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"Head Down, Mind Open:" The cinema of Raja Gosnell
Raja Gosnell discusses the beginning of his career, three of his films, filmmaking, and the backlash to his latest project, Show Dogs.
If Tumblr cinephiles can use the platform to create concepts such as "vulgar auteurism" and Michael Bay and Paul W.S. Anderson can have apologist pieces, I don't see why I can't devote a little of the web's real estate to Raja Gosnell. You'll at least know one of his movies: Scooby-Doo, its sequel, The Smurfs, its sequel, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Big Momma's House, the third Home Alone film, or maybe Show Dogs, his latest, which stirred up a lot of controversy. Gosnell has been directing since 1997, but his editing credits go all the way back to Adventures in Babysitting and Pretty Woman, further emphasizing his range as a filmmaker. Even for purists' tastes, this is an enviable slate of feel-good entertainment.
My decision to look into Gosnell is an odd one. It came shortly after seeing Show Dogs, a film faithful readers will recall I wasn't necessarily enamored with, but one that boasted a director with whom I was vaguely familiar. Not long after seeing that film, I scoured the internet seeing if I could watch an interview with the man or find a little bit more on the enigmatic soul who was routinely entrusted with eight/nine-figure budgets to adapt some of American culture's most iconic properties into feature-films. The interviews and information I found was merely adequate, which was not surprising. Why would anyone take the time to dig into the complexities or process behind making live-action/CGI hybrids and talking dog movies when there are more Fritz Lang and Ingmar Bergman thinkpieces to be penned?
The Process:
I decided to watch/rewatch most of Raja Gosnell's films before sitting down to write this blog (the only one I still have yet to see is The Smurfs 2). As far as my methodology is concerned, after some thought, I decided to take three of his films and examine their cinematic and structural features. Those films are Yours, Mine & Ours, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and The Smurfs. I felt looking at those three, in particular, would provide obvious contrasts. Yours, Mine & Ours is a live-action family comedy with an incredibly large ensemble cast. Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a talking dog comedy heavily bent on Californian/Mexican culture, and The Smurfs is a hybrid of live-action and CG-animation. Gosnell is a filmmaker who typically works on a large scale, and after some consideration, these three films seemed like the most logical to explore.
But as I was primed to finish writing and release the blog before my self-imposed July 30th deadline, I pondered whether or not I'd be able to get in contact with the man himself. After reaching out to his agent, which led to two subsequent, 45-minute phone-calls with Gosnell, this piece now has more life, insight, heart, and wit than I could've imagined.
The Beginnings:
When speaking one-on-one, Gosnell couldn't be more mellow. He comes to our two-part phoner armed with a wealth of knowledge and on-set experiences. Overtime, you begin to understand how he views film in an almost mathematical sense. He enjoys using the term "puzzle" in order to describe how to effectively manage all the elements on the production and post-production side of things, and doesn't shy away from wanting to go big with his setpieces and hijinks. It's how he broke into the industry after all. Upon working as one of several editors on Amerika, an ABC miniseries from the late eighties, he was noticed by his then-production supervisor who recommended him to director Chris Columbus. He would go on to edit the favorable "Babysitting Blues" scene in Adventures in Babysitting, and then become the primary editor for Columbus' Heartbreak Hotel, Home Alone, its sequel, and several other projects from the popular director.
Gosnell also has a very blue-collar sensibility to filmmaking. He more-than-once during both of our conversations says his typical response to any kind of turmoil during production (studio interference, less-than-positive screenings, logistical issues) is to keep his head down and work through the issue, again loaning to the aforementioned conceit of film as a puzzle. Puzzles of any kind need to be approached with an open mind and a respectful patience, and Gosnell seems to have enough to go around.
Gosnell's story of how he became entranced with filmmaking began at the most fundamental stage: editing. Unlike many directors, who aspire to be a certain auteur or emulate their own personal godfathers of the medium, Gosnell looked to replicate that special feeling he got when he successfully edited his first short film on his father's Super 8 bench. He was only in eighth grade and had recently shot some footage around his school, and without thinking, successfully timed the footage with the Paul McCartney song "Just Another Day" so that as the footage ended, so did the song.
"Certain cuts were hitting," Gosnell warmly recalls, "and I didn't really understand that on a cerebral level because I'd never done it. I think that at its very core is the appeal of the craft. It was like, 'I want to do that again, I want to feel that again. That felt special.'"
It's a feeling that propelled him to have a myriad of editing credits, some of which likely on your favorite feel-good movies.
"That doesn't go away, man, I've been behind the editing machine for [about] 40 years, and when the magic hits it still feels exactly the same as it did the first time," Gosnell says.
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005):
Yours, Mine & Ours is a remake of the 1968 comedy starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball as two older, single people who fall in love and marry, the only drawback to their holy matrimony being that he has 10 kids and she has eight. In Gosnell's remake, it is Rene Russo who has 10 children and Dennis Quaid who has eight. The film, which was handled by four production companies simultaneously, including Nickelodeon and MGM, came hot off the heels of Cheaper by the Dozen, another movie where the punchlines came from having a slew of children causing mischief everywhere they went.
"Working with a large ensemble, a particularly large ensemble with kids, because they have limited work hours, was really complicated in terms of planning," Gosnell is quick to note.
He said the youngest on-set were only available for about three hours in ordinance with child labor laws and union regulations for child actors. "In terms of how you normally approach a movie," he adds, "It was complicated because we just didn't have everybody all there when we needed them. When it's all there and happening, it's a lot of fun."
A key part of our conversation is noting how films can change drastically during their production. Gosnell notes that Yours, Mine & Ours was originally conceived as a romantic comedy, one that would be more fixated on the relationship between Quaid and Russo with the friction amongst the children serving as more of a setback to why them getting married seemed unlikely. Due to the input of multiple studios and rewrites along with the addition of pages to the script coming in on an irregular basis, the film changed quite a bit in the middle of production. That made the project take the last-minute path of including more physical comedy and "kid-chaos."
"It wasn't the construct of what we originally set out to make," Gosnell tells me in the context of the rampant physical comedy in the film, "so it was a push-and-pull [with the many studios], and honestly not being in a room and carrying it all out led to some awkward situations."
But Gosnell persevered the way he knows how, and Yours, Mine & Ours is a testament to what the director does well. Large-scale situational comedy, including one smoothly directed scene in a hardware store, along with a good handling on mayhem involving numerous individuals. When it comes to films with notably turbulent productions, you could've done much worse than Yours, Mine & Ours. You could chalk that up as Gosnell's role as a credible stabilizer in the productions of his films.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008):
Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a classic fish-out-of-water story revolving around a pampered chihuahua named Chloe, who gets dognapped in Mexico and must escape the presence of other, bigger dogs with malicious intentions. Chloe gets help from a German Shepherd along with a Mexican chihuahua who has feelings for her. When conversing with Gosnell about the thrill and process of filming real dogs for a movie, out comes his childlike exuberance for the whole production.
"It's just great, I mean, they're dogs!," he exclaims. "They're adorable, they love their trainers, and they're like athletes. They're trained to do something and now it's time do it."
Because the film features many scenes where multiple dogs are in the same scene, conversing or making off-the-cuff remarks, a popular style of editing known as "comping" is employed. This involves shooting each of the dogs individually, within the same setting, and then through the magic of post-production, constructing the individual shots into one to look as if the dogs are really all sharing the same space at once. It allows the filmmakers a way to handle the agency of the dogs, and assure they don't have any difficultly interacting.
"The challenges around [the film's production] were communication," Gosnell says, confirming my suspicion. "I talk to the trainers and the trainers communicate with the dogs. For me, [the goal] is to get as naturalistic of performances out of the dogs as possible. [But] they're dogs, you can't ask them to do what you'd as a human to do. It's a combination of using their natural behaviors and movements to go with what the character's attitude is in that moment. I hope the dog can turn around and look, but if they can't, I have a just-in-case plan."
Beverly Hills Chihuahua was originally conceived as a film called "South of the Border," and it was designed as story centered around a Chihuahua's spiritual journey to its homeland leading to a discovery of his/her ancestral roots. Essentially, Gosnell shot "South of the Border" as it was written/intended, but once again, executives had other plans in mind. They wanted a film that could live up to the title "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." The fascinating part is that much of that original conceit is still embedded in the film, most notably in its attention-to-detail with Mexico and the landscape of the country.
"We immediately said we have to shoot [the film] in widescreen," Gosnell recalls, "[because] we had to capture the visuals and the Mexican desert. It was taking the best of what it really is. We wanted Mexico to be really colorful with the reds and blues, and I think we went with a contrast of Beverly Hills, which was whites, sheers, and pastels. So when [the characters] cross into the border, it's a blast of primary colors." Gosnell notes the issue of perspective as well, saying, "anytime you're in Chloe's world, you're two feet off the ground," reminding us that even from a POV aspect the film had its own creative challenges.
Details like this make just another talking dog movie that much more noteworthy, and that process and creative brainstorming on part of Gosnell and his legion of talented crewmembers (who he's always quick to praise and give credit) peels back the curtains to reveal a deceptively layered film from an aesthetics standpoint.
The Smurfs (2011):
After spending a lengthy amount of time in the mix of rights deals, negotiations, and script-rewrites, the film adaptation of The Smurfs was entrusted to Raja Gosnell, most likely on the basis that he worked his Houdini magic for two Scooby-Doo movies despite another in-house shakeup (more on that some other time). Gosnell's audio commentary on the DVD of The Smurfs reveals interesting details behind the film's production. For one, each shot of a Smurf in the film cost roughly $35,000, with the studio-approved number of shots being no more than 835. This is why, Gosnell says, you see more wideshots of Smurfs and less closeups, for the inclusivity of the characters needed to be taken into account, and over the cost of what became a 103 minute film, him and the crew literally couldn't afford to waste a shot.
"Every film has its own challenges and every day on a film set has its own challenges," Gosnell says. "It's a lot of planning and pre-planning and budgeting that goes into [CG movies] to the point where I had to literally sign-off that I can execute [said] page of the script with two wide-shots and three close-ups."
With films that place animated characters in the world of CG figures, there's also the additional difficultly of having the actors work off of subjects who don't exist. Gosnell calls this a "certain freedom" for both him and the performers, commending both Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria for doing such a phenomenal job. "We had little light sticks to help with their eye-lines, but it was basically [them] reacting to people off camera doing the lines. You kind of got to treat the Smurfs like[…]shooting actors, and there's a little bit of a learning curve for everybody cause it's all in my head."
A film like The Smurfs has two lives, so to speak. One is the fast-paced, expensive shooting in the live-action world (in this case, the bustling community of New York City), while the other is all intensive, time-consuming labor by animators, who spend hours upon hours rendering, color-correcting, and creating the characters that also need to inhabit this world.
"We had to create Smurf Village," Gosnell says. "That's a 100% computer-generated world. Peyo had done a lot of stuff, so we wanted to be as close as possible to what the audience expects. We put a lot of effort and energy into executing that. Anytime you take something from the pencil kit and make it into a 3D world, things look different; it can't look the same. We wanted it to look like a happy place, and because it was CG, we were able to fly camera around because there were no physical constraints of what the camera could do. It was super fun to do."
Rewatching The Smurfs, I was surprised to see just how much of the film is rooted in the cinematography. Gosnell's camerawork in conjunction with the photography and visuals Phil Méheux (who often works with Gosnell) create a world that echoes a bit of magical realism. It's quite frequently beautiful, pulsating with life, and elevated by Gosnell embracing the lack of physical limitations for his camera.
Show Dogs (2018):
As mentioned earlier, Gosnell has been in the news fairly recently due to his latest film Show Dogs causing a great deal of controversy. The film, which revolves around a police-dog and his human partner going undercover to infiltrate a dog show, which is rumored to be a front for an animal-smuggling ring, came under fire for two scenes that showed a dog's genitals being groped while the dog was told to "go to his happy place" in order to cope with what was occurring. Facebook posts from people who felt that the scene was a prime example of child grooming techniques soon turned into national outrage.
I was hesitant to bring up the controversy in my discussion with Gosnell, largely because he hadn't spoken publicly about the backlash. Nonetheless, he was immediately receptive to my inquiry. He began by saying that studios consistently demand "edgy" content, but it's when they receive the slightest criticism at test-screenings that they make demands somewhat contradictory to what was seen as the original intent of the film.
When speaking about Show Dogs, Gosnell describes it as "a throwback buddy cop movie." "No one really makes talking dog movies anymore," he says, "and no one really makes buddy cop movies either." The idea behind the film was taking those two elements, along with two macho characters (Ludicrous' Rottweiler character Max and Will Arnett's Frank) who don't like one another and have to navigate in a fish-out-of-water setting.
But Gosnell could see the smoke before the flame of the fire was even present. He watched Peter Rabbit, a kids movie that came out a couple months prior to Show Dogs, get criticized for "food bullying," in particular a scene where a character fends off the villain by making him come into contact with foods (in this case blackberries) to which he's allergic. After that, Gosnell said he made repeated attempts to "get out in front" of the potential controversy about that particular scene.
"I wrote this long email to the marketing department saying 'we gotta put [the scene] in the trailer and TV ads, [and] position it as it's intended, Gosnell says. "These two fish-out-of-water, macho cops have to do something embarrassing because the case requires it; a classic buddy-cop scenario. No one is being victimized. We need to put it in that context. I couldn't have felt stronger that we had to put it out there. And if some of the potential audience has concerns and decides not to see the film, then so be it. At least we won't have egg on our face and be making apologies on opening weekend. I couldn't have made that plea more forcefully and basically [the marketing department] respectfully disagreed. They said [accusations of the scenes being inappropriate] didn't show up in any of their research."
Even up to a week before the film's release, Gosnell was adamant about damage control.
"I wrote a statement that I proposed be used in the event of controversy," he says, "and in the statement, I attempted to put the joke in context." "The controversy happened and the studio's statement contained no explanation of the intent, so the film and the filmmakers ended up looking incredibly inept and tone deaf. Especially to the people who didn't see the film and were only hearing that it 'grooms children for sexual abuse.' Max isn't a child. He's 95 pounds of angry canine teeth and muscle who would bite your face off if you tried that shit, voiced by a macho rapper who would probably do the same. That's what needed be in the advertising, so people could understand it and decide for themselves."
Had the joke been inserted into the marketing campaign for the movie, Gosnell believes there would've been at least some understanding amongst audiences about the content and approach of the film.
"Now, would the original Facebook post [regarding the controversial scenes] still have pinged around the web? Sure. The poster had a completely legitimate position based on her life experiences. Plus it fit perfectly into the narrative of out-of-touch Hollywood elites pushing dangerous ideas on our children. But would it have become an international media shit-storm? Probably not. Most people would have likely thought, 'Oh, you mean that joke that's in all the TV ads? Eh. Looked kinda funny to me' and let it go at that."
Gosnell is also clear on why he didn't preemptively cut the scene.
"Frank and Max doing the Dirty Dancing choreography was consistently the audience's favorite scene," he states. "It got huge laughs and applause in every screening. No way I was going to cut out the best scene in the film, and no one would have let me." The film ended up being pulled from theaters and hastily reedited. Gosnell adds that it didn't help that the marketing also forewent showcasing the approach of Show Dogs and its desire to be a self-aware, throwback buddy-cop comedy with talking dogs, saying that not making clear to the audience that the writers/filmmakers were "in on the joke," so to speak, led to the film appearing dated and/or tone-deaf. But like many epilogues to eventful stories, it's a lot of "what ifs" and "could've been's" at this point.
I felt completely detached [from the controversy]," Gosnell states. "I felt like I honestly did everything I possibly could to protect the movie from this. I did everything I could to protect the audience from unwittingly stepping into an uncomfortable situation, and I think featuring that heavily in the marketing would've done all of that."
The Conclusion:
To reiterate, my interest in profiling Raja Gosnell's career is the result of a perfect storm of interest from the controversial Show Dogs, my familiarity with many of his works, and the need to write a lengthy piece about someone/something. After having the great privilege of speaking to the man himself on multiple occasions, I can't stress what a consummate professional he is in every sense. A humble, witty, and grateful individual with a high-degree of imagination and creativity, Gosnell's diverse filmography shows he's gifted in creating several different kinds of films. However, of all the things we discussed in our conversation, one of the final points he touched on could serve as a reminder for critics and audiences alike.
Every film has a story, Gosnell says in so many words. "Even the most godawful movie, someone worked their ass off. Sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it was a bad idea. There's a wealth of reasons why things don't work."
In the case of this piece, I'm happy to say things worked out just fine.


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Q: Is there any good and efficient way in Java 8 to convert HashMap values to keys and vice versa when the type is > Please find programm below :
Map<String, List<String>> map = new HashMap<>();

List<String> l1 = new ArrayList<>();
l1.add("G1");
l1.add("G2");

List<String> l2 = new ArrayList<>();
l2.add("G2");
l2.add("G3");

map.put("R1", l1);
map.put("R2", l2);

Now the current output is :
{R2=[G2, G3], R1=[G1, G2]}

I would like to write logic in Java 8 in such way that, Map keys should become values and values to keys, like below :
{G1=[R1], G2=[R2, R1], G3=[R2]}

I tried with below but it doesn't work  :
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But I want it in same type Map<String,List<String>>
anyone could help ?

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Reassessing things after Christmas as we all do and thinking, new year, new start etc as we all do too, I considered my spending, it is at a minimum anyway because I think we all have too much "stuff," but I love collecting old furniture, fabric, vintage/retro home wares, books, vinyl records and clothes, I'm quite terrible actually, but 90% of what I buy is second hand or given to me. The only things I buy new are shoes, knickers and bra's and the boys pants from Boden because they are great quality and last ages, well thinking of it I buy most of their clothes new because it is hard to get second hand older boys clothes that are decent. But this isn't that much over a year.
So I set myself a little challenge, to minimise our spending even further so I can save up for things we actually need/will benefit our lives/make lasting memories.
Over the next few weeks I will be posting about the kinds of things I'm doing to save money, be closer to a natural way of living and hopefully inspiring others to do the same.
I am very particular about what we eat and love to cook so I won't compromise on spending money on food at all, it has to be organic, free range, outdoor bred etc, I have made some menu's up though to try and get more out of my money, we bake our own bread which saves us a fortune and the lovely smell that lingers in the air is unbeatable, this is why supermarkets have a "bakery" (most just reheat frozen loaves!), so the smell makes customers hungry. If you haven't got a bread maker already I really do recommend you save up and get a decent one, taking to friends and my own experience it is worth spending that bit extra on one, ours is this one, which bakes bread, mixes dough, you can even do cake mix in it, although I haven't tried that as I like the process of mixing cakes myself.
It is simple to use, you just weigh out the ingredients from the cookbook that comes with it and pop them into the bread pan that goes inside the bread maker, choose your bread setting and voila in and 2 hours you have a lovely loaf, all hot and delicious! We have made fruit loaf, which is lovely, curry bread made with mango chutney and curry paste, believe me it IS good.
You can of course bake your own loaves in the oven, I have tried and failed many times, they always come out like bricks!!
working it out, a loaf of bread from our local shop costs £1.30 each, (not organic) we as a family of 5 eat on average about 6 loaves a week, sometimes more (if it's fruit loaf!!) so that's £7.80 a week compared to doves organic white flour at £1.87, this would make 3 large loaves, doves organic yeast, 1.29p, one packet lasts us about 3-4 weeks, then in our bread maker you add a tsp salt, 1oz marg, 2 tsp sugar and water, so pennies really, I will allocate 90p for these things, so all together for a weeks worth of organic bread =£4.50, over the course of a year you would save £171.60 on bread alone!
Happy New Year and happy bread making, I will be pleased to answer any bread making questions no matter how silly they seem, before I got a bread maker a lovely friend answered all mine even though I felt daft asking her!
yummy fast food - NOT!!


My favorite sit-com of all time is "Seinfeld".
This article is long over due.
Seinfeld is one of those shows that has so many sub-plots that I've run into situations, when reminiscing with friends about our favorite scenes, where we find out at the end of the conversation that we're talking about the same episode. Classic Seinfeld. Who could forget the "Festivus Miracle" or the "Marine Biologist". So many memories.
The funny thing is that the predicaments the characters find themselves in through each episode have the same pattern, though the supporting characters and specifics may change. Jerry is always dating someone who turns out to have some little quirk that he can't get over. George is always scheming. Kramer always comes up with some crazy idea. What, if anything, can "Seinfeld" teach us about Marketing?
The Soup Nazi had a few things going right for him, namely…great soup. What made his soup kitchen unique however, was the customer experience. There was something unique about the experience, a sort of secret club where you had to know the rules in order to get the reward. This exclusivity brought with it a mystique, and gave his customers a reason to talk about his kitchen (beyond just talking about the product), making a great product taste even better. Lesson: Develop an expectation and deliver on it.
This episode found all four main characters lost in a mall parking garage in New Jersey with Kramer carrying an AC unit he just purchased. The four of them wandered about the garage, but everything looked the same. Eventually Jerry and George were arrested for public urination. In terms of your customer's user experience – how easy is it for your customers to navigate your website? Do you think Jerry and Kramer would shop at that mall again? Lesson: The easier your site is to navigate the better your conversion rates will be, and the better your chance of customer retention.
After borrowing her boyfriend's car, Elaine discovers that all of his radio presets were set to Christian Rock. She had been dating him for months and had no idea. When approached by Elaine, Puddy confirms that he is religious and is not concerned that Elaine isn't, because as he puts it "I'm not the one going to hell." How well do you really know your customers? Are you targeting one group and attracting another? Dig deeper than your product or service level and get to know your customers better. Use surveys or small talk, make notes in your CRM and look for patterns. You may be surprised what the information you collect tells you about your target. Lesson: Get to know your customers and what drives them. Use this information to make decisions relative to strategy and messaging.
Elaine's boss, J. Peterman, is writing an autobiography. The problem is that his stories aren't that compelling, so he purchases Kramer's stories for his own book. Peterman knew that for his business of hard-to-find clothing and accessories to grow, people needed to make an emotional connection with the brand's spokesperson. Hard-to-find clothing needed hard-to-imagine content. Peterman didn't have that type of content, so he purchased a series of Kramer's stories for $750. Not everyone is blessed with the ability to write engaging content, but people that can are fairly easy to find and are in high demand. Don't make up your stories, but do have an editor or a copy writer help polish your content. Good content gets shared, and when content is shared it is exponentially expanding your reach. Lesson: If you don't have anyone in-house to write engaging content and help with messaging, find someone who can. This company is pretty good.
Sometimes an idea seems so out there that we talk ourselves out of pursuing the idea by telling ourselves that there must be a reason why no one else has done it. Kramer had the idea to publish a coffee table book with pictures of coffee tables. The first person he talked to about it, Elaine, thought it was a terrible idea…but Kramer was persistent and eventually landed an interview with the Today Show. If the idea has "been done before" it is less risky; but, with risk comes reward.
I could keep going – there are so many good episodes. Perhaps in a later post. Feel free to share your favorite episodes and/or lessons learned from Seinfeld.
Jason Baumgartner is a founding partner at Brainstorm Creative, serving as an outsourced Brand Strategist and Chief Marketing Officer for Brainstorm clients throughout North America.


Call the church office (386-255-2588) to reserve for dinner (serving 5:45 to 6:15). Wear your costume and join in the fun and games, including a movie for the season, popcorn, prizes, and lots of fall treats. This is a fall celebration for ALL ages! Don't miss it!


Two matches going on simultaneously, with four veteran pixel pushers: Inman vs Glass, and Koxvold vs Hutchinson !
Lady Liberty is the Waldo of disaster films. Except in the original Where's Waldo? movie, and in Where's Waldo 2: There's Waldo.
Finally, a use for those weird things at the end of the arm! Via Notcot.
It's a sad story... but it could have a happy ending, with some effort on our part.


Gagne was drafted in 1998 and, in training camp, would have worn either a recycled CCM jersey with hem tagging or a Nike with hem tagging. The Koho on the neck wouldn't have appeared until 2000, and even then a preseason jersey would have still likely been recycled. Gagne's first NHL season was the 1999-00 season.
I agree with Nathan. Gagne probably would have worn a recycled Nike jersey or at the very least a CCM with the silver shield on the back. He would have been an established player by 2000-2001 wearing # 12 when Koho appeared on the jerseys.
In the jersey description on eBay. Not you. Thanks for posting! great thread!
Fedotenko has 2 cups...Played pretty darn good too.
Is it possible it was a Gagne jersey recycled for Fedotenko in the early stages of HIS career?... Not necessarily the same season? I do remember Fedotenko wearing #50.
Then again, would Sudsy recycle a "future star's" jersey knowing that the game worn jersey market was starting to heat up back then? Chances are no... Maybe in the 80's but not this time period.
Honestly I think he is selling a legit. But if its a Domi Jersey your looking for this might be it. I know its a replica but all letters and numbers are stitched.
The Leafs jersey is good...the fonts though aren't even close. It might be more trouble than it's worth to try and clean up too unfortunately. That Knights one is pretty rare too and at a GREAT price.
same seller who had the Twist jersey with wrong fonts/nameplate as well.... and said was game worn.
Here was a steal guys!
The seller wouldn't take any Canadian bidders emails from them either.
Lets just pray it makes it back home one day soon.
Good deal for the IIHF collector!
Me thinks this thread is a little counter productive for viewers of this fourm as it alerts EVERYONE to potential steals that could be had out there.
I feel the same. You wont see me bidding on any Philly jerseys any time soon! yet, If I find one someone should prolly buy cuz of the great price ill post it.


Rendal and I trained for several hours that afternoon, much to my delight, and afterwards I made him stretch his good arm which he had used to wield his lightsaber while I stretched all my limbs, to stop ourselves from getting stiff and sore. Once we did that we went through the rest of the day hanging out and messing around with one thing or another until it was time to go to bed and we both said goodnight before going our separate ways to our rooms.
Things were good for the next few weeks, I did my training with Anakin and hung around with Rendal, Lorryn and Jenifire. We had a lot of fun racing around with Rendal and his wheelchair, he even let me have a go in it and I must admit it was awesome! Although I did get tipped out of it when Lorryn pushed me around the corner too fast but I wasn't really hurt, it was nothing compared to other things I've been through, and thankfully no other Jedi saw us. Rendal was really worried about me though and it was.... Actually kind of sweet. I blushed when he told me he asked what hurt and wanted to kiss it better.
Anyway, enough about me. Six weeks after the fact Rendal is finally back on his feet! Yes! He can run, jump, skip and hop as he pleases! All of which he did after he got the casts off and finished his physiotherapy. So now I've been teaching him a few of my moves and we are frequently sparing with each other, surprisingly enough he's actually managed to impress me once or twice. He's been progressing well and we've been growing closer everyday. However, we have also been making sure to hide our.... Relationship of sorts from everyone else. After all, it is no ones business but ours and I don't want Rendal or myself to be expelled from the Jedi Order.
I couldn't help smiling as I sat on my bed contemplating all of these things only to have my thoughts interrupted by someone pressing the "door bell" of sorts. 'Enter.' The door slid open and in walked the subject of my thoughts.
'Hiya.' Rendal smiled at me before coming to sit next to me.
He looked at me curiously. 'Why are you tired? Don't tell me you hand nightmares again last night.' He frowned slightly but I shook my head.
'Well.... Uh.... Heh.... W-Would you teach me to... To.... Um....' He stuttered and fidgeted nervously and I felt myself grow impatient.
'Spit it out Rendal!' I demanded, raising my voice and making him jump.
'Would you teach me to repel girls?' He blurted out the question then looked at me like I was going to eat him. Instead however I burst out laughing.
Oh yes. That reminds me, I forgot to mention before that a thorn has managed to weasel it's way into my side and it's name is Kira Walsh. She's 13, so the same age as Rendal and a year older than me. She has dark hair, green eyes and the sort of pretty, perfect face that makes me want to vomit.
'If you wouldn't mind.' He nodded.
It was true, Kira often liked to follow Rendal around like a lost puppy and when she wasn't doing that she was strutting about like a peacock boasting about something or other. I had only talked to her twice, but believe me that was enough to know we really didn't like each other. She was rude, self centred, contradicting, snobbish, oh did I mention self centred?
Anyway if Rendal wanted me to help him get her off his back then that's what I would do.
'Good.' I flashed him a smile before standing and pulling him up off my bed.
'What? Alexa you shouldn't go looking for a fight.' He shook his head and I smirked.
Chuckling at his comment I dragged him out into the corridor then side by side we walked through the Temple until we came to the training room. It seemed that even when I wasn't concentrating on anything my subconscious was still wanting me to train. Well it was fun, especially when I got to spar with Rendal.
'I'll go grab a training saber and we can do some sparring?' I asked hopeful, smiling as he nodded.
So that's exactly what we did, however will we clashes our blades together a certain prissy padawan showed up and came over only to start cheering for Rendal as she stood watching us.
I threw my training saber to the ground and went over to the prissy girl, grabbing her by her robes. 'I am not a street urchin!!' I shouted before getting in her face and hissing venomously. 'If you think I'm so easy to win against why don't you come and have a try? I can't wait to see how many footprints I can get on your back when I'm done stomping all over you!' With that I threw her to the ground and used the Force to call the training saber back to my hand.
She looked up at me in fear only for a strange smile to spread across her face and she started to laugh. 'Oh you're just so scary! I'm shaking in my boots!' She began to laugh louder and picked herself up off the floor. 'You know I would take you up on your offer and fight you but I don't think I could be bothered to fight someone who is so lame they still have to use a training saber.' She smirked and I growled.
By the others she meant those padawans who were her age and older, like Evvin Yavok. A 17 year old padawan whom I'd seen Kira talking with on numerous occasions, I hadn't had much to do with him, but anyone who associated with Kira, in my opinion, wasn't someone you would want to be around.
'What?! You can't do that!' Rendal looked horrified.
'Yes you do, he'll never believe you if you don't-' I cut my friend off.
'Oh gosh we shouldn't have done that!' My fellow padawan shook his head and groaned.
'Very good then sir.' He walked away down the hall.


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10 Things American Expats Should Know About Giving in the UK
Author National Philanthropic Trust
For newcomers to the UK, particularly those familiar with American philanthropy, charitable giving in the UK can sometimes seem confusing.
1. In the UK, there are tax incentives for donations of cash, publicly listed shares, and property.
This is a narrower range of available tax incentives than some other countries. In the US, for example, income tax incentives are also available for donations of more illiquid assets, such as closely-held or privately-held stock, alternative investments (private equity, hedge funds), privately held interests (C-corp, S-corp, LLCs), structured notes, derivatives, and publicly traded partnerships.
2. Not everyone files a tax return in the UK.
Unlike many other countries where filing a tax return is required, only taxpayers with more complicated tax affairs file an income tax return (aka the Self-Assessment return) in the UK. If you work for one employer and have no other income, a tax return is not required and your income tax is withheld at source. For those not normally filing a Self-Assessment return, claiming income tax deductions (tax relief) for charitable deductions means you would need to file a Self-Assessment return or contact the tax authorities to report the charitable donations.
3. Gift Aid is the UK's unique system to provide tax incentives for "cash" donations (i.e. not shares or property).
In many countries, the donor receives the entire tax benefit for a donation. In the US, the donor claims 100% of the value of a donation as a deduction (tax relief) to reduce taxable income, up to applicable annual limits. In the UK, cash donations are treated differently. The donor and the charity effectively split the tax incentives through the UK's Gift Aid tax incentive scheme. "Higher rate" (40%) and "additional rate" (45%) taxpayers claim part of the tax benefit on their Self-Assessment tax returns and the charity receives the other part of the tax benefit directly from HMRC. For example, if you are an "additional rate" taxpayer and make a £100 donation, you could claim tax relief of £31.25 on your Self-Assessment return and the charity would receive £25 in reclaimed Gift Aid directly from HMRC, the UK tax authority.
4. The U.K. does not limit the amount of income tax deductions (tax relief) you may claim for charitable giving.
Many countries place limits on the amount of income tax credit you can receive for charitable giving. For example, the US limits income tax deductions to 60% of your adjusted gross income for donations to public charities and 30% for donations to private foundations. The U.K. does not have any limits. You could offset 100% of your taxable income through charitable giving.
5. The U.K. tax year is April 6th to April 5th and you can sometimes backdate donations.
Unlike most countries, you may sometimes backdate charitable donations in the UK. You may choose to backdate cash donations to the previous tax year if you:
Make the donation before the following January 31st; and
Have not yet filed your UK Self-Assessment tax return for the previous tax year.
6. Charitable giving can lower your inheritance (estate) tax.
In the UK, inheritance tax is applied to estates valued over £325,000. If you leave at least 10% of your estate to charity the UK, the inheritance tax rate is reduced from 40% to 36%. In the US, the federal estate tax threshold is $11M million for individuals and $22 million for married couples filing jointly. Charitable donations remain exempt from inheritance (estate) tax.
7. The tax impact of giving isn't always top-of-mind and often isn't even discussed.
The appropriateness of discussing money and tax affairs can vary widely between cultures. In general, wealth and taxes are not discussed as openly in the UK as they are in the US – both in polite society and with advisors. Although the current regime of income tax incentives was put in place for gifts of cash in 1990 and for gifts of shares in 2000, integrating charitable giving into wealth and tax planning is not yet as common in the UK as it is in the US.
8. Not everyone agrees that the government should offer tax incentives for charitable giving.
This seems unbelievable to many who come from other countries; however, there are vocal critics of charitable tax incentives in the UK. The critics see it as primarily the government's role to provide for the less fortunate. In their view, private philanthropy should not be promoted through tax incentives because it reduces the amount of taxes collected which means fewer resources for welfare programmes.
9. Dual qualified giving makes charitable giving tax efficient in both the UK and US simultaneously.
Donations to UK/US dual qualified charities, like NPT-UK, are recognised simultaneously as charitable donations for tax purposes by both HMRC in the UK and the IRS in the US. By using a dual qualified charity, donors who pay taxes in both the UK and US may receive tax incentives in both countries.
10. The great British tradition of philanthropy shaped giving as we know it today.
Philanthropy in the UK dates back nearly 1000 years. The oldest endowment still in operation today was established in the 11th century in London. Legacy and lifetime giving emerged in Britain on a significant scale in the 17th and early 18th century. The 18th century even saw the emergence of innovative forms of philanthropy – what we call 'impact investing' or 'social investment' today. Nineteenth-century Victorian philanthropists became famous for the large-scale investment in infrastructure and cultural institutions. Public philanthropy is on the rise in the UK today, with large public gifts increasing in both value and volume.
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Gogs(Go Git Service) a painless self-hosted Git Service written in Go. As its built with Go, so we automatically get its cross-platform compatibility that it supports, including Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Gogs has really low footprints so its easy on low system resources. In this article we will guide you with simple steps and to get it up and running on Ubuntu 15.04 with its web interface, admin dashboard and all its operational functions where you can preferably host your codes because of its many great features, easy to use and access.
In order to setup Gogs we need an update OS with its basic resources and following mandatory packages.
MySQL version 5.1 or greater.
We will setup gogs installation and its configurations within the following environment as a general user with sudo privileges.
Before starting with installation we need to make sure that our system is upto date, we can always do so by using following command.
We are going to create a new user that we will use for the whole setup and installation under this user.
Grant super user privileges to user "git"
First we need to install the prerequisites that are necessary for Gogs setup.
Ubuntu 15.04 comes with pre installed git latest version, so don't need to re install it. We can check its version using following command.
In these steps will install mysql server and then create a new database and a user that will serves as Gogs database.
During the installation process it will ask for mysql root user password, so choose a secured password.
We will install the go(bash) package in a separate directory so that it wouldn't interface with future updates by system's packet manager.
Here we need to build an environment for git user to setup its paths that are corresponding to our system.
Now we at the point to start the installation of Gogs using the Go source code command line tool.
Run following command to make sure that gogs is working fine and if you don't see any error message just Press Ctrl-c to stop Gogs, you can also access it on your localhost web browser with your IP and port 3000 but its better not to start the installation at this point to avoid from errors.
We need to install Nginx to use it as a reverse proxy so that we can bind our domain name to Gogs.
So lets start with its installation and then we will configure it for Gogs.
To setup Gogs starts automatically as a running service at the back end we are going to do so by installing a package Supervisor.
Gogs has been been all setup with its initial setting and configurations with other required packages. Now we only need to perform few installation step at its first time run.
Choose the appropriate configurations in its database type, user name and Password. Then after creating an admin account just click to Install Gogs, thats it.
We can also clone any repositories by using its dashboard. We only need to get the desired repository's link and then SSH the other system then by using git clone command we can easily get it on other system.
We can also comment out using git commit and git push commands to pass on our comments on the master repositories.
Gogs is a great git hosting service and much more powerful than Github. Its lightweight, easy to set up, cross-platform git hosting service and with features favorably comparable to Gitlab/Github. So I definitely recommend Gogs as your git self-hosting service.


Treasurer Magaziner Responds to Navient: Student Loan Debt Crisis is not "Ordinary Business"
Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner yesterday sent a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in response to Navient Corporation's (NASDAQ: NAVI) attempt to deny shareholders the chance to vote on his proposal requesting that the company provide investors with information on the measures it is taking related to risks associated with the student loan debt crisis.
"Shareholders have good reason to be concerned about risks associated with the student loan industry," said Treasurer Magaziner. "Nationally, there are more than 44 million borrowers with an estimated $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, an amount second only to mortgage debt."
Navient, which is facing lawsuits by four states and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as a class-action lawsuit from investors, has appealed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to deny shareholders a chance to vote on the shareholder proposal, claiming that the growing level of unsustainable student loan debt, and the risk the company is taking on is "ordinary business".
"This is a crisis for millions of Americans, not 'ordinary business'. In Rhode Island, 64% of graduates carry an average of $32,920 of student loan debt. As long-term investors in Navient, it is our duty to members to ensure that the company is adequately responding to this crisis," added Treasurer Magaziner.
The U.S. Department of Education reports that the number of borrowers not making payments on their federal student loans within three years of leaving college has risen to 11.5%.
Navient Corporation manages more than $300 billion in federal and private student loans for approximately 12 million borrowers. Over a million borrowers with Direct Loans at Navient, which is the nation's largest servicer of student loans, have defaulted on their student loans. These defaults create additional financial hardships for Navient customers, which may negatively impact the company and shareholders.
The CFPB received 6,274 complaints about Navient in the period from September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2017, which is four times the number of complaints received about any other student loan servicer during that period.
It is in this context that Treasurer Magaziner is requesting that Navient's Board of Directors report on the governance measures the company has implemented to more effectively monitor and manage financial and reputational risks related to the student loan crisis. This information will help investors assess whether Navient is adequately meeting the challenges faced by growing student loan delinquency trends.
You can read Treasurer Magaziner's letter to the SEC at the link below.


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Ronimo Games releases prototype for cancelled console project
Snowball Earth would have featured yetis and robot doggies.
News by	Christian Donlan, Features Editor
Updated on 23 October 2012
Ronimo Games is the Dutch studio behind cartoony chaos such as Swords & Soldiers and this year's hectic MOBA Awesomenauts. Before working on either of those titles, however, the team sank a year into an intriguing action game called Snowball Earth - and now that it's long since cancelled, they're releasing the demo for free via torrent.
Back in 2007, Snowball Earth was planned as a Wii or Xbox 360 game, and, according to Ronimo, it tells the story of "a robot boy who thinks he accidentally started the last ice age." Don't sweat it, kid; we've all been there. With that on his conscience, he's been sent back to the frozen planet to try and thaw the place out - with the help of his robot doggies, naturally.
What he discovers down on the surface is a touching tale of betrayal and revenge, centring on an unscrupulous refrigerator manufacturer that's been hawking its wares to the local yetis. More importantly, you get to tool around some chunky, colourful 3D environments, banishing winter and restoring life to the world. It's basically the kind of thing Al Gore dreams about every night.
"Although it's a shame the game never got a chance to see the light of day, we hope people will enjoy playing the demo," says Fabian Akker, a Ronimo designer. "Hopefully we will be able to give the game a second chance." Maybe we haven't seen the last of it, then?
The playable PC demo lasts for about an hour, by the sounds of it, and provides a decent taste of this charming melt-'em-up, while lead programmer Joost van Dongen's blog offers more detail on the project's history. If the business of wandering around the surface of a large environment and transforming the landscape as you go sounds familiar, incidentally, it's probably because Ronimo is formed by the same group of Utrecht School of the Arts students who created the original freeware version of De Blob, which had you throwing paint around Utrecht town centre.
Games in this article
Awesomenauts Review
Swords & Soldiers Review
Swords and Soldiers HD
Swords and Soldiers HD Review
Christian Donlan
Christian Donlan is a features editor for Eurogamer. He is the author of The Unmapped Mind, published as The Inward Empire in the US.


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#fixthenorms! We launch court papers on Norms and Standards school infrastructure regulations
Equal Education (EE) members in the Eastern Cape will tomorrow file legal papers in the Bisho High Court. This legal challenge is aimed at ensuring that the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, makes certain changes to the regulations concerning the minimum Norms and Standards for school infrastructure.
For three years (beginning in 2011) EE battled with the Minister to ensure that she set out in law the minimum infrastructure standards that all schools in the country must have. These include libraries and laboratories. In late 2013 she finally did so, after enormous pressure from EE members. The regulations, however, have some serious defects. EE has, for more than two years, engaged with the Minister in an attempt to see her fix these flaws. The changes to the regulations are desperately needed to ensure that all schools are protected and that the infrastructure norms are successfully implemented within certain deadlines. The regulations unacceptably exclude a large number of schools.
The struggle to #FixOurSchools has in the past seen the Ministry of Basic Education not being forthcoming with the Norms and Standards plans, that are intended to see the eradication of unsafe classrooms, the delivery of safe and decent sanitation facilities, and moreover, the relief that ought to be provided to thousands of learners across the country who continue to learn under trees and alongside livestock. These plans, produced by each of the Basic Education MECs, detail the backlogs in school infrastructure in each province and how the provinces intend fixing schools in line with the Norms. Plans were to be delivered to the Minister in November 2014. However, the eventual release of those plans were delayed substantially. Making these plans timeously available is essential. Schools, learners and communities should have an opportunity to hold government accountable to its planning. EE asks the court to order the Minister to change the regulations so that she is obliged to release all reports received within a reasonable period.
The decision to approach the court was not easily made, but in the absence of a listening Ministry of Basic Education we are left with no other option. Our correspondence to the Ministry has been met with deafening silence. The November 2016 Norms and Standards deadline is looming. All schools lacking water and electricity must be helped before then. Department of Basic Education (DBE) 2015 statistics put these at 452 and 913 respectively. DBE figures also indicate 128 schools have no sanitation facilities. These schools must also receive these facilities by this deadline.
DBE figures paint a grim picture, with 4 773 schools having an unreliable water supply and 2 854 an unreliable electricity supply. Concerningly, 10 419 schools continue to suffer with pit latrines (about 45%) despite the use of these "toilets" having proved deathly dangerous. However, it is likely that the 2016 deadline and all other deadlines will not be properly realised, as long as the Minister continues to shield the department and herself from the responsibility to fulfill the norms. EE asks that the court order the Minister to tighten the regulations to exclude any legal loopholes that would allow the DBE off the hook for compliance.
The failure to #FixOurSchools will not be delayed any longer!
The details of our press conference are as follows:
Date: 19 May 2016 (Thursday)
Location: Qonce High School
Ntuthuzo Ndzomo (Deputy General Head of EE) 072 931 4343
Luya Sidimba (Head of EE Eastern Cape) 071 924 0956
Lisa Draga (Attorney, EE Law Centre) 072 650 0214
Leanne Jansen-Thomas#fixthenorms! We launch court papers on Norms and Standards school infrastructure regulations 05.18.2016


This is my card for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge. This week we were to use frames. I used my nesties Labels 4 to make my frame.The frame is popped up with 3D dots. I found a bunch of old lace, buttons, and hat pins at a yard sale the other week and I'm having fun trying to use it on my cards. I Love how this one turned out.
Beautiful!! The lace is perfect!!!
Very pretty! Love the long tails on the ribbon.
Wow, this is gorgeous. I love that lace ribbon!
Oh this has to be one of my favourite cards! Just beautiful!!!


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"""
Flask-LinkTester
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TODO.
"""
from __future__ import absolute_import

from setuptools import setup

VERSION = "0.3.0"

REQUIREMENTS = [
    'Flask',
    'requests',
]

TESTS_REQUIREMENTS = REQUIREMENTS + [
    'pytest',
    'Flask-Testing',
    'flake8',
    'pylint',
    'sphinx',
]

CLASSIFIERS = [
    'Development Status :: 4 - Beta', 'Environment :: Web Environment',
    'Intended Audience :: Developers', 'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
    'Operating System :: OS Independent', 'Programming Language :: Python',
    'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content',
    'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
]

def get_long_description():
    return open("README.rst").read()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    setup(
        name='Flask-LinkTester',
        version=VERSION,
        url='http://github.com/sfermigier/flask-linktester',
        license='BSD',
        author='Stefane Fermigier',
        author_email='sf@fermigier.com',
        description='Link tester for Flask applications',
        long_description=get_long_description(),
        packages=['flask_linktester'],
        zip_safe=False,
        platforms='any',
        install_requires=REQUIREMENTS,
        extras_require={'testing': TESTS_REQUIREMENTS,},
        classifiers=CLASSIFIERS,)

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Castle football
GAME NIGHT 10/11: 'Iolani/Castle
By Christian Shimabuku on October 11, 2019
No. 9 'Iolani 33, Castle 28, Final ———- 10:14: Castle picks up a first down with 1 second left but the last gasp Hail Mary falls well short. 'Iolani holds on to set up a rematch with Damien. 10:12: 'Iolani successfully gets the punt off. Castle starts from its own 21 with 17 seconds left. 10:11: Castle burns the rest of its timeouts. 'Iolani will punt from its own 41 after a costly personal foul penalty with 22 seconds left. […]
GAME NIGHT 10/5: Castle/Kailua
By Christian Shimabuku on October 5, 2019
Kailua 26, Castle 21, Final ———- 9:29: Kailua takes two knees to run out the clock. 26-21 is your final. Kailua clinches a OIA Division I playoff spot, while Castle is eliminated. What a game. 9:28: Castle turns it over on downs after four straight incompletions. Kailua can run the clock out now with 1:04 left and no Castle timeouts. 9:23: Scratch that. Re-punt after a facemask call, and the SNAP IS FUMBLED. CASTLE HAS THE BALL AT THE KAILUA […]
GAME NIGHT 9/27: Castle/Moanalua
By Noelle Kakimoto on September 27, 2019
No. 6 Moanalua 48, Castle 0 BOX SCORE At Moanalua Stadium Castle (2-5, 2-3) 0 0 0 0 — 0 Moanalua (7-0, 5-0) 14 0 14 20 — 48 Moanalua— Jeremiah Tauai 41 interception (Griffin Motas kick) Moanalua— Rudy Kealohi 3 pass from RJ Javar (Motas kick) Moanalua— RJ Javar 12 run (Motas kick) Moanalua— Kealohi 32 pass from Javar (Motas kick) Moanalua— Dacyres Domingo 47 pass from Javar (Motas kick) Moanalua— Tauai 20 fumble recovery (Motas kick) Moanalua— Aukai […]
GAME NIGHT 9/20: Leilehua/Castle
By Christian Shimabuku on September 20, 2019
No. 8 Leilehua 41, Castle 13, Final ———- 9:54: Castle runs out the clock to end the game. Leilehua wins by a final score of 41-13. 9:49: Leilehua goes three-out-out. Castle gets the ball back down 41-13 on its own 37 with 3:03 left. 9:44: Kaio is picked off by Leilehua defensive back Julyan Mebane with 4:45 left. After some post-play penalties, Leilehua has the ball on its own 24. 9:41: Leilehua punts to the Castle 47 with 5:10 left. […]
Castle shows versatility on offense in win over Radford
In what could have been Radford's first win of the season on Homecoming night, the Castle Knights' offensive range shut the Rams out of the celebration as they secured a 20-6 victory. The journey toward victory was like a slow burn as the Knights scored the game's first points with only a minute left in the first quarter. Senior kicker Cheydon Costa nailed a 28-yard field goal to end a six minute-long drive where three different receivers caught passes and […]
GAME NIGHT 9/13: Castle/Radford
Castle 20, Radford 6, 7:30 p.m. BOX SCORE Castle (2-3, 2-1) 3 7 10 0 — 20 Radford (0-5, 0-4) 0 6 0 0 — 6 Castle— Cheydon Costa 28 field goal Castle— Logan Albinio 37 run (Cheydon Costa kick) Radford— Chase Daack 95 interception Castle— Cheydon Costa 39 field goal Castle— Kala Matthews 5 run (Cheydon Costa kick) HALFTIME At Radford Stadium Castle (1-3, 1-1) 3 7 0 0 — 10 Radford (0-4, 0-3) 0 6 0 0 — […]
GAME NIGHT 9/6: Damien/Castle
By Christian Shimabuku on September 6, 2019
No. 8 Damien 41, Castle 13, Final ———- 8:54: Damien takes a few last kneels to close this thing out to improve to 5-0, its best start in school history since 2015. Castle drops to 1-3. 8:50: Chazz Tom scores on a 4-yard rush for Castle. Cheydon Costa's PAT is good and Castle cuts the deficit to 41-13 with 1:27 left. 8:46: Castle calls a timeout facing a first-and-goal at the Damien 1 with 2:09 left. 8:35: Kyle Kinney jumps […]
Castle earns first win but still has a lot of work to do
By Christian Shimabuku on August 25, 2019
Coach John Hao was frustrated by Castle's winless start to the season entering Saturday night's home matchup against Aiea. He believed the team hadn't played anywhere near its potential. After the Knights' 26-16 win over Na Alii for win No. 1 of the young season, Hao still wasn't satisfied. "It's not a weight off the shoulder but it feels good to head in the right direction," he said. "We had an opportunity against Kapolei, and then when we played Waipahu […]


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Whereas President Barack Obama is honouring the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, North Carolina Republicans are taking a different path.
Weekly Mulch: Can clean energy curb climate change? Probably not.
During the State of the Union address earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at length about clean energy, with nary a mention of climate change.


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ASM North Central Branch
The homepage of the North Central Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
Now accepting applications and nominations for the Peggy Cotter Award for Early Career Microbiologists
Meeting Logistics
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About the North Central Branch
Registration and Abstract Submission
Branch Constitution
Constitution and By-Laws of the North Central Branch of the American Society for Microbiology*
Article I. Name — The name of this association shall be the North Central Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
Article II. Objects —The objects of this association shall be the advancement of the science of Microbiology and the promotion of fellowship and acquaintance among those interested in the science and within the area covered by this association.
Article III. Membership — Any person interested in Microbiology and living in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota or Wisconsin is eligible to active membership in this local branch.
Article IV. Officers — The officers of this Branch shall consist of a President, a Vice-President and a Secretary-Treasurer, who together with the President last retired and the representative on the Council of the American Society for Microbiology shall constitute the executive committee of this Branch. Officers, with the exception of the councilor, shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting each year to serve for one year, beginning service immediately after this meeting.
The councilor shall be elected to a three-year term. Only members of the American Society for Microbiology — the parent Society — may hold any of the offices in this branch.
The duties of the officers shall be those normally belonging to such officers; all officers shall serve until their successors are elected.
The Branch representative on the council of the American Society for Microbiology shall be elected by ballot of active members of the Society in this Branch at an annual meeting, shall take office immediately and shall hold office for three years.
Article V. Meetings — One meeting shall be held each year, the date and place to be determined by the executive committee. Additional meetings may be authorized by the executive committee.
Article VI. Program and Arrangements Committee — Previous to each meeting the President shall appoint as Chairman of the Local Committee on Program and Arrangements a resident of the institution at which the meeting is to be held. This Chairman shall select the other members of the Committee.
Article VII. Headquarters — The headquarters of this Branch shall be the institution at which the Secretary-Treasurer is located.
Article VIII. Dues — The amount of the annual dues shall be decided by a majority vote; this annual assessment of dues shall continue to be forced until changed by the same procedure.
Article IX. Quorums — Fifteen members shall constitute a quorum of the Branch for the transaction of business. Three members of the executive committee shall constitute a quorum of that committee for the transaction of business.
Article X. Amendments — Amendments not inconsistent with the constitution and by-laws of the parent Society may be proposed at any meeting of the Branch and shall become effective immediately if such amendment receives majority approval.
*The October 11, 1935 committee on the constitution and by-laws of the Branch meeting at Madison, Wisconsin consisted of: W.C. Frazier, University of Wisconsin, Chairman; H.O. Halvorson, University of Minnesota; C.I. Nelson, North Dakota State (Agric. College) University; L.A. Weed, University of Iowa; C.H. Werkman, Iowa State (College) University. The constitution and by-laws were amended in 1960, 2018, and 2019 as shown above.
* The October 11, 1935 committee on the constitution and by-laws of the Branch meeting at Madison, Wisconsin consisted of: W. C. Frazier, University of Wisconsin, Chairman; H. O. Halvorson, University of Minnesota; C. I. Nelson, North Dakota State (Agric. College) University; L. A. Weed, University of Iowa; C. H. Werkman, Iowa State (College) University. The constitution and by-laws were amended in 1960 as shown above.


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Home Education News Colleges Collin College Honored for Financial Transparency
Collin College Honored for Financial Transparency
By: Collin College
As a result of the utmost commitment to accountability, Collin College has achieved Gold Level Financial Transparency status, which is awarded by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
The comptroller's office began the Leadership Circle program to recognize local governments across Texas that strive "to meet a high standard for financial transparency online." The gold award is the top status in the program, and, to date, the comptroller has only honored two colleges or universities in the state at this level – Collin College and the Dallas County Community College District.
According to Collin College President Cary Israel, "The Board of Trustees and I believe it is critically important to ensure transparency regarding the college's financial and transactional data in an effort to assure the taxpayers and community that this college strives for and adheres to the highest standards of accountability."
The Gold Leadership Circle Award specifically recognizes Collin College for posting its budget, financial reports, tax information, check registers, investment data and other information for the public by providing a clear, consistent presentation of financials in a user-friendly format. To receive gold status, institutions must achieve at least 16 out of 20 total points in transparency ratings criteria.
Ralph Hall, vice president of administration and chief financial officer for Collin College, praised his staff for processing and posting the volumes of records involved. "I would like to personally thank all the individuals in the business office who worked diligently on this project. For Collin College to score 19 out of 20 total points is an incredible achievement."
The rating, which highlights entities that set the bar with transparency efforts, is effective for one year. Collin College financial transparency reports can be found by visiting collin.edu/financials.
About Collin College
Collin College serves about 53,000 credit and continuing education students annually and offers more than 100 degree and certificate programs. The only public college in the county, Collin College is a partner to business, government and industry, providing customized training and work force development. Visit collin.edu.
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So you've tasted the cake samples and made a decision on the frosting and the filling. But now how to decorate that cake? Whether you're going naked (we're talking cakes, here, people! LOL) or you're dressing your cake with fondant and sugar flowers, there's just one accessory left to think about it. And that's what to top it off with! From your names in gold glitter to a pair of adorable elephants, there's no shortage of great options to choose from for a wedding cake topper. So if you're looking for some inspiration, we're rounded up a few of our favorites here. The best part is, all of these can be saved as keepsakes after the wedding. But if you're not about keeping mementos, you can totally reuse them for years to come at other fun celebrations, too!
The Mr. & Mrs. Last Name topper is a simple yet chic option for the bride and groom looking to personalize their wedding cake. For couples with longer last names, we recommend contacting the seller to make sure it'll hold well on the cake before placing your order.
We're definitely biased (since we kind of love elephants), but this cake topper of two elephants holding a "love" sign is most definitely one of our favorite wedding cake toppers.
Silhouettes with a tandem bicycle? Is anything more adorable? The natural wood finish makes this cake topper perfect for the rustic, quaint couple.
This crocheted bride and groom cake topper is such a quirky surprise, and we love it for that. Perfect for the whimsical bride and groom seeking something truly unique to top their cake with.
Getting married in the winter? How about this pair of adorable snowmen for the top of your wedding cake? Look at how the snowman has his arm (err, twig) around his new wife! We're obsessed.
Looking for something a little less glitz and glam and a little more DIY? This sign is charming and sweet, and we can totally see it paired with a modern one-tier cake.
Just a couple of lovesick penguins, are you? These little babies will be just the right accessory for a wedding cake topper. Not a fan of penguins? No worries. We love this Etsy shop's eclectic collection of options (check out those owls!).
If you're really in the market for something truly personalized, we recommend ordering custom figures like these. You can provide several photos of yourselves (as well as the dress, bouquet, hairstyle, accessories, etc.), and the figures will be created based on that as well as any other direction you provide.
Looking for something woodland's inspired? We have just the idea! This cake topper is totally charming and perfect for your backyard rustic bash.
There's something about the phrase "You Are My Greatest Adventure," that makes us smile each time we see it. So it's no surprise we were smitten by this cake topper that forgoes the traditional Mr. and Mrs. for this sweet saying. Have another phrase you love? You can also order a custom sign through this Etsy seller.


These adorable wicker wall baskets are one of the most delightful storage options we have seen. They really are a stunning and unique way of creating a magical space for your child…or yourself! Made from strong, natural wicker and painted using non toxic, solvent free paint, each basket also features two coloured pom poms, which can be removed. Hang them directly on the wall or from a coat hook.
*Recommended for indoor use only.
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