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Leonard Joseph Engh born in
Durien, NE of Mission, BC on
February 09, 1933 (age 84).
With his wife Nia and Teddy
(their miniature poodle)
by his side, Len passed
(peacefully) on Saturday, 29
April 2017 at the Christine
Morrison Hospice in Mission.
Len is survived by his wife Stefania "Nia" Eymundson of
Hedley BC; his son Gary (Susan) Engh of Gold River, BC;
daughter Laurie (John) LeBlanc; son Randy (Diane) Engh;
daughter Valerie Engh; son Martin (Esmarie) Engh; and
daughter Leona (Scott) Engh Malkoske (all of Mission,
BC) as well as two stepsons Nicholas (Sabrina) Morley,
and Edward Morley. Len is also survived by his first wife
Madeleine "Maddie"; thirteen grandchildren and twelve
great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.
Len is also survived by his siblings: Clara Corley of Salmon
Arm, Jackie Engh (Dennis) of Spokane, WA; Norman Engh;
and Loretta (Con) Rondquist of Mission, BC.
Leonard is also survived by his maternal aunt Josephine
"Aunt Jo" of Abbotsford; as well as countless dear cousins,
nieces, nephews and friends.
Len was a wonderful husband, a precious father and
"grandpa", a great "big brother", a loving nephew and
cousin, and good friend. He dearly loved his family; was
fond of his many good friends, and was respected and
loved by all who knew him. He shall be sorely missed but
remembered with a never ending love.
A celebration of life memorial tea is being held in honour
of Len at 1:00pm on Sunday, May 07th at the McConnell
Creek Farmers Institute Hall located at 35483 Hartley Road
in (rural) Mission. A light lunch shall be provided.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations (in
Len's name) be made to the Mission Hospice Society.


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Q: What is the criteria for a child to be eligible to attend the UPK program?
A: A family must reside in the Brockport School District. The child must be 4 years old by December 1
Q: What health forms are required?
A: Copies of the most recent physical examination and immunization records must be submitted. It is not necessary to make a new doctor's appointment if copies of the above records have been provided.
Q: If my child does not attend kindergarten the following year, may they attend UPK again?
A: No, UPK is a one-year program for children who will be four by Dec 1st.
Q: Where will the UPK program be located?
A: Most of the students will attend UPK at the Ginther School. The remaining students will attend private preschools in the area that have agreed to align their curriculum with the public school curriculum and have a certified teacher to teach it. The private school collaboration is required by the UPK grant.
Q: Will the UPK program follow the district calendar?
A: Yes.
Q: How long will children be in school each day/week?
A: The UPK program is required to be five days a week for 2 1/2 hours per day. The Ginther School's UPK program times are: UPK AM 8:15 am - 10:45 am UPK PM 11:30 am -2:00 pm. Each of the outside UPK agencies will also teach UPK for 2 1/2 hours per day, however, they will determine their own schedule.
Q: What will be the focus of the curriculum and will there be specials like in Kindergarten?
A: The focus of the curriculum will be literacy based on the NYS Pre-School Standards but there will be math, science and social studies lessons. Physical education, art, and music experiences are provided within the UPK classroom.
Q: Will transportation be provided?
A: No, transportation is not covered by the grant. BCSD researched the possibility of transporting students; however this is not an option at this time.
Q: How will I apply for UPK?
A: An application will be sent directly to families who have contacted the Registrar's Office. If your child is not in our student data base, please call 637-1857 to receive an application and other related information.
Q: Is there any cost to families for UPK?
A: There are no direct costs to families for the academic program at either Ginther School or the outside agencies involved in the UPK program. However, families need to provide transportation to and from UPK. No school supplies are required. Snacks are provided to students each day.
Q: May I request a specific UPK teacher?
A: Please do not request a specific teacher. Placement decisions are focused on providing the best academic setting and groupings to maximize students' instructional experiences. The four Ginther UPK classes work together and see one another often throughout the week and school year; for this reason, instructional criteria overrides placing groups of friends together since they will see one another often. UPK teachers incorporate ice breakers and activities for building classroom friendships starting the first day of school.
Q: When will parent/child visitation occur?
A: In the placement letter, which will be mailed late August, parents will receive notification of their child's am or pm session, orientation date/time and teacher name.


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I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
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Round the Mountain (Mount Ruapehu) Track. Day three: Rangipo Hut to Whakapapa Village.
Trails: Rangipo Hut – Tukino Access Road car park – Ohinepango Springs – Waihohonu Hut – Whakapapa Village.
# The track between Waihohonu Hut to Whakapapa Village is part of Northern Circuit Great Walk.
For better map display, click the buttons (Full Screen, Hide/Show Photos and Back to Centre) in the top right corner of the map to study the tracks we walked. Please go to DOC for detailed information.
Total distance: 30.01 km
Max elevation: 1573 m
Total climbing: 1191 m
Total time: 09:00:04
Max elevation: 1573 m
Total climbing: 1191 m
Total time: 09:00:04
Total flat distance: 29.7 km, Maximum difference: 504 m, Final balance: -468 m.
Difficulty Rating: Tough
The "Total Time" is my time in Jan 2020 which includes lunch time and breaks. That day was cloudy and strong wind at most exposed areas until lunch time.


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WEST SALEM, Ohio — The Northwestern-Wayne FFA chapter held its final meeting for the year May 21.
There were three speakers for the evening. Jim Hitchcock, a representative from Town & Country Co-op, spoke on Answer Plot. Kelly Riley, from the Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation, spoke about a new program for recycling plastic that comes from hay bale covers and feed bags. Northwestern FFA alumnus Jerrin Hill came to speak about her trip to Africa.
The Ag in the Classroom committee reported on events from the year and the petting zoo held at the elementary school. The safety committee reported that members helped at the petting zoo.
A motion was made to park cars at the Twilight Tour July 18, as well as park cars and give safety talks at the Answer Plot July 11.
Members were also reminded about chicken pick-up, which will be in mid July.
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A week after struggling in its biggest loss of the season, Newton football got back on track from the very first play Thursday night.
The Rams started out in a big way in its 34-21 win over Luella at Sharp Stadium.
On the first play from scrimmage Kemani Pittman hit a wide-open Desmon Billingslea out in the flats, who then took it 74 yards to the house. Just like that Newton was up 7-0 18 seconds into the game.
With the victory the Rams, who lost to Lovejoy 51-6 for the Region 2-AAAAAA championship on Oct. 26, secured a second seed in the playoffs.
"It was what we expected to do tonight, we're just excited for the kids tonight," Newton coach Cortez Allen said. "They did an outstanding job."
Newton's offense showed it was ready to compete to hold on to the home playoff spot, and the defense followed suit.
Nick White led the way with three interceptions and several pass breakups, a feat made even more impressive as he has been playing with a broken hand all season.
"He is just having an outstanding year, and doing a great job," Allen said. "We didn't know what he was going to be like after he broke his hand, and we're just real proud that he kept going."
It was Billingslea coming up again for Newton en route to its second touchdown, this time recovering a Luella fumble on the Lions' 3-yard line. After a short run and then a loss by James Hardeman, Pittman ran in Newton's second score from 6 yards out for a 14-0 lead early in the first quarter.
It was the first of two scores to lead to touchdowns for Newton, which had another on an interception return for a score.
Newton, however, turned it over first as Hardeman broke off a 25-yard run before losing control of the ball.
Luella recovered on the Rams' 35-yard line, and from there used a 22-yard run and a big personal foul penalty to work their way toward the end zone. Lions quarterback Jared Hendricks rolled out and found Jaylon Harris on a 1-yard TD pass to break the Rams' shutout hopes with 6:24 left in the second quarter.
On the ensuing kickoff Aaron Pierce had a big return, which unfortunately ended in what appeared to be a serious shoulder injury with 6:15 left in the second quarter, bringing the game to a halt for around 10 minutes before being escorted off the field.
After play resumed, Newton couldn't get anything going offensively. But that was where the defense took over.
Nick White had a 25-yard interception return to make it 21-7 with 3:54 left in first half. On Luella's next possession, White had another interception.
On that drive, after a play in which personal foul penalties got a player form each team ejected, Pittman threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Taylor Hawkins for 10 yards and a 27-7 lead after the extra point was blocked. The Rams had another player ejected from the game midway through the first half, leaving them without three players from Thursday night for this week's upcoming game.
The Rams struck quickly again in the second half, starting things with an onsides kick. After recovering the ball on Luella's 35, the Rams had little trouble going the rest of the way to the end zone. They used a key 11-yard run on fourth down and a 13-yard TD run by Hardeman to make it 34-7 with 8:58 left in third quarter.
White got his third interception with 2:13 left in third quarter on Newton 8-yard line, but it couldn't convert another score.
Luella rounded out the scoring with two TD passes, the first coming for 21 yards with 9:53 left, and the second on a 20-yard pass from Hendricks to Aaron Davis with 1:21 to play. After the two-point conversion Luella made the score closer than it was for the final margin.
Newton finishes out the regular season on the road Friday at Morrow before starting the playoffs at Sharp Stadium on Nov. 16.
"We've got to take care of business against Morrow next week and use it to tune up."


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I have just finished recording an audiobook of "Mimic Life" for Librivox.org and have been reflecting once again on the way Mowatt chose to structure the story "Stella." This discussion will incorporate significant plot spoilers, so if you haven't read or listened to this story – and you really should – you may wish to bookmark this blog and come back to it later.
If you are a student and have stumbled upon this blog while in search for a topic idea for a Theatre History or Victorian Literature class – Welcome! And congratulations, you've found germs of an excellent paper here. However, don't copy what I've written. First, because – write your own stuff, kid. Second, this isn't developed nicely enough for a paper. Pick one or two of these ideas and then really flesh them out. For instance, you could take one idea I throw out and compare it to a similar thing Charles Dickens does with the quasi-autobiographical title character in "David Copperfield" and come up with a fine, perfectly original, not that hard to write or research paper.
You're welcome.
All that out of the way – the purpose of this blog is to spend a little more time discussing why Mowatt makes the rather disturbing choice of killing off the character of Stella. The choice is jarring first because the character is overtly autobiographical. Stella's career path closely parallels Mowatt's. Her physical description is a mirror of the actress. There are several statements from Mowatt attesting to the fact that "Mimic Life" is intended to be autobiographical. Therefore we, the readers, are witnessing a kind of literary suicide.
Next, Stella's demise is disturbing because the direction of the story seems to be adamantly heading elsewhere for the first seven chapters. Mowatt is no Ambrose Bierce. She usually telegraphs her endings from far away. There are a few dark shadows cast here and there in Chapter One, but we're given larger signposts that things are going to work out happily for Stella. She has a grief-stricken, recluse mother who is dependent on her, as well as Perdita and Floy, two impoverished young employees of the theater who she befriends. Stella seems to be fulfilling the over-arching themes of the book by overcoming anti-theatrical prejudice and combating all the nay-sayers who doubted that she could become an actress. In addition, a romance is developing between Stella and the playwright Percy so that she seems to have a narrative "escape hatch" built in from the negative aspects of theatrical life. It would have been possible for Mowatt to allow Stella to do accomplish all her goals – a successful career, rejuvenate her mother's interest in living, aid Perdita and Floy – then marry Percy and exit the theatrical life before she became "poisoned" by the ill-influences there such as Miss Doran's jealousy, Mr. Tennent's condescension, and Fisk's callousness. However, instead, things go suddenly and horribly wrong for Stella.
Reading through the story aloud made me notice several details that convinced me that Mowatt may have changed her mind about the direction of the story before she reached the final two chapters. I think she may have originally been planning for Stella to have merely have contracted a serious infection from the nails planted in a plaster statue by her rival Miss Doran. Stella doesn't complain about the wounds she receives from these nails. The narrative mentions the wounds festering and Stella growing feverish, along with increasing notes of erratic behavior on her part. I think it is possible that like Elma Ruthven of "The Unknown Tragedian," Stella may at one point might have in Mowatt's imagination been destined to have her hidden affliction discovered, cured, and been headed out of the theater for a happy ending with Edgar Percy. So, what happened? In my opinion, a happy ending became impossible for Stella for a combination of the following reasons:
1. Accumulated Biographical Angst – As I have discussed in previous blogs, the last fourteen months Mowatt spent in England were filled with extremely difficult events including the illness and death of her husband, the discovery of Walter Watts' fraud and his subsequent suicide, another personal bankruptcy, and a mental breakdown. The story "Stella" is set in the United States. As long as events of the plot remain close to her early career, the narrative is cheerful and humorous. However when Mowatt begins to draw upon roles she played in London in 1849-50, the plot takes a sudden, dark dive. In particular, the comic role of Beatrice in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" becomes the stuff of nightmares for Stella and signals her descent into madness. Beatrice was one of the last roles played by Mowatt at Walter Watts' Royal Olympic Theatre before his arrest.
Given the number of extremely disturbing and tragic incidents that she experienced during that fourteen month period, I think it is entirely possible that whatever her initial plans for the story of Stella might have been, her own memories of her time in England might have persuaded her that the story, in order to be truly autobiographical, needed to end in madness and death as had happened in her own life.
2. Romantic Guilt – Anna Cora Mowatt made a number of remarks that confirmed that her characters were usually based at least in part on people she knew. Part of the fun of Mowatt scholarship is once one gets familiar with her characters and circle of friends; one can start to fairly easily match up who is who.
Although "Stella" clearly has a character who is a doppelganger for Mowatt and is set during a time when she was married to James Mowatt, the love interest is not based on Mr. Mowatt. If anything, the character of Stella's mother comes closest to sharing characteristics with her first husband. (Boy, Freud would just take that ball and run with it, now wouldn't he?) Instead, Stella falls for young Edgar Percy, who is closer to her in age and temperment. Stella's beloved is quite definitely not James Mowatt, her husband at the time the story was supposed to have taken place, nor was he William Foushee Ritchie, her husband at the time she was writing the story. I think it's more likely Edgar Percy could have been based on someone like Henry T. Spicer, who wrote the play "Witch Wife" especially as a vehicle for her. Perhaps Mowatt realized she was about to happily-ever-after her not-all-that-well-disguised fictional self with someone who was neither her dead nor current husband and decided it would be more discrete for Stella to exit heavenwards.
3. Religious Beliefs about the Afterlife – Speaking of Heaven, reading "Mimic Life" aloud also reminded me of how religious Mowatt was at this period of her life. I doubt you will ever read another book about the theater that talks so much about the religious life of actors. This was in part was because she felt demonstrating a moral tone in the personal lives of performers was an effective weapon in combating still prevalent anti-theatrical prejudices in the general populace that that regarded the theatre as depraved and – with few exceptions – culturally worthless. The emphasis on religion also reflected the depth and vehemence of her personal beliefs. Mowatt was a follower of Emmanuel Swedenborg. They believed that Heaven is absolutely perfect and divinely pleasant. Death is only tragic for those who are left behind. As readers, we need to remember that although Mowatt lets her characters die, she is careful to let us know that their souls are properly prepared. They go to an idyllic Swedenborgian paradise. They are released from all struggle and pain. Therefore, looking at the death of characters like Stella, Tina Trueheart and her mother from a Swedenborgian perspective, the end Mowatt gives them is not ultimately tragic; her heroines ascend to a greater, heavenly reward.
4. Tragedy Is Consistent With a Theme of Toil and Suffering – As I mentioned, in the preface, Mowatt states that her primary goal in writing the book is to combat anti-theatrical prejudice. Yes, Victorians did love to go to the theater. Yes, they did love certain actors such as Edwin Forrest and William Macready enough to beat each other's brains out in the streets in events like the Astor_Place_Riot. However, Victorians still also believed that the theater was a den of sin and vice and performers, particularly women, who were not "stars", were probably of low moral character. Actresses were generally assumed to double as prostitutes. Because the theatre was assumed to be glamorous and "fun" work that didn't merit a living wage, some actresses found that they had to double as prostitutes to make ends meet… and so the vicious cycle continued. To combat harmful negative perception about the average theatrical wage-earner, Mowatt attempted to open up the world backstage to the theater-going audience and present it not as a site of magic and glamor, but simply as a workplace. Particularly in the first two stories, Mowatt goes into detail presenting the work-a-day routines and often punishing demands of the theater. In all three stories, she consistently shows the theater as the site of toil and suffering. "Mimic Life" is both a defense of the work ethic and moral qualities of the denizens of the theater and a cautionary tale for those who might aspire to enter its doors. Stella's tragic end can be seen as strongly reinforcing both of these messages.
5. Pity for the Real Miss Doran – As I said above, Mowatt's characters were usually based on real people. I assume that the prank that Miss Doran commits – embedding nails in a statue that Stella must embrace onstage – is changed significantly from whatever actually happened, but I think there was an actual antecedent. Although I can't pin a name to either of them, this character and her father have a degree of detail that are usually associated with portraits that Mowatt drew from life. Miss Doran's poisonous jealousy of Stella seems to fit into a dynamic tension between love and envy Mowatt is setting up in all three stories. The clearest example of this tension is in the last story. Gerald Mortimer is caught in a love triangle with Elma and Edmonton. Dramatic tension is caused by his envy, but is resolved by Mortimer's self-sacrifice. In "Prompter's Daughter" the love and happiness shared by the Truehearts is threatened at several points by the greed and envy of Mr. Higgins and Mr. Tuttle, the stage-manager, but resolved by the self-sacrifice of Robin, Susan, and little Tina. In Stella's story, we have the beginning of this pattern with Miss Doran's jealousy and purposive sabotage, but we don't get the payoff with the triumph of love via some sort of self-sacrifice on the part of our heroine. Perhaps Mowatt changed the course of the story because Miss Doran was going to do something that was going to paint her as uncomfortably too vivid a villainess – such as being accidentally responsible for the death of Perdita and Floy's father, perhaps?
Well, dear, hypothetical Theatre History or Performance Studies Student, as I warned you, this is just the germ of an idea for a paper, not a paper itself. As you can see, I left out elements you're going to need. No quotes from the book. I didn't tie anything to the theories of Judith Butler, Walter Benjamin, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, or Mikhail Baktin. I call anything carnivalesque, heteronormative, or prattle on about discursive performativity, or whatever the cool words du jour are whenever you are reading this. That's all you, sweetheart.
I'm not leaving you hanging out to dry, though, baby. Biographical information on Mowatt will take up the first few pages. My website will get you started there. Next, you'll need to lay some groundwork about the historical and cultural significance of "Mimic Life" as a literary work. Go to Chapter Four of my book, The Lady Actress and the previous blog entry I referenced above to get going on that sort of thing.
So, you're not going away empty-handed. I'm giving you a flexible framework and some neat things to stuff it with. Just don't try to fool yourself that it's a paper yet. Particularly don't copy the parts where I'm talking about how its insufficiency. That's a dead giveaway.
Worst of all, I don't seem to have so far developed a conclusion for this blog entry yet. That's essential. As a person who graded these things for years, trust me when I say that you can't just throw out a bunch of intriguing ideas and then not tie them together at all… even when you're writing a blog… Okay, let me say this much – and you can quote me… as a matter of fact, you must quote me, or you'll be plagiarizing, dear… As much as the reader is charmed by the engaging characters, historical detail, and humor in the first three quarters of the story "Stella," the sudden, un-signaled shift to tragedy in the last two chapters shocks the auditor into a mode of horrified fascination that makes this story more memorable than the more predictable "The Prompter's Daughter" or "The Unknown Tragedian." Whether the memories of personal traumas, unacknowledged societal pressures, religious beliefs, or a desire to maintain certain thematic unities throughout all three stories motivated Mowatt to end the life of the fictional Stella, for me, it comes as more of an unpleasant surprise than the many stereotypically doomed, virtuous, suffering maidens of Victorian literature because she is not presented to the reader as doomed and suffering, but as a survivor and a fighter. In the end, unless new documents in Mowatt's hand come to light that make it clear why she choose to commit a sort of literary suicide by killing off this seemingly indomitable, brilliant, beautiful, talented, generous, plucky fictional clone of herself, we may never know for certain what personal, professional, and/or societal pressures caused her to make this dramatically tragic choice. One thing I think we can readily conclude, though, whatever was at work, it wasn't anything good.


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World famous Nigerian producer, Northboi Oracle has blasted Starboy boss, Wizkid for not crediting him.
Northboi who is responsible for producing Wizkid's most recent hit single, Joro took to Twitter to call out the Starboy boss.
Wizkid had taken to Twitter to hail another producer, Killertunes for his work on his forthcoming album "Made In Lagos"
Wizkid wrote;
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Killatunes a great man!! Love you my bro. Appreciate you for everything ! Y'all follow @Killertunes_Tii and show him love for everything! Man finished my album! ❤❤❤— Wizkid (@wizkidayo) October 5, 2019
An angry and unhappy Northboi however took to Twitter to show his displeasure and wrote;
imagine being so powerful person wey you do beat for dey fear to promote you make you no pass am.— NorthBoitheOracle (@NorthboiBeats) October 5, 2019
Na my hand you collect your last global hit. after me all you have is ojuelegba and dont dull.
Furthermore, Northboi claimed the Joro crooner threatens him severally whenever he asks for payment for Wizkid's most recent single, "Joro".
He also claimed Wizkid threatens him with a gun every time he speaks about it.See post;


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The regulators
Repairing equipment is a cost-effective way to keep smart grid reliable
At Hoosier Energy there is a repair shop at the Operations Center where voltage regulators get a second life.
At the shop, the smell of oil hangs in the air. Overhead there is a crane used to move equipment that can weigh as much as 10,000 pounds. Nestled in the corner is an oven the size of a bus. This is the place where voltage regulators for both Hoosier Energy and member systems are tested and repaired.
The shop has its own nickname – "The Pit." Coined from the previous shop at the old Bloomington headquarters that had an oil containment pit used to safely store used oil before being recycled.
The work that takes place here is specialized. The skills required to successfully service regulators are taught from employee to employee as well as through specialized training. One employee passing along these skills is Substation Apprentice Jared Bartlett. Working in The Pit, Bartlett knows how the equipment works and integrates into the electric distribution system.
"It is interesting how simple by design this equipment is and how important it is to have on the grid so members have a properly functioning power system," said Bartlett.
Often found on power poles and in substations, voltage regulators help deliver consistent voltage levels. This helps to properly supply electric equipment in your home if voltage fluctuates due to electrical storms or high demand on the electrical distribution system.
On average, it takes three to four hours to refurbish a unit. Work includes checking parts such as contacts and insulating oil. Then the team performs a functional test at over 7,000 volts.
But there is something that can wreak havoc on a regulator and it is something we use every day – water. To remove this liquid destroyer, the huge oven in the corner of the shop is put to use. In a few hours, hot air from the oven evaporates water from a unit before it is serviced. This simple step increases safety and reliability of the equipment.
The work being done reduces costs by increasing the useful life of the asset and saves time a unit would be out for service. Many of the units sent to the shop will go on to their second life – a life of safe, reliable, and cost effective service that can last up to 40 year.


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A Stylish Spring Table
This season is so breathtakingly beautiful, isn't it? That's why today I decided to inspire you with gorgeous spring table settings ideas. They all are so adorable, simple and easy to make. Whether it's an everyday gathering or a celebration, let the season set the
tone with a stylish spring table. Let the children feel all grown up by using coordinating dinnerware for everyone! Here the little ones all get a porcelain bowl the same as the adults.
Then add kid-friendly extras, such as plates, cutlery and re-usable straws. Don't forget the extra napkins! Easily update your existing tableware by adding a bowl or plate in another shade. Mix and match different materials like glass, paper, porcelain and textiles to make your own unique style. Cut a simple tablecloth from fabric – we went for timeless linen with a slightly wrinkled texture. Let nature's forms and muted hues mixed with a few playful accents inspire an inviting setting.
Add a personal style by making your own place cards — cut flower shapes from paper and write your guests' names on them. Create a striking centerpiece of fresh flowers in different-sized vases. Bring a touch of spring to your table with these colorful place settings, centerpieces, and favors. These spring table setting ideas will inspire you to bring your tablescape to the next level. What should a spring table look like? Bright and fresh! Spring décor, make it fresh, add fresh spring flowers, and plants.


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The members of the WateReuse Association, including utilities, reuse related businesses, and federal, state and local governments, rely on the high-quality, applied research produced by the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation.
The Water Environment & Reuse Foundation conducts peer-reviewed, applied research to treat and recover beneficial materials, including water, nutrients, energy, and biosolids, from wastewater, stormwater, and seawater. The not-for-profit organization has a robust and well-rounded research portfolio valued at more than $200 million. The research is used by water professionals to maximize the economic value and environmental benefits of wastewater and to assess the feasibility of new technologies to recover resources and recycle water.
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Today, the Water Environment & Reuse Foundation is the premier provider of research in water resource recovery and reuse, supplying the latest science to 350 wastewater and stormwater utilities, which provide service to more than 80% of the metered and sewered population in the United States.


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'Omega Windows' - Art Print
Omega Windows is a print made from one of my gouache original paintings. To start with though I did quite a few quick and free drawings directly into lino of very stylised interiors... and this study came from that really. Everyone kept telling me that the colours are similar to work from Omega Workshops (a creative design studio set up just before the 1st world war, selling all sorts of work by artists and designers - none of it signed by anything other than the Omega sign). Well it wasn't intentional but I like Omega workshops so decided to name it in homage to their endeavours and aims.
Signed limited edition of 25
A4 (21 x 29.7cms or 8.3 x 11.7 inches)
Printed in high intensity pigment inks on on a fine art cotton based Etching 285 gsm paper which is 100% acid free, and with a velvety, textured surface. The high quality of this digital print has a life of more than 85 years.
If you need a frame for your print, I can supply you with a very nice quality solid wooden frame as follows (from dark to light):
Black painted wood - 20mm wide frame (from side to glass) & 30mm depth (from wall to front)
Pallisander wood (dark brown) - 24mm wide frame (from side to glass) & 21.5mm depth (from wall to front)
Wenge wood (mid brown) - 20mm wide frame (from side to glass) & 30mm depth (from wall to front)
Oak wood (light wood) - 23mm wide frame (from side to glass) & 17mm depth (from wall to front)
White painted wood - 20mm wide frame (from side to glass) & 30mm depth (from wall to front)
Just let me know and I will send you a link to the one of your choice. They are £22 each
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For the second straight season, the Oakland A's are heading to the MLB playoffs.
Oakland clinched a spot in the AL Wild Card Game on Friday when Cleveland lost to the Nationals, 8-2. They will face the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night. Oakland now has a magic number of two. The A's went 4-3 against the Rays in the regular season this year and 5-1 against the Indians.
Just like last season, the A's got off to a slow start, winning just 19 of their first 44 games.
This will be the A's third Wild Card Game appearance since 2014. Oakland lost 7-2 to the Yankees last season and 9-8 to the Royals in 2014. Both of those games were on the road.
The A's haven't won a postseason round since 2006, when they swept the Minnesota Twins in the ALDS. The Green and Gold have lost eight consecutive winner-take-all games, with their last win coming in the 1973 World Series.
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The A's look to put an end to that ominous streak Wednesday night, as they take aim at the 10th World Series title in franchise history, and the first since 1989.


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As well as exposure for your business it demonstrates that your business is keen and willing to get involved with your local community and events. It shows potential and existing customers that you care, particularly if it is something that they care about too. So don't miss an opportunity to inform your current and potential customers. Take advantage of your own social media platforms, extend the reach for the event and everyone involved.
Remember the return on investment may not translate directly into Euros. Depending on the event that you choose to link with the exposure, awareness building, lead generation, networking, showcasing your business and other opportunities that are part of your sponsorship package will all be worthwhile. And sometimes doing things ethically and with good intentions and because it feels right for you may well be sufficient.
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DHL has launched direct less-than-containerload (LCL) service from Shanghai to Seattle, Wash. According to DHL, the new service will help Chinese businesses extend their presence in the U.S. market. It will focus on such major commodities from China as grain, seeds, fruit, machinery, fish and seafood. Operated by Danmar Lines, the direct weekly LCL service will cover freight moving from mainland China to Seattle and Portland on the U.S. West Coast, with a reduction of up to four days in transit time between China and the U.S. Cargo moving directly from Shanghai to Seattle will arrive in the U.S. within 12 days, DHL said. The Port of Seattle is equipped with a full range of container terminals, a foreign trade zone, and breakbulk and refrigerated storage facilities. DHL's current LCL network consists of nearly 2 million cubic meters of freight annually, via 45,000 point pairs. DHL carries more than 97 percent of its total volumes in house, the company noted. All of its LCL services include information-technology support, including DHL Track & Trace and other tools to allow for visibility throughout the supply chain.
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UFC on Fox 6 was another great card that saw 6 stoppages, Rampage Jackson's last UFC fight and Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson defend his title against a very game John Dodson. The total gate was over 1.2 million and the United Center saw an attendance of roughly 16,000. Ryan Bader won submission of the night, Anthony Pettis won KO of the night and fight of the night went to Demetrious Johnson and John Dodson. Those lucky fighters were rewarded with $50,000 in bonuses.
Facebook Prelims
170lbs – Simeon Thoresen (1-1 UFC) vs. David Mitchell (0-2 UFC) – Mitchell via U. decision
Mitchell was able to land more strikes in the first round, rocked Thoresen at the start of the 2nd round and spent most of the 5 minutes in top control. Thoresen looked better in the 3rd but lost on the cards.
FX Prelims
185lbs – Rafael Natal (2-2-1 UFC) vs. Sean Spencer (0-0 UFC) – Natal via submission round 3
Spencer seemed to get the better of the stand-up, but Natal landed his strikes as well. Natal was also able to land several takedowns and locked in an arm triangle choke against a very tired Spencer.
170lbs – Mike Stumpf (0-1 UFC) vs. Pascal Krauss (1-1 UFC) – Krauss via U. decision
Stumpf was able to get a takedown in each of the first 2 rounds, but Krauss was much better on the feet and was able to stuff some takedowns as well.
265lbs – Mike Russow (4-1 UFC) vs. Shawn Jordan (1-1 UFC) – Jordan via TKO round 2
Russow came out strong in the 1st round and was having his way with Jordan, but Russow got tired and Jordan seized his opportunity to take control in the 2nd landing punches on the feet and on the ground.
205lbs – Ryan Bader (7-3 UFC) vs. Vladimir Matyushenko (7-4 UFC) – Bader via submission round 1
Bader looked like a beast in this fight as he simply just walked Matyushenko down, dropped him with a nice left hook and finished him off with a fast guillotine choke just under a minute into the fight.
145lbs – Clay Guida (9-7 UFC) vs. Hatsu Hioki (2-1 UFC) – Guida via S. decision
The striking exchanges seemed very even, but Guida was able to land a takedown every round including a huge slam at the start of the 2nd on route to a grinding decision victory.
155lbs – TJ Grant (6-3 UFC) vs. Matt Wiman (9-4 UFC) – Grant via KO round 1
Grant looked fantastic in this fight as he used precise punches, kicks and clinch work to take out a very durable Wiman. Grant was able to get the finish with some nasty elbows from the clinch.
Fox Main Card
145lbs – Erik Koch (2-0 UFC) vs. Ricardo Lamas (3-0 UFC) – Lamas via TKO round 2
Koch looked good in the first round, but Lamas was able to avoid any serious strikes and got his takedown in round 2. Lamas then threw down some great ground and pound and a slick elbow to get the very bloody TKO stoppage.
155lbs – Donald Cerrone (6-1 UFC) vs. Anthony Pettis (2-1 UFC) – Pettis via TKO round 1
Cerrone came out tough, but Pettis was clearly the better man on this night and once he felt he had Cerrone hurt he started to open up with his wild Duke Rufus strikes to get the finish. Pettis ended the fight with a great body kick that Cerrone couldn't get up from.
205lbs – Quinton Jackson (7-4 UFC) vs. Glover Teixeira (2-0 UFC) – Teixeira via U. decision
Teixeira got the better of Rampage by beating him up on the feet and rocking him multiple times. Rampage stayed in the fight though and continued to swing back, but once Teixeira started to use his wrestling it was obvious Rampage wasn't going to win this fight.
125lbs – Demetrious Johnson (4-1-1 UFC) vs. John Dodson (3-0 UFC) – Johnson via U. decision
This was a pretty close fight, but Dodson was swinging for the KO and Johnson was trying to win a decision. Dodson was able to land several good punches that rocked Johnson, but he couldn't put him away and Johnson was able to get the takedowns he needed to impress the judges and keep his belt.
*I have started to use Props in my parlays, if your book doesn't offer the prop or won't allow them to be used in a parlay- use a pick from my confidence list.
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Parlay #7- Going for the big one
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Natal's last fight was fun to watch if you aren't a fan of guys that like taunt their opponent. He was clearly getting the better of the striking against Craig, started to play it up a little and Craig left him stone cold on the mat with a head kick. Loved it. Now he is facing a late and undersized replacement Sean Spencer. Spencer has some decent striking tools but this is a big step up for him and Natal is no joke, especially on the ground. I expect Rafael will take this fight horizontal quickly and look to finish ASAP. I haven't put my Top 5 confidence list together yet but he is an early candidate for it. I will most likely work him into the system play for the event as well. For Spencer, its a debut in the biggest promotion in the world and he is doing it in a weight class above what he is use to fighting at against an opponent with the abilities to exploit his shortcomings on the mat. He is a No Play.
Mitchell hasn't really impressed me in any of his fighters- UFC or before. He has been out of action for a prolonged period of time and I think he is the type that ring rust will effect tremendously. If Mitchell was a threat at all on the feet then I would consider him as a possible upset worth candidate, but he doesn't so I don't. This should be a grappling based fight and I prefer what Simeon brings to the table and if more time then expected is spent on the feet I like Thoresen there as well. I was hoping that these odds would have Thoresen slightly higher but I will take what I can get. There are a number of $1.35-$1.50 range favourites on this card that I am backing which makes it nice if you are looking to make a low risk/ moderate return bet. You have a couple of options here- doubling and even tripling up the favourites like Natal, Thoresen and Dodson or making a combo of Thoresen, Dodson, and Ricardo Lamas, TJ Grant, or Donald Cerrone for a slightly larger payout. Mitchell is just unappealing as a bet even if he gets above $3.oo and if he does win he will have to put together a far better performance then what he has shown so far.
I took Stumpf here and fully expected him to be the underdog. His grappling is solid and like I emphasize in the breakdown- he showed skill in his first fight with TJ Waldburger even though he lost. Waldburger is a killer on the ground and Stumpf was able to survive a couple of bad spots before eventually getting caught. Krauss really hasn't faced someone with Stumpf's grappling background and finishing capabilities which is something that I hope plays a role in this fight. His debut was against a guy who was also debuting and hasn't had a fight since in the UFC or anywhere else and John Hathaway is a decent fighter but he seems to lack that killer instinct. What this pick really came down to is after watching footage of both I thought to myself which fighter impressed me more and it was Stumpf with his aggression and grappling capabilities. Both guys have seen limited action which makes predicting this fight tough because there is a lot we don't know, especially with Stumpf. From a betting standpoint I would suggest one of two approaches: a single bet on Stumpf- mid-range, nothing huge or make a bet that you feel comfortable with and then make that bet again with Stumpf attached to it. By doing it this way if he losses you are out the cash you invested in him, but he doesn't drag the rest of your bet card down with him. I don't think Krauss has done enough at this level to warrant him being a big favourite in this fight and from what I have seen of Stumpf he should be more then capable of pulling this one out. If you don't feel comfortable with this pick then by all means take a pass, being selective is a good thing.
I'm really not a fan of Mike Russow so picking him over Jordan wasn't my favourite thing to do. I feel that of the two he has the most impactful skill which is his wrestling. Jordan had some momentum going after his debut, but his uninspiring performance in the Kongo fight killed pretty much all of it. Jordan needs to use his quickness to keep distance and do damage without leaving himself vulnerable to getting taken down-that is going to be tough. Russow should be able to close the distance and get Jordan on his back, a place that he will not be comfortable working from. Jordan is a powerful guy but technique will trump strength in most scenarios and it should here. Russow can take a punch, he did get finished by Werdum but if you look at his fight with Duffee there is no denying that he can endure punishment. To build up enough damage to stop Russow, Jordan will need to remain vertical and out of the defensive clinch position as often as possible- again tough to do. I will be using Russow in my parlays but with a little caution, with the HWs one shot can change the course of a fight and if Russow can't get this bout to the ground Jordan could give him problems with his striking. Tread carefully.
I like Vladdy, I even did an interview with him over the phone back when I was working for another website, but I think that his career is coming to an end. He may still be able to get by against fighters that he has a glaring advantage over in the wrestling department, but that will not be the case against Ryan Bader. Additionally, he is coming off of a pretty sever leg injury, combine that with his age and I expect he will be a little bit slower which is not something he can afford. This fight reminds me of the Bader/ Tito match-up where I said that Bader was just a better version of Tito and then watched as Ryan became Ortiz's last victory. I would also expect that Bader is reminded of that fight and will be motivated to avoid allowing it to happen a second time. Bader has the more dangerous striking, but Vladdy does have power, so he needs to be mindful of just rushing in looking for the knockout. My expectation is that Bader is going to use a speed advantage, might try and wear him out with a combo of footwork and wrestling and will unload with a right hand looking for the knockout. At $1.21 there isn't a tonne of value on Bader, but it has improved since the opening line had him at $1.16. My advice would be to include Bader on a parlay or two, nothing too drastic if he were to lose and/ or consider looking into the props surrounding Bader winning by knockout. If you wanted to leave him off your betting card all together that is an alright move to as the risk/reward isn't the greatest.
This is a tough fight to bet on, there is the element of the unknown that will play a huge role. There are a couple of questions that I don't have concrete answers to, but we will find out soon enough. How will Guida fair at 145? Has Hioki made arrangements to deal with effect of travelling from Japan to the US that hindered him in his first two fights in America? Guida is a fighter that beats opponent's with pace, speed, and pressure. He isn't a great striker and his wrestling is decent but he is far from elite level, but he works well with what he has. If Hioki can't keep up with the pace he will lose this fight. If Hioki can keep up he is the better striker and is more skilled on the ground so he could pull of the upset. Guida likes to keep things simple and it is effective most nights. Crazy movement, attack in flurries, more crazy movement, takedowns, control the position and remain active enough to avoid getting stood up, but at the same time don't do anything too risk to avoid getting swept or submitted. Rinse, wash, and repeat or something to that effect. You get the point. Hioki's trouble with George Roop concerns me and I expect that Guida will find success ducking under Hioki's strikes and scoring takedowns. If Hioki has any conditioning issues, normally we see them start to show up in the third round but against Guida they will appear as early as the midway mark of the fight. I'm not shocked at these odds, but feel they are based more on Clay's name recognition then anything else. If Guida was the exact same fighter with all the skills but without the name recognition these odds would be much closer together. The books are looking at this and assuming that the average bettor will see Guida's name and then then odds stacked heavily in his favour and jump on him without hesitation. Case in point, the Public is 88% in favour of Guida right now. I think that the divide isn't nearly as significant as these odds would suggest so a play on Hioki might be warranted. I would think using Guida as part of a parlay or two would work fine, but nothing too drastic until we see him at 145 at least once. There is also a prop I like for this fight so take a look below.
Winner of this fight gets a push to the next level and hopefully more respect amongst the fans. Grant is coming off a great upset performance ( I picked him) over Evan Dunham and so is Matt Wiman ( I didn't pick him) when he submitted submission machine Paul Sass. Grant has more tools with his striking and submission game, but Wiman is coming on strong and really developing into the type of fighter that can give almost anyone in the division trouble. The biggest aspect of this fight that I kept going back to was Wiman's ability to push the pace combine with Grant slowing down a little bit in the later stages of his fights. Wiman isn't a cardio machine and we have seen him taking some deep breaths on more then one occasion, but I still give him the edge. What I expect is that Grant will get the better of the striking, similar to what Siver did to Wiman, and despite Matt landing takedowns Grant will get the nod in a close decision. If your book happened to offer a prop covering the fight going to a split decision no matter the winner I would put $10 down on it. This is one of those fights that will probably be at even by bell time so if you are on Grant like me, wait before making your bet to add a little bit more value and if you want to bet on Wiman take him now before he drops. I will be using Grant as one of my rotating system plays, he has excellent value and has looked like a beast at 155. You could work a parlay with Grant,Johnson and Teixeira or Grant, Johnson and Thoresen that would pay well, but be mindful this fight could go either way.
I love this fight- off the top my head if I were to create a scale of confidence in underdogs (10 being the highest) I would rank my pick of Johnson over Benevidez as a 10, Nik Lentz over Diego Nunes as a 9, and Lamas at an 8 with past upsets like Masvidal over Noons and Moraes over Torres in the same category. Koch is a great fighter, he has the ability to win this fight, but I think that Lamas offers more in the skill department specifically his wresting and he has a sizeable price tag to boot. Koch was temporarily pencilled in to fight Aldo for the strap which means the UFC sees something in him and most likely the books are building him as the favourite with this knowledge. If you breakdown what these two have done inside the cage it favours Lamas tremendously. Koch knocked out Francisco Rivera who is a decent gatekeeper. He knocked out Raphael Assuncao who is talented, but is now a Bantamweight and he won a uneventful decision win over Jonathan Brookins (who just left the UFC) because Brookins didn't mount enough offense despite dictating the pace of the fight. For Lamas he KOed Matt Grice a former LW with 6 UFC fights, he submitted Cub Swanson joining Chad Mendes and Jose Aldo as the only three people to beat Cub since late 2007 (10 fights), and then took out the man formerly tabbed as one of the best Featherweights in the world and future title challenger Hatsu Hioki. So Koch has a win over a now retired Ultimate Fighter winner and a Bantamweight contender while Lamas beat a guy who has now moved into title contention and a fighter that was on the verge of title contention. You can see my point regarding who has the bigger wins, but that is on paper and that doesn't always play out inside the cage. I think Lamas's wrestling will play a huge role. Brookins was able to control him on the wall and Lamas should be able to build on that with even more success. I expect he will be able to put Koch on his back and keep him there for decent durations of the fight. Even if he is moderately successful with his ground game, Lamas's striking is more then enough to win him the fight. At this price Lamas will be my single biggest bet of the card, I am not saying he is a lock as I did rank him 8 of 10, but Koch is being way overvalued. I did my research and made my prediction prior to seeing the odds and I expected them to be a lot closer then this. I don't like to based my betting night solely on the success of one fighter so I will have multiple bets without Lamas on them, but I will also have a nice variety with him. I will use him in my system bet, along with a main card parlay and probably working him in with a couple confidence and value picks. For Koch he has been out of action for a long time and this is a tough first fight back so I will pass on this one.
This is one of the biggest fights that didn't happen in the WEC, mainly because Cerrone was a long established contender and Pettis was just climbing to that level as the company was closing its doors. It will be interesting to see how the LW division plays out over the next year plus and what "organization" fairs the best. If you want to you can break it up in 3 groups; WEC- Henderson, Cerrone, Pettis, and Varner, UFC- Maynard, Diaz, Miller, Lauzon +the rest, and now Strikeforce- Melendez, Thomson, Healy, Masvidal (he should be signed on soon), Noons and the rest of the fighters that come over. Plus on top of all of this Bellator's Eddie Alvarez should be thrown into the mix. I would love to see a tournament involving these guys, but that won't happen. So instead when the new EA sports UFC video game comes out I will for sure be throwing the top 16 guys into a tournament and seeing who comes out on top. I'll keep you abreast, lol. If you want my initial assessment of how the division will play out. I've got Henderson beating Melendez- sending him to Featherweight, Henderson facing the winner of this fight, Cerrone if I am correct, and he beats Cowboy for a third time. Then Maynard should be in line for a fight and will probably fair the best of the past two but still lose, then Alvarez get his crack and Henderson retains the title. If BJ Penn were smart he work his butt off to get back to LW as well to compete in the division when it is at its strongest and try to cement his legacy. Ok that's enough, lets look at this fight.
Pettis is a flashy entertaining fighter but I think Cerrone has the striking skills to out score him over 3 rounds. This is going to be a close fight and I actually like the fact that Cowboy's price is rising and on some sites is above $2.00 now. I will be making a moderate single bet on Cerrone and working him into the parlays along with using him in the system bet. That being said there are a few areas of concern regarding his striking- a) he holds his hands too low- See the Guillard fight and b) the volume of strikes that Diaz was able to hit him with is troubling. This, like the TJ Grant bet is a solid play, but by no means a lock so make sure you have plenty of bets without Cerrone. The fans are favouring Pettis at a clip of 67% right now which is interesting because in the 4 fights where a fighter is favoured by 65-69% of the public they are 0-4. This is a small sample, but it will be interesting to see if it holds true.
I will never again invest money in Rampage and I will never suggest that you do either. Mentally he isn't a Mixed Martial Artist, he is a guy that wants to come out and fight the type of fight you see in a parking lot or on a schoolyard. He has the ability to compete and be a factor in the division but only if he is focussed and willing to properly prepare which he is not anymore. The play here is Glover and even if Rampage was fighting at his best the odds would be closer, but I think that Glover would still be the play. Many are concerned how Teixeira got his knees wobbled by a left hook in his last fight. I think he had mistakenly let his guard down after putting such a beating on Maldonado and didn't expect his "punching bag" to punch back. Secondly I think Rogan went a little overboard with how hurt Glover was, yes he did buckle but I think he recovered pretty quickly or at least wasn't nearly in as much trouble as Joe implied. I think that Teixeira will mix up his attack between striking and grappling to keep Jackson off balance. Rampage will have the puncher's chance if he can connect but it has been so long since the last time he actually finished someone I have my doubts he will do here so he is big NO PLAY. I will use Teixeira in most of my parlays and again like in the next match-up instead of playing a single bet on Glover I will pair him up with one of my better paying picks to improve the payout. Ricardo Lamas is probably the first on the list.
Main event title time, and currently I am struggling to get wins in the final fight of the night. Over the last 3 events I am 0-3 with 2 title fights losses and the public hasn't faired any better. Over that time span we have had two decent sized upsets and a near even fight go against who the general public were favouring. Johnson started the vote with a pretty lopsided lead, but the Dodson supporters have come out and as of writing this Johnson has been trimmed 65% of the vote. When this fight was announced the first thing I thought of was how nervous I was throughout the Dodson/Elliot fight (I picked Dodson). Dodson was the faster fighter and was winning for the most part, but it seemed like he was under duress a lot more then usual. I attributed it to the fighters in his new division being much faster then he was use to at 135 and as a result arguably the most significant advantage he had, his speed, wasn't there anymore or wasn't as great. His second opponent at 125 wasn't a speed based fighter which played to his advantage, but did nothing to help him prep for this fight. Johnson is just as fast or faster then Dodson and if I am wrong and Dodson has the edge, it won't be by much. This will effect the challengers ability to be productive and his ability to evade damage. Could Dodson hurt Johnson and finish him? Maybe, but not likely. Johnson has fought better competition and should be more then ready for anything Dodson can throw at him. As far as betting is concerned I like Johnson at $1.47 and I would suggest using him in most of your parlays. Based purely on value I wouldn't play him as a single bet, but instead would consider doubling him up with one of Lamas, Cerrone, or Grant to add to your return, potentially playing all 3 pairings. For Dodson, I think this is a tough stylistic match-up for him as Johnson does what he only better. I haven't seen enough from him that would suggest he has the ability to win this fight beyond a puncher's chance.
3. Ryan Bader $1.21
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The Value Bet list is a list of fighters ranked based on a combination of their ability to win their fight and the potential financial return you would receive if they win.
Demetrious Johnson to Win by Decision $1.66– Johnson and Dodson have combined for 20 decisions in 38 total fights. 8 of DJ's last 9 went to the scorecards and 6 of the Challengers last 9 did as well. Johnson only has 9 finishes with the last one coming in November of 2010 while Dodson has never been knocked out or submitted.
Demetrious Johnson/ John Dodson Total Rounds Over 4.5– See the above reasoning for this play.
Ryan Bader to Win by KO/TKO/DQ– Bader has knockout wins over 3 opponents in the UFC and 7 in his pro career and Vladdy's last 4 losses have all come by some form of knockout.
Clay Guida/ Hatsu Hioki Total Rounds Over 2.5– Guida is a decision machine, with 15 fights ending in decision and 3 in a row while only being finished 6 times in 42 fights. Hioki has gone the distance 17 times in 33 fights including 7 of his last 9 (all 3 UFC fights) and has never been finished. I expect Guida will look to control Hioki, but try to limit his risk of getting caught in a sub by not attacking too much on the ground. Guida is at his best when he tests his opponent's cardio and forces them into the later stages of a fight. Play the Over.
Matt Wiman/TJ Grant Total Rounds Over 2.5– Both guys are tough to finish- Wiman once by Knockout (2006) and Grant once by submission (2008). They have also gone the distance a combined 19 times- 7 of Grant's 9 UFC fights have gone to decision and 7 of Wiman's 13 Octagon appearances ended the same. Both guys have the ability to finish, but I think this is a tough gritty fight that goes the distance. It could also be a candidate for Fight of the Night if that is an option your book has.
3. Ryan Bader $1.21
6. Ricardo Lamas $2.36
7. Clay Guida $1.36
5. No Play.
The Value Bet list for non-predicted winners is a list of fighters ranked based on a combination of their ability to win their fight and the potential financial return you would receive if they win. These 5 fighters are the best betting options available of all of the fighters that I predicted to lose and although I fully endorse my own predicted winner I feel that giving this type of information is only fair to my followers as it gives them further insight into my opinion on each match-up.


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A recent survey from the UK Government's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills has highlighted that the majority of FTSE 350 firms are not regularly taking cyber risks into account in their decision making. Despite a growing international trend in cyber crime targeted at businesses, the survey showed that only 14 percent of FTSE 350 companies regularly consider cyber threats, and nearly half of those surveyed do not even include cyber risks on their company's strategic risk register.
On the positive side, however, a significant number of company leaders surveyed acknowledged that they had "more to do" in relation to cyber threats, and 62 percent of companies surveyed think their board members are taking cyber risk very seriously. It is important, therefore, that this awareness at the top level filters down to the management and operational level, to ensure that businesses are dealing with cyber threats effectively in their day-to-day activities.
These results echo some of the concerns discussed at a cyber security seminar which Hogan Lovells recently hosted at its London offices.
In an effort to improve awareness of cyber security issues, the UK Government is currently working to develop an industry-led "cyber standard" to encourage businesses to embrace best-practices in relation to cyber risk management whilst improving the information available to those buying cyber-security products. A Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UK) is also due to be launched early next year.
However, these initiatives may be impacted by the proposals contained within the current draft EU Directive for Network and Information Security. A recent UK Government consultation on the Directive highlighted that the current proposal would impose a double duty in relation to reporting data security breaches, as well as increased security costs for affected businesses. The Directive is still being negotiated by the Council of the EU, the European Parliament and the Commission.


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Time, Tourism Consumption and Sustainable Development
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Dickinson, J. E., & Peeters, P. (2012). Time, Tourism Consumption and Sustainable Development. International Journal of Tourism Research (Online first publication).
The availability of time has played a pivotal role in the analysis of tourism. An examination of social theory and time suggests that tourists experience time in multiple ways, which has implications for the traditional temporal and spatial reference frame. This article calls for a better understanding of 'time' in tourism and sets the agenda for further research into time and the sustainable development of tourism. It analyses the role of time in shaping tourism consumption and illustrates the challenges posed by new temporal understandings and distance concepts to create less greenhouse-gas-dependent tourism in our society.
Keywords: time, consumption, travel, distance, climate change, sustainability
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Mother, 9-year-old son killed when tree falls on mobile home in 'freak accident'
An Arkansas family is mourning after a "freak accident" resulted in the deaths of a mother and her 9-year-old son.
KFSM reports Chris Huggins, his wife Alisha and their four children lived in a mobile home park off W. Main Street in Russellville.
Family members told KARK that Alisha and her children were laying down to take a nap Saturday when one of the kids "heard the tree crack."
Witness Johnny Hicks was one of the first people to discover the tree collapsed on top of the mobile home.
"There was a little girl screaming and I started talking to her trying to calm her down," he told KARK. "All the mom was saying was 'I'm dying, help I'm dying.'"
Chris Huggins was helping a friend work on a car when he got a disturbing phone call.
"My friend called me and said 'Did you get a phone call?'" Huggins recalled. "I was like 'What phone call?', and he said 'There's a tree that fell on your house.'"
When he saw the tree lying on top of his home, he could hear his 6-year-old daughter crying.
"All I heard was her screaming, and it was just tearing me up," Huggins said. "As soon as I got there, they told me they had bad news and I said 'I already know, just don't tell me. I don't need to hear it.'"
A crane was needed to get the family out from underneath the tree. Alisha Huggins and her 9-year-old son, Landon, were pronounced dead at the scene. A 6-year-old child was taken to the hospital with injuries.
An obituary for Landon reads: "He loved desserts, digging holes, playing with his sisters, and especially loved Jesus. He loved to sing and dance for all to see and hear."
Alisha Huggins' sister, Kaytlin Jennen, called the tragedy "a freak accident" and said "it doesn't seem real yet."
She is comforted by the fact that Alisha was with her children in the end.
"She didn't go alone. She went with one of her babies," Jennen said.
Chris Huggins is left especially heartbroken because he believes the accident could have been avoided. He said the fallen tree had long been a concern and had grown too large for being so close to the home.
Jennen agrees and believes the property owner should have taken care of the problem tree.
"I didn't think that it would take 2 lives for them to be like 'Oh hey, we need to maybe take maintenance on trees,'" she said. "There's trees everywhere. You can't predict when they're going to come down. But if you know it's rotten."
A GoFundMe account has been created to help the Huggins' family with funeral expenses.
"Cherish every moment that you've got with your family because you never know when they're going to be taken away," Chris Huggins said. "Don't take anything for granted."


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Amy Bowinski
Originally from Denver, Colorado, Amy has lived in Japan twice: once for six months in Aichi Prefecture and once for three years in Takayama. These days, Amy is a travel consultant in our Boulder office - so now she's rather closer to home!
Amy traces her interest in Japan back to a school project at the age of nine, when she was assigned Japan as her country of research during a class project on Asia. Her interest piqued, this was to be the beginning of a lifelong fascination with Japanese culture - and especially by the way that Japan simultaneously retains its traditions and history whilst embracing technological progress.
When studying Japanese language and traditional arts, Amy spent six months as a student at Nagoya's Nanzan University, during which time she lived with a host family and fell in love with the country, its people and its food (especially okonomiyaki - a kind of Japanese savoury pancake). Later she would return as an English teacher in the alpine region surrounding Takayama for three years. In her spare time, Amy likes practising kyudo (Japanese archery), although she professes not to be any good at it, and is a devoted animal lover.
To those thinking of visiting Japan, Amy advises that you make sure to head to Tokyo and Kyoto, but also to be sure to venture to some of the less well-known places - as she found that some of the most amazing experiences she has ever had were hidden away in rural Japan.
What places and activities do you specialize in?
"I specialize in all of Japan, but my favourite place in Japan is Miyajima Island. It is a really beautiful place - both near Itsukushima Shrine, and around in the town, and up on the top of Mount Misen. I really like it as a place to relax, eat good food, enjoy the beauty of nature, and the way that man-made buildings can coexist without intruding on that beauty. I also like the deer and monkeys you can see there.
I'd recommend taking the ropeway to the top of Mount Misen and then taking the time to walk the trails and find all the small shrines tucked away on the mountain. It's a really nice walk, and has beautiful views throughout - it also feels a bit like a treasure hunt to find all of the small buildings while walking."
Please share a unique travel experience you will never forget.
"My favorite memory from Japan is from the local festival I participated in for three years while in Shoukawa. Every September there are three small festivals in Shoukawa and I was invited (willingly forced) to participate in the one for my neighbourhood. The festival consists of dances from the kids, then a play, then a comedy skit, then dances from the adults. I performed in both the play and the solo adult dances.
The first year, I was really nervous and uncomfortable with the idea, but I ended up having an amazing time. These festivals haven't changed for over 300 years, and the fact that they would let me, as a foreigner, join in was something I was hugely grateful for.
I guess it was so special to me because I made some lifelong friends, and was really taken in to not only watch, but experience and be a part of something that is truly Japanese that is not at all something foreigners have the chance to experience. Rather than just a favorite memory from Japan, I think it's my most favorite memory from my entire life."


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Project Description
Released in 2009, Manaʻo Pili is Waipuna's debut album that features an eclectic assortment of songs that showcases the group's versatility, range, and broad appeal. This album's unique and original sound brought an exciting fresh perspective to Hawaiian music.
Malama Mau Hawaiʻi
Papa Sia
Lehua Mamo
Home Kapaka
E Pili Kaua
Ka Ulu Niu O Waipouli
Kiss Me Love
Manaʻo Pili
I Can See Arkansas
Owl's Lullabye


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(The following is not a fabricated recollection of my recent wreck. This is how I remember things to be. Although the words might not truly be accurate to how things occurred, any missteps in facts or details are due to my condition at the time. I've written it mainly in one sitting, to keep it fresh and to not over think the process.)
"Ma'am…….Ma'am…..can you hear me? Ma'am……"
I open my eyes into tiny slits, just enough to see a completely shattered windshield just inches from my face.
I can hear the sound of crunching glass, bending metal, urgency, and lots of voices yelling orders back and forth.
"Ma'am……Can you move your legs? I need you to move your legs. Can you do that for me?"
Aware but with my eyes still closed, I wiggle my legs, immediately realizing there is no more room to move them anywhere else. They're pinned in, stuck. Millions of little shards of glass sprinkle over my feet as I try to do something, anything with my legs. I make a mental note and thank God that I actually can move, feel my legs.
I open my eyes and see a small glimpse of the bright sky. I close my eyes again. Holding them open takes too much effort. Hard, firm, and sturdy, I realize I am on a stretcher. Something is on my neck keeping it still. I can hear noises all around but I can't focus on anything.
"Ma'am, what happened? Can you tell me about what happened?"
I respond, or at least try to, but suddenly I realize that the droopiness I had felt earlier in my mouth wasn't just because I was in and out of consciousness. There is an alarming amount of piercing pain there, and I have very little function or control. Somehow, I utter, "I don't know… Nothing…I don't know"
Then, as if all the terror of the situation is not enough, I realize they don't know…..
"My baby! Is my baby ok? How's my baby" I say with slurred, forced speech to anyone and everyone that will listen, cause even though I'm not looking at anyone, I know they are there. I need an answer.
"You didn't have anyone else with you in the car. You were alone. It's ok……" someone replies back.
"Pregnant" I eek out, "I'm pregnant," I say as I struggle to lift my right arm and tap my hand on my belly.
Thump, Thump, Thump, Thump, Thump.
"Oh shit. I am in a helicopter. Dear God help me. This is a helicopter. They only put really hurt people in a helicopter; they call it 'life flight' for a reason. Oh God help me" I think to myself, eyes still closed. I begin to trace my tongue inside my mouth. I feel a gap. My thoughts run wild: Did I lose teeth? Oh wait, here is a tooth…..no, that's not a tooth, that's my jaw? Is that a bone sticking out inside my mouth? No, it's a tooth out of place, right?
I stretch out my hands. I need a human. I want to touch another human, cause if I am holding tight to another person, I'm still alive and still here. To my left, I find the forearm of a man, strong and hairy. He allows me to keep a tight grip. I'm totally not letting go. I never see his face, but gripping him is helping to save me.
With my eyes now opened, I notice a woman that leans over me from the right. Her eyes are a brilliant blue, beautiful, like a perfect ocean. I can't notice or remember anything else, just that her eyes are blue and her hair has a red tint to it. Those blue eyes and red hair look just like my friend Amanda's sister, Sherry. It comforts me, perhaps because suddenly it feels like something "familiar" is near me. But mostly I think it comforts me because Sherry is a woman that is strong, resilient, and will fight for things. She does not give up easily, and she is determined. Having this "Sherry" with me during my helicopter transport is just what I need….someone that will fight for me, along with my unborn baby.
I close my eyes again, for I just can't keep them open long. Too much stimulus, too much effort, too much everything.
"Can you tell me how old you are?" I'm asked by Sherry.
"Thirty-One" I mumble, but immediately I regret talking due to pain it causes and the energy it takes, so I then hold up three fingers on my right hand followed by one finger. I maintain my grapple on the man to my left. He doesn't make me let go, thankfully.
"How far along are you?"
Oh Lord thank you they know and remember I am pregnant! One finger followed by four fingers is my next move, and Sherry immediately replies, "14 weeks…..congratulations!"
Thump, Thump, Thump, Thump, Thump.
Somehow, someway, I end up in the ER. I don't know how I knew what hospital I was at, but it managed to get relayed to me. Maybe I just intrinsically knew. Without my grip on the man in the helicopter, I am floating in a pool of chaos, fear, and pain completely alone, unaccounted. I grab the hand of the next human that I hear near me. She allows me a few seconds of comfort but then has to return to responding to my physical needs: bleeding, IVs, removing glass.
With my eyes open, I see no one I know. "Husband. I want my husband" I utter. I don't even remember what they tell me as a response, I just know I don't see him, so I just begin to beg for my friend, Helen. I know that I am at her hospital, so if she is at work, I want her, and I want her now. I know she is close. "Get my friend Helen. She works with the babies. NICU. Get Helen" becomes my mantra. I say it enough to where I finally see the nurse pick up a phone and call Helen's unit. The nurse never says what she was told, but I figure no response to me means my friend isn't working today. I'm still alone, and I need someone. I begin to wonder: Do they even know who I am? No one has asked me. Could I even pronounce my last name well enough for them to understand me and could I give them a phone number if I had to do it?
I cry out in my heart for God to bring me someone to help me not be alone.
Soon, my love races into the room. He gently grabs my hand and cries. My neck is still in a brace, my body is achy, my jaw is throbbing, but suddenly my world becomes right, or as right as it can be considering the circumstances. "I thought I had lost you. I was so scared I had lost you" he tells me between sobs.
But he didn't lose me, thank God. I know that I'm banged up and bruised and broken but I know that I am still here, and he is with me, and that is enough for this brief moment.


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Home > G. Tumoral pathology > cellular schwannoma
cellular schwannoma
Saturday 7 July 2007
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JRC:357 : Cellular Schwannoma - Retroperitoneum.
JRC:96 : Cellular Schwannoma - Groin.
JRC:14942 : Cellular Schwannoma - Peritoneum (retroperitoenum).
JRC:485 : Cellular Schwannoma - Peritoneum.
JRC:15245 : Cellular Schwannoma - Peritoneum.
Definition: The cellular variant of schwannoma (cellular schwannoma), mostly found in the deeper tissues, has been described.
Cellular schwannoma, described by Woodruff in 1981, is considered a variant of schwannoma and comprising about 10% of all schwannomas.
The most common location of cellular schwannoma is the paravertebral region with the sacral site constituting 64% of all neoplasms. The intracranial location accounts for 8% of all cellular schwannomas. The retrobulbar region is an extremely uncommon site for this tumor.
There are compact spindle-shaped cells with mitoses and some storiform areas, and a near absence of Verocay bodies and Antoni B tissue.
Rare variants with multiple glandular elements, with pseudoglandular structures, and with sweat duct differentiation have been reported.
Cellular schwannoma is generally encapsulated and sometimes associated with a nerve. On histology, unlike classical schwannoma, cellular schwannoma discloses a markedly increase in cellularity, comprising fascicles of spindle cells which can occasionally be associated with herringbone or storiform pattern.
Compact and hypercellular fascicles recapitulating Antoni-A areas can be identified. Although classical Verocay bodies are seldom identified, there may be occasional suggestion of palisades. Antoni-B areas are, however, not prominently featured. The spindle cells may exhibit mild nuclear atypia. Thick-walled blood vessels usually displayed in classic schwannoma are also present in the cellular variant.
Microscopic areas of necrosis may be observed in cellular schwannoma, but geographic necrosis seen in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) is absent.
Mitotic activity usually does not exceed 4 per 10 high power fields although in plexiform cellular schwannoma in childhood, a mitotic index of up to 31 per 10 high power fields has been reported.
Cellular schwannoma is strongly positive for S-100 protein and vimentin. Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is variably positive.
The striking feature seen ultrastructurally is the presence of numerous tightly packed intertwined cell processes as identified in our case. Primitive intercellular junctions and cell membranes abutting stroma and covered by well developed continuous and occasionally duplicated basement membranes, are also present. Luse bodies may be absent.
Differential diagnosis
malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST)
- due to its association with increased cellularity, nuclear atypia, mitotic activity, necrotic foci, bony erosion, and tumor recurrence.
- However, a MPNST is usually more cellular, associated usually with a higher degree of anaplasia, lacks the thick walled hyalinised blood vessels and usually demonstrates only focal S-100 positivity on immunohistochemistry.
In the orbital region, a solitary fibrous tumor has been confused for a schwannoma.
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Hi All
I have done a new planet ring server for you all.
It has all of the functionalities as the old server,
and I added Ranking after the games + 8 player soar.
It is still in beta mode, but seems to be stable. But of course
I have only tested the server with 2 players. The ranking after
each game will not show everything I only focused on those rankingstats.
that made sense to implement.
So my question is, should I ask kazade to point the planet ring DNS to my server?
Why I'm asking is because if you login to my server your vmu will be overwritten
so you need to remember your old password for the old server.
So what are your thoughts?
You need to have UDP port 7648 opened in your router/firewall.
An easy way to know if this works or not, is to check if your "player" changes
to the color you picked during registration.
I have also done a VOIP software, tested and it works. It's based
on UDP RAW Sockets with a little magic. The software is pretty
straight forward, no need for configuration files or such, just run
it. Will be released soon.


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Baker Artist Portfolio
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N'Dinga Gaba feat. Sahffi - Summer Breeze (Raw Artistic Soul Remix)
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In 2010, the song "Summer Breeze" (by N'Dinga Gaba and Sahffi Lynne) reached #1 in Botswana and South Africa, launching N'Dinga's successful career as a well-known and well-respected house music producer. The song is still considered a summer anthem, and Sahffi was excited to see a crowd of hundreds sing the song on an online live feed of Botswana's "Summer Music Fest" in Oct., 2016.


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Photographer Patrick Hall took a series of portraits of people getting hit with a 300,000-volt taser. What's even better: He also made a super-slow-motion video of the process for our enjoyment.
According to Hall, the taser was strong enough to get the facial expressions he wanted but it couldn't hurt them in any way.
Check out the extended version of the video, where you can also see the faces of the people tasing them:


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Represents: Harold L. Richards High School NJROTC
Current Record: 6 - 1
Season Average: 810.43
Game Score: 822
Represents: Gallatin High School NJROTC
Current Record: 1 - 6
Season Average: 875.00
Game Score: 0
Harold L. Richards NJROTC Defeats Gallatin NJROTC
In an undisputed contest, scoring 822 points, Harold L. Richards NJROTC defeated Gallatin NJROTC. Their fourth win in a row. They finished the season with a 6 - 1 record. Harold L. Richards NJROTC was led by, Ali Altahat who shot a 225. The remaining contributing members were Abigail Schrode, Thomas Folan, and Jafar Abushanab. Harold L. Richards NJROTC is from Oak Lawn, IL, and is coached by Douglas Groters.
Gallatin NJROTC finished the season with a 1 - 6 record. Gallatin NJROTC is from Gallatin, TN, and is coached by Duff Thompson.
These two teams are competing in the Distinguished Division of the Orion National Air Rifle League. Sponsored by the Orion Scoring System, the league is a national team league for high school teams and junior rifle clubs. The league has two parts. An 8 week regular season going on now, followed by a single game Conference Title Game for the top two teams in each conference.
In each game the teams compete in what is known as a Three-Position Air Rifle match. The match is modeled after Olympic Rifle competitions but adapted to high school age athletes. Each athlete will shoots 10 shots in three different shooting positions, prone, standing, and kneeling. Each shot is worth a maximum of 10 points. The sum of points scored in the 30 shots is the athlete's total. The team score is comprised of the best four athletes from each team.
For more information on the league, including complete standings, visit https://www.national-leagues.com/
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The first of five new videos from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering that will premiere during the next five weeks. The series, "I am CEEatGT," features five undergraduate students talking about their experiences studying in the School and at Georgia Tech. The videos are timed to college admissions season, when high school seniors will be making decisions about where to attend college next year.
Nuclear energy. Improving society in the Caribbean. Oil and gas. Vertical construction. Water and sanitation in the developing world.
Five different career objectives from five different students featured in a new five-part School of Civil and Environmental Engineering video series debuting January 7.
The series, "I am CEEatGT," is designed to explore what life is like for young people pursuing a civil or environmental engineering degree.
"My passion lies in design. It's in being creative. It's in solving problems," said Ryan Henderson, the subject of the first video. "With civil engineering, you have to be creative in the sense that solving problems is not easy, because you have to incorporate a lot of different systems and a lot of different people. And you have to consider a lot of different angles in solving those problems."
Henderson recently earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering and had a job waiting for him as soon as he graduated with a nuclear energy company.
"We talk a lot about sustainability in civil engineering, and it's a big key point in a lot of our classes," he said. "Nuclear power could be a step towards that. The way that we design for it and the way we implement it, it could have a huge impact."
The video series is timed to the beginning of college admissions season.
Thousands of students around the globe find out January 9 if they've been accepted to Georgia Tech through the early action application process. Many more learn their status when Tech announces regular admissions decisions March 12.
As those prospective engineers weigh their options, these videos are designed to help them imagine what their college life could be like in CEE.
"It sounds cliché, but I like to be able to tell people, I'm doing something that makes a difference, that I can be proud of," Henderson said.
A new video with a different student will premiere on the School's website each Thursday through February 4.


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Address: 400 South Pointe Drive, Miami Beach, FL
Description: Interior/Exterior Commercial Renovation
Phase: Renovation Complete
Owner: DG South Pointe Shops
Painter: Del Zoppo Painting
Photography: Catapult 13
The Portofino Tower on South Pointe has long been a landmark to residents old and new in Miami Beach. The Shops at Portofino, situated at its base hold commercial and office spaces that are frequented by many of the residents along with visitors to South Pointe Park. In 2013 the owners of the building were looking to fill a few of their vacant office spaces and bring the existing building up to the cutting edge architecture of the future development projects.
The Owners were also looking for an elegant, economical solution to modernize the colorful Mediterranean inspired façade to something fresh and worthy of its South of Fifth address.
Working closely with the City of Miami Beach Design Review Board we suggested a new paint palette to replace the multicolored façade. An elegant beige at the base would keep the 'residential village' feeling while the pure white at the upper level was to compliment the iconic orange Portofino tower rather than compete with it. The previous royal blue awnings were fading with the powerful Miami sun and were updated to a more sophisticated charcoal grey.
The interior lobby space was painted a stark white and the existing gold mirrors were changed to a platinum silver keeping in line with the modern theme. The hexagonal upper lobby space was given a playful interior paint job in the way of varying striped bands. Shades of blue and grey stripes surround the cupola space and a new multicolored band of mosaics around the mezzanine compliment the blue sky peeking through the existing high windows.
Thanks to the renovation, the office spaces are now filled to capacity and the commercial shops are thriving. The building sits proudly on First Street and is eager to welcome its future neighbors – The Glass Condo, Marea and One Ocean.
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