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Fun filled songs for young learners
CAN SPEAK FRENCH: Fun learning at La Jolie Ronde
FUN-filled songs, dances and games are making French just fantastique for a group of little learners.
With marching around the room and jumping-up and down amongst the activites, children are getting a lively introduction to the language at a lesson in Bradwell.
The La Jolie Ronde classes, run by tutor Amanda Dagg, are far removed from the stuffy image of desk bound pupils reciting verbs at school.
Amanda runs weekly after school classes for four to eight and eight to 12 year olds at Mill Lane Centre, Bradwell and the White Horse Nursery in East Somerton.
"This is a more fun version of school French, the group get to run around and a lot of the teaching is done through songs and games.
"The children enjoy themselves so much that they don't even realise they are learning," said Amanda.
"It is important to get them learning early as they are like little sponges when they are young.
"Children don't feel so self conscious at their age, if they can reach a good standard earlier that won't be such a problem when they are older."
Many of the children in Amanda's class have not had the chance to learn French at school and were all enjoying the experience.
Hillside First School pupil Kia, seven, said: "I like French and have learnt quite a lot here and also practice at home.
"I went to France, but did not know the language so mum got me to join the group to learn it and I am hoping to know a lot more when I go back."
Eight year old Imogen, from Great Yarmouth, said: "I have been learning French for a year and enjoy the classes, my older sister is taking French at school and I am hoping to keep studying too."
The government is planning to make a foreign language compulsory for eight to 12 year olds from 2010.
La Jolie Ronde has been providing a light hearted way for children to learn French for the last 25 years and was recently given an award for the best pre-school language course.
Contact Amanda on 01493 300192 or email amanda.dagg@ntlworld.com.


Everyone has a compartment of herself that no one is allowed to open. The face is not an entry to the soul and secrets can be hidden.
No one knew that better than Rose.
Forty years she kept quiet. Others described her as kind, generous, loving – little did they know.
In death, all was revealed. Church pews could not contain everyone and there were many witnesses when her son spat on the coffin. In a car outside, his wife restrained their son – a man child that his grandmother had said only a mother could love.
Thank you to Rochelle at http://www.rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com. She organises the Friday Fictioneers. Authors write a piece of 100 word fiction based on a photo prompt and exchange comments on their work. If you are a writer of short fiction, join us and see where your imagination takes you.
Lucky, rain on your wedding day.
Rosie would clobber the next auntie who said that. All the planning; all that money. A year's work for one day.
Then, Doug stepped on the lace train. Alison's colour drained and matched her dress. Rosie's repair wasn't visible from a distance.
The car, The Fiancé's choice – a tiny back seat. A sea of meringue swallowed Alison.
http://www.rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com organises the successful Friday Fictioneers. Authors write a piece of 100 word fiction on a photo prompt and exchange comments on their work. Thank you Rochelle for keeping this group active.


There are few things in life more exciting for fans of great music than the installation of their very own whole house audio system. But if you're thinking about upgrading your Fort Worth, TX home with a new way to listen to your favorite tracks, you probably have plenty of questions. Not the least of which is this: which speakers are right for my space? In this blog, we'll attempt to explain some of the general differences between speaker types and how you can benefit from using each. Read on to learn more!


TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 29, 2015) - PhosCan Chemical Corp. (TSX:FOS) ("PhosCan" or the "Company") announces the results of its annual and special meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") held in Toronto, Ontario on July 28, 2015.
In addition, at the Meeting shareholders appointed Collins Barrow Toronto LLP, Chartered Accountants, as auditors of the Company and ratified the continued existence of the Company's shareholder rights plan for a further three years.
In accordance with the Company's Majority Voting Policy, Mr. Gord McKinnon has submitted his resignation to the Board, as he received fewer votes in favour of his re-election as a director than votes withheld. Such resignation does not become effective unless and until it is accepted by the Board of Directors. Pursuant to the Policy, the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Company will consider the resignation and make a recommendation to the Board as to whether Mr. McKinnon's resignation should be accepted. The Board will announce its decision as to whether to accept Mr. McKinnon's resignation by no later than October 26, 2015, being 90 days from the date of the Annual and Special Meeting.
The formal report on voting results with respect to the matters voted upon at the Meeting will be filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.


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Q: How to specify input dimensions in deploy.prototxt for forward propagation when using OpenCV 3.3 to load Caffe models On specifying the input layer in deploy.prototxt as
layer {
  name: "data"
  type: "Input"
  top: "data"
  input_param { shape: { dim: 1 dim: 1 dim: 200 dim: 400 } }
}

I get the error:  "caffe.LayerParameter" has no field named "input_param".
On specifying the input layer as
layer {
  name: "data"
  type: "Input"
  top: "data"
  input_shape: { dim: 1 dim: 1 dim: 200 dim: 400 }
}

I get the error:  "caffe.LayerParameter" has no field named "input_shape".
On specifying the input as
input:"data"
input_dim:1
input_dim:1
input_dim:200
input_dim:400

I am able to proceed with forward propagation. The problem with this approach is that no matter what I specify as input_dim I get the same output.
for example these 3 variations of input dims give the same output values:
input:"data"
input_dim:1
input_dim:1
input_dim:200
input_dim:400

input:"data"
input_dim:1
input_dim:1
input_dim:400
input_dim:200

input:"data"
input_dim:1
input_dim:1
input_dim:1
input_dim:1

So my question is how should the input layer be specified for deploy.prototxt

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On Dec. 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1).
One of the major challenges facing roofing contractors today is a shortage of skilled labor that limits the number of projects they can complete in a given year.
John Cruickshank will explore current labor and employment policy issues confronting the metal construction industry, and the overall construction industry, at METALCON.
Are You Responsible for Labor Violations Committed by Companies You Work With?
There are three cases that will alter how franchisees, general and sub-contractors, and other companies operate.
Did you realize that you could be liable for labor violations that the company commits while working there?


A predicted 235m items of unwanted clothing will end up in landfill unnecessarily this spring, according to new research.
Junkbusters is a student-run campaign active throughout the spring and summer, that aims to prevent your unwanted items from going to waste. Instead, Junkbusters will help you give your items to good causes, from the British Heart Foundation to local foodbanks.
On the 6thFeb visit us at the Guild to speak about Junkbusters, collect an official Junkbusters donation bag, and chat to us about the importance of recycling your unwanted belongings. You might even get a glimpse of the elusive Junkbusters milkfloat (Eco-1).
Be a part of the solution and help reduce landfill with the Guild and Junkbusters.


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Megan Rapinoe and Budweiser are calling out brands and changing the way the NWSL is advertised
Caitlin Murray
Budweiser doesn't seem to be treating the NWSL as a charity or as a temporary revenue boost. (Photo by Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images).
Megan Rapinoe has participated in her share of campaigns to market the National Women's Soccer League. Over the years, she's been asked repeatedly to look into a camera and talk about being a role model to little girls and, frankly, she's a bit tired of it.
"I never want to be featured in a marketing product where the very first thing said about me is that I am a role model because I should already be that. I already am that," Rapinoe told Yahoo Sports last month. "Kids should already be looking up to us because we play for national team.
"You never see LeBron James purely positioned as inspiring young boys. No s--- he's inspiring young boys. He's f---ing LeBron James. It's like, of course! So why are we limiting ourselves that way?"
That has been the identity crisis in which the NWSL has found itself over its seven years of existence.
On one hand, clubs like the Portland Thorns have proven that beer-drinking, heckle-slinging adults can provide a fervent fan base and buzzing atmosphere to make a women's team successful. The Thorns have an average attendance higher than many MLS, NBA and NHL teams, largely because adults are crazy about them.
Those fans tend to be more work to find than the little girls who play soccer, though. For immediate results, clubs can target local youth teams and know that they will sell at least some tickets. That can be enticing for clubs that operate under a sense of urgency and constantly sit on the precipice of losing money, unlike the Thorns, who have been profitable since the team's debut in Portland.
But as the NWSL looks to shift from surviving to thriving — from NWSL 1.0 to NWSL 2.0 — the target fan base will need to change. That ideal target fan will perhaps need to look a bit more like Rapinoe.
"I want a marketing campaign that sells me the product," Rapinoe said. "Am I going to buy the product? I'm 34, I have my own money, I don't have kids, I love sports, I'm into fashion and culture. I'm not buying a product that's like, 'Little girls, blah blah blah.'
"Not that being a role model is not important — we do that work every day and we take it seriously. But we have to think about, as teams and as the league, what are we marketing this product as? Is it just 'Wow, this is super inspiring for little girls?' Well, no s---, this is the highest level they can get to — we don't need to market it to them."
There may be a shift on the horizon, thanks in part to Budweiser, the beer that is synonymous with America's most popular sports. With help from U.S. Soccer and Soccer United Marketing, who helped broker the deal, Budweiser signed a multi-year sponsorship with the NWSL as the league's biggest sponsor to date.
Beer, of course, is for adults. But Budweiser's campaign is less of the soft and fuzzy approach the NWSL has seen in the past. Budweiser's current campaign is a well-executed call-out, telling brands who claim they care about female empowerment to put their money where their corporate mouths are.
Megan Rapinoe consumes fast food (above) and and sports a watch (below) as part of Budweiser's tongue-in-cheek ad campaign promoting the NWSL. (Via Budweiser)
Megan Rapinoe consumes fast food and and sports a watch as part of Budweiser's tongue-in-cheek ad campaign promoting the NWSL. (Via Budweiser)
The tongue-in-cheek campaign features Rapinoe enjoying products from "future official sponsors" of the NWSL – eating generic hamburger that could be a fast food chain sponsor or sporting a generic watch that could become the "official timepiece of the NWSL." Fans are invited to pre-pledge their support for any NWSL sponsors that come in.
Rapinoe, who has been one of the most marketable athletes in the country after the World Cup and in high demand, gravitated toward the Budweiser initiative because it's not just another run-of-the-mill fluff campaign. It demands action, which is very on-brand for the outspoken Rapinoe.
"It's a gentle, or not-so-gentle, call-out and a nudge — but it's also a way forward, which I think is the most important thing," Rapinoe said. "Calling someone out and not doing anything about it is not a workable model going forward."
Rapinoe added: "I'm a big fan of a public call-out."
Budweiser insists the campaign isn't a hollow ploy for extra earned media on top of the advertisements. The beer company's partnership with the NWSL will ramp up further in 2020, and Budweiser is actually hearing from potential sponsors who have heeded Rapinoe's call to action.
"Yes, it is authentic and we are literally right now, as we speak, working through sponsorship deals on behalf of the league," Budweiser's vice president of marketing, Monica Rustgi, said last month. "It"s absolutely real. Those deals take time to work through but, for us, success here is raising awareness of the league and its amazing players."
What Budweiser is doing with the NWSL is part of a larger trend in advertising where it's not enough for brands to sell consumers on a product. Brands now are connecting with people's values — often referred to as "cause marketing" or "purpose-led advertising" — in a way that is sometimes a calculated risk.
When Nike featured Colin Kaepernick in a controversial campaign last year, the company faced backlash but it went down as a big win when the company's stock rose. Similarly, Gillette's campaign earlier this year to challenge toxic masculinity went viral, drawing both praise and criticism.
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For Budweiser, partnering with the NWSL is an extension of what the beer brand has been doing for decades; Budweiser is one of the USWNT's longest-standing sponsors, and the brand has attached itself to American sports across the board. But this call-out and gentle public shaming to tell other brands to get on board is a step in a more conscientious direction.
"Consumers and people resonate more with brands that they feel genuinely believe stand for something," Rustgi said. "That's why you're seeing this happening across the board. Just advertising alone doesn't cut it — they can see right through that. That's why when you share your values, you transcend advertising and there's a genuine connection.
"We wanted to flip the way people think of sponsorships," she added. "Instead of being a sponsor where you're going to see 'sponsored by' slapped in the stadium, we wanted to show up as a supporter, just like a fan."
But Budweiser's campaign doesn't position the NWSL as a charity. Rather, the league is touted as an opportunity.
The NWSL has seen record attendances, growing TV ratings, interest from an increasing number of ownership groups and other metrics in line with what other women's soccer leagues have seen. Women's soccer around the globe is growing, and the NWSL is no different.
Budweiser, which asked fans to pledge to keep watching the NWSL outside of World Cup years in the first phase of its campaign, has seen an overwhelming response, Rustgi said. Fans have taken to sharing photos of themselves with Budweiser beers, and even the players have gone out of their way to cheers to the beer company.
But it's one step, which should be the first of many, according to Rapinoe.
"I hope other brands see that the potential is there from the league perspective," Rapinoe said. "This gives me the opportunity to say: Hey brands, you say you want to be socially conscious, you want to invest with impact, you want to make money, you want to be part of the sports culture landscape — here you go. A lot of these brands were sponsoring us personally but not from a league standpoint. I hope it is a new way forward for companies."
Caitlin Murray is a contributor to Yahoo Sports and her book about the U.S. women's national team, The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women Who Changed Soccer, is out now. Follow her on Twitter @caitlinmurr.
Paylor: Flaws of Brady, Patriots too hard to ignore now
Robinson: Garrett era is a lost decade for Cowboys
Dominique has advice for recovering KD
About 21 million watched Clemson-Ohio State semifinal

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I remember setting up a "big" online conference in my high school when I was a teacher and budding educational leader. I invited the world to partake in this part-video, part-telephone gathering of educators from around the world. The only person who showed up was the district superintendent. It was a huge failure, and I can't imagine I impressed him much. Thanks to this failure, I learned never to organize something I don't think people will have much interest in. Perhaps I should have realized the topic (it was so unmemorable, I couldn't tell you what it was about) was of little or no interest to anyone.
School leaders must take calculated risks that could result in failure (as long as those risks don't waste teachers' time)! Modeling the practice that failure is necessary for success should trickle down to the children and encourage everyone in the learning community to try something bold, innovative, and…risky.


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Virgin Media adds Netflix to TiVo
10th September 2013 - StreamedTV
Virgin Media customers will soon be able to access Netflix's catalogue of TV shows and films.
The cable company has partnered with the US streaming service to offer its content via an app on the TiVo set top boxes.
When Virgin first launched the TiVo in 2010, its management boasted of "hundreds" of apps appearing within the first year, however the company has failed to attract anywhere near that number.
Access to Netflix will be subject to a separate £5.99 monthly subscription.
The app will be rolled out later this year following successful completion of a trial which starts this week.
Dana Strong, Virgin Media's chief operating officer, said: "We're delighted to be bringing yet another groundbreaking service onto TV screens in millions of Virgin Media homes.
"Netflix is a fabulous addition to Virgin Media TiVo, enabling our customers to enjoy even more of their favourite shows and movies simply and easily – all through their TV set-top box and at outstanding value."
Bill Holmes, global head of business development at Netflix, added: "The UK has given Netflix a fantastic welcome and we're excited to be partnering with Virgin Media to bring an amazing Netflix experience to Virgin Media customers."
Tagged With: Netflix, Virgin Media


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An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Britain.
Genre : Drama
Actors : Angie Ruiz, Annabel Linder, Daniel Craig, Emile Robert, Emilia Fox, Erich Conrad, Eve, Gina Athans, Julie Ordon, Scoutt Lowe, Sue Dall
Director : Alex Oakley, Baillie Walsh, Jacques Terblanche, Marci Trout, Mark Hopkins, Tom Brewster
Country : UK
Keywords: Recuerdos de un tonto Спомените на неудачника Reflexos da Inocência Flash-back Temné vzpomínky War das mein Leben? Välähdyksiä menneisyydestä Idanikos erastis Emlékek hálójában Zakochany glupiec Reencontrar o Passado Воспоминания неудачника Bir Aptalin Anilari
Ben-Hur
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Ray & Liz
Turner Prize-nominee and Deutsche Börse Prize-winner, Richard Billingham returns to the subject of the striking photographs that he captured of his family during Thatcher era Britain in this drama recounting his childhood in a Birmingham council flat.
An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison. Based on the book "Three Seconds" by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström.
Black as Night
A teenage girl with self-esteem issues finds confidence in the most unlikely way, by spending her summer battling vampires that prey on New Orleans' disenfranchised with the help of her best friend, the boy she's always pined for, and a peculiar rich girl.
Karen Kingsbury's A Time to Dance
John and Abby Reynolds are a married couple who have been together since their days as high school sweethearts – when John was a football hero and Abby dreamed of becoming a writer.
Long quan
After the death of his master, martial arts student Tong Huo-wan travels with his adoptive family to seek redress from the man responsible but finds himself torn between righteousness and filial piety after becoming entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Royalteen
A teenager struggles to keep her scandal-ridden past and a big secret from getting out when she strikes up an unlikely romance with the crown prince.
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice – work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan…
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Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
Country: Iran
Bittersweet Monday
An emotional goodbye between longtime best friends begins an unexpected love affair, putting two marriages and many friendships at stake.
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the streets.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
From abject poverty to becoming a ten-time boxing world champion, congressman, and international icon, Manny Pacquiao is the true definition of a Cinderella story. In the Philippines, he first entered the ring as a sixteen-year-old weighing ninety-eight pounds with the goal of earning money to feed his family. Now, almost twenty years later, when he fights, the country of 100 million people comes to a complete standstill to watch. Regarded for his ability to bring people together, Pacquiao entered the political arena in 2010. As history's first boxing congressman, Pacquiao now fights for his people both inside and outside of the ring. Now at the height of his career, he is faced with maneuvering an unscrupulous sport while maintaining his political duties. The question now is, what bridge is too far for Manny Pacquiao to cross?
Country: Philippines, USA


The smells of various metals being smelted and refined filled the workshop. Short, stocky dwarves hammered away, content to work by themselves and not be interrupted by the other workers. That didn't stop them from sending sidelong glances at the others, however.
Day after day and night after night, the dwarves crafted the very best tools and items to be used by each other and those in the kingdom. But as is customary among dwarves, these fine crafters of metal, runes, and gems had secret projects that nobody would see until they were completed. These projects would be sold to the King, and only the most worthy and cunning artisan would make a proper craftsman to the King himself.
While the casual onlooker might only see the simple tinkerings of the dwarves, the experienced crafter knew of the secrets that lay on each and every workbench; a work of art suitable for only a king…so long as they can mine the resources required to finish their secret projects before a colleague finishes theirs first.
WARNING: This is a preview of Dwarven Smithy. I was sent a prototype version of the game. All components and rules are prototype and subject to change.
Before I begin, I just have to say one thing...The women dwarves have beards! How neat is that!? There. I said it. On with the review!
Dwarven Smithy is a resource and hand management game in which players craft items, tools, apprentices, and other items fit for kings, all in the hopes of selling them for exorbitant prices and becoming the richest dwarf in the realm.
Players win by having the most gold at the end of the game. The game ends when the last Guild Card or Resource Card (Mine deck) has been drawn, or a player has four King's Items in their Market.
The card on the left is part of the Full Game, and the one on the right belongs to the Starter Game.
Once the desired game type has been chosen, place the game board in the middle of the table. Shuffle the Guild deck and place it on its designated spot on the board. Do the same with the Mine deck. Stack coins by value, and each player receives 15 gold coins. Before players draw their starting hand, each player takes the top four cards of the Mine deck and places them in their Workshop (more on that later) unrefined. Then, each player draws four cards from the Mine deck, and two cards from the Guild deck. Now you're ready to play!
Once setup is complete, your play area should look something like this.
Each player's player area revolves around their player card (i.e. the Dwarf card). Above the card is the designated location for the Market (4 cards max), the bottom is for cards in the Workshop (7 cards max), and the left and right sides of the card hold Apprentices and Tools, respectively (2 cards max on each side).
Each player takes his or her turn, following turn order, by completing a series of phases. At the beginning of each player's turn, players turn their unrefined cards in their Workshop to refined. This makes them useable and generally makes it so that card sells for more gold.
If a player has crafted a Guild card on the previous turn, that card is now considered crafted, and can either be sold for a healthy sum of gold, kept as a tool or apprentice, or kept in the player's Market if it's a King's Item (four King's Items in a player's Market triggers the end of the game).
Crafting a King's Item: the King's Item is played face down on all the required resources. Once crafted, the face down King's Item card and all attached resources go into that player's Market.
Next, the active player may do as many actions as he or she desires (which may sound like a crazy amount of actions, but there are only so many actions a player can actually do on their turn). There are various actions from which to choose, but I won't go into great detail about them. To sum things up, actions help you collect cards, sell cards, and eventually craft your big-ticket items for heaps of gold.
The final phase is to draw four cards (unless you would go over your hand limit of six cards, in which case only draw up to six).
This method of play continues until one of the draw decks is depleted, or a player has four or more King's Items cards in their Market area. When this happens, every other player gets one more turn, and then King's Items are scored, gold distributed, and one Master Craftsman crowned!
Four King's Items are in this player's Market, which triggers the end of the game.
The theme is simple, yet compelling. As dwarves, players build and craft things using various metals, gems, and runes, which is something dwarves are known to be inherently good at. Despite the relative simplicity of the theme, there is enough of it to keep players engaged as they continue to construct and craft various objects (I crafted nails once; so proud).
A metal, a gem, and a rune.
The mechanics behind the game work well. In fact, the more I played the more I grew to understand and respect the mechanic of choice; it just fits. Managing resources is what all good dwarves must do if they want to end up with the most riches. In the game, I appreciated how players could drop as many cards into their play area as they wanted (and as allowed), yet they had to wait until their next turn before really using them for anything worthwhile, rather than instantly playing cards then crafting on the same turn.
Resources are played in the Workshop (below the player card).
Another interesting aspect was the Market. Sometimes, players are forced to stash some cards in the market (above their player card) because their Workshop was out of room. Well, since it's in the market, that means the card is fair game to anyone who wants to buy it, and if it does get sold, then so much for saving it for later! It's a nice aspect to gameplay that helps add a bit more depth to the game.
The art is certainly well done. The cards look great and, as I mentioned earlier, the women have beards, which is awesome. A lot of attention went into the artwork of the game. The runes, gems, and metals looks great, as do the Guild cards. It definitely helps the theme sink in while playing.
The backs of the Guild and Resource cards.
The backs of two of the player cards.
Components are good, for the most part. My only beef is with the gold coins, which don't look so much as gold coins as cheap cardboard. But let's be real, that's not going to ruin this game for me. Also, the copy of Dwarven Smithy that I have is a pre-Kickstarter version, so I assume the coins will look better once all is said and funded.
The mechanics are enjoyable, and while games can take anywhere from 60-120 minutes (depending on player count), I didn't find it dragging on.
The art is neat and the women have beards (have I mentioned that yet?).
There's a fair bit of strategy and planning ahead, which adds depth.
I found that, even if one player had four King's Items (worth the most gold) in their Market at the end of the game and I only had one (woe is me), the point differential wasn't as extreme as I thought it would be. This allows for players to still have a shot at winning even if the cards they need for King's Items aren't showing up.
While players can purchase Mine and Guild cards from other players, there really isn't a lot of player interaction.
Games can take a fair bit of time to play.
Dwarven Smithy is a solid game. It's a wonderful hand, area, and resource management game with a fun set of mechanics. It's got it where it counts, and it's one I'll certainly get back to the table.
I am giving Dwarven Smithy 7 out of 10 super meeples.
On KICKSTARTER now through October 17, 2017!!!
I played this at Origins and was disappointed that it didn't make its initial funding. I really hope it does so when it relaunches.


Changes to eligibility rules should be adopted by any agency looking to encourage women to continue in science.
I attended a meeting in Cambridge last month about European Research Council funding for early career researchers. One mode of providing "start-up" funding in Europe is to award personal fellowships to new and early career investigators that covers salaries and research. It is becoming more and more common for new researchers (myself included) to seek such funding to take up an independent research position.
One thing that I was a little surprised to see but also very happy about was the proportion of females in the room (I guessed 50-60%). There is certainly considerable interest at the postdoctoral level to obtain grant money to begin one's own research group. Of course, our readers have heard, and joined in our lamentations, about how these figures don't seem to translate into equal numbers of young female group leaders, so what is the ERC doing about it?
The interesting part about this policy is not that parents get an extra window of time to apply for grants, but that the policy for moms and dads is handled differently. Whilst moms get 18 months irrespective of how much physical time they actually take off, dads have to document the amount of parental leave taken. This is perhaps one of the most progressive funding policies I've seen over the years and should be adopted by any agency looking to encourage women to continue in science. It does not give an advantage to women that do not have children, can be equally beneficial to men that take off time to nurture their children, and accounts for the physical demands of pregnancy and motherhood. Moreover it does all of this without substantially altering the number of applications that will be received. Way to go ERC.
Really scraping the bottom… can't we at least get parental leave during a postdoc?
Nice Gals Finish Last: Sexist Reference Letters or Skewed Value Systems?


And you realize it was you who chose.
However clausterphobic this is, you want to hide.
Your belief in your self begins to wobble.
You no more, however had you try , can fret.
Is too wide, for you to understand.
Why bother what has happened?
Close your eyes and let there be a new beginning.
You can again make a choice.


stock options (i.e., excess of value over option price) when the employee moves out of Ohio is subject to State of Ohio taxation. The various apportionment approaches will cause the need for a federal resolution of the issue of how stock option income is earned assuming a multi-year earning approach is applied under the proposal.
2. Generally, income recognized by an optionee upon the exercise of a stock option and upon the sale of stock acquired upon exercise will be taxed by the optionee's state of residence at the time of the exercise and the sale.
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Q: How is typeof string not an instanceof String? In the following code, if typeof of something and arbit comes out to be string, why doesn't instanceof String return true:
const roles = ['something', 'arbit'];
console.log("Array.isArray(roles):", Array.isArray(roles));
console.log("roles instanceof Array:", (roles instanceof Array));
roles.forEach(element => {
    console.log(`[${element}]`);
    console.log(`\ttypeof(${element}):`, typeof(element));
    console.log(`\t${element} instanceof String:`, (element instanceof String));
});

The output for this is:
Array.isArray(roles): true
roles instanceof Array: true
[something]
        typeof(something): string
        something instanceof String: false
[arbit]
        typeof(arbit): string
        arbit instanceof String: false

Also, roles instanceof Array evaluates to true. Thoroughly confused.
This is plain JavaScript running in Nodejs 12, though I doubt that makes any difference...

A: Javascript has two main ways to make strings, as a literal:
const foo = "hi";

and via the string constructor
const bar = new String("hi");

These are not the same thing. The second one will be a bit slower and have subtle behavior differences.
So the reason instanceof String doesn't work, is because your literal string is not an instance of this class.
Generally you'll want to avoid new String().

A: Use typeof element === "string" instead of instanceof.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/instanceof
instanceof doesn't work with primitive data types.


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Yazmin Montoya: From soccer star to campus missionary
A former All-CIF star at Bishop Amat High School
She'd been an All-CIF soccer player at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, leading her team to two CIF championships. She'd then broken scoring records in her freshman year at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, made first team all-conference and was on her way to the successful soccer career she'd envisioned.
"I thought," said Yazmin Montoya, "that I was on top of the world." With an embarrassed grin, she added, "It kind of blew up my head, because I thought I was the one achieving all of this."
But in her sophomore year, the goals didn't come for the West Covina native, no matter how hard she tried. Her frustration mounted — not good for someone whose entire identity, she admitted, was wrapped up in being a soccer player. What to do? How about a little conversation with God?
"Through prayer," said Montoya, "I realized that God was making me take a step back, that he was telling me, 'Remember who your creator is. I was the one who gave you these gifts, to play soccer, to work hard, to enjoy life.' That was a real wake-up call."
So was the conversation she had with her new friend, one of the few people who regularly attended every women's soccer game, one who also happened to be a missionary with Varsity Catholic, a division of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
"She asked me one day if Jesus Christ was at the center of my life," Montoya remembered. "Yes, I said, of course he is. She invited me to a deeper relationship with Jesus, and to share that relationship with others."
Today, just three years later, 22-year-old Montoya is a Varsity Catholic missionary herself, serving at the University of Oklahoma — and, she said, "on fire with the desire to spread Jesus' love."
'Where God wants me to be'
Norman, Oklahoma, is known as home of one of the nation's perennially strong collegiate football teams, but not necessarily as a hotbed of Catholicism. Yet Montoya seems no more daunted by the challenge of campus missionary work than she was by opposing goalies on the soccer field.
"I really believe this is where I need to be, where God wants me to be," said the outgoing young woman, taking a break from the orientation week activities preceding the start of the fall semester. "We want these students to know the fullness of Jesus' love."
During the 2017-18 academic year, Montoya will be one of 158 Varsity Catholic missionaries (most, like her, recent college graduates) serving on 97 campuses as part of the FOCUS outreach. Founded in 1998, FOCUS invites college students into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, equipping them for Christ-centered evangelization, discipleship and friendships, and (in some cases) to pursue parish work and/or religious vocations.
Varsity Catholic missionaries (like Montoya) mentor Catholic athletes, teaching them to glorify God in their sports and daily lives. As the only Varsity Catholic missionary on the FOCUS team at Oklahoma, Montoya will work with Catholic student-athletes already involved in Bible study, faith-sharing and other activities, including daily Mass at St. Thomas More University Parish.
"And we will invite others to participate, Catholic or not, to talk about faith," she said. "Our goal is to lead and teach others on the faith, just as I was at Louisiana. The Lord blesses us as athletes with a platform to glorify his name. Our talent is a gift — and no gift is perfect until given back to its giver."
It was a lesson she learned the hard way, though one for which she was well prepared.
'My parents instilled excellence'
The middle child born to Carolina and Fernando Montoya (both teachers in Baldwin Park Unified School District), Montoya attended St. Christopher Church and School, thriving in the disciplined Catholic school environment. "I liked the strictness and the order," she said. "I loved religion class and going to Mass, and having faith incorporated into school life was a real blessing."
What she loved most, though, was playing soccer, which came to her easily but at which she worked harder and harder as she excelled in youth level play. "My parents always instilled excellence," she said. "Anything you were doing in every part of your life, you were going to do your best. And in my mind that meant you always had to be the best."
Which she often was. In four years at Bishop Amat, Montoya scored 45 goals and 48 assists, helped the Lancers win four league championships and CIF titles (2010 and 2012) and twice was named first team All-CIF.
And when, during a tournament in San Diego, the Louisiana-Lafayette women's soccer coach approached her, invited her to visit the campus and offered a full scholarship, "I thought it was God's will for me to continue doing what I'd been doing."
But God's will, if that's what it was, involved more than soccer, which became clear in that difficult sophomore season when Montoya scored but seven goals (after setting a school record with 13 as a freshman).
And so came the encounter with the Varsity Catholic missionary, which turned Montoya's perspective on soccer, and life, in a whole new direction — from "I'm having fun and compiling stats" to "God gave me these gifts, and my obligation is to use those gifts for him and his glory."
"My missionary challenged me in my faith; she told me my identity relied solely on the fact that I was a beautiful daughter of God. Experiencing this freedom from always feeling like I needed to succeed to maintain who I am, I wanted to share this with my team."
As team captain, Montoya invited her teammates to pray with her before the start of practice, "the scariest thing I've ever done." Only five of 33 girls joined her, but the number gradually increased. "By the end of my senior year, the whole team was praying together, before and after every practice and game. It's amazing how praying gives you strength and courage."
Even getting up at 5 a.m. to practice, she said, was no longer a chore, but "an opportunity. I got to wake up and work with my teammates and use my God-given gifts, to push them and myself to do better on and off the field, to love others like he wants me to."
In her senior season, Montoya was named to Sun Belt and All-Louisiana first teams and became the Ragin' Cajuns' career leader in goals and points. She also was named Louisiana-Lafayette's 2016-17 Female Student-Athlete of the Year and — having graduated last December majoring in exercise science — received a graduate assistantship, hoping to pursue a career in strength and conditioning.
"But," she added with a chuckle, "God had a bigger purpose ... for me."
'God is calling me now'
During her spring semester of grad school, the Varsity Catholic missionaries encouraged Montoya to join them in their work. She attended a FOCUS interview weekend.
"I said, 'I need to do this. These people love Jesus and want to bring the good news to everyone. I have to do this.' " Reaction to her choice was "mixed."
"People thought, 'You're going from free education and smooth sailing to missionary work?' Yes, I said, God is calling me now," she recalled. "And a lot of prayer and tears were involved in my decision, but I am happy."
When she told family and friends on her visit to California earlier this summer what she wanted to do and why, "they saw my passion, and they agreed with me. They said, 'I can see it in your eyes.' "
St. Thomas More, she said, "is an amazing parish community, with packed Sunday Masses. And the amazing people I get to work with and walk with on their journeys really pumps me up to give it my best effort."
The passion, discipline and competitiveness Montoya brought to the soccer field taps into her new work. "My missionary at Louisiana-Lafayette got me into praying the rosary a couple times a week," she said. "And being disciplined to excel in sports helps me make the time to attend Mass and holy hour daily."
Measuring the success of her work won't be the same, she knows, as checking the stat sheet for goals and assists. "That's okay. We can fool ourselves into thinking we can actually measure the results of our missionary efforts.
"Really, it's in hearts transformed: Are they on fire for Jesus? And you don't always know that right away. But it's better to have one on fire than six who are lukewarm. We want to be spirit-led in our work, and that means having faith and trust. I am so excited to be here."
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Alhambra Catholic school launches campus expansion by Angelus Staff September 27, 2021


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Off Running with Running Brooke
By Jane Hess Collins
Posted on Mar 12,2012
Filed Under Local Sports, News , Community,
Brooke Curran on a morning run along the Old Town Alexandria waterfront.
ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Right now Brooke Snyder Curran is in Antarctica, running 26 miles across snow, ice, mud and rock. While this is pretty spectacular all by itself, Brooke runs a marathon every month to raise funds for five local charities.
This latest Antarctic adventure is her 45th marathon.
Photo by Nina Tisara.
Brooke with some of the youngest beneficiaries
of her marathon running.
To get a peek inside Brooke's universe, I asked her if I could train with her one morning. She thought it was a great idea, and emailed back with "I'd be happy to run down and meet you at your house."
Brooke meant this literally-she would run the 1½ miles from her house to mine then we would begin our workout. She offered three options:
1. Running up and down the stairs of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial
2. Jogging at the high school track
3. Deep-water running in the community center pool, supported with a flotation belt
Since I get winded walking to the Dairy Queen, I picked option 3 and met her in the 12 foot waters of the Chinquapin Recreation Center pool at 8 a.m. last week.
Brooke had just completed a marathon in Austin, TX, so it was a light training day for her. Deep water running for 10 minutes roughly equated to one mile, she explained. Eighty minutes and eight miles later we exited the pool, tired but not exhausted, fatigued but not sore. Most surprising of all, I enjoyed it so much Brooke and I water-ran a second time. It's a painless way to stay fit, and besides, Brooke is a neat person to hang out with.
Brooke had run marathons for years, but as her finish-line time decreased her dissatisfaction with her sport increased. Then one day, driving through a nearby low-income neighborhood, she decided to merge her love of running with her desire to help the neighborhood children and families in need. Suddenly, running became the mechanism by which she could make a difference, not the end in itself. And that re-invigorated her passion for marathons.
In September of 2009 Brooke launched the Runningbrooke Fund and vowed to run at least one marathon a month, to run in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and to run on all seven continents and in the five world marathon majors. She has raised over $200,000 from supporters and sponsors and distributes it to five local, high-impact charities that support needy families and children.
The Antarctica Marathon is sold out through 2014.
She pays for all of her running expenses herself.
I've gotten to know Brooke from our pool time and I've developed several "Brooke's Lists of Five" to share with you:
List #1: 5 Things to Know about Brooke Curran:
1. She is built like Olympic medalist Dana Torres. Someone said once that by age 40, you have the body you deserve. This 40+ year-old married mother of three has earned every ripple. I accidentally poked her with my penknife and the blade bent (not really-I made that up-but seriously, it could happen).
2. She eats well. After reading the book Fast Food Nation 10 years ago, Brooke is uber-conscious about what she eats, and prepares most of her own meals from scratch. Her indulgence? Ten dark chocolate chips a day.
3. She loves a challenge. While that's hardly a surprise, Brooke likes to put herself in increasing impossible situations to see how she will climb out. For now it's a marathon a month. Next up? A 100 mile ultra-marathon. An Ironman triathlon is on the horizon too.
4. She speaks softly and lets her running be the stick. While so many others fight for the spotlight for less-worthy endeavors (reality TV, anyone?), Brooke dials it back, sometimes deliberately, to appear less intimidating.
5. She suffers from exercised-induced asthma. She must treat it daily and has testified before Congress as part of "Asthma Awareness Day Capitol Hill."
List #2: The 5 Charities that Brooke supports through her Runningbrooke Fund:
1. ACTion Alexandria challenges the Alexandria community to action through its grassroots, social media-based promotion of local needs.
2. Child and Family Network Centers (CFNC) provides free preschool and free social services for at-risk children and their families.
3. Community Lodgings helps transition homelessness families to self-sufficiency through affordable housing and education.
4. Girls on the Run (GOTR) educates and prepares girls ages 8-13 for healthy living through training for a 5k running event and self-esteem-enhancing programs.
5. The Reading Connection creates literacy-rich environments for at-risk children.
Photo by Nina Tisara
Brooke has raised over $200,000 for five
Alexandria-based charities that support families
and children since September of 2009.
List #3: 5 Reasons to love the Runningbrooke Fund (and 5 reasons to start your own):
1. It keeps you fit. We're not all marathoners, and certainly not once-a-month marathoners. But, adding just a little bit more exercise or eating just a little bit less (or better) does make a difference.
2. It gives locally. "Charity begins at home" the saying goes. There is need in every community that could use your help. Giving just a little of your resources-your time, talent or treasure-can do tremendous good.
3. It's manageable. One person's span of control, the Air Force told me back in my active duty days, is seven. Supporting more than seven charities will spread you too thin. Supporting five or less charities, especially local ones, is quite do-able.
4. It's focused. The five charities that Brooke supports help the marginalized and needy children and families in her hometown of Alexandria, Virginia. Helping several like-focused causes in your community can create a synergistic, positive outcome.
5. You can do this. Brooke has several projects lined up to help you start running and raising funds in your community. Want to train for a 5K or marathon and raise funds for community needs? How about a Dream Run marathon experience with Brooke training your and running with you all 26.2 miles? Or, join Brooke in her first RunningBrooke Fund 5K this spring. Just click here.
Brooke will take care of the rest.
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Almond-stuffed olives make a robust sauce when mixed with herbs - rather like a non-creamy tartare sauce!
First make the salsa verde: finely chop 2 garlic cloves, 1 drained 240g jar of Waitrose Spanish Green Olives Stuffed with Almonds and 1 handful each of fresh mint and flatleaf parsley.
Stir in 2 tbsp white wine vinegar and 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil. Brush four 125g fillets of haddock with olive oil and grill for 3-4 minutes each side until cooked and golden.
Serve with the salsa and roasted new potatoes.


If you want to give your baby a traditional Irish name, forget about Siobhan, Sinead, and Sean. Instead, consider Conor, Cormac, or Niall.
Parents who choose "traditional" Irish names for their children in order to be patriotic will have to think again. A new study has found that many names thought to be from auld Ireland, including Sean, arrived with the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century.


"I feel so much regret for my choices,'' Montaner, who has been in custody since early last year, said in court. He added that he let down the dozens of relatives and friends who attended his sentencing.
What made Montaner's Medicare fraud case different from so many others was that his son — whom Montaner had brought into his clinic business — testified against the father before a federal grand jury and was almost going to be a witness again at his sentencing.
A prosecutor had planned to call Ernesto A. Montaner Jr., a cooperating witness already convicted of Medicare fraud, to the stand to show that the father was in charge of four physical therapy clinics. Establishing the father's leadership role would boost his sentence. But the elder Montaner shifted blame to his son, asserting that Montaner Jr. was in fact responsible for running the clinics.
Montaner's defense attorney and two of his daughters, who are lawyers, told the judge that pitting the son against his father placed a terrible strain on the family.
"I'm glad it's over," Marlene Montaner said outside the courtroom, after asking the judge to release the elder Montaner immediately so that he could be home for Father's Day on Sunday.
Montaner's defense lawyer, who had challenged the characterization of his client's management role, condemned the prosecutor's tactics, arguing that the U.S. attorney's office "forced" the son's "hand" to testify against his father before the grand jury and to use him again for the sentencing.
"This has been a very unfortunate situation for this family," the father's lawyer, Marc Seitles, told the judge. "What the government was doing was something it shouldn't have done. This was not done with any malice, but it was done.
But Seitles and his client, in the days before sentencing, dropped their challenge to the leadership assertion, making it unnecessary for the son to testify again.
In 2010, the father, son and business partner Jose A. Varona were accused of bribing assisted-living facilities, home healthcare agencies and patient recruiters for Medicare referrals in an elaborate scheme to dupe the government program into paying $6.2 million for services that were unnecessary or never provided from 2006 to 2008.
During that era, South Florida rehab clinics accounted for $360 million, or one-quarter, of all Medicare claims for physical and occupational therapy services across the country.
The FBI began investigating Montaner and his rehab clinics in 2006, when agents opened an undercover operation.
That year, at a wedding reception, Montaner Sr. was overheard bragging that the FBI would never be able to touch him since he was the only defendant acquitted in a major Miami-Dade healthcare fraud case back in the 1990s.
Ultimately, the FBI obtained its strongest evidence when an undercover agent posing as a patient recruiter received cash kickback payments from Montaner Sr. as the exchange was being videotaped — one of 208 recordings, court documents show.
But several months after the FBI raided the family's clinics in September 2008, Montaner Sr. fled to Costa Rica, leaving his son and partner behind.
Two years later, Montaner Jr., 46, a computer whiz who admitted manipulating Medicare billing codes to maximize payments, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the healthcare program. He was sentenced to four years in prison after agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors.
"To put it mildly, this is not a position that Ernie embraced, but rather one that was thrust upon him as a result of his father's betrayal," the son's attorney, Silvia B. Pinera-Vazquez, wrote in court papers.
Varona, a patient recruiter who operated one of Montaner Sr.'s clinics, also pleaded guilty to the same conspiracy charge and was sentenced to three years in prison. Varona, 40, gave the FBI crucial information about where Montaner Sr. was hiding near San Jose, Costa Rica, said his lawyer, Simon T. Steckel. Varona's sentence was later reduced to nearly two years.
Costa Rican authorities arrested Montaner Sr. in July 2010. He remained in jail while he fought his extradition. FBI agents brought him back to Miami in February 2011.
A federal magistrate judge ordered the pretrial detention of Montaner, who once lived in a Brickell Avenue penthouse apartment and drove a Mercedes SL 500. Montaner — the eldest son of a Cuban father who was known as the "Poet of Exile," and brother of Spain-based columnist Carlos Alberto Montaner — has remained in custody in the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami.
His brother, who writes for Firmas Press and is published in the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, sent a letter to Judge King, seeking his forgiveness in light of Montaner Sr.'s continued incarceration and poor health.
"Ernesto has already spent two years deprived of freedom, a suffering aggravated by the moral burden of being found guilty of Medicare fraud, a type of infamous misdeed that totally discredits him within the community to which he belongs," the brother wrote.


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Otto Ohlsen (* 18. Dezember 1916 in Apenrade; † 25. September 2005 in Hamburg) war langjähriger Direktor des DRK-Suchdienstes.

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Der Nordschleswiger Otto Ohlsen machte sein Abitur am Hamburger Christianeum. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges war er im Generalstab der Wehrmacht tätig. Nach dem Ende des Krieges engagierte er sich ab 1946 bei dem Suchdienst des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes. Die Organisation führte in ihren Listen die Vermisstenmeldung von mehr als 14 Millionen Menschen.

Im Jahr 1955 wurde Ohlsen Direktor der DRK-Suchdienstzentrale und arbeitete auch während des Kalten Krieges mit den ost- und südosteuropäischen Staaten zusammen. 1982 wurde Otto Ohlsen pensioniert. In seiner 36-jährigen Tätigkeit hatte der DRK-Suchdienst es geschafft, 1.245.000 Deutsche mit ihren Angehörigen zusammenzuführen und die Schicksale von 350.000 verschollenen Zivilisten zu klären. Lediglich 1.500 offene Anfragen aus 291.000 Suchanfragen nach vermissten Kindern waren zu verzeichnen.

Otto Ohlsen hinterlässt seine Ehefrau Ilse, vier Töchter, sechs Enkel und drei Urenkel.

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IVEX FILES PUBLIC STOCK OFFERING
Sarah S. Smith PLASTICS NEWS STAFF
Ivex Packaging Corp., a plastic-and paper-based flexible packaging manufacturer, has filed a $125 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The shares will be issued and sold by the company, Acadia Partners and other related investors. Ivex plans to use the proceeds to refinance or retire all or a portion of its outstanding debt. The proceeds will be used with loans under a new $475 million credit facility.
The company had canceled a previous planned stock offering in December 1995. That IPO was slated to raise $54.6 million.
The Lincolnshire, Ill., company makes oriented polystyrene sheet and film and thermoformed PS packaging. It reported sales of $264 million and profit of $2.7 million for the first six months of the year, up from $210.4 million and $1.7 million, respectively, for the first six months of 1996. Ivex reported 1996 sales of $485 million. It has about 3,000 employees.
Its consumer packaging products unit includes plastic containers and microwaveable packaging. The protective packaging unit serves the medical and electronics industries.
Merrill Lynch & Co. will be the lead manager of the offering with Lehman Bros. and Salomon Bros. acting as co-managers.
Standard & Poor's Corp. announced that successful completion of the IPO could result in a modest upgrade for Ivex's corporate credit and long-term ratings. Ivex received a corporation credit rating of B+ and a senior secured debt rating of B-.
Ivex was third in Plastics News' 1997 ranking of North American thermoformers, with relevant sales of $160 million.