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All Categories > Fittings > SAE J1453 ORFS O-Ring Face Fittings > Equal Fittings > Elbow > Equal 45° Elbow > View Items
Equal 45° Elbow
ORFS Thread Size
404401 N/A 6 mm N/A 1/4 in N/A 9/16-18 N/A 16.0 mm N/A 14 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404402 N/A 8 mm10 mm N/A 5/16 in3/8 in N/A 11/16-16 N/A 19.0 mm N/A 19.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404404 N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 5/8 in N/A 1-14 N/A 23.5 mm N/A 27 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404405 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 1 3/16-12 N/A 26.0 mm N/A 30 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404406 N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 7/8 in1 in N/A 1 7/16-12 N/A 30.0 mm N/A 36 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404407 N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 1 11/16-12 N/A 32.0 mm N/A 41 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404408 N/A 35 mm38 mm N/A 1 1/2 in N/A 2-12 N/A 37.0 mm N/A 48 mm N/A Carbon Steel
414401 N/A 6 mm N/A 1/4 in N/A 9/16-18 N/A 16.0 mm N/A 14 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414402 N/A 8 mm10 mm N/A 5/16 in3/8 in N/A 11/16-16 N/A 19.0 mm N/A 19.0 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414403 N/A 12 mm N/A 1/2 in N/A 13/16-16 N/A 20.5 mm N/A 19.0 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414404 N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 5/8 in N/A 1-14 N/A 23.5 mm N/A 27 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414405 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 1 3/16-12 N/A 26.0 mm N/A 30 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414406 N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 7/8 in1 in N/A 1 7/16-12 N/A 30.0 mm N/A 36 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414407 N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 1 11/16-12 N/A 32.0 mm N/A 41 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414408 N/A 35 mm38 mm N/A 1 1/2 in N/A 2-12 N/A 37.0 mm N/A 48 mm N/A Stainless Steel
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All Categories > Fittings > SAE J1453 ORFS O-Ring Face Fittings > Equal Fittings > Elbow > Equal Elbow > View Items
Equal Elbow
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BM - Tube Diameter
AW - Tube Diameter
BW - Tube Diameter
404301 N/A 6 mm N/A 6 mm N/A 1/4 in N/A 1/4 in N/A 21.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404302 N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 25.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404303 N/A 12 mm N/A 12 mm N/A 1/2 in N/A 1/2 in N/A 28 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404304 N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 5/8 in N/A 5/8 in N/A 33.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404305 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 3/4 in N/A 37.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404306 N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 1 in7/8 in N/A 1 in7/8 in N/A 41.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404307 N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 44.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404308 N/A 35 mm38 mm N/A 35 mm38 mm N/A 1 1/2 in N/A 1 1/2 in N/A 49.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404309 N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 6 mm N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 1/4 in N/A 25.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404310 N/A 12 mm N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 1/2 in N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 28 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404311 N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 12 mm N/A 5/8 in N/A 1/2 in N/A 33.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404312 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 37.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404313 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 12 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 1/2 in N/A 37.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404314 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 5/8 in N/A 37.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404315 N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 1 in7/8 in N/A 3/4 in N/A 41.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
404316 N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 1 in7/8 in N/A 44.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
414301 N/A 6 mm N/A 6 mm N/A 1/4 in N/A 1/4 in N/A 21.5 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414302 N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 25.0 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414303 N/A 12 mm N/A 12 mm N/A 1/2 in N/A 1/2 in N/A 28 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414304 N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 5/8 in N/A 5/8 in N/A 33.5 mm N/A Stainless Steel
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414306 N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 1 in7/8 in N/A 1 in7/8 in N/A 41.5 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414307 N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 44.5 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414308 N/A 35 mm38 mm N/A 35 mm38 mm N/A 1 1/2 in N/A 1 1/2 in N/A 49.0 mm N/A Stainless Steel
414309 N/A 10 mm8 mm N/A 6 mm N/A 3/8 in5/16 in N/A 1/4 in N/A 25.0 mm N/A Stainless Steel
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All Categories > Fittings > SAE J1453 ORFS O-Ring Face Fittings > Male Stud Coupling > Straight Male Stud Coupling UNF > Male Stud Coupling with O-Ring Thread UNF/UN-2A > View Items
Male Stud Coupling with O-Ring Thread UNF/UN-2A
W - Thread Size
400601 N/A 6 mm N/A 1/4 in N/A 7/16-20 N/A 18.0 mm N/A 10.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400602 N/A 8 mm10 mm N/A 5/16 in3/8 in N/A 9/16-18 N/A 20.0 mm N/A 11.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400603 N/A 12 mm N/A 1/2 in N/A 3/4-16 N/A 22.5 mm N/A 13.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400604 N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 5/8 in N/A 7/8-14 N/A 27.0 mm N/A 15.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400605 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 1 1/16-12 N/A 30.0 mm N/A 17.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400606 N/A 22 mm25 mm N/A 7/8 in1 in N/A 15/16-12 N/A 32.0 mm N/A 17.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400607 N/A 28 mm30 mm32 mm N/A 1 1/4 in N/A 15/8-12 N/A 33.5 mm N/A 17.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400608 N/A 35 mm38 mm N/A 1 1/2 in N/A 17/8-12 N/A 35.5 mm N/A 17.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400609 N/A 6 mm N/A 1/4 in N/A 1/2-20 N/A 18.0 mm N/A 10.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400613 N/A 8 mm10 mm N/A 5/16 in3/8 in N/A 1/2-20 N/A 20.0 mm N/A 11.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400616 N/A 8 mm10 mm N/A 5/16 in3/8 in N/A 1 1/16-12 N/A 24.0 mm N/A 11.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400617 N/A 12 mm N/A 1/2 in N/A 9/16-18 N/A 22.5 mm N/A 13.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400622 N/A 14 mm15 mm16 mm N/A 5/8 in N/A 1 1/16-12 N/A 28.5 mm N/A 15.5 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400623 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 3/4-16 N/A 30.0 mm N/A 17.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
400625 N/A 18 mm20 mm N/A 3/4 in N/A 15/16-12 N/A 31.5 mm N/A 17.0 mm N/A Carbon Steel
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Human Shape Estimation using Statistical Body Models
Loper, M. M.
University of Tübingen, May 2017 (thesis)
Human body estimation methods transform real-world observations into predictions about human body state. These estimation methods benefit a variety of health, entertainment, clothing, and ergonomics applications. State may include pose, overall body shape, and appearance. Body state estimation is underconstrained by observations; ambiguity presents itself both in the form of missing data within observations, and also in the form of unknown correspondences between observations. We address this challenge with the use of a statistical body model: a data-driven virtual human. This helps resolve ambiguity in two ways. First, it fills in missing data, meaning that incomplete observations still result in complete shape estimates. Second, the model provides a statistically-motivated penalty for unlikely states, which enables more plausible body shape estimates. Body state inference requires more than a body model; we therefore build obser- vation models whose output is compared with real observations. In this thesis, body state is estimated from three types of observations: 3D motion capture markers, depth and color images, and high-resolution 3D scans. In each case, a forward process is proposed which simulates observations. By comparing observations to the results of the forward process, state can be adjusted to minimize the difference between simulated and observed data. We use gradient-based methods because they are critical to the precise estimation of state with a large number of parameters. The contributions of this work include three parts. First, we propose a method for the estimation of body shape, nonrigid deformation, and pose from 3D markers. Second, we present a concise approach to differentiating through the rendering process, with application to body shape estimation. And finally, we present a statistical body model trained from human body scans, with state-of-the-art fidelity, good runtime performance, and compatibility with existing animation packages.
Official Version [BibTex]
Loper, M. M. Human Shape Estimation using Statistical Body Models University of Tübingen, May 2017 (thesis)
Learning Inference Models for Computer Vision
Jampani, V.
MPI for Intelligent Systems and University of Tübingen, 2017 (phdthesis)
Computer vision can be understood as the ability to perform 'inference' on image data. Breakthroughs in computer vision technology are often marked by advances in inference techniques, as even the model design is often dictated by the complexity of inference in them. This thesis proposes learning based inference schemes and demonstrates applications in computer vision. We propose techniques for inference in both generative and discriminative computer vision models. Despite their intuitive appeal, the use of generative models in vision is hampered by the difficulty of posterior inference, which is often too complex or too slow to be practical. We propose techniques for improving inference in two widely used techniques: Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling and message-passing inference. Our inference strategy is to learn separate discriminative models that assist Bayesian inference in a generative model. Experiments on a range of generative vision models show that the proposed techniques accelerate the inference process and/or converge to better solutions. A main complication in the design of discriminative models is the inclusion of prior knowledge in a principled way. For better inference in discriminative models, we propose techniques that modify the original model itself, as inference is simple evaluation of the model. We concentrate on convolutional neural network (CNN) models and propose a generalization of standard spatial convolutions, which are the basic building blocks of CNN architectures, to bilateral convolutions. First, we generalize the existing use of bilateral filters and then propose new neural network architectures with learnable bilateral filters, which we call `Bilateral Neural Networks'. We show how the bilateral filtering modules can be used for modifying existing CNN architectures for better image segmentation and propose a neural network approach for temporal information propagation in videos. Experiments demonstrate the potential of the proposed bilateral networks on a wide range of vision tasks and datasets. In summary, we propose learning based techniques for better inference in several computer vision models ranging from inverse graphics to freely parameterized neural networks. In generative vision models, our inference techniques alleviate some of the crucial hurdles in Bayesian posterior inference, paving new ways for the use of model based machine learning in vision. In discriminative CNN models, the proposed filter generalizations aid in the design of new neural network architectures that can handle sparse high-dimensional data as well as provide a way for incorporating prior knowledge into CNNs.
Jampani, V. Learning Inference Models for Computer Vision MPI for Intelligent Systems and University of Tübingen, 2017 (phdthesis)
Capturing Hand-Object Interaction and Reconstruction of Manipulated Objects
Tzionas, D.
University of Bonn, 2017 (phdthesis)
Hand motion capture with an RGB-D sensor gained recently a lot of research attention, however, even most recent approaches focus on the case of a single isolated hand. We focus instead on hands that interact with other hands or with a rigid or articulated object. Our framework successfully captures motion in such scenarios by combining a generative model with discriminatively trained salient points, collision detection and physics simulation to achieve a low tracking error with physically plausible poses. All components are unified in a single objective function that can be optimized with standard optimization techniques. We initially assume a-priori knowledge of the object's shape and skeleton. In case of unknown object shape there are existing 3d reconstruction methods that capitalize on distinctive geometric or texture features. These methods though fail for textureless and highly symmetric objects like household articles, mechanical parts or toys. We show that extracting 3d hand motion for in-hand scanning effectively facilitates the reconstruction of such objects and we fuse the rich additional information of hands into a 3d reconstruction pipeline. Finally, although shape reconstruction is enough for rigid objects, there is a lack of tools that build rigged models of articulated objects that deform realistically using RGB-D data. We propose a method that creates a fully rigged model consisting of a watertight mesh, embedded skeleton and skinning weights by employing a combination of deformable mesh tracking, motion segmentation based on spectral clustering and skeletonization based on mean curvature flow.
Thesis link (url) Project Page [BibTex]
Tzionas, D. Capturing Hand-Object Interaction and Reconstruction of Manipulated Objects University of Bonn, 2017 (phdthesis)
Zuffi, S. Shape Models of the Human Body for Distributed Inference Brown University, May 2015 (phdthesis)
Bogo, F. From Scans to Models: Registration of 3D Human Shapes Exploiting Texture Information University of Padova, March 2015 (phdthesis)
Sevilla-Lara, L. Long Range Motion Estimation and Applications Long Range Motion Estimation and Applications, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Febuary 2015 (phdthesis)
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The Truths about Dating and Mating
Jaycee DeLorenzo
Jaycee DeLorenzo Jan 20, 2020 - 06:30 AM
The Truths about Dating and Mating Spunky Italian coed Ivy Rossini likes to talk and push the boundaries She gets to do both as she co hosts Riordan College s radio program The Truths about Dating and Mating alongside her lifelong be
Title: The Truths about Dating and Mating
Author: Jaycee DeLorenzo
Spunky Italian coed Ivy Rossini likes to talk and push the boundaries She gets to do both as she co hosts Riordan College s radio program, The Truths about Dating and Mating, alongside her lifelong best friend, Ian Hollister.Being the only girl who cares to see beyond Ian s bad boy reputation has its advantages, especially when he s scaring off the jerks who just want toSpunky Italian coed Ivy Rossini likes to talk and push the boundaries She gets to do both as she co hosts Riordan College s radio program, The Truths about Dating and Mating, alongside her lifelong best friend, Ian Hollister.Being the only girl who cares to see beyond Ian s bad boy reputation has its advantages, especially when he s scaring off the jerks who just want to nail the campus sex guru It s when he s protecting her from the advances she welcomes that she wants to lob him over the head and tell him to butt out But Ivy feels like she s the one who s taken a hit when Ian almost kisses her at a party She knows she should feel relieved when he pulls away, so why is she disappointed instead What s worse, Ivy s now getting aroused by Ian s slightest touch and can t stop entertaining thoughts of a romantic future But Ian doesn t do relationships, and she s not interested in anything casual In the end, Ivy decides it s best to keep her growing feelings a secret and hope they ll pass However, when Ian begins hinting at wanting to take things to the next level, she s forced to decide if a chance at something is worth risking everything they ve built.With their friendship and her heart hanging in the balance, can Ivy follow the advice she and Ian give their listeners to communicate, be honest, and trust in themselves or will insecurity, stubbornness, and pride ruin any chance of their relationship getting off the ground
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Jaycee DeLorenzo hails from Tucson, Arizona, on the outskirts of the Saguaro National Park which she believes to be the most beautiful spread of desert in the world By day, Jaycee is a full time cover designer By night, she s a wife, mother, writer, and occasional blogger In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, singing very poorly , catching up on her favorite T.V shows, and researching.
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Re-read: 30.05.14Wow, shockingly the book was way better the second time around :D I love the characters so much, and i want more!! Fuck, i seriously hope we get another book with these two amazing people, though i know the second book in this series is about a friend of Ivy but still, I WANT MORE! :DNew rate: 4 stars.Second re-read: 19.05.15Still fucking awesome, but I wish we got moreThe Truths about Dating and Mating by Jaycee DeLorenzo(Riordan College #1)This book is about Ivy Rossini and he [...]
I have a really hard time giving this book a rating that fits because I don't know what to do with it. The parts of it that worked for me REALLY worked for me- best friends to lovers is still my absolute favorite trope, obviously, and Ivy and Ian were amazing -- for the most part. There was so much that bothered me about the way their story was written. JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER!!!!!! There was so much unnecessary drama in this, especially towards the end, that really took away from my enjoyment o [...]
K.M. Galvin
Ok Peeps, listen up!! I don't know if you are on the New Adult trend or not, but it has been something that has been lacking in the literary world for a looooong time. Nadia and I have recently been astonished at the amount of new books being released in this new genre. Some bad, some worse, and then something comes along and you're like whoa, wait a tic, did I just stumble upon some talent? In this books case my friends, I just did.Now, I certainly don't want to hype it too much because as any [...]
2.5 Stars Soo bummed because I really wanted to like this oneIvy and Ian have been best friends since they were little, and are the stars of a late night radio show ‘The truth about dating and mating’, as the self-proclaimed experts in all things sex. Ian ‘cockblocks’ any male attention Ivy gets while whoring around the campus as being the “go-to” guy for a good time. Their friendship is almost couple-ish without the sex. A few awkward moments make them start to think of the bad thin [...]
Graylark
4.5 stars.Light, sweet and sexy comfort read. Some humor. The main characters brim with personality, their conversations are lively and fun, and their friends are quite likable as well. The element of the sex talk radio show is relatively unique and quite interesting. I also liked the mention of the prejudice against a woman who gives sexual advice, versus the reverence for a man who does so, although this issue isn't explored very deeply. The sexual tension leading up to their switch from frien [...]
Okay, so I have to admit, I initially judged this book based on it's cover and title I hadn't even allowed myself to read the summary due to the fact that every time I saw the cover I thought that this novel was targeted for middle school aged girls. It wasn't until after I finally convinced myself to read the summary that I realized that this book was the exact opposite of what I had assumed. You know what they say about assuming I actually loved this book!!! It's about two childhood friends (I [...]
You know how with some books, once you start, you can't put it down until you're finished? This was an up-til-4AM read for me. Ivy is one of the more real heroines that I've read about in a while. Her situation is real, her dilemmas are believable, and her reactions (while thoroughly frustrating) are true to a 21 year old college student. I just loved the book and will definitely keep an eye out for future books by this new author!
Marianne Mckinney
OK, so the last time that I saw a quote in a book that struck me, I did not write it down and then could not find which book it was from. So with that, I am going to quote the author, Jaycee DeLorenzo here. It was a conversation between Ivy (main character) and Chelsea (her roomate). " Look, I'm not trying to upset you, but, lately, you have this really bad habit of going for the jugular the micro-second someone says anything you don't like. You're so focused on winning every battle that you don [...]
K.D. Carrillo
I read this book almost a year ago. Now every time I come across the cover I think "wow that one was really good." This book stuck with me. I can't say it was perfect, the most romantic, the best book boyfriend, but it just had that something. I can't explain it. You will just have to read it to understand.
I cannot believe how much I LOVED this book. I bought it based on 's recommendation and couldn't put it down! Ivy and Ian were the most perfect characters and even the supporting characters were fabulous! I know I'm gushing but this book is probably at the top of my Favorite Books list!
O-M-G! This book is so incredibly good! The characters, the plot, the romanceLOVED IT! A perfect addition to the New Adult category. Will be stalking this author now :)
4.5 StarsSimply adorable. This book could not get any cuter, and thankfully not in that "makes me want to puke my guts" way. Both of the main characters have obvious flaws but that's what makes them so endearing. I personally hate it when someone is implied to be perfect. Two best friends who fall in love but aren't sure whether it's worth the risk. Filled with uncertainty, witty banter and more mistakes than two people should be able to make, you can't help but fall in love with Ivy and Ian.“ [...]
Ian is a funny character and is protective when it comes to Ivy, "well, I can't remember the exact words, but I may have mentioned it wasn't illegal to dig a hole in the desert, and I had one dug out for anyone who mistreated you." Ivy is a saucy lil' thing that makes me laugh, "ooh, cheap beer, packed bodies, and more drugs than a Tijuana pharmacy. Where do I sign up?" Ivy is getting the point in her relationship with Ian of where she gets jealous or she was just mad and let him have it either [...]
wafiyah
I will probably have to rate this three stars out of guilty pleasure, purely. I mean, I probably wouldn't have liked it as much, but I always think that the "best friend-turned couple" thing is a lot better than the insta-love, so I jumped right into it. I think that the author wrote the story really well, and although it would probably be a typical story - boy and girl notice feelings for each other, make it work, boy does something stupid, make up, the end - but some parts were pretty nice to [...]
JenRider
When two best friends love each other and all of a sudden thay find themshelves attracted to one another, are they strong enough to express their feelings or are they going to lose what they value most?? A really nice book about people who learn about love for the first timeNice and funny story
Purcheria
Immature decisions, jumping to the wrong conclusions and making some emotionally stupid mistakes. These are just some of the ways to describe the actions of the main characters of this book. But damnFvck me of I did not thoroughly enjoy this little gem of a book.
Solid 3.5 stars for me. I enjoyed it. She did a great job of pulling me in with the characters. I love when a book makes me feel something. I laughed, I cried, I even felt sick to my stomach. . I couldn't put it down.
Jess (the cozy reader)
This was a cute read. I love the radio show that Ian and Ivy had together. But I have to say Ian was driving me nuts with his player ways, while having deep feelings for Ivy. I kept thinking, come on Ian just tell her already! Fingers crossed that Jayden will get his own book. ;)
Other than the fact that the title makes me cringe, this book was totally awesome. 4.5 stars
Lauren - SERIESous Books
DNF'd at 15%, start of Chapter 4There isn't necessarily anything bad with this book, I think it's just that there isn't anything new with this book. It comes across as generic and cliche (which the BFF to lovers trope often is) and I just couldn't get into it.Ivy and Ian are your typical BFFs who have that sexual tension lying underneath their relationship but are too oblivious to clue in. I do enjoy their banter but Ian's alpha attitude and double standards were a little too much for me.And spe [...]
Whoever said one should never judge a book by its cover is damn right! I must admit that when I first saw the cover to this book, I said "Hell naw! Pass!" Not that there is anything wrong, but the cover reminded me of the 90s. (Full House-ish?) So I assumed the story was going to be super cheesy and bad. Oh boy, was I wrong! It took me less than 24 hours to finish this novel. Approximately six hours to be precise. What I thought was going to be one of the worst books on my iPad actually turned o [...]
StScho
Rating this one 3.5 stars. Really wishing GR would allow you to do half-measures but I digress.The lowdown: Ivy and Ian have been best friends since they were tadpoles. The bond between them has been forged through fire (on his part) and Ivy has always been there for him. Although, she regards him much like an appendage, necessary and taken for granted, Ivy started to see him a more hotter way hotter light. Too bad he is the town bicycle and most of the girls in their college have gone for a rid [...]
Angela Mclaurin
First of all, don't judge a book by it's cover in this case. The cover seems to suggest that this is more of a novel geared towards teens, but it is exactly the opposite! This is a new adult novel that has adult situations and conversations as well as some pretty steamy loving! After finishing the novel, the cover makes more sense to me and I'm thankful to be able to share that this is truly a book worth reading and no, it's not for teens!I loved the fact that the story revolved around the colle [...]
Tabitha R
Jaycee DeLorenzo did a great job in this book. She had me from the first paragraph and I just couldn't put the book down.Ivy and Ian are best friend since childhood. They are now in college in their junior year and doing a talk radio show about relationships and sex.Ivy is the type of girl that just doesn't care much of what others think. She was raised an independent strong willed women by her activist mom. Although her part in this duo radio show may make her fellow college students assume she [...]
Wow. Just WOW.This book sent me on a rollercoaster of emotions. Seriously, it's hard to find a book that you are really in love with. Sure, there are books that you read and you're like "oh okay, that was nice" but then there are books that you find yourself so engrossed in! AND THIS WAS ONE OF THEM.I was rooting for Ian and Ivy the entire time and all the obstacles and everything that happened just made the book so much better. Finished it in 2 days, I didn't want it to end!If you're into the N [...]
This was a really sweet romance between bad boy Ian and nice girl next door Ivy. The two are childhood friends and Ivy knows Ian like nobody else does. In college the two join together to host a radio show about dating and mating. While they have kept their relationship platonic so far, Ian does do his best to sabotage Ivy's romantic life. She feels like he is being an older brother, and he doesn't want to look to far into his reasons for doing so. After an almost kiss and a friendly turned sexy [...]
I LOVED this book! It was such a refreshing change from all the new adult books I've been reading lately. No sad, depressing, angsty characters. And NO cliffhanger ending! This is a full book complete with an epilogue to nicely wrap things up in the end. It appears that this might be a series and I hope that's the case because the secondary characters were great too. The main characters Ivy and Ian were so well written and just made me feel like they were real people that I might've met in colle [...]
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Oh my gosh! I don't know why I read this.I don't give out one star ratings very often, but I just couldn't stomach this book at all.I wanted to give up on it so many times but I just didn't. I think a weird part of me was sure it was going to get better, and it didn't. This was supposed to be a love story, but I didn't see it. For me there was no connection and when a plot is as simple as this one, it's all about the characters. I found that the characters just didn't grow, they didn't change. W [...]
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It took me a few pages to warm up, and then I was at it all morning. Read straight through to 4am. Ivy and Ian have a great dynamic, and while I found myself wanting to physically punch both of them in the face at certain points, I really connected to them as characters. I think as Jaycee advanced furthur into the book, her writing style became much more relaxed, and easy to flow along with. There is this fantastic scene,where Ian shows up at Ivy's apartment after a run in with his step-monster, [...]
STORYA sweet story about crazy best friends evolving into more. Slowly and with difficulties, and well, maybe not a "sweet" story per se; it's kind of realistic and the characters can really be moody! Yep, I really enjoyed these "real-life" elements ;)CHARACTERS- The h would verbally slap a person for being obnoxious (or saying uncomfortable truths)- The H didn't just say or do whatever a hero-man should dictated by a fantastical (female) notion.The rest of the characters were also nice and one [...]
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Space Rental Policies
The Studio at 550space is intended for movement-based work such as dance or movement rehearsals, classes, workshops, and performances in addition to music, theatre, visual arts, technology and other disciplines which fit into the Studio’s mission. Space may be booked online via: http://studioat550.org/book-space/
Renters will pay at or before the time of each rental period, and are encouraged to pay in advance as much as possible. Rent checks may be left in the payment box in the studio at the time of each rehearsal or class. For online payments, renters may pay online (PayPal/credit card) via invoice that will be sent via email. Renters MUST pay for all studio space at or before the time it is used. All rent checks must be written to Studio at 550.
Cancellation: Please see below for specific booking types and methods to cancel. If a cancellation needs to be made outside of the cancellation policy, the renter can transfer their booking to another renter as long as it remains the same length or longer, and the same rental type. Cancellations during City holidays can be made without penalty/payment.
For ONGOING CLASS or WORKSHOP Rentals:
Member Rates:
Ongoing Class Rate: $35/hr (requires a contract)
Workshop/Pop-Up Rate: $40/hr.
Non-Member Rates:
Class Booking: Teachers of regular weekly classes must confirm their class schedule for a length of 6 months minimum, otherwise it’s considered a workshop/pop-up class.
Class Cancellation ONGOING CLASSES: Space may be cancelled with 14 days notice via cancelling directly in the system.
If a cancellation is arranged after rent has been paid, the balance will be applied towards future rentals of Studio at 550 (no refunds). With less than 14 days notice, class renters may cancel but will pay full rental rate for the cancelled studio time. Teachers are encouraged to find substitute teachers and keep the class operating consistently.
If a cancellation needs to be made outside of the cancellation policy, the renter can transfer their booking to another renter as long as it remains the same length or longer, and the same rental type.
Class Cancellation WORSHOP/POP-UP: Space may be cancelled with 7 days notice via cancelling directly in the system.
If a cancellation is arranged after rent has been paid, the balance will be applied towards future rentals of Studio at 550 (no refunds). With less than 7 days, class renters may cancel but will pay full rental rate for the cancelled studio time. Teachers are encouraged to find substitute teachers and keep the class operating consistently.
To cancel all of the dates for an ongoing class: Email callie@studioat550.org
To cancel some of the dates for an ongoing class: Go to the top of this page and click: My Bookings>Your Bookings (from the side nav)>(Next to the booking you want to cancel)>view booking in calendar>the booking>(scroll down) Delete this booking
The system will not allow you to delete a booking if it’s outside the cancellation time frame.
For Private Lesson/Photo/Video Rentals:
Member Rate: $25/hr.
Non-Member Rate: $30/hr.
Private Lesson/Photo/Video Cancellation: Booking can be cancelled up to 7 days prior via the online system.
If a cancellation is arranged after rent has been paid, the balance will be applied towards future rentals of Studio at 550 (no refunds). With less than 7 days notice, class renters may cancel but will pay full rental rate for the cancelled studio time. Teachers are encouraged to find substitute teachers and keep the class operating consistently.
To cancel a booking: Go to the top of this page and click: My Bookings>Your Bookings (from the side nav)>(Next to the booking you want to cancel)>view booking in calendar>the booking>(scroll down) Delete this booking
For REHEARSAL Rentals:
Member Rates: $15/hr. (non-prime), $17/hr. (prime)
Non-Member Rates: $20/hr. (non-prime), $25/hr. (prime)
prime is between the hours of 5pm – 9pm
Rehearsal Bookings: Rehearsals may be booked in advance at any time online via: http://studioat550.org/book-space/
Rehearsal Cancellation: Space may be cancelled or exchanged via the online booking system with 48 hours notice.
If a cancellation is arranged after rent has been paid, the balance will be applied towards future rentals of Studio at 550 (no refunds). With less than 48 hours notice, rehearsal renters may cancel but will pay full rental rate for the cancelled studio time.
For PERFORMANCE Rentals:
Member Rate: $250 flat fee for 5 hours
Non-Member Rate: $350 flat fee for 5 hours
Performance Bookings: Performances may be booked in advance via the website and will be approved upon completion and acceptance of the contract by both parties.
Performance/Event reservations include the use of the studio stereo equipment, folding chairs, black curtains, and two 4ft folding tables. Rent payment is expected on the evening the event is scheduled (or before). A full strike of the space, including all chairs, is expected after each evening’s rental. If you would like your event posted on the Studio at 550 website, please send a press release/description via email.
Additional equipment such as a audio mixer, projectors, white projection screen is available for an additional charge.
Before a performance renting is confirmed a walk through of the space is mandatory and can be scheduled with staff at least one week prior to the first rental date. All operators of rental equipment must be approved before rental equipment is released.
Performance Cancellation: Space may be cancelled with 60 days notice.
If a cancellation is arranged after rent has been paid, the balance will be applied towards future rentals of Studio at 550 (no refunds). With less than 60 days notice, renters may cancel but will pay full rental rate for the cancelled studio time.
To cancel a performance: Write an email to callie@studioat550.org at least 60 days prior the date of your rental.
Street shoes are absolutely forbidden in the dance studio. All street shoes MUST be removed and left in the entryway. Soft-soled, non-marking, absolutely clean dance shoes are allowed on the dance floor – no tap shoes, no rosin.
Smoking/Incense/Flames:
No smoking anywhere inside the building. No smoking on the roof or within 20 feet of the building. No incense or open flames of any sort.
A stereo system will be available for rehearsals, classes, and performances. The stereo system can play CDs and has an auxiliary jack.
If a renter has a balance for longer than 3 days after their previous booking that renter cannot make future bookings until their balance is paid in full. If a balance is sustained for longer than 30 days, pre-payment is required before making any additional ongoing booking. Renters with long-term debts are required to pay their balance and pre-pay for any future rentals. Certain renters who have repeatedly not paid for their bookings may not be allowed to book the studio in the future.
Props need to be constructed in such a way that they can cause no damage to the dance floor. All props must have felt padding on any part that rests on the floor.
Renters may NEVER leave any equipment, costumes, props or personal belongings anywhere in the studio, hallway, bathroom, or office.
Renters agree not to inform any person of the code for the studio. The combination will be changed at Studio at 550’s discretion, based on any security situation that may arise. In the event of a change, renters will be informed of the new lock box combo via the confirmation email that is sent after bookings are made online.
Each renter assumes responsibility for the security of the space during each rental period. Renters will make sure if they are the last ones out of the building, arrangements are made to lock the building, or arrange to borrow a key for the rental. Renters are responsible for the return of the key within a reasonable period of time.
Emergencies:
For any urgent issue that might compromise the structure or safety of the studio or the building, please call the Studio at 550 Emergency Contact: Callie – 617-863-2550 . For accidents, health crises, criminal activities, or fire, call 911 first then contact Callie to report the incident.
Each renter will assume full responsibility for any damage caused to any part of the entryway, studio, back rooms, bathroom, stereo equipment, floors, windows, mirrors, walls, ceilings, etc. sustained during the renter’s scheduled studio time. Each renter agrees to pay in full for repair or replacement and/or disposal of any item or structure damaged by the renters or by performers, collaborators, or guests invited to Studio at 550 by the renter. Full payment for damage will be made within 30 days of the damage.
Liability:
Each renter assumes liability for injury any persons they invite to the space, including but not limited to: injury to students in the renter’s class, injury to performers or collaborators in rehearsal, injury to guests or audience members at a showing. Renters are responsible for obtaining their own liability insurance.
Each renter assumes responsibility for returning the studio to a good state before they leave. All windows must be fully closed. All lights, heater(s), air conditioner and electrical equipment must be turned off. Trash and litter must be removed. All curtains, drapes, window covering must be returned to their original state before leaving. No tying curtains in knots. Please sweep if necessary, and leave the studio in the same condition (or better) for the next renter.
Trash:
Renters are responsible for removing their trash from the building. The Studio does not provide trash disposal. Please do not use the bathroom’s wastebasket for trash other than bathroom-related waste.
Loitering:
Due to the shared nature of the building, renters and their guests may arrive no earlier than 20 minutes prior and 20 minutes after their rental period. Renters are responsible for the behavior of all of their guests and must be the last ones to leave the building during their rental period. No loitering is allowed on the 2nd floor (near the tailor and Marxists library).
Contracts:
Renters will sign this contract before using Studio at 550 space via an online web agreement upon signup. A printed version is also available if written request is made.
Future Policy Changes:
Studio at 550 reserves the right to change the above rental policies at any time to reflect the needs and concerns of the studio, community, and resident companies. Renters will be informed of changes to rental policies.
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4-star contemporary-styled hotel in Marylebone
April 17, 2017 Andrew Watkins
Found in the historic area of Marylebone, this 4-star hotel mixes classic architecture and surroundings with contemporary interior design. Close to Regent’s Park and Oxford Street, there’s plenty to see in the local area, while the hotel itself is a great place to relax, with a comfortable lounge bar and a restaurant specialising in French cuisine and Spanish tapas. Experience a more indulgent side of the city with a Chocolate Ecstasy Tour in nearby Regent Street.
Star Rating: ****
User Rating: 79 (from 850 reviews)
Hotel ID: 2649363
Explore The Local Area:
Great Ormond Street Hospital (0.5 mi, London WC1N 3JH)
Hunter Street Health Centre (0.5 mi, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1PD)
University College London Hospital (0.8 mi, Fitzrovia, London NW1 2BU)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (0.9 mi, London WC1N 3BG)
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (0.9 mi, London WC1N 3HR)
Doctors:
Clockwork Pharmacy & Travel Vaccination Clinic (0.4 mi, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5AN)
Brunswick Medical Centre (0.5 mi, 39 Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1NZ)
Bloomsbury Surgery (0.6 mi, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1PD)
Museum Practice (0.7 mi, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3BA)
Dr. Richard Trompeter (0.8 mi, Great Ormond St, London WC1N 3JH)
Vetinary Cares:
The Principal London (0.2 mi, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5BE)
Thistle Bloomsbury Park Hotel London (0.4 mi, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5AD)
Grange Blooms Hotel (0.5 mi, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5BP)
Grange Holborn Hotel (0.6 mi, London WC1B 4AR)
George Hotel (0.7 mi, Kings Cross, London WC1H 9EL)
Banqueting facilities
Separate Hanging Closet
Theatre reservations
Reception (24 hours)
Modem Access
Audio/Visual Equipment
Fax service
Fax/modem plug in
Postal and fax service
Limited accessibility
Bathrobe (on request)
Hairdryer (on request)
Private bathroom with bath/shower
Work desk with lamp
Cots / Cribs
← 4-star design hotel with easy access to vibrant Bastille and Marais areas
4-star suites hotel on the outskirts of Istanbul →
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Interstellar Rodeo Reveals 2018 Edmonton Lineup with Feist, July Talk, Courtney Barnett
By Calum Slingerland
Edmonton's edition of the Interstellar Rodeo is set to take over Hawrelak Park for its seventh edition this summer, and organizers have just unveiled the lineup for their 2018 event.
Taking place at the park's Heritage Amphitheatre from July 20 to 22, the festival's headliners include Feist, July Talk and Courtney Barnett. Other acts set to play the festival include A Tribe Called Red, the Mavericks, the Dead South, Reuben and the Dark, Alejandro Escovedo, Lisa Leblanc and more.
Pre-sale tickets are available March 7 at 8 a.m. MST, with weekend passes going on sale to the general public March 8 at 8 a.m. MST. Adult weekend passes start at $249, while adult single-day tickets can be had for $115.
Further pricing and pass information can be found through the festival's official website. Learn about the festival's history with Exclaim!'s festival profile.
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Americans beg Obama: Please, don't kill us with drones
Grace Bedell thought it could clinch the election when she suggested to Abraham Lincoln that he grow a beard. Now a century and a half later, Americans are asking their president to consider an updated proposal: Mr. Obama, please don’t kill us.
Unlike the correspondence from 1860 that was signed off by a single person — an 11-year-old girl from upstate New York — over 1,000 Americans have already added their name to a petition posted on the Internet this week. Their plea may sound silly at first glance, but it’s authors appear to be anything other than serious about it: after a Tuesday morning article in the New York Times revealed US President Barack Obama’s authority to add and remove names from a roster of alleged enemies of the state to be executed without due process, 1,679 Americans have already asked that they be placed on a “do not kill” list..... MORE
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Techniques for precision interferometry in space
Fitzsimons, Ewan D. (2010) Techniques for precision interferometry in space. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
Gravitational waves are an important prediction of Einstein's General theory of Relativity. Derived as a solution to the Einstein field equations, they are predicted to be produced in systems where there is an asymmetric acceleration of matter, and exist as a time varying quadrupolar distortion in spacetime.
Due to the rich variety of scientifically interesting astrophysical sources predicted to be producing gravitational radiation, there is significant international effort directed towards their detection. A large network of ground based interferometric detectors is in operation, with upgrades to increase sensitivity already in progress. They operate on the principle of measuring the time varying displacement in the interferometer path length an incident gravitational wave will induce. However, the predicted amplitude of gravitational waves requires the measurement to be made over several kilometres with a displacement sensitivity of less than 10^-18m/sqrt(Hz).
Ground based detectors operate in the ~10-10000 Hz region, and are fundamentally limited at the low frequency end by the noisy gravitational environment of the Earth. To enable detection of low frequency sources, LISA - the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna - is a planned mission to place an interferometric gravitational wave detector in space, sensitive to gravitational waves in the 0.1-1000 mHz region. Consisting of a triangular constellation of three spacecraft, LISA will aim to detect gravitational waves by monitoring the fluctuation in the separation between free-falling test masses over a baseline of 5 million kilometres with an accuracy of around 10pm/sqrt(Hz).
To demonstrate that LISA technology, such as the ability to place test masses into a suitably quiet gravitational free-fall, is viable, a precursor mission - LISA Pathfinder - will launch in the next few years. LISA Pathfinder will monitor the relative displacement between two free-falling inertial test masses using an interferometer, with the goal of verifying that the required quality of free-fall is achievable in LISA. This work presented in this thesis relates to the development of interferometry for LISA Pathfinder and LISA, the construction of the LISA Pathfinder flight model interferometer, and initial work on developing the interferometer for LISA.
The interferometers required for LISA and LISA Pathfinder must be constructed to be durable enough to survive launch and stable enough to measure displacements of a few picometres at frequencies down to a few mHz. Further, to help minimise noise from sources such as residual jitter of the test masses, the beams which probe the test masses must be aligned to within ±25 micrometers of the nominal reflection point. Using ultra low expansion substrates like Zerodur, and attaching optical components with hydroxide catalysis bonding offers one solution which can provide the durability and stability required.
To achieve the accuracy of beam positioning, a system which allows measurement of absolute propagation direction of a laser beam was developed. Combined with a coordinate measuring machine, this allows the absolute position of a mm-scale laser beam to be measured with an accuracy of around ±5 micrometers and ±20 microradians. This system can operate in two modes: first as a measurement system allowing measurement of an existing beam; and secondly as a target, where it can be positioned to a desired theoretical (such as the nominal reflection point of a test mass) and a beam can be aligned onto it. Combined with a method of precision adjusting optical components at the sub-micron and microradian level prior to hydroxide catalysis bonding, it enables absolute alignment of ultra-stable interferometers to micron level.
Using these techniques, the flight model interferometer for LISA Pathfinder was successfully constructed to meet the alignment and performance requirements. The control system that will maintain the test masses in near free-fall requires a very accurate measure of the attitude of the test masses. This measurement will be provided by the interferometer using differential wavefront sensing (DWS). The flight model interferometer was calibrated to establish the coupling factors between the DWS read-out and the attitude of the test mass to ensure maximum performance of the control system.
Building upon the experience gained in developing and building the LISA Pathfinder interferometer, a prototype of the LISA optical bench is in development. The LISA interferometer is significantly more complicated than that of LISA Pathfinder. Some of its features include: imaging systems to minimise coupling of beam tilt to displacement noise; a precision beam expander to generate a beam appropriate for the telescope; a redundant fibre injector system, creating two beams collinear to within a few microns and 10-20 microradians; and polarisation optics for beam steering. The development and current state of the design for the prototype optical bench is presented, along with an overview of its features.
gravitational waves, LISA, LISA Pathfinder, Interferometry, hydroxide-catalysis, bonding, precision construction
Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Ward, Dr. H.
Mr Ewan Fitzsimons
glathesis:2010-2313
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/2313
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Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds
Hey Did You Know I Write Books
Holy Shit, Free Stories
“Lethe And Mnemosyne”
“I Don’t Drink Anymore”
“Beware Of Owner”
Where’s Wendig?
Wait, Who The Hell Is Chuck?
The Ramble 36 comments
Hi, Dad, I’m In (Twitter) Jail
So, this morning I woke up to find that I had been put in Twitter Jail for *checks notes* five hours. And I was put there because *checks notes* hell, I don’t know. They didn’t tell me. They didn’t ask me to delete any tweets, they didn’t give me a sense of what rule I broke, or when, or what offending tweet had caused the world such pain.
Curiously, it tells me I can send DMs to my followers — but, that’s actually untrue. I try to send a DM and it just gives me a vigorous reminder of my lockout.
OBVIOUSLY IT WAS THIS TWEET
CLEARLY IT IS THE RED DELICIOUS APPLE LOBBY THAT HAS PUT ME HERE
SCREW YOU, LIAR APPLE, YOU FRUIT JUDAS
I WILL SPEAK MY TRUTH AND WILL NOT BE SUPPRESSED
(I stole that joke from author Allison Dickson, FYI.)
I can of course guess at what put me here — over the weekend, just at the cusp of the Kavanaugh vote, I did a tweetstorm about civility — the initiating tweet has since had 17,000 shares. Which also means it ended up drawing the attention of a series of weepy right-wing-celebrity clowndicks, including but not limited to, Ben Shapiro, James Woods, Dinesh d’Souza, Curt Schilling. It also unleashed a high tide of septic idiots, 95% of them bots or sock puppets, to harass me (often to call me some variant of “soy” or “cuck,” which is the most diapery, baby-boo-boo insult they’ve yet come up with, one based in all sorts of disproven dumdum ideas about masculinity). I blocked many hundreds of abusive users, reporting most of them — a fraction of which, Twitter dealt with, most, they did not. I also received various threats, which is always fun. (One semi-threat said that if I wanted to pull an Anthony Bourdain, they’d buy me the rope. How polite! Like Mister Rogers said, always look for the helpers.) Then the Comicsgate/Gamergate media got a hold of it and suggested I was calling for violence against Trump supporters, which takes a particularly special lack of reading comprehension to get there considering I wrote this tweet specifically to put that idea out of anyone’s heads. All this, plus the standard calls for Disney to fire me from Star Wars, which is maaaaaybe a little misguided, because Disney doesn’t employ me. I’m not an employee of Disney or LFL or Marvel. I am there on a case-by-case freelance basis. Further, the income I get from that work is, presently, insert Unkar Plutt voice, a very tiny portion of my actual YTD.)
Aaaaand then, a Twitter suspension.
Of five hours.
For unspecified, unnamed tweets I don’t even have to delete.
(I will note that I did delete two tweets out of that thread on Sunday, not because I disagreed with them or thought them problematic, but rather, because those two tweets had become the funnel for harassment. They were the gateway, and I was hoping to shut it down.)
Obviously, if I misstepped somewhere in a way I’m not aware of, I’m genuinely sorry to anyone I might’ve upset. It’s hard to see what that was, or would be, however, in part because Twitter won’t even tell me what I did wrong.
So, this is a good reminder that:
a) Twitter is an arbitrary company with a great product and shitty enforcement tools that routinely allow for the worst among users to thrive and for others to get caught up in brute force suspensions driven by those same worst users
b) You do not own your tweets or anything you put on Twitter (trust me on this one, I have practical experience on that), and so you should always have a centralized backup that you own and control
c) Twitter has one helluva bot/sock puppet/troll problem, and won’t address it
d) This is not a first amendment issue, and I won’t frame it as such — despite the ironic fact that the same dipshits who probably mob-reported me would exclaim exactly that upon their own suspensions. Twitter can do whatever it wants. It can ban me arbitrarily for posting too many heirloom apple reviews. (YOU’LL NEVER STOP ME.) Twitter, again, is an amazing service governed by a shit company with zero ethos
e) This country is in dire fucking straits, and my call for a lack of civility remains true, no matter who that offends — which, arguably, is the point. Civility means saying things that aren’t troublesome, that don’t upset the balance, that acquiesce to abusive powers. And make no mistake, these powers are abusive. Children in cages, abusers and criminals at the highest levels of government, a willful acceleration of climate change, voter suppression, Russian meddling, tax breaks for the richest while the poor and middle-class continue to flounder… well, that list goes on and on. And both social media — and mass media — are helping to aggravate that problem rather than grapple with it, because it is advantageous to them to do so. A civil response is a complicit response. We must not be civil. Again, to be clear, violence isn’t the answer, either — but you don’t have to be polite in your protests. You don’t have to curtail vulgar language. They’ll reframe any protest you make as being uncivil, down to the notion that they will call protesting itself an uncivil act. Don’t buy it. Stand up, be counted, make your voice heard as loudly and as firmly as you must.
And to reiterate —
Do not rely on Twitter to be your pal.
This is doubly true if you’re a creator of any stripe — do not, not, not, use Twitter or IG or FB as your Authorial Homebase. Don’t do it. They own it. You don’t. If it goes away, either because it shuts down or because they shut you down, you’ve just cut off a vital avenue.
Find a place to call yours, and own it. I see too many authors with disused websites — or no website at all! — and they rely solely on someone else’s social media service to exist and conduct marketing and professional work. Be wary of that approach.
OKAY SEE YOU IN FIVE HOURS, FRANDOS
(Related: another sci-fi author, Patrick Tomlinson, was fully suspended, and you can read his account of how that happened at his site.)
p.s. vote like hell in November
boundbeautifunk
October 10, 2018 @ 9:30 AM
JFC. I’m glad you have a home-base here.
mckennadeanromance
October 10, 2018 @ 10:31 AM
Ditto on that.
Michael O'Connell
Thank you for using your platform so generously to speak out about the ills that are currently facing this country. You remain an inspiration despite your seething hatred of red apples.
Fenraven
I used to use Twitter a lot. Now I don’t. Your post is a good reminder why not. I don’t know that any social media site makes any kind of good base anymore. You heard G+ is being shut down? I liked it there, so of course it must be killed. *sigh*
Suzanne Lucero
OK, that’s weird. Five hours? That sounds to me like a slap on the wrist to placate the ravening hoards (hords? whords?) calling for your (Twitter) death. Do you feel chastened? At all? Well, go forth and blog!
debscarey
I’ve shared your post on Twitter – obviously 😉 Your wise words about authorial platform are most welcome. Thank you.
christophergronlund
I know when I think, “Chuck Wendig” I think, “Oh, the violent guy commanding his minions to destroy all who oppose the beard!” Not the guy who wrote a bunch of stuff, found a following through his words and willingness to chat with people…that guy who has always trumpeted being a decent human.
Damn you, Wendig and your sinister ways! 😉
patrick s tomlinson
Thank you for the shout out, Chuck. I too am back in Twitter jail for [checks watch] seven hours. I’ve come to the same conclusions you have. Twitter is an awesome platform run by either morons or people who will do anything to avoid accountability for what they’ve created. Not mutually exclusive, I suppose. Use it only as a conduit to drive readers to platforms you have more control over.
Bingo. See you on the outside, Patrick.
Turns out not. Because now my new account is permanently suspended, too, for evading a ban. Give ’em hell in five hours.
Kay Reindl
October 10, 2018 @ 5:03 PM
Hey, same! I’m a TV writer and was permanently banned for… um… something…? They never told me. I tried to evade the ban, and they found me. Then I thought like a spy, and they haven’t found me yet. Although I can’t be myself on there. What Twitter does is such nonsense. They are enabling these trolls to mass-report and get people banned. And the trolls remain.
John Harding
I don’t do twitter. Because as always I think there’s a nuance here. And twitter is to nuance as a hammer is to a nut.
If by “not being civil” you mean being loud and angry and not backing down – then hell yeah FUCK CIVILITY!
However, if that devolves into puerile name calling, pettiness and meanness – then we need civility. If “not civil” means not listening, into not communicating, into not educating – then we need civility.
Most of all if “not civil” keeps the 100 million who didn’t vote on the sidelines because they’re confused, frightened, disgusted or whatever then FUCK ME, WE NEED SOME CIVILITY HERE!
The best part of Michael Moore’s 11/9 movie was the guy talking about democracy in America. We’re not there yet. It’s an aspirational goal.
We need that 100 million people to vote – however they vote. Until we have more than say 10% voting (pulled that figure out of my ass) we need to figure out how to solve THAT problem.
Anger will get some of ’em. Passion will get some of ’em. But we need to encourage the disenfranchised to vote…
Just my 2 cents worth – and probably worth less than that…
oops “10% not voting” … I hope that was obvious?
If there are people who are dissuaded from voting by a lack of civility, I think they’re a very small minority. The polls I’ve seen show the #1 reason people give for not voting is not having time, even beating the old “both parties are the same” and other variations of not wanting to vote for any of the options.
And you didn’t get your one phone call? Anyway, you’re plenty masculine obviously bots and sock puppets have zero gender recognition skills. Sad.
See ya later.
Disagreeing with Curt Shilling and James Woods is like telling me you didn’t like The Emoji Movie. I don’t need to hear why. In those instances, you are always going to be correct no matter what.
Patricia Faithfull
And yet POTUS 45 (the fake president) continues to use it as a tool for bullying and belittlement. what a fucking joke. I actually boycotted twitter when he became president for this very reason. Just think, if nobody used it. it would GO AWAY. vote with your apps and for the love of God and all things good – VOTE THIS IDIOT OUT OF OFFICE. Have a great day! – from Canada
cmkneipp
Stand tall, fight the good fight mate. And stick it to those right wing, red delicious loving aRse hat, sock puppets, (obviously I’m Australian, where we have our own arsehole in charge.) PS. Nicest apple I ever had was a variety called a Bonza. It appeared for one season and then vanished again. I blame the bastards from the red delicious lobby.
Try a Mariri Red. It’s a Braeburn mutation which is crisp, juicy and sweet, and all around Best Red Apple (being from NZ, obvs.).
Regarding civility, I think it’s like tolerance – not a good thing in and of itself (depends what you’re tolerating. Other cultures? Good. Domestic abuse? Bad) but it all depends on how you define civility. Is it about acting like an adult, or is it being nicey-nice?
When people start shouting or swearing at me, I stop hearing what they’re saying. The mental mute goes on. So I don’t shout and swear at people when I’m trying to convince them of something. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to excise from my speech anything that might be unwelcome or give offense – not if it’s something that needs to be said. The content may be considered rude, but the delivery doesn’t have to be.
tcinla
October 10, 2018 @ 12:17 PM
Same thing will happen to you on Facebook. I have a right wing troll who’s harassed me for going on 14 years now (despite being referred twice to the FBI and earning actual visits and warnings) who has a following, who likes to gang-report me there – two 30-day suspensions there this year. I now ONLY post to friends, which means that “friends of friends” who may be on my blocked list (this is how the wingnut scum get at me) can’t read my posts anymore. Also new people who might be actual friends cannot, but I think I have enough “friends” there anyway (at least they all buy my books).
Personally, outside of how easy the internet makes actual research nowadays, I’m not all that convinced that the past 30 years of “progress” have been all that progressive.
Paula Apynys
The tweet-thread you’re referencing was terrific! “Civility”, like “logic”, is a TOOL, but many people treat them like they are religions in and of themselves. In politics, GOP is uncivil on every possible level to the farthest extent it can get away with it and only starts yammering about “civility” when pushback becomes overwhelming. When Republican/rightwing voices start calling for “civility” it means they’re on the ropes. Keep them there.
Not to be that person, but this is why I won’t go anywhere near Twitter. It’s just become this toxic shout fest for people with no focus, ethics or clue (like our president). Don’t even have an account, even if it’s to the detriment of my writing career. Is it to the detriment of my writing career? No clue, I have no parallel univerise where I’m a Twitter media darling and have sold a million novels to compare my current experience to.
I think you made a good point about not just relying on social media to get our stuff out there. I go through alternate more old school channels like boards and story pitches.
Keep up the good work, Chuck, you dirty Twitter criminal you. I was debating on whether to sign up for Twitter for future work purposes (trying to get into journalism and become an Enemy of the Country ). I see the benefits but man, the ugliness of it….
susan1859
Maybe you should rant in caps several times a day & include nonsense words and phrases. Unfortunately we, ahem, know THOSE people never get placed in the Twitter pokey……
Gina Groom
Keep up the fight!
This kind of talk of civility always puts me in mind of the parts of Martin Luther King’s writing that people like to ignore. The parts about people who prefer order to justice and negative peace to positive peace.
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
“Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”
I think it’s important for people to keep talking about these issues. There will always be trolls and other people acting in good faith, but you never know how many people are staying silent but thinking about what’s being said.
Whoops, how did I type “good faith” when I obviously meant “bad faith”?
inkgrrl
Boo fuck. Also, how is being labeled the delicious precursor to roasted edamame with sea salt supposed to be an insult? The right-wingers self-own so often it’s barely amusing any more. Oy.
If it’s any consolation, I bought another of your books specifically because of those tweets, so there’s 1+ against an army of bots.
*salutes*
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Judith Sheindlin, better known as Judge Judy, is usually the woman behind the bench, but if the occasion calls for it, she is not afraid to step down. The Emmy Award winner proved that by filing her first lawsuit – Ever.
So what could be worthy of provoking this author and American lawyer to a place that though familiar is far from the reality show she has run since 1996? The answer is using her image.
A P.I. lawyer in Hartford, CT, by the name of John Haymond has been using Judge Judy’s image without apology in pursuit of personal injury clients. According to TMZ, the highest paid TV star was appalled when she became aware that Haymond was using “Judge Judy” clips as well as personal clips with him and his daughter in hopes of increasing business.
Moreover, Judge Judy claims to have never given an endorsement on a product or service to a single person. Maintaining her own independent reputation has always been important to her.
“Without seeking my authorization or consent, Mr. Haymond has taken that choice away from me for his own personal gain. I cannot tolerate that, and intend to hold Mr. Haymond financially responsible for his actions,” said the judge.
And in true Judge Judy fashion, the lawsuit is accompanied with a sure scolding. “Mr. Haymond is a lawyer and should know better,” she said.
The advertisements do not seem to be available anywhere now. Judge Judy potentially achieved what she wanted quite easily; well, almost. She is also seeking $75,000 in damages.
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Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? Buddhism, the philosophy of taking and giving. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? When technology is so advanced that today’s necessities (phone, computer…) is evolved into something else. Are you aware of any conspiracies? Yes, plenty. What is it that interests you about photography? Ambiguity. What is the worst thing about city life? Air pollution. What part of the planet would you like to explore? South pole. Pick a field of science to be an expert within. AI. What moment have you most wished you’d had a camera when you hadn’t? When I found out the memory is not reliable on the details. Choose a job you would be willing to do for free on the side. Volunteer for left-behind children, who lives along in China’s countryside. Describe the most important photo you’ve seen. The only portrait of my grandma who passed away years ago before I was born. How often do you take other people’s advice? I give advice more often than taken from somebody else. Describe a personal hell. Smoke. On what occasion do you lie? Well, I can’t remember. Wait…am I lying right now? What was the last crime you witnessed? Thief. What is the best way to educate yourself? Read with open mind and critical thinking. What is the next book you want to read? La revolution transhumaniste, a book about how biotechnology will change our future. Ultimate camera? The ultimate image-making process is from electrical pulses of brain and nerves. Most used camera? Mamiya 7 What object do you want? Clean air. What object do you need? Clean air. How would you explain the internet to someone from the 1950’s? The thing creates the possibility to reach out to anyone in the world. Describe a cheap thrill. Something I love but I haven’t eaten for a while. The taste of familiarity. Pick an historic moment from the last hundred years to bring a camera to. The fall of Berlin wall. Which talent would you most like to have? I want to learn another language. French or Spanish. What is your plan for the next 24 hours? As usual. Sleep, work and read.
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Vancouver, BC- CANADA: Shia LaBeouf, the awkward-looking “star” of the famously horrific Transformers franchise has, after much consideration, decided on his fallback career. LaBeouf knows that, sooner or later, his luck will run out and moviegoers will realize that he lacks both the talent and the good looks required to be a marquee star. When this happens, the job offers will cease to arrive and he will need a second career. His career of choice? Punching bag.
LaBeouf, who has been beaten up approximately fourteen times by drunk strangers outside of bars in the past three years, claims that the new career path is the most logical. After all, he says, “I’ve gotten enough beatdowns to know what it’s like to be a punching bag.”
Michael Bay, the director of the Transformers films, as well as numerous other films that belong on the list of “Worst Movies Ever Made”, agrees. “I think it’s a brilliant move. I’m sure there are thousands of bar patrons just waiting for the chance to take a swing at Shia.”
“Hell, I’d pay twenty grand to kick him in the balls,” said Megan Fox, his soon-to-be-perpetually-unemployed costar. “And so would a lot of other girls I know. I can’t believe I had to kiss that beast onscreen.”
“I’d offer up three unemployment checks,” says John Parker, an unemployed truck driver who had a run-in with LaBeouf in 2010 outside of a pub in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “The only reason I didn’t hit him then was because he ran like a little bitch.”
“See?” said LaBeouf. “I told you. I’ll get rich off of getting my a** kicked, man. I freaking can’t wait, man.”
Postscript: After leaving the interview, LaBeouf began an argument with a group of lesbian bikers outside of a Popeye’s Chicken in St. Louis, Missouri. According to witnesses, LaBeouf threw a punch at the smallest of the women. She ducked his wild swing and proceeded to beat him senselessly until the police arrived. LaBeouf is currently recovering from his injuries at home and is looking forward to beginning his new career.
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Dr. Prince Yelder is one of the most prolific musicians and composers in the country. He has traveled around the world in music ministry. Prince was born on December 25th, 1966 in Charleston, SC but moved to Birmingham to pursue a career in music. He has traveled many times to Japan conducting seminars on gospel music. Prince is also a composer with the Gospel Music Workshop of America, the largest Gospel convention in the world. Prince recorded his arrangement of “Just A Little Talk With Jesus”with the GMWA in 1996. That song is featured on the CD entitled, “Mercy That Suits”.
He has also recorded with the GMWA Women of Worship. In March 2000, Prince recorded with James Bignon and his 400-voiced mass choir. The tune entitled “He Made The Difference” on that project swept the country. Prince is featured as a lead vocalist and also credited as a session director for the album. In 2003, Rev. Yelder performed with his choir, Disciples for Christ, on the Stellar Awards with Angela Spivey.
He has worked with such notables as Kirk Franklin, Tramaine Hawkins, Douglas Miller, Yvette Plunder, Al Hobbs, Bobby Jones, Timothy Wright, Milton Biggham, Wanda Nero Butler and others. Rev. Yelder just released his own project with the Disciples For Christ entitled “Work It Out” on Malaco Records. While serving as Minister of Music for New Hope Baptist Church, he also serves in capacity as the minister of music or the music director for the Birmingham Community Mass Choir, GMWA Women of Worship, National Baptist Convention USA, Birmingham SCLC, Heaven 610 WAGG radio and Thanksgiving, Praise & Worship Ministries. To find out more, go to www.dfconline.org.
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Led by Dr. Prince E. Yelder, New Hope’s Mass Choir is composed of anointed, talented singers who give rousing performances of praises to God. For three years straight, they have been named “Birmingham’s Best Choir” in a Birmingham News Reader Poll. In 2007, they received a coveted “Hoodie Award” presented by Steve Harvey and have performed at a gubernatorial inauguration as well as during the campaign tour for President Barack Obama. Adult music ministry. Rehearsals: Monday & Tuesdays before the 1st & 5th Sundays 6:30 (Mon.), & 7:15 (Tues) at our Southwest location. Click here to learn more about the Mass Choir.
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Keeping Shabbat not chore, app unnecessary
By Jake Baum
In the modern age of technology, the modern Orthodox world has fallen victim to one of the worst plagues of the 21st century – obsession with cell phones.
It is clear that since the invention of the cell phone, younger Jews, even ones who run in the most religious of circles, have given in to texting on Shabbat. Jews who would otherwise be keeping Shabbat perfectly have fallen prey to the phone obsession and are unable to stay off — even when required by Jewish law during Shabbat.
Enter the Shabbos app. A Kickstarter campaign recently surfaced claiming to be funding a new kind of app called the “Shabbos App,” which would supposedly allow the user to text on Shabbat in accordance with Halacha (Jewish law).
The fundraiser campaign reached its goal faster than the creators anticipated, but the newly-created website showed that it is not an actual “Shabbos App” at all.
The website explains that the original intent of the app was to give those who could not stay off their phones a way to keep Shabbat. In a way, it’s encouraging people to keep breaking Shabbat instead of just giving up their phone for a day – not something I’m very comfortable with.
The developers claim that the app addresses problems with using a phone on Shabbat by muting the sound and periodically erasing the messages so that they are not “permanent writing,” but the facts remain that a phone is still being used. It’s still against Halacha, and it always will be.
Halachic problems aside, the spirit of the app itself seems to come in direct conflict with everything for which Shabbat stands. Shabbat is supposed to be a day during which you can separate yourself from the world and have a personal connection with G-d.
UMD Chabad leader Rabbi Eli Backman asks, “Could you imagine if someone comes out with an app that allows you to quietly text during your next job interview?” He goes on to explain that “Shabbat is a gift which teaches us how to live in the moment … So, why would I want an app to text on Shabbat?”
The app is just unnecessary. I agree with Rabbi Backman when he said that the app contradicts the real purpose of Shabbat. Shabbat is an escape from the week, and creating an app which would allow you to text during it is not just a Halachic problem but actually a slap in the face to G-d himself. It is an affirmation that the traditional nature of Shabbat is not enough for people anymore.
Essentially, against all the overwhelming evidence that the app is simply not fit for Judaism, the developers have set up a battle against G-d himself. If He’s not enough to fill a Shabbat, then can an app really fill the void in our Saturday schedule? That’s one question I certainly don’t need to ask.
The Shabbos app is set to be released Dec. 1. Develop your own opinion about the app by visiting www.shabbosapp.com.
Jake is a freshman international business major. He can be reached at jakebaum1@gmail.com.
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Usually I don’t put much faith into Kickstarters. In the beginning, Kickstarter was a novel concept to help an indy project get funded. The only ones on my radar in the beginning were games and technology, which made sense. Over time it became kinda saturated and I started to not take them seriously anymore. There was a Kickstarter lounge at PAX East this year, but I didn’t really care, although I’m sure there were games in there worth seeing and funding.
This is why I was so surprised when I came across “The Hit Squad” on Twitter; an 8-Bit Pixellated movie about an 80’s band who is trying to reclaim their lost fame in current times. It reminds me of “This is Spinal Tap”. The animation in the trailer is very good, and the humor is promised to be full of pop-culture nods. The most impressive part of it all is that so far it has been animated by just one man, Chris Blundell. He is looking for the final £5,000 to finish the movie and release it to the masses on DVD, Blu-Ray, and DRM-free digital download.
I’m not sure if it’s the determination of Chris that has me interested, or the fact that it looks like a hilarious 8-Bit movie that I really wanna see, but this is the first Kickstarter I have ever pledged for, and I don’t feel bad doing it. Check it out! He only has a few more days left to reach his goal! Also, don’t worry, exchange rate will be calculated on checkout.
UPDATE: It’s been funded!
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Dennis Bonilla
I’m speechless. and I think you will be too when you watch this low-budget Russian video featuring tractors, chickens, and the Russian countryside. The performers lip-synch to Hideaway by Kiesza.
This “Bonya & Kuzmich Russian parody” masterpiece was posted by Paulius Greičius on his YouTube Channel on August 11, 2014.
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Venezuela’s electoral council says President Nicolás Maduro has won re-election, in a vote marred by an opposition boycott and claims of foul play.
Early reports said turnout for the vote was unusually low – only slightly more than 30% of electorate
The main opposition candidate, Henri Falcón rejected the result soon after the polls closed, calling it invalid.
“We do not recognize this electoral process as valid… we have to have new elections in Venezuela,” he said
Mr Falcón earlier alleged that the vote had been rigged in Mr Maduro’s favour, by abuse of the scanning of state-issued benefits card – used for accessing food.
Government officials said the polls were “free and fair” but most of the opposition boycotted the vote.
The administration of the US President Donald Trump has said it will not recognise the result of the elections. Posting on Twitter ahead of the vote, the US mission to the United Nations called the process an “insult to democracy”.
Supporters of Mr Maduro celebrate the results in Caracas
The elections were supposed to be held in December 2018, but the National Constituent Assembly, made up exclusively of Mr Maduro’s supporters, brought them forward.
The opposition Democratic Unity coalition said the elections were moved to take advantage of divisions within the coalition. Its two biggest candidates were also barred from running, and others have fled the country.
Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro divides opinion
To vote or to veto Venezuela’s election
There are a handful of minor candidates but only Mr Falcón, a governor under late President Hugo Chávez, was seen as a viable alternative to President Maduro. He came from the same socialist party as President Maduro, but left in 2010 to join the opposition.
Mr Falcón is the only real contender – but broke ranks with the rest of the opposition
Mr Falcón, who ran despite the boycott, has said he believes the majority of Venezuelans want to remove Mr Maduro from office.
The rest of the opposition, however, has frowned on his breaking ranks – with some even branding him a traitor.
But is the election legitimate or not?
Part of the reason for the opposition boycott was the outcome of elections for state governorships last year. Mr Maduro’s party won 17 of 23 states – and his opponents cried foul.
That was after the company that makes Venezuela’s voting machines said, in July last year, that the figures had been tampered with during the controversial election of the constituent assembly.
Media captionThe search for food in Venezuela
It does not help that the electoral commission is mostly made up of government supporters – like the powerful constituent assembly and the supreme court.
Mr Maduro’s camp has claimed that the election was a fair process.
International observers including the EU and US suggested they might impose sanctions on Venezuela if democracy was undermined, while some of Venezuela’s Latin American neighbours said they might not officially recognise the outcome.
What about ordinary Venezuelan people?
An economic crisis in the country has created an inflation rate measured at several hundred percent, while the economy has shrunk dramatically every year, creating a shortage of basics like food and medicine.
In some poorer parts of the country, 70% of children suffer from malnutrition.
Media captionVenezuelan cash crisis: How a coffee costs wads of banknotes
The national currency, the bolívar, is virtually worthless, and long queues form at banks where there simply isn’t enough cash to make purchases.
Residents carry large bags, filled with banknotes – or try to pay with cards where possible. Faced with the difficulties of life at home, hundreds of thousands have fled the country – many to neighbouring Colombia or Brazil.
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The idea of Texas was forged in the crucible of frontier warfare between 1822 and 1865, when Anglo-Americans adapted to mounted combat north of the Rio Grande. This cavalry-centric arena, which had long been the domain of Plains Indians and the Spanish Empire, compelled an adaptive martial tradition that shaped early Lone Star society. Beginning with initial tactical innovation in Spanish Tejas and culminating with massive mobilization for the Civil War, Texas society developed a distinctive way of war defined by armed horsemanship, volunteer militancy, and short-term mobilization as it grappled with both tribal and international opponents.
Drawing upon military reports, participants’ memoirs, and government documents, cavalry officer Nathan A. Jennings analyzes the evolution of Texan militarism from tribal clashes of colonial Tejas, territorial wars of the Texas Republic, the Mexican-American War, border conflicts of antebellum Texas, and the cataclysmic Civil War. In each conflict Texan volunteers answered the call to arms with marked enthusiasm for mounted combat. Riding for the Lone Star explores this societal passion—with emphasis on the historic rise of the Texas Rangers—through unflinching examination of territorial competition with Comanches, Mexicans, and Unionists. Even as statesmen Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston emerged as influential strategic leaders, captains like Edward Burleson, John Coffee Hays, and John Salmon Ford attained fame for tactical success.
Nathan Jennings is a U.S. Army officer and frontier historian. He earned his master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin and taught history at the U.S. Military Academy. Jennings commanded armored forces in Baghdad and Kirkuk during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Posted on October 9, 2019 by David Swanson
Trump’s Opponents Have Him Beat . . . When It Comes to Incompetence
If Trump were to finally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler and company would not declare it acceptable, absolutely not. But what they would do would be to open a months-long investigation into the history of the victim, what Trump had said earlier in the day, who had manufactured the gun, and — above all — what foreign government they could blame it on.
In fact, I’d be willing to wager that if Trump were to vomit on Nancy Pelosi’s head, she would open a very serious and lengthy series of investigations into whether he’d had any foreign food to eat.
Do you doubt it? Let’s examine the evidence.
Trump moved into the White House in blatant and unprecedented and quintessentially impeachable violation of both of the emoluments clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Yes, there are two but one has nothing to do with foreigners, so you may not have heard those of us screaming about it for the past three years.
Before and after he took office (during both of which time periods, yes, impeachable offenses can be and obviously were committed) Trump incited violence, and interfered with voting rights, and bought the silence of witnesses to his past deeds. He quickly pursued policies that discriminated on the basis of religion. He inherited and continued and escalated several illegal wars, including some he’d promised to end. He took the drone murder program to new heights. He publicly threatened nuclear war on two countries — endangering the life of all humanity. He intentionally exacerbated climate collapse. He blatantly abused the pardon power. He aggressively obstructed justice. He declared phony emergencies explicitly in order to violate the law.
Trump was just warming up, and feeling out his nominal “opposition.” He politicized prosecutions. He colluded with a foreign government against the interests of the United States; but it was Israel, so nobody cared. He chose not to prepare for or assist the victims of major hurricanes. He began yanking children away from their families and locking them up in cages. He openly told the Border Patrol to violate the law, exactly as he’d told his campaign supporters. He lied and lied and lied publicly and shamelessly, knowing that we knew that he knew that we knew. He threatened journalists. He tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela. He refused to comply with subpoenas. He illegally and recklessly pursued the sharing of nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia. He illegally ripped up a key arms control treaty with Russia and watched Congress roll over, whimper for a moment, and then bounce back up to continue fantasizing about Trump being Russia’s slave.
Trump sold weapons to Ukraine, blocked Russian energy deals, forced NATO members to buy more weapons, continued the militarization of the border of Russia, sanctioned and expelled Russian officials, rejected numerous Russian overtures on space weapons, cyber wars, etc., bombed Russian troops in Syria, and generally escalated the new cold war. And rather than seeking to protect the planet, what did the “opposition” in the United States Congress do? They pretended that Trump was serving Russian interests because he’d been urinated on.
Fascists have been calling liberals’ bluffs for a century. They hold the world records in bluff calling. Hitler asked the nations of the world to take the Jews. He’d put them all on luxury cruise ships if anyone would take them, he claimed. Virtually nobody would, and for explicitly anti-Semitic reasons. So Hitler decided he’d kill them, and no liberal governments would really care.
Trump has been calling Nancy Pelosi’s pathetic face-shaking-tell bluff for years now. A couple of weeks ago the news was that finally a pseudo-whistleblower(s) had found something the Democrats in Congress could care about other than Russia. It was Ukraine, and a refusal to sell more weapons, and — of course — this they generally blamed on Russia. So, it was still Russiagate, except that it was actually true. Win win.
What did Trump do? He decided to publicly appeal to China for dirt on Joe Biden while Democrats were pretending to “investigate” Trump’s appeal to Ukraine for the same. He also threatened to kill the Ukraine “whistleblower.” He doubled down, and Pelosi folded like a cheap Constitution. So, Trump announced that he simply would not comply with an impeachment investigation, which is of course an impeachable offense in itself.
When Trump did publicly with China what he’d done privately with Ukraine, Congress Members could have announced the need for no further “research” and voted to impeach Trump forthwith. Instead, they re-focused on their Ukraine “investigations.”
Now, you might argue that Trump is no more the sharpest tool in the shed than is Jerrold Nadler, given that Trump already knew what Joe Biden had done in Ukraine and had no more need to ask Zelensky about it than the Democrats have to ask if Trump owns the Trump Hotels. But Trump was after sugary icing. The Democrats are after their own principle diet, namely time. They eat up time until they starve. They may bring down Biden in the process, too, which would help them ironically, unless they substitute someone even worse. They may push us over the edge to nuclear Armageddon as well. But they will at least have eaten up some time.
Next Trump pulled troops out of Syria, and warmongers joined up with partisans to oppose any troop withdrawals ever from anywhere, just as they’d done on Korea. But not one voice said Trump should have sent in unarmed nonviolent protectors and actual humanitarian aid. Nobody questioned the unmatched wisdom of selling weapons to Turkey with which to attack all variety of U.S.-armed fighters in Syria. Nobody proposed any diplomacy or disarmament. Withdrawing troops is always bad, and selling weapons is always good.
But, there’s a catch. Withdrawing troops is legal, and generally popular. Perhaps Trump was corrupted by Turkish money. But creating the standard that one must prove a corrupting influence is actually a way to block an impeachment on emoluments. In reality, no such proof is required for an impeachment on violation of emoluments clauses. And failing to continue a criminal and murderous enterprise is not an abuse of power at all, even if purchased by Turkey.
So, in the end, Syria is a perfect angle for the destruction of the impeachment process begun in the era of Bill Clinton. It’s an ideal means by which Speaker Pelosi, in her unmatched genius, can shoot herself properly in the foot.
If Pelosi’s foot were on Fifth Avenue, she’d hand Donald Trump a gun and ask him to shoot it. The media would be shocked into announcing an urgent need to study the possible necessity of considering background checks.
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S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF products track a basket of stocks that have increased dividends for at least 25 consecutive years.
If you have a large portfolio then you may find the most cost effective way to purchase this basket of stocks is best served by purchasing the securities individually, rather than paying a 0.35% MER (Management Expense Ratio). However, the headache of re-balancing and tracking additions and disposals is something many investors do not want, and it can be expensive, which is exactly why the Dividend Aristocrats ETF was created. Learn more about the Dividend Aristocrats and download the data for the full Dividend Aristocrats List.
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Difference Between Dividend Aristocrats ETFs and Indices
Dividend Aristocrats ETF Comparison
ProShares Dividend Aristocrats Index Overview
ProShares Dividend Aristocrats Index Performance
S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index Overview
S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index Performance
This is the Difference between Dividend Aristocrats ETFs and Indices:
An index is a theoretical composition of stocks that make up a certain group, in this case Dividend Aristocrats. The index does not actually hold the stocks and is cannot be invested in by itself, which is where ETF’s come into play. The ETF seeks to mimic the performance of the index, and can be invested in. This is the primary difference between the index and ETF, only the Dividend Aristocrats ETF can be invested in, but it seeks to match the performance of the Dividend Aristocrats Index.
Since the ETF tracks the index the performance of the two will not always be the same, additionally, the ETF has management fees that create drag on performance. Nonetheless, over time the ETF does do a fairly good job of tracking the underlying index.
Now, let’s Compare the different Dividend Aristocrats ETF Products
If you want to own a basket of good dividend stocks with a solid history of consecutive dividend increases using an ETF is an efficient way to do this. There are two choices of dividend aristocrats ETF’s with a few key differences:
NOBL Aristocrats ETF SDY Aristocrats ETF
Name ProShares S&P500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF SPDR S&P Dividend ETF
Ticker NYSEARCA:NOBL NYSEARCA:SDY
Selection Set S&P 500 S&P 1500
Inception Date 10/9/2013 11/8/2005
Gross Expense Ratio 0.58% 0.35%
Assets Under Management $2.1 billion $14.7 billion
Performance Since Inception 13.99% 8.89%
Yield 1.78% 2.35%
Number of Holdings 50 109
P/E Ratio 21x 22x
Based on the statistics above, what we notice most is how much better the NOBL index has done since inception. Now, this is somewhat biased as the SDY index has been in existence for longer and this includes during the global financial crisis which significantly impacts its results since inception. Looking at the performance of the two dividend aristocrats ETFs since NOBL’s inception we can see that it still significantly outperforms the SDY index. You get a smaller yield, but a higher quality basket of stocks.
Source: Google Finance.
Digging into the ProShares Dividend Aristocrats Index Overview:
This ProShares Index tracks the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index and can be found under the ticker symbol NOBL, it has $2.4B of assets under management and trades about 380,000 units per day. The NOBL ETF has a minimal expense ratio of 0.35%, which is consistent with other similar active ETF’s. But, its likely much cheaper than purchasing this basket of stocks on your own. After all, buying and maintaining a portfolio of 50 Dividend Aristocrats is not realistic for most investors. This index has a 1.8% dividend yield and a beta of 0.92, indicating it largely tracks the broader market.
The NOBL ETF focuses only on Dividend Aristocrats with at least 25 consecutive years of dividend increases. It attempts to capture the historical outperformance that has been seen by dividend growers over time, while outperforming the S&P 500, and at a lower volatility.
Source: ProShares.
ProShares NOBL Aristocrats index is heavily weighted towards consumer staples (27%), Industrials (16%), and Health Care (14%). It differs from many other large cap dividend ETF’s in that financials at only 12% comprise a relatively small portion of the index.
Specifically, the top 10 companies held by this dividend aristocrats ETF are below:
Top 10 ETF Holdings
McCormick & Co. 2.3%
Cincinnati Financial Corp. 2.3%
AT&T Inc. 2.2%
C. R. Bard Inc. 2.2%
The Clorox Co. 2.2%
Consolidated Edison Inc. 2.2%
Sysco Corp. 2.2%
Medtronic PLC 2.1%
Cintas Corp. 2.1%
Kimberly-Clark Corp. 2.1%
ProShares Dividend Aristocrats Index Performance:
The chart below shows the performance since the NOBL Dividend Aristocrats ETF began, which has shown strong out-performance against the S&P, particularly since the start of 2016. We also note that it has tracked the index very well, but is slightly lower, which we would expect due to the inevitable drag created by the management expense. This ETF has only existed since the end of 2013, but if you had invested $10,000 in the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF you would now have about $14,500 compared to only $13,500 if you had purchased the broader S&P 500 index.
S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index (SDY) Overview:
So, the SDY Aristocrats ETF seeks to replicated the performance of the highest dividend yielding stocks in the S&P 1500 Index. Above all, the main criteria for member selection is to pick companies that have had a history of consecutive dividend increases for more than 20 years.
This ETF has been around since the end of 2005 giving it a longer history than the NOBL ETF. It carries a 0.35% Expense Ratio, similar to the NOBL ETF. The SDY etf has a yield of 2.35%, which includes the 0.35% expense ratio. Additionally, it has a forward P/E of 20x which makes it somewhat expensive. Finally, there are 107 stocks currently held by the index, giving it a much wider coverage than the NOBL ETF, the reason is that the SDY index has a much broader selection set to pick its securities from as it pulls from the S&P 1500 compared to NOBL who uses only stocks in the S&P 500.
The largest portion of the SDY Dividend Aristocrats ETF are financials as 24%, industrials at 16%, and consumer staples at 13%.
Source: State Street.
Top 10 Holdings Weight
HCP Inc. 2.70%
People’s United Financial Inc. 1.94%
Caterpillar Inc. 1.73%
AT&T Inc. 1.73%
Chevron Corporation 1.61%
Old Republic International Corporation 1.52%
AbbVie Inc. 1.52%
International Business Machines Corporation 1.47%
Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. 1.45%
Emerson Electric Co. 1.44%
S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index (SDY) Performance:
The SDY has performed closely with its benchmark index, the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index, the difference between the two would be the result of the MER which causes drag on the SDY ETF compared to the underlying index.
Additional resources to learn more about Dividend Aristocrats ETFs:
S&P Dividend Aristocrats List
ProShares aristocrats ETF
State Street aristocrats ETF
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Under Armour 3rd Rail Jam
January 5, 2012 - "Returning for its 5th consecutive year, 3rd Rail Jam, a national grassroots snow sport competition coupled with live hip-hop music, art, fashion, technology and culture, today announced the official lineup for the upcoming 2012 events. Created by Timmy Grins and Pat Hession and sponsored by Under Armour, the leader in athletic apparel, 3rd Rail Jam unites some of the nation’s best amateur skiers and riders with local graffiti artists, underground hip-hop artists, DJs and break dance crews."
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Gore Mountain Opens Only Halfpipe in the East
January 5, 2012 - Despite mother nature's uncooperative efforts this winter season, Gore Mountain's new snowmaking machines made up for the lack of snow. With hard work, the resort opened up the only halfpipe available in the east coast. In addition, there are 12 miles of ski runs open to skiers and snowboarders of all levels. - G.W.
Art in the Sky
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Freeskiing World Tour and Swatch Freeride World Tour Join Forces
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Vote the Republican platform
Don Sorchych
The news of the day is dangerous and horrible, mostly due to the stranglehold held by major media for Democrat rule and damning Republicans for the wrong reasons.
Now Trump is being excoriated for being a man. He is no different than most men and I have had a lifetime of experience. I heard similar and worse in high school football, baseball and track locker rooms. I was in the Navy for four years and sailors are notorious for trash talk.
God in his infinite wisdom made woman attractive to men and men attractive to women. If he hadn’t we would have not have births or civilization.
Comparing Trump’s talk to Hillary’s many crimes is not even close.
Remember, no Republican voted for the disastrous Obamacare. Nor were Republicans responsible for the quick rise of ISIS. Voting for Hillary is more of the same and we would lose more freedoms with her as president. Her appointments to the Supreme Court would ensure the loss of our precious Constitution and our country as we remember it. My suspicion is George Soros will be in the background running our government as he has been with Obama.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been voted into office since 1993. Among other things, he investigated Obama’s birth through the Cold Case Posse. Here is what an out of control U.S. government has done:
“An announcement was made the day before early voting starts in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s bid for a seventh term as metro Phoenix’s top law enforcer, his toughest fight yet after more than two decades in office. Arpaio, who calls himself “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” made a name for himself cracking down on illegal immigration and forcing jail inmates to wear pink underwear.
“The charges were revealed at a hearing to discuss issues raised by another judge’s request that Arpaio face criminal contempt charges after refusing to stop targeting Latinos in patrols.
“Prosecutor John Keller said in court that the government will bring charges, with the next step being a court filing that’s akin to a criminal complaint.
”Arpaio could face up to six months in jail if convicted of misdemeanor contempt. Arpaio has already been found guilty of civil contempt of court in relation to the patrols.”
Imagine being arrested for doing your job. Arpaio was arresting illegal aliens, isn’t that his job? All law enforcement profile. Latinos are about 17 percent of the U.S. population so why wouldn’t enforcement go where the illegals are?
Federal Judge G. Murray Snow, the Bush appointee whose wife told a friend her husband vowed to do all he could to prevent Arpaio’s reelection, threw the book at him. He was pushed during the trial by Hispanic activists of the worst kind. They are the kind of activists who claim we stole the Southwest and they were going to take it back. They have nearly done that in California and we are next.
The only way our Joe will be saved is if Trump becomes President, so vote for The Donald!
Right now RINO Republicans are playing holier than thou and dropping their support of Trump. RINO Juan (sic) McCain is one, so is house speaker Paul Ryan and 25 more.
Republicans have both houses of Congress thanks to the Tea Party and what thanks did they get? Republicans spit in their face and did nothing to reverse the damage done by the Democrat IRS.
Republican politicians did nothing for border crossers even though they promised to stop illegal immigration for decades. They had joined hands with Democrats and it is well known that despite their promises, they wanted to drive wages down while Democrats wanted, and got, their votes.
The recent primary elections exposed the Republican Establishment which controls the government. The Establishment fears Trump because his first policy statement that got the public’s attention was a border fence and deportation of illegal aliens. The silent majority finally sensed a man who wasn’t an establishment troll. He proclaimed other government fixes that had promise, but the earlier promise makers had lied.
The establishment tried every trick to deny Trump but finally in despair, they gave up and slowly previous Trump deniers offered their support.
NBC gave them an opportunity by airing an 11-year-old statement they gauged as anti-woman and immoral. It was, in fact, a typical man statement which few politicians will admit. Most of them can easily imagine themselves in his place and feel lucky Trump is under fire.
So now some Republicans have what they wanted and are happy to dump Trump to save their Congressional seats even though they face a high risk of finishing off what Obama started by destroying our country. House Speaker Ryan even preached to Republicans to concentrate on getting reelected
Trump needs congressional support to make his programs work, but he has now said his job is made easier with obstacles out of the way.
In any case vote for Trump. He is our country’s last hope. Vote Republican for House and Senate.
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Vietnam’s economic development to 2025: Two optimistic scenarios
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Helmets for Kids expands to serving ethnic minority children in Vietnam
16:21 | 24/10/2016 Economy- Society
(VEN) - To increase helmet use rates of children within the provinces of Dong Nai, Gia Lai, and Quang Nam, AIP Foundation, supported by Johnson & Johnson, will provide 21 primary schools in these provinces with 5,300 high quality helmets and road safety education under the Helmets for Kids program throughout the current school year.
Today (October 24, 2016), members of the Gia Lai Province, which has a high population of ethnic minority groups, joined local community members and student representatives from six of the project schools to kick off the Helmets for Kids program. The program will continue throughout the school year.
Government representatives and distinguished guests attended the event, including Mr. Tran Huu Minh, Deputy Chief of the Secretariat of the National Traffic Safety Committee; Mr. Duong Van Ba, Deputy Director of the Student Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education and Training; Ms. Sandra Shibukawa Lee, Director of Worldwide Fleet Safety for Johnson & Johnson; Mr. Gabriel Kardos, Fleet Safety Manager for Johnson & Johnson in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; leaders from Johnson & Johnson Vietnam; and Ms. Mirjam Sidik, CEO of AIP Foundation. The Gia Lai Traffic Safety Committee, including representatives from Gia Lai’s Department of Transportation, Department of Education and Training, Traffic Police, Women’s Union, Farmer’s Union, Chu Pah Bureau of Education and Training, Chu Pah People’s Committee, and the Pleiku Youth Union, as well as members of the media, were also in attendance.
“We’re thrilled to support the Helmets for Kids program in this often overlooked rural community,” Jason Carroll, Managing Director of Johnson & Johnson Vietnam, said. “Road safety is imperative to all societies, and we are proud to instill road safety into their daily lives and help create long-term solutions for them.”
“Vietnam has been a world leader in implementing a motorcycle helmet wearing policy, however the child helmet wearing rate is still low in some areas,” Mr. Tran Huu Minh, Deputy Chief of the Secretariat of the National Traffic Safety Committee, said. “Children can be particulalry vulnerable to death or injury during a road crash. Johnson & Johnson and AIP Foundation’s work in Vietnam enhances our ability to build a better future for our country.”
Program activities, including teacher trainings, occurred in May of this year in the three project provinces. Some participating schools have helmet use rates as low as 14.9%, and are located in busy areas near markets and major roads. Over the past five years, Johnson & Johnson has donated more than 45,000 helmets to children through the Helmets for Kids program.
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Map of the Abandoned Rails of Gallatin, TN to Scottsville, KY
Gallatin, TN to Scottsville, KY
Home | KY , TN | C&N , C&O , L&N , SBD
Note: Drawn from the web site below, and the archives of The Tennessean Newspaper.
As early as the 1870s, railroad surveyors from the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad Company had plans for a railroad from Gallatin to Scottsville. However, the financial ruin of some of the stockholders of that company resulted in the rights-of-way being transferred to the Chesapeake and Nashville Railroad Company.
This line was built in the 1880s, and to get a straight path, the railroad had to make a deep cut through solid rock close to what is now downtown Westmoreland, TN. This cut and the line have achieved some notoriety for the still-standing Westmoreland Littlest Tunnel.
At forty-six and a half feet in length, it's reported to be the shortest railroad tunnel in the United States and possibly the world. The story is that when the cut was dug, the farmer that owned the property, George Washington "Wash" Minnick would have no way to move his cows from one side of the land to the other. The railroad is said to have constructed the tunnel to satisfy the farmer's needs. A second tunnel on the route, two miles south of Westmoreland was called The Big Tunnel.
In July of 1906, the line was sold to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad which had an interchange at Gallatin. One historian said that the L&N bought up several of these short lines just to insure the protection of its territory.
During its prime, the line carried oil south from Scottsville, KY, as well as strawberries, timber, livestock and passengers. Westmoreland saw as many as eight trains a day during the line's best years. Many rail passengers came to the area for lodging at the nearby Epperson Springs Hotel. The 170-room hotel was famous for the supposed medicinal value of the various sulphur waters found there. A fire destroyed the hotel in the 1920s, ending the need for passenger service.
A problem with the route was that it had many high trestles and the maintenance cost of the trestles outweighed the revenue. Another fact that was said to have done in the line was that it didn't connect to another railroad at Scottsville, KY. On December 10th, 1976 the line was abandoned and the rails were pulled up shortly after.
In 1977, the Westmoreland Littlest Tunnel was appointed to the National Register of Historic Places.
On August 24th, 2004, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen and Senator Jo Ann Graves announced that the state was granting the town of Westmoreland just over $106,000 to assist in the preservation and rehabilitation of the Littlest Tunnel. Representative Mike McDonald also helped in securing the grant to repair erosion damages to the site.
Thanks to Howard E. Espravnik for contributing information.
Bridge abutments on Rogana Road, near Bethpage, TN. Photo by Howard E. Espravnik.
The right-of-way is fairly clear further south near Rogana Road. Photo by Howard E. Espravnik.
Could this be the base of a former water tower? Photo by Howard E. Espravnik.
Bridge supports in Bledsoe Creek, just off Rogana Road. Photo by Howard E. Espravnik.
The Littlest Tunnel, in city limits of Westmoreland, TN. Photo by Howard E. Espravnik.
Littlest Tunnel, in Westmoreland, TN. Photo by Howard E. Espravnik.
Tunnel Road in Westmoreland passes over the top of the Littlest Tunnel. Photo by Howard E. Espravnik.
I know that somewhere in the gravel and sand of that tunnel toward the middle next to the wall is $1 and 38 cents I lost in 1969. I was visiting my great Uncle. I went to go outside and play while the Adults talked and wandered up to the tracks (where I was told not to go). And while I was trying to loosen a spike for a souvenir, I lost my money. That was what I was going to use to buy 3 matchbox cars...
Robert Metzger
Pendleton, FL
The depot in Scottsville, KY is still in existence.
Kenton Dickerson
I'm so glad to find this site! I was trying to figure out what bridge the old bridge pylons located over Trammel Creek just north of Petroleum (south of Scottsville) belonged to. I was able to confirm the presence of a L&N railroad bridge in the area, and the map above confirmed the tracks would have crossed the bridge. Shame I cannot find a picture of the bridge, it must have been pretty impressive.
Growing up in Scottsville I remember driving by the old wooden trestle on the Gallatin Road. I also remember seeing a photograph in an office one time of the train crossing the trestle. I wish I knew where that photo was at now. There used to be several places along the Gallatin Road where you could view where the tracks had been. I'm sure the grass and trees have taken over pretty good by now.
My dad owns a section of the old rail road. Where it crosses Shooting Hill Rd and goes up the driveway is where our property begins. we have found literaly tons of plates and spikes. theres even a concrete marker on our land. i've looked for pictures of the land back in the day because there used to be a house or depot there.
Adolphus , KY
I have some photos along this line. Some of them will be used in an upcoming book 'The Louisville & Nashville Railroad in South Central Kentucky' set for release in March 2012.
Wouldn't it be great to make this into a recreation trail?
Walt Mobley
the depot in scottsville is now a headstart school
westmoreland, TN
I would like some old pics of the Westmoreland to Scottsville part of the railroad , especially the Scottsville, Ky. depot and trestles.....
DEBBIE HAYCRAFT
CLARKSON, KY
I grew up in the Bransford (Bethpage) area, just walking distance from the Railroad tracks. My two Brothers and my Sister and myself used to walk the trestle sometimes. It crossed over a creek and a road. Our Parents were at work, so this was our secret for many years. I'm not sure what ear they took the trestle down. I moved away to another town for several years but in 1989 my Husband and I bought a house and moved back to the Bransford area. Our house is right across the road from where the Railroad used to run on Old 31 E. The Littlest Tunnel is just a few miles from my house. I take my Grandkids to see it alot. They think it's so neat to go there. The Westmoreland Public Library has some very old pictures of the Tunnel when it was in use.
Bethpage, TN
Actually Tony, the old Depot in Scottsville is till visible from East Main Street, and is part of a lumber yard. The headstart building you mentioned is the original site of the Dollar General Warehouse. The L & N tracks passed behind Dollar General, with a roundabout between between it and the Depot. The original D.G. building was demolished a few years back, and a facimile was built that contains various community services.
Scottsville, KY
My Grandmother mentioned that some of her folks owned a green house near the railroad.There was a trestle nearby and the train fell from it.The house was used as a makeshift hospital during the time of that accident.I have searched and can't find out any more information on it.If anyone has any information about the accident I would be interested in knowing the story. Thanks in advance
Nick Kirby
Lafayette, TN
I think that I read somewhere that there also was another larger tunnel somewhere near Westmoreland. Does anyone know where that was? Is there anything left of it?
Howard Espravnik
Yes, there is another tunnel near Petroleum community in Allen County, Kentucky on this abandoned line.
Kevin Comer
I mentioned earlier that there was another Tunnel between Scottsville and Petroleum. To clarify, I meant in addition to the two other tunnels. This one passes under a road and is filled in on the north end. The little tunnel at Westmoreland is the most well known and two miles south of it, there is the largest tunnel on the line.
we have a tunnel south of Portland Tn,which use to be named Richland,before the Civial War Erra. cause of its rich dark soil for crops like Tobacco-Strawberries-Corn-Cotton. the tunnel is south Buck Lodge Tn,.it had 2 Siding at the Depot telegraph office.so that trains would not run into each other going south and going north.from Gallatin Tn,.
The trestle at Petroleum across the Trammel Creek was about a quarter of a mile across and about 90 feet high. I found a picture of it at a local restaurant who has old pictures of Scottsville area.
Mike Dale
Adolphus, KY
Not only is that definitely the base of the former water tank at Rogana but I have a picture of it that was taken in the 20's.
Joy Alexander
Rogana, TN
I grew up with the train you are talking about. We lived next to the old water tower and the train past by in front of our home. I have walked the trestle that use to span across where Big and Little Trammel creeks come together. There is another tunnel and other trestles. I have old pictures of the train, water tower, and tracks. If interested you can email me.
Dwight Carter
Petroleum,Ky, KY
The 1870 history and pictures can be seen at the Scottsville Ky, library.they have all kinds of picts of Steam Engines-and wrecked Engines-landmarks-Stop off at Westmoreland Tn,for passengers to go up to the Epperson springs hotel for the Menerial baths and to the market place of trade. but the hotel burned down.1920s the public didnt stop off there anymore. this caused a lot of money loss to the Railroad for repairs to the wood work to colaps causeing not enough money for repair to keep the railroad going on.and all the Depots-turn arounds.also you would see pictures before they were torn out-torn down-or burned down.and the wrecks of trussels colaps Engines fall into creeks-valleys of rain wash out.and deteriation of the bridges-Tunnels-and the Crossties under the rails. The switch from north bound Gallatin Tn,to switch off East to Hartsville Tn, was a crucial part of delivery.after the civil war,the rebels would damage the switch so meny times that they had to stop the Engine 1/8th mile back walk to the switch to make sure it wasnt booby traped to crash the Steam Engine going north to Scottsville Ky,with supplys. also coming back from Ky,with loades of Cotton Livestock and Oil from Petrolium Ky,to deliver on to Hartsville Tn.to be boarded on barges for travel this caused a on going battel with the rebels and railroad to keep up with the public demands for supplys. the Railroad finnaly gave up 1976 and pulled up most of the tracks to recover some loss for debt and repairs.
Portland , TN
The September 2015 Issue of The Kentucky Explorer magazine features the Allen County Railroad and names some of the stations, list of names in a labor receipt for the Trammel trestle construction, and some of the research I have acquired in relation to the railway including the name of the overseer of the construction of the railway in the late 1880s. You can contact THE KENTUCKY EXPLORER to acquire a copy of that month. I also have collected some of the events of the railroad trestle collapse on the Highland Rim in the 1890's. My information includes the names of the dead that day and the following week from the wreck, the story of the conductor buying a tin of butter at Bransford and finding the tin in the wreckage. Allen County Sheriff was aboard but not injured. An eyewitness account is in the TN Supreme Court case about five years after the collapse. I have a reference of a derailment of a circus train on the line but have yet to find information about the details. There are opportunities for research if anyone enjoys the time of reading and searching out our railroad in Sumner County TN and Allen County KY
H D Overholt
Oh yes Nick Kirby it is about 2 1/2 mile south of the littliest tunnel toward Bethpage Tn, On a warm day in April I would take a hike from Bethpage Tn. you can follow on out up the path that you can see the trees are separated by a path where the rails use to be. a real nice walk in the country and Imagine what it was like when you walk up or down the path. and all of a sudden I could hear a faint cry of a steam whistle going off in a distance makes the hair rise on the back of your neck. the thrill is now on. i want to do the rest of the trail to Scottsville Ky, parts of the tunnel still standing.
Portland Tn, TN
Hey Kevin I would like to get copys of your pictures to go along with my album.thank you
Thank you H D Overhalt you have a lot of good information of the rail road. I enjoy reading every ones comments.I try to get as much info as I can from Gallatin Tn library- Westmoreland Tn,Library-and Scottsville Ky,library as well. I enjoy the reading of the past.
Walt Mobley Yes Sir.it would. It is a adventure to do afew years back when I did this. but the property has been sold to others and fenced off like they don't want anyone to Treass pass on there property anymore. It would make a wonderful trail. pack some snack for the walk then stop off at Bethpage for lunch. then proceed on up to Westmoreland Tn, take a supper break. then proceed on up to Scottsville Ky, get a motel. then return back on down where you parked your car or truck. and return back to the old grind of the real world.
A project has been started within the Allen County Historical Society to restore the L&N depot in Scottsville. A grant has been approved for the purchase. This will be followed by fundraising and grant applications to begin the restoration. A museum is planned in part of the depot. Anyone who is interested in contributing or loaning items may contact me. I will be posting further information as the project proceeds.
Mark Huntsman
Thank you very much Mark Huntsman for that Information. I would like to be there at ground breaking.I would like to bring some items that I had collected over a period of years.I use to make Ho scale.4'x 8'x 3/8" plywood layouts of Nashville Tn- Gallatin Tn, to Portland Tn, then on up to Bowling green Ky- Louisville Ky, which is L&N Rail Road. I made 1 for a Dr, St,Thomas Hospital 20yrs ago.1 for a Lawyer 5 years ago in Cookville Tn,
The Scottsville Depot now has a web site with a few pictures and other info: http://www.scottsvilletraindepot.com/ There are plans to restore the old depot and funds are being raised.
Scott Gilbert
The Allen County Historical Society is raising funds to return one of the last two locomotives to serve Scottsville and Allen County. We have Tshirts with the L&N logo on the front and a train schedule of the Gallatin-Scottsville Branch on the back with all the stops between those two towns. Available from the Society in Scottsville or by calling 270-622-8951. Cost-$15.00 plus shipping. See the shirt at www.scottsvilletraindepot.com or on our Facebook page.
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Map of the Abandoned Rails of Cheraw, SC to Wadesboro, NC
Cheraw, SC to Wadesboro, NC
Winston-Salem Southbound Railway
Forwarded from Winston-Salem Southbound Railway
Home | NC , SC | ACL , C&CF , C&D , C&S , SCL , W-SS
This section was constructed before 1870 as part of an extension of the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad. This construction was possibly part of the Cheraw and Salisbury and Cheraw & Coal Fields Railroads. The C&D was pulled into the ACL of SC in 1897, and then became part of the ACL in 1900.
The line gained new importance by 1910 when the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway was built as a joint venture between the ACL and the Norfolk and Western between Winston-Salem and Wadesboro. This line formed a route by which coal and other products from central North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia made their way down to Charleston via Cheraw, Darlington, Florence and then on the old Northeastern Railroad to Charleston. With the merger of ACL and SAL in 1967, this line became unnecessary as tonnage from the W-SS could access the former SAL main at Wadesboro and then make its way to Charleston by other routes. SCL abandoned this section in the mid-1970s.
Towns on the abandoned line from Cheraw going north are Laney, McFarlane, Morven and to W-S Junction just east of Wadesboro.
The former Cheraw to Wadesboro line as it crosses SC 9 in Cheraw. Railroad power pole still exists to the left, and the foundation of the crossing signal is on the right.
The old depot in Morven, NC. Note the old flag signal still in place. The tracks ran on the right side of the depot. US Route 52 still crosses to former ROW on a bridge at Morven. Photo by Whit Whitaker.
That photo of the SC 9 crossing is of my backyard! Even though the crossing is gone, the tracks are gone, and the feed mill that the tracks serviced is gone, one lonely RR Crossing sign still stands on Market Street facing to the west.
George Proctor
Cheraw, SC
When I lived here from 76 thru 80 the Carolina feed mill was still being serviced. In 76 their would still be a train now and then from Wadesboro.
George Proctor SR
Being a truck driver I see my fair share of abandoned rail lines throughout the southeast and I just have to say Cheraw is a small goldmine for guys who want to go explore old lines. I would love to if I could buy maybe someone from the area could go snap some pictures of the other lines and spurs in town?
Brent H
the line was in place in 1980. The WSS steam trip turned on the wye which was the connection from WSS to ACL ( SCL).
In early 1940's my mother would take me from where we lived on the Watson place across the fields and woods on Mr.Clyde Laneys place to this raildroad which took us to Laney siding where she would buy snuff.Had to be Railroad Mills snuff. Nothing else would do. She would sometimes have
enough to get a Red Rock cola and then we would head back up that railroad cut back across the woods the field to the house. Life was good.
Boss Hanna
Cheraw,SC, SC
As late as 1993, the section at Cheraw still exist from the Seaboard crossing well across SC 9. In addition to the feed mill, the stub had also served a few other businesses (I believe a scrap dealer was one of them.). By 1993, the line was dormant, but what was interesting (to me, at least) was there was a former ACL semaphore still protecting the crossing with the Seaboard! And if that wasn't interesting enough, the Seaboard side had a searchlight signal! Unfortunately, all of this was on borrowed time.....by the spring of 1994, the diamond as well as all remaining trackage north of the SAL was taken up (a short section south of it still exist as of 2015). I've wished I've taken photos of it when I had the chance.??
Robyn Watkins
Was There A Underpass Where US 74 Is? Where The Tracks Crossed
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Art Fusco
Scribe's Journal
NCPD History
Before First Contact
Frank Kimball
Local Newspaper Clippings
National City Group Calls for Police Chief's Firing! (11/13/1987)
National City Group Calls for Police Chief's Firing!
C.C.R. Calls Chief of Police Incompetent
By Daniel L. Munoz
National City - The election have passed but the fallout over the strongly contested Proposition O in National City continues. Tuesday night's Council meeting discussed ways and means to build a police station, in spite of voter rejection of Prop O. It has provided a forum for Herman Baca and the Committee on Chicano Rights to demand the firing of National City Police Chief Terry Hart.
"The City Council received a strong message from the voters," Herman Baca, Chairman of the Committee on Chicano Rights (CCR), told the City Council. "Chief hart has mis-administered the Police Department. He has threatened National City voters and has used his offices for political purposes."
Baca and his organization made Prop O a referendum on t he National City Police Department which has in the past been in conflict with the Committee on Chicano Rights over alleged abuse and mistreatment of the City's Mexican residents. "We need a blue ribbon panel to investigate the police department," said Baca. "A strong look has to be taken into the Department's policies, practices and procedures. A 'Civilian Review Board' composed of a cross section of the community with subpoena powers needs to be established by the City Council to investigate all citizen complaints against the Police Department. Until this is done, there can be no support for the Police Department," he said.
Police Chief Hart, at one time during the campaign for the passage of PROP O, threatened the City Council that he would resign and take 30 to 40 of his officers with him if he didn't get a new police station. If carried out, the Department would have lost over half of its personnel.The citizens and City Council took offense at the Chief's threat and forced him to retract his statements.
According to Baca, the issue at stake was not the building of a police station but the operation of the Police Department which is perceived by the Mexican residents as a racist oppressive police force.
Too often in the past, our civil and constitutional rights have been trampled upon by these same officers. At no time, have efforts been made to meet the community half way and seek resolutions to these problems. Chief hart and his Department have been chastised, condemned and charged with unprofessional conduct, racism in its practices, and overzealous in the use of force against Mexicans by law enforcement professionals," pointed out Baca.
During the Council meeting, Chief Hart sat in the back of the crowded chambers. He refused to make comments to the media after the council meeting and left quietly. Mayor George Waters and the City Council took note of the CCR's presentation but made no motion or resolution that would have indicated that they are listening to the voters of National City. City Hall sources informed La Prensa, that the Mayor and Council did not consider the low voter turn out a mandate to do anything about Hart and the Police Department.
"The issue was not the funding but the Police Department," said Baca. "It always has been and will be until substantive changes are made, on how the police department does business in National City," he concluded.
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[1(58)] Our adversaries approve the eleventh article, in which we speak of absolution. But, in relation to confession they add, that every Christian should confess once every year, according to the chapter: Omnis utriusque sexus; and though he cannot fully enumerate all his sins, yet he should exert himself to recollect all of them, and state in confession as many as he can remember.
We shall hereafter continue our remarks on this whole article, when we come to speak of Christian repentance. [2(59)] It is well known, and our adversaries cannot deny, that the doctrines advanced by our divines on the subject of absolution and the keys, are so thoroughly Christian, so judicious and pure, that many afflicted souls derive great consolation therefrom, after receiving proper instructions on this vital subject; namely, that it is the command of God and the proper use of the Gospel, to believe the absolution of our sins, and to be assured that they are forgiven us without any merit of our own, through Christ, and that, when we believe the words of absolution, we are as surely reconciled to God, as if we heard a voice from heaven.
This doctrine, which is indispensably necessary, has afforded great consolation to afflicted minds. Many upright, intelligent, and pious men, in the very beginning, highly commended Dr. Luther, on account of our doctrine; and they were much gratified to see the sure consolation which we need restored to light. For the important doctrine of repentance and absolution had been wholly suppressed, when the sophists no longer presented true and constant consolation to the conscience, but directed men to their own works, which produce nothing but despair in the alarmed conscience.
[3(60)] But with respect to the time of confession, it is a fact, and known to our adversaries, that many in our churches make confession not only once a year, but often, and attend to absolution and the holy Supper. And our ministers, when they treat of the use and the blessings of the holy Sacraments, carefully teach and admonish the people frequently to attend the holy Supper. Besides the works of our divines are well known, and so written that the honorable and pious among our adversaries must approve and commend them.
[4(61)] It is likewise always announced by our pastors, that all those who live in open vice, in fornication, adultery, etc., and those who scorn the holy Sacraments, shall be excommunicated and excluded. In this we therefore follow the Gospel and the ancient canons.
[5(62)] No one, however, is compelled to receive the Sacrament on a particular day, or at a fixed time; for it is impossible for all to be equally prepared at a fixed time; and if all the people in a whole parish were to approach the altar at one time, they could not be examined and instructed with the same diligence, with which this is now done among us. And the ancient canons and the Fathers have prescribed no particular time. The canon says only: "If any go to the church, and it is found that they do not commune, they shall be admonished. Those that do not commune, shall be admonished to repentance. If they wish to be regarded as Christians, they must not always abstain from it."
Paul, 1 Cor. 11:29, says: "He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself." Our ministers therefore do not urge those to receive the Sacrament, who are unprepared.
[6(63)] But as to the recollection and enumeration of sins in confession, our ministers do not ensnare the souls of men, by requiring them to specify all their sins. Although it has a good effect to accustom rude and inexperienced persons to specify in confession some of the sins which trouble them, in order that they may more easily be instructed; yet that is not the question now, but whether God has commanded us thus to enumerate all our sins; and whether those, which are not enumerated, cannot be forgiven?
Our adversaries, therefore, should not have quoted against us the chapter: Omnis utriusque sexus, which is well known to us. They should rather have shown us from the holy Scriptures, from the Word of God, that God has commanded such an enumeration of sins.
[7(64)] It is, alas, but too evident and notorious in all the church throughout Europe, how this part of the chapter--Omnis utriusque sexus--which requires all to confess their sins, has thrown the conscience into misery, distress, and snares. But the text itself has not done as much harm as the books of the Summists, in which the particular circumstances of sins are collected, have since done. For thus especially did they involve the conscience in great perplexity and unspeakable torment; and this affected none but good men; for the impudent and dissolute cared but little about it.
[8(65)] The text says, that each one must confess to his own priest. Now, what great strife, what deadly envy and hatred, were excited between the clergymen and the monks of various orders, in determining the question: which is the proper priest? All brotherly love and friendship ceased, when power or the confessor’s fees were concerned.
We therefore maintain, that God did not command that our sins should be enumerated and specified. Panormitan, and many other learned men, entertained the same views. We would not burden the conscience with the chapter: Omnis utriusque sexus; but with regard to it, as of other human ordinances, we say that it is not a divine service, necessary to salvation. Besides, this chapter commands an impossibility, namely, that we must confess all our sins. Now, it is certain, that there are many sins which we cannot remember, and some of the greatest even we do not see; as the Psalmist, 19:12, says: "Who can understand his errors?"
[9(66)] Intelligent and pious pastors well know how far it may be necessary and useful, to question the young and ignorant in confession. But we neither can nor will approve the tyranny, which the Summists, like jailors, exercise over the conscience, tormenting it continually; and which would not have been so severe, if they had said but a single word concerning faith in Christ, which truly consoles the conscience.
But in their many large collections of Decretals, Commentaries, Summaries, and Confessions, there is not a word or tittle concerning Christ, faith, and the remission of sins. Not a word can be found there, teaching Christ, or what he is; but our adversaries are occupied with these registers only in order to collect sins, and increase their number. Now this might be well enough, if they had but a proper conception of the sins, which God regards as such. The greater portion of their summaries, however, is taken up with foolishness and human ordinances. [10(67)] O, how many pious souls, willing to do right, were driven to despair, and deprived of their rest, by this wicked and ungodly doctrine; for they knew no better, and thought they must thus torment themselves with enumerating and adding their sins together; and yet they found that this was impossible, and ever brought disquietude. But our adversaries have taught errors equally great on the whole subject of repentance, which we shall hereafter state.
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Ranking the Pokemon: #122- Rhyhorn
Rhyhorn is kind of frustrating. On the one hand, it's pretty badass--it's got outrageous Attack and Defense and can learn a ton of cool moves like Earthquake, Rock Slide and Horn Drill (I don't care if it only works 30% of the time. Any move that can kill an opponent in one hit, no questions asked is cool). It also looks all steel-like and spiny, despite the fact the Steel type wasn't invented until the next generation of games. Then they created Aron and his evolutionary line, which was basically the same thing (see the bottom two rows of this chart for proof).
On the other hand, Rhyhorn's types are Ground/Rock (not to be confused with Rock/Ground, which is what Geodude and every other dual Rock/Ground type is), it's slow as hell, and its Special is terrible. Those are three awful traits to have, and here's why: In R/B/Y (and still pretty much to this day), like 98.6% of teams had a Water type, and EVERY one of those are faster than Rhyhorn. Most are faster than Rhydon, too, but we'll bash the higher evolution when we get to it. Since those Water types are faster, they attack first. Strike one for Rhyhorn. Since the Water types will most likely attack with a water move, that's strike two for Rhyhorn, since water is a Special attack. And the biggest one (strike three, called looking on the outside corner) is that since Rhyhorn is both Ground AND Rock, any Water attack (or Grass or Ice, for that matter) does FOUR times the damage it would normally do, AND if the attack is the same type it gets STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus), so it will ultimately deal SIX times the amount of damage a normal attack would.
In case all that capitalization threw you off, allow me to summarize with a handy equation:
Rhyhorn + Water = Fainted Rhyhorn
Even an attack like Bubble can kill it. Embarrassing.
Grade: D+
Previously: #123- Nidoran♂
Posted by Joey at 11/30/2011 No comments:
Possibly the Best Catch of the Year
Let's be honest--the Marshall Thundering Herd are not having a fantastic season. But thanks to this amazing catch by Aaron Dobson, they are eligible for a bowl game at 6-6. Marshall beat ECU 34-27 over the weekend to gain bowl eligibility, and since this insane one-handed grab was worth six points (plus the ensuing PAT), one could argue that it won the game. Or you could just watch and gasp in amazement at just how difficult of a catch this is. Bonus points to Hobson for shoving the ref out of the way after he scores and not getting penalized.
Lee Corso Drops an F-Bomb On Live Television
Sometimes the title of a video can speak for itself. But let's have a little commentary for tradition's sake.
On Saturday, the ESPN Gameday crew visited Houston, to give the then No.11 Cougars a rare opportunity to shine on national television. This is a good thing, because the Cougars are really entertaining to watch. They were taking on the SMU Mustangs in a game Houston would eventually win 37-7. Pre-game, Corso, along with fellow Gamedayers Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit, were joined by track and field legend Carl Lewis. Corso pretended he was going to pick SMU, then made an offhanded comment about how he was, in fact, NOT going to pick the Mustangs, tossed the megaphone away and donned a Cougars mascot head instead. And the reaction is amazing. Fowler doubles over onto the desk, Lewis chuckles knowingly, and Herbstreit makes the biggest "Oh geez, we're gonna be in troubleeeeee" face I've ever seen. Like I said, amazing.
Of course, people will get up in arms about Corso's faux-pas--he did offer an apology later on during the day in which he said the language would never happen again. But there's a lot worse that's on TV weekly, even if the f-bomb is the king of swears, so hopefully there's not TOO much backlash. Check out the insanity below.
Seducing Women Through Chess
We're STILL waiting on a new Lonely Island song (arrival date right now appears to be on the 7th of Never), but Saturday Night Live is still presenting weekly digital shorts. This one might be the best of the season so far, but with not a whole lot of competition, that's not saying a lot. Andy Samberg and most of the women of the cast join forces to show how chess and, later, some other activities can possibly impress women. Chaos ensues.
Ranking the Pokemon: #123- Nidoran♂
You may be wondering why I didn't just combine the two of these Niddies, and if that's the case, you clearly don't know me very well...that's right, gotta up that view count. Click away!
Anyway, Nidoran♂ gets the slight nod over his female counterpart for a couple of reasons. First, he has a horn on his head, which means when he does "Horn Attack" (which both versions learn), it should do more damage. I don't think it actually does, but Pokemon was never a game based on logic. Plus horns always remind me of unicorns, and unicorns are awesome. His ears, meanwhile, are ENORMOUS. The hearing must be off the charts. I don't believe "Sound" or "Hear" plan to be Pokemon moves any time soon, but if they are...well, look out.
Grade: C-
Previously: #124- Nidoran♀
Ranking the Pokemon: #124- Nidoran♀
Nidoran♀ (that's the female edition) is another Pokemon you can catch early in the game, if you go to the left at Viridian City rather than the more direct straight ahead path. You can also catch the male version, but he's slightly better, at least initially, so we'll only do some girl gossip here.
Nidoran♀isn't awful, and when fully evolved, Nidoqueen can learn some nice moves and do solid damage with 'em, but as a little unevolved cub(ette?), she's only okay, and it's mostly because most unevolved Pokes are terrible. Fun fact: I'm sure I'll touch on when I post about the male version, but this chain of evolutions were actually well ahead of their time. Starting with Gold and Silver, most Pokemon have genders and could be bred, but in the R/B/Y days, it was androgynous or bust. The Niddies didn't like that, though, so they decided to sex it up before it was the trendy thing to do. And for that, we can only commend them, because without their bravery, we'd never have the ability to, say, get Psybeam onto a Psyduck.
Previously: #125- Spearow
The Siri Argument
Siri is allegedly revolutionizing the way iPhones work, although I've still yet to actually see one in action. The concept seems super cool, though, in that you can use the digital program to be your eyes, ears, and should the need arise, any other part of your body. Cool. As College Humor points out, it would also be quite useful for arguments. I appreciate Siri's attempts to not get involved, but sometimes unwilling participants get dragged in. At least it's hilarious.
See all the CollegeHumor Original Videos here.
Rebecca Black- Person of Interest
Look, any fan of A Hot Cup knows we have a rather interesting obsession with Rebecca Black. She's 14, and thanks to some wealthy parents, made a song that polarized the internet, which I still believe holds the record for most dislikes on a single video in one week. Since then, she's recorded a follow up single, appeared in a Katy Perry music video, and, between all that, has still found time to keep up with her studies. Oh, and she's also recorded ANOTHER song that was just released. This one's called "Person of Interest," and is really only notable for being partially recorded at the Santa Monica Pier, which is just a short ways away from where A Hot Cup resides. Now we can say we've made an 100-point basket on the same arcade game (which is actually one of the lower scores on said game) Rebecca Black's love interest sinks in this video.
Also, to (roughly) quote one of the top comments, which makes a fantastic reference to the song that started this whole roller coaster ride: "The best part about riding go karts is it removes the need to have to choose which seat to take."
Posted by Joey at 11/16/2011 1 comment:
Happy Birthday, Big Sis
A Hot Cup of Joey would like to wish a very happy birthday to his sister--here's to many more years of delicious pumpkin treats!
Full-Court Fun
Stanford's Gabriel Harris was a bit confused as to why his team was losing to Colorado State at home last night. Down five going into halftime, Harris wanted to trim the lead a bit, so he effortlessly tossed up a 70-footer right before the buzzer. And I do mean effortlessly. Sorry for the poor quality, but the Bay Area doesn't get as much pub as the rest of the country, so we only get a dude pointing a camera at his TV. Oh well.
Fantastic College Football Plays
Over the weekend there were some big changes in the world of college football, with Oregon upsetting then-unbeaten Stanford 53-30, and Boise State once again being done in by a botched simple field goal, dashing any hopes of a shot at the BCS championship game. But the best two plays came from the Arkansas-Tennessee game. Arkansas is quietly rising back up the charts and at this rate is looking pretty good for a spot in a BCS bowl game. Check out these two fantastic plays below, the first being an amazing acrobatic catch from Jarius Wright, and the second an incredible punt return from Joe Adams. A Hot Cup still prefers Devin Hester's returns, but either way, it's beautiful.
Ranking the Pokemon: #125- Spearow
Ahh, Speary. I don't think this winged critter is any better than Pidgey as far as battling goes, but for whatever reason I always liked him better. I think maybe because spears are cooler than pidges. Also, pidges aren't actually legitimate things, so they have that going against them. It also appears that Spearow's beak is a bit sharper, and he's already got Peck when you begin, while Pidgey just has the neutral Gust. Come to think of it, the only Flying move Pidgey actually learns is Wing Attack (Mirror Move doesn't count), which was super weak back then, and probably still is now. So that's why Pidgey is lower.
Why is Spearow higher? Well, I kind of just answered that, but there are two words to further it: Drill Peck. Probably the best Flying move during this generation, it does solid damage and is accurate. And with the Same Type Attack Bonus (aka STAB to you diehards out there), it gets an extra boost whenever Spearow uses it. It's still super weak Defense-wise, but it can at least get a good hit or two in before it gets knocked out.
Previously: #126- Clefairy
Rage Quitting Gone Wrong
Anyone who's ever played video games has at one point or another come across a level, area, or even just a task that was darn near impossible to complete successfully. Personally, if I couldn't complete said impossible event, I would stop playing pretty early on, before the frustration mounted too high, and try again later.
But in this case, Michael from RoosterTeeth takes on an impossibly hard game called "I Wanna Be The Guy." This game seems frustrating enough on its own, but playing it with a computer keyboard seems, well, infuriating. Michael's efforts to become the guy don't quite work out as well as he'd hope, and the rising anger he experiences is quite amazing. I probably don't need to tell you this is NSFW, but I will, for liability purposes, or something like that.
Ranking the Pokemon: #126- Clefairy
I know I've mentioned this before, but Normal types tend to not be very good. If I was making a hierarchy of types, Normal would probably be like 13th, ahead of Poison and Bug but behind everyone else. Perhaps one day I'll make that full hierarchy, possibly in pie chart form. Mmm, pie.
Anyway, Clefairy is just another of the many Normal types out there. In fact, its one of many PINK normal types out there. And outside of Chansey, none of those pinkies are really worth using. I do like the theory that the shadow of Clefable (Clefairy's evolved form) is actually the Ghost-type Gengar, but that's Clefable, not Clefairy. The more evolved form will gain a couple spots on this list simply because of that little tidbit, even if it's just farcical. As it stands, though, Clefairy is another one of those hard-to-find-but-not-really-worth-it Pokes that seem to frequent the first generation of games. Comparable to Jigglypuff, but with a bit lower HP and a bit higher Special, Clefairy can at least learn some useful moves; that's why it's higher than the Puff Factory. And Clefairy will one day turn into a pretty solid battling machine (as Clefable), but for now, it's wallowing in mediocrity.
Grade: C- (our first C grade!)
Previously: #127- Mr. Mime
Posted by Joey at 11/03/2011 2 comments:
Google "Do a Barrel Roll"
There's really nothing else to say. Outside of that I still love that you can use "Google" as a verb. But basically if you want a fun little treat, type "do a barrel roll" into Google and then hit enter. A delightful nod to Star Fox 64, one of my favorite games of all-time. Bam.
If you're incredibly lazy, you can just click here for the effect. It apparently also works if you type "Z or R twice" into Google as well, which is how you can accomplish said barrel roll in the game.
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Anticancer drugs 2013
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List of invited speakers ... Saleha Yehya Alakilli(Saudi Arabia) Christoph Alexiou (Germany) Mohamed R.E. Aly (Saudi Arabia) Sabry M. Attia (Saudi Arabia) Bernhard Biersack (Germany) Besim Boci (Albania) Victor Cruz (Spain) Eliska Galova (Slovak Republic) Jacques Gilloteaux (UK) Steffen Goletz (Germany) Yoshinori Kawazoe (Japan) Nikolay Klassen (Russia) Toru Kondo (Japan) Chia-Hua Liang (Taiwan) Herman Mansur (Brazil) Maurizio Memo (Italy) Konstantin Meyl (Germany) Eva Miadokova (Slovak Republic) Ken-Ichiro Minato (Japan) Eva Maria Molina-Trinidad (Mexico) Michele Navarra (Italy) Praseetha Prabhakaran (Australia) Evgeny Puchkov (Russia) Malgorzata Rogalinska (Poland) Henning M. Schramm (Switzerland) Betty Schwartz (Israel) Rodney Smith (UK) Lynda Thyer (UK) Daisuke Uemura(Japan) Nora Mayte Villegas Balderas (Mexico)
Latest News: Save the dates for the III Anticancer Drugs Conference (September 12-13, 2014. Buenos Aires, Argentina). See PICTURES from the SPEAKERS that participated in the II Meeting.
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SPEAKER: Dr. Maurizio Memo
Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine,
University of Brescia,
Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Maurizio Memo, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology
Director, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Brescia Medical School, Brescia, Italy
Education. 1977 Graduated in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Cagliari, Italy
1980 Residency in Pharmacology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Position and employment. 1980-1982 Research fellow, at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Section on Biochemical Pharmacology, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 1983-1988 Researcher of Pharmacology, at the University of Cagliari, Italy. 1988-1990 Visiting Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington D.C., USA. 1988-2000 Associate Professor of Pharmacology, at the University of Brescia, Italy. 2000- present Full Professor of Pharmacology, at the University of Brescia, Italy
Other Experience and Professional Membership. 1980- Member Society of Italian Pharmacology (SIF). 1985- Member, American Society of Neuroscience. 1988-2000 Professor Neuropsycopharmacology, University of Brescia, Italy. 1990- Member Society of Italian Neuroscience (SIN). 1991- Founder and President of the Italian Group of Molecular Neurobiology. 1994- Professor Faculty PhD program in Neuroscience. 1995- Founder and Vice-President of the European School of Molecular Medicine. 1996- Professor Faculty Residency in Pharmacology. 1998- Associate Editor of "Functional Neurology" . 2000- Chief Molecular Neuropharmacology Laboratory, University of Brescia, Italy. 2000- Full Professor of Pharmacology, University of Brescia Medical School. 2002 Owner of a patent entitled "Useful compound for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease". 2003 Owner of a patent entitled "Method for early identification of Alzheimer's Disease". 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of "CNS Drug Review". 2007 Associated Editor of "BMC Pharmacology"
Author of more than 250 full scientific papers all published in recognized international Journals. Organizer of 12 International Symposia. Principal Investigator of several research projects sponsored by national and international Institutions and supervisor of a research group with a total of 12 post-docs, PhD students and technicians. Winner of the Roussel Price (1987) and Sandoz Foundation Price (1994) for Gerontological studies.
Current research interests:
Neuropharmacology, role of Dopamine systems in schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease, molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, genetic and molecular risk factors for Alzheimer's disease; molecular mechanisms associated with neuroblastoma growth.
Description of the main domain of research:
Identification and characterization of different DA receptor subtypes (named D1 and D2) in CNS and periphery (1978-1988)
Characterization of DA receptor function in schizophrenic brain (1980-1983)
Characterization of the transcriptional activity induced by glutamate receptor stimulation (1988-1991)
Characterization of the physiopathological role of the NF-kappaB pathway in the CNS (1993-present
Discovery of neuroprotective activity of Aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs (1995-1998)
Identification of p53 as a novel participant in neurodegenerative process (1997-present)
Characterization of the physiopathological role of DNA damage repair systems in neurodegenerative diseases (1998-2008)
Identification of p53 as a possible biomarker for Alzheimer disease (2000-present)
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Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy (Heavy Psych)
Italian trio Black Rainbows hail from Rome, a city steeped in history and important significance to the world. Home of so many works of art and considered a cultural masterpiece, the Italian Capital has offered much throughout history and it offers again with this mind bending three-piece. Bringing fuzzed out, psychedelic and stoner friendly grooves with a massive sound, Black Rainbows who have been likened to what would happen if Hawkwind and MC-5 collided in the Mojave desert have already released one album to critical acclaim (Hawkdope) and after some strong performances and inclusion on the bill at the much revered Berlin Desertfest, this trio have some serious hype to them. With Stellar Prophecy ready to drop, let’s see what is written in the cosmos.
“Electrify” opens the album with a real thick, dirty fuzzy. Groove laden and driving the track, the rhythm is fantastic, a real headbang friendly, infectiously hip shaking feel and pulse. Vocally, it resembles Fu Manchu. The slightly lazy vocal delivery rolls off well over the dirty stoner groove feel and it just works great, especially with the slightly hazy edge, cowbell break and real powerful mini lead fills which all collide towards the end for a full on, surreal and intense outro.
“Woman” is slightly slower paced. With a real dirty bluesy feel to the flow and sound of the track, it simply coasts along. Great timing and powerful delivery, augmented by some slick hammond organ use in the big sounding chorus works fantastic. With a real classic 70’s feel to it, the track just oozes blues and rawness and this is reflected in the solo. Despite the tone being a little too prominent, you can’t help but nod along in approval and get engrossed in it. The bassline too, full of groove and thick tone, a real solid effort all round.
“Golden Window” opens with a sweet sounding, simple bass riff and some delayed pick slides, giving a slight spaced out edge to it. Synths slowly creep in, giving it a real Hawkwind feel, full on out there and trippy! Slowly building with some free time, heavily reverbed and delayed guitar melodic lines and slowly building, pounding drums, it starts to gain momentum, giving a surging feel and you know when it peaks, it is going off big. As the build hits its peak, it explodes with a real raw, steady paced psychedelic groove. Hazy vocals help build the psych-hypnotic feel and when you take into account the fact this track is near twelve minutes long, you know it is going to be an experience. With some big hammond organ augmentation for added effect, a real massive sounding bluesy solo rips through the steady groove, contributing some real power to the out there feel of the track and later on, just when you think it has calmed down, it explodes back to life for an intense ending!
“Evil Snake” has a real fast pace feel to it. As the guitar riff builds, a big drum roll sends it all crashing down into a high energy, fast paced and explosive sounding full on rocker. Headbang friendly, perhaps even mosh pit inducing, the heaviness and power in the musical delivery which overpowers the vocals at points is fantastic. Just a full on energetic track which encourages movement. The mini bass break has a fantastic sound and feel to it and the fuzzed out fat riffs and twisting solo really cap it off, a solid track all round. “It’s Time” continues the more rocking approach. With its fuzzed out bass riff mirrored by the guitar, the punchy and twisty groove really grabs you and the more modern take on the retro sound works fantastic. It’s one you can kick back and relax to whilst still getting caught up in it in a similar manner to how bands like Free and Cream did things.
“Keep The Secret” has a real infectious groove to it, sounding a lot like Monolithic, Baby! era Monster Magnet (Think Unbroken, Hotel Baby!). Fat riffs, a real kick to the delivery and some tasty lead sections, it keeps the upbeat feel of the previous two tracks, showing that Black Rainbows can both captivate and rock with the best of them. Bring us back to the psych sound, the closing track “The Travel” slows it down again. Simple building feel guitar, bass and drums accompanied by samples and spaced out lead fills set the scene and the hazy vocals begin to cast their hypnotic charm once again. Building in surreal intensity and giving the sensation that everything is closing in on you, this ten minute epic brings back the mind melting delivery of the track Golden Window. Oddly melodic riffs, swirling and surging ambient effects and gratuitous reverb and delay create a chaotic feeling surreal world and the way it builds to a peak in the middle of the track is like an ominous warning. You know the explosion is coming but the suspense of the build keeps you in limbo, just waiting to be blown away and at the six minute mark, this entropic mess finally subsides, lowering the intensity and returning us to the calm initial feel of the track. Whilst not an explosion of riffs, the frantic build serves its purpose, returning things to normality, easing you back into the real world before the final two minutes when it kicks in again for one last blast of power and riff.
Overall, “Stellar Prophecy” is an experience. Filled with raw, dirty blues and classic rock and roll appeal, it merges this with some mind bending hypnotic and psychedelic feel to give both an intense musical experience and a real party feel good time. It’s worth a listen and these guys are one to keep an eye on.
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Born in Liverpool and brought up on a healthy dose of classic rock, glam rock and hair metal, I could sing "The Jack" by AC/DC word for word as a 5 year old much to everyone's amusement.
Fast-forward a few years to age 14 and I've re-connected with my rock roots after a few questionable friends and influences. I got into metal via Nu-Metal at the end of the 90's and the turning point was getting a copy of "Reign in Blood" for my 16th birthday. Since then it's been metal all the way with a steady course of beer and Jack Daniels to compliment it.
Thrash is the go to genre for me, but I also have an appreciation of prog metal, classic rock, hard rock, power metal, death metal and stoner rock. Anything which has a great guitar sound or a groove you just have to bang your head to goes down well for me too. I play guitar and bass, mostly for the enjoyment of hassling the neighbours but I'd much rather be in the pit than on stage playing to it. As much as I love playing, listening to music is my passion as is expanding my ever growing music library.
At a gig I will no doubt be the one trying to down the pint in my hand whilst palming all my things onto my better half so I can run headfirst into the pit.
Black Rainbows, Cream, doom, Fu Manchu, Hawkwind, Italy, MC-5, Monster Magnet, Psyche, Stoner
17/01/20 - 19/01/20 Live Evil Festival in London at The Underworld
18/01/20 Slipknot in Glasgow at Hydro
18/01/20 Insomnium in Norwich at Waterfront
19/01/20 Insomnium in London at Islington Assembly Rooms
20/01/20 Slipknot in Sheffield at The Arena
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You are here: Home / 18 Popular Online English Dictionaries
18 Popular Online English Dictionaries
Language is no longer a barrier. If there’s anything you wish to look up, it is only a matter of few seconds and there you have it! When it comes to the English language – spellings, words, synonyms and meanings – be it any query, it can be answered through online dictionaries. You can also check our article about top language translators.
Here are some of the best online English dictionaries:
1. Reference.com
Reference.com also known as Dictionary.com is one leading websites when it comes to reference material and educational content. The site has sections for thesaurus, dictionary, reference, quotes, translation, etc. It ranks as one of the most popular websites for English dictionaries. Dictionary.com redirects to this dictionary section on the site.
2. WordReference.com
Word Reference is an online language dictionary offers meaning of various words, nouns and more. It also offer translations. In other words, it aids in comprehension of terms across different languages. It can look for terms across a combination of languages.
3. The Free Dictionary
The Free Dictionary is popular because of great content and simple explanations and word meanings. The site offers dictionaries for English, Medical, Financial and Legal terminologies. It has an effective search which can even look up search engines like Google and Bing and websites like WikiPedia.org.
4. Dict.Leo.Org
The site has an active forum and discussion point along with an effect search for English words and their meanings. The site also offers translation and related services.
5. Wiktionary
Wiktionary is a collaborative dictionary edited by volunteers (Wiktionarians). Although it is available in 158 languages currently and sister project of Wikimedia foundation. It is online since 12th December 2002 and English Wiktionary has more than 3 million entries.
6. UrbanDictionary
A dictionary edited and maintained by hundreds of volunteers and have millions of words and phrases. The site is online since 1999. It also has sections like Thesaurus and Names with definitions. Site has mobile friendly version as well. UrbanDictionary is also available in Print edition as a Paperback book too.
7. Merriam Webster
Merriam – Webster is a Britannica website that offers authentic information nd translations. Along with medical and English dictionaries, the parent company being and encyclopedia company also links to its encyclopedia allowing the user to perform such a relevant search.
8. Bab.La
Bab.la is a wiki style dictionary online since 2007. It is a multilingual directory where users can search words and get translation in local language. Currently offered in more than 20 languages. Due to their wiki style, users can easily contribute content. It also offers other sections such as forums, language quizzes and Vocabulary lessons.
9. Cambridge Dictionary
Cambridge.org has a separate section for dictionaries. The site offers bilingual dictionaries and language learning aids. They also offer aid for grammar and other useful tools. The site uses the information published in the dictionaries by Cambridge University Press and performs an extensive search from the same.
10. YourDictionary.com
Your dictionary is more like a word search engine. The look and feel allows you to search for the words you seek meanings for. It has a search tab on the home page along with other useful articles, tool kits, and information on the site.
11. Oxford Dictionaries
As the tag line goes, and the company enjoys its status as a leader in production of dictionaries, the Oxford Dictionaries site offers a great deal of valuable content. The audio pronunciations are available along with tips, puzzles, new inclusions, etc.
12. Macmillan Dictionary
The Macmillan Dictionary has an interesting dynamic site with various resource sections made available to the user. From pronunciations to suggested new words to learn gadgets, the site offers a great deal of vocabulary related information.
13. One Look Dictionary
One Look Dictionary is totally uncluttered and easy to use. It offers definitions, translations and can also look through other online dictionaries to find the answer to your query.
14. Webopedia
Webopedia is a online dictionary for computer related and technical words and Part of The IT Business Edge Network. Well categorised sections like networks, mobile, hardware, software, open source, programming and many other categories. The dictionary is edited and maintained by full time expert editors.
15. Forvo.com
Forvo is not basically a dictionary but it is a pronunciation guide where all words are pronounced by native speakers. It is also available in many other languages. User can submit request to pronounce a word and other users and reply to same.
16. Vocabulary.com
The site currently have more than 40,000 vocabulary related questions to help users to improve their word power. Users can sign up to save their questions and answers and build lists online. Dictionary section of website provide detailed definition of any word, term or noun along with “word family”, “synonyms” and “examples”.
17. Definitions.Net
Provides definitions and translations for various english terms and words. arranged in various categories. Part of STANDS4 website’s network including Abbreviations.com – which is a dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations. Users can register and add new entry.
18. CollinsDictionary.com
A Glasgow UK based publishing company “HarperCollins” offers print edition of their dictionary since 1979. The online version collinsdictionary.com offers same directory with one click search option. The online version also offers other tools like language translator and thesaurus.
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Fifth for flying Kiwi kayakers
Article by Jamie Troughton, Dscribe Media
They may have missed a medal but young New Zealand kayakers Rebecca Cole and Briar McLeely have received plenty of plaudits for their efforts at the canoe sprint junior world championships in Belarus.
The North Shore pair finished a valiant fifth in the A final of the under-23 K2 500m, one of New Zealand's best results in the last decade.
Cole and McLeely shaved half a second off their semifinal time to clock 1:49.487. It left them just 3secs adrift of German winners Jasmin Fritz and Nina Krankemann (1:46.333), who beat home Russian, Hungarian and Polish boats over the line. The Kiwi pair also had the satisfaction of edging the strong Romanian pair of Florida Cuita and Daniela Varona, who won their semifinal, to give the 26-strong Canoe Racing New Zealand team a big final-day boost.
"This is a great result in the face of pretty tough competition," CRNZ chief executive Mark Weatherall said. "Rebecca and Briar have worked incredibly hard after missing the final last year and they've deservedly earned a place among the more significant Kiwi performances at this level."
It's the best result since Kurtis Imrie finished fifth in the under-23 K1 1000m final two years ago, with another K2 crew - Aimee Fisher and Kim Thompson - winning bronze a year earlier. Fisher, who is set to make her Olympic debut in the New Zealand women's K4 at the Rio Olympics, also finished fifth in the under-18 K1 200m that same year.
Imrie (Mana) helped the New Zealand team to another top-15 finish last night, combining with Bay of Plenty's Taris Harker to finish fourth in the B final of the under-23 K2 200m. The pair clocked 34.523secs for the sprint, leaving them within a second of the Czech, Australian and Greek teams ahead of them and giving them a world ranking of 13th.
Two more Mana paddlers, under-18 K2 500m teammates Tess Allen and Danielle Watson, finished eighth in their B final in 1:57.815, while Arawa's Shani Clark was ninth in the under-18 K1 500m B final in 2:13.292.
The last Kiwi in action on the final day, North Shore's Karl McMurtrie, finished eighth in the C final of the under-23 K1 200m in 38.778.
Taris Harker & Kurtis Imrie U23 MK2
They may have missed a medal but young New Zealand kayakers Rebecca Cole and Briar McLeely have received plenty of plaudits for their efforts at the canoe sprint junior world championships in Belarus. Article by Jamie Troughton, Dscribe Media
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Child & Birth Injury Lawyer > Types of Child Injuries > Child Button Battery Injury and Death Lawyer
Child Button Battery Injury and Death Lawyer
Every parent and caregiver knows that children are naturally inquisitive and like most small and shiny things, they will put toy batteries in their mouths. Swallowed foreign bodies will usually pass harmlessly through the GI tract, but over the last few decades, button battery ingestions resulting in serious complications or death have increased.
Button batteries have become deadlier because of an increased diameter and a change to lithium cells, and the” growing inclusion of the batteries in everyday products has made them more of a problem”, according to a 2015 report co-authored by a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Every three hours, a child or teenager will visit an emergency department to be examined or treated for battery ingestion, reports the American Academy of Pediatrics. Ever year, more than 2,800 kids in the U.S. are treated in hospitals after ingesting button batteries.
Nationally-recognized child injury attorney Jeffrey Killino has handled a wide variety of defective product cases, including those arising out of injuries caused by children ingesting batteries. Our experienced attorneys, paralegals, and investigators share the goal of helping injured families win the compensation they need and the justice they deserve. If your child has been hurt or killed in a preventable accident caused by negligence or a defective product, call us today at 1-877-875-2927.
What are Button Batteries?
Most people have no idea that button batteries are so dangerous, and they are everywhere. You likely have several in your home. These disc shaped, silver batteries are found in small electronics such as remote controls, singing greeting cards, hearing aids, handheld video games, and many toys.
Button Batteries Result in Deadly Complications
Of particular concern are with larger lithium-based batteries, which can lodge in the esophagus. (Less worrisome are smaller batteries that end up in the stomach where they’ll probably pass in a bowel movement.) These button batteries can cause a potentially dangerous injury due to a chemical reaction between the esophagus lining and the battery’s remaining current. A caustic burn can result—even if the battery is spent– and the severity can escalate in just minutes after swallowed. The longer it is in the body, the more damage it causes.
Many of these products contain newer and stronger batteries. Compared to the 1.5-volt button batteries, the larger 3-volt lithium batteries have increased the risk of life-threatening injuries dramatically. A battery below 3 volts power may not be able to run an electronic device, but it still can cause tissue erosion in less than two hours, leading to surgery, months with feeding and breathing tubes, and even death.
Serious complications have also been reported when these batteries are placed in the nose or ear: urgent removal is critical.
There is also another deadly complication. Even after the battery is removed, this alkaline solution can remain in place, eroding and burning away tissue. Typically, the cause of death in a button battery ingestion is hemorrhage because this solution eventually erodes through a major blood vessel. Even if the patient is in a hospital when the bleeding starts it is very difficult to repair.
Defective Button Batteries
The battery button itself may be defective because it does not contain a proper coating that could prevent the leaking of battery fluid into the child. There has been an increase in the amount of lawsuits filed against the makers and sellers of these button batteries as more children are becoming injured and\or killed everyday from these products. Lawsuits have also increased as the evidence of a safer alternative has been shown.
If your child has been injured by a toy battery or button battery, you may be entitled to recover damages from the party or parties responsible. Child-injury lawyer Jeffrey Killino is dedicated to helping children and families obtain the compensation they deserve. Contact Jeffrey Killino at 877-875-2927 to learn about your legal options.
Toy Battery Injury Prevention
According to the National Capital Poison Center, an adult does not witness most accidental ingestions. Signs of trouble include drooling, coughing, vomiting, chest pain, inability to swallow and refusal to eat. Families and caregivers should take proactive steps to keep all batteries, no matter the size, out of reach.
That means only buying toys that have battery pockets or pouches secured with a screw. Store remote controls, hearing aids and other such items on higher shelves or surfaces (and, of course, any loose replacement batteries as well).
Attorney Jeffrey Killino is not only an experienced lawyer — he is also a child advocate. When a child injury or death occurs, whether caused by a button battery or other product, he has the know-how and resources to guide you through the legal process to get what you and your family are entitled to. Contact child injury attorney Jeffrey Killino today at 877-875-2927.
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Outward, aka Corey Philpot is a unique one-man musical project out of London, Kentucky creating a elegant blend of synth/electronic, shoegaze, and alternative. Philpot has been composing and producing music from a young age, utilizing soundscapes to explore abstract questions such as:
"What does the sound of the soul feeling its eternity of nothing and everything sound like? What would a thought sound like if it could be heard by others? What would death sound like?"
Outward certainly composed some breathtaking answers to these questions and more in last year's 4 song EP, The King's Ascension which deservedly captured the attention of Ox-4-Sound, the studio and production company founded by Ride's Mark Gardener. Come this fall a full length album from Outward titled Reverie Remedy will be released (date TBA). For now, stream The King's Ascension EP in full here, plus enjoy a few other tracks (two not featured on the EP) below. For more on Outward, visit the official website, Facebook, and Twitter.
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[[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] '''Arthur Hayes-Sadler''', C.S.I., Royal Navy, Retired (9 October, 1863 – 9 February, 1952) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]].
==Life & Career==
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 1 January, 1899.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27040/pages/84 no. 27040. p. 84.] 6 January, 1899.</ref>
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 30 June, 1886.<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/25604/pages/3189 no. 25604. p. 3189.] 2 July, 1886.</ref>
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 1 January, 1899.<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27040/pages/84 no. 27040. p. 84.] 6 January, 1899.</ref>
==Captain==
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 30 June, 1904.<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27691/pages/4182 no. 27691. p. 4182.] 1 July, 1904.</ref>
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{CaptRN}} on 30 June, 1904.<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/27691/pages/4182 no. 27691. p. 4182.] 1 July, 1904.</ref>
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{RearRN}} on 19 July, 1915, vice [[Henry James Langford Clarke|Clarke]].<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29239/pages/7192 no. 29239. p. 7192.] 23 July, 1915.</ref>
He was appointed in command of the {{UK-1Resolution|f=t}} on 3 January, 1905.<ref>Hayes-Sadler Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42}}. f. 190.</ref>
He was appointed in command of the {{UK-Drake|f=t}}, and as Flag Captain, on 15 February, 1907.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). ''The Times''. Monday, 11 February, 1907. Issue '''38253''', col E, p. 6.</ref>
Hayes-Sadler served as captain of the {{UK-Hannibal|f=t}} from August 1910 until some time in 1911.{{MackieRNW}} In December 1911, he took command of {{UK-Agamemnon}}, remaining with her until January 1914.{{MackieRNW}}
He was appointed to command the {{UK-Ocean|f=t}} on 1 August, 1914.{{NLDec14|p. 363}}
==Flag Rank==
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{RearRN}} on 19 July, 1915, vice [[Henry James Langford Clarke|Clarke]].<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29239/pages/7192 no. 29239. p. 7192.] 23 July, 1915.</ref>
Rear-Admiral [[Cecil Foley Lambert|Cecil F. Lambert]] was appointed to succeed Hayes-Sadler on 24 February.<ref>Newbolt. ''Naval Operations''. '''V'''. p. 298.</ref>
==Post-War==
He was promoted to the rank of {{ViceRN}} on 3 November, 1919, vice [[Edmund Hyde Smith|Smith]].<ref>''London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31632/pages/13545 no. 31632. p. 13545.] 7 November, 1919.</ref>
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of {{ViceRN}} on 3 November, 1919, vice [[Edmund Hyde Smith|Smith]].<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31632/pages/13545 no. 31632. p. 13545.] 7 November, 1919.</ref> He was placed on the Retired List on 17 February, 1920,<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31802/pages/2463 no. 31802. p. 2463.] 2 March, 1920.</ref> and was advanced to the rank of {{AdmRN}} on the Retired List on 1 August, 1924.<ref>''The London Gazette'': [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32963/pages/5954 no. 32963. p. 5954.] 8 August, 1924.</ref>
==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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*"Adml. Hayes Sadler" (Obituaries). ''The Times''. Tuesday, 12 February, 1952. Issue '''52233''', col G, pg. 8.
*"Adml. Hayes Sadler" (Obituaries). ''The Times''. Tuesday, 12 February, 1952. Issue '''52233''', col G, p. 8.
*[[Henry John Newbolt|Newbolt, Henry]] (1931). ''Naval Operations''. '''Vol. V'''. London: Longmans, Green and Co..
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==Service Records==
*The National Archives. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=7917600&queryType=1&resultcount=2 ADM 196/42.]
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Duke, Hayes-Sadler's pet as a Commander.
Photograph: Navy & Army Illustrated.
Admiral Arthur Hayes-Sadler, C.S.I., Royal Navy, Retired (9 October, 1863 – 9 February, 1952) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
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Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 June, 1886.[1]
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 January, 1899.[2]
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of Captain on 30 June, 1904.[3]
He was appointed in command of the battleship Resolution on 3 January, 1905.[4]
He was appointed in command of the armoured cruiser Drake, and as Flag Captain, on 15 February, 1907.[5]
Hayes-Sadler served as captain of the battleship Hannibal from August 1910 until some time in 1911.[6] In December 1911, he took command of Agamemnon, remaining with her until January 1914.[7]
He was appointed to command the battleship Ocean on 1 August, 1914.[8]
Flag Rank
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral on 19 July, 1915, vice Clarke.[9]
Rear-Admiral Cecil F. Lambert was appointed to succeed Hayes-Sadler on 24 February.[10]
Hayes-Sadler was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral on 3 November, 1919, vice Smith.[11] He was placed on the Retired List on 17 February, 1920,[12] and was advanced to the rank of Admiral on the Retired List on 1 August, 1924.[13]
"Adml. Hayes Sadler" (Obituaries). The Times. Tuesday, 12 February, 1952. Issue 52233, col G, p. 8.
Newbolt, Henry (1931). Naval Operations. Vol. V. London: Longmans, Green and Co..
The National Archives. ADM 196/88.
Naval Appointments
Charles E. Kingsmill Captain of H.M.S. Resolution
3 Jan, 1905[14] – 3 Jan, 1907[15] Succeeded by
Bertram M. Chambers
Mark E. F. Kerr Captain of H.M.S. Drake
15 Feb, 1907[16][17] – 24 Feb, 1909[18] Succeeded by
Charles Bartolomé
Henry V. W. Elliott Captain of H.M.S. Hannibal
16 Aug, 1910[19][20] – 5 Jun, 1911[21] Succeeded by
Harold Christian
Edmund R. Pears Captain of H.M.S. Agamemnon
21 Dec, 1911[22][23] – 1 Jan, 1914[24] Succeeded by
Herbert A. S. Fyler
Arthur B. Hughes Captain of H.M.S. Ocean
1 Aug, 1914[25][26] – 18 Mar, 1915[27][28] Succeeded by
Vessel Lost
Sydney R. Fremantle Rear-Admiral, Second in Command, Eastern Mediterranean Squadron
15 Jul, 1916[29] – 2 Jan, 1918[30] Succeeded by
Sydney F. Fremantle Rear-Admiral Commanding, Ægean Squadron
2 Jan, 1918[31] Succeeded by
Cecil F. Lambert
↑ The London Gazette: no. 25604. p. 3189. 2 July, 1886.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 27040. p. 84. 6 January, 1899.
↑ Hayes-Sadler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 190.
↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 11 February, 1907. Issue 38253, col E, p. 6.
↑ Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
↑ The Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 363.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 29239. p. 7192. 23 July, 1915.
↑ Newbolt. Naval Operations. V. p. 298.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 31632. p. 13545. 7 November, 1919.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 31802. p. 2463. 2 March, 1920.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 32963. p. 5954. 8 August, 1924.
↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 303.
↑ Hayes-Sadler Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 44.
↑ Naval Operations. Volume II. pp. 219-22.
↑ Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918. Unnumbered folio.
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Why We Can't Talk About Nice Things
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Travis Hedge Coke
I want to talk to you about Wonder Woman: Earth One. Grant Morrison, Yanick Paquette, and Nathan Fairbairn did some fantastic things in that comic and avoided pretty much all of my fears for how they’d handle things. It’s not shouting “Look at me! Annotate!” with loud winks and nods (though there are a lot allusions, to other comics, to social theories, to the creators of Wonder Woman, though only one is credited - and that by contract). It’s a fun adventure about a young woman leaving her small, isolated home to explore the big world and save a busload of sorority girls and stuff. It’s sweet.
We can’t talk about sweet things, though, as comics fans, as superhero fans, because it agitates a segment of the broader fandom. It bugs them.
Supergirl is my favorite TV show serializing right now, and it’s really cute. It’s sweet. And, virtually every conversation around it is “fans” who are mad she’s not in a belly shirt, that Jimmy Olsen is hot, that they keep having little girls on the show (like, twice in one season!) as if little girls are important enough to be on a tv show and get saved! “Cute” is a way to dismiss the show and Melissa Benoist, the actress playing the lead. It isn’t a way to praise either, because we have internally, as a community, decided it’s an insult.
There’s an Etsy shop selling the most adorable comics and cartoon-themed dresses and I am absolutely in love with them. But, if I shared pictures of them, or the idea of them, on pretty much any major comics or anime forum right now, within two hours, I’ll have posts complaining that “they” don’t need to interlope on the real fans like that, “they” can have something else, somewhere else. I’ll see posts about how this is PC pandering that proves that Tumblr is making everything girly.
Patsy Walker: Hellcat and Starfire are two of my favorite currently serializing comics, and Starfire is canceled soon, of course, but it got a year, which isn’t bad these days. They’re cute, fun comics. And, they’re clearly written by functional, cognizant adults, which I can’t really say for a lot of super-books serializing right now. But, because there’s not blood spraying everywhere, constant rape threats, and the leads don’t shove their breasts at the reader or a nearby proxy for the reader who will oooh and aaaah over them, they’re “fuckin kids books.”
That’s where we’re at right now. We can’t have fun things. We can’t have nice things. Kids can’t even have kids’ books, not that I’d call a comic with serial murderers, slavery, and a scene of someone literally up someone’s butt necessarily a kid’s book. (Who’m I kidding? I’d have enjoyed that a lot as a kid.)
How many of you have seen someone insist Deadpool had to be R-rated because “Deadpool is always R-rated” and not just because it made the movie better?
If that’s true, how is it that Joe Kelly’s beloved run that basically defined the parameters of classic Deadpool never rises above PG-13 levels? Or, Fabian Nicieza’s Deadpool and Cable made it fifty issues without going R? Have there been Deadpool comics that would get an R-rating with the level of what they say and show? Sure. They are, even right now, the rare animal.
It's the equivalent of guys who insist real Dragon Ball has a bunch of swearing and Goku is a villain. Because, they saw this thing on the internet one time and they know.
I’m not blaming the internet. Wikipedia is not more dangerous than any other earnest encyclopedia, online or in print. What is dangerous is half-assed research, or taking a small sample and extrapolating the universe out of it. And, combined with our seemingly-desperate need to be hard-asses about everything right now, that results in deciding that Supergirl focusing too much on Supergirl having friends, fighting supervillains, and inspiring girls, that should could spend showing us her panties and killing more people. Or, at minimum, acting like Man of Steel’s Superman and being grimacy and very serious about all things. It’s how we get “Deadpool is always R-rated, it’s practically X, it’s just cray-cray-cray-zzzyyyy!”
We all pick and choose our criteria, our reference points. It’s impossible not to. But, do we also acknowledge that those we choose are done so for subjective reasons? That our preference and our focus is subjective?
Having something nice, or something cute, or charming, something fun, is not depriving the world of things that are hard or intense or brutal. One is not more real or more true to life than the other.
The internet and life have made us all experts, but somehow, having to share space has convinced some people that anyone enjoying different things than them, or enjoying the same thing but in a different way is depriving them of theirs.
That’s how we get to “The problem with Supergirl is that it’s too girly.”
We are still stuck in this mode where it’s very common for someone to accuse people of being fair-weather fans (why the hell shouldn’t they like something more when it’s cool to them, then when the character is in a show they don’t enjoy, the show has a bad season but they like the previous season, etc?), accusing cosplayers or t-shirt wearers of just liking the look or the pattern, an emblem, but not knowing the history of the character or the designer of the emblem. Oftentimes, these accusers are guys who own some kind of SWAT or Female Body Inspector or I Am a Hardcore Extreme Badass t-shirt that reps something they’re clearly not, but do they see this? Probably not.
What’s wrong with wearing a shirt because you like the emblem on it? If it looks nice, that’s good enough.
A costume? There’s nothing worse than deeply-researched Halloween costumes, for sure, so why would I worry about it with a cosplayer at a convention? People wear stuff because it looks cool all the time. Why do you think Deadpool has all those pouches?
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Range Voting (RV) and its variants, including Approval Voting (AV) and Score Voting (SV), asks voters to rate each candidate independently within a given range or scale, like one to five or zero to ten, or for AV, 0 or 1. RV ballots are more expressive than either IRV or plurality, allowing members to express rather complex opinions. For example, I might want to say something like, candidate A is my slight preference, and either B or C would be okay with me, but D would be a total disaster in my opinion. On a scale of 0 to 100, I might assign candidate A a 100, B and C an 80, and D a zero. There is no requirement that the scores need to add to anything, or even that every candidate receives a score at all.
Calculating the winner of an RV election is straightforward. One simply adds the scores for each candidate across all voters. The candidate with the highest score percentage wins.
RV in the form of "star voting" has been used a lot recently on the Internet for things like rating movies (Netflix) or buyers and sellers (eBay). Reality TV uses RV when a show allows the same caller to vote multiple times for a candidate; the score for each candidate is just the number of votes it receives. It does not have as much of a track record in the political arena as either plurality or IRV. Like everything else, it is still vulnerable to strategic voters who know or think they can predict partial results about the election before they cast their votes.
From a technical viewpoint, RV does somewhat better against the standard criteria used by experts to judge voting procedures. It is both "consistent" and "summable," for example. Unlike IRV, it fails the "majority" criteria in that it does not always elect a candidate that clearly has a majority of first place votes. On the other hand, the concept of first place vote in RV is somewhat ambiguous, since you may assign your favorite a 100 and your second favorite a 10, while someone else says their second favorite is a 90, indicating there's not much difference between the two. In this example, there's a strong and a weak first place vote. Due to the simpliciy of the vote counting procedure, RV is also more transparent than IRV.
There is a practical drawback of RV that could be very important in the context of the Ethosphere. Many people have a hard time assigning a numerical value to something as subjective as the fitness of a given candidate. I know when a doctor asks me to rate my pain on a scale of 1 to 10 I often choose to respond with a verbal assault instead of a thoughtful opinion. This difficulty can result in some voters assigning 100 to their favorite candidate and not bothering to rate the others. This tactic, of course, degrades to simple plurality voting if enough members choose to adopt it.
Unlike plurality and IRV, RV tends to favor the centrist candidates a little more. Take an example similar to the one discussed in the IRV post. Candidate A receives a score of 100 from 51% of the voters while candidate C receives a score of 100 from only 49%. Both "parties" are comfortable with the centrist candidate, B, so it receives a score of 80 from all voters. In this case, RV will elect B, the compromise candidate. RV supporters claim this is a good thing because it minimizes a metric called "bayesian regret," a measure of how unhappy the teamspace as a whole will be with this outcome. In simple terms, it means the RV result produces the least unhappiness amongst the group. On the other hand, it should be pointed out that the winner ended up being a candidate that was nobody's first choice.
By Jim Dutton at 11:59 AM
Labels: Ethosphere, Voting
Dale February 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Nice work! I do have a few comments to add; clarifications really.
One, there have been a few psychological studies done on the issue, and while it's easier to _rank_ 3 or 4 choices, it's easier to _rate_ 5 or more (on average; individuals and situations will vary.) This is why IMDB, Amazon, etc. all use ratings; can you imagine being asked to rank your top 100 favorite books or movies in order (if not, go try it)? But you could probably rate them all into one of 5 "star" categories quite a bit faster, and millions do, every day.
Second, in practice voters do not tend to bullet vote (vote for just one) with RV. And strategically, this is often clearly a foolish choice anyway. Furthermore, exit polls have been conducted on "real" elections in France, Germany, and elsewhere, and a few small real-world elections have been done by RV (student bodies, professional organizations) all showing that voters tend toward scoring multiple candidates highly (and the more candidates there are, the more of them they score highly, with no apparent upper limit, at least up to about 10 candidates.)
That's why RV supporters refer to Bayesian regret: it not only considers what's _possible_ (e.g., it's possible that RV elects a candidate who is no-one's first choice), but what the likelihood is (how often does RV do that? Not often) and how damaging it is (when it does, does it pick a terrible candidate, or a good compromise? RV almost always picks a good compromise in those cases.)
Jim Dutton February 29, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Great point about the relative ease of ranking versus rating as the number of choices gets large. My thinking was stuck in the present context, where there is likely to be only a few choices, when I made that over-broad statement.
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“I remember the movies people who came with their small truck to the village now and then. They would project movies and would try to sell stuff to the audience during the intermission, usually all kinds of modern medicine. The posters they displayed were beautiful. They inspired my friends and me to draw and paint.
“We kept practicing and even set up a cartoon drawing competition at school. It was fun but I also got into trouble because of this competition. I drew kind of an erotic picture featuring a woman and one of my friends placed it on the teacher’s table without letting me know. Once she found out that it was my drawing, she hit me with a bamboo stick.
“As a Thai woman, she found it very rude and disrespectful to draw that picture and give it to her. This event is still so clear in my memory, just as if it happened yesterday. I understand my teacher’s point of view but that punishment did not discouraging me at all. On the contrary, it makes me smile every time I think about it and I still paint the subjects I want to paint.
Acrylic on Thai silk, ‘Sleeping Naked’ © Pimon Singhasin
“When I graduated from primary school, my parents couldn’t afford to send me to school any longer. But my mother really wanted me to study, so I was ordained a Buddhist novice in order to continue my studies. When I was living in the temple, I painted and drew my favorite movie stars, animals or objects around me etc. I would paint or draw with anything I could find on any kind of surface. I even painted on the walls.
“My aunt was teaching in some high school in Chiang Mai. I moved in with her to study at her high school. I told her that I liked art but she enrolled me in French major. I didn’t have any say in the matter but respectfully agreed. But I didn’t enjoy this. I spent most of the time in the classroom drawing pictures of my teachers. I often went to the Night Plaza during that time. There were many artists who painted there. I liked the ambiance very much.
“I got my high school diploma when I was 18. I moved in with my friends in some dormitory. It was during that time that I failed the nationwide Fine Art Faculty entrance exam. It made me understand that my knowledge of fine arts was basic and that I couldn’t compete with the other students … so I just gave up that plan.
Acrylic on imitation silk, ‘Lonely’ © Pimon Singhasin
“Next I enrolled in a teacher college, majoring in contemporary design. But I didn’t like this major either. I think I was too young to know what I really wanted to study. I just followed others and studied the same. I studied regardless. The only 2 subjects I enjoyed in the classroom were art and psychology.
“The day time I attended just enough subjects to earn the minimum number of credits required to graduate. The night time I practiced my drawing and painting at the Night Plaza. It was my happy time, an open classroom where I could learn, practice and work on what I loved. I initially painted whatever the customers asked me to, which allowed me to build my skills and earn a living in the process. When I became more skilled I started to paint my way. People then seemed to appreciate what I created.
Pimon Playing © Pimon Singhasin
“I became a big music enthusiast during this time. In my spare time, I played the guitar and all sorts of instruments. I also started to compose songs. I used my life and painting experiences in my lyrics, but the result was quite heavy because of the wording I used. So after launching a few albums, I used the traditional musical instruments from my hometown and concentrated on the music only. It turned out to be quite good. I always turned on my music when I painted in the studio. People would hear and follow the music, then saw what I was painting. They liked it.
“I have exhibited solo thrice, in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Starting from my first exhibition, I replaced the canvas with silk. Later I also used cotton and other kinds of fabric. Using silk for my paintings brings back fond memories from my childhood. After a day of labor in the rice field, my mother, like so many other women in the village, would weave silk. She loved her weaving. She did it with happiness as much as many other things in her life. The scene of her sitting at her loom gives me a warm feeling.
“My family, my painting and my music are the most important parts of my life. They’ve grown together and are intertwined. I will continue living my life this way, with my family, my painting and my music. I cannot live without them.
Acrylic on Thai silk, ‘Independence’ © Pimon Singhasin
“To me I live with change and movement. Patterns arise, but I do not stop there. It’s more important to move on, to travel all the time in my work. Whether it is music or painting, my work never stays still. Making something out of the old, that is what I like, to mix the antique and the modern, to integrate everything that I experience.
“I like the challenge of combining dissimilar elements, of finding unexpected solutions that make sense out of everything, and then move on. That is what makes work so much fun for me, the way it develops and changes and moves on.
“Like a voyage, the concept is always the same yet always move on. I have compiled an album which I would like to offer to the people to help them both to appreciate my art and to listen to my songs with deeper understanding and emotion. I would like to feel that through my music and my painting I can offer to others myself and my friendship.”
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What Smart Phones You Should Buy
A quick guide on what to look for in Smart phones
By Rob Temple
Published: Aug 23, 2010 06:02:00 AM IST
Updated: Aug 30, 2010 04:26:31 PM IST
Image: Richard Grassie
Smartphones are unquestionably today’s most important form of consumer tech. They’re no longer just for business; they’re scaled down computers that keep you informed, entertained and in touch. You probably spend more time with your smartphone than you do with your family, so having the right relationship with yours is key. How do you choose from the five main types? Here’s a quick guide.
Key to the categories
Kudos Will lend you an air of gravitas amongst colleagues and friends
Business Popular with business users, usually due to email / presentation skills
Device Range Lots of handsets at a variety of prices
Stylish Looks good, makes you look good, therefore makes you feel good
Qwerty Smartphones with full, non-touchscreen keyboards
Customisable Home screens, skins and app storage can be tweaked
Web Browsing HSDPA equipped and offer exemplary browsing
Social Networking Adored by members of the always-on set
Fashionable You will see lots of these being flashed around
Apps A huge app store with plenty of new apps regulalrly added
Fun Good for gaming, music/video playback, travel, exercise, dining, social apps
Mature Beloved of very experienced users; i.e., older people
Device Range
Think Nokia and you get classic navigation, menus that have barely changed for years, and slim handsets like the Nokia 1100 (the biggest seller of all time; over 200 million units worldwide since 2003). Nokia is by far the world’s largest mobile device manufacturer, with a 33 percent market share. While it lags on smartphones, the consumer-focused N and business-orientated E series are both big sellers.
The Good: Nokia’s best are as solid as they are ubiquitous, and Symbian is the world’s most-used OS. The N series was the first to offer a good quality camera, music and video playback and GPS navigation, all on a decent-sized screen, plus old-school phone features. The most recent N97 is a solid all-round smartphone. The N900 with the Maemo OS rather than Symbian is more fun to use, and the full QWERTY on most of Nokia’s smartphones keeps them popular with business users, who don’t know what all the fuss about multi-tasking is: their Nokia’s done it for years.
The Bad: Nokia’s success owes more to loyalty than innovation. The handsets have looked and behaved the same for many years; the likes of the N900 seem incredibly clunky compared to sexier alternatives from Apple, HTC or RIM. Nokia has introduced touchscreens, but Symbian, as it stands, isn’t suited to touchscreen use. Nokia must get this: browsing, networking, quality apps and sublime user experience are now more important than familiarity and a camera with a Carl Zeiss lens.
What’s Next: Symbian 3 is Nokia’s latest hope. Reports do not suggest a great leap forward, but Nokia claims “over 100 usability improvements.” Due in early 2011 Symbian 4 should offer a more top-to-bottom reimagining of the elderly OS.
MeeGo, another open-source OS (a collaboration between Nokia and Intel, a development from the Maemo OS), is another reason to get excited. It one can be used across multiple platforms, from your satnav to your TV and, of course, smartphone. Its USP? An app downloaded on one device will work on all the others.
App store: ovi store Number of apps: 10,000+
What Nokia says about you…
You don’t like to faff. You’ve always had Nokia and you always will, because it’s reliable and gets the job done. And, usually, the camera’s pretty good too.
Our favourite handsets
Ten years ago, when Microsoft Windows Mobile launched, people wanted the same systems they had on their PCs. WinMo offered scaled-down versions of its Office, Outlook and other programs in some of the first do-it-all devices (smartphones and PDAs). In 2004, it accounted for 23 percent of worldwide smartphone sales, but by 2008 this had almost halved. Partly because of greatly increased competition, but also because of Microsoft’s ongoing failure to keep its OS up-to-date in the face of that competition.
The Good: Business users are still drawn to WinMo’s corporate-like nature, which allows you to access work email, calendars, office desktop, plus view attachments in all Microsoft’s proprietary file formats. With newer builds of Windows Mobile 6.5, IE Mobile 6 and the likes of HTC’s HD2 and HD Mini’s Sense interface overlaid on its own, WinMo is finally starting to come into line with Apple and Android for ease and enjoyability of use. (By “come into line,” we mean “lag slightly less far behind.”)
The Bad: WinMo 6.5 retains many of the basic flaws of its earliest incarnations: excessive complexity, reliance on a stylus for touchscreens, lack of third-party – and, indeed, first-party – apps and grudging lip service to cameras, media players and anything that might be tentatively described as “fun.” The iPhone, Android and Nokia’s E series have all equalled it in most business users’ eyes. Not surprisingly, WinMo’s worldwide smartphone market share has fallen; it’s currently in fifth place with a 6.8 per cent share, according to Gartner.
What’s Next: Later this year Microsoft will finally start putting the Windows Phone 7 Series into mobile devices. Announced in February, the new OS has been built from scratch. That it’ll be integrated with the Xbox Live online gaming service and will offer greater social networking compatibility suggest the dull, workmanlike approach of yore has been consigned to the dustbin of history. With proper multi-touch support at last, hopefully the dreaded WinMo stylus will be joining it there.
App store: App Store for Windows Mobile Number of apps: 2,500
What WinMo says about you…
You crave security, know what you like and stick with it. You’re quite possibly an IT professional and your favourite wafer flavour is the standard salted.
Samsung Omnia Pro
A million sold in 74 days; 51 million since launch; four billion apps downloaded. The Apple iPhone was born as a fascinating mix of great features – multi-touch, integration between browser, phone, email, media player, and the iTunes Store – and with baffling omissions (most notably, cut-and-paste and 3G). Then 3G and the App Store were added, the iPhone became more a platform than a mere handset, and smartphones changed for ever. Now, it has the kind of brand awareness once enjoyed by the Walkman.
The Good: The iPhone can no longer be said to be in its “imperial phase.” However, it remains the benchmark thanks to its ease of use and its ever-expanding App Store. There’s now an app for every occasion, a game for every journey, and the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 keep the hardware and software improvements coming, subtly opening up new possibilities and keeping things running just that little bit more smoothly. Success breeds success, and any major app developer will look at the iPhone platform first before considering an Android, BlackBerry or Windows port.
The Bad: If you can’t upgrade to an iPhone 4, you may suffer from severe handset envy. The 3GS looks good but its salad days are behind it. And it still has many of the original iPhone flaws: relatively poor battery life, an afterthought of a camera and high price. And though the iPhone 4 is pretty much has the best specs available, it’s by no means leagues ahead of, say, the HTC Desire, and it’s likely to remain notably more expensive. We also resent the depressing peal of rumour and speculation that rings in each new iteration of the iPhone, but that’s a given, right?
What’s Next: The obvious next step? Add FaceTime support over 3G instead of just Wi-Fi. Soon, the first 4G networks will boost data speeds fivefold. An iPhone 5 with 4G connectivity could do for mobile video conferencing what 3G did for mobile web browsing. If Apple is serious about popularising it (it’s been around since 2003 and never caught on) maybe it can also find an elegant way to stand the iPhone 5 on a desk, so video calls can be made without the need to have it in your hand.
App store: The App Store Number of apps: 200,000
What iPhone says about you…
You value tactility, versatility, style and ease of use. You’re creative, well-off, and you probably own other Apple devices.
Symbian does appear on phones other than Nokia’s, but Google’s Android OS is really living the open-source dream. Its debut, the HTC Dream/ T-Mobile G1, was more impressive than anyone else’s efforts to beat Apple to that point. Today, the OS is vastly improved, while hardware from HTC, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson now matches or surpasses Apple’s, at keener prices. Android overtook the iPhone in the all-important US market in the first quarter of this year to nestle behind BlackBerry. Standing start to market leader in five years? It’s looking possible…
The Good: Increasingly stylish handsets make a polished counterpart to Android 2.1, which berths Google’s family of key apps – Mail, Calendars, Maps and the Chrome browser. Live widgets for news, social networking, etc., are better than anything the iPhone 3GS offered. Lower prices are a huge boon. And the Market, Android’s app store, continues to quietly grow: 50,000 apps, and around 8,000 new ones each month.
The Bad: The apps Market, though growing, really is a poor relative to Apple’s. The fact that many of the handsets have OLED screens and multi-tasking seems to have them gasping for a recharge even quicker than the iPhone.
What’s Next: Android 2.2, codenamed Froyo (“frozen yogurt” – all Android releases are named after desserts) will introduce support for Adobe Flash 10.1, USB tethering and the ability to function as a Wi-Fi hotspot. The UK’s also recently seen the release of Maps Navigation, a free, full-featured, turn-by-turn satnav. Considerably better than Nokia’s also free-to-all Ovi Maps, it could force some dedicated satnav manufacturers off the road. Analysys Mason, London-based strategic consultants, forecast that Android smartphones will dominate emerging markets alongside other open-source OSes Symbian, and Bada from Samsung. So while Android is already big, it’s only going to get bigger.
App store: Android Market Place Number of apps: 50,000
What android says about you…
You like to be on tech’s cutting edge with both hardware and software. You’re not averse to value for money but you still like things that are premium.
HTC Deisre
NPD Group’s analysis puts Research In Motion’s BlackBerry atop the US smartphone market, with a 36 per cent share. At just over 20 per cent worldwide, it’s the planet’s second-most popular platform after Symbian. Why? One word: email. Keeping workers in touch since 2002, BlackBerry has long had the slickest mobile access to email and text messaging. Add a rock solid set of devices, increasingly good web browsing and business related apps. CrackBerry? You bet.
The Good: BlackBerry has become an iconic status symbol for the more businesslike among us. Models change regularly, but the best ones all have the same blend of tactile and responsive QWERTY keyboards with incredibly simple synching of email, calendars, tasks, notes and contacts. It’s high-end, compact – but not too compact – unfussy, and has serious, professional attitude. With 3G and Wi-Fi on models such as the Bold series, and GPS plus the ever-reliable BlackBerry Maps, and the slowly growing force that is App World, and there’s a hell of a lot to like.
The Bad: Not the most scientific research ever, but a recent Crowd Science study suggests that 40 percent of BlackBerry users would switch to an Apple iPhone or Android – a higher level of potential disloyalty than its rivals. BlackBerry users are also most likely to use it purely for work. Apple and Android offer far more enjoyment, glamour and style. What must be more worrying for RIM is that while users get used to typing on the excellent touchscreen keyboards of HTC and Apple, its own touchscreens lag far behind. And other smartphones are getting better at the push email game.
What’s Next: BlackBerry App World is expanding. With 6,000 very decent apps, it’s a long way behind Apple and Android, but it’s twice what it had this time last year. RIM has opened up its push service notifications to all BlackBerry apps, improving the user experience when it comes to news, live sports scores, Twitter and Facebook. The forthcoming (due in autumn) BlackBerry 6.0 OS will offer a new web browser and user interface, support Adobe Flash and make the touchscreen control of its devices more convincing.
App store: BlackBerry App World Number of apps: 6,000
What BlackBerry says about you…
You’re a busy pro with his mind on the job at all times. Forget trendy touchscreen phones; who can bash out 100+ mails a day on one of those?
BB Pearl 3G
BB storm 2
BB Bold 9700
Courtesy T3 magazine. See the August issue for a companion piece that compares the best smartphones.
(This story appears in the 27 August, 2010 issue of Forbes India. You can buy our tablet version from Magzter.com. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Samsung smart phones are really good, I like Samsung Galaxy Note II the most.
Not even one mention of nexus 5 !! Well, we(owners) are hurt ! :(
We feel your pain. But you may want to look at the dateline on this piece? it\'s more than three years old. :) Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Oh.. My Mistake !! Thanks for pointing it out. btw appreciate all the hard work you guys put at forbes india in bringing quality news to readers.Keep it up ! God bless !
Rajithnair
yes galaxy s 3 is best.
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i think samsung s 3 is d best phone yet
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Private PHILIP D. ABBEY Friday, 09 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
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Private CHARLES H. LEE Saturday, 24 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private HECTOR A. LEFEBVRE Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private GROVER C. LOIKA Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private CHARLES K. LOUIS Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING Detail
Private First Class WALTER S. MACAULAY JR. Thursday, 08 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
First Lieutenant ROBERT C. MACHEN Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class OWEN D. MAGIE Tuesday, 13 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Sergeant BEVERLY J. MANLOVE Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING Detail
Private First Class RALPH W. MCCLELLAN Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private CHARLES J. MCCLERNAN Thursday, 08 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private WILLIAM E. MCCRORY Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private Roy Mezo Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN CEMETERY TABLETS TO THE MISSING Detail
Private VESTER B. MILLARD Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division BRITTANY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Sergeant Daniel P. Molloy Monday, 07 August 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Sergeant CARL T. MONSON Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class CHESTER J. NAKELSKI Monday, 12 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class ROBERT R. NOBLE Thursday, 08 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private WARREN W. PERKINS Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Captain EDWARD A. PETERS Friday, 09 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class JOHN PINCHOT Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class JAMES POLITIS Wednesday, 07 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private GEORGE RADEKA Friday, 09 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private STEVE RADOVICH Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private WILLIE RAMIREZ Thursday, 08 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class FOSTER P. REEDER Saturday, 21 July 1945 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING Detail
Technician Fifth Class LESLIE B. RILEY Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private CHARLES T. RISNER Thursday, 08 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class ORRIS V. ROBBINS Monday, 12 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private Jack F. Sheidler Thursday, 27 July 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Staff Sergeant OTHIS C. SHEPHERD Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Technician Fifth Class JOSEPH F. SLOSARCZYK Tuesday, 13 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class CHRISTOPHER C. SMITH Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING Detail
Private FRANK J. SMUTEK Sunday, 11 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private ROBERT L. STEWART Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Technician Fourth Class STANLEY E. STOCKINS Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Technician Fourth Class BENJAMIN J. STONEY Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private JOHN SUPCO Tuesday, 13 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private JACK SWINNEY Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private ROY U. TALHELM Monday, 12 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class JOSEPH W. TASKER Monday, 12 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private RUBEN R. TELLEZ Thursday, 08 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Sergeant ROBERT L. TODD Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private George A. Trotman Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Sergeant VICTOR A. TURKOVICH Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING Detail
Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM L. TURNER Wednesday, 07 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private JOHN A. VENDELIS Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private ARDEAN D. VERNATTER Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private RAYMOND WARD Monday, 12 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class NEWTON P. WEATHERSBY Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING Detail
Private LESLIE E. WILLIAMS Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Corporal THOMAS B. WOLFORD Tuesday, 13 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private JOHN A. WRIGHT Tuesday, 06 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private ROBERT WRIGHT Wednesday, 07 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
Private First Class EDWARD P. ZOLTZ Sunday, 11 June 1944 Unknown United States Army 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY Detail
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Find animals up for adoption
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> City of Chesapeake, Virginia > Government > City Agencies, Departments, and Offices > Departments > Police Department > Animal Services Unit > Volunteer Opportunities > Snout and About Field Trip Fostering Program
More ways to help!
Looking for another opportunity to lend the shelter a hand?
Donate needed items or money
Sponsor an adoption via the Guardian Angel Program
Volunteer at the shelter
Or take a pup on a field trip through the Snout and About Field Trip Fostering program
Snout and About Field Trip Fostering Program
Chesapeake Animal Service is asking members of the community to participate in the Snout and About Field Trip Fostering Program with shelter dogs. All you'll need to do is hang out with one of their dogs!
This new innovative program will give dogs the opportunity to spend time exploring the world around them outside of the shelter. A trip to the park, a nice lunch at a dog friendly restaurant, or a relaxing drive around town are just some ideas for those wishing to take a shelter dog Snout and About!
The program is designed to make participation easy. No prior experience is necessary and participants will be provided with everything they need for a successful field trip. This program will continue year-round during our normal operating hours!
Agreement and Release Form
Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Checkout: 10 am - 1 pm
Return time: Dogs must be out for 2 or more hours and returned by 3 pm
Checkout: Noon - 3 pm
*Please note, we will not be offering field trips on Wednesdays or Sundays.
Additional Information: 757-382-8081, Option 1, or email Amanda McQuarry, amcquarry@cityofchesapeake.net.
Program Research
The program is part of a groundbreaking study on foster care that will help save the lives of homeless dogs across the country. The goal of this 100-shelter nationwide study, carried out by Arizona State University in conjunction with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and funded by Maddie's Fund, a national family foundation established by Dave and Cheryl Duffield to revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals, is to learn more about how fostering programs affect dogs, shelter staff and volunteers. Foster programs, of any length, help reduce stress for dogs in kennels and provide them with enrichment and increased their visibility in the community with potential adopters. They provide shelters with valuable insight into a dog's personality and their behavior outside a shelter environment. It's also a great excuse to do something new or explore in Hampton Roads!
"Similar programs, at shelters across the country, have been enormously successful," said Sharon Sockman, Chesapeake Animal Services. "We are excited to introduce this in our community."
"Foster care is the gold standard for lifesaving and we consider foster caregivers as the VIPs," said Mary Ippoliti-Smith, Executive Leadership Team of Maddie's Fund. "These types of programs are a great way to connect the community with shelter pets."
About Maddie's Fund
Maddie's Fund® is a family foundation created in 1994 by Workday® co-founder Dave Duffield and his wife, Cheryl, who have endowed the Foundation with more than $300 million. Since then, the Foundation has awarded more than $225.7 million in grants toward increased community lifesaving, shelter management leadership, shelter medicine education, and foster care across the U.S. The Duffield’s named Maddie's Fund after their Miniature Schnauzer Maddie, who always made them laugh and gave them much joy. Maddie was with Dave and Cheryl for ten years and continues to inspire them today.
Maddie's Fund is the fulfillment of a promise to an inspirational dog, investing its resources to create a no-kill nation where every dog and cat is guaranteed a healthy home or habitat. #ThanksToMaddie
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Council Agenda
Previous Council Agendas
Prior Year Synopses
State of the City Message
Council Vacancy - The City is seeking qualified applicants who live in Ward 2 of Roseburg to apply for a seat on City Council. Roseburg residents have until January 31, 2020 by 5:00 p.m. You can obtain an application at the City Hall Administration Office or by completing the fillable form and submitting via email to info@cityofroseburg.org.
Fillable Form - Click Here
Roseburg City Council
The Roseburg City Council meets at 7:00 p.m. on the second and fourth Mondays of the month in the Council Chambers at Roseburg City Hall. In addition to the regularly scheduled Council meetings, Council members will generally spend time reviewing material in preparation for the meetings and attend additional meetings as well as talking and corresponding with constituents. As the elected legislative body of the City of Roseburg, the City Council has overall responsibility for the scope, direction and financing of City services.
The City Council establishes local law and policy that is administered and implemented through full-time staff under the Council-Manager form of government. The Council is also responsible for establishing land use policies and zoning regulations. Under this form of government, the City Council provides policy direction to the City Manager, who is responsible for administering City operations. In setting policy, the Council works closely with citizen advisory commissions and committees, considers staff information and recommendations, and receives comments from interested parties and the general public.
On January 13, 2020, the City Council adopted goals that will provide leadership and direction for Staff for the next one to three years. Those goals are:
1. Develop and implement policies to enhance housing opportunities.
2. Implement transportation funding policies to meet identified community needs.
3. Enhance community livability and public safety.
4. Take a proactive role in community economic development and revitalization.
5. Update and implement the City's Emergency Preparedness Plan.
6. Explore strategies to address issues related to unhoused individuals within the community.
Elections, Terms and Wards
Roseburg is divided into four wards, with two Council members per ward. The Mayor, who presides at the Council meetings, is elected at large for a two-year term. Council members serve a four-year term with one Council position in each ward being up for election every two years. The Mayor and Council are non-salaried, volunteer positions, elected by citizens who live within the Roseburg City limits. The ward boundaries are denoted on this Ward Map.
Note: If you would like to contact the Councilor who represents your ward but are unsure about which Ward you reside in, please contact us at info@cityofroseburg.org.
Your City Council
There are 9 elected officials in the City of Roseburg: 8 Council members and 1 Mayor. These officials are a vital and dedicated part of the community that are open to positive change, willing to take well-thought-out risks, willing to partner in advancing and improving our community while reflecting our code of ethics.
Title / Ward Representative Contact Information
Mayor Larry Rich
lrich@cityofroseburg.org
Term expires: 12/31/2020
Ward One; Airport Commission Chair
Linda Fisher-Fowler
lfisher@cityofroseburg.org
Ward One; Parks & Recreation Commission Chair
Alison Eggers
aeggers@cityofroseburg.org
Ward Two; Historic Resource Review Commission Chair
Andrea Zielinski
azielinski@cityofroseburg.org
Ward Two
Vacant Vacant
Ward Three, MedCom Board Brian Prawitz
bprawitz@cityofroseburg.org
Ward Three, Public Works Commission Chair, Veterans Services Liaison Bob Cotterell
bcotterell@cityofroseburg.org
Ward Four
Ashley Hicks
ahicks@cityofroseburg.org
Beverly Cole
bcole@cityofroseburg.org
Term expires 12/31/2022
The City Council Policy Manual was prepared by the City Recorder's Office in 2012 in an attempt to compile multiple policies, practices and guidelines adopted over the years by the City Council, most often by Council resolution. In 2014, this Manual was combined with the Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual to accommodate the ease of accessing all City policies.
The Council exercises its legislative authority by adopting ordinances which in most cases, are codified into the Roseburg Municipal Code. The Code provides not only the current laws and regulations imposed by the Council; it also provides a history of prior ordinances and notations as to when changes were made. The Code may be found at Codes/Ordinances.
The Council's administrative authority is most commonly exercised through adoption of resolutions. Council resolutions are considered "permanent", "essential" City records. All original resolutions - from the very beginning of the City's incorporation - are contained within the City's record vault. Prior to the production of this manual, the guidelines, rules and procedures established by these records have never been "codified" into any form of manual for easy reference.
To view the City Council and Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual, please click here.
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Tag Archives: North Atlantic
Climate Action, Climate Policy & Planning, Climate Science
Climate clippings 132
March 30, 2015 Brian 2 Comments
1. Accelerating ice loss from Antarctica shelves
Some ice shelves in Antarctica are thickening and some are thinning. The pattern between east and west is obvious from this image:
When we sum up losses around Antarctica, we find that the change in volume of all the ice shelves was almost zero in the first decade of our record (1994-2003) but, on average, over 300 cubic kilometers per year were lost between 2003 and 2012.
According to the ABC story, some shelves lost almost 20% of their thickness.
Melting ice shelves does not itself cause sea level rise, but the shelves buttress land ice, which then becomes more mobile. The graph in the bottom corner of the image shows that East Antarctica is now also experiencing a net loss of ice from ice shelves.
2. Top polluters to set own limits virtually penalty free
ANU economist Frank Jotzo said the system is designed so no-one gets caught by it – a toothless tiger. Tony Wood of the Grattan Institute said the ideas proposed in the paper simply would not work. They were commenting on a Government consultation paper outlining “safeguards” to ensure the big polluters do not offset emissions saved through the Emission Reduction Fund (ERF), a flagship component of Direct Action.
Australia’s 140 top polluters will set their own limits for future pollution virtually penalty free, according to the Government’s latest Direct Action policy paper.
Companies subject to the safeguards will select a baseline, or limit, for future pollution.
That baseline will be set according to the highest peak of emissions from the past five years.
Just plain stoopid!
3. What’s going on in the North Atlantic?
Stefan Rahmstorf asks the question at RealClimate. There is a large patch in the North Atlantic which has cooled in the last century.
Rahmstorf explains:
Our recent study (Rahmstorf et al. 2015) attributes this to a weakening of the Gulf Stream System, which is apparently unique in the last thousand years.
In fact during last winter, which was the warmest on record for the planet overall, this patch had the coldest temperatures on record.
Chief suspect has to be the increasing freshwater coming off Greenland. There will be consequences.
The consequences of a large reduction in ocean overturning would look nothing like the Hollywood film The Day After Tomorrow. But they would not be harmless either – e.g. for sea level (Levermann et al. 2005) particularly along the US east coast (Yin et al. 2009), marine ecosystems, fisheries and possibly even storminess in Europe (Woollings et al. 2012).
A complete breakdown of the current was given up to a 10% chance this century in the IPCC report. This may have been an underestimate.
4. Rapid Arctic warming is changing the Jetstream and the weather
Another study, also involving Rahmstorf, looks at changing atmospheric circulation patterns due to Arctic warming.
The Arctic is warming faster than lower latitudes. The Jetstream velocity depends on temperature difference, hence it is slowing. It is also more wavy and has a tendency to get stuck, so heat or cold persists over a large area. Ironically, there is less storminess. Storms transport water onto land and break up persistent weather patterns.
The jet stream that circles Earth’s north pole travels west to east. But when the jet stream interacts with a Rossby wave, as shown here, the winds can wander far north and south.
5. Brisbane EV charging technology takes on the world
Brisbane-based electric vehicle infrastructure company, Tritium, has done a deal to supply its award-winning Veefil DC fast charging stations to America’s ChargePoint company. ChargePoint has 21,000 EV chargers around the US.
The Australian-made stations will be installed on major routes across the country, including the express charging corridors on both the east and west coasts of the US that are being built as part of a recent deal between ChargePoint, Volkswagen and BMW.
The 50kW Veefil stations – which in the US will be called DC Fast stations and will be ChargePoint branded – are able to deliver up to 80 miles or 128 kilometers of charge in just 20 minutes, thus removing one of the key barriers to EV uptake: range anxiety.
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Climate clippings 35
July 15, 2011 Brian 34 Comments
Australian greenhouse graphs
The ABC has a graph of Australia’s greenhouse gases. I’ve extracted the pie chart here:
Australian GHG emissions 2009-10
The figures are for 2009-10 and exclude land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) which in 2005 was 6%.
Lots of GHG information can be found at the UNFCCC GHG data site, including a global map (may take a while to load).
This graph is of changes, 1990-2008 (including LULUCF), showing Australia and NZ in a bad light, but Turkey is the runaway champion. I suspect outsourcing of manufacturing from the EU.
There’s an interesting champagne glass image Jo Abess’s blog (scroll down) but I’m not sure of it’s pedigree. Continue reading Climate clippings 35 →
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EMILY B.’S DAD TO TESTIFY ON FABOLOUS’ BEHALF IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASE
October 16, 2018 FreshAsFrankie
Earlier this month, Brooklyn rapper Fabolous was reportedly indicted by a grand jury in New Jersey on four felony charges of domestic assault.
The indictment came after it was uncovered he allegedly assaulted the former Love & Hip Hop star in an incident caught on video back in March 28th, showing Fab confronting Emily’s father, threatening to kill him.
Fab, whose real name is John Jackson and Emily, whose full name is Emily Bustamante, have worked out their differences and remain together since the incident earlier this year.
According to new reports, Fab has also patched up his relationship with Emily’s father, so much so that he is willing to testify on Fab’s behalf if the case goes to trial.
Fab has been charged with one count of domestic violence with significant bodily injury, two counts of threatening to kill, and one count of possession of a weapon.
According to reports, each charge may allow Fab up to five years in prison and are considered third-degree crimes in the state of NJ.
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Baccalaureate Degree Requirements
A student must complete the following requirements in order to earn a Bachelor of Arts or Science degree. Requirements are described in detail in the latter part of this section. Most students accumulate a combination of units in the major, General Education, and nondesignated electives in order to fulfill the requirements of a baccalaureate degree. These requirements are fulfilled when a student successfully completes:
a minimum of 120 semester units for the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science degree programs
an academic major requirement
Specific course/skill requirements: (a) English Composition (English 5A-B, 10, or equivalent); (b) United States History (History 11 or 12); (c) United States and California Constitution (Political Science 2 or 101); (d) Upper-division writing skills; (e) Multicultural/International Requirement
a minimum of 30 residence units, of which 24 must be upper division, 12 in the major, and 9 in General Education
a minimum of a C average for units in the major, all California State University, Fresno units, and total units.
To receive the degree, a student files an online application for graduation via the Student Center by one of the published deadlines. After paying the fee online, your application is submitted to the Undergraduate Degree Evaluations.
Double (Concurrent) Major Requirements
Undergraduate students may desire to complete the requirements for more than one major at the time of completion of the baccalaureate degree (i.e., graduate with a double major). All requirements for each degree must be met. When students apply for graduation, they must designate which is the primary degree major. Minimum requirements and exceptions for double majors are as follows:
Double B.A. majors must include a minimum of 24 units exclusive of the other major, 12 of which must be upper-division.
Double B.S. majors must include a minimum of 36 units exclusive of the other major, 18 of which must be upper-division.
Units may be double-counted for both majors above 24 mutually exclusive units (12 upper-division) in B.A. programs and 36 units (18 upper-division) in B.S. programs.
Courses in General Education may be used to fulfill major or minor requirements.
Students may not earn a special major as a double major.
One Degree with More than One Major and/or Minor: Two majors leading to the same baccalaureate degree (B.A. or B.S.) do not constitute separate baccalaureate degrees. Only one degree and one diploma will be awarded. Only one application fee is required for one degree, regardless of the number of majors and minors. A student may earn a maximum of two majors and two minors so long as all work can be completed within 144 units.
Graduating with Two Degrees: A student may be awarded more than one baccalaureate degree (such as a B.A., B.S., or B.F.A.) at the same time provided that requirements of all degree programs have been completed. Students who complete two different baccalaureate degrees must apply for all degrees in a single degree period by submitting separate applications simultaneously. A fee is required for each application submitted. Students who concurrently complete the requirements for two baccalaureate degrees will be acknowledged on separate diplomas for each degree earned.
Note: Students may not pursue a baccalaureate and master's degree concurrently.
Special Major for a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science Degree
The Special Major Degree provides an opportunity for students to engage in an individualized course of study leading to a degree when one's academic and professional goals are not accommodated by standard degree majors. The Special Major consists of correlated studies in two or more fields and should provide integrated instruction comparable in quality and depth to regular major programs.
The minimum requirement for the Special Major is an approved program of 45 units at least 30 units of which must be upper division work. A maximum of six independent study units may be included in the Special Major Program. Any exception to this limit must be approved in writing by the Dean of Undergraduate Studies upon written recommendation by the Special Major Advisor prior to registration for the additional units.
The maximum number of units for a B.A. or B.S. Special Major shall not exceed 144 total earned units.
A student requesting a Special Major must meet with an Advisor in the University Advising Center to review criteria and obtain application forms. On these forms the student must: 1) Prepare a statement giving reasons for desiring a Special Major in terms of academic and professional goals and why these goals cannot be met through a standard major; 2) Develop a specific list of courses which would lead to the academic and professional goals stated above; 3) Secure the signed approval from the University Advising Center, as well as from the Special Major Advisor and department chair(s) in the areas from which the Special Major courses are drawn. The student must submit the foregoing material to the University Advising Center and the Dean of Undergraduate Studies for final approval. Any changes to an approved Special Major must be processed through the University Advising Center and forwarded accordingly for approval.
B.S. Program Requirements: At least 25 units of the B.S. Special Major must be from campus colleges offering a broad range of instructional programs in science- or technology-based disciplines. These colleges include the following: Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Craig School of Business, Engineering, Health and Human Services, Science and Mathematics, and Social Sciences. Coursework must be taken in at least two different subject areas or fields of study, with no less than 9 units each from a minimum of two areas.
Residence Requirements
The residence requirement for the baccalaureate degree specifies that 30 units shall be earned in residence at the campus granting the degree. Twenty-four of these units shall be earned in upper-division courses, 12 of the units shall be in the major, and 9 units shall be in General Education. The residence requirement for graduate students is 21 units.
Extension credit and credit by evaluation, including credit by examination, may not be used to fulfill the above described requirements.
Specific Course/Skill Requirements
English Requirement. English 10, Composition, or its equivalent is a university graduation requirement that should be completed before the end of the fourth semester of university attendance. (A grade of C is the minimum acceptable grade to satisfy this requirement.) The English Placement Test does not substitute for English 10. Search English Placement Test for test scores prerequisite to enrollment in English 10.
U.S. History and Government Requirements. Undergraduate and second baccalaureate degree candidates must demonstrate competence with respect to the Constitution of the United States, American history, and in the principles of state and local government of California in order to graduate. This may be done by passing examinations or by completing History 11 or 12 and Political Science 2. (In cases in which students have completed the federal government requirement at another institution, Political Science 102 [1 unit] will fulfill the California government requirement.) (Search History Department -- American History Requirement , Political Science Department -- United States Constitution Requirement, and General Education.)
Upper-Division Writing Skills (UDWS) Requirement. All undergraduate and second baccalaureate degree candidates must demonstrate competency in writing skills at the upper-division (junior-senior) level as a requirement for graduation. After completing 60 units and English Composition (ENGL 5A, 5B or 10) or its equivalent with a C or better, students may meet this requirement in one of two ways:
Pass the Upper-Division Writing Examination (UDWE) composed of two essays. Students are permitted to take the examination a maximum of two times. Upon successful completion of the UDWE, undergraduate students may request 1 unit of credit (ENGL 100W), which will be posted to their transcripts the semester following the date the UDWE was passed. Call the Bulldog Testing Office, 559.278.4137.
Obtain a CR or letter grade of C or better in an approved upper-division writing course at this university. Approved writing courses can be identified in the catalog by the letter W (e.g., ENGL 160W, BA 105W).
It is imperative that the UDWS requirement be met within two semesters after completing 60 units. The UDWS requirement cannot be fulfilled by a class or test taken outside of The California State University system and cannot be satisfied at a CSU campus at which the student has not matriculated.
Passing the UDWE does not exempt students from taking a W course if it is required in their major, e.g., PLANT 110W.
Graduate students should consult Graduate Studies regarding the graduate-level writing proficiency requirement.
Unit Limitations
The following unit limitations apply to all bachelor's degrees:
A maximum of 70 transferable semester units (105 quarter) is allowed from two-year institutions (community/junior colleges).
A maximum of 8 semester units of Kinesiology (P.E.)/Dance Techniques/Athletics activity is allowed. (Kinesiology and dance majors may have credit for 12 semester units.)
A maximum of 12 semester units is allowed for work experience/internship/agricultural projects. (A maximum of 6 semester units may transfer into the university. A maximum of 6 semester units of the 12 is allowed in agricultural projects.) All work experience and internships are graded on a credit/no credit basis.
A maximum of 24 semester units at California State University, Fresno is allowed for CR/NC grading, excluding Credit by Examination. (Search Credit/No Credit Grading for other limitations.)
A maximum of 30 semester units is allowed for Credit by Examination (excluding Credit for Advanced Placement Examination).
A maximum of 24 semester units is allowed for credit through Extension and/or correspondence coursework.
A maximum of 6 semester units is allowed for independent study coursework.
A maximum of 6 semester units is allowed for coursework in typing/keyboarding.
A maximum of 30 semester units is allowed for military service and/or education.
Second Baccalaureate Degree
Pursuant Executive Order 1084, postbaccalaureate students (i.e., those who already hold a bachelor’s degree) seeking a second baccalaureate degree will only be considered for nursing majors.
If eligible, postbaccalaureate students seeking an additional undergraduate degree must complete the following requirements: (a) a minimum of 30 units in residence at California State University, Fresno since completion of the most recent degree, including 24 upper-division units; (b) at least 12 units in the major in residence at this university since the last baccalaureate degree. (Departments may set higher requirements.); (c) all units required in the major. No credit may be applied from courses taken for an earlier degree. If required major courses were previously taken, the student must substitute, with the approval of the department, additional major courses. Graduate-level courses (200 series) may not be applied toward the requirements for a second baccalaureate degree or additional undergraduate major; (f) filing of an undergraduate degree application and payment of graduation fee. (See Graduation.)
Students pursuing a second baccalaureate degree cannot select the catalog used for the initial undergraduate degree. If students do not remain in continuous attendance, the requirements will be those in effect at the time they reenter the university or complete their programs. (See Choice of Catalog.)
Postbaccalaureate students may not earn a minor or a second minor.
Determination of honors at graduation for students earning a second baccalaureate degree will be calculated based on grades earned in all courses required by the university to complete the second degree which are taken subsequent to completing their first degree.
Postbaccalaureate Credit
Upper-division and/or graduate-level units earned at Fresno State in the semester or summer session in which the bachelor’s degree is granted will be notated on the student’s permanent record as postbaccalaureate credit as long as
the courses are not needed for the bachelor's degree.
the student is neither on academic probation nor academic disqualification at the beginning of the final term.
the units are not in excess of stated maximum limitations (e.g., 6 units of independent study).
course is not a repeated attempt.
In addition, only credit for courses in which grades A, B, C, or CR are earned may be counted. No course may have its credit divided between baccalaureate and postbaccalaureate programs; use of such credit for graduate degrees at California State University, Fresno requires special approval and is limited to one-third of the total units required in a graduate degree program. (Search Graduate Studies - Advancement to Candidacy.) Only students with graduate standing may enroll in the following courses: 290, 298, 299. (Search Graduate Studies - Criteria for Thesis and Project.) Use of postbaccalaureate credit for other purposes is to be determined by the appropriate authority.
ITEP Postbaccalureate Credit. Students participating in an approved ITEP degree program are granted postbaccalaureate credit for coursework that is in excess of the 120 unit undergraduate degree requirement. Courses in excess will be notated in the postbaccalaureate record on the transcript and the additional courses taken toward the credential as part of the undergraduate degree will be notated. Students will also be able to request a letter in support of their postbaccalaureate credit by the Kremen School of Education Dean. For more information, contact the ITEP program directly.
Students who anticipate meeting bachelor’s degree requirements by the end of a term should file an online application for a degree (with appropriate fees) with the Undergraduate Degree Evaluations. The Division of Research and Graduate Studies processes graduate degree applications. See Academic Calendar for filing dates and deadlines. Failure to apply before the final deadline will delay the granting of the degree.
Undergraduate Degree Evaluations checks students' applications for bachelor's degrees and informs them regarding eligibility for the degrees. Degrees are not awarded to students with I or RD grades remaining on their records. Students receiving I grades during the final year that have not been completed (or changed to F grades) by the appropriate clearance deadline will not be considered for graduation that semester and must reapply for the degree. (Search Incomplete.)
In order to be eligible for graduation, students must:
Submit an online application for the degree and pay the graduation fee
Have completed with appropriate scholastic standing all courses required for the degree. (Graduates receive their official diplomas by mail.)
Have filed official transcripts for all coursework attempted prior to graduation
It is the responsibility of students to be sure that all requirements have been met and that documentation has been filed with the Undergraduate Degree Evaluations or the Division of Research and Graduate Studies by the appropriate deadlines. No additions, deletions, or changes to students’ records are permitted after the degree has been recorded.
Honors at Graduation. Honors at the time of graduation from the university are awarded to undergraduate students based on the following criteria:
Students must have an overall minimum grade point average of 3.5 on all work attempted.
Students must have a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on all work taken at the university.
The grade point average earned at California State University, Fresno determines which honors the student receives:
Summa Cum Laude (highest honors) 3.90 to 4.00
Magna Cum Laude (high honors) 3.70 to 3.89
Cum Laude (honors) 3.50 to 3.69
Since the requirement for honors could change, students are requested to check the current General Catalog for the criteria in effect at the time of graduation.
The California Promise Program
The California Promise Program enables a specific number of CSU campuses to establish pledge programs for entering first-time students who are both interested and able to complete baccalaureate degrees in four years. All campuses have established programs for students with Associate Degrees for Transfer from any California Community College to complete their baccalaureate degrees in two years. The program is limited to students who are residents of California. Detailed program information can be found on the website at http://fresnostate.edu/academics/californiapromise/ or contact capromise@mail.fresnostate.edu.
Students who commit to enter either the four-year or two-year pledge will be given a priority registration appointment for each state-supported enrollment period and will be provided with routine and thorough academic advisement. In order to remain in the program, students must meet with their advisors as prescribed, develop an enrollment plan and complete 30 semester units or the quarter equivalent within each academic year, including summer. Participating campuses may stipulate other requirements as well. Interested students entering the CSU should contact campus offices or visit www2.calstate.edu/apply/freshman/getting_into_the_csu/pages/the-california-promise-program.aspx.
Commencement is held annually at the end of spring semester. Students who have completed degree requirements in the summer or in the fall semester immediately preceding commencement are eligible to participate with those who complete their work in the spring semester. For additional information, see Kennel Bookstore, Student Life, and/or the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students.
Many students want to study areas not covered by traditional degree programs to increase professional competence, to acquire paraprofessional training, to change careers or to promote personal enrichment. A baccalaureate or master's degree, or second baccalaureate or second major may be inappropriate for them, yet they may still deserve recognition for their work. To meet the needs of these students the university has established three kinds of certificates:
The Certificate of Completion is awarded for successfully completing a planned educational experience (workshop, conference, short course, or seminar) designed for specific academic objectives.
The Certificate of Special Study is awarded for successfully completing a structured program of educational experiences, at least 12 semester units, determined in advance by a department or college/school, and consisting of upper-division (100-199) courses, professional (300-399) courses, and related activities.
The Certificate of Advanced Study is awarded for successfully completing an established, approved program of at least 12 semester units of graduate (200-299) courses, upper-division (100-199) courses, and professional (300-399) courses, as recommended by a department and approved by the Division of Research and Graduate Studies.
Please note: Certificates awards are not currently posted on the Fresno State official transcript.
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California State University, Fresno offers basic - Multiple Subject, Single Subject, and Special Education - teaching credentials as well as advanced - Specialist and Services - credentials required for employment in K-12 public schools. The Kremen School of Education and Human Development is the primary unit responsible for professional preparation and credential authorization. However, subject matter preparation required for basic credential programs and professional preparation required in some advanced credentials - school nursing, psychology, school social work, agriculture, speech-language pathology, and deaf and hard-of-hearing - are provided by various academic departments. For information about credential programs, refer to the Education section of this catalog or to the appropriate academic department.
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AsOne's Self-Titled Debut Album Spends 3 Consecutive Weeks at No.1 on Billboard Chart
By Timothy Yap Jul 22, 2015 07:09 PM EDT
Emerging interracial female duo AsOne's (First ever interracial female duo in recorded music history across all genres) self-titled debut album via 360MusicWorx/Capitol Christian Distribution/Universal Music Group spends 3 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's CMTA Top Inspirational Albums chart and has maintained a Top 15 position (3 consecutive weeks) on Billboard's Top Gospel Albums chart (#10 peak) landing at #11 this week.
The buzzed-about 8 track project co-written by group members Lisa Wright and Theresa Bailey which features guest appearances from 10-Time Grammy Award winner Mark Kibble of Take 6 and Stellar Award winning Christian rapper Da' T.R.U.T.H among more has garnered additional praises including The Huffington Post declaring, "hopefully the world listens, for their sound has come a time where we need it the most." Journal of Gospel Music's Bob Marovich gives the album 5 out of 5 stars and states, "Their [AsOne] self-titled debut is brief but delightful, filled with dramatically sung selections containing cinematic sweep and haunting melodies."
Lisa and Theresa are walking valiantly in their calling to minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ while promoting love, unity, and racial harmony. AsOne invigorate an atmosphere of worship everywhere they sing, and recently made an appearance at Sheila Belle's 6th Annual Gospel Fest in front of 10,000 people in Richmond, VA.
On July 13 they taped two national television appearances on Roland Martin's "News One Now" (TV One) and CBN News. Check your local listings for air dates and time. The duo will continue to make appearances around the country this summer with stops in Cleveland, Atlanta (Radio One Praise in the Park), Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati (27th Annual Midwest Regional Black Family Reunion) among more.
AsOne's self-titled debut album is available at LifeWay and Mardel Christian Bookstores stores and online via iTunes (apple.co/1eFxeRi), Google Play (bit.ly/1JfE1hf) and Amazon.com (amzn.to/1dcVN6j).
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Scaling the ladder with Value Chain Manager Justin Makori
Imagine you’re a Hand in Hand entrepreneur. You’ve gone through the training, launched your own business and established yourself in the community. Now you’re ready to take the next step and scale up, but you’re not sure how to access bigger markets. Enter Justin Makori (pictured, left), Hand in Hand Eastern Africa’s Value Chain Manager, who since March of last year has helped thousands of entrepreneurs with that vital last piece of the Hand in Hand model: growth.
We spoke to Justin about his work with grassroots entrepreneurs, and why market linkages are important.
Can you explain what market linkages are? How do they work?
Market linkages are the channels through which transactions occur, starting the moment a product is produced and ending when it’s consumed. Ultimately, they’re about connecting the producer and the consumer.
Of course, when and where they occur depends on a number of factors: what the product is, where it exists along the value chain and more. Sometimes the goal is to connect entrepreneurs with processors. Other times it means teaching them about door-to-door delivery.
What kinds of businesses are best suited to market linkages?
Any business can and must fit the market linkage model: no consumers, no income. That said, the majority of Hand in Hand Eastern Africa members are farmers – the mainstay of the Kenyan economy – so lots of my work is in agriculture.
How many members has Hand in Hand Eastern Africa helped with market linkages?
So far the number of cases stands at 8,117. Most occur on a small scale, but all help members generate income and, in turn, alleviate poverty.
Any success stories you’re particularly proud of?
Linking entrepreneurs with big companies is something we’re doing more of, especially as we’ve begun to sensitise members on tackling two key issues: sustainable quantities and high-quality products. In Thika, we’ve been able to link 101 avocado growers – that’s six groups – with Kakuzi Ltd., an agricultural cultivation and manufacture company listed on both the Nairobi Securities Exchange and London Stock Exchange. Most of those members put the resulting profits into enterprises ranging from farming to hotel businesses. We’ve also had similar successes with banana produces in Gatanga, poultry in Machakos and chick hatching in Homabay. The future looks bright.
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Asian retail sukuk looks to broaden appeal of Islamic finance
KUALA LUMPUR/SYDNEY: Issues of Islamic bonds targeting retail investors in Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan could broaden the appeal of sharia-compliant financial products, create a more active investor base and convince more companies to raise funds with sukuk.
Last year saw the first-ever issue in Malaysia of retail sukuk, which are offered to the public rather than being sold to banks or placed with large institutional investors.
The Malaysian issue was followed this month by Karachi’s electric utility; Indonesia’s finance ministry has been offering sovereign paper to the mass market since 2008.
Authorities hope that by involving large numbers of individual investors, retail sukuk can become popular among 400 million Muslims across the three countries - roughly one in every four Muslims in the world.
“We are very optimistic, as in the market there is demand for sharia-compliant financial instruments,” said Amir Khan Afridi, director at Pakistan’s Securities and Exchange Commission.
Proponents hope that retail sukuk will serve more than investment and fund-raising purposes; they could raise awareness of the principles of Islamic finance, such as its bans on interest payments and pure monetary speculation.
“This will provide an opportunity to investors to debate Islamic finance concepts. These debates and discussions will help bring more clarity among the public,” Afridi said.
Pakistani utility K-Electric, which serves over 20 million consumers, is in the process of raising 6 billion rupees ($57 million) through the country’s first retail sukuk issue. Afridi said another Pakistani firm, which he declined to name, had applied for permission to conduct such an issue.
K-Electric decided on its issue after it sold a 2 billion rupee conventional retail bond last year which was fully subscribed within six weeks, a company spokesman said.
There are major obstacles to successful issuance of retail sukuk, which explains why the instrument did not appear earlier in Malaysia and Pakistan, and why non-government issuers have not yet emerged in Indonesia.
In the Gulf, the world’s other main centre of Islamic finance, many sukuk are listed on stock exchanges - in theory allowing them to be traded by individuals - but issues are targeted at institutions, not at retail investors.
The United Arab Emirates’ National Bonds Corp offers sharia-compliant savings schemes in which investors can buy savings certificates based on the mudaraba format in very small denominations, but this stops short of a direct issue of sukuk to the retail market.
In Malaysia, Jamaluddin Nor Mohamad, head of Islamic and alternative markets at Bursa Malaysia, the national exchange, said engaging with potential issuers was a “daunting task”, while it was hard to raise awareness of the product among retail investors more accustomed to other instruments such as equities.
“The product features of a fixed income instrument did not fit perfectly into the mind space of our existing investors.”
Lack of familiarity has raised the costs of issuing. When Malaysia’s DanaInfra Nasional, set up by the finance ministry to raise funds for the country’s largest infrastructure project, issued its debut 300 million ringgit ($91 million) sukuk in January 2013, it structured the instrument to mimic an equity IPO but still had to offer a price premium to attract buyers. This created a “negative perception” among potential issuers, Jamaluddin said. DanaInfra’s subsequent retail sukuk, a 100 million ringgit issue last October, tried to correct this by pricing in line with the over-the-counter market used by big institutional investors.
DanaInfra may make two more retail issues of 100 million ringgit each in 2014, Jamaluddin said. “We continue to highlight that it is difficult for us as an exchange to promote this product when there is only one issuance. On that basis, we are saying two is not enough.”
In a statement, DanaInfra said the retail sukuk market needed more time to mature. “It may only be achieved with continuous support from all parties including the regulators, the brokers and the market makers.
(Daily Times / 28 Feb 2014)
Posted by Editor at Friday, February 28, 2014
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Greenpeace activists confront Norwegian government’s Arctic oil drilling site
Press release - 17 August, 2017
Korpfjell, Barents Sea, Norway 17 August 2017 – Peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have entered the exclusion zone of Statoil’s oil rig, Songa Enabler in the Barents Sea with kayaks and inflatable boats, while swimmers are in the waters protesting with hand banners. The activists are there to deliver this message to the Norwegian government from around the world: Put People over Arctic Oil. They are also displaying a constructed giant globe in front of the rig with written statements to the government.
35 activists from 25 countries are escalating a peaceful protest after tailing the rig for one month in the Barents Sea.
The Norwegian government has opened up for a new oil frontier in the Arctic. The state-owned oil company has just started to drill for oil at the Korpfjell well, a controversial site 415 kms from land. It is close to the ice edge and an important feeding areas for seabirds. This is the first opening of new areas for oil drillings in 20 years and it is the northernmost area licensed by Norway.
The “environmentally friendly” Norwegian government granted new oil licenses, as part of the 23rd license round, in the Arctic on the 10th June last year. Just ten days after, they ratified the Paris Agreement.
Greenpeace US activist, Britt Baker, at the location said:
“As an American and global citizen, Trump's decision to retreat from the Paris climate agreement and boost fossil fuels at the expense of people around the world was devastating. Likewise, we see the Norwegian government opening new oil areas in the Arctic at full throttle, in spite of knowing the dangers it will have for future generations. The major difference between the situation in the U.S and Norway is that Trump left the Paris agreement with tunnel-vision motives to extend handouts to the flailing fossil fuel industry. Norway may as well have left the Paris agreement given the Norwegian's government desire to accelerate fossil fuel production. This government is showing the same disrespect to global climate commitments as Trump”.
Greenpeace and its co-plaintiff Nature and Youth are taking the government to court in November, arguing that the new oil licenses are in breach of the Norwegian Constitution’s right to a healthy environment (Article 112). Despite the ongoing legal case, Statoil is drilling several new oil wells in the Arctic this summer.
Greenpeace Norway Arctic campaigner, Erlend Tellnes, from on board the Arctic Sunrise, said:
“Norway is not as green as their image. With one hand, the government have signed the Paris Agreement and profiled themselves as an environmental champion, whilst handing out hundreds of new oil blocks in the Arctic with the other. They ignore and disrespect environmental, scientific recommendations and have offered the oil industry licenses in some of the most pristine areas of the Arctic. Now they have to answer for their actions in court.“
Within a month more than 150,000 people have joined the call to the Norwegian government to respect the Norwegian Constitution and The Paris Agreement, bringing the number to 355,000.
Photos from the protest can be seen here.
The full collection from The People vs. Arctic Oil ship tour can be seen here.
Read more here about the climate lawsuit and oil drilling in the Barents Sea
For interviews with activists and spokespersons on board:
Poul Bonke Justesen, communications lead, Greenpeace Nordic. Mobile: +45 2629 4938
Greenpeace International Press Desk: +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours)
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Lincoln City Hall, 916 "O" Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County, NE
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Significance: Lincoln's Old City Hall is architecturally significant as a notable product of the "Grant era" and as an unusual fusion of Victorian Gothic and Second Empire elements, typifying in an important measure the manner in which Federal architecture was created in the nineteenth century. Historical significance is derived from the prominent stature given to early Lincoln by the Federal government when it constructed this edifice as a United States Post Office and Courthouse: the completed structure cost about $200,000 -- a large Federal expenditure on a community with an 1875 population of only 7,000. The building is associated with an event that significantly contributed to the history of Nebraska, for between 1879-1906 it housed a U.S. Land Office at which over five million acres of land in the southern part of the state were claimed under the Homestead Act. The building is also rendered historical significance through its having been the first city hall of Lincoln and for housing the municipal government during a 62-year period that witnessed the population triple (43,973 in 1910; 149,518 in 1970). Significance is also derived from the building's association with two prominent 19th-century American architects: Alfred B. Mullett and William A. Potter.
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Neither you are a botanical lover nor a seascape admirer we could invite you to visit Balchik. It is a small, pretty sea town of another time, situated just 25km north from International Hotel Casino & Tower Suites.
With its sandy cliffs, a series of ravines running down to the sea with whitewashed cottages and a couple of kilometers west along the seafront promenade, Balchik is a really nice destination to visit. Established in the sixth century BC the town was a valued place for Greeks as a safe sea haven as well as an important center for viniculture.
Its significant landmark is the Palace on the sea shore. In 1924 the Romanian Queen Maria Alexandrina Victoria De Edinburgh (1875 – 1938) picked the picturesque locality to build her summer residence, "Quiet Nook”, which construction took more than a decade. This is not a palace as all the rest but a lovely architectural and park complex with cozy individual villas, The Queen Maria`s concept for the complex was inspired form the Bahay Religion - the study preaches equal rights between religions, sex and race. And her “Quiet Nook” is as if a whole world is gathered in this small piece of land with mystic bohemian atmosphere and aristocratic finesse. And everything is built-in the natural scenery as it has always been here, waiting for you.
Your visit in the Palace could be organized as a trip discussion for familiarization with the history of the place. And it is a pretty interesting history.
The Botanical garden of the Palace accommodates collections with over 3500 plant species and a unique flora diversity.
* Any exploration of Balchik should include the Ethnographic Complex that consists of a reconstructed nineteenth-century school house and the Church of St. Nikola.
* Go there hungry for the taste of perfect fish and seafood meals.
Dont's:
* If you love sunbathing, don`t expect any sandy beaches in Balchik - there are various piers and jetties, protruding into the bay, where you could position yourself.
NATURE AND ARCHEOLOGICAL RESERVE KALIAKRA
Legends always fascinate people. One of the most famous thought saddest legends tells about the beautiful Kaliakra and 40 other Bulgarian maidens who jumped from the coastal rocks into the sea to escape the Ottomans, but first they braided their hair together to make sure no one would back away.
We invite you to witness the mystery, enchantment and stunning beauty of the nature and archaeological reserve Kaliakra - a headland some 60 km north from the International Hotel Casino & Tower Suites. You will love the astonishing panorama opened from the tops of the 70-meter high cliffs of Cape Kaliakra. The nature reserve is the nesting grounds of over 300 bird species because it sits on the Via Pontica, a major bird migration route from Africa to Europe.
Do`s:
* Visit the museum set up in one of the caves of Cape Kaliakra to see how the ancient fortress looked like in the past.
Dont`s:
* Don`t forget to take a camera or a smart phone to capture your moments in Kaliakra.
NESEBAR
International Hotel Casino & Tower Suites invites you to visit Nesebar - one of the most ancient and picturesque towns in Europe. Its rich cultural heritage is mixed with a romantic and sea atmosphere. Being a crossing point of various civilizations during its 3000-year existence, nowadays Nesebar keeps its Old town as an architectural historical reserve listed in the World Heritage List of UNESCO.
* Do:
- Visit at least three of its 12 preserved churches to witness wall paintings of high artistic value dating back to the end of 16th century.
- Take a tour around the entire Nesebar peninsula - you would love the scenery and you will see the panorama of Slanchev Bryan (Sunny beach) that is in close proximity to Nesebar
* Don'ts:
- Don`t miss to try some typical local tastes such as fish on a tile, or a green figs jam.
- Don`t buy a souvenir before visiting the Archeological Museum of Nesebar and seeing the collection of ceramic pots, stone plastic figures and golden jewels as well as the icon collection.
Sozopol is a favorite spot of Bulgaria’s artistic community because of its significant rocky cliffs, small pave streets with nineteenth-century houses, fine beaches, bars, cosy restaurants lively promenade. The Greek named the town Apollonia Pontica after Apollo, the patron of seafarers and colonizers and prospered by trading Greek textiles and wine for Thracian honey, grain and copper. Centuries later the Byzantines called it Sozopolis, the "City of Salvation”.
The town is divided into two parts: the Old Town on the peninsula, and the modern, Harmanite district on the mainland. It is 35 km south of Burgas - the next largest city in Bulgaria after Varna. Its harbour also serves as one of Bulgaria's chief naval bases and its yacht port is one of the best in the country.
For the first ten days of September Sozopol hosts the Apolonia Arts Festival, comprising classical music, jazz, theatre and poetry and open-air concerts take place throughout the summer.
South of Sozopol, the coast offers some of Bulgaria's most glorious stretches of sandy beaches; the estuary of the Ropotamo River, then the mountains of the Strandzha, covered with deep forests.
* See the stone anchors in the local Archeological museum (summer daily 8am-5pm, winter closed Sat&Sun)- they dated that Sozopol is the first of the Greek colonies along the coast, founded around 610 BC by a party of adventurers with the philosopher Anaximander (who is credited with making the first world map and being the first theoretical astronomer.
* Pass through the touristic hub of Sozopol - a cobbled concourse between the peninsula and Harmanite, flanked many souvenir stalls and portrait artists.
Don`t forget to taste the seafood prepared in the small family restaurants and taverns of Sozopol.
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In the early 1930's, teenager John Arata and his brother Clarence began planting pumpkin seeds to feed the family's hogs. One day they were hauling some of their pumpkins along Highway One back to the farm when a passing motorist stopped and asked if he could buy a few. The Arata's sold the pumpkins for a quarter and a booming pumpkin-picking business and tourist attraction was born. Pumpkin production grew from this humble beginning until today the area surrounding Half Moon Bay produces about 3,500 tons of pumpkins each year.
The first weigh-off was held in 1974 when officials from the city of Half Moon Bay including Mayor Melvin Mello challenged Circleville, Ohio, then proclaiming itself "Pumpkin Capital of the World", to a weigh-off competition in search of the world's biggest pumpkin. John Minaidis of Half Moon Bay took top prize with a 132 lb. pumpkin and secured for Half Moon Bay the title "Pumpkin Capital of the World."
John went on to win the next two years with a 273 and 208 pound pumpkin respectively. Pumpkins that large were practically unheard of then but today top pumpkins can weigh up to and even more than 1000 lbs. These giants have seeds the size of peach pits and typically gain 25 to 30 pounds a day during a typical growing season lasting from April to October. Once they are cut from their vine they lose on average 6-8 pounds per day. Growers cut their pumpkins as late as possible to allow for maximum weight gain and cover them with wet tarps to minimize water loss. Some growers tape water bottles to their pumpkins in the hope of squeezing in a last pound or two of water before the weigh-off.
To grow the giants you need good seed, lots of fertilizer, plenty of water, rich soil, mild temperatures, long days, and plenty of TLC. Many growers add their own secrets to this mix. By overwhelming majority the largest pumpkins come from the Atlantic Giant variety but past winners have included the Big Max and Big Moon varieties. The Big Moon was named after Half Moon Bay!
About 80 to 100 growers from Washington, Oregon, and California come to the weigh-off each year to swap seeds, growing tips, and compete. The lucky grower with the largest pumpkin wins a highly coveted title, a cash prize, and the notoriety that goes with it. Their pumpkin will be the mascot of the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival both taking the position of honor at it's parade and being prominently displayed for all to admire. Thousands line up each year to have their picture taken with the noble giant.
For the past few years Safeway has provided all the prize money for the weigh-off. And the prize money can be considerable. First prize is a whopping $6 per pound. Add to that the aftermarket for the giant seed where the winners could receive as much as $10 per seed and you can see there is more than just pride at stake.
With so much riding on this contest it shouldn't be surprising that the weighing is handled by the San Mateo County Agricultural Commissioner's Office of Weights, Sealers, and Measures, using a precisely calibrated two-ton capacity digital scale. If two pumpkins manage to weigh exactly the same then a combination of measurements including height and circumference are used to determine the winner. This was a lesson learned in 1994 when Joel Holland and Pete Glasier both grew 696 lb. pumpkins.
Since the pumpkin's humble introduction to the Half Moon Bay Area in the early 1930's it has grown into source of tradition and joy. The weigh-off and associated festival attract over 250,000 people each year along with countless thousands who view the winners on television and read about them in Bay Area newspapers.
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Emraan Hashmi at Chaudhari Gadhaiyya Chowk in Lucknow
Emraan Hashmi has begun shooting for his next project ‘Cheat India’ which is based on various educational scams in India.
Deepti Ratnam
Emraan Hashmi has begun shooting for his next project ‘Cheat India’ which is based on various educational scams in India. Earlier, this year, a news was published on Times Entertainment page that confirms about Emraanhashmi’s new venture with the T-series and Ellipsis Entertainment for ‘Cheat India’. The producer of the movie Atul Kasbekar posted a picture on his Instagram account about this joint venture and captioned it as:
“And a pre Birthday present to @therealemraan Signed our co pro agreement with him and our partners at @TSeries for our next motion picture #CheatIndia Shooting starts in July 2018 and the release has been slated for January 25, 2019. Directed by Soumik Sen”.
This Emran Hashmi starrer movie is directed by Soumik Sen. The shooting of the movie started on 25th July in lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Recently, the director Soumiksen along with Emraan Hashmi has been spotted at Chaudhari Gadhaaiya in Chowk area of Lucknow. There are various areas nearby Chowk where the shooting might take place, including, Bara Imambara, Lucknow heritage area, ChotaImambara, Juma Masjid, British Residency, Hazratganz, and many more.
The filmmakers have finalized the name of the lead actress in ‘CHEAT INDIA’. Shreya Dhanwanthary is going to be opposite Emraan Hashmi in the movie. She will be seen helping Emraan Hashmi to stop the malpractices in Education system.
Shreya, on asking about working with Emraan said:
“Emraan is warm, kind and helpful. There’s a great banter going on which helps build up the relationship on-screen.”
While shooting in Lucknow, the crew members ahs hired at least 70 local actors to work with Emraan. As the movie is about scams in education system, so the shooting might take
place inside any of the college building in Lucknow. May be the filmmakers select Lucknow University for shooting schedule. According to sources, the filmmakers have selected to shoot at some restaurants, universities, colleges, and university campus.
When asked about the movie, Emraantold Mumbai mirror:
“I’m glad that my first home production is about a subject that is topical, relevant and volatile. Every Indian student and parent will relate to it. This is the first time I’m shooting in Uttar Pradesh so it’s a different milieu for me. I’ve been reading extensively with the team members, most of whom hail from the region. Even the look-referencing is being done meticulously. I have great production partners, so I am feeling like a stress-free actor and producer.”
Although, the city is flooded with rain, but still the filmmakers and Emraan is not facing any problem while shooting. He was seen shooting at Chaudhary Gadhaiyya area in chowk, riding on an E-rickshaw along with his co-actress Shreya Dhanwantary. Talking about shooting in Lucknow, Shreya told that how much she is enjoying the street food and everybody on the sets are wondering that how she can eat this much.
“We are having a blast and everyone’s horrified by how much I can eat.”
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Viceroy Chicago Implements InvoTech’s RFID Uniform Management System to Reduce Operating Costs
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“Our team witnessed the Uniform System first-hand at our New York property. We wanted to start our uniform operations on the right track and provide cost savings benefits at our own property."
InvoTech Systems Inc. announced the recent implementation of its Uniform System at the new Viceroy Chicago that opened September 1, 2017, located in the Gold Coast neighborhood. InvoTech Systems is the leading provider of advanced Linen Management, Laundry and Uniform Systems that integrate the latest RFID technology to increase profitability for hotels, resorts, casino operators, sports arenas, convention centers and theme parks. The InvoTech System installed at the Viceroy Chicago joins InvoTech System’s extensive client portfolio of Hotels & Resorts worldwide. Click here for more information on InvoTech’s Linen, Laundry and Uniform Systems.
InvoTech's Uniform System establishes a perpetual uniform inventory and has extensive reporting capabilities to monitor inventory levels and forecast uniform purchases. The system provides significant cost saving benefits by cutting labor costs, eliminating losses, reducing purchases, and lowering laundry expenses. The uniform cleaning costs are entered into the InvoTech System and reports are provided to audit laundry expenses.
“Our team witnessed the Uniform System first-hand at our New York property. We wanted to start our uniform operations on the right track and provide cost savings benefits at our own property. We’re looking forward to increasing efficiencies and operating costs in our uniform room,” said Nienke Oosting, Hotel Manager at Viceroy Chicago.
The RFID technology allows for multiple uniforms to be processed simultaneously and automatically, and the recordkeeping is also automated. The system integrates with automated uniform conveyors to distribute the uniforms to employees, and the system records which uniforms are taken by employees.
The system includes an electronic signature capture terminal that records each employee's signature when uniforms are assigned. This increases accountability for the uniform department and facilitates a paperless “green” system.
Oswald Lares, Director of Sales at InvoTech Systems, said, “InvoTech customers see an ROI in the first year by eliminating losses, monitoring laundry bills and reducing purchases. The InvoTech Uniform System instantly provides additional savings through increased efficiency. More than 500 properties worldwide rely on InvoTech’s Uniform System to increase profitability through more efficient operations and processes.”
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Published: 0815 GMT August 06, 2018
Global warming to increase water in South Asian rivers
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A wetter future awaits South Asia, said a new study based on global climate change models that informed the fifth assessment report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The South Asia region will see a 20 percent to 30 percent increase in mean annual runoff for the period 2046–2075 relative to the study baseline period of 1976–2005, said Hongxing Zheng, corresponding author of the study published this month (August) in the Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. The study was carried out by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia.
“We also discovered that the percentage change in precipitation may amplify by 1.5 percent to 2 percent in wet areas and by more than two per cent in dry areas,” Hongxing told scidev.net.
South Asia is home to 54 rivers of varying sizes linked to the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra river basins, all originating in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. While the Indus basin connects China with Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, the Brahmaputra and Ganges basins connect Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal.
“A spike in mean annual runoff of about 10 percent is projected for the Indus, Tibetan Plateau and Arakan Coast regions, and about 15 percent in the Ganges-Brahmaputra, Deccan Plateau and Ghats Coast regions,” Hongxing said, adding that the spike will be over 20 percent in the Narmada-Tapti region and Sri Lanka.
The change will be driven by higher temperatures from global warming, leading to more rain, the study said. Average daily temperatures would rise by 2.9°C to 4°C in 2046—2075 relative to the baseline. It also said the winter season will be slightly warmer and the summer seasons may see noticeably higher temperatures especially in the northern (high altitude) regions.
Arun Bhakta Shrestha, manager of the river basins program of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Centre (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, said that until recently hydrologists and climatologists perceived runoffs across South Asia as reducing due to climate change.
“But field and satellite imagery show that water availability is likely to increase — this is consonant with the new study on runoff scenarios for all the rivers.”
Managed properly, Shrestha said, increased runoffs could help socio-economic growth and poverty reduction in the largely farming countries of South Asia. However, failing to do so will exacerbate floods, land erosion, water logging, droughts and related impacts, he warned
Food security and farm-based livelihoods expert at ICIMOD, Golam Rasul, suggested “investing in flood-resilient farming systems, flood-tolerant crop varieties and infrastructure as well as collaboration among South Asian countries for joint river basin management and early flood warning systems to mitigate projected impacts”.
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Nuggets erase 19-point deficit in win over Spurs
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Jamal Murray (C) of the Denver Nuggets is hugged by Torrey Craig as the rest of the bench erupts after Murray hit a three against the San Antonio Spurs during the fourth quarter of the Nuggets' 114-105 win in Pepsi Center in Denver, CO, US, on April 16, 2019.
Jamal Murray missed his first eight shots before a scorching fourth quarter in which he scored 21 of his 24 points, leading the Denver Nuggets past the San Antonio Spurs 114-105 on Tuesday night and knotting their playoff series at a game apiece.
The Nuggets were in danger of losing a second straight game at the Pepsi Center after posting the NBA's best home record (34-7) during the regular season, The Associated Press reported.
They trailed 78-59 late in the third quarter before closing the game on a 55-27 run.
"We gave up 38 points (actually, 39) in the fourth quarter. End of story," fumed Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, who drew a technical foul during the Nuggets' comeback.
Nuggets coach Michael Malone said he never considered benching Murray because he didn't want to crush his confidence. He said he took him aside at halftime and told him to take a deep breath and trust his shots would start falling.
"Never once did I think about pulling him from the lineup," Malone said.
Good thing, too, because Murray, the goat in Game 1 after missing an open jumper and turning the ball over in the closing seconds, might have salvaged the Nuggets' season while going 8-for-9 in the fourth quarter.
The series shifts to San Antonio, where the Nuggets haven't won since 2012, for Game 3 tonight.
Paul Millsap added 20 points for Denver and Nikola Jokic just missed his second triple-double of the series, scoring 21 points, pulling down 13 rebounds and dishing out eight assists.
The Spurs got 31 points from DeMar DeRozan, 24 from LaMarcus Aldridge and 17 from Derrick White.
San Antonio led 78-59 with 4.5 minutes left in the third quarter before the Nuggets started their comeback, cutting it to seven points entering the fourth quarter.
They tied it at 95 on Murray's jumper midway through the period, then took their first lead since the first quarter when Murray sank two free throws with 4:50 remaining for a 99-97 lead.
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Brexit: Prominent figures explain why they signed letter to Leo Varadkar
Patricia Mac Bride, Gerry Carlile and Conal McFeely
Niall Murphy.
As 1,000 prominent figures from civic nationalism put their names to an open letter to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar a number of the signatories explain why they felt it necessary to support the initiative...
Pat Cullen, former director of nursing at the Public Health Agency
Over the last ten years many health services have been delivered on an all-Ireland basis.
The development of acute services networks across the island of Ireland is now at risk because we are being forced out of the EU, despite voting to remain.
Click here to read the letter and view full list of signatories
The north, with a population of just over 1.8million (2011 census), has insufficient demand to make it economically viable to provide some specialised medical services alone. However, cross border cooperation on health services with the south (which has a population of approx. 4.8m people) allows for quality specialised medical services to be delivered on an all-island basis, with patients in the north of Ireland no longer having to travel to England to receive their care.
€53million of specialist services are on hold pending Brexit negotiations. These include all island acute hospital services, prevention and detection services and services to tackle health inequalities, particularly along border areas.
By April 2018, 87 per cent of EU nurses have left the NHS since the Brexit referendum citing the reason for leaving being they felt very unwelcome and concerned for future work. This is catastrophic for health and social care services.
The Irish government must protect our health rights because the British Government simply doesn’t care.
Brexit: One thousand sign letter to Leo Varadkar urging him to protect nationalists' rights
Host of high profile GAA stars sign letter
Patricia Mac Bride, media commentator
Conal McFeely
Brexit has created a situation where many of the rights and freedoms we have come to take for granted are at risk. Among those most likely to be at the sharp end of this are our young people.
October and November are the months of university campus tours, where thousands of next year's freshers make probably the first big decision of their lives: where will I go to university?
As the parent of one such young person, the decision becomes even more complex because there is uncertainty over whether he will be treated as a non-EU student should he pursue his wish to study in Dublin. Should this happen, the level of fees for a non EU student would make such a choice potentially unaffordable. The opportunity to take part in Erasmus programmes is potentially curtailed.
A key reason I signed the letter is to safeguard the rights of all our young people pursuing education to be treated as Irish citizens in Ireland. Anything less is unacceptable.
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Speculation mounts on May's 'secret deal' on Brexit that avoids need for hard border
Gerry Carlile, businessman
This letter is a reminder to the Irish government of their responsibilities regarding the north of this country.
We cannot be left behind and we will not be left behind.
We did not vote for Brexit. Brexit is being forced on us against our will.
We are Irish and European citizens and we must have the same rights and entitlements that other Irish and European citizens across this island have access to.
The Good Friday Agreement has been under attack since its inception. Rights envisaged in the Good Friday Agreement have not been realised. Brexit threatens to further erode the Good Friday Agreement.
As our economy comes under increasing pressure, it is incumbent upon the Dublin government to defend and protect the people in the north. The British government has no interest in us. Dublin must step up and represent the people in the north.
Put quite simply, An Taoiseach must keep to his word.
Analysis: Dublin can't ignore concerns of northern nationalists
Brian Feeney: Xenophobic stance of the British government must be opposed
Niall Murphy, lawyer
We collectively seek to give expression to a deep sense of fear in respect of the current Brexit negotiations in the midst of the continuing political crisis in the north, the denial of rights taken for granted in all other parts of these islands by a DUP emboldened by its alliance with the British Conservatives and, as a result of that alliance, the denial of democracy and functioning of the Good Friday Agreement political institutions.
Our concept of Irish identity is inclusive, welcoming and embraces an agenda of rights and equality for all. The denial of rights to Irish speakers, those who seek access to justice for hurt endured during the conflict and those who seek marriage equality is an impediment to fundamental rights which are expected and demanded.
The fear that partition in our island will be deepened by a border, due to a constitutional crisis that no Irish person has sought to provoke.
We implore the Taoiseach and the Irish Government to stand firm in these negotiations and to ensure that rights enjoyed in Donegal will continue to be enjoyed in Derry and that a return to a border in Ireland will not be acceptable.
Conal McFeely, community worker
In late October 2018, An Taoiseach visited Creggan Enterprises in Rath Mor, where we had the opportunity to put to him some of the concerns, and very real fears, held by those of us in marginalised border communities
We told Mr Varadkar that we were very mindful of his continued pledge not to permit new, or further, divisions on this island, which might impact on us.
Derry, as a city already on the margins of this island, and on the margins of Europe, needs to ensure that we will not face any new borders, which could marginalise us even further.
We welcome An Taoiseach’s stated determination to protect the rights, and aspirations, of all Northern citizens as laid out in the Good Friday Agreement. The Foyle constituency voted by 78 per cent to remain in Europe, and not one of wants a return to the dark days of the hard border.
We were encouraged by Mr Varadkar’s remarks that the people of the North who identify as Irish and European, under the terms of the GFA, must continue to enjoy the rights of European citizens post-Brexit.
There has been so much good and positive work done in marginalised communities over the past 25 years – so we would impress on Mr Varadkar that there is still so much more good and positive work yet to do.
On a recent visit to An Taoiseach, the EU president Donald Tusk ruled out a hard border, saying: “Ní neartgo cur le chéile.” There is no strength without unity. We look forward to all of us growing stronger together.
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NETFLIX Partners with Curb Records for THE RANCH Soundtrack feat Shooter Jennings, Lukas Nelson, Lee Brice, more
December 9, 2019 Mary Ann News 0
Netflix Partners with Curb Records for Send-Off Soundtrack Celebrating Final Season of The Ranch
Album Features Never-Before-Released Theme Song “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys” performed by Lukas Nelson and GRAMMY® Award Winner Shooter Jennings
The Ranch Returns to Netflix for Its Final 10 Episodes Friday January 24
The Ranch (A Netflix Original Series Official Soundtrack) Arrives Same Day
To commemorate the final season of The Ranch, Netflix has partnered with Curb Records for the release of The Ranch (A Netflix Original Series Official Soundtrack).
The show has been praised for having TV’s best collection of country music and this compilation showcases several of the series’ best songs. Available for pre-order by clicking HERE, The Ranch (A Netflix Original Series Official Soundtrack) will be released on January 24th to coincide with the airing of the final season. A limited edition 12” vinyl version of the soundtrack will be available on February 14.
Among the soundtrack’s many highlights is the series’ acclaimed theme song, “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys,” a rendition of the Ed Bruce country classic performed by Lukas Nelson and GRAMMY® Award winner Shooter Jennings. This special Lukas/Shooter duet was recorded specifically for The Ranch and has never been released. It comes more than 40 years after their fathers–country music icons Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings–recorded their cover of the song, which hit No. 1 on the country music charts and won a GRAMMY®.
Fans that pre-order The Ranch (A Netflix Original Series Official Soundtrack) will receive a download of the Lee Brice song, “Rumor (Glover Mix)” on December 20.
The track listing for The Ranch (A Netflix Original Series Official Soundtrack):
Rumor (Glover Mix) – Lee Brice
Things That I Lean On (feat. Jason Isbell) – Wynonna & The Big Noise
Slower – Filmore
Whiskey On My Breath – Love And Theft
Nobody – Dylan Scott
Home To The Water – Mallary Hope
Thank God For You – Rodney Atkins
Runs In The Family – BoDeans
One At A Time – Jackson Michelson
Joshua Tree – Ruthie Collins
Ain’t Bad For A Good Ol’ Boy – Mo Pitney
Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys – Lukas Nelson & Shooter Jennings
About The Ranch Part 8:
With Christmas around the corner, Colt, Beau and the rest of the family raise a glass and bid farewell as the series comes to a close. With the ranch in Lisa Neumann’s hands and more trouble on the horizon, the Bennetts must band together as they face an uncertain future. The series stars Kutcher, Elisha Cuthbert and Sam Elliott. Created by Don Reo and Jim Patterson, The Ranch was the first comedy series produced by Netflix. Executive produced by Reo, Patterson, Kutcher, Jeff Lowell, Max Searle and Matt Ross. Part 8 consists of 10 episodes.
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Michigan Based Retail Pharmacy, Meijer, Offers Generic Cholesterol Reducing Prescription Drug, Lipitor, For Free
September 04, 2012 By: Nadia Category: Cholesterol, Free Prescriptions, HealthCare, Medtipster, Prescription News, Prescription Savings
www.Medtipster.com Source: Drugstore News, 9.4.12 – By Alaric Dearment
In what could symbolize the so-called “patent cliff” that an executive from healthcare market research firm IMS Health spoke of at a recent trade show, a regional mass merchandise chain is taking what used to be the world’s top-selling drug and giving it away for free.
Meijer announced Tuesday that it would offer generic versions of Pfizer’s cholesterol drug Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) for free at all of its 199 pharmacies, saying it would be the first retailer in the Midwest to offer such a program. The program is the fourth free-drug program offered by the retailer over the last six years.
“We’re pleased to announce that our customers will now be able to fill their generic cholesterol-lowering atorvastatin calcium prescriptions for free in all of our pharmacies,” co-chairman Hank Meijer said. “In keeping with our commitment to provide low-cost solutions for the families we serve, the free cholesterol-lowering medication program is another way to help the customers who rely on our pharmacies.”
Before it lost patent protection, in November 2011, Lipitor had sales exceeding $7 billion per year in the United States. Ranbaxy Labs was the first to launch a generic version when the drug’s patents expired, and Ranbaxy’s own market-exclusivity period expired in May of this year. At the National Association of Chain Drug Stores’ Pharmacy and Technology Conference last month, IMS VP industry relations Doug Long said during a presentation that “We’re in the teeth of the patent cliff,” which refers to a period taking place over the next few years when a wave of expirations of several top-selling drugs’ patents will occur, eventually leaving many therapeutic indications such as cholesterol heavily commoditized and dominated by multiple generics.
“This initiative will have a huge impact because the cost of pharmaceuticals is frequently a barrier to getting appropriate treatment,” West Michigan Heart cardiologist and Spectrum Health Meijer Heart Center Cardiac Catheterization Labs director David Wohns said. “The biggest way to reduce the risk of heart disease comes from treating cholesterol. To have that drug available for free has the ability to impact countless lives.”
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Breaking the Line: Abbie Miller
By Marcy Stamper
Abbie Miller composes lines that can dazzle the senses or touch the soul:
They ate rock salt on sour dock
For days
My last best lover
was the wind
Yet she sometimes wonders if what she writes is poetry.
“I love breaking the line—it makes you see things differently. But maybe I’m not a poet and I just break up my writing in lines and have a certain lyric style,” she said.
Miller’s resistance to categorization comes in part from her flexible view of art—and a fundamental humility. As she sees it, writers, visual artists, and musicians are all working from the same creative place, facing similar challenges as they try to develop their unique voice as artists. “Biting into whatever it is you want to express—however you want to express it—is worthy,” she said.
Miller has always straddled the traditional boundaries between disciplines. Decades ago she wrote music and performance pieces with her sister Jo, a singer/songwriter, and today she is making art books, folding and stitching sheets of paper into tiny volumes, each a self-contained poem. “Maybe turning my poems into books will make me find out I’m a sculptor,” she said.
Transferring her words into print on the page presents its own challenges, because Miller, who comes from a family of cowboy poets and auctioneers, normally speaks her poems. “Reciting is one of the requirements of the genre,” she said. “So I went by the rules, figuring I had to have my boots on,” she said. She introduced her writing to the world by reading it out loud.
Reciting felt natural, since Miller wrote long-hand and edited by reading her poems aloud until they rang true. So she knew them from memory, understood how the words sounded and where the pauses and inflections should fall. “My poetry is very conversational,” she said. “It tumbles over the page like water.”
Although today Miller often writes on a computer, she still relies on speaking her poems and on listening to others read them. “Putting poetry in other people’s mouths is part of what’s important,” she said. “Even if you’re alone in the room, poetry must be spoken out loud to understand the subtle rhythms and sounds. You don’t get that when you read with your eyes.”
Coming from the oral tradition has made creating art books and rendering her words in a graphic form intriguing to Miller. “I can say a poem,” she said, “but when it comes to the page, there are all these other opportunities to see what you’re doing.”
Before shifting her focus to writing, Miller worked for years as a hairdresser, which played a significant role in her development as a writer. Exchanging stories with her clients helped her understand human concerns and experiences. “I’m curious about people and very interested in them—it was not gossip,” she said.
Working long hours cutting hair while she was a single mother, Miller spent every spare moment writing, filling notebooks before the kids woke up and after they went to bed. “A lot of my writing came from conversations with myself,” she said.
Her kids understood and indulged her passion. They would entice her to take them swimming in Boulder Creek or snowboarding at Washington Pass by pointing out, “Mom, when we get there, you could write….”
During those early writing years Miller felt some self-consciousness about the formal rules of language and the strictures imposed by punctuation. But once she found free-form writing and blank verse in college and began receiving encouragement for her writing, everything changed. “I liked to hear my voice on the page,” said Miller. “But it was hard to conceive that I might have in me what it is to write.”
Influenced throughout her life by the Methow and the generations of women in her family who made their living—often with great difficulty—from the land, Miller had a deep well of subjects she wanted to explore. “This place gives me comfort because I remember it as deep and soulful,” she said.e self-consciousness about the formal rules of language and the strictures imposed by punctuation. But once she found free-form writing and blank verse in college and began receiving encouragement for her writing, everything changed. “I liked to hear my voice on the page,” said Miller. “But it was hard to conceive that I might have in me what it is to write.”
Her identification with the land and its connection to women’s lives is visceral. Her poem “If the Land Were a Woman Lying Down” begins:
My home rests in the opening
Next to the stream that flows
From my mother’s nature
Through hills
That rise like thighs on both sides
Texas Crik bends and curves
“A lot of my work goes back to wanting to tell the female story—I feel it’s not given very much airspace,” said Miller. She is frank about women’s experiences—their personal life, their sex life, and what it’s like to confront social norms and carve out a persona in a small town.
So Miller travels the countryside, visiting her family’s homesteads and reliving her own relationship to the landscape. On these trips, poems sometimes come to her fully formed, so that she has to pull over to the side of the road to write one down.
Another time she recalls writing 41 pages almost all at once. “I became increasingly obsessed with this character—it was the first time a character came alive,” said Miller.
Other poems take years to coalesce. “My Heart Beats a Path” grew out of multiple journals and memories that seeped as if from her DNA, roving conceptually and geographically before Miller narrowed it again to focus on the Methow.
Miller is comfortable allowing her work to marinate, often letting a poem sit for at least a year until she knows what needs to be cut. “In the beginning, everything was sacred,” she said. “But if it sounds too good, it’s probably too clichéd—you have to be willing to cut the pretty bow.”
Miller believes her writing is influenced by the uncommon associations her brain makes—linking letters and numbers with colors or smells and sounds. “It makes for great poetry,” she said.
“I write all the time—without my paper I’d just be beating my head against the wall,” said Miller. “I’m open to writing at any moment—where I can write anything I want, about anything.”
Today Miller is involved in several projects to further the experience of writers in the Methow. She has opened a studio across from the Carlton Store, where she writes and creates art books and holds readings for writers to share their work with the public—and for the public to hear poetry and short fiction. She also envisions groups where writers can trade ideas, critique one another’s work, and provide encouragement. “I’m looking for ways for people to make art and have it be supported and inclusive,” she said.
Miller has also joined two other local writers, Patrick McGann and Georgina Tobiska, to launch the Methow Asylum for Writers. The group plans gatherings and workshops for writers and readers and its own literary journal.
“I’m trying to be consistently inspired by something,” said Miller. “I have 30 years of work with form and intention—it’s so much material to work with. Planting the seed is part of it—getting people to want to read you and hear you.”
“I’ve just wanted to have a presence as an artist on the planet,” she said.
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'The Voice' Final Four Find 'Musical Perfection'
After a heartwarming performance from Michael Bublé, teams Shelton and Cee Lo go head to head for a spot in the final three.
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It's down to the wire on "The Voice." With only four contestants left, the pressure was on Trevin Hunte, Nicholas David, Cassadee Pope and Terry McDermott during Monday night's show to win America's heart.
The short evening was led by Shelton's season guest mentor, Michael Bublé, who helped set the holiday mood with an upbeat jazz rendition of "Baby Please Come Home." Shelton also performed last night, calling back his entire 16-member team to join him in singing "White Christmas." The elated former contestants called the moment "unforgettable."
Trevin Hunte kicked it off for the contestants with his signature ballads. The more confident Hunte was in his element, taking on Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings," a song that took Aguilera back to her young, wedding singer days, although the diva admits she "never sang it so crazy beautiful as that."
Rounding out Team Cee Lo was the soul man himself, Nicholas David. He sang "You Are So Beautiful" mere feet from his precious family, to whom he dedicated the song, leaving them and the audience in tears. "We with you," a glassy-eyed Green said, keeping it simple.
Up next was Cassadee Pope, whose coach Blake Shelton hand-picked her song for the night. Clad in a beautiful gown, the young pop rocker belted another country song "Stupid Boy," a decision Shelton defended saying her uncanny ability to connect with lyrics made that song a clear choice. The decision paid off when Pope received accolades from Xtina herself. "Sometimes your voice sounds so on that it sounds Auto-Tuned," she said. "Blake, you have a true superstar on your hands."
The night's final performance came from Scottish rocker Terry McDermott, who took on the "sacred" song "Let It Be." Levine thanked God for Terry calling his performance "incredible," while Shelton went so far as to say, "In my absolute heart, I believe that was musical perfection."
Unlike weeks past, only one contestant will be eliminated Tuesday night, with the final three qualifying to the last live performance before the winner is announced. Let the nail-biting begin.
Who do you think had the performance of the night? Share your comments below!
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About Yangon
And Yangon is really a beautiful city. The founding of Yangon Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon, is the largest city in Myanmar. Explore the best information in Yangon, including Yangon General Hospital, Central Post Office, Diethelm Travel. Clic on this link to learn more about Yangon, the city of the angel. More tour dates will be announced shortly.
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And Yangon is really a nice town. It can be attended at any of the seasons, but those interested should schedule a journey after the monsun. The reason is that the places of interest and attraction of Yangon can be better appreciated without strong rains or burning hot.
Myanmar's biggest town, Yangon also acts as the land's religious center and is the place where many of the country's holy shrines and sanctuaries can be found. The Myanmar community attaches great importance to spiritually, and they show the greatest possible consideration for their oldest and most respectful members. When going to Yangon, a visitor must know what is regarded as appropriate and improper behavior, especially when it comes to issues of religious and cultural affairs.
The Yangon offers its guests more than enough transport possibilities. Taxis are the most common means of transport in the town. The information is kept as up-to-date and precise as possible. If, however, you plan to move, it is a good practice to review certain data and information to prevent unpleasant surprise.
Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon, is the biggest town in Myanmar. Yangon is made up of 34 cities. Dawbon, East Dagon, Ahlone, Bahan, Botahtaung, Dala, Dagon, Dagon (Seikkan), Dawbon, East Dagon, Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Insein, Kamaryut, Latha, Lanmadaw, Mingalardon, Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Insein, Kamaryut, Tharyar, Ahlone, Mingdaing, Tharyar, Dag, Mingalar, Dag, Ahlon, Mingar, Dag, Mingalar, Dagon, Hlaing, Hlaing, Hlaing Tharyar, Kyeemyindaing, Pabedan, Pazundaung, Sanchaung, South Dagon, Seik Gyi Khanaung To, Seikkan, South Okkalapa, Shwe Pyi Thar, Thingangyun, Thaketa, Thanlyin, Tarmwe, Yankin.
Yangon's storyline is linked to the storyline of the Shwedagon Pagoda. Everywhere in Yangon, in the bustling city centre, in the new cities of the Orient, in the western industry area, in the rice paddies of the Nothern, the gold shape of the Shwedagon will be seen on the skin that rises above the leaves of rainforest tree, and the foundation of Shwedagon goes back to the Enlightenment of Gaudama Buddha, when he found the cause of universe sufferings and the way to its eradication.
This was on the fourth Sunday after the Enlightenment, when two of Taphussa and Bhallika, Ukkalapa traders from the Mon lands of Lower Myanmar, came before Buddha. Buddha realized that the three former Buddhas had anchored their property in a couch on Singuttara Mountain in the lands of the two brethren, and asked them to do the same with the brethren who came home and landed at the couch at the couch on the southwest Myanmar shore.
Two Sri Lankan friars, Sona and Uttara, took King Asoka to the cloakroom. He had the rainforest evacuated and the coupe mended. During the fifth A. Duttabaung worshiped the cemetery. King Anawratha of Bagan provided golden and silvery parasols in the eleventh centuary and constructed a coupe near the city of Twante over the Yangon River.
Dalla, today a city on the shore opposite Yangon, was then on Twante Ridge and was more important than Dagon. In those days Dagon was situated in low-lying, often water-covered area. The Sule Pagoda, now in the centre of Yangon, was standing on a small islet in the marsh, in the western part up to the Hlaing River and Yangon /River in the souther.
A Bagan era vouvant in Tadagale just to the North of Yangon shows that the Lateris, at the end of which Shwedagon was located, was a site of action in the Bagan era and the crest could have created a street south to the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Dagon village behind it.
When the Shwedagon Pagoda was founded. Alaungpaya' s capture of lower Myanmar is the second most important incident in the story of Dagon. Alaungpaya' s Yangon was essentially a block fortification, with the riverbank facade in the south, the site of today's Thirtieth Road in the east, a line of about 3300' cuts across the contemporary Maha Bandola Garden, Pansodan and Bo Aung Gyaw Strait in the east, and Theinbyu Strait in the south, marking the beginning of the city' Alaungpaya' modernity, in commemoration of his vít.
Sule Pagoda to the eastern side of the city. More than 250 routes run around Yangon. CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) was recently launched as a new gasoline for Yangon busses. The Yangon Central Railways Railway Terminal near the Aung San Stadium is the central railway yangon train terminal. There are enough cabs in Yangon.
Every cab in Yangon is within easy reach. The commuter trip from Dala to the Yangon River will take about 10 mins. BusesThere are two stations, one known as Dagon Ayeyar Hwyar HWBus Terminalm in Dagon Ayeyar Tharyar Township, which is mainly intended for Ayeyarwaddy Division coaches.
You can buy your ticket at Yangon Central Railway Station. The Yangon International Airport is available for both international and national flights. National airlines are (1) Myanma Airways (2) Air Bagan (3) Air Mandalay and (4) Yangon Airways. Yangon has several western eateries. Yangon's most important travel stop is Bogyoke Market, where most of Myanmmar's souvenir products are available.
You can buy handicrafts and handicrafts such as lacquerware, paintings, antiques, tapestries, textiles, souvenirs, gems and jewellery in this store and in Yangon city centre. Yangon is home to the most important TV channels. Myanmar and Myawaddy TV with programmes from 7 am to 4 pm and from 4 pm to 11 pm.
M-RTV 3 - British programmes are broadcast to Myanmar audiences from 9:00 to 10:00. 13:00 to 14:00, 18:00 to 19:00 and 02:00 to 04:00.
M-RTV 4 contains non-formal educational and other entertaining programmes. However, it can be adapted for reception from MMBox (Myanmar Media Box). Kanal 5 - Broadcasts films in various tongues such as English, Mandarin, Hindi, etc., but all films are captioned in Myanmar. Myanmar Ah Lin and Kye mon in Myanmar and The New Light of Myanmar in English are featured in Yangon and The Yadanabon News in Myanmar in Mandalay.
The Myanmar Times Journal (English version) is circulated every Monday and the Myanmar version every Friday. Yangon publishes both of them. Local publications such as Golden Myanmar, Myanmar Chronicle and Myanmar Perspective are available in bookstores. International papers such as International Herald Tribune, Singapore Straits Times and some international publications are available at In-wa (Ava) Bookshop, No.232, Sule Pagoda Road.
Myanmar Radio is broadcasting English on the following program: From 1 January 2002, the new City FM will be broadcasting every day from 08:00 to 10:00 and from 13:00 to 17:00. The City FM is broadcasting from 7 o'clock in the mornings until 21 o'clock in the evenings. Burma & English music, entertainments, face-to-face interview with movie celebrities are broadcasted on this channel.
You will find amusement centres such as cinemas, theatres and karaoke pubs. Yangon's most important music, video and film production sites are located in the city. In the Karaweik Hall there are also traditional dance sessions where the local people are entertained with various Myanmar-dancing. Sometimes the Myanmar Orchestra's entertainments are also scheduled. The Yangon is full of beauty salons and spas.
Yangon is also very famous for its beauty of your skin and of your skin. Spas are mainly located in International Hotels in Yangon. Yangon city centre has several internet cafés. MORY ORDER SERVICES mory order services are available in the capital cities of the individual states and departments in Myanmar. Yangon Downtown's post office is the most important parcel services centre in Yangon.
The Yangon Telegraph Office provides telefax service in 88 overseas destinations. Yangon's home network is also widespread. In general, there are three types of telephone service in Yangon.
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Discover the next Northwest sound
WHAT IS SOUND OFF!?
Now in its 19th year, MoPOP’s Sound Off! is the premier 21-and-under music showcase and competition in the Pacific Northwest. Participants get the opportunity to showcase their original music in MoPOP’s Sky Church, a world-class venue, connect with peer musicians, and are mentored by industry leaders and an artistic community invested in welcoming them as full-fledged members of one of the nation’s most vibrant music scenes.
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Sound Off! 2020 Artists
Ry Lucia
Seattle, WA — Singer/songwriter
A former concert pianist in-training and native of Seattle, Ry Lucia has been writing songs since age 14. With clever piano hooks, soft guitar, and honest lyrics, her music conjures up a feeling as cozy as sitting by the fireplace on a rainy day, and as raw as reading straight from someone's diary. She has been involved in Rain City Rock Camp for 11 years and has released one single, “General Welfare.” She is in the process of recording her debut album.
Instagram: @ryluciamusic
Edmonds, WA — Indie R&B
Raw and soulful, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Kaia’s vocals float effortlessly over melodic guitar and piano instrumentals. Drawing influence from artists like Clairo, Kehlani, and Jimi Hendrix, Kaia manages to deliver sultry, digital-age R&B laced with old school vibes. Having played the guitar since she was eight, she applies her technical experience throughout the creative process, and her authenticity can be felt and heard throughout each song.
SoundCloud: kaiakaia
Tiny Planet
Seattle, WA — Jazz/Fusion
Fusing jazz harmony, metal-inspired rhythm, chill vibes, funk, and traces of cyanide, Tiny Planet's sound is full of exciting musical contradictions and surprises. Since forming to play a benefit concert for refugees, the quintet has become not only a metaphorical spaceship for exploring far-reaching musical terrain, but also an excuse for them to simply hang out, go on adventures, and, as they explain it, be idiots together.
Facebook: TinyPlanetBand
The Human Missile Crisis
Tukwila, WA — Punk/Experimental
Your first thought when listening to The Human Missile Crisis? There’s no way just two people could make a sound that big. The drum and bass duo blast out constant noise that swells, chirps, and moves with such frenzy that you expect it to come from a stage full of people.. Incorporating Hispanic and islander culture into raw, energetic, and heavy riffs, The Human Missile Crisis pushes the envelope of what experimental hardcore can be.
Bandcamp: TheHumanMissileCrisis
Searows
Portland, OR — Singer/songwriter
Searows is an indie pop/folk/rock project created by Alec Duckart, a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon whose lush vocals and reverb-drenched soundscapes could soothe the most savage listener. Alec began writing music in middle school (in lieu of doing any schoolwork) and never seemed to be able to stop. Alec names artists like Phoebe Bridgers, James Blake, Soccer Mommy, and Tamino as significant influences.
SoundCloud: Searows
thom.ko
Bainbridge Island, WA — R&B
Armed with a few years of piano lessons and a love of confessional songwriting, Thomas Crowley (thom.ko) began creating beats and melodies in his bedroom, and released his first demo while still in high school. Since those formative years, he has traded his bedroom melodies for a more focused approach and continued to grow as an artist, carving out a distinct sonic niche for himself. With a distinct ear for arrangements, thom.ko deftly mixes genre and mood, creating songs that are unpredictable and endearing.
SoundCloud: thomas-crowley-9
49th Parallel
Seattle, WA — Hip-Hop
49th Parallel is a rap collective comprised of five friends who have been hanging out for as long as they can remember. Fun and friendship are at the core of everything they create, and their goal is to share that collective passion with everyone. Their debut album was the result of an artist residency on Lopez Island and a partnership with YouTube channel Yes Theory. Since then, 49th Parallel has set themselves on a path to build their community and share their music.
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Mr. Dinkles
Seattle, WA — Punk
Mr. Dinkles is a power punk duo made up of Mac Rettig and Gretchen Elliot. Having met at School of Rock in Seattle, the two were always more interested in rocking out than high school drama. So they linked up and started writing songs about it. With influences like the Dead Kennedys, TacoCat, Bikini Kill, Rush, and SWMRS, these two bring classic punk together with current pop melodies, loud crunchy guitars, and plenty of catchy lyrics you can scream all day long.
Instagram: @MrDinklesBand
Mirabai Kukathas
Mirabai Kukathas is a storyteller, playwright, spirited conversationalist, and singer-songwriter. She loves nothing more than telling an absurd story with an honest emotional core. People often tell Mirabai she was born in the wrong millennium, but she’d much rather be in this one, where she can vote and marry who she likes and watch WALL-E for the millionth time. But she does pull plenty of musical inspiration from the past, finding ways to blend ‘60s folk with contemporary pop and everything in between. Mirabai’s music is an act of healing; a confusing celebration of her culture, identity, and life.
Instagram: @mirabai.kukathas
Talaya.
Seattle, WA — R&B
Talaya. uses space and time as a three-dimensional canvas, painting depth into her music with powerful instrumentation, lyrics, and a keen ear for production. After joining The Residency in 2017 with no formal training and YouTube as her teacher, she embarked on what is now a life-long journey of connecting ears with hearts. As a testament to her quickly developing artistry, in May of 2019 she released a five-track self-produced EP titled “The Space Between.”
Instagram: @talaya.music
Seattle, WA — Jazz
For Seven Sky Spillios, life is music. He plays saxophone in eight Seattle-area bands, teaches 20 students a week, and still finds time to work on his own music, which is a dynamic fusion of classical composition and jazz-influenced improvisation and harmony. Not content to simply rest on his own work, he also writes music for other groups — including chamber and jazz ensembles— to perform, living out his belief that music is about connection and communicating where words often fail.
Facebook: SevenSkyMusic
David’s Van
Woodinville, WA — Metal
David’s Van bring a lighthearted yet seriously technical approach to their comedic metal originals. The three met at School of Rock Seattle, leading their house band at local shows on national tours. They formed David’s Van in Spring 2019 to “put the fun back in metal.” No strangers to the stage, the three self-described “nice, goofy fellas full of shenanigans” are fresh out of the recording studio with a forthcoming release that is sure to delight their head-banging fans with their serious musical chops, infectious lyrics, and unmatched volume.
Instagram: @davidsvanband
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Whose fairness is it anyway?
Nick Pearce, who was ippr director before being head of the Downing Street policy unit, makes some telling points for the OurKingdom blog about the budget's distributional impact, arguing that "it is simply incredible to call this “fair”.
In fact, if you look at the widely touted distributional impact tables in the Red Book. (Annex A, page 63), you see that all the heavy lifting on progressive taxation is done by reforms introduced by the previous Labour government, not by yesterday’s Budget (the black bar in chart A2, for the top decile). The poor lose primarily by the increase in VAT. The middle classes lose tax credits and pay more VAT. And the better off lose from direct tax and National Insurance changes inherited from Labour – almost nothing at all from anything agreed by the Coalition. Moreover, as Alex Barker points out in the FT, these tables do not include the full impact of benefit cuts, since these are not felt until after 2012/13.
Pearce anatomises how much and how little of the LibDem tax fairness manifesto has survived:
Tellingly, the central Liberal Democrat election commitment to fairness in taxes and benefits has been abandoned. A few facts illustrate this simply enough. In their Manifesto, the Liberal Democrats promised to raise nearly £2 billion from Capital Gains Tax reform. The Budget secures less than half that (£925 million). In addition, they pledged to raise £5,455 billion by restricting tax relief on pension contributions to the basic rate. This highly progressive measure has now been completely dropped. Ditto the Mansion Tax on properties worth over £2 million, due to have raised £1.7 billion. And there was barely a mention of the green taxes they had pencilled in to raise over £3 billion in the Budget. On almost every score, their pre-election tax package has been stripped of its progressive content ...
He also suggests the most progressive Tory voice has not got his message across to colleagues:
And the overall story of this Budget is one of generational injustice, with cuts falling on working age families and those with children, but not the asset rich pensioner population. David Willetts’ warnings have been not been heeded.
There are some important future policy and political challenges for Labour in the piece - "Retreating to occupy the space of defender of the public sector and its staff is political suicide in the long run" - in staking out the argument for what Pearce calls a "social democratic majoritarianism", which sounds as though it has a familial resemblance to the reciprocity-based universalism set out by Tim Horton and James Gregory in the Solidarity Society.
Read the full piece here.
Labels: budget. George Osborne, inequality
Cantab83 said...
After watching Faisal Islam on C4 News I now understand why the ConDems have been convinced to cut deep and cut early. Their reasoning is probably to be found in the growth projections.
These are the OBR projections for growth and debt over the next 5 years based on Labour's last budget:
2010/11 - 1.3% - 163bn
2013/14 - 2.8% - 89bn
And here are the revised OBR figures now:
You see the problem? Cumulatively, there is virtually no difference. True, projected growth is now 0.1% lower in the first year, and 0.3% lower in the second. But the upside is that total borrowing is over £100bn less over five years. So a little bit of extra unemployment (100k) for a year or so would seem to be an acceptable price to pay for higher growth and lower debt in the future, or so the argument goes? The question is, though, how believable are any of these projected figures? Can we really believe that future economic growth is so insensitive to any amount of fiscal tightening now? I am very doubtful of that, not least because it would suggest that all government interventions have little to no effect on the economy.
The second problem is that all this is based on an assumption that the Government CAN cut budgets in most departments by 25%. Yet as Paul Mason pointed out on Newsnight, even after the IMF crisis in 1975-6 and the Howe budget of 1981, neither government ever managed to cut government expenditure in cash terms. So is it really credible to think that this government can?
So which, then, is the more likely scenario? That the ConDem Govt manages to achieve what it claims and cut most departmental budgets by 25% over 5 years and still get over 12% growth in GDP? Or that their growth figures are pure fantasy, the cuts reduce output but also actually result in increased spending, the debt goes up instead of down, and that we end up in a double-dip recession (or worse)?
At best, this all seems like a massive game of Russian roulette, or a massive gamble on favourable interest rates reducing borrowing costs!
sanbikinoraion said...
Of course the Lib Dems didn't get everything they want (far from it) but we are the minority partner in a parliament in which the Tories were pretty close to gaining majority rule. Of course most policies getting through will be pure Tory. The best we can hope for is for the Lib Dems to temper the very worst excesses of the right-wing, and we're going to get pilloried for even managing that.
Imagine a pure Tory budget. Would there have been a CGT hike? No. A personal allowance hike? No. A bank levy? Questionable.
Sunder Katwala said...
The Tories didn't have a majority.
The correct comparison for influence is between Tory-LibDem coalition as junior partner, or supply and confidence deal (leaving aside either alternative outcomes or new electins).
LibDems could claim they got more out of a Coalition than supply or confidence, in the Agreement itself (when they held a veto). It is also clear that this was the high point of their influence, and that the "junior partner" rationale is going to get heard more and more.
For example, even though close to equal CGT rates was in the Agreement itself, that did not prove sacrosanct, and the Tory right won most of the argument there. The Tories were for a banking levy at £1 billion and you at £5 billion: its closer to theirs.
It was also up to the LibDems as to what their red lines were. You are letting the marriage tax through with a symbolic abstention. Clearly, you didn't make VAT a sticking point, though the campaign you had (both) ran could have made that plausible.
Well, if you're going to compare it to supply-and-confidence then you have to examine what that deal would have entailed: it blatantly would not have been "Tories do whatever they like" but it would not have been "Lib Dems get to veto anything they feel like" either - so, if you are going to compare it to supply and confidence, then let's hear it: what do you imagine would be different under such circumstances?
Don't get me wrong, I am onside with you on a lot of this, I think VAT is a terrible tax in the first place, that richer people should be taxed harder, there should be more and bigger wealth taxes and so on -- so don't rule me out as a party apparatchik.
I'm just saying that saying that the Lib Dems have gone against a lot of their manifesto is both a trivial and meaningless point to make: the Lib Dems didn't win the election, and in other very similar circumstances, the Lib Dems would be getting *absolutely none* of their campaign pledges enacted, as opposed to the limited quantity now.
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Members of the Development Authority of Floyd County learn that a housing summit will be held in Rome next month to come up with ways to give developers the incentive to build more middle-market homes.
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Middle-market housing options have been identified as a major issue by local economic developers.
A major housing summit is scheduled for Feb. 20 to discuss the issue and identify potential incentives for developers to improve that market in Rome and Floyd County.
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Diversification at Driediger Farms
New Challenges Continue To Push Berry Growers To Find Ways To Do More With Less
by Ronda Payne
Ronda Driediger
Doesn’t everyone want to do more with less?
Greater yields with less inputs? Yes please! Higher returns on less time invested in the field? Absolutely!
This desire to do more with less has led to many advancements in farming. Berry growers, like Rhonda Driediger of Driediger Farms, have always strived for improvements, but doing more with less has shifted from a desire to a necessity in today’s environment.
Driediger Farms started in 1964 and has always been a family-run business with ownership shifting among family members over time. Driediger and her husband Peter Olson bought in, in the 1990s, then eventually acquired full ownership. The operation began as a 10-acre strawberry farm then grew to a peak of 250 acres. In the early 1980s, the family started into raspberries, then in the late 1980s blueberries came on line as a few acres of bushes were transplanted from a nearby farm.
Now, at 160 acres, Driediger Farms has 95 acres of blueberries, 23 acres of raspberries and 16 acres of high-density strawberries as well as smaller amounts of blackberries and red currants. This is in addition to fallow land, houses, buildings and roadways. Plus, there’s the road-side market that has doubled in size in recent years.
“In 2013 we doubled the size of it, to about 3,000 square feet,” Driediger says. “We try to find as many new or up-and-coming BC products. Like the goat’s milk soap we have. We order it a couple of times a year.”
The market allows the farm to offer a range of products that position it as more than a place to get great berries – it’s also somewhere to buy produce, eggs, ice cream, baked goods, artisan creations and specialty gift items. Making the market a destination also allows for an increased per-customer sale at the till.
“The market used to be a third of our income and now it’s one-fifteenth of our income even though it’s doubled what it was in the late 90s,” she says.
The Driedigers have always recognized the need to innovate to stay at the forefront of the industry.
“Back in the 70s my mom started a U-pick,” she says. “And we started having an on-farm market. Then we started doing more fresh to consumer [berries] and less [processing] berries.”
The processing berries continued to decline and the family ramped up their plans for fresh varieties in the fields. In the mid 90’s Driediger’s brothers started doing blueberry packing and she came on board in 1997.
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“Shortly after I got here, the blueberry co-op went under,” she says. “There was just more and more blueberries being planted. It was an opportunity to do more value-added.”
In 2006/2007, the Driedigers started packing more berries.
“In 2010 we started building a new fresh plant, finished that in 2011,” she says. “In 2012 we built a freezer ready for use in 2013. That was the first year we ran our IQF tunnel. It was a lot of trial and error.”
Today, Driediger Farms continues to fresh pack blueberries and also does IQF strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. The company provides pitting and IQF for dark sweet cherries for Okanagan growers as well. The IQF portion of the business is mostly blueberries and cherries.
On the consumer-facing side of the business, families come to the market or the U-pick fields and may want to enjoy an ice cream at the picnic benches in the shade. Driediger added a playground area with a giant bouncing pillow (like a ground-mounted trampoline) so that parents can relax while kids are busy.
She doesn’t see Driediger Farms becoming an agri-tourism stop like those with a petting zoo, hayrides and cafe, but instead, sees the market and U-pick aspects of the business as a shorter break in someone’s day where they can enjoy themselves while purchasing fruit and other items.
“We want to stay current and we want to add events and have an event structure,” she adds.
Events are an extension to the business without having to add more capital-heavy investments. Some of these include the Mad Hatter Tea Party supporting Langley Hospice, a summer festival which raises money for Langley’s Tiny Kittens Society and plans for long-table dinners.
Growth and change has also come to Driedigers, and throughout the industry, via automation.
“Obviously the cost of labour has been horrendous, so there’s more mechanization,” she says. “Not just around harvest, but also in the plant.”
The operation now uses laser sorters to help keep in-plant costs down and as Driediger notes, the quality of automated harvesting machines has grown exponentially better.
“I’d say the valley is 60 per cent machine-picked for blueberries,” she says. “That was unheard of 10 years ago. Raspberries, we machine-pick because not one wants to pick raspberries – it’s more physically demanding – and the quality is so much better.”
Part of the benefit of automation has come from growers learning to adjust and use their machines more efficiently for specific crops.
“Just getting labour is a problem,” she adds. “We bring in Mexican workers under the SAWP program. They’re running the harvesting machines and sorting machines in the plant.”
The high-density strawberry fields is another way to do more with less and Driediger says they are still learning how to manage this compacted crop at harvest time.
“We needed to grow more strawberries per acre,” she says, adding that increasing the number of plants per acre is essential to viability.
What was once 11,000 plants per acre is now 19,000 plants per acre on hills, in plastic.
“They’re all on drip irrigation, so water use is way, way down,” she notes. “Plus there’s no dirt on the berries so all the berries we grow are saleable.”
Additionally, less water and plastic-covered hills means less weeds and less chemicals.
“Our fertilizer for the whole farm is all now custom-blended per crop, per field,” she explains. “We only apply what the plant needs.”
She adds that chemical companies are striving to come up with softer products that are more targeted and can be applied once rather than through multiple applications. This works to reduce labour, chemical costs and helps pollinators.
“We have an IPM system we’ve used for almost 30 years now,” she says. “There’s not enough trained people though.”
Driediger recognizes that it’s hard for growers to get Integrated Pest Management specialists on their farms with the number of specialists in the occupation working at, or near, capacity. She is able to maintain a healthy ecosystem on the farm for about $6,000 a year. The results of what the IPM specialists learn at Driedigers is collated into a mass report to help other growers and IPM specialists understand what’s happening in the industry.
Another area that is seeing innovation and improvement is the berry breeding programs, especially work in blueberries. She notes that BC Berry Cultivar Development Inc. research scientist Michael Dossett is doing great work.
“We’ve always gotten plants out of Michigan’s breeding program or Oregon State,” she says, adding, those varieties weren’t always successful in the Lower Mainland because the conditions are different. “We’ve always had a breeding program for strawberries and raspberries, so it’s important for blueberries.”
Dreidiger continues to make changes at the farm and notes that growers need to keep, “looking at how something will be better for staff, for you, for the crop, and then make those changes.”
For example, improvements made on her strawberry procedures have made it so that a flat very seldom needs to be checked when it comes in.
“They’re picked right into their containers,” she says. “By the time it gets to the market, [that work of checking] has already been done.”
Innovation is key for the survival of berry growers, but the truth is that it always has been. New ideas will continue to be found and shared to improve the industry no matter what shape it takes in the future. ■
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Monkeybrain on the Brain: Boo!
by Rob McMonigal November 02, 2013
When Monkeybrain debuted in July 2012, I took a little time to feature a review on each of the debut titles, which I called "Monkeybrain on the Brain." Now it's home to Eisner winners and creators ranging from Kurt Busiek to Jen and I figured that now would be as good a time as any to revisit the line.
Over the course of November, I'll be featuring different Monkeybrain titles, both new and old. You can find them under the Monkeybrain tag, which includes links back to the ones I did initially.
Written and Illustrated by Various Creators, including Jon Morris, Chris Haley, Benito Cereno, and Joel Carroll
What could be scarier than a reality TV show, especially one starring all your favorite horror-story narrators being skewered lovingly by "Calamity" Jon Morris as they introduce tales of terror from some folks who also share a love of the genre?
I could think of no better Monkeybrain title to start with than this one, which transitions nicely from my Halloween Horror series to this feature and appears on the final day of Dio de Los Muertos 2013. This four-issue series, which appeared every Thursday running up to Halloween, was an inspired anthology series that was mostly a light-hearted look at horror, though definitely aimed at an older audience.
Using the premise that a Ryan Seacrest analogue, Dyin' Seacrist, is hosting a competition for the various scary narrators, every issue featured bumpers and frames by Morris that poked fun at everyone from DC's Cain and Abel to the Elvira type, all of whom get a chance to tweak the noses of their archetypes. (I especially love the Mysterious Stranger clone, who can't get the police to come because he has to spend so much time setting the stage. It's a running gag that has an appropriately abrupt climax, plenty of terrible puns, and artwork that will remind readers of Paul Grist and others of that type. These sequences were incredibly well done and often the highlight of the issues.
Issue One features an opening story by David Hopkins and Paul Milligan that proves working too hard will kill you, then transitions to a rather creepy story using a familiar plot with a new twist. Three ghost hunters rely on technology to avoid the pitfalls of those who came before them, only to find that in the hands of Leonard Pierce and Neal Von Flue, they're about as useful as a wet match. Pierce's self-aware dialogue makes the piece work, while Von Flue's unsettling sketchiness keeps the reader nicely off-balance. Closing out the issue, RJ White and Carl Nelson create a story that feels most like one you might find in Dark Horse's Creepy, with a man who hates people trapped in a subway car and unable to handle the pressure.
Issue Two leads off with Matt Smigiel turning the tables on the zombie trope, with a whole horde of people gorging on Gingerbread Men. His work reminded me of PP favorite Jarod Rosello, with a lot of sharp lines in the main characters The real key to the fun of this story, however, is the background work. Smigiel fills each panel with tons of little details, like the Romero Market, jagged edges on broken glass, and even individual designs on the helmets of the Gingerbread Army.
Ken Lowery and Shawn McGuan would make Nix Comics' Ken Eppstein smile, as their story features a demonic band whose attempt at possession is foiled by a bathroom break. This one was hurt a bit, I think, by the art, which felt a bit too processed and realistic, which clashed with the rest of the stories in the issue. The Last Sceance from Kyle Starks ends the proceedings, as a long-time investigative pair find that some ghosts are closer than they ever imagined. Starks' work has some resemblance to Kate Beaton, which fits the old-fashioned Victorian feel of the story. He does some great panel selection work in this eerie story of revenge delayed.
Issue Three was a lot of fun. It begins with Andrew Ihla and Joe Hunter provide dating tips for monsters, in an irreverent story that totally mocks the drive-in horror films. Hunter's art reminds me quite a bit of Chris Haley, and I'll be honest, I mistook him for Haley at first until I went back to the credits, since I knew the Let's Be Friends Again co-creator was in this issue. Haley, along with writer Eric Esquivel, close out this one with another monster love story, which has a tragic twist but an uplifting ending. Haley's LBFA followers will enjoy seeing him working at a more extended length yet using his familiar and fun visual tricks like subtle posture changes to enhance the joke.
In-between, Delilah Dawson and Nathan Massengill have arguably the scariest story in this anthology series. A couple are at a carnival, where the woman gets obsessed with waiting forever to ride a carousel. When offered an exclusive tour of its secret, she finds that sometimes you can get a bit too close to your hobby. It's really creepy, especially since Massengill's art is free-flowing across the page, refusing to bow to the likes of perspective and proportion. At the same time, however, it's put together in a more cohesive manner than, say, Sam Keith, because the linework is extremely fine and details. This might also be my favorite of the stories, though that's a hard call.
Issue Four was the one I was most looking forward to, due to the inclusion of Joel Carroll and Benito Cereno, two folks I spend a fair amount of time talking to on Twitter. They didn't disappoint, as this series closes up with three more strong stories. Carroll goes first, taking advantage of the cuteness of his artwork to startle the reader once you realize only one of his two child characters is going to make it out alive. He also draws the cutest set of killer cats you'll ever see on paper.
Cereno, who writes the Tick and is an aficionado of horror, works with Les McClaine on taking on another trope, namely "Monster killed my family, now I'll kill it." I love what he does with the concept, as two characters discuss the problems inherent in the idea, only to find out that maybe philosophy and horror don't mix quite so well after all. Working in black and white, McClaine uses shadow and shading to great effect in this one, enhancing the mood while still keeping the tone light.
In the last story, Scott Faulkner (with a color assist from Morris) looks at a pair of adventurers who are in over their head, emphasizing shadow in a different way than McClaine did. It's a combination of visual and mental horror, and works well as a closing thought for the stories.
Boo! is a love letter to horror anthologies, especially those who like their terror with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Designed as a holiday special, it's the kind of work that has year-round appeal for those who enjoy horror comics 365 days at a time, and at only $4 for 12 stories and a series of framing devices, it's cheaper than just about any other horror collection out there. This is one of my favorite Monkeybrain books, and I hope to see it rise from the grave again in 2014.
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Phil Nast, retired middle school teacher and freelance writer
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Smithsonian Learning Lab is a reorganization of the digital resources from its 19 museums, 9 major research centers, the National Zoo, and more. It makes the more than 1,000,000 Smithsonian resources available to anyone anywhere. Two brief videos on the homepage explain what the Learning Lab is and how it can be used in the classroom. Also included are Smithsonian staff picks and news updates. The lab can be searched or entered through three portals; discover, create, and share. There are two Getting Started Guides, one for students or general audience and one for teachers.
NOTE: This media-rich resource performs best with a fast internet connection.
Discover can be searched or browsed under three headings: Trending, Surprise Me!, and Suggested Discoveries. One of the Suggested Discoveries is a 1978 advertising poster for Levi’s Movin’ On Jeans. The image can be expanded, reduced, and feedback provided. A menu on the left side provides archival information and a link to the original. In addition, the menu lets a teacher or student add it to a collection, mark it as a favorite, share it, cite it, download it, or flag it.
Create lets users create their own collections and customize resources to fit specific needs using Smithsonian resources or resources from other sources. Annotate, add lessons and quizzes, and more. To create a collection, a user must first Sign Up for Learning Lab. Create a link to the Smithsonian Kids Online Privacy Statement is provided. Three brief videos explain how to adapt, create, and customize.
Share offers three videos on publishing, sharing on social media, and assigning collections, quizzes, and other resources.
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INTERVIEW: Djibril al-Ayad of The Future Fire
We were at Nerds of a Feather love us some short fiction, and believe that many of the most daring attempts to push, alter and expand the boundaries of science and fantasy fiction are happening within the short fiction form. To that end, we continue our interview series with Djibril al-Ayad, editor of The Future Fire magazine and--in his spare time--a writer and academic historian. Along with publishing generally high quality fiction, The Future Fire seeks to expand the range of voices represented in SF/F, and, to use their own words, publish "dark science fiction and art with a social conscience, a political sensibility and of the highest quality." The G sits down with Djibril to discuss the these topics and more.
What’s the background story for The Future Fire? How did it come about?
The Future Fire was originally founded by five friends scattered across the globe (California, Switzerland, England and Scotland), with the idea that it would encourage experimental fiction and media that avoids the restrictions of genre while doing what all good fiction and art does, which is reflect the philosophies, politics and agendas of the world around us. Over time the editors have come and gone—I am the only one of the original five currently working on the magazine—but we still have editors in three countries. While all of the ideas we started with still apply (we'd love to run experimental and multimedia or interactive fiction, for example), our focus now is on social-political speculative fiction with no restrictions of genre.
How does The Future Fire fit into the world of SF/F journals? What journals or magazines do you feel an affinity to? How is The Future Fire different from the mainstream journals?
I'm not sure what the "mainstream journals" you refer to are.
I mean the traditional magazines in SF/F, ones like Asimov's or F&SF that, consciously or unconsciously, speak with a sort of institutional voice within the genre.
Okay. Well, I don't know those magazines very well, I almost entirely read small press speculative fiction, so I I can't speak to that. But as regards our difference from the mainstream, I would rather say that we have a niche, that we cater for a particular flavour of political and inclusive fiction, and I think we're known for the very high quality of the fiction we publish (especially considering the low rates of payment a nonprofessional 'zine can offer).
Everyone has their niche, and some are more experimental and interesting than others. I don't think any magazine is completely unique, but all have their strengths and weaknesses, and the good ones are still learning and are prepared to change things as time goes on. Other magazines that I would like to think exist in the same ecosystem as we do would include Not One of Us, Sein und Werden, Crossed Genres, Expanded Horizons and International Speculative Fiction.
You’ve described The Future Fire as a home for “science fiction with a social conscience.” What range of material does that term encompass? How do you see science fiction fitting into the broader world of social consciousness and activism?
All fiction says something about the cultural milieu in which it is written, about the beliefs and assumptions of the author and the shared world-view of the audience. Our attitude is that we should make sure the assumptions and the culture espoused in our fiction are socially responsible ones. This can mean: stories that tell cautionary tales about runaway free-market capitalism, imperialism, prejudice, security theatre, state surveillance and environmental damage; or optimistic stories that show a world with more freedom, with better representation of repressed people including women, quiltbag, disabled, non-white or non-anglophone people etc. Of course you can also have political stories about how immigration is a threat to civilization, or healthcare leads to communism and totalitarianism, but we're not interested in telling those stories. We make a choice, as everyone does, and we have our opinions about what "social responsibility" means.
Do you a potential within science fiction to affect politics, or popular views of politics, beyond the confines of literature?
Speculative fiction may not be going to save the world, or change a lot of people's opinions, but of course all art is part of political discourse, and all discourse or communication is and should be political. I don't mind even if we're only preaching to the choir, because (as Ursula Le Guin said in an article for _Gobshite Quarterly_ 2003), "if you don't preach to the choir the choir won't keep singing. We need to hear each others' voices."
How about with regards "diversity?" I think this can sometimes be a problematic term, especially when it just acts as a code for “tokenism,” like someone saying: “what we need is a black guy or a woman” and thinking that solves the problem, as opposed to seeking out different and challenging perspectives, and being open to whatever, and whomever, you find at the end of the road. But there’s also the tangible issue of marginalization, and we probably both agree that, in science fiction and fantasy, some voices are more marginalized than others. Could you speak to this issue? Do you see things trending in a more inclusive direction, or are there still major barriers to non-traditional (i.e. non-straight/white/male/Anglophone) voices in SF/F?
I'm resistant to the idea--which I know you're not espousing--that actively striving for more diversity does or should end with tokenism...
That would suggest either that we should not aim for more diversity, which itself implies that inequality and marginalization are natural, deserved, and we're fine with it, or that the only way to redress an imbalance in the fiction you publish is to be more forgiving of quality of stories in the under-represented group so as to buy more of them. That's emphatically not the way to improve diversity in publishing. As an editor, your job is not just to sit at home and wait to see what stories come your way. Your job is to go out and find the fiction you want; advertize in the right places; join communities; attend conventions and conferences; actively read things you haven't read much of before.
When we noticed that only about one in six stories we published in the first ten or fifteen issues of TFF were by women, for example, I looked back and ascertained that about 1/6 stories submitted to us were also by women. So it wasn't a problem of our selectively preferring stories by men (or with male bylines attached); we buy about 1/25 stories submitted by either sex. I also don't believe that it's because women write less scifi, or write it less well (both of which are absurd and demonstrably false ideas). Our response was not to publish a higher proportion of stories with female bylines, but to try to increase our profile among women writers. (Ditto quiltbag, non-anglo, etc.) We targeted our promotional material better, approached women's writing groups and feminist communities, put out a call for a themed issue of feminist SF, and later another on queer SF, made it clear that we were interested in these issues and were a friendly venue for these authors. We still read and make decisions on stories anonymously, and I think publish the same proportion of stories regardless of sex or other demographics, but we receive a much more equitable selection of submissions these days. It's an ongoing campaign of course. There are probably areas we're failing in that haven't even occured to us yet.
I'm not sure I see the barriers coming down; speculative fiction still has along way to go, not only in better representation of women and minorities, but in being more inclusive of different literary voices, styles, genres, and whole cultures. For the "literature of the imaginary", Anglo-American dominated scifi is pretty monochrome.
Let’s talk a little bit about upcoming projects. I know you’ve got a new collection coming out soon, called Outlaw Bodies. Could you tell us a little more about this project? What was its inspiration and what has the response been so far? When and where will our readers be able to purchase copies?
Outlaw Bodies will be an anthology of stories that look at ways in which the human body can be changed, subverted, adapted, regulated, exploited and controlled, and present future societies in which people are punished or persecuted for taking advantage of cyberpunk or posthuman technologies (or for refusing to do so). We're interested in combining this underlying idea with trans, queer, feminist, disability and body integrity issues.
The idea was all Lori Selke's—both themed anthologies were suggested in response to a call for guest editors that we put out last year to reinvigorate the magazine a little bit. By the call for submissions about a month ago we had received about a hundred stories, and we're still in the process of whittling that down to the six-to-eight we're going to publish. When it comes out, some of the new stories will be published as a magazine issue, freely available online, as usual. There will also be a book version, containing some bonus materials not online, available to purchase in hardcopy and e-book formats from all the usual online bookselling venues. (Details to be confirmed, but I hope it will be available by the end of July.)
You also have a new project, called We See a Different Frontier, which seeks to “decolonize the frontier.” What do you mean by that?
The idea behind that phrase is that science fiction is a very colonial genre; themes like the "final frontier", discovering "new worlds", settling, military conquest and adventure are all very romantic to the Western mind, but if you look at them from the viewpoint of a colonized people, rather than the colonists, they look very different. This anthology, conceived and edited by Fábio Fernandes, will publish stories from outside the usual perspective. It will not tell romantic stories of adventure and conquest and colonization, at least not the way the Anglo-American genre recognizes, but it will present new voices: authors from colonized countries, narrators and protagonists whose native languages are not English, settings and concerns outside the Western European world. And we expect stories to do this without exoticizing or culturally appropriating the settings in question.
Lately there have been some influential people—Elizabeth Bear, Neal Stephenson, etc.—questioning whether SF has gotten “too dark,” but I’ve always felt that, at least in American SF, there’s a strain of naïve optimism about space exploration and colonization. Namely, that somehow things would just be better the next time humans settle the new places they find. But human history should give pause—and not just the age of European/North American colonialism, but pretty much any point at which technologically superior groups meet others; to add some more examples, we could look at the Mongols, Vikings, Mughals and Turks of the medieval period; or ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Khmers, if you go back farther. To what degree do you think humans, were we to spread beyond Earth, could transcend this historical trajectory, or are we bound by it?
On the one hand I agree with you that any science fiction that presents simple technological solutions to our political-economic woes is naïve in the extreme; to think that we can colonize the stars without having to face our colonial past, questions of who is conquering space, and for whom, is short-sighted. But then to a lot of people science fiction is escapist, and I suppose there's nothing wrong with a bit of optimism in with your escapism. (Except where it erases the experiences of the colonized, who are, after all, most of us.)
On the other hand, if we're looking far far into the future, I like to think that we don't have to repeat the problems of the past (so long as we're conscious enough of our history to learn from them). Yes, conflict and colonialism have made up a lot of our history, but history (the written record of human heritage) is only a very small part of our cultural—let alone biological—past. There have been cultural contacts throughout history which did not involve constant war. There may have been dozens of generations of peaceful coexistence between groups of humans moving about the prehistoric world. Certainly most of our primate relatives manage without constantly massacring and exploiting each other on a vast scale. And we *are* capable of learning from our history. I like to think that in hundreds of generations, by the time we are truly exploring the stars (not just scratching out a few corners of this solar system), we will have evolved into a potentially radically different culture.
We're talking science fiction, of course, so this could be an evolution for the better or for the worse. But it may be more different than we expect.
You were able to raise money for this project via crowdfunding site peerbackers. What was your experience like doing this? What kind of feedback did you get about the project from the experience?
The first thing we learned was how much people wanted to see this project work. We could have just gone ahead and put out a call for submissions three months ago, and we'd have had no idea that the science fiction world (or at least that slice of it that we know through listservs, Twitter and the magazine) were so desperate to see an anthology of this kind come about. People were incredibly generous, not only with their money but with their time and effort, helping to boost the signal, interviewing us on their sites, guest blogging for us, running round tables, donating signed books for giveaway draws, everything. It was very moving.
The other thing I learned was that we were too modest. We deliberately chose a crowd-funding site that did not have an "all or nothing" policy (where if you don't make your target, all the pledges are returned and you don't see a penny), because we weren't sure we would achieve $3000 in donations, and we wanted to do the project even with less. In the end, we outstripped our target by 50%; people pledged more than $4500 to make the project happen. It was incredible. I think if people think an idea is exciting enough, and you can generate lots of buzz and work hard at building your community for the duration of the fundraiser, you can raise a lot of money via this method.
One final question: lately at nerds-feather, we’ve started a “summer reading” series, where our contributors give us 6 books they plan to read over the summer. What are yours?
Okay, first I want to read several of the books from the sfftawards.com shortlist, so Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Towfik; Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón; Zero by Huang Fan. I've also just started Mohammed Dib's Qui se souvient de la mer (which is not translated into English, as far as I know), and at the top of my tottering to-be-read pile are Angélica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial and Ekaterina Sedia's Heart of Iron.
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Labels: books, fantasy, interview, science fiction
24 Books I'm Looking Forward to In 2020
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MIDWEEK UPDATE 11 DECEMBER 2019
Compiled by Willie Bodenstein
Dear Aero Club Member, it is the Aero Club & Member Association renewal time for the year 2020. Many thanks for your continued support for recreational aviation in South Africa. The year 2020 is a significant year being the Centenary of the Aero Club and we will take the opportunity to bring to the fore the importance that recreational aviation has for the growth of aviation in SA, particularly poignant in preserving our free flight while working with the regulator transitioning from the domain of RAASA to the CAA and the regulatory changes that it brings. We will keep you posted on the overall status & progress.
To renew your membership or join the Aero Club and its Sections, go to https://www.aeroclub.org.za/member-renewals-and-new-memberships/ where you can use the Aeropay System, or you can pay via EFT. If you have any difficulties, please contact the Aero Club office by email or phone as given below, Sandra & Charne are ready to assist.
The Aeropay System
Visit the Aero Club website on www.aeroclub.org.za
Click on Memberships and then on the Aeropay link
Log in to your membership and follow the steps
Once your payment is processed you can download or print your Membership certificate and Tax invoice.
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
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Reference: Your Name and Surname
Send proof of payment to: sandra@aeroclub.org.za
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There are no events planned for the weekend that we are aware off.
18 - 19: SAC Gauteng Regionals Baragwaneth Airfield. Contact: Annie Boon chunge@mweb.co.za
25: Rand Airport Challenge Rally - Rand Airport. Contact: Frank Eckard e-mail: frank.eckard@mweb.co.za cell: 083 269 1516
25: SAPFA AGM - Time: 2 PM Rand Airport. Contact: Rob Jonkers e-mail: rob@aerosud.co.za cell: 082 804 7032
1: Witbank Speed Rally - Klerksdorp Airfield. Contact: Jonty Esser e-mail: jonty@promptroofing.co.za cell: 082 855 9435
7 - 9: SAPFA Committee Bosberaad - Paddafontein. Contact: rob@aerosud.co.za Cell: 082 804 7032
22: FASHKOSH Stellenbosch.
29: Rally Navigation Training Course - Venue Aerosud. Contact: Mary de Klerk e-mail: maryd@expandingbranding.co.za cell: 084 880 9000
7: Brakpan Fun Rally - Brakpan Airport - Contact: Frank Eckard e-mail: frank.eckard@mweb.co.za cell: 083 269 1516
21: Bethlehem Speed Rally - Heidelberg Airfield - Contact: Jonty Esser e-mail: jonty@promptroofing.co.za cell: 082 855 9435
21: The Airplane Factory Fly-in, Tedderfield. Contact: Shanelle 011 948 9898
OBITUARY CAPTAIN STU LITHGOW
by Theo Truter
SAAF trained, Stu joined SAA and retired as an Airbus A-340 captain.
On the famous ferry-flight of the retired SAA Boeing 747 from the then named 'Jan Smuts Airport' into Rand Airport, Stu was co-captain.
He was a member of the Flying Lions team, flying at many aerobatic displays.
Stu retired to Plettenberg Bay, where he operated his RV-7 and a SF-25 Falke motor glider.
Stu succumbed to injuries sustained when in the morning of 2 December his Falke suffered an engine out on approach to the field and crashed.
RIP Stu��
VanGrunsven had a specific set of goals for the RV-4, including good short field performance, high cruise speed, structural integrity, performance, and controllability appropriate for aerobatics.
In addition, he also wanted the RV-4 to be capable of carrying two 180-pound people up to 6 feet 2 inches tall, and, of course, the airplane had to be something that could be built by the average homebuilder.
The RV-4 prototype first flew in August 1979 and as of October 2019, 1436 RV-4s had been completed and flown worldwide.
The Van's RV series has become the most popular kit-built aircraft in the world. As of April 2019, the RV-4 is the fourth most popular RV model.
To support their new Series 400 operations, Avmax flight crew(s) will receive initial type training at Viking's Calgary, Alberta training facility, where they will become familiarized with the Honeywell Primus Apex� integrated digital avionics suite and autopilot operations in the Series 400 Level "D" Full-Flight Simulator. Initial Maintenance type training course(s) will also be provided to the Avmax technical team.
Avmax selected the Series 400 based on their extensive legacy de Havilland Twin Otter experience and confidence that the Twin Otter is the only aircraft capable of reliably operating in the extreme environments and limited access restrictions of the contract locations.
"This multi-million-dollar deal is an excellent example of two Western Canadian companies reaching globally to strengthen aviation. This deal was possible due to Avmax's strong collaborative relationships with companies both local and worldwide, including China and Chad," said Mark Maydaniuk, Chief Executive Officer, Avmax. "Aviation continues to thrive globally, with Western Canada being a market leader."
Robert Mauracher, Viking executive vice president Sales & Marketing, added, "Today, more and more operators around the world are recognizing the unique capabilities and versatility of the Series 400 Twin Otter. I am extremely pleased that a world-class Canadian company like Avmax, with their extensive aircraft portfolio and operational expertise, has selected the Twin Otter for their operational needs."
The formation of the Wisk joint venture comes just over five months after Boeing and Kitty Hawk announced they would work together on eVTOL developments.
The new company is primarily focused on bringing Kitty Hawk's Cora eVTOL to market. Kitty Hawk has been developing Cora with New Zealand-based Zephyr Airworks, which will now be called Wisk New Zealand.
The Cora eVTOL, a two-seat, all-electric aircraft designed to operate autonomously with a range of up to around 60 miles has conducted more than 700 test flights since early 2017 in New Zeeland.
Collaborative electronic warfare capabilities are essential for future combined air operations. Initial Eurofighter ECR capability is expected to be available by 2026, followed by further development steps and full integration into the future combat air system (FCAS) ecosystems.
Eurofighter ECR will be able to provide passive emitter location as well as active jamming of threats, and will offer a variety of modular configurations for electronic attack (EA) and suppression/destruction of enemy air defence (SEAD/DEAD). Latest national escort jammer technology will ensure national control over features such as mission data and data analysis. The concept also features a new twin-seat cockpit configuration with a multi-function panoramic touch display and a dedicated mission cockpit for the rear-seat.
The concept is driven by the leading aerospace companies Airbus, Hensoldt, MBDA, MTU, Premium Aerotec, Rolls-Royce and supported by the German national industry bodies BDSV and BDLI. It specifically targets the German Air Force requirements for an airborne electronic attack capability. Furthermore, it is the single opportunity to deliver such capabilities on the basis of national sovereignty, whilst also securing key military technologies within Germany.
Eurofighter is the backbone of German air defence. With more than 600 aircraft under contract and a workforce of 100.000, it is the largest collaborative defence programme in Europe to date.
This agreement signed with the DMA�, the defence agency in charge of improving the availability of military aircraft in France, is the first contract that Airbus Helicopters has signed as part of the new approach initiated by the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly.
This long-term contract aims at increasing the availability of the Caracal and Cougar fleets by making Airbus Helicopters responsible for the entire scope of the aircraft's support. Airbus Helicopters has committed to limiting the number of aircraft in heavy maintenance by reducing the duration of the maintenance cycles for each helicopter type by up to 20%. Additionally, the commitments taken on logistics and technical assistance will reduce the downtime linked to these activities.
"Airbus Helicopters has committed to ambitious performance levels for the support of the Cougar and Caracal helicopters in service in the French Army and Air Force" said Bruno Even, Airbus Helicopters CEO. "This contract is the result of months of cooperation with the DMA�, and I am confident it will deliver the level of support that the French armed forces expect to perform their critical missions both nationally and in operational theatres abroad".
Airbus Helicopters will also propose, in cooperation with its partner Heli Union, a maintenance centre close to one of its customer's sites in Pau, and will also involve a significant number of French SMEs in the equipment repair activities.
The French armed forces operate 18 H225Ms, also known as Caracal in French service missions, as well as 26 Cougars, some of which are currently performing troop transport, special forces and search and rescue missions in demanding theatres of operation worldwide.
This places the Bloodhound LSR car, unofficially, as the sixth fastest car of all time.
The tests took place on the Hakskeenpan: a dry lakebed in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa. The alkali playa is some 20 km long, and to conduct the tests a 500 m by 16 km strip was cleared of stones and had twenty straight lines painted along its length, creating the desert 'racetrack' on which the Bloodhound LSR car was put through its paces.
Driven by Andy Green, the Bloodhound LSR car reached a maximum speed of 628 mph / 1,010 km/h from a standing start in 50 seconds. Going fast was not, however, the primary aim. The 12 run profiles were designed to develop the team, hone operational processes, deliver crucial data and prepare the car for the record attempt within the next 18 months.
Bloodhound LSR owner Ian Warhurst said: "The global media interest around the high-speed testing has really raised our profile and potential sponsors are getting in touch every day. Our partners will have opportunities to get involved in the next exciting phase of the project as we develop the monopropellant rocket and prepare the car for supersonic speeds.
Even though the high-speed testing was a resounding success, now the real work begins. The team is turning its attention to raising the vital budget necessary to move into the final phase of the programme: attempting a new world land speed record in 12 - 18 months' time, back in South Africa.
The Bloodhound LSR car is currently in a shipping container, heading back to the UK by sea. When it arrives in early January, it'll be returned to the workshop in the heart of SGS Berkeley Green University Technical College, Gloucestershire, where it'll be reassembled into desert spec configuration.
In order to set a new world land speed record, the Bloodhound LSR team needs to fit a rocket on the car. Norwegian aerospace expert Nammo is developing a monopropellant rocket as part of the European Space Agency R&D programme, which will be the perfect fit for the Bloodhound LSR car, slotting easily into the vacant tunnel beneath the EJ200 jet engine. The new rocket will use concentrated hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) which, when passed through a catalyst, decomposes into H2O and oxygen, while generating the several tonnes of thrust needed to blast Bloodhound LSR into the record books.
The very idea of 'making do 'with legroom down to 28 or 29 inches from 30 inches is totally abhorrent to me, but to mitigate that, the newest seats have a far slimmer but non-adjustable back-rest. Seat-width is to be 16.5 inches, so clearly obese passengers will not fit onto these seats.
Now imagine flights of 8 to 9 hours duration!
The absolute record number of seats is in the Airbus A-380 of Emirates when they operate it with an all-second class cabin- then it can take a whopping 615 passengers!
One needs to bear in mind that 4-engine aircraft are much more expensive to operate than the new-generation twin-engine replacements now on the market.
Cebu Pacific recently announced at the Paris Air Show, that the number of seats in the new Airbus A330-900 will seat 460, which is a record. Already this airline operates Airbus A330-300's with 436 seats. The seats are placed 2-4-2 but in the -900 will be 3-3-3.
The secret to being able to accommodate these record numbers, is the re-design of exits 2 and 4.
Economy and thus fares all dictate how the marketing of these deals will work.
Other airlines have high -volume seating too. Take note that All-Nippon Airways cram 514 passengers into their domestic Boeing 777-300's and Air France seats 468 in their Boeing 777-300ER' flight to the Caribbean. KLM seats 292 in their Boeing 777-300's.
''Boarding that many passengers, requires airline personnel to call up passengers by row numbers, from front to middle and from rear to middle. Just imagine if the boarding halls are small, how many more halls are required. Also, if buses need to be used, just visualize rows and rows of them lined up.
Just de-planing is also a long, long process, so imagine an emergency evacuation?
A problem encountered with emergency evacuation, is the growing number of passengers insisting in also carrying their cabin-luggage, which greatly impacts speed and often damages the slides ''
RSA, OR Tambo International: An Airlink AVRO RJ85 on a flight from Harare, Zimbabwe to Johannesburg with 34 passengers and for crew were en route when one of the four engines suffered an uncontained failure which then caused damage to its adjacent engine. Upon assessing the damage and status of the aircraft, the crew elected to continue to Johannesburg where it landed safely under the power of its remaining two engines. All 34 passengers and the four crew members are safe and unharmed.
USA, Boston Logan International: Thirty-one-year-old Sergiu Parfeni of Malden, Massachusetts, got through a security door and into a JetBlue plane's cargo hold at Boston Logan International Airport and was later arrested. He allegedly exited the terminal through an emergency exit door, accessed the tarmac and briefly entered a plane's cargo hold but was immediately removed by JetBlue ground operations employees. A bomb-sniffing dog found nothing hazardous nor suspicious during a sweep of the aircraft, and police haven't found any evidence Parfeni "acted with terrorist intent," Procopio said. Parfeni was booked on charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct and interfering with aircraft operation.
Gibraltar: A British Airways Airbus A320-200 on a flight from London Heathrow, to Gibraltar (Gibraltar), was descending towards Gibraltar, when the aircraft entered a hold due to weather conditions at the destination. After about 10 minutes the aircraft continued the approach and was on base descending through about 1000 feet when the aircraft entered turbulence and received a lightning strike. The crew initiated a go around, climbed the aircraft and diverted to Malaga, (Spain) where the aircraft landed safely about 35 minutes after the go around.
USA, Coleman A Young Municipal Airport, Detroit: A British Aerospace BAe-125-800A with two on board operated by Business Jet Managers Inc experienced a loss of directional control and subsequent runway excursion upon landing at Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport (KDET), Detroit, Michigan. The airplane sustained apparent minor damage during the resulting nose gear collapse and the two pilots onboard were not injured during the incident.
The Fairey Gannet is a British carrier-borne aircraft of the post-Second World War era developed for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) by the Fairey Aviation Company. It was a mid-wing monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three and was powered by a double turboprop engine driving two contra-rotating propellers.
The Gannet was originally developed to meet the FAA's dual-role anti-submarine warfare and strike requirement. It was later adapted for operations as an electronic countermeasures and carrier onboard delivery aircraft. The Gannet AEW.3 was a variant of the aircraft developed as a carrier-based airborne early warning platform.
Fairey selected an engine based on the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba turboprop; the Double Mamba (or "Twin Mamba"), two Mambas mounted side-by-side and coupled through a common gearbox to coaxial contra-rotating propellers.
The prototype first flew on 19 September 1949 and made the first deck landing by a turboprop aircraft, on HMS Illustrious on 19 June 1950, by pilot Lieutenant Commander G. Callingham. After a further change in operational requirements and the addition of a radar and extra crew member, the type entered production in 1953 and initial deliveries were made of the variant designated AS.1 at RNAS Ford in April 1954
In 1958 the Gannet was selected to replace the Douglas Skyraider in the AEW role. In order to accommodate the systems required, the Gannet underwent a significant redesign that saw a new version of the Double Mamba installed, new radome mounted under the aircraft, the tailfin increased in area, the undercarriage lengthened and the weapons bay removed. A total of 44 aircraft (plus a single prototype) of the AEW.3 version was produced.
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31st December
A quiet end to the year with 3 Teal through off the Bill the only unexpected sighting. Three Red-throated Divers also passed by, 9 Purple Sandpipers and a Blackcap were still at the Bill, a Firecrest was again at Pennsylvania Castle and Portland Harbour hosted a more of the same selection of divers, grebes and seaduck.
For no obvious reason given that the weather's quietened right down the final few days of the year are coming up with a few new arrivals, with a Blackcap in the Obs garden, a passing Pomarine Skua off the Bill and a Sandwich Tern in Portland Harbour today's offerings. Routine fare putting in appearances included 8 Red-throated Divers through off the Bill and 3 Firecrests at Pennsylvania Castle. Also of local interest, in the early hours Tawny Owls were heard calling for the first time in ages at Wakeham.
Such has been the utter dearth of birds in the Obs garden just lately that we'd got out of the habit of skewering a few apples on the trees. The completely out of the blue appearance of today's Blackcap - the first one at the Obs for over a month - necessitated a quick dash to the store of apples and within 10 minutes of a few being put out the bird had found them and was feasting! © Martin Cade:
Today's only 'new' news came from the Bill where a passing Long-tailed Duck was the highlight; 6 Red-throated Divers, 4 Brent Geese and a Great Skua also passed by and at least 50 Common Scoter were still offshore. The Grey Heron was again wandering around the south of the island, 400 Mediterranean Gulls were at Ferrybridge and the usual selection of divers and seaduck were in Portland Harbour.
Local social media has been featuring lots of photographs of this Grey Heron that's been visiting garden ponds all over the centre and south of the island in recent weeks; this evening it was settled on a roof at the Coastguard Cottages © Martin Cade:
Nice mild, quiet conditions but not too much to report: 4 Red-throated Divers through off the Bill where c50 Common Scoter were still lingering, 2 Firecrests in the Obs garden, another Firecrest at Pennsylvania Castle and several Great Northern Divers and 2 Eider still in Portland Harbour.
A small flurry of immigrant moths included 3 Rusty-dot Pearls trapped at the Obs and a White-speck trapped at the Grove.
Not a lot to be seen today through the murkiness of persistent drizzly mist. Twelve Red-throated Divers passed through off the Bill where 13 Purple Sandpipers were on the shore; a Siberian Chiffchaff was again at Blacknor.
Back to wet and windy today. The only reports were of 3 Firecrests and a Blackcap at Pennsylvania Castle, 3 Great Northern Divers in Portland Harbour and 200 Dunlin, 140 Dark-bellied Brent Geese and a Pale-bellied Brent at Ferrybridge.
Lovely balmy and millpond calm conditions were perfect for even the briefest of forays into the field in between the inevitable other commitments. Nothing new cropped up but regulars on show included 11 Purple Sandpipers at the Bill, a Chiffchaff at Southwell, 2 more Chiffchaffs, the eastern Lesser Whitethroat and a Firecrest at Wakeham/Pennsylvania Castle, 190 Dunlin and a Bar-tailed Godwit at Ferrybridge and 8 Great Northern Divers, 3 Eider and 2 Black-throated Divers in Portland Harbour
If only every midwinter day was as pleasant as today...and what a pleasure to see Portland Harbour almost entirely bereft of watersport activities © Martin Cade:
In pretty decent conditions there were a couple of additions to the run of the mill assortment of recent days: a Great Skua through off the Bill was the first skua of any sort for six weeks, whilst 4 Wigeon and 3 Mute Swans at Ferrybridge weren't really expected on a mild day. Among the regulars, 3 Chiffchaffs and a Firecrest were at Pennsylvania Castle.
This morning's Wigeon at Ferrybridge © Pete Saunders...
...and a Red Admiral on the wing again at Pennsylvania Castle © Martin Adlam Port and Wey:
A bright and breezy day saw a selection of the regulars putting in appearances: 55 Common Scoter settled and 2 Red-throated Divers through off the Bill, 11 Purple Sandpipers on the shore at the Bill, a Grey Heron at Southwell, the eastern Lesser Whitethroat at Wakeham and a Firecrest nearby at Pennsylvania Castle, 3 Great Northern Divers, 2 Eider, a Black-throated Diver and a Black-necked Grebe in Portland Harbour and 101 Dark-bellied Brent Geese and 7 Pale-bellied Brents at Ferrybridge.
There are two apparent family groups of brents with mixed parentage visiting Ferrybridge this winter - it looks like the youngsters of this pair would easily be passed of as 'pure' Pale-bellied Brents if it weren't for one of the parents being a Dark-bellied bird © Pete Saunders:
Still very little to report from around the island: 80 Common Scoter settled off the Bill with a Red-throated Diver passing by and 4 Purple Sandpipers on the shore there, a Blackcap at Wakeham and another Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaffs and a Goldcrest at Pennsylvania Castle.
A day of largely fair conditions but rather little to report: 3 more Red-throated Divers through off the Bill, a Blackcap along with several Chiffchaffs and Firecrests at Pennsylvania Castle, 115 Dark-bellied Brent Geese and a Pale-bellied Brent at Ferrybridge and several Great Northern Divers and 2 Eider in Portland Harbour.
Showy divers have been a nice feature of the Portland Harbour birding this winter - these 2 Great Northerns were at Osprey Quay this morning © Pete Saunders:
A reminder that there's an InFocus field day at the Obs between 10am and 4pm this Saturday, 21st December.
A day with ever changing conditions through which the only constant was a buffeting southerly wind. The middle and end of the day were wash-outs but under grey skies through much of the morning and sunshine for a period during the afternoon the sea was always worth attention, with 50 or more Common Scoter still settled offshore and 9 Red-throated Divers, 6 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 6 Mediterranean Gulls, 3 Velvet Scoter and a Great Northern Diver passing by. Land sightings were restricted to 2 Firecrests and a Great Spotted Woodpecker at Church Ope Cove/Pennsylvania Castle.
It didn't take long for the weather to revert to what's become the norm, with today seeing the return of first the wind and later the rain. The day's only reports were of 5 Red-throated Divers through off the Bill, 10 Long-tailed Tits making a rare mid-winter foray to the Obs garden and ones and twos of Black-throated Diver, Great Northern Diver and Eider in Portland Harbour.
Quiet conditions for the second successive day were both a novelty and very welcome after so many weeks of turbulence. The millpond waters of Portland Harbour invited scrutiny and returned double figure totals of Great Northern Diver and Black-necked Grebe along with the Black Guillemot and 2 each of Black-throated Diver, Slavonian Grebe and Eider; noticeably sparse were Red-breasted Mergansers - do they all disappear up the Fleet to escape from the water sports activities these days? A Sanderling on the harbour shore was a decent mid-winter bird and 6 Pale-bellied Brent Geese were again at Ferrybridge. Three Red-throated and a Great Northern Diver passed by off the Bill where 5 Purple Sandpipers were on the shore and a Great Spotted Woodpecker showed up at the Obs; elsewhere there were 2 Firecrests, a Blackcap and the eastern Lesser Whitethroat at Wakeham/Pennsylvania Castle, singles of Siberian Chiffchaff and Chiffchaff at Blacknor and Chiffchaff at Portland Hospital.
The Black Guillemot was way too far away for anything other than an attempt at phone-scoping © Martin Cade:
The nicest, most birdable conditions for a while were a treat today as Portland steered clear of a rain front that lingered in the Channel all day. The calm conditions allowed for decent scrutiny of Portland Harbour where 10 Black-necked Grebes, 6 Great Northern Divers, 2 each of Black-throated Diver and Slavonian Grebe, and singles of Eider and Common Scoter were on show; further divers included 3 Red-throated and a Great Northern through off the Bill. Elsewhere, the eastern Lesser Whitethroat showed again at Wakeham with 2 Firecrests and a Chiffchaff nearby at Pennsylvania Castle, a Black Redstart was at Fortuneswell and a Snipe at the Bill.
The good views of divers have been a treat on the few occasions it's been calm so far this winter - these Black-throated Divers were off Hamm Beach this morning © Pete Saunders:
This weekend has seen signs of the customary mid-winter build up in auk numbers, with sample counts this morning suggesting totals of 8-9000/hour - seemingly predominantly Razorbills - passing the Bill; at least 85 Common Scoter were still offshore there whilst a lone Fieldfare showed up in Top Fields. Singles of Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff and Firecrest were still about at Pennsylvania Castle and the Velvet Scoter and a Black-throated Diver were still in Portland Harbour.
Cursory coverage and few reports today: a lone Red-throated Diver passed by off the Bill and 3 Firecrests, a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Chiffchaff were at Church Ope Cove/Wakeham.
Very little to report today: the Bill Common Scoter flock increased to at least 94, the eastern Lesser Whitethroat was still at Wakeham and a Firecrest was still at Pennsylvania Castle.
A Red Admiral was still on the wing at Church Ope Cove.
Just token coverage today during the odd spells when it wasn't raining: 50 Common Scoter still off the Bill, an Eider still in Portland Harbour and 2 Red-throated Divers through off the Bill.
The unrelenting wind is beginning to become a real bore and, to boot, there were still plenty of squally showers to dodge again today. A Velvet Scoter in Portland Harbour was the day's only obvious new arrival (...assuming it was different to the bird that's been lurking just up the Fleet for a few weeks); 2 Black-necked Grebes and 2 Eider were also still there, 10 Pale-bellied Brent Geese and a Great Northern Diver were the pick of the bunch at Ferrybridge, 4 Firecrests were still at Pennsylvania Castle, at least 50 Common Scoter were still settled off the Bill and 3 Red-throated Divers passed by there.
The miscellany at Portland Harbour and Ferrybridge today included Velvet Scoter, Great Northern Diver and a few Pale-bellied Brents amongst the brent flock © Pete Saunders:
A shocker of a day weather-wise and bird-wise. The only reports were of 54 Common Scoter still off the Bill, 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese and few routine waders at Ferrybridge and 2 Black-necked Grebes in Portland Harbour.
Two Pintail and 2 Brent Geese through off the Bill were a little unexpected in the aftermath of a night of pretty wild winds but the rest of the day's action was relatively routine: at least 50 Common Scoter still settled off the Bill with a single Red-throated Diver through there, the eastern Lesser Whitethroat still at Wakeham, 3 Firecrests still at Pennsylvania Castle, 2 Black-throated Divers and an Eider in Portland Harbour and 5 Greenfinches, 2 Shelduck and a Great Northern Diver at Ferrybridge.
Three Red Admirals were on the wing at Church Ope Cove.
Today's increasingly strong wind wasn't at all conducive to rewarding coverage and the only reports were of the Eastern Lesser Whitethroat and 2 Firecrests still at Wakeham, an Eider still in Portland Harbour and 3 Red-throated Divers through off the Bill.
With fair-ish conditions on a weekend day coverage got a boost today. The Black Guillemot showed up again Portland Harbour where 2 Wigeon and singles of Black-throated Diver and Eider were also present. The wintering Common Scoter flock off the Bill totalled 48 with a lone Red-throated Diver also through there, whilst passerine variety around and about included 2 Firecrests at Avalanche Road, the Eastern Lesser Whitethroat at Wakeham, 4 Redwings at Easton Fire Station and a Black Redstart at Blacknor.
Portland Harbour again provided most of the news with 8 Black-necked Grebes, 2 each of Black-throated and Great Northern Diver, an Eider and the Black Guillemot seen during the morning. Ten Purple Sandpipers were still at the Bill and a Chiffchaff was at Portland Marina.
2nd December
Apologies for the lack of news but we're going to be off the air for a few days whilst finishing off swanning around in Africa - normal service should resume on Friday.
Postscript: many thanks to Paul Swann for sending us through some great photos of the Portland Harbour Black Guillemot from this afternoon - initially it was off Billy Winters but later drifted right under the Smallmouth road bridge © Paul Swann:
1st December
The first day in December was beautiful, clear and bright. An Avocet at Ferrybridge was a nice late addition to the year list but otherwise the day's totals remained much the same as in previous days.
This morning's Avocet at Ferrybridge Cliff Smith
The last day of the month saw grey skies and strong winds, confining all but the bravest to the warmth of the indoors. The days tallies from the Bill amounted to very little but the harbour and Ferrybridge saw a trio of divers (two Great Northerns and a Black-throated).
An homage to the Divers of the north end of the island © Debby Saunders:
Breezier than anticipated and far cooler than recent days, the day produced no new passerine migrants but the sea was far livelier with 8 Red-throated Divers, a Great Northern Diver and two Velvet Scoters past the Bill. However, it was the Harbour that really came to life with the second Black-throated Diver putting in a return appearance along with two Eiders, a Black Guillemot and late news of a fly-by Long-tailed Duck.
Seeing double... the divers were showing well off Portland Castle © Pete Saunders:
Calm, quiet and peaceful the day saw little in the way of new arrivals on the land (with the exception of a small influx of just under 30 Long-tailed Tits in the 8 Kings/ Water-works Quarry), but a passage of small gulls at sea early on provided some much needed variety. At the north end of the island a Black-throated Diver near Osprey Quay was the first since the 23rd.
The not-too-distant Black-throated Diver near Portland Castle © Pete Saunders:
The Eiders in the harbour have been showing well, displaying how difficult taking off must be when permanently dressed in a duvet © Debby Saunders (above), © Pete Saunders (below):
Sporadic but heavy showers made birding rather difficult. Those that managed to make the dash between bursts of rain saw flurries of birds including flocks of Long-tailed Tits, the remaining Yellow-browed Warbler and a handful of crests. Early morning saw the departure of the usual winter thrushes but the highlight was a Woodcock, rescued from the pavements of Weymouth the previous night, that was released in the garden. Ferrybridge remained unchanged with the Great Northern Diver still on show with the, now expected, cohort of waders and geese.
Often seen pelting away from between your feet, its always a pleasure to see Woodcocks up close with their massive eyes and brilliant camouflage © Erin Taylor:
The showy Great Northern Diver at Ferrybridge continued to display to its audience © Pete Saunders:
A blustery and showery day left little desire to go out birding as the days species count reflects. A dismal sea-watch off the Bill in the morning produced no more than the over-wintering flock of Common Scoter. Ferrybridge was a little livelier with a pair of Bar-tailed Godwits, the lingering Knot and Redshank, the slightly lost Great Northern Diver and the rather unusual family of mixed Pale-bellied and Dark-bellied Brent Geese.
The mixed family of Pale and Dark-bellied Brent geese have not been seen since the 9th November ©Pete Saunders:
A largely quiet day was excellent for doing some much needed paper work, but pretty poor on the birding front. A troop of seven Long-tailed Tits ventured south into the obs garden for a brief morning visit and a Woodcock was flushed from the hut fields, but otherwise birds recorded were our wintering residents. The sea provided a drop of excitement with a passing male Eider but was otherwise woefully under-watched. The rest of the island remained mostly unchanged with the exception of a Great Northern Diver entering into the Ferrybridge side of the fleet along with the long-staying Knot and two Bar-tailed Godwits.
The first Great Northern Diver of the autumn to cross through into the Fleet © Debby Saunders:
Even on the quietest days there is always something of interest at Ferrybridge © Pete Saunders:
A cloudy but perfectly calm day meant the nets could be opened for the first time in 5 days. The drop in wind meant the bands of threatening rain were held firmly over the continent and a shower-free morning brought a small incoming of Firecrests, Goldcrests and Chiffchaffs. Elsewhere on the island there was little evidence of any new migrants appearing with most of the usual suspects putting in an appearance. However, a Merlin chasing the Dunlin at Ferrybridge was a nice addition to the day tallies as well as a second Black-necked Grebe in the harbour and a Water Rail at Culverwell.
A total of four Firecrests were in the garden including an individual ringed here on the 26th September that hasn't been recorded since that date. Where has this elusive bird been? © Erin Taylor:
The Merlin had a large selection of prey choice today with the wader tallies of Dunlin and Ringed Plover reaching 97 and 63 respectively © Pete Saunders:
A nice little selection of winter specialties were recorded including Redwings, Song Thrushes and Bramblings © Debby Saunders:
23rd November
The bleak, washed-out morning slowly drifted into a warm and clear afternoon prompting the appearance of a Yellow-browed Warbler at Southwell, a late Swallow at Reap lane, three Firecrests in the obs garden and a handful of winter thrushes including a Mistle Thrush over the Crown Fields. Ferrybridge was busy once more with highlights including two Goosanders, two Bar-tailed Godwits and a Kingfisher. The harbour saw a double figure count of Black-necked Grebes as well as three Great Northern Divers, one Black-throated Diver one Red-throated Diver and two Eiders.
The Purple Sandpipers around the Pulpit Rock must be some of our hardiest winter visitors seeming unperturbed by the encroaching waves © Erin Taylor:
The Crown Field setup is allowing a flock of Chaffinches and Linnets to overwinter ©Erin Taylor:
Bitter and cold the day brought little news of new migrants and the returning Lesser Whitethroat and two Bramblings at Penn Castle were the only report-worthy sightings.
A reminder that there's an In Focus field event at the obs between 10am and 4pm tomorrow, Saturday 23rd November.
A selection of yesterdays Ferrybridge highlights, many of whom lingered on today ©Debby Saunders:
A notably dark and frankly miserable day left few with the enthusiasm to scour the wind blasted (and later on drenched) fields and instead turned their attentions to the more sheltered areas of the island. The mornings seawatch produced little of note save for a Slavonian Grebe loitering around offshore in the proximity of the presumably over-wintering flock of Common Scoter. Elsewhere on the island the lingering Lesser Whitethroat and Yellow-browed Warbler remained at the Penn but there was no sign of the Pallas's Warbler at the cuttings. Ferrybridge had more activity than of late with 222 Dark-bellied Brents, 7 Pale-bellied, 4 Curlews and singles of Goosander and Redshank; whilst the lone Eider remained in the harbour.
A brisk south-easterly that gathered over night meant much of the south end of the island was blasted into a bird-free zone and highlights were limited to four Red-throated Divers, one Great Northern Diver and the return of the Culverwell Moorhen. Thankfully the rest of the island did not suffer the same fate and a Pallas's Warbler was found at the railway cuttings, the same location as the individual found 1 year and 10 days ago. The Northern end of the island was quieter than recent days with singles of Goosander, Redshank and Eider at the Harbour and Ferrybridge combined.
Todays Pallas's Warbler at the cuttings was the fifth individual to be found in this location since the bird observatory began recording ©Martin Adlam:
The Eider was performing just offshore next to Billy Winters ©Pete Saunders:
With the wind gathering strength gradually through the day, it was down to the morning to produce a little excitement. A small arrival of Goldcrests, Firecrests and Chiffchaffs in the obs garden gave the hope that something might arrive with them. This was not to be, however, and we had to settle for highlights of the lingering Lesser Whitethroat, an adult Yellow-legged Gull at the Bill and a couple of Black Redstarts. Elsewhere on the island singles of Slavonian Grebe and Great Northern Diver were reported from the harbour.
An unexpectedly glorious day saw a small influx of Blackbirds and a handful of other thrushes early doors. Birds of note at the Bill included a Water Rail at Culverwell (we've been surprisingly low on Water Rail numbers this autumn so this was a welcome addition to the day list) and a Jacksnipe at Wallsend. The Lesser Whitethroat continued to intrigue at Penn Castle with much speculation over its origins, the Yellow-browed Warbler also remained in the area. Once again the Harbour and Ferrybridge were the place to be for variety with singles of Slavonian Grebe and Eider in the Harbour and Goosander at Ferrybridge amongst the now regular Black-necked Grebes, Great Northern Divers and Red-breasted Mergansers.
Firecrests have maintained decent numbers across the island despite the recent dip in temperatures ©Duncan Walbridge:
A beautiful, calm and clear day (one of the last for a while if the forecast is correct) brought a nice selection of wintering passerines as well as the usual waders. Finches put in a good show with just short of 100 Chaffinches being joined by seven Bramblings, two Siskins and 11 Greenfinches. The garden saw another flock of Long-tailed Tits whilst the Bill was harbouring the same flock of 10+ Purple Sandpipers, five Turnstones and a Black Redstart. Church Ope Cove was once again the place to be, the eastern looking Lesser Whitethroat made a reappearance along with the ling staying Yellow-browed Warbler and Firecrest flock.
One of the lingering Goosanders at Ferrybridge ©Pete Saunders:
A comparatively quiet day after yesterdays wintry flurry, the highlights at the southern end of the island were confined to a small selection of winter thrushes plus a good count of the over-wintering waders including 12 Purple Sandpipers and five Turnstones. The North end of the island was far more productive with some excellent early winter counts. The combined tallies from the Harbour and Ferrybridge included a singles of Black-throated Diver and Knot, two Great Northern Divers, four each of Great Crested Grebe and Common Scoter, eight Black-necked Grebes and 31 Red-breasted Mergansers. Elsewhere on the island the lingering Yellow-browed Warbler remained at Penn Castle.
With the remnants of yesterday's storm clouds leaving our shores a small but very welcome influx of late migrants showed their faces. The annual project of making the Obs garden look like a bizarre homage to apples paid off once again with at least 7 newly arrived Blackcaps queuing up to partake of the offerings. Blackbirds were also conspicuous with more than 50 through in the vicinity of the Obs alone, whilst other totals from the Bill included 700 inbound Starlings, 150 Chaffinches, 40 Redwings, 7 each of Long-tailed Tit and Goldcrest, 6 each of Fieldfare and Brambling, 2 Lapwings and a Firecrest; the long, long staying Wryneck also put in another appearance. Offshore, a passing Red-necked Grebe was a good highlight at the Bill where the Common Scoter flock increased to at least 67.
There was a nice little influx of presumably incoming Blackcaps today © Martin Cade:
Depending on how you look at things Portland was favoured or blighted today: it was a lovely still and for the most part bright day that allowed for plenty of coverage but a look at the rainfall radar revealed that the island was within a sliver of fair weather that was surrounded by grim conditions through which it appeared nothing much was moving. The Yellow-browed Warbler remained at Pennsylvania Castle to provide a some quality but new arrivals were conspicuously few and amounted at the Bill to no more than a handful of thrushes and 2 each of Chiffchaff and Goldcrest; amongst the stayers a scatter of Black Redstarts included 2 at both the Bill and Osprey Quay, whilst Firecrests included 4 at Pennsylvania Castle. The flock of 50 or so Common Scoter remained off the Bill and 2 Red-throated Divers passed by there.
Although there ought to be a fair bit of late passage to get amongst today proved to less rewarding than anticipated, with a few hours of quiet weather during the morning producing a minor flurry of finches but little else. A Yellow-browed Warbler at Pennsylvania Castle was most likely a new arrival but grounded migrants were otherwise few and far between; the majority of movement at the Bill was overhead with 135 Chaffinches, 100 Goldfinches, 14 Greenfinches and 2 Bramblings through after dawn, whilst elsewhere 6 Fieldfares passed through at Hamm Beach. Winter fare included a good total of 15 Purple Sandpipers at the Bill, 58 Common Scoter still settled offshore there, a Knot still at Ferrybridge and 5 Black-necked Grebes, 2 Goosanders, a Great Northern Diver and an Eider in Portland Harbour.
Fieldfare and Great Northern Diver overhead at Hamm Beach © Pete Saunders:
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Cowboy Stole My Heart
(River Ranch #1)
by Soraya Lane
Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Published January 2nd 2018 by St. Martin's Paperbacks
It takes true grit to build a billion-dollar dynasty like the Ford family ranch. But when it comes to finding love, all it takes is one handsome cowboy to steal a woman’s heart…
SHE’S RIDING SOLO
As one of the heirs to the River Ranch fortune, Mia Ford is practically Texas royalty. But that doesn’t mean she’s some pampered princess. She can saddle up and ride a horse as well as any man, even a hard-working cowboy like Sam Mendes. For years, she’s harbored a crush on the strong, silent horseman. But how can she make a move when she’s his boss?
HE’S TAKING THE REINS
Sam Mendes is through with love—or so he thought. Still recovering from a breakup, he’s doing everything in his power to resist Mia Ford. It’s bad enough she’s the kind of beauty who drives men wild with desire. It’s even worse she’s got him so worked up, aching to kiss her lips, when he’s supposed to be working her ranch. Is this lovestruck cowboy willing to risk losing his job—and breaking his heart—to win the girl of his dreams?
Mia disappeared and he talked to the horses, wandering down the line to look at all of them. He’d only seen her ride the one, her favorite mare, but he had a feeling she was full of surprises, and her horses all looked impressive. When she didn’t reappear, Sam went looking for her, wondering what the hell was taking so long.
“Hey, do you need a hand back there?” he called out. He squinted in the half-light, dark compared to the full sun glare outside when he ducked through the doorway and into the tack room.
“Oh, shit, sorry, just give me a sec.”
He stopped. Sam stood in the middle of the small room, saddles and bridles covering every inch of wall space, and Mia pressed into one corner, her tears impossible to hide. “Hey,” Sam murmured, striding over to her. Hell, he hadn’t expected her to be crying. He’d thought she might need a hand carrying some gear out, but . . . he didn’t know what to do.
“I’m fine, please,” she said, holding one hand up to her face, the other stretched out in front of her as if trying to push him away before he was even close.
“You’re not okay,” he said, knowing how gruff he sounded but unable to help it. “Come here.”
She shook her head. “Please, I’m fine,” she managed, voice cracking.
“Your mom, huh?” he asked, knowing that there was no way in hell he’d managed to say anything to upset her this much. She was still grieving, he could see that from a mile off.
She nodded, dropping one hand, the other still covering her face. “Yeah,” she whispered. “It’s just I haven’t talked about her for a long time. She’s been gone twelve years so I shouldn’t be reacting like this.”
“Come here,” Sam said, not taking no for an answer this time as he opened his arms and pulled her in.
He held her, tight, letting her cry. She sobbed once, loudly, a noise that made his heart lurch for her, feeling her pain, before she went silent and relaxed in his arms. It had been almost a year since he’d held a woman like this; comforted a woman and held her and felt something for her. He stiffened. Only that woman had played him, ripped his heart out when he’d have done anything for her. Anything.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I’d tell you it’ll get easier, but I doubt it will.”
He didn’t sugarcoat things, even this type of thing, but he did feel for her. She’d tried to talk about her mom all nonchalant to him, laughing about her beautiful stables, when in reality it had torn her in half and left her crying all on her own. She’d lost her mom and her best friend as well; no wonder she’d been prickly when he’d tried to muscle in and take over with the one thing she did have— her horses.
Mia pushed back and he wished she hadn’t. He’d liked the warmth of her against him, the tickle of her long hair catching in his stubble as he’d inhaled her shampoo or whatever it was on her that smelled so damn delicious.
“Sorry,” she murmured, her hands to his chest as she stepped back. “I don’t ever let anyone see me cry.”
He believed it. She didn’t strike him as the type to let anyone see her vulnerabilities.
Sam glanced down at her, at her hands against his chest, at the way she was looking up at him, her eyes wide. Her mouth parted, tear-stained cheeks making her look so vulnerable that it tugged at something inside of him he’d thought was long buried.
“You’ve got nothing to apologize for,” he muttered, slowly raising a hand and brushing his thumb gently across her cheeks to blur the tears away.
Mia stayed still, her palms still planted against him, head tilted. He looked at her mouth, fought the urge to rub his thumb across her soft pink lips. Instead he dropped his hand, skimming past her long blonde hair on the way past. Sam bent a little, eyes on her mouth, imagining what her lips would taste like. He wanted to kiss her so damn bad, wanted to push her up against the wall behind her and kiss the hell out of her. But he didn’t.
He’d sworn off women for a reason, and sexy or not, he wasn’t about to take advantage of his boss up against a wall. Even crying she was beautiful, but he wasn’t going there. He couldn’t go there.
Dammit!
Her eyes were dancing, her lips were parted, her hands were slowly dropping away from his chest. But instead of closing the distance between them, instead of hungrily tasting her lips against his, he took her hands, stepping back and squeezing them.
“You take all the time you need,” he said instead, hearing the husky note of his own voice. “I’ll be out here.”
He walked out, ducking back through the door and out into the bright sunlight again. Goddamn it! What the hell had he just done? He’d always prided himself on being able to keep his shit together, and he’d let himself get way too close to Mia.
Copyright © 2018 by Soraya Lane and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press.
As a child, Soraya Lane dreamed of becoming an author. Fast forward more than a few years, and Soraya is now living her dream! Soraya describes being an author as "the best career in the world", and she hopes to be writing romance for many years to come.
Soraya loves spending her days thinking up characters for books, and her home is a constant source of inspiration. She lives with her own real life hero and two sons on a small farm in New Zealand, surrounded by animals and with an office overlooking a field where their horses graze. She is the author of The Devil Wears Spurs, Cowboy Take Me Away, and I Knew You Were Trouble. http://www.sorayalane.com/
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What a great excerpt. I really enjoyed it and look forward to reading the book.
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Scientology Daily Digest: Sunday, November 17, 2013
COB David Miscavige (l) and Flag Captain Harvey Jacques (r) work on their postulates and attempt to wave off a helicopter carrying Mike Rinder and Mike Bennitt, as they are about to overfly the Flag Building opening ceremony.
Today, it’s all about the helicopter, though there are a lot of other interesting goings on that took place.
Mike Rinder decided to take advantage of an offer from Mike Bennitt, he of the high-quality videography of the Mosey Rathbun case in Texas, and use a helicopter to fly over the Super Power building during today’s 1:00pm opening ceremony, so they can get an estimate of the crowd size.
While nobody’s talking, it seems almost certain that they coordinated with Tony Ortega, who filed a story about the inbound spy-copter after it lifted off and was headed for downtown Clearwater. Just in time for the OSA monitors covering his blog to read the story and call Miscavige, but not enough time for the cult to do anything about it (it takes 45 days to obtain “temporary flight restrictions” from the FAA, even in a case where they would be inclined to grant one, which is not clear in this case). It seems reasonable to guess that he wouldn’t have cut short the presentation had he assumed that one of the two helicopters was hired by the Church and the other was perhaps a news channel. The only way he would have cut short the presentation was on the basis of a staff report telling him that Rinder was in the second helicopter.
Miscavige cut short the presentation after less than 10 minutes and started trooping everyone inside the building, as if they were going on lockdown back at Int Base. Given his penchant for bloviation, it seems unlikely that he was planning to make the presentation so brief, so it’s a reasonable guess that the news of arch-SP Rinder hovering over the event was enough to send him into panic-and-flee mode.
Busted! Apparently, there may have been paid actors to pad out the audience today.
The Tampa Bay Times is reporting that Cruise, Travolta, Preston and Alley were in attendance, but oddly, it says that “hundreds” of members were in attendance. Based on a reasonable estimate of no more than 4,000 total bodies and a likelihood that 1,000 are outer org trainees and 1,000 are Clearwater-based Sea Org and staff, it looks like no more than 2,000 (perhaps 2,500 tops) public were in attendance. Attendance certainly fell far short of the 10,000 listed as the upper bound in the parade permits.
Tony Ortega’s “Helicopter Tech” Article
This caper is likely to go down as one of the biggest humiliations of David Miscavige in history. It’s even bigger than the epic fail at the Portland Ideal Org grand opening back in May. In Portland, Miscavige had to turn the volume down in a bold move to “confront and shatter” Mark Bunker and others in attendance. Here, he had to scrap most of the grand opening speech in order to avoid “confronting and shattering” arch-nemesis Mike Rinder who, along with Mike Bennitt, were cruising the friendly skies looking for lulz. It’s interesting to note, by the way, that the two of them were able to “postulate” good weather for their flight, while all those OT-level Scientologists weren’t able to stop the rain on Saturday.
Most people who took a look at the high-resolution photos posted in the article came up with an estimate of about 3,000 to 4,000 total bodies at the event, and the consensus is that perhaps 1,000 of these were “outer org trainees” and a like number were Sea Org and local staff. However, there was also evidence that there were paid extras in the event. It would be interesting to get a paycheck for four hours for what ended up being eight minutes of work.
My take: This is a brilliant collaboration between the two Mike’s (Rinder and Bennitt) and Tony, who proved, once again, that they have DM’s number. It should also prove to us that DM is utterly predictable in his actions, and is driven to an extraordinary degree by his own personal vanity to do anything possible to avoid joking & degrading. That’s a remarkably insecure way to live life for a guy who is sitting on top of a Global Capitalism HQ-sized pile of money, who travels by jet and who has an immense entourage. And it’s a hell of a way to run a company — to let a distraction from a small helicopter buzzing around in the skies cause you to cut short a major event that you’ve been building up the hype for for over a decade.
Selected comments:
Jeff Hawkins weighs in. As an Int Base veteran who’s been in the room with DM on many occasions, he says that there’s no way the event was scheduled to last only eight minutes. Sure, it was supposed to be short, but that means “only” an hour of Danny Sherman-penned bloviation. He clearly got no game. Clear evidence that they were planning a longer speech: whales in the front had seats, which you presumably wouldn’t need for a mere 8 minute speech.
“ex sea org member,” who says he used to collect stats on org performance when he was in, gives great perspective on how this one is a meltdown for the ages.
OTVIIIisGrrr8 and MonkeyKnickers have dueling views of the radio traffic as David Miscavige attempts to call in fast movers to take out the helicopter.
“Peter” refers to the hardware involved as the “Apostate Air Force.”
Kevin Tighe (an ex, not the actor) filed an on-the-ground report of his own.
Derek trolls the still-in Sea Org who are reading this blog with pictures of his weekend, hanging out with friends and family and enjoying Austin. Derek, play nice!
“Great White Clam” points out that DM’s move to cut short the presentation to avoid the Entheta-copter is “hiding,” which is -30.0 on the Tone Scale. Way to impress your flock with Scientology super powers!
My vote for shoop of the day (out of many to choose from) goes to “Walter Mitty,” with the poster for “Top Gun: Mission Double Mike.”
Tony Ortega’s Sunday Funnies Post
There are some pretty lulzy details in today’s regular Sunday Funnies post, which don’t deserve to be lost against the noise of the “helicopter tech” story. First, Tom Cruise’s attorney Bert Fields, he of the countless nasty letters to the press, is shown congratulating TomKat Project producer Brandon Ogburn after Fields attended the show last night. Apparently, Christopher Lloyd, “Doc” in the “Back to the Future” series was also in attendance, as were a number of commenters from Tony’s site.
Significant comments:
According to “Elen,” the cult could apparently use a little help when it tries to run Craigslist ads in Spanish in the Brownsville area. They said: “Aqui esta lo que ha estado buscando por muchos anos.” “Anos” = anuses. “Años” = years. So instead of “Here is what you have been looking for for years,” they said, “Here is what you are looking for among many anuses.” One little tilde makes all the difference!
Derek points out the improbability of some of the news out of the cult in the last couple of days: “Bert Fields has a sense of humor. Tampa Bay Times suggesting a truce. Scientology still has 5500 members. David Mayo’s BTBs are being exhumed. Scientology giving out free swagz. Super Power actually opened as promised. I’m pretty sure at least half of these things are in the book of Revelations.”
Mike Rinder’s Blog
Mike has more details of the Super Power events, including an event last night that featured a five-minute standing ovation for DM. As of press time, he had not put up a blog post about his little helicopter ride earlier today. Mike’s post contains a lot of “tech” details that might only be understood by longtime auditors or by Indies; one gets the sense he’s also taking to lurkers who are still in the church to get them to re-examine their beliefs. Importantly, in a point that bears watching, Mike pointed out that some course fees went up while others went down. Given that the cult was promising giant price increases (none of which appear to actually be in effect), this seems like a major blow.
Forum Sites
Thanks again to Aeger Primo for keeping an eye on the avalanche of traffic on the forums.
Black Rob has an ongoing thread at ESMB that mirrors the one at WWP. It’s interesting how the two different communities come up with very different flavors of Joking & Degrading off the same Facebook posts by cult members.
ESMB’s thread about Helicopter Tech is here.
GreyWolf announces that his World Cult Watch radio show Sunday night will have guests Karen de la Carriere, plus Scott and Kerry Campbell who both served in the Sea Org and were among original Freewinds crew.
Details of the upcoming GAT 2 event at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The Shrine seats over 6,000. It will be interesting to see what the cult does to try to fill the seats, given that they got nothing like that at the live version of the event in Clearwater.
Always fun to enjoy a good shoop of the COB. Starting here are some new ones on a WWP thread of nothing but DM shoops, called “Project Mass Shoop.”
A side project from the project to stop the cult from advertising on Craigslist is to gather information on various promoted services, courses, and books the Co$ charges for. New info posted in the past three days.
The Tampa Bay Times seems to be getting a little comfy with the cult in two recent stories. First, the Times says that it may be time to let bygones be bygones on the part of the City. This, especially when it was under the byline of Joe Childs, half of the dynamic duo of writers, sounds like the paper is going soft all of a sudden. It doesn’t seem necessary for the City to go hat in hand to the cult when the last Mayoral election wasn’t that close and the cult comprises approximately 3,000 of the 108,000 population and a disproportionately small share of the City’s economic activity, given the low payroll and the property tax exemptions of the city.
Second, the TBT reports on the afternoon building ceremony with a celebrity-spotting article that didn’t really ask a lot of questions about the Super Power building. Best line of the article, however: “[Miscavige’s] remarks couldn’t be understood outside the church’s perimeter.” That’s probably because Mumbles Miscavige couldn’t be understood inside the perimeter, either, even by those trained in the bogus Method 9 Word Clearing procedure of the useless “Study Tech.”
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Save Newcastle Centrelink
Sharon Claydon MP
Federal Member for Newcastle
Media Release - Tony Abbott Fails Newcastle Again
Posted by Anonymous 45pc on February 19, 2015
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) unemployment figures released today confirm that Tony Abbott and his Liberal Government have abandoned Newcastle.
ABS regional Labour Force data shows that unemployment in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie has climbed to 10%, the highest it has been in more than a decade and more than double the rate when the Abbott Liberal Government took office.
The last time Newcastle’s unemployment rate was in double-digits was when Tony Abbott was the Minister for Employment in 2003.
“Unemployment in Newcastle is spiraling out of control and the Abbott Liberal Government are turning a blind eye,” Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon said.
“This is the highest unemployment has been in our region for 12 years and it is a great concern. Every week I’m fielding calls from local employers saying that they are having to let more people go and there’s no sign of it stopping.”
“We’ve seen no plans for Australian jobs from Tony Abbott and no plan for industry. The only action he has taken for local manufacturers is to lock them out of government tenders and send vital work offshore.”
Earlier in the day Ms Claydon joined Shadow Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese, to highlight the Abbott Liberal Government’s inaction in our region.
“Today the Shadow Minister and I returned to the Tourle Street bridge, a project independently identified by Infrastructure Australia as nationally significant in 2013. Funding for this project was secured by the former Labor government in the 2013 Budget,” Ms Claydon said.
“It’s been more than 18 months since the funding was secured by Labor but still no action on the ground. These are the sorts of projects that keep people in a job and keep local economies going, but the Abbott Liberal Government are sitting on their hands and jobs are going out the door.”
“I wish Tony Abbott would spend more time fighting for Australian jobs other than his own. I call on the Abbott Liberal Government to produce a real plan to tackle unemployment in our region.”
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We love reading Christmas short stories, it gets us in the holiday spirit! So this first adventure we're taking you on should make you hear the crackling in the fire and see the snow falling outside. Ready for some Christmas stories for children and the whole family? Come on let's go!
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Christmas Short Stories: The Blessing
by Kristina Harding
Our family was huddled together by the fire one Christmas Eve several years back reading Christmas short stories. Things had been very hard that year. Our dad, like many others, had lost his job and couldn't find work no matter how hard he tried. We were very close to losing our home – we hadn't been able to make the payments for several months. There were no presents that year, not even a tree.
But instead of spending Christmas Eve complaining and despairing we huddled together in the living room. After reading our favorite Christmas short stories, we began taking turns telling each other what we were thankful for and what we would have liked to get for Christmas, since we knew it would never happen, it was easy to dream big!
"I am thankful I have a bed to sleep in," said Haylee. "And if I would have had a present this year, I would have asked for a stray puppy, she could sleep with me and I would keep her warm!"
"I am thankful for the church members providing us meals when things were so tight we couldn't even buy bread," I said. "I would have wished for a gourmet kitchen this Christmas, and then I could make all kinds of food to share with the neighbors."
Dad thought for a bit and said, "I'm thankful for the odd jobs I have been offered over the last few months, they weren't much but they helped us eat and kept our hopes up. If I could have had anything this Christmas I would have dreamed of owning my own company and be able to employ other people who have lost their jobs this year."
William jumped in, "I'm thankful we still have the electricity on so our colorful string of lights can twinkle and still make it feel like Christmas, even if they aren't on a tree! And boy I would have loved a big video game system or two this year, then I could have other kids over to play with it!"
When it was Mom's turn she said, "I'm so thankful all you kids are healthy and that Dr. Zuckerman gave us samples of the medicine that Haylee needed because he knew we couldn't pay for the prescription. My Christmas wish would have been to have $1,000 deposited into my bank account every month so I could help kids who can't afford medicine!"
About that time there was a timid knock at the door and Haylee jumped up to see who it was.
Standing on the front porch in the falling snow and darkness, stood a man who looked pretty disheveled. He had on flip flops, blue jeans with holes in the knees, a t-shirt with paint stains on it and a hooded sweatshirt. He was shivering uncontrollably.
Dad went to the door and asked him what he needed. The man told dad he was trying to get to the downtown bus station but was too cold to walk any further. He wondered if he could come in for just a few minutes to warm up and then he'd be on his way again.
Dad was a little wary but he couldn't leave the stranger standing in the snow with only flip flops on so he let him in.
I remember Haylee taking the man's hand and saying, "You can have my place by the fire."
Mom went to the kitchen to heat up the last of the soup and butter a big slab of bread to go with it then brought it to the man. He said his name was Pedro and he was trying to get to the bus station even though he had no money for the fare. He was hoping he could sneak on and still get home to see his kids on Christmas. You could tell he was exhausted and never would have made it to the bus station that night.
Dad still had some doubts about letting a stranger stay with us, but he surprised us all by telling Pedro he could sleep in William's room for the night and in the morning he would drive Pedro to the bus station.
Then next morning Dad drove Pedro to the bus station and used the last of our grocery money to pay his bus fare.
When mom went into William's room to change the sheets there was a note on the pillow, it read:
"I was cold and you took Me in. I was hungry and you fed Me. I was tired and you gave Me your bed. Indeed, you are blessed and will inherit a great kingdom."
None of us knew what to make of the note. We were familiar with a similar passage of scripture in the Bible, Matthew 25:35, but we didn't know what to think of Pedro leaving us that note.
A few months after Pedro stayed with us, weird things started happening, good things.
Dad got an amazing job, but soon after he started work the owner of the company passed away. The will stated that the man's company be left to my dad because he knew my dad would run the company well and employ many people who were out of work.
On the last day of school before summer break that year, William came home and found a huge box with his name on it. In it were several top notch video game systems! He made so many friends that year, all the neighborhood kids whose parents had to work spent the summer at our house playing Rock Band, Wii games and just hanging out. It was a safe place for them to spend their days.
Out of the blue, on Valentines Day, the animal shelter sent Haylee a puppy with a huge red bow. She was so thrilled she started volunteering there and made it her goal to see that every animal found a good home with a warm bed to sleep in and plenty of food. People flooded through the shelter that year and every year since – every animal ever brought in has been adopted.
Mom got a letter in the mail that spring that said someone had paid for her to take an online course to learn how to build websites. She loved the course so much that she built three websites and they each started earning $1,000 every month. She was able to sponsor 100 children each month to make sure they had the proper medical care and clean drinking water.
And you probably already guessed that I got my gourmet kitchen. A restaurant down the street from us was for sale and when I called to ask how much they were selling it for, the man asked my name and then said that they had been waiting for me to call. Someone had bought the restaurant in my name and they were just waiting for me to come pick up the keys. I named it The Blessing and we serve breakfast and lunch. For dinner we open up the restaurant for everyone to come eat for free.
I don't know who Pedro was, maybe he was an angel, or Jesus, or maybe he was just a stranger who needed a place to stay and some food. What I do know is that we were, and continue to be, blessed greatly. Each one of our grandest dreams and desires has been made a reality and we have been able to use our unique gifts and talents to bless others, which in turn, has blessed us more than we could have ever imagined.
If you liked this short Christmas story, scroll down for even more Christmas short stories.
Christmas Short Stories: Making Them Real
Have You Stopped Dreaming?
You know what we've found out in our short lives and in these Christmas short stories? Life is just hard sometimes. Bad things happen, we live in a world full of sin and it effects all of us. And sometimes we let all of the bad squash our dreams.
But we were each created with a special dream, gift and talent that will be a blessing to others when we go after it. When we use our unique gifts to bless others, we are blessed even more. So don't give up on your dreams, they're never too big for the God that put them there!
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´Holocaust Symbols´ Photography Exhibition
The Most Important Problems of Turkey are Economy and Terror
Interview With Israeli Charge D’affaires to Turkey Roey Gilad
´Shoah´ will be Shown in Institut Français de Turquie
Turkish Products Fair in Israel for the First Time
Iranian Home Buyers Turn to Turkey to Escape U.S. Sanctions
´Almost zero bureaucratic processes´ propel Iranians to become second-largest group of foreign property buyers.
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Property investors visit the sales office of Babacan Premium, a project of the Turkish real estate and construction company Babacan Holding, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 21, 2019. / Credit: Murad Sezer/ REUTERS
Reuters, October 04, 2019 HAARETZ
Iranians in Turkey are finding ways to sidestep laws in their home country to buy properties and get Turkish passports, hoping to protect their savings even as the United States ramps up sanctions on Iran.
As they find ways around Iran's money-transfer restrictions, the spike in home-buying has propelled Iranians to become Turkey's second-largest foreign property buyers, behind only Iraqis.
Hundreds of professional Iranians have been forced to make "dodgy money transfers" simply to get by, said one former electrician shop owner who now helps his countrymen buy homes in Istanbul.
Interviewed in a housing complex of towers and shops where Farsi was heard as much as Turkish, he said he is not proud of his work which involves helping Iranians transfer money out of their country for which he receives a commission.
Some of the transactions he makes for his fellow countrymen are illegal and he knows that if he returned home he would be arrested for money laundering.
"There is no way to do it legally, so we help them transfer the money," he said under condition of anonymity. "Who am I to be doing this? A bank should actually be doing this job."
Washington's policy of "maximum pressure" sanctions meant to cripple Iran's economy and force concessions over its nuclear programme have prompted Tehran to limit the foreign currency citizens can hold outside banks.
But that and other measures meant to support the Iranian rial have been widely disobeyed, analysts say, prompting the government to resort to bartering to keep the economy afloat.
According to five Iranians who spoke to Reuters about property-buying in neighboring Turkey, they are attracted because of the similar Muslim-majority culture and the ease of registering businesses as foreigners in a country that does not recognize U.S. sanctions on Iran.
After last year's currency crisis tipped Turkey's economy into recession, the Turkish government made it easier for foreign nationals to gain citizenship, slashing the property investment threshold to $250,000 from $1 million.
The lifetime passport offer, for foreigners who commit not to sell for at least three years, is meant to keep money flowing into an economy that was driven for years by a foreign-funded construction boom.
But for middle-class Iranians, property ownership presented an escape from difficulties back home and a safe haven from U.S. sanctions, which Washington increased again two weeks ago by targeting Iran's central bank.
"I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who have bought houses in Istanbul and Izmir. People are thinking about buying houses as a plan B," said Ali Asgarzade, an Iranian lawyer who plans to move his family from Tabriz to Istanbul due to economic conditions.
Asgarzade said he found the price of baby formula in Iran baffling because it tripled in a matter of months after the reimposition of sanctions. He then decided Turkey was the right choice for his family.
Passports for Iranians
The number of properties Iranians purchased in Turkey almost doubled in the first eight months of the year, according to official data. Adjusted for inflation, the residential property price index fell by 11.2% year-on-year in July.
The cheaper prices may have accelerated a shift in which Iranian home buyers are looking less at Western property markets, while Iranian companies are investing less in the Gulf.
Fatih Cayabatmaz, manager at VIP Turkish Pass, a consultancy company assisting foreign nationals to apply for Turkish citizenship through investment, said Iranians used to purchase in the United States, Canada or Europe. But U.S. policies seen as anti-immigration and rising xenophobia in Europe have convinced them to look closer to home.
"We are seeing that there has been an increased interest (by Iranians) towards Turkish citizenship," Cayabatmaz said.
He said it helps that Turkey easily grants foreigners tax ID numbers, with which they can buy properties and establish companies. "It is as simple as that," he said. "Turkey's bureaucratic processes are almost zero when it comes to foreigners."
More than 981 foreigners became Turkish citizens since September last year, when Ankara lowered the investment threshold for citizenship, according to state-owned Anadolu news agency. Over 250 of them were Iranians.
Despite the U.S. sanctions, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said last week his country needs Iranian oil and natural gas and will continue buying it.
The former shop owner who declined to be named said hundreds of companies exist "on paper" in Turkey only so that Iranians can move money, adding that he had registered some including a licensed jeweller and a pharmaceutical company.
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Something Else Is Happening Here Since Baseball Didn’t Remove The Cheating Astros As 2017 World Champions
ARLINGTON, TX - MARCH 31: Houston Astros Second base Jose Altuve (27) laughs while in the dugout ... [+] during the baseball game between the Houst
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ARLINGTON, TX – MARCH 31: Houston Astros Second base Jose Altuve (27) laughs while in the dugout … [+] during the baseball game between the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers on March 31, 2018 at Globe Life Park in Arlington, TX. (Photo by Andrew Dieb/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Contrary to popular belief, the way Major League Baseball officials just (ahem) punished the Houston Astros deserves a yawn.
It’s also laughable.
Unless you believe tooth fairies are your neighbors, the sun is made of ice and Bobby Thomson really hadn’t a clue a high fastball was coming in 1951 when he ripped the most famous pennant-winning home run in baseball history, you should know MLB doesn’t care about cheaters unless they’re caught in a highly publicized way.
Baseball officials gave Pete Rose a lifetime ban for gambling on his Cincinnati Reds to win. In contrast, they announced Monday that they aren’t kicking general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch out of the game forever for allowing their Astros to cheat like crazy along the way to the 2017 world championship.
Neither are they doing the right thing by stripping the Astros of that title.
They’re giving Luhnow and Hinch nothing more than one-game suspensions, and they’re docking the Astros a couple of future draft picks while fining the franchise a record $5 million for using cameras, coaches and even a garbage can at home games during that season and parts of 2018 to steal signs from opponents.
Astros owner Jim Crane can find that money between the seat cushions of his favorite sofa since he has the game’s 10th-most valuable franchise at $1.8 billion.
Oh, and even though a slew of Astros players were involved with the cheating, guess how many were disciplined by baseball officials?
Yeah, Crane fired Luhnow and Hinch, but it’s not as if they’ll never work again, because they will. And, yeah, if baseball officials did fine or suspend players for GarbageCanGate, the MLB Players Association would have huffed and puffed, but you know what?
If baseball officials really cared about stopping cheaters, they would have nailed those players anyway.
The bottom line . . .
Baseball officials really don’t care.
Did you ever hear about that Major League coach who stood in the corner of his home dugout during the 2007 season with a buzzer in his pocket? Probably not, because this is a revelation from Bobby Ball, whose real name is something else. He prefers anonymity since he’s active as a Major League coach after playing for multiple teams from the 1990s into this century.
To hear Bobby Ball tell it, with much help from stadium cameras and others on the home team, that coach in the corner of the home dugout was tipped off what pitch was coming through his buzzer.
Then the coach would tell his hitter across the way.
“If it was a fastball, the coach might say the hitter’s first name or last name or number,” Bobby Ball said. “If it was an off-speed pitch, he wouldn’t say anything, and believe me: It’s HUGE for a hitter to know what’s coming.
“If you have two strikes, and if you know an off-speed pitch is going to start a little higher (out of the pitcher’s hand), it’s going to be a strike. If you know it’s going to start low, it’s going to be in the dirt.
“So when you see a hitter chasing a nasty changeup or slider in the dirt, he didn’t know what was coming.
“When you see a hitter sitting on a nasty pitch, he probably knew it was going to be in the dirt, and he let it go to set up a hitter’s count to look for a fastball that he can rip into the gap somewhere.”
Just so you know, Bobby Ball stole signs during his day without the use of electronics, but he could spot those who used them. He was on the opposing team back then that alerted MLB officials about that coach in the corner of the home dugout with a buzzer.
“At the time, Major League Baseball didn’t want a scandal,” Bobby Ball said. “So when we told them to observe what was going on with that team using that coach in the corner during games, they wouldn’t do it. They decided to just pull them aside before a game to tell them not to do it again.
“You know how long that lasted.”
It didn’t. As was the case before and after Thomson’s “Shot heard around the world” to help the Giants win the pennant, that team with the coach in the corner of the home dugout kept cheating.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTEMBER 14: Manager Alex Cora #20 of the Boston Red Sox before a game against … [+] the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on September 14, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)
So did others, leading to the Boston Red Sox using Apple Watches in 2017 to steal signs.
The universe only discovered the Red Sox’s watch obsession through the tattling of the New York Yankees, the most visible team in baseball and the Red Sox’s Great Satan. Baseball officials said they fined the Red Sox for the incident, but (surprise, surprise) they never said how much.
Whatever the amount, it didn’t faze a Boston franchise that is the game’s third-highest team in value at $3.2 billion.
The Red Sox proceeded to cheat their way to a World Series title in 2018 with manager Alex Cora, the same guy in the middle of the Astros scandal the year before as their bench coach. None of this surfaced about Cora and the Astros until former Houston pitcher Mike Fiers told The Athletic in November to trigger a public explosion.
Baseball had to do something.
So any moment now, baseball is supposed to announce its (ahem) punishment of Cora, and the word is, he’ll get spanked more than his former Astros colleagues. You know, something like a one-season suspension, with no peanuts and Cracker Jack for a month after he returns to games.
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Sussex space scientists help to reveal brilliant world of starburst galaxies
The Vela C region, part of the Vela complex, by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.
University of Sussex astronomers and space scientists in Hawaii have helped to reveal hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies – the birthplace of the stars that populate our Universe.
The number of starburst galaxies observed by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes in Hawaii reveals the extraordinarily high star-formation rates across the history of the Universe.
Starburst galaxies give birth to hundreds of solar masses’ worth (ie stars or clusters of stars hundreds of times bigger in mass than our own Sun) of stars each year in short-lived but intense events. By comparison, our own Milky Way Galaxy on average produces the equivalent of only one Sun-like star per year.
Starburst galaxies generate so much starlight that they should outshine our Galaxy hundreds to thousands of times over, but the enormous quantities of gas fuelling them also contain vast amounts of dust as a result of the frantic star formation.
The dust absorbs much of the visible light, meaning that many of them look quite insignificant in that part of the spectrum. However, the dust is warmed by the surrounding hot stars and re-emits the energy at far-infrared wavelengths.
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory, astronomers measured the temperature and brightness of thousands of dusty galaxies. From these, their star-formation rate could be then calculated.
To understand how star formation has changed over the Universe’s 13.7 billion-year history, the distances to the galaxies were also needed.
University of Hawaii research leader Dr Caitlin Casey and her team used the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to obtain redshifts of 767 of the starburst galaxies.
Redshifts provide astronomers with a measure of how long the light from each galaxy has travelled across the Universe, which, in turn, indicates when in cosmic history the light from each galaxy was emitted.
For most of the galaxies it was found that the light has been travelling towards us for 10 billion years or less. About five per cent of the galaxies are at even greater redshifts: their light was emitted when the Universe was only 1–3 billion years old.
“Starburst galaxies are the brightest galaxies in the Universe and contribute significantly to cosmic star formation, so it’s important to study them in detail and understand their properties,” says Dr Caitlin Casey of the University of Hawaii, lead author of the papers discussing the results in the Astrophysical Journal.
University of Sussex astronomer Professor Seb Oliver who, with Jamie Bock, leads the Herschel HerMES project that discovered these galaxies says: “The time scales of galaxy evolution are vast on a human scale, so we simply cannot watch galaxies change. The only way to study evolution is to compare censuses of galaxies at different epochs. That is why these large samples are so important.”
How such large numbers of starburst galaxies formed during the first few billions of years of the Universe’s existence poses a vital problem for galaxy formation and evolution studies.
One leading theory proposes that a collision between two young galaxies could have sparked an intense short-lived phase of star formation.
Another theory speculates that, when the Universe was young, individual galaxies had much more gas available to them to feed from, enabling higher rates of star formation without the need of collisions.
“A redshift survey of Herschel far-infrared selected starbursts and implications for obscured star formation” and “A population of z > 2 far-infrared Herschel-SPIRE selected starbursts,” by C. Casey et al., are published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Images: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/M. Hennemann & F. Motte, T. Hill
See the ESA image gallery for more pictures.
Professor Seb Oliver’s lecture about his work on discovering galaxies, Smoke Signals From A Distant Universe, is now available to watch or listen to online.
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
For more information, please contact: Markus Bauer, ESA Science and Robotic Exploration Communication Officer, Tel: +31 71 565 6799; Mob: +31 61 594 3 954; Email: markus.bauer@esa.int
University of Sussex Press office contacts: Maggie Clune and Jacqui Bealing. Tel: 01273 678 888. Email: press@sussex.ac.uk
View press releases online at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/
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Luuk Siewers said: December 2nd, 2014 2:52 pm
I heard you on Spotify too and I love your music! I hope you will make a tour in Europe or just come to Holland once. Absolutely great blues!
Birdman said: November 19th, 2014 3:00 pm
Found you on Spotify. Love your sound. Is there any way to get on a mailing list if you ever play up in MA or NH. I didn't see anything in your gig lists.
Sandy said: August 25th, 2014 1:47 pm
Great show on the banks of the Cedar River! Thank you and look forward to seeing y'all again :)
Doran said: February 26th, 2014 11:44 pm
Hello from freezing Minnesota
Bryce said: December 7th, 2012 8:50 pm
I see that you are opening for Trampled Under Foot. I've seen them 3 times and while they are good, it I've been wearing out your last 2 cd's and it should be the other way around. Knuckleheads is the blues place to play in KC Mo and you need to turn this town onto your great music and voice. It's a short trip from Iowa so come on down.....Paul
Kathy said: July 12th, 2012 4:03 am
Love the heart and sound! Come to Texas
Jay said: May 29th, 2012 7:31 pm
I had the great pleasure of catching your show with the Janeys 6 piece band at Campbell Steel and then catch Bryce play in Bettendorf a week later 5/25/12. It blew me away that you played both shows for about 3 hrs with completely different songs, and they all sounded as good or better than your CDs. Keep up the awesome music! Jay
Steve Kendrigan said: May 19th, 2012 1:17 am
gday from a new fan in australia keep on rocken Bryce. cheers Steve
Jennifer Nathe said: April 11th, 2012 2:24 am
Your music lit a fire under my feet the second I heard it!!! It makes me feel like dancing, so I do! Thanks to you! I do have one question for ya Bryce! How about a visit to Northern California? I much rather dance to your music LIVE! Much Love from the West Coast...
Stan Furlong said: March 31st, 2012 10:35 am
I'm gathering photos of the musicians playing at this years Festival for the Mississippi Valley Blues Society. Could you send me a print ready or Hi-res photo of Bryce? Thanks, Stan Furlong
Victoria Hinz said: February 10th, 2012 11:05 am
Just a "Hi" from Rob Coggins & Vicky in Monticello! Love the website!!! We are looking forward to catching up with you again soon.
masayuki yoshida said: January 24th, 2012 5:46 pm
Plz tell me the shipping rate to Japan cd down home blues
jim said: January 21st, 2012 7:33 am
Grab the boys and head north of the border! Twin cities could use some kick ass blues.
Bart said: January 9th, 2012 7:42 pm
Absolutely great music! When are you comming to Europe?
Lisa kozich said: January 9th, 2012 4:40 pm
Just saying hi and we love the the new CD.
Bunny said: December 2nd, 2011 11:12 pm
Thanks for sharing. What a plseaure to read!
Ron Gerencher said: November 30th, 2011 6:41 pm
Greetings Bryce from Joliet, IL. Like the new website.
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Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty (late payment of the 6d rate attracted double duty (D D) of 12d): the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade, address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the date and length of the apprenticeship. 6 July to 31 December 1766.
Sailors and marines awarded the Baltic Medal (1854-1857)
During the Crimean War, a British and French fleet entered the Baltic, and captured Bomarsund harbour and one of the Aland Islands (now part of Finland). Bomarsund is the sound between the islands and the Swedish island of Vardo; and at the fine harbour on Bomarsund, dominating the entrance of the Gulf of Bothnia, and indirectly that of the Gulf of Finland, the Russians had constructed a northern naval base, and this was destroyed in the attack. The British fleet taking part in the Baltic expedition comprised Her Majesty's ships Aeolus, Ajax, Alban, Algiers, Amphion, Archer, Arrogant, Basilisk, Belleisle, Blenheim, Boscawen, Bulldog, Caesar, Calcutta, Centaur, Colossus, Conflict, Cornwallis, Cossack, Cressy, Cruizer, Cuckoo, Cumberland, Dauntless, Desperate, Dragon, Driver, Duke of Wellington, Edinburgh, Esk, Euryalus, Exmouth, Falcon, Firefly, Geyser, Gladiator, Gorgon, Hannibal, Harrier, Hastings, Hawke, Hecla, Hogue, Imperieuse, James Watt, Leopard, Lightning, Locust, Magicienne, Majestic, Merlin, Miranda, Monarch, Neptune, Nile, Odin, Orion, Otter, Pembroke, Penelope, Pigmy, Porcupine, Prince Regent, Princess Royal, Pylades, Resistance, Retribution, Rhadamanthus, Rosamond, Royal George, Royal William, Russell, St George, St Jean D'Acre, St Vincent, Sphinx, Stromboli, Tartar, Termagant, Tribune, Tyne, Valorous, Volage, Volcano, Vulture, Wrangler and Zephyr. This is the medal roll of the naval and marine claimants who qualified for the Baltic Medal for service in 1854 to 1855. The medals were dispatched in batches from early 1857, the first batch being numbered B A 1, the next B A 2, &c.; then follows the destination (a place or, more usually, a ship) and the date of dispatch. Most of the medals had been sent by the end of 1857.
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Benedictine Correzzola Court in Correzzola
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The Padova Benedictine Abbey purchased the area around Correzzola in 1129 with a view to farm the land following extensive draining works by the employed local farmers to make the land arable.
The Court, basically a large farm, was located on the banks of the Bacchiglione River, hosted a horse farm with around 100 animals, vegetable gardens, wells, cereal storage rooms, ovens, looms, pen-houses, which were managed by the monks. The highest peak of the evelopment was reached around the 16th C., then a slow decline started. Across the centuries, the court went through several changes marked by the transfer of ownership until the final handover to the Community of Correzzola after 1st WW.
Throughout the 20th C. the Court destiny was determined by a continuing fall into disrepair and abandon until the Nineties when the Municipality launched a scheme to repair and renovate the court applying for European funds as well as private and public subventions.
At the end of the works, part of the court was turned into a hostel and part into the Town Hall offices.
Nowadays, evens thanks to the public involvement, the southern part of the province of Padua, and the court too, play a basic role in slow tourism (cycle path developing along waterways).
Benedictine Praglia Abbey in Teolo
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The Benedictine Abbey in Praglia lies at the foot of the Euganean Hills, 12 Km from Padua, along the ancient road leading to Este: Its name derives from Pratalea (a place covered by meadows), the name generally given in Medieval documents.
In the 11th – 12th century was the foundation of the monastery by the powerful family of Maltraverso di Montebello. In 15th century the community begins its revival under the monastic reform led by the abbey of St. Giustina in Padua, after a long period of crisis that began in the second half of the 14thcentury.
From 1806and 1810 with Napoleon’s military occupation, the confiscation of goods is decreed, and finally, the suppression of the monastery. In 1904 the monks return to Praglia. Their life of prayer and work begins again, following the Rule of St. Benedict.
The vastness of the building, the harmonic rationality and equilibrium of the four cloisters articulating the space, the architectonic style in which the late gothic and the incipient renaissance styles are happily integrated, makes the abbey of praglia a remarkable monument of art.
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Benedictine St. Justine Abbey in Padova
The St. Justine Abbey, that shows a profusion of Byzantine style, is in the centre of Padua, facing the Prato della Valle (one of the largest square in the world), and its present shape derives from construction in the 17th century. It was founded in the 6th century to house the tomb of Saint Justine of Padua..
It houses the relics and bodies of martyrs as St. Luke the Evangelist and St. Matthias and the remains of the Patrons of the city, St. Justine and St. Prosdocimo, the first bishop of Padua according to the popular tradition.
Two times the Benedictine monks were removed from their abbey: the two suppressions took place during Napoleon’s government and under the dynasty of Savoy. In spite of the removal of the monks’ community and the plundering, the work of Monks began again and the complex preserves important treasures.
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Thursday ACC Basketball: The Tar Heel Exacta
HARRIS (Lance King)
North Carolina won at Clemson while rival Duke lost at Virginia. The Cavs win over the #3 Blue Devils marked the nineteenth time this season an unranked team has defeated a top five opponent.
VIRGINIA 73, #3 DUKE 68 - Polishing their NCAA tournament resume, Virginia celebrated the 11-year anniversary of its last victory over a top 5 team by doing it again.
Oh, and Joe Harris scored a career-high 36 points. as Duke never led.
Akil Mitchell added 19 points and 12 rebounds as he and Harris outplayed Duke's top twosome of Seth Curry and Mason Plumlee, giving Virginia (20-8, 10-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) its 16th consecutive victory at home. It came 11 years to the day since an 87-84 victory, also against No. 3 Duke.
Curry led Duke with 28 points, all but five coming after halftime, and Quinn Cook had 22, but the Blue Devils (24-4, 11-4) failed to slow down either Harris or Mitchell, whose dominating play kept a sellout crowd giddy all night. Plumlee finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and three turnovers and several times looked up to see Mitchell dunking over him.
STRICKLAND (Ethan Hyman/Raleigh News & Observer)
NORTH CAROLINA 68, CLEMSON 59 - It wasn’t as close as the score looks as poor end-game free throw shooting allows the Tigers to close a big gap (17 points).
Dexter Strickland tied his season high with 16 points.
The Tar Heels (20-8, 10-5 ACC) won a season-high fourth straight in league play and took their 15th in the past 16 games with the Tigers (13-14, 5-10). Strickland led all five North Carolina starters in double figures. Reggie Bullock added 12 points and nine rebounds, while James Michael McAdoo and P.J. Hairston had 11 points each. Marcus Paige scored 10.
Devin Booker had 25 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Tigers, who lost their third straight and for the sixth time in the past seven games. Milton Jennings also had a double-double for Clemson with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
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Vol III No 71 - 02/01/2013
Front Page Latest News Index Calendar Letters About Us Contact Us SEARCH DONATE Uphams Arts
#97 4/18/14
#70.1 1/26/13
#68 1/9/13
Featured News Links
Capuano - Restricting Access to DMF
Urban Edge Open House
Uphams Corner Visioning Forum
Your Favorite Fedora at the Strand
NAACP: "Slavery by Another Name"
Da Vinci Commission Staged Play
Henriquez on Liquor License Cap
Mayor Hosts MA Gun Coalition
Three-point Approach to Gun Control
"Fix Gun Checks" Legislation
BRA Report: Boston in Recovery
Raisin in Sun: Racism / Gentrification
Remember - Poem for Black History
EITC Campaign Announced
EAC School Choice Options Mtgs
From the Past Links
Globe Presents: "68 Blocks"
Discovering Uphams Corner
Looking at UC from the ISS
Improvement Assoc: Best Wishes
3-Alarm Fire Displaces Families
3-Alarm Fire - Logan Furniture
Interweaving Words & Music
UCMS is Hiring
Jackson: Global Opportunities
BPI Awarded $6M by DOE
Posted Street Sweeping in Dot
UCMS "Thanks" Businesses
Emerging Leaders Graduate
VNAB - Tips for Handling the Flu
UCHC Vaccinates 400!
Events Upcoming
School Choice Presentations
Bach to the 21st Century - FREE!
Urban Farming Conference
2/15 Boston Ballet - Strand FREE!
Da Vinci Commission Play
2/19 Open Mic Poetry Night UC Lib
Raisin in the Sun Conversation
Grow Well Eat Well Workshops
UC News Calendar
UCNews
'Remember' - Dedicated to the makers of Black History
by Robby Thomas
Remember when justice was partial to Langston's hue, and the world made Billie Holiday blue,
when Malcolm went to Mecca - changed his mind, Cassius became Ali - Liston passed his prime,
And, it was to help a son who with Dreams from his father,
Dared to become the most powerful vision of hope in America, if not the world . . .
. . . remember?
Upham's Corner InSight into the News
Congressman Capuano Files Legislation Restricting Access to DMF Data
Congressman Capuano has filed legislation to restrict access to SSNs in the DMF (Death Master File) based on a recommendation from the Taxpayer Advocacy Service (TAS).
While this will stop some tax-related identity theft, it will also unduly restrict access to key information for genealogy research.
This is especially if SSN's in the DMF are permanently restricted.
In-depth look at history of the problem.
DPW Schedules Marijuana Law "Listening Sessions"
Question 3 passed in 2012 and allows for the physician-authorized use of cannabis as a therapeutic option for qualified patients.
The Commonwealth's Department of Public Health has until May 1, 2013 to devise regulations for implemention. hree 'listening sessions' are scheduled statewide, on in Boston on February 14, 2013. Other organizations are holding information sessions as well.
The Marijuana Policy Project is a nonprofit founded in 1995 to reform US marijuana laws provides a history of reforming marijuana laws in Massachusetts.
Urban Edge: 'We love our neighborhoods!'
Open house thu feb 14, 2013. Information on programs and services, latest updates on renovation projects, new building projects, tasty refreshments.
Important Mtg: Uphams Corner Visioning Forum, Sat Feb 2, 2013
For all people who live, work, play, visit or care about the Uphams Corner neighborhood, please attend the Uphams Corner Visioning Forum.
The goal is to involve as many people as possible directly into the short and long term planning for the Uphams Corner area including economic development, jobs, transit, housing and quality of life.
Everyone's voice is needed to help develop a comprehensive vision for the future, one that starts with the people and reflects their priorities and needs.
9:30 am -1:00 pm
The Kroc Center
650 Dudley Street
Don your Favorite Fedora in Style and Come Visit the Strand
Billed as a palace on opening day in 1918, the Strand helped usher in the Roaring '20's and has welcomed countless celebrities and visitors into its grandeur.
Imagine in the Strand's earliest days, the gentlement arriving and wearing their felt fedora hats - a symbol of character since the '20's.
The fedora reminds us of gangsters and Prohibition and even today, is classified as a "gangster hat," worn by all.
We dare you! Don your own version of the fedora "gangster" hat and, gaily dressed to the hilt, walk through the doors of the Strand Theatre for yet another amazing performance.
Transport yourself to a world where you are the star!
Photos of the Fedora Famous including Ne-Yo, Ving Rhames, Michael Jackson, Humphrey Bogart, Beyonce, Frank Sinatra, Diane Kruger, and Baby Zoe Berman.
Boston NAACP Presents: "Slavery by Another Name"
Sat Feb 2, 2013 10:am
The Boston NAACP invites you to a viewing and discussion on the documentary Slavery by Another Name," a narrative of the mistreatment of millions of blacks in America, mistreatment that kept African-Americans in shackles of the body and mind long after slavery had officially ended.
“The Boston NAACP strongly believes that every American benefits from an honest and more balanced view of history,” says Michael Curry, President of the Boston NAACP. “It allows us to put our triumphs, failures and struggles in the proper context, and to properly evaluate current challenges with race.”
Critically important for everyone to see ... formidably researched, powerfully written, wrenchingly detailed.
The viewing and discussion are FREE.
Guitar & String Ensemble Playing Bach (Free Concert)
Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Fri, Feb 8, 2013 7:30pm
St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church, Quincy
Special guests: Nicole Parks and Farley Kelly-Masterton, violins, Faith Jones, viola, Nora Karakousoglou, cello.
Program includes Bach, Tarrega, Siegfried and more.
"Cultivating Lands, Nourishing Communities, Building Businesses"
Urban Farming Conference (UFC) being held Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at Roxbury Community College in Boston - a forum to share information regarding what is currently happening with urban agriculture and to map out a vision for its future in Massachusetts.
The conference is being presented by City Growers and the Urban Farming Institute (UFI) in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR).
Digital Content Curation
About Town in Greater Uphams Corner
Historic Boston Newsletter Jan 2013
SCI Social Capitalist Fundraiser #4/3/13
Planning 101 at MAPC
BNAN - Embrace the Winter
Discover Roxbury Expanding
Savin Hill Mural - Life of Christ
Hyde Sq Main Street E-blast
First Parish about to install Steeple
Dorchester Arts Collaborative
T-shirts drink water - tons of it
Working Woodlands
Year ahead in Food Policy
The "ELF" mini mobile
Bathroom reinvented
70 Acre lab for sustainable living
What is "Digital Content Curation"?
So much excellent content is available on the web. Why not share it? Scoop.IT is a content curation mechanism that allows easy access to other content, "scooped up" and included in a Scoop.It "blog."
Uphams Corner News has two such blogs (shown above). We like sharing the best with the best.
Boston Ballet - Dance at the Strand Theatre
Boston Ballet at the Strand Theater is a FREE presentation featuring Boston Ballet's signature range of repertoire including classical and contemporary works.
Boston Ballet will present two performances, one for the schools and one for the general audience in the evening.
Brought to you by Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen, in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events, and Boston Public Schools at The Strand Theatre on February 15, 2013.
Open Mic Poetry Night at the Uphams Corner Library
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 4PM.
Poetry in all languages including English, Spanish, Cape Verdean, and Vietnamese. All styles of poetry, all ages welcome - clean language only.
Each poet gets 3 minutes maximum, up to 25 performers. Pre-registration encouraged.
Boston Youth Fund - Hopeline 2013 Registration
Feb 1 - Mar 3, 2013
Apply to the BYF HOPELINE to be considered for employment with the Boston Youth Fund for the summer of 2013!
Positive job experiences for youth are essential for teens, not just a paycheck. A quality work experience allows the youth of Boston an opportunity to discover and explore their talents while contributing to the well being of their community.
Boston Youth Fund Goals
Discover and develop new skills
Gain an understanding of the workforce
Acquire a sense of responsibility and teamwork
Broaden the sense of community
Form lasting relationships
Grow Well Eat Well - The Food Project Workshops
Jan - April 2013
This winter and early spring, plan to exercise your green thumb and your growing interest in ethnic cooking by attending The Food Project workshops.
Grow Well Gardening Workshops are held at the Dudley Greenhouse while the Eat Well Cooking Workshops are at The Food Project Kitchen.
Learn how to plan your garden, have an indoor garden, grow from seeds and getting an early start. Cooking will introduce Chinese, Guyanese and Cape Verdean styles.
More Upham's Corner Public Calendars
DSNI
Strand UCHC UCMS COB MyDot
Presentation: Exploring Bowdoin-Geneva Nbhd "68 Blocks" Series Wed, Jan 30, 2013 6PM - 8PM
You are invited to a Boston Globe presentation on the "68 Blocks" series. Globe journalists, a photographer, and videographer will discuss their experiences living in and covering a Boston neighborhood marred by violence.
Members of the community, "Big Nate" Davis and Fr. Richard "Doc" Conway will share their perspectives. The discussion will conclude with a Q&A session with the audience. discuss their experiences
Boston Globe Event
In-depth Community Presentation / Discussion (FREE)
Wed, Jan 30, 2013 6:00pm - 8:00pm
135 Morrissey Blvd (Globe)
Advance registration required (Eventbrite)
Uphams Corner Main Street Thanks Businesses
For the second year, Uphams Corner Main Street arranged a thank you celebration.
All local businesses and organizations who participated in the Mayor's Deck the Windows competition were invited to receive a great meal at Laura Restaurant.
Over 30 businesses and residents attended the 2nd annual Deck the Windows Holiday Reception Wrap-Up Dinner at Restaurant Laura on Wednesday, January 9th. Special thanks to the the top 3 winners: A&M Bargain Store, Tran Jewelry and Nueva Imagen.
UCHC Vaccinates 400 During FluShot Weekend
Over two days, the Uphams Corner Health Center saw and vaccinated nearly 400 people at their flu clinics as part of Boston's response to emergency public health crisis.
This flu season Boston has reported over 700 cases compared with the 70 cases confirmed in the prior season.
Flu coordinator, Peri Levina, noted that "There were more school aged children than we're used to seeing." Others came in out of courtesy for health care workers and the elderly.
Boston Promise Initiative Awarded $6M by Dept of Education
The Boston Promise Initiative (BPI), a collaborative effort led by Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, has been awarded $6 million over the next five years from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant will be used to catalyze and create 'cradle to career solutions' to ensure that academic and developmental outcomes are significantly improved for children and youth in the Dudley neighborhood of Boston.
Visiting Nurses Give Helpful Tips on Handling the Flu
The Visiting Nurses of Boston provide helpful tips on handling the flu they share with their patients during the flu season.
This season is a tough one but you can minimize its impact by following simple procedures: clean, cover, contain and get vaccinated. Protect yourself and the spread of the virus to your friends, colleagues and loved ones.
Barbara Belony Graduates from Emerging Leader Program
Suffolk University's Center for Public Management offers an executive training program home health executives. In the Emerging Leaders Program, participants earn a Certificate in Home Care Management.
Barbara Belony, RN, Patient Services Manager for the Visiting Nurse Association of Boston & Affiliates, recently graduated from Suffolk University's Emerging Leaders Program with a Certificate in Home Care Management.
Cultural Events and Communications Manager - UCMS Hiring
Uphams Corner Main Street is hiring an Events and Communications Manager to support event planning and marketing of UCMS programming and events throughout the one year, with a focus on the ArtPlace initiative. This position will report to the Executive Director.
Core functions: Events & Programs related to the ArtPlace, communications and marketing, social media, building partnerships and more.
Requirements: Community development; connecting arts/culture with local economic development, event planning, marketing (including social media), and/or communications, ability to work with diverse groups of people and more.
Dorchester - Posted Street Sweeping Regulation Changes - April 2013
The City of Boston, Public Works Department, is following through on its plan to implement 'posted street sweeping' in Dorchester.
This marks a long-awaited change that many sections of Dorchester have been 'clamoring' about for years. With scheduled street cleaning, the pros and cons are obvious but the pros dramatically outweigh any inconvenience.
Final School Choice Presentations
Tue, Feb, 2013
The External Advisory Committee on School Choice (EAC) invites the community to attend a meeting to learn about the final school choice plans under consideration.
The meetings will be looking at the final proposals and asking for feedback from the students, parents and the community.
Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:00pm, Orchard Gardens K-8 School or
Tue, Feb 5, 2013 6:00pm at Suffolk University.
Mayor Menino Hosts MA Gun Control Coalition - "Mayors Against Illegal Guns"
Mayor Thomas M. Menino hosted the Massachusetts delegation of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) coalition on January 31, 2013, as they continued their call on Congress to take action on gun violence. "We have a responsibility to our residents to do all we can to make our neighborhoods safer."
He also praised the entire Massachusetts federal delegation for signing onto HR 137, the Fix Gun Checks Act.
Three-Point Approach to Gun Control: Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Mayors Michael Bloomberg of New York and Thomas Menino of Boston, as co-chairs of 'Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG),' submitted a letter to the Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary.
The letter strongly urged the passage of "common-sense firearms legislation" including
requiring every gun buyer to pass a criminal background check'
get military-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines off our streets and
make gun trafficking a federal crime.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns Supports HR 137
On January 24, 2013, the coalition, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), sent a letter to Congress in support of legislation to close the loophole that allows the purchase of guns without a background check.
The Fix Gun Checks Act (HR 137) would institute reforms that are targeting the 40 to 48 percent of guns sold by unlicensed 'private sellers' to prohibited gun buyers who exploit the vast 'private sale loophole.'
By seeking out private sellers who do not have to comply with the background check at gun shows and over the Internet, gun purchases can be made that would otherwise be prohibited.
Two Plays in One: A Raisin in the Sun & Clybourne Park
Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 7PM.
Members of the casts of the Huntington's A Raisin in the Sun and SpeakEasy Stage Company's Clybourne Park come together at the Strand Theatre for this special event
Hosted by Karen Holmes Ward of WCVB-TV Channel 5, the evening will feature :
performances of scenes from each of the two plays
panel conversation moderated by Ward and the two directors
A time for Q&A with the artists
The chance to win tickets to both plays.
Event is free but RSVP in advance is appreciated.
The Da Vinci Commission, a Staged Reading
Can't Wait Productions Presents
"The Da Vinci Commission," a new play by MJ Halberstadt. Can't Wait Productions, directed by Josh Burlingham, presents a staged reading of this new play.
The performance is taking place on Friday evening, February 15, 2013 at the home of the Dorchester Arts Collaborative, 157 Washington Street in Dorchester.
Reserved tickets available online at http://www.cantwaitproductions.com/tickets
Rep. Henriquez Supports Hearing on Call for Liquor License Cap
State Representative Carlos Henriquez supports City Councilor Ayanna Pressley’s call for a hearing on the cap on liquor licenses in Boston, citing a concern of equity.
"We need to examine equity in the geographic distribution as well as the accessibility to small local business owners due to cost. Currently the district I represent and neighboring working class neighborhoods lack access to family and dining establishments and entertainment key in attracting and retaining young professionals and families in our cities’ neighborhoods."
Final School Choice Options Ready for Presentation
Mon, Feb 4 at 6pm
Orchard Gardens K-8 School
906 Albany St., Roxbury
The External Advisory Committee on School Choice (EAC) has completed their one-year community input process to identify a new school choice assignment system for Boston Public Schools.
On Feb 4, 2013 the EAC will present the 'best of the best' models for final consideration. The plan implemented will provide parents school choices that are fairer and more predictable than the current system and it will help the City to build stronger communities.
Boston Leads Recession-Weary Cities in Rebound
The BRA's 2013 Economy Report indicates that Boston has made a full recovery from the Great Recession.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino:
'Boston weathered the Great Recession better than most American cities, but we still saw our share of hardship,'but we've come out stronger on the other side.'
New data released show the unemployment rate has fallen steadily, prejections for record employment, jobs lost are regained, new construction investment.
12th Annual Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Campaign Announced
The City of Boston's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) campaign is spearheaded by the Mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services.
The program provides low- and moderate-income taxpayers with free financial services, in a multi-pronged effort to reduce poverty in the City of Boston.
During the 2012 tax season, the Boston EITC Campaign served 11,500 taxpayers, returning a total of $18 million in credits and refunds.
Discovering Uphams Corner & the Strand Theatre in 2013
Uphams Corner is in the process of changing and revitalizing. The Strand Theatre is hosting excellent performances, many of them free. The community is much safer than it used to be. Two quality restaurants are worth the visit and many others close by.
The City of Boston Public Works Infrastructure Improvement Project will create a new look and feel to the community in about one year.
2013 is a prime time to begin discovering Uphams Corner and the Strand.
Looking Down at Uphams Corner from the ISS
At 8000+ residents strong, Uphams Corner walks boldly in the sands of (Boston's) time.
But from the view of the International Space Station, we barely exist. Giacomo Sardelli's video, 'Further Up Yonder,' reminds us that all of us can make a difference.
Uphams Corner can become a model welcoming community without borders - one that cares for each and every person who lives and works here.
That is our greatest wish for 2013 - that we wear an enduring sense of purpose that will make our community shine.
Best Wishes from the Improvement Association (UCIA)
From UCIA: "To all our friends and neighbors, we hope you are well settled to meet the new challenges and expectations of 2013. UCIA is an independent, grass roots, neighborly organization in Uphams Corner.
We are enthusiastic about our community and its future. We invite you to join us, to say hello, to engage in thoughtful and caring conversation. Have a wonderful year: 2013."
Remember: From the tiniest seed will some day grow a tree so tall.
Logan Furniture Warehouse - Three-alarm Fire on Freeport Street
The Boston Fire Department responded at 12:02 am January 21, 2013 to 50 Freeport St. in Dorchester for a building fire well into the interior of the large warehouse located behind the Logan Furniture showroom.
A 3rd alarm was ordered. No injuries were reported. Fire Investigators were on the scene looking for point of origin and cause.
5 Everett Ave - Three-Alarm Fire - 14 People Displaced
3-alarm fire at 5 Everett Ave, 3:46pm, 1/13/13, smoke coming from basement. Twelve adults and two children were displaced at the scene, two transported for smoke inhalation.
By 4:08pm, the fire was out and fire investigators were trying to determine the cause and point of origin. The chief provided a quick estimate of approximately $500,000 damage.
Neighborhood Services, the Red Cross, the MBTA and the Fire Department all provided services to the fire victims.
New Committee on Global Opportunities & Innovation & Technology
Boston City Council approved the creation of the Committee on Global Opportunities and Innovation and Technology on Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
Council President Stephen J. Murphy named District 7 City Councillor Tito Jackson the Chair of the new committee.
Councillor Jackson proposed the Committee in recognition of Boston's need to formally identify itself not only locally but also globally. He sees that proactively envisioning a growing and evolving image for the city is one of the Committee's most important roles.
GBHC - Interwoven Words and Music - Captivating the Listeners
Calling itself a 'Reading-Recital,' the duo of Glenn Kurtz (reader) and Aaron Larget-Caplan (guitarist) staged a great performance at the thirteenth Greater Boston House Concert.
Glenn is the author of "Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music" (2007) and Aaron is an accomplished classical guitarist who enthusiastically practices his chosen form of artistic expression and who enables others to express themselves artistically as well.
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According to a report, Eid-ul-Azha has generated economic activities of around Rs 350 billion in Pakistan, as the faithful slaughtered around 8 million animals in three days of the religious festival. Preetinder Grewal reports on the religious imp...() Eid-ul-Azha - The religious background and the economic activities
Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor's speech at Oxford Union Society is not new but his arguments about why Britain owes reparations to India for 200 years of colonial rule has sparked a debate. Mr Tharoor spoke of the impact of colonialism on...() 'At least, give our Koh-I-Noor back' MP Shashi Tharoor in the London debate against British colonisation of India
Bhagat Singh's life (September 28, 1907-March 23, 1931), work and thought were marked by an uncompromising struggle against colonialism and imperialism, together with radical opposition to capitalism, communalism and the caste system. Here is Pree...() Shaheed-E-Azam – Ikk Poster Jaa So’ch; The Revolutionary life of Bhagat Singh
Here we present a special feature on Mela Chhapar Da which is celebrated in the village of Chhapar in the district of Ludhiana, Punjab, India every year in September. This mela (fair), held in the memory of Gugga Pir, is one of the most popular an...() ‘Mela Taa Chhapar Laggda’
Scientists have found the first evidence of flowing water on Mars.
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The fallout of the "clean chit" given to Dera Sacha Sauda's Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insaan, the infighting within the Punjab Congress party, and the possiblity of the end of BJP-SAD coalition were some of the news stories, presented in this week's...() Punjabi Diary as presented on September 28, 2015
Melbourne based Akashdeep Cheema only started playing cricket at the age of 11; by age 15, he was playing for the Melbourne University (seniors team) and currently aged 16, he has just been selected to represent Victoria at the u17 national champi...() "I could be playing for Australia in 4-5 years time," says budding Victorian cricketer Akashdeep Cheema
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RSS: Statement by General Secretary Shri Suresh (Bhaiyya Ji) Joshi
Statement by Shri Suresh Joshi at ABKM, Lucknow
Millennium Anniversary of the Coronation
of Chola King Rajendra I
The 1000th year of coronation of renowned King Rajendra I of the famous Chola Dynasty of Bharat is a matter of great pride and inspiration to all of us. Crowned in 10I4 CE, King Rajendra I had his rule extending not only from the banks of river Ganga to the whole of Southern Bharat but also up-to Sri Lanka, Lakshadweep, Maldives , Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. By virtue of his well managed administration and a well organized military, trade, commerce, art, culture, architecture and sculpture flourished under his reign in this entire region.
Literature and pursuit of knowledge also flourished in his times and several books and volumes were written, both in Sanskrit and Tamil. During his rule, several grand temples and Stupas were constructed in Bharat, Sri Lanka and South East Asia which stand testimony to our living cultural heritage. It is testified from his Charter comprising 21 Copper Inscriptions with his royal insignia written in both Sanskrit and Tamil and paying obeisance at the very beginning to Lord Vishnu which are kept by Leiden University of Netherlands.
At the time of Mahmud Ghazni’s attack on our north-western frontier and the turmoil of Euro-Arab conflict, King Rajendra I provided stable rule to ensure peace, prosperity and unhindered trade in the entire South East Asian Region to Bharatiyas, especially Tamil traders and their trade associations. He also established diplomatic Mission in China to promote trade.
He also set up a University for study of Vedas and other disciplines at Ennayirum. Besides ensuring political stability, in order to promote cultural unity and emotional integrity he sent his General Aryan Rajrajan to bring holy water of Ganga, ceremonially received it, mixed it with Kaveri waters and built a grand lake due to which he came to be known as Gangai Konda Cholan [i.e. Chola who brought Ganga].
Remembering such glorious period of our history will be inspirational to the people in the work for national resurgence. All the people of Bharat including Swyamasevaks are called upon to remind Bharat and the world about the achievement of the Chola king Rajendra for providing benign rule with all round progress in such a vast area and to ensure their support as well as participation in all the events related to this incidence.
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DTI sees smooth flow of goods in and out of Manila with new agreements with importers
MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Trade and Industry expects the flow of goods in and out of the Manila port to start easing within the next several weeks, following the issuance of a reminder to importers to clear the over 7,000 containers stranded at the port.
“The DTI is involved in a government committee that develops plans in decongesting the ports in the city of Manila. Now that traffic of delivery trucks and vans in Manila City is easing, it is essential that the transport of products to and from the ports and their distributors is fast and frequent to decongest the ports and to provide supplies in the markets for consumers’ purchases,” Trade Undersecretary Victorio Mario A. Dimagiba said in a statement issued Tuesday.
According to Dimagiba, they have started prompting importers to immediately get their loaded containers as soon as these are cleared by the Bureau of Customs. DTI has likewise urged industries, as well as warehouse owners and operators to cooperate and ensure that their businesses are open at night and during weekends to accept deliveries, according to Dimagiba.
Dimagiba explained that the truck congestion has been addressed and the DTI could now address the container pile-up at the Manila port.
He stressed that the truck ban policy being implemented in Manila — which has caused the truck congestion at the port — should no longer be a concern given the so-called 24/7 express lane for containerized trailer trucks. This lane runs through the innermost north and southbound lanes of Roxas Boulevard all the way to Anda Circle, as well as the outermost north and southbound lanes from Anda Circle up to R10.
“We anticipate for the flow of goods in the market to normalize in several weeks as truckers manage their deliveries with industries through the express trade lane; and as container owners and operators bring the products out the ports,” Dimagiba added.
The DTI held discussions with the BOC, Philippine Ports Authority, International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), and Asian Terminals Inc. (ATI) last week to identify the port users who should be prompted to remove the loaded containers.
For the empty freight containers, there have been talks of transferring them to the Subic freeport, Ruperto Bayocot, president of Confederation of Truckers Association of the Philippines, said in an interview on Monday.
Bayocot, however, said this proposal, which was reportedly being mulled by the PPA and ICTSI, would only further hike hauling rates and shipping charges.
Under the truck ban policy, the eight-wheelers and vehicles with a gross weight of above 4,500 kilograms are banned from plying Manila’s streets between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m., starting February this year. A temporary concession was offered by the city government allowing trucks to ply its streets between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. within a six-month period. This, however, resulted in a congestion that has led to higher hauling rates and shipping charges, a container pileup at the Manila ports, delays in shipment deliveries, higher costs of goods, among others.
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Desperate cities consider 'safe injection' sites for opioid users
Philadelphia may be unusually well-positioned to be the first; its opioid crisis is mostly concentrated in one neighborhood
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Philadelphia officials are advocating to become the first in the U.S. city to open a supervised injection site, where people suffering from heroin or opioid addiction could use under medical supervision. But the controversial proposal aimed at addressing the city's deadly drug crisis must first overcome resistance from top city police officials, community residents and the federal government. Advocates say the goal is to provide a bridge to treatment. There are about 90 such official facilities around the world. Though some U.S. cities — including Seattle, San Francisco and Denver — are talking about establishing this sort of city-sponsored site, there are none in the United States. (See also: Philadelphia pushes forward with creating drug safe-injection sites as part of fight against opioid crisis)
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Lenovo A6600, A6600 Plus and the A7700 Launched, W...
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Lenovo A6600, A6600 Plus and the A7700 Launched, Will be Available Soon!
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Lenovo a well known Chinese brand launched the successors to its old devices(A6000, A6000 Plus and the A7000) namely the Lenovo A6600, A6600 Plus and the Lenovo A7700. They are use Mediatek Chipsets and comes with Reliance Jio offer. So let’s checkout the specifications and the pricing of the 3 devices.
Lenovo A6600/A6600 Plus
It is a Dual SIM handset and supports 4G connectivity. It is powered by a Mediatek MT6735P(64 bit) Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.0Ghz coupled with 1GB of RAM along with a Mali-T720 GPU for Gaming. It offers 16GB of internal storage expandable upto 128GB’s via micro-SD Card.
It runs on Vibe UI based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. On the Display section, it has a 5.0(inch) HD IPS screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, 800:1 Contrast ratio. On the Camera segment it has a 8MP rear shooter with a LED Flash and on the front a 2MP selfie camera is there. The thickness of the phone is at 8.8mm and it weighs around 142 grams.
It runs over a 2300mAh battery and its key features are- 4G/3G/2G connectivity, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS, Wi-Fi, etc. The only difference between the A6600 and the A6600 Plus is 1GB of RAM, which means A6600 Plus has 2GB of RAM except this both device are identical. You have to spent 6,999 INR for the A6600 and it will be available in white and black colors.
It is also a Dual SIM smartphone and supports 4G connectivity. It is powered by a Mediatek MT6735P(64 bit) Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.0Ghz coupled with 2GB of RAM along with a Mali-T720 GPU for Gaming. It offers 16GB of internal storage expandable upto 128GB’s via micro-SD Card.
It runs on Vibe UI based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. On the Display section, it has a 5.5(inch) HD IPS screen with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. On the Camera segment it has a 8MP rear camera with Dual LED Flash and on the front a 2MP camera is there. The thickness of the phone is at 8.5mm and it weighs around 155 grams.
It runs over a 2900mAh battery and its key features are- 4G/3G/2G connectivity, Bluetooth V4.0, GPS, Wi-Fi, etc. It will be available in black and white colors for a price of 8,540 INR.
So for more Tech related updates stay tuned to us.
Xiaomi betting big on offline retail in India, plans expansion in few months
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has made a name for itself in the Indian smartphone market through flash sale model. A major part of its revenue, around 90%, comes from online channels in India. The smartphone manufacturer is trying to gain a foothold in the country by offline channels and according to the new report, the company will double its offline retail presence in one of the fastest growing markets. Xiaomi India head Manu Jain made a statement that online is the dominant channel for Xiaomi and the company is striving to cement its steps in the offline Indian market as well. He further stated that the company had a partnership with Redington, Innocomm, and Just Buy.
Xiaomi’s recent launches Redmi 3S and Redmi 3S Prime have got a tremendous response in its first sale on August 10. The company sold around 90,000 Redmi 3S units in the open sale. This time, Xiaomi opted for open sale over regular flash sale since the stocks were huge. Xiaomi is planning to scale up its facility in Andhra Pradesh to fulfill the increasing demand.
Jain further added saying, “We are scaling up the facility at Andhra Pradesh. We are adding more lines and more capacity to the same plant and once we exhaust it, we are thinking of adding more factories along with our partners Foxconn.” He added that the two partners Innocomm and Just Buy sell Xiaomi smartphones and other accessories through 5,000 shops. It also expects to expand the presence in few months.
Customers who didn’t get a chance to buy the Redmi 3S and Redmi 3S Prime on August 9 can buy one on August 17 at Flipkart and Mi India. Recalling the specifications of the phones, the Redmi 3S and Redmi 3S Prime are budget smartphones priced at Rs. 6,999 and Rs. 9,999 respectively.
Both the handsets flaunt a metal body giving them a premium look and feel. Under the hood, both devices are powered by the same Snapdragon 430 octa-core processor clocked at 1.4GHz and Adreno 505 GPU. In terms of memory, the Redmi 3S gets 2GB of RAM and 16GB of inbuilt storage whereas the Redmi 3S Prime houses 3GB of RAM and offers 32GB of inbuilt storage. Both devices support up to 128GB of expandable memory via a hybrid card slot.
Apple Watch Series 2 unveiled with GPS and Powerful S2 processor starting at $369
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has introduced the second generation of its smartwatch called Apple Watch Series 2 with GPS and S2 processor starting at $369. The new Watch was launched at the annual Apple launch event in the Graham Bell auditorium in San Francisco.
The Watch Series 2 is a major refresh of the previous generation and packs some major features like built-in GPS, 50 meters waterproof functionality for swimming, and more. The company has introduced an edition of Apple Watch 2 especially for runners called Apple Watch Nike Plus, in partnership with Nike.
The Apple Watch 2 has integrated GPS functionality which the company claims will be very beneficial for the tracking. Besides that, the new watch has dual core S2 processor, which is 50% more powerful than the first gen Apple Watch. The waterproof Apple Watch 2 will come in different color options.
Commenting on the launch of Apple Watch Series 2, Apple CEO Tim Cookdisclosed that the Watch models have become the Number 2 in terms of revenue in just 18 months after its launch.
Even though the new Apple Watch Series 2 is similar to that of the previous counterpart, the new device has got a square type customizable watch face. It will display the time and notifications. Moreover, the Watch Series 2 also integrates the digital crown dial, which can be used for scrolling and zooming purposes.
Apple Watch Series 2 Specifications
The Apple Watch Series 2 features a dual-core S2 processor, which is 50 percent faster than the previous Watch. The addition of a new GPU provides improved graphic performance. Apple also upgraded the display with 50 percent extra brightness.
The main attraction of Apple Watch Series 2 is a new water-resistant shell with swim-proof functionality besides the addition of a GPS chip. The built-in GPS enables the Watch to perform its own mapping without a smartphone.
In sharp contrast to previous rumors, the new Apple Watch Series 2 doesn’t ship with a cellular connectivity. Hence, you will not be able to receive notifications while you are on the go.
Interestingly, the new Apple Watch Series 2 retains the same casing for the lower and middle tier variants. While the cheaper variant ships with an aluminum case, the premium models will be equipped with stainless steel. Apple also announced a white-colored ceramic model for the benefit of luxury customers. However, we don’t have any information about the availability of Gold color variant.
Apple Watch Series 2: Nike+ and Hermes version
In a significant development, Apple also renewed its partnership with Nike by introducing a special Nike+ variant of the Apple Watch starting at $369. The model resembles the discontinued FuelBand fitness tracker. The model is exclusively designed for runners and workout junkies.
Apple also released Hermes variant of Apple Watch Series 2 starting at expensive $1149. To add an Indian touch to the new Watch Series 2, Apple also released a 38mm stainless steel case with Rose Jaipur Epsom leather.
Apple Watch Series 2 Availability
The preorders for the newly announced Apple Watch Series 2 starting at $369 for 38mm model will start on September 9. The shipping will start from September 16. However, the new watch series will be updated with watchOS 3 on September 13. The Nike+ models will be available from October last week.
In the meantime, Apple also revamped the original Apple Watch as Apple Watch Series 1. However, the new Watch Series 1 has an enhanced processor, which is capable of delivering 50 percent enhanced performance. It will be available alongside Apple Watch 2 for $269.
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LG V20 with Dual Rear Cameras, Android 7.0 Nougat Launched
Not surprisingly, LG has launched the LG V20 successor to the V10 device. The device will be first available in Korea. There’s no word so far on the cost of the LG V20.
It sports a 5.7-inch (1440×2560) pixels primary IPS Quantum Display and another display similar to the LG V10. The LG V20 is made out of AL6013 metal – the same thing which is used to construct flying machines, sailboats, and mountain bicycles – and LG claims it can survive drops from four feet.
he LG V20 is boosted by a quad-core Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 processor, with two cores timed at 2.15GHz and 1.6GHz. The device is powered by 4GB of RAM. In terms of storage it comes with two options one with 32GB and other with 64GB storage, you can expand the device via microSD via 256GB.
The LG V20 has 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC (supported for flac, did, diff and alac document groups), HD Audio Recorder, and B&O PLAY speakers, to keep the audiophile in you cheerful.
The V20 highlights a 16 megapixel back rear camera with dual tone LED flash, aperture f/1.8 lens, (OIS) 2.0, 75-degree focal point. It has Hybrid Autofocus (HAF), that comes included with Laser Auto Focus, Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF) and Contrast AF for both photographs and recordings. The V10 can record upto 4K. That’s not all over at the back it also has a 8 megapixel camera with aperture 2.4, 135-degree focal point, much the same as the LG G5, for catching wide shots. You can also set camera manually like shutter speed, frame rate, ISO, white balance and focus at the time of recording. On the front, there is a 5 megapixel front camera for selfies with f/1.9 lens.
LG V20 runs on the very latest Android 7.0 Nougat OS, and the Google In Apps look capacity, with LG UX 5.0+, a redesigned rendition of the LG UX 5.0 initially presented on the LG G5, on top. The new In App seek in the Google application, gives clients a chance to discover content from inherent applications including contacts, messages, instant messages, and photographs. It additionally highlights the Multi-window mode, that gives you a chance to run two applications next to each other.
LG V20 packs in a USB Type-C port and it will be accessible in titan, silver, and pink hues. It is fueled by a 3200mAh battery.
Xiaomi Redmi 4 Images and Specs Price Details Shows Up on TENNA
First it was expected that Xiaomi may launch its Redmi 4 device along with Redmi Note 4 yet it didn’t. However not it looks that the launch date of Redmi 4 is very close and also some pictures have appeared on TENAA’s site.
The Redmi 4 seems to look more like a little brother of Redmi Note 4, in spite of the fact that it doesn’t appear to have that much curved than of the Note 4. In the image the capacitive buttons are still same as we’ve seen in all previous leaks. First Redmi 4 was expected to come with back speaker, but now it is shifted to bottom as per the image, along with charging port.
At the back of the device this time you’re getting a fingerprint scanner and back camera along with a flash which is shifted to the left.
For the specifcations the Redmi 4 is expected to come with 3GB of RAM, for storage there will be 32GB of storage capacity. It will be packed with a Full HD screen display. In terms of pricing it will cost at 699 Yuan ($105) sticker price.
The Xiaomi Redmi 4 will be powered by 1.8 GHz Helio P10 processor. Xiaomi could launch another variant that will be powered with Snapdragon 625, also the Xiaomi could rename this device to Redmi 4 Pro if it launch with SD processor.
The device will be running on MIUI 8 with Android 6.0.1 out of the box. Still there is no official confirmation, but may the official launch date is very near.
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Browning Road Lady
Ghostly Carriage, Coaches and Horses
Lady in White of Sycamore Road
Proctor Valley Road
Prospectors Road
Ortega Ridge Road, Montecito, California 93108
The ghosts of three nuns stand watch on Ortega Road.
As you drive down this road watch out for ghostly nuns. For over a century, three nuns reportedly stand, arms crossed, dressed in black and white habits, on the side of the road. Now called Las Tres Hermanas, these three sisters were supposedly tortured and killed by Native Americans, and have haunted the road ever since.
The three sisters are perhaps from the Santa Barbara Mission and despite being warned not to leave Santa Barbara, did so anyway with supplies, medicine and candles for those who needed it. But before they could reach the first Native American village, they were set upon, tortured and murdered. It is said that the sisters before they lost consciousness even forgave their killers.
Their ghosts are usually seen at night with bright blue eyes and shining glowing faces. They turn to watch cars passing by. It is rare to see them during the day, although visitors have supposedly felt the nuns emotional imprint.
Ortega Road
Ghost Hunter's Guide to Los Angeles (2007) by Dwyer, Jeff, p: 166 - 167
Haunted Places: The National Directory (2002) by Hauck, Dennis, p: 57
Ghosts of the Haunted Coast (1986) by Senate, Richard, p: 65 - 66
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Wherever There's A Fight
How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
Race: 1996
Prop 209 ProtestCalifornia voters pass Proposition 209, which prohibits affirmative action in state programs.
Women: 1997
California Supreme Court, in American Academy of Pediatrics v. Lungren strikes down the 1987 law requiring teenagers to obtain parental consent or a judicial warrant for an abortion.
Dissent: 1997
After repeated efforts to re-open Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt’s case and mounting evidence of a wrongful conviction, an Orange County judge reverses Pratt’s conviction and frees him after nearly 25 years in prison.
Censorship: 1997
ACLU files the first national suit against an act of Congress attempting to censors the Internet, ACLU v. Reno; poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a plaintiff.
Immigrants' Rights: 1998
Voters pass Proposition 227 outlawing bilingual education.
World War II Incarceration: 1998
Settlement in Mochizuki v. United States provides for a government apology to Japanese Latin Americans and payments of $5,000 each. Some do not accept the settlement and continue efforts for full redress.
Disability Rights: 1999
U.S. Supreme Court rules in a series of cases that the ADA does not protect people whose disabilities can be alleviated through prosthetics, medication, or aids, thereby denying ADA protection to people with amputations, cancer, epilepsy, insulin-dependent diabetes, bipolar disorder, and heart conditions.
LGBT Rights: 1999
Legislature passes a law recognizing limited rights for registered domestic partners.
Governor Gray Davis signs legislation covering gay men, lesbians and bisexuals under the state Fair Employment and Housing Act's anti-discrimination protection.
A parent sues the Livermore public library for allowing her son access to the Internet on the library's computers. ACLU of Northern California defends the library, winning a ruling in 2001 that access to information and freedom of expression on the Internet at the library should not be treated differently than books, newspapers and magazines.
Voters pass Proposition 22, defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.
LA Board of Supervisors Approves Settlement for Photographers Detained by Sheriff's Deputies
Deputies had stopped, detained and searched the photographers for taking photos in public places.
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Immigration Case
Fremont, California woman sued the government for denying her Afghani husband a visa and not explaining why
Surveillance Lawsuit Dismissed
Federal judge rules that the challenge to government surveillance of phone calls and e-mail would risk national security
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