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(1July013) This issue will complete the Bobsboat design series. The 15 July issue will review how to tape seams.
Scott and John sail their Normsboats in the recent Florida 120, shown here off Navarre Beach.
In the past few Bobsboat episodes we have figured out the shapes of all the panels and then all the required bevels. We are ready to draw real structural details now.
One guiding rule to keep in mind is that structural elements in a boat are almost always defined by stiffness and not strength. Second guiding rule is that if you double the thickness of a structural element you will usually increase it bending stiffness by a factor of 8! So half inch plywood is eight times as stiff as quarter inch, and three eights is 3.4 times as stiff as 1/4", etc.
Funny thing about decks is that they can be quite heavy. Two of my first boats, the Bolger Jinni and Birdwatcher, had decks from 1/4" plywood. I suppose the largest unsupported areas were about 18" square. I am not heavy compared to a lot of you, about 170 pounds. When I step on those decks they creak but I don't think they ever cracked. Bolger was big into 1/4" ply back then and he was not a heavy man. Most folks would not be happy about walking on a deck of 1/4" plywood even if it doesn't crack. So a deck that will really get walked on should be 3/8" thick minium. But a deck that usually won't get walked on can be 1/4" I think and that might include decks for canoes and rowing boats and smaller sailboats where you can't step away from the cockpit anyway. Bobsboat is pretty large and at times folks will step on its decks just to get on and off the boat from a beach so I would use 3/8" ply on its decks.
It is worth noting that I would never use 1/2" since weight up high in any boat will be a problem.
In my opinion the sides of almost any boat can be quite light. The 24' Birdwatcher has 1/4" ply sides and there is no problem. So I specify 1/4" ply on almost anything I draw. Sometimes on the larger boats I might draw 3/8" ply mostly because such a boat will have perhaps no 1/4" anywhere else. Someone who is watching his weight could go with 1/4" will no exceptions I can think of, even with a 30'+ Cormorant. I think the only argument against the lighter ply might be its impact resistance but it is seldom the sides of a boat that take a beating. On the little canoes and such I will specify 1/4" only because it is easy to get - lighter 3/16" or even 1/8" will suffice if you want to spend the extra for less, so to speak. In a boat you need to carry by hand a long way that can make the difference between a boat you like to use and one you hate to use.
On my boats you won't have separate bilge panels unless it is a taped seam multichine. Flexing does not seem to be a problem because these panels are seldom very wide. But some judgement is in order with these because they can take a beating at times. Even on the little canoes I would use at least 1/4" here - you might try 1/8" to save a bit of weight but there is a possiblity of getting a rock through it in certain conditions. So as a general guide I would use 1/4" ply for bilge panels for boats under say 14' long, maybe 3/8" ply from there to say 20' long, and maybe 1/2" ply for boats even larger. For Bobsboat I will specify 3/8" ply.
Bottom panels of plywood boats are really challenging.
I had several Bolger boats when I started. I built my Teal with a 3/8" bottom as specified on the plans - quite solid for such a small boat.
My old Bolger Jinni had an open center cockpit 4' wide and 6.5' long with a bottom of 1/4" plywood with three small stiffeners on the outside bottom. In rough water I looked to flex an inch although I suppose it was actually a lot less. There seems to have been no harm to it but it was scary at times to watch. And any gear you had sitting on that bottom would hop clear with each wave. It never failed structurally.
Next was a Bolger Gull dory built entirely with 1/4" ply and taped seams. Over 15' long and only 65 pounds! We took it everywhere. Loading and unloading from a cartop was done in a minute or so. But I've seen the very same design done with thicker ply which weighed 150 pounds and was no joy to cartop. My Gull was stiff enough. The 1/4" bottom had no stiffeners at all but did have a thin layer of fiberglass cloth on the outside. That gave abrasion resistance but added no stiffness. From that experience you will see that I never specify more that 1/4" for the bottom of canoes and rowing boats. It is strong enough and stiff enough and anything extra you add will only detract from the experience.
Last came the Birdwatcher. Bottom is two layers of 1/2" ply laminated together to form a 1" thick plate. There are areas 5' wide and 6' long that are unsupported. Still it is solid as a rock and remember that a 1" thick bottom will be 64 times as stiff as the same floor in 1/4". In the bottom the weight on a sailing boat is a plus for the most part. It is ballast. But I will suggest that if ballast weight is all you need then a hundred pounds of steel is a lot easier and cheaper to put in place than a hundred pounds of plywood. I can tell you that gluing on the second lamination on a 24' boat takes a lot of planning and a lot of glue and fasteners to secure while the glue cures.
Power boats have a much more difficult bottom situation because performance is for the most part just a result of high power/weight ratio. Remember the old rule that it takes a horse to plane 50 pounds of weight. A sheet of 1/2" plywood weighs about 50 pounds. So you can't just pile it on like you can with a sail boat that will be trailered (any cartopped boat has to be light to be successful). My AF4 supplied me with guidance on this subject but not because I wanted it to. The original drawings had a 3/8" bottom with three longitudinal stiffener/skids on the outside. When I built my prototype I bought some 3/8" ply but like most plywood nowadays it was undersized and is really 5/16". It was nothing but trouble both from the standpoint of flexing and leaking (through knots and such) but has never failed. As with the old Jinni it can be frightening to watch in rough water and guaranteed to make you slow down. When Max built his AF4 he knew of my troubles and made his with a 5/8" bottom and a single 2x4 stiffener down the bottom center. His is like iron although his boat is about 150 pounds total heavier, not all of it in the bottom. So another 3 hp needed but maybe it was worth it. The current AF4 drawings show a 1/2" bottom.
Bobsboat will get a 1/2" thick bottom. That will be stiff enough for a slower hull. No need to do the extra work of laminating a bottom either.
Bulkheads can be quite thin for the most part. One of their functions is to keep the boat in shape but that is easily done since decked boats in particular form a rigid box. They also stiffen other panels such as the bottom in particular and prevent flexing. Again they don't need to be especially heavy to do that. Bulkheads also introduce loads into the hull shell and the obvious thought here is the bulkhead you hang your mast on in a sailboat. In general I think they can be pretty light if the loads are introduced into the edges of the bulkhead and not into the center. So 1/4" plywood is almost always enough.
I think there is a rule of thumb in larger powerboats that the transom should be 1-1/2" thick plywood. I don't design large powerboats and usually use 1/2" plywood with a major framing member, like a 2x8, across the top that the motor will clamp to. The idea is that the solid framing carries the load and will be secured with glue, bolts and screws to the side of the boat. If there is a problem with this it will be with twisting under the power and weight of the motor. Traditionally this was dealt with with a "knee" that ran like a triangle from the motor area to the keel of the boat. My own favorite solution is to put a slop well right in front of the transom that boxes it all in. Not only does it reduce twisting but it stiffens the entire stern of the boat in every way. And if you are sloppy like me the "slop" qualities, where all the slop drains out through the stern and not into the bottom of the boat, are well appreciated.
Af4 Grande is a 20% scaleup of the original AF4. Scaling a design can be interesting. If the design is scaled up by a factor of 1.2 as it was here then the areas of all the panels are increased by a factor of 1.2 squared (1.2 times 1.2) which is 1.44. With a plywood boat, if you keep the panel thicknesses the same as the original, you would expect the hull weight to also increase by that amount. In the case of AF4G that is about what I did. I used the same skin thicknesses that Max Wawrzyniak used on his AF4, 5/8" bottom and 3/8" elsewhere. He said the weight of the bare hull was about 425 pounds. So I would expect the 20% scaleup to weigh about 1.44 x 425 = 612 pounds. In this case it isn't quite so simple and I'm guessing the bare AF4G hull would weigh about 700 pounds since the larger boat has built in seats and another bulkhead and some thicker framing. By the way, I would expect the cost of the project both in labor and materials to increase in the same proportion as weight.
With that weight in mind we might add 120 pounds for a motor larger than AF4's 10 or 15 hp and a bit of fuel. So the minimum weight now is about 820 pounds. Let's add another 80 pounds of misc. gear and we're up to 900 pounds without crew. Add maybe 500 pounds for a small family and then we have an all up weight of 1400 pounds. There seems to be a general rule of thumb for powerboats that it takes a horse for every 50 pounds of weight to plane and then you need 28 hp for this boat. The Coast Guard gives advice about powering boats and this one would max at 35 hp based on length, width, and the fact that it has a flat bottom which can be prone to handling problems if overpowered. On the other hand, this boat used solo and stripped might weigh in at 1000 pounds total and do quite well with 20 hp. In my experience with AF4 these hulls will plane with less than a horse for each 50 pounds. AF4 planes with about 7 hp at about 600 pounds total, a horse for 85 pounds. But if you try to plane it with 7 hp you have to run full throttle all the time. Better to run a 12 hp motor at 60% throttle. Using the same number for the 1400 pound AF4G the 28 hp motor might plane the loaded boat at 60% throttle. All this is preliminary guesswork.
Here is another interesting thing about the straight 20% scaleup. All of the volumes increase by a factor of 1.2 cubed (1.2 x 1.2 x 1.2) which is 1.73. So the interior volume of the AF4G is 73% greater than that of the AF4. Not only that but the volume of water the boat displaces can be in the same proportion which means it can be heavier by 73% and look the same in the water. So scaling up a boat gives big increases in room and capacity. On the other hand, scaling a boat down can result in a shocking decrease in capacity. For example if you were to scale down a 15' rowing dory by 20% to 12.5' you might expect the capacity to go from say 400 pounds to 230 pounds (400/1.73=230) and it quickly becomes barely a one person boat!
Eric Shadow built the prototype in New York. It is a large and straight forward job. You can see in this photo how little water the boat needs even though it is over 20' long - maybe 4" will float it.
Construction is simple nail and glue like the original AF4. AF4 Grande needs nine sheets of 3/8" plywood and five sheets of 5/8" plywood. I don't think these boats need epoxy coatings if they are stored under cover. The chine corners need to be armored with fiberglass set in epoxy and inner seams given a fillet of thickened epoxy to keep water from creeping into the seams.
AF4 Grande plans are $40.
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Sacred Service is an Act of Devotion to God.
"Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service."
Whatever your passions are, that is your key to sacred service!
Whatever you like to do, there is a place for you in our Sacred Service Program.
This ministry team is responsible for the beautification of the interiors of our building.
This ministry team send out notes of appreciation to the many people who donate their valuable time, talents and treasures to serve the community, and those who do random acts of kindness throughout the course of the year.
This ministry team projects the pre-created music lyric slides during the Sunday services. Members can also assist in creating and maintaining our song slide library.
This ministry team is responsible for holding God's vision for, and guiding the direction of Unity Santa Fe. Trustees are elected annually. Board meetings are held monthly.
Our Revealing Word Book Store Ministry team provides materials for spiritual enrichment and personal growth and transformation. Team member responsibilities include sales, ordering, stocking, and inventorying products.
This ministry team oversees USF's building and grounds and is made up of four support teams: Architectural, Gardening, Maintenance and Projects.
This ministry team manifests prosperity for Unity Santa Fe through Divinely inspired action by means of openness to the unbounded abundance of the Universe. This includes financial reporting, budget preparation, and monthly meetings to review the USFe financial statements, assuring that operations are in line with our annual financial vision.
This ministry team arranges the flowers in the sanctuary for Sunday service, special celebrations and events.
This ministry team creates campaigns and events to help Unity Santa Fe achieve and maintain financial security so that we may fulfill our mission and vision through expansion of our key ministries.
This ministry team supports spiritual growth through a shared love and appreciation of the deep spiritual and healing nature of animal companions. The team was formed in 2015 and continues to define its mission which could include focusing on our oneness and divinity with our animal companions, pet-related workshops, book study groups and providing resources and assistance to animals and their guardians.
1st Sunday of the month is Birthday Sunday with birthday cake provided by USFe.
2nd Sunday of the month is Souper Sunday. Everyone is invited to bring a pot of soup, stew or chili, OR a complementary side such as bread, crackers or chips. During the summer months, the 2nd Sunday is Super Salad Sunday.
3rd Sunday of the month is Plant-based Potluck. Congregants bring a plant-based dish to share (no meat, eggs or dairy).
4th Sunday of the month is Snack Sunday. People bring their favorite snack foods.
5th Sunday of the month is our 5th Sunday Brunch hosted by Ed and Shelly Hoth. All are invited to indulge in a fabulous variety of foods provided by our hosts.
This ministry team plans all USF music including special music, Sunday song selections, choir, musical programs and concerts.
This ministry team consists of energy healers trained through different venues such as Energy Medicine, Reiki, therapeutic Touch, Quantum Healing, Diksha and Vibrational Healing. All are based on connecting to the energy of God as the Universal Source of Healing Love.
Prayer Chaplains pray with congregants after Sunday services and when otherwise requested, make monthly prayer support calls to members, hold sacred space with prayer requests, and provide in-home and hospital visitation. Members of this ministry team must interview with the minister and attend extensive training. (For more information about our prayer chaplain ministry CLICK HERE.
This ministry team maintains our beautiful outdoor spaces which include the Medicine Wheel, Meditation Garden and Relationship Labyrinth. Our leaders also conduct sacred ceremonies such as blessings for Solstice and Equinox. These spaces are available for personal prayer and meditation, weddings, interspiritual celebrations, and inspiration and enjoyment for one and all.
This ministry team prepares our facility before and after Sunday and special services including posting signage, checking candles, preparing salt trays, checking heat/air conditioning, straightening sanctuary after service, cleaning hospitality area and checking bathrooms.
This ministry team provides sound and lighting support during services and special events by doing the audio taping and controlling the lights in the sanctuary.
This ministry team works with a variety of other teams and the Communications & Projects Director to develop and plan one-time and ongoing event ideas, book speakers, and oversee event operations.
This ministry team provides the opportunity for members and others to participate in a small group experience. Groups are formed three times a year: Fall Adventures In Faith, Winter Spirit Groups and Spring Spirit Groups. For complete information on Spirit Groups see our main menu.
This ministry team schedules and administers adult spiritual education and enrichment classes, workshops, seminars and study groups presented by USF.
This ministry team determines where USF can make a difference in the local/global community and organizes programs to benefit those in need. Our commitment is: "Unity Santa Fe cares! We say "yes" to Spirit's call to be the difference we want to see through generous humanitarian and compassionate sacred social action."
This ministry team plans and executes special celebrations including our annual Adventures In Faith Gala and Sacred Servers Appreciation Brunch. Volunteers assist with planning, decorating and hosting these and other social events.
This ministry team plans and conducts Sunday lessons and activities for Unity Santa Fe youth from toddlers to teens.
This ministry team is the "first face of USF" as they greet and warmly welcome congregants and first timers to Sunday service, special programs and events. Team members distribute service bulletins and first time packets and help late comers find seating.
Worship assistants participate and lead a portion of Sunday and special services. They are the familiar face of USF in the absence of our minister and ensure the service runs smoothly and joyfully. Members of this ministry team are appointed by the minister.


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General TV Channel / Kanal Avrupa is a television channel, the pan-European 24-hour entertainment-oriented television program division in Turkish emits. Kanal Avrupa is a company of Akbas Media Company. The channel was founded in Duisburg at the beginning of 2005. The program consists of 70% Turkish music videos and 30% news, live broadcasts and documentaries. The broadcasting operation was recorded on 10 January 2005. The target group is the age group of the 17 to 47 year old Turkish-speaking Europeans. The transmitter transmits from an old car house in a Duisburg industrial area. In his documentaries and live broadcasts, migration topics such as youth unemployment and the language problems of many foreigners are taken up. With Seran Sargur, Kanal Avrupa currently has the youngest broadcasting director in Germany (as of May 2006).


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SP1144 Passionfruit
Original recording by Ben Tankard
New Patter Release
"Passionfruit" by Ben Tankard (born January 10, 1964) is an American gospel/smoothjazz musician, producer, reality-tv father, author and motivational speaker from Daytona Beach, Florida. His instruments include the synthesizer, piano, tuba, drums, guitar, and percussion. Often referred to as the "Godfather of Gospel/Jazz", his instrumental music has bridged the gap between two genres and charted at #1 Billboard Smooth Jazz and Gospel Charts. Standing 6'6″ tall, he is a former professional basketball player (shooting guard).
SP1135 Dance the Night Away
New release for August 2021
SP1135 Dance the Night Away by The Mavericks, Square Dance Vocals by Kevin Lovell
Kevin is singing in the Low Key
"Dance the Night Away" is a song by American country band the Mavericks, written by the band's lead vocalist, Raul Malo, and produced by Malo alongside Don Cook. It was included on their fifth studio album, Trampoline (1998), as the opening track. Primarily a pop-rockand Latin song backed up by horn instruments, it was written in one afternoon by Malo, who began to arrange music more often after completing the demo recording.
The song was released as a single in the United States on March 10, 1998, reaching number 63 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The Mavericks also convinced their record label, MCA Records, to issue the song in Europe; this was done on April 20 of the same year. Following its European release, it peaked at number nine on the Irish Singles Chart and number four on the UK Singles Chart. It continues to be one of the band's most enduring hits
Original recording by The Mavericks
SP1129 Love You Too Much
New release for January 2021
SP1129 Love You Too Much by Brady Seals Square Dance Vocals by Gene Turner
This is our latest Singing Call release, Gene does a great job on the vocals
Brady Seals (born March 29, 1969) is an American country music artist. He is the cousin of Jim Seals (of Seals & Crofts) and Dan Seals, Johnny Duncan, and the nephew of Troy Seals. Seals made his debut in 1988 as co-lead vocalist and keyboardist in the sextet Little Texas, with whom he recorded until his departure in late 1994. Between then and 2002, he recorded as a solo singer, releasing three studio albums and charting in the Top 40 on the country charts with "Another You, Another Me". In 2002, Seals formed a quartet called Hot Apple Pie, in which he has recorded one studio album and charted three singles. A fourth solo album, Play Time, was released in 2009 via Star City.
Original recording by Brady Seals
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SP1046 The Edge of Glory $6.00
SP1070 Spring Fever $7.50

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Since many early childhood educators get hurt while performing their daily tasks, raising awareness about the impacts your daycare environment can have on your physical health is very important. Have you ever thought about how many times you are required to lean forward or lift a child throughout the course of the day? Have fun counting them, the result may surprise you. Pay attention to your body and the signs it may be sending. Here are a few tricks to help you adapt your environment to your needs and actions.
Noise represents a major problem in daycares. Try to limit the level of noise that is present within your daycare. You can, for example, stick adhesive felt under chair legs or slide cut tennis balls over them. Deposit foam mats in noisy play areas or choose soft flooring to limit noise from dropped toys and objects. You can also use furniture to divide your daycare. Open areas are much noisier.
To limit the number of times you have to lift a child throughout the day, purchase a portable stepping stool. Children can use it, for example, to climb onto your changing table. You can also place your changing table so that it is facing your main play area. Doing so will mean you won't have to turn around as often to check on the other children. Furthermore, don't underestimate the importance of having all necessary material within reach during diaper changes. Purchase smaller toy bins; they will be lighter than oversized toy chests. Set any furniture items that need to be moved around regularly on wheels to avoid having to use force. Finally, organize your space so that children can actively participate when it's time to clean up. This will help them develop their autonomy, but also give your back and muscles a well-deserved break.
One essential element: always use a chair that is perfectly adapted to your height and body. Avoid sitting on chairs designed for children. Purchase a special chair (such as a Ray-Lax chair) to use whenever you must sit on the floor with your group.


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Waiting For A Sign
Added on 10 September 2010
Disconcerting reports have reached Long Midnight Publishing Headquarters here in the heart of London of plans by an American pastor to publicly burn the entire canon of Barney Thomson books this weekend.
The Rev Terry Jones, formally of Monty Python, originally stated that many of the books in the series "caused great offence to Christians", citing the homicidal monk of Book 2, the homicidal fake vicar of Book 3, the homicidal real vicar of Book 4, the legion of blasphemy that is Book 5, including the outrageous and preposterous resurrection of Christ scene, the inclusion of Satan in Book 6, and the further outrages of Book 7, including the presence of God as a character. Initial reports suggested that the Rev Jones was particularly upset that God was portrayed as coming from New England, when "every idiot knows he comes from the South." However, further revelations have emerged today to suggest the Rev Jones was misrepresented in previous statements issued in his name.
Speaking from in front of his telephone box-sized building of religious xenophobia in Florida this morning, the Rev Jones said, "Actually we're just burning them because they're shit."
Elvis Shackleton, Long Midnight Publishing's Director of Religious Affairs, has today held long discussions with US President Obama on what can be done to avert this catastrophic diplomatic crisis. So far the men have agreed to meet up in Hawaii next month to eat doughnuts. Further talks are planned for February 2012.
Becoming embroiled in the argument, celebrity scientist Stephen Hawking today dismissed the Rev Jones' claims that he was "waiting for a sign from God" as just "crazy talk".


This international and transdisciplinary network brings together four nodes to explore the theme of gender, power and materiality in early modern Europe. Its establishment is timely, developing from two international conferences on gender and politics in early modern Europe organised by the PI and CI since 2008. From these events emerged a group of scholars with shared interests in letters, gender and political culture, which expanded into materiality, specifically as it relates to early modern archives and gift-giving. In this context, the network studies relationships between gender, power and materiality, defined both in terms of physical objects or material texts and the social and cultural practices, and spaces in which they were produced, consumed, exchanged and displayed. It focusses on different forms of elite power across the early modern period in Europe, and encompasses formal and cultural power.
Influenced by the 'material turn', the network considers objects as social agents, analysing the gendered power embedded within physical artefacts and the social practices of production, consumption and exchange, especially in relation to early modern practices and modern theories of gift-giving. It questions how far materiality made gender positions stable and unstable; and studies objects to reconstruct new networks and gendered forms of power created around object exchange and production. Secondly, it considers archives as a form of gendered power, and spaces (e.g. noble households, courts, libraries) in which material objects were located, and their connection with the politics of memory, gift-giving and display. The newness of this approach lies both in viewing power and materiality through the lens of gender, and the application of diverse approaches bringing into dialogue historians, literary critics, material culture specialists, anthropologists, archaeologists (who bring an understanding of objects and theory), and curators, archivists and conservators. Furthermore, the network prompts an important process of recovery of a range of physical objects across Europe (eg jewels, books and other gifts) which will be considered alongside documents like letters, inventories and accounts. The link with the 'Women's Early Modern Letters Online' project facilitates integrated exploration of material and written texts, and hosting by the Bodleian ensures digital sustainability. Importantly, the network brings together international scholars working on different contexts, who specialise on various UK and non-UK records (Scandinavian, Dutch, French and German), and bring together different historiographies, historical traditions and palaeographical skills. Proceedings will be in English, but in different European settings, allowing access to work ordinarily only available in different languages.
The network plans three workshops (in Lund, Sweden; Leiden, The Netherlands; and Perth, Australia) and a conference in Plymouth. The first stage is a workshop 'Gender, Power and Theories of Materiality in Early Modern Europe' to investigate underpinning methodologies. The second stage will be an opening 'state-of-the-field' international conference ('Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800'), which will be an open call for papers to allow for the possibility of expanding the network over a range of disciplines and geographical areas. The third stage will be a symposium on 'Gender and the Politics of Early Modern Archives/Spaces'; while the fourth stage will be a capstone workshop on 'Gender, Emotions and the Dynamics of Early Modern Gift-Exchange'. The network will produce a jointly-authored journal article, an edited collection, and a special edition of a journal on 'Archives and Spaces'. The network website will be developed at the outset of the project, and utilised over the two years and beyond as a mechanism of digital scholarly sociability, to publicise events and research, and host an online exhibition.
i) museums and archives in the UK, Sweden and The Netherlands. Each of the three European 'nodes' at Plymouth, Lund and Leiden has identified a series of local partner institutions as end-users for the research deriving from the network, with whom relationships are already established and which we would like to further develop. In the UK, this will include the Victoria and Albert Museum; in Sweden, Skarhults kulturminne, which hosts the Den Dolda Kvinnomakten ('The Hidden Power of Women') exhibition, and its owner Baroness Alexandra von Schwerin, and the National Archive (Riksarkivet), Stockholm; and in The Netherlands, The Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, the Museum Catharijne Convent Utrecht, and The Hague Historical Museum.
ii) curators, archivists and specialists working in the Heritage and Public History industries.
iii) visitors to museums, including the V&A, Skarhults Slott, the Museum Catharijne Convent Utrecht, and The Hague Historical Museum.
iv) local history groups and societies, including the Plymouth branch of the Historical Association, Devon History Society and Friends of Devon Archives.
v) educators (teachers and lecturers) and school children and undergraduate students.
vi) the Swedish government and Department of Education.
i) strengthening international relationships between museums, archives and academics in the UK, Sweden and The Netherlands.
ii) developing archival and museology practices as they relate to the ways in which collections are approached, curated, displayed and studied through sharing practices between a range of international scholars working in different academic disciplines (History, Literature and Art History), and curators, archivists and specialists working in the Heritage and Public History industries.
iii) enhancing the visitor experience through new methods of display, and so developing cultural and social benefits for visitors.
iv) providing expert knowledge contributing to the development of items (e.g. jewellery and postcards) for sale in museum shops, thus leading to financial benefits for the museums and for the regional economies.
v) engaging local history groups in the South West of the UK, and the general public in an aspect of their cultural heritage through various public engagement activities (lectures and public talks), thus contributing to their knowledge, skills and quality of life.
vi) enhancing schools' engagement with museum-based collections, via developing materials in the form of teaching packs repurposing research for use in the classroom, aligned with the National Curriculum.
vii) providing expert knowledge contributing to public policy debates in Sweden (in association with Skarhults kulturminne, and its owner Baroness Alexandra von Schwerin) relating to curriculum change in the teaching of History within Swedish classrooms in order to enhance the study of women in the past.
Description As a result of research over the past two years in collaboration with our non-HEI partners we have developed an interpretative methodology for understanding objects, exhibitions and the past through the lens of gender, power and materiality, as important power constellations that affected the design, form and function of objects. In our research we explored complex narratives about the gendered operation of early modern power that were and are produced through materiality in early modern Europe; in order to offer a new interpretive lens for studying gendered power from the perspective of materiality. In so doing, we brought together recent scholarship concerning both the gendered nature of politics, the political and power in the early modern world, in which gender is always one of several factors that informs its operation. Secondly, our research builds on analyses suggesting the significant political implications and import of early modern material culture. Research concerning early modern objects suggests that gendered power relations inform every mode of their existence and significance, from conceptualisation, component source and physical production, to consumption, display and exchange, and finally, destruction, preservation, conservation or memory from family archives to modern museological settings. Our research argues that gendered operations of power, invested in material objects such as are complex, multiple and ever-changing, enacted in sometimes subtle and obscure ways - often hidden from historiographical analysis - but that these are vital to elucidate for a richer and more meaningful understanding of the relational nature of gender, power and materiality.
In recent years, scholars from various disciplines have sought to understand the gendered structures of early modern politics in Europe. Much has been done to reconstruct the roles of women and men, to rethink categories and definitions of what constituted 'power', 'politics' and 'agency', integrating the personal and informal, with the public and formal, and analysing gender as a dynamic at the state, family, and wider social level. The last decade or so has also witnessed the 'material turn' in history, borrowing approaches from the vast fields of material culture, anthropology and archaeology, which lend a sophisticated theoretical understanding of the ways in which objects worked. Scholars have studied the relationship between power and materiality, and materiality and gender. Among early modern historians, material studies have looked at gendered patterns of production, consumption and taste, or households and related objects as sites of material meaning and display. Less well studied, however, is the degree to which relationships between power and materiality were themselves gendered; that is, informed by gender ideologies and practices, in the early modern period.
This turning away from author to object prompts various unanswered questions about material objects as expressions and operations of gendered power relations, as they are produced, consumed, owned, collected and archived. Interdisciplinary work on gifts and gift-giving has studied the exchange of material objects and texts as a way of understanding social and political relationships, but scholars have little examined the gendered dynamics of gift-exchange. Our aim in this article is to analyse the ways in which things or objects construct the gendered nature of power across varied stages of their existence from commission and construction through consumption and exchange to potential performances as display and memory. In so doing we explore, through gloves, a way of thinking about the gendered nature of power relationships constructed by and through objects, that might be applicable for analysing other things, such as shoes, rings, porcelain or books. As such, theoretically we offer a conceptual and methodological approach to objects that complements traditional 'object biographies', and is critical of such conceptualisations for several reasons. First, we eschew here the term 'afterlife' or 'lifecycle' since our argument is that these objects and their meanings or power do not evolve, develop, or have an 'after' life, all of which imply a linear sense of progression, a beginning and end to an object's existence; rather we understand objects as highly changeable in different interpretive contexts and constellations of gender and power. While 'biography' implies a birth, death and potential afterlife, we argue that objects and their components always exist and have meaning generated in different relational contexts.
Secondly, rather than embarking upon a 'thick description' of the biography of a single object, we utilise an approach that privileges a more prosopographical conceptualisation of the material that was used to manufacture (or shape) the early modern object. In other words, being a manufactured object is only one part of the material's shape and form throughout its material history. This choice relates to our understanding, as historians, that the narratives of power that these objects create and reflect extends beyond physical objects that exist today, but also in a range of documentary and visual materials throughout the existence of these objects that can shed light on the different forms and meanings of objects from the early modern period to the present. This contrasts to an approach to the physical object, for example in a modern museological context, which reconstructs these different stages of the object's life history from the physical features of the item. It is quite rare for objects to be passed down with a provenance. Often objects are catalogued with very little 'biographical' information, an 'anonymity' that makes it hard to write the 'biography of things' in this sense, except in extraordinary instances; objects when they reside in museums are sometimes de-historicized (or even historicized fictitiously), divorced from the historical contexts of their 'material existences', associated with human agents and specific places; and the contextual and historical meanings associated with their physicality (texture, colour and of course smell). There are many aspects of the objects' life that challenge attempts at reconstruction from what survives physically. The full sensory experience of an object in particular phases of its historical contexts can be extremely difficult to analyse. However, it is important we aim to grasp, as far as possible from the existing sources, the gendered sensory experience of the glove in time and context. Women and men's experiences of touch or smell and the meaning of different sensory appreciation hold immense potential as new avenues for gender analysis that have rarely been considered to date. Although the field and analysis of such dimensions remains at a preliminary stage, our research explores such aspects of gendered historical experience of materiality, as the sources allow.
Exploitation Route We are still in the process of finalising these findings, being only 18 months into a network grant.
Description As a result of this two-year AHRC-funded research network project, 'Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800', our research and impact-related actvities raised awareness of gender as an important interpretative category in museology. The network generated a valuable dialogue between the four university nodes (University of Plymouth, Lund University, Leiden University, and University of Western Australia) and curators and research department at the V&A museum, as well as practice professionals at Skarhult Castle, Sweden (represented by Baroness Alexandra von Schwerin), The Museum of London, The Worshipful Company of Glovers, Powderham Castle in Devon, Catherijne Convent Utrecht and Cultural Heritage Leiden. As a result of these dialogues we identified a series of follow-on activities that have potential for significant wider impact in terms of expanding our stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange, which has generated a further follow-on project, for which we are currently seeking funding. During the network phase of the grant, we also developed a new relationship with the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, Svante Norrhem (international CI) having been invited to sit on their gender reference group, and the network has been invited to be involved in an advisory capacity with them in the future. As a result of a series of workshops over the past two years in collaboration with our non-HEI partners we have developed an interpretative methodology for understanding objects, exhibitions and the past through the lens of gender, power and materiality, as important power constellations that affected the design, form and function of objects. A powerful outcome of the research network has been a raising of the awareness of gender (which encompasses women and men, femininities and masculinities, sexualities and identities) as an important interpretive category within the museum environment, and the significant role this can play in generating diverse narratives (as with race and LGBTQ pathways through exhibitions and collections) that have wider societal impact disseminated through curatorial practice, as well as educational and public programming in its broadest sense for schools as well as the general public. Studied from the perspective of gender our research will offer a thicker description of objects, which will enhance visitor experience, as a part of the museums' strategies to bring audiences back for revisits and also to help stimulate behavioural change relating to gender and diversity of experiences. It is intended that the follow-on project would further enhance the partnership with the V&A, and as part of our research we have identified a new major Swedish museum, the Vasa Museum, which is reorganising the ways in which they think of gender in relation to their collections and museology practices. Our research has also been instrumental in informing the future development of the exhibition on 'Women and Power' at Skarhults Slott, Sweden, and we have advised on issues relating to gender and sexuality as it might be represented in new exhibition spaces. As a result of one of our workshops, the Castle developed a series of videos that explored the castle's history from a gendered perspective, and we have been involved in workshops with school groups, the general public, policy makers and publishers.
Description 24.4.2017: Svante Norrhem gave a talk and an introduction to "Gender and Power" for new guides at Skarhult´s castle and the exhibition "The hidden history of women."
Results and Impact 24.4.2017: Svante Norrhem gave a talk and an introduction to "Gender and Power" for new guides at Skarhult´s castle and the exhibition "The hidden history of women."
Description 23.8.2017: Svante Norrhem gave a public talk at Skarhult Castle on 'Gender and Power'.
Description 25-26.10.2017: Svante Norrhem was invited to give a talk at a half-day workshop for master students and PhD-students at Århus University at which the theme was "Gender and biography".
Results and Impact 25-26.10.2017: Svante Norrhem was invited to give a talk at a half-day workshop for master students and PhD-students at Århus University at which the theme was "Gender and biography". Within my talk at talked about "Gender, Power and Materiality" and the importance of bringing in materiality for our understanding of women´s lives.
Results and Impact Filming with Lucy Worsley for a new BBC documentary on Versailles, as a tie-in with the 10-part French TV drama series to be broadcast in 2016. The focus of my role was to explain the gendered political networks and intelligence system in and out of Louis XIV's Versailles.
Results and Impact As part of the project, I launched a new podcast series stemming from the research undertaken by the network, entitled 'Histories of the Unexpected' which I co-write and present with the BBC's Dr Sam Willis and which is hosted by Dan Snow's History Hit Network. This is a weekly podcast, and we have recorded almost 40 episodes on topics ranging from gloves and the letter to the pen, the study and blood. Within the first four months we had almost 300,000 downloads from an international audience, and engaged with members of the general public and other listeners through Twitter and other social media.
Description On Wednesday 23 August 2017, Svante Norrhem had a meeting with "The Publishers of Southern Sweden" an organization for Publishers, and was on a panel discussing gender and history books.
Results and Impact On Wednesday 23 August 2017, Svante Norrhem had a meeting with "The Publishers of Southern Sweden" an organization for Publishers, and was on a panel discussing gender and history books.
Results and Impact This public lecture was delivered at Tiverton Church as an event as part of the annual meeting of the international Courtenay Society and Powderham Castle, Devon. It was attended by the Earl and Countess of Devon, and members of the Courtenay from the UK, North America and Australia, as well as the owners of Tiverton Castle.
Results and Impact The talk was part of the following event attended by around 50 members of the general public and museum staff, and focussed on the materiality of early modern women's letters.
Join Professors James Daybell (University of Plymouth) and Mark Stoyle (University of Southampton) to enjoy a fresh look at the lives of a selection of sixteenth and seventeenth-century women. Professor Daybell will provide a practical demonstration of how to read an Elizabethan woman's manuscript letter, demonstrating ways in which aspects such as handwriting, ink, layout, paper and seals communicate significant social meaning alongside textual and historical features.
Results and Impact 40 pupils attended Plymouth University History department, where I lectured to them on the nature of the Tudor political regime, Henry VII and the political roles of women during the early modern period. Thus sparked a series of questions and discussion during and afterwards, and the school reported significant interest in these research areas.
Results and Impact 31.3.2017: Svante Norrhem had a skype meeting with the head of Vasa museum, head of research department at the Vasa museum, Stockholm, which led to a formal partnership with the Vasa to look at Gendered Interpretative Pathways in the museum and throughout its collections.
Description Svante Norrhem had monthly work meetings with our partner Baroness Alexandra von Schwerin, the owner of Skarhults Castle outside of Lund.
Results and Impact Svante Norrhem had monthly work meetings with our partner Baroness Alexandra von Schwerin, the owner of Skarhults Castle outside of Lund. These meetings discussed the castle's exhibition and related issues and plans.
Results and Impact Svante Norrhem was on a panel organized by the association for publishers in Southern Sweden (and co-organized by Alexandra von Schwerin, our partner) where we discussed how gender history can take a larger part in text books.
Description Talk at the "Öresundsnätverket för könshistorisk forskning" (The Öresund network for gender research). Title of talk: "Tidigmodernt lärande: människor, objekt och kunskapsöverföring" (Learning in the early modern period: people, objects and knowledge transmission) It´s a network of scholars from Danish universities and South Sweden universities which meet twice every year - once in Copenhagen and once in Lund/Malmö.
It´s a network of scholars from Danish universities and South Sweden universities which meet twice every year - once in Copenhagen and once in Lund/Malmö.
Description Wikipedia workshop at Malmö museum organized by our project partner Skarhult´s kulturminne.
Results and Impact 8.3.2017: Wikipedia workshop at Malmö museum organized by our project partner Skarhult´s kulturminne. At the workshop we wrote new wikipedia articles about women.
Results and Impact The first event of the AHRC network was held at Skarhults Slott, and Lund University in Sweden, Sunday 25 October 2015-Wednesday 28 October 2015, and focussed on 'Gender, Power and Theories of Materiality'. The four days brought together academic members of the network with key non-HEI partners from Skarhults kulturmine (Baroness Alexandra von Schwerin), the Victoria and Albert Museum, Swedish National Archives, and from museums in The Netherlands. Day one (Sunday 25 October) involved a meeting between the network steering committee to discuss the network management and final plans for the workshop, a meeting with V&A staff to discuss future collaborations, and a networking event in the evening; day two was based at Skarhults Slott and introduced the network steering committee and collaborators formally, discussed future collaborations, and also involved a tour of the castle's exhibition. The network is a formal collaborator with the castle's exhibition, and consulted over future developments. Day three was based at Lund university and involved theoretical discussions and a writing workshop with the intention of developing a new theoretical/methodological framework for studying gender, power and materiality, and working on a collaboratively written output.


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with high quality bricks making them easy to assemble and connect.
Individual powers of ancient robots in the universe have their common origin in alien forms that arrived to planet Earth from distant worlds.
Their aim? To peacefully colonize and build a new home for the ROBOTRYX species after their planet Knemesys was utterly destroyed by evil bots.
GARANTRON is the strongest leader of the Robotryx family. Long ago it was the sole and proud protector of KNEMESYS, home planet of a multitude of fighter bots. One day, while doing an orbit check around its native planet, the house of the Robotryx was attacked and almost destroyed by ANATRON. A Predatory legion of evil bots. ONOTRYX, the creator-god of the Robotryx, in his infinite wisdom designated GARANTRON to be the guarantor of preserving the continuity of the Robotryx species in another planet by fusing the last surviving alien bots into one powerful and feared leader.
All five robots unite into this powerful giant.
GARANTRON is the last remaining leader of the Robotryx family. Long ago it was the sole and proud protector of KNEMESYS, home planet of a multitude of fighter bots. One day, while doing an orbit check around its native planet, the house of the Robotryx was attacked and almost destroyed by ANATRON. A Predatory legion of evil bots. ONOTRYX, the creator-god of the Robotryx, in his infinite wisdom designated GARANTRON to be the guarantor of preserving the continuity of the Robotryx species in another planet by fusing the last surviving alien bots into one powerful and feared leader.


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T-Kartor USA Awarded IDIQ Contract to Support the Aeronautical Safety of Navigation Mission for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
In support of the JANUS Aeronautical Features (Airfield Foundation Data and Vertical Obstructions) contract, T-Kartor USA will collect and manage NGA's worldwide Airfield Foundation Data and Vertical Obstructions data.
As NGA is transitioning to a GEOINT Broker role leveraging content of both national and international partners, T-Kartor USA will provide production, modernization and innovative solutions to enhance current Aeronautical Navigation Office capabilities.
"Our diverse and dynamic team provides strong product knowledge and a commitment to a continuous policy of modernization and innovation," said Simon Bailey, CEO of T-Kartor USA, " our company is honored to have the opportunity to support one of our nation's most important missions."
T-Kartor USA is an agile, innovative small business combining cartographic, GIS and programming skills to deliver high quality and affordable solutions. T-Kartor USA located in St Louis, Missouri is a subsidiary of T-Kartor Group AB, a privately-owned entity founded in Kristianstad Sweden in 1985. T-Kartor has offices in five countries; Sweden, Norway, Finland, UK and St Louis, Missouri. T-Kartor Group AB is committed to providing services and platforms for geospatial solutions, seamless one-feature-one-time map production, world-class city wayfinding, and integrated public transport information.
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Picture 1. Health Screening in the village of Pacongkang Soppeng, part of the rural area of South Sulawesi.
Picture 2. Top left: dr.Izak Samay assisted by two-person from Paint team. Top right: dr.Imelda Ritungan conducted patients health check in the village of Pacongkang Soppeng, part of the rural area of South Sulawesi.
Picture 3. Teaching children the importance of maintaining cleanliness of the body.
Picture 4. Food for Papua children.


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There are several ways to define the credibility of a virtual assistant. There are no set standards for an assistant, meaning that the number one credential should be in your confidence to have them do the work, and in their confidence to do the work effectively. Having the personality and understanding the vision should be one of the number one considerations for a virtual assistant.
Beyond this, there are a variety of possibilities for a virtual assistant. One of the growing credentials for an assistant is the certification for a virtual assistant. However, this is not a required credential. It will simply allow the virtual assistant to gain the knowledge that they need in order to expand their abilities. Some will, instead, have credibility related to schooling or certification from things such as computer programming. There is also the possibility that they belong to the Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce as a member, or the national and international associations. This will help you to define whether they are virtual assistants, and will help you to see their seriousness in their job.
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The Marcoses and the United States
September 25, 2022 by Randy David
When Ferdinand Marcos Sr. placed the country under martial law in September 1972, the United States government said nothing critical of the blatant cancellation of democracy in their former colony. Marcos Sr. continued to be regarded, throughout martial law, as a trusted friend and ally of the US in this part of the world.
Among other things, the Filipino dictator quickly showed his appreciation for America's tacit approval of his authoritarian move by assuring American businessmen, who owned lands in the Philippines under the terms of the Laurel-Langley Agreement, that there would be no outright confiscation of their properties after the lapse of the agreement in 1974. (In August 1972, the Supreme Court issued two rulings declaring that American ownership of private agricultural land not only did not extend beyond 1974, but that land acquired between 1946 and 1974 was, in fact, illegal.)
"In this heady atmosphere," writes the American scholar Stephen Shalom in his meticulously documented book "The United States and the Philippines: A Study of Neocolonialism" (1981), "foreign firms, including American firms, dramatically increased their investments in the Philippines. Foreign banks extended new loans to the Philippine government and helped roll over old debts."
When Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., the late dictator's namesake and now the Philippines' new president, arrived in New York last week to address the United Nations General Assembly, he made sure that the highlight of his visit would be a meeting with US President Joe Biden. The message he came to deliver was the same one his father had given to America throughout his stay in office—we are your friend.
It has been 36 years since the embattled and ailing autocrat, facing a peaceful civilian-military uprising in the nation's capital, turned to his old friend, then President Ronald Reagan, for advice on whether something could be worked out with Cory Aquino. For reasons of his own, Reagan chose not to speak to him directly. Instead, he asked his close friend, Nevada Sen. Paul Laxalt, to call Marcos Sr. Here was Laxalt's account of that call: "Then he (Marcos Sr.) asked me the gut question 'Senator, what should I do?' I wasn't bound by diplomatic niceties. I said, 'Cut and cut cleanly. The time has come.'"
Things happened very fast after that call. The US offered to fly the president and his family out of the presidential palace to where they could feel safe. They were first ferried by choppers sent by the US Embassy to Clark Air Base in Pampanga, which was then still under American control. Then, from Clark, a huge US cargo plane flew them out of the country, landing first in Guam, and then in Honolulu, Hawaii, where they lived in exile. Marcos Sr. died there in 1989.
The Marcoses felt that US authorities had treated them shabbily from the moment they set foot in Hawaii. The crates, boxes, suitcases, and assorted bags they brought with them were carefully documented and confiscated by US Customs upon their arrival. Their movements were restricted and monitored—all, it seemed, at the behest of the new government at home.
Their travails did not end with the patriarch's death. One after the other, cases that had been filed in various US courts against Ferdinand Marcos Sr. required Imelda Marcos to appear before federal jury investigations. Where once she was lionized and feted by American officialdom and celebrities, Imelda found herself caricatured by US media as the living symbol of the profligate half of a brutal and corrupt dictatorship.
Those who expected Marcos Jr. during his six-day visit to the US to express even a small hint of bitterness over those exile years, or to adopt the same anti-US rhetoric that his predecessor routinely spewed, probably misunderstand the whole purpose of the Marcos bid for political redemption. Yes, it is to protect the family's wealth and privileges. But it is also—and this is perhaps particularly true for the more stoically-inclined Bongbong Marcos—to reclaim for the Marcos name the image of the responsible statesman.
That name has been so overlain by images of unbridled corruption that it has become synonymous everywhere with grand larceny and shameless high-living. That none of the Marcoses ever had to spend even a day in jail has been a blot on our justice system. That our government would allow the former dictator to be buried in a cemetery meant for the nation's heroes has cast a dark shadow on our sensibility as a nation. But when Marcos Jr. was elected president in May this year, the rest of the world thought we Filipinos had completely lost our minds as a people.
Therefore, what better occasion was there to demonstrate that the Marcos name at least deserved a second look than for the son of the much-maligned dictator to project himself, in the presence of the world's leaders, as the responsible representative of a worthy nation? Whatever resentment he might have harbored against America when, as exiles, they felt more like prisoners than guests, completely vanished as President Marcos Jr. reiterated the traditional Filipino politician's abiding faith in America.
"We are your partners, we are your allies, we are your friends. And in like fashion, we have always considered the United States our partner, our ally, and our friend," Marcos Jr. effusively told President Joe Biden. Visibly pleased by his Filipino visitor's earnest manifestation of loyalty, Biden could only say: "That's beautiful."
The enduring trauma of martial law
Our dependence on Pogos must end


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Our Physical Education curriculum has recently been redesigned, as all teachers are now teaching their own PE lessons twice a week. Pupils take part in two PE lessons a week and cover a range of sports including: basketball, hockey, tag rugby, cricket, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, dance, orienteering, yoga, paralympics and athletics.
At St Mary's, we focus on maximising the extra-curricular engagement of pupils across the school. We host a variety of intra-school events (in-house activities and competitions), as well as entering many of the Hertford & Ware School Sport Partnership's festivals and competitions.
http://www.hwssp.co.uk
Football, Girls' Football and Netball vs Morgans
Another three fixtures for the St Mary's teams, as we hosted Morgans School for the second time this academic year. The girls football match was an exciting opportunity for many to wear the school kit for the first time. Plenty of goals, plenty of skills and plenty of fun had all round! Equally, the boys conducted themselves exceptionally well, rotating their positions and focusing on their style of play. The netball match was close once again, with more members of the netball squad playing in their first matches for the school and some their first netball matches ever!
Football and Netball vs St Catherine's
The netball team came back brilliantly in their first game of the season against St Catherine's, demonstrating great teamwork and narrowly missing out by one goal. Plenty of new players for the team this year and lots of progress made in the match. The footballers also came back well, equalising in the final minute of the match to draw with St Catherine's football team. It was an extremely exciting match with lots of excellent, attacking football.
Football vs Morgans
The school's football season began with two home games against Morgans. It was great to see so many players representing the school, many for the first time. All twenty of our players represented the school excellently and there was some brilliant football on display. James and Ollie were selected as Players of the Match for their respective teams.
Cross Country Round 1
A fantastic sixty-two Year 5 and 6 pupils took part in the first round of our intra-school cross country races. The girls' race was won by Lali, with Olivia and Tilly in second and third respectively, while the boys' race saw a very close front three of...
Football and Netball trials
Interest was once again high in our school netball and football teams, with a record number of netballers attending our trials and over forty-five footballers. Thank you to everyone who attended, good luck to those selected for the season ahead and keep an eye out for upcoming events if you were unsuccessful this time round.


Lori McKenna's songs are honest, everyday stories which at first might seem like the ordinary and mundane, but are often the most important, transcendent moments of our lives. She started writing songs as a teenager, and became a professional songwriter at the age of 27. She began singing at open mic nights in the incredible music community of Boston, notably at the Blackthorn Tavern in nearby Easton, and eventually at her own shows. She, won awards from ASCAP and the Boston Music Awards, performed at the Sundance Film Festival, the Newport Folk Festival and played many venues in the Northeast.
While Nashville has become an important artistic and business hub, Stoughton, Massachusetts has remained home. A married mom to five kids, McKenna explains that leaving Massachusetts just never made sense. "My whole family is here," she says. "I don't think it changes your growth as a writer, where you are. I think you will grow no matter what, as long as you put the work into it." Commuting between the two cities has worked well. After Faith Hill covered one of her songs … she became one of the most in demand songwriters in the industry. She has been covered by Little Big Town, Reba McIntire, Alison Krauss, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban and many others. Little Big Town's hit, "Girl Crush," which reached 11 weeks on the Billboard's Hot Country Songs .. netted McKenna a CMA Award, NSAI Songwriters and her first Grammy.
The video below is of that song .. Humble & Kind.


week commencing 27th June, 2011.
Overleaf you will find your child's booklist for next year. We are supporting local businesses here in Malahide and would appreciate if you could order your books with Malahide School Books if possible.
Bearing in mind the "Care in the Community" theme, we have worked hard with the Board of Management to reduce the school supplies costs as much as possible for the year 2011/2012.
Please send in School Supplies monies on or before Friday 10th June, 2011 in order to buy materials/copies/pencils/crayons etc. in June, ready for your child on the first day back to school Wednesday 31st August, 2011.


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from itertools import product, chain

from pydmrs.components import RealPred
from pydmrs.core import DictDmrs
from pydmrs.matching.common import are_equal_nodes, are_equal_links
from pydmrs.matching.match_evaluation import get_fscore

class Match(object):
    """ A mapping between two DMRS objects.
        The nodeid_pairs is a list of nodeid tuples (nodeid1, nodeid2), where
        nodeid1 and nodeid2 come from different DMRS.
        The link_pairs is the link equivalent of the nodeid_pairs.
    """

    def __init__(self, nodeid_pairs=None, link_pairs=None):
        self.nodeid_pairs = nodeid_pairs
        self.link_pairs = link_pairs

    def __str__(self):
        return "Nodes:{}; Links:{}".format(self.nodeid_pairs, self.link_pairs)

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.nodeid_pairs) + len(self.link_pairs)

    def add(self, match):
        """Combines self with match, resolving any conflicts in favour of self."""
        if self.is_compatible(match):
            self.nodeid_pairs.extend(match.nodeid_pairs)
            self.link_pairs.extend(match.link_pairs)
        else:
            nodesA, nodesB = map(list, zip(*self.nodeid_pairs))
            for node_pair in match.nodeid_pairs:
                if node_pair[0] not in nodesA and node_pair[1] not in nodesB:
                    self.nodeid_pairs.append(node_pair)
                    nodesA.append(node_pair[0])
                    nodesB.append(node_pair[1])

            linksA, linksB = map(set, zip(*self.link_pairs))
            for link1, link2 in match.link_pairs:
                if link1 not in linksA and link2 not in linksB:
                    if link1.start in nodesA and link1.end in nodesA:
                        if link2.start in nodesB and link2.end in nodesB:
                            self.link_pairs.append((link1, link2))

    def is_compatible(self, match2):
        """ Checks if two matches are possible simultaneously. Two matches are conflicting
            if they pair nodes differently, e.g. (10001, 10003) in self and
            (10001, 10005) in match2.
            :param match2 Another Match object.
            :return True/False
        """
        if len(self) == 0 or len(match2) == 0:
            return True
        nodeA_set1, nodeA_set2 = map(set, zip(*self.nodeid_pairs))
        nodeB_set1, nodeB_set2 = map(set, zip(*match2.nodeid_pairs))
        if nodeA_set1.isdisjoint(nodeB_set1) and nodeA_set2.isdisjoint(nodeB_set2):
            return True
        else:
            return False

    def get_first(self, nodeid):
        for nodeid1, nodeid2 in self.nodeid_pairs:
            if nodeid == nodeid2:
                return nodeid1
        return None

    def get_second(self, nodeid):
        for nodeid1, nodeid2 in self.nodeid_pairs:
            if nodeid == nodeid1:
                return nodeid2
        return None

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
def group_same_nodes(nodes):
    """ Groups nodeids of equivalent nodes into sublists, using are_equal_nodes
        as the equivalency criterion.

        :param nodes A list of nodes.
        :return A list of tuples (pred, id list) sorted by pred. The pred is
                the shared predicate of the group; the id_list is a list of
                nodeids of equivalent nodes.
    """
    grouped_nodes = []
    group_node_type = None
    current_group = []
    sorted_nodes = sorted(nodes, key=lambda n: str(n.pred))
    for node in sorted_nodes:
        if not group_node_type:
            group_node_type = node
            current_group.append(node.nodeid)
        elif are_equal_nodes(node, group_node_type, underspecified=False):
            current_group.append(node.nodeid)
        else:
            grouped_nodes.append((group_node_type.pred, current_group))
            current_group = [node.nodeid]
            group_node_type = node
    grouped_nodes.append((group_node_type.pred, current_group))
    return grouped_nodes

def pair_same_node_groups(dmrs1, dmrs2, underspecified):
    """ Finds which nodes in dmrs1 are equivalent to which nodes in dmrs2. Allow the nodes in dmrs1 to be
    underspecified, but not the other way.
        :param dmrs1 A DMRS object. For matching, the small dmrs.
        :param dmrs2 A DMRS object. For matching, the large dmrs.
        :param underspecified: If True, the underspecified nodes in dmrs1 will be matched to more specific ones in
                            dmrs2.

        :return A list of tuples (pred, nodes from dmrs1, nodes from dmrs2). All
                nodes in nodes from dmrs1 and nodes form dmrs2 are quivalent.
                The pred is their common predicate. The list of tuples is sorted
                 by pred.
    """
    grouped_nodes1 = group_same_nodes(dmrs1.nodes)
    grouped_nodes2 = group_same_nodes(dmrs2.nodes)
    grouped_nodes = []

    for pred1, node_list1 in grouped_nodes1:
        paired_nodes2 = []
        for pred2, node_list2 in grouped_nodes2:
            if dmrs1[node_list1[0]] == dmrs2[node_list2[0]]:
                paired_nodes2 = node_list2
                break
            elif underspecified and dmrs1[node_list1[0]].is_less_specific(dmrs2[node_list2[0]]):
                paired_nodes2.extend(node_list2)
        grouped_nodes.append((pred1, node_list1, paired_nodes2))
    return grouped_nodes

def extend_match(match, start_nodeids, dmrs1, dmrs2, underspecified=True):
    """ Finds a match between dmrs1 and dmrs2.
        :param match: A Match object to be extended.
        :param start_nodeids: A tuple of matching nodeids with which to start to match extension.
        :param dmrs1 A DMRS object. For matching, the small dmrs.
        :param dmrs2 A DMRS object. For matching, the large dmrs.
        :param underspecified: If True (default), treat underspecified nodes as equal.

        The two start nodes should be equivalent by are_equal_nodes criterion.

        The function finds any links shared by the two start nodes (equivalent
        according to are"equal_links) and follows them. The pairs of nodes at
        other end of the links are added to a queue. Then the function calls
        itself recursively with the queued pairs of nodes as the start nodes.
        The recursion stops when no shared links are found and the queue is empty.

        :return A Match composed of updated matched_nodes, matched_links.
    """
    match.nodeid_pairs.append(start_nodeids)
    matched_first = set(x[0] for x in match.nodeid_pairs)
    if match.link_pairs:
        matched_links1, matched_links2 = tuple(set(x) for x in zip(*match.link_pairs))
    else:
        matched_links1, matched_links2 = set(), set()
    node_queue = []
    start_id1, start_id2 = start_nodeids
    links1 = dmrs1.get_out(start_id1)
    links1.update(dmrs1.get_in(start_id1))
    links1.update(dmrs1.get_eq(start_id1))
    links2 = dmrs2.get_out(start_id2)
    links2.update(dmrs2.get_in(start_id2))
    links2.update(dmrs2.get_eq(start_id2))
    for link1 in links1:
        if link1 not in matched_links1:
            for link2 in links2:
                if link2 not in matched_links2:
                    if are_equal_links(link1, link2, dmrs1, dmrs2):
                        if link1.start in matched_first and match.get_second(link1.start) != link2.start:
                            continue
                        if link1.end in matched_first and match.get_second(link1.end) != link2.end:
                            continue
                        match.link_pairs.append((link1, link2))
                        matched_links1.add(link1)
                        matched_links2.add(link2)
                        paired1 = link1.start if link1.end == start_id1 else link1.end
                        paired2 = link2.start if link2.end == start_id2 else link2.end
                        node_queue.append((paired1, paired2))
                        break

    for nodeid1, nodeid2 in node_queue:
        if (nodeid1, nodeid2) not in match.nodeid_pairs and are_equal_nodes(dmrs1[nodeid1], dmrs2[nodeid2],
                                                                            underspecified):
            extend_match(match, (nodeid1, nodeid2), dmrs1, dmrs2, underspecified)

def find_all_matches(dmrs1, dmrs2, underspecified=False):
    """ Finds all regions with potential matches between two DMRS graphs.
        :param dmrs1 A DMRS object. For matching, the small dmrs.
        :param dmrs2 A DMRS object. For matching, the large dmrs.
        :param underspecified: If True, the underspecified nodes in dmrs1 will be matched to more specific ones in
                            dmrs2.

        The function initiates a extend_match top call and repeats it until all
        possible pairings are explored. GPreds and quantifiers 'a' and 'the'
        are not allowed as the start ndoes of extend_match to narrow down the search
        space.

        :return A list of Match objects where pairs come from (dmrs1, dmrs2).
        """
    node_pairings = pair_same_node_groups(dmrs1, dmrs2, underspecified)
    matches = []
    checked_node_pairs = []

    # Sort pairs so that the ones with fewer matching combination are considered first.
    # Exclude GPreds and some quantifiers from the pool of start nodes.
    filter_func = lambda pairing: isinstance(pairing[0], RealPred) and pairing[0].lemma not in ['a',
                                                                                'the']
    filtered_pairings = filter(filter_func, node_pairings)
    sorted_pairings = sorted(filtered_pairings,
                             key=lambda pairing: len(pairing[1]) * len(pairing[2]))

    if not sorted_pairings:
        sorted_pairings = node_pairings
    for pred, group1, group2 in sorted_pairings:
        all_pairs = product(group1, group2)
        for pair in all_pairs:
            if pair not in checked_node_pairs and are_equal_nodes(dmrs1[pair[0]], dmrs2[pair[1]],
                                                                  underspecified=underspecified):
                match = Match([], [])
                extend_match(match, (pair[0], pair[1]), dmrs1, dmrs2, underspecified)
                checked_node_pairs.extend(match.nodeid_pairs)
                matches.append(match)
    return matches  # (matched_nodes, matched_links)

def group_compatible_matches(matches):
    """ Groups matches into compatible sets of indices of non-conflicting matches.
        Indices are given by the positions in the matches list.
        :param matches A list of Matches.

        :return A list of sets of integers. Each set is unique and contains matches indices
                of compatible Matches.
    """
    are_all_clashes = True
    clash_pairs = []
    for i in range(len(matches)):
        for j in range(i + 1, len(matches)):
            if i != j:
                if matches[i].is_compatible(matches[j]):
                    are_all_clashes = False
                else:
                    clash_pairs.append((i, j))
                    clash_pairs.append((j, i))

    combinations = [{i} for i in range(len(matches))]
    if are_all_clashes:
        return combinations

    for i in range(len(matches)):
        for comb in combinations:
            if i not in comb:
                if comb.union({i}) in combinations:
                    combinations.remove(comb)
                    break
                clash = False
                for match_id in comb:
                    if (i, match_id) in clash_pairs:
                        clash = True
                        break
                if not clash:
                    comb.add(i)
    return combinations  # list of sets

def find_biggest_disjoint_matches(matches):
    """ Finds collections of compatible matches which maximize the number of
        elements matches. Returns a list in case more than one combination scores
        the highest.
        :param matches A list of Matches.
        :return A list of tuples (group, Match, where group is a set of matches
                indices (see group_compatible_matches) and the Match combines
                all the Matches in the group.
    """
    compatible_groups = group_compatible_matches(matches)
    best_score = 0
    best_groups = None
    for group in compatible_groups:
        group_score = sum(len(matches[i]) for i in group)
        if group_score > best_score:
            best_score = group_score
            best_groups = [group]
        elif group_score == best_score:
            best_groups.append(group)

    full_matches = []
    for group in best_groups:
        nodes = list(chain(*[matches[i].nodeid_pairs for i in group]))
        links = list(chain(*[matches[i].link_pairs for i in group]))
        full_matches.append((group, Match(nodes, links)))
    return full_matches

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
# IMPORTANT

def find_best_matches(small_dmrs, large_dmrs, exact=False, underspecified=False):
    """ Finds the best matches between two DMRS (in case more the one reached
        the same score). If disconnected matches found, it finds their optimal combination.
        :param small_dmrs A DMRS object.
        :param large_dmrs A DMRS object.
        :param exact: If True, only look for exact perfect matches.
        :param underspecified: If True, the underspecified nodes in small_dmrs will be matched to more specific ones in
                            large_dmrs.
        :return A list of Matches.
    """
    matches = find_all_matches(small_dmrs, large_dmrs, underspecified)
    if not matches:
        return None
    else:
        if exact:
            return [m for m in matches if get_fscore(m, small_dmrs) == 1]
        if len(matches) == 1:
            return matches
        best_combinations = []
        indexed_best_combined_matches = find_biggest_disjoint_matches(matches)
        for index, match in indexed_best_combined_matches:
            leftovers = [matches[i] for i in range(len(matches)) if i not in index]
            for extra_match in leftovers:
                match.add(extra_match)
            best_combinations.append(match)
        return best_combinations

def get_matched_subgraph(large_dmrs, match):
    """ Returns the subgraph of large_dmrs described by match.
        :param large_dmrs A DMRS object in which the match was found.
        :param match A Match object.

        :return A DMRS object containing only the matched elements from large_dmrs.
                The graph can be disconnected.
    """
    links = list(zip(*match.link_pairs))[1]
    nodeids = list(zip(*match.nodeid_pairs))[1]
    nodes = [large_dmrs[nodeid] for nodeid in nodeids]
    return DictDmrs(nodes, links)

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package com.github.israel.sbt.zookeeper

import java.io.{FileOutputStream, InputStream}

import sbt._
import sbt.Keys._
import cmwell.build.util._

/**
  * Created by Israel Klein on 28/12/2015.
  */
object SbtZookeeperPlugin extends sbt.AutoPlugin{

  object autoImport {
    lazy val helloTask = taskKey[Unit]("prints hello world")

    /** Settings **/
    lazy val zookeeperVersion = settingKey[String]("version of zookeeper")
    lazy val zookeeperServerConfig = settingKey[File]("zookeeper server configuration file")
    lazy val zookeeperServerRunDir = settingKey[File]("Run zookeeper server process from this directory. ")
    lazy val stopAfterTests = settingKey[Boolean]("Stop zookeeper server after tests finish")
    lazy val startBeforeTests = settingKey[Boolean]("Auto start zookeeper server before tests start")
    lazy val cleanAfterTests = settingKey[Boolean]("Clean data after tests finish")
    lazy val cleanBeforeTests = settingKey[Boolean]("Clean data before test starts")

    /** Tasks **/
    lazy val startZookeeper = taskKey[Unit]("start the zookeeper server")
    lazy val stopZookeeper = taskKey[Unit]("stop the zookeeper server")
    lazy val cleanZookeeper = taskKey[Unit]("clean zookeeper run dir")
    lazy val cleanZookeeperFunc = taskKey[()=>Unit]("return a function that clean zookeeper's run dir")
  }

  override def requires = cmwell.build.CMWellBuild

  lazy val Zookeeper = config("zk") extend(Compile) describedAs("Dependencies for using Zookeeper.")

  override def projectConfigurations = Seq(Zookeeper)

  import autoImport._

  var zookeeperProcess:java.lang.Process = null

  private def doCleanZookeeperBeforeTest = Def.taskDyn{
    streams.value.log.error("doCleanZookeeperBeforeTests")
    if(cleanBeforeTests.value)
      cleanZookeeper
    else
      Def.task{}
  }

  private def doCleanZookeeperAfterTest = Def.taskDyn{
    streams.value.log.error("doCleanZookeeperAfterTests")
    if(cleanAfterTests.value)
      cleanZookeeper
    else
      Def.task{}
  }

  private def doStartZookeeperBeforeTest = Def.taskDyn{
    streams.value.log.error("doStartZookeeperBeforeTests")
    if(startBeforeTests.value)
      startZookeeper
    else
      Def.task{}
  }

  private def doStopZookeeperAfterTest = Def.taskDyn{
    streams.value.log.error("doStopZookeeperBeforeTests")
    if(stopAfterTests.value)
      stopZookeeper
    else
      Def.task{}
  }

  private def isZookeeperRunning:Boolean = {
    val p = sys.runtime.exec("jps -l")
    val lines = scala.io.Source.fromInputStream(p.getInputStream).getLines()
    lines.exists(_.contains("org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain"))
  }

  private def killZookeeper(force:Boolean = false)(implicit logger:Logger) = {
    val p = sys.runtime.exec("jps -l")
    val lines = scala.io.Source.fromInputStream(p.getInputStream).getLines()
    val pidOpt = lines.collectFirst({case s if (s.contains("org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain")) => s.split(" ")(0)})
    pidOpt match {
      case Some(pid) =>
        val command = if(force)s"kill -9 $pid" else s"kill $pid"
        sys.runtime.exec(command)
      case None => logger.debug("requested to kill zookeeper process but none was found")
    }
  }

  override def projectSettings = Seq(

    /** Settings **/
    zookeeperVersion := "3.4.7",
    libraryDependencies += "org.apache.zookeeper" % "zookeeper" % zookeeperVersion.value % Zookeeper,
    zookeeperServerConfig := (resourceDirectory in Runtime).value / "zookeeper.server.cfg",
    zookeeperServerRunDir := {
      val f = target.value / "zookeeper-server"
      f.mkdir()
      f
    },
    stopAfterTests := true,
    startBeforeTests := true,
    cleanAfterTests := false,
    cleanBeforeTests := true,

    /** Tasks **/

    externalDependencyClasspath in Zookeeper := (externalDependencyClasspath or (externalDependencyClasspath in Runtime)).value,
    startZookeeper := {
      val logger = streams.value.log
        logger.info("preparing to start ZooKeeper")
      val depClasspath = (externalDependencyClasspath in Zookeeper).value
      if(isZookeeperRunning)
        logger.info("zookeeper is already running. doing nothing")
      else {
        val baseDir = zookeeperServerRunDir.value
        if (!baseDir.isDirectory)
          baseDir.mkdir()
        val classpath = Attributed.data(depClasspath)
        val serverConfigFile = zookeeperServerConfig.value
        if (!serverConfigFile.exists()) {
          val is: InputStream = resourceFromJarAsIStream("zookeeper.server.cfg")
          val fos = new FileOutputStream(serverConfigFile)
          IO.transferAndClose(is, fos)
          fos.close()
        }

        val configFile = serverConfigFile.absolutePath
        val cp = classpath.map(_.getAbsolutePath).mkString(":")
        val javaExec = System.getProperty("java.home") + "/bin/java"
        val mainClass = "org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain"
        val pb = new java.lang.ProcessBuilder(javaExec, "-classpath", cp, mainClass, configFile).inheritIO()
        pb.directory(baseDir)
        zookeeperProcess = pb.start()
        // This is a temp solution for waiting for zookeeper to be ready
        Thread.sleep(10000)
        if(isZookeeperRunning)
          logger.info("successfuly started zookeeper process")
        else {
          logger.error("failed to start zookeeper process")
        }
      }
    },

    stopZookeeper := {
      implicit val logger = streams.value.log
      logger.info("preparing to stop zookeeper process")
      if(zookeeperProcess != null)
        zookeeperProcess.destroy()
      else
        killZookeeper()
      var triesLeft = 20
      while(isZookeeperRunning && triesLeft > 0) {
        logger.info("waiting 500ms for zookeeper process to finish...")
        Thread.sleep(500)
        triesLeft -= 1
      }
      if(triesLeft == 0) {
        logger.error("failed to stop zookeeper process nicely, using the heavy guns...")
        killZookeeper(true)
        logger.info("zookeeper process was forcefully killed (-9)")
      } else {
        logger.info("zookeeper process successfully stopped")
      }
      zookeeperProcess = null
    },

    cleanZookeeper := {
      cleanZookeeperFunc.value()
    },

    cleanZookeeperFunc := {
      () => {
        val dir = zookeeperServerRunDir.value
        IO.delete(dir)
      }
    }
  )

}


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Ян Майкл Кинслер (, род. 22 июня 1982 года) — американский профессиональный бейсболист, выступавший на позиции игрока второй базы. Победитель Мировой серии 2018 года в составе «Бостон Ред Сокс».

Несмотря на то, что он был выбран в 17 раунде драфта, Кинслер четыре раза участвовал в матчах всех звёзд МЛБ и был включён в список Sporting News «50 величайших действующих бейсболистов» в 2009 году. Ян дважды в одном сезоне выбивал более 30 хоум-ранов и крал более 30 баз (2009 и 2011) за что был включён в клуб 30-30. 15 апреля 2009 года в игре против «Балтимор Ориолс» Кинслер реализовал все шесть выходов на биту и выбил сайкл.

Ранние годы
Отец Кнслера работал начальником тюрьмы Тусоне. В детстве он оставил большое влияние на будущее бейсболиста. Когда Яну было четыре года его отец начал подкидывать над ним мячи и по его словам Ян «подходил под них и ловил так, как будто делал это всю жизнь».

Отец Кинслера был его тренером пока тот не пошёл в старшую школу.. Когда Яну было 13 лет и он выступал за команду из PONY лиги, которую также тренировал его отец, его отец посадил молодого бейсболиста на скамейку запасных. Конмад же без своего игрока проиграл финальную игру.

С раннего детства Кинслер страдал астмой. «Я болею астмой всю свою жизнь. Особенно тяжело для меня было в юности. А часто просыпался и не мог дышать и вынужден посредине ночи был ехать в больницу. Это удерживало меня от занятий спортом. У меня она до сих пор, но я контролирую её. Сейчас я использую инголяторы. В детстве же я использовал дыхательную машину… Я ненавидел её. Я всегда хотел быть активным».

В 2000 году он окончил старшую школу Кэньон дел Оро в Тусоне, где выступал за местную бейсбольную команду, и с его помощью она сумела завоевать титул чемпиона штата в 1997 и 2000 годах. На третьем году обучения он выбивал мяч в 38 % случаях и был включён в сборную лиги, а уже на своём последнем году обучения он выбивал в 50,4 % случаях и выбил 5 хоум-ранов и украл 26 баз, за что был включён в первую сборную штата и лиги. Вместе с ним в школьной команде играло ещё четыре будущих игрока высшей лиги: Брайан Андерсон (лучший друг Яна по школе), Скотт Харистон, Крис Данкан и Шелли Данкан.

Университет и драфты МЛБ
В 2000 году, сразу после завершения обучения в старшей школе, Кинслер был выбран на драфте МЛБ в 29 раунде клубом «Аризона Даймондбэкс». Однако Ян решил не идти в профессионалы, а поступить в университет. Первоначально ему ни один из университетов, чьи бейсбольные программы участвуют в первом дивизионе NCAA, не предложил стипендию, поэтому Ян поступил в Колледж центральной Аризоны. Там его средняя реализация выходов на биту составила 40,5 %, он выбил 17 даблов, 37 RBIs и украл 24 базы. За его достижения он был включён во вторую сборную конференции ACCAC. В 2001 году «Даймондбэкс» новь выбрали Кинслера на драфте, теперь уже в 26 раунде, однако он опять предложил подписать с ними контракт, так как считал, что выступления на студенческом уровне помогут ему лучше раскрыть свой талант.

На втором году обучения тренер бейсбольной команды Университета штата Аризона Пэт Мерфи предложил Кинслеру перевестись к ним, пообещав ему, что он будет выступать в команде на позиции шорт-стопа. Однако, хотя он и провёл в начале сезона несколько игр в стартовом составе, выступая рядом с ещё одним будущим игроком МЛБ Дастином Педроей, конец чемпионата он провёл на скамейке запасных.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Baseball America bio
 "Warming up for the Jewish Boys of Summer, " March 5, 2008
 «Second To None», Sports Illustrated, August 11, 2008
 "Interview with Ian Kinsler: Rangers voice Morgan chats with All Star second baseman, " mlb.com, November 4, 2008
 "T.R. Sullivan interviews Ian Kinsler: Kinsler talks about being healthy and making an impact, " mlb.com, March 5, 2009
 "Ian Kinsler chat transcript; Rangers second baseman fields questions from fans, " mlb.com, May 27, 2009
 "Grouse Hunt: The Inside Story of How Ian Kinsler Became a Ranger, " D Magazine, June 7, 2009

Игроки второй базы МЛБ
Игроки «Детройт Тайгерс»
Игроки «Техас Рейнджерс»
Игроки «Лос-Анджелес Энджелс»
Игроки «Бостон Ред Сокс»
Игроки «Сан-Диего Падрес»

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The Seaflow marine exhaust hose is designed for wet exhaust applications, such as boat exhausts. The special construction means that the wet exhaust hose is not only tough but also extremely flexible to help make the installation as easy as possible. Our marine exhaust hose is approved to R.I.N.A and Lloyds register!
We offer wet exhaust hose per metre, 10 metre coil or 20 metre coil. Flexible exhaust hose is available with inside diameters ranging from 19mm (3/4") up to 203mm (8").
Boat exhaust hose construction: Black abrasion resistant corrugated cover is resistant to oils and marine agents.
The exhaust hose reinforcement is by double wire helix and textile plies. Inside is finished smooth NBR rubber.
Suitable for exhaust temperature ranges -25°C to +120°C.