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Yaya Toure named CAF African Footballer of the Year again
The 30-year-old wins the award for the third successive year, with only Samuel Eto'o boasting similar, after again shining at the Etihad Stadium for Manchester City
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has been named the CAF African Footballer of the Year for a third successive time.
The Ivory Coast international was announced as the winner of the award in a ceremony in Nigeria, beating off competition from John Obi Mikel and Didier Drogba – who came second and third, respectively.
Toure is only the second player to win the award for three consecutive years, with Samuel Eto'o claiming the prize between 2003 and 2005.
The recipient of the award is decided by national team coaches and technical directors in Africa – with Eto'o the most-honoured individual with four.
The 30-year-old already has 13 goals to his name this season, three more than his highest-ever season total, as he thrives under Manuel Pellegrini at the Etihad Stadium.
Toure was also the only African player included on the 23-man shortlist for Fifa's World Player of the World award.


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Not Good Enough, WCAX. Nowhere Near Good Enough.
WCAX-TV is still in the doghouse, if not the outhouse, for its handling of the situation at Randolph High School. The station aired, and later took down, a story based on one single interview with a volleyball player who claimed to have been harassed by a transgender teammate. The reporter made no effort to fact-check or even talk to anyone else. WCAX aired the inflammatory accusation. Or, as the trans girl's mother put it, they set a bomb and lit the fuse.
The station's handling of the situation has been a disgrace. The original decision to run the story, the initial denials that the station was in any way at fault, the cowardly removal of the story from its website without saying a word about it, station manager Jay Barton's belated blame-everbody-else statement, and the station's refusal to take part in a "Vermont Edition" show about the story and the damage it has caused. (As of this writing, early afternoon on October 19, the show has not been archived online. It will be later this evening.)
Extra bonus: Barton's non-apology aired during the news on October 13, and as far as I can tell, it is not accessible anywhere online. By its actions, it's clear that WCAX is embarrassed. Otherwise, they wouldn't conceal the story and Barton's statement.
This entry was posted in gender issues and tagged Jay Barton, Randolph High School, Vermont Public, WCAX on October 19, 2022 by John S. Walters.
Stealth Conservatives: Graphene, 9/11, and the Mystery of the Eighth of the Month
Fasten your seat belts. This is gonna be a bumpy ride.
Meet Stephen Bellows, former Republican candidate for governor (he got 5,402 people to vote for him in the primary) and current Republican candidate for Senate in the Grand Isle district. He's got no hope of beating perpetual incumbent Dick Mazza, but his views are so extreme that you'd think the Vermont Republican Party would formally disavow him. Guess not.
His gubernatorial campaign website (he doesn't seem to have one for his Senate bid) contains the usual bland-ish talking points: Back to basics in education, cut government regulation, decrease the property tax burden (especially for seniors), tax breaks for military vets, anti-Global Warming Solutions Act, anti-abortion, pro-Second Amendment. Garden variety conservative Republican, right?
Wrong! Oh, so completely and delightfully wrong.
He really let his freak flag fly in an interview on "Sound Off!", Linda Kirker's community access TV show. Kirker is a former candidate for the House and a die-hard Trumper who believes that The Big Orange is the only thing standing between us and the globalist/Socialist plot to destroy America. In this company, Bellows may have let down his guard. He certainly didn't hide the nature of his views.
This entry was posted in 2022 election, Vermont Republican Party and tagged Carrie Madej, Codex Alimentarius, Covid-19, Linda Kirker, Stephen Bellows on October 19, 2022 by John S. Walters.

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The Case for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The last two years have been hard for everyone.
Every sector of our society was impacted as we fought to protect our most vulnerable institutions from a once-in-a-century pandemic. Retail, entertainment, healthcare—everything felt the hit. Higher education was no exception, with admissions dropping 3.2% since 2020.
Interestingly, historically Black colleges and universities not only weathered the storm but saw admissions jump 2.5%. The New York Times reported this summer that applications to HBCUs rose 30% between 2018 and 2021, and 40,000 applications are expected to be submitted this year — four times that of 2016.
Why is that? What makes HBCUs, a network of schools nearly 200 years old that emerged to serve African American students when most schools would not, uniquely resilient?
My answer is personal.
In 1991, I was a smart kid and pretty good musician about to graduate from high school in southern Florida. Even though I had no political dog in the fight or any military background, I had all but decided my future was in the Army, playing in the military band.
Chance had it that my high school band director was a graduate from Xavier University of Louisiana, an HBCU. He suggested I think about college, specifically a Black college, instead of the military. This one conversation changed the trajectory of my life.
Ultimately, I chose Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach — making me the first in my family to attend and graduate from college. You can imagine that I was not particularly prepared for the experience. I recall a phone conversation I had with my mother shortly after meeting my campus band director, Dr. Harold Bray.
"Yeah, he's a doctor, too. I guess he teaches and then works in a hospital to deliver babies," I told my mom on the phone, astonished.
Applications to HBCUs rose 30% between 2018 and 2021, and 40,000 applications are expected to be submitted this year—four times that of 2016.
I laugh now, but 18-year-old me had never met a Black Ph.D. before — I had no frame of reference of what the fruits of academic labor looked like. I had never seen so many Black people and students my age all wanting to be better: They had ambition and dreams, and those ambitions and dreams began to rub off on me. Suddenly, I was taking courses I'd never thought to take and achieving at a high level.
I thought, "If these people can do it, so can I."
What I didn't quite appreciate at the moment but am grateful for now is that Bethune-Cookman was giving me models of success I had never seen before. I was witnessing ambition in real time as my fellow students booked it to class and camped out in libraries. I was seeing the results of that ambition in my teachers and professors who opened the world of science and history to me while treating me like their own child.
Bethune-Cookman gave me a new appreciation for Black culture, my people and everything we have contributed to the world, sometimes despite the world. Every day I swam in the waters of Black excellence, and it made my chest swell with pride.
I'm not here to say that every Black child must attend a Bethune-Cookman, Hampton or Howard, or that predominantly white institutions are somehow subpar. But I do feel that foundational pride and excellence is a unique gift given only by the halls and campuses of HBCUs.
Young Black people who watched the spread of President Trump's naked bigotry and the deluge of Black lives turned into hashtags looked to HBCUs as a welcome respite. I remember reading about four young women, all excellent students with acceptance letters to our country's most prestigious Ivies, saying they chose schools like Hampton and Spelman because "College is the time when you're trying to figure out who you are. … It's impossible to figure that out in a space where you not only feel like you have to assimilate to fit into that space, when they didn't invite you there or they tolerate you there, but you have to prove that your existence has value."
Even Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who launched The 1619 Project, found a better fit teaching at Howard, after her own alma mater, the University of North Carolina, refused her tenure—a move blamed on the school's conservative board who did not like her scholarship on slavery and race.
Foundational pride and excellence is a unique gift given only by the halls and campuses of HBCUs.
That sense of camaraderie and purpose may explain why, even though HBCUs only account for 9% of Black college graduates, they excel at graduating the best and brightest. They act as an incubator for people determined to make the world more equitable. Half of our country's Black doctors, lawyers and teachers turn their tassels at an HBCU, and I can't help but think it's because those schools offer something more than a good curriculum.
However, despite their renewed strength, HBCUs need our help. The United Negro College Fund released a study showing that the federal funding gap between HBCUs and predominantly white institutions quadrupled between 2003 and 2015, from $400 to $1,600 per student. And while we know Black folks have always had to make dimes out of nickels, there's no excuse for this targeted inequity.
That's why educators and students were elated to see the Biden-Harris administration fund HBCUs to the tune of nearly $6 billion in federal funding starting last year — a welcome sign from a government that seems to understand the value of Black education. The truth is, elections matter. Who is to say what happens to HBCU funding if a politician who works overtime to erase our history and lauds the criminals who take our lives as "heroes" gets into the White House?
Education has proven to be one of the most reliable tools in Black America's quest for equality in this country. As a leader, a teacher and a father, I encourage anyone who can to apply, matriculate and graduate — you don't need me to recite the numbers showing the financial advantages it can bring. But as a graduate from my beloved Bethune-Cookman University, I ask you to consider joining the legacy of those like Vice President Kamala Harris, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, W. E. B. Du Bois and Toni Morrison to swell the ever-expanding ranks of Black excellence that has already left an indelible mark on American history.
Fedrick C. Ingram is the Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers, serving 1.7 million members, including pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; school and college support staff; higher education faculty; federal, state and local government employees; and nurses and other healthcare professionals. Ingram is the immediate past president of the 140,000-member Florida Education Association. He also has served as an elected vice president of the AFT's executive council.


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We now have a precedent §
for a system that requires no theory, a deterministic system that is fully understood not as a matter of theory but as a matter of law (because the laws are ours) that nonetheless appears to many to be nondeterministic.
Computers are fully deterministic state machines—simple, parametric, sequential; the same holds true for the Internet. It is not mere theory that given a mapping of all inputs and the previous state of the entire system, the next state of the entire system could be calculated and mapped.
The input, of course, comes from another, unrelated system, the human(s), and because these operate asynchronously with respect to the state machine in question and operate according to a different algorithmic universe, the input from human(s) is what gives the computers and networks the appearance of nondeterminism.
It is not a stretch to imagine that a human is analogous to this with respect to his or her gestalt ecosystem. A human is infinitely more complex than a computer or computer network, and the aggregation of assorted semi-autonomous systems that comprise a human's ecosystem (the inputs to the human system, as it were) is infinitely more complex still.
I, unlike some, find it no stretch at all to imagine a universe that, being comprised of infinite levels of fully deterministic systems in horizontal and vertical aggregation in successively increasing complexity and inter-interaction, is fully deterministic while at the same time giving a good approximation of nondeterminsim, even a calculability scale that can be taken as unapproachable as a matter of course (given already existing proofs that to fully calculate a perfect chess game would require more matter, given a "perfect" computer than can use one particle as one bit, than is currently believed to exist in the universe).
After all, we have managed to get our deterministic systems in computers and networks to give us "random" numbers that pass as such to all but the biggest reservoirs of computing power that we can currently harness to transcend their apparent randomness.
Of course, this is not to imply a calculable universe. Why? Because in order to calculate the universe fully, one would have to map and represent its state (i.e. store it) in some fashion—every piece of matter down to the tiniest particle, along with every aspect of its state and position. Given that as a matter of storage, the universe itself represents the ideal (minimal) case for storing its the information that comprises its current state, such a feat would require at the very least more matter and space than are currently in the universe, and they would of course have to be outside the system because if they were inside it then that matter would be a requirement for a full state mapping as well, Catch-22.
But this doesn't mean that the universe is absoutely nondeterministic, only that it's mathematically impossible to calculate it, i.e. that it's functionally or practically nondeterministic.
Getting a Ph.D. is a §
wildly exhausting sort of thing to do, at least if you're solidly middle class. People always tell you so before you start, and you doubt them, and when you start you begin by thinking, "Hey, this isn't so tough, I can manage this…" but eventually it sort of creeps up on you mentally-emotionally that you are constantly taxed.
Back in regular life, I had three basic "critical to my personhood" threads of being:
1. Work for wages to live
2. Consume with those wages (i.e. shop, pay rent and bills, repair car, etc.)
3. Maintain personal relationships through interaction
As a Ph.D. student, the following get added:
4. Produce other, very difficult and time-consuming work for no wages
5. Maintain professional relationships that are voluntary for the other party
6. Learn/accumulate/study knowledge at an insane rate
7. Traverse bureaucratic structures (i.e. paperwork/hoop jumping) continuously
8. Assemble a CV/career path (not automatic in academics from #'s 1, 2, or 5)
If you fail do keep current on any of 4-8, your whole project collapses, probably for good. But if you let 1-3 slide, you can't possibly maintain the energy or emotional resources to do 4-8. Meanwhile, the expenses incurred under 2 go through the roof as you pay for all of the additional resources demanded for 4-8, even as the cash produced by 1 falls through the floor due to limited time (and awakeness).
All of these tasks scream out for full-time dedication to do them well. Of course, because there are 8 of them and you still have to sleep and eat and commute (a lot), you end up being able to give each of them something like 1/16th of what they deserve.
At any point, when you try to prioritize by asking yourself "What should I be working on now?" the answer that comes screaming back at you from the depths of your consciousness is "EVERYTHING, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS BEING NEGLECTED AND EVERYTHING IS WAY BEHIND! PANNNNIC!"
It constantly feels as though either
A) The whole house of cards will come tumbling down, or
B) You will end up homeless and friendless, or
C) Your body will come tumbling down with your snoring head on top of it
Just a little rant, that's all.
It seems like I've said this every season since I got here, but this fall will be the toughest, busiest season of my life so far, by a reasonably frightening margin.
Reflection §
I am living in a swirl of unreflected moments and overwhelming, uninspiring fragments. I have no direction and still less motivation amidst it all. From every quarter of my insides comes the frantic call for a time of deep reflection.
There is no reflection, however, despite life not being devoid of undirected moments. Reflection, after all, breaks an unwritten rule about the maintenance of industry at critical junctures; there is no allowance to be made for transcendental silence, for unexplained pauses at the heart of the maelstrom. What is demanded by all, including one's own conscious psyche, is continuous, vigorous action bordering on madness—to match the madness of one's surrounding context, even if each intensification of industry fosters a coincident intensification in insanity.
The fact that flailing about can be less conducive to swimming than floating does not, for some reason, enter into the moral calculation.
Drowning in the interest of industry's triumph over accidental sloth is, after all, a most moral thing to do.
There is no reflection, however, despite live not being devoid of undirected moments. Reflection, after all, breaks an unwritten rule about the maintenance of industry at critical junctures; there is no allowance to be made for transcendental silence, for unexplained pauses at the heart of the maelstrom. What is demanded by all, including one's own conscious psyche, is continuous, vigorous action bordering on madness—to match the madness embodied by the needs of the moment.
It's damn hard to focus §
or to be pleasant and upbeat at times like this. 🙁
The moment of the invention of the electric clock §
is the moment at which "time" outgrew itself. Originally merely a man-imposed mechanical method for segmenting tasks and sleep/wake/work cycles as a mode of instrumentality, with the electric clock, which requires no winding, no visible mechanism, no maintenance, and no necessarily regularly recallable energy source, "time" became subject to both social convention and coordination and to transcendence of any human routine, taking on a life of its own, becoming something outside society, outside men.
We created time, and now time will outlive us; after the nuclear winter or the great biological holocaust or the inevitable environmental collapse strikes, there will be clocks that will continue to run without us, solar-powered or powered by lost remnants of the power grid of which there will no doubt be a few, caught beneath waterfalls or amidst wind currents forever generating the arrow of measured time, a human time that outlasts us and at such a point exists merely to provide context to the narrative of our demise.
Visitors who succeed us will come to see the world already ordered according to a timescale and timeflow created by mankind, who can be positioned in it even if he is no longer present.
After all, once defined, presence is forever articulated by surrounding absence. With the invention and externalization of regular time, man cements his own immortality but also the endless tragedy of his own inevitable absence within it, time itself being the soul and the marker, the avatar and endoskeleton of presence that continue long after he is gone.


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Movie review: Hidden Figures
After seeing the trailer way back in October 2016, I KNEW I wanted to see the movie Hidden Figures. Unfortunately, it didn't make it to our neck of the woods until January 6, though it showed in LA and NYC so it could be considered for the Academy Awards. On the ML King holiday, the Wife, the Daughter, and I went to the Spectrum Theatre in Albany.
I've seen a lot of movies of late, many of them quite good. But a lot of them were downers, frankly. This adaptation of Margot Lee Shetterly's book is a solid docudrama depicting the US space race with the Russians in the early 1960s that – no spoiler – we were losing. A group of African-American women working for NASA helped save the day, despite not only the racism but the sexism they faced.
The cast was a great ensemble. Taraji P. Henson (Empire) as Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer (The Help, Zootopia) as Dorothy Vaughan, and Janelle Monáe (Moonlight) as Mary Jackson, are all actual NASA staff. At the end of the film, we get to see their real-world accomplishments. Katherine Johnson, for instance, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama in 2015.
Other solid performances included Kevin Costner as the supervisor of the project, Kirsten Dunst as the boss of the colored women who were "computers"; i.e., they computed numbers. Jim Parsons, that sweet guy in Big Bang Theory, played a composite character who was less than supportive of Katherine. Mahershala Ali, who, like Janelle Monáe, was in the movie Moonlight, plays a very different role here, Colonel Jim Johnson, a suitor of Katherine.
There are space scenes that were, if not as intense as those in Apollo 13, nevertheless put the viewers on the edge of their seats, even though WE KNOW that they all made it home safely.
Hidden Figures is a feel-good story with great reviews – and see Ken Levine's take as well – also doing well in the box office. The audience at the showing we saw applauded vigorously. It may not be the BEST film of the year, but it may well be my favorite.
Author RogerPosted on February 3, 2017 June 29, 2021 Categories UncategorizedTags Hidden Figures, movies, review
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Chris E says:
It really is my favorite of the last year; I left the theater feeling awesome. 🙂
There's one unrealistically dramatic scene that irked me slightly, but it turned out to be the favorite scene of the 12-year'old girl I took to see it. I realized that the scene was necessary for some audience members to fully empathize with the characters.
Great film. Not the most artistic, but definitely the feel good movie of the year for me.
Which scene is that, Chris?
I don't want to spoil anything, but when Kathy loses it on Harrison and describes all the inequities she faces, and then Harrison goes and literally smashes them.
It's not realistic and definitely doesn't fit with any engineers or mathematicians I know, but my little didn't understand things like the coffee pot or the fact she was paid much less for the same work.
I don't know if the smashing happened, but the reason for the smashing DID happen, albeit to one of the other women.
I just didn't feel the scene was consistent with Kathy's character. I couldn't see her having a meltdown at work like that.
I'm not sure how else I would have written it. Harrison would have had to be more empathetic, but I like how he was written as a pragmatic (not particularly supportive of civil rights, just looking for the best people to get a difficult job done.)
I also realized I could never possibly do what those women did. It would drive me insane to deal with that constantly. It would drive me insane just to live as a black woman in the segregated south, period.
I think the meltdown was a Popeye moment – it's all I can stands, 'cause I can't stands no more. But I think you would be able to do what they did because you HAD to. You do what's necessary to survive, and in the Jim Crow South, that's what it was. The bathrooms, the water fountains, where you ate, where you slept. That's why travelers had the Green Book. https://www.rogerogreen.com/2012/08/14/e-is-for-esso/
uthaclena says:
"Hidden Figures" is one of the more joyful and hopeful movies I've seen in a long while. It FELT like 1961, and the parallel lines of the Space Race and the personalized presentation of the Civil Rights struggle were inspirational without being presented in an overly-dramatic manner.
Unity of Purpose, Endurance, and Excellence as an unbeatable combination.
But people did go lose it at a pretty good clip in the segregated south. I think that's why alcohol and drug abuse were and are so prevalent: it's just things like depression and hopelessness.
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Believe it or not, National Goof Off Day is a real thing. It's a day that celebrates the procrastinator and your inner child who wants to just kick back, watch Netflix, and chill out. National Goof Off Day is a day to take a vacation, read that book you've been putting on the back burner, or maybe just hit the snooze button and sleep in.
National Goof Off Day was created by William D. Chase, the gentleman who created Chase's Calendar of Events, an annual publication that has been in print since 1957. He created National Goof Off Day with his granddaughter Monica Dufour in 1976, and it has been included in the publication ever since. According to Holiday Insights, she pitched the idea to her grandfather when she was 10.
William Chase, who would have turned 95 on April 2 of 2017, watched his modest publication grow from a 32-page edition with 364 entries to a 752-page behemoth with over 12,500 holidays, birthdays, and sporting events around the world.
Although Goof Off Day isn't a federally recognized holiday, that doesn't mean you still can't have fun with it. While it may not be feasible to call in sick to work just to spend the day goofing off, there are other ways for you to celebrate.
Among the time honored traditions of goofing off at work without getting caught is the "boss button." March Madness is in full swing now, and while there aren't any games being streamed today, you should still know about this magic trick. Every year, CBS streams all of the games, even the ones that occur during working hours. Of course, most companies don't believe that watching hoops is an effective use of company time. In light of that, CBS created the "boss button" that allows you to turn your browser into something that looks more work related.
And don't forget that according to studies have shown that goofing off can actually help your productivity. According to some studies, when you focus on one task for a long period of time, that's equal to flexing one muscle for an extended period. Just like physical muscles, your brain needs an occasional break between tasks. So while you might not be able to watch a hoops game or take the day off, there are some small goof offs that will help you refocus and get back to work.
A short walk around the block can help by getting you fresh air and a change of scenery. This especially helps if you've come to an impasse or roadblock in your job. Taking your conscious mind off of the problem can help your subconscious work on it, leading to that ever useful burst of intuition that will help you solve whatever is troubling you.
Of course, if your job offers it as a perk, a 15-minute nap can really recharge your batteries. Closing your eyes when you're feeling stressed can help you return to the task at hand refreshed and ready to tackle it with a new perspective.
However you choose to celebrate it, National Goof-Off Day only comes around once a year. Enjoy your friends and family and their company and goof off a little, if only to remind yourself why you work so hard the other 364 days of the year.


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emirates literary festival the emirates airline festival
Emirates Literary Festival also popularly referred to as the Airline Festival of Literature is one of the prestigious sets of events ever organized by the Emirates. Its initiative is traced back to the year 2009 and has noticed a successful journey in its ever-growing popularity to date. The world's greatest authors, thinkers, and doers share their time with all the interests of the fans held at its heart. This place where all of the talented gathers together in one single room is a sight to behold and is sure something that should be personally viewed and can be done with the help of Emirates Visa Online where you can have your own Dubai visa booked without high rates.
What is the Airline festival of Literature all about?
Founded by and director?
Awards received…?
Location and details?
How one might encounter it as an influential fest?
What are the reasons for it's till date success?
In the end, why is it so appealing?
As and when we get introduced to literature with different dimensions, this festival has to make a great contribution to the same. It's a fest annually held in march since 2009. It is a platform that enables the exchange of thoughts, stories, ideas via the authors and their vibrant books. Nearly more than 200 authors from different countries participate in this fest.
The patronage of this fest is His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Isobel Abulhoul OBE is the CEO and Trustee of the Emirates Literature Foundation. Ahlam Bolooki is another major contributor who runs this festival with all her interests and passion.
The fest has been honored with respective awards:-
Middle East Event Awards.
Best Festival Award three times, in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Best Family-Friendly Day Out Award
Favorite Festival award, 2016
InterContinental Hotel, Dubai Festival City
The literature festival 2020 was held in partnership with Emirates and the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, the Emirates' authority for culture, arts, and heritage.
The festival firstly has got a big base offering the best it can produce or create out of the opportunities it gets. A non-profit organization that always plays a crucial role in looking for sponsorship has a mere goal of providing a platform where even a nonreader starts reading!
This is not just an influential platform but also involves getting together of all the people, greatest authors, and ideas.
Talking about educational benefits, it includes more than 250 sessions, unique gatherings, speeches, discussions, etc. More than 44,000 visitors invest their time and money at this festival.
It also comes up with fun, a tinge of inspiration, and mind-blowing classes, workshops, etc. Different languages are also given a huge welcoming sight. People of varying ages get an auspicious chance to explore!
With every other detail included, the authors receive a great warmth from the fans all over the world. On the other hand, the fans too are enthusiastic to often meet their hero behind the books they have been reading and worshipping so far at the literature festival.
The very aim of this festival makes it one of its kind. It simply ends up making aiming at giving people the fun and enthusiasm one might get from reading. From the book worms to the ones who hate reading become a part of this fest. Nothing makes it more successful than receiving more and more audience. It's awe-inspiring if we look at the journey they have made so far and the baseline was to interest everyone in reading. The genres might differ, the ideas might contradict, the fans might belong to a group of diverse range but yet it still can bring the audience together, united, just on the belief of the 'love one shows towards reading'. Moreover, it involves overwhelming interaction between the authors and their fans!
If we look to the depths, every person has got a hidden reader in himself which he might have encountered or yet hasn't. This fest hunts the hidden reader out and provides a big stage to get into the world of fantasies, romance, action, thrill, etc. all via one thing and that is the culture of literature it has been enhancing since 2009. It fosters love among the people towards writing and reading. On the academic front, many educational institutions give a brief visit during the fest. Students, elders, older people, and every single book lover gets a mind-blowing moment and exposure. It will be the 13th fest in the year 2021 and more yet to come with the same amount of energy and wealth of authors, readers, and extravagant fandom.
Entertainment, education, and help in research or fetching ideas can be successfully achieved from this fest. Surely Emirates literary festival is one of its kind which cannot be missed out.


As a leader, how do you remain alert to changes or issues (2Peter 3:17-18)? How do you demonstrate personal growth as a leader?
What steps are you taking to make yourself a better leader? What is the point of light others will see in you and ask you why? How challenging is it for you to show you are ready for Christ's return?
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Live the gospel out. It's a constant battle, but I think living my life to show the gospel has helped me to reached people that otherwise might not want to have anything to do with Christians.
I try to live mindfully and be a good role model!
Insightful questions. We have so many leaders seemingly following the wave of society today. Be strong and courageous!
The questions you ask are powerful and exactly what someone seeking to lead should be asking themselves.


You might have noticed that I use a lot of coconut. It's so yummy and really good for you. Make sure you buy "just" coconut, as its common for preservatives to be added (especially in brands stocked in major supermarkets and even "Health" Food stores).
This recipe is so quick and easy you can probably go make it in the next 10 minutes with what you have in the cupboard.
As always at home I have quality control helping me out, so I can confirm both my husband and 19 month old love these.
Coconut Bites - No Cooking Required!
Place all ingredients into bowl. Mix spd 8, 30 seconds.
Either roll into balls or press firmly into a baking tray or dish.
Refrigerate and cut (if you pressed into tray) and you are done!
The mixture might seem a bit "greasy" when mixed but will firm up when refrigerated.
This is up to your imagination – try different nuts, seeds and flavours!


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Obviously, I spend a lot of time thinking about and overanalyzing Kibbe. One of the things that has thrown me for a loop as of late is the fact that Kibbe has gotten rid of the Natural category. Now, getting rid of Classic and Gamine I understand. Very few people will be either a perfect blend of the two or a perfect contrast of the two. Nearly everyone will fall a tiny bit on the side of one or the other. But Natural is different. Natural is only one element, blunt yang, which you can also sometimes find in Dramatic Classic and Flamboyant Gamine.
The other pure types, Dramatic and Romantic, can still be found in Kibbe. Yes, Dramatics are rare, but he didn't get rid of them completely. So why did he get rid of the pure version of the other element in the system?
I don't have much to say about this. I'm just confused right now.
So is OG Natural Ingrid Berman.


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Home Local News News Tito Sotto Trending
LOOK : Senate President Sotto wants to lower age of criminal liability to 13
0 Local News, News, Tito Sotto, Trending 1:19:00 PM
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III wants the age of criminality lowered from 15 to 13, citing the supposed rise in crimes committed by minors.
Sotto filed Monday (September 24) Senate Bill No. 2026 which seeks to amend Sections 6, 20, 20-A, 20-B and 22 of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006 or Republic Act 9344.
"The aforesaid law must be further amended to lower the minimum age of criminal liability in order to adapt to the changing times," Sotto said in explaining his bill.
"The State must ensure that those children in conflict with the law who are currently exempt from criminal liability who take advantage of the same must not be given the same privilege," he added.
Under Sotto's proposal, children aged below 18 but above 12 "shall be held criminally liable" unless it is proven that they acted without discernment.
Meanwhile, children aged 12 below in conflict with the law would be released to their parents, guardians or next-of-kin and undergo a community-based intervention program.
However, if it is found that children aged from nine to 12 are living in abusive households, they would be committed to a youth care facility or "Bahay Pag-asa."
They would also be sent to a Bahay Pag-asa if they commit parricide, murder, infanticide, kidnapping and serious illegal detention where the victim is killed or raped, carnapping with homicide or rape, and violations to the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act punishable by more than 12 years imprisonment.
"This bill will finally give clarity to the true intention of the law. The amendment to the law will institutionalize the criminal liability of teenagers who committed serious criminal offense," Sotto said in a statement.
"Not only was the law abused by criminals but the innocence of these youngsters were deliberately taken from them," he added.
The bill comes after photos and videos showing children in fist fights, attempting to drag an old man out of a jeepney, and taking a jeepney driver's earnings went viral.
President Rodrigo Duterte has pushed for the lowering of the age of criminal liability, but the House has junked his bid, with its justice committee passing a similar bil strengthening RA 9344, but retaining the age of criminal liability at 15.
SOURCE : Politiko


Team Meat fans will have to wait a bit longer as Super Meat Boy Forever has been delayed for a brief amount of time. The developer sent out a letter on Twitter announcing the delay.
The game will be releasing "after but not too far after April 2019," according to the studio. The release date will be given during the game's next trailer. Super Meat Boy Forever was initially scheduled for this month.
While this is just speculation, seeing Evil Asshat with capitalized letters seems to hint at Team Meat's feelings towards the problems developers reportedly have faced with EA recently, not to mention the overall issue of crunch within the video game industry.
The developer recently showed off a demo of the game at PAX East 2019 last week and mentioned the delay to the event goers. They decided to spread that news further online today.
Super Meat Boy Forever is a sequel to the 2010 indie classic. Dr Fetus is back, but this time, he has kidnapped Meat Boy and Bandage Girl's baby, Nugget. To save her, the couple must go through challenging (but dynamically changing to adjust the difficulty) levels and punch and kick their way through enemies.
Super Meat Boy Forever will be releasing on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Epic Games Store first).


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GCHQ Reveals Security Threat To UK Energy Sector
Revelations of a major hacking campaign against the British energy sector have highlighted the importance of building a secure network to protect the nation's critical infrastructure.
A recent report from GCHQ detailed how energy firms had faced an unprecedented malware attack on their websites which redirected users to a site controlled by the attackers.
A technique known as a 'watering hole' attack was used to distribute malware into businesses working in the UK energy sector. The attackers added scripts to legitimate websites frequented by energy sector staff, which led visitors' browsers to be surreptitiously redirected to download malware from an attacker-owned server.
According to the intelligence and security organisation, the malware targeted known and patchable vulnerabilities in Java, older internet browsers, and all but the most recent versions of Microsoft Windows. The attack was able to harvest visitors' credentials and computer system information, and then send this information back to the hackers.
Fortunately, security monitoring of network activity detected command and control messages from malware on the infected computers and the attack was stopped before it could affect the targeted businesses.
But GCHQ said it believed that the attack was part of a continuing espionage campaign against the UK energy sector.
The growing threat of such cyber attacks was on the agenda when Prime Minister David Cameron met President Barack Obama in the White House last week.
The two countries have agreed to conduct transatlantic cyber war games to test the resilience of key sectors in the face of mounting global cyber-attacks.
The joint exercises and training of our next generation of cyber-experts will help to ensure that we have the capability we need to protect critical sectors like our energy, transport and financial infrastructure from emerging threats, the prime minister said.
Partner, UK
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Consultant, Recruitment, UK
Simon Hobday
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Q: Naming convention for nonmutating 'add' to a collection I have a class called Grammar, which holds a collection of production rules. Before doing things with a Grammar object, I usually need to add a few extra rules to it, which should be forgotten after the current task is done. So, I'd like to add a method that returns a new Grammar object, containing all the current object's rules as well as the new ones.
I could call this method .add, like this:
class Grammar:

    def add(self, *rules):
        '''Returns new Grammar object, with 'rules' added.'''
        . . .

but .add conventionally seems to mean a method that modifies a collection by adding new elements to it.
Is there a naming convention in Python for a method that returns a new collection, with new elements "added", without giving the reader the expectation that it modifies the object?

Operator overloading?
I know that the .__add__ method is invoked by the + operator, and there the convention is indeed that the object is not modified—like this:
working_grammar = grammar + [rule1, rule2, rule3]

I am thinking to avoid overloading an operator, in favor of a meaningful method name. However, if the overloaded operator produces conventional, expected, readable code, I'd like to know more about that—perhaps a well-known precedent in a library, or advice in a well-known style guide.

A: I usually name functions with the output. Also, use verb+object. Some suggestions:

*

*add_rule (or addRule())

*added

*added_rule

*insert

For 'returns a new collection, with new elements "added"'. What is the usual collection? List, tuple, set?

*

*add_to_rule_list

*add_to_rule_set

You may also follow the PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

A: concat comes not only from Python but also C and C++; it means "add the item and then return a reference to the collection", like string concatenation, or array concatenation.
class Grammar:

    def concat(self, rules):
        '''Returns new Grammar object, with 'rules' added.'''

working_grammer = grammar.concat([rule1, rule2, rule3])

pandas.concat
You could even extend your concat method for arrays of rules and other Grammar objects
class Grammar:
    def concat(self, *grammarlike):

grammarC = grammarA.concat(grammarB, [ruleD, ruleE])

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Has the user cleaned up their account since the email was inserted into the admin account?
I'll have to add this as a todo - add a header to the email saying why the email was inserted into the admin's account.
The user has this in there account.
The email was only 1.71 KB in size. And the Max number of emails is set for 1000, this account only has 345 emails. Not sure why it was added, this is not the only user as well. Was having this problem with Gmail 2.1.0 and I thought that upgrading to 2.2.2 would have fixed this problem.


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Tag Archives: Rensselaer Central
Hartman has West Lafayette Red Devils' best interests at heart
Justin Hartman is bringing a mix of old school and new school as the first-year head baseball coach at West Lafayette (Ind.) Junior/Senior High School.
Hartman comes to the Red Devils after two assistant coach stints totalling seven years at his high school alma mater — McCutcheon.
"Today, they talk about being a player's coach," says Hartman. "That's important. You need vested in these kids not only on the field but off the field.
"You can be strict and have discipline and still be there from a personal standpoint. When they see that you have their best interests (at heart), that's how you get the most out of them."
As a Mavericks player and then an assistant, Hartman learned from Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Famer Jake Burton.
"I learned many things, like how to build the program from the bottom up, player personnel, coaching strategy and (fundraising)," says Hartman. "It was a little bit of everything."
Hartman, who holds a Law and Society degree from Purdue University and is a patrolman for the Lafayette Police Department, appreciates the new IHSAA rules that allow periods of limited contact. During these periods, an unlimited number of players can receive instruction two days a week for two hours at a time.
"I like the change," says Hartman. "I need as much time as I can with these kids to get ready for that opener in March."
"A lot is accomplished in those two hours. We're getting a lot of team stuff done now that wouldn't be done before March (under the old rules)."
The Red Devils have been practicing in the Cumberland Elementary School gym. Coaches man up to six stations for drill work. After that, everything is cleared out for the team to go over defensive coverages.
Hartman's varsity staff includes Dan Penale, Dan Walbaum, Brent Talcott, Steve Hartman and Joe Richardson. Former McCutcheon and Lafayette Central Catholic assistant Penale is the pitching coach. Former West Lafayette head coach Walbaum is the hitting coach. Talcott directs the defense. Steve Hartman, Justin's father, helps with base running and player personal. Richardson is the bench coach.
Bryan Dispennett is the head junior varsity coach and Buck Nelson is the JV assistant. Dispennett has coached all around Tippecanoe County, including at Central Catholic and Lafayette Jeff. Nelson is a former McCutcheon assistant.
Senior catcher Owen Walbaum has committed to play at Purdue.
Upon taking the job, Hartman established West Lafayette travel teams for 9U, 11U, 12U and 14U. They will play in five or six tournaments during the summer — some at the Noblesville (Ind.) Field of Dreams.
"To be competitive and improve, you have to be in those travel leagues," says Hartman.
These players plus some from West Lafayette Little League serve as the feeder system for the high school.
The Red Devils play home games at Bob Friend Field, which is located adjacent to Cumberland Elementary and West Lafayette Little League.
Hartman has gotten approval to have padding installed in front of both dugouts. A local turf group is improving the surface. An irrigation system is on the way.
Friend, who played at Purdue and pitched 16 seasons in the big leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees and New York Mets, attended West Lafayette graduate.
West Lafayette (enrollment around 770) is a member of the Hoosier Conference (with Benton Central, Hamilton Heights, Lafayette Central Catholic, Lewis Cass, Northwestern, Rensselaer Central, Tipton, Twin Lakes and Western). Burton is now head coach at Twin Lakes.
Each conference team plays each other twice in a home-and-home series during the same week.
The Red Devils are part of an IHSAA Class 3A sectional grouping with Benton Central, Maconaquah, Northwestern, Peru and Western. West Lafayette has won nine sectional titles — the last in 2011.
Justin and wife Megan have been married for 10 years. The couple has two children — daughter Chesney (9) and son Koen (8).
Justin Hartman, a graduate of McCutcheon High School and Purdue University, is entering his first season as head baseball coach at West Lafayette (Ind.) Junior/Senior High School.
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Vernon brings 'culture change' to Benton Central Bison baseball
December 18, 2018 stvkrh905	5 Comments
Baseball players are buying what Jon Vernon's selling at Benton Central Junior-Senior High School in Oxford, Ind.
"I've been very fortunate to have some good athletes and good players," says Vernon, who is heading into his fourth season as BC head coach in 2019. "They've bought into my system."
The Bison have improved its record in each of Vernon's first three seasons in charge, going 10-17 in 2016, 17-9 in 2017 and 19-6 in 2018.
Benton Central lost 9-2 to Western in the 2017 IHSAA Class 3A West Lafayette Sectional championship game.
BC bowed out of the state tournament series with a 3-2 loss to Maconaquah on a seventh-inning wild pitch in the first round of the 2018 3A Peru Sectional.
"We changed the culture a little bit," says Vernon, whose current seniors have been varsity since freshmen year. That group includes three who have signed for college baseball —
Center fielder Payton Hall (University of Southern Indiana), right-handed pitcher/third baseman Alex Stout (Bethel College) and first baseman/left-hander Matt Taylor (Anderson University).
Right-hander Taylor Varnado, BC's probable No. 1 starting pitcher in 2019 and a third baseman, is expected to sign soon. Junior shortstop Alex Thurston is verbally committed to Valparaiso University.
Vernon says he expects to have about 30 players for varsity and junior varsity teams in the spring. The JV went 11-6 in 2018.
Benton Central (enrollment of about 580) belongs to the Hoosier Athletic Conference (with Benton Central, Lafayette Central Catholic, Twin Lakes and Rensselaer Central in the West Division and Hamilton Heights, Lewis Cass, Northwestern, Tipton and Western in the East Division).
Teams play a home-and-home within their division then a crossover game with the corresponding regular-season placer in the other division.
BC is in an IHSAA Class 3A sectional grouping with Maconaquah, Northwestern, Peru, West Lafayette and Western. Benton Central has won 25 sectionals — the last in 2009.
The Bison roam on-campus at Darrell Snodgrass Field, a facility that recently received new fencing and upgraded dugouts and sound system. The worked on the diamond in the fall, doing things like edging.
A unique feature is the sounds of wind turbines. Benton County is home to wind farms.
With all that breeze, Vernon says it is best to be conservative field conditioner in the like in the autumn.
"You put too much stuff down in the fall, it won't be there in the spring," says Vernon.
Vernon's 2019 assistants include Denny Musser and pitching coach Brad Goffinet with the varsity and Tyler Marsh with the junior varsity. Musser, the uncle of former Benton Central and professional left-hander Neal Musser, was a JV coach at BC on the staff of Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Famer Gary DeHaven.
Neal Musser pitched 18 games for the 2007 and 2008 Kansas City Royals.
The southpaw was selected in the second round of the 1999 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the New York Mets.
Goffinet pitched at Indianapolis Marshall High School and Butler University in the 1970's. Marsh is a former North Newton High School assistant.
Right-hander Jayson Best graduated from Benton Central in 1985 and played at Milligan College in Elizabethtown, Tenn., before signing with the Minnesota Twins in 1989. He reached the Double-A level in 1992 and 1993 and hurled for the independent Lafayette (Ind.) Leopards in 1996 and 1997. He was pitching at Goshen College 2000-04 (one season for Todd Bacon and four for Brent Hoober) and Maple Leafs head coach in 2005.
Benton Central baseball is largely fed by travel baseball organizations, including the Lafayette Lightning and Indiana Nitro. In the past, teams have played Pony League and Babe Ruth.
Vernon is a 1989 graduate of Logansport (Ind.) High School. He played for IHSBCA Hall of Famer Jim Turner Sr.
Turner's Berries lost 6-2 to Evansville Memorial in the 1989 IHSAA state championship game. Vernon was his left fielder and lead-off hitter. It was the first of Logan's three straight Final Four appearances. The Berries 7-3 in the state semifinals to eventual champion LaPorte in 1990 and beat Marion for the state title in 1991.
What was it like to play for Turner Sr.?
"It was a great experience," says Vernon. "He knows more about baseball is his little pinky than I do in my whole body."
Turner Sr., who was assisted for many years by Larry "Butch" Jones and Rich Wild, established a winning culture and a program.
"You didn't want to let coach down," says Vernon. "He trusted his players. A lot of people revere him."
As a coach, Vernon learned from Turner Sr. that "you always have to play the best players" and it doesn't matter what they're family name is what grade they're in.
"Sometimes that makes people happy and sometimes it doesn't," says Vernon. "If you want to win, that's what you have to do. Sometimes you have to make those tough decisions."
After a season of club baseball at the University of Kentucky, Vernon went on to get a bachelor's degree from Huntington University and master's degree from Ball State University. He was head baseball coach at Delphi (Ind.) High School from 1994-2000 and assisted Jim Turner Jr. at Logansport for one season in the mid-2000's and ran Turner's summer programs.
He picked up pointers on organization and running practice from Turner Jr. Vernon was also head volleyball coach for the Berries.
After a brief stint in Florida, he came back to Indiana. He teaches business and computer classes at Benton Central has been BC's head volleyball coach for three seasons.
Jon and Diann Vernon have been married for 25 years. They have four children — Matthew, Luke, Kailey and Karlee. Matthew works in finance for Amazon and lives in South Carolina. Luke is a dental student at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis. Kailey is in physician assistant school at Butler University. Karlee is 20 and works in Zionsville, Ind.
Alex Thurston (right) bats for Benton Central High School. He is a junior in 2019 and a verbal commit to Valparaiso (Ind.) University.
Matt Taylor (left) catches a ball at first base for Benton Central High School. He has moved on to the baseball team at Anderson University.
Benton Central players Payton Hall, Taylor Varnado, Alex Thurston, Matt Taylor and Alex Stout represent Hoosier North in the 2017 Colt Harry Bradway Classic in Lafayette, Ind.
The Vernon family in Key West, Fla., with spouses and children (from left): Matthew, Emily, Mary Katherine, Mason, Kailey, Karlee, Diann, Aubriel, Jon and Luke.
Another Benton Central High School baseball signs to play in college (from left): First row — Father David Stout, Benton Central Alex Stout and mother Stephanie Stout. Back row — Bethel College assistant Kiel Boynton, Bethel College head coach Seth Zartman and Benton Central head coach Jon Vernon. (Benton Central Photo)
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Instruction, Training
Schlueter imparting knowledge with Baseball Directive
September 24, 2018 stvkrh905	1 Comment
Sharing his knowledge, Ed Schlueter is looking to raise the quality of baseball played in his corner of the world.
That corner is located in Jasper County in northwest Indiana — about 20 miles south of Valparaiso and 75 miles southeast of Chicago.
Operating out of a rented 40-by-50 space in a pole barn near Wheatfield with one batting cage and enough room to throw the ball 60 feet, 6 inches, the former college player is passing along his knowledge.
Schlueter, a 2011 graduate of Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Ind., was a teacher and head baseball coach at Rensselaer Central High School for three seasons (2012-14) then decided to become a commercial and residential painter.
Missing the game he loves, Schlueter started Baseball Directive and began providing private lessons. In the last calendar year, he has worked with about 50 individuals on hitting, pitching and catching.
"I want to spread more baseball to the people around me," says Schlueter, who was a right-hander pitcher at Saint Joe and before that at Harlem High School near Rockford, Ill., before that. "I want to give direction."
Schlueter's lessons are directed to parents and players to "get them headed in the right direction."
Besides the mechanics of baseball, Schlueter also imparts wisdom about the mental side of the game.
"It's doing things the right way and being accountable," says Schlueter. "They have to do more on their own. I give them homework (something to work on before the next lesson) and they spend 5 or 10 minutes a day on it.
"They have to buy into and trust what they're doing in order to put the work in. A lot of them don't realize the amount of training that goes into getting to the next level. It's a mix of talent and hard work. It can't all just be natural talent."
It's important with the younger players to get that work ethic started early.
"By the time they get to middle school or high school, it is instilled," says Schlueter, who helps players in the Clinton Prairie, Rensselaer Central, Kankakee Valley, Lowell, North Newton school districts and more. A couple of his travel ball clients are the Outcast Thunder (Lowell) and North Central Cyclones (Francesville).
As a one-man operation, Schlueter can focus on each of his pupils.
"I like the whole one-on-one personal connection I can have with players and their parents," says Schlueter. "They feel like they're getting 100 percent of the attention all of the time.
"We're not be rushed to get through everything. I'm providing that customer service."
He also gets a chance to have quality time with his son. Ed and Meagan Schlueter's boy — Lucas — is a 5-year-old ballplayer.
For Schlueter, it's the people that make it worth being in baseball.
At Rensselaer Central, he inherited a good team that won 16 games before bowing to Andrean in the first round of the IHSAA Class 3A Kankakee Valley Sectional in 2012 then struggled the next two seasons.
"The best part of it was developing relationships with my players," says Schlueter. "It was more about that bond."
He still shares meals with his former Bombers and regularly communicates with them through phone calls and texts.
Schlueter was part of a tight-knit group at Saint Joe fostered by head coach Rick O'Dette.
"It was a family atmosphere," says Schlueter. "I'm starting to see other programs envelope that.
"Kids are investing their time and money into college baseball. Ending up with a lifelong family is a huge pay-off."
Schlueter speaks highly of O'Dette and still maintains contact with the man who has moved on to Saint Leo University in Florida after Saint Joe closed its doors at the end of the 2016-17 school year.
"He's a great guy and a motivator," says Schlueter of Coach O. "He pushes you to get the best out of you all the time. He was good at helping guys understand what the game is about. He was always at explaining this is why we do this and why we do that."
While Schlueter was at SJC, he also encountered assistants Matt Kennedy (now a Saint Leo assistant), Josh Rabe (now head coach at Quincy University) and Jeremy Sheetinger (now American Baseball Coaches Association coaches liaison).
Schlueter's head coach in high school was Doug Livingston, who has since retired with the most wins in Harlem program history.
Livingston got his players to take ownership and work hard.
With a core of players who grew up on diamonds together, Harlem won back-to-back Illinois High School Association regional titles (equivalent to the sectional in Indiana) in Schlueter's junior and senior seasons (2005 and 2006).
In 2005, the Huskies became only the second team to go unbeaten in the Northern Illinois Conference (then known as the NIC-9). Schlueter went 7-0 with an 0.91 earned run average in 2005 and 10-2 with one save and a 1.20 ERA in 2006.
"We learned to play as a team," says Schlueter. "It was not all about one individual. We had depth and learned to rely on one another."
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Ed Schlueter (right) operates Baseball Directive out of a rented space near Wheatfield in northwest Indiana.
Ed Schlueter, a graduate of Saint Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Ind., and the former Rensselaer Central High School head baseball coach, is the founder of Baseball Directive. Baseball near Wheatfield, Ind., he provides instruction and information to area players and their parents.
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Ward, Northwestern Tigers baseball enjoying 'firsts'
Kokomo, Ind., touts itself as the "City of Firsts" with claims to America's first commercially-produced automobile and more.
Northwestern High School is enjoying some its own "firsts."
For the first time, the Tigers have artificial turf on three of their athletic fields — baseball, football and softball.
As Phase 1 of a improvement campaign, a committee of administrators, teachers, parents and community members used grant money to make the upgrades. While not yet determined, a second phase could bring lighted fields and academic improvements.
Fourth-year head baseball coach Ryan Ward got a chance to send his baseball players on the carpet for the first time during fall workouts.
"If it's warm enough, we can take some kids out there in January and February," says Ward. "We have the best practice field in the state, especially a school our size (enrollment around 550)."
As the Tigers play their first season on the new-look field in 2018, Ward will continue to assert some other firsts — something he has done since taking over as head coach in 2015 after serving on Kyle Beachy's staff for the IHSAA Class 3A Twin Lakes Sectional-winning 2014 season.
"We want to play an aggressive style of baseball," says Ward. "For pitchers, we emphasize first-pitch strikes. As hitters, we look for to drive early in the counts. As baserunners, we will be aggressive. If we make mistakes, they are aggressive mistakes. That's the brand of ball we're trying to play.
Ward knows it's not always easy teenagers to make the right catch, throw and tag in the heat of the moment, so he is going to have his players force the issue.
"We've got to keep empowering the kids on our team," says Ward. "The more we can force our opponents to do, the better chance they are going to make mistakes and give ourselves a better chance to win."
Ward graduated from Hickory High School in Hermitage, Pa. (about 75 miles northwest of Pittsburgh), in 2009.
Gary Hinkson was Ward's high school coach. He saw the potential for Ward to go into the profession.
"He gave me that encouragement and motivation," says Ward of Hinkson, who would win 301 games at Hickory from 1994-2015. "He treated us (players) like we were major leaguers. We carried on the expectations that he set for us."
In Ward's sophomore season (2007), the Hickory Hornets won their first Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association District 10 title in 10 years, repeated the feat the next spring and lost in the district championship game in 2009.
At Northwestern, Ward prepares his Tigers for competition in the Hoosier Conference and athletic director and former Northwestern baseball coach Dan Armstrong schedules many other teams in the Kokomo and Lafayette areas.
The HC is split into two divisions — Northwestern, Cass, Hamilton Heights, Tipton and Western in the East and Benton Central, Lafayette Central Catholic, Rensselaer Central, Twin Lakes and West Lafayette in the West.
Teams play all the schools in their division in home-and-home series on Wednesdays and Thursdays with crossover games at the end. The top teams in each division square off the title with East Division No. 2 facing West Division No. 2 and so on.
Ward, who counts Jeff Trueblood and Dan Butcher as assistant coaches for 2018, gears his pitching staff toward conference games.
"We have our Wednesday starter and Thursday starter," says Ward. "It helps pitchers get into a routine and guys are working to be a conference starters."
In 2017, the IHSAA implemented pitch count rules (1 to 35 pitches requires 0 days rest; 36 to 60 requires 1 day; 61 to 80 requires 2 days; 81 to 100 requires 3 days; and 101 to 120 requires 4 days).
"I love the intent of the rules," says Ward. "It's putting the focus on the health of the athlete. I'd like to see better communication on how we execute the rule between coaches, umpires and the IHSAA.
"Wow do we keep improving it?"
Northwestern doesn't have to look far to see the future of its program since the Northwestern Youth Baseball League (T-ball through major baseball) is housed on school grounds and seventh and eighth grade teams play 15 to 20 games in the spring on the varsity field. Truebood, a Northwestern graduate who played college baseball, is NYBL president. Joel Downey and Bruce Smith are middle school coaches.
"From the time they're 6, they think about wearing purple one day," says Ward. "They are coming back as alumni. We're putting the focus on the Northwestern school district and those relationships."
Many high school-age Tigers play in the summer for travel teams or Kokomo American Legion Post 6.
Ward went to Butler University with the idea of playing baseball, but was cut in his freshman year. He still respects then-Bulldogs head coach Steve Farley as a mentor.
"He was honest with me," says Ward, who earned a degree from Butler in 2013 and began teaching fifth grade at Northwestern Elementary that fall. Ryan and wife Katelyn, a 2008 Kokomo High School graduate and third grade teacher in Kokomo schools at Lafayette Park International Elementary, were wed in September 2016 and live in the Northwestern district.
Ryan Ward and wife, Katelyn, are both elementary school teachers — Ryan in the Northwestern district, Katelyn in Kokomo. Ward is entering his fourth season as Northwestern High School head baseball coach in 2018.
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McIntyre gives back to the game as North Central coach, IHSBCA leader
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North Central High School of Indianapolis competes in a conference and sectional loaded with baseball talent.
The Panthers — with Phil McIntyre as head coach — take on opponents in the mighty Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference (Ben Davis, Carmel, Center Grove, Lawrence Central, Lawrence North, Pike and Warren Central). North Central is grouped in an IHSAA Class 4A sectional with Carmel, Fishers, Hamilton Southeastern, Noblesville and Westfield.
"Our kids play at a very high level," says McIntyre, who enters his 13th season on East 86th Street in 2017-18. "I think we play in the toughest sectional."
The MIC plays 14 home-and-home conference games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
The Panthers are also in the 16-team Marion County Tournament, which takes four wins to earn the championship — something NC did in 2016. Victory Field in downtown Indianapolis — site of the IHSAA State Finals — plays host to the championship games for the county and city tournaments. Being inside or outside the I-465 corridor determines the tournament for Indianapolis area teams.
"It's almost tougher than winning a sectional," says McIntyre of the county tournament. "(The tough schedule) that just gets our kids motivated. All our kids have the goal to play college baseball."
And that's not all.
North Central is renowned for its high academic standards and was one of the state's first to offer an International Baccalaureate program. School policy dictates that all athletes must carry at least a 2.0 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale to be eligible.
NC baseball regularly posts a of 3.4 or better and has many academic all-state honorees.
"There's a lot of opportunities," says McIntyre, who teaches health and physical education in addition to his coaching duties. "We have more (Advanced Placement) courses than (many schools). It makes (our athletes) well-rounded."
"Coach Mac" has built his program on the principles of respect for the game, selflessness and mental toughness.
"Our kids work very hard in what they do," says McIntyre. "It's a lot of fun to see their growth."
The Panthers emphasize things like the hit-and-run, sacrifice and quality at-bats.
"They do that without having to be told," says McIntyre. "It's been a growing process when it comes to that."
McIntyre is also proud to see alums come back to support current players.
"That shows something about our program," says McIntyre.
North Central had a proud baseball moment this summer when outfielder Roy Thurman III was selected as MVP of the 2017 Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association North/South All-Star Series in Muncie. The 2018 series will be played in South Bend at Four Winds Field.
McIntyre, who served as South head coach for the 2013 series, was there in his role as assistant to IHSBCA director Brian Abbott.
In his role, former association president McIntyre heads up the Junior Showcase at the all-star series and helps form and facilitate committees. Among those are North/South All-Star Series, State Clinic, Academic All-State, Media Relations, Top 10 Polls, Districts (there are 16 of them) and Umpire of the Year.
McIntyre enjoyed his experience with the American Baseball Coaches Association (which will hold its 2018 national convention Jan. 4-7 in Indianapolis) when he was an assistant to Bret Shambaugh at Marian College (now Marian University) and Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI).
When McIntyre entered the high school ranks as an assistant to Steve Strayer at Boone Grove, he became acquainted with Bill Jones, the executive director and one of the IHSBCA founding fathers. He became hooked on the fellowship and the cooperation in the association.
"I just love being around coaches and learning," says McIntyre. "It just means something to me — learning from those coaches and giving back."
McIntyre gained passion for baseball while playing for head coach Charles Tait at Rensselaer Central High School. Phil graduated in 1990 and became the first in his family to go to college. He played for Shambaugh at Marian and got his degree in 1994.
"I learned so much about what I did not know (from Shambaugh)," says McIntyre. "(He is) why I wanted to be a coach."
Shambaugh taught lessons about fundamentals and discipline which McIntyre still uses.
After a year at Boone Grove, McIntyre spent nine seasons as a varsity assistant for Wayne Johnson and then Pat O'Neil at Brownsburg. He was there when the community send teams to the Little League World Series in 1999 and 2001 and when the BHS Bulldogs had future major leaguers Lance Lynn, Drew Storen and Tucker Barnhart.
Brownsburg went to three straight IHSAA state championship games — finishing as runners-up in both 2003 and 2004 and going 35-0 as champs in 2005.
McIntyre took over a North Central program that had been struggling and won a sectional crown the first season (2006).
Getting the Panthers ready for 2018 will be McIntyre and his coaching staff of Scott King, Gabe Hoffman, Chad Cunningham, Nick Birch, Seth Hoffman, Tim Short and Katie Cluver. With Philip Webb leaving the staff to become head coach at Western Boone, McIntyre is sorting out roles. He has named Cluver as NC's head freshmen coach.
"It's a great opportunity for her," says McIntyre of Cluver, the daughter of a coach who went to high school and college in Illinois. "The association has been very supportive."
One season into the new IHSAA pitch count rule (1 to 35 pitches requires 0 days rest; 36 to 60 requires 1 day; 61 to 80 requires 2 days; 81 to 100 requires 3 days; and 101 to 120 requires 4 days), McIntyre has a few observations.
"It was a learning experience this year when it came to our pitch count rule," says McIntyre. "Some teams had to take players out of (tournament games) because they reached their pitch limit. But that's part of the game."
McIntyre, who would like to see the IHSAA lengthen the season and add games (right now teams play 26 plus a tournament) and have championship series rather than a single-game title contest, says arm care is the most important thing and the rule forces teams to develop pitching depth.
"I kind of like that myself," says McIntyre. "It really effects JV and C-team during the regular season. They have (a lower pitch limit and) more games in a shorter amount of times and need more pitchers. Do you have enough arms at the smaller schools? It becomes a numbers game."
The number in the McIntyre household is four. Phil and wife Marlene have two children — Grace (17) and Ty (14).
Phil McIntyre is the head baseball coach at North Central High School in Indianapolis and assistant to the executive director for the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association.
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Berryman getting Western ready for 'next' baseball move
They've got a good thing going at Western High School.
The Panthers have enjoyed plenty of baseball success, taking 18 sectionals, seven regionals, two semistates, one Class 3A state championship (2012) and one 3A state runner-up finish (2016).
Ty Calloway, an Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association and Howard County Sports hall of famer, led the program for 36 seasons and Quentin Brown (now with Indiana Primetime Sports) for the past three.
Ryan Berryman is now the man in charge. As a 1994 Western graduate, former WHS athletic director and head coach at county rival Northwestern, he is very aware of the winning tradition in Russiaville.
"We're a baseball community," says Berryman. "The expectations are high."
Berryman, who returned to the classroom after serving as AD from 2011-13, has continued to coach baseball in the summer with the Indiana Bulls travel organization (he will lead a 16U squad this summer).
In 11 seasons at Northwestern, Berryman's teams won 226 games, four sectionals and took the Tigers to a 2005 Class 2A State Finals. Future big leaguer Brandon Beachy was part of that team.
At Western, Berryman is greeted by 15 returnees from the 2016 state runners-up.
"We've got a much deeper pitching staff," says Berryman, a big believer in mound depth with two-thirds of the players in his program being able to pitch. "It'll be disappointing for all these guys if they don't make a run."
Not that Berryman wants the Panthers to get ahead of themselves.
"We don't get caught up in anything too small," says Berryman. "We don't get caught up in anything too big. We just focus in on play by play, pitch by pitch.
"We want to keep it as simple as possible. There's nothing magical to the success I've had as a coach."
Berryman, whose coaching staff features Cody Shipley, Colton Summers, Devon Eaker and Dwight Singer at the varsity level as well as Luke Waitt and Michael Rocchio with the junior varsity, wants his players to have that "next" mentality — Next at-bat. Next pitch. Next inning.
His daily request is to be on-time and work hard.
"I only have two hours a day with these guys," says Berryman. "After that, it's on them.
"It's a tough game. Find a way to work through your mistakes and get better and don't dwell on the negative things."
After playing for Calloway at Western, Berryman took the field for Indiana Wesleyan University and Northern Kentucky University as did twin brother Scott. Ryan pitched for the Lafayette Leopards of the independent professional Heartland League in 1998.
Berryman, who was head coach for the IHSBCA North-South All-Star Series in 2011 and is a past association president, would like to see an increase in the time coaches can work with athletes out-of-season — a change that would help not only baseball but other high school sports.
"I realize that these kids are student-athletes and academics come first and there are coaches that want to be with the kids too much," says Berryman. "But, at the same time, we shouldn't take opportunities away for kids to fully develop.
"Now, they can't work with their baseball coach until a certain date has passed. It's about kids and opportunities."
Western competes in the 10-team Hoosier Conference. Teams play Tuesday-Wednesday home-and-home series within their divisions with seeded crossover games at the end of the season. Western, Cass, Hamilton Heights , Northwestern and Tipton are in the East. Benton Central, Lafayette Central Catholic, Rensselaer Central, Twin Lakes and West Lafayette are in the West.
Feeder systems for Western baseball are Russiaville Youth Baseball League and the Russiaville Rams travel team.
High school players participating with several travel teams in the summer, including the Indiana Bulls, Indiana Mustangs, Indiana Nitro, Indiana Pony Express and Indiana Prospects.
Ryan Berryman, a 1994 Western High School graduate, is in his first season as the Panthers head baseball coach. He coached Northwestern to the 2005 IHSAA Class 2A State Finals and is a summer coach with the Indiana Bulls travel organization.
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Rock star Sting has called the X Factor "televised karaoke" and said judges like Simon Cowell have "no recognisable talent apart from self-promotion".
The singer, 58, told London's Evening Standard that the Saturday night show was "a soap opera which has nothing to do with music".
He added: "I am sorry but none of those kids are going to go anywhere, and I say that sadly."
Sting rose to fame with The Police, but has also had a successful solo career.
With albums like Ten Summoner's Tales and Nothing Like The Sun, he has notched up 11 Grammys, two Brits, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and three Oscar nominations.
The Police, who recently reformed and performed a sell-out world tour, scooped five Grammy awards when they were together.
Sting said the singers who participate in the X Factor, created by Cowell in 2004, were "humiliated when they get sent off".
He added: "How appalling for a young person to feel that rejection. It is a soap opera which has nothing to do with music.
"In fact, it has put music back decades. Television is very cynical."
The singer, whose Fields Of Gold is a staple of talent show auditions, went on to say that X Factor encouraged contestants to "conform to stereotypes".
He added: "They are either Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston or Boyzone and are not encouraged to create any real unique signature or fingerprint.
"That cannot come from TV. The X Factor is a preposterous show and you have judges who have no recognisable talent apart from self-promotion, advising them what to wear and how to look. It is appalling.
"The real shop floor for musical talent is pubs and clubs, that is where the original work is. But they are being closed down on a daily basis. It is impossible to put an act on in a pub.
"The music industry has been hugely important to England, bringing in millions. If anyone thinks the X Factor is going to do that, they are wrong."
A spokesperson for the X Factor declined to comment on Sting's interview, saying he was entitled to his opinion.
Sting has just released a new album, called If On A Winter's Night, which is a collection of carols, lullabies and ancient songs.
The star, born Gordon Sumner in Newcastle, took on many different jobs, including a tax collector and teacher, before he found fame at the age of 27.
The musician's opinions are unlikely to sway the 15.4 million people who tuned into Sunday night's edition of the X Factor.
They witnessed Welsh teenager Lucie Jones lose out to Irish twins John and Edward via the public vote, after Cowell refused to make the call on which act to keep in the contest.


My office is across the street, and across a couple of runways, from Porsche North America HQ. Their Cafe 356 is very good, if a bit expensive, but it is a good place to watch cars and planes and grab lunch from time to time. They always have some cool hardware sitting around. I was excited to see the Rothaman's 956, but I was really excited to see the Safari Rally car.


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Q: Azure Function store requests and trigger the funtion again later I have an Azure Function that will take a POST request , do some processing and then sends a POST to another Endpoint with the content of the input request.
I have the requirement, that I somehow have to store all the incoming requests and after a fixed time period the Azure Function needs to send the same POST request again.
What I could do is, set up a cloud storage where I store all the incoming requests and have a second Azure Function with a timer trigger that reads from the storage and sends the request again. My problem with this is, that I have to set up an additional storage and I am looking for a more cost efficient method.
Does anyone know an alternative way to "store" incoming requests and have the same Azure Funtion pick them up again later?

A: Sounds like what you're looking for is durable functions which can handle exactly this kind of scenario and it'll do all the complicated parts of storing state/context during delays. They are backed by Azure storage but as has been said this is one of the cheapest services available on Azure.
For what you've described you might want to do a combination of function chaining:

Combined with a timer in between the processing you do in chained functions:
//do some initial processing (possibly in an Activity function)
//...

DateTime waitTime = context.CurrentUtcDateTime.Add(TimeSpan.FromDays(1));
await context.CreateTimer(waitTime, CancellationToken.None);

//call the next activity function (parameters can also be passed in)
await context.CallActivityAsync("DoNextSetOfThings");

High level what you'd have is something along the lines of:

*

*An HTTP endpoint which you POST to initially

*An Orchestrator function which handles the chaining and delays

*One or more Activity functions that do the work and can accept parameters and return results to the Orchestrator


Education. It's a topic that has always stimulated vigorous debate and yielded staunch opinions from both professional academics and the public at large.
With talk about expanding access to education, improving our educational system and outcomes and, most recently, President Obama's proposal to offer free community college to students nationwide, it's an issue that continues to feature prominently in our nation's dialogue, and for a good reason.
Politics aside, the importance of education cannot be overstated. It is what lays the foundation for our development, gives us knowledge of the world around us and broadens our perspectives. It helps us form opinions, develop ideas and mature as both a people and a society.
But, while it's easy to reach a consensus on the importance of education, it is the seemingly ever-changing proposed curriculums, programs and standards -- such as the No Child Left Behind Act and the more recent Common Core -- that tend to elicit fiery debate and controversy.
A recent article in the New York Times' "Op-Talk" blog is a pertinent example. Entitled "Smarts vs. Personality in School," it discusses the recent push in "character-based education" and the role that "self-control, curiosity and grit" play in helping children do well in school.
According to a 2014 paper by the Australian psychology professor Arthur E. Poropat, research has shown that "conscientiousness" and "openness" (i.e. creativity and curiosity) are more important to student success than intelligence. A bold assertion, but worthy of consideration.
In fact, it is not so much whether one is more important than the other, as it is that both are given their due respect. Accordingly, it is difficult to argue against the benefits of teaching character -- and the qualities of self-control, curiosity and grit - to children who are in the process of developing and forming their identity.
"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
So, does it have to be smarts vs. personality? Character vs. intelligence? Can it not be both? Can not both smarts and personality, character and intelligence be combined in such a way that students will not only acquire knowledge and understanding, but develop the key attributes of honesty, integrity and grit that are necessary for a healthy and functioning society?
"We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education."
That certainly sounds intelligent to me.
This post originally appeared on All Things Good, which you can access here. Follow All Things Good on Twitter and Facebook.


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Religia.tv was a religious television channel owned by ITI Group. It was launched on October 15, 2007, at 12:00. In December 2014, it was announced that the broadcasting of Religia.tv would be ended on January 31, 2015.

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The radar AC20 allows a very accurate follow-up of objects in any weather condition, on short or long distances.
It is able to simultaneously identify several different targets, and to classify them according to their height and shape.
The light and compact design of the AC20 makes it ideal for built-in applications. Especially when it is integrated on a vehicle.


Sub-Zero temperatures and high winds so the Chilling effects of wind needs close monitoring.
The chilling effect of the wind, a combination of wind speed and temperature, can be represented by the lower temperature that would be required to produce the same chilling sensation for a person walking in calm conditions. Wind Chill indicates to the user how their environment really feels and is an important indicator in assessing the comfort of personnel spending periods outdoors.
The Kestrel 2000 is a small, electronic rotating vane type anemometer (wind meter) with a built-in temperature sensor. In order to quickly determine a steady temperature reading, the precision thermistor temperature sensor is mounted externally.
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