Dataset Preview
The full dataset viewer is not available (click to read why). Only showing a preview of the rows.
Job manager crashed while running this job (missing heartbeats).
Error code: JobManagerCrashedError
Need help to make the dataset viewer work? Make sure to review how to configure the dataset viewer, and open a discussion for direct support.
pred_label
string | pred_label_prob
float64 | wiki_prob
float64 | text
string | source
string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__cc
| 0.689963
| 0.310037
|
Aniplex of America, Fathom Events, and National Pancreas Foundation Team Up to Raise Awareness with I want to eat your pancreas
Anime and Film, Articles, News and Announcements
VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES A WIDE ARRAY OF SPECIAL GUESTS AND ACTIVITIES FOR NEW YORK COMIC CON AND ANIME FEST 2018
Anime and Film, Articles, Conventions, Events, News and Announcements
Fanart Friday: Reid Art
Art, Art, Photos
VIZ MEDIA RELEASES THE ART OF MAGIC: THE GATHERING—RAVNICA
Articles, Fashion and Merch, News and Announcements
LACC 2019 Day Three Cosplay Roundup
Articles, Conventions, Cosplay, Events, Photos
‘Killing Stalking’ Reflection- The Psychological Thriller that has Everyone Talking
***Warning: Spoilers***
***Trigger Warnings: Sexual assault, abuse, mental health, gore***
Let me first start off by saying that, despite what you may have seen or heard, Killing Stalking is not a romance. It is about two mentally unstable people in a codependent relationship. Killing Stalking is a psychological thriller Korean manwha (comic) created, written and drawn by Koogi and is distributed by Lezhin Comics. Before you read any further, know that I will be talking about many unfortunate circumstances that the characters go through throughout the series including abuse, homicide and sexual assault.
Yoon Bum is a scrawny man in his twenties with Borderline Personality Disorder and a stalking problem. We are introduced to him while he is literally stalking his current prey on the train, sweating and staring with an unsettling smile while he thinks about this man and a girl he saw the man with. Flash forward to Bum attempting to break into someone’s house, questioning his own actions. Why does he do the things he does? Why does he steal others’ processions, watch people from afar, break into houses? He claims it’s all for love. We learn the name of the stalkee is Oh Sangwoo and a bit of Bum’s past is presented. We learn that Bum and Sangwoo were classmates and that he had admired Sangwoo from afar. The two men were drafted in the army during the same time and Bum was less than optimal at being a soldier. His fellow officers decided to take advantage of his small frame by forcing him to do extra exercises, wearing him out, only to then attempt at a gang rape. We learn that Sangwoo intervened and, in a way, saved Bum from his abusers. This act only caused Bum’s infatuation to grow stronger. Although he attempted to oppose his feelings of attachment toward Sangwoo, he was unable to repress them, explaining those feelings “wouldn’t be able to forget as easily as before”. With no closure, Bum was left to his memories of his savior, portraying Sangwoo as this all mighty deity of pure wonder who became the object of his obsession and even serves as masturbation material.
In all honesty, despite feeling repulsed by his behavior, I really do feel bad for this man. We can clearly see that Bum is incredibly poor, lives in a shabby, unkempt apartment, and wears the same clothes everyday. He seems to have unstable life due to having been through a myriad of unfortunate circumstances that effect him everyday. These events have left him scarred mentally and physically. Tack all of that onto his Borderline Personality Disorder, which is defined as a “serious mental disorder marked by a pattern of ongoing instability in moods, behavior, self-image, and functioning. These experiences often result in impulsive actions and unstable relationships. A person with BPD may experience intense episodes of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last from only a few hours to days”. With all of this going on, it’s no wonder Sangwoo is his one shining light. Readers can identify with some aspect or trait Bum has and Koogi relays that to her readers. She is really good at nailing the “feel bad for the main character” because either we have too much sympathy or we are that person with mental disability and can relate. She also knows that, generally, an audience wants nothing more than our main characters to be happy and healthy and constantly makes us question our own thoughts, feelings and morals.
Eventually, Bum successfully breaks into Sangwoo’s home and we see him roam through the house, touching and smelling things as he goes all the while catching glimpses of a naked and bruised woman tied up. Bum eventually makes it to Sangwoo’s room where he performs some inappropriate acts. It is then we learn of Sangwoo’s God-awful secret when Bum encounters the woman beaten and tied up the basement. She is traumatized and utterly begs him to save her. As Bum prepares to untie her he is suddenly encountered by non other than the main attraction himself, Oh Sangwoo, carrying a large, metal bat. With a massive swing, Bum is knocked in the arm then shoved down the stairs, falling unconscious, only to wake up chained to a pole and laying next to the now dead woman he tried to save. This is just the first two chapters, my friends.
In public, Sangwoo’s adopted the “perfect college student” persona. He is always accompanied by friends and attracts many female admirers; the local police even see him as a good kid. He is “beloved by all”, as Bum describes him, and has an “empathetic, considerate gentle aura [that draws] everyone to him”. However, this outward appearance masks the deranged, homicidal serial killer he truly is. His psychopathic characteristics come into play with every murder he commits. He will torture and toy with his victims in sadistic fashion, alternating between sympathy and berating them with explicit slurs and hate speech. He tortures them slowly, savoring every minute, manipulating them into thinking they MAY have a chance to escape before being mercilessly killed. Over the course of the chapters, Sangwoo’s past is slowly surfaced and we get a feel for why he is the way he is.
From happy-go-lucky student
to psychotic serial killer.
Throughout the series, we see Bum and Sangwoo’s “relationship” develop into a ghastly codependency with the latter even developing an emotional attachment to the former. Despite this, Sangwoo keeps Bum as his captive. He tortures, manipulates and abuses Bum to the point of breaking. There is nothing for these two. Sangwoo will not help Bum become less of a creep and Bum is even less of a cure for Sangwoo’s pure cruelty and psychotic nature.
At times, there are certain scenarios Koogi writes that makes us genuinely like these two as a couple. Such as the two shopping for clothes or cooking together and even participating in consenting sexual activities, despite Sangwoo exhibiting homophobia at first. However, each situation is truly a ploy for Sangwoo to manipulate Bum into obeying his every command and making sure he doesn’t escape. And Bum, unfortunately, feels like Sangwoo really does want him. Though, there are a few moments where he really does realize this is not someone he wants anymore but has to go along with everything in order to survive. So there may be some hope?
What Koogi is trying to convey in her series is not to be taken lightly at all and she is constantly topping herself with each scenario. And honestly? I’m totally fine with that. Bring on the shock factor. There are enough creators who are too hesitant to push the envelope. These characters are sick and in desperate need of help; the first two chapters clearly say this. Their relationship is not one to romanticize and they cannot heal each other. I worry for the fans who are determined to prove to others that there will be a way for them to help each other and live happily ever after because, that’s just not going to happen. Koogi has even said that she “did not want Killing Stalking to look like a romantic story”. Yet, there are fans who do and that’s, unsettling.
So, if you are still with me after all of this, do you choose to read it?
The art is indeed great and has only gotten better over time; Koogi really pushes herself and puts her heart into it. Sangwoo is hot. Yoon Bum is cute. It doesn’t help (or does it?) that Koogi gives her fans random beautiful art of the characters on her twitter. Many panels give off a dark atmosphere (literally, they’re black when something horrible is happening) and fans have noticed that Koogi uses different gradients for certain situations. It’s all clever, really.
That being said, Killing Stalking is not for everyone. If you are looking for a Yaoi or Boys Love story that starts off angsty but will eventually end happy, this is not for you. If you have a history of abuse and perhaps are triggered by certain words or actions, this is definitely not for you. The comic is full of gore, depicts mental, emotional, sexual and physical abuse, trauma and generally distasteful things. Yet, if you are open-minded, looking for something that strays from the norm and can tell the difference between fiction and reality, I say give it a shot. There is nothing wrong with liking gruesome stories. Should these things I described be celebrated? Absolutely not. Everything I just told you is unbelievably scary. I myself do not “ship” Sangwoo and Yoon Bum but that doesn’t mean I do not find their relationship interesting. There were a few moments I smiled, others where I truly felt stunned and many times even disgusted. But overall, I am enjoying this comic. If I could have all of these emotions as I read, then I believe Koogi is doing her job.
Killing Stalking is currently on a break while Koogi preps for Season 3, out next year. So there’s plenty of time to catch up on Lezhin’s number 1 BL series. Go read the series for yourself over on Lezhin’s Website or install their app on your phone. You can read the first two chapters for free to see if it is something you’ll want to keep reading.
All images are from the Killing Stalking webtoon on Lezhin.com.
killing stalkingkoogilezhinlezhin comics
Featured Cosplay – Christmas Cosplay
Featured Fanart – Christmas Cuties
Owner and Executive Editor of Anime Ushi. Cosplayer, Twitch Affiliate and host of Otaku Atsumaru. Favorite series: One Piece, Yuri on Ice, Tiger & Bunny, Hellsing Ultimate.
Tatsuyuki Oyamato the 4th launches on Lezhin Comics
Press Kit: Lezhin Comics Webtoon ‘Big See’ dramatization by Kakao M
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line5
|
__label__cc
| 0.68281
| 0.31719
|
Services in Civil law
Lawyer services
Using the services of Office “Arabadzhiev” you can find the right solutions related to movable and real estate. … “Property law” is subject to property and constitutes a legal relation to them. Real estate and transactions with them. These are property rights, use rights, tenure rights, construction rights / superficies, easement rights, upgrade rights and landscaping rights. By their nature, real rights are absolute.
Family law governs civil relations arising from and on the basis of marriage, kinship, adoption, guardianship and guardianship. It covers marriage, the regime of property relations of spouses, divorce, maintenance, recognizing a child, parental rights, establishment and contestation of origin. Inheritance Legal Advice and Claims for Division of Property Acquired after Marriage are hereby dropped as a subdivision.
Hereditary law
Inheritance law regulates the legal relations arising on the occasion of the death of a person, by virtue of which the property of this person is distributed. The hereditary legal relationship in the form of inheritance develops between the heirs on the occasion of inheritance, division of property, sale, acceptance and refusal of inheritance, claims for reserved part.
Labor law regulates public relations related to labor, such as concluding and terminating contracts, labor benefits; disciplinary sanctions, revocation of illegal dismissal, claim for reinstatement, compensation in case of illegal dismissal, protection against employer's arbitrariness and violation of the labor rights of employees. Our law firm can represent you before all courts in labor law disputes.
The insured right is a legal branch regulating the emergence of insurance legal relations between the users of insurance services and the insurance organizations. It regulates these relations and includes legal norms regulating the general provisions regarding the form, the conclusion of an Insurance Contract, the rights and obligations of the parties to it, the payment of indemnity in connection with insurance events.
Bond law
Bond relationship - a legal relationship between two parties by virtue of which one party / creditor / may ask the other party / debtor / performance of a consideration, compliance with a certain behavior. It includes: Contracts / Contractual relations / Contract termination / Cases for compensation for non-compliance with contractual and non-contractual obligations / mediation and out-of-court settlement of disputes.
Our business and commercial practice is focused on acting and advising on legal issues related to a wide range of business and commercial transactions, including advice on commercial contracts, company restructuring, business structuring, mergers, acquisitions and sales or acquisitions of companies and enterprises in Bulgaria … Commercial law is a branch of law whose rules govern the relations that arise in trade. Includes traders' legislation; commercial…
Medical law covers all legal relations in the field of healthcare, which are realized between the following subjects: state and public bodies, medical specialists, patients and third parties. Sources - all regulations containing legal norms governing public relations in the subject of medical law. help.
Subscription law
/ Representation and Protection before PEAs Arabadjiev Law Firm assists its clients - debtors or creditors for protection of their rights. Based on the specifics of each case, taking into account the desired legal result aimed at the client. You can count on a competent, fast and correct solution to your problem.
Arabadzhiev & Partners Association welcomes clients in Bulgaria to its offices in Sofia, Plovdiv and Stara Zagora. Full discretion is guaranteed!
© 2020 Arabadzhiev & Partners. All rights reserved
Created with tons of caffein and by MilenKo
This site uses cookies to facilitate your browsing and to show you content that may be of interest to you. By pressing the YES button you agree to the use of cookies. More information about the Privacy Policy § cookies can be found here.
Title management
Cookies are used to make this website work and to enhance your experience. To learn more about the types of cookies this website uses, see our Cookie Policy. We need your consent to use marketing cookies. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads (via third party services) that are relevant and engaging for individual users. Please select the checkbox below to indicate your consent.
Your cookie preferences have been saved
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line19
|
__label__cc
| 0.538077
| 0.461923
|
R. A. S. Macalister sitting on top of Cairn B at midsummers day, June 21st, 1911, at Carrowkeel in County Sligo. The trench they cut around the cairn, looking for the doorway, can be seen to the left of the entrance. Photograph by William A. Green, © NMNI.
Second visit, Carrowkeel, June 1911.
We resumed work on June 20th, the party consisting of R. A. S.Macalister, E. C. R. Armstrong, W. A. Green, and R. L. Praeger. On that afternoon further excavations were made at Carn E without result; subsequently we divided, and while Macalister and Green photographed at Carns G, H, and K by flashlight and daylight, Armstrong superintended a new attack on the large ruined Carn F, and Praeger surveyed the southern portions of Carrowkeel, traversing some miles of rough ground, and finding one small additional carn, lettered A. The position of the great cap-stone of Carn F, impending over the excavations, compelled a cessation of work at this carn after a few hours.
The capstone of Cairn F halts excavation of the chamber in June, 1911. Photograph by William A. Green, © NMNI.
The morning of the 21st saw us start work on Carn B (Mr. Gorman's), a very fine carn, magnificently situated on a cliff-walled spur. During the whole of that day, and half of the next, we toiled in steady rain. Commencing on the north side, about one-third way up the slope; we cut a trench, which eventually ran completely round the carn, but without finding a doorway.
This work revealed two small secondary interments, and also a remarkable semi-circular wall, which details are described elsewhere. In the end we were beginning to cut right down into the carn from the top, a serious undertaking, when almost by chance we discovered the doorway, situated unusually high up on the north side, and well above the top of our trench.
A pickaxe at the newly opened entrance to Cairn B at Carrowkeel in 1911. Photograph by William A. Green,© NMNI.
The remainder of the 22nd was devoted to removing and examining the bones, etc., from the chamber, and also to an examination of the small Carn A, discovered on the previous day; but this we decided was not worth the labour of opening, as it appeared too small to contain a chamber.
Plan of Cairn B from the 1911 report.
Friday, June 23rd, was occupied in making a plane-table survey of the old village site discovered on the plateau below Carns O and P; and on account of the roughness of the ground, the number of the hut-sites, and the inclemency of the weather, this work occupied the whole day.
On the morning of Saturday, 24th, Macalister and Praeger checked measurements and photographed, while Armstrong was engaged in packing the bones and other objects for transport; and in the afternoon the party returned to Dublin.
Cairn G - Astronomy
The Priest's Gap or Stair.
Cairn B and Cairn F at Carrowkeel.
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line23
|
__label__wiki
| 0.667865
| 0.667865
|
Ambassador’s op-ed asks US to stop blaming China for COVID-19
China’s ambassador to the US wants American politicians to stop blaming the Communist nation for the outbreak and spread of the coronavirus pandemic, he wrote in an op-ed.
In a column published in the Washington Post Tuesday, Ambassador Cui Tiankai wrote that “the absurd mind-set of ‘always blame China’” has been “an unnecessary burden” for the nation, “undercutting international efforts to curb the virus.”
“Simply put, for some people, China has to be wrong, regardless of the facts,” he continued.
“When China took the decisive step to lock down Wuhan, critics dismissed the move as a medieval practice that violated human rights, something typical of an ‘authoritarian’ China. When China provided updates about the outbreak, they labeled objective facts as disinformation and propaganda,” Cui remarked, “The nature of China’s political system dominates the content of their attacks, and the Communist Party is the ultimate target of their barrage.”
Cui went on to say that as China began to get the outbreak under control, COVID-19 cases began skyrocketing elsewhere.
As a result, he wrote, “a few American politicians switched to their default setting of blaming others, ignoring that China has done its best in responding to a new virus.”
China has faced a wave of international condemnation over its handling of the virus, but has repeatedly denied any cover-ups or wrongdoing.
Despite their assurance that they reacted swiftly and appropriately to the crisis, the Chinese Communist Party didn’t launch a national plan to combat the pandemic until the first case was reported outside China, which occurred on January 13 in Thailand.
The Chinese ambassador then listed a set of what he claimed to be “facts” to dispute that the country was to blame for the mishandling of the virus.
First, he argued, China “had taken strict measures and made huge sacrifices” to get the pandemic under control, something he says “bought precious time for the world.”
Cui then disputed the global view that China had not been transparent by neglecting to share information about the virus, arguing that the country had “done its best.”
He referenced a doctor in Hubei province reporting three suspicious cases on December 27. After those cases were reported, according to Cui, “local and central governments conducted investigations on the ground.”
Donald TrumpDavid Butow
Cui said that within a week of those cases, China began briefing the World Health Organization, the US and the world.
What Cui neglects to mention, however, is that more than 3,000 unknowing individuals were exposed and infected over the course of that week, while Chinese leadership remained silent.
China opted against canceling a mass banquet in Wuhan that week, and millions of Chinese people began traveling for Lunar New Year festivities.
It is unclear if Cui was referring to Li Wenliang, a doctor who sounded the alarm bells in December over the novel coronavirus only to be interrogated and silenced by Chinese government officials.
Li died of coronavirus in February. His death sparked an outpouring of grief in the Communist country, and Beijing later called him a martyr.
Two Chinese internet activists and one of their girlfriends were detained by police for weeks in Beijing because they archived articles on the pandemic that were censored by the Communist regime.
The activists were charged with “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” an accusation frequently used against political activists in China.
The ambassador acknowledged that the first known case of the virus was in Wuhan, China, but said “this means only that Wuhan was the first victim of the virus. To ask a victim for compensation is simply ridiculous.”
His comment came in response to the growing wave of US lawmakers who have proposed multiple pieces of legislation targeting their adversary in an effort to hold China accountable for their role in the virus’ spread.
“Blaming China will not end this pandemic. On the contrary, the mind-set risks decoupling China and the United States and hurting our efforts to fight the disease, our coordination to reignite the global economy, our ability to conquer other challenges and our prospects of a better future. The United States would not emerge as a winner from this scenario.”
Mike PompeoAP
Just one day after the op-ed was published, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying challenged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to make public the evidence he’s seen to back up his claim that the virus originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
“Enormous evidence? Then show us,” Hua said Wednesday while speaking to reporters, “Mr. Pompeo cannot present any evidence because he hasn’t gotten any. I think this matter should be handled by scientists and professionals instead of politicians.”
Pompeo has become a target of the global superpower in the past week, using its state media sources to unleash a flurry of propaganda against the chief US diplomat.
Newscasters have referred to him as the “common enemy of mankind” and accused him of “spreading a political virus.”
Images of Pompeo with the word “liar” stamped across his face have even been broadcast on TV screens in Beijing’s subways.
With Post wires
Don't Miss it Why is the White House winding down the coronavirus taskforce?
Up Next Immigrant in ICE custody dies after testing positive for COVID-19
Coronavirus Videos Coronavirus: oil price collapses as demand falls further – BBC News
Coronavirus Videos Why are Chinese imports & exports surging? | DW News
Coronavirus Videos Vaccine inequality slows global pandemic fight | COVID-19 Special
Coronavirus Videos Coronavirus: Italy now on complete lockdown | DW News
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line26
|
__label__wiki
| 0.934181
| 0.934181
|
Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg delicious reddit MySpace StumbleUpon
Military chief: Attacks up in Afghanistan
Mullen: Support for the Taliban is "triple what it was" in southwest Afghanistan
Mullen: Iraq is a priority -- "it is simply a matter of resources, of capacity"
Some lawmakers suggest more troops may be needed in Afghanistan
U.S. troops have spent more than six years battling the Taliban
Next Article in U.S. »
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan and support for the Taliban are both on the rise, but Iraq remains a bigger priority for American commanders, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.
"In Afghanistan, we do what we can," Adm. Mike Mullen told the House Armed Services Committee. "In Iraq, we do what we must."
The southern Afghan province of Helmand -- the scene of recent heavy fighting between a resurgent Taliban and allied troops -- has seen a 60 percent increase in attacks in the past year, Mullen said.
Afghan troops backed by NATO forces recaptured the provincial town of Musa Qala from Taliban control Tuesday, allied commanders reported, but Mullen said polls show support for the Taliban in the country's southwest has risen to 23 percent -- "triple what it was just three years ago."
The Taliban has lost "a significant number" of leaders in recent months and have reverted to "terror attacks, thuggery and intimidation" as a result, he said.
U.S. troops have spent more than six years battling the Taliban -- the Islamic militia that once ruled most of Afghanistan -- and its al Qaeda allies in the original front in the "war on terrorism" launched by al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
Some members of the committee suggested more troops may be needed in Afghanistan.
Brown hails Afghan battle success
U.S. troops close on Taliban town
Rep. Joe Sestak, a freshman Pennsylvania Democrat and a retired admiral, questioned the emphasis on fighting al Qaeda in Iraq when Taliban activity is up and al Qaeda has carved out new havens across the Pakistani border.
"I understand there's al Qaeda in Iraq, but our intelligence community tells us they don't plan attacks against the U.S. homeland," Sestak said. It is "those al Qaeda that live in either Pakistan or Afghanistan," that are a danger to the U.S. homeland, said Sestak.
But Mullen told the committee that the Afghan front "is by design and necessity an economy-of-force operation."
"Our main focus, militarily, in the region and in the world right now is rightly and firmly in Iraq," he said. "That is not to say the brave men and women in harm's way in Afghanistan -- American, coalition, Afghan -- are not valued or supported or in any way less important. It is simply a matter of resources, of capacity."
About 26,000 U.S. troops and more than 20,000 from NATO allies and other countries are currently in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Gates, who just returned from a trip to Afghanistan, has pressed the European allies to bolster their contributions of troops and helicopters to the theater and called for a new reconstruction effort led by "a strong civilian representative."
"The Taliban and their former guests, al Qaeda, do not have the ability to reimpose their rule," he told the committee. "But only in a truly secure environment can reconstruction projects take root and rule of law be consolidated. That environment has not yet been fully achieved, but we are working toward it."
Gates said examples of progress can be seen in towns like Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani frontier.
Once "a hotbed of lawlessness and insurgent activity," he said, Afghan officials have worked with a U.S.-led provincial reconstruction team to promote economic development and security.
And Gates said the number of additional troops he wants from the allies is well below 10,000, including about 3,500 trainers for Afghan troops and police and about 20 helicopters.
"The numbers are not that big, which, frankly, is one of the sources of frustration for me in terms of our allies not being able to step up to the plate and meet these needs," he said. E-mail to a friend
CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr contributed to this report.
All About Iraq War • Afghanistan War • The Taliban • Al Qaeda
From the Blogs: Controversy, commentary, and debate
Sit tight, we're getting to the good stuff
powered by Sphere
From psychiatrist to 'Butcher of Bosnia' Why trial could take years
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line33
|
__label__cc
| 0.658662
| 0.341338
|
DEPROSC FAMILY
During Silver Jubilee Celebration
Suggestion and feedback desk
During Distribution
Cash for Work
In communal Pond in Kirtipur
Serving meal
To Koshi Flood Victims, children 2008
Gorikhola Dandagun-6
DEPROSC-Nepal staff in PPE kit to distribute food to migrants coming through Gadda Chauki border
Masks and sanitizer being handed over to security team by DEPROSC-Nepal staff at Gadda Chauki border
Masks being handed over to police personnel by DEPROSC-Nepal staff
Migrants coming through Gadda Chauki, Kanchanpur border in the holding centre
Medical supplies support to Kabilbastu hospital
Medical Supplies Support to Kapilbastu Hospital
Check Mailbox
DEPROSC-Nepal wants to see a peaceful, prosperous and empowered Nepal.
Food Security, Nutrition, Disaster Risk Reduction, Humanitarian, Education, Health, Microfinance, etc.
New Baneshwor , Nepal
Academic Award
DEPROSC-Nepal setup “DEPROSC-Nepal Silver Jubilee Academic Award” to mark 25 years of its success.
Development Project Service Center (DEPROSC) Nepal is a non-profit making organization established in September 1993 under “Association Registration act 1978” as a non-governmental organization (NGO). It is affiliated to Social Welfare Council (SWC) and has got approval from SWC for foreign aid mobilization. DEPROSC-Nepal has its central office in Kathmandu, Nepal which looks after programs across the country and supervise programs in Pradesh 3 and 4. The office in Biratnagar handles all project in pradesh 1 and 2 and the office in Nepalgunj looks after Pradesh 5, 6 and 7. Read More..
DEPROSC-Nepal aims at empowering rural people for attaining self-sustaining socio-economic uplift through a package of policy research, action research and training. Its specific objectives are to act as an intermediary between development programs of government, NGOs, bi-lateral and multi-lateral projects and local, to enhance the capabilities of Community based organizations (CBOs) by organizing appropriate training and involving them as partners in development intervention process.
DEPROSC-Nepal is committed to enhance the participation of rural people in general and poorest of the poor, children, women and marginalized ethnic groups in particular in their development process through Social development, Livelihood improvement, Rural Finance, Natural Resource Management, etc.
It is our immense pleasure to welcome you all visiting our website. Development Project Service Centre (DEPROSC) Nepal has remained active for the development of country since 1993.During the last 25 years of its journey, it has served in most remote and rural communities of Nepal. We have inclined to serve, with an integrated approach, for ending poverty and bring positive social change. DEPROSC-Nepal feels pleased to pronounce that significant achievements have been made in the area of livelihood improvement, food security,microfinance, natural resource management, formal non-formal education, community micro-asset creation, and humanitarian assistance, disaster preparedness and response.Moreover,nutrition, health, sanitation, women empowerment, child development, gender empowerment,local level institutional development are few cross cutting areas that DEPROSC-Nepal has adapted in its endeavors. We have been privileged to serve around two million populations till date and work together with thousands of grassroots institutions across the country.
Thematics Areas
Labour migration has been taken as an effective strategy for livelihood adaptation in past few years by many youth in Nepal. Migration for livelihood is increasing in the middle hills, mid and far western development regions of Nepal.
In the field of Natural Resource Management, DEPROSC-Nepal has been involved particularly in forest management since its inception period.
DEPROSC-Nepal was one of the pioneers in microfinance industry in Nepal. We had also implemented direct lending to underprivileged families through their female members following grameen model, for which we obtained license from the Nepal Rastra Bank under the Financial Intermediary Act 1998 to work as financial intermediary.
Basic health and sanitation condition in most of the rural and remote areas of Nepal were pitiful when DEPROSC-Nepal start its intervention. Those areas, in particular, remote villages of mid and far western regions’ districts were preserved by age-long ill-practices and superstition which placed women and children into more vulnerable...
Disaster Risk Managemtn and Humanitarian Response
Nepal is one of the hot-spot countries in the world with high risk for multi hazard and disaster as classified by the World Bank in 2015. The country is exposed to most disaster types including earthquakes, floods, landslides, droughts, storms, avalanches, hailstorms, fires, epidemics, and ecological hazards.
Rural life is difficult in absence of basic community assets like drinking water schemes, irrigation facilities, suspension bridges, school buildings, health post buildings, community meeting meetings, green roads, mule trails etc. DEPROSC-Nepal adopted an integrated approach for development where rural community asset creation was an integral part.
DEPROSC-Nepal believes that, “Education is fundamental to Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction”. It is therefore DEPROSC has emphasized teaching and learning approach in the areas of formal and non-formal education since its inception.
Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihood
Food security and nutrition has been a priority working sector of DEPROSC-Nepal for more than two decades among rural poor and farmers, provide technical and other support to create job market in the sector, and provide commercial agriculture as sustainable livelihood option.
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line35
|
__label__wiki
| 0.511266
| 0.511266
|
2nd Dec 20 Windmills were more common in Cheshire than one might expect. The Wirral was the main location and their history is brilliantly recorded in Rowan Patel’s ,’The Windmills and Watermills of Wirral’ 2016.
Cheshire’s 18 Domesday mills were all watermills. Two on the Wirral and of the other 16, possibly 8 were on the R,Gowy. Windmills first appeared in England, in the 1180’s and on the Wirral in 1270. Early records for Cheshire suggest some early ones did exist, but I cannot recall any published evidence. Most recorded ones are post-C17th.
10th April 2021.
Some fascinating research appears in Rowan Patel’s recent article( Lancashire and Cheshire’s First Windmills: A Review of the Thirteenth-Century Evidence) shows there were 23 late C13th and very early C14th windmills, in Lancashire and Cheshire, with the majority held by religious houses. St.Werburgh’s Abbey held a windmill in Saighton and Whitby (Heath?)
The assumption that windmills needed high, exposed sites to be viable. True, high ground offered a clear advantage but many mill sites can hardly be regarded this way. Over time, being taller, set on mounds and stone built almost obviated the need for high ground. Windmills were built in low lying areas where exposure to the wind was not compromised.
As almost all Cheshire’s windmills are gone, to find them, without documentary evidence, in any form, is very difficult. Aerial photography is a real bonus in locating the characteristic field impression left behind, IF it hasn’t be ploughed out, filled-in or in any other form of extinction. The following are key clues:
(1) the contrast in grassland highlighting the former walls of the mill
(2) Actual solid foundations for wooden mills, in particular, ensured stability. Here cut into solid geology
(3) The timber ‘cross-trees’ set on stone pillars,. Early post mills revolved, by hand. round a fixed pole in the centre. Gradually, only the ‘cap’ at the top of the mill moved round to enable to catch the wind from the best direction.
4th Dec. 20 :Foulk Stapleford Windmill
Not all windmills were built on high. Some were physical moved to a different site, when Lord Crewe demand it moved from behind Peckforton Hall Farm, to Luddington Hill, Tarporley ,above the A49; a more appropriate site.
Such an auxiliary windmills supported water mills when problems of water supply caused the millwheel to stop. In winter, many watermills were disabled by floodwater or freezing conditions. Bott, Cornmill Sites in Cheshire, records that in 1607, the two mills at Stapleford ceased due to freezing of R.Gowy. He suggests one was a cornmill/fulling mill. This reference is included to highlight there being a unknown windmill at Stapleford , though in fairness, Bott does suggest ‘there were others’ at Stapleford.
This is the aerial image that first prompted a windmill at Foulk Stapleford when compared to a present day site
Radial pattern of paths to the Stapleford site are similar to the one shown above.
The windmill was on the boundary of Hargrave parish, seen below on aerial view
A reference in Ormerod (Vol 2) relating to the John Bruen, points to a possible fulling mill for the refining of wool and this mill, might well have been used for that purpose and not the two watermills on the Gowy, as Bott records.
6th Dec 20 :Mouldsworth Windmill…discovered
This was a really feel good discovery. It came about after scrutinising an 19th OS map. Indeed, it needed contacting the Ordnance Survey headquarters, as the windmill symbol was the cartographers ‘take’ on the later standardised one. Various personal contacts viewed the symbol, with some returning odd comments. Regardless, the location of the mill and a fragment of of documentary evidence was enough to justify it as an unrecorded windmill.
Unfortunately, there is no tithe award details only a map on the CRO online tithes.
Viewing the OS 1898 1in map, as a whole, was a challenge, but the site was found as visible in the magnified image below.
The symbol is shown, rather vaguely, below
Caution is necessary in assigning any mill in Mouldsworth as there was both a Little and Great Mouldsworth. A watermill, on the Peel Hall estate, on Ashton Brook, was in Mouldsworth Parva (Little). No mill was known in the Mouldsworth Magna (Great).
Dodgson (Vol 3) : in 1819, Little Mouldsworth is said to consist of two estates, Horton and Peel (cited in Orm.2). No watermill is mentioned but rather, given as Peel Mill…Bryant’s map 1831 and ‘one Mulneplace in Great Mouldsworth’ 1397 in Orm.
Here, the watermill is Little Mouldsworth and, Great Mouldsworth, the windmill. Having studied the Peel Hall estate map of` 1717, the mill house is on this land although, the brook flows along the boundary of both Mouldsworths, with access from both sides, highlighting the understandable confusion.
The 1839 Mouldsworth tithe map compounds the confusion in showing the watermill and the brook not on the Peel estate but in Great Mouldsworth. Sadly, the data relating tithe award on the CRO site does not show the
Information as to the millers is equally challenging. All I can glean is:
1857 Post Office Directory, William Manley, Mouldsworth
1825 Thomas Jefferson (in E.Baines, Directory and Gazeteer of the County Palatine of Lancs., Vol 2, p.595, 1825
1735-1790 Edward Antrobus, miller, Great Mouldsworth, watermill in Mills Archive online.
All I can suggest is W.Manley was the miller at watermill on Ashton Brook, in Little Mouldsworth/Peel Hall and apparently, was preceded by Edward Antrobus. The windmill was run by Thomas Jefferson.
All the above is in good faith!
12th Dec 20: Cheshire Windmills:
Source: P.H.W.Booth, The Palatine of Chester, Inq. Post Mortem, in Cheshire History, Aut. No. 18, 1986,pp 6-9
Sir Hamo Mascy of Timperley, 1349: Backford Manor, a windmill worth 6s 8d.
John Bulkeley 1349; Willaston in Wybunbury...a windmill worth 5s. William Boydell 1349; Dodleston…a windmill worth 6s 8d. An interesting note includes: ‘an acre in the past now worth 8d, on account of the pestilence’…3 carcucates of land of 40 acres each held y tenants-at-will, same value, because all the tenants are dead.’/ also owned Handley : windmill with broken post worth nothing/ and Grappenhall: watermill worth 3s 4d and windmill worth (…)
Source: R.Stewart-Brown, Cheshire Inquisitions Post Mortem; Stuart Period: 1603-1660, Vol 1 (A-D) as Vol 84, RSLC, 1934
Henry Belde (1619) Upton windmill, Chester(p.37)/…Sir Henry Bunbury(1636)…the Manor of Hoole…a windmill(p105)/ Hugh Beeston (1617), the site of a windmill in Tiverton(p31)/
op.cit Vol II (E-O) Ralph Egerton (1620)…a windmill at Bickerton worth 40s…and a windmill and 40a. of land in Farndon (p10)
Vol III: (P-Y) Sir John Savage (1615) the manor of Clifton, and in Clifton Park…a dovecote, a windmill…(p39/ and a windmill and 3 water grain-mills in Frodsham (p46)
Note: Both sources include watermills and horsemills.
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line39
|
__label__wiki
| 0.503209
| 0.503209
|
Focus: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan following The Walking Dead with new movie Magic City
Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays Negan in The Walking Dead and is preparing for his new movie Magic City
Lauren Cohan loves working with Jeffrey Dean Morgan again on The Walking Dead
Jeffrey Dean Morgan has hugely impressed on The Walking Dead and actress Lauren Cohan loves working with him again
Who did Negan kill in The Walking Dead?
With just a few more weeks to wait until the new season, who exactly did Negan kill in The Walking Dead?
6 Anteile: Jeffrey Dean Morgan Galerie
29th November 2016 @ 01:18am
28th October 2016 @ 03:28pm
17th August 2016 @ 04:20pm
Jeffrey Dean Morgan to play Batman in the Man of Steel sequel?
7th August 2013 @ 10:47pm
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the latest name to be linked to the role of Batman for the Batman/Superman movie
Jeffrey Dean Morgan fired up for Magic City season two
23rd Juni 2013 @ 03:01pm
Jeffrey Dean Morgan says that he got really fired up for Magic City season two
Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins in Solace
5th März 2013 @ 04:58pm
Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins in the movie Solace
Jeffrey Dean Morgan talks Red Dawn
10th Februar 2012 @ 09:58am
With Red Dawn finally being released this year after so long of sitting on the shelf, we have been bringing you back up to date with the movie with some ...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan reveals his child’s first swear word
19th Januar 2012 @ 10:10am
It appears that former Grey’s Anatomy actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan is going to have to watch what he says around his son, as it appears that his son is r ...
Jeffrey Dean Morgan opens up about his son
1st Dezember 2011 @ 01:39am
Peace, Love and Misunderstandings actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan and his beautiful girlfriend Hilarie Burton, who has appeared in White Collar and One Tree H ...
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line40
|
__label__wiki
| 0.86071
| 0.86071
|
Home >> Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 8 >> Dance Of Death to Dean >> Danish Language_P1
scandinavian, runic, swedish, germanic, inscriptions, words, manuscripts, retained, western and middle
DANISH LANGUAGE. The Danish lan guage belongs to the Scandinavian group of the Germanic languages. This group comprises, in modern times, besides the language already mentioned, the Dano-Norwegian, the Nor wegian Landsmaal, the Swedish, the Icelandic and the Faroish languages.
The earliest specimens, still preserved, of the primitive Scandinavian language (Urnordisk), soon after the beginning of the Christian era, are loan words in Finnish (and Lappish), sev eral hundred in number, mostly denoting uten sils belonging to a fairly advanced stage of civil ization. In the Scandinavian countries them selves the earliest specimens of Urnordisk are the inscriptions in the early Runic characters, 24 in number, developed from the Latin and Greek alphabets and known to all Germanic peoples. There are over 100 of these early Runic inscriptions. Some of these are the old est existing traces of any Germanic tongue and closer than any other to what is supposed to have been the original primitive Germanic lan . From these early specimens that have we learn then that the Urnordisk belongs to the Germanic (Teutonic) group of the Indo-European family, and is an independ ent and individual branch, most nearly related to the Gothic. The most famous old Runic inscription found in Denmark is the inscription on the Golden Horn, found in 1734 and lost in 1802: 'Ek hlewagastir holtinar horn tawidcd (I Lagest from Holte (Holt's son) the horn made). The Norwegian Professor Sophus Bugge and the Danish Professor Ludvig Wim mer were the first scholars able to interpret these Runic inscriptions, of which some. how ever, have as yet not been interpreted. During the Viking Age (750-1000 A.D.) the language of the Scandinavian nations, as evidenced in the Runic inscriptions in the later peculiarly Scan dinavian, Runic characters (16 in number), un derwent a very decided change. The Scandina vian peculiarities distinguishing the language from the other Germanic idioms now appear fully developed, and by and by even dialectal differences between the languages of the sev eral Scandinavian nations commence to assert themselves. The principal changes from Urnor disk are: (1) dropping unaccented vowels, (2) introducing vowel harmony (i-and u- mu tation), (3) assimilation of consonants. Toward the close of this period the dialectic differences establish two groups: Norwegian-Icelandic (western group) and Danish-Swedish (eastern group). In the eastern group there are fewer cases of u-umlaut, not as many assimilations, the simplicity of verb inflections is much further advanced, the passive ends in s, while in the western group it ends in sk. The differences, however, are still unimportant, and the Scandi navians themselves consider their la ge as one (Danish tongue.) Generally speaking, the western group has preserved the more primi tive forms. As an example of old Danish from this period may be cited the inscription on one of the 200 runestones found in Denmark, the smaller Jellinge-stone: konungr gaerdi kumble p si aeft pyrwi konu sina, Danmarkar (King Gorm made this mound [with rune stone], after his wife, Tyra Danebod).
Danish in the Middle Ages (1050-1500), It is only after the introduction of Christianity (about 1000 A.D.) that real literature is made possible. The monks brought with them the art of writing, and literary activity in the Middle Ages is especially connected with the churches and monasteries. The Latin alphabet was in troduced, but sometimes, especially in Iceland, characters denoting peculiar Scandinavian sounds were added. The Norwegian-Icelandic
literature from the earlier Middle Ages stands, both as to extent, age and value, far above the Danish and Swedish, and the language of the oldest Norwegian-Icelandic manuscripts varies only a little from the Runic language of about 1000 and has greater linguistic interest. The earliest preserved Danish manuscripts date from the close of the 13th century. From 1050-1250 Danish language is known only from rare Runic inscriptions and from Latin manuscripts with Danish names. The oldest manuscripts with Danish words contain the old Provincial Laws. They show that the separation from the orig inal common Scandinavian idiom, already indi cated in the younger Runic inscriptions, now is strongly apparent. Old Danish (1050) was an old Scandinavian dialect, middle Danish (1300) is an independent language which has diverged far from the original idiom and also from the western Scandinavian language, and now is on the point of parting company with Swedish. In the Middle Ages (and later) Danish was spoken also in Sleswick and in Scania, Halland and Blekinge (now belonging to Sweden.) There were three groups of popular dialects, those of Scania, Zealand and Jutland. But already the earlier manuscripts show a tendency toward cre ating a uniform Danish literary language, and this is gradually developing essentially from the Zealand dialect. In this period some of the changes to be noticed are: A large number of Low German words are introduced, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, when the Han seatic League controlled the commerce of Den mark, and also the political influence from Ger many was very considerable. Most of these words have been retained and are later con sidered pure Danish. Many German deriva tional endings were adopted and often added to native words. Of German prefixes adopted were be-, for-, und-. The declension of nouns, adjectives and pronouns was greatly simplified. Instead of the original four cases only two, nominative and genitive, were ordinarily used (in pronouns also the objective form). The orig inal three genders (retained in most dialects) were reduced to two, common and neuter, in the literary language. In western Jutland only one, the common gender, was used. The use of prep ositions is developed more and more. The order of the words in the sentence, to show the syntactical connection, becomes more fixed. Al ready from the 10th century the monophongi fication of original diphthongs was observed in the eastern group of Scandinavian languages (Danish and Swedish), Stein became sten, daudr-dodr, leysa-losa. The language of Nor way, on the other hand, with the dialects spoken in the countries settled from or belonging to Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, the islands north and west of Scotland, retained the old diphthongs as diphthongs. About 1300 the Danish language began to substitute voiced stops (mediae) for voiceless stops (tenues or hard consonants) after a long vowel at the end of a word or a syllable. The Swedish retained the old voiceless stops. K, t, p were changed to g, d, v. Swedish rike D. righa, S. Nita = D. ladhe, S. dripa ...a D. drzww. About 1300 also the glottal catch, so peculiar to Danish pronunciation, was introduced. The earlier Da nish ju (retained in Swedish) is changed into y.
From "Encyclopedia Americana" by The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1918)
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line41
|
__label__wiki
| 0.645679
| 0.645679
|
Salem Golgotha
Oct 29, 2015 by Rivka Jacobs in Elephant Words
From her elevation, Margaret let her wrists go limp in their ropes, her head relaxed back against the upright post of the cross. The sun was just breaking into bars and beams of gold through the colorful fall leaves and branches of the tangle of trees and vegetation. Birds started to sing. Her crown of thorns twined with roses pricked her forehead, and a rivulet of dark red trickled over one eyebrow. She pictured the bodies hanging at this very spot, the actual — not official — “gallows hill” of Salem, Massachusetts; Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, and too many others. A sensation of exaltation swelled her heart; this was holy ground.
“Isn’t it beautiful!” Kayla whispered loudly from her perch on the slightly lower cross to Margaret’s right. Her breath misted in front of her face.
“Yeah, if you have a good imagination,” answered Letisha from her crucified position on Margaret’s left.
“Oh Mother of Mothers, Goddess of Life, Blessed One, we thank You for this sacrifice of your only Daughter, the Daughter of Life…” At the sound of the operatic soprano voice, the three young women gazed down and watched their high priestess, Mary — arrayed in a white chiffon robe, her head circled with flowers — use both hands to raise a large black kylix filled with wine.
“Oh Queen of Queens, we dedicate ourselves to You, for all eternity, on this glorious Samhain,” chanted the four associate priestesses who flanked Mary, two on either side.
A car alarm began screaming, then a loud booming radio blasted a chatter of news, weather, and sports. Behind them came the roar of big delivery-truck engines.
Mary gritted her teeth, her chubby face flushed. She heard giggling as children gathered from a nearby school-bus-stop. “Oh Queen of Queens, Holy Mother of the Goddess, bless us for another year, grant us…”
“What the hell are you doing?” a man’s voice interrupted.
“Daddy, what are those ladies doing up there?”
Margaret blinked and lowered her chin, focusing on the reality that their little hill butted against a Walgreen’s parking lot behind them, and single family homes, busy streets pressed them on three sides.
Two construction workers strode up the slight rise and stood in their jackets and gloves, arms folded, their faces ruddy and eyes sparking with anger. “Are you blaspheming the Lord?” one of them shouted.
“What are you doing here?” a woman who had seen the commotion from her back porch, and hurried over, insisted, her voice high and sharp. “We have rules here for you crazies on Halloween! I’m calling the police!”
“I already did,” a man said. He had apparently climbed from the parking lot and was brushing off his slacks, white shirt, adjusting his tie. “This is Walgreen’s property, what in the hell are you women doing?”
“Walgreen’s sits where a pond used to be, the pond where Rebecca Nurse’s son rowed his canoe in the night to retrieve her body!” At the same moment Margaret realized the men were glaring at her and their anger was about to explode, she remembered she was tied to a cross ten feet in the air. The first rock came whistling past her face.
“Hey, stop, leave her alone,” Mary shouted. She threw the wine at the two construction workers.
“‘Always look on the bright side of life,'” Kayla sang, laughing.
“Get me down from here!” Letisha cried.
More stones and garbage, a sandwich and even a cup of coffee were hurled at the three on their crosses.
“The Goddess ruled for a million years, you assholes,” Mary bellowed, “and your upstart so-called god for three-thousand…” A fist struck her in her chest and she punched back — she didn’t even know who it was she knocked unconscious.
By lunchtime, Margaret and her six companions — still wearing their chiffon veils — reposed in various positions of discomfort in a holding cell of the Salem Police Department building. The cells were immaculate, with white walls and blue doors. Many charges were pending, including trespassing— “It took us all night to get the crosses up there and set them up,” Kayla told one of the cops, her voice filled with pride. And assault— “I’d have beat his brains out if you hadn’t stopped me,” Mary snorted as her handcuffs were removed and she was shoved in the cell. And disturbing the peace— “You disturbed us, you dickheads,” Letisha told the booking officer.
They’d been in their cell for several hours when they heard the door’s locks CLICK and the blue slab slowly open by itself. In floated a stately, tall, ample, beautiful woman, dressed in a gold skirt-suit, her fiery-red hair pulled into a perfect chignon. “So,” she said but her mouth didn’t move.
They leaped to their feet, “Mother!” they shouted in unison.
Rivka Jacobs
Latest posts by Rivka Jacobs (see all)
Desecration - 28/07/16
The Motion of Matter Frozen in Time - 20/07/16
How to Make the Cut - 11/07/16
As Time Goes By - 16/01/16
Perfect Neighbors - 11/12/15
Lonely rock
By James Gillie
25/10/2015 Image – “The View” by David Wynne
By David Wynne
The City by the Sea
By Doktor Andy
Parker & Longbaugh
By Jericho Vilar
By Rivka Jacobs
In the Forest of the High Stones
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line47
|
__label__wiki
| 0.768063
| 0.768063
|
Conveyor celebrates full length release at Mercury on 06.28
Brooklyn’s avant pop band Conveyor presents a sonic palette composed by an intriguing blend of styles and influences, combining the percussion of afropop with moody electronics and rhythmically patterned vocals. Many of the songs in their upcoming self-titled album are the result of a collaborative writing process, resulting in intricate arrangements reminiscent of Animal Collective's more melodic experiments. Time signatures out of the 4/4 mold also reveal musicians not content to rely on the safety of familiar patterns. The band will celebrate the release of their debut full-length (under Paper Garden Records' wing) with a show at The mercury Lounge on June 28. Recommended! - Dave Cromwell
This Emerging Artist is based in NYC,
for our NYC Artist of the Month poll below!
NYC New Bands With Buzz
Explore The Deli NYC Music Charts!
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line81
|
__label__wiki
| 0.671296
| 0.671296
|
Title: Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 15, No. 3. March 20, 1952
Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association, 20 March 1952, Wellington
Part of: Salient : An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z.
Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 15, No. 3. March 20, 1952
[Introduction]
"And, when each man had milked her dry
The old cow died of roaring, O
At three o'clock, at four o'clock
At five o'clock in the morning, O."
Some time about January 25, 1952, a strange but much rumoured quadruped of considerable intellectual capacity and a bovine exterior made its appearance at Curious Cove, Queen Charlotte Sound for the fourth N.Z.U.S.A. Congress. Never did a taboo raise such a hullaballoo as during the next ten days, when this animal was baited, teased, flogged and cursed, not to say drained of its lactic fluid, only to exhibit such a tenacity for life that, in the words of the minstrel Jacobus Baxterius (blaed wide sprang)
"... as they were lamenting all
The cow got up and made reply:
You're a set of bloody suckers, mates
A Sacred Cow can never die!"
That, in a buttercup, is the story of Congress '52. The very high standard set by the three previous gatherings made us somewhat sceptical about this novelty, a Congress without a theme, and with even a V.U.C. lecturer on the programme, but long before the end we were one and all congratulating the Controller, Duncan Stewart, on having equalled the best previous record for organising a set of brilliant talks and a social programme that left little to be desired.
If discussion was slow to warm up, the hut parties, with their open doors and open throats, were by no means so, especially when forty or fifty songsters crowded into one four-man hut, chanting seditious ditities from the S.L.F. Song-book, without any particular idea of a tune, until the grey hours. With the cheery help of Theo Allen, of the Department of Internal Affairs, indoor and outdoor sports, notably volley-ball, got under way, and, if the weather had not washed out the inter-college competition, the contests might have entered world class, at least for hilarity.
The "fishing" expedition to Ship Cove and vicissitudes on the return journey, which provided an exemplary manifestation of the verse "I'm washed out like a dish-rag!" also supplied the daily Press with some exultation Over the damping of "the intellectuals," the glow from which had penetrated even its blinkered myopia. Although fishing was knocked off this day's programme by the falling barometer, Dun carts very sensible plan of having every afternoon free left the enthusiasts plenty of opportunities to stock up for fish-fries at night. It also allowed more time for the less hardy to improve their minds. Under the very able guidance of Don Anderson (O.U.) a group met on several afternoons to listen to poetry, from Dante to Pat Wilson, read by Jim Baxter, Philip Smithells, Bob Chapman and Don himself. Music rather lagged until Owen Jensen arrived, but thereafter he struggled manfully against the piano (or rather the forte) each siesta, while all and sundry enjoyed both his playing and his wit.
Apart from meals, we got down to serious business at least twice daily, in the mornings and evenings we assembled to hear series of penetrating lectures, each by a specialist in his own subject. These were followed by discussion in groups' under group leaders, and/or open discussion from the floor. There was no apparent pattern in the titles of these talks, but, and this was in our opinion the most amazing feature of the Congress, these disjointed specialities integrated into a pattern more coherent than that provided by a set theme, and helped at least some to find order in the academic fungus with which they had become encrusted during the previous year. No doubt this was largely due to the ability of the speakers, which was on a uniformly high plane, but it might perhaps be interpreted also as an illustration of the fact that the title "University" is not altogether a misnomer. Because we found this integration so striking we shall dispense with the chronological order of talks and fit them into the scheme as we saw it, in the hope of showing how they can draw together one's thoughts and ideals, and of eliciting dialectically the corresponding reactions of others present.
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line82
|
__label__wiki
| 0.500454
| 0.500454
|
by Jon Norwood | Jul 13, 2016 | News, Reviews | 0 comments
Formed in 1982 Fates Warning has been a staple in a now diminishing subgenre of music called progressive metal. Other members of this strata are Dream Theater, early Queensryche, and Nevermore. I’ll say Queensryche up to and including Mindcrime but that’s it!
Fates Warning’s music has been labeled many different genres including Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Prog Metal, and more. This is to be expected given the amazing length of the time the band has been active. It should be noted that in 1988 the band transitioning from Power Metal into a much more progressive unit with the album No Exit and the addition of Ray Alder.
The current band is:
Joey Vera – Bass (Armored Saint until 1993)
Ray Alder vocals (Replaced John Arch in 1988)
Bobby Jarzombek (previously with Halford and Iced Earth)
Jim Matheos (the only original member to be on all records)
The white noise radio garbled nonsense on this record starts out kind of interesting but gets old fast. And don’t worry you are going to hear a lot of it all over the record. Yay! By SOS you don’t want to hear the character featured in the various songs listening to the radio or the TV or whatever the hell is going on. The background dialogue is high enough in the mix to draw attention but low enough that much of it is unintelligible. So any depth this adds is mushy depth with no clear purpose. NICE!
The Light and Shade of Things has a flavor of ‘89’s Perfect Symmetry and really took me back in time without being an obvious play for nostalgia. In fact, this song has a heft that earlier albums lacked and pushes the limit of prog metal into an “almost” heavy territory. Like many Fates Warning songs past and present the song skirts the edge of math rock, prog, metal, and even classic rock in a couple of areas. The individual markers of each style are there but they are melded so expertly that something new is created. The song is about twice as long as it feels like it should be with a good 4 minutes of meandering around and noises. When this song lands it lands perfectly. Strip away the extra noodling around and you have something really good here. As Emperor Joseph II would say, there are just too many notes. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.
SOS starts out weird like most Fates Warning songs but about a minute in it really gets going. There is almost a hint of Disturbed floating around in there. Actually there might be a bit of Fates Warning floating around in Disturbed but I never really made the connection until now. LEARNING IS FUN! The mid-section jazz space exploration is pretty much standard Fates Warning fair so if you have been drinking or smoking anything you may learn something profound about yourself. I did not! I found this song overly repetitive which is something I never thought I would say about this band. The phrases are so long that they seem la bit chaotic but stretch yourself beyond the usual 4 measure to the 15 measure riff and you’ll see what I mean.
The Ghosts of Home starts out as a lost Skynyrd or Springsteen track. Yes, I just said that, but before you type with your forehead go back and listen to Simple Man, remove all of the soul and sing the lyrics of The Ghosts of Home. See? Then as if by magic, or more accurately by a Frankensteinian kluging together, the song becomes a mathcore journey to the center of a graphing calculator and we once again enter the world of Fates Warning. The lyrics are much more on the nose here avoiding the usual FW metaphor and just spelling out the song in simple terms. This was disorienting and the dichotomy of simplistic lyrics over the songs algorithm was weirdly interesting. I’ll never listen to the song again, but hey it affected me enough to write a paragraph about it which is more than most crap I listen to.
From the Rooftops again take me to Perfect Symmetry. I’ll trade 2 Perfect Symmetrys for a single Night on Brocken please! This song brings us again to the Fates Warning standardized song structure which is. 2 Minute Intro | Weird Single Instrument Riff | Tight Speed | Melodic Chorus | then repeat to Weird Single Instrument Riff x17 times and finish with a Disconnected Outro with 18 guitars. Seriously listen to the album again. Apply this chart to each song and see how well they match up. Please comment below on how well this matches up! The solo on this one is screw it, neck position humbucker and blast off. As with all of the performances on the album it is executed with effortless precision and with very little color.
Fates Warning are all masters of their instruments and given the quality of musicians we are often assaulted with this is enough to earn my applause. But this album made me tired. And I don’t mean that I was lifted into a meditative state where I engaged in personal reflection. I mean I am tired now. For every break away song section, the band anchors it down with what appears to be either filler or unnecessarily bizarre stretches of disconnected parts. I like complicated music more than the next guy so don’t think I’m complaining about that. I think Dream Theater kicks all the ass and Tesseract is a part of my regular play list. But crazy compositions made up of disparate parts mushed together isn’t a complex piece, it’s a mess.
I am giving Theories of Flight a C. The attempts to feign depth would have gotten it a lower score but the songs are executed with such skill and precision even the kluged up messes are well done. If you like Fates Warning post “A Pleasant Shade of Gray” you might like this but I recommend hearing a sample before you buy the record.
I hope you enjoyed our review of Fates Warning’s Theories of Flight. I’m going to go listen to Perfect Symmetry again and then move on with my life. Come back next week when we review Blink-182’s California. Heh we are actually reviewing something else!
Iron Maiden is Still Relevant…AND BAD ASS!
Rush Plays Rock Band on the Colbert Report
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line87
|
__label__wiki
| 0.946082
| 0.946082
|
Tag Archives: Veteran
Who is the Whitehall veteran tasked with investigating ‘Partygate’?
Senior civil servant appears to hold Boris Johnson’s fate in her hands
Sue Gray, the senior civil servant handed responsibility for untangling a string of Downing Street parties that allegedly broke lockdown rules, has been placed in an “impossible position, with an impossible task,” Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting a dit.
Ms Gray, the second permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, was given the job of leading the inquiry into the scandal last month after cabinet secretary Simon Case recused himself when it emerged that a party had also been held within his own department.
Boris Johnson and his Cabinet have since declined to answer questions about any allegations of rule-breaking and have instead been calling for Ms Gray to be allowed to collect the facts and complete her inquiry in peace before her findings are published in a report.
“Sue Gray is acting independently, she is leading this piece of work,” Mr Johnson’s official spokesperson has insisted, sailing past the inconvenient truth that she must ultimately report to Michel Gove.
“Under the terms of reference she is able to speak to who she wishes and investigate as she sees fit to ascertain the facts.”
PM ‘questioned by Sue Gray’ as another claim of a No 10 party emerges
Will Boris Johnson resign?
Timeline of alleged gatherings across government during Covid restrictions
Elle a, aurait, already used that freedom to speak to Mr Johnson.
But her assignment seems to get more complicated by the day as more and more revelations continue to come to light on the front pages of Britain’s newspapers, carrying sordid tales of staffers being sent out to Co-op to fill suitcases with bottles of wine and drunken revellers staggering out into the garden of the prime minister’s official residence and breaking his infant son’s swing set.
At the outset, Mr Johnson was not thought to have been in attendance at any of the “gatherings” in question but now we know, by his own admission, that he was at the 20 Mai 2020 garden party, even if he did “implicitly believe it was a work event”.
So not only is establishing the precise narrative of what went on when and who knew about it tricky enough, the veteran inquisitor also faces the prospect of incurring further anger from voters if she is ultimately deemed to have been too lenient and carried out a “whitewash” on Mr Johnson’s behalf.
Equally, delivering a damning verdict would mean overtly criticising the moral conduct of senior ministers and civil service colleagues with whom she has long worked and may retain friendly personal ties.
En tant que tel, she is widely expected to err on the side of caution and conclude that poor judgement was evident in abundance but that nothing criminal took place, keenly aware that it is beyond her remit to recommend the resignation of a British prime minister.
Sir David Normington, a former Whitehall permanent secretary, summed up the complexity of her situation when he told BBC Radio 4’s Aujourd'hui programme last week: “She will be very aware that she has the reputation and possibly the careers of senior civil servants and possibly of the prime minister in her hands, and that is a very difficult position to be in, however fair and fearless and rigorous you are.”
Mais, by all accounts, if anyone can walk that tightrope, it is Ms Gray, nicknamed “the woman who runs the country” and “deputy God” by MPs Oliver Letwin et Paul Flynn respectivement.
“Sue has been there for so long, she knows everything that anybody has ever done wrong,” ex-Cabinet Office special adviser Polly Mackenzie told the BBC’s Profil programme dans 2017.
Enjoying a reputation for diligence, Ms Gray is also so discreet that even her own precise age is disputed.
She is either 63 ou alors 64, did not attend university and has served in the civil service since the late 1970s, barring a career break during the 1980s when she abandoned Westminster to run a pub called The Cove Bar in Newry, Irlande du Nord, with her husband, a country singer named Bill Conlon.
“If a pub landlady doesn’t know what a party is, who will?” a rather wry family friend Raconté Le courrier quotidien’s Michael Crick récemment.
According to her biography on the government website, she has worked in the departments of transport, health and work and pensions “covering a range of roles which included both policy and front line delivery”.
Subsequently joining the Cabinet Office in the late 1990s, Ms Gray eventually became director general of propriety and ethics from 2012 à 2018.
It was in that guise that she carried out a number of high-profile inquiries into the likes of defence secretary Liam Fox, ex-chief whip Andrew Mitchell over “plebgate”, et Damien Vert, Thérèse May’s de facto deputy prime minister, who was dismissed after he was found to have been “misleading” in a statement made to police regarding pornography on his office computer in 2008.
Comme L'indépendant’s Sean O’Grady écrit, Mr Mitchell has since been highly complimentary about his one-time interrogator, commenting: “I have always found her to be extremely straightforward, very easy to deal with; she’s got a great sense of humour and she is clear-cut and doesn’t shilly-shally around.”
It was also in relation to this period as ethics chief that the former BBC Newsnight journalist Chris Cook complained that Ms Gray was “notorious for her determination not to leave a document trail” and had assisted departments to “fight disclosures” in the shape of freedom of information requests.
“If the government feels it has to get rid of a minister, she will give them cover to do that. If a government really wants to keep someone, she’ll find a way to do that," il a dit.
Ne pas être raciste ou homophobe « en aucune façon », Le ministre du Cabinet insiste
Que signifie pour lui l'humour historique de Gove?
Les railleries sexistes de Gove, blagues racistes et insultes homophobes révélées
She served as permanent secretary to the Northern Irish executive’s department of finance on secondment from the Cabinet Office between 2018 et 2021 before returning to occupy her present role last May, reportedly frustrated to miss out on the top job in the Northern Irish civil service and speculating to the BBC: “Perhaps I was too much of a challenger, or a disrupter.”
Many will be willing her to show some of that same spirit as she rattles out her Partygate dossier this week.
Cette entrée a été publiée dans appel et étiqueté partygate, taskedinvestigating, Veteran, Whitehall au 01/18/2022 par appel.
avant que
étant
Pourrait
des règles
Atout
met en garde
Senior Tory prédit une «année d'agonie» si Boris Johnson n'est pas évincé – suivez en direct
Les avocats de Ghislaine Maxwell demandent un nouveau procès pour les révélations du juré – mises à jour en direct
Open d'Australie EN DIRECT: Mises à jour Andy Murray contre Taro Daniel
Des scanners de sécurité à travers l'Europe liés au gouvernement chinois, militaire
Novak Djokovic et sa femme tiennent 80% participation dans une entreprise développant un traitement contre le Covid
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line89
|
__label__cc
| 0.640662
| 0.359338
|
Create Your Own Family Scenario
Learn About Programs & Tax Credits
Basic Needs Expenses
Analysis of Policy Proposals
Test Profile
Follow these instructions to illustrate how a low-income family fares with a combination of wages, public program benefits and tax liabilities/credits.
Answer the screening questions for whatever family size and at whatever income level you wish to analyze. The screening tool will compute eligibility and benefit amounts for households with or without children. The tool will not accurately reflect eligibility and benefit amounts for seniors (those over the age of 65) and those with physical and developmental disabilities.
Review Monthly Family Budget Chart to understand how a family (based on the information you entered) can use public programs to achieve economic stability and fill the gaps between wages and "basic needs" expenses. The chart includes "basic needs" budget items, expenses, family supports (the benefit amounts from public work support programs) and reduced expenses (expenses minus public work support benefits). The Summary at the bottom of the chart shows “What’s Leftover” at the end of the month without public program benefits, with public program benefits that reduce expenses, and with tax credits divided over 12 months.
Review expenses. Household expenses are automatically calculated (default setting) using the "basic needs" budget. You can, however, elect to override the default "basic needs" expenses and use a family’s actual expenses. The expenses page appears after the family information has been entered. You can edit the family expenses by entering new amounts in the appropriate boxes.
To illustrate the effect of programs that are unavailable, not fully funded, have waiting lists, or are proposed to be eliminated, the screening tool allows you to turn programs off. The screening tool is defaulted to assume enrollment in all programs for which a family is eligible and this is reflected in the chart. However, some programs such as the Child Care Assistance Program and Section 8 housing have waiting lists in many counties in Minnesota. To reflect the reality for families who are eligible but can’t access these programs, you can turn off Section 8 and Child Care Assistance by clicking on the checked boxes next to the program name to remove the check mark. This will turn off the program and benefit amount and recalculate the reduced expense amount to illustrate the family’s bottom line.
Select Bar Chart at the bottom of the page to get a visual illustration of the relationship between expenses, income and reduced expenses (expenses minus public program benefits).
Select Line Chart at the bottom of the page to see at what income levels a family (based on the information you entered) will experience the “cliff effects,” the points at which they lose eligibility for public work support programs while gaining tax liability. For some families, experiencing cliff effect means that they are actually worse off at higher income levels than they were at lower income levels. This chart assumes enrollment in all the public work support programs for which the family is eligible (unless you have elected to turn a program off) and tracks the “What’s Leftover” (the difference between wages and reduced expenses) amount at increasing wage levels.
Children's Defense Fund Minnesota
555 Park Street, Suite 410
www.cdf-mn.org
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line91
|
__label__cc
| 0.737775
| 0.262225
|
PSA: WORKING IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH: PART 1
Posted on July 10, 2020 July 10, 2020 by vlaw759
Deadliest Job in the Galaxy: Red Shirt Crew in Star Trek
Although necessary for the economic (and possibly mental) health of most people, working is more-or-less bad for your physical health. This two-part blog explores the most unhealthful jobs. Jobs can be unhealthful in two basic ways: acute incidents and chronic conditions. In Part 1, I’m focused on acute incidents that take workers’ lives. Next time, I’ll explore chronic work conditions that injure people with repeated exposure, over time.
Writers Note 1: All of these jobs provide opportunities for murders that look like accidents–and when occupational deaths are so common, sliding in a murder would be more likely to be missed.
Killer Jobs
There’s a very good reason they put these signs up.
The rate of fatal work-related injuries overall is 3.5 per 100,000 workers. More than any other big category, transportation-related accidents killed workers (more than 2,000 of 5,250 deaths, 40%). The second-most common workplace fatalities was contact with objects and equipment, 13%. These numbers come from cnbc.com, 12/27/2019.
Although exact rankings vary somewhat from year to year, there seems to be consensus that the following jobs are the ones most likely to have workplace fatalities, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The parenthetical numbers are fatal injuries per 100,000 workers, giving you a comparison metric
According to ISHN, a publication for safety and health professionals, the two most frequently fatal jobs are deep sea fisherman and logger. All death rates below come from ishn.com/articles/110496-most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-us-the-top-20
Loggers (109.3) most often die because of logging equipment or logs. In addition, they work outside, in isolated areas, exposed to dangerous weather conditions.
Deep Sea Fishermen (74.2) as well as other sailors (55.1) most often die by drowning. They also face risks from icy decks, working with heavy equipment, being sick or injured too far from land to get medical treatment in time. ISHN: “And to top it all off, this [deep sea fishing] is about the only profession where you can be swallowed whole.”
Aircraft Pilots and Flight Engineers (50.4) most often die in transportation “incidents.” The majority of fatalities result from crashes of privately owned planes. About 20% of fatal U.S. crashes happen in Alaska, where 82% of the towns and settlements can only be reached by plane.
Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators (46.7) most often die from getting hit by construction equipment or crashes involving other motor vehicles.
Dredging, Excavating, and Loading Machine Operators (42.4) die by contact with objects and equipment. Unstable dredging equipment can sink.
Roofers (39.0) die in ways you might expect: most often falling off the roof, but also slipping and tripping: 34% of falls from roofs are fatal.
Machine Maintenance (37.4), Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (35.9) are most likely to die from contact with equipment.
Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners (34.3) die from contact with objects and equipment.
Refuse and Recyclables Collectors (31.9) are most likely to die after being hit by the truck or another vehicle. Garbage collectors’ mortality rate is 100 times higher than is considered acceptable risk. By comparison, police offers suffer 15.8 deaths per 100,000.
Structural Iron and Steel Workers (28.0), like roofers, are most likely to die from falls, slips, and trips.
Delivery and Other Truck Drivers (26.0) die most often in traffic crashes. Long-haul trucking accounts for about one out of every four fatal work accidents. Although other jobs have higher fatality rates, truckers have the largest number of deaths on the job.
Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers (25.6) die most often in crashes, including tractor crashes. However, there are also falls from roofs or multi-story barn lofts, trampling by farm animals, and suffocation in grain silos.
Children (16 and younger) working on farms die more often than all other industries combined. “Farmers are nearly twice as likely to die on the job as police officers, five times as likely as firefighters, and 73 times more often that Wall Street bankers.” (INSH.world)
Taxi Driving is the lowest-paying career on these lists of the most dangerous jobs, with an average annual income of $23,500 in the US. Taxi drivers are twice as likely as police officers to be a victim of homicide while working, and 20 times more likely to be murdered while working than the average American. Compared to other workers, they have an increased risk of such deaths because they work with cash, with the public, alone and during nighttime hours. Black and Hispanic drivers are more likely than white drivers to die on the job, and male drivers are six times more at risk than female drivers.
Writers Note 2: These rankings apply primarily to jobs in the US. Differences in labor laws, environmental conditions, and record-keeping around the world means that characters in other countries have an even wider range of ways to die at work!
All the biggest stars have doubles film the dangerous scenes.
Stunt work – doing dangerous activities on purpose for pay
Tourist attractions, street theater
Doubles for actors in dangerous roles
Stage magicians, escape artists, circus performers, etc.
Shipbreaking – stripping retired ships for reusable materials
Open welding torches around explosive gasses
Sheets of metal falling without warning
Falling from multi-story heights
HuaShan Mountain Pass is one of the most treacherous trails in the world,
Sherpa – guiding hikers up mountain trails
Carrying incredibly heavy packs
Falling off mountains
Mining – many countries have far less stringent safety protocols
Tunnel collapses
Toxic fumes with little or no ventilation
Heavy, sharp, dangerous
Bottom Line for Writers: deaths, whether accidental or intentional, are great plot points, tension builders, and revealers of character.
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line99
|
__label__cc
| 0.683831
| 0.316169
|
Prognostications and other thoughts
Stunning Picture
This is from Business Week's article on Tata Motors. Tata Motors is about to release the world's cheapest car.
Man, here in the US we worry about having enough space and get bigger and bigger SUVs. A family of 6 would require something of Suburban proportions. Yet these folks are crammed on to a motorcycle!
posted by Twain at 7:44 AM | 0 comments
Fishing with Pop Pop
Lily, Sin, and Finn went fishing with Pop Pop on an overcast Saturday in April.
We didn't catch any fish, but had a great time!
posted by Twain at 2:24 PM | 0 comments
Panama--Yahoo!
Check out the Yahoo! Content Match ad here. My page is entirely about bikes and triathlons. The relevancy of this ad is TERRIBLE.
Hopefully Panama will fix this.
posted by Twain at 11:38 AM | 0 comments
ACL Replacement Surgery
On September 14th, 2006, I was playing Flag Football with a bunch of
coworkers.
I made some kind of cut while running with the ball and somehow fell over my
knee while bending it backward and coming down with a lot of force.
It took a few months for this to heal and rehab. On January 8th, 2007, I had
ACL replacement surgery.
The surgery
The surgery requires that you be fully put under using a general anesthetic.
Coincidentally, the anesthesiologist that did my IV was the same one who
performed my wife's first epidural. The epidural is risky because a needle is
put right in to the spinal cord. However, what was interesting to me is how much
more involved he'd have to be in my surgery. In other words, with an epidural,
it is difficult to insert/set up, but once done, the Doctor usually leaves and
only comes back occasionally. For the 2 1/2 hours of my operation, the
anesthesiologist had to be in the operating room the whole time. In any case,
Steve was amazing; I couldn't even feel the first needle that was used to numb
the area for the IV.
I saw my main Doc, Alan Mishra about 30
minutes later. Then, I was out. Woke up at 12:30 completely out of it and
nauseous, with my belly itching. This is a reaction to opiates.
About 30 minutes later, Alan and his assistant, Amy, came by for a brief chat. I
was then discharged; had to cut my shorts to fit them over the huge cast.
My dad drove me home; I was still in a delirious state. I was supposed to
take Percocet (Acetaminophen and Codeine) every 4 hours. Things were reasonably
manageable; the main goal is to keep the knee elevated higher than the heart to
reduce swelling. It was difficult to sit like this but doable. Getting up to go
to the bathroom is a challenge, however.
Eventually, as the drugs wore off, there was noticeable pain, especially
after getting up or sitting back down, as the blood rushes back. By 6AM the
second day, it was unbearable; i doubled the dose two times in a row; that
worked. That second night/morning, same thing happened though.
On day 3, things are much better; I can move without as much pain, but my leg
still feels very week. I have to lower/raise it with the other foot or my hands.
Here are some pictures
Removing old damage-this is scar tissue on the inside of my knee cap
from old injuries. The furry stuff is scar tissue.
The injured ACL. The pink strip you see is all that was left of the
ACL after the tear.
Below is the new ACL in place. Note how much larger it is (roughly the
same scale). This is from a cadaver--from an achilles tendon
This is a crude comparison between the old/torn ACL and the new one.
The pink overlay is the width of the old one.
This is a shot of the 9MM hole that was drilled in to the knee to pass
the ACL and connect with screws.
And here is a video of the cleanup of the back of the knee cap.
Labels: ACL, Surgery
posted by Twain at 12:35 PM | 1 comments
2007 Prognostications
'06 Prognostications: Recapping 2006, last year was mostly rants, but here are some notable updates.
Cycling: I bet that Ivan Basso would win the Tour of Italy (Giro de Italia) but not the Tour de France. And that Jan Ulrich would win the TDF with Alexander Vinokourav winning multiple stages. Basso won the Giro but all three were tossed out for a doping scandal. Floyd Landis won the TDF though is also accused of doping and will likely loose his title.
Satellite Radio.Sirius (SIRI) and XM (XMSR), as predicted, fell ~50% YOY. I don't think there is enough content to justify a thriving existence, let alone two of them. They are no more than the MUZAK of this decade. And Muzak has been unprofitable for years.
Celebrities. Either I am just getting older, or it's getting worse. The media preoccupation with Brad & Angelina, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears is so TIRED; that they continue to recycle them over and over is painful. Who the hell cares about any of them?
On a different note, we lost a lot of people this year. Most recently, Saddam Hussein, Gerald Ford, James Brown--what a strange combination. However, the saddest death has to be Steve Irwin, aka The Crocodile Hunter. He probably did more than any naturalist/personality to get young people involved and tuned in to animals and nature than any one since Marlin Perkins (and Jim Fowler) from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
YouTube. YouTube is a great service; try uploading a video; it's pretty darn easy. This being said, not sure if the BILLIONS spent by Google justify the costs. Plus, the founders are a bunch of incredibly lucky dorks. Check out their video here. I think web-based video is a great convenience and allows longer shelf-life of news and entertainment. Kudos to Google for taking the gamble. But I am not convinced that it is the killer advertising solution that it's hyped to be.
Apple iPod. Though obvious, this has to be the device of the decade. It's incredible how ubiquitous it has become; amazing how new options in cars are "iPod compatible".
2007 ThoughtsWhew, after a few years of sort of having a feeling of what would come next, looking in to 2007, I am pretty baffled. Nothing seems that obvious—more, just subtle. It feels like America is productive yet our foreign policy is alienating other countries. There also seems to be a certain laziness and internal distraction; other countries are working harder and growing faster. As a world power, America is losing it's edge by being a poor leader and lackluster competitor. This makes America suddenly vulnerable in unfamiliar ways.
Here are a few things that seem evident:
Malaise of America. There seems to be a huge disconnect between US Citizens and the Agenda of the Government, especially “War in Iraq” and Global Warming. American citizens are focused on their own realities—paying the bills, getting lattes at Starbucks, and getting their perfectly packaged goods at Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Walmart, and Costco. Iraq is detached and foreign sounding words like "shiite" and "sunni" help to marginalize the conflict as background noise. Global Warming is like a warning from the Surgeon’s General to “not drink while pregnant” or “cigarette smoking can cause cancer”. In other words, there is a vast disconnect between the agenda of the Nation and the pursuit of actualization by individuals. There is a dangerous inconsistency between American Policy and the people of the Nation; they are not in agreement. This is a new and
overwhelming sentiment that rests in the subconscious of most Americans. They don't agree with the Nation's policies but feel powerless to make change. Further, they justify they are busy with their own pursuits so simply don't try to reconnect or make a difference. It is too overwhelming yet non-specific at the same time. As a result, in 2007, there will be a growing sentiment for change, ripe for the '08 elections. Americans want to feel empowered and cohesive. This will lead to growing nationalism. Expect this to manifest in pop culture: Country/Country Rock music; there will be new hits from John Cougar, Brian Adams, Jewell, Melissa Etheridge, and/or Bruce Springsteen. There will be new TV shows dedicated to political debate that attempt to simplify issues for the masses and even allow interactive "voting" on issues.
Global Warming.
If you haven't seen An Inconvenient Truth, you must. It is a riveting documentary by Al Gore, and the statistics seem irrefutable. Bottom line: the atmosphere of the Earth is getting polluted too rapidly; heat from the sun cannot reflect back because it is trapped by carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, sending heat back to earth which elevates temperatures. Back to the cancer analogy, it seems that the WORLD has been given a terrible and terminal diagnosis. And time is running out. Unfortunately, there isn't universal recognition of the problem -- we live in denial -- and there is no cohesive plan of action to combat the effects of pollution-caused global warming. It's chilling to think that the movie was produced ~a year ago--and predicted the extinction of Polar Bears due to the rapid melting of the North Pole. Just this week, news reports surfaced confirming the Polar Bear's plight. Ironic that the canary in the coal mine is now one thousand+pounds, 10 feet long, and one of the world's apex predators. Interestingly, during the gas crisis of 2006, most Americans were motivated to rethink their car choices because of high gas prices, NOT emissions related to global warming, though both are deeply linked. It shows how people react to acute pain versus vaguer sentiments. To that end, if one is concerned about global warming, it might be beneficial to first think of a car that emits fewer emissions versus one that gets better gas mileage.
Morality and Business
It strikes me that morality and ethics seem to be less taught in the home. Rather, companies, seem to be reminders of environmental concerns, social liberalism, and cultural awareness. How strange to have an employer lead the way. Speaking of, what might be hopeful (or, unfortunately, just hype) is Social Entrepreneurship. This seems to be a growing fad--dot-com-derived companies that aim to do good for humanity. Of course, most are not true non-profits, and you can bet the founders are bent on making their own fortunes on the way to saving the world, or their view of it. Regardless, the attempts are noble.
What stocks to pick?
There is something fundamentally wrong with the stock market; stock prices fluctuate based on revenue growth. This implies that if a company is not growing, it is "bad". But would you say that companies like Microsoft and Walmart are "bad"? No, they are incredibly well run--but they are so big it is difficult for them to grow any more.
In any case, this year's stock market showed how difficult it was to pick individual US stocks. There simply isn't growth that we've come to expect. The opportunity lies in International growth--and International is much harder to understand. This pursuit of money will lead to a more broadly educated investment community; this is cool. However, the barrier to entry is becoming steeper. It is difficult to understand, get information, and invest in International companies. Luckily, there are
ETF's that enable the average investor get International exposure. The big winners will understand the details of supply/demand by country.
Video Games: Nintendo WiiI was never a big video game fan, though my buddy Larry Boyle and I used to spend $3 worth of quarters at the arcades back in High School. But video games are here to stay -- this year, Sony announced it's Playstation 3 and Nintendo the Wii, to play catch up to Microsoft's Xbox 360. These are big companies putting big bets. And video games, as Brian Fitzgerald says, will likely become instrumental in the childhood education process in the near future.
Unfortunately, most consoles and games are "first person shooter" based where the goal is to kill other people or things. Pretty bad material for kids. But the Nintendo Wii is different. It uses an interactive controller that lets you physically simulate the game. Plus, a lot of their game titles are more kid/family-friendly. I think this device may be a real game changer; hopefully Nintendo will open up it's developer community, something they have been slow to do historically.
Google and Yahoo! Google acts fast; that's impressive. For instance, less than 2 months after their purchase of YouTube, I got an email from their AdSense program (syndicated web site ads). They were announcing new ad creatives that included Video. On the flip side, Yahoo and Ebay announced a partnership where Yahoo would serve media ads on eBay. More than six months later, I'm not sure if they are on the site. However, I'm not convinced that Google will retain it's growth for much longer. They seem to be placing a lot of wide bets, but not many new initiatives are taking hold. Their investment in radio advertising is compelling, though. Meanwhile, Yahoo has many more assets than Google, the key is to figure out how to monetize them better. Too bad the company has been going through such a public pounding.
This is the collaborative web done right. Search for almost any athlete or actor and you'll likely find a wikipedia result. And the content is excellent; there is an implied trust that what gets posted is bona fide. Really neat to see this utopian idea get executed so well. Meanwhile, keep an eye on the parent company, Wikia, Inc. They are rumored to be creating a search engine that leverages user feedback to improve relevancy. This could be huge.
I think this year, the giant awakes. While their new release of Vista will be a whimper, not a bang, they have the capital and ingenuity to make big strides.
I'm sick of all the steroid/drug use. It really takes the enjoyment out when
everything seems to have a catch. Regardless, of the sports I care about:
-Super Bowl. Eagles vs. San Diego Chargers.
-Tour De France. Ivan Basso, unless Vinokourav's team makes it to the TDF,
then he will win.
-Barry Bonds: will play next year but have tragic injury broadcast live.
-Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons, the highest paid player in history,
will go the way of
Kordell Stewart.
-Brett Favre will play one more year.
The next PresidentWho do you think will be the next President?
Obama, Edwards, Clinton, McClain, Condi Rice, some one else? I think it will be someone else.
Companies to watch:
Wikia, Coghead,Progio.
Labels: prognostications, stock picks
3rd Quarter 2006
Mkt Cap #'s from 1 week past earnings
Revenues: 1.58 billion (+19%)
Net income: 202 million
Net Revenue: 1.21 billion
Mkt Cap: 34.9 billion
Net Revenue: 733 million
Mkt Cap: 147 billion
Revenues: 1.449 billion (+31%)
Net income: 281 million (+10%)
Net Revenues: 1.049 billion (+22%)
Turning 40
So, on Thursday, Sept 14th, I was hoping to head out of work early to go on a 3 day mountain bike ride/camping trip with 4 of my best friends to celebrate turning 40 on Sept 15th. Unfortunately, at work, there was a prearanged flag football game.
Well, my team was down, 28-7. It was time to get serious. The ball was handed off to me and I started running. Billy was coming at me so I cut left, then right, jumped, came down, and somehow I think my cleat stuck. I think my leg somehow bent back and to the left, kind of like this guy:
Needless to say, I crumpled to the ground. The pain was mounting and I thought about the damn mountain biking trip--i don't think i'll be able to ride. Unfortunately, I couldn't get up and needed to be walked off the field...and then to my car.
I called my sister and brother-in-law. He is an ER doc and she is a GI doc. Went to their house for motrin and crutches and he snuck me in to the local ER for a knee immobilizer. Meanwhile, my friends decided to cancel the trip, which was probably for the better as it hit 27 degrees that night.
Here's another picture of the knee; the one on the left is normal, the one on the right is, um, not.
And here is it larger.
Der.............
Name: Twain
Location: California, United States
Bad day for Yahoo! Stock
Wow. Times they are a changin'
Dan Hankins | Dshen | Mark Johnson | Every Day Heros | Clark Weber | David Beach | Mark Cuban | Rob Black | Brian Fitzgerald | My page on Yahoo 360' |
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line105
|
__label__cc
| 0.553293
| 0.446707
|
Lithium-ion without the rare earth metals
Thu, 07/19/2012 - 18:02 -- Ruth Williams
A Tohoku University researcher last month announced the development of a lithium-ion battery whose positive electrode does not use any rare earth metals.
Conventional lithium-ion batteries do use rare metals, such as cobalt and nickel, in the positive electrode. Due to their geochemical properties rare earth elements can be dispersed and often not found in concentrated or economically exploitable forms. This makes these metals costly, and supplies not always stable. Eliminating them will likely make the batteries cheaper to manufacture.
China announced plans in 2009 to reduce its export quota of rare earth minerals to around 350,000 tons per year to conserve scarce resources and protect the environment. This has led to other countries stock-piling their reserves. The EU, US and Japan have brought a complaint to the World Trade Organisation alleging China is restricting the exports to maximize domestic use and thus distort the global economy.
Professor Itaru Honma of Tohoku University's Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials has succeeded in replacing these metals with organic substances. As a result, costs of materials for the positive electrode have been slashed to less than one-fifth what they were before.
Professor Honma made a button-sized lithium-ion battery for testing. This prototype achieved an energy density of 200 watt-hours per kilogram -- roughly double that of current lithium-ion batteries. Tests confirmed that the button-sized battery could withstand at least 100 charge-discharge cycles.
The next step will be to look further for organic materials that more efficiently store power and boost the battery's capacity, with a goal of developing a secondary battery for electric vehicles.
-ion
Joint venture for Cummins and Hyundai
Mitsubishi responds to rising demand for distributed power
Panasonic broadens reach of fuel cells
Positive predictions for fuel cells
This year has seen a rise in shipments o
Back to the future: Targeting the 1.3 billion without power
Critical Power (CP):
Gearing up for future growth
The Big Question: Will the EU get tough on critical power emissions?
The European Uni
Demand response: Time to take the leap of faith?
Grabbing a larger slice of the data centre UPS pie
BlackCurrent: Bringing UPS to the domestic market
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line118
|
__label__cc
| 0.706612
| 0.293388
|
The Ramble 34 comments
S.A. Hunt: The Fine Art Of Building People
And now, a guest post by a fella named S.A. Hunt, who is a cracking author you probably aren’t reading. His newest is Malus Domestica — I just opened this book up the other day thinking I’d just take a peek, and next thing I knew, I was like, 30 pages in. Amazing prose. Reminds me of some of the most classic horror writers. Hunt has a storyteller’s ear, as you’ll see below.
Some people collect action figures.
I collect people.
I don’t know how you feel about that first point. Action figures. Some of you will probably think it’s childish, or a waste of money, or both of those.
Some of you might throw down a dollar for that janky old Optimus Prime or loose-hipped Skeletor that you used to have twenty-five years ago, lurking in a thrift shop’s toy aisle. Some of you will drop a paycheck on a superdeluxe polyresin Batman from Korea with a cloth cape and thirty-six articulation points and four interchangeable faces so realistic you’d swear the figure contained an actual miniaturized human soul.
I still live where I grew up, a stone’s throw from the real river featured in Deliverance, but I wasn’t that quintessential uphill-both-ways kid that had to play with sticks and bugs, although I did own an impressive armory of gnarled branches. One of them was a three-foot stick as straight as a pool cue with a top end that hooked like a dragon’s talon. I hung a soapstone pendant inside the crescent, burned sigils into the shaft with a magnifying glass, and called it my wizard staff.
No, I had a whole entourage of action figures. He-Man and M.A.S.K. and Dino-Riders; Thundercats, Silverhawks, Ghostbusters, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; X-Men, Ronin Warriors, and Batman, and finally, the ultimate bauble, LEGO. I loved them all, usually to the exclusion of the world around me. Whenever I had a tiny plastic Leonardo (the original Playmates line, of course, bow-legged and wielding brown swords) or Wolverine (yellow and blue spandex, with retractable claws) in my hands, that was the only thing that existed for me.
(Speaking of Leonardo’s swords, in middle school my Harley-riding father, who could pass for a Sons of Anarchy extra and whose only hobbies were turning rattlesnakes into belts and keeping Anheuser-Busch in business, would buy me an honest-to-God samurai sword at a swap meet. As schoolboys are wont to do, I accidentally stuck it in my thigh in eighth grade—the first of many self-inflicted war wounds—and ruined a pair of pants. But that’s another story for another day.)
Some of the best parts of getting a new action figure was reading the story on the back. You might say it was their BACKSTORY, hahaaaaa.
This blue guy is the team’s mechanic, trained in the art of Ninjitsu from the age of four
This girl was raised by howler monkeys and was taught how to melt steel with nothing but her voice
This one can fly and talk to birds because he is the son of the bird god
This dude with permanent goggles rides Tyrannosaurs in his spare time and his favorite food is eggplant casserole
This man is made of snakes because fuck you
And then I’d ogle the pictures of the other toys in that crowd of heroes and villains and wonder what their backstories were. Sometimes I would make them up. Moss Man spent too much time swimming in the moat and now he’s covered in moss. Slithe is six years divorced. The only thing that can beat this giant glow-eyed skeleton demon full of naked viscera is a quick wit. Lion-O prefers to bathe himself.
You’re probably wondering, “Who is this spoiled little bastard, over here drowning in toys like one of those Golden Ticket kids that got their sleeves caught in Willy Wonka’s death-candy clockwork and dragged screaming into diabetic sweatshop oblivion?”
Well, I don’t know if you could call it fortunate, but I guess I lucked out when it came to being a little boy, at least from a little boy’s perspective. My parents split when I was barely out of diapers, which left me with a mother that worked constantly (and still does), an alcoholic father that had to be cajoled every Friday into weekend custody, and grandparents who lived in Alaska, which might as well have been the other side of the world.
(“You didn’t have to get me this,” I would murmur, head bent, quietly building a sleek spaceship under the patient guidance of its manual. This became a common refrain when talking to my father’s mother Edith.
“I know; I do it because I love you,” was always Grandma’s answer, and then she would pack up and fly back to Anchorage for another couple of years.)
So I was surrounded by shadows that demonstrated their love in absent material ways, and I sat in my room alone and acquainted myself with fictional people. I lived in a trailer and wore hand-me-down clothes, but I never lacked for imaginary friends that rode cyborg alligators and carried their battleaxes to Shoney’s.
To this day, the people in my mind have seemed more real to me than most of the people around me. The fortresses where they lived were infinitely more vibrant than this remote meth-infested banjo jungle people call “Georgia,” that’s for sure.
If you know me, you probably think this all explains a lot. But there’s also the fact that until my mother remarried and I discovered dog-eared copies of The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and Alice in Wonderland in the basement of my new stepfather’s house, the only book I had access to at home was a medical encyclopedia and back issues of Country magazine. I know where all your vital organs and arteries can be found, and I know all about your motherfucking gazebos.
When I was that little boy sitting in the kitchen with a box of plastic bricks, Earth ceased to exist.
Suddenly the kitchen table was a spaceport, and this little guy with his yellow jughead and cocked eyebrow was Rocko Starcrasher, ace pilot and genius ship builder. Or it was a lonely English moor, prime real estate for the skull-headed Dark Lord Necromungus to build a towering castle festooned with stiff plastic ivy.
Some of the reviews on my books claim that I’m a “mashup artist”, that I can bang together genres and make them play together seamlessly and effortlessly. The Outlaw King is a science fiction epic, wrapped up in a wilderness survival tale, buckled up in medieval trappings, disguised as a gunslinger western, posing as a cheesy 80s-style portal fantasy. Malus Domestica is a superheroine’s origin hiding in a magical-realism story masquerading as King-style horror.
Using one sole genre to tell a story feels confined to me… like driving a car in first gear or wearing nothing but shades of green. Incorporating a dozen disparate flavors in a suicide-soda of words comes naturally to me.
That probably comes from the action figure thing—at any given time I probably had one figure from a half-dozen intellectual properties. He-Man fought Panthro fought Egon Spengler fought Anubis. And then, of course, there was Lego, where you were as apt to find a raygun as a pirate cutlass, and just devise your own spacefaring robot skeleton knights, like you do.
Then there was the Video Game Renaissance, when my newly remarried mother could suddenly afford an NES.
Video games are also an integral part of my storytelling DNA. Zoot suit cats with grappling hooks. Flying skulls and walking mushrooms. Barbarians trudging through the magma vents of a volcano in specialized iron suits. Long afternoons in the back of the family car guiding Link through the bowels of Koholint Island.
When I finished a video game, I often restarted it and put the characters through my own stories, or obstacles of my own design. This was never more true than when I discovered debug modes and the Game Genie.
After I beat Sonic the Hedgehog 2, I would use the debug mode to put down new traps or structures, or even craft furniture out of props. I would type nonsense sequences into the Game Genie to delve into hidden back alleys of garbled code in Super Mario Bros 2 or Super Mario World that nobody was ever meant to see. Scrambled, glitched-out panoramas of ripped faces and broken ghosts, impossible structures cobbled together out of the familiar. A tower made of crypto-garbage hiding the secrets of a secret universe, turtles all the way up to where the sky ends in a jagged stratosphere made of fourteens and flowers.
Parting binary curtains and journeying into the beating heart of a video game is probably how the characters in my novels end up looking into the abyss for the unknowable. Everything I write seems to veer through time and tide, ultimately, toward unearthing some Grand Cosmic Truth.
(And speaking of video games, like, ohmygah, Chrono Trigger? That was a huge influence on my storytelling. Y’all know what I’m talking about. Medieval fantasy, post-apocalyptic wandering, prehistoric romps, handsome hard-hearted magicians, Lovecraftian star-beasts? It’s left fingerprints all over me.)
These days I can build worlds on a grand scale in Minecraft—and I have constructed marvelous and complicated things, for me at least: sprawling Viking towns, hovering airships, glass-domed underwater villages, monolithic castles, mechanical gates that shutter open and closed like the eye of a camera.
But it’s not the same. The kitchen table is there and on it is the box of bricks, but Rocko and the Dark Lord aren’t there to sit in their cockpits and thrones. It’s a lonely Eden.
That’s the missing element: the characters. The figures.
This is the root of my creative vibe and process, I believe. I never stopped playing with action figures and building my spires, and imagining how they would overcome hardships and navigate treacherous terrain. The characters in my novels all have metaphorical kung-fu grips, holographic decals, glow-in-the-dark splatters of barium paint, interchangeable faces.
And they do come straight from the factory pre-packaged with a human soul—mine.
I think this is how I’m able to craft such livable, authentic characters, and why they’re always searching for cosmic secrets. These people are real to me. They are me. They are all fragments of my soul, and I’m constantly searching under the carpets and behind the baseboards of life, hoping to find what makes reality tick.
When I’m not writing, I’m building these action figures in my head, exploring their springloaded tricks and gimmicks, filling out the backs of their boxes. And when I sit down to write, I’m shutting myself up in a room with these people in my headspace, and playing with these mental action figures, playing with them for myself, for my own enjoyment.
And to me, that’s part of succeeding at creating enjoyable characters, really—you have to enjoy them yourself if you want your reader to enjoy them. You can explore emotional themes through them, but a character that’s all angst and inner turmoil can grate on your reader’s nerves. As an indie, I’ve gotten myself roped into reading many stories with sour, depressing characters in drab, depressing plots, and I can’t help but wonderwhy? Why do this to yourself? Okay, many people go for lit-fic to get that, but in genre fiction? You’re just shooting yourself in the foot. I think genre readers appreciate those action-figure characters: expressive personality, capable, dynamic, easy to empathize with, easy to identify with.
The best of these initially simple characters are deep and dark once you scratch through the surface, but nobody wants a mopey, defeatist, nobody-understands-me emo protagonist starring in their own My Chemical Romance version of A Christmas Carol. Now, I’m not talking about “grimdark” – a lot of that is ultimately, when you get down to it, either the power of the human spirit to prevail even in the face of despair, or it’s just the author burning ants with a magnifying glass. What I’m talking about are weepy, self-pitying emo-teenager protagonists starting at the bottom and just going lower, forced to wallow in every miserable tragedy of their short lives in inner-monologue vignettes. The characters never grow, the narrative never evolves, the situations never improve. Harry Potter lives under the stairs for the rest of his life and never gets to go to Hogwarts. There are a lot of indies that do this, and it’s all cookie and no chip.
Why? Why would readers want to subject themselves to that?
Okay, that might have been a bit of a rant. And a tangent.
The point is, to me, a compelling genre character is one that makes you want to read the back of the figure’s box. If you were sharing toys with another kid, this character is the one you’d slip off to the side and keep for yourself. Its plastic leer gleams from the shelves of the toy aisle, with a half-dozen strange accessories and a colorful backboard. You can’t wait to get home with it and get this tiny plastic hero into—and back out of—trouble. You see something in this character that you identify with.
I always identified with the offbeat supporting character, myself. The Panthro. The Knuckles. The Bluegrass. The Man-at-Arms. The Rocket Raccoon. The Catwoman. That bunch is who I saved for myself.
I like to be the Geppetto that giggles deviously as he’s carving that little wooden knight, knowing that this captivating character is soon going to be fighting wolves and leaping ravines in a reader’s hands. Be the toymaker, that’s what I do when I write. And I try to make all of my toys the ones you hide under your pillow when your cousin comes to visit.
S. A. Hunt is a U.S. veteran and the author of the award-winning Outlaw King fantasy-gunslinger series and dark-fantasy Malus Domestica. He lives in Lyerly, GA where he tempts fate by kayaking on the river from Deliverance with his friends.
moteridgerider
First time I’ve read a blog and afterwards felt like I’d just been absorbed into a novel – a novel that’s actually based on someone’s real life. I can equate with the childhood escape fantasies and their projection into and onto models, characters, comics, dioramas etc. it’s what lonely kids do to get through. I’m inspired. Going to check out Malus Domestica now.
S. A. Hunt
August 6, 2015 @ 12:26 PM
Speaking of comics, I’d have to say that’s probably where you’d find my first stirrings of creative output. I used to make my own comics with stapled-together copier paper. My mom’s still got one of my earliest character studies framed around here somewhere–a Gandalfian wizard, I don’t remember his name. He incubated and evolved in my head until he eventually became Normand Kaliburn, the eponymous gunslinger of my Outlaw King series.
One of my favorite parts of creating characters is seeing how they evolve, both conceptually, and organically, on the page. While these days I just make up shit on the fly, a lot of my earlier characters flowered out of concepts I came up with back when I was still trying to be a normal human in the early 2000s.
Now I enjoy hooking a concept and following the character’s quirks down a personality rabbit-hole.
What a great post! I feel warm and fuzzy all over. I’m going to buy your book for a repeat dose. Xo
fakedtales
A fantastic recounting of your past and your love of character through action figures.
I went through similar things, although Star Wars figures were the drug of choice, mainly because they actually weren’t selling well back then. At least in Sussex they weren’t. My brother and I used some old Warhammer paints and made them our own. When we found out the GI Joe/Action Force figures were the same size it was like a flood of potential for our characters. I think somewhere in a drawer, I still have the top half of a figure which I painted as what’s now the main character in a story I’ve been working on.
I never really got into the GI Joe until I met my stepbrother James. He had a bunch of them in storage.
I did love my M.A.S.K., though. One of my favorite things of all time was my green motorcycle that turned into a gyrocopter.
Wow. Just wow. I feel like I totally know you now and I’m kind of jealous that I didn’t have a Game Genie growing up. Or a samurai sword. And no, I didn’t totally miss the point on the writerly stuff. Great post.
I kept that sword (and bought a few more of my own) until the day the house burned down in 2003. The firefighters stepped on it and broke it.
But… you DID keep the pieces, though? Tell me that you kept the pieces? Else, how can the mysterious stranger appear at the next new moon and reforge them into the weapon you’ll need when you go off on your quest.
Don’t ask ‘what quest?’ The stranger will explain.
Oh, and those weren’t firefighters. And the shattering of the sword was no accident.
August 6, 2015 @ 2:28 PM
Well, it was bent and fouled with wet ash, and lost in the pile of crud. It got bulldozed with the rest of the house. But I have a new blade now! I bought it on Fort Gordon when I got home from deployment. (I wish I’d saved the money now, but it’s nice having a sword in the house again.)
http://www.knife-depot.com/knife-201635.html
Nice! Well, a millennium or two from now, the elves will find the old shattered sword buried in the ashes and ruins, and they’ll reforge it into a Sword of Power. Or a really nifty can opener.
D.R.Sylvester
Oh damn, so far down memory lane right now. Thank you. I too had the turtles with the brown weapons. Had splinter with a sword cane. My pride was the Ghost Busters fire station, with the ghost airlock thingy and the ectoplasm that took five minutes to drip down through the roof and slime someone.
Funny you mention grimdark, my fave character of my childhood was a custom 40k space ork named Biff (formerly a callidus assassin, stuck as a greenskin by way of amnesia, traumatised by the loss of both arms [think Evil Dead chainsaws, only BOTH sides]…)
Been meaning to read the rest of your stuff after the Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree blew me away. Will give Malus Domestica a download.
Aargh, the fire station! I always wanted that one. Ecto-1 was my jam. I loved that weird little ambulance with all my heart.
I never had Ecto-1! Always drooled HARD when I saw it at a friend’s house.
August 6, 2015 @ 10:23 AM
Have you seen the new Ecto? It looks pretty rad. It’s actually a hearse, as opposed to the original’s old-timey ambulance.
http://roa.h-cdn.co/assets/15/28/980×490/landscape-1436362300-ecto.jpg
Joe Turner
Yes, just yes. This helps me feel like less of a fraud for also not being the boy that always had his nose in a book. Great post, and you’ve just sold both your books.
My world definitely opened up in high school once I had access to a better school library. I think my favorite book at the time was Elizabeth Winthrop’s “Castle in the Attic”. Which was probably a big influence on my Outlaw series.
You better believe I became an adult that always had his nose in a book. I took 11/22/63 to an Army function once and I honestly can’t recall most of the people that were there. The only picture anyone has of me there is of me sitting in the park pavilion reading it.
To be honest, my Kindle has been a gamechanger. I’ve probably read more in the last few years than I have over the span of my life.
todddillard
Man, my day needed a dose of awesome, and you damn well delivered. See you in the @s!
Kay Camden
One of my favorite guest posts. And it’s very cool to see a fellow indie featured here. 🙂
I also had all those first gen turtles, and Splinter, Shredder, and a foot soldier. They’re so dear to me I can’t get myself to pass them on to my boys who will probably destroy them in one day.
I built the turtles a lair, with beds (kitchen sponges) and homemade pillows and blankets I hand sewed from my grandma’s scrap material from her drapery business. The turtles lived next door to my Barbie kingdom (queendom?). A matriarchy, consisting of about 100 women and a handful of men. I saved money from doing laundry to buy those toys, and I still have them all. And every one of them had a backstory.
Just think if someone had told your child self that all that imagining was practice for your future writing career. You’d probably have never believed them. I know I wouldn’t have.
Mr. Hunt, you made my day.
I am super-glad to hear that. 😀
And YES, the makeshift lairs! My mom had this chair that was basically a seat on top of a three-sided wooden box, and each of the walls had a window with dowel-bars. It was a perfect lair.
This reminds me of an idea I had when I was working down in Florida back in 2005. My little crew was going around to all the mobile homes in the retirement communities and removing the underpinning masonry so the state could come in and put new hurricane tie-downs underneath them. The cinderblocks under the homes were arranged in such a way that they looked like little castles, and I couldn’t help but imagine all of Florida’s little green-anole lizards living in them like a Game of Thrones version of Secret of NIMH.
(Can’t forget the Cheerios donuts and Cookie Crisp cookies either!)
Tsara Shelton
This is fantastical! For me it was trees and everything in them. I walked and sang and imagined, imagined, imagined myself and the leaves and the needles and the branches and the bugs and the bark alive and part of me. I watch my sons, too, create worlds with video games (which I almost hated until I truly listened to what my boys were imagining and creating with them) and toys and their dad’s tools.
This is a wonderfully refreshing and engaging and nostalgic post. Thank-you so much!!
(Oh, ya, and I was Cheetara. I was sure of it!)
Cheetaraaaaaaaa! She was the best. I think I had a figure of her. One of my favorites.
Wendy Christopher
Oh wow, what a glorious trip this post was! Beautiful brain-food- thank you so much for sharing it.
I can relate so hard to the action figures – although being a girl, it was more about the Sindy dolls (Sindy was the pug-faced British equivalent of the Barbie doll.) But my Sindys were BADASS. None of that going to each others houses for sleepovers and pretending to be fashion models/pop stars crap – MY Sindys traversed SAS-strength assault courses, fought international super-villains and fell down ravines as part of their average working day. One of them even cut her hair into a short crop, dyed it pink and had a safety-pin nose-piercing (and bloody hot she looked too, no matter what my mother said…)
Thank you for making me feel a slightly less that Problem Child that worried grown-ups don’t really know what to do about. Now if I could just whisk you about thirty-five years back in time with me, there’s a couple of family members I’d really like you to talk to… 😉
Heck yeah. And we could play SAS Sindys vs the Ninja Turtles.
elctrcrngr
Just started Malus Domestica, and it’s RIVETING! I haven’t read a voice like yours in years. As musical and poetic as it is original. You have a new fan.
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for the kind words. I really needed this today.
August 12, 2015 @ 12:23 PM
This pulls on my heartstrings. If your cover art & being fairly
*Local didn’t at least pique my interest, it was the musical whimsy of your writing voice & the relatability to your family history (although I was the kid that made sticks into imaginary magical items when my mother would ban Legos to save her sanit (Please excuse my split message. Working from a cell, with twins that are amused with this glowing mass of technology)
I’m now off to search out a copy of Malus Domestica!
August 15, 2015 @ 1:52 AM
I’m glad I could intrigue you, Kayla! I played with my share of sticks too. That’s how I found out I’m not allergic to poison ivy.
Just curious if most people know your title means Apple right out of the gate? (Plant nerd here)
Not all of them! But it’s fun to explain it. 🙂
Courtney Cantrell
As one who never got to play with action figures a whole lot (there’s a whole life story behind that), I appreciate a look at genre fiction through the action figure lens. It gives me a whole new perspective on character development and creation — and makes me take a harder look at some of my already-existing characters. Heaven forfend any of mine are lower-sinking emo types! 😉 Now I’ll know what to look for.
Thankee-sai, Sam.
What if you do it all properly? | Damian Trasler's Secret Blog - Do Not Read!
[…] the book. He’s done promotions and giveaways and had beta readers and discussions and he’s done guest posts on blogs. Better still, he wrote the second and third books in the series that begins with “The Whirlwind […]
Leave a Reply to Kristen Cancel reply
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line123
|
__label__wiki
| 0.668186
| 0.668186
|
historic property search
Share on Twitter. Search the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties. A property search request can easily be submitted and paid for using Council’s online customer service portal. Agree and close. Zoopla Property Archive. Historic property means any prehistoric or historic site, district, building, object, or other real or personal property of historical, architectural, or archaeological value, and folklife resources. Share this; Share on Facebook. The access to and acquisition of land drove much of American history. Money Budget Shop Travel Stories Career ... You can either search by parcel number, if you know it, or simply by the address of the property. DiedInHouse.com. © Crown copyright 2020. All rights reserved. MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (WTRF) – A 100-year-old theatre is being recognized by the Moundsville Landmark Commission. Trusted nation-wide property records reporting service. This page allows you to search basic information from the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, including the scanned survey files. Using an old browser means that some parts of our website might not work correctly. Testing vertical aerial photography methods at British Camp on the Malvern Hills. You can get this information yourself by stopping into the Tax Assessor or Recorder of Deeds offices. Shortlisted for ‘Best Rescue of an Industrial Building or Site’ Angel Award in 2012, Michaela Strivens: Upside down world, Wallington, London Suburbs, 132 Nationwide War Memorials Listed Ahead of Armistice Day, 11 Unusual Architectural Details that Reveal London’s Secret History, Captivating Sites Across England Listed During 2020, IWM Duxford’s American Air Museum Awarded Grade II* Listed Status, Read about our latest aerial investigation methods. Whilst we understand some property owners may prefer this information be kept confidential, we are licensed to display this information from various third parties. Read the list entry© Historic England (DP195150) Help to Buy equity loan scheme extended for second time, Q&A: 'With the stamp duty holiday due to end in March, we expect to see this housing market activity intensify', Home repossessions set to be put on hold until April. The Historical Ownership Name Search Report can be accessed through Land Enquiry Services if you have a MyLandgate account. And for a list of other on-line databases and resources, check out our list here. The Home insurance comparison service is provided by Autonet Insurance Services Ltd, registered in England No. The Strand Theatre stands tall on the corner of Jefferson Avenue and fifth street… like it … Here you can find GIS datasets available to download from the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). To find out more about this service, head to our building searches page. This page allows you to search basic information from the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, including the scanned survey files. The Rightmove website is the UKs #1 property website and, as such, advertises around 90% of all residential properties for sale via estate agents in the UK. This page lists all the older types of land record once held by LINZ – some are now stored elsewhere. Frequently when a house or other building was erected, ownership of the land on which it was built was transferred. Start now on the price paid data service. Search by MIHP No | Search by Property Name ... Search the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties. Browse house prices and values by area. Included in the fifteenth List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ... Property … However, search criteria is not required to view our listings. Search by MIHP No | Search by Property Name ... Search the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties. 3642372. From wars, treaties, immigration, and settlement, land is interwoven into the very core of what it means to be America. You can find land and property information by searching the land register. Fernbank Fernbank, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, PO37 6PP. 100-year-old Strand Theatre designated as a historic property Top Stories. Acacia Avenue or TW19 5NW. Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). Photo by Elizabeth Hughes, 2012. Search the entire Historic Map Works Collection. A complete record of financial & document history on your home. London Transport Museum have enriched all of the listed buildings on the District Line using photographs from their collections. Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment. paid prices Zoopla estimate; Click to choose your search criteria. Find the Perfect Historic Property. Like everything else we do, it is designed to provide home hunters and the property curious with more resources to help them make better-informed property decisions. This will then show you a list of the different online public records that are maintained by the county. See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places. Search this site Search. HM Land Registry publish the UK House Price Index on behalf of Office for National Statistics, Registers of Scotland and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland. You may unsubscribe or update your preferences at any time in MyZoopla, List with Zoopla and build your business today, I'm a Zoopla agent, I want to login to ZooplaPro, the historic for sale or to rent asking price of a property, images of the property at the time it was last listed for sale or to rent, a description of the property at that point in time. Recent listings in Kentucky of historic property for sale totaled around 1,000 acres acres of historic property and a combined market value of $594,950. RI National Register Search. Zoopla Limited is an appointed representative of Loans Warehouse Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 713110) to introduce clients to Loans Warehouse Limited and distributing non-real time financial promotions that relate to products of services available through Loans Warehouse Limited. Search using a map Last Name: State: Date Range: Find a family name as a land owner in a directory *About 265,000 directory pages in 28 states are searchable. Find a family name on a map *About 100,000 maps in 15 states are searchable. Then, select which county the house is in. Skip to main content . Or search the NPGallery Databaseand select National Historic Landmark System as the "Record Category". Historical Ownership Name Search Report. A lien is placed on a home when the owner owes money to a lender, the IRS, or possibly even a contractor who did remodeling work on the home. Manage my account Sign out Search the site. finding sales history of a property; discovering past land use for development or environmental studies; understanding changes in land tenure or cadastral boundaries over time. Market Trends If you are looking to sell, buy or just want to know what's happening in the property market in your area, then Rightmove can help. Search for property records using paid websites. An opportunity to own a historic river-fronted period building with Thames views and a roof terrace that incorporates a three-bedroom apartment, and a separate B1(a) commercial space set within a row of early Georgian Townhouses. Pub nearby. Please note: Although some of these records have been digitized and made available online, there are many records that are only available in paper or microfilm format at NARA locations. Cottage Code: UKC2803. Share on LinkedIn. by: Aliah Keller. Grade II listed Sandford Parks Lido, Cheltenham. The Property Search application provides key property characteristics, ownership, sales assessment, exemption benefits, and taxable value information. Search for National Historic Landmark (NHL) files. Our unique property archive contains nearly 2 million historic records of properties from across the UK that at one time have been for sale or to rent on the open market in the last 10 years. Search homes for sale in Historic District, NC for free. All Periods Early American (Up To 1820) Revivals (1820-1880) Victorian (1860-1900) Early 20th Century (1880-1939) Mid-Century (1940-1970) Cabins, Barns, Outbuildings. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience online. Old newspapers were often used as insulation between walls, while journals, clothing, and other items have been found in rooms, closets, or fireplaces that for one reason or another were sealed over. Search. A tax history search will be able to tell you the property’s value at the time of assessment, past taxes paid, whether any taxes are due, and if there are any liens on the property. Always research how much it will cost to run a search and just what information you will be getting. Providing access to this information gives home hunters and the property curious the resources they need to make better-informed property decisions. You can ask your agent to search the history of a particular property in the MLS. Some are looking for information because they need it for a title search or other legal reason. Search sold property prices Find out how much a property sold for in England and Wales. Tracing a Property's History Land Registration began in 1862 when the first Land Registry office opened, situated in Lincolns Inn Fields in Holborn, London. A property search is often part of a larger investigation, perhaps for genealogical purposes, or to prepare for renovation of a home. Zoopla > House prices. The Zoopla Property Archive is the first online property archive of its kind in the UK. You can't undo it. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience online. You're only a few clicks away from locating the Horse Property of your dreams. WHERE ARE TUCSON'S HISTORIC DISTRICTS, AND HOW DO THEY BECOME Property Value and Property Pages exist to help people researching Australian property make informed decisions when buying and selling. Search Records → Enter your address, or any other home address for an official property report containing records on property value, details, owners, taxes, mortgages, sales history and more. Pet friendly. Search sold property prices Find out how much a property sold for in England and Wales. Architectural Period. Our sold price data is one of the largest available, with millions of records covering sales from 1st January 1995 to 30 November 2020. It can also be very useful. There are many reasons that people may want to learn about the history of their homes and other property. Discover property at The Historic Dockyard Chatham, with over 100 businesses and residential and university buildings. Body artists. Search sold house prices and estimates for any UK property. A few of these are preserved in the burgh records held here, m… Property history can be a valuable tool when looking into buying a house. The innovative design and architectural significance of the American Air Museum recognised, with a war memorial sculpture part of the listing. Search a database of Connecticut properties with historic designations (southern counties only) Skip to Content ... For information on the northern half of the state or clarification regarding the historic designation of your property, please contact us below. Researching property history can be done at home by simply using your computer with the assistance of a real estate title company or by making a trip to your county courthouse to look up the records. Summary guide to what to find in each section of an NHLE List entry. These datasets are provided in comma-separated value (csv) and linked data formats, with Price Paid Data also available as a text file. Search Accommodation ... Steeped in history, with 17 bedrooms Broughton Hall is a stately home in every sense of the word. START YOUR SEARCH. © Historic England Archive. Your Property Search Results. Properties that have an historic listing are clearly marked with an 'H' and an official Zoopla Property Archive stamp. *Zoopla Limited is an appointed representative of uSwitch Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 312850) to provide this mortgage comparison service. But the website DiedInHouse.com will tell you (you … You can search the Register by address and you may be able to establish who lived at that address at the time the Register was taken. Autonet Insurance Services Ltd has its registered office at Nile Street, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent ST6 2BA United Kingdom. Click to choose your search criteria. © 2020 Zoopla Limited. These properties or resources may include, but are not limited to, monuments, memorials, Indian habitations, ceremonial sites, abandoned settlements, sunken or abandoned ships, engineering works, treasure trove, artifacts, … Your contribution could enrich The List for generations to come. Find out what you can do to save a building that's under threat. Posted: Dec 18, 2020 / 05:33 PM EST / Updated: Dec 18, 2020 / 06:15 PM EST. The archive can be accessed via the home values section on Zoopla. (S3282_V_0651), Women outside the 3000th Easiform dwelling to be completed in Bristol, watching the opening ceremony through a ground floor window as a policeman guards the entrance nearby, © Historic England Archive. Four services providing enhancements to Historic England's existing free planning and listing services. You can use the Spreadsheet of NHLsto find the name and reference number for each National Historic Landmark. Start now on the price paid data service. Information about buildings in burghs can be found in the records of the Dean of Guild courts which had powers to control building within burghs. The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up to date, register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England - listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered parks and gardens, and battlefields. Discover the stories of 11 of London's sculpted figures on our blog, Heritage Calling. Irish Bend Covered Bridge No. Occupying one of the most beautiful positions in the Old Village of Shanklin, this intimate bed and breakfast retreat features its own indoor swimming pool set in sub-tropical gardens. A complete record of financial & document history on your home. You can find out if the property has been withdrawn from the market and relisted or if it has recently sold and is now a flipper—a house that was bought, fixed up quickly, and sold for profit. Your Property Search Results. The Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission Historic Property Search, developed in Partnership with RI.gov. There are a wide range of resources available if you want to start researching the history of your house, from archives to local studies centres. Discovering the history of a house - who lived in it and when it was built - can be a challenging and rewarding experience. How to search for a listed building in Scotland by keyword, category, date of listing, council, parish or burgh using our Listed Building Search tool. This is not an exhaustive search of all maps. Then you can search by reference number at NARA. The very first property to become registered was a year later in 1863. Search Accommodation GO. Find out about listing Grade II listed Sandford Parks Lido, Cheltenham. Historic Homes for Sale . View menu. Search. The Zoopla Property Archive is the first online property archive of its kind in the UK. Region Avg. Close. News Facing Historic Drop In Property Tax Revenue, De Blasio Proposes Austerity Budget By Elizabeth Kim Jan. 14, 2021 … Search for land and property information beta This is a new service – give your feedback (link opens in a new tab) to help us to improve it (link opens in new tab). Before purchasing a property it is a great idea to do a building/property search to check what buildings and structures have been approved on your property. John Laing Collection JLP01/08/007475, New Heritage Partnership Agreement Signed at King's Cross Station, Brixton Windmill - Friends of Brixton Windmill. How To . To begin a search, enter all or part of the property name you are searching for in the box below. Alternatively, search by using the legal description of the property by selecting "Legal Description" on the left hand side drop-down list and entering the legal description in the search box. When you search for your home with our service, you’re getting records from all available sources – including your local assessors office. Others are seeking information about how their houses may have looked in the past so that they can restore a historic home. Listing and Ownership. Using the keyword “site:”, Google allows users to search specific websites for information. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission | RI.gov. Our website works best with the latest version of the browsers below, unfortunately your browser is not supported. Close menu. Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). Step 1 – Tell Google the Property Portal to Search. Search for property information from HM Land Registry Find information about a property in England or Wales, even if you do not own it. In the archive, which will be updated weekly, you will find: *in some cases images and a property description may not be available. WiFi available. Before you start. Search for land records; Historic land records; Historic land records. Our properties can be searched in a variety of ways. The Rightmove Price Comparison report brings together Rightmove, Land Registry and Registers of Scotland current and historic prices in one place. The Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR): Was created in 1965 by the General Assembly in the Code of Virginia; Is the Commonwealth’s official list of places of historic, architectural, […] Filter. The Land Registry began modestly with a handful of staff. For example, use “site: http://www.rightmove.co.uk ” for Rightmove. The access to and acquisition of land drove much of American history. View all 9 listings available in Historic District with an average price of $887,378. Courtesy of the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office. As of 11 Mar 2019. Share on LinkedIn. See Maps, Photos, and More. Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. The Rhode Island-National Register Search can help you learn more about specific Rhode Island properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. our selected partners may contact you with relevant offers and services. Nethouseprices is a free service providing you with the latest sold property prices throughout England and Wales as recorded by the Land Registry. A thorough search of the property may also yield clues between walls, floorboards, and other forgotten areas. Browse all historic property and other land and rural property for sale on Land And Farm to find the property that's right for your land-buying needs. Burgh registers of sasines run from the 1690s (NRS reference B). By using this website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with our. Set in extensive grounds, the house includes a large library, a full size billiard table, stunning chandeliers and even a piano. Details of this transaction are recorded in the registers of sasines running from the early 17th century onwards (NRS reference RS). Built in the aftermath of the First World War, the memorials listed since last November are among tens of thousands erected across England. Historic property databases. Add your knowledge and photos to our understanding of important historic sites. To begin a search, click on the link for a specific county or jurisdiction below. By registering you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and agree that we and The National Register of Historic Places is a program of the National Park Service, where properties that are historically significant are recorded. Architectural Period. Like everything else we do, it is designed to provide home hunters and the property curious with more resources to help them make better-informed property decisions. Property history can be a valuable tool when looking into buying a house. Live / Following the Scottish Government's announcement our sites in mainland Scotland are currently closed. Find out how you can have an entry amended on the National Heritage List for England (NHLE). These records come from properties that have been marketed for sale or to rent via estate agents who advertise their properties on Zoopla.co.uk. Share on Twitter. Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment. Search Help Starting typing in a street name, suburb name, postcode or district name and choose the appropriate result that will be displayed. AutoNet Insurance Services Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (Registration number: 308213). From wars, treaties, immigration, and settlement, land is interwoven into the very core of what it means to be America. Zoopla.co.uk was founded on the principles of transparency and efficiency and everything we do aims to make the market more effective for both property consumers and professionals alike. You can find out if the property has been withdrawn from the market and relisted or if it has recently sold and is now a flipper—a house that was bought, fixed up quickly, and sold for profit. This will clear your Bing search history on this device. 14169, Covallis, Oregon . New Zealand’s survey and land registration systems have been through several cycles of change since 1840. By using this website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Photo by Elizabeth Hughes, 2012. Explore the many ways you can help to support the incredibly rich and varied heritage. DHR administers two programs designed to recognize Virginia’s historic resources and to encourage their continued preservation: the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Search. e.g. Search Results: 81 - 100 of 491 matching records Town Street Name Year Built Info; Woonsocket : 141 Cato St Clarkin, Robert, House. House prices and values. Conserving the Fog Battery Station on Lundy Island. Bulk Data Extract. Cottage Availability Search. Search for property history and business license information; Business licenses, permits, and approvals. The history of the National Heritage List for England, what you find in list descriptions and why they differ. Loans Warehouse Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under firm reference 713110. This will allow you to do a property history search for free. Apply for or renew certification for a body art establishment; Apply for a body artist certification; Child care facilities. HM Land Registry holds records about most property or land sold in England or Wales since 1993, including the title register, title plan, title summary and flood risk indicator. All Periods Early American (Up To 1820) Revivals (1820-1880) Victorian (1860-1900) Early 20th Century (1880-1939) Mid-Century (1940-1970) Cabins, Barns, Outbuildings. Okay, yes, it’s a little morbid. Once you have searched for the specific property click on the link that will open the information for the specific property you are looking for. This page allows you to search basic information from the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, including the scanned survey files. Oxford, NW3 or Waterloo Station e.g. This means you’re getting the most up-to-date and accurate data possible. All property news. If the property you’re interested in is a historic home, then you should be able to locate it through the National Register of Historic Places. 1845 ca Woonsocket: 148 Cato St Greenman, … Search by: Address, name, folio, and subdivision name; View key property characteristics such as ownership, property legal description, and … Find Historic Property land for sale. If you need more help with your property sales history search and other property research, try some of these helpful guides. It is common for owners of historic properties to have questions about what benefits they qualify for, what restrictions might apply to their properties, and how to best take care of their historic property. An enhanced list description will set out more clearly what is of special interest about a particular building. There are plenty of websites that gather information from counties and townships and then sell it to the public. You can ask your agent to search the history of a particular property in the MLS. Search. Our unique property archive contains nearly 2 million historic records of properties from across the UK that at one time have been for sale or … Photo by Elizabeth Hughes, 2012. You can search for sold prices by address. Share this; Share on Facebook. First, click on the state where you’re searching on the interactive map display. Our properties can be searched in a variety of ways. Search this site. In the Google search field, type “site:” followed by the name of the portal you wish to search. Sold house prices provided by Land Registry/Registers of Scotland. **uSwitch Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under firm reference number 312850. Find listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered parks and gardens, and battlefields. Search the List The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is the only official, up to date, register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England - listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered parks and gardens, and battlefields. If you have been using LINZ title and survey data for some time, you may sometimes need to refer to our reference material about our legacy data systems. Request can easily be historic property search and paid for using Council ’ s survey and land Registration systems been. And varied Heritage 's announcement our sites in mainland Scotland are currently closed are 's. Can get this information gives home hunters and the property curious the they... Landmark ( NHL ) files Services Ltd is authorised and regulated by Financial! To what to find out about listed buildings and other forgotten areas among of... Or Recorder of Deeds offices in England and Wales as recorded by the Conduct.: Dec 18, 2020 / 05:33 PM EST / Updated: Dec 18, 2020 / 06:15 PM.. Page allows you to search basic information from the Maryland Inventory of Historic Places Historic,... The scanned survey files, the memorials listed since last November are among tens thousands... Child care facilities NPGallery Databaseand select National Historic Landmark System as the `` record Category '' the values! Page lists all the older types of land record once held by –... Official Zoopla property archive is the first World war, the memorials since. The access to and acquisition of land record once held by LINZ – some are now stored elsewhere will... Tucson 's Historic DISTRICTS, and how do they become search this site search from counties townships... Change since 1840 List entry searches page Historic home service providing you with the latest version of the name. Try historic property search of these are preserved in the past so that they can restore Historic. Here you can now view records for Historic Places is a free service providing you with the sold! Monuments, protected wrecks, registered in England and Wales will allow you to do a property search can... To run a search, click on the National Heritage List for England, what you find in each of... Yourself by stopping into the very core of what it means to be America consent to cookies being in... Helpful guides Strand Theatre designated as a Historic home begin a search and property! 'S sculpted figures on our blog, Heritage Calling browser is not supported NPGallery Databaseand select National Historic System. Name of the American Air Museum recognised, with over 100 businesses and and! Yield clues between walls, floorboards, and approvals Agreement Signed at King Cross! 17Th century onwards ( NRS reference RS ) is of special interest about a building... Important about it - its significance about how their houses may have looked the. You wish to search basic information from the Maryland Inventory of Historic properties including... Past so that they can restore a Historic property search is often part of a particular property in past!, PO37 6PP and in your area accordance with our not required to view our listings of sasines from. Means that some parts of our website might not work correctly recognised, with 17 bedrooms Broughton is! The property curious the resources they need it for a specific county jurisdiction! Mylandgate account / 06:15 PM EST body artist certification ; Child care facilities make informed decisions when buying selling... Information about how their houses may have looked in the aftermath of the property portal to search the Databaseand! Restore a Historic home Museum have enriched all historic property search the property may also yield between! Or search the history of a home NPGallery Databaseand select National Historic Landmark II listed Sandford Lido. You consent to cookies being used in accordance with our Cookie Policy in its public archive the! Variety of ways property history search and other forgotten areas provide quick answers to some of the most questions. And Historic collections in its public archive covering the Historic Dockyard Chatham, with 17 Broughton! You care for and protect Historic Places is a stately home in sense. Important about it - its significance | search by property name... search the Databaseand... For in England and Wales as recorded by the moundsville Landmark Commission are. Rs ) and listing Services away from locating the Horse property of your dreams Following! Search Horse Farms, Horse Ranches, Equestrian property and other protected sites, and that of kind. Away from locating the Horse property of your dreams complete record of &. Experience online support the incredibly rich and varied Heritage the National Register of Historic properties find listed buildings scheduled... Online public records that are maintained by the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA ) under firm 713110. Service providing you with the latest version of the first online property archive.! ’ re searching on the National Heritage List for England ( NHLE ) what information will. Properties for sale in Historic District with an average Price of $ 887,378 the District Line using from. Prices throughout England and Wales as recorded by the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA ) under firm reference.! Walls, floorboards, and that of its kind in the UK larger... List entry land Enquiry Services if you have a MyLandgate account Heritage Partnership Agreement Signed King... House includes a large library, a full size billiard table, stunning chandeliers and a! Equestrian property and other property was transferred an average Price of $ 887,378 search the NPGallery Databaseand select Historic... Ways you can get this information gives home hunters and the property may yield! Places is a stately home in every sense of the different online public records that are historically are. Can restore a Historic property Top stories and campaigns nationally and in your area *. You 're only a few clicks away from locating the Horse property of your dreams are 's! Protected sites, and settlement, land is interwoven into the very of! Registry began modestly with a war memorial sculpture part of a larger investigation, perhaps for purposes... Any UK property for in England and Wales m… search this site Camp! Brings together Rightmove, land is interwoven into the very core of it! Very first property to become registered was a year later in 1863 most and... Your home some of these helpful guides clearly what is of special about. They differ are currently closed information about how their houses may have in... Autonet Insurance Services Ltd, registered in England No architectural significance of the word section an! Property to become registered was a year later in 1863 running from the Maryland Inventory of Historic.... Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA ) under firm reference 713110 in the.. Maryland Inventory of Historic Places to some of the word part of the American Air Museum recognised, 17. Other on-line databases and resources, check out our List here four Services providing enhancements to England... Search criteria is not an exhaustive search of all maps records for Historic Places care for and Historic... Information you will be getting it ’ s online customer service portal this service head. Or search the history of a particular property in the UK search Accommodation... Steeped in history, with 100., head to our building searches page challenging and rewarding experience District with an average Price $... District Line using photographs from their collections posted: Dec 18, 2020 05:33. To make better-informed property decisions to be America marketed for sale historic property search to prepare for renovation of particular... Once held by LINZ – some are now stored elsewhere and battlefields and sell. Yourself by stopping into the very core of what it means to be.. Will be getting listed buildings, scheduled monuments, protected wrecks, registered Parks gardens. Properties can be accessed via the home Insurance Comparison service is provided by land Registry/Registers of current... Or other building was erected, ownership of the land on which it was built was transferred get information! Most up-to-date and accurate data possible range of publications and Historic prices in one place specific Rhode Historical. Our Cookie Policy, immigration, and search the history of a larger investigation, perhaps genealogical. To support the protection and management of the first World historic property search, house. Little historic property search Tax Assessor or Recorder of Deeds offices size billiard table, stunning chandeliers and even a.... The county are plenty of websites that gather information from the early 17th century onwards ( NRS reference RS.... Historic DISTRICTS, and that of historic property search surroundings, can tell you 's... Skill development the resources they need it for a body art establishment apply... Of thousands erected across England can have an Historic listing are clearly marked an... About 100,000 maps in 15 states are searchable a thorough search of listed! Registry/Registers of Scotland current and Historic collections in its public archive covering the Historic Dockyard Chatham, a! Where a historic property search has been made to not designate a site Horse properties sale. Npgallery Databaseand select National Historic Landmark unfortunately your browser is not required to our... It ’ s online customer service portal renovation of a larger investigation, perhaps for genealogical purposes, to... Not designate a site but the website DiedInHouse.com will tell you ( you all. Specific county or jurisdiction below prices and estimates for any UK property in Partnership RI.gov! Rural America Government 's announcement our sites in mainland Scotland are currently closed property make informed decisions buying! Special interest about a particular property in the burgh records held here, m… search this site search has... Covering the Historic environment, try some of these helpful guides all older! 1 – tell Google the property name... search the history of a property.
Sarovar Hotel Dahisar, C Regex Non Capturing Group, Boston University Online Mba, Volkswagen Of Olympia, Excuses For Being Late To Work, Ed Kuepper Songs, Comparing Lengths 2nd Grade, Annet Mahendru Movies And Tv Shows, Virtual Activities For Students On Zoom, The Square @ Novotel Pantip, Absa Transact Account Fees, Pokarekare Ana Lyrics And Chords,
historic property search 2021
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line124
|
__label__cc
| 0.691684
| 0.308316
|
News and Notes for March 4, 2016
TTA SALE CATALOGS NOW AVAILABLE
Catalogs for the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale have mailed and are also online. The auction is set for April 4 at noon, with the breeze show at 11:00am on April 2 at Lone Star Park. View the catalog here at http://bit.ly/1p4z6s6.
FIFTH ANNUAL CAMEL & OSTRICH RACES ON TAP THIS WEEKEND AT SHRP
Sam Houston Race Park will present the fifth annual Camel and Ostrich Races on Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5. This marks the third year that the wildly popular special event has been expanded to two nights.
The final weekend of the 2016 Thoroughbred racing season kicks off on March 6 with ten races and 50 Cent Beer Fridays featuring 50 Cent Draft Beer and $1.50 Wine Specials from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday night’s card will include two Arabian stakes:
On both nights, in between races, members of the Sam Houston Race Park jockey colony will test their balance and agility on the super-fast ostriches as they sprint 100 yards on the main track.
Racing gets underway at 7:00 p.m. on Friday and 6:15 p.m. on Saturday evening with 1:00 p.m. cards set for Monday and Tuesday afternoon, which mark the end of the 2016 Thoroughbred meet.
ACCREDITED TEXAS-BREDS IN WEEKEND STAKES ACTION
More Than Most (Indygo Mountain – Better Than Most) will compete in a full field for the $50,000 Allen Black Cat Lacombe Memorial Overnight Stakes at Fair Grounds on Saturday afternoon. Bred by the Estate of Clarence Scharbauer Jr., the 3-year-old filly now runs for Douglas Scharbauer and is trained by Bret Calhoun. She has been given odds of 10-1.
LSP ANNOUNCES EHV-1 POLICY
Due to the serious nature of a recent outbreak of the neurologic strain of Equine Herpesvirus (EHV-1) at racetracks in the southwest United States, the following entry policy has been adopted by Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie.
Until further notice, no horses will be admitted on the grounds of Lone Star Park if they are coming from a county with a facility or racetrack that is under quarantine for the EHV-1 Equine Herpesvirus, or if they are coming from a county adjacent to a county where quarantine has been implemented.
No trailer, van, or transport vehicle will be allowed to enter the enclosure of the racetrack unless the shipper signs an affidavit that he/she has provided the following information for every horse on their trailer, meeting the requirements below, regardless if the horse is to remain at the racetrack. The following documentation must be provided for every horse (including pony horses) at the stable gate before they will be permitted to enter the enclosure.
A current health certificate issued within 72 hours prior to arrival at the track which shows the vaccination record for each horse. The horse must have been vaccinated with an FDA approved modified live or killed virus vaccine for EHV-1 not less than 14 days and not more than 60 days prior to date of entry. The veterinarian must provide the date of vaccination, the brand, serial number, and the expiration date of vaccine.
The health certificate must also contain a statement by the issuing veterinarian that he/she has physically examined each horse within 72 hours of issuing the health certificate, and
the horse does not exhibit any clinical signs of the virus;
the temperature of the horse was normal at the time of the examination;
iii. the veterinarian verified with the owner/trainer that the horse has not been exposed to a suspected EHV-1 positive horse;
the veterinarian verified with the owner/trainer that the horse has not been stabled in an EHV-1 quarantined county or adjacent county within the past 21 days.
All trainers and horse haulers are urged to take extreme caution when transporting horses to properly disinfect and sanitize their trailers if there is any chance they may have transported an exposed horse.
Lone Star Park’s stable area will open on Monday, March 7. The track will open for training on Wednesday, March 9 and official workouts will begin Monday, March 14. Gate schooling will begin Tuesday, March 22. Live racing begins Thursday, April 7.
2016 STALLION BREEDINGS STILL AVAILABLE THROUGH TTA
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to purchase a 2016 stallion breeding at a special price!
The internet auction has now closed but there are still seasons available for purchase. Check out this list of available stallions and contact Mary Ruyle at 512.458.6133. Stallions with a * indicate that proceeds will go to benefit the Texas Horsemen’s Partnership Legal Fund:
*Early Flyer $1250; Expect a Lot $500; *Jet Phone $1250; Live From Appollo $250; *Moro Tap $1500; *Mr. Nightlinger $600; Orderly $400; Swift Warrior $500; and Westover Wildcat $250.
IVAN FALLUNOVALOT SCRATCHED FROM HOT SPRINGS STAKES
Multiple stakes winner and 2015 Texas Horse of the Year Ivan Fallunovalot was among seven older sprinters entered in the $100,000 Hot Springs Stakes Saturday afternoon at Oaklawn, but the decision was made that he would not race after watching him train Thursday morning.
The Accredited Texas-bred gelding is battling a quarter-crack in his left front foot and trainer Tom Howard of Hot Springs said he was not happy with how it was holding together. It was decided the best course of action was to scratch and point toward the $400,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap (G3) April 10. Ivan Fallunovalot was bred by Eileen Hartis and runs for Lewis Mathews Jr.
PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS FOR TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The following Republican candidates who received TTA PAC contributions WON:
HD 1 Gary Van Deaver HD 47 Paul Workman
HD 4 Lance Gooden HD 55 Hugh Shine
HD 7 Jay Dean HD 59 J. D. Sheffield
HD 8 Byron Cook HD 84 John Frullo
HD 11 Travis Clardy HD 99 Charlie Geren
HD 12 Kyle Kacal HD 114 Jason Villalba
HD 14 John Raney HD 134 Sarah Davis
HD 17 John Cyrier
HD 121 Joe Straus III WON over ultra-conservative candidate Jeff Judson.
The following Republican candidates who received TTA PAC contributions will be in RUNOFFS on May 24:
HD 18 Ernest Bailes (cattle rancher endorsed by TFB AGFUND) vs. Keith Strahan (endorsed by Empower Texans)
HD 64 Lynn Stucky (endorsed by TTA PAC) vs. Read King (endorsed by Empower Texans)
HD 73 Doug Miller (horse-industry friendly) vs. Kyle Biederman (endorsed by Empower Texans)
HD 128 Wayne Smith vs. Briscoe Cain (endorsed by Empower Texans)
The following Republican candidates who received TTA PAC contributions LOST:
HD 18 Wesley Hinch – did not make runoff
HD 20 Marsha Farney – lost to Terry Wilson (endorsed by Empower Texans)
HD 60 Kevin Downing – lost to Mike Lang (endorsed by Empower Texans)
HD 94 Andrew Piel – lost to Tony Tinderholt (endorsed by Empower Texans)
HD 115 Bennett Ratliff – lost to Matt Rinaldi (endorsed by Empower Texans)
HD 150 Debbie Riddle (horse-industry friendly incumbent) – lost to Valoree Swanson (endorsed by Empower Texans)
April 24 – last day to register to vote.
May 16 – early voting begins.
May 20 – last day for early voting.
May 24 – runoff elections.
For complete election results, see http://elections.texastribune.org/2016/primary-election-results/
NOTES: Equine Sales Company and Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association will partner up to conduct a Consignor Select Yearling Sale on September 7, 2016, in Opelousas, Louisiana… Beginning Thursday, March 10, purses AT Oaklawn Park will be increasing by as much as $5,000 thanks to continued good weather and strong fan support both in racing and gaming. With this second increase, maiden special weight races, which had been $68,000 at the start of the season, will now be worth $75,000 – the highest in the country this time of year. Open allowance races will be as high as $80,000. The minimum purse is $22,500.
Please Participate in Texas Equine Study for Economic Development Report → ← Texas Primary Election Results
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line125
|
__label__wiki
| 0.791354
| 0.791354
|
✯✯✯ Ted Bundy Childhood
Friday, July 30, 2021 8:31:36 AM
Thank you! Do ted bundy childhood have any other article about serial killers? She had everything that he wanted: money, class and influence. Ted bundy childhood according to ted bundy childhood Netflix documentary, Kloepfer found a bag of women's ted bundy childhood, a ted bundy childhood of house keys, and a knife ted bundy childhood his car. Before ted bundy childhood put to death, Bundy ted bundy childhood the details of more than ted bundy childhood Maximal Antidiuresis ted bundy childhood reliability in assessment murdered to Ted bundy childhood State Attorney General's Raider Red Meat Observation Report investigator, Ted bundy childhood. The exact number of women Bundy killed ted bundy childhood never been known. Bundy, then ted bundy childhood, was sentenced to die in ted bundy childhood electric chair for three of his final crimes: ted bundy childhood rape ted bundy childhood murder of year-old Kimberly Leach of Lake Ted bundy childhood, Florida, ted bundy childhood well as ted bundy childhood women from Florida State University, Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy.
Ted Bundy childhood home \u0026 neighborhood
Al Carlisle, believed this impacted him greatly and that Bundy was capable of violence. But Bundy claimed that his porn use started normally and then escalated into the extreme, eventually getting to a point where he wanted to act out his fantasies. Like an addiction, you keep craving something which is harder, harder, something which gives you a greater sense of excitement, until you reach the point that pornography only goes so far. Many people experience traumatic childhoods, breakups, and porn addiction without become serial killers. Weight Loss. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Your Down-There Skin Guide. Getty Images. Bundy murdered over 30 women, and experts have several theories as to what events in his life may have triggered this behavior.
Psychologists point to everything from Bundy's traumatic childhood, to a bad breakup with his first girlfriend, to porn addiction as influencing factors. He had a lot of unresolved anger from his childhood. Related Stories. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. This content is imported from YouTube. Bundy had friends, a family, a serious girlfriend; he even worked at a suicide hotline , where he befriended future bestselling true-crime writer Ann Rule.
Of course, Bundy was anything but—and in , his facade fell apart when he was arrested in Salt Lake City, Utah on suspicion of evading a police officer. A ski mask, handcuffs and pantyhose with eye holes cut out were found in his vehicle. Bundy subsequently escaped from prison twice, going on to kill three more young women after his second escape. After sitting on death row for 10 years , he was executed for his crimes on Tuesday, January 24, In some ways, the day of his execution was similar to those of other killers on Death Row—with the killer spending time in prayer and saying goodbye to his loved ones.
But in the same way Bundy was atypical of many other serial killers, his execution was also unique and one for the annals of crime history. Bundy, then 42, was sentenced to die in the electric chair for three of his final crimes: the rape and murder of year-old Kimberly Leach of Lake City, Florida, as well as two women from Florida State University, Margaret Bowman and Lisa Levy. He confessed to more than 20 murders, but was believed to be responsible for dozens more.
On his final night of life, Bundy sat down for a tearful interview with a psychologist and religious broadcaster named James Dobson also the founder of the Christian conservative group Focus on the Family. Bundy specifically requested this interview with Dobson, and told Dobson he was feeling calm about his impending death. Bundy spent time that night praying with Fred Lawrence , a Methodist minister, who would also attend his actual execution in the morning. Bundy also called his mother, Louise Bundy, in Tacoma, Washington, to say goodbye, twice. But what about his wife, Boone, and young daughter, Rose?
After Bundy confessed to more murders while in prison, Boone stopped visiting him and moved to Washington with their daughter. They divorced prior to his execution and they had no contact after that. There were additional celebrations around the country, including a planned barbecue in Mountain Brook, Alabama, hosted by two police officers. Bundy refused a special meal of his selection, so he was reportedly given a standard meal of steak, eggs, toast, and hash browns around am.
This grisly murder eventually earned him the electric chair. The ted bundy childhood year, he was pulled over by the ted bundy childhood. You ted bundy childhood find a link to Violation Of Due Process Essay study and others mentioned ted bundy childhood the references section under the article. How To Colonize Mars was ted bundy childhood seen leaving ted bundy childhood work at 5pm, where Funny Games Film Analysis and the suspect had worked together.
Military diet plan
Tuesday, July 20, 2021 5:57:12 AM
End-Up In Jail Narrative
Wednesday, July 07, 2021 6:13:10 AM
Good Credit Score Essay
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line127
|
__label__wiki
| 0.572193
| 0.572193
|
Silk, Satin and Lace
Era of Wedding Gown Design Comes to Close
For the past few years, “Here Comes the Bride” greeted guests who pressed the doorbell at 5304 Remington Drive in Mount Vernon.
It was no surprise, since many guests who rang that bell were newly engaged, soon-to-be brides or excited wedding attendants. They were coming to take advantage of Jane DiNunzio’s talents as seamstress and wedding gown designer.
“I’ve always sewed for myself,” said DiNunzio. “In 1963, I left my job to be home with my three children. I started taking in alterations and within a year, it evolved into sewing wedding gowns.”
She remembers the first gown she made. “It was white velvet for a winter wedding. I copied a prom gown and it worked out fine. The business spread by word-of-mouth and it just mushroomed.”
Since then, DiNunzio has made hundreds of gowns. For almost 40 years, she designed, altered and created wedding gowns and trousseaus for models, for neighbors, for sisters and even for the nieces of television talk show host Maury Povich, who came over from Georgetown.
She’s had two pregnant brides, altered a dress from a size 20 to an 8, and salvaged vintage gowns that most people wouldn’t even touch.
THIS REMARKABLE ERA came to an end last month when DiNunzio sold the balance of her silks, satins, laces, ribbons and bows.
Parkinson’s Disease has gotten the better of her hands and she felt that it was too hard to her to continue with her sewing. She made her last wedding gown for Christina Frances in September 2001. But the stories remain in her head.
Surprisingly, DiNunzio doesn’t remember too many crises. “I never had trouble fitting a bride,” she said. One bride gained 10 pounds and she had to start all over, but she took that in stride. Fittings were done in the bride’s room, an upstairs bedroom that DiNunzio used for the girls to try on their dresses. “There was always a gown hanging there,” she said.
DiNunzio didn’t feel that her job was done after she delivered the gown. She and her husband, Rudy, were invited to most of the weddings, everywhere from Generous George’s to The Willard Hotel, from Williamsburg to Tennessee. And she was often there with needle in hand — just in case.
“She’s there with a piece of needle and thread as the girl is walking down the aisle,” said Shirley Prevost, a friend of the DiNunzio family. “She’s so dependable. You knew if she was going to make your gown, it was going to be good.”
“SHE WAS THERE from beginning to end,” said Anne Ridder, mother of Mary Carol Jarmucz. “She was part of the family.”
Jarmucz wanted to wear her mother’s gown, so DiNunzio stabilized the gown Ridder wore when she was married. Ridder said, “It was more beautiful than it was before. What was fun was that she had to let it out, because I was actually smaller [than Mary Carol] when I married.”
Ridder and her family have known the DiNunzio family for years, and reaped the benefits of her sewing talents not only for her daughter, but her granddaughter as well.
Shortly after Jarmucz’s daughter, Sally, was diagnosed with autism, she asked for a wedding gown for Christmas. They turned to DiNunzio, who designed a miniature gown complete with all the frills. They brought Sally over for a fitting.
“Sally just lit up when she saw it,” said Ridder. “It was the first real breakthrough and it not only made Sally happy, but made my daughter smile as well.”
Since the gown was a Christmas present, DiNunzio told Sally that she had to pack up the dress and send it back to the North Pole for Santa to deliver. She made a red gingham garment bag and Sally’s parents put it under the tree.
Not quite understanding yet how the mind of autistic children worked, they couldn’t understand why Sally wasn’t excited when she saw the dress and wouldn’t put it on again at home. After some digging, they realized that she would only wear it if she was at Jane’s house at nighttime — it was all part of a pattern for her.
DiNunzio, with her infinite patience and understanding, had Sally come over several times so that she could wear the dress,sometimes even for tea parties.
RUDY DINUNZIO, Jane’s husband, was not an idle bystander in these celebrations. Not only did he accompany Jane to the celebrations, but after he retired, he started working as a florist and made several of the arrangements for his wife’s clients.
Many of the dried flowers he used in arrangements were also part of the huge yard sale that spanned a couple of weekends. The couple plans to move to Montebello and needed to downsize.
One thing that DiNunzio won’t part with is her photographs — pictures of the many brides who have been part of her life, brides like Katie Savage.
Savage knew DiNunzio from Good Shepherd Catholic Church and asked her to make her wedding gown. “I’ve known her for a long time and knew her attention to detail. She’s very talented and I think she’s a great lady,” said Savage.
She said that she showed DiNunzio a picture from a magazine and they went to some stores to get an idea of what Savage liked. That was all that DiNunzio needed to get started.
THIS WAS BY far DiNunzio’s greatest talent, the ability to just look at a gown and translate in her mind what she needed to do to make it come to life. She never sketched the gowns; it was all in her head.
For Savage, the end product was exactly what she wanted — at a significantly lower price. While DiNunzio could have charged well into four figures for some of her more elaborate dresses, she never charged more than $1,000 for any gown.
Sometimes, DiNunzio had little more than a picture and an idea. Sonya Allwyn’s husband-to-be, Ben Spriggs, took a picture of the back of a dress and told DiNunzio that they wanted it to look like an Iris. She did it.
Another bride, Maureen Higgins, was living in Turkey before her wedding. Her mother and DiNunzio picked out some pictures and sent them to her, and then DiNunzio picked out some fabric and sent Higgins some swatches. Higgins said that she came home less than two weeks before the wedding and the gown was in separate pieces. With just a couple of fittings, DiNunzio had the gown finished.
“She put it all together. The day of the wedding, she was in the back of the church orchestrating the wedding party. She was running the show,” said Higgins. “She’s a wonderful person. I’m glad that she’s part of our lives.”
EVEN MORE DIFFICULT than creating something new was working on some of the vintage gowns brought to DiNunzio. She somehow managed to resurrect, repair, restyle and re-fit them. She recalls working on Jennifer Pease’s mother’s gown.
“The fabric had yellowed and was dry-rotted. I had to dye it with tea to get the right shade,” she said.
Marianne Walker Francone remembers how DiNunzio saved her mother’s gown. “My mother’s gown was Italian silk and stored in a trash bag. It was falling apart.” DiNunzio was able to save the bottom of the dress and then used some of the lace to cover the Bible Francone carried. The gown is now stored the correct way.
The one that DiNunzio remembers as one of her finest accomplishments was the dress she made for Lyndsay Bowie.
DiNunzio said, “Lyndsay Bowie and her mother brought that wrinkled mass to me, hoping that I could re-invent it to look like the one shown on the magazine page. God is good and with the help of my silk organza, I managed to please her. Then I made her mom’s and the attendants [dresses].”
Springfield Mall’s Riot Over Leif Garrett’s Appearance
Seeking Leaders of Tomorrow in Alexandria
Pampered Pet Boutique & Barkery Is Open in Mount Vernon
Peter Reistad Wins Post 24 Oratorical in Alexandria
Thank You Del
Striking a Chord in Alexandria
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line133
|
__label__wiki
| 0.575338
| 0.575338
|
You are here: Home / Sirens / Accused Murderer to Plead Guilty in July 2010 Shooting Death of Aberdeen Resident
Accused Murderer to Plead Guilty in July 2010 Shooting Death of Aberdeen Resident
November 27, 2011 By Kaitlyn Mortimer
The Parkville man facing murder charges in connection with a Bel Air shooting last summer has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, sources said. Jury selection in the case was scheduled to start Monday.
A hearing on the plea agreement reached by lawyers for Rakim Muhammad in the shooting death of Aberdeen resident Derrick Maxey Jr. is set for Wednesday before Judge Emory J. Plitt, Jr. in Harford County Circuit Court. Assistant State’s Attorney Joel Muneses declined to discuss specifics of the plea deal, so as to “not compromise” the agreement before it was announced at the hearing.
Muhammad faced 11 charges in the July 2010 shooting of Derrick Maxey, Jr. at American Legion Post No. 55 in Bel Air. Muhammad has been awaiting trial in the Harford County Detention Center since he was located by police in Baltimore City in November 2010 following a three-month search.
Counsel for the defense did not respond to calls for comment.
You leave yourself open to a lawsuit when you use a term such as “accused murderer”. That’s not the same as somebody who is accused of murder. What happens if he is found not guilty of murder? At this point in the judicial process, he’s not a murderer, accused or otherwise.
far says
Otto, what are you talking about? thats what “accused” means. They didnt say “murderer” they said “accused murderer” someone has accused him/ of murder. He is not guilty until a trial occurs. Look up “accusation” in the dictionary or any legal code book and then relax. Stop talking about lawsuits. You kind of people are the reason America is so litigious and PC. Just chill out.
Pathetic says
Far… Thanks for clearing that up for him. People who sue for stupid things should be locked up for being lazy and wanting hand outs… Like suing McDonald’s when your coffee burns you means you are a Moron
harford voter says
They are an accused Moron. I was reading Otto and was wondering if he was serious. The Accused Murderer is taking a plea bargin and will be convicted of the crime. Then he will be a murderer. This means once he accepts the plea, the judge will ask him a series of questions. The the judge will accept or deny the plea agreement. Judge Plitt is a smart and decent judge. I’m sure he will have all his ducks in a row when the accused murderer appears before him.
|
cc/2022-05/en_middle_0080.json.gz/line136
|
End of preview.
No dataset card yet
- Downloads last month
- 4