miss the base like that," Mainieri said. "The fundamentals of baseball is touching the base."
LSU went up 4-0 in the fifth on a RBI single by Cabrera, but also could have had more. Smith and Watson singled with nobody out before Duplantis struck out. Cabrera's single to center scored Smith. But Watson was thrown out after he rounded second when first baseman Carter Smith cut off the throw to the plate from center, and Watson was tagged out in a run down.
Watson was in the right as he was supposed to try for third in that situation to make the defense concede the run, which it did. Cabrera erred by not noticing Watson trying for third and getting to second, Mainieri said. Garza then bounced into a force play for the third out.
"We squandered a couple of opportunities where we could've extended the lead and kind of kept them in the game," Mainieri said.
Florida State finally got to Peterson after one out in the sixth when he walked Mendoza and allowed a single to Martin. After Flowers, who opened the game in center field, lined out to shortstop, Nelson drove the run home with a single to cut LSU's lead to 4-1.
Peterson opened the seventh, but allowed a single to Becker after one out, bringing on Vietmeier. Salvatore walked to put two runners on for Albert, who hit his eighth home run of the season for the 4-4 tie.
"We had a 4-0 lead in this game, and we squandered it," Mainieri said. "We played a good game in a lot of ways, but it just got away from us."
MORE: Mike Martin still working the magic
Martin has seen too many games over four decades as Florida State's head coach and five before that as an assistant there from 1975-79 to think anything is over.
"We know there is a lot of baseball left to be played. We can't fall in love with ourselves because we know we're playing one of the top teams in the country in front of some of the," Martin said and stopped himself.
"No," he said. "Let's do it this way - the LOUDEST fans I have ever played in front of in 45 years of coaching baseball."


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Q: Make filter in store Ext Js I need to create a filter in the store, so that only in my combobox come the values that main_type equals 0.
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And here I have my frontend controller, where I make the filters:
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A: Store's load method does not accept filters config. Use filter method instead:
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Monique Odom was born, reared and educated in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a proud graduate of Whites Creek Comprehensive High School, Fisk University (with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science) and Tennessee State University (with a Master of Public Administration degree), and she has worked in a variety of fields that made use of her skills in business administration, mediation, self-development, diversity and inclusion, and outreach. After a brief trial with entrepreneurship, Monique began working as an employee for Metro Government's Human Relations Commission — managing outreach and education for diversity and inclusion programs and overseeing the fiscal and administrative matters for the department.
Through her work with Metro, her love for public service was solidified and she transitioned into the position of finance officer. In 2009, she joined Tommy Lynch (interim parks director at the time; current director now) and his team to head the Finance and Administration Division of the department. From 2010 to now, Monique has been promoted from Parks and Recreation superintendent to assistant director, and now is the deputy director and second in command. Within this position, she is making a meaningful contribution to the city and the many diverse communities they serve, which is what motivated her to accept the position. Read on to learn about Monique's role within the Metro Parks Department, the range of programs, activities and facilities the park systems offers and, most importantly, her love of Southern food. Help us welcome Monique as today's FACE of Nashville!
In February, Monique Odom accepted the position of deputy director of the Metro's Parks Department and today, we welcome her as our FACE of Nashville.
What are your main responsibilities as deputy director of the Metro's Parks Department?
In a nutshell, my duties have broadened. In addition to maintaining my duties for leading the Finance and Administration Division, I now have supervisory responsibilities for all our divisions — Consolidated Maintenance, Community Wellness and Recreation, Cultural/Special Events, Outdoor Recreation and Environmental Education, Revenue-Producing, Planning and Facilities Development, and Park Police.
I work closely with the parks director, division heads, council members and the mayor's office to run an efficient and productive organization. That's where my mediation skills come in handy. Although everyone's goal is usually the same, sometimes the road to get there may require some navigation. Helping people understand each other and our goals — then building the consensus to reach those goals — just sort of comes naturally to me.
The most rewarding part of my job is seeing people enjoy the park system. Nashville's park system offers an extraordinary range of programs, activities and facilities. It makes me happy to think how parks and greenways contribute to people's quality of life.
The most challenging part is limited resources. It's a somber reality. There are so many meaningful demands. It can be a challenge to prioritize sometimes but we have a talented and diverse team that is always looking for creative solutions to complex problems.
My main priority is to maintain the assets we currently possess. We work hard to be responsible stewards, facility managers and program deliverers. We have got to take care of what we already have and do what we do well!
Second, I'd like to see our department reflect the diversity of Nashville; not only in front line positions but, most importantly, in decision making positions.
Finally, as our park system continues to expand, I'd like to see our operating budget keep pace with the demands of the growing system.
Seeing people enjoying the park systems and the many programs, activities and facilities is one of the most rewarding parts of Monique's job!
Can you tell us about Plan to Play?
Plan To Play is our initiative for a county-wide parks and greenways master plan, which will serve as a guide for future investments in and growth of our park system in the coming decades. The year-long Plan To Play process includes an inventory of past and current plans, an analysis of programs and facility offerings, a bench-marking of peer cities and an intensive public input process — including public meetings and surveys.
We've encouraged residents to share their ideas and input with us. Public participation is critical to the outcome of this project. We want to make sure everyone feels welcome to participate. So far, we've gotten some really valuable information from the public meeting and surveys. I'm looking forward to seeing the final plan when it's completed around the first of the year.
How is the Parks Department adapting to the growing population of Nashville?
With the rapid growth of the city, it can be a challenge but the main thing is we listen. We love hearing from native Nashvillians, as well as newcomers. There are a lot of wants and a lot of needs out there. We try to take care of the needs of our under-served communities first — and then move on to the wants. In the case of "want," we try to come up with creative or doable solutions, when we can. We try to accommodate everyone. That's why the Parks and Greenways Master Plan is so important and timely. It's a road map for us that helps address population growth, changes in demographics and so on. It will guide us in determining levels of service across the county and identify where there may be facility and/or program deficits and demands.
Is there a common misconception that people have about the Metro Parks Department?
I can't think of a common misconception. What I'd say is there is a general lack of public awareness of all the programs, activities, facilities and recreational opportunities offered by the Parks Department. Usually, people know about a couple things we offer because they are really interested in those activities — which is great — but they have no idea that we offer dance classes, or arts classes, or kayaking, or after school programs, or golf, or operate The Parthenon and Wave Country, among other things. There's just about something for everybody.
Did you know that the Parks Department offers dance classes, art classes, kayaking, after school programs, golf and so much more?
What is a valuable piece of advice you have been given and from whom?
I will not say who gave me the advice, since I'm not sure she'd want her name in print, but a previous supervisor of mine told me to always "Think for yourself." That advice has stayed with me. To me, it means gather the information you need to make a decision, which can include insight from others, consider it, then make your own decision.
I love Nashville! It's changing some, now, but it has always offered a slow pace of life. I love that. Now we've added many big city amenities and that's great — but I like that it's perfectly acceptable and sometimes expected to just slow down.
As we move toward becoming a major city in the country (or maybe we already are), I fear we're inching toward losing some of the way of life that makes Nashville special. While we may have many of the amenities offered in New York or Chicago, I don't want Nashville to become those cities. Nashville is a unique, Southern, one-of-a-kind city. As a native Nashvillian, I'm all for progress but it need not take away from the genuine character of the city.
Oh wow; I have no idea! Though my favorite pastime is eating, I'm not very adventurous when it comes to food selections. I'm a meat and potatoes, Southern cooking kind of lady. I have a friend who is kind of the Chief Restaurant Ambassador in my life. I'll follow her recommendations for new restaurants to try. She holds my hand … LOL! The last place we went to was Smokin' Thighs. It was great! She mentioned something about The Old School. I'm looking forward to that!
Right now, the only book on my bedside table is The Holy Bible. It is always there and very well used.
Well, since you've named the three things I would have said, I'd have to say potatoes prepared any way — but I prefer fried with onions, oven-baked macaroni and cheese and hot chocolate. Interesting, I've named all food.
Read about even more inspiring local women in our FACES collection. Click here to get started!


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Thinking Outside the Box (Universe)
The world of high-energy particle physics is a fascinating place where boffins (science types) try to figure out new and improved ways of describing the observable universe. This constantly puts increased demands on the ability of science to observe things and events with ever increasing granularity. To do this, they build things such as Cern's Large Hadron Collider to smash subatomic particles together at unimaginably high speeds and record these events to witness the birth and decay of all manner of exotic particles. It's all fascinating to me, and I love trying to keep up with current research.
Over the last 80 years, physics has struggled valiantly to definitively describe our universe. For a long time, we believed that our world order was defined by three spacial dimensions and an independent fourth dimension, time. Unfortunately, independent dimensions didn't fit with our observations and Einstein rather cleverly determined that we actually lived in a cohesive, 4-dimensional universe of space-time.
One model of our 4-dimensional universe allowed space to wrap around itself to create a finite space, a so-called box universe. This model survived for a while, but eventually the math didn't pass muster and the boffins figured out that our universe is constantly expanding. Edwin Hubble, after whom the Hubble Space Telescope was named, was the first to determine we live in an expanding universe.
A 4-dimensional space-time presents an interesting problem for us free thinkers. You see, four dimensions of space-time not only physically plots the location of something, but it also defines its location along the time axis. In a 4-dimensional space-time, the entire timeline of the universe, past through future, beginning to end, is defined upon the universe's inception. If everything that will ever happen is already predetermined, what does that say about the importance of our decisions? Do we really have freedom to choose? In a 4-dimensional space-time, physicists would argue that, actually, what appears to be decision making is merely us playing out a predefined role. Unbeknownst to us, the players, we're just reading our lines from a script that is written in rote memory.
That's a disturbing thought, isn't it? That gives fate and destiny a whole new meaning. Oy vay!
At some point, particle physics doesn't adequately describe our universe. For example Einstein's descriptions of gravitational interactions work right up until you get to zero distance, at which point the math becomes nonsensical. So, particle physics is good at working with larger objects at larger distances, but when you begin working down at the quantum level, strange things happen and particle physics can't account for the behaviours.
String theory has been proposed by some to describe the workings of our universe. String theory is complicated, utilizing 10 dimensions to describe things. String interactions are spread out over small distances of vibration instead of defined points. This leads to more sensible quantum behaviour, at least mathematically. It doesn't make the quantum world any less strange.
String theory seems to hold promise. For example, it goes a long way to making sense of why we have three generations of subatomic particles with the masses we observe. Theorists proposed 5 separate theories only to later discover that certain theories could be populated with transformations, called dualities, that cause a disparate theory to look like the other. String theories, therefore, seem to tend towards being different perspectives or ways of describing the same thing.
There's a duality symmetry, called a T-duality, that is especially interesting in that it blurs our ability to distinguish between small and large distance scales. This has, at least to my way of thinking, interesting ramifications for consciousness. Consciousness, after all, has no choice but to obey the same laws of the universe as everything else.
Metaphysicists and physicists have used different glossaries and approaches to describe the same thing. For centuries, it appeared as though the world of metaphysics and philosophy were so far from science that there would never be a coming together of minds. Interestingly, the more we delve into physics and string theory, the more similarities we see.
Consciousness and physical matter may be more related than we think. For example, we know that all matter exhibits particle/wave duality. Depending on the expectations of the observer, one sees matter behaving as a particle or as a wave. The expectations of the observer brings the question of consciousness inextricably into the equation, yet we don't yet have the math to quantify this interaction. Being able to directly measure and quantify the effects of consciousness is an ambitious goal, but it may very well be strictly outside our ability because the simple act of observing (measuring) affects the outcome. You cannot observe something without having consequences.
Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, proposed that you can't know a particle's behaviour until you observe it. Because of this, he declared that it was meaningless to attempt to define what something was. You could only define how something behaved while being observed. This rankled Einstein, who wanted to have a clear-cut way of describing the essence of reality.
The problem, it turns out, is that reality is entirely dependent upon the expectations of the observer. Science tries to work around this problem by implementing such things as double-blind testing. We influence the world around us by what we think, believe and expect. This has profound effects in our lives. This has profound effects on everything.
Consciousness may inhabit the same space-time realm as the underlying mechanisms of quantum entanglement. In quantum entanglement, state information of entangled matter is shared instantaneously over vast distances. Mass consciousness has been measured on a global scale, and projects such as the Global Consciousness Project have suggested the possibility of global precognition or backward causality.
Research into consciousness and, specifically, the effect of love over distance was done with a pair of married researchers. In different parts of the lab building, the male was shown photos at random and was instructed to feel as much love for his wife as possible whenever her photo was displayed on screen. Each time her photo was displayed, her respiration and heart rate measurably increased. The shift happened often within a second.
Because consciousness is a function of energetic vibration within our universe, consciousness must, by definition, follow the same laws as everything else. In the same way that subatomic particles are undeniably "aware" of their physical location in the universe in relation to all other matter, responding to strong- and weak nuclear and electromagnetic forces, not to mention quantum state changes, there must be some form of consciousness that is associated with all levels of matter. Does a rock have some sense of self-awareness? Many scientists would say no, but that assumes that entanglement and consciousness are mutually exclusive. There may not be a specific reason to assume they're related, but neither is there a reason to assume they're unrelated. The fact that consciousness exhibits measurable effects on matter simply makes it another quantifiable, universal force. It's likely, in my opinion, that just as we see ever more complex organizations of matter, the more complex the organization of matter, the more complex the organization of its associated consciousness. In such a scenario, the greater you move up in size and complexity, the greater the scale of consciousness. Eventually, you reach the infinite aspect of the Universe itself, in which case you have infinite consciousness, it being the sum total (and maybe even more) of all its component parts. In other words, omniscience.
I'm confident that once physicists come up with a unified string theory that really does describe everything, consciousness will be one of the aspects defined and described with absolute precision. The unknowable, in the meantime, will remain the realm of metaphysicians and philosophers.
By Trane Francks on July 24, 2011 / Manifesting, Meditation, QiGong, Quantum-Touch, Relationships / Leave a comment
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Eng. David Mulongo, the CEO and founder of Global Electives Port is an accomplished entrepreneur with soft spot for human empowerment. Among others he is a director at Viscar Industrial Capacity ltd which offers training and Consultancy in Technology, Camcraft Engineering Services ltd which is in the roads and construction sector, User Experience Technologies which fosters innovation in the medical and Health sector, Amaica The Restaurant, which fosters good health and empowerment of women through sell of traditional recipes, with the supply chain seeking to empower rural women who grow the vegetables. It's against this background that he felt the need to establish GEP to increase knowledge and cultural exchange programs across the world.
After graduating from Business management,Richard has worked with GlaxoSmithKline in Kenya as a sales Rep. He then spent a year and a half working at Germany Embassy Consular office handling Logistics, University of Washington Kenya Research before joining Global Electives Port Ltd office in 2015. Richard has done a variety of roles for Projects in different companies including Desk Officer, Operations Manager and Country Director for Kenya in Medical Electives. Richard now manages the Operations team in Africa. He also oversees all of our projects around the world, supervises the preparation of Placement, volunteers and supervises our destination staff in all of our destination countries.He is directly responsible for director level professionals in the region as well as clerical and other professional regional direct reports. In his spare time Richard enjoys travelling with his family, playing sport, going to gigs and Snorkeling.
April is the Regional Director of Global Electives Port, Asia region. She was born in the province of Capiz, the "Seafood Capital of the Philippines" and grew up in Iloilo called the "City of Love". After taking up Bachelor of Science in Radiologic Technology at Iloilo Doctors College, she began her journey with different industries and learned her extensive skills in different areas.
Prior to joining Global Electives Port in 2015, she had work in the same industry in a managerial level where she is organizing and managing medical electives and activities of foreign students and professionals for Philippine destination. She is involve in business development, marketing, direct communication with the participants and coordinating with both government and private sectors for expansion of programs. She loves to travel, explore different places, cultures and traditions, likes to mingle with international people to promote local culture and tourism. She had also spent working in a Business Process Outsourcing industry for eight long years where she gained her skills in English communication, business development, team and project management and expertise in customer service.
Sunshine is our SEO and Marketing Specialist. A graduate in Midwifery at Western Leyte College and have taken other courses in the field of Business Administration and Graphic Arts in Tagaytay City Philippines.
Prior to landing homebased jobs, She was a Medical Representative at Wyeth Phils. Inc. Wherein she was exposed to travelling to different parts of the country, meeting doctors and hospital staffs and had the chance to develop fun, genuine partnership with them. She also worked in the BPO industry for 4 years under Convergys Phils. Inc. which helped her enhanced her skills in customer service and her technical ability to provide solutions to customer having issues with their internet service.
In the year 2014, she started working home as an Online SEO Specialist and learned more skills in the field of Online Marketing. She sees herself working for clients in the next 10 years. She always feel accomplished everytime she sees her client is happy with the progress of their website and business.
Being a daughter of an artistic Family, She enjoys doing graphic designs and content creation in social media.


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Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is an ancient perennial aquatic plant native in tropical Asia and Queensland, Australia. It is one of two species in the genus Nelumbo, the other being Nelumbo lutea, native to North America and the Caribbean. Currently, the genus Nelumbo is assigned to its own (monotypic) family Nelumbonaceae in the order Proteales.
The sacred lotus leaves are round, reaching up to 24 inches in diameter, and can be floating or emergent. The fragrant flower stands high above the water and reaches up to 12 inches in diameter. Its center is a very characteristic, usually yellow, flat-top carpellary receptacle which develops into a dry brown seed capsule after pollination. The peduncle (flower stalk) dries out and shrivels as the seed matures, allowing the seed capsule to tilt and spread the seed.
Sacred lotus is a widely cultivated species highly prized in Asian and traditional Chinese medicine and Asian cooking. Medicinal uses include among others fungal infections, digestive disorders, and fevers. Phytochemical studies have identified alkaloids (aporphine-type such as nuciferine), triterpenes, and certain flavonoids as candidate active agents. The plant is almost entirely edible; especially its starchy nutritious rhizomes are valued both by humans and (semi-)aquatic animals. It is considered sacred in India, and symbolizes purity and perfection in Egypt. The beauty and fragrance of its flowers make it a prized ornamental plant.
For scientists, one of the most remarkable features of Nelumbo is floral thermoregulation, the capability to maintain flower temperature within a narrow range despite significant ambient temperature fluctuation during anthesis. This could be an adaptation in order to offer an energy reward for cold-blooded pollinators, or to provide optimal conditions for floral development, or to help volatilize scent compounds. The underlying molecular mechanisms are being studied.


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A brief history of Monroe County | Something to Think About
Debbie Kulick
For those who were living in Monroe County in 2011, you may well recall the 175th Anniversary of the county date of creation.
The celebration was not as grandiose as that of the Sesquicentennial (150th), but it did have a significant amount of history shared by many local historians.
The following county and township history was provided by Jeffrey L. Wright, Esq.
The history of Monroe County, which was formed on April 1, 1836 from parts of Pike and Northampton Counties, is rich and certainly helps us understand much of the landscape we have today.
The townships that largely compose the eastern end of Monroe County are Smithfield, Middle Smithfield, and Price.
Their history and creation is interesting to follow.
When looking back, you find that Smithfield Township was created in 1748. It was actually part of Bucks County at the time and from 1750 to 1810 it was called Lower Smithfield Township (LST).
An undocumented fact was that it was named for John Smith, an early settler. When Northampton County was formed in 1752, Lower Smithfield was included as part of the new county. When Monroe County was formed (1836), Smithfield Township then became one of the original townships received from Northampton County.
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The name Middle Smithfield Township would lead one to think it had been part of the former Lower Smithfield Township. In that thought, you would certainly be correct. It was created in 1794 from the northern portion of LST while it was still part of Northampton County. At the time it was name Middle Smithfield Township (MST) because the land was between what was called Upper Smithfield Township (which also no longer exists) and Lower Smithfield Township.
MST became part of Wayne County when it was formed in 1798 and it became part of Pike County when it was formed in 1814. The township originally ran from the Delaware River to the Lehigh River. But, when Monroe County was formed (1836), MST was one of the original townships to be taken from Pike County. Interestingly, the original township would today take in the current township land, Mount Pocono Borough and parts of Price, Coolbaugh, Paradise and Barrett Townships.
As you would now suspect, Price Township was taken in part from MST and Palmyra Township, which was then part of Pike County. The township was formed in 1830 and named for John Price, who was an early settler. It too was one of the original townships taken from Pike County to create Monroe County. Later, in 1848, a part of Price Township was taken to for Paradise Township and then in 1859 to form Barrett Township. Finally, a part of Price township was taken and added to Coolbaugh Township to increase its size.
In 1815 identified Stroudsburg Borough as the county seat by the state legislature. This was while it was still part of Smithfield Township and Northampton County. When Monroe County was formed, Stroudsburg Borough was the only one taken from Northampton County. The Borough was named for Colonel Jacob Stroud.
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Not to be left out, notably, East Stroudsburg was named such as it was east of Stroudsburg. The Borough was actually founded in 1870 when lands from Stroud Township and Smithfield were put together to create the borough.
Far from the rural and remote areas that once were, today these townships and boroughs are a mix of rural, suburban and more urbanized development. The natural beauty of the area, its distance to large metropolitan area and the growth the county has experienced would no doubt befuddle its original settlers. Thinking of today and into the future, no doubt future generations will look back to now and say the same. We are, of course, still a work in progress.


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Alta Enterprises, LLC dba Alta Equipment Co., (Alta) has entered into an agreement to purchase Northland Industrial Truck Co., Inc. (NITCO). The acquisition will expand Alta's business into the New England market, adding full service materials handling sales operations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine. NITCO, and its construction equipment group Northland JCB, will continue to operate as wholly owned subsidiaries of Alta, with no changes to leadership or business operations. Alan Hammersley will continue as President and Chief Executive Officer of NITCO and Northland JCB reporting to Ryan Greenawalt, President and Chief Executive Officer of Alta.
"The Alta team has always held NITCO in the highest regard. NITCO's strength in the materials handling space, anchored by the Hyster® and Yale® brands, innovative solutions approach and fast growing Northland JCB Construction Equipment Group aligns with Alta's vision and builds on our integrated industrial, construction and compact equipment capabilities," said Greenawalt.
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The Exchange was a criminal organization active from around 4000 BBY to at least 3643 BBY, and possibly the most powerful of its time, that dealt in spice refinement and smuggling, extortion, weapon trafficking, slave trading, and bounty hunting. The organization was active on many planets and employed notorious bounty hunters such as Calo Nord. During the First Jedi Purge, they posted a huge bounty on live Jedi, large enough to purchase an entire planet. Three hundred years later, during the Cold War, the Exchange was engaged in a galaxy-spanning crime war with the Hutt Cartel, centering on Nar Shaddaa.
"The Exchange is a big crime outfit, mostly operating out of Nar Shaddaa: spice running, gun trafficking, slave trading."
It maintained organized cells on various worlds of interest; each of those planetary cells was led by a single boss who ruled over Exchange interests on that world. The bosses reported to sector chiefs, who had no cells of their own and operated under secret identities, leading normal lives. Even the bosses did not know who the chiefs were in real life, since most communications were done over secret, secure communications channels. The chiefs in turn reported to the head of the Exchange, who was himself one of the sector chiefs. It was often locally represented by sham fronts, such as Citadel Station's Bumani Exchange Corporation.
Some Exchange bosses during this period were Davik Kang, the crime lord of the planet Taris, Loppak Slusk of Telos IV, and Goto of Nar Shaddaa. The organization was briefly yet significantly involved with, and damaged by, two important figures around the time of the Jedi Civil War: Revan and the Jedi Exile, Meetra Surik.
In 3956 BBY, Revan infiltrated the Exchange headquarters on Taris and killed Davik Kang. Five years later, Surik arrived on Nar Shaddaa, Nal Hutta's largest moon. She proceeded to destabilize the Exchange's operations on the moon by killing the crime lords Saquesh and Visquis, and thereafter by destroying the Visionary.
The Exchange boss of Nar Shaddaa around 3951 BBY was known by the name of Goto. Never seen in person and appearing via hologram, Goto was not an organic being but actually a droid, G0-T0. Using a hologram that gave the impression it was a living being, G0-T0 remotely led and operated the Exchange. Eventually, he traveled with Meetra Surik.
G0-T0 managed to use the illegal actions of the Exchange for his ultimate purpose of stabilizing the Galactic Republic. Its smuggling ring caused the deaths of destabilizing persons or organizations, developed unofficial profits for entire sectors, and strengthened Republic worlds that would otherwise have been poor and ignored. Believing that the major source of the Republic's problems revolved around the Jedi Civil War, it enacted bounties on both Jedi and Sith. Many bounty hunters simply killed Jedi and Sith instead of capturing them, but the outcome remained: fewer Jedi or Sith to fight against each other meant less fighting overall. G0-T0, as part of his programming, was simply interested in keeping the Republic in order and keeping its infrastructure intact due to the devastation caused by the Jedi Civil War.
The droid went along with the Exile in hopes of stabilizing the galaxy. He was eventually destroyed on Malachor V when the Mass Shadow Generator was re-activated and blew up the planet.
According to Kreia's predictions before her death on Malachor V, the Exchange grew in power, until the Hutt Cartel ceased tolerating it.
The Exchange continued to operate in the following years and was still in existence by 3653 BBY during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and reborn Sith Empire. In this era, one of their crime lords helped sponsor Jewl'a Nightbringer into the Great Hunt. By this point, the Exchange had become a major rival of the Hutt Cartel, and each group conducted several operations against the other. During the conflict, the Exchange acquired a fortune investing in several cutting-edge tech corporations.
Ukabi was the Exchange boss on Nar Shaddaa during this period. Imperial diplomat Maro Vizhen attempted to recruit him into the Shadow Syndicate, a group of crime lords allied with the Empire; However, Ukabi refused and an all-out war ensued between the Shadow Syndicate and the Exchange, culminating in Ukabi's defeat and death at the hands of an Imperial enforcer.
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Quality schools are essential in a community that recognizes that its most precious resource is its children. The mission of New Hanover County Schools, in collaboration with our parents and the community, is to strive to provide an excellent education in a safe and positive learning environment where they are prepared with critical skills to reach their full potential for a world yet to be imagined. Appropriate, modern facilities supportive of today's technology are an essential component of fulfilling this mission and meeting community expectations for students.
The need to renovate or replace obsolete facilities is ongoing. Decreased capital funding over the past several years has resulted in deferred maintenance, repairs and replacement of essential building systems and components. Major renovations are needed at schools that have not had any significant work since originally constructed an average of 30+ years ago.
The first paragraph of G.S.115C-521 requires Local Boards of Education to submit their long-range plans for meeting school facility needs to the State Board of Education every five years. The last plan was submitted in 2010 - 2011.
those same needs are estimated to exceed $400 million.
Student enrollment is at an all time high of over 26,000, and the School System is over capacity by approximately 3,500 students in grades K-12. Enrollment has exceeded NCDPI projections for the past several years, and is expected to grow by another 3,000 students within the next seven years. Presently, students are meeting in crowded and inappropriate spaces such as cafeterias, hallways, stages, storage rooms, workrooms, and trailers. There are currently 84 trailers, some that date back to the 1960s, in use throughout our school district. Four more trailers have been purchased and will be installed this summer for use in the upcoming school year.
Capital funds are budgeted each year as part of the annual capital budget process. These funds are used primarily for building upkeep and repair. Recent projects include roof replacement, HVAC equipment replacement, lighting and electrical improvements, and replacement of doors and hardware.
In 1987, the NC General Assembly established the Public School Building Capital Fund to assist county governments in meeting their public school building needs. During this time, capital funds received averaged $5 million per year, and peaked at just over $7 million in FY 2006-07. However, the Public School Building Capital Fund was eliminated in 2008, two years after the inception of the NC Education Lottery. This, along with the downturn in the economy, resulted in the lowest levels of capital funding from FY 2007-08 through FY 2012-13. Recently, New Hanover County has begun to restore capital funding to the schools and hopes to continue this in the future.
Lottery funds provided each year represent only about 4% of what the state spends on education annually. The lottery helps fund teachers' salaries, school construction, pre-kindergarten, college scholarships, and financial aid grants. However, since the inception of the lottery in 2006, other funds that were once received were eliminated or reduced, resulting in no net increase. Today the only new funding provided by the lottery are scholarships and financial aid.
Construction costs are based on recent state-wide school construction reported to NC Department of Public Instruction.
All project costs are "turn-key"; and include planning, design, construction, and other soft costs.
The new school and replacement schools include all furniture and instructional equipment.
The program assumes 4% annual inflation through 2017 for all projects.
The program includes 2% for in-house program management, and 1% as a program contingency.
New school construction will be scheduled to allow use as "swing spaces" for school replacements, and additions and renovations at Wrightsville Beach Elementary School.
Off-site infrastructure improvements, utilities, and associated fees for Porters Neck Elementary School including, but not limited to, roadway improvements, water and sewer extensions, stormwater improvements, and all associated impact fees, connection fees, and other associated fees.
Demolition of all existing structures and construction of a new 574 student elementary school to be built on the same site. The building will be designed to meet the current educational specifications adopted by the Board of Education, and includes all on-site improvements and amenities.
Additions to include a new 1,600 seat main gymnasium with support facilities and expansion of the existing cafeteria/kitchen. The current gymnasium will serve as the auxiliary gym. The cafeteria/kitchen expansion is required to meet the needs of the current student population and will be designed to meet the educational specifications adopted by the Board of Education. Site improvements for vehicular and pedestrian traffic flow, and for compliance with state stormwater requirements and local zoning ordinances. Moderate renovations to the existing buildings (A-C) as defined below to address the building systems and infrastructure needs, and create an appropriate learning environment.
Moderate renovations to the existing building as defined below to address the building systems and infrastructure needs, and create an appropriate learning environment.
An addition to include classrooms and various support spaces to eliminate temporary mobile units on site; expansion of the existing media center; site improvements for vehicular and pedestrian traffic flow; site improvements for compliance with state stormwater requirements and local zoning ordinances; and moderate renovations to the existing building as defined below to address the building systems and infrastructure needs, and create an appropriate learning environment.
Major Renovations: Extensive construction and/or repair work needed to create an appropriate learning environment and bring all of the existing building(s) and the site into compliance with current state and local building codes, ordinances and requirements; NCDPI Public School Facility Guidelines; and NHCS Educational Specifications. The specific work consists of: complete interior demolition of the building; interior reconfiguration of spaces; replacement of all major building systems (HVAC, electrical, plumbing); replacement of major building components (structure, roofing, windows, flooring, ceiling, lighting); extensive technology upgrades on a building-by-building basis; adding stormwater management; and adding pavement, landscaping and other site amenities.
Moderate Renovations: Selective construction and/or repair work to create an appropriate learning environment and bring most of the existing building(s) and the site into compliance with current state and local building codes, ordinances and requirements; NCDPI Public School Facility Guidelines; and NHCS Educational Specifications. The specific work consists of: select demolition within rooms of a building(s); repair and replacement of select major building systems (HVAC, electrical, plumbing); repair and replacement of select major building components (structure, roofing, windows, flooring, ceiling, lighting); technology upgrades on a room-by-room basis; repair and replacement to stormwater management; and repair and replacement to pavement, landscaping and other site amenities.
Minor Improvements: Selective repair work needed to upgrade some of the existing building(s) and the site into compliance with current state and local building codes, ordinances and requirements; NCDPI Public School Facility Guidelines; and NHCS Educational Specifications. The specific work consists of: no demolition work; repair of select major building systems (HVAC, electrical, plumbing); repair of select major building components (structure, roofing, windows, flooring, ceiling, lighting); adding minimal technology upgrades; repair of stormwater management; and repair of pavement, landscaping and other site amenities.


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CEO of Cyberbacker, Craig Goodliffe, plans to create 15,000 jobs for Cyberbacker by 2025 through franchising
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Mr. Goodliffe's goal is to improve the lives of others by offering great opportunities at Cyberbacker. Employees receive hands-on training and travel opportunities to help them excel in their field and provide the best service possible. Cyberbacker has a profit share of over a half million dollars for its employees to build retirement funds.
"This year we also began to offer healthcare to our cyberbackers as well as loans. We loan money for homes and automobiles and we profit share the interest."
Mr. Goodliffe believes talent can be found anywhere across the globe. In fact, most Cyberbacker employees come from third world countries where opportunities such as this are few and far between. A current Cyberbacker employee said her entire life has changed for the better because of her job.
"Cyberbacker changed my life because it gave me a sense of peace and true happiness. My greatest fear is running out of time to give my parents a better, more comfortable life and help them feel that they have done well in raising their kids because we have better lives. Working with Craig has improved my perspective on how to be a better leader who values relationships above all else," she said.
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On how he thinks CB Nnamdi Asomugha can best be utilized: "He's a corner. He's best utilized mixing man and zone coverages, as we have been doing. There aren't too many things as a corner that you can or can't do. You can't go into a game and say, 'We are going to lock him down the whole game.' If you play 75 snaps of man coverage you're going to get beat three. If you play all zone coverage, you're going to get beat. We have to continue to mix it up and make sure that the game plan is conducive, not only for him, but also the other 10 guys."
"The fourth quarter was a lot of blitzing," Asomugha said. "So, the fourth quarter, they were able to find the matchups they wanted amidst the blitzing. You could say, 'You should blitz more,' but we did that and it didn't help us in the end..."
"We kind of just mixed it up," he said. "I was on him most of the game. I think when we got to the fourth quarter, there was a lot more trying to give him a different look. We talked about, 'Let's give him something else,' so that he doesn't get comfortable with the one guy or however it is. So we just wanted to give him a different look. So there were some times that Dominique, especially in the fourth quarter, would go to him. But it wasn't something in particular."
Interim Eagles defensive coordinator Todd Bowles has been heavily involved in game plans and almost certainly was calling the coverages during games an NFL source said.
The fourth quarter change in the Eagles' coverage of Lions receiver Calvin Johnson had someone else's fingerprints on it per the source.
The Eagles were doubling Johnson with cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha and a safety until varying the coverage with other defenders. While Asomugha was puzzled by the shift in tactics, head coach Andy Reid denied the coverage changed significantly.
Let's look at every passing play in the Lions game and see why those statements carry so much meaning.
Nnamdi on CJ at the bottom of the screen. We immediately do the one thing I thought we wouldn't see all day, rotating to a cover three away from Nnamdi, meaning he's running deep with CJ without safety help.
Again to cover three, this time rotating over Nnamdi with DRC running deep. That allows Nnamdi to undercut the in-breaking route without fear and knock the ball away. Great play.
The problem is that once Scheffler got past the safety, he made the very human mistake of slowing down his route and turning his body to face the quarterback as he ran. The ball was already out, with the QB assuming he'd keep going down the field, the way an NFL receiver should. The resulting very slight overthrow was on Scheffler, not his QB.
Linebacker (Kendricks) sucked way too far inside to get back out.
It should be a fantastic call for the route that gets run (CJ is putting himself into double coverage), but we don't execute very well and he is rather tall.
Stafford took the PI up top instead, but oops.
Note first that we're doubling CJ out of the slot. Then we have three guys in man (red lines). But then something weird is happening with that double yellow arrow. I had to see a few of these plays a couple times before I was able to figure out what we're doing.
When that WR comes in tight to the formation, we're evidently very concerned about crossing routes, so what happens is that the CB and S switch to an inside/outside coverage. If the route comes outside, DRC stays with him. If he breaks across, the safety will pick him up.
Maybe our guys just aren't used to covering that long? Definitely strange.
Let's pause here for a moment and revisit a very similar play from the Cardinals game. You remember which one. Guess how it started?
That's right, Kurt Coleman staring into the backfield, worrying about his run assignment. We were supposed to be in quarters here too, but it broke down after he charged forward.
Back to the Lions, but unfortunately we're still talking about Kurt Coleman staring into the backfield. He's on the tight end here. That guy is going to block down and then release on the bootleg. Sound familiar?
Bootlegs killed us all day. The first time I watched, I just noticed the way the ends were constantly crashing down the line and losing contain. True enough, but they also got Kendricks and Coleman, as we've seen, and put Colt into an impossible situation, as we'll see later.
But no, coaching hasn't been the problem.
Is he supposed to be under the route, over the route, near the route?
DRC got his feet tangled, so it almost ended up being completed, but when you can show a coverage that looks EXACTLY like another coverage but then magically morphs into triple coverage on the guy they're trying to throw to and tight man against the "checkdown," you're doing something right.
Glad we didn't see that tested with a little play action / bomb.
But I don't know how catchy that is. Bad, bad miss by Stafford on this one.
At any rate, up to this point, you've seen the mix of coverages we used and how effective they had been. This is also where I'm going to stop showing you every single play, because you don't need me to keep pasting images of us sitting in cover two man.
This is what Nnamdi was talking about.
"We kind of just mixed it up," Nnamdi said. "I was on him most of the game. I think when we got to the fourth quarter, there was a lot more trying to give him a different look. We talked about, 'Let's give him something else,' so that he doesn't get comfortable with the one guy or however it is."
Subtext: Because Juan stopped varying our coverages and we were just playing solo man on him every single play, we decided on the sidelines that we'd at least not give him the same person each time.
"He's a corner. He's best utilized mixing man and zone coverages, as we have been doing ... If you play 75 snaps of man coverage you're going to get beat three. If you play all zone coverage, you're going to get beat. We have to continue to mix it up ..."


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South Carolina Supreme Court Refuses Non-Settling Defendants' Attempt to Add Settling Party as a Third-Party Defendant in Car Crash Case
By Patrick E. Knie
Suppose that three people are involved in an automobile accident, and the parties agree that one of the three was completely faultless with regard to the cause of the crash.
How should the issue of fault be resolved between the remaining two drivers? What if the innocent party settles his negligence claim with one of the drivers but not the other?
The state's highest court was recently called upon to rule in a case involving such a situation.
In a recent case under consideration by the South Carolina Supreme Court, the plaintiff was a man who was injured in a motor vehicle accident. He filed a negligence claim against the defendants, a trucker and the trucker's employers, seeking compensation for injuries he suffered when a third party (with whom the plaintiff had settled prior to his lawsuit against the trucker) pulled out into traffic in order to see past a disabled commercial vehicle that the trucker had parked along the shoulder of the road near a gas station where the third party had stopped, thereby colliding with the plaintiff's vehicle.
The defendants filed a third-party complaint against the motorist with whom the plaintiff had previously settled. The trial court granted the motorist's motion for summary judgment as to the defendants' third-party claims. The defendants filed a direct appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Decision of the State Supreme Court
The court affirmed the trial court's order granting summary judgment to the motorist, rejecting the defendants' argument that the lower tribunal had committed a reversible error when it failed to permit the defendants to add the motorist as a party defendant who could be included on the verdict form as a party to whom fault could be apportioned.
In so holding, the court observed that, with the South Carolina Contribution Among Joint Tortfeasors Act, the legislature "abrogated pure joint and several liability for tortfeasors who are less than 50% at fault" and instead "direct[ed] the finder of fact to apportion 100% of the fault for an accident between the plaintiff and each defendant whose actions were the proximate cause of an indivisible injury."
The court noted that South Carolina Code § 15-38-15 sets forth not only a detailed method of apportioning fault "among defendants" but also gives a non-settling defendant the right to argue the "empty chair defense" and to offset the value of a settlement received by the plaintiff from the empty chair tortfeasor.
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Gwrych Castle in Abergele has been confirmed as the host location of 'I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of here'. What is the history of the castle and where is it located? What features make it a good location for the show?
By Angus Wright
2020 has been turned upside down by the global pandemic situation. Offices are empty with people working from home, towns are shut down by 10 pm and you think twice about going out without a face covering and hand sanitiser.
Not only have our personal lives been impacted but entertainment industries have also been hit from cinema to sports and television. One television program which has been dealt a major blow by travel restrictions is the ever-popular "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!".
The show has gained cult status over the last decade, placing a group of celebrities in the Australian jungle and making them complete challenges to stay in the camp with a winner being decided by public vote at the end of the month-long program.
With the safety and logistics issues involved in getting to Australia for the 2020 show, the producers of I'm A Celebrity have come up with a novel solution. This year, the program will be done in the UK for the first time. The celebrities will not be going to the jungle, instead, they'll be spending their time on the estate of Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales.
19th Century Castle
Construction on Gwrych Castle began in 1812 and was completed in 1822. It was built by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh as a memorial to his mother's ancestors, the Lloyds of Gwyrch. Originally on the site was an Elizabethan house named 'Y Fron (Rounded Hill) which fell into disrepair and was derelict by 1810. Lloyd married the daughter of the 1stEarl of Beauchamp, Lady Emily Esther Ann Lygon, in 1825. By then, the main building was complete for them to use as their residence.
When he died, Lloyd left the castle to Robert Bamford-Hesketh and his wife, Ellen Jones-Bateman. During the Second World War, Gwyrch was a part of Operation Kindertransport which saw the rescue of thousands of Jewish refugee children from Germany, Austria and Poland, bringing them to Great Britain. Between 1938 and 1940, it is estimated at 9,000-10,000 children were saved through the operation.
The estate remained in the family until it was sold to the Dundonald's in 1946, this ended nearly 1000 years of family ownership. The castle began to decline over the years and was potentially saved in 1989 when it was bought by Nick Tavaglione for £750,000. Unfortunately, the restorative plans of Tavaglione failed, causing the building to decline even further and eventually to become derelict.
The Castle Today
The estate is now owned by the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust who aim to preserve the castle and estate on a long-term basis while offering public offerings to allow locals and visitors alike to learn about this historic location. They also aim to carry out essential works paid for through fundraising while also finding new and sympathetic uses for the castle and estate.
The trust will be very excited to open the doors to ITV for I'm a Celebrity, showcasing the castle to a modern audience while also showing the natural beauty North Wales has to offer. The Gwyrch estate is located on a hillside with views over the Irish Sea; as the series will be filmed through the winter, the environment should offer some fantastic landscapes for viewers.
While it's very different to the Australian jungles of the previous series, the Welsh countryside – especially in winter – will offer a tough challenge to the celebrities just on an environmental level. With its age and extensive history, it is no surprise that the Gwyrch estate has seen it's a fair share of tragedies, these events have had a reported effect on the premises with many different instances of paranormal activity being observed. The castle offers ghost tours to the public through their open season so expect this to be included as a challenge during I'm a Celebrity!
How the castle could be used on 'I'm a Celebrity'
While it remains unclear whether the celebrities will be camping in the grounds or staying within a shelter built within the castle itself, the 20th series of I'm a Celebrity is sure to be special. With adverse weather conditions being inevitable for North Wales in Winter, the challenges are going to be exciting.
As a grade 1 listed building, Gwyrch castle is in dire need of help, this is the aim of the preservation trust who are working to revive the estate. Hosting I'm a Celebrity will provide a massive financial boost to their efforts. While no figures have been released, ITV is rumoured to have paid a fortune to secure the location for filming.
Swapping Australia for Wales may not seem an ideal replacement but after 20 years, I think it's safe to assume the producers of I'm a Celebrity know how to put on a show. The bushtucker trials may be different changing Kangaroo for Lamb but it should be entertaining all the same – especially when you throw a haunted castle into the mix!
We will have to wait but hopefully, this year's series will be a success, if not for the fans of the long-running show, then for the castle which is in dire need of the financial and publicity boosts which will be included with filming there.
Have you been to Gwyrch Castle? Did you see the ghosts? Let us know!
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