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A group of four admitted to their roles today in the robbery of two Bethlehem college students who were riding their bicycles last year in the city.
One by one, the four defendants appeared before Lehigh County Judge Robert Steinberg today and pleaded guilty to one felony count each of conspiracy to commit robbery.
"So it was nobody's idea? It just miraculously came down from the sky to all four of you at once?" Steinberg asked.
When the defendants continued to maintain their silence, the judge said, "OK. It's the law of the street: never snitch."
Daniel Flores requested an immediate sentencing and received to two to five years in state prison. The other defendants are tentatively set to be sentenced March 19.
The four were driving through Bethlehem on April 19 when they spotted college students Tyler Mosenbach and Michael Shadle riding bikes in the 600 block of Conestoga Street.
After getting out of the car, Daniel Flores chased Mosenbach while the other three went after Shadle. Police say Shadle was hit in the head with a wooden object, knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly.
"Nobody said anything until I was on the ground," Shadle previously testified. "Then they started yelling, 'Give me your money! Give me your stuff!' My adrenaline was pumping so I didn’t really feel anything until it was all over. It happened so fast."
Shadle suffered injuries, while Mosenbach escaped unharmed after Daniel Flores failed to catch him, Steinberg said. Neither victim was in court today due to college obligations.
Sanchez, who was driving the car, is said to have attacked Shadle with a wooden broom handle, according to Laborde's attorney, Michael Moyer. The attorney denies that Laborde ever kicked the victim, although that contradicts police accounts.
Shadle and Mosenbach were riding back from a racquetball game when they were attacked, said Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Dimmig. The defendants made off with their racquets, racquetballs and a gym bag after the robbery.
Daniel Flores' attorney, Steven Mills, unsuccessfully argued for a lesser sentence because Mosenbach was uninjured. But Steinberg said that was only because Flores failed to catch him.
"He didn't get his shots in," the judge said.
The judge said Daniel Flores is likely to re-offend based on his lengthy criminal history. At the time of the robbery, he was on state parole for the robbery of a motor vehicle in 2005.
Laborde had been studying criminal justice at Northampton Community College at the time of the incident but has since changed majors after learning her conviction would prevent her from working as a police officer.
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|SASKATOON, SK - DECEMBER 31: Canada's Jordan Eberle (#14) salutes the crowd after his team's shoot-out win over the U.S. at the 2010 IIHF World U20 Championship. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/HHOF-IIHF Images) |
played the hero yet again for Team Canada last night in front of a sold-out electric crowd. Picking up a pair of goals, scoring first in the shootout and picking up the player of the game for Canada should definitely get a team pumped up.
“He just loves to play,” said Team Canada Coach Willie Desjardins. “He’s not afraid of the big situations. He wants the puck. He’s got good moves, even in the shootouts. He’s a quality person and a really good player. “
For some it might seem like deja-vu from last year except this time Canada waited until the third period to make their dramatic comeback which resulted in victory. We can all remember last year's nail-biting action coming back from being down three goals in the first period and no one could forget the guy who saved the day, Jordan Eberle
"It's unbelievable. It's the right place at the right time for him," said teammate Ryan Ellis. "He knows where to find the open spots to get to goals and puts it in the back of the net every time. He was one of the only guys who really had it going last night. I think as a team we have to be better but when guys like that step up it shows the character that they have."
Two years in a row Team Canada has been down and found a way to keep the winning streak alive. Can they pull off six straight this year?
"We showed last night how we can come back. It's almost in our blood with Canada,” Eberle boasts. “We just find a way to win. It's as simple as that. We’re just focusing on getting that sixth win.”
If you were to compare the two games, which game was the most exciting?
"It's tough to compare the two," Eberle says. "I think they are obviously both pretty special. It's a stepping stone for our team. We need to move on from here and worry about our semi-final games. I think that adversity will help our team a lot."
So far it is looking as though Canada will face Russia again this year. If that happens, Team Canada will need to look at their costly turnovers and risky decisions.
"Last year we played pretty bad. It went back to last night, we turned the puck over a lot and gave them too many odd man rushes. For us we need to play more of a complete game and try not to bring it down to the last few seconds." Eberle smirked.
Eberle attended Oilers training camp this past fall but was sent back to the Regina Pats for another year of training and growth. Although it must have been frustrating for Eberle at the time, he says it was what had to happen at the time and that his ultimate objective is to land a spot on the Edmonton Oilers roster next year.
"Obviously it's disappointing,” said Eberle. “That was my goal to make that team and for someone to tell you that you're not good enough to play or we don't room for you, it's not a fun thing.
I had a couple days to think about it and I didn't want to dwell on it. I wanted to come back into junior and prove them wrong. For the most part I think I have. I think one thing that helped keep my head up was the World Juniors. It's such a fun tournament to play in especially in my home town. My goal right now is to focus on the Gold Medal. When I get back to Regina, it’ll be with them” | <urn:uuid:d4b42d19-710e-4a48-801d-74c01fac2d69> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | https://www.nhl.com/oilers/news/jordan-eberle-clutch-for-canada/c-511964 | 2016-09-30T06:39:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738662058.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173742-00164-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985396 | 834 |
We have all experienced the sudden sound of sirens in the distance and the quickly approaching flashing lights that signal an emergency vehicle making its way to an urgent situation. We are all no doubt familiar with the laws that require us to pull over to the side of the road to allow such vehicles to pass, or to defer to emergency vehicles entering or exiting a traffic intersection. Yet, despite such safety laws, can emergency vehicles be held liable for accidents that may occur while they are urgently trying to reach their destination point? A recent case out of the Court of Appeals in Tennessee suggests that they can.
In Robin G. Jones v. Bradley County, Ms. Jones filed a governmental tort action against Bradley County Fire and Rescue as a result of an accident that she experienced when a Fire and Rescue vehicle was making its way to an emergency call. In July 2012, Ms. Jones was approaching an intersection when a Bradley County Fire and Rescue vehicle received notice of a fire alarm. The Fire and Rescue vehicle immediately turned on its emergency lights and sirens and approached the same intersection as Ms. Jones. As it entered the intersection, the emergency vehicle approached carefully and looked for oncoming traffic before turning on a red light. At the same time, Ms. Jones, who did not hear or notice the emergency vehicle, was passing through the intersection. The two cars collided, and Ms. Jones was injured.
Shortly thereafter, Ms. Jones filed a claim for negligent operation of a motor vehicle against Bradley County. After a trial, the trial court awarded damages to Ms. Jones. Bradley County appealed, arguing that the trial court should not have apportioned fault to the emergency vehicle because it was entitled to turn on a red light after making use of emergency signals, and that Ms. Jones was solely at fault for the accident because she did not yield to the emergency vehicle as required under Tennessee law.
The appeals court reviewed Tennessee statute 55-8-108, which provides emergency vehicles with traffic privileges, including the ability to travel through a red light in certain circumstances, but it requires that emergency vehicle drivers always drive with due regard for the safety of all persons. Based on all of the evidence presented, the trial court determined that while Ms. Jones should have noticed the emergency vehicle, the Fire and Rescue vehicle also should have noticed Ms. Jones if it was acting with due regard for the safety of all persons. Accordingly, both parties were at fault, and no one single driver was to blame.
The appellate court affirmed, finding that although Ms. Jones should have yielded to the emergency vehicle, the Fire and Rescue vehicle was under a duty to proceed with extreme caution, which was breached when the vehicle quickly turned against the red light. Accordingly, the preponderance of the evidence did not require that Ms. Jones be held solely liable for the injury that occurred.
While the Court of Appeals’ decision did not overturn the presumption that drivers must yield to emergency vehicles or that emergency vehicles are entitled to certain roadway privileges, it did emphasize that emergency vehicles must be prepared to exercise the utmost caution when using such privileges to respond to a fire alarm or emergency call.
If you have recently been the victim of a car crash, knowledgeable auto accident attorney Eric Beasley can help you in determining whether you have a claim for fault under Tennessee’s modified comparative fault system and who might be to blame. For more information or to discuss the circumstances of your case, contact the Law Office of Eric Beasley today at 615-859-2223.
Related Blog Posts:
Tennessee Courts Find Presumption of Comparative Fault for Drivers Running a Light, Tennessee Personal Injury Blog, January 6, 2016
Tennessee Lawmakers Encourage Automobile Safety Through Increased Seatbelt Fines, Tennessee Personal Injury Blog, December 28, 2015
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Each day during my yoga session I can hold plank just a little bit longer. Step by step – it adds up! How are you doing today? #yoga
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Runners talk about a “runner’s high”, but I think I’m floating in my “yoga high” after a lovely session. My spine is singing in contentment.
It is meditation time. Meditating on how fortunate I am to have a warm home, ample food, loving family, and good health. #meditate
A quite relaxing #yoga session this morning – my spine feels so happy when I’m done. I want to go out dancing :). But lots to do today!
OK ready to begin my evening meditation. Bob is serenading me with bass playing :). A lovely celebration of serenity! #meditate
#Yoga today reminded me why it’s important to stretch daily. When I don’t, my muscles tighten back up noticeably. A little each day helps!
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How tall are you? I’m now 5 feet, 6 5/16 inches. I used to get measured at 5’7″. During yoga today I felt my spine lengthen … hmmm. I’ve heard about people “growing taller” after doing yoga, not that they end up taller than their “proper” height but more that they regained their natural height once their spine straightened properly again. So I’ll be tracking to see if I do indeed get a bit taller as I get back into my daily yoga routine. Are you currently shorter than your “one time top height”?
A little off schedule, but I’m ready to start my evening meditation! If you’re around, join me! #meditate
Did my morning yoga routine today after a 2 week break. It felt SO good to stretch. My spine and neck absolutely needed it. My neck was incredibly crinkly.
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There are kansas][https://injurylawfirm.lawyer numerous reasons you might would like to choose an injury legal representative. Some of these explanations is actually that they recognize exactly how to properly handle cases along with legal professionals as well as judges. A ton of lawyers don’t.
An excellent accident lawyer will certainly understand all of the various methods to acquire your compensation, in addition to what to point out in court of law. The court of law system is actually a very vital part of the procedure of recouping compensation. It is feasible that you might drop a lot of funds if your personal injury lawyer can certainly not verify your case.
This is called the no-fault device. It is actually certainly not that there is no unit of accident remuneration, however an injury attorney is actually the best individual to recognize how it functions. It is their work to clarify it to you in layman’s conditions and also to enable you to comprehend the different strategies of settling your remuneration case.
Case and also settlement are actually 2 extremely different points. You may assume that you may resolve your insurance claim and also get it approved, however the fact is that you can easily certainly not, without proof that the insurance claim holds true. The inappropriate folks are going to attempt to obtain your loan through resting on your part.
This is exactly how the compensation insurance claim will certainly be authorized. If you are not fulfilled along with the negotiation, you are going to possess the opportunity to speak to a judge in court. If you ever wish to take benefit of this, you require a private trauma legal representative.
Lots of folks who have actually remained in a crash and also have suffered losses might choose to hire a personal injury legal representative to handle their case. In this write-up, our team review the benefits as well as disadvantages of selecting to hire a personal injury lawyer.
When working with a private injury legal representative is actually the cost, the first thing that you must look at. An accident attorney could be very expensive. Some attorneys can provide reduced costs than others.
It is actually well to do your study on your personal if you desire a high excellence cost and lesser prices. It is advised that you pick a legal professional that is actually professional as well as has high quality. This is because you intend to pick an accident legal representative that is known as well as really qualified.
Among the reasons why you should opt for a legal representative coming from a great organization is because of the fact that they are actually most likely to embody the customer against the insurance company if there is a lawsuit. When they possess a really good working connection with the insurance coverage firm, attorneys are normally considerably a lot more understanding towards their clients.
An additional perk of tapping the services of an injury legal representative is that you may be certain that you will be educated about the method of the lawful suit. You are going to recognize what to anticipate when you are involved in a case and how to engage in it lawfully.
A trauma lawyer can be an excellent ally in your claim. He or she are going to supply you along with suggestions, help and also assistance. This will give you the opportunity to resolve the complication the right way and steer clear of lawsuits, which can easily verify to be costly and frustrating.
A personal injury legal representative has the ability to aid you through giving you the labels of other people who have suffered a comparable sort of accident. A lot of these people may have the ability to guarantee your insurance claim. The even more relevant information that is actually readily available, the much better possibilities that you have of getting the compensation that you deserve.
It is actually also achievable to opt for an accident lawyer that provides services for a particular sort of suit. If you go through a whiplash personal injury that resulted from a car mishap, an attorney that focuses in that kind of claim might be actually a good choice.
It is actually possible to choose a private injury legal representative who is dedicated to assisting you get your auto recompensed and any sort of traumas you may have. A specialist lawyer might additionally embody you in a public fit versus the individual or business that led to the crash. If you are hurt because of faulty tools, an expert attorney will also represent you in your initiatives to get payment for the problems created to your residential or commercial property.
Before employing a personal injury attorney, it is essential to check out in any way of the costs that the legal representative will be actually inquiring you to pay. Depending upon the attribute of your claim, some legal representatives may ask for by the hour or even an on an hourly basis price based upon the dimension of your case.
If you are dealing with tapping the services of an accident attorney, it is actually a great tip to see as many lawyers as feasible to acquire a feeling of what they are like and if they can easily exemplify you. The more the legal representatives that you visit have the ability to embody you and exercise an acceptable expense planning, the much better off you will definitely reside in the long run.
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The #MeToo movement has been prolific in recent months. Working on the philosophy ‘empower through empathy’, it is encouraging people to speak up about sexual harassment and assault to a large extent impacting people in the public eye. But what are the implications for ordinary employers? How does this impact managing sexual harassment in the workplace?
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Hard to pleaseChris Medland April 9, 2013
Prior to 2011, one of the most common phrases to come out of a Formula One driver's mouth was not "for sure" but "it's impossible to overtake". When two cars were close together it dramatically affected the aerodynamic performance of the following car, and as a result faster cars were often stuck behind slower ones.
I remember sitting at turn one at the Circuit de Catalunya in 2010 seeing the result of the problem replayed time and time again in front of me. Jenson Button - in a much faster McLaren - could not stay close enough to the slower Michael Schumacher to make a move under braking. The car's performance was affected through the fast final corner and there was no realistic way of passing the Mercedes unless Schumacher made a mistake.
Similarly, when Lewis Hamilton emerged alongside Sebastian Vettel from his one and only pit-stop and held off the German through turn one, everyone watching knew there was unlikely to be a way back for Vettel in the remaining 47 laps. That was despite the Red Bull being the fastest car to the tune of almost a second in qualifying.
Of course, the straw that broke the camel's back was the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the end of the year, when Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber both got stuck behind Vitaly Petrov's Renault for 39 laps which allowed Vettel to sneak in to win the championship. By that point the sport couldn't wait for the arrival of Pirelli and its rapidly-degrading tyres to spice up the racing and open up more overtaking opportunities.
Fast forward to the start of 2013 and we had enjoyed two seasons of hugely exciting racing. Admittedly, Vettel walked away with the title in 2011 but even so we saw some brilliant races such as the elongated Canadian Grand Prix and the three-way battles in Monaco and Germany. The introduction of the Drag Reduction System (DRS) helped matters, but Pirelli was delivering what it was asked to and races were unpredictable.
As human beings we tend to look back on past events through rose-tinted spectacles, but the tedium of the Ferrari-dominated era in the early 2000s should not be forgotten. For the die-hard fans the sport was always interesting and entertaining, but that wasn't the case for the casual viewer. I can't agree with the criticism that the tyres have too much influence compared to previous seasons because Formula One has always been an evolving sport with changing designs, suppliers, drivers and circuits; nothing stays the same.
Jean Alesi is now Pirelli's brand ambassador and while he may well be biased, as a veteran of 201 races for six different teams with four different tyre suppliers he's well qualified to comment on the impact of the tyres.
"From a tyre point of view, the drivers will have to find the best compromise between performance and degradation, which is exactly the way that it has always been in Formula One," he said. "I raced through many different tyre regulations and suppliers during my career - even in the era of qualifying tyres - and while they all had different aspects, Pirelli is the company that has supplied the most entertainment to all the fans: so far we have seen two fantastic races.
"This is exactly what was asked, and in my opinion just what the sport needed. One thing that doesn't change at all is that the best teams will always be the most successful, so there is no point for anybody to complain because this will always quite rightly be the case, whatever you do with the regulations."
The complaints Alesi references have come most notably from Red Bull, which claims it has too much downforce and is damaging its tyres more quickly as a result. The comments are slightly different to previous years but the theme is the same; the tyres go off too quickly. There's a sense of déjà vu as in the last two years there have been complaints early on, then by the end of the year the engineers have got on top of tyre wear and we've seen at least one one-stop race.
Formula One has always been about a combination of man and machine and the tyres are just one aspect of the whole package. Pirelli has delivered tyres that lead to unpredictable races - take Melbourne this year as a prime example - and the fact that some teams are complaining should be music to fans' ears because it means they're being challenged.
There's just no pleasing some people.
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Recently I read up quite a bit on goal setting. The elusive process of crafting the right set of objectives which move you and your team forward, make you reach for the stars and drive success.
I have never seen a successful company (or individual for that matter) which didn’t set goals for themselves. And I have seen plenty companies which set goals for themselves and yet don’t seem to make any progress towards them.
After reading a bunch of case studies and scientific papers on the subject I believe the answer to great, useful goals is this:
- Create a manageable set of goals (three seems to be a great starting point, five feels like the upper boundary).
- Set your goals high. Reaching them should be a stretch; it should not be obvious how you can reach them (otherwise they are todos, not goals).
- Define a series of first steps (todos) to reach those goals. The steps need to be formulated as SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, Time-related).
Once you have this — and this is most important — get going. Move, step for step, toward your goals; defining the next set of tasks which move you closer to your stretch goal as you go.
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Did you know that Nevada law protects students who wear pro-gun clothing? The Washoe County School District is wishing that its administrators and teachers heard of that law (NRS 392.4634) right now, considering that they've been sued by the Firearms Policy Center because an 8th grader got in trouble for wearing on of their shirts.
In 2015, Nevada made a lot of news for its "Pop-Tart gun" bill (AB 121) that was intended to let kids be kids. After a school district in Maryland disciplined a child for chewing Pop Tart into the vague shape of a gun, Nevada legislators led the charge to prevent schools from enforcing stupid policies on children. Pop Tart guns, pistol fingers, and now vaguely pro-Second Amendment t-shirts are considered "badthink" and incur the wrath of stupid and/or biased teachers.
It's clearly non-offensive. The Sparks Black Rifle shirt that is described is also non-offensive. Such shirts with guns on them that aren't obscenely violent are perfectly legal and protected (unless you're in high school) in Nevada. Since this went to federal court, it looks like the attorneys have ignored state law. In fact, it looks like state law was totally ignored from the beginning by both parents and schools.
It looks like both the parents and Washoe County schools were totally oblivious to our Pop Tart gun law. The teacher, principal, and district officials probably had no clue about this law. They forgot about it after 2015's sensationalism died down, moving on to anti-gun walk-outs and hand wringing about campus carry. There is no excuse for such ignorance of the law by school administrators. Once is excusable, but the second time, they ought to have known better. Now taxpayer dollars will be used to fight this because of ideological reasons, unless some sort of common sense prevails.
Based on the complaint, it appears that the teacher, Brooke May, and the assistant principal, Heather Curtis, never took it further up the chain of command to someone who might know about the Pop-Tart law. It appears that May and Curtis had a bone to pick with guns and the plaintiff if they made such a big deal over such tame shirts. It smacks of puritanical nanny-ism and down right hoplophobia. Because of oversensitivity towards gun or their own anti-gun tendencies, they walked right into a test-case lawsuit.
Assuming the women here are ignorant and know/care little about guns, their knee-jerk reaction to the seeming incongruity of guns and schools created this situation. Make no mistake, it's a culture war. Things could have been different if these women knew the law, understood a gun shirt was nothing to make an issue over, and if they were not from a professional background that abhors the Second Amendment.
Whatever the motive behind their actions, be it ignorance, malice, or simply misinformation about gun culture, these women will be forever poisoned against the Second Amendment because they were made into examples. We will be the enemies for "making a mountain out of a molehill." But then again, if they made an issue over a silly t-shirt, could they have been won over anyhow? I doubt it.
Read the complaint here.
Don’t like the law? Are lawsuits hampering your ability to pass symbolic ordinances to emotionally satisfy the intellectually challenged? Are unruly citizens trying to take safety into their hands? Just change the law!
Remember last year when the Las Vegas Clark County Library District tried to make libraries into gun-free zones like schools? That was because citizens dared standup to their long-standing illegal gun ban. They posted “no guns” signs as if they were some magical rune that would ward off crime, but also kept legal concealed carry out. When armed citizens dared openly carry, they told gun owners to pound sand and had a mom arrested.
Now, we are depending on the judiciary to do the right thing and respect the law. Will they? We don’t know. If California and the Ninth Circuit are any indication, gun owners and armed citizens cannot expect the courts to bail us out every time.
Legislation is no bulwark either. A Democrat trifecta (governor and both houses of the legislature) can wipe preemption off the books, all in the name of “doing something” about gun crime. In the wake of October 1’s Mandalay Bay shooting combined with the manufactured post-Parkland hysteria every weak-kneed Republican and Democrat sucking at the liberal machine’s teat will fall all over themselves to “do something.” For a lawmaker, that means making new crimes and repealing past protections.
Democrats want to take away state preemption. Yvanna Cancela has requested a bill to that effect, probably because Las Vegas and Clark County couldn’t pass a pointlessly symbolic ban of bump fire stocks. And they wouldn’t stop at mere symbolism either; despite harsh penalties, Leon County, Florida, passed it’s own local gun ordinance.
We need to take the offensive. Let’s hit back and make preemption stronger. Put the law-breaking politicians in jail and keep them out of public office forever. Make them too terrified to even propose this stuff. Not only do the statutes need to be amended (or better yet, compiled into a single statute to remove ambiguities) that preemption applies to all government entities, we need to increase the penalties.
Prosecutorial discretion needs to be strictly limited. Hoplopathic statists like DA Wolfson would never prosecute a violation of preemption. Instead, men like him and his predecessor would jump through hoops (as the last Clark County DA and Attorney General) did to justify local infringements. I propose:
Long term, let’s amend the constitution to include preemption as in New Mexico. The process will be longer and more difficult, but it will be just as difficult to undo. As things stand now, a perfect storm of gutless or morally bankrupt politicians can rush bills through as Florida did. Surely a gang of Democrats will gut Nevada’s protections next year, given the chance.
Without Adam Laxalt as governor, we stand no chance. A Republican majority in the Legislature gives us hope, but is no guarantee. Nevada turns bluer every day as ill-informed Californians evacuate east and illegal immigration and illegal voting continues unabated. Chaos and civil war is only a matter of time; the Democrats and forces of darkness want you disarmed.
The sober warning that hoplopathic politicians need to remember is that when you have disenfranchised conservatives, ruined them economically, and subjected them to crime and violence, this pseudo-minority will be desperate. Desperate people resort to desperate measures. Our nation was founded precisely because Parliament and King George utterly ignored the wishes of the colonies and reduced them to desperation. When you’ve taken away from the people the soap box and the ballot box, only the cartridge box is left.
According to a post on Facebook made late Saturday afternoon, Henderson mom, Kari Campbell made a disturbing discovery during an Easter egg hunt. Apparently, some prankster put pistol cartridges, pro-2A patches, and NRA stickers in Easter eggs and hid them in the tall grass of the neighborhood park. By now, the original post must must have been scrubbed (based on the anti vs. pro gun debate raging in the post comments), but we’ve preserved it in all its hysterical glory.
Looks like either 9mm or .380 ACP, what do you think?
The theme of the complaints, other than kids might have eaten the rounds (not likely), was your typical mad-mom non-sense about “common sense” gun confiscation, March for Our Lives was last week, etc. One lady got shouted down for suggesting that there were only three or four such eggs and no one got hurt, considering the parents were following along with their children as they picked up the eggs.
Lavonia Desimone said on Facebook “This is the kinda stuff you find in the ghetto, not in a nice neighborhood like this.”
Cadence Spokeswoman Renee Banks said “Cadence has strict policies prohibiting firearms in its community parks. Both open and conceal [sic] carry firearms are prohibited. We certainly don’t support leaving ammunition and hateful material in a park. This was a fun event, meant for the enjoyment of children, and was not intended to be a venue for a mean-spirited, political prank.”
Henderson police investigated and booked the ammo, eggs, and the other stuff as evidence. They told Campbell that since no one got hurt, it was unlikely any laws were violated. She didn’t take it well.
Well, you magnificent bastards who did this, I salute you. Happy Easter!
Clayton E. Cramer
Gun Free Zone
The War on Guns
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Washington, 1 May 2015 (Ethics and Religious Liberty): About a year ago, I found myself seething, over a compliment. Someone in Washington political circles said, “It’s really amazing; you’re a real-deal born-again type, and yet you are really intelligent and thoughtful.” I rolled my eyes, because I have seen this before. When I showed up in Washington as an 18 year-old congressional intern, a colleague from Massachusetts said, “You’re from Mississippi and you sure read a lot; good for you!” In both cases, I simmered inside, because both compliments were really forms of ridicule.
In my mind, I was upset because I was protective of the reputation of evangelical Christianity. I thought: “Are you so ignorant that you’ve never heard of Augustine or Justin Martyr or Blaise Pascal or Carl Henry?” And, years ago, I thought I was protective of my home state. I thought, “Yes, I think maybe William Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams read more than I do.” But in both cases, I was wincing at a personal slight. I’m a born Mississippian and a born-again Christian. When one insults these categories, one is insulting me—and I didn’t like it.
In recent weeks, we’ve seen an unprecedented and nasty turn in American culture against basic religious freedoms, freedoms that once were at the bedrock of the American consensus. In the years to come, we will be called upon to advocate for religious liberty and soul freedom for everyone, over and against a government and a media culture hostile to the very idea. In order to do that, though, we must learn to differentiate between persecution and insult, between religious liberty and freedom from ridicule. They are not the same thing.
Religious liberty matters because religious liberty is an issue of worship. The state is given the power of the sword to coercively act against threats to public order and justice (Rom. 13:1-7). The state does not have the power of the sword to regulate what is owed to God (Mk. 12:17). What God requires is not forced or feigned worship but that which flows from an open and pure conscience (1 Tim. 1:5; Heb. 9:14). A state that forces a person to act against conscience is a state that has overstepped its bounds, a state that is attempting violence on persons at a Judgment Seat at which the state is not a party.
Moreover, in an American system of government, religious liberty is everyone’s problem because the state is accountable to the people, who are, ultimately, the governing authorities. A Christian, then, who doesn’t care about working for religious liberty is a Christian who is not only wishing to be persecuted, and to consign others to persecution, but is also a Christian who wishes to be, by his silence, a persecutor of others. This is contrary to the way of Christ (1 Pet. 2:12-17).
That said, there is always a temptation to conflate the right of soul liberty with the idea that we should be outraged when we are marginalized or ridiculed in the public square. We should fight this temptation.
When we work for religious liberty, we are working in the interest of the common good; we are not just protecting ourselves. We are working to keep ourselves from participating in the evil of a conscience-restricting coercive government. The apostles denied the authority of a decidedly non-democratic authority to intrude into such matters (Acts 4:19-20), much less should we expect it of a government with constitutional guarantees of the natural rights of religious freedom.
This doesn’t mean, though, that we should vent outrage when we are ridiculed or insulted or slighted by the culture around us. In fact, this impulse will leave us less equipped for contending for religious liberty. Behind our hurt at insults, after all, is a desire to be seen as “normal.” If people just saw us as we are, we think, they would see that we’re not as stupid or backward as they think. Nowhere in the gospels does Jesus have such a concern. He is accused of drunkenness, of insanity, and even of demon possession, and through it all Jesus is frustratingly tranquil.
As a matter of fact, whenever Jesus is received well, he presses on with his strange talking until people are outraged by the weirdness or subversion of what he has to say (Lk. 4:22-28; Jn. 6:22-70). Jesus didn’t hide the strangeness of the gospel because he knew only a gospel strange to the course of this world can save us (1 Cor. 1:21).
We should seek to keep our conduct honorable “among the Gentiles,” as the Bible tells us (1 Pet. 2:12), but we shouldn’t chafe at being strangers and aliens to them (1 Pet. 1:11). When we are ridiculed and mocked, it’s probably a sign that people are starting to actually hear what we are saying. Our gospel isn’t safe and normal. Our gospel is a strange message of turned cheeks and bloody crosses and empty tombs, of coming judgment and of poured-out mercy.
Some will point out, rightly, that the ridicule is part of a cultural wind that brings with it religious liberty violations. That’s true. But we can combat bad laws with better laws. We don’t combat ignorant insults with better insults (Rom. 12:14-21).
If we are a free people in a constitutional government, we should expect our government to leave consciences free. We will work for liberty and justice, for all. But that means that we should also expect many free people to jeer at us as crazy or stupid. We will walk with Jesus and bear such reviling, without reviling back (1 Pet. 2:22-23).
As citizens, we should expect freedom of religion. As Christians, we shouldn’t expect freedom from ridicule.
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Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) has joined Eurex Clearing, becoming the first Asian member of the derivatives marketplace and clearing house.
UOB can now clear business of Asian and international Eurex trading members and provide the respective services to them.
UOB Bullion and Futures (UOBBF), a wholly-owned subsidiary of UOB, has been a trading member of Eurex Exchange since August 2008 (as a non-clearing member). In 2012, Eurex Clearing received regulatory non-objection from the domestic regulator, Monetary Authority of Singapore, to admit remote clearing members from Singapore.
Terence Ong, head of global markets and investment management at UOB and the chairman of UOBBF, says: “UOB’s Eurex Clearing membership complements the derivative trading services that UOBBF provides on the Eurex Exchange. Our dual membership allows us to offer our clients one-stop broking and clearing solutions that provide lower associated risks and greater peace of mind.”
“We are very pleased that UOB has become our first clearing member in Asia. Having one of the largest banking institutions of the region with its strong financial performance and credit rating on-board is an important step to extend the offering of our clearing capabilities into the Asian time zone and significantly increase our clearing footprint in Asia,” says Thomas Book, CEO of Eurex Clearing.
The admission is another milestone of Deutsche Börse Group’s Asia strategy. Currently, the group is in the process of establishing a new clearing house in Singapore to provide new products and a robust infrastructure across the entire Asian time zone in the long-term.
UOB’s clearing membership is also a boost for the Eurex/TAIFEX Link which was launched yesterday. With this link, Eurex members can trade and clear TAIEX futures and options as daily expiring futures on Eurex Exchange. UOB supports Eurex trading member firms as it offers clearing services for several dozen local trading participants and brokers which intend to trade the new Eurex TAIFEX products out of Taiwan.
“The TAIEX contracts are one of the most heavily traded derivatives in Asia. We believe that trading demand will continue to grow following the launch of the Eurex futures. With UOB Group’s strong regional network, we are able to support our global and regional clients as they trade these contracts outside of Asian time zones and tap into greater market liquidity,” says Ong.
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Vern Glenn figured out way back in high school in Richmond, Virginia, that he was better at talking about sports than playing them. At 5’ 3”, he wasn’t going to be a star football player, but he dominated every sports conversation in the school cafeteria. “It was all sports, all the time,” he says. “I knew then that I wanted to be a TV sportscaster.” What Vern didn’t know was how to achieve his unlikely goal, a journey in which, like the athletes he loved to chronicle, he’d need to craft his own quirky blend of creativity, engagement, and physicality that would later earn him the nickname “Mr. Involvement.”
After earning a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism at the University of Virginia, Vern went to work in sales at Reynolds Aluminum, the same steady job that had earned his dad a solid career. But Vern wasn’t like his dad. At 7 a.m., he would drive to a local radio station to “rip and read” scores and headlines over the air. Then, after his 9-to-5 at Reynolds, he clocked back into the radio station in time for late afternoon drive time, and kept right on going for a doubleheader, helping the sports director of the ABC television affiliate produce his 11 p.m. sportscast. The full court press paid off. Nine months later, “the weekend guy left the station to go to a larger market,” says Vern. “They were looking to pay someone cheap.” He talked a TV news director into letting him tape a demo reel. He got on air, turned it in, and then got a call. “Kid, ya got the job,” Vern was told on a Wednesday. “You start Saturday.”
There were bumps along the road. The first words out of his mouth that Saturday were “Aw, shucks,” after a generous on-camera buildup. His enthusiasm and knowledge “just didn’t translate” the first time. “That new guy is terrible,” said viewers, who called into the station to complain. But Vern “worked at it every single day. Soon, his 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. spots were far smoother. He sent demo tapes to guys he’d interned for, Glenn Brenner, the humorous Washington D.C. sports commentator, and Frank Herzog, the broadcasting voice of the Washington Redskins. Vern was crafting his own off-beat, fun style. The agent Steve Lefkowitz phoned and hit him up: “Kid, I’ve seen your stuff, we can go places.” Vern signed a contract, and relocated to Baltimore, Maryland. His salary had tripled. He was the weekend sports anchor covering the Orioles and Arena Football, working with the legendary Baltimore broadcaster Vince Bagli. “I thought I had really made it. It can’t get any better than this.”
Then, in 1989, his agent sent his stuff to KRON in San Francisco. Vern couldn’t imagine leaving the East Coast, but the Bay Area was a top five national media market, the 49ers in their Joe Montana-prime. He got the job and it wasn’t long before Vern began putting his own stamp on his broadcasts: The sportscaster who got in on the action. He suited up with the Cal Bears Football team, bungee jumped, and caught pitches from Oakland A’s pitchers. “I wasn’t this hot shot former jock,” he says. “I’m 5 foot 3 – this shrimp. A beer-swilling, couch potato regular guy who tries this stuff.” And reveals his humanity. On the bungee jump, he hung on the bridge. And hung. “They’re telling me to let go, and I don’t let go. They had to count down six times.” Cal’s coach suited him up, and gave him a #4 jersey (Vern worked for Channel 4), and the ball on the 10-yard line. He had three chances to score. He barely survived. Catching a major leaguer was equally perilous. “Put a cup on, you’re going to hurt yourself!” he was told. Vern winces at the memory: “I had so many balls ricochet off my jewels.” Gary Radnich, the station’s veteran sports anchor, began saying, “He’s involved…he’s Mr. Involvement!” The nickname stuck, evolving into a “Mr. Involvement” series with local professional and college teams inviting Vern to join the action.
Vern’s passion took him beyond sports and his fearless, good-natured curiosity morphed into performance art. Vern was flung by a bull, body-checked by hockey enforcers, crashed a motorcycle into a wall, caught (and dropped) passes, got steamrolled by 49ers, traded slaps with a clown, raced cars, milked (and got kicked by) a cow, and swung his hips with the comely Warriors cheerleaders (“loosen up and smile”) for a gyrating on-court dance routine. During a televised Giants game, Vern suited up as a ball dude, fumbled a grounder, and broadcaster Duane Kuiper, wryly commented, “Nothing seems to faze Vern.”
These were the boom years – Vern worked Super Bowls, NBA All-Star weekends, the World Series, and the Summer Olympics in Sydney. But the times were a-changing. During the 2000 Olympics, his station, KRON, overplayed its hand and lost the backing of NBC, and was suddenly independent. Viewership, budget and salaries sank. Vern had young children and wanted to stick it out in the Bay Area. In 2005, Mr. Involvement became Mr. Adaptability. “They called us video journalists,” says Vern. “It was relatively new. A station in New York was doing it. They were cost-cutting. They put a camera in our hands, gave us laptops to edit. It wasn’t for everybody.”
Vern embraced the change. He’d worked the camera at his first TV job, and figured he was adding a skillset. “You could look ten years into the future and know that’s where it’s going. The skills to write and edit the whole package – to be more than just a talking head.” This shift in thinking required humility, a trait honed as Mr. Involvement. “I remember all the looks I would get, rolling all this gear, the tripod and camera, all the other TV broadcasters waiting for me to get going.”
Vern adapted and “hung in and weathered the storm” until 2012, when was hired by Channel 5 KPIX, the local CBS affiliate, joining his friend and former colleague Dennis O’Donnell. Vern is a survivor, and here in San Francisco, the city of instant entrepreneurship and overnight innovation, we sometimes forget how much effort matters, and how essential creativity and durability are to your ability to anticipate trends and stomach adversity.
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msvcrt: Fix _ismbblead test: Make it pass on windows
Vijay Kiran Kamuju
infyquest at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 00:09:01 CDT 2005
well you are try to make it pass on wine, but the behavior on windows
It returns 4, but wine returns 1.
On 10/8/05, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
> Any reason why this patch wasn't committed?
> Vitaliy Margolen
> Saturday, October 1, 2005, 11:58:45 AM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > This test clearly fails on all windows versions.
> > Vitaliy Margolen
> > changelog:
> > msvcrt:
> > Fix _ismbblead test: Make it pass on windows
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The Wired City is an Internet television network that enables the audience to watch and interact with each other (chat-video). Read more
This project's funding goal was not reached on August 5, 2011.
About this project
THE WIRED CITY -- An Internet Television Network
The Wired City is an Internet television network that enables the audience to watch and interact with each other (chat-video, text and audio). The citizens in the Wired City are you, your friends and your future friends who have earned (or are earning) their way onto our cyber-stage.
The Wired City cyber-ship sound stage includes a capsule hotel (submarine style sleeping quarters), mess hall, bathrooms and a Star Trek/NASA bridge: everything is wired. On set you will sleep in a capsule hotel, eat in the mess hall, and use the facilities but most of the time you will be communicating (via net bandstands) with citizens who are at home.
On set we group people into twenty person “net bandstands" (workstations) each of which has has a conductor who then reports to The Wired City bridge (think Star Trek). Citizens at home follow suit by netcasting from their “home netcasting studios” using common physical backdrops, uniforms, electronics and video formatting. Citizens earn their way onto the Wired City cyber-stage by doing something special (saved the world, won a contest, built an audience or are on a mission).
As a group the virtual civilization will determine “missions” and then execute them (save the whales, fix the pothole on my street, hunt down cyber stalkers, etc.). Leaders will emerge from the audience and become the “Captain Kirks” of The Wired City (who guide the audience through voyages in cyberspace).
Internet Pop Stardom Factory: Think of The Wired City as a factory of the human mind whose product is in varying degrees the manufacturing of your Internet Pop Stardom. Or in other words our goal is to systematically help you attain fame, notoriety and even wealth as we process you through our system. We accomplish this by orchestrating your personal identity with others who are also eager to become net celebrities.
Netcast/Broadcast: The Wired City orchestrates millions of hours of audience “self surveillance” into a hierarchical system (Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming meets crowd sourcing) that generates compelling broadcast and netcast quality programming (e.g. one million netcast hours distilled to one broadcast hour). When something interesting happens in our world citizens ping the “netcast” video signal up the digital food chain in order to hopefully make the “broadcast.”
Key production elements of The Wired City include:
- Real-time chat video switching (next generation social graph).
- 24/7 netcasting studios that efficiently process mass data signals generated by the audience.
- Massive Multi-Player Online Gaming (MMOG) element (winning audience members get to live on set and earn special powers and privileges).
- Hollywood style production values produced by and for netcasting audiences.
- Hearts and minds. Audience members are letting each other into their homes and lives (the camera is turned on you).
- Bonafication. Audience members get their 15 minutes of fame every day.
- One million hours of net generated programming is distilled into one hour of prime time broadcast programming, every day.
We Live In Public trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY
Carson Daly (NBC): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_YOxM-0sA
Sky News (UK): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHN5rQji9aQ
Errol Morris's First Person: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3JukAZlW8
MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/infotech/19207/ TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/11/wired-city-josh-harris-video/
Yes, sort of.
Basically we will build a net television pilot. We are counting on getting picked up by a media network (either an Internet company or a broadcast television network).
The Kickstarter proceeds will be used to write code and build a very small working studio. This version of The Wired City will work but soon enough will require more resources.
Think of yourself as an investor getting in on the ground floor. Our banker is eventually going to price your currency based on the risk that you are taking by being founding investors. The dynamics of how this works is TBD (but we are going to use a real Wall Street banker who will pattern the economy after the United States Federal Reserve Bank.
Once in operation, the value of your bank account holdings will enable your to buy services from other people living and working in the Wired City.
Note: the currency is not redeemable for real money and is for non-commercial game play only.
A chance to physically live in The Wired City.
Non commercial advertising and promotion of your identity and causes:
- Facebook "Likes,"
- Personal Promotion (e.g.videos sent to people and places on your behalf).
- Celebrity video shout-outs to you and yourn.
100 days after the proceeds arrive.
You don't have to wear them but we hope that you will. The idea is that you are on a cyber-ship and are part of a crew (ergo Star Trek) so your uniforms will help designate your rank. Plus you are going to be part of the "uniform" design process, so they will look cool.
You have to earn it (just like Jim did). People in The Wired City world will have to trust and respect you. Same with all the other officers and crewman.
Yes. That is how you win the first part of the game (becoming Captain Kirk and staying aboard once you get their is the second part of the game).
Think of The Wired City as "Sim City" for real.
Oddly enough we are going to be playing with each others lives to the extent that our lifestyle is more engaging and interesting than the "physical" world that we all now live in.
You already have a bare bone "home studio" on your computer or phone (microphone, camera and a keyboard to edit and produce programming). All we are going to do is encourage and help you to add production value to the images and sounds that your already produce.
We will help you to set up your home studio.
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The events industry can be a stressful one, with so much rushing around and multi-tasking, keeping zen is often the last thing on your to-do list. Here at eve, we have tips for staying relaxed and calm under pressure- which can be implemented before, during and after your event!
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If you want to stay zen and calm at your next event, you need to plan ahead and get organised. Long before you get into full on scary planning mode and have a million and one to-do lists, sit down, make a nice cup of tea (or opt for something stronger) and be clear as day about what the event is for and your end goals. This will save stress and anxiety creeping in when the event is well underway. Ask yourself what the overall goal of the event is and calmly plan to cover all eventualities well in advance!
Have a big event coming up and know that you’ll be absolutely shattered? Then it’s time to get those zzz in now! We all know the importance of a good night’s kip for being our sharpest selves, and the events industry can be very full-on so ensuring that you get the rest you need can be vital for your busy schedule.
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Physical activity encourages the production of endorphins (commonly called the feel-good hormone) in the brain and feeling good will help you feel more inspired and energised when it comes to your personal and work life too… hurrah! Just a small amount of exercise each day can encourage drastic improvements to mental wellbeing – and it’s often noticeable right away. You don’t need to take your delegates for a run or give them all a gym pass, but try to find way to incorporate exercise into your event and you’ll be away. If you’re holding a conference or training session and people have been sitting for a long while, set a timer for hourly stand-ups or incorporate walking meetings into your day – this is a sure-fire way to keep your corporate events engaging and delegates focused.
Offering a space for your delegates to refresh and recharge throughout an event can really help to keep them focused and positive. Consider incorporating a wellness lounge with healthy snacks and refreshing drinks, calm lighting and a quiet space. You don’t want your delegates to start switching off and lose interest in what they’re really here for, but giving them a few minutes to reset in a designated area can work wonders for productivity.
Remember to breathe
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There is so much out there right now about how social media affects us mentally. No doubt most of us have felt the impact of this first-hand – and Instagram is a key culprit. Studies show that reducing social media use has a positive impact on mental wellbeing and was even seen to reduce loneliness, anxiety and depression in those who took part.
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Hello my lovelies! And wow, I just realized that it's been over a month since I last posted one of these. Yikes! It really will be Christmas (or after) until I'm finished! I didn't mean to let that happen, but somehow October just flew by with me totally forgetting I needed to finish these 30 days. Well then! Here's another one. :)
Day 10 :: Your favorite classic
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A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized after being shot by police in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side tonight, officials said.
The incident happened about 9:10 p.m., according to the Chicago Police Department.
The teen was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where his condition had stabilized.
Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Pat Camden said an Area South Gang Team responded to a 911 call that gave a "detailed description" of someone standing on the corner of 77th Street and Wolcott Avenue holding a gun.
A police department source said the teen was among a group of people standing near that corner when officers approached and the teen took off running.
"Gangs South responded and there's about 10 people on the corner, there's a makeshift memorial there for someone who got shot God knows when, and they see a guy matching the description perfectly of the 911 call," Camden said.
One officer gave chase and the teen ran, police and Camden said. The boy then turned with a weapon in his hand and the officer opened fire, hitting the teen in his buttocks. He was shot between Winchester and Wolcott avenues on 77th Street, a police source said.
The officers found a .380-caliber pistol at the scene, Camden said.
"Point a gun at police, they're going to shoot you. It's simple," Camden said. "It's called self defense."
Tonight was the second time in two nights someone's been shot by police. Like Friday night, Saturday's shooting started with a 911 call.
"Someone dropped the dime on this guy," Camden said. "That's two nights in a row where, you know, these are police responding to 911 calls and coming up with people that want to shoot at them."
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What Is Autism ?
A severe disorder that affects the children and causes retarded development of brain is known as autism. The child may face challenges in communication and social interaction with others that depend on the intensity of impairment of the brain. It is difficult to diagnose the illness since it affects the child in early developmental stages. Autism is a neuro-biological persistent development disorder (PDD) which has certain characteristics:
- Lack of social skills, social behavior, and reciprocal social interactions
- Trouble in arrangement of words, languages and non-verbal communication
- Cognitive and intellectual problems
Autism is a developing complex disorder and can occur in the initial three years of the child. Autism basically negatively influences the child ability to converse and respond properly. Autism affects the information processing center of brain which carries nerve signals to other parts of the body, thereby retarding the functions. Children who are born with congenital infections are more prone to autism than normal children. The child will engage in repetitive behavior and his interaction will be poor or minimal with the society. He cannot maintain eye contact and have difficulty in expressing emotions.
Causes Of Autism
The exact cause of Autism is not known as it is something people are born with. It is believed that children genes are transformed and changed the way by which a normal brain develops. According to the researchers, genes and environment both play an important role in Autism.
A child with autism might have these symptoms
- Behavior – limited interest or attachments, non-expectable crabbiness, abnormal and repetitive movements, overactive and non-cooperative behavior
- Sensory-fear of everyday sounds, eats limited kind of foods, uses peripheral vision to see objects and walking on tiptoes
- Communication – not responding on calling them or not pointing or waving hands in initial 12 months of birth, no proper speech by 18 months, responding to the different sounds by avoiding human voice
- Social skills – avoids a person who talk to them, do not smile on people if people pass smile to them, often live in their own world, not able to follow instructions
- Play – very limited to play socially, like to play alone, restrict to play with specific toys, play in unusual way
Children with autism have difficulties in their behavior, social, cognitive interaction, communication and sensory sensitivities.
Signs Of Autism
The signs of autism are as following
- Trouble in learning and talking
- Trouble in making friends or make a group
- Trouble in dealing with bright lights, loud noises, or busy hallways
- Trouble in dealing with changes as trying new things, put toys in different place
- Children also move in abnormal way
- Children often repeat the same word many times
The types of autism are come into Autism spectrum disorders and include
- Asperger’s Syndrome – this is a milder form of autism. A person with Asperger’s syndrome is very intelligent, and can handle daily life but not active socially.
- Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) – a moderated level of autism
- Autistic disorder-a more intense level of autism
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder – it is the rarest and severe part of the spectrum. This disorder also develops seizures in the child.
Risk factors for autism include
- Use of drugs or alcohol during pregnancy
- Child’s sex- boys are four times more prone to develop autism than girls
- Family history
- Other disorders- autistic children have a higher risk of developing other disorder such as fragile X syndrome
- Pre born babies – pre born babies have higher risk of autism
- Age of the Parents
The diagnosis of autism has started at very early stage by the doctors. The doctor properly checks signs of autism in babies and small children. The behavioral, cognitive, and social analysis of the child helps doctors to understand the disorder.
There are no treatment is available to cure autism completely. The disorder can be controlled, if recognized in early stages through its symptoms. Generally, the type of the treatment a child receives depends on his/her individual needs as treatment can vary for person to person. Autism spectrum disorder is a spectrum disorder means some children have mild symptoms and some children have severe symptoms.
Different kinds of therapies and treatment methods are used to improve behavior, speech, and cognitive abilities. Speech therapy and behavior therapy is the most usable form of treatment that is given to autistic children. The symptoms can be controlled by continuous therapy for mild to moderate disorder and parental involvement is absolutely necessary for getting speedy results. Some children can overcome autism if they have mild symptoms which can make them fit to carry on routine activities without help. Sometimes, Medication helps to control any medical condition associated with autism. Treatment methods for autism include
Behavior and Communication Treatment
- Applied behavior analysis (ABA) – helps child to learn positive behavior and generally used in schools and clinics. The analysis include different trainings such as discrete trial training, pivotal response training, early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) and verbal behavior intervention (VBI)
- Developmental individual differences, relationship based approach (DIR)- provides emotional and intellectual growth of the child
- Treatment and education of autistic and related communication handicapped children (TEACCH)- uses visual cards or picture cards to help child to learn skills
- The exchange communication system (PECS)- visual treatment and uses symbols to teach children
- Occupational therapy- this therapy helps children to learn life skills like dressing, feeding, bathing and make them independent.
- Sensory integration therapy– this therapy helps to understand sensors, such as feeling of being touched, bright lights, certain sounds and other sensory information.
There are no medications for autism but medication can be given to treat some associated symptoms, such as seizures, depression and trouble focusing such as Risperidone (Risperdal)
Natural Home Remedies
Natural home remedies for autism include
- Magnesium supplements such as whole grains, leafy vegetables, almonds
- Fish oil
- Melatonin supplements such as pomegranate, nuts and seeds (mustard seeds)
- Probiotics such as yogurt
- Gluten free diet
- Vitamin D and vitamin C intake
The cause of autism is not known, so we cannot prevent having an autistic disorder in the child but we can lower the risk by
- Doing regular health checkups
- Eating a balanced meal
- Regular exercise
- Providing good parental care
- Providing all recommended supplements and vitamins
- Avoid taking drugs during pregnancy
- Avoid alcohol
- Provide good care of existing health problems
- Get German measles (rubella) vaccine before get pregnant to avoid rubella associated autism
The learning is a vital part of the successful growth of the brain, body and intellect in the childhood, but autism destroy that. Brain development and physical development, enhances the development of the child to test, explore and expand their knowledge. It promotes the intellectual, social and oral skills in children by allowing them to interact with their peers. So it is very important to recognize that these treatment methods are playing a crucial role to understand the behavioral and cognitive disorders in the child and provide better clinical psychological treatment to cure autism.
It is very important to connect autism treatment with treatment of depression because autistic people who are suffering from depression has later developed many other psychological disorders like anxiety, mood swing, If remain untreated. All this disorder develops a greater tendency towards using drugs and alcohol. This ruins their life and their relationships with their family, friends and other people. | <urn:uuid:4d3b1f89-06fe-4bf9-ac9d-25d254c60f33> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://diseaseslab.com/autism-spectrum-disorder-causes-signs-symptoms/ | 2018-08-21T07:53:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221218070.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180821073241-20180821093241-00448.warc.gz | en | 0.943118 | 1,550 |
Friday, 22 April 2011
Just when you think everything is going to plan, the phone rings and a voice tells you that there are problems with the transmitter and your radio show is now due to go out NEXT Friday and not this one. This posting should be up within minutes of the advertised time for my show (see previous posting) so I apologise for that and blame it on the aforementioned Murphy. So expect to hear my dulcet tones on the ether on Friday 29th April at 1pm UK time. Damn that Murphy...
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Many apologies for the long gap since the last posting. Things in Voltarol World have been a bit chaotic for the last few weeks for various reasons but I will be back on course, continuing the John McCartney story and explaining the gap in transmission in the next couple of weeks. But in the meantime - as of tomorrow you can hear 'Adventures in the Din Trade' as a live two hour radio programme every Friday for the next three months! It goes out between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.on The Source FM, which you can listen to on line here. | <urn:uuid:501c185a-2a04-433d-a5bd-a3634bc9c0d3> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://adventuresofvoltarol.blogspot.com/2011/04/ | 2018-08-18T15:50:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221213691.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20180818154147-20180818174147-00510.warc.gz | en | 0.958391 | 234 |
Jun 10, 2008, 6:18 AM
Following a fire breakout in Saaba village in Lower Badibou District, North Bank Region (NBR), a self-supporting organisation locally called Fang Dema Kafoo has fenced three vegetable gardens for women groups in the area, whose gardens were burnt by inferno.
Mr. Suwareh, Secretary to the group expressed delight at the gesture. In an interview with this reporter, he said vegetable gardening is their sole source of income, noting that to rescue women from their predicament is their main priority.
For his part, Mr. Camara, the President of the group elucidated that the cause of the fire could not be established. He appealed to every civilised member of society to stay away from the malpractice. He said the primary aim of his association is to help the needy and its members in the form of loans. | <urn:uuid:197f64e1-8e23-4a45-b032-c3cb6d7f23a4> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/fang-dema-kafoo-rescues-women-group | 2021-05-17T19:35:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243992440.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20210517180757-20210517210757-00113.warc.gz | en | 0.983439 | 181 |
By Gustavo Arellano
By R. Scott Moxley
By Alfonso Delgado
By Courtney Hamilton
By Joel Beers
By Peter Maguire
By Charles Lam
By Charles Lam
The only thing to envy is the excellent hors d'oeuvres.
And after that, we left. We wanted to go to Largo, but they wouldn't let us in even after I lied and said I was from the LA Weekly.
It never works.
So about what is Jolene getting all in a twist? As far as I can tell, it's that I used fuck or a derivation thereof four times (by my count, but math is hard) and called James Carville a dick. Also, I said "puss-like" and "masturbate."
For that, I need to read my Bible—which I'm pretty sure doesn't prohibit anywhere in it any curse words besides taking the Lord's name in vain.
Are leftists sometimes overly judgmental? Sure! I mean, God forbid you should eat meat or drive an SUV or be engaged to a Republican operative. But not one of them, in history, has thought that being a good Christian and reading your Bible is a prerequisite for being allowed to speak in the United States of America.
You know what you are, Jolene?
Suck on that.
I'm a Catholic (I know: it's a cult) and a Jew, just like your personal lord and savior. I am quite literally my brother's keeper. My family values include being ever faithful to my family even when they're a huge pain in the ass, which is always, and to the family of man beyond them. I've never been divorced (just like the heathens in Taxachusetts, which has the lowest divorce rate in the country). I've never needed an abortion because I took sex ed. And I cuss like a trucker, and my breasts look fantastic, though it's a tossup between them and my coltish legs. And like Jesus admonishes, I don't pray in public. That's for the Pharisees and the hypocrites.
Prithee, goodwife, go back to your Bible. I recommend particularly Luke 6:37. And please? Please?
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Rockies’ Juan Nicascio fielding questions for next “Fan Mail”
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There might not be a better story in all of baseball than the remarkable journey of Rockies pitcher Juan Nicasio.
When the regular season opens, a mere eight months after he broke a vertebrae in his neck and faced possible paralysis, Nicasio will be one of the Rockies’ five starters.
A lot has been written about Nicasio, but now it’s your turn to ask him a question in the latest edition of The Denver Post’s “Fan Mail” feature. I will be be doing the fan Q&A with Nicasio on Wednesday morning, so get your questions in soon.
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Quick hits, short bursts and other blather about recent events:
-- Milwaukee County Exec Scott Walker is making a mistake by NOT getting an independent investigator to look into the O'Donnell Park situation. The ultimate goal is to find out what made a decorative panel tumble in late June, killing a Greenfield teenager.
Can the current county-led probe do that? Sure. But why not let someone who doesn't have skin in the game do the job? That would remove any speculation about the county covering it's own butt, and also defuse Walker's critics on the County Board. Are the second-guessers well-motivated, or are they trying to link Walker to the tragedy? An independent investigation serves the quest for truth, and removes any political tinge.
-- Governor Doyle and Transportation Secretary LaHood had an exquisite chance to tell skeptics WHY a high-speed Milwaukee/Madison train is a good idea during their joint appearance in Watertown this week. Instead, they came off like a pair of angry scolds, in essence saying that the deal is done and that we should all just shut up about it. Doyle's I'm-the-governor-here attitude didn't play well, and LaHood didn't come off much better, sounding like a stressed-out parent trying to get a spoonful of Castor oil down a reluctant kid's throat. I like trains and see their usefulness, but advocates of this high-speed link consistently fail to use learning moments to their advantage, while allowing the many critics to frame the argument. Exhibit A: what happened this week in Watertown.
-- NFL Commissioner Roger Godell quashed the Super Bowl dreams of Packerland crack-smokers who thought Green Bay had even a scintilla of a chance of hosting a Super Bowl, telling this week's shareholders gathering that the Fox Valley is woefully short in terms of the infrastructure needed to pull off the big event.
To some, Lambeau came into play when the league decided to give New York City hosting privileges, meaning that warm-weather/dome facilities were no longer the only NFL option. If weather ISN'T an issue, why not Titletown? Because the Super Bowl so much more than just 60 minutes of football: it's sponsor parties, league meetings, concerts, network bashes, etc. When it comes to pulling off games and competing, the Packers organization is world-class. When it comes to hosting the NFL's premier event, Green Bay is...Green Bay. That's not being harsh. Them's the facts. | <urn:uuid:44a8bf8c-5aa3-4983-8e98-8592660510f3> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.620wtmj.com/blogs/genemueller/99686719.html | 2014-07-29T04:50:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510265454.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011745-00364-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957157 | 527 |
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Save Rosia Montana & stop illegal fracking in Romania – protest highlighting the Romanian Gendarmerie as an Instrument of Oppression
Date(s) - 08/12/2013
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
“To show the UK public what happened in the village of Pungesti, this Sunday we will re-enact the crimes of Chevron and the Romanian Police in Trafalgar Square where our volunteers will stage a mock arrest showing how it feels like to be abused by the Romanian authorities. Some protesters will be dressed as police and some will be the local villagers. Please join us this Sunday and help us spread the word that Human rights have to be obeyed in Romania. More details of our protest here …:”
Just a few days ago, on the 2nd December a local community that are opposing fracking in the village of Pungesti came under attack by Police and Chevron employees. The security forces dismantle the local resistance group camped outside the field where Chevron plans to explore for shale gas. After 2 months of resistance, 40 people were beaten, arrested on their own land and taken to the nearest town for further investigations. Even today, while the fracking drill is constructed locals are not allowed to access their own lands in the vicinity of the drill and a national road is open only to Chevron vehicles.
The proposed exploratory wells for shale gas which Chevron are trying to install in Pungesti and other areas in Romania are not covered in their exploration licence. They hold a licence for ‘petroleum’ exploration. Romanian legislation currently does not regulate shale gas and in addition, no consultation or parliamentary debate has taken place in regard to non-conventional fossil fuels. These activities are endorsed by the government while the Ministry of the Environment and Climate change is committing to bilateral agreements to green growth – one of the reasons for Mrs. Rovana Plumb’s visit to London.
This abusive intervention is without precedent in democratic Romania. It is an irresponsible, dangerous attack on human and civil rights, as recognized worldwide. A petition has now been launched and in two days it has collected over 24,500 signatures, calling to “Stop Chevron and police abuse in Pungesti”. This document will be sent shortly to the European Parliament, the European Commission, and human rights organizations.
To show the UK public what happened in Pungesti, this Sunday we will re-enact the crimes of Chevron and the Police in Trafalgar Square where our volunteers will show how it feels like to be abused by the Romanian authorities.
Even to this day, the area resembles what could be described as Martial Law, with children unable to get to school, people questioned indiscriminately and locals unable to reach own private land. Please join our theatrical re-enactment scene this Sunday and help us spread the word that Human rights have to be obeyed in Romania. | <urn:uuid:2c78820a-1244-44ff-af72-fddc028f4736> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/save-rosia-montana-stop-illegal-fracking-in-romania-protest-highlighting-the-romanian-gendarmerie-as-an-instrument-of-oppression/?ajaxCalendar=1&mo=3&yr=2014 | 2014-03-09T02:04:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999670363/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060750-00022-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940092 | 595 |
JUNE 2005 – View across the Piazza di San Pietro from the Basilica San Pietro in Rome, Italy, towards east. © Mark Zanzig/zanzig.com
The story behind the image
The saying goes: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” – In this case, we wanted to do as the tourists do. We climbed up to the Basilica San Pietro, one of the key attractions in Rome, along with the Piazza di San Pietro right in front of it. When you are entering the Piazza, you are already on the grounds of the fully independent Vatican City! The Piazza was built from 1656 to 1667 by Bernini who was quite active in Rome. This is regarded as his masterpiece. Today the place can take up to 60,000 believers.
This is the view towards East across the Piazza and the Via della Conciliazione with the Castel Sant’ Angelo and the Ponte Sant’ Angelo at its end. Of course, this image is not rare by any means, but it clearly is the most beautiful view of Rome that you can encounter, and I guess that everybody takes a photo from this position. And you will do so, too. 🙂
At least I can correctly say that for this 1/125 sec. I was the only person on the planet who captured this view. 🙂
By the way, I also captured an upright image from this viewpoint (see below). It’s also impressive for sure. But if I had to pick one, I would not hesitate for a split second second – it’s clearly the one above. I like it so much, because (to me) the oval colonnades resemble protecting hands with the focus on the column in the very center of the Piazza. Then again, the upright image highlights the seven statues on the top of the main entrance.
Whatever. It’s an awesome location.
The high resolution image
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So it appears Rodney Hylton Smith, better known as Roots Manuva, is having a really terrible Christmas if his at times nonsensical, rather upsetting Twitter feed is anything to go by. A constant stream of soul bearing about his relationship, random abuse, and increasingly strange tweets have been steadily coming out on his timeline over Christmas and Boxing day.
Maybe he got hacked, or indeed he's having a break down during what's both a festive but also high stress time of year, either way it got me wondering about mental health. It also made me think back to a Christmas after a significant relationship ended, when the emotional struggle was real. Waking up alone on a day that used to be full of multiple family visits, food and friends reduced me to tears and Christmas was far from joyous. The cloud hung over me for a couple of weeks, as the change in routine that comes with summer left me with time on my hands to over-think everything to death. So, with all this in mind, I headed to google to see struggles were common for this time of year and sadly it seems they are.
According to the Victoria State Government's Better Health Channel states that 'Stress, anxiety and depression are common during the festive season.' Like most mental health services, they advise simple things to keep on top of your game, all pretty standard tips for mental health, but worthy reminders nonetheless, so here you go.
When we are sad, or anxious or stressed we all reach for things to numb those feelings. For many, it's alcohol and other drugs. While they can make a shitty day seem fun, they don't actually do anything to help in the long term. If you choose to drink and use other drugs, make sure it's sensibly and infrequently, and not to expressly escape undesirable feelings. If you're worried about your own or someone else's drug use, you can find information and links to help here.
When it comes to eating, while a blow out on Christmas day is expected for most of us, don't over eat too often during the summer break. Maintaining a healthy diet and weight is great for your your mood and can work towards preventing symptoms of lethargy and irritability. And make sure you keep moving. Exercise as we all know makes us feel better, physically and emotionally. It doesn't have to be some insane Cross Fit work out, (though that is a good time), just go for a walk or a swim or shoot some hoops. That shit is fun!
Human connection is vital for our well being, but as our families might get smaller, people move overseas and our friends become involved with their new kids and can't hang out like they used to, the holiday period can be a lonely time for some. While your normal crew might be out of town, use the opportunity to try and schedule in some time to see friends, family and loved ones that perhaps you haven't caught up with in some time. Skype makes the world small, if everyone is out of town, call a homie up in New York. If you're feeling down or anxious, talking is a great simple way to help you process things. Problems can seem so huge in the confines of our head, but when they are out in the big wide world, they often seem smaller and more manageable. And don't forget, if you're more than a little blue and struggling with something that feels serious, there are always great trained people who can listen to you and help at places like Lifeline .
So, if you're feeling shit, there are simple things that can make you feel better. Talk. Move. Connect. Ask for help if you need it. I hope Mr Manuva gets some, or at least the log in to his Twitter account back. | <urn:uuid:2e9b98c5-b17d-4737-8f3f-717e4d2f048c> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://vivalahardcore.com/blog/Title/Day/Month/Year-5 | 2018-06-22T15:05:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864546.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622143142-20180622163142-00349.warc.gz | en | 0.976261 | 773 |
Table of Contents
From Busted Bikes to Breakout Action
Freestylin' BMX Tricks
Blue Skies and Spectacular Tries
BMX Begins and Ends in the Streets
The World Of BMX
by J. P. Partland, photographs by Tony Donaldson
pages, 80 color photographs
U.S. $14.95 / Can. $23.95
Ron Mackler was a teenage employee at Palms Park, a county park in Santa Monica, CA. He had been doing motocross himself, and believed he could share the thrills of mx with the kids riding. "We had a big sandbox there," he says. "I said, 'why don't we throw sand on the corners of the sandbox and do some slides?' They seemed to have a good time doing it. I asked, 'why don't we have TT races?' I would line three or four kids up and they'd go 5 laps around the sandbox and slide on all the corners. The kids got into it. Then I ran into a guy with a construction business...so we got this guy and permission from the parks department to put this track together."
The first race was on July 10, 1969. All the basic ingredients were there; uphill, downhill, berms, jumps, turns, a starting light. Once word got out, kids came from all over, parents driving up to two hours to get their kids in the Thursday night action. Some BMX greats came out of the early days at Palms. They include Tinker Juarez, Perry Kramer, and Stu Thomsen.
Scot Breithaupt was a sponsored motocross teen. Only 13, he wanted to create a practice course where he could hone his skills. In 1970, the Long Beach, CA native started creating a loop in a semi-abandoned space known as Bums Park—for all the homeless who hung out there—and rode the loop with his friends. In order to make it a real race, he needed a sanctioning body. Scot created BUMS (Bicycle United Motocross Society), turning the home field moniker into an acronym. Scot was both an excellent racer and imbued with entrepeneurship. He got 35 kids paying a quarter each at his first race. He gave them trophies he had won racing motocross. The second race drew 150. Scot's track grew, and he helped build others; he had eight tracks by 1974. Harry Leary and a number of others came out of Scot's tracks.
Mackler wanted to keep things accessible and interesting, so he kept entry low, $5 for a ten-week session, and each session had up to four hours of racing. He gave out as many awards as he could, certificates, plaques, trophies, with the largest trophy being for sportsmanship. If kids couldn't pony up the cash, Mackler let them work it off. He changed his track around as often as he could. He had wheelie contests, jump contests, whatever it took to keep things from getting boring. While Mackler was keeping things simple, Breithaupt was creating a league, with a scoring system, and rules, and champions.
Both Breithaupt and Mackler claim credit for the term "BMX." Mackler says he called it BMX from the start. Breithaupt says he used it to explain the sport to national magazines. Later, in 1974, Bicycle Motocross News was created and the publisher, Elaine Holt, is given naming credit by some.
While the tracks were gaining great street cred, and bike companies were beginning to notice, the biggest boost came from a motocross movie, On Any Sunday | <urn:uuid:d4cab966-c461-47a4-9ef1-604f348d2674> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://theworldofbmx.com/mbmBook.asp | 2018-03-19T10:59:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646875.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319101207-20180319121207-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.979828 | 769 |
With such a high-speed racecourse, track position would be important as gaining ground, or passing for that matter, would be difficult, and the lack of a starting gate meant it would be my favorite (sarcasm included) style of start: the dead engine. I did have a pretty good start in Utah though, so I suppose I could surmise that the dead engine is either very good to me, or, considering some attempts prior to Utah, very bad. Needless to say I was hoping for the former.
As Homer gave us the proverbial “stink eye” I repeated my newfound mantra, focusing on a strong swing of my leg through the kick-starter, and when he threw the green flag into the air my machine fired immediately to life. I raced down the abbreviated start straight and quickly funneled in behind Justin Seeds as he took control of the first corner. The fact that two kick-start Kawasakis beat a line full of electric-start KTMs (and a Husqvarna) show that a fast kick-start can beat an electric start off the line, so long as it’s timed well and fires up first kick, of course.
As we rounded the second corner I hit a couple acceleration bumps awkwardly, losing some drive, and Justin Jones quickly muscled his way by me into second place. In the process of losing the position to Jones, I didn’t hit the third corner very well and allowed Gary Sutherlin to accelerate by me as we raced down the first long straightaway of the course. I had quickly been demoted to fourth place… So much for that good start.
As the course turned toward the off-camber and surprisingly challenging dirt/asphalt mounds, Justin Jones made a slight bobble and Gary made his way in to second-place. Not long after Jones lost his balance again, but this time the outcome was a bit worse as I noticed his legs up over his head for a moment before he lost control of his bike and hit the ground. He was quickly getting back up, but his fall handed me third-place and a chance to catch back up to Sutherlin and Seeds.
It took a little more than a lap for me to close the gap up to Sutherlin and I could see that he was already riding with a little arm pump; I wanted to take advantage quickly and make my way by. The course exited a sweeping left-hand corner and as we flew down a fifth-gear straightaway and I had a good run on him. I pulled out to his right, tucked in and pushed my way past him, braking hard into the following corner. The effort to pass Sutherlin had actually pushed me right up to the back of Seeds and at the start of the third lap I began to look for a way by.
I saw my opportunity for a pass as we sped down yet another fifth-gear straight: the course rounded a fast, sweeping right-handed corner at the exit and Seeds was holding a bit of a tight line. As we entered the sweeper, I pushed wide to the slight powder berm and, with the aid of Seeds losing a little traction on the inside, I made the pass stick and found myself in the lead.
I pushed very hard that lap and by the time I came around the finish I had already managed to build a lead of around 15 seconds over the rest of the group. In that effort I started to suffer the slightest bit of arm pump and made the decision to drop my pace just enough to really focus on my breathing in hopes of quelling the arm pump quickly. Over the following few laps I noticed the Bobby Bonds had made his way in to second position, but I was holding my gap, even extending it a bit at times, and to my delight, the arm pump began to subside.
Just past the halfway mark of the race I came in to the pits for gas and goggles; I had a lead of around 30 seconds and a feeling that I was in control of the race. On that lap I saw that Sutherlin had made his way back into second position and, as I expected, he started to make a mid-race charge. Two laps in a row he was able to chip away at my lead, closing to just over 20 seconds, but then I found just enough of a response the following lap to shut the door.
My hands were starting to feel the abuse of the high-speed circuit, but I pushed that pain aside, projected it on to my competition, and focused on maintaining my pace. In those closing laps I was able to inch back away from Sutherlin, allowing for an enjoyable final lap and a great feeling of accomplishment as I crossed the checkered flag to take my first win of the series.
Earning this win feels quite fantastic. I felt I’d been building my way back toward the top step of the podium and this result is verification of the effort I’ve put forth. I’m also incredibly happy to finally have represented all of my supporters to the level I’ve wanted with this performance. I have an incredible group of people, products and companies behind me: Precision Concepts, Kawasaki, THR Motorsports, Alamo Alarm, MSR, Shoei, Sidi, Spy, Focus Apparel, USWE, EVS, FMF, BRP, Ryan Abbatoye Designs, Northland Motorsports, Jan’s Towing, and ATP Mechanix. I’m also very happy to share this win with my mechanic, Phil, and my dad, who work incredibly hard to help me with everything that I need, and with my wife, Katie, who is so supportive of everything that I do. I’d also like to say Happy Mother’s day to my mom; though I didn’t get to share the day with her, she’s a big reason I’m able to do what I love to do.
I do also want to give a shout out to the WORCS crew for the job they did over the weekend. The winds were absolutely vicious and while most of us were hiding inside our motorhomes they were busy repairing the markings, maintaining the track and working each of the races; it was a truly demanding weekend and I appreciate the effort they put in to it. See you guys at the next round.
Thank you to each of the team sponsors: THR Motorsports, Hoosier Precision Machining, Dunlop, FMF, Renthal, GPR stabilizer, Hinson, VP Race Fuels IMS, BRP, Kalgard lubricants, LA Piston Co., A’ME grips, Braking, RK/Excel, ARC levers, DT1 filters, Acerbis, Zip-Ty, Ryan Abbatoye Designs, Seal Savers, Baja Designs, Northland Motorsports, CryoHeat | <urn:uuid:af2f7b94-0f7c-41b8-8ff1-b4efcc91ade6> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/2014/05/article/robby-bells-worcs-round-5-report-2014/ | 2016-05-01T17:41:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860116878.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161516-00031-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980269 | 1,431 |
Argument from adverse consequences
"If X were true, then it would imply Y. Y is bad, therefore X is not true."
This argument is invalid: just because something is bad does not mean that it's not true.
The form of this argument resembles, but is different from reductio ad absurdum, which is of the form "If X were true, then it would imply Y. But Y contradicts X. Therefore X is not true." Reductio ad absurdum is a valid argument; the argument from adverse consequences, on the other hand, is a fallacy because it does not argue that the consequence Y cannot happen or contradicts X, but merely that it is undesirable.
This should also not be confused with planning. It is quite valid to say, "If the government raised taxes, the economy would suffer. This would be a bad thing, therefore the government should not raise taxes." The argument from adverse consequences is about whether some statement is true, not whether some action should be taken.
- "If my father had committed the crime of which he's accused, our family would be disgraced. Therefore, my father is innocent."
- "If evolution is true, then life is meaningless. Therefore evolution is false." | <urn:uuid:3198f488-3f88-4d6c-936e-4f180fb7ee63> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Argument_from_adverse_consequences&direction=prev&oldid=4165 | 2018-04-26T11:44:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125948126.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180426105552-20180426125552-00423.warc.gz | en | 0.962347 | 255 |
Question: In a certain society any time somebody commits a serious crime they must be shot at twice with a 6 bullet revolver. The revolver only has two bullets in it though, both of them right next to each other. They spin the revolver once and shoot the gun. If there was no bullet in that chamber they give the prisoner the option to either spin the chamber again or just shoot again. If the first shot is a blank, should the prisoner ask for the revolver to be spun or should they choose that it be shot again?
Answer: They should have them shoot again. If it is spun again there is a 2/6 chance they will get shot. There are four possible spots that don't have bullets and only one is followed by a bullet. This means that the chance is only 1/4 that they will be shot if they don't spin it.
Question: A detective who was mere days away from cracking an international oil smuggling ring has suddenly gone missing.While inspecting his last-known location,officers find a note:710 57735 34 5508 51 7718.Currently there are 3 suspects:Bill John,and Todd. Can you break this answer and tell me the reason.
Answer: Bill is the suspect,if read upside down the number read "Bill is boss. He sells oil."
Question: Can you find the missing number in the below series? 43, 8, 38, 9, 34, 11, _, 14
Answer: One series is 8, 9, 11, 14 (add 1, 2, 3) and the second series is 43, 38, 34, ? (subtract 5, 4 - next number to substract is 3). Correct answer is 31 | <urn:uuid:23709a30-09bd-45b6-b599-8ff2063e739a> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://goodriddlesnow.com/riddles/view/271 | 2018-02-22T18:49:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814249.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180222180516-20180222200516-00105.warc.gz | en | 0.941599 | 351 |
The number of horses killed in Ireland for human consumption in continental Europe continued to rise last year.
A total of 7,748 were culled last year to be served on European dinner plates. The number has increased each year since 2015, when 6,033 horses were slaughtered — usually for export to Italy, Holland and Belgium.
This number is considerably lower, however, than it was during the recession in 2011 and 2012 when 24,000 unwanted beasts were killed for meat.
Consumption of horse meat has been growing globally since the 1990s. It is considered a delicacy in parts of Italy, Holland, Switzerland and Belgium. It is also commonly served in China, Russia, Mexico, Argentina and Japan.
Most Irish horse carcasses are exported to continental Europe, where… | <urn:uuid:23257225-d778-4a53-9688-7ce27cdb7171> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ireland-fills-rising-hunger-for-horse-meat-in-europe-lvwbt5hgn | 2018-11-12T20:36:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741087.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20181112193627-20181112215627-00400.warc.gz | en | 0.984264 | 158 |
"Taking Action! 6 Guiding Principles to Improve your Instructional Practice Tomorrow"
Teaching and Learning - Access and Equity - Curriculum
Tools and Technology - Assessment - Professionalism
Friday-Saturday, April 29-30, 2016
DECC Convention Center, Duluth, MN
Friday Keynote: Yeap Ban-Har
Dr. Yeap Ban Har teaches mathematics education courses at the National Institute of Education, a teacher education institute in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include problem solving and problem posing, early numeracy, and teacher professional development. He holds a Master of Education, a Master of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies, and a doctorate in mathematics education. He has served on the editorial board of two mathematics education journals—Mathematical Thinking and Learning and The Mathematics Educator. Dr. Yeap has written several mathematics textbooks based on the Singapore Mathematics approach, as well as articles and chapters in various mathematics education publications, including articles on bar modeling in journals such as Mathematics Teaching in Middle Schools and Mathematics Teaching. His recent publications include a chapter in an International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) study publication and Pedagogy for Engaged Mathematics Learning. (from the HMH site)
Saturday Keynote: Diane Briars
Diane J. Briars is president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), an 80,000-member international mathematics education organization. Previously, Briars was a mathematics education consultant, working primarily to support schools and districts in their interpretation and implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. She has also been a senior developer and research associate on the Intensified Algebra Project, a joint venture of the Learning Science Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin. This project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on developing instructional materials for underprepared ninth-grade Algebra 1 students. Previously, Briars was mathematics director for Pittsburgh Public Schools. Under her leadership, Pittsburgh schools made significant progress in increasing student achievement through standards-based curricula, instruction, and assessment.
Diane Briars is a past president of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM) and has served in leadership roles in various other national organizations, including the College Board and the National Science Foundation. She has served on numerous national committees and advisory boards, including the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, headed by Senator John Glenn. Briars holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education and M.S. and B.S. degrees in mathematics from Northwestern University, and she pursued postdoctoral study in the Psychology Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. She began her career as a secondary mathematics teacher.(from the NCTM site) | <urn:uuid:18127dc0-2c0b-4811-bfee-cceef5246da6> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.mctm.org/springconf.php | 2015-11-29T19:25:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398459333.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205419-00078-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944568 | 577 |
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has arrived Qunu in the Eastern Cape for the funeral of fellow Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, after earlier saying he would not go because he was not invited.
In a statement Saturday, Tutu had said he wanted to attend the funeral of someone he "loved and treasured." He added he would not miss it if he were informed he was welcome to attend. Tutu, however, said it would be "disrespectful" to "gate-crash" the funeral.
However, a spokesman for the Anglican cleric later issued a statement saying Tutu would travel to Qunu early Sunday for the funeral. There was no word on what prompted the change of plans.
The government denied that Tutu was snubbed.
Minister for the presidency Collins Chabane addressed the issue during a Saturday news briefing, saying the government had not issued any invitations.
The archbishop has been an outspoken critic of the ruling African National Congress and accused it of mismanagement in recent years.
Some had seen the apparent omission of an invitation as a snub towards the religious leader, something the government denies.
Tutu had warm relations with Mr. Mandela and was a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement. After becoming South Africa's president, Mr. Mandela appointed Archbishop Tutu to head the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. | <urn:uuid:83283981-3c2c-4a90-9f10-7a1662804c5a> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://www.voanews.com/a/desmond-tutu-arrives-for-mandela-funeral/1810614.html | 2018-09-21T08:49:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267156901.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20180921072647-20180921093047-00242.warc.gz | en | 0.984254 | 286 |
The NSW Coalition government has allocated $244m towards a major new building at the state Art Gallery. But questions are being raised about its ongoing funding and its mission as a public institution.
Last year international art consultant Adrian Ellis wrote in the London-based publication The Art Newspaper about the trend away from grandiose museum expansion plans. He warned: “The shoals and whirlpools of capital projects still suck careless museums in. The most common causes of a dunking – and sometimes a drowning – are neglect of the invariably adverse impact that an expansion has on the relationship of income to expenditure, on cash flow, and on the strength of the balance sheet… the potential of the expansion goes unrealised because the resources are not available to program it effectively.”
Does this apply to the Art Gallery of New South Wales and its ambitious expansion plan known as Sydney Modern? You bet it does.
In last month’s NSW Budget the Art Gallery finally secured $244 million in public money towards construction.
End of problem? More like the beginning.
True, the scale of the project has been reduced to make it more realistic. The grand plaza linking the old building and the new has been dropped altogether, bringing the estimated cost down from $450 million to $380 million.
So construction is on the cards. But how do you pay for the huge increase in running costs?
Compared to other state galleries, the AGNSW is already under-funded. In financial year 2015-2016 the NSW government contributed $23.9 million of its $45.7 million operating costs. The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), the most commercially successful state gallery, received $46.3 million in state funding of its $83.2 million operating costs.
Options for ongoing funding
Sydney Modern will at least double the AGNSW’s operating costs. Art Gallery managers have put a business case to the Coalition government, and we’re told that the Department of Premier and Cabinet has done financial modelling. But there are only so many ways in which increased costs can be met:
- A doubling of state government recurrent funding. The best option but the least likely, given that successive governments are going in the opposite direction with arts funding. The Berejiklian government has already increased the “efficiency dividend” spending cut for the coming year from 1.5% to 2%. This means a further squeeze on an institution under stress.
- Self-funding through commercial activities. Public cultural institutions have to generate commercial revenue from ticketed exhibitions, shops, cafes and venue hire, but none has ever achieved self-funding. If Melbourne’s NGV, with twice the number of visitors, hasn’t got there, how can the AGNSW? In financial year 2015-2016 the NGV’s commercial revenue was more than $10 million up on the previous year, but operating costs were also up, by $16 million. The only way Sydney Modern could pay for itself would be by operating as a full-time corporate function centre. Is former Prime Minister Paul Keating right that it will be “a large entertainment and special events complex masquerading as an art gallery”?
- User pays – imposing entrance fees, charging schools. This would be entirely against the ethos of the public gallery. Entrance fees were abolished and the old turnstiles were removed by Neville Wran’s government in 1979. Edmund Capon was adamant throughout his 33 years as director that they would never be reinstated. Volunteers, members and other supporters flocked to the institution for that reason. The first breach in that ethos is the recent introduction of charges for school groups.
- Privatise the whole place. Sounds far-fetched? Think about the NSW government’s plans for The Rocks, the Powerhouse Museum, the GPO in Martin Place, Sydney Hospital on Macquarie Street and other historic sites which developers are wetting their lips over.
The age of the asset sale
The keynote policy of NSW Premier Mike Baird’s Coalition government of 2014 to 2017, in which his successor Gladys Berejiklian was Treasurer, was the Great Asset Sell-off, and not just of the electricity distribution network. Public assets are now viewed as disposable real estate rather than as instruments for the public good.
Two key examples:
The Powerhouse Museum. When the Baird government decided, in a knee-jerk response to the powerful Western Sydney lobby, to move the Powerhouse to Parramatta, it viewed the change as a simple real estate transaction: sell the Ultimo site to pay for the new museum. No thought was given to the priceless collection, until seasoned professionals came forward to the NSW Parliament’s Upper House inquiry, due to report next month, to demonstrate that the cost of moving the collection would be many times greater than the estimate.
Sydney’s art schools. For more than a year, the three main tertiary art schools have been under pressure from the NSW government to merge. Next year the Sydney College of the Arts will be evicted from its government-owned Callan Park home and relocated to the crowded main campus. On the other side of town, the National Art School has fought off pressure to merge with the University of NSW’s Art and Design school, but management of its home in the historic Darlinghurst Gaol buildings has been transferred, ominously, from the Department of Education to Property NSW.
Down the track, in an atmosphere of financial uncertainty, other cultural institutions could go the same way.
Public museums, galleries and libraries are for the enrichment of the whole of society. Many of us visit them for ticketed exhibitions, and exhibition programs are certainly vital. But their core purpose remains the development of collections to which everyone should have access, regardless of income or background.
Restoring public confidence
At the AGNSW there is a long way to go to restore public trust. The announcement of the $244 million funding was met with scepticism in many letters to the editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. The Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens expressed disappointment, given that 57% of the proposed site belongs to the Gardens. My own inbox is full of expressions of concern.
So what can be done?
- The AGNSW should immediately publish its business plan and embark on the widest consultation about how it can be realised.
- Government and AGNSW management should jointly pledge that entrance fees will never be re-imposed.
- The AGNSW should end all charges for public programs for schools.
- The secret Memorandum of Understanding between the Gallery and the governing Council of its membership body, the Art Gallery Society, should be published.
If we can’t get transparency, it will be time to review the way in which arts boards and managements are appointed in NSW. Cultural institutions belong to the public, not to the state’s secretive deal-makers.
Judith White is a former executive director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and author of the book Culture Heist: Art versus Money published by Brandl & Schlesinger in May 2017. This is an edited version of a blog that first appeared on her website www.cultureheist.com.au | <urn:uuid:a3e6edf2-8b09-4a37-bc1f-920b557f1cfb> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://johnmenadue.com/judith-white-risks-of-gallery-expansion/ | 2020-10-29T07:51:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107903419.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029065424-20201029095424-00377.warc.gz | en | 0.959978 | 1,499 |
Countess Plasma and assistant Phlegm present a series of short films about vampires from their abode at Hotel Blood. The short films, which are actually stories the countess tells her assistant, all involve what look like normal people that have a secret of being a vampire.
Directed by: Ted Alderman and Tiffany Warren
Written By: Jim OβRear and Tiffany Warren
Starring: Debbie Rochon, Jim OβRear, Debbie D, Amber Newman, Ted Alderman
In the abandoned Hotel Blood, Countess Plasma (Debbie Ronchon) and her hunchbacked assistant Phlegm (Jim OβRear) present a series of short films in a collaborative feature film Vampyre Tales. The countess and Phlegm connect each film with jokes that add to the comedic value of this horror flick. The countess and Phlegm also devise silly plans, as first introduced turning toothpaste to gold though a wooden box.
The first short film is entitled The Way of the Vampire, and is about a lonely vampire who gets tormented by his overly bloodthirsty brother. When venturing out to a bookstore, the antagonized brother runs into a girl in which he instantly attracted to. He goes over to her home, and cannot control his hunger for blood and drinks turning her into a vampire too. His older brother attempts to finish the girl off by decapitation, but the younger brother retaliates and keeps the girl as his new partner.
The second film Natural Selection, follows a young attractive male who is having a conversation with himself completely in his head. He walks the streets cursing his vampirical ways of being immortal and wanting to find someone to spend eternity with. He sees a young woman out and about, and morphs into his vampire with long black fingernails and pale blue eyes. He drinks the womanβs blood, and leaves her on the sidewalk to continue on his way.
The third film Blood Feud introduces Mark and Jessica just waking up in a hotel room. Mark promises Jessica that he has a surprise for her, and takes her to Crystal Lake. They decide on a spot, and enjoy their romantic quiet time alone. All the sudden, Jessica is stabbed by what seems to be an ex-girlfriend. Mark quickly beheads the culprit, and newly transformed vampire Jessica goes on a killing spree with her vampire boyfriend.
The fourth film The Quitters is a delightful play on the traditional Alcohol Anonymous meetings. A group of people obsessed with drinking meet with psychologist Dr. Lauren, as she tries to encourage them to control their thirst. The participants of the meeting go around and contribute their stories of how long they have been sober for. After all the members of the group agree that they canβt stay sober anymore, they all reveal that they are not alcoholics but bloodthirsty vampires that go after Dr. Lauren to satisfy their thirsts.
The final short is A Moment of Darkness, which highlights a lonely doctor who is obsessed with vampire flicks. After being paged by the hospital, the patient is restless and bites the doctor. The doctor realizes that she has been transformed into a vampire, and goes to the club to prey on the men. After being disgusted by the taste of blood, she begs the women who bit her to let her have her old life back. When her transformer refuses to do so, she kills the patient who bit her and ends her life by covering herself in lighter fluid and burning her body.
When the countess and Phlegm are finished with their stories, they get a visit from the pesticide worker (Ted Alderman) to remove blobs from the dungeon. His blob removal scenes are accompanied by the credits, and the setting looks like something straight out of a haunted attraction. There are also some dressed up characters in miscellaneous costumes that attack the worker in the end.
The short films were all connected through their vampire theme, but were sometimes difficult to catch names of the characters unless paying close attention to the dialogue. Even the dialogue was sometimes rough to hear, especially during the A Moment of Darkness. Besides the biting and an occasional decapitation, there was very little violence and blood which surprised me for a vampire thriller. The countess and Phlegm are shown in a scene straight out of a hotel room, with the use of an ice bucket as a contraption to carry mail which was quite comical.
Ted Alderman and Tiffany Warren created the feature film Vampyre Tales to showcase a collection of vampire themed short films accompanied by silly jokes by the countess and Phlegm. Broadcasting straight from Hotel Blood, the countess tells her stories and promises that there will be more tales in the future. With suggestion of a sequel at hand, Vampyre Tales doesnβt introduce anything new to the classical stories of vampires, but achieves by modernizing traditional fictional accounts of the lives of creatures of the night. | <urn:uuid:7694439c-908a-4e7f-b518-d1e4a70580f2> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://horrornews.net/20744/film-review-vampyre-tales-2005/ | 2015-11-30T22:54:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398464253.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205424-00274-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968396 | 1,003 |
Jonathan sent us a report
Sep 28, 2001
Jonathan sent us a report from the teletext service on Channel 4 stating that Hugh Grant is out of Harry Potter 2 (Sep 28, 2001).
“Hugh Grant has been forced to drop out of Harry Potter 2 because of a busy schedule. He was due to have played Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter The Chamber of Secrets. A source at Warner Bros told Teletext: “To have Hugh on board we had to bring the production forward 3 months which we cannot do. So sadly he’s forced out“.
The loss of Hugh Grant as Professor Lockhart is a blow to Harry Potter 2 given his box office draw. It’s known that he had undergone extensive hair and make-up tests, and had dyed his hair blond, rather than wear a wig which he described as “absurd”. The Professor claims to be an expert on wizardry and is a major character in the JK Rowling story. Warner Bros declined to comment”.
We have always said that Hugh Grant as Lockhart is just a (good) rumor, even as many established online and print papers and magazines announced his part as confirmed – we sticked to the rumor version! If we confirm a part we either got a personal confirmation from the actor or a person close to him (agent, spokesperson, movie crew) – or Warner Bros. officially has confirmed it. | <urn:uuid:bae72dd6-b874-47a0-a922-eac2108a1a48> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2001/09/28/jonathan-sent-us-a-report/2/ | 2015-09-02T21:41:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645293619.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031453-00148-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98256 | 298 |
Arabs do have human rights in Israel, what they don't have is civil rights because Israel is a special purpose state. Its for Jews, a kind of Indian Reservation like for the Navaho Indians in New Mexico, USA. The Arabs don't have many land titles in Jerusalem; they waive old expired Turkish land leases to the media who can't read the language. The Arabs are living in stone shanties, dilapidated structures without proper sanitation or power. Some are built recently without building permits or inspection. Earthquake and health hazards in a modern city. We have urban renewal in the USA and some old timers resent gentrification, they can't afford to stay because prices are going up and a shanty must come down. That's not the same thing as discrimination or denial of human rights. I could never today afford to live in the home town I grew up in, and certainly not the house, it's value has skyrocketed 20X what my parents bought it for. That's not discrimination. That's change.
Northern California wildfire doubles in size, displaces thousands (Reuters)
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Featured Golf News
Fiddler's Elbow in New Jersey to Unveil Renovated River Course
Fiddler's Elbow Country Club will unveil this season its renovated River Course, one of three golf courses at the private corporate club that follow the Lamington River in Bedminster Township, N.J.
The new River Course consists of two original nines designed by golf course architect Hal Purdy in 1965, combining what most recently were the front nine of the Meadow Course and front nine of the River Course.
"We have retained the classic style of the River Course, while adding a modern touch," said Tom Breiner, GCSAA, Fiddler's Elbow golf course superintendent who directed the renovation.
Among the major changes to the River Course, the No. 1 hole was shortened from a par-5 to a par-4, complete with a new green complex. No. 6 hole has been lengthened from a par-4 to a par-5, which stretches 550 yards from the new back tees. The course will remain a par 72.
Bunkering changes can be found throughout the River Course. Existing bunkers were redone or replaced with new traps. Further infrastructure work included a complete modernization of the irrigation and drainage systems, along with several miles of new asphalt cart paths.
"The course will be a better test of golf," Breiner said. "Each hole will be more interesting and more appropriate for today's modern game."
The River Course routing is along the Lamington River, the Meadow Course is within the confines of the old dairy meadows and pastures and the Forest Course is situated amongst the hardwoods and evergreens on the southwest corner of the property. All three layouts feature bentgrass greens, fairways and tees, with Kentucky bluegrass/fescue roughs.
"The latest improvements have been made to maintain our standard of playing conditions and improve the aesthetics of the course," Breiner said. "The redesign is nothing severe. Our goal was to make improvements, but maintain the integrity of each golf hole."
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Today's LEGISLATOR OF THE DAY
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Pat Tiberi (OH-R-12) (pronounced "tea-berry")
While he's quite conservative on most issues, he's a fair-minded Republican when it comes to job discrimination, and he voted yes on ENDA in 2007. Ask him to support it again.
email: http://bit.ly/hnCYL zip 43231
Please contact him and tell his office about the importance of supporting job fairness with an inclusive ENDA -- HR 3017.
And while you're at it, check out where we are in the House of Representatives at http://bit.ly/Q5YMJ Call your Reps who haven't come out publicly in favor of ENDA and email me so I can update the spreadsheet. | <urn:uuid:57047813-eb4e-4911-984b-fd2f9c4f65a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://bilerico.lgbtqnation.com/2009/07/us_legislator_of_the_day_patrick_tiberi.php | 2016-10-22T13:30:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718987.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00146-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920572 | 173 |
On Thursday at 10:00 a.m. PST, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced that Google is settling with the FTC as it pertains to antitrust issues that have plagued the Internet search giant in the headlines since 2011.
Google competitors that are displeased with how their search results turn up on Google will be given the freedom to opt out under an agreement that was just made public today by the FTC.
The FTC also determined that Google’s search results were not self-benefiting in terms of how Google-friendly results are presented.
By a 4-1 vote, the commission determined that Google must end its practice of stopping the use of “standard essential patents” by Google competitors.
Google is even being told to loosen restrictions on the use of AdWords, specifically in ways that make cross-platform advertising cumbersome for users.
“Today’s action delivers more relief for American consumers faster than any other option available to the commission and protects competitions to competitors in several crucial markets,” FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz announced.
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Goal-line technology was put to the test for the first time during the France-Honduras World Cup match on June 15. It was difficult to tell with the naked eye if the French had scored, but the system – equipped with a special Swiss-made camera – showed otherwise. (SRF Tagesschau, swissinfo.ch)
The history of football is peppered with arguments about goal line incidents. But this is set to become a thing of the past thanks to goal-line technology (GLT), being featured for the first time as a back-up for match officials at the Brazil World Cup.
At the heart of the system is a camera with a specially designed sensor developed by the Swiss company Photonfocus, which has its headquarters in Lachen in canton Schwyz.
The technology involves seven cameras monitoring each goal line from different positions in the stadium. The cameras are connected to a high performance computer that evaluates the position of the ball to the millimetre. As soon as it enters the frame of the goal a signal is sent within a second to a device on the wrist of the referee on the pitch, allowing mathematical accuracy in football match results. | <urn:uuid:41bbc2e4-57b2-4393-ae0a-d881272a5a11> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://live.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/goal-line-technology-in-brazil--with-swiss-cameras/38741008?rss=true | 2017-09-23T00:02:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689411.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922235700-20170923015700-00166.warc.gz | en | 0.968658 | 242 |
Free Beer & Hot Wings: Music Friday Songs for September 26
Each Friday, “The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show” replaces its regular “back-with” music with songs from our own music collections.
They can be anything, from corny mash-ups, rock, country, mid-Michigan '70s butt rock or anything in between.
Here’s the list of Music Friday songs from today:
Hüsker Dü -- "Makes No Sense at All"
John Travolta -- "Razzmatazz"
Elton John -- "Sitting Doing Nothing"
Bruno Mars -- "The Lazy Song"
Pet Shop Boys -- "Being Boring"
Rush -- "The Trees"
The Who -- "The Quiet One"
Eric Zane, Producer Joe and Steve did not have any Music Friday selections this week.
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Number of King County homeless up nearly 14% since 2020, 57% remain unsheltered
May 23, 2022, 11:18 AM
(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
The number of homeless individuals has grown 13.8% over the last two years, according to King County Regional Homeless Authority’s Point in Time (PIT) Count, while the percentage of sheltered homeless dropped 10%.
In 2020, the percentage of homeless who had access to shelter on a consistent basis was 53% compared to those unsheltered at 47%. Two years later, the amount of homeless with shelter is just 43%.
Sweep of homeless camp outside Seattle City Hall draws criticism from activists, local leaders
PIT Count is an estimate of people experiencing sheltered and unsheltered homelessness on a single night in King County. The main count of people living unsheltered is conducted by approximately 600 volunteers spread across the county between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., assisted by paid “guides” who have experienced homelessness in the past and whose knowledge can help locate homeless people off the beaten path.
A separate count is conducted of homeless individuals who are sheltered: in emergency shelters, sanctioned encampments, “tiny home” villages, transitional housing, and other forms of temporary shelter.
This data is widely understood to be an undercount.
The recent King County Department of Community and Human Services Cross Systems Homelessness Analysis found that at least 40,871 people experienced homelessness at some point in 2020.
Based on the PIT Count, 25% of people experiencing homelessness in King County identify as Black, while, according to the 2020 U.S. Census, only 7% of King County’s population identifies as Black. Similarly, 9% of people experiencing homelessness identify as American Indian, Alaskan Native, or Indigenous, but that group makes up only 1% of King County’s population.
51% identified with having a disability, while 31% identified with having a mental health disorder. 37% reported they are suffering from a substance abuse problem.
The release of this data came with a decision to pivot from the organization’s original plan to scrap the count. In November 2021, the Regional Homeless Authority (RHA) announced it was not planning on releasing a PIT Count for 2022.
“Because of the methodology, the PIT is widely understood to be an undercount, which can be harmful in skewing the narrative and limiting the budget and resources dedicated to solutions,” the RHA wrote in a statement. “Instead, we will conduct qualitative engagement with people living unsheltered to learn more about their experiences and how we can better meet their needs.”
Squaring the circle: Housing Seattle’s homeless as City austerity budget dawns
The PIT Count has been a controversial strategy for accurately tracking homeless data. The 2019 PIT count showed a drop in homelessness, but SCC Insight argued there were several reasons to question the accuracy of the count and the companion survey, including fluctuating sample sizes, a sampling bias, and the reliance on inconsistent volunteers and guides.
The 2020 PIT count faced similar issues, with terrible weather and a lack of volunteers on the night of the count marring the operation.
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This is a sad story for breastfeeding moms! I stayed in Taiwan for 8 days and I lost a lot of milk! I tried to save and store my milk but I don’t have the means to do so. I don’t have access to a sterile environment. The freezer of the house I stayed in is full. I also don’t have access to ice. I don’t have any choice but to just dump the milk after I pumped.
It was a waste to see my precious milk go down the drain but there was nothing I could do. This trip wasn’t prepared for. It was an emergency trip.We came to Taiwan to visit my dad. And that’s another sad story there!
I salute the moms who were able to save Their milk when they are away from their babies.
It’s time for me to go home and it’s time to make up for the lost gold!
P.S to calculate, minimum of 24 oz and maximum of 36 oz lost in a day multiply by 8 days. I lost an average of 240oz for that 8 days! 🙁 | <urn:uuid:c29124ce-3464-44d6-bae5-9cb9948b288c> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://sassybiatchemom.com/pump-dump/ | 2018-10-20T19:40:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583513384.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20181020184612-20181020210112-00211.warc.gz | en | 0.974738 | 238 |
Christmas Letter for President Bush: Guidance on the Gulf
President Richard Nixon with George H.W. Bush upon being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. 12 January 1970 (George H.W. Presidential Library).
On Christmas Day 1990, three weeks before United States’ forces launched Operation Desert Storm to expel the Iraqi army occupying the Gulf country of Kuwait, former President Nixon penned an extensive nine-page memorandum to then President George H.W. Bush which discussed the various strategic options available to the United States in responding to Iraq’s aggression against its neighbor and the larger threat Iraq’s action posed to the Middle East.
The former president relayed the pros and cons of sanctions, diplomacy, military action, and the short and long term political implications of these critical decisions, but not before complimenting his successor for his “brilliant leadership and diplomacy” in enlisting the “largest alliance in history to support the goals of forcing Saddam Hussein to get out of Kuwait.”
The Christmas memo arrived on President Bush’s desk as the clocked ticked down to the January 15, 1991 deadline declared by the United Nations for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to remove his forces from Kuwait.
Nixon made clear that he did not believe imposing sanctions on Iraq would be sufficient to force Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait. While acknowledging that sanctions caused hardship on Iraq’s domestic economy, Nixon asserted that without military action, a sanctions only approach would only allow the tide of time to work against the coalition that Bush assembled to contain Iraq.
Nixon urged Bush to conduct diplomacy only from a position of strength, with certain conditions first in place. Likening Kuwait to a kidnapper’s captive, Nixon wrote that paying the ransom will inevitably embolden Hussein and would, in the end, lead to a bigger war. “The critics who oppose use of force are destroying any chance to a negotiated peace by diplomacy,” he emphasized.
Consistent and coherent communication was absolutely critical to this effort, Nixon maintained. Critics of military action complain, “Why are we there?” How the United States answered that question was key to President Bush’s ability to win support for his determination to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
Nixon asserted that answering that question with economics, employment, or energy wouldn’t sufficiently explain the bigger picture. He also maintained that defending military action on humanitarian terms would also be mistake. Saddam might be a cruel dictator, but “we cannot raise the issue with clean hands.” Furthermore, genocide and other humanitarian crises in other parts of the world had not warranted an American military response.
For Nixon, if war comes, it wouldn’t be a war for democracy, oil, or humanitarianism. “Ironically, it will above all be a war about peace.”
Addressing the birth pangs of what Bush would call the “New World Order” which was taking shape after the end of the Cold War, Nixon posited that the United States must demonstrate that military aggression to expand a nation’s influence in strategically important parts of the world would not stand. “If we succeed in forcing Saddam Hussein to withdraw by military action,” Nixon wrote, “it will mean that in the future a warning by the United States that we will use military force will deter a potential aggressor because he will know that we have the means and will to back up our words with actions.”
On the domestic political front, Nixon counseled Bush on gaining political support for military action. He believed a joint resolution from Congress would be ideal, but would initiate long debate, and take away from the executive branch the power to wage war and peace.
Recalling his spring 1972 decision to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong Harbor, Nixon said one option would be to assemble a bi-partisan group of leaders, brief them on what has been decided, and ask for their support:
Some of them [Congressional leaders assembled in spring 1972] were unhappy, but when the polls came out showing that the decision was overwhelmingly popular and when the Soviets, contrary to predictions of most diplomatic experts, went ahead with the summit, it was hard to find any one of the leaders present at the briefing who had not supported it all out from the very beginning.
Bush would achieve overwhelming support in the United States for his decision to attack Iraqi forces in Kuwait.
Finally, Nixon outlined long range issues. He agreed with Bush about not linking a settlement on the Israeli-Palestinian issue with Saddam’s withdrawal from Kuwait, as it would be interpreted as a reward for aggression against the Gulf country.
Nixon also insisted that Japan and Western Europe quadruple their paltry financial contribution to the military effort. Japan, for example, received 60 percent of its oil from the Gulf (the U.S. received just 10 percent) and would stand the most to benefit from American intervention.
Nixon concluded on a particularly high note to his successor, writing that history would not only record Bush as a Commander in Chief able to forge victory in war, but also as “an outstanding statesman in winning the peace after the war was won.”
Bush, who gained much of his foreign policy and intelligence experience and expertise while serving as Nixon’s ambassador to the United Nations, essentially carried out the strategy Nixon outlined in his Christmas memo. The day after the U.N.’s January 15, 1991 deadline passed, Operation Desert Storm was underway, leading to the liberation of Kuwait just 45 days later.
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The Dodgers beat the Braves 9-1 today at Turner Field to win the three-game set in Atlanta. For a full recap and boxscore click here.
THE BARE ESSENTIALS:
19 hits for the Dodgers tonight, as Matt Kemp (3-for-5, HR, 5 RBI) and James Loney (3-for-6, 2 RBI) shined on national television.
Chad Billingsley threw five solid innings but exited early with an apparent right hamstring cramp. He attempted to convince Joe Torre that he could stay in, so things don’t look too serious.
Jair Jurrjens has been one of the best hurlers in baseball thus far, but the Dodgers got hold of him pretty well in the fifth. He ended up with a line of 10 hits, two walks, and four runs in five innings.
When Jason Schmidt comes up to pinch hit and knocks a single, you know you’re going good. Schmidt pinch hit for Billingsley in the sixth and eventually came around to score.
Braves outfielder Matt Diaz on Ramon Troncoso: “I don’t know what the role that last guy has on their team. But I know he has a 2.00 ERA and nasty stuff. He’s not their setup guy and he’s not their closer. So when you’ve got that guy just getting innings, that’s a pretty deep bullpen.”
Casey Blake hurt his hand lifting weights over the weekend and was unavailable today, leading to a Mark Loretta start. X-rays on Blake were reportedly negative. Loretta had his first two-hit game since June 25.
Scott Elbert pitched well in relief of Billingsley, going 2 2/3 innings and being charged with just one run. George Sherrill replaced Guillermo Mota in a double switch and got Chipper Jones to fly out to end an Atlanta mini-rally.
Clayton Kershaw (8-5, 2.76) and Manny Parra (5-8, 6.50) meet tomorrow at Dodger Stadium. | <urn:uuid:43c5b412-0f93-4394-b052-c8c3b5c8eac5> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.insidesocal.com/dodgers/2009/08/02/postgame-dodger-15/ | 2016-08-28T07:00:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982935857.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200855-00149-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954785 | 450 |
October 13, 2010
Payton pleasantly surprised with USC
USC is recruiting for the near and distant future this season.
While the Trojans have a dozen commitments for the 2011 class, USC is also maintaining an impressive group of 2012 commitments. The Trojans first pledge of the 2012 class began his junior season two weeks ago.
Recovering from an ankle injury, Oaks Christian wide out Jordan Payton made his junior debut against Westlake on Fox Sports West in front of a capacity crowd. Payton wasted no time introducing himself to a regional television audience.
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Capturing human anatomy is a lifelong pursuit. A great first step in that journey, as well as a fun daily warm-up, is gesture sketching. There are many different approaches to quick-pose sketching, and this video explains a 'constructive anatomy' technique. Based largely on the methods of Andrew Loomis, this technique combines observational sketching with memorized anatomy to capture poses in less than one minute.
To give this exercise a try, grab your sketchbook and open up www.posemaniacs.com. Though the default time interval is 30 seconds, I'd recommend selecting 60 seconds. Remember: the goal is learning, not creating beautiful drawings. Good luck! | <urn:uuid:74f092f2-c472-45a1-be36-2f6e8db5f2ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.ctrlpaint.com/videos/quick-pose-gesture-sketching | 2017-11-24T10:46:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807650.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124104142-20171124124142-00029.warc.gz | en | 0.92121 | 141 |
DescriptionThis is the library I'll use in my programs (if I ever make any). It's a collection of functions that provide:
Noise generation (useful for terrain)
Prime number generation/detection
Kinda fast dictionaries (associative arrays/arrays indexed by strings)
Bit and byte vectors with automatic resizing
LZS compression for GRPs (both slower and worse at compression than rei's, so it's useless)
Various math functions
Debug logger for outputting messages on top/bottom screen
Functions for basic character movement around a map
Menus (built from textboxes)
Screen Effects (render to sprite)
OK but seriously, it's not good.
Run RNDLIBTEST to check out some of the stuff it can do. For instance, try the Noise Gen function. It has an implementation of the Plasma effect.
I don't want any credit if you use this library. Instructions
Run the above to make all functions available. You can make the slot whatever you like; it doesn't have to be 3.
ISPRIME(NUM) : determine if a number is prime (up to 16,383*)
NEXTPRIME(NUM) : get the closest prime larger than NUM (up to 16,383*)
PREVPRIME(NUM) : get the closest prime smaller than NUM (up to 16,383*)
CACHEPRIMES NUM : generate the prime data for numbers up to NUM
* = with default settings. Running CACHEPRIMES will change the upper range; for instance, CACHEPRIMES(100000) will change the upper bound to 100000 for ISPRIME, NEXTPRIME, and PREVPRIME
CACHEPRIMES 100000 'Takes a little bit
?ISPRIME(99999) ' FALSE
GETBIT(BIT,VECTOR%) : Get the bit (0 or 1) for the position BIT within the given bit vector*
SETBIT BIT,VALUE%,VECTOR% : Set the bit for the position BIT to the value VALUE (0 or 1) within the given bit vector*
GETBYTE(BYTE,VECTOR%) : Get the byte (0-255) for the position BYTE within the given byte vector*
SETBYTE BYTE,VALUE%,VECTOR%) : Set the byte for the position BIT to the value VALUE (0-255) within the given byte vector*
* = A bit/byte vector is just an integer array. You can use existing arrays; the data is treated as though it is packed.
Examples:DIM V% 'A bit/byte vector is just an integer array
?GETBIT(103,V%) '1 (we set that bit with the previous SETBYTE)
DICCREATE$(INITIALSIZE) : Create a dictionary with the given initial capacity (can be 0)
DICGET$(KEY$,DIC$) : Retrieve the value* from dictionary DIC$ at the given key (returns "" if key doesn't exist)
DICSET KEY$,VALUE$,DIC$) : Set the value* for the given key in dictionary DIC$ (adds key if key doesn't exist yet. Increases capacity automatically if dictionary is getting full)
DICHASKEY(KEY$,DIC$) : Return whether or not dictionary DIC$ has the given key.
DICRESIZE DIC$,NEWSIZE : NOT NECESSARY TO CALL. Increase capacity to at LEAST given size. Will only increase dictionary size. Actual size set may be different.
* = float and integer versions are available: DICGETI%, DICGETF#, DICSETI, DICSETF
Examples:DIM D$ 'A dictionary is just a string array.
D$=DICCREATE$(10) 'Set initial capacity to a large value for faster insertion. Resizes automatically regardless
?DICGET$("MYKEY",D$) 'Prints nothing
DICSET "MYKEY","HIHI", D$
?DICGET$("MYKEY",D$) 'Prints HIHI
?DICGETI%("MONKEYS",D$) 'Prints 53
DISTANCE(X1#,Y1#,X2#,Y2#) : Get the distance between two points
CLOSESTMULTIPLE(NUM,MULT) : Get the closest number to NUM that is a multiple of MULT.
LERP(A#,B#,T#) : Get the value for linear interpolation between A and B at point T.
BLENDCOLORS(COL1,COL2,SHIFT#) : Blend two colors together. SHIFT# tells how much of the second color to add (0 is all the first color, 1 is all the second color, 0.5 is a perfect blend)
BRIGHTENCOLOR(COL,AMT) : Brighten color by given amount. This is a linear shift: all channels are increased by the given amount. If the amount goes over 255, it is capped.
BRIGHTENCOLORM(COL,M#) : Bright color by given multiple. This is much more like the "brightening" you would expect: each channel is scaled by the given amount, which keeps the overall color roughly the same. Use this version if you expect real brightening.
SIGN(X) : Gives the sign of X. Returns 1 if X>0, -1 if X<0, and 0 if X==0.
?BLENDCOLORS(&HFF00FF00,&HFFFF0000,0.5) ' &HFF777700
STRINGJOIN$(ARRAY$,JOINCHR$) : Join an array of strings together and place JOINCHR$ between them.
STRINGSPLIT$(STRING$,DELIM$) : Split a string into an array using the given character as a delimiter.
SARRAYTOSTRING$(ARRAY$) : Convert a string array into a single string. This can be used to turn dictionaries into single strings.
STRINGTOARRAY$(STRING$) : Convert a string converted with SARRAYTOSTRING back into a string array. This can be used to unpack dictionaries (if you pack them into a single string with the above function).
A$=STRINGSPLIT$("DATA1/DATA2/SOMETHING/WHATEVER","/") 'An array with 4 elements: DATA1, DATA2, SOMETHING, WHATEVER
?STRINGJOIN$(A$,"%") ' DATA1%DATA2%SOMETHING%WHATEVER
There are currently two noise generator functions: DIAMONDSQUARE2D# and HILLGENERATOR#. Both return a 2D array filled with values ranging from 0-1 (floating point).
In DIAMONDSQUARE2D#, N is the "chunk" size and width/height are the chunks across/down. Chunk size is 2N. So, the final map size will be 2N*WIDTH by 2N*HEIGHT. This is just how Diamond-Square works. The chunk size will determine the "feature" size, so a larger N will make the landscape "bigger" while a smaller one will give more details. N=2 is the smallest you should go, and remember that it's 2N so making it like 15 might cause an out of memory error. DECAY# basically determines the noisiness (smaller = less noise) and CURVE# flattens out the areas (higher = flatter).
HILLGENERATOR# raises HILLCOUNT circles in a WIDTHxHEIGHT area. The minimum and maximum circle radius can be set. CIRCULAR does nothing right now, but in the future it will generate something akin to an island. CURVE# does the same thing as before: flattens out areas wither higher CURVE# values.
D#=DIAMONDSQUARE2D#(3,16,16,MILLISEC,0.8,1) 'D will be 128x128
'Do something with the float values in D#
Textboxes are simple boxes which display formatted text with automatic line breaking and scrolling. They are drawn on the GRP layer of your choosing. They are nowhere near finished, but maybe they're a little usable... not really.
Textboxes are HIGHLY customizable, so there's a lot of settings and it might get confusing. I'll add a wrapper around customization in the future so it's easier, but for now, I would stick with the default settings.
Textboxes are OBJECTS, so you will need to create the textbox object, then pass that object around to all the functions. Keep this in mind when you're looking at the following examples:
'DICSETF "CHRSCL",2.0,TB$ 'Uncomment this to see text scaling in action
DIM TEXT$="Look at all this text that we're outputting to the screen! Too bad it's not enough to make it scroll."
TBSHOW TB$ 'Draw textbox
TBTEXT TBFIX$(TEXT$,TB$),TB$ 'Show text with automatically-inserted elements (such as the pause at the end)
You can also load TESTTB to see a test program for textboxes.
Every game needs a menu somewhere. Most of the time, unless it's the MAIN menu, you're just selecting from a small set of choices. Why program this every time you need it when you can have an automatic menu that matches your textboxes?
Menus work a lot like textboxes, except that they require more setup. Since they require more setup, I've created a "quick" function which does all the setup for you. Maybe one day I'll go over the ridiculous amount of customization, but for now, this'll have to do.
Menus can be placed anywhere on the screen, HOWEVER, unlike textboxes, they can be "anchored" to a corner other than the top left. For instance, if you set the menu's X and Y to 0 and you specify the anchor as the bottom left, the 0,0 will now mean the bottom left. Menus can be anchored to any of the four corners; the default is the lower right (for use with textboxes). Furthermore, even though menus are built from textboxes, they will ignore their width, height, and text location settings since menus are automatically sized to fit the text they are displaying.
IF SELECTED>=0 THEN PRINT "You've selected: "+OPT$[SELECTED] ELSE PRINT "You cancelled!"
You can also load TESTMENU to see it in action. I use STRINGSPLIT to create the list of options in that program.
I'll add the others later or something.Notes
Simple Game Engine superseded by just Game Engine which is faster and better
Fixed some textbox bugs; can disable animations now
Added easy textbox coloring; sets a pile of colors all automatically
Textbox text selection color (menus, input) can be set separate from regular text color
Added test library to test all the crap
More sound effects
The beginning of a framework for stacked special effects using render to sprite.
Stuff for automatic path smoothing (if you follow my BG tile order (which I haven't posted yet))
Diamond-square noise generator
Hill-raising noise generator
A simple frame timer
Path snaker (useful for rivers/paths/whatever)
Scaled GCOPY (slow but useful maybe)
Convert between reals (0-1) to grayscale, tricolor, and hue wheel
Convert button directions to angles
Rotate points around an origin
Dictionaries are now much faster and should keep their constant access time for much larger dictionaries. Dictionaries up to 1000 elements now have roughly the same access time as dictionaries with 100.
Added menu system. Menus can be anchored to corners of the screen and use many of the same options as textboxes.
Added string functions for splitting/joining/etc.
Made dictionary work for single character keys (it would crash before)
Made dictionary lookup twice as fast for keys which resort to linear scan.
Added the textbox library
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Ultrasound Opens New Vistas in Rheumatology
Parents-to-be are no strangers to ultrasound, which enables miraculous views of their unborn children. But ultrasound has many other applications in the world of medicine.
UAB rheumatologist Laura B. Hughes, MD, MSPH, and UAB musculoskeletal radiologists, Matthew Larrison, MD, Philip Lander, MD and Carl Narducci, MD, use ultrasound to diagnose and treat patients suffering from such debilitating diseases as arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gout.
“We find musculoskeletal ultrasound—referring to its application in imaging joints and soft tissues—to be a very useful tool in rheumatology,” says Dr. Hughes, who practices at The Kirklin Clinic and is a member of UAB’s Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology. “It enables us to detect subtle changes in bones, tissues, and tendons that X-rays often can't detect as readily.”
One of the advantages of musculoskeletal ultrasound versus other imaging modalities such as CT or MRI is cost – it’s less expensive to perform. It also provides real-time feedback to patients and their doctors. The appeal of ultrasound doesn't end there, however. Unlike X-rays, MRI and CT scans, ultrasound enables patients to be repositioned during the procedure so doctors can hone in on specific areas that are causing pain. Moreover, the sound waves are non-invasive and pain-free. Another plus-factor: it does not involve ionizing radiation.
Some patients find the tightly confining “tube” of imaging devices such as MRIs too claustrophobic, but musculoskeletal ultrasound is performed in a standard clinic exam room and takes only a few minutes, depending on how many areas of the body are being imaged. The procedure itself is simple. After a gel is placed on the affected area, the physician gently moves a handheld instrument over the areas. Patients can see the images on a screen during the procedure.
The physician then interprets the images and provides that information to the referring physician so that appropriate therapy can be prescribed to lessen pain, inflammation, and help direct therapy.
For musculoskeletal problems, ultrasound offers the advantage of detecting subtle changes that are causing pain but might not be apparent through other imaging techniques—giving the doctor a head start on both diagnosis and initiation of medications.
Musculoskeletal ultrasound can also be used to guide needle injection of therapeutic medications into a specific joint or bursa in order to reduce pain and inflammation, as well as for needle aspiration of fluid from swollen joints. “We find this is particularly useful in obese patients or those with severe joint deformity where we have difficulty to knowing exactly where to place the needle without the use of ultrasound to guide us, “says Dr. Hughes. “Ultrasound is a very powerful adjunct in these situations.”
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Earl of Surrey Hamelin Plantagenet (b. 1130, d. Apr 1202)
Hamelin Plantagenet945, 946 was born 1130 in Normandy, France946, and died Apr 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, Eng946.He married Countess Isabel de Warrene on 1163 in Yorkshire Castleone son, daughter of William de Warrene, 111 and Lady Adela de Talvas. Notes for Hamelin Plantagenet: [316552.ftw] TITL University of Hull Royal Database (England)AUTH Brian Tompsett, Dept of Compu ter Science PUBL copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 [email protected] MEDI Electronic TEXT b abt 1129 TITL Garner, Lorraine Ann "Lori"PUBL P.O. Box 577, Bayview, ID83803 Her sources included, but may not be limited to: Burke's Landed Gentry, Burke's Dormant & Ext inct Peerage, Burke's Peerage of American Presidents, Debrett's Peerage, Oxford histories & " numerous other reference works" very good to excellent, although she has a tendency to follow Burke's Hardcopy notes of Lor i Garner Elmore. MEDI Letter TEXT d 1202 TEXT bastard of Geoffrey, no mother TITL Ahnentafel for Margery ArundellAUTH Marlyn LewisPUBL 08 O ct 1997 MEDI Manuscript TEXT nataral son of Geoffrey Plantagenet & unknown mistress ALIA Hamelin Plantagenet d' Anjou /Earl of Surrey/ _FA1 PLAC Acceded: 1164.5th Earl of Surrey. _FA2 PLAC Interred: Chapter House, Lewes, Sussex. _FA3 PLAC Assumed the name of Warren and became the Earl of Warren. _FA4 PLAC Viscomte of Touraine.See Early Yorkshire Charters Vol viii pp20-24 for daughters de tails. MICHEL L. CALL,ROYAL ANCESTORS,CHT 355;FIFTH EARL, Natural son of Geoffry Plantagenet earl of Anjou, married the above Isabel, with the consent of king Henry II. who is generally called the said Hameline's brother, having had the same father, for it was not then thought dishonorable to be a bastard. In the Chronicle of Normandy, it is said Anno 1163, Hamelinus naturalis frater regis Henrici duxit comitissam de Warenna, relictam Willielmi comitis Moritonii. Lord Lyttelton* sais, In conse- Looking at the eight earls of Surrey, the childless widow of the 3rd.earl subsequently married Hameline Plantagenet, illegitimate son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, father of Henry 2nd.and by her right and not by direct line was created the 5th. earl. Hameline in due course assumed the name of Warren and effectively his successors became the Plantagenet Warrens. It was from the eighth earl that the famous "Poynton line" was sprung. More About Hamelin Plantagenet: Ancestral File Number: 8WKJ-MC.946 Baptism (LDS): 02 Nov 1932, ARIZO.946 Date born 2: 1130, Normandy, France5th Earl of Warren & Surrey. Burial 1: Unknown, Chapter House, Lewes, Sussex, England.946 Burial 2: 1/2 brother of King Henry, 11 of England. Died 2: 07 May 1202, 1/2 brother of King Henry, 11 of Englandher 3nd husband. Endowment (LDS): 25 Nov 1932946 Record Change: 03 May 2000946 Sealed to parents (LDS): 04 May 1955, SLAKE.946 More About Hamelin Plantagenet and Countess Isabel de Warrene: Marriage: 1163, Yorkshire Castleone son. Children of Hamelin Plantagenet and Countess Isabel de Warrene are:
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Nanda Devi Trek
The trek offers great views of the Nanda Devi (7826 m), the highest mountain of Garhwal, and most of the famous mountains including , Kamet (7756 m), Abhi Gamin (7355 m), Chokhamba (7138 m) Trishul (7125 m),Nanda Ghunti (6309 m) and many more, and moving through forests of Rhododendron, Birch and Fir. On the whole this trek provides us a superb view of Indian Himalaya and a deep insight of Indian culture.
DAY 01 DELHI
Arrival in Delhi and transfer to Hotel. Combined sightseeing of Old and New Delhi. Visiting Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Qutab Minar, Shanti van, Raj Ghat , and pass through India Gate and Parliament House and President’s Estate.
DAY 02 DELHI/NAINITAL (1938 m)
Drive 303 km/8 hr. Nainital is a hill station set around Naini Lake, named after Naina (eyes) of Parvati, Lord Shiva’s wife. It is believed that emerald lake is one of the green eyes of her. Overnight in guest house/hotel.
DAY 03 NAINITAL
In the morning we make an excursion to Naina Peak (2610 m) from where we have a glimpse of Himalayan peaks including Nanda Devi (7826 m).
DAY 04 NAINITAL/DEBAL (1218 m)
Drive approximately 182 km to Debal via Kausani and Gwaldam. En route we will enjoy the scenic beauty of terraced fields, villages and snow clad Himalayan mountains At distant horizon we can still see Nanda Devi sometime en route and also Trishul and other peaks. O/N in tents.05
DAY 05 DEBAL/MANDOLI/DIDINA (2439 m)
Drive 24 km/1-1/2 hrs. on the rough road to Mandoli by jeep . Then we start our trek to Didina village. First 1-1/2 hours almost levelled walk through villages then steep ascent till Didina village. 4/5 hr trek. O/N Tents.
DAY 06 DIDINA/PATHAR NACHUNI (3658 m)
Today is a steep trek through oak trees and bamboo shrubs up to Ali Bugyal. From here we walk over Ali Bugyal enjoying the view of Hima-ayan peaks till we arrive Bedni Bugyal , From Bedni Bugyal we can have a view of Mt. Nanda Ghunti, Trishul massif and also peaks on the north of Garhwal. We continue our trek to Pathar Nachuni where we stay in tents for night. 5/6 hr.
DAY 07 PATHAR NACHUNI/BHAGWABASA (4267 M)/ROOP KUND (4800 M)/PATHAR NACHUNI (3658 M)
Today’s trek is also steep. During the months of August to October the valley is full of fragrance of Saussurea Obvallata flower, locally known as Brahmkamal. This flower acquires special importance to make offerings to Gods, especially to Lord Shiva and is found only in certain places in high altitudes. After touching the flower by hand, the smell lasts for hours. 7/8 hr trek.
In Roopkund human skeletons of 500 – 600 years old are found. There are several beliefs about the mystic presence of these skeletons. Some say refugees fleeing from prosecution of Tuglak’s army under General Zorawar Singh died here on the way. Others believe traders from Tibet might have died in a natural calamity. Yet another belief is that King Jasdal of Kanauj was on his way with his wife undertaking a pilgrimage called, „Nanda Jat“ to propitiate Goddess Nanda Devi 560 years ago. The Queen delivered a child on the way. This made the Goddess Nanda Devi angry by spoiling Her Holy Land. A snow storm was sent down by the Goddess killing hundreds on the trail of pilgrimage. According to the artefacts recovered so far this explanation of “Nanda Jat” seems more viable. Yet curiosity is unsatiated to find reason for this mystery.
DAY 08 PATHAR NACHUNI/ KUNOL (2186 m)
Today we trek for some time over the ridge enjoying the superb closer view of Trishul and Nanda Ghunti peaks and then we trek down to Kunol village. 6/7 hr trek.
DAY 09 KUNOL/Sitail(1800 m)
We trek through beautiful remote villages. First 3 hrs. steep down till the village Sitail. We cross Nandakini river. Sitail is a small village with few shops . Overnight in Tents. ¾ hr.
DAY 10 Sitail/RAMNI (2200 m)
Trek through villages which gives us a chance to see the local people engaged in various day to day activities. This is easy trek with little up and down. Overnight in tents. 4/5 hr.
DAY 11 RAMNI/JHENJI (1524 m)
Trek through beautiful forest, sometimes with a nice view of snow peaks. It is uphill trek for first 2 hrs till Binayak top. We can see the glorious view of Nanda Ghunti peak from this top. Then very steep descend to village Jhenji. Overnight Guest house/Tents. 6/7 hr.
DAY 12 JHENJI/PANA (2448 m)
Trek to Pana, which is the last village on our route before we reach Kuari Pass. First ½ hr. steep descend and then steep ascend till Pana. On the way it is a nice view of the valley. 3/4 hr. Overnight in Tent.
DAY 13 PANA/KUARI (4268 m)
Today is a longer trek through forests, creeks and some possibility of wildlife. After ½ hr. we reach at Syaartoli from where we can see the view of Kuari Pass. Kuari Pass means “door way”. Then trek goes down to Doma Bheti. From this point it is very steep climb till Kuari pass. Blinding view of snow peaks rewards for all our efforts to reach the top. Many high peaks of Garhwal can be seen from here. Kamet, Abi Gamin, Mana, Chowkhamba, Dunagiri, Neel Kanth are some of them. We camp here for two nights. 7/8 hr. Overnight in Tent.
DAY 14 KUARI PASS
Rest day. Possibility of exploring new ways in the beautiful grassy valleys.
DAY 15 KUARI PASS/AULI (2400 M)/JOSHIMATH (1875 m)
Descend to Tali between lush green forest of Cedars, while the view of Nanda Devi continues to play hide and seek. Arrive at Auli Ski Resort where we make end of our trek and go down to Joshimath by road for 14 km. Overnight in Guest House/Simple Hotel. 6/7 hr.
DAY 16 JOSHIMATH/BADRINATH(3096 M)/PIPAL KOTI
We drive 65 km to Badrinath Temple, which is the last town before Tibet border. Badrinath Temple is situated on the bank Alaknanda river, one of the main tributaries of Ganga river. From Joshimath further drive 35 km to Pipal Koti for over night in a Guest House/Simple Hotel.
DAY 17 PIPAL KOTI/RISHIKESH
8 hr drive to Rishikesh. Overnight in hotel.
DAY 18 RISHIKESH
Sightseeing of Ashrams, Ghats, Yoga Centre in the morning. Afternoon free.
DAY 19 RISHIKESH/DELHI
Drive 225 km/6 hr via Haridwar. En route small stop at Haridwar for sightseeing.
DAY 20 DELHI/DEPARTURE
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EUROCALL is a professional organisation which aims to promote innovative research, development and practice in the area of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL).
EUROCALL conferences bring together educators, researchers, PhD students, administrators, designers of software and language learning systems, government representatives, equipment and software suppliers and other professionals involved in CALL and TELL.
More information about the EUROCALL association, membership, publications and previous conferences can be found at the EUROCALL website: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/.
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By Christopher Cudworth
The last time I was in New York City was at the tender age of 21, but the purpose was not so tender.
My job was to lug 140 lbs. of audio visual equipment up from Philadelphia by train to set up for a presentation at the Chemical Bank building to be given that day by the late Robert Van Kampen, the brains and drive behind the Van Kampen Investments firm he later sold for about $400M to Xerox. Mr. Van Kampen passed away years ago from a condition that hardens the muscles in your body, including your heart, until you die. Which always struck me as a rather ironic event to happen to a devout Christian like Mr. Van Kampen.
But back in 1981 Mr. Van Kampen was at the height of his creative financial powers, and while I am not entirely sure what the mission was that day at Chemical Bank in New York, I believe it was successful. Mr. Van Kampen was successful at many things in life.
I thought about Mr. Van Kampen while strolling past the Manhattan offices of BNY Mellon, where my son Evan Cudworth pointed out that the firm now manages something like 43 trillion dollars in assets. Mind boggling wealth is just part of the everyday scene in NYC.
Then my son shared that the middle class in New York City begins at an income of about $274,000. Facts like that can make you wonder what you’re doing there at all. But they should not slow you down. We all have a right to experience what New York City has to offer.
OWS and 9/11
My son and I also walked by the stone park where Occupy Wall Street set up shop a few years back to protest the actions of bankers and the effects of their fiscal dalliances on the rest of us. It seems that the banksters felt free to run up a few debts and pass along the pain to the taxpayers to bail them out. OWS had problems with that and other exploitative issues, if you recall. But protest is one of the most difficult things in the world to sustain, and the plaza was now empty with the exception of a few folks with cardboard signs with messages scrawled with Sharpie markers. Whether OWS had an impact we will never really know.
But what we do know is that another form of protestor objecting to the actions of financial and political forces in the United States turned two giant skyscrapers into another form of plaza just a few blocks away. Which is why the 9/11 Memorial is now necessary to commemorate the day that Osama bin Laden ordered his minions to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center in the financial district of Manhattan.
A perfect tribute to something lost
The 9/11 memorial is a perfection of sorts. The water flowing into an abyss that follows the footprint of the former World Trade Center is a living testament to the lives that were taken that day. As the water in the lower pool drops down the granite walls into a space where you cannot see the bottom, your heart sinks a little with it. Yet the constant flow of falling water on all sides of the two square chasms soothes your soul.
The memorial reminds one not only of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but of the personal, sinking feeling we can all get in the aftermath of tragedy, and from everyday life. And in that way, the 9/11 memorial is as touching and profound as the Washington, D.C. Vietnam Memorial with its black face cut from the landscape. It is understated, and all the more powerful as a result.
Of course some people are more blessed than others to avoid that black granite feeling and emotions pouring down into the pit of our souls. But there is one serious truth at work in the 9/11 Memorial, because concerns over conspiracy theories are at least temporarily washed away in those moments. All those lives were sucked out of the soul of New York City, which in truth is a really grand and forgiving place if you try at all to bridge the gap between its massive infrastructure to the humanity moving through those spaces.
As we prepared to leave, there was one white rose placed in the name of one of the victims of 9/11. The simple flower calls to mind the need to investigate the pain caused by the event, but also the need to move on. If facts ever do emerge that point to any truth of conspiracy, then our whole nation must be held to account. But we shall see what unfurls, however innocently or not.
Other Messages From New York
The next morning while running across the Williamsburg bridge there was a small bit of graffiti scrawled on the running path. It said: “Forgive the negative people, they learned to (sic) many lies.”
“Okay,” I thought, while stopping on my morning run to regard the message, “that’s a whole cycle of thoughts packed into one bit of graffiti.”
Because what does it mean?
If you’re negative, then you’ve learned too many lies? What, the truth can’t do the same thing?
That’s seems to be the whole argument on the World Trade Center bombings. Have we actually gotten to the truth on those events or not? (or JFK, the NSA, or MLK…the list goes on…)
And if we do not have the truth, then what lies have we learned, and accepted? Then, what forgiveness do we need if that is indeed the case? Are we going along with a massive narrative that is not good for us?
Another bridge to truth
A little further up the bike path another writer stopped to express his thoughts. His words read:
“And I bike. Bike so I can understand cuz I understand better when I feel the wind, the sun, the moon. And I know there’s a destination waiting for me abut at this moment I have no destination. And I like it. I like the unknown future, cuz I can feel the present. Feel it with my whole body. So I bike and I observe. And only then. I don’t observ my brain by my heart. In the present. It comes to me, the clarity of the moment.
So I keep biking to make sure I’m right. And then I don’t bike any more. I just am with my whole body and soul. I just know and I want to scream so everybody could hear me, or maybe I want to hear myself so I could always remember…So I bike. Love. (heart sign)”
It must have taken him some time to write all that down on the path, so he or she had obviously been thinking about it. But true profundity is hard. You have to begin somehow with the basics.
We can try to grasp what the cyclist who wrote those words is saying, yet they seems to as many questions as answers given.
The first question a cyclist like me wants to ask it this: “Okay, what kind of bike do you like to ride?”
I know, it shouldn’t matter, yet bikes in New York City seem to answer a whole lot of questions, all on their own.
There is bike diversity, you see. You have people riding every conceivable type of bike. There are plenty of classy old Schwinns tooling around, of course. They are steel, sturdy and not as theft-worthy. Old bikes are a fine art form, although some seemed to have evolved into abstractions, and left to the elements and activities of New York, they become unridable, unwanted and cast off. Just like some of the people of New York. It’s a common phenomenon. The power of evolution, actually.
There are also slick Colnagos and Pinarellos, as well as people outfitted in full-on cycling kits and people in short shorts, low cut blouses
and tattoos. All ride essentially the same route up and over the Williamsburg bridge toward the New York City skyline and the Empire State Building, anchor of everything New York as far as I’m concerned, as it still juts up proudly from the beauty of Uptown Manhattan.
So you can analyze all you want, but in the end you need to let the bikes people choose to ride answer some questions for you.
The bikes people ride define not who they are, of course, but what they are doing, and why. In the moment. That’s all you can really ask, and expect to get an answer.There’s a lot of city here, you see, and 9 million people minding their own business.
But it is certainly not an unfriendly place as I once imagined. Not by a long stretch.
New York State of mind
Didn’t you imagine it too? That New Yorkers were somehow gruff, confrontational and off-putting. It’s all wrong.
Into this great flow my son has gone to grow. From a small town in Illinois he matriculated through the University of Chicago and now works and lives in New York City. Where he’s always wanted to go. And live.
The path to existence in New York City has had as big an arc as you can imagine for him. The last year for our family was like crossing a Williamsburg bridge built on steroids, with a massive hump of uphill climbing and a bit of difficulty putting the brakes on as things came to a conclusion with my wife’s passing from ovarian cancer.
Running downhill is not easy
You do know that running downhill can be just as difficult and painful as running uphill, do you not? If you don’t, then you haven’t done it with sufficient speed or need. But your thighs and knees can begin to ache, and you just want to lay down for a minute and gather yourself before continuing. And sometimes you do, and it’s hard to get back up and run knowing that the horrid downhill pain still awaits.
I’ve done that run a few times over the years. The Downhill Blues. It’s supposed to be easier, given you’re not climbing any more. But it’s not easier. It’s harder precisely because everyone else thinks it should be easier, made worse by the fact that others might go running past looking as if their actually enjoying themselves running down the back side of a bridge across a big river toward home, whatever you call that.
Citi and New York City Bikes
So my son and I took a ride over that bridge together here in New York City. We rented Citi Bikes which are built for Everyman and Everywoman. They’re neither fast or slow or heavy or light. They just are. With that kind of transportation under your butt, and in a pretty blue color, the road and path and streets and bridges all look inviting. You don’t need a helmet. You don’t need cycling shoes. It’s just you and your butt and legs moving along.
We crossed over into Williamsburg to visit Hipsterland. Had margaritas and tacos at Cafe de la Esquina and then rode home to a nap.
This was New York. Neither Sinatra or Bill Joel sang about any of this stuff, because it is ours, and ours alone. It’s a city that’s about minding your own business and having enough heart to mind someone else’s as well, when the occasion occurs. And that’s pretty often.
On the path across the Williamsburg Bridge I noticed something with subtle significance. It was a set of colorful tarsnakes laced across half the length of the entire bridge. And I thought: “That’s New York in a snippet. Color tarsnakes of existence.”
A Sense of Belonging
I’m glad he’s here. He’s a great son and a good man. I hope he continues to find friendship and love and himself. This big improvisational city is brimming with wealth and dreams, but you have to define that on your own terms. Some people write it on the bike path. Others write it on the sky.
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ecently, I came across a file in my backup drive labeled ROSS. Somehow the folder had been miss-filed. I’d not thought about my first attempt to write a novel recently, and my original research was long gone. My in-depth research about the Russian settlement of Ft. Ross, California, for one of my post-secondary degree classes, had prompted me to rewrite my report as historical fiction.
I developed a protagonist and gave him a name, Rubik Ivanovich Karnov. I put the 14-year-old into Sitka, Alaska, in 1806 and gave him plausible association with real people of the time and place. Then the Rubik’s Cube came into the public eye and gave me pause about my character’s name. I changed his first name Pyoter but called the book Peter’s Diary: The Story of Ross.
I spent many hours keyboarding my idea on an Apple II with primitive word processing software. The file I found has 34,000+ words, but I remember it being closer to 70k. When I thought the manuscript was nearly finished, I queried a publisher and got an answer I can still paraphrase. “We’ve just accepted a manuscript in this genre and don’t believe we can work with another.” I realized Michener’s Alaska had been recently published (not by the publisher I’d queried). Reading Alaska made me realize someone might have thought I’d tried to paraphrase his work. I put the entire project, including the research, in the trash. Several years later I did transfer the first half of the manuscript from an old 5-1/4 floppy disk to a more current hard drive.
Reading what I had left of the story was fun, but not seeing the work for nearly 30 years was eye-opening. The change of voice sometimes from sentence to sentence and more often from paragraph to paragraph is a problem I’ve managed to impede but not totally cure.
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Interested in getting your hands on a portable media player (PMP) for a relatively inexpensive price of $179? Well, it looks like you can, thanks to Gadmei’s P83 PMP, which coincidentally is priced at $179. So what exactly is it about the Gadmei P83 that would make you want to get your hands on it? Well for starters, it features an 8-inch display with a 1280×768 resolution and with the ability to do glasses-free 3D video.
Seems unlikely that Gadmei will be providing compatible movie files along with the device, which means that you’d have to source those yourself, which isn’t that hard to do, although it would involve just a little more work on your end. The rest of the features for the Gadmei P83 isn’t exactly revolutionary, featuring 4GB of storage along with a SD card slot for memory expansion, and featuring the usual media playback capabilities. Apart from that, this is just a PMP, and does not have any tablet like capabilities, just in case you were wondering.
If the Gadmei P83 is a cheap alternative for you to enjoy your 3D movies, head on down to Brando’s website and place your order. If you’d like to know more about the Gadmei P83, the video below should explain some of it, although it would require you understand Cantonese.
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this year, we celebrates the very first raya with our newbie. kak shida, my sister in law.next year pula akan ada lg newbie sb kak shidah is now expecting. excited!
so, this year is a very special raya to us. celebrate raya at enstek sepang with our beloved nyayi. not as she used to be, she's not in a very good condition after she been attack with stroke. all of us pray that nyayi will be just fine soon. amin.
and and... this is the first raya that i have to give out the green packet and not collecting it anymore.sigh~ how nice if i could just give the empty packet and not the content. haha. eish eish. tak baik. ikhlas ikhlas.
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Bhubaneswar: Canara Bank, IndusInd Bank and IDBI contributed a total of Rs 13 crore to the Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (CMRF) for reconstruction and rehabilitation of cyclone Fani.
Canara Bank managing director and chief executive officer RA Shankarnarayan met the chief minister Naveen Patnaik and handover a cheque of Rs 9 crore. Similarly, the of IndusInd Bank executive vice president Ravi Harjai presented a cheque of Rs1.5 crore. IDBI’s executive director Jorty Chacko, CGM Aditi Kakade and regional head Asit Padhi presented a cheque of Rs 1.04 crore. Odisha Gramya Bank chairman Brundaban Nayak gave a cheque of Rs 22.90 lakh.
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There are lots of great day hikes in the Red Rock area. Another great place for day hiking is Valley of Fire State Park. It's about an hour north of Las Vegas and you could easily spend a full day there.
Don't forget that Zion National Park is about 3 hours away in Southern Utah. Zion is worth a few days if you haven't been there before. Lots of great hikes there but it all depends on the weather.
Remember that the price of hotel rooms in Las Vegas almost triple around New Years. That might be the time to check out Zion. Before Christmas you are normally pretty good but as you get closer to New Years the hotel room prices keep rising.
There are camp grounds at Red Rock, Valley of Fire, and Lake Mead if you wanted to camp.
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Global incubator 1776 selects Vilnius Tech Park to host Challenge Cup startup competition
Global Network for Innovation 1776 and Vilnius Tech Park today announced they will join forces on 22 September in Vilnius to organise a local round of Challenge Cup 2017, an annual global competition around the world to identify the most promising startups that solve the world’s biggest challenges.
This year Vilnius is one of 75 cities, where the competition is taking place, including Dublin, Athens, Dubai, Osaka. The local event, organised in partnership with the world’s leading independent IT services company DXC Technology, will highlight a vibrant startup community of Lithuania and its neighbour countries as well as the contributions that innovators are making in tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges.
“We’re thrilled about partnering with Vilnius Tech Park in bringing the Challenge Cup to Vilnius, home to an inspiring community of entrepreneurs who are focused on solving global challenges,” said Antanas Uršulis, Managing Director of DXC Technology in Lithuania. “More than just a competition, the Challenge Cup is our way of helping identify the most promising startups in the region and give them an opportunity to present their vision on a global stage. We are excited to collaborate with participants of the Challenge Cup, to share our knowledge and we are eager to hear their original ideas.”
Challenge Cup Vilnius participants will pitch their startups to the jury and compete for a free trip to the Global Finals in November 13-17, 2017. There, the finalists will compete for the grand prizes and have a chance to connect with the investors, customers, media and other key relationships that can help them succeed on a global scale. “Together with global innovators, Lithuania’s entrepreneurs are driving transformative change at home and beyond,” said Darius Žakaitis, Managing Director of Vilnius Tech Park. “We are excited to partner with 1776 to give these leaders a chance to share their ideas on the global stage and to access global resources that will help them grow businesses. Also, recognising a huge startup potential in the region, we encourage participation of startups from the Baltics, Belarus, Russia, Poland and Ukraine.” According to D. Žakaitis, Vilnius is a perfect location to host a local round of Challenge Cup due to its vibrant startup ecosystem and its convenient international traveling links. Furthermore, Vilnius Tech Park can offer a unique event location and the organisation’s experience in organising startup events.
Startups within certain criteria can submit an application via 1776’s UNION content platform by September 8. In total up to 20 startups will be selected to present in a live pitch competition in Challenge Cup Vilnius. Including Vilnius, Challenge Cup 2017 will take place in more than 70 cities around the world, ranging from leading startup hubs to emerging cities. Each of these cities will select one winning startup per local to advance to the Global Finals at Challenge Festival 2017 in New York City in November. 1776’s Challenge Festival is a multi-day conference exploring innovation in regulated markets. This is the fourth year of the Challenge Cup, following three enormously successful rounds that resulted in 1776 investments in several startups from around the world. The winners of the previous Challenge Cups— HandUp, Twiga Foods—prove that tomorrow’s highly scalable success stories can and will come from all over the world.
Through Challenge Cup, entrepreneurs are not only connected to the investors and mentors they need to succeed, but corporations and policymakers in some of the world’s most critical industries and government entities are introduced to these innovators’ fresh ideas that have the potential to solve those complex challenges.
Ready to pitch your startup on a global stage? Join Lithuania’s Vilnius Tech Park, in partnership with DXC Baltic and Go Vilnius, for a local edition of 1776 Challenge Cup in September 22. Up to 20 startups will have a chance to pitch for the chance to win a ticket to the Final round in New York in November! Teams from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Ukraine are welcome. Find out more and apply by 8 September. | <urn:uuid:92171ea3-9b18-4f37-b496-535f53a677fe> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://www.startuplithuania.com/news/global-incubator-1776-selects-vilnius-tech-park-to-host-challenge-cup-startup-competition/ | 2020-02-27T18:03:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146744.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200227160355-20200227190355-00286.warc.gz | en | 0.928517 | 876 |
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Barnes & Noble Expected To Unveil New Nook Color Next Week
Barnes & Noble is expected to unveil a new Nook Color e-reader during an upcoming Tablet Event on November 7th, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The book retailer sent out invitations to the event, asking journalists and analysts to attend a news conference for a "very special announcement" that day.Some believe the event, which is set to begin at 9:30 ET Monday morning in New York, is Barnes & Noble´s response to Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet, which will debut November 15. The online retailer began accepting pre-orders for the $199 device in September. In addition to its e-reader capabilities, the Kindle Fire will be able to surf the web, stream movies and TV and support thousands of apps.
However, Barnes & Noble did not disclose precisely what it would be revealing at next Monday´s event, which comes just ahead of the busy holiday shopping season.
The Nook currently comes in several iterations, including a $139 black-and-white touch screen reader dubbed ℠The Simple Touch Reader´, along with a $249 Nook Color reader that includes a web browser and supports apps and email.
Although nothing has been confirmed, Barnes & Noble could be revealing a price reduction on the Nook Color, to at least match the Kindle Fire's $199 price, said Simba Information senior trade analyst Michael Norris during an interview with the Journal.
Or it could be that additional capabilities, such as video streaming, have been added, he said.
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Year of the Dog personalized wristband braceletsrare stamps to go on sale
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China Post will begin selling rare Year of the Dog collector"s stamps on Friday in preparation for Chinese New Year.
Two designs are to be released, according to Xinhua News Agency. One features a male black-and-white husky standing proud, signaling prosperity and protection; the other is of a female brown Shiba Inu licking her black cub, representing family and parental love.
The dog is a symbol of loyalty, honesty, safety, prosperity and family unity in Chinese culture, Xinhua said.
Zhou Lingzhao, 99, a well-known artist, designed the stamps. He also helped create the second, third and fourth edition of the renminbi, the Chinese currency, as well as the national emblem.
Each set of stamps will include the two designs, but only 7,700 sets are expected to be printed, the fewest in history. Each set will cost 2.4 yuan (35 US cents) and will be available at post offices and selected locations.
This year"s stamp is particularly rare because China Post overprinted last year"s Year of the Rooster stamps, leading to a drop in prices and stagnated sales, Zhao Aiguo, deputy executive manager of sales for China Post, told Xinhua.
China first began issuing collector"s stamps featuring the Chinese zodiac in 1980. It was the monkey stamp designed by 94-year-old Chinese painter Huang Yongyu.
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Have you ever lost your subway pass? Or been forced to swipe again by a bleeping turnstile? Or maybe you've had to pay a whopping $1 fee to get a replacement card? Well, thanks to the MTA, the MetroCard's death is nigh. Okay, so the program is forecasted for induction in 2019, but still, five years isn't too far off.
Kevin Ortiz, an MTA spokesperson, explained to Fast Company that "MetroCards is a system that is reaching the end of its useful life. Its equipment is on the verge of becoming obsolete." The flimsy paper and plastic cards are reportedly used by over 5 million New York commuters daily and as the MTA celebrates the card's 20-year anniversary, plans for integrating smartphones or contactless cards as a replacement are being put into motion.
In 1994, the MTA enlisted Cubic to provide vending machines supplying the subway passes that currently inhabits all metro stops, replacing the bygone token. After 20 years the system is definitely in need of a major overhaul.
In spite of the desire for a subway pass evolution, Ortiz said that technological advancements don't presently fit the demands of NYC riders—that's why they are waiting until 2019. For instance, a smartphone app is a viable option where metro travelers could swipe their phones as payment, but not everyone has a smartphone yet. And the other idea of using NFC and RFID payments where people tap credit cards instead of swiping them, would require that all credit cards or debit cards adopt an NFD or RFID infrastructure, which is also not in place at present.
Boston was the first city in the U.S. to launch a smartphone commuter rail system in 2012, proving that a smartphone payment structure could work. Portland followed suit by introducing mobile ticketing last year.
It is likely that the MTA "will issue a request for proposal sometime this year and grant the most promising tech company a contract 'most likely in 2015.'" Last year, Control Group was awarded a contract to design and deploy On The Go Interactive Way-finding kiosks in the subway and rail system to radically improve the display maps, system alerts, and advertisements underground. 90 of these installations are set to hit heavy-trafficked stations soon in the hopes of improving New Yorkers' and visitors' overall commutes.
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Dec. 30, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz - Name: Kim Stubbe
Hometown: Mol, Belgium
What got you started playing tennis?
I started playing tennis at the age of 7 when a friend asked me to come and watch her play. From that moment, I was completely into it. I combined tennis and soccer until I was 12 but then I needed to make a choice between both sports, which was very difficult. I finally chose tennis and, to this day, I am still happy with my choice because it is an amazing sport!
What were your thoughts during your first college match?
My first college match was at the tournament in Colorado. I was very excited to play because it was my first tournament in America. I was also a bit nervous because Vicky and Ryan already improved my tennis, and I wanted to bring my new game to the tournament, it went very well. After an exciting doubles match with my roommate Lacey, we won our first title. What a great feeling!
How is college tennis different from high school?
In Belgian tennis tournaments, I mostly competed with the same girls so we knew each other's games well. The main difference here in America, is that I play against girls I have never seen before and that makes my tennis more challenging.
What is it like being a freshman on the UA team?
In the beginning, it felt weird coming into a new and different environment. I felt like a stranger who wanted to be part of an amazing tennis team. But I immediately became comfortable with all the girls on the team because they all have great personalities. During the tournaments I played, I observed other teams, and then I realized how happy and lucky I was to be a part of our team. The girls and the coaches make the Arizona women's tennis team fantastic! I also remember my first thoughts when I arrived here: `Wow, it's actually amazing for a girl from a small country like Belgium to start a whole new life in America!' I could have never imagined that and I now sometimes still can't believe it! I love being a freshman here at Arizona and I am really looking forward to the season because I know we will get to play for great wins!
What is the main difference between home and Arizona?
I think the main difference for me between Belgium and Tucson is the weather. It is often very cold in Belgium and I got sick often, what was very annoying. Another difference is the food. I feel like I eat more here, but everything I eat has more fat than the food I eat in Belgium. This is maybe due to our life in the dorms because we do not have the time and facilities to cook by ourselves, and still if I had the time it would not be that good, because I am not a great cook. Instead of cooking we just go to the student Union and mostly eat pasta, which is after a while enough. I will be going home to Belgium and I will be happy with the home cooked food, but not so happy with the weather because it is snowing and cold. | <urn:uuid:f8302860-ecba-4fe2-9072-314c639cf0a6> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.arizonawildcats.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30700&ATCLID=207981453 | 2014-10-25T00:23:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119646554.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030046-00132-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987533 | 631 |
I really like this shot, looking up the Collins liftline
While I puttered around the house, doing laundry and DVD yoga and generally tidying up, H put on his down parka and headed up to Alta. He reported that it was more of the same of what we'd been skiing: very cold (6F at Wildcat base area), flat light, light flurries, snow firm and fast but improved slightly with the overnight inch, not particularly busy. When he got home, he said that I definitely would have been cold if I'd gone with him. I hate to miss out on a ski day but in all honesty it doesn't seem like I missed all that much. | <urn:uuid:82f86669-b829-468a-a8a7-156d542bbf82> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://wewentwest.blogspot.com/2015/12/more-of-same.html | 2017-05-23T01:15:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607245.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523005639-20170523025639-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.990387 | 142 |
Faculty of Medicine
Located at the General Campus of The Ottawa Hospital, the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine is considered one of the leading schools of medicine in Canada, training the next generation of physicians and health researchers. With strong ties to its affiliated hospitals and research institutes, the Faculty’s brand is an important part of its positioning and growth in medical education and research.
With the objective to introduce, communicate and extend the Faculty’s brand to its internal and external stakeholders, the Faculty of Medicine is working with us on a multi-phase initiative to develop a series of brand-centric signage installations within Roger Guindon Hall. Phases I and II of the project were completed in late 2014, and included several signage installations and a complete refinishing of the Faculty’s executive boardroom. Upcoming Phase III installations are set to be completed by Fall 2015, with Phase IV starting shortly thereafter.
Visual Brand Identity, Exhibit Design,
From the onset of our working relationship, nineSixteen understood our goals of effectively introducing and communicating our brand and visual identity. They knew what we wanted to achieve and how to do it—sometimes before we did. Their guidance and expertise is provided throughout each phase of our projects, and working with nineSixteen is always a fun collaboration and exchange of ideas. Their flexibility, problem solving and positivity are unprecedented and greatly appreciated.
— Courtney Rodriguez & Susan Maroun —
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Tropic Of Cancer: Beneath The Light
Ahead of her appearance at this year’s Unsound Festival, Scott Wilson talks to Camella Lobo about the sometimes challenging path to the release of her debut album, Restless Idylls.
“I’m sorry I had to push the interview an hour,” Camella Lobo explains as I contact her at her home in Los Angeles, “it was my husband’s birthday last night and we had a dinner and some drinks, so I slept in a little later than I expected.” Despite her mild hangover, Lobo is the kind of person that immediately puts you at ease with her warm manner. This domestic scene – occasionally interrupted by her cat – is something completely divorced from her work as Tropic of Cancer, a project whose combination of synthwave, techno and post-punk influences can often be bleak and introspective, and whose image presented through artwork on records for Downwards, Blackest Ever Black and Mannequin has been an occasionally macabre one that seems on the surface predisposed with the darker corners of the human psyche.
Lobo’s lyrics, heavily obscured by reverb, often tell stories of love coated in a powerful atmosphere of longing. “Sometimes a song is about something that has happened, sometimes it’s about something that I completely fathom in my mind, and sometimes it’s about a person and I just start telling the story of that person,” Lobo explains. Her music has found fans across many genre boundaries, in some part due to the interesting nature of her sound, but it seems most likely down to her innate ability to create musical narratives that appeal to some more primal part of human emotion, assisted by her oblique method of storytelling which is no doubt informed by her early interest in short story writing.
Lobo’s husband of course is Juan Mendez, the techno producer better known as Silent Servant who was half of the Tropic of Cancer project until September 2011. Although time constraints were a large part of his decision to let Lobo carry on solo, it was the strain that it put on their relationship that was the deciding factor. “Truthfully, we do not work well together,” Lobo says frankly. “We had different visions of what we wanted the music to sound like, so in that context it just wasn’t healthy for us to work together.”
Lobo and Mendez are still very happily married, but Lobo is honest about her struggle to continue alone as Tropic of Cancer without the wealth of her husband’s musical experience, whilst also juggling her career working for an advertising agency in Los Angeles. Lobo makes it clear, for the most part, that making music a labour of love: “My life is pretty polarised in a sense, but you have to make money – I want to make money (from music) ideally, but what it takes to make money as an artist these days is just not something I’m willing to engage in.” The technology barrier has also proved difficult, with her learning Logic as she worked without Mendez. Despite these difficulties, Lobo has just completed Tropic of Cancer’s debut album, Restless Idylls, to be released on Kiran Sande’s Blackest Ever Black label in September. Lobo is keen to stress the more positive elements of this LP: “I got tired of this idea of sadness and depression – even though some of the songs are like that, I just really wanted to emphasise the light on this one.”
The path to Restless Idylls has been a long one for Lobo. Growing up in Los Angeles, her Brazilian father introduced her to the music of his home country, while her American mother introduced her to artists like Jimi Hendrix and The Cure. Lobo herself was an avid radio listener with a fondness for what she describes as “low rider oldies” and “murder ballads”. At school she sang in a Catholic choir and at college, as her desire to make music had become a more significant urge, Lobo took formal singing lessons, hoping it would help her replicate the sound of the production around Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. The reality however, almost caused her to give up entirely. “When I got to these classes, they were telling me to do something that was very counterintuitive to me, and so the first time I ever had to perform in front of a class – this was in I think a week of being in the course – I sang the way Kim Gordon would sing. I sang more in ethereal tones, and that’s just not something that is prioritised in classic music instruction…I hated it, to put it bluntly.” It wasn’t until she met Mendez at a show several years later that things started to fall into place for Lobo creatively, with the pair going on to write two EPs and a single together.
Despite the obvious connections to minimal synth and post-punk, Tropic of Cancer’s music is imbued with something much more impressionistic, rooted in the sun-drenched climate of her native Los Angeles. It makes sense to discover that Lobo’s biggest creative influence is Broadcast’s Trish Keenan, whose strong narratives and timeless interpretation of pop and psychedelia could be seen as an earlier British counterpart to the way Lobo combines classic song structures with primitive electronic tones.
“I really wanted to present this idea that there is a light within this music, that it’s not all sad – I hope that people could grab on to that light when they’re listening to the music.”
Keenan’s tragic and untimely death in 2011 had a profound effect on Lobo. “I had met her (through Juan) a couple of times, but to be honest I was completely terrified of her… I don’t think I’ve ever intentionally tried to make music like Trish. But I think about her a lot when I make music – not just in the sense of thinking about her as a person, but I think, ‘I wonder what she would think about this, I wonder if she would listen to this’ – I don’t know, it’s just become that thing for me.” The song, “A Color”, which featured on 2011’s The Sorrow Of Two Blooms EP was specifically written about Keenan shortly after she died. “I had a really hard time with that song in particular because it never felt good enough to say, ‘this is how we’re feeling’ or ‘this is how we feel about you’ – it just never felt like it was enough for her.”
Although Tropic of Cancer is now well established and much beloved by a wide range of fans, it feels that in the wake of Mendez’ departure – and perhaps to a lesser extent the death of Lobo’s primary influence – that the Tropic of Cancer project has entered the second phase of its life. The change in sound isn’t immediately apparent, but it does feel warmer, more enveloping, and less sandblasted
than when Mendez was involved. It’s not a stretch to imagine the album opener, “Plant Lilies At My Head”, or the drawn-out guitar notes of the stunning “Children Of A Lesser God” soundtracking the end credits to some imaginary, tragic ‘80s teen movie. “I think the framework is different,” Lobo explains, “I think the overall emphasis on the aggressiveness of the sound has changed just because that’s not intuitive to me.”
Although this tone is audible in the music, the most readily apparent break from the earlier phase of Tropic of Cancer comes in the artwork for Restless Idylls (designed by Lobo and Mendez), whose vivid palette of jade and brass is a far cry from the monochrome covers of The Sorrow of Two Blooms and Permissions of Love. For Lobo, this was a conscious decision to break with the darker image the
project had portrayed previously – one that had gained her music a ‘goth’ tag in critical discussion which she was keen to distance herself from. “I think the idea behind the colour was just about moving in this other direction”, she explains. “It’s so hard for me to talk about this, because I just don’t want anyone to get offended, upset or think that I’m saying ‘fuck goth.’ That is not what this is about. I think I just got fucking tired of the dark look, the whole aesthetic of death and destruction. I really wanted to present this idea that there is a light within this music, that it’s not all sad – I hope that people could grab on to that light when they’re listening to the music. I don’t think that I could stomach another record that looked like a page out of a horror movie, y’know?”
Despite the cover’s rejection of a certain aesthetic, it nevertheless taps into another in its iconography of early Hollywood’s emotional duality – a fascination that she tells me came in some part from her father, who was a homicide detective for the LAPD. “I’ve always been completely obsessed with that Noir age of Hollywood decadence,” Lobo explains, “when I was growing up, I used to read tons of books about crime and about Los Angeles in particular.” Although the interest in her environment and its rich history has certainly informed the album’s artwork and the visual aesthetic of Tropic of Cancer in general, Lobo is keen to stress that the influence on the music itself is much less literal. “I guess Hollywood particularly is an influence because Los Angeles is where I grew up – but it’s that idea of the rise and fall, that whole idea of ‘the brighter the light, the darker the shadow’, that the better your life looks on paper, the worse it is in reality.” Even if not taken literally, it’s hard not to see this idea in track titles like “Beneath The Light”, taken from last year’s Permissions of Love EP, whose cover (and that of A Sorrow Of Two Blooms) seemed to tap into film noir’s idea of a surface beauty obscured by shadow and uncertainty.
This album has also seen Lobo enlist the help of her husband’s Sandwell District associate Karl O’Connor to assist in the album’s final production, as well as adding musical elements to certain tracks – most notably on “The Seasons Won’t Change (And Neither Will You)”, which features a piano piece from O’Connor, and on “Court of Devotion”, which features vocal treatments and icy synths from the producer. His involvement was something that proved to be invaluable in the wake of Mendez’ departure from the project. “He really provided this ability for me to just think about the music and not have to worry about the end production and the mixing,” Lobo explains. “It really was a relief just to have someone else involved because I think the reason why there’s been a lot of pressure is because I don’t really have anyone to tell me ‘yes, keep going in that direction’, or ‘why don’t you dial that back and focus on this’. Juan was there to some degree, but for the most part I didn’t want to involve him, because to keep him entrenched in my business in Tropic of Cancer was too much for him.”
This iteration of Tropic of Cancer’s live show also features DVA DAMAS member Taylor Burch (pictured below) in place of Mendez, a change that has further increased Lobo’s confidence in continuing the project solo. “Her and I at this point have almost become like sisters”, she explains, “we have literally never had an argument – knock on wood – about the music or over anything, we just genuinely support each other, and I feel so lucky to have her involved.”
Of course, aside from those immediately involved in the Tropic of Cancer project, it feels particularly prescient that the album is being released at the height of what seems like a flurry of similar acts which have released music in the past year. Aside from DVA DAMAS, who recently released an album on the Downwards America imprint Mendez curates, acts like The KVB, Oake and HTRK have risen to prominence, while Blackest Ever Black and Powell’s Diagonal imprint have also championed the intersection between guitar music and primitive electronics. Although in a previous interview Lobo has denied being part of any LA-based scene, so does this preponderance of similarly parched sounds, make Lobo feel like she’s part of a growing global movement?
“I think what’s happened since then is that something has gathered all of us together, and now it’s become a very cohesive scene – of people who genuinely love each other, and who are very supportive of each other’s music. It has to do with a number of reasons, but one is Mount Analog, the record store in Los Angeles. They’ve really created the nucleus in all of this I think, it’s like the glue that’s holding all of this together. And then you have Juan and Karl with Downwards America and Downwards in general, just allowing these artists to be part of this family. There’s Michael Stock from Part Time Punks, and everybody that comes through plays at Part Time Punks, the LA standard at this point for our scene, and Kiran (Sande) has just been such a big part of things – I just trust Kiran with my life basically at this point, I mean he’s been really super supportive”.
Despite Lobo’s network of friends and collaborators willing to help her bring her vision into the world, and her opinion that the early music she made with Mendez was, in her words: “the best music that will ever be produced as Tropic of Cancer,” it’s obvious that Tropic of Cancer has always been, and still is Lobo’s musical vision, albeit one that is very much still developing. “I think the hardest thing for me is that I would love to be able to make songs that were above 90BPM, but it’s impossible for me,” Lobo explains. “Tropic of Cancer, I guess when I say ‘that’s the best it will ever be’ is because it’s kind of impossible for me to see Tropic of Cancer as fully formed because I would really love to make faster, more aggressive songs, but I can’t do that yet on my own.”
Although Lobo may not feel herself that Tropic of Cancer has finished gestating, it seems clear that Restless Idylls is undoubtedly the most emotionally affecting, personal, and fully formed work the project has generated to date, and one that comes with a very distinct message. “I don’t want my music to make people more sad or make them wallow in their strife and upset,” Lobo explains, impassioned, “I just want people to be able to come to this music and listen to it and feel better on the other end, and feel like there’s a light, and there is hope. I hope that it comforts, and that’s all I want.”
Interview by Scott Wilson
Photo of Camella Lobo and Taylor Burch courtesy of Autumn Andel
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Only two photographs today, I am afraid, but this paucity is simply because they are two of the most incredible photos of hitherto unseen transformations in nature.
A bulldozer growing!
OK - how do you grow a bulldozer? Well - two farming friends of ours have achieved the almost impossible - growing a bulldozer from seed.
Bulldozer seeds are hard to come by. They fit in your hand, come in boxes marked 'Dinky', are made of metal and generally are bright yellow. You have to find a suitable piece of land, plant them about 6 feet below the surface of the field, and then build a centre-pivot irrigation system which will irrigate the entire surrounding area. Bulldozers need an awful lot of water to grow.
If you are lucky, they sprout, and in the right conditions can grow quite large. Here then is a D4 bulldozer that the 'Farmer Palmers' managed to germinate and grow....
Incredibly they kept watering it and in no time at all (I think Sarah said 5 days) it had grown from a D4 into a D6.
Magnificent, isn't it?
Apparently the Palmers had been intending to let it grow right up to a D9 - but unfortunately the electricity failed, and did not come back for 2 days; the water pump failed, the centre pivot stopped going around, and the 'dozer stopped growing.
Once they stop - that is it.
For those of you who doubt the veracity of this story (and I suspect there may be one or two) - please go out to Ferndale farm and see for yourself the homegrown bulldozer.
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This Independence Day, as you salute the flag waving on high, and smell the BBQ briskets wafting through the air, take a moment and realize that you’re really not much different from our Founding Fathers.
No, really; think about it:
- • You challenged the status quo
- • You questioned authority
- • You didn’t take no for an answer
And now, you’re a business owner. (cue the fireworks! 🎇 🎆)
Our Founding Fathers were not going to be bullied around by the big guy, nope. They would strike out on their own and build a nation. Is it really that different from what you’re doing as a small business owner?
In a way, the Founding Fathers were the United States’ first entrepreneurs. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at four pieces of advice from the men who shaped our nation.
Don’t Make Excuses Our first President put it best when he said, “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” If you’re having trouble staying focused or meeting your quarterly goals, don’t make excuses. Instead, figure out how to move forward. The people you work with will judge your business by your actions. If you’re all talk and no action, your excuses will fall on deaf ears.
Think Before You Spend There’s no doubt you’ve heard that you have to ‘spend money to make money.’ That’s not necessarily true. Just ask the 80 percent of companies that close their doors after their first year in business. “Never spend money before you have earned it,” Thomas Jefferson once said. To run a business successfully, you need to set up a budget, plan a strategy, and stick to it!
Expertise Influences Action To create an independent nation, our Founding Fathers had to inspire their fellow countrymen. If they hadn’t had the support, we might all be speaking with a British accent and toasting to the Queen! “The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions,” spoke John Hancock. Business is about understanding your audience, assessing their needs, and building a product or service that satisfies that need. The Founding Fathers knew how to get that done and so do you.
Be Prepared Benjamin Franklin said “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” When you’re just starting out, the smallest setbacks can be devastating, so small business owners need to be prepared for the unexpected. Fun Fact: Did you know he basically invented modern business insurance? Talk about being prepared. If you’re in need of insurance for your business (you know, to be well prepared) we can help. | <urn:uuid:cde3978a-41ba-48c9-a9d1-310a677e8b73> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://coverhound.com/insurance-learning-center/words-of-wisdom-from-the-usa-s-first-entrepreneurs | 2020-04-01T12:21:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370505730.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401100029-20200401130029-00369.warc.gz | en | 0.96155 | 596 |
Oil, the lifeblood of many countries that produce and sell it, appears to be rapidly turning into an ever-cheaper economic curse.
In oil-endowed Iraq, where an Islamic State insurgency and fractious sectarian politics are growing threats, a new source of instability erupted this month with violent protests over the government’s failure to provide reliable electricity and explain what has been done with all the promised petroleum money. In Russia, a leading oil producer, consumers are now paying far more for imports, largely because of their currency’s plummeting value. In Nigeria and Venezuela, which rely almost completely on oil exports, fears of unrest and economic instability are building. In Ecuador, where oil revenue has fallen by nearly half since last year, tens of thousands of demonstrators pour into the streets every week, angered by the government’s economic policies.
Even in wealthy Saudi Arabia, where the ruling family spends oil money lavishly to preserve its legitimacy, the government has been burning through roughly $10 billion a month in foreign exchange holdings to help pay expenses, and it is borrowing in the financial markets for the first time since 2007. Other Arab countries in the Persian Gulf that are dependent on oil exports, including Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain, are facing fiscal deficits for the first time in two decades.
While the price has been declining for months, forecasts have always been hedged with the assumption that oil would eventually stabilize or at least not stay low for long. But new anxieties about frailties in China, the world’s most voracious consumer of energy, have raised fears that the price of oil, now 30 percent lower than it was just a few months ago, could remain depressed far longer than even the most pessimistic projections, and do even deeper damage to oil exporters.Continue reading the main story
“The pain is very hard for these countries,” said René G. Ortiz, former secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and former energy minister of Ecuador. “These countries dreamed that these low prices would be very temporary.”
Mr. Ortiz estimated that all major oil exporting countries had lost a total of $1 trillion in oil sales because of the price decline over the last year.
“The apparent weakness in the Chinese economy is radiating out into the world,” said Daniel Yergin, the vice chairman of IHS, a leading provider of market information, and the author of two seminal books on the history of the oil industry, “The Prize” and “The Quest.”
“An awful lot of producers who enjoyed good times were more dependent on Chinese economic growth than they recognized,” Mr. Yergin said. “This is an oil shock.”
Although the price drop has most directly hurt oil exporters, it also may signal a new period of global economic fragility that could hurt all countries — an anxiety that already has been evident in the gyrating stock markets.
The price drop also has become an indirect element in the course of Syria’s civil war and other points of global tension. Countries that once could use their oil wealth as leverage, like Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, may no longer have as much influence, some political analysts said. Iran, which once asserted it could withstand the antinuclear embargo of its oil by the West, appeared to have rethought that calculation in reaching an agreement on its nuclear activities last month.
Of course, lower oil prices confer economic benefits, too. The average American household, for instance, buys 1,200 gallons of gasoline every year. And gasoline, on average, has sold for most of this year by roughly a dollar a gallon less than in 2014.
But even while lower oil prices stimulate economies of consuming countries, a protracted decline carries many unanticipated consequences — starting with the economic weakness in developing countries that buy increasing amounts of goods from the United States and others in the industrialized world.
A supply glut has been evident for some time, driven partly by a vast increase in Saudi production and a growing energy self-sufficiency in the United States, which was once heavily reliant on Middle East oil.
Saudi Arabia not only is producing a record amount, but also is increasing the number of rigs drilling for future production. And its Gulf allies, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, are following suit. Even with the turmoil wrought by the Islamic State, Iraq’s production has jumped nearly 20 percent since the beginning of the year.
The surge in production may seem counterintuitive, since lower prices can cause self-inflicted economic wounds and potentially incite more political and social trouble. But all the exporters in the Middle East are struggling with each other to protect Asian markets, now that the United States is using much less of their oil.
The Gulf states, said Sadad I. Al-Husseini, former executive vice president of the Saudi Aramco oil company, “don’t want to take on the role of oil price regulators because the market is far too big and too political for them to manage it.”
Had these producers curtailed their production late last year, he said, “a flood of new oil supplies from the U.S., Canada, the deep offshore and other basins would have continued to undermine the oil markets, and prices would have collapsed to where they are now in any case.”
The global glut is likely to worsen if the nuclear deal with Iran is approved, potentially releasing as much as one million more barrels onto the 94-million-barrel-a-day global market in a year or so.
Iran’s oil minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, has made no secret about his country’s intentions. “We will be raising our oil production at any cost, and we have no other alternative,” he was quoted Sunday in Iran’s state-run news media as saying.
The big change in recent years has been the surge of United States oil production, adding more than four million barrels a day to global supplies. But in recent months the oversupply has been driven primarily by the Saudis, who have flooded the market in what economists regard as a deliberate attempt to drive down the price so that other high-cost producers can no longer compete — most notably the Americans.
Still, production in the United States has not declined as much as foreseen by the Saudis, who thought the price of oil would stabilize at about $50 a barrel. Now it may be headed to $30, the lowest level since the 2008 global economic recession.
The Saudis, the most important member of OPEC, have resisted calls by other members to reduce output. The result is that nearly all OPEC members, who together control much less of the global market than they once did, are pumping more oil.
“We are witnessing competition between member states over market share, and most of these countries are dependent on oil as a primary source of income,” said Luay Al-Khatteeb, a nonresident fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Doha Center. If prices do not recover to the $60 a barrel level, he said, “and countries in the Arab region continue to rely on oil revenue heavily, we could see decades of decline.”
David L. Goldwyn, who was the State Department special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs in the first Obama administration, said that if the Brent global oil benchmark price stays below $45 a barrel, that is “a red flag for stability issues across the oil producing world.”
“The hemorrhaging of government budgets reliant on oil will force dramatic cuts in spending or dangerous increases in borrowing, if not both,” Mr. Goldwyn said. “The countries without significant foreign exchange reserves are most at risk, and they include Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Venezuela and Iraq. The countries which need to sustain investment to maintain political legitimacy need to be worried, and that’s Brazil, Russia and even Iran.”
Meghan L. O’Sullivan, director of the Geopolitics of Energy program at Harvard’s Kennedy School, said she was most immediately concerned about the impact of extended low oil prices on Iraq.
“Not only is fighting ISIS an expensive endeavor, but many of the political deals that need to be done to keep different groups supportive of the Iraqi government require money to sustain,” she said.
But Ms. O’Sullivan expressed a longer-term worry about possible miscalculations by Saudi Arabia, on both the duration and magnitude of the oil price drop.
“With a burgeoning population looking for jobs, education and health care every day,” she said, “the expensive social contract between the royal family and Saudi citizens will get more difficult, and eventually impossible, to sustain if oil prices do not recover.”Continue reading the main story | <urn:uuid:7b44c919-9c86-4333-9f71-da33df7b6c54> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/world/from-venezuela-to-iraq-to-russia-oil-price-drops-raise-fears-of-unrest.html?_r=1 | 2017-10-23T17:27:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187826210.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023164236-20171023184236-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.967283 | 1,841 |
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Hey! I tried changing the "Revenge of the Nerds" Wikipedia page back to the appropriate description. Wikipedia sent me this message - "Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed." This is fucked up.
Well, there’s a big debate raging on the ROTN Wikipedia Talk page regarding these edits that goes back to 2007.
Wiki editor “Masem” seems to be the main guy calling the shots on this. Here’s one of his recent comments:
"Yes, if the same scene was filmed today under today’s morale, the outcome would have been vastly different, but we’re considering what happened then. Add to the fact that when she discovered his true identity she did not react as if it was not concentual after the fact.”
I added the bold letters.
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2 Kings 18International Standard Version (ISV)
Hezekiah Becomes King of Judah
18 Now it happened that during the third year of the reign of[a] Elah’s son Hoshea, king of Israel, that Ahaz’ son Hezekiah became king. 2 He was 25 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Zechariah’s daughter Abi. 3 He did what the Lord considered to be right, according to everything that his ancestor David had done.
4 He removed the high places, demolished the sacred pillars, and tore down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had crafted, because the Israelis had been burning incense to it right up until that time. Hezekiah[b] called it a piece of brass.[c] 5 He trusted the Lord God of Israel, and after him there were none like him among all the kings of Judah, 6 because he depended on the Lord, not abandoning pursuit of him, and keeping the Lord’s commands that he had commanded Moses. 7 So the Lord was with him, and Hezekiah prospered wherever he went, even when he rebelled against the king of Assyria, refusing to serve him. 8 He attacked the Philistines, invading Gaza and its borders from watchtower to fortified garrison.
Shalmaneser Attacks Samaria
9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (that is, during the seventh year of Elah’s son Hoshea’s reign as king of Israel), King Shalmaneser from Assyria invaded Samaria and besieged it. 10 Three years later, they captured Samaria during the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign,[d] which was the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign as king of Israel. 11 After this, the king of Assyria carried Israel off into exile in Assyria, settling them in Halah, on the Habor River in Gozan, and in cities controlled by the Medes, 12 because they would not obey the voice of the Lord their God. Instead, they transgressed his covenant, including everything that Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded, by neither listening nor putting what he had commanded[e] into practice.
13 During the fourteenth year of the reign of[f] King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria approached all of the walled cities of Judah and seized them. 14 So Hezekiah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have offended you. Withdraw from me, and I’ll accept whatever tribute you impose.” So the king of Assyria required Hezekiah to pay him 300 talents[g] of silver and 30 talents[h] of gold. 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver that could be removed from the Lord’s Temple and from the treasuries in the king’s palace. 16 At that time, Hezekiah removed the doors to the Lord’s Temple and the doorposts that he had overlaid with gold,[i] and gave the gold[j] to the king of Assyria.
Assyria’s King Taunts Hezekiah
17 Sometime later, the king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rab-saris, and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, accompanied with a large army. 18 When they called for the king, Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who managed the household, Shebnah the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder went out to them. 19 Rab-shakeh told them, “Tell Hezekiah right now, ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says:
‘“Why are you so confident? 20 You’re saying—but they’re only empty words—‘I have enough[k] advice and resources to conduct warfare!’
‘“Now who are you relying on, that you have rebelled against me? 21 Look, you’re trusting on Egypt to lean on like a staff, but it’s a crushed reed, and if you lean on it, it will collapse and pierce your hand. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is just like that to everyone who relies on him!
22 ‘“Of course, you might tell me, “We rely on the Lord our God!” But isn’t it he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has demolished, all the while telling Jerusalem, “You’re to worship in front of this altar in Jerusalem?”’
23 ‘“Come now, and make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria, and I’ll give you 2,000 horses, if you can furnish them with riders. 24 How can you refuse even one official from the least of my master’s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 25 “Now then, haven’t I come up—apart from the Lord—to attack and destroy this place? The Lord told me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it!’”’”
26 At this, Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, Shebnah, and Joah asked Rab-shakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it, but don’t speak the language of Judah to us within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
27 But Rab-shakeh spoke to them, “Has my master sent me to talk about this just to your master and to you, and not also to the men who are sitting on the wall, who will soon be eating their own feces and drinking their own urine[l]—along with you?” 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood up and cried out loud, “Listen to what the great king, the king of Assyria has to say. 29 This is what the king says:
‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, because he will prove to be unable to deliver you from my control.[m] 30 And don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by telling you, “The Lord will certainly deliver us and this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” 31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace with me and come out to me! Each of you will eat from his own vine. Each will eat from his own fig tree. And each of you will drink water from his own cistern 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, one overflowing with grain and new wine, a land filled with bread and vineyards, with olive trees and honey, so you may live and not die.”
‘But don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us!” 33 Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land from control by[n] the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sephar-vaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my control?[o] 35 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their land from my control[p], so that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from me?’”[q]
36 But the people remained silent and did not answer with even so much as a word, because the king’s order was, “Don’t answer him.”
37 But Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who managed the household, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came back to Hezekiah with their clothes torn[r] and told him what Rab-shakeh had said.
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Expanding their strategic relationship, RightScale and Rackspace announced that RightScale cloud management is now integrated with the Rackspace Open Cloud powered by OpenStack and RightScale’s cloud management platform will support Rackspace Open Cloud products.
The two cloud companies have been working together for quite a while, but this move deepens their partnership. RightScale has been working with Rackspace since the cloud management platform first went multi-cloud in 2008. The announcement today is also a big win for OpenStack in general. RightScale support for Rackspace Open Cloud will provide integration with a suite of Rackspace Public Cloud services – including Cloud Servers, Cloud Databases, Cloud Block Storage Cloud Networks – as well as Rackspace Private Cloud.
There are two key points about the news: RightScale is supporting Rackspace’s next generation cloud, and RightScale is backing a reference configuration of OpenStack for private clouds. That second point is bigger than you would imagine. “The interest level has been unprecedented,” said Josh Fraser, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for RightScale. “The challenge OpenStack customers have found is that there’s been no clear reference configuration that has been consistent. This brings consistency.”
“This is the reference configuration that makes sense. We expect quite a bit of acceleration,” added Scott Sanchez, Director of Strategy, Rackspace Private Cloud.
One of the challenges with OpenStack customers is that there are still a lot of question marks as to how they should deploy. “RightScale cloud management provides a key solution to customers who need simplicity in running hybrid cloud environments,” said Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace’s Private Cloud Business. “With RightScale’s cloud management and Rackspace’s Fanatical Support customers can focus more on managing their business while we manage their cloud. With so many ways to build and deploy OpenStack-powered clouds we are excited that RightScale has selected Rackspace as their recommended choice.”
“With this strategic partnership, now both the public and private based cloud offering is on same technology, and it’s managed the same way,” said Fraser. The strategic partnership means having full support from RightScale for both of those platforms, which means enterprises can manage through a single pane of glass, allowing a purpose-built cloud.
“Enterprises aren’t thinking ‘public cloud’- It’s never been about just one cloud,” Fraser added. RightScale says it sees 87 percent of compute under management come from multi-cloud usage.
The two companies say that the joint solution is an ideal fit for start-ups innovating on new technologies, independent software vendors looking for a reliable solution on which to build their software as a service offerings, and enterprise IT organizations looking for agility and efficiency, among other use cases. In other words, it’s ideal for a major chunk of the market, but notably, it’s an OpenStack play for the enterprise.
“Enterprise interest in OpenStack continues to increase,” said Michael Crandell, CEO at RightScale. “This agreement ensures that RightScale customers have an open cloud alternative that aligns with the OpenStack trunk code base and minimizes proprietary extensions. Rackspace has been very forward thinking with their open cloud initiatives and we applaud that. RightScale focuses on offering our customers the ability to easily and more successfully deploy on the cloud, and so does Rackspace with their world-renowned ‘Fanatical Support’ – critical elements for the adoption and growth of cloud.” | <urn:uuid:b7769319-81e6-41de-bba8-5341f6d5fa75> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/11/05/rightscale-rackspace-expand-cloud-partnership/ | 2015-01-31T05:28:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115869320.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161109-00127-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948848 | 752 |
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In 2005 I bought some motors and gears from “Slot Car Heroes” as upgrades for my racers at Nomad Slot Racing. The “Heroes” website is fascinating. Its owner, Tim Johnson demonstrates his passion for slot cars. his project development, test data and even his sources in detail. There are tutorials that show how to build his products and even his manufacturing equipment! A history of his company includes his childhood introduction to slot cars, schooling a career path that lead to his “Slot Car Heroes” company. Tim’s openness was refreshing. His passion for slot cars was familiar.
Asked why he was in the business, Tim replied on his website:
“Well, mostly because I’m passionate about this hobby. Designing a chassis challenges the mind to think outside the box; it stretches the powers of imagination. Finding or creating new and innovative sources for components is enjoyable. Some people think there is a great deal of money to be made in this hobby, but there is a lot of hard work that happens behind the scenes, for which there is no monetary reward. To take up this hobby as a business, you either must have won the lottery with money to blow, or be possessed by an indescribable desire to succeed. Since I’ve never won more than $2.00 from any lottery, I guess you know which category I fall into.”
“And second, I’d like to see more kids find out about this extraordinary hobby. Very few people who have just watched a slot car race, or seen the cool packages in a store, have any idea what this hobby is about. Racing Slot Cars is something that must be experienced to be fully understood. This hobby can be compared to trying new food at a restaurant. You have no idea how it tastes unless you try it. And you never know, it might become your new favorite.”
Archives show that “Heroes” produced 1/24 scale slot cars 2002 to 2004. The cars were accurate models of real race cars, uniquely designed, with molds, vacuum formed and cast parts created in the shop above Tim’s garage. The detail and painting was remarkable and the chassis was well… unique. I had to have one, but it was too late. Tim had moved from handcrafting 1/24 cars to producing a practical if not terribly interesting stamped stainless chassis and lovely cut steel chassis kits. But he his passion for slot cars and ambition are clear in this post:
March 7, 2006
“New Manufacturing Processes are brewing. The month of February has been a time of renewed innovation and financial commitment here at Slot Car Heroes. (SCH) We are venturing into new territories with manufacturing processes that will revolutionize, change, and add to our product line. Giant steps in will be taken in March and April that few small business manufacturers would attempt. We are excited about the possibilities, and growth potential that our new manufacturing equipment represents. Check this page often over the coming weeks and months to see what we’re so excited about, and you’ll be excited too!”
I was, and I did. Then there was this:
April 10, 2006
“New CNC and Plastic Injection Molding Equipment has been installed. Our shop has undergone many changes the past few weeks. New workbenches, storage areas, tools, and equipment. We recently purchased a small air-powered injection molding machine that is designed for engineering and prototyping precision plastic parts. A MaxNC 10 desktop CNC (Computerized Numeric Control) mill will be used to cut and shape aluminum molds for plastic injection molding. The facility above our garage will manufacture short runs of high-quality custom plastic parts, while keeping our prices competitive in the global hobby markets.
Parts that we have in mind are chassis components, driver’s heads, torso’s, car detailing & cosmetic elements, such as 1/32 scale engines, mirrors, interior trays, headlights, grilles, dashboards, wheel inserts, guide flags, suspension details, and more.
We are still at the beginning stages, and have much to learn about the CNC processes, molds and plastics but expect to begin producing saleable items in June. As we get closer to production, look for additional news here on the Engineering page. Pictures of our equipment and facilities to come later.”
This ambitious message was accompanied by images of prototype products including a new body and a versatile carbon fiber chassis:
“General health concerns have been raised about carbon fiber dust. While carbon fiber material itself is inert, dust produced while cutting and shaping carbon fiber is a known cause of lung cancer. So in respect to these concerns, we will produce this chassis in plastic rather than carbon fiber.
At this time, we are gearing up towards manufacturing molds to produce the chassis components. This process will likely take us several weeks until we’re ready to release the chassis.”
Uh oh… then:
July 3, 2006
“Production Delays: Due to technical difficulties beyond our control, we could not begin rapid prototyping in the months of April and May. And now with summer upon us, family obligations, home maintenance and emergency projects have taken center stage.”
A clearance sale was announced and the last update to the website was just 7 days later. Apparently the “giant steps” had been too much. I bought some of the close-out goods, and for years have watched for Tim’s return to the industry. No sign of him, the website has been down for years and I have pulled what I can from the Wayback Archive.
Recently, Paul Quick, a fellow slot car enthusiast and great guy, offered a car for sale on a slot car newsgroup. I thought it looked familiar and bought it.
It is THE car Tim held in his website photo! Now that it is in my slot car collection, let’s take a closer look:
Body detailing is very fine, including hood pins and retaining wires, all panel lines are inscribe, barely visible, but very sharp and realistic. The car appeared to have never been on track. The body, undertray and interior all are unique vacuum formed parts. Although the Wayback website archive never captured the photos, Tim published a 4 page detailed tutorial on how he created, painted and detailed this body!
Opening the car, some explanation is needed: From the SCH website: “That’s the neat and wonderful thing about this hobby. You’re not necessarily tied down to buying anything off-the-shelf. If you’ve got the imagination, determination, and willingness to try something new, you can build almost anything.”
Tim was serious! The chassis in this car is an aluminum buss bar from the Ace hardware electrical isle! The wheels are copper pipe caps from the plumbing section. The motor was initially produced exclusively for Slot Car Heroes and sourced from China. It is connected with speaker wire. The drop arm part of the chassis may have started as a window frame or similar extrusion.
There is a switch and diode for allowing the car to run normal analog or on a two car per lane AC system.
Copper rims are drilled and threaded then sandwiched between an over-sized nut and a threaded die-cast wheel insert.
This car reminds me of my days as a 14 year old scouring the local hardware store for parts to build or improve my slot cars, tracks and model cars
I was skeptical of performance from such a narrow chassis and copper wheels. After a bit of adjustment and fresh rear tires, the car is now fun to drive and surprisingly quick.
There is a ton of hand work in this car’s construction. I cannot imagine Tim made very many of them. I treasure it as evidence of one hero’s brave passion for slot cars, resourcefulness, innovation, selflessness, and transparency in taking on the challenge of a notoriously unprofitable industry.
If you visit, our Slot Car Mansion in Little Rock, I will let you try it out!
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