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‘Fight crime – return to God’
From Barbados-
Anglican Bishop Rt Rev Michael Maxwell has said society’s move away from God and a failure to address the young people’s problems are to blame for the crime wave sweeping the country.
And he has called for early intervention in homes and schools to fight a “systemic problem” and for Barbados to return to God.
Bishop Michael said: “I firmly believe that we are faced with a situation where Almighty God and the things of God are no longer taken seriously, no longer acknowledged and regarded as important, hence the economic, the social and the moral issues facing our nation as a result.
“As a result, many of our young men and women have not been nurtured, have not been guided by the basic tenets of love and respect for their lives and for the lives of others, nor even for the love and respect of their creator God.
“They are not being so nurtured because of the breakdown and failures of our societal system in terms of the important role that the home and the religious institutions and the school system and even the political structures have failed to offer our young people.”
https://barbadostoday.bb/2019/02/28/fight-crime-return-to-god/
Labels: anglican church, barbados
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Redmi K20 Flagship Smartphone Confirmed to Launch With SD 855 on May 28
By Pavan Kumar B.C
Xiaomi’s Redmi is going to launch its flagship device in China on 28th May which will come with a true bezel-less display along with a pop-up selfie camera. Recently the device was leaked on Weibo that revealed few of its key specifications, the company is expected to be unveiling two new devices in the new K-series called Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro. Redmi also shared the Antutu score of the Redmi K20 smartphone that scores 458,754 and it will be powered with Snapdragon 855.
The device was code named as Raphael on Antutu and the company also released an official video teaser of the device a few days back that revealed pop-camera flaunting its bezels less display. Redmi also confirmed that the upcoming flagship device will be coming with 2.5mm audio jack and will come with NFC connectivity for making contactless payments using Mi-Pay. Well, the specs that we are leaked till now are mentioned below.
The Redmi K20 will come with a 6.39-inch AMOLED display with Full HD+ (2340 x 1080 pixels) resolution and 19.5:9 aspect ratio. Under the hood, it will be coming with latest Snapdragon 855 Chip set from Qualcomm coupled with LPDDR4X RAM and UFS 2.1 flash storage and also Kryo 485 CPU. The device will be made available in 6GB + 64GB, 6GB + 128GB, 8GB + 128GB, and 8GB + 256GB storage options and should be the same in the case of its Pro version also.
On the camera front, the device will be sporting a 48MP main camera sensor with f/1.7 aperture, a 13MP ultra-wide-angle sensor with f/2.4 aperture, and an 8MP telephoto sensor with f/2.4 aperture. For selfies, there is a 20MP camera with f/2.0 aperture and it should also be coming with many AI features. There is a 4000mAh battery on the back with the support for 27W fast charging technology.
The handset is said to be coming in Carbon Fiber Black, Flame Red, and Glacier color options. There should be a fingerprint sensor on the device with face unlocking system to enhance the security levels. It is going to come out of the box with Android 9 Pie operating system with MIUI on top. It should also be getting further updates when available. Comment in the section below if you have more queries on the same and stay tuned to Android Advices for more.
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Twitter announces ‘Hide Replies’ feature to add more control over conversations
By adminJul 19, 2019, 14:09 pm0
Social media networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to some extent has become one of the easy targets for trolls, fake news and spreading negative comments.
To fight it out, various platforms are coming up with new features that would allow users to better control the privacy of their conversations. In this regard, the micro-blogging website Twitter is working a feature called “Hide Replies”, starting with users in Canada which will be rolled out globally.
We’re testing a feature to hide replies from conversations. This experience will be available for everyone around the world, but at this time, only people in Canada can hide replies to their Tweets.
We want to know what you think. Please Tweet us your feedback and questions! https://t.co/H7iMtEhCUP
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 17, 2019
With this feature, users will be able to hide replies in the conversation threads that are negative or offensive. Having said that, followers can still see the hidden replies just by pressing the new icon. According to the micro-blogging website, this feature enables users to have a more healthy conversation.
A few hours later, Twitter updated, “Update: we’re turning off the experiment on Android to fix some crash issues we’ve run into. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s back on”
Update: we’re turning off the experiment on Android to fix some crash issues we’ve run into. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s back on! https://t.co/bnOmSzCP2f
All said and done, it is unclear when it might expand to other countries. Rolling out this feature depends more on the feedback it receives through the test. Lately, Twitter introduced several changes to its platform including a dedicated ‘Report’ option, ability to Retweet with GIF, photos and video as well.
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PHOENIX -- Nine days past his 26th birthday, Craig Kimbrel is the Atlanta Braves career leader in saves. That number figures to get a lot bigger before hes through. Kimbrel got the final four outs in the Braves 5-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night, earning his 16th save of the season (in 18 tries) and 155th of his career. Thats one more than John Smoltz. Those 155 saves have come in 172 opportunities. "Ive been a part of a lot of good teams and had a lot of opportunities," Kimbrel said. "Having the chance my first full season to be a closer, that doesnt happen very often and thats why were sitting here talking today, because I had that opportunity a lot of guys dont have. "I feel blessed and grateful for it." Kimbrel had one save in 2010, 46 in 2011, 42 in 2012 and 50 in 2013. "Ive played with him for four years and some change and hes already the franchise leader in saves," teammate Jason Heyward said. "Thats pretty cool." 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Favorite iPhone/iPad Apps
November 26, 2010 by stephenfleming
It surprises people that, as a well-assimilated Apple fanboy, I didn’t buy the first generation iPhone. I was in the store on launch day, I had one in my hand, my credit card was burning a hole in my pocket… and I left without one. I used my Treo for nearly another year until the 2nd generation iPhone (confusingly named 3G) was released. I wasn’t waiting for the faster network connection or for the GPS chip, or cut-and-paste, although those were all nice. No, although I couldn’t have articulated it at the time, I was waiting for the App Store.
Remember, I was coming from years in the Palm ecosystem, where third-party apps were a key part of the experience. I was utterly reliant on a couple of them (in particular, an RPN calculator… having been converted to the RPN Way by HP calculators in my youth, I simply cannot use “normal” calculators without an Enter key!). So the first-gen iPhone had lots of promise, but it wasn’t ready for me yet. Web apps looked interesting, but until developers got hold of a native SDK, I kept my money in my pocket.
Once the App Store was announced, I knew I was hooked. In fact, I bought my first iPhone app on July 10, 2008, the night before the iPhone 3G was released… yes, I had that much faith in Apple (and James Thomson, author of PCalc) that I spent ten bucks on an app without hardware that I could run it on!
And, although I didn’t know it, I was participating in an interesting experiment in app pricing. In the early days, I bought several apps for $9.99 or even more. Soon, those apps found their prices cut to $6.99, $4.99… or they were abandoned entirely. A few apps hovered about the magic ten-buck point, but most were driven down by the competition from free and 99¢ apps.
Lots of people have blogged about the race to the bottom, and I have nothing useful to add there… except that I never hesitate to buy a paid app if it looks like it does something I need, or even want. I’ve spent more than the price of that first iPhone in the App Store at this point, and I don’t mind. Software developers gotta eat, and I don’t mine supporting them with a couple of bucks here and there.
Of course, sometimes the app turns out to be less polished than I hoped, or buggy, or just doesn’t get updated when needed. So I wind up buying a lot of apps, experimenting with them, and letting them languish in a rear page, or delete them from my devices entirely.
People are always asking me “So, what apps should I get for my iPhone/iPad?” That’s hard to answer, since I don’t know your needs or your budget. All I can do is give you a list of the apps that I use, many of them daily, and frequently after downloading and trying a lot of competitors. (I think I’ve bought six calendar applications, and I shudder to think how many Twitter apps. I’ve settled on what I think are the best.)
I’ve blogged about this before, but that was almost two years ago, and before the iPad… and things change.
So, in honor of Black Friday, here’s my list of my favorite iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) applications. Click on any icon for a link to the official App Store description.
Apple iWork Suite
News / Information
$2.99 (free trial available) iPhone only
Calvetica Apple’s Calendar is gorgeous, but it’s a surprisingly clumsy user interface. (It’s only with the latest iOS release that you can actually change the category of an existing entry!) Since I juggle thirteen Google Calendars, I get frustrated with a “one size fits most” calendar. I’ve tried almost every replacement calendar in the App Store, and this is the only one that has earned a place in my iPhone Dock. No iPad version yet, but I’m optimistic…
Free Universal
Google Mobile Google may be occasionally evil these days, but their apps are darned good. I like the voice search and the Google Goggles. Free!
Zenbe Lists There are a zillion to-do list applications out there. This one keeps a position on my home screen for one fundamental reason: painless syncing from the cloud to multiple devices. The real-world use? My wife and I can share a single grocery list (and Home Depot list, etc.). If one of us goes shopping alone, we’re sure we have the most current version. I don’t understand Zenbe’s business model in giving this away, but I’d miss it if they stopped.
Twittelator Pro I don’t know… is Twitter a “productivity” app, or an “anti-productivity” app? Probably a little of both. What’s definitely not productive is downloading and testing ten different Twitter clients. I’ve done that, so you don’t have to. Lots of them are good; some are very good. For my money, Twittelator Pro is the best of the bunch on the iPhone. There’s a free trial available if you don’t want to risk five bucks on my say-so.
$4.99 iPad only
Twittelator for iPad Unlike on the iPhone, the competition on the iPad isn’t even close (in my not-so-humble opinion). Twittelator for iPad is a complete rethinking of the user experience, and I like it a lot. Once Andrew adds “Open Web Pages in Safari” as a prefs item, it’ll be darn near perfect. (He had to wait for iOS 4.2 for that to make sense, so I expect it any day now.)
SimpleNote I can’t count the number of note-taking apps on the iOS platform. I love SimpleNote because it’s as simple as advertised. Doesn’t try to be all things to all people, but it’s a quick, easy, legible way of writing myself notes, and accessing them on other devices, including my desktop. And they’re a Y Combinator startup! I give them $12/year for “Premium” service, even though the free version meets all my needs.There are multiple desktop clients available to sync with SimpleNote’s server; I use JustNotes for the Mac, but others work as well.
iA Writer This one is iPad-only. Some of the design decisions in this app drive me crazy. But I love it for two reasons:
The gorgeous custom font, Nitti Light, which is the most legible monospace typeface I’ve ever seen to on the iPad. And maybe it’s my teletype heritage, but I compose better in monospace.
The expanded keyboard with cursor keys (yippee!) and other controls that may offend Steve Jobs, but which lighten my load every time I’m composing text.
SimpleNote works well by staying out of my way for a few sentences at a time. If I’m typing more than half a page on my iPad, I want to use iA Writer.
Evernote Theoretically, Evernote could replace both of the above apps. I find it too “heavy” to use for cranking out quick notes to myself, and the UI doesn’t match iA Writer for longer text. Where Evernote shines for me is in taking photographs (I’m particularly guilty of photographing the covers of books I want to buy) and OCRing them in the background so that they become searchable text. I suspect some low-wage English-speakers in India or China are chained to their workstations to type whatever they read in your photos, but I honestly don’t know. Synchronizes with an equally powerful client on your Mac or PC (or on the Web). There are paid options available if you turn out to be a heavy user.
$9.99 (free trial available) Universal
PCalc As I said earlier, I waited to buy an iPhone until PCalc was available. I use it every day on my Mac, and now I use it every day on my iPhone. Gorgeous implementation… not a slavish recreation of my beloved and still-operational HP-15C (although those recreations exist; I’ve bought them) but a rethinking of what’s necessary in an RPN calculator and what can be hidden. (Oh, yeah, there’s an algebraic mode, too, but I’ve never paid it any attention.) Multiple “skins” available to get the appearance you’re looking for. Comparatively expensive for an iPhone app, but worth it.
$4.99 Universal
PowerOne Financial If I run into a calculation that’s too complicated for PCalc but not complicated enough to open a spreadsheet, I usually reach for PowerOne. It’s a descendant of the RPN calculator I used to use on the Palm, but vastly more powerful with customizable worksheets (things like Time Value of Money where you can actually see all the variables, not just stuff them into the stack like an HP-12C). My only complaint is that the interface is ugly; I wish Infinity Softworks would implement custom skins like PCalc did.
$11.99 Both (single platform versions $7.99)
1Password Pro I use a new randomly-generated password for every Website that I visit. So I need a secure place to keep them. After using SplashID for years on the Palm OS, I paid for both 1Password and SplashID on the iPhone. After a long period of using them in parallel, I settled on 1Password. Frequent updates, and a great Mac client that syncs automatically over Wi-Fi and integrates with Safari or Firefox on your desktop.
$1.99 iPhone only
Favorites Simple speed-dialer that sits in my Dock and lets me dial or text my most frequent contacts with one touch. Does exactly what you’d want it to, and nothing that you wouldn’t want it to. Probably overpriced but, seriously, can’t you afford two bucks?
ReaddleDocs for iPad I’ve said before that ReaddleDocs for the iPad is reason enough to own an iPad, and I still believe that. The ability to carry thousands of documents in a slim searchable slab has changed my life. Rather than having folders upon folders of paper printouts, I just forward any attachment (PDF or Microsoft Office… probably others, but those are the ones I care about) to my Readdle email address, and sync just before walking into a meeting.I’ve sold several iPads with this app. Good Reader has similar functionality, but until someone comes up with a better user interface (which, honestly, wouldn’t be difficult) or better customer service (which would be hard!), I love Readdle and use it every day.
ReaddleDocs Readdle Docs for the iPhone synchronizes to the same cloud storage space as Readdle Docs for the iPad. It’s a less compelling experience just because of the inevitable limitations of the smaller screen. Where I’m likely to open a spreadsheet on my iPad and pass it around a conference table, I’m not going to do the same with my iPhone. Nevertheless, it’s nice to occasionally have access to documents when I don’t have my iPad with me, and Readdle serves that niche nicely. You have to buy them separately, which is an odd choice on the company’s part; I wish they sold a Universal version for 2/3rds the price of the two apps sold separately. Maybe someday.
ToDo for iPad How many to-do applications are available for iOS? Certainly dozens, probably hundreds. Most of them are pretty interchangeable. ToDo by Appigo is different. First, it’s gorgeous… someone really sweated the details on the UI, and it shows. Next, it integrates well between iPhone, iPad, Web (via Toodle-Do), and other services (like Jott). Finally, the developers seem to pay attention to how people actually work, rather than trying to shoehorn us into “Getting Things Done” or any other system. I like it.
ToDo Bought as a companion to the gorgeous iPad version above, but really good enough to be bought just for the iPhone. Nicely done.
Instapaper What Readdle Docs does for attached files, Instapaper does for Web pages. Ever get into “tl;dr” (Too Long, Didn’t Read) mode when reading the Web? Instapaper solves the problem. Install a bookmarklet in your browser (desktop or iOS device) and, whenever you get to a page that’s too long, click “Read Later.” Instapaper magically figures out the part of the page you want to read (meaning, not the ads and the blogroll and the other cruft) and sucks it into the cloud. Sync your iPad, and all those articles wind up in local storage, so you can read them at leisure when waiting for a haircut or whatever… no network connection required. Beautifully crafted, obsessively supported. You need this app.
Consistency This app is for repetitive tasks that need to be tracked, but that you don’t need to schedule on your calendar. Example: I need to oil my bicycle chain once a month, but if I’m a week early or a week late, it’s no big deal. Consistency is brilliant for things like that.I used to use the desktop version of this app and I like the idea a lot. I was pleased to find it available for the iPhone, so I bought it without doing my research.I’m mildly astonished to find that it doesn’t use iPhone notifications (badges, dialogs, sounds). And I’m disappointed that there’s not a “cloud” option to sync lists between my iPhone and iPad. I’d pay a modest amount for that.
Considering it hasn’t been updated in over a year (Yoo-hoo, Sciral! There’s this thing called iOS 4; you might have read about it!), I guess we have to treat this app as abandonware. A shame, really, since I don’t know of anything else that works precisely this way.
WordPress I don’t blog a lot away from my keyboard, but it’s nice to be able to fix a typo or approve a comment while on the go. After a rocky start, the WordPress app has matured to a solid client on both iPhone and iPad. If you have a WordPress blog (self-hosted or on WordPress.com), you need to check this out.
Skype I don’t use Skype a lot, but it’s nice to have for that occasional international phone call. And it’s a nice multiplatform chat interface that most people will either have, or be willing to install. The iPhone client works well, and it’s free.
$9.99 each iPad only
Numbers These three get special treatment. Keynote, Pages, and Numbers together form Apple’s iWork suite… originally for the desktop, and redesigned to launch with the iPad.I have my issues with these three apps, but they’re still worth the money. First off, they ought to be named “Keynote Light,” “Pages Light,” and “Numbers Light”… Apple did a good job of focusing on the 80% of features that everyone really needs, but sometimes one of the 20% they eliminated will really bite your project in the butt. In particular, I keep running into limitations with Keynote (master slides, complex animations, fonts, and complex groups) that badly break certain of my slide presentations.Next, the process for getting documents from the desktop version of iWorks applications into and out of the iPad Apps is just hostile. It takes about ten steps, none of which intuitively leads to the next. This is very “un-Apple” and I have to believe that Apple has a major cloud-based solution to this (maybe making Mobile Me worth the cost?) but it’s just not ready yet. I hope so. But, for now, if you think that having iWork on your desktop and on your iPad means you can edit the same document in both places… you’re wrong. You can create a document on your desktop, export it to your iPad, and (most) things will work… but if you make changes on your iPad, you need to export it back to your Mac as a new document. No synchronization, no audit trail, no acknowledgement of cloud-based workflow at all. Ick.
All that being said, it’s really cool to walk into a room carrying just your iPad and a VGA dongle, and running the whole presentation from your touchscreen. Major ego boost.
Kindle I’m one of those weird people who bought a Kindle after buying an iPad. Different screen technologies, different use cases. I love them both. We’ve bought a lot of books on Kindle, and it’s great to have them with me wherever I go… including the surprisingly-capable screen on the iPhone 4. Synchronization is painless, and the feature set is more than adequate.
Stanza Oddly, the best e-book reader on the iPhone or iPad is made by Amazon, but it’s not Kindle. It’s Stanza. Formerly a standalone company (Lexcycle), Amazon bought the developer in early 2009, and I was terrified that it meant the death of this superb application. But they released an iPad update more or less on schedule, and have clearly not abandoned the product.It’s a better reading experience than Kindle, with a more mature set of interface options (it’s been around longer!), and it integrates into a wide variety of paid and free e-book sources. I tend to want to buy everything that Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books publishes, and Stanza makes that painless. Maybe too painless. Hook it up to Calibre on your desktop, and you can easily see how I have over 200 books on my iPad.
News/Information
Free iPhone only
The Weather Channel Another of those ecological niches where I’ve downloaded at least six free and paid apps. The Weather Channel isn’t just the hometown team here in Atlanta; I think they’ve built the best app. (There’s a paid upgrade, but I haven’t felt the need to buy it.)
Free iPad only
WSJ I gave up on my dead tree subscription to the Wall Street Journal years ago, but I missed it. Now I don’t miss it anymore. The first release of this app for the iPad was absolutely terrible, but they’ve iterated rapidly, and the current version is great. Everything you need so that you’re no longer sitting there looking stupid when someone asks “Did you see the article on such-and-so in the Wall Street Journaltoday?”Now, if they’d just get rid of their obsession with fully-justified typography. Hint: Ragged-right looks better on narrow columns!
Free (for now) iPad (iPhone version also available)
NYTimes The New York Times has experimented with various pay and free models, so I don’t know where they’ll wind up. For now, the gorgeous iPad app has the entire content, every day. The Grey Lady’s business model is probably doomed, but it’s hard to beat having the entire paper on your iPad every day.
Free (with paid print subscription) iPad (iPhone version also available)
The Economist I used to be addicted to print magazines… at one point, I was receiving over 50 per month. (I read fast. Really, really fast.) The Internet killed that little habit, and now I enjoy letting print subscriptions lapse, but one that I never hesitate to renew is The Economist. The iPad version is gorgeous and, if you have a paid print subscription, you get the entire magazine online every week. It downloads to local storage so you can read it on the plane without Wi-Fi. Perfect!
AJC Select Sadly, the local paper has seen better days… a 50% drop in print subscribers will do that to you. And now that it’s moved to Dunwoody, the Atlanta Journal Constitution seems to be becoming the “North of I-285 Journal Constitution.” But there’s no substitute for the AJC when you want to find out about a local city council meeting, or the schedule for the Peachtree Road Race. (And their Twitter accounts are great!)
Flipboard Flipboard is a Twitter client, but it’s also a lot more. It scrapes multiple services (your choice) and reformats stories into a customized online magazine. Beautiful UI; this is the simplest way I know to kill time while feeding my brain, as long as I have a Wi-Fi connection available.
Regator Premium Another hometown team (Decatur, Georgia), but with a national reputation. Regator hand-selects blog feeds from your topics of interest and presents them in a constantly-curated collection. This is where you’ll find those stories that’ll never make the New York Times… or, occasionally, where you’ll find big stories before they make the New York Times.
Free iPad (iPhone version also available)
TED TED has been called “the new Harvard.” I don’t know if I believe that, but the TED talks are extraordinary. Their self-description: “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. TED presents talks from some of the world’s most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends.” I don’t usually have the patience for videos or podcasts, and I wish TED had a text transcription but these are good enough to be worth an exception.
AutoStitch Panorama Can’t get everything you want into the camera frame? Take multiple photographs and stitch them together into a (vertical or horizontal) panorama. Better UI than Photoshop on your desktop, and it runs on your phone! We really are living in the future. (I’ve listed this as a Universal app, and it indeed runs on the iPad, but it makes most sense on the iPhone where you have a camera.)
SmugMug I have set up picture-sharing free accounts on Flickr, Picasa, Shutterfly, Ofoto, and probably others. But I cheerfully pay for a SmugMug account because it’s just better. My only complaint is that not enough other apps integrate with it, I guess because of the smaller user base… but those users are vociferous fans, and include many professional photographers who use SmugMug galleries in their day job! The iPad app is a delightful way to browse through your photos and show them off to others.
$3.99 iPad (iPhone version also available)
Photogene It’s not Photoshop, but it’s amazing. The range of photo manipulations you can perform on a handheld device would have been dismissed as impossible only a few years ago. I’ve downloaded lots of photo utilities, but this one lives on my iPad’s home page.
ColorSplash A one-trick pony, but what a cool trick! Convert your photos to black-and-white, then “paint” the color back into place for selected regions. Great user interface, and you wind up with striking photos to save or share. Yeah, you can do this in Photoshop, but not as easily, and not nearly as enjoyably! Spend the buck.
JotNot Scanner Pro Another one-trick pony. Take photos of documents (receipts, business cards, or full-size sheets of paper) and JotNot will square them up and crank up the contrast to make them surprisingly legible. I’ve emailed people photographs of documents rather than finding a fax machine, and it worked beautifully.
MotionX GPSLite A surprisingly good free navigation program. All sorts of downloadable maps, with waypoints, tracks, and more.There’s an HD version available for the iPad that’s even prettier.
$39.99 Universal
TomTom USA I have a standalone Garmin GPS that I like, but I can’t imagine buying another one. TomTom works without a network connection (important in rural Georgia!) to give you turn-by-turn navigation based on an internal database. (Which is enormous, by the way… you need more than a gigabyte free on your device to install this app.) Good user interface, with all the bells and whistles you’d expect, and a few you might not.
GoSkyWatch Go outside at night. Look up. What the heck is that star? With GoSkyWatch, you have a planetarium inside your iPhone. Point it at the sky, and you can instantly figure out “Oh, that’s Vega! Cool!” Uses the accelerometer
Star Walk Both StarWalk and GoSkyWatch are now universal applications, running on iPhone and iPad. Maybe it’s just my personal experience with the apps, but I tend to default to using GoSkyWatch on my iPhone, and StarWalk on my iPad. StarWalk is utterly gorgeous… a few missing features, but you won’t care. Usually three bucks, on sale today for a buck. Buy it.
Google Earth Possibly the greatest toy ever. If you’ve used it on your desktop, you’re still not prepared for how utterly magical (hat tip to Steve Jobs) it is on an iPad. It’s free. Why haven’t you downloaded it?
$0.99 iPhone 4
Flashlight I have no clue how many flashlight programs there are for the iPhone. The earliest zillion of them just turned the whole screen white. This was the first of a new generation that lights up the (incredibly bright) LED of the iPhone 4 camera flash. Sucks up your battery if you leave it on too long, but it’s brighter than those keychain flashlights, and you always have it with you. There are free ones out there, but this one is nicely done and well worth a buck.
PrintBureau Perhaps the most misnamed app in the iTunes Store. Yes, it manages printing… I can print directly from my iPhone or iPad to my wireless inkjet printer. (Which Apple promised as a feature of iOS 4.2, then crippled at the last minute. It’ll probably come back someday, but PrintBureau works now.) But it also handles cloud storage, and acts as a Wi-Fi hard drive, and has an email client, and probably makes julienne fries. I can’t keep track of everything this app does, but it’s a heck of a lot more than printing.(To print, it runs a helper app in the background on your Mac or PC, which is irritating, but it doesn’t take too many resources and has never crashed my Mac.)
Dropbox Apple, will you just buy Dropbox and put iDisk out of its overpriced misery? As far as I can tell, Dropbox has become not only the default cloud-storage service for iOS devices, but is darned near the file system that iOS tries to hide from you. Integrates seamlessly with your desktop (at least on the Mac; Windows and Linux versions exist, but I’ve never used them). A great way to move files back and forth, to make backups from your portable device, to share files with other people, whatever. I feel guilty for using the free version so heavily and probably ought to buy more storage space, but 2 gigs has proven to be enough for what I do.
JungleDisk I back up all of my Macs to JungleDisk, all the time. My files live safely on Amazon’s S3 servers. If someome steals all my computers, I’ll be angry, but I won’t be out of business. (Yeah, I have the ridiculously-long S3 keys printed out in my fireproof safe.) The iOS app lets me browse and manage those files… including occasionally pulling down a new version of a presentation that I forgot to move to Keynote for the iPad. Amazon S3 isn’t free, but the JungleDisk app is.
Pandora Radio What’s there left to say about Pandora? All the music in the world, streamed to your device, free, and in (to my ears) great quality. The only drawback was that you couldn’t run it in the background, but that’s been fixed by iOS 4.2. This ought to be burned into the ROM of every iDevice in the world.
Netflix At first, it was just cool to manage my Netflix queue from my iPhone without firing up a Web browser. Then they implemented streaming, and changed the world. Watch thousands of movies and TV shows on your phone or iPad, connect it to an external TV set, pause and pick it up later… yep, this is exactly the way it’s supposed to work. No wonder Blockbuster is in Chapter 11. Or that we disconnected our cable TV service, and don’t miss it.
SoundHound Whenever you’re out somewhere and hear a song and wonder what it is… run SoundHound and give it a try. If there’s not too much background noise, it’s amazingly accurate at identifying prerecorded music, and will instantly show you lyrics and a link to buy the song in iTunes. They claim to be able to identify songs that you hum or sing into the mike, but I’ve had pretty poor luck with that. There’s a paid version if you use it frequently, but the free version seems adequate for most needs.
Myst It’s back! The game that sold a lot of color Macintoshes (yes, kiddies, Macs used to be black and white) migrated to the iPhone in fine form. The same puzzles, the same music, and the same backstory that we obsessed over back in 1993. (I basically spent a week over Christmas that year solving Myst.)It’s arguably even better with a touch interface. There’s not a separate iPad version, but the graphics look fine in 2X mode. (Warning: the app is huge, so make sure you have a gigabyte free before purchasing it.)
$1.99 Both (enhanced iPad version available)
Romi If you’ve ever played Rummikub, you instantly understand Romi. If you’ve ever played a rummy card game, you’ll understand in about thirty seconds. Nice interface (needs custom skins, though) and intelligent gameplay. Excellent execution for two bucks. The iPad version is identical except for higher-rez graphics.
Word with Friends I was so excited when Electronic Arts released Scrabble for the iPad! I bought it immediately, and it played exactly like the cardboard version. Exactly. There was a cool feature where you could “flick” tiles from your iPhone/iPod Touch to the main iPad screen, but basically, you needed to be sitting around a table with the other players. So, for four players, you’d be using $1300 worth of electronics to replace a ten-dollar board game. EA (and Hasbro/Milton Bradley) managed to miss a technological revolution named “the Internet.”Newtoy — a tiny company in McKinney, Texas — did it right. They published a modified version of the Scrabble board (to avoid copyright issues, I’m sure) and connected it to the Internet. Now you could play a Scrabble-like game with friends or strangers anywhere in the world… and asynchronously, so you didn’t have to try to coordinate schedules. If you’re both online, you might complete a turn within seconds; if not, the next turn might be hours or days later.Absolutely brilliant, absolutely addictive, and an absolutely wonderful way to spend time. There’s a free version with on-screen ads, but send NewToy two bucks. They deserve it.
$1.99 (free trial available) iPad only
Words with Friends HD Same feature set as the basic version, but even more beautiful (and easier to play) on the big screen. Again, a free ad-supported version is available but, if you play as often as I do, it’s worth two bucks. (My screen name is ‘stephenfleming’; feel free to challenge me. I will crush you.)
$19.99 iPad only
Acid Solitaire I bought this set of three solitaire card games during a brief promotional sale for five bucks. I know $20 is a lot for an iPad game, but it’s beautifully done. I’ve experimented with a few other solitaire games from other developers, but I’m glad I have this one to play.(My wife developed carpal tunnel syndrome from AcidSolitaire… you have been warned!)
$0.99 (free trial available) Both (enhanced iPad version available)
Angry Birds Saving the best for last! This is the most expensive dollar I ever spent… I’ve spent over thirty hours playing this game, which, at my loaded labor rate, it…. (mumble, mumble, mumble) a lotof money.You know the drill… you use a slingshot to fire various kinds of birds at fantastically-unlikely “forts” protecting evil pigs. Silly. Instantly accessible. Difficult to master. I’ve gotten three stars on all 165 levels, and all 17 golden eggs, but I tend to get compulsive. (Which is why I usually don’t playcomputer games!The iPad version has better graphics and it easier to play, but accomplishments on the iPhone don’t unlock higher levels on the iPad (or vice versa). Similarly, Apple’s GameCenter treats it as a completely different game, so achievements on one platform won’t translate to the other. I bought both, but found myself playing more on the iPhone just because I always had it with me. I hope the developer fixes this, once they finish wallowing in their Scrooge McDuck money room!
This turned into an absurdly long blog post (over 9,000 words), but I hope it’s useful to someone. Avoid “tl;dr” and try it in Instapaper!
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Anne Fuller says:
Thanks Steve! Great list. I’m going to add some more apps now! Just got the Ipad for Christmas and still figuring if it can replace a laptop or not…
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Ras Gobena (1821-1889)
Ras Gobena was one of the outstanding generals of Menelik during the first reign of the emperor. He was one of the prominent architects who brought about a fiscal and military integration of the south and western provinces of Ethiopia under a centralized imperial control. Gobena was born around 1821 of a noble family of Oromo in Aman, Wegda, in Shewa. He was a close relative of the Aba Mudda, a spiritual head of the Oromo. It is not clear when exactly he started his career, but he came into the picture when he rebelled against Theodros, at a time when the later was trying to bring Shewa under imperial control. When Menelik escaped from Meqedela and returned to Shewa, Gobena was one of the nobles who welcomed him and joined his service. Gobena had demonstrated his bravery, leadership and war tactic when he rebelled against Theodros, and his appointee in Shewa. In the court of Menelik he was given the office of Agafari, master of the ceremonies, who received and introduced guests to Menelik. Usually this office was given to a trusted person. Soon after his appointment, Agafari Gobena was ordered to pacify a rebellion in Meskala, southern Wollo, in which he succeeded. (Nadew, Y{-Ras Gobena Tarik, a manuscript in private hands, p. 3. Hereafter referred as Nadew). He established his Ketema (military camp) at Bisi and began to "straighten out" (Hager Maqnat), all lands up to Selale. He continued to conquer, that was Hager Maknat, in the regions of Metta, Mecha, Ada, Cebo, Gulele and Yeka, the last two regions are now in the city zone of Addis Ababa. To boost his moral and power, Menelik gave him the title of Dejazmach. At that time Menelik had only two Dejazmach (and no Ras), the other person who was given the title of Dejazmach was, Menelik's paternal uncle, Darge. Dejazmach Darge was one of the four sons of king Sahle Selasie of Shewa, a potential claimer to the throne of Shewa.
As title holder of Dejazmach, Gobena had the right to appoint his military officers with a rank of Fitawrari, and he gave this title to his best military officers and left them in charge of continuing their expansion. Dejazmach Gobena himself proceeded to get the submission of the Balabats in the regions beyond Awash river, just to mention, Dendi Maru, Weliso, Chebo, Dulal, Amya, Nono, Sodo, Agemge, Qebene, Enemor. When Menelik got the title as King of Shewa, confered by Emperor Yohannes IV in 1878, he gave a rich feast at his town, Liche, and honoured Degazmach Gobena with the title of Ras, thus enhancing further his popularity (the other holder of the title of Ras was Dejazmach Darge). Ras Gobena continued his campaign in the remaining regions in Gudru, Mecha, Jebat and Gurage. He crossed the Gibe river and brought the territories in the remote south under cetral control system.
King Tekle Haimanot of Gojjam had also sent his general, Ras Deresu, who crossed Abay and campaigned in the regions of Gudru, Leqa, part of Wellega. The Shewans and the Gojjame aristocrats were rivals in control of the regions south of Abay. In their advance into the south, the troops of Ras Deresu encountered the force of Ras Gobena that was approaching from north. Ras Gobena sent a message to Ras Deresu, to withdraw from the region leaving behind the rich ivory and other items collected. Ras Deresu complied, but King Tekle Haimanot of Gojjam was infuriated and sent a message to Menelik to settle the problem in a battle, known as the Battle of Embabo. The battle took place in 1881, and King Tekle Haimanot was defeated. During this battle, Ras Gobena employed an out manoeuvre tactic and attacked behind the rear position, which led into the Gojame army into confusion and disarray. (On the background and event of this battle, see Caulk, R. "Territorial Competition and the Battle of Embabo", in Journal of Ethiopian Studies, IX, 2.)
Once the power of the Gojjam aristocrats was removed from the scene, Ras Gobena continued his campagn in Cala, Lago Horo, Leqa, Neqemt and Sayo, some of which had submitted to Ras Deresu. In 1883, he continued his campagn in the direction of Illubabor until Gimira. Following the religious agreement among the aristocracy of Ethiopia in 1878, known as the Council of Boru Meda, Ras Gobena was ordred to establish churches in the regions where he received submission. To this effect, he gave an order to the Meslene and district governors, and he consulted with his wife, Weyzero Ayelech, who, accordingly, founded fourty one churches (See Nadew, 8-9).
In 1886, Menelik consulted Ras Gobena and appointed governors along with central troops over the vast areas "straigten out" (Y! Qena Hagar) by the later. (See, Bairu Tafla, 1987, Asme Giorgis and His work: History of the Galla and the Kingdom of Shewa. p. 757). Menelik then marched in to Arsi in which Ras Gobena participated. When Menelik set out to march to Harar in 1887, Ras gobena was entrusted guarding the town of Entoto, and he mobilized his Wellega troops and camped near Entoto. When Menelik returned he gave him a warm welcome. Soon after, Ras Gobena, together with Fitawrari Habte Giorgis marched in to the region of Gurage to suppress a rebellion instigated by a leader, who declared Jihad. They succeeded in suppressing the rebellion and Ras Gobena returned into Entoto. In 1889, the governors on the boarder of Wellega wrote a letter to Ras Gobena, that they were attacked by the Mahdist of Sudan, the letter was shown to king Menelik, and Ras Gobena left Entoto, on September 15, crossed Gibe river on the 26th, mobilised his troops and engaged war against the Mahdist on October 14. He defeated them and thus checked their advance. While in Wellega he received a letter from King Menelik informing him the intention of Emperor Yohannes to invade Shewa.
Ras Gobena advanced with his troops to Shewa, and upon consultation he was given the responsibility of guarding a route coming from Abay. While he was there, Ras Gobena received a letter from Menelik notifying him a rebellion once again in the Gurage region. He returned with his army to Entoto and the Ras accepted the order to march to Gurage region. Menelik then gave Ras Gobena as present his horse, named Raswerq Ambaye, and Gasha (shield) decorated with gold. No sooner had he received the prize, Ras Gobena left for Gurage. According to the tradition, Ras Gobena was expected to hold a banquet at his house for his followers marking the prize award, but he did not. Instead, Ras Gobena marched straight to Gurage region and crushed the resistance there and sent a message of congratulation to King Menelik. Ras Gobena heard the death of Emperor Yohannes while in campaign, he was deeply touched and he ordered his soldiers to fire into the air. When Menelik marched north to get the submission of the northern nobles after the death of Emperor Yohannes, Ras Gobena was as usual entrusted to guard the town. One day, after he returned home, passing the whole day in receiving appeals from the people, he suddenly felt ill, and died after three days of treatment. He was buried at Debre Libanos in July 1889 few months before the coronation of Menelik the II, whom he had served devotedly for so long.
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Jul 31, 2012 4:42 PMPublication: The Southampton Press
Four Former Westhampton Beach Trustees Are Covered By Village's Health Insurance Policy
By Erin McKinley
Four former Westhampton Beach Village trustees are currently receiving full health insurance benefits from the village, a perk that they are happy to have even though two said they did not know they would be eligible when originally running for the Village Board.
Arma “Ham” Andon, 93, who served as village mayor from 1986 to 1994 and as trustee from 1994 until 1996, is the oldest former board member still receiving health coverage through the village. He is joined by Ora Belle “Ridgie” Barnett, 84, who served as trustee from 1985 until 2007; Alexander Nagle, 91, who served on the board from 1967 until 1977; and Harold Williams, 83, who served as trustee from 1998 until 2004.
Their health insurance packages, which do not include dental coverage, are now costing the village a total of approximately $33,000 a year, according to Village Clerk Rebecca Molinaro. All four former trustees were older than 55, the state retirement age, when they finished serving their terms, and therefore never had to pay into their coverage plan. All four are covered by the New York State Health Insurance Program and utilize their village policy as secondary insurance.
In three years, former Village Trustee Toni-Jo Birk, who lost her reelection bid last month after serving on the board for six years—or one more than required for her to continue receiving health coverage from the village—will become the fifth former board member to be covered under the village’s insurance plan. Ms. Birk joined the board in 2006, about a year before it agreed to double the amount of time, from five years to 10, that a trustee must serve before qualifying for health coverage after leaving office—a change that Ms. Birk voted in favor of.
And because she is only 52, Ms. Birk must pay her entire premium—estimated to be about $20,000 a year—until she turns 55, according to Ms. Molinaro.
Village law now states that the mayor and Village Board members must serve at least 10 years before being eligible to receive health benefits, the cost of which will be completely covered by the village. That law applies to board members elected to serve after July 1, 2007. Unlike the four other former board members, Ms. Birk stopped serving on the board before turning 55, meaning she must continue to pay for her own coverage for the next three years.
Ms. Birk’s decision to support doubling the service time requirement while in office, and then opting to continue receiving benefits even though she does not meet the specifications of the new law, has prompted one fellow former board member, Village Trustee Hank Tucker, to demand that she discontinue her coverage.
“I am following the law,” Ms. Birk said this week. “I am going to keep them. I am paying for it, but I am no longer on the board. If the board should make a decision affecting previous elected officials, whatever they decide, I will follow.”
Up until the late 1960s or early 1970s, the village required that board members serve at least 10 years in order to receive health insurance when they left office. The term was reduced to five years for the next four decades, until the board reversed course in 2007. Ms. Birk, who is currently unemployed, said she plans to keep the village coverage as her primary insurance.
Mr. Andon, who served as mayor for eight years and then a trustee for another two, said he never knew he qualified for such a benefit until serving his ninth year of office, when someone mentioned that he was eligible. Ms. Birk also said she was not aware of the health benefits available to village trustees when she first ran for the board.
“When I ran for office, the furthest thing from my mind was what benefits I was going to be able to get from the village,” said Mr. Andon, a World War II veteran. “I wanted to serve my village.”
Mr. Andon added that he agrees with the board’s decision to increase the qualification time from five years to 10, though he noted that all former trustees who qualify should be given health benefits.
According to Ms. Molinaro, it costs the village $6,229.68 per trustee to insure Mr. Andon, Mr. Nagle and Ms. Barnett, all of whom are under the single coverage plan. Mr. Williams is under the family plan and, therefore, costs the village $14,106.84 per annum. In total, the village will spend $32,795.88 this year to insure all four former trustees; Ms. Molinaro said she does not yet know how much it will cost the village to insure Ms. Birk once she turns 55.
Westhampton Beach Mayor Conrad Teller said health benefits are a perk that all five former trustees—Ms. Birk included—have earned. He said even though she has not served a full 10 years, the law is being followed and he sees no reason to deny her coverage. “The State of New York, in its infinite wisdom, made regulations that allow towns and villages to give to people the right to have health benefits,” he said. “I don’t see the necessity for this village to immediately jump up and throw that all out.”
Fleecing of the Village. These people should be ashamed of themselves. But then again I guess we taxpayers let them get away with it but I dont remember this being public knowledge. All WHB Village officials should vote this out asap if not it will be made an issue at the voting booths.
By realistic (472), westhampton on Aug 3, 12 8:54 AM
Three of the ones identified have between 10 and 22 years of public service, I'm not sure they have anything to be "ashamed" of.
By Frank Wheeler (1826), Northampton on Aug 3, 12 9:48 AM
Of course they have medical for life they are entitled just like welfare recipients and other lazy members of society. What happened to serving the public by politicians? It's called serve themselves, free medical, patronage jobs, and a bunch of other illegal perks. If you want insight of where our town, counties, and villages are headed just google San Bernadino California and you will see the answer. The unions and politicians think they are slick with their perks. The problem is they probally ...more will never collect all of it.
By chief1 (2800), southampton on Aug 3, 12 10:22 AM
The village is not being fleeced-all these trustees, including Ms Birk are entitled to this benefit under the law when they were elected. Realistic is way out of line. He should be thanking all those who served the village.
By EastEnd68 (888), Westhampton on Aug 3, 12 10:46 AM
Thanking them for what? This Village is one of the only ones out of the hamptons who is still stuck in time. Look at the Police Chief and his compensation package. My Village taxes went up more then 10% this year and for what? For the lifetime benefits of the elected officials and a sign on bonus for the Chief who sits in his office all day long and cant control his force? I should tank them for how they handles the law suits? Are you kidding. The cost to this town for their failures will be paid ...more for by tax payers for years to come. They should be personally liable for their actions and they will think twice before they act.
By realistic (472), westhampton on Aug 3, 12 11:21 AM
aREN'T THESE FORMER TRUSTEES ALSO COVERED BY THEIR PREVIOUS EMPLOYER'S RETIREMENT PACKAGE , WHICH WOULD INCLUDE HEALTH INSURANCE IN MOST CASES. ( please excuse the CAPS button ) ? Why should they suck more money out of the Village coffers if they can acquire it elsewhere for free ?
By Bill in Riverhead (190), Riverhead on Aug 3, 12 12:07 PM
Chief Dean deserves every dime he is paid. His contract is not out of line with others in NY.
By EastEnd68 (888), Westhampton on Aug 3, 12 1:42 PM
I could not agree more. Chief Dean is an asset to the Community. He brought us cops who lie about lost guns, and those who steal them. He brought us the Kabot debacle - and the still mysterious calls to ATH & PBA morons. Cops in borrowed sports cars cruising Main St, others sleeping in the Squad cars. He covered up the Ex-QuoguePD Chiefs 7-11 rampage too. He brought us continued selective enforcement and a general Keystone Kops feel to the Village. It may be more expensive than cable - but it sure ...more is much, much funnier!
By G (342), Southampton on Aug 3, 12 2:11 PM
Bill in Riverhead
Thank you G-where else can you get all that for under $200m per year
Chief Dean is the highest paid Village Police Chief on Long Island if not statewide. Not only does he have an enormous salary, which just got 8% higher this year, he is the only Village Police Chief that receives an annual executive differential payment of +$12,000. Most Town Police Chiefs don't even receive this outrageous perk. All this money and what do the taxpayers have to show for it? The Police Department is still not accredited. while the Quogue Police force earned it several years ago! ...more The taxpayers have had to spend millions on legal fees going after one police officer after another, because this narcissistic psycho cannot tolerate anyone questioning his authority. I've heard that the recent missing gun debacle cost the Village over $300,000 and to this day no one really knows what did happen. Chief Dean was the driving force behind this sham and many more. To make matters worse, it is rumored that this guy will walk away with +$300,000 when he retires, in addition to a six figure pension and free medical benefits for life.
We can all thank the weak minded, gutless Teller, Birk and Farrell team for this colossal waste of taxpayers $$$'s. Now Birk thinks she is entitled to lifetime health benefits for her disastrous 6 years as Trustee. Not so! She was not vested when the Board increased the eligibility to 10 years. So, she has no rights vested for her 1 year prior service. Teller should be ashamed of his statements in support of this ploy to ripoff the taxpayers.
By beachgirl11978 (18), Westhampton Beach on Aug 4, 12 9:52 AM
By Phadreus1340 (144), Southampton on Aug 4, 12 10:22 AM
Yes Chief Dean will receive a large lump sum payment when he retires along with his lifetime monthly pension and medical benefits. The point is Ray earned those payments and deserves them. As for Toni's medical insurance-under the law she is owed benefits when she turns 55. Beachgirl is just jealous of those who do well in life. We need to pray for someone that sick.
On what basis have you determined that Chief Dean "deserves" this level of pay and benefits?
It sounds like you're saying that because he gets it, he deserves it.
By RealityFirst (597), Bridgehampton on Aug 4, 12 8:47 PM
East End i have come to the conclusion that you or a family member is a cop or municipal employee. There is no way anybody that works for the village should make what chief Dean makes. In fact the village police is not even needed and has become a perk which will bankrupt the village.
In the article Conrad Teller sees no problem with these benefits. Considering he has been a leach of goverment for decades how could he see any problems with these freebies. A trustee by definition is suppose ...more to be the watchdog for the public taxpayer. How is big contracts and big benefit packages helping the taxpayer? These are PIGS!!!!!!!!!!1
By chief1 (2800), southampton on Aug 4, 12 5:48 PM
We disagree about Mayor Teller-I have lived here 23 years and only know him to be a deicated employee who has served the Village well. More citizens should do as good a job and stop complaining. Again you are a very jealous individual.
Your only retort is that everyone who takes issue with these enormous pay packages is just jeleous.
Did it ever occur to you that this money comes from other members of the community? Don't they have a right to demand that they get good value for the money, or do you just throw your plumber $25,000 to fix a leak because he "deserves" it?
PS: and yes, it's quite obvious that you or someone in your family has their snout in the taxpayer funded trough. Why don't you just admit it ...more before you're outed and the reason for your position on this becomes apparent.
Aug 4, 12 8:50 PM appended by RealityFirst
jeleous=jealous
If you only knew the truth
The truth is the guys a disgrace. Beach girl said it well.
By realistic (472), westhampton on Aug 4, 12 9:29 PM
I've retired from commenting-the truth is they got their nice contracts and lifetime benefits and all your complaining can not change that. And just so you know-Toni Jo will get her benefits also.
By EastEnd68 (888), Westhampton on Aug 4, 12 10:26 PM
Jealous/ Is that all you can say? People are outraged how can a police chief in a sleepy village make more than the governer of NY? Actually we can change these so called life long perks. It's called municipal bankruptcy, and the county, villages, and towns will be forced to file in the next decade. This will make it possible to renegotiate pensions for pennies on the dollar. The last laugh will be on the pigs at the govt trough.
By chief1 (2800), southampton on Aug 4, 12 11:39 PM
PBR, captnrose
Ignoring all of the emotion, rhetoric and invective in the comments above --
Mark these two words of chief1 IMO:
"municipal bankruptcy"
Southampton Village is another village hurtling toward financial failure, perhaps years or decades from now. The actuarial curves of rising labor and legacy retirement/benefit costs (all fixed) will eventually exceed receipts (variable over time). A knowledgeable accountant could dig into this and shock us all IMO. We might differ about ...more WHEN the curves will cross, but cross they will.
Ditto for other villages, towns, cities, counties and states throughout the USA. This degenerative process has already started -- just read the headlines (this might require pulling one's head out of the sand).
The PBA in WHB and elsewhere, like many other unions, will be getting its wake-up call some day. Witness the airline pilots, air traffic controllers, etc. etc. who have lost their union packages (usually not by choice!) for one reason or another.
Greed is the basic problem, just as in the banking SNAFU of the last few years.
By PBR (4956), Southampton on Aug 5, 12 6:33 AM
The contract just reached between SC Exec Bellone and the SCPBA will set the tone for future aggreement throughout the island. It was just a matter of time before one of the "big guys" reached a different type of contract than what we have been used to hearing about. Smalller depatments throughout Long Island willl follow suit.
By Phadreus1340 (144), Southampton on Aug 5, 12 3:08 PM
The press release dated 8/2/12 can be found by Googling "Bellone Suffolk PBA game changer." Not sure if 27east will delete the URL so please see next post.
By PBR (4956), Southampton on Aug 5, 12 3:36 PM
http://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/SuffolkCountyPressReleases/tabid/1418/itemid/503/amid/2954/bellone-suffolk-pba-announce-new-contract-is-game-changer.aspx
Typical of Chief1, ranting like a headless reactionary, He is the expert on all printed here.
You don't even live in the village, yet want us to believe that you have the know how to fix al that is wrong in municipal government. I would imagine you haven't attended a town or village board meeting once in your life. The village is no where near bankruptcy and probably never will be. All of you rants are critical, NONE are ever positive on how to make things better.
Go back to your hole.
Mayor Teller admits that he has received some complaints about Birk's health insurance but states that those who complained "are not reasonably minded people". He also stated that there are some people out there who would ruin the Village. Look in the mirror Conrad, because it is you and your political crony Birk who are going to bring the Village to financial ruin. Birk's lifetime family medical benefits could end up costing Village taxpayers millions of dollars. Didn't you just lay-off 3 employees ...more in order to bring the budget in under the state mandated 2% cap?There should be a recall referendum to remove you from office as soon as possible before you do any further damage to the fiscal stability of our Village.
By surfer (3), westhampton beach on Aug 5, 12 2:25 PM
Well Mayor Teller,you are wrecking our village with these give aways. First you give our do nothing police chief a contract that makes him one of the highest paid chiefs in the state and now you want to give a 6 year trustee health benefits for life.You should be ashamed of yourself. I have to work 30 years to get health benefits and now you want give away MY tax dollars for this political payback. This Must STOP!!! I wonder what other shady deals are going behind closed doors in Village Hall. ...more Rumor has it that you funneled thousands of our tax dollars to your cousin Bo for make busy legal work. Have you no shame.
By whb paul (3), Westhampton Beach on Aug 5, 12 9:43 PM
Conrad Teller will be remember as the man who saved WHB
Eastend68. My bet is you are either the Mayor or very close to him.
East end 68. The only way to save our village is to get rid of the corrupt mayor. The crazy building inspector and police chief need to go too. Both cost our village far more then they are worth. We should disband the police department and give the building inspector functions to someone who can perform them professionally.
Taxpayers should know where there tax money is going, a dismissed alleged sign code violation that was then appealed and the 300 potential fine dismissed in village court was unnimously approved by the board to fight this dismissed case to the appelate division in Brooklyn, a fine that was already dismissed has accrued over 3000 in bills and the clock is still ticking ,thats a waste of our money, my tax money going to fight what ?
More and more of this will continue, the taxpayers need to ...more come to meetings and ask questions
By Shock (48), on Aug 7, 12 7:25 AM
Wow. I supported both Tony Jo and Conrad and now I see that they were only out for them self’s. I can’t believe that they think that it is OK to spend our tax dollars to give lifetime benefits to Tony Jo. I hope the trustees can stop this giveaway before Conrad bankrupts the village.
By wingman11978 (2), Southampton on Aug 8, 12 1:39 PM
HANG IN THERE CONRAD. IN ALL YOUR MANY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN THE KIND OF ABUSE YOU HAVE BEEN GETTING IN THEN LAST YEAR OR SO. YOU HAVE MY CONTINUED RESPECT AND ADMIRATION......YOU HAVE MORE FRIENDS THAN #()*&%$#...
By unclemilt (57), southampton on Aug 11, 12 7:25 PM
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Becirevic walks the reader through the controversy surrounding the concept and definition of “genocide,” then makes an energetic case that the term applies to the war waged by Serbian forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992–95. Her task, however, goes beyond merely justifying the label as a fair characterization of the murder of thousands of Bosnian Muslims during that conflict.
She probes deeply into the nature of the killings, focusing as much on the intent to commit genocide as on the various methods of carrying it out. She argues that destroying a people first requires dehumanizing them; in this case, the Serbs relied in part on historical myths and popular biases against the Bosniaks. But transforming ordinary people into murderers, Becirevic contends, also requires calculating leadership and the intensive use of propaganda. Ultimately, her attention turns to those present at the time of the killings — and others, much farther away — who averted their eyes at the time or later denied the truth of the episode. Such denial, she warns, contains the seeds of future tragedy.
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'''Hindustan Contessa. 1984–2005 (prod. unknown). 4-door saloon. F/R, 1817 cm³ (4 cyl. OHV), 1995 cm³ diesel (4 cyl. OHC).''' [[Hindustan]] decided to follow a model it had used before: buy the tooling of an old English car and adapt it to India. But rather than a (then-) recently deleted [[Morris Oxford]], it reached back two decades to the [[Vauxhall Victor (FE)]], mating it to [[Isuzu]] engines. Considered luxurious when India had its market very closed to imports, but outdated by the turn of the century when the Japanese entered. Never as successful as [[Hindustan Ambassador (1957–)]], with production running at a fraction of the older car’s. Series production ended in the early 2000s, though car still produced on demand afterward.
Hindustan Contessa. 1984–2005 (prod. unknown). 4-door saloon. F/R, 1817 cm³ (4 cyl. OHV), 1995 cm³ diesel (4 cyl. OHC). Hindustan decided to follow a model it had used before: buy the tooling of an old English car and adapt it to India. But rather than a (then-) recently deleted Morris Oxford, it reached back two decades to the Vauxhall Victor (FE), mating it to Isuzu engines. Considered luxurious when India had its market very closed to imports, but outdated by the turn of the century when the Japanese entered. Never as successful as Hindustan Ambassador (1959–), with production running at a fraction of the older car’s. Series production ended in the early 2000s, though car still produced on demand afterward.
Manufacturing location: Uttarpara, West Bengal, India
Marque: Hindustan
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Flight 1931-01
A Sopwith "Camel" carried on a cruiser. It may be recollected that it was a "Camel" from a cruiser which brought down a Zeppelin.
Sopwith Camel / F.1 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1916
AVANTI SAVOIA!: One of the Savoia S.55 flying-boats which carried out the successful formation flight across the Atlantic from Africa to Brazil. The decorations were not flown during the crossing
Savoia-Marchetti / SIAI S.55 - ИталияItaly - 1924
The pilot's cabin and dash of the S.55. British instruments, supplied by "Smith's," were used on all the machines.
The wireless cabin of the Savoia S.55 flying-boat. Wireless played an important part throughout the flight.
A Short Seaplane flying off the deck of the "Furious." Note that the wheels are arrested at the end of the deck.
Short Type 184/225/827/830/310/320 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1914
Fl.-Lt. P. W. S. Bulman flying the Hawker "Hart" at Brooklands "India Demonstration."
Hawker Hart - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1928
RE-EQUIPPING THE R.A.F.: Seven Hawker "Harts" with Rolls-Royce engines ready for delivery to No. 12 (Bomber) Squadron, Andover.
The arrival of the first aeroplane at Semarang aerodrome on the occasion of the opening of the regular K.N.I.L.M. daily Air Service.
Fokker F.VII / C-2 / F.XIV - НидерландыNetherlands - 1924
The Fokker F.VIIb, fitted with three Armstrong-Siddeley "Lynx," or Gnome-Rhone "Titan" engines, one of the types used both by K.L.M. and K.N.l.L.M.
The late Mr. Van Lear Black's Fokker F.VII.3m., G-AADZ, snapped at Cape Town when he flew there in 1929.
Fokker F.VII B-3m. (3 "Whirlwind" 300 h.p. engines) of the Swiss Air Traffic Company "Balair"
An incident of Lt. Koppen's pioneer mail flight in 1927, when his F.VIIb became bogged at Bangkok.
SOME PERSONAL FLYING SERVICES PERSONALITIES: Our picture shows Maj. I. N. G. Clarke (Chief Pilot), Capt. A. J. Styran (Pilot), and F. A. MaCoiser (Chief Engineer) of Personal Flying Services, Ltd., standing in front of three types of machines used by this air taxi company. These are a Desoutter, a Sikorsky S. 39 Amphibian, and a Junkers F.13 L monoplane.
Junkers F 13 - ГерманияGermany - 1919
Squadron-Commander Dunning making his first landing (on a Sopwith "Pup") on the flying deck of the "Furious."
Sopwith Pup - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1916
One of the Power Plants of the "Ente": These are Siemens Sh-14 type, of 110 h.p. each. The undercarriage consists of a horizontal Vee and a telescopic strut to the engine mounting.
Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente - ГерманияGermany - 1927
COMING OR GOING?: The "Ente" in flight. Note the plan form of the front plane.
THE FOCKE-WULF "ENTE": Note the pilot's cockpit, the cabin door, and the petrol tanks in the wing. Standing by the machine are Herr Focke and the firm's chief test pilot, Herr Edzard.
29 декабря 1927г.: Георг Вульф, один из основателей компании "Focke-Wulf", погиб, выполняя публичный демонстрационный полет на своем перспективном самолете схемы "бесхвостка" ("утка") - Focke-Wulf Fw 19.
"TAIL FIRST": In this view of the Focke-Wulf "Ente" in flight can be seen the undercarriage, the outboard fins, and the very large fin and rudder.
THE FOCKE-WULF "ENTE": Two views of the front plane. Note the slot arrangement of the elevator flaps.
THE FOCKE-WULF "ENTE": Three-quarter front view.
Focke-Wulf "Ente" 2 - 110 hp. Siemens Sh-14 Engines
TRACK ASSEMBLY OF AIRCRAFT: These two photographs show the main sections of a Blackburn "Ripon." Above the central steel tube fuselage structure with petrol tank in place, and below the wooden rear portion of the fuselage. It is chiefly to the "Ripon" that the system of track assembly has been applied at Brough.
Blackburn Ripon / T.5 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1926
TRACK ASSEMBLY OF AIRCRAFT AT BROUGH: (1) First stage, a "Ripon" fuselage on the track. (2) The next stage, the rear portion of the fuselage added. (3) Beginning of track, and "Ripons" in early stages of assembly. (4) "Ripons" nearing end of track; note overhead derrick. (5) "Ripons" nearing completion on the end of the track. (6) The final stages. In the foreground a "Ripon" ready for test flights.
VERSATILITY: The Avro Advanced Training Aeroplane, Type 626, has now been equipped in six distinct styles, which between them make the machine suitable for specialised instruction in: 1, prone bombing; 2, wireless; 3, Lewis gun (observer's); 4, "blind" flying; 5, photography; 6, Vicker's gun (pilot's). In addition, the machine is, of course, equipped for dual instruction in flying, and instruction in navigation, while by fitting floats the Trainer is suitable for instruction in seaplane flying.
Avro Tutor/Sea Tutor/Prefect / Type 621/646/626 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1929
UNORTHODOXY - ONLY MORE SO: The Bellanca "Airbus," a development of the sesquiplane . illustrated in our issue of September 12, 1930. It carries 10 passengers, baggage and 500 lb. of mail at a cruising speed of 125 m.p.h. The engine is a Curtiss 600 h.p. "Conqueror."
Bellanca Model P Airbus / 66 Aircruiser - СШАUSA - 1930
The Fokker "Super-Universal" monoplane (Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" engine), used on the Union Airways Cape Town - Johannesburg air mail service.
Fokker/Atlantic F.9 Universal / F.18 / F.XI Super Universal - СШАUSA - 1926
MOTH SEAPLANES IN CANADA: Some of the 14 D.H. Moth Seaplanes used by the Ontario Provincial Air Services, which have completed 9,297 hr. 45 min. flying during 12 months' operations last year. The machine on the right is a Hamilton all-metal monoplane.
Hamilton H-45 / H-47 Metalplane - СШАUSA - 1928
RUNNING ON AIR: A pair of Goodyear 22 x 10-4 Air-Wheels fitted to Avro "Avian" G-AACV owned by Airwork, Ltd., of Heston.
Avro Avian / Type 594/616 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1926
The Cape Town Flying Club's first Avro "Avian," which was presented to them by the "Shell" Co. Our reader writes that this club has had to close down as it was unable to pay its way without a Government subsidy.
DIESEL-ENGINED: A Ford type 4-AT, fitted with three Packard Diesel engines of 225 b.h.p. each. With these engines the machine has a cruising speed of 100 m.p.h. It carries two pilots and 11 passengers.
Ford Tri-Motor / 4-AT / 5-AT - СШАUSA - 1926
Mrs. Victor Bruce in Columbia: A snapshot, taken from another machine, of the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce flying across Vancouver in her Blackburn "Bluebird."
Blackburn Bluebird / L.1 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1924
One of types seen at Brooklands - the Vickers "Virginia" Bomber.
Vickers Virginia - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1922
The view of the Caproni 90 P.B. shows the general lines of this huge bomber
Caproni Ca.90 - ИталияItaly - 1929
This view illustrates the actual "giant" proportions of the Caproni 90 P.B., showing the landing wheels.
The arrangement of its six 1,000 h.p. Isotta engines is shown in the picture. Note the gun position on the top plane.
One of the six Isotta Fraschini "Asso" engines used on the Caproni 90 P.B. It has 18 cylinders and develops 1,000 h.p. at 1,700 r.p.m.; the weight, including airscrew hub is 800 kg. (1,764 lb.).
The Curtiss "Kingbird": An American 8-place twin-engined cabin monoplane, fitted with two 225 h.p. Wright "Whirlwind" engines.
Curtiss Kingbird / Model 55 - СШАUSA - 1929
An internal view of the cabin of the Curtiss "Kingbird." There are six comfortably-upholstered chairs, three a side with a gangway in between.
Curtiss "Kingbird" 2 - 225 h.p. Wright Whirlwind Engines
One of the Fairey "IIIF" (Napier "Lion") bombers of the R.A.F. Cairo-Cape flight (1929), at Cape Town. This actual machine crashed on the return flight.
Fairey Fairey IIIF - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1926
The Farman F.231 Light Plane (95-h.p. Renault) on which the French aviators Lalouette and de Permangle established their record.
Farman F.230 / F.350 - ФранцияFrance - 1930
Koolhoven FK-41 - НидерландыNetherlands - 1928
DECEMBER IN THE SOLENT: The photographs show, on the left, the Saro "Cutty Sark" taking off, and, on the right, alighting. Note the general "cleanness."
Saunders-Roe Cutty Sark / A.17 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1929
DECEMBER IN THE SOLENT: The pictures show the cabin specially equipped for service use.
The Fokker F.32, a large 4-engined machine (Pratt and Whitney "Hornet") developed in America, will probably be employed on the Amsterdam-Batavia route in the near future.
Fokker/Atlantic F.32 - СШАUSA - 1929
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Butler deplaning from their Gloster "Survey" machine at Wynbird Aerodrome, Cape Town, on their arrival there last April. The Gloster AS.31 machine, G-AADO, fitted with two Bristol "Jupiter" engines, it will be remembered, was flown out from England by Mr. and Mrs. Butler for the important survey work which the Aircraft Operating Co. had undertaken to carry out in Rhodesia.
Gloster AS.31 Survey - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1929
The Gloster AS.31 machine, G-AADO, fitted with two Bristol "Jupiter" engines, about to leave Cape Town for the scene of operations.
One of types seen at Brooklands - the Hawker "Tomtit" (Cirrus "Hermes"), piloted by P. E. G. Sayer
Hawker Tomtit - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1928
Saunders-Roe Severn / A.7 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1930
Корпус A-7 мало отличался от корпуса летающей лодки Southampton, но силовая установка состояла из трех моторов Bristol Jupiter IX мощностью по 485 л. с.THE SARO A.7 FLYING BOAT: Designed for open sea reconnaissance work, this machine has a metal hull of the same type of construction as that used in the Saro civil machines: Cloud, Windhover and Cutty Sark. The engines are Bristol "Jupiter IX."
FLOATS INSTEAD OF HULL: The Short "Valetta" mono-seaplane, Bristol "Jupiter" engines, can also be fitted with land undercarriage.
Short Valetta / S.11 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1930
Sikorsky S-39 - СШАUSA - 1929
Fl.-Lt. P. W. S. Bulman flying the Vickers "Viastra," one of the latest British commercial aeroplanes, at Brooklands "India Demonstration."
Vickers Viastra / Type 160 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1930
A GIPSY FLIGHT: As reported in "FLIGHT" December 12, Mr. J. E. Van Tyen, a member of the well-known firm of Van Houten, recently flew from Holland to the Dutch East Indies in a Pander. The view shows this machine during construction.
Pander E - НидерландыNetherlands - 1926
CLEAN LINES: A front view of Mr. Van Tyen's Pander (Gipsy I) showing lines very reminiscent of the Fokker Fighters.
DIESEL-ENGINED: A Towle flying boat powered by two Packard Diesel engines of 225 b.h.p. each. The machine has a tare weight of 3,400 lift, and with a load consisting of 10 gallons of lubricating oil, 90 gallons of fuel oil for six hours, and 10 people at 170 lb. each, has a gross weight of 5,805 lb. The maximum level speed is 125 m.p.h., the cruising speed 100 m.p.h., and the'sea level rate of climb 650 feet per minute.
Towle WC / TA-1 Amphibion - СШАUSA - 1928
DIESEL-ENGINES: This Verville "Air Coach" will, it is claimed, fly from Chicago to New York at 105 m.p.h. on four dollars' worth of the special fuel oil used. The maximum speed of the machine is 130 m.p.h. The Packard Diesel engine is rated at 225 b.h.p.
Verville Air Coach - СШАUSA - 1929
De Havilland Gipsy Moth / Moth X - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1928
The summit of Mount Kenya taken at 17,040 ft. by Mr. Tuckett from his Moth (Gipsy I).
Mr. Roy Tuckett is on the left, while alongside him is an official of the Port Elizabeth Club where Mr. Tuckett originally learnt to fly. The Goodyear air wheels which originally went out to Africa for Mr. John Carberry's Moth should be noted.
Capt. Latimer-Needham reflecting in solitude and silence over the downs at Totternhoe.
Lippisch / RRG Prufling - ГерманияGermany - 1926
AUTO-GLIDING: Mr. Lowe Wylde making a towed flight in his Glider at Hanworth.
Lowe-Wylde Columbus / BAC.II - BAC.IX - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1930
A Close-up of the Lowe Wylde "Auto-Glider" and its prime mover. Note the brake-controlled winch which carries the towing cable, also the "air-wheel" undercarriage
"THE END OF A PERFECT TOW": The Lowe Wylde "Auto-Glider" about to land after being towed by the car seen in the foreground.
AN AMERICAN ALL-METAL COMMERCIAL MONOPLANE: The Prudden-Whitehead low-wing monoplane, powered with three 240-h.p. Wright J6-R760 engines, and carrying eight passengers.
Atlanta (Prudden-Whitehead) PW - СШАUSA - 1930
THE "CIRRUS" IN JAPAN: The Ishikawajima training biplane, which, as mentioned in Croydon Notes recently, is now being fitted with "Hermes II" engines
Ishikawajima R-3 - ЯпонияJapan - 1930
A three-quarter front view of Brant Aircraft Co's. "Scud."
Abbott-Baynes Scud - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931
THE BOOTH BABY FLYING BOAT: Henry Booth, a well-known aeronautical designer and engineer of Freeport, L.I., has designed a new two-seater baby flying-boat, which when in production will sel for about 1,500 dols. This boat is powered with a four-cylinder 32 h.p. Johnson Outboard Marine Engine, has a wing spread of 28 feet, a top speed of 75 m.p.h., and a landing speed of 36 rn.p.h. Under test the boat reached an altitude of 8,000 feet and consumed only three gallons of petrol an hour. When fully loaded it weighs 700 pounds.
Booth flying boat - СШАUSA - 1931
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Most profitable professions are considered to be Herbalism and Enchanting in pair. You can have Enchanting only for Disenchanting skill, it will bring decent gold. Consider the fact of disenchanting all soulbound armor, not just selling them to a vendor, but I do not recommend to disenchant any kind of weapons, it is more profitable to sell it to a merchant if it is a soulbound item, or sell it on auction house if it is BoE (bind on equip).
Before work began on World of Warcraft: Classic, it was only possible for players to experience the original World of Warcraft by using private servers, which are illegal, often have stability or corruption problems, and generally are very imperfect recreations of the authentic World of Warcraft experience. As much as Blizzard has been aware of the desires of their community, until recently it seemed impossible for them to emulate Classic servers due to the technical hurdles of essentially having to run two massively multiplayer online games side-by-side. A breakthrough was then achieved that made it possible to run Classic servers on the modern architecture of current World of Warcraft servers.
If the end game feels miles away, and min-maxing is difficult because frankly, you're gonna take what you get and like it, then the focus of the game changes completely. Suddenly it's about the experience of leveling again, and hanging out with friends, and chatting with people in Goldshire (well, for purely innocent reasons anyway -- the Moon Guard server's Goldshire crew still does plenty of chatting).
Analogy: think back on riding the swings in kindergarten. Was it fun? Now, imagine going back to those swings exactly as they were, and sitting in them now, as an adult. They're too small. They don't fit. Your feet drag on the ground because they're so low to the ground. The bar over your head is low enough that you can reach out and touch it, and even at the highest the swing will go, it's only about chest high when you're standing up. It's exactly the same swing, but riding on it now is a very different experience, yes?
Apr 2, 2018 [Guide] WoW Game Tokens *****UPDATE TO WOW TOKENS***** Effective: February, 6th, 2017 You can now use WoW Tokens for Battle.net Balance when you purchase one off of the AH. You may find further information on this new update to the WoW Token System here! Trade a WoW Token for Battle.net Balance: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20542016 *****Original Version of this Guide***** Hello to all new and veteran World of Warcraft Players! Welcome to my extensive guide regarding the new World of Warcraft Game Tokens! :-) Which Patch did World of Warcraft Game Tokens launch?: The World of Warcraft Game Tokens were launched in World of Warcraft on April, 7th, 2015. When will the Game Tokens be available to World of Warcraft Players?: Game Tokens started to roll out first on realms that are serving (North America, Oceania, and Latin America). After this it had become expanding to other regions in weeks after the release of Game Tokens on North American Realms. What is the cost for World of Warcraft Game Tokens?: For Canadians the price is $25.00 CAD For New Zealand residents the price is $32 NZD ($23 USD) here, which includes 15% GST For U.S. Residents the price is $20.00 USD Where can I purchase the World of Warcraft Game Token?: You can purchase the WoW Game Token from the in-game shop. If you choose to purchase it for usage on your Battle.net Account from the Auction House there will be a new tab called "Game Time". WoW Tokens will be listed at a base price of 30,000 gold. However note though that the price for WoW Tokens can go below 30,000 gold or climb up in price. Prices are based on demand for these tokens. How much times may you use the WoW Game Token?: You may use the token ONLY on the Auction House! Once it's sold it is Soul Bound to the buyer and can only be used (1) time to redeem for game time for your World of Warcraft account. Once sold as well the seller will receive the gold they sold it for! Can I set my own price for the token when selling on the Auction House?: At this time, Blizzard has stated upon listing it onto the Auction House, A pre-set price determined by Blizzard will be the listing price. This price may go up or down pending on the sale(s) of the WoW Token in each region. You cannot at this time set your own personal price for the WoW Token! The current price you sell the WoW Game Token for in the Auction House is set at 30,000 gold. However note though that the price for WoW Tokens can go below 30,000 gold or climb up in price. Prices are based on demand for these tokens. May I buy the token if my account is inactive?: YES! The option to purchase the token will additionally be on the character select menu if your character has the gold to purchase them. May I purchase the WoW Token with my local currency?: Tokens can only be purchased in US currency at the moment. If the system is trying to use Euros, For example, it's not going to go through - or indeed, give you that option. Will Recruit a Friend Work with these tokens?: YES! They will count just like game cards for your friend you recruited! I'm getting a grey button that states "Not enough Gold", But I'm certain I got the correct amount. What does this mean?: You would get this error in question if you have enough gold if there is not enough World of Warcraft Tokens for sale on the market. In this case, Please try again later when more are in-stock. Is there a limit of WoW Tokens I may purchase per month to sell?: Yup. The limit you may sell is capped at (10) tokens every (7) days. I spent the correct amount of gold, But did not receive the token? What do I do?: Blizzard is aware of this bug and the developers have announced that the gold spent would be returned to the person(s) that purchased the token off the Auction House! You should expect it to return via in-game mail. When buying a token can I use gold from both factions?: Yes. You may purchase the token using gold from both your Alliance and Horde characters! Please note though that the gold pulled from your character(s) all come from the same realm the character(s) are on. You cannot pull gold from multiple realms at this time! May I purchase tokens using my Battle.net Balance?: Yes, If you have the sufficient funds you will be able to! Xanlorash [The Insane] Looking for more World of Warcraft Token information - Please refer to post below! Thank-you!Xanlorash3 Apr 2, 2018
Step-by-step class guides are on the way! The 1-12 Mulgore Guide is the first guide to get all the individual class steps. At the top of the guide, simply select which class you are playing and the page will dynamically update all the steps in the guide for that class (both text and images). The rest of the guides will be slowly updated overtime to include all the class steps, but you can see how it's going to work with the 1-12 Mulgore. I want to thank crazyK and his Placeholderguild for helping me out with the individual class content. They are allowing me to get the 1-60 Alliance guide done while also getting all the class steps done at the same time, so everything can be ready for Classic launch (hopefully).
There are more passive methods to gain wow classic gold, but these are slower. For example, many people choose to fish in places like Tanaris, or kill Harpies in Feralas and loot items such as mageweaves. These are rather AFK-able, but again, not as rewarding. Some people choose to favour fun over anything, and like in any MMO (massively multiplayer online game), the best way to have fun is playing games with friends or your guild. Dungeon runs with your friends provide social interaction and are definitely helpful over the long-term for your gold stack!
Good question. Me personally, when I use a new strat from somebody else, I always read thru the strat, and in the case I really need to level some pet, I then (likely) exclude strats that are mentioning things like “RNG”, “risk”, etc. But: I’m always happy (when using a new strat) when I see some detailed infos, so that I can estimate what is going to happen. But YMMV.
To get back to Classic for a bit, this is what I think is happening. Players who prefer the old ways (and full disclosure, I'd count myself among them, but to a smaller degree than most) complain/talk about the negative sides of modern WoW and Battle for Azeroth in general. While they do this they also talk about how things were better before and often mention Vanilla as a reference point. People who enjoy BfA now feel attacked by this and so they retaliate. Hence, liking Classic means you either have nostalgia goggles on or have no idea what you're talking about and will hate the same things you say you want 2 weeks after you start playing it. It's an amazing thing, where literally each side is doing to the other what they feel is being (wrongly) done to them. I feel like writing this is the most redundant thing I've ever done, and yet I also feel that it needs to be said, because it seems some people just don't get what they're doing, or at least I hope they don't (some do and are doing it on purpose but there's trolls everywhere so there's no point in even discussing them).
Why Skinning? Skinning is incredibly easy to level up while you are leveling your character. The leather that you skin will almost always sell on the Auction House (albeit not for much, but hey– it’s free gold!). Even if you don’t want to take the effort to sell the skins on the Auction House, you can simply vendor them for a significant amount of extra gold.
There is an Action Bar at bottom of the User interface. Each class starts with some skills. Every few levels, you will unlock new skills specific to your character class, these can be learned from your Class trainer. You will be introduced to one of these NPCs during one of the first few quests you complete in your starting zone, but they can also be found in many towns and each of your Faction's cities.
I'm not all that hardcore on "Classic", I want to relive the old zones and the old world and it seems like most people I'm taking to is feeling the same. We would prefer to have quality of life improvements regardless of them actually being in the game at in 1.12.2 or not. Like the "Automatic Quest Tracking" to actually track it properly without you having to actually trigger progress in the quest for it to show up would make perfect sense. It's no real need to make such a thing behave nonsensical just because it's "authentic".
Where to get materials and reagents you may ask? Buy for cheap off farmers in bulk or track Auction House lots. Get in touch with most big sellers. Communication is important here, send a whisper or write them a letter. It would be good for both of you to establish business relationships. Constant suppliers and buyers is convenient for both parties to save the time and effort.
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What All Moms of Boys Need to Know
I am a Boy Mom.
I remember thinking during the gender ultrasound of my second baby that it was certainly a girl (after all, I always dreamed of having one of both genders), and then the technician said, “It’s a boy!”.
Strangely enough, my first thought was “I get to be the Mom of 2 BOYS!!” I was so excited. I love my oldest son, and was so excited to have another boy to love.
As much as I love little boys, there are some things that are unique to raising them.
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Should We All Be Raising Gender-Neutral Kids?
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Raising Royal Babies: How Prince William and Kate Middleton Raise Prince George and Princess Charlotte
Prince George and Princess Charlotte may come from a royal family in the United Kingdom. However, their royalty parents, Prince William and Kate Middleton do not want both royal babies to receive the impeccable royal treatment. Even though they have inherited a number of luxury bedroom spreads around Kensington Palace in London, their royal parents prefer to treat them as average children.
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Female chief in Malawi breaks up 850 child marriages and sends girls back to school
Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief in the Dedza District of Central Malawi, wields power over close to 900,000 people… and she’s not afraid to use her authority to help the women and girls in her district. In the past three years, she has annulled more than 850 child marriages, sent hundreds of young women back to school to continue their education, and made strides to abolish cleansing rituals that require girls as young as seven to go to sexual initiation camps...
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Deliciously Easy Roasted Cauliflower Recipe Your Family Will Love
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Google launches ‘Project Bloks’ toys to teach kids to code
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2. Teach Your Child The Art Of Conversation.
3. Give Your Kid Books That He/She Will Understand.
4. Know The Content That Peaks Your Kid's Interest.
5. Let Your Kid's Mind Float Away Every Once In A While.
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1. Be a parent, first and foremost. That's what your kid needs most from you.
2. Proactively build a relationship with your child's teacher at the beginning of the year. Don't wait until there's a problem to sit down with them.
3. If a teacher doesn't ask about your child's strengths and interests, share those.
4. Also share anything you think the teacher should know about your kid that would help them be effective, such as that your kid is an introvert and won't often participate in whole-class discussions. (Again, hopefully they ask this question, but if not, share it.)
5. If your child complains about being bored, class being too hard, not being treated well by peers or adults, listen to your child. Don't hope it'll get better. Go to school and talk to people. Observe classes.
6. Don't be afraid of talking to the principal. Don't be afraid of making requests. You can do this kindly and thoughtfully, but your job, again, is to advocate for your kid.
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17 CLEVER WAYS TO HIDE CLUTTER IN YOUR HOME
Is clutter taking over your space? You can’t always take the “throw it out” approach to your belongings, but you can stash your stuff out of the way. We’ve found plenty of inspiration to motivate you to get organized (or at least appear that way). Check out these 17 ways to hide clutter in your home.
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Courtney Love decided to have the fate of his 16-year-old daughter Frances Bean Cobain. She wants the groom Francis was actor Robert Pattinson.The girl is a big fan of the movie "Twilight",and now as a leading man. Courtney said that they would be perfect together, despite the age difference.Love said that the young actor just charming and handsome and he certainly should get acquainted with her daughter. She does everything that this meeting took place. Source: Courtney Love will marry my daughter to Robert Pattinson.
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In Los Angeles at the age of 86 years died the most ruthless fashion critic Richard Blackwell, became famous for its annual lists of the most tasteless dressed celebrities - "Mr
The jury of the national selection "Eurovision-2009" has selected 15 participants of the Russian final, the winner of which will represent Russia at the contest in Moscow.In the professional jury of the Russian contest "Eurovision-2009" includes music and television producers: Yuri aksuta, Kim Breitburg, Alexander Dulov, Igor Krutoy, Alexander Lunev Igor Matvienko, Vladimir song arrangements were done, Konstantin Meladze, Ruben Oganesov, Larissa sinelshchikov, Maxim Fadeev and Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee for the contest "Eurovision-2009" under the government of the Russian Federation Alexander Barannikov and Chairman of the Council for humanitarian cooperation of CIS countries Jahan pollyea.As RIA "Novosti", the finalists included:Alex - "don't think about you"
To present the legendary Lenkom without Oleg Yankovsky impossible, but, alas, theatergoers clear that this will have to do.Yesterday the 64-year-old actor last appeared on stage of the home theater to play in the play "Marriage"
Darya Dontsova told the TV station Russia.Ru the detectives, who drove her to madness.When Darya Dontsova lived in Peredelkino, there was a case, after which she realized that she need to cease to exist only in the detectives and learn to live in parallel realities - closing the book, to live a normal home life wife and mom.Daria wrote another detective on the upper floor of the house, and the kids called her to dinner, cried out from downstairs
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The 5 films include Sujata, Epilogue, Audacity, Mehfuz and Shor.
Sujata is a riveting tale of a young girl, who is struggling to come out of the clutches of her tormenting cousin brother. At a very young age, she is forced to live with her cousin and his family. Herein, begins a life of incessant harassment by her cousin brother.
Even as an adult she lives in the shadow of fear. For years, she changes addresses and identities in the hope of finding freedom; but each time he hunts her down. Neither the police, nor the NGOs are able to help her. Pushed to a corner, she decides to take the extreme step.
A relationship that has already fallen apart and is just about to snap. It describes the love and intimacy, the entangling of two lives and the completely symbiotic nature of a couple.
It reflects the possessiveness control isolation, depression and desperation that a relationship can lead to, representing a cycle that needs to be broken in order to keep sane.
A thirteen-year-old girl has her first real confrontation with authority when her father forbids her to play the American dance music she loves. When she decides to take revenge, the situation escalates to become a neighbourhood scandal.
A dark comedy about parental authority, teenage rebellion, curry, whiskey, and house music.
MEHFUZ
In an ambiguous space and time. The city has turned mad, as violence has taken its toll. But, far away in the sounds of silence at the border of the town, a man takes care of all the death around. He drags away this usual routine with every passing night.
One night, he notices a strange woman wandering on empty streets. As her behavior changes, so does his journey.
SHOR
Lallan and Meena, a couple from Banaras, are consumed by their pursuit to survive in the city of Mumbai. Meena takes up a job in a sewing factory.
One day over a phone call, they find each other while embracing death, divorce and redemption. It takes the darkest hour of our life, the fear of death, to regain our consciousness back in to life. To find the beauty that is lost in our relentless angst towards an unyielding life.
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Title: Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the 90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion
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Author: Maureen Callahan
Publisher: Touchstone (September 2, 2014)
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A glittering history of fashion in the 1990s, told through the lives of Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen—the three iconic personalities who defined the time.
The 1950s had rock ‘n’ roll and the 60s had the Beats. In the 70s and 80s, it was punk rock and modern art. But for the 1990s, it was all about the fashion—and Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Alexander McQueen were the trio of rebel geniuses who made it great.
Veteran style and pop culture journalist Maureen Callahan takes you back to the 90s, to the moment when supermodel glamazons gave way to heroin chic, the alternative became the mainstream, and fashion became the cradle for the most exciting artistic and cultural innovations of the age. Packed with dishy stories of some of the most celebrated personalities of the day, Champagne Supernovas gives you the inside scoop from designers like Anna Sui and Isaac Mizrahi; scenesters like Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and Sassy magazine’s Jane Pratt; plus a bevy of supermodels, stylists, editors, photographers, confidantes, club kids, and scenesters.
They’ll discuss why Kate Moss and Johnny Depp broke up, how Marc Jacobs came through the crucible of the AIDS crisis, and what really drove Alexander McQueen to suicide.
Steeped in the creative brew of art, decadence, and genius that defined the era, Champagne Supernovas gives you front-row tickets to a gloriously debauched soap opera about the losers and freaks who became It Girls and Boys, and changed the world in spite of themselves.
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Maureen Callahan has worked as an editor and writer at the New York Post, covering everything from the subcultures of the Lower East Side to local and national politics. She has also written for Spin, New York magazine, Vanity Fair, and got her start at Sassy, which was her bible as a teenage girl growing up on Long Island. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Honey Talks About The Secret Of The Waterwheel
March 1, 2011 · Posted in Notes from Above Ground
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste.)
Today I walked with other elderly women in Elysian Park. There was snow on the San Gabriel Mountains. The scent of green weeds was evocative and for a moment I was a child again, because I grew up not far from where we walked, on the other side of the Los Angeles River.
At one place, we descended a steep dirt path through the brush into a small valley. I was happy. The action of descent made me happier. I remembered June 6, 1968, when I was 22 years old, and I said out loud “I descend.”
In 1968, my husband Jalal-addin, our children, our servant Kaymak and I lived in the village of Degirmendire on the Gulf of Iznik in Anatolia. Degirmendire is a version of the word for mill.
There was no mill when I lived there, but a strong creek ran through the middle of the village – into which the Turks and gypsies threw everything — so there may have been a mill to grind grain there at one time, and the mill would have been run by a water wheel.
Iznik is the Turkish word for Nicea. Every child who goes to a Christian church school learns the Nicean Creed.
Nicea primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea, the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Christian church, the Nicene Creed, and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea. It served as the interim capital city of the Byzantine Empire between 1204 and 1261, following the Fourth Crusade in 1204, until the recapture of Constantinople by the Byzantines in 1261.
The Turkish word for Anatolia is “Anadolu.” It means full-of-mother. The first sedentary people, still hunter-gatherers, built an astonishing temple in a circular shape 4,000 years before Stonehenge at Gobekli Tepe (Belly-button Hill). The remaining first agricultural city, Catal Huyuk (“Forked Mound”) is in Anatolia.
I was from Los Angeles, where I had purchased clothing at department stores and bought food from supermarkets, and I was living in a very ancient place. A man on a donkey brought milk in metal containers, which I poured into a metal bowl and boiled for my children. We had no telephone. We had no television. I swept the apartment with a broom that had no handle, bending at the waist. My little girls gathered cherries in the spring by standing next to the gypsies’ ladders. The gypsies filled their aprons with fruit and hung strands of cherries over their ears. The children pretended they were earrings. We once drove past a road repair on the way to Degirmendire, and the workers were hoisting a head of a Roman emperor from the excavation.
We lived in a new cinder block apartment building, but I was so accustomed to having nothing go right or be simple that I had lived there for three months without realizing the landlord had just forgotten to have the water turned on, so I’d been without a bath for three months by the time he stopped by for the rent.
We lived in a marshy area, full of mosquitoes, and slept under netting on a wire coiled bed frame the coils of which unwound several times a night, so that my husband and I woke, fixed the springs, and fell asleep.
I took my daughters swimming in the Gulf of Iznik until an American officer from the Karamursel base nearby asked us to get out, didn’t we notice the toilet paper floating around us? There was no sewage system. I hadn’t known there was such a thing as a place without a sewage system. When the girls grew up and had tests before they had their own children, the tests revealed they were immune to everything because of exposure to everything. Cheliklenmish, the Turks say, turned to steel because of adversity.
My servant was Kaymak Gundogan. Kaymak is the word for the skin of cream on milk. She had white skin and blond hair. Gundogan means the day is born. She wore a head covering and shalvar pants under a cotton dress, and thick stockings.
Kaymak was my age. I loved her but she was often angry with me because I was an idiot. I didn’t understand a thing, she’d say. She was always right. I was a stupid young woman.
Kaymak was really a villager. She wasn’t a fake villager. Her hands were as rough as a cat’s tongue. She was also the most intelligent person I have ever met until recently. She came to me illiterate, and I taught her to read and write in two weeks. She learned arithmetic after that and as rapidly. We didn’t get to algebra or calculus, which had been my favorite subjects in high school. She had never seen faucets that turn on hot water but she learned how to figure out the electrical system in the apartment, which occasionally burst into flames. She learned how to tell time.
Winters were very cold. We huddled together in front of the wood burning stove. Our cat, Suleiyman Bey, got too close to the stove and ran out into the snow. It took Kaymak and me a week to find him.
In spring, I looked out my window and saw what I at first thought were snow flakes. They were blossoms from all the fruit trees in Degirmendire.
I saw the sheepherder in the fields near our apartment building, and kneel, head to the ground, cap brim turned to the back of his head.
The submariner was a drunk. You had to be a drunk to be a submariner. At his wife’s birthday party, he stood on the table and pissed all over the birthday cake. We sometimes found him in a ditch near the village – and sometimes that ditch was full of water — singing the Kazachok, which is the song that comes through the French as “Those were the days my friend. We thought they’d never end.”
All night long, every night, his wife sat on her balcony in our village and played the ancient songs on her oud, which was Orfeo’s instrument during ancient times, millennia before Turkish speaking people arrived in Anatolia, before their language supplanted the indigenous languages. She played until dawn. I stayed awake for her and never spoke to her. She knew I listened all night.
A woman sat on her porch with a waiting cat. She held a bird in her hands, a real bird, and she removed the bird’s feathers and gave the bird to her cat. An old woman dressed in black sat in a boat in the Gulf, and Charon took her to the other side.
On that June day, I took my string bag and walked to the village to buy groceries. The gypsies had set up stands. They sold the first cucumbers, the first parsley and purple eggplant. I bought vegetables and a bottle of Coca Cola. (“Her Shey ile Gider.” It Goes with Everything.”)
I had just translated Yunus Emre’s poem into English. Years later, a small magazine published it after we left Turkey.
My name is the suffering water wheel
My water flows “yalapyalap ”
Like this commanded:
I suffer. I descend.
I am cut from the branch of a tree
How sweet was my pain
I am the Mevlana’s prayer (Mevlana Jalaladdin-al-Rumi)
My arms were torn from a tree.
Violation is plain.
I am a tireless minstrel
Y Yunus (the poet’s name), those who come from here can’t laugh
A human being cannot attain desire
No one stays in the mortal world
I fell in love with descending
I fell in love with the Sufi way
My name is suffering
The water flows through me yalapyalap
God mandates the flow of water
For Him I descend
“yalapyalap” is typical Turkish. It’s the sound that’s important. Many Turkish words imitate what something sounds like. This is the sound of the water that drips from one level of the water wheel to the next. Think of the sound: yalap.
The baker ladeled out hot bread with its thick hard crust and its tender inside for us and handed it to me through a window in the firing door and said, “Health to your head,” which means that someone dear to you has died, and you are sorry. I ran as fast as I could along the water’s edge towards home.
Kaymak was hanging on the gate to our building like a fool, half on and half off the gate. Her head covering was undone and her hair was exposed.
“Bobby Kennedy is shot,” she said.
“What’s that to you?”
“You are an idiot. You understand nothing. You live in books.” I pulled her into my arms but it was like embracing a rock, she was so stiff with emotion.
“This time is turned to shit. Birds will fall from the sky. This place will be despoiled. The Kennedys meant we had hope for the world. We have no hope. The world is lost.”
We listened to the American radio station broadcast from Karamursel, the American base. I translated what the announcer, Johnny Grant from Hollywood, said. Bobby Kennedy died.
I drove Kaymak and the children back to Istanbul. I saw people throw their clothes in to the Golden Horn. I saw my husband on the old bridge. He threw his American jacket into the Golden Horn. Scarves and clothing ballooned with air.
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Here is our regular focus upon a spectrum of ministries that are connected with the Association, and for each there is a PowerPoint to download for use within services at the bottom of the article.
Ramridge Baptist Church has served the Ramridge estate and north east Luton for the last 60 years. Our community consists of a diverse mix of ages, nationalities, backgrounds and faiths and, although we are a small church, we seek to provide a distinctively Christian voice within this mix.. ..... cont'd
full prayer focus + PowerPoint download click here: http://centralba.org.uk/prayer-focus-11-ramridge-baptist-church-luton/
David & Christine Wheatley minister on a needy estate of about 1700 homes on the edge of Letchworth. With only a handful of folk in the church in full time employment, Home Mission helps to keep this vital work going. You can see more on this years Home Mission video at centralba.org.uk. . ..... cont'd
full prayer focus + PowerPoint download click here: http://centralba.org.uk/prayer-focus-10-kings-community-church-letchworth/
Prayer Focus 9 Carey Baptist Church Hemel Hempstead
Carey has just celebrated 340 years of Baptist witness in Hemel Hempstead. We celebrated in some style with food from around the world and with a special anniversary cake made by Jailza from Brazil, who has been recently joining us, with her son, at Sunday worship.. . ..... cont'd
full prayer focus + PowerPoint download click here: http://centralba.org.uk/prayer-focus-9-carey-baptist-hemel-hempstead/
Prayer Focus 8 Breachwood Green Baptist Church
Located near to the perimeter of Luton Airport, the church is a C19th listed building, and the congregation’s roots are linked with the activities in the area of John Bunyan in C17th.
Congregations usually number between 16 and 25 with a mix of ages. Café Church is a more recent occasional experiment, and Christingle and Toy Sunday services are shared with the local Anglicans. . ..... cont'd
full prayer focus + PowerPoint download click here: http://centralba.org.uk/prayer-focus-8-breachwood-green/
Prayer Focus 7 Aston Clinton Baptist Church
At ACBC we have our phones alarms set for 9.38 to remind us to pray to the Lord of the harvest for workers to enter the harvest fields. [Matthew 9.38]. At Aston Clinton there is a growing harvest field, years ago the church building stood in isolation now it is surrounded by new housing, the village and surrounding area vastly swelled by housing developments. We celebrate our 200th year of founding in June 2020 . ..... cont'd
full prayer focus + PowerPoint download click here: centralba.org.uk/prayer-focus-7-aston-clinton-baptist-church/
Prayer Focus 6 Tilehouse Street Baptist Church Hitchin
We have a long history; this year we have celebrated our 350th anniversary and have much to give thanks for. But now we look forward and are trying to discern, “Where do we grow from here?” Between 35 and 45 folk meet on a Sunday morning; the majority of whom are retired which brings its challenges. But we have good links with the community through hiring out our extensive premises. ..... cont'd
full prayer focus + PowerPoint download click here: centralba.org.uk/prayer-focus-6-tilehouse-street-baptist-church-hitchin/
Prayer Focus 5 Broadmead Baptist Church, northampton
WE have now been in our brand new church and community building for five months after being homeless for a little while. It has been a busy but exciting time. We are holding three gatherings on a Sunday to fit everyone in downstairs while we wait for the work to be completed on the auditorium, along with the rest of the first floor. The new building has seen us grow by about 40-50 people on a Sunday but more than that is the engagement and use by the local community..... cont'd
full prayer focus + PowerPoint download click here: http://centralba.org.uk/prayer-focus-5-broadmead-baptist-northampton/
Prayer Focus 4 Princes Risborough Baptist Church, Bucks
Princes Risborough Baptist Church was established in 1707, since then it has known times of growth and times of struggle. Currently our average Sunday morning attendance is 35 to 40 people. We are optimistically looking to God for growth. In addition to Sunday worship we hold a Toddler Group which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and we aim to build relationships with the families that attend.... cont'd
full prayer focus click here: prayer-focus-4-princes-risborough-baptist-church
Prayer Focus 3 Gretton Baptist Church, Northamptonshire
Gretton Baptist chapel is part of a vibrant village with a population of around 2000 and we are very much part of the community. We have strong links with the school and St. James’ parish church and our room is regularly used by groups from the village. The big services around Christmas, Easter, harvest and Remembrance Day are always extremely well attended and while our regular congregation has grown over the years... cont'd
full prayer focus click here: prayer-focus-3-gretton-baptist/
Prayer Focus 2 Well Street United Church, Buckingham
Well Street United Church is a local ecumenical partnership of Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Church, in the town of Buckingham. Our motto is ‘Putting the King at the Heart of Buckingham’. We have a small building in the town centre, which we use during the week, and we meet for worship in a local school on Sunday mornings. We also have three Methodist chapels in nearby villages that are linked to our church cont'd
full prayer focus click here: Prayer Focus 2 Buckingham
Prayer Focus 1 London Colney
London Colney Baptist Church is a Home Mission Church with a weekly congregation of 20 people. Despite our small number we are grateful that everyone is able serve in one way or another. We host the Churches Together Food bank (twice monthly) which has x3 teams of volunteers from all four local churches, a weekly Toddlers Group and have a Flowers Ministry.
full prayer focus click here: Prayer Focus 1 London Colney
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Vince sat there, watching the television produce the news broadcast about his "partner", so to speak. 'Most of this has to be bullshit,' he thought. Although the "Wilton Research Center" sure did sound familiar...
...sounds of medical equipment...fear...the stingy smell of sweat...soreness...pain...alarms...
He snapped back into today as the memories broke apart, jumbled up by the following weeks. Oh yes, Vince remembered...
He'd been in the Infantry...Marine Corps. 531 Division, Company A, Squad 3. Any hotspot the government wanted as cold as the void, they called on the 531st. And the boys did it. They were nothing but ice and steel...nobody among them was the exception. Above all moral and legal obligations, the 531st did what they were told. For months, and months, and months...but everyone had their day. And not the good kind of day, either: more like the kind that ends with you screaming as your intestines swell up and squeeze your stomach like a balloon about to bust, ready to release acids into your already-dying body.
As such, here they were: rumbling through the sandy badlands of another nameless lump of gas and rock, trampling an insurgent camp under their collective, ass-kicking boots. The 531 we're doing a good job, considering the insurgents were surprisingly well armed. The 531 came across many wielding static-charged carbine rifles; laser-aimed, CO2-propelled mini-grenade "hand-cannons"; and several .20-caliber pistols bolted into mounts allowing the shooter to fire around corners. But the trucking feet of the 531 kept on trucking, mucking up the sandy dirt with the blood of radical insurgents.
It didn't take the insurgents long to pull out the heavy stuff: explosives, acidic explosive, bioexplosives...the kind of things that don't just kill men, but put them in screaming, shallow graves filled with their own tainted blood. A grave Vince had almost fallen in...
...Vince cursed as he looked down, feeling the space on his neck. The black "pimple" had sprouted bigger spider-legs, one large one reaching up his neck. He felt it's alien pulse dance with his own...and he almost heard a voice calling - no, whispering - his name. He'd have to fix himself...soon.
His eyes listed back to the TV, boredom daring to sink in. 'We all have pasts...good, or bad, we all have 'em...'
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Jocelyn turned the water off to the sound of the TV still blaring. She wrapped the towel around her body, and wiped the fog from the mirror. Her exaggerated make-up was gone, and left her plain yet pretty face untouched by anything unnatural. She wrapped her long blond hair around her hands, and pinned it up with a claw. She reached over into her bag and pulled out a fresh pair of underwear and a bra, and began to dress. Her jeans and white t-shirt looked inconspicuous enough. She then let her hair back down and began to vigorously dry it with the towel, bending over to allow her hair to come over her head as she rubbed the towel through the long wet strands.
Running a comb through it, she was done, and walked out of the bathroom.
"Shower is empty if you want it. By the way, my name is Katie. What's yours?" She extended a hand to the mystery man sitting, watching TV.
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Vince, absentmindedly hearing the water-pipes sloshing the bath water, heard the noticeable stoppage of water as the shower cut off. For several minutes, the lady rummaged around, 'Probably doing the things ladies do after a good shower.' He knew he had to get a fix, or he'd be useless and probably dead soon. He reached into a hidden pocket in his jacket, and produced a vial/hypospray combo. He quickly skirted his pants leg up, and jammed the hypospray's convenient clip into his boot. He covered the boot back up, satisfied with the deception.
A few minutes more passed before the bathroom door opened, revealing the blond haired, blue-eyed beaut he had brought along. The TV's depiction of her was very harsh; they made her look like a druggie addict on the last few years of her life.
"Shower is empty if you want it. By the way, my name is Katie. What's yours?" she said, reaching the couch and extending her hand to him. Vince extended his own hand, lightly grasping her still-damp hand. He hoped he could trust her; "Name's Vincent...Vince will work, tho." He released her hand, noting how hot to the touch she was. "You look fuglier on TV," he said, motioning to the TV as he smiled in a cat-like way. She was also quite hot physically, but he'd manage to get over that. Most of the ladies he "played" with had some decency about them; at least, when he was sober. He had stopped the whole "wine and woe" routine when he had encountered Miss "Alexandria Victorvich". He mentally shuddered at the thought.
He sniffed his right armpit quickly, covering up the motion by nodding towards the shower as well. "Leave me any hot water, Katie? Seeing how much steam is still coming from there, I'd be willing to bet not," he said, getting up, the wood of he couch sighed, relieved at the removal of his weight. He stripped himself of his coat; even though Sam and Jude rested within, he didn't care. It wasn't like she could turn him in, could she?
"Well, you best hope that there's some left for me, or I'll be snappin' at you with a cold, wet towel," he said, a hint of teenager-ish glee in his voice. He took his poor shirt off as he walked to the bathroom, flinging it into the trashcan where her wig now resided.
"Wait! What did you mean by the television?" She asked, a look of puzzlement on her face.
"You're wanted for murder, you know that right..... Katie?" He replied with a suspicious tone at the end, implying that he didn't believe her name was Katie.
"I am?" She asked, eyes gazing to the floor. "But, you're not going to turn me in, are you?"
Vince chuckled honestly, a gruff yet tender sound that he found mildly surprised him. "Turn you in? Oh, let's see...I know one of the biggest underground crime lords, who's probably sending some of his most lethal killers to get me..." he chuckled again. "No, Miss Katie...or whoever...I can't turn you in. The minute I do, I've got 10 eyes and three sniper scopes on my skull." Vince's hand planted itself on the bathroom door, gently creaking it open. The warmth of the air inside comforted him.
"No, ma'am - the last thing I want to do is turn you in," he said, facing the bathroom. His head turned to face her, however. "And knowing that you can't ass rape me by turning me in...makes me feel a lot better." He grunted, and stepped into the bathroom. "Not like you'd do that anyway, right?" Before she could answer his half-sarcastic question, he let the door rest up to the frame, where it sat just barely cracked. Now inside the cozy bathroom, he quickly pulled his boots off, placing the hypospray on the sink. He unbuckled his belt, letting his pants drop to the floor. First thing's first, Vinnie, he thought as he pulled the pants over his feet, letting them land in a crumpled pile.
Now in nothing but his boxers and socks, he reached for the hypospray, and carefully placed it onto the black "pimple" on his neck. He took a few deep breaths, and then punched the button, fire seemingly erupting under his skin as the toxins worked through his biological pipes.
He coughed as his blood pressure skyrocketed. His mind began to hallucinate as his pulse thudded against his bony skull. His face was already turning red; but he yet remained as quiet as he could be, even as his grip tightened on the sink's edge. He could distantly hear his joints popping as his muscles flexed, trying to fight against the only "antidote" to the infection.
An eternity spread itself out over the course of about ten seconds that were blissful agony. Finally, however, things returned to normal. Sweating and panting, Vince dumped the hypospray into the trash bin. Now dropping his boxers and popping off his socks, his mind quickly cleared as he pulled the shower curtain away, stepping inside the white, plain shower.
A rush of water followed the curtains return it's extended position as Vince turned the dials, the experience merely seconds ago already fading from his short-term memory.
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Jenna stuck to side ally ways and service streets as she made her way north, hoping to avoid any more run ins with bounty hunters. After walking 8 blocks, she found herself in another public square, where there seemed to be a rather large gathering of people. Wondering what was going on, Jenna easily slid into the mass of people, and pushed her way near the front to try to find out what was happening.
"This is insane!" someone within the crowd cried out.
"Yes, this is unprecedented, locking us in like dogs!" said another.
"Maybe they are going to kill us all, I heard that it has happened on other colonies!" a panicked voice said.
"Hey, what's going on?" Jenna asked one people gathered.
"You don't know? They say a lockdown has happened. Yep, this whole area is locked down and there is no word why. Plus, some are saying that a whole lot more coppers and even soldiers are moving in. If we don't get some information soon, I fear a riot my tear this entire city apart." the stranger answered.
Vaessen quickly backed out of the crowd and sat down on a nearby bench.
"Great, a lockdown. This day keeps getting better and better..." she sighed, thinking over her next move.
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Avarice S&TC Entrance
Status: Alert
No Sign of Target
Seconds had passed since the terrible screams of Alpha Team had sounded over the joint radio network. Beta Team had put themselves on the alert instantly, and now all guns were trained on the glass panels that formed the front of the main building of the Avarice Science and Technology Center. The two Armoured Personnel Carriers, each with twin MG76 Gattling Guns, were given the green light to open fire at their own discression.
Bishop, the assigned leader of Beta Team, was growing increasingly tense. Countless battles had passed across his eyes. He had seen ten of thousands of comrades perish in the most unsettling of ways, he had seen nations fall and he had seen them rise. He was a seasoned veteran beyond any dispute. 46 years old, with sprouts of grey in his dark hair, Bishop was eleven years over the maximum limit that Avarice soldiers were allowed to be before they were removed from frontline service, yet there he stood, the most competent and deadly soldier known to the colony, ready to exchange hatred with another enemy.
However, none of this comforted the decorated warrior. This wasn't a usual case of a terrorist occupation, or an escaped convict, which was what he found himself doing more and more those days - infact, he wasn't sure what he was dealing with. Alpha Team were elite soldiers in their own, and to hear them scream for mercy amidst their own panicked gunfire had shocked Bishop to the core. Just what was he dealing with? He would ask himself this question many times that evening.
'Sir, I request permission to scout the Center's central Lobby.' Asked one of his squad members. A young and eager addition to Avarice's Emergency Forces.
'Denied. It's too dangerous.' Replied Bishop sternly. 'You know your post.'
The soldier sighed and walked off, disapointed that he could not prove his bravery.
Then, Bishop's personal radio link with AEF (Avarice Emergency Force) flashed up inside his visor. The technology in his combat helmet read his neurological request to activate the link, and static hissed into his ears.
'This is Bishop, I'm picking up distortion.' He said, pressing his mouth piece closer to his lips.
A muffled voice responed. 'Someone or something is interfering with the radio frequancy.'
'Do you think its the target?'
'Possibly. Reinforcemnts are enroute, ETA 30 minutes.'
'30 minutes?' Snapped Bishop. 'You heard what happened to Alpha, if that thing comes out here, we might not be able to contain it.'
'I understand. What are your advisements, Bishop?'
'First of all, I need to know what the heck this thing is.'
'I told you, that's classified.'
'Damnit colonel, do we have a chance?'
'What are your advisements?'
Bishop sighed. The colonel knew exactly what his team was dealing with, but the immoral workings of the AEF's chain of command was comparable to a cloak and dagger complex. The grunts were merely pointed in one direction and told to do their best. Twenty years ago, that sort of behaviour would have Top Brass engulfed in a flame of public outrage.
'Air strike. If we fail to contain the target before reinforcements arrive, the center and the surrounding area needs to be obliterated. Its the only way.'
'Understood.'
'You were going to do that anyway, though, weren't you colonel?'
'Affirmitive.'
Bishop terminated the transmission, and cursed to himself. His team members cast glimpses back at him as they eagerly scanned the Center for signs of movement. They knew something was wrong, Bishop never acted like that unless he had something to be pissed off about.
Walking over to the nearest APC, that was parked parralel across the top end of the Center's elaborate courtyard, Bishop looked up at the gunner.
'If you see something move, blitz the fuck out of it. Use the side-winders as well if we have to, I want the front of that building lowered to the ground. Understood?' He said coldly.
The gunner nodded.
Meanwhile, the rest of Beta Team were getting more tense. Some moved closer to the front, taking cover behind trees and thick hedges to get a closer look. They were eager to avenge the fall of Alpha Team, but they also knew Bishop would never permit a frontal assault. They would need to sit there, and await whatever it was to attempt to make its escape.
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Jocelyn sighed a sigh of relief and decided it was time to take a look around. She could hear her stomach growl, and decided she would start in the kitchen. Although there were plenty of canned goods, there was absolutely nothing in the fridge. So, she grabbed a can of raviolis and opened them, placing the contents in a bowl and putting them both in the microwave.
As the food heated up, she walked back through the rest of the house, looking in drawers and closets for anything of use. There was nothing but a few extra sheets, and some cobwebs. She then remembered there was a garage attached to the house. Opening the door, she was surprised to see a Yamaha R1, with the keys in it.
"Perfect!" She said aloud, as she walked back into the house, to grab her food.
The shower spread thin, erratic veins of water across Vince's body, it's more-than-warm temperature soothing the muscles closest to his skin.
After working with the shower gel and shampoo for ten minutes, Vince's mind began to drift, his body enjoying the relaxing spray as his mind returned to a more...worse time.
He remembered how she - Naomi - had taken care of them after the Cadence crashed. Before Belgur's men had found them and transported them. Before...
...he remembered her tanned skin, so beautiful in the brazen sun. She was definitely of Asian descent; but there was no mistaking the Russian and Greek heritage in her, either. Sometimes, he thought that she cared for him too...but he never did find out. When Belgur's men came, they decided she was a "liability", and stole her off separate from Vince and Ahab. Vince had wanted to die, but Belgur had other plans...plans that now meant nothing.
All he could see was her face, twisted in agony as two burly cyborgs dragged her away, into the underbelly of their own ship. She did not cry out, nor did she cry at all: but there was something deeper, something that she tried to direct to the then barely-conscious Vince with all her heart.
He could barely remember that face...
He took a moment to regain his composure. His mental clock told him he had been in the shower fifteen minutes: long enough. Turning the knobs to the closed position, Vince stepped out and grabbed two towels; one for his head, the other for his body. It didn't take him long to dry himself off, since he didn't have as much concentrated hair as Katie/Whoever-she-was. Nevertheless, he had forgotten one major thing that, for the moment, prevented him from leaving the bathroom.
He creaked the door open, popping his head through. Although he could see her, he could smell food: didn't smell half bad. "Hey, I hope you're not eating...'cause I kinda left my bag beside the couch. Just let me know if you don't mind me going Roman and wearing a towel as I run over and get it, or if you want to get it for me." He leaned his head towards where he thought the kitchen was. "Or, if you want, you can just close your eyes. I won't hate you if you take a peek, though - we're adults, after all," he said, a light, playful smirk on his face.
Jocelyn popped her head out of the kitchen, laughing.
"I'll get it for you. Are you hungry?" she asked, walking towards the living room to grab his bag. "Here ya go," she said, handing the bag to him.
"So, food?" She asked, as she turned back towards the kitchen.
(ooc: sorry so short. Didn't really know what else to do. lol.)
Vince took the bag, and quietly left the door very thinly cracked. "What kinda food are we talking about? Hey, no - scratch that. Fix me whatever it is, I'm fucking hungry." Tossing the towel over its little bar, Vince leaned over and unzipped the bag. From within he pulled out a sleek black button-up t-shirt, with gold and blue vertical stripes. He also pulled out blue boxers, tan carpenter pants, plain white socks, and jet-black military boots. "Niiiiiice," he uttered out loud.
After a couple minutes of fiddling around, he finally made his way out of the bathroom, hair still damp. He sniffed the air gently, in one big swoop. Even though the 'bad guys' were getting closer and closer, Vince could see himself living in a place like this, a place so homely and warm. It reminded him of a simple life...something far more simple than nowadays.
He turned his head towards the kitchen - the source of the smell. "So, what's cookin', miss?" he asked, hoping she could hear him. "I'd like to know because...well...we probably wont be able to stay for too long. God knows whose following us - and how close they are." He sighed, and shook his head. "So, um, what are we eating before we leave, eh?"
"Ravioli's good?" She asked, handing him a bowl with fork. "I hope so, cause it's pretty much all they had." She added, taking a bite from her own bowl.
"By the way, I looked in the garage. There is a motorcycle, with the keys in it. We could probably use that to get to your ship." She sat down on the couch, and quickly finished her bowl of the canned pasta. She knew he was right. They couldn't stay there long.
It wasn't five minutes after that, that the distinct sound of a car pulling up could be heard.
"Did you hear that?" She asked, looking at Vince, who had also stopped chewing due to the sound. His head perked up towards the front driveway.
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How Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Survived The Recall
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is the only governor in history to survive a recall.
The unions put up $21,000,000 to defeat him, his family was confronted in the supermarket and the media was not his friend.
Here's how the New York Times reported the victory back on June 5, 2012: "Gov. Scott Walker, whose decision to cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers set off a firestorm in a state usually known for its political civility, easily held on to his job on Tuesday, becoming the first governor in the country to survive a recall election and dealing a painful blow to Democrats and labor unions."
"With 53 percent of the vote," the Times continues, "Mr. Walker soundly defeated Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, the Democrats’ nominee in the recall attempt, who had 46 percent, with most precincts across the state reporting results."
Scott Walker stood up to the vicious attacks organized by the left and funded with tens of millions of dollars for one reason.
Principle.
His principle was supported by his conviction and courage.
How did he survive the assault?
What reinforced him most during these very difficult times?
Walker, in an exclusive interview with Stephen K. Bannon, says the wild political ride he endured to fix his state was born out of an earnest desire to change what he calls a "vicious cycle" between unions who would "use their funding to campaign for candidates that would govern in ways that helped increase the unions funding."
He says, "No one in that equation stands up for the hard working taxpayers."
Understood by all conservatives.
Out of principle and conviction he chose the proverbial road less traveled---he launched an effort to reform.
Bannon says, "The struggles for reform sparked an immediate backlash from union groups across the country, who flocked to Wisconsin and created a political chaos reinforced by an extreme lack of cooperation on the part of Democratic legislators who temporarily left the state."
I remember it well. Their departure delayed key votes by the legislature---all in an attempt to subvert the reform.
Walker says that at the time, he thought the drama was a joke or a movie.
He says vicious activists would track down his mother who was in her 70s and his son who was then 16 and confront them while they were shopping at the supermarket.
Those who opposed him would camp out in front of government buildings to impede traffic and the flow of government business. He says the union push was a "precursor to the Occupy Movement."
And he says the history of it has softened, but it is still "vivid" in his memory.
Ultimately, the unions failed.
Walker won. So did Wisconsin.
The result of his reform became very apparent and obvious. The schools showed marked improvement and property taxes were reduced at the end of the year.
Walker says, "People could see for themselves that life was better in Wisconsin."
How did he have the political and personal strength to stand during this historic and traumatic time?
He says it was the strength of prayer.
He found power in the reading of Bible verses and embracing those supporters who spoke openly of their faith and told him they were with him.
Walker says when Paul Ryan was chosen as the VP candidate with Romney, he told him that the "most important thing" was to embrace those who said, "I'll pray for you."
The Governor says, "That is not a throw away line, you need to reach out and touch those people" because that is the "support that reinforced him most."
He would know of these things. His father was a Baptist pastor. He is a committed Christian.
Governor Walker has released a book this week titled, "Unintimidated."
If anyone has a right to that title, Walker does.
In our quest for leadership in America, one must not overlook Walker.
It was Noah Webster who said, "In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate---look to his character."
America is being reminded how very much character counts.
Be Vigilant. Be Discerning. Be Informed. Be Pro-Active. Be Prayerful. Be Blessed.
It's not much of a virtue to be unintimidated because of a golden parachute from Koch Industries for doing their dirty work.
I know, everything is the Koch brother's fault, the tornados, traffic jams, price of gas, etc........etc......... You could make the same claim of our prez and all his liberal cronies. All I know is the man stood his ground and the state as a whole is prospering because of it.
Good for him, need more like him.
Craig in Lacey
Really? The state is prospering? Since he took office, Wisconsin has fallen from 11th to 44th in job creation and the state's wages are declining at twice the national level. Woo hoo! Go Scott!
I'm sure the unions are complicit in any of that, if you can't beat him in a recall, sabotage the economy and try to get him out that way.
Schools better,taxes down, a good start. Woo hoo! Go Scott!
Schools are better? Based on what? During his first year in office his cuts got rid of over 2,300 teachers and staff and they now they have the highest student-to-teacher ratio since 1995.
Where those 2300 teachers and staff competent? How many were not performing up to par? How many staff positions were unneeded or redundant? There are too many who are dead weight, out with the bad and improve hiring requirements. Our schools are woefully underacheiving as a whole and spending a lot of money doing it.
Keep the ones who really can teach and get results, can the rest.and save all that money. Woo hoo! Go Scott!
Not sure how the layoffs addressed your points, they were done mostly by seniority, so it would have been an amazing coincidence if the most recently hired teachers were the worst of the bunch. I'd fire HR if that were the case.
We won't agree on this, but maybe we'll agree that we'd both love to see Walker run for president. All the dems would go Woo Hoo!
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Filed under: General, Birding & Outdoors, NM & SW US, Florida & SE US, Illinois, Birding "Patches"
Most of my posts attest to the fact that I do not range far and wide in search of rare or uncommon birds. It’s not that I lack interest in putting a few new notches in my birding belt. If an unusual bird is reported and it is reasonably nearby, I will make an effort to see it, but I’ve never been one to jump on a plane or drive overnight to join the “twitchers” who congregate in hopes of adding a new species to their life/year/locality lists.
Some of our “rare” bird sightings were incidental to trips we had taken for non-birding reasons. I think of the Piratic Flycatcher that showed up in Fort Sumner, New Mexico just as I was setting out to drive from Albuquerque to Amarillo to visit our son and his family. We diverted from I-40 and lost about an hour of travel time to see it. My digiscoped image of this vagrant from Mexico was taken with a little 2.4 megapixel point-and-shoot camera back in 2003, long before I acquired my first DSLR.
Then, in 2009 there was an Ivory Gull that appeared in Cape May, New Jersey, and was only seen during the week that we flew there for the funeral of my uncle.
In the spring of 2010 we picked up another life bird when local birders found a Ruff that showed up at Nelson Lake Marsh/Dick Young Forest Preserve near our Illinois condo. My photos of the sandpiper, seen here in the foreground, foraging with several Lesser Yellowlegs, were only good enough to document the larger Ruff’s “pot belly,” more upright posture, and drooping bill that set it apart. I must admit that we likely would not have located the bird, much less identified it, without the help of a couple of experts who happened to be there when we followed up on the report. It was my ABA Area Life Bird #572, and Mary Lou’s #505. As evidence of our slow progress to the coveted 600 mark, we now have only advanced to 581 and 509 species respectively.
This past May 15, while Mary Lou and I were birding Lippold Park in neighboring Batavia we saw three or four sparrows and two robins foraging on the trail some distance ahead. All but one of the sparrows were Song Sparrows, but one seemed longer and slimmer and walked instead of hopping. About all we could make out with the binoculars was a strong line over its eye that suggested it was a Lark Sparrow. I took several photos that confirmed its identity. According to eBird, this was the first of this species ever reported from Batavia or any of the neighboring Illinois communities in 10 or more years. Because of the distance, the quality of the photo is poor.
Lark Sparrows are more common in the Western states. Here is another bad shot of one on our lawn in New Mexico, digiscoped through the living room window about 10 years ago.
We watch the local sightings reports, and during the past two weeks we followed up, rather tardily, on a couple of interesting, if not rare, birds.
A Great Horned Owl with two youngsters had been seen roosting the the large oaks in nearby Fabyan Forest Preserve. They were still there despite our delay in searching for them, and they provided a nice photo opportunity.
The owlets were mostly obscured high in the foliage, but they did crane their necks to get a better look at us.
In the case of another recent report of a species that I had not yet photographed, it seems we waited too long after the first sighting. A pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers had been seen courting in an old tree only 3-4 miles from our home. For the past two mornings we spent over an hour observing the nest that the birds had excavated, but there was no sign of them. Perhaps the female was now incubating out of sight, or worse, they had been evicted by some of the European Starlings that were present in large flocks.
All I have to show for our efforts is a photo of their hole with a starling on a nearby branch. Of course we will be back and maybe can report better news about the couple. While a few starlings did roost on the tree, none entered the nest hole, so this may be a sign that the female woodpecker is sitting on eggs.
Our unsuccessful quest tor the Red-headed Woodpecker wasn’t just a “dry hole,” as there were other interesting wild creatures in the vicinity. This Barn Swallow struck a nice pose.
A noisy Eastern Towhee briefly emerged from a secluded perch.
This Red-winged Blackbird added color to the scene as, in song, it displayed its expanded epaulets.
Eastern Kingbirds were gathered in a nearby tree. This one was picking through the grass, probably looking for nest material.
A Killdeer eyed us suspiciously from the shore of the river.
This Chipmunk looks as if it could not stuff one more seed into its cheek pouches.
Eastern Cottontail Rabbits in Illinois appear long-legged and muscular in comparison to…
…the aquatic coastal Florida subspecies of cottontails, little short-eared and dark-furred bunnies known as Marsh Rabbits.
No warblers, but lots of color
After a lackluster early spring migration season in south Florida, I looked forward to catching up with the northbound warblers in northeastern Illinois. With each passing year I feel added urgency to make the most of every spring and fall. Now it seems that most of the warblers have also bypassed my summer home. In past years, fair numbers of warblers have shown up in local parks and forest preserves.
The warblers have left me high and dry, so instead of a taxonomic species list, I am compiling a color palette. What is prettier than a rainbow? Meet my friend ROY G BIV.
Northern Cardinal, of course!
Thankfully, there have been many Scarlet Tanagers here in Illinois this spring.
Both the red and the black of the Scarlet Tanager can be challenging for photographers, myself included, as the feather details tend to wash out.
This first year male Summer Tanager was a surprise visitor to the local Norris Woods Nature Preserve. They usually don’t venture this far north. He sang like a seasoned veteran, making him easy to find in the treetops. Getting a shot of his entire body among the leaves was another matter.
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak qualifies in the “Red” category…
…as does this Red-bellied Woodpecker, whose head attracts much more attention than his undersides.
Of course, the Baltimore Oriole belongs in this category,…
…as does the Monarch Butterfly.
More subdued, the Eastern Question Mark gets its name from a very inconspicuous identification mark.
The undersides of the Question Mark make it invisible among dry leaves and tree bark, but this view shows the signature punctuation mark on its right wing (partially obscured by the flower on the left). Use your imagination.
This one is easy! An American Goldfinch
Yellow Warblers are nesting and singing in the shrubby fields at Aurora West Forest Preserve.
Common Yellowthroats are reclusive, tantalizing us with loud songs from nearby thickets, but rarely coming out into the open.
This morning I photographed three Eastern Meadowlarks in full song. Here’s one.
Although it is just a spot of color, it is enough to earn the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron its name.
A Tiger Swallowtail certainly belongs here too.
I haven’t seen a green bird in Illinois this year, but shot this Female Painted Bunting back in Florida.
In fairness to the female, I will place this male Painted Bunting in this category, though he could fit in at least three.
I captured this free-falling Orange-crowned Warbler here in Illinois in the autumn of 2011
I’m pretty sure this is a Clouded Sulphur, though I left my butterfly field guides back in Florida.
Unless you look closely, this bird appears to be a GINO (green in name only), a Black-throated Green Warbler.
Though I’ve seen plenty of these guys here, none posed as nicely as this one that I shot in Florida before departing for Illinois.
Eastern Tailed-Blue Butterfly, a tiny sprite but very colorful when it shows the top of its wings.
I had to reach into the archives again, for this pair of male Boat-tailed Grackles in our Florida back yard
Common Grackles are, well, common in Illinois.
The State Flower of Illinois is the Blue Violet, so this is actually a VINO.
Illinois yard birds
The car can serve as a very effective blind (or hide). One morning earlier this week, with thunder in the background, I drove around the vacant block in front of our northeastern Illinois condo. We are partially surrounded by three city block-sized parcels of land that, within the next week or so, will start to be built up into townhouses. In what was formerly a cornfield, roads and utilities had been installed and 44 of the planned 144 units were finished before the housing slump halted development in 2006.
This is the view from our front door, looking west. Not very pleasing to most folks, but I enjoy all the birds that visit and nest there. After the snow melts and the spring rains come, several large puddles (”fluddles”) attract ducks, geese, cranes and wading birds. The utility markers serve as perches for a variety of prairie birds.
Earlier that morning, I had heard both a Spotted Sandpiper and a Vesper Sparrow singing. Both have nested here in the past, but within a few days, ground will be broken for the remaining 100 new townhouses on this site. Almost immediately I found the sandpiper atop a favorite rock pile, but it flew away as I readied my camera, only to be replaced by a Savannah Sparrow.
The amount of yellow in their eyebrows differs in the several subspecies that breed across the US. The local birds have very prominent yellow brows.
I found the sandpiper again further away in a fluddle across the street.
The sandpipers have nested in the vacant lots every spring since we moved here in 2007. Last year, this one posed on a rock pile.
I had given up the search for the Vesper Sparrow, but stopped in front of our condo to get the mail that I forgot to pick up the day before. I heard it singing on another rock pile and drove back. It posed briefly before disappearing, just as rain started falling.
This streaked Vesper Sparrow shows its characteristic white outer tail feathers and a reddish shoulder patch.
Other species that have nested in this field in past years include Killdeer, Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Dicksissel, Song Sparrow and Horned Lark. I had not seen the latter species until a couple of days ago. It’s sad to think that their homes will probably be gone before the end of breeding season.
I photographed an American Kestrel from our front door as it hunted for grasshoppers.
This Eastern Meadowlark appeared to have a swollen ‘ankle.”
A pair of Red-tailed Hawks shared a street light pole.
Late that afternoon, we were leaving our condo to join our daughter and family for dinner. Mary Lou suggested I put the camera in the car instead of storing it in the trunk, as almost every time we pass the vacant lot in front of our building we see interesting birds perched on the posts and rock piles along the road. Sure enough, this Horned Lark posed for several minutes in perfect light.
These are the first photos I have processed on my new wide-screen LCD monitor, a gift from our son-in-law. It is attached to the clunky laptop, and in reviewing my recent shots on FLICKR I can see how poorly I have been able to gauge their quality on the laptop’s murky screen. I also have switched from shooting in RAW, as the laptop’s memory can barely handle the large file size.
In our daughter’s back yard, as I was BBQ’ing fajitas, I heard a Savannah Sparrow singing. I ran for my camera and caught the Savannah Sparrow perching on the fence rail. As I was taking this shot, it stopped moving and cast an anxious glance skyward.
I also looked up to find a Red-tailed hawk soaring overhead, hardly a threat to so small a bird, but enough to trigger its instinct to freeze in place to avoid detection.
A Chipping Sparrow displaced the Savannah Sparrow on the fence and then perched on the tip of a small Blue Spruce tree in their next door neighbor’s yard.
The least of the terns
We often joke that Florida has two seasons, hot and hotter. We also generally have a dry fall and winter season that gives way to a wet and humid summer. Although our mangoes and avocados put out inconspicuous blossoms, south Florida experiences no explosion of color to mark the onset of the vernal equinox. The mockingbirds sing all year around, though their tempo and volume picks up just as the Palm Warblers depart to breed in far northwestern Canada.
Up north, robins herald the arrival of spring, but we rarely see a robin at any time of the year. For birders looking for warblers, spring migration can be a non-event. If the usual east-west wind pattern persists, it drives northbound birds to the west coast of the Florida peninsula, or they may fly directly from Cuba across the Gulf of Mexico to make landfall.
One bird that can be counted on to arrive at our back yard lake in the middle of April is the Least Tern (Sternula antillarum). While it is the smallest of the tern family at about 9 inches long with a wingspan of 20 inches, it makes up for its small size with graceful energetic flight, strident calls and interesting behaviors.
There are three distinct populations (subspecies) of Least Terns in the US. One group nests in limited areas on the beaches of western Mexico and California. A second finds sandy places to nest along rivers and streams in the mid-west. Both of these populations are of particular conservation concern. With protection of its nesting areas, the endangered California population has increased from less than 600 pairs in 1974 to over 4500 pairs, while the interior subspecies have increased to 7,000 pairs from a low of 1,000 pairs in 1985 .
Our Florida birds belong to the third subspecies, which breeds up and down the entire US Atlantic coast, wintering in the Caribbean and along the east coast of Central and northern South America. All three populations face threats from human activities, notably destruction of beaches and loss of beach and stream-side habitat. Plume hunters took a huge toll in the late 1800s– I have seen photos of ladies’ dainty hats adorned with the whole bodies of one or more Least Terns. Though not on the Endangered Species list, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service lists the east coast Least Terns as a Species of Management Concern.
I bought my Canon 60D camera just a year ago, and my very first practice flight shots were of Least Terns flying past our back patio. This was my first “keeper.”
This spring the terns began competing for mates as soon as they arrived. Once bonded, the pair stays loyal to each other for the entire breeding season. The male must prove his prowess as a provider by catching fish and offering it to his intended mate. The male and female plumage is very similar. During breeding season, the males are said to have brighter orange-yellow bills, legs and feet, though this is not very noticeable.
Following the age-old Least Tern courtship ritual, the female waits patiently while her suitor hunts for a small fish. When he catches one, he calls excitedly and flies toward the female’s position, sometimes adding a dramatic flourish by swooping past her. The female eagerly awaits his arrival, calling back and begging.
He then offers her the fish…
…which she gratefully accepts.
As she eats the fish, the male assumes various postures, usually freezing in place for a few seconds.
Here, after she has swallowed it, he continues to point his bill skyward for a moment.
The pair bond is strengthened, and he will repeat the procedure many times. After two or three weeks, if he is accepted, they will mate as he offers a fish. Courtship usually occurs in the foraging area rather than on the nesting grounds.
I am quite sure that Least Terns have nested on the gravel roofs of an elementary school and a strip mall in our neighborhood. Young terns are precocious and are able to walk about soon after hatching, but they remain dependent upon their parents until they move south in late summer.
Last summer these two immature terns were being trained to fish by their parents. The adults would catch a fish and make their youngsters chase after them. The adults would then drop the fish in the water and fly down as if to get to it before the “trainees.” If not retrieved, the parents would pick up the fish and try all over again.
Note that the white area on the forehead of the adult, to the left in this photo, is enlarging. After breeding the adults’ bills and feet also become darker.
Least Tern immature in flight, July 27, 2011.
First-year birds may remain on their wintering grounds through the next breeding season.
Shared on BIRDING IS FUN, May 3, 2012
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Capacity gap assessment workshop for green growth transition in Nigeria
April 6, 2018 in Chuks Okereke, Research by katberry
Nigeria, like many other African countries, is fast recognizing the advantages of a green economy that generates growth and improvements in people’s lives while reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. There are several policy documents, and initiatives indicate a willingness to pursue their development goals in ways that leverage the opportunities for green economy transition.
Nigeria’s long-term development blueprint, Vision 2020, intends that by 2020, the country will have a strong, diversified, sustainable and competitive economy that effectively harnesses the talents and energies of its people and responsibly exploits its natural endowments to guarantee a high standard of living and quality of life to its citizens. Following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, Nigeria has submitted a Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) which commits the country to 45% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The policies and measures aimed at delivering this reduction include improving energy efficiency, forest conservation, rural electrification, and putting an end to gas flaring. There is also an ambitious commitment to achieve 35,500 MW of energy by 2030 from renewable energy sources.
However, despite all these laudable goals, huge gaps exist in the form of the capacity and skills needed to realise these stated ambitions and commitments. Indeed many scholars and practitioners have identified lack of or limited capacity as one of the critical barriers hindering the transition to green growth in Africa.
As a measure to kick-start a more systematic identification of existing and additional capacities to achieve Nigeria’s green growth aspirations, the University of Reading, UK under the Global Challenges Research Fund, sponsored a highly interactive consultative workshop titled “Capacity Gap Assessment for Green Economy Transition in Africa: Case Study of Nigeria.” The project leader was Chukwumerije Okereke, Professor of Environment and Development at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science and Associate Director of Reading University Centre on Climate and Justice. The workshop which held at Federal Capacity Territory in Abuja Sandralia Hotel in Abuja and drew a total of 53 technical officers from public and private sectors, and civil societies. Representatives from the donor community such as the European Union and GIZ were also in attendance. The Nigerian workshop was the second of this kind of workshop, the first having been held in Nairobi Kenya on March 12, 2018.
The workshop in Nigeria created an avenue for a structured reflection and group discussion over the historical and current green growth policy making and low carbon projects implementation with a focus on human and technical capacity. The focus was on six sectors including Agriculture, Transport, Forestry, Energy, Industry, and Sustainable Cities.
At the workshop, participants agreed that Nigeria’s economy development pathways were undergoing rapid modifications in line with the global commitment to low carbon development. It was however also noted that Nigeria’s ability to maximally benefit from the opportunities offered by green growth is being constrained by limited by capacity gaps at institutional, organisational and individual levels. Some of the critical gaps identified during the workshop relate to policy formulation, stakeholder engagement, emission accounting, financial management, mainstreaming, mini-grid design, energy auditing, impact assessment, solar PVC installation, and monitoring and evaluation.
Some of the key barriers identified include weak legal and policy frameworks, institutional fragmentation, lack of policy continuity, and low private sector participation.
Participants stressed the need for a much more comprehensive green capacity auditing followed with clear targets, an ambitious programme with adequate incentives to close the gaps. The need for stronger partnership between academia, the government and private sectors in the pursuit of green innovation was also stressed. As green skills deployed to undertake green jobs is a critical plank in the green growth transition, it was emphasised that Nigeria should aim to create “an army” of green workers proficient in the wide-ranging set of skills needed to enable the country meet its target of attaining a sustainable economic vision.
Professor Chuks Okereke, the leader of the project, says:
“I am delighted that my project has contributed to exposing the need for capacity building for green growth transition in Nigeria and Africa more broadly. It is clear that a lot more work is needed to undertake a more dedicated and comprehensive capacity gap assessment. My team is developing a template which we hope will help Nigeria and other African governments to understand a systematic capacity assessment for green growth transition. We are working towards making the template available in the next three months.”
The Director of Climate Change Federal Ministry of Environment, Dr Peter Tarfa says:
“I thank Professor Chuks Okereke and the University of Reading for funding this very timely workshop on capacity gap assessment for green growth in Nigeria. The Federal government has demonstrated a very strong commitment to tacking climate change and pursing the green economy. The government submitted an ambitious NDC and has also embarked on a very successful green bond initiative to raise money for green projects in Nigeria. Government is keen to work with the academia and private sector to make the green economy a success in Nigeria. I very much look forward to receiving and working with the capacity gap analysis template that is being produced by Professor Okereke and his team.”
Tags: Africa, Centre for Climate and Justice, Climate Change, Dr Chukwumerije Okereke, green economy, Nigeria, Research, transition
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CPCC
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Human Environments
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Soil Research Centre
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Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading
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