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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 57
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 57
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Carlo Vela 2.
29 Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers • Dec.
26 Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers • Nov.
From the early to mid-’90s, Cotton garnered attention across the country because of his basketball prowess.
and China could be broken this season depending on how many people flock to buy James’ new Heat jersey.
20 San Francisco 49ers custom football jerseys Dallas Cowboys • Dec.
Javier Hernandez 3.
Diego Valeri 12.
3 TBD Highest-Paid Athletes 1.
NYSJ: PC: He certainly has established his presence as an athlete and as someone who will remain known to the public for a long time.
Jordan Morris 5.
As always happens, they will custom uniforms the first section across the Verrazano Bridge until the mass of runners start moving, and then he’ll start to run.
• Turner Sports named the commentators for Capital One’s with Phil Mickelson, Charles Barkley, Stephen Curry and Peyton Manning , scheduled for Nov.
The 2020 World Series 90-minute DVD and digital versions will be available Dec.
Burnett; infielder Aramis Ramírez; outfielder Torii Hunter and infielder-outfielder Michael Cuddyer are first-time eligibles.
Each of the 18 networks is scheduled to air an Olympic promo spot within the 8 PM hour.
Raul Ruidiaz 9.
• The Baseball Hall of Fame has unveiled the list of former players eligible for the Class of 2021, to be voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Assn.
Players who were named on more than half of the ballots cast in last year’s election included Curt Schilling , Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds .
10, Reebok will donate one pair of JJ III’s, up to $90 in retail value, to the Mission of Yahweh in Houston, an organization for women and children that offers shelter and programs focused on ending homelessness and dependency.
Josef Martinez 4.
• The Baseball Hall of Fame has unveiled the list of former players eligible for the Class of 2021, custom jerseys be voted on by members of the Baseball Writers Assn.
‘Business as usual’ won’t cut it in this brandscape.
Olympic and Paralympic members of Team Citi, who were a mix of qualifiers, hopefuls and legends.
The host will be Cari Champion, joined by guests including Eli Manning and Michelle Wie.
The Mystics are the fifth WNBA team to sign a jersey-front branding deal.
We are all about the athlete and all about technology.
Edison Flores 17.
Each McDonalds Happy Meal toy bag carries a ticket that can be scanned in the McDonald’s app for exciting opportunities and exclusive content.
• Reebok and JJ Watt have released the JJ IV training shoe collection, which includes the franchise’s first woman’s-specific shoe.
Among the products https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085KX8ZX8 supported by the marketing push are the Slant Tweezer, Point Tweezer, ProCurl Lash Curler and the Luxe Edition Crystal Slant Tweezer.
America isn’t perfect, but the principles we hold dear are perfect.
To be sure that athletes see that their results are accurate.
AT&T’s overall measured-media marketing budget tops $3 billion, according to Kantar Media, NY, and other marketing and research firms.
• MLB’s Miami Marlins have hired Kim Ng to be their GM, making her the first woman to hold the position in MLB and likely for any of the major professional men’s teams in North American sports.
Cristian Pavon 22.
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Australian regulator denies approval of Qantas-Japan Airlines deal
Anthony K. Ruth September 12, 2021
Decision taken on the basis of preserving competition
ANA, the only other airline to offer non-stop Japan-Australia flights
Qantas had proposed a new route from Cairns to Tokyo
Sept. 13 (Reuters) – Australia’s competition regulator on Monday denied permission for Qantas Airways (QAN.AX) and Japan Airlines (9201.T) (JAL) to coordinate flights between the two countries, citing problems of competition as international travel is expected to pick up.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims said the regulator was not convinced the public benefits of the proposed joint trade deal would outweigh the damage to competition .
“Preserving competition between airlines is key to the long-term recovery of the aviation and tourism sectors, once restrictions on international travel are relaxed,” he said in a statement.
The deal – which would allow airlines to coordinate fares and timetables – would make it very difficult for other airlines to operate on routes between Australia and Japan, the ACCC said.
Japan’s ANA Holdings (9202.T) is the only other airline to operate non-stop flights between Japan and Australia.
“Virgin Australia told ACCC that it would be more difficult to enter the Australia-Japan route if there is a need to compete with Qantas and Japan Airlines acting jointly rather than as individual competing airlines,” said declared the regulator.
After a negative draft decision by the ACCC in May, Qantas had offered to commit to a new service between Cairns and Tokyo once the demand thresholds were reached.
Qantas and JAL expressed disappointment with the ACCC decision in a joint statement on Monday, although they said they would continue their codeshare agreements and partnership with the oneworld alliance.
Qantas National and International Managing Director Andrew David said the move was unfortunate for Cairns because without the ability to coordinate with JAL, scheduled flights to Tokyo would not be commercially viable.
JAL senior vice president Ross Leggett said the joint venture with Qantas would have accelerated the recovery of leisure and business traffic between Japan and Australia.
Reporting by Arundhati Dutta in Bengaluru and Jamie Freed in Sydney; additional reporting by Tim Kelly in Tokyo; Editing by Kim Coghill, Stephen Coates and Gerry Doyle
Formerly bankrupt Japan Airlines raises $ 2.7 billion as Covid buffer
Japan Airlines Introduces Reservation System So People Can Avoid Seats Next To Young People
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R. D. Laing 2013 Symposium
ARTICLES & LINKS
PROGRAM & SCHEDULE
Tom Greening 3:10pm Feb 21
For Ronnie Laing
Who's mad and who's sane,
and who decides?
If you have to ask,
don't ask out loud,
or you could end up
on the wrong side of the keys,
knife, chemicals, or electricity.
What was a nice Scottish doctor
doing in a world like this?
Rattling paradigms, that's what,
and drinking more than he should.
His time is up,
and the psychiatric pub
is quieter now.
Once he asked,
"Where in the world
are lunatics allowed to bathe
naked in the moonlight?"
At last he has found the place,
but he's probably splashing
more than God allows.
Tom Greening
Thanks Tom for such a brilliant poem for Laing - he would have loved it!
Neil Hardiman said...
‘Let me speak plainly. After my long experience, after my patience and forbearance, I have surely the right to protest against the untruth (would that I could apply to it any other word!) that evangelical religion, or any religion in a violent form, is a wholesome or valuable or desirable adjunct to human life. It divides heart from heart. It sets up a vain, chimerical ideal, in the barren pursuit of which all the tender, indulgent affections, all the genial play of life, all the exquisite pleasures and soft resignations of the body, all that enlarges and calms the soul are exchanged for what is harsh and void and negative. It encourages a stern and ignorant spirit of condemnation; it throws altogether out of gear the healthy movement of the conscience; it invents virtues which are sterile and cruel; it invents sins which are no sins at all, but which darken the heaven of innocent joy with futile clouds of remorse. There is something horrible, if we will bring ourselves to face it, in the fanaticism that can do nothing with this pathetic and fugitive existence of ours but treat it as if it were the uncomfortable ante-chamber to a palace which no one has explored and of the plan of which we know absolutely nothing. My Father, it is true, believed that he was intimately acquainted with the form and furniture of this habitation, and he wished me to think of nothing else but of the advantages of an eternal residence in it.’
Father and Son, Edmund Gosse, 1907
A Weekend Symposium
Addressing R.D. Laing's legacy
and contemporary relevance
in commemoration of the
25th Anniversary of his death
Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY
• Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
• Saybrook University, San Francisco, CA
• The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
• National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
2013 Symposium no longer active –
go to Current Symposium site here...
Peter Breggin, M.D.
Betty Cannon, Ph.D.
Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Darlene Ehrenberg, Ph.D.
Brian Evans, Ph.D.
Nita Gage
Steven Gans, Ph.D.
Miles Groth, Ph.D.
Edie Irwin
Theodor Itten
Douglas Kirsner, Ph.D.
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
Peter Mezan, Ph.D.
Matthew Morrissey, MFT
Andrew Pickering, Ph.D.
Kirk Schneider, Ph.D.
Martin A. Schulman, Ph.D.
Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D.
Stephen Ticktin, M.D
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Tiny Alice
Drama - 3 acts. 4 men, 1 woman; 2 interiors, 1 simple exterior
Billy Rose Theatre - Dec 29, 1964
This adventure in theatre is sort of a knife-edged question mark. It begins with a venomous exchange between a cardinal and a lawyer whose contempt for each other traces back to their school days. Eventually, the lawyer offers the church, through the cardinal, a gift of two billion dollars from Miss Alice, the richest woman in the world. There seems to be no strings. Julian, a lay brother who is the cardinal's secretary, is to come to Miss Alice's castle and complete the details. Julian is startled by the enormous replica of the castle in the library, and by the tiny replica of the castle visible inside the library of the model. Julian is a timid man who has retreated from life into a self-negating sort of service, and who has almost subdued his passions. Miss Alice contrives to make him her lover. The transmutation of his religious ecstasy into an orgasmic ecstasy is utterly candid, and terrifying. Succeeding in her efforts Julian marries her only to be told that he has actually been wed not to Miss Alice, but to "Alice", an abstraction that lives in the castle. Miss Alice and her associates are employees hired to create a situation to test Julian's religious illusions. Miss Alice does not reveal the identity of their employer. Julian is told to accept the abstraction of Alice as his reality. When Julian refuses, asking instead to leave with Miss Alice, the lawyer forces Julian to confront the self-deception which permeates his life; the lawyer shoots Julian. Left alone with the model castle, the dying Julian senses a presence. He either accepts the abstraction of this presence on faith or he deludes himself into acceptance - either way, Alice has come to him.
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The Samueli Foundation Prize:
Annie Ostojic, 13, of Munster, Ind.
A Novel Microwave Cavity Design Using Cylindrical Parabolic Reflectors to Optimize Energy Efficiency
Grand prize winner Annie Ostojic was awarded the Samueli Foundation Prize for her mastery of STEM principles and team leadership, demonstrated throughout the rigorous weeklong competition. Her science fair project expanded upon knowledge she accumulated in prior competitions to apply science and engineering to innovating a more energy-efficient microwave design. Ostojic performed complex experiments and designed prototypes to achieve the next level of creative solutions for environmentally friendly microwave cooking.
A three-time Broadcom MASTERS participant, Ostojic won the Rising Star award as a 2014 Broadcom MASTERS finalist and represented the United States as one of 24 delegates from 14 countries at Broadcom MASTERS International this year. Ostojic competed against more than 2,200 entrants to return as a finalist of the 2015 Broadcom MASTERS.
Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation:
Sebastian Mellen, 14, of San Diego, Calif.
MathSuite: An Innovative Android App that Makes Dreaded Calculations FUN! Published on Google Play!
Sebastian Mellen was awarded the Marconi/Samueli Award for Innovation for his vision and promise as an innovator who, in the spirit of radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi, demonstrated aptitude and skill in technical and mathematical concepts both with his science fair project and throughout team challenges.
Mellen was inspired by teachers who struggle with grading students’ self-written examinations and classmates who wrestle with math and physics homework. To make their lives easier, Mellen applied his math and engineering acumen to design and develop an Android app that can do a broad range of algebra calculations routinely used in math, physics and other sciences.
STEM WINNERS
Each of these finalists (first- and second-place award winners) were selected for demonstrated skills and promise in each of the disciplines represented by STEM. First-place winners are awarded $3,500 and second-place winners receive $2,500, in each case to support the finalist’s choice of STEM summer camp experiences offered around the country. Each STEM winner also wins an iPad®.
Science Award
First place: Maximilian Du, of Manlius, N.Y., for his project on a new method to extract caffeine from drinks.
Second place: Hannah Cevasco, of San Carlos, Calif., for her research on the healing properties of honey.
Technology Award
First place: Manasa (Hari) Bhimaraju, of Cupertino, Calif., for her project on a low-cost animated teaching tool for the study of elements in the periodic table with an interface for the visually impaired.
Second place: Anusha Zaman, of Baton Rouge, La., for her project on the potential health effects of betel nut use.
Engineering Award
First place: Avery Clowes, of Bolton, Mass., for his project on an electrostatic generator.
Second place: Soyoun Choi, of Melbourne, Fla., for her project on the effect of bilingualism on cognitive development in adolescents.
Mathematics Award
First place: David Yue, of Plano, Texas, for his project on 3-D reconstruction processing and its application to cancer prevention.
Second place: Madison Toonder, of St. Augustine, Fla., for her project on the study of the effect of sunblock nanoparticles on oysters’ ability to filter bay water.
Rising Stars Award
Evelyn Bodoni, of Centennial, Colo., (pictured, left) and Anish Singhani, of San Ramon, Calif., (pictured, right) win a trip to the 2016 Intel ISEF, the world’s largest international high school science fair competition as U.S. Delegates to Broadcom MASTERS International, in recognition of their work throughout the Broadcom MASTERS finals, as well as their projects on the reasons underlying why students cheat, and a brain-wave controlled electronic system, respectively.
The Broadcom MASTERS Team Award was awarded to the Red Team for demonstrating their ability to work together, solve problems through shared decision-making, communication and scientific and engineering collaboration. Each received an iPod nano®. (Red Team members, pictured with Raspberry Pi Foundation cofounder Eben Upton, from left to right: Naya Menezes, Glenn Grimmett, Elizabeth Kinsey, First-Place Math Award Winner David Yue and Rising Star Award Winner Anish Singhani.)
Scott A. McGregor Leadership Award
The Scott A. McGregor Leadership Award is presented to the finalist who is elected by his or her peers to represent them as their Broadcom MASTERS Class Speaker. Avery P. Clowes, of Bolton, Mass., was elected as the first recipient of the award after the weeklong competition in which he demonstrated the talent, enthusiasm, collegiality and generosity of spirit of a leader.
This award honors Broadcom President and Chief Executive Officer and founding Chairman of the Broadcom Foundation Scott McGregor, who enthusiastically championed the Broadcom MASTERS and is passionate advocate for science fair competition and project-based learning as essential to development of 21st century skills. (From left to right: McGregor, Clowes and California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson)
2015 COMPETITION FINALISTS
Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science & the Public present the 30 middle school finalists who will compete in the fifth annual Broadcom MASTERS® competition. The 14 girls and 16 boys are from 14 states and represent 29 schools. The finalists win an all-expense paid trip to the Silicon Valley and will compete for cash and experiential prizes.
Finalists were selected by a panel of distinguished scientists and engineers from among 300 semifinalists and 2,230 applicants in 39 states and American Samoa.
2015 Finalist PDF
US BROADCOM MASTERS ALUMNI
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Car rent Gerona Airport
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Villa La Riviera
17310 Lloret de Mar
Very good, 8.0
Remember: always in Costa Brava's the Best Price Guaranteed
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Located in Lloret de Mar, Villa La Riviera offers an outdoor pool. This self-catering accommodation features WiFi. The property is 4.8 km from Water World and 3.3 km from Lloret Beach.
Accommodation will provide you with a balcony. There is a full kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave. You can enjoy sea view. Extras include a washing machine.
At Villa La Riviera you will find barbecue facilities.
If you feel like visiting the surroundings, check out Disco Tropics Lloret (3.6 km) and Fenals Beach (4.7 km).Barcelona El Prat Airport is located 82 km away.
Nearest beaches: Canyelles Cove, Rajols Cove, Sa Tortuga Cove and 18 more beaches 5 km around
Villa La Riviera is in Lloret de Mar
Lloret de Mar is a tourist village on the south Costa Brava with so many services as Platja d'Aro. However, the conversion of Lloret into one of the main resorts on the Costa Brava has not made it forget its own origins, which are brilliantly preserved and that are shown proudly to those wishing to spend their holidays in this extraordinary zone of the coast.
What was once a fishing village that developed on a long beach stretching from Sa Caravera to Sa Caleta has changed considerably. The town also features beaches (Cala Canyelles and Sa Somera to the north, and Fenals and Santa Cristina to the south), period houses on the seafront promenade, a boat procession held in July during which flower-decked boats carry the relics of Santa Cristina, and history showcased in the Museum of the Sea, located in the Indiano (i.e. built with money made in the Americas) building known as Can Garriga and containing an extensive collection of model ships. Lloret, a popular tourist destination among English and German young people, has a large concentration of accommodation options and tourist facilities, including a casino. An impressively large Roman tomb is found at the entrance
to the town.
The offer of Lloret de Mar aimed at those who love beaches and creeks is generous. Next to the center of town is Lloret Beach (Platja de Lloret), the longest in the village. Getting to it will be very easy, even if by car, since parking is available opposite the beach. This is a beach of fine white sand that has all the necessary facilities for bathers: sun beds and umbrellas rentals, water skiing, kayaking, restaurants, showers, etc.
Another beach, a little out of the center is Cala Canyelles, accessible from the road to Tossa de Mar. It is the only beach in Lloret de Mar that has a port. It's also covered by white sand, so typical in the Costa Brava as the golden sand, and is surrounded by a thick forest of pines, which makes this environment very attractive.
Other beaches of Lloret de Mar, also well-known, are Fenals Beach (Platja de Fenals, that can be reached by a coast walkway), Sa Caleta Beach, Boadella Creek, Santa Cristina Beach (the latter situated between two hills, is protected from wind and waves, so it is a very sheltered beach) and Treumal Beach.
The center also offers some important points of interest that worth a visit. Next to Boadella Creek on a cliff line, you can find Santa Clotilde Gardens, designed in Italian Renaissance style and that has a certain resemblance to the Boboli or Giusti ones, in Italy.
Other sites of interest are the Sant Joan Castle (the interior can be visited), the Casa Cabañas, the Monument of Apollo and Daphne, the Source of Canaletas, the Sardana monument, and the monument to the to the Sailor's Wife, located in the southern part of Playa de Lloret.
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new hampton school hockey
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Our athletes go on to play for various University programs such as, Animation with the Walt Disney Family Museum, The Jacobson Arena - The Jacobson Arena - 1, Ray Shero ‘80 – Former General Manager of the New Jersey Devils (NHL), Mark Leach ‘80 – Scout for Dallas Stars (NHL), Mike Levine ‘02 – Director of College Scouting for Vegas Golden Knights (NHL), Mark Carlson ’89 – Head Coach of Cedar Rapids Roughriders (USHL), Troy Thibodeau ‘10 – Assistant Coach of Tri-City Storm (USHL), Greg Carter ‘88 – Owner of Greg Carter European Hockey School, Jason Silver ‘98 – Founder and CEO of GELSTX. what makes our community so strong. See the nation's most unique venues for high school baseball. Coach Ellis brings many years of hockey experience and knowledge to New Hampton School. The 2020-21 New Hampton School ice hockey season is kicking off. Marsh took over as head coach at the start of the 1985-86 season. Jacobson Arena was built in 2016 and boasts all the perks of a modern-day hockey arena. Hampton Ice Hockey Families..... Hampton Ice Hockey. Field Hockey Recruiting / New Hampshire / New Hampton, NH / New Hampton School Wondering where to start? He won the Spencer Penrose Award as NCAA Division I Coach of the Year twice, and he was a four-time ECAC Coach of the Year. Each hockey season our association strives to provide a safe and fun hockey experience for over 300 hockey players from Under 7 (U7) through to Under 18 (U18). The public ceremony will take place in the Arts and Athletics Center from 10:30-11:30 a.m., followed by a … Create a free mens ice hockey recruiting profile to connect with college coaches. The 20-21 New Hampton School girls varsity ice hockey team roster. Questions? The school district hired Banwell Architects to design a new fully-enclosed hockey rink to replace their existing open-air energy efficient year round facility. Away. Questions? Find tuition info, acceptance rates, reviews and more. #mlkday2021 The New Hampton School varsity ice hockey team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against St. Paul's (Concord, NH) by a score of 6-2. 3:50. » Prep Hockey 2020-21. New Hampton (N.H.) School today announced the hiring of Pinkerton Academy's Casey Kesselring as its new head boys ice hockey coach. New Hampton School's athletic traditions are strong, whether cultivating elite athletes or learning a new sport and spending time outdoors with friends, our athletic program offers something for every type of athlete and serves as a platform to build lifelong skills and leadership. Report Final Score. See our rundown of volleyball state champions from around the country. Joined 2015 strong, whether cultivating elite athletes or learning a new sport and spending time outdoors with friends, our athletic program offers something for every type of athlete and serves as a platform to build lifelong skills and leadership. After a strong career at Providence College, Coach Ellis played two years of professional hockey in the Edmonton Oilers organization. Games are underway, Good luck to all of our Hampton Teams (Varsity, Middle School, and Elementary.) Holderness Hockey dates back to the early 1900’s and the school has always embraced the game the way it is supposed to be played: ... New Hampton School New Hampton School Directions and Details Friday, 3/19/2021 4:00 PM. Best of luck this winter! Schedule a visit to experience our campus and see. About. Tilton, Holderness, New Hampton, Vermont Academy or KUA are a few options, which are much easier to get into by probably 100% and they WILL get you to the next level. 877-845-6272. Play hard, focus, and listen to your coaches and you will see success both individually and as a team. Learn about The New Hampton School mens ice hockey recruits in New Hampton. You can view the latest information in the updates feed below. New Hampton Girls Hockey Roster 2018-19 . Find out how MaxPreps can help high school coaches serve their team and community, Check out the latest movement in our Top 25 high school rankings, A final score has not been reported for this varsity ice hockey game. Over time he compiled a 56-5 record. Box Score, The New Hampton School varsity ice hockey team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against Vermont Academy (Saxtons River, VT) by a score of 8-0. Create a free mens ice hockey recruiting profile to connect with college coaches. » Prep Hockey 2020-21. Home Contact. Best of luck this winter! The hockey season was delayed about seven weeks because of covid-19 restrictions. Philanthropic gifts allow us to expand programs, support professional development and provide access to families deserving of the New Hampton experience. New Hampton School - USHS-Prep - hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at Eliteprospects.com 866-495-5172 Already a member? 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You can also view schools by sports offered , browse our full boarding school directory or specify additional search criteria . Home Contact. He won five ECAC championships, took teams to eight NCAA tournaments and made two Frozen Four appearances. Follow your favorite high school teams and players, Explore and purchase photos of your local teams, New Hampton School High School Ice Hockey, Report Final Score - New Hampton School vs. Tilton School, Report Final Score - New Hampton School vs. St. Paul's, Report Final Score - New Hampton School vs. Holderness, Report Final Score - New Hampton School @ Rivers, 5-2 (L) - New Hampton School vs. Frederick Gunn, 2-2 (T) - New Hampton School vs. Tilton School, Report Final Score - New Hampton School @ Proctor Academy, 8-0 (W) - New Hampton School vs. Vermont Academy, Report Final Score - New Hampton School @ St. Paul's, 6-2 (W) - New Hampton School vs. St. Paul's, 4-0 (W) - New Hampton School @ Holderness. Read Article, Watch the certified physical trainer and professional host lead student-athletes who are relegated to home due to the coronavirus pandemic. A 1976 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Joe joined the St. Lawrence staff as an assistant coach in 1983, again following McShane’s leadership. New Hampton School - USHS-Prep - hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at Eliteprospects.com Home Contact. Box Score, The New Hampton School varsity ice hockey team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against St. Paul's (Concord, NH) by a score of 6-2. The 20-21 New Hampton School boys varsity ice hockey team roster. The New Hampton coaching staff brings years of college and professional playing experience to the program, and are committed to continuing New Hampton's tradition of excellence. New Hampton School - USHS-Prep - hockey team page with roster, stats, transactions at Eliteprospects.com The compacted schedules — for high school and travel teams — has resulted in reduced available ice time, meaning the Talbots are practicing 25% less this season, down from twice a week to a total of three times every two weeks. Contact us 34 Dr. Childs Road, New Hampton, NH 03256 603-677-3464 store@newhampton.org » Prep Hockey 2020-21. I am confident I could make varsity for either andover or exeter. Home Contact. Address: 70 Main Street New Hampton NH, 03256; Primary Phone: 603-677-3425; Enrollment Size: 343; Find NCSA Athletes by Name : Find NCSA Mens Ice Hockey Athletes at New Hampton School by Name: Are you Mens Ice Hockey student-athlete at New Hampton School? Gorman had 90 points in 115 professional games. New Hampton Girls Hockey Roster 2018-19. Gorman is a 2011 graduate of New Hampton School where he led the NEPSAC in scoring and points during his senior year, and was awarded Most Valuable Player and Male Athlete of the Year. On that day the State of New Hampshire issued a charter to the New Hampton Academy, "having had three several readings," before the House of Representatives. 877-845-6272. USHR News Prep Hockey News . Read about great schools like: Tilton School, The Derryfield School and Bishop Brady High School. The New Hampton hockey program is a member of the New England Prep School Ice Hockey Association (NEPSIHA), competing against the top Division I prep schools in New England. And it’s this spirit that makes hockey what it is. Tilton School Girls' Varsity Hockey vs. New Hampton Tilton School 1845. For the 2021 school year, there are 105 top boarding schools offering Ice Hockey as an interscholastic sport, serving 52,611 students. 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2011 Clacton Carnival Queen Amy Miller
Welcome to the Clacton-On-Sea Carnival Website!
Firstly, I would like to introduce myself, my name is Amy Miller, I’m 17 years old and I am
your carnival queen for 2011. At the moment, I am attending the Colchester Institute and I am
studying a National Diploma in Dance which is a two year course. After finishing at the
institute, I am hoping to go on to either Dance College or University where I can study for a
BA Honours Dance Degree in Teaching. As I would like to become a dance teacher in the future
at a school or college.
When I am not attending college, I go to the ‘Jacqueline Annis School of Dance’ which is a
local dance school. Where I have been going, since the age of 4, while I’m there I learn many
dance styles, one of my favourites is Ballet!! The place is like my second home and we are
all like one big family.
Apart from being at Dancing or college, I work at Clacton-On-Sea golf club where I am a
waitress, I really enjoy my job and going to work.. (Most people might find me a bit
strange!!). I also love hanging out with my close friends where we can catch up as we go to
different colleges and we can’t see each other as much, which is a real shame.
Now, enough about me! I would like to introduce my beautiful princesses for this year… ‘Abbie
Mills and Cherise Symes’. I am really excited about spending time with girls throughout all
of the carnival processions, and meeting all the new courts from other towns.
I would also like to say some thank you’s, firstly to all the judges who have chosen me and
my princess to represent Clacton-On-Sea. Also Thank to everyone from the carnival committee
who organised the selection night and a big well done to Jenine, Rebecca and Teala for a
brilliant job they did last year. The last thank you I would like to give is to all my family
and friends that supported me on the night couldn’t have done it without you!
I can’t wait for Clacton carnival procession; it’s going to be the best yet!!
Hopefully, I will see you all there and don’t be shy to come and say hello!
See you soon...
Amy Miller!”
Brightlingsea Carnival – 18th June 2011
As it was our first carnival, my princesses and I were very nervous when we arrived at
Brightlingsea. On arrival, we were greeted by Brightlingsea’s Carnival court who told us
about the plan of the day, after this we introduces ourselves to the other carnival courts,
Walton, Great Dunmow, Great Bentley and Coggeshall all of the girls were friendly and I can’t
wait to spend the rest of the carnivals with them.
As we were hanging around a bit waiting for the float to arrive, me and princess decided to
have a look at the stalls and boot sale at the arena. As we were just walking back to the
car, we noticed the float arrive. Abbie, Cherice and I were really excited as and hadn’t seen
the new float yet. When it was unveiled, I was so pleased with how it look, it match our
dress perfectly, I couldn’t wait to get on it. Once we had all sat down, the judging began;
the judge was very friendly and she asked us loads of questions about our float and
ourselves.
Unfortunately, we didn’t win anything, which is a shame because I was very confident we
would.. But never mind there’s always next time!
The weather wasn’t very polite to us for the procession, we had to sit in the car and we
could only get on the float 10 minutes before we set off for 1pm because the rain was really
heavy. As there was lots of rain, there wasn’t a great turn out in the public, but I do
appreciate all the people who did, it was a brilliant carnival. After the procession, we went
to the Brightlingsea Bowls Club and had our Queens Tea which was delicious. This was where we
all said our thank you’s, goodbye’s and departed for the car ride home to Clacton-On-Sea, I
really enjoyed the first carnival at Brightlingsea and I cannot wait until next week at Great
Bentley!!
Lastly, I would like to thank some committee members for coming to Brightlingsea and making
it happen, Debbie and Kerry; our Chaperones for the day also Brian, Sheila and Gary for
helping set up the beautiful float. A thank you to my family for coming to watch the carnival
and Abbie’s Mum for walking the whole procession in the rain, Jo was soaked!"
Poster Presentation – 22nd June 2011
Me and my princess attended the presentation for the winners of the poster competition, there
were many different age groups, some as young as 5. When we arrived at St. James Hall, The
girls and I had a few pictures taken before we set off to have a look at the posters the
children had created. The posters were stunning, all brightly coloured and the ones chosen
deserved to win and they defiantly fitted perfectly with the theme of the carnival
“EUROPEAN!”.
Once everyone had arrived and all the winners were there, we started with the presentations.
Cherice, Abbie and I had the chance to hand out the certificates and their winner prizes.
John Sowton was the host for the night; he gave some great speeches, introduced us to the
audience and told them all about carnival week!
I would like to thank Lorraine and her judges for picking the winners and organising the
presentation. Also to everyone who help out with night, and made it happen, without you there
would be no presentation. THANKYOU!
Great Bentley Carnival – 25th June 2011
This is our second carnival, so this time me and my girls were a little bit more relax which
is good! When we arrived at Great Bentley Village Hall, we hung around with Walton’s carnival
court, Queen Hayley, her princesses Chelsie and Cerys, until we were greeted by Great
Bentley’s court. The weather wasn’t great throughout judging so we just smiled and pushed on,
our float was in between Coggeshall and Brightlingsea Courts. As the judging went on, we sat
and spoke to them and before we knew it, we won 2nd for our float, which was amazing! I was
so glad we won. But we didn’t find out queen of queens until after the procession.
The procession started at 12pm, and the weather brighten up which was brilliant, the
procession was paraded throughout the town and we were brought up to the arena at the end.
Once we arrived in the arena, we were greeted by the commentator, who told everyone who we
were and where we was from. The girls and I got taken off the float and put on a lorry for
the rest of the prizes, which were for the majorettes, the primary school, the band,
rainbows, brownies and the guides. Finally, we got to it.. the queen of queens was about to
be announced, the pressure was on! The commentator read out that Brightlingsea Queen, Alice
had won, I was gutted!
We were taken off the lorry to have a look around the arena before queens tea which was at
2:30pm, so we had half an hour to explore! Me and the girls went with Walton’s court to get a
drink and there we departed, we had a look at all the jewellery stalls, they were beautiful.
I had to get one! I brought a small Pandora bracelet which was handmade and I couldn’t take
my eyes off it, I had to have it! Hehe
2:30pm arrived and we needed to meet Debbie and Nicky in the tent. Once we met our
chaperones, the food was served. The strawberries, meringues and cream were delicious and it
was accompanied by savoury foods. As everyone had finished eating, Great Bentley’s Queen said
her thankyou’s, the other courts and I said our thankyou’s to Great Bentley too. We said out
goodbyes, left the tent and went to the car for our journey home. Thank you to Debbie and
Nicky for all their help.
Witham Carnival – Saturday 9th July 2011
We arrived at Witham early in the morning and we were one of the first courts which had
arrived at the meeting place. It was nice being early because we got to see all of the other
courts, majorettes and Lorries arriving with their smiling faces! Once all of the courts had
arrived, there was about 15 in total... Which was loads!! And it was lovely to meet all of
these other new courts, which I’d never met before; the girls were all so friendly.
We were greeted by Witham’s Court and Retiring court, and they explained the plan of the day,
as the time went on and we had all the pictures done... It was time for judging!! My
princesses and I sat on the float, ready for judging, we were all nice and calm and we
schmoozed to the judges in hope that we would win. It worked! We came 3rd for Queens. I was
so pleased, i couldn’t believe it! Soon after all the prizes were given, the procession was
off to flying start. There were so many people through the town centre, it was so hard to
wave at both sides, but I’m glad there was such a good turnout.
As the carnival came to an end, we met all the courts outside the shopping mall, and then we
were paraded through the mall, and onto the field to be introduced to the public. Once this
had all finished, we were taken to a small village hall for some tea. We decided to sit with
southend; it was nice to get to them and their new court. We really got on well, we always
As tea was coming to an end, we all said our thank you’s and goodbye’s and headed home, all
tired and worn out.
Once again, thank you to our chaperones for the day! :D
Southend Taxi Day – Wednesday 3rd August 2011
I was so excited about this outing, as I have done the southend taxi day. What happens, is
all the children who are under-privileged, disabled or have an illness come down to Clacton
for a day out to the pier. I do think this is a very amazing outing as it gives the children
to have fun, have some freedom and spend time with me, my princesses and the other courts!
The day started out with me, Abbie and Cherise arriving at the Princes Theatre at 11am, We
took our all of our belongings to the changing room for later in the afternoon. Southend and
Ashingdon’s courts had also come down to join us for the day, which was nice. The other
courts arrived about 11:45am with all the taxi’s “beeping” and “tooting” so state their
arrival. Once the girls had arrived and all the pictures had been taken with the children, we
headed to the dressing room to change into our t-shirts and then headed into town for lunch
in wimpy! Mmmm :P
Once we had all finished lunch, we eventually got to the pier, by this time we were all over
excited.. (We acted like children!). The people who had organised the event had a bit of
trouble sorted out the wristbands for the rides, but a lady sorted it all out. We had about
an hour on the rides before we needed to go back to the town hall, to change back into our
dresses for the magic show and the disco!
I must say the magic show, with Mr happy was excellent! He made so wicked balloon items, like
a motorbike and a heart, I was so impressed. The food was amazing too, especially the cakes
with butter cream icing on the top! As the day was coming to a close, me and my princess
waved off the carnival courts and all the children in the taxis! It was lovely to see all
their happy faces after a very eventful day, Thank you to all the taxi drivers, the
organisers, the chaperones and everyone else who helped out with the day!
Raffle Ticket Selling – Saturday 6th August 2011
We were invited to help Brenda sell her raffle tickets for “Grand Draw” which will be draw
out on Thursday 18th August, the fete and fireworks night during out carnival week! My girls
and I were picked up at quarter to 1 and were driven down to the Pavilion Fun Park on the
Upper Prom, we did have a bit of a problem with parking but it was all okay in the end.
Brenda explain to us what we had to do, and gave us loads of leaflets and raffle tickets to
sell. The selling started off slowly, and there wasn’t much selling going on, but soon the
public were asking us what we were doing, from then we started selling loads. After about an
hour or so, we went and got some doughnuts to share between the three of us. We sold raffle
tickets for about 3 hours and sold plenty of tickets, we also heard some amazing stories from
some of the public. There was a lady who hadn’t been to Clacton since she was 18 years and
she was now 82 years old!! That’s incredible! The weather wasn’t too bad, we did feel a bit
of rain but it held off which was brilliant, I didn’t fancy getting wet today! But all in
all, it was lovely day out. Thankyou.
Clacton Carnival Street Procession – Saturday 13th August 2011
We arrived at west road car park around 3:45pm, and we were just hanging around while the
other courts, majorettes, cheerleaders and other organisations arrived with all their fancy
dress and fabulous float designs. Overall, there were about 14 different carnival courts,
some from as far as Kent! At 5:15pm, the judging had begun, and my princesses and I were
needed to hang out the trophies to winners of best themed float, queen of queens, best float
etc. As we had got to the last two trophies, it was the two for the queens; I was really
looking forward to who had won! Queen of queens was awarded to Burnham-on-crouch and best
float to Witham! Well done!
After all the trophies and award had been handed out we were ready for the procession to
begin, throughout the procession it was so busy, it was lovely to see so many people who help
us to raise all this money for local charities and organisations. As we got pier gap, it was
a little scary as there were so many people. But everyone was shouting, cheering and the
atmosphere was wicked. At the end of the carnival, my court and all the other queens’ courts
were taken to this little church for our tea. But before all the food I had to make a speech.
It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done. I did it, and I was a little nervous however it was
all over and done with now so I can just enjoy the rest of the evening. As the evening began
to close, Miss Invicta Kent’s Court present me and my princesses with little badges as a
token of thanks. I have really enjoyed doing the carnival procession, thank you to everyone
for all their help and hard work they have all put in. Also to Nicki and Debbie for their
help chaperoning, as well to Brian and Shelia for towing us today and all the other
carnivals. Lastly to the inner wheel ladies for a wonderful tea, and all the little gifts.
Sunday Show – Sunday 14th August 2011
At 11am, we were collected by Debbie to be taken to the carnival show ground for the summer
show, when we arrived we watch all the stalls set up for day would begin. There were so many
stalls, games and fun things to do. There were also the hamster water balls, I really wanted
to have a go .
We started selling some raffle tickets to the people who were selling items on the car boot;
me and my princesses had a good look at all things they were selling. One lady was selling
these amazing cupcakes, they were so beautifully decorated, I just wanted to eat them! Also
there was a man doing airbrush tattoos, I had to have one, so I got a little flower design on
my ankle. Throughout the day we were selling raffle tickets for our grand draw, eventually it
got to 3pm and it was time for the pet show. There were a few children who had enter, there
was some beautiful rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs and a usual pet. All the contestants were
judged, and some children won more than one rosette, and even a cup! It was nice to see that
these children want to show off their pets, I’m not surprised; they were gorgeous!!
As the weather was really hot, I began to not feel too good, so my princesses and I sat in
the shade for a while before we set off to sell more tickets. Once we had set off to the
classic cars section to sell raffle tickets, we were more interested in the cars! The cars
were so vintage but in such good condition, we got asked to have pictures with the cars by
the owners, which was exciting! At Half 4, the upbeat Beatles came on to the dream 100 stage,
and they were excellent! They sounded like the real band, I’m really glad the committee
decided to have them there. This day was lovely, nice weather, good music and happy faces;
what more could you want? Thank you for all the committees hard work today.
Donkey Derby – Monday 15th August 2011
This was the first time we weren’t required to wear our lovely dresses, which was a nice
change as all of them needed a good wash because of the Sunday show, they were so dirty.
Luckily, the weather held off as it started to get a bit cloudy, even though it was nice and
warm in the day. The girls and I decided to have our face painted because we didn’t have our
dress on, we all had masquerade mask. Abbie had blue and green, Cherise had red and blue and
I had pink and purple!
Once it got to 6:40pm, we were called into the arena to start the first race at 6:45pm. For
the first race and the others to come, all the donkeys were paraded around and all name so
everyone knew who they were betting on. Soon after the race had begun, and a winner was
announced, each winner won a rosette, a prize and was required to come back for the final
with all the winners. There was also a hobby horse race with all the dads, it was funny to
watch them race on wooden horses.
As the evening came to a close, the clouds had got bigger, it was grey and gloomy. I think we
all got home just in time, but overall it was a eventful evening and I enjoyed watching the
children race the donkeys. Thank you to Hunts Racing Donkeys for all their help also to the
committee for keeping the donkeys in line, hehe!
Sandcastle Competition – Wednesday 17th August 2011
Luckily, the weather was dry and not raining, so there were loads of children arriving in
preparation for the sand castle competition. As the children had signed into their categories
(6 and under, 7-9, 10-14 and pairs), the children were given a flag to put in their
sandcastle and they were required to wear a yellow wristband so we knew that if they got
lost, that they could be taken back to the beach we were on. Me, Abbie and Cherise held out
with putting the wristbands on the children. At 10:30am, I rung the bell for the competition
to start, unfortunately some of the children hadn’t signed in yet, but they had an hour to
build so there was no lost.
During the time that the children were building sand castles, a man from BBC Essex radio
interviewed me about the carnival sandcastle competition. It was a bit scary as no one had
warned me that he was going to interview me, but it went okay, I never got to hear myself
though. Me and the girls took a walk on to the beach to have a look at the sandcastles being
built, I must say the children’s ideas were very inventive, one young lady had use food
colouring to change the colour of the sand which is amazing, I would have never have thought
Once, we had a look, we were invited to do the judging. Me and Debbie did the pairs and the
10-14’s and Abbie and Cherise did the 6 and under and 7-9’s. As we had verified our decision
with our partners and headed back up to the lower prom, Susan had organised a hoola hoop
competition, so my girls and I went up to show them all how to do it! Every child who had a
go but didn’t win got a sweetie and the winner got a big packet of malteasers which are my
favourite! After this little competition the winners of the sandcastle competition was
announced. Each age group got a Bronze, Silver or a Gold medal winner and they stood on boxes
to represent they had won, just like the Olympics!
Egg Throwing Competition/Beer Dig – Wednesday 17th August 2011
Egg throwing is one of my favourite events that happen in carnival week because you get to
see people get covered in egg! When we arrived, it was a little cold but nothing too bad, as
always we started selling raffle tickets until the first throwing started. Abbie and her
friend Chloe had a go at egg throwing, as for me and Cherise it wasn’t our sort of thing, I
didn’t fancy getting egg on me! There was about 6 or 7 rounds of egg throwing and two couple
who won that round went into a semi-final and if they won that in two the final. In the final
there was a about 4 couples left, and it was two men who had won, the winners received
£25.00!
As the committee organisers were clearing and setting up the arena for the beer dig, Abbie
went over a played a little volleyball, while Cherise and I sat inside the undercover part as
the weather started to look a little grey. Soon after it started to rain as the beer dig
started, we had to wait outside for the main prize to be won in the beer dig. By this time,
we were freezing and wet, I just wanted to go home in the warm, and luckily the special prize
was found quite quickly. So Debbie took us home, Abbie went home with her mum and dad. Thank
you to all the committees work even though it rained!
Fete and Fireworks – Thursday 18th August 2011
Unfortunately, it was raining, very cold and we weren’t allowed to wear out dresses in case
the rain ruined them. Instead we wore our carnival t-shirts, jumpers and black trouser, I put
my wellington boots on as I didn’t want to get wet and muddy feet! At the start of the
evening we sat in the sweet tent so we didn’t get wet until the people had arrived, once it
turned to 7pm we were set out to the main gates to sell raffle tickets. In the 45 minutes we
stood there, we only had 2 groups of people come in, so I was on the raffle selling, Abbie
and Cherise were picking blackberries!
After a while, we got too cold so we went to back to the main tent and were taken to sit in
one of the containers to warm up with a hot drink! Abbie’s Mum and dad sat in the container
with us and poured us all a cup of hot chocolate! Mmmmm
Debbie decided to take us all home and there was no point in us getting too cold, I couldn’t
wait to get in and have a hot bath, I was freezing. In the end, the fireworks had to be
cancelled, which is a real shame and so much hard work has gone into this day, thank you for
all your hard work!
Fancy Dress Competition – Friday 19th August 2011
At this part of the week, I’m very tired and luckily it wasn’t an early start. We all were
picked at 1pm and taken to St. James church hall next to the west cliff theatre, and there we
met by Brenda, Nicki and all the judges. To start the afternoon, we blew some balloons up as
we were bored, but the parents and their children started to arrived in some magnificent
fancy dress out fits! One young lady had dress up as Big Ben, using a long cardboard box, it
was so inventive. Each age group was called out under 5, 5 to 7 and 8-11, also there were
categories for theme and pairs. In each age group and theme group there was about 10 people,
but unfortunately in the pairs category there was only two pairs, one was the super Mario
brothers and the others were French people. Before all the judging started the princesses and
I were required to sell raffle tickets for our raffle to be called out at the end of the all
the prizes to be given to the winners.
Once all the judges had made their decisions who had won each category, there was a small
disco with DJ dragon for DREAM 100, we all had so many photos with him! I love him!
The disco come to an end and the winners were announced, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and each winner got a
voucher for rascals play centre in each category. When all the prizes had been given out the
raffle was being called out, there were so many prizes and it seemed like it went on forever.
But after it had all finished we got to go home for a little rest until the quiz night later.
Quiz Night - Friday 19th August 2011
So this was the last night of the amazing Clacton carnival week, quite sad actually, I didn’t
think it would fly through quite so quickly. As we always do, we sold our last ever batch of
raffle tickets to the all the tables, there was so many teams we had to split up in two
groups. Some of the team’s names were so funny, mine and Abbie’s parents attended the evening
and their team name was “the royal family”. So once we had finished selling the raffle
tickets, the quiz had begun, with wonderful Adrian’s questions, I really did wonder how he
thought of these questions. After set of questions, my princess, Debbie and I had to collect
the answer papers and any jokers that were being play in the next round. (Joker’s in rounds,
double your points)
Overall there was a break in between the two sets of questions; in that break we had to sell
raffle tickets at least it gave us something to do, instead of just eating our food. After
all the winners had been announced and we had given the losers prize, the winners prize and
had a picture with the winner, it was time for another raffle, The raffle prizes were bottles
of wine, a photo album, bath sets etc. As the evening began to close, John Sowton came up to
say a few thankyou’s, to all the scorers, Adrian and everyone who had came, Also he gave Me,
Abbie and Cherise our cheques for being the carnival court of the year!
I had a few announcements to make too, so Adrian had passed me the microphone, I was so
scared! So basically (before I start to blabber on), I thanked Debbie and Nicki for all their
help throughout Carnival week and all the other carnivals we have attended, my girls
presented them with flowers and presents.
It was sad that carnival week had come to an end, but it was a wicked week. Hope you all
enjoyed yourselves!
Walton-On-The-Naze Carnival – Saturday 20th August 2011
OUR LAST EVER CARNIVAL!!
Now, this was a little emotional for me as it was going to be the last day, I would ever get
to sit on that float again being queen! But I was going to enjoy the day and hopefully win
something for the end of a fantastic year!
As we arrived for 11:15am, there was only Clacton’s court and Brightlingsea’s court so we
spent a while talking to them until the other courts arrived. In the end there was Clacton,
Brightlingsea, Braintree, Coggeshall and Great Bentley, this was because it was Southend-On-
Sea’s carnival too, so most would have attended theirs. My princess and I sat on the float
having a munch of food as always, and then Debbie had noticed the judges coming over so we
sat patiently and the lady asked about our float, she said it was beautifully decorated and
very bright!
So as we waited for the results, I was getting more and more anxious to find out! Then I saw
Walton’s queen come over with two trophies coming close to us... I had won Queen of Queens,
the first time this year; we had one trophy to keep and one to give back next year. As we
were celebrating, we were awarded again with the best float award, four trophies... I just
couldn’t believe it. I was so shocked how well we did; it was a great finish to the year! At
it got to 2pm, the procession had started, we place all four trophies at the front of the
float and by this time all three of us were buzzing with happiness.
As we paraded through the town, it was so nice to let everyone see that we had won today! I
was so smiley, I couldn’t stop, even though Walton’s carnival was a long one. When the
carnival came to a end, we were taken to the Naze Marine Holiday Park for our tea, the was
nice but there wasn’t much of it, so I was still a little hungry!
But as it was our last carnival, we all really enjoyed the day and were very glad that we
won!
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Vol.28, No.5, 2012; Pages: 679 - 86
SSuMMo: rapid analysis, comparison and visualization of microbial communities
Leach AL, Chong JP, Redeker KR
Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
MOTIVATION:
Next-generation sequencing methods are generating increasingly massive datasets, yet still do not fully capture genetic diversity in the richest environments. To understand such complicated and elusive systems, effective tools are needed to assist with delineating the differences found in and between community datasets.
The Small Subunit Markov Modeler (SSuMMo) was developed to probabilistically assign SSU rRNA gene fragments from any sequence dataset to recognized taxonomic clades, producing consistent, comparable cladograms. Accuracy tests predicted >90% of genera correctly for sequences downloaded from public reference databases. Sequences from a next-generation sequence dataset, sampled from lean, overweight and obese individuals, were analysed to demonstrate parallel visualization of comparable datasets. SSuMMo shows potential as a valuable curatorial tool, as numerous incorrect and outdated taxonomic entries and annotations were identified in public databases. Availability and implementation: SSuMMo is GPLv3 open source Python software, available at http://code.google.com/p/ssummo/. Taxonomy and HMM databases can be downloaded from http://bioltfws1.york.ac.uk/ssummo/.
Supplemental materials are available at Bioinformatics Online.
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Keith Olbermann’s Final ‘Countdown’ at MSNBC Has the Stench of Comcast All Over It
Filed under: News,Opinion — Tags: CNN, Comcast, Countdown, etidbits.com, Fired, Keith Olbermann, Media Matters, MSNBC, NBC, Richard Adams, RS Janes, The Guardian, Universal — RS Janes @ 6:28 am
Last night, Friday, January 21, in what I know must have been a surprise to much of his audience, Keith Olbermann announced this was the last “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” thanked his viewers and those who had helped put the show on the air over the years, and then calmly read a James Thurber story named “The Scotty Who Knew Too Much,” the moral of which was: “It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.” It was an odd, unsettling moment in the context of Keith’s departure, and it’s still not clear if Olbermann quit or MSNBC fired him; the only official announcement from MSNBC being an exercise in bland Corpospeak opacity:
“MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of Countdown with Keith Olbermann will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”
Richard Adams, writing in The Guardian (UK), apparently believes Olbermann was fired:
“Keith Olbermann, the liberal, outspoken anchor of MSNBC’s Countdown show, had his contract dramatically terminated by the US cable news network’s parent company NBC on Friday night.
“Olbermann had two years of a four year contract remaining, worth an estimated $30m, and was the network’s highest-rated personality, responsible in large part for MSNBC’s orientation as a liberal, Democratic-leaning channel.”
Although Comcast ferociously denies they had anything to do with this – and it is barely possible Keith simply refused to work for them and ended his contract by mutual agreement with MSNBC — the juxtaposition of FCC approval to take over NBC/Universal and Olbermann’s blink-quick departure reek with the stench of conservative mega-corporation Comcast sending a chilling message to the cable news network’s employees – especially air personalities Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell – that if they go too ‘progressive’ in their shows, if they pull back the curtain on corporate malfeasance and corruption with too much zeal and fact, they could find their contracts suddenly cancelled as well.
(The new prime-time MSNBC line-up, BTW, is O’Donnell in Keith’s slot at 8:00ET, with Ed Schultz moving into O’Donnell’s current 10:00ET berth. Rachel will stay in her current time slot.)
Thankfully, Keith is still owed $14 million on his contract, so he will have a chance to take a breather, review his options, and make a comeback elsewhere, perhaps even at the struggling third-place CNN. As Rob Soto at Etidbits.com speculates:
“As for our opinion on what’s next for the liberal anchor, don’t be surprised if Olbermann ends up on CNN sooner than later. Their ratings are in the tank, their new Parker/Spitzer series is a disaster (with Kathleen Parker reportedly not very happy being there) and is a poor lead-in to the new Piers Morgan Show. The entire evening lineup needs a makeover, and fast. Olbermann reportedly still has two years on his contract and will get paid his annual salary of about $7 million. However, what is not known at this point if he has a non-compete clause in his contract that would prohibit him from appearing on a rival station until his two-year contract is over.”
VIDEO: Olbermann signs off on final Countdown
I’ve been a regular viewer and fan of Keith Olbermann’s since he first started Countdown eight years ago and I hope he shows up on the TV machine again soon; to paraphrase his sign-off, and mix in some Dylan Thomas, I wish him good luck, and I know he won’t go gently into that good night.
© 2011 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
The Tattlesnake – Ear to the Ground on Health Care Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: Big Medico, Big Pharma, Blue Dogs Democrats, David Gregory, Harry and Louise, Health Care Reform, NBC, Obama, Public Option, Republicans, RS Janes, Tattlesnake — RS Janes @ 6:49 pm
Questions, I Have Questions…
Your (Mostly) Obedient Tattlesnake is waiting for one of our Big Media professional interrogators, such as NBC’s David “We’ll Frame It Your Way!” Gregory, to ask one of these Congressional Republicans hyperventilating against the government paying for health care, why they accept health care paid for by government taxation. To my knowledge, not one member of Congress turns down this platinum perk of office preferring to pay for privatized health care themselves, as they think us average schmoes should do. If privatized for-profit health care is ‘the greatest system in the world,’ why don’t they avail themselves of it using their own money instead of Uncle Sucker’s, i.e. ours? (I won’t hold my breath.)
Speaking of which, when do the BM ‘journalists’ start questioning why the government ‘of, by and for the people’ should be in the business of protecting private for-profit corporations from competition? We know they’ve done this unofficially for generations, but now the merry free-marketeers of the Republican Party and Blue Dog Dem stripe are openly babbling we have to protect the health care industry from ‘unfair competition’ from a public option. Wasn’t their mantra, just a few years ago, that corporations could always do a better job at a lower price than the government? If so, what are they worried about in the realm of health care? Could it be that a public health care option would nakedly expose that lie, and the obscene rip-off that America’s for-profit health insurance system has been for the past forty years?
Beware, beware: Don’t be fooled by the retooled Harry and Louise ads featuring the loathsome couple updating their opposition to health care reform by announcing themselves now ‘for it’ as long as it is ‘bipartisan’ and not ‘political.’ This is wrong on so many levels, the Tattler’s thesaurus begs for new synonyms, but the fact that the health care industry is spending over a million dollars a day to stop health care reform, and Harry and Louise is a part of that effort, should give you a clue as to just how detrimental this industry is to the public health. When Big Medico and Big Pharma use the word ‘bipartisan’ it’s in the corporate Republican sense, as in ‘do it our way.’ What the health insurance industry wants is no public option, and a huge payday in that the taxpayers will foot the bill, at current exorbitant rates, for all of the cases the for-profits currently refuse, such as ‘pre-existing conditions.’ This means we’ll be paying for dollar-a-cap Tylenols and every expensive, unneeded procedure greedy industry types can conjure up, and they, and the hospitals and doctors in on this scam, will get their piece of the very profitable action. Without competition from a public option, health care in this country will be even more expensive, yet not work any better for most of us, it will just cost more. Under the industry no-competition plan, you’ll be able to see your terminally ill relative languish into the Great Beyond at ten times what it costs in civilized nations with single-payer universal health care coverage.
More to come after Obama’s press conference tonight.
Copyright 2009 R.S. Janes.
The Tattlesnake – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of 2008 Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion,Uncategorized — Tags: 2008, Abramoff, Annoyances, Bartcop, Big Media, Bristol Palin, Christopublicans, Corruption, David Gregory, Democrats, Fox News, Gulden's mustard, Humor, JIF peanut butter, Keith Olbermann, Meet the Press, MSNBC, NBC, Neocons, Obama, Packaging, politics, Republicans, Rod Blagojevich, Roland Burris, ROVE, RS Janes, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Palin, Tattlesnake — RS Janes @ 2:12 pm
Coverage of the Big Stuff of 2008, in the form of cheesy top ten lists and lofty-worded think pieces, will be churned out endlessly by Our Corporately-Owned Media over the next few weeks, so here are some of the lesser-reported annoyances, intrusions on sanity, and other head-smackers of the year past.
The Good: It’s a new year and Obama takes office in less than 20 days! (Happy 2009, BTW.)
The Bad: Bush and Cheney can still stir up trouble in their ‘Final Days.’
The Ugly: What if they decide not to leave?
The Good: The already-weakened Republican Party is splitting apart in a war between the ‘Jesus Camp’ Christopublicans and the Neocon Corporate Pragmatists. (The true principled conservatives having ditched the GOP years ago.) The latter are willing to bend rather than break; the former can’t, since they arrogantly believe, apparently without the assistance of hard drugs, that their Invisible Omnipotent God of the Infinite Universe Who Hates Liberals and Homos has nothing better to do than whisper in their ears what kind of retail politics and holy wars against his other creations will set them straight with Heaven.
The Bad: There’s a good chance the NCP will dump the Republicans entirely and put all their money into the Dems, which will have the result of making the Dems as debased and corrupt as the GOP.
The Ugly: Even though the Theocrats-for-a-Better-Armageddon are a small minority, the GOP in their hairy paws will become a rural party of ranting rubes, bedeviled boobs, slick hicks, hypocritical hucksters, predatory politicians, snake-handling simpletons, and mumbling morons (not that it mostly isn’t already) and, thanks to our unique system of apportioning two senators to each state no matter what the population (another nasty legacy of the era of slavery), the Christopublicans will continue to wield enough influence to block legislation and stir up other governmental mischief to the detriment of us all. The future of the Republican Party might very well be an army of pious Puritan dunderheads marching in righteous lockstep, infecting the US body politic like a bad case of psoriasis – it won’t kill you, but it can be damned aggravating.
The Good: Speaking of Sarah Palin, her 18-year-old daughter Bristol had a healthy baby recently.
The Bad: As Bart of Bartcop fame wrote, “[Sarah] Palin promised her daughter ‘and the young man’ would get married but that was during the campaign so she can’t be held to it.” So, now that Bristol’s bun is out of the oven, where is the fuming outrage of the Big Media and the Christopublicans that she’s officially an unwed mother and, since Ma holds down a gub’mint job, she’s being supported by taxpayer money?
The Ugly: The kid’s father, Levi Johnston, remains a proudly ignorant redneck oaf, and he just went to work for a ‘let’s-rape-the-wilderness’ energy company.
The Good: A Democrat has finally vowed to fight back against Republican smears and refuses to cave in to their demands.
The Bad: That Democrat is the convicted-by-the-media-without-a-trial Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich.
The Ugly: Here is the dumb-bunny guilt-by-location smear the RNC and every right-wing website will be repeating ad nauseum as long as Obama is president, even if Blago is cleared of all charges: “Obama and Blagojevich are both from Chicago, Illinois, which is, like, the most corrupt city and state in the union – the FBI guy said so! – and, hey, common sense says they must both then be completely corrupt, right? This is another one of those unanswered questions about Obama that the public deserves to hear the full truth about!” 2010 BM pundit’s comment: “Let’s say ‘hello’ to Illinois’ newly-elected Republican Governor Patrick Fitzgerald! At least he’s ethical, even if he couldn’t convict Blagojevich of anything!”
The Good: Illinois finally has a US Senator to replace Obama, a man with a clean and honorable record, former IL Attorney General Roland Burris.
The Bad: He is being morphed into Blago’s Rev. Wright by the scandal-happy ‘Whitewaterized’ Big Media, eager to toss him into the same ‘guilty-even-if-he-hasn’t-been-convicted-of-anything’ pot with Blagojevich. Burris is now ‘tainted’ just because he accepted the appointment. Note to the Big Media: What about all of those prominent Washington Senators of the Republican persuasion – Mitch McConnell, John Ensign, Saxby Chambliss, Richard Shelby, Orrin Hatch, et al — who openly dined and danced with the likes of Jack Abramoff and Karl Rove? Oh, right – Rove hasn’t been convicted of any crime – but when has that stopped you? (Hey, the Clintons weren’t convicted of any crime in the Whitewater land deal; and no crime was even committed in the ‘Travelgate’ fiasco, but that didn’t matter – they were still media-created ‘scandals’ that filled up newspaper columns and media airtime for years.) Lack of conviction, so to speak, certainly hasn’t been any bar to gleefully drubbing Blagojevich and Burris with the corruption stick. Abramoff is in prison and Rove is being subpoenaed and investigated all over the place for bribery, fraud and other assorted dishonesty, yet their close connections to prominent Republicans, not to mention the White House, somehow doesn’t carry the same ‘taint’ of corruption? Is the BM afraid of the GOP High and Mighty, or is it just your ingrained conservative bias showing?
The Ugly: Congressional and Illinois state Democrats are incredibly doing the Republicans’ job for them, sticking the blade in deep and twisting it not only with Blago, but now Burris, too. Hey, dingbat Dems, a simple ‘innocent until proven guilty, it’s the American way’ would be the way to go.
There’s more below the fold…
The Tattlesnake – Big Media Hillary Silly Season in Full Swing Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Big Media, Bush, Hillary Clinton, NBC, Obama, Punditrocracy, Pundits, RS Janes, Sarah Palin, Secretary of State, Tattlesnake — RS Janes @ 7:39 am
Secretary of State Clinton? Much A Doo-Doo About Nothing
If it hasn’t been foreclosed on yet, don’t bet the family ranch that Hillary Clinton will be the next Secretary of State, nor even have a cabinet post in the Obama Administration.
With the long, slow political-junkie orgasm of the presidential campaign fading in the rearview mirror, the ‘Pundints’ now have little to talk about; certainly they don’t find the baffling Bush Boy’s latest incoherence on the economy – “I continue to support the neocon free market policies that caused this horrible financial meltdown!” – worth examining – to do so might remind the audience of how much the Big Media Cognoscenti had to do with leading the lemmings off the cliff; the Palin Reality TV show – “Who Wants to Be a President!” also has its limits – how long before even avid dupes of Little Debbie Shortcake begin wondering why she hauls that baby around to every public appearance and detect that her political ideas are mostly an ungrammatical noun, an opportunistic verb, ‘Nothing’s my fault,’ ‘You betcha!’ and ‘God’s gonna show me the door’?
Even the three undetermined US Senate races don’t hold the BM Short Attention Span long – the vituperation back and forth is good for a brief goose, but those complicated state voting laws! The crashing economy was respectable breathless stand-up fodder for a while – “Melanie Blandstick, reporting from Wall Street, Ground Zero of our money crisis!” – but the pampered Lads and Lasses of the Golden Corporate Microphone are not employed for their intimate knowledge of the financial markets, nor much else, and there are only so many interviews you can do with ill-kempt and boring hustlers from the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute, still pushing Milt Friedman’s Cap’n Capitalist Crunch cereal after the product has poisoned the country, and who’s Ayn Rand anyhow – wasn’t she the wife in “Father Knows Best”? Iraq? Afghanistan? Iran? Whoa, dude, you’re bumming my trip!
So, of course, with little they consider ‘real news’ going on, they retreat into their favorite past time – endless speculation based on sketchy evidence, as shouted through a megaphone in the Grand Canyon to insure every Big Media Mouthpiece is regurgitating the same dull incantations.
The latest prime example of this is NBC’s Andrea “Mrs. Greenspan” Mitchell floating an anonymously-sourced story last week that Obama would offer the position of Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton, when the only thing that has thus far been confirmed was that Hillary flew to Chicago for a meeting with the President-Elect. For days since, the Punditrocracy has been foaming at the mouth, leaving no entrails unturned in their white-hot desire to tiresomely discuss to death the possibility of Hillary as the top national diplomat.
Using the same superior detective skills that in the past led them to deduce that the 2008 election would be about national security; that Republicans just loved Rudy Giuliani, that McCain would inevitably pick either Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty as his running mate; that Obama had to choose Hillary Clinton as his Veep or lose the election; that American women would mindlessly flock to the GOP after Sarah Palin’s unveiling; that Obama would have a tough time attracting working class voters in Rust Belt states; and that the Dem presidential ticket would, maybe, possibly, eke out a tiny victory in the Electoral College in a very tight race because, after all, this was basically a conservative nation – in spite of this dismal record of comic prognostication, they forge ahead, this time with the latest vapid gasper of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
Lost in most of their circuitous gossip is any sort of common-sense analysis: Why would Hillary give up her powerful senate seat, and an excellent chance to be Senate Majority Leader, to serve as a peripatetic foreign service factotum in Obama’s government? The appointment would also proscribe her from criticizing him should things go sour, thereby tainting her bid for the 2012 nomination. Quick, name the last five Secretaries of State before Condi and look at what has happened to them. I think it’s fair to say the energetic Sen. Clinton doesn’t desire to live out her days lounging in academia, playing golf, or filling space on the board of some think tank or corporation, publishing occasional knotted-brow op-ed pieces in The New York Times.
The Tattlesnake – All Up in the News Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: Andrea Mitchell, Big Media, Brian Williams, Chuck Todd, Democrats, GOP, McCain, NBC, Obama, Palin, Republicans, RS Janes, satire, Tattlesnake — RS Janes @ 6:27 am
What if the Big Media told the truth, part 2,964?
BRIAN WILLIAMS: “Let’s go to NBC’s Chuck Todd at a McCain rally in Bent Fork, South Carolina. Chuck, I see Gov. Palin just finished speaking; what was the crowd reaction?”
CHUCK TODD: “Well, Brian, once again Sarah Palin has stirred up the crazy white-trash rabble into a lather of raw hatred against liberals, Democrats and, particularly, Barack ‘Hussein’ Obama. She’s managed to attract every drooling yokel, theocratic imbecile and racist thug on the GOP wingnut fringe here and stoked the flames of bigotry to the point where news organizations can’t even send African-Americans to cover her rallies anymore out of fear they might be attacked by her supporters.”
BRIAN WILLIAMS: “Whoa, that’s quite an indictment, Chuck. It looks like Sen. McCain is about to speak; let’s listen in.”
CHUCK TODD: “Don’t bother, Brian. Most of the crowd is leaving as they always do after they’re done gawking at Palin, and McCain never says anything worth hearing – just the same attack-the-opponent, no-new-taxes mumbo-jumbo and embarrassing distortions of the truth he usually spouts. You’d be better off reading the label on a Viagra bottle or sticking needles in your eyes as listening to one of this old crank’s speeches – they’re that tedious and boring.”
BRIAN WILLIAMS: “Well, thanks for that report, Chuck. Now let’s go to Andrea Mitchell with the Obama campaign in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Democratic Party candidate is about to give a major speech on the economy. Andrea, I understand you’re the filthy rich wife of Alan Greenspan, one of the principal architects of our current financial disaster?”
ANDREA MITCHELL: “That I am, Brian.”
BRIAN WILLIAMS: “Then just how in hell are you going to do an unbiased report on this major Obama speech on economic policy?”
ANDREA MITCHELL: “Brian, I am what you might call a ‘tripartite schizophrenic’ – one part member in good standing of the wealthy elite, one part wife of a powerful neoconservative whose policies ruined our economy, and one part hard-nosed journalist. Don’t worry, I’ll have on my hard-nosed journalist’s cap for this speech.”
BRIAN WILLIAMS: “Why don’t you just recuse yourself from covering Obama altogether?”
ANDREA MITCHELL: “Oh, Brian, you poor idiot – Republicans never recuse themselves in any conflict of interest, don’t you know that? I guess you weren’t paying attention during that Supreme Court ruling that put Bush in office in 2000.”
BRIAN WILLIAMS: “Uh, we’ll be back after these messages.”
The Tattlesnake – Palin’s Failin’s, Luntz’s Futzes, and Other Random GOP Goop Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion,Quote — Tags: 1984 Election, 2008 election, Biden, Bush, C-Span, Cheney, CNBC, CNN, Dan Quayle, Frank Luntz, Geraldine Ferraro, GOP convention, Huffington Post, Lyda Green, Maria Bartiromo, McCain, Meet the Press. Joe Klein, NBC, Nico Pitney, Obama, Palin, politics, Poppy Bush, Reagan, RS Janes, St. Paul, Tattlesnake, Tom Davis III, Walter Mondale — RS Janes @ 4:51 pm
More On Sarah Palin: Nico Pitney over to the Huff Post reports that Alaska’s Gov. Hockey Mom appeared on a shock jock’s radio show in Anchorage and laughed her head off when her opponent in the Alaska State Senate, Lyda Green, was called a “bitch” by the show’s host. The slammer was that she also cackled when the idiot-with-a-microphone referred to Green, a cancer survivor, as “a cancer” twice and joked about her weight. An op-ed in The Anchorage Daily News called Palin’s giggling, “one of the most unprofessional, childish and inexcusable performances I’ve ever seen from a politician.” Classy lady, that Sarah.
– Yet More Palin: Whatever facts shake out regarding her firing of the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner for allegedly failing to dismiss a state trooper who went through an acrimonious divorce from her sister in 2005, Palin, like most Republicans, doesn’t seem to see that there is a glacier-sized conflict of interest here: She should have encouraged an investigation into his conduct and then left it to her AG or other independent body to prosecute the case. For that matter, if the guy beat his ex-wife, was drunk on the job and abused his son, as Palin has claimed, why wasn’t he arrested? (Many of Palin’s complaints have been dismissed after further investigation.) That she didn’t recuse herself from the case entirely shows she has no respect for, or knowledge of, how the law works, and we’ve had enough of that in the Executive Branch in the past eight long years. (BTW, Palin originally recommended this guy for the trooper job when she was Mayor of Wasilla. Judgment?)
– Soon to Be Breaking News: Something nasty will rise to the top regarding Palin’s close connections to large energy corporations – she’s the only so-far unindicted major Republican in the state and, contrary to Old Man McCain’s guff, she didn’t get there by being a ‘reformer.’ (Her ‘reforms’ were mainly just dumping her political enemies.) In Alaska, if you’re a GOP politician, you make the deal with Energy Money to move into the Big Leagues. This will be enough to sink the USS Maverick once as for all, as his ‘judgment’ is revealed to stink on ice (not much of a pun intended).
– Flanders? Palin calls her good Christopublican, Iron Dog racer husband Todd the ‘First Dude.’ Isn’t that cute and endearing? Gee, at least she’ll bring dignity to the vice presidency.
– ALPO Update: The AP reports that both Bush and Cheney have now pulled out of the GOP-O-Rama in St. Paul entirely. Seems someone realized that being visually associated with the most loathed president and vice president in our history is maybe not the best thing for Republicans this year. Instead, the hapless Junior will be down in Texas ‘monitoring’ Hurricane Gustav (read ‘vacationing’); and Deadeye Dick is on a four-day jaunt to Europe, including a drop-by in Georgia (uh oh). Incidentally, McCain’s handlers have decided to curtail the Republican convention activities from four hours a day to two, purportedly due to deference for the possible victims of Gustav, but really it’s likely because they didn’t think they could dredge up much of an audience the Right’s Last Rites. This speaks volumes about what terrible shape the GOP is in; no wonder Rep. Tom Davis III (R-VA), in a rare flash of honesty, told CNN last May: “The Republican brand is in the trash can. If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf.”
The Tattlesnake – Toss It in the Potpourri and Heat with Steam Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion,Quote — Tags: 2008 election, Amway, Big Media, China, Cindy McCain, CNN, Daily KOS, davefromqueens, Jamison Foser, John Edwards, Mao Zedong, Mark Kleiman, McCain, McCain's houses, Media Matters, NBC, Nitpicker, Obama, Olympics, Quixtar, Quotes, RS Janes, servants, Tattlesnake, Undocumented Workers, Wolf Blitzer — RS Janes @ 6:47 pm
Prediction: The next big McCain exploding-cigar-of-elitism flap: We now know the Jes’-Plain-Folks McCain’s spent $273,000 last year alone on household employees — what used to be called, in a less euphemistic age, ‘servants’ – but what isn’t mentioned is the hot-n-heavy rumor that they hired some, uh oh, undocumented workers amongst the various butlers, maids and nannies and, double uh oh, didn’t pay SS or taxes on the illegal imports. (Those without their papers have likely been canned and shipped back by now.) Gee, Senator, what’s your position on immigration again?
Quotable Corner:
“That’s right. The McCains pay $270,000 per year for butlers and maids–that’s $50,000 more than the median value of an American home.”
– Nitpicker, Aug. 21, 2008.
“If you had made last year as much money as John McCain spent on household help alone $273,000 — you’d be richer than 95% of American families.”
– Mark Kleiman
“When John Edwards was running for president, and the media were obsessing about his wealth, they linked his fortune to his policy positions. Surely John McCain — who can’t remember how many houses he owns, ‘jokes’ that you aren’t rich unless you make $5 million a year, and supports tax policies that would save him and his wife, Cindy, nearly $400,000 a year — should be held to the same standard?”
– Jamison Foser, Media Matters, Aug. 22, 2008.
And don’t forget to read the ‘Priceless’ McCain ad by davefromqueens on The Daily Kos.
The Tattlesnake – Double-Take On the News Edition
Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: 2008 Presidential Election, Amy Chozick, Antichrist, Big Media, Christians, David Gregory, Democrats, Jamison Foser, Leonard Pitts Jr, McCain, Media Matters, NBC, News Corp, Obama, Republicans, RS Janes, Rupert Murdoch, Tattlesnake, TPM Election Central, Wall Street Journal — RS Janes @ 6:38 pm
You Could Get Whiplash
“Somewhere between the stained blue dress and the vice president shooting a guy in the face, between swift boat lies and ‘war on terra’ alibis, the absurd became the ordinary, facts became optional and satire became superfluous.”
– Leonard Pitts Jr., “When Hysteria and Satire Meet,” The Miami Herald, July 17, 2008.
McCain the Antichrist?Huhhhh? I’m not a big fan of Johnny MacFlipFlop, but the Antichrist in the flesh? Whoa! I smell Rove: This is perhaps the only way the GOP will get far-right Christians to vote for McNasty – by convincing fringe Christopublicans his election will hasten the End Times and bring on the Rapture. Oh, brother. Or maybe Obama is the Antichrist, as Time Magazine postulates the McCain camp is trying to depict him, and the Fundies will vote for BHO to bring about Armageddon. Or maybe they’ll vote against the Antichrist, depending on which one it really is – if you’re a wingnut who believes in a Republican Country Club Jay-zus backed by his Invisible Omnipotent Dad, you certainly have a lot of figurin’ to do this election – and these are Godly folk who taint fond o’ that thinkin’ stuff much. What to do, what to do…who’s got the snakes this week?
– The Big Media Fatuous Fathead of the Week Award: It’s a squeaker, but the prize goes to Amy Chozick of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for devoting over a thousand words to speculating whether Obama is ‘too thin and fit’ to be president. (more…)
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SUN Guojun, LI Weihong, ZHU Chenggang, CHEN Yaning. Spatial Variability of Soil Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio and Its Driving Factors in Ili River Valley, Xinjiang, Northwest China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2017, 27(4): 529-538. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0885-7
Citation: SUN Guojun, LI Weihong, ZHU Chenggang, CHEN Yaning. Spatial Variability of Soil Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio and Its Driving Factors in Ili River Valley, Xinjiang, Northwest China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2017, 27(4): 529-538. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0885-7
Spatial Variability of Soil Carbon to Nitrogen Ratio and Its Driving Factors in Ili River Valley, Xinjiang, Northwest China
SUN Guojun1,2 ,
LI Weihong2 ,
ZHU Chenggang2 ,
CHEN Yaning2 ,
College of Resources and Environment, Xinjiang University, Ürümqi 830046, China;
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi 830011, China
Funds: Under the auspices of National Science and Technology Support Program of China (No. 2014BAC15B03), the West Light Funds of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. YB201302)
Corresponding author: CHEN Yaning.E-mail:chenyn@ms.xjb.ac.cn
Soil carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratio is one of the most important variables reflecting soil quality and ecological function, and an indicator for assessing carbon and nitrogen nutrition balance of soils. Its variation reflects the carbon and nitrogen cycling of soils. In order to explore the spatial variability of soil C/N ratio and its controlling factors of the Ili River valley in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China, the traditional statistical methods, including correlation analysis, geostatistic alanalys and multiple regression analysis were used. The statistical results showed that the soil C/N ratio varied from 7.00 to 23.11, with a mean value of 10.92, and the coefficient of variation was 31.3%. Correlation analysis showed that longitude, altitude, precipitation, soil water, organic carbon, and total nitrogen were positively correlated with the soil C/N ratio (P < 0.01), whereas negative correlations were found between the soil C/N ratio and latitude, temperature, soil bulk density and soil pH. Ordinary Cokriging interpolation showed that r and ME were 0.73 and 0.57, respectively, indicating that the prediction accuracy was high. The spatial autocorrelation of the soil C/N ratio was 6.4 km, and the nugget effect of the soil C/N ratio was 10% with a patchy distribution, in which the area with high value (12.00-20.41) accounted for 22.6% of the total area. Land uses changed the soil C/N ratio with the order of cultivated land > grass land > forest land > garden. Multiple regression analysis showed that geographical and climatic factors, and soil physical and chemical properties could independently explain 26.8%and 55.4% of the spatial features of soil C/N ratio, while human activities could independently explain 5.4% of the spatial features only. The spatial distribution of soil C/N ratio in the study has important reference value for managing soil carbon and nitrogen, and for improving ecological function to similar regions.
soil C/N ratio,
spatial variability,
geostatistical analysis,
Cokriging interpolation,
multiple regression analysis,
Ili River valley
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[40] Zhang S L, Yan L L, Huang J et al., 2015. Spatial heterogeneity of soil C:N ratio in a Mollisol Watershed of Northeast China. Land Degradation & Development, 27(2): 295-304. doi: 10.1002/ldr.2427
[41] Zhang X Y, Chen L D, Li Q et al., 2013. Increase in soil nutrients in intensively managed cash-crop agricultural ecosystems in the Guanting Reservoir catchment, Beijing, China. Geoderma, (193): 102-108. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.09.008
[42] Zhao Y, Peth S, Reszkowska A et al., 2011. Response of soil moisture and temperature to grazing intensity in a Leymuschinensis steppe, Inner Mongolia. Plant and Soil, 340(1): 89-102. doi: 10.1007/s11104-010-0460-9
[43] Zhao Y, Peth S, Krümmelbein J et al., 2007. Spatial variability of soil properties affected by grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia grassland. Ecological Modelling, 205(1): 241-254. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.02.019
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SUN Guojun1,2,
LI Weihong2,
ZHU Chenggang2,
CHEN Yaning2,
1. College of Resources and Environment, Xinjiang University, Ürümqi 830046, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi 830011, China
soil C/N ratio /
spatial variability /
geostatistical analysis /
Cokriging interpolation /
multiple regression analysis /
Abstract: Soil carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratio is one of the most important variables reflecting soil quality and ecological function, and an indicator for assessing carbon and nitrogen nutrition balance of soils. Its variation reflects the carbon and nitrogen cycling of soils. In order to explore the spatial variability of soil C/N ratio and its controlling factors of the Ili River valley in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China, the traditional statistical methods, including correlation analysis, geostatistic alanalys and multiple regression analysis were used. The statistical results showed that the soil C/N ratio varied from 7.00 to 23.11, with a mean value of 10.92, and the coefficient of variation was 31.3%. Correlation analysis showed that longitude, altitude, precipitation, soil water, organic carbon, and total nitrogen were positively correlated with the soil C/N ratio (P < 0.01), whereas negative correlations were found between the soil C/N ratio and latitude, temperature, soil bulk density and soil pH. Ordinary Cokriging interpolation showed that r and ME were 0.73 and 0.57, respectively, indicating that the prediction accuracy was high. The spatial autocorrelation of the soil C/N ratio was 6.4 km, and the nugget effect of the soil C/N ratio was 10% with a patchy distribution, in which the area with high value (12.00-20.41) accounted for 22.6% of the total area. Land uses changed the soil C/N ratio with the order of cultivated land > grass land > forest land > garden. Multiple regression analysis showed that geographical and climatic factors, and soil physical and chemical properties could independently explain 26.8%and 55.4% of the spatial features of soil C/N ratio, while human activities could independently explain 5.4% of the spatial features only. The spatial distribution of soil C/N ratio in the study has important reference value for managing soil carbon and nitrogen, and for improving ecological function to similar regions.
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[38] Yao H B, Lei T, Wang G X et al., 2014. Estimation of soil fertility using collocated cokriging by combining aerial hyperspectral imagery and soil sample data. Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 30(1): 113-121. doi:10.13031/aea.30.10251
[39] Zeng X H, Zhang W J, Cao J S et al., 2014. Changes in soil organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorusand bulk density after afforestation of the “Beijing-Tianjin Sandstorm Source Control” Program in China. Catena, 118: 186-194. doi:org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.01.005
[40] Zhang S L, Yan L L, Huang J et al., 2015. Spatial heterogeneity of soil C:N ratio in a Mollisol Watershed of Northeast China. Land Degradation & Development, 27(2): 295-304. doi:10.1002/ldr.2427
[41] Zhang X Y, Chen L D, Li Q et al., 2013. Increase in soil nutrients in intensively managed cash-crop agricultural ecosystems in the Guanting Reservoir catchment, Beijing, China. Geoderma, (193): 102-108. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2012.09.008
[42] Zhao Y, Peth S, Reszkowska A et al., 2011. Response of soil moisture and temperature to grazing intensity in a Leymuschinensis steppe, Inner Mongolia. Plant and Soil, 340(1): 89-102. doi:10.1007/s11104-010-0460-9
[43] Zhao Y, Peth S, Krümmelbein J et al., 2007. Spatial variability of soil properties affected by grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia grassland. Ecological Modelling, 205(1): 241-254. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.02.019
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Rebecca Jacobsen '16 is the Civic Engagement Fellow for the 2016-2017 school year.
Films on Foss – Summer 2017
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Reflections – Mikaela Carty ’18
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Lily Allen & Lindsay Lohan : BFF set to duet
We all know how it feels to be in an awkward situation with a NBF. You're desperate to please each other, desperate to prove you're the number one mate of the moment. But sometimes the professional and personal just shouldn't mix.
Lily Allen has got herself into a bit of an awkward fix over the pond with new BFF and tabloid Queen Lindsay Lohan. Linds and Lils have got so close recently that Lindsay asked Lily if they can't record a track together for Lily's new album. Forced into a corner Lily could do nothing but say yes - despite the fact that a duet with Lindsay Lohan would be the final nail in her 'credibility' coffin. Critics are already sharpening their knives. Oh dear.
The track will be called 'Wherever You Go'....and if it's anything like Lindsay's previous stabs at music, will likely go straight to the bottom of the HMV bargain bin. Check out Lindsay having a sing song. Ears aren't quite bleeding, but we still wouldn't team up on a karaoke comp with her!
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Stephen Horne
Border Crossings, Volume 31, Number 2, June July August 2012, pp. 94-96.
In Vancouver artist Greg Snider's exhibition of recent "Projects" at Deluge Contemporary Art in Victoria, we encounter precisely but plainly made models. These models are not particularly pretty but are often hypnotic by virtue of their mechanized and repetitive movements, a sense of autonomous motion like that of our giant windmills. In Project For the Tar Sands, dirty oil oozes downward from the top of a Tatlinesque stack of tubes. In Project for an Airport we are confronted by a "mechanical bird," a giant Boeing 767 miniaturized and flapping its wings, slowly. Eight such "Models for the Public Sphere" line up along the gallery walls, accompanied by ten "sculptor's" drawings. In Project For a Holocaust Memorial, Snider has united multiple railway boxcars into a single cruxiform, a regular iron cross. This icon forms a spatial configuration emphasizing the horizontal and the vertical vectors of three dimensionality. The systematic aspect of modern management and production techniques has been compared to the procedures by which the concentration camps were managed. Holocaust proposes that we consider "the monstrous" as an outcome of such rationalist systems.
In Project For a Troller, Snider has collaborated with an amateur model builder rather than using readymade model kit elements. A former fish-boat operator D. Allen (whose name is on the model) now handcrafts highly detailed and knowledgeable miniature memorials to his former occupation as a fisher person. Snider has, with Allen's assistance, modified one of Allen's fishboat models, presenting a cut-away version magically sliced stem to stern, top to bottom. This one-half boat now exposes the inner workings of the troller with its controls and its living space totally present to the viewer's gaze, but what is more interesting is the sense of possession that accompanies the penetrating gaze facilitated by this cut-away didactic demonstration. In the word "demonstration" we can see both "monster" and "monstrate," leading to "monstrous watching." The intersection of these terms is highly pertinent to what happens in Snider's models; they capture us for watching, in some cases almost hypnotically, as in the Project For an Airport automaton, the plane with wings that flap in an ineffable and sinister regularity. There is both a sense of monstrosity but also the feeling of power that accompanies acts of demonstration, of showing the inner workings of something. No doubt these characteristics align with the uncanny or that weird sense of power we can get from seeing inside "the thing." In this way Snider has taken on social topics such as the destruction of the environment, and the isolation of art but he does this by way of a vernacular vocabulary and a critical populism. This ideological orientation of his work aligns him with Hans Haacke but there is in his Projects a sense of wonder and the monstrous that both seem to emanate from the world of model building, perhaps due to its proximity to the world of childhood. For example, in the beautifully built Project for False Creek/Vancouver Special Sawmill, Snider has combined in the most literal way a monument to Vancouver history (a portable sawmill) and the product of such a sawmill (a generic Vancouver bungalow), the house perfectly poised overhead like a second story over the mill, the two, permanently and harmoniously conflicted.
We use the word "model" as noun or as verb and this ambiguity has made it conceptually interesting for many artists. Models exist as memorials, as proposals and as prototypes. Tatlin's Monument of 1920 existed only as a proposal for an ambitiously elaborate tower containing rotating interior platforms. It remained unbuilt but proposing a kinetic building that would demonstrate modernity's vision of better homes through engineering, a vision Snider's models hope to undermine even while adopting the kinetic aspect. The sense of anxiety that emanates from Snider's models is a weirdness that sometimes appears when we encounter an inert object taking on characteristics of a living creature.
The Greek artist Takis intervened in natural forces such as gravity, magnetism, and sound waves with his automated devices. His hypnotic and sinister constructions are pertinent to the work of Greg Snider as are Hans Haacke's early process sculptures, such as Condensation Cube, 1963. Takis' and Haacke's works show as temporal relations, such as that of the organic and the mechanical, and by doing so inspire an awareness of our own temporal presence, our finitude.
Like many of Takis' kinetic sculptures, Snider's Project for a Fountain combines the regularity of machine work with the freedom of a natural event, in Snider's case that of a waterfall. This miniature version of an as yet unbuilt large-scale public monument presents a massive rock overhead, the rock spewing out an absolutely vertical waterfall that also functions as a column supporting the rock. This contradictory combination of stasis and movement is again monstrous, sinister, dangerously unstable an, as such, serves to model our current relationship with nature and the social milieu. In his early sculpture Narrow White Flow, 1962, Hans Haacke placed a piece of fabric in an air jet to demonstrate temporal process in the viewing situation. Another example of this sort of complex model usage was Agnes Denes/ having grown and harvested Wheat Field in New York City, 1982. Both of these artists have pointed toward our ways of mediating or taming nature with automated systems, an orientation pursued in these new works by Greg Snider.
Alongside Snider's use of fabricated materials there are indicators of a transformation of what was once elemental into mere natural resource and automated labour. "Models For The Public Sphere" serves as a reminder that the human being becomes ever more disposable as we render nature and its forces simply a resource.
Deluge, 2012
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Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, January 27 - February 25, 2012
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Chinese in London join royal wedding festivities
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Toasting the happy couple with champagne, the Chinese community in London held a special celebration for Prince William and Kate Middleton one day before the royal wedding.
The event, held on Gerrard Street in Chinatown on Thursday, saw the Chinese community offer blessings to the couple.
Chu Ting Tang, chairman of London Chinatown Chinese Association, said that he hoped Prince William and Kate would pay a visit to Chinatown soon after the wedding to taste Chinese food and experience Chinese culture.
Christine Lee, head of the British Chinese Project and a UK Trade and Investment adviser, said: "I hope they can follow the footsteps of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, care about Chinese in the UK and promote the development of Sino-UK relations."
As a wedding present, the Chinese community sent a portrait of the newlyweds by Chinese artist Yee Ting Chang to Buckingham Palace.
Union flags, the United Kingdom's national flag, now hang along Chinatown's colorfully decorated main street. Tourists, television crews, photographers and reporters from many countries have flooded the squares and streets near Westminster Abbey, where the wedding will be held.
On Friday, Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the UK, will join other members of the diplomatic corps and distinguished guests at the wedding ceremony.
Opposite the abbey is a huge media stand. Many camera crews and photographers were already there on Wednesday, jostling for position.
Alongside the media stand were dozens of tents, temporary home to hardcore royal fans, some of whom arrived as early as Monday to get their chance to witness the historic event.
Some Chinese students, such as Pei Tingting, 22, from northeastern England's Durham University, were among the crowd.
The graduate student, from Southwest China's Sichuan province, said it was a "good occasion" to visit London.
"The weather in April is beautiful. And we really want to be part of this purely British-style celebration when we are here in the UK. It's like a festival," said Pei, who traveled to London with a couple of her classmates.
Another Chinese student surnamed Zhang, who studies at the London Business School, said she will go to Buckingham Palace to witness the first public kiss by the newlyweds.
Chinese artwork and products are playing a big role in the wedding celebrations.
A carved stone from Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu province has been presented to the royal family.
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Nelly Min is an editor at China Daily with more than 10 years of experience as a newspaper editor and photographer. She has worked at major newspapers in the U.S., including the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press. She is also fluent in Korean.
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Injured jockey Jason Maguire unsure on comeback date
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Jason Maguire expects to make a decision “soon” regarding his return to the saddle.
Grand National-winner Maguire has been out of action for nearly a year and his return is not imminent just yet.
While he is able to ride out and has done for a while, he is still getting trouble from his sciatic nerve in his back, which affects his leg.
Maguire underwent surgery on slipped discs in April after a February spill at Musselburgh – less than a year after recovering from life-threatening injuries following a fall at Stratford on the eve of the 2014 Cheltenham Festival.
Maguire returned to riding work at the end of July and had hoped to be back around September time.
“I’m still riding out. I schooled at Tom George’s this morning and Kim Bailey’s the other day. I’m 100 per cent up for trying to get back to riding but it’s not 110 per cent,” he said.
“I’m still getting problems in my right leg though and it’s to do with my back. My sciatic nerve gets trapped and makes my right leg go dead. It’s just something that’s been niggling for a while and that’s been the hold up and I need to get it sorted.
“It’s dragged on a long time and in February it will be a year.
“It’s a decision I’m going to have to make soon I suppose one way or another.”
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Clark chooses not to meet Lois as Superman anymore, but he has to say good-bye at least....
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Clark finds the script of Lois' novel and starts to read it. The similarities with his own life are amazing, but they confuse him �- because Lois seems to like him more than he thought she would.
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Wish you could have seen that date promised at the end of the episode "Individual Responsibility," when Clark promises Lois he'll be there at 7:00, and 7:01, and 7:02 ... ? Here is what it might have been like -- a night out on the town as could only happen to Lois and Clark.
The Ankle Bone's Connected to ...
After having to spend a few hours away from Lois -- and on his wedding night too -- Clark returns to their hotel room to embark on a new mission of exploration.
Always Something There to Remind Me
When Superman has to go out into space to save the world, he brings back with him the means to redeem his alternate self's lonely life.
After not objecting to Lois dating Dan Scardino, Clark has a change of heart. He rushes over to Lois' apartment, hoping it's not too late.
It's Lois and Clark's engagement party, and nothing can mar their happiness with each other ... except perhaps the news that Lex Luthor is not only out of prison but reinstated on his throne of power.
Counter Clark-Wise
A dejected Clark Kent, who despairs of ever getting Lois Lane to notice him, wakes up one morning in bed beside her. Supposedly, he's been married to her for years. He's in heaven. Meanwhile, a much-married Clark is sent mysteriously five years into his past. He wants back, really bad.
Why are the married Lois and Clark going on a singles' cruise? Trouble in paradise? No (okay, there's always a little friction), just hot on the trail of a killer ... with a little time for romance, too. Guest appearances by Ralph and everyone's favorite DEA agent.
Cyber Link
When Lois learns that Clark hangs out on a journalists' chat forum on the IRC, she logs on incognito to ask for help on a story. As her questions turn increasingly personal, Clark comes up with answers she doesn't expect.
Dirty Bubbles
Poor Lex. Three weeks married to Lois and ... things ... are just not working as he expected. But then, hell hath no fury like a woman warned. Is it Revenge? Not exactly ... :-)
Fated: An Elseworld Story
A what-if story in which Jor-El provides his son with more than just passage to a new life on another world.
It was an easy mistake. Lois told Clark to copy the file NOVELL off her computer, and he grabbed NOVEL. Now that he has Lois' fabled romance novel on his screen, can he resist the temptation to read it?
Great Shades of Elvis
It could be that Perry has said, "Great shades of Elvis!" one time too many, because Elvis has taken to conversing with Perry when no one else is around. Before Perry goes completely around the bend, Lois and Clark must tear themselves away from their cozy new relationship to investigate. Who would want to drive Perry insane, and why? Or has the King just gotten lonesome since he died? A story that picks up where the fanfic "Wheels of Justice" leaves off.
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A what-if story that explores what might have happened if Superman, not Clark, had first pursued a relationship with Lois.
An Innocent Conversation
Lois and Clark's trip to the supply closet becomes something more as computer tech talk takes on new meaning.
After the Lois-Lex wedding incident, Perry notices that Lois and Clark are walking on eggshells around each other. He decides to help them get their edge back by sending them "on assignment" to a romantic village in South America, where he hopes nature will take its course.
Known Too Well
Superman becomes annoyed with Lois when, after finishing dinner in her apartment, she confides that she knows him "so well."
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Lois and Superman learn the meaning of sexual tension when they are trapped in a collapsed mine shaft with Jimmy Olsen and injured miners. Superman has to slowly chisel away at the walls, while bracing the ceiling, in order to prevent a complete collapse. Meanwhile, Perry wonders why Clark Kent, Lois' fiance, has been missing for days.
Navigating Denial
When Lois and Clark's son, Perry, realizes he has super-powers, there is only one conclusion he can draw -- his mom had an affair ... with Superman!
Some surprising news sends Lois and Clark on a roller coaster of an adventure.
A Real Short Christmas Story
It's the Planet's Christmas party, and Lois is armed with mistletoe for when her favorite guy shows up.
Was it fate or destiny that brought a small spacecraft to Gotham City instead of Australia, Timbuktu, or even a small farm in Kansas? This Elseworld tale explores a very different beginning to the Superman legend. A Charity Fanzine story.
Ultra Matum
A gem of a "what if" story where Lois gets the opportunity to really learn what being a superhero is all about. Plus lots of warm moments and fun lovey-dovey stuff that no one does better than Lois and Clark.
Wheels of Justice
Mayson Drake calls a press conference trying to condemn Superman as a vigilante, but she's unprepared for the response she receives from Metropolis. Before the conference, Lois and Clark spend a few hours reveling in their new relationship. A continuation of the fanfic "You Made Me Love You" that paints a clearer picture of Mayson Drake and her motivations.
You Made Me Love You
Now that she's finally over her Superman infatuation, Lois is embarrassed to have to sing a love song to the hero at a charity ball -- because the committee thought it would be "cute." To complete her humiliation after the serenade, she is invited to chat at Mayson Drake's table.
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Operating mainly in the Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, BlueScope is now one of the leading manufacturers and marketers of steel products. BlueScope Steel was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on the 15th of July 2002. Its annual revenue reaches approximately AUD$ 8 billion. Its main office is located in Victoria, Australia and around 18,000 employees are working for BlueScope. BlueScope is divided into six segments: building and coated products of Australia, Hot-rolled products Australia, coated and building products Asia, New Zealand and Pacific Steel Products, coated and building products North America and Hot-rolled products North America.
The BlueScope Steel in Australia mainly manufactures an array of steel products that range from plate, slob, hot and cold rolled coils, coated and painted sheet, coil products and tinplates to wall-cladding and roofing, house framing and purlins. In the segment of coated and building products, the array of products produced by BlueScope includes ZINCALUME and COLORBOND steel. Its building products include LYSAGHT KLIP-LOK, LYSAGHT CUSTOM ORB, LYSAGHT NEETASCREEN, LYSAGHT MINI ORB, LYSAGHT UNI-PIER, and LYSAGHT BONDEK decking.
The New Zealand and Pacific Steel segment of Blue Scope Steel is composed of two companies; The Lysaght Pacific and The New Zealand Steel. The New Zealand Steel is in charge of the local manufacturing of coal and iron sand to form slabs. These are used for both the domestic and export market of the company.
Bluescope Steel Limited Company History
BlueScope was a BHP founded company focusing on the mining of lead, silver and zinc. It was founded in 1885 until the company turned its business into steelmaking in 1915 leading the company to open a plant in Newcastle.
It was in 1935 when BlueScope opened a marketing office in Singapore. In the same year, BHP acquired Australia Iron & Steel and several years after, in 1979, BHP also acquired the John Lysaught Company in Australia. Another company, the New Zealand Steel became a part of the BHP in 1989.
It was in the year 2000 when several distribution assets as well as the other components of the businesses of the company were separated from the BHP itself and were listed as OneSteel in the Australian Stock Exchange.
A merging between Anglo-African Billiton and BHP was made in 2001 to form BHP Billiton. As a result of this merging, BHP Steel became publicly listed and was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in the year 2002. Its name was then changed to BlueScope in 2003.
A US-based company, Butler Manufacturing was acquired by BlueScope in 2004 and a joint venture between BlueScope Steel and Tata Steel was announced in November 2005. It was also in 2005 when the first production from Vietnam’s new metallic coating line was commenced by BlueScope.
In February 2006, Andrew Baker was appointed by the BlueScope Steel as the company’s new Chief Information Officer and in August of the same year, 19.9% of the Smorgon Steel’s outstanding shares were acquired by BlueScope.
Smorgon Steel, OneSteel and BlueScope Limited entered into an agreement in March 2007 that led to the merging of OneSteel and Smorgon Steel. Under the agreement BlueScope Steel is undertaking support.
BlueScope Steel (BSL) Products and Services
Flat Steel Products
Hot and cold rolled coil
Beams and sheet
Value-added metallic coated and painted steel products
Tin plate
Steel Building Products
Roof and wall cladding
Steel house framing
Structural products
BlueScope Steel Competitors
Arcelor
Friedman Industries
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BlueScope Steel (BSL) Locations and Subsidiaries
BlueScope Steel Limited Headquarters
Level 11 120 Collins St
BlueScope Steel Limited Subsidiaries
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Other BlueScope Steel Limited Details
BlueScope Steel Limited Year Established: 1921
D-U-N-S: 754384121
Previous Company Names: BHP Steel Limited
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Adnan Januzaj Plays David Moyes Bingo
Dan Tracey July 12, 2017 Leave a comment 2,027 Views
Adnan Januzaj is just one move away from being able to shout ‘house’ on his David Moyes Bingo Card as his career trajectory continues to take a slightly coincidental one after he completed a move to Spanish top flight outfit Real Socidead.
The Belgian winger has played for Manchester United, Sunderland (on loan) and will ply his trade in La Liga next season, which when you compare it to the list of clubs that David Moyes has managed since leaving Preston North End makes for some interesting reading.
Moyes left Deepdale in 2002 and since then has managed Everton, failed at Manchester United and had forgettable stints in charge of both Real Sociedad and Sunderland therefore Adnan Januzaj just needs to end up at Goodison Park during his career and these two will have had a perfect symmetry throughout their respective careers.
What makes it even more interesting or should that be weirder is the fact that they have worked together at both Manchester United and Sunderland as it was Moyes that gave him his big break at Old Trafford during his ill fated time in charge of the Red Devils and also bought him to the Stadium Of Light last season for a loan spell that was curtailed by injury.
For Januazj it will be a chance to get his career back on track after so much initial promise after being used regularly by Moyes he was never held in the same esteem by Louis Van Gaal who was the next man to step into the Old Trafford after the sacking of the previous incumbent in 2014.
This was no more apparent than when the 22 year old was loaned out to Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund for the 2015-16 season but was sent back with his tails in between his legs just halfway through the season with just a handful of appearances to his name.
Although he was used sparingly by Van Gaal after his short lived trip to Germany he was never a key feature of the squad and managed just 5 Premier League appearances in the second half of the 2015-16 campaign, at that point questions were being asked as to whether or not the Kosovo born player had a future at the club.
The answer to that was arguably not when he was loaned out to Sunderland at the start of the last season to once again work under David Moyes and that has now been confirmed with the move to the club which plays its home games at the Anoeta.
Real Sociedad finished sixth in La Liga last season and will compete in the Europa League group stage in 2017-18 and have paid just under £1om to acquire the services of Januzaj…..I wonder when that move to Everton will take place?
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Manchester United vs West Ham – Premier League Match Preview
Dan Tracey August 13, 2017 Leave a comment 1,175 Views
The final game of this opening Premier League weekend takes us to Old Trafford as Manchester United play host to West Ham this afternoon. Jose Mourinho’s side have already got their season under way after their run out in the European Super Cup on Tuesday night.
That fixture however did not bring another piece of silverware for Mourinho and United as they were beaten by the unstoppable force which is Real Madrid right now. There’s no shame in saying that Los Blancos were the better side that night as they ran out 2-1 winners in Skopje, Macedonia.
There were questions marks over the performance of new signing Victor Lindelof in defence but the majority of the attention would have undoubtedly been on Belgian international Romelu Lukaku after his initial £75m transfer from Everton back in July.
He will have come away from the game with a pass mark after scoring the goal that gave United a glimmer of hope late on but arguably his performance could have been better especially when timing his runs in the final third of the pitch. The scenario where he was caught offside happened all too often.
But Today he will be unleashed on a West Ham side who have added some experienced names to their ranks and they all have a Manchester connection to the club. Defender Pablo Zabaleta and goalkeeper Joe Hart arrive after long stints at The Etihad.
The Argentine joins on a free transfer after his contract expired at the end of last season, while Hart makes the move to London by virtue of a season long loan. The pair are joined by someone who also once called Manchester home but it was Old Trafford in which he previously plied his trade.
The man in question is none other than Mexican international Javier Hernandez who joins the club from Bayer Leverkusen. It has to be said that the capture of the 29 year old was something of a coup from the East London outfit and highlights the clubs ambition for this season.
That ambition would only have been further highlighted by the capture of Marko Arnautovic from Stoke for £20m. The Austrian on his day can create a nuisance for opposition defenders, whether that day comes round often enough can be argued. But it will be interesting to see what he can do in a new environment.
Another player who will be looking to see what he can do in a new environment is Nemanja Matic as he swaps Chelsea for Manchester United. He links up once again with Jose Mourinho after his £40m move at the start of August.
The hope and expectation will be that he can unlock the key to Paul Pogba with the French international now being allowed to roam further forward safe in the knowledge that the Serbian midfielder can act as the protective screen in front of the back four.
In terms of today, it is a well known fact that Jose Mourinho’s teams always are stronger in the second season and I think they will be able to brush off their disappointment in Macedonia earlier in the week and get to a perfect start in front of their own fans. Home win for me.
Here is what social media thinks will happen at Old Trafford – you might still have time to vote as well…
And not forgetting – what will the outcome be at Old Trafford between#MUFC and #WHUFC
— Dan Tracey (@dantracey1983) August 12, 2017
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Pandemic Returns
By Christos Lynteris
Pandemic prophecy is the prophecy not of an event, but of an eventual return or recurrence. If the “next pandemic” is a biopolitical apparatus revolving around the anticipation of a 1918-influenza-pandemic-like event, what needs to be noted is that the formation of this recurrence-structure is contemporary to the systematization of the notion of the pandemic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, in the course of what came to be known as the “third plague pandemic” (1894-1959, following WHO chronology), the chain of bubonic plague epidemics striking harbors, cities and villages across the globe was made sense of as the reappearance of a medieval scourge: the Black Death. Yet this was always already an incomplete return. On the one hand, it was the bacteriological anchoring of modern plague that allowed the serialization of the pandemics preceding it. And on the other hand, though microbiologically identical to them – and hence, as Caduff would put it, the return of a fossil – the mortality resulting from modern plague did not match the apocalyptic image of the event it was supposed to replicate. What this prophetic discourse then generated was not simply a failed pandemic, but a recursive indivisible remainder: the successive deferment of the pandemic event in its eternal return.
Within the biopolitical context of turn-of-the-century Empire, this pandemic vision rhymed with the overall conception of disease as resulting from decay and degeneration. By contrast, in our times the temporal ontology of the “return of the virus” seems to be at odds with the temporality underlining the biological phenomenon said to be the driver of the “next pandemic”: emergence. Yet what we have here is not a move away from the former towards the latter; for rather than displacing recurrence, emergence envelops it in what Caduff calls its constitutional temporal incongruity. Whereas in the model of degeneration the pandemic returns through the recrudescence of a dormant disease, in the case of emergence pandemic recurrence results from the generation of a “new virus”. Rather than interrupting the eternal return of the pandemic as the eventalization of human-extinction, emergence — that diagram of “protean” viral ontogenesis — is the condition of its biopolitical efficacy.
For if, as Caduff notes, the definition of what counts as “new” forms the undecidable arcanum of emergence ontology, that which anchors the “next pandemic” as an imaginable and hence “preparable” catastrophe is precisely the fact that it is projected as something which is not (at) all-new. From preparedness exercises to pandemic movies and novels, whilst the identity of the killer virus remains speculative, its social impact is depicted in a trite way, which can only be described as “the banality of plague”: a meltdown of private property and law-and-order. It is hence less the supposed biological impact of the “next pandemic” than the failure of its “prophets” to imagine human suffering in any other way than in the form of a rupture of bourgeois values which is striking here. What “returns” in the form of the “new virus” is not simply the specter of human extinction, but, even for those few who survive, the bane of life not simply without but “before” capitalism; a Hobbesian dystopia where humanity is led “back” to an animalistic state of mutual predation. For this prophetic regime, the only true future for humanity is the present; any other future would be simply a return to “the dark ages” or “the stone age”. It is this pandemic vision, as a vision of no imaginable alternative, which sets the “prophetic scene” of the coming plague.
Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on biopolitical and visual aspects of infectious disease epidemics. He is Senior Research Associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, and Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. Christos is the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier (Palgrave Macmillan, to appear in spring 2016).
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Protogon File System
By cfheoh | March 4, 2012 - 7:30 pm | March 4, 2012 Filesystems, Microsoft
I was out shopping yesterday and I was tempted to have lunch at Bar-B-Q Plaza, a popular Thai, Japanese-style hot plate barbeque restaurant in this neck of the woods. The mascot of this restaurant is Bar-B-Gon, a dragon-like character and it is obviously a word play of barbeque and dragon.
As I was reading the news this morning about the upcoming Windows Server 8 launch, I found out that ever popular, often ridiculed NTFS (NT File System) of Windows will be going away. It will be replaced by Protogon, a codename for the new file system that Microsoft is about to release. Protogon? A word play of prototype and dragon?
The new file system, with backward compatibility with NTFS, will be called ReFS or Resilient File System. And the design objectives of what Microsoft calls “next generation” file system are clear and adept to the present day requirements. I notably mentioned present day requirements for a reason, because when I went through the key features of ReFS, the concepts and the ideas are not exactly “next generation“. Many of these features are already present with most storage vendors we know of, but perhaps for the people in the Windows world, these features might sound “next generation” to them.
ReFS, to me, is about time. NTFS has been around for a long, long time. It was first known in the wild in the 1993, and gain prominence and wide acceptance in Windows 2000 as the “enterprise-ready” file system. Indeed it was, because that was the time Microsoft Windows started its dominance into the data centers when the Unix vendors were still bickering about their version of open standards. Active Directory (AD) and NTFS were the 2 key technologies that slowly, but surely, removed Unix’s strengths in the data centers.
But over the years, as the storage networking technologies like SAN and NAS were developing and maturing, I see the NTFS being little developed to meet the strengths of these storage networking technologies and relevant protocols in the data world. When I did a little bit of system administration on Windows (2000, 2003 notably), I could feel that NTFS was developed with direct-attached storage (DAS) or internal disks in mind. Definitely not full taking advantage of the strengths of Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN. It was only in Windows Server 2008, that I felt Microsoft finally had enough pussyfooting with SAN and NAS, and introduced a more decent disk storage management that incorporates features that works well natively with SAN. Now, Microsoft can no longer sit quietly without acknowledging the need to build enterprise-ready technologies related to storage networking and data management. And the core in the new Microsoft Windows Server 8 engine for that is the ReFS.
One of the key technology objectives in the design of ReFS is backward compatibility. Windows has a huge market to address and they cannot just shove NTFS away. The way they did was to maintain the upper level API and file semantics and having a new core file system engine as shown in the diagram below:
ReFS is positioned with resiliency in mind. Here are a few resilient features:
Ability to isolate fault and perform data salvation on parts of the file system without taking the entire file system or volume offline. The goal of REFS here is to be ONLINE and serving data all the time!
Checksumming data and metadata for integrity. It verifies all data, and in some cases, auto-correcting corrupted data
Optional integrity streams that ensures protection for all forms of file-level data corruption. When enabled, whenever a file is changed, the modified copy is written to a different area of the disk than that of the original file. This way, even if the write operation is interrupted and the modified file is lost, the original file is still intact. (Doesn’t this sounds like COW with snapshots?) When combined with Storage Spaces (we will talk about this later), which can store a copy of all files in a storage array on more than one physical disk, ReFS gives Windows a way to automatically find and open an uncorrupted version of a file In the event that a file on one of the physical disks becomes corrupted. Microsoft does not recommend integrity streams for applications or systems with a specific type of storage layout or applications which want better control in the disk storage, for example databases.
Data scrubbing for latent disk errors. There is an tool, integrity.exe which runs and manages the data scrubbing and integrity policies. The file attribute, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NO_SCRUB_DATA, will allow certain applications to skip this options and have these applications control integrity policies beyond what ReFS has to offer.
Shared storage pools across machines for additional fault tolerance and load balancing (ala Oracle RAC perhaps?)
Protection against bit rot. Silent data corruption, which I have blogged about many, many moons ago.
End-to-end resilient architecture is the goal in mind.
From a file structure standpoint, here’s how ReFS looks like:
ReFS is Copy-on-Write (COW). As you know, I am a big fan of any file systems but COW is one that I am most familiar with. NetApp’s Data ONTAP, Oracle Solaris, ZFS and the upcoming Linux BTRFS are all implementations of COW. Similar to BTRFS, ReFS uses a B+ tree implementation and as described in Wikipedia,
ReFS uses B+ trees for all on-disk structures including metadata and file data. The file size, total volume size, number of files in a directory and number of directories in a volume are limited by 64-bit numbers, which translates to maximum file size of 16 Exbibytes, maximum volume size of 1 Yobibyte (with 64 KB clusters), which allows large scalability with no practical limits on file and directory size (hardware restrictions still apply). Metadata and file data are organized into tables similar to relational database. Free space is counted by a hierarchal allocator which includes three separate tables for large, medium, and small chunks. File names and file paths are each limited to a 32 KB Unicode text string.
In ReFS, Microsoft introduces Storage Spaces. And the concept is very, very similar to what ZFS is, with the seamless implementation of a volume manager, RAID management, and highly resilient file system. And ZFS is 10 years old. So much for ReFS being “next generation“. But here is a series of screenshots of how Storage Spaces looks like:
And similar to this “flexible volume management” ala ONTAP FlexVol and ZFS file systems, you can add disk drives on the fly, and grow your volumes online and real time.
ReFS inherits many of the NTFS features as it inches towards the Windows Server 8 launch date. Some of the features mentioned were the BitLocker encryption, Access Control List (ACL) for security (naturally), Symbolic Links, Volume Snapshots, File IDs and Opportunistic Locking (Oplocks).
ReFS is intended to scale to as what Microsoft says, “to extreme limits“. Here is a table describing those limits:
ReFS new technology will certainly bring Windows to the stringent availability and performance requirements of modern day file systems, but the storage networking world is also evolving into the cloud computing space. Object-based file systems are also getting involved as market trends dictate new requirements and file systems, in order to survive, must continue to evolve.
Microsoft’s file system, NTFS took a long time to come to this present version, ReFS, but can Microsoft continue to innovate to change the rules of the data storage game? We shall see …
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of books by Ken Thompson
KEN THOMPSON, Ph.D. ( ) is a Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.
Where do Camels Belong?
by Ken Thompson
Greystone Books, 2014
Thompson explores the idea of 'native' and 'alien' (often called invasive) species and juxtaposes the 'frozen moment' ideology of modern conservation biologists with Darwin's theory of evolution and the history of life on earth that explains birth and extinction of species on migration and natural selection (adaptation). Today's question is, what qualifies as natural or native? Here, the conservation biologist makes a distinction between 'natural' and change brought on by 'human agency', which by definition is not natural, thus alien, and worse, invasive.
He has written this book clearly as a corrective narrative countering current trends of equating alien with invasive, where invasive always means destructive towards native species, although only few invasive species are problematic. If they are problematic, they tend not to be so for native species, but threaten human economic prospects. In modern conservation biology, alien species have become scapegoats for habitat destruction, although human caused habitat destruction often endangers 'natives' and allows alien species well adapted to modern human habitats to prosper. Clearly, invasive species are more an indicator of human influence on habitats, rather then evidence of the destructive nature of the alien species.
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Andashalla
Tyebald
Created: November 3, 2008
Classes: Thief | Psionicist | Warrior | Mage | Ranger | Paladin Cleric
Level: T7
Race: Triton
Clan: The Great Circle of Druids
| Sat Feb 26 12:28:50 2011 194 201 Tyebald 13
| You get a Trivia Point Token from the perforated corpse of Barney the Loser.
| You receive an Archaeology Trivia Point Token from the Archaeology Master.
| Eochaid Ollathair blesses you with a free point of potential.
| Aardwolf daily rankings by Gquests Won.
| Num Name Clan Level Total Qp Kills Deaths Gquests
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| 1) Tyebald Druid 26 971 609 0 4
| You hear a loud roar from Tyebald and the world appears calmer for a while.
| Aardwolf rejoices in the death of another MILLION monsters.
| You receive (Aarchaeology) Master of History from The (Aarchaeology) Professor.
Tyebald took first place in a character history writing contest in May of 2014.
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05/19/14 [ 57 Triton T+7] Tyebald <<<BSC>>> (E) [Druid]
Stumbling out of bed, Tyebald strapped on his gear, cradled his aching skull between two calloused hands, and prepared to face another day. And promptly fell out of a tree.
Oh that's right. Bed. Dryads. Mulled wine......yeah, it's starting to come back now. Damn dryads and their trees. Okay, so the whole Druid thing seemed like a pretty good idea. After all, what's not to like: a whole collection of folks with a penchant for sharing, and loose clothing providing ready access to the treasures within. Nobody mentions the dryads though. "Insatiable sexual appetite". Sure, maybe. But all the talk. "Don't ever leaf me!" "You're tree-mendous!" Nobody ever mentions the puns. Ever.
That was five years ago now. Six, if you aren't the strongest with numbers. Or possibly four. Tyebald was not the strongest with numbers. Figures, on the other hand, were his specialty. Mmm, figures....which is why he still found himself waking up and falling out of the occasional tree.
Tree. Ground. Seems there's something that's supposed to come next. Ah yes. And with that, Tyebald struck out across the open ground. Not running, of course. Certainly not running. That wouldn't be dignified. Plus, they liked it when he ran. They might be tied to a tree and all, but the core is all female, and he'd never met a female who didn't enjoy a good chase. Most of them enjoyed a bad chase. Catch and release. If only he could count on the release part.
So he wasn't running. Probably some of the fastest walking seen on the plains of Mesolar, but not running. That was another specialty. A lifetime of selective property rights had bred a certain effectiveness at being somewhere else. Between quick wits and fast hands, it always seemed a good idea to be somewhere different. That was only one of many lessons Jumpsteady imprinted on him: "Don't be where they want to hang you." Seems simple enough. He neatly left out the part about not doing things to deserve being hanged, and that's probably just as well. Those are all the fun bits.
Jumpsteady was good with the fun bits. Tyebald didn't remember much from his childhood, but once Jumpsteady took up his tutelage, things started to be really worth forgetting. "Where were you last night?" for instance. Who could say? Such a minor detail, certainly not worth the trouble of remembering. Forgetting was much more profitable. And as for the rest of what he'd been taught? Well, naturally, that was all long since forgotten...
It was Jumpsteady who had originally planted the idea of following the Druids. Planted... Yeah, clearly it was time to put some distance between him and the dryads.
And so once again, Tyebald found himself striking out across the land. Head full of wool, pockets full of.....oh gold! That should come in handy! And a happy tune to keep the hangover company. Nobody enjoys an unhappy hangover.
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