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__label__cc	0.607307	0.392693	DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: European Union Elections: A Crossroad Tuesday April 02, 2019 - 08:23:00 PM As the campaigns for the European Parliament get underway, some of the traditional lines that formerly divided left, right and center are shifting, making it harder to easily categorize political parties. In Italy, a right wing coalition calls for a guaranteed income, larger pensions and resistance to the heavy-handed austerity programs enforced by the European Union (EU). In France, some right wing groups champion the fight against climate change, decry exploitation of foreign workers and growing economic inequality. In contrast, Europe’s political center seems paralyzed in the face of growing disillusionment with the economic policies of the EU. Even the social democratic center-left defends doctrines that have alienated its former base among unions and working people, pushing such parties to the political margins. If voters seem confused, one can hardly blame them, which is not good news for the left and the center-left going into the May 23-26 elections. Polls show center-right and center-left parties, which have dominated the EU Parliament since it first convened in 1979, will lose their majority. Parties that are increasingly skeptical of the organization may win as many as a third of the seats in the 705-seat body. -more- Comments on Senate Bill 50, Planning and zoning: housing development: incentives. Dr. Peter Andersen, Professor of Communications, San Diego State University, retired (This bill is co-authored by, among others,State Senator Nancy Skinner and Assemblymember Buffy Wicks.) Senate Bill 50 undermines CEQA. Projects may be exempt from the CEQA if they are in jobs rich or transit rich area or if they are in the 10% to 25% of the housing that can be built outside of job rich or transit rich areas. The bill undermines general plans and eliminates future zoning and general plans that are inconsistent with this law The bill changes the entire legal burden of proof from the developers to agencies (cities, counties, planning boards). These local entities have to prove in court that they are in compliance with law when disputes occur. This is like a person having to prove themselves innocent in court (which is logically impossible). The bill conflates and mixes 3 different needs pretty randomly: homeless shelters, low income housing, and affordable housing in one bill where the rationale for each is very different. The bill uses frighteningly vague and/or tautological in many sections. For example it defines housing as housing. It defines disapproval as disapproval. This fails freshman English or logic. The bill is a major assault on neighborhoods of single family homes. Evidently living in a single family home, according to the bill, is a luxury we cannot afford in the alleged housing crisis. Indeed, the bill may have the perverse effect of people who want single family home moving out of cities into suburban sprawl developments. -more- All Species Commission in Uproar at Berkeley Council Meeting Bernard Marszalek, for a ludic society, http://ztangi.org Monday April 01, 2019 - 09:56:00 PM After a year of disputatious hearings, Berkeley’s All Species Commission has finally delivered a recommendation to City Council. Another Berkeley First was the establishment, several years ago, of the All Species Commission (ASC). During its first year it provided guidelines for proper attire for dogs, regulated healthy pet food, monitored pet salons and motels, and issued licenses to pet-care providers. It was one of the most successful new commissions established and the Mayor and City Council took great pride in their foresight and pioneering efforts to establish it and looked forward to other cities adopting a similar institution. But in the autumn of 2017 things turned sour. An overflow commission meeting heard angry Berkeley residents vociferously complain about the over population of squirrels and crows that were harassing them. Not the least of the mischief was that squirrels were digging up the Resilience Gardens the City has been promoting with free seeds, compost and classes under the State’s Grow Your Healthy Food campaign. And the crows have been disturbing residents’ Well-Being Regimen sponsored by the County Well-Being Agency (CWBA). Complaints had been pouring in to CWBA immediately after they launched their Morning Meditation Salons (MMS). These were held to train neighbors to meditate together early in the morning before work. But nobody could meditate with the constant daybreak aural assaults from hyperventilating crows. Quiet chirping of little birds would aid mediation, but the crows were like feathered soccer bullies. One especially irate individual threatened to poison the squirrels and crows at a winter meeting of ASC and received a standing ovation from many residents in attendance. All hell broke out among the commissioners and they summoned the police to restrain the murderous resident. The officers who arrived refused to do so and instead threatened to arrest the apoplectic commissioners. Calm only returned to the hearing when MMSers in the audience positioned themselves between the commissioners and irate citizens and spontaneously began meditating as a group. -more- The "Missing Middle" Report and the Berkeley General Plan Hon. Shirley Dean, former Berkeley Mayor Saturday March 30, 2019 - 02:47:00 PM Editor's Note: This open letter to the Berkeley City Council was originally submitted on March 24, 2019 before their March 26 meeting. Item 22 was postponed until 4/23, and Item 23 passed on consent. Re: Council Agenda, March 26, 2019, Item 22, Missing Middle Report, and Item 23, Referral to the City Manager to Scope Process and Estimate Costs of a New General Plan Since I will not be able to attend the Council Meeting to be held on this coming Wednesday, March 26, I am forwarding my thoughts on Item 22, the Missing Middle Report. I must say in the beginning that the four years I spent as a member of the Planning Commission and the then-named Board of Adjustments, 15 years as a member of the Berkeley City Council and eight years as Mayor, this item comes very close to being the most destructive of the quality of life for Berkeley residents that I have ever seen. I well understand the need for housing in the East Bay and throughout all of California. However, those who seek to find a solution to the need for housing through a ‘one size fits all’ approach will not only fail in their quest to ‘fix’ the housing problem but also destroy existing livable communities. I believe a real solution can be found, but it must be carefully crafted to consider existing conditions and geography unique to a community and importantly, job availability in and near that community. Given recent scientific information that we have just 12 years before we face irreversible climate change, we must address land use with its closely related cousin, traffic congestion, immediately. -more- Mike Zint No Longer Has a HUB Social Worker Marcia Poole Greetings Mayor and Berkeley City Council members. I appreciate the attempts all of you have made to solve the ever growing problem with our unhoused community. When I write to you, it is not with an adversarial attitude - it is with the desire to give you information that you may not have and that could help you redesign structures and policies. Mike Zint is a friend of mine whom I feel very close to. I am aware of many of his health problems and often reach out to the City of Berkeley when I see Mike going through difficult times that the City could resolve. He has had 4 social workers through the HUB in the time that he has been housed by Berkeley at the border of Oakland and San Leandro. Some of these workers have been very helpful in temporarily resolving situations that have put him in great physical jeopardy. The last series of incidents involved the rains penetrating through his ceilings and walls and making his place uninhabitable. HUB and the City had his landlord, who they contracted with, repair the outside and then the inside of his apartment. He now does not live in a watery swamp, but he still has water coming out of the wall in an area of the bathroom. This has been ongoing for several months. The basic problem is that Berkeley contracted with a slum landlord who was being prosecuted by the City of Oakland for negligence in his maintenance of housing and who Oakland refused to do business with anymore. The same issues that Oakland saw arose for Berkeley with this landlord Mike Zint has stage 4 emphysema and COPD and has great difficulty physically moving about. He now weighs under 100 pounds and is on medication to help him walk, talk and do the normal daily functions. The medicine works and he is able to live alone and get along. The problem, though, is the continual mold that seeps in through the walls and ceilings from the previous water damage. Berkeley's HUB attempted to move him to an apartment in Berkeley two months ago, but it fell through. Now, the social worker who was assigned to him has left the HUB and he has found himself with no worker and no one who is responsive to his needs. -more- Election Day Holiday is Not a Good Idea Kelly Hammargren tem 4 in the March 28, 2019 agenda for the Berkeley City Council Budget & Finance Committee Regular Meeting is Refer to the City Manager to Designate Election Day as a City Holiday sponsored by Council Members Robinson, Davila and Hahn. I’ve been following national voting since 2011 when I realized that 58.2% of eligible voters did not vote in 2010. It was worse in 2014 when only 36.7 of eligible voters actually voted. 2018 was a record year for congressional elections with 50.3% voting. Donald Trump was elected by 27.2% of the voting eligible population. These numbers come from www.electproject.org a source that uses the voting eligible population not who is registered. Designating Election Day as a holiday does not solve the underlying issues of why people do not vote. While making such a designation will carry drama and the City can pat itself on the back for creating such a holiday, there are unintended consequences. -more- Freelancing: The New Road To Poverty Harry Brill The issue of worker exploitation refers obviously to the unfair treatment of employees, who are underpaid and given very few or no benefits. That doesn't only include employees on the payroll, but also refers to workers who are misclassified as independent contractors. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, If workers were properly classified, the various additional costs to employers, including paid sick leave, medical coverage, and unemployment insurance, would be about 40 percent more. -more- Boat Night at the City Council Carol Denney The frustration of RV and tent dwellers trying to keep their jobs, school schedules, and families together hit a peculiar peak on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019, when a small item about obtaining a grant to address a couple dozen abandoned boats was suddenly championed as a solution to homelessness. -more- April Pepper Spray Times By Grace Underpressure Editor's Note: The latest issue of the Pepper Spray Times is now available. You can view it absolutely free of charge by clicking here . You can print it out to give to your friends. Grace Underpressure has been producing it for many years now, even before the Berkeley Daily Planet started distributing it, most of the time without being paid, and now we'd like you to show your appreciation by using the button below to send her money. This is a Very Good Deal. Go for it! -more- Just Too Simple a Solution? Becky O'Malley Friday March 29, 2019 - 05:15:00 PM There is general agreement in the Bay Area, or certainly in Berkeley, that we now have a shortage of housing for low-income people, even those who are fully employed. Today’s Chronicle reports that the median home purchase in Alameda County is now about $785,000, and in neighboring counties it’s over a million. And that’s the median. The rental situation is even worse, so many Bay Area workers are left out. It’s tempting to believe we can build our way out of this situation, particularly if we took those beginning econ classes in high school or college. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but if you got into the more sophisticated realms, beyond that old hat neo-liberal trickle-down theory, you’d learn that it would take something like 50 years for the kind of apartments now being thrown up all over Berkeley to become available to the masses at affordable prices. Also, these shoddily built rentals can be expected to fall apart after about 40 years, so do the math. Yes, they do have marble counters in the kitchen, but they’re structurally shaky--remember Library Gardens. Lately there’s been a lot of theorizing about novel ways to solve the Bay Area’s shortage of affordable housing. “Affordable” is a term of art fraught with peril, since in some definitions it means accessible to two-income families earning more than $100,000 a year. But even in those rare jurisdictions which mandate a $15/hour minimum wage (not yet Berkeley) that only adds up to $30,000/year from a single wage earner, many of whom are supporting dependents. Where are these families supposed to live? -more- ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Resolving Problematic Behavior--What It Takes Jack Bragen For me at least, not speaking for anyone else, I have had moderate behavior problems that were solved by an understanding of the consequences of the behaviors. -more- ECLECTIC RANT: Mueller Investigations and Election Security Ralph E. Stone It is much too early for Trump and his supporters to be gloating about the Mueller Report's conclusions as spun by Attorney General’s William Barr’s summary. What is needed is the full Mueller Report with all the underlying support. Then we can all objectively decide. Regardless, Trump is unfit for office. -more- SMITHEREENS: Reflections on Bits & Pieces Gar Smith I recently spotted another sign that BART is becoming increasingly "streetified." -more- Garrick Ohlsson in an All-Brahms Recital Reviewed by James Roy MacBean I always enjoy hearing pianist Garrick Ohlsson, and it doesn’t matter much what music he plays. However, when it comes to piano music by Johannes Brahms I can’t say my enjoyment is anywhere near its peak. Not counting the two piano concertos, Brahms’ writing for piano almost invariably strikes me as learned, perhaps erudite, but rarely thrilling. This was the case in the all-Brahms recital performed, albeit quite brilliantly, by Garrick Ohlsson on Thursday, March 28 at Herbst Theatre. -more- The Berkeley Activist's Calendar, March 31-April 6 Kelly Hammargren, Sustainable Berkeley Coalition Worth Noting and Showing Up: Tuesday – The City Council agenda includes a proposal for a Vehicle Dweller program. People living in RVs includes children in our schools, workers in our city. With 89% of Berkeley rents > $2000/month* and a full time $15/hour job paying $2,600/month before any withholding, it should be clear why people are living in vehicles. The people who don’t have enough resources for vehicle sheltering are in tents, shelter beds, doorways and literally on the street. Wednesday – The Planning Commission hearing on moving lot lines on contiguous properties a tactic being used to game-the-system/avoid paying the full affordable housing fees (In Lieu Mitigation Fee) to the City or include affordable units in for sale condominium projects. Wednesday - David Brower Center – Panel on California’s Drinking Water Crisis Thursday – The Housing Advisory Commission has a full agenda of important issues. Saturday – Berkeley Portrait Project Opening at the Brower Center Sunday, March 31, 201 No City meetings or events found Monday, April 1, 2019 -more- Back Stories Just Too Simple a Solution? 03-29-2019 The "Missing Middle" Report and the Berkeley General Plan Hon. Shirley Dean, former Berkeley Mayor 03-30-2019 Mike Zint No Longer Has a HUB Social Worker Marcia Poole 03-30-2019 Election Day Holiday is Not a Good Idea Kelly Hammargren 03-30-2019 Freelancing: The New Road To Poverty Harry Brill 03-30-2019 Boat Night at the City Council Carol Denney 03-30-2019 April Pepper Spray Times By Grace Underpressure 04-02-2019 DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: European Union Elections: A Crossroad Conn Hallinan 04-02-2019 Comments on Senate Bill 50, Planning and zoning: housing development: incentives. Dr. Peter Andersen, Professor of Communications, San Diego State University, retired 04-02-2019 All Species Commission in Uproar at Berkeley Council Meeting Bernard Marszalek, for a ludic society, http://ztangi.org 04-01-2019 ON MENTAL ILLNESS: Resolving Problematic Behavior--What It Takes Jack Bragen 03-30-2019 ECLECTIC RANT: Mueller Investigations and Election Security Ralph E. Stone 03-30-2019 SMITHEREENS: Reflections on Bits & Pieces Gar Smith 03-30-2019 Garrick Ohlsson in an All-Brahms Recital Reviewed by James Roy MacBean 03-30-2019 The Berkeley Activist's Calendar, March 31-April 6 Kelly Hammargren, Sustainable Berkeley Coalition 03-30-2019	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line22
__label__wiki	0.608902	0.608902	PGMA gives LGUs big say in mining dev't at local level Manila (15 August) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued local government units a say in mining development at the local level. In issuing E.O. No. 745, the President through Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said it amends E.O. No. 469-A dated 11 Oct. 2005 to allow representation and participation of the LGUs in the Minirals Development Council (MDC) through the leagues of municipalities, provinces and cities and barangays. "xxx The inclusion of the representation of the Local Government Units will ensure the promotion of socially responsible mining development at the local level." Under the new Executive Order (E.O. No. 745) the MDC shall be composed of the following: Department of Environment and Natural Resources - chairman Department of Interior and Local Government - member; Department of Finance - member; National Economic Development Authority - member; Department of Trade and Industry - member; Department of Land Reform - member; Department of Agriculture - member; Department of National Defense - member; Department of Labor and Employment - member; Presidential Management Staff - member; National Commission on Indigenous Peoples - member; National Anti-Poverty Commission - member; Philippine Information Agency - member; Chamber of Mines of the Philippines - member; League of Municipalities of the Philippines - member; League of Cities of the Philippines - member; Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas - member; The chairman of the MDC, serving in an ex officio capacity, shall preside at all meetings of the MDC and ensure that all policies, directives, plans and programs of the MDC are faithfully carried out. There shall also be an executive director with the rank of undersecretary, who shall be appointed by the President and who shall manage the day-to-day affairs of the MDC. The representatives from the members of the MDC shall have the rank of undersecretary. The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines shall be represented by its President." (PIA-MMIO) [top] » Agri growth slowest in Region XI » Carmen mayor wants to check schools, government buildings » GK: Stretching arms, treading risk to help poor » DOST holds symposium on Basic Taste, UMAMI » CSC strengthens Mamamayan Muna program » DTI issues standards for equal leg steel angle bars » Indonesia topples RP as top coco producer » DENR eyes 3-strike policy vs open dumpsites » Jail anyone who violates the law, most specially my own relatives - Dureza » PGMA gives LGUs big say in mining dev't at local level	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line27
__label__cc	0.719218	0.280782	NET & STEM Courses 2020 NET course list 2020 STEM course list 2020 Summary NET 2019 Slovakia Lisov NET 2019 Bulgaria NET 2019 Cyprus NET 2019 Romania NET 2019 Latvia NET 2019 Finland NET 2019 Estonia NET 2019 Slovenia NET 2019 Poland NET 2019 Iceland NET 2019 Slovakia Krajina 2019 Norway Evenstad NET 2019 Norway NET NINA 2019 Spain NET 2019 The NET Programme The STEM Programme Facebook Link to Archnetwork Authors and Group Editors You are here: Home » NET & STEM Courses 2020 » Apply Now For 2019 434 visits Posted by Blair Urquhart Cyprus Community Art & Culture History 23rd to 30th September 2019 Traditional crafts and skills are alive and well in the Cyprus community of Kato Drys. Here the local community are making traditional local products for sale which have real integrity and a true sense of place. All of these products and processes rely on the 4 pillars of sustainability, Cultural, Social, Environmental and Economic. This week long structured course looks at these traditional skills and products and considers why they have importance in our contemporary world. Participants will create a wall mural in Kato Drys. 1,003 visits Posted by Velislava Chilingirova Bulgaria 5th to 12th October 2019 This structured study visit to Bulgaria will focus on the management of nature sites, traditional crafts and culture heritage as part of local development. The programme is hosted by the Devetaki Plateau Association and your guide will be Velislava Chilingirova. Posted by Bojan Žnidaršič Biodiversity & Sustainable Development Slovenia 4 to 12th July 2019 Slovenia has rich biological and cultural diversity and covers a range of landscapes from Alpine to coastal. This course has a focus on the management of species and landscapes through sustainable development, including rural entrepreneurship. Posted by Jānis Ozoliņš Nature Study in Latvia 2nd to 9th September 2019 Feedback from Stuart Graham, SNH, NET4 2018: I thoroughly enjoyed the training trip to Latvia. I cannot believe how much we managed to fit into our week and the attention to detail to the arrangements from our host (Andis) was impeccable. The quality of all the individuals we met was of the highest quality and they were from the top levels of their respective organisations and devoted their time to share their knowledge. Our group stuck together well and we therefore learned from each other as well as our hosts. We also got a great insight to Latvian customs, tourism, diet/foods, history as well as landscape, wildlife and conservation. Posted by Eveliina Asikainen Forestry, Wetlands & Education, Finland 2nd to 9th September 2019 The NET 5 visit to Finland will focus on different aspects of forestry and biodiversity management and education. The group will also meet with Finnish forestry students to learn about environmental education and to share their skills from Scotland. Posted by Kazimierz Rabski Wetlands Odra Delta Poland 9th to 16th June 2019 Ujście Warty National Park landscape is a mosaic of meadows, pastures and areas overgrown by sedge and reed. Odra Delta Nature Park is also an open laboratory where group of scientific realize works connected with flora, fauna, but also social aspects of nature conservancy. Craft Education & Practice in Bulgaria By Kirsten Wood (Historic Environment Scotland) Hosted by the Devetaki Plateau Association An ‘eclectic’ group of seven professio \| read more Connecting people with cultural and natural heritage in Bulgaria, and lessons for Scotland Connecting people with cultural and natural heritage in Bulgaria, and lessons for Scotland By Katherine Murphy, Trees for Life Cult \| read more Study Visit to Bulgaria & the Devetaki Plateau Study Visit to Bulgaria and the Devetaki Plateau (October 6-13 2019) By Gail Boardman Click here to download this report as a pd \| read more The STEM Programme: traditional skills & sustainable materials The STEM Programme (Traditional Skills & Sustainable Materials) The overall aim of STEM is to improve the knowledge, experi \| read more The NET Programme: managing our natural & cultural heritage assets The NET Programme (Managing Our Natural & Cultural Heritage Assets) NET aims to train, inspire and connect Scottish profess \| read more Most Viewed Post Deer and Gamebird Hunting Management in Norway – 2017 1,997 visits TAMK And the Urban Forest Over two-thirds of Finland is forest cover. Much is owned by private persons. Accessibility is also important because many people are able to use the forest, even if they do not own any forests themselves. People are able to use the forest and the wildlife within it as a renewable resource for wood products, hunting and foraging. Above all, most Finnish people strongly value the link with nature. Helvetinjärvi & Seitseminen National Parks We learned that Finland has forty two National Parks and we were told that in total they receive around 4 million visitors per year. By contrast Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park (LLTTNP) has over 4.5 million visitors. EVO hiking centre and Riistakeskus EVO is a hiking centre and forestry college in Kanta-Häme. As well as teaching forestry skills from an economic, recreational and conservational point of view, EVO offers opportunities for members of the public to engage with nature. For example, the public can pay to spend time with animals- there are numerous cows that the public can see and tend, while there is also a meat and grain store. Nuuksio National Park and Haltia Visitor Centre Nature is often fragile, however, and especially here in the North can be slow to recover from damage. With the freedom to enjoy the countryside comes the obligation to leave the environment undisturbed and preserve Finland’s rich natural heritage for future generations to enjoy. 89 visits Thanks and Acknowledgements This is a joint report written by Ian Bray (Scottish Natural Heritage), Georgie Brown (Galbraith), Estelle Gill (Scottish Natural Heritage), Michelle Henley (Scottish Wildlife Trust), Andrew James (Historic Environment Scotland), Gwen Raes (The Woodland Trust), Adam Samson (Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park). Finnish Forests, Hunting & Capercaillie “We have around 500,000 capercaillie in Finland ” said Tapio Vähä-Jaakkola, our host at a local hunting club, as our jaws dropped. My colleagues Chris and Molly from RSPB work on capercaillie and the population in Scotland is in a pretty sorry state, having dropped to around 2000, from an estimated 20,000 in the 1970s. Capercaillie populations are healthy enough for Finns to hunt tens of thousands of them a year. “Most of the capercaillie hunting takes place in Northern Finland”, Tapio said later. In the 10,000 hectares of forest controlled by the Metsästysseura Haukka Ry hunting club, they hadn’t shot capercaillie for many years “Last year we calculated that there were enough capercaillie for us to hunt two.” Kirsten Wood It was interesting to hear that despite training opportunities there is not much uptake by young people to follow a career path in crafts. Many leave rural areas and head to the larger towns and cities for employment. Indeed some villages we drove through had an abundance of derelict houses and one we were told had 300 homes occupied out of a total of 1000. So what can be done to encourage young people into a career path within crafts? The model of an apprenticeship whereby the individual receives training through a dual system is an approach which works well. This involves a combination of theoretic training in an educational establishment combined with practical training in a crafts enterprise. Over the last few years Historic Environment Scotland has directed funding into apprenticship schemes in a number of its directorates. In the area of conservation there are paid apprenticeships in tradition crafts such as stonemasonary, joinerary, plumbing and painting. Individuals receive a wage and are guarrenteed employment after successful completion of the training. Indeed apprenticeship schemes across Scotland in all areas of work are on the rise. Katherine Murphy The Association was set up after our host Velis and her co-worker Iva were touring the villages of the Plateau more than a decade ago and looking into ways they could help the region develop for the benefit of the residents. They discovered people in neighbouring villages with similar interests but no communication between them, a lack of accommodation for visitors, and rich cultural and natural heritage – worth sharing – that had been ignored, mistreated or neglected. Relying on the memories and experiences of local people, they found and cleared up some of these sites, installing interpretation and path networks, and advertised them in tourist guides. Visitor numbers went from 15,000 per year to more than 250,000 in only a few years Gail Boardman Infrastructure improvements are generally costly, but DTA has made significant inroads into connecting the villages to twenty-first century Bulgaria and the rest of the world by the installation of publicly available internet facilities in each of the community centres. Residents, with suitable training, are thus able to read news, contact relatives, order goods and otherwise develop and maintain contacts with other parts of Bulgaria and the wider world. DTA has also initiated language classes, a project which has many potential benefits in the wider tourism strategy for the area. Seona Anderson The STEM Programme (Traditional Skills & Sustainable Materials) The overall aim of STEM is to improve the knowledge, experience and engagement of Scottish professionals, to ensure that traditional skills and sustainable materials continue to survive as a dynamic part of our common European heritage and provide employment, training and enjoyment for all. Traditional skills and the materials they use are an integral part of both our natural and cultural heritage and have great potential to influence landscape management and cultural engagement. STEM is a KA1 Adult Education for Staff programme funded by Erasmus+ and coordinated by Archnetwork with our consortium of Scottish organisation. We are running four week-long courses, each with 6 to 8 participants with our European host organistions. The courses are designed to train, inspire and connect Scottish professionals with best practice and innovative solutions in Europe. The STEM courses will explore the challenges, successes and training of traditional craftspeople; the management of materials and the landscapes they come from; markets, entrepreneurship and rural development. Celebrating and supporting traditional skills and the materials they rely on has many benefits for both cultural and natural heritage management and is increasingly relevant for our modern concerns about the sustainability of […] The NET Programme (Managing Our Natural & Cultural Heritage Assets) NET aims to train, inspire and connect Scottish professionals in order to tackle complex issues of nature conservation and culture heritage management. The NET programme has been running for 6 years and each year we send over 100 Scottish heritage professionals to our training host organisations in Europe. Our courses are one week long and each course includes between 6 and 8 participants from Scotland. We carry out consultations with our consortium to identify key training priorities for our sector. For NET 5 we have set up the training with reference to 6 themes, each course can fit into more than one theme and all courses contain elements exploring the heritage of the host country: Sustainable Development, Farming, Food & Climate ChangeBiodiversity, Forestry, HuntingCommunities, Engagement & WellbeingLandscape Scale Management, Land Ownership & AccessHeritage Interpretation, Tourism & Rural DevelopmentTraining Systems, New Technologies & Traditional Skills NET is funded by Erasmus+ as a KA1 Adult Education for Staff programme. NET Consortium: the NET Programme is implemented through a consortium of leading Scottish heritage organisations. Consortium members assist with setting training priorities, identify participants from their staff and volunteers and with the promotion […] CYPRUS: Village Voices, Sustainability & Identity in Rural Cyprus Host: Martin Clark & Panayiota Demetriou (Kato Drys Community Council) Course Dates: 2- 9 March 2020 Application Deadline: 31 January 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 14 February 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring sustainability in rural communities through the 4 pillars of sustainability (environmental, social, economic & cultural); local livelihoods, traditional skills, rural development, community heritage and cultural identity. Draft Itinerary: DAY ONE, Monday 2nd March Arrival to Paphos, transfer to Pano Lefkara. Accommodation in Aloni House with room sharing if necessary. Soup and rolls are waiting for you and we chat about the week ahead DAY TWO, Tuesday 3rd March Tour of Pano Lefkara, assemble at Athasi heights for 11.00. Induction and discussion on the 4 pillars of sustainability. More and more in modern rural Cyprus, locals try to add to value to local products. Before lunch we have an hour of modeling clay into acorns and making natural fibre twine. The acorns will be fired in our own kiln later in the week and sold in our ‘Green Village’ shop (jewelry from the landscape) to raise money for native tree planting in Kato Drys (“Drys” = “oak” in ancient Greek) – which was once a village in oak forest. Lunch in a coffee […] NORWAY NINA: Sheep Farming, Golden & White-tailed Eagle Populations This course is being organised with the Scottish Sea Eagle Working Group and is not open for applications on this occasion. We are submitting an application in January and hope to be able to offer an open course to NINA in the autumn. Host: Duncan Halley (NINA Norwegian Institute for Nature Research) Course Dates: April 2020 Application Deadline: n/a Preparation Meeting Date: TBC Aims & Themes: research & practical issues on the management of eagle populations alongside sheep farming.Comparisons & skill sharing between Norway & Scotland Draft Itinerary: NINA Institute in Trondheim; Golden Eagle Research Project; Alv Ottar; Trondheim; Alesund Reports from 2019 & 2018 film Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. SPAIN: Sustainable Farming & Agroforestry in the Dehesas of Andalucia Host: Ernestine Lüdeke (Fundación Monte Mediterráneo/ Dehesa San Francisco) Course Dates: 20 to 27 April 2020 Application Deadline: 7 February 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 26 March 2020 Aims & Themes: demonstrating organic agriculture & agroforestry in action on marginal land; cooperatives and rural economic diversity; conservation of habitats, species and soils Draft Itinerary: Date Activity April, 20th Getting to know Dehesa San Francisco – walk/hike April, 21st Visit to ham production Visit to Aracena: Nature Park Museum, Meeting with the Head of Nature Park Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche; lunch at an ecological village (access walking) with sociocratic governance. April, 22nd Visit to Villanueva de la Serena Lamb and Wool cooperative Visit to Wildlife Project with bird hospital in Villafranca de los Barros April, 23rd Visit to Cork Institute and Cork Processing plant April, 24th Visit to Roman excavation (private) Visit to Organic Olive Grove in Écija April, 25th Visit to the slum in Sevilla and the Horticulture project of FMM Visit to Sevilla University – weed expert April, 26th Individual activities on the dehesa – possibly visit to another farm April, 27th Departure day Reports from 2019 and film from 2019 Click here to download the full […] SLOVAKIA: Exploring Community Heritage in Southern Slovakia, Lišov Museum Hosts: Adriana Patkova & Jakub Dvorsky (Lišov Museum) Course Dates: 30 April to 7 May 2020 Application Deadline: 2 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 1 April 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring the potential for rural museums to increase community engagement in heritage and diversify incomes; understanding Lišov cultural heritage as part of wider Slovak & European heritage. Draft Itinerary: Arrival Budapest & travel to Lišov; discovering the 3 elements of Lišov museum – the traditional house, the Mask Museum & the reconstructed Round House; the cave houses of Lišov & Brhlovce Regeneration Project; Local heritage of honey; wine making, stone carving & oil making ; UNESCO WHS of Banska Stiavnica & Svaty Anton Village; Engagement activities at Lišov Museum including earth building, textiles, community histories; archaeological riches of the region. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are verywelcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form) BULGARIA: Community Engagement & Rural Development in the Devetaki Plateau Host: Velis Chilingirova & Iva Taralezhkova (Devetaki Plateau Association) Course Dates: 17 – 24 May 2020 Application Deadline: 2 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 24 April 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring community engagement & rural development in an area rich in natural and cultural heritage but experiencing rural depopulation; developing and delivering community action plans. Draft Itinerary: the course details will be finalised taking into account the interests of participants. Arrival Sofia & travel to the Devetaki Plateau. Visits to community organisations, heritage sites & rural development projects. 23-24th May is a national 2 day orienteering event in the Devetaki Plateau with 150 participants, May 24th is the Day of the Bulgarian Alphabet. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form) NORWAY: Evenstad Hunting, Predators & Cross-border Conservation Please send an email (libby@archnetwork.org or seona@archnetwork.org) to express an interest in this course. We will contact you when we have the dates and you can complete the application form at that point. Hosts: Inland Norway University, Evenstad Campus Course Dates: May/June 2020 TBC Application Deadline: TBC Preparation Meeting Date: TBC Aims & Themes: hunting, land rights and conservation; predator management and conflicts; cross-border management and monitoring Draft Itinerary: Arrival Oslo & travel to Evenstad Campus. The course content is under discussion and will be published on the Archnetwork website shortly. The course will include Evenstad’s expertise on adaptive ecology (forestry, sustainably hunting and fishing, game management & monitoring, predator management conflicts & cross-border working). Participants also present to students at the university. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form) ICELAND: turf building, cultural context & practical skills training Host: Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga Course Dates: 31 May to 7 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 15 May 2020 Aims & Themes: cultural heritage and archaeological context of turf buildings in Iceland; Turf building and restoration skills. Draft Itinerary: Arrival Rejkjavik; Settlement Exhibition & travel to Skagafjörđur;lectures on culture heritage management & turf buildings& visit to Skagafjörđur Heritage Museum, Glaumbær Turf Buildings; 3 days practical turf building (this is hard work & messy); Skagafjörđur Historical Buildings tour; 7 Drive to Reykjavik via Ƥingvellir National Park; Depart Rejkjavik Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form) POLAND: coastal zone management from pure engineering to pure nature Host: Kazimierz Rabski (Society for the Coast EUCC) Course Dates: 31 May to 7 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 14 May 2020 Aims & Themes: coastal zone management including planning, erosion and accumulation; managing coastal protected areas and Natura 2000 sites; tourism versus nature on the coast. 1. Responsibilities of coastal zone management. 2. National Parks management in various types of coasts. 3. Management planning. 4. Technical aspects of coastal zone management. 5.Natura 2000 in coastal areas. 6.Threats and challenges. 1.Selected aspects of coastal zone management. 2. Various types of soft coasts administration and relations to nature values. 3. Tourism versus nature. 4.Erosion and accumulation in the light of management. 5. “Natura 2000” on Polish coast of Baltic Sea Draft Itinerary: Route: Gdańsk – Łeba – Jarosławiec – Trzęsacz – Niechorze – Międzyzdroje – Świnoujście – Szczecin – Gdańsk Organisations: Maritime Offices in Gdynia and Szczecin, Słowiński and Woliński National Park administrations, Society for The Coast (NGO), individual experts. Reports from 2019 & 2018 film and earlier. Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are verywelcome to email an […] SLOVENIA: Sustainable farming & food in biodiversity rich regions Sustainable Farming & Food in Biodiversity & Protected Areas through Different Educational Approaches Host: Bojan Žnidaršič (VITRA Centre for Sustainable Development) Course Dates: 2-9 July 2002 Application Deadline: 20 April 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 19 June 2020 Aims & Themes: learning about good practice in sustainable farming & food; biodiversity management & circular economy; adaptation to climate change, food security, sustainable communities and eco-tourism. Themes & Draft Itinerary: 1. Biodiversity with all part of sustainable development 2. Ecosystem management, managing habitats and ecosystems. Rural biodinamic food in the Regional natural park 3. Adaptive aproaches to species management. Biodiversity in forest 4. Management for countryside activities for all generationes with green jobs 5. Environmental interpretation, bringing nature to people. Biodiversity in the Sea natural park 6. Natural heritage and turist management in Slovenian Alps 7. Management of Karst cultural landscapes – environmental, cultural, social and economic sustainability based of family generations 8. Managing for nature in a changing environment with UNESCO World Heritage Site Learn about good practices in sustainable farming and food inside the biodiversity and protected areas inside the public and private sectors Get to know the biodiversity of 1/3 of Slovenia’s territory and their management through various institutions […] ESTONIA: Cultural & Natural Heritage of Coastal Estonians Host: Maarika Nagel (Viitong/Heritage Tours) Course Dates: 12 – 19 July 2020 Application Deadline: 20 April 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 22 June 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring cultural heritage interpretation and management in a range of contexts; community heritage as part of community cohesion and rural development; heritage tourism. Draft Itinerary: DAY 1 : Goal of the day: Old Tallinn (UNESCO heritage site) 14:30 Guided tour in Old Tallinn Free time in Old town DAY 2 : Goal of the day: Military history, soviet history Drive to the west, traces of Peter the Great in former Soviet nuclear base in Paldiski town Haapsalu town – resort Meet the officials of Haapsalu medieval castle. Visit the site, discussion Haapsalu tour – resort, historical wooden houses and train station, Tchaikovsly bench DAY 3: Goal of the day: Island heritage alive wooden boat building in a vocational school „Spaaremaa“ – 195 years of using local sea mud for healing and wellbeing. Ferry to Muhu island, drive to Kuressaare town Wooden boat building faculty of Kuressaare Vocational School, meet specialist. visit one of the medical spas. Using sea mud in healing. Discussion, tour. Värava farm – your home in Saaremaa Check in, look […] ROMANIA: Small scale sustainable farming in Transylvania Hosts: Monica Oprean & Martin Clark (Association Satul Verde) Course Dates: 24 – 31 August 2020 Application Deadline: 18 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 14 August 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring small scale sustainable farming; hay making & orchards within a cultural landscale; the challenges of sustainable rural development, community engagement and heritage management Draft Itinerary: Participants will learn about subsistence farming as opposed to intensive farming, as well as traditional ways of managing the land. There will be opportunities to do some hands on work like hay making (cutting grass with a scythe, making a hay stack), fruit gathering, making preserves. DAY ONE: Arrive in Cluj Napoca and travel to the market town of Aiud in Alba County ( the transfer takes around 1:15 h, depending on traffic). Overnight at “Casa Domeniile Vinului” Ciumbrud (a village at the outskirts of Aiud town). Dinner & discussion about the programme. DAY TWO: Visit the village of Girbovita. We start a ‘day on the farm’ – visiting vine yard / hay meadows / orchards & vegetable gardens. In each, the focus is on the wildlife potential of these traditionally farmed areas – we look out for insects, birds, trees and flowers […] FINLAND: Forestry Education, Practice & Conservation Hosts: TAMK Tampere University of Applied Sciences Course Dates: 30 August to 6 September 2020 Application Deadline: 18 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 13 August 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring conservation, urban and commercial forestry in Finland; forestry education; hunting; ecology of mires and peatlands; skill sharing with Finnish forestry students Draft Itinerary: the course details will be finalised when the participants are selected. Arrival Tampere; the course will be centered around Tampere University & will include a presentation from Scottish participants to Finnish students; there will be visits to conservation, commercial and urban forest & a national park, Seitseminen or Helventinjarvi National Parks. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are verywelcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form) LATVIA: Forests, Wetlands, Green Infrastructure & Digital Technologies Hosts: Andis Purs (State Forest Service of Latvia) Course Dates: 6 – 13 September 2020 Application Deadline: 18 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 12 August 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring Latvian forestry and wetland management, conservation policy and practice; hunting attitudes & practices; digital tools for conservation planning & action; cultural heritage and landscapes of Latvia Draft Itinerary: the itinerary will be finalised in consultation with the participants. It will include the State Forest Service and associated government and academic organisations in Riga; Kemeri National Park, Lake Kaneiris and Dunduri Meadows; State Forest Research Institute; Cesis Institute of Environmental Solutions; Traditional Barrel Makers; Viestura Larmanic Culture Heritage as Green Infrastructure in rural north Latvia. Reports from 2019 & 2018 Click here to download the full NET course list for 2020. Click here to download the NET 5 2020 application form. (SNH staff are very welcome to email an expression of interest but they must complete their own internal HR process before submitting an application form) POLAND: STEM course – tradition, training & enterprise, the Jagiellonian Fair Lublin Tradition, training & enterprise: culture heritage & the Jagiellonian Fair Lublin Host: Agnieszka Wojciechowska (Workshops of Culture Lublin) Course Dates: 18 – 25 August 2020 Application Deadline: 4 May 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 21 May 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring traditional skills, patterns and materials in training, enterprise, heritage and community engagement. Draft Itinerary: Day 1: August 18th, Tuesday Goal of the Day: arrival, Old Town in Lublin – European Heritage Label Accomodation in the hotel. Dinner. Welcome tour in Lublin Old Town – introduction of European Heritage Label. https://lublin.eu/en/lublin/about-the-city/european-heritage-label/ Day 2: August 19th, Wednesday Goal of the Day: multicultural heritage Visiting Muzeum Wsi Lubelskiej / The Open Air Village Museum in Lublin The Open Air Village Museum in Lublin is a permanent public institution of knowledge and science which specializes in creating, preserving and sharing both material and intangible cultural heritage and social background. The Museum recreates historical forms of settlements, habitations, buildings of public services of villages and small towns with their interiors as well as with traditional forms of the rural landscape. The institution plays a significant educational and societal role in popularizing both esthetic and intellectual needs. This role defines cultural identity as a mediator […] ESTONIA: STEM course 2020 – traditional skills & nature, training & community Culture heritage, traditional skills and nature: training and community engagement. Host: Maarika Nagel (Viitong/Heritage Tours) Course Dates: 14 – 21 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 Mar 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 20 May 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring traditional skills as part of education, community life and heritage engagement in a digitally engaged and biodiversity rich country. Draft Itinerary: 2020 study trip Erasmus+ programme Central Estonia Dates: June 14 to June 21 2020 Day 1 Goal of the Day: arrival, Old Tallinn – UNESCO heritage site Welcome tour in Old Tallinn guided by Riin Alatalu Dinner, good sleep Overnight in Tallinn Day 2 Goal of the Day: environment and sustainability, industrial and dark heritage. Vasalemma and Rummu villages. Former horrible destination of prisons and criminals and the worst soviets, nowdays an atractive tourism destination. Vasalemma – industrial heritage. https://www.visittallinn.ee/eng/visitor/see-do/sport-adventure/pid-179639/matkajuht https://www.visittallinn.ee/eng/visitor/see-do/sport-adventure/pid-179642/paekalda-holiday-resort activity Meet Kaja Lotman – the outstanding lady of Estonian environmental activities, the nominee of Alfred Toepfer medal given for the most outstanding input in nature protection and sustainable development of Europe 2019. Overnight in Tallinn Day 3 Goals of the Day: 1.Outstanding practices integrating agricultural and country heritage to modern life. 2. Sharing the heritage knowledge with youth via studies. […] Romania: STEM Course 2020 biodiversity, traditional skills & rural development Linking rich biodiversity with traditional skills and rural development in Transylvania. Hosts: Fundatia ADEPT Course Dates: 12 -19 June 2020 Application Deadline: 31 March 2020 Preparation Meeting Date: 22 May 2020 Aims & Themes: exploring traditional skills as part of rural development and heritage engagement in a biodiversity rich area of small scale sustainable farming. Draft Itinerary: Airports: Either Sibiu, Targu Mures, Cluj-Napoca, or Bucharest Proposed accommodations: Hotel Central Park, Dracula Danes, Viscri guesthouses Day 1: Arrival and transfers to Sighisoara. Dinner with the hosts. Day 2: Saschiz- visiting the ADEPT office, short presentation of each partner and discussion of food regulation barriers to small producers Lunch at the office Fruit and vegetable processing unit Ceramic workshop Dinner in Sighisoara (or in Saschiz- local association of women+ discussions) Day 3: Angofa project- visit and discussions (educational center, cattle farm) Lunch at the ANGOFA SCHOOL Bio-Mosna visit (milk processing model) Dinner at the farm Day 4: Medias- visiting the glass recycling workshop Medias- town visit and lunch Brateiu- craft village visit Return to Sighisoara – dinner Day 5: Visiting Torcatoria de lana- wool processing unit in Mihai Viteazu Commune Cluj-Napoca Lunch in Luncani, Cluj Visiting oil pressing unit in Luncani, Luna […] Summary Report for NET 5 2019 2019 has been another great year for the NET Programme. Our hosts have delivered a wide range of innovative and well-crafted courses in nature conservation and cultural heritage management, and the NET participants have created an excellent and diverse range of reports from films encouraging agroforesty in Scotland, outreach activities based on Slovak cave houses, recommendations for forest and wetland management, audio and visual diaries, presentations, and thoughtful reports on many topical issues. NET continues to celebrate the connections between Scotland and Europe and the many ways in which we can share skills and work together. Please click here to download the NET 5 2019 summary report. kate holl Film: Dehesa – A Spanish Agroforestry Farming System & Implications for Scotland There are very few contemporary examples of agroforestry in Scotland today, so to help land managers visualise what this system could look like and how it might work on your farm, we have made a short film about a living, working agroforestry farm in the south of Spain. The system is called Dehesa, and although the climate is different, the Dehesa has many parallels with marginal land in the Scottish uplands. SPAIN: STEM Course Woodworking tradition & innovation in Galicia Woodworking & forest management: tradition and innovation in Galicia. Please send us an expression of interest email (seona@archnetwork.org or libby@archnetwork.org) if you like to be informed when the course dates are set and then you can complete a full application at that stage. Hosts: XERA Agency for Forest Based Industries Galicia Course Dates: TBCApplication Deadline: TBC Preparation Meeting Dates: TBC Aims & Themes: exploring traditional woodworking alongside forest management: innovation, enterprise and strategy in Galicia Draft Itinerary: the details for this course will be posted soon but it will involve XERA Santiago de Compostella & Ourense, visits to local woodworkers using a variety of traditional & innovative techniques, forest managers, government support agencies and cultural heritage organisations. Click here for the full list of STEM 2020 course. Click here for the STEM 2020 application form. Rachel Backshall Inspiring Identity: how heritage connects community in Southern Slovakia – Lišov Múzeum The museum champions the lifestyles of people in the years current and previous, and the skills and knowledge linked to this are being upheld, celebrated and rejuvenated. Lišov Múzeum is less a museum about archaeology and artefacts and more a museum about a way of life, and a community. It feels like it preserves less of a specific time period, but looks towards history as more of an template for our modern world, assessing what we can learn from the past to improve what we do today, which on a much broader scale allows us to asses our own identities in the process. Gavin MacGregor Glimpses of Thracian Landscapes At the cultural centre, we chat with the ladies, who welcome us with evident pride, about the people and stories of Gorsko Slivovo. The gallery space provides powerful juxtaposition: on one wall, dark eyes stare, four mothers dressed in black, four sons sacrificed, partisan scenes of resistance and death. A shrine remembers oppressions past, Soviet, Ottoman, Roman; on the other wall, paintings of traditional dress, costumes of colour and hope, the shepherds practical garb, lively animals and fertile fields. The promise of bounty and celebration of a community, who knew it is only the land, which has always been there, and through commitment sustains them. Like some ongoing conversation across the gallery, these faces of Bulgaria continue to speak. Lana Blakely Wetland & Coastal Management in the Odra Delta – a model for Mersehead? It was a great opportunity to be able to spend a week looking at the various types of parks and reserves in the Odra Delta and seeing the benefits and challenges of each. I think we were all blown away by how rich and diverse the wildlife and landscapes are, not just within the protected areas, but in the general landscape of the region as a whole. The main issues facing protected areas and wildlife in general in Poland seems to be a familiar one, lack of funding, staffing and awareness, which is all too familiar a problem in the UK as well. Due to Poland’s history, many people do not feel a connection to the land and so one of the results is that volunteering is nearly non-existant, which is a shame as this could be a rich source of help that is currently unavailable. It will also be interesting to see how the reserves will cope with climate change; increased pressure from predation and invasive species is tied in to this (as seen at Ujscie Warty NP) and subsequently pressure on staff time and funding for projects to deal with this. Hopefully the diversity of the landscapes means […] Abigail Guthrie From Scotland to Slovakia: Cave Dwellings & Community Heritage ARCH coordinates adult education courses to Europe through the Erasmus+ Programme. We run a range of week-long courses for 6 to 8 participants with our host trainers in Europe. Next year we will run 10 courses based around managing cultural and community heritage Emily Warner Woodland Regeneration & Grazing in South West Norway It was amazing to explore the regenerating forests in SW Norway and to understand better how native forests can develop with a lower browsing pressure. Deer management practices differ between Norway and Scotland, with carcass weights used to determine deer quotas in Norway, indicating the overall health of the population and helping to balance its impacts on woodland regeneration. Cultural and social factors have influenced the woodland regeneration we saw, from the abandonment of farms over the 20th Century to the different attitudes to hunting, foraging and land-use in Norway. The diversity of species and structure in the Norwegian forest sets an example for us to aspire to in Scotland, and we need to consider how to integrate a rebounding forest within Scotland’s cultural and social setting. Forestry, Biodiversity & Conservation in Finland Natural regeneration was abundant nearly everywhere we visited, something which is comparatively unusual in Scotland unless it is enclosed within a deer fence. Regeneration was so prevalent in some locations that it was encroaching into previously open habitats, such as small fields of abandoned farms. A strong hunting culture and associated herbivore management within Finland appears to the main cause for natural regeneration within Finnish forests. Marina Gray The Comeback of An Apex Predator: Could Scotland Learn from Norway? Geographical Connectivity is the Natural Key Norway has had a natural recolonization of all carnivores, due to be part of the continent Europe and neighbour countries fluxes. First wolves recolonized in 1980 to the south, through dispersion of the first wolves by likely Finish-Russian populations. The geographical position of the UK being an island doesn’t allow natural recolonization, and therefore it leaves the question to wether we could or we should intervene Monica Warwick Traditional Buildings & Community Heritage in Lišov The purpose of this report is to share the knowledge I gained while working with the Lišov Múzeum in October 2019. As a member of the Technical Outreach and Education team at The Engine Shed, I wanted to focus on the traditional building materials and skills, as well as the importance of community engagement in Lišov. This report is primarily visual, with key points written out. The idea behind this is to be able to share this information with colleagues, or others who may be interested, in an accessible format. The ability to share information visual and through activities or tactile learning is important to our team and for our work with the public. The Hierarchy of Protected Areas in Poland & Comparison with Scotland The level of protection afforded to different types of protected area in Poland is not dissimilar to that in Scotland. For example, in terms of the Natura 2000 network all EU countries have an obligation to transpose the Habitats and Birds Directives into domestic legislation. Similarly, in Scotland and Poland, regulatory authorities and have their own responsibilities. I think the main difference in the protect areas protection measures between Poland and Scotland is the level of public promotion and access provision. In Scotland we actively advertise our protected areas at whatever level but in Poland this is much more subtle even where public access provision is encouraged. The trip to Poland was truly fascinating in many respects and one would hope that western influences do not put pressures on the natural heritage we experience in Scotland and the UK as a whole. Heather James Exploring Community Heritage in Southern Slovakia I was especially interested in the ethnographic display in the museum which included some flax heckling boards. I have been working on an 18th century flax mill near Glasgow and so it was great to see how the hand heckling technique worked. One handle was for the foot and the other for one hand. The flax was then thrashed against the heckling spikes to straighten the flax fibres ready for spinning. This technique would have been used in Scotland prior to the construction of water mills. Apparently there were a couple of water mills in Lišov in the 19th century, but they have been demolished. Corn mills were often used for other purposes such as flax mills and saw mills. Flax was grown in this area in the past and according to Jacob there are old flax soaking ponds in the area. Tom Ingrey-Counter Greetings from Bulgaria: workplace posts for the National Lottery Heritage Fund This is one of the faces of Walltopia – a Bulgaria company and a global leader in climbing wall manufacture. It belongs to the Mountain Guides training school in Troyan on the Devistashko Plateau, established in 2013. Marco, one of the teachers here, tells us that students arrive aged 14, and leave six years later with a range of skills including cultural tourism, mountain biking skills, navigation and first aid. Chris Tilbury A Tale of Two Forests – Comparing Forests and Conservation in Finland and Scotland I went to Finland with an idea to compare the forests there with those in Scotland and, more specifically, with that found at Abernethy. It became apparent, however, that such a comparison was unrealistic. The context of the forests, geographically, culturally and historically, are totally different. Finland is roughly 5 times the size of Scotland and is 75% forested. The population is approximately the same in both countries. This has meant that huge areas of Finnish forest are never, or incredibly rarely, disturbed by human activity. Historically, effectively all of Scotland’s forests have been managed as commercial plantations, especially following the Second World War. This meant a huge reduction in the size of the forest and large areas of forest consisting of uniform trees the same age and size. Finland has greater areas of old growth, natural forest which has never been managed by humans. Culturally, the natural world appears to garner much more respect in Finland than in Scotland with visitors much less likely to actively damage the forest or wilfully disturb wildlife. Regular fire sites and camping huts mean that visitors have designated places to eat, sleep and light fires. Much of the way the Finnish people treat […] Hamshya Rajkumar Sustainable Development of Cultural & Natural Assets in 2 Cypriot Mountain Villages Looking to the communities of the past can directly inspire the answers to these questions. Maybe people could connect to their heritage to feel a sense of place, a sense of identity and ‘rootedness’, in a way that is relevant to their lives. Maybe wider communities can be created in museums by ensuring that people from disenfranchised backgrounds find a ‘home’ and share learning possibilities in the museum environment. Maybe it is extending beyond the academic/intellectual framework that informs traditional museum culture, to also engage with, in a sustainable way, skilled craftspeople, artists, storytellers and musicians to form creative spaces, who intersect with, and are informed by, the collections held in the museum. Maybe by having such an inclusive environment, we can directly mirror the coherent, collectively organised communities of the past. Meryl Carr The Future of Small Scale Farming in Romania Visiting Alba and neighbouring counties in Transylvania, Romania was the highlight of my working year. I applied to go on this ERASMUS funded Arch destination as I thought it would be an interesting in-sight into how other European countries manage the funding opportunities provided by the European Common Agricultural Policy, particularly to benefit the small scale farmer and small rural communities. My main area of work during the year is assessing Agri-Environment and Climate Change grant applications. In Scottish Natural Heritage we assess any applications which involve land management on designated sites or deer management. As Romania is one the new member states to enter the European fold, lies in Eastern Europe where in the past agriculture has had many challenges, I was interested to see and hear their story and find out if and how the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy was benefitting agriculture and the environment in Romania. I live and work in the North West Highlands of Scotland, one of the Crofting Counties where small scale agriculture dominates. Romania is a country where small, semi subsistence/subsistence farming is of great importance. Is there a future for this type of farming in the European Union? Roo Campbell Wild Cats, Traditional Farming & Camera Traps In Scotland, we have lost many of the attitudes to livestock husbandry that allow coexistence with predators. The exception to this is with smaller livestock such as chickens, were the concept of protection is well understood. If we ever bring back any of the larger predators, we can learn from the practices employed in countries like Romania. Finally, if we are going to be able to support a viable wildcat population in perpetuity in Scotland (i.e. without risk of hybridisation), we may need to look at the environment in Romania and see what we can take from it that helps both wildcats and biodiversity more generally. Jackie Taylor Rimet – A Living Landscape: Establishing a Natural & Cultural Heritage Foundation in Romania, a Case Study in the Apuseni Mountains In the Cairngorms National Park tourism has greatly influenced a range of factors including the development of towns and villages, road infrastructure, signage, land management, demographics and employment. The park has a resident population of 18,000 people and every year between April and October 1.8 million visitors enter the park boundary. This volume of tourism requires significant resource to manage. Rimet is on the cusp of change and in ten years may be a very different village to the one it is now; a small, picturesque village in a beautiful location. The decision makers have the opportunity now to plan for change, to look at other examples across the world, learn from their mistakes and demonstrate sustainable tourism in practice. Sian Atkinson Rewilding or working with nature – lessons from rural Transylvania What can be learnt from all this? Preserving traditional land management, culture and ways of life in Transylvania is crucial, not as a quaint museum piece, but within a wider narrative that draws out their interconnectedness with the natural world. Supporting younger people to remain in rural areas, and to develop low impact, ecologically conscious tourism at a rate and scale that supports rather than destroys the existing balance and pattern of life could be part of the answer, and providing agri-environment grants and packages that are easily accessed, and truly supportive of small scale subsistence farmers could be another. From a UK perspective, we need to learn as much as we can. Romania & Scotland Years ago a friend visited Romania and when he returned he commented that the countryside he found there felt to him how he imagined much of Scotland must have once been. We are a nation working to restore natural habitats that have been lost and to repair the mistakes we have made in the past, while they are a country who still hold the potential to learn from the mistakes made in other lands and work to protect and celebrate their wild landscapes, before they need to be saved and restored. I look around the vast scenes of canopy covered mountains and wonder if Transylvania isn’t just a glimpse of what Scotland has lost but of what it could also recover. Gavin Skipper A Comparison of Romanian Village Farming with Crofting on Balmacara Estate Following my structured training course in Romania and subsequent discussion with my colleagues, we now have plans to bring some of the traditional village farming methods from Romania onto Balmacara Estate. We have a demonstration species-rich meadow on a high profile gateway site. Next year before the harvest we will get the students from the crofting course at Plockton High School to establish a number of fixed quadrats on the meadow. They will record and quantify the plant species and invertebrate life within these quadrats giving us a base sample. When the meadow is ready to cut, half will be done by the students using scythes, creating Romanian style haystacks in the process. The other half of the meadow will be cut using modern machinery creating round baling hay. On an annual basis the crofting students will carry out the same procedures, and we will monitor the quadrats to check what is happening to the biodiversity within each half of the meadow. Lucy Cunningham Romanian Ways An openness of this kind to new ideas could be key to the sustainable development of Transylvannia and many other places like it. Outsiders could come to live in these remote regions, enticed by the free land and materials, and make a commitment to work the land – undertaking to do the hard graft, and to learn from the community, before these skills are lost. There is huge interest from people in the UK and beyond, who recognise this need to get back to the land, who would undertake this – within a system they can trust, and that works for everyone. If the new road leads to developments in infrastructure which eventually allow faster internet, then a whole new raft of possibilities open up to people working part time on the internet for some income, but remaining committed to small scale farming practice – knowing its value from having seen the results of over development in their various countries of origin. Claire Glaister A Series of Finnish Forestry Blogs By Claire Glaister, Institute of Chartered Foresters 61 degrees latitude: A house of 100 trees An intrepid group of seven left Scotland to head to the land of lakes and trees; a country with a scale of forestry which, to a forester, comes close to Utopia. The week-long Erasmus+ study tour, hosted by Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and promoted by ARCH, was to cover forests, birds and environmental education. On arrival at our accommodation for the week however, it became clear that we would also be treated to spectacular skies and sunrises, landscapes and culture and great hospitality too. The final turn of our journey that night took us down an avenue of Silver birch which, even accounting for the car’s headlights, seemed to shine brightly in front of us. The bark looked much brighter than we see on birch at home and certainly lived up to the tree’s silver title. Sitting around the kitchen table that first evening, our neighbour, Tapio Rautaneva, the owner of the house, explained to us how he had built it using 100 trees from his own woodland – just along the road – individually selected for their physical and quality characteristics. […] The government use revenue from hunting licences to compensate landowners on any damage to productive tree crops by deer browsing – if this is indeed correct it is a very different system to what we have in Scotland. Despite the presence of bears and wolves we learned that hunting is essential to managing a sustainable deer population, which was contrary to my perception at the start of the trip. Tapio said there are around 300 wolves in Finland, but 10,000 would be needed to meet equilibrium. It would not be possible for the number of wolves to coexist with the current human population of Finland – so hunting of deer by humans will always be required. We also learned that in the Lapland area accounting for 36% of the country no bears, wolves or lynx were tolerated and were shot on sight to protect the reindeer. Unlike Scotland there are no ‘professional’ hunters, as hunting is too popular of an activity. However, Tapio foresees such jobs might exist in the future as the country continues to urbanise and less people live in rural areas. Sarah Badman-Flook Finland, Forest & Friends 2019: a film report This film shows the other side of the Erasmus course – the friendships formed and the cultural barriers toppled. Emily Bryce A Roof O’er Their Heads: turf buildings through time in Scotland & Iceland This presentation illustrates turf building in Iceland and Scotland and details plans for a new turf building in Glen Coe Amee Hood Latvia Report 2019 & Species List A group report covering a range of perspectives and topics from the NET Latvia course 2019. John Macdonald Plant the Planet! Hunting is cultural; licensing includes Wolf, Beaver, Lynx & Bear, Moose, Red and Roe deer that the others might scare! Sprays & deterrents are used but fences are few, Hunters are plenty but numbers including Golden Jackal still grew. Lucy Elliff LATVIA: A CULTURAL JOURNEY NOT JUST A NATURAL ONE! From the wetlands of Kemeri National Park through to the wooded sand stone valley of Gauja National Park the visiting tourist cannot fail to be impressed by the abundance of information signs, play areas, picnic spots, fire pits, boarded walks and walking trails which manage to make you feel welcome without compromising on the natural beauty of the landscape. I think all in the group would agree that we were excited about the accessibility of Latvia to a tourist with return trips already being mapped out. Nothing demonstrates this tourism infrastructure more than the Latvian Nature app, freely available and translated into English it enables you to maximise your visit to Latvia from the comfort of your pocket. ĶEMERI NATIONAL PARK – BOGS, WETLANDS, AND RE-MEANDERINGS An account of the history and restoration works undertaken of one of Latvia’s major peat bogs – and the restoration of an adjoining river and associate flood plains. Duncan Bruce Forestry in Latvia In terms of organisational structure there are strong similarities to Scotland. The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) develops policy. The State Forest Service sits within the MOA and enforces legislation across the industry whilst providing support and issuing licences/permits for all forests regardless of ownership. Finally, the Latvia State Forests Joint Stock Company operates as a commercial entity and manages all state owned forests. However as Normunds went into more detail and as we visited more forests throughout the week it became clear that organisational structure was where any similarities to forestry in Scotland ended. In terms of forest cover, ownership and management Scotland and Latvia could hardly be more different. It was fascinating to spend time in a country with such a different approach, where forestry seems to be winning out over intensive tree farming. Since being back at work I’ve been looking at my sites differently, wondering how much of what I saw could work here and daydreaming of Wolf , Moose, Lynx and Bear…. Paldies Latvia! Paul Roberts Deer, Moose & Forestry in Latvia In Latvia deer management is administered centrally by the State Forest Service and there is a national register of hunters who require a license to hunt. However management is devolved to the 2074 hunting districts with cull targets and objective agreed locally. This and the requirement of a minimum land area over which to hunt different species means that there is a more collaborative approach to hunting in Latvia. Cull reporting is more rigorous than in Scotland and hunters are required to record where, when and how many deer they harvest. Chris Fairgrieve Forest Management, Disease & Control: Perspectives from Latvia Given the extent and value of both Norway and Sitka spruce stands in both Scotland and the wider UK, it is vitally important economically and environmentally as described above to minimize and control any outbreaks of dangerous forest pests in coming years. Lessons learned in Latvia as well as other European countries indicate the importance of early detection through annual monitoring and indeed the important relevant intervention to control outbreaks and minimize losses as well as preventing further spread of infestations. Ross Watson Institute for Environmental Solutions It is an impressive set up, with a (for Latvia) diverse staff of 35, who are highly skilled and experienced in their fields of biology, chemistry, electronics, and others. The umbrella vision for IES and the other 11 companies is an ethos of environmental thinking through medicine, art, beauty, and gastronomy. There is a conscious effort to break the barriers between science based knowledge and the experience of people who have gained a deep understanding of the land through years of working and living with it, blending the two to gain a higher level of understanding. This is done through job swaps, careful recruitment, local projects, and shadowing. Molly Doubleday A Capercaillie’s Home & Finnish Blogs What beguiled me on this trip was that it was evident from every Finnish person I spoke too that they had a deep respect for nature. This included the hunters. Even the predators were an important part of their mythology. For instance, people used to collect the first droppings that a bear produced after hibernation and kept them in a pouch to wear so that they would have the strength of a bear all year. Another indication of this respect was the almost total lack of litter found in natural places which can be a real problem in Scotland. Our student guides just didn’t understand why you would leave rubbish behind. Solo walks in the forest were common and important to people of all ages. My impression was that the Finnish culture still maintained a real connection with nature whilst some urbanisation in Scotland may have severed this connection. Carrie Weager Estonia: Happy by Nature Estonian runic singing began to decline as European influences took prevalence. When I heard this I was reminded of a passage in a book called ‘Soil and Soul’ by Alastair McIntosh, when he described a ‘loss of cultural self-confidence’ that occurred in Gaelic culture with the advent of television and radio. The singing that used to accompany activities such as weaving, rowing and ploughing gradually fell silent. This trip has inspired me to finally bite the bullet and sign up to Gaelic classes (a part of my own heritage that was not passed down by my great-grandparents). On the Sandwood estate where I work we are also developing a plan to gather unrecorded Gaelic place names from older members of the community, to see what more they can tell us about the area’s people, history and ecology before they are lost forever. This trip has inspired me to believe this is a project well worth undertaking. Melanie Nicoll Field Notes: Integrating livestock with woodland Overall, though, I was most struck by the interplay and interdependency of the different land uses and incredible attention to detail in the management of the trees, pasture and livestock. Just one example of this was learning of the special calculation done each year into the anticipated acorn crop and limit set accordingly on the number of pigs that can be reared in order to retain organic status for pork production. Such an ethos is surely something that John Muir would have approved of, regardless of whether in sunny, southern Spain or on the side of a somewhat soggier Scottish mountain:- “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Lessons learn from the Spanish “dehesa”: a new model for Scottish agriculture & woodland management? The holistic approach to land management that is the defining feature of the dehesa system of land management provides an opportunity to consider how the historic, largely sectoral approaches to Scottish agriculture and woodland/forestry could be better integrated for the benefit of people, nature and the wider environment. Such a shift in thinking could be of particular value to agriculture on marginal land. Tree and animal species would necessarily differ from those in Spain but, for example, fruit trees could be expected to have a particular role given their nutritional value for livestock as well as opportunities for a crop and fruit-related products. Matthew Bellhouse-Moran Estonia: Rapid Development & Deep Traditions Rapid development is the watchword for Estonia. New infrastructure, new roads, integration of technology and heavy investment – both nationally and from the European Union – speak of a country facing forward. It is heartening to see that this is not to the detriment or exclusion of natural, built and cultural heritage. Tradition runs deep and, for the most part, it is incorporated into Estonian identity along with this rapid progress. Development has been carefully balanced, in the main, with nature. Estonians value nature and their relationship with it in a different way to Scotland, it being more integrated and present in their lives, all around them rather than being something one takes a trip to visit. Rebecca Barclay An Estonian Adventure Exhibits included 3D site models – making the castle more accessible for visually impaired visitors, and old maps and archaeological site drawings printed on Perspex which could be slid over one another showing how the site changed through time (an idea I’d like to steal for Archaeology Scotland!). My favourite exhibit was the wall of artefacts found during recent excavations. Pot fragments displayed over the outline of the type of pot they came from and bridle parts displayed over a sketch of a horse’s head made it obvious what the artefacts were, and were used for in the past – sketches like this would be a great addition to our Artefact Investigation kits. Susan Webster Estonia – People & Place The ‘singing revolution’ is the time between 1986 and 1991 when Estonians gathered in large numbers to sing revolutionary songs in a non-violent protest against the soviet occupation. Culturally this was a powerful way of Estonia retaining its identity. 100,000 Estonians gathered for 7 days and nights in the Tallinn song festival grounds. ‘Until now, revolutions have been filled with destruction, burning, killing and hate, but we started our revolution with a smile and a song’ Estonian Activist Heinz Valk who coined the term ‘ singing revolution’ Julia Westbury Hunting Game in Norway: A Way of Life & a Method of Management Hunting in Norway is deeply engrained in the country’s history and its culture. This makes replicating its use as a conservation tool difficult for countries, such as Scotland, where hunting is regarded as merely a rich man’s sport. Nevertheless, there is much that Scotland can learn from Norway’s attitude to hunting. Aa is for Everything – an ABC of Estonia Aa is for Everything is a personal record of a week-long exploration of Estonia’s cultural heritage that took place from 4-11 August 2019. It contains personal reflections and observations, bits and pieces of history gleaned from our guide and from my own research, inspiration from conversations with my tour companions, and from the information imparted by our many hosts who generously gave of their time and shared their knowledge. The ABC structure of this report is inspired by the book Sõrulase Aabits, a primer on the cultural heritage of Sõrve on the island of Saaremaa. The word aabits comes from the pronunciation of the first three letters of the Estonian alphabet: ah-bey-tsay The full report is reprinted below, or you can go to the Aa is for Everything website – there’s also a map of the places we visited and a gallery of images. The programme was developed by ARCH Scotland and funded through Erasmus+ and hosted by Maarika Naagel of Vitong Heritage Tours. You can read the stories and articles here as a kind of idiosyncratic introduction to Estonian culture as I found it in 2019. It’s far from exhaustive, but hopefully instructive. A bit of everything. Thanks for […] Nina Probst Tere Tulemast to ESTONIA What inspired and impressed me most was the chosen narrative, the acceptance that different idea(l)s of Estonia exist, from the Estonian diaspora, islanders, people from the countryside, from towns or from Tallinn. It wasn’t supporting one national idea of what Estonia is, which too often seems to be propagated by countries even today but showing that there are many and that there is room for all of them. Visitors were also frequently asked to consider “what would you have done?” instead of condemning everything in good or bad. It was the perfect ending, summing up what we all had come to notice – that Estonians are a very resourceful and colourful people, proud of who they are and where they are from. Rhona Maxwell Estonia – Ya (Baltic) Beauty! I’ll treasure many memories from our time in Estonia – swimming in the Baltic sea at sunset, climbing a lighthouse, seeing a moose, meeting Mari, but I also want to hold onto the lessons learned, and bring those home with me. I can draw many parallels with Scotland – both have dramatic landscapes, vast wilderness and habitats, rich heritage and stunning beaches. And both have the same strongest asset- it’s people. I’ll be doing everything I can to embed what I’ve learned into helping connect, and reconnect, Scotland’s people with what they have on their doorstep, and the stories, skills and ancestry in their blood. Sophie McGraw Sustainable Development & Biodiversity in Slovenia – A GIS Storymap Secovlje Salt Pans We learned that the park is on the list of Ramsar wetlands of international importance. In fact, in 2003 the solina was damaged which meant no harvesting took place, however European funding helped restore the site for birdlife, which in turn enabled salt harvesting to resume. It was really interesting to see how much of an asset wildlife has been for the park, as it enabled them to restore the salt-pans, and the park clearly takes great pride in its wildlife. Matt Dale Visitor Management in the West Pomaranian region of Poland I work as a ranger at Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park where my job can be best described as ‘helping visitors enjoy the National Park in a safe and responsible way’. This can be done through sharing of information, education and also enforcement through patrolling. My main patrol area is Loch Lomond so I was very keen to visit similar wetland environments in Poland and see how land managers do things there. Stephen Inglis Breeding wader conservation in West Pomerania Grazing management in Poland currently appears to be wader friendly and it was encouraging to hear that many efforts are being made to make sure grazing is appropriate. At Ujscie Warty, large extents of the park’s floodplain meadows are rented out to local farmers for cattle grazing. Although farmers are keen to get stock out onto the meadows as soon as possible, the park authorities make an attempt to prevent cattle introduction until the second half of June to reduce trampling risk to wader nests but also prevent excessive damage to soft wet ground. Adriana Patková New Course Community Heritage in Southern Slovakia 4-11 October 2019 Lišov Museum is a newly set up rural museum which aims to celebrate culture history and to provide a stimulant to local development. The area has a rich heritage of historical and archaeological sites and the museum works on a range of building and craft techniques as part of their education and outreach activities Will Hayward Gamebird hunting and raptors in Norway By participating in the survey and reporting bag numbers the hunters themselves are key figures in game management. Due to the vastly different cultural heritage of hunting in Norway, where hunting is much more a way of life than an elite hobby, divides between shooting and conservation communities simply do not exist as they do in the UK. However it is inspiring to see what can be achieved when all parties recognise the requirement for robust and contemporary population data and work together to ensure gamebird hunting is carried out at a sustainable level each year. Sergey Eydelman Forestry in Norway The important role of the mountain forests for ground’s stability has been observed at Dovre National Park. Betula pendula, B. pubescenis, B. nana, Juniperus communis, and Salex spp cover waist area overhead 1000 m above the sea level between stands of coniferous and alpine zone. Roots system holds poor, stony and wet soil and well protects against landslides. The woodland habitat creates much better biodiversity than post-grazing grassland. That is a good example for land management of similar areas in Scotland. Jess Barrett Connecting with nature in West Pomerania I was inspired by the focus placed on face to face engagement in Poland to connect people with nature. Given the small size of the teams overseeing the nature areas I felt the decision to concentrate on being out amongst people rather than focusing on producing written communications for press and social media allowed them to build support for nature with the people living next door to it. It highlighted the importance of having local people engaged with nature and supportive of their work which in turn helps with the delivery of conservation. Fleur Miles-Farrier Differences between the protection, education and public awareness of nature sites in Poland and Scotland. a common tactic seemed to be limiting public knowledge of the parks as much as possible, reducing pressure on the environment and disturbance to wildlife as there is just not the staff or infrastructure to support them. Has this resulted in Ujscie Warty National Park having one of the highest densities of birds in Poland? or Dabskie Lake in Szczecin having the highest number of White-tailed Eagles in Europe? Of course, this is not to say they don’t want visitors, they just can’t currently handle them without the resources. Hopefully in the future perceptions will change and they will be awarded the funding they deserve, and be able show off the wonderful nature and wildlife of Poland in a sustainable way. Colin Tate Invasive alien species in Western Pomerania’s wetlands and protected areas Action includes a ban on keeping on selling the species, a rapid eradication obligation of newly emerging populations and the management of established populations to prevent the species from becoming a wider problem and to keep them out of protected areas. Laura Preston 10 Useful Norwegian Websites for Conservation Links to the best Norwegian websites and databases fpr conservation. Debbie Skinner The Protection of Norway’s Nature It is obvious that Norway recognises the ecological, economic and cultural importance of its natural environment. However in the absence of Natura sites combined with increasing pressures from development, Norway’s nature may face testing times ahead. With Scotland’s smaller landmass combined with greater pressures from development, I’m not sure our environment would be robust enough to withstand Norway’s approach to environmental protection. It is therefore reassuring to know that the Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that EU environmental standards will continue to be met once we leave the EU. Michael Thornton Land ownership and natural resource management in Norway Land management continues to be highly sectorial in Scotland, with different sectors (arable farming, conservation, game management) working in isolation, competing for limited natural resources. This has led to significant land use and human wildlife conflicts, resulting in a culture of distrust among the different stakeholders. In contrast, Norwegian land management is based on a more integrated system, with a greater culture of land stewardship, trust and shared values amongst its stakeholders. Forests, Mountains & Meadows in Eastern Slovakia Again there was an overwhelming diversity of flowers – a carpet of colour and endless new species. Highlights included Clematis recta; Anemone sylvestris which looked like a poppy; birds nest orchids and broomrapes; cornflower; a carpet of bugle; salvia; dianthus; martagon lily; lily of the valley; and Solomon’s seal. The diversity and sheer number of flowers was magnificent, and something we simply do not have in Scotland. The management of the meadows has now been mechanised and the meadow is cut in late June/early July. Previously it was cut by hand and used as hay but nowadays it is baled. Brigitte Postma Torfljàr – Drawing Turf Building During our week in Iceland I made use of every opportunity to record visual material by making photos and sketches, and as a result I now have at my disposal a valuable source of material to continue to work on in my art studio. I will make a series of works on the subject that will be exhibited during Perthshire Open Studios in September 2019. Re-building a turf barn at Tyrfingsstaðir farm The round inside of the barn required the Klambra to be cut with enough of an angle so that they can be firmly pushed together with no gaps, these gaps would create weak areas in the wall which could lead to collapse or failure of the structure. Alistair Norris History of Turf Building From the late 19th and early 20th century turf building ceased to be the main form of construction in Iceland surpassed first by timber construction and soon after by the widespread use of modern concrete. This form of construction is now only used to maintain historic structures and in demonstration projects to keep the knowledge of these construction techniques alive. Turf Building & Potential in Scotland However easy Helgi make it seem I realise that there is a tremendous level of experience needed behind turf building especially in the choice of areas/conditions to excavate turf from and the design of the structure being built. I will experiment with interested volunteers but greatly look forward to the opportunity of involvement with the turf building restoration planned for Glencoe and appreciate the links made by this course with other potential turf builders in Scotland. Andrew McAvoy Turf Ting A Visual Diary & Written Report The frame was entered with some sense, that new architecture on the Arctic rim, will have to evolve to tackle the greatest contemporary human imperative – Climate Change. To this end matters of thermal transfer and isolation offered by the inherent properties of Turf are reflected on. ( with of course – a pinch of Icelandic pragmatism and dark humour, thrown into the hot tub …for good measure. Stacie Allan Turf Building Presentation Much like in Scotland, turf building is in serious decline, this leads to a skills shortage and a danger that the skills might eventually be lost. The beauty of turf building is that it has evolved over generations in response to factors such as the socioeconomic changes, materials shortage and the effects of the everchanging climate climate. Thankfully, the work that Skagafjörður Heritage Museum is doing, helps to keep the skills and knowledge alive. Duncan Ainslie Icelandic Turf Building – Tools and their uses. What is sometimes forgotten though is that for traditional trades to be carried out in a truly traditional way they rely on the correct tools being available. This is felt in the UK – at present a number of tool making crafts feature on the Heritage Crafts Association ‘Red List of Endangered Crafts’. This is not an issue unique to the UK. It became apparent that sourcing replacement parts for the Icelandic turf building tools, the turf scythe in particular, was a challenge Report on Turf Building Course in Iceland Then strips of Torfa a double Strengur are laid to the thin part or tail of the Strengur on the inside of the wall from front to back. These are built overlapping each other which strengthens the wall and bonds it together. Once the stone base course is built to the required height the clamping blocks or Klambra can be built on top. Vanessa Burton Norway NET 2018 Landbruk: lessons for Scotland from Norway The Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership are based in Perthshire, Scotland. Here, public, private, community and charity partners are working together to connect woodlands across Highland Perthshire. Members of the partnership were recently given the opportunity to visit Norway on a training course developed by ARCH, hosted by Duncan Halley and NINA (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research) and funded through the Erasmus+ programme. The Dehesas of Southern Spain I have a newfound appreciation for this sense of balance that maximises environmental and social priorities, something that can be difficult to achieve. This study visit has emphasised the global importance of this system (in terms of preventing desertification), whilst also providing a shining example for sustainable, biodiversity-friendly land management systems elsewhere in Europe. Transhumance in the 21st Century – a social & ecological model Transhumance is an ancient practice of moving animals between regions to benefit from the best grazing at the best time of year. The loss of this transhumance has impacts in both Andalusia and the north. In Andalusia the sheep remain on the same ground throughout the year which increases the pressure on the available grazing and is detrimental to the soil. In the north the lack of annual grazing has led to abandonment of pastures, which are infilled with continuous forest or scrub cover, which lowers biodiversity and increases the risk of fire. Charlotte Blackler The Dehesa’s of Andalusia. A working model for sustainable agro-forestry When the worlds soils are predicted to have only 60 harvests left in them, we need to find a more sustainable approach to our use of agricultural land. The Dehesa San Francisco is a beautiful example of what can be achieved. Forestry & Grazing in South West Norway (3-10th September) This course is now full – there are still places on some of the other courses for 2019. Dates: 3 to 10 September 2019 (with flexibility a couple of days either side to allow for flight availability) Themes: to provide people working in Scottish upland management to see how native woodland responds to changes in grazing pressures. Participants will visit a variety of biodiverse, reforested landscapes from exposed coast to mountain tops, with multiple land uses including hunting, forestry and farming. There is rough and sometimes rocky walking on most days of this visit which participants should consider when applying. Draft Itinerary: Day 1 arrival Stavanger and drive to Gaudland; Day 2 Gården Li on Hidrasundet on the coast; Day 3 Fidjadalen; Day 4 Byklehaiene; Day 5 Bjåen and Berdalen; Day 6 Åmøy Fjordferie; Day 7 Return Hosts: Duncan Halley (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NINA) Please click here to view the film from the NET 4 visit in 2018 to learn more about the visit. Slovakia Lisov 2018 Archaeology at Lisov Near Lišov is a c200km long linear monument, part of a massive network of similar sites stretching from the Czech Republic to the Black Sea. This section near Lišov runs approximately North-South and was once thought to be defensive, however a number of theories have been proposed to explain its massive construction. They are thought to be Neolithic and their relationship to tributaries of the Danube, and the Danube itself appear to be important. The monument is reminiscent of the Cleaven Dyke, Perth and Kinross, a complex earthwork comprising a pair of parallel ditches (c.45-5om apart), with a central bank, running for 1.8km through woodland and for a further 350m as a cropmark. Website Report on Lisov Museum The rural museum opened in 2015, so it has only been operating (and flourishing) over the last 3 years, under the care and love of locals Adriana Patková and Jakub Dvorský, our young guides who accompanied us throughout our stay in Slovakia. I fell in love with the museum from the beginning and the ideas it stands for. It may display historic objects and furniture in a traditional way at times, but many of these are actually donated by the locals or passionately collected by Adriana. This way, the museum acts a depository for the local heritage and for holding people’s memories and identity. Moreover, it acts as a space for keeping alive ancient traditions, like for example burning the Goddess Morena, symbolising death and the winter, and sailing it down the river to welcome spring. Film of Lisov Museum Impressions of Lisov and its culture heritage The Role of social, cultural, economic and political issues and factors in raising awareness and promoting traditional, vernacular, architectural identity, and construction methods, techniques and associated crafts and skills, Lišov, Slovakia. Vernacular architecture, construction methods, techniques and associated crafts and skills, is a lesson of the past for the future. Architecture established and resulting, including from construction approaches, is a unique component of a locations’ culture just as much as its language, music, art, literature or food. Architecture is also the most visual of those cultural components; conveying a unique image. This is called “genius loci,” the “spirit of a place”. External and internal decorative finishes to traditional southern Slovakian rural roofed domestic dwellings. I sincerely hope that the work of Jacob and Andriana at the Lišov Museum revive the traditional crafts of using clay mortars and plasters and limewashes for the repair of old buildings and encourage their use in modern construction. EU Funded Placements	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line28
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__label__wiki	0.759995	0.759995	\| March 25, 2016, 6:35 pm Butch Mousseau tragedy trumps Avalanche-Wild coverage Friday A friend texted me the news while I was driving back from the Avalanche’s optional skate Friday. Butch Mousseau, the Colorado hockey referee who has his NHL striped jersey and skates on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, died of a brain hemorrhage in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mousseau, who is of American Indian descent, tripped last Friday during warmups in an NCAA playoff game and hit his head on the ice. His hands were in his pockets. His brain swelled. Doctors couldn’t save him. Referee Butch Mousseaux (Photo via GoFunMe) The news made Saturday’s Avalanche-Wild showdown seem unimportant. In fact, after I filed a quick online Mousseau obit Friday, and then two or three write-thrus, I became disinterested in writing the COL-MIN advance story. It stinks. And I don’t care. After talking to DU Pioneers radio guy Jay Stickney via phone from Minnesota, where he’s preparing to call Saturday’s NCAA Tournament regional game between DU and Boston U., I had a tough time looking at my computer through tears. Stickney and Mousseau were fraternity brothers at Colorado and lived and worked in Maui after graduation. Referees/linesmen and sports writers don’t usually cross paths outside the rink. But because of former longtime linesman Tim Swiader of Denver, I was introduced to the WCHA officiating clan about 10 years ago. I consider Swiader and former WCHA ref Don Adam, now the NCHC officials czar, good friends, and I enjoyed my brief time hanging out with Mousseau. Mousseau worked for the WCHA for 16 years, and also did NCHC games since that Colorado-based league began in 2013. “Butch loved officiating and he had great respect for the student-athletes and coaches. No matter how difficult or intense a game might be, Butch always wore a big smile on his face. This smile had a tremendous calming effect on everyone. On the occasions where would disagree with a call, his self-deprecating humor and warm personality would quickly diffuse an emotional situation. He was very well-liked by everyone and perhaps the most popular official in the WCHA. His unique war ‘whoop’ on delayed icing was his unique way of signaling his fellow officials. He will be missed terribly by everyone who knew him.” — George Gwozdecky, former Denver coach Swiader is now the NCHC video guy. “After working 25 years working both minor professional and NCAA Division 1, Butch was one of the guys that I felt 100 percent confident going into a big game. I always knew where he was and where he is going,” Swiader said in an email. “Off the ice, Butch was one of the nicest guys you would ever meet. He would do anything at any time. When I got hurt, he would be one of the first to call to see how I was doing. He always had a smile on his face and was the first to initiate a handshake. “I am not an emotional kind of guy but I have run out of tears today.” Wild at Avalanche on Saturday, 1 p.m. Avs LW Cody McLeod on Friday: Patrick Roy Part 1 Friday: Avs D Francois Beauchemin: “Exciting games to play. Everybody is watching us and saying we’re in a tough situation. But you have to take it as a positive thing and just get excited and motivated by it … We have to approach it like a must-win situation. We have eight games left. We know where we’re at. Obviously, it’s a must-win situation … We control our own destiny. We win tomorrow, we’re right back in it. We all know that if we lose we put ourselves in a really tough situation.” Roy: “It’s not time right now to look at the big picture. If you’re looking at the big picture it’s going to be scary.” \| March 25, 2016, 12:15 am Erik Johnson: “I might have played one of the best games of my career and one little play, it can happen like that and be the difference.” By Terry Frei (Photo by Brent Lewis/The Denver Post) My game story on the Avalanche’s 4-2 loss to the Flyers is here. It’s always fun to have three different versions of the “lede” going — one for a Colorado win, one for Colorado getting one point, one for Colorado losing in regulation — and then starting to settle in on one … and have it blow up. Filing that “runner” at the buzzer then becomes, um, quite a challenge and we’re always relieved when the later touched-up story with quotes, refiled after a half hour of gathering quotes and rewriting, is posted. Some extras: Erik Johnson, who logged 26:58 of ice time and for the most part had a terrific game, was at his stall, answering questions. He’s quoted in the story, but I wasn’t able to get in his entire answer after I asked him abut blowing leads. “We have to find a way to be better,” he said. “We can talk about it all we want, we just have to do it. We’ve talked about it a ton, trust me, as a group. Is our preparation, is it the process, is it just focus. We talk about it a lot, about the leads, and at the end of the day I think we just get a little too passive. When we feel the other team pushing, the other team buzzing, we may get a little bit back on our heels and then they buzz and something happens.” I also wasn’t able to get in his answer when I asked him about the Flyers’ third goal, which followed a Johnson turnover. “We were setting up for the one-timer in the offensive zone,” he said. “I just tried to chip it down the wall, and (Wayne) Simmonds made a nice play to pull it to the middle. They got a shot there and we backchecked perfect into the slot and I guess we over-backchecked a bit and the fourth guy (Claude Giroux) knocked it in. “I might have played one of the best games of my career and one little play, it can happen like that and be the difference.” In Patrick Roy’s post-game interview, I asked the coach about the blown leads — that’s in the story — and also about shortening his bench, even more than usual. Among the defensemen, not just Johnson and Francois Beauchemin (23:28) played big-time minutes, but so did Nick Holden (27:23) and Tyson Barrie (26:16) The Avalanche had only one power play to skew that a bit for Barrie. That meant Chris Bigras (10:14) and Zach Redmond (4:31) didn’t see the ice much. And the Colorado fourth line, with Mikko Rantanen centering Cody McLeod and Jack Skille, played so sparingly, it demonstrated a glaring lack of faith in Rantanen — something Roy himself admitted. Rantanen was drafted as, and played most of the season at San Antonio as, a winger before playing center with the Rampage of late. Yes, with Matt Duchene and Nathan MacKinnon out, it was the right call to bring up Rantanen and even to get him to the 10-game threshold and burn the first year of his entry-level deal, but this is the worst of both worlds. You either have enough faith in him, making it worth burning that year if it comes to it, or you don’t. It would be ridiculous to both burn that year and not show any faith in him. If that’s the possibility, the Avs would have been better off to recall a lunch-bucket forward from the Rampage. “I tried to roll the lines,” Roy said. “I guess I don’t trust yet Mikko and that makes me sometimes nervous, a faceoff in our end…Sometimes it’s just a matter of trust. I guess with time, he’ll be there, but this is a playoff game for us. It’s not about how much I say I’m going to give to the guys, it’s about having the guys that I think should be on the ice at that moment and who I’m trusting and have confidence in.” Terry Frei: tfrei@denverpost.com or @TFrei Categories: Eastern Conference, Game Day, General Avs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line39
__label__wiki	0.647782	0.647782	March 2012 Blog Posts (64) Harold Chapman: "The Beat Hotel...And Other Images, Made for the Future" at OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art Retrospective exhibition of Harold Chapman's work, covering 65 years (1947 - 2012), is opening at the OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art on Saturday, March 24 in Huntington Beach, California. Harold Chapman: "The Beat Hotel...And Other Images, Made for the… Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 20, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments An Interview with guitarist Joe Gooch of Ten Years After & Hundred Seventy Split: The Blues is non pretentious "To me the blues is about freedom of expression and my own personal musical journey" Joe Gooch: True musical expression Joe Gooch is familiar to most from his work over the last seven years with rock legends Ten Years After.… Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 20, 2012 at 1:11am — No Comments Legendary Excello singer Marion James talks about Hendrix, Doc Blakey, Gatemouth Brown, & her new label EllerSoul "I think blues lasts because it is pleasing to the ear and tells a true story about life." Marion James: I sing music that you can "feel" Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee,… Accordionist Pete Contino talks about Dick Contino, Tom Waits, Einstein, Bukowski, Tango, & the blues jazz poetry "Keep it simple. 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Will Wilde: Soul-building Blues… Israeli bluesman Eli Marcus talks about Champagne Charlie, Blues for Peace, & the philosophy of Blues "The Blues has always been my friend when I feel lonely, and I think it keeps me sane when people around me are just too crazy..." Eli "Dr. Blues" Marcus: Blues as Zen Eli Marcus is a… An Interview with brilliant singer/songwriter Beverly McClellan: Blues is the heartbeat of life "Live Life you only get one!!!" Beverly McClellan: Heart & Soul Rock ‘n’ roll is built on a foundation of great vocalists, and… Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 17, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments R.I.P Red Holloway, Big Walter Price & Eddie King Sadly we have had so many from our blues community leave us R.I.P Red Holloway, Big Walter Price & Eddie King … Added by Michael Limnios Blues Network on March 17, 2012 at 12:30am — No Comments Fabulous D.C guitarist Tom Principato talks about Danny Gatton, Chuck Leavell, Powerhouse, & Telecaster "Blues music has changed over the years - it has to. Blues needs to stay current with the times." Tom Principato: Bluescaster D.C Tom Principato has spent the last 40+ years as a guitarist and singer based in his hometown of… An Interview with Tennessean blues singer/songwriter Terry Garland: Express my feelings with the blues "Blues is constant and ageless and always being recycled. I wish new artists would be and get deeper." Terry Garland: Original Blues Heartbeat When Terry Garland sings the blues the listener is… An Interview with Barnes "Sinnerboy" Barnes: Keeping the music and memory of Rory Gallagher's alive "Rory wrote songs about the loneliness one can experience on the road" Barry "Sinnerboy" Barnes: On the road with Rory Barry first saw Rory perform in 1969 with Taste, he… New Yorker Arthur Neilson talks about Shemekia, Otis Rush, Cyndi Lauper, Albert King, & NY blues clubs "You can always relate to emotion, if you can't, then you got a hole in your soul." Arthur Neilson: Melodic Emotions… An Interview with versatile Arnie Goodman: The energy of the music is what comes out of my lenses "Great photos are music to the eyes, you can see every note." Arnie Goodman: Lightning blues storm… Texas blues/rock singer Nina Van Horn talks about Dan Aykroyd, Bette Midler, Odetta, her book, & blueswomen "The heart keeps the failures, the soul inspires you and the brain tells you to sing it!" 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Marcus Bonfanti: The new Blues has come From the first note of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog”… An Interview with Blues/Roots/Americana artist Natasha James: Blues is more than just a style of music “Life with intent, write what you know, say what you mean, and don’t look back.” Natasha James: My Country Has The Blues NATASHA JAMES is known for taking Roots music styles, turning them on… Legendary Dick Wooley talks about Allmans, Capricorn, Clapton, King Mojo, Southern Rock, & Jimmy Carter "My wish for music is for it to become relevant again, like it was back in the 60’s and 70’s" Dick Wooley: Southern Rock keep the Mojo After launching indie label hits in…	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line41
__label__cc	0.743459	0.256541	Home » »Unlabelled » Eugene Peterson, Gay Marriage, and The Scandal. Eugene Peterson, Gay Marriage, and The Scandal. So yesterday the story broke about this guy name Eugene Peterson, honestly, I've heard his name once or twice but really knew nothing about him. I found that he's a pretty quiet guy. He is an American-born clergyman, scholar, author, and poet. He has written over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, a paraphrase of the Bible He was being interviewed by a popular left leaning blogger Jonathan Merritt in the interview Jonathan asked the following question... “If you were pastoring today and a gay couple in your church who were Christians of good faith asked you to perform their same-sex wedding ceremony, is that something you would do?” Peterson answered the question with a simple 'YES!' And then the backlash began...Lifeway threatened to pull the message Bible... and then all of the sudden there was a quick retraction, sorta. “I affirm a biblical view of marriage: one man to one woman. I affirm a biblical view of everything… When put on the spot by this particular interviewer, I said yes in the moment. But on further reflection and prayer, I would like to retract that. That’s not something I would do out of respect to the congregation, the larger church body, and the historic biblical Christian view and teaching on marriage. That said, I would still love such a couple as their pastor. They’d be welcome at my table, along with everybody else." “I wouldn’t have said this 20 years ago, but now I know a lot of people who are gay and lesbian, and they seem to have as good a spiritual life as I do. I think that kind of debate about lesbians and gays might be over.” Having a 'good spiritual life' does not mean you are necessary a follower of Christ. So it is obvious that he does not view homosexuality as a sin. His comment reveals where his heart really lies, and he was speaking the truth during his interview and once the financial pressure showed up he realized that he better try and smooth this thing over. So his retraction really was not a retraction on his views. It was an attempt to smooth the scandal over and make folks like LifeWay happy again. And what's sad is that many Christians are totally cool with his 'retraction' and have opened their heart and arms back up to him as a brother. But here is the thing he's shown who he is. He's a weasel. He goes with what the popular opinion is at the moment. I've never been a fan of the message Bible. Way too liberal and progressive in its translation. SO this is once again where Christians need to see this guy for who he is. He's now lumped in with the progressive left, actually he's been there for a long time were just now seeing it. So be careful what you all read into and allow into your hearts and minds. Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. 1 John 2 15-17 Why Positivity Wins Over Negativity Hands Down (My... Wasp Killer, Dunkirk, Forgiveness, and Loving Peop... The moment a man was caught on camera feeding his ... Wisconsin company to be first in U.S. to implant m... I Just watched a horrible preacher and it told me ... Gay activist says it’s time to target Christians: ... Is Correction/Discipline from God In Your Life A S... Garth Brooks offers to pay for newly-engaged coupl... How Many Stars Would You Rate Your Christianity At... New study names the 10 most post-Christian cities ... Are You in the Dangerous Time In Between? Wife says 'never go to bed angry' after waking fro... I'm About To Absolutely Lose It!!!! I Mean It! Pastor John MacArthur Stuns With Answer To Gays Ge... This May Cause Me NOT To Go See Spiderman! The story of the time we ate dinner with the reali... VLOG #21 \|\| Fourth of July Celebration Is it possible for a Christian to lose their salva... Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation? Francis Chan Goes Into Detail With Facebook Employ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line64
__label__wiki	0.861785	0.861785	Grindleford Bridge Chapel Derbyshire Places of Worship Other Places of Worship in this Area Grindleford, Grindleford Methodist Church (0.02m.) Grindleford, St Helen's Church Grindleford, Padley Chapel Froggatt, Wesleyan Reform Chapel Eyam, Wesleyan Reform ("Bottom") Chapel Stoney Middleton, St Martin's Church Stoney Middleton, Wesleyan Reform Chapel Stoney Middleton, Unitarian Chapel (Demolished) Eyam, St Lawrence's Church (formerly St Helen) Eyam, Eyam Methodist Church ("Top Chapel") Calver, Stocking Farm School Room Calver, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (2m.) Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot. We do not have a Photograph at present. Image by courtesy of openclipart.org Grindleford Bridge Chapel, Grindleford Grindleford Bridge Chapel [no longer registered] Grindleford Bridge, Grindleford, Derbyshire. We believe the Chapel did NOT have a graveyard. Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all. This Place of Worship was founded in 1766, but we understand it was closed by 1905, and the premises are now in secular use. Methodism may have first arrived in Grindleford as early as 1766. John Wesley, in his Journal for the period 27th May 1765 to 18th May 1768 records that on Thursday 27th March 1766, "I preached in the morning at a little village, near Eyam, in the High-Peak. The eagerness with which the poor people devoured the word, made me amends for the cold ride over the snowy mountains". The little village is reputedly Grindleford Bridge, and he may have been travelling there from Sheffield, as his entry for 2 days before (March 25th) describes preaching at "Creitch" [Crich], and "thence we rode on through several heavy showers of snow to Sheffield, where, at six, we had a numerous congregation. There has been much disturbance here this winter. But to night all was peace". Wesley's visit may have been a consequence of an abortive attempt to introduce Methodism to Eyam in 1765. William Wood, in The History and Antiquities of Eyam (1842) describes Mr. Matthew Mayer, of Portwood-hall, near Stockport preaching twice at Eyam that year, and meeting with so much hostility that he each time narrowly escaped with life. Thereafter the mass of the villagers would not suffer the preachers to come into the village... the few converts to the new doctrine repaired to Grindleford Bridge, where the preachers were not molested. Thereafter various directories record a Methodist Chapel in Grindleford Bridge, built in 1830. The return to the Religious Census of 1851 (HO 129/449/3/6/8) for "Grindleford Bridge Chapel", for a Wesleyan Methodist congregation describes a separate building, erected "before 1800", used exclusively as a place of worship. It had free sittings for 54, and 46 "other" sittings, and the estimated congregation on March 30th was 29 in the morning, 43 in the afternoon, and 16 in the evening; and there were 42 Sunday Scholars at morning class, and 45 in the afternoon. The return was completed by Joseph Andrew, its Steward, who gave his address as "Grindleford Bridge, Derbyshire". He remarked it was "an unusually slender attendance this day, in consequence of the weather being showery and the district straggling. The night service is a prayer meeting". Old Maps of 1880 and 1898 show a building labelled as "Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan Reform)" in between where the present Methodist Church stands, and the "Pinfold". Evidently, it did change its allegiance to become a "Reform" Chapel, as the entry in Harrod's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Staffordshire of 1870 for Woodland Eyam records the Rev. Joseph Andrew as Wesleyan Reform minister for the township. It was replaced by the new building in 1904-5, and on the next available Map, of 1922, the original building was labelled "Institute". In 1971, as today, it can be seen attached, as it was (presumably) originally, to a property now known as "Rose Cottage. Now or formerly Wesleyan Methodist. If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication. This Chapel was located at OS grid reference SK2421777802. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window: Grindleford Bridge Chapel, Grindleford shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Grindleford shown on a Google Map. Old Maps (www.old-maps.co.uk) (verified 2018-10-15) Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15) Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13) Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15) Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15) OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15) A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15) www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15) Information last updated on 28 Dec 2014 at 14:46. Search for other Places of Worship in Derbyshire Place or OS GridRef Dedication (optional) Street (optional) How Many - Any - Yes No 10 churches 20 churches 30 churches 40 churches 50 churches All churches - Any - Established Church Baptist URC & Unitarian Cemeteries European & Asian Methodist Multi-denominational Evangelical & Spiritual Roman Catholic UK Minorities Brethren/Moravian Miscellaneous You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100. You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms. You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs. You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John' would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c. You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c. You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. So you can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'. 'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and 'Miscellaneous' means anything not covered by other broad classes. Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. 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__label__wiki	0.624857	0.624857	When Vishy Met Bobby An article yesterday on Guardian.co.uk has been getting mentions on chess blogs everywhere -- not too surprising in that it features the current World Champion talking about one of his greatest predecessors: Vishy Anand: I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm. Here's the portion that relates to this chess960 blog. Q: The BBC are currently showing the documentary Bobby Fischer, Genius and Madman. You met Fischer in 2006, a couple of years before he died. What was he like? A: I found him surprisingly normal. Well, at least not very tense. He seemed to be relieved to be in the company of chess players. He was calm in that sense. He was also a bit worried about people following him, so the paranoia never really went away. But I am really happy I got the chance to meet him before he died in 2008. It was weird as well because I kept having to remind myself that this was Bobby Fischer sitting in front of me! Q: Were you tempted to whip out a pocket chessboard and challenge him to a quick blitz game? A: No, because he whipped out his pocket chess set first and we started to analyse some recent games I'd played. Q: Really? A: Yes, I showed him some of my games from Wijk aan Zee and tried to share some interesting developments. He was sort of able to follow everything – he hadn't lost his sharpness for chess – but his methods were a bit dated. In that sense he had fallen behind. Q: How do you mean? A: Well, he had some suggestions, and he was sort of in the ball park … but when I would tell him that the computer says white is winning here, for me that was a sign to move on – but for him it was a starting point to argue with me! [Laughs]. I found it difficult to say to him 'No, no, no – these computers are really strong. You shouldn't be arguing with them!"' Is it a coincidence that, as I recounted in 'Hardly Ever Played Chess960 Before', Anand first played chess960 the following year? Whatever the reason, another account of the same meeting appeared in October 2008 on Chessbase.com -- Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting' -- which featured an interview with Anand from Der Spiegel:- Q: The American Bobby Fischer, who died at the beginning of the year, was chess crazy, paranoid, misanthropic. You met this chess genius two and a half years ago in Iceland, where he was living in exile. How did that happen? A: I played in a tournament in Reykjavik and the Icelandic grandmaster Helgi Olafsson asked me if I would be interested in meeting Bobby Fischer. Olafsson picked him up from his flat, while I waited in the car. Fischer probably wanted to avoid my knowing which apartment was his. Q: What did you talk to him about? A: Fischer told me how he sometimes rode around Reykjavik with the bus, in order to see the city. He complained that he could not get Indian balm [Amrutanjan] in Iceland. Suddenly he wanted to go to McDonalds. So there he was, this legend of the chess world, asking me if I took ketchup. Q: Did you talk about chess? A: Of course. We were standing in a park and Bobby pulled out an old pocket chess set and we analysed a couple of games between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in 1974. He wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me. Q: Why did Fischer specifically want to meet you? A: Perhaps he felt an affinity. We are both from countries in which chess was not popular until we came along. I am not Russian and Fischer felt persecuted by the Soviets in the past. And there is evidence to suggest that Soviet grandmasters actually ganged up against him. Q: Fischer proposed a new variation of the game, which is called Fischer Random Chess. He wanted the pieces in the starting position to me shuffled before every game. Would that not be a more creative form of chess? A: I do not think much of a random placement of the pieces. That is perhaps something for people who were previously active and now have very little time. They don't want to study openings theory. But the opening systems are part of chess. Looks like we won't be seeing Anand anytime soon in another chess960 tournament. In fact, that assessment complements an item posted by Thechessdrum.net just after Fischer's death in January 2008: Fischer wanted to play Kasparov, Anand. A story from the Iceland’s Morgunbladid has stated that Bobby Fischer desired one last match with Garry Kasparov and/or Viswanathan Anand. [...] In interviews he stated that he would only play Fischer Random, but there was keen interest in a match with a top player. [...] Anand had been asked about a match with Fischer and expressed keen interest in the possibility. It's not clear from that account whether Anand's 'keen interest' for a match applied to chess960, or was reserved for traditional chess, where he would have trounced Fischer. The Chess Drum's post leads to another account of the Anand - Fischer meeting, this time preserved on video -- Fischer Remembered \| Macauley on blip.tv -- where Anand speaks about the Reykjavik meeting at both 5:50 and 7:40 into the clip. [NB: I could be wrong, because I haven't seen either documentary, but the Guardian's reference to Bobby Fischer, Genius and Madman seems to be the same film as the Liz Garbus effort titled Bobby Fischer Against the World. To be confirmed...] Labels: History, Video If I could just debunk another myth on Fischer Random Chess that is being spread by Anand and his buddy Kramnik. This duo think that if you change the start position it's a different game. That is rubbish. They are confusing the idea of a game with the idea of scientific inquiry. The only difference between traditional chess and 960 is that traditional chess has a huge opening database of accumulated "facts" that support the theories on best practice. But since when has chess been about scientific inquiry? That is just one aspect of it. Chess is a game that is all! It is good to have theories that are tested over the board on the spur of the moment but that have no substantive fact to back them up. It's just a game! Aronian said it perfectly the other day in an interview. He said he "loves the geometry and the struggle for plans" in Chess. That is a quality of game playing, not of scientific inquiry. Think about it! Neither an appreciation for the geometry of chess nor the struggle for plans actually needs a nice cosy database of "facts" in order to experience. To answer my own question above "since when has chess been about scientific inquiry?". Here is Kasparov's ideas: Kasparov moves for scholastic chess in Turkey.... 14.12.2011 – "We would like to think of chess not as a game but as a special learning tool that improves results. We focus on the word ‘education’ and not the word ‘chess' Ok so the big question is whether Chess960 is also a learning tool with an equal focus on education? To me, Chess960 is more beneficial than traditional chess because it still involves scientific inquiry with computers, but there is a lot more room for the imagination during the opening phase. Kids not only learn about discovering the optimal path, but having to deal with non-optimal strategies that are present from the word go. That is very much like the real world they find themselves in! And anyway, after the opening Chess and Chess960 are the same! Whatever. Have a great Christmas to all Chess960 Fischer Random fans! Setting Chess on Course for the Next 100 Years Setting Chess Back 100 Years Not Everyone Likes Chess960 'Can I use this name "Fischer Chess"?'	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line81
__label__cc	0.579522	0.420478	About China Living in the Village Folktales and Legends Traditional Art Style: Ink Wash Painting Ink wash painting (水墨畫) is a traditional art style dating back to ancient China. This type of painting often uses ink and water to present scenes (Shan Sui Hua 山水畫), animals, and people. Traditionally, paintings are black and white with variations of grey. Ink wash painting has been practiced throughout history, and it is still considered prestigious. It is an art form that emphasizes “feeling the art”. It can be very abstract and full of difficult-to-appreciate beauty. In the past, painters would grind their own ink with inksticks on inkstones Inkstones are hard to get so bottled ink is more often used nowadays Colours are sometimes added Bigger brushes can paint larger areas and smaller brushes are used to paint details Brushes are made from different animal hairs, which are each of a different stiffness: Weasel hair (hard) and goat hair (soft) are most often used in brushes Hair from rats, rabbits, deer, and horses, for example, can also be used In calligraphy and paintings, the paper used is Xuan or Shuan Paper(宣紙) In the past, this paper was used for fans and would have ink wash paintings, calligraphy, or both on it A cheaper and more common paper used for both calligraphy and ink wash painting is Mian paper(棉紙) How to Paint a Rooster This video has all the details about drawing a rooster with Chinese Ink. Chinese painting has a long history, it begins in dynasty of Han which is around 2000 years ago. Thus, to learn Chinese culture and history, Chinese painting is very important. The reason is because to understand a nation, you have to know their history and their culture. Chinese ink is one part of history and culture, the painting could show what people were thinking of at that time. 这个视频是讲中国国画的，画的是一只鸡。国画拥有很长的历史，要追溯到2000年之前，也就是汉朝。所以学习中国文化和历史，要了解国画是很重要的。因为国画是中国历史文化的一个很重要的部分，从国画里面可以看到当时的人们的想法，以及那时候的人民的生活。 Dough Fish In China people make animals and other sculpture out of coloured dough. The Chinese Dough Sculpture Art is originated from traditional folk handicraft in ancient China about 1300 years ago. It is used in cooking originally because Chinese people love fancy design. The variety shapes can be created with different symbols to a family even an individual. For the process 1. Preparing the ingredients and tools (Flour, Sweet Flour, Salt, Tempera Paint, Sculpture tools). Mix flour, sweet flour, small scoop of salt and small amount of preservative (or you can even skip this) with boiled water. Roll the dough by your hands until it’s smooth. Set the dough for 2 hours then roll it again until it is smooth. 2. Put it in the plastic wrap and steam for around 40 minutes. 3. Knead the dough after it is cooling down for about 40 minutes until it has become smooth and elastic. 4. Adding colours for your need then mix them well. You will be ready for the sculptures. 5. Use your idea to create a sculpture http://chinaalive.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/clay_fish.mp4 Chinese Knots Here we will show you how to make Chinese Knots. Chinese knots is one of traditional handcraft products. It is one of the symbols of major characteristic industries of the Chinese nation. Chinese knots are kind of characteristic folk decoration in handcraft art. They are also a distinctive feature of traditional Chinese apparel. Knot is pronounced as ‘Jie’ in Chinese, similar to ‘ji’, which means blessing, good salary, longevity, happiness, fortune, safety and health. It is the everlasting pursuit of Chinese people, so some Chinese knots express people’s various hopes. The history of Chinese knots takes us back to the prehistoric era. The earliest record of using knotting can be found at the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian. People used ropes as a primitive form of belt with knots for more than just fastening, wrapping, hunting and fishing. Knots were also used to record events, and some had purely ornamental functions. http://chinaalive.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/chinese_knot.mp4 Here we will show you how to make a Chinese character by cutting it out of paper. Paper cutting is also one of the traditional handcraft art in China. It is formed from six hundred CE in Tang dynasty in China. When the paper became more affordable in the past, it became a popular art form. It can create different pictures, such as character, animals, and patterns. The paper cutting usually uses to decorate the home and other structures. It also usually uses to the Chinese wedding and spring festival as the decoration too. Process to cut a Chinese character of “Chun”; First, fold the square paper in half. Second, draw a half character of “Chun”. Third, start to cut along with the lines. Final, open the paper and finish. http://chinaalive.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/paper-cutting.mp4	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line83
__label__wiki	0.96021	0.96021	Blackford: threat to Scotland grows from Johnson's 'fanatical' Brexit plans The SNP has said that Scotland faces the very real and growing threat of being “dragged down the road to economic and social Brexit self-harm”, as Boris Johnson looks set to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister today. Ian Blackford MP warned Boris Johnson against “building a bunker-mentality government” that would side-line any attempts at seeking a meaningful route out of the Brexit crisis. Blackford added that the former Foreign Secretary was “fanatically fanning the flames” of a devastating no-deal Brexit, which will cost thousands of jobs, leave people poorer and worse off and could plunge Scotland and the UK into a recession. However with a slew of Tory Cabinet members and ministers resigning in protest against the prospect of a Boris Johnson government, the SNP warned that Scotland was looking on in horror as an increasingly bitterly divided Tory party pushed the country ever closer to the cliff-edge. Commenting, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said: “With Boris Johnson set to succeed Theresa May as Prime Minister today, it’s clearer than ever before that Scotland faces the very real threat of being dragged down the road to economic and social Brexit self-harm. “Rather than fanatically fanning the flames of a devastating no-deal Brexit, Boris Johnson must take a step back from the brink and, for once in his career, act in the national interest. “If the Tory leadership contest is a sign of things to come then I warn Boris Johnson against building a bunker-mentality government that would shut off any attempts at seeking a meaningful route out of the Brexit crisis. “Time and time again economic analysis has found that a no-deal exit from the EU would be catastrophic for jobs, people’s livelihoods and could plunge the country into recession. “It’s no wonder then that support for independence is rising, and a majority now support a fresh referendum on Scotland’s future. “With the October Brexit deadline fast approaching, Scotland is looking on in horror at the bleak Boris Johnson Brexit Britain on offer. Scotland must have a choice over a better future. “It is clearer than ever that the only way to properly protect Scotland’s interests is by becoming an equal and independent European country.”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line87
__label__cc	0.613054	0.386946	BEST: Biomedical Entity Search Tool All Entity TypesGeneDrugChemical CompoundTargetDiseaseToxinTranscription FactormiRNAPathwayMutationFusion Gene Hits 1 - 10 (out of 6487 matching entities) [12674 mentions] (43 ms): 1. chronic myeloid leukemias Go to detail page 10387 articles, score 4179.131 Molecular Interaction Network Enriched GO Terms Most researches of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are currently focused on the treatment methods, while there are relatively few researches on the progress of patients' condition after drug treatment. Traditional biomarkers of disease can only distinguish normal state from disease state, and cannot recognize the pre-stable state after drug treatment. A therapeutic effect recognition strategy based on dynamic network biomarkers (DNB) is provided for CML patients' gene expression data. With the DNB criteria, the DNB with 250 genes is selected and the therapeutic effect index (TEI) is constructed for the detection of individual disease. The pre-stable state before the disease condition becomes stable is 1 month. Through functional analysis for the DNB, some genes are confirmed as key genes to affect the progress of CML patients' condition. The results provide a certain theoretical direction and theoretical basis for medical personnel in the treatment of CML patients, and find new therapeutic targets in the future. The biomarkers of CML can help patients to be treated promptly and minimize drug resistance, treatment failure and relapse, which reduce the mortality of CML significantly. Detecting the stable point of therapeutic effect of chronic myeloid leukemia based on dynamic network biomarkers. BMC bioinformatics, May 2019 [PubMed 31074387] Increasing evidence demonstrate that circular RNAs (circRNAs) play critical role in regulation of gene expression, which participate in the pathogenesis of cancer, including chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). In this study, we aimed to investigate the expression profiling of circHIPK3 in CML. We found that circHIPK3 was significantly upregulated in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and serum samples from CML compared with healthy controls. High circHIPK3 expression predicted a poor outcome of CML patients. Further loss-function experiments suggested the oncogenic role of circHIPK3 in CML. Our findings provide insights on the role of circHIPK3 in the development and treatment of CML. Circular RNA circHIPK3 serves as a prognostic marker to promote chronic myeloid leukemia progression. Neoplasma, Jun 2019 [PubMed 31307197] Two decades after the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), a sizeable portion of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in chronic phase (CP) still undergo allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). We investigated the indications for allo-HSCT, clinical outcome, management of relapse, and post-transplant TKI treatment in a population-based setting using the Swedish CML registry. Of 118 CML patients transplanted between 2002 and 2017, 56 (47.4%) received allo-HSCT in first CP, among whom TKI resistance was the most common transplant indication (62.5%). For patients diagnosed with CML in CP at <65 years of age, the cumulative probability of undergoing allo-HSCT within 5 years was 9.7%. Overall 5-year survival was 96.2%, 70.1% and 36.9% when transplanted in first CP, second or later CP, and in accelerated phase or blast crisis, respectively. Risk factors for relapse were EBMT score >2 and reduced intensity conditioning, and for death, CP > 2 at time point of allo-HSCT only. Non-relapse mortality for patients transplanted in CP was 11.6%. Our data indicate that allo-HSCT still constitutes a reasonable therapeutic option for patients with CML in first CP, especially those resistant to TKI treatment, providing high long-term survival and low non-relapse mortality. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia in the TKI era: population-based data from the Swedish CML registry. Bone marrow transplantation, Nov 2019 [PubMed 30962502] 2. imatinib 3441 articles, score 1094.492 chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia patients failing to achieve a cytogenetic response on imatinib and suggests that deep molecular response to second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors is governed by the biology of more primitive chronic myeloid leukemia cells or extrinsic factors. cells from chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia patients with and without deep molecular responses to nilotinib. Oncotarget, Apr 2018 [PubMed 29707154] The mathematical design of optimal therapies to fight cancer is an important research field in today's Biomathematics and Biomedicine given its relevance to formulate patient-specific treatments. Until now, however, cancer optimal therapies have considered that malignancy exclusively depends on the drug concentration and the number of cancer cells, ignoring that the faster the cancer grows the worse the cancer is, and that early drug doses are more prejudicial. Here, we analyze how optimal therapies are affected when the time evolution of treated cancer is envisaged as an additional element determining malignancy, analyzing in detail the implications for imatinib-treated Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. Taking as reference a mathematical model describing Chronic Myeloid Leukemia dynamics, we design an optimal therapy problem by modifying the usual malignancy objective function, unaware of any temporal dimension of cancer malignance. In particular, we introduce a time valuation factor capturing the increase of malignancy associated to the quick development of the disease and the persistent negative effects of initial drug doses. After assigning values to the parameters involved, we solve and simulate the model with and without the new time valuation factor, comparing the results for the drug doses and the evolution of the disease. Our computational simulations unequivocally show that the consideration of a time valuation factor capturing the higher malignancy associated with early growth of cancer and drug administration allows more efficient therapies to be designed. More specifically, when this time valuation factor is incorporated into the objective function, the optimal drug doses are lower, and do not involve medically relevant increases in the number of cancer cells or in the disease duration. In the light of our simulations and as biomedical evidence strongly suggests, the existence of a time valuation factor affecting malignancy in treated cancer cannot be ignored when designing cancer optimal therapies. Indeed, the consideration of a time valuation factor modulating malignancy results in significant gains of efficiency in the optimal therapy with relevant implications from the biomedical perspective, specially when designing patient-specific treatments. The effects of time valuation in cancer optimal therapies: a study of chronic myeloid leukemia. Theoretical biology & medical modelling, May 2019 [PubMed 31138288] To determine potential predictors of long-term survival in a large set of Hispanic (Mexican) patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) treated with imatinib. We conducted an analysis with data from 411 patients with CML treated at the National Cancer Institute - Mexico, between January 2000 and December 2016. We found a median age at diagnosis of 40 years (range: 18-84 years). The survival rate at 150 months was 82.02%, and we found that phase at diagnosis (β: 0.447, 95% Confidence Interval [95% CI]: 0.088, 0.806; P = 0.015), prognostic scales (Sokal [P = 0.021] and Hasford [β: 0.369, 95% CI: 0.049, 0.688; P = 0.024]) and hematological response at 3 months (β: 0.717, 95% CI: 0.443, 0.991; P < 0.001), but not molecular response (P = 0.834 for 6 months, P = 0.927 for 12 months, P = 0.250 for 18 months), were independently associated with overall survival. Survival analysis in subsets, according to the initial phase (chronic, accelerated and blastic phase) did not show any effect according to prognostic scales (P > 0.05). Mexican patients with CML have repeatedly been diagnosed at earlier ages. Prognostic factors in CML may differ according to the ethnic or geographical context. We found that phase at diagnosis, prognostic scale and hematological response at 3 months were independent predictors of survival. Prognostic factors for overall survival in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia treated with imatinib at the National Cancer Institute - Mexico, from 2000 to 2016. Cancer medicine, Jun 2019 [PubMed 31050162] 3. acute myeloid leukemias Germ line predisposition to myeloid neoplasms has been incorporated in the WHO 2016 classification of myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia. The new category of disease is named hereditary myeloid disorder (HMD). Although most myeloid neoplasms are sporadic, germ line mutations and familial predisposition can contribute to development of chronic myeloid diseases and acute myeloid leukemia. This finding and upcoming frequent use of genome wide detection of molecular aberrations will lead to a higher detection rate of a genetic predisposition and influence treatment decisions. Hereditary predisposition is responsible for 5-10% of myeloid malignancies. Management of affected patients begins by the awareness of treating physicians of the problem and a precise work up of the patient and family members. Areas covered: This review focuses on current knowledge about germ line predisposition for myeloid neoplasms including diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic aspects in adult patients. Essential information for clinical routine is provided. Expert commentary: Compared to a patient without predisposition, adaptation of treatment strategy for patients with an HMD is often necessary, especially to avoid higher risk of relapse or higher toxicity during chemotherapy or transplantation. Mistakes in choice of a related donor can be omitted. Relatives at risk of developing a HMD need specific surveillance. Germ line predisposition to myeloid malignancies appearing in adulthood. Expert review of hematology, Aug 2018 [PubMed 29958021] We sought to study whether survival after haplo-identical transplantation is comparable to that after matched unrelated donor transplantation for 822 patients aged 50-75 years with acute myeloid leukemia in first or second complete remission. One hundred and ninety-two patients received grafts from haplo-identical donors (sibling 25%; offspring 75%) and 631 patients from matched unrelated donors aged 18-40 years. Patient and disease characteristics of the two groups were similar except recipients of matched unrelated donor transplantation were more likely to have poor risk cytogenetics and more likely to receive myeloablative conditioning regimens. Time from documented remission to transplant did not differ by donor type. Five-year overall survival was 32% and 42% after haplo-identical and matched unrelated donor transplant, respectively (p-value=0.1). Multivariable analysis showed higher mortality (hazard ratio 1.27, p-value=0.04) and relapse (hazard ratio 1.32, p-value=0.04) after haplo-identical transplantation, with similar non-relapse mortality risks. Chronic graft-versus-host disease was higher after matched unrelated donor compared to haplo-identical transplantation when bone marrow was the graft (hazard ratio 3.12, p-value<0.001), but when the graft was peripheral blood the risk of chronic graft-versus-host disease did not differ by donor type. These data support matched unrelated donor transplant with donors younger than 40 years is preferred. Alternative donor transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia in patients aged ≥50 years: young HLA-matched unrelated or haploidentical Donor? Haematologica, May 2019 [PubMed 31101756] Human Chronic and Acute Myeloid Leukemia are myeloproliferative disorders in myeloid lineage of blood cells characterized by accumulation of aberrant white blood cells. In cancer, the anomalous transcriptome includes deregulated expression of non-coding RNAs in conjunction with protein-coding mRNAs in human genome. The coding or non-coding RNA transcripts harboring miRNA-binding sites can converse with and regulate each other by explicitly contending for a limited pool of shared miRNAs and act as competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs). An unifying hypothesis attributing 'modulation of expression of transcripts' in this fashion had been defined as 'competitive endogenous RNA hypothesis'. Network built with ceRNAs evidently offers a platform to elucidate complex regulatory interactions at post-transcriptional level in human cancers. Contemplating cancers of human myeloid lineage we constructed ceRNA networks for CML and AML coding and non-coding repertoire utilizing patient sample data. Through functional enrichment analysis we selected the significant functional modules for transcripts being differentially expressed in Blastic phases of each cancer types with respect to Normal. After retrieving free energy of binding and duplex formation of shared miRNAs on ceRNAs, we performed statistical averaging of energy values over the ensemble of populations considering cellular system as in canonical (Iso-thermal) situation. We aimed to shed light on 'Sibling Rivalry' in ceRNA partners from the perspective of statistical thermodynamics, identified major cross-talking tracks and ceRNAs influencing transcripts concerned in myeloid cancer systems. Insights into ceRNA-regulation will shed light on progression and prognosis of human Chronic and Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Exploring the major cross-talking edges of competitive endogenous RNA networks in human Chronic and Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects, Sep 2018 [PubMed 29902552] 4. leukemias 2883 articles, score 943.223 The efficacy of umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT) as treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) relies on immune-mediated graft-versus-leukaemia effects. Previous studies have suggested a strong association between graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) occurrence and graft-versus-leukaemia effects after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Here, we evaluated the kinetics of relapse rate in correlation with GVHD occurrence after UCBT. The kinetics of relapse rate over time in correlation to GVHD occurrence were assessed by calculating the relapse rate per patient-year within sequential 90-day intervals. The impact of GVHD on relapse and mortality was further studied in multivariate Cox models handling GVHD as a time-dependent covariate. The study included data from 1068 patients given single (n = 567) or double (n = 501) UCBT. The proportion of patients with grade II, III and IV acute GVHD was 20%, 7% and 4%, respectively. At 2 years, the cumulative incidence of chronic GVHD was 42%, the cumulative incidence of relapse was 32%, and overall survival was 32% as well. Relapse rates declined gradually over time during the first 30 months after transplantation. There was a possible suggestion that grade II-IV acute (HR = 0.8, P = 0.1) and chronic (HR = 0.65, P = 0.1) GVHD decreased relapse risk. However, grade II-IV acute GVHD significantly increased early (the first 18 months after UCBT) mortality (HR = 1.3, P = 0.02), whilst chronic GVHD increased each early (HR = 2.7, P < 0.001) and late (HR = 4.9, P < 0.001) mortality after UCBT. The occurrence of grade II-IV acute or chronic GVHD each increases overall mortality after UCBT for AML mitigating the possible graft-versus-leukemia effect of GVHD. Occurrence of graft-versus-host disease increases mortality after umbilical cord blood transplantation for acute myeloid leukaemia: a report from Eurocord and the ALWP of the EBMT. Journal of internal medicine, Feb 2018 [PubMed 28977716] It was studied that cancer-causing processes are related with the disproportions of essential and toxic elements in body tissues and fluid. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the levels of magnesium (Mg) and cadmium (Cd) in serum and blood samples of smokers and nonsmokers who have chronic myeloid (CML) and lymphocytic (CLL) leukemia, age ranged 31-50 years. For comparative study, age-matched smokers and nonsmoker males were chosen as controls/referents. The levels of elements in patient were analyzed before any treatment by atomic absorption spectrophotometer, after microwave assisted acid digestion. The validation of the method was done by using certified reference materials of serum and blood samples. The resulted data indicated that the adult male smokers and nonsmokers have two- to fourfold higher levels of Cd in the blood and sera samples as compared to the referents (p < 0.01), whereas two- to threefold lower levels of Mg was found in blood and serum samples of both types of leukemia patients as related to referent values. The resulted data indicates significant negative correlation among Mg and Cd in leukemia patients and smoker referents. Further studies are needed to clarify the role of these elements in pathogenesis of chronic leukemia. Correlation of Cadmium and Magnesium in the Blood and Serum Samples of Smokers and Non-Smokers Chronic Leukemia Patients. Biological trace element research, Mar 2017 [PubMed 27511371] The prognosis of patients with blast crisis (BC) chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is still dismal. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation represents the only curative treatment option, but data on transplant outcomes are scarce. We therefore conducted a retrospective, registry-based study of adult patients allografted for BC CML, focusing on patients with active disease at transplant and pretransplant prognostic factors. One hundred seventy patients allografted for BC CML after tyrosine kinase inhibitor pretreatment between 2004 and 2016 were analyzed. Before transplant, 95 patients were in remission, whereas 75 patients had active BC. In multivariable analysis of the entire cohort, active BC at transplant was the strongest factor associated with decreased overall survival (hazrd ratio, 1.87; P = .010) and shorter leukemia-free survival (LFS; hazard ratio, 1.69; P = .017). For patients with BC in remission at transplant, advanced age (≥45 years), lower performance status (≤80%), longer interval from diagnosis BC to transplant (>12 months), myeloablative conditioning, and unrelated donor (UD) transplant were risk factors for inferior survival. In patients with active BC, only UD transplant was significantly associated with prolonged LFS and trended toward improved overall survival. In summary, survival of patients allografted for BC CML was strongly dependent on pretransplant remission status. In patients with remission of BC, conventional prognostic factors remained the major determinants of outcome, whereas in those with active BC at transplant, UD transplant was associated with prolonged LFS in our study. Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Blast Crisis Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in the Era of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: A Retrospective Study by the EBMT Chronic Malignancies Working Party. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Oct 2019 [PubMed 31271884] 5. BCR The management of chronic myeloid leukemia with BCR-ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitors has evolved chronic myeloid leukemia into a chronic, manageable disease. A patient-centered approach is important for the appropriate management of chronic myeloid leukemia and optimization of long-term treatment outcomes. The pharmacist plays a key role in treatment selection, monitoring drug-drug interactions, identification and management of adverse events, and educating patients on adherence. The combination of tyrosine kinase inhibitors with unique safety profiles and individual patients with unique medical histories can make managing treatment difficult. This review will provide up-to-date information regarding tyrosine kinase inhibitor-based treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. Management strategies for adverse events and considerations for drug-drug interactions will not only vary among patients but also across tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Drug-drug interactions can be mild to severe. In instances where co-administration of concomitant medications cannot be avoided, it is critical to understand how drug levels are impacted and how subsequent dose modifications ensure therapeutic drug levels are maintained. An important component of patient-centered management of chronic myeloid leukemia also includes educating patients on the significance of early and regular monitoring of therapeutic milestones, emphasizing the importance of adhering to treatment in achieving these targets, and appropriately modifying treatment if these clinical goals are not being met. Overall, staying apprised of current research, utilizing the close pharmacist-patient relationship, and having regular interactions with patients, will help achieve successful long-term treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia in the age of BCR-ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitors. BCR-ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Journal of oncology pharmacy practice : official publication of the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners, Sep 2018 [PubMed 28580869] Nonadherence is common in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and leads to treatment failure and poor outcomes. Side effects due to treatment are also common in patients with CML. However, no study has investigated the link between side effects and medication adherence for patients with CML in Taiwan. Therefore, the aim of our study was to explore the influence of side effects on medication adherence in Taiwanese patients with CML.CML in chronic-phase patients treated with breakpoint cluster region-Abelson murine leukemia viral oncogene homolog 1 tyrosine kinase inhibitors were recruited. We designed a questionnaire to collect baseline patient information, medication adherence (measured using the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale), and side effects. Clinical outcomes were assessed by the 3-month early molecular response rate and the 12-month major molecular response rate. Statistical comparisons of different parameters between adherent and nonadherent groups were conducted.Fifty-eight patients were enrolled in this study, and 31% of them had poor adherence. The lack of information about treatment and medication was the major reason for poor medication adherence. Patients who were younger and unmarried were prone to poor adherence. The occurrence of side effects carried no statistically significant influence on adherence. Poor adherence resulted in a poor treatment response (lower 3-month early molecular response rate and lower 12-month major molecular response rate).Poor adherence is common in Taiwanese patients with CML. The main reason for a decrease in the adherence rate is the lack of comprehensive information about treatment and medication, particularly in young and single population. The next urgent step is to educate patients about their treatment and management of side effects to improve adherence and treatment outcome for patients with CML in Taiwan. Side effects and medication adherence of tyrosine kinase inhibitors for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in Taiwan. Medicine, Jun 2018 [PubMed 29953021] Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia treated with breakpoint cluster region-Abelson tyrosine kinase inhibitors are likely to survive in excess of 20 years after diagnosis. New challenges appear as we consider life after the disease, including professional challenges and the social reintegration of patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of chronic myeloid leukemia on employment within 2 years after diagnosis. This prospective, observational study included patients diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia and treated with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Two populations were defined as patients who reported modifications in their professional activity during the study (Acti-Pro+) and patients who did not report a modification (Acti-Pro-). Cancer survivors received a self-assessment questionnaire. The primary endpoint was to determine the professional status of patients. One hundred patients completed the questionnaire. Sixty-six patients out of 100 reported professional activity within 2 years after their diagnosis. During the 2 years after the diagnosis, 65.2% (95% confidence interval (CI), 53.7-76.7) of patients faced modifications in their professional activity due to chronic myeloid leukemia or adverse effects of drug treatments (group Acti-Pro+); in contrast, 34.8% of patients did not report any impact on their occupational activity (group Acti-Pro-). Among modifications to work organization, a change in the number of working hours was the most represented. Other modifications comprised changes in status or work pace. A majority of chronic myeloid leukemia patients face professional consequences of their disease and treatments. Our findings suggest that adverse drug reactions are a major factor affecting the occurrence of work modifications in this context. The impact of chronic myeloid leukemia on employment: the French prospective study. Annals of hematology, Mar 2019 [PubMed 30446803] 6. lymphoblastic leukemia Sequential treatment with targeted therapies can result in complex combinations of resistance mutations in drug targets. This mutational complexity has spurred the development of pan-target inhibitors, i.e. therapies for which no single target mutation can cause resistance. Since the propensity for on- versus off-target resistance varies across cancer types, a deeper understanding of the mutational burden in drug targets could rationalize treatment outcomes, and prioritize pan-target inhibitors for indications where on-target mutations are most likely. To measure and model the mutational landscape of a drug target at high resolution, we integrated single-molecule Duplex Sequencing of the ABL1 gene in Philadelphia-positive (Ph+) leukemias with computational simulations. A combination of drug target mutational burden and tumor-initiating cell fraction is sufficient to predict that most patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are unlikely to harbor ABL1 resistance mutations at the time of diagnosis, rationalizing the exceptional success of targeted therapy in this setting. In contrast, our analysis predicts that many patients with Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL) harbor multiple pre-existing resistant cells with single mutants. The emergence of compound mutations can be traced to initial use of an ABL1 inhibitor that is susceptible to resistance from single point mutations. These results argue that early use of therapies that achieve pan-inhibition of ABL1 resistance mutants might improve outcomes in Ph+ ALL. Our findings show how a deep understanding of the mutational burden in drug targets can be quantitatively coupled to phenotypic heterogeneity to rationalize clinical phenomena. Single-molecule sequencing reveals patterns of pre-existing drug resistance that suggest treatment strategies in Philadelphia-positive leukemias. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Jul 2018 [PubMed 30042204] Hematologists deal every day with high mortality rates of acute leukemia patients. Many times these patients need Intensive Care Unit (ICU) support and some general ICU teams believe that these patients have a much greater chance of dying than patients with other pathologies. In Brazil, data related to mortality rates and ICUs for acute leukemia patients are scarce. Therefore, to assess mortality predictors in patients with acute leukemia admitted to a specialized hematological ICU, we evaluated demographics, supportive care, hospitalization time, disease status, admitting diagnosis, neutropenia, number of transfusions and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE)/Sepsis Related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores as possible factors associated with mortality. Data were extracted from the first admission records of 110 patients with acute leukemia admitted to the Hemocentro de Pernambuco (Hemope) ICU between 2006 and 2009. In this retrospective cohort study, 72/110 of the patients were men, and 64/110 were from the metropolitan area of Recife. The patients' age median was 43.5 years (±17.9); 67.3% had acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and 32.7% had acute lymphoid leukemia. The main admitting diagnosis in the ICU was sepsis (66.7%). The mean APACHE II score was 18.3. Of the total, 65 (59%) died, and the mortality rate was independently related to longer hospitalization (p<0.001), the increase in the APACHE II score (p<0.038) and having received hemodialysis (p<0.006). Neutropenia, receiving multiple transfusions and using any kind of mechanical ventilation or vasoactive drug on admission were not relevant to mortality. Factors associated with higher mortality rates were: longer hospitalization, increase in the APACHE II score, and use of hemodialysis. With these data, to prevent organ lesions before admission to the ICU, a better strategy might be to reduce mortality for leukemia patients. Predictors of mortality among patients with acute leukemias admitted to an intensive care unit specialized in patients with hematological disease at a Brazilian hospital. Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy, Apr 2019 [PubMed 31103671] There are different BCR-ABL1 fusion genes that are translated into proteins that are different from each other, yet all leukemogenic, causing chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) or acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Their frequency has never been systematically investigated. In a series of 45503 newly diagnosed CML patients reported from 45 countries, it was found that the proportion of e13a2 (also known as b2a2) and of e14a2 (also known as b3a2), including the cases co-expressing e14a2 and e13a2, was 37.9% and 62.1%, respectively. The proportion of these two transcripts was correlated with gender, e13a2 being more frequent in males (39.2%) than in females (36.2%), was correlated with age, decreasing from 39.6% in children and adolescents down to 31.6% in patients ≥ 80 years old, and was not constant worldwide. Other, rare transcripts were reported in 666/34561 patients (1.93%). The proportion of rare transcripts was associated with gender (2.27% in females and 1.69% in males) and with age (from 1.79% in children and adolescents up to 3.84% in patients ≥ 80 years old). These data show that the differences in proportion are not by chance. This is important, as the transcript type is a variable that is suspected to be of prognostic importance for response to treatment, outcome of treatment, and rate of treatment-free remission. The proportion of different BCR-ABL1 transcript types in chronic myeloid leukemia. An international overview. Leukemia, May 2019 [PubMed 30675008] 7. MTTP findings using a functional pre-clinical mouse model of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), whereby we demonstrated the ability of NOX-A12, combined with the ABL kinase inhibitor, nilotinib, to reduce the leukemia burden in mice to a greater extent than either agent alone. Overall, the data support the idea of using SDF-1 inhibition in combination with targeted kinase inhibition to override drug resistance in oncogene-driven leukemia to significantly diminish or eradicate residual leukemic disease. Inhibition of SDF-1-induced migration of oncogene-driven myeloid leukemia by the L-RNA aptamer (Spiegelmer), NOX-A12, and potentiation of tyrosine kinase inhibition. Oncotarget, Dec 2017 [PubMed 29299123] Basophils form a distinct cell lineage within the hematopoietic cell family. In various myeloid neoplasms, including chronic myeloid leukemia, basophilia is frequently seen. Acute and chronic basophilic leukemias, albeit rare, have also been described. However, no generally accepted criteria and classification of basophilic leukemias have been presented to date. To address this unmet need, a series of Working Conferences and other meetings were organized between March 2015 and March 2016. The current article provides a summary of consensus statements from these meetings, together with proposed criteria to delineate acute basophilic leukemia (ABL) from chronic basophilic leukemia (CBL) and primary forms of the disease where no preceding myeloid malignancy is detected, from the more common 'secondary' variants. Moreover, the term hyperbasophilia (HB) is proposed for cases with a persistent peripheral basophil count ⩾1000 per μl of blood. This condition, HB, is highly indicative of the presence of an underlying myeloid neoplasm. Therefore, HB is an important checkpoint in the diagnostic algorithm and requires a detailed hematologic investigation. In these patients, an underlying myeloid malignancy is often found and is then labeled with the appendix -baso, whereas primary cases of ABL or CBL are very rare. The criteria and classification proposed in this article should facilitate the diagnosis and management of patients with unexplained basophilia and basophil neoplasms in routine practice, and in clinical studies. Proposed diagnostic criteria and classification of basophilic leukemias and related disorders. Leukemia, Apr 2017 [PubMed 28090091] Although extensive use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors has resulted in high and durable response rate and prolonged survival time in patients with BCR-ABL1 positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute leukemia, relapse and drug resistance still remain big challenges for clinicians. Monitoring the expression of BCR-ABL1 fusion gene and identifying ABL kinase mutations are effective means to predict disease relapse and resistance. However, the prognostic impact of BCR-ABL1 signal patterns detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) remains largely unaddressed. BCR-ABL1 signal patterns were analyzed using FISH in 243 CML-chronic phase (CML-CP), 17 CML-blast phase (CML-BP) and 52 BCR-ABL1 positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients. The patterns of BCR-ABL1 signals presented complexity and diversity. A total of 12 BCR-ABL1 signals were observed in this cohort, including 1R1G2F, 1R1G1F, 2R1G1F, 1R2G1F, 2R2G1F, 1R2G2F, 1R1G3F, 1G3F, 2G3F, 1G4F, 1R1G4F and 1R4F. Complex BCR-ABL1 signal patterns (≥ two types of signal patterns) were observed in 52.9% (n = 9) of the CML-BP patients, followed by 30.8% (n = 16) of the ALL patients and only 2.1% (n = 5) of the CML-CP patients. More importantly, five clonal evolution patterns related to disease progression and relapse were observed, and patients with complex BCR-ABL1 signal patterns had a poorer overall survival (OS) time compared with those with single patterns (5.0 vs.15.0 months, p = 0.006). Our data showed that complex BCR-ABL1 signal patterns were associated with leukemic clonal evolution and poorer prognosis in BCR-ABL1 positive leukemia. Monitoring BCR-ABL1 signal patterns might be an effective means to provide prognostic guidance and treatment choices for these patients. Heterogeneous BCR-ABL1 signal patterns identified by fluorescence in situ hybridization are associated with leukemic clonal evolution and poorer prognosis in BCR-ABL1 positive leukemia. BMC cancer, Oct 2019 [PubMed 31594548] 8. myelodysplastic syndromes Given the vast phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity of acute and chronic myeloid malignancies, hematologists have eagerly awaited the introduction of next-generation sequencing (NGS) into the routine diagnostic armamentarium to enable a more differentiated disease classification, risk stratification, and improved therapeutic decisions. At present, an increasing number of hematologic laboratories are in the process of integrating NGS procedures into the diagnostic algorithms of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Inevitably accompanying such developments, physicians and molecular biologists are facing unexpected challenges regarding the interpretation and implementation of molecular genetic results derived from NGS in myeloid malignancies. This article summarizes typical challenges that may arise in the context of NGS-based analyses at diagnosis and during follow-up of myeloid malignancies. Challenges in the introduction of next-generation sequencing (NGS) for diagnostics of myeloid malignancies into clinical routine use. Blood cancer journal, Nov 2018 [PubMed 30420667] The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic role of multiparameter flow cytometry (FC) in patients with idiopathic cytopenia of undetermined significance (ICUS) and clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance (CCUS). We performed FC using a standardized panel and two different diagnostic algorithms (Ogata, Wells) in a well-characterized cohort of 79 patients with ICUS/CCUS and compared it with a retrospective blinded morphological evaluation and data from targeted next-generation DNA sequencing of 20 myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)-related genes. Our data show that FC has low sensitivity in distinguishing CCUS from ICUS patients (40.5% for Ogata score and 59.5% for Wells score). The Wells score was suggestive of dysplasia in ICUS/CCUS patients with concurrent morphological signs of dysplasia in the bone marrow (following re-evaluation by two hematopathologists) and in CCUS patients with a higher mutational burden. Eight patients with ICUS/CCUS from our cohort progressed to another myeloid malignancy (MDS, acute myeloid leukemia, or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia), all showing flow cytometric signs of dysplasia. FC performs poorly in diagnosing CCUS versus ICUS. However, it can potentially provide prognostic information in cytopenic patients by identifying a subgroup of patients with a higher grade of dysplasia, higher mutational burden, and higher risk of progression and, together with mutational screening, also identify a group of patients who might require morphological reassessment of dysplastic changes in their bone marrow. The diagnostic and prognostic role of flow cytometry in idiopathic and clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance (ICUS/CCUS): A single-center analysis of 79 patients. Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry, Sep 2019 [PubMed 31479199] Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) are hematological diseases predominantly occurring in older patients. Although allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) remains the curative therapy for refractory AML or high-risk MDS, old age is often a hurdle to the procedure. We conducted a retrospective study to analyze the prognostic factors predicting outcomes of older patients undergoing allo-HSCT for acute leukemia and MDS. We collected data from patients diagnosed with acute leukemia or MDS, who underwent allo-HSCT at age more than 50 years and reviewed clinical characteristics including age, sex, underlying disease, European Group for Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) risk score, and presence of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) or chronic GVHD (cGVHD). The Cox proportional hazard model was adopted to explore the independent prognostic factors for overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), and non-relapse mortality (NRM). A total of 85 older patients were included, with the median age at allo-HSCT being 55 years. The significant prognostic factors for worse OS or PFS were an EBMT risk score > 3 and grade III-IV aGVHD, while patients with moderate to severe cGVHD would have better OS or PFS. Interestingly, it's not chronic GVHD but grade III-IV aGVHD that significantly correlated with NRM. This cohort study suggests that an EBMT risk score > 3 and grade III-IV aGVHD predict poor outcomes, and careful management of GVHD may allow better survival for older patients undergoing allo-HSCT. European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation score correlates with outcomes of older patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA, Jan 2020 [PubMed 31904659] 9. dasatinib 888 articles, score 318.179 To design, develop, optimize and evaluate sustained-release dasatinib-loaded gold nanoparticles (DSB-GNPs) to treat chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) by using quality by design. In this study, we performed risk assessment, optimization, in vitro characterizations, stability study, drug release studies, cytotoxicity study and in vivo pharmacokinetic evaluation. DSB-GNPs of desired size, entrapment, smooth, spherical, stable and sustained drug release for 48 h were achieved. DSB-GNPs exhibited significantly more percentage growth inhibition and enhanced systemic bioavailability compared with pure DSB. The in vitro and in vivo evaluation exhibited that the DSB-GNPs have a potential cytotoxic effect, systemic bioavailability and sustained release making them a promising system of DSB delivery in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. Gold nanoparticles for sustained antileukemia drug release: development, optimization and evaluation by quality-by-design approach. Nanomedicine (London, England), Apr 2019 [PubMed 30901283] Dasatinib has shown promising anti-leukemic activity against chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, patients receiving dasatinib frequently require dose reductions and treatment interruptions (treatment alteration). ) at steady state were assessed on day 28 of therapy. /D/W were correlated with the incidence of treatment alteration (HR 4.78, 95% CI: 1.01-22.70, p = 0.049; HR 6.17, 95% CI: 1.17-32.50, respectively). /D/W value and/or advanced PS were at a high risk for altered treatment. Plasma concentrations of dasatinib have a clinical impact on the frequency of dasatinib dose reduction and interruption in chronic myeloid leukemia: an analysis of the DARIA 01 study. International journal of clinical oncology, Oct 2018 [PubMed 29845477] Dasatinib is currently approved for clinical use as a first-line treatment agent for newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, only a few clinical trials have been performed to evaluate dasatinibinduced PE following first-line therapy. We investigated the incidence and clinical features of dasatinib-induced PE following first-line therapy in Japanese CML patients of real world clinical practice settings. Among 22 patients, the median age of PE-positive patients was higher than that of PE-negative patients. Major molecular response was achieved in 75% of PE-positive patients and 50% of PE-negative patients. Most patients developed PE more than 1 year after treatment. Appearance of PE is associated with better clinical response during dasatinib treatment, however it is developed at any time. Elderly and high-risk patients tend to develop PE. The clinical features of dasatinib-induced PE following first-line therapy might be late onset and might not immediately follow the increasing of large granular lymphocyte. chronic myeloid leukemia. Hematology reports, Sep 2018 [PubMed 30283618] 10. hematologic malignancies Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) occurs in the blood of approximately 20% of older persons. CHIP is linked to an increased risk of hematologic malignancies and of all-cause mortality; thus, the eligibility of stem-cell donors with CHIP is questionable. We comprehensively investigated how donor CHIP affects outcome of allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT). We collected blood samples from 500 healthy, related HSCT donors (age ≥ 55 years) at the time of stem-cell donation for targeted sequencing with a 66-gene panel. The effect of donor CHIP was assessed on recipient outcomes, including graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), cumulative incidence of relapse/progression (CIR/P), and overall survival (OS). A total of 92 clonal mutations with a median variant allele frequency of 5.9% were identified in 80 (16.0%) of 500 donors. CHIP prevalence was higher in donors related to patients with myeloid compared with lymphoid malignancies (19.2% v 6.3%; P ≤ .001). In recipients allografted with donor CHIP, we found a high cumulative incidence of chronic GVHD (cGVHD; hazard ratio [HR], 1.73; 95% CI, 1.21 to 2.49; P = .003) and lower CIR/P (univariate: HR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.40 to 0.97; P = .027; multivariate: HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.41 to 0.98; P = .042) but no effect on nonrelapse mortality. Serial quantification of 25 mutations showed engraftment of 24 of 25 clones and disproportionate expansion in half of them. Donor-cell leukemia was observed in two recipients. OS was not affected by donor CHIP status (HR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.65 to 1.321; P = .434). Allogeneic HSCT from donors with CHIP seems safe and results in similar survival in the setting of older, related donors. Future studies in younger and unrelated donors are warranted to extend these results. Confirmatory studies and mechanistic experiments are warranted to challenge the hypothesis that donor CHIP might foster cGVHD development and reduce relapse/progression risk. Role of Donor Clonal Hematopoiesis in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Feb 2019 [PubMed 30403573] Compared with linear RNA, circular RNAs (circRNAs) form a covalently closed circular continuous loop and are highly conserved, stable and tissue-specific. In recent years, circRNAs received considerable attention in the diagnosis, classification, treatment and prognosis of hematological tumors. circRNAs function as microRNA sponges and competitive endogenous RNAs that play an essential role in the translation, regulation and interaction of proteins. The present review discussed the fundamental properties and functions of circRNAs and the latest advancements in the context of circRNAs in the clinical research of hematological malignancies, namely acute and chronic myeloid leukemia, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. circRNAs show potential in the diagnosis and prognosis of various diseases and can be used as therapeutic targets and biomarkers for disease. Role of circular RNA in hematological malignancies. Oncology letters, Nov 2019 [PubMed 31611947] Bones provide both skeletal scaffolding and space for hematopoiesis in its marrow. Previous work has shown that these functions were tightly regulated by the nervous system. The central and peripheral nervous systems tightly regulate compact bone remodeling, its metabolism, and hematopoietic homeostasis in the bone marrow (BM). Accumulating evidence indicates that the nervous system, which fine-tunes inflammatory responses and alterations in neural functions, may regulate autoimmune diseases. Neural signals also influence the progression of hematological malignancies such as acute and chronic myeloid leukemias. Here, we review the interplay of the nervous system with bone, BM, and immunity, and discuss future challenges to target hematological diseases through modulation of activity of the nervous system. Neural Regulation of Bone and Bone Marrow. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, Sep 2018 [PubMed 29500307]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line88
__label__cc	0.709924	0.290076	Apr. 09, 2019 \| 12:05 AM (Last updated: April 09, 2019 \| 07:37 PM) Consensus key to power plan success Electricity cables in Ain Saadeh, Oct. 2, 2018. (The Daily Star/Mohamad Azakir) Timour Azhari\| The Daily Star This article was amended on Tuesday, April 09 2019 A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the Cabinet session took place Thursday. In fact, it was held Monday. The Daily Star regrets the error. A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on April 09, 2019, on page 2. Top 10 ways to safeguard youth and our future Detached from reality UN: Keeping Lebanon without government "increasingly irresponsible" Energy Ministry Waylon Fairbanks Hilal Khashan Jessica Obeid Nada Boustani Deir Ammar Electricite du Liban The technical side of Lebanon's ambitious new electricity plan may seem sound. But analysts say now that Cabinet ministers have endorsed the plan, it will face difficulties in its implementation because of the country's political realities. In short, the plan calls for six new power plants to be built in Lebanon over six years, and in the meantime, for alternative electricity sources to be introduced in order to ramp up output, allowing for countrywide 24/7 coverage as soon as possible. With consensus currently high, "the hard part is the political system will have to be functioning consistently until the plants are completed," Fairbanks said. He pointed to the example of the Deir Ammar 2 power plant, the construction of which was held up for years as a result of a financial dispute that pitted the Finance Ministry against the Energy Ministry. That plant is supposed to be completed by 2021, according to the new plan. Fairbanks said the government would likely be unable to enact such an unpopular proposal. The plan itself notes that the Army and the Internal Security Forces, as well as politicians, would be involved in ending electricity theft -- a large part of the reason Lebanon currently loses 34 percent of its output -- and ensuring the payment of bills. More from Timour Azhari Afiouni slams ‘piecemeal’ response to crisis Khatib back in front for PM as consultations approach Mothers lead march between Muslim-Christian suburbs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line90
__label__wiki	0.67298	0.67298	[TV] APRIL 2016 DISCUSSION THREAD By RIPPA, April 1, 2016 in MOVIES & TV Tabe 1,865 I'm Mad About You! You're Mad About Me! LocationSPOKANE, Y'ALL 6 hours ago, peterien said: Finally getting around to Halt and Catch Fire again. Lee Pace is an amazing actor. Love that show. Can't wait for the new season. Craig H 10,775 Joe West Fan Club LocationSouf Bend, IN I just finished the second season not that long ago. My biggest complaint is all the marital strife. I really hate that trope in TV dramas. It would be far more interesting to watch a couple fight against that shit if only because you rarely see that now. It did setup some interesting situations for season 3, but I'm hoping they don't continue the trend of Gordon, Donna and Cameron do something innovative, Joe fucks it all up and complicates things, Gordon and Donna are at loggerheads, Cameron starts to lose her shit, everyone wins. peterien 293 LocationCork,Ireland 18 hours ago, Tabe said: Just finished s1- great season overall thought it wobbled a bit near the end but still a great show. Lee Pace is fantastic and gives an acting masterclass in the episode where hurricane hits (Ep 6?). Was Gordon digging the hole in the backyard ever mentioned again? And what about Joe destroying the shipment? Anyway started S2 ep1 and Joe is all settled and stuff? What the hell... EDIT: BOZ IS BACK MOTHERFUCKERS MonteCarl 1,179 LocationSaginaw, MI Decided to start watching "Oz" last night with the wife. Heard so many things about it over the years, and the first episode definitely has our interest. It's so very 90's in it's presentation and editing, but this will be on our nightly viewing schedule for the next several weeks as we make our way through the series. 17 hours ago, peterien said: Yes, the hole digging and the torched shipment both get covered. Johnny Sorrow 2,187 LocationLuscious Longmont, Colorado Horace and Pete. Holy fuck. J.H. 1,642 LocationToledo OH My lord Season 2 of The Unbreakable Kimy Schmidt... its just brilliant, especailly after they introduce Andrea! Tina Fey plays a magnificent drunk! Its already greenlit for series 3 but I'm not sure how it can be topped after this nofuture 3,643 12 hours ago, Johnny Sorrow said: If you like the show, you have to listen to Louis CK on Marc Maron's WTF podcast talking about creation and making of the show. Awesome stuff. Casey 5,408 We Stan THE QUEEN Speaking of Maron, I can't wait to see S4 of his show on IFC. I saw a preview for the new season last night while Fight Club was on, and it looks great (and depressing). 3 hours ago, nofuture said: That's where I got turned into the show. I hadn't heard of it at all until that WTF, and I bought the whole season. I'm halfway into ep 3 and I'm blown away. Alan Alda is unreal in this. And after episode three, it's clear that Laurie Metcalf is the greatest actress alive. Rev Ray 4,464 LocationFunkytown I love that Silicon Valley is back and they hit a robotic deer with their car. Spritenaut 32 4,590 FKA Horton Hears a Wooo Location1994 Should I be watching 12 Monkeys? I've heard good things about it and am debating picking up the season 1 DVD set. keith_h 136 Toronto National Sea Flea LocationSeattle, WA 25 minutes ago, Vader does my taxes! said: Yes, first season was great and the 2nd just started. I stumbled onto it halfway through the 1st season and caught up in a weekend binge. It's a very addicting show. Last Man On Earth is just so fucking bonkers now. I love it more than ever. You know what's really good? The New Girl. I just finished Horace and Pete. I'm sobbing as I write this. Without exaggeration, it truly is one of the finest pieces of work I've ever seen in the TV show medium. And it's going to be a game changer as far as what constitutes a "TV show", given that it's online only. Louis CK is submitting it to be eligible for the Emmys and while I myself think that awards and award shows mean jack shit, if this doesn't at least sweep the acting categories,( that is if it's accepted as "TV"), then the awards will truly mean nothing.Alan Alda, Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, Jessica Lange, Louis, and even Kurt Metzger, Nick DiPaulo, and Stephen Wright are just amazing. Horace and Pete is a god damned accomplishment in what the medium can be. Louis CK has created, with an amazing cast, something that needs to be seen and is in my opinion, essential viewing. It's fucking tremendous. And I'm loving these clickbait headlines about how he "had to self cancel it." and that it "bankrupted" him. Not true. First of all, if you've watched it you'd know that there wasn't going to be another season. It's a ten episode play with a definitive ending. And he spent a lot of money on it, that's true. But he owns it outright and will be able to eventually make money on it via Netflix , Hulu, or whatever. He's not in debt to anyone. All that shit aside, I can't recommend or praise this enough. It's only 31 bucks to own it outright. Do it. You won't regret it. J.T. 9,064 LocationBack In The Eight Oh Four! 16 hours ago, RIPPA said: I will have to set alarm clocks like the guy in the Oculus horror short to remind myself when it is time to eat. I don't expect these episodes to be nearly as subversive as the originals, but they should be fun to watch. PetrolCB 7,673 LocationNew Jersey On April 23, 2016 at 11:03 AM, MonteCarl said: Solid choice. I was an early teen when it was on, and probably shouldn't have watching that type of content, as well as the fact that I should've been asleep for school. But, that was and still is one of my favorite shows. So, so good. Hope you enjoy it. On April 26, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Curt McGirt said: I never gave/give it a chance when it was/is on during primetime. Luckily TBS is awesome now (and airs a lot of my favorite shows, not BBT), so I've been catching up on it. Pretty good. Zooey being easy on the eyes also helps. On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 0:31 PM, EVA said: Yes, actually. As bad as the ratings have gotten on Friday, 1) it's owned by Fox, which is always a big factor in renewals, 2) Friday shows tend to have a lower ratings threshold, and 3) Fox will already have more hours than usual to fill next year with the departure of American Idol, and it's actually more cost-effective to renew a show than start a new one. It has some things going in its favor. On the other hand, fan outrcy against Beharie's removal has been so strong, it's highly likely they'll lose a significant portion of whatever audience they have left. Variety said today that Sleepy Hollow was likely to return for another season. Why.....? Is there any story to Beharie leaving the show? I'm assuming she either wanted out and the producers let her out of her contract, or else they needed to shed her salary to have any hope of bringing the show back next season. Anything more to it than that? This was a very strange watch. Why am I the only one watching The Night Manager?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line96
__label__cc	0.7415	0.2585	Earth Day 2009 at Chacha Nehru’s House! DG Correspondent Moving the Earth….on her Day! (Launch of Green Generation Youth & Delhi Environment Action Network) Earth Day 2009 was celebrated today by Development Alternatives (DA), Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) and the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) at the NMML with much energy and enthusiasm. Over 300 school children participated from over 20 schools that made the entire NMML come to life. Earth Day caps and T-shirts were distributed to students upon their arrival at the NMML and they were each given a group number. After a brief welcome address in the auditorium, the children were introduced to their group coordinators who took them to a pre-decided place, to carry out the respective activity that had been chosen by children. Everything from Nature Craft, Nature Painting, Making newspaper bags, Pottery, learning the Charkha to jingle making were the range of activities that the children were involved and engaged with. Each group came up with innovative and unique ideas and put them to use in order to make something useful and in the process, gave expression to their creativity. The groups were visited by Mr. George Varghese, President of Development Alternatives, Ms. Usha Srinivasan, Chief Coordinator of the Clean India Programme of DA and a Joint Secretary from the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) who was also the Chief Guest for the day. The school children then reassembled in the auditorium. The stage was managed by Ms. Usha Srinivasan who called upon Professor Mridula Mukherjee, Director, NMML, Mr. George and the Chief Guest to give a short speech to inspire the children. Ms. Srinivasan also announced the launch of the Green Generation Youth campaign and the Carbon Footprint calculator CD. The day concluded with each student group presenting their creation, and with a musical concert by the children themed on Green Generation Youth! The day also marked the the launch of the Delhi Environment Action Network (Delhi-EAN) by Govind Singh of Delhi Greens and Padmavati Dwivedi of Compassionate Living as a Network of concerned citizens of Delhi and the various civil society organisations based or working in Delhi. A programme of the Development Alternatives, the Network is being revived by various civil society groups and citizens of Delhi, as a strong need for such a platform has now arisen and as a response to the onslaught on the trees of Delhi, the dying status of river Yamuna, the polythene and waste mess in the city, and the transport and mobility crisis. The Delhi-EAN will carry out well researched green actions from time to time, that it feels are necessary in the best interest of the city. The Network will share useful information, court hearings, environmental laws, notifications, acts etc. pertaining to Delhi and its environment. In addition, the Delhi-EAN will collect, share and distribute resources, contacts, skills and knowledge with an underlying objective of a clean and green National Capital Territory. About DG Correspondent This article has been written by a member of the Delhi Greens Blog's dedicated team of writers, contributors and researchers from across Delhi NCR, India and the world. Clean IndiaDADEANEarth DayEarth Day 2009NMMLTeen Murti Bhawan Get Sowing this World Soil Day, Participate in UNs Exciting Challenge Apoorva Sarna How Green are the Green Firecrackers for Delhi? One thought on “Earth Day 2009 at Chacha Nehru’s House!” Pingback: Invite to Urban Ecotourism Bus Tour Exploring the Lifelines of Delhi	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line99
__label__cc	0.743074	0.256926	Welcome to Kitchen Design Where You'll Find a Selection of Kitchen and Home Cabinetry to Fit Your Active Life and Personal Style FTK FTK (Technology For the Kitchen) is the leading showcase for domestic technology. It is being held for the fifth time at iSaloni, in tandem with EuroCucina, Acheo On the occasion of the last edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Acheo Just opened showrooms in the United Nations Via Fiori Chiari 34, in the historic district of Brera in Milan. Arclinea During the Salone del Mobile / Eurocucina 2012, officially opens April 17 in Corso Monforte 28, in Milan, the new Centre Arclinea kitchens. In a world premiere, in collaboration with Blum, the new cassette 'LEGRABOX' and the new Island Artusi. Lissoni Associati We are in the bright space designed by Lissoni Associati Milano (new collaboration inaugurated at the design week). Here we find a must Desalto, the Helsinki multifaceted program, designed by Caronni-Bonanomi. Milan Wrap - Outside Living Spaces 2012 At the entrance of the exhibition space, the words 'if you want breakfast in bed, you sleep in the kitchen'. Wrap spaces proposes a system of modular units in one: the kitchen, but also the living and dining area. Frame The workspace, porthole, with sink and appliances, the new project of Venetian Frame Kitchens, is entirely covered with HPL. Frame is available in black or white. Kerlite 2012 edition of Eurocucina Modulnova presents a model, born of many years experience working in the company of Kerlite, material introduced for the first time in the furniture business by the company. Wood and steel made in the kitchen system Lando, conceived and designed by famous designer Enzo Berti.Ernestomeda / Carré Design: Marc Sadler In the basic design and Carre 'minimal' is combined with the flexibility and versatility of traditional home cooking. Enrico Coveri Vallecrosia exclusive furniture maker for France in the kitchens marked Enrico Coveri. Among the 2012 Enrico Coveri Living texture, line Pop Heart: search result style of Francesco Martini Coveri Enrico Coveri designers. Minacciolo Minacciolo has confirmed its presence at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan from 17th to 22nd April 2012. The company will present, in addition to the historic but still very current and request Collection English Mood, two other new wonderfull collections. Bulthaup The Bulthaup kitchen of the future second-CEO Marc O. bulthaup Eckert and designer Herbert Schultes talk about their new kitchen: functional and flexible, using a prism that allows the use of modular horizontal space equal to the vertical. Smeg All Smeg offer was on display in the showroom of the brand manufacturer Emilia. On the ground floor hoods, hobs and ovens of different ranges are combined to show live the pairing effect, while the lower floor is devoted to the colored products from free-standing, rounded form. Exerpt:FTK FTK (Technology For the Kitchen) is the leading showcase for domestic technology. It is being held for the fifth time at iSaloni, in tandem with EuroCucina, Acheo On the occasion of the last edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Acheo Just opened showrooms in the United Nations Via Fiori Chiari 34, in the historic district of Brera in Milan. Arclinea During the Salone del Mobile / Eurocucina 2012, officially opens April 17 in Corso Monforte 28, in Milan, the new Centre Arcli.. Kitchen Design in Milan 2012 Images:	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line100
__label__wiki	0.554099	0.554099	PRODUCTS > Fire Service Tools > Non-Sparking Tools > Chisels & Caulking Tools > AMPCO Hand Chisel What our abs are cut and sealed with (so they don't leak). Product: $17.72 \| C-12B $23.65 \| C-12A $18.22 \| C-12 $23.43 \| C-13 $30.10 \| C-14 $32.51 \| C-15 $35.59 \| C-16 $39.83 \| C-17 $47.75 \| C-18 $117.46 \| C-19 $30.76 \| C-20 $42.69 \| C-21 $44.38 \| C-22 $101.64 \| C-23 $189.62 \| C-24 Qty: View tool applications Constructed of AMPCO bronze metal Non-sparking Non-magnetic Number a mm s mm l mm Weight g a inch s inch l inch Weight lb C-12b 6 6 133 3.5 (1/4) (1/4) 5(1/4) 0.08 C-12a 11 10 140 92 (7/16) (3/8) 5(3/4) 0.16 C-12 14 13 152 165 (9/16) (1/2) 6(1/2) 0.3 C-13 19 17 155 280 (3/4) (5/8) 6 0.54 C-14 21 19 203 480 (13/16) (3/4) 8 0.9 C-15 17 17 232 425 (11/16) (5/8) 9(1/8) 0.82 C-17 22 22 225 745 (7/8) (7/8) 9 1.5 C-18 27 25 235 870 1(1/16) 1 9(1/4) 1.64 C-19 50 32 270 1900 2 1(1/4) 10(5/8) 3.66 C-20 13 13 305 360 (9/16) (1/2) 12 0.72 C-21 22 19 310 780 (7/8) (3/4) 12 1.48 C-22 19 13 355 380 (3/4) (1/2) 14(1/2) 0.92 C-23 25 25 460 2000 1 1 18 3.62 C-24 25 22 760 2900 1 (7/8) 30 5.52 More Chisels & Caulking Tools: PN: C-10	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line107
__label__wiki	0.845726	0.845726	1/20 Lola L. Brown Crumady - El Paso, Texas 2/20 Douglass High School - Class of 1938 3/20 Douglass High School 5/20 Douglass High School - 1940 7/20 Douglass High School - Booklet - 1981 8/20 Douglass High School Administrators 9/20 Douglass High School - Class 1915 - 1917 10/20 Douglass High School - 1917 - 1921 11/20 Class of 1922 - 1924 12/20 Douglass High School - Class of 1925 & 1926 13/20 Douglass High School - 1981 14/20 Douglass Elementary School Teachers 15/20 High School Teachers - Douglass High School 16/20 Douglass High School - Teachers 17/20 High School Teachers - Douglass High School, El Paso, Texas 18/20 Douglass High School - Class of 1917, 1918,1920, 1921 Credit:: Charlotte (Crumady) Campfield Hailing from Galveston, Texas, Mrs. Crumady came to El Paso, Texas in 1949 accepting the position of Director of Early Childhood Development at McCall Day Nursery located on the Douglass Elementary and High School campus. She received her B.S. at Prairie View A&M. She was a member of Second Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School, held the position of Church Clerk and a member of the Missionary Society. She was also a member of El Paso Teachers Assn; United Way of El Paso; Golden Life Member and Past President of the El Paso Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; member of Zeta Pi Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society; Church Women United, Retired Teachers Association and Phyllis Wheatley Club. She met and married her husband of 56 years,James B. Crumady in 1954. They were the proud parents of Charlotte and Pamela; grandparents of DeShaun Barnes and great-grandparents of DeVonte Barnes. Mrs. Crumady retired from the El Paso Public School System in 1986 after 38 years of service. She and James moved to Augusta, Georgia in 2005 to be with Charlotte and her husband, Kenneth Campfield. Both passed away in 2011. Uploaded on 05.17.2017 by Charlotte (Crumady) Campfield Central / South Central, (1950 - 1959), Family and Friends Lola L. Brown Crumady Meet El Pasoans 06.24.2017 by Eva Ross tag African American, women 09.24.2017 by Eva add TEXAS after El Paso in first sentence of description 09.12.2019 by PAMELA CRUMADY BARNES this is my mother: can we correct her name to Iola instead of LOLA Credit:: Douglass High School Douglass High School - Class of 1938 - El Paso, Texas. The class of 1938 - Left to right, first row; Marguerite Owens, Thurman Taylor, Lois Parish, and Clarence Taylor. Second Row, Erma Lee White, Leon Curry, Avis Hancock, L.W. Washington, and Juanita Scott. Third Row, Elizabeth Russel, Dorothy Porter, Oscar Wright, Minnie Watkins, and Elizabeth Berry. Central / Chamizal, (1930 - 1939), Education Douglass High School Douglass High School - This is a booklet covering some of the events and people of the Black community of El Paso. An attempt to capture from words and old photographs a few of the lasting impressions of some incidents which will always be remembered of Douglass High School. Douglass High School - William Coleman is in the center of the picture with his family. Principal from 1908 - 1927, he attended Howard University and Brown University and taught at Benedict College, Columbia, and North Carolina. He was assistant principal in Fort Worth, Texas before coming to El Paso. He left El Paso in 1927 returning to Fort Worth, Texas to work as State Treasurer of the Masonic Lodge until his death. Mrs. Emma Coleman his wife also taught at Douglass School. Douglass High School - El Paso, Texas. tag African American El Paso TX Douglass High School - El Paso, Texas. Booklet with this information about Douglass High School - Black High School - 1895 - 1956. The booklet highlights two principals on this page. William Coleman and William Oliver Bundy, Sr. are highlighted on this page of the booklet. The first and second principals of Douglass High School in El Paso, Texas are without a photograph. add in El Paso, Texas after High School in description Members of class of 1915, 1916, and 1917. Douglass High School - members of Douglass High School from 1917 - 1921. Douglass High School - members of classes from 1922 - 1924. Douglass High School El Pas,o Texas -- classmates of class of 1925 & 1926. Douglass High School - Administrators Douglass Elementary School Teachers Douglass High School Teachers Douglass High School - Teachers tag African American, Women, These women taught at Douglass High in El Paso TX in the 1940's. Johnnie Howard Calvert Hattie Davis Desboine Eugene Augustus Desboine Calvin C. DeWitty Douglass High School - Class of 1917, 1918,1920, 1921 Douglass High School - Class of 1927, and 1928. tag, women, African American Douglass High School - Class of 1929 & 1930 More from the same album More from the same collection Douglass High School - Belearphron Mathis Collins - 1940 Attended college in Kansas City, Missouri. Married Henry Dupree. Had one daughter, Cynthia. Attended. a trade school in El Paso... Douglass High School - Eugene Ford Jr. - 1940 Eugene Ford graduated from Prairie View A. and M. University majoring in Architectural Engineering. He worked in the Port Arthur... Douglass High School - Annie Eagans Smith - 1940 Married Herbert F. Smith from Tuscon, Arizona. Lived in many parts of the world including Germany and Japan until husband... Douglass High School - Mary E. Austin Kelley - 1940 Attended Crescent Beauty School in Austin, Texas in 1940-1941. She worked in that field for many years. Later she worked... Douglass High School - Dupree Austin Jr. - 1940 Dupree Austin worked in various jobs in El Paso until 1942 when he started working at the Post Office as... Douglass High School - Mayme L. Taylor Witherspoon - 1939 Married Cornell Witherspoon in 1941. After her husband's military tour, she moved to Stockton, California. She was employed with Federal... Douglass High School - Edward W. Wright, M.D. - 1939 Graduated from Samuel Houston College in Austin, Texas magna cum laude in 1943. Graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1948.... Douglass High School - Theresa Ursery Brown - 1939 Attended Lincoln Junior College and Coles Vocational School in Kansas City, Missouri. Took various extension courses while in Europe as... Douglass High School - Roscoe Roberts - 1939 Served in the military from 1942-1945. Moved from El Paso to Denver, Colorado in 1960 to accept a job with... Douglass High School - M. Maxine Kelly Boles - 1939 B.S. Tillotson College, Austin, Texas, 1944; M.A. New Mexico Highlands University, 1952; M.A., New Mexico Highlands University, 1954; Post Graduate... Douglass High School - Amos Boyd - 1939 Attended Tillotson College, Austin, Texas, 1940-41. Lived and worked at Duncan Airfield, San Antonio, Texas where fighter planes are assembled.... Douglass High School - Fannie Mae Drisdale Burt - 1938 Taught at Douglass High School 1944-1945 and is a former student of Douglass, having attended from 1938-1939. Received a 8.... Josephine A. Mathis Bowden - 1952 Class of 1952 - Douglass High School - El Paso, Texas. She married Elbert Bowden and one... Montie E. Mathis Quinn - 1947 - El Paso, Texas Class of 1947 from Douglass High School. Attended West Virginia State College, Texas Southern University, New Mexico State University and... Class of 1938 - Douglass High School Douglass High School - 1938	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line110
__label__wiki	0.861354	0.861354	Items L'arc-en-ciel. L'arc-en-ciel. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) Samuel Putnam Avery Collection Bracquemond, Félix Prints not listed in Béraldi.] Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 (Collector) Bracquemond, Félix (1833-1914) (Etcher) Shelf locator: MEZAC+ Content: Admission is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections. Content: Forms part of Prints by Felix Bracquemond in Samuel Putnam Avery Collection. Content: Holdings checked in departmental copy of Henri Beraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, v. 3. Content: Original etchings and an original drawing by Felix Bracquemond. Subjects include landscapes, nudes, rainbows and roosters. Content: S.P. Avery Collection. Content: This list includes oversize addenda only. Small additions to Beraldi catalog are listed separately in NYPG95-F231. Content: Title devised by cataloger. Content: Titles derived from L. Delteil, "Catalogue des estampes gravees par Bracquemond de 1890 a 1896," L'Artiste, 1897, p. 431-432; and Bibliotheque Nationale, Departement des Estampes, Inventaire du Fonds Francais apres 1800, v. 3, p. 354-396. Titles which do not appear in either of these sources were devised by cataloger. Ownership: Collection presented to the New York Public Library in 1899 by S.P. Avery. Citation/reference: A21(I/VI) Extent: State noted with standard reference number. RLIN/OCLC: NYPG95-F246 Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4fcbabe0-c60c-012f-0c1c-58d385a7bc34 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "L'arc-en-ciel." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1893. http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4335-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "L'arc-en-ciel." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 21, 2020. http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4335-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1893). L'arc-en-ciel. Retrieved from http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4335-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 <ref name=NYPL>{{cite web \| url=http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4335-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 \| title= (still image) L'arc-en-ciel., (1893)\|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library \|accessdate=January 21, 2020 \|publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line111
__label__wiki	0.671155	0.671155	Home Baylor University Press Releases Page 1 Baylor University Press Release, 10/30/1970 Identifier bu-pr_1970-10-30f Title Baylor University Press Release, 10/30/1970 Format Press Release Custodian Baylor University - The Texas Collection Digital Collection Baylor University Press Releases	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line112
__label__cc	0.669514	0.330486	Home » Ryan Trecartin Artist Talk Ryan Trecartin Artist Talk Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 7:00 pm At Emily Carr University of Art & Design South Building Lecture Hall, Room 301- 1400 Johnston St. Granville Is. Co-presented by VIVO Media Arts Centre, ECU Spring 2010 Speakers Series and Fillip Introductory Performance by Frederick Cummings accompanied by James Diamond Ryan Trecartin was recently named winner of the Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, and New Artist of the Year by the Guggenheim Museum’s First Annual Art Awards. Trecartin will screen his forty-minute video P.opular S.ky (section ish) (2009) which will be followed by a discussion with Amy Kazymerchyk and the audience. At once highly complex and fast-paced, Trecartin’s videos, which are usually exhibited within installations, place viewers inside exhilaratingly chaotic environments primed for post-racial, post-gender, and post-human encounters that collapse time, space, and identity into a layered and wholly unforgettable experience.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line113
__label__cc	0.684882	0.315118	"Night Owl: An intrepid reporter gets a history lesson, but spirits stay away" "Night Owl: An intrepid reporter gets a history lesson, but spirits stay away" by Angela Woodall, © Oakland Tribune, 10/30/2008. (News Article) "Writing something original about Halloween is like banging a head against a wall: It's painful. ... In the case of the Mountain View Cemetery, built in 1863, some of the Bay Area's most illustrious families chose the 220 acres designed by Frederick Law Olmsted — the architect of New York's Central Park, the Capitol Grounds in Washington, D.C., Stanford University and Yosemite park. Mostly, they chose 'Millionaire's Row,' a hillside from where downtown Oakland can be seen. Regular folks are buried further down. ... The ornate crypt the size of a small cottage where Central Pacific Railroad magnate Charles Crocker is interred would cost a cool $2.5 million today ... What irony that California muckraker Frank Norris, whose novel The Octopus portrayed the 'Big Four' railroad barons as rapacious tyrants, is buried in the shadow of Crocker's death monument designed by the same architect that brought us the Ferry Building in San Francisco. Norris' granite tombstone is far simpler, reflecting his career and perhaps the fact that graveyards also go through trends. ..." [More] [Courtesy Google Alerts.] posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 12:01 AM 0 comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line115
__label__cc	0.612667	0.387333	Home»Events»Sensors in Research Duke of Kent Building, 4 April 2017 The HomeSense Team would like to thank everyone who came, presented, asked questions and shared ideas. This was a useful and interesting event and it goes without saying, that we would be very happy to hear from any of you again about further meetings, also, if your ongoing research projects and budgets have resources to share that could be put to effective use in helping to cultivate an inclusive research environment centred on sensors and associated technologies. Sensors in Research was organised by the HomeSense Team (CRESS & 5GIC) and attended by 34 persons from across the University. It was hard to say in advance how an informal get-together around sensors in research would be received, but the turnout was a pleasant surprise. Those who were in touch beforehand work in all three Faculties, including business, biosciences & medicine, electrical and electronic engineering, psychology, sociology, health sciences, communication systems, computer science, hospitality and tourism management, politics, law, civil and environmental engineering and veterinary medicine. Our email list includes 47 researchers. The programme was loosely drafted around a few presentations, people introducing themselves and their interests in this area, and then sharing ideas on what to do next: Inspirations, aims and purposes: Nigel Gilbert (CRESS, Sociology) Klaus Moessner (5G Innovation Centre) Examples of using sensors in research: Mark Cropley (Psychology) Nick Palaghias (5G Innovation Centre) Shujun Li (Surrey Centre for Cyber Security SCCS) Robert Meadows (Sociology) Group conversations: Surrey’s current work in this area: issues, concerns, questions (research focus, ethics, legal issues, security) Future meetings? Funding opportunities? Nigel Gilbert gave a historical account of new instruments and methods as major inventions in their time, changing the way we observe the world, ask questions and make sense of it. He named the natural sciences, Galileo’s telescope and Newtonian physics. He named the survey method that radically changed how we do social research, and he spoke of purposely fitting digital sensors which is revolutionising how we observe human behaviour, collect data about everyday social life, the environment, and much more. These developments are not only calling for new analytic methods such as learning algorithms, but they also engender new research questions. Klaus Moessner gave an account of network infrastructure issues associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks. Some of the technical complications turn on service provision, network resource scheduling and sharing. He reminded us that networks do not have infinite capacities, although, we acquire a perception of capacity, for example, by testing the transmission of data streams in organised ways. Sensors have a role in this research on network optimisation, but the data the 5G IC sensors can pick up on environmental variables are the basis for the HomeSense collaboration, i.e., to take a technology developed at the 5G IC into the real world of ordinary households and put them to use for social research purposes. The introductions participants gave of themselves following these opening remarks, conveyed the diversity of scholarly backgrounds and interests in sensors. Researchers in communication systems are using sensors to understand human behaviour, not just to optimise networking protocols. Researchers in sociology are using sensors to aid their studies of ordinary household practices and sleep. Researchers in hospitality and tourism management are looking into automation in hospitality, the use of robots in hotels, placing sensors in hotel rooms to monitor and intercept energy consumption and other environmental variables. They are interested in visitor flows and eye-tracking technology to study customer orientations online. Researchers in health economics are interested in the ethical and health implications of using sensors to evaluate and intervene in health behaviour. Sensors are applied to study consumer behaviour and health behaviour change intervention. Sensors are also of interest in medical research to monitor for example, how interventions like patches and bandages are doing. Researchers in signal processing are using sensors in applications for smart homes, for example, using microphones in control designs. Veterinary researchers fit activity sensors similar to Fitbit on dogs and cows. Researchers in cyber security are interested in phones, cameras, trackers and other sensors that are widely in use. They study the security of devices, networks and systems, smart homes and more. They use sensors in forensic research and they rely on humans as sensors. Researchers in psychology use sensing of brain activity to study creativity. They use sensors to study occupational stress, health and well-being, if employee health can be improved using wearable sensing technologies, and how patients can be assisted. This listing is not at all complete but it ought to give an idea of just how significant sensors are already in the methodological arsenal of many academic disciplines at Surrey, how powerful these technologies are in real-world applications as well as in refiguring the approach to research, to asking questions, and in raising ethical, legal and security concerns. Four examples were presented: Mark Cropley (Psychology) presented an example of using sensors in research into occupational stress, more specifically, the relationship between work-related ruminations and heart-rate variability. He explained that high heart-rate variability is associated with good heart health, low variability with heart problems. He also explained that people who cannot switch off from work are more likely to suffer heart disease and heart attacks. While there might be an implication of poor dietary choices and other habits detrimental to heart health among those exhibiting high work-related ruminations, Mark explained that this research was more about testing the relationship (and interdependencies) between mental and physical functions. He used sensors to detect heart-rate variability in two groups, those reporting high work-related ruminations and those reporting low ruminations and did establish that higher heart-rate variability is associated with low ruminations and the other way around, low variability with high ruminations. Mark underscored a methodological issue. Sensors generate volumes of data and do not always respond correctly. To adequately address a particular research question, the momentary positioning of a sensor in the situated context of the wearer’s body or mental state may matter the most, i.e., to hone in on the desired data. Nick Palaghias (5G Innovation Centre) presented an example of how engineers seek out autonomic ways to learn about and understand human behaviour. Mobile applications play an important role already in this kind of research and the smart phone is the ideal methodological device, although, they are still exploring the extent to which mobile phones can be used to study behaviour. Nick took an example of studying social interactions, utilising smart phones carried around in pockets to capture forward-facing orientations and the relative orientations between participants (indicators of trust), for detecting social interaction and the formation of social networks. Technically speaking, the mobile devices are collecting data and running inference engines, applying so-called sensing frameworks. He elaborated an experiment done in an office environment where five persons who did not previously know each other where asked to introduce themselves and interact. The formation of network and the interactions that were captured, were then compared with a trust map based on questioning the participants, with an outcome of roughly 80% accuracy. One problem Nick left us to think about is the stage of development and reliability of this kind of method, for example, what error rate is acceptable in different research scenarios. Shujun Li (SCCS) spoke about ongoing research on cyber security and emphasised the difference between sensors as tools and sensors as threat. Research at the SCCS centres on security of communications, of privacy and authentication, of hardware and computing more generally. They are involved in forensics, using cyber security applications online to detect acts of crime. They are interdisciplinary, involving human factors researchers to study behaviours in and around IT, IoT and surveillance systems. They also seek to understand better humans as sensors and assisted by sensors that can capture what humans do, what humans say they do and think, and so on, which is eventually captured by software, not necessarily by digital sensors. As Shujun explained, we ought to be asking how we know (if at all) who is installing sensors, where they are installed, for what purposes, to whose benefit. There is always a trade-off between privacy and utility in studying, intervening in and changing behaviour. He mentioned that mobile phones are of great interest here because everyone has one, and so are cameras, eye trackers, and all sorts of sensors as tools to study behaviour and to detect various aspects of behavioural (bio)metrics in cyber systems. One of many problems Shujun foregrounded is knowing how networks and communication infrastructures can be expanded securely, and what we mean by the threat scenarios we are working with, for example, IoT security, medical devices security, smart homes, smart city, smart traffic security, and more. Robert Meadows (Sociology) spoke of what is achieved in bringing sensors into social research settings. His research on sleeping couples some years back used activity monitoring based on gyroscopic variables and acceleration on three axes, to monitor sleep in the natural habitat, as opposed to the laboratory, and to explore this way different phases/patterns of sleep and sleeplessness (restless, restful, awake). Rob explained his interest in sleep as social practice, and one outcome was clear evidence of interdependency in the sleep patterns of couples which (by some misinterpretation) made him the academic who told couples not to sleep together. Rob spoke of the cost of the sensors in his collection (~£1,000), and that it took some wear and tear over the years before he used them to study recovering addicts. What has since transpired is an influx of relatively cheap activity monitors based on the same sensory principles and his current research is looking critically at this new era in which everyone can use sensors followed by a new ethics of sensors in use. For example, people bring their sensor data into the doctor’s office, and we now talk about what is happening in sleep or in other daily practices on the basis of how sensors are designed. A key problematic Rob offered us was the rise of algorithmic authority, as he put it, and what we can now say about an everyday world full of all sorts of sensors. At this point in the day, some participants were leaving and did not stay on for group conversations, but these four presentations had already engendered questioning and debate. They flagged up an assortment of interests, utility, usability and problems associated with the use of sensors in research and in real-life settings. The idea was to use the remaining time to cover questions of how a research group could be cultivated across university departments, what funding opportunities might lie ahead, and what future meetings could be organised. It appeared however, that we were all in great need for a ‘social’ about sensors in our research, to talk about all sorts of problems and how different expertises are dealing with them. Most prominent here (to the rapporteur) were issues of legality, ethics, security and public engagement about designing a future full of sensors for all sorts of assistive purposes in people’s everyday lives. Suggestions for future meetings: 1. Sandpit (one or more) Everyone brings a research idea, and a subset are developed collaboratively. Sandpits will involve consultants from the Research and Enterprise Office. 2. Hosting external and internal speakers using sensors in research If our ongoing research projects/budgets allow for seminars/lectures, let us be mindful of at least including those on the attached mailing list who have expressed interest. In some instances it might be ideal to advertise openly across all three faculties. 3. Show & Tell Organise a show & tell event of hardware for this group, an occasion to get together for an afternoon of tinkering and demonstrations. 4. Support groups (one or more) Organise event(s) to support legal, ethical and security aspects of sensor-based research. Organise the development of a strategic research agenda for the future of sensors in research at Surrey. The HomeSense Team	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line117
__label__wiki	0.608641	0.608641	CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT of ENERGY and ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Connecticut Environmental Conditions Online Maps and Geospatial Data for Everyone Making Cents Out of Carbon Sequestration Using CT's Land Cover Data Carbon Home About the Maps The research and coefficient generation was conducted by Linda Tomasso as part of her graduate research at Harvard. The application of the coefficients to land cover and the creation of these maps were funded through CT ECO, a partnership between CT DEEP and UConn CLEAR. Why Carbon? Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming and climate change. Although it is naturally occurring, it is and has been on the rise due to human activities. Many strategies have been employed to decrease Carbon emissions with differing success and cost. The Research Question: If terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration were evaluated from a two-step methodology of scientific and financial analysis, could land conservation and strategic land use planning prove more cost-effective public policy instruments, on a dollar per dollar basis, for states to reduce C emissions? Conclusion, from this research: The Cost: Dollars invested in C reduction through land conservation offer a greater yield than many policies currently being pursued by state/regional governments. The Opportunity: Demographic shift of retiring baby boomers south + small forest tracts they own presents a one-time window to preserve natural C sinks. 2014 Progress Report on the State of Connecticut’s Climate Change Strategy Linda Tomasso's presentation as part of the CLEAR webinar series on September 23, 2014. Map Catalog Map and Image Services 2016 Imagery and Lidar DEEP Fish Community Data 2012 Imagery Lidar (elevation) Connecticut Bears Carbon Mapping UConn Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) Email: clear@uconn.edu CT Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Email: deep.cteco@ct.gov @UConnCTECO CT ECO is the collaborative work of the CT Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the UConn's Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR) to share environmental and natural resource information with the general public. CT ECO's mission is to encourage, support, and promote informed land use and development decisions in Connecticut by providing local, state and federal agencies, and the general public with convenient access to the most up-to-date and complete natural resource information available statewide. © University of Connecticut	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line120
__label__wiki	0.697021	0.697021	Beer Features Don't go into the light \| 23 August, 2007 Exposing an ale to the sun's rays can have a nasty effect on the taste, Christine Boggis discovers It's hard to penetrate the murky question of how light affects beers - and even harder to find two people in the trade who agree on it. Light-strike happens when beer is exposed to specific wavelengths of light, which change some of the bitter hop compounds, altering the nose and flavour. Some say it hits light beers harder than strong or dark beers, some say it affects some hops more than others, and others say it affects all beers and all hops. Then there are those who say green glass or clear glass with UV filters give enough protection to avoid light-strike, and brewers such as InBev that extract the light-sensitive particles from hops to market beers like Brahma in clear glass. An OLN taste test, organised by a leading UK brewer, gave striking results when a golden ale was exposed to varying degrees of sunlight. Just two days after bottling, having been placed in a sunny spot in a clear bottle with lacquer to protect it against the light, the ale had a distinct nose of Marmite and fresh mint, known as "skunky" notes. A clear bottle without lacquer left in the sun for some days smelt of wet cardboard with Marmite and burnt notes. A third clear bottle was left on a sunny windowsill for more than a month. The ale was cloudy, had particles floating in it, smelt like a honey beer with skunky, minty notes - and tasted of liquid honeycomb. While brewers admit that different people experience light-struck flavours in different ways and to different degrees, many are adamant that brown glass is the only way to make sure the beer tastes as good when it is drunk as it does when it is bottled. Fuller's Bill Simmons says: "For us quality is paramount. We feel that amber bottles give us the very best delivery for our product and that is exactly what we use. Everybody has a different opinion, everybody tastes things differently, but just because they don't notice it doesn't mean it's not there." But others say light-strike is not such a serious worry and there are calls for innovation from marketers and beer buyers who think clear and green glass bottles could draw new drinkers into the premium bottled ale category. Refresh UK chief executive Rupert Thompson points out that leading beers in the sector, such as Newcastle Brown Ale and Old Speckled Hen, are in clear glass. "I believe those are good beers, they are very popular and they have been instrumental in growing the sector, so it would be wrong if all beers went into brown bottles. But I think it is for each brewer to make their own decision," he says. The bulk of Greene King's beers are in clear glass. Take-home director Neil Jardine says: "We firmly believe many of our beers significantly improve their appeal by being in clear glass, as consumers are able to see the colour of the liquid, which in many instances is very appealing. "Clearly if light gets to a beer it does have an effect. But it is probably going too far to say it has a negative effect, because for many beers it is a part of their flavour profile - and if consumers say they like that flavour profile it is a positive effect. "It is a bit like wine ageing - the beer tastes different from when it was fresh, but people want it to because it improves and the flavour gets rounder." Shepherd Neame sales and marketing director Graeme Craig adds: "There is an intrinsic connection between colour and taste in beer. Clear glass empowers consumers to make an informed choice and encourages people to try new beers." Clear trends "In recent years we have seen a trend towards a greater use of clear or flint glass, which is thought to look better on the shelf," says Chris Hellin, head brewer at Frederic Robinson, whose award-winning dark ale Old Tom was recently repackaged in a brown glass bottle. "Obviously the longer a clear bottle is exposed to light, the greater the risk of oxidisation, so one development has been the use of a plastic shrinkwrap on the bottle trays, which can filter out ultraviolet light. In this way the oxidisation by light only comes into play once the tray is split and the bottles are placed on display." Other brewers put clear bottles in cardboard boxes. Retailers' opinions on light-strike are as divided as brewers'. Some specialists will create an eye-catching display of bottles by shining spotlights on them. Others try to put clear bottles in the darkest corner of the shop to keep them fresh. Chris Brown, of Southampton's Bitter Virtue, says: "We get a general resistance from people against buying beer in clear glass. They like nice beer, and when they get it home and it doesn't taste nice people learn quite quickly." "We haven't had any customer complaints regarding light-struck beers, although we have had problems and withdrawn stock based on their appearance," says Booths beer buyer Dave Smith. Many retailers say they have never had a complaint, and some have never tasted light-struck effects themselves. Tesco's ale and cider buying manager Ian Targett comments: "It is down to the breweries and their marketing departments to make those decisions. If the brand is going for a traditional look and feel, then brown glass seems to be the way to go. However, if they are looking to capture a younger audience and give a more contemporary feel, clear glass would be the option." But marketers should remember that different colours are not the only way of standing out on shelves. St Peter's Brewery's distinctively-shaped bottles are all in amber glass, and award-winners such as Old Tom and O'Hanlons' Thomas Hardy's Ale have characteristic looks of their own, without risking light-strike. All hail the IBC ales The British are coming Five -minute focus Fuller's on right track with Honey Dew	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line124
__label__wiki	0.77971	0.77971	займкредиты онлайн From Fake News to Real Murder: Facebook’s Incentive Problem April 21, 2017 By Paul SweetingBlog0 Comments Fake news did not originate with Facebook, nor with the 2016 presidential campaign. Planting damaging stories of dubious provenance about a political opponent in the newspaper is a tradition nearly as old as newspapering itself. And spreading false rumors is as old as human society. But as we saw in last year’s election, Facebook and other social media platforms have elevated merely spurious information into a weapon of mass dysfunction. During the final three months of the 2016 campaign, the top 20 fake news stories circulating on Facebook racked up 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments on the platform, including such classics as “Pope Endorses Donald Trump” (960,000), and “FBI Agent Suspected in Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide” (560,000). BuzzFeed, which compiled those data, notes that those 20 fake stories attracted nearly 1.5 million more instances of engagement than the 20 top-performing stories 19 major news outlets over the same period. But the issue here isn’t so much real vs. fake but the role that Facebook’s massive scale played in encouraging the production of fake stories. While some of the top fake news items were created by partisan outlets (or foreign intelligence agencies) for expressly political purposes, far more were created for profit, by people like Bela Latsabidze, a 22-year old computer science student in Tbilisi, Georgia. “In Tbilisi, the two-room rented apartment Mr. Latsabidze shares with his younger brother is an unlikely offshore outpost of America’s fake news industry,” the New York Times reported shortly after the election. “They say they have no keen interest in politics themselves and initially placed bets across the American political spectrum and experimented with show business news, too.” Their pro-Hillary Clinton site did not attract many readers and its made-up news stories rarely went viral, so the brothers shifted their focus to making up positive stories about Donald Trump, where they found a more avid and engaged audience. More engagement on Facebook meant more hits on Google, which translated into more ad impressions, which in turn translated into more revenue for the brothers. “For me, this is all about income, nothing more,” Latsabidze told the Times. Had his pro-Clinton site taken off, he added, he would have pressed on with that. Facebook is now taking steps to try to limit the amount of fake news on its platform. This week it shut down 30,000 fake accounts in France ahead of that country’s upcoming national elections, and is currently looking to hire a head of news products to help it deal with the problem. It’s also trying to teach its algorithm to better recognize fake news stories and either flag them or deprecate them in users’ news feeds. But no algorithm can solve the underlying incentive problem created by Facebook’s sheer size. It’s so big, and it’s reach is so vast and indiscriminate that even reaching only a small percentage of Facebook users adds up to substantial audience. You only need to fool some of the people some of the time on Facebook to make money pedaling nonsense. Facebook obviously didn’t set out to create a platform for pedaling fake news. Nor is it the only social media platform with a fake news platform. But it’s size and scope make fake news profitable. And so long as that profit motive exists, entrepreneurs like Mr. Latsabidze will find ways to defeat whatever tweaks Facebook makes to its algorithm. A far more chilling example of the unintended effects of Facebook’s ubiquity occurred on Easter Sunday, in Cleveland, when Steve Stephens broadcast himself on Facebook Live as he shot and killed a 74-year old man, seemingly to make some sort of depraved point. Stephens explained in a rambling narration to the video that he had just broken up with the “love of [his] life” and had recently lost everything gambling in the top 5 casinos. “I’ve run out options,” he could be heard saying. “Now I’m just doing some murder-type shit.” He then picked out his victim at random, forced the victim to say his ex’s name, and shot him dead. Stephens eventually took his own life, after being cornered by police. Fortunately, he did not broadcast his suicide, but others have, along with beatings, torture, and rapes. It is neither possible nor reasonable to try to pin responsibility for those horrific acts on Facebook; Facebook did not cause anyone to commit those crimes, any more than it compelled anyone to create fake news sites. But for better worse, Facebook is becoming the media platform of choice, by dint of its size, for the depraved as well as the decent. Act out on Facebook and you act out in front of the world. And it’s hard to see what Facebook can do to prevent that. Facebook will try because it must. “We have a lot of work and we will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the company’s F8 developers conference this week. But scale is now the essence of Facebook’s business model, as Snapchat is now learning. While good for Facebook’s share price in the short term, that scale has begun to generate forces that do not easily yield to algorithms. And in the wake of last year’s fake news controversy and this week’s very real horror show it’s hard not to wonder whether Facebook is still in full control of its own platform. FacebookGoogle+TwitterPinterestLinkedInStumbleUponRedditEmail Get the latest live, linear & OTT news & analysis delivered to your inbox every week BlogFacebook, fake news, live streaming0 Comments Dish debuts $1K SlingStudio, entry-level production solution for live social video Amazon’s NFL Deal Includes $30 Million in Free Marketing Tech Giants Defend Privacy Efforts, Promise Improvements Privacy experts from Facebook and Apple defended the security and use of consumer data on their platforms, though they said greater protections and public education are needed as technology and regulations evolve. Source: Tech Giants Defend Privacy Efforts, Promise Improvements Global Digital Game Spending Hits Record $109B in 2019 The year’s top-earning title was once again Epic Games’ ‘Fortnite,’ which generated $1.8 billion. Source: Global Digital Game Spending Hits Record $109B in 2019 Five Takeaways for Media From CES 2020 Media experts and executives hit the ground talking at CES about everything from the future of influencers and ads to what 5G will mean for business. Source: Five Takeaways for Media From CES 2020 Spotify Launches Podcast Streaming Ad Insertion and Measurement Spotify hopes to change the podcast-advertising game with Streaming Ad Insertion, which let advertisers track performance of their spots. Source: Spotify Launches Podcast Streaming Ad Insertion and Measurement Top Hollywood Execs Look Ahead to a Year of Disruption New ways of delivering entertainment — and the relationships between talent and companies — will define 2020. Source: Top Hollywood Execs Look Ahead to a Year of Disruption Verizon to Drop Cable Bundles and Ease Changes to TV Packages Verizon Communications is eliminating traditional cable bundles, making it easier for households to switch video packages in the hopes they won’t cut the cord entirely. Source: Verizon to Drop Cable Bundles and Ease Changes to TV Packages Not Even ‘Star Wars’ Can Save This Year’s Box Office In 2019, Hollywood put out a whopping 58 franchise films, including “The Rise of Skywalker,” released this weekend. Still, ticket sales dropped. Source: Not Even ‘Star Wars’ Can Save This Year’s Box Office Keep up to date with our latest news and analysis via social media. RightsTech iHeart jobs cull: Over 50 DJs and employees out as firm cites ‘significant investment’ in Artificial Intelligence January 16, 2020 Twitch steps up with a new music partnerships manager January 15, 2020 New Forest’s Simon David Miller Rethinks the Production Process January 15, 2020 Spotify will now make a playlist for your cat January 15, 2020 Audible, Publishers Say They’ve Settled ‘Captions’ Lawsuit January 15, 2020 After raising $1.7m last year, sampling startup Tracklib inks deal with BMG January 15, 2020 Mechanical Licensing Collective appoints Kris Ahrend as CEO January 15, 2020 War Is Over: Spotify and Warner Chappell sign global licensing deal – including India January 14, 2020 Has Amazon Already Figured Out the Future of the Music Streaming Business? January 14, 2020 Amazon Publishes Books by Top Authors, and Rivals Fret January 14, 2020 Tweets by dmwnews All the latest news and expert analysis. Delivered to your inbox every week. Sign Up! 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__label__wiki	0.860151	0.860151	Connecticut registered voters living in ZIP Code 06061 This is a privately owned and operated website using public domain data from the Connecticut voter list as of 17 January 2019. Home page ... About this site ... Removal Policy ... Privacy Policy ... Arkansas ... Colorado ... Delaware ... Florida ... Michigan ... Ohio ... Oklahoma ... Rhode Island ... Sorted by name ... Sorted by birth date ... 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__label__wiki	0.68905	0.68905	The Harvester World: Volume 5, number 3, March 1914 L. C, Hazlett of Grand Forks, N. Dak., and his busy body of business getters KNOXVILLE HAS A MEETING By A. M. Hill, Advertising Department The Knoxville, Tennessee, general agency has never had so enthusiastic and profitable a meeting as the one which was held at the Imperial Hotel, February 6, 1914. Practically all the employes were present, and as stated above, such enthusiasm was never before demon¬ strated. The speeches of the evening, which were numerous and hearty, sounded notes of encouragement as to past successes, and rang clear with enthusiasm for a 1914 season, such as has hitherto never been approached. As to honorary guests and speakers we were favored by T. W. Noble, of the American Seeding Machine Company, and C. H. Grimes, general spreader sales¬ man from Chicago. Appended is a list of the speakers and their subjects: Ira G. Stark, "Plans for 1914;" J. B. McCutcheon, "How I Hope to Help You in 1914;" T. H. Williams, "Every Man's Part in Selling Wagons for 1914;" J. A. Cottrell, "The Position of Blockman in the Organiza¬ tion;" P. T. Fox, "Relation of the Blockman to the Canvasser;" C. E. Dunphy, "Knoxville Agency vs. Evansville;" J. P. Churchman, "My First Year's Ex¬ perience;" J. C. Evans, "Relation of Blockman to Gen¬ eral Agency;" C. D. Tate, "Co-operation;" S. H. Slack, "Increasing Number of Local Agents;" D. B. Hanshew, "The Baby Blockman;" R. B. Huffard, "1914 Estimate on Auto Trucks;" L. L. Wier, "Check¬ ing Transfer Settlements;" Harry Shugart, "What I've Learned in 1913;" J. E. Wilkins, "What I Think of the I H C as a Future for Young Men;" Clyde Ward, "How I am Going to Help in 1914;" Max Reich, "Credits;" Floyd Sherrod, "Confidences Reposed in Me;" A.M.Hill, "How I'm Going to Help Build Trade in 1914;" J. F. Tibbs, "How I'm Going to Help Hill;" Walter Claytor, "Repair Service for 1914;" D. D. Hunter, '"How You Can Help Fill Repair Orders;" Payne Noe, " Delivering Parcel Post Pack¬ ages;" E. W. Neuhoff, "Shipments for 1914;" I. S. Beales, "Transition from Expert to Salesman;" W. E. Cooper, " My First Year's Experience in the Machine Business;" O. M. Davis, "Selling Machines vs. Bird- Dogs;" A. E. Williams, "Howl Help My Blockman;" p. h'. Higginbotham, "Relation of Blockman to Ex¬ pert;" J. A. Lindamood, "Retail Prices;" H. C. Daniels, "The Blue Ridge Mountains;" H. H. Compton, "Loyalty to My Blockman;" N. S. Miller, "My Watch and How I Won It;" S. E. Thompson, " How to Help the Selling Organization;" E. M. Hinsdale, "My Experiences in the Factory;" R. Evans, "How Am I Going to Get to the Front?;" Robt. McReynolds, "My Promotion;" Ray¬ mond Wolf, "Experting vs. Advertis¬ ing;" A. A. Huffard," My First Year;" S. O. Nave, "Experting Engines in the Blue Ridge." It seemed appropriate to express the feeling that was in everyone's mind as follows: "With courage, zeal, and energy unabated, we declare the determina¬ tion to make this the greatest year in the history of the Knoxville agency." ® ® CURSORY REMARKS Room—"I see Jack had to have his dog shot. Was the poor brute mad ?" Mate— "Well, he didn't look very pleased about it. " — Princeton Tiger. CHASING WILD GEESE IN THE NORTH By E. M. Ryan, Advertising Department, Aberdeen, S. D. Let any man, who recollects some cold morning when he has sneaked home from a damp pit with only a gun and a longing, gaze on the picture reproduced here. Let him, also, rest assured that the fowls are not of the domestic variety, but are genuine Canadian wild geese. It is no common occurrence, either, for hunters to bring home such a flock as this, for, as the Webster World remarks: " As a general thing our best hunters go through a season without getting a goose. Geese are often seen at a distance, but are hard to get within gun shot of." The daring and skillful hunters depicted here are tractor salesman, E. A. Morgan, experts Debilzan and Hohaus, and C. A. Henn of the repair department. There were twenty-six wild geese brought home that day, and every employe at the Aberdeen office was the happy recipient of a bird. Aberdeen, So. Dak., men take a day off for goose hunting Title The Harvester World: Volume 5, number 3, March 1914 Physical Description 7 x 9.75 inches Source The Harvester World, March 1914 Full Text L. C, Hazlett of Grand Forks, N. Dak., and his busy body of business getters KNOXVILLE HAS A MEETING By A. M. Hill, Advertising Department The Knoxville, Tennessee, general agency has never had so enthusiastic and profitable a meeting as the one which was held at the Imperial Hotel, February 6, 1914. Practically all the employes were present, and as stated above, such enthusiasm was never before demon¬ strated. The speeches of the evening, which were numerous and hearty, sounded notes of encouragement as to past successes, and rang clear with enthusiasm for a 1914 season, such as has hitherto never been approached. As to honorary guests and speakers we were favored by T. W. Noble, of the American Seeding Machine Company, and C. H. Grimes, general spreader sales¬ man from Chicago. Appended is a list of the speakers and their subjects: Ira G. Stark, "Plans for 1914;" J. B. McCutcheon, "How I Hope to Help You in 1914;" T. H. Williams, "Every Man's Part in Selling Wagons for 1914;" J. A. Cottrell, "The Position of Blockman in the Organiza¬ tion;" P. T. Fox, "Relation of the Blockman to the Canvasser;" C. E. Dunphy, "Knoxville Agency vs. Evansville;" J. P. Churchman, "My First Year's Ex¬ perience;" J. C. Evans, "Relation of Blockman to Gen¬ eral Agency;" C. D. Tate, "Co-operation;" S. H. Slack, "Increasing Number of Local Agents;" D. B. Hanshew, "The Baby Blockman;" R. B. Huffard, "1914 Estimate on Auto Trucks;" L. L. Wier, "Check¬ ing Transfer Settlements;" Harry Shugart, "What I've Learned in 1913;" J. E. Wilkins, "What I Think of the I H C as a Future for Young Men;" Clyde Ward, "How I am Going to Help in 1914;" Max Reich, "Credits;" Floyd Sherrod, "Confidences Reposed in Me;" A.M.Hill, "How I'm Going to Help Build Trade in 1914;" J. F. Tibbs, "How I'm Going to Help Hill;" Walter Claytor, "Repair Service for 1914;" D. D. Hunter, '"How You Can Help Fill Repair Orders;" Payne Noe, " Delivering Parcel Post Pack¬ ages;" E. W. Neuhoff, "Shipments for 1914;" I. S. Beales, "Transition from Expert to Salesman;" W. E. Cooper, " My First Year's Experience in the Machine Business;" O. M. Davis, "Selling Machines vs. Bird- Dogs;" A. E. Williams, "Howl Help My Blockman;" p. h'. Higginbotham, "Relation of Blockman to Ex¬ pert;" J. A. Lindamood, "Retail Prices;" H. C. Daniels, "The Blue Ridge Mountains;" H. H. Compton, "Loyalty to My Blockman;" N. S. Miller, "My Watch and How I Won It;" S. E. Thompson, " How to Help the Selling Organization;" E. M. Hinsdale, "My Experiences in the Factory;" R. Evans, "How Am I Going to Get to the Front?;" Robt. McReynolds, "My Promotion;" Ray¬ mond Wolf, "Experting vs. Advertis¬ ing;" A. A. Huffard" My First Year;" S. O. Nave, "Experting Engines in the Blue Ridge." It seemed appropriate to express the feeling that was in everyone's mind as follows: "With courage, zeal, and energy unabated, we declare the determina¬ tion to make this the greatest year in the history of the Knoxville agency." ® ® \ CURSORY REMARKS Room—"I see Jack had to have his dog shot. Was the poor brute mad ?" Mate— "Well, he didn't look very pleased about it. " — Princeton Tiger. CHASING WILD GEESE IN THE NORTH By E. M. Ryan, Advertising Department, Aberdeen, S. D. Let any man, who recollects some cold morning when he has sneaked home from a damp pit with only a gun and a longing, gaze on the picture reproduced here. Let him, also, rest assured that the fowls are not of the domestic variety, but are genuine Canadian wild geese. It is no common occurrence, either, for hunters to bring home such a flock as this, for, as the Webster World remarks: " As a general thing our best hunters go through a season without getting a goose. Geese are often seen at a distance, but are hard to get within gun shot of." The daring and skillful hunters depicted here are tractor salesman, E. A. Morgan, experts Debilzan and Hohaus, and C. A. Henn of the repair department. There were twenty-six wild geese brought home that day, and every employe at the Aberdeen office was the happy recipient of a bird. Aberdeen, So. Dak., men take a day off for goose hunting	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line130
__label__cc	0.522996	0.477004	Tag: cs go skins New CSGO Skins and Map: Canals March 17, 2017 James Young Leave a comment There’s something about Italy that makes it so loved by CSGO. Well, to be fair, CSGO features a lot of Middle East and US-based maps, but there’s something about Europe’s boot-shaped country that has charmed Valve into making three maps set in that country. You read that right, three. Valve just added another Italian CSGO Map, and a few CSGO Better Hitboxes Now, CSGO Skins Later So you’re a crackshot when it comes to shooters. Yeah, well, if you’re playing CSGO that doesn’t matter, because apparently there’s something wrong with the hitboxes. How bad is the problem? It’s “accurately shoot a certain part but either miss or hit another part” bad, and no CSGO skins can save you from it. CSGO player and YouTuber Dinowarleaf noticed New Rifle? Maybe. New CSGO Skins Too? Hope So. Each weapon in CSGO has its own unique properties and specialty, making choice of guns in the game boil down to play style and preference. Because of this, the game didn’t need to add new weapons on a regular basis. But after a closer look at the guns’ parameters, specifically the UMP-45 and the FAMAS, it seems like we do Worthy of CSGO Skins: Pros’ Financial And Career Plans March 9, 2017 James Young Leave a comment Nobody stays in sports forever. The body ages – that means reflexes slow down, and stamina becomes reduced. Plus, sometime down the line, someone younger, stronger, and has better skills will come along. That’s why athletes rightly invest in their future so they can keep, or even grow the wealth they got from playing. Other than that, some of them CSGO Skins: Why Girls Got It Rough Contrary to outdated belief, gaming isn’t just for boys. And if that’s the case, then eSports is also not an all-male scene. That, however, doesn’t take away the fact that eSports isn’t dominated by males. So, what is the reason for this particular disparity? I mean, there are CSGO Skins named after male players, but hardly any for female ones. CSGO Skins: We Got A Bot Problem February 21, 2017 James Young Leave a comment All online games are plagued with one particular problem: chat bots. These annoying little buggers log in to the game and say whatever they’ve been programmed to say over and over again, in turn flooding chatrooms and making it difficult for players to smoothly chat with one another. Thankfully, this hasn’t happened yet in CSGO. Well, at least until now, CSGO Skins: Left In De_Dust Among the many maps of CSGO, De_Dust 2 is undoubtedly one of the most popular ones, if not the most. But despite how iconic the map is, it still isn’t excused from the rotational removal of maps from active duty. This, of course, has saddened a lot of players, especially pros who excel in the said map. Looks like people CSGO Skins: Gaben on Reddit AMA January 23, 2017 James Young Leave a comment CSGO is without a doubt one of the most important games for Valve. And because of how valuable it is to the company, Gabe Newell, more popularly known by gamers as Gaben (or Lord Gaben, if you’re into that), has stated continuous support for the game. By that he means updates for the game. And when it comes to that, CSGO Skins Player Spotlight: OnehandFPS There’s only one man who can play CSGO like a pro with one hand. It’s the aptly named, OneHandFPS, and his mad one-hand FPS skills deserve CSGO skins. But don’t think OneHandFPS, or Jason – his real first name – is doing this just to show off. So if he’s not trying to be some sort of coolio and Twitch CSGO Skins: Topping The Charts ESports was a rather big thing last year, definitely even bigger than the previous ones. Steam’s yearly statistics back that claim up, and statistics, more or less, does not lie. So, what eSports titles did top Steam’s most played? DoTA 2, which we don’t care about because this blog isn’t about that game, and of course, CSGO. No wonder CSGO	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line133
__label__cc	0.560202	0.439798	Lords Park Zoo Farm Zoo The farm zoo is located at the north end of the zoo. Animals will include pigs, cows, goats, sheep, llama and a miniature donkey. Farm Zoo Hours: June 1 - August 9, 2019 Saturday - Sunday Noon - 4 pm "This zoo is perfect for a family with children. Enjoy a picnic in the park and then head over to the zoo. Beautiful grounds, clean pens, clean smelling and wonderful landscaping." - Laura Meyer on Facebook Save the Date! Friends of Lords Park Zoo Fall Fundraiser Day Date Time Location Sunday Oct 6, 2019 4 pm - 7 pm Elgin Art Space, 51 S. Spring St Friends Of Lords Park Zoo Fall Gala And Benefit Supporting Summer Programs At The Zoo Join Friends of Lords Park Zoo for their annual gala which supports family-friendly programs in Lords Park Zoo each summer. Each year, over 10,000 visitors enjoy special programs in the zoo, cosponsored by the Elgin History Museum, Elgin Public Museum and Gail Borden Public Library. The gala takes place at Artspace in downtown Elgin from 4PM to 7PM on Sunday, October 6. Admission, $35.00, includes an array of tasty appetizers; beer, wine, and soft drinks; entertainment; silent auction and raffles. For more information, check Facebook at Lords Park Zoo, or call (847) 531-3776. Friends of Lords Park Zoo is a 501 (c) (3) not-for profit organization. About the Zoo Located on Elgin's east side, at the south end of Lords Park, the zoo has had a long history and has undergone many changes. Currently, the fenced in outdoor area includes: Buffalo, Elk, and White Tail Deer, which can be seen all year long. During the summer the farm zoo will open to provide visitors with the opportunity to view farm animals rented from local farms. This is not a petting zoo. The zoo began in 1895 with the construction of a den to house two donated black bears, Jack and Juno. Both were tame and playful, and Davy Walker, the animal trainer, was wrestling with Jack. Before long he had trained the bears to welcome him into their cage by standing on their hind legs and kissing him on the cheek. The bears took apples from his hands and grapes from between his teeth. Children delighted in watching a bear run away with Walkers' food basket while he was lining them up at feeding time. By 1905, when the first four bison arrived, the menagerie included five bears, two elk, seventeen deer, eight coyotes, four foxes, three monkeys, a raccoon, a wildcat, ten peacocks, and six eagles. It wasn't until the arrival in 1964 of a year-old lion, named Lord Spark in a contest, that complaints arose about the zoo. The cages had deteriorated, were difficult to keep clean, and provided inadequate protection for both animals and visitors. The Lords Park caged collection had dwindled to four bears, a deodorized skunk, a fox, a few raccoons, and the lion. The city council decided to keep the bison, deer, elk and domestic animals and concentrate on a children's farm zoo. Lord Spark found a new home at Brookfield Zoo. In 1969 the caged area was filled and graded to the level of the creek. The summertime goats, calves, llamas, pigs and rabbits were a welcome addition to the zoo. The Centre of Elgin City Skate Elgin Sports Complex Eastside Recreation Center (ERC) Elgin Family Aquatic Centers City of Elgin Parks & Recreation 100 Symphony Way M - F - 8 am - 5 pm Centre of Elgin Elgin Parks & Recreation Foundation	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line136
__label__cc	0.636636	0.363364	Teas › Companies › Todd & Holland Popular Teas from Todd & Holland See All 128 Teas Earl Grey Double Bergamot Todd & Holland Satrupa Estate Spring Reserve STGFOP (Assam) Todd & Holland Amaretti Cookie Todd & Holland Ti Kuan Yin Golden Milk Tea Todd & Holland Mauritius Todd & Holland Champagne Raspberry Todd & Holland Lady Bedford Todd & Holland Original Spice Tea Blend Todd & Holland Silver Needle Todd & Holland German Breakfast Tea Todd & Holland Tama (Ryoku) Cha Todd & Holland Cocoa Cay Todd & Holland __Morgana__ drank Citrus Sanctuary by Todd & Holland Sipdown no. 117 of 2018 (no. 473 total). A sample. I took this to work on Tuesday, and it was much more pleasant than the ATR Formosa Plum I had Monday. The lime/grapefruit flavor has truly grown on me and I enjoyed this as a companion to a very busy day. I think this is the last flavored oolong sample I have from Todd & Holland, but I’ve been wrong about such things before. Not only do my teas become fruitful and multiply while I’m sleeping, apparently, they are also pretty good at hiding. I had a Lupicia green tea with yuzu not too long ago, so I can’t say I haven’t had yuzu before. But I know I haven’t had yuzu oolong. Before I read the packet and discovered that this contained yuzu, I thought it was grapefruit. That’s what I smelled when I tore open the packet. The oolong is rolled, and green looking. I put this one through its paces (progressively longer steeps in gaiwan starting at 15 seconds at 195F), though I’ve concluded that for all the flavored oolongs I’ve tried so far, once is enough. They’re enjoyed just as well to my palate Western style. The tea steeps pale yellow and clear, and smells more like lime than grapefruit after steeping. It also has a floral undertone. The tea is sweeter than the green yuzu of the other day, which makes it more appealing to me. It has a smooth, almost heavy mouthfeel. Still without a baseline of actual yuzu, I’m tasting primarily lime, but with a grapefruit note as well, through all the steeps. I like this better than the Lupicia green yuzu. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that what makes me like it better is that it captures the actual yuzu fruit less accurately than the Lupicia. But then, I’m not in a position to know what I don’t know. Flavors: Floral, Grapefruit, Lime __Morgana__ drank Strawberry Hideaway by Todd & Holland Sipdown no. 95 of 2018 (no. 451 total). A sample. I made the rest of this in the Breville so that the BF could have some more hot tea for his throat crud thing. I am pretty sure it wasn’t worth the time to take this through multiple steeps yesterday. I often find that to be the case with flavored oolongs. I generally don’t put samples in my Steepster cupboard because I have so many of them and small amounts that I can sip down quickly enough that I feel like I’m misleading myself as to what’s really in my cupboard. Every now and then I make a mistake — apparently I put this sample in my cupboard a while back. I’ve now removed it. Which is exciting because it brings me that much closer to a cupboard that is under some degree of control. Continuing with working my way through the oolong stash, I thought I’d give another Todd & Holland flavored one a try since I enjoyed yesterday’s Tropical Escape so much. The smell in the packet is strongly strawberry — like smelling a packet of dried strawberries. However, after steeping in the gaiwan for an initial 15 second, post rinse steep at 195F, I get very little strawberry aroma. It’s there, but extremely muted. The tea is light golden yellow. Admittedly, I had red beans and rice for lunch about 30 minutes ago, so my taster was overwhelmed recently. But the first steep is disappointing. Not much flavor of any kind. A little strawberry in the aftertaste, maybe. Steep 2, 20 sec. A bit more flavor of the underlying tea, a floral green oolong. I can get a hint of strawberry, a parfait-like strawberry. Steep 3, 25 sec. Interesting. This is actually the best steep so far, which is surprising. I would have expected the strawberry to become fainter with each steep, but it is actually stronger in this one. It blends well with the flavor of the oolong base. Steep 4, 30 sec. The strawberry is fainter. At this point, I feel like I’ve given this as much attention as it warrants. I might steep it a couple more times, but while it’s pleasant enough, it seems like Western in the Breville is more than adequate to enjoy this for what it is. It’s not bad, I would just hope for more strawberry, since it’s in the name. Flavors: Floral, Strawberry __Morgana__ drank Tropical Escape by Todd & Holland This was today’s take it to work tea. I only had enough for half the smallest Breville setting, so I supplemented with the Harney Ti Quan Yin. It was tasty and enjoyable, though with only half of the tea passionfruit flavor-bearing, it didn’t taste a ton like passionfruit to me. More like a generic fruit flavor, that was fairly subtle. I remember really liking this when properly leafed, so I’m not changing the rating. I found an open sample of this, but no corresponding note. Hmmm. I usually do oolongs in the gaiwan first, then if I have a dedicated yixing, in that, and then I decide whether they’re worth savoring that way or whether they’re not. If they don’t pass, I will steep them in the Breville or make them into cold brew until sipdown. Flavored oolongs are tricky in this regard because I don’t usually see much difference from steep to steep when I do short frequent steeps. So I’m tempted to skip right to western style. But I have some additional time today so I decided to put this one through a few steeps in the gaiwan to see what is what. Before I forget, though, I wanted to mention the really wonderful aroma in the packet. It’s a deep, strong, passion fruit smell. If I smelled this coming from a box of dried passion fruits, I’d want to eat them immediately. I rinsed and then steeped for 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 seconds using 195F water. The first steep yielded a light butter yellow color tea, with a refreshing passion fruit flavor. A little tart, but not bitter. The underlying tea isn’t really coming to the fore for me, but judging by the leaves it’s a green oolong even though it is from Taiwan. At most I’m getting a sort of buttery undercurrent. I could see this being a wonderful iced tea. With the next steep (20 sec), there’s a precipitous drop off in the passion fruit flavor. It’s still taste-able, but pale by comparison with the first steep, and I don’t find the tea base stepping in to make up the difference. The color is the same. The remaining steeps were more of the same, each one a whiter shade of pale. I don’t really know how to rank this because it’s not like I’ve had a ton of other passion fruit flavored oolongs to compare it to. I’ll just say it’s too bad Todd & Holland doesn’t have this available anymore. I would order some next time I’m in a position to order flavored oolong, but I’d do so with the knowledge that it’s a pretty much one steep wonder to get the full passion fruit flavor. Flavors: Butter, Passion Fruits __Morgana__ drank Champagne Raspberry by Todd & Holland This one grew quite substantially on me over the past few tastings. Also, no. 2 really liked it. Unfortunately, it’s no longer available. I’m bumping the rating. If it ever comes back, I’ll be there. One of the last couple of heretofore unopened Todd & Holland white tea samples. In the packet, it has a strong fruity smell. More cherry than raspberry to my nose. I don’t smell champagne, but there’s something in there that suggests it. A sort of sharp high note that weirdly, gives the impression of effervescence. The aroma after steeping is very similar to the aroma in the packet, only more diffuse. The tea is light yellow and clear. I’m usually the first or only note-writer for Todd & Holland for whatever reason, but this tea already has a couple. My thoughts are somewhere in between the rave and the pan. Kitty tasted lipgloss — I don’t, but I get more berry blend than straight raspberry so to that extent I understand her mishmash comment. Also, I don’t taste champagne to the point of seeing this as a substitute for the real stuff like LefTea did. I do get a hint, and I agree that the taste is festive and pleasant. It’s a nice flavor combo, but in my opinion Lupicia’s Champagne Rose does the champagne/berry combo better, and Todd & Holland’s own Rooibos Raspberry Delight does raspberry better. I’ll enjoy the rest of this, and I wouldn’t turn it down in the future, but I don’t love it enough to make it a staple. Flavors: Berries, Champagne 185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 0 sec 5 g 17 OZ / 500 ML __Morgana__ drank Pina Colada White by Todd & Holland Nothing to add to my original note, really. A totally pleasant, though not off the charts tea. Getting toward the end of my Todd & Holland white tea sample packets. I have one scheduled for sipdown tomorrow, and after this one, I only have a couple of others left (unless one is hiding from me somewhere in the annals of my stash). The smell in the packet is very strongly pineapple. The coconut is secondary. That’s an interesting start, because usually coconut seems to obliterate anything else it’s combined with and force itself to the fore. The pineapple smell doesn’t seem overly artificial to me. Pineapple is usually pretty good in that department, at least to my tastebuds. Orange and cherry can taste like baby aspirin or cough drops if not done well, but pineapple starts out ahead in that regard. At least for me. After steeping, the coconut comes out of hibernation and shoulders aside the pineapple in the aroma, though not completely. It’s actually a nice mix that is very reminiscent, in its fragrance, to the taste of the actual pina colada cocktail — minus the rum. The tea is pale yellow (more gold than lemon) and clear. The flavor is pretty much the same as the aroma. I don’t taste much of the tea base. Actually, don’t think I taste it at all. It’s a nice, rather light and delicate, coconut/pineapple flavor. More delicate than a purely herbal blend might be. Perhaps what the tea adds here is counterbalance and a delivery vehicle for the other flavors. Flavors: Coconut, Pineapple 185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 0 sec 5 tsp 500 OZ / 14786 ML __Morgana__ drank Sea Dragon by Todd & Holland It was interesting the first couple of times. By the third and final, it was just odd. As I’ve been drinking a lot of chai lately, it occurs to me that this may be trying, just a little, to be a white chai. It has the cinnamon and cloves, which are the main flavors. Maybe not, though. Because raspberry. But I don’t taste the raspberry as an independent flavor — more a generic berriness. In any case, it was fun to try but it’s not a favorite. On another note, WorldCon is going on about half an hour away so I’m going to try to meet a friend there for part of the day today. If I succeed, I’ll have gone to my first. Since I write SFF, one would think I’d already gone through this rite of passage, but with work and family obligations it’s not that easy to plan. We typically get our vacations together a few weeks before we leave. But. I really don’t have much of an excuse this time, so despite being incredibly intimidated by the prospect (being an introvert and all) I am currently working toward that plan. We shall see. Another unopened sample. This is no longer on the Todd & Holland web site, which is a shame because it’s pretty interesting. I wasn’t able to find a description of the tea online. But the ingredients say white tea, safflowers, blue flowers, cinnamon chips, raspberry, cinnamon, and clove flavors. The smell in the packet is interestingly citrusy, which isn’t even an ingredient. The tea is a sort of chartreuse color (heavy on the yellow) and clear, and smells like cinnamon and berries. The flavor is strongly cinnamon and berries, but it is more like blueberry than raspberry to my taste buds (which may mean they aren’t working). Fortunately the clove isn’t very present. It’s ok, and as I said, interesting even. But not something I’d likely buy again. Flavors: Berries, Cinnamon __Morgana__ drank Silver Needle by Todd & Holland For my last date with this tea, it wore 190 at 4 minutes. Not a bad look, actually. More flavor and color, and that certain je ne sais quoi that people describe about white tea tasting like black tea, except different, is something that really comes through at this temp. But alas, in the end we broke up. It wasn’t the tea. It was me. As expected, there is less flavor with the suggested parameters. The tea itself has much less color, too. Not getting a lot from this one. Rating it around where I graded the last silver needle because it isn’t all that different. Hi everyone! We just got back from Italy last night. We had a wonderful time! It was very hot there so mostly I drank cold water (frizzante), an occasional beer, or a glass of prosecco, pinot gregio or chianti with dinner. I developed a taste for espresso, which didn’t happen the last time I went to Italy, and which I hadn’t thought possible. I started the morning with an American coffee with latte, a cappuccino or espresso. Sometimes I had one of those with lunch or dinner as well. I needed it to keep up with my self-imposed schedule. There was so much to see and so little time. I did have a “tea” one night with my tartufo, a lemon ginger herbal concoction that was quite lovely. But anyway, I’m back and resuming the project of working my way through my white teas. This is a never opened sample I’ve had for a while, as are most of my samples these days. I steeped at the Breville setting for white tea, but I have enough to try it a couple of different ways, too. The package says steep at 185 for 2 minutes. That sounds like a recipe for not tasting anything to me, but I’m willing to try it. I am also planning to try it at the parameters for the Ancient Moonlight and see what that does. At the temp I used, I got a clear golden-yellow liquor, but not much in the way of distinguishing flavor. It’s possible this is because I had some flavored black tea leaves left in the Breville basket while I was gone and mostly what I smell and taste is something I can’t be sure isn’t partly that other tea. For my second tea this morning, I think I’m going to try this one again at the settings recommended on the package and see what I get. evol-ving Italy! How wonderful! Where and what and tell us more, please. Let us travel vicariously through you. __Morgana__ Rome, Florence (with side trips to Pisa and three of the five Cinque Terre towns), Maranello for the Ferrari museum (for No. 2), Venice, Merano for the Lamborghini museum (also for No. 2), Bellagio and Milan. Bellagio is my new favorite place in the world. I would live there in a heartbeat! Ah! My happiness is now complete. I have been to Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan. The others are a mystery to me. I will look up Bellagio. Thank you for sharing your experience. __Morgana__ drank Silver Needles with Jasmine by Todd & Holland 1600th tasting note! I had the last of this at work earlier in the week. I continue to view jasmine silver needle as more appealing than plain white tea mainly because I can taste the jasmine when brewed hot so the tea doesn’t matter so much. It’s a much purer delivery vehicle for jasmine than green tea, which has a flavor of its own — but it’s also not as interesting as jasmine green to me for the same reason. It pains me to say this, but I think white tea is the only tea that I like better when it isn’t plain. For most teas, I really enjoy the complexity of the flavors in a truly awesome non-flavored tea, and flavored ones are more a sort of a fun thing that adds spice to the experience. To my dismay, my recent white tea experiment has done nothing to make me appreciate it more, or understand it better, or otherwise “get it.” But I’m a sucker for jasmine, and white tea is a great jasmine delivery vehicle. The smell in the packet isn’t anything to write home about. It’s a sort of planty smell that isn’t all that appealing, and I don’t really smell jasmine. But after steeping at the Breville settings for white tea (185F for 4 minutes), there’s a gentle jasmine aroma that is divinely juicy. The tea is a light yellow and clear, and the flavor is pure jasmine. It turns out that not having much of a discernible independent flavor can make for a great base for a flavor you truly love. Flavors: Jasmine __Morgana__ drank White Peony by Todd & Holland Steeped at the “white tea” setting in the Breville. Not as hot or as long as herbal, but resulted in pretty much the same flavor. Strange. This is different from the experience I’ve had with other white teas. In any case, my thoughts on the flavor haven’t changed since I wrote about this first a week ago. Trying another white tea from the stash. A never opened sample packet. Todd & Holland doesn’t have a plain white peony on their site at the moment. They have several different kinds: special, king, and supreme. Mine is a lowly plain white peony. I skipped right to the herbal steeping temp and got a pale yellow tea that has a smell I’ve come to associate with white tea. It’s a characteristic smell, a little pungent, but not as much as a darjeeling. Rather woody/planty. That same smell is even stronger in the dry leaf. The tea is mild and tastes pretty much like it smells. It’s not bitter or sour, but it’s not sweet either. It won’t be hard to sip down, but it wasn’t that special tea that makes me go “yes, I finally understand white tea” either. Flavors: Plants, Wood Boiling 7 min, 0 sec 5 g 17 OZ / 500 ML __Morgana__ drank Snow Buds by Todd & Holland I found a few other Todd & Holland white tea sample packets in my stash. One is labeled white peony, one is labeled silver needle. So that makes me wonder what the heck this is? So I looked it up. The best description I could find was on raretea.com: … a relatively new type of tea, sharing characteristics of both white tea and green tea, and alternatively classified in both categories by different retailers. We classify it as a white tea as a rather arbitrary choice, because our category of white tea has fewer varieties listed in it. According to Rishi Tea, this variety was developed in the 1980’s by blending some techniques from green tea and white tea production. [footnote omitted] It is usually described as having a delicate aroma; the flavor shares attributes in common with Chinese green teas, and lighter white teas. So maybe that’s what this is. Like silver needle, snow buds consists mostly of buds, which have a downy appearance. The tea does contain some larger leaf though, which has a bolder green color. Compared to silver needle, the leaf tends to be more curled and wiry. Not that it matters a ton because of my white tea problem, but at the herbal steeping temp it is less planty and sweeter (more honey like) than other whites I’ve had recently. This is a sample I’ve had for a long time but never opened. I’m trying it as part of project white tea tasting. Because it’s been so long since I got this, Todd & Holland is no longer selling it. I can’t find anything about it on the internet. I think it’s a white peony. It’s a bit too messy in the leaf department for silver needle. The leaves in the packet have the earthy, honeydew smell that I’ve smelled in other white teas. After steeping there’s a still a bit of the honeydew, but there’s also a bit more non-melon generic fruitiness in a delicate sort of way. I steeped the hell out of this — steeped it at boiling for 7 minutes, aka as an herbal, and yes, there is color and flavor. The color is a clear golden yellow, and the flavor is much like the smell. There’s a soft mouth feel to the tea, and a sort of light pungency that I often taste in white teas. This one isn’t too planty — it’s more of a flavor on the back of the tongue that says tea, but in a very white tea way. Hard to describe, but it’s the reason I think people sometimes say white teas taste like black teas a little. There’s also a dewy sweetness with a tad of honey. Tomorrow I’ll try this at a lower temp for less time, but I know exactly what I’ll get. Liquor color just a shade off of clear water, if that, and a find the flavor game. So it’s a white tea, but comparing apples to apples, it’s pretty tasty as these go. Better than some others I’ve had. But I still don’t get white tea. I keep hoping, though. Flavors: Earth, Fruity, Honey, Honeydew __Morgana__ drank Summer Jasmine by Todd & Holland Drank the last of this today while watching Coco with the kids. A nice jasmine flavor, mellow, and enjoyable. Lexie Aleah Such a cute movie. It made me cry! Cameron B. Love that movie! The alebrijes are my favorite part! This tea is a bit of a mystery. I found this unopened sample packet in my stash. Todd & Holland describes this as a “semi-black” tea, which to me means maybe darjeeling or oolong. But they seem to describe darjeelings as black tea and also have things they describe as oolongs, so maybe not? I put it in the queue for the untried flavored black tea in my weekend morning ritual. I steeped according to the directions on the packet. There’s really nothing else to go on in terms of information — nothing on the packet itself, nothing currently on the Todd & Holland site. The dry leaves look like darjeeling; a bit on the green side, a bit on the long side. Something that looks like orange zest is in among the leaves, which is puzzling. They smell like jasmine and earth. The steeped tea is light gold in color and clear. It has a lovely, floral smell that doesn’t come across as sprayed on. It tastes a bit like a jasmine oolong. And I love jasmine, so there’s that. I find this tea a puzzlement because I don’t really know what it is, but it’s pleasant. I wouldn’t say it’s distinctive, though. I’m a pretty tough grader when it comes to jasmine. 185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 17 OZ / 500 ML __Morgana__ drank Peacherino by Todd & Holland The BF is quite sick with a bad cough. He’s a big peach fan. The two together resulted in him saying this is the best thing he’s ever tasted. I’m not on the same page, though I do like this quite a bit. Honestly, I’ve tried so many peach tisanes lately I can’t keep them all straight. There’s the Teavana, the Harney, the David’s and now this. There may even be others in there somewhere that I’m forgetting. They all have in common the big chunky fruit blend thing. This one has one of the peachier aromas in the dry mix. It’s pretty peachy after steeping too, but there’s a fair amount of apple as well. The color is a pretty intense, dark wine red. It’s a good solid peach fruit blend. I think it may be a bit mellower than the Harney and not quite as wonderful as the David’s. But it’s hard to know without tasting them all back to back. Rating accordingly. Flavors: Apple, Hibiscus, Peach	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line140
__label__wiki	0.510927	0.510927	EAH HOUSING, EVERYDAY ENERGY AND OMNI ENERGY ENTER INTO SOMAH AGREEMENT New Solar Photovoltaic Energy Systems to Increase Energy Production by Five Megawatts SAN RAFAEL and SAN DIEGO, CA (January 29, 2019) – EAH Housing announced today its partnership with Everyday Energy and Omni Energy to install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at several of their affordable housing communities in California. This agreement is in conjunction with the Solar On Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program governed by the California Public Utilities Commission. “We’ve worked with Everyday Energy for the last 10 years in communities throughout California. This latest agreement continues building on the momentum we’ve established with Everyday Energy and enables EAH Housing to meet some of its long-term sustainability goals,” said Laura Hall, chief operating officer of EAH Housing. “It provides our residents with inexpensive, clean energy, while also reducing our portfolio’s overall carbon footprint.” “Together, Everyday Energy and Omni Energy are California’s most experienced developers of solar installations for multifamily affordable housing, with 10 times more solar PV developed than the nearest competitor through the California Solar Initiative programs. They championed California’s $1 billion SOMAH legislation. “We are seeing real momentum towards renewables in the affordable housing industry,” said Andy Blauvelt, senior vice president at Everyday Energy. “EAH Housing has demonstrated leadership in the space and a continued commitment to these projects. When executives and decision makers see a well-respected player like EAH double down on solar, it gets the attention of similar organizations looking to make similar impact.” Omni Energy was formed to bring together a veteran team of renewable energy experts and investors with deep understanding of the solar industry, eager to create high-impact initiatives, particularly those with a double bottom line of business and social benefits. Everyday Energy’s leadership and experience in affordable housing solar was exactly the type of program Omni leaders were seeking. The two companies now work in strategic partnership offering a comprehensive and industry leading multi-family affordable solar platform. “We are honored to work with EAH Housing,” said Jesse Jones, chief executive officer at Omni Energy. “The two biggest challenges we face in California are climate change and housing, and projects like these are able to address both at once.” These new projects are estimated to offset the equivalent of 3.5 metric tons of carbon emissions every year. All projects will be installed in 2019. About Everyday Energy and Omni Energy EVERYDAY ENERGY and OMNI ENERGY are sister companies that work to develop best-in-class solar solutions for multifamily affordable housing. Everyday Energy is celebrating 10 years focused exclusively on the needs of the affordable housing community. Comprised of executives and board members from the nation’s largest renewable energy companies, Omni Energy offers decades of industry experience and a proven track record of solar financial and operational proficiency. Together they share a goal of serving 150,000 low-income California residents in 2019. About EAH Housing Established in 1968, EAH Housing is one of the largest and most respected not-for-profit housing development and management organizations in the western United States. EAH develops low-income housing, manages 110 properties in 55 municipalities and plays a leadership role in local, regional and national housing advocacy efforts. For more information, contact communications@eahhousing.org. # # # NATIONAL CORE AND OMNI ENERGY PROVIDE FREE SOLAR TO 5,000 LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS EVERYDAY ENERGY AND OMNI ENERGY CREATE SOLAR ACCESS PLATFORM Omni Energy, LLC is a developer of distributed renewable energy and sustainability projects. Omni’s investors and managers include executives and board members from the nation’s largest renewable energy companies. Omni Energy provides project development, finance, deployment and construction services to catalyze a sustainable future. 500 2nd st, San Francisco, CA Info@energyomni.com www.energyomni.com Copyright © 2019 - Omni Energy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line143
__label__wiki	0.934212	0.934212	Report Vampire Weekend confirm new album is done during triumphant UK return at End of the Road There are no new songs shared, but a brilliant reminder of their prowess as a festival headliner. Words: Will Richards Photos: Sharon López Vampire Weekend made their UK return last night, headlining End of the Road for their first show on these shores in over four years. Emerging on stage to Peter Gabriel’s ‘Solsbury Hill’ (which the band later cover during ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’, though admitting that the festival isn’t actually that close to the titular sight - they Google mapped it), they launched straight into ‘Holiday’ from 2010’s ‘Contra’. Before playing ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’, Ezra Koenig responded to one of many questions yelled out from the crowd regarding the band’s long-awaited fourth album. “The album’s done,” he confirmed. “But we’re gonna talk about that after the show,” he continued while difficulties with a keyboard on stage were being rectified. “Oh you want a little more info?” he joked. “What else can we say about the album? Oh, turns out the keyboard’s ready…” Expanding their live line-up to a seven piece, including a second drummer, a new riff-happy guitarist and more, the band’s live presence felt amped up, even though songs from their three studio albums were largely played true to their recorded form. They did drop in a cover of SBTRKT’s Ezra-featuring smash ‘NEW DORP. NEW YORK.’ though, which proved a wonderfully funky mid-set shot in the arm. “This is the calmest festival crowd ever,” Ezra commented after an encore break following the suitably well-received likes of ‘A-Punk’ and ‘Oxford Comma’. “We don’t wanna make a big deal out of it but this is our first time playing in the UK since Reading & Leeds 2014 - the next time we come to the UK, a lot of new songs. And they’re good, too! We can’t wait to come back.” No new songs were played - and Ezra joked that “normally you play a festival and you save all the big songs ’til the end, but Vampire Weekend doesn’t do that. We don’t play ‘A-Punk’ last” before launching into ‘Ottoman’. He then responded to a sign in the crowd from fans asking to come and sing on stage with the band for signature set closer ‘Walcott’, and they helped them smash through a glorious set closer, and confirm that Vampire Weekend are well and truly back. Readers’ Poll 2019: The Results What made DIY readers’ collective 2019, you ask? Here we go… Vampire Weekend’s triumphant 2019 continues at massive Alexandra Palace show Ezra and pals manage to make it feel like the same intimate sing-a-long, albeit this time with 10,000 of your mates. Daddy issues: Vampire Weekend With ‘Father of the Bride’, Vampire Weekend have returned from a six-year break refreshed, and more creatively dextrous than ever. As Ezra Koenig explains, it was a much-needed expansion. Interview with a Vampire: Ezra Koenig talks the rebirth of Vampire Weekend on the cover of the June issue of DIY Plus Mark Ronson, Bastille, Mattiel, Surfbort and Viagra Boys, and much more. December 2019 / January 2020 ft the Class of 2020 With Dry Cleaning, Beabadoobee, Do Nothing, Squid, girl in red, Arlo Parks and many more. Find out all the info here >> Lazarus Kane, PVA and more bring the eclectic underbelly to Hello 2020 Sleep Eaters and Silverbacks also took to the Old Blue Last’s stage for Night Two of the series. Tracks: The 1975, Soccer Mommy, King Krule and more The biggest and best tracks of the past week, rounded up and reviewed. Relive the action from our Class of 2020 Launch Party at House of Vans London Featuring Luna Bay, Walt Disco, Talk Show and Do Nothing! Big Albums in 2020: The Magic Gang With their self-titled debut, The Magic Gang smashed into the Top 20 and proved that indie wasn’t dead. Now, they’re broadening their horizons and getting ready to hit the sweet spot once again. Enter your email address for weekly updates on all things DIY	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line154
__label__wiki	0.852187	0.852187	You are here: Home / Uncategorized / 25th Anniversary of Bard Music Festival Anchors Bard SummerScape 2014: Seven-Week Arts Festival Exploring Life and Times of Franz Schubert in New Yorks Hudson Valley (June 27Aug 17) 25th Anniversary of Bard Music Festival Anchors Bard SummerScape 2014: Seven-Week Arts Festival Exploring Life and Times of Franz Schubert in New Yorks Hudson Valley (June 27Aug 17) Bard press contact: Mark Primoff 845-758-7412 [email protected] 21C Media press contact: Glenn Petry 212-625-2038 [email protected] 25th Anniversary of Bard Music Festival Anchors Bard SummerScape 2014: Seven-Week Arts Festival Exploring Life and Times of Franz Schubert in New Yorks Hudson Valley (June 27Aug 17) Highlights Include First U.S. Revival in 100 Years of Webers Opera Euryanthe, World Premiere of New Kleist Adaptation, and Return of Trisha Brown Dance Company Seven weeks of cultural delight International Herald Tribune ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. The roots of Austro-German Romanticism will be explored at the 2014 annual Bard SummerScape festival, which once again offers a sensational summer of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, keyed to the theme of the 25th anniversary season of the world-renowned Bard Music Festival, Schubert and His World. Held in the Frank Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and other venues on Bard Colleges idyllic Hudson River campus, the seven-week festival opens on June 27 with the first of three performances of Proscenium Works: 19792011 by the Trisha Brown Dance Company, and closes on August 17 with the conclusion of the Bard Music Festival. Complementing the Bard Music Festivals exploration of Schubert and His World, some of the great Viennese composers most important contemporaries provide key SummerScape highlights. These include the first American revival in 100 years of Carl Maria von Webers opera Euryanthe, as well as a single semi-staged performance of Schuberts rarely performed opera Fierrebras; the world premiere theater production Love in the Wars, an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleists Penthesilea by the Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville; and a film series titled Schubert and the Long 19th Century. Together, SummerScapes offerings help celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the Bard Music Festival dubbed part boot camp for the brain, part spa for the spirit by the New York Times which has since its founding in 1990 done so much to revitalize the classical concert experience. Named one of the most intellectually stimulating of all American summer festivals by the Wall Street Journal, it is the Bard Music Festival that provides SummerScapes creative inspiration. Drawing on recent scholarship, the festivals thematic programming, multi-disciplinary approach, and emphasis on context and reception history make for a depth and breadth of cultural discovery that appeals to classical music novices and aficionados alike. Since its inception a quarter-century ago, the Bard Music Festival has enriched the standard concert repertory with a wealth of important rediscoveries; as the New York Times points out, wherever there is an overlooked potential masterpiece, [festival co-founder] Leon Botstein is not too far behind. While the Bard Music Festivals pioneering approach to thematic programming has been imitated, Nothing quite compares to the fascinating summer programs popping out of Leon Botsteins brain (Bloomberg News). The 25th-anniversary season presents Schubert and His World, an illuminating series of orchestral, choral, vocal, and chamber concerts as well as pre-concert talks, panel discussions, and special events all devoted to examining the life and times of Franz Schubert (17971828). One of the most revered and influential composers of the Western tradition, the Viennese composer remains paradoxically elusive. His greatest fame rests on music discovered decades after his death, for although in his lifetime he won recognition as the Prince of Song and for his two- and four-hand keyboard music, it was only subsequently that the majority of his large-scale chamber, orchestral, and dramatic works came to light. The 2014 Bard Music Festival will consider Schubert both as he was known in his lifetime and as posterity has understood him, through performances of a wide range of his music, from the perennially popular songs to the once-favored, now-forgotten Singspiel Die Verschworenen, and from such posthumously canonized masterworks as the Unfinished Symphony and transcendent String Quintet in C to neglected rarities like his opera Fierrabras, which will be heard in a semi-staged performance comprising the Bard Music Festivals final program. The American Symphony Orchestra, under its music director, Leon Botstein, is in residence at Bard throughout SummerScape. Besides leading the Bard Music Festivals orchestral programs, Botstein will also conduct this seasons annual staged opera, Euryanthe (1823), by Schuberts contemporary Carl Maria von Weber (17861826). Returning to direct Euryanthes first American revival in 100 years is Kevin Newbury, creator of SummerScapes gold standard production (WQXR) of Richard Strausss Die Liebe der Danae. In theater, Bard will present the world premiere production of Love in the Wars a new and playful take on Heinrich von Kleists Penthesilea from Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville by Ken Rus Schmoll, the director whose name attached to a show most warms us with optimism (Village Voice). Continuing SummerScapes tradition of opening each year with a significant dance performance, this season the Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to launch the festival with Proscenium Works: 19792011, as part of the companys farewell tour. Imported from Europe for its ninth SummerScape season, Bards authentic and sensationally popular Spiegeltent is hosted all summer long by the greatest cabaret artist of this generation (New Yorker), Justin Vivian Bond. A handmade pavilion decorated with mirrors and stained glass evoking a bygone era of glamour, the mirrored tent provides a sumptuous and magical environment to enjoy cutting-edge cabaret and world-class musical performances almost all of which have sold out in recent years plus dining and a late-night salon throughout the festival. Critical Acclaim: Londons Times Literary Supplement lauded SummerScape as the most intellectually ambitious of Americas summer music festivals. The New Yorker called it one of the major upstate festivals, and American Record Guide agreed, Bards SummerScape has to be one of the New York areas great seasonal escapes. Travel and Leisure reported, Gehrys acclaimed concert hall provides a spectacular venue for innovative fare. Newsday called SummerScape brave and brainy, Huffington Post dubbed it a highbrow hotbed of culture, Musical America judged it awesomely intensive, GALO (Global Art Laid Out) magazine named it one of the great artistic treasure chests of the tri-state area and the country, and the New York Times pronounced it ever a hotbed of intellectual and aesthetic adventure. As the New York Sun observed, Bard offers one of the best lineups of the summer for fans of any arts discipline. Summarizing SummerScapes manifold appeal, the New York Post observed, It’s hard not to find something to like, and its even harder to beat the setting: the gleaming, Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Performing Arts Center in bucolic Annandale-on-Hudson. Bard SummerScape 2014 highlights by genre The numerous offerings that make up the comprehensive 25th annual Bard Music Festival, Schubert and His World, take place during SummerScapes two final weekends: August 810 and August 1517. Through the prism of Schuberts life and career, this years festival will explore the native city with which he is so closely identified. Vienna was the site of an enduring grandeur, but also a city where cozy Biedermeier domesticity would soon succumb to Romanticism, and where artistic restraint was as much a function of Metternichs police state as of bourgeois respectability. Such tensions are reflected in Schuberts art, in which nostalgia and innovation like the minor and major modes are always inextricably entwined. The present year is a fitting one in which to honor Schubert, for it marks the bicentennial of his setting of Goethes Gretchen am Spinnrade, long recognized as his first masterpiece, on October 19, 1814; the date has come to be known as the Birthday of the German Lied. For the composer once overshadowed by Beethoven and Rossini and best known for his lyrical miniatures, then sentimentalized as shy and lovelorn but surrounded by jovial friends, and more recently cast as a sexually ambiguous subversive who set the course of music history away from Beethovens monumental example, the time is ripe for Bards scholarly reappraisal. The Music Festivals programs, built thematically and spaced over the two weekends, range from The Legacy of a Life Cut Short to Schubert and Opera. Along with music by his predecessors, contemporaries, and musical descendants, a broad sampling of Schuberts own compositions will be heard. Two thought-provoking panel discussions will be supplemented by informative pre-concert talks and commentaries, which illuminate each concerts themes and are free to ticket holders. Weekend One, August 810: The Making of a Romantic Legend The opening weekend of the Bard Music Festival contextualizes Schuberts early life and career alongside the music of his contemporaries, including his teacher, Antonio Salieri, and such Viennese trends as the development of the art song, the Beethoven legacy, the post-1815 obsession with Italian opera, and the virtuoso cult. The weekend concludes with a double-bill of rarities: Schuberts one-act stage-work Die Verschworenen and Franz von Suppés hit operetta Franz Schubert. Weekend Two, August 1517: A New Aesthetics of Music Starting with a focus on the last years of his life, the second weekend of the Bard Music Festival addresses the nature of Schuberts originality, recreates the one public concert that he devoted entirely to his own music, and offers a consideration of his legacy and influence on late-19th and 20th-century composers. Since the founding of the Bard Music Festival, Princeton University Press has published a companion volume of new scholarship and interpretation for each season, with essays and translated documents relating to the featured composer and his world. Scholars-in-Residence Christopher H. Gibbs and Morten Solvik are the editors of the upcoming 2014 volume, Franz Schubert and His World. Described as uniquely stimulating by the Los Angeles Times, and named one of New Yorks premier summer destinations for adventurous music lovers by the New York Times, the Bard Music Festival has impressed critics worldwide. On his blog, New York Times journalist Steve Smith confesses: For an unrepentant music geek like me, the Bard Music Festival is simply irresistible: a fabulous wealth of music by a major composer from the classical tradition, surrounded and contextualized with works by forebears, peers, colleagues, friends, enemies, students, followers you name it. The New York Times reports that performers engaged by Bard invariably seem energized by the prospect of extending beyond canonical routine, and by an audience that comes prepared with open ears and open minds. As the Wall Street Journals Barrymore Laurence Scherer observes: The Bard Music Festival no longer needs an introduction. Under the provocative guidance of the conductor-scholar Leon Botstein, it has long been one of the most intellectually stimulating of all American summer festivals and frequently is one of the most musically satisfying. Each year, through discussions by major scholars and illustrative concerts often programmed to overflowing, Bard audiences have investigated the oeuvre of a major composer in the context of the society, politics, literature, art, and music of his times. The 25th annual Bard Music Festival is made possible in part through the generous support of the Board of the Bard Music Festival and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional underwriting has been provided by Jeanne Donovan Fisher, James H. Ottaway, Jr., Felicitas S. Thorne, Helen and Roger Alcaly, the Bettina Baruch Foundation, Mrs. Mortimer Levitt, Michelle R. Clayman, Margo and Anthony Viscusi, and the Furthermore Foundation. Special support has also been provided by the Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts. Schuberts contemporary Carl Maria von Weber (17861826) is best known for Der Freischütz, the opera with which he established Germanys own homegrown Romantic opera tradition, free from French and Italian influence and distinguished by novel orchestrations and supernatural elements. His next major contribution to the genre, Euryanthe (1823), has not achieved the same fame. Yet the opera a story of chivalry, betrayal, innocence, and love, again imbued with the supernatural was no less ambitious or innovative. Euryanthe, unlike Der Freischütz, was through-composed, heralding a conclusive break with the spoken dialogue of Singspiel, and it was in Euryanthe that Weber first made extensive use of recurring musical motives, bringing cohesiveness to the score and anticipating the Wagnerian technique. Though hailed as musically sublime (The Guardian) and arguably Webers greatest masterpiece (NPR), Euryanthe remains largely neglected. Only its overture is performed with any regularity; revivals of the opera in its entirety are rare, not least in America, where it has not been seen since the Metropolitan Operas staging 100 years ago, in 1914. Bards upcoming production, then, marks a major historical milestone. Irish Times Theatre Award-winner Kevin Newbury returns to direct, following his success with Richard Strausss Die Liebe der Danae at SummerScape three years ago; WQXR named the production one of the Best of 2011, and the New York Times observed: An opera needs to be able to catch fire onstage, and in the SummerScape production, directed with imagination and emotional nuance by Kevin Newbury, Danae certainly does. The new production will run for five performances (July 25, 27 & 30; Aug 1 & 3), with an Opera Talk, free and open to the public, before the matinee on July 27. This summer, Botstein also leads a semi-staged performance of Schuberts seldom-heard opera Fierrabras (1823), which will draw the 25th annual Bard Music Festival and, indeed, the entire seven-week Bard SummerScape festival to a thrilling close (August 17). Fierrabras was intended, like Euryanthe, for Viennas Kärntnertor Theater, and marks Schuberts own attempt to compose grand Romantic opera in German. Although it was never staged during his lifetime, the opera the story of a fictitious Saracen knight at the time of Charlemagne has since found a following; at its 1988 Austrian premiere, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung declared that, against the judgment of history, Fierrabras was triumphantly rescued at last. As the Financial Times concluded, after last seasons first fully-staged American production of Sergei Taneyevs Oresteia, Some of the most important summer opera experiences in the U.S. are not at the better known festivals but at Bard SummerScape. Musical America agreed: Bards annual opera has become an indispensable part of the summer operatic landscape because the choice of works is invariably inspired and their productions distinctively creative. Although German poet, dramatist and novelist Heinrich von Kleist (17771811) is now recognized as by far the most important North German dramatist of the Romantic movement (Encyclopedia Brittanica), his work was all but forgotten until its early 20th-century rehabilitation by such luminaries as Rilke, Kafka, and Thomas Mann. His romantic drama Penthesilea, drawn loosely from Homer, recounts the meeting between its eponymous heroine, the Queen of the Amazons, and the Greek hero Achilles; the ferocity of her passion collides with his stubborn will, setting in motion a tragicomedy of love and misunderstanding that threatens to derail the course of history. Receiving its world premiere at Bard, Love in the Wars is an original version of Penthesilea by John Banville, whose 14th novel, The Sea, won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Kleists lucid prose has long exerted a profound influence on the Irish novelist, who is considered one of the great stylists writing in English today (Boston Globe). A production of Banvilles adaptation of another Kleist play, The Broken Jug, prompted Theatre Journal to conclude: While the illumination certainly has at its core Kleists own genius, he is served with tremendous flourish by his adapter. Opening for two previews and eight performances between July 10 and July 20, SummerScapes world premiere presentation of Love in the Wars will be directed by the inventive (New York Times) two-time Obie Award-winner Ken Rus Schmoll. Bards theatrical track record is a stellar one. Last season, when the festival premiered an original stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakovs seminal novel The Master and Margarita, Time Out New York pronounced it a radically re-imagined stage version of the Bulgakov classic, which successfully captured the dark electricity that emanates from the classic itself, the tingle of being an innocent reader trapped between two magnetic poles. When the Trisha Brown Dance Company opened SummerScapes 2010 season, the Star-Ledger declared: If any dance event is worth a quick run out of town, its this one. Now making its farewell tour with some of the companys final East Coast stage performances, the esteemed ensemble returns to present the final creation of MacArthur Fellow Trisha Brown the innovative high priestess of postmodernist dance (New York Times) alongside revivals of some of her most beloved works, including collaborations with Laurie Anderson and Robert Rauschenberg. As the Village Voice observes, Works by Brown dont just challenge our perceptions; they expand our minds and untether our spirits. Proscenium Works: 19792011 will be presented in three performances on June 27 and 28. SummerScape has opened with significant dance performances each summer since 2005. On seeing A Rite (2013), a new dance-theater piece from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company, co-commissioned by SummerScape to celebrate the centenary of Stravinskys Rite of Spring last season, Deborah Jowitt marveled: Like many immersed in dance, Ive seen a number of works set to Stravinskys score. This is the first new one to pull me into the music and its history in so many unexpected and provocative ways (ArtsJournal). Schubert and the Long 19th Century The 2014 SummerScape Film Series will investigate the many ways in which Schuberts music and early Romanticism have influenced international cinema. The image of Schubert as a shy, obscure, lovelorn man of the people, who wrote magical melodies in taverns, surrounded by cheerful friends, was cherished by audiences in the late-19th century and triumphantly exploited by 20th-century Hollywood, before being debunked in Fritz Lehners film Notturno (1986). To commemorate the centenary of the July Crisis in 1914, the festival will also include a series of films exploring the origins and meanings of the First World War. All films will be presented using new or archival 35mm prints. Spiegeltent Back for a ninth magnificent summer, the authentic, one-of-a-kind Belgian Spiegeltent has been sensationally popular since its introduction at Bard in 2006, the first time one of these fabulous structures appeared in America. The perfect place to discover new artists in an intimate setting throughout the festival, Bards Spiegeltent also provides a meeting place for drink, food, and celebration before and after performances in other venues. This seasons festivities will be hosted by returning Spiegeltent favorite and Tony-nominated icon (Huffington Post) Justin Vivian Bond. Food is casual summer fare, à la carte burgers from the grill, fresh salads, gourmet ice cream, microbrewed beer, local wine, and more, sourced locally whenever possible and in many cases from Bards own organic farm. See below for chronological list of SummerScape 2014 highlights; key performance dates by genre; full program details for the Bard Music Festival; and ticket information. SummerScape 2014: chronological list of highlights June 27 & 28 SummerScape opens with Proscenium Works: 19792011 by Trisha Brown Dance Company July 1020 Two previews and eight performances of John Banvilles Love in the Wars A version of Heinrich von Kleists Penthesilea July 3-Aug 3 Film Series Schubert and the Long 19th Century July 25Aug 3 Five performances of Carl Maria von Webers opera Euryanthe August 8 Annual Bard Music Festival opening-night dinner in the Spiegeltent August 810 Bard Music Festival, Weekend One: The Making of a Romantic Legend August 1517 Bard Music Festival, Weekend Two: A New Aesthetics of Music SummerScape 2014: key performance dates by genre Bard Music Festival, Weekend One: The Making of a Romantic Legend (Aug 810) Bard Music Festival, Weekend Two: A New Aesthetics of Music (Aug 1517) Complete program details follow. Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe Sosnoff Theater July 25* and Aug 1 at 7 pm July 27, 30, and Aug 3 at 2 pm Franz Schubert: Fierrabras August 17 at 4:30 pm (BMF Program 12) John Banville: Love in the Wars A version of Heinrich von Kleists Penthesilea Theater Two Previews July 10 and 11 at 7:30pm Performances July 12, 17, 18, and 19 at 7:30 pm and July 13, 16, 19, and 20* at 2 pm Trisha Brown Dance Company: Proscenium Works: 19792011 June 27 & 28 at 7:30 pm June 28 at 2 pm* Thursdays and Sundays July 3 to August 3 at 7pm Ottaway Film Center Tickets: $10 Live Music, Cabaret, Festival Dining, and After Hours salon Dates, Times, and Prices vary Program details of Bard Music Festival, Schubert and His World WEEKEND ONE: The Making of a Romantic Legend PROGRAM ONE* The Legacy of a Life Cut Short 7:30 pm Pre-concert Talk 8 pm Performance Franz Schubert (17971828) Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 (1814) Overture to Der vierjährige Posten, D190 (1815) Symphony No. 3 in D, D200 (1815) Fantasy in F Minor, for piano duet, D940 (1828) String Quintet in C, D956 (1828) Dances, songs, and partsongs Tickets starting at $25 Invention and Reinvention: Who Was Schubert? Olin Hall 10 amnoon PROGRAM TWO From Boy to Master: The Path to Erlkönig 1 pm Pre-concert Talk 1:30 pm Performance String Quartet in B-flat, D112 (1814) Erlkönig, D328 (1815) Songs, dances, and partsongs Arias, songs, and piano works by Christoph Willibald Gluck (171487), Antonio Salieri (17501825), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (17521814), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (175691), Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (17601802), Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827), Carl Friedrich Zelter (17581832), Carl Czerny (17911857), and Gioachino Rossini (17921868) The Song as Drama: Winterreise 5pm Performance Winterreise, D911 (1827) PROGRAM THREE Mythic Transformations Symphony No. 8 in B minor, Unfinished, D759 (1822) Sonata in C, Grand Duo, D812 (1824; orch. Joseph Joachim, 1855) Songs, orch. Hector Berlioz (180369); Jacques Offenbach (181980); Johannes Brahms (183397); and Anton Webern (18831945) Kurt Atterberg (18871974) Symphony No. 6 in C, Op. 31 (1928) PROGRAM FOUR Goethe and Music: The German Lied 10 am Performance with commentary Songs by Franz Schubert (17971828); Franz Joseph Haydn (17321809); Johann Friedrich Reichardt (17521814); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (175691); Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (17601802); Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827); Carl Friedrich Zelter (17581832); Carl Loewe (17961869), Felix Mendelssohn (180947); and Robert Schumann (181056) PROGRAM FIVE Before Unspeakable Illness Quartettsatz, D703 (1820) Marche militaire, D733 (?1818) Fantasy in C, Wanderer, D760 (1822) Dances, songs, partsongs PROGRAM SIX* Schubert and Viennese Theater Die Verschworenen, Singspiel in one act, D787 (1823) Franz von Suppé (181995) Franz Schubert, operetta in one act (1864) WEEKEND TWO: A New Aesthetics of Music Schubert on Film LOCATION and TIME TBA László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building 5:00 Performance Schubert’s Kosegarten Liederspiel PROGRAM SEVEN* Beethovens Successor? First Movement from String Quartet in D minor, D810 (1824) Fragment aus dem Aeschylus, D450 (1816) Die Allmacht, D852 (1825) Der Wanderer an den Mond, D870 (1826) Schlachtgesang, D912 (1827) Ständchen, D920 (1827) Piano Trio in E-flat, D929 (1827) Der Kreuzzug, D932 (1827) Die Sterne, D939 (1828) Auf dem Strom, D943 (1828) “Far Fairer Hopes”: Originality and Influence PROGRAM EIGHT The Music of Friendship Gondelfahrer, D809 (1824) Abschied von der Erde, D829 (1826) Widerspruch, D865 (1826) Grab und Mond, D893 (1826) Zur guten Nacht, D903 (1827) Selections from 12 Waltzes (Valses nobles), D969 (1827) Works by Anselm Hüttenbrenner (17941868); Josef Lanner (180143); Benedict Randhartinger (180293); Franz Lachner (180390); Maximilian Leidesdorf (181889); and others PROGRAM NINE Late Ambitions Mirjams Siegesgesang, D942 (1828) Mass in E-flat, D950 (1828) Psalm 92, D953 (1828) Luciano Berio (19252003) Rendering (1990) PROGRAM TEN Fellowship of Men: The Male Choral Tradition 10 am Performance: Members of the Bard Festival Chorale, James Bagwell, choral director Works by Franz Schubert (17971828); Michael Haydn (17371806); Simon Sechter (17881867); Heinrich Marschner (17951861); Jan Kalivoda (180166); Franz Lachner (180390); Felix Mendelssohn (180947); Robert Schumann (181056); Johannes Brahms (183397); Anton Bruckner (182496); and others PROGRAM ELEVEN The Final Months Rondo in A, for piano four hands, D951 (June 1828) Der Doppelgänger, D957/13 (August 1828) Piano Sonata in A, D959 (September 1828) Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (October 1828) Die Taubenpost, D965 A (October 1828) PROGRAM TWELVE* Schubert and Opera Fierrabras, D796 (1823) Bard SummerScape ticket information Tickets for all Bard SummerScape events go on sale to the public on February 18. For tickets and further information on all SummerScape events, call the Fisher Center box office at 845-758-7900 or visit www.fishercenter.bard.edu. SummerScape opera, theater, and dance performances and most Bard Music Festival programs are held in the Sosnoff Theater or Theater Two in Bards Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry and celebrated since its opening as a major architectural landmark in the region. Some chamber programs and other BMF events are in Olin Hall. The Spiegeltent has its own schedule of events, in addition to serving as a restaurant, café, and bar before and after performances. Film Series screenings are at the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center in the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center. New York City Round-Trip Coach Transportation: To make a reservation on the round-trip SummerScape coach provided exclusively to ticket holders for specific performances indicated by * in the listings above, call the box office at 845-758-7900 or select this option when purchasing tickets. The round-trip fare is $20 and reservations are required. The coach departs from behind Lincoln Center, on Amsterdam Avenue between 64th and 65th Street. Bus departure time will be included on the ticket order receipt, or visit fishercenter.bard.edu/transportation. Full Schedule: For a complete schedule of SummerScape and Bard Music Festival events (subject to change), follow the links given below. Updates are posted at the festival web site fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2014/preview. Tickets for all SummerScape events go on sale to the public on February 18. Fisher Center members receive priority access to the best seats in advance, and those who join the Centers email list receive advance booking opportunities as well as regular news and updates. Bard SummerScape: fishercenter.bard.edu/summerscape/2014/preview Bard Music Festival: fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf/2014/preview Tickets: [email protected]; or by phone at 845-758-7900. Updates: Bards e-members get all the news in regular updates. Click here to sign up, or send an e-mail to [email protected]. All program information is subject to change. The 2014 SummerScape season is made possible in part through the generous support of the Board of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the Board of the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. 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__label__wiki	0.587345	0.587345	Haschel Dorin (Sarria Alt) Haschel Haschel Dorin (Sarria Alt) Nov 2, 2014 23:29:25 GMT -6 Post by Haschel on Nov 2, 2014 23:29:25 GMT -6 Name: Haschel Dorin Class: Swordmaster Born in: Etruria Appearance: A very tan man with short black hair and a moustache, both just starting to grey. He wears a purple robe and red headband usually. His muscles are well developed for his age, and he has an average build. He is a little shorter than average, but not by much. Personality: Haschel enjoys the company of others, especially up and coming fighters and adventurers. He loves to crack wise and make jokes, and not take things very seriously in general. Any changes to government or wars that occur he sees as just minor qualms in the grand scheme of things. He much prefers to use his fist rather than his blade, trying to distance himself from his younger years, though if he is provoked or threatened, he will return to his reliable roots. He has never stopped his training with the sword, but enjoys training his martial arts more, and tries to do that more often. Story: He doesn't look it, but in his younger years, Haschel was a bit of a punk. Just an annoying urchin from the streets of Etruria, picking pockets to get by. Until one day, he tried to pick the pocket of a mercenary commander. Instead of killing the poor boy, the mercenary decided to raise him for arena battling as a source of extra cash, teaching the child the ways of the sword. Haschel was not fond of using the sword, but he was good at it, very good. By the time he became an adult, Haschel was becoming an excellent fighter, dueling throughout many arena circuits of Etruria, but his mentor continued to push him to become better and better. It was a rocky start, even though he became knowledgeable in how to use the sword, there always seemed to be at least one challenger that he would face that was one step ahead of him. The arena became his life for many years. Whenever he was unable to fight due to injuries or whether there were too many other fighters already there, he would always take to the stands and study every fighting technique he saw. There were countless that he witnessed, but to be the best, he only needed to know their weaknesses. The sword was a good weapon, but even it could not deal with any opponent faced. It did not have the range or strength to combat the lance for instance. Haschel began to develop a philosophy early on with this as its base, that all weapons have a weakness, regardless of the skill of their users. Haschel went on very few actual mercenary missions, his real purpose being to duel. One day though, the mercenary captain brought a present for Haschel, a magic sword they had just procured from a raid on a rogue mage's cottage. Easily, the sword could have been used to great effect in the mercenary's hands, but giving it to Haschel, that would give the fighter an extra air of mystery to him in the arena, making his fighting career all the more profitable. At 25, the prime of his career, Haschel Dorin was known only as The Lightning Blade for both his swift reflexes and his sword, and many arena fighters and attendees knew him across Elibe. Some even sought out him and where he was fighting, as fans of his style. Unfortunately, fame was a fickel mistress. Only a few years later, the mercenary died and Haschel was on his own. He left the arena soon after, deciding to finally turn in his blade and train his mind and body in a more refined manner, martial arts. He sought out a place where he could be alone, creating a small hermitage for himself in the mountains east of Etruria. He hoped to mature the philosophy he had developed there, believing that if all weapons had a weakness, then the lack of weapons had no weaknesses. At least, that was the decision he came to, without anyone to test his theories on, he could not prove that one way or the other. Several years later, a punk came after his legend, following the rumors and legends left in Haschel's wake. He sought to challenge the master for ownership of the magic sword, claiming that the blade deserved to be used in combat. Haschel fought the lad with his martial arts, believing that he could not lose without any weaknesses, but his philosophy was proven wrong, and he lost, his heirloom and memories of his championship stolen from him. Now, Haschel is ready to set out and return to the world, in search of three things. Pupils to teach, a technique to master, and a sword to reclaim. It has been so long since he has been out in the world, that only afficionados of arena lore would know his name, and even more unlikely, recognize him. Thus, he must make his name known once again. Last Edit: Nov 6, 2014 19:55:14 GMT -6 by Haschel: Details added. OPness removed. Theme Song~ Saturos Prox The Wildcard I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. Profession: Undercover Operative Affinity: Anima Post by Saturos Prox on Nov 6, 2014 13:02:44 GMT -6 I'd shy away from phrases like "best arena fighter in all of Etruria", "known all over the world", and "a legend in the arena". Yes, he's a pre-promote, but making a character that's just straight up the best off the bat is a no-no. Also, you jump straight from Haschel getting taught and being good, to being the best. Fill in the gaps. Describe that journey. Pre-promote apps require more detail. Let me know if I need more details, I added what you asked for~ Richter Abend The Winter Lion Indomitable Warrior What motivates a man to confront the challenges that most of us would run from? Affinity: Ice Haschel Dorin (Sarria Alt) Nov 15, 2014 18:40:54 GMT -6 Post by Richter Abend on Nov 15, 2014 18:40:54 GMT -6 The Winter Lion \| Frozen Tears \| Fangs Are Bared \| The Lion Never Bends \| To Stand Against the Lion	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line163
__label__cc	0.703701	0.296299	PREMIERE: Shad’s “Sniper” Video Depicts the Spiritual Struggle for Peace The Canadian emcee’s 2018 single gets a vibrant Asan Aslam–directed visual. December 4th 2019 by Dean Brandt photo by Justin Broadbent Last year we caught up with Shadrach Kabango—better known as Shad—to talk about his ambitious LP A Short Story About a War, the solemn follow-up to his 2016 soft rock debut under the moniker Your Boy Tony Braxton. The Kenyan-born and Canadian-bred rapper built an entire world to illustrate his ideas of a violent war being fought among revolutionaries and the establishment—a task made unfortunately easier when you consider the parallels between Shad’s fictional world and the realities of the twenty-first century. With the record celebrating its one year anniversary just over a month ago, the rapper is sharing a video for its beat-heavy opening track, “Sniper,” setting up Shad’s vision of a universe where sharp-shooters are at the top of a class hierarchy. “The sniper character is a metaphor for anyone who enjoys a higher position in our competitive society,” Shad explains. “Higher education, higher status, higher income. Not necessarily the super successful, but folks who enjoy relative safety and advantage in our often war-like economic and social system. “This is the character that I relate to the most,” he admits. “He represents the default logic of our society: That you have to rise above others and keep your true self hidden in order to be safe. This is a message that gets especially internalized by boys. So the metaphor also describes something sad and dangerous to me about masculinity. I was glad that [director Asan Aslam] resonated with these themes, and I’m grateful he chose to give [this song] a complex visual narrative that focuses on the soul of the album: the spiritual struggle for peace.” A Short Story About War is out now via Secret City. You can order it here. FLOOD PremiereShad PREMIERE: Bad Waitress Share Manic “That Sedative” Video PREMIERE: Art d’Ecco’s “I’ll Never Give You Up” Video Is an Homage to Wong Kar-wai PREMIERE: Shell of a Shell Announce Debut LP, Share “Knock” PREMIERE: Bloods Find Love in Seattle on “U & M E”	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line166
__label__wiki	0.559719	0.559719	Mark Morrison Mark brings more than 20 years of Law Enforcement, LiveScan, and Information Technology experience to G2Solutions. As an Officer with the Solano County Sheriff's Office in Fairfield, California during the 1980's and 1990's, Mark participated in the planning and deployment of new Jail and Records Management Systems, LiveScan Fingerprint System, and Mugshot Systems which were, at that time, cutting edge technology slowly replacing manual methods. Mark left the Sheriff's Office in 1995 to join Identix, Inc. first as the Customer Support Manager for their Western Region, and later as a Senior Systems Engineer working directly with customers in the Western 22 states to develop and implement a system of LiveScans designed to decrease the time required for fingerprints to be searched in State and Federal Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems. During this time, in addition to Project Management, Mark also developed several Integration Solutions, many still in use today, to automate the creation of demographic records on the LiveScan Systems and eliminate redundant data entry. Most recently Mark Managed the Java and Web Services Product Lines for Public Sector Products. Mark managed and participated in writing web based solutions for the storage, retrieval, and management of mugshot and case images, in addition to utilities designed to assist with creating inter operable systems, making it possible for agencies to share data rapidly and seemlessly. Core Competencies: Red Hat Linux 3.1 to 9.0, Kernels 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x Windows 3.x, 9x, NT 4.0, 2000, XP IBM OS/2 3.0 Warp, 4.0 Warp Programming and Scripting Languages: Sun Java Development Java Web Services Development using JSP, Servlets, and Struts Framework. Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Microsoft Visual C++ HTML/SHTML XML/XSL IBM OS/2 REXX Programming Relational Database Management Systems: Microsoft Jet Database Development Microsoft Access Development PostGRESQL Database Management IBM DB/2 Database Management Microsoft Networking TCP/IP Networking Ethernet and Token Ring Networks Network Security: IPTables (Packet Filter) Adaptive Firewall Development Personal Firewall Systems (McAfee, Norton, ZoneAlarm, BlackIce) Lightweight Intrusion Detection and Reporting Systems Unix/Linux File Systems and Permissions Microsoft FAT, FAT32, and NTFS File Systems and Permissions File Recovery and Secure Deletion Port and System Security Analysis Log file analysis Network Services: Microsoft Internet Information Server Jakarta Tomcat Web Services Container/Web Server Jakarta James Mail Server (Configuration and Mailet Development) DHCP Client/Server SSH Client/Server Secure FTP NIST and EFTS Specifications: ANSI/NIST-CSL 1-1993 ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2000 FBI EFTS v7.0 Western Identification Network (WIN) EFTS California Department of Justice EFTS New York DCJS EFTS Michigan EFTS Texas TCHIP EFTS Georgia EFTS	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line168
__label__cc	0.628909	0.371091	"Happy New Update!" I'm afraid I got nothing...but good news! :D You'd think this holiday season would have me kick back and take it a bit more easy, but nope! Instead, I've been working really hard and even set a new record in my game development! Normally, a full scene in the game takes about a week to make because it's very mentally exhausting (for some reason, hurr hurr) and it's not always the first draft will work out and need a lot of polish and additional work. However...this week I've finished not one, not two...not even three, but FOUR SCENES! Yes, since last update I've finished adding two mini-scenes and two full scenes in the game, that should hopefully make up for no new scenes appearing in the last beta. There is no other explanation for this other than me having a mad dash of luck and all the gears in my head synching up perfectly, apparently! Not that I complain, of course, but it will be very hard to top it or keep the superb groove going for too long. xD So that is four scenes, four different girls Why, one of them might even include a "Lewd Latcher"...hmm! ;3 I promise to have something visual to share in the next update, so until then, Happy New Year! "Ho ho ho, Merry Update!" Sorry for the kinda late update...? But it's for a good cause as I just released the newest beta to my Patreon supporters, v1.10! :D Been working very hard on that since last update with polishing up some rough edges, added more content such as legendary monsters, trading cards, illustrations etc, so it's been a busy week! And it also seems like my latest milestone to add side-stories involving some of the female characters have been permanently met, so time to raise a poll to that achieved goal! Besides that, it's a pretty light news week, holidays and all, surely. ;3 With any luck, Puta Bananas will presented during the next update, so until then... I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Laquadia Cosplay "I'll make him an update he can't refuse." Good and bad news for this week! The bad news is that my computer behaved really strange when I turned it on today, it loaded forever and got stuck on a black screen with just a mouse icon for a good 10 minutes before the password input screen came up, followed by loading the dashboard which also took 10 minutes and looked...different, almost as if the desktop icon was in safe mode while the rest of the background, icons and resolution wasn't. Rebooting then had everything but the background wallpaper disappear, took another ten minutes before finally shutting down - but thankfully everything was back to normal when it started up the second time. Nonetheless, I don't know if this was just a rare hiccup or if I should be concerned, but I'll rather be safe than sorry and have decided to back-up pretty much everything so the loss would be minimal. No worries about the actual game though, I back that up several times a day! ;) The other bad news is that I won't be able to wrap up the Warrengard arc before the next update, so I'll have to be a tease and cut the content short right before the second, added boss fight. BUT! On the good news, progress has still been going well over the week! A new way to obtain illustrations has been added in the form of altars, a form of pilgrimage you accept to do for a religious group once you find your first altar...they are called Heaven's Gape and are an exiled, religious branch of The League of Perverts, formed by Master Bation and Va'Geena to worship the Goddess of Fertility, Genithala. So that's all for this update, next Tuesday will be the release of the new beta as well! And I'll leave on a high note by sharing a preview of a Laquadia cosplay photoshoot. :D "Kept you updating, huh...?" Monthly poll results time and the question for this month was which level your main character was by the time you finished LoQO:O Episode I, with 1382 votes gathered! Above lvl.20 Won with 747 votes, being 54% of the total. lvl.15 - lvl.20 Came third with 155 votes, 11% of the total. Below lvl.10 Came in last with 41 votes, 2% of the total. I'm pretty impressed 41 gamers actually took down the bosses while being below lvl.10, especially the "infamous" bridge blocker. xD As for game progression, the Castle Warrengard arc is almost finished with a second boss fight being added along with polishing and making sure all the additional areas are completed as well. I've also begun the excruciating process of replacing every old ME with newly composed ones, AKA inn sleeping, finding illustrations, unlocking content etc. jingles. It's not as simple as just replacing the song file in the system, but instead I manually exchange them in every single location they are played, it's this mentality that ensures my games are rather low on the bug count...slow and steady wins the race, and all that. ;) Although I may have to hold off on changing the titles unlocking melody until after the December the 20th beta is released since it'll take a ton of time/work. In other news, I think it's too soon to tease any specific details yet, but know that the next character preview you'll likely see here within a month will be the introduction to Festival Island's new owner and mascot in the LoQO series, Puta Bananas! So yeah, see you again next week! "What is a man? A miserable little pile of updates!" Deju vu, feels like last week all over again...with both the good and bad! ;D I've begun the process of replacing some backgrounds used during battles as I've commissioned a new batch and aim to have them all replaced with brand new and original content made specifically for LoQO: Origin. Other than that, since last Tuesday I've still only been working on expanding the storymode content, but it's progressing a lot and starting to shape up into a rather decent dose of content to experience when the next beta hits, and it might be released sooner since things are going so well, but it's probably more realistic to think of December the 20th as the day when the next beta hits...a little bit of an early christmas present to my Patreon supporters, if you will. :3 And that's that, see you again next week! "It's a-me, update!" Can't say this is going to be a big or fascinating update... I've pretty much only worked on storyline content since last week so it hasn't been a lot of variation, but there has been progress and I can say a new boss have been added! It might also be a good idea to explain/reveal the purpose of those Boss Gem's they drop. They may serve further uses before the game is fully completed, but so far my intention is to allow players to use those Boss Gem's as an alternative way to complete the CG Scenes gallery. Playing the game a whooping four times to unlock everything might be overkill for even the most hardcore fan, so consider these Boss Gem's like a currency to buy game edition variations of already unlocked CG Scenes. :3 Aaaaand...I guess that's about it for this time? Then as always, I'll see you again next Tuesday for your weekly update! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Live-Action 3 Preview "Don't worry love, the update is here!" Hmm, so what is new this week since last update... I've mostly been polishing up a few details, maps, added a few more songs, replacing jingle cues and updated the dice gambling to have a smoother intro and exit out of the mini-game, along with giving the gambling its own musical theme that plays while you get those precious trading cards! ;) So I guess it's been a very vocal update? Kinda...? Audio? Thingie...? And this week I'm sharing the screenshot thumbnails of the third adult LoQO movie, starring the same actress who posed as Beatrix during her photoshot, with the scene carrying on the lame porno title tradition by naming it "Beatrix's Gamble: Triple Trouble Combo" This movie will be shared at the beginning of December to everyone pledging $20 or more, and will be a constant, monthly reward from now on, just like the first two movies and the latest beta has always been. :D So with that, I'll see you next Tuesday as always! "Game update man, GAME UPDATE!" And here you go! The long fan requested monster girl finally comes to you in the form of a plant/flower, but far more like the Sunflower from Conker's Bad Fur Day than something like Poison Ivy from Batman. So...would you fertilize the sheeeeeeet out of that plant or would you forget to water her assets? It might also be worth mentioning her name is pronounced Row-see-us! What kind of flower she is though and where she might be found, remains a secret for the players to find out. ;D As for game development, it's trucking on really well with me having added two more Traveling Scholar encounters, a new side-quest, more story and more maps since last week, althoughi t's a little bit early to say if a new beta will hit this month as I'd really like to include Castle Warrengard in the next one. But it still need a few more assets finished before then so it might be better to release a slightly more content packed in December before Christmas instead! ^^ And with that, I'll see you again next Tuesday! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Beatrix Cosplay "I'll update what she's updating." Sorry for the slightly delayed update today, but I was busy writing story parts in LoQO:O. ;3 And holy **** has this week been packed! Saturday saw the new release of beta v1.09 to my Patreons and the following days I've been publishing tracks of the official OST for LoQO:O. What I didn't expect was how dreadful YouTube is towards low-tier computers as mine, since converting each individual song takes 30-45 minutes, and it's 29 tracks in the soundtrack! xD But anyhow, 22 songs are uploaded by the time I have this posted and the last remaining 7 of the current listing should be up later this evening. The LoQO: Origin OST is free, for everyone and can be listened to here - YouTube Playlist - Legend of Queen Opala: Origin OST And as an added bonus, have a sample of the latest photoshoot that also ties in with the third LoQO movie she is also starring in, called "Beatrix's Gamble: Triple Trouble Combo"! Preview of that movie will hit later but for now, I'll see you again next week! "Why, oh why, didn't I take the blue update?" Alright, so the next beta should be hitting sometime this week, most likely during the weekend! I've been working on the new music since last Tuesday due to a few issues coming up when taking the finished songs and turning them into looping game tracks, but that is currently being worked on as we speak and nearly half of the affected songs have already been corrected! So I'll be adding those to the game before the new beta is released, and if not all tracks are done in time, at least the majority of the new songs will be in it. I also believe all the tracks will be in .ogg format for those who are curious, as MP3 can't be looped (they add a 0.5 second pause at the end) and WAV files are 'EFFING HUGE and would inflate the game size from 600MB to 2GB...and yes, that would be with the soundtrack alone. x3 But I believe .ogg is somewhere in between of good compression, good quality and good looping! That means you can expect a brand new and original soundtrack composed specifically for LoQO:O, an additional Beastman Mode (making it two in total) and a new full scene involving a character players haven't been able to romance...I mean, WHAM-BANG-THANK-YOU-MA'M before. ;D So a bit of a shallow update, but when I make the next one, you'll have a new beta! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Sunny-Sue Ellen "Thank you Mario! But our Princess is in another update!" This week continued as normal with most of Castle Warrengard now done and focus switching back on making sure the additional Beastman Mode works as intended, so it be can be activated for the next beta hitting this month...although I don't think it'll be released this week, but rather in the next one. Here is also Sunny-Sue Ellen's battlepose for the game! It's highly unlikely you'll fight her, but as mentioned before, all characters appearing in the journal has a battlepose so their name isn't displayed with just text and an empty background. You just know by simply looking at her that she is the pride and joy of Uncle Dad's Farm! Surely the best wankerer there is on this side of the ocean! And I ain't talking cow milking, son! But yeah, more accurate beta news will likely drop in the next update so I'll see you then and there! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Zweibelle "Stay a while, and update!" Here we have the battlepose for Zweibelle, the great alchemist and a character best described to have the personality of a scientist/nurse. She can't quite be so easily aligned to good/evil side as she is merely following the path she consider is a requirement for the evolution of the world, although she is working for the Beldorian Empire. To say much more would likely be some spoiler territory, but she'll be introduced in episode II before it ends! On that note, this week has been spent on further working on Castle Warrengard and I'm really happy how it's turning out with the first impression being this crumbling old fortress inhabited by Baron Ironard and his bandits who clearly have no interest of returning it to its former glory and simply use it as their base. (Along with Naz'Raala) Which is going to be a strong contrast to the fully upgraded, finished version that looks more like the Imperial Castle in Colussia. And with that, I'll see you next Tuesday like clockwork! "I'm getting too old for this update..." Sorry everyone, just a boring information dump today... ;P This week I've finally begun work on Castle Warrengard and it's coming along nicely! For those out of the loop or simply forgot what it was, Castle Warrengard will eventually become your upgradeable base of operations in LoQO:O, just like the mansion in LoQO or Greenfield Lands in LoQOII. But of course, the natural evolution of things means I'll take it a step further. You can expect pretty much all features from LoQOII to carry over, such as being able to have livestock and of course upgrade various features of the castle to turn it from a rundown, bandit infested dump into a grand fortress that can surpass the Imperial Castle itself in Colussia. How things will change for this game though, is that you'll be able to start purchasing shops across the world once you've gained Castle Warrengard, and each shop you buy will give you additional materials for your "Total Stockpile" that affects what upgrades you have the resources to afford and in turn what inventory your own shops will have within the castle. For example, buying blacksmiths will give you various crafting items like iron, steel etc. while buying clothing stores provides you with cloth, cotton etc and tool stores might give wood etc. I haven't decided all the details yet, but that is an overall, rough idea of what I have in mind. I have a few more features planned for Castle Warrengard, but that is something I'll have to keep a secret for now since I'm not yet sure if it's possible for me to figure out a good system for it... But if I do, I think it'll be kinda cool to have! :D And with that, I'll see you again next week! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Adult Farah Cosplay 2 "Gotta update 'em all!" Guess what, Tuesday update time again! The original soundtrack for LoQO:O is nearly done now with only two songs left to be composed before it's time to turn all the tracks into looping game versions, that should hopefully mean both the complete soundtrack and the second Beastman Mode will be finished and included in a October beta release. On my end, I've been working on creating more maps and expanding the worldmap as I believe there are only between five to seven more locations across two additional regions left before all areas in episode 2 are finished. And with that, this week I'm letting you have a sample of the photoshoot with adult actress Alex Black as adult Farah that was made to go along with the second LoQO movie she also starred in. That would of course be "Farah's DP: Diplomatic Problems" I previewed last week. ;) So yeah, I'll see you guys at the next update as always! "It was beauty that killed the update." Yeah, I'm really clueless what the next poll should be... xD Aw'right, so this week I've spent on finalizing adding the second Beastman Mode into the game so everything is there and just waiting for the last few illustrations to be finished before I can flip the switch and have it activated for the players. ;) Along with tightening the responsiveness of the button that toggles sprinting ON/OFF, I've also updated on how enemies fade out off the maps after you defeat them, so it's fitting more with the lore of the LoQO universe rather than just vanishing out of existence. This week I'm also sharing the screenshot thumbnails of the second adult LoQO movie, starring adult actress Alex Black as Farah during her time as the Pharaoh's wife, with the scene cheezly called "Farah's DP: Diplomatic Problems" This movie will be shared at the beginning of October to everyone pledging $20 or more, and will be a constant, monthly reward from now on, just like the first movie and the latest beta has always been. :D So I'll see you again next week! "Yippie-ki-yay, update!" So it's time for the monthly poll results, and the question for August was which kind of illustration supported scenario was preferred, with 3050 votes gathered! Full Scenes Mini-Scenes Mini-Games Scored third with 434 votes, 14% of the total. Bad Endings Clearly there was an obvious winner this time, although it's interesting all the other choices came pretty close to each other. :3 And now to report this week's progression! Since last update, pretty much all I've been doing is arranging and preparing for the second/alternative Beastman Mode to be included, because yes, it's nearly finished now with only a handful of illustrations left! So along with that, I've also been working on returning the inclusion of "weak walls"...and for the really observant, one single test section was added in the previous beta, although it can't be collapsed yet. ;) Last but not least, if you'd like to see a small gameplay sample of LoQO:O without actually downloading the game, I've sponsored a short, five part playthrough you can watch here! As of the day of this update, the first part has been released with the second episode coming tomorrow and the rest being uploaded every following Wednesday. :D With that, I'll see you guys next week! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Sunny-Sue-Ellen "Get to da update!!!" Here we go, the farmer's daughter! This is a NPC you encounter at Uncle Dad's Farm, although the current model in the latest beta is only a place holder but will eventually turn out into this pigtailed charity to manhoods all over the world. x3 At this time, she isn't planned to be anything more than a minor character that you'll possibly be able to recruit for your castle as the caretaker of the farm animals you buy. Hey, if you could have pigs and stuff in LoQOII, you better believe I'm not backpeddling on that feature. ;D As for the game itself, it's been a slightly annoying week with me still recovering from a sickness I caught over the weekend, but I think I'm almost back to normal now and I was able to completely finish the full scene mentioned in the previous update. So that's one to be included in the next beta for sure, yo! And with that, I'll see you again next Tuesday as always! "To be, or not to be: that is the update." Aww'right, what's new...!? Over the weekend I released a new beta as mentioned earlier, v1.08. So most of the work since last update has been to prepare for releasing that, but I've also been working on adding the next scene in the game which I consider a full scene. It'll once again include the protagonist in the center of attention and we'll get to knock out another female character from the not-yet-plowed list. :D But unfortunately, that is pretty much all the news I have to share for this time. Next week I'll be introducing a minor character you probably already have encountered if you have beta access, although she was more or less a nameless NPC before...the farmer's daughter stereotype. ;3 And with that short update, I'll see you again next week! "Nobody expects the Spanish Update!" Time to introduce a new character, Zweibelle! Unfortunately, I can't really go much more into depth other than that as who or what she is would be a bit of a spoiler...so speculations, begin? x3 Anyway, this week has been spent on polishing the current build of the game and adding additional illustrations/trading cards with the intention of releasing the newest beta this week, yes indeedies! That makes it v1.08 and should be out around the weekend. :3 But I'm afraid that's pretty much all the news I have for this Tuesday so I'll be seeing you again next week! "The Update Will Never Die!" I was going to showcase one of the new characters, but she wasn't finished in time so I'll fill out the blank between last tuesday and the next one with Kythe's adorable emoticon of all the peop...err, Magihounds! But gaming wise everything has gone really smoothly, I've finished off another cutscene over the week so that the River Checkpoint now opens up naturally during the course of the story rather than magically getting rid of the knights so you can explore. xP This also means the introduction of Naz'Raala is imminent and just around the corner with only a single cutscene left before I shift my attention and the storyline to the Arlon Farmlands region. So naturally, I'll see you again next week as always! "Hail to the update, baby!" The monthly poll results are in again, and this time the question for July was which cosplay model people preferred so far, with "only" 983 votes gathered...dum-dum-duuuuum! Gabrielle - 1st Candidate Adult Farah - 1st Candidate Teen Farah - 2nd Candidate Osira - 2nd Candidate Came fourth with 100 votes, 10% of the total. Illumi - 1st Candidate Came fifth with 54 votes, 5% of the total. Illumi - 2nd Candidate Osira - 1st Candidate Opala - 1st Candidate That is quite the difference gap between the first and the last position. x3 Aaaanyway, this week I've also spent entirely on storymode even though it feels like I'm getting nowhere, but that isn't true since I've finished the cutscene after Grand Bridge by now and only need to tweak a few lines before I'm completely satisfied. With that, I can announce the next beta will be released this month and include a tiny bit more story content, more trading cards to unlock and possibly a new mini-scene to encounter! So with that tiny update, I'll see you again next week with perhaps a new character preview! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Live-Action Preview "You were almost a Update Sandwich!" Phew, we're having a sweaty summer right now in Sweden! But that seem to becoming the norm as the previous year or two were no better. Anyway! I've regained my focus on the storymode for LoQO:O and have been working on that this past week, programming the next scene after leaving the Grand Bridge, but also going back to change and polish a few dialogues during the High Lord Gathering I wasn't entirely satisfied with. And...err, that's about it really, but after this cutscene is over, the path over River Checkpoint will open up naturally according to the story, rather than be magically open from before since I wanted players to experience all the new areas beyond that point. x3 I was also thinking long and hard over what I should be previewing in this update... And I decided to go with screenshot thumbnails of the first adult LoQO movie made, starring Playboy Playmate Angel Wicky as Illumi, with the scene called in a typical corny porn-name for "Illumi's Reward: A Backdoor to All the Answers" This movie will be shared at the beginning of August to everyone pledging $20 or more, and will be a constant, monthly reward from now on, just like the latest beta has always been. :D And with that, I'll see you next week when I'll be a year older! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - OST Sample 3 "You updated! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" Sorry for the lack of pictures lately, but most of the emoticons, solo poses and battleposes I have left are highly classified spoiler material containing two females that'll show up for the first time within the game eventually. ;) All I can really do is to inform you what I've been doing this week! And yeah, all the time has been spent on the Encyclopedia to add the new locations and enemies included in the previous beta, along with making sure they're all listed correctly. I've also updated the trading card catalog so the new characters and their illustrations can easily be added without much further need of coding. This week I'll also be sharing the next song to be sampled, the theme used for teen Farah and the Main Menu, all you need to do is click on the name here to download it - Farah's Theme Next Tuesday I'll likely share a release date on the next beta and list what'll be included in it. :3 "Update Day!" Sorry for the slightly delayed Tuesday update! I'm just coming back online after a three hour power blackout...fun times. So like I warned last week, this entire time I've spent on watching GamesDoneQuick and finishing off trading cards in the process, did you hear any of my three donations that was read out during Freedom Planet, Illusion of Gaia and Super Mario Land? ;) I probably did more I forgot about during all the nostalgia being showcased, but I do know I at least finished up three trading cards with Mhu'Tiki, two with adult Farah, three with Osira. I suspect all of them will be included in the next beta release, although no date on that one yet! And it seems like most people wanted to hear the Colussia theme out of the available songs, so just click on the name to download it - Colussia Theme "Huh, update. Whats going on with that update?" And the monthly question for June was if visitors of this blog also support me on Patreon, with 1788 people leaving their vote! I can't afford it I hope to be soon I certainly am I have been in the past Came fifth with 132 votes, 7% of the total. Since day one Wow, if these results were in reverse, I'd have no problem commission a hentai anime series! ;D So with the latest beta released and all reported bugs from that already squashed, I'm allowing myself to take it a little bit easier this week and enjoy GamesDoneQuick until Sunday while focusing on finishing a bunch of trading cards done in the meantime...and if you aren't already watching that stream as well, you should! :3 By the way, I might release another LoQO OST preview song for the next update. What would you rather like to hear? The theme for Caimridge, Colussia or Brightstone? Posted by SweGabe at 9:40 AM 33 comments: Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - OST Sample "I used to be an update like you, then I took an arrow to the knee." Now I can take a deep breath of relief as I literally just released beta v1.06 to my Patreons, yay! With that out of the way, I can finally...erm...well, get back to work like normal, really. So it goes without saying that I spent entire last week more or less prepping and polishing the game for this release, and yes, I worked on Sunday. ;) But in the meantime, some of the original music being composed for the game also made some progress so here is a sample of what you can expect, just click on the name to download it - Port Ronod/Whitehaven Theme The people behind the music are CylightStudios and if you'd like to support them or commission some songs for your own projects, they can be reached right here. I'll see you again next week! "...I hope this isn't Chris's update." Sooo close to finish the new, upcoming locations...! It was far more work than I anticipated but I can say for certain now that they'll indeed be done before the end of the month, so a new beta where you can explore all of these locations will be released before July. :) It won't add any more story, but after you finish the High Lord Gathering, the River Checkpoint will open up and you'll be allowed to reach the next region, nonetheless. In other news, yesterday I signed a contract with a guild of composers to have original music made for the game, this means all the songs currently used in LoQO:O will be replaced with tracks you've never heard anywhere else before and give the world a far more unique touch. With the size of the game, Legend of Queen Opala: Origin OST will have at least 30 songs. x3 And with that short update, I'll of course see you again next week! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Osira Cosplay 2 "Make it so, Update One." It's been a pretty good week, overall! Sadly I got stuck working on the Prestige Farm location for a few days so I didn't had time to finish everything I wanted before today's update, but I'm not far off and I'm really pleased with how the Forgotten Cemetery turned out...the semen-ta-ry! So I think this makes it 14, maybe 15 new worldmap locations to discover with the next update? At any rate, it'll hopefully take even speedrunners at least 20 minutes to explore. ;P This week I'm also featuring the next Osira model, it's not entirely impossible you'll recognize her if you happen to have a very good memory and used to watch porn a few years back... x3 She doesn't have the "cuteness" of the previous model, but I don't think that's exactly a word one should look for when talking about Osira, and this one look far more menacing too! So on that note, I'll see myself out and be back next week! "Hasta la Update, baby." So the monthly question for May was if I had the resources and money to do it, what LoQO merchandise should I invest in, and that question got 2458 votes altogether! Hentai Doujins Came second with 1047 votes, 42% of the total. Adult Live-Action And people have good taste, I'd vote for hentai anime or doujins as well! ;) This week I've continued on the slow work of finalizing the new area in the game, along with adding two more locations with the current names of Prestige Farm and Forgotten Cemetary. With any luck, I believe I should be able to finish all of them by the next update! In other news, people who visit my Twitter might've seen something interesting over the weekend. You might've also though it was a teaser promotion for a second photoshoot with Playboy Playmate Angel Wicky cosplaying as Illumi, but in fact...it was her on the set for recording the first adult live-action LoQO scene, with that one being based on Illumi's scene from the game with additional action, and with the manuscript entirely written by your's truly...erm, me! (In short, I wrote the description for all dialogue and scene layout) I'm also having a comic based on Laquadia's first encounter with Osira in the pipeline, both of these two will be available to Patreons by the end of the month, or sometime in July! I've also doubled up on rewarded cosplay photos, now giving four photos instead of two. It's up for change, but for now I believe the comic will be available to all Patreons, no matter tier, while the movie scene will be restricted to those who pledge $10 or more. :) Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Teen Farah Cosplay 2 "I am UpdateMan!" Another slow week in this warm summer weather...no wait, it's not even summer yet, is it!? D: Sadly I don't have much to report this week either, I've been working on a few secret things in the background and the "hidden" optional stuff that'll be included in the next beta, so far it's turned out to become three additional, new locations to explore! I also feel more optimistic about releasing a new beta sometime during June. Even if it doesn't add any more storymode content, it will unlock all the new locations and maybe even a second Beastman Mode setting! ;) Next week, I might have something very special to announce... It depends on what happens on this Friday, if everything goes as planned, fans are in for a treat! ;) And with that teaser, I leave with another, a preview of the next teen Farah model! "I've had it with these motherfucking updates on this motherfucking Tuesday!" I've been a bit burned out lately with getting all of these maps done, but with temporarily changing focus and coloring a bunch of trading cards instead, I feel I'm slowly getting back into it again! I keep saying I should take Sundays off, but I never do and as such I have to pay the price. x3 I'm afraid I probably won't be able to release a new beta this month, at least not one with all of those new areas included as I've been working on something rather substantial in the game that was originally just meant to be a fun little secret for you to find...but what could it be? Let's just say it'll...hmm, give you a wider perspective of the world, yet is an entirely optional portion. I think Kristallia will be introduced in this area too. ;) (Not related to the Frozen Continent though!) And with that short and slightly disappointed update, I hope to do better next time! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Saphira "Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not an Update!" This time we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves by learning more of the lore and mythology of LoQO. Presenting the two deities... Azastral the King of Fire and Saphira the Ice Queen of Ilythium, more known as the Frozen Continent and the "parents" of the crystal fairy species...technically making Saphira the mother of all crystal fairies, Kristallia included. There is an ancient saying among the people of the Frozen Continent. "The morning mist is a sign of the two deities strengthening their love." Erm, or something sweet like that... And as the rulers of the Frozen Continent, it was them Beatrix used to serve as a Skyhorn Maiden before she became a Crusader in the Beldorian Forces. I say we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves because while these two characters exist in the LoQO universe, they may not be introduced in the main storyline of LoQO Origin...or even part of the finished game, though they will be added at the very least as post-game stuff or additional content for the "Golden Edition" of the game, a few years from now. xD Or, they could of course show up earlier if I reach the side-stories milestone on my Patreon, as I could easily make a story about Beatrix before she arrived at the Beldorian Empire. :) But for now, only time will tell when they'll make an appearance! And with that I'll see you again next week! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Illumi Cosplay 2 "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty update!" This has been such a loooong day, but it'll take more than a heat wave, frying sun and dirty laundry to break my honorable Tuesday Update streak. >:3 As I teased last week in case you haven't been following my Titty Twister...erm, Twitter. Actual Playboy Playmate and adult actress Angel Wicky gracefully accepted to cosplay as Illumi for a photoshoot a while back! So with this big ball rolling down the hill and LoQO getting more recognized outside my awesome fanbase, I got so much planned now that I'm not sure if I honestly have to forfeit my "salary" this month or not. x3 But as I've made a habit of it, I won't go into details and share more unless I'm 100% sure it's a thing, nothing says losing respect and credibility than making a lot of promises and failing to deliver. CoughEACoughBungieCoughUbisoftCough However, I can say one thing, the alternative Beastman Mode illustrator is coming along nicely and might catch up to the original artist within a month or two, which will then be added to the game. ;) As for game related progressions, I'm still in the process of finalizing all the additional maps/locations and probably won't be all done in at least one or two more weeks. So I'll see you again next week, enjoy the Angel Illumi preview! :D "I'm here to update and chew bubblegum and I'm all outta bubblegum..." So the monthly question for April was about who has the biggest boobs in the LoQO universe in your opinion, with 2395 votes gathered! Laquadia Came fourth with 125 votes, 5% of the total. Mhu'Tiki I suppose the winner was crowned before the voting even began, Farah hand...no, tits down! ;D This week certainly went by with a flash, it only feels like a few days have passed since last time I made another blog entry! But in the meantime, v1.05 was released over the weekend for my Patreon supporters and I've been working on adding content and polishing the new set of locations that'll be available in the following beta. While all the locations had the majority of their maps finished, I'll still need to expand upon them a bit more and go through the slow process of adding all NPC's, enemies and interactive hotspots...though I aim to release the next beta with these locations sometime this month. Also, if you're not a follower of my Twitter...stop by and take a quick peek. :3 I made a tweet May the 2nd that might be of interest and likely will be the main topic for next Tuesday update, with a sweet little preview! So with that, I'll see you then! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Layla "Tuesday, I am your update..." Poor Layla the mare... It can't be easy being a horse in a house full of humans. Because let's face it, they'll have a hard time finding a maid outfit to fit her measurements and dat wide, horse ass, meant to take it from behind. But there you have it, Layla's "battlepose" for the game! Although I doubt she'll ever be an active party member in battle, unless her special skills involves bowing, bending and leaning over. Either way, production is going along fine and the next beta should hit early this weekend with a few bug fixes and including the new "Explorer" title tracking system, along with the safe cracking activity. I've also made an effort to go over every single enemy in the game and tweak each one to offer more variety in strategies, something I should've done from the very first LoQO game I made... What this means is that more often than not, if an enemy has a particular strength, there will be some kind of way to nerf him with spells or skills. Say...like if a big, mean stone guy has super powerful magic spells, then you can either "Silence" him, making it impossible for him to cast spells at all, and if that doesn't work, then he might instead be weak towards "Feeble", which halves his magic damage output. This should hopefully make the battles more enjoyable, especially boss fights! And with that, I hope you'll look forward to v1.05 hitting this Friday/Saturday and with the next beta including a new region on the worldmap to be introduced during next month! "Never tell me the updates!" What has been going on this week? Well, I've been implementing the new title display system I mentioned before that will change how "Explorer" specific titles will show and track information. Mind you, this will only affect and involve discovered locations as the new display will allow more than four lines of text to be shown at the same time, which otherwise is the default limit for RPG Maker XP text bars. So with the new system, you are able to track all illustration related activities at the same time in the same window, and it also allows me to add more obtainable art in each area as the tracking system is much easier for me to handle now. Speaking about illustration related activities, a new one will be added in the next beta as well! The new one involves safe cracking where you have to guess the combination code to break the lock, once one has been located and interracted with, several glowing areas similar to looting spots will show up in various places in the same building as the safe. Not all are being useful while other's give code fragments, but it's not very tricky. :3 And with that, enjoy Black Dame's normal emoticon and see you next week! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Black Dame "Prepare to Update" Despite suffering from two power blackouts within two hours, and losing just as much progression, I was still able to release the latest beta during the weekend which introduced the new look for Black Dame, the Information Broker, and characters Queen Opala, Layla the Mare, and of course Mhu'Tiki. So yes, the damn High Lord Gathering arc of the game is finally over and the next step will be to open the Gates of He...err, let people pass the River Checkpoint and into Arlon Farmlands, the next wide open worldmap terrain in the game with plenty of new locations to explore! This also means we're getting closer to the introduction of Kristallia the Crystal Fairy and Naz'Raala the Barbarian, along with Castle Warrengard that will be your personal resident for this title. So I'm certainly not running out of ideas to use anytime soon! "Come with me, if you want to update..." So the monthly question this time around was how you'd deal with a female traitor in your party, with 3056 votes gathered! Persuade her to switch sides Keep her locked in your dungeon Release her in a monster nest Have her executed Came fourth with 43 votes, 1% of the total. Banish her to never return The votes are clear...any traitor would come off pretty easily! ;D And at long last, the High Lord Gathering arc of the game is finally completed after tinkering with the cutscenes and conversations for far too long before I became happy with the results! Now I only need to tie a few lose ends that comes with unlocking content by progressing with the new story, and I should be ready to release the next beta! You should even be able to expect it arriving towards the end of this week! So with that short update, I'll see you again during the next Tuesday! :3 Sony/GabeWork Teaming Up! I have exciting news! But since a picture says more than a thousand words, I'll just leave it at that. And if you haven't guessed it already - April's Fool Day! :D Honestly running out of movie quotes to turn into Tuesday update parodies... On both good and bad, the High Lord Gathering arc still isn't finished because it's shaping up to be one of the biggest cutscene scripts I've done so far! And while I weren't able to finish before today as I hoped, it's still scheduled to be in the beta I aim to release early in April. (But not on April Fool's Day) But I can now say for certain that the next beta will be including one full scene with the protagonist getting to score with a new babe, one mini-scene, and even one Bad Ending! >D I would also like to announce I've dwelved into Twitter and settled with an account. You can add me right here if you want to see random nonsense and early previews being posted, as Twitter will allow me to be more spontanious and overall insane. Like right now, you can visit it to check out a preview of the new LoQO: Origin title menu! With that, I'll end this update with a screenshot of a "heist" taking place at the Imperial Manor during the High Lord Gathering arc and see you again next week! "This is Tuesday UPDATE!!!" Aw'right, nothing but text to share this time. Still working full time on the storymode and making really good progression, I do think I dare even say the High Lord Gathering part of the game will be all done by the next update! If so, that also means the following beta should be hitting very early next month. :3 And if the good flow continues, April might even see two betas released, with the later being with all the additional locations unlocking for exploration at long last! This all means that currently in the game you get to be introduced to Opala, Layla and Mhu'Tiki! It also has one mini-scene and one full scene available... Truly, I have been a good little game maker. x3 With that short and sweet information dump, see you next week! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Naz'Raala "The name is update, Tuesday update." And it has been another productive week! Today I just finished off one more mini-scene for the game, which should technically mean the next beta has at least one full scene and one mini-scene available, as long as I can add some more storymode between where I left off and where the scenes takes place. :3 And as promised last week, here is the battlepose for Naz'Raala along with some personal information on her character! Not much is known of the right hand (wo)man to the self-proclaimed Baron of Warrengard, other than her fists being said to possess the strength to split a boulder in two. (Take that, Chris Redfield!) Story has it that she was raised by a pack of Werewuffies, where she quickly became their champion of young age, it is also rumored that her mother were human but with a dad of unknown origin, which could mean he was a human too, a species from the Land of Savages or perhaps even a werewuffie... With that, I'll naturally see you again during the next week as always! "Tuesday update...? Tuesday updaaaaate!!!" Well, this has been a productive week as hell! And thankfully not a trace of sarcasm in that sentance as I've really been making a lot of progression on the storymode with the time I've had! :D The Brightstone arc has been left behind and the party is currently on their way for the High Lord Gathering, nearly arriving at the Imperial Manor from where I left off just minutes before writing this. On the way, you'll be learning a few more things about the characters and what the future holds...but I won't say much more since I don't want to spoil every detail for those with beta access. x3 This week I'll also be sharing the emoticon for Naz'Raala, the mighty and mysterious right-hand woman for the self-proclaimed Baron of Warrengard, a cruel bandit warlord currently living in the castle you'll claim for yourself further on. More details on her will be revealed next week along with her battlepose, so stay tuned and I'll see ya'll for the Tuesday update to come our way! "Tuesday update is coming..." The monthly question this time was how you'd feel like having a voiced male protagonist in LoQO: Origin, with around 6600 votes gathered! (Sorry, but I screwed up the stats and had to recreate them from memory. D;) I'm all for it Won by 34%. Only if it can be turned off Came second with 25%. Scored third with 25%. I don't mind Came in last by 16%. So overall, it was a pretty even poll! Now for the game development, the latest beta of LoQO: Origin - Episode II was released just the other day after I had finalized the harbor of Whitehaven. I've also been making some changes behind the curtains that probably isn't even noticable but it simplified how Explorer titles specifically are displayed in Progression where you can check completion status for each individual location in the game. With the new system, I can add even more unlockable illustrations and combinations of it at each location, while the old system pretty much restricted me to only use three variations at max. For example, I could only list three of Ruby Chest, Master'Hentai, Legendary Monster or Lost Illustration at any given time, and having more of the same made the coding very long, clustered and complicated...BUT, with the new system, it'll be a lot easier, smoother and I can add more variations too like having Paintings listed as well and such. :) On a side note, another Patreon/Crowdfunded H-game has recently been completed. So if you want to branch out and give it a try, go right ahead and get it here - Overwhored And like a broken record, I'll see you again next week! Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Adult Farah Cospla... Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Live-Action Previe... Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Teen Farah Cosplay...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line169
__label__wiki	0.668216	0.668216	This is my harem!!! Part 2!! (Seitokai No Ichizon Lv.2 review) OP 1 - Precious (Heikyoh Gakuen Seitokai Lv.2) Too many ending songs~~~ Genre: Comedy, Slice of life Well I never thought "Seitokai No Ichizon" would get a second season. Remember when I reviewed the first season, 3 freaking years ago? When I was but an inexperienced blogger? Yeah, that was the one, and I shit you not, I really did not expect there to be a second season, a whole 4 years after its predecessor. I didn't exactly feel very excited for it, but I sure was happy to make a return to this series. Since its a whole 4 years after the first season, there were changes to the seiyuus for some of the characters, but it didn't really matter TOO much, because those characters that had seiyuu changes still sounded good (Chizuru and Mafuyu). Since this is technically a super late sequel, those who enjoyed the first season should find this one good as well. Sexy Chizuru is still sexy. Like in the first season, the opening song is sang by the seiyuus of the 4 important female leads. This time, the song is called "Precious", and really, there's nothing much to it. It may be a different song overall, but it sounds almost like "Treasure", which was the opening song of season 1. I stated that I liked "Treasure" all those years ago, but I guess I've grown past those types of songs, since "Precious" isn't all that great to me at this point of time. It's the same thing, and even after seeing it again in 3 years, you can tell that they came into this with almost the same mind set. Its still hilarious to watch, but it feels like we've seen some of this before. Our four heroines are still unique in each of their own ways, and its funny to see them torture our poor hero all the time, teasing him like its an everyday chore. The concept of the entire anime is still about a group of 5 students, sitting in the student council room and discussing about pointless stuff which eventually leads to nothing. Eventually the anime introduces some characters which were never explained about in the first season, which is good, since there were some loose ends they had to tie. Well, yeah, get out of here. Sugisaki Ken is still the kid that gets all the ladies. He is the only guy in the student council, surrounded by 4 other beauties that he claims are part of his harem. Following the events of season 1, they still sit int he club room all day thinking of proposals to better improve their image, to no avail of course. All they do are fool around in the club, making fun of each other. Ken still likes to admire his female counterparts, ogling them and fantasizing about situations that would never happen, while all of the girls tease him about his pervertic personality. Kurimu is still president, Chizuru is still sadistic, Minatsu is still violent as all hell and Mafuyu still remains as the helpless gaming otaku that goes crazy over BL stuff. You know you have a crazy lineup for this with those characters. "Seitokai No Ichizon Lv.2" wasn't really a sequel that was needed. It didn't do much to improve the franchise, but it was still good to watch. They could have ended the franchise during its original run, but I won't complain. The ending is perfect for what it was, and manly tears were shed that day (not literally, but still). "Seitokai No Ichizon" was locked deep in my memories as a ridiculous, funny, yet likable anime, with the coming and going of season 2, that memory has been strengthened. Bad luck strikes (Hayate No Gotoku:Can't Take My E... Parties in RPGs - Unchained blades The sky is never too high (Jormungand: Perfect Ord... Idolm@ster : Shiny Festa (Groovy Tune, Bright Soun... And the massive sexy-harem fest continues (To Love... Vanguard Princess Dark souls boss profiles: Crossbreed Priscillia Favourite anime characters (Kore Wa Zombie Desuka?... Disgaea 4:A Promise Unforgotten This is my harem!!! Part 2!! (Seitokai No Ichizon ... Taking down gods with them sexy bitches! (Campione...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line170
__label__cc	0.513281	0.486719	Jun 23, 2012 2:55 PMPublication: The Southampton Press Southampton Town Examines Ways To Address Substandard Private Roads Jun 27, 2012 11:42 AM By Michael Wright Some of the 117 miles of unimproved roadway in Southampton Town are quaint country streets, or even dirt roads, whose residents enjoy the rustic rural character they lend the neighborhood and the traffic-slowing effect they have. But many of the private roads are torturous trails, cratered with potholes and ruts and crumbling decades-old pavement that residents say make getting to and from their homes a slow and bumpy process, not to mention a potential safety hazard should an emergency arise, because they are not cleared by town snowplows after winter storms. The Southampton Town Board met on Friday with members of an advisory committee formed by residents of some of the more troublesome unimproved roads to discuss finding a way to make it easier—and less expensive—for residents of these roads to get their thoroughfares brought up to code and adopted into the Southampton Town Highway Department’s maintenance and service system. One thing is clear: Solutions will not be simple, nor easy to come by. “It sounds easy to just pave these roads, but there are drainage requirements, there are grading requirements, there are easements—there’s a lot that goes into it,” Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst said on Friday. “If it was as simple as just paving roads, we could get it done.” Some 4,400 households—an estimated 11,000 residents—in the town live on unimproved roads. The bulk are in the hamlets of Hampton Bays, East Quogue and North Sea. Most were constructed piecemeal in the decades before zoning and planned subdivisions, as housing development cut into woodlands in small chunks. Typically, the roads laid down were intended to be short-term solutions that would then become the base for improved roads once they were completed and connected to other town-managed thoroughfares. But over the decades, front lawns and driveways slowly encroached, and the original base of pavement crumbled, so that, now, if a road is to be added to the town system, it will have to be wholly reconstructed to strict state transportation standards. Bringing many of the unimproved roads up to standard will require extensive re-grading, the installation of drainage, and, perhaps most vexing, the taking of broad chunks of front yards to widen roads and their right-of-way shoulders to make sure they meet the state standard of 50 feet. Such work can cost up to $400,000 per mile of road. The town has long had a program by which it will assist residents in covering the costs of the improvements by financing the hefty cost of bringing an entire road up to state and town standards: as long as 51 percent of the residents of a street agree, the cost can be shared by all of them over an extended period. But depending on the length of a road and the number of residences on it, even that system has proven too costly for many. “We got a quorum on my street to petition to bring the road [up to standard],” said North Sea resident John Watson, who founded and heads the Unimproved Road Advisory Committee, on Friday. “We had no idea it would cost $195,000. Seven hundred feet [of road]—11 homeowners. It came out to $2,700 a year, and many of our neighbors couldn’t afford it. I said, ‘This is a problem.’ Then I found out it was across the entire township.” During Friday’s discussion, board members and residents skimmed over a number of possible avenues to explore, including steps the town or state could take to escape some of the more stringent State Department of Transportation road width standards, in favor of allowing narrower right-of-ways. They also discussed the availability of federal funding and the creation of taxing districts to pay for the improvements. Mr. Watson noted that the problem is not as sweeping as the survey of all the town’s unimproved roads might make it appear, since many residents on private roads do not want their streets upgraded. “Even though there are a lot of roads, we’re not looking to do a federal works project,” he said. “You have, maybe, eight roads that are real problems. If we started with a $250,000 bond and went to the worst roads, maybe we could start chipping away at the issue.” In the mid-1970s, the town issued a bond to upgrade some of its unimproved roads at no cost to homeowners. A handful of roads in the Bay View Oaks neighborhood of Noyac were improved under the bond, but the program was not continued or expanded beyond those local roads. The Unimproved Roads Advisory Committee was formed, according to a report issued to the Town Board, to rekindle that kind of municipal support of road improvements where they are most desperately needed. There may also be state or federal funding available to help offset or even cover costs to the town, committee members said. > Friends, Colleagues, Family Honor State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle At Retirement Annoucement On Friday Jan 13, 2020 10:50 AM These roads should be paved and paid for by the entire town, not just the residences who live there. By EastEnd68 (888), Westhampton on Jun 23, 12 4:10 PM Why? These roads are private and when the people who purchased homes along them they knew the roads were private. My taxes should go up because you bought a house that has a pot-holed dirt road even though you knew it was your responsibility? By Nature (2966), Hampton Bays on Jun 23, 12 5:07 PM bb,Mr. Z,maggie,ICE,alhavel,Tennyson Why? Technically the rest of the Town has been kept from utilizing these private roads due to their "private status". In many cases the lack of drainage has led to flooding problems on Town or County Roads. There are also Trustee Roads that are in substandard condition and lack any drainage whatsoever! How about the Trustees be banned from instituting any further lawsuits until they address the infrastructure on their dirt roads. Funny thing is they would be glad to take ownership of these ...more private roads, but not bring them up to the required specifications. There are plenty of Trustee roads that are in direct violation of the Clean Water Act, ironic or SOP (Standard Operating Procedure? If this were a question oceanfront front homes and beach nourishment you would likely have the opposite position on where the funding should come from. Jun 23, 12 5:16 PM appended by ICE LOL! Nature, I started typing my reply before I saw your's and had quite the chuckle seeing we started out with that same beginning! By ICE (1214), Southampton on Jun 23, 12 5:16 PM Why?-because I already have a good road with no potholes and no drainage problems. It gets plowed first after every snowstrom. Everyone deserves the same treatment. The minute the Town touches a problem (an old road that was never paved and has drainage problems is a good example) they OWN it warts and all. Forever after it will become the Town's bad decision to solve everyone's problem who has a problem with their road and drainage and damage to surrounding areas, etc., etc. including taking land from individuals to bring the road widths up to standards and making the private road PUBLIC. Individual private road communities depending factors not even ...more discussed has as many decisions to make about their future as one can imagine but having the town take over and letting the taxpayer pay for it can not be one of them. I do applaud your generosity but the money is not yours to spend solving everyone's road problems to their liking costing the taxpayers millions upon millions of dollars. Last I heard the Town doesn't have enough money in any special fund that would be needed to enhance the personal value of any individual's property. A common sense vote put to the voters would knock down any proposal of it's kind. The answer is for the community who said some can not "afford" the improvements is to band together with legal help and file a lien for the beneficial amount on the property that is being improved and revert those funds to the neighborhood fund for future repairs. A bigger bite for those who want it bad enough - Yes.. but the value is there to compensate. In the end it is a value enhancement decision and would pay off in the end to those who can get their neighbors to agree to give up some of their property for better drainage and roads, etc. and give up the private road notion which many prefer for it's intrinsic value, warts and all. Rights have value only to those who benefit not to those who pay. By maggie (16), East Quogue on Jun 24, 12 8:18 AM But they purchased their property knowing that it was a private road and it was their responsibility to maintain it as well as plow it. Although I know that the town does plow these roads although it isn't a priority. Why should they get a tax break for being on an unimproved road, then my taxes should pay to maintain it? That makes no sense. If they didn't realize the ramifications of buying on a private road, that is not my or your problem. By bb (922), Hampton Bays on Jul 11, 12 6:32 PM When a public road intersects with a private road, there is definately an issue. Some public roads shed water drainage onto lower grade private roads and wipe them out during severe rain, passing the burden of repair to the homeowner. The conditions of many private roads in our area can be considered a safety risk to residents if an emergency vehicle can not make it to its destination in a timely fashion. Two years ago, the town past a law that excluding them from plowing private roads during a ...more snow emergency, which was mandated by the State. By theprogram (37), east quogue on Jun 23, 12 8:10 PM joan s Did the realtor not inform the home buyer that the road was a private road when they purchased the property? Did the buyer not notice the condition of the road when they purchased the property? Vince Taldone makes the point perfectly. It does affect property values. You paid less because the property fronts on a poorly maintained road.. This reminds me of people purchasing property next to the racetrack then filing noise complaints. I just searched the Town code and ...more I did not find anything excluding private roads from snow plowing during a state of emergency. By diy_guy (101), Southampton on Jun 24, 12 8:47 AM bb, Mr. Z, maggie Maybe I'm not a math wiz but if it costs $ 195,000 to fix his crap private road and there's 11 residents then it will cost him about $ 900 per year not $ 2700 per year if paid over 20 years. By tuckahoebob (4), Southampton on Jun 24, 12 8:50 AM It's not interest free . . . Story updated--mistake was in editing...I believe there is flexibility on repayment, but existing agreements are over 10 years, not 20. Apologies. By Joseph Shaw, Executive Editor (206), Hampton Bays on Jun 26, 12 10:29 AM Once the Supervisor declares a "snow emergency" all private roads are plowed. In addition--the town highway dept. is obligated to maintain private roads in passable condition for emergency vehicles. Finally-- there is a mechanism in NYS Town Law to allow municipalities to to modify the minimum right-of-way down to 30ft By aging hipster (201), Southampton on Jun 24, 12 5:12 PM Maybe adding a road or two at a time and incorporating it into the budget would be the way to go.The worst roads first. Or do 5 or six and split the cost with the homeowners. You need something that could be worked into the budget and not bankrupt the homeowner.I think everyone agrees that this should have been addressed years ago. By Tuckahoe Ted (53), southampton on Jun 24, 12 5:57 PM But again, why? They purchased their property with the understanding that it was their responsibility. Why should we now take on their mess and spread the cost to the rest of the people who have paid taxes for years to have their roads maintained/ I don't understand what the rest of the town is to gain other than more taxes. oh joy. By bb (922), Hampton Bays on Jul 11, 12 10:36 PM Its more than potholes. Some roads flood and flood private homes. Some roads have huge ravines in them that impead egress. Its a health and safety issue. There are handicapped, senior citizens, special needs persons that live on these roads and accessing them is difficult for school buses, community buses, ambulances, energency services etc. This is an urban blight that needs to be addressed. By North Sea Citizen (568), North Sea on Jun 25, 12 8:04 AM Not for nothin' but some of these people should have thought twice before buying the houses they did if they now want to complain. Most of the roads that flood due so because they were cut through wetlands. Nothing you can do about that even if the Town takes it over. You can't install drainage because there's no where to drain it too. I've driven through the absolute worst private roads in this Town and making them public roads won't fix the problems. What do these people expect when they ...more build their house on a tiny spit of land surrounded by swamps in North Sea? By Nature (2966), Hampton Bays on Jun 25, 12 9:37 AM bb,Mr. Z Many of these homes have been handed down from generation to generation. Quite a few of these folks have Families that have been here much longer than you By TianaBob (256), S.Jamesport on Jun 25, 12 4:14 PM tee2sea You have no clue what you are talking about. Most of the time. By Samuel Walsh (17), Southampton on Jun 27, 12 5:22 AM Which means what exactly? That they should have a longer time to realize that the roads are THEIR responsibility LOL. Who cares who long they've been here? The other point would be, had they maintained them instead of allowing them to get to desperate disrepair it would be such a major cost now. Their responsibility which they chose not to take care of. As the Supervisors says we just can't pave them, there's "Drainage and Grading issues". Ok, without paving the issues are still there Duh, people just want "smoother"access thats it! Notice most aren't complaining about drainage or grading, it's their road who you gonna complain too. Now you can, to the Town on every issue. It doesn't benefit the Town opening Pandoras Box By The Squirl (36), Red creek on Jun 25, 12 10:19 AM Dear DIy Guy (63) You make my the point better than I could. As a former real estate agent and developer, I know that poor road conditions lower prices in general. So yes, the person selling on a dumpy old road will likely get less for their house on average and the new owner would likely pay less. Thus, the town will also get less in property taxes due to the depressed prices. At our presentation, Councilmember Malone raised the issue because he recognizes the complexity ...more of the overall problem and its myriad impacts including lower revenues to the town. As for the need for town action, I submit that many, many of these substandard roads are indeed paved but are poorly maintained and often have inadequate drainage. That is an issue for public safety and for our environment as runoff is drained from the road to our wetlands and waterways. No one is asking for a handout but we are asking for only a cost effective municipal approach to a long term solution. Repairing and upgrading roads is very expensive if taken on by individual property owners. This is one of the few tasks, the maintenance of roads we all use, that is non-partisan in nature and the type of pubic works best done systematically by government - no matter who pays the cost. Lastly, I'd like to point out that the Town of Riverhead long, long ago decided to plow and sand all roads that are open to the public whether they are town or private in ownership. The safety of its emergency responders, commuters and residents came first in making that decision. It was not about getting something for nothing. And providing service so that Riverhead residents can feel secure that the roads they drive on to work and to shop are safe has not cost taxpayers much. Riverhead Highway Department budgets are surprisingly lean yet the agency manages to find a policy that works for all. Let's all work together to find a way to make all Southampton Roads safe and beautiful. We can take it one street at a time and achieve what we can afford over time. By Vince Taldone (8), Riverhead on Jun 26, 12 12:06 PM I fully support working together to provide the least expensive solution, provided the roads meet the same standards as every other road in the Town. You can't cherry pick because a group says it's too expensive. The same rules apply to everybody. That being said, I cannot believe this is being put forth as "a way to raise revenues". First of all, I think the majority of taxpayers want to cut expenses, not raise revenues through increased assessment. Secondly, the increase in ...more assessment and consequent increase in taxes should be the amount required to cover the additional expenditures the Town incurs maintaining the road. The government is not in business to make a profit. There should be no excess funds generated by the increase in assessment. Lastly, the government cites people for not cutting their grass, not cutting their hedges at intersections, having outdoor lightbulbs too bright, etc. If it's such a safety hazard why aren't they citing the homeowners for failure to maintain the road? Let me say I am not in favor of citing the homeowners, but if you want a solution to a "public safety" hazard that is polluting the environment (your inferences, not mine), there you have it. They pay less for their property, it is worth less. That was their decision. Now the rest of the town is supposed to spend their money to fix the problem, hence raising the property value of those that chose to live on a private road. Why? Since these roads present a "danger" the town should require that they maintain the roads to a set standard. you can't have the best of both worlds, lower taxes, and someone else to fix your property for free. What substandard roads? The ones that the leaves are on waiting for the free pick up? What spoiled planet are you people on? Try traveling the globe a bit then come back and suggest our roads are substandard. The same folks who want me to pay for their private roads would shoot my derrier with rock salt if I ever stepped foot on it. if I'm paying for it to be kept up, then it is public and I shall be using it. By Stephen Maybaline (18), Southampton on Jun 26, 12 12:31 PM bb, Mr. Z People should realize that "Private Road" does not give the homeowners any additional rights.These roads should have been incorporated many years ago.The "public" uses them as shortcuts.Let's just figure a way to get it done By William Simonetti (1), HAMPTON BAYS on Jun 27, 12 8:05 AM It gives them the "right" to pay less taxes! Their responsibility. Why were the roads allowed to fall into such disrepair to begin with? Their decisions. Wait - you buy a house on a dirt road for next to nothing, then pay low taxes because you complain you have no services, now you want ME to pay for a nice paved road for you? Take all your savings & install your own road. My taxes are high enough, thank you. Or, get together with your neighbors & split the cost. In order for Town to do this, someone has to pay for a survey, title work to find out who owns the roadbed, then get deeds if necessary, recording charges, then grading, paving, drainage, ...more curbs, probably want public water with that as well. Then Town needs to hire more folks to plow, do drainage cleanouts...oh, then we'll want street signs, street sweepers, lights, leaf pickup. The Town can't maintain the paved roads they own now! By Ms. Jane Q. Public (147), Southampton on Jun 27, 12 11:04 AM SusieD, bb, Mr. Z, ICE Who put the photos for this article together? Three shots of essentially the same thing is an insult to your website, one would've been sufficient, but better yet photos of a few other unimproved private roads.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line174
__label__cc	0.746239	0.253761	Category Archives: Land Use Planning Cultivating a Thriving Agricultural Economy: Skagit Valley Bucolic fields of tulips wave in the breeze. Tilled fields are ready for spring planting. Raspberry brambles are tamed, trimmed, and prepped for summer production. Netting is checked, secured, and standing by to be stretched over blueberry acreage. Strawberries are poised for blooming and fertilization when bees buzz by. Potato barns are emptying getting ready for the upcoming season. This is the thrum of spring in the Skagit agricultural lands. Roozengarde’s Prize Tulips in the Skagit Valley Sixty miles north from Seattle, Interstate 5 drops 300 feet to just above sea level to the idyllic Skagit valley floor encompassing almost 100,000 acres and stretching out to the distant Chuckanut Mountains about 25 miles away. The valley is bounded by the Salish Sea to the west, the Cascade foothills and the City of Mt. Vernon to the east, rolling hills to the south, and the steeper Chuckanut Mountains to the north. The Skagit River tumbles from the depths of the Cascade Range, trisects the valley after flowing by Mt. Vernon, before heading to the sea. Prior to the early settlers arriving, this same land was the Skagit River’s delta which teemed with life for salmon, shellfish, crustaceans and birds and an integral part of the culture for the Native Americans. Now conversely with protection by levees, dikes, and tide gates, this same ground ranks among the top 2% of the soils in the world to grow food, fiber, and flowers, predominately in land-based farming. Despite its pastoral appearance, as in any community, there continues to be pressure for change. A developer in 1989 proposed a 280 acres amusement park at a key highway intersection on prime farmland igniting the fight for the farm economy. Farm advocates organized, fundraised, and built electoral support to sustain the identity and purpose of this fertile farmland by creating a non-profit organization Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, with its mission its title. Early on this required farm advocates sitting opposite developers, environmentalists, and government staff in hearings, courtrooms, and county offices advocating, cajoling, and fighting for the rights to farm and protect farmland. Skagitonian founders knew that for an agricultural economy to succeed, it takes a critical mass of farmland, irrigation water, labor, farm roads, machinery, equipment and fertilizer suppliers, large animal veterinarians, purchasers, and of course, a farmer. To thrive farming must be a robust, economic driver and sustained by the community. These bonds to farming now run deep not only in the agricultural community, but among all residents. Then 20 years ago the Skagit County Commissioners established the Farmland Legacy Program funded with a Conservation Futures (property) Tax to create a fund that could match state and federal grant monies to purchase development rights from threatened prime farmland. This program has protected more than 9,000 acres of prime farmland. Even with this buy in, now 25 years later since Skagitonians started, the conflicts are less forceful, but still intense and important. Now, agricultural, environmental, economic, not-for-profits, Port of Skagit, and government (city, County, State, schools, etc.) people meet, to discuss their differences and reach solutions while maintaining and nurturing the Skagit identity, which is a thriving economy balanced with the natural world. After 25 years, all sectors sit at the table to support a community that embraces farming as a way of life. Salmonids: An Issue Even with more than 100 years of farming history, some desire and have the power of the law to return parts of the valley to its original estuarine habitat. Three Skagit River salmonid species are listed as threatened under the auspices of the Endangered Species Act, requiring local governments to use measures to protect salmon by 1) ensuring cool, clean water, 2) removing barriers that impede fish passage, and 3) restoring fish habitat. Often it is easiest to implement these salmonid protections on farmland, since it is flat, open and undeveloped. Vegetated streams buffers, upsizing and replacing drainage culverts, and purchasing farm ground to remove dikes and create new fish habitat are all used to protect salmon. Even though all of these are tough conversations to have between farming and fish advocates, what is significant is that the conversations happen and compromises are being made! Agricultural Economy Economic development is a buzzword across the United States and finding projects that create jobs, add wealth, and grow placemaking are sought by many communities. One Skagit agricultural product in its infancy is growing grains, specifically barley and wheat for artisanal products. The boutique booze boom is crafting multiple varieties of specialty whiskeys produced from grains grown in the agricultural rotation sequence necessary to maintain soil friability and health. Mainstream and boutique beer brewers across the United States use only about one dozen barleys with different malt processes to create a myriad of beers. Skagit farmers are growing multiple test plots of some of the more than 20,000 different types of barleys to make craft brews. Skagit Valley Malting is partnering with beer brewers such as Pike Place Brewery to concoct new beer frontiers with the different barley samples. I sampled only four different barley kernels destined for Skagit Valley Malting’s production cycle and was astounded at the flavor nuances. I can only begin to imagine the upcoming beer possibilities! The Breadfarm, a artisanal baker is using locally grown wheats similarly creating specialty baked goods that capture the flavor of the terroir–or specifically the Skagit sense of place. The support of multiple governments and the legal structure of the State’s Growth Management Act, have created a framework and standard to protect resource lands thus allowing creativity in food and beverage production that rivals European artisans. Raspberry Plants Tamed and Ready for the Season Entering the valley after an hours drive north from Seattle, all cares slip away and the eye gaze over the pastoral beauty. Spring is a favorite time for visitors to step into the Skagit ethos. Daffodil and tulip fields are sprinkled in the heart of farm country drawing the young and old to savor the splendor. The deep alluvial soils are turned awaiting their crop. The pulse of the country feeds our soul. Our bodies are awaiting the upcoming season to savor the delicacies of the earth. Note: Land use planners from around the country attending the national American Planning Association conference in Seattle can visit the Skagit Valley and learn what it takes to Cultivate a Thriving Agricultural Economy. Check out the American Planning Association’s mobile tours for Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Kathryn Gardow, P.E., is a local food advocate, land use expert and owner of Gardow Consulting, LLC, an organization dedicated to providing multidisciplinary solutions to building sustainable communities. Kathryn has expertise in project management, planning, and civil engineering, with an emphasis on creating communities that include food production. Kathryn is a Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network board member. Kathryn’s blog muses on ways to create a more sustainable world. Posted in Farmland Preservation, Land Use Planning, Local Food \| Tagged American Planning Association-Food Interest Group \| 1 Reply Brooklyn Grange’s Edible Green Roof Posted on October 31, 2014 by Kathryn Gardow Take the M train to the 36th Street station. Climb the stairs and exit the station and greeted by the six- story edifice built by Standard Motor Company in 1919. Enter the building. Push the elevator button and be whisked to the roof. Leave the city behind and enter a robust urban farm with views to the bustling New York metropolis below. I was welcomed by Bradley Fleming, Brooklyn Grange’s Farm Manager extraordinaire at Flagship Farm and best man at my niece’s San Franciscan wedding the weekend prior. Atop the roof flourishes a one-acre farm totally hidden from the sidewalk below. Brooklyn Grange’s Flagship Roof Top Farm Bradley was busy completing the final tasks for the farm’s fifth season. With one more week of their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) boxes to be delivered, he expected them to be filled with chard, kale, eggplant, sunchokes, salad greens, green tomatoes, and other delectables. Workers broke down and composted the no longer producing tomato and pepper plants. Scattered around the site were three bee hives producing honey and winding down the job as the farm’s pollinators. Laying hens offered eggs. A compost bin accepted spent vegetative matter which was processed in part by a solar powered forced air system. Fortuitously, the Standard Motor Company concrete building was built to construction standards that could easily support the weight of Rooflite, the composted soil mixture blend, rain and irrigation water, equipment, and farmworkers. The existing parapet walls met the height requirements for the “fence,” such that workers and guests are protected from falling to the street below. The rooftop drainage system functioned properly and only had to be modified slightly with porous plastic caps that allowed enough water to remain on the roof to irrigate the plants, but allowed any excess to be discharged. It was as though 100-years ago that the architect’s knew the building would once support a green roof to grow produce! How Is It Built? Even so, creating the farm was a challenging proposition, as the City of New York would only permit a crane to be located at the western, narrow end of the building where supplies could hoisted to the roof. Materials were hand carried and carted almost 500 feet to the far side of the building to begin construction. First the base layer, an impenetrable cloth sheet that thwarts roots growing into the concrete roof was placed. On top a Conservation Technologies drainage mat, resembling multiple plastic egg cartons butt up against each other, was lain to capture and hold irrigation and rainwater water for the plants’ thirst needs. Finally, a permeable filter fabric was lain to limit soil sediments from filling the plastic cups. Ultimately about 1.2 million pounds of Rooflite were lifted and carted to all corners of the roof for the approximate 10-inch thick growing medium over the one acre site. Mexican Sour Gerkin Then, planting rows, walking paths, and produce washing and aggregation station were sited. Now five years later since initial construction, farming protocols are established. A sprinkler system waters newly planted seed in early season for germination. Drip irrigation lines follow each planting row and run for 20 minutes three times per day during the peak season. Plantings are sequenced such that produce is available from mid-May through late October. Being a small, specialty farm, allows Bradley to experiment with unknown produce varieties. I had Mexican Sour Gerkins for the first time; a miniature, watermelon look-alike cucumber growing on a trellised vine. All produce is organically-grown, but not certified. As with any farm operation, Mother Nature can have her way. Keeping the soil on the roof, will be the biggest upcoming winter obstacle, as winds can blow fiercely on the roof. This winter they are testing a ground-up hop mixture as a wind cover, that will also compost and provide nutrients for next spring. Why It Works? Brooklyn Grange has been profitable since the first year, as they have great produce for sale with diversified produce offerings and have benefited from New York City’s green initiatives. New York City has a combined sewer and stormwater system that can become inundated with as little as a quarter inch of rainfall, prompting policy makers to create a Green Roof Tax Abatement program that pays property owners to reduce their stormwater runoff. Water captured by the plant material and farm ground reduce stormwater runoff, thus limiting the impacts from this one-acre building’s impervious surface. Roof Top Chickens at Brooklyn Grange’s Flagship Farm To expand their business with the expertise gained from Flagship Farm, Brooklyn Grange now offers design, consulting, and construction services for other building owners that want green roofs–whether food producing roofs or solely vegetative roofs. Sedum roofs require much less soil coverage and water, which significantly reduces roof weight and therefore are suitable for those structures that are not as robustly built as the Standard Motor Company’s building. Weddings, farm to table events, and rooftop yoga are other services that are available on Brooklyn Grange’s urban oases. Whether these intense green roof farms are replicable across the country remains to be seen. The lack of urban growing space, the unbelievable amount of traffic, and the green roof incentives are a few of the many reasons that Brooklyn Grange has been successful in reducing the miles that great food must travel to satiate a customer base yearning for fresh, local produce. Kathryn Gardow, P.E., is a local food advocate, land use expert and owner of Gardow Consulting, an organization dedicated to providing multidisciplinary solutions to building sustainable communities. Kathryn has expertise in project management, planning, and civil engineering, with an emphasis on creating communities that include food production. Kathryn is a Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network board member. Kathryn’s blog muses on ways to create a more sustainable world. Posted in Land Use Planning, Urban Farming \| Tagged Agricultural Economic Development, Brooklyn Grange \| Leave a reply Where Sustainability Reigns and Community Flourishes Posted on September 30, 2014 by Kathryn Gardow My yard peaked in abundance in September. The last tomatoes were picked before the fall rains came. At the same time, ideas percolate about creating community where families thrive because children play, elders impart wisdom, Millenials connect and food is grown. Sustainable living at its best is where the most important aspects of life, nourishment in mind and body, are met. Late Fall Roma Tomatoes–perfect for salsa Through the summer, gathering my evening meal from the plethora of plums, gaggles of grapes, bountiful beans, and tons of tomatoes, I knew I was eating the most tasty, healthful food from my 5,000 square foot city lot. Even as the weather changed, I snipped chives, gathered thyme, and harvested rosemary, as additions to roasts, stews, and salads. Each night at the dinner table, I would announce, “The beans, basil, and tomatoes are from our garden.” My kids would respond, “Oh, Mom, do you have to tell us where the food is from?” in that teenage whine. Of course I want them to know, because I want to expand my joy and add community and neighborliness beyond my dinner table. Incorporating a sense of shared purpose, not in an “invitation-only” environment, would be ideal. In four short years, there will be only two diners at my table. Preparing and enjoying a meal together is one of the greatest pleasures in life. As I age, and am no longer able or willing to garden or spend as much time in the kitchen, I want that just-picked fresh prepared food experience at my table. Granted, I can schlep to the farmers market or purchase a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box, but to live among neighbors and have great food surrounding me, would be my idyllic setting. I don’t want to be destined to grocery store only choices. Children’s Play Area at GROW Recently, I experienced two ventures GROW Community and Heyday Farm that are flourishing on Bainbridge Island, which is across Puget Sound by ferry just west of Seattle. GROW Community is a predominately owner-occupied development with compact single-family structures. For rent, apartment living is being built now with townhouse and stacked living planned for the next phase. Heyday Farm is a full farm experience set in rural Bainbridge Island. Melding these two concepts together would generate the shared, community I seek focused with a food environment. Each project is unique on its own, but combining them would make a spectacular place to live. Reigning Sustainability Heyday Farm is on historical island farm property that had been fallow, but its owners wanted to create a sustainable farm business and hired a farm manager to facilitate creation of their vision. Craig Skipton, a trained landscape architect with a penchant for being his own boss is the farmer and visionmaker creating, developing, and growing the farm brand that permeates the island. Vegetables are cultivated in raised beds and greenhouses. Cattle is kept on the main farm for meat and cheese production. Chickens flourish in moveable hoop houses on an adjacent property. The main property is the showcase, with the classic farmhouse, where guests can stay overnight, enjoy a farm-fresh dinner or take a class on how to use fresh produce in cooking or canning. Further, the commercial kitchen is canning central where pickles, krauts, and chutneys are produced for sale in local markets. Having a GROW Community concept right next door to Heyday Farm would meld two innovative concepts and create a community where couples, families, and singles would thrive. Community Flourishing GROW’s first phase featured 23 detached, energy efficient, sustainable homes and adjacent rental apartments that were all built using One Planet principles. (The for sale homes sold out quickly and the rental apartments will be completed soon.) One Planet is a British-based non-profit organization that applies the “princples at the design, construction and long-term management stages of a development … to create places where it is easy, attractive and affordable for people to live within a fair share of our planet’s resources.” GROW Community Gardens and Pathway=Community The Ten One Planet Principles provide design approaches to allow communities to reduce their ecological footprint by applying zero carbon and waste concepts, using sustainable building materials, reducing transportation infrastructure, minimizing impacts to land use and wildlife, incorporating local, sustainably grown food, and creating a community that integrates health, happiness, and well-being into the development. GROW has included the One Planet features by integrating on-site community owned and maintained garden spaces between the homes, parking areas separated from the living spaces, small lot sizes, energy-efficient homes, and the added bonus of affordable solar powered electricity. Inside the homes are compact, but light and roomy with strategically placed amenities that offer comfort, space, and easy livability. Many units have a separate, detached room with toilet facilities, that could be used by visiting grandparents, an independent teenager or an office. Since garages are non-existent, each single-family unit is equipped with a discreetly, designed structure for bikes, garden supplies, and other outdoor based storage. Cars are on the southern end of the community in a standards asphalt lot, but placed strategically such at the full-southern exposure is available for solar. Occupants at GROW are families with children, empty-nesters or singles. It is a true mélange of people with differing life stages, occupations, and backgrounds, that all want to be part of true community, while maintaining an independent, but neighborly home life. The ideal community-based components are thriving on Bainbridge at GROW and Heyday Farm. Now is the time to find the right piece of land and political environment that will allow meshing a residential community and farm environment together to create a fabulous place called home. My dream of being at home in a neighborly, sustainable community can happen. I want to say, “Today, I picked the zucchini, yellow squash, and thyme that you are eating in the ratatouille tonight!” Posted in Healthy Food, Land Use Planning, Local Food, Sustainable Communities \| Tagged Agri-hood, GROW, Heyday Farm \| Leave a reply Incredible: Brooklyn Whole Foods I was wowed when visiting the newly opened Whole Foods store located on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York! The high-end, natural and organic foods market is strategically located in an up’n coming area of Brooklyn, despite the fact that the Gowanus Canal is a Superfund site and one of the nation’s most “extensively contaminated water bodies” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The South Brooklyn area is rebounding with youthful energy, as it is more affordable and hip, as evidenced by my 30-year old niece and her husband living there despite having jobs in Manhattan. Rooftop Farm Gotham Greens 20,000 Square Foot Greenhouse Touring the store was on top of my New York City “must do” list as I had heard that the 20,000 square foot Gotham Greens rooftop farm grows more than enough greens and tomatoes to supply the thirteen metropolitan New York Whole Foods stores with surplus product to sell to other stores, too. The pesticide-, insecticide-, and herbicide-free hydroponically grown produce uses 1/10th the amount of water and produces 20 times the yield of in-the-ground grown and harvested product. The climate controlled environment beneath the louvered glass enclosure is vigilantly monitored and adjusted by Gotham Greens staff to provide just the correct amount of light, air, and heat every day, depending on the growing season. Whole Foods entrance, greenhouse and parking lot–Brooklyn, NY Gotham Greens leased a bare rooftop allowing them to construct the greenhouse and command central, where computers, sensors, and attentive personnel grow kale, basil, lettuces, other greens, and tomatoes year around. Some items such as red lettuce grow better in the autumn and become a seasonal Gotham Greens feature. Every week, 10,000 beneficial bugs are released beneath the glass, to ensure the produce remains pest free while guaranteeing pollination. Crops are harvested every three to six weeks, while tomatoes are picked daily, year-round from long draping indeterminate vines that grow across the greenhouse. Packaged products are “shipped” downstairs and delivered to twelve other Whole Foods stores. More Sustainable Attributes The edible rooftop was incredible, but all the other attributes made the store an outstanding example of pushing the envelope on sustainability into a realm that is testing new ideas and making them plausible and perhaps even feasible for future forward thinking real estate projects. Having a few moments to look out over the Whole Foods grounds from the second store outdoor balcony before our tour began, I took in all the advanced thinking, cutting edge innovations and was energized by new possibilities in future development projects. J’aime Mitchell our Whole Foods guide began by talking about the store’s infrastructure, which is mundane to many and often doesn’t get the respect it deserves, except from engineers like me. Only 5% of the on-site stormwater runoff leaves the project site, as the rest is captured for re-use or infiltrates. The parking surface is built with porous pavers, which immediately return rainwater into the ground and eventually the canal. Cars are parked beneath solar panel canopies that meet 25% of the store’s energy needs, but also serve as a rainwater collection system. The captured stormwater flows and in-store hand-washing wastewater are directed to a large storage tank beneath the parking lot creating a graywater system that is cleaned and filtered and used for toilet flushing and irrigation water. The stormwater and graywater management systems are impressive as water was used twice, but there was more! Whole Foods parking area with Manhattan skyline The parking lot was dotted with an overhead light system that is totally powered by solar and wind. As the wind blows or the sun shines the battery packs beneath each light standard are adequately recharged such that no auxiliary power source is needed for a securely illuminated lot. Further, human power brings a multitude of customers by foot and bike evidenced by the endless line of bike racks that were moderately filled during a mid-week non-prime time and a smaller than average parking lot. J’aime said that additional bike racks had been added to accommodate the weekend cycle traffic. And There is More Entering the store vestibule, which is an important buffer between a bitter cold winter or a steamy hot summer and a pleasant shopping environment, the gaze travels upwards to the greenhouse’s tomato section. Draping vines fill the space 20 feet above eye-level, growing fresh bursts of year-round sunshine. Gotham Greens Basil In the produce section, Gotham Green products are featured along with a multitude of other locally grown fruits and vegetables in an interior setting designed to recognize the region’s historic past. Brick facades were evident throughout the store such as in the upstairs bar/eating establishment and adjacent to the produce section that were repurposed from a Newark, New Jersey Westinghouse factory that had been razed brick by brick. Board walks and building materials from the ravages of the Superstorm Sandy were crafted into benches, wainscotings, and produce bins rather than landfilled. Admirably, Whole Foods took historically significant materials from tragedy and times past reintegrating them into a vision of beauty and purpose. Finally, the Brooklyn Whole Foods took the initiative to install a refrigeration system that only uses carbon dioxide rather than more typical synthetic refrigerants. Reaching back into early 1900’s technology, European and Canadian grocers have been thwarting conventional synthetic refrigeration systems as they can leak into the atmosphere and are detrimental to the environment by hurting the ozone layer or contributing to climate change or both. Whole Foods has now joined this trend and installed their first “old is new” carbon dioxide refrigeration system. One aspect of this system is the refrigerated products being protected by clear, plastic, vertical drapery which allow the coolness to stay in the case rather than chill the aisles. Customers must reach through the curtain to their milk or other perishable product, as I did as a child. Besides all the environmental and sustainable innovations, the store was light, airy, and inviting. Once back in Seattle, I couldn’t stop talking about the incredible Whole Foods–Brooklyn and how it is pulling the future of sustainability, reuse, and locally-grown into today. Posted in Healthy Food, Land Use Planning, Local Food, Roof-Top Farming, Sustainable Communities \| Leave a reply An Agricultural-Residential Development Solution Local produce heaven is now… asparagus, strawberries, cherries, snap peas; followed by string beans, cucumbers, basil, tomatoes, peaches; culminating with apples, corn, winter squash. What would make every food summer more perfect? Living in a community that grows, savors, entertains, and surrounds itself with good food. A weekly trip to a local farmers’ market or attempting to grow my favorite foods on a city lot are just not enough. Happy Chickens at Sandhill Family Farms Our country began as an agrarian society, but with industrialization, rural towns lost population and families moved away from living adjacent to where their sustenance grew. Larger farms and companies, such as Dole, Kellogg, and Kraft now grow, store, process and supply most of the food we eat. King County residents eat $6 billion of food every year with only 2% or $120 million of agricultural products grown in county. Non-profits, governments, farmers, and consumers are working to strengthen the food system so a greater percentage of our food economy is local. Purchasing and consuming local products taste better because the food has traveled fewer miles and is therefore fresher. Keeping food production local, adds jobs. Rural landscapes stay bucolic rather than being punctuated with houses and strip malls. Much work needs to be done to re-integrate food production into people’s lives, to strengthen the local food market, and to increase market share of regionally grown products. What is another option to re-connect people with their food? A New Community Development Solution A new type of neighborhood is cropping up in the United States that includes food production, as a facet or even a centerpiece of a development project. There are foodies that want to live adjacent to where their sustenance is grown and are willing to pay a premium to live in these new projects. Good design is a necessity to minimize the inconveniences of odors, noises, and other activities of life adjacent to a farm. Except for Skokomish Farms with 40-acre lot sizes located 33 miles northwest of Olympia, Washington in a rural area of the state, an agricultural-residential project has not been built in Washington. The Puget Sound region is ripe to create a development that integrates farming with intergenerational living, attention to the natural environment, and green homes with good value. Why is this type of development model needed? With a 2.8% growth rate over a one-year period ending July 1, 2013 (3), Seattle is the fastest growing big city in the nation adding 18,000 new residents and 15,000 new jobs. At the same time apartment buildings and micro-unit apartment structures, also known as apodments, have sprouted throughout the city creating dense neighborhoods and a true in-city living experience. Not only did Seattle grow, but concurrently the rest of the Puget Sound region increased by more than 44,000 new people. Combined the entire region grew by 62,000 people or the equivalent of the city of Marysville located in Snohomish County. King, Snohomish, and Thurston counties had growth rates of more than 1% during the same time. Noticeably, 30% of the new Puget Sound residents moved into Seattle, while the remainder moved elsewhere in the region. This suggests there is demand and desire to still live in less-dense communities, where housing is more affordable or perhaps to just be outside an urban environment. With surging population, undeveloped land is under pressure for conversion to its “highest and best use” in appraised value, which is development. Lettuce Growing in November at Sandhill Family Farms at Prairie Crossing Simultaneously, the US Department of Agriculture’s 2012 quinquennial agricultural survey was released, documenting trends in the local farm economy. Surprisingly and perhaps worrisome is the shrinking average and median farm size over the last 15 years. Kitsap County’s average farm size dropped 74% from a high of 53 acres in 1997 to 14 acres by 2012, while the median farm size dropped during the same period from 11 acres to 6 acres.(4) Skagit County has made significant strides, by increasing the number of farms by 50%, but even so, average individual farm acreage dropped 24% to 99 acres and median farm size fell 53% to 20 acres in the same 15 year period. Almost all the Puget Sound counties now have median farm acreage of 10 acres or less, except Whatcom at 16 acres and Skagit at 20 acres. During the recent recession, all of the counties analyzed saw median farm size drop. The historical decline in total farmland actually slowed in the last 5 years, but there was still a net loss in farmed acreage, too. Nonetheless with increasing population and decreasing farm sizes, farmland is still highly threatened, so perhaps now is the time to test a new model that re-integrates food production into people’s lives and protects some farmland in perpetuity. The agricultural-residential development is a solution for an under-utilized property, such as an old golf course, a former farm in an incorporated city, or fertile ground in an urban-growth area that is destined for development. Obviously, the governing jurisdiction would need development codes that allow farming in a residential project. Homes, cottages, townhouses, perhaps some commercial development could be built adjacent to a farm that is protected in perpetuity. The farm needs to be large enough to be commercially viable and support a livable income. The farmer would run a business that would sell to both the residents but also outside customers. A symbiotic relationship between grower and eaters would ensue. Unfinished Home Adjacent to Serenbe Farms, Georgia What else should this type of project include? What should be the minimum farm acreage? What protections should be incorporated into a homeowners agreements to ensure that a farmer can do his/her job without nuisance complaints from neighbors? What should the buffers be between the farm ground and residential units? Should the project include a restaurant featuring the farm’s products? Should there be any restrictions on what should be farmed? Animals? Produce? Organic vs. non-organic? What other amenities are important? What other questions need to be asked? Across the country agricultural-residential communities are sprouting including Sandhill Family Farms at Prairie Crossing and Serenbe Farms. Each has its own characteristics and community. By living in an agricultural community, the pulse of the growing season will resonate throughout the lives of the families that call the farm home. 1)1997 Population Data Used: Table CO-EST 2001-12-53-Time Series of Washington Intercensal Population Estimates by County: April 1, 1990 to April 1, 2000, Source: Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Release Date: April 17, 2002. 2) 2002 & 2007 Population Data Used: Table 1: Annual Estimates of the Population for Counties of Washington: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007 (CO-EST2007-01-53), Source: Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, Release Date: March 20, 2008. 3) 2012 & 2013 Population Data Used: Estimates of Resident Population Change and Rankings: July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2013, Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Release Date: March 2014. 3) 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 Agricultural Data: US Department of Agriculture Census of Agriculture, Table 1: County Summary Highlights for 1997, 2002, 2007, & 2012 respectively. Posted in Healthy Food, Land Use Planning, Local Food, Sustainable Communities \| Tagged Agri-hood, Prairie Crossing, Sandhill Family Farm, Serenbe, Skokomish Farms \| Leave a reply What is Sustainable Agriculture? I am not a farmer, but care where my food comes from. I read labels to avoid unknown, unintelligible ingredients. I cannot feed myself with my gardening skills. Farmers grow my food and I have the utmost respect for the work the work they do. Each season farmers start anew deciding what and how much to grow. It is always a calculated risk based on years of experience, while not knowing what nature’s forces will bring in the upcoming growing season. Diversified Cropping at Viva Farms in the Skagit Valley Sustainable agriculture is a term to describe a food growing process that appeals to those whom care about their food choices. Alternatively, agribusiness, the large-scale, commodity-driven, often chemically-induced, pesticide-protected, government subsidized food production beast worries the sustainable agriculture consumers. Examples abound on why to be concerned. Pork production facilities have caused significant environmental damage to North Carolina river ecosystems from leaks from CAFOs–Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations–where multitudes of pigs are treated only as a food source rather than live animals that should be given respect. Food safety calamities with mainstream products such as peanut butter and cantaloupes have caused recalls, sickness and even death and shaken the confidence of our conventional food supply system. Whether sustainable agriculture is the answer to food safety and environmental concerns is not certain, but I assert that is part of the solution. Agriculture is… What is agriculture? According to the Oxford American dictionary, agriculture is “the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food.” Between 10,000 to 13,000 years ago, our ancestors realized that staying rooted during the growing season meant a more secure food source, than the hunting and gathering existence of their forefathers. Our predecessors developed villages, towns, and eventually cities around soils that bore fruits and vegetables, and reared animals, which were domesticated to provide milk, materials for clothing, casings for sausage, and a multitude of other uses. Goat basking in the sun at Cloudview EcoFarm–Columbia Basin Improvements to agriculture practices evolved over the eons with the advent 6,000 years ago of the simple plow and irrigation practices thereby increasing yields. The invention of the wheel about 5,500 years ago, vastly eased product movement from rural lands to population centers and increased city densification and development of a merchant class. Agriculture continued to evolve and beginning in 1800, during the Industrial Revolution and accelerating in the aftermath of World War II, food production surged and worldwide population skyrocketed to 7 billion people today. (Since my birth, the world’s human population has more than doubled, which is astounding.) A significant part of the population increase is attributable to the vast improvements in food production, which increased yields by using artificially-made pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. At the same time, seed stocks were hybridized to strengthen traits that improved transport and storability, increased size, augmented color, and optimized the use of artificial inputs (Roundup® ready seeds for example). For those that support all technological advancements, the increase in food production via agribusiness has been a stellar success. At the same time there have been losses. Flavor, which is the joy of eating, has been lost with intense hybridization. Rural communities have been emptied, food safety concerns have increased and topsoil continues to be lost. Many assert that agricultural scientific innovation should be tempered with reverence and appreciation for a natural systems ethos to grow food more sustainably. Much has been written by scholars and farming specialists on sustainable agriculture, which is considered a system that is “protective of the environment, economically viable, and social responsible” according to a 2002 Washington State University (WSU) Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources (CSANR), Sustainable Agriculture in Washington State publication. The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, funded through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, further defines the 3 Pillars of (Farming) Sustainability where there is “(1) profit over the long term, (2) stewardship of our nation’s land, air and water, and (3) quality of life for farmers, ranchers, and their communities.” These are solid, grounded objectives that benefit the common good, but have been largely dismissed by agribusiness. So many kinds of beets at Nash’s Organic Produce stand Concurrently, at least 95% of Americans’ food purchases comes from conventionally grown agribusinesses and unfortunately, the common person is just not exposed nor perhaps even interested in other food production methods, let alone alarmed about issues that protect the natural world or support living wages for the farm workers. Furthermore, most people don’t spend a moment ever thinking about where their food comes from, as it just shows up and is easily available, providing no connection or awareness to any problems or potential fragility in the food system. Why Should it Matter? Should Americans care where their food comes from? Should they be concerned about how it is grown or whether the farmer is able to make a living wage? Yes! We are fortunate in Washington State to have extraordinary farmers such as Cloudview EcoFarm, Viva Farms, Nash’s Organic Produce, and many more that are growing food sustainably where natural resources are sacred and workers are treated well. However, for all of these farms to be profitable over the long term, the eating public needs to be educated and to support a sustainable agriculture economy. My question to sustainable agriculture advocates is how do we ignite the eating public to care about where their food comes from? What solutions do you have? The Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network (WSFFN), located in Mt. Vernon, WA will be updating its strategic plan and collaborating with other like-minded organizations to further sustainable food and farming initiatives. I am on the WSFFN board and welcome your thoughts at Facebook-Gardow Consulting. Kathryn Gardow, P.E., is a local food advocate, land use expert and owner of Gardow Consulting, an organization dedicated to providing multidisciplinary solutions to building sustainable communities. Kathryn has expertise in project management, planning, and civil engineering, with an emphasis on creating communities that include food production. Kathryn’s blog will muse on ways to create a more sustainable world. Gardow Consulting can also be found on Facebook. Posted in Farmland Preservation, Healthy Food, Land Use Planning, Local Food, Sustainable Communities \| 1 Reply Organic Farms Matter: Uncle Matt’s Organics Patriarch & Story Teller Benny McLean Located a half- hour west of Florida’s Magic Kingdome is Uncle Matt’s Organics, a 14-year old family business supplying discerning consumers with organic citrus and juice products. Spending a day with the business’ patriarch and story teller, Benny McLean was the highlight of my Floridian vacation. While my family enjoyed the thrill of Space Mountain® and Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin®, I savored the succulent Florida grapefruits and oranges and learned about the challenges of being a farmer not far from Mickey’s home and his 17,500,000 visitors (2012). After World War II, US Route 27, was the northern snowbirds conduit to get to the Sunshine Coast, arriving when Florida was predominately home to farmers tending orange groves, strawberry fields, and cattle ranches. The allure of pristine beaches and warm climes brought the northern transplants, despite the mid-60’s television advertisements warning viewers to be wary of buying “swamp land in Florida.” The Citrus Tower Clermont, Florida was the epicenter of the citrus industry with the iconic Citrus Tower, opening in 1956, soaring above 300,000 acres of grapefruit and orange groves in Lake County, just west of Orange County, where Orlando lies. Taking the elevator to the top of the Tower provides views to the flatlands from a 450-foot vantage point, since the 226-foot structure sits on a 228-foot knoll, part of the central Florida spine of rolling hills. At the tower base were activities to entertain, products to buy and tours of groves to educate visitors of the delight of citrus. In the early 1960’s Walt Disney saw that his Los Angeles based Disneyland® was a significant tourist attraction, but realized that to truly create a magic place, he needed control over a much larger land mass. Flying over central Florida, he saw opportunity with its network of highways and vacant parcels where he could create a place of imagination. The Magic Kingdom® opened in 1971 to unprecedented enthusiasm and is now the number one attended theme park in the world. Since then, unparalleled theme park and accommodation construction have continued to fill the central Florida landscape making the Orlando area a destination for visitors from around the world. A Snapshot of the Old Red Farm Road and New Asphalt Road In 1971, Walt Disney World® employed 5,500 workers more commonly known as “cast members” and now boasts it provides jobs for more than 59,000 employees with a $1.8 billion payroll in a 2009 report prepared by Arduin, Laffer & Moore, a conservative-leaning consulting firm. The same report asserts that 2.5% of Florida’s gross state product is because of the Disney theme park businesses. These numbers reveal why there has been a 415% population increase in Orange and Lake Counties, in what had been traditionally a farming region. Regardless of the population influx, devastating Arctic blasts in 1983, 1985, and 1989 were the ultimate death knell of the historic citrus economy. With the freezes, the ever expanding entertainment industry, land being converted to its economic “highest and best” commercial use, and farmers needing to make a living, land was converted to housing, strip malls, and suburbia, leaving places such as Groveland, Minneola, and Tangelo Park as historic names of a bygone era. Once a Farmer, Always a Farmer Despite a youthful rebuff of a farming career, Benny’s youngest son, Matt McLean (of Uncle Matt’s fame) equipped with a finance degree has evolved into the “pioneer, agriculturist activist and entrepreneur” in the organic food industry. Uncle Matt’s only grows organically, with no synthetic pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, or chemicals contaminating their products, because it is better for the environment, water quality, and personal health. As Matt says, “before the 20th century all food was organic,” as synthetic fertilizers were initially made in the munitions factories needing to be re-purposed following World War II. More importantly, with the demise of the Florida orange industry north of the cross Florida I-4 interstate, and only 10,000 acres of Lake County citrus groves now remaining, Matt saw opportunity. In the late 1990’s, no organic orange juice was available. Concurrently, the German market was looking for new citrus sources, since the Teutonic climate is too cold, and the Germans yearned for organics, too. Finally, in 2000, the National Organic Program established the rules around organic production, which created an opening for a fledgling organic orange business to grow. Organic Farms Matter Uncle Matt’s Organics is a family-run business, which owns and leases groves, purchases fruit from neighboring farms and supplies all natural, not-from-concentrate, organic juices to markets across the country. The organic orange juice market is only served by Uncle Matt’s and a private label brand. The organic citrus business is small compared to the conventionally grown products, but a critically important part of the food market, since there is ever-increasing growth in the organic food industry. Despite still being small, the organic agricultural market continues to grow at a faster rate than the conventionally grown food and in 2008 was a $21 billion industry and one to two percent of US market according to the Organic Trade Association. A New Development on the Edge of a Former Orange Grove Uncle Matt’s is passionate about organics and will not farm as most conventional growers do with petroleum based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers. Benny’s passion for organics is so strong, that he said some of the local food storage facilities (packing houses) will not store their organic products, because they can’t guarantee their safety. As one packing house owner said, “Rats don’t lie. They can smell the nutrients (in the organic produce).” From the top of the Citrus Tower, I could not see an orange grove, but could only imagine the undulating rows of fruit trees. Farmland in Florida is so threatened with conversion to development that just prior to the economic meltdown between 2002 to 2007, Florida lost 25% of its citrus acreage, according to the USDA Agricultural Census. From my travels in Lake County it appears that housing starts were up again, as there were multiple tentacles of new roads and subdivisions. Despite the pressures from real estate development, Uncle Matt’s will be the nexus for organic citrus production for the foreseeable future because of the family’s dedication and passion. Uncle Matt’s is here to stay supplying the freshest, most nutritionally complete citrus products for the discerning palate. Kathryn Gardow, P.E., is a local food advocate, land use expert and owner of Gardow Consulting, an organization dedicated to providing multidisciplinary solutions to building sustainable communities. Kathryn has expertise in project management, planning, and civil engineering, with an emphasis on creating communities that include food production. Kathryn is also on the WA Sustainable Food & Farming Network Board. Kathryn’s blog muses on ways to create a more sustainable world. Posted in Farmland Preservation, Healthy Food, Land Use Planning, Local Food, Sustainable Communities \| Leave a reply Celebrate with Food: Eat from Local & Afar What is on your Thanksgiving table? Where did your food come from? For a dozen people my table is laden with parsley from my yard, oodles of vegetables and fruit from the farmer’s market, a pre-cooked naturally raised turkey from my neighborhood grocery store, and specialty treats and additions from miles and seas away. To provide a Thanksgiving repast of my foremothers it takes something from everywhere to complete the meal. I support local agriculture, because it is easy to do, sustains local farmers, protects the rural economy, maintains the country landscape that is critical to the Northwest quality of life, and most importantly the food is fresher. Adding delectable food products into my Thanksgiving meal from outside the northwest foodshed, inserts flavor and connects me with my heritage. My holiday spread will feature food from outside my door to across oceans. My Yard I live on a 5,000 square foot city lot on the backside of a hill that faces northeast. In the summer, sun is plentiful and I strategically locate blueberries, a plum tree, tomatoes, beans, basil, and other summer producing plants in raised beds to grow food. Dino Kale in my Yard By November with minimal sunlight, parsley, rosemary, thyme, dino kale (Lacinto Kale) and chard continue to thrive growing alongside four different types of over-wintering garlic. Kale is the ubiquitous northwest biennial vegetable growing over a meter tall. It tops the charts in nutritional value providing beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C and calcium along with potentially blocking cancer growth, lowering cholesterol and of course, adding fiber. Kale can be a stand-alone vegetable, but works better for my family in soups and stir-fry recipies. This holiday, garlic from my 2013 harvest, kale, and Italian parsley are all in my stuffing. The pre-Thanksgiving University District Farmers Market was bustling in part, since there was no Seattle rain to be found. The farmers’ stalls were loaded with carrots, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and other brassicas sweetened by the autumn’s cool temperatures. Four separate trips to my car were necessary to carry my load of glass bottled cider, Yukon Gold potatoes, hazelnuts, sweet potatoes, onions, leeks, apples, pears, cranberries, and a posy of ornamental kale flowers. Other shoppers pushed folding metal carts filled to the brim, employing an auto trip stash reduction method, that I should consider. Winter Kale Bouquet The sweet potatoes and decorative kale bouquet were my unexpected purchases. More than 96% of the nation’s sweet potatoes are grown in North Carolina, California, Mississippi and Louisiana with the vast majority grown in the Atlantic coast state, so buying northwest grown tubers was notable. An abundance of sweet potatoes along with tree fruits are a specialty of Lyall Farms in the Yakima Valley with its hot summers and plentiful irrigation water. My Thanksgiving meal is complete by cooking my annual tradition, Mollie Katzen’s Sweet Potato Surprise with apples, bananas and ginger blended into orange sweet potato goodness. The Asian immigrant farmers, creators of year-round floral beauty have fashioned an almost rose-like bouquet using the tops of decorative kale. Throughout the summer, larger kale leaves were removed to surround summer splendor. Now with only the cream and burgundy colored tops remaining, farmers design bouquets with statice and wheat stalks to grace my Thanksgiving table. Grocery Store and the World Sustainably Raised Turkey Having never learned to cook the Thanksgiving icon, my naturally grown pre-cooked turkey comes from the grocery store. It doesn’t meet the criteria for a locavore purist, but it saves me from family strife and an under-cooked bird. But, with each morsel of meat, I thank the animal that graces my table remembering its beauty and the nourishment it gives me. All prepared foods include some product grown in another part of the world, as spices are a common import. Even the lowly peppercorn native to southern India, is grown throughout the tropics and is an essential ingredient. The world has a long history of food imports, whether spices from the Far East, citrus from warmer climates or exotic treats from faraway lands. As a child, my grandmother would tell me the stories of her grandfather, E. Eugene (“Gene”) Hawkins, born in Long Island, New York as the oldest son of a ship’s carpenter. In 1894, at age 49, he became part owner of the 372,960 ton B.J. Hazard schooner, a work horse of the Atlantic. As the ship’s captain, he engaged in coastal trade predominately between New York and Havana, only knowing what his return cargo would be upon port arrival. Ripe Oranges in December Other times Gene sailed to the warm Mediterranean climate. On leaving the Long Island port on one journey with his wife Georgianna, he said to a fellow East Patchogue captain, that he would kill a pig, if they met mid-ocean. A pig roast ensued in the Atlantic doldrums. On another winter voyage with a load of oranges, he waited six weeks for the tides and the winds to cooperate at the Straits of Gibraltar. Sadly, his cargo was rotten upon reaching homeport. On Thanksgiving, cranberry-orange relish will adorn my turkey. Remembering that citrus was a extraordinary winter delicacy transported by my ancestors, oranges always show up in our Christmas stockings, too. As the holiday season approaches, pay attention and include local foods in your celebrations, and be sure to take pleasure in the treats from far away. Posted in Farmland Preservation, Healthy Food, Land Use Planning, Local Food \| Leave a reply Flood Info 101: Flood Season is Here Despite a dry month, October 1st is the start of the regulated flood season in King County, Washington which ranks 13th out of 39 counties in agricultural revenue and is home to Seattle, the State’s largest city. From almost 1,800 farms, $127 million is earned growing food, fiber, and animal feed, even though the County houses almost one-third of the State’s 6.7 million people. Combined Snohomish, King, Pierce and Thurston counties generate $435 million in agricultural revenue from over 6,000 farms. Remnants of the November 2006 Flood It has been almost 7 years since the November 2006 election day 100-year storm. In 60 degree weather, Monday, November 6, 2006, 3.29 inches of rain fell at Sea-Tac airport. Concurrently, the warm, tropical, moisture-laden clouds, also known as a Pineapple Express, pummeled the Cascade Mountain’s western facing slopes about 60 miles east of Seattle, melting newly fallen snow and sending torrents of water into the lowlands. The flat Snoqualmie Valley received more than 32 million gallons per minute (71,800 cubic feet per second [c.f.s.]) of turbid, rapid-flowing water carrying anything not secured. 2006 Flood at Full Circle Farm, Carnation (Photo courtesy of Stewardship Partners) Only two years and two months later, in January 2009, another 100-year Pineapple Express storm inundated the Snoqualmie Valley with an amplified repeat performance surging 37 million gallons per minute (82,900 c.f.s.) downstream reaching an unprecedented flood stage of 62.21 feet near Carnation, which was almost one foot higher than the 2006 record of 61.28 feet. Despite the misnomer that a 100-year storm happens only every 100-years, in scientific terms it is the storm that has a 1% probability of happening in any particular year. With probability theory, there is really a 63.4% chance of a 100-year storm occurring in each wet season. Consequently, the chances of another devastating flood happening is much greater than it not occurring. Thankfully, many western Washington counties have heeded Mother Nature’s wrath and now provide tools for farmers and homeowners to be warned of upcoming fury from exceptional weather systems. King County’s Flood Alert System King County has designed a message alert system to send texts, e-mails or phone calls to those who have signed up with the free King County Flood Alerts system for timely information on flood events. Notification of 3-different flood stages on the Cedar, Green, Tolt, and White Rivers, Issaquah Creek and for the Snoqualmie Basin are sent. The first notification level is Phase 2 indicating minor flooding in some areas. The Phase 3 message designates moderate flooding, while a Phase 4 notice signifies that there will be road closures and major impacts from the deluge. These alerts show the level of storm impact and are beneficial even for those people not directly in harm’s way, since excessive rainfall can impact travel plans and localized flooding, too. Floodzilla’s Snoqualmie Stream Flow, Nov. 19, 2013 Another informative Snoqualmie River tool is Floodzilla, created by a computer geek that wanted real time information on predicting whether there will be a noteworthy flood event. He didn’t want to receive notifications as each flood phase was reached, since that could be in the middle of the night. Rather he wanted to see what the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) computer model predicted for future flood potential. His model can forecast flood elevations up to three days ahead based on anticipated rainfall, which gives homeowners time to prepare for a flood. As shown on the above graph, the Snoqualmie River is expected to reach minor flood stage at Carnation (red line), mid-day Tuesday, November 19th and then begin to recede. The forecast is predicting additional precipitation late Wednesday or early Thursday morning, which will slightly increase the river’s flow, but not reach flood stage. Thurston County’s Emergency Management System Anticipated Chehalis River Levels on January 11, 2014 Thurston County Emergency Management has the most usable interface for flood monitoring for the layperson for the Black, Chehalis, Deschutes, Nisqually and Skookumchuck Rivers. The two pieces of information on the Emergency Management website are 1) a graph of the river water elevation for a full week, including the previous 3 days, the next 3 days and today and 2) a table depicting the different flood elevations with the potential impacts from too much water in the drainage basin. On the graph above, the amateur flood watcher can see whether the water elevation is expected to continue to rise on the Chehalis River at Grand Mound, or when the flood stage is expected to start falling. On this January 11, 2014 graph, the flow and water rates are expected to rise through the weekend with the weekend storm, but no significant flooding is currently expected. Chehalis River Historic Flood Stages At the same time, as shown on the table to the right, there are dates of past flood events with the expected damage at each flood elevation which can help homeowners anticipate whether they should consider evacuating to higher ground or not. With the expected 11.5 foot water elevation later this weekend, the river is not anticipated to reach the 12.2 foot elevation when minor flooding begins with banks overflowing into nearby fields and over a few roads. It will be interesting to monitor the online real-time graph throughout the weekend to see if there will be additional flood concerns. Minor fluctuations in temperature in the mountains, where the precipitation changes from snow to rain or the intensity of the lowland storm changes could change the current predictions. Pierce County’s Flood Alert and Mapping System Pierce County Rivers Flood Forecast The Pierce County Alert System has a flood alert system where the County will e-mail, text or phone you with critical information about the status of specific County rivers. More importantly, the County has a “quick look” flood status map, called the Pierce County Flood Monitor, which expeditiously depicts where flooding is occurring. This map is real time, but does not give any indication of anticipated future flood flows. Snohomish County’s Flood Mapping System Oct. 29, 2013 Snohomish County Flood Map Snohomish County Flood Warning System has a great map that is updated every 15 minutes with flood information at key locations along major County rivers. Depending on the color of the square on the map, a quick observation of the flood status can be determined. A green square signifies normal flow, a yellow square depicts a Phase 2 flood elevation, which has minimal impacts, Phase 3 (orange) and Phase 4 (red) signify increasing flood concerns. Clicking on a square pops up a new window where the river elevation in relation to the flood phases can be compared. As we head into flood season it is important to find out what information is available in your County and sign-up for alerts or “bookmark” your river resource, so you can take precautions to protect your livelihood and home. These are amazing tools our government have created to help us prepare for flooding and it is important to take advantage of them. With a 63% chance of a 100-year storm event any given wet season, it is critical to be prepared. Kathryn Gardow, P.E., is a local food advocate, land use expert and principal of Gardow Consulting, an organization dedicated to providing multidisciplinary solutions to building sustainable communities. Kathryn has expertise in project management, planning, and civil engineering, with an emphasis on creating communities that include local food production. Posted in Farmland Preservation, Flooding, Land Use Planning, Local Food \| Leave a reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line175
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__label__wiki	0.564922	0.564922	Small Tour Of St Fillans Cave In Fife \| The Village Of Pittenweem \| Paranormal Activity Leave a Comment / 360° Video Tours, Fife, Haunted Scottish Places / By Ryanon Small Tour Of St Fillans Cave In Fife Place of the cave is the actual meaning of the village name which we explored recently in search of the latest reports of haunted activity. We welcome you to Pittenweem, in the county of Fife, Scotland. You would be excused entirely if you did not see this cave and managed to walk past it without a fleeting glance in its direction. Perhaps paying more attention to your footing as you descended the steep hill that shoots beyond the entrance to a dark spiritual cave that has been everything from a place of worship through to smugglers passage. St Fillans Cave in Pittenweem is a small visitors attraction today, but in the past, it was a significant site in the Christian Church in Scotland. Named after St Fillan who came to Scotland from Ireland in 717AD as a hermit along with his Irish princess-mother St. Kentigerna, his Irish prince-uncle St. Comgan, and his siblings. He was credited with powers such as the healing of the sick, especially the mentally ill, and was also said to possess a luminous glow from his left arm which he used to study and write Sacred Scriptures in the dark. The latter part according to my research was more likely a lantern but nonetheless was used to write in dark places such as that of St Fillans Cave according to some accounts. Many religious saints have been attributed with the creation and worship at this spectacular cave in Pittenweem, but it’s St Fillan who has the honour of having such a national treasure named after him. Did he carry on his hermit ways here? We suspect so going by various accounts found in relation to this location. The big question should be, is he still active here, preferring the confines of this fantastic subterranean structure which you can literally feel the energy within. Well according to some locals, something is unique about the place for sure. As I collected the key to the cave and made my way down there with some light recording equipment -- my daughter and Wife with me for the trip -- a local said to my daughter to watch out for the ghost there, which I found very interesting indeed. We must not limit ourselves to the possibility of St Fillan being active here; we must also look at the possibility of Smugglers, as in times gone by the water made its way to the entrance and smugglers used this to their advantage. Possibly storing items in this area too as it certainly has some nooks and crannies!. Perhaps some of these characters are still walking the place in the afterlife, looking for their way back to the light. We could not finish without speaking about Pittenweem and witches; there has been much said about the imprisonment and death of such at the hands of the Church. Local historians -- and researchers -- such as Gregor Stewart who has a wealth of information about Witches in Scotland, have spoken about the atrocities resulting in witch trials in Scotland. Pittenweem has a lengthy history on this front; a simple google search will show you that many fine authors have written about and researched in this area. My question is -- and perhaps Gregor Stewart will clarify at a later date -- did the witches ever get kept in St Fillans Cave, and if so, are they also still active here? I hope to get some answers to the questions I put forward, in order to understand the significance of this location in regards to paranormal activity. So to kick us off, we have a short 360 interactive tour of the location. While you watch and ponder, I will begin the process of analysis of my audio files from this site, the construction of a video and the sharing of some photographs. At a later date, along with my colleagues from Fife Paranormal Research association, we will go ‘In Search Of’ the answers that people seek here. So please do check back for further updates as they reveal themselves….. Please remember to subscribe to our Youtube Channel for the very latest videos with regards to Haunted Scotland. You can access it HERE You can interact daily on our FACEBOOK page too, so come give us a LIKE & be part of the journey. We appreciate all your support and feedback with regards to our research and presentations.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line182
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__label__wiki	0.505662	0.505662	Jul 9 2009, 07:01am \| Edgar A. Gunther SolFocus scales CPV Series C to $77.6 Million Ramping and Scaling Concentrator PhotoVoltaic (CPV) Systems. Expanding manufacturing from 0.5 MW (MegaWatt) in 2008, to over 10 MW shipped in 2009, and 50 MW capacity by 2011. Well, it is clear anyone reporting on Tuesday’s “Haywood Dorland Energy Capital, LLC, Invests in SolFocus, Inc., the Leading Developer of Advanced Concentrator PV Solar Technologies” didn’t do their due diligence. Today with “SolFocus Raises over $77 Million in Series C Funding”, SolFocus Inc. said it closed the Series C round. About six months ago on January 8, 2009, with “SolFocus Raises $47.5M for Concentrating PV Solar” by Katie Fehrenbacher at Earth2Tech, SolFocus announced the $47.5 million first close Series C funding round and named company President Mark Crowley as CEO. Per Earth2Tech: The company had reportedly been looking to raise closer to $60 million to $80 million for this round, and SolFocus confirmed with us that the entire round will likely be closer to $60 million to $70 million, with the second tranche of funding likely closed later this month. Is there a Statue of Limitations on venture capital funding rounds? In this macroeconomic environment, any funding round is a commendable achievement, but six months does seem excessive. With this completed Series C, SolFocus has raised around $173.3 million and perhaps more depending on how the DOE (Department of Energy) Solar America Initiative (SAI) PV Technology Incubator Program funds and ISFOC are counted. Per SolFocus: New investors in the round include Demeter Partners, affiliates of Advanced Equities, and others. Advanced Equities, Inc. served as the financial advisor to SolFocus on the financing. (Ed note: http://www.advancedequities.com) There is no specific mention of the Haywood Dorland Energy Capital, LLC investment in the SolFocus press release. According to Steven Pottle, Managing Principal and founder of Haywood Dorland Energy Capital: Advanced Equities is a securities broker dealer that in this private equity financing worked for SolFocus and the VC funds to raise equity capital from small institutions and high net worth individuals. These investors bought equity in a special LLC formed by Advanced Equities and the LLC then bought preferred equity directly from SolFocus. This is a creative structure that allows investors that are accredited and small institutions to invest in a venture capital round of financing while relieving the company of having to deal with a large number of individual investors. In my opinion, we will see more transactions in the future with this type of structure. From SolFocus SF-1100S-CPV-28 System (Photo Credit: SolFocus Inc.) SolFocus does in fact have a SolFocus CPV System SF-1100S-CPV-28 datasheet. The CPV Rating of the system’s twenty-eight (28) modules combine for 8.4 kW (kiloWatt) of power at 850 W/m2 (Watts per meter squared) Direct Normal Irradiance, On-Sun, 20°C (centigrade) Ambient temperature. The inclusion of PV-Equivalent Rating metrics is encouraging, but I need to take more time to review the detailed specifications. While “Solar short takes: PV continues push into the mainstream media, pet peeves perturb on the PR front” in the Chip Shots blog by Tom Cheyney at PV-tech.org was optimistic about the New York Times article, “Solar Companies Merge Technologies in Bid for Utility-Scale Production” by Katie Howell, my attention was focused on this passage: Hartsoch said SolFocus and the CPV Consortium would like to see the federal government invest in the technology. It has already invested in research and development of CPV through its labs and grants to startup companies and academia. The next logical step, she said, is for the government to boost the scale-up process. “You’re now talking about small grants … to develop new technologies and some showcasing, but if you want to take this big-scale, there’s one more hurdle,” Hartsoch said. “What can you do to help us assure that it’s safe to deploy?” She suggested federal loan guarantees or installation of CPV demonstration projects on federal properties. There are already policy carve outs supporting photovoltaics on the state and federal level and more in progress. Why should the federal government choose one technology, CPV, over other photovoltaic technologies like CIGS (copper indium gallium diselenide), thin film, or even monocrystalline silicon? “What does solar want? Lots.” by Marc Gunther (no relation) tackles the issue in an eloquent fashion. As SolFocus begins the 10 MW Samaras Group installations this month on the Island of Crete, Greece, I am reminded of my only visit there in 1995. For the first time, I saw rows of modern wind turbines on the eastern portion of the island, and I later learned residents conserved fresh water to benefit tourists during the peak summer season. Crete has faced resource and climate issues for centuries. But everything came together when I was searching for a street address in Heraklion trying to decipher the Greek alphabet leveraging mathematical notation. That’s when I understood the cliché. It’s Greek to me! Cool Earth Solar attracts a Hot $21 Million in Series A Financing GreenWing Energy interview about the SolFocus CPV Agreement VVC installing SolFocus CPV Solar Plant Mesa Energy picks SolFocus for 92 kiloWatt CPV Installation Tags: HCPV \| SolFocus Pingback: Soitec Group acquires Concentrix Solar \| GUNTHER Portfolio ← Close to the SolarEdge GUNTHER Portfolio twitter Weekly Updates – 2009-07-11 →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line198
__label__cc	0.557166	0.442834	Hotel Atlantic Berlin Zadekstraße 1a, 12351 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30 60 97 10 14 Fax:: +49 (0)30 66 62 55 29 Airport Schönefeld – 6,2 km, 20 min., bus 171 Hauptbahnhof – 17 km, 50 min. with public transportation Messe Berlin (ICC) – 20 km, 40 min. with public transportation Potsdamer Platz , Reichstag, Brandenburger Tor – 15 km, 35 min. with public transportation Estrel Convention Center – 6 km, 15 min. with bus 171 U-Bahnhof Johannisthaler Chaussee (U 7) – 900 m. Bus station Zadekstraße (bus 171) – 30 m. Bus station Klinikum Neukölln (Bus M46) – ca. 400 m. Public transport for train passengers: Take the U7 or the Circle Line (S-Bahn 41/42) to Neukölln. From Neukölln you take the bus 171 towards airport Schonefeld and get off at Zadekstraße. The hotel is located 30 meters on the left side of the road. Public transportation (www.bvg.de) Train (www.deutschebahn.de) Public transport for air travelers: From Airport Schönefeld, take bus 171 towards Hermannplatz and get off at Zadekstraße. The hotel is located in the beginning-on the opposite side of the road immediately left Zadektraße. Airport (www.berlin-airport.de) Travelling by car: From north to exit A113 towards Schönefeld Johannisthaler Chaussee , right towards the airport and turn right Rudower Straße . The hotel is located right at the front left Zadekstraße. The authorities promise that Berlin Brandenburg Airport will go into operation on 17 March 2013. The previous opening date was scheduled for 3 June 2012. However, due to technical difficulties the opening has been delayed till 17 March 2013. more 27.05.2012 Also this year, Berlin invites you again to be with one of the largest New Year's Eve parties in the world while "on Brandeburger gate" !. Dear guests, Berlin is the international platform for fashion and lifestyle twice a year. Dear guests, It's that time again, the largest agricultural and horticultural food show in the world opens its doors under the radio tower at the fair grounds. (с) 2011	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line204
__label__wiki	0.626229	0.626229	← NEWS: Here’s the new Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross in all its glory VIDEO: Gerard’s Subaru GS-R Coupe and Subaru Ranch → EVENTS: New Year Meeting 2017, Part 03 — Isuzu and Hino take center stage Posted on March 1, 2017 by Ben Hsu Each year the Japanese Classic Car Association celebrates a different featured marque at the New Year Meeting. Cars belonging to the featured marque are gathered for a concours d’elegance competition with awards voted on by judges from various Japanese automotive publications. However, for 2017 the spotlight was shared by two automakers, Isuzu and Hino. Perhaps the JCCA felt that the rarity of these two nameplates required dual spotlights, but that fear was unwarranted. An astounding 39 Isuzus and Hinos showed up, which must have broken a record that no one was keeping track of. Even in Japan, it’s considered critical mass if either marque reaches double digits at a car show. Here, they outnumbered the Mitsubishis and Mazdas. The Grand Prize winner was a 1959 Hino-Renault 4CV belonging to a Mr Ito. Built in Japan under license starting in 1953, they continued to be produced until 1963, two years after Renault had stopped building them in France. It’s an infrequent sight to be sure, but what makes this particular car truly special is its single-digit license plate. That’s because Ito-san, who is well into his seventies, inherited the car from his father, who purchased it new 58 years ago. Judges cited the family history and condition when awarding Ito-san the trophy. Nearby, a 1966 Hino Contessa 1300S also had a single-digit plate, but it was quite a bit newer, having also been stamped with location kanji and an additional hiragana character. It was equipped with a racing gauges and a beautiful Nardi indicating that perhaps there was more than met the eye. In a special display area, Isuzu brought two vehicles from the company’s own collection. Representing the passenger car side of the business was a yellow 1975 Gemini LT, a global model that wore many badges dependent on its country of sale (in the US it was a Buick Opel). From the commercial side was a 1964 Elf, the first generation of Isuzu’s popular and long-running cab-over-engine truck. Plenty of Belletts turned up, ranging from a several twin-cam 1600 GT Type-R models to a very scarce 1500 DX sedan with a “type B” leaf suspension in gray. The latter, having been a low-end model, were not as frequently preserved as the high-performance ones and are ironically much rarer today. This particular example was bought as junk by Mr Uno, who painstakingly tracked own every rare bit of trim unique to the 1500 DX. It wasn’t for nought; Uno-san’s efforts garnered him the Restoration Award. Of course, there were a number of Isuzu 117 Coupés, the Giugiaro-penned beauty that could be the next blue chip JNC. A blue dai ni-ki (second phase) example was particularly fetching on black BBS wheels. Perhaps even more impressive was the presence of several early hand-built dai ichi-ki (first phase) examples. Only a scant 2,458 of the highly sought-after models were built. The Elegance Award went to Mr Asai’s hand-built 1969 117 Coupé. It looks like a museum piece, but Asai-san drives it every week and appears to keep it in top running condition. All Isuzus are rare, but one of the rarest was an Isuzu Florian SII 2000TL diesel owned by a Mr Okamoto. The Florian was never considered very well-engineered even when new, but its long production run from 1967-83 meant that by the end of its life it was beyond obsolete. That’s why examples like Okamoto-san’s 1981 model are so uncommon. For reasons unknown, Okamoto-san owns several Florians but drove this one to Tokyo all the way from Okayama Prefecture, some 400 miles away. At least he won a Best Saloon award for his troubles. For the performance-minded, a pair of factory hot-rod “Double Z” models held court, a silver Gemini ZZ/T and blue Gemini ZZ/R. Both came with larger DOHC 1.8-liter engines, but the ZZ/R in particular was built with privateer racers in mind and came with teeth-shattering suspensions. Since we are talking about marques that always had large trucks as their core business, it seems unfair to focus solely on passenger cars. Thus, we end with an Isuzu TWD 6×6 done up in the manner of a JDSF carrier. It seems absolutely bananas to own a vehicle this large in Japan, but the heart wants what it wants. There’s certainly no shortage of Isuzus to choose from. We’ll have more New Year Meeting coverage coming up. In the meantime, in case you missed it, here’s Part 01 – Swap Meet and Part 02 – Club Scene. Also, check out coverage from the 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 New Year Meetings. Brandon Kelley is founder of Tokyo Snack Detective. Shota Mori is a photographer living in Japan; His work can be found at @pgm_works and @pgmworks_official. tagged: 117, bellett, contessa, elf, florian, gemini, hino, isuzu, new year meeting, Renault 4CV. 10 Responses to EVENTS: New Year Meeting 2017, Part 03 — Isuzu and Hino take center stage Mark Newton-John said: Nice. Shame there are virtually no old, er, ANY Isuzus on this side of the world except for collector cars and the odd VehiCross. (Actually saw one the other day-Inland Empire) All the Geo Storms are probably crushed, I haven’t seen an Opel in the wild in over 30 years, but I do see the odd Honda Passport/Isuzu Rodeo once in a while… Any other spottings? on March 1, 2017 at 7:30 am Ben Hsu said: Wow, Geo Storm. That’s a car I haven’t thought of in a long time. I’d take one in teal. on March 1, 2017 at 4:45 pm ol shel said: Puleeze introduce me to Olivia. I am begging you. These posts keep getting better and better. That turquoise Hino is glorious… and that Renault 4CV! Didn’t even realise that was sold in conjunction with Hino. Reminds me a little of Citroens being sold through Eunos dealerships. M1abrams said: I just love the lines of the 117s. The early thin bumpers are great. (I wanna take a Contessa to a Corvair meet just to see the reaction.) on March 1, 2017 at 11:05 am Tom Westmacott said: Yeah, the 117s look especially elegant here. Actually I’m also partial to the Contessa, the chrome-grilled rear looks really exotic to me. Great photos, great coverage, yet again. I really appreciate the whole JNC crew, you keep putting out great coverage of everything classic Japanese 🙂 Arigatou! Joe Hornberger said: I geek out on vintage Isuzu and Mazda products, so it was nice to the Isuzu pics. But the Hino products, oh lord yes! It’s hard to geek on Hino because they are virtually non-existant! So, so glad to see some Hino and Isuzu love out there, wish I could’ve been a part of it. David Maurice said: What a beautiful array of stunning cars and trucks. More photos of those ISUZU’S would be appreciated. I am an ISUZU enthusiast in Australia. Andreas Uddling said: I am so fascinated by Japanese Renault/Hino! Hello, I´d like to get in touch with a owner of a Hino 4CV… is that possible? Andreas Uddling, on January 7, 2018 at 8:03 am	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line207
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__label__cc	0.52351	0.47649	Investigation of susceptibility of Staphylococcus species to some antibacterial drugs by disk diffusion and broth microdilution Author(s): Ašanin Jelena \| Aksentijević Ksenija \| Žutić Milenko \| Katić Vera \| Krnjaić Dejan \| Milić Nenad \| Ašanin Ružica \| Mišić Dušan Journal: Veterinarski Glasnik Issue: 3-4; Start page: 199; VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF Original page Keywords: mastitis \| Staphylococcus \| antibacterial drugs \| resistance The objective of this work was to identify isolated Staphylococcus species and to investigate their sensitivity to some antibacterial drugs. The material used for these investigations were Staphylococcus isolates originating from milk samples. A total of 25 strains of Staphylococcus isolates were examined, including 24 from milk samples from cows with mastitis, and one strain was isolated from a milk sample from a cow following treatment for mastitis. For primary identification, catalase and oxidase tests were used, as well as the free coagulase test. Following the preliminary tests, the isolated strains were identified using commercial systems ID32 STAPH (bioMérieux, France) and the BBL Crystal Gram-Positive ID Kit (Becton Dickinson, USA) according to the enclosed instructions. The Staphylococcus isolates were examined for sensitivity to the following: oxacillin, penicillin, cefoxitin, gentamicin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, sulfametoxazol/trimetoprim, and vacomycin using the disk diffusion method and the broth microdilution method as recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Strandards Institute - CLSI(2003), and the results were interpreted according to CLSI recommendations from 2008 and 2010. Antibiogram disks manufactured by Becton Dickinson (USA) were used, and the broth microdilution method was applied using pure antibiotic substances from different manufacturers: erythromycin, chloramphenicol, cefoxitin, gentamicin, oxacillin, tetracycline (Sigma Aldrich, USA), sulfametoxazol (Fluka, USA), penicillin (Calbiochem, Germany), vancomycin (Abbott laboratories, USA), ciprofloxacin and trimetoprim (Zdravlje A.D., Serbia). All 25 strains were catalase positive and oxidase negative. Of the 25 strains, 19 were coagulase positive and 6 were coagulase negative.With the implementation of the disk diffusion method on 19 strains of S. aureus, 17 were established to be resistant to penicillin (89.5%), and 2 strains to gentamicin (10.5%). The investigation of 3 strains of S. xylosus using the disk diffusion method showed that one strain was resistant to tetracycline (33.3%) and to oxacillin (33.3%), while another strain was found to be resistant to penicillin (33.3%). The third strain of S. xylosus was sensitive to all the examined antibiotics. Two strains of S. simulans and one strain of S. haemolyticus were not found to be resistant to any of the examined antibiotics using the disk diffusion method. The implementation of the broth microdilution method yielded in 13 strains of S. aureus resistance to penicillin (68.4%) with MIC values from 0.5 to 4 μg/m, in 2 strains to gentamicin (10.5%) with MIC values of 32 μg/ml, and intermediary sensitivity to chloramphenicol was established in 9 strains of S. aureus (47.4%) with MIC values of 16 μg/ml and to vancomycin in 1 strain of S. aureus (5.3%) with MIC values of 4 μg/ml. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. br 31079]	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line212
__label__cc	0.679295	0.320705	JSW Talks Tohoku Research Trip Report YouTube Fridays GSDF MSDF Key Figures from the MoD FY2013 Budget Request by James Simpson on Sep 7, 2012 • 8:43 pm 17 Comments Although we’ve covered some of the highlights of the coming fiscal year’s budget request (namely the purchase of the AAV7), with the budget request figure now public – plus its more readable 50-page booklet (all in Japanese), it is time to check and highlight the figures of note. » Total request: ¥4,653.6 billion: a decrease of 1.3% on the current fiscal year. » ¥21.2 billion for cyber-security: with breaches in the security of Japan’s major defense contractors and the Diet itself, according to IT Pro, Nikkei and NHK, the SDF is looking to create a 100-man strong Cyberspace Defense Unit as well as boosting training and development of cyber-security. This unit will reportedly bring together information and tasks from the SDF C4 Systems Command and the existing cyber security units of the each individual force (Ground, Maritime, Air), but also strengthen their capabilities and readiness, including the strengthening of the SDF and MoD networks themselves with an investment of ¥13.3 billion. This mirrors a general strengthening initiative being pursued through the government under the leadership of the National Police Agency. The MoD’s announcement of the plans apparently led to a rush to buy shares in LAC, a network and information security specialist. The proposed Cyberspace Self-Defense Force in relation to existing units Although rather grandiose-sounding (and reminiscent of the fictional ISDF introduced in the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory game), the unit will be a centralized tech support, risk assessment and cyber-investigation group rather than a force equivalent to the GSDF, MSDF and ASDF. I hope they choose a different name, as this one is just asking to be torn apart by Japan’s neighbors. [My bad, see comments] » ¥30.8 billion for two F-35 fighters, 47% more per unit than originally announced upon the contract signing: according to Mainichi, the price rise is a result of the reduction of productivity and efficiency after an intake of labor inexperienced with the F35 itself. The Wall Street Journal reported that ¥116.8 billion has been requested for the provision of assembly facilities. » ¥2.5 billion for four AAV7 amphibious landing vehicles: see Kyle Mizokami’s previous post on the issue for further details. The proposed new class, 25DD, is reportedly an improvement of the 19DD-class » ¥6.2 billion towards a GSDF Coastal Monitoring Unit on Yonaguni Island: this includes the price of facilities and monitoring equipment. » ¥3 billion for research into IR-Detection UAV platform: the Wall Street Journal, NHK and Nikkei report that the MoD wants an infra-red-capable UAV to detect North Korean ballistic missile launches, although you might be wondering why the J/FPS-5 radar network is not sufficient. » ¥72.3 billion for the construction of a new 5,000-ton destroyer: the destroyer will reportedly be an overhaul of the Akizuki-class with improved counter-submarine capabilities and a lower life-cycle cost as a result of the use of Combined Gas turbine Electric And Gas turbine (COGLAG) propulsion. » ¥7.2 towards the development of a new field communications system: utilizing recent technology and mass production to leverage economy of scale, the SDF is looking to implement lessons learned from the Tohoku Earthquake and undoubtedly to catch up with American developments in the field. [Special thanks to Susumu at Surveillance to Go Nowhere] Key Figures from the MoD FY2013 Budget Request, 8.0 out of 10 based on 1 rating Peter Ennis on Futenma Relocation Plan "There is Someone to Protect" - Current GSDF Recruitment Video [Youtube Friday] Asia Security Watch: Could downed U.S. drone benefit China? A former contributor to World Intelligence (Japan Military Review), James Simpson joined Japan Security Watch in 2011, migrating with his blog Defending Japan. He has a Masters in Security Studies from Aberystwyth University and is currently living in Kawasaki, Japan. His primary interests include the so-called 'normalization' of Japanese security (i.e. militarization), and the political impact of the abduction issue with North Korea. James Simpson has 254 post(s) on Japan Security Watch Categories: aircraft / amphibious warfare / ASDF / Budget / cyber-security / destroyers / F-35 / GSDF / hardware / Japan Self-Defense Force / Japanese defense industry / MoD / MSDF / News / Satoshi Morimoto / traditional press / unmanned systems Previous postNew Japan Self Defense Force Initiatives on Amphibious Warfare, Global Hawk, Cyber-Terrorism Next postSekai no Kansen: Japan's Strategy Against Senkaku Islands Dispute arkhangelsk says: A list of comments: 1) Just as I thought the Japanese finally gave up trying to the hopeless endeavor of appeasing those neighbors to which you refer to, but no, there is no “Self” in the proposed name. It is just the Cyberspace Defense-tai (P.11/50), and the last tai will probably be rated “Unit” rather than “Force.” 2) F-35: Sigh, nothing more needs to be said about this “wonderful” program, the F-35. 3) AAV7: I’ve had my say on that too. I’ve checked Google Earth, and Tri-Ring is right, but on the other hand the terrain looks so rough I don’t see the AAV7 doing much better either. I understand that the 4 vehicles are supposed to be samples. On the other hand, did they even ask the US Marines for some mutual exercises to demonstrate the ability of the vehicles to actually land in terrain similar to the Senkakus, or given a suitable landing site to deliver the landing force under realistic Japanese support conditions (read: I don’t see Japan being able to deliver the kind of covering fire, or preceding heliborne assault to protect these turtles like the US Marines are able to do) before even trying an sample buy? Was there even a tabletop exercise? Besides, the darn things cost 6.25oku yen each. That’s comparable to the Type 89 IFV and we all know what the cost did to the purchase count there – the Type 96 buy at over 1oku each is itself depressing. If for some reason the program pans out (or they close their eyes to the deficiencies), is there reason to believe they’ll buy sufficient quantities? 4) The IR-detection UAV does apparently make sense. The DSP satellites have limited resolution and reliability when dealing with the less than ICBM rockets Nodong uses. If they can get more reliable and accurate UAV direction and initial tracking, they can provide better target-designation data to the FPS-5 and improve its probability of acquisition. They are probably also concerned about that little flummox with the last time the NKs (tried to) sent up a satellite. 5) It wasn’t that long ago when 25DD is actually supposed to be an economy model, more of a replacement to the Abukumas. There was an article only in Feb-2012 Sekai no Kansei on that. On one hand I can be pleased they are upgrading from a smaller to a bigger destroyer. On the other hand, in these times of limited budget the Japanese would do well to consider smaller, cheaper ships that can be built in quantity for their regional forces. 6) P.21 Not budget related, but some small shakeups of the structure. The Joint Staff is getting bigger with new departments for “External Liaison & Coordination” and Joint Training. The shift in emphasis to the Southwest means the 6th Division loses its antiaircraft group while 15th Brigade gains an antiair regiment. And a new “Air Tactics Wing” to improve the combined arms employment of the ASDF. 7) P.31-34&42: The statistics show how the SDF is again a victim of salami slicing tactics so the government can waste money on “public works” projects and welfare. Like in all too many Western governments, the wrong things are being cut, again… 8) P.37 Only got a one line mention, but among possible ideas they settled for to send F-2 pilots to the US for training to compensate for the loss of all those F-2Bs last year. James Simpson says: You’re absolutely right about the Cyberspace Defense Unit – I misread it and kept on misreading it. D’oh! Thanks for that. Chuck Hill says: In relative terms, 5000 tons is a small destroyer, in fact now it would be considered an average to small frigate. It is likely they are quoting something less than full load displacement, but at less than $1B it is not out of line with what other advanced nations are building. Tri-ring says: Chuck-san You are probably right. Here are the specs for the British future frigate, type 26; Displacement: 5,400 tonnes, start of life Length: 148 m (486 ft) Beam: 19 m (62 ft) Speed: 28+ knots Complement: 130 If you compare them with the specs for the Akizuki class; Displacement: 5000 tonnes standard 6800 tonnes full load Length: 150.5 m (493 ft 9 in) Beam: 18.3 m (60 ft 0 in) Draft: 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in) Depth: 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) Propulsion: COGAG, two shafts, four Rolls Royce Spey SM1C turbines Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) Basically they are the same. The Kongo class by the way is; Displacement: 7,500 tons standard 9,500 tons full load Length: 528.2 ft (161 m) Beam: 68.9 ft (21 m) Draft: 20.3 ft (6.2 m) Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h) Range: 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,334 km at 37 km/h) On the other hand if you look at the predecessor of the Kongo class, the Hatakaze class specs; Displacement: (Hatakaze) 4,600 long tons (4,674 t) standard (Shimakaze) Length: 150 m (492 ft 2 in) Beam: 16.4 m (53 ft 10 in) Speed: 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) Again it is similar to the present Akizuki class. In a way it’s the same as car models. If you compare the first Honda Civic the size is similar to the present Honda fit. The size of Destroyer and Frigates had scaled up due to transition in requirements. Present destroyers are platform for Ballistic Missile Defense requiring high powered tracking systems incorporated into CIS. Frigates scaled up to fill in the position that destroyers filled in the past acting as escort to search and defend high prioritized assets like BMD DDGs and DDHs. How about increasing the capability of the current ship class instead of building something new and call it a different class? (eg, the Murasame and Takanami classes) The big upgrade for those two classes will be the installation of some variant of the FCS-3 and replacement of the combat systems with the latest version. The two jobs will at least cost half a new ship and the ship will be out of the line for a extended period. Further, it’ll mean a interruption to the flow of goeikan which is approaching its lower limit. You’ll have to tear up half of the ship to install making it more simpler to construct a new ship than to refurbish the old. It’s like construction of office buildings, the ones built in the 80′s&90′s which did not have extended wiring for IT installation in mind. To refurbish these buildings you need to tear up walls ceilings and floors to add new conduits for all these new wiring and still not meet some specs. due to lay out and/or power requirements. End result scrap and build. HB Pencil says: Do you have any figures for how much that might be? Uruzu says: I think the proposed new ships are simply replacements of the asagiri and hatsuyuki class. I predict they wont be much different from the akizuki class. The same old combination of essm, asroc, phalanx , fcs3 , unless theres some groundbreaking weaponry in development Which i dont know about. Grey Havoc says: Rather than replace any existing classes, I think the 25DD class may actually be aimed at augmenting the District Forces. I wonder if the design will take anything from the 2007 version of the 19DD design, as shown in a much earlier JSW post: Drats, thought HTML image tags were enabled. Here’s the image link: http://newpacificinstitute.org/jsw/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/img200806232012301.jpeg From the original post: “In 2007, after blueprints for the first ship had been completed, the first design pictured below was proposed. The design implemented quite a few changes, with additional room for a UAV in the aircraft hangar and a UUV in the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat storage area. Point defense went from Phalanx 1B to SeaRAM. The original design also called for more stealthy features, particularly the mast and a forward gun that recessed into a stealthy enclosure. Cost was projected at JPY85 billion. The design was not approved.” Regarding the Cyberspace Defense Unit, this may yet have an impact on it’s operations: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121007002450.htm Recently I came across this article; Japan Aims To Launch F-3 Development In 2016-17 http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_10_22_2012_p24-507747.xml&p=1 Interesting stuff Thanks. I’m wondering where the initial impetus for the article came from, it seems to be from the notion that IHI is building the engine. A great round-up of the current state of the ATD-X at any rate. Yeah I was think about that as well. My pet theory after reviewing the rather odd selection of F-35 over the other candidates when the airframes of the F-4J are already overdue for retirement makes me wonder if Japan struck a secret deal with the US to ensure the US would not interfere with the F-3 project like they did with the F-2. Japan really drew the short end of the stick with the F-2 project with budget overruns due to constant interventions by the US on every turn of the project. Looking at the i3 fighter concept drawing, I believe Mitsubishi Heavy may even have initial talks with Boeing over this project with it’s uncanny similarities with the Boeing F/A-XX project. Another project I found some what spooky is the Epsilon rocket development project. It’s suppose to be a commercial rocket but it is powered by solid propulsion, has a payload of 1,200Kg/LEO (250km x 500km). It can be assembled within 7 days and the most scary of all is that it can be launched within three hours after attaching final payload. This is an ICBM launch vehicle in every other ways. The Likely Contents of Abe’s Collective Self-Defense Panel Report May 10, 2014 Unofficially Official: The U.S. Rebalance to Asia-Pacific and the U.S.-Japan-Taiwan alliance Oct 23, 2013 Japanese Companies to Manufacture 10 percent of each of Japan’s F-35As Aug 21, 2013 Does the Izumo Represent Japan Crossing the “Offensive” Rubicon? Aug 13, 2013 SDF Capabilities and War Potential Aug 13, 2013 Grey Havoc – (Oct 11, 14:28) I missed this at the time, but looks like I was partly right about the J/TPS-102 radar. Seems like the MOD was planning to co-locate... Kevin – (Aug 11, 02:09) How do i get this kind of mre sent to hawaii. Brian – (Jun 20, 10:32) You should also investigate why these Japanese painted C-130's are flying around bases in Southern Arizona (most recent sighting is 6/20/14). Jesus Christ – (Apr 15, 09:56) I am doing a paper on alternatives to MILES, and have not yet seen how much the systems actually COST. Any information would be great. betterfatthanfascist – (Mar 17, 15:28) Japan should be much more concerned the U.S. was foolish enough to cancel the F-22 program when all the R&D had been paid for and... 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__label__cc	0.632179	0.367821	AUDIO BLOG TOUR AND REVIEW GONE TO GROUND Author: Rachel Amphlett Narrator: Alison Campbell Series: Detective Kay Hunter, Book 6 Publisher: Saxon Publishing Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural While attending a crime scene on the outskirts of Maidstone, DI Kay Hunter makes a shocking discovery. The victim has been brutally cut to pieces, his identity unknown. When more body parts start turning up in the Kentish countryside, Kay realises the disturbing truth – a serial killer is at large and must be stopped at all costs. With no motive for the murders and a killer who has gone undetected until now, Kay and her team of detectives must work fast to calm a terrified local population and a scornful media. When a third victim is found, her investigation grows even more complicated. As she begins to expose a dark underbelly to the county town, Kay and her team are pulled into a web of jealousy and intrigue that, if left unchecked, will soon claim another life. Buy on RachelAmphlett.com Before turning to writing, Rachel Amphlett played guitar in bands, worked as a TV and film extra, dabbled in radio as a presenter and freelance producer for the BBC, and worked in publishing as a sub-editor and editorial assistant. She now wields a pen instead of a plectrum and writes crime fiction and spy novels, including the Dan Taylor espionage novels and the Detective Kay Hunter series. Originally from the UK and currently based in Brisbane, Australia, Rachel cites her writing influences as Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and Robert Ludlum. She’s also a huge fan of Peter James, Val McDermid, Robert Crais, Stuart MacBride, and many more. She’s a member of International Thriller Writers and the Crime Writers Association, with the Italian foreign rights for her debut novel, White Gold sold to Fanucci Editore's TIMECrime imprint, and the first four books in the Dan Taylor espionage series contracted to Germany’s Luzifer Verlag. Website⎮Twitter⎮Facebook⎮Goodreads⎮Instagram I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Rachel Amphlett. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it. [Flora] This is a British murder mystery story filled with suspense and with an excellent narrator. I loved the use of colloquialisms to match the characters and the country like "take away" instead of take out and the "cooker" instead of stove. This is the first Kay Hunter novel I have read/listened to. I have to say I think as an American I enjoyed listening to it more than if I had just read it. I think the flavor of the story's setting would have been blurred if I just read it. I love the character, Kay. She is so intelligent and I love that she is so insightful like how she can see the talent in her fellow officers and how rank doesn't matter only talent. I love the idea of the group of officers getting together for a BBQ as a monthly event and how Kay's husband, Adam, who is a veterinarian brings home animals from the clinic and does all the cooking. I like that the main characters speak of replacing one of their own and the fursation of looking at resumes and the fear that the new person may not fit in; as well as, the traffic on the M and in the towns. It is these touches that show the talent of the author to make the story come to life. I loved that it seemed so true to life and how plausible the characters are. They are actually very well rounded even the supporting characters which is not always the case in a murder mystery. This is a murder mystery in which good old fashioned police work and intelligence are used to try an stop a serial killer who is cutting up people. I was drawn in from the start and was blown away by the end. It is rare that a book can keep me guessing as to who done it, but this one did. 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__label__wiki	0.691686	0.691686	Tuning the Vertical Phase Separation in Polyfluorene:Fullerene Blend Films by Polymer Functionalization Anselmo, Ana Sofia Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering. Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Materials Science. (Materialfysik) Lindgren, Lars Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. Rysz, Jakub Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Bernasik, Andrzej Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. Budkowski, Andrzej Andersson, Mats R. Svensson, Krister Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering. (Materialfysik)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1711-5595 van Stam, Jan Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences. (Materialvetenskap)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0995-3823 Moons, Ellen Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering. Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Materials Science. (Materialfysik)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1609-8909 2011 (English)In: Chemistry of Materials, ISSN 0897-4756, E-ISSN 1520-5002, Vol. 23, no 9, p. 2295-2302Article in journal (Refereed) Published Achieving control over the nanomorphology of blend films of the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester, PCBM, with light-absorbing conjugated polymers is an important challenge in the development of efficient solution-processed photovoltaics. Here, three new polyfluorene copolymers are presented, tailored for enhanced miscibility with the fullerene through the introduction of polymer segments with modified side chains, which enhance the polymer’s polar character. The composition of the spincoated polymer:PCBM films is analyzed with dynamic secondary ion mass spectrometry (dSIMS). The dSIMS depth profiles demonstrate compositional variations perpendicular to the surface plane, as a result of vertical phase separation, directed by the substrate. These variations propagate to a higher degree through the film for the polymers with a larger fraction of modified side chains. The surface composition of the films is studied by Near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (NEXAFS). Quantitative analysis of the NEXAFS spectra through a linear combination fit with the spectra of the pure components yields the surface composition. The resulting blend ratios reveal polymer-enrichment of the film surface for all three blends, which also becomes stronger as the polar character of the polymer increases. Comparison of the NEXAFS spectra collected with two different sampling depths shows that the vertical composition gradient builds up already in the first nanometers underneath the surface of the films. The results obtained with this new series of polymers shed light on the onset of formation of lamellar structures in thin polymer:PCBM films prepared from highly volatile solvents Washington: ACS Publications , 2011. Vol. 23, no 9, p. 2295-2302 morphology; polymer−fullerene interaction; solar cell URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7817DOI: 10.1021/cm1021596ISI: 000290063600004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-7817DiVA, id: diva2:427090 Swedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2011-06-27 Created: 2011-06-27 Last updated: 2017-12-11Bibliographically approved 1. The morphology of polyfluorene: fullerene blend films for photovoltaic applications Open this publication in new window or tab >>The morphology of polyfluorene: fullerene blend films for photovoltaic applications Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. 2011 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) Polymer photovoltaic systems whose photoactive layer is a blend of a semiconducting polymer with a fullerene derivative in a bulk heterojunction configuration are amongst the most successful organic photovoltaic devices nowadays. The three-dimensional organization in these layers (the morphology) plays a crucial role in the performance of the devices. Detailed characterization of this organization at the nanoscale would provide valuable information for improving future material and architectural design and for device optimization. In this thesis, the results of morphology studies of blends of several polyfluorene copolymers (APFOs) blended with a fullerene derivative are presented. Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy was combined with dynamic Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (dSIMS) for surface and in-depth characterization of the blend films. NEXAFS was performed using two different electron detection methods, partial (PEY) and total (TEY) electron yield, which provide information from different depth regimes. Quantitative compositional information was obtained by fitting the spectra of the blend films with a linear combination of the spectra of films of the pure components. In blends of APFO3 with PCBM in two different blend ratios (1:1 and 1:4 of polymer:fullerene) NEXAFS data show the existence of compositional gradients in the vertical direction for both blend ratios, with clear polymer enrichment of the free surface. A series of APFOs with systematic changes in the side-chains was studied and it was shown that those small modifications can affect polymer:fullerene interaction and induce vertical phase separation. Polymer-enrichment of the free surface was clearly identified, in accordance with surface energy minimization mechanisms, and a compositional gradient was revealed already in the first few nanometers of the surface of the blend films. dSIMS showed that this vertical phase separation propagates throughout the film. It was possible to determine that as the polar character of the polymer increases, and thus the polymer:fullerene miscibility is improved, the tendency for vertical phase separation becomes stronger. Karlstad: Karlstad University, 2011. p. 47 Materials Science, Organic Photovoltaics, Polymer Solar Cells 2011-09-02, 21D 302, Karlstads universitet, Karlstad, 10:15 (Swedish) Rensmo, Håkan Uppsala universitet. Paper II was not published at the time of the licentiate defence and had the title: NEXAFS spectroscopy study of the surface composition in APFO3:PCBM blend films 2. Materials aspects in spin-coated films for polymer photovoltaics Open this publication in new window or tab >>Materials aspects in spin-coated films for polymer photovoltaics Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Engineering and Physics. Polymer-based photovoltaics have the potential to contribute to boosting photovoltaic energy conversion overall. Besides allowing large-area inexpensive processing, polymeric materials have the added benefit of opening new market applications for photovoltaics due to their low-weight and interesting mechanical properties. The energy conversion efficiency values of polymer photovoltaics have reached new record values over the past years. It is however crucial that stability issues are addressed together with efficiency optimization. Understanding fundamental materials aspects is key in both areas. In the work presented in this thesis, the morphology of polymer:fullerene films and its influence on device performance was studied, as well as the effect of light exposure on the surface of fullerene films. Several polyfluorene copolymers were used for the morphology studies, where the effects of changing spin-coating solvent and of side chain engineering were investigated with dynamic secondary ion mass spectrometry (dSIMS) and near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy. Polymer-enriched surfaces were found in all blend films, even in the cases with homogeneous distributions in the bulk. Side chain engineering of the polymer led to gradual changes in the compositional variations perpendicular to the surface, and to slight variations in the photocurrent. The electronic structure of the fullerene derivative PCBM was studied in detail and the spectroscopic fingerprint of the materials was analysed by comparison with theoretically simulated spectra. Photo-stability studies done in air showed that the surface of fullerene films underwent severe damages at the molecular level, which is evident from changes in the valence band and X-ray absorption spectra. These changes were explained by transitions from sp2-type to sp3 hybridization of the carbon atoms in the cage that resulted in the destruction of the fullerene cage. Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2013. p. 88 Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2013:3 materials science, photovoltaics, conjugated polymer, polymer solar cell, bulk heterojunction, coating, morphology, fullerene, photostability, degradation, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, synchroton-based techniques Materialvetenskap urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-16107 (URN)978-91-7063-475-8 (ISBN) 2013-01-25, 21A342, Karlstad University, SE-651 88, Karlstad, 13:15 (English) Dastoor, Paul University of Newcastle, Australia. Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering. Karlstad University, Faculty of Technology and Science, Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences. Publisher's full texthttp://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/cm1021596 Anselmo, Ana SofiaSvensson, Kristervan Stam, JanMoons, Ellen Department of Physics and Electrical EngineeringMaterials ScienceDepartment of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line230
__label__wiki	0.835028	0.835028	secretary@ipswichphotosociety.org Our club was first formed in 1890 as ‘The Ipswich & West Moreton Photographic Society’. On 12th July 1901, the club changed to ‘Ipswich Amateur Photographic Society’. In July 1953, the club became incorporated as ‘Ipswich Photographic Society’. Back Row : Miss Phillipa Barkell, Mrs C.W.L. Heiner, Mr J.H. Barkell, R. Henderson, Mrs. R. Henderson Johnston, Llewellyn Salkeld, Harry Williams, Hugh Parkinson, Bert Roberts, Herb.Hastings, Tom Chesters. Cec. Harper, Miss Cameron, Henry Parker, Mr. Fred Jackson (C& F. Grocery.) Miss Chesters, Mrs. Hugh Parkinson, C.W.L. Heiner, Photo Taken by Pearson Cameron. Member of the first Ipswich Photographic Society : 1907 -1910. Photo taken at the Upper reaches of the Bremer River. Ipswich Photographic Society - All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line234
__label__wiki	0.637598	0.637598	Presence of Jewish society at 32nd anniversary of Islamic Revolution The Jewish society of Tehran in collaboration with the Fajr Ten Day Celebrations Headquarters, established the Joint Fajr Ten Day Headquarter of the Jewish Society at the office of this society. This headquarter side by side with the other minorities of the country and the Fajr Ten Day Celebrations Headquarters participated at the ceremony of laying a bouquet of flowers at the mausoleum of the late Imam Khomeini (P) on Bahman 12th (Jan 1), paying respect to the minorities' martyrs at the Jewish Cemetery of Tehran, and had an active presence at the Bahman 22nd (Jan 11) nationwide rallies. Among the other activities of this headquarters there was sponsoring a poetry night titled the Martyrs of Revolution by the Cultural-Artistic Jewish Center, organizing cultural and sports competitions at Jewish Association's special schools and free visits of patients by Dr. Sepehr during the ten-day period of the Fajr Celebrations. The Jewish Fajr Headquarter also in collaboration with the Jewish Associations at different provinces and townships throughout Iran, sponsored special celebrations nationwide, among which we can refer to the Iranian Jews celebrations in Kermanshah, Shiraz, and Isfahan. ACTIVE PRESENCE OF ISFAHANI JEWS AT FAJR TEN DAY CELBRAIONS The society of Isfahani Jews had an enthusiastic presence at the celebrations of the minorities held on Thursday Bahman 11th (Jan 1) at Master Farshchian Hall of Isfahan. The event was held in the presence of Isfahan Governorate and Islamic Guidance Office of the city's officials. The religious leader of the Iranian Jews Rabi Masha-Allah Golestani-Nezhad, the representative of the Iranian Jewish society at the Islamic Parliament of Iran Dr. Siamak Morreh Sedq, and a group of members of Tehran and Isfahan Jewish societies' boards of directors were present at the event. The Jewish Youth Chorus Group performed some literary pieces praising the revolution of the Iranian nation at the celebration. In another part of the event a video clip on temples of various monotheist faiths produced by Luna Yumtoubian, Shulmit Sediq, Behrouz Shemian and Davoud Kaamel was screened for the audience. In this video clip after focusing on the prayer methods in various religions the directors have elaborated on the commonalties among them. Among the speakers at the ceremony there was Rabi Sediq-Pour who elaborated on the activities of the Iranian Jewish community during the post-Islamic Revolution era and then read out the communiqué of the celebration for the audience. BAHMAN 22ND CELEBRATED BY KERMANSHAH JEWS SOCIETY The Kermanshah Jewish Society celebrated the 32nd anniversary of the glorious victory of Islamic Revolution of Iran with a feast at the Gatherings Hall of that city's Jews in the presence of the representative of the Supreme Leader in Kermanshah Province Ayatollah Olama, the representative of the Iranian Jewish society at the Islamic Parliament of Iran Dr. Siamak Morreh-Sedq, and a large group of Jews of Kermanshah and Kamyaran. The event began with the recitation of holy verses from the Old Testament, the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a prayer for health by Rabi Qoddousi. Then Dr. Morreh-Sedq congratulated the audience on the occasion of the blessed Fajr Ten Day period and elaborated on the wholehearted support of the Shi'a sources of jurisprudence for the followers of monotheist religions in Iran. He added, "In Iran the religious authorities of monotheist faiths have interactions with one another and this has led to the emergence of a peaceful atmosphere for everyone in which they live at ease and peace of mind." In another part of the event Fereidoun Qahremani presented a report on the one year performance of the Jewish society of the city, pointing out that the Jewish communities of Kermanshah and Kamyaran are constantly contacting each other and cooperating with one another. He meanwhile appreciated the cooperation of his fellow Jewish citizens in sponsoring such events in line with preserving the Jewish culture in this part of Iran adding that they play a very important and effective part in ensuring the continuation of life of such small communities. At the end, too, the Kermanshah Jewish society presented a plaque of appreciation to the Representative of the Supreme Leader in Kermanshah Province Ayatollah Olama, in remembrance of his efforts aimed at solving the problems of the Iranian Jews.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line236
__label__wiki	0.89562	0.89562	Nick Matthew And Mohamed Elshorbagy Through To AJ Bell British Squash Grand Prix Final Elshorbagy prevailed 3-2 in a gruelling 95-minute battle with Gaultier, recording his fifth consecutive win over the charismatic Frenchman, and will now take on Matthew for the 15th time - with honours even so far between the duo. They last met in the semi-finals of the Allam British Open in May when Elshorbagy triumphed 3-1 over Matthew, whom he cited as ‘past his peak’ ahead of their 2014 World Championship semi-final clash, and he’ll be hoping to record another win over the man from Sheffield in a mouth-watering title decider (Monday September 14). “I am really happy I am playing another final, my first final here in the Grand Prix,” said Elshorbagy. “Another final with Nick and we always have big matches. He probably had an easier draw than me but if there was a time I could play those tough matches and be up for it physically, its when I’m 24 years old. “I have no excuses for tomorrow. I know I’m going to be hopefully fresh and I’m going to be ready for it and give it my all tomorrow.” Matthew secured his place in a third consecutive British Grand Prix final, where he’ll be gunning for a third consecutive title, courtesy of an assured 3-0 win over Karim Abdel Gawad. “I think I played really well today,” said Matthew. “I think I’ve played better each day. Karim offered a different challenge to my other opponents. I’ve never played him before and with his silky skills he presented a totally different challenge and I never felt totally settled. “I’m looking forward to the final tomorrow and I just feel happy to be on court and doing justice to myself.” Results - AJ Bell British Squash Grand Prix: Semi-finals [1] Mohamed Elshorbagy (EGY) bt [3] Gregory Gaultier (FRA) 3-2 : 7-11, 11-7, 11-9, 6-11, 11-8 (95m) [2] Nick Matthew (ENG) bt [6] Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) 3-0: 11-7, 11-6, 13-11 (48m) Draw - AJ Bell British Squash Grand Prix: Final [1] Mohamed Elshorbagy (EGY) v [2] Nick Matthew (ENG) All the action will be shown live on SQUASHTV - www.psaworldtour.com/tv Defending champion Nick Matthew, the 35-year-old from Sheffield, will take on 24-year-old World No.1 Mohamed Elshorbagy in the final of the 2015 AJ Bell British Squash Grand Prix tomorrow after the Egyptian came through an epic encounter with World No.3 Gregory Gaultier at Manchester’s National Squash Centre earlier today.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line242
__label__wiki	0.888113	0.888113	KZN Leaders KZN Top Business Awards KZN eBook KZN Top Appointments KZN Business News KZN Top Brands KZN Chamber News Desk JCCI News Desk KZN Top Business Woman BusinessFit KZN Brand DNA KZN Entrepreneurs KZN Government KZN Municipalities KZN Parastatals KZN Top Businesses KZN Top Restaurants {BANNER_STUFF} King Shaka International Airport KZN Top Business Winner 2015 Transport, Storage and Communication KZN Top Business Awards 2016 Finalist:King Shaka Airport:Transport King Shaka International Airport - Stepping Out Airports Company South Africa Limited (ACSA)with a network of nine airports throughout South Africa handles over 98% of the country's commercial air traffic. The ACSA airports have implemented its operating model that seeks to transform all their airports into multifaceted, global gateways for travel, trade, job creation and commerce opportunities. ACSA's vision is to be a world leading airport business, and has since transformed its South African airports into internationally renowned, structurally and functionally advanced, customer focussed and award-winning aviation businesses. The ACSA business has a network of nine airports, six of which are regional airports, and three that are international gateways - OR Tambo International, Cape Town International and King Shaka International. Within South Africa, ACSA has built airports with a combined capacity of 54 500 million passengers. ACSA formed part of a consortium that took over the expansion and management of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India. In partnership with the Brazilian company, ACSA was successful in a bid to manage the development, maintenance and operations of Guarulhos International Airport in Sau Paulo, Brazil, the busiest international airport in Latin America. Regarded as one of the best airports in the world, passenger numbers and flights have been on the increase since King Shaka International Airport (KSIA) opened nine years ago. From its inception in 2010, KSIA has garnered many accolades over this short period. KSIA won this year's award for Best Regional Airport in Africa and Best Airport Staff in Africa serving 5-10 million passengers at an event held in London recently. The airport has also been recognised many times in the Skytrax awards. It goes further, KSIA has been chosen by passengers as one of the winners in 2018 Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards. The airport was named amongst other award-winning global airports in the ASQ Departures Survey in the "Best Airport by Size and Region: 5-15 million passengers in Africa" category. KSIA was also voted internationally as the 10th Most Punctual Airport in the world in its category by OAG Aviation Worldwide in 2017. In 2009 Emirates Airlines and Air Mauritius were the only international operators out of Durban and then KSIA. Since then, this has grown to include Turkish Airlines, Qatar Airways, Proflight Zambia, SA Express, SA Airlink and Air Namibia which travels to Gaborone and Windhoek. On the domestic front Mango airline, SAA, SA Express, SA Airlink, Kulula, BA operated by Comair and Fly Safair are the operators to all major destinations in South Africa. Another major accolade was the commencement in October 2018 of three flights a week, by British Airways, directly from London to Durban with B787 900 aircraft. This was achieved through the collective collaboration of the KZN Route Development Committee now called DURBAN DIRECT (involving the city, province, ACSA, Dube TradePort, Tourism KZN, Trade & Investment KZN) and other stakeholders. DURBAN DIRECT is an intergovernmental structure focused on promoting and developing new international air services to and from Durban. DURBAN DIRECT offers an attractive airline support programme, together with marketing support programmes, to assist airlines to start new and grow existing international air routes. KSIA is a major economic catalyst for investment and growth in the region. The airport celebrated a major milestone in 2019 of reaching almost 6 million passengers by the end of the 2018/19 financial year. The number of international arrivals has increased from 96 000 a year, to 370 000. Since 2010, passenger seat capacity has increased from 6 million to 7.5 million. The compounded average growth rate over the past three years is 7% for seat capacity, and 8% for passenger numbers. People and society is a key indicator of ACSA so investment in Socio Economic Development (SED) is a vital response to the socio-economic imperatives of the country. Therefore, ACSAâ€™s social investment projects include mobility, health and welfare, job creation, community development, youth development, women empowerment, people with disabilities, environment and education; with focus on projects that boost infrastructure and education based on promoting tourism and jobs in South Africa. To this end KSIA has proudly invested almost R45 million in the past nine years on SED and we will continue to uplift communities. ACSA is currently on a journey to promote and ensure transformation in various areas of the business and will continue to ensure that our business opportunities reflect the demographics and designated groups of the country at all our airports. As part of its ongoing commitment to clean energy generation and sustainability, ACSA has rolled out a series of photovoltaic solar power plants at George, Kimberley and Upington Airports. To date four of ACSA airports have been awarded Level 1 Carbon Accreditation and includes KSIA who has been awarded the ISO 14001 Environment Accreditation. ACSA Focus ACSAâ€™s vision is to become the most sought-after partner in the world for the provision of sustainable airport management solutions. The pillars that will ensure ACSAâ€™s sustainability into the future is very clear; RUN AIRPORTS, DEVELOP AIRPORTS and GROW OUR FOOTPRINT. The ACSA strategy is underpinned by that decisions and actions taken will be based on its impact on people and society; to remain environmentally sustainable and to focus its business to continue contributing to the economic growth of the South Africa. Back to Top Businesses Full Name of Business: Airports Company South Africa Limited (ACSA) Nature of Business: Airport Management and Airport Infrastructure Development Date Established: 1993 Subsidiaries: OR Tambo International, Cape Town International, King Shaka International, Bram Fischer International, George, East London, Kimberley, Port Elizabeth International, Upington International Footprint: Management contract in Guarulhos International Airport in SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India, MOU in Ghana and Munich B-BBEE Status: Level 3 Acting CEO: Ms Bongiwe Mbomvu COO: Ms Fundi Sithebe General Manager: Mr Terence Delomoney Assistant GM Airport Services: Mr Nkosinathi Myataza Assistant GM Client and Passenger Services: Ms Azwifaneli "Fani" Mphaphuli Senior Manager Corporate Affairs: Mr Colin Naidoo Acting Senior Manager Finance: Mr Lutando Madliwa Airports Company South Africa Head Office Physical Address: 24 Johnson Road, The Maples Office Park, Bedfordview, Johannesburg Postal Address: P.O. Box 75480, Gardenview, 2047 Website: www.airports.co.za / www.acsa.co.za Postal Address: P.O. Box 57701, King Shaka International Airport, 4407 http://www.acsa.co.za King Shaka Airport - British Airways to start direct Durban - London services British Airways will begin flying three times weekly direct from London Heathrow's Terminal 5 to Durban, starting on 29 October. The ser... continue reading › KZN Top Business Awards 2017: Transport, Storage And Communication : Winner - King Shaka international Airport Now in its 7th year of operation King Shaka International Airport has garnered many accolades over this short period. The airport was voted the top Regional Airport for Africa in the Skytrax World Air... continue reading › King Shaka International Airport Welcomes Air Seychelles King Shaka International Airport welcomed Air Seychelles to Durban on their inaugural flight on March 30th commencing a new two-per-week service to Durban. Operating under flight code HM63, this fligh... continue reading › Airports Company South Africa Limited (ACSA) Airports Company South Africa â€œThe problem has been isolated and all efforts are being made to minimize the inconvenience to passengers. Accordingly 12 check-in counters, of the 104 counters will be out of service today in o... continue reading › King Shaka International Airport (ACSA) Porsche Parade at KSIA The Porsche Club SA hosts the Porsche Parade, â€Show and Shineâ€ all around the country and when it was Durbanâ€™s turn to host it, KSIA was the venue. The roar of the jet engine... continue reading › KZN Investment King Shaka International; Airport Airports Company South Africa Limited (ACSA) Copyright © 2020 KwaZulu-Natal Top Business	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line246
__label__cc	0.536057	0.463943	LaWineClub Store PWD Columns Add a Tasting Note (available to registered users) Latest TNs TNs by Region TNs by Varietal TNs Summary Submit Article (Login required) Articles by Main Topic Articles by Area Help support our site by making a donation: Announcing the 2012 New Orleans Food & Wine Experience Posted by Mike P. on 2012-02-03 13:31:06 (8707 views) What began as a small, intimate, one-day gathering of wineries and chefs 20 years ago has grown into a grand celebration of wine and food attracting more than 10,000 people each year over a 5-day weekend, and giving back to the community through support of various organizations. The 20th Anniversary of the New Orleans Food & Wine Experience, which takes place May 22-26, 2012, includes Wine Dinners hosted by more than 30 New Orleans area restaurants; Vinola, NOWFE's premium tasting event; the Royal Street Stroll sponsored by Rouses, NOWFE's signature event, a definitive evening event set in the heart of the French Quarter; and exciting Culinary Seminars which will fill the days and nights with all things wine and food. The weekend culminates with Grand Tastings on Friday and Saturday in true grand fashion with more than 175 wineries showcasing over 1000 wines and 75 chefs serving culinary delights from our region. In addition, NOWFE will celebrate its 20th Anniversary with an international cake competition and tasting on Friday, May 25th from 8:30-11:00 pm. Invited pastry chefs Vanessa Fiorini of Toronto, Canada; Solandie Exantus of the Royal Sonesta Hotel New Orleans; Bronwen Weber of Frosted Art Bakery & Studio in Dallas; and Vinnie and Michelle Garcia of The Bleeding Heart Bakery in Chicago will join in the festivities and create their own signature version of an anniversary cake to be paired with Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte at the Big Gateaux Show. This ticketed event, hosted by Food Network's Keegan Gerhard, Sucre's Tariq Hanna, and the Royal Sonesta Hotel, will feature a burlesque-theme with Trixi Minx & the Beauties from Burlesque Ballroom. Each chef, assisted by a local culinary student, will create spectacularly designed cakes, to be displayed and tasted at a burlesque themed after-party following the Grand Tasting. Celebrity hosts and judges, including World Champion Pastry Chef and winner of Top Chef Desserts, Season 2, Chris Hanmer; native born Chef John Besh; Lee Schrager, founder of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and New York City Wine & Food Festival; and a member of the editorial team from Fine Cooking Magazine, as well as attendees, will choose their favorite delight. The winning design and pastry chef will be awarded with a $5000 prize sponsored by Valrhona. All cake entries will be on display at the Saturday Grand Tasting in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. "We are so excited about this event; it will certainly highlight the glamour and excitement that New Orleans has to offer, while toasting our milestone," states Mary Beth Romig, New Orleans Wine & Food Experience Board President. "Everyone should celebrate in such grand style on their anniversary." The event itself has evolved through the years and over its 20-year history NOWFE has contributed more than $1 million to local non-profit organizations. This year 100% of the proceeds will go towards two causes: fighting hunger in our community and supporting culinary education. The 2012 beneficiaries have been named: Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana will receive 40% of the proceeds. Second Harvest Food Bank is leading the fight against hunger in south Louisiana through food distribution, education, advocacy and disaster response. Annually, Second Harvest serves approximately 263,000 people through 240 nonprofit and faith-based agencies across 23 south Louisiana parishes. The following organizations will share the remaining 60% of the proceeds: the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation's ProStart Program, Delgado Culinary Arts School, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA), the John Folse Culinary Institute and the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans. "The donations we make to our local non-profits not only benefit them, but it strengthens our community as a whole," states Jamie Peckenpaugh, NOWFE Executive Director. "We are proud to have been a part of this community for 20 years and we look forward to the next twenty." This year NOWFE welcomes Fine Cooking magazine as its National Media Sponsor and the return of Audi of New Orleans as the Official Automobile Sponsor and Rouse's Markets as the Presenting Sponsor of the Royal Street Stroll. "We are extremely proud that Fine Cooking is joining our returning sponsors in this year's event," states Romig. "Such well respected companies only enhances our reputation and opens the doors for more people to discover the allure of NOWFE." NOWFE 2012 will be held May 22-26, 2012. In an effort to fight hunger and support culinary education, the 2012 beneficiaries will share 100% of the proceeds. Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana will receive 40% and the following will share the remaining 60%: the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation's ProStart Program, Delgado Culinary Arts School, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts' Culinary Program, the John Folse Culinary Institute and the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans. For additional press information, including downloadable images, contact Liz Bodet 504.583.5550, egoliwas@bellsouth.net or visit the media center at www.nowfe.com. 1 Article displayed. © 2011-2015, LAWineClub.com. Your source for Wine Tasting Notes, Wine Information, Wine News, and Wine Forums and Messageboards. 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__label__wiki	0.867137	0.867137	A stunning Water Lantern Festival is coming to Montreal What might just be the most magical night ever is coming up for Montreal this year. The Water Lantern Festival has announced that it will be gracing Mississauga with thousands of floating lanterns later this year, as part of a celebration that spans the entire world. According to the festival’s official website, the event is a celebration of life with proceeds going towards charities and non-profit organizations within the area. “Water Lantern Festival brings together individuals from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life to join in one emotional and memorable night. At the Water Lantern Festival, we cherish these moments and will do our best to help you have a memorable experience that you’ll never forget as you witness the beauty of thousands of lanterns reflecting upon the water,” the website states. The festival takes place throughout multiple cities around the world, with the Canadian cities of Quebec, Regina, Vancouver, Hamilton, Calgary, Ottawa, Mississauga, and, of course, Montreal taking part. For the Calgary event, a date has been confirmed and tickets are already rolling out. Montreal shan’t be far behind, and you can click the Notify Me tab on the event’s site to be kept in the loop. Expect an evening filled with food trucks, music, lantern designing and finally, a magical launch of the lanterns into the water as the sun goes down. For our pals over in Calgary, their event includes a floating lantern, a commemorative drawstring bag, a marker, and a wristband. Expect something similar, if not the same, when more details float through about Montreal’s event. Euthanasia order on hold for Montreal dog that attacked children A pit bull dog that attacked four children and two adults in August 2018 in Montreal North will not be euthanized in the immediate future. The euthanasia order has been temporarily suspended pending the appeal of a Quebec Superior Court decision. On Tuesday, Judge Lukasz Granosik rejected a request to halt the euthanasia order issued by the Montreal North borough, which declared the animal a “dangerous dog.” The City of Montreal has not changed its mind. This is only a delay before it proceeds with euthanizing the dog, a source told the Canadian Press. Shotta, the one-year-old dog, was in the care of its owner’s acquaintance in August 2018. The dog attacked four children and two adults, causing serious injuries in separate incidents on the same day. After the attacks, the dog was taken from the home and entrusted to the SPCA. WATCH: Dog found dead in Angrignon Park The Road to Home Rescue Support, an American shelter, asked the court if it could take in the dog. Christa Frineau, the dog’s owner, had also asked that Shotta not be euthanized. Granosik refused to grant the request. —With files from Global’s Kalina Laframboise 9 Things To Do In Montreal This Friday, Saturday & Sunday Today’s sunny skies have me itching to make weekend plans. I absolutely cannot wait to make the most of this warmer weather. This might be the time to inflate my bike tires and dust off my running shoes… Whether you want to brush up on your cooking skills, let loose, or fill your stomach with amazing food, there’s an event out there for you. Read on for 9 fun things you can do with friends or a fling this weekend. TL;DR Read on for 9 fun things you can do in Montreal this weekend. Let Yourself Go At Dress Up Where: 185 Avenue Van Horne, Montréal. When: Friday, March 29, 9:00 p.m. Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’s running for president in 2020 WASHINGTON – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. “Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump,” the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist said in an email to supporters. “Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.” An enthusiastic progressive who embraces proposals ranging from Medicare for All to free college tuition, Sanders stunned the Democratic establishment in 2016 with his spirited challenge to Hillary Clinton. While she ultimately became the party’s nominee, his campaign helped lay the groundwork for the leftward lurch that has dominated Democratic politics in the Trump era. The question now for Sanders is whether he can stand out in a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates who also embrace many of his policy ideas and are newer to the national political stage. That’s far different from 2016, when he was Clinton’s lone progressive adversary. Still, there is no question that Sanders will be a formidable contender for the Democratic nomination. He won more than 13 million votes in 2016 and dozens of primaries and caucuses. He opens his campaign with a nationwide organization and a proven small-dollar fundraising effort. “We’re gonna win,” Sanders told CBS. He said he was going to launch “what I think is unprecedented in modern American history”: a grassroots movement “to lay the groundwork for transforming the economic and political life of this country.” Sanders described his new White House bid as a “continuation of what we did in 2016,” noting that policies he advocated for then are now embraced by the Democratic Party. “You know what’s happened in over three years?” he said. “All of these ideas and many more are now part of the political mainstream.” Sanders could be well positioned to compete in the nation’s first primary in neighbouring New Hampshire, which he won by 22 points in 2016. But he won’t have the state to himself. Sen. Kamala Harris of California, another Democratic presidential contender, was in New Hampshire on Monday and said she’d compete for the state. She also appeared to take a dig at Sanders. “The people of New Hampshire will tell me what’s required to compete in New Hampshire,” she told shoppers at a bookstore in Concord. “But I will tell you I’m not a democratic socialist.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren of nearby Massachusetts will be in New Hampshire on Friday. One of the biggest questions surrounding Sanders’ candidacy is how he’ll compete against someone like Warren, who shares many of his policy goals. Warren has already launched her campaign and has planned an aggressive swing through the early primary states. Shortly after announcing her exploratory committee, Warren hired Brendan Summers, who managed Sanders’ 2016 Iowa campaign. Other staffers from Sanders’ first bid also have said they would consider working for other candidates in 2020. The crowded field includes a number of other candidates who will likely make strong appeals to the Democratic base including Harris and Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. The field could also grow, with a number of high-profile Democrats still considering presidential bids, including former Vice-President Joe Biden and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke. While Sanders had been working to lay the groundwork for a second campaign for months, it was unclear whether he will be able to expand his appeal beyond his largely white base of supporters. In 2016, Sanders notably struggled to garner support from black voters, an issue that could become particularly pervasive during a primary race that could include several non-white candidates. Last month, he joined Booker at an event in Columbia, South Carolina, marking the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. In 2016, Sanders lost the South Carolina primary, which features a heavily black electorate, by 47 points. Sanders also faces different pressures in the #MeToo era. Some of his male staffers and supporters in 2016 were described as “Bernie bros” for their treatment of women. In the run-up to Sanders’ 2020 announcement, persistent allegations emerged of sexual harassment of women by male staffers during his 2016 campaign. Politico and The New York Times reported several allegations of unwanted sexual advances and pay inequity. In an interview with CNN after the initial allegations surfaced, Sanders apologized but also noted he was “a little busy running around the country trying to make the case.” As additional allegations emerged, he offered a more unequivocal apology. “What they experienced was absolutely unacceptable and certainly not what a progressive campaign — or any campaign — should be about,” Sanders said Jan. 10 on Capitol Hill. “Every woman in this country who goes to work today or tomorrow has the right to make sure that she is working in an environment which is free of harassment, which is safe and is comfortable, and I will do my best to make that happen.” Santé Et Nutrition1 mois ago Styles De Vie1 mois ago Une boisson frappée végétalienne pour tous les amateurs de desserts Cet été, ajoutez de la saveur à vos pâtes Une nouvelle technologie donne plus de libertés aux personnes atteintes de diabète Une nouvelle façon de percevoir le diabète de type 1 Comment freiner la crise des opioïdes dans les petites villes Les jeunes et les opioïdes : Ce que les parents doivent savoir Prenez soin de vous cet été Survivre à un voyage en famille Magasiner pour un véhicule en 2019 5 bonnes raisons de louer un bateau de plaisance Affaires5 mois ago Le stress financier affecte-t-il votre santé physique et mentale ? 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__label__cc	0.590381	0.409619	Nitinol Force International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery , 1 (SUPPL. msn back to msn home lifestyle best deals. The most unusual feature of nitinol alloys is force or load hysteresis. Nitinol requires a "retuning force" to return it to its original length after current has been turned off. Equipment and instrumentation were built up for the measurements of the Nitinol helix force-length-temperature (FLT) behavior (state equation). Initiator Performance Characterization • Firing Pin to Primer Performance* • Primer / Initiator Gap Analysis • Primer to BKNO3 Transfer* • BKNO3 to Igniter Transfer. In essence, Nitinol is an actuator, sensor, and heater all in one material. [1] To the amazement of the team, the bent wire formed back into the original, long and straight shape. Important Tags: nitinol wire , nano friction , surface area Send to Colleague. , Menlo Park, USA (alloy. MEDUSA uses the shape-memory alloy nitinol, which. , and Gaston, R. Fixation combinations simulated arthrodesis of the talonavicular joint. The motor basically comprises of “U-shape” Nitinol wire mounted a center spoke wheel using hook and a container containing separate section of hot and cold water. Less is more with Nitinol actuators. The device is comprised of a staggered linear array of NiTi in wire form that, as a shape memory alloy, can achieve linear displacement through material phase change when heated. Below are things I've made using nitinol wire along with some tips I've learned along the way. This material allows the basket to retain its shape following extreme torsion and increases the radial force of the basket. length and 0. 016" etched straight annealed Nitinol wire was joined. Strength and related forces To find the force value for your wire, multiply the given value by the wire's cross sectional area. 5F basket is capable of providing optimal performance while sacrificing linear opening. Superelastic shape memory Ni Ti alloy nitinol fishing gear wire/line. Nitinol, a Stochiometric nickel titanium alloy was first introducedthe 1970’s. Nitinol has two. of standard nitinol stents to ensure a round lumen 2 in complex anatomy and exerts no chronic outward force 3,4. Robertson1, A. Track Force Comparison: Spectre vs. Mechanical fatigue and fracture of Nitinol S. On the role of SMA modeling in simulating NiTinol self-expanding stenting surgeries to assess the performance characteristics of mechanical and thermal activation schemes A. The Thrombectomy Set waste lumen is rated for 50psi. Force sensor As shown in Fig. The restoring force is the summation of the restoring forces delivered by two groups of wire ropes. The Finite element method was used for evaluation of the effects of material properties on the mechanical performance of the new geometry designed for the Z-shaped open-cell femoral artery self-expanding stent, made of Nitinol wire, by application of crushing force. In glasses, the frames often get bent and the nitinol frames can return them to. MCS has expertise in forming, bending, and grinding Nitinol. Figure 2 illustrates two methods of applying a bias force, a spring and a static weight. Nitinol is mainly used for medical purposes. Results: The radial force was greater in the center than at the edge of each stent. The Memory Wire toy is made of nitinol wire with a low transition temperature (the temperature of hot water). , Limited on Alibaba. Nitinol actuators also produce a constant force throughout the entire stroke, while the output force of a solenoid drops dramatically after the first 10% of motion. 2010; accepted in revised form 30. I did order a sample of Nitinol when I was about twelve or thirteen in the late seventies. After a sequence of operations, a stent is mounted on a catheter and inserted into a blood vessel. Press Release Nitinol Medical Devices Market 2019 Share, Scope, Stake, Trends, Industry Size, Sales & Revenue, Growth, Opportunities and Demand with Competitive Landscape and Analysis Research Report. All instrumentation for the JAWS TM Nitinol Staple System comes in a self-contained, disposable. MEDUSA uses the shape-memory alloy nitinol, which. Here are my results: 0. The stent expands to its unconstrained diameter when released from the deployment catheter into the iliac artery. The advantages of Nitinol become more pronounced as the size of the. Below are things I've made using nitinol wire along with some tips I've learned along the way. Two major advantages of NiTiNOL are the shape memory effect and the superelastic. The one product made there was a nitinol U-clip for use in heart valve replacement surgery—the clip, with the shape-memory properties nitinol is known for, can be quickly used instead of using hand-stitching within the patient. Nitinol is a nickel-titanium alloy (NiTi) with exceptional shape memory and superelastic properties. We also offer most varieties of Shape Memory Alloy online. Uses a Nitinol wire formed to a closed loop that drives the two connected wheels. 55-Nitinol is an NOL designation for this series of near-stoichiometric intermetaliic compound alloys. The paired wire construction enables capture of several small stones in one pass while the patented no-tip disc minimizes tissue trauma during use in restricted spaces. Distal Nitinol Core is highly flexible and kink-resistant for increased durability 0 10 20 30-20 -18 -16 -14 -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 Force (Grams) Distance (cm) Testing completed by Vascular Solutions, Inc. If bent beyond it's ability to return to it's shape, heat can be applied to return it's elastic properties. It is uniquely different then typical wire alloys used for cold forming or coiling wire components. When attempting to straighten out the nitinol wire takes a form depicted by the dotted lines. Kellogg's Research Labs is an innovative company focuses on Nitinol product prototyping and development. Novastep is a global medical device company designing, developing and commercializing products for the bones, joints and soft tissues of the foot and ankle. Best Nitinol prices online \| Nitinol for sale with amazing discounts from top websites \| Check out the best deals today by MSN. to its austensite shape creating a force. High Force Compress Nitinol spring Nitinol SMA spring, US $ 3 - 15 / Piece, China, peiertech, nitinol. was only reached for contact force (p= 0. They resist outside forces with a significantly higher radial resistive force. tive force on the blood vessel so that if the blood vessel is compressed external-ly, the stent will return to its original position. Nitinol-based medical devices can be divided into two groups: implantables (e. Nitinol Wire by can be stretched out, only to return to its original shape when added to hot water! It might seem like magic at first, but you'll learn about the science behind memory wire. Its name is an acronym standing for Nickel Titanium Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Contact-Free Zones and MR conditional. NITINOL FOR ORTHOPEDIC GUIDE WIRES For the ultimate precision and flexibility, use non-kinking Nitinol to guide your cannulated instrument kit into the body. Y1 - 2014/1/1. 001), with double-staple constructs 29. Our in vitro experiment suggests that, even if there are no stent fractures, the loop‐shaped 0. The Nitinol Memory toy is made of nitinol wire with a low transition temperature (the temperature of hot water). Milling, turning, and grinding are possible with excellent results, but expect a lot of tool wear. At the same time, the stent is able to maintain a stable crush-resistant force, avoiding collapse following implantation. The stent is cut from a Nitinol tube in an open lattice design, and has tantalum radiopaque markers at the proximal and distal ends of the stent. Our premium nitinol products are preferred by some of the major medical device and contract manufacturers for developing vascular implants and surgical devices. Both staple configurations induced a significantly greater contact force and area across the arthrodesis than the crossed screw and claw plate constructs at all measurements. Rectangular, flat coupons representative of several mouthguard configurations were constructed for testing using an instrumented drop-weight impact tower. The typical form -factor for commercial Nitinol is simple extruded wire. This particular version of the spring will contract on its own when cooled, and expand with force when heated. Double-staple fixation, however, showed significantly greater mean compressive forces than single staples ( p < 0. Contact force controlled orthoses made of nitinol shape memory alloy wire for the treatment of malformed ears. Does not have to be wire. SURFACE NITRIDING AND OXIDATION OF NITINOL By Edin Bazochaharbakhsh Nitinol has been widely employed in biomedical devices due to its unique mechanical properties such as superelasticity, shape memory, and good biocompatibility. I use a candle flame for programming it and both a candle flame and electrical current for testing the nitinol. Nitinol alloys Mobility in soil Other adverse effects None 13. A research study that has recently been obtained through FOIA offers stunning confirmation that Wright-Patterson Air Force base contracted Battelle Memorial Institute to analyze material from a crashed UFO at Roswell in 1947. Teeth provide fixation as well as high pull-out strength. The application of an external load transforms Nitinol from austenite to martensite. It is thought that the Nitinol layer can distribute the force of an impact and that the thin foam layer may absorb this distributed force better than a solid EVA mouthguard of the same thickness. martensite I have been running the simulation with a greater and greater force to cause elongation and. POBA Limitation: To minimize. 5F) baskets were tested for radial dilation force in 10 repetitions using a floating block atop a stationary block secured to a digital scale. Thank you for posting this. The material, if deformed while cool, returns to its undeformed shape when warmed. Jana Pawła II 37, 31 864 Kraków, Poland Corresponding author. Owing to its capacity to undergo a thermal or stress induced martensitic. The Nitinol wire was 0. Design and Testing of Novel Mouthguard with Intermediate Nitinol and Foam Layers be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Brendan O'Toole, Ph. Nickel titanium, also known as Nitinol (part of shape memory alloy), is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages e. Sensor™ PTFE-Nitinol Guidewire with Hydrophilic Tip is a high performance hybrid wire that combines the benefits of multiple specialty wires for access, handling, and flexible ureteroscope passage. Nitinol stents are slightly larger than the size of the intended artery, and after deployment exhibit a chronic radial force to maintain position. 0 mm) sheathed delivery system. Contracted by the U. Blockwise Engineering LLC is an Arizona company, formed in the year 2000. The current study has examined the effects of two welding techniques on Nitinol: micro-resistance spot welding (MRSW) and laser micro-welding (LMW). MCS has expertise in forming, bending, and grinding Nitinol. RRF (Radial Resistive Force) and COF (Chronic Outwards Force) are important mechanical responses unique to Nitinol Superelastic stents. China Nitinol manufacturers - Select 2019 high quality Nitinol products in best price from certified Chinese Titanium manufacturers, Titanium Alloys suppliers, wholesalers and factory on Made-in-China. An expanding force such as a balloon creates tension in a metal, known as the apparent stress (force per original unit cross-sectional area). Novastep is a global medical device company designing, developing and commercializing products for the bones, joints and soft tissues of the foot and ankle. When the heat source is removed and the tube cools, the tube will relax, but not uncoil, unless some force is applied to effect its uncoiling. The paired wire construction enables capture of several small stones in one pass while the patented no-tip disc minimizes tissue trauma during use in restricted spaces. Ability to Reposition. SMAs for Industrial applications From first NiTiNOL to a big success - [email protected]: from 5 g to 3 Kg NiTiNOL Medical Industrial. The Prototyping Center is a fee-for-service laboratory providing early stage design and manufacturing of biomedical devices made from advanced materials such as. The force generated when the wire is reverting is surprisingly strong. alloys applications athermal austenite biocompatibility cof corrosion design diffusional transformation displacive transformation durability electropolish fatigue filter history Inclusions introduction isothermal laser martensite medical microstructure mr napoleon news nitinol NMIs porous r-phase radial force rrf shape memory shape memory. A force is produced when the wire is turning. Y1 - 2014/1/1. Many years back I was involved in the development of a Nitinol motor for use in the process control industry. The effect of nitinol wire has to be seen to be believed, the odd metal will happily change shape and unknot itself. Stent-Design. was only reached for contact force (p= 0. One square inch of Nitinol material generates a shape returning force of + 30,000 PSI. A two-way spring automatically resets itself when cooled, eliminating the need for a biasing force. Nitinol returns to its original shape with a pulling force of about 25,000 pounds per square inch. 2 Data Analysis For each device and mechanical force tested, data were collected for load (kgf, y-axis) vs. T1 - Austenite-martensite phase transformation of biomedical Nitinol by ball burnishing. Orthodontists use Nitinol as the wires for braces. When the forces are aligned into each other, they are called compression forces. The Arcad ® Staples was designed to help achieve optimum compression for fusion. One square inch of Nitinol material produces a return force of + 30,000 PSI. The objective of this analysis was to determine the ideal flux and solder combination that optimizes the amount of force required to break the soldered bond when 0. All of which are possible with nitinol actuators. Optimized Fixation. The Memory Wire toy is made of nitinol wire with a low transition temperature (the temperature of hot water). This is extremely important when a stent is placed in a peripheral vessel, for example, a carotid artery. Saleebn, B. Nitinol-based medical devices can be divided into two groups: implantables (e. They can provide flexible and constant force, have little residual deformation and can. Mean compressive force for single nitinol staple constructs, 36. Eyeglasses for active adults and kids. Maximum recovery force: the greatest force a wire can exert when heated. After scoring the calcification, a Gekira 10 mm x 40 mm (Boston Scientific) was used. This material is easy to use, small in size, operates silently, has a high strength-to-weight ratio,. Nitinol, the non-brand-specific name, comes in an as-drawn form, which is what a Maker would want, because it allows one to set the memory. However, force is an integrated quantity whereas strain is inherently a local quantity. Nitinol Surgical Devices Currently, Nitinol is used in the following biomedical applications: cardiovascular stents, kink resistant guidewires, minimally invasive surgical tools, and self-locking orthopedic devices. The JAWS TM Nitinol Staple comes pre-loaded on the. In glasses, the frames often get bent and the nitinol frames can return them to. 18 Benchtop testing with the 5 pounds of force results in compression of a standard laser-cut nitinol stent (below left). Nitinol Open Spring Nitinol open and closed springs are used to pull sharp teeth to widen the gap of the patient's teeth. PRECISE PRO RX ® Stent is the industry carotid stenting system, used by physicians to perform Carotid Artery Stenting as an option for patients at high risk for surgery. Significant artifacts, caused by the NITNOL wire could not be detected in the MRI. Or if it was plastic or a glass, they lose their shape and break, or worse, they remain in the disfigured state permanently. 02 inch diameter nitinol wires. Engagement Force. , Experts in Manufacturing and Exporting Nitinol Shape Memory Alloy Products, Tungsten Products and 885 more Products. common force (4 lbs) was translated into displacements for both the laser-cut nitinol tube stents and the SUPERA wire-interwoven nitinol stents. gioplasty, there are indications that the chronic outward force of a Nitinol stent placed without previous PTA causes the vessel to remodel with less intimal hyperplasia than if PTA is performed prior to stenting [5]. The Memory Wire toy is made of nitinol wire with a low transition temperature (the temperature of hot water). Contact force controlled orthoses made of nitinol shape memory alloy wire for the treatment of malformed ears. G&H® OrthoClub™ Members are saving as much as 40% on over 6,000 brand–name clinical & patient supplies and 5-15% on all G&H manufactured treatment products!. This allows the design of devices that apply a constant force or load (stress) over a wide range of shapes. The device is designed to allow Nitinol forms, such as helical springs or Belleville washers, to be used in compression. I believe nickel and titanium can form alloys, but nitinol isn't actually an alloy, strictly speaking, and the word is used only to refer to the "shape memory alloy," not to alloys of nickel and titanium in general. Carbide tooling is highly recommended. 2010 Abstract. Caution: The law restricts these devices to sale by or on the order of a physician. View Lab Report - Nitinol from CHEM 150 at University of Kansas. the production of stents. Blockwise Engineering LLC is an Arizona company, formed in the year 2000. Contact force controlled orthoses made of nitinol shape memory alloy wire for the treatment of malformed ears. Nitinol \| Ni14Ti11 \| CID 3081502 - structure, chemical names, physical and chemical properties, classification, patents, literature, biological activities, safety. Many years back I was involved in the development of a Nitinol motor for use in the process control industry. Solenoids are also ON/OFF devices, and do not have speed, force, or position control. Wang on nitinol's atomic properties, nitinol would not have been able to be commercially produced and used for its properties like it is today. Nitinol is the common name used for the shape memory alloy Nickel Titanium (NiTi) and derived from its place of discovery (Nickel Titanium Naval Ordinance Laboratory). Then challenge students to explain the contradiction with metal properties when a straight piece of wire dropped in hot water contracts (not expands) to form a new shape. They can provide flexible and constant force, have little residual deformation and can. Solar panels on some satellites are raised into position by shape memory alloys, activated by the heat of the Sun. Nitinol requires a "retuning force" to return it to its original length after current has been turned off. , and Gaston, R. 035‐inch wire protruding through self‐expanding nitinol stent struts. ˘ˇˆ ˙ ˙ ˘ ˇ ˆ˙ ˝ ˙˝ ˛ ˆ˘˚ ˜ ˆ ˙ ˝ ˛ ˆ˘˚˙ ˘!. A surface-initiated polymerization of styrene on carboxylic acid terminated phosphonic monolayers was utilized to increase the corrosion resistance of nitinol and nickel oxide surfaces. Data Collection. After being released by this delivery system (Figure 1), the stent self-expands and exerts a radial force on the wall of the blood vessel. MEDUSA uses the shape-memory alloy nitinol, which. Unlike two-way Nitinol, one way Nitinol can only memorize one shape so it was necessary to provide outside force to retract to its “U-shape”. Biomechanical properties of nitinol staples: effects of troughing, effective leg length, and 2-staple constructs. 5F), and Sacred Heart Medical Halo (1. One of the reasons that Nitinol works so hard to return its original shape is that it is not just an ordinary metal alloy, but what is known as an intermetallic compound. Conclusion The penetration force, radial dilation force, opening dynamics, and resistance to deflection varied between 5 commonly available tipless nitinol stone baskets. , Experts in Manufacturing and Exporting Nitinol Shape Memory Alloy Products, Tungsten Products and 885 more Products. Superelastic Nitinol stents are used to solve problems like post implantation restenosis, twist/bending limitations, inadequate dynamic behavior and insufficient radial strength [3]. Nitinol is a nickel-titanium alloy (NiTi) with exceptional shape memory and superelastic properties. Next time I'd make a longer Nitinol wire run, I think. that appears in the literature on the transformation in NITINOL alloys. I believe nickel and titanium can form alloys, but nitinol isn't actually an alloy, strictly speaking, and the word is used only to refer to the "shape memory alloy," not to alloys of nickel and titanium in general. As one way nitinol is being used, an outside force is required, which is provided by use of. AU - Fu, C. Results: The radial force was greater in the center than at the edge of each stent. Materials and Methods: Boston Scientific OptiFlex (1. A few variants of Nitinol also include small amounts of a third element that is used to. This is called the bias force. In glasses, the frames often get bent and the nitinol frames can return them. The Nitinol Memory toy is made of nitinol wire with a low transition temperature (the temperature of hot water). The force necessary to reset the wire to the initial condition after cooling is approximately 20% of the force generated during actuation. This is called the bias force. , Committee Member. Purpose: Nitinol stents exert a continuous force on the vascular wall, termed chronic outward force (COF). Uses a Nitinol wire formed to a closed loop that drives the two connected wheels. Optimized Fixation. The force generated when the wire is reverting is surprisingly strong. Persons allergic to nitinol (nickel titanium) may suffer an allergic reaction to this implant. Press Release Nitinol Medical Devices Market 2019 Share, Scope, Stake, Trends, Industry Size, Sales & Revenue, Growth, Opportunities and Demand with Competitive Landscape and Analysis Research Report. By using superelastic NiTiNOL in the compliant articulation structure, we expect to obtain an increased articulation angle and blocked force compared to stainless steel. 9%) under-went repeat angiography and nitinol stent fracture analysis using 5-inch cine fluoroscopy magnification. The perks of nitinol Taking it a step further, we offer a trio of options for percutaneous procedures that borrow from our flexible basket designs and incorporate a rigid, stainless steel. Source from Lumenous Peiertech on Alibaba. 0 mm) sheathed delivery system. Nitinol is used in various industries, especially for biomaterials. , Committee Member. Therefore, nitinol having low elastic modulus provides a greater range of activation and fewer adjustments will be required for arch wire to move the teeth to their final positions. Nitinol shape memory alloys have revolutionized many traditional engineering designs with the unique properties of pseudoelasticity and shape memory effect. Shape Memory/Nitinol Alloys materials are capable of remembering a previously memorized shape and exert a useful force or support very high deformations, up to 10%, thanks to their Superelasticity properties. The Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) nitinol stent fracture classification sys-tem was developed for nitinol Figure 3. Nitinol stents are manufactured to a size slightly larger than the target vessel size and delivered constrained in a delivery system. nitinol manufacturer/supplier, China nitinol manufacturer & factory list, find qualified Chinese nitinol manufacturers, suppliers, factories, exporters & wholesalers quickly on Made-in-China. examples of how Nitinol can be affected by welding. In a sawbones model, troughing for a nitinol staple had no effect on nitinol staple compressive force. The force generated when the wire is reverting is surprisingly strong. Superelastic shape memory Ni Ti alloy nitinol fishing gear wire/line. Ability to Reposition. At the present moment, primary fabrication processes for Nitinol-based devices include laser cutting and manual techniques. Saleebn, B. Decreasing Test Time and Increasing Confidence in Nitinol Devices Nickel titanium alloy, also known as nitinol, is used in a wide range of coronary and vascular stents that help treat coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease and other conditions. I hadn’t seen either of these videos before. Nitinol exhibits two unique properties: superelasticity and shape memory. Many years back I was involved in the development of a Nitinol motor for use in the process control industry. , Limited on Alibaba. 2 Data Analysis For each device and mechanical force tested, data were collected for load (kgf, y-axis) vs. One of the reasons that Nitinol works so hard to return its original shape is that it is not just an ordinary metal alloy, but what is known as an intermetallic compound. For example, superelastic nitinol can be deformed to 10% strain, and recover to its original shape when the deformation force is released. The NOL stands for Naval Ordinance Laboratory, where the memory properties were discovered by William J. 0 mm) sheathed delivery system. STI manufactures the actual units needed for pre-clinical and clinical tests while also providing customers with a single-source for both in-house and complementary testing capabilities. We also offer most varieties of Shape Memory Alloy online. Because of unique mechanical characteristics and excellent biocompatibility, Nitinol is used as self-expanding endovascular stents to scaffold diseased peripheral arteries. The current study has examined the effects of two welding techniques on Nitinol: micro-resistance spot welding (MRSW) and laser micro-welding (LMW). The choice of Nitinol also drives many of the design decisions, such as the mechanical design of the cell, spring selection for a return force for the one-way SMA spring coils, and cell interconnects and mating, which are addressed in the following. The motor basically comprises of “U-shape” Nitinol wire mounted a center spoke wheel using hook and a container containing separate section of hot and cold water. Also, nitinol is used in couplings that join the ends of hydraulic tubing in aircraft. The shape setting of the nitinol occurs when the metal is annealed in the range of 500 - 550 ˚C. The objective of this analysis was to determine the ideal flux and solder combination that optimizes the amount of force required to break the soldered bond when 0. Two major advantages of NiTiNOL are the shape memory effect and the superelastic. Nitinol cannot be expected to offer any protection from a high energy collision, or the impact of a ballistic object. It is thought that the Nitinol layer can distribute the force of an impact and that the thin foam layer may absorb this distributed force better than a solid EVA mouthguard of the same thickness. Ritchie2 Nitinol, a near equiatomic intermetallic of nickel and titanium, is the most widely known and used shape memory alloy. When the same force is applied to the Supera™ Stent. We report a case of a loop‐shaped 0. 9%) under-went repeat angiography and nitinol stent fracture analysis using 5-inch cine fluoroscopy magnification. While in most engineering materials load (or stress, if nonnalizLod) increases linearly with deflection (strain) upon loading and decreases along the same path upon unloading, nitinol exhibits distinctly differem behaviour. After fabricating the alloy component into a spring, the force actuation was given by the deflection of spring in compression form. Upon release of the load, martensite transforms back to its original parent or austenite phase. This material allows the basket to retain its shape following extreme torsion and increases the radial force of the basket. The shape setting of the nitinol occurs when the metal is annealed in the range of 500 - 550 ˚C. Carbide tooling is highly recommended. 1a, the sensor was designed with three basic components: a Nitinol elastic wire, a pair of strain gauges, and a rigid base. Nitinol Open Spring Nitinol open and closed springs are used to pull sharp teeth to widen the gap of the patient's teeth. Nitinol is a titanium nickle wire that exhibits super-elasticity. I like that line of thinking Use one actuator in the hot stage ,to apply friction to another actuator in the cold stage Both deforming the metal and partially heating it, so less heat is needed to finish the process. 035‐inch wire has a potential to protrude through the struts of the self‐expanding nitinol stents. Duerig the Chronic Outward Force (force against the vessel), which is an important design feature. A cohesive theory is presented in which residual stresses enable the formation and retention of an intermediate rhombohedral structure, "R," during. Overview of Newer Stent Devices for Aneurysm Treatment Randall C. that appears in the literature on the transformation in NITINOL alloys. This generation is a major advance in the development of self-expandable nitinol stents, offering better bio-mechanics compared with first-generation self-expandable coronary stents. However, a one-way spring needs to be deformed by an external force when cooled. Nitinol has two. The terms chronic outward force (COF) and radial resistive force (RRF) have been coined by Duerig to describe the specific characteristics of nitinol stents (Duerig et al. Teeth provide fixation as well as high pull-out strength. Jana Pawła II 37, 31 864 Kraków, Poland Corresponding author. The melting point for nylon is about 400F, but with pressure, and the thin wire, it seemed to eat into it at a much lower temperature, even around 170. Known for its unique shape memory properties - the ability to remember and return to a specified shape after deformation when exposed to a predetermined temperature - this alloy is revolutionizing the way the medical device and other high-performance industries manufacture next-generation solutions. In most applications a bias force is applied to the wire constantly. AquaLiner II Second Generation Super-Elastic Hydrophilic Nitinol Guidewire; AQUALiner II Second Generation Hydrophilic Super-Elastic Minimal force is required. Design and Testing of Novel Mouthguard with Intermediate Nitinol and Foam Layers be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Brendan O'Toole, Ph. antique masons ironstone small 925 chamber pot 133g circa 1890 rare flying bird design. NiTiNOL is a nickel and titanium alloy developed at the Naval Ordnance Lab in the 1960s [25]. I believe nickel and titanium can form alloys, but nitinol isn't actually an alloy, strictly speaking, and the word is used only to refer to the "shape memory alloy," not to alloys of nickel and titanium in general. This calculator computes the force exerted by a compression spring (with a known spring constant k) when given the spring length before and after loading. Coil Springs High Force Niti Spring Auto Nitinol Antenna Spring , Find Complete Details about Coil Springs High Force Niti Spring Auto Nitinol Antenna Spring,Auto Nitinol Antenna Spring,Coil Spring High Force Niti Spring,High Force Niti Springs Antenna Spring from Springs Supplier or Manufacturer-Baoji Seabird Metal Material Co. the University of Cape Town, named MEDUSA (Mechanism for Entrapment of Debris Using Shape memory Alloy). There is also a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in the Appendix, a spring designer can quickly calculate all of the engineering parameters necessary to design a Nitinol wire spring for use in a particular actuator design. How to Calculate the Force to Bend Metal. Kennedy A series of tests were performed on nickel-titanium alloy wire, also known as nitinol, to determine the plausibility of designing an actuator using this wire as the method of actuation. Multiwire Nitinol bundles can generate large amounts of force, but now can be connected in a simple fashion to a structure. Archwire materials and application / dental implant courses by Indian dental academy The Indian Dental Academy is the Leader in continuing dental education , training dentists in all aspects of. In glasses, the frames often get bent and the nitinol frames can return them. For nitinol that has low elastic modulus, effective strain range is large with wider optimal force zone. But nitinol proved to be impervious to mercuric chloride as well as to other chemicals I tried. A linear output nitinol engine comprising. At the present moment, primary fabrication processes for Nitinol-based devices include laser cutting and manual techniques. A small diameter 1. Kellogg's Research Labs is an innovative company focuses on Nitinol product prototyping and development. The shape setting of the nitinol occurs when the metal is annealed in the range of 500 - 550 ˚C. Use a big enough force and an object will always change shape or deform; exactly how it changes depends on the material it's made from. Contact Information. The stent is indicated for use in a vessel with a diameter 1 to 2 mm smaller than the nominal stent diameter. Nitinol is an alloy that will remember a shape you select, and whenever you heat it to a certain temperature called the transistion temperature , it will automatically go back to the remembered shape. Nitinol-Stents Material All ENDO-FLEX stents are made of Nitinol, a biocompatible Nickel-Titanium alloy with memory effect. Contact force controlled orthoses made of nitinol shape memory alloy wire for the treatment of malformed ears. In addition, multiwire connections allow for Nitinol wires of differing transition temperatures to be effectively integrated into a bundle, allowing for customized thermal response. 5 lb of pull force. K, Germany, and France Europe is a key market for nitinol medical devices. The nitinol heat engine is a simple yet powerful motor that can be used to generate clean and abundant free energy. After a sequence of operations, a stent is mounted on a catheter and inserted into a blood vessel. Superelasticity refers to the ability of Nitinol to accommodate large recoverable strains within a given temperature range. The lag between the time nitinol was first produced and the time it was used commercially in medical. At first, the report offers an overview of Product Specification, technology, product type and manufacture analysis considering main factors such as Revenue, Cost, Gross and Gross Margin. Novastep is a global medical device company designing, developing and commercializing products for the bones, joints and soft tissues of the foot and ankle. Distal Nitinol Core is highly flexible and kink-resistant for increased durability 0 10 20 30-20 -18 -16 -14 -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 Force (Grams) Distance (cm) Testing completed by Vascular Solutions, Inc. Detecting Nitinol Surface Inclusions. This material allows the basket to retain its shape following extreme torsion and increases the radial force of the basket. Nitinol is a titanium nickle wire that exhibits super-elasticity. A parallel array of shape memory alloy wires working in unison was implemented. alloys applications athermal austenite biocompatibility cof corrosion design diffusional transformation displacive transformation durability electropolish fatigue filter history Inclusions introduction isothermal laser martensite medical microstructure mr napoleon news nitinol NMIs porous r-phase radial force rrf shape memory shape memory. Another application that relies on nitinol's ability to exert force is in the use of nitinol to repair and. However, force is an integrated quantity whereas strain is inherently a local quantity. One hundred ten of 380 patients (28. These metals can 'remember' a shape they are set into at high temperature and, once cooled, can be bent and deformed at will up to 8% strain. Nitinol is a family of titanium based intermetallic materials that contain nearly equal amount of nickel and titanium. This fact has been used to make all kinds of regulating devices but here I am using it formed in a set of springs. Many years back I was involved in the development of a Nitinol motor for use in the process control industry. The demonstration of the concept with actual geothermal brine is described. 5 mm deflection. They have simple tubular shapes and their size range is limited. MightySat is a long-term, multi-mission, small satellite program (started in 1994) of the Space Experiments Directorate of Phillips Laboratory (USAF/PL) at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, NM (as of 1998 designated as AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory). Guidewires and methods of use of guidewires having improved atraumatic tips that can distribute force to lessen trauma as well as anchor the guidewire to facilitate improved catheter exchange. Heatmobile uses a Nitinol wire formed to a closed loop that drives the two connected wheels. Nitinol Structure and Phases Nitinol is a nickel titanium alloy that is made up of 50% of each element. Although all laser-cut nitinol tube stents. NICKEL-TITANIUM ALLOYS The unique force deflection curve for A-NiTi wire occurs because of a phase transition in grain structure from austenite to martensite , in response not to a temperature change but to applied force. It is easy to use, and the thin strands of wire can lift thousands of times their own weight. Muscle Wire, a. While in most engineering materials load (or stress, if nonnalizLod) increases linearly with deflection (strain) upon loading and decreases along the same path upon unloading, nitinol exhibits distinctly differem behaviour. SMAs for Industrial applications From first NiTiNOL to a big success - [email protected]: from 5 g to 3 Kg NiTiNOL Medical Industrial.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line251
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I play a gay character on a TV show. Whether it's me or the character, at the end of the day it's still my body, it's still telling the story. It is the character and his journey, but it's my body, my lips, my hands." It frustrates him that many people think he is manipulating the community for his own ends, dropping winking traces about his sexuality either manner. There is constantly going to be negativity toward anything that's a positive effort toward change," he says. As a heterosexual man, I am open and cozy about adoring my fan base, gay or straight, because to me there's no difference, it is my fan base. Your sexual preference doesn't matter to me and it should not matter to anybody. I thought the criticism was kind of dumb, considering I play this homosexual character on a gritty show. There is a gay sex scene. I kissed a man. 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Jonas' path to an EGOT puts him directly in the viewfinder of all cameras, so it's no surprise he's been in the tabloids for just about everything ranging from his 2015 breakup with long term girlfriend Olivia Culpo, to speculation about his sexuality, to gossip that he's been hooking up with Almost Famous' ill-famed band-aid Penny Lane herself, Kate Hudson. Still, though he spent his teen years in an invisible cage, watched by millions of other teenagers everywhere, Jonas insists that things were fairly standard for the most part (except dating Miley and Selena). In truth, his life felt like it was fractured in two: There was Actual Teen Nick, and then there was Disney Nick. This really is not actual," he remembers thinking. What was real to Jonas was all the IRL teen drama he let into his life: the angst about girls, hormones, growing up---the customary. I was preoccupied with that shit." The brothers rode the high highs as well as the low lows until they eventually break in 2013, after a 2010 hiatus, to explore solo projects. It was challenging and emotional for all of them, Jonas says, however he acknowledges that it'd have ended badly if we hadn't ended it when we did." Hook Up Now And he's not erroneous. Twenty-four hours earlier, all my notions about Nick Jonas were rooted in nostalgia for his Disney years and further complicated by his present breakout, a three-tiered career course that has him dabbling in acting, singing, and creating , apparently trying out all of the professional hats a 23-year old megastar could. He's always been seen as the serious" Jonas. Maybe because he's quieter, more reserved, even as little as a tad world weary. Tonight, he appears to want to break out of that form, also, and be a touch more impulsive, which means talking about dating, drinking tequila, and abandoning his bodyguard, with permission, naturally. These apparently small activities might mean a reversal of attitude---being a little more vulnerable, perhaps not giving a fuck, and leaning into who Nick Jonas, as an artist and a guy, is becoming. But, like the men in the survey, I believe we've only just started to see how this technology will positively alter our own lives. That is a discrepancy in what first generation programs are excellent at supplying and what guys expect for as this technology improvements. I saw an overarching topic in our info: finding nearby gay men is intensely fascinating and interesting, but it is merely the beginning - a beginning that leaves you craving to understand more than simply his place. What is lost is a means to discover shared interests, to find out what makes him unique, to have an indicator of how likely you're to click with him, and to possess an app that accentuates our sex, societal and love lives. This is only element of the narrative, though. While the hookup standing of present uses seems well-deserved, there are also a surprisingly high number of guys who seek something more than casual sex. We asked men to signify the type of relationship they utilize the app to discover; 66 percent said they use them to seek long term potential, 64 percent to find buddies. So that most men we surveyed use these programs hoping to locate more than a fun fling, yet appear to consider that programs have not yet caught up to their whole set of needs Overwhelmingly, the respondents reported that they wanted to learn about the personalities and interests of other guys more holistically, rather than only viewing a graphic. In my professional life as a shrink, I see daily how gay men adapt to, and prosper in, the transforming landscape. I have noted a shift in how my homosexual male customers described meeting guys for hookups and dates. Until around 2010, my customers would frequently discuss meeting men at bars or via internet dating sites. In my view, it was no coincidence this dialog started to change when A) cellular telephone dating programs hit the scene at roughly the same time that B) momentum was building towards major wins in the national equality movement. Localsex closest to Drummoyne New South Wales. That led me to wonder, as oppressive legal and social arrangements fall away and our areas change, how are new ways of forming links progressing?	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line266
__label__wiki	0.734327	0.734327	In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India – TechCrunch After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding one more to the mix that addresses one of the most requested features from customers in the nation: Portability. The e-commerce giant today unveiled the Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition, a new variant in the lineup that includes a built-in battery. The 4,800mAh enclosed battery will offer up to 10 hours of continuous music playing or up to 11 hours of stand-by life, the company said. “Portability has been one of the most requested features in India,” said Miriam Daniel, VP of Alexa Devices. “You want to be able to carry Alexa with you from room to room within your homes. So we have designed something just for you.” The battery-powered Echo model, designed exclusively for India, is priced at 5,999 Indian rupees ($84). Users can currently purchase it at an introductory price of 4,999 Indian rupees ($70) and the device will begin shipping on December 18. Other than the built-in battery pack, the new speaker model offers an identical set of features — access to some 30,000 Alexa skills, compatibility with a range of home devices, of course, support for Alexa voice assistant — as other Echo variants. (The new model additionally carries an array of four LEDs that light up when a user taps the power button to show battery level.)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line273
__label__cc	0.539779	0.460221	Training for Olympic Athletes August 1, 2016 Max News About My Work 0 Behind the Scenes — University of Alabama Professors Andrew Billings, Kim Bissell, and Kenon Brown teach online courses for Olympic athletes on how to work with media as Preston Sullivan records in the studios of WVUA 23 TV. The courses were produced and directed by Max Shores with executive producers Amy Martin for the University of Alabama Center for Public Television and James Finn for the International Olympic Committee. From WBRC.com: By Neal Posey, Reporter Olympic stars can now learn how to promote their brand with a free online class offered by the University of Alabama. With the click of the mouse, thousands of Olympians headed to Rio now have free access to learn how to promote and protect their brand. The online course, which can be completed in as little as 45 minutes, covers different topics and types of media. The class even rewards these athletes with gold, silver and bronze awards for completing different levels of the branding education. A particular challenge Olympic athletes have in maintaining a healthy image compared to traditional sport athletes is summed up by UA professor Andrew Billings, Director of Sport Communication. “The big difference with managing your online brand if you’re an Olympian is many people haven’t heard of you now, but you will be a household word or household name by the end of the night,” said Billings. And though targeted to Olympic athletes, anyone can sign up for the free online branding course offered by the Capstone. More about this project is available at: www.ua.edu/news/2016/11/overnight-sensations Boom Town	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line276
__label__wiki	0.667056	0.667056	David Massey #14 Defenseman - California Hometown: Berkeley, CA High School: Berkeley HS 2006 California 14 0 2 0 0 0 0 - 0 02/17/2007 UC Santa Cruz W 20-4 0 0 0 0 0 02/25/2006 @ Cal Poly L 0-18 0 0 0 0 0 03/05/2006 Sonoma State L 3-20 0 0 0 0 0 03/19/2006 @ Santa Clara W 9-7 0 0 0 0 0 04/09/2006 San Diego State W 7-5 0 0 0 0 0 03/11/2006 @ Nevada W 11-7 0 1 0 0 0 04/12/2006 UC Davis W 10-9 0 0 0 0 0 02/19/2006 Loyola Marymount W 11-6 0 0 0 0 0 04/02/2006 @ Saint Mary's W 6-5 0 0 0 0 0 03/04/2006 Chico State W 11-6 0 1 0 0 0 03/08/2006 @ Georgia W 11-10 0 0 0 0 0 03/09/2006 @ Georgia Tech L 6-12 0 0 0 0 0 03/10/2006 @ Clemson L 8-9 0 0 0 0 0 03/04/2006 UCLA W 8-7 0 0 0 0 0 03/11/2006 Stanford W 9-6 0 0 0 0 0	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line277
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__label__wiki	0.738194	0.738194	Archaeological dig yields clues to ancient Ohio By Jan Myrers COSHOCTON -- "I've never in my life found anything that old!" exclaimed Jeff Dilyard, a Wayne County volunteer who found a base of a Crowfield fluted point at a rockshelter archaeological dig in Coshocton County. Celebrating history? Empire State Building Goes Red for Communist China, Sparking Protest NEW YORK — New York is seeing red over the decision to turn the city's highest beacon — and one of America's symbols for free enterprise — into a shining monument honoring China's communist revolution Wednesday night. Read the rest on Fox News. Rome archaeologists find 'Nero's party piece' in dig Archaeologists in Rome claimed today to have found the remains of a legendary revolving dining room built by Emperor Nero to impress his guests. Digging on the Palatine Hill, archaeologists stumbled on the remnants of a circular room, 16 metres (53ft) in diameter, which they believe formed part of Nero's palace, built in the first century AD. Read the rest on the Guardian. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ \| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Archaeologists to search for Arghun Shah’s grave near Soltanieh Dome TEHRAN -- A team of Iranian archaeologists plans to conduct a season of excavation near the Soltanieh Dome in Zanjan to search for the grave of the Ilkhanid ruler Arghun Shah. Read the rest in Tehran Times. Jewish Priesthood Has Multiple Lineages, New Genetic Research Indicates ScienceDaily — Recent research on the Cohen Y chromosome indicates the Jewish priesthood, the Cohanim, was established by several unrelated male lines rather than a single male lineage dating to ancient Hebrew times. Was Mighty T. Rex 'Sue' Felled By A Lowly Parasite? ScienceDaily — When pondering the demise of a famous dinosaur such as 'Sue,' the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex whose fossilized remains are a star attraction of the Field Museum in Chicago, it is hard to avoid the image of clashing Cretaceous titans engaged in bloody, mortal combat. Roman Statues Found in Blue Grotto Cave Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News Triton\| Discovery News Video A number of ancient Roman statues might lie beneath the turquoise waters of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri in southern Italy, according to an underwater survey of the sea cave. Scandinavians Are Descended From Stone Age Immigrants, Ancient DNA Reveals Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction of agriculture. Read the rest on ScienceDaily. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ \| Monday, September 28, 2009 Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday. A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader’s has turned out to be that of a woman under 40 after DNA analysis. Mass Extinction Event Spared Europe (Mostly) Michael Reilly, Discovery News When a comet crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago, all hell broke loose. Scientists have guessed at the scene: a world enshrouded in ashen darkness leftover from the cosmic impact that left almost nothing -- including the dinosaurs -- standing. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ \| Saturday, September 26, 2009 Rare coins find excites experts The coins will be sent to the British Museum for examination Four silver coins dating from Norman England have been found in Gloucestershire. It is believed they were minted in Gloucester in 1073-1076 and represent an unrecorded type of penny. Near Army construction site in Germany, a trove of ancient Roman artifacts By Mark Patton, Stars and Stripes WIESBADEN, Germany — A team of archaeology students and experts believe they have unearthed remnants of a Roman settlement from the second or third century near the construction site of an Army housing project, but the discovery isn’t expected to affect the project. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ \| Friday, September 25, 2009 Human Ancestors Conflicted on Monogamy Not the Cheating Kind? \| Discovery News Video When it comes to love, we Homo sapiens are a peculiar breed: We thrill at the thought of torrid affairs while dreaming about the perfect someone with whom we can spend the rest of our lives. Some of this never-ending tug-of-war for our hearts is certainly cultural, but according to a new study it's also encoded in the finger bones of Neanderthals and the upright walking primate Australopithecus. More On Largest ever hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold found in Staffordshire by Maev Kennedy A harvest of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field - the largest hoard of gold from the period ever found. Largest-ever Anglo-Saxon gold hoard unearthed in England A gold strip with a Biblical inscription was among the 1,500 pieces unearthed in an English field. LONDON, England (CNN) -- A man using a metal detector in a rural English field has uncovered the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard ever found -- an "unprecedented" treasure that sheds new light on history, archaeologists said Thursday. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ \| Thursday, September 24, 2009 Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple ANKARA (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday. Read the rest on Reuters. 2,000-year-old ritual bath found in Jerusalem AP: JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered a ritual bath in Jerusalem that was likely used by Jewish pilgrims coming to the temple two millenia ago. Read the rest on MSNBC. Exact Date Pinned to Great Pyramid's Construction? Andrew Bossone in Cairo ON TV Egypt Unwrapped: The Pyramid Code airs Monday, September 21, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. Preview The Pyramid Code >> The Egyptians started building the Great Pyramid of Giza on August 23, 2470 B.C., according to controversial new research that attempts to place an exact date on the start of the ancient construction project. Read the rest on National Geographic. 3300 year old archaeological site discovered in Embilipitiya By G.A.S. Gamaethige An archaeological site more than 3330 years old has been found in the Udaranchamadama area in Embilipitiya, by a group of local archaeologists. Read the rest on the Daily Mirror. Tunnel links continents, uncovers ancient history By Ivan Watson ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- It's a common sight in the traffic-clogged streets of Istanbul, a city that straddles two continents. Decapitated bodies - were they Vikings? Archaeologists found more bodies than skulls in the pit By Eleanor Williams BBC News, Dorset It looks like the aftermath of a massacre - the decapitated, naked bodies of at least 51 young men found thrown into an old quarry and their heads piled on top. Hundreds of Saxon graves unearthed on new pub site Share with : Close A sword and chain mail found A perfectly preserved pair of glass drinking cups was found when the grave of an Anglo-Saxon warrior was unearthed during building work on a new pub, Yourswale reports. "Unexpected" Man Found Amid Ancient Priestesses' Tombs In an "unexpected" discovery, a rattle-wielding elite male has been found buried among powerful priestesses of the pre-Inca Moche society in Peru, archaeologists announced Monday. (See pictures of Moche treasures from the tomb.) Ship graveyard gives up secrets Harriett sank after a collision with a motor barge in 1944 Archaeologists are working at a ships' graveyard known as the Purton Hulks in Gloucestershire to expose and record the remains of a barge. Historic Roman salt store found on mudflats A 2,000-YEAR-OLD Roman salthouse has been discovered during archaeological excavations at the planned £1.5billion port at Coryton. Read the rest on the Echo. 'Alexander the Sexy' Seen in New Portrait Alexander, Emperor, Sex Symbol \| Discovery News Video An unprecedented miniature portrait of a young, resolute, sexy Alexander the Great has emerged during excavations in Israel, archaeologist announced this week. Skeleton Found At Roman Site In Britain Mystifies Archaeologists A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Nottingham) ScienceDaily — A skeleton, found at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham. Ahoy! Tis time to talk pirate, me hearties By Jessica Ravitz (CNN) -- Easy tip number one, if you want to talk like a pirate: Add "me hearties" to the end of any sentence. The meaning is simple -- "my friends, my mates" -- said John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur, before offering as way of example, "Turn your head and cough, me hearties. Or, fill it up with regular, me hearties." Tiny T. rex fossil discovery startles scientists By Azadeh Ansari, CNN (CNN) -- A pint-sized version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, with similarly powerful legs, razor-sharp teeth and tiny arms, roamed China some 125 million years ago, said scientists who remain startled by the discovery. The Patuxent's Hidden Treasure Ralph Eshelman, who helped lead the recovery of the artifacts in 1980, aboard a pontoon boat Sept 5. on the upper Patuxent River near the site where the wreck was found. (Steve Vogel - The Washington Post ) By Steve Vogel Aboard a pontoon boat chugging past the marshland of Maryland's upper Patuxent River on a recent Saturday, Ralph Eshelman pointed to the spot where the muddy brown water hides a shipwreck nearly two centuries old, part of the American flotilla that defended the Chesapeake Bay when the British burned Washington during the War of 1812. Read the rest on the Washington Post. Archaeologists delve into Hadrian Wall’s past Archaeologists from Newcastle University are joining forces with English Heritage to carry out the first systematic excavation of a cemetery on Hadrian's Wall. HISTORY BUFF IS PREPARING FOR CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER'S DEBUT I apologize to my loyal readers for not posting more stories recently. 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Ancient bones seized, returned to China by Josh Levs WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fossilized bones of a saber-toothed cat and dinosaurs that may be 100 million years old are among "priceless" artifacts that the United States handed over to China in a ceremony Monday. Loo unflushed for 500 years is archeologists’ goldmine Finds in the Paisley drain could be a rich source of history by Simon Mundy Archaeologists from Glasgow University yesterday began digging in the grounds of Paisley Abbey, hoping to shed light on life in a medieval Scottish monastery. The team, backed by volunteers from Renfrewshire Local History Forum, is carrying out a 12-day excavation of an ancient drain that lay undisturbed until its discovery in 1990. # Posted by Michelle Moran @ \| Sunday, September 13, 2009 Bible-Era Mystery Vessel Found -- Code Stumps Experts Andrew Curry for National Geographic News It didn't look like much at first, just a broken, mud-caked stone mug. But when archaeologists in Jerusalem cleaned the 2,000-year-old vessel, they discovered ten lines of mysterious script. Ancient synagogue found in Israel By Kevin Flower JERUSALEM (CNN) -- In what was slated to be the site of a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists say they have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel. Colossal Apollo Statue Unearthed in Turkey Apollo, God of the Sun \| Discovery News Video A colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, has emerged from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists announced. It has long been agreed that Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution. Then these bones were found in Georgia By Steve Connor One of the skulls discovered in Georgia, which are believed to date back 1.8 million years The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning palaeontological discoveries suggesting that Africa was not the sole cradle of humankind. Scientists have found a handful of ancient human skulls at an archaeological site two hours from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, that suggest a Eurasian chapter in the long evolutionary story of man. Read the rest on the Independent. Giant statues give up hat secret By Sudeep Chand Science reporter, BBC News The ancient statues have giant red hats Archaeologists believe they have solved one ancient mystery surrounding the famous Easter Island statues. At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places inhabited by people. Artefacts uncovered during roadworks give fresh perspective on early Irish life The remains of a 9,000-year-old fish trap found in Co Meath by TIM O'BRIEN THE REMAINS of a 9,000-year-old fishing basket uncovered at Clowanstown in Co Meath, a monastic bell-making facility at Clonfad in Co Westmeath and an “exceptional” raised wooden trackway close to the Dromod-Roosky bypass, were described at an archaeology seminar yesterday. Read the rest on Irish Times. Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea by Robert Booth The Bosavi Woolly Rat had no fear of humans when it was discovered. Photograph: Jonny Keeling/BBC A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea. 'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say. Bulgaria Archaeologists Find Relics of Medieval Saint at Perperikon Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov shows the two crosses and the seal he discovered at Perperikon over the last week. Photo by BGNES The team of Bulgarian archaeologist, Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, has discovered relics of a medieval saint at the fortress of Perperikon in the Rhodoppe Mountains. 3,000 year old Iron Age remains uncovered at North Wales archaeological dig AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL dig in North Wales has unearthed Iron Age remains thought to be about 3,000 years old. Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery By Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent A British-based academic has uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest Bible hiding underneath the binding of an 18th-century book. Domesday oak found at cathedral Archaeologists working Canterbury Cathedral have had parts of the structure dated to the time of William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book. Bronze Age boat proves a handful for Loch Tay volunteers The Bronze Age lived on at Loch Tay yesterday, as a replica of a 3000-year-old logboat successfully completed its maiden voyage. Read the rest on the Herald. Cavern dig uncovers 15,000-year-old weapon ARCHEOLOGISTS digging at Kents Cavern have found a 15,000-year-old weapon carved from a reindeer antler. Akrotiri, Santorini: the "Minoan Pompeii" - part 2 by Rachel de Carlos The excavations at the archeological site at Akrotiri in Santorini are ongoing, so there is scaffolding everywhere and supports in place to stabilize walls, windows and doorways that might otherwise collapse. Read the rest on the Examiner. 1,800-Year-Old Roman Building Discovered in Jerusalem By DAVID BEDEIN, Middle East Correspondent Jerusalem – A spacious edifice from the 3rd Century was recently exposed in the excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority that is carrying out a major excavation in the 'City of David', located in the heart of Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Read the rest on the Bulletin. Excavations at Akrotiri, Santorini. Copyright 2009 Rachel de Carlos As in Pompeii, the volcanic covering of the archeological site at Akrotiri on Santorini, has kept an ancient settlement from disintegrating over time. The site was found by accident when the Suez Canal was being constructed in 1860. Workers quarrying Santorini's volcanic ash discovered the ruins, but serious excavations at the site didn't begin until 1967. An unfortunate collapse of the roof in 2005, which killed a British tourist, caused the site to be closed. It's scheduled to be reopened sometime after 2010. Greek bureaucracy has brought the repairs of the building to a halt, which has caused Santorini's tourist trade to suffer. Decoding the Ancient Script of the Indus Valley By Ishaan Tharoor The ancient cities of the Indus Valley belonged to the greatest civilization the world may never know. Since the 1920s, dozens of archaeological expeditions have unearthed traces of a 4,500-year-old urban culture that covered some 300,000 square miles in modern day Pakistan and north-western India. Read the rest on Time Magazine. New discovery links ancient Egypt and Jordan valley site Although Egyptian-Israeli relations have been frosty in recent years, ties between the two lands were vibrant around 3,000 BCE during the Early Bronze Age - at least according to Tel Aviv University and University College London archeologists who discovered a rare, four-centimeter-long stone fragment at the point where the Jordan River exits Lake Kinneret. Read the rest on the Jerusalem Post. Ancient burial site discovered in northern Greece By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS ATHENS, Greece — Archaeologists said Friday they have unearthed a lavish burial site at the seat of the ancient Macedonian kings in northern Greece, heightening a 2,300-year-old mystery of murder and political intrigue.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line281
__label__cc	0.661863	0.338137	Big Boomer Time in New Mexico! I'm off tomorrow to film the .50 Caliber World Championships down in Raton, NM. I'll get a chance to throw some big rounds downrange (add that image to your hot, festering dreams, Ranger Walsh!) and in general incite liberals all over the place. Then it's up to Wyoming for Hell On Wheels 2005, the cowboy action shooting regionals, where I am, in fact, shooting. Hard to believe, startling, but true! I'm thinking of using the two Ruger 50th Anniversary Blackhawks in .357 and one of Steve Young's flawless Navy Arms M-92 lever actions. I got a REALLY slick M-97 pump shotgun from Coyote Cap, the lord high god of old shotgun slickin', and it rocks. My goal is to get through the match without overtly humiliating myself! My CCW is expiring in a couple of weeks, and Boulder County's policy is to make it as hard as possible to renew. You've got to fill out the complete form again, get a notarized affidavit that you haven't forgotten how to shoot in the last three years, then hand-deliver the renewal request, along with a money order/certified check to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and a check for the Boulder Sheriff's Office, to the Sheriff's Office. Jeez...when I asked whether there was a "grace period" where my expired CCW would still be valid until the new permit was issued, the response was a terse, "Can't you just not carry a gun for a few days?" Depends on whether or not I fall into the RHINO DOOKEY during those few days! Hell, I could be set upon by enraged Forest Rangers...oh, that's right...they're unarmed! I suppose they could pummel me with branches, or, worse, make me listen to them sing "Kumbaya." I hooked back up with C. Rusty Sherrick, holster-maker extraordinaire, who's making me a couple of holsters. One is for the Ugliest Gun in the World, my 1917 S&W .45 ACP revolver fitted with a 6-inch 1955 S&W Target barrel. The barrel has a ramp...the frame doesn't. It's butt-ugly and hard-chromed to boot. It also shoots as well as any big frame Smith I've ever shot. And I've shot a bunch of 'em! My father had it for years, but I was able to spirit it back home recently after he let some idiot stuff a .44 Special in it and touch it off. I have this fantasy that one of these days I'll get Hamilton Bowen to pull the barrel and machine it to look like it was designed for the frame...of course, I had an adjustable sight machined into the frame (yes, I'm going to OLD GUN KILLER HELL! I didn't know no better!!!). Besides, I already owe Hamilton Bowen 'way too much money...he could get a second mortgage on my house... The other holster is one of his really cool crossdraw flap holsters for my Ruger Blackhawks: Big John's Half Flap Crossdraw Named and created for pistol aficionado extraordinaire Big John. A heavy duty crossdraw designed to handle the big guns. A half flap with a one way snap will keep the gun in the holster. Ideal for horseback and tree stands. Made from horsehide so you get a very tough holster yet light in weight. Rusty does beautiful beautiful work. You're going to have to wait for it (I'm at about 5 months), but it's worth it. Check out his Thinman IWB, desinged by my pal Tom Givens, which looks to me like the only IWB that can hold a candle to Lou Alessi's magnificent IWB holster. BTW, I had an amazing conversation with Rusty about chaos at the Edges of the Known Universe. Not only is he one heck of a holster-maker, but he's a wise man! Track Legal Gun Owners, Not Illegal Aliens This from Jeff Johnson at the CNS News Service: Dozens of U.S. House members who sponsored the nationwide instant background check system for gun buyers in 1993 or backed the expansion of that system in 2002, have shown no support for a similar database intended to identify illegal aliens trying to find work in the U.S. At least one member who supported the gun control measure is challenging the proposal to crack down on illegal immigrants. "A database this large is likely to contain many errors," said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) during a May 12 hearing on the Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act (H.R. 98). "Any one of [the errors] could render someone unemployable and possibly much worse until they can get their file straightened out." Posted by Michael Bane at 9:43 AM 1 comment: USFS, Rules, the Law & Catch 22 Yosarian: Catch 22! Catch 22! What is Catch 22? Old Italian Woman: They can do anything to you that you can't stop them from doing... Catch 22 (4): A tricky or disadvantageous condition; a catch... I'm hearing from lots of people who have called the Forest Service to ask about shutdowns of shooting areas, only to be told that, no, there have been no shutdowns at all. Not a one. Of course, it depends on which office you call. In Pike National Forest, there have been no shutdowns of "designated" shooting areas. In Arapahoe, you're welcome to shoot anywhere, as long as you "follow the rules." Of course, those "rules" are pesky. The current "rule" is that you can't shoot within 200 yards of a road. Or 150 yards from a road. Or (in one memorable case), 400 yards from a road. Interestingly enough — and this might come as a shock and surprise to Forest Service employees — there are these things called laws, which are (in case you slept through your American Studies class in college) codified rules that define what is allowed and what is prohibited. In the case of Forest Service land, those laws are available in the CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS. The applicable parts for our discussion are "Title 36, Volume 2 [Revised as of July 1, 2004] CITE: 36CFR261:" CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 261_PROHIBITIONS--Table of Contents Subpart A_General Prohibitions Sec. 261.10 Occupancy and use. The following are prohibited: (d) Discharging a firearm or any other implement capable of taking human life, causing injury, or damaging property as follows: (1) In or within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area, or (2) Across or on a National Forest System road or a body of water adjacent thereto, or in any manner or place whereby any person or property is exposed to injury or damage as a result in such discharge. (3) Into or within any cave. Notice that the Federal regs make no mention of "200 yards from a road," "400 yards from a road," or even "150 yards from a road." Regarding roads, the reference in the regs is a prohibition of shooting "across" a road (duh!). The "in or within 150 yards" prohibition specifically refers to " a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area." As I've mentioned, my Sweetie is an extremely well-regarded 20-year attorney, and a couple of years back I spent a year working for a law firm. Between my Sweetie and my brief experience, I learned an interesting point about the law — it hinges on defining terms. The reasons lawyer-speak often seems so stupifyingly boring (sorry, Sweetie!) is that everyone involved needs to agree on what all the words in the document mean. That's why 36CF261.2 is pages and pages of definitions. Curiously enough, "road" is not defined, nor is "occupied area." This is sticky. However, because the term "occupied area" is used in 36CFR261.10(d)(1) and "National Forest System road" is used in the immediately following 36CFR261.10(d)(2), lawyers...as opposed to rangers — who have all the legal training of my beagle Alf — will argue that an "occupied area" is not a road. Why is this important? Because shooting areas have been closed down by citing 36CFR261.10(d)(2), 150 yards from an "occupied area," which some genius at the Forest Service has defined as a "road." HMMMMM, maybe we can find some clarification on the Forest Service's own website, specifically their "Frequently Asked Question" page: Can I recreationally shoot in National Forests? Where? You can target practice in most areas of National Forest, with some exceptions. No shooting is allowed within 300 feet of a campground, trail head, residence, or any place people occupy. Additional areas that do not allow shooting will be posted. You are not allowed to shoot across or on a National Forest road, trail, or body of water. You must shoot in a safe manner, know where your round is going, and have a safe backstop. You cannot place a target on a live tree. There are established target ranges on some National Forests. Well, 300 feet..."No shooting is allowed within 300 feet of a campground, trail head, residence, or any place people occupy"...notice the separation between "any place people occupy" and "National Forest road, trail or body of water." Let's examine a whole other Forest Service rats' nest, the Special Orders. In Pike National Forest, which does have a designated shooting area in the Ramparts area, one such Special Order is in effect: Although recreational shooting is generally permitted in the National Forest there are exceptions and conditions. The exceptions are normally outlined in Special Orders. In this case, Special Order 91-08 prohibits recreation/target shooting in all of El Paso County including the area west of Monument. You can obtain a map from us that shows you exactly where these restrictions apply. The best alternative area for recreation/target shooting west of Monument is off Mt. Herman Road and down Forest Development Road (FDR) 322A. This area is located in Teller County approximately six miles from Red Rocks Ranch Road. The other common sense conditions are as follows: (1) you cannot discharge a firearm in or within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area (2) you cannot discharge a firearm across or on a Forest Development road or a body of water adjacent thereto, or in any manner or place whereby any person or property is exposed to injury or damage as a result in such discharge (3) you cannot discharge a firearm into or within any cave. I would also advise you to familiarize yourself with Colorado State law regarding possessing and transporting firearms. This is also worht reading, on Pike: If you are looking for a place to target shoot on the local national forests and grasslands, here are some helpful hints to make your experience safe and enjoyable. In general, recreational shooting is not prohibited on most National Forest System lands. However, discharging a firearm is always prohibited within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site, a cave, across or on a road or a body of water, or in any manner or place whereby any person or property is exposed to injury or damage. (36 CFR 261.10(d). There's our old friend 36CFR261.10(d)! The Pike rangers have been actively involved in closing shooting areas for more than a year: Terry McCann, PAO, (303) 275-5615 On Pike National Forest between Bailey, Harris Park Forest Service enacts shooting closure in Slaughterhouse Gulch MORRISON... The U.S. Forest Service has issued an order prohibiting the shooting of firearms in the Slaughterhouse Gulch area of the Pike National Forest, between Bailey and Harris Park, Colo. The closure order is effective for five years and was initiated as a result of an increasing numbers of complaints of unsafe shooting practices that posed a risk to life and property... Here is my take on this...the "unsafe shooting practices" is smoke and mirrors to justify closing down range areas. If a Ranger, or law enforcement officials "observed unsafe shooting practices," why didn't they DO THEIR DAMN JOBS and arrest those people? because it's part of an organized antigun initiative. Close down thousands of acres for shooting by legitimate users instead of busting a couple of perps. Occupied areas...150 yards...200 yards...400 yards... They can do anything to you that you can't stop them from doing! CONTACT YOUR POLITICIANS AND GUN RIGHTS GROUPS TODAY! Back This Week! Honest... Been a long, relatively unpleasant week, but I think things are loosening up! Tomorrow...adventures with custom leather, more fun with the Forest "I Cannot Tell A Lie" Service...getting ready for the cowboy regionals in Wyoming considring I haven't shot a cowboy gun in months (pray god it's like riding a bicycle!) and Michael gets a crash course in sporting clays: "God meant for shotguns to be beautifully finished walnut and perfectly blued steel...where on earth did you get a red aluminum shotgun with a spraypainted black stock? And who thought that was a good idea?" Yeah yeah yeah...next they'll be telling me that all bowling balls are supposed to be black! Interesting Take on Future Supreme Court Justices Let's take a little time out from mauling our friends at the Forest Service to look at an interesing piece on David Hardy's armsandthelaw.com blog on future Supreme Court Justices: "...the problem with advocating the right to arms is the liberals don't like arms and conservatives don't like rights." I and other Second Amendment advocates have often worried that political conservatives were at best a "fragile vessel" for carrying on the RKBA battles, and some of us have argued — unsuccessfully — that RKBA issues were better served by removing them from the whole hog conservative agenda. I certainly think that Hardy is correct when he quotes Prof. Robert Cottrol of George Washington Univ. College of Law: On the Second Amendment, their [conservatives] support has quite frankly been rather anemic -- -- it's clear that many support it opportunistically, i.e., because the Democrats over the last ten years have been dumb enough to embrace European style gun control as a core value in a nation where roughly 50% of the population lives in households with firearms. Conservatives have adopted the Second Amendment because it is good politics, but I don't see, with some exceptions, the kind of passion and commitment that liberals show for rights that they value. There are, of course, fire-breathing conservative Second Amendment supporters (Zell Miller, a Democrat, comes immediately to mind), but for the larger body of conservative politicians, we're the crazy aunts and uncles in the attic. Once every four years, they unlock the attic door and throw us a handful of bullets to keep us quiet until the next election. On our part — as a lot of my friends have noted — we hold our noses and pull the lever for conservative politicians who agonize over non-issues like gay marriage and poor Terry Schaivo while steadily chipping away at our individual rights without even having the good graces to flinch. So while I'm all for W. loading every court in the land with conservative judges — a large part of the reason I voted for him — I would dearly love to see the libertarian wing of the conservative movement at least acknowledged. Of course, Hardy (and I and most everyone with an IQ out of double digits) would like to see Judge Alex Kosinski on the Supreme Court. We all know that's not going to happen, because above all things, conservatives fear a wild card. Be interesting to see what develops... A PERSON Emerges... ...ah, my little cherubs and seraphim who flutter around Forest Service offices tell me that the Front Range shooting area closures are indeed the work of one person. Her name is Christine Walsh, and she is the Boulder District Ranger. It seems that Ms. Walsh, who just doesn't like guns, came up with a plan to shut down shooting on USFS land in the Front Range all by herself, and it wasn't met with wholesale approval...there are apparently a few Rangers who actually think obeying the law is more imporant that pursuing one person's political agenda. Now what's interesting about Ms. Walsh is that she has a history of acting imperiously. Both equestrian and off-road groups have asked her for explanations of her actions, without much luck. Here's what she thinks (from the Boulder Weekly) about shooters: "We have one law enforcement officer who covers the entire Boulder Ranger District for all uses. So he needs to distribute his time to areas that need to be monitored and patrolled," she says. "We have additional employees who can write tickets, but they are encouraged not to approach people who are shooting unless they are with another employee [emphasis mine]. Nobody’s supposed to do that alone, because they don’t have guns." Hmmmm...I've talked to real Rangers numerous times while I was shooting! They didn't seem to have any problems "approaching," even talking to shooters! Maybe that's why Ms. Walsh chose to act in the dark, as opposed to following Federal laws. It also explains why MS. Walsh has refused volunteer support and help, even though the USFS routinely accepts volunteer help from mountain biking, hiking and equestrial groups. The problem is that Ms. Walsh's personal agenda is now USFS policy...until someone in Washington D.C. slaps her down hard. More as this story continues to develop! Fun With The Forest Service Well, the latest line from the Forest Service is that no ranges have been closed in Boulder County! I guess I was mistaken! This big signs that read: POSTED NO SHOOTING! based on 36 CFR 261.10 (d) (1) probably didn't actually mean "No Shooting." And I guess when the FS informed local law enforcement that they were going to close down the shooting areas, they were just joshing around. Or when FS representatives told Douglas County commissioners that their intent was to shut down all shooting in the Pike National Forest, golly, it was just a joke...right? Or maybe, just maybe, the shitstorm in Washington D.C. has started in earnest, and the weasels are running for cover... NOTE TO FS "RANGERS": You know, Federal employees who tell lies to the media or disseminate lies to the public these days get more than a "naughty naughty" letter and a whack across the knuckles with a ruler. If you lie and we catch you in the lie — and we WILL catch you! — what do you suppose the chances are of you retaining your job? Your pension? Your benefits? Think long and hard before you back your bosses' play! NEWS! Forest Service Conspiracy to Shut Down Shooting Ranges Across Colorado Uncovered! I originally thought my range problems were the result of a single anti-gun forest ranger acting on her own. What is becoming clearer is that there is a U.S. Forest Service conspiracy to shut down any and all shooting areas on Forest Service land in the Front Range and deprive everyone of their gun rights. I would not be surprised if this was happening across the state as well, and I wouldn't bet against this being a trial run for the rest of the country! Welcome to the new battlefield! The Colorado State Shooting Association is now actively involved. Senator Wayne Allard's office has been notified, as well as the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation in D.C., the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation. This is really ugly...the USFS essentially planned and executed a massive shut-down of shooting areas across the Front Range in the last 30 days. The goal is apparently to end shooting on USFS land — in DIRECT violation of USFS policies and a direct attack on Coloradians' gun rights — in the Front Range. There is some question as to whether the USFS includes "hunting" with "shooting." I'll have more details Monday. In the meantime — FOREST RANGERS ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS! THEY ARE THE WORST SORT OF GUN GRABBERS! REMEMBER, THEY ACTUALLY SUCCEEDED IN KEEPING THEIR ATTACK ON YOUR GUN RIGHTS SECRET. DO NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION, OTHER THAN THAT REQUIRED BY LAW, ON SHOOTING AND/OR HUNTING AREAS TO AGENTS OF THE FOREST SERVICE. IF YOU ARE DETAINED BY THE FOREST SERVICE, YOUR FIRST WORDS ARE, "I WANT AN ATTORNEY RIGHT NOW!" IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH THE USFS ON ANY PROJECT OR IN ANY VOLUNTEER CAPACITY, I WOULD SUGGEST YOU STOP IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THIS SITUATION IS RESOLVED. IMMEDIATELY CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND DEMAND AN END TO USFS ANTIGUN ATTACKS! Whew! (and nice guns...) Bounce travel takes it out of you! The Vegas-Denver-Rochester swing pretty much sucks. Plus, the haul from Denver to Chicago was on one of United's lovely "Mexican bus" flights, needing only a couple of live chickens and a goat to make it the ultimate fun travel experience. Still, one has to be impressed by Doug Turnbull's stunningly beautiful firearms. Both his restorations and his namesake guns exhibit a level of craftsmanship one would swear had passed from the world a long time back. Looking, handling and shooting his single actions and his 1886 big boomer lever actions (.50-110, essentially a .348 with the neck blown out to .50...Starline has the brass) I was transported back to those old gun magazines of the 1950s and '60s with their color plates of amazingly crafted guns. BTW, Turnbull has some of the finest 1911s I've ever seen (and I''ve seen a whole bunch of 'em). One of them is a full-blown restoration of one of the first commercial 1911s ever sold (in 1912), with the deep blue blue Colt bluing of the period. This trip reminded me of the enduring artistry of firearms, one of the things that drew me to them in the first place. Maybe we should do a coffee table book of modern custom firearms, so there's some sort of legacy for the next generation of shooters! ROAD...ROAD...ROAD.... Am not dead...am on road! With Doug Turnbull at Turnbull Restorations today. More when I get back to the hotel! Survivied Celebrity Shoot...News at 11! On the way back from Vegas; getting ready to board. Celeb Shoot actually went better than I expected. Joe Mantegna was a hoot; Andrew Prine had great Quentin Tarantino stories from the season finale of CSI. Banscombe Richmond from the old Renegade teevee series — of which I was a HUGE fan — series and I got to talk motorcycles for a long while. Still, it's time to both de-Vegas and de-Hollywood. Be hard to adapt back to a world where GIGANTIC SILICONE IMPLANTS are not the norm... Mo' later... Head Colds & New Guns Definitely ragged out this AM, probably because I'm gearing up for the Hollywood Celebrity Shoot in Vegas this weekend. I plan to spend some time with Joe Mantegna, whom I met a few years back after he did the HBO Ratpack movie. He played Dean Martin and modeled his character partly on a book from my old NYC running buddy, Nick Tosches. I also thought he did a real nice job of portraying the Robert Parker Spenser character. Heard back from the Colorado State Shooting Association, of which I am a member, on the range closure. They said, basically, good luck. There's $35 a year well spent! Well, we'll press on. Got my two new 50th Anniversary Flat-top Ruger Blackhawks. I'm pretty impressed (thought I haven't shot 'em yet). I love the feel of the Flat-tops and the smaller gripframe. The triggers could use work, but what else is new? I'm thinking of taking them up to Wyoming over the Fourth of July weekend and shoot that big regional cowboy match with 'em. I've got a lot of .357 cowboy loads lying around from my last assault on the Big Blue Machines In The Basement, assuming of course that my Sweetie will let me use my Navy Arms Winchester 92 clone in .357, the one rebuilt by Steve Young at Steve's Gunz, who is by far and way the best '92 mechanic in the country. She appropriated the gun awhile back because it shot so well. Funny how that works. I finally got her one of the Marlin .32 H&R Cowboys (after two years), which went out to Steve earlier this week with a note that it was ALL HIS FAULT AND HE HAD TO MAKE THE MARLIN EXACTLY LIKE THE '92!!! In other fun stuff, I've been talking to country star and number one cowboy singer Michael Martin Murphey about doing original music for our new, as yet unannounced, television series tentatively titled HORSES WILD. Yesterday, his management said the whole idea was 'way cool. A nice piece of negotiation, if I do say so myself. Am also considering a hunting show that would (hopefully...but then I have a head cold!) break the paradigm for those shows. Yeah, and all I need is a clone! As I've said before, quoting Brother Tom Petty... Well I don’t know what I’ve been told You never slow down, you never grow old I’m tired of screwing up, I’m tired of goin’ down I’m tired of myself, I’m tired of this town Oh my my, oh hell yes Honey put on that party dress Buy me a drink, sing me a song, Take me as I come ’cause I can’t stay long Gotta go feed the fish... Patting Ourselves on the Back! Just got notified that SHOOTING GALLERY/COWBOYS won first and second place in the Consumer Television Division of this year's NSSF Good Shots/Great Stories competition. Last year we won first and third, plus a Telly Award. It is with a certain sense of humor that my resume now reads, "award-winning television producer." LOL! Weekly Check on Bias... Be sure to check out Jeff's excellent Weekly Check on Bias today! Some interesting stories. Posted by Michael Bane at 10:32 AM No comments: The Tyranny of the Why & Custom Guns As promised, a couple of random thoughts on custom revolvers, Custom Revolvers and why we "why" ourselves to death. So I've been reading Hamilton Bowen's book on custom revolvers in preparation for the SHOOTING GALLERY episode on the great revolver-maker. Bowen has made a career of creating some of the most unique big bore revolvers around, all the while honing to the a bygone esthetic. Foir example, he's built a reproduction of Elmer Keith's #5 single action; a reproduction of a 1917 Colt Army from a Ruger Redhawk, conversions of Ruger single actions in such calibers as .475 & .500 Linebaugh, .50 AE and aging calibers like .38/40, the .32/20 and the .44 Special. Now why would someone want a Ruger copy of a 1917 Colt .45 revolver in .50 AE? Is it more practical than a handful of black plastic pistols? Nope. Better for competition or genuine, authentic "tactical" carry than a bevy of premium 1911s? Nada. A better hunting gun than, say, a Freedom Arms .454 Casull? Negative. More powerful than an S&W .500 Magnum? Not a chance. Smaller than a factory Ruger Alaskan .480. Not exactly. Hey, it's too old for practical; too new for cowboy. Expensive to boot. So what is the point? The point is it is 'way cool. And that's why it exists. Back in the day, the gun magazines were full of cool guns. Somewhere along the way, we got all tied up in the "whys" of owning guns. See, we have to have a "why" for getting a gun, like "it's the most tactical gun made and I'll be ready for the barbarian hordes when they sweep through my suburban neighborhood." Or, "it'll drop that whitetail deer like the pure-D hammer of god, as opposed to my current gun, which is only rated to pure-C." Or my favorite one of all..."it's the idea 'bug-out' gun, which I will carry with me on my person when civilization collapses and my family flees from our suburban neighborhood to your suburban neighborhood, where we will proceed to shoot the living hell out of you, unless, of course, you've also 'bugged-out' with the better bug-out gun..." Or something like that. Rationales are a disease! You want it; you can afford it; what the heck...you don't need a string of "whys" to buttress your purchase. And by the way, the last time an antigunner asked me why I "needed" more than one gun, I said it was for the same reason she "needed" guava-flavored toothpaste — because! So I sent Bowen my beat-to-hell Ruger Old Model Blackhawk .357, to be converted to .44 Special, which remains one of my all-time favorite calibers (overexposure to Skeeter Skelton as a child, no doubt). Ask me why... Monday Morning... Before I go upstairs and emerse myself in the legal aspects of U.S. Forest Service antigun policies, a couple of quick thoughts: • My Sweetie and I did the 65-mile road leg of the annual Elephant Rock Century bicycle ride Sunday, each of us beta-testing new bikes. She picked up her brand spanking new Cannondale R1000 Feminine bike (see it here) Saturday at Big Ring Cycles in Golden, and — not surprisingly — it ran like a champ. We've both been riding Cannondales for more than a dozen years, so that's not a big surprise. I, on the other hand, broke from tradition and rode an older Trek 5200 I'd just had refitted with a Shimano STI Ultegra triple-ring gearset at Excel Sports in Boulder (here's the current version...mine is much older). I just threw my old saddle on it, adjusted the height and away I went...let me speak here in favor taking that few extra minutes to do the fore-and-aft saddle fitting! After a couple of hours I decided that evil leprechauns were driving self-tapping metal screws into my lower hips! Ouch! We finished in about 4 1/2 hours, which is not too bad for recreational riders on a hilly course...especially this early in the season...I think this was our third ride longer than 1 hour this whole year! BTW, the carbon fiber Trek rode well. It's a little twitchier in cornering than my ancient aluminum Cannondale, which I attribute to the Trek's 10-year-old carbon fork. Carbon forks are a lot stiffer these days, and I'll probably replace the Trek's fork when the bucks float in. I love the way the carbon fiber soaks up the hits on a high-speed downhill...I'm probably good for an additional 5 mph on the Trek over the Cannondale. BBTTWW, whenever I hear about "focus" and "being in the moment," I always think about bike pelotons. Yesterday, there were times I was in a group of maybe 25 riders, separatede by a few inches at most, sweeping downhill at more than 35 miles per hour. You have a choice of being either "in the moment" or "on the ground bleeding." Think about that when you start watching news reports from the Tour next month! • Later today I also want to post a little on master gunsmith Hamilton Bowen's book on the custom revolver, which I've been reading the last few days., and the Tyranny of Why which seems to have effected Gun World at a terrible level. Now, however, I've got to get back to the war... My Range Closed Today... ...the antigun activists from the U.S. Forest Service posted the range I shoot at in Booulder County this week. The area has been a shooting range for more than a decade, with no complaints. The range area was closed, as usual, with no input from the shooting community, with none of the studies that the USFS so loves in virtually any other situation, essentially on the authority of one antigun ranger. Sigh...another battle in the unending war. God, I hate these scumbags! Tomorrow we'll be talking to the Colorado State Shooting Association, Senator Wayne Allard's office, the Congressional Sportsmens Foundation, the various and sundry heads of the U.S. Forest Service, the NRA, the National Association of Shooting Ranges, as well as figuring out what our legal recourse is. I'll post full info as I get it, and I ask the Colorado blogging community to make sure it gets widespread treatment. Michael's Reading Room for June Right now I'm completely emersed in Randy Lee Eickhoff's AND NOT TO YIELD, a Western novel on the life and times of Wild Bill Hickok. Eickhoff wrote the brilliant novel THE FOURTH HORSEMAN, on the life and times of another Western icon, Doc Holliday. What I like about the Hickok book, aside from the fact that Eickoff (read this interview) is a genuinely gifted writer and storyteller, is that he understands that tales like these take place in multiple realities — hell, I'd argue that even reality takes place in multiple realities. A retelling of the history of Wild Bill (or Doc Holliday or Brother Wyatt) really doesn't move us forward in the understanding of the man or the times in which he lived unless we're able to connect the mythic, the subconscious, the spiritual dots. Eickhoff reflexively understands this. Considered the author's "checkered" past, from Amazon: Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle. In AND NOT TO YIELD, Hickok is portrayed as a man trapped between his two selves, just plain Jim Hickok from Illinois and the larger-than-life Scout of the Plains mankiller, Wild Bill. He quotes Shakespeare, umpires baseball games (in a wonderfully drawn scene), wrestles with his parents' dark Biblical prophecies for their son and, yes, kills people. Lots of people. Hickok is, his parents tell him, fated to be a "left hand of God," a man of violence who himself stands between the innocent and the violence done against them. It's an interesting —and, to me, valid — way of approaching history, because history is so darned slippery. We look back on events through the glass of our own times. When I was working on WHITE BOY SINGING THE BLUES, my take on the impact of black music, particularly the blues, on white popular culture, I first thought I'd be writing a "history" of the subject. I quickly discovered that from my standpoint — trying to make some sense out of the conflicting, often violent, often directly contradicting clash of the races centered around Memphis through much of the 20th Century — "history," the actual what happened when blah blah, was of very little use. There's this huge collection of data points, billions and billions of them, and "historians" pick a handful of those data points and draw their graphs. Pick a different handful and get a different graph. Here's what Eickhoff says: I'm more comfortable as a liar than a truth-teller, as I firmly believe that we can get closer to identifying truth in our fiction than we can by simply recording dry history. The simple idea of "history" limits itself, whereby in fiction we have no limits at all. In novels, we can interpret and offer philosophical rationale that really is out of place in a work of history. I'm not a regular reader of Western novels, but AND NOT TO YIELD is definitely worth your time. It'll give you something to do until the next season of DEADWOOD starts! Presented FYI ONLY... From the Ottawa Citizen this AM: Nipple-negating technology declares war on female breasts Nipples have become society's latest taboo, much to the chagrin of actresses such as Canada's Pam Anderson , writes Misty Harris The good news is those weapons of mass destruction have finally been found. The bad news is your mother, sister, aunt, and grandma are all guilty of having them. Where is meaning in a complex world? Paging Dr. Freud! And Jimmy Buffett... After Alf the Beagle apparently pushed me to the brink of the bed this AM, I fell back into a deep sleep and had a dream — unremembered — that triggered a long-lost memory. I woke up thinking I smelled pineapple-scented suntan oil and Meyers Rum. Not a bad thing, to be sure... I also woke up thinking about a time when I was — briefly — washed out to sea on a tiny catamaran with a beautiful blonde in requisite itsy-bitsy teeny-weenie bikini with only a bottle of Meyers Rum for sustenance. Call it like 30-35 years ago in Florida. The cat was a Hobie 14, with a sail I'd custom-ordered in yellow and lime green; the blonde a reporter — and friend — with a sailor's tan, permanent suntan oil scent and the requisite vicious turn of phrase; the rum was off the shelf. The idea was that she'd teach me to really sail, instead of the haphazard water lizard I was. Lesson 1 was an afternoon after work in the local word factory, with a freshening off-shore breeze. So we headed out to sea, and she headed into the rum bottle. She sailed with that intensity rich girls bring to horses and boats. She drank the same way. The more she drank, the farther away from land we got, and the greater her dishabille. The bikini was her sailing suit, faded to washed-out pink with whatever elastic it once had long since gone. At about Rum 50% gone, the breeze picked up, the little cat sceamed west toward...the Yucatan...and I pondered a view that by rights belonged in a steamy Travis Magee novel — big sun-stained healthy girl falling out of her bathing suit, watching a taunt sail...dead freaking drunk. The wind died at dusk, and I couldn't see any lights of land. She let the sail sag, leaned back on the cat's trampoline, said, "Well?" and passed out cold. I drank the remaining rum and contemplated the tanline along her right breast while we drifted in the wan moonlight. I considered pushing her overboard and chumming for sharks. I tried to think of what I'd tell the Coast Guard when they no doubt found us. I wondered whether the Mexican authorities would seize my boat if we kept drifting west. Several hours later, the wind came up and I started sailing us back. Eventually, she woke up and took over the sailing without a word. Sometime after midnight, we rediscovered land. There never was a Lesson 2. Jimmy Buffett would know how to spin this... NEWS! Forest Service Conspiracy to Shut Down Shoot...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line291
__label__wiki	0.842719	0.842719	(World) The Top Stories on the Internet Today (Wednesday October 23) By David Koech / Wednesday, 23 Oct 2019 06:35AM / Leave a Comment / Tags: The Hottest Here are some of today’s biggest global headlines. No longer the obedient NATO ally, Erdogan floats nuclear option Does President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believe that Turkey has the right or need to acquire nuclear weapons to cement its status? Trump says he’s ‘the one that did the capturing’ in Syria President Donald Trump spoke at length during a Cabinet meeting on Monday about his decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria — arguing that the US never agreed to protect Syrian Kurds forever, suggesting the US may secure an oil deal for the Kurds to bolster their finances and saying he’s “the one that did the capturing” of ISIS fighters in Syria. The next House impeachment witness is the most important so far Back to the text messages! Bill Taylor, currently the top official at the US Embassy in Ukraine, will get his moment before congressional investigators Tuesday. Elaborate attempt to outsource murder ends in prison time A Chinese court has sentenced six men over their part in a botched attempt to “outsource” a contract killing through an elaborate chain of intermediaries. Naruhito: Japan’s emperor formally proclaims enthronement Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has officially proclaimed his enthronement, in a ritual-bound, centuries-old ceremony attended by more than a hundred dignitaries from around the world. There are more wealthy Chinese than Americans for the first time For the first time, there are more rich Chinese than Americans in the top 10%. New gene editing technology could correct 89% of genetic defects Scientists have developed a new gene-editing technology that could potentially correct up to 89% of genetic defects, including those that cause diseases like sickle cell anemia. Harry and Meghan reveal side of royal life we don’t often see Every family has their ups and their downs, and Britain’s royal family are no exception — we just don’t normally hear about them. Zimbabwe says 55 elephants have died following severe drought A severe drought that has drained water sources in Zimbabwe’s largest national park has left 55 elephants dead since September, a spokesman for the country’s wildlife agency said on Monday. Trudeau’s Liberals ‘retain power in Canada’ Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has retained power but as a minority government, according to projections by Canada’s national broadcaster, CBC. Despite some early losses in Canada’s eastern provinces, the Liberals are expected to claim the most seats in parliament, giving them a second term. Africa Live: Rwanda’s R&B star ‘arrested for drink-driving’ – BBC News A group of African refugees who have camped outside the UNHCR offices in South Africa’s administrative capital of Pretoria, for the past three weeks, are pleading with the agency to “take them out” of the country. They say they have been targets of xenophobia attacks. ‘Dream to be first woman to walk on the moon’ US astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch answer questions about their all-female space walk. Africa Live: Nigeria charges two Britons over money laundering – BBC News Watch Lilium’s electric plane prototype take off and soar Forget Uber Copter . Lilium wants to be your regional mode of travel starting in 2025, with its five-seater electric airplanes . On Tuesday, the Germany-based company showed footage of its 36-engine plane taking off vertically before transitioning to other, more complex maneuvers. During its maiden flight early this year, the fixed-winged craft simply took off. Stephen Colbert mocks Trump’s absurd attempt to hold the G-7 summit at his own golf resort During Monday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the host poked fun at President Donald Trump’s now abandoned plans to hold the next G-7 summit at his own Trump National Doral Golf Resort in Miami. “‘Hey, if I’m gonna get impeached anyway, I say it’s bucket list time!'” said Colbert, doing an impersonation of the embattled commander in chief. The viral TikTok of a teen eating a 10-patty burger is a storytelling masterpiece Few things demonstrate the human capacity for joy like watching an entire Whataburger cheer on a teenager as he downs a massive 10-patty burger. TikTok has shed its reputation for horny lip syncing and is instead becoming a platform for fast-paced short-form storytelling. Creepiest Alexa and Google Assistant security fail yet Because we don’t have enough concerns about our digital privacy these days, it seems Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home both gave thumbs up to apps that could be used to eavesdrop on users and phish for their passwords. Oprah gifted an iPhone to an excited fan after dunking on his cracked screen If you’re lucky enough to meet Oprah Winfrey, she might gently roast you over the condition of your phone before gifting you a new one. That’s what Morehouse College freshman Olufemi Yessoufou learned after a recent run-in with the multimedia star. Man Kills Friend after Fight Over Termites Exclusive Odibets Free Bets, Boosted Wins and Bonuses For Kenyan Bettors	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line298
__label__cc	0.636379	0.363621	CRM Review: CRM Software for the Smallest Businesses Thursday Nov 11th 2010 by Vangie Beal Do home users really need a small business CRM solution? ContactMe thinks so. Its new offering has the basic CRM features to suit small or micro business needs for less than $10 per month. One thing a small business owner knows is that most customer relationship management (CRM) systems and solutions go well over their heads and budgets. For the most part, CRM software has been an enterprise application — the kind of solution that requires a dedicated team to develop custom CRM modules to fit the business, another team to analyze the resulting data and reports, plus an IT staff to handle costly upgrades and deployment. These CRM systems are called enterprise applications for a reason: They are too complex and offer too many features and options for your average small business user. Today, CRM is becoming more user-friendly, and a new breed of lightweight offerings for small businesses has been moving in to the CRM software space. The difference between your typical enterprise CRM and small business CRM software is not only the amount of data that is handled by the system, but also the IT requirements, pricing, and the tools and features of the application itself. A New Niche: Home-Based and Micro CRM While many of the well-known vendor names like Oracle, SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft are looking down market to small business CRM opportunities, it is not surprising to see new vendors announcing solutions for the small business CRM space. With an estimated 29 million small businesses in the U.S. alone, it's a market worth pursuing. According to Score.org, 91 percent of small businesses have between zero and four employees, which is right where Webs.com, a do-it-yourself solution for website creation, is targeting its new micro business CRM software. The company recently announced ContactMe.com, a customer relationship management tool targeted specifically to entrepreneurs, home-based and micro-businesses with zero to 5 employees. ContactMe CRM Software Features At first glance, ContactMe feels like a tool designed for individuals and small businesses. There are no gray spreadsheets or confusing charts — just a nice modern interface that anyone who uses Web applications will feel comfortable with. Breaking down the features and options, ContactMe offers the following tools in its SMB CRM application: Contact Management: This tool enables users to consolidate and sort contacts. Most small business owners use a system of email, documents and spreadsheets to handle contacts, but this application lets you import, manage and update your contact list from one place. You can also organize contacts into categories and also assign a sales stage to a contact, such as lead, potential, and customer. Notes and Email Forwarding: The tool offers Notes — messages you can attach to a contact in your CRM. This is where small businesses can add notes about meetings, communications, payments, or any other business task you have associated with a customer. As an added bonus, any email you have with the customer can be forwarded to a special ContactMe email address and stored as a note in the customer's contact page. Task Management: Task management helps you keep on top of your important business tasks. In ContactMe, you simply add a task by clicking on the "Add Task" box on any contact page. As you add tasks, they become available from the main Task management tool page. This provides small business owners with an organized to-do list for today, tomorrow and next week. Tasks you define will also be shown in the calendar, and the contact page. Calendar & Reminders: ContactMe offers a calendar tool that connects with other tools in the CRM system. For example, as you add a new task, or create a meeting with a customer the details will be shown in the calendar. You can also sync this with a private calendar you may already use for your business, Google Calendar or iCal. You can also choose to have a morning agenda reminder via email or text message that outlines the day's tasks. Reports: The reporting tool in ContactMe is pretty basic, but it also isn't "data overload" for an individual or small business owner to sort through. The reports offered include graphs to see how many button views, form views and form submissions your business gets per day, a pie-chart showing your contacts by sales stage, and a chart to see where your customers are coming from (such as the sites and spaces where you have published a ContactMe button or form). Mobile Access: Since many home-based and small business owners are also the sales contact, mobile access is important — a one-person show can't be in front of the computer reviewing data and be at a business meeting at the same time. Realizing that small businesses are often on the go, ContactMe offers mobile access via Apple iPhone, Android or Blackberry devices. Web Forms and Buttons for Contacts and Leads One of the most important features of ContactMe is its sales leads buttons and forms. The ContactMe button can be displayed on any of your websites and some social networking sites, like Facebook, so potential customers can reach out and send you a message. When you post a ContactMe button, it stays on the page regardless of where visitors scroll, and when someone clicks on the button, the contact form pops up. As forms are submitted, the leads are automatically added to your ContactMe contact list. Using easy copy-and-paste code, you can also embed the ContactMe form directly into your website's "Contact" page, removing the need to manually transfer new contact information to the small business CRM system. ContactMe integrates with a number of platforms, including WordPress, Constant Contact, Facebook, Twitter and a number of popular services. It presently offers some integration with Google Apps, but ContactMe co-founder and CEO Haroon Mokhtarzada told eCRM Guide that additional Google integration for Google Apps Marketplace is in development. ContactMe Pricing ContactMe is available in two versions: Standard and Pro. The Standard version is free and offers ContactMe Buttons and Forms for unlimited contacts and groups. The pro version includes these features plus Notes, Attachments Calendar, Tasks, Reminders, Mobile Apps and Stats for $9.95 per month, with additional savings offered on a one-year subscription. Vangie Beal is a veteran online seller and frequent contributor to ECommerce-Guide.com. She is also managing editor of Webopedia.com. You can tweet with her online @AuroraGG. Salesforce Continues to Advance Customer 360 Effort to Enable the Fourth Industrial Revolution Salesforce Embraces Blockchain to Extend Customer360 Vision Salesforce Seeks Customer Truth with New CRM Identity	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line301
__label__wiki	0.528636	0.528636	NiceGameHub Review Our Games Hilko's Hoard, New games from Latin America Hilko’s Hoard: New games from Latin America (June 17) June 20, 2018 Leon Scheuber This is a guest post by Hilkman translated from the German article originally published on his blog Du Bist Dran! Well, here I was just finished patting myself on the back for my good idea of releasing these kinds of overview articles on a monthly basis, when I suddenly realized that not even that is enough. At this point I find so many games that the articles are threatening to become endless. First off, it would mean that nobody would read them, and secondly it also eats so much of my time that I’d be incredibly stressed if I wanted to write other meaningful stuff in the meantime. So it seems as if I’m going to publish my “New Games from Latin America” – articles on the 1st and 3rd Monday of a month. Among other dates, this means today. We’ll see if it proves successful. I had noted here on several occasions that I learned quite a bit about South American history from games. The game Maipú also falls under this category, in which, in 1818, the Spanish colonial troops lost against a Chilean-Argentinian army and had to retreat from Chile. The hug of the two victorious leaders is seen as the hour of birth of the independent state of Chile. In honor of the 200. anniversary of the battle there’s now the gaming simulation Maipú 1818 by Miguel García and Gerardo Montenego, which was published by Alquimia Creativa. The players move around with various troops and then fight each other with 2d6, whereby they get different kinds of modifiers according to the troop type and leader. It is designed by Sabina Mangiavacchi. Released in March already, but I seem to have slightly missed, is a game with the weird name Melvin vs. Kronk. In the end I want to report about it also due to the fact that it will be one of the Latin American games that will likely be available at Essen in October. Melvin vs. Kronk is penned by Renato Simões and is a reaction game. You play cards with faces (of Melvin, the Geek and Kronk, the Orc) on your personal card pile. But the cards show varying facial expressions – if you notice that there are two similar cards lying face up, you hit the pile of jewel cards in the middle. Whoever manages to do so first, draws the two topmost cards, keeps one of them and gifts the other. The player who has gathered the most juwels by the end of the game wins. The game has been published by Geeks N‘ Orks, a publisher, who despite having a name very much tailored to this one, also has other games in store. Very close before the end of a successful crowd-funding campaign stands Orbs, by Raubher Borba, which is supposed to be released by Usina Studios. A bunch of Alien peoples have the small problem, that their sun has exploded, which of course does lower the life expectancy and quality drastically. Now they don’t just want to escape the explosion radius, but also take an artificial planet with them. Sadly there exists an old prophecy, that says that this will only work out for one of the nations. Whether this could be connected to a certain game from Chile (see below)? Orbs was illustrated by José Serrano. The sun of the earth seems to be fairly well, and still it’s not all just fun and games. In the cooperative game Earth’s Last Stand by Ignacio Gonzalo Paz Cornejo the oblivious players cruise around the earth in their small spacecraft, when suddenly a dimensional portal opens and a gigantic alien vessel appears and conquers the earth. The last hope now rests on the shoulders of the players, that need to destroy the strange spaceship, before it rings the end of humanity. Oh, you’ll be thinking, that all sounds nice and all, but I’ll never get my hands on a game this exotic. Far from it, you can download a (graphically downgraded) print and play. You can find the rules (in English) here and the game materials here, Although you’ll also need 34 dice in three different colors, which already tells quite a bit about the game mechanics. Sooner or later the game is supposed to hit the shelves with full graphics. New Games from Latin America (August 6) I can remember vividly how my local football club Werder Bremen signed a completely unknown player from Peru in 1999 and I had some reason to have higher than average hopes, that he would become a hit. Well, he did, because it was Claudio Pizarro, who returned every couple of years and stayed a popular figure until the end. I don’t know what happens in Peruvian football nowadays. But like elsewhere it seems to be a popular pastime, since LEAP Game Studios, a publisher for computer games, has for the first time ventured into analog entertainment and released the football card game Supercards – Perú Campeón, by Luis Wong, which is available since mid-May in kiosks in Peru. The illustrations are by Edward Torres and Christian Magán. Two players compete against each other and try to combine the most successful game moves with their five hand cards. If the opponent can’t block them you score a goal. There’s also a solitaire mode, in which you can play through a world cup final. Computer gaming firms often think a bit bigger, which is the reason why LEAP Game Studios has gotten together with depor.com, a bigger sports website. If you know Spanish, you can look at a short video explanation here. So far I hadn’t found anything from Venezuela. Now this has changed. As might also be known in these parts through the media, Venezuela is embroiled in a massive economic and currency crisis. In such an environment games are of course a luxury. Despite that – or exactly because of that – a publisher by the name of SBMjuegos has decided to release a game. It is called El Infiltrado (English: The Infiltrated) and is a sort of political Werewolf variant. The story is hereby told through both the lens of the extreme right (that valiantly fights against a corrupt regime) as well as the extreme left (that fights the terrorists, that want to push the country into the abyss). Meanwhile not even everyone knows their own roles (some might be controlled by the opposition without their knowledge) and the roles get merrily switched during a play. I have a preview copy of it lying around here, but sadly couldn’t find a group for it yet. Currently there is a campaign for El Infiltrado on Kickstarter, in fact it is in Spanish and English. Since there aren’t many people in Venezuela who can afford games right now, the campaign is also supposed to make sure that the local price will be manageable and of course that it will also be produced there – due to this it is relatively pricey with 13 euros for a micro game. Whoever may have some euros spare may very well think about whether or not to back this project and in turn also support the economy in a crisis-ridden country. New Games from Latin America (July 16) Alquimia CreativaArgentinabrazilchileEarth's Last StandEl InfiltradoGeeks N' OrksGerardo MontenegroHilko DrudeIgnacio Gonzalo Paz CornejoJosé Serranolatin americaLEAP Game StudiosLuis WongMaipú 1818Melvin vs. KronkMiguel GarcíaOrbsPeruRenato SimõesSabina MangiavacchiSBMjuegosSupercards - Perú CampeónThe InfiltratedUsina StudiosVenezuela Previous PostHilko’s Hoard: Game author’s fair in Göttingen 2018Next PostHilko’s Hoard: New Games from Latin America (July 2) Tabletop news, views and announcements with the team of Nice Game Publishing. Global Boardgame News Hilko’s Hoard New games from Latin America Vampire: The Masquerade – Heritage	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line318
__label__wiki	0.576211	0.576211	No Mans Sky (PS4\|PC) Hazelnut August 2016 So I think the game is out now in America. I think? It seems like it's tomorrow for us brits (weird Wednesday release). I do have No Mans Sky preloaded on my PS4 even though I know exactly nothing about the game. What do you guys think of the game? Do you actually know anything, are you interested? Epke August 2016 I heard there will be a day one patch I'm interested in it. It looks like a callback to the 60s and 70s sci-fi aesthetic, with a cool post-rock soundtrack. I hope it evokes a sense of wonder that the best open-world games do well. The sense of discovery and a real glimpse at imagination run amok when you find a new planet and a new species or what have you. If I get it it'll probably be on PC. Dr Flibble August 2016 I watched some people on my friends list playing it. It looks like Inventory Management: The Game to me. Early days though, and I assume it will start getting more interesting later on. It reminds me a bit of Minecraft, only with more tedious inventory management and you don't have to build any houses. You don't starve, but you have to keep your life support going, and you seem to spend most of the game running around destroying shit for resources to craft gear. It looks OK, but it's not blowing any socks off me. Definitely not GOTY material. I might get it when it has a price drop. Also, I love how you "discover" occupied planets, complete with high tech indigenous inhabitants, space ports and landing pads, and just waiting for you to show up to start their interstellar trade ventures. Honestly, this looks like there is very little worthwhile gameplay. Just novelty, with a retroactive attempt at developing some fun/gameplay. Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think I will pick it up ever. I'm hearing and reading that there is no development in this. You just keep blasting shit, crafting shift, and that's it. I was kinda hoping it was going to be like Minecraft, with a lot of hidden depth, but nope. Seems like this one is just a turd wrapped around a gimmicky algorithm. See you in the $5 bin! @Dr Flibble As I feared :( Keep feeling more iffy about this one. Apparently the developer lied about a lot of stuff. sloth August 2016 I'm quite keen to play No Man's Sky. Conceptually it seems like a sci-fi exploration/survival game that I'd enjoy. I don't think it'll be as ingenious as MineCraft or as interesting in world as Mass Effect, but I'm in such a lull with gaming that anything new and shiny would seem neat. Its too bad this game was so hyped up and that the developer was so obtuse about everything; I think this would've been a fine indie game that would be more lauded than panned if it had a different marketing stride. I've been watching NichBoy play this over a few hours and I would still really like to play this but at a later date when things are more ironed out and the price is a bit cheaper. I think $20 would be the sweet spot for me. I knew next to nothing before getting no mans sky, listened to none of the hype, read no pre release articles didn't watch any footage. This game just seemed like one that needed to be explored and discovered alone.I am about 6 hours in and I still know next to nothing. I'm exploring planets. Jumping through systems. In the aid of what? Getting to the centre? Why? You know what though.....I don't really care. I'm...well I can't exactly say I'm enjoying just wandering around but it is keeping my attention, finding new animals, exploring unknown worlds. Just having a wander its amazing. How long this will keep my attention, I have no idea but for now. All I want to do is wander round, mining minerals and exploring those green ?. Noobied by 1amardilo I bought No Man's Sky and played it for about 10 hours. It is a 2gb procedurally generated game where you can basically break down the mechanics to thirds of thirds. I feel that the game is more 'survival' in the sense of inventory management, mining and foraging than actual 'exploration' - and keep in mind I have 42 slot ship now. Every action in the game (mining, taking flight, leaving the planet, breathing) requires some sort of resource that you have to mine for. For example, your exosuit's life support systems are constantly depleting some sort of energy that you have to mine for. And then your mining tool depletes a different set of energy every time you mine. I feel that the consumption/just existing burn rate is much too high and I'm constantly uneasy about either: - Filling up my extremely limited inventory slots (even with the larger ship) and not having the space for interesting rare items I find. - Not being able to find that mined resource I need and then being stranded on yet another barren, rocky planet. The balance of resource consumption feels like the grind/balance of first gen MMOs where everything is heavily taxed and progress is eeked out in tiny bits. I feel that we've really moved on beyond this mindless, dumb grinding in gaming to a point where games are like generous hosts trying to get you to have a good time - and I mean this in both the good way (think any story game that just moves the plot swiftly) and in the pandering sense (like WoW with how everybody is a winner). Anyway, at the core of it, I feel that its not fun mining and scrounging like a loser for resources that get burnt up at such a fast rate. Its like a really shitty sisyphus complex that's just in my face all the time. Beyond that, once you've taken off and gotten your hyper drive with a ship that has more inventory slots than you thought was possible, its still not a fun game. There's like 5 different planet biomes (each in many nice palettes), but the actual objectives generated on each planet are: - Abandoned base that you just find things in. - Inhabitated base where you don't understand the alien language and have to guess one of three answers to a cryptic question posed to you. - A crashed ship site with schematics/technology to learn and perhaps a ship to consider making yours. - Sentinels (they're like robotic green peace) that shoot you if you mine ANYTHING within their site with a GTA 'wanted' 5 stars policing system. And there's some other stuff like space stations, space fights etc etc but to be totally honest, I feel like there's really 12 permutations of set pieces to come across in the game, spread over the limited biomes and then 'randomly generated/repeated' again and again for 18 quintillion times. There is literally more variety/points of interest in a linear COD game than there is in No Man's Sky. And I genuinely think COD is terrible. The wanderlust that you get quickly subsides because of the procedural generation. Everything feels soulless and you kind of know what they did for it to be like this. The magic fades so quickly and you're wondering how this 2gb game gained so much hype. It feels like Minecraft Alpha back before survival mode - conceptually its all very likeable but another year or two or three was needed to give it a bit of soul and entertainment. But the thing with Minecraft is that you could build and create your own meaning. There was always that greed of getting materials that you could then erect and stand forever whereas in No Man's Sky, your collected resources are just burnt over time to keep you alive and able to do things. A few more years in the oven for this game, or maybe instead, a $15 price point by a modest indie team of 15 with very little hype would've seen this game's reception be much more warm. But instead, you have cryptic, tongue-in-cheek bullshit spin from the developers and you know what, I work with asshole software engineers like that and I just want to punch them in their stupid hipster faces. If you were good, the work would present itself instead of all the bullshit and spin that was outright lied about. Like the multiplayer for instance - naming things is hardly multiplayer. Shitty spore creatures everywhere is hardly a "god algorithm" and I'm paraphrasing, "founded by maths". No shit its maths - its what programming is. Its like a fucking hipster douchebag saying ruby on rails is the next holy grail in computers. God dammit, I hate this game so much. Its a shit game and the way its all been marketed/recited/lied about is everything I hate in the software engineering industry that I work in. On its own legs, another few years and this would've been a fine game. Much more shallow than anything like Rimworld, Galaxy on Fire (an iOS game like freelancer), and most B-list sci fi shoehorn games, but still passable with its own cult following. But add in all the bullshit and mess that comes along with this game (my fucking GTX Titan was screen tearing like crazy at 60 frames, my partner's 4ghz octocore/gtx 1070 crashed a lot, and the shit textures make it look like a first gen Xbox 360 game) and its too hard not to dislike it. Its like P Fish and Fez. I might have liked the game but its too hard to separate the art from the artist and ultimately I'm annoyed I spent $60 and x hours on it with the conceit that it would become more which it isn't. Mega fuck this game; two thumbs down. Noobied by 4Dr Flibble amardilo 8drawt Manio @sloth Sold! I question some of the upcoming things they're going to implement, too. They say they're going to add base building, but what is the point of plopping down a base if you're supposed to be going planet to planet and exploring the cosmos? Seems like a good way to motivate the type of stationary gameplay they don't want. You quickly see all the seam's in this game. You see every limiting factor in about 4 or 5 hours. But you know what. I'm still having fun chilling out watching TV with no mans sky in the background. Just relaxing out wandering a planet. Setting myself small objectives. "get a bigger ship", "get more inventory space" or you know "move closer to the centre" Is it the game I was hoping for? Nah I wanted a dumbed down Eve but in first person. I didn't get that. This will most definitely never be that. @nutta27 It definitely doesn't sound as though you are getting 60 dollars worth of game and a worthwhile time investment if it has already been relegated to background entertainment. How did the hype/price of this game get so inflated? To me it seems a tech demo of planet/creature random generation algorithms that has had a game attempted to be built, clumsily, on top of it. @sloth Thanks for the really detailed analysis as ever, you probably had much more fun writing about the torment of the game than playing it haha. @8drawt I actually genuinely enjoyed the first two hours. The mystique of the setting, the expansive promise of the galaxy, and that learning curve where anything is possible because you don't really know much. I was positively beaming that I ignored the critical reception and found some gaming solitude I felt I would enjoy. But like a Thai lady boy, that joyful glee of the night was quickly replaced by a truth that I wasn't too thrilled about and that sinking realisation that "I was fooled." Noobied by 1AshGooner I'm done, the games vastness I think has passed. I still want to get to the centre but I don't actually think I can be arsed any more. What a shame. @nutta27 Take a Google squiz at what happens when you get to the centre. Worse than Mass Effect 3 ending. I watched the ending on YouTube. It does indeed suck. It's one of the worst endings I've ever seen. @sloth I have heard many people have had the exact same experience as you. They have been excited and enjoyed the first few hours before slowly realising there is no real depth to the gameplay feeling deceived. Did you play the PS4 version out of interest? As the PC port looks an absolute terrible experience. westsw August 2016 I was never very attracted to this game. I did not dig Don't Starve, and this always looked like a giant version to me. Sad that it is huge and shallow. AngryJoe rips them a new one over their blatant lies. https://youtu.be/uTTPlqK8AnY @Dr Flibble Wow I didn't realise how many outright lies that dev made, I haven't really been following it as I suspected it would probably be flawed. But not to this level. Gees, I feel sorry for people who preordered this game based on what was promised. Glad I stayed away, but Joe makes some good suggestions as to improving the game which would probably make it appealing to me. First they need to get their shit together with all the crashes and glitches, maybe put out a finished game for $60. I can see why they didn't send out any review code... Sales dropped more than eighty percent in one week. The word is out and the word is poop. Bargain bin trophy game! :P	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line319
__label__wiki	0.515586	0.515586	http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-2862 http://oru.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:135367 Tape-stripping as a method for measuring dermal exposure to resin acids during wood pellet production Eriksson, Kåre Hagström, Katja Örebro University, Department of Natural Sciences. Axelsson, Sara Nylander-French, Leena Occupational and Environmental Medicine; Enviromental Science URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-2862OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-2862DiVA, id: diva2:135367 1. Occupational exposure during production of wood pellets in Sweden Open this publication in new window or tab >>Occupational exposure during production of wood pellets in Sweden The aims of the studies underlying this thesis were to assess workers’ air exposure to wood dust and various chemicals, and to evaluate the variability in exposure and occupational dermal exposure to resin acids during the production of wood pellets in Sweden. Personal air measurements of wood dust, monoterpenes, resin acids and nitrogen dioxide (as a marker of diesel exhaust), accompanied by area measurements of these substances, VOCs and carbon monoxide, were performed at up to ten plants. Repeated measurements were also performed to evaluate within- and between-worker variability, determinants of exposure, the probability that a worker’s mean exposure exceeded the occupational exposure limit, OEL (overexposure), and the bias in the exposure-response relationship (attenuation). Dermal exposure was measured at the forehead, neck, forearm and hand using a tape-stripping method, in which a strip of adhesive tape is applied to the skin and then removed along with the outermost layer of the skin and chemicals adsorbed to this layer. The workers’ exposure to wood dust was high (mean: 2.4 mg/m3), with 35−42 % of the measurements above the Swedish OEL of 2 mg/m3. The exposure is also classified as unacceptable due to the calculated levels of overexposure. Exposure to resin acids like 7-oxodehydroabietic acid and dehydroabietic acid was identified, which has not been previously observed in the wood industry, with mean sum levels of 2.4 _g/m3. Levels of monoterpenes, nitrogen dioxide, VOCs and carbon monoxide were all below their Swedish OELs. A factor that influenced the level of exposure to wood dust and resin acids was the nature of the work done, notably cleaning operations, like sweeping, which increased the exposure slightly. The attenuation was high for the individual-based model, and at least 12 repeated measurements were needed to yield a bias in the exposureresponse relationship of _10 %. The results also showed that dermal exposure to resin acids occurs in these plants, which has not been shown before, and provided indications of both increased exposure during a work shift and diffusion into the skin. The main conclusion is that wood dust exposure at these levels is likely to have implications for the workers’ health in the long run, and, therefore, it is important to reduce exposure to wood dust in this industry. Örebro: Örebro universitet, 2008. p. 75 Örebro Studies in Environmental Science, ISSN 1650-6278 ; 11 Occupational hygiene, wood dust, resin acids, VOC, variability, determinant of exposure, overexposure, dermal exposure Enviromental Science urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1726 (URN)978-91-7668-571-6 (ISBN) 2008-02-22, Wilandersalen, M-huset, Universitetssjukhuset, Örebro, 13:00 Demers, Paul Dept. of health care and epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Lindström, Gunilla Department of Natural Sciences	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line329
__label__cc	0.547053	0.452947	10:11 p.m. Mon, Jan. 20th Re-Think Health Romantic Gataways Travel & Safety tips Travel Picks: Top 10 hiking destinations Aug 5, 2011, 2:36 a.m. Houses are seen at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania's Hie district December 10, 2009. REUTERS/Katrina Manson NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - All tourism involves at least a bit of walking, even if it's just off the plane to a waiting limousine. But for those who want to put walking or hiking at the heart of their holiday fun, online travel adviser Cheapflights (http://www.cheapflights.com) offers its top 10 hiking destinations. Reuters has not endorsed this list: Appalachian Trail - Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mount Katahdin, Maine, United States The granddaddy of mammoth hikes, the Appalachian Trail is over 2,150 miles long and passes through 14 states. While fewer than 500 people successfully hike the trail in its entirety each year, as many as 3 million people complete a portion of it. Not only does the Appalachian Trail fulfill a hiker's desire to experience wildlife in its most wholesome state, the trail is a great way to bond with other passionate hikers, and test one's ability to abandon civilization for significant amounts of time. Camino Frances (El Camino de Santiago) - St. Jean Pied de Port, France to Compostela, Spain More often than not, hiking entails high trees, rocks, poisonous plants, tents and the daunting task of cooking over a fire. If this sounds more like a nightmare than a vacation, consider the Camino Frances, one of the more popular routes in the famous pilgrimage known as El Camino de Santiago. What was once a popular religious expedition, this 484-mile trek has become a huge attraction for anyone - young, old, athletic, out-of-shape, religious or not - looking for a challenge. Spend your days winding through the quiet towns of France and Spain, and stay at a friendly Pilgrim Hostel, sleep in a comfy bed and enjoy a hot shower. Pembrokeshire Coast Path - Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales Along the limestone cliffs, weaving in and out of sandy beaches, lily ponds and fishing villages, is the 186-mile-long Pembrokeshire Coast Path. While not considered particularly strenuous, the several trails that make up the entire path are as short as nine miles and as long as 16 miles. Along the path, travelers can witness incredible historical sites such as 2,000-year-old forts, burial grounds from 400 A.D. and a medieval castle, or two. Bed-and-breakfasts are abundant; however campsites and hotels are available as well. Year-round buses cruise the coast picking up hikers as they choose the trails most fitting to their needs. And the Pembrokeshire Path is no stranger to wildlife; grey seals, puffins, foxes and hundreds of other species can all be spotted along the way. Mount Kilimanjaro - Tanzania At 19,336 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa, and has become an increasingly popular hiking destination for travelers. Those who embark upon this journey travel through five different climate zones over a period of six to eight days, depending on the route and the operating company. Due to its rising reputation as a hotspot for adventure tourists, all hikers must travel with a guide, which can make for a costly trip, but ensures a safe arrival and an experienced person to navigate between the three volcanoes and turquoise ice fields. Porters are available to carry belongings and setup campsites for those looking for extra assistance along the way. \| Read More >> Top 5 scenic and low-impact hiking locations across the world Take a hike! Top heart healthy hiking vacations One Best Hike: Mount Rainier’s Wonderland Trail Find a Trail to History SPRING 2019 RETIREMENT LIVING COMMUNITY ADVERTISERS Northwest Prime Time Editorial questions: editor@northwestprimetime.com Advertising requests: chris@northwestprimetime.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line333
__label__cc	0.636874	0.363126	Church Hill Surgery Station Road, Pulham Market Norfolk IP21 4TX www.churchhillsurgery.co.uk More on what we do The PSSG is run by a committee ( our current committee can be found on the home page ) and supported by volunteers who organise our monthly get-together which generally includes an entertainment or presentation, tea and an opportunity to socialise and give each other mutual support. The committee also maintains contact with other voluntary organisations including the Norwich and District Carers Forum, Voluntary Norfolk and Age UK. Use our links for more information about related web sites or go to the resources tab. The PSSG is funded by donations, grants, and our monthly raffle. Everyone is encouraged to contribute in any way they can. Ideas for fund raising are always welcome. The Treasures makes regular reports to the committee and the AGM is in July each year. An evaluation sheet is distributed at each meeting so people can comment and offer suggestions and ideas for the future. If you want details of future events go to the home page to download a copy of our poster, also available there is our latest news letter, photos and information of our committee. "see picture on home page" So why not come to our next meeting? Everyone is very friendly and you will be sure of a warm welcome. We always have a good time . You may be interested in reading more about us by going to the links below and in the resource pages In 2000 the Chief Executive of South Norfolk Primary Care Group (SNPCG), requested more information about the Pulham Surgery Support Group (PSSG). He subsequently visited the group to talk to volunteers and users of the group about its many functions. Discussions took place about how the SNPCG could support the work being done and promote the idea of patient participation to other practices. This was the beginning of three years of funding, paid to Pulham Surgery, aimed specifically at developing support for Carers in general practices throughout South Norfolk. We joined forces with the Health and Social Care Planning Officer SNPCT, and the Norwich & District Carers Forum, to find ways of improving the provision of care for carers. The PSSG volunteers offered a wealth of knowledge and experience about caring for people at home and were able to highlight the practical difficulties frequently encountered. At the South Norfolk Workshop for Carers Organisations (March 22nd 2001) there was one single overriding message: “that GP’s and their staff should be better at sign-posting carers in need, to the resources that are available to them.” We set about trying to initiate change in the following ways, some of these have changed as we have developed. All GPs in the area were contacted and informed of the project. Each practice was asked to submit the name of a Carers Lead who would receive and pass on carers’ information. All known Carers Groups were contacted and asked to name a Group Representative through whom information could be distributed. Mailing Lists of Carers Leads and Group Representatives were sent to all of them. Group Representatives were encouraged to contact their practice Carers Leads. A South Norfolk Primary Carers Support Groups booklet was collated describing the individual functions of each group and circulated to practices. It was later updated to include Breckland. Meetings were held to identify and discuss carers needs and to devise a plan of action, which included working closely with other agencies. At Pulham Surgery, we designed a Carers Questionnaire to enable carers to be identified and we piloted a Carers Register. A proposed Standard of Care for Carers was written, accepted and adopted by all the staff at Pulham Surgery. A Carers Information pack was compiled, produced and piloted in five practices, including Pulham. These packs proved very popular and funding was found so they could be distributed to GP’s throughout Norfolk. The PSSG recruited volunteers who were especially interested in carers issues, who supported the idea of regular Carers Clinics being held at the surgery. The Clinics were agreed upon, advertised and launched, but it soon became clear that many carers were not able to get to the surgery easily and more could be done by telephone. Referral to the PSSG co-ordinator were offered routinely and volunteers maintained follow up if requested to do so. The Carers Policy recommended annual health checks and flu vaccines for all carers. PSSG volunteers linked up with other patient groups and helped prepare an Information Pack for Carers Groups. PULHAM SURGERY CARERS PROJECT So when we were asked: “What should we be doing for Carers?” – the answer was clearer: Recognise them as carers and recognise the effect their commitment has on their lives. Register them, so that relevant information may be passed on to them. Provide Resources by ensuring they have received up to date information as to where to get help quickly. Refer them to the appropriate agencies and offer them a Carers Assessment. Review their progress, continue to recommend regular health checks and offer ongoing support. This is what we evolved through the PSSG. We know the tremendous impact the group can have on the lives of carers and the people for whom they care. We also know that we are only touching the tip of the iceberg – many carers remain hidden, but the ripples we helped create turned into a huge tidal wave and became an inspiration to many others along the way. We need to continue to share our knowledge and experience, to seek new solutions, pool our ideas, learn where there are resources available and direct them to where ever they can be most useful. The Pulham Surgery Support Group would like to thank everyone who has worked with them on this project. Lorna Pyke Practice Sister 1980 – 2008 With the passage of time and changes in staff, it may seem that much of the work done to raise awareness of the needs of our local carers has fallen by the wayside, but with the internet revolution and years of media promotion, the role of carers is now well recognised and help is widely available. Many voluntary groups offer information and ongoing support. Our June meeting generally reflects National Carers Week and is run in conjunction with the Norwich & District Carers Forum who support the many Carers Groups in Norfolk. We have been lucky enough to receive Small Grants for Carers Support Groups from Norfolk County Council for several years which have helped with the group’s running costs. Moving with the times, we now have an easy to use website which has recently been relaunched and is regularly updated. It is full of information, photographs, useful links and news of forthcoming events, much of which can be printed off. We have made contact with the ten parish councils who cover the fourteen villages in the Church Hill Surgery catchment area, telling them about our website, inviting them to come along to our monthly meetings and asking them help us identify hidden carers by spreading the word within their communities. The response has been very positive. Some of our volunteers belong to the Patient Participation Group which is run by an independent group of their patients. The GPs and their staff have attend in the past PSSG meetings when they can. An illustrated News Sheet is produced three or four times a year and is available online. As more volunteers use the internet, we find them sharing information and picking up tips from each other. We see the huge potential this offers those of us in rural areas and plan to strengthen and extend the support network that is already developing. Please do contact us if you wish to become part of it. The following links will give you more information about Support for Carers. Please tell us if you have others that have proved to be useful. Some of our recent history, speakers, events. Some of our recent history, speakers, events. ›	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line340
__label__cc	0.710236	0.289764	Peninsula Crime Line, Inc. Crime of the Week Crime Awareness Tip Follow-Up The Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers (VPCS), incorporated by the State of Virginia in 1982, continued its longstanding contribution in helping make the Virginia Peninsula a safer place to live and work through its effort to obtain anonymously provided information to help law enforcement solve crimes and arrest wanted individuals. This private initiative is funded totally through donations by corporations, small businesses, organizations and individuals. The VPCS partners with the police departments of Hampton, Newport News,James City County, Williamsburg and Poquoson, the Sheriff’s Offices of Gloucester County and York County and the print, TV, radio and social media to achieve its continued success. This report presents a summary of the activities, contributions, and success of this all-volunteer, citizen-based organization. Adams Outdoor Advertising Adams Outdoor Advertising wants to increase their donated Crime Stoppers advertising on electronic billboards to help solve crimes on the Peninsula. A company executive attended a VPCS Board meeting to discuss increasing the advertising as well as increasing program advertising. This year they advertised the VPCS Salute to Law Enforcement event and became a Chiefs/Sheriff’s Sponsor. Contribution to Community Safety The primary mission of the VPCS is to provide a safe tool for citizens to report information anonymously concerning criminal activity to help law enforcement arrest wanted people and solve crimes. Callers remain anonymous, do not have to testify in court and could receive a cash reward of up to $1,000 if their information results in an arrest, recovery of stolen property, or seizure of illegal drugs. This is achieved through the use of the1-888-LOCK-U-UP telephone tip number and through the use of web and text tipping. The program’s contribution to community safety is measured through a few statistics. In 2016, the seven law enforcement division,departments and offices partnering with the VPCS: received 1,052 telephone calls; solved 137 cases; made 85 arrests; recovered $31,185 in stolen property;seized $37,260 in illegal drugs; and seized or recovered 6 weapons. The VPCS approved rewards totaling $27,462. The following chart provides an overview of the program’s contribution to the community’s safety over the past ten years plus the ten year average for each of the performance statistics. Number of Calls Number of Cases Solved Number of Arrests Value of Stolen Property & Illegal Drugs Recovered Rewards Approved 10 – Year VPCS President R. Biege Donates Brick This is a photograph of the Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers brick that was installed in the walk at the Newport News Police Department. This brick was donated in the program’s name by President Rich Biege. VPCS Hosts Virginia Crime Stoppers Association Conference The annual Virginia Crime Stoppers Association’s training conference, hosted by the VPCS, was held September 30thand 31th at the Fort Magruder Hotel and Conference Center in Williamsburg. Crime Stopper board members from local programs across Virginia attended the conference. VPCS Directors staffed the event’s networking suite providing a comfortable, relaxing venue for those attending the conference to gather, share ideas, learn different solutions to common problems, and just renew old friendships. This conference provided “Back to Basics” training for improving the operation of local Crime Stoppers’ programs. VPCS Officers Elected for Two Year Term The officers for the Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers were elected in November and installed in December 2015 for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2016. The officers are: President - Rich Biege (retired); Vice President for Marketing - Cheryl Early (1stAdvantage Federal Credit Union); Vice President for Administration - Mike Minarik (retired) replaced by Fred Kern(retired); Treasurer - Susie Bartlome (Old Point National Bank); and Secretary- Skyler Place (Walmart/ODU Student). Hampton Roads Transit Begins Advertising on Buses The Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers expanded it community outreach by reaching an agreement with HRT to advertise the Crime Stoppers program and telephone number on the inside of their buses running routes on the Peninsula. This cooperative advertising initiative began in November 2016. Seventh Annual Salute to Law Enforcement The Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers’ Seventh Annual Salute to Law Enforcement was held on June 16, 2016 at The Marriott Newport News City Center. This event honors a law enforcement officer and a civilian from each of the seven jurisdictions within the Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers program. Those recognized were: York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office Master Deputy Michael Russell Sandy Turbeville Hampton Police Division Master Police Officer Delancy Pryor, Jr. Debbie L. Heath Newport News Police Dept. Master Police Officer Matthew Overton Jennifer Conner Williamsburg Police Dept. Master Police Officer Sean Hughes Tobby Lane Poquoson Police Dept. Officer Josh Pankoke Pastor Daniel B. Cromer James City County Police Dept. Senior Police Officer Timothy J. Renwick Sharon Abney Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office Master Deputy Phil Lutz & K-9 Deputy Rexi The Fred Kern Meritorious Service Award was given to Grady M. Blaylock, Chairman of the Board/Owner Equidata, Inc., for his more than 30 years of continuous support to the Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers program. Headline Sponsors were: the Langley Federal Credit Union, BayPort Credit Union, Walmart,and the Daily Press. The Chief/Sheriff’s Sponsors were: 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union, Newport News Shipbuilding, Saint Leo University, and Adams Outdoor Advertising. The Back the Blue Sponsors were: Coliseum Central, BID, Inc., Old Point National Bank, and Equidata, Inc. The 2017 Salute to Law Enforcement is scheduled for Thursday June 8, 2017 at the Marriott Newport News City Center hotel from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. 16thAnnual Top Cop Awards & and Dinner The Greater Hampton Roads Regional Crime Lines, Inc.’s, partnering with the seven Crime Line, Crime Solvers and Crime Stoppers programs across the Hampton Roads region, held its 16th Annual Top Cop Awards and Dinner on October 22, 2016 at the Renaissance Hotel in Portsmouth. The past year, these seven programs received 3,789 calls and text tips, solved 347cases resulting in 251 arrests, recovery of stolen property valued at $127,420, and seized illegal drugs valued at $15,910. Those officers recognized from the law enforcement departments partnering with the Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers were: Hampton Police Division Senior Corporal Randal M. Mayer Newport News Police Dept. Master Police Officer Melissa S. Gretsinger Williamsburg Police Dept. Investigator Sean Hughes York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Travis Smith The Bay Port Credit Union was recognized with the Corporation of the Year award. Fundraiser at Cozzy’s Comedy Club and Tavern The Virginia Peninsula Crime Stoppers held a fund raiser at Cozzy’s Comedy Club and Tavern in Newport News. Tickets to this event were $10 and food could be purchased at the Club. A comedian played to a packed house and the event raised over $1,000. Another fundraiser is being planned for Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at Cozzy’s and tickets will be available in February 2017. VPCS Outreach The VPCS’s speaker’s bureau discussed the Crime Stoppers program at a meeting of a Neighborhoods Watch group on Chesapeake Avenue in Newport News. Approximately 15 people attended. VPCS Directors The VPCS’ Board of Directors as of December 2016 was: Rich Biege Retired Susie Bartlome Old Point National Bank Sherry Cassell Equidata, Inc. Cheryl Early 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union Jorge Gonzalez BayPort Credit Union DawnJoyner Fort Eustis Fred Kern Retired Jay Mathieu Langley Federal Credit Union Mike Minarik Retired Rick Pittinger Retired Skyler Place Wal Mart Brian Richards Wal Mart Jeff Sandford Old Point National Bank Charles Southall Newport NewsShipbuilding Jim West Citizen Amanda Wroten Newport News Police Foundation, Inc. Anderson Software © 2020 All Rights Reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line355
__label__cc	0.574072	0.425928	Millennium Park offers a lakefront experience like nothing else you'll find in America. The park's iconic Cloudgate, a mirrored sculpture affectionately dubbed "The Bean," will give you a whole new perspective of the skyline behind you, and in the winter time, you can hit this Loop hot spot to ice skate on a huge temporary rink. The Art Institute of Chicago is right next door, giving this whole part of town a very Central Park feel. 7&1/2 storied commercial house on rent at Hadigaun, Rudramati Marga, Kathmandu Mahanagarpalika-5. This house is located near Chabahil , Ganesthan Mandir. This west facing house covers total land area of 17 aana and 8 aana is separate for parking area. This house is mostly suitable for commercial purposes like as hotel, college, The road access of this house: 12 ft pitched private road. America’s third largest city fosters a very unique persona with a wild and colorful history that has earned it a string of nicknames: Second City, Chi-Town, and of course, Windy City. Countless songs have been written about it, a legendary musical group is named after it, plays are based on it, and many movies and television shows are set in it. Yes, it’s Chicago – and it’s an amazing city to rent a luxury apartment. Next to the historic Water Tower and John Hancock Building, Water Tower Place offers six indoor stories of shops and restaurants, including the Chicago Sports Museum and the American Girl Cafe and store, where young girls can customize their own doll, browse her entire wardrobe collection, and even attend a tea party with theatrical reenactments of the associated books. Chicago is a very pedestrian-friendly city, complete with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)'s "L" trains. The Metra commuter train is also available and widely used. Travelers can also take buses or participate in the city's bicycle-share program, or they can hop on a trolley. For longer trips, O'Hare International Airport is available. For car travel, residents can take I-90 or I-290. Taking up a massive chunk of Lake Michigan’s western shore, Chicago spent much of the past century and a half building itself into a world-class city. The architecture is stunning, from the John Hancock Tower to Tribune Tower and Willis Tower. Residents and visitors enjoy watching a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, strolling the botanical garden before hopping aboard a dinner cruise at Navy Pier, or grazing the posh designer stores along the Magnificent Mile. Summers are spent relaxing on the beach – there are many in Chicago, such as 12th Street Beach and Oak Street Beach. While out on the town, dance the night away at any one of Chicago’s jazz and blues clubs, like Andy’s Jazz Club or the Green Mill. 5 Bedrooms 3 storied house for rent at Rabi Bhawan,Kalanki. This house is located only in 400 metre west from City hospital. This house has enough parking space , 9 rooms and 4 bathrooms in total.This house is suitable for hostel, long term residence , offices etc.Monthly rental of this house is 1,50,000 per month and negotiable for longterm contract. Settled in the 1780s, it's possible that Chicago was explored as early as 1679 -- when the first reference to the city was made by Robert de LaSalle, a French explorer who focused on the Great Lakes Region. He wrote about a place called "Checagou" in his memoir, where he claimed the name came from the "quantity of garlic which grows in the forests." Created By EzWebSolution Contact us at webmaster@sanibelislandrentalplaces.com \| Sitemap xml \| Sitemap txt \| Sitemap	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line364
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Google reportedly gearing up to produce own smartphone this year MacNN Podcasts - Mon, 06/27/2016 - 7:50pm Google is allegedly working on producing a new smartphone it will produce itself, according to a report, with the first release potentially arriving at the end of this year. Rather than relying on a third-party manufacturer to actually produce the devices, a report claims Google is intending to go into hardware production itself, giving it increased control over the overall experience consumers will get to have with the mobile device, instead of just the software that the existing Nexus device range uses.... Categories: iPod News Straight Path Group joins assault on FaceTime technology A fourth lawsuit against Apple over alleged infringement of patents used by FaceTime has been filed, this time by Straight Path Group. The lawsuit, filed in the Northern California District Court, claims that FaceTime infringes on five patents previously owned by NetSpeak, which made the popular VOIP application WebPhone in the mid-1990s. As with previous suits underway by patent trolls VirnetX, VOIP-Pal, and Uniloc, the suit covers older and more general audio-video patents allegedly used by Apple in its FaceTime and Messages technologies.... Best of MacNN: MacBundler, BundleCult reportedly not paying developers Editor's Note: as MacNN closes at the end of this month, we're showcasing some of our favorite pieces from its recent history. I'm Malcolm Owen, and I helped out on a series of reports concerning a collection of "bundle" sites that sold licenses for a number of apps, but failed to pay the developers behind those apps. The first report appeared in November, with an updated reminder of what was going on published in April this year, the content of which is repeated below.... Hands On: Kitsound Stadium 120 It's billed as being for making sport and movies sound great, but I can tell you now that it didn't help make the UK European Union referendum sound any better at all. You can't expect miracles, though, and the Kitsound Stadium 120 is far from the top end of TV soundbars that you can buy. Yet it did transform my television, and it did make it very hard to go back to watching anything without it.... Best of MacNN: the 2014 -- and last -- Macworld/iWorld Expo Editor's note: we're winding down the site with some of our special stories and moments across the last few years. As a long-time staffer, the heyday of the Macworld Expos were a very special time for all of us working at MacNN: it was a rare chance for us all to get together in person, report on the latest and greatest in an intense blitz of publicity, and stay in swanky New York City or San Francisco hotels. Editor Charles Martin attended the final Macworld/iWorld Expo in March of 2014, and filed this report.... Apple offers rainbow Watch bands for SF Pride participants Over the weekend, Apple employees once again participated in the Bay Area Pride Festival, including CEO Tim Cook, as they have as an official participant since 2014. Employees received special rainbow-colored Apple Watch bands this year, accompanied by a special playlist of related iTunes content. The event, which continues to focus on the LGTBQ community but has expanded to be a more general celebration of freedom from oppression or discrimination. This is the third year that Apple has officially participated, though employees have marched in the parade for many years prior to the official in... MacNN Deals: Fly through the air with these four discounted drones Every day, we are showcasing some of the offers available from our MacNN Deals store. Today's selections are all flying machines you may know as quadcopters or drones, including the smallest the MacNN Deals store has to offer, a pretty well protected model, one with an onboard camera that can follow you, and a drone declared to be the best in the store's history.... The MacNN Podcast, episode 68: Side effects may include death MacNN Podcasts - Mon, 06/27/2016 - 12:28pm By sheer coincidence, our final episode of The MacNN Podcast comes just before a scheduled break for the Canada Day/Fourth of July holiday. Yes, it is sort of true -- because the site will be shutting down (more on that in a bit, but you can read about it here), this will be the last episode under the MacNN banner. However, because Mike and Charles and others are still having too much fun with this, we'll pick up again on the week of July 11 with a new creation, Cranky Old Guys Generally Disapproving of New Things, or Project Keep Us Off the Streets, or whatever we're going to call it.... <img align='left' src='http://photos This Week in Apple History: June 25 through July 1 MacNN Podcasts - Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:15am We're halfway through our year-long history celebrating Apple's 40th anniversary, and we've reached a milestone for the entire computer industry. These days, that really means a milestone for the world -- and yet, it's one that is barely remembered, hardly celebrated, and when you know what it is, our perspective from all these years later actually makes it hard to really comprehend how monumental it is.... The Big Deal: Get over $3,000 of photography resources for $99 For quite a while now, MacNN sometimes finds a deal that is too big or important to go into our other deal lists, and is deserving enough to be highlighted inside its own Big Deals post. Even though this writing team hasn't got much time left, we're still going to point out the deals we think you will enjoy like we always have. Like last summer, we've found one of the largest photography bundles deals available, with the aptly named The Big Deal 2016 from Foto Promos.... Fujifilm Instax Share SP-2 prints smartphone photographs in seconds Fujifilm has released a new portable printer that is claimed to provide users with credit card-sized photographic prints within ten seconds, faster than its predecessor. As the name suggests, the Instax Share Smartphone Printer SP-2 is meant to receive a photograph from a smartphone or tablet and turn it into a compact printed image that users can keep, giving users an alternative way to create a copy of their favorite photos alongside the usual sharing of images with friends over social networks.... Saying Farewell: writer William Gallagher I'm not even supposed to be here. While, strictly speaking, I started my career in BBC local radio, I soon moved into computer magazines -- and then I left, from boredom. I'm only telling you this because it's you. Also because they were PC computer magazines: I struggled to get excited when this month's grey box was one percent faster or perhaps 10 percent greyer than the last. Yet by sheer number of hours alone, I think I've written more computer journalism on MacNN in the last 19 months than I have anything else.... Logging, Retooled The Daily WTF - Mon, 06/27/2016 - 5:30am In every company, there is a tendency to value code that was invented in-house over code that was, to put it bluntly, Not Invented Here. There is an eternal struggle to find balance between the convenience of pre-packaged code that is not fully vetted and the trustworthiness of code they themselves have written. As is typical in these tales, Jon's company got it wrong. When Jon was asked what logging solution he was planning to implement in his company's .NET-based application, he gave the right answer: log4net. No sooner had he spoken, however, than the room grew quiet. The locusts could be heard clearly from outside the window, screaming their disgust at the idea. Not-here! Not-here! Not-here! "Or ... maybe I could throw something together?" he suggested timidly. "Splendid!" replied Jon's boss, Ned, heartily. "You can use my logger as a head start. Rolled it by hand back in my university days. It's much better than that log4net crap. Did you realize that piece of dung uses reflection? Reflection! Something as simple as a logger doesn't need anything as expensive as that." And Ned was right, in a way. His logger didn't use reflection; it hardcoded the method name into each log call made. But that's not all. In a bid to save on "expensive" new features Ned barely understood, the logger was held to a strict 2.0 code level, despite the project using the 4.5 framework. And in a flash of coursework-inspired brillance, he had implemented his own custom stack to store incoming logs—a move that entirely undid any cost savings achieved by avoiding reflection three times over. But Jon tried. He rewrote the stack structure, desperate to reclaim some of the cycles. He documented methods that confused him, hoping to leave the codebase better than he found it. And he tried and tried to make it work consistently. The days turned into weeks, and the project deadlines began to slip. Ned grew sterner and sterner with every depressing status meeting. "That logger can't possibly be responsible for all this! It was fine when I wrote it!" "But sir, if we just pull it and use Log4Net—" Jon began. "I don't want to hear another word about Log4net! Just get the project done!" And so it was done—weeks behind schedule, and with a tendency to drop log files in the event of a crash, just when you'd want them the most. Jon privately swore he'd never touch the logger again; come hell or high water, he'd use log4net next time and be done with it. It was three months later before he had another chance. Another desktop app needed to be built where logs would be mission-critical in the event of a disaster. "Sir, about the logging—" Jon piped up. "I know what you're going to say, and I won't hear of it," Ned cut him off. "But sir, if you'll just listen a moment—" "I said no and that's final: there's no way you'll be using that POS logger you put into production last time! No, you're going to have to write something custom from scratch, no getting around it!" Jon put in his custom, from scratch, two weeks' notice that very day. [Advertisement] Onsite, remote, bare-metal or cloud – create, configure and orchestrate 1,000s of servers, all from the same dashboard while continually monitoring for drift and allowing for instantaneous remediation. Download Otter today! Categories: Comic Relief Freebie Friday: Take better photographs, learn the basics of coding MacNN Podcasts - Fri, 06/24/2016 - 9:41pm Everyone likes getting something for nothing, especially when there's no or relatively few catches. Freebie Friday is the post where the MacNN staff find stuff that you can get, and possibly make use of this weekend, without spending a single cent. For the last time before the site closes, the freebies on offer today include coding courses, tuition to make your photographs better, and our usual collection of free iOS apps.... Apple online stores appear to be down [U] [Update: outage resolved] Since at least 2:17 PM Pacific Time today, the iTunes and App Stores appear to be dysfunctional for at least some users. The problem appears to be most severe in the northeastern US and in England, but there are scattered reports from a number of other countries, though not all users are affected. For those that are, however, upgrades and purchases are not able to go through. This also is having an impact on Apple's streaming services and the ability of users to log into their iTunes accounts.... Best of MacNN: OmniPlan hands-on (OS X, iOS) Editor's Note: as MacNN closes at the end of this month, we're showcasing our favorite pieces from its recent history. I'm William Gallagher, and I wrote this one about OmniPlan back in early 2015, so I should say first that the software detailed in it has been updated many, many times since then. I did like the software when I first reviewed it, and I like it even more now -- but the reason I picked this is that it was a deceptively hard piece to write.... Hands On: Mac Backup Guru 6.0 (OS X) This isn't going to sound like a compliment, but it is: we've practically nothing to say about this backup app. That would be because it does the job, though, and that not only can we quickly start using it, but we can quickly forget about it, too. Mac Backup Guru 6.0 is a way to make a complete copy ("clone") of your whole hard disk, a backup of important documents, and a regular copy of either. It does what it says it will, and where it's noteworthy is in how easily it does all this.... YouTube adds Periscope-style live video streaming to mobile apps YouTube is stepping up its efforts to allow users to stream live over its service, with an upcoming update to its mobile app. Putting itself in direct competition with Facebook's own live-streaming service and the Twitter-owned Periscope, the Alphabet video site is slowly rolling out a change to its iOS app that will allow a small selection of users to broadcast video live to their subscribers, directly from their smartphone or tablet.... Best of MacNN: Back to the Mac: a fresh start after a long time apart Editor's Note: As we wind down operations, the staff of MacNN is running some of their personal favorite stories, either moments we were especially proud of or -- as with this one -- stories that really stuck out in our minds. I'm MacNN writer William Gallagher, and I've chosen my colleague and pal Malcolm Owen's series about being a Windows user returning to the Mac. 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__label__wiki	0.622146	0.622146	Royalty segment for this month will cover about Terengganu Royal Family. The Ruler of Terengganu is styled as HRH Sultan of Terengganu. The current Sultan of Terengganu is HRH Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin al-Wathiqu Billah ibni al-marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muqtafi Billah Shah. He is the 16th Sultan of Terengganu. His reign started since 1998. The consort to the Ruler of Terengganu is styled as HRH Tengku Ampuan Besar. The current holder is Rozita binti Adil Bakeri. After her husband is proclaimed Sultan of Terengganu, she was accorded the title Permaisuri Nur Zahirah. In 2006, she is styled as HRH Sultanah Nur Zahirah as the Sultan's wishes. The Royal house of Trengganu represents one of the junior male lines of the Bendahara family of Johor. They trace their descent from one Aidarus of Aceh, in Sumatra, a Sayyid originating from the Hadramaut in Southern Arabia. His descendants came to rule over four different states, Johor, Trengganu and Pahang in Malaysia and Lingga in Indonesia. In 1717, Zainal-Abidin, the younger brother of the Sultan 'Abdu'l Jalil IV Ri'ayat Shah of Johor established control over the eastern provinces of the kingdom with the title of Maharaja. He secured recognition as the first Sultan of Trengganu from his nephew Sultan Sulaiman I Badr ul-'Alam Shah of Johor in 1725. His descendants claim to be the senior male-line descendants of the Johor sultans, and thus the rightful heirs to the honours of that kingdom. Royal Standard of the Sultan Royal Standard of the Queen Royal Standard of the Prince Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin married with Sultanah Nur Zahirah and their married is blessed with 2 sons and 2 dauhgters. Tengku Nadhira Zahra (1996) Tengku Muhammad Ismail (1998) Tengku Muhammad Mua'az (2000) Tengku Fatimat uz-Zahra (2002) The officials palace of Sultan of Terengganu is Maziah Palace (Istana Maziah), located at Kuala Terengganu. Male primogeniture in the family of Sultan Zainal Abidin I. line of successions Tengku Muhammad Ismail bin Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, Yang di-pertuan Muda Tengku Muhammad Mu'az bin Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Tengku Dato' Sri Mustafa Kamil ibni al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud al-Muktafi Billah Shah, Tengku Sri Bendahara Raja Tengku Sharif Mahmud bin Tengku Mustafa Kamil Tengku Daniel Haqeem bin Tengku Mustafa Kamil Tengku Nabil Al-Muktafi bin Tengku Mustafa Kamil Tengku Dato' Sri Baderul Zaman ibni al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud al-Muktafi Billah Shah, Tengku Sri Panglima Raja Tengku Dato' Baharuddin ibni al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud al-Muktafi Billah Shah, Tengku Sri Temenggong Raja subject to changes Some of the pictures of the royal family. HRH Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni almarhum al-marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muqtafi Billah Shah HRH Sultanah Nur Zahirah During the installation as The Yang Dipertuan Agong (The Supreme Ruler) of Malaysia ; The pictures of Terengganuese Royal Family ; i) Picture of Tengku Nadhirah Zaharah Among the rare footage of Princess Nadhirah Zaharah. (leftmost) ii) Pictures of Tengku Muhammad Ismail, The Yang Dipertuan Muda of Terengganu Tengku Muhammad Ismail ibni Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Yang Dipertuan Muda (Crown Prince) of Terengganu iii) Picture of Tengku Muhammad Mu'az and Tengku Fatimatuz Zahra Tengku Muhammad Muaz and Tengku Fatimatuz Zahra The Chairman of Regent Advisory Council (MPPR) ; Tengku Baderuzzaman ibni al-marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muqtafi Billah Shah The last student 5 World Power	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line378
__label__wiki	0.562728	0.562728	Journey of Rajshahi Kings in BPL 2018-19 The sixth season of BPL has been an incredible journey for the Kings. We have seen some incredible feats along the way, sublime death over bowlings, jaw dropping fieldings and eye popping batting displays from our Kings. We have conquered every team, we have fought for every run and ball. But even after all these,... Rajshahi Kings Jersey Unveiling and Captain Announcement Ceremony Rajshahi Kings gladly revealed the brand new jersey of running BPL season 6 and reveal the name of their new captain at Hatirjheel on 3rd of January 2019. The unveiling ceremony, first of its kind in the history of BPL was itself a grand occasion at the most picturesque lakefront of Dhaka city. Starting from... Mothers-Heart of The Kings’ Rajshahi Kings are very proud to announce that they will bear their mother’s names in their jerseys in tomorrows (16 January, 2019) match against Dhaka Dynamites at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. As we all know the role and contribution of our mothers in our lives. Bearing our mother’s name in jerseys does not need any... Honorable State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Md Shahriar Alam MP has high hopes! Honorable State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Md. Shahriar Alam MP is a patron and well wisher of Rajshahi Kings. He was a guest of honor on the launching ceremony of the Rajshahi Kings. He praised the Rajshahi Kings owners for taking the initiative to revive the Rajshahi franchise for this BPL edition. Women’s Captain Jahanara wishes luck to the Kings! Bangladesh National Women’s Cricket Team captain Jahanara Alam had only words of praises for the Rajshahi Kings team. She said if a team has players with the statures of Darren Sammy, Sabbir Rahman, Nurul Hasan Sohan, Umar Akmal – it’s bound to win just by sheer grace of talents. King Sabbir Rahman expects great things from Rajshahi Rajshahi’s very own Sabbir Rahman expresses his gratitude to the owners as they picked him as the Rajshahi Kings Icon. He said it’s a matter of pride and his long cherished dream to play for Rajshahi.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line380
__label__wiki	0.549547	0.549547	Post-game: St Louis v Washington Week 2 After the St Louis rams absolutely bullied the Seattle Seahawks in week 1, there weren’t many who were predicting a happy ending for the Redskins going into this week 2 match up. But this is why we play the games. The Redskins ended up leaving the field victorious with a 24 to 10 win over the Rams thanks to a balanced and tough showing from both sides of the ball. Which, of course, brings us to this week’s edition of What worked. What didn’t. What sucked. Behind some superb blocking from the Offensive Line, the Redskins notched up 182 yards on the ground today, building upon the 160 yards they gained in week 1. That means that against two of the toughest defensive lines in the league, the Redskins have absolutely gashed them on the ground. This is the effect that Coach Bill Callahan brings to the team; he brings the best out of the personnel he has on the Offensive Line and plays to their strengths without being hampered by any preconceived notions, as most famously seen in his decision to move Brandon Scherff inside to Right Guard. The entire Offensive Line played a great game today, but it’s important to single out Left Guard Shawn Lauvao. The often maligned Lauvao was huge and his open-field blocking setup numerous big plays today, including Matt Jones‘ second touchdown run as seen here: Speaking of impressive games, how about Matt Jones? The third round rookie had 19 carries for 123 yards and two touchdowns. Add to that 3 catches for 23 yards and it was a fantastic day for the young behemoth. Jones displayed a patience and poise that is rare from rookie Running Backs, as he followed his blockers and allowed gaps to develop all day. Jones also displayed a ‘next gear’ speed that we had not seen from him yet on his first touchdown carry, bouncing outside to the left on a stretch run for 39 yards. Newly signed Kicker Dustin Hopkins came in and impressed straight away, with every single one of his kickoffs going out the back of the endzone for touchbacks. Indeed, the first kickoff to open the game ellicited a bronx cheer from the home crowd as it sailed over the head of the Rams returner. Hopkins also added a 46 yard field goal as well as being a perfect 3/3 in terms of his extra points, which are no longer sure-fire gimmes anymore. Quarterback Kirk Cousins played himself a nice, if not spectacular, game. Importantly he didn’t turn the ball over at all which is a huge positive. Going 23/27 for 203 yards with 1 touchdown, Cousins looked exactly like the definition of a ‘game manager’ today, which is exactly what his job is for this offense. A nice day for the young Quarterback, especially leading the final drive that resulted in Matt Jones 2nd touchdown of the day and sealed the victory. The Redskins defense continues to look impressive against the run, holding the Rams to a combined 67 yards on the ground. Starting with Middle Linebacker Keenan Robinson, the Redskins front seven is a brutal and bullying force to be reckoned with. They are swarming to the ball and playing with a ferocity that is a noticeable attitude adjustment from previous years. Keenan Robinson wasn’t the only Redskins defender in that front seven to have a good day. Stephen Paea, Chris Baker, Jason Hatcher, Perry Riley Jr and Ricky Jean-Francois all came up big at different times today as part of the defensive front that GM Scot McCloughan wants opponents to fear. So far, so good. For the second week in a row, Tight End Jordan Reed led the Redskins in receptions, racking up 6 catches for 82 yards. He’s looking healthy and menacing, and as we wrote earlier in the week, it’s a fantastic sign for the Redskins. Whenever you win a game, trying to find things to criticize can be an exercise in nitpicking. But there were a few things that need to be improved if the Redskins are to build upon this win and continue to add W’s to their season tally. And it starts with the overall playcalling. For the second week in a row, Head Coach Jay Gruden utilized an ultra-conservative game plan that almost backfired on the Redskins after they went into half-time leading 17-0, only to have that lead reigned back into a 1 score edge. Thankfully the team was good enough to hold on to victory, but this team needs to go for the jugular when it has a lead instead of desperately retreating inwards to try and simply eke out a win. Punter Tress Way, who was legitimately one of the Redskins best players in 2014, had his first poor game for the Redskins today. Asked to punt 6 times, he averaged 37.3 yards, but that number is inflated by a long of 56 yards. He had a couple of pooched punts today as he tried to keep the ball away from Tavon Austin that ended up being very short. There is no doubting Way’s leg strength, but today was evidence that he still has some required development on his more nuanced directional punts. The two offensive leaders for the Redskins today, Matt Jones and Jordan Reed, both have elements of their respective games they need to work on. For Jones it is ball security. He lost a fumble today on a pretty loose carry that was too easy for the Rams to knock out of his hands and recover. Running Backs Coach Randy Jordan will continue to work with Jones to ensure he is using his enormous arms to old that ball in like a vice. For Reed, he needs to find a way to block without getting called for holding penalties. Whenever Reed loses some ground against an opponent, he seems to revert into poor technique that will get flagged frequently. Something to work on for both players. Speaking of penalties, the Redskins once again gave the officials too much work to do. The yellow flags hit the turf 7 times for a net loss of 53 yards against the Redskins today. Definitely an area to address, as penalties can simply kill momentum for a team in a close game. Perry Riley Jr appears to have injured a calf muscle today, and more alarmingly Morgan Moses “tweaked” his MCL towards the end of the game. With a short week coming before the Redskins play the Giants on Thursday night football, recovery time is minimal. Both players are a big part of their respective units, and will be missed if they are unable to play on Thursday. There were simply far too many empty seats at FedEx field for a week two game. Far too many. Fans need to do a better job of showing up. 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__label__wiki	0.543057	0.543057	Describing the Structure of ATOMS Published byGervase Bailey Modified over 4 years ago Presentation on theme: "Describing the Structure of ATOMS"— Presentation transcript: 1 Describing the Structure of ATOMS 2 MATTER Anything that has volume and mass Everything that exists is matter, and is made of ATOMS 3 ATOM The smallest unit of an element that has all of the properties of that element containing a nucleus within an electron cloud. 4 MODEL OF THE ATOM A conceptual model of the atom showing a small positively-charged nucleus surrounded by orbiting electrons, much like the planets orbit the Sun in our Solar System. 5 NUCLEUS Positively charged protons occupy space within the nucleus and cause the nucleus to have an overall positive charge The tiny, dense, positively-charged region in the center of an atom; made up of protons and neutrons 6 ELECTRON CLOUD Negatively charged electrons occupy the space within the electron cloud and cause the electron cloud to have an overall negative charge All of the area of an atom, outside the nucleus where electrons are found 7 SUBATOMIC PARTICLES (the parts that make up the Atom): PROTON, p+ A positively-charged subatomic particle of the nucleus of an atom that contributes to the mass of the atom 8 SUBATOMIC PARTICLES: (the parts that make up the Atom): NEUTRON, n0 A subatomic particle of the nucleus of an atom that is without charge that contributes to the mass of an atom 9 SUBATOMIC PARTICLES: (the parts that make up the Atom): ELECTRON, e- A negatively-charged subatomic particle of the electron cloud that is involved in the formation of chemical bonds 10 ELECTRICAL CHARGE Each electron has a negative charge Each proton has a positive charge Neutrons are without charge A form of charge, designated negative, positive, or neutral (has no charge) that is found on the subatomic particles that make up all atoms. Download ppt "Describing the Structure of ATOMS" Atoms Chapter 2, Section 1. PS-2.1 Compare the subatomic particles of an atom with regard to mass, location, and charge, and explain how these particles affect the properties of an. Structure of an Atom. The Atom. Matter Is anything that has weight and takes up space. Is anything that has weight and takes up space. All matter is made of atoms. All matter. Atomic Structure Unit 2—Part III. What is an atom? Atom: the smallest unit of matter that retains the identity of the substance First proposed by Democratus. The Periodic Table. Define the following terms. 1. proton 2. neutron 3. electron 4. nucleus. ATOMS. Atoms 8.5A The student is expected to describe the structure of atoms, including the masses, electrical charges, and locations, of protons and neutrons. Atomic Structure. What is an atom? Atom: the smallest unit of matter that retains the identity of the substance First proposed by Democratus. MATTER UNIT STRUCTURE OF AN ATOM.  Atom : the smallest unit of matter that retains the identity of the substance. Matter and Energy Basics October 6, 2015October 6, 2015October 6, 2015. Atoms 8. 8a Describe the structure and parts of an atoms Matter & The Atom. Matter The term matter describes all of the physical substances around us Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space The Universe. Atomic Structure Chm Matter MixturesPure Substances. Atomic Structure. Warmup: Concept: PS-2.1 Compare the subatomic particles. ATOMS Basic building blocks of all matter. Unit 2 Atomic Theory. An atom is… The smallest particle into which an element can be divided. “Building block of matter” What Makes Up Matter?. Atom- Small particle that makes up types of matter. Law of Conservation of Matter- Matter is not created or destroyed… it only.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line388
__label__cc	0.559494	0.440506	VeganismA healthy diet for a wondrous life.PeaceWorld Peace begins with us. CultureEnriching our lives with multi-cultural news from around the globe.SpiritualitySeek for greater perfection. EnvironmentOur magnificent planet calls for immediate attention.HealthFor our physical well-being and spiritual upliftment.AnimalLove and companionship.ArtInspire for the search of self-realization.MiscellaneousAll embracing, all inclusive. A Gift of Love: Simple & Nutritious Cooking with Supreme Master Ching Hai A Journey through Aesthetic Realms Animal World: Our Co-inhabitants Between Master and Disciples Breatharianism Cinema Scene Cultural Traces Around the World Enlightening Entertainment Golden Age Technology Good People, Good Work Life of a Saint Models of Success Multi-part Series on Ancient Predictions about Our Planet Our Noble Lineage Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Positive Changes in Countries Science and Spirituality Shining World Awards Uplifting Literature Veggie Elite Veganism: The Noble Way of Living Global Outlets or choose the right phone system to download Audrey Hepburn: A Hollywood Icon of Love and Hope, Part 1 of 2 The much-loved Audrey Hepburn was a Hollywood legend, dance, a muse for fashion designers, and an icon for style. Glamorous and talented, she was a woman of courage and integrity, a voice for the children in need around the world, and a loving champion of peace and hope. Her performance received many positive reviews. Audrey Hepburn became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award for a single performance. Despite her fame and success, Audrey did not forget the strife that her family had endured. Starting in 1950, Audrey Hepburn made two radio programs for UNICEF. She narrated children’s stories in times of conflict, and in 1989 she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF. Poet-Philosopher Al-Maʿarri (vegan): Meditations On Life Dr. Rudolf Steiner: Bridging the Physical and Spiritual Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick – Kenya's Mother of Elephants, Part 2 of 2 Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick: Kenya's Mother of Elephants, Part 1 of 2 William Butler Yeats: Ireland's Mystical Poetic Genius, Part 2 of 2 Anna Pavlova: The Will to Dance Heaven-Inspired Sculptor: Constantin Brâncuşi of Romania Home About Us Contact Us Related Links App This website is compatible with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, FireFox, Safari or Opera. Watch in mobile browser	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line395
__label__cc	0.522621	0.477379	Synapse Software App Store Now Compensates For Misspelled Searches: What It Means Today, MacRumors ran an article titled "App Store Searches Now Compensate for Typos and Mispellings." In it, they describe a change to the algorithm that Apple's App Store uses to find results for searches to account for mispellings, so that, for instance, a search for "hotwls" returns apps related to "hotels". Among other things, this represents a clear expectation on Apple's part that the majority of searches are informational queries rather than navigational queries. If your app name uses traditional spellings of words or your target market is users looking to solve a specific problem, this change means that any user who inadvertently misspells a word while searching for your app will still likely find it in the returned results. However, this will not change the potential that any app that uses one of the mispelled terms as its name will appear more prominently. If your app name specifically uses a misspelled word as part of the branding and marketing, you are now competing with all of the apps that use that word with its normal spelling. Not only are you likely at a disadvantage competing for a given search term (since your app's name is a misspelled version and others are not), but you are swimming against what Apple has determined is the current by expecting your users and soon-to-be users to search specifically for a misspelling. In the interest of making search engines better, the companies behind them frequently change the algorithm to acheive more accurate results. Often, search engine marketers (and by extension app store marketers) attempt to exploit the shortcomings of the system (e.g. using a unique name potentially with misspelled words to build brand equity while focusing on keywords and description optimization), only to have the algorithm change to, at best, ignore the workarounds. The best example is the replacement of keyword-based web page search algorithms with authority-based ones like Google's PageRank. Regardless of spelling, names, and keywords, the best way to optimize your app's search performance is to (a) get lots of downloads, (b) get lots of good ratings, but, above all, (c) be authentic. If the name, description, and keywords are true to the app and to the target audience, you will only ever have to make minor tweaks as features change and the audience becomes more sophisticated. © 2018 Synapse Software info@synapsesoftware.com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line396
__label__wiki	0.542906	0.542906	A Short Interview with Paul Gravett: Origins of Escape An unsung hero in the international comics and graphic novel scene is Paul Gravett, whose most recent book Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life (2005, Collins Design) is currently in US bookshops and comic stores -- and is highly recommended. Designed by Paul's long-time partner and Escape co-founder Peter Stanbury, Graphic Novels is the latest extension and incarnation of the now-venerable Escape legacy, and bar none the best current introduction and overview of the graphic novel form. As usual, Paul's writing is informed, insightful and incredibly eye-opening, his net expansive and all-encompassing; the book is essential reading. Paul agreed to answer a few questions about what brought him into the medium and what led to the creation of Escape, which after 20 years remains among my favorite comics zines of all time. Our exchange was short but sweet: Stephen R Bissette: Could you tell us a bit about yourself, Paul. Where are you from? What are a few highlights from your life before and alongside your life in comics? PAUL GRAVETT: I'm an Essex boy, born in Shenfield, schooled in Brentwood, graduated in Law from Cambridge. After that spent nearly 18 months in the USA, mostly with a university friend in Albuquerque, discovering Hispanic culture and landscapes and helping me think again about what I wanted out of life. SRB: What first hooked you on this marvelous medium -- what comics really turned your head as a youth, and as a young man? PAUL: I grew up on TV21 and Look & Learn, two glossy photogravure weeklies with stunning painted science fiction comics. Via the Batman TV show and British reprints I got into the real thing, genuine American comics, but not only superheroes, all kinds from Harveys and Charltons to Warrens, Skywalds and undergrounds. And it's been a constant learning curve ever since! SRB: When did you first engage creatively with the medium (this would include editorial/publishing endeavors, too)? PAUL: You could count my first home-made comics when i was around 9, a weekly inspired by Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds. There was 5 of those. Mine were called Torpedoes and there were 12 of those! I even made cardboard models of them and with my Dad and brother filmed a movie, setting fire to a miniature airport in our garage. You might also count my first fanzine, Monolith, mostly a US comics magazine, typed by my long-suffering younger brother Tony and handed out to friends and fellow collectors at school. A teeny tiny print run. Then come reviews and articles for fanzines and through that setting up Fast Fiction in 1981 as a stall and mail order service selling small press comics or 'stripzines'. Which led to my first paying gig working for pssst! magazine in 1982, initally on a promotional bus tour, then in their offices as a Traffic and Submissions Manager, getting to see the work of lots of new talents. SRB: When or how did you make the decision to engage with the medium via projects like Escape -- where you aren’t creating your own comics per se, but building bridges/venues for others? (Having done this myself with Taboo, I understand what a very different path this is.) PAUL: I think I've always loved the editorial creativity of magazines and books, putting things together, working with creators, helping them shape up and improve their stories, encouraging and motivating them. Escape was very much driven by meeting my partner Peter Stanbury in 1982, who brought an enormous amount of ideas and inspiration to starting our own magazine, to focus on the best of the small press scene promoted via Fast Fiction. We looked very much to Raw and to European magazines, including PLGPPUR, a superb "fanzine" that mixed interviews with major creators and reviews with new strips by upcoming talents. That blend of comics and context is what we liked. SRB: Eddie Campbell refers to you affectionately in his comics as “The Man at the Crossroads.” I’ll ask Eddie about this someday, too, but -- from your side of the “crossroads,” what does he mean by that? PAUL: I always laugh a bit at this nickname because you don't "crossroads" on an eight-lane freeway! I was flattered, because in that pre-internet era, I made the effort to bring people together and find and make allies towards comics in all kinds of places. To me, Eddie sees me as someone who can build links between comics and their creators and other parts of culture and life. That was one of the meanings and "missions" behind the name Escape itself - to break out of the inward-looking, secretive cultish aspects of comics and put comics alongside all the other media and arts. Our first 'tag line" was "Escape - from it or to it!". SRB: As a “colonial,” my first conscious encounter with your work was via Escape. What preceded that project -- and what led to, and culminated in, the extraordinary anthology zine Escape? PAUL: Multiple paths led to Escape: - setting up Fast Fiction and discovering a wealth of young British talent deserving of far greater exposure - exploring new post-Heavy Metal French-language and European comics, inspired by Raw, Arcade, PLGPPUR, A Suivre, Metal Hurlant, El Vibora, etc - working at pssst! magazine and seeing great artists misused or ignored and as i had no editorial say, dreaming of making a magazine of my own - sneaking into the pssst! offices on Saturdays with Eddie Campbell, Phil Elliott and Ian Wieczorek and making the PMT photo-mechanical transfer reductions for the first issues of Fast Fiction - meeting Peter, who hit on the title and designed the logo, and hatching all kinds of formats and features - meeting Mike von Joel and getting typesetting at an affordable price (we had planned to do all the text on a typewriter) - by pure luck meeting Serge Clerc at a comic mart and interviewing him over tea for the first issue - getting support from so many small press creators, notably Phil Elliott who found us our first printer - promoting the magazine via the ICA's Graphic Rap exhibition (where i met and interviewed Mark Beyer) The End -- for now! Thanks to Paul for taking the time to chat. More, perhaps, in some future post... posted by SRBissette at 10:14 AM 4 Comments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line397
__label__wiki	0.657246	0.657246	The Prairie Fire TKS Online Nye v. Ham creationism debate a disaster for science Knox students react to 'Innocence of Muslims' film 'End of an era' for WVKC Katie Wirsing to perform original poetry Flix: "The History of Future Folk" an offbeat adventure tale Average Bear Reviews: AWOLNation hits right notes on latest record VIDEO: Top headlines this week Zoe Barnes vs. Casey Mendoza: Reflections on DC Holder's visit to the National Press Club Sports / The Prairie Fire / May 29, 2013 The best of 2012-2013: Jackson White’s picks Best Moment Women’s basketball’s victory against St. Norbert Knox teams had a lot of memorable moments this year, but the history the women’s basketball team made back in January sticks out in particular. Knox started playing St. Norbert in 1983, and for 30 years the Green Knights had gotten the better of the Prairie Fire, to the tune of 29 consecutive victories. Last season Knox led by as many as nine points with less than 10 minutes to go at home, but was unable to hold the lead and lost 90-75. This season Knox was able to finish the job. The Prairie Fire took a six point lead into halftime and led by a career high 22 points from sophomore Jessica Howard pulled out a 79-68 victory, a historic first for the program. Runner-up: Knox football ends 19-game losing streak with 35-33 win over Beloit. Men’s soccer tops Monmouth When Knox and Monmouth collide, it is always going to be a hard fought battle, and this season’s installment on the men’s soccer field was no different. In front of a raucous crowd, the Prairie Fire opened a 2-0 lead with goals from senior Donald Tchopya and sophomore Jacob Polay but the Fighting Scots would not go away. Monmouth forward Logan Simpson’s tally in the 82 minute brought the Scots to within one, but Knox was able to hold on for their first win in the series since 2008. Runner-up: 2012 Lincoln Bowl Eureka 62 Knox 55. Male Athlete of the Year Derek Mortensen For me, male athlete of the year comes down to two candidates: senior track sprinter Joe Puntoriero and senior running back Derek Mortensen. Puntoriero set school records in both the 100 and 200 meter dashes during the indoor season before taking 1st in the 200 meter dash in the outdoor season. Puntoriero has been a stalwart on the track team for the last few years, but the sheer numbers leave me no choice but to pick Mortensen. The running back set or tied 10 different school records this season with 1,362 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns. He consistently set the tone for the offense and with one year of eligibility remaining will only continue to elevate his legacy. Runner-up: Joe Puntoriero. Amber Eisha For the third consecutive season, junior Amber Eisha was named to the All-Midwest Conference South Division First Team, the only Knox softball player to be on the team over the course of those three years. Eisha has increased her number of hits and batting average every season she has been at Knox, batting .387 with four homeruns and a .608 slugging percentage this season. This season, she set or tied six all-time softball marks. A model of consistency, Eisha has started all 86 games Knox has played in her three years here, and she is more than deserving of the title of female athlete of the year. Runners-up: Sophomore basketball player Jodi Marver (2nd in MWC in points per game), junior tennis player Charlotte Garvin (3rd in MWC in number two singles). Bold Prediction for 2013-14 Knox will win the Turkey Bowl Junior tight end Neal Moon sprints into the end zone on a touchdown pass from freshman quarterback Luke Oosterbaan, who threw for three touchdowns in the game and was named Prairie Fire performer of the week. The win against Beloit College was Knox’s first since 2010, when they beat Grinnell College 31-21. (Michelle Orr/TKS) In 2012 the Knox football team entered the fourth quarter against Monmouth with a 35-34 lead. Many thought they would bring an end to a losing streak that extends back to 1998, but the Prairie Fire faded in the final frame and fell 49-35. This season I am going to put it in writing that Knox will win the 125th installment of the Bronze Turkey Bowl at home. Final score 42-35. Tags: amber eisha derek mortensen donald tchopya jacob polay jessica howard joe puntoriero The best of 2012-2013: Gavin Crowell's picks A year of sustainability Jackson White is a senior double majoring in political science and secondary education. This is his third year as a sports editor for TKS. Over the course of the 2010-2011 academic year, Jackson worked for cornbeltbaseball.com, writing feature stories and columns about high school and college baseball in central Illinois. Outside of the Publications Office, he is an information assistant for the Knox College Sports Information Department and a two-time all-Midwest Conference baseball player. Jackson is the recipient of five awards from the Illinois College Press Association, including two first place awards for sports game coverage and sports page design. Baseball, softball, predicted last in MWC March 4, 2015 Men’s soccer team lands Illinois College coach February 25, 2015 Senior Day basketball a microcosm of season February 25, 2015 Fast-paced, high-scoring formula works for Knox January 28, 2015 Players react to Edwards’ departure January 21, 2015 Season ends in heartbreak, hope remains November 13, 2014 Men’s soccer gives Knox somebody to love October 29, 2014 On the pitch and in the pool: Naming the Best in Knox Athletics for 2013-2014 May 14, 2014 Going out with a bang April 30, 2014 Best Moment Baseball walk-off on Senior Day The pinnacle of Senior Day would not come until the end of the second half... The Knox Student tks@knox.edu Knox College K-240 2 E. South St. Galesburg, IL 61401-4999 Copyright © 2014 The Knox Student. 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__label__wiki	0.592905	0.592905	Team Madigan Club Personalities Club Run Archive Race Results Qualifying Times Madigan GP Torr Head In 1988 three local members of Kings Moss CC, recognised the need for a cycle club in Carrickfergus, there being no cycle club in the town at that time. He indicated that he had no real interest in sponsoring a racing team, but would consider sponsoring the Club. The change of name to “Team Madigan”. Carrickfergus Road Club was formed. A short time after formation, the proprietor of Madigan Pro Bike Shop RonnieMcKeegan, was approached and asked to sponsor a racing team from within the club. The club continue to attract new members, those interested in racing and leisure cyclists alike. There is a sturdy programme of internal mid-week club races, and many members enter “signature” road races organised by other clubs under the “Cycling Ulster” umbrella. Team Madigan riders also take part in “Sportives” organised by other clubs and charities, popular among these being “The North Down Coastal Challenge” around the Ards Peninsula, “The Granit Challenge” over the Mourne Mountains, and “Lap of The Lough” around Lough Neagh. Team Madigan Cycling Club	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line401
__label__wiki	0.522049	0.522049	How the Moral Premise Drives your Story The Moral Premise in There Will be Blood ALL great stories have a moral premise – a deep structure that shapes the narrative from below the surface of the novel or film. The moral premise is why writers write stories. It is the expression of cause and effect seen from an ethical and moral perspective. “The Moral Premise exists at a level below the plot, shaping narrative actions and their consequences according to its own internal logic.” Some of the writers have only a vague notion of their moral premise upon commencing their stories. They know there will be good characters, evil characters and in-between characters, and they leave it at that, choosing, rather, to concentrate on the machinations of the plot. After all, the plot is where all the visceral, sticky, fun stuff happens. Yet, the moral premise is inherent in every story whether we consciously put it there or not. It should, therefore, be as much a part of our conscious intent as the plot. Ignoring it may result in our thinking we are writing one sort of story while we are really writing another. Even more importantly, the moral premise helps us understand the reason our protagonist acts in the way that he does. It helps us craft the trajectory of the story. In There Will Be Blood we follow the consequences of what happens when Daniel Plainview, a man with no scruples or morals, gains wealth and power through oil. His initial charitable act of adopting the son of one of his workers who has been killed in a drilling accident, soon gives way to relentless self-interest. He sends the boy away because he has become deaf in yet another drilling accident and is now a burden to his operations. The boy later returns, but as Plainview sinks deeper into the mire he becomes incapable of maintaining friendships or family bonds. He murders the man who has claimed to be his long-lost half-brother when he discovers he is an imposter. He rejects his adopted son when he learns that he wants to make his own way in the oil business. And finally, he murders Eli Sunday, the evangelist with whom he has been butting heads over land and oil. If we take the moral premise of the film to be that the pursuit of wealth and power, at the expense of love and family, leads to loneliness and defeat, we can place each scene in the story along a trajectory that finally ends in Plainview lying drunk in the bowling alley in his home – bloodied, spent, alone. In a sense, he is as dead as the body of Eli Sunday sprawled next to him – the man he has just murdered with a bowling pin. The moral premise guides the writer in identifying and placing narrative incidents along a trajectory in a story. This entry was posted in Story Design, Story Structure and tagged amwriting, Ian1, Moral premise, novel, novelist, screenplay, screenwriter, writer, writetip on May 28, 2017 by Stavros Halvatzis. Character Action and Character Dialogue Clint Eastwood – Quintessential Character Action in the Spaghetti Western DIALOGUE, as I have often stated in my classes and articles, is an important part of the writer’s toolkit. It promotes the plot, reveals character, and, at its best, draws us into the minds of the story’s characters. But, sometimes, scenes are better served through action alone. When Character Action Trumps Dialogue The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey springs to mind. Here the pervasive feeling of awe at the trajectory of intelligence, from ape to spacefaring humanity, is conveyed through the silent appearance of the featureless Monolith. Its presence at key moments of evolutionary history creates a depth and gravitas in the minds of the audience that is ineffable. And who can forget the laconic style of the Spaghetti Westerns featuring Clint Eastward as the cigar chewing, dead calm, gun slinger whose draw is lightning fast? As he faces off against man after man, willing them to draw, tension is conveyed through the biting down on cigars, unflinching gazes, twitching fingers hovering above holstered guns, and the like. No need for dialogue here. Some of the most seemingly innocuous, yet telling moments that reveal character come from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver where Travis’ (Robert De Niro) silent, sardonic smile, suggest that he is disconnected from the world. When a pimp, played by Harvey Keitel, tries to have a locker-room conversation with him regarding the hiring of one of his girls (Jody Foster), Travis can only stare silently at him, refusing to participate in verbal banter. Some stories, of course, are predisposed to character action without dialogue. In war or action films the power mostly comes from the relentless movement of men and equipment, where the only sounds are those of exploding shells, small arms fire, or thundering car and truck engines – Saving Private Ryan, the Mad Max films, Apocalypse Now, Fast and Furious, and countless of others. Sometimes words seem to mock their very existence in a scene, becoming placeholders for that which cannot be expressed – mysterious, indecipherable, perhaps even an obstacle to meaning itself. Remember the confusion arising out of Jack Nicholson’s indecipherable utterance in the last moments of Chinatown as he walks away from the crime scene, prompting the lieutenant to ask him repeatedly what he said? Neither the lieutenant nor the audience ever get to hear the answer to that. An absence of dialogue often adds power to scenes by shifting the focus on character action and its significance. This entry was posted in Story Design and tagged amwriting, character action, Ian1, novel, novelist, screenplay, screenwriter, writetip on May 21, 2017 by Stavros Halvatzis. A Good Villain? Pablo Escobar as the chief Villain IN his book, Screenwriting, UCLA professor Richard Walter, reminds us that just as there are few purely good or purely bad people in life, a well observed character, particularly a villain or an anti-hero in a story, should contain at least some small trace of good in him. “What Makes A Good Villain?” In Narcos, for example, the drug lord, Escobar is responsible for establishing the cocaine trade in Miami, and murdering many innocent people in his own country, Colombia, as a show of force against the government. Yet, his love for his family and his generosity to the poor people of his own town point to some good traits in him. When the tables are turned on him by rival cartels, as well as an equally brutal police force, he is separated from his family as he attempts to get them out of the country to safety. To make matters worse, they end up in the hands of the Colombian police. That is the beginning of the end for Escobar. As his men are killed off one by one he becomes increasingly isolated. His father rejects him. His wife asks him to turn himself in. Despite his record, we cannot help but feel a wisp of sympathy for him. “A villain who is completely villainous, without a single trace of humanity in him, is essentially uninteresting and unconvincing in a story.” In the 1970’s television series, Archie Bunker, the lead character is portrayed as stubborn, not very bright, and bigoted, hardly traits that we admire. But who amongst us has never felt some prejudice or acted in a willful way towards others? Despite his negative traits, and because of the skillful writing of his character, we, unexpectedly, come to love the bigoted, stubborn Archie. Richard Walter suggests that part of the reason for this lies in that in comparing ourselves to Archie, we can at least feel relief that we are not as bigoted as he is. Additionally, we are forced to recognise that prejudice can reside in anyone – a beloved grandfather, a friend, even a spouse, and we strive to guard against it in our own lives. The reason that we give such characters the time of day at all, then, is because, at the very least, we feel some sympathy for them. Without sympathy, without liking some aspect of their character, we would not waste our time on them. Add some sympathetic traits to your most unlikable characters, especially to your villain, to avoid making them flat and stereotypical. This entry was posted in On Character and tagged amwriting, Ian1, novelist, screenwriter, writer, writers block, writetip on May 14, 2017 by Stavros Halvatzis. Signaling Emotional Changes in Story Characters Signaling Emotional Changes in Character ONE of the hallmarks of good writing in films and novels is that there are emotional changes to the characters through time. In stories, as in life, people learn from their mistakes, from life’s hard knocks, and try to prevent them from recurring by adjusting some aspect of their character. Some, of course, never do, but that’s a topic for a future article. But how do characters move from one state to another? How does love turn into hate? Passion into indifference? Cueing Emotional Changes Novice writers often make the mistake of creating characters who erratically jump from state to state. I’ve written before in this blog about the need for introducing transitional emotional states. But how do we specifically convey these shifts to our readers? Is it through dialogue? Is it through narration? In most cases, the best way to signal change is subtly, through small but telling actions. In her book, The Novelist’s Guide, Margret Geraghty offers the example of a girl falling out of love with her boyfriend. Does the girl tell him outright that she no longer loves him? That might be too abrupt (unless that is the specific effect we are after). It would also be spoon feeding the reader. The story might require that the breakup be dragged out a bit. In the example provided by Geraghty, the character stops using hair conditioner when washing her hair. It is a sign that she no longer cares about looking her best for him – that he’s not worth the extra cost of conditioner. Subtle, but telling. In planning for an emotional shift in your characters, then, identify the spot where the shift is to occur, then insert a telling but subtle action to signal it. This technique will add polish and finesse to your writing. Signal a significant change to the emotional state of your characters through subtle but telling actions. This entry was posted in On Character and tagged amwriting, emotional changes, Ian1, novelist, screenplay, screenwriter, writer, writetip on May 7, 2017 by Stavros Halvatzis.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line404
__label__wiki	0.907345	0.907345	SC clarifies ban on lower court appointments stands By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/31/2010 SC clarifies ban on lower court appointments stands The Supreme Court (SC) sought to restrain President Arroyo from appointing anyone to the judiciary on the lower court level following a Malacañang aide’s claim that the high court, in its ruling vesting Arroyo with the authority to appoint the next Chief Justice, with the scheduled retirement on May 17, by issuing a strong clarification on the issue. New lower court judges cannot be named by the Palace during the election period ban on midnight appointments, SC spokesman Midas Marquez insisted yesterday. Justice Secretary Alberto Agra earlier said that the President can appoint trial court judges despite a ban on midnight appointments. Agra cited that this was the logical result of a recent controversial ruling allowing her to name the next chief justice.... MORE Fear of Speaker’s probe gets Comelec to delist ‘zombies’ Rebellion rap vs Ampatuans a farce—solons Bets show true colors as homestretch draws near Erap: Fake opposition bets to be shunned by voters By Gerry Baldo Former President Joseph Estrada, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer, stepped up his call on voters yesterday to distinguish between the real and pseudo-opposition parties when they vote on May 10. Estrada, in a rare pitch to establish his pro-poor stance that Nacionalista Party presidential bet Sen. Manny Villar is trying to copy along with his orange party color said the image that Villar is trying to project is as fallacious as his advertisements. He said the irony is that Villar needed to spend billions of pesos to project an image that is pro-poor. “He had spent billions of pesos in television advertisements to project his image as pro-poor. He used his mother, his brother to creat. I don’t know if people would believe him,” Estrada said. Estrada also lambasted Villar for claiming that his party is part of the political opposition. “How can Villar be in the opposition, who banged the gavel in Congress to railroad my impeachment?”, Estrada asked. Villar was the Speaker when the Articles of Impeachment against Estrada was transmitted to the Senate with Villar and his allies claiming a majority in the House to approve Estrada’s impeachment without a hearing in the chamber.... MORE Opening wide the cheating doors EDITORIAL 03/31/2010 Opening wide the cheating doors All signs of electronic election fraud that is to be committed in May are present, yet the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners continue to cast a blind eye on this. Nothing, but nothing, is being done to cleanse the voters’ list of double and multiple registrants, a sure fire sign that ballots will be padded, especially as the ballots being printed are based on the number of voters, a sizable number of whom are double, multiple and dead voters. It is hardly any secret to these commissioners that there exists the “Big Four” consisting of leaders of the poll cheating syndicate, that is known to the Comelec personnel to be at the top of the padding of votes. Yet the commissioners haven’t done anything to put a stop to this cheating syndicate. Why, when they have the power to throw the book at these executives who are said to be gang leaders? Hotels, shopping malls come to South Africa’s changing Soweto Singapore a key transit hub for wildlife smuggling ElBaradei takes Egypt reform campaign to the street Change? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/31/2010 The Liberal Party (LP) and its presidential bet, Sen. Noynoy Aquino, have been humming the tune of change, which they promise to bring once in power and position. Aquino and his LP are, what one may call the candidate of, for and by the elite civil society. Notice that their campaign spiel never adverts to the poor in society, but that is mainly because the elite don’t bother about the poor. It is always their interests, first and foremost that have to be served. Their spiel is that they will eliminate corruption. They will not steal, and they will bring about change in government..... MORE Hotels, shopping malls come to South Africa’s changing Soweto FEATURE 03/31/2010 SOWETO — Giant black-and-white photos of a young Nelson Mandela smile across the broad halls of a four-star star hotel, looking over the dusty street market where he once hid from apartheid police. This is the new Soweto, a mix of upper-crust comforts and urban grit, where shopping malls and landscaped parks have sprung up among some of South Africa’s most important landmarks of the struggle against white-minority rule. It’s a side of Johannesburg that residents hope World Cup visitors will venture out to see, where one third of the city’s 3.8 million people live. “In the past, you would be ashamed of saying you come from Soweto — first of all because it was associated with crime... shantytowns and poverty. But now it has improved,” said Frans Malotle, a 48-year-old businessman.... MORE Reflections HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/31/2010 He was lean and tall. I remember he sported very long locks any shampoo commercial model would envy. And he did not wear shoes, preferring leather sandals, instead, like Jesus did in those grainy movies I saw whenever the Lenten Season came near, which also meant shortened programming times for the only five television channels in existence, mostly government-owned or had Marcos cronies in their boards. It was at the height of martial law. The hippie look was his protest against the prevailing order. But since he was a priest, he could easily get away with it, able to stay away from the mean scissors of some over-eager Metrocom barbers, who wanted every male Filipino to sport the Aguinaldo crew cut and make them look like caricature versions of the man in the five peso bill... MORE Ruminations SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/31/2010 Palm Sunday saw me in the annual family Pabasa, which has lived on in my husband’s family for three generations or so. It was held at my parents-in-law’s home in Quezon City, and began in the wee hours of the morning of March 28. A number of relatives, I learned, had come all the way from the United States to attend the Pabasa, a tradition they had been missing in all their years living away from the Philippines. I suppose they had been missing more than just the annual Lenten practice; the event is a family reunion in a way, with relatives near and far finding the time to come over, bringing treats like native delicacies and lend their voices to the Pabasa. That day, my father-in-law’s cousin, Baba Jasmin of the Department of Tourism, brought in a caterer that dished out a lavish Filipino lunch of lechon, kare-kare, chicken and pork adobo, rellenong bangus, kakanin and various fresh fruits including green mangoes to whet everyone’s appetite. Sago’t gulaman flowed like water into thirsty throats that sang the words of the story of Jesus, his life and his sufferings.... MORE Singapore a key transit hub for wildlife smuggling FEATURE 03/31/2010 SINGAPORE — Midori the iguana sits on a platform contemplating his snack of fresh fruit. He is one of the lucky ones, rescued and nursed back to health in Singapore, a major hub for wildlife trafficking. Three months ago the huge and notoriously touchy 1.5-meter (five-foot) adult male was brought into the non-profit Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (ACRES) rescue center in bad shape. Director Anbarasi Boopal said Midori had mouth ulcers and excreted a razor blade on his first day at the sanctuary..... MORE ElBaradei takes Egypt reform campaign to the street focus 03/31/2010 CAIRO — Egypt’s most high-profile dissident, former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei, has taken his reformist campaign to the street with a whirlwind of encounters with Muslim worshippers, Christian activists and film stars. The 67-year-old former diplomat attended Friday prayers at Cairo’s historic Al-Hussein mosque after going for a walkabout in a nearby working-class neighborhood as eager passers-by scrambled to shake his hand. Two days later, the former UN atomic watchdog chief held talks with a group of Coptic Christian activists before meeting with a dozen celebrities at his home. Pictures of the events ran on the front pages of all independent newspapers.... MORE Estrada vows to bring NPA to mainstream 03/30/2010 Estrada vows to bring NPA to mainstream “I will unite this country. And that includes the NPA (New People’s Army). We will bring them to mainstream society.” This was the promise of former President Joseph Estrada on the 41st anniversary of the NPA. “I respect those with ideals that oppose government. We ourselves are proud members of the opposition — but I will never tolerate the taking of lives of our countrymen, even for the noblest of ideals,” Estrada said yesterday in Binangonan, Rizal. Estrada stressed he believes there is hope that the NPA will cooperate and end its rebel movement. “I believe that if the NPA sees that the government is truly working for the plight of the marginalized, the NPAs will cooperate.” Estrada added that he understand that the NPA wants to end poverty, like the opposition; except that they differ in their means. “If they see that the government is not abusing the poor, like this current government is, they will not resort to such killing or terrorism.”... MORE Poll exec refuses to purge Davao City ‘zombies’ SWS: Erap gains 4 pts; Noynoy static, Villar dives Court drops rebellion charges vs Ampatuans GMA’s new appointments ‘legal, valid’ — Palace Pinay injured in Moscow’s metro bombings SWS: Erap gains 4 pts; Noynoy static, Villar dives By Gerry Baldo 03/30/2010 Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer former President Joseph Estrada posted the biggest gain of four points to 19 percent in the latest BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations Pre-Election Survey which also showed Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino barely moving at 37 percent but still at the lead while Nacionalista Party (NP) bet Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar Jr. suffered a major six percentage-point slide to 28 percent. Estrada, who remains third in the survey, however, closed the gap with Villar to a single digit in the poll conducted last March 19 to 22. Estrada narrowed Villar’s lead over him to nine points from 19 previously.... MORE What’s cooking? EDITORIAL 03/30/2010 Gloria Arroyo has been making too many appointments left and right, within the executive department, and, given the time frame of the appointments, such can be seen as midnight appointments, which is contrary to the constitutional provision. Her last minute appointments have raised the alarm at the Supreme Court, with its spokesman, Jose Midas Marquez, pointing out that she should not take the SC ruling in relation to vesting her with the authority to appoint the next Chief Justice as her carte blanche power to appoint executives in the Executive branch. Predictably, Malacañang stated that Gloria has not violated the ban on the midnight appointment, apparently making it appear that these new appointees have been appointed prior to the midnight ban, which is too difficult to believe since some of the old executives were still in their posts when the constitutional clock struck midnight. Still, that move by Gloria wasn’t unexpected. She hardly does anything by the constitutional book. What surprises, however, is why the new appointees, knowing about the constitutional ban, accepted the presidential appointment... MORE Reading the survey findings Progress, frustration as Liberia rebuilds from scratch Who’s really rated ‘X’? A cause without a champion Lebanon’s archaeological sites a pillager’s paradise Reading the survey findings FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/30/2010 With the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) presidential polls findings out, different spins are being spun by the bets’ spokesmen. Edwin Lacierda, Noynoy Aquino’s spokesman, came up to state that they are elated at the widening lead of his client, adding that the strategy to improve Aquino’s rating in areas where he is weak is working since the people are responding well, saying that they will be working to increase Aquino’s lead further. That’s not quite what the survey findings say because the only reason Aquino widened his lead over Manny Villar, the Nacionalista Party (NP) bet, is that Villar dropped by six points and not because Aquino’s claimed strategy is working, since the Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer’s ratings, in a sense, are stationary, gaining only one point, which is hardly anything to crow about, given the error margins.... MORE Progress, frustration as Liberia rebuilds from scratch FEATURE 03/30/2010 MONROVIA — Giant potholes make way for smooth streets, freshly painted buildings have appeared among those pitted with bullet holes and lights flicker on as electricity returns to Liberia’s war-torn capital. Yet the improvements, seven years after the end of a 14-year civil war which shattered the country’s infrastructure, have had little impact on the lives of ordinary Monrovia residents, who remain mired in extreme poverty and 80 percent unemployment. Half of the roads around Monrovia have been rebuilt and the capital now has running water, but the snail’s pace of reconstruction of the electricity grid has hampered economic recovery and development..... MORE Who’s really rated ‘X’? NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 03/30/2010 This isn’t the first time I’m asking the question here, and still the answer is the same. It’s not the films that have been rendered unfit to screen that should be altogether banned, but the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB), right now mostly composed of power-trippers and ignoramuses. The ink had barely dried from my last issue’s ululations against the regulatory body’s indiscriminate cutting of the Jim Carrey-starrer I Love You Phillip Morris, when news leaked that it had “X-ed” two short films in the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) AmBisyon 2010 series: Jeffrey Jeturian’s “Ganito Kami Noon, Paano na Tayo Bukas?” and Brilllante Mendoza’s “Ayos Ka.”.... MORE A cause without a champion AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 03/30/2010 In last week’s column, I referred to the piece by Jean Edward Smith (Roosevelt: The Great Divider) which, appearing in the New York Times last Sept. 3, compared Obama’s approach to controversial legislation (prior to his spirited promotion of the healthcare bill) with that of Roosevelt during the New Deal era. Before shifting to a Philippine context, please allow me one more quote from Smith’s article. “When Roosevelt asked Congress to establish the Tennessee Valley Authority to provide cheap electric power for the impoverished South, he did not consult with utility giants like Commonwealth and Southern. When he asked for the creation of a Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the excesses of Wall Street, he did not request the cooperation of those about to be regulated. When Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act divesting investment houses of their commercial banking functions, the Democrats did not need the approval of J.P Morgan, Goldman Sachs or Lehman Brothers.”... MORE Celebrations SILVER LINING Dean Ernest Maceda 03/30/2010 Dean Ernest Maceda Seventy five years. Manong Ernie Maceda, turned 75 last Friday, March 26. He celebrated the milestone in the company of friends and family, including guests of honor President Erap Estrada, Mayor Jojo Binay and the senatorial candidates of the Erap-Binay ticket. From being elected councilor of Manila in 1959, Manong went on to hold five Cabinet positions, was elected senator three times and became Senate President. His last position in government was Ambassador to Washington. He has devoted more than 50 years of his life to serving the Filipino people. Happy Birthday Manong Ernie! 24.58 percent. Congratulations to the 1,451 new lawyers who survived the 2009 edition of the Bar Examinations. Kudos to Dean Virgilio Jara of the San Beda College of Law for producing the Bar Topnotcher, lawyer Reinier Paul Yebra, as well as the 2nd placer, lawyer Charlene Mae Tapic. Dean Cesar Villanueva of the Ateneo once again grabbed the eagle’s share of the top 10 slots with seven while Dean Marvic Leonen’s UP bets scored two... MORE Lebanon’s archaeological sites a pillager’s paradise focus 03/30/2010 BAALBECK — For three decades Abu Nayef has been digging for treasure from Lebanon’s rich archaeological past, but instead of museums his finds end up in the hands of unscrupulous traders around the globe. In the eastern town of Baalbeck, home to some of the world’s most beautiful Roman temples, scavengers like Abu Nayef have made careers of unearthing ancient treasure for sale to the highest bidder. “I know that these are historical artifacts, but much of the time I don’t know their exact value,” Abu Nayef admitted to AFP in his garden in Baalbeck. Caloocan folk storm out to mob Erap convoy By Gerry Baldo and Jason Faustino 03/29/2010 By Gerry Baldo and Jason Faustino Poor families — and there were tens of thousands of them — greeted former President Joseph Estrada’s motorcade in Caloocan City before the country plunged into darkness for the Earth Hour Saturday night, bringing light to the campaign of the once ousted leader who is bidding to reclaim his post in his vow to continue serving the poor masses who never turned their backs on him. Not even a “road spike” attack on some vehicles which joined Es-trada’s motorcade succeeded in hobbling the campaign, which was also highlighted by the unexpected tandem of the city’s two former mayors — Baby Asistio and Rey Malonzo — who have settled their political differences not only to back Estrada’s presidential bid but also to challenge what they claimed as a “rotten administration.” Malonzo also once played critic to Estrada at the height of the impeachment proceedings in 2001 before they were aborted by a civilian-backed military coup d’ etat that installed Gloria Arroyo in Malacañang. Malonzo, who is now a vice mayoralty candidate supporting his erstwhile opponent Asistio’s mayoralty bid, however, have jumped fences and joined Estrada, whom he claimed “continues to enjoy the support of the masses.”... MORE Gloria’s scheming never stops EDITORIAL 03/29/2010 Gloria’s scheming never stops Whoever in Malacañang said that Gloria would comfortably retire in Pampanga after being elected as member of the House of Representatives in the coming elections either was joking or is a total fool. The actions being taken lately by Gloria have shown that she is far from over in her pursuit of political perpetuity through plotting and manipulation and that a House seat is only a furtherance of that ultimate goal. The midnight appointments and the bastardization of the party-list system both of which Gloria exploited to build up new alliances and preserve old ones prove that the predatory traits of Gloria will go on as long as she is in the political stream.... MORE Crystal clear intent Afghanistan: Peace in the north, war in the south A wife’s undying love for her man on death row Arrests of Chavez critics raises fears over free expression Killing dreams No lessons learned SC clarifies ban on lower court appointments stand... Erap: Fake opposition bets to be shunned by voters... Opening wide the cheating doors EDITORIAL 03/31/2... Change? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/31/201... Hotels, shopping malls come to South Africa’s chan... Ruminations SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 03/31/2010... Singapore a key transit hub for wildlife smuggling... ElBaradei takes Egypt reform campaign to the stree... Estrada vows to bring NPA to mainstream 03/30/201... SWS: Erap gains 4 pts; Noynoy static, Villar dives... Reading the survey findings FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho... Progress, frustration as Liberia rebuilds from scr... Who’s really rated ‘X’? NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Si... A cause without a champion AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken ... 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__label__wiki	0.86582	0.86582	BS Aquino III is not president? DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 12/19/2011 BS Aquino III is not president? Just as we said that Gloria Arroyo was not president when she was declared such in 2001 by Davide and again in 2004 by Congress (in an election where the Cojuangco-Aquino clan endorsed her wholeheartedly), so it is increasingly the case with the current Malacaang occupant. When BS Aquino III became an accidental candidate in 2009 upon the death of his mother, Cory Aquino (an event played up to launch his campaign), the election that followed was soon hounded by suspicions on the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) machines of Smartmatic and the Commission on Election (Comelec)s removal of vital voting safeguards. Many became aware that the UV light ballot authentication, the digital signature of the Boards of Election Inspectors (BEI), and the voters receipt were all done away with. Even the highly irregular recall of 76,000 CF (Compact Flash) cards just a week before the polls raised a huge red flag. Today, many of those suspected criminal acts are now confirmed, thanks to the findings of citizens election watchdogs, CenPEG (Center for People Empowerment in Governance) and AES (Automated Election System) Watch, after year-long investigations. The following conclusions, which I abridge below, have been borne out of the painstaking efforts of information technology (IT) academics and experts alike: On May 10, 2010, (Comelec) made available to the public the election results by precinct, town/city, district, province, and nation (via the Web site) http://electionresults.comelec.gov.ph/. A few months later this Web site was taken down. We believe that it is governments duty to make election data from this Web site publicly and freely available, because it is THE STORY of how the Smartmatic-Comelec partnership carried out the computerization of our elections, and whether the computerization exercise was successful or not (As such) we have decided to publish our mirror of this Web site, so that the data are available even if they are not anymore available (That) Web site is: http://curry.ateneo.net/~ambo/ph2010/electionresults/... A number of researchers have begun work on the data in this Web site (discovering) many serious errors like: 1) 371 precinct election results with 10 voters or less, when the actual number of voters is 400 to 1000 for each of those precincts, 2) 8,939 precincts with no data at all, indicating a possible failure of transmission of data from the precinct to Comelec, 3) of the 67,162 precinct election results which contain data, 25,530 precinct election results have missing data in one elective position, or two or three or more (Such) missing data in one or more elective positions is a clear indicator of the presence of serious bugs which SysTest Labs already pointed out in its certification report to Comelec, which bugs the Technical Evaluation Committee and Comelec conveniently chose to ignore. (The researchers cannot) stand by while Comelec makes another serious mistake in re-using the Smartmatic technology. First, Smartmatic has to install a substantial number of bug fixes in their system before they can get it to work for our elections. Second, Smartmatic cannot do these bug fixes by its lonesome self, since it does not own the technology the copyright to the software is by Dominion Voting Systems of Canada, and Smartmatic is not allowed to make any changes in the source code, and must wait for Dominion to write the bug fixes in its own good time. Third, the PCOS hardware is not adequate to implement the security features required by RA 9369, like: 1) the requirement of digital signatures by the BEI and 2) the planned fingerprint/biometric reader to be installed on the PCOS. Kudos to experts Dr. Pablo Manalastas, Dr. Felix Muga and Dr. Philip Truscott of the Ateneo de Manilas computer science and mathematics departments for trawling data originally posted on the Comelec Web site, which had been inexplicably taken down. Out of all the major findings, the most significant centers on the missing data in 25,520 precincts, which indicates that there were at least two different canvassing programs in use during the 2010 elections, one that was used in the 41,632 precincts that had a complete set of data and another that was used in the 25,530 precincts that had missing sets of data. So they ask: How come there was more than one program in play? The obvious answer is that the original program that was supposed to canvass votes and transmit the results from those 25,530 precincts was replaced by another program. As a result, The only way of discovering the actual results would be to open the ballot boxes in those 25,530 precincts and count or feed them into pre-tested PCOS counting machines. The results can then be compared to the results reported by the substituted software In the set up by Smartmatic, the consolidating computers apparently had no hand-shaking protocols that would have allowed them to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate sources (which means) the canvassing computers could have added to, subtracted from, or otherwise altered election results and then transmitted bogus returns. The late IT expert Manuel Alcuaz had repeatedly stressed in the many forums he spoke, including my TV show, that the cheating in elections is not at the precinct level, where local and party officials are focused on, but at the municipal canvassing level, where the totals are very conveniently and easily manipulated with spurious inputs. Knowing this, he was thus incensed as the precinct level computerization was a big rip-off. Since past Comelec officials (including its then legal chief) allegedly derived pecuniary benefits from Smartmatics PCOS machines, so are the present crop of Comelec commissioners and their supposed politician-clients perceptibly pushing for this patently fraudulent automated system for 2013 and 2016. In the meantime, the political elite and its darling chief executive are creating political circuses left and right all to divert attention from the most crucial issues, including the question, Is PeNoy simply a Hocus-PCOSed president? (Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon, Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL, Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus TV and radio archives) US will "absolutely" continue drone war on Iran Even with the loss of not one, but two multi-million-dollar drones in recent weeks, the head of the US Defense Department says that America will “absolutely” continue stealth jets missions over Iran. Despite these losses, the US Department of Defense is showing no signs of retreat, even if Tehran has insisted that they are well on their well to decoding the top-secret technologies under the hood of the recovered Sentinel. Speaking to Fox News this week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said that stealth missions into Iran will continue “absolutely,” despite ongoing opposition from overseas..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/panetta-absolutely-iran-drone-831/ Secret documents reveal truth about American massacre in Iraq President Barack Obama may have declared the war in Iraq over, but unearthed documents thought to have been destroyed are bringing to light gruesome details from a skirmish that the military wishes hadn’t happened. Scouring a junkyard outside of Baghdad, a reporter for The New York Times recently came across 400 pages of interrogations detailing the truth behind a massacre of dozens of Iraqi civilians that was carried out by American troops in 2005 in the town of Haditha. The documents, once under lock-and-key, were supposed to be destroyed. The reporter, however, came upon the remnants of the slightly-charred file as he picked through the debris in the dump. According to the reporter, the junkyard attendant was using pages of the paper for kindling as he roasted a dinner of smoked carp in a trailer on the site..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/documents-american-massacre-iraq-925/ ‘Blue bra girl’ atrocity: Egyptian military police more than brutal (VIDEO) The blogosphere is boiling at the cruel beating of a female protester by Egyptian military police, who continued battling protesters in Tahrir Square on Sunday. The clashes, into their third day now, have left 10 people dead and hundreds injured. The video uploaded on YouTube Sunday reveals the extreme cruelty of the country’s law enforcers during the crackdown. The army soldiers in full riot gear have been savagely beating a seemingly unconscious female protester with big sticks, kicking her and stomping on her chest. .... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/egyptian-military-cruelty-beating-079/ Passion for teaching MANILA – John Clifford Sibayan, 19, is following the footsteps of his mother who is a teacher in a public school in Pampanga. “There is nothing like teaching,” Clifford said during an interview. They do not only teach the students their lessons, for a public school teacher like Clifford’s mother, it’s more than giving education. From his own experience during his practicum at Araullo High School in Manila, Clifford said, being a teacher in a public school is really tiring. But leaving the country for a better pay never crossed his mind. “I dream that one day the system of education in our country will change. And that dream still prevails.” (Photo by Anne Marxze D. Umil / bulatlat.com) “It’s really a tiring job. My work does not end in school; I still bring my work with me at home,” he said. Preparing for his lesson plan and grades also take his time. He handled five sections with 45 to 50 students. He also dealt with the lack of classrooms, chairs and other facilities. “Because there is no proper ventilation, I bring two handkerchiefs with me because of the scorching heat.” Clifford is a fourth year student, BSE Major in Filipino at Philippine Normal University in Manila. He may sound dismayed when he told me about his experience but when asked about his plans for the future, Clifford said, he will still continue with what he has started. Clifford’s stories about his practicum seems endless. He related that a student stole his classmate’s cellphone; about teachers doing all kinds of sidelines just to earn an extra income because of the low salary. His experience is like scenes in a movie that come to a reality and for Clifford, it was heart breaking. “That is why I don’t go to my mother’s workplace because I don’t want to see the poor children.”.... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/11/24/passion-for-teaching/ Mothers of missing UP students call for immediate arrest of Palparan et.al In a resolution released Dec. 15, a Department of Justice (DOJ) panel found probable cause to file charges against retired Major General Jovito Palparan and his men for the abduction of UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, and farmer Manuel Merino. MANILA – Teary-eyed Erlinda Cadapan, 60, said she is somehow happy to receive the news. “I’ve been waiting for that for years,” she said. In a resolution released Dec. 15, a Department of Justice (DOJ) panel found probable cause to file charges against retired Major General Jovito Palparan and his men for the abduction of the Mrs. Cadapan’s daughter Sherlyn, her companion who is also a UP student Karen Empeño and farmer Manuel Merino. Sherlyn and Karen, both students of the University of the Philippines (UP), were abducted on June 26, 2006 by suspected soldiers under the command of Palparan, then commanding officer of the 7th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army. Since the two have gone missing, their mothers went to courts, police stations, military camps, hospitals and morgues in searching for them. “My happiness is not complete. Until they surface Sherlyn, until I would be able to embrace her, I would not be really happy,” Mrs. Cadapan told Bulatlat.com in an interview..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/12/16/mothers-of-missing-up-students-call-for-immediate-arrest-of-palparan-et-al/ Navy Christmas party causes furor among military men By Mario J. Mallari 12/19/2011 Navy Christmas party causes furor among military men The Navy’s holding of a “lavish” Christmas party has caused a storm of reaction from active and retired members of the military but Navy Flag Officer in Command Vice Admiral Alexander Pama downplayed insinuations that the gathering was extravagant and runs contrary to the austerity program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Pama yesterday confirmed to the Tribune the Navy’s “Christmas Ball” at the Manila Hotel last Wednesday, the same day the Navy officially commissioned its latest addition to its fleet, the Hamilton class cutter BRP Gregorio del Pilar. The Tribune report created furor against the Navy, stressing there was no justification for such ritzy gathering amid pronouncements of austerity measures in the AFP..... MORE ‘Sendong’ death toll soars to 652; US, China offer aid By Mario J. Mallari and Michaela P. del Callar 12/19/2011 ‘Sendong’ death toll soars to 652; US, China offer aid By Mario J. Mallari and Michaela P. del Callar 12/19/2011 The death toll from tropical storm “Sendong” has climbed to 652 with 808 others missing in Northern Mindanao region, particularly the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro which were hit by massive flash floods during the wee hours on Saturday triggered by heavy rains, disaster officials yesterday said. Benito Ramos, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said their own count stood at 516 deaths and 274 missing. But he conceded that the death toll would likely go higher. Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of the Philippine National Red Cross, in a statement, also warned the numbers could climb further..... MORE No major power disruptions in Mindanao during typhoon 12/19/2011 No major power disruptions in Mindanao during typhoon Major power transmission lines of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) remain operational even as tropical storm “Sendong” continues to batter Mindanao. The storm made landfall Saturday afternoon in Hinatuan, Surigao del Norte. Power transmission service provider and grid operator NGCP continues to monitor the movements of Tropical Storm “Sendong” and its effects on power transmission facilities in Mindanao. Necessary preparations and precautions have been implemented to minimize the impact of the storm on NGCP operation and facilities..... MORE Solons laud Hataman’s appointment as ARMM OIC By Gerry Baldo 12/19/2011 Solons laud Hataman’s appointment as ARMM OIC Lawmakers yesterday hailed the appointment of former Anak Mindanao party-list Rep. Mujiv Hataman to the post of officer-in-charge of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) even as they expressed hope that the appointee would be able to institute reforms in the region. Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone, Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, Citizens Battle Against Corruption Rep. Sherwin Tugna and Cavite Rep. Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya Jr. said that Hataman’s appointment brings a ray of hope for the ARMM which has been rocked with all sorts of anomalies, including election fraud and funds misuse. “We welcome and support his appointment. He is a very capable leader. I’m sure he will be able to institute reforms in ARMM,” Evardone said following that announcement of Hataman’s appointment..... MORE Body on Muslim welfare vows Hajj rules review 12/19/2011 Body on Muslim welfare vows Hajj rules review Maintaining that its handling of the just concluded Hajj (Pilgrimage to Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) for Filipino pilgrims was not a failure despite some challenges, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) vows to institute further measures and review its existing policies and guidelines on Hajj to ensure more responsive and efficient management and supervision of ensuing Hajj. Lately, the NCMF has to contend with the controversy on the shortage in Hajj visas that prevented some prospective Filipino pilgrims to join the said religious exercise this year. The NCMF contracted earlier with the Saudi Ministry of Hajj for the accommodation and issuance of corresponding number of visas to 4,000 Filipino pilgrims this year..... MORE ‘Christmas Lanes’ lessen traffic on major roads 12/19/2011 ‘Christmas Lanes’ lessen traffic on major roads With Christmas Day fast approaching, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said over the weekend the “Christmas Lanes” were able to alleviate the volume of vehicular traffic on major thoroughfares in the metropolis, especially those leading to shopping malls and other business centers. MMDA Traffic Engineering Center head Noemi Recio cited as an example Del Monte Ave. in Quezon City which is now serving as an alternative route for motorists instead of using Quezon Ave., one of the metropolis’ busiest thoroughfares. Recio said their monitoring showed that 50 percent of private vehicles that normally plied Quezon Ave. are now using Del Monte Ave. as their route..... MORE Relocate dwellers living in hazard zones — solon 12/19/2011 Relocate dwellers living in hazard zones — solon A party-list lawmaker yesterday urged the National Housing Authority (NHA) to provide preferential resettlement to the informal dwellers around the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), in accordance with government’s strategy to give the highest priority to the relocation of underprivileged families living in so-called hazard zones. In House Resolution 2004, LPG/MA party-list Rep. Arnel Ty pointed out that the NHA is getting an extra P1.3 billion in next year’s budget to build additional resettlement projects. “There is ample funding for community housing to allow the orderly transfer of settlers around our busiest airport,” said Ty, a member of the House committee on housing and urban development..... MORE BS Aquino III is not president? DIE HARD III Herma... Secret documents reveal truth about American massa... ‘Blue bra girl’ atrocity: Egyptian military police... Mothers of missing UP students call for immediate ... Navy Christmas party causes furor among military m... ‘Sendong’ death toll soars to 652; US, China offer... No major power disruptions in Mindanao during typh... Solons laud Hataman’s appointment as ARMM OIC By G... Body on Muslim welfare vows Hajj rules review 12/... ‘Christmas Lanes’ lessen traffic on major roads 1... Relocate dwellers living in hazard zones — solon ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line412
__label__cc	0.673012	0.326988	NDAA unconstitutional: Federal judge bans Obama from indefinitely detaining Americans Sorry, Mr. President. A US Federal judge has clarified a decision made last month with some news sure to upset the Obama administration: the White House cannot use the NDAA to indefinitely detain American citizens. Judge Katherine B. Forrest has answered a request made by US President Barack Obama last month to more carefully explain a May 16 ruling made in a Southern District of New York courtroom regarding the National Defense Authorization Act. Clarifying the meaning behind her injunction, Judge Forrest confirms in an eight-page memorandum opinion this week that the NDAA’s controversial provision that permits indefinite detention cannot be used on any of America's own citizens. Last month Judge Forrest ruled in favor of a group of journalists and activists whom filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of Section 1021 of the NDAA, a defense spending bill signed into law by President Obama on New Year’s Eve..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/ndaa-judge-obama-forrest-295/ The ‘power’ struggle continues DIE HARD III Herman... Big-league Noynoy EDITORIAL 06/08/2012 Scandalous FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/08/2... NDAA unconstitutional: Federal judge bans Obama fr... Right to copy vs. copyright: FBI accused of ‘steal... Aboitiz intensifies harassment of workers to avert... That May 29 ABS-CBN poll CROSSROADS Jonathan De la... Ombudsman: Front and Center SPECIAL REPORT By Char... Loyal Lacson, Pangilinan to join Cabinet — Palace ... Scrap Malampaya gas contract — Bayan Muna By Charl... Honasan issues bank waiver 06/08/2012 Recto slams Kiko’s call for press coverage of JBC ... NPC lauds Congress for acting on controversial Dat... Legarda, Jardeleza, Villanueva new bets for CJ pos...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line413
__label__wiki	0.842727	0.842727	Thorny sovereignty issue By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise \| BusinessWorld It is quite easy for the Aquino government to arouse the people’s anger at China bullying in the South China Sea considering what appear to be clear encroachments on Philippine territorial waters and its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Couple this with the sense of frustration that the Aquino administration and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are undeniably militarily powerless in this recent confrontation over Chinese fishing poachers protected by no less than two Chinese warships, the inclination to run towards Uncle Sam and sic US might and firepower to make China turn tail appeals to many pundits, whether professional or of the barbershop variety. And thoroughly misses the point. There is more to the conflict in the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal than an assertion of sovereignty arising from rival territorial claims. This is not the first time tension rose over alleged incursions in the Kalayaan Islands which are also being claimed by the Vietnamese and Malaysians aside from the Chinese. But while the news would hog the headlines for a few days, not without a large dose of sensationalism about the risk of a military confrontation, there had never been such open clashes between Philippine and rival armed forces, with each side eventually stepping down, resorting instead to diplomatic protests until invariably the controversy simmers down and fades away..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/20/thorny-sovereignty-issue/ True justice FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/25/2012 Cojuangco-Aquinos no longer own Hacienda Lusita — not after the Supreme Court (SC), in a final landmark ruling, voted 8-6, to have some 4,000 hectares distributed to the farmer-workers of the hacienda, at the land values set in 1989, which would amount to some P40,000 per hectare or some P200 million — not the P1 million per hectare or P5 billion that the Cojuangco-Aquino clan wanted as compensation. That is what can be finally called true justice to the farmers, who have been screwed by the Cojuangco-Aquinos for decades on end, first, when the clan’s then patriarch, Jose Cojuangco, bought the Luisita sugar plantation from Tabacalera — get this — on a behest loan, courtesy of Ninoy Aquino’s lobbying with then President Ramon Magsaysay not only for the Cojuangcos to buy the hacienda from Tabacalera but also to ensure that the then central bank and the GSIS would be guaranteeing an American bank for the clan’s loan and the sale amount asked for by Tabacalera. Apart from this guarantee, the Cojuangcos reneged on the agreement with Tabacalera to distribute part of the hacienda land — after 10 years — to the farmer-workers..... MORE US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weapons The Pentagon has frittered away billions in taxpayer cash on not fully tested arms, a government watchdog report says. While the policy grants the military access to cutting-edge technology, the public can be left footing the bill for faulty weapons. A report issued by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Friday shed light on the controversial policy of “concurrency” which approves untested weapons for production and use. “While some concurrency is understandable, committing to product development before requirements are understood and technologies mature, or committing to production and fielding before development is complete, is a high-risk strategy that often results in performance shortfalls, unexpected cost increases, schedule delays and test problems,” said the report..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/news/weapons-pentagon-report-waste-927/ Toddler Terrorist: TSA threatens lockdown over 4-year-old girl The much-maligned Transport Security Authority (TSA) is once again in hot water after it accused an innocent four-year-old girl of attempted gun smuggling as she hugged her grandmother in the security zone. In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, Michelle Brademeyer describes the story of her family being detained as potential terrorists by the TSA on a flight out of Wichita, Kansas. The TSA is responsible for screening passengers as they board and disembark from planes. Brademeyer was passing through security checks with her mother and her small daughter, Isabella. When the older lady triggered the metal detector, and was told to go for a pat-down, Isabella ran over to and briefly hugged her grandmother..... MORE URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/tsa-us-girl-gun-869/ Death of 56-year old fisherman sparks more outrage against VFA, Balikatan As long as the US military is treated ‘above the law’ by the government, their victims among the civilian populace will not be given justice.” – Bayan Muna-Southern Mindanao In Zamboanga City, the progressive party-list Bayan Muna is calling for an independent inquiry into the death of a local fisherman killed by a speeding Boat manned by military forces of the United States. The group said the death of 56-year old Ahbam Juhurin, a local fisherman from Basilan should not be allowed to be swept under the rug. Based on various media reports, US and Filipino troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were conducting maritime exercises in Baluk-baluk, an island near Hadji Muhtamad Municipality in Basilan Province on April 19. A Mark V Special Operations Craft was returning to Zamboanga City when it rammed Juhurin’s fishing boat around 7 p.m. that same day. The elderly fisherman was killed while his 26-year old son remains in critical condition as of this writing. Colonel Ricardo Visaya, commander of the 104th Brigade and Joint Task Force Basilan said it was an accident and that no one is to blame. VFA protects US troops from criminal prosecution Ariel Casilao, Southern Mindanao Regional Coordinator of Bayan Muna, said it has only been days since the US – Philippine Balikatan Exercises formally started, but already a civilian has been killed. He said the blame should be placed at the door of the Aquino government and the militarist proponents of the Visiting forces Agreement (VFA). “The US troops have immunity against prosecution from Philippine laws because of the VFA. They have committed heinous crimes against Filipinos and the Bangsamoro, but remain above prosecution. As long as the US military is treated ‘above the law’ by the government, their victims among the civilian populace will not be given justice,” he said..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/20/death-of-56-year-old-fisherman-sparks-more-outrage-against-vfa-balikatan/ Workers challenge Congress to set wage hikes A week before May 1, as P125 wage hike proposal nears Congress approval, the labor secretary and regional wage boards suddenly realized there is a need indeed for a wage hike. MANILA – A week before May 1 Labor Day celebration, influential Senator Chiz Escudero declared support for a P125 across-the-board legislated wage hike. He said fears that a significant wage hike will cause inflation to rise and companies to close down are unfounded. In speaking thus, Senator Chiz joins the likes of Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao, a boxing icon and famous media personality, who has declared since last year his support for the substantial wage hike proposal. Echoing the long-time criticisms of the labor groups of the apparent failure of the country’s regional wage boards, Escudero also criticized the wage boards for failing to give workers a “just wage.” Some regional wage boards are currently deliberating on wage proposals submitted by moderate trade union groups. But so far, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has already dashed even the possibility that the said regional wage boards may break off from tradition and start granting wage hikes that are adjusted at least to regain lost purchasing power due to inflation. Even before the wage boards in the National Capital Region began holding public consultations, for example, Baldoz has announced that wage hikes may be granted but not higher than P21 ($0.49). Escudero asserted the urgency of Congress stepping in to determine wages in the country. The labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) immediately hailed last Friday Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero’s declaration of support for a P125 across-the-board legislated wage hike, saying the influential senator is a welcome addition to the ranks of legislators supporting the call. KMU hopes Escudero can draw in more supporters to the cause..... MORE URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/04/24/workers-challenge-congress-to-set-wage-hikes/ Govt agrees to create Bangsamoro state Tuesday, 24 April, 2012 Written by Joyce Pangco Panares THE Aquino administration has finally agreed to create an autonomous Bangsamoro political entity for the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front that will replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In a deal signed by government chief negotiator Marvic Leonen and his MILF counterpart, Mohagher Iqbal, in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, both parties agreed that the new autonomous political entity will have a “ministerial form of government. The powers to be reserved for the national government are as follows: defense and external security; foreign policy; common market and global trade; coinage and monetary policy; citizenship and naturalization; and postal service. The power to enter into economic agreements, however, will be transferred to the new Bangsamoro entity..... MORE Source: Manila Standard URL: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/2012/04/24/govt-agrees-to-create-bangsamoro-state/ Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/25/2012 AQUINO SC APPOINTEES SOUGHT REMAND OF COMPENSATION ISSUE TO PALACE Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea It’s final. Hacienda Luisita’s close to 5,000 hectares are to be distributed to the farmer-workers while the Cojuangco-Aquino family ends up with a compensation of a little less than P200 million, as against the family seeking a compensation of P5 billion for the hacienda. True to form, President Aquino’s appointees, Associate Justice Lourdes Sereno, Estela Bernabe and Bienvenido Reyes voted to allow an agency under the control of Malacañang to determine the amount which the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) is to receive as compensation for placing the sugar estate under the government’s agrarian reform program. They were however, outvoted by the majority justices..... MORE SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’s PCOS By Benjamin B. Pulta 04/25/2012 SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’s PCOS A restraining order was handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday, freezing the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s P 1.8 billion contract for the purchase of computers to be used for next year’s elections. Speaking to reporters at the end of the high court’s summer session in Baguio City, Court administrator Midas Marquez said the tribunal consolidated the three separate petitions challenging the deal between the collegial body and the Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) to buy 80,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines. Marquez also said the High Court will hear the cases in oral argument in a special en banc session to be held on May 2..... MORE Noy seeks China-savvy envoy 04/25/2012 Noy seeks China-savvy envoy President Aquino is still scouting for a suitable replacement for erstwhile ambassador to China Domingo Lee and hinted that his search may end outside of the realm of career diplomats as he would need an envoy who would have extensive knowledge of and contacts within the Chinese system and community — and preferably with Chinese blood. “We’re reviewing. The criteria is really different. It’s not basically just career,” said Aquino as the Philippines continued to rattle diplomatic sabres with China over the disputed Scarborough Shoal. He underscored that the next ambassador to China should be “somebody who understands the nuances of Chinese culture, how their system works, has developed contacts left and right to be able to reach the opinion makers and those whose opinions really matter.”.... MORE Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate workers 04/25/2012 Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate workers The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (Palea) has submitted a manifestation to the Court of Appeals (CA) expressing its willingness to participate in mediation with the flag carrier’s new management to seek a settlement to the long-standing labor dispute. “The new management of Philippine Airlines (PAL) should recognize that the solution to the flag carrier’s woes involves not only a refleeting of its aging aircraft but more so the reinstatement of its skilled regular workers,” said Gerry Rivera, Palea president..... MORE NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition By Benjamin Pulta and Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/25/2012 NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition By Benjamin Pulta and Gina Peralta-Elorde 04/25/2012 Probers from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have been tasked to gather evidence for the possible filing of criminal and administrative charges against policemen who may have been involved in the violence that erupted during the demolition of a shanty colony in Silverio Compound in Paraaque City last Monday, an incident which left one person dead and 66 others injured. Department of Justice (DoJ) Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III issued the order after residents accompanied by Bayan Muna Rep. Teodoro Casio sought the DoJs assistance in identifying the police authorities who participated in the demolition and in holding them accountable for the incident. Baraan said charges of homicide with multiple physical injuries may be filed against the policemen should evidence warrant them..... MORE True justice FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/25... US taxpayers shelling out billions for faulty weap... Toddler Terrorist: TSA threatens lockdown over 4-y... Death of 56-year old fisherman sparks more outrage... Noy, kin lose P5B hacienda plea By Benjamin B. Pul... SC blocks Comelec’s P1.8-B purchase of Smartmatic’... Palea OKs CA mediation, calls on PAL to reinstate ... NBI, PNP to probe Paranaque demolition By Benjamin...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line414
__label__wiki	0.523186	0.523186	A Heart for Him, chapter 1 Content warning: this story contains adult incest Fangs and claws were great for taking down prey, but for skinning and butchering, human hands worked better. In Nor’s twenty-five years on earth, he’d butchered maybe two hundred and fifty deer, so he made quick work of this one. It was a beaut, though. His stomach growled just looking at it, but a good alpha didn’t eat until his pack had fed, and Mama and Papa had raised him to be a good alpha. Someday he’d have a mate, pups, maybe a whole pack, and he wanted to be worthy of them. For now, he rolled the meat in oilskin and loaded it into his backpack. The buck was so big, there was more meat than he could fit in his own bag, so he put the excess in a smaller one for Toby to carry, then whistled for him. Toby was off somewhere—cavorting around with no sense of time, as usual. No one would ever guess he was eighteen now, not once he was deep in the woods with everything to sniff and taste and jump over and crawl under. Even for an omega, Toby was on the flighty side. If Mama and Papa knew he was off playing while Nor caught and dressed the deer, they’d give him another one of those lectures that made him look sad, so Nor wasn’t going to tell. He didn’t want Toby to change. He loved Toby just the way he was, every bit of him. He was the youngest of Nor’s siblings and the most precious. Nor knew he shouldn’t have a favorite, but he did. Toby was just … Toby. And he ought to be having fun. If Nor were his alpha, he’d spoil him so hard, never make him do a thing. Not hunt, not cook, just serve him delicacies and watch him eat like he was in one of those moving picture things humans found so fascinating. Toby. That was what Nor found fascinating. He couldn’t be Toby’s alpha, of course. And now that Toby was eighteen, he’d have one of his own soon enough. His first heat would be coming any day now, Mama had said last week. She knew those sorts of things, and she’d sniffed him over real good, so it must be true. Toby’s first heat would come and he’d find an alpha and go live somewhere else, maybe somewhere far away where Nor wouldn’t get to see him every day and make sure he always got the heart. Nor had the heart set out for him right now, waiting for him to come snap it up. He could imagine how Toby would look when he did because he’d seen it often enough—sort of sweetly grateful and entitled all at once, enjoying the delicacy but also the fact that Nor had saved it for him. Toby liked that Nor spoiled him. It was their thing. There were six other pups between the two of them, the oldest and the youngest, but it’d always been them. Nor’s precious little puppy. So small but growing up so clever, and lately Nor could see the man in him—straight and strong and getting less playful every day, except with him. Nor could see the omega in him too, smell it—not medically, the way Mama did, but animally, like how a mate would. Toby had always been his favorite person, and now he was growing into exactly what Nor’s body wanted. Sometimes Nor had to look away because he couldn’t bear how beautiful Toby was when he thought about how that beauty was meant for someone else. He didn’t know what Toby was up to now though—found something that needed closer inspection, maybe, but time was getting short. The deer had pulled them farther west than he’d meant to go, and if they were going to sleep at home tonight, they should start heading back. Nor whistled again, adding that note at the end that meant “or else.” Toby knew Nor would spoil him right up to the point where he wouldn’t, and then his foot would come down. Toby liked that about him, that he could be stern when the situation called for it, and Toby’s repentant compliance lit Nor’s body up, made him want to be even sterner until Toby really believed he might get punished and then just cave right in, go completely soft, because he’d rather chew off his own foot than hurt Toby in even the smallest way. Toby had never ignored the “or else” whistle, not once, and the fact that there was no answering whistle back, no rustle of him running through the leaves to pounce, to use his full wolf to take Nor down in human form because that was his only chance of winning, had prickles of fear running up Nor’s spine. He shifted without even thinking about it. His wolf nose scented the air, picking up the trace of Toby’s trail over the more visceral smells of blood and flesh. He followed his nose without a care for the meat he left behind. The woods were full of deer, but there was only one Toby. He howled, calling to him, and his sharper wolf ears caught a whistle in return—faint, but not because of distance. Something was wrong. He couldn’t run fast enough, hearing that plaintive note in Toby’s whistle like he was trapped or sick. Toby’s scent grew stronger, but it stopped in a clearing with no sign of him. Something like a whine sprang from the back of Nor’s throat as panic rose. His wolf wasn’t accustomed to fear. His wolf was hard and ruthless, formidable and controlled. But the wolf loved Toby too. “Nor?” His name in Toby’s voice had him whirling around to find him. “Down here.” He shifted back to human form and crossed over to where the voice came from. Between two boulders, an opening led down into an earthy cave. The passageway was barely wide enough for his shoulders to squeeze through, but the burrow it opened into was big enough for both of them. And there, curled into a circle, naked and in human form, was his Toby. Nor’s eyes adjusted quickly to the gloom. Toby was all in one piece, no blood that he could smell, and he got a little angry, thinking this had been a game with him so scared, but his nose told him something was off. Toby kept trying to crawl over him as Nor patted down his body, checking every inch of it for breaks and bumps. “What is it?” he asked when he didn’t find anything. Toby was hot to the touch and shaky, clinging like he hadn’t in years, not since he’d gotten too grown up for cuddles. But he wanted cuddles now, so Nor pulled him all the way into his lap and cradled him, his nose sniffing out along Toby’s hairline, chasing down that scent that wasn’t quite sickness. “Did something scare you?” “Just needed a den.” “We could make it home to sleep if we got started.” Nor kissed his precious head. “I saved the heart for you. Don’t you want it?” “Uh huh.” But Toby didn’t make any move to climb out of his lap, only huddled in closer, his hands seeking out his flesh, clinging to his skin like it was fur. “You ran around so much you exhausted yourself, didn’t you? I’ll bring you the heart, baby. And once you’ve had something to eat, we can head back.” It took a lot of effort to separate Toby from him, but he trotted back to where he’d left the deer and then, moving more slowly in human form, carried both backpacks full of meat to Toby’s den, the heart cradled carefully between his hands. He pulled Toby back into his lap and fed the heart to him in little pieces using his own fingers. Toby’s tongue flicked over them to chase the flavor, sending tingles of arousal down his spine. The small space was full of the scent of Toby, and Nor’s arms were full of the feel of him. Toby’s rough tongue worked over and over his fingers, and before long he was assaulting his little brother with the hard length of his cock jammed tight against his thigh. Toby had seen his cock hard before. During Nor’s teen years especially, it had a way of popping up under almost any circumstances. But he was awkward about the way it touched Toby now, very aware that his erection wasn’t a random response. It was Toby he wanted, so strongly he was dizzy with it. Toby had always smelled good to him, like pack and baby and love, but today he smelled edible, like blood and sex and flesh. And then he understood. “You’re going into heat. We’ve got to get you home.” “What do you mean too late? We can run in the dark. We’ll leave the deer here to make better time. I’ll catch another one tomorrow.” “I don’t wanna run. I don’t wanna leave here. It’s too big out there.” “You know I’ll protect you,” Nor wheedled, even though he knew an omega in heat needed den, needed closed spaces filled with familiar scents and no extra entrances where an intruder might get in. But Mama should be taking care of him. Mama would know what to do. She’d find him an alpha, a mate. Toby made a contented purring sound, and Nor realized that the thought of Toby having a mate had made him curl Toby closer into his body. His grip was so tight it ought to hurt, but Toby wanted it, needed the security of it. “Take care of me,” he pleaded. As if Nor wouldn’t. But Toby meant take care of him here, in this den he’d made, not by getting them home. So that was what Nor would do. He had no idea how to care for an omega in heat, but he started by feeding him some more, then got the water bottle out of his backpack and make him drink from it. Toby soaked in the food and water like they were attention, asking with his body for Nor to baby him through every mouthful until Nor understood that Toby needed the petting and cooing more than he needed the nourishment. He could give him that. All the love he normally held back came spilling out in a tumble of praise and kisses and Toby took it in like rain on moss, soft and thirsty, turning his perfect bow of a mouth up to Nor’s and stealing the love straight from it until they were kissing not like brothers but like mates, their tongues inside each other’s mouths and it was good, so good, so perfect that it took Nor much too long to realize it was wrong. “Shh, Toby, baby.” It was a struggle to get Toby to stop, and then the pout on his face almost crushed him. “I’ll take care of you, just not like that.” “Please, Nor?” Toby straddled him so their hard cocks lined up like two trees grown from a single trunk and attached himself to Nor again, pulling his tongue deeper into his mouth this time. Nor had never had his cock inside anyone—not in their mouth or pussy or ass—but now he could imagine how it must feel. “Need you,” Toby murmured. “Need you, Alpha.” Nor’s blood surged, his balls clenched, a spurt of lubrication pulsed from the tip of his cock. Stars Above, Nor was gone for him. Toby owned him and Toby needed him and he was lost to it. “What… what do you want?” “Take care of me.” “I will. I promise. I’ll give you food and water. I’ll hunt for you. I’ll protect you. I’ll carry you home, if you want. I’ll do anything.” “Fuck me.” The blunt words from the sweet mouth practically killed him. “Ah, Toby. Toby, love. Ask me something else.” But Toby’s body was writhing against his and his mouth was cruising over the skin of his neck and Nor could feel the slow drip, drip, drip of slick oozing out of Toby’s ass to coat his balls. It would be so easy to rock him back a bit to take his cock. “It hurts.” Toby grounded down on him, rubbing his wet hole across the base of his cock. “Hurts where?” He’d checked Toby thoroughly when he’d found him—there were no marks on him anywhere—but now he made a second traversal of Toby’s body, stroking over his arms, across his muscled back and lean abdomen, down to his legs. Toby made a humming noise of pleasurable agreement when he reached his thighs, which turned into an annoyed whimper when he stopped his inventory there. He was too close to what he wanted, to the hard shaft and dripping hole. “It hurts,” Toby repeated, and this time, so there could be no mistake, he guided one of Nor’s hands to his hole. Nor felt it warm and soft on the tips of his fingers, a welcoming sponge that gave way at the center so that he slid inside Toby like he was made of quicksand. Nor couldn’t stop himself from sinking all the way in until the palm of his hand butted up against that slick ring of muscle and even then, he pushed, trying to get deeper, working hard into him. Toby liked it. He threw his head back, exposing the column of his neck, and made a sound that was half moan, half howl, as though he were trapped between forms. His fangs glistened between his lips and Nor leaned forward to lick at them, allowing the sharp tips to tease his tongue into feeding Toby little drops of his blood. Toby was a wanton thing on his fingers, shifting his hips until Nor brushed against a firmer spot inside him, and then he did howl, all wolf. His cock began to leak as fast as his ass, and Nor’s mouth filled with saliva as he imagined the taste of it. He removed his fingers from Toby’s ass, earning him a baleful glare. “We can’t do this,” he said, but he said it around his fingers. Stars Above, Toby’s slick tasted good. If Toby were his omega, he’d feed him the heart of a deer every day and never need anything to eat for himself except his slick. But Toby wasn’t his omega. Toby was his brother. “Definitely not. No. Behave yourself.” In a sulk, Toby pushed himself off Nor’s lap, separating them as much as they could be separated in this burrow, which wasn’t much. It didn’t change how clearly Nor could smell him or the warmth that radiated off his fevered body. It didn’t make Nor’s dick go down either, but that had something to do with the lingering taste of Toby’s slick. Toby curled up into a ball with his back turned, which hurt so bad it took Nor a moment to identify the sounds coming from him. Stifled sobs. Flesh moving over flesh. Toby was crying. And jerking off. And crying. Nor was an alpha, but he wasn’t made of steel. He was big so he could help, tough so he could sacrifice. He wasn’t made to listen to Toby cry. Or listen to him jerk off either. He wrapped Toby up from behind and replaced Toby’s hand with his own. “Alpha’s got you,” he crooned. “Alpha will make you feel better.” He tried to ignore the fact that his cock had slid between the cheeks of Toby’s ass, that it was nestled right up against what it wanted, but Toby’s frantic gyrations made that hard to do. Nor had convinced himself that he could take care of Toby’s needs—that it wouldn’t be wrong as long as he didn’t get off himself—so he begged his body to behave, to let him do this service for Toby without taking its own pleasure. But he might come just from being this close, from Toby’s scent in his nostrils and his hair spilling over his arm, and the tight, hot length of his cock surging up to meet his fist. “Alpha! Nor!” It was a toss-up which one spiked his arousal level higher—Toby using his name or Toby calling him Alpha. It was more how Toby said it anyway, like Nor was killing him with pleasure, like Nor was the only thing on earth he needed. He wanted to be that, so he tightened his fist and worried Toby’s neck with his teeth, and that did it. That had him coming. Toby’s essence spilled over his fingers like a reward. Nor was careful to wring every bit of pleasure out of him before allowing himself the indulgence of licking them clean. Then he rolled Toby onto his back and got between his knees to clean Toby’s stomach with his tongue. It wasn’t so different from how they used to groom either other as pups, except it was completely different because Nor had just jerked him off. “Feeling better?” he asked, keeping his eyes slightly south of Toby’s. Maybe now they could shift and run home, but the iron rod butting up under his chin said otherwise. Toby was already hard again. From on top of him this time, Nor jerked him off again. Toby squeezed his eyes shut which gave Nor the freedom to watch, to revel in the way Toby’s mouth dropped open and his eyes twitched behind his eyelids as another orgasm burst out of him. Toby arched up, his cock coming dangerously close to Nor’s mouth, and Nor couldn’t help it. He licked the sweetness of Toby’s ejaculate directly from its source. Before he knew it, he had Toby’s whole dick in his mouth, and it was as hard as if he hadn’t just come twice in ten minutes. Toby’s hands clenched tight in his hair, rough and demanding, and his hips thrust up to meet him. Nor was just holding on, letting Toby fuck his mouth with ever-increasing fury until Toby gave him his third load, straight down his throat this time. Nor’s own cock twitched in sympathy. He’d never been so hard. Never been so close to orgasm. Never needed it so badly. He could hardly see through the haze of arousal, weak and dazed with his hunger for Toby. He wanted to be in him. It was where he was meant to be—no one could tell him otherwise—and then Toby said fuck me again, like a plea, and Stars Above, Nor had to. “You need a knot,” he told Toby. But Toby knew that. He met Nor halfway, wriggling down to seek out Nor’s cock with his ass. “Are you going to be good for me, baby?” Toby gave him a doubtful look, like he couldn’t believe he was going to get his way. But when had Nor ever not given him what he wanted? “I’ll be good,” he said. “Alpha.” The title was a bribe, and Nor came cheap. There wasn’t much he needed to do to get Toby ready. Toby had been ready for an hour, and so had he. Toby was complacent now, waiting like a good boy, and Nor wondered if he really needed to do this. Maybe Toby was sated. Maybe the heat would pass. Maybe jerking him off would be enough. Then, oomph—a foot to his gut. The good boy was gone, and his Toby was back. “You promised,” Toby demanded. He lifted his hips up off the ground, tempting Nor with the sight and smell of his virginal hole. A wave of guilt crashed through him—how could he take his brother’s first heat?—but Toby forestalled it. “I want you to.” “Need me to,” Nor corrected. “Want,” Toby repeated. This time when he lifted his hips, Nor grabbed them and used them to steer him until the tip of his cock rested against the silky give of Toby’s entrance. He was inside him so easily he couldn’t have stopped it, an easy slide of cock into ass, of intrusion into acceptance, of iron into a smelting oven. Nor melted inside him. His body was liquid, his mind was fire. He moved in an ancient rhythm, his fingers digging into the points of Toby’s hips as he rocked forward and back, rushing to meet Toby’s movements, echoing his cries. He buried himself as he came, a crashing finale. His knot swelled, and a pleasure he’d never known swelled with it. “Toby!” “Nor!” “Oh, Toby, Toby. Toby, love.” He slumped forward onto Toby’s twitching body to find his mouth, rolling them over so Toby wouldn’t have to bear his weight. He could hardly bear it himself. There wasn’t a bone left in his body, and Toby was just as limp. They were joined by his knot which throbbed in delight, finally home. The soggy sponginess pressed into his stomach told him his knot had done the trick. Toby’s cock was deflating. His fevered hunger had settled. Nor kissed everywhere he could reach, stroking and patting and soothing, gratified when Toby’s deeper breathing said he’d had fallen asleep. Nor had been a good alpha, taking care of his omega. His Toby. His very good boy. Make sure you never miss a new free story by signing up for my newsletter. If you enjoyed this story, you might also enjoy This entry was posted in MM, Taboo and tagged alpha, anal, Heart4Him, heat, incest, omega, shapeshifter, virgin by tanyachrs. Bookmark the permalink. 34 thoughts on “A Heart for Him, chapter 1” Emily on January 31, 2019 at 6:22 pm said: Yes, need more Nor and Toby! Siobhan Flynn on January 31, 2019 at 6:40 pm said: More toby and nor please !!!!! 🤞 Sallyann on January 31, 2019 at 7:06 pm said: Wow!!!!! I definitely want more Nor and Toby, that was hot as hell 🔥🔥🔥 Courtney B on January 31, 2019 at 7:42 pm said: Definitely more. That was awesome! Jennifer S on January 31, 2019 at 8:27 pm said: More please! Joscelyn S. on January 31, 2019 at 8:27 pm said: Yesss! More please.🙏 Nicole on January 31, 2019 at 8:43 pm said: I loved it. Definitely want more. They need a HEA. Stephanie Gattenby on January 31, 2019 at 10:33 pm said: Please, I would LOVE an HEA for Nor and Toby!!! 😍❤😍❤😍❤ Samantha on February 1, 2019 at 1:40 am said: Definitely more!!! That was so good! Jennifer Smith on February 1, 2019 at 8:13 am said: I loved them both so much, and I would love to know that they get their HEA, as I’m worried their mom won’t be happy. Please write more? Denise GremoryKohta on February 1, 2019 at 8:52 am said: The answer of more is always yes.😊 Toni Regan on February 1, 2019 at 2:01 pm said: Yes more..I love it. Lee Todd on February 1, 2019 at 2:12 pm said: yesyesyesyes!!! N.J. Lysk on February 1, 2019 at 2:46 pm said: More, please! This was sweet and got and inevitable… But do we get mpreg? Running away together? Is their mom gonna freak? Melissa on February 1, 2019 at 7:19 pm said: So much yes!! They need their HEA! Amanda on February 1, 2019 at 8:27 pm said: Yes! More please!! Karen Renfrow on February 1, 2019 at 10:11 pm said: Absolutely yes!!! Loved this Amanda on February 3, 2019 at 2:54 am said: More, more, more!! Loved this. Shin on February 3, 2019 at 7:36 am said: We really need to get their happily ever after! I loved this shortie so mich! Please write more! 😍😍😍 Angela Seubert on February 3, 2019 at 6:31 pm said: Omg yes I definitely need more Nor and Toby! Brenda Mileham on February 6, 2019 at 3:57 pm said: I would love read more of them! Debra E on February 13, 2019 at 7:42 pm said: Definitely! More Nor and Toby!! Wilde on February 16, 2019 at 12:33 pm said: Awesome Tanya. Nor knotting Toby sealed the deal. Good writing, hot, too. In real life, litter pups are often cross-bred. I don’t see it as much of a taboo. The heat seemed natural. I’m not a mpreg guy, bit always glad to read a HEA. Hope to see more of these two hot canine shapeshifters. Yes! I loved it! Ali on February 21, 2019 at 7:52 pm said: Definitely more please I love Nor & Toby! LJ on February 21, 2019 at 7:58 pm said: Patricia on February 21, 2019 at 8:47 pm said: I really enjoyed reading this & would like you to continue the story please. Belinda Zamora on February 21, 2019 at 11:40 pm said: Oh, hell yeah! I definitely need more Toby and Nor. Please continue this story. Gayle Young on February 22, 2019 at 4:55 pm said: Yes, yes, yes!!! Definitely need more Nor & Toby!!! Please, please, please continue and give these two a HEA! Karen R. on April 1, 2019 at 8:51 pm said: Tanya. Nor & Toby need more story! I came back to read a second time….even better 😎💕. Please? Yvonne on April 7, 2019 at 12:13 pm said: Pat on May 7, 2019 at 12:46 pm said: Yes please I want more Pingback: A Heart for Him, chapter 2 \| Free Stories by Tanya Chris Pingback: New free story: A Heart for Him, chapter 2 Leave a Reply to Gayle Young Cancel reply	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line416
__label__wiki	0.637373	0.637373	NGO UCMC website Request a briefing About press center SCHEDULE OF PRESS-BRIEFINGS IN UKRAINE CRISIS MEDIA CENTER FOR JANUARY 21, 2020 Topic: "101st Anniversary of the Day of Unity of Ukraine: what unites and divides Ukrainians the most" Iryna Bekeshkina, Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine Olexiy Haran, Scientific Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Professor of Political Science of NaUKMA Anton Drobovych, Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Andriy Ermolaev, Head of Strategic Group Sofia Volodymyr Kulik, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of NAS of Ukraine Anatoliy Tkachuk, Director for Science and Development of the Civil Society Institute NGO Vasyl Yablonsky, Advisor to the Director of the National Strategic Institute research Topic: "State of pre-trial detention centers in Ukraine" Mykola Karpiuk, Head of NGO "Ukrainian Center for Torture Prevention" Edem Bekirov, Board Member of NGO "Ukrainian Center for the Prevention of Torture" Olexiy Sizonovych, Board Member of NGO "Ukrainian Center for the Prevention of Torture" Topic: “Situation on the administrative-territorial division and formation of the territorial community of Svitlovodsk” Andriy Malytsky, member of Svitlovodsk city council Yuriy Sapyanov, secretary of the Svetlovodsk City Council Vitaliy Tetyanichenko, member of Svitlovodsk City Council Anatoly Kuchugurny, member of Svitlovodsk City Council UCMC press center is a platform that allows civic activists, experts, politicians, authorities, diplomats and members of international community to conduct briefings regarding events and processes taking place in Ukraine. NGO Ukraine Crisis Media Center has no effect on media content produced during events at the UCMC press center, provides no guarantees and will not be liable for the content of information distributed by participants during the events held at the UCMC press center, including, but not limited to the participants distributing unreliable, untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate, invalid information during UCMC press center’s events or expressing their personal opinion. Furthermore, UCMC will not be liable for any damage resulting from such distribution or related to it or losses incurred by third parties. Ukraine Crisis Media Center	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line424
__label__wiki	0.62104	0.62104	Episode 1 - Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire Picking up where the finale left off, Sam and Dean must deal with the Darkness that has been unleashed. Castiel deals with the effects of Rowena’s spell and recalls his brutal battle with Crowley. Episode 2 - Form and Void Dean helps Jenna, the deputy he met after the Darkness fell, get back home safely and then sets off to help Sam deal with a town infected by a mysterious and deadly gas. However, when Jenna falls into dangerous hands, she calls Dean for help and Sam tells him to go back to her. Unfortunately for Sam, he isn't able to handle the townspeople turned monsters as easily as he thought. Episode 3 - The Bad Seed While Rowena tries to consolidate her power to protect herself from the Winchesters, Sam and Dean search for a missing baby connected to the Darkness. Meanwhile, Castiel struggles to heal and Crowley tries to find a way to use the Darkness for his own personal gain. Episode 4 - Baby Seen entirely from the point of view of the Impala, Sam and Dean go on a road trip to fight monsters and demons. Episode 5 - Thin Lizzie Sam and Dean investigate a series of murders at a local B&B that also happens to be Lizzie Borden’s old home. When a local man, Len, tells them he saw a little girl around the B&B around the time of the murders, the brothers realize Amara may be responsible. Episode 6 - Our Little World Castiel seeks out Metatron’s help to stop the Darkness. However, Metatron is pretty happy with his new life as a freelance videographer for the local news and isn’t inclined to help the Winchesters or Castiel. Meanwhile, Crowley is losing his hold on Amara. Episode 7 - Plush Sheriff Donna calls Sam and Dean for help after a horrific murder with supernatural elements happens in her town. Sam continues to have visions and asks God for help, which frustrates Dean. Episode 8 - Just My Imagination Sam is shocked when his childhood imaginary friend Sully makes an unexpected appearance. Sam can’t understand why he’d see Sully now but what’s even more surprising is that Dean can see him, too. Flashbacks reveal young Sam’s friendship with Sully and why he needed him. Episode 9 - O Brother Where Art Thou? Amara unleashes her power on the local townspeople as she issues a shocking challenge. Dean tries to better understand the hold Amara has on him, while Sam and Crowley come up with a plan that could have disastrous consequences. Episode 10 - The Devil in the Details Now that he has Sam in the cage with him, Lucifer offers Sam a way out but it comes with a steep price. Dean and Castiel look into the angel smiting that could have killed Amara. Episode 11 - Into the Mystic Sam and Dean investigate a case where people are suffering violent deaths after hearing a mysterious song. Episode 12 - Don’t You Forget About Me Sam and Dean drop in on Jody Mills, Claire and Alex after receiving a panicked phone call from Claire. She believes the recent murders in town are supernatural and wants the boys’ help. However, Sheriff Mills tells Sam and Dean that Claire has been getting into trouble lately as she’s been attacking normal people and accusing them of being monsters. Episode 13 - Love Hurts Sam and Dean investigate a set of murders on Valentine’s Day and discover they are dealing with an ancient curse. Once kissed by the curse, the person is marked to die. Episode 14 - The Vessel Hoping to find a weapon powerful enough to defeat Amara, Dean convinces “Castiel,” who is still Lucifer, to send him back in time to 1944 to the fated submarine mission that sunk the Hand of God. Meanwhile, continuing his charade with Sam while they wait for Dean’s return, Lucifer plans his next move. Episode 15 - Beyond The Mat Sam and Dean attend a wrestling match to relive one of their fondest memories but when a wrestler turns up dead they suspect foul play. Episode 16 - Safe House A dangerous creature is accidentally released into an old house, attacking a mother and her child, leaving them both in a coma. Sam and Dean learn that Bobby and Rufus once tracked the same entity so the Winchesters look to the past to come up with a plan to catch the monster before any one dies. Episode 17 - Red Meat Sam and Dean battle a pair of werewolves who have captured two victims. Just as the brothers are about to win, one of the werewolves shoots Sam. Dean gets his brother and the victims out of the house but learns a pack of werewolves are hot on their tail, hoping to kill them all. Episode 18 - Hell's Angel Lucifer takes a trip home and tries to assert himself into Heaven. Crowley tells Sam and Dean he has a way to take down Amara. Episode 19 - The Chitters In a small town in Colorado, mysterious disappearances happen every 27 years. Sam and Dean head to the town to investigate and meet two hunters who have a personal vendetta against these once-in-a-generation monsters. Episode 20 - Don't Call Me Shurley Amara unleashes a dark fog on a small town, causing everyone to go mad. Dean and Sam realize this is a stronger version of the original black vein virus Amara previously unleashed. They team up with the sheriff to protect the town but their old remedy no longer works. Meanwhile, Chuck returns with an interesting proposal. Episode 21 - All in the Family Amara shows Dean how she’s torturing Lucifer. Worried for Castiel, Dean and Sam come up with a plan to rescue him from Amara’s clutches. Episode 22 - We Happy Few Sam and Dean face their biggest challenge yet. Rowena makes her move. Episode 23 - Alpha and Omega God comes to a decision about Amara that has direct repercussions for Sam and Dean.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line428
__label__wiki	0.835006	0.835006	John Alexander Duncan of Sketraw Registration number 20150610B This certifies that the heraldic arms of John Alexander Duncan of Sketraw are registered as an original design and described by the blazon below Arms: Gules a chevronel Or in chief two cinquefoils and in base a dragon’s head couped holding between its teeth a sword in bend sinister hilt upward Argent hilt Or pommel Argent. Crest: On waves of the sea Argent a lymphad proper under sail Or flagged Gules the sail charged with a clarion Gules. Mantling: Gules and Or Motto: Savour the Moment Duncan is one of the oldest names in Scotland dating back to the early Celtic Scots infiltration of Scotland from Ireland c500AD and the creation of the Kingdom of Dalriada in South West Scotland. One of the first early records of the name was King Dunchad (Duncan) mac Conaing who co-ruled Dalriada with Conall II (c650 – 654AD). Other early accounts of the name are Dunchad (Duncan) the 11th Abbot of Iona c707 – 717AD; King Duncan I (c1034 – 1040AD); Duncan II (1093- 1094AD) and Donnchad in the 11c. Celtic Book of Deer. The first known record of a Duncan armiger was Duncane, Hague Roll 1592. Argent, a chevron Sable between two stars Gules and a hunting-horn Sable, stringed Gules. The armiger has kept his arms primarily recognisable as Duncan and based his grant of arms on that of Alexander Duncan of Seaside; Gules, a chevron Or between two cinquefoils in chief and a hunting-horn in base Argent garnished Azure. Register of all Armorial Bearings, Scotland (The Lyon Register) 1672. The dragon’s head with a sword in its mouth represents the Armiger’s 13 year service in the Royal Army Dental Corps and his choice of Crest illustrates his love of sailing and his Scots origins. The clarion shows the armigers participation as a musician in Scottish Music for over 30 years. John Duncan of Sketraw’s ancestors have worked the land for over 300 years in the North East of Scotland with the earliest known ancestor so far found being James Duncan, Huntly, Aberdeenshire around 1695. The Court of the Lord Lyon, 14th December 2007. Register, volume 88, folio 7. S. A. R. Don Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y de Borbón-Parma, Duque de Calabria, Conde de Caserta, Infante de España as a Knight Jure Sanguinis, Motto Proprio, Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George. 28th November 2006, Book 4, Folio 56, No. 3002 The International Register of Arms, 8th October 2006. Registration No. 0067. John Duncan of Sketraw Personal, Original, GB, D	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line431
__label__wiki	0.512944	0.512944	Some Descendants of William BELLOMONTE (1220 - NA) (None of the persons on this page are Direct Ancestors of George Washington 1st US President) Copyright 2007 by Terry J. Booth. All reproduction or reuse is prohibited, in whole or in part, without written permission of the author. The author has relied much on those herein cited. Please contact the author about an important source not cited or improperly cited. 1. William BELLOMONTE,286 son of William BELLOMONTE and Wife of William (BELLOMONTE) DE DRAYTON, was born circa 1220 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 286 and died of Drayton Hall, East Dereham, Yorkshire, England.286 William married Alice LE STRANGE 286 circa 1250 in Yorkshire, England.286 Alice was born circa 1235 in Ness, Shropshire, England 286 and died in 1333 of Drayton Hall, East Dereham, Yorkshire, England 286 at age 98. Children from this marriage were: 2. i. (Sir) Richard BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1252 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 286 and died of Drayton Hall, East Dereham, Yorkshire, England.286 Richard married Annabella (BELLOMONTE) UNKNOWN.286 Annabella was born circa 1255 286 and died of Drayton Hall, East Dereham, Yorkshire, England.286 3. ii. Ella BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1254 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.286 Ella married (Sir) Henry de STRONGBOW.286 286 Henry was born circa 1255. 4. iii. (Sir) William BELLOMONTE 706 was born circa 1255 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 706 and died about 1323 of Crosslands, Yorkshire, England 706 about age 68. 5. iv. Godfrey BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1260 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 286 and died in Sep 1293 286 at age 33. Godfrey married Cecilia HUGONIS 286 in Yorkshire, England.286 Cecilia was born circa 1260. They had no children. 6. v. Isolda BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1262 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.286 Isolda married John de BELHOUSE.286 286 John was born circa 1260 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.286 7. vi. John BELLOMONTE 286 was born in 1263 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 286 and died of Bretton, Yorkshire, England.286 John married Alice DE MONTBEGON,286 daughter of Richard DE MONTBEGON and Wife of Richard DE (MONTBEGON) UNKNOWN, circa 1245 in Yorkshire, England.286 Alice was born circa 1265 in Bretton, Yorkshire, England 286 and died of Bretton, Yorkshire, England.286 8. vii. Alice BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1265 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.286 Alice married (Sir) John de DAGWORTH.286 286 John was born circa 1260. 9. viii. Adam BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1266 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.286 4. (Sir) William BELLOMONTE 706 (William 1) was born circa 1255 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 706 and died about 1323 of Crosslands, Yorkshire, England 706 about age 68. William married Elizabeth DE FOSSATO Heiress of Crossland,706 daughter of Richard DE FOSSATO and Wife of Richard DE (FOSSATO) UNKNOWN, before 1275 in Yorkshire, England.706 Elizabeth was born circa 1255 in Crossland, Yorkshire, England 706 and died about 1275 of Crosslands, Yorkshire, England 706 about age 20. 10. i. (Sir) Robert 'of the Ballad' DE BEAUMONT Knight was born circa 1275 in Drayton Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk, England,286 died in 1341 in Murdered at Crosslands, Yorkshire, England 286 at age 66, and was buried of Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. 11. ii. William BEAUMONT was born circa 1278 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.706 Another name for William was William BELLOMONTE.706 12. iii. Richard BEAUMONT (Rector) was born circa 1280 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 706 and died of Drayton, Northampshire, England.706 Another name for Richard was (Rector) Richard BELLOMONTE.706 13. iv. Alice BEAUMONT was born circa 1281 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England 706 and died of Launceton, Cornwall, England.706 Another name for Alice was Alice BELLOMONTE.706 Alice married William de CORY 706 in 1303.706 William was born circa 1280 in Launceton, Cornwall, England and died of Launceton, Cornwall, England.706 14. v. John BEAUMONT was born circa 1283 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.706 Another name for John was John BELLOMONTE.706 15. vi. Adam BEAUMONT was born circa 1285 in Drayton Hall, Yorkshire, England.706 Another name for Adam was Adam BELLOMONTE.706 William next married Alicia DE OYRI,706 daughter of Folcanis DE OYRI and Wife of Folcanis DE (OYRI) UNKNOWN, circa 1275 in Yorkshire, England.706 Alicia was born circa 1252 706 and died of Crossland Foss, Yorkshire, England.706 10. (Sir) Robert 'of the Ballad' DE BEAUMONT Knight (William ((Sir)) 2, William 1) was born circa 1275 in Drayton Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk, England,286 died in 1341 in Murdered at Crosslands, Yorkshire, England 286 at age 66, and was buried of Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. Another name for Robert was (Sir) Robert DE BELLOMONTE.286 Robert married Gracia CROSSLAND,286 daughter of (Sir) Edward CROSSLAND and Wife of Edward (CROSSLAND) UNKNOWN, before 1295 in Prob Crossland, Yorkshire, England.286 Gracia was born circa 1275 in Crossland Hall, Yorkshire, England 286 and died before 1310 of Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.286 16. i. (Sir) John 'of Crosslands' DE BEAUMONT Knight was born circa 1295 in Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England 286 and died after 1360 of Crosslands, Yorkshire, England.286 17. ii. (Sir) Thomas DE BEAUMONT was born circa 1303 in Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England 286 and died of Brertwistle, Yorkshire, England.286 Another name for Thomas was (Sir) Thomas BELLOMONTE.286 18. iii. William DE BEAUMONT was born circa 1305 in Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England and died in 1326 of Kingston Bagpuis, Berkshire, England at age 21. Another name for William was William BELLOMONTE.707 19. iv. Adam DE BEAUMONT was born circa 1307 in Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England 286 and died in 1367 in Killed on Crusade in Spain 286 at age 60. Another name for Adam was Adam BELLOMONTE.286 20. v. Henry DE BEAUMONT was born circa 1309 in Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England and died in 1329 at age 20. Another name for Henry was Henry BELLOMONTE. Robert next married Agnes DE QUARMBY, daughter of John DE QUARMBY and Wife of John DE (QUARMBY) UNKNOWN, about 1310 in Yorkshire, England.286 Agnes was born circa 1290 in Crosslands (aka Whitley Hall aft 1550), Yorkshire, England and died after 1346 of Crosslands, Yorkshire, England. 21. i. Nicholas BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1312 in Crossland Hall, Yorkshire, England 286 and died after 1329 of Lepton, Yorkshire, England.286 22. ii. Robert BELLOMONTE 286 was born circa 1314 in Crossland Hall, Yorkshire, England 286 and died circa 1348 of Lepton, Yorkshire, England 286 at age 34. 23. iii. Agnes DE BEAUMONT was born circa 1325 in Crossland Hall, Yorkshire, England and died after 1355 in Mirfield, West Riding Yorkshire, England. 16. (Sir) John 'of Crosslands' DE BEAUMONT Knight (Robert 'of the Ballad' DE Knight ((Sir)) 3, William ((Sir)) 2, William 1) was born circa 1295 in Huddersfield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England 286 and died after 1360 of Crosslands, Yorkshire, England.286 Another name for John was (Sir) John DE BELLOMONTE Knight.286 John married Alice SOTHILL,286 daughter of (Sir) John SOTHILL Knight and Wife of Sir John (SOTHILL) UNKNOWN, circa 1320.286 Alice was born circa 1295 in Soothill, Yorkshire, England and died before 1325 of Crosslands, Yorkshire, England. See the (Sir) John 'of Crosslands' DE BEAUMONT Knight Entry for this Couple's Children and Descendants. John next married Margaret DE BURY (See Link for Ancestry),286 daughter of Henry DE BURY Lord of Bury and Magota RADCLYFFE, circa 1325 in Yorkshire, England.286 Margaret was born circa 1304 in Bury, Lancastershire, England 286 and died after 20 Feb 1371 of Crosslands (aka Whitley Hall aft 1550), Yorkshire, England.286 23. Agnes DE BEAUMONT (Robert 'of the Ballad' DE Knight ((Sir)) 3, William ((Sir)) 2, William 1) was born circa 1325 in Crossland Hall, Yorkshire, England and died after 1355 in Mirfield, West Riding Yorkshire, England. Agnes married (Sir) William DE MIRFIELD Knight (See Link for Ancestry),535 son of William DE MIRFIELD and Isabel ELAND, circa 1348.535 William was born circa 1330 in Mirfield, West Riding Yorkshire, England and died after 24 May 1378 in Mirfield, West Riding Yorkshire, England. See the (Sir) William DE MIRFIELD Knight Entry for this Couple's Children and Descendants. This page created on Sat Oct 27 16:17:50 2007	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line435
__label__wiki	0.717264	0.717264	Erasmus Darwin’s Poetry Stephen Foster, B Sc., Ph. D., F.G.S. Victorian Web Home —> Book Design —> Biology —> Erasmus Darwin] rasmus Darwin started to write poetry relatively early in his life, publishing his first poem in 1751 on the death of Prince Frederick. His first major work, an instant critical success that brought him great fame, was the Loves of the Plants (1789). Four years later he published the Economy of Vegetation, which was another huge success: these two poems were later published together as Botanic Garden. The Economy of Vegetation first expounded Darwin’s radical scientific and political views to wider public. In the eighteenth century, science and poetry were not separate entities, and poetry served many purposes including education. Having translated Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium in 1783 and Genera Plantarum in 1787, he now intended to bring his scientific and technical knowledge to a wider reading public. He prefaced Loves of the Plants with a statement of his intention to "inlist Imagination under the banner of Science," and to help the reader he provided extensive footnotes within the poem and additional notes at the end: in fact the footnotes and endnotes combined are longer than the poem itself. Poetry and the Steam Engine In Economy of Vegetation Darwin celebrates the steam engine, predicting mighty railways and powerful steamships. NYMPHS! You erewhile on simmering cauldrons play'd, And call'd delighted SAVERY to your aid; Bade round the youth explosive STEAM aspire In gathering clouds, and wing'd the wave with fire; Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop.— Press'd by the ponderous air the Piston falls Resistless, sliding through it's iron walls; Quick moves the balanced beam, of giant-birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth." [Economy of Vegetation, Canto I: lines 254 - 263]. He had already suggested some possible uses of steam engines in an earlier part of the same canto: "Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying-chariot through the fields of air. —Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move; Or warrior-bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud." [Economy of Vegetation, Canto I: lines 289-96]. Note XI summarizes the history and development of the steam engine, including Newcomen's improvements which allowed it to be used for industrial purposes, and Watt's later invention of the double-acting piston and separate condenser which greatly improved the performance of these machines: Mr. Watt having ascertained the degree of heat in which water boiled in vacuo, and under progressive degrees of pressure, and instructed by Dr. Black's discovery of latent heat, having calculated the quantity of cold water necessary to condense certain quantities of steam so far as to produce the exhaustion required, he made a communication from the cylinder to a cold vessel previously exhausted of air and water, into which the steam rushed by its elasticity, and became immediately condensed. He then adapted a cover to the cylinder and admitted steam above the piston to press it down instead of air, and instead of applying water he used oil or grease to fill the pores of the oakum and to lubricate the cylinder. He next applied a pump to extract the injection water, the condensed steam, and the air, from the condensing vessel, every stroke of the engine. To prevent the cooling of the cylinder by the contact of the external air, he surrounded it with a case containing steam, which he again protected by a covering of matters which conduct heat slowly. This construction presented an easy means of regulating the power of the engine, for the steam being the acting power, as the pipe which admits it from the boiler is more or less opened, a greater or smaller quantity can enter during the time of a stroke, and consequently the engine can act with exactly the necessary degree of energy. [Economy of Vegetation, Note XI, Steam Engine]. Evolution, selection, and inheritance in The Temple of Nature In Economy of Vegetation Darwin combined ideas from the physical sciences — he offers a form of Big Bang theory and black holes in space and explanations of rainbows and aurorae — with radical politics, in particular support for the the American War of Independence, Irish freedom, and the anti-slavery movement. The following couplets, for example, describe "the Immortal Franklin" stabbing the “Vampires” that embody “Tyrant-Power” of George III and his ministers before turning attention to Ireland. So, born on sounding pinions to the WEST, When Tyrant-Power had built his eagle nest; While from his eyry shriek'd the famish'd brood, Clenched their sharp claws, and champ'd their beaks for blood, Immortal FRANKLIN watch'd the callow crew, And stabb'd the struggling Vampires, ere they flew. —The patriot-flame with quick contagion ran, Hill lighted hill, and man electrised man; Her heroes slain awhile COLUMBIA mourn'd, And crown'd with laurels LIBERTY return'd The Warrior, LIBERTY, with bending sails Helm'd his bold course to fair HIBERNIA'S vale. [Canto II: lines 361-72] The Economy of Vegetation fiercely attacked slavery, echoing the movement’s famous question, “Am I not a man and a brother?” Hear, oh, BRITANNIA! potent Queen of isles, On whom fair Art, and meek Religion smiles, Now AFRIC'S coasts thy craftier sons invade With murder, rapine, theft,—and call it Trade! —The SLAVE, in chains, on supplicating knee, Spreads his wide arms, and lifts his eyes to Thee; With hunger pale, with wounds and toil oppress'd, "ARE WE NOT BRETHREN?" sorrow choaks the rest;— — AIR! bear to heaven upon thy azure flood Their innocent cries!—EARTH! cover not their blood! [Canto II: lines 421-43] His ideas initially received a generally positive reception, but that was to change as events on the continent of Europe began to threaten Britain and its political system. Evolution, natural selection, and epigenetic inheritance in The Temple of Nature His last poem, The Temple of Nature (1803), which appeared posthumously, was another tour de force of his radical ideas. The first of its four cantos discussed the origins of life in the sea. According to Darwin, life formed spontaneously in water warmed by sunlight: Then, whilst seas at their coeval birth Surge over surge, involved the shoreless Earth; Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic life began beneath the waves. First HEAT from chemic dissolution springs, And gives to matter its eccentric wings. [Canto 1 lines 231-37] In this Canto he developed his idea of natural selection to explain why organisms depend upon each other to live and change through time. In Canto II, he discussed reproduction in organisms by asexual and sexual means: But REPRODUCTION, when the perfect Elf Forms from fine glands another like itself, Gives the true character of life and sense, And parts the organic from the chemic Ens . . . [Canto II: lines 27-30] All forms of Life shall this fond Pair delight, And sex to sex the willing world unite [Canto II: lines 245-46] A footnote to The Temple of Nature describes how birds and mammals feed their young until the latter are able to look after themselves: Pelicans form a semicircle in shallow parts of the sea near the coast, standing on their long legs; and thus including a shoal of small fish, they gradually approach the shore; and seizing the fish as they advance, receive them into a pouch under their throats; and bringing them to land regurgitate them for the use of their young [...] Pigeons both male and female swallow the grain or other seeds, which they collect for their young, and bring it up mixed with a kind of milk from their stomachs, with their bills inserted into the mouths of the young doves [...] It may be [...] concluded, that this affection from the parent to the progeny existed before animals were divided into sexes, and produced the beginning of sympathetic society, the source of which may perhaps be thus well accounted for [...] whenever the glandular system is stimulated into greater natural action within certain limits. [Note IX, Storge] Canto III dealt with the development of aesthetic appreciation of beauty and related it to art and architecture. Canto IV clearly describes violence and death in the natural world: "The wolf, escorted by his milk-drawn dam, Unknown to mercy, tears the new born lamb [...] One scene of blood, one mighty tomb display! From hunger's arm the shafts of Death are hurl'd, And one great Slaughter-house the warring world!" [Canto IV, lines 16-17 and 64-66.] He equally considered that human society could transcend this savagery by following the golden rule: "IN LIFE'S DISASTROUS SCENES TO OTHERS DO WHAT YOU WOULD WISH BY OTHERS DONE TO YOU [Canto III, lines 486-87, original capitalisation] Among the footnotes two others are worthy of specific mention. Note XII discussed his ideas on electro-chemistry, demonstrating that he knew and well understood the experiments that had been carried out by Franklin and others. In his comments on heredity disease in Note XI, he observed that grafts taken from older shoots of fruit trees tend to age more rapidly than those taken from new shoots of trees that had been cut back to near the roots. He also observed that parents who drank heavily and suffered from gout tended to have children who also suffered from gout even if they were not heavy drinkers. This latter Lamarckian or epigenetic inheritance has been confirmed in two separate studies on the descendants of adults affected by severe malnutrition while their children were in the wombs of their mothers. Epigenetics is now becoming recognised as an important process in evolution. Darwin also recognised that some diseases seem to affect families and may have an hereditary element: "A tendency to these diseases is certainly hereditary, though perhaps not the diseases themselves; thus a less quantity of ale, cyder, wine, or spirit, will induce the gout and dropsy in those constitutions, whose parents have been intemperate in the use of those liquors; as I have more than once had occasion to observe." This observation implied that family intermarriage can cause of problems for the health of descendants, an observation that was to cause concern to his grandson Charles, who had married his cousin. Darwin’s Poetic Form Darwin wrote his poems in neoclassical heroic couplets. This form, perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope, was well suited to a poetry of elegant statement. Difficult to write but easily parodied, its two rhymed iambic pentameter lines could make the second line parallel the first or oppose it, or the first half of a couplet could state a general principle and the second provide an example. Each line usually divided roughly into halves, permitting the poet to create a statement in the first line and a half that could be emphasized or contrasted, often by using wordplay, in the last part, something Pope famously did in The Rape of the Lock when he asked Whether the Nymph shall break Diana's Law, Or some frail China Jar recieve a Flaw, Or stain her Honour, or her new Brocade, Forget her Prayer's, or miss a Masquerade, Or lose her Heart, or Necklace, at a Ball... [Canto II, lines 103-9] Darwin's inventive and playful use of the form, coupled with sexual allusions in Botanic Garden, contributed greatly to his work's popularity. However two factors undermined this positive reception. First of all, Darwin's close association with radical politics alienated deeply conservative readers who hailed from the upper ranks of society. Darwin's popularity suffered as well from the rise and eventual dominance of the Romantics, whose beginnings we can date to the publication of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798. Coleridge, who had been Darwin's patient, described him as "the first literary character in Europe, and the most original-minded man," and in their early years both pioneers of English romanticism shared Darwin’s radical beliefs, though not his poetic style. Wordsworth’s emphasis upon using the actual language of men as opposed to the poetic diction employed by Dryden, Pope, and Darwin, helped usher in a new sensibility suited to poetry of expression rather than statement, emotion rather than wit. Of course, it took decades before the Romantics, who were famously mocked as the Cockney poets, displaced the kind of poetry Darwin wrote. In fact, as late as 1815 Wordsworth was still claiming Darwin's poetry was so new that people would have to be taught how to read and enjoy it. Thus, at a time when many young Victorians were still enjoying Pope, and when by far the most famous English Romantic was the atypical Byron (who, like the Augustans, delighted in satire), changing poetic tastes were not the principal reason for his poetry’s declining popularity. The problem was his politics. Once Britain's best known and most popular poet, Darwin sank into relative obscurity within a few decades. His influence lived on in other ways, however. The widespread revival of interest in evolutionary ideas which followed the publication of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) helped to resuscitate interest in Darwin's ideas about evolution. "Nature red in tooth and claw," Tennyson's famous line from In Memoriam (1850), distantly echoed Darwin's image, in Zoonomia, of the "world as a slaughterhouse." Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden, Part II: Containing the Loves of the Plants, a Poem: with Philosophical Notes. London: Joseph Johnson, 1789. Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts, Part I: Containing the Economy of Vegetation London: J. Johnson, 1791. Darwin Erasmus. Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life. 2 vols. London: J. Johnson, 1794-96; rev. 1801. Darwin, Erasmus. Phytologia: or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. London: J. Johnson, 1800. Darwin, Erasmus. The Temple of Nature, or The Origins of Society. London: J. Johnson, 1803. Fara, P. Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science and Serendipity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. King-Hele, D. Doctor of Revolution, The Life and Genius of Erasmus Darwin. London: Faber and Faber, 1977. King-Hele, D. Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unparalleled Achievement. London: Giles de la Mare Publishers, 1999. King-Hele, D. Erasmus Darwin and Evolution. Sheffield: Stuart Harris, 2014. Krause E. Erasmus Darwin, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin. London: Murray, 1879. Powers, J. Evolution Evolving, "The First 'Darwinian Revolution." Derby: iOpening Books, 2013. Smith, C.U.M. and R. Arnott, eds. The Genius of Erasmus Darwin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Last modified 7 April 2018	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0104.json.gz/line438

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