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Sanchez Highlights a Wild Week on the Hot Stove

Anibal SanchezThe wildest day of this Hot Stove season featured the winter’s biggest contract for a position player, an affordable two-year deal for a veteran starting pitcher, and a fierce, two-team battle for an underrated starter.

A few hours after the Angels’ 11th-hour rush ended with a $125 million deal for Josh Hamilton, the buzz turned to a Cubs-Tigers tug-of-war for Anibal Sanchez. Multiple early reports had Sanchez headed to Chicago for five years and $75 million. But while Hamilton reportedly reneged on a promise to give the Rangers a chance to match any competing offer, Sanchez had no such reluctance, approaching the Tigers to see if they’d match the Cubs’ proposal and keep him in Detroit … and they did, signing the best remaining pitcher on the free-agent market to a five-year, $80 million contract.

It’s a fascinating clash of suitors, given the Cubs are in rebuilding mode and the Tigers just went to the World Series. But it makes sense in either case. Rebuilding doesn’t have to mean being dreadful, and a rotation of Matt Garza, Anibal Sanchez, Jeff Samardzija, Scott Feldman, and a healthy Scott Baker could make the Cubs at least respectable (despite a paper-thin lineup), while management waits for the team’s corps of young major leaguers and prospects to blossom. Meanwhile, Detroit’s pitching alone makes them a fine pick to repeat as AL pennant winners. The rotation of Justin Verlander, Sanchez, Max Scherzer, Doug Fister, and Rick Porcello (with Drew Smyly waiting in the wings) is matched only by the Nationals in dominance and depth.

That Sanchez is a very good pitcher certainly helps make both teams’ cases to sign him. Let’s go back to the comparison I made a few days ago, when the Dodgers signed Zack Greinke.

Pitcher A: 8.7 K/9 IP, 2.3 BB/9 IP, 0.8 HR/9 IP, .309 BABIP, 3.83 ERA, 3.16 FIP
Pitcher B: 8.1 K/9 IP, 2.8 BB/9 IP, 0.8 HR/9 IP, .308 BABIP, 3.70 ERA, 3.40 FIP

Pitcher A is Grienke. Pitcher B is Anibal Sanchez. Greinke threw more innings during that span, and a higher percentage of them in the superior-offense environment of the American League. He also has a longer track record of success and a Cy Young in 2009. But when you’ve got 500-plus innings of such comparable numbers, it’s not crazy to list them side by side. Given Greinke’s $147 million contract would just about double Sanchez’s deal assuming the current offer holds, Pitcher B starts to look like a bargain. Also makes you wonder why the Royals found it necessary to trade the best hitting prospect in baseball (and three more promising young players) to get James Shields and Wade Davis.

Sanchez isn’t a sure thing. Before 2010, he was a perpetual injury risk. The injury chain started with Tommy John surgery a decade ago. As the excellent essay by Brian Cartwright and Jeff Zimmerman in the 2013 Hardball Times Baseball Annual tells us, pitchers recover quicker and at a much higher success rate now than they did when the surgery was invented by Dr. Frank Jobe 38 years ago. But Sanchez’s injuries persisted, including the far more dreaded shoulder labrum surgery in 2008. There’s enough evidence to suggest that Sanchez is capable of staying healthy for multiple seasons at a time. But nothing’s a sure thing, and a five-year deal for any pitcher carries some risk.

Sanchez has been a four-win pitcher over the past three seasons, and turns 29 in February. The going rate for contracts on the open market is about $5.5 million per win, and figures to rise quickly with league-wide revenue exploding and salaries likely to follow. So you’re essentially asking Sanchez to average about three Wins Above Replacement over those five seasons — maybe a little less. That’s far from a sure thing. But in a market where you have to break the bank or give up premium talent for comparable track records, you make the deal every time. Whether you’re the reloading Cubs or the going-for-it-all Tigers.

A few other thoughts following a wild day of signings and fallout:

• The Hamilton signing raises about a thousand questions, starting with this one: What will the Angels’ lineup look like in 2013? Like many managers, Mike Scioscia likes to use high-batting-average hitters in the no. 2 spot, the so-called guy who can handle a bat. Over the past three seasons, no Angels hitter has handled that role more often than Howie Kendrick. But while Kendrick’s a career .292 hitter, he also rarely walks, and has only moderate power. He doesn’t even fit the mold of a high-contact hitter, having seen a surge in strikeouts as his career’s gone on, with 234 of them over the past two seasons. There’s been talk of Erick Aybar filling the two-hole next season. That’s Erick Aybar, career .278/.320/.386 hitter, with 32 homers in 2,930 career plate appearances.

Batting order doesn’t matter that much, assuming you’re not doing something insane like batting your best hitter 9th. But when you’ve got Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, and Josh Hamilton on the same team, with a strong supporting cast of hitters, why leave any runs on the table. Read this terrific piece by Beyond the Boxscore’s Sky Kalkman (based on the excellent work of Tom Tango, Mitchel Litchman, and Andy Dolphin in The Book). In it, the author reminds us that lineups, at their core, are about distributing plate appearances. Estimates vary, but roughly speaking, every one-spot drop in the batting order can mean about 18 fewer times at bat over the course of the season. Moreover, each lineup spot can in fact be optimized by using players with the right skill sets. Trout’s huge on-base skills and breathtaking speed play beautifully in the leadoff spot, and a power bat makes sense at cleanup. But rather than waste precious at-bats in the two-hole on a slap hitter or someone who drops down out-wasting sacrifice bunts, why not put a real there there? Meanwhile, the notion of an All-Star hitter in the third spot is wildly overrated; even with a stud like Trout batting leadoff and a strong no. 2 hitter, the no. 3 guy’s still going to come up a fair bit with two outs and nobody on. At the very least, he’s less likely come up with men on base than the cleanup hitter.

So what would an ideal Angels order look like? At the very least, here’s a thought for the top five:

CF Trout
LF Hamilton
RF Trumbo
1B Pujols
DH Morales

… with the Aybar types toward the bottom of the order.

The Angels have a chance to trot out the best offense in baseball. It’d be great to see their manager squeeze every ounce of productivity out of this hugely talented crew.

• You’ll notice that Peter Bourjos isn’t in that lineup. The addition of Hamilton means a starting-caliber player is now ticketed for the bench. Based on last season’s playing time distribution, that’s probably Bourjos. Which would be, in a word, insane. For one thing, benching Bourjos would mean taking the glove off arguably baseball’s best defensive outfielder. And while Bourjos owns a career .301 on-base percentage, he’s also shown flashes of extra-base power. In fact, as FanGraphs’ Dave Cameron reminds us, Bourjos’s career offensive numbers are very comparable to Michael Bourn’s in terms of total value (even if the individual components of their offense differ significantly). That’s Michael Bourn, the player now deemed the most valuable asset left on the free-agent market, someone who’s reportedly asking for more than the $15 million a year B.J. Upton nabbed from the Braves.

With that in mind, you have to figure a trade is coming. Buster Olney reported that the Angels plan to keep Trumbo, despite their surplus of available outfielders. That leaves Bourjos or Morales as the most likely trade candidates (if it’s Morales who goes, Trumbo would likely DH, while Bourjos would likely play center, pushing Trout to left). We cited the Cubs, Rays, and Phillies as possible trade candidates for Bourjos. The DH-less Rays would also make sense for Morales, and Tampa Bay still has six or seven pitchers who could conceivably start on a contending team in 2013, creating a potential match with the starter-needy Angels. Let’s add the Braves to that mix. Even with the acquisition of Upton, the Braves are known to be seeking another outfielder, with the intent of moving Martin Prado from left field to third base. They, too, remain pitching-rich, even after dealing a starter, in their case Tommy Hanson to these same Angels.

If the Angels could fortify their shaky rotation with a follow-up trade, the Hamilton deal would look even stronger than it already does for the team’s 2013 pennant hopes.

• All the Plans B, C, and D that the Rangers had in mind if Hamilton were to leave will now need to come to fruition. It wouldn’t be a shock to see the Rangers sign two out of four from the Bourn/Nick Swisher/Adam LaRoche/Cody Ross cohort, maybe add A.J. Pierzynski to form a platoon with Geovanny Soto. On the pitching side, one persistent rumor would see the Mets ship defending Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey to Texas for some combination of young talent, with the names of Mike Olt (who doesn’t fill an obvious need and could possibly be flipped in another deal) and Leonys Martin frequently mentioned.

But if you’re looking for a dark horse in the Dickey sweepstakes — assuming the Mets don’t simply give him $30 million over the next three years and call it a day — don’t sleep on the Jays. Even after the megadeal with the burn-the-house-down Marlins, the Jays still offer some intriguing prospect depth. Moreover, the AL East suddenly looks wide open. The Yankees are aging, A-Rodless, and sticking to one-year deals for older veterans this offseason rather than aggressively pursuing elite, younger talent; the Red Sox have made several reinforcements this offseason, but still lack the star power they had when they bagged two World Series in four years; the Rays might’ve landed a potential offensive star in Wil Myers, but they still have lineup holes, and even a pitching-deep team will miss James Shields in the short term; and the Orioles have mostly sat on their hands this offseason. Even after bringing in Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, and Jose Reyes, the Jays still have the look of an 80-something-win team. Whether that’s 85 wins or 89, neither number would guarantee a playoff spot, even with the added wild card. But teams projected to win about that many games are also the most logical fits for a big move, given what a few more wins could mean. Dickey was roughly a 5-win pitcher in 2012. There’s no way you can guarantee a repeat. But anything close, especially compared to the replacement-level performances the Jays got out of multiple starters last year, could lead to playoff baseball in Toronto for the first time in 20 years.

• Speaking of the Orioles, they recently made their big move, getting a lefty-swinging fan favorite to man left field, a position where they had a big need. The lefty-swinging fan favorite, unfortunately, is Nate McLouth. That the one-year, $2 million re-up for McLouth ranks as Baltimore’s biggest offseason move to date is maddening. I’m not as ardent a believer as many that the O’s are doomed to crash and burn in 2013. Yes, the best one-run record by any team in a century suggests regression ahead. But Baltimore also stands to benefit from full seasons out of Dylan Bundy and Manny Machado, with enough youth elsewhere on the roster to portend other potential breakouts (Matt Wieters? Zach Britton?). Baseball teams are notoriously opaque when it comes to reporting TV revenue. But the MASN regional sports network, is a cash cow. According to the 2009 Kagan Report, which looked at revenue generated by RSNs, MASN generated $128 million in revenue that year, with about 85 percent of that total going to Baltimore. With the rising success of the O’s and Nats spurring improved ratings, it’s conceivable that MASN’s raking in $150 million a year or more now — again, with most of that going to the Orioles. Meanwhile, the O’s ran a modest $81.4 million payroll in 2012, just the 19th-highest figure in the majors.

Winning Hot Stove season guarantees exactly nothing, as the 2012 Angels and Marlins can tell you. It’s also still fairly early in the offseason, and the Orioles may very well have exciting plans beyond my pie-in-the-sky suggestion that they make a run at Hamilton, the best hitter out there and a perfect fit given Baltimore played McLouth and Lew Ford in left last season. It’d be nice to see something happen sometime soon, be it a trade for Dickey, a run at Swisher, or some other tangible upgrade. Every owner is perfectly entitled to rake in handsome profits. But it’d be great to see Peter Angelos loosen the purse strings, even a little. The best way to guard against regression is to improve the talent you have on the roster. Thus far, the O’s have ostensibly sat on their hands.

• Red Sox Beacon blogger Patrick Sullivan passes along the following nightmarish stat on the 2012 Red Sox: The combined Wins Above Replacement of every Red Sox pitcher who made a start last season was minus 2.6 (per Baseball-Reference). WAR isn’t quite an exact science. But roughly speaking, that means Boston’s starters were collectively worse than a group of Triple-A pitchers or veteran journeymen would have been on another team.

There are several reasons why locking up Ryan Dempster for two years at $26.5 million was a sound move — Boston’s complete pitching incompetence in 2012 can’t be understated.’s Alex Speier wrote that the Sox were hot after Anibal Sanchez before the race for his services turned into a battle to see who’d give out a five-year contract. But in Dempster, Boston still gets a very playable alternative. Over the past five years, Dempster ranks 18th among 116 qualified starters in innings pitched, 26th in strikeout rate (8.2 K’s per nine innings), 37th in ERA (3.74), and 39th in FIP (3.78). There’s some concern that the rigors of the AL East and pitching at Fenway Park could hurt the 35-year-old Dempster’s numbers. But we’re still talking about a durable, above-average starter, signed at a rate that implies the Sox don’t need much more than 2 Wins Above Replacement a season — i.e., league-average production, or a tick above, with plenty of innings.

As it is with the Cubs, so it is with the Red Sox: Even when you’re rebuilding or reloading, you don’t want to be terrible, for fear of alienating your fans and eating into revenue streams. Boston isn’t going to be terrible in 2013. For that, you can thank the deals for Dempster, Shane Victorino (maybe a bit of a stretch on a three-year deal, but certainly an upgrade over last season’s outfield production), and assuming the mess supposedly revolving around his medical condition resolves itself, Mike Napoli. But even if the Sox did nothing this offseason, you had to bank on some significant improvement over 2012’s 93-loss nightmare. Dustin Pedroia was hurt and ineffective for long stretches, Jacoby Ellsbury missed a lot more time and was a lot worse, and Jon Lester was often a left-handed piñata on the mound. These are three star players when everything’s going right, and there’s reason to believe all three should rebound well in 2013. There’s room for positive regression from multiple other positions, too. The Sox might not return to glory next season. But you won’t have to hide your eyes in terror either.

Filed Under: Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Josh Hamilton, Los Angeles Angels, MLB Hot Stove, Texas Rangers

Jonah Keri is a staff writer for Grantland. His book The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team From Worst to First is a New York Times best seller. The paperback edition of his new book, Up, Up, and Away, on the history of the Montreal Expos, is now available.

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Aim 4 - Test the hypothesis (4a) that adding AO treatment will be more effective in preserving hair cells than IHC-AN connections from the trauma of prostheses insertion and (4b) addition of specific anti-excitotoxicity therapy to the AO therapy will improve the preservation of IHC-AN connections.
Aim 5 - Test the hypothesis that reducing loss of IHC-AN connections and SGN will improve acoustic hearing and spatial and temporal acuity of psychophysical responses to cochlear implant stimulation. Results of the proposed studies will redefine and broaden treatment targets for preserving hearing with high impact not only toward treating the two conditions being tested, noise-induced hearing loss and implantation of cochlear prostheses into ears with remaining hearing, but with high relevance towards best treatment practices for other inner ear pathologies ranging from ototoxicity to vestibular disorders. If successful, a new treatment paradigm can be directly translated to clinical trials and benefit millions of individuals worldwide.

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Our proposed studies are to develop and test better treatments to preserve hearing during two traumatic stresses to the ear, chosen for high clinical relevance: Noise Induced Hearing Loss and Prostheses Insertion in Ears with Remaining Hearing.

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Klimpel, Katarina E M; Lee, Min Young; King, W. Michael et al. (2017) Vestibular dysfunction in the adult CBA/CaJ mouse after lead and cadmium treatment. Environ Toxicol 32:869-876
Rahmani, Sahar; Ross, Astin M; Park, Tae-Hong et al. (2016) Dual Release Carriers for Cochlear Delivery. Adv Healthc Mater 5:94-100
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Ross, Astin M; Rahmani, Sahar; Prieskorn, Diane M et al. (2016) Persistence, distribution, and impact of distinctly segmented microparticles on cochlear health following in vivo infusion. J Biomed Mater Res A 104:1510-22
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Vascular malformations are defects in the architecture and function of blood vessels that can occur in arteries, veins, capillaries and lymphatic vessels. The malformations can be familial or sporadic, and are often associated with tissue overgrowth, deformity and infections in children, adolescents and adults. In this proposal, we will focus on capillary malformations (CM), which consist of excessive and abnormal capillary/venule-like vessels just below the surface of the skin. CMs are also referred to as port-wine stain or port-wine birthmarks. CM is a sporadic, non-familial congenital vascular malformation that is present at birth and progresses over a lifetime, causing significant morbidity for children. Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a rare neurological disorder that is strongly associated with CM. In SWS patients, CMs of variable size are located on one or both sides of the face, typically on the upper eyelid and forehead. In addition, excessive abnormal vessels are found on the surface of the brain and are thought to contribute to the neurologic deficits in children with SWS. A somatic, activating mutation in GNAQ (p.R183Q) has been reported in patients with SWS and CM, linking the vascular defect in these two disorders. GNAQ encodes G?q, the alpha subunit of the heterotrimeric Gq protein that links G-protein coupled receptors to phospholipase C?. We confirmed the GNAQ (p.R183Q) mutation in CM specimens and then fractionated CM lesions into specific cell populations that were then genotyped for the GNAQ (p.R183Q) mutation. Our results, recently published, show that the GNAQ (p.R183Q) mutation is enriched in the endothelial cells of CM. With the identification of the molecular defect (G?q) and the cellular context in which the defect resides (endothelial cells), we can now build a research program to investigate how CMs form, how to prevent CM and how to regress CM. These studies will be relevant for children with progressive, tissue-destroying CM and for children with SWS, as the abnormal vessels in the brain are likely disrupted by the same mechanisms. This research will have two tiers of impact. The first will be to decipher the underlying cellular and biochemical causes of CM, a relatively rare vascular malformation. The second will be much broader. The pathways and mechanisms discovered by our studies of CM may reveal unique and critical steps needed to assemble networks of human blood vessels. This will point to essential steps needed to build capillary networks for tissue regeneration and repair. Conversely, the lessons learned could be turned around and applied to prevention of pathological vessels in settings such as tumors, retinal diseases and rheumatoid arthritis. In summary, the study of CM could provide a well-spring of clues to advance our understanding of normal and pathologic vasculature.

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Capillary malformations, one form of which is port-wine stain, are abnormal blood vessels in the dermis that can progress over time to distort the skin and underlying tissues, causing significant pain and morbidity over a lifetime; there are no cures. Capillary malformations are associated with a rare neurologic disorder called Sturge-Weber syndrome. A mutation has been found associated with both capillary malformation and Sturge- Weber syndrome, providing a clue to what might be causing abnormal blood vessels to form and grow in both conditions. Our lab has shown that the mutation resides in the endothelial cells in the capillary malformation, providing a clue about the cell type that has gone awry. Our goal is to decipher the precise cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive capillary malformation so that medical therapies can be developed.

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Couto, Javier A; Huang, August Y; Konczyk, Dennis J et al. (2017) Somatic MAP2K1 Mutations Are Associated with Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformation. Am J Hum Genet 100:546-554
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From Iceland — Alcohol Bill Submitted

Alcohol Bill Submitted

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A bill that would permit the sale of alcohol in private shops has been submitted to parliament, and it is uncertain whether it will fail or become law.

Currently, alcoholic beverages may only be bought from any of the The State Alcohol and Tobacco Company of Iceland (ÁTVR) stores in the country. One man, Independence Party MP Vilhjálmur Árnason, hopes to change that.

Vísir reports that Vilhjálmur’s bill, which would make alcohol legal for sale in supermarkets, has been submitted to parliament. However, even he admits that support for the bill is on a knife’s edge.

“I expect that there will be a lot of discussion about [this bill],” he told reporters. “It’s an emotional issue and always has been. It’s controversial even with the Independence Party.”

However, there is considerable multipartisan support. Apart from some Independence Party MPs, other co-sponsors of the bill hail from Bright Future, the Pirate Party and the Progressives. Neither the Left-Greens nor the Social Democrats will support the bill.

The bill is not as simple as legalising alcohol in supermarkets, though. Mobile food units, such as hot dog wagons or soupmobiles, would not be permitted to sell alcohol, nor would temporary booths that sell food, such as at festivals. Furthermore, stores that sell alcohol may only be open between 9:00 and 20:00.

As reported, Vilhjálmur has been optimistic about the bill’s passing for some time now – despite the fact that it has been submitted and killed six times already. The matter is an important one to the MP, though, as he has contended that the high price of alcohol has forced young people to turn to drugs.

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Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to continue dumping 10 to 20 inches of rainfall along the upper Texas coast as the storm’s center moves back into the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

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Chris Hemsworth Miley – Chris Hemsworth Thor Movie Earnings

There is no question that Thor was just one of the most hyped movies of the year. It did end up being a ticket office wreck right at the end of its run. Yet the genuine inquiry is, were the film’s incomes boosted by its quality? Or were they simply boosted by outstanding marketing? In this article, I will attempt to respond to that inquiry with a bit of individual monitoring.
As a follower, I constantly seek films that have actually great story lines and also excellent acting efficiencies. Thor was absolutely in this organization. The aesthetic appeal of this movie, that made it an immediate hit is certainly impressive.
The aesthetic charm of the movie has actually created a lot of hype around the movie. This is reasonable. It is a modern day legendary fantasy which puts modern drama to a whole new level. Thor is a character who is mythological. This alone automatically elevates the assumptions for a wonderful movie.
So, what went wrong with Thor? Well, I have no concept. That is possibly an inquiry that is ideal left to the creativity. Let me just state that while the film had great cinematography, the performing was not at the same level with the standards established by the previous Thor motion pictures. The performing was passable but unsatisfactory.
Allow us consider the various other Thor film which appeared earlier this year, Thor: The Infinity Battle. This film had a grand-scale drama and a variety of unique effects, which make certain to attract a variety of visitors. This motion picture did refrain along with expected. Its economic performance is excusable though. For that reason, Thor’s performance does not always imply that Thor 2 will be a substantial flop.
The various other intriguing variable concerning Thor is its director. Kenneth Branagh is now the best name in the film making company. His previous Thor flick, The Sight, was a box office hit. This is probably due to the fact that Thor is such a cherished personality. If you are a big fan, you would certainly wish to see the movie every chance you obtain.  Chris Hemsworth Miley
Therefore, Thor motion picture profits are expected to remain to rise through the next couple of months. The film will undoubtedly end up being a big hit, and also this is all as a result of the gifted stars like Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, and also Anthony Hopkins. All these actors set up wonderful efforts in the movie.
Hence, Thor has once more proven itself to be among one of the most prominent flicks this summer season. Sales of tickets have actually been good thus far, and also word of mouth has additionally been good. With strong revenues expected, it is just an issue of time before Thor becomes a blockbuster. Who understands – it could also wind up being the year’s leading earning motion picture?
This is simply the beginning for Thor, however. There is still a lot of enjoyment left in the movie. The very best thing about this comics experience is that it manages to be both amusing and educational at the same time. There is excellent value in the tale because it tackles important concerns that are really felt by many individuals.
Among the important things that make this film worth seeing is Hemsworth. He plays the duty of Thor, a regular man that was changed into an awesome warrior by the belongings of a captivated hammer. This is one of the most engaging personalities in all of literary works. If you do not intend to check out another comic book story regarding this topic, this is one of the far better ones that you can view. The story itself is fantastic.
Thor’s appeal has caused big earnings. The film has actually damaged ticket office documents with its ticket sales. The reason Thor is doing so well is due to the fact that Hemsworth is an extraordinary actor with an excellent physique. This is an individual who will certainly fit right in as an action star when movies including this personality are launched.
One other thing that is terrific concerning Thor is the voice of Chris Hemsworth. He is an amazing star that can take any kind of duty that he is provided. You will certainly notice this with his most recent film Captain America: The Winter Season Soldier. He took over the starring function from Anthony Hopkins. Hemsworth has actually likewise received numerous honors for his acting skills, consisting of an Academy Honor for his work in the flick.  Chris Hemsworth Miley


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Fashion Week

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It’s that time of year again. Modavia proclaims itself the SL counter part of Mercedes-Benz, which sponsors the NYC fashion week, held in conjunction with Modavia’s fashion week (OK, it is the other way around, but don’t you just LOVE SL marketing and all the blah blah?) and showcases “A broad range of men’s and women’s couture fashion designs”.

Now, we can debate the correct use of couture fashion for anything made in SL… but we won’t… lets just say couture is the translation of extremely well made, exclusive fabrics and elaborate details in SL aka, superb Photoshop skills of the creator, a devious creative mind and awesome prim work. Right… well… this may be the case for some of the participants, but I was astounded to see Anubis Style in the line up of yesterday’s shows.

To me, Anubis Style is one of those Italian brands that, contrary to their RL counter parts, has nothing to do with couture, or fashion design at all. They hit the grid during the big boom, around the same time as brands like Bianca F and Jador, both of similar quality.  I went to Mimi’s Choice, who retails Anubis Style, because I know I would find the best of the collection there, but this is what I found…

No copy, no mod… with a script, but impossible to make it fit all around. If it would cover me on the front, the butt would look like on the pic, and vice versa.  Also, ladies and gentlemen, look at that stunning mess of  uhm… skirt prims, which, and you will have to believe my word on it, when you move will look like a rollercoaster on speed. I don’t often get nervous in SL.. but this skirt did. Oh and motion sick.

Fashion connoisseurs of SL,  the mesh parts and the prims really came out of the same folder, they DO belong together, even if you might think that the creator made a mistake here. And also, look at the lovely seam between the top and the bottom part. I know the mesh is a mess… but that’s why a lot pf people provide the top on the jacket layer as well. The blurriness of the texture of the top is just the finishing touch this outfit needs… or maybe that touch would be the totally random shades which are complimentary with this L$490 outfit.

Buyer beware.. you might be fooled by the lens flare on the vendor, but the dress obviously doesn’t look like that. It’s exactly why I am so weary about photoshopped vendors.

11 thoughts on “Fashion Week”

  1. No surprises here. It’s the same with several of Mimmi’s male franchises: Menlosophy and Sartoria. Photosourced textures, crappy prims and madly photoshopped vendors. Designers who take some time can deal with the issues of blending and merging textures and patterns.

    What’s more interesting is to observe Mimmi as she carries on as if she actually creates something herself. She is a rag merchant with Euro pretensions and the notion that she is SOMEONE.

    People who accept this level of work deserve to look the way they do.

  2. Thats sad, it is hard work to put a fashion event together and even if you only include amazing designers or designers whos best work is up to par, you cant control what they make and whether the items they present will be of the same standard.

    I dont know what happened here so I wont comment, but I will say that I do think of Modavia Fashion week as the most influential of the ‘Fashion Weeks’ and I will be attending the emerging artists show and the House of Fox show this week. x

  3. It is always good to hear constructive critique on many issues that come from people with credentials that back up their statements. The unfortunate thing in your blog here is , you have used vocabulary and phrases that only categorize your article as a cheap shot to proclaim yourself as “ The Critique Of Fashion In SL “ .

    You went on to hit on Modavia by stating they are not good enough to be the equivalent to what MB-NYC –FW, and added a cheap shot at Jador Fashion and Bianca F and Anubis Style and to top the it all to hit the cheapest shot at Mimi’s Choice who brings joy and happiness to a lot of women and men around the grid of SL that will take you a lot of years to do to reach her customer base and fans in secondlife.

    Comparing the Vendor Ad of Goccia and the picture that you put on the blog to compare has no solid foundation to compare, I don’t know if it is you in the picture, I hope it is not. But who ever it is, need to go and do a running exercise of 3 times a week for 6 months routine and go on sever vegetarian diet , if you don’t have the patient for that , then you need to start buying cloth from different stores tailored for big curvy women .

    I hope next time you want to criticize a particular fashion house in secondlife, look at the whole line not just one item out of 100’s and base your judgment accordingly. By the way, I am a model and one of Anubis Style’s Vendor and I wear her line with honor and pride.

  4. Dear Candylicious,

    Thank you so much for all the time you took to write up your comment, it must have taken you a while. Unfortunately you haven’t read that well because I’m not saying that Modavia isn’t good enough to be any equivalent to anything. Just stating the fact that, like the NYC fashion week apparently is called Mercedes-Benz fashion week nowadays, Modavia claims SL fashion week to be theirs.

    My opinion on Jador and Bianca F are no secret, but other than an illustration of the quality of some of the brands that started out at the same time as Anubis Style, they are not relevant here. There are others like Baiastice who have managed to build a rock steady brand with quality clothing. Least of all I’m “hitting” on Mimi. On the contrary, I went to Mimi’s Choice, because she usually picks out the gems of the collections of the brands she retails. I wasn’t looking for the worst, though actually, I’m pretty sure that, had I gone to the main shop, I would have found it.

    On one aspect of your comment, I have to fully agree with you and that is that there is no comparison possible between the vendor pic and my photos. The vendor is way too processed to give ANY fair impression on what the dress looks like. Lets not talk about shapes. Taste is very personal, and in 4 years in SL I’ve come to understand that many people in SL feel the need to make glamazons out of themselves, for whatever reason. I have become smaller and more curvy over time, finding that the clothing of SL’s quality designers fit me better like that. The skirt is still floating around me though, so I really wonder what shape it takes to fill that up.

    And as far as judging a brand by a couple of their designs (because I’ve bought another dress as well, just chose not to blog it.. waste of time and effort) any designer in is as good as the design you try on. And this one objectively is not up to par with the designs usually featured on this blog, nor with most of the Fashion week participants. I’m happy for Anubis Style that you like it though. After all, in SL there is something for anyone.

  5. Candylicious, perhaps you need to take a reading comprehension course as well as some more overpriced “modeling” courses. Nowhere does she bash Modavia or Mimi’s Choice. And before you bash other people’s shapes, take a good hard look at your own. Humans are not 3/4 leg with stumpy arms.

  6. I am a proud Model of Mimi’s Choice and could not agree more with what Candylicious Forster wrote in her comment.
    I too wear and present each outfit whether it is Anubis Style or Jador or any other outfit from this store with pride and honor.
    Especially this dress you are showing is one of my favorite dresses and I could not see anything wrong with it on me.

  7. “….I hope it is not. But who ever it is, need to go and do a running exercise of 3 times a week for 6 months routine and go on sever vegetarian diet , if you don’t have the patient for that , then you need to start buying cloth from different stores tailored for big curvy women .”

    Taking a cheap shot at Grazia much? I hate it when idiots do this, rather than own up to the fact that this brand creates shitty prims, you have to go there, by implying that her shape is too curvy for this prim outfit.

    Clearly from the picture, the prim sits very close to the body and goes straight down instead of having a nice curved shape and being away from the body. I am so glad my avatar’s curvy ass will never fit Modavia properly (or would pay for the overpriced crap).

  8. No one gives a shit about how you proudly wear someone’s outfits. The pictures clearly speak for themselves, there is a massive seam and her ass is sticking out. This isn’t about YOU so stfu and gtfo.

  9. Regardless of the shape of the avatar wearing it, this dress is an embarrassment to the SL “fashion industry.” The alpha cut-out on the bottom of the prims show an obvious lack of Photoshop skills and those skirt prims don’t have a texture that looks even remotely close to the clothing layer it is supposed to be connected to. The photo-sourced detail of the top is mushy, what is that supposed to be? beads? sequins? I can’t tell. There is no “finishing” along the edges of the fabric, and absolutely no shading or highlights to help give the dress shape.

    If a designer wants to limit their customer base by making something no mod that only fits super tall, super skinny avatars that is their business, but actual quality can be evaluated, and this dress fails on every point.

  10. bonjour je suit francaise, je suit dessolée de vous contredire mais je travaille en rl dans la mode, des createur comme Anubis, Jador et d’autre voire presque tous les createurs sur Sl, inspire beaucoup de designer en RL votre petit accident de ne ne pas pouvoir, regler ou modifier des sprim sur sl pour bien ajuster les tenue me deçois beaucoup. Car si vous etes vraiment dans la mode, vous devriez savoir que les petites mains qui sont dans les vrais maisons de couture ne font que sa a longueur de journée d’adjustez les tenue sur des clientes rl qui parfois bien plus mal polie que vous, et pous les revendeurs comme Mimi en rl et SL elle sont tres indispensable et en plus avoir un revendeur qui c’est de quoi elle parle avec pasion ceci est vraiment magnifique. Merci Beaucoup ANUBIS, JADOR etc .. pour vos creation, vous etes devenue avec le temps aussi des Muses pour des createurs RL!

  11. for a French person your French is actually pretty bad… for the non French readers I took the liberty to run your comment through Translate… though it might make even less sense now than before… creators like Anubis Style and Jador are an inspiration to RL creators? PUHLEASE, ma chère!

    “hello I read French, I read dessolée contradict you but I work in rl in fashion, as creator Anubis Jador and indeed almost all other creators of Sl, inspired many designers in RL your little accident does not it should not, regulate or modify sprim on sl for the proper fit held disappoint me greatly. Because if you’re really into fashion, you should know that small hands are in the true fashion houses do that all day long has its Adjusta held on the client rl sometimes much worse than you polite, dust and resellers like Mimi rl and SL it is very essential and most have a dealer that is what she’s talking with pasion this is really beautiful. Many thank you ANUBIS Jador etc. .. your creation, you are now with the time also muses for designers RL!”

    and if the skirt would have been modifiable instead of just having a resize script (which, now that I think of it, makes it even less “couture”that it already was), there would have been less of an issue adjusting the single prims, except for the fact that they are shapeless and will never fit on an avatar’s bum if it’s anything over a size 1.

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On our way with Valençay

Long before the goats arrived here, we loved goat cheese. We dreamed of some day making our own. And though we love fresh cheeses like chèvre as well as hard cheeses like clothbound cheddars and authentic manchegos (let’s be honest: we love almost any cheese), our true cheese love is reserved for the soft- and surface-ripened cheeses like the classic French Crottin, St. Maure, Selles-Sur-Cher, and Valençay, and the newer, outstanding American versions such as Cypress Grove’s Humboldt Fog, and Jasper Hill Farm’s Constant Bliss.

So, after experimenting for a few months with chèvre, goats’ milk ricotta, feta, and several other fresh cheeses, we’ve embarked on our mold-ripened cheese adventure. We’ve started with Valençay, and our first four cheeses are on their first day of draining in their pyramid-shaped molds now.

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After draining for another 24 hours or so, we’ll remove the cheeses from their molds, apply salt and ash to them, and let them age for two-three weeks. When the cheeses are complete, I’ll publish a detailed post about the process and results. For now, though, we’ll all just have to wait patiently for the milk, bacteria, and mold do their magic.

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Darn Tough Vermont: Experiences of a Small Business Exporter
October 05, 2020 Office of Communications and Office of Small Business

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development and Darn Tough Vermont®, a Made in Vermont company that makes premium all-weather performance socks, held an educational webinar to inform small businesses on the advantages of exporting, and the resources available to help them.

The Vermont webinar marked completion of EXIM’s All America Initiative an effort launched in May 2019 to hold educational and outreach events in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories to highlight how American companies can utilize EXIM support to grow their business through exporting.

During last week’s virtual event, EXIM Chairman Kimberly Reed discussed how Vermont businesses, particularly small businesses, can leverage EXIM’s financing tools and resources to increase their international sales, showcase their “Made in the USA” products, and sustain American jobs. She also underscored EXIM’s COVID-19 (coronavirus) relief measures for U.S. exporters and financial institutions to enhance the agency’s existing programs.

Darn Tough, headquartered in Northfield, Vermont, manufactures premium all-weather performance socks.

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With support from their EXIM registered insurance broker, Meridian Finance Group, the company relies on EXIM’s export credit insurance to support sales to more than a dozen distributors covering nearly 30 countries throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America as it works to achieve worldwide brand recognition and increased growth in international markets. EXIM’s charter includes a congressional mandate to support the U.S. textile industry and manufacturers such as Darn Tough.

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With a convention-over-configuration framework like CFWheels, it's important to know these conventions. This is your guide.

There is a specific set of standards that CFWheels follows when you run it in its default state. This is to save you time. With conventions in place, you can get started coding without worrying about configuring every little detail.

But it is important for you to know these conventions, especially if you're running an operating system and/or DBMS configuration that's picky about things like case sensitivity.

CFWheels uses a very flexible routing system to match your application's URLs to controllers, views, and parameters.

Within this routing system is a default route that handles many scenarios that you'll run across as a developer. The default route is mapped using the pattern [controller]/[action]/[key].

Consider this example URL:

This maps to the Users controller, edit action, and a key of 12. For all intents and purposes, this will load a view for editing a user with a primary key value in the database of 12.

This URL pattern works up the chain and will also handle the following example URLs:

Note that the above conventions are for GET requests and only apply when you have a wildcard() call in config/routes.cfm (which is the default). See Routing for instructions on overriding this behavior and how to deal with PUT, POST etc.

Naming Conventions for Controllers, Actions, and Views

Controllers, actions, and views are closely linked together by default. And how you name them will influence the URLs that CFWheels will generate.

First, a controller is a CFC file placed in the controllers folder. It should be named in PascalCase. For example, a site map controller would be stored at controllers/SiteMap.cfc.

Multi-word controllers will be delimited by hyphens in their calling URLs. For example, a URL of /site-map will reference the SiteMap controller.

See Routing for instructions on overriding this behavior.

Methods within the controllers, known as actions, should be named in camelCase.

Like with controllers, any time a capital letter is used in camelCase, a hyphen will be used as a word delimiter in the corresponding URL. For example, a URL of /site-map/search-engines will reference the searchEngines action in the SiteMap controller.

See Routing for instructions on overriding this behavior.

By default, view files are named after the action names and are stored in folders that correspond to controller names. Both the folder names and view file names should be all lowercase, and there is no word delimiter.

In our /site-map/search-engines URL example, the corresponding view file would be stored at views/sitemap/searchengines.cfm.

For information on overriding this behavior, refer to documentation for the renderView() function and read the Pages chapter.

A special type of view file called a layout defines markup that should surround the views loaded by the application. The default layout is stored at views/layout.cfm and is automatically used by all views in the application.

Controller-level layouts can also be set automatically by creating a file called layout.cfm and storing it in the given controller's view folder. For example, to create a layout for the users controller, the file would be stored at views/users/layout.cfm.

When a controller-level layout is present, it overrides the default layout stored in the root views folder.

For information on overriding the layout file to be loaded by an action, see the chapter on Layouts] and documentation for the renderView function.

Naming Conventions for Models and Databases

By default, the names of CFWheels models, model properties, database tables, and database fields all relate to each other. CFWheels even sets a sensible default for the CFML data source used for database interactions.

Data Sources

CFWheels will automatically look for a data source with the same name as the folder that your application is deployed in. If your CFWheels application is in a folder called blog, CFWheels will look for a data source called blog, for example.

Refer to the Configuration and Defaults chapter for instructions on overriding data source information.

Plural Database Table Names, Singular Model Names

CFWheels adopts a Rails-style naming conventions for database tables and model files. Think of a database table as a collection of model objects; therefore, it is named with a plural name. Think of a model object as a representation of a single record from the database table; therefore, it is named with a singular word.

For example, a user model represents a record from the users database table. CFWheels also recognizes plural patterns like binary/binaries, mouse/mice, child/children, etc.

Like controller files, models are also CFCs and are named in PascalCase. They are stored in the models folder. So the user model would be stored at models/User.cfc.

For instructions on overriding database naming conventions, refer to documentation for the table() function and the chapter on Object Relational Mapping.

Everything in the Database Is Lowercase

In your database, both table names and column names should be lowercase. The customersegments table could have fields called title, regionid, and incomelevel, for example.

Because of CFML's case insensitive nature, we recommend that you refer to model names and corresponding properties in camelCase. This makes for easier readability in your application code.

In the customersegments example above, you could refer to the properties in your CFML as title, regionId, and incomeLevel to stick to CFML's Java-style roots. (Built-in CFML functions are often written in camelCase and PascalCase, after all.)

For information on overriding column and property names, refer to documentation for the property() function and the Object Relational Mapping chapter.

Configuration and Defaults

There are many default values and settings that you can tweak in CFWheels when you need to. Some of them are conventions and others are just configurations available for you to change. You can even change argument defaults for built-in CFWheels functions to keep your code DRYer.

For more details on what you can configure, read the Configuration and Defaults chapter.


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Developing Plugins

Extend CFWheels functionality by creating a plugin.

Plugins are the recommended way to get new code accepted into CFWheels. If you have written code that you think constitutes core functionality and should be added to Wheels, please create a plugin. After the community has used it for a while, it will be a simple task for us to integrate it into the CFWheels core.

To create a plugin named MyPlugin, you will need to create a MyPlugin.cfc and an index.cfm file. Then zip these together as, where x.x is the version number of your plugin.

The only other requirement to make a plugin work is that MyPlugin.cfc must contain a method named init. This method must set a variable called this.version, specifying the Wheels version the plugin is meant to be used on (or several Wheels version numbers in a list) and then return itself.

Here's an example:

component {
  function init(){
    return this;

Init() not config()

Note that plugins still use init() rather than config()

The index.cfm file is the user interface for your plugin and will be viewable when clicking through to it from the debug area of your application.

Using a Plugin to Add or Alter Capabilities

A plugin can add brand new functions to Wheels or override existing ones. A plugin can also have a simple one-page user interface so that the users of the plugin can provide input, display content, etc.

To add or override a function, you simply add the function to MyPlugin.cfc, and Wheels will inject it into Wheels on application start.

Please note that all functions in your plugin need to be public (access="public"). If you have functions that should only be called from the plugin itself, we recommend starting the function name with the $ character (this is how many internal Wheels functions are named as well) to avoid any naming collisions.

It is also important to note that although you can overwrite functions, they are still available for you to leverage with the use of core.functionName().

Example: Overriding timeAgoInWords()

Let's say that we wanted Wheels's built-in function timeAgoInWords() to return the time followed by the string " (approximately)":

public string function timeAgoInWords(){
  return core.timeAgoInWords(argumentCollection=arguments) & " (approximately)";

Plugin Attributes

There are 3 attributes you can set on your plugin to customize its behavior. The first and most important one is the mixin attribute.

By default, the functions in your plugins will be injected into all Wheels objects (controller, model, etc.). This is usually not necessary, and to avoid this overhead, you can use the mixin attribute to specify exactly where the functions should be injected. If you have a function that should be available in a controller (or view) this is how it could look:

<cfcomponent output="false" mixin="controller">

The mixin attribute can be set either on the cfcomponent tag or on the individual cffunction tags.

The following values can be used for the mixin attribute: application, global, none, controller, model, dispatch, microsoftsqlserver, mysql, oracle, postgresql.

Another useful attribute is the environment attribute. Using this, you can tell Wheels that a plugin should only inject its functions in certain environment modes. Here's an example of that, taken from the Scaffold plugin, which doesn't need to inject any functions to Wheels at all when it's running in production mode.

<cfcomponent output="false" mixin="controller" environment="development">

Finally, there is a way to specify that your plugin needs another plugin installed in order to work. Here's an example of that:

<cfcomponent output="false" dependency="someOtherPlugin">

Making Plugin Development More Convenient with Wheels Settings

When your Wheels application first initializes, it will unzip and cache the zip files in the plugins folder. Each plugin then has its own expanded subfolder. If a subfolder exists but has no corresponding zip file, Wheels will delete the folder and its contents.

This is convenient when you're deploying plugins but can be annoying when you're developing your own plugins. By default, every time you make a change to your plugin, you need to rezip your plugin files and reload the Wheels application by adding ?reload=true to the URL.

Disabling Plugin Overwriting

To force Wheels to skip the unzipping process, set the overwritePlugins setting to falsedevelopment` environment.

// In config/development/settings.cfm.

With this setting, you'll be able to reload your application without worrying about your file being overwritten by the contents of the corresponding zip file.

Disabling Plugin Folder Deletion

To force Wheels to skip the folder deletion process, set the deletePluginDirectories setting tofalse for your development environment.

// In config/design/settings.cfm.

With this setting, you can now develop new plugins in your application without worrying about having a corresponding zip file in place.

See the chapter on Configuration and Defaults for more details about changing Wheels settings.

Stand-Alone Plugins

If your plugin is completely stand-alone, you can call it from its view page using just the name of the plugin. This works because Wheels has created a pointer to the plugin object residing in the application scope. One example of a stand-alone plugin is the PluginManager. If you check out its view code, you will see that it calls itself like this:

Don't forget to comment!

With CFWheels 2.x we can take advantage of the inbuilt documentation generator. Try and tag your public facing functions appropriately.

Here's an example from the cfwheels ical4J plugin:

 * Given a iCal style repeat rule, a seed date and a from-to range, get all recurring dates which satisfy those conditions
 * [section: Plugins]
 * [category: Calendaring]
 * @pattern The ical RRULE style string
 * @seed The seed date
 * @from When to generate repeat range from
 * @to When to generate repeat range till
public array function getRecurringDates(
 required string pattern,
 required date seed,
 date from,
 date to
    local.recur = $ical_createRecur(arguments.pattern);
    return local.recur.getDates($ical_createDate(arguments.seed), $ical_createDate(arguments.from), $ical_createDate(, $ical_createValue("DATE"));

The javaDoc style comments will automatically show this function under Plugins > Calendaring, rather than in the "Uncategorised" functions. The @parameter lines give a helpful hint to the user

With 2.x, a box.json is required for new plugins. Read the Publishing Plugins chapter for more details on that. One advantage is that CFWheels now includes the version and meta data for each plugin when there's a box.json file.

// Version Number

// Meta Struct from box.json

This saves you having to read in the box.json file, should you wish to use it for storing ancillary data and settings.

Automatic Java Lib Mappings

If you've ever wanted to do a quick wrapper for a java class/lib, this new feature in 2.x means you can add a .class or .jar file, and it will be automatically mapped into the this.javaSettings.loadpaths setting when the application starts.

This means you can distribute plugins with Java libs and they'll work properly without additional user intervention!

Enabling Travis CI Testing

One of the nicest things about 2.x is the tighter integration with command-line tools such as Commandbox. We can take advantage of the new testing suite JSON return type and the new CFWheels CLI in Commandbox 2.x to easily build a Travis CI test. It's perhaps easiest to just show the .travis.yml file - this goes in the root of your gitHub plugin repository, and once you've turned on testing under, will run your test suite on every commit.

language: java
sudo: required
  - oraclejdk8
  # Get Commandbox
  - sudo apt-key adv --keyserver --recv 6DA70622
  - sudo echo "deb /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/commandbox.list
  # Install Commandbox
  - sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --assume-yes install commandbox
  # Check it's working
  - box version
  # Install CLI: needed to repackage the plugin to a zip on install
  - box install cfwheels-cli
  # Install Master Branch; nb, installed into folder of the git repo name, i.e neokoenig/cfwheels-ical4j
  - box install cfwheels/cfwheels
  # Install the Plugin: use gitHub path to get the absolute latest rather than the forgebox version
  - box install neokoenig/cfwheels-ical4j
  # Master branch has a bunch of server.jsons we can use: lucee4 | lucee5 | cf10 | cf11 | cf2016
  - box server start lucee5
# Type should be the name of the plugin | servername should reflect the server we've just started
script: >
  testResults="$(box wheels test type=ical4j servername=lucee5)";
  echo "$testResults";
  if ! grep -i "\Tests Complete: All Good!" <<< $testResults;  then exit 1; fi
    email: true

In sum, this:

  • Installs Commandbox
  • Installs the CFWheels CLI
  • Installs the master branch of the CFWheels repository
  • Installs your plugin from your repository (rather than the forgebox version which will be the version behind)
  • Starts the local server
  • Runs the test suite, pointing only at your plugin's unit tests

Naturally, you could do more complex things with this, such as multiple CF Engines, but for a quick setup it's a good starting point!

Now Go Build Some Plugins!

Armed with this knowledge about plugins, you can now go and add that feature you've always wanted or change that behavior you've always hated. We've stripped you of any right to blame us for your discontents. :)


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Yuti Harshavardhana Wiki

Yuti Harshavardhana was born and spent her youth in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Her zodiac signal is Libra. As her moms and dads, both are good musician she loves making a song for the reason that her very early age and so after seeing her love towards making a song her parents decided to give her the right education. Yuti may be a very properly educated singer. She finished her primary training at a private college in Bangalore. For higher studies, she moved to Coimbatore. At the time of her faculty and university, she used to participate in singing in school capabilities in addition to used to entertain her style with the aid of her singing. She did her PG in statistics from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore. She is also a very good creator and artist. Along with making a song and writing she is likewise a dance lover and is superb in dancing.

Yuti Harshavardhana is a completely well-known and proficient singer, artist, and writer from Bangalore, India. She is also a YouTuber. She has her very own YouTube channel where she regularly uploads her recorded track. She got thousands of perspectives on her movies on YouTube. Recently Yuti got too many fans following after she participated in Zee TV’s famous making a song truth show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Telugu season 13.

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Yuti has music in her blood as her father is a Music trainer and her mother is likewise an excellent Musician. She started to participate in diverse singing opposition in her childhood. She did numerous stage shows with other singers. She got the real fam after he correctly cleared all-spherical of audition and enter in the Zee TV’s most famous singing truth display titled “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Telugu season thirteen”. In this display, she ended up as a Semi-Finalist. She additionally participated in lots of making a song fact indicates.

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Yuti Harshavardhana Biography

Full Name Yuti Harshavardhana
Nick Name Yuti
Date of Birth 18th October 2005
Birthplace Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality Indian
Profession Singer
Zodiac Sign Libra
Famous For Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Telugu season 13
School Private School
College Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore
Debut Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Telugu season 13
Height 5’3″
Eye Color Black
Hair Color Black
Hobbies Listening to Music and Dance
Profession Singer & Writer

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teaching safe rope climb to beginners

by Rick McCharles

A group of experts brainstormed the best ways to introduce rope climbing to children at a recent clinic.

I volunteered to put together a short video of the techniques discussed.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Note that none of the activities shown have children climbing high. In fact, we said any athlete who wants to climb to the roof must first prove ability to climb half way, down, half way, and down. Then you can be sure they have the “stuff” to get to the top.

We also asked every demonstrator to climb down with feet. This reduces the risk they might be tempted to slide down, burning their hands.

Not yet included in the video is this point emphasized by Keith Russell:

Knots at the end of a rope are a danger when “flicking” through the air. They also make the rope deteriorate more quickly. (If you must have a knot, make a figure-8. And remove it once the activity is finished.

Better is to set a “no knots” rule. And be sure to buy your rope long enough so that it lies flat on the ground:

Want to know more? One website documents the decline in the popularity of rope climb.

I’m not so sure about that. There are more kids climbing ropes better today than ever in history, I reckon. Thanks to gymnastics coaches. It’s one of our very best activities.

If you have any suggestions or additional drills for the video, leave a comment below. Thanks.

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