Buying a designer handbag is relatively easy, but finding one at a bargain price can be a challenge. When buying a Coach bag, consider the bag's authenticity, whether or not it was made for a Coach retail or outlet store and whether it's worth the price tag. To find the perfect Coach bag for the right price, you need to have the right information at your fingertips.
Familiarize yourself with the look of Coach handbags. Note that Coach bags often display the traditional Coach 'C' design, and some bags have a more modern 'C' design. Study the look of the two so you can easily identify them. The traditional 'C' is shaped like an oval, and the left side of the 'C' is thicker than the top and bottom. The modern 'C' is the same size in all sections, and is perfectly round like a circle.
Examine the material of which the bag is made. Reject the bag if the material is scratchy or flawed or if the leather appears to be fake. Coach only uses real leather and quality materials, so anything that appears or feels otherwise is not authentic.
Check the bag to see if all patterns line up correctly. Look at the C pattern to see if it lines up perfectly at the seams, especially the center seam. Be on the lookout for half 'C' patterns, especially on the seam on the front of the bag, which indicates that the bag is a fake. The pattern on the bottom of the bag may not necessarily line up perfectly, but all seams on the front and sides of the bag will line up properly.
Study the tag inside the tag. Look for a tag that is stitched on, displays the Coach brand name on the top, and has a paragraph about Coach bags. Look underneath the tag for the bag's serial number. This will begin with the letters No (for number), followed by the bag's identification number. The identification number has two sections separated by a dash and includes both letters and numbers.
Check the bag's details. Coach bags are stitched, not glued, and have YKK zippers. Coach C's are designed a certain way, so a misshapen C is a telltale sign of a fake bag. Watch for plastic wrapping around the handles without paper underneath and a price tag hanging from a ball chain, both of which indicate that the bag is not an authentic Coach bag.
Trust your instincts. If a bag simply looks fake, it probably isn't authentic. Note the colors that Coach bags come in. Reject any bag that's a color Coach normally doesn't use. Check the bag's pattern to see if it's lopsided and make sure the tag is in English with no misspelled words.
Shop at a Coach retail store or certified Coach retailer to buy an authentic bag. Wait for storewide sales to get the best price on a Coach bag. When you purchase a bag from a Coach retailer or high-end department store, you are purchasing an up-to-date, legitimate Coach bag.
Purchase a new bag at a Coach outlet store. Open a Coach bag and look at the inside tag. Check the bag's serial number for the letter F following a dash, which stands for "Factory," meaning that the bag was made specifically for a Coach factory outlet. Bags that are sold at the outlet but do not contain this code were not made specifically for the factory outlet.
Shop at secondhand stores. Look at the inner tag of a Coach bag to find out where it was purchased. Coach purses sold at the Coach factory store typically have a bullseye pattern stamped on the interior leather tag. Likewise, bags sold at Nordstrom have an 'N' stamped on the leather tag. These indicators tell you where a Coach bag was purchased.
Buy Coach handbags at TJ Maxx, Loehmann's, or other discount stores. If the tag has an X on the inside label, it's a Coach bag that didn't sell and was released to a discount store. These bags may be hard to find, so you will need to shop frequently and carefully to locate bags of this variety.
Take advantage of sales from designer sample sale websites. Visit websites like Ideeli, RueLala and Hautelook that offer discounts on authentic Coach products. Note that these products are often from previous seasons, and you can buy them at Coach outlet stores.
When buying a used Coach bag, ask the seller to show you a picture of the inside authentication tag. Ask when and where the seller bought the bag.
When buying from websites like eBay, check out the seller's other auction items. Sellers who offer hundreds of the same item are most likely dealing in fakes.


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Leicester City sign defender Robert Huth from Stoke after successful loan spell
Robert Huth spent the last four months of the season on loan at Leicester
The defender has now completed a permanent move from Stoke City
Huth said on Twitter: 'Now the sexy football show rolls into Leicester!!'
By Damian Spellman, Press Association
Published: 12:40 EST, 24 June 2015 | Updated: 12:55 EST, 24 June 2015
Defender Robert Huth has completed a permanent move to Leicester after a successful loan spell last season.
The 30-year-old Germany international, who played a key role in the Foxes' successful Barclays Premier League survival charge at the end of the campaign, has signed a three-year deal after the club agreed an undisclosed fee with Stoke.
He becomes manager Nigel Pearson's second summer signing following the arrival of Austria defender Christian Fuchs from Schalke earlier this month.
Leicester have completed the signing of defender Robert Huth from Stoke City on a three-year deal
Huth, pictured right with Esteban Cambiasso, spent the last four months of the season on loan at Leicester
Huth took to his Twitter account to express his delight at the move minutes after the official announcement.
He tweeted: 'STOKE YOU HAVE BEEN SENSATIONAL!!! Thanks for everything, I'll never forget it! Now the sexy football show rolls into Leicester!!'
The Berliner, whose move is understood to have cost the Foxes around £3million, headed for the King Power Stadium in February and made 14 appearances as Leicester dragged themselves from the brink of relegation to the relative comfort of 14th place.
Huth took to Twitter after completing the move and said: 'Now the sexy football show rolls into Leicester!!'
The German centre back thanked Stoke City fans after spending six years at the Britannia Stadium
They lost only four of the games in which he played, with he, Wes Morgan and Marcin Wasilewski providing a sizeable barrier in front of keeper Kasper Schmeichel with City keeping five clean sheets in their final nine games, a run from which they claimed 22 of a possible 27 points.
Huth began his professional career at Chelsea, where he won two Premier League titles, before limited opportunities prompted him to head for Middlesbrough in 2006.
Boro's relegation at the end of the 2008-09 season saw him switch to Stoke, where he established himself as a regular at the heart of Tony Pulis' combative rearguard, and he now has more than 250 Premier League appearances under his belt.
His transfer was completed on a day when it emerged that Leicester also have an interest in Potters' midfielder Steven Nzonzi.
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Courtesy: Pearl S. Buck International. The "Becoming American" series on immigration will include discussions led by faculty from Delaware Valley University.
Delaware Valley University faculty from the history, policy and society program are collaborating with Pearl S. Buck International on an immigration in America ("Becoming American") film series to begin in the fall. It is an educational film series that includes readings and discussion.
Open to the public, the series is designed to engage audiences through viewing and discussion of documentary films that represent diverse immigration experiences. Each discussion will be led by one of three distinguished faculty members from DelVal.
Featured faculty members include Dr. Tanya Casas, Dr. Craig Stutman, and Dr. Shih-chieh Su.
Dr. Tanya Casas studies race and ethnic relations and politics of recognition in the Americas. She has a particular interest in immigration from Latin America and the varied immigrant experiences of Latinos who come from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. She also is concerned with the political-economics of immigration and the circumstances that propel people to migrate. Dr. Casas incorporates different aspects of the immigrant experience into her sociology and cultural anthropology courses.
Dr. Craig Stutman is a historian who specializes in public history, race, and ethnic relations in the United States. Dr. Stutman teaches American history through the lens of immigration history, policy, and popular culture. Dr. Stutman is also the chair of the Toni Morrison Society's Bench by the Road Project, an African-American public history initiative, and serves on the board of two National Register of Historic Places-designated sites – Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust in Philadelphia and Eden Cemetery, a historic African-American Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Shih-chieh Su is a cultural and intellectual historian of modern identities. His research has focused on the relationship among histories, memories, and identities – including global migration and the construction of an inclusive national identity in the United States. As a newly naturalized United States citizen, involvement in this project is very important to Dr. Su. He is eager to share his experiences and observations with a greater audience.
Becoming American is supported by the generosity of Gayle Goodman and Jim Searing.
The "Becoming American" series kicks off Sunday, Oct. 14 and runs through Sunday, April 14. There is no charge to attend the films, but advanced registration is required. To view the list of films and to register, please visit pearlsbuck.org/becomingamerican.


Home » A Multidisciplinary Approach to Spine Tumor Surgery at Neurological Surgery, P.C.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Spine Tumor Surgery at Neurological Surgery, P.C.
Fernando Checo, MD was recently featured in Long Island MDNews, a print and online publication covering highly ranked orthopedists and emerging treatment practices.
At Neurological Surgery, P.C., Neurosurgeon Sachin Shah, MD, combines his surgical expertise with that of Fernando Checo, MD, orthopedic surgeon at The Central Orthopedic Group, to treat spine tumors.
Since 2012, Drs. Shah and Checo have combined their expertise and highly personalized care to treat spinal cord tumors. Both fellowship-trained, they bring a multidisciplinary approach to challenging procedures and provide the most advanced surgical techniques to patients.
The spinal column is the most common site for bone metastasis, treatment for which accounts for the majority of surgeries Drs. Shah and Checo perform together. Regardless of the type of tumor, however, they consider the same factors — size, neurologic compromise and spinal instability — in determining whether surgery would be beneficial.
That's why a referral to a spine specialist should be the first step when symptoms present. The most frequent symptom is nonmechanical back pain. But any back pain is worrisome, especially if it worsens at night, is progressive and recalcitrant to anti-inflammatories, or spreads to the hips or limbs. Bowel or bladder symptoms and neurological dysfunction are red flags, as well.
Patients with these symptoms are far more likely to have a degenerative spinal condition rather than a tumor, but they always merit further evaluation.
When a tumor is indicated, a differential diagnosis is postulated based upon the imaging, and a needle biopsy may be performed.
Some spinal tumors, like lymphoma and multiple myeloma, can be treated nonsurgically. Among nonsurgical treatments are observation, chemotherapy and radiation. For tumors causing pathological fractures, a minimally invasive spinal fusion or percutaneous balloon kyphoplasty can reduce pain.
If surgery is indicated, Drs. Shah and Checo consult with other medical specialists to plan treatment based on the patient's prognosis, overall health and goals of care.
Through consultation, the surgeons determine whether to perform a palliative or en bloc resection and how to decompress the spinal cord and stabilize the spine, if necessary. An extremely vascular tumor may require preoperative embolization.
While a posterior approach to spine tumors is still preferred if the tumor can be reached from the back, Drs. Shah and Checo can also take an anterior or lateral approach — or even a staged, 360-degree approach — depending on the tumor's location, extent of resection and neurological goals of stabilization and/or decompression. The lateral approach is often used for thoracic or lumbar tumors because it allows for a smaller incision and eliminates the need for an approach surgery.
Spinal cord tumors fall into three main categories: intradural extramedullary (inside the thecal sac but outside the spinal cord), intramedullary (inside the spinal cord) and extradural (outside the thecal sac).
Intradural extramedullary tumors account for 55 to 65 percent of primary spinal tumors. Common subtypes are meningiomas, schwannomas and neurofibromas (nerve sheath tumors). Meningiomas are generally benign and appear more commonly in women and patients ages 40 to 70.
Intramedullary tumors account for 5 to 10 percent of all spinal cord tumors, frequently arising from the cervical area. While these tumors are often benign, they are also difficult to remove because of their location. These tumors consist primarily of ependymomas and astrocytomas.
Extradural tumors are often metastatic. Between 30 and 70 percent of cancer patients experience spinal column metastatic lesions. Breast, lung and prostate cancers are the most likely to spread to the spine — the most common site for bone metastases.
The surgical plan is also designed to mitigate risk, which increases with higher or more infiltrative tumors or greater spinal cord compression. Some infiltrative tumors cannot be entirely removed and require further nonsurgical treatment.
Generally, the objective of surgery is to improve quality of life and, if possible, prolong life expectancy. Outcome depends greatly on the age and overall health of the patient and the underlying tumor being treated. Most nerve sheath tumors have an excellent prognosis, for example, but controlling a tumor that's metastasized often becomes more important than the primary tumor.
"Our multidisciplinary approach — including oncologists and a tumor board — helps us deal with these issues," Dr. Shah says.
Recovery depends on many of the same factors. The standard hospital stay for spine tumor surgery is two days to a few weeks, according to the AANS. Rehabilitation can last two weeks to three months, but can extend to one year.
A cervical tumor resection that Drs. Shah and Checo performed in 2013 illustrates how they work together.
The patient, a 34-year-old male, had presented with simple neck pain radiating down his right arm. Imaging revealed a large extradural tumor on C3-6, causing cord compression.
Dr. Shah admits to being surprised by the MRI.
After consulting with oncologists, Drs. Shah and Checo performed a cervical laminectomy and fusion operation with full resection.
Because the tumor covered many levels of the spine, a posterior cervical incision was required. An extensive laminectomy and facetectomy was performed on one side, and microsurgical techniques were used to decompress the spinal cord. The surgeons identified the thecal sac and nerve roots, and then decompressed the nerve roots to provide pain relief and restore neurological function. A small part of the tumor that was intradural was also resected.
Because extensive resection of the facet took place, and because of the patient's young age, Dr. Checo provided instrumentation to maintain spinal alignment over the next 40 years of his life.
Sachin N. Shah, MD, is a neurosurgeon specializing in spinal surgery who performs complex and revision spine surgery to treat conditions such as adult scoliosis, spinal deformities, spinal cord tumors and malformations.
Dr. Shah is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon who specializes in tumor surgery and various conditions of the spine at Neurological Surgery, P.C. He sees patients at offices in Bethpage and Rockville Centre.
A member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Dr. Shah is in private practice with Neurological Surgery, P.C. in Rockville Centre.
On June 1, 2018, Dr. Shah was named Section Chief of Neurosurgery at Mercy Medical Center.
Dr. Shah received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Florida and graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine. After an internship and residency in neurological surgery at Emory University Hospital, Dr. Shah returned to the University of Miami for his fellowship in spine surgery.
Instrumentation, such as screws, rods or bone grafts, is required if spinal column stability is compromised due to either the tumor itself or surgical removal of the lamina and facets.
As a standard of care, the surgeons used spinal neural monitoring to increase safety during the procedure.
The patient completely recovered with no tumor recurrence or further treatment, and was able to return to his demanding career with no disability.
Surgeries like this are the culmination of bringing complementary skill sets together, Dr. Shah says.
There may be no better time to have two specialists on hand than when an unexpected challenge arises in surgery. That happened earlier this year, when Drs. Shah and Checo performed what they thought would be a routine resection of a thoracic tumor.
The patient, a 20-year-old female, presented with pain radiating down her leg — enough pain that kept her from sitting for an important medical exam. Her parents, employees at two different Long Island hospitals, wanted her to stay close to home for treatment. Assuming she had a herniated disc, they sent her to Dr. Checo, who ordered a diagnostic workup and found a lesion on the lumbar MRI and then ordered a thoracic MRI. A further workup revealed an intradural extramedullary tumor.
The procedure was a T11–12 thoracic laminectomy and intradural tumor resection. As expected, the 2-centimeter schwannoma was inside the dural sac. When the sac was opened, however, the surgeons faced an unexpected challenge.
At that point the dentate ligaments were cut and the tumor microsurgically resected around the spinal cord. Because it was arising off a nerve root in the thoracic spine, it could be removed en bloc. The sac was then closed and the incision closed in layers.
Fernando Checo, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in nonoperative and operative management of cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal conditions. He is an expert in complex spinal surgeries, such as revisions, scoliosis, flat back syndrome and tumors.
Dr. Checo is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon who specializes in reconstructive procedures of the spine at Central Orthopedics in Plainview.
Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Dr. Checo is in private practice with The Central Orthopedic Group. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at Plainview Hospital and a Clinical Spine Surgery Facilitator in NYU Winthrop Hospital Department of Orthopedic Surgery.
Dr. Checo earned his undergraduate degree in biological science from Binghamton University and graduated from Meharry Medical College. After residency at the University of Connecticut New England Musculoskeletal Institute, Dr. Checo completed a combined orthopedic and neurosurgery spine fellowship at Tufts University.
The patient was monitored in the ICU for 24 hours, where mean arterial pressures remained elevated to perfuse the spinal cord. The patient's total hospital stay was two days.
"Her fast recovery, and the tumor's unremarkable size and pathology, don't reflect the risk and difficulty involved in the resection," Dr. Shah says.
Each case exemplifies the level of confidence Drs. Shah and Checo have earned among their patients as well as referring physicians — something neither take lightly.
Dr. Shah notes that before any spine tumor surgery, he and Dr. Checo spend extensive time in consultation with the patient.
Such personal involvement in each case is something Drs. Shah and Checo take great pride in. And it's another reason physicians refer patients to their care.
Drs. Shah and Checo have privileges at Mercy Medical Center, NYU Winthrop Hospital, St. Francis Hospital, Plainview Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital, providing patients a number of convenient locations for surgery. They perform many of their surgeries at Mercy, where Dr. Shah has been advancing the neurosurgery program since becoming Section Chief in June 2018.
Regardless of location, Drs. Shah and Checo work together to bring consistent excellence of care to every surgery.


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Coomera Springs State School will definitely refer the use of these Educational Stylus's from EduGrip onto other schools utilising iPad/tablet technology. We will definitely be in touch again as our BYOx program evolves to include more classes.
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UMBC is the #4 "Most Innovative" college in America and places #6 in undergraduate teaching, according to this year's U.S. News and World Report rankings.
President Hrabowski praises Tim Ryan, Baltimore Sun publisher and next head of the L.A. Times and San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Eating N.C. - Serving his community a second time
By Chris O'Brien Burlington
PUBLISHED 12:30 PM ET Nov. 19, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:30 PM EST Nov. 19, 2021
BURLINGTON, N.C. — A morning cup of coffee can boost anyone's spirits.
"It's fresher because it's roasted here in house," Salvation Coffee Company owner Jim Young said. "Everything is our blend, everything is made our way, and we try to concentrate on being consistent with every drink."
Jim Young joined the Army at age 17
After frostbite forced him out, he worked a few different jobs
In 2018, he opened Salvation Coffee Company
Young originally began selling coffee as a side hustle
Young opened Salvation back in 2018, but it isn't the first time he's had experience serving the community.
"I gained appreciation for good coffee when I was in Germany," Young said.
He started a four-year career in the Army when he was 17. Young had intended to have a long career in the military, but fate would see it differently.
"We were out in the middle of the woods, humping with snow up to your knees, and your relief doesn't show up on time because their Jeep broke down in some old man's cow pasture in Germany," he said. "When I got back, I had frostbite."
Unfortunately, it forced Young out of the service. But it doesn't hold him back. In fact, if you watch him operate the coffee shop, you wouldn't even notice he has any sort of injury.
"It seemed like it was more of an issue for the Army than it was for me," Young said with a sly smile.
Once retired from the Army, he worked with an air conditioning company before moving into an audio and video business. Then, a new idea hatched – brewing coffee.
"Just as a little side hustle, something to distract me from the audio-video stuff," Young said.
It's not a side hustle anymore. Now, it's a company that refuses to stop growing and isn't done yet. An expansion plan was even in the works before the pandemic shut the progress down.
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The UMass Minutemen Ice Hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college ice hockey program that represents the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Minutemen are a member of Hockey East. They play at the 8,387-seat William D. Mullins Memorial Center (known as the Mullins Center) in Amherst, Massachusetts.

History

Pond history
The centrally located pond on the UMass campus was once used for multiple purposes. In the winter students and faculty would cut out blocks of ice to use for refrigeration and annual tug-of-war games between sophomores and freshmen were hosted during the spring months. In 1909 the first formal ice hockey team began playing on the pond as well. UMass fielded one of the earliest non-ivy league programs, playing continually until poor weather conditions and a lack of funding caused the team to cease in 1939. The Minutemen were able to return to the ice after the war but couldn't play at home until 1954.

The lack of a home venue caused the team to suffer through a stretch where they won only 2 games over a 7-year period. Eventually the pond became usable again and UMass were able to play home games with new head coach Steve Kosakowski. The Minutemen performed decently in his 13 seasons and were among 28 teams to found ECAC Hockey. In 1964 the ECAC split into two divisions and any program that did not possess a dedicated indoor arena was placed in ECAC 2. UMass continued with the second-tier conference for 15 years and achieved their greatest success in 1972 under Jack Canniff, winning the conference tournament title.

By the end of the 1970s using the pond as a rink had become untenable and when no alternatives surfaced the program was shuttered.

Return to the Ice
When the Mullins Center opened in 1993 it was designed as a multi-purpose arena and allowed for the university to rekindle its ice hockey program. The men's team started the same year and hit the ice as a Division I independent. With 20 wins in the first season under Joe Mallen, there was hope that the Minutemen could compete in Hockey East. However, once they began a tougher schedule in 1994–95, the team lost a then-school-record 28 games. Though the team rarely finished last in the conference under Mallen, there were very few gains and he was replaced by Don Cahoon in 2000.

Under Cahoon the team began to improve, posting a winning season in 2003 and reaching the conference championship game the following year. His greatest success came after recruiting Jonathan Quick, who helped UMass to reach their first ever NCAA Tournament in 2007. Cahoon couldn't keep the success going, however, and after being knocked off in five consecutive conference quarterfinals he retired in 2012.

John Micheletto was tabbed as Cahoon's successor and after a decent first season the team slid down the standing and bottomed out for two consecutive seasons. After the second last-place finish Micheletto was fired and replaced by St. Lawrence head coach Greg Carvel.

Greg Carvel era (2016–present)
In Carvel's first season the team reached a nadir; the Minutemen set a new program record for futility, losing 29 games. Carvel led the team to a much-improved finish in his second season and then team took off in year three. The Minutemen reached their first ever Frozen Four and a berth in the 2019 NCAA Division I National Championship in which the Minutemen ultimately lost to Minnesota-Duluth 3–0. Though the year ended on a sour note, the team posted a new program record for wins (31) while Cale Makar won the school's first Hobey Baker Award.

On April 10, 2021, the Minutemen won their first-ever NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, beating the St. Cloud State Huskies 5–0.

Season-by-season results

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Records vs. current Hockey East teams
As of the completion of 2018–19 season

Coaches and support staff
Current as of November, 2018.

Head Coach History
As of the completion of 2020–21 season

Statistical leaders
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Career points leaders

† - active

Career goaltending leaders

GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

Minimum 30 games played

Statistics current through the start of the 2022–23 season.

Current roster
As of August 6, 2022.

The Longest Game
On March 6, 2015, UMass faced Notre Dame in Game 1 of the Opening Round of the 2015 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, played at Compton Family Ice Arena at Notre Dame. Early into the game, Sam Herr gave Notre Dame the lead on a rebounded shot. Vince Hinostroza made it 2–0 midway through the second period. But the Minutmen responded two minutes later with a power play goal by Steven Iacobellis. Notre Dame responded three minutes later with a Steven Fogarty goal to make it 3–1. UMass made it 3–2 a minute later with a goal by Shane Walsh. With two seconds remaining in the period, Troy Power tipped a power play goal to tie the game as the second period (a period that had five goals in total) ended. The third period ended with no goals, as the two teams went into overtime. The two teams repeatedly failed to score, with UMass shooting a record 91 times and Notre Dame shooting 78 times. With 8:18 left in the fifth overtime and at 1:24 a.m. ET, Shane Walsh scored the game-winning goal to end the longest Division I hockey game which had lasted 151 minutes, 42 seconds, besting the previous record of 150:22, set by Quinnipiac and Union in 2010.

Steve Mastalerz finished the night with 75 saves for UMass while Cal Petersen of Notre Dame made 87 saves, setting a new NCAA record. It was UMass' first win at the Tournament since March 13, 2009 at Northeastern.

Awards and honors

NCAA

Individual awards

Hobey Baker Award
Cale Makar: 2019

Edward Jeremiah Award
Jack Canniff: 1972

Spencer Penrose Award
Greg Carvel: 2019

NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player
Bobby Trivigno: 2021

All-Americans
AHCA First Team All-Americans

1971–72: Pat Keenan, F; Brian Sullivan, D; P.J. Flaherty, G
1972–73: Pat Keenan, F
2003–04: Thomas Pöck, D
2018–19: Cale Makar, D; Mitchell Chaffee, F
2019–20: John Leonard, F
2020–21: Bobby Trivigno, F
2021–22: Bobby Trivigno, F; Scott Morrow, D

AHCA Second Team All-Americans

2006–07: Jonathan Quick, G
2008–09: James Marcou, F
2009–10: Justin Braun, D
2020–21: Zac Jones, D

NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey All-Tournament Team

2018–19: Marc Del Gaizo, D
2020-21: Bobby Trivigno, F; Matthew Kessel, D; Zac Jones, D; Filip Lindberg, G

Hockey East

Individual awards

Player of the Year
Cale Makar: 2019
Bobby Trivigno: 2022

Hockey East Rookie of the Year
Josh Lopina: 2021

Three-Stars Award
John Leonard: 2020

Scoring Champion
James Marcou: 2009 (co-champion)
Mitchell Chaffee: 2019
Bobby Trivigno: 2022

Best Defensive Defenseman
Justin Braun: 2010

Bob Kullen Coach of the Year
Don Cahoon: 2003
Greg Carvel: 2019

William Flynn Tournament Most Valuable Player
Bobby Trivigno: 2021, 2022

All-Hockey East
First Team

2003–04: Thomas Pöck, D
2008–09: James Marcou, F
2009–10: Justin Braun, D
2018–19: Cale Makar, D; Mitchell Chaffee, F
2019–20: John Leonard, F
2020–21: Bobby Trivigno, F
2021–22: Bobby Trivigno, F; Scott Morrow, D

Second Team

2002–03: Thomas Pöck, D
2005–06: Marvin Degon, D
2006–07: Jonathan Quick, G
2007–08: Mike Kostka, D
2008–09: Justin Braun, D
2009–10: James Marcou, F
2018–19: John Leonard, F; Jacob Pritchard, F
2020–21: Filip Lindberg, G; Zac Jones, D
2022–23: Scott Morrow, D; Ryan Ufko, D

Third Team

2017–18: Cale Makar, D
2018–19: Marc Del Gaizo, D; Mario Ferraro, D
2019–20: Jake McLaughlin, D
2020–21: Marc Del Gaizo, D; Matthew Kessel, D
2021–22: Matthew Kessel, D; Matt Murray, G

Rookie Team

1994–95: Brian Regan, G
2002–03: Stephen Werner, D
2004–05: David Leaderer, D; P. J. Fenton, F
2006–07: Justin Braun, D
2007–08: Paul Dainton, G; James Marcou, F
2008–09: Casey Wellman, F
2010–11: Michael Pereira, F
2014–15: Brandon Montour, F
2017–18: Cale Makar, D; Mario Ferraro, D
2018–19: Marc Del Gaizo, D
2019–20: Zac Jones, D
2020–21: Josh Lopina, F
2021–22: Scott Morrow, D; Ryan Ufko, D
2022–23: Kenny Connors, F

All-Tournament Team

2002–03: Thomas Pöck, D; Stephen Werner, F
2003–04: Thomas Pöck, D; Greg Mauldin, F; Mike Warner, F
2006–07: Chris Capraro, F
2020–21: Filip Lindberg, G; Zac Jones, D; Jake Gaudet, F; Bobby Trivigno, F
2021–22: Matt Murray, G; Colin Felix, D; Garrett Wait, F; Bobby Trivigno, F

Olympians
This is a list of Massachusetts alumni were a part of an Olympic team.

Minutemen in the NHL
As of July 1, 2022

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References

External links
UMass Minutemen men's ice hockey

Ice hockey teams in Massachusetts

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Leon casino, Hill Street Blues: The Final Season (1/12, Shout! Factory) concludes with an emphasis on the newest character on the hill Lt. Norman Buntz (Dennis Franz). Franz would actually be the only character of the ensemble cast that would topline a short-lived spin-off of HSB titled Beverly Hills Buntz. (That show doesn't seem to exist in any medium and would be a welcome release were some distributor to find the one season of episodes and polish them up.)
Hill Street Blues would be the template for today's endless parade of procedural police dramas. In addition to the cast of regulars guest stars, early in their careers, include Don Cheadle.
Also from Shout! Factory are a couple of sure-fire programmers. Bolero/Ghosts Can't Do It (1/12) offers up a Bo Derek double bill. In the 1980s John Derek and his wife Bo made sex filled R-rated dreck that seems downright nostalgic if not wholesome by today's standards. Bo didn't mind baring all and John, himself a male ingénue from the late '40s, knew how to photograph his wife with a taste for nonchalance. Ghosts Can't Do It has Bo being haunted by Anthony Quinn in a hammy perf as her dead husband's ghost. Spectacular locales like the Grand Tetons look brilliant in the Blu-Ray transfer. An unintentional treat is a co-star named Donald Trump who pops up as a high-powered businessman who's trying to take over Bo's inheritance.
The Image Revolution (1/12) refers both to the company called Image Comics as well as the revolutionary concept that the artists brought to their new corporation. Disgruntled Marvel employees populated image Comics. They left the largest comic book publisher in the early '90s mainly due to payment and creative issues. The line-up reads like a who's who of graphic artists: Todd McFarlane (Spawn), Rob Liefeld (Deadpool), Jim Lee (X Men), Jim Valentino (Guardians of the Galaxy) and others. The documentary is packed with interviews and stories that paint a revisionist picture of a time before comic book movies ruled the box office.
Hate Crimes in the Heartland (1/12, Virgil Films) documents the Tulsa 1921 race riot. Bringing up facts that most are unaware of the film easily moves between the racism in society 100 years ago to how the situation has barely changed in the modern day. Hate Crimes contrasts the riot with an incident that occurred in 2012 where "two white males drove through the Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood targeting blacks at random."
In 1921 Greenwood was known as The Black Wall Street of America. The Tulsa riots burnt the neighborhood to the ground. If you've never heard of this incident this one-hour documentary puts events in perspective. If you're already familiar with history Hate Crimes in America has a few tidbits of information of which you probably weren't aware.
I Believe in Unicorns (1/19, IndiePix Films) made an impact on the festival circuit in 2014 but never found the love of an extended theatrical run. Unicorns follows a young artistically talented young femme who meets and falls for a trouble young lad. The relation goes strong but then collapses under the weight of his immaturity and anger. Filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff uses collage style stop motion to heighten the emotions of the lead characters.
The New Girlfriend (1/26, Cohen Media Group) was never released theatrically domestically but would've given The Danish Girl a run for the money. French director Francois Ozon makes deliciously frank movies that straddle a thin line between decadence and humor. The New Girlfriend (Une nouvelle amie) starts out charting the lifelong friendship between two women. Childhood friends bound for life they each make the passage to adulthood and then marriage.
Tragic strikes when one dies after childbirth. The other femme has promised her friend to look after her now motherless child and widower husband. The twist is that the guy (French heartthrob Romain Duris) now dresses in his wife's clothes complete with wig and make-up. Duris is not gay so much as he wants to literally cross dress in the memory of his wife. Obviously complications ensue. The New Girlfriend does not go in the direction you would expect yet proceeds to astound and entertain. Extras include a behind the scenes featurette and interviews.
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It was with sadness that I learned of Gordon Sturrock's passing, just a few weeks ago now, pretty much five years exactly since the passing of Perry Else. The two are inextricably connected with one another in my mind and studious experiences. Just as was the case with Perry, I knew that Gordon was unwell, but that his illness was terminal (he said as much a year or so ago at the PlayEd conference in Cambridge). I knew also, by this spring just gone, that Gordon had only a matter of a few months left to live. Even so, the inevitable news of such final events still has the potential to leave a recipient a little caught unawares. It is, therefore, all the more laudable that Gordon's late flurry of writing and communications with other playwork writers and thinkers took place with such focus on his part.
I had spent the best part of last summer developing ideas with Gordon, via email, and writing those ideas into what became our joint paper, published in the autumn. I was acutely aware of the support he was providing, not just for myself, but for others engaged in study and development of their playwork writings. Gordon seemed to have a need to make use of what time he had left to succinct effect. He wrote at length to various groups, and to individuals; he sent books and other gifts. It was, in my reading of his focus, a way of saying to those he communicated with: keep it all going, think, keep thinking, take this all on further.
Around Christmas and the New Year, Gordon launched into an array of lengthy written communiques with a group of play and playwork thinkers and writers. He was passionate therein about an urgency in social and political constructs. He kept a keen eye, and also fed into his other various writings, the goings-on of the 'gilets jaunes', the yellow vests, and the mass protests taking place in France at that time. He sent a gift of a yellow vest, compelling that it be worn with pride. Gordon was seeing playwork and its reason for being having a place amongst the precariat. Those missive communiques, pamphlets reminiscent of tubthumping calls to arms of days gone by (I imagined they might be carefully typeset and nailed to telegraph poles, or illicitly pasted up somewhere, in alleys in bohemian quarters, maybe, in the deep of night), those pamphlets sit quietly awaiting my re-reading again, visible in my email intray.
Those who have read much of Gordon's work would no doubt agree that his writing often required a great deal of concentration. Gordon was of the opinion that those who failed to understand the words he was using (and his vocabulary was extensive) should invest in a dictionary rather than him dumb it down. I readily admit that my vocabulary has improved significantly because of Gordon's writing. In person, however, you seldom needed that dictionary.
I have an abiding memory of Gordon observing me as I was (what I now come to term more and more as) playworking. It was maybe a dozen years ago and we were at a small conference. There were maybe only a couple of children there, maybe only the one, the son of a delegate, and there was a break in proceedings. The boy played and, every now and then, cued me into the flow of things. I went with that flow. Gordon was nearby, quietly taking everything in. He later told me what I was doing, a level I was operating on, which I was conversant with as he explained what he'd seen but which, over the years of reflecting on this one play frame, I understand better and better as I replay recent playworking through that same lens. Gordon had explained to me his observation of a playworker witnessing their practice as they worked. As with other significant moments of appreciated feedback, I have never forgotten this or him taking the time to observe and see to it that it was worthwhile to tell me.
His explanation linked very much with certain aspects written into the Colorado Paper, which he co-authored with Perry Else. This remains, to this day, a seminal paper in the playwork field, even though many still haven't read it, and few have understood it fully (suchlike as this was in one of Gordon's final laments). I will not claim that I understand the Colorado Paper fully, but I become more astutely aware of its inner workings every time I consider it and every time I run it through my current reflections and practice. On more than a few occasions, Gordon used the idea of a paper or thinking process being 'a North'. I read that as something akin to following the Pole Star. The Colorado Paper is a North.
Gordon's background in psychoanalysis has taught me plenty, or set me off into trying to find out plenty, on the significant matters of potential neuroses, therapeutic (small 't') interaction, and the sheer weight of what might be in our day-to-day experiences around children. Play, and the playworker (minus the possible manifestation of the ego), have great and graceful, small and significant affects that can, under conducive circumstances, make such difference. Gordon knew this. If we indulge in the slightly reductionist exercise, for a moment, of choosing which strand of playwork thinking suits our own experiences and worldviews best, mine has for a long time favoured Gordon and Perry's psycholudic consideration, a little ahead of Bob Hughes' evolutionary writings (as valued as they also are) or developmental schools.
What Gordon gave me, through his writings and other communications, was the gentle persuasion to explore deeper and deeper into concepts I thought I already knew well enough, but of course, didn't quite. I am aware, currently, that a regular group of children can bring to this playworker, daily, all their play, all their stories and continued narratives, all their possibilities and all their tumbling agitations with one another, with where they are, with the adult world and so on, but they also bring all their projections and all their transference. One of the last things that Gordon wrote, deep down in a missive to be relocated, was about how we should, as I read it, examine the counter-transference in our practice.
Gordon had always engendered in me the desire to think, and he still does, just these few weeks after his passing. Peace be to you, Gordon: an Artisan-Erudite.
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Children's culture, or their collective psyche, is far, far richer, deeper, wider, wiser and more subtle than the schematically naive innocence endorsed or exhibited by a majority of adults (who cannot or will not ever be able to appreciate it all). The children's culture is embedded within the overall culture of all of us, but it is replete with a dense and fine array of sophistications, graces, interconnectedness, gestures and whispers, allowances and tolerances, stories for the select few: choreographies of psyche, mind and body, as the children skilfully manage to manoeuvre their ways through and in between the apparent incorrigibilities of the adults who, for their part, and in comparison, for a most part, exist only in the shallows. The depths are oceanic or, in other ways of perceiving them, they extend up and out to the stratosphere and beyond. Children are the mavens of a realm that many adults cannot even comprehend is there.
The underlying or overarching terrain of children's wisdom is vast. It is like the ocean floor or the permeable veil where the atmosphere shifts into space. What wisdom falls at children's feet and heaps around them in an interconnected all, an invisible mass, a gravity like the pull of dark matter, has accumulated by means of an incalculable stretch of the past. What has happened to other children, stretching back and back, and how those children have adopted their strategies of being, seems to flow into contemporary children's innate understanding of the now. In my experience, children's comprehensions of the weftwork of places (which they are necessarily obliged to share with adults, in cultural amalgam) extends far farther and deeper, and with myriad subtle tonal range, than simplistic developmental models allow for.
Amongst these places of shared necessity, there may be the select or selected few of the adult domain who are privileged to be witness-party to aspects of the underpinning terrain and the depth realm. They are the chosen few, finding themselves immersed, who are subsumed by the maven Will in often small and slight but highly significant subtle moments. Before long, and without always fully comprehending the process, or that the process is even happening at all, by shades and gradation, the chosen will find themselves deeply understood and trusted. Some may not know entirely why; some will comprehend, absolutely. Many adults simply will not fathom this thinking; some will think they do, but there will be an unease about it all; some, however, will know, because they have experienced it. These are a privileged tribe. They may go by a certain specific job title, or they may internalise and consciously absorb such vocational reason for being (in deed, if not on contractual paper), in their services for children's play, or they may not know such titles but still be of the truly play-minded — it makes no odds: in any of these ways of being, perhaps there is the proposition of a collective noun to be considered: a Privilege of . . . (alliterate in any way you please). Membership is conditional, predicated on how we are and see.
In a similar manner to the understanding that is 'the condition of an image, resulting from the act of seeing, (sharp or blurred, bright or faded) is at least partly dependent on the efficacy of our optical equipment', that which we perceive in an experience of children and moments is at least partly dependent on the efficacy of our attitudinal-perceptual equipment. Children often seem to sense this efficacy in the chosen few because they, the latter, are replete with all manner of attitudinal conscious and unconscious ways of being, as the children experience them. The chosen may be subsumed, a process of passive immersion, but the perceptual engagement is a reciprocal proceeding. In the oceanic depths or in the high sky, there are many shades and gradations of blue to be experienced, seen, felt, other than merely the usuality of what is dully, normally, blandly known as blue, shallow blue. In the shared and privileged understanding of myriad blues, our perceptual equipment is known, by the children, to function beautifully.
Take a gift: a present of the present, a small flower maybe, or a sticker, an object treasured for a while, the slightest touch of an elbow, a Buddha look and a smile, a continued cue that stretches out over days or weeks, all of these and a thousand thousand more, can be imbued with so much more than the shallow perception will comprehend. Take the piece of paper on which is drawn and lives an animated stick man, going about his everydayness in his two dimensional world, observed by three dimensional others (who might, but barely, perceive a four or five dimensional space-time beyond them); the higher dimensional others, in their turn, observe down benignly on the merely three-dimensioned . . . the chosen few and the mavens of the deeper realm can read a gift in greater dimensional terms than stick men can.
Our base decides our stance defines our view. Those who are cut as, or who have been moulded as, fearful, whose base is that of fear, will see or feel or read 'fear' into that which is before them; similarly, those whose bases (and so, stances), whose worldviews are that of danger or the disquiet of disequilibrium, of impropriety or of a perception of lack of integrity, will see or feel or read these into that which unfolds or transpires in front of them. A present of the present, a small flower maybe, or a sticker, an object treasured for a while, the slightest touch of an elbow, a Buddha look and a smile, a continued cue that stretches out over days or weeks, all of these and a thousand thousand more, will warp under a narrow worldview glare.
Children's ways of being and ways of seeing are far, far richer, deeper, wider, wiser and more subtle than this. There are those of this tribe endowed with scintillating empathy; there are those who radiate a calm, clear knowing. Children know languages that many adults cannot begin to read, and there is no Rosetta Stone, there is only invitation, in varying and subtle degrees of pace, of shades and gradations, subsummation into the variance depths of blue.
Ultimately, these words here may all be, in the main, entirely and uselessly academic, superfluous, impenetrable beyond certain degree; there are, however, those whose experiences (in their might) may shine, in and to them, that they, the chosen, select or selected few, could and can concur with such words played with here.
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I, and my words, have wintered and now it's almost spring. What of play, now, after these months of thinking, reading, always either being in with empathy, reflecting on or observing around this most ineffable of sustenances? I recently came across an article that seemed to link with my previous recent writings embracing mutual aid, collaboration and connectivity. The article (Let's do branch: how trees socialise and help their neighbours by Amy-Jane Beer, 2019) is, admittedly, published primarily as a paid-for product placement link in an online national newspaper; however, glazing over that, I was caught up by the analogy I found myself conjuring of a forest of children, en mass, at play.
Despite appearances, trees are social beings. For a start, they talk to each other. They're also sensing, co-operating and collaborating . . .
Read as: Despite appearances, children are social beings. For a start, they talk to each other. They're also sensing, co-operating and collaborating . . .
Well, we know that children interact, for sure, but do we know how it is they communicate, in all their various, glorious, subtle, complex, overlaid and interlaced formations? They can manifest their many complexities to one another (and to and between them and any playworking-minded adults) in such astute and beautiful, brave and careful intricacies. There are many who can't, or won't, see such things because maybe their focusings are fraught or frayed
. . . the phenomenon known as 'crown shyness', in which similarly-sized trees of the same species appear to be respecting each other's space was recognised almost a century ago. Sometimes, instead of interlacing and jostling for light, the branches of immediate neighbours stop short of one another, leaving a polite gap.
Children move: they always seem to be moving, physically, but even when this isn't so perceptible, they're still moving, emotionally, psychologically, socially. Children are choreography in action. It's easy to see when they're playing 'tag', say, spinning towards and away from one another, but we might also consider how there is an emotional, psychological, social choreography in action too. It isn't the 'polite gap' of physical trees or children that I wish to pay attention to here: it is the honour of 'being a fellow child' that I see, despite the occasional disagreement. There are small courtesies and allowances paid to one another, which are replete with knowing and feeling what it is in being 'child'.
If trees can be shy at their branch-tips, more recent research shows they are anything but at their roots. In a forest, the hair-like tips of individual root systems not only overlap, but can interconnect, sometimes directly via natural grafts, but also extensively via networks of underground fungal threads, or mycorrhizae. Through these connections, trees can share water, sugars and other nutrients, and pass chemical and electrical messages to one another.
This is the nub of things. The forest of children is an interconnected affair, below the surface of what the many adults think they see or hear or know. It never ceases to amaze how the smallest particle or packet of information can fizz around the underground, along the root system and its off-shoots, to surface again elsewhere or elsewhen, maybe whole or maybe slightly modified but always passed without adult discernment. Children inhabit a culture, an extensive rhizomatic array, way beneath and beyond the forgotten comprehension of many adults of the local system above the ground.
Canadian biologist Suzanne Simard . . . describes the largest individual trees in a forest as hubs or 'mother trees'. Mothers have the deepest, most extensive roots, and are able to supplement smaller trees with water and nutrients, allowing saplings to thrive even in heavy shade.
I have seen this mother phenomenon in action, but never really realised it as something akin to the trees until thinking recently. One child, girl or boy, of any age, quietly, humbly sustains those around them, sacrificing something, ignoring something, giving something and walking away. They get on with their own play. We of the playworking-minded adults think we have the monopoly on such actions, and sometimes we do act in these 'mother tree' ways, but when we see a child, quietly, come to give an upset other the doll she was playing with, say, walking away then without a word or gesture (or another, sat quietly stroking the hair of her friend in front of her, for reasons we can only guess the depths of), we can realise otherwise.
Scientists have known for more than 40 years that if a tree is attacked by a leaf-eating animal, it releases ethylene gas. On detecting the ethylene, nearby trees prepare to repel boarders — boosting production of chemicals that make their leaves unpalatable, even toxic.
It isn't beyond the realms of possibility (what do we adults really know?) to suggest that a locale of the forest of children can act in similar ways. An attack on one is a warning to the others, and the others can then seem just as toxic to the attacker looking for more to feed on. I have seen small groups closing ranks. The question remains, though: what, or who, here constitutes the toxic agent?
A sobering aspect of recent revelations is that many of these newly recognised 'behaviours' are limited to natural growth. In plantations, there are no mother trees, and there is very little connectivity. This is partly because of the way young trees are transplanted and partly because when they are thinned to prevent competition, what little underground connectivity neighbours have established is severed. Seen in this light, modern forestry practices begin to seem almost monstrous: plantations are not communities but crowds of mute, factory-farmed individuals, felled before they have ever really lived.
This paragraph, to me, is very poignant. I shall leave you to draw your own conclusions of minutiae and wholenesses on it.
For this playworking-minded writer, it suffices to say that we can affect a positivity of nurture, in all manner of circumstances and to some degree, but it's better if the nature of connectivity isn't stripped away or trammelled on to start with.
At the risk of confusing the poor search-bots, this post is — part — a duplication of a separate recently published page on this site, being from a file of my online papers as it is. I post the abstract and link here as a means of maximising initial exposure to the writing. First the preamble, however.
In May this year, I attended a gathering of play and playwork people in Cambridge (PlayEd 2018). Discussions and further communications around that time and subsequently, with Gordon Sturrock, resulted in the co-authored paper linked to below. This paper is a synthesis of some aspects of one of Gordon's prompter conference papers, written communications from the same via ensuing small collective and personal correspondence, and my own reading research, experiential input and writing. As such, the resulting paper is a fusion, a process in keeping with the content.
It is fully anticipated that there will be disagreement with some of that content from within the playwork 'bubble'; however, there will — I trust — be those who connect with it. Either way, the intention is to open up the discussion on what those of us who call ourselves playworkers do, and how we are.
You can read the paper via the PDF link at the bottom of this post, or you can access all of the text and link content below via the Play Connectivity tab in the header above (or here: Play Connectivity) — that should confuse the search-bots plenty but it does give you plenty of easy access choices!
Playwork's key claim is its unique manner of working for and with children. It currently suffers, however, from a lack of consensus regarding the benefits of its application. This paper challenges the dilution of playwork practice in acknowledging the art, grace and wisdom in connectivity of playworking. Drawing primarily on Antonio Damasio's neurobiological analysis, the homeostatic disequilibrium operation at the core of body/neural intra-action is detected as reflected in the interaction of organisms.
In consideration of some key concepts of social ecology – consociation, mutual aid, co-operativity rather than competition, rhizomatic rather than hierarchical structures – and the neurobiological study on individuals' feelings, emotive responses, affect and culture, this paper discusses the evolving phenomenon of the playworking adult and child at play in terms of a symbiotic being and becoming.
An auditing of symbiotic homeostatic disequilibrium in operation is currently being developed.
Please click below to open a PDF copy of this paper. Please feel free to share, without alteration, and credit appropriately if citing from it. Discussion is embraced and encouraged. Thank you.
Symbiotic Homeostatic Disequilibrium in Playworking Interaction (Oct 2018)
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play for play's sake
It's late at night, late at least for these younger children, wrapped in blankets or wrapped into parents, at a small fire, in a small clearing in the woods, nowhere near concrete or traffic or towns or cities, somewhere deep in the middle of Kent. I'm drawn over to this side of the camp by the soft sounds of someone playing the guitar. I sit down on the grass by the pyramid frame that's standing above the low flames. It's warm here and there are half a dozen children gathered around, listening quietly to the low music. Rachael, the camp band's singer, passes me the guitar: play something, she says, whilst she attends to the children's needs (hot chocolate or marshmallows? It's already drifting in space and memory, a week on). I can only play a few chords. It's OK, I'm told by Jim, the barman of the barn-bar, the ukulele player, you play more than me! I play very low because I'm really not that good, and I stop because one of the girls wants to sing a song. She says she's making it up as she goes along: she sings as she looks into the flames, repeating repeating the refrain.
Here we are again. I have been to this small place for five years in my returns now, every May. There are familiar faces and new families. There are maybe thirty or forty children, I suppose, or it feels like it, mostly younger, though a handful are older. It doesn't take long for the new to fall into the pace and feel of here. This year, because I'm working on my own, I set up the gazebo at the end of the clearing, just ahead of the dirt mounds which, later, I hear some children talking about: look, the playground's still here. There is a rope swing and a tyre swing; there is a plank of wood, which some children manufacture as a standing see-saw, and some lean it experimentally against the old caravan, later, as I see from a distance, using it as a means to reach the rope; there is the shallow dirt basin where other years' play took place; a punch bag hangs nearby — I can hear the rhythmic whacking of sticks hitting it, even a hundred yards or so away at my tent, on the edges of the clearing corner where Bec and Dru and Amy have set up a woodcrafting place, where Dru whittles spoons and strews the ground with shavings from other workings, where the wool is woven, where the little dogs wander, and through which the children navigate, en route for their own camp in the deep green luminosity of the woods just beyond.
At nights the candles down the track are lit. I stand at the edge of the clearing, beyond the barn, looking down and down the narrow, shallow slope towards where the lake is in the dark, and the black is always the very blackest down there through the trees, and the small smudges of those candle lights, in two ragged receding roughly parallel lines, always catch my attention. Places like these, sights and the feel of all and suchlike can, and has, made its way into other writings of flow and fiction. Sometime, somewhere along the way of the weekend, I remember a conversation in passing, with a father, who told me how he watched the space station going over with his child. In the night, one night, I emerge from the trees, from under the rickety old metal-roofed shack that creaks with the wood of the trunks, from where I have been talking and eating with a friend re-met, and the sky is strobing intermittently. I wonder if my eyes need to readjust, but it's far-off lightning sparking the dark. The rain comes, just as I close my tent zip up, but I don't hear the storm that passes over.
I forget the order of things. It doesn't matter at all. I'm at the fire bowl in the woodcrafts corner of the clearing, one night, and from where I'm sitting, just looking out, drinking beer, being still, I can see the barn and there are twists of light around the wood struts of the shelter in front of this. Rachael is singing and the guitar and ukulele are in accompaniment and I just catch the flickerings of a child there and she's dancing. She's using the light strings, playing with the interactions, twisting her hands and arms around, turning around and around and down and up. The night is for play as well as the day.
Last year, in the early mornings as we camped along a track in a van a little way out from the clearing, we were often greeted, on stretched extraction or coffee making, by a young boy, maybe five, who would bring us sticks as presents. Oh, thanks, I would say, a stick. I'd sweep my hand across the vista of the forest: we were looking for one of these (or words such as these). He trailed us in our settings-up and takings-down. This year, I see him and I say hello and I call him by my remembrance of his name. I remember you, do you remember me? He looks at me, briefly, matter-of-factly, turning down his lips and shrugging his shoulders: No. I'm not aggrieved! I'm amused: ego has no place here.
Later, in the baking sun-trap down by the lake, I sit amongst the tall daisies with him and his younger brother, in a small clearing of our own devising. I have bubbles here, because I said I would, and a box of bits and bobs, because the children seemed to like this the day before, on a larger scale, and some clay, because one girl said she'd like this. It is a little odd, really, because the whole lake is lined with clay, but I take the darker stuff down anyway. The boys want to know what might happen if this clay I've brought gets wet. The oldest says it in a squeaky, experimental, half-hopeful kind of way. Go get some water, I say to him, pointing to the lake: there's loads down there. He comes back with the biscuit tin I've given him half-filled. In goes the clay and we squeeze it between our fingers so that it squirts out of all the in-betweens.
Plenty of children seem to like the clay, the previous day, getting good and messy on the tarpaulin beneath the gazebo. The sun creeps across the ground, under the canvas roof, and wordlessly, like a sun dial, we all slowly shift and edge along and around with it, keeping in the shade as the day goes on. There are experiments of bubbles in the afternoon, when plenty of families have gone elsewhere on-site, woodcrafting, forest-schooling, and so on. I judge it an opportune time. There are a handful of children and parents still around. I have several containers full of this year's batch of home-made bubble mix, and I have bubble-wands made from elastic and bamboo. There is a small gathering, a small to and fro, of younger children dipping and lifting and blowing softly or too suddenly, waving and flapping, holding the sticks to the breeze, floating and popping bubbles, or chasing them, just chasing them, as children are often wont to do. I look up, sometime (the bright idea of putting the tubs and containers into a larger plastic crate, in case of spillages, having dawned on me), and there with bubble-wands in hand, experimenting, are just three fathers: three dads, me, and a supply of bubble mixture.
In the shade of one hot day, under the gazebo, some younger girls are carefully trying to thread beads onto what will be necklaces or bracelets for themselves or for their fathers, who are sat there with them. I'm nearby and I feel a need to say something genuine, though I hear myself as I say it and it comes out oddly: I say to one of the dads there how good I see it to be that he, and the others around, can interact with their children in this way of play. I do mean it, though I hope it doesn't come across so patronising as I hear it. It is good because you don't always see it.
Some children come back time and again to the gazebo, to the dirt 'playground', to the bubbles. Some children are more content roaming in the woods, and these are the children just seen in passing, in and out, in between. As I sit in the shade with the clay and the paper and the beads, the feathers and the fabric, and the suchlike all spread out and around, a younger girl of maybe four, and early on without having really had a proper conversation yet with me at all, leans in, telling me her genuine consideration of me, though in words, and without regard for adult sensibilities, in a way only a maybe four year old can. Later, a small green caterpillar labours across the tarpaulin. The other children are suddenly intrigued. The maybe four year old stands, a little wobbly, maybe she's off-balance, landing a foot down suddenly, squashing the caterpillar flat. Maybe she didn't mean it; maybe she did. She doesn't shrug as she steadies herself for whatever her next play is to be, but she might as well do.
At the lake, with the clay and water boys, the slightly older of the two is taken by the sight of a fat furry caterpillar. He wants to take it up, but I'm mindful of the previous day's episode. I try to dissuade him but he's adamant. He knows about cocoons, he told me earlier, and I needn't be in his way here: he picks up the caterpillar with a lolly stick and examines it, placing it down carefully on a long daisy stalk when he's done. When he looks around again, he tells me it's gone. Where did it go? he asks. I don't know: perhaps its found a place out of the sun.
Out of the direct sun, but where the moss on the fallen branches on the ground is a bright and luminous green between the trees, across a ditch where the children have a bridge, they've declared a 'no adult zone'. One of our number is camped by the metal-roofed shack on our side, just beyond the woodcraft corner of the clearing. He hears the conversations from the children's side. He wants to go over, to infiltrate, to play, but we stay on our side: we respect the lay of the land. Over there, over the ditch, the children concoct plans, create their domain, they just are. I know they're there. I sit at my tent or amongst the wood shavings of the crafters and see how the children have two routes through: they use more or less two straight lines, either directly across the branches laid down here, along through and then in between the small and large tents and into the ferns, past the shack, and towards the ditch, or the other way straight over the low bunting flags of the woodcraft camp and between the vans and on. Children's routes often pay no heed to adults' demarcations.
It is evening on the last day. Some families have left already; there are some spaces between tents. I lay out the parachute because we haven't used it yet and because I think the children who are scattered variously in the clearing might find it and play something with it. I ask permission of the nearest campers because it is, effectively, in their back garden. Most of the children don't see it at first, it being off the beaten track. Then, eventually, when a parent calls out that there's a parachute out, a wave of children appear from out of the metaphorical woodwork. I think the play might form organically but immediately it becomes directed by an older girl, who I've known these past few years or so. Something curious happens on the way of the parachute play: all the games she leads the other children towards are standard, as known (albeit with variations on names, as I know them), but she adopts a very precise style of doing things. It is as if she's copying a teacher she knows or someone similar. She adopts an air and a voice far beyond her years. At one point, she stops a game of 'fruit salad' mid-flow because, she says, it just isn't going right; the apples and the pears are running when they shouldn't be, everything's terribly mixed up . . . I tell her that it doesn't matter but she's determined and adamant. I tell her that she maybe ought to be quicker because she'll lose the younger children's attentions, but she bats on regardless in her own style. The play happens. The younger children go with the flow. All the children are children here.
Here we are, in a small clearing in the woods, nowhere near concrete or traffic or towns or cities, somewhere deep in the middle of Kent. As has been my year-on-year realisation: it is a privilege being here.
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Ulrich Schütte (* 9. Mai 1948 in Soest) ist ein deutscher Kunsthistoriker.

Leben
Er studierte Kunstgeschichte, Pädagogik und politische Wissenschaft in Heidelberg. Nach der Promotion 1978 im Fach Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Heidelberg war er von 1989 bis 2017 Professor am Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut in Marburg (Schwerpunkt Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie).

Seine Forschungsinteressen sind fürstlicher Schlossbau im Alten Reich, frühneuzeitliche Architekturtraktate und Fortifikationsarchitektur.

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Hochschullehrer (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
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text:
/*
 * TreeAwareNodePoolStrategy.h
 *
 *  Created on: Apr 1, 2015
 *      Author: kristof
 */

#ifndef PEANOCLAW_PARALLEL_TREEAWARENODEPOOLSTRATEGY_H_
#define PEANOCLAW_PARALLEL_TREEAWARENODEPOOLSTRATEGY_H_

namespace peanoclaw {
  namespace parallel {
    class TreeAwareNodePoolStrategy;
  }
}

#include "tarch/parallel/NodePoolStrategy.h"
#include "tarch/parallel/FCFSNodePoolStrategy.h"

#include <vector>
#include <map>

class peanoclaw::parallel::TreeAwareNodePoolStrategy : public tarch::parallel::NodePoolStrategy {

  class Node {
    private:
      enum State {
        Unregistered,
        Registered,
        Idle,
        Working
      };
      State _state;

      int   _rank;
      int   _level;

    public:
      Node();
      Node(int rank);

      //State
      bool isIdle() const;
      bool isRegistered() const;
      bool isWorking() const;
      void setWorking();
      void setIdle();
      void setRegistered();
      void setUnregistered();

      //Level
      void setLevel(int level);
      int getLevel() const;

      int getRank() const;

      bool operator<(const Node& right) const;
  };

  /**
   * Logging Device
   */
  static tarch::logging::Log _log;

  /**
   * Tag on which the node pool works
   */
  int _tag;

  int _numberOfNodes;

  int _numberOfIdleNodes;

  std::vector<Node> _nodes;

  int _numberOfLevels;

  int _workerPerMasterOnLastLevel;

  int getRanksPerSubTree(int level) const;

  int getWorkerRankForMaster(int masterRank, int masterLevel) const;

public:
  /**
   * Constructor
   *
   * Construct all the attributes.
   */
  TreeAwareNodePoolStrategy();
  virtual ~TreeAwareNodePoolStrategy();

  virtual void setNodePoolTag(int tag);

  virtual tarch::parallel::messages::WorkerRequestMessage extractElementFromRequestQueue(tarch::parallel::NodePoolStrategy::RequestQueue& queue);

  virtual void fillWorkerRequestQueue(RequestQueue& queue);

  virtual void addNode(const tarch::parallel::messages::RegisterAtNodePoolMessage& node );

  virtual void removeNode( int rank );

  virtual int getNumberOfIdleNodes() const;

  virtual void setNodeIdle( int rank );

  virtual int reserveNode(int forMaster);

  virtual void reserveParticularNode(int rank);

  virtual bool isRegisteredNode(int rank) const;

  virtual bool isIdleNode(int rank) const;

  virtual int getNumberOfRegisteredNodes() const;

  virtual std::string toString() const;

  virtual bool hasIdleNode(int forMaster) const;

  virtual int removeNextIdleNode();
};

#endif /* PEANOCLAW_PARALLEL_TREEAWARENODEPOOLSTRATEGY_H_ */


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Stop Podcasting Yourself: Podcast Review
ByAmber K
InComedy
Tagpodcast, review
Maximum Fun network's Stop Podcasting Yourself is a weekly Canadian comedy podcast that's been going strong since 2008. Considered a pioneer in the "comedy chat" format, the show features conversations between comedians every Monday. With the exception of the getting to know you intros for the guest comedian, and a segment called "Overheard," there's no real predictability to the show. Even so, listeners can't get enough, and the show has won multiple Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Podcast/Best Audio Show or Series! Part of the "Overheard" segment is dishing on ridiculous stuff the comedians have overheard or overseen in the past week. Listeners are also invited to call or email in their own "Overheards" to be featured on the show.
The Hosts: Graham Clark and Dave Shumka co-host Stop Podcasting Yourself. Clark is an accomplished Canadian comedian and regularly appears on CBC's The Debaters. He was a co-host and writer of City TV's The CityNews List and has been nominated for several Canadian Comedy Awards. Shumka is a standup comedian in Canada and has performed at the Halifax Comedy Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival, and on XM Radio.
The Guests: Stop Podcasting Yourself features a different comedy interview every week. Past guests have included Ian Boothby, Ennis Esmer, Becky Johnson, Rory Scovel, Scott Thompson, Baron Vaughn, Brent Butt, and many others!
Why You Have To Listen: Despite the show having little format, Clark and Shumka do a fantastic job keeping the conversation going and listeners engaged. They have an easy rapport and a relatable sense of humor. They can be goofy and raunchy and charming all at once. Listeners liken it to having a silly conversation with good friends where you can't stop laughing!
Must-Listen Episodes:
Episode 594: Sophie Buddle
Episode 550: Brent Butt
Rating: 18+ (Explicit)
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Amber K
Amber Kelm has more than a decade of experience as an accomplished copywriter, editor and marketing project manager. From compelling sales copy for websites, to informative and well-researched content assets, she loves creating engaging, high-impact copy that wows. A #GirlMom to two, Amber spends her free time reading high fantasy and hiking the North Georgia mountains.
Amber has a degree in communications from the University of Phoenix. In all fairness, she applies absolutely 0% of what she learned in college to her daily digital marketing work.
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It's a nice effect and a great mani!
oh very pretty Esme, great review!
I like the colors you went with, it shows the tape off so well. I really need some of that tape!