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In previous weeks, Rugby Town Girls FC U11s held their own against some strong sides from Nottingham Forest girls and Notts County girls with a couple of hard fought draws.
The girls then travelled to Anstey Nomads World Cup Tournament in Leicester. Drawn to play as Brazil in the tournament, they soon switched on the samba style and won the division, meeting recent opponents from the Leicester Girls League Cup Final, Allexton & New Parks Juniors in the final who were looking for revenge after that 4-0 cup final loss.
Rugby were just too strong for them running out 2-0 winners in a very hard fought battle once again. Worthy ‘world champions’.
Last weekend, the girls travelled to the Leicester City Women’s FC 7s Tournament. In the hot uncomfortable weather they won their division and progressed through to the quarter finals where they met Cosby United girls, winning 2-0 and through to the semi finals.
Waiting for them were Central Ajax FC girls from Warwick. This proved to be a tougher test with the game ending in a stalemate and going to penalties with Rugby winning with decisive strikes and Cosby missing a couple. The final was played out between Rugby Town Girls and Stratford Town Girls. Two goals from Rugby sealed the win and another trophy for the cabinet with more medals for this great bunch of girls. | 2019-04-24T06:40:24 | https://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/sport/football/football-more-trophies-in-the-cabinet-for-rugby-town-girls-1-8557265 |
Good evening you godless sodomites!
Usually I’m not a fan of posting MyPipe YouTube videos harum-scarum, but this one with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert presenting an Emmy already made me kill myself laughing when I saw it live on Monday morning CET and I find it hilarious even after having watched it over and over again.
A little info to those of you who didn’t watch the Emmys: Stephen Colbert and Hugh ‘Wolverine’ Jackman lost to Barry Manilow in the category of outstanding individual performance in a variety or music program. | 2019-04-26T07:37:37 | https://www.sadautumn.com/2006/09/02/good-evening-you-godless-sodomites/ |
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To North, the visitors can come to Rajasthan, Delhi and Agra to see the vast cultural, heritage and historical values, since these places have its continuation from an ancient Era. With this one can also come to varansi and see the beauty of the Ghats and the temples and get to known about the life of Lord Buddha at Sarnath. So in a nutshelll one can say that the travel guide Indai suggests the travellers to travel through the India to see its scenic beauty. | 2019-04-22T20:10:59 | https://www.cultureholidays.com/india-travel/ |
I updated the three Phoenix Real Estate Market at a Glance graphs with August 2015 data.
No clear direction. The market for Phoenix residential real estate doesn’t have a clear direction right now. We’ll know a lot more in December once we see the numbers for November 2015.
Inventory of homes for sale will be the key. I’m keying on the inventory of homes for sale in November. If we start 2016 with “high” inventory I’m betting price increases in 2016 will be “normal”. If the inventory is still “low” in November, we could see higher than average home price increases in metro Phoenix in 2016.
Boomerang buyers and FHA loans. I didn’t mention it in the video but I think one reason that Phoenix home price increases in 2015 have been higher than expected is that an unexpectedly large number of boomerang buyers came back into the market and bought homes using FHA loans.
FHA loans have a shorter “penalty box” than conventional loans. For example, if you were foreclosed on or had a short sale, most lenders won’t lend you money to buy a home again for up to 7 years. But you can get an FHA loan to buy a home much sooner than that.
So my theory is there were a lot more boomerang buyers buying homes in 2015 in Phoenix than previously expected because many of those boomerang buyers used FHA loans so they could buy now before interest rates increased. | 2019-04-21T04:51:54 | https://arizonarealestatenotebook.com/2016-phoenix-real-estate-market-forecast-sep-2015/ |
This week Russian experts added their voices to those of French experts who had examined Yasser Arafat’s remains to determine if he was poisoned.
"French experts have ruled out a theory that Yasser Arafat was killed by poisoning," AFP reported several weeks ago. Now BBC reports that "Announcing its conclusions on Thursday, the head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), Vladimir Uiba, said ’Yasser Arafat died not from the effects of radiation but of natural causes.’"
But the third team, the Swiss, came to a different conclusion--that Arafat might have been poisoned. The striking thing about the Swiss "investigation" is that it was inspired and financed by al-Jazeera. The report itself is on al-Jazeera stationery, and the opening lines reveal that the entire thing was invented by al-Jazeera. At al-Jazeera’s web site, here, huge amounts of attention are devoted to proving that Arafat was poisoned. There are an amazing 41 "news" stories and documents listed under the headline "Al Jazeera Investigates: Killing Arafat."
The other teams were not bought and paid for by al-Jazeera and they reached the opposite conclusion. In fact this recent hullabaloo about how Arafat died represents not new science or new evidence, but an effort by al-Jazeera to create trouble. It is yet another proof that al-Jazeera continued to operate in 2013 without the restraints of a normal news medium and should not be regarded as one. The government of Qatar --which owns al-Jazeera-- changed during this year; there is a new emir and some speculation that he will rein in Qatari foreign policy. Thus far he has not reined in al-Jazeera, and its pretensions to be a Middle Eastern version of CNN or BBC should be rejected. This entire Arafat/poisoning affair shows us that al-Jazeera continues to pursue political goals and to manufacture what it hopes to persuade us is "news." | 2019-04-18T15:04:10 | https://vertigo.cfr.org/blog/arafat-and-al-jazeera-manufacturing-trouble |
Kathy D—an Aussie friend now living in the US—sent me this classic photo of a puddle.
I don’t know who took it, where it was taken (though it looks a bit like the landscape around Kalgoorlie), but I assume it was taken through a car windscreen (see the white-ish smear or reflection back from the windscreen on the left?).
Wow! It is a really good map! | 2019-04-20T23:24:40 | https://rhondabracey.com/2008/11/27/advance-australia-puddle/ |
From the November 22, 1944 Edition of Stars and Stripes.
The Battle of Germany is likely to be fought out west of the Rhine—where the Ruhr is threatened, Gen. Eisenhower disclosed yesterday in his first press conference since a whirlwind tour of the fighting fronts.
He said he saw no signs that the Germans were retreating across the Rhine east of Aachen. With a large force committed west of such a great natural barrier as the Rhine against an army whose massive aerial superiority has power to blast retreat bridges, the Germans, he said, had no alternative but to stand and fight.
Reviewing the war situation as he found it along miles of the Western Front, Gen. Eisenhower also declared that supplies were needed in greater amounts than ever before.
“I want more supplies than we’re getting, and I think the soldier wants more than he’s getting—both now and in the future,” he said.
In disclosing his blueprint for future operations—to increase pressure steadily all along the Western Front until the Germans are crushed—the general warned against a growing sense of complacency on the home front. He said he could not conceive that anyone at home would say that American troops should take more losses and do less work.
He emphasized that he did not intend to criticize the home front, but simply wanted the men on the war fronts to have everything possible to quicken victory for the sake of both the doughboys in the foxholes and their relatives at home.
There has been no visible sign of a crack in German morale, he said, but explained that his troops were taking the traditional avenues of invasion—Belfort, Metz, and Aachen, and were using these areas to smash further into Germany.
He again underlined the excellent teamwork between ground, sea and air forces and said Allied planes would continue to bomb Germany. | 2019-04-23T18:20:02 | http://ww2awartobewon.com/wwii-archives/rhine-battles-gen-eisenhower/ |
What: Houston Grand Opera Young Patrons Circle.
Where: The home of Carrie and Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl.
The Scoop: HGO Studio artists Chris Bozeka and Kirill Kuzmin entertained the full house with beautiful music. David Keck and Felipe Riccio of Camerata provided food and drink for the festive evening.
The Houston Grand Opera Young Patrons is open to opera lovers ages 40 and under. A minimum annual contribution of $2,000 opens the door to special benefits designed to enhance the opera experience and build relationships with fellow opera lovers.
Who: Sara and Gabriel Loperena, Drs. Rachel and Warren Ellsworth, Darrin Davis and Mario Gudmundsson, Drs. Ishwaria and Vivek Subbiah, Leila and Robert Little, Valerie and Tracy Dieterich, Brian McCulloch and Jeremy Garcia. | 2019-04-22T21:08:22 | http://houston.culturemap.com/news/society/10-17-15-music-and-good-times-as-young-professionals-celebrate-launch-of-houston-grand-opera-season/ |
This is a beautiful Christmas wall hanging from the Idéna Collection. This design shows Santa helping one of his elves to pile up the snowballs!
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OOPS! It was all Rick’s fault, honest!
It looks like ‘Rick’ has an apology to make, because he caused Hikerbox to go offline for the past month. He denies all responsibility, but I’m not letting him get away with it, no siree!
Anyway, now that he appears to have paid the hefty ransom, we again have ownership of our domain name and will not inadvertently let it expire next year.
Sorry to everyone that has been trying to access the site while it’s been ‘away’ but things are back up and running again as usual now. | 2019-04-26T07:57:53 | http://hikerbox.net/ricks-message/ |
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The successful launch of the Crew Dragon craft is being seen as a milestone for Elon Musk's goal of enabling humans to live on other planets.
San Francisco/Chicago: SpaceX launched an unmanned Crew Dragon craft from Florida to the International Space Station early Saturday, a milestone for Elon Musk’s goal of enabling humans to live on other planets and a big win for NASA’s gamble of partnering with private industry. Scores of space tourists gathered in Florida to watch the 2:49 a.m. launch of the Falcon 9 rocket, which went off without a hitch. Crew Dragon is en route to a rendezvous with the station on Sunday, while SpaceX landed the rocket’s first stage on a drone ship in the ocean.
For this weekend’s scheduled flight, a mannequin outfitted with sensors will be on board. Her name is Ripley, a tongue-in-cheek, Muskian reference to the protagonist of the Alien films. The company has always seen publicity and education as key to gaining public support. Shotwell said she looks at the Earth’s population and sees billions of potential customers for future SpaceX flights that feature tourists instead of astronauts.”The work we’re doing, and others as well, will completely change how we think about our world, our solar system, and candidly, life on Earth,” she said. | 2019-04-24T09:00:24 | https://theprint.in/science/spacex-launches-historic-test-of-craft-meant-to-carry-humans-to-space/200513/ |
This section contains the detail about Swing's Jframe in java.
JFrame is a Window with border, title, buttons, menu bar and user-specified components. The components added to the frame are referred to as its contents; these are managed by the contentPane. JFrame objects store several objects including a Container object known as the content pane. To add a component to a JFrame, add it to the content pane.
By default, a JFrame is displayed in the upper-left corner of the screen. To display a frame at a specified location, you can use the setLocation(x, y) method in the JFrame class.
JFrame() Constructs a new frame that is initially invisible.
of a screen device and a blank title.
JFrame(String title) Creates a new, initially invisible Frame with the specified title.
GraphicsConfiguration of a screen device. | 2019-04-24T20:14:33 | http://devmanuals.com/tutorials/java/corejava/JFrame.html |
Whether you run for the workout, the challenge, for charity, or for love, it starts with a step. Your feet hit the ground and you’re off. And no matter what you run for, every runner knows that foot health comes first.
Foot pain while running can be an inevitable side effect for runners, signs your body is giving you that should not be ignored. If you experience foot pain and running plays an important role in your life, the following information will help you gain a deeper understanding of why it’s best to be proactive about your feet.
Most importantly, you’ll learn that there are safe, effective treatment options available to correct your foot pain so that you can cross that finish line, jog with friends, stay healthy, enjoy running and get back on your feet.
Step after step, mile after mile, your feet take the blunt of impact trauma as you run. Whether you run marathons or jog lightly in the park, to maintain your active lifestyle you’ll need to take good care of your feet.
Many runners who experience foot pain while running often ignore signs of serious issues and instead push through the pain. Whether it’s before, during or after your run that you feel foot pain, it’s crucial to be proactive about acknowledging the signs and understanding that it’s never too late to find or start treatment.
The longer you wait to find out what is causing your foot pain, the more severe the pain and lasting damage becomes. Just like with any running injury, the condition of your feet will worsen with time and extra stress, especially if you continue to run.
If you identify as one of 3 out of 4 Americans who experience serious foot problems and neglect their pain , you may consider researching your options a bit further.
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As an active athlete himself, Dr. Nagy understands the important role feet play in an active lifestyle. Whether your foot pain while running can be treated conservatively or with a minimally invasive procedure, both have quick recovery time and offer runners the chance to get back on their feet quickly and safely. | 2019-04-19T16:59:47 | https://blog.nagyfootcare.com/why-its-important-to-acknowledge-foot-pain-while-running |
For the beans: in a large pot, soak beans overnight covered in water by 2 inches. Drain and set aside.
For the rice: put all the ingredients into a heavy-bottomed pot, stir well, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to a simmer, cover, and cook over low heat until the rice has absorbed the water, about 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and let sit, covered, for 5 minutes. Discard the garlic and bay leaf, fluff with a fork, and serve. | 2019-04-18T19:00:30 | http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/spicy-black-beans-and-yellow-rice.html |
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Mills, Michael, and Walke, Donna, eds.
Empowering Learners with Mobile Open-Access Learning Initiatives is a well-designed book giving an overview and awareness to mobile activities as they can be provided in an educational setting. The anthology was compiled by Michael Mills and Donna Wake, both from the University of Central Arkansas. Most of the studies are North American, but there is ample diversity of circumstances in the populations studied and techniques showcased. The book is separated into four parts: practice, curriculum, assessment, and theory.
This book will likely become a historic piece of educational observation on today’s environment, but just as importantly, it is future-looking. So how is the future looking? The authors are clearly optimistic about the future of higher education. The evidence shows the effectiveness of mobile technologies to provide a more equal and motivated voice in society.
Considering the Wabash Center for Teaching in Learning in Theology and Religion’s audience, this book would be most effective for those in curriculum development and assessment. It is easy to read, but scientifically formatted. Each chapter constitutes a separate study contributing to the overall discussion, and new vocabulary is introduced and defined at the conclusion of each chapter. The publisher, IGI Global, is an established publisher of Information Science and this text could be useful even as a textbook for courses in Information Science and Technology.
The book could have been enhanced through a greater diversity of authorship and a wider distribution of geographical locations. Mobile technology is world-reaching, but much of this book’s arguments were grounded in a Western cultural understanding of the world. It would have been helpful for that to have been disclosed in the preface as a both a limitation of this volume and a signal for further study about student learning in online open-access models of education. There was some effort by the authors to attend to issues related to physical and learning disabilities and learning needs of underprivileged communities. However, the only examples the authors provide outside of the United States were Kenya and Portugal.
The real value of the book is its comprehensive structure of presentation and approach to mobile technology as a discipline. It does not make light of the common lay person’s experience with mobile technology. Rather, there is a sense of power behind today’s and the future’s possibilities for reducing social barriers in education. Empowering Learners with Mobile Open-Access Learning Initiatives would be an excellent contribution to a higher education library, and that is said without hesitancy even when the examples of technology in the book could be somewhat fleeting given the rapid changes in technology and online learning. | 2019-04-24T00:42:18 | https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/tag/curriculum-development/ |
Not all data has equal value, yet storage and data management solutions treat diverse data uniformly. Taking a value-driven approach can take the pain out of data management and deliver predictable application performance for a top-notch user experience.
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I have always loved technology, and I have specifically favored image manipulation software such as Photoshop. Lately however, I have discovered some of the technological wonders that exist outside artistic and visual design software. Holy Cow – it is a whole new world out there!
Working with new technologies has helped me stretch professionally, mentally and socially. These opportunities for growth (aka hard work and mistakes) have encouraged me to think about what is important as a learner and as a teacher. As I busy myself getting ready for the start of a new school year, I also find that I am reflecting on recent experiences with web 2.0 technologies. Rewards and challenges alike, I have learned more than I can shake a stick at (and there is whole lot-a shaking left to do).
I have spent the month of July participating in another fantastic Instructional Design and Technology class. The course, Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0, has opened multiple doors to the world of virtual collaboration for me. I have always leaned toward the ‘two heads are better than one’ mentality and at the encouragement of my professor, Dr. Clif Mims, I have been working to build my Professional Learning Community or PLC. When seeking out other artists, art teachers and technology geeks, I have found Twitter, Diigo and Ning to be especially great social and professional networking tools. My current PLC also includes my classmates… we are after all, hoping to accomplish the same goal… to soak up as much as we can while exploring Web 2.0 (and you thought I was going to say, “to earn an A”).
In July, I blogged about my general experiences with Web 2.0. Today, I will focus more specifically on the benefits and challenges of a wonderful Web 2.0 tool called a ‘wiki’.
Earlier this summer I designed a wiki for elementary art students. Although, I realize that I am not finished with the project plan, I previously believed that I had thought through and understood the concept of a wiki. I also assumed that I had considered most of what would be necessary to involve students in such a project. Now that I have had the opportunity to work on a wiki with other graduate students I have a much clearer understanding of the types of interactions and involvement required of students who will be working on a collaborative project of this nature. True to honest self reflection, I will let you know that it is a REALLY good thing that I have had the opportunity to participate and contribute to this type of collective knowledge prior to requesting similar participation from my own students.
3) Sharing the work can have benefits and challenges.
To summarize the first two statements, I will point out what may be obvious to most: we all think differently and have different talents and skills to offer to the whole. When these unique differences and skill sets are harnessed, collected, and used to create something new, awesome work begins to take shape.
Most likely my peers would agree that we are also quite pleased not to be individually responsible for developing the entire Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0 Wiki. Sharing the work enables each of us to fully investigate our own areas of responsibility and maintain some sense of sanity.
Additionally, engaging in virtual collaboration has provided me with learning opportunities that I will want to keep in mind as I facilitate student learning with technology. In the third statement, I mention that sharing the work can be a challenge. In other words, unless we happen to have an unusually close relationship, there is some level of unease when collaborating with others.
1) Deciding what to work on: I’m hesitant to take on a job that someone else might want, but don’t want to sit on it too long for fear of being left with a job I’d rather not have – What’s a girl to do?
2) Not wanting to offend: I also want to be considerate of my classmates, their work and writing styles. It is a challenge to review and edit someone else’s work when they have not specifically requested that you do so… will I come across as a know it all? Will he/she think I am a writing or design snob?
3) How will we credit the work? Apparently, we are not to follow the safe method of organizing authorship in alphabetical order… we are to decide which of us has done the most work and list authors in order of most contributed. Hmm, anyone else worried here???
I am a firm believer in collaboration and web based technologies make it easier than ever to engage in collaborative opportunities. While, I have complete faith in the intellect and talents of my classmates, it is important to think about the challenges involved in collaborative efforts. As a teacher, I will use this experience to discuss such challenges with my students and seek their input to develop strategies and protocols for these and similar issues. | 2019-04-24T05:00:22 | http://www.angelachristopher.net/blog/virtual-collaboration |
I'm a newbie knitter. Which means that I have no business trying to modify patterns or do my own thing just yet, but is that stopping me? Of course not. We shall see if I end up with a knit win or a knit fail. My end goal is to make Catherine a little cape (or poncho). I am loosely basing it on this Easy Peasy Poncho. "Loosely" is a very key word since I want to simply use the stockinette stitch for the body and it's for a three year old.
How do you wash thrift store or second hand yarn? I have recently come into possession of quite a bit of yarn that I'd like to clean before working with it. Some of it is dusty and some of it is a little bit musty. It's good quality stuff, so it's definitely worth a bit of hassle, I'm just a little unsure what to do. I don't want to spend days, weeks, or even months trying to de-tangle a massive yarn mess! (Some of it is on cones, which makes it even more difficult.) There has to be a way to clean it!
Did you see the cute little capes that I helped make for my sister-in-law's wedding? Check out the full post!
Here's a random pop culture factoid for you: Katy Perry likes to crochet.
Oooooh hm. I am wracking my brain for ideas about washing that yarn but got nothing. Maybe if you wound it into smaller balls and then washed so they would dry more completely... but then you just have a bunch of small yarn segments so that's not great. ..
Good luck with your pattern ideas!
i recently made a poncho for my almost-3-year-old. She calls it her poncho moncho. Super cute!
I've unraveled thrift store sweaters for yarn, and I washed it by skeining it in large, loose skeins. Then I just hung it to drip-dry and rewound it. I suppose you could do that?
If your yarn is not in skeins, then loosely wrap it around the back of a chair or lampshade. Tie it in sections about every 10 inches with waste yarn. Then lay those skeins in your bath in a soft rinse product. I use Euclan. After a little soak,hang them up to dry. Done!
I would second the skein idea. If you're really worried about unwinding make extra figure eight ties around the skein. If you're worried about felting only wash it in cold water. You really only need hot water for removing lanolin. Hope this helps, good luck :D.
You can also make a niddy-noddy from PVC pipe (we seem to have some in the garage all the time) and unwind the cones onto that. It'll make a large skein, then you can gently work some wool wash or baby shampoo or similar into the yarn in a sink and rinse. | 2019-04-20T08:31:49 | http://www.thephilosopherswife.net/2014/01/wips-new-knit-how-do-you-wash.html |
You’re surrounded by people who know more than you about tons of things, based on their own life experience, and vice versa. Today, seek out new information. For example, yesterday I learned that the colors of those little tags of bread represent the day of week that the bread was baked. I mean, how much more information can a person possibly digest in single day?
And don’t forget to tell us what you learned, right here back on the blog!
Three cheers for thinking caps! | 2019-04-25T14:09:28 | http://lifeordepth.com/2018/07/07/ |
ASUS ROG showed off its latest high-end motherboards for both Intel and AMD systems at CES 2019. The two motherboards, the ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha and ROG Rampage VI Extreme Omega, are designed for AMD’s X399 and Intel’s X299 chipsets, respectively.
The ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha, for AMD’s latest Ryzen Threadripper processors, features four PCIe 3.0 x16 slots in an x16/x8/x16/8x arrangement with support for up to three-way SLI and CrossFireX, support for up to three M.2 NVMe SSDs (with one on-board PCIe x4 slot and two PCIe x4 slots via a DIMM.2 module), and eight memory slots for up to 128GB of 3600MHz DDR4 RAM in quad channel configuration. It also features eight 6Gb/s SATA ports, one USB 3.1 Gen 2 front panel connector, one Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 2, three Type-A USB 3.1 Gen 2, and 12 USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports.
On the other hand, the ROG Rampage VI Extreme Omega, for Intel’s Core X-series processors, has three PCIe 3.0 x16 slots in an x16/x8/x8 arrangement with SLI and CrossFire X support, eight memory slots for up two 128GB 4266+MHz DDR4 RAM in quad channel configuration, support for up to four M.2 NVMe SSDs, support for up to one U.2 port for 2.5-inch NVMe drives. It also comes with six SATA 6Gb/s ports, one USB 3.1 Gen 2 front panel connector, one Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 2, one Type-A USB 3.1 Gen 2, and 14 USB 3.1 Gen 1.
Both of the new motherboards also feature an ESS Sabre DAC with the SupremeFX S1220 codec, both Aquantia AQC-107 10G and Intel Gigabit Ethernet, Intel Gigabit 802.11ac WiFi, a 1.3-inch LiveDash OLED, ASUS Aura Sync RGB lighting, and more.
The ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha and the Rampage VI Extreme Omega will be available by the end of January 2019 at an SRP of PHP 35,790 and PHP 43,400, respectively. | 2019-04-18T13:26:01 | https://www.willwork4games.net/news/ces-2019-asus-rog-announces-zenith-extreme-alpha-and-rampage-vi-extreme-omega-motherboards |
Report: Seahawks working out QB Josh Johnson The Seattle Seahawks’ 2018 preseason debut against the Indianapolis Colts saw backup quarterback Austin Davis take a couple of sacks and a really awful interception in the end zone http://www.seahawkscheapshops.com/cheap-authentic-tre-flowers-jersey , while rookie Alex McGough had a meager 27 net yards passing on 15 dropbacks. Not exactly scintillating stuff, to put it kindly.With that in mind, Seattle is reportedly bringing in Josh Johnson for a workout, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.Johnson is known for being Marshawn Lynch’s cousin, and also the fact that he’s signed for a ton of teams over his ten-year career. If he joins the Seahawks after this workout, it’ll be his 12th different NFL team, and 13th overall if you count his time with the United Football League’s Sacramento Mountain Lions.He has not played in any game since he was with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2013, and hasn’t thrown an NFL pass since 2011 Cheap Rashaad Penny Jersey , back when he spent his first four seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Johnson even amassed five career starts, all in the 2009 season, but he’s a career 54% passer with just five touchdowns and ten interceptions, and an 0-5 record to boot.The 32-year-old Johnson was last on an active roster in 2017, when the Houston Texans signed him after DeShaun Watson’s season-ending injury, only to cut him, then re-sign him prior to the team’s final game. Jon Gruden’s Oakland Raiders signed Johnson in March of this year, then cut him loose in May.In other words Cheap Tyler Lockett Jersey , if neither Davis nor McGough really gives you much confidence in the backup QB position... don’t expect the potential inclusion of Josh Johnson to really amount to much. No one had more influence on professional sports in the Pacific Northwest than Paul Allen.But though he was the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and partial owner of Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders, Allen usually shied away from the spotlight sought by others in his same position. As an owner, he didn't have the same visibility as the Dallas Mavericks' Mark Cuban nor was he an omnipresent figure on the sidelines like the Cowboys' Jerry Jones.Allen would leave the locker rooms before cameras arrived, shuffling down hallways and out a side door to avoid taking attention from those he believed deserved it.The 65-year-old Allen died Monday from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to his company, Vulcan Inc. His death leaves a big void in the sports landscape in the upper left corner of the United States, and questions are likely soon to follow about the future of the Seahawks and Blazers.He was a revered figure in Seattle for his entrepreneurship, philanthropy and for keeping the Seahawks from moving to Southern California in the mid-1990s. In Oregon http://www.seahawkscheapshops.com/cheap-authentic-nick-vannett-jersey , he was the billionaire who bought the Trail Blazers at age 35 and grew them into a small-market powerhouse with a pair of NBA Finals appearances while keeping them rooted in Portland.He was also part of arguably the most successful expansion franchise launch in pro sports history with the arrival of the Sounders in 2009."He was a visionary second to none who changed the world but also changed this city which he loved," said Tod Leiweke, who was chief executive of the Seahawks in the 2000s. "He left as big an impact on Seattle as any person on any city. His legacy here in Seattle will be felt forever."Allen's passion was basketball, leading to his purchase of the Blazers in 1988. Within a few years, the team was playing in the NBA Finals with Allen regularly sitting baseline to watch his team on the floor.But it was the NFL where Allen got the most attention, first for saving his hometown team from relocation and later as the team developed into one of the league's elite franchises. Then-owner Ken Behring was set to move the Seahawks in 1996. Moving trucks had cleared out the team's facility and players did offseason workouts in Southern California until the league threatened hefty fines against Behring and lawsuits halted the attempted relocation. Allen then purchased an option to buy the franchise and he became full owner once voters approved the construction of what is now CenturyLink Field.After Allen became the owner, the Seahawks had 12 playoff appearances, three NFC titles and the only Super Bowl victory in team history. The team had made the playoffs only four times and had reached a single conference title game before him. Amid the success J.R. Sweezy Jersey , Allen's most public moments came when he raised Seattle's "12 Flag" before each of the NFC title games the team hosted."His passion for the game, combined with his quiet determination, led to a model organization on and off the field," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said.Allen saw the Seahawks reach the Super Bowl for the first time in the 2005 season when they lost to Pittsburgh. Eight years later, he finally raised the championship trophy after Seattle's 43-8 thumping of Denver to conclude the 2013 season, and that night he performed at the celebration party at the team's hotel.When Seattle celebrated its title in February 2014 inside CenturyLink Field, the normally reserved Allen took a moment to address the crowd. He spoke for less than four minutes, but his words carried weight for the fans."I can't say how proud I am that the Seahawks are able to bring the Vince Lombardi trophy home to Seattle http://www.seahawkscheapshops.com/cheap-authentic-tom-johnson-jersey ," Allen said that day. "Now we are all Super Bowl champions, each and every one of us." | 2019-04-23T16:21:27 | http://forum.pythetron.com/viewtopic.php?t=2212&p=2257 |
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People in your nationality are so rude.
...I was waiting in line for a pony ride in Irvine Regional Park this past weekend.
After 10 minutes of waiting in line, a white person behind me tells me "by the way, I was in front of you and you cut in line" I said, "why didn't you tell me 10 minutes ago when it happened, I didn't notice anyone behind me" He said "because I wanted to know if you noticed and said sorry to me" and then he said "you and people in your nationality are so rude, I've traveled the world and your people in your nationality are rude"
This comment was so offensive and insulting, I didn't know how to react. I'm asian and he probably doesn't even know my nationality. He just generalized based on race and appearance. FYI, the park was full of people during the pumpkin patch season, and it was not completely clear who was in line and who was just standing. I'm just appalled that someone can make a racist comment in my face in a public space.
"That's probably what an Oriental man like you do?"
I was waiting outside a mexican restaurant for my friend to pick up his order. A old white male comes up to me and asks me this question, "Oh man, what would you do if you broke a finger? Like, use your feet? That's probably what an Oriental like you would do.?"
After this, the male looked away in hatred and walked into the restaurant. I personally was perplexed at the immense stupidity of the question the old white man had just asked. Entitlement is something I see as the problem here.
On September 7, 2017, a teacher at Bergen County Academies in NJ made anti-Korean comments in the classroom. According to The Korean Daily, the Bergen County Academies teacher asked students about their culture and said that she loved those but "hated Korean." The teacher has since reportedly issued a verbal apology to the students. The Council of Korean Americans is monitoring this situation and have let local Korean American leaders know they have our full support.
We condemn the use of hateful and threatening words against any group of people.
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Kongsberg Maritime, Bureau Veritas and BOURBON carried out remote inspections and audits for DP system.
In the framework of BOURBON’s Smart shipping program, Kongsberg Maritime, Bureau Veritas and BOURBON carried out the first successful testing of a newly-developed application that enables remote surveying of Dynamic Positioning systems onboard on the Bourbon Explorer 508, off Angola.
“DP Digital Survey” is a solution developed by Kongsberg Maritime, in close collaboration with Bourbon and Bureau Veritas DP experts. It is a digital tool running on an industrial data management system that ensures unprecedented data consistency to verify onboard systems. “DP Digital Survey” acquires the information directly from the ships’ control systems and delivers it to the auditors via a secure cloud infrastructure, thus representing a real improvement in terms of quality of services. The ability to remotely survey the data output from the solution is a first for the industry and a further step on the road to ever smarter ships. The new application stands out from alternatives, providing real data of test completion evidence, not just photographs and video recordings.
The anticipated next steps as the “DP Digital Survey” tool evolves will include: improvements and increased automation of the survey process; and the ability to establish a continuous DP survey framework allowing detailed, and continual, remote monitoring.
Laurent Leblanc, Vice-President, Marine Operations, Bureau Veritas commenting said: "The key for us is to receive reliable performance and failure data - not just photos and pictures. We first check the data is of sufficient quality: data quality management is a key factor along with cyber-security for data transfer. Our expertise is then used to review and assess the data. This provides access to a higher level and depth of ‘onshore’ engineering expertise to make judgements on results."
Eivind Alling, Vice-President of Digital Performance at Kongsberg Maritime added: "This collaboration allows us to strengthen our core products by offering our customers tools that will reduce their OPEX and streamline their operations. KONGSBERG strives for innovation and we are creating new applications that will give our end customers more control of their data to support their operations."
Frederic Moulin, One Bourbon Operations Director commented: "This project greatly contributes to our Smart shipping program ambition; to capitalize on the digital revolution in order to stand out through a connected fleet and to reduce our operational costs. With our partners, we are ready to extend this “Digital DP Survey” to sister-ships in the next months and plan for further deployment later." | 2019-04-25T16:44:36 | https://www.bourbonoffshore.com/en/offshore/remote-inspections-and-audits-dp-system-first-industry |
The Nordic-Baltic region can manage without any CO2 emissions from the electricity, heat and industrial sectors by 2030.
A 70 per cent cut in CO2 emissions by 2020 since 1990, and 95 percent by 2030 in the Nordic-Baltic region is feasible, using known technology and not exceeding reasonable costs.
Solar electricity from the Sahara could supply Europe with 15 per cent of its electricity by 2050, at a price tag of 400 billion euros. | 2019-04-23T21:51:57 | http://airclim.org/author/fredrik-lundberg |
At the outset of WWII, Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a statement that “All combatants, under no circumstances undertake bombardment from the air of civilian populations.” US commanders, particularly General Frank Akers, believed that the best use of US air assets was precision bombing (as close as it got during the day) of specific military industrial targets. The British, however, felt differently about crossing the moral threshold of attacking noncombatants. British Air commander Arthur Harris said, “The Nazis began this war under the rather silly notion that they were going to bomb everyone else and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, Warsaw, London and a hundred other places, they put that rather naïve notion into use. They sewed the wind, and now they shall reap the whirlwind.” Churchill proclaimed that the side that bombed only military targets would certainly prevail. Often people with a conscience are compelled by the certitude of their own compassion and civility. The bombing o civilian infrastructure happened quite by accident.
In 1940, German bombers got lost over the English Channel and bombed a port city. Churchill was enraged and bombed Berlin. Hitler began a sustained bombing campaign against London and thus it began that non-combatants were free game in WWII.
On July 24th, 1942, British forces lined up 780 Lancaster bombers and launched a night raid against the northern factory town of Hamburg with a population of 1.5 million people under the name Operation Gomorrah. Hamburg was the second largest city in Germany behind Berlin and the chief manufacturing facilities for U-boats and ships of war were located there on the Elbe River. Hamburg itself was well defended with bunkers that could hold a quarter of a million people. Each bunker was able to withstand general bombing and each bunker held flak guns. Fifteen hundred ME-109s in airfields across the region protected Hamburg as well, all warned by Germany’s perfunctory radar warning system.
The British also had foil strips; today we call this chaff, and shoveled it out of their bombers to jam radars. The ten-hour raid was a masterpiece of air traffic control as it was conducted at night and involved almost 800 bombers. They hit the Blohm and Voss factory yards and all in all, the raid was a tremendous success militarily. Two days later the US sent 123 B-17s into Hamburg for a daylight raid. 20% of the B-17s were shot down, and the ME-109s were so well equipped and so determined that many went up, hit bombers and had the time to land and re arm and go up for a second run.
Sixty percent of Hamburg was destroyed and 45,000 people were killed. Over a million people fled the area and became instant refugees. The black eye delivered to the Germans was so embarrassing that Hitler refused to visit Hamburg and instead sent Goehring, head of the Luftwaffe.
A massive raid was planned for Berlin early the next year. The US 8th Air Force and British air assets launched 11,000 sorties against Berlin in ten days. The destruction was massive. 11,000 people were killed and 250,000 were made homeless. The British were convinced that if this pressure were maintained, the German would capitulate. Nothing further could be from the truth. The Germans showed no discernable loss of productivity or determination.
The internal fight between US air planner and British planners continued. The US felt that precision bombing of industrialize targets would be the best way to end the war, and the British felt a terror campaign would turn the tide. Neither side was completely correct.
On August 18th, 1943 General Akers ordered a daylight raid, unescorted against the ball bearing plants at Schweinfort. Again, it was a massacre of US aircrews with 20% casualties. US aircrews knew they had a 77% chance of dying before their 24 missions were over. The Brits also suffered high casualties; the RAF had lost 600 planes and 2700 flyers by the war’s end. The Schweinfort raid succeeded in hampering ball bearing manufacturing, and it also succeeded in ending Akers command. He was relieved of his duties and Jimmy Doolittle; the hero of the famous Doolittle Raid took over.
This time however, the Americans had a new long-range fighter, the P-51 Mustang. During bombing raids throughout the rest of 1943, Mustangs destroyed hundreds of ME-109s and Junker dive-bombers. Not only did they have the range, they had the speed as well. After escorting bombers in and out of Germany, the P-51s had enough fuel to drop down and strafe airfields over the French northwestern frontier and destroyed many German aircraft on the ground.
It’s interesting to note that during this intense battle, James Doolittle opposed bombing civilians. At the end of the day, even Eisenhower approved of Operation Thunderclap, a massive bombing campaign to flatten German cities both industrial and civilian. Experts believe that a half million Germans died as a direct result of the bombing campaign. Many Germans died of starvation in the streets or crowded into their bunkers during bombing raids. It’s also interesting to note that attacks on Leipsig and Berlin actually helped the Red Army overtake the still spirited and dangerous Wehrmacht.
Most Politicians Would Have Been Destroyed By A Fiasco Like Gallipoli. Not Winston Churchill.
Note that Operation Thunderclap never occurred. It was proposed, but ultimately decided against.
Well, if the first picture is of Hamburg in 1946 (one year after the war), and the third is of Hamburg after the war (presumably 1945 then?), then they did a marvelous job of rebuilding within a year… You might want to look at the dates there.
Also apparantly the british did not ascribe the same toughness to the germans that they did to themselves, as “The Blitz” only made the british more determined to end the war victorious….
The first picture is NOT of Hamburg in 1946, it shows the old town of Frankfurt am Main in the area beetween the Dom and the town hall Römer before it was completely destroyed at March 22 in 1944 by british forces. | 2019-04-20T10:48:26 | https://civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com/5053/strategic-bombing-in-wwii |
Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: What the twin scandals of Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie mean for the GOP, and a look at the Oscar nominees.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were indicted yesterday for accepting and attempting to conceal $140,000 in loans and gifts (among them private-jet trips and wedding catering) in exchange for helping a shady Richmond-based businessman curry political favor and push a non-FDA-approved “dietary supplement.” McDonnell’s scandal helped Democrats sweep Virginia’s 2013 elections. What is the political fallout of the former First Couple’s indictment and will it lead to more?
It was just a little over four years ago that the simultaneous election of McDonnell and Chris Christie to the governorship in two states along the northeastern corridor — the purple Virginia and blue New Jersey — heralded the arrival of a pair of dream presidential contenders for the GOP: relatively moderate, bipartisan-minded exemplars of good governance rather than ideological warfare. In McDonnell’s case, the moderation was a bit of a stretch: He’s the governor schooled at Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network University (since rebranded as Regent), whose tenure became synonymous with “transvaginal ultrasound wands” after he endorsed the idea of inflicting them on women seeking abortions. He’s also the governor who left any mention of slavery out of his declaration of Confederate History Month because he wanted to focus only on issues that he “thought were most significant for Virginia.” Now he will also be known for his close association with Rolex, Ferrari, Oscar de la Renta, Armani, Louis Vuitton, Bergdorf, and all the other aspirational brands that he and his wife were able to harvest with the aid of a sugar daddy seeking a gubernatorial blessing for a pseudo-pharmaceutical product that sounds suspiciously like snake oil.
McDonnell has a better chance of landing in prison than the White House. His household scandals paved the way for a most unlikely figure, the freewheeling Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe, to succeed him as Virginia’s governor. That’s the local political fallout. As for the future national fallout: The one-two punch out of McDonnell and Christie has pretty much leveled the media and GOP Establishment fantasy that the Republicans might nominate a “centrist” conservative for president in 2016. As I’ve said before — and before Christie’s fall — the front-runner for that nomination, at this early date at least, is Rand Paul. Unless, of course, Mitt Romney is inspired to run again by the runaway success of the humanizing documentary Mitt at Sundance. It goes up on Netflix on Friday, and may prove a winning political antidote to the repellent fictional Democratic politician Frank Underwood, soon to return in season two of House of Cards.
Christie was inaugurated yesterday amid scandals over the George Washington Bridge lane closures, Sandy relief money, and a growing sense that his office routinely punished his political adversaries. You dismissed Christie’s presidential chances before these scandals. What happens to him now? Can he still be a viable governor? And are there any conclusions we can draw between McDonnell’s abuses of power and Christie’s office’s misdeeds?
Before the scandal, Christie had about as much a chance of winning his party’s hearts and minds on the primary circuit as his fellow bully Rudy Giuliani did in 2008. In their own party, they are considered quasi-leftists by the grassroots. Now fellow Republicans have another reason to beat up on Christie, and so they are, with even (relative) moderates like Lindsey Graham joining long-time Christie bashers like Rand Paul in piling on. When Christie went down to Florida over the weekend to fund-raise for the reelection campaign of the incumbent Republican governor, Rick Scott, the two men had no joint public appearances or press conferences. Ken Cuccinelli, the right-wing former Virginia attorney general who lost the Virginia governorship to McAuliffe in part because of the McDonnell scandal, has just become the first to call for Christie to resign as chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
Christie cannot be a viable governor if he is spending all his time trying to defend himself. And he will keep having to defend himself until we get the answer, for starters, to the basic question that every voter is still asking: How does an underling send the order “Time for some traffic problems at Fort Lee” and get it executed on the busiest bridge in the world for four disruptive days without someone above her knowing about it or acting to end it? We also don’t know what other scandals will emerge, including the dirt that turned up in the Romney campaign’s vetting of him for the vice-presidency, or to what extent Christie and his circle will stonewall investigators and subpoenas. It tells you a lot about what’s to come that Christie has now hired a Giuliani crony, the criminal lawyer Randy Mastro, to help him circle the wagons as investigators flood into Trenton. Meanwhile, Christie’s public persona shows no signs of real contrition. He remains a world-class narcissist who regards himself, not his constituents, as the truly “sad” and “heartbroken” victim of the scandal. By the count of James Warren of the Daily News, Christie still managed to use the pronoun “I” nearly twenty times in his downsized eighteen-minute inaugural address yesterday. This is going to be a long second term.
If there’s a unifying lesson to be learned from the double-header of the McDonnell-Christie scandals, it’s only that dubious character is hardly a bar to running for governor. Yesterday, the Republican senator David Vitter, best known for turning up in the phone book of the “D.C. Madam” in 2007, announced he would seek Louisiana’s state house in 2015. Somewhere, perhaps, Rod Blagojevich is laughing.
Last week, the Oscar nominations were announced, with American Hustle, Gravity, and 12 Year a Slave getting the most nods. Did the Academy do last year’s films justice? And what or who were you most sorry didn’t make the cut?
This was such a great year for movies that there was no way even the Oscars could screw it up. I am a fan of Inside Llewyn Davis — a taste not universally shared — so I was sorry to see it snubbed. I remain baffled by the popularity of Gravity, a bravura slab of cinema smothered by a syrupy script that is as mawkish as it is unbelievable. (But if grosses count at the Oscars — and they do — it must be considered the front-runner.) I look forward to watching the ceremony, and hope that Mitt Romney, who spurned a Tony Awards invitation to present a trophy to The Book of Mormon a few years back, will serve as a presenter this time, now that he’s got skin in the Hollywood game. | 2019-04-20T12:48:11 | http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/01/mcdonnell-and-christie-rise-and-fall-together.html?gtm=top>m=bottom |
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There are spacious sun-terraces around the pool, as well as an outside shower and a barbecue. The pool is shared by the guests of all three houses at Finca Maroma. | 2019-04-21T18:33:23 | http://finca-maroma.com/accommodation-facility/bed-linen/ |
FukushimaVoice: What's really going on in Japan A letter to inform foreigners of situations in Japan.
This letter was written in an attempt to convince school officials to cancel annual school trips to Japan where the students in a public Japanese language immersion program participate in cultural exchanges.
I am an osteopathic physician originally from Kyoto. I have been in the US since 1983, attending college and medical school. I am quite fully bilingual in terms of writing and reading.
I am currently involved with this site which collects voluntary narrative case reports from those who have symptoms as a result of the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident.
I have been spending countless hours gathering and researching information regarding what's really going on in Japan since 311. I had to educate myself in what radiation contamination meant as well as the difference between internal and external radiation exposure. In my medical training, I never received much information about radiation.
The Japanese government has been absolutely terrible in how they have managed almost everything since 311. People were not informed of dangers of radiation exposure shortly after 311. As you might recall, it wasn't until May that the government admitted there had been 3 melt-throughs. By then, people had been exposed to radiation.
The concept of internal radiation exposure has been suppressed ever since Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing for political reasons so that atomic weapons development could and would continue. Researchers who studied low-dose radiation contamination had their studies suppressed and unfunded. Organizations such as ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection) and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) have gone along with this. Both promote the use of nuclear power. WHO (World Health Organization) has signed something with IAEA so that they would not interfere with IAEA's official announcements. Those researchers whose work was suppressed are mostly represented in ECRR (European Committee on Radiation Risk), whose general position is that there is no safe level of radiation and that hot particles ingested or inhaled cause internal radiation exposure.
The general consensus even amongst medical personnel who deals with radiation is that people should not have symptoms unless the radiation levels were much higher than what had been seen in Fukushima. I now know this is because what physicians have been taught was based on ICRP standards. I also know this is inaccurate.
The physicians and scientists in Japan are split in deciding what's really harmful to people. However, when you look at who is saying what, you begin to see that those who say high radiation levels are not harmful or people cannot possibly be having symptoms right now have some hidden connections to entities that are pushing nuclear energy.
Also, keep in mind how things work in the Japanese society. Those professors and scientists belonging to institutions often do not have freedom to speak their own minds. Thus very few people have been able to speak out the truth to inform the public about what's really going on.
So in a nutshell, the government does not really seem to care about the well-being of the people there. Otherwise why would they not evacuate Fukushima children? (I have read that it was because there was not enough money.) It is just insane for children to have to wear dosimeters to attend school. Also, the Japanese government's decisions are based on ICRP findings, so that's why people are still allowed to live in areas of high radiation levels including not only Fukushima but also Kanto regions.
The government's standard for radiation levels in food has been set at the level that is reserved for a total nuclear holocaust when nothing would be uncontaminated. That's what has been going on in the last 10 months.
FoodChain In Japan, if the radiation level is below the set standard, the food could be declared "uncontaminated" which is technically not true. Our families and friends in Japan are eating contaminated food, most of them unknowingly because they believe what the government says. Those who are more knowledgeable are watching what they eat, choosing food from the western part of Japan. Even then, it's difficult to avoid contamination. In the name of patriotism, consumption of Fukushima products is encouraged and even considered a virtue. Yokohama was one of the cities which had decided early on to "help out" Fukushima by using their products in school lunches.
School lunches all over seem to be serving things that should be avoided because they are known to show radioactive contamination early on, such as milk and mushrooms.
Hotels and restaurants, and I am sure airline food industry, would tell you that their food is within the safety limits set by the governments. Those limits are simply too high. It's like a Russian roulette. You don't know how much radiation is in what you eat unless you know how much is in each ingredient and prepare meals using such ingredients. This is difficult to accomplish, as ordinary geiger counters cannot measure what's contained in food. In Belarus, there are many regional testing centers where people can take food in for testing before deciding to eat, say, handpicked berries, or homegrown vegetables. There is a few such civilian testing centers in some towns in Japan, but it is not widespread enough for such testing to be a routine daily procedure for everyone.
Also, the label on the fresh food that shows where they were made seems to be forged quite often. Rice produced in Fukushima was snatched up at a cheap price by middlemen to be sold to food industry. Same for Fukushima peaches.
People in Hokkaido and western parts of Japan might not pay attention to what they eat as they think they are safe because they are far from Fukushima. The aerial and soil levels of radiation may be nearly normal in those places. However, in a country like Japan where goods quickly circulate from one end to another, unknowingly contaminated products are on the shelves all over the country. So in this case distance means very little.
You might think a few weeks stay would pose minimal risks, especially when the families and friends seem to be living an ordinary, almost pre-311 life there. I disagree. I can't guarantee this, of course, since nobody really knows what's in the food there anymore, but a few weeks of eating possibly contaminated food could cause enough internal radiation exposure to cause harm. I am not even talking about thyroid cancers and leukemia, although that could certainly happen. Internal radiation contamination means radioactive particles are in the body and remain in the body, emitting radiation at a close proximity to cells and DNA. I have copied an e-mail I sent to someone regarding internal and external radiation exposure at the end.
In Belarus, where the Chernobyl accident had a profound effect, only 10 to 20 % of children are born healthy, even 25 years after the accident. This is because the soil there is contaminated and food grown ends up being contaminated. In Belarus, toddlers might die of heart attacks. Premature aging is seen: children are having the type of illnesses you might see in older adults, such as hypertension, diabetes, cataracts, heart diseases, kidney diseases, etc. Sudden deaths are common. Of course congenital deformity and all kinds of cancers are happening.
It might be difficult to accept all this information when the most of the country seems to be going about in a usual manner. There has been an increase in sudden deaths which are not covered by media. You can see this blog, which is a partial English translation of Kota Kinoshita's blog. He is a journalist who covered the Tokaimura accident, so he knows about the dangers of radiation contamination, and he has been continuously calling for evacuation of Tokyo and Kanto region.
His Japanese blog is here.
It's not just sudden deaths. People are definitely having symptoms. I have seen many stories of bloody noses, cough, sore throat, metallic taste(these radioactive materials are basically heavy metals), fever, fatigue, bruises, skin eruptions, headaches, diarrhea, menstrual irregularities, etc., by people from Tokyo and Kanto area. Some of these have also been reported by those who live in the western parts of Japan.
Also, I would like to mention the reactor #4 at Fukushima Dai-ichi, which is collapsing. A few more strong earthquakes, and that reactor would go. Already the January 1 earthquake seems to have caused some damage, since radiation levels were high on January 2.
This map shows a natural radiation level in each prefecture prior to 311. The unit shown is microsievert/hr.
It is anticipated that the Japanese government will not tell the truth about the danger, once again, until people have been exposed to radiation. When the reactor #4 collapses, that would be an unprecedented event of nuclear fuel rods totally exposed to the air, which would make Kanto and Tohoku regions uninhabitable and greatly pollute the rest of the world.
Please remember that the government's declaration of so-called "cold shutdown" at the end of 2011 was meaningless. Technically speaking, current Fukushima Dai-ichi, with the nuclear fuel melting through the ground, is incapable of being in a state of cold shutdown, as such a process is only attainable when the protection around the fuel is still intact. What they really mean is that the cooling water isn't boiling. However, this would quickly change if there were more damages to the reactors.
Those of us who have been closely watching Fukushima Dai-ichi know it's just a matter of time before the reactor #4 collapses in such an earthquake-prone country as Japan. The government will never forewarn the people there so as not to cause panic.
Another matter to consider is the incineration of debris which might be radioactively contaminated. The government is trying to spread the debris to all regions of the country. Once again, the legal limits set by the government for the radioactive contamination of debris itself has been raised since before 311. If the debris is contaminated, radioactive material will be released in the incineration process. Tokyo has already begun the incineration, and Indeed people have been reporting increased radiation levels. Now that more people own Geiger counters, some have reported spikes in the middle of the night, when the nearby waste management facility might be incinerating them. So-called filters do not catch all the radioactive material released. This link shows which prefecture has accepted the debris.
Lastly, I would like to remind you that the government testing has been limited to iodine and cesium mostly. It is suspected there are more varieties of radioactive material that have been released from Fukushima Dai-ichi. As you might know, plutonium has been detected. If there is cesium, strontium is expected to exist, but testing for strontium is apparently cumbersome and thus not routinely done. This only tells you that you absolutely cannot rely on the "safety standards" set by the government.
I am sorry this was a lengthy e-mail, but the fact is there is so much you need to know to fully comprehend the situation there. I almost guarantee that the people in Japan you are communicating with will disagree with what I wrote here, simply because they have no idea what's going on. It is sometimes easier to see the whole picture from the outside. When you are in the midst of this, you are just trying to do daily routine, not having enough time to surf the net for information gathering. Relying on TV and newspaper will not give you correct information. Also, you don't want to admit that your life is about to be drastically changed due to certain unpleasant facts, and I get an impression that many there simply do not want to know. The truth is the Japanese government should have declared national emergency when those reactors exploded. They should not be silently exposing foreign visitors to radiation.
Everyone needs to learn what internal radiation exposure means.
What you typically hear is that a certain level of radiation is equivalent to a transpacific flight or an X-ray. This entails only the external radiation exposure where rays of radiation pierces through the body, which is what happened to people who were exposed to rays of radiation coming from the atomic bombs. These rays cause breakages in DNA structures. At really high doses, cellular breakages are so severe that people quickly die. So far it is claimed that nobody has died this way from Fukushima Dai-ichi accident, although it is not quite accurate. There are unconfirmed reports of deaths of the workers, such as those 2 workers who stepped in contaminated water in one of the reactor buildings.
A human body would try to correct the damage, but sometimes a mistake happens, which leads to genetic mutations of cells, causing cancers. Keep in mind that this can happen not just with radiation but also with other environmental toxins.
When cells are bombarded with lots of radiation, the body has no time to repair the damage.
Internal radiation exposure is an entirely different matter. This cannot and should not be compared to flights and X-rays. This happens when you inhale or ingest contaminated matter.
This actually happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, too, but the internal radiation exposure was not acknowledged by authorities for political/military reasons.
There was a speech by Dr. Shuntaro Hida, who was a young military doctor in Hiroshima at the time of bombing. He said that the US military told the Japanese government to not acknowledge anybody with who suffered radiation illnesses internally at a lower dose. The United States was trying to develop atomic weapons then, and health consequences from low-dose exposure would be against the international treaty, hindering the weapons development.
The video can be seen here. It’s in Japanese.
Also another Hiroshima survivor, Dr. Shoji Sawada, has been researching the internal radiation exposure.
The Japanese government is going by the standards set by ICRP which is an organization geared towards USING nuclear power.
IAEA is also an organization that promotes "safe" use of nuclear power.
Their purposes are not people's welfare but the development of nuclear power.
Thus the danger of radiation has constantly been underplayed.
What happens when you ingest contaminated food or water or inhale contaminated air is that you put radioactive material inside your body.
In the first video, Marco Kaltofen talks about hot particles. Once you inhale those, it's really difficult to get rid of from the lung tissues. The radioactive material keeps emitting rays of radiation at zero distance to cells.
Cesium mimics potassium chemically. Strontium mimics calcium.
Dr. Yury Bandazhevsky, a Belarussian physician, did autopsies on those who died after the Chernobyl accident and found accumulation of radioactive cesium in almost all organs. Because his research was proving the damage caused by internal radiation contamination, he was arrested for false charges and imprisoned for 7 years and deported. He is in exile in Russia.
Cesium can accumulate anywhere there are muscles such as heart and uterus, and also affect almost all organs as sodium-potassium pumps are ubiquitous. It's also known to accumulate in pancreas, causing or worsening diabetes. Strontium is taken up by tissues such as bones and teeth that ordinarily take up calcium. Blood cells are formed in the bone marrow, so strontium affects formation of new blood. Strontium and uranium are known to bind DNA, emitting radiation right where the genetic material is.
Iodine tablets as radiation pills work by letting thyroid gland take up nonradioactive iodine so that radioactive iodine is not taken up by the body. This only helps with prevention of thyroid cancer.
For your information, the Japanese government isn't testing food or soil for strontium as this is extremely difficult. However, if cesium is detected, you just assume there is strontium there, too.
It's not just thyroid and other cancers or leukemia which results from radiation contamination.
Radiation creates excess free radicals in the body, which in turn go through a chain reaction to cause lipid peroxidation of cells. This destroys cellular membranes of any cells in the body. When the cellular membranes are destroyed, cells lose integrity. Can you see how this would lead to malfunctioning of different types of cells, causing symptoms such as severe nosebleeds, diarrhea, etc.?
So the internal radiation exposure can lead to a wide variety of symptoms, but mainly your immune system is over-worked by trying to deal with the insult.
Actually we ARE exposed to some radiation all the time, as there is naturally occurring radiation from our geological formation. It has been part of the human evolution. Potassium has a certain percentage of radioisotope that occurs naturally. That's why bananas and seaweeds have some radiation. However, human bodies know what to do with the naturally occurring radiation. Our bodies do not absorb them unnecessarily.
Artificial radiation as a result of nuclear fission is a different matter.
Radioactive cesium, strontium, plutonium, etc., only come out of nuclear reactors.
We actually have radioactive cesium in our soil all over the world not only from the past nuclear testing and bombing and also from nuclear reactors.
Theoretically, our body's immune system can handle a little bit of radiation. It would be like you had a mild illness, and if you go and rest the immune system would take care of it. However, if the insult is over the body's threshold, the immune system can't handle it so well. This threshold varies in each individual. That's why some develop symptoms and some don't. Children have lower thresholds. I am told eating contaminated food for a few days might be enough to overload a child's body. Rapidly dividing cells as in developing fetuses and children won't have time to repair the damage to DNA before dividing. This leads to higher likelihood for genetic mutations. These genetic mutations are not only permanent but passed onto their offspring 100%, defying the usual Mendel’s law of genetic transmissions.
I still spend several hours each day looking through some blogs and twitter logs, and I have seen many reports of sudden deaths in teens up to the elderly. There is no way to confirm that those deaths are from radiation, but when many people begin to report more sudden deaths amongst their families and friends, you wonder why. Cardiac arrests, arrhythmia, and brain hemorrhages are being reported as causes of such sudden deaths. There were lots of mycoplasma pneumonia, persistent cough, hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, and bacterial meningitis reported in those who were ill.
It is commonly believed amongst health care professionals that deal with radiation that at "low-dose" of radiation such as what's been detected in Tokyo, people should not have any symptoms.
Well, the danger of radiation is so underplayed that the health care professionals have been given incorrect information. Otherwise they won't be able to use all the medical and dental X-rays.
It’s not just thyroid cancer and leukemia that might result from radiation exposure. I have seen many stories of bloody noses, cough, sore throat, metallic taste (these radioactive materials are basically heavy metals), fever, fatigue, bruises, skin eruptions, headaches, diarrhea, chest pain, irregular heartbeat, menstrual irregularities, etc., by people from Tokyo and Kanto area. Those who report the symptoms to doctors are ridiculed because they should not have any symptoms at the radiation levels they experienced. Doctors in Japan, with an exception of a handful of brave doctors, do not have freedom to diagnose radiation-related illnesses unless the Ministry of Health creates a policy permitting it. Apparently in the socialized medicine they have in Japan, the doctors have to follow the government policy or they will lose their medical licenses.
Just because people live far away from Fukushima and Kanto area, they are not free from any effects.
Because the radioactive material has fallen on the ground, a caution should be taken to prevent any contamination through genital area. This means not sitting on benches, ground, or grasses. It means wearing sanitary napkins all the time to prevent genital contact with any radiation contamination. By the way, there are some brands of sanitary napkins and diapers produced in factories in Fukushima which registered high radiation levels.
If you confer with prospective host families or school officials about these matters, they might tell you that you are over-reacting. They just don't know. A majority of the Japanese have no idea they are facing a nightmare of internal radiation contamination. They likely will not realize it until they begin to experience physical issues. By then it's too late. They might have actually experienced vague symptoms, but they might not have connected them with radiation exposure since the government has wrongly "assured" them everything was okay.
Do you remember when H1N1 flu was going around a few years ago?
That summer many Japanese groups cancelled their trips here even though there was no reason to.
This would be the opposite of that, in a way, except this time the problem is way more serious and less obvious. You can't just do a flu test in this case. I believe if it was the US having the radiation issues Japan is having, the Japanese would cancel the trip instantly.
I think certain risks are inherent in life, and you have to still live your life despite it. You can't just sit at home because you are afraid of car accidents, earthquakes, etc., but no matter what you decide, you should be able to make an informed decision. You need to have correct knowledge of what you are dealing with. Radiation is no joke. You cannot beat the internal radiation contamination. The best prevention is avoidance.
Thankyou so much for taking the time and effort to share this with the people of the world. Governments everywhere play everything down and the people walk blind, we need to speak out and protect fellow man and not fear the Governments.
Thank you for posting news about Fukushima and radiation contamination in Japan. I'm a Japanese living in the U.S. I was wondering about what's going on in Fukushima lately because we hardly hear anything about it. Because of my concerns for my families and friends living in Japan, I started surfing the net and found a Japanese blog that posts the radiation levels in the foods. I was stunned to see the radiation contamination in rice, flour, ice cream, mushrooms, etc., that are sold in stores. More I did the research, more angry I get toward Japanese government and Tepco. I can't believe what is going on over there. They seemed like they changed (raised) the maximum radiation levels in food so that it is legal to sell those contaminated food. The Japanese government hasn't and is not planning to evacuate people, especially kids, who are still living in the highly radiated area. The below video is the meeting held between the Japanese officials and Fukushima people. Those officials seem cold blooded. I got so angry and sad. | 2019-04-26T08:50:44 | http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-letter-was-written-in-attempt-to.html |
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Raleigh Wildcat – one step closer..
Serviced the pedals last night. They are solidly seized to the cranks, and didn’t have time to try freeing them, so removed the pedals from the in-situ spindles.
Gave everything a thorough clean, and replaced the bearings (happened to have some size matched bearings, originally purchased for the Fire Mountain headset, in my parts box), giving a liberal coating of grease.
One of the pedals is absolutely perfect in terms of friction-free and play-free movement; the first one I did has a mm or two too much play, so I’ll be tweaking that tonight. They were both incredibly graunchy prior to this, so a big difference.
Also chopped off the stubs of the pannier screw with a pound shop special junior hacksaw.. it’s pretty flush with the frame but needs a check for sharp edges.
I have a new chain and gear cables on order; the cables being Muddy Fox from Sports Direct. These are £1.50 for inners and outers, so I bought four sets, leaving two left over as spares once those on the Wildcat are sorted.
13.8m, 16 Strava trophies including five PBs, 52 minutes, boom. Saving the off roading for Sunday.
My mate J has recently bought a bike, along with a matching ladies version for his other half. They’ve done several flat rides, but not ridden on the Downs yet.
So J and I planned an introductory off-road ride, going from Shoreham to Devils Dyke and back.
The route was identical to my last ride.. up Mill Hill and then Truleigh Hill, and over to the Dyke. We had a short rest, and then came back, choosing to ride down to the Adur across the field and then down the singletrack, down to the Downs Link Trail.
From the Amsterdam / Red Lion, we parted company, J going home, and me still massively sitting on the fence as to where I’d go next.
I started riding east, towards Brighton, as I’d wanted to get to a Stamner for more Singletrack. I was on a bit of a tight schedule by this point, but decided to push on by road, which made it feasible time wise.. off road to the Beacon would definitely not have been doable.
Headed to Hove Park, then up Woodland Drive. Down past Withdean Stadium and along to Carden Avenue.
Up Carden to the top, and across a field, accessible from the roundabout, diagonally, on to the Beacon Road. It was further than I remembered to get to the entrance to the woods from this end, but to be fair, I’d never ridden from this end with the specific intention of riding Stamner.
Got to the entrance and had a stop for a Go Gel and to have a long swig from my Camelback.. I’d ridden 25 miles up to this point, and was concerned that slight fatigue would take the edge off of my reaction times, so didn’t want to distract myself with a camelback as I rode through the swoopy Singletrack.
Took pretty much the same route through as last week, not really having time to explore, but had great fun doing so, feeling just as exhilarated coming out the other side as last week. Rode down to the next section, where there was a notice indicating that there’d been a council-sanctioned bike event here earlier, and rode the rest of the Singletrack down to the Uni / Stamner Park fields.
From here it was an identical last leg to last week.. straight down Lewes Road to Brighton seafront, and back along to Shoreham, totalling 40.7 miles.
It was great to note how much cleaner the bike was at the end of the ride.. it only took half an hour to get her spotless, a sure sign of the ground drying up.
I even had time to get her up in the stand and index the gears, as I’d been experiencing a frustrating amount of chain skipping throughout the latter part of the ride.
So, 55 miles in total this weekend, and 80 in total this week!
I didn’t get to work on the Wildcat on Sunday as the Stamner Ride and subsequent bike cleaning took longer than expected.
Remove the struts for the panniers – these are about four inches long, and have the stuck screw problem that I’ve experienced all over the bike, despite a liberal soaking with GT85.
The cost of tools I’ve purchased in the course of this aren’t included, since I’ll be using those hopefully for many years to come. | 2019-04-21T02:19:09 | https://mtbdiary.co.uk/2017/02/page/2/ |
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If you would like to find out more about how diamonds are graded, classified and valuated, the best place to start is with the 4 Cs. Whether you simply want to expand your knowledge or you are interested in buying a diamond, learning the basics is essential.
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In today’s schools you find a very scary statistic: 50% of all new teachers quit after five years. This year’s ACS Outstanding High School Chemistry Teacher has surpassed that milestone nine times. Larry Walker has been teaching high school chemistry for 46 years now and shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, I think he can outlast most people one-third his age.
I first met Larry at an Occidental High School Chemistry Teachers Meeting in 1991 where we were both presenting. As a relatively young and new teacher I was interested in seeing what others were doing. He did not disappoint. Larry completely blew us away with an hour-long talk on integrating food into your lectures, and none of it involved eating! He extracted compounds, used as novel sources for his labs, and showed how to never let anything go to waste. He brought in recycling and being green long before it was a mainstream topic for high school courses. In fact, his science was “integrated” long before the catch phrase caught on. He finished the talk with a poem that we found sarcastic and pretty funny. It wasn’t until years later that I realized the power of his poems.
In the last 15 years or so I have had the pleasure of teaching with Larry once a month at the UCLA AP Readiness Program and at countless workshops. It is in this program that I have realized I have been watching a true master at work. Larry has some of the most innovative ideas for presenting material that I have ever seen. His examples are not the normal everyday ones we all use in our classes, but instead are the ones that involve everyday items we would not normally dream of bringing into our lessons. Samples of Mono Lake water serve as excellent acid base demonstrations. His rock collection is not just a hobby but a tool for teaching chemistry, even more then Earth Sciences. His poems are legendary. Most students will boo them on their first exposure, full of puns and bad rhymes, but once you actually start to read them you realize just how insightful they are for presenting difficult concepts. His students come to appreciate them once they make the connection that his poems represent the material he is trying to teach.
Larry grew up in the San Fernando Valley back when it was mostly farmland. He attended what is now called CSUN for his Bachelors and UCLA for his Masters. He started teaching at Notre Dame High School in September 1966. I find this amazing since I was born in October of 1966. He moved to Calabasas High School in 1977 and has been there ever since. In those years he has taught as diverse subjects as Oceanography and Ecology, coached Track and Field, and his mainstay for most of his career has been Chemistry and AP Chemistry. He also coaches Science Bowl and other academic endeavors.
Larry’s best known contribution to chemical education may be his involvement in the first UCLA Science Project in the summer of 1983. This was a collection of truly outstanding chemical educators, many of whom are still quite active. The group he was part of went on to produce the ACS “Doing Chemistry” laser discs and associated curriculum. In the fall of 1983, I was a student at North Hollywood High taking chemistry for the first time. I thought the course was excellent and it convinced me to pursue a career in chemistry. When I started teaching and examined the “Doing Chemistry” materials I recognized many of the lessons as ones that I had done as a student back in 1983. I was a guinea pig for these lessons and many of them were Larry’s creations.
Larry has presented countless workshops for CSTA, NSTA, ACS, and GLATSA. He has been a keynote speaker for Science Teacher events and published in The Journal of Chemical Education, NSTA Papers, and even published some of his poems.
Not many others know that Larry was a participant in every Olympic trial from 1968 to 1988. He twice made the US team—once in 1976 for Montreal and then the 1980 Moscow games but was blocked by the US boycott from attending. His event was the 20 km walk race. In fact, he held American records in the 2-mile indoor and outdoor events.
We stand before our students in the lab.
And the sight of neon’s spectrum drives us mad!
And a day without a lab-spill makes us sad.
As guillotine severed French science one day.
By making ammonia, but look what he’s done.
But the Green Revolution – it grew from his brain.
And thank you for this latitude.
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This research focuses on the pathogenic pollution of coastal recreational waters. Pollution of this resource can have serious social and economic implications. The health of the public could be compromised and there may be associated adverse impacts on the tourism industry. A section of coastline along the Durban Bight and including some of the nation's premier bathing beaches, was used for a case study. The water quality condition of the beaches was evaluated against both local and international marine recreational water quality standards. Most of Durban's bathing beaches were found to have good water quality. However beaches situated close to stormwater drains regularly experience poor water quality conditions. The relationships between beach water quality, the pollution sources and environmental factors such as rainfall were quantified. A weak correlation was found between rainfall and beach pathogenic pollution levels. No correlation was found between successive fortnightly beach samples indicating that the time scales of coastal dispersion processes are significantly shorter than the beach monitoring period. The research also indicates a need to update the SA marine water quality standards. The exclusive use of Escherichia coli (E.coli) as the indicator of faecal pollution is inconsistent with international trends towards the use of Enterococcus, which is a more robust pathogen indicator for marine environments. The main aim of the research was to develop a model to predict the water quality conditions of beaches. The Coastal Water Quality Model (CWQM) is intended to serve two functions: firstly to provide daily estimates of pathogenic pollution levels for beach management (e.g. closure under poor water quality conditions), and secondly to provide decision-makers with a tool for predicting the effects of changes on future water quality conditions. The CWQM was formulated as a stochastic state-space lumped advection diffusion model. A Kalman Filter was used for state estimation. Parameter estimation using the Extended Kalman filter was investigated but found to be unsatisfactory due to large input uncertainties and sparse measurements. An alternative statistical fitting procedure was therefore used for parameter estimation. The model was shown to produce accurate predictions of pathogenic pollution for the case study site. To further demonstrate it's utility. it was used to evaluate options for improving the poor water quality at Battery Beach. The results show that a constructed wetland could be effective in this case. | 2019-04-20T06:33:22 | http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui/handle/10413/4209 |
Buying a new home entails forethought in a lot of things, but before thinking of what colour to paint your walls, don’t forget to think about the wiring for your multimedia needs that should go inside those walls.
More and more, home entertainment is getting to be a focal point in our lives; and where we put our multimedia entertainment systems in the home — whether the living room, bonus room or basement — has to be well thought out to save headaches (and money) later on. This is the centre of discussion in my Shopping feature, where I talk to a couple of industry experts to check for advice on the intricacies of home theatre design.
Meanwhile, our design guru, Alykhan Velji, also gets in on the act and sets the parameters on how to successfully evoke a sense of wonder in your home theatre environment.
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In this issue’s Going Green column, L. Sara Bysterveld investigates Calgary’s environmental footprint and what the City is doing to shine a light on it.
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I just emerged from the busiest quarter of the year at work and haven’t had much time for blogging lately. But that’s not why I’m not writing here very often. As Stephen King proved by knocking out 8,000-page novels, delicately balancing his typewriter between the washing machine and his knees while the kids were sleeping–if you need to write, you will.
But wanting isn’t enough. I want to blog more often, but I don’t need to. I haven’t felt like there was something pressing I needed to tell you. Instead of writing fluff and filler just to keep the page views up, I’ve chosen not to write much at all. And that makes me uncomfortable. This blog and I have been chugging along together since May 2005. Never say die.
It’s not like I’m not writing. I swim in words all day at work. And ideas for plays, scenes, moments have been coming in a constant flow lately. I catch as many as I can and write them on index cards so 1) I don’t forget and 2) I’ve got a nice stack of inspiration to pull from when the time is right.
The time will be right, whether blog post or play, when I need to write the thing down because it won’t get out of my brain otherwise. Like a song that gets stuck in your head. The only way to exorcise it is to write it. So I bide my time. When want becomes need, that’s when the work gets done. More to come.
My family came for a visit yesterday, and we celebrated the belated arrival of fall. I put a few Halloween decorations around to help set the mood, including a scary 3-D skull that has an evil laugh, plays creepy music, rolls its eyes (which light up) and opens/snaps shut its jaw. I was worried it would scare the kids. I played it for them once and watched for their reaction. There was a pause and then delight. They kept pushing the button over and over (and over) again. At one point, I saw Rowan tentatively insert his finger in the thing’s mouth so it could bite him. Can’t say these kids aren’t tough.
Unlike me. Later that night, James placed the skull (which can be put on a motion-activated setting) in a dark corner of the living room. I walked by shortly before bed and it went off, scaring the crap out of me and our 70-pound dog. In the dog’s defense, she’s scared of everything. In mine, I’m very jumpy.
You know….Life went along just fine without blogs and all this other nonsense. It is cool that you don’t carve out time to entertain the likes of us out here in space. I need the motivation of pictures to get me to write anything in my blog. (blog??). I suppose so I won’t have to write anything smart or witty. The pictures of the country I live in carries it all along without my prose diminishing it.
We have one of those moving scary guys that dances and music plays. I have almost taken a baseball bat to that thing when I forget that it is set up. And, my dog hates that thing!!
You have a blog, Jim? Please share the address. I’d love to check it out, especially if it’s pictures of the beautiful place you live.
Irritating the dogs is one of James’ and my favorite pastimes. We used to have a bat that hooked to the ceiling and flew around in a circle, snapping its jaws and flapping its wings. Drove the dogs crazy.
Don’t expect any literary genius….it is just me grinding around on my bike! | 2019-04-20T14:47:18 | https://cryjack.com/2013/10/21/its-like-this/ |
Putting your items in a Fox Den Store-It storage unit is a great idea. Store them for a season, while you are moving, or remodeling, or just because you don’t have the space. We have more than a dozen different size storage units. Some units have electricity, for a bit of an extra charge, and some of the larger units have doors on either side, for easy accessibility.
We can help you estimate the size of unit you might need, but a word of advice – bigger is better. You may “guess” your items will fit in a 5 x 5 unit, but please rely on our experience. Use the handy “size, price and what you might expect to be able to fit in” on our website for some help determining what size you might need and here are some general tips for figuring out what size unit you might need.
Exactly what are you going to be storing? Will your items fit neatly in boxes or is some of it odd sizes, like bicycles or floor lamps? Are you storing your items to just leave it for say, six to eight months or are you expecting to be taking things in and out? If you are going to be moving different things in and out, you want to make sure you have room for a walkway.
Think vertical, too. You need to leave some space near the top of the unit for air circulation. But, if you want to utilize that space, put in a shelving unit to help you get more items in.
If you are storing a car, a motorcycle, an RV – measure it at the widest and tallest area. Don’t rely on the owner’s manual that says your RV is this long and this wide. Is it a jet ski, or something similar, then you have to think about the size of the trailer, too. Another thing you have to think about is the height. Standard height of a storage unit is 8 feet – so if you have an RV with air conditioning units on top, or a conversion van or sprinter that is taller than normal, take that into consideration.
If you are storing a scooter or motorcycle that tilts several inches to the side when the kickstand is down, you have to make allowances for that.
As an aside, we’ve got extra wide aisles at Fox Den Store-It so you don’t have to worry if you need to swing wide to get your camper or RV into a storage unit.
The smallest size unit is 5 x 5. This is relatively small. If you stand with your arms outstretched, you’d be able to touch the sides of the unit. You could probably put a double-bed mattress, a dresser and several boxes. Some common uses for a 5 x 5 would be extra items because your apartment is small, seasonal items or lawn and garden and sporting gear.
You could fit items from a standard sized living room in a 10 x 10 unit as well as some bedroom items. So, think couch, table, chairs, bookcase and two full bedroom sets. With these types of units, you should think of storing couches on end and dressers on their sides to get optimum use of space. As we said, think vertical.
A 10 x 15 unit is slightly smaller than a one-car garage and a 10 x 20 unit is the size of a one-car garage. A 10 x 15 unit is about the size of a 20-foot moving truck and a 10 x 20 unit can hold items that would go into a 25-foot moving truck. A 10 x 20 unit is about the size you need to store a classic car since it’s the size of a garage. There will also be a little bit of extra space on the sides so you can open the doors if you will be coming by the occasionally start it.
A 12 x 10 unit is about the size of a standard apartment bedroom and a 12 x 15 is the size of a bedroom in an average home.
A 12 x 20 unit is the size of an extended garage – so you could store a car with boxed items or other items in the front and back. Just remember if you are going to be starting it occasionally, put the rear with the exhaust towards the door.
Campers, RVs, larger boats and trailers, several cars, campers with a trailer can fit in the larger units that are sized at 12 x 30, 12 x 40, 12 x 45 and 12 x 50.
Feel free to drop by a Fox Den Store-It location during business hours to look at the unit sizes and talk to the friendly staff. We want you to have the right storage unit size and be happy they are in a safe and secure facility. Call or e-mail if you have additional questions. | 2019-04-21T17:09:26 | https://rapidcity.foxdenstore-it.com/news/id/29/how-to-choose-the-right-size-storage-unit |
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The cancellation was announced by Mr. Booker’s campaign on Tuesday morning and hasn’t yet been confirmed by the White House, though it appears the ongoing federal government shutdown is behind the move.
With Mr. Biden no longer coming to New Jersey, Mr. Booker instead will embark on a five-day bus tour across New Jersey, the Star-Ledger reported. The trek will begin on Friday.
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Great stuff Laurie!!! I have the 17-55-9 Journey DX and love it. Curious as to how they've got the door in front of the axels with an island bed? We have single beds in ours so a bit different but full ensuite at rear and door next to it behind the wheels. Not sure if you know but you can upgrade the solar to 160w for under $100 which is a handy upgrade.
Thanks for the update on the panel mate Yes we were only talking to a salesman at the show. Does the 160w suit your purpose and a second battery was on the cards I think we will take a trip out to the dealership and suss out a few more options before the build starts. Another comes to mind, an inverter. Tend to think of these things after the event .
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Yeah I got a second battery as well. I also got an extended drawbar which is one option you can't add later. It gives me a larger area to store stuff on the drawbar.
Yes , thought about an extended drawbar but trying to keep the weight down. Every little bit adds up. In saying that when i made my camper trailer, i extended the drawbar. Easy to reverse.
At this stage we have $6.500 to play with this will include additions to the car. New tow bar, reversing camera, electric brake controler, insurance. We will not go over our original budget but welcome anyones comments in regards to upgrade/options if we can fit them in with the budget .
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Most important question - what trips do you have in mind? You don't buy a house on wheels without a few trips on the horizon.
Yes so far the 160w has been fine. I have purchased a 120 kings blanket for the Everest and will set up an Anderson plug as well for it in case we need to chase some sun. If you’re thinking an extra battery get it added into your build that way it’s in the tare of your van and not eating into your payload. I haven’t got an inverter yet, maybe down the track.
I'm led to believe the extended draw bar improves towing stability is this correct Matt?
Maybe a little help pacs and helps a little with revering as well. I have the jerry can holder on there and a tray for a bit of wood or dirty gear bag or whatever it is quite handy.
Major trips. Well we have driven and camped in every state in Aus TASSIE included but there is so much that we have'nt seen. Big country and we will take in as much as we can.
Number one will be WA. We have been to PERTH and south of there. This time we will be driving with the turtle on the back taking a lot of left turns finding different spots along the coasts of SA and WA. Then head up to PERTH catch up with my sister. From there further north again along the coast, taking some right hand turns inland pending road conditions? Following the coast around PORT HEADLAND, BROOME,DARWIN and then back down the center. I would like to check out some places in the NT and see how they have changed over the years. Last visit was in 92. I am sure that some of the roads that we travelled then are now sealed?
From there back home to VIC. Plan some more trips into NSW and Queensland while still exploring VIC in the mean time.Thats the plan at this stage.
We won't be idol mate .
Well we went down to the dealer today and sorted out some optional extras that we wanted to add. This being the second time that we have looked and having time to think about things.
A second AGM battery(100amp)has been added, alas because of that we have lost some storage space(Drawer) not to worry.
Additional 12v sockets have been added, plus USB.
Shelving has been added instead of hanging in the bedside robes.
An additional 12v light opposite the entrance side. Hence seeing , water connections, etc in the night time.
An anderson plug will be connected to the draw bar for the portable solar panel.
The only other addition at this stage, will be a stone guard.
Apart from that job done.
May i say. We purchased an outback model, simply for clearance. Save scrapping the gutters.
My opinion. Yes it will serve us well. For our needs and travels.
Personally, this van will only do the tar or some gravel roads and nothing more. I don't think i would put it past that.
I have a tregg on my Jayco fitted from factory. Since then lots more options out there.
We have towed ours all over aus without issue just making sure all the pretrip prep is done to plumbing protection etc.
We have done the Ood trk, Gibb, Karajini, All the west coast, Painted Desert, The dirt way down from Longreach to Broken Hill via Windorah and Jundah and Tibooburra etc. Plus lots of dirt High Country roads and some roads and tracks we probably shouldn't have.
We just returned from 4 days in the HC actually, I reckon our van would've easily covered 80k. | 2019-04-23T00:45:54 | http://www.4wdadventurers.com/showthread.php?5336-Turtle-on-the-back&s=1795243858909056e6c4e3b2898d62c0&p=113911 |
Using a dominant ball-control offence and a few gambles that paid off, the Saints got two touchdown passes from Drew Brees and two interceptions from Marcus Lattimore in a 20-14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.
Thomas’ touchdown capped an 18-play, 92-yard drive in which the Saints actually covered more than 100 yards because of penalties. It lasted 11 1/2 minutes.
Indeed, the visitors were in control until Lattimore picked off Foles’ deep throw to Zach Ertz. The Saints showed plenty of moxie on their 79-yard march to a touchdown, faking a punt at their 30, with Taysom Hill running 4 yards for a first down. They also went on fourth-and-goal from the 2, and Philadelphia’s rapidly depleting defence surrendered Kirkwood’s 2-yard touchdown. | 2019-04-25T08:24:44 | https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/saints-rally-past-eagles-20-14-will-host-nfc-title-game |
The Lead: The Emerson men's Volleyball Team fell to the Regis (Mass.) Pride on Thursday night, in a match where senior Mark Pioorkowski (Montclair, N.J.) earned the 1000th kill of his career.
Piorkowski paced all players on the court with 23 kills, adding 13 digs, two service aces and one block. Piorkowski now has 1017 career kills.
Win Kittivatcharapong (Bangkok, Thailand) added 18 kills with 7 digs for the Lions.
Three players hit double-digit kills for the Pride, with Matt Ferrara leading all Regis players with 18.
Lucas Raagas (Cambridge, Mass.) led all players with 38 assists for the Lions while Sebastian Valdes had 29 for the Pride.
The Lions fell in the first set, with both teams trading points. Regis took four of the first five points, with the Lions coming back.
After a kill by Sam WIllinger (Golden Beach, Fla.) put the Lions down four at 22-18, Regis took the next three points to take the set 25-18.
The second set was much closer, with both teams keeping the other from creating a big lead. The Lions jumped out to a four point lead on an attack error by Regis at 16-12.
After the Pride came back and tied the score at 23 a piece, a pair of kills by Mark Piorkowski gave Emerson the victory, and Piorkowski has 1000th kill.
The third set started the same way, with both teams staying close at the start. Emerson opened up a five point lead on a Willinger kill at 15-10, before Regis came back and knotted the score at 15.
After the score was tied Emerson took a two point lead, and did not let Regis take the lead back, taking the third set 25-23 on a Piorkowski kill.
In the fourth set, Emerson and Regis went back and forth with no team taking a big lead. The Lions ended up falling in extra points, 28-26, taking the match to a fifth set.
The shortened fifth set had the Linos lose by two, 15-13, and fall in the match 3-2.
Emerson will get back in actin on Thursday night, when they close up the regular season at Brown & Plofker Gym in a GNAC matchup against Johnson & Wales. | 2019-04-19T20:41:33 | https://emerson.prestosports.com/sports/mvball/2018-19/releases/20190403fgtieo |
In both cases, the rationale is that it makes you feel good. The “easy win” of completely paying down one debt or the sense of accomplishment of a having a $1,000 cash cushion certainly feels good. Of course, those two measures probably make you feel better than the status quo, i.e., not tackling your debt at all or not having any savings at all. But wouldn’t the average person feel even better if they knew a faster way to get out of debt? Does anyone else find this troublesome? Do the financial gurus view their readers and listeners as a bunch of feeble financial fruitcakes? Is this some sort of personal finance edition of “You Can’t Handle The Truth” with Jack Nicholson / Colonel Jessup?
You can’t handle the truth … about paying down your debt faster!?
Even if our financial gurus believe that we are all so dumb, why don’t they educate us? It is a mathematical certainty that if you have multiple debts then the most efficient way is to use the debt avalanche method, i.e., first repay your debt with the highest interest rate. What about the mathematically inclined people who actually had the right intuition and wanted to use the debt avalanche method? What if they now follow the so-called expert advice and use the snowball method instead after listening to the financial experts? I hope I’m not the only one troubled by that!
But, but, but, … what about the Harvard Study?
I’m glad you asked. The snowball fans now claim that they have the definitive proof of the superiority of their strategy: A study featured in the Harvard Business Review claims that there is empirical evidence that the snowball method is more effective.
Let me start by asserting that whether you’re from Haahvaahd, Haahvaahd Square, or even Haahvaahd Qubed: Your experiment will not invalidate simple arithmetic that shows that the debt avalanche method is more effective.
That’s a really cool and interesting result! But both the snowball and avalanche method concentrate their debt-reduction effort. One concentrates on the lowest balance debt and the other on the highest interest debt. So, the higher motivation for working and paying down debt would apply to both. How this proves that the snowball method beats the avalanche method is a mystery to me.
The ERN family credit card “debt” as of June 8. I should say that we pay off the balance every month, of course, so this more a float rather than credit card debt. PersonalCapital makes it really easy to track your balance, so what’s all this “perception” about?
Well, if someone has, say, $2934.58 in credit card debt and his or her perception of this debt differs from $2934.58, then maybe credit card debt is not the most serious problem in this person’s life. But maybe I’m just too analytical and too much of a quantitative geek to appreciate the need of introducing some mumbo-jumbo perception measure for something that can be measured easily and precisely to the second decimal. But even if you go that route, again (!) the perception of more progress in paying down debt applies to both the snowball and the avalanche method. This is still no evidence of the snowball beating the Avalanche method!
Well, this sounds like that pesky perception measure again. In the lab experiments, there isn’t even a mention of debts with different interest rates. Why would people who use the avalanche method and actually pay down their debt faster then perceive their progress as slower than with the snowball method? This doesn’t make any sense!
If you thought that the insanity of the feel-good advice above is hard to top, you are so wrong. The inefficiency in the snowball method emerges from the interest rate spread between the smallest loan and the highest interest loan. Probably only a few percentage points in most cases. Sometimes the smallest balance may even have the highest interest rate, so there is no harm at all.
Keeping an emergency fund while still carrying credit card debt.
The number one source for this insanely bad advice: Dave Ramsey recommends saving $1,000 in an emergency fund even before paying off credit card debt. Now we are losing money to the tune of the spread between the credit card interest rate and the (after-tax) rate of return in the money market account where we keep the $1,000 emergency fund. This could easily be in the double-digit percentage, say, 16% credit card rate and 1% after-tax return in the money market account.
Let’s still look at the following numerical example. Imagine a person has $2,000 in credit card debt currently charging 16% plus a $1,000 emergency fund. What is the incremental advantage of not following Dave Ramsey’s advice? What happens when we pay down the credit card balance with the $1,000 savings? The numbers are in the table below. Notice that the $12.50 advantage is independent of whether an emergency actually occurs or not. If we don’t have an emergency we save the credit card interest on the $1,000. And if we do have an emergency after a month then, well, we charge it to the credit card and still have a lower balance than Dave Ramsey. It’s a win-win situation!
It’s optimal to use a $1,000 windfall to pay down a high-interest credit card. You outperform the feel-good emergency fund by 1.25% per month, for a staggering 16% annualized risk-free rate of return!
You are now leaving cash on the table, all for the purpose of feeling good. True, it’s only $12.50 per month. But remember, the $12.50 per month is meaningful enough for someone who wants to get out of $2,000 of debt. If you want to spend $12.50 per month to make you feel better, why not use that money to pay down debt faster?
On this blog, we strive to give good advice. Sometimes good advice may not be consistent with what feels right or feels good, whether it’s due to behavioral biases or computational limitations. Sometimes I catch myself “agreeing” with people who propose suboptimal advice, thinking “well, if makes them sleep better at night…” I shouldn’t! I owe it to my readers to point out flaws in the feel-good strategies like the debt snowball. If people continue to feel good about bad advice, then we in the blogging community haven’t done a good enough job to explain some of the shortcomings of widely cited suboptimal strategies. After all, there is no better feeling than getting out of debt faster and building wealth faster!
Sorry for ranting! If you want to leave your own rant, please comment below!
Posted on June 14, 2017 June 14, 2017 by earlyretirementnow.comPosted in Asset AllocationTagged bad advice, debt, finance, interest, investing, personal finance.
The reality is that people know math but they don’t remember it when they’re living their daily lives. The debt avalanche is mathematically optimal but human beings are, on average, not mathematically optimal. They’re fallible, irrational beings who routinely make poor choices – so the best way for someone isn’t always the mathematically optimal way.
Is it feel good? Sure. But that’s not why it’s espoused so often.
If we were all mathematically optimal, credit card debt would not exist in the first place. Who in their right mind would pay 18% on a slice of pizza???
If the right debt reduction plan involved some complicated math problem I could forgive people for not maximizing their decisions 100% of the time. But in this context, all we have to do is to change our simple heuristic from the bad to the optimal.
Also agree, that people are irrational, sometimes stupid. But no person should ever be considered irredeemable. Even though I call the snowball advice irredeemable, I never call the people that. Especially if folks have decided to get their life in order they deserve the correct and rational and optimal advice.
Thanks for the thoughts. The biggest “advantage” touted in the snowball method, paying off the smallest balance first, is purely behavioral/emotional. However – from the perspective of someone working in financial planning – we should instead be changing our behaviors to align with what makes the most sense financially/mathematically. In this case, using the fact that paying the higher interest rate debt first to guide our behavior. Or, for those giving advice, the aim should be to help shape client behavior to what makes the most sense financially. Unfortunately, as you point out, that’s not always the case.
That’s very well said! Instead of reinforcing the bad behavior and educating folks we should encourage the mathematically correct way of paying down debt. Thanks, Evon!
Love this quote. Unfortunately a lot of people would rather pay 18% later than the $1.5 now.
Great point! I personally prefer to keep as little cash/bonds as possible due to the opportunity cost of lower expected returns than equities. But, and this goes back to the sentence in the fist paragraph, not everybody has my kind of risk appetite. If someone has lower risk tolerance they should hold more bonds/cash. Today’s two examples referred to cases where irrespective of risk tolerance a true arbitrage opportunity exists.
Isn’t the point of an emergency fund to avoid a personal liquidity crisis if credit card borrowing is not accessible? Use of a credit card can be terminated by the issuer. This is particularly likely to occur during a general economic downturn. Having an emergency fund of readily accessible cash offers some protection against that risk. Can the cost of concurrent credit card and cash balances be viewed rationally as a form of premium for insurance against a liquidity crisis?
Businesses with sophisticated financial management operate that way. Even when they have revolving lines of credit and ready access to debt markets, they often maintain cash balances greater than their short term needs. They do that because they seek to avoid a liquidity crisis if their access to credit dries up. A number of investors have made significant money by being willing to step-in and fund businesses caught in that kind of crisis that would otherwise be forced into bankruptcy.
Isn’t personal finance the same?
AmateurInvestor, so if you pay down that credit card $1,000 and don’t have that in your emergency fund, you still have $1,000 available in the case of an emergency because you have that liquidity available on the credit card. And you are better off because you have been saving $12.50 every month. In my opinion, comparing a business to a person is comparing apples to oranges because if you were paying your bills on time every month, your credit card company wasn’t shutting down your access to credit on credit cards you already had open. A business, on the other hand, might have all sorts of fancy debt covenant requirements they need to maintain at all times, and if they break said covenants they go into technical defaults on their loans and their access to credit can get shut off completely or reduced significantly. For example, in the 2008 recession, my income was 1/4 of what it was the previous year and sinking asset values made my debt/tangible net worth ratio get all out of whack. I paid all my bills on time and my availability on the few credit cards I had didn’t change. If I were a business, I would have gone into technical default! I think your point is important, however.
Thanks for sharing that! This is more eloquent and detailed than I could have ever written!!!
1: My personal credit card utilization is in the low single digit %, sometimes below 1%. But even for the more indebted nobody can tell me that can’t scrape together another $1,000 of credit line somewhere even if banks are tightening credit. People probably used a ot of creativity to get into this debt, they might use some of that skill in the unlikely event of a) an emergency occurs and b) a 2008-style liquidity crunch happen at the same time.
2: Business vs. Personal: WishICouldSurf wrote a great reply, which I couldn’t have written any better.
This. I read that article recently and felt the same way. No, no no. The math is relatively easy in these two cases. And don’t get me started on ANY Dave Ramsey financial advice. Someone gave me a book from him recently and I while I made a valiant effort, I couldn’t make it past the 3rd chapter.
Amazing how he can have such a following!
I might have to check it out just for a good laugh (likely only nerdy finance ppl think this stuff is funny).
Listened to it. I would have been a lot more critical than they were… but it’s DR’s schtick and I guess he is just sticking with it. My opinion is that DR wants you to find ways to make a lot of money and then spend a lot of it because he assumes ridiculous rates of returns on investments so you don’t have to save quite as much. I guess it makes sense for the masses but his advice isn’t the best because math.
They were very diplomatic, true!
A wise man once said – if you go through life expecting people to be logical, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Not everyone make decision logically. Most of us go with our feeling. That confounded me for years, but now I’ve accepted it. Just do whatever works best for your situation. If feel good advice works, then that’s better than nothing. Or even good advice that you don’t follow.
I don’t personally use the debt snowball, but I still have to disagree with you here. People are not robots so feel good matters. Some people need wins to keep their motivation forward. How that happens is not always optimal mathematically, but payoff is better then nothing.
Playing devil’s advocate, wouldn’t the balances shrinking faster using the avalanche method be a win to keep motivation going forward?
Ha, that’s exactly how I think, too! There is no better motivation than paying down debt faster! Great point!
You rock! Thanks! Just fixed it!
Great points, obviously humans are not very logical creatures. Rather we like to think based on emotions and what feels good, hence the feel good advice. When something is marketed properly, any advice will sell.
The one thing I also find annoying sometimes, is the saying that debt is the root of all evil. Of course, paying off debt is admirable and often necessary. But in our personal case (different tax rules), we don’t have any advantage in paying of our debts over investing it instead. So we pay down the minimum and invest everything we save.
Ha, great point! We have the same pet peeve about “debt is evil”! If used in moderation it’s a very nice tool to hack taxes and personal finance! Couldn’t agree more!
Awesome rant! Thanks for stopping by!!!
2) you won’t call Dave Ramsey’s radio show.
Ramsey is engaging the behavioral issue. Folks who are hurting financially appreciate analgesics and I won’t begrudge them this (provided it’s not a lot of money). Thus give the debtor a quick-win of paying off the a little debt to help stiffen his/her spine to lean into the bigger debt relative rates notwithstanding.
Did I do this? No. But during my avalanche pay-down I grew excited and motivated to pour even more money into debt service as I knocked off mortgages. The snowball leverages this psychological effect to squeeze more debt service out of the snowballee. And more debt service narrows the snowball-minus-avalanche difference further.
What I haven’t done, and would like to see, is a financial basket case with many debts at different rates repaid via snowball versus avalanche pay-down strategies. I suspect that the disadvantage narrows non-linearly with lower rates over shorter time scales.
The behaviour aspect might be the reason he suggests this. For many people, starting with a quick win might be the only way to actually start, regardless of the interest rate. For those people, it is better to start small than do nothing at all.
They gain confidence and might then read more and finally switch to the right mathematical solution.
As I wrote in another response: Then we should redefine what’s a quick win: Make it “Pay off your first x dollars” rather than pay off your first card. How much one has paid off is so easy to track now with PersonalCapital.com!!!
Good post, again! I see the debt snowball the same way I see the “everyone gets a trophy” mentality. I had a bunch of credit card and student loan debt coming out of college years ago, and I felt bad about it until I paid it all off! As a result, I cut expenses, did without some luxuries, worked overtime, and paid it off as fast as I could, which also meant tackling higher interest debt first. As the balance went down, I felt less bad about my debt, rather than good. Since then, I’ve avoided most debt like the plague because I don’t want to feel that way again. I think accepting responsibility for your situation, feeling bad about it, and then taking steps to correct it and avoid it in the future are better than giving yourself a participation trophy so you can feel good every time you take a small step towards paying it off. That’s what works for me, anyhow. I think you need to bifurcate and not let feeling bad about your debt spill over into other parts of your life, and indeed, I still look on that period as a golden era – because with youth and a little imagination, you can still have a great time without spending a lot of money, even with a bunch of debt.
I think you picked a less effective example than you might have. Any aggressively frugal lifestyle that pays down debt will be successful. To me the really horrible advice is borrowing money to buy lots of rental property, buying whole life insurance, buying any kind of annuity, investing in penny stocks, leasing new cars. Of course you are correct, you are obviously an intelligent guy facile with math, but it’s not like the snowball system won’t work at all, it’s just not mathematically optimum. On the other hand I probably wouldn’t have read an article that didn’t have a hook in it. So I have to admit, I enjoyed reading it!
And agree: The snowball method is probably not the worst advice in D.R.’s portfolio, but it seems to be the one that became most mainstream!
Glad you enjoyed today’s post!!!
Yes agree there are other ‘life money’ issues that are totally twatish.
Haha, that’s a good way of putting it! Cheers!
Invest in growth funds with front-end loads via my ELPs to get your 12% per year!
If Dave didn’t give us so much ammo, I don’t know that we’d be talking about him nearly this much. He may be onto something.
Ha, D.R. has blessed us with so much bad advice, we can’t handle that all in one post. The 12% myth and the recommendation of actively managed funds are particularly pernicious!
Myth? The S&P 500 has produced an average annualized nominal return of 12.12% since 1926.
We could have a long discussion on average annual vs CAGR or nominal vs real but what he says “The stock market’s average annual return has been 12%” is accurate.
Even if it is accurate, it is misleading because it implies that your money would grow at 12% annually which is false. Dave Ramsey’s target audience is definitely not the people that would understand the difference between what he is saying and what they think he is saying.
It is completely nonsensical to compute annual returns and then take the arithmetic average. The CAGR is the only way to calculate this.
Example: after 2 years, your stock portfolio is up by 21%. That’s a 10% CAGR, no matter what the path was.
So, Dave Ramsey would call the last example an average +46% equity returns? You’d have to be completely mathematically inept to do that. But maybe he is. Who knows!?
Is stating your mortgage interest rate instead of your APR mathematically inept?
Its not mathematically inept, just a different calculation and different metric. The same applies to average annual and CAGR.
If I ignored all stock market valuation metrics what would my expectation be for next year’s return in the stock market? The average annual return of 12.12%.
If I ignored all facts of life I could assume any average annual return. Why not 18%?
Another great piece of work on your part; a very nice distraction from my vacay!
Not a huge fan of the D.R., but his program is targeting a different segment of the personal finance market than ERN readers. D.R.’s books, FPU, and radio program are focused on the mass market of typical consumers who are pretty much clueless on money matters. I occasionally listen to his radio show to re-acquaint myself with how disconnected my thoughts are from the masses wrt to personal finance. It is rather disquieting how many of his callers are able to ask trivial questions and perceive the D.R.’s responses as insightful; even more perplexing is hearing a caller rationalize (“rational-lies”???) the most insane financial decision. D.R.’s callers are usually not rational, hyper-optimizing homo-economicus by any stretch of the imagination. Just getting them to LBYM and invest for the future is a Herculean (or is it Sisyphean?!?!?) task. He uses the phrase “baby steps” that he co-opted from the movie “What about Bob?” (fully disclosure: DrFIRE rates this movie 3.5 stars and owns this movie on DVD) to make his process seem less daunting. In short, he is solving a psychological problem, not a logical problem. Satisfice (Simon, 1956) is the operative word for D.R., not optimize. Additionally, while there is plenty of what the D.R. proselytizes that is clearly not optimal, it is hard to argue with the results of the marketing machine he has built.
Time to get back to my vacay…As a fellow homo-economicus, utilization of dynamic programming yields that it is optimal to have a Cheeseburger in Paradise! I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes, big kosher pickle and a cold draught beer….(full disclosure: DrFIRE owns the digital version of this album and rates it an 11 out of 10).
Funny that you say this because I do the same. Sometimes when I flip through the channels and I land at Suze Orman I keep watching. She’s also cringe-worthy with her non-rational advice (just as debt-averse as Ramsey) but it’s entertaining at times.
Your defense of the D.R. baby steps is the right response to the wrong problem. There are (personal) finance problems that are too complicated to optimize for the average person. We have to resort to simple heuristics, satisficing, etc.
But the debt snowball is different. The snowball is never superior and most often inferior to the avalanche method. Here the simple heuristic of always using the avalanche is actually optimal. Certifiably! And some people still don’t want to use it. That is really puzzling to me. Hence today’s post!
Anyway, enjoy your well-deserved vacation! Thanks for stopping by!
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble, it’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.” What is particularly humorous to me about this quote is that it’s author is actually not known with certainty even though it is commonly attributed to Mark Twain.
In short, your metric for superior/inferior ain’t necessary the same as metric used by the crowd that D.R. preaches to. For a person with hyperbolic discounting challenges (homo-consumericus in juxtaposition to homo-economics := Big ERN), focusing on the “reward” of paying off smaller debts first (implicitly defining a “win” as completely paying off a debt) may be what they need to stick with the D.R. baby step 2 versus going back to their old debt-ridden ways. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22915115 for a neuroscience article along these lines.
Thanks for the links. I totally agree that there is hyperbolic discounting. Otherwise known as permanent procrastination. I’m sure that’s what got most people into their credit card debt mess.
Some of these comments about D.R. remind of one where the caller call in having a linking roof and D. R. said tarp it and save up before breaking out the credit card. Nothing like seeing a band-aid put on one of their biggest investment.
Argh, that’s bad advice! There is a whole bogleheads thread on crazy advice by D.R. but this one is one of the worst I have heard! Thanks for sharing!
While I agree that mathematically a “debt avalanche” method is objectively superior, I think you are discounting the time/mental effort benefits of the debt snowball method. Many people who end up in this kind of debt (high debt load/multiple lines of credit) usually have plenty of stress in their lives. Family, your job, kids, and life in general all result in a demand of limited time and mental effort.
If you can easily eliminate a few low-balance debts, you get to save all the time of worrying about it. No more having to remember if you sent the check in time, if a debt collector will call about the balance, or what your password is for the account.
I think that this is the key to understanding why this method may work for others yet seem ridiculous for you. This link (http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-develop-growing-up-poor_p2/) is a horrible, click-bait article that is completely anecdotal and has no scientific backing, yet I think it can still be illustrative of how different a mindset other people come from. What I got out of this was that when you are under this kind of stress, you are mainly just reacting to events. In this situation, I can see how getting a few items permanently off your plate right now can seem better than a slight improvement in long-term economic benefits.
And hence my criticism: Would a balance that disappears faster with the debt avalanche reduce some stress? Why reinforce people false intuition about the “quick wins”? Why not call it a quick win to pay off $1,000?
You are exactly making my point! We should no longer encourage people to chase after false quick wins.
Perhaps I did not convey my point well, but I must disagree that my argument supported your point. I was attempting to show that different types of stress exist and that a reasonable person could weight their stress priority differently. Different weighting will result in plans that make sense for different people.
From my understanding, your argument is that financial benefits are the only thing that matters. Because financial benefits are king, reducing financial stress faster will reduce total stress faster. Therefore the “quick wins” argument makes no sense and the debt avalanche is superior in all cases.
I argue that, for some people, financial stress is only a small piece of their total stress. In particular, I focus on time stress and mental recall stress. Each bill that you pay requires a fixed amount of both time and mental recall. Since people weight their stress differently, a debt snowball may make more sense, because some people value the reduction in required time/mental recall more than their financial gains.
Personally, I agree that the debt avalanche is better for most people. I just disagree with you that there is no rationale for the debt snowball.
But I still think that’s a false choice fallacy: Either the DR way or no debt pay down at all. Why not paying down debt the optimal way, and on top of that explain why it’s optimal and motivate them that way!?
I don’t think this is bad advice per se and mathematically the debt avalanche is probably smarter. However, it also depends on what you mean by “effective.” If you mean effective sticking with and paying off debt I wonder if the debt avalanche is the best. I mean PF is primarily behavioral in nature. Lots of people, unfortunately, live via pathos and not necessarily logos. So I would like, if it is out there, more designs of studies to determine sustainability of both methods.
It occurs to me that there is another aspect that we have not considered when comparing the debt Snowball vs Avalanche. That is risk. Dave Ramsey serves a market that includes a lot of financially marginal people. They got a zillion debts to pay for incidentals and commonly ask how to avoid bankruptcy. They may suffer a reversal and abruptly stop debt service. In such a case paying off the many little debts concentrates the effort of renegotiating debt to those accounts most amenable. And if I halt repayment on all my debts, it won’t matter that I paid 90% of my big high rate loan when I could have serviced several smaller loans 100% otherwise.
The avalanche is the best way but it assumes a smart borrower who isn’t at risk of bouts of stupidity or hard luck.
Ha, good point. Nover thought about it that way! Thanks for stopping by!
I’m with you mate. Compound interest can be your best friend and worst enemy. I used a combined approach with my student loans, because each loan had the same fixed interest rate. So, in my budget, I decided how much could go against my student debt. Then, I made the minimum payment on the loans with the largest balance and all the rest against the loan with the smallest balance. Had one of those loans had a higher interest rate, regardless of balance size, I would have maximised against that one.
You rock, Jeff! And quite amazingly, in your case you were indifferent due to the identical interest rates and you made the extra payments toward the largest (!) balance, so the opposite of what the Harvard Study and Ramsey call the most feel-good strategy. Thanks for sharing!!!
So I’m gonna tackle making an argument for the $1000 emergency fund even though it’s totally sub optimal. And of course the argument is all behavioral.
People who reflexively pull out a credit card (i.e. homo consumicus) to cover bills often have terrible spending habits. They don’t look for things on sale, look for things used, shop around for quotes, try to fix things themselves, ask if they really need it, try to go without for a period of time, ect… When these people suddenly face the constraint of only having a $1000 available they may be forced to implement these habits because A) they don’t have enough money, or B) it hurts to see their hard earned money leave.
Many people in debt don’t weigh the pain of saving money against the pleasure of spending, hence the debt problem in the first place. I really do believe the DR approach helps people rewire their brains which is way more important than strictly the math side of a few percentage points in optimal savings.
Once a person gets their brains wired properly, the emergency fund is, of course, nonsense. A >50% savings rate is the best emergency fund that exists.
Haha, good point. Folks in the FIRE crowd have long ago graduated from the DR school of thought. We do much more serious finance hacking here! | 2019-04-25T09:54:34 | https://earlyretirementnow.com/2017/06/14/good-advice-vs-feel-good-advice/ |
Many reported experience of physical pain and suffering as a motivation to begin yoga practice. This chapter explores the growth of yoga as therapy to deal with specific medical complaints, with a particular focus on The Yoga for Health Foundation, the Yoga Biomedical Trust and B.K.S. Iyengar’s traditions of yoga for ‘remedial’ conditions as varying visions of applying yoga as therapy. The further professionalization of yoga teaching in the therapeutic context is considered. It is argued that yoga in Britain avoided a medical model of professionalization, while maintaining a popular promise of improving health and well-being. | 2019-04-25T22:54:27 | http://api.equinoxpub.com/chapter/show/33792 |
This recipe combines some of my favorite ingredients in a tasty twist on chicken salad. Plus, presenting in these awesome, easy-to-make tortilla bowls is the best way to fool your diners into thinking you’re a master chef.
1. Heat oven to 400°F. Spray insides of 4 ovenproof 2-cup soup bowls with CRISCO® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray.** Set aside.
2. In food processor bowl with metal blade or blender, place all vinaigrette ingredients except oil. Cover; process until smooth. With food processor running, slowly pour oil through feed tube until mixture is thickened. Set aside.
3. Spray 1 side of each tortilla with CRISCO® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray. Sprinkle cumin and 1/2 teaspoon salt evenly over sprayed sides of tortillas. Press tortillas, seasoned sides up, in bowls. Place bowls in 15x10x1-inch pan. Bake 5 to 7 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove tortillas from bowls; place upside down on cooling rack. Cool completely.
4. In large bowl, mix chicken and 1 1/3 cups mango. In small bowl, mix 1 tablespoon lime juice and the avocado. Add avocado and remaining salad ingredients to chicken mixture; mix well. Add vinaigrette; mix well.
5. To serve, spoon chicken salad into tortilla bowls. (Bowls will be full.) Serve immediately. | 2019-04-26T12:43:53 | http://blog.mexgrocer.com/mango-jalapeno-chicken-salad-in-cumin-tortilla-bowls/ |
I was pleased on Tuesday morning to see the movie “The Tree of Life” nominated for an Oscar. It was probably one of the most beautiful movies I have ever watched.
The beginning of the movie is a citation from the book of Job: “Where were you when I founded the earth…while the morning stars sang in chorus and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38: 4,7) That quote prepares you for what the movie will try to say to you. As Job believed in God’s plan, we too must trust even if each day seems to be a dark night.
The “Tree of Life” is story of a family in the 1950’s. The film follows the story of the eldest brother Jack (Sean Penn) from his childhood into adulthood. The movie is essentially about the way he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father, played by Brad Pitt.
The central idea of the movie is that there are always two forces in opposition: nature and grace, and we have to choose one. We see that life is full of choices between nature and grace and we see nature as something strong, conflicting and violent and grace as something pure, loving and peaceful. However, if we see both as something that comes from God, we understand that he is present in every moment of our lives.
I would have to agree with him because what I felt was that just as Job accepted all the things God put on his path, we have to look at our lives like that. Sometimes we have to surrender and accept the plan God has for us.
The Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, referred to this movie as a “film-prayer addressed to a God”. I see this movie as good for all those who believe in God as the one who is present in every step of our lives.
Nature and grace both come from God, which means we are free to choose our way, and it doesn’t matter which choice we make, He will always be there. | 2019-04-26T09:47:27 | https://saltandlighttv.org/blogfeed/getpost.php?id=31741 |
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The minute a class of students step off of their school bus on to the farm, the excitement is palpable. The day may be grey, rainy, or even snowing, but the young pack of explorers can barely contain themselves because they know the next two hours hold adventure and discovery. Poughkeepsie Farm Project is a place that invites curiosity and unearths rich multisensory experiences. A place to marvel at the rising steam of a colorful compost mountain, celebrate beneficial insects and dance the honey-bee-waggle, a place where getting dirty is encouraged, and above all, vegetables are king.
As a passionate nutritionist dedicated to inspiring children to develop a taste for vegetables, I find myself in a very powerful position at PFP. It is rare that after digging up an octopus-like carrot, journeying through a kale forest, or discovering the zombie like effects of shredding a beet, children haven’t fallen in love with what our farmers grow. When children line up to leave the farm at the end of their visit we are often confronted with the same questions. From the children: “Can we LIVE HERE?” (it’s always assumed we live in the coop) “More More More More?!!” (referring to whatever vegetable we last tasted) and from myself and fellow educators: “Do they carry this enthusiasm home?!”.
For all those young vegetable enthusiasts who beg for more turnips and kale and wish to live in the spirit of the farm, and for our education team questioning the extent of their reach, we have developed a new and exciting program that works to bridge the gap between PFP and home: Farm Fresh Home Chefs. Farm Fresh Home Chefs is a family cooking workshop series that brings children and their caregivers together for a hands-on healthy-eating experience. During the first hour of these workshops adult participants receive a nutrition lesson while youth engage in a garden activity. Families come together for the last hour to cook together. In this hour together they discover new vegetables or celebrate familiar ones, share money-saving techniques and practice recipe modification, learn appropriate cooking tasks for all ages, and discover the joy of coming together over healthy food.
Fall of 2016 marks our third round of Farm Fresh Home Chefs and we couldn’t be more excited. Below is a story about the experience of a hard-working family of four who participated in Farm Fresh Home Chefs last fall. May PFP continue to sow the seeds of little healthy eaters, and encourage a culture of life long healthy eating in Poughkeepsie.
Sam and Tina are the epitome of hard working parents dedicated first and foremost to their children’s well-being. Though both would drop anything to ensure the safety and happiness of Louis, 7th grader at Poughkeepsie Middle School, and Layla, 5th grader at Krieger Elementary school, they have found some of their efforts in providing the best for their children to be quite a battle, namely, encouraging healthy food. Participating in “Farm Fresh Home Chefs” (FFHC) a cooking and nutrition program offered by Poughkeepsie Farm Project, was Layla’s request, and Tina and her husband Sam jumped at the chance.
Farm Fresh Home Chefs is funded by United Way of Dutchess-Orange Region and The Jeannette F Schlobach Fund of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley. | 2019-04-20T07:18:25 | https://www.farmproject.org/blog/2016/10/30/for-the-love-of-vegetables |
Monitoring of three locations yielded a total of 1288 artifacts. Precontact artifacts (641) were recovered from 2-4 cultural horizons that are associated with earlier identified horizons dated to AD 1225-1285. Historic/Recent artifacts (647) are from the Railroad Period (1888-1989). Artifacts represent the following categories: lithics; architectural objects; lighting and manufacturing equipment; transportation; glass and ceramic ornamental and storage containers; dinnerware; communication; food processing; clothing; recreation; transportation; floral and faunal remains. Some beverage containers and dinnerware are dated (1904-1911) and detailed by manufacturer. Stratigraphy is discussed in detail.
Monitoring of construction yielded a total of 469 artifacts, consistently mainly of faunal remains (mostly butchering remains, but some naturally deposited specimens) with few floral remains and 2 lithic flakes. Stratigraphy is discussed in detail.
Auger drilling of pile holes to support new additions yielded two Precontact artifacts that could not be assigned to any specific cultural occupation. They are faunal remains (bison) and could not be associated with either human hunting activity or natural deposition. Stratigraphy is discussed, and appendices include an artifact catalogue.
In continuation of a 1989 assessment, mechanized excavation of 9 trenches yielded 1533 artifacts. The Late Woodland Period (AD 500-1737), including the Blackduck tradition (AD 750-1000), Precontact artifacts represent the categories of lithics, ceramics, faunal remains, and a hearth feature. Historic artifacts represent the categories of: architectural objects (including structural); glass and ceramic containers; plastic debris; and faunal remains. These are identified with the Early Historic Period (1737-1888), including the Hudson’s Bay Experimental Farm (1836-1848). Stratigraphy is discussed in detail. Appendices include an artifact catalogue. | 2019-04-26T16:21:53 | http://upperfortgarry.com/information/online-library-resources/archaeological-reports/page/3/?material=8 |
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Step 1: Download and extract Intex Aqua Q8 flash file on your Computer. | 2019-04-22T00:36:49 | https://www.mobilerepairinginstitute.net/2018/09/intex-aqua-q8-stock-firmware-rom-flash.html |
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Pat Wictor in Albany Saturday 5/9, with Phil Ochs Song Night! | 2019-04-23T05:51:32 | http://www.patwictor.com/index.php?page=newsletters&category=01--Newsletter_Archive&display=2686&from=48 |
The Clifton High School, Girls 1st XI Hockey Team, recently faced The Royal High School, Bath in our annual Challenge Shield Match. This is this 102nd year this fixture has taken place, making it a highlight in the hockey calendar for both 1st Teams.
Clifton High School hosted the game this year and were fully prepared for the fixture. We took an early lead in the game, the 1st goal a fantastic break from midfield then scored by Ali, in Year 11, followed by an accurate pass into the ‘D’ from Lucy in Year 11, deflected in the goal by Mia, also in Year 11. Royal High then came back with a goal from a drive along the back line and a strong finish.
The second half of the game was a well contested match on the pitch, however Clifton High worked exceptionally well as a team and our next 2 goals scored by Alex in Year 11, who was positioned well on the post. Royal High managed to score a final goal from a well-deserved short corner goal.
The final score 4-2 to Clifton High School, saw the return of the Challenge Shield to School after being in The Royal High School’s possession for the last 4 years.
A superb team performance and an excellent display of determination and enthusiasm was shown by all players in the squad. Well done all. | 2019-04-19T20:40:19 | http://www.cliftonhigh.bristol.sch.uk/Hockey-Success |
N Scale catenary: a matter of style and taste?
farish, can i have a 105 dmu please?
Severn Models - Interesting delelopment ?
What Era are concrete sleepers?!
Replacing front bogies on older Farish steam models?
Kato Eurostar questions -- newbie to N gauge.
Yet another rookie question, sorry !! | 2019-04-23T16:10:01 | https://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewforum.php?f=20&start=150 |
We are Steph and Carmen, a mother-daughter team who love everything to do with art, science and sensory play.
Steph is an early childhood specialist with over twenty-five years experience teaching in schools and at Telethon Speech & Hearing. She currently works with children one-on-one and in small groups in programs tailored to support their individual sensory and developmental needs.
Carmen is an anthropologist with a little bowerbird of her own and a background in dance and music.
We love sharing our passion for creativity with our toddler and would like to extend this to your precious little people.
The combination of our experience ensures that we have a broad skill set and the ability to create classes which are stimulating, fun, engaging and educational.
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Have a look through our different classes and pick the class that suits your little one. Classes have been designed to be age appropriate, but if you have any questions please don't hesitate to email us. | 2019-04-24T23:58:42 | https://littlebowerbirdstudio.com/pages/about-us |
The national debate over President Bush's secret wiretap program raises other privacy issues. What implications does this have for employer monitoring of employees in the workplace? Many citizens will want to examine the employer's authority under the law to spy on workers. To motivate employee compliance, companies increasingly are putting teeth in their technology policies. Workers have been fired for misuse of the internet. Others have been fired for email misuse. Still others have been fired for misusing office telephones.
Technological advances, such as video cameras, GPs vehicle monitoring systems, and even drug testing have provided employers with superior tools for investigating and gathering evidence of employee misconduct in the workplace. Various federal and state laws limit the extent to which employers may use such technology. These limitations multiply exponentially for employers who have a unionized work force. Therefore, employers need to act cautiously when conducting investigations into employee misconduct, especially in a unionized workplace.
This article appeared in the June 13, 2006 issue of the San Diego Daily Transcript. | 2019-04-26T12:02:08 | https://www.fisherphillips.com/resources-articles-spying-in-the-workplace |
A traditional list (of words) has been handed down (to us). It is to be (here) explained. This same list is called Ni-ghaṇṭavas. From what (root) is (the word) Ni-ghaṇṭavas derived? They are words quoted from the Vedas (ni-gamāḥ). Having been repeatedly gathered together from Vedic hymns, they have been handed down by tradition. Aupamanyava holds that, as these are the quoted words of the Vedas, they are called Ni-ghaṇṭavas on account of their being quoted (ni-gamanāt). Or else (the word Ni-ghaṇṭavas) may be (so called) from being fixed only (√han), i.e. (a list, in which) they (the words) are fixed together, or collected together (√hṛ).
Now, what (are) the four classes of words? They are the following: noun and verb; prepositions and particles. With reference to this, they thus prescribe the definition of noun and verb: the verb has becoming as its fundamental notion, nouns have being as their fundamental notion. But where both are dominated by becoming, a becoming arising from a former to a later state is denoted by a verb, as ‘he goes’, ‘he cooks’, &c. The embodiment of the whole process from the beginning to the end, which has assumed the character of being, is denoted by a noun, as ‘going’, ‘cooking’, &c. The demonstrative pronoun is a reference to beings, as ‘cow’, ‘horse’, ‘man’, ‘elephant’, &c.; ‘to be’, to becoming, as ‘he sits’, ‘he sleeps’, ‘he goes’, ‘he stands’, &c.
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The following is our wish list of Sanskrit dictionaries to be added to the search.
As this is a gigantic manual work, there are bound to be errors (omissions/ mistakes etc.) and the users are requested to use the "report error" link, provided at every word, to inform us the errors. The reported words will be verified and corrected.
We request volunteers' support in digitizing and proofing so that more dictionaries could be added to the search at a faster pace. | 2019-04-18T21:24:45 | http://andhrabharati.com/dictionary/sanskrit/index.php?w=%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D |
Conscious of its sensitivity – the whole of the Haileybury campus lies within the Metropolitan Green Belt – the school and its architects (working with PTP Landscape and Urban Design) sought to build in sympathy with the context, with the retention of existing trees a priority.
Built on a sloping site and partially over a pond, the building creates a variety of spaces – from the more open communal areas at low level, through to the larger dormitory areas for the junior girls and the single-person study-bedrooms in the top floor.
Externally, the completed house makes use of handmade Sussex brick, render and timber, with gently pitched stainless steel-clad roofs draining into a central gutter – rainwater is discharged via a dramatic shovel-ended pipe into the pond. Escape stairs are strongly detailed in steel. | 2019-04-20T04:29:17 | https://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/2413 |
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By following the rules of engagement, escalating where appropriate, and collaborating with the taxing authority at every level, the taxpayer was ultimately able to sustain 95% of its R&D credit refunds.
“They really go to bat for you. It doesn't matter how much time it takes, or how many hoops they need to jump through. They don't give up."
As this Fortune 500 company expanded operations to more states, additional state R&D tax credit opportunities became available. TCC prepared a multi-year analysis claiming a significant state-level R&D credit benefit on behalf of this client. During audit, the state taxing authority proposed a complete disallowance, based primarily on a legal position adopted by the state.
Since our approach embeds IRS and state controversy experts from the beginning of every study, TCC was prepared for the audit and able to react quickly and effectively. Our first step was to request a detailed write up from the auditor to understand the state’s position for disallowing the credit. Upon review, TCC requested, and the state granted, a review by the state’s technical expert. The state subject matter expert upheld the auditor’s findings.
Understanding the importance of procedure and the rules of engagement with the state taxing authority, our R&D controversy specialist elevated the issue to the state’s legal department. Ultimately, the legal division agreed with TCC, the auditor’s decision was reversed, and the claim settled at 95% allowance, avoiding the need to go through a lengthy appeal process. | 2019-04-22T05:06:24 | https://taxcreditco.com/successstories/collaborative-defense-secures-fortune-500-healthcare-companys-credit/ |
It might appear like a extremely embarrassing factor to talk about the frequency to proceed to the bathroom, but in reality, it is a typical function that all human beings need to practice to keep us healthy. Evacuate is part of the last stage of the digestive method and one of the most basic functions of our body which influences our health and wellness. Excrete waste content can poop hacks represent a difficulty and a super demanding moment for many individuals, we cannot envision how many people suffering from this problem are constantly looking for how to make yourself poop, without having to go to a clinical consultation, to not feel that he’s to trust a stranger with such an enchanting and painful issue.
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The story of a visit to Fort Ticonderoga in 1872.
Part 1, The photographer and his book.
This is the first in a four-part blog series describing a visit to the ruins of Fort Ticonderogain 1872 by Seneca Ray Stoddard. Stoddard (1844-1917) was a prolific photographer and writer focusing much of his work on New York’s Adirondack mountain region. His guidebooks to northern New York are valuable resources that provide a unique window into the past. Stoddard’s work at and about Fort Ticonderoga offers a rare glimpse into an aspect of the Fort’s past that we are only now beginning to fully appreciate.
Seneca Ray Stoddard left an exceptional combination of photographs and a written record that, when used together, offer unique insight into the history of Fort Ticonderoga. By studying his works in tandem, we have the ability to retrace the steps and thoughts of a visitor to the Fort at a time when the Fort was still a romantic ruin and the events that occurred at the site were still vivid in people’s imaginations.
In 1873 Se neca Ray Stoddard published Ticonderoga: Past and Present. This book chronicles his visit to Fort Ticonderoga in 1872. He begins his narrative with a description of the trip to Ticonderoga via Lake George steamboat, and the overland stagecoach ride to the ruins. Upon reaching Fort Ticonderoga, Stoddard provides a rare and detailed description of a visit to the ruins and its outlying defenses and offers an interpretation of the Fort’s historic landscape and features; an interpretation based in part on his own knowledge of the Fort’s remarkable history and, in part, on the interpretation of other, more military-minded individuals who have visited the ruins before him. While not necessarily published to be a guide to the Fort, Stoddard’s Ticonderoga does read as an unofficial guide book to this historic site that in the 19th century was already a well-known destination for America’s earliest generations of heritage tourists. When combined with Stoddard’s extensive stereo photography of Fort Ticonderoga’s ruins, this book creates a veritable time machine in which one can travel 140 years into the past and visit the Fort at a time when it was still a pristine ruin.
Seneca Ray Stoddard visited Ticonderoga at least five times between 1868-1874. We can document his visits to the day through his signatures in Fort Ticonderoga Hotel guest books.
To get to Ticonderoga, Stoddard traveled the route followed by countless people before him; by boat down Lake George. Whether idle travelers seeking respite in the peace of the northern lakes, businessmen traveling between New York City and Montreal, or armies seeking to capture or control Fort Ticonderoga during the French & Indian War and American Revolution; Lake George was the crucial link in the historic water highway passing through northern New York. In the 19th century the Lake George steamboats disembarked their passengers at the Baldwin docks south of Ticonderoga. From there travelers passed overland by stagecoach to the steamer dock on Lake Champlain below Fort Ticonderoga’s ruins. By the early 1870s, with the construction of the railroad along Lake Champlain, travelers had the option of catching the speedier train to continue their journey.
William Baldwin’s stagecoaches at Fort Ticonderoga, September 25, 1874. This rare stereoview illustrates some of the very stagecoaches that Stoddard describes in his book. | 2019-04-23T14:31:04 | https://www.fortticonderoga.org/blog/in-sight-of-the-ruins-a-quarter-mile-distant-part-1/ |
Do you wonder whether you are being frank or rude when dealing with others? Are you pondering the differences between chastity and prudery or fidelity and idolatry? Confused about whether your humility is really self-contempt? Unclear if your new relationship is love or lust?
Philosopher Montague Brown (of St. Anselm College) offers an abecedary of short meditations (from "Admiration" to "Wonder") that provide the answers to these and other questions. Each reflection pairs with a particular virtue, quality or concept with which it is often confused. For example, "Hope," which Brown defines as "the will that what is good might be," appears with "Wish," which is called "the desire that what one wants might be." He goes on to summarize the differences and similarities between each, and then offers a one-sentence summary of the meanings of the two concepts.
Each meditation includes a quotation from a famous thinker and a concluding "Ask Yourself" section that contains several questions to help readers interpret their own motives and actions. The book includes recommended books so readers can pursue some of these ideas further. Moreover, these reflections are reductive and simplistic, and they do not encourage deep thinking about any of the concepts about which Brown writes. | 2019-04-26T05:47:23 | https://www.sunrisemarian.com/product/9781928832553.html |
It feels as though disc-based media have always been with us, but the 1990s were when researchers first began harvesting these iridescent creatures from the wild in earnest, pressing data upon them to create the beast known as CD-ROM. Click-and-point adventure games, encyclopedias, choppy full-motion video ... in some cases, ambition far outweighed capability. Advances in technology made the media cheaper and more accessible, often for the worst. There are some US households that still burn America Online 7.0 CDs for fuel.
But we’re not here to delve into the late-90s CD marketing glut. We’re nestling comfortably into the mid-90s, when Internet was too slow and unreliable for anyone to upload installers onto a customer portal and call it a day. Software had to go out on physical media, and it had to be as bug-free as possible before shipping.
Chris, a developer fresh out of college, worked on product catalog database applications that were mailed to customers on CDs. It was a small shop with no Tech Support department, so he and the other developers had to take turns fielding calls from customers having issues with the admittedly awful VB4 installer. It was supposed to launch automatically, but if the auto-play feature was disabled in Windows 95, or the customer canceled the installer pop-up without bothering to read it, Chris or one of his colleagues was likely to hear about it.
And then came the caller who had no clue what Chris meant when he suggested, "Why don't we open up the CD through the file system and launch the installer manually?"
These were the days before remote desktop tools, and the caller wasn't the savviest computer user. Talking him through minimizing his open programs, double-clicking on My Computer, and browsing into the CD drive took Chris over half an hour.
"There's nothing here," the caller said.
So close to the finish line, and yet so far. Chris stifled his exasperation. "What do you mean?"
"I opened the CD like you said, and it's completely empty."
This was new. Chris frowned. "You're definitely looking at the right drive? The one with the shiny little disc icon?"
"Yes, that's the one. It's empty."
Chris' frown deepened. "Then I guess you got a bad copy of the CD. I'm sorry about that! Let me copy down your name and address, and I'll get a new one sent out to you."
The customer provided his mailing address accordingly. Chris finished scribbling it onto a Post-it square. "OK, lemme read that back to—"
"The shiny side is supposed to be turned upwards, right?" the customer blurted. "Like a gramophone record?"
Chris froze, then slapped the mute button before his laughter spilled out over the line. After composing himself, he returned to the call as the model of professionalism. "Actually, it should be shiny-side down."
"Really? Huh. The little icon's lying, then."
"Yeah, I guess it is," Chris replied. "Unfortunately, that's on Microsoft to fix. Let's turn the disc over and try again." | 2019-04-19T04:35:57 | https://thedailywtf.com/articles/shiny-side-up |
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If your one of the residents of another state and have begun voting with your feet, ….And he didn’t mince words, explaining he was taxed out of the state for greener pastures to no-income-tax Tennessee. Many are also moving for jobs which may slow sales also. | 2019-04-21T10:47:39 | https://www.keepingcurrentmatters.com/es/2012/12/12/homeownership-as-an-investment/ |
Helen Atthowe, Missoula County Extension Agent (Missoula, Montana) talks about the farming techiques she used near Stevensville, Montana. She calls it "Conservation Farming".
Helen is well known in the Missoula area, not just as the Missoula county extension agent, but also as one of the most popular vendors at the Missoula farmers Market / Missoula Saturday market.
"The goal of our conservation farming is to increase farm profitability by decreasing labor and land requirements while striving to mimic the ecological principles that make native plant systems sustainable. The ecological principles we hope to mimic include reduced tilalge, increase species and genetic diversity, closed nutrient cycles, and creation of more diverse habitat. We look at our farm from a landscape or watershed level and hope to reconnect wild areas, agriculture and urban areas. Conservation agriculture is both biologically and socially a local agriculture."
"We're trying to develop an agriculture system, in this case a vegetable production system, that sponsors its own fertility."
Biological pest management: ".. mimic from a natural system is to sponsor our own pest control." "We're creating habitat for beneficial insects, parasites and predetors ..."
"We are trying to provide habitat for birds, and pollinator insects and for other mammals that may be in the system. We're trying to create a link between natural systems and agricultural systems."
Includes footage of an all native hedgerow.
Helen talks about issues with voles and how the voles attracted snakes, coyotes and foxes. | 2019-04-19T22:36:17 | https://permies.com/t/7026/Conservation-Farming-Missoula |
If you are reading this in the physical newspaper, you are reading lines of the Expresso typeface, of equal length but with unequal spacing between words. There is a compromise between elegance and economy. Eric Gill might or might not have approved. Gill was a sculptor and a typeface designer of such typefaces as the enduring Gill Sans and the elegant Joanna face that he used in the book. In this treatise, first published in 1931, he describes in detail the artistry of the typographer – on one page he shows 29 examples of the letter “A”. But the essay is primarily a rant about the mechanisation of society, a process leaving the craftsman (printer, bookbinder or typographical designer) in danger of losing his “holy” craft and becoming a mere machine minder. Idiosyncratic and cranky, Gill’s thinking on the subject paves the way for works, such as the excellent recent Helvetica documentary, that open our eyes to the role of typography in how we read and how we see. | 2019-04-21T06:58:29 | http://lokhj.webz.cz/49-eric-gill-essay-on-typography.php |
Iceland isn’t exactly known as a beach destination. After all, why would you get excited about beaches in a country where the temperature rarely pushes over 20 degrees? Well here are nine incredible Iceland beaches that might just change your mind.
Colorful sands ranging from black, red and gold. Breathtaking views of crystal seas and epic mountain ranges.
The beaches in Iceland might look like they’re from another planet but I’m telling you, they’re real.
Exploring the beaches in Iceland is an absolute must for your time in the country.
Few destinations boast such a variety of rugged landscapes and spectacular views as Iceland – something that extends to its coastline.
Iceland can be costly to visit – but its natural attractions are not.
Wondering where to start during your time in Iceland? Several travel bloggers have chosen their favourite beaches in Iceland. Inspiration guaranteed.
What Makes a Black Sand Beach Black?
When I traveled to Iceland, I knew that in addition to the regular Iceland spots like visiting Thingvellir and Reykjavik, I needed to see Vik beach.
Besides being a gorgeous black sand beach in Iceland, there are some special features about the place that make it a unique experience, even in a country as unique as Iceland!
For one, if you sit on the beach and look south, there’s no land between you and Antarctica. That’s a really heavy, significant thing to ponder when you’re on the edge of a tiny island far in the north Atlantic.
The beach, which has become very popular in the last few years, is also near the gorgeous Reynisdrangar basalt stacks (reminiscent of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway).
While I was there, we had a picnic with a local sheep dog who came to visit us.
To get there, we rented a car in Reykjavik for the day. This was a great way to get out of the city and explore the south coast.
Vik Beach Iceland is located near the town of Vik i Myrdal, thus most tourist refer to it as Vik beach, but locals refer to it as Reynisfjara Beach.
Once you’re finished in Vik, keep going and explore the area, as the entire south coast is gorgeous!
From Reykjavik to Vik black sand beach, it’ll take you about 2 h 30 mins (179 km) by car. On the way, you’ll pass some stunning sights, including, Skogafoss Waterfall, Seljalandsfoss Waterfall and Dyrholaey.
Iceland’s diamond beach is one of the most awesome beaches in the country because of how unique it is!
Located on the banks of Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, this beach is studded with crystal clear chunks of ice that have broken off from the nearby glacier. The beach near the glacial lagoon is commonly referred to as Diamond Beach and is located on the southeastern coast of Iceland.
The diamond beach is located just off Iceland’s ring road. If you want to visit the beach that stretches along the ocean, it is on your right side, going north on the Ring Road. On your left side is the diamond beach that runs along Jökulsárlón Lagoon. For wonderful sunset views, go right, for stunning views of the beach and ice, go left!
Either way, the Diamond Beach at Jökulsárlón Lagoon is one of the most beautiful beaches in Iceland.
From Reykjavik, the drive is 4 h 46 mins (372 km) via Þjóðvegur- the Icelandic Ring Road.
Brutally beautiful. These are the words I love to use when describing Iceland as I don’t think any other words really describe it.
Iceland is an absolutely stunner. Literally every corner of it boasts a beautiful view, a gorgeous waterfall, or a dramatic scene. But its terrain, weather and shores are also totally savage. Londrangar Cliffs and Beach are no different.
I’m assuming you didn’t think you’d go to Iceland to have a warm and sunny beach to enjoy (and if you did, sorry to burst your bubble) but the beaches will still be some of the best things you see in Iceland.
I loved Londrangar Cliffs because nobody else goes here. This area isn’t as frequented, especially when you know how many people actually go to Iceland each year! I always include it as one of my Iceland planning tips.
These secluded cliffs and hidden beaches are the epitome of Iceland’s brutally beautiful coastline and I think the picture does the rest of the talking. Come here, stand on the cliffs, and get mesmerized by the pounding waves, tumbling black rocks, and epic rock formations.
By car, this journey will take 2 h 31 mins (192 km) from Reykjavik via Snæfellsnesvegur. As a heads up, this route has tolls.
“We’re going to go on an adventure,” Addi from Midgard Adventure said as we hauled ourselves up into the superjeep. “It’s a secret Iceland beach that no one really visits.” Sound too good to be true? It wasn’t.
Fifteen minutes of off-road driving over dunes and through streams, the landscape of Landeyjahöfn spread out before us. A black beach in Iceland without another soul on it. It’s one of Iceland’s true hidden gems. Miles of coastline pounded by the wild Atlantic surf stretched into the distance.
One of the quieter Iceland beaches, Landeyjahöfn is no less dramatic than some of its more famous counterparts. Facing the Vestmannaeyjar islands on Iceland’s south coast, it’s a great place to go bird spotting. If you’re lucky (we were), you can even see seals splashing about in the water just off the shore.
From Reykjavik, it is a 1 h 40 min (130km) drive via Þjóðvegur (the Iceland Ring Road) 1 and Route 1. You’ll need a 4 x 4 to access some parts of the beach, or you can drive to the pier at Landeyjahofn and walk from there.
Djúpalónssandur, also known as The Black Lava Pearl Beach, boasts pretty much all the drama that nature can offer.
Lava fields with beautiful large rock formations protrude from the ground; there is an almost otherworldly feel to this one of a kind beach.
If you head along the Nautastígur path, you’ll come across two stunning lagoons called Djúpulón or Deep Lagoons and Svörtulón or, Black Lagoon. Both of these gorgeous lagoons have said to be blessed by Bishop Guðmundur góði and hold special healing powers.
Take a look at the remnants of the ship The Epine GY7. The iron pieces are kept intact and are not allowed to be touched, to commemorate the English fisherman who lost their lives in the wreck.
Even more striking than the lava you’ll find Pearls of Djúpalón, small black pebbles or lava pearls that make up the beaches surface and are also responsible for its name!
Driving from Reykjavik, you’re looking at a 2 h 29 min (200 km) journey via Snæfellsnesvegur. This route is tolled!
Rauðasandur is one of the most breathtaking beaches in Iceland. With the red tinge of the sand contrasting with the black cliffs, it looks like something straight out of Mars. To add to the beauty, the sand sometimes changes colour from it famous red hues to yellow.
This tranquil beach is the ideal destination for a calming beach walk. With its vast open landscape and its natural canvas of warm colours, Raudasandur Beach is the perfect spot for a quiet moment.
Unlike the numerous black sand Iceland beaches, Breidavik beach has golden sand – something rare enough to deserve a visit in itself.
It’s a gorgeous spot: a lovely little church and miles and miles of golden sand. On a sunny day, you could almost kid yourself that you’re in a tropical location thanks to the gorgeous golden sand and blue sea.
If you’re are a fan of bird watching, Breidavik should most certainly go on your Iceland beach bucket list. You can see a plethora of seabirds and might perhaps even catch a glimpse of a puffin.
In the distance, you can spot the gorgeous mountains that are topped with the golden sand that has blown over from the beaches surface.
Once you’re bored of soaking up the view, Breidavik is also a good spot for hiking, trout fishing and exploring historical sites.
Frock Reykjavik, the drive is 5 h 22 mins via Vestfjarðavegur and this route is tolled.
Búðir is another one of Iceland’s rare golden sandy beaches. It was formerly a fishing village but was abandoned in the early nineteenth century. All that remains is a hotel and a beautiful yet gothic small, black church.
Chances are that if you rock up here, you’re going to get it to yourself. Sometimes, on a good day, you might end up sharing it with a few playful seals too.
Búðir is surrounded by mystery. Local legend has it that the area around the path from the beach to the nearby lava field is scattered with elves – so watch where you step!
It’s a short 12 min (9.6km) drive from Reykjavik via Route 41.
Hands up if you love seals! Me too. You’ve got to head to Ytri-Tunga, otherwise known as Iceland’s seal beach.
The clue is in the name – between June and August, the beach is dotted with seals basking in the (not so hot) Icelandic sun. Turns out we’re not the only ones who love to sunbathe.
From Reykjavik, it’s a 2h (152 km) drive via Þjóðvegur and Snæfellsnesvegur. Expect tolls on the way.
It’s sometimes best to opt for car hire, especially to get to those beaches in the more rural areas. You can find loads of local car hire companies – head to Holiday Autos.
Whilst Iceland beaches may appear quaint and beautiful, the water can be anything but.
Be warned of dangerous waves, specifically ‘sneaker waves’. These waves are true to the name; whilst the water may appear tranquil, a large, powerful wave may sneak up on you, pulling you under.
It may sound like I’m being dramatic, but people die every year in Iceland’s waters, so be very careful near the sea.
The black sand is part of the main appeal of some of Iceland’s beaches. But what gives it this striking appearance?
Well the reason the black sand beaches of Iceland have their stunning colour boils down to the island’s volcanic surroundings. The remnants of volcanic rocks and ash, worn down to fine grains over hundreds and thousands of years gives the black sand beaches their stunning, charred tone.
Great post! I’m planning on visiting Iceland soon although I don’t know when! I’ll have to check out some of these beaches!
Totally do – it’s brilliant. Hope you make it there soon.
A real pleasure – the beaches deserve to be done justice!
Iceland is such a popular destination right now and I can totally see why! I hope to go soon! great guide!
All of these look so incredible! When I finally get to Iceland, I feel like I’ll need a month with all the places I want to go.
It’s totally true – there’s so much to see. The more I spoke to locals, the more I found out about and reckon you could spend an age going to new places in Iceland and never get bored.
Wow! The magical dreamland that is Iceland <3 I have never seen a black sand beach before…I'd love to visit one. Thanks for this gloriously beautiful post. | 2019-04-25T00:39:03 | https://www.thediscoveriesof.com/iceland-beaches/ |
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The world is so beautiful, don't you agree? At times, we find it perplexing to know that mother earth can really, really strangely beautiful. There are so many creations of God that will leave your jaw gaping, wondering how on earth these wonders were invented by Him. Sometimes these strange wonders are so weird...that you find it is impossible for them to exist in the first place. Then again His magic has conjured strange miracles and beautiful creatures that we have learnt to admire and appreciate. Let us look at the World's Strangest Natural Wonders, shall we?
What happened when you put something under wave erosion for six thousand years? You will get these undulating patterns that give these caves their amazing marbleized effect, enhanced by the reflection of the blue and green water of Carrera Lake, near Chile’s border with Argentina. Even though the area is being threatened by a sinful to build a dam nearby, for now, fortunate visitors can kayak throughout the caves on days when the waters are calm. Just imagine yourself in these mystifying caves.
Someone must have accidentally poured a lot of Pepto-Bismol into Lake Retba—that’s how deeply pink the waters here are. This drastically pink is actually caused by a particular species of algae called Dunaliella salina that produces a pigment. The salt content is extremely high, scaling as high as 40% in some spots and allowing the algae to thrive (and swimmers to float effortlessly on the surface of the 10-foot-deep lake). Blinding white piles of salt line the shores, and locals work several hours a day harvesting salt from the bright pink water every day. Pink is the new in huh!
What happens when a lake dried up? What is at the bottom? You see, when a prehistoric lake dried up about 30,000 years ago, it left an endless expanse of white hexagonal tiles that stretch to the horizon. I give you-the world’s largest salt flat, stretching for 4,000 square miles—25 times the size of Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. The site provides more than 25,000 tons of salt per year to local miners, supports a thriving community of thousands of flamingos, and attracts tourists who can check into the Palacio de Sal, a 16-room hotel made entirely from salt blocks. So it must be quite salty over there huh!
What if there is really a "fountain of youth" to make you younger and healthier? That is why People have sought the reputed healing effects of bathing in these Travertine Pools Pamukkale for thousands of years. The water that flows from 17 subterranean hot springs into the pools has an amazingly high concentration of calcium carbonate, which forms soft deposits when it hits the surface of the pools. Those viscous white deposits will harden over time until the springs resemble a fountain made of chalk or, as indicated by the poetic translation of Pamukkale, a “cotton castle” visible from more than 10 miles away. Goodness! It's like CGI has been used to build this place.
Rocks can move on its own? No one has ever seen nor recorded one of the “sailing stones” on Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa move. However strong evidence of their travels is visible in the long track marks that trail behind them in the dusty terrain. Scientists aren’t sure exactly how these rocks—which can weigh hundreds of kilos—sail across the dry lake bed. The most plausible theory is that when the rocks are wet or icy, they could be pushed along the flat playa by strong winds. The deep groove marks they leave behind indicate they may travel up to 700 feet from their point of origin. So do you think they are alive?
You will be surprised if you happen to go to Moeraki Beach one day...why? Because there are so many so-called out-of-place stone over there. These are no ordinary stones...they are huge stone. The spherical stones that line New Zealand’s Moeraki Beach reach up to seven feet in diameter and have been compared to everything from the marbles of giants to colossal dinosaur eggs to half-submerged prehistoric turtles, ready to stand up and shake off the sand at any moment. Then again, as all have known by now they’re actually concretions, masses of compacted sediment formed below ground more than 50 million years ago. As the sand that surrounds them erodes, they seem to rise to the surface as if pushed up from the center of the earth. They really look familiar. From the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still?
Tourists from all walks of life make the journey into central Colombia’s Serranéa de la Macarena national park to see for themselves why Caño Cristales has inspired nicknames like the River of Five Colors, the Liquid Rainbow, and even the Most Beautiful River in the World. Timing is everything should you want to admire the spectacle of the colourful river: when the water reaches the perfect levels (usually between July and December), it becomes a kaleidoscope of blue, pink, green, and yellow as a plant called the Macarenia clavigera, which lives on the river floor, gets the sun it needs to bloom into an explosion of colors.
It doesn't look like a lake at all from afar. In fact it resembles a garden where different plants are being planted? Each summer, most of the water in this mineral-rich lake evaporates, leaving behind large concentrations of salt, titanium, calcium, sulfates, and other minerals that form a polka-dot pattern in shades of green, yellow, and brown circles of varying size. If you are thinking about taking a dip in this mineral-rich lake, you will be disappointed. The lake is a sacred site to the First Nations of the Okanagan Valley, and the land on which it sits is private property owned by the Indian Affairs Department. You won’t actually be able to get up close to the lake, but you can get a good look from the nearby road.
This has gotta be one of the forests that I wanna be in. Many of the "trees" within the forest in China’s remote Yunnan Province are hard-rock, literally. This Stone Forest, which spans nearly 200 square miles, was underwater 270 million years ago, and the sea floor was covered with limestone sediment. Gradually, the seabed rose and the water dried up. As rain and wind eroded the weaker rock, the stronger limestone spires began to take shape. Now they rise skyward, surrounded by leafy trees. What a majestic sight don't you think so?
This must be Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. A thousand feet underground in a working lead and silver mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, opaque crystals of gypsum—some as large as four feet wide and 50 feet long—sprout at all angles from the volcanically heated water below. Temperatures in the cave, which was discovered only 13 years ago in 2000, can reach up to 150 degrees Celsius with nearly 100 percent humidity, conditions that only Superman, himself, could survive in for long. Any more than 10 minutes in a cave without proper gear can lead to heatstroke. So are you willing to risk it to witness the place where Superman calls it home?
Claimed to be one of Northern Island's most popular tourist attractions, this Giant Causeway got its name from the 40,000 giant basalt columns that interlock with each other to form what appears like causeway from the giants. The basalt columns, mostly hexagonal in shape, were formed around 60 millions years ago when underground lava flows cooled into formation as high 39 feet and 18 inches in diameter. However they are only visible recently-15,000 years ago to be precise, when the soil around the seaside stones eroded. Guess the giants used to walk across this causeway huh.
This must have been God's another work of art. Wind and rain have weaved their wands and worked their magic, eroding lines that swoop and swirl across the sandstone formation. The result, which resembles a cresting wave, is one of the most photographed—if not easy to reach—spots in the American West. A permit is required to make the unmarked hike to the Wave, and only 20 are given out daily. Very strict entrance. It’s almost easier to make the journey to southwest Australia to see the Wave’s down under counterpart, Wave Rock. It's like watercolor!
The Hobbit should have been shot here. On the frozen slopes of Mount Erebus, above the world’s most southerly active volcano, superheated gas rises through steam vents to form caverns in the ice. When the volcanic gas passes through the caves, some of it freezes inside, forming gnarled chimney towers that can reach heights of more than 60 feet. The result is a landscape of icy smokestacks belching steam into the freezing Antarctic air like a cluster of magical factories. What a sight to behold. Guess Santa is enjoying this every single day. Definitely worthy of your bucket list.
Apparently sinkholes can appear almost anywhere. On the flat-topped mountain of Cerro Sarisariñama in southwest Venezuela, gravity has punched four perfectly circular holes nearly 1,000 feet deep into a landscape of remote rainforest. Hundreds of miles from the nearest road, the area is so far removed from civilization that the sinkholes weren’t discovered until 1961, when they were spotted by a pilot flying over the mountain. I wonder if anyone has actually gone down these sinkholes? Is it me or these Sarisariñama Sinkholes do look like those appeared in Avatar?
Look ma! The hills have chocolate. There are two very popular legends surrounding the formation of the Chocolate Hills, the nearly 2,000 symmetrical mounds that rise as tall as 400 feet above the surrounding farmland of Bohol Island. One claims that these Chocolate Hills are the mess left behind by two giants who had a boulder fight. The other legend says that the hills are the tears of a giant mourning the death of his lover. However many visitors may prefer the sweeter image of the grass-covered limestone hills, which turn a rich shade of brown in dry season, as resembling the massive Hershey’s Kisses that inspired the landscape’s name. This must be where Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory is right now.
Want to know what it feels like to be in space with clusters of stars overlooking you? Step into Waitomo Glowworm Caves. Quarter-inch-long bioluminescent glowworms that radiate a tiny blue light dangle from the ceiling of these caves deep in the lush, subtropical hills of New Zealand’s North Island. You will ride in an inflatable raft along the underground Waitomo River. Slowly adjusting to the darkness, you will be able to admire what looks like a turquoise starscape. Do you know that these Glowworms that dangle sticky, filamentous “fishing lines” to catch insects, are scattered throughout many other caves, but their densely concentrated numbers here make this Waitomo Glowworm Caves very unique in the world.
In Socotra Archipelago, Mother Nature has evolved in many weird and wonderful ways, weaving Her magiv into this place. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is home to exotic flora (trees that ooze bloodred sap; some that bear foul-smelling, poisonous cucumbers; and others shaped like bottles), 180 exotic birds, and 700 plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth. It's certainly a place where you can find all those bizarre creatures that you could only imagine.
So which is your favourite strange natural wonder?
So what do you about all the 17 strangest natural wonders that are listed above? Have you visited any of them? I have not left my footprints on any of these strange but beautiful wonders. They are definitely the top tourist attractions around the world. These places show Mother Nature at her best. Hopefully I can visit at least one of them before my time is up. Haha :D To see even more World's Strangest Natural Wonders, click here. | 2019-04-19T21:17:33 | https://www.tekkaus.com/2013/03/17-worlds-strangest-natural-wonders-pics.html |
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The Link Passing Transition Drill integrates the use of all possible passes within basketball while proving a scenario specific to practicing one of the more troublesome aspects of transition, the second or link pass.
The Link Passing Transition Drill starts with an offensive player (One) positioned under the basket at one end of the floor. This player starts with the basketball. This player will look to dribble down the floor and perform a specific type of basketball pass to one of the wing running offensive players (Three and Four).
The wing runners start at halfway at the “T” point. A defender also starts at this position and attempts to deny the pass to the player and ultimately prevent the scoring opportunity.
The wing players look to create leads and in so doing become possible passing targets for One (1).
If a wing player (Three or Four) receive the link pass the drill becomes live (2 v 2) and continues until either the offense scores, or the defence securers possession.
A key focus of the Link Passing Transition Drill is to have players perfect a wide range of different passing techniques utilised in basketball.
An effective link pass pushes the ball from the defensive end of the floor into an attacking position. If the link pass is poor offensive players will catch the ball away from a position in which they are considered a threat by the defence. Ideally, the wing players (Three and Four) should be catching the ball at the three-point line or closer to the basketball hoop.
While in the above diagram the offensive player filling the role of the outlet initially starts in the middle of the floor, this starting position can vary. Once a player becomes competent in performing a range of passes, then look to start the player from the corners of the floor. This will varying the line of sight for players and make the challenge of passing to the opposite side of the floor more challenging.
While it is not ideal for players to pass across the splitline, practicing the passing angles will assist in players being able to perform this task more efficient and effectively.
Once the players have overcome the challenges and acquired the knowledge to play from various angles, the next variation focuses on adding an on-ball defender from the outlet. The defender marking One (1) will attempt to deny or pressure the link pass to the forward offensive targets.
As the competence of the players develop an additional player can be added to the drill that acts as the inbounder, again with an on-ball defender.
The last variation to the Link Passing Transition Drill is to provide two outlet targets. These players will simulate a regular inbounding situation during a game where two offensive players remain in the backcourt acting as possible targets on opposite side of the floor.
In all variations of the Link Passing Transition Drill different passes should be made mandatory of players.
The Link Passing Transition Drill if performed well will see better outcomes for a team in being able to move the ball quickly up the floor. At all times players should look to work at the highest speed to assist in the realistic development of the desired range of skills.
The 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill is a simple, yet effective activity for helping players to develop their own ability to advance a ball up the court at pace. Too often players struggle to control the basketball when dribbling once they achieve a certain speed. By practicing this technique within the 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill players will develop more confidence and competence in performing this very under-trained skill.
The drill starts with two lines of players on opposite sides of the baseline. The offensive player (One) starts with the ball.
On the One’s dribble the defence (Two) is allowed to become live and engage the dribbler.
The objective of the 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill is for the offensive player to dribble the length of the court and make a scoring shot.
The defender simply tries to prevent the offensive player from scoring.
For younger players the ability to develop the skill of a speed dribble can be hampered by the introduction of defence within the activity. If a player or team is struggling to master the technique initially, then one variation to the 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill is to simply remove the defence from the drill. A competitive environment can still be maintained through the use of limiting the number of dribbles a player has to reach the other end of the floor and perform a lay-up, or timing a player so they are working against their personal best with each repetition.
Once players start to become more and more successful in reaching the other end of the floor at pace. Increasing the difficulty can continue to challenge a individual. One option for the 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill is to simply add a shot clock. Allowing players only five seconds within which to make a shot will add some additional pressure and drive the players further along in their development.
Another option for the 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill is to play up and back. If the defender steals the ball or secures possession without their being a score then a handy variation is to allow the defender to now break back and dribble back to the starting end of the floor for a lay-up. This is useful for those teams finding that they have gaps in the different phases of the game because players are taking too long to switch between offense and defence while on the floor.
The 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill is easy to set-up and a high number of repetitions can be executed in a small amount of time. When utilised as a conditioning drill as well the 1 v 1 Speed Dribble Drill provides a very useful option for many teams focusing on the technique of speed dribbling, or fast break and transition phases of offense.
Why Do My Players Continue to Miss Lay-ups?
The Lay-up is one of the most widely used skills in basketball. For most players this is their very first technique learnt when attempting to score. The lay-up forms one of the most fundamental skills developed in basketball and so therefore it is often seen as a point of frustration when junior, senior or elite players fail to perform the skill both during training and in games.
When players are not well-drilled, they can become very complacent when going through the motions of performing skills. The skill does not need to be simple for this happen, but can be very complex, and still this issue persists. Standards during practice need to be set for the team and then monitored for each individual. Allowing slow repetitions or “loose” technique only serves to create bad habits for players. The lay-up will be a skill that players often become complacent in performing because of its often overuse in similar situations.
There are a number of different lay-up techniques that can be taught and utilised by a player during a competitive training sessions drills or a game. If a player does not have knowledge or confidence with these various techniques, they will never utilise them and continue to force bad shots, because in their mind they have no other option. For example if a player is looking to perform a lay-up on the right side of the basket and the defender stops this option, if the player does not possess the ability to perform a reverse lay-up on the left hand side, they will more than likely still try to force the right hand lay-up or another poor shot.
Drills can have a very beneficial effect for players when they are starting to learn new techniques and skills. Well thought out drills can provide a great opportunity for skills like the lay-up to be progressively developed, refined and performed.
However, many drills do feature similar aspects such as where the drill starts and the angle they finish at the basketball hoop. This causes players to become accustom to laying the ball up from a particular position or within a certain angle. This is obviously not the case in games and coaches should take notice of the drills they regularly use and look for different ways to finish the scoring movement so players gain variety and experience from other angles when trying to perform a lay-up.
Probably the most common reason across many errors is the poor rehearsal of players during training sessions of skills at a game pace. Players should be encouraged to progress from being introduced to a skill, to attempting to perform the skill at game pace as quickly as possible.
Many developing players struggle with the concept of basketball being a semi-contact sport but the contact around the keyway and to the basket often being heavy at different times. This can cause player to shy away from this contact for fear of being hurt. This in turn makes players adjust their technique causing issues.
The use of bump pads can be a very useful transitioning piece of equipment in helping players become used to contact before moving into live defensive situations. Players can also be taught in these situations not only how to play through the contact, but implement more advanced techniques to help use the bump.
The next stage of development is to incorporate “live” defence into each drill during the final stages of instruction.
Players need opportunities to be able to play in competitive or game like situations. These can range from 1 on 1 to 5 on 5 scenarios. All of these options are beneficial at some level. A coach must be active in providing feedback about made as well as missed baskets.
In competitive situations, it is important to realise in games that only in a few times will a player be truly isolated (especially when playing from the perimeter). The use of 1 v 2 situations where help defence is triggered similar to game situations will be most beneficial from helping players in trying to improve their individual offense, including the lay-up.
The lay-up will provide players with great satisfaction during their early stages of development and become a staple for more experienced players across their careers in basketball. Taking the time to focus on the points mentioned above will serve players to develop a better-rounded and more complete game as well as improving their lay-up technique and performance.
An Overhead Pass is used in basketball to elevate the ball so the pass is often more easily seen by the receiver. The Overhead Pass provides a different angle for the ball to travel and so is ideal in situations like passing over defenders, skip passing, or passing into the post. The Overhead Pass must be practiced frequently in competitive situations as the finer points of performing this skill successfully can be challenging for players.
Problems with the Overhead Pass often start with players using the technique to lob the ball. This causes problems, as the lob pass while having a place within the normal play of basketball, is not overly appropriate for a range of situations. One of the Overhead Passes benefits however is putting the ball in the air while still having pace and speed involved in the technique of the pass.
Teaching points for the Overhead Pass are very different to the majority of other passes commonly employed in basketball. This levering action of the Overhead Pass is a challenge for players, especially in regards to accuracy, but with some practice can be utilised just as fast and precisely as other passing skills.
Head should remain up; one of the common problems seen in the Overhead Pass skill is players try to generate more power through their shoulders instead of coordinating all their body into the passing technique. This results in is over use the players back, shoulders and arms. Players should lean forward slightly during the pass but never to the point where the head dips or they end up looking towards the ground. Eyes must remain on the target at all times.
Many game like situations will not allow the passer to step when using the technique. Practicing the Overhead Pass without taking a step should also be undertaken during training sessions so payers can become comfortable with both options.
The Overhead Pass is a very useful skill, but is prone to players robbing the technique of power and speed. This raises commonly seen problems such as interceptions and deflections happening. Players should practice with the technique enough so they are able to be accurate without needing the slow down the speed at which the skill is performed.
The Mass Defensive Drill is one of the staples of a basketball coach’s drill book. Exceptionally easily to implement, provides a high rate of repetitions and can be used for a variety of reasons. A fantastic activity for junior players the Mass Defensive Drill helps each player to gain maximum opportunity to practice their technique. For older athletes the Mass Defensive Drill can be used as a way of drawing attention to an issue within a team’s play. The repetitive nature of the drill as well as the focus on technique quickly highlights in a senior player’s mind what the coach wants.
The Mass Defensive Drill can be set up with any number of players, but it does to help with spacing to have players put themselves into lines. No more than four players to a line as in the diagram below or players will find they might run into one another when performing certain skills.
The coach starts with a basketball to assist in providing some of the cues needed for certain player responses.
The coach stands out front of the group of players. If dealing with a larger group then it may be beneficial for the coach to stand on the sideline at halfway so players have a better view point then if they are under the basket as in the diagrammed above.
Initially the coach will need to explain the various verbal and visual cues to be utilised throughout the Mass Defensive Drill.
On a slap of the ball, the players start to pitter-patter and wait for the next instruction.
Example: When coach dribbles players slide with ball and call “ball”.
Example: When coach picks ball up players close out and mirror movement of the ball, and call “dead”.
Example: When coach shot fakes players call “shot” and close out.
Hand position; depending on the activity, it is vital that the player maintain good hand pressure and mirror the ball during all defensive skills.
The Mass Defensive Drill looks to bring together some of the more basic fundamental skills in a situation where a coach can view all players easily while still running each individual through the various techniques. The drill however is very controlled and will only have a limited life within the team’s regular activities before becoming boring and stale for the players to endure. Like all drills, there needs to be a progression followed which builds upon the skills within one drill to another. Once players are competent in performing these skills, competitive or pressure situations need to be introduced so players can then learn to use these skills in game situations. | 2019-04-25T07:04:45 | https://functionalbasketballcoaching.com/tag/individual/ |
Kate Bickmore’s artwork is a stunning testament to her experience of the intersections of nature and her female identity—more specifically, the “sense of feeling both empowered and constrained.” She beautifully emphasizes the importance of exploration in creation; of allowing the wild plants to both bloom through and break down the canvas. Read on for more of Kate’s remarkable words of creative wisdom.
Alison Znamierowski: How did you get started doing art?
Kate Bickmore: I have been drawn to art-making ever since I could pick up a pencil. I used to walk around the garden with my grandma + draw the flowers I saw as she told me their names. I must have been about three or four.
AZ: Were there any trends through the subjects of your art over time?
KB: The power of nature has always really fascinated me. I am completely enthralled by wild plants + weeds that emerge in places that try to contain them, such as sidewalks or abandoned homes. That motif is recurrent throughout my work, as is the female form. I am attracted to the agency those plants have + see a lot of my female identity connecting to it. To me, they embody this sense of feeling both empowered + constrained.
AZ: Can you talk about the different pieces in your senior project and the ideas behind them?
KB: The two pieces I ended up showing in my final exhibition were The Abyss's Bridge + Hanakatoba. Both works were heavily influenced by my surrounding environment + how my body relates to or occupies that space. It was important for me to work on a large scale because I wanted the viewers to be engulfed by the work + feel as if they could physically enter this world that appears to be both real and fantastical.
So much of the meaning behind my work comes to be in the process of making it. The canvas really becomes this site of exploration where one idea manifests into something else as the painting continues to reveal itself to me over time.
The Abyss's Bridge (above) was really a portal to discovering my voice. For me it embodies a multitude of ideas + places: it's the Garden of Eden; it's the rabbit hole; it's Courbet's Origin of the World; it gazes back at the viewer with an urgency that is both alluring + unsettling; it has no beginning or end but rather is in a state of continual expansion. To be honest, I am still trying to figure it out.
Hanakatoba (above) is a much more narrative painting than The Abyss's Bridge. During the process of making it I became infatuated by symbols, signs, what they mean + the role they play in our lives. The painting started to develop a language of forms that could appear to be or mean something else (such as the cracks existing as webs or the bricks being cosmoses). It also more literally depicts how I understood myself + where I was at that point in time. I felt surrounded by this very safe, fertile landscape; it was as if I had the whole universe at my fingertips. I knew I was about to enter into a more difficult phase in my life though-- a brick wall which I would need to confront. Unfortunately this has since proven to be very true!
AZ: Can you speak a little more on the connection between your art and your environment?
KB: The process of making my pieces has always been about synchronizing my movements or process of painting with that of my environment. I start my work by emulating washes of rain + soil as if the canvases were left outside for nature to slowly consume them. The wild plants then begin to grow— both emerging from and breaking down the canvas.
I believe a painting, like flesh, is permeable + transient. I try to be cautious of this when making the work by bringing nature back into the painting not as a picture but as something that has agency over the canvas + is actively expanding or growing on it.
AZ: Are there any specific practices you have to connect to self or environment?
KB: Meditation has really transformed my life + artistic practice. I find few things as humbling as meditating in nature. The act of being physically present has become key to helping me gain a stronger awareness of the world around me as well as to experiencing + understanding my work.
In terms of artistic practices it is important for me to do most of my preliminary sketches from life or from photos I take of things in nature that move me. I want the paintings to represent how I perceive my local environment or the plants I find in my travels. Many of the plants in my paintings are inspired by ones I see in the sidewalk walking to + from my studio.
AZ: Are there any projects that you're working on now?
KB: I just recently finished working on a large scale painting + am starting to piece together ideas for some new work. I usually find my productivity comes in waves of intensely working for a few months + then a long period of observing, thinking, + dreaming.
AZ: Is there any advice you would give to young artists?
KB: Follow your intuition + be open to everything. | 2019-04-23T00:55:05 | https://loamlove.com/read/2016/1/26/an-interview-with-kate-bickmore |
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The Lower Jurassic Toarcian Stage (c. 183–174 Ma) is marked by one of the largest global exogenic carbon-cycle perturbations of the Phanerozoic, which is associated with the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE; c. 183 Ma). Climatic and environmental change at the T-OAE is reasonably well constrained in the marine realm, with marine anoxic or euxinic conditions developing locally across both hemispheres, at the same time as the T-OAE negative carbon-isotope excursion. However, high-resolution stratigraphic comparison between different palaeo-ocean basins and with the continental realm can be complicated. Palaeomagnetic reversals can provide a precise and accurate stratigraphic correlation tool between marine and continental sedimentary archives, and even between sedimentary and igneous successions. Here, we present a high-resolution magnetostratigraphic record for the Toarcian Stage in the biostratigraphically complete and expanded Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) Borehole, Cardigan Bay Basin, Wales. This study provides the first geomagnetic polarity reversal scale that is integrated with high-resolution biostratigraphy and carbon-isotope stratigraphy for the entire Toarcian Stage. This stratigraphic framework also provides a new, precise correlation with the basalt lava sequence of the Karoo–Ferrar Large Igneous Province, linking the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and T-OAE climatic and environmental perturbations directly to this episode of major volcanic activity.
The Toarcian, the final stage of the Early Jurassic, has an estimated duration of 8.3–8.6 myr (2014 Geological Time Scale; Boulila et al. 2014), with the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary dated at c. 183.6 Ma (Pálfy & Smith 2000). The early Toarcian was marked by the widespread development of anoxic or euxinic conditions that led to substantial organic-carbon burial, an event termed the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE). This palaeoceanographic phenomenon is recognized as one of the most intense and geographically extensive events of oceanic redox change and accompanying organic-carbon burial in the Mesozoic (Jenkyns 1985, 1988, 2010). The T-OAE is marked by major changes in global geochemical cycles (e.g. Os, S, Sr), with an apparently rapid c. 7‰ negative shift in marine and terrestrial organic-carbon isotope records and a smaller (3–6‰) negative excursion in carbonate and compound-specific archives (Hesselbo et al. 2000, 2007; Sælen et al. 2000; Schouten et al. 2000; Jenkyns et al. 2002; Cohen et al. 2004; Kemp et al. 2005; Hermoso et al. 2009; Al-Suwaidi et al. 2010, 2016; Gill et al. 2011; Newton et al. 2011; French et al. 2014; Suan et al. 2015; McArthur et al. 2016; Percival et al. 2016; Xu et al. 2017, 2018).
The observed early Toarcian perturbation to the exogenic carbon cycle has been linked to volcanic activity associated with the Karoo–Ferrar Large Igneous Province and associated release of volcanogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), thermogenic methane (CH4) and CO2 from sill intrusion into Gondwanan coals and shales, and biogenic methane from dissociation of sub-seafloor clathrates (Duncan et al. 1997; Hesselbo et al. 2000; Kemp et al. 2005; McElwain et al. 2005; Svensen et al. 2007; Percival et al. 2015). The Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary was also marked by global carbon-cycle change, with a c. 2–3‰ negative carbon-isotope excursion (CIE) in marine carbonate, organic matter and fossil wood (Hesselbo et al. 2007; Littler et al. 2010; Bodin et al. 2016; Percival et al. 2016). An elevated atmospheric pCO2-induced global temperature increase in the ocean–atmosphere system is credited with causing disruption of marine ecosystems as well as enhanced hydrological cycling and continental weathering on land (Cohen et al. 2004; Danise et al. 2013, 2015; Ullmann et al. 2014; Korte et al. 2015; Percival et al. 2016; Rita et al. 2016; Martindale & Aberhan 2017).
Stratigraphic studies of the Toarcian have primarily focused on the lower part of the stage, specifically on the T-OAE interval, utilizing bio- and chemostratigraphy. Magnetostratigraphic study of the Toarcian Stage has been confined to only a few localities. These include the Breggia Gorge in southern Switzerland (Horner & Heller 1983), Thouars and Airvault in France (Galbrun et al. 1988), the Iberian Range and Iznalloz in Spain (Galbrun et al. 1990; Osete et al. 2007; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010), and the Neuquén Basin in Argentina (Iglesia Llanos & Riccardi 2000). Additionally, an extended magnetostratigraphic record, spanning the Pliensbachian to earliest Cretaceous interval, was obtained from the Northern Apennines in Italy (Satolli et al. 2015), but ammonite biostratigraphy is relatively poorly constrained in this succession. Palaeomagnetic data from the lower and middle Toarcian in the Iberian Range were subsequently synthesized (Osete et al. 2007; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010) and adopted for the Geological Time Scale 2012 (GTS2012; Ogg & Hinnov 2012).
Few existing magnetostratigraphic records cover the upper Toarcian. Furthermore, sampling resolution in this interval is commonly relatively low, affected by hiatuses, or the ammonite biostratigraphy is not well defined. The use of magnetostratigraphy for Toarcian stratigraphic correlation has also been relatively restricted because no published record integrates magnetostratigraphy with both (ammonite) biostratigraphy and carbon-isotope chemostratigraphy for the entire Stage. Arguably, the best example of an integrated Toarcian stratigraphy is a high-resolution magnetostratigraphy combined with carbon-, oxygen- and strontium-isotope data in the biostratigraphically well-constrained Almonacid De La Cuba Section in NE Spain (Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010; da Rocha et al. 2016), but these investigations were confined to the Pliensbachian–Toarcian transition. An integrated stratigraphy for the T-OAE interval, using the aforementioned proxies, has not hitherto been presented.
The Llanbedr (Mochras Farm) Borehole, hereafter referred to as Mochras, drilled in the Cardigan Bay Basin, west Wales, UK, recovered a Lower Jurassic succession that combines unusual thickness with relative biostratigraphic completeness (Woodland 1971; Dobson & Whittington 1987; Hesselbo et al. 2013; Copestake & Johnson 2014; Ruhl et al. 2016). The c. 260 m thick Toarcian succession is much thicker than in other coeval European core and outcrop successions, and is generally characterized by periodic alternations between limestone and (marly) mudstone (Hesselbo et al. 2013; Ruhl et al. 2016; Xu et al. 2018). The Toarcian interval of the Mochras core comprises eight ammonite zones and nine ammonite subzones (Page 2003; Copestake & Johnson 2014); the aalensis Zone at the top of the Toarcian is probably truncated in the Mochras core (Ivimey-Cook 1971). The ammonite zones and subzones are referred to as zones and subzones hereafter, and are named by a typifying species name (e.g. the tenuicostatum Zone). Furthermore, five foraminiferal zones are also resolved (Copestake & Johnson 2014).
Carbon-isotope analyses of bulk organic matter show an overall positive excursion of 3–4‰ in δ13CTOC, relative to upper Pliensbachian and upper Toarcian values of −27 to −28‰, which spans the Upper Pliensbachian upper spinatum Zone to Toarcian middle bifrons Zone (Jenkyns & Clayton 1997; Jenkyns et al. 2001; Katz et al. 2005; van de Schootbrugge et al. 2005; Xu et al. 2018). This early Toarcian long-term positive trend in δ13CTOC, presumably linked to the globally significant burial of isotopically depleted organic carbon, is interrupted by the major negative CIE in marine and terrestrial organic matter and marine calcite that typically marks the main phase of the T-OAE. The negative CIE in the Mochras core is recorded as a distinct >7‰ and c. 6.5‰ negative shift in bulk δ13CTOC and δ13CCARB, respectively (Jenkyns & Clayton 1997; Jenkyns 2003; van de Schootbrugge et al. 2005; Xu et al. 2018). A pilot study on the Mochras core proved the feasibility of a magnetic-polarity study on this expanded and bio- and chemostratigraphically well-constrained sedimentary archive (Hesselbo et al. 2013). Here, we present the first high-resolution magnetostratigraphic record for the complete Toarcian Stage and use it to construct an integrated Toarcian stratigraphic framework. The integrated stratigraphic data presented here provide a reference framework for correlation between Toarcian marine and continental sedimentary basins worldwide. This study also allows stratigraphic correlation between the T-OAE and associated climatic and environmental change, and volcanic activity in the Karoo–Ferrar Large Igneous Province.
The sediments recorded in the Toarcian strata of the Mochras core were deposited at a palaeo-latitude of c. 35–40°N, at the southern end of the transcontinental seaway and at the northwestern end of the Tethys Ocean (Fig. 1; Torsvik et al. 2012; Hesselbo et al. 2013; Müller et al. 2016). The Cardigan Bay Basin Jurassic strata are downthrown against the Lower Palaeozoic Welsh Massif along a major normal fault system, comprising the Mochras, Tonfanau and Bala faults at the eastern and southeastern margins of the basin (Tappin et al. 1994). The Mochras Borehole was drilled onshore by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and UCW Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) from 1967 to 1969, on the coast of Cardigan Bay, in NW Wales (Woodland 1971; Dobson & Whittington 1987; Hesselbo et al. 2013; Copestake & Johnson 2014). The core penetrates the entire Lower Jurassic in the Cardigan Bay Basin (with only the aalensis Zone at the top of the Toarcian probably truncated in the Mochras core), which is underlain by Triassic and overlain, unconformably, by Cenozoic and Quaternary successions. The Lower Jurassic in this borehole has a remarkable thickness of c. 1300 m, much greater than coeval onshore sections in other parts of the UK and continental Europe (see fig. 2 of Ruhl et al. 2016), recording a sustained high sedimentation rate. The relatively homogeneous lithology dominated by argillaceous sediments with alternating muddy limestones, marls and mudstones indicates a relatively open- and deep-marine (hemipelagic) setting (Sellwood & Jenkyns 1975).
Geographical maps. (a) Early Jurassic global palaeogeography, modified after Dera et al. (2011), Korte et al. (2015) and Ruhl et al. (2016). (b) Detail of the area within the red square in (a). The red star indicates the palaeogeographical position of the Mochras Borehole.
Lithologically, the Toarcian in the Mochras core is dominated by metre-scale carbonate-rich mudstone to carbonate-poor mudstone alternations. The falciferum Zone in the succession is generally carbonate-poor and is marked by several distinct, small-scale (100–101 cm) intervals of coarser grained deposits that are rich in macroscopic wood fragments and sedimentary structures such as wave ripples and soft-sediment deformation (Xu et al. 2018). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses on the Toarcian strata in the Mochras core reveal abundant quartz, calcite, chamosite, illite and mica, and illite-rich illite–smectite minerals, together with small amounts of kaolinite, K-feldspar, plagioclase, Fe-dolomite, siderite and pyrite (Xu et al. 2018).
The Mochras slabbed core (in 1 m core-lengths) is stored in boxes at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, UK, at normal atmospheric conditions. The Toarcian Stage in the Mochras borehole occurs over the depths of 863.50–601.83 m. The core was drilled vertically, with the bedding dipping gently (of the order of 10°) to the east (Tappin et al. 1994; Hesselbo et al. 2013; see also the Supplementary Material). The core slabs of the Toarcian are reasonably well preserved (c. 96% are present in the archive half of the section), especially in comparison with the Hettangian and Sinemurian intervals, for which material is only patchily available (Hesselbo et al. 2013; Ruhl et al. 2016; Xu et al. 2018). Core samples are not affected by drilling-induced formation of biscuits (see Pearson & Thomas 2015). The diameter of the whole Mochras core ranges from 10 to 15 cm (Woodland 1971). The surface of the Toarcian core slab is c. 10 cm wide. Samples for magnetic-polarity analysis were selected at 2–5 m resolution, spanning the entire Toarcian interval (except that the aalensis Zone is partially truncated owing to unconformity) in the Mochras Borehole, from 601.83 to 863.5 m below surface (mbs). In total, 148 cubes (each 2.3 cm × 2.3 cm × 2.3 cm; ∼12 cm3) were prepared from the core sections, composed predominantly of mudstones with varying concentrations of calcium carbonate.
Measurements of the natural remanent magnetization (NRM) were made using a three-axis 2G cryogenic magnetometer, housed in a magnetically shielded room at the University of Oxford palaeomagnetic laboratory. Specimens were stepwise demagnetized using progressive alternating field (AF) techniques through at least 12 steps (up to a maximum of 100 mT), until they became unstable. The AF technique was used so as to retain the material for geochemical and biostratigraphical analyses that require unaltered samples. Demagnetization results were plotted on orthogonal and stereographic projections; characteristic remanence components were identified using least-squares algorithms (e.g. Kirschvink 1980). Components were considered stable where they were defined by at least three consecutive points on orthogonal projections and had a maximum angular deviation not exceeding 20°.
The NRM intensities of the measured samples ranged from 0.06 to 1.6 mA m−1, with a mean of 0.26 mA m−1. During progressive AF demagnetization three classes of behaviour were identified: Class A, samples for which demagnetization trajectories tended towards the origin, and lines could be fitted to the demagnetization trajectories (65 samples); Class B, samples for which the polarity could be determined, but with very poor line-fits and maximum angular deviation of >30°, so that no inclination was computed (45 samples; NRM intensities were generally very low); Class C, samples that demonstrated unstable behaviour during demagnetization, or where the NRM intensities were too low to provide meaningful demagnetization data (38 samples). Examples of Class A and B behaviour are given in Figure 2. The magnetostratigraphy constructed here is primarily based on data from Class A samples, but the polarities of Class B samples were used as supporting evidence. Because the original Mochras core is azimuthally un-oriented, ‘inclination-only’ statistics (McFadden & Reid 1982) were conducted on the dataset presented herein. Of the 65 samples with Class A behaviour, 36 yield downward-pointing inclinations, which are interpreted as normal polarity given the northern hemisphere location of the sampling site during the Toarcian. These samples yield a mean inclination of +37.0° (α95 = 7.4°; k = 8.48). The remaining 29 samples yield negative inclinations, which are interpreted as reversed polarity, with a mean inclination of −37.7° (α95 = 5.3°; k = 18.17). Normal- and reverse-polarity data thus yield inclinations that are almost identical, and constitute a positive ‘inclination-only’ reversal test. When both polarities are combined we obtain an overall mean inclination of +37.3 (α95 = 5.1°; k = 11.16), suggesting a palaeo-latitude of 21°N. The inclination obtained here is considerably shallower than the expected inclinations of c. +54–59° for Mochras at c. 183 Ma (based on reference palaeo-latitudes of c. 35–40°N; Torsvik et al. 2012; Müller et al. 2016).
Orthogonal vector diagrams illustrating the alternating field (AF) demagnetization of eight typical Class A samples from the Toarcian of the Mochras core between 611.43 and 863.19 m (a–h) in stratigraphic order. Samples a, d, e, g and h are normal polarity (N), and samples b, c and f are reversed polarity (R). The closed and open symbols are projections onto horizontal and vertical planes, respectively.
The location of the Mochras Borehole has probably not been at palaeo-latitudes south of 35°N since the Toarcian, so it is highly improbable that a multi-polarity remagnetization post-dating deposition of the Mochras succession has overprinted the original signal. Instead, the original remanence has probably undergone inclination shallowing owing to compaction of the mudstone, a well-documented phenomenon in sedimentary rocks (Kodama 2012, and references therein). Correction for this inclination shallowing with a flattening factor (f) of 0.6, which is often taken as a standard value, corrects the apparent palaeo-latitude from 21°N to a ‘true’ palaeo-latitude of 33°N (Kodama 2012). An alternative f value of 0.5 corrects the apparent palaeo-latitude from 21°N to 38°N, which is within error of the previously reconstructed palaeo-latitudes for this site. Additionally, this inclination shallowing provides a constraint on the age of magnetization as pre-compaction. Hence, the observed inclination shallowing, together with a positive inclination-only reversal test, supports interpretation of the Mochras core palaeomagnetic records as a primary Early Jurassic remanence.
A magnetic-polarity column for the entire Toarcian Stage (albeit only partly covering the aalensis Zone, which is probably truncated at the top in the Mochras core) has been constructed (Fig. 3). Identified magnetic polarity in more than one consecutive sample (with at least one Class A sample) is marked by a full-width bar, whereas polarity identified by only one sample (one Class A sample with no Class B sample to support) is marked by a half-width bar (Fig. 3).
An integrated synthesis of the stratigraphy of the Toarcian succession in the Mochras Borehole, comprising (ammonite and foraminifer) bio-, carbon-isotope and magnetostratigraphy. The foraminiferal zones are taken from Copestake & Johnson (2014). The inclination values and the magnetostratigraphy column are plotted. The filled black circles represent Class A samples with identified inclinations that form the basis for the construction of the magnetic-polarity record. The dark grey squares represent Class B samples, for which only magnetic polarity was identified; the points at −90° indicate reversed polarity, and the points at 90° indicate normal polarity. The normal-polarity magnetozone is in black and the reversed-polarity magnetozone is in white. The grey zones in the magnetic record indicate magnetozones defined as normal-polarity, only based on (at least two) Class B normal-polarity samples.
Nine normal- and eight reversed-polarity magnetozones were identified and numbered N0–N8 and R0–R7, respectively (Fig. 3). The R0, N4 and N7 magnetozones are based on only one Class A sample and one or two Class B samples as supporting evidence. The N6 magnetozone is a suggestive normal zone based on only Class B samples and inference from the GTS2012. The interval of normal polarity (N0) probably extends down into the Pliensbachian (Fig. 3). A conservative approach was taken when determining the magnetozones R2 and N3. R2 is based on five Class A samples, although there are two single-specimen normal intervals. N3 is based on two Class A normal samples, but separated by one reverse sample.
Magnetostratigraphy of the Mochras Borehole can be correlated with other magnetostratigraphic sequences defined in coeval European successions, including the Breggia Gorge section of southern Switzerland (Horner & Heller 1983) and a number of sections in Spain (Galbrun et al. 1990; Osete et al. 2007; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010). The Spanish sections include the Iznalloz section from the Betic Cordillera (Galbrun et al. 1990), the Sierra Palomera and Ariño sections (Osete et al. 2007) and the Almonacid De La Cuba Section (Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010) from the Iberian Range, central–eastern Spain. The lithology from the Spanish sections is mainly limestone, marl or mudstone (Galbrun et al. 1990; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010).
The Mochras Toarcian succession is thicker, stratigraphically more expanded and better constrained relative to all previously studied successions, and carries a clear magnetic-polarity signal. The ammonite zones and subzones in Mochras are defined using the lowest occurrence of the respective index taxon (e.g. Callomon 1995; Simms et al. 2004). Zones or subzones can be determined with a high degree of accuracy in a laterally extensive, well-exposed and fossiliferous outcrop section. However, in a single borehole, such as Mochras, typically, the lowest occurrence could be stratigraphically higher in the borehole compared with the surrounding rocks. The chance of an individual borehole coring a succession with the true lowest occurrence of any macrofossil is low. This drawback means that stratigraphic correlation of ammonite zone or subzone boundaries in the Mochras Borehole to outcrop sections, such as Peniche, will be somewhat approximate.
The Breggia Gorge and the Iznalloz sections are also relatively biostratigraphically complete, but are each <20 m thick (Horner & Heller 1983; Galbrun et al. 1990), and therefore are stratigraphically condensed relative to the Mochras core. The link between the ammonite biostratigraphic record of Breggia Gorge and the paleomagnetic record of the same section is also not well constrained. Furthermore, biostratigraphic constraints on the upper Toarcian pelagic sediments at Breggia are also relatively poor, and the Iznalloz section is incompletely exposed and subject to poorly characterized structural and/or stratigraphic discontinuities. The composite magnetic-polarity column from the Iberian Range starts within the mirabile Subzone of the tenuicostatum Zone and ends in the illustris Subzone of the variabilis Zone (Osete et al. 2007).
The Almonacid De La Cuba section, however, probably best characterizes the base of the Toarcian Stage among all the existing magnetic-polarity records (Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010; da Rocha et al. 2016). This section records normal magnetic polarity across the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary, followed by a reversed magnetic-polarity zone through most of the mirabile Subzone (Fig. 5; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010). This reversed magnetic-polarity zone probably correlates with the stratigraphically thin T-R0 magnetozone in the Mochras core, based on chemo- and biostratigraphic correlation (Fig. 4; Hesselbo et al. 2007; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010; da Rocha et al. 2016), and has also been recorded in the Iznalloz section (Galbrun et al. 1990). Although ammonite subzones in the tenuicostatum Zone have not yet been defined in the Mochras core, chemo- and magnetostratigraphic correlation between the Mochras, Peniche and the Almonacid De La Cuba successions suggests that the top of the mirabile Subzone equivalent is stratigraphically below c. 861 mbs in the Mochras core (Fig. 4).
Bio-, chemo- and magnetostratigraphic correlation between the Mochras core, the Peniche coastal outcrop (Portugal) and the Almonacid De La Cuba (Spain) successions (dashed lines) across the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary. The grey-shaded stratigraphic interval marks the potential mirabile Subzone in the Mochras core. Pliens., Pliensbachian; mir., mirabile.
Magnetostratigraphic correlations with five uppermost Pliensbachian and Toarcian successions from Europe. A proposed Toarcian magnetostratigraphic polarity timescale (T-MPTS) is shown on the right. The grey zones in the magnetostratigraphic record of the Mochras core indicate magnetozones defined as normal-polarity, only based on (at least two) Class B normal-polarity samples. The vertical scales of the bio- and magnetostratigraphy in all the five sections are proportional to the relative thickness of their ammonite zones or subzones, but not their stratigraphic thickness. The vertical scale for the Geologic Time Scale (GTS) 2012 is proportional to time. Stratigraphy in the proposed T-MPTS follows relative thickness of the Mochras core. aal., aalensis; com., commune; cra., crassum; disp., dispansum; elegant., elegantulum; fal., fallaciosum; fas., fascigerum; fib., fibulatum; hawsk., hawskerense; mir., mirabile; pseu., pseudoradiosa; semicela., semicelatum; semipo., semipolitum; spin., spinatum; sublev., sublevisoni; ten./tenuicost., tenuicostatum; thouars., thouarsense; Pliens, Pliensbachian; Subz., Subzones.
The long normal zone (N1) in the tenuicostatum Zone in the Mochras core is also well documented in the magnetostratigraphic records from Iznalloz, the Iberian Range composite and Almonacid De La Cuba in Spain (Fig. 5; Galbrun et al. 1990; Osete et al. 2007; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010). This normal-polarity (N1) magnetozone extends up to the lowermost serpentinum Zone, followed by a reversed-polarity interval (R1) in the lower exaratum Subzone, starting between 825 and 833 mbs in the Mochras core (Fig. 3).
The R1 magnetic reversal biostratigraphically directly matches the magnetic reversals observed at Iznalloz and in the Iberian Range (Fig. 5). Normal magnetic polarity follows the magnetic-reversal zone R1 throughout the remaining exaratum and lower falciferum subzones (Fig. 2). One sample shows reversed polarity at the exaratum–falciferum subzone boundary, which is therefore marked by a half-width bar. The upper falciferum Subzone is marked by magnetic-polarity reversal (R2), which is matched by coeval reversed magnetic polarity in the Breggia Gorge and Iznalloz sections, and the Iberian Range composite. The Breggia Gorge section contains one more reversed-polarity magnetozone in the middle of the falciferum Zone, which may be coeval with and has been tentatively correlated to the potential reversed interval determined by one Class A sample within the N2 magnetozone in the Mochras core (Fig. 5). This reversal has, however, not been recorded in the Iberian Range composite, and detailed magnetostratigraphic correlation to the Iznalloz section is problematic owing to its less than ideal exposure and patchy stratigraphic characterization (Fig. 5; Galbrun et al. 1990).
The serpentinum–bifrons zonal boundary is, in all studied successions, marked by normal polarity (magnetozone N3 in the Mochras core; Fig. 5). This normal magnetozone is, however, relatively thin in the Mochras core and covers only the lower commune Subzone of the lower bifrons Zone (Fig. 3). The following reversed magnetozone (R3) in the Mochras core starts halfway through the commune Subzone and continues through the fibulatum Subzone and into the upper crassum Subzone (all within the bifrons Zone; Fig. 3). In the Iberian Range, this magnetic reversal is constrained to the bifrons Subzone of the bifrons Zone (Fig. 5). This difference possibly reflects distinct biotic provincialism between different European marine basins, with diachroneity between the ammonite subzone boundaries in the bifrons Zone. The normal-polarity magnetozone (N4) straddles the bifrons–variabilis zonal boundary in the Mochras core and the Breggia Gorge and Iznalloz sections and is tentatively correlated with the short normal-polarity magnetozone in the upper part of the bifrons Zone in the Iberian Range composite (Fig. 5). Minor differences in the biostratigraphic position of the N4 magnetozone in the different European successions possibly also indicate diachroneity for the bifrons–variabilis zonal boundary, or alternatively, may reflect a historical difference in the definition of the base of the variabilis Zone, depending on either the first occurrence of Haugia or the last occurrence of Hildoceras semipolitum/Catacoeloceras spp. (Page 2003).
Magnetostratigraphic correlation of intervals above the bifrons Zone is less precise because of the less well-constrained biostratigraphic correlation between different European ammonite provinces and associated ammonite zonal boundaries. The erbaense and meneghinii zones in the Breggia Gorge section probably equate to the variabilis–thouarsense and the pseudoradiosa–aalensis (levesquei) zones in NW Europe, as recorded in the Mochras core (Page 2003). In the Iznalloz section, the gradata Zone is the equivalent of the NW European variabilis Zone, the fallaciosum Zone is probably partly coeval with the NW European thouarsense Zone, and the reynesi Zone is probably partly coeval with the NW European dispansum Zone (Page 2003). The integrated stratigraphic framework proposed here for the upper Toarcian therefore follows the correlation between the local palaeomagnetic-polarity records, with due consideration of the ammonite biostratigraphy (Fig. 5). The upper Toarcian magnetic-polarity record of the Mochras core closely resembles the GTS2012 composite record. The thickness of the pseudoradiosa Zone in the Mochras core is larger than might be expected if sedimentation rates were constant and the duration of the zone in the GTS2012 were correct (Fig. 5). The precise onset and termination of magnetic-polarity reversals in the different upper Toarcian sedimentary successions, relative to ammonite zonal boundaries, is also not always consistent (Fig. 5). This difference potentially suggests that diachroneity between ammonite zonal boundaries in different biological (ammonite) provinces complicates high-resolution biostratigraphic correlation, not only in the middle, but also in the upper Toarcian. The uppermost subdivision of the Toarcian in the Mochras core, the aalensis Zone, is very thin (c. 3 m) owing to truncation at the top, and no palaeomagnetic samples were analysed. The aalensis Zone in the Iznalloz section is marked by two further palaeomagnetic reversals (Fig. 5; Galbrun et al. 1990; Ogg & Hinnov 2012).
A geomagnetic polarity timescale for the entire Toarcian Stage is proposed based on the new data from the Mochras core, integrated with previously published data (Fig. 5). The mirabile Subzone (tenuicostatum Zone) is marked in the proposed T-MPTS to indicate the position of the R0 magnetozone, based on data from Almonacid De La Cuba (Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010). The base of the R1 magnetozone is placed above the base of the exaratum Subzone, according to the results of the Iznalloz section and the Iberian Range composite (Galbrun et al. 1990; Osete et al. 2007). The R8 and N9 magnetozones in the aalensis Zone, which are not recorded in the Mochras core, are added at the top of the column following the Iznalloz section (Galbrun et al. 1990).
The relative stratigraphic thicknesses of the Toarcian ammonite zones differ between sections, and from those defined in GTS2012. The relative stratigraphic thicknesses of the Toarcian ammonite zones used for the T-MPTS proposed here reflect a combination of the relative stratigraphic thicknesses of the zones in the Mochras core and the data as represented in GTS2012 (Fig. 5). Assuming constant sedimentation rates, the serpentinum and pseudoradiosa zones are relatively longer and the bifrons, variabilis and thouarsense zones are relatively shorter in duration in the Mochras core, compared with GTS2012 (Fig. 5). This difference may suggest either changes in sedimentation rate throughout the Toarcian in the Mochras core or a disproportionate representation of thickness relative to time in GTS2012, resulting from changes in sedimentation rate within, or between, the Iznalloz, Iberian Range and Almonacid De La Cuba sections in Spain. Because the duration of some, especially the middle and upper, Toarcian zones is not yet accurately determined, future integration with astrochronological and geochronological data is required to accurately and precisely constrain the relative and numerical Toarcian timescale.
The carbon-cycle perturbations at the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and in the early Toarcian have been linked to the Karoo–Ferrar Large Igneous Province and associated release of volcanogenic CO2 and methane from biogenic sources and sub-seafloor clathrates (Duncan et al. 1997; McElwain et al. 2005; Svensen et al. 2007; Percival et al. 2015, 2016). Elevated sedimentary mercury concentrations at the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and in sedimentary intervals recording the T-OAE further suggested enhanced volcanic activity at these times (Percival et al. 2015, 2016). A temporal link between Karoo–Ferrar basalt emplacement and the T-OAE was previously suggested based on radio-isotopic dating of surface basalts and dykes and sills from this Large Igneous Province, and volcanic ashes interbedded in sedimentary successions with ammonite biostratigraphy (e.g. Sell et al. 2014; Burgess et al. 2015). The precise timing of Karoo–Ferrar volcanism and its relationship to the T-OAE are, however, not well constrained owing to (1) substantial uncertainties on earlier radio-isotopic Ar–Ar ages and (2) poor bio- and chemostratigraphic control on those marine strata that have yielded accurate and precise U–Pb ages from interbedded volcaniclastic deposits.
High-resolution integrated magnetostratigraphic data from the marine realm may potentially be correlated with the geomagnetic polarity record obtained from the Karoo successions of South Africa (Hargreaves et al. 1997). The onset of accumulation of the Karoo volcanic succession was previously correlated with the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary interval at Almonacid De La Cuba, Spain, based on magnetostratigraphy (da Rocha et al. 2016). Bio- and magnetostratigraphic correlation of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary between the Mochras succession and Almonacid De La Cuba, and subsequent magnetostratigraphic correlation to the Karoo volcanic succession from the Lebombo volcanic rift margin and the Drakensberg Group in northern Lesotho, southern Africa, suggests that the three normal-polarity magnetozones there correspond to the N1 and N2 magnetozones in the Mochras core (Fig. 6; Hargreaves et al. 1997; Riley et al. 2004; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010; da Rocha et al. 2016). The youngest normal-polarity magnetozone in the Lebombo succession, which may correlate with the N2 magnetozone in the Mochras core, is less thick than the preceding normal-polarity magnetozone in the same sequence (Fig. 6). The N1 and N2 normal-polarity zones have a comparable thickness in the Mochras core. This difference may be explained by a combined effect of the changing sedimentation rate at Mochras and the relatively sporadic and variable accumulation rates of the Karoo lava flows.
Magnetostratigraphic correlation between the Mochras core (this study), the Almonacid De La Cuba Section in Spain (Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010) and the Karoo volcanic rocks at Lebombo and northern Lesotho in South Africa (Duncan et al. 1997; Hargreaves et al. 1997; Riley et al. 2004; Comas-Rengifo et al. 2010; Moulin et al. 2017). The lithological column of the Lebombo and northern Lesotho Drakensberg regions from the bottom to the top contains the Mashikiri Nephelinite, the Letaba Picrite, the Sabie River Basalt and Jozini Rhyolite (Hargreaves et al. 1997). The radioisotopic ages from Lebombo are from Riley et al. (2004) and recalculated from Duncan et al. (1997). The stratigraphic levels of the analysed samples are indicated by the arrowed letters A–G (F1 and F2 and G1 and G2 indicate different samples within level F and level G, respectively), with the uncertainty bars representing the age defined by U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar dating. The high-resolution bulk organic-carbon isotope record (Xu et al. 2018) and the Hg–TOC record (Percival et al. 2015, 2016) from the Mochras core illustrate the carbon-cycle perturbation and the fingerprint of enhanced volcanism at the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and the T-OAE. a., aalensis; co., commune; cra., crassum; dis., dispansum; exarat., exaratum; falcif., falciferum; fal., fallaciosum; f., fascigerum; fib., fibulatum; hawsk., hawskerense; leves., levesquei; mir., mirabile; pseudorad/pseu., pseudoradiosa; semicelat., semicelatum; tenuicost., tenuicostatum; thoua., thouarsense.
Based on this correlation, emplacement of the Karoo Large Igneous Province had already begun in the late Pliensbachian, and continued until after the T-OAE negative CIE. Basalt emplacement in the Karoo Basin of South Africa might actually have persisted throughout the duration of the early Toarcian overarching positive CIE, which possibly linked to prolonged and large-scale extraction of 13C-depleted carbon from the global ocean–atmosphere system, brought about by elevated atmospheric pCO2 and associated prolonged climatic and oceanographic change at that time. The T-OAE negative CIE, superimposed on the overarching early Toarcian positive CIE, possibly reflects the time of maximum isotopically light carbon injection either directly from Karoo–Ferrar basalt degassing or through additional processes such as thermogenic carbon release from subsurface organic-rich shales, or through the initiation of positive feedback mechanisms in Earth's climate system, with, for example, the release of carbon from seafloor methane clathrates.
A high-resolution magnetostratigraphic record is presented, spanning the complete Toarcian succession of the Mochras Borehole, Wales, and providing a bio- and chemostratigraphically integrated and refined geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Toarcian Stage (T-MPTS). The combined bio- (ammonite, foraminifer), chemo- (carbon-isotope) and magnetostratigraphic framework for the entire Toarcian Stage forms an important reference record for future correlations between global marine, and marine and terrestrial successions. This framework also provides new accurate and precise correlations with the basalt lava sequence of the Karoo Large Igneous Province, linking the Pliensbachian–Toarcian boundary and T-OAE climatic and environmental perturbations directly to this episode of major volcanic activity.
All authors thank the British Geological Survey (BGS), especially T. Gallagher and S. Renshaw, for allowing access to the Mochras core. C. V. Ullmann is acknowledged for the help with sampling and the general discussion. J.B.R. publishes with the approval of the Executive Director of the British Geological Survey (NERC). This paper is a contribution to IGCP 655 (IUGS-UNESCO): ‘Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: Impact on marine carbon cycle and ecosystems’, and IGCP 632 (IUGS-UNESCO): ‘Continental Crises of the Jurassic: Major Extinction Events and Environmental Changes within Lacustrine Ecosystems’.
We acknowledge funding from Shell International Exploration & Production B.V., the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) and the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) (grant number NE/N018508/1).
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Bottom Line: A large proportion of shareholder proposals contested by firms receive support from other investors when put to a vote.
In an era when corporate responsibility has increasingly come into the spotlight, shareholder activism is gaining importance and attention. In particular, equipped with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, shareholders can call for fellow investors to vote on certain demands made of a firm’s management and board of directors.
Researchers have suggested that this type of shareholder activism has the potential to effectively facilitate changes in firms’ policies, strategy, and governance structure.
Conversely, the act allows companies to appeal to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in an attempt to prevent proposals from appearing on the firm’s proxy statements, which set the agenda for annual shareholder meetings. And quite often, that’s exactly what companies do, according to the first empirical study on the number of shareholder proposals contested by firms.
To be sure, companies may have legitimate reasons to try overruling frivolous or impractical recommendations. But managers may also have less benevolent intentions, trying to block proposals because they threaten those managers’ position in the company or challenge an all-too-comfortable status quo in the executive suite.
The authors’ findings suggest that there’s a sizable disconnect between what proposals investors think are important and what proposals management finds to be useful, because many contested proposals, once up for a shareholder vote, are clearly supported by the majority of shareholders despite the company’s attempt to quash them.
The authors assembled a database of all shareholder proposals that the SEC had reviewed from 2003 through 2013, during which time about 350 to 400 proposals were contested each year by companies. And they found that almost 40 percent of the submitted proposals were challenged by management. These addressed a wide range of topics, including antitakeover measures, executive compensation packages, shareholder voting rules, and the environmental and social issues facing the firm.
About 72 percent of the time, the SEC agreed with management and suppressed proposals. Shareholder recommendations are usually turned down because they violate the law, are based on false or misleading information, or interfere with the company’s ability to conduct regular business operations. But what the SEC views as beyond the scope of shareholder influence one year can change the next. For example, in 2009, the SEC reversed its position on proposals regarding CEO succession: Whereas issues surrounding succession had previously been viewed as an ordinary part of doing business, in the wake of the financial recession and several scandals that rippled through the business community, the SEC decided that succession should be treated as a matter of governance on which shareholders should be able to voice their opinion.
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When put to a vote, the researchers found, 19 percent of contested proposals won the approval of shareholders. If this total seems low, consider that only 25 percent of proposals that weren’t challenged by companies were sanctioned by investors. The closeness of these two numbers suggests that contested proposals can’t all be written off as impractical or frivolous ideas advanced by the odd minority shareholder.
In fact, although regulations require that shareholders need hold only US$2,000 of stock or 1 percent of a firm’s share capital to venture a proposal, the authors found that in the vast majority of cases, contested proposals were put forth by shareholders with a much larger stake in a company. The average submitter of a challenged proposal owned about $9.6 million in stock, or 1.6 percent of outstanding shares, the kind of investment normally associated with such institutional entities as pension or hedge funds — hardly the sort of marginal or fringe shareholders that could merely be looking to stir up trouble.
Firms that are larger, that carry more debt, or that have a higher number of directors, and firms whose CEO also acts as board chairman are more likely to receive proposals from shareholders, as are those with plummeting stock prices and lower returns on assets, according to the authors. All of which suggests that investors are more likely to try facilitating changes at underachieving companies or those with what appears to be a bloated leadership structure. In turn, these same types of firms tend to be most likely to reject shareholder recommendations, underscoring a clear tension between the priorities of management and those of investors, especially at struggling companies.
But proposals don’t have to go to a vote. Many firms elect to negotiate with shareholders instead — and this course of action tends to become more popular once the SEC rules against the exclusion of a proposal from a proxy statement, the authors found. But it’s a sensible approach for a firm seeking to limit the scope of such a proposal or reputational harm that might occur if a controversial proposal comes up for a vote.
There’s a disconnect between what proposals investors think are important and what proposals management finds useful.
As the above example points out, although shareholder proposals are not binding, they can exert considerable influence over a firm’s strategy and operations, and investors are waking up to the idea that proposals can have an effect on a company even if they don’t receive a formal vote. | 2019-04-23T18:21:18 | https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/When-Shareholders-Speak-Their-Minds?gko=54fdd |
There is now a Tokidoki corner at Tangs Orchard's Style Space on 4! Formerly the children's department, Tangs has now turned the fourth level into a hip fashion haven with a revolving selection of fashion brands alongside art installations and other events. The Tokidoki bags will be available only for one week as part of Style Space on 4.
I loved the San Diego bags with their inter-weaving design. The interior is a super kawaii white and pink sakura-print design.
The Mondrian Baguette Crossbody Handbag was around S$109 (versus US$90 in the US).
The prints were not as attractive to me as the Beach Collection for Sephora though. The material is also not the ripstop nylon of the LeSportsac Tokidoki bags.
In Singapore, you can also find Tokidoki at Play Imaginative, which recently moved to *Scape, next to Cineleisure. Play Imaginative carries only some bags from the older collections, stationery and the Unicorno mini series. They also had the Hello Kitty x Tokidoki laptop sleeves.
Finally! Thanks for the info :) Really wanted to get the bags after my friend bought me the brushes from Sephora. Love the whimsical design! Will check it out later!
how much are they retailing for?
I think it was around S$89.90.
Hi haru.. do you mean the bags are no longer selling after one week and the tokidoki corner is not permanent?
That's right. My friend was told by a Tangs staff that they brought in the Tokidoki range just for that week.
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Many of the early Sky at Night programmes were destroyed or lost from the BBC library. Recently this early and very rare programme from 1963 with Arthur C Clarke, was discovered in an African TV station. Patrick and Arthur were both members of the British Interplanetary Society and here they discuss bases on the Moon and Mars. Arthur C Clarke made very few interviews, so this really is a broadcasting gem- once lost, but now found. | 2019-04-24T02:36:16 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00m72mf |
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One of the most popular sessions at last week’s PLAY conference, “Running a Successful OTT Service” featured insights from three leaders in the space - Titus Bicknell, CDO and EVP of Operations of RLJ Entertainment, John Hogan, Head of Technology of Stan and Gilles Domartini, CEO and Co-Founder of Cleeng. From the story of how Acorn TV, one of RLJ’s three branded OTT channels, generated a 100% year-over-year growth in subscribers to the rollout of Stan’s new content partnership with Showtime to SVOD best practices, these real-world experiences were incredibly valuable to attendees - as evidence both from the many questions in the room and feedback afterward - for navigating the increasingly competitive and complex OTT space.
A key element to OTT success that these leaders would also likely concur with is that when a market is changing as rapidly as today’s OTT landscape, your business plan needs to be grounded in operational flexibility and technical agility. Media businesses have thrived with a mix of free, ad-based, subscription and transactional business models. And many of the most successful OTT services have combined these, layering new models on top of existing services in order to build revenue growth.
That kind of flexibility is evidenced by the variety of usage models deployed by industry heavyweights such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. For example, Hulu launched as a free, ad-supported service available on the PC, but later evolved to include TV viewing and commercial-free options, each at a slightly higher price point. And just recently, they confirmed the launch of a live linear service, akin to the Sony PlayStation Vue and Sling TV models, later next year.
Another interesting case study in business model flexibility is Amazon. At first, Amazon added video for free to their Amazon Prime subscription offer - a bold move akin to the old ‘big box retail’ practice pioneered by Walmart and Best Buy whereby ‘end-caps’ contained heavily discounted, traffic-driving merchandise. Then, within the past few months, Amazon announced both the launch of a stand-alone video subscription at $9 month and the ability for consumers to post videos to their site and earn money via advertising and royalties, the latter putting them in competition with YouTube.
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This has been a busy month! Shaun showed off all four finished Retro Game Crunch games plus Super Clew Land Complete at XOXO Arcade in Portland. (Four player frenzy with GAIAttack!) Rusty and Matt showed off End of Line at Fantastic Arcade in Austin. (End of Line on a theatre screen!) And Rusty just got back from Indiecade in Los Angeles. Phew!
So we’re going to tack on an extra week to wrap up the complete version of Brains & Hearts. Until then—BELATED GIF BOMB!
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We play an active role in the public debate about important issues affecting the water industry.
Elected politicians attending Tidefest, a festival to celebrate the River Thames.
We aim to meet with political representatives on a wide variety of issues in a number of ways. This includes a programme of discussions with MPs, peers, Council leaders and London Assembly Members, for them to find out more about what we do, and raise concerns on behalf of the people they represent.
It’s been a busy year in UK politics and at a national level we’ve been working hard to actively contribute to the debate around key issues for us including the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan and the debate on the ownership of the industry.
On a more local level we continued to engage with MPs and Councillors to discuss constituency issues including the impact of the beast from the east and high profile trunk main bursts as well as what we’re doing to support development.
Much of our efforts this year focussed on talking to customers and stakeholders about our draft PR19 Business Plan and our draft Water Resources Management Plan. We want the views stakeholders to help shape our plans so we hosted a series of political lunches and briefings to capture their thoughts. Later in the year we held a series of roundtable events with business leaders to understand their perspectives on our plans. There will be line of site from the feedback we captured to the content of our future plans.
We continued to work closely with the Mayor of London’s office and Assembly Members and helped shape the content of the Mayor’s London Environment Strategy. Towards the end of the year we worked closely with the London Assembly Environment Committee on a review into the impact of non-flushable products like wet wipes on London’s sewer network. We continue to work closely with the committee and its new Chair as the report is prepared for publication.
We started the year by helping shape Defra’s Strategic Policy Statement to Ofwat and ended it by working collaboratively with the National Infrastructure Commission ahead of the publication of its ‘preparing for a drier future’ report at the end of the year. In addition to working with branches of government we continued to work closely with environmental groups and NGOs like Thames 21, Blueprint for Water, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) and London Wildlife Trust (LWT). A highlight of the year was celebrating a long awaited reduction in abstraction levels in the River Kennet (and the surrounding area) with our long term partners Action for the River Kennet (ARK). | 2019-04-19T02:18:06 | https://sustainability.thameswater.co.uk/How-we-do-business/Engaging-with-stakeholders/Engaging-with-public-debate |
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