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Bright, colorful and perfect for spring. There's something bright in your future! There are tons more fun styles to choose from come spring!
Here's to the Angel Dear crew! We had a great shoot once again. The Spring 2011 collection is beautiful thanks to creative director Andrea Rachles and graphic designer Kim Reid. A very special thanks to our wonderful photographerJen Siska and photo assistant Lauren Grant. Cheers to stylists Lily Rachles and Susan Eslick for their amazing talent. We couldn't do any of it with out all of you! | {
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2017 Summer Training Cruise
Day 82: Wing Night!
Posted on: July 27, 2017
Tonight, Sodexo held a wing night for students to enjoy. Similar to the first half of cruise, there was a wing-eating competition. This time, the competition was won by Bravo Company. The 2/C have 4 minutes to eat as many wings as possible and the 4/C have five minutes. Everyone enjoyed a little friendly sport after a long passage back to the U.S. We pull into Boston on the evening of the 27th for a quick stop before heading home to Castine.
2/C John Brigante and 4/C Josh Richards during the first round of competition
4/C John Curry was a serious competitor during the competition.
4/C Zachary Johnson during the second round.
4/C John Curry and 4/C Andrew Beals after 4/C Curry won the competition for Bravo Company
DISCLAIMER: Due to the Training Ship’s limited connectivity to the Internet, blog postings are delayed and are not intended for real-time communication. To communicate with your student, please send messages to his or her issued e-mail address. | {
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Tips to beat the truckload capacity crunch
For the thousands of companies that rely on the nation's trucking network to get their goods to market, perhaps no issue in the past five years has become more critical than capacity.
Available truckload capacity is dearer than at any time since the middle of the last decade, experts say. While the reasons for the shortfall are manifold—a weak economy that forced truckers to sideline rigs, a shortage of available drivers, rising operating costs, and a lack of adequate credit for carriers to replace aging equipment or expand their fleets—the fact is, rig counts are down by as much as 15 to 20 percent from their 2006 peaks.
With capacity limited and demand firming after a four-year freight recession, carriers can afford to be more selective about the freight they'll accept. They also have greater leverage when bargaining with customers over rates. For many shippers, this raises the twin problems of securing the capacity they need and how much they'll have to pay for it if and when they do.
Shippers who've adopted a tactical rather than strategic mindset are likely to encounter the most difficulty obtaining needed capacity, according to a recent study by C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc., a major 3PL that is also the nation's largest freight broker. These shippers, according to Robinson, share several traits that carriers view as red flags: They switch back and forth between carriers in search of the cheapest deal; they confine the topic of carrier discussions to rate matters, and they ignore carrier complaints about service issues such as long loading and unloading times, and freight that is difficult to handle.
These shippers also "time the market" in an effort to lock in rates at what they believe to be the absolute bottom. This approach often backfires, according to Robinson. Not only do shippers get in at the wrong time and end up paying more over the long run, but they alienate their carriers by failing to care what impact their decisions have on the trucker's business, Robinson said.
Beating the capacity crunch won't be easy. But it's not an insurmountable problem, experts say. The road to restoration begins with a change of attitude. What follows are some tips on developing the right mindset for long-term success:
• Be real, and be fair. Shippers need to frame capacity discussions in terms of what works well for both parties, as opposed to engaging in a zero-sum game where one benefits at the expense of the other. "Seeking alignment between business goals and outcomes of both shippers and carriers can result in better rates and exceptional service over time," concluded the Robinson study.
One of the most important tenets for shippers is to be truthful about the traffic they tender. During the procurement process, shippers may make their freight look better than it really is, Robinson said. But if carriers discover that the freight isn't available at the right times or is difficult to handle, they may choose to accept someone else's freight instead. If the primary carrier doesn't take the freight, the shipper may find himself in a bind. As the shipper goes down the service guide in search of providers, he's likely to find that his rate and service options become increasingly less attractive, the study concluded.
On the other hand, if the shipper doesn't disclose the attractive qualities of the freight, the carrier may "assume the worst" and price capacity at less-than-optimal rates, Robinson said.
• Be consistent. Gough Grubbs, senior vice president, distribution/logistics for national retail chain Stage Stores Inc., advises shippers to try to spread their loads over an entire month, rather than compress them into a one-week period at the end of the month. This rewards a shipper's core carriers—the ones offering the best price-service matrix—by allowing them to better plan their schedules and thus carry more loads, Grubbs says.
"Carriers favor consistency in their customers," Grubbs says. "When capacity is tight, [carriers] will take care of the 'steady' load customers before the erratic load orders." He adds that shipper consistency can result in better rates because carriers prefer a steady revenue flow to higher-priced but less-predictable freight.
The mantra of consistency should apply to the procurement process as well. According to the Robinson study, shippers should conduct a procurement exercise once a year without fail, and do it at the same time each year. This gives service providers a better idea of future demand, so they can develop annual strategic plans that keep them from getting stuck in a bad situation for an extended period of time, Robinson said.
With an annual plan in place, providers are "far more likely to adapt to all types of market changes, continue to accept shipments, and provide quality service," the study said. Perhaps most important, shippers who follow this template "build credibility in the market as reliable, even-handed customers," it noted.
• Be flexible. Dave Howland, vice president, land transport services for third-party logistics giant APL Logistics, advises shippers to relax their pickup and delivery rules to accommodate drivers if necessary. "Nothing burns up drivers, and costs more, than drivers' sitting idle, waiting to make a pickup or delivery," he says.
If they're given longer lead times to respond to orders, carriers can do a better job of capacity planning and synchronizing driver availability with customer loads, Howland says.
• Be automated. It may sound like an obvious statement given their demonstrated benefits, but there is no substitute for transportation management systems (TMS) when it comes to monitoring a transportation and logistics operation. From carrier performance data to order-level reporting to savings analyses, these systems provide unbiased information on virtually everything a shipper needs to know. A TMS allows shippers to benchmark real costs with historical and planned costs. Without this insight, "it won't be clear why a plan succeeded or failed to meet the budget at the end of the year," the Robinson report said. It also gives service providers the insight they need to perform at higher levels, the study said.
TMS services are readily available through multiple channels—including the budget-friendly Web-hosted model—and their value has hardly been kept under wraps in the industry and the media. Yet Grubbs of Stage Stores says the software is not as widely used as you might expect. "I'm amazed at how many shippers I've talked to who do not use a TMS," he said. "It's the secret sauce."
• Be collaborative. Just because companies compete on the store shelf doesn't mean they can't share supply chain resources. Grubbs suggests shippers collaborate to create round trips out of one-way hauls and combine freight to create "continuous move" truckloads rather than settling for more costly less-than-truckload (LTL) movements. Grubbs says the two strategies lessen the need to find new capacity since space already exists for one leg of the circuit. Participants also stand to reap considerable savings because round trips are generally cheaper than one-way hauls, and truckload services typically run as much as 40 percent per hundredweight below the price of LTL.
Grubbs also advises shippers that use "pool distribution" services for their outbound transportation (shipments from DCs to stores) to negotiate reduced rates with carriers to pick up backhaul loads from suppliers located near the carriers' outbound destinations. This not only results in savings for the shipper, but also benefits the carrier by reducing the number of unproductive empty miles. And both sides benefit by utilizing truck capacity that's already been allocated, Grubbs adds.
Historically, the shipper community gets creative when its collective back is to the wall. This time, Grubbs says, is no exception.
"I find it intriguing that it takes the strains of a challenging economy to make us entertain alternatives that we should have considered all along, and drives us to execute with better discipline," he says.
About the Author
Mark B. SolomonExecutive Editor - News
Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.More articles by Mark B. Solomon
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Titans Snap Skid With Win Over Cal State Bakersfield
FULLERTON, CA -
The Cal State Fullerton women's tennis team won eight of its nine matches on the day to hand visiting Cal State Bakersfield a 6-1 loss at the Titan Courts on Wednesday afternoon.
The Titans, who had lost eight straight, improved to 2-8 overall on the season five matches into their 12-match homestand. The Roadrunners fell to 0-2 overall in their first full season against Division I competition.
Cal State Fullerton swept all three doubles matches to take the early 1-0 lead and carried that momentum over into singles play, where the Titans won five of the six matches in straight sets.
Fullerton returns to the courts on Saturday (March 8) as the Titans host the University of Portland beginning at 10 a.m. | {
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Monday, November 5, 2012
While Jane was back in Indiana for a month with her mother, I may not have been the most reliable plant-sitter. More than once, Jane's sink-side basil nursery came to look like this (or worse...) when I forgot to keep the water level up.
But weak as basil is outside here in the PNW, it is simply amazing in a beer glass by the sink. Each time it looked like it had passed into that green jungle in the sky, simply providing it with water resurrected it completely, in all of its spicy glory. When Jane returned, she was blissfully unaware of my horticultural incompetence.
But I am smiling with relief. I was not on plant-sitting duty this weekend. | {
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CEO: 'volatility inevitable' but look at our fiscal '16 financials, we are peerless
Dixon Carphone - which, god help us, wants to become the fifth emergency service in the UK - this morning played down the personal impact of market “volatility” that a post-Brexit vote will “inevitably” cause as it reported bumper profits for fiscal ’16.
The retailer said like-for-like group sales edged up three per cent year-on-year in local currency to £9.78bn for the year ended 30 April - the UK heartland went up one per cent to £6.4bn, reflecting stores closure.
Demand for white box goods offset weaker trade in computing, TV sales benefited from the Rugby World Cup last year it said. The mobile element saw market share gains helped by the store within a store concept, the launch of a 4G network branded iD and lasting benefits of Phones4You going pop in the prior financial year.
The borg is rolling out the 3-in-1 store concept, merging the PC World and Currys outlets, and slotting Carphone Warehouse into those that don’t include the mobile phone biz. The refitting programme will lead to the closure of 134 stores, and will dampen profits in the current fiscal ’17, it said.
Revenue in the Nordics was down three per cent to £2.63bn after the local currency was converted into Sterling - in constant currency, sales actually grew six per cent. Southern Europe was down nine per cent in Brit Pounds to £550m.
Connected World Services - which includes tech services and support, MVNO management, and insurance sold to other retailers - jumped to £152m from £121m. Dixon has a deal to roll out CWS in Sprint stores Stateside.
In the year, Dixons lifted the covers off a subscription service for UK punters that want someone else to maintain gadgets and home appliances for them. The division has "a mandate to become a true emergency service for customers across the UK”.
Profit for the year was £337m, up from £285m in the prior financial year.
Seb James, chief exec at the retailer, talked bullishly about the business and its prospects but noted market caution since Friday’s EU referendum.
“The nation has spoken and there has been a vote to exit the EU in due course. As you can imagine, we have been giving some thought to this.
“Our view is that, as the strongest player in our market and despite the volatility that is the inevitable consequence of such change, we expect to find opportunities for additional growth and further consolidate our position as the leader in the UK market,” said James. ® | {
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Your Favorite Enemies
BIOGRAPHY
Your Favorite Enemies is a Montreal rock band formed in 2006 by Alex Foster (vocals), Jeff Beaulieu (guitar), Sef (guitar), Ben Lemelin (bass), Miss Isabel (keyboard), and Charles “Moose” Allicie (drums). From the very first moment of the band’s creation, the sextet decided to resolutely manage every aspect of the band’s career based on their community values and their dedicated “do it yourself” ethos. Influenced by the likes of Sonic Youth, Fugazi, The Cure, Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, and Mars Volta, the band’s distinctive blend of dirty and polished type of dissonant sonic textures along with their introspective poetry and symbolist type of lyrical approach quickly gathered fanatics from all over the world. These devoted fans immediately started promoting Your Favorite Enemies through the creation of different street teams and fan communities. […]
On July 4, 2017, Your Favorite Enemies released “A Journey Beyond Ourselves”, the complete story of “Between Illness and Migration”. Debuting in 2012 with the initial recording of the album taking place in a former catholic church that the band transformed into a professional studio, the project covers the 5 releases of the album in 5 different versions (Japan, Australia, Canada, Europe, and India) and the deluxe version of the album, “Tokyo Sessions”, released June 2016. Considered the definitive incarnation of the journey, the latest album vividly represents what “Between Illness and Migration” has been and is now offered on vinyl for the first time. […]
RELEASES
A Journey Beyond Ourselves (Deluxe Collector Boxset) (2017)
“Between Illness and Migration” is a journey that debuted in 2012, when the initial recording of the album took place in a former catholic church that the band transformed into a professional studio. After 5 releases in 5 different versions (Japan, Australia, Canada, Europe and India), Your Favorite Enemies released the deluxe version of the album, “Tokyo Sessions”, in June 2016. Considered the definite incarnation of the journey, the album vividly represents what “Between Illness and Migration” has been and is now offered on vinyl for the first time.
Tokyo Sessions (Double LP Vinyl) (2017)
The “Tokyo Sessions” vinyl is the 3rd release of the collection “Spin It ’Til It Bleeds”. Entirely handmade in Your Favorite Enemies’ creative atelier by the band members themselves, the vinyl features hi-fi audiophile quality, and the utmost care has been given to every detail, from the gatefold jacket to its inner sleeves, all the way to the vinyl itself.
The Uplifting Sound… (Vinyl LP) (2016)
“The Uplifting Sound Of An Epiphanic Awakening” film was directed by Your Favorite Enemies’ singer Alex Henry Foster, documenting YFE’s first China tour held in 2011. The film includes behind-the-scenes footage, several interviews and features the band’s Shanghai MIDI Festival performance, a concert still considered by several Chinese music pundits and observers as one of the most iconic shows to have ever been performed in the country.
Therefore, in order to celebrate what has been a defining and pivotal moment in Your Favorite Enemies’ history, the band members decided not only to make “The Uplifting Sound” concert available for the very first time on vinyl, but to entirely remix and remaster the performance themselves, marking such a significant anniversary by sharing a refreshed sonic perspectives on a limited and collectible engraved vinyl.
Between Illness And Migration – Deluxe: Tokyo Sessions (Album) (2016)
Following the journey of “Between Illness and Migration”, “Tokyo Sessions” is the vivid and definite incarnation of an album that has been an evolving journey of its own.
The album primarily consists of a complete new interpretation, incarnation and production of every song that constitutes the original version of “Between Illness and Migration” and includes the new songs “Satsuki Yami (My Heartbeat)”, “Underneath a Blooming Skylight”, “Anyone” and “Yūnagi”.
1-2-3 (One Step Away) (Single) (2016)
Following the unique “Between Illness and Migration” album theme, “1-2-3 (One Step Away)” moves the story forward to that moment of contemplation and psyching oneself up to take that fateful step forward, away from the pain and devastation, into something more positive and hopeful.
“It’s a song I wrote reflecting the let go of the personal elements that hold us back in our present state of saddened hearts and keep our soul captive in the despairs of the past. It’s truly a personal song by nature, but a collective state. We may mourn the impermanence of life, but we can all elevate ourselves with the euphoria of rebirth”, says Alex Foster.
Between Illness And Migration (Album) (2015) (Indian Edition)
The 5th version of the album “Between Illness And Migration” has just seen the day in India! Alex explains the meaning of the cover:
“In the morning, when it’s still night, and that the lights of the city are still on; it’s that exact breaking point. Seconds after, the lights went off, and the sun rose up. And the picture of the album represents that moment. India is a wonderful country, where people are very creative and where art holds an important place. And the album cover is like discovering a new culture; when all the lights of what you think you know go off, then you can really see the culture for what it is like. We have never been to India, but we are looking forward to discovering these unique people and country, where creativity and art hold an important place”
Between Illness And Migration (Album) (2014) (European Edition)
This is the long awaited European version of the album Between Illness And Migration!
“Between Illness And Migration” is a blend of shoegaze, hard pulse rock, progressive tones, post punk art rock and high level noises, all defined by its unique lyrical poetry and a yet raging delivery, yet moody type of communion. It’s the pilgrimage of a big city vertigo looking for the ocean’s peaceful rebirth, a twisted sonic, uplifting spiritual journey on its own.
Between Illness And Migration (Album) (2014) (Canadian Edition)
“Between Illness And Migration” is a journey we all go through, despite our nationality, culture, language, religion, sexual orientation and personal values. It’s a path where faith and despair seem to be so much alike, a voyage where hope and misery are difficult to differentiate, a peregrinate where redemption and desperation look all the same. It’s a personal state of our heart and soul, where the darkness of broken dreams is obscuring the skyline of our bright desire to live. As much as we would like to avoid it or deny its implacable nature, we all go through that path at some point in our life. As much as we would have loved to help them and save them, we all know people and loved ones who have lost their way through their own journey…
I Just Want You To Know (Single) (2013)
About “I Just Want You To Know”… “It might be about the freedom that comes from the personal decision to let go of everything we kept on holding on… about the emotional implication of blending in if not affectively belonging… about the inner wounds of rejection as much as the invisible scars of indifference. It’s about the noisy sounds storming in our heads and the raging silence that comes with it. It’s about breaking the cycle of our deceiving self-preservation bounds and about the hopeful upraise of light that overcomes the illusionary make-believes shadowing our faith in better tomorrows. It’s about freedom and shortcoming promises. And ultimately about the resoluteness of “being”, regardless of our shameful losses and regretful disbeliefs… about taking a chance, another one…”
Between Illness And Migration (Album) (2013) (Australian Edition)
This album was released by Hopeful Tragedy Records in Australia on September 6th, 2013. It features a unique artwork that illustrates the special relationship that Your Favorite Enemies shares with the Australian people. It also includes a bonus track that is exclusive to the Australian version of the album.
Youthful Dreams Of An Old Empire (Album) (2013)
A blend of alternative, shoegaze, new prog and noise rock, “Youthful Dreams Of An Old Empire” is the soundscape of peace through confusion, of solace through despair, love through desires and of dreamful let go through fierce angst. The 3-track EP travels through both ends of the emotional spectrum, in which the band redefined the textures of its distinctive sonic identity.
VINYLSacred Kind Of Whispers (Vinyl LP) (2013)
Side A is an emotional voyage in itself and Side B is a poetic scenery… which makes the “Sacred Kind Of Whispers” LP a true reflection of the defining experience we went through individually and as a band… as much as being an invitation to let go of any hopeless bonding and to see the colors of the invisible to anyone listening to the album”
Between Illness And Migration (Album) (2013) (Japanese Edition)
“Between Illness And Migration” is Your Favorite Enemies’ first ever album released in Japan, a blend of shoegaze, hard pulse rock, progressive tones, post punk art rock and high level noises, all defined by its unique lyrical poetry and a yet raging delivery, yet moody type of communion. It’s the pilgrimage of a big city vertigo looking for the ocean’s peaceful rebirth, a twisted sonic, uplifting spiritual journey on its own.
Vague Souvenir (Album) (2012)
“Vague Souvenir” is an album associated with Your Favorite Enemies’ special project “Ceremony And Jubilation”. This unique and intimate journey consists of 14 transits, which includes 3 personal songs written over the course of the band’s first years, 4 french poetry songs, excerpts of Alex’s upcoming poetry book, 2 soulful cover songs performed by the band in the “Upper Room” studio and 5 interpretations of different artists’ songs that have been significant and defining to the band members.
Running Through The Rain Of Estrangement… (DVD) (2012)
Released exclusively for the Secret Family Cult Club Old School Members, this DVD was recorded and filmed on May 29th, 2011, during a very special acoustic performance taking place in their “Arisen From Despairs, A Morning Of All Hope” Japanese Tour, which was part of their Hope Project initiated to support the people afflicted by the tragedy caused by the tsunami in Tohoku. Your Favorite Enemies had the honor not only to be the first band to ever play in the historic Otagi Nenbutsu-Ji Temple of Kyoto, but to capture one of the most intimate and stunning moments ever recorded by the band…
The Uplifting Sound… (DVD) (2011)
Recorded and filmed on May 8th 2011 in Shanghai, during their “The Rising Youth Of The Dragon’s Land” Chinese extensive tour, “The Uplifting Sound Of An epiphanic awakening… The Enlightenment Of Letting Go” (Deluxe) and [Limited Edition] DVD is not only a vibrant testimony of what became one of the most epic, uplifting and empowering performance ever offered by Your Favorite Enemies, but perfectly represents the band’s distinctive and unique way to share a true defining moment of communion with the people.
When asked about the reasons to produce a special Deluxe and Remastered version of Love Is Promise Whispering Goodbye, including 3 songs and 3 videos originally left out of the original release along with a special interactive website holding a series of 10 clips covering the whole story of the album, Foster explains: “We were ready to look back, to look back without the fear of seeing the people we were at the time. Without the emotional turmoil associated with the troubled context we were living in at the time, we were excited by the idea of opening the door, even slightly, for our people to look and see.”
Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye (Album) (2008)
The album Love Is Promise Whispering Goodbye is not only an all-time fan favorite, but became a defining representation of the band’s unique journey and the corner stone of what is now known as the genuine and independent nature of Your Favorite Enemies.
And If I Was To Die In The Morning… (Album) (2007)
This self-produced EP was released by Your Favorite Enemies on their own record label, Hopeful Tragedy Records, which they founded for the occasion. | {
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The four-term congresswoman mounted her own bid for the Republican nomination, but ultimately abandoned that effort after she was unable to secure a win in Iowa, her home state.
On the campaign trail, Bachmann was a frequent critic of Romney, chastising the frontrunner on social issues. Romney's refusal to sign a pledge from the Susan B. Anthony List - a prominent conservative anti-abortion group - because frequent fodder for Bachmann on the campaign trail.
But the congresswoman told Huckabee she felt confident that with Romney, evangelicals would have a voice in the White House.
"We will see an open ear from Mitt Romney," Bachmann said. "So far, he has proved to be a person who listens. That's what we need, a nominee who listens."
Bachmann's endorsement could help Romney coalesce some of the Tea Party elements of the party that have so far been reluctant to openly campaign or fundraise on his behalf.
Wednesday night, fellow former rival Rick Perry signaled that he would be endorsing Romney's presidential bid. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have both signaled that they are likely to endorse in the near future, while former contenders like Tim Pawlenty, Herman Cain, and Jon Huntsman already signaled their support for the former Massachusetts governor. | {
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Continue Reading »]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:32:58 PDTHigh voltagehttp://www.instructables.com/group/high voltage/
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Continue Reading »]]>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:03:33 PDTNikola Teslahttp://www.instructables.com/group/Tesla/
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Ethereum Forecast To Surpass Bitcoin By 2018
Back on February 27, when bitcoin was trading in the mid-teens, we wrote "Step aside bitcoin, there is a new blockchain kid in town."
In recent days, the world's second most popular digital currency, Ethereum, has been surging (despite its embarrassing hack last June when some $59 million worth of "ethers" were stolen forcing the blockchain to implement a hard fork to undo the damage), prompting many to wonder if some big announcement was imminent. It appears that yet again someone "leaked" because on Monday, an alliance of some of the world's most advanced financial and tech companies including JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Intel and more than two dozen other companies teamed up to develop standards and technology to make it easier for enterprises to use blockchain code Ethereum - not bitcoin - in the latest push by large firms to move toward the holy grail of a post-central bank world in which every transaction is duly tracked: a distributed ledger systems.
Commenting on the sharp - for the time - rise in ETH price (which had moved from $13 to $15), we said "the move may be just the beginning if most corporations adopt Ethereum as the distributed ledger standard: Accenture released a report last month arguing that blockchain technology could save the 10 largest banks $8 billion to $12 billion a year in infrastructure costs, or 30 percent of their total costs in that area." Since then most corporations have indeed adopted Ethereum as the distributed ledger standard.
*) Three months later, and with Ethereum 15x higher at $230, Bloomberg today writes: "Step aside, bitcoin. There’s another digital token in town that’s winning over the hearts and wallets of cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the globe."
It's not just the lede that is familiar, it's everything else too, especially the forecast.
The value of ether, the digital currency linked to the ethereum blockchain, could surpass that of bitcoin by the end of 2018, according to Olaf Carlson-Wee, chief executive officer of cryptocurrency hedge fund Polychain Capital who was interviewed by Bloomberg.
"What we’ve seen in ethereum is a much richer, organic developer ecosystem develop very, very quickly, which is what has driven ethereum’s price growth, which has actually been much more aggressive than bitcoin," said Carlson-Wee, in an interview on Bloomberg Television Tuesday. While Ethereum suffered an embarrassing hack last summer resulting in the theft in millions of ether, the cryptocurrency has drawn the interest of industries from finance to health care because its blockchain does far more than let bitcoin users send value from one person to another. "Its advocates think it could be a universally accessible machine for running businesses, as the technology allows people to do more complex actions in a shared and decentralized manner."
Which is why ethereum is gaining increasingly more converts. Carlson-Wee wasn’t the first to forecast a bright future for ethereum. Fred Wilson, co-founder and managing partner at Union Square Ventures, laid out an even more ambitious timeline for the cryptocurrency in an interview earlier this month.
"The market cap of ethereum will bypass the market cap of bitcoin by the end of the year," said Wilson, who is also chairman of the board at Etsy.
In fact, if one looks at the relative market share of various cryptocurrencues, and extrapolates current trends, ethereum could surpass bitcoin in just a few months...
Bitcoin currently dominates a little less than half of the digital currency market, down from almost 90 percent three months ago, according to Coinmarketcap.com data. Meanwhile, ethereum has quadrupled its share, which now represents more than a quarter of the pie.
Indicatively, as of this moment, the market cap of Bitcoin is $37 billion, 75% higher than Ethereum. If the optimsitic forecasts are accurate, Ethereum, which is currently offered at $230, will cost roughly $400 next time we look at it, if not more. What is more interesting is that while bitcoin hit an all time high of approximately $2900 one week ago, it has failed to recapture the highs, even as ethereum has continued surging ever higher, perhaps a sign of a broad momentum shift from the legacy "cryptocoin" to the "up and comer."
"We’re absolutely still in the infrastructure building phase," Carlson-Wee said. "But I do think within one to two years, we’ll start to see the first viral applications that are user facing."
In any case, for readers interested in putting money into either extremely volatile crypto, be prepared, in fact assume, a complete loss of your investment as chasing such speculative manias rarely has a happy ending. Then again, trying to time the peak of any bubble is a fool's endeavor. Just look at the S&P.
Bitcoin’s growth has started to catch up to its fundamentals, which is likely what has been driving its astronomical gain as of late, he said. Others have attributed the surge to speculation, as well as increased interest in Asia and adoption by established companies.
Impressive performance aside, more than $150 has been knocked off bitcoin’s price since late last week amid concerns about transaction speed, safety and a possible price bubble...
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We are Voices for Racial Justice. On October 28, we are celebrating this name change, as well as the journey that got us here. And, of course, we are looking forward to the movement-building that continues through organizing and training, advocacy with (not for) engaged communities, and the research and policy tools that tell our story.
Why the change? For several years, the staff and board of OAP have thought about a name change. But these things are challenging. Although Organizing Apprenticeship Project no longer described all of the work that we do, and did not make clear our commitment to building racial justice, it has been around for 21 years. People know us as “OAP” and love what “OAP” means.
But the best organizations grow and evolve. We know that to build a shared network and movement for racial justice in Minnesota, we need to draw more people in. More equitable communities, where all people have the chance to learn, work, and live well, without running into barriers to those opportunities, are good for all of us. We also know that we must break down institutional and structural racism in order for those opportunities and equitable outcomes to be a reality.
The board and staff agreed that we wanted to more boldly claim our vision – racial justice. We also agreed that what we are building doesn’t live inside an organization, but stretches out to the communities of color, American Indian communities, and many allies who lead this work with us. All of our multiracial, multicultural voices are part of building racial justice. After many sessions of giant sticky notes, we arrived at our new name: Voices for Racial Justice.
Which isn’t such a new name after all. For two years, we have used the name Voices for Racial Justice as the OAP blog site. This grew out of our Voices for Voting Rights campaign to defeat the voter ID amendment in 2012. We have grown comfortable in our Voices – so an already familiar identity will be easy to slip on.
Not much else has changed. We will still lead with the importance of organizer and leadership training. We will still practice the authentic community engagement that guides our strategic convenings and all our work. We still lead campaigns for change, whether in education equity, health equity, voting rights, or criminal justice. We will continue to work with communities to develop the policy tools that help organizers tell a powerful story and hold leaders accountable to building racial equity
Actually, there is one more change, but also one that feels comfortable. I am honored to have been named Executive Director of Voices for Racial Justice. I feel grateful for the 21 years of leadership that Beth Newkirk has brought to this role, and the ongoing mentorship she offers me. I continue to love working with my bold and creative colleagues, and value the support of our board who have walked with me through an eight month interim role.
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Aside from the obvious “fruits of your labor” and “hard work pays off” there are a lot of principals of business to be learned from a garden. As this growing season begins I am thinking about the things that I am learning and perhaps you may decide to chime in as well.
Our family grows a garden every year. The entire family is involved from the beginning plans to eating the fruits and vegetables. One year we planed to grow cabbage. My son found a packet of seeds at the store and we set out our plants. We read the directions followed the suggestions and we grew… big beautiful cabbages. Rows of green and purple leaves sprouted from the well kept garden. We watered and we tended our garden. We pulled weeds we took pictures AND we were very successful in growing our cabbage. Our children were very proud. Our children were proud until they tasted our harvest. Greta said “ewww … what do you do with that?” Arlo said “Mom… maybe we could give it to our neighbors… they are such good friends…” Oliver suggested we just eat a little. He is the most diplomatic of the three. Turned out that NO ONE liked cabbage… we did not even know any one who liked cabbage and I spent the rest of the summer trying to find recipes for cabbage that we would eat… It was a total waste of time folks… This year… first rule… NO CABBAGE!!!
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You must take a few common sense precautions when using multiple administrators. Even though Ivanti Patch for Windows® Servers contains a number of built-in safety checks, it cannot guard against all possibilities. The program may act in unpredictable ways if the following occur:
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Dr Richard Kent.
Dr Richard Kent. Is a retired medical doctor and full-time evangelist, He travels the world preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and is involved with mission work on Death Row in the Philippines.
He is the author of The Final Frontier and Beyond The Final Frontier. He is also an expert on Near Death Experiences and has personally interviewed over 300 people who have died, gone to either haven or hell, and returned to tell others about their amazing experiences.
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Friday, 27 November 2015
Jesus Said At His Trial That He Is God.
In Mark 14:61-63 it is recorded, "Again the high priest asked Him, saying to Him, "Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?" Jesus said, "I am. And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."
At the trial of Jesus, He was asked by Caiaphas if He was "the Son of The Blessed." The High Priest was saying, "Are You the Son of God?"
The Name of God is "I AM"
At the burning bush, God had revealed His name to Moses. In Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."
Jesus used the words "I AM" at His trial, on purpose, indicating His Divinity!
Jesus replied by saying in Hebrew (not in Greek) "I AM", which is the name of God. Jesus said, at His trial that:
Parts of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia were destroyed in World War II by ships anchors and explosives. Following this, environment...
The Anthropic Principle, The Fine Tuning Of The Universe.
Our planet is exactly fine-tuned for the existence of man.
Further Discussion Of The Big Bang Theory
There are only two generally accepted world views:
Hidden Codes in The Bible.
The YESHUA codes and the Crucifixion: The Name of Jesus in Old Testament prophecy. READ HERE
Recording of The Crucifixion by Contemporary Historians
This large number of historians makes the Crucifixion among the best-attested events in ancient writing. Read more:
The Three Period Of Darkness Is Confirmed By Many Historians.
1. "Now from the sixth hour there occurred darkness over all the land until the ninth hour", Matthew 27:45.
Jesus Christ Created Everything.
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There are over 30 prophecies concerning the Crucifixion in the Old Testament. We shall just look at only a few e Read more:
Hidden Codes in The Bible.
The YESHUA codes and the Crucifixion: The Name of Jesus in Old Testament prophecy. READ HERE.
The Shroud Of Turin Actually Proves The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ.
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Most people in Western cultures have been taught to accept unquestioningly certain principles, one of which is the Theory of Evolution.
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In 1952, DNA was discovered. It may have been discovered, but it is so complex that it will never be understood.
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There is only one way to make certain that Heaven is our destination when we die.
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There's loads of people with codes to the SOCOM: Confrontation beta, all lined up waiting to get into the thing. I should know, I'm one of them. You should know, however, that you're going to need to be a little patient, as the sheer weight of users jumping into beta has caused the whole thing to come crashing down. There's lag, disconnects, people can't log in, the works. A statement on the SOCOM site says:
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There have been at least two times since I started blogging that I fell for a dubious story because I exercised insufficient skepticism. The first time occurred very early on in my blogging history when swallowed a story about how legalization of prostitution was claimed to lead to the requirement that unemployed women take jobs as prostitutes or lose their unemployment benefits. More recently, I backpedaled a bit over a story about how supposedly history teachers in the U.K. were not teaching about the Holocaust out of concern for offending the sensitivities of certain of their constituents. Generally, I’m harder on myself than most of my critics, but I also realize that my record is probably not bad for over two years of continuous blogging.
Basically, there are two ways to get burned while exercising critical thinking. One way, which the two examples above illustrate, is simple laziness, to accept a report at face value without digging a little deeper. Another way is to have insufficient background knowledge to critically examine the report. For example, there’s a reason why I rarely comment on global warming. Even though I generally accept the scientific consensus that human activity is causing global warming, I don’t have sufficient background in the science to match the level of commentary that I can provide on alternative medicine, Holocaust denial, or my other usual topics. That reticence may change as I learn more about the issue, but for now it has served me well to be cautious. It is the cranks who tend to jump into discussions of fields that they clearly do not understand and make proclamations with unjustified confidence. All of this is my not-so-subtle way to introduce a discussion of how even die-hard skeptics can be burned. The example I happened to come across that disappointed me came, surprisingly, from my favorite skeptical podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, the most recent episode of which I was a bit late getting around to listening to. I don’t do this as a “gotcha” exercise, but merely as a cautionary tale that even the best skeptics can be burned if they have insufficient knowledge of a topic. In this case, it was knowledge of history, specifically Nazi history.
Basically, during the podcast, Steve Novella and crew were doing a fine job of debunking some of the sillier 9/11 conspiracy myths, in particular the analogy often cited that “9/11 was Bush’s Reichstag fire.” For those not familiar with the history, on February 27, 1933, only four weeks after Adolf Hitler had been named Chancellor of Germany and before he had consolidated his power, the Reichstag (the German parliament building) burned. The man caught, convicted, and eventually executed by beheading for the crime (the favored method of execution in Germany at that time) was self-styled revolutionary and rabble-rouser, Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council Communist, who was caught at the scene and who proudly confessed to the crime. In the days before that he had tried to burn down an unemployment office and other buildings but had not succeeded. He thought that his arson at the Reichstag would be the spark that would cause the workers to rise up and throw off the Nazi yoke. Not surprisingly, Hitler, blaming it all on the Communist Party, used the Reichstag fire as a pretext for rounding up his hated enemies, particularly Communist leaders, and for persuading President Hindenberg to sign the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended the remaining civil liberties in Germany and set the stage for Hitler’s becoming absolute dictator. From the very day after the fire, not surprisingly, suspicions swirled that the Nazi Party was somehow involved and that van der Lubbe was a dupe.
This is what the letter by Patrick Pricken, to which our intrepid skeptics responded, said about the event and 9/11:
I just wanted to follow up on the (ridiculous) argument by 9/11 conspiracy theorists that Hitler burned the Reichstag, so Bush might as well have hijacked the planes.
First off, the Reichstag burned in the night, when nobody was in it. Also, as you can read for example in Sebastian Haffner’s account of his youth in Germany up to 1933, the general populace was very aware of what had really happened with the Reichstag; or at least, they knew it wasn’t the poor sod the Nazis said who did it. It’s just that a mixture of fear and carelessness (and of course people who approved of Hitler’s course) was stronger than any anger the people might have felt at some building burning down. Hitler not only burned the thing, but it was also he who instilled the symbolism into it. That was even a matter of some jokes, according to Haffner, of how Hitler didn’t respect the Republic at all, but then gets all puffed up when the Reichstag burns.
I agree that the analogy is definitely exceedingly stupid, but for far more reason than the reasons above. Indeed, discussion of the letter on the podcast appropriately pointed out the logical fallacy in this line of argument and how ridiculous it is to have thought that President Bush or someone in the administration had been the “real” culprit behind the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The problem is, our skeptics missed the two biggest problems with Patrick’s characterization of this 9/11 Truther canard:
No historian (or even proponents of the viewpoint that the Nazis were involved) seriously proposes that Hitler was involved. In fact, all the known contemporaneous accounts of what happened when Hitler learned of the fire suggest otherwise, given Hitler’s surprise and dismay upon learning of the news. His reaction has to be remembered in the context of the times. The Nazi Party was not yet in full control, and Hitler and his cronies had been fearing since they took power that the Communists would try to incite unrest and overthrow the fledgling goverment. They saw the Reichstag fire as the signal for the long-feared Communist revolt to begin.
Although, as Pricken states, it was widely speculated among the populace that van der Lubbe was a dupe and that the Nazis may have planned the fire, more recent scholarship suggests that this was not the case. Most historians these days believe that van der Lubbe probably really did act alone. In other words, just because it was plausible to think that the Nazis were involved does not necessarily mean that they were.
Clearly our skeptics didn’t know these things. Consequently, although they criticized it for some good reasons, they missed the biggest flaw in this Truther chestnut: It’s based on really bad history to go along with the bad logic.
Perhaps the most famous of the chroniclers of Nazi history who believed that van der Lubbe was not responsible for the fire was American journalist William Shirer, who stated bluntly in his famous book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich that it was “beyond a reasonable doubt that it was the Nazis who planned the arson and carried it out for their own political ends.” He went on to say that van der Lubbe was a “dupe of the Nazis” who had been “encouraged to try to set the Reichstag on fire” while the main job was to be “done without his knowledge” by stormtroopers. More recent scholarship casts considerable doubt on this version, however. For example, British historian Ian Kershaw, in the endnotes of part one of his recent (and massive) biography of Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, states with extensive references and documentation:
The question of who set the Reichstag ablaze has provoked the most rancorous of disputes. The Nazi version that it was a Communist plot was widely disbelieved at the time by critical observers and was not even convincing enough to secure the conviction of the leading Communists tried at the show trial at the supreme Reich Court in Leipzig in autumn 1933. The view that the Nazis, with the most to gain, had set fire to the Reichstag themselves was immediately given wide currency among diplomats and foreign journalists, and in liberal circles in Germany…Nazi authorship, as put forward in Communist counter-propaganda, orchestrated by Willi Münzenberg in The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag, Paris, 1933, carried the day for a long time. But the findings of Fritz Tobias in the 1960s, collected in his extensive evaluation and documentation…supported by the scholarly analysis of Hans Mommsen…that Marinus van der Lubbe acted alone, are compelling and are now widely accepted, though not by Klause P. Fischer…The counter claims of the Luxembourg Committee…that the Nazis were indeed the perpetrators, are regarded by most experts as flawed The consequences of the Reichstag fire were, of course, always more important than the identity of whoever instigated the blaze. But the question of authorship was nevertheless of significance, since it revolved around the question of whether the Nazis were following through carefully laid plans to institute totalitarian rule or whether they were improvising reactions to events they had not expected.
Here’s what historian Richard J. Evans wrote in the endnotes of the first volume of his recent history of the Third Reich, The Coming of the Third Reich, along with references and documentation:
Subsequently, the Communists attempted to prove that the Nazis had been behind the arson attempt, but the authenticity of van der Lubbe’s statement and associated documentation seems beyond doubt. Moreover, numerous forgeries and falsifications have been found among the documentary evidence purporting to prove Nazi involvement…A recent attempt to suggest that the Nazis planned the fire rests on an exaggeration of similarities between earlier discussion papers on emergency powers, and the Reichstag Fire Decree…So far, the conclusion of Tobias and Mommesen that van der Lubbe acted alone has not been shaken.
Finally, it is instructive to look at what Sebastian Haffner himself actually wrote about the Reichstag fire in his memoir about living in the Weimar Republic and his experiences in the early years of the Nazi regime, Defying Hitler. This is a truly fascinating book that I heartily recommend. Particularly fascinating his his first-person account of the hyperinflation of 1923 and of how life continued seemingly normally for a while after Hitler took power, with change only being noticed relatively slowly. Here are Haffner’s speculations about the Reichstag fire, apparently written within a day or two of the event:
So the Communists had burned down the Reichstag. Well, well. That could well be so; it was even to be expected. Funny, though, why they should choose the Reichstag, an empty building, where no one would profit from the fire. Well, perhaps it really had been intended as the “signal” for the uprising, which had been prevented by the “decisive measures” taken by the government. That was what the papers said, and it sounded plausible. Funny also that the Nazis got so worked up about the Reichstag. Up till then they had called it a “hot air factory.” Now it was suddenly the holy of holies that had been burned down…
More seriously: Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Reichstag fire is that the claim that it was the work of the Communists was so widely believed. Even the skeptics did not regard it as entirely incredible. That was the Communists’ own fault. They had become a strong party in recent years, and had again and again trumpeted their “readiness.” Nobody believed they would allow themselves to be “prohibited” and slaughtered without putting up a fight. During the whole of February we had been permanently at “eyes left,” waiting for the Communist counterstrike…A Communist attack was what we expected. The Communists were determined people, with fierce expressions. They raised their fists in salute and had weapons–at least, they used guns often enough in the everyday pub brawls. They boasted continually about the strength of their organization, and they had probably learned how to do “these things” in Russia. The Nazis left had left no one in doubt that they wanted to destroy them. It was natural, indeed obvious, that the Communists would retaliate. It was only surprising that there had been nothing of the kind so far.
Haffner then goes on to lament how, essentially overnight, Germans had given up their freedoms and privacy. Houses could now be searched without warrants, people arrested and held indefinitely without charges, and mail opened. Freedom of speech and of the press disappeared overnight.
What Haffner’s account sounds like to me is not unlike what happens after any major event: A lot of speculation without much real knowledge of what really happened. It is essentially irrelevant to the question of whether the Nazis were or were not involved. Contrary to what Pricken said, Haffner never said that “everyone knew what really happened.” He merely speculated about what happened and admitted that even skeptics of official version of what happened found the the Nazis’ claim that the Communists were the arsonists at least somewhat plausible. That’s because such claims were plausible, given events leading up to the fire. In fact, the question of plausibility is another instructive aspect to fallacious comparisons of 9/11 to the Reichstag fire. Given how much the Nazis benefited from the fire, it was not at all implausible to suspect that the Nazis had planned it. In contrast, to think that the Bush administration, with all its incompetence, could possibly have somehow planned and executed a conspiracy to launch the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks and kept the secret is about as implausible as it gets, about as implausible as Kent Hovind suddenly deciding to pursue a real Ph.D. in evolutionary biology.
Finally, one of the more unintentionally amusing (but also infuriating) things about the likening of 9/11 to the Reichstag fire becomes apparent when you consider one little fact about this comparison. The Reichstag was burned at night, when there was no one in it. If the Nazis were involved in its burning, this would imply that even the Nazis shrank at the thought of the carnage that might have resulted from burning a government building during the day or launching some sort of other “black ops” that would cause casualties, even if casualties would strengthen their case for “drastic measures” in response. In contrast, in the 9/11 Truther‘s fevered world, apparently President Bush has no such scruples. This comparison thus seems to paint him as even worse than Adolf Hitler. (Indeed, where’s the Hitler Zombie when you need him?) Of course, it’s not entirely unreasonable to draw parallels between the reactions of the Bush administration after 9/11 to the reaction of the Nazi regime to the Reichstag fire, but there remains, as usual, the problem of scale. Bush’s actions after 9/11 are to Hitler’s actions after the Reichstag Fire as a minnow is to a whale–heck, as an amoeba is to a whale. In other words, the Patriot Act is not the Reichstag Fire Decree.
You may think that I’m being excessively picky here. Maybe so. After all, this happens to be in one of my areas of interest, and not in Steve’s or any other of the panel’s. Besides, how many people know much about the Reichstag fire, or even anything at all about it? Why should I be annoyed that people whose skeptical skills I respect are unaware of this basic history? The answer is that knowing this little bit of history allows me to be more effective in debunking this particularly idiotic 9/11 Truther gem of argumentum ad Nazi-ium to go along with all their other “Bush = Hitler” idiocy, and I hate to see skeptics that I like and respect reveal an ignorance about history that renders them unable, at least in this one case, to marshal the strongest possible counterarguments to rebut the brain-dead conspiracy-mongering idiocy of the 9/11 Truth movement. The implication that the “fact” that Hitler burned down the Reichstag and then used the event to take total power suggests that it is not so implausible that Bush executed 9/11 and then tried to use it to justify the curtailment of civil liberties is indeed stupid for the reasons discussed by Novella and crew. However, it’s stupid for at least one more reason: Although we can never be 100% certain about this and it’s impossible to rule out Nazi complicity totally, what we know today is that the Nazis probably didn’t burn down the Reichstag. Most likely, they just got very, very lucky that a zealot like van der Lubbe did it at such an opportune time for them.
Göring picked a piece of rag off the floor near one of the charred curtains. “Here, you can see for yourself Herr Chancellor how they started the fire,” he said. “They hung cloths soaked in petrol over the furniture and set it alight.”
Notice the ‘they’. ‘They’ did this, ‘they’ did that. For Göring there was no question that more than one incendiary must have been at work. It had to be more than one to fit in with his conviction that the fire was the result of a Communist conspiracy. There had to be a gang of incendiaries. But as I looked at the rags and the other evidence, I could see nothing that one man could not have done on his own.
And:
But while the story of the Communist plot to set the Reichstag on fire proved an enormous success in Germany and gave Hitler all the political leverage he hoped for, it was beginning prove a liability abroad. No-one outside Germany would believe that the fire was not a put-up job. The shirtless man who had been captured in the Reichstag while he was trying to spread the flames still further – a young Dutch hitch-hiker named Marinus van der Lubbe – was assumed by the world at large to be a tool of the Nazis.
The insistence of Göring and Hitler that not just van der Lubbe alone, but a whole group of people must have been at work – a theory which they had to maintain and support in order to justify their story of a Communist plot – had just the opposite effect abroad. For people accepted it as a fact that more than one pair of hands was needed to produce such a big fire, and they decided the missing hands must be Nazi hands.
And:
But I have always believed that neither the Nazis nor the Communists laid and lit this fire, but that both exploited it for their political warfare. the Nazis did so for the immediate objective of suppressing all opposition to themselves in Germany, the Communists for the long term objective of rallying the world against the Nazis. My own view I put forward in an article on Hitler and the Reichstag fir in 1939, when I said, “I rather suspect there was really just one incendiary who lit that fire – the lunatic van der Lubbe.”
Today I no longer suspect, I am sure of it.
Finally:
The Nazis had suborned their scientific experts, twisted and faked the evidence, all in order to show that van der Lubbe could not possibly have raised the fire entirely by himself – as he claimed and as the CID men who had checked his story had confirmed. The Nazis insisted that a whole gang of incendiaries must have been at work. Now the Communists joyfully took up the Nazi thesis to use it as the foundation for the accusation that the Nazis were the authors of the fire and van der Lubbe their tool.
It’s worth reading the whole account. it gives a plausible account of how the Nazis may well have had no one but themselves to blame for the wide acceptance of the suspicion that the Nazis had either put van der Lubbe up to the job or had used him as a dupe and done it themselves–truly ironic if true.
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I would have thought the actual truthful analogy would be accurate then. Hitler seized upon an event (which he himself did not do) to instil fear and destroy civil liberties. Sounds rather similar to Bush’s actions to me.
If you want to go that way, yes, perhaps, although I consider the analogy still to be quite strained, given the gulf between the Reichstag Fire Decree and stuff like the Patriot Act. Even so, the 9/11 Truthers who think that the Bush Administration somehow took an active role in 9/11 could never go there because it would involve admitting that Bush didn’t order the WTC destroyed for his own nefarious purposes..
I initially found the idea that Bush or the Bush regime would create an event like 9-11 to consolidate their control over the US and be able to do what they liked unlikely but not entirely implausible. However, the movie Fahrenheit 911 convinced me utterly that Bush, at least, had nothing to do with the attacks. If he had he’d have had a better response prepared than to sit there for 7 minutes listening to a children’s book before doing anything. And if his handlers had anything to do with it, surely they’d have made sure that he was somehow prepared. No, much as I hate to believe any good of Bush or even the absence of any evil, he’s probably innocent here.
Well it is interesting that the Reichstag fire was widely believed to have been a Nazi conspiracy. I think those of us who grew up with some interest in history had beleived it. Similarly the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor was only recently shown to have been a coal dust explosion, and not a Spanish terrorist act. Incorrect attribution of outrageous events sometimes have profound effects.
Without wrapping your head entirely in tinfoil you could take the PNAC statement about a “new Pearl Harbor”, conflate it with the curious inaction after the Bin Laden determined to attack PDB, and conclude that somebody decided that it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if we took a hit. The hit expected would have to have been a hijacking, not losing the WTC, to account for the lack of prepared response.
OK, you would have to use a bunch of tinfoil for that, but unlike the truthers demolition charges planted in the WTC building, it is at least possible.
Anyone who had done immediate digging for data right after the attack would have seen that C Powell did a tour of India and Pakistan that predated the attacks. In this visit he warned them that they were about to become the stageing area for US mil ops in Afghanistan the following Oct. If you look for these news reports from the Indian newspaper that are most likely still archived someplace online you will have found one of the 20+ clues that point to foreknowledge.
I doubt Bush has any foreknowledge tho. He is not the one who is really in charge of the white house. He is a really good puppet tho.
knowone,
Do you have any of these links? I mean thats an interesting statement, but do you have proof? If you do have proof that Mr. Powell was there, how does that prove they had anything to do with 9-11? Couldn’t Colin have been referring to a military presence to search for Bin Laden? In case you didn’t know, lots of people knew about Bin Laden, and were interested in what he was up too way before 9-11.
All you have done is made a claim (with no evidence) that Powell was in India and Pakistan before 9-11, then make the leap that they knew it was going to happen. If you don’t see the flaw in your logic you need to seriously evaluate your critical thinking skills.
The most damning argument against the 9/11 truthers remains the same: Such a conspiracy would involve 20-25 actual operatives, about as many logistical agents and some form of political sanction. The Shrub administration is leaking like a single-hulled Russian oil tanker on a reef, they’ve pissed badly on the CIA – several times – and top intelligence officials are going public on a scale not seen since Nixon got blown out of the water. This seems incompatible with continued secrecy.
I admit, my opinion was that Hitler burned the Reichstag too, but my main source of info was Shirer’s book, which really is a phenomenal piece of scholarship and interesting read.
Just goes to show, it’s hard to ever be 100% right about anything, and you should be suspicious of those who think they are.
Or, as Sagan said:
In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
–1987 CSICOP Keynote Address
I’m glad to see that someone (Dianne, above) agrees with me that Bush’s deer-in-the-headlights moment on that morning is powerful evidence against 9/11 having been a grand PNAC conspiracy. Add it to the many examples of ineptitude which indicate that this bunch couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery, and the prospect of Kent Hovind taking up evolutionary biology is far more plausible.
Actually, in one of my rare feats of editorial restraint, I left out a comment very much like Mark’s and yours. Basically, the first history of the Third Reich that I ever read was Shirer’s book, and I too believed that the Nazis started the Reichstag fire, largely based on his book. Then, I read more recent histories of the Third Reich (not to mention Ian Kershaw’s two-volume Hitler biography), and when I came to the part about the fire, I noticed that the narrative was different from that of Shirer.
The problem is, as Richard J. Evans points out in the introduction to his three-part history of the Third Reich (the last part of which hasn’t been published yet), Shirer was not a historian, and there were many problems in his book for which historians started criticizing him soon after it was released. The main criticisms were (and are) that it lacks scholarly attention, that it’s sloppy with sources, and doesn’t qualify as an academic work. It’s basically been characterized as a “History of the Third Reich for Dummies” sort of book. It’s simple, easy to read, and compelling, but not particularly scholarly.
In retrospect, I start to realize this; Shirer has trouble remaining sufficiently neutral. As an example, when I reread the book a couple of years ago, I was shocked at the level of homophobia there, particularly in Shirer’s description of Ernst Roehm. Where Shirer shines is in his first-person “you are there” descriptions of events that he personally witnessed or covered as a reporter. Reading first-hand descriptions of Nazi rallies from the point of view of an American and his opinions about the various Nazi leaders, some of whom he met, was of considerable interest to me. Where Shirer’s not so great is when he tries to back up and do historical analysis about various aspects of the history he is writing. In terms of the Reichstag fire, though, Shirer’s book was published in 1960, before the work I mentioned above that indicated that van der Lubbe probably did act alone.
Wikipedia has a couple of rather scathing quotes by historians about the book:
“Shirer’s history of the Third Reich is woefully inadequate. Shirer’s monumental narrative does not rise above the most commonplace level of understanding. The inadequacies of Shirer’s account could be dismissed…if his book had not found an enormous audience. Shirer’s [writing] facility.. does not compensate for this book’s essential weakness as history.” – William O. Shanahan, The American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 1. (Oct., 1962), pp. 126-128.
Excellent! Oddly enough this is the conclusion I reached when reading the Wikipedia entry (always risky I know but I wasn’t going to cite it, just check its sources) on the Reichstag fire.
I would be cautious however on accusing Shirer of homophobia; such attitudes were very common in his generation, and while deplorable, should not be considered grounds to reject his accounts. Granted, the scholarship seems to be lacking given the reviews you mention; another reason to regard his history as less than 100% accurate is not needed.
Please feel free to email me when you do further posts on 9-11 and related issues and I will link from Screw Loose Change, where we get about 1500 visitors a day. Happy to link this one, it’s a great post!
The “incompetence/omnipotence” problem always crops up with conspiracy theories. The mooted conspiracy is always successful, yet leaves behind all sorts of oddities the ultracompetent conspirators purportedly involved should have caught. With 911 an example would be that the conspiracy supposedly got tonnes of explosives into the World Trade Center with no one noticing, yet placed them in such a way that the resulting destruction (supposedly) looked like a controlled detonation, giving the game away.
PlanetaryGear: Indeed. Any person smart enough to pull off a 9-11 conspiracy would be smart enough to rule the US the way Havelock Vetinari rules Ankh-Morpork in the Discworld. There’s no way you’d be able to get rid of them.
A classic sign of conspiricy-mongering is the compilation of huge lists of ‘signs’ – all of which are, unfortunately, weak or circumstantial. Yet it is then claimed that unless the skeptic can explain them all, the conspiricy must be true!
JS –
Considering that the Conspiritors had to wire at least 3 buildings (WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7 for some reason) for demolition – at every floor as well(!) since they didn’t know where the plane would hit, AND arrange for a missile to hit the pentagon, AND arrange four aircraft hijackings/remote control takeover/whatever, AND make sure the air force didn’t get in the way, AND goodness only knows how much else on the day, I think that the required number of conspiritors is a few more than 20-25; several hundred seems more likely.
The interesting thing is that a couple of years later, the US administration is able to fake up evidence for an invasion of Iraq in (effectively) plain sight, leading to death and destruction on a scale dwarfing the WTC massacre by several orders of magnitude, and yet the ‘truthers’ show little if any concern.
I always wondered about this: if Bush&Friends managed a conspiracy vast enough to topple the towers and yet stay secret why couldn’t they manage to plant WMD in Iraq, which by contrast seem like child’s play.
Aside from Shirer’s book, another key source for belief in a Nazi plot to torch the Reichstag was the Nuremberg testimony of General Franz Halder that Hermann Göring had bragged about arranging the arson.
It’s a delicious irony that a ScienceBlog specialist in opposing conspiracy theories, Mark Hoofnagel, recently fell for this too.
As for the point that the fire was started at night, implying Nazi scruples or cowardice – aw, c’mon. All that demonstrates is that well-built structures without a lot of kindling scattered around take some time to start burning beyond hope of being doused, which is much harder to accomplish while bystanders are interrupting one’s efforts (regardless of one’s ideology or motivation).
Yes, I’m aware of Halder’s affadavit. However, even with that if you look at the results of the Nuremberg trial, you’ll see that the final report stated that that it could not confirm a Nazi conspiracy to torch the Reichstag. It basically punted the question:
On February 27, 1933, less than a month after Hitler became Chancellor, the Reichstag building was set on fire. The burning of this symbol of free parliamentary government was so providential for the Nazis that it was believed they staged the fire themselves. Certainly when we contemplate their known crimes, we cannot believe they would shrink from mere arson. It is not necessary, however, to resolve the controversy as to who set the fire. The significant point is in the use that was made of the fire and of the state of public mind it produced. The Nazis immediately accused the Communist Party of instigating and committing the crime, and turned every effort to portray this single act of arson as the beginning of a communist revolution. Then, taking advantage of the hysteria, the Nazis met this phantom revolution with a real one. In the following December the German Supreme Court with commendable courage and independence acquitted the accused Communists, but it was too late to influence the tragic course of events which the Nazi conspirators had set rushing forward.
Well, since my name came up in the blog entry, I suppose I should comment on this.
1) Thanks for clearing the issue up, both regarding Haffner and the Reichstag fire.
2) I blame my exaggerated account on the fact that I currently don’t have the book with me since I borrowed it to a friend and that I had to get my feedback in while the issue was still current. So yes, I misremembered what Haffner actually wrote.
3) I also blame it on the fact that my previous, totally correct and uncontroversial messages to the podcast never made it on the air, so I was excited about actually being able to contribute something; an excitement that made me both careless and look stupid.
3) I regard myself as chastised and I promise to either have my source on hand or shut up. Rest assured that I normally do this, but it’s good having been called on it when I slacked off. Motivates me to keep it up.
I don’t think there’s anything else to add; once again, thank you for the clarification. I will henceforth regard it as an error caught by peer review. | {
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I have been with the SES for about 30 years with two breaks of a few years each. There are remarkable individuals within SES - some of whom I have found very inspiring over the years. Although I have been with the school for a considerable time I have not risen to any position of authority within the school so my views can only be taken as that - "my views".
Long skirts - yes a bit odd but rules are slackening
Yes volunteer help is at the core of the organisation and this can be a key way to challenge the ego.
St James - yes worrying stories and concerns about the way problems were dealt with - but some time ago
Yes a lot of Vedic philosophy - the root of many religions not exclusively HinduMainly sourced from HH Shanatand Saraswati and if you want to know the core of this teaching there is a book of conversations with HH called “Good Company” which gives an excellent approachable overview.
Yes quotes from many sources - often the bible
Misleading publicity - yes - I went expecting something else but found something even more valuable - maybe the spiritual core of the teaching does need to be more up front as does meditation
It was quite secretive 30 years ago but not much now
Are concerns about the organisation SES or its teaching ? There are other organisations that expound Vedic philosophy – the Vedanta Society, Brahma Kumaris and TM. I guess it must be the organisation that people have concerns about and not the teaching itself?
We are free to leave whenever we want but it would be considered polite to explain why to one’s tutor.
As for world dominance, after 30 years I am still struggling with the control of the negative part of my own ego.
Yes the ultimate aim is the elusive “full realisation” though any thought I have about this is just a barrier to progress. What does it mean – I don’t know but I believe profound peace will be there and that this peace will benefit others.
A state of perfect peace probably includes an acceptance of imperfection and one would feel no desire to write to this forum.
I sincerely believe that the SES has only good intentions when it encourages us all to a more peaceful life.
If it gets things wrong sometimes, then apology and forgiveness will restore peace.
Good point petert and welcome to the forum (don't think you have posted on here before). The lack of apology is the biggest obstacle we, as former students who were abused at the schools, are facing. What apology there has been was half-hearted at best, and there are still many within the upper echelons of the SES who claim that the experiences we remember so vividly never happened.
The so-called "Reconciliation Process" seems to have been an exercise in lip-service. One or two ex-pupils have met with their former teachers, but the worst offenders have consistently been protected by the SES, and maintain anonymity apart from on this forum. To my knowledge (and feel free anyone to correct me) none of these teachers have met with any of their former pupils.
Forgiveness would indeed be wonderful, but I'm afraid I can't forgive people who show no signs of remorse. All I can do is learn to live with the hate and hurt that I still feel.
A peaceful life/world would indeed be wonderful, but sadly we are all forced to live in the real one.
Pupil at St James Girl's School from 1979-1989, from age 4-14. Parents ex-members of SES.
St James, nor the SES, have any real intention on reconciliation. The reconciliation process, according to the public information on the inquiry website http://www.iirep.com has not moved on for three years now. The testimonies of those on this site who have spoken about the recolciliation process also bears this out.
Apology and forgiveness is a nice idea, if it would only happen. But it hasn't happened. Not only that, apology and forgiveness is not enough to restore the peace. Change is required too. How many times have we said to kids, who do something wrong and then apologise that saying sorry isn't enough. You have to not do what you what you know to be wrong and to change things such that the mistakes of the past are not made in the future.
The trouble is that the SES and St James do not acknowledge that the way the organisations work and the way the philosophy is interpretted and subjected on people can sometimes be harmful.
Free Thinker wrote:I'm much rather see actual change in the organization than receive a verbal apology for what has already happened.
There is one other thing that is required here about the steps taken to change. They must be done openly and acknowledging the why the change is being made. They must be open to scrutiny and challenge.
St James claims it has changed and to some extent it is true, however they do not openly acknowledge that they have changed or why.
Here are some examples of change and what is wrong about the way the change has been affected.
1) Corporal Punishment is no longer used at St James.The problem is though that the only reason Corporal Punishment is no longer used is that it has been made illegal by the law of the land. I have never heard yet anyone at St James say that corporal punishment should not be used because it is wrong or too brutal.
2) The board of governors has changed.Problems with this include: No announcement that the board of governors has been changed or why. No acknowledgement that the governors accept that they failed in their responsibilities. The chairman of the board of governors was allowed to retire with pomp and circumstance seemingly rewarding the failures. No information about what the composition of the new board of governors should be and why. As far as I can tell the new board of governors is as SES member dominated as the last including a one member of the board who is also a trustee of the SES. There is nothing to indicate that this board of governors will not be puppets of the SES Senior Tutor.
3) Punishment Regime at the St James Senior Boys School has changed.The problem is that this is just not widely known. It was changed by David Boddy when he started as headmaster to a yellow and red card system.
"Victims mostly want what has happened to them to be acknowledged and then to see the change that noone will have to suffer like they did." My Dad told me that but somehow he conveniently forgets it when we talk about what happened to me at school.
For your information I am seeking transparency concerning gender balance within the SES, particularly related to Leadership positions, both in principle and in practice. I am sorry but I am currently unable to provide any further details. I will in due course.
For your information I am seeking transparency concerning gender balance within the SES, particularly related to Leadership positions, both in principle and in practice. I am sorry but I am currently unable to provide any further details. I will in due course.
Trubleshtr
Good luck on this one! The issues surrounding gender were possibly the most destructive to my development as a woman growing up within the school. I understand that a variety of school policies have changed regarding gender, but I think that many of the base beliefs, especially of the more senior members, have not. So even though I could wear pants to a residential, I'd still be expected to serve the men while no men would be serving me. Oh wait, they serve me by making all of the important decisions!
I saved several links to older posts but I can't find where I saved them. I talked some about my experiences as a woman in my introductory post as an ex-SPP member from NYC. I'll look through my posts and find them. You can also do the same.
Since I grew up in the school, my gender-related experiences can be divided into both direct experiences and observed experiences.
Personally, what I experienced was much more harmful than what I experienced, because it provided a model of inappropriate gender interactions, and gave me a very skewed sense of self. As I make the list, I see that some of my experiences result from what I observed.
I understand that some things have changed, at least in the US schools, which I think is a great step. I just don't know how much of the underlying beliefs have changed.
A few thoughts since I don't have a ton of time right now:
Observed:
-almost always a man at the front of the room, elevated above the rest-man appointed in UK as the "ladies expert" (say what?)-men and women separated for classes and meetings-women having to wear long skirts/dresses-tasks separated by gender whether related to physical strength or not-women don't speak up at meetings to ask big questions-women don't express negative emotions-women accept verbal and physical abuse from husbands
Experienced:
-on residential, women given exercise to let a different woman pick out their clothing/jewelry, etc. and they have to wear what the other person chooses.-men always in charge, women always defer to men-taught that men are in charge of the family and are to make any major decisions-men asked to give service to school that eclipses their familial duties-a lot of emphasis placed on what is ok/not ok to wear but I think really directed at women, and not men-when husband and wife share head tutor duties, man is more important, and woman usually is the "assistant", which means sitting quietly and saying almost nothing-men being "chivalrous" to the point of it being forced on me-being taught to supress emotions, and not to be upset, angry, emotional. Being treated like a hysterical child when demonstrating even a small amount of negative emotion.-feeling powerless to say something if a man does or says something that makes me uncomfortable-being extremely confused about sex, and allowing men to make choices for me
Thanks, that does help to understand the effect on girls and women who grow up with these ideas presented from a young age, and I have read various posts on this Forum, but a lot is from a long time ago. I did not join until I was in my late twenties so I had a sense of my own ‘identity’ as a woman (as equal in status to a man for a start) and what I found extraordinary was when this seemed to be ‘redirected’, and I have been observing and trying to change certain attitudes ever since. I pushed for the dress code to be relaxed over many years (as I understand did many others) and as mentioned before this occurred in June 2006. So, I can relate to some of the things you listed, especially when I first began residentials, but things have changed a lot as you mentioned. However, as you also pointed out there are some ideas and practices that still seem rather entrenched. It is difficult for me to contribute much more as my identity and activity on this Forum are known and whatever I state here may be considered as an act of ‘hostility’, although all I am actually seeking is reform and (or at least) transparency. I don’t want to leave at the moment. I would like to thank this Forum as I feel a certain safety in the contact I have here whilst I push for changes within the SES. I also feel a great affinity with women who have left due to the attitude towards gender, and I don’t know from week to week if I will stay sometimes, even after nearly 20 years. Gender should not be an issue in the study of (spiritual) philosophy or ‘unity’. The process of awareness itself is transformative in my experience and does not require any gender related pressures.
Yes, I realize that there is a big difference between joining such a group as an adult, and being raised within it. And I make sure to mention this when I talk to people about the school who are unfamiliar with it. I'm sure my experience would have been vastly different if I'd joined in my 20s rather than leaving then.
I think one of the larger issues that remains despite dress code and other similar changes, is just the effect practices of "letting go of the ego" can have on a woman, when men are so much in charge, holding out "the TRUTH" if only you can let go of enough of yourself to see it.
I think that everyone can stand to loose a great deal of "I" but in the context of a structured, hierarchy such as a school, this often manifests as people losing power, control, of who they are along with some of the ego. And given the power dynamic between men and women that's set up in the teachings, this can lead some women down a dangerous path of passiveness. Giving all of yourself to serve others is not healthy. Giving up control of your life to Atman while letting others make decisions for you isn't any good. Women have enough trouble being emotionally healthy in our society without the added aspect of letting go of themselves as a way to be happy.
Serving others while still retaining the freedom to express emotions and deal with issues as they arise rather than just pushing them aside as the "veil of Maya" is much more healthy. And while I definitely understood the concepts of Tamas, Sattva, and Rajas, and how you should strive to find a balance in the middle, there wasn't much support in how to deal with Tamas or Rajas when stuff like pausing, meditating, or saying "not this" just wasn't going to cut it.
I have also read some posts about young girls in the past (I hope) being manipulated to meet older SES men at events, but now I can't find the topic again. I was horrified and disgusted at such organised treatment of young girls. The more I read on this forum the more concerned I become. It is essential that in future the SES is exorcised of all of these problems. Change has happened, but I agree with those on this forum that the claim that 'things are different now' does not cut it. Something more is required in order to have confidence that in the future the organisation will stick to philosophy, even if that is 'spiritual' philosophy of 'unity', and leave gender pressures well alone.
trubleshtr wrote:I have also read some posts about young girls in the past (I hope) being manipulated to meet older SES men at events, but now I can't find the topic again. I was horrified and disgusted at such organised treatment of young girls.
Oh Dear, I remember that sort of thing going on in the late 1980s. The Foundation Group girls seemed to be 'guided' in this way. They certainly came into contact more with the senior groups in the school and eventually left the groups that they had been members of during middle school/'O' level as it was at that time. I had no direct experience of this myself, but only heard 2nd-hand via fellow members of my group who had married foundation group ladies themselves.
At that stage in my stream we had gotten quite used to the ladies meeting separately and having special meetings, but it was something of a pleasant surprise when Mr Boddy arranged a 'gentlemans evening' for the men in my stream. It was an informal evening held off school premises at someone's house and though it was in many ways a social occasion with Mr Boddy and others talking of their love of Golf (I was surprised that anyone in the SES had any time to play the game) during one of the conversations. Then during the serious part of the evening Mr Boddy talked to us about marriage and basically about how, when we felt ready for marriage, we were to discuss this with our tutor and head of level. We were then given the impression that arrangements would be made to find a 'suitable match' for us. I think at the time, there were a lot of single women in the school and it was presented to us that we would of course be helping them and meeting some sort of need in the school at that time. I have no idea whether this took place in response to a request from the ladies for the men to step up and do their duty or whether it was part of some wider experiment. In the couple of years that followed a number of the men in their mid-30s married or became engaged to foundation-group ladies, but I don't recall any of the older single ladies being 'matched off'.
While it might appeal to many men to have a lovely teenage wife, I was always uneasy about what I saw as large age differences, with a difference of 12-15 years between the man and the girl not being unusual. Sometimes the girl had not even started, let alone finished university before she was 'married off'. | {
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The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Industry and Analysis is amending the notice published at 79 FR 24674, May 1, 2014, for the India Ports and Marine Technology Trade Mission to India to notify potential U.S. delegates that the trade mission application deadline is extended to November 21, 2014 and to add a second optional stop to an Eastern port, Visakhapatnam (Vizag), India. The fee for the optional stop to Vizag will be $700 per participant for the first representative and $200 for any additional representative, provided there are a number of 5 participants traveling to Vizag.
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Recruitment for this Mission began in February 28, 2014.
In addition, since recruitment commenced, new opportunities have been identified for American firms in Vizag, India. Recruitment for the mission will continue, and conclude on November 21, 2014. The U.S. Department of Commerce will review applications and make selection decisions on a rolling basis until the maximum of 20 participants is selected. Applications received after November 21, 2014, will be considered only if space and scheduling constraints permit.
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For the reasons stated above, the last paragraph of the Timeframe for Recruitment and Application section of the notice 79 FR 24674, May 1, 2014, for the India Ports and Marine Technology Trade Mission to India is amended to allow for applications to be accepted to November 21, 2014. “Recruitment for this mission will conclude no later than November 21, 2014. The U.S. Department of Commerce will review applications and make selection decisions on a rolling basis until the maximum of 20 participants is selected. Applications received after November 21, 2014, will be considered only if space and scheduling constraints permit.
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Junction 27 plans leave Taunton trailing – claim
TRADE and tourism in Taunton are in danger of falling further behind the competition after the announcement of plans for a unique leisure and tourism destination at junction 27 of the M5.
That’s the view of the town’s taskforce group, TauntonForward, who believe the ambitious plans for a surf park and man-made lagoon, as well as a worldclass concert venue and lifestyle outlet village at junction 27 for Tiverton could see the town fall further down the South-West’s pecking order.
Kit Chapman, proprietor of The Castle Hotel and a member of TauntonForward, said: “The junction 27 development is bound to take away from Taunton just as Cribbs Causeway and Exeter take away from Taunton.
“We need to make Taunton an interesting place to visit so people don’t go off to these other places.
“So many of our wives, friends and so on do their shopping anywhere they like but Taunton.
“Developing Firepool and Coal Orchard is important for Taunton – we need things that are going to attract people to Taunton to shop and for leisure, whatever that might be.
“We’re being overtaken and you can now add junction 27 to that.
“Junction 27 just illustrates the need for Taunton to get up on its feet and start running.”
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The junction 27 proposals, christened Westwood, also include plans for hotels and an artisan area featuring food and other products from across the region.
Developers estimate that the attraction could create as many as 3,500 jobs.
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Taunton does quite well in the Chav Town stakes and should take pride in its lack of any cultural pursuits other than binge drinking, charity shop consumerism and wandering around the Parade aimlessly. Sometimes folk just get the town they deserve.
Taunton does quite well in the Chav Town stakes and should take pride in its lack of any cultural pursuits other than binge drinking, charity shop consumerism and wandering around the Parade aimlessly.
Sometimes folk just get the town they deserve.Westerbyg
Taunton does quite well in the Chav Town stakes and should take pride in its lack of any cultural pursuits other than binge drinking, charity shop consumerism and wandering around the Parade aimlessly. Sometimes folk just get the town they deserve.
Score: 23
prickles says...4:20pm Tue 22 Jul 14
Instead of moaning about it why don't taunton forward come up with some ideas.
Instead of moaning about it why don't taunton forward come up with some ideas.prickles
Instead of moaning about it why don't taunton forward come up with some ideas.
Score: 10
RightToAnOpinion says...4:24pm Tue 22 Jul 14
Never fear Taunton has 3 new concrete benches on the High St that only cost £28,000, oh and nearly forgot to mention our greatest attraction which is Taunton's vision down on the old market site.
Never fear Taunton has 3 new concrete benches on the High St that only cost £28,000, oh and nearly forgot to mention our greatest attraction which is Taunton's vision down on the old market site.RightToAnOpinion
Never fear Taunton has 3 new concrete benches on the High St that only cost £28,000, oh and nearly forgot to mention our greatest attraction which is Taunton's vision down on the old market site.
Score: 19
T_12345 says...4:35pm Tue 22 Jul 14
I think Taunton should just build a theme park or be turned into a theme park. But yeah a surf park sounds pretty good too be honest, will take some beating that.
I think Taunton should just build a theme park or be turned into a theme park. But yeah a surf park sounds pretty good too be honest, will take some beating that.T_12345
I think Taunton should just build a theme park or be turned into a theme park. But yeah a surf park sounds pretty good too be honest, will take some beating that.
Score: 9
Somerset_BTGOG says...4:41pm Tue 22 Jul 14
Nothing like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted! Years and years of under funding, saying yes to big supermarkets and a lack of ideas from the incompetent people who have been in a position to chance things has cost Taunton big time, if you stand still you will ultimately go backwards. But never mind we have lots of new (unaffordable) houses popping up all over the place, an empty market site (soon to be another Supermarket), and a new road to nowhere to look forward to.
Nothing like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted!
Years and years of under funding, saying yes to big supermarkets and a lack of ideas from the incompetent people who have been in a position to chance things has cost Taunton big time, if you stand still you will ultimately go backwards.
But never mind we have lots of new (unaffordable) houses popping up all over the place, an empty market site (soon to be another Supermarket), and a new road to nowhere to look forward to.Somerset_BTGOG
Nothing like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted! Years and years of under funding, saying yes to big supermarkets and a lack of ideas from the incompetent people who have been in a position to chance things has cost Taunton big time, if you stand still you will ultimately go backwards. But never mind we have lots of new (unaffordable) houses popping up all over the place, an empty market site (soon to be another Supermarket), and a new road to nowhere to look forward to.
Score: 22
Hljomalind says...8:49pm Tue 22 Jul 14
Taunton has spent years being smug about it’s position as the County Town ……. and now the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. Although it would be good to have something more local the 3,500 jobs at J27 looks positive – people need somewhere to work with the ongoing contraction of the public sector which must be hurting the town given its historical reliance on these jobs, but those that seem to consider themselves our betters appear to be completely incapable of thinking about anything else other than granting planning permission for massive amounts of housing that is unaffordable on average local wages. There seems to be no strategic thinking about allocating land for employment or where the jobs will come from – just an assumption of “build more houses, jobs will come”. A cynical resident might suggest that too often the politicians who are making the decisions don’t, or maybe never have, had to think about having to work for a living as it’s something other people do, hence why it comes so far down their list of priorities! Sadly I don’t see much of a future for Taunton – the train has departed the platform and those with power and influence have been too busy naval gazing and spending millions on follies to notice. Places like Bridgwater and Exeter will create the jobs and Taunton will, at best, become a dormitory town.......
Taunton has spent years being smug about it’s position as the County Town ……. and now the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. Although it would be good to have something more local the 3,500 jobs at J27 looks positive – people need somewhere to work with the ongoing contraction of the public sector which must be hurting the town given its historical reliance on these jobs, but those that seem to consider themselves our betters appear to be completely incapable of thinking about anything else other than granting planning permission for massive amounts of housing that is unaffordable on average local wages. There seems to be no strategic thinking about allocating land for employment or where the jobs will come from – just an assumption of “build more houses, jobs will come”. A cynical resident might suggest that too often the politicians who are making the decisions don’t, or maybe never have, had to think about having to work for a living as it’s something other people do, hence why it comes so far down their list of priorities! Sadly I don’t see much of a future for Taunton – the train has departed the platform and those with power and influence have been too busy naval gazing and spending millions on follies to notice. Places like Bridgwater and Exeter will create the jobs and Taunton will, at best, become a dormitory town.......Hljomalind
Taunton has spent years being smug about it’s position as the County Town ……. and now the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost. Although it would be good to have something more local the 3,500 jobs at J27 looks positive – people need somewhere to work with the ongoing contraction of the public sector which must be hurting the town given its historical reliance on these jobs, but those that seem to consider themselves our betters appear to be completely incapable of thinking about anything else other than granting planning permission for massive amounts of housing that is unaffordable on average local wages. There seems to be no strategic thinking about allocating land for employment or where the jobs will come from – just an assumption of “build more houses, jobs will come”. A cynical resident might suggest that too often the politicians who are making the decisions don’t, or maybe never have, had to think about having to work for a living as it’s something other people do, hence why it comes so far down their list of priorities! Sadly I don’t see much of a future for Taunton – the train has departed the platform and those with power and influence have been too busy naval gazing and spending millions on follies to notice. Places like Bridgwater and Exeter will create the jobs and Taunton will, at best, become a dormitory town.......
Score: 19
rolo130267 says...8:43am Wed 23 Jul 14
It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get the ball rolling on this and get something tangible on the table. We can then compare it to how long it has taken anything wothwhile to happen at Firepool & Coal Orchard. I live in Wellington so personally I think J27 'Westwood' is a great idea and it will be easier for me to get in & out of than Taunton town centre. Hopefully this will be the kick up the backside that Taunton needs to get its act together wrt town development.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get the ball rolling on this and get something tangible on the table. We can then compare it to how long it has taken anything wothwhile to happen at Firepool & Coal Orchard.
I live in Wellington so personally I think J27 'Westwood' is a great idea and it will be easier for me to get in & out of than Taunton town centre. Hopefully this will be the kick up the backside that Taunton needs to get its act together wrt town development.rolo130267
It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get the ball rolling on this and get something tangible on the table. We can then compare it to how long it has taken anything wothwhile to happen at Firepool & Coal Orchard. I live in Wellington so personally I think J27 'Westwood' is a great idea and it will be easier for me to get in & out of than Taunton town centre. Hopefully this will be the kick up the backside that Taunton needs to get its act together wrt town development.
Score: 8
Harryhourse says...12:45pm Wed 23 Jul 14
Much easier and quicker getting to J27 than driving through Taunton
Much easier and quicker getting to J27 than driving through TauntonHarryhourse
Much easier and quicker getting to J27 than driving through Taunton
Score: 13
boliston says...11:18pm Wed 23 Jul 14
I can't think of anything LESS appealing - basically a load of shops next to a motorway junction - if I was a surfer I'd rather just go to a beach and surf!
I can't think of anything LESS appealing - basically a load of shops next to a motorway junction - if I was a surfer I'd rather just go to a beach and surf!boliston
I can't think of anything LESS appealing - basically a load of shops next to a motorway junction - if I was a surfer I'd rather just go to a beach and surf!
Score: 5
somersetvoyager says...12:28am Thu 24 Jul 14
The area around J27 is beautiful countryside. What a shame it would be to bury it under this pointless development.
The area around J27 is beautiful countryside. What a shame it would be to bury it under this pointless development.somersetvoyager
The area around J27 is beautiful countryside. What a shame it would be to bury it under this pointless development.
Score: 4
RightToAnOpinion says...2:29am Thu 24 Jul 14
Rather like the countryside around Taunton and Wellington that were losing to overpriced wooden framed houses.
Rather like the countryside around Taunton and Wellington that were losing to overpriced wooden framed houses.RightToAnOpinion
Rather like the countryside around Taunton and Wellington that were losing to overpriced wooden framed houses.
Score: 9
swjoduk says...7:31am Thu 24 Jul 14
Sounds like a pipe dream to me and I will believe it when I see it.
Sounds like a pipe dream to me and I will believe it when I see it.swjoduk
Sounds like a pipe dream to me and I will believe it when I see it.
Score: 3
Somerset_BTGOG says...9:54am Thu 24 Jul 14
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats! Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town. Well done.
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats!
Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town.
Well done.Somerset_BTGOG
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats! Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town. Well done.
Score: 3
RightToAnOpinion says...2:37pm Thu 24 Jul 14
Somerset_BTGOG wrote…
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats! Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town. Well done.
Better that than the Houses across the road that are constantly up for let to the next immigrants to arrive in the town, thought they were supposed to be for local people but alas it's a little like Morrison's distribution depot in Bridgwater where local means locally imported from Krakow. For those of you who think that's racist I suggest you do your homework as then you will find that the above mentioned company has just returned from yet another recruitment drive from Eastern Europe as they treat their staff with such contempt that no-one who knows them wishes to work there.
[quote][p][bold]Somerset_BTGOG[/bold] wrote:
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats!
Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town.
Well done.[/p][/quote]Better that than the Houses across the road that are constantly up for let to the next immigrants to arrive in the town, thought they were supposed to be for local people but alas it's a little like Morrison's distribution depot in Bridgwater where local means locally imported from Krakow. For those of you who think that's racist I suggest you do your homework as then you will find that the above mentioned company has just returned from yet another recruitment drive from Eastern Europe as they treat their staff with such contempt that no-one who knows them wishes to work there.RightToAnOpinion
Somerset_BTGOG wrote…
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats! Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town. Well done.
Better that than the Houses across the road that are constantly up for let to the next immigrants to arrive in the town, thought they were supposed to be for local people but alas it's a little like Morrison's distribution depot in Bridgwater where local means locally imported from Krakow. For those of you who think that's racist I suggest you do your homework as then you will find that the above mentioned company has just returned from yet another recruitment drive from Eastern Europe as they treat their staff with such contempt that no-one who knows them wishes to work there.
Score: 8
K-78 says...4:40pm Thu 24 Jul 14
RightToAnOpinion wrote…
Somerset_BTGOG wrote…
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats! Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town. Well done.
Better that than the Houses across the road that are constantly up for let to the next immigrants to arrive in the town, thought they were supposed to be for local people but alas it's a little like Morrison's distribution depot in Bridgwater where local means locally imported from Krakow. For those of you who think that's racist I suggest you do your homework as then you will find that the above mentioned company has just returned from yet another recruitment drive from Eastern Europe as they treat their staff with such contempt that no-one who knows them wishes to work there.
Good on the Europeans for coming to work here - takes courage to leave your home to and make the effort to make a better life for yourself. Unfortunately for us 'natives' too often the benefits option and complaining about no jobs seems to be the preferred method of job hunting. Those guys and gals in the factories in the area who are not from the UK will be hard working, largely over qualified, and (I reckon) statistically significantly less likely to get drunk at the weekend and cause mischief in town. Like Taunton, the UK has only it's own attitude to blame.
[quote][p][bold]RightToAnOpinion[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]Somerset_BTGOG[/bold] wrote:
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats!
Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town.
Well done.[/p][/quote]Better that than the Houses across the road that are constantly up for let to the next immigrants to arrive in the town, thought they were supposed to be for local people but alas it's a little like Morrison's distribution depot in Bridgwater where local means locally imported from Krakow. For those of you who think that's racist I suggest you do your homework as then you will find that the above mentioned company has just returned from yet another recruitment drive from Eastern Europe as they treat their staff with such contempt that no-one who knows them wishes to work there.[/p][/quote]Good on the Europeans for coming to work here - takes courage to leave your home to and make the effort to make a better life for yourself. Unfortunately for us 'natives' too often the benefits option and complaining about no jobs seems to be the preferred method of job hunting. Those guys and gals in the factories in the area who are not from the UK will be hard working, largely over qualified, and (I reckon) statistically significantly less likely to get drunk at the weekend and cause mischief in town. Like Taunton, the UK has only it's own attitude to blame.K-78
RightToAnOpinion wrote…
Somerset_BTGOG wrote…
Yet more good news for Taunton the soon to be former Lidl site in the town centre will be .......... Retirement flats! Thats forward thinking on prime land in the town. Well done.
Better that than the Houses across the road that are constantly up for let to the next immigrants to arrive in the town, thought they were supposed to be for local people but alas it's a little like Morrison's distribution depot in Bridgwater where local means locally imported from Krakow. For those of you who think that's racist I suggest you do your homework as then you will find that the above mentioned company has just returned from yet another recruitment drive from Eastern Europe as they treat their staff with such contempt that no-one who knows them wishes to work there.
Good on the Europeans for coming to work here - takes courage to leave your home to and make the effort to make a better life for yourself. Unfortunately for us 'natives' too often the benefits option and complaining about no jobs seems to be the preferred method of job hunting. Those guys and gals in the factories in the area who are not from the UK will be hard working, largely over qualified, and (I reckon) statistically significantly less likely to get drunk at the weekend and cause mischief in town. Like Taunton, the UK has only it's own attitude to blame.
Score: 5
K-78 says...4:47pm Thu 24 Jul 14
Whilst the J27 development seems bizarre considering how close the coast is for Devon/Somerset; Taunton has been resting on its reputation for too long. Bridgwater, historically the butt of jokes in the area, recognized that its industrial nature was an asset and worked hard to change, bringing in millions of investment.. As far as I'm concerned, Taunton (as a town) does not know what it is, so it does not understand what it can offer. Identify that, and suddenly strategic direction and plans fall into place. Stop building roads to nowhere, get a proper dual carriage way ring road in, and focus on businesses, not housing.
Whilst the J27 development seems bizarre considering how close the coast is for Devon/Somerset; Taunton has been resting on its reputation for too long. Bridgwater, historically the butt of jokes in the area, recognized that its industrial nature was an asset and worked hard to change, bringing in millions of investment.. As far as I'm concerned, Taunton (as a town) does not know what it is, so it does not understand what it can offer. Identify that, and suddenly strategic direction and plans fall into place. Stop building roads to nowhere, get a proper dual carriage way ring road in, and focus on businesses, not housing.K-78
Whilst the J27 development seems bizarre considering how close the coast is for Devon/Somerset; Taunton has been resting on its reputation for too long. Bridgwater, historically the butt of jokes in the area, recognized that its industrial nature was an asset and worked hard to change, bringing in millions of investment.. As far as I'm concerned, Taunton (as a town) does not know what it is, so it does not understand what it can offer. Identify that, and suddenly strategic direction and plans fall into place. Stop building roads to nowhere, get a proper dual carriage way ring road in, and focus on businesses, not housing.
Score: 12
Monument says...4:39pm Sat 26 Jul 14
Taunton died many years ago due to chronic mismanagement and lack of any foresight by Taunton Deane and SCC. J27 is a dream and time will tell if that dream comes to any sort of reality. Taunton's corpse will continue to rot with absolutely no hope of resurrection. County Town = County disgrace
Taunton died many years ago due to chronic mismanagement and lack of any foresight by Taunton Deane and SCC.
J27 is a dream and time will tell if that dream comes to any sort of reality. Taunton's corpse will continue to rot with absolutely no hope of resurrection.
County Town = County disgraceMonument
Taunton died many years ago due to chronic mismanagement and lack of any foresight by Taunton Deane and SCC. J27 is a dream and time will tell if that dream comes to any sort of reality. Taunton's corpse will continue to rot with absolutely no hope of resurrection. County Town = County disgrace
Score: 4
KevinTurvey says...6:02pm Sun 27 Jul 14
Andrew Carnegie where are you when we need you? Backhanders rule.
Andrew Carnegie where are you when we need you?
Backhanders rule.KevinTurvey
Andrew Carnegie where are you when we need you? Backhanders rule.
Score: 1
theoldsilverfox says...9:42pm Sun 27 Jul 14
wecome to taunton the dirtiest town in somerset were litter bins go unemptied fo days on end,who would want to build a leisure facility in this dump of a town
wecome to taunton the dirtiest town in somerset were litter bins go unemptied fo days on end,who would want to build a leisure facility in this dump of a towntheoldsilverfox
wecome to taunton the dirtiest town in somerset were litter bins go unemptied fo days on end,who would want to build a leisure facility in this dump of a town
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so i go to 'start game' and i enter in my info and confirm it and it gives me this garbage:
know where i can download the patch from? i didn't see anything for this in the PSO PC download section. i'll brace myself for flaming now since i've got a feeling the answer to this is really simple.
[edit] in case you were wondering, when i clicked autorun the second time to check if it had my serial and key at the bottom, it did not. i actually did get myself onto skyline ship by starting with online_offline.exe, but i was wondering if not having registered properly was going to be an issue
also hi my name's dan. i played PSOv1 on dreamcast a looong time ago and i really miss it. i shat bricks when i saw you guys had a private server up. i've got my ps3 controller set up with it and everything
I am aware of this problem as my bro had the same issue trying to connect and unfortunately he could not configure it to work, I remember it happening right after he set up his serial and access key, the common cure for this is that you make sure your net settings are set to LAN and not dial-up but frankly this hasn't worked for every situation, I'm sorry I can't really give a better answer than that but perhaps Ives can help a little more, This may not have anything to do with the problem but maybe not registering the serial stuff and accessing the server may work? This is really the only suggestion that I can really give that may have any possibility of working, but the odds are slim for that, best of luck though
well i'm not sure what it was, but i was able to log into the schthack server without doing it. however upon getting there and chatting with some people, it has become apparent that there isn't a soul still playing pso pc online. that disappointed me, but those i spoke to notified me of pso blue burst which is what they were all playing. after a quick installation and patching, i got that working real quick. plus its got a bunch of episodes of pso that i never played back in the days when it was just dreamcast. so i've decided that i'm gonna play that instead, and i'm amazed i didn't see anything at pso palace about downloading and installing that for free since its so much better
anyway i suppose i wouldn't have found it without the help of this site anyway so thanks to you all
There is a reason why we dont, often times V2 and DC players tend to dislike Blue Burst simply because there is quite a different mentality involved that V2 and DC very much hate and that is the hunting mentality. Many of the V2 players do not carry this mentality due to the idea that V2 has much more rigorous drop rates for rares so therefore there is no real point to hunt endless hours for an OMGSHINYWEAPON. Dont get me wrong there are people on BB that don't use this mentality but majority of the community on there are often doing this exact act. Its up to you whether you want to play Blue Burst or stay on V2 but understand that there are very different mentalities when playing either game. Also those new episodes you were mentioning are pretty much reskins of episode 1 and a few new different textures. Its unfortunate that you choose not to play V2 here but if you choose to play Blue Burst we cant stop you, hope you enjoy everything the community has to offer, but please dont post here about Blue Burst at all, this forum is one that focuses on V2 and DC and several people here greatly dislike Blue Burst so it would be preferable that you refrain from doing so.
ImportantGuy wrote:i'm amazed i didn't see anything at pso palace about downloading and installing that for free since its so much better
That's like saying you can't believe a site devoted to Soul Calibur doesn't mention Soul Calibur 2, when 2 is "so much better". This site isn't about BB; there are those of us who don't like piss easy enemies and cheap 1 hit KO faggotry.
well now you've all got me curious. i haven't had time to play BB at great length so i can't yet see what you are talking about, but it sounds as though you've all got some good points. plus i'm playing this game for nostalgia and thus i don't need anything different from before; if i want to play a new game i could just play borderlands or something etc. i also don't want to have to learn a crapload of new things about the best items and mags and how to obtain them ya know? from what i played last night i feel too much has changed in BB, i don't feel comfortable with it like before.
i'll consider staying and playing v2 with you guys, but the first thing i want to know is how many people still play it. it'll be pretty hard to convince myself to stay with you guys if theres only 10 or so people left. like i said when i showed up at the lobby there wasn't a soul there playing pso pc. they were saying 'you're about 4 years too late to play pso pc'. i don't want online to feel just like offline you know
if there's at least 3 pso pc players online during most of the week, i'm sold. but if it's only gonna be one good team a week or less, well.... you know what i'm saying.
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The 2019 Film London Jarman Award Touring Programme
Sat 12 Oct 2019 / 6pm
Discover works that explore new digital practices, experimental animation and fresh approaches to analogue filmmaking in this screening of cutting-edge artists’ films. Shortlisted for this year’s Film London Jarman Award, which comes with a £10,000 prize, the six artists present innovative, imaginative and immersive works that each address important topics in contemporary society.
Inspired by visionary British filmmaker Derek Jarman, the Award recognises and supports artists working with the moving image. The shortlisted artists illustrate the spirit of inventiveness within art-film, highlighting the breadth of creativity and craftsmanship the medium has to offer, as well as its powerful ability to engage and provoke audiences.
The winner of the Film London Jarman Award will be announced on the 25 November. The award is presented in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, with support from Genesis Cinema and h club London.
Cécile B. Evans
Cécile B. Evans examines the value of emotions in contemporary societies, and their rebellion as they come into contact with the power structures that directly impact our daily lives. Her videos, which combine live action and digital animation, use narrative to negotiate the possibility of many diverse realities within a common space.
Beatrice Gibson
Beatrice Gibson works with 16mm film and digital formats. Her recent body of work champions community, creativity, and motherhood as ways of living through times of political turmoil. With an interest in sound and music as well as contemporary poetry, her films are improvised and experimental in nature, exploring the pull between chaos and control in the process of their making.
Mikhail Karikis
Mikhail Karikis employs filmmaking strategies that undermine dominant frames of representation. With an interest in sound, he works in sustained collaborations with individuals and communities located outside the context of contemporary art, often pushed into economic and socio-geographic fringes. This results in participatory film projects that highlight alternative modes of human existence, solidarity and action while nurturing dignity and tenderness.
Hetain Patel
Hetain Patel is interested in connecting marginalised identities with the mainstream in an effort to destabilise notions of authenticity and promote personal freedom. Often with an autobiographical starting point, he uses humour and the languages of popular culture to highlight familiarity within the exotic. He also works with photography, sculpture and performance.
Imran Perretta
Imran Perretta works across the moving-image, sound, performance and poetry. Perretta’s practice addresses biopower, marginality and the (de)construction of cultural histories. Underpinning his work are questions of alterity and neo-coloniality, meditating on the process of identity forming in a post-9/11 era characterized by austerity, state-sponsored Islamophobia and the War on Terror.
Rehana Zaman
Rehana Zaman works predominantly with moving image to examine how social dynamics are produced and performed. Her work speaks to the entanglement of personal experience and social life, where intimacy is framed against the hostility of state legislation, surveillance and control.
Film London
Film London is the capital’s screen industries agency. We connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture in the city that delivers success in film, television, animation, games and beyond. We work to sustain, promote and develop London as a global content production hub, support the development of the city’s new and emerging filmmaking talent and invest in a diverse and rich film culture. Funded by the Mayor of London and the National Lottery through the BFI, we also receive support from Arts Council England, Creative Skillset and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Personally, I dislike it. It's great if you are playing a "gold cheeze" build (Fabulous Treasure + Transmutation Seal, for example) which allows you to level up in there while creating tons of popcorn on the main floor, but more or less useless if you aren't. Under normal circumstances, why would I ever want to waste gold on spawning an equal level monster? Perhaps if I found both WONAFYT and a Balanced Dagger this could be an interesting prospect, but I don't think it's worth it outside of these special circumstances. I 90% of the time just see it as wasted potential.
My thoughts are:1. It's too expensive to spawn one equal level monster for 5g in most runs2. +1 level enemy would be more useful
I just saw it for the first time. I utilized it for some extra level 8's to get me closer to a level when it was late game and I had gold to spare. But it seems to be highly dependent on class and how the run is going. That may be true of a lot of sub dungeons.
Agreed, it's too expensive for what it offers. Assassins can make pretty good use of it to eke out a bit more XP (spawn a level 8, level up and swift hand it, spawn a level 9, level up and swift hands it; 17 XP for 10 GP isn't a bad deal) but for everyone else it's hard to get any utility whatsoever. At the prices it's charging, it should just be giving away free XP (an effect that would be comparable to the Grove of Knowledge).
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Last night marked the 8th anniversary of the Genre Reading
Group! Here's to many more years of good reading and great conversation!
We met for one of our biannual
salon discussions where there is no assigned topic. What a reading free for all! Our next meeting
will be earlier in July than normal, on Tuesday, July 19th and the topic up for
discussion will be music.
A few housekeeping items first:
The Library will be closed Saturday-Monday, July 2-4 in
observance of Independence Day.
Some exciting programs are coming up in July and August as
our Adult Summer Reading program winds down!
The French Film Series continues on Wednesday July 13 and Wednesday
August 17, both at 6:30pm. Call the
Reference Desk at 205-445-1121 for film titles and information. We’re honored to once again host the
Birmingham Arts Journal issue release reception and reading on Thursday, July
28th at 6:30pm. Drop by on Saturday, July 30th at 2pm to learn about using
solar energy in your home. The Adult
Summer Reading Finale is on Tuesday, August 2nd at 6:30pm and it will be fan
favorite, Bad Art Night. Enjoy dinner
and explore your worst creative ideas!
We can hardly wait to award our summer reading Grand Prizes!
The Library and surround lots will be closed on Wednesday,
August 3rd for HVAC installation. (Dates may change depending on the weather). Follow us on Facebook that week (and all the time!) for updates
on closures and access.
In the small village of Edgecombe St. Mary in the English
countryside lives Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen
Simonson’s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing,
the Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have
lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea.
But then his brother’s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina
Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared
love of literature and the loss of their spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon
find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society
insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and regarding her as the
permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when
pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?
East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief
Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so
beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt
Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye.
Agatha’s husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure
that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won’t come to anything. And
Agatha has more immediate concerns; she has just risked her carefully built
reputation by pushing for the appointment of a woman to replace the Latin
master.
When Beatrice Nash arrives with one trunk and several large crates of books, it
is clear she is significantly more freethinking—and attractive—than anyone
believes a Latin teacher should be. For her part, mourning the death of her
beloved father, who has left her penniless, Beatrice simply wants to be left
alone to pursue her teaching and writing.
But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape and the
colorful characters who populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For
despite Agatha’s reassurances, the unimaginable is coming. Soon the limits of
progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small Sussex town and its
inhabitants go to war.
Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world
from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings
and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a
keenly intelligent investigator to assist us in our search for things thought
lost, and in our quest to return lost items to their rightful owners.
Never an adventurer, no one was more surprised than Delaney Nichols when she
packed her bags and moved halfway across the world to Edinburgh, Scotland to
start a job at The Cracked Spine, a bookshop located in the heart of the city.
Her new boss, Edwin MacAlister, has given her the opportunity of a lifetime,
albeit a cryptic one, and Delaney can’t wait to take her spot behind the desk.
The Cracked Spine is filled with everything a book lover
could want, each item as eclectic as the people who work there; the spirited
and lovable Rosie, who always has tiny dog Hector in tow; Hamlet, a
nineteen-year-old thespian with a colored past and bright future; and Edwin,
who is just as enigmatic and mysterious as Delaney expected. An extra bonus is
Tom the bartender from across the street, with his cobalt eyes, and a gentle
brogue―and it doesn’t hurt that he looks awfully good in a kilt.
But before she can settle into her new life, a precious
artifact goes missing, and Edwin’s sister is brutally murdered. Never did
Delaney think that searching for things lost could mean a killer, but if she’s
to keep her job, and protect her new friends, she’ll need to learn the truth
behind this Scottish tragedy.
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers
still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of
noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level,
promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll
never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or
little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff
forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category
system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo’s clients have lapsed
(and she still has a three-month waiting list).
With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house “spark joy”
(and which don’t), this international bestseller featuring Tokyo’s newest
lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique
magic of a tidy home—and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.
Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s The
Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has revolutionized homes—and
lives—across the world. Now, Kondo presents an illustrated guide to her
acclaimed KonMari Method, with step-by-step folding illustrations for
everything from shirts to socks, plus drawings of perfectly organized
drawers and closets. She also provides advice on frequently asked
questions, such as whether to keep “necessary” items that may not
bring you joy. With guidance on specific categories including kitchen
tools, cleaning supplies, hobby goods, and digital photos, this
comprehensive companion is sure to spark joy in anyone who wants to
simplify their life.
Are you stressed out, overbooked, and underwhelmed by life?
Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? It's time
to stop giving a f*ck.
This brilliant, hilarious, and practical parody of Marie Kondo's
bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up explains how to rid
yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt--and give your f*cks instead
to people and things that make you happy.
The easy-to-use, two-step NotSorry Method for mental decluttering will
help you unleash the power of not giving a f*ck about:
Family drama
Having a "bikini body"
Iceland
Co-workers' opinions, pets, and children
And other bullsh*t!
And it will free you to spend your time, energy, and money
on the things that really matter. So what are you waiting for? Stop giving a
f*ck and start living your best life today!
Enter the "completely captivating" (Jimmy Ryan,
Spoiler TV) world of Mr. Robot. Cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker
by night, Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when
the mysterious leader of an underground
hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled
by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the
multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world. Now, watch
all 10 Season One episodes back-to-back and uninterrupted of the psychological
thriller that critics rave is "damn near perfect" (Jessica Rawden,
Cinemablend).
From the creator of "Weeds" comes a heartbreaking
and hilarious new series set in a women's prison. Based on Piper Kerman's acclaimed memoir, "Orange Is the New Black" follows engaged Brooklynite
Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her
arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society,
Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and
finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Sarah is a streetwise outsider, currently on the run from a
bad relationship and painfully separated from her own daughter. When an eerily
lookalike stranger commits a shocking suicide right in front of her, Sarah sees
a potential solution to all her problems by assuming the dead woman’s identity
and clearing out her bank account. But instead, she stumbles headlong into a
kaleidoscopic thriller mystery, and soon uncovers an earth-shattering secret:
she is a clone. As Sarah searches for answers, she soon learns there are more
like her out there, genetically identical individuals, nurtured in wildly
different circumstances. And someone is trying to kill them off, one by one.
Masters of Sex stars Golden Globe® and BAFTA Award nominee
Michael Sheen and acclaimed actress Lizzy Caplan, who portray the real-life
pioneers of the science of human sexuality, Dr. William Masters and VirginiaJohnson. The series chronicles the unusual lives, romance and pop culture
trajectory of Masters and Johnson and the effect their research had on the
family and colleagues around them. Their study ignited a sexual revolution and
took them from a Midwestern teaching hospital in St. Louis to the cover of Time
magazine.
Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes
his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb
Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a
competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's
brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival,
Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing
Test--charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the
consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That
experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional
intelligence proves more sophisticated--and more deceptive--than the two men
could have imagined.
Two computer programmers create the first-ever piece of
self-aware artificial intelligence, but things go terribly wrong when the
British Government steals their breakthrough and teaches it to become a robotic
weapon.
June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the
USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these
circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan Turing is found dead in his home in the sleepy suburb of Wilmslow. It is widely
assumed that he has committed suicide, unable to cope with the humiliation of a
criminal conviction for gross indecency. But a young detective constable,
Leonard Corell, who once dreamed of a career in higher mathematics, suspects
greater forces are involved.
In the face of opposition from his superiors, he begins to assemble the pieces
of a puzzle that lead him to one of the most closely guarded secrets of the
war: the Bletchley Park operation to crack the Nazis’ Enigma encryption code.
Stumbling across evidence of Turing’s genius, and sensing an escape from a
narrow life, Corell begins to dig deeper. But in the paranoid, febrile
atmosphere of the Cold War, loose cannons cannot be tolerated and Corell soon
realizes he has much to learn about the dangers of forbidden knowledge. He is also about to be rocked by two startling developments in his own life,
one of which will find him targeted as a threat to national security.
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the
great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric
romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a
group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales
that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of
Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.
Rich and diverse, The Canterbury Tales offer us an unrivaled glimpse
into the life and mind of medieval England.
On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his
team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette.
Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a
young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years
into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an
impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents
of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface,
marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a
terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack.
Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and
labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled
desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of
Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal
place on Earth.
Join in the adventures of the quirky Yamada family -- from
the hilarious to the touching -- brilliantly presented in a unique, visually
striking comic strip style. Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko, who has
no talent for housework, navigate their way through the ups and downs of work,
marriage, and family life with a sharp-tongued grandmother who lives with them,
a teenage son who wishes he had cooler parents, and a pesty daughter whose loud
voice is unusual for someone so small. Even the family dog has issues!
Experience the little victories in life with MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS --
featuring the voice talents of comedic stars Jim Belushi and Molly Shannon.
With Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Werner Herzog takes
viewers on yet another unforgettable journey into remote and extreme natural
landscapes. The acclaimed filmmaker presents this visually stunning documentary
about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga.
Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the
small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach
this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There's no telephone, running water or
medical aid, The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last
centuries, live according to their own values and cultural traditions. With
insightful commentary written and narrated by Herzog, Happy People: A Year in
the Taiga follows one of the Siberian trappers through all four seasons of the
year to tell the story of a culture virtually untouched by modernity.
When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi moves back to
his hometown and takes a job preparing corpses for burial. Too embarrassed to
admit his new career to his family, Daigo keeps his profession a secret, until
he’s faced with the death of someone close to him. Academy Award Winner for
Best Foreign Film.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen
work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s
rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the
fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s
most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and
Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young
doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair
Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection
table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.
Burnham overcame tremendous
obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted,
Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into
the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own
satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the
story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of
that dream city by the lake.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominatee Kate Winslet light up
the screen as Jack and Rose the young lovers who find one another on the maiden
voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury
liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic their passionate
love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. From acclaimed filmmaker
James Cameron comes a tale of forbidden love and courage in the face of
disaster that triumphs as a true cinematic masterpiece.
The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of
creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to
be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or
perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published, it
is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Welcome to the Genre Reading Group recap! Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, June 28th
at 6:30pm and it will be one of our biannual Salon Discussions. There is
no assigned topic so participants may bring/read/watch/listen to anything
they’d like!
Some of our big Adult Summer Reading programs coming up
include an all-ages self defense class for women on Saturday, June 4th at 2pm,
the next movie in the French Film Series, Band of Outsiders, on Wednesday, June
15th at 6:30pm, and Literary Trivia Night on Thursday, June 16th at 6:30pm (For
adults ages 18+ only, call 205-445-1121 to register your team of 1-4 people).
Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky.
Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others
as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school
and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative
Orange County, the pressure—media and otherwise—is building up in Riley's life.
On the advice of a therapist, Riley starts an anonymous blog
to vent those pent-up feelings and tell the truth of what it's really like
to be a gender fluid teenager. But just as Riley's starting to settle in at
school—even developing feelings for a mysterious outcast—the blog goes viral,
and an unnamed commenter discovers Riley's real identity, threatening exposure.
And Riley must make a choice: walk away from what the blog has created—a
lifeline, new friends, a cause to believe in—or stand up, come out, and risk
everything. From debut author Jeff
Garvin comes a powerful and uplifting portrait of a modern teen struggling with
high school, relationships, and what it means to be a person.
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary
trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some
stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker
caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie
around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met
Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and
its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in
the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T.
Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world — and a smart, savage satire that
has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers
unnervingly close to the here and now.
Marie van Goethem, a fourteen-year-old ballet dancer in the
Paris Opéra, has led a life of hardship and poverty. For her, dancing is the
only joy to counter the pain inflicted by hunger, her mother's drinking, and
her selfish older sister. When famed artist Edgar Degas demands Marie's
presence in his studio, it appears that her life will be transformed: He will
pay her to pose for a new sculpture, and he promises to make her a star. But
will being Degas's model really bring Marie all she hopes for?
It is 1704 when Genevieve Gaillain and her sister board a
French ship headed for the Louisiana colony as mail-order brides. Both have
promised to marry one of the rough-and-tumble Canadian men in this New World in
order to escape religious persecution in the Old World. Genevieve knows life
won't be easy, but at least here she can establish a home and family without
fear of beheading. But when she falls in love with Tristan Lanier, an
expatriate cartographer whose courageous stand for fair treatment of native
peoples has made him decidedly unpopular in the young colony, Genevieve
realizes that even in this land of liberty one is not guaranteed peace. And a
secret she harbors could mean the undoing of the colony itself. Gulf Coast
native Beth White brings vividly to life the hot, sultry south in this
luscious, layered story of the lengths we must go to in order to be true to ourselves,
our faith, and our deepest loves.
Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at
home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous
last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois
Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring
world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of
safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy,
self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an
event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great
Perhaps, and steals his heart.
Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in
the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's
acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land
comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood. In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as
the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy -- whose time is the
only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living
without "frills" in the Shaker Way -- becomes a man.
That is all, and it is everything. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor's
ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. The grateful farmer brings him
a gift -- a newborn pig. His father at first demurs ("We thank you,
Brother Tanner," said Papa, "but it's not the Shaker Way to take
frills for being neighborly. All that Robert done was what any farmer would do
for another") but is persuaded. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives
her his devotion ... He wrestles with grammar in the schoolhouse. He hears
rumors of sin. He is taken -- at last -- to the Rutland Fair. He broadens his
heart to make room even for Baptists. And when his father, who can neither read
nor cipher, whose hands are bloodied by his trade, whose wisdom and mastery of
country things are bred in the bone, entrusts Rob with his final secret, the
boy makes the sacrifice that completes his passage into manhood. All is told with quiet humor and simplicity.
Here are lives lived by earthy reason -- in a novel that, like a hoedown
country fiddler's tune, rings at the same time with both poignancy and cheer.
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a
galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford
Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work
actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from
The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing
an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow
travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally
out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally
Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a
time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet
Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of
all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. Where are these pens?
Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing
digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't
forget to bring a towel!
If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year
for it," begins Richard Peck's latest novel, a book full of his signature
wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his
tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has
been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his
teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free
to roam.
No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of
schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted-perhaps
the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy.
Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom's share of
snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set
her brother on a new, wiser course.
GENERAL DISCUSSION: We
briefly discussed what separates a novella from a short story. The general consensus amongst several writing
resources I looked at is that a short story can vary anywhere from 1,000-20,000
words and in most markets a novella is 30,000-60,000 words.
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Kickstarter Search Scraper
jaroslavhejlek/kickstarter-search
Missing Kickstarter API? Need fresh Kickstarter news or list of best and finished projects? Try this new wrapper for Kickstarter search, which allows you to configure search filters and get the list of items from Kickstarter search page.
Actor - Kickstarter search
Kickstarter open API
Because Kickstarter public API does not provide structured output of search results, you can get list of Kickstarter news and projects with this app (actor).
Planned features
Unit tests
Compare current run with previous one and output only new projects
Kickstarter open source
You can manage search results in any languague (Python, PHP, Node JS/NPM). See the FAQ or our API reference to learn more about getting results from this Kickstarter Search Actor.
The code of this Kickstarter search actor is also open source, so you can create your own solution if you need.
INPUT
Input of this actor should be JSON containing filter specification. Allowed filters are:
Important considerations
Location - If you provide location to the Kickstarter search actor and it's set a string, it will run another actor to find
ID associated with the location. Once the location is found, it will be outputed in the console. Next time if you provide
the numeric ID instead of the location, it will not do the lookup again.
This option requires access to Apify Proxy, if you do not have access to it, then the actor will fail.
You can avoid this by going to Kickstarter, looking up anything and selecting the location you want. Then in addressbar of your browser you should see that the address now contains "woe_id" parameter. If you copy it's value into the location field of this actor. It will use it instead and you will not need to use proxy.
maxResults - Kickstarter will return a maximum of 200 pages, which is 2400 results. To get more results then this limit run multiple instances of this actor with more specific search terms.
datasetName - If you provide name of a named dataset then all everytime you run this Kickistarter search actor, it will clear the dataset and write new data into it. You can use this option for example if you want to use named dataset as RSS feed or if you are creating an API.
Run & Console output
During the run, the actor will output messages letting the you know what is going on.
If you provide incorrect input the Kickstarter search actor, it will immediately stop with Failure state and output an explanation of
what is wrong.
Once input is properly parsed the actor will load first page of results and output information about the
number of found results and how many results are remaining.
Every 10th page load will output prediction of how long it will take for the run to finish.
Dataset items
During the run, the actor is storing results into dataset, each project is a separate item in the dataset and it's
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Story: Mike Oliveri
Art: Joe Bucco
Cole investigates the scene of a murder and discovers there's more at work in Sunset than he first imagined. Marcus keeps a close eye on Cole, and he will do anything to protect his own secrets. Even commit murder. 32pgs, COLOR | {
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Polyurethane Foam- C27H36N2O10
What is Polyurethane Foam?
Polyurethane foam is a linear polymer composed of organic units joined by links of carbamate. The chemical formula is C27H36N2O10. Polyurethane is another synthetic resin-type varnish. Polyurethane foam are formulated in different ways for different uses. A urethane is a carbonyl containing functional group in which the carbonyl carbon is bonded to both an -OR group and an -NR2 group. A polyurethane is formed by reacting a hydroxyl terminated polyether or polyester with an isocyanate.
Other names – Ethylene glycol copolymer
C27H36N2O10
Polyurethane Foam
Density
approximately 3 to 50 lbs
Molecular Weight/ Molar Mass
548.589 g/mol
Boiling Point
210 K
Melting Point
330 K
Chemical Formula
C27H36N2O10
Polyurethane Foam Structure – C27H36N2O10
Physical Properties of Polyurethane Foam – C27H36N2O10
Odour
No odour
Appearance
Solid with open cellular structure
Covalently-Bonded Unit
2
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor
6
Complexity
338
Solubility
Insoluble in water
Chemical Properties of Polyurethane Foam – C27H36N2O10
Polyurethanes undergoes oxidation forming Hydrazoic acid, water and carbon dioxide. The chemical equation is given below.
6C27H36N2O10 + 185O2 → 162CO2 + 106H2O + 4HN3
Uses of Polyurethane Foam – C27H36N2O10
Polyurethanes can be used to make a multitude of items, from very simple, noncritical parts to products that are used in vital engineering applications.
Used extensively where stretch and strength is required in fabrics.
Used in technical fibre ropes, fishing lines, and some agricultural products.
Used in cars and household furnishings, the polymer is used in the construction industry and in the manufacture of footwear and for coating and adhesives as well as textiles. | {
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Understand License Options
Single Developer License
For use by one person
The most convenient license option is a Single Developer License (SDL) where we issue a code to a given developer, enabling the tool on any machine they use (in the lab, at home, at their desk). This code may be reassigned to another engineer should the original engineer leave or not use the tool any longer, just send us an email and we’ll get them the updated license key.
Floating License
Can be shared by multiple developers
Also known as a Concurrent License, this license may be used by any number of developers on the network, but only one user at a time per license. The Floating License is more versatile, but adds complexity to the installation (setup instructions). The license manager can run as a daemon on any supported Linux/Unix platform and as a service on Windows Vista and later and can serve licenses for clients running on any platform.
The floating license also has node-locked and dongle variants if desired. These options can be specified via the comment field during checkout.
Node-Locked Floating License Option
A node-locked floating license is designed for a single machine that many users will be accessing, such as in a lab or a secure environment. It is similar in concept to a Standard Floating License and is the same price but no license server is needed. Setup instructions here.
USB-Dongle Floating License Option
This license is ideal when the license needs to be shared between different people on different networks or if there is a lot of traveling involved. The license is mailed to you on a USB drive. As long as that drive is attached to the computer, Understand will work. The license dongle can be shared between users as needed and will work on Windows, Mac and Linux. Dongle licenses expire after two years and will need to be replaced. There is a minimal fee for new and replacement dongle licenses to offset the setup and shipping costs.
One year of maintenance (support and updates) is included with the initial purchase of Understand. After the first year, the annual cost to continue maintenance is 18% of the current purchase price | {
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What mistakes would you make with $2 million? 20/20 with Anna Fang
Posted March 29, 2016. By Emer Henderson
Four years time. What will the world look like in 20/20? We’re asking people in our network just that, for our new interview series 20/20.
Anna Fang sits at the nexus of arguably one of the most important areas of growth on the planet. She’s CEO ofZhenFund. Founded in 2006, the firm is an early-stage seed fund that invests primarily in startups based in mainland China.
Since joining ZhenFund in 2011,Anna has managed over 100 seed stage investments in the TMT and education sectors.
So when Anna looks into her crystal ball, it is probably worth paying attention. But first she is looking to the past and the mistakes that she has made along the way. In an effort avoid future mistakes, ZhenFund would like to pay. Big.
“Just this morning one of our founding partners said I want to give each of you $2 million just to lose because that’s the only way you are going to learn. It’s really when you make a mistake investing that you really learn,” says Anna.
Forget aspirations – go with passion
Having come to the ZhenFund after spells with J.P. Morgan in New York and GE China, Anna says that she initially made the mistake of not thinking hard enough about what she really wanted to do.
“If I went back now to the early 2000s, I think I would try to discover my passion and what I’m good at doing. I would look deeper into myself in terms of building a career rather than going for something that seems aspirational,” she says.
She says that the best investors are former entrepreneurs and carries a slight regret of not getting involved in business earlier herself. As an early-stage investor, she has come to understand that it has to be about the founder and not the product.
“There have been times when we thought the business model was excellent, but the founder really wasn’t there. If the founder is not great you really shouldn’t invest. In the past, I think we have made mistakes by investing because we have liked the product. Now we focus on the capabilities of the founder,” she says.
The Chinese app showing Facebook the way
Anna’s current focus is on the world of opportunity in China. It’s time for the rest of the world to take notice. CNBC reckons that Chinese entrepreneurs are set to dominate; Forbes says that Chinese tech has finally arrived.
“There is so much going on here and it’s going to get more global, we are really entering the global economy,” says Anna.
Messaging app WeChat is taking over the country and its growth looks set to continue. WeChat now has 549 million monthly active users (MAUs) – Facebook Messenger, by comparison, has 600 million MAUs around the world, but isn’t available in China.
It’s considered the leading baby products, e-commerce vertical in China. Anna is trusting her natural instincts with this one.
“As a mother, I know how many products I have to buy for babies and toddlers, from nappies to toys. In China we have the problem of trust and access to the best global products. Miyabaobei is a platform of all the best brands, with trusted global sourcing. It’s the only place I buy for my baby,” she says.
The issue of access to foreign brands also influences her excitement forXiaohongshu, an overseas shopping tip app that has raised $17.5 million. She says that the Chinese’s continuing exposure to overseas brands will only see the site grow.
“These are the brands that people want to buy: foreign cosmetics brands,” she says.
She recognises however the ZhenFund investment that has the potential to be the most transformative by 2020, is an easy choice. Hyperloop.
Elon Musk calls the Hyperloop “the fifth mode of transportation“ after road, rail, water and air. It will be as fast as a plane, cheaper than a train and continuously available in any weather while emitting no carbon from the tailpipe.
Imagine a world where people could make it from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 20 minutes. Where cities would become metro stops and borders would evaporate.
“I think by 2020 we’ll see a version of Hyperloop taking place. I don’t think it will be everywhere but we will start to see the early resemblance of it. It will totally transform transportation in an almost science-fiction way,” says Anna.
She just might have spent that $2 million ZhenFund ‘mistake money’ by then.
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Web Summit is now hosting 21 independent conferences under one roof. Be there. | {
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We are here to provide a forum for sharing of ideas, open communication and education of the mortgage lending industry in Alberta.
A Brief History
E. MIRTH Q.C.
This history is unavoidably sketchy, to say the least, for events before 1973. Many fine leaders of the Association have passed into a better world, and materials and information are simply not available. I offer, on my "retirement" as Association solicitor, this brief history as a record of my own knowledge. I hope others can help fill in the story and keep it filled hereafter. As part of the picture prior to 1973-74, when first I became active in executive functions, I attach the solicitor's Report for the 1976 annual meeting, in which the late Dr. S.H. McCuaig, Q.C., concisely summarized the Association's past. | {
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Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Its strange that you learn, only years later, that you could see it was coming to an end, and what would need to be done to change it, but due to circumstances at the time you're unable to fix, what was probably the most precious thing in your life. | {
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Barbecue's Best Friend
I think one of the things most fun about the summer grilling season is finding yummy new side dishes to nicely compliment all the delicious offerings coming off the hot grill. Everyone has their favorites, everything from a crisp tossed salad, to creamy coleslaw to a zesty pasta salad, there are so many choices!
For our family, one of the best ways I can come up with new things for us to try is to take a couple favorites and combine a little "this and that" from each into something new. It almost guarantees me success with a dish that will go over with flying colors. It makes sense though. If you're taking things you already know you love and combining them, it should be even better, right? Well, okay, I guess that reminds me of an old episode of Full House (You remember the Tanner family??) where Michelle was trying to cook and she combined two of her favorite foods into a new dish...Tuna Fish Ice Cream...yeah, that didn't work out so well, especially for the poor taste tester! But for the most part, I think it's a good equation to depend on!
The two dishes I took inspiration from for this new one were my Broccoli Salad and Honey Mustard Coleslaw. I've seen tons of recipes for broccoli slaw, and have passed the mix in the produce aisle a hundred times, but I never found one that was perfect for us. That's when I decided to pull great things about dishes we already enjoy, combine them, and hope for the best. And it totally paid off! The crunch of the broccoli mix is only added to by the crunch of the almonds. The raisins give it a tiny hint of sweetness that plays off the tangy dressing so well.
This summer is going to be filled with great food! Have fun coming up with new things for your dinner table, and remember you can always use dishes you can make in your sleep to come with brand new delicious ones!
Broccoli Slaw
1 (12 oz.) package broccoli slaw mix
1/2 c. golden raisins, extra for garnish
1/2 c. slivered almonds
5 TBS mayo
2 TBS sugar, or to taste
2 TBS lemon juice
1 TBS white vinegar
1/2 tsp. celery seeds, extra for garnish
Salt and Pepper to taste
In a small bowl, whisk together mayo, sugar, lemon juice, vinegar, celery seeds, salt and pepper. Mix until well combined. Set in fridge for 5 minutes. In a large bowl combine slaw mix, raisins and almonds. Lightly toss with fingers to combine. Pour dressing over top. Mix well to coat. Chill at least an hour before serving. Garnish with extra raisins and celery seeds.
The Everyday Family
Meet Your Everyday Mom
I am the every day mom in "Everyday Mom's Meals". I am a full time wife and mother. Adam and I have been married since May 2003, but together since May 1997. We have two beautiful sons, Alex & Max. Alex is 12 and a VERY active young man. He is a Tae Kwon Do National Champion and straight A student. We just welcomed Max in August of this year, and he has completed our family. We enjoy spending time together, and some of our best times are spent around our dining room table eating down to earth, family friendly, easy to make food. Please join me in my kitchen, and on our family adventures!
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Learn
I sat through an endless presentation by the CEO of a fast-growing company. He was doing fine for half an hour, but then, when his time was up, he chose to spend 45 minutes more on his final slide, haranguing and invecting, jumping from topic to topic and basically bringing the entire group to its knees in frustration.
Power, of course, is the first problem. When things are going fairly well, the CEO has a ton of power, and often, that power makes things appear to work, even when they're not the right thing to do for the long-term. As a result, there's no market that is correcting the bad decisions, at least not right now.
Exposure is the second problem. Once a company gets big enough, the CEO spends his time with investors and senior executives, not with people who actually invent or deliver products and services, and not with customers. Another form of not getting the right feedback, because the people being pleased aren't the right ones.
The truth is the final and most endemic problem. Employees incorrectly (in many cases) believe that the boss doesn't want to hear from them, doesn't want constructive feedback. Everyone else has a boss, and built into the nature of boss-ness is the idea that someone is going to tell you what's not working. But we fall into the trap of believing that just because the CEO isn't assigned a boss, he doesn't need or want one.
A stupid CEO can coast for a long time if the systems are good. But a stupid CEO is always wasting opportunities, because being smarter usually leads to doing better. Plus, they're a lot more fun to work for. | {
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National Adoption Month Press Release
November 2, 2011 Comments Off on National Adoption Month Press Release
WACAP Press Release
For Immediate Release
Nov 1, 2011
WACAP Celebrates National Adoption Month
Renton, WA. – World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP) is celebrating National Adoption Month for the month of November. WACAP allows potential parents to adopt children from different parts of the world and at different ages. WACAP believes that every child should receive a family and to live in a loving home.
WACAPs Family Finder Team helps parents to find waiting children that match their personality and lifestyles. Many families are often surprised that there are more boys up for adoption than there are girls globally. National Adoption Month creates more awareness to accept all children into a loving family.
To help promote more adoptions and loving families, WACAP has developed ways that the community can give way to help. Donations and volunteering for WACAP gives children and parents a home for creating a wonderful family. Volunteering can give the community the option to provide family support and promote advocacy.
WACAP is one of the leading nonprofit adoption and humanitarian agencies of the United States. More than 10,000 children have been placed up for adoption with adoptable parents and have been provided with food, medical care and education. | {
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Coca-Cola is the world's largest beverage maker, according to the Miami Herald, and to combat declining soda sales in the United States, the company has employed the help of fitness and nutrition experts. | {
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Contents
The Jewel Sisters are a singing pop trio who will walk the royal yet sometimes rocky road to fame. After the tragedy that left their biological parents seemingly dead, Sapphire, Emerald, and Ruby are accidentally separated from one another. But one dream will make their paths cross, and together, they will make music that fans all over the country will deeply adore.
At first, they will all think that their love for one another as sisters will see them through the challenging life as celebrities. But little did they know that there is more to dream than the wealth and glory. Sapphire is willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead and be with Terrence Rodriguez. Emerald falls in love with Terrence, but the manipulative manager Alberta will stand against their love. Emerald and Terrence secretly becomes an item without anyone knowing except for Cocoy, Emerald's adoptive father. Ruby will battle with her own insecurities to gain the self-esteem she needs.
Later Bridgette Ramirez revealed the real Sapphire Gomez and the real Mother of the Jewel Sisters. Bridgette also finds out that her father died because of Lena, the impostor mother of the three. After these incidents, the Jewel Sisters, together with their mother Jade Gomez, planned to have a concert. This concert is their happiest moment together as a family and Ruby and Jeffrey becomes a couple, while Alberta Tuazon apologized to her husband.
A sweet yet tough 19-year-old who aspires to become a singer. After being orphaned when she was a child, Emerald was taken into the care of Cocoy Mendoza. Eventually, Emerald reunited with her two sisters: Ruby & Sapphire, and they will be known as the pop star trio, The Jewel Sisters. And she also fell in love with her best friend, Terrence.
The handsome and talented rockstar. He was a comic yet serious childhood friend of Emerald, until he was taken by his aunt Alberta. Terrence later met Emerald and he helped her become a famous singer, and eventually fell in love with her.
Sapphire's impostor, she's hired by Alberta Tuazon to be pitted against Emerald and Ruby in return of her father's medical assistance. She will soon develop a secret love for Terrence, and slowly tries to pull him towards her and away from Emerald.
Youngest among the Jewel Sisters. She was adopted by Berns Bautista who named her as Kimberly Bautista. Her dream of becoming a singer will lead her to Emerald and Sapphire. Ruby is obedient in nature, but her insecurities regarding her voice will be her greatest obstacle in life.
The manipulative and domineering aunt and manager of Terrence. She will secretly find a way to destroy Emerald's career to keep the young singer away from Terrence. It was later revealed that she's the real mother of Terrence.
An NGO worker who adopted Emerald. Being an erstwhile singer himself, Cocoy will train and encourage Emerald in becoming a successful singer. A loving and devoted father, Cocoy will see Emerald through her journey to fame.
The woman hired by Alberta to pose as the mother of the Jewel Sisters. She will become the manager of the three, although the job will prove to be beyond her abilities. Lena is Jade Gomez's impostor. She is mental her best friend says.
The eldest of the Jewel Sisters, the true sister of Emerald and Ruby. When her parents died, Sapphire was separated from her sisters. She will eventually discover her true identity and reunited with her two younger sisters; Emerald & Ruby. Her character was discovered in a mental institution where her impostor performed. Sapphire was later reunited with her family.
The mother superior of the orphanage where Terrence, Ruby and Emerald stayed.
Phoebe Kay Arbotante
Young Ruby
Young Ruby was played and roled by Phebe Khae also known as Phoebe Kay Arbotante. She was the youngest daughter of Carlo and Jade Gomez and the youngest among the three (3). She stayed under the big truck during the Mayon Volcano erupted and she was adopted by Berns when Cocoy gave Emerald, Terrence and Ruby herself to "bahay ampunan".
The drama was loosely based on 1986 film Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas and was going to feature Rachelle Ann Go and Yeng Constantino with Sarah Geronimo as Sharon Cuneta's character however changes were made to fit the storyline with Maja Salvador and Rica Peralejo replacing Go and Constantino.
The pilot episode garnered a total rating of 27% according to AGB Nielsen in Mega Manila. Its lowest was 20.6% while the highest was its final episode which garnered 29.6% Its finale reached 40.3% in the Nationwide ratings (NUTAM). | {
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Lee Todd Has Pool Party With Board of Trustees
LEXINGTON—Just after having announced that the University of Kentucky would accept a donation from Joe Craft, CEO of Alliance Coal, LLC, President Lee Todd, Jr. and several unidentified Board of Trustees members celebrated by having a pool party.
University of Kentucky President Lee Todd, Jr. relaxes in his backyard pool, located near the driveway of his Rose Street mansion.
“It was a long, hard, contentious meeting, and I felt like I needed to kick back, crack open a few cold ones, and crank the toonage,” Todd said as he reclined leisurely in his backyard pool.
Todd and several of his most trusted confidants were seen testing their luck behind the Rose Street presidential mansion. The meeting, which was attended by scores of angry protesters, was a particularly difficult time for the beleaguered president, who has faced accusations of under-performance and under-compensation in recent months.
“Fortunately, the Good Lord gave us a perfectly warm autumn afternoon in late October,” Todd said. “I wanted to take advantage of this time and get away from the hustle and bustle of my day job.”
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Seattle's unsolved homicides: 2008-2013
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April 10, Ritchie E. Williams: About 11:30 p.m. the 37-year-old and a 25-year-old man were shot near Rainier Avenue South and South Austin Street. Both were rushed to Harborview Medical Center, where the older man died the following day. The 25-year-old, who was hit in the stomach and leg, survived. He was found near Rainier and South Fontanelle Street. Police have not released a suspect description. less
April 10, Ritchie E. Williams: About 11:30 p.m. the 37-year-old and a 25-year-old man were shot near Rainier Avenue South and South Austin Street. Both were rushed to Harborview Medical Center, where the older ... more
March 30 - K'Breyan Clark: The 19-year-old victim was with friends in front of a residence in the 2500 block of South Norman Street when he was ambushed and shot by a man wearing a ski mask. The shooter ran to a waiting light-colored Mercedes-Benz and fled eastbound. The victim was rushed to Harborview Medical Center where he died. Police said they’re looking for people inside the car as well as the shooter, who was a black man with a thin build, and 5-foot-11 with dreadlocks or braided hair. Anyone with information has been asked to call 911. less
March 30 - K'Breyan Clark: The 19-year-old victim was with friends in front of a residence in the 2500 block of South Norman Street when he was ambushed and shot by a man wearing a ski mask. The shooter ran to ... more
March 6, Freddie Lee Kibby: This 2013 homicide case started as an assault the night of July 22, 2012. Police said Kibby got into an argument with three men about 11 p.m. near Summit Avenue and East Olive Street, left, then returned with a shotgun. But the men disarmed him and beat him with it, causing injuries that put Kibby in a long-term care facility. He died March 6 from recurrent pneumonia and head trauma. “Homicide detectives are still investigating this case, but have identified everyone involved in the incident and do not believe this was a random attack,” department spokesman Jonah Spagenthal-Lee said the day after Kibby’s death. less
March 6, Freddie Lee Kibby: This 2013 homicide case started as an assault the night of July 22, 2012. Police said Kibby got into an argument with three men about 11 p.m. near Summit Avenue and East Olive ... more
March 4 - Edward James Westmoreland II and Elijah Roosevelt Paul III: The men were sitting in a burgundy Jaguar when police say someone shot them both in the head at close range. Police have not released a suspect description in the case that was discovered about 6 a.m. near 39th Avenue South and South Kenyon Street. Both Westmoreland, 34, and Paul, 42, were felons with extensive criminal records and multiple domestic violence convictions. less
March 4 - Edward James Westmoreland II and Elijah Roosevelt Paul III: The men were sitting in a burgundy Jaguar when police say someone shot them both in the head at close range. Police have not released a ... more
Feb. 5, 2013 - Quang Vo: Vo was shot in the 2400 block of South Columbian Way on Feb. 4 and rushed to Harborview Medical Center where he died the next day. Police have not released a suspect description or made arrests, but said the shooting was not random. less
Feb. 5, 2013 - Quang Vo: Vo was shot in the 2400 block of South Columbian Way on Feb. 4 and rushed to Harborview Medical Center where he died the next day. Police have not released a suspect description or made ... more
July 1, 2012, Sherry Soth: Soth was one of six people wounded at a house party in the 9700 block of Renton Avenue South. Several drive-by gunman opened fire and police initially said there was an uncooperative crowd for first-arriving officers. The five others survived, but Soth, 21, died at Harborview Medical Center. No arrests have been made. less
July 1, 2012, Sherry Soth: Soth was one of six people wounded at a house party in the 9700 block of Renton Avenue South. Several drive-by gunman opened fire and police initially said there was an uncooperative ... more
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March 27, 2012, Son Le: Le was at his home in the 12300 block of 11th Avenue Northeast when he was shot in the chest about 1:20 a.m. Police said the victim, later identified as Le, and his roommate operated a marijuana grow and that Le was shot in the chest when he confronted the intruder. As officers investigated that shooting, a second homeowner reported a burglary at a nearby residence. Several units were searching in the 12300 block of 14th Avenue Northeast, but no arrests have been made. less
March 27, 2012, Son Le: Le was at his home in the 12300 block of 11th Avenue Northeast when he was shot in the chest about 1:20 a.m. Police said the victim, later identified as Le, and his roommate operated a ... more
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April 25, 2012, Nicole Westbrook: Westbrook, 21, was walking with her boyfriend near Second Avenue and Yesler Way after a night at a comedy club. She was shot in the neck about 2:05 a.m., and detectives say a light-colored vehicle sped away. Police think at least two people were in the car. No arrests have been made, though investigators have received tips.
April 25, 2012, Nicole Westbrook: Westbrook, 21, was walking with her boyfriend near Second Avenue and Yesler Way after a night at a comedy club. She was shot in the neck about 2:05 a.m., and detectives say a
March 11, 2012, Gregette Guy: The day after Guy died, the 51-year-old was found floating about 30 feet off shore of the 3800 block of Beach Drive Southwest. Her red sedan was found nearby and police think she planned to walk along the beach. Guy, a wife, mother and longtime Girl Scout supporter, worked as a credit analyst at Kent-based Pacific Aero Tech, LLC, which repairs and services aircraft windows, avionics and instruments. Police did not elaborate on how they determined Guy was planning to walk on the beach and have not identified any suspects.
March 11, 2012, Gregette Guy: The day after Guy died, the 51-year-old was found floating about 30 feet off shore of the 3800 block of Beach Drive Southwest. Her red sedan was found nearby and police think she
Feb. 12, 2012, Desmond Jackson: Jackson was with several friends outside a Sodo nightclub when they had a dispute with another group about 3:30 a.m. near South Walker Street and Occidental Avenue South. Jackson and another man were shot, and Jackson later died at Harborview Medical Center. less
Feb. 12, 2012, Desmond Jackson: Jackson was with several friends outside a Sodo nightclub when they had a dispute with another group about 3:30 a.m. near South Walker Street and Occidental Avenue South. Jackson ... more
Feb. 5, 2012, Gregory Anderson: Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Gregory Wayne Anderson, Jr., a Texas native, was shot and killed about 1:45 a.m. in the city’s Sodo neighborhood during a shooting that saw two other men injured. The 25-year-old had spent 11 months as a security officer for the Nimitz, a Bremerton-based nuclear aircraft carrier. Investigators believe a fight broke out among a crowd of people leaving a nightclub in the 2900 block of First Avenue South. The fight escalated, and Anderson was shot. Many in the crowd were uncooperative, and no suspect description has been released. Read more here. less
Jan. 17, 2012, Darek Darewski: The Poland native was shot to death several blocks from his Capitol Hill apartment in the 1700 block of Harvard Avenue. At least one person approached and shot him in the chest. Darewski died at the scene. Police released clips from a surveillance video and were looking for a white sedan. But no arrests have been made. Read more here. less
Jan. 17, 2012, Darek Darewski: The Poland native was shot to death several blocks from his Capitol Hill apartment in the 1700 block of Harvard Avenue. At least one person approached and shot him in the chest. ... more
Nov. 27, 2011, Danny Vega: Vega was attacked about 7:45 p.m. Nov. 15 as he walked along the 4200 block of South Othello Street in Seattle. His cell phone was stolen, along with his house keys and black jacket. After Vega regained consciousness, he walked home and told his roommates he'd been beaten, police said. He died at Harborview on Nov. 27, but the medical examiner hasn’t ruled his death a homicide because he had a pre-existing medical condition that may have played a role, though police say it's a homicide. Three people of interest, including a young felon with a history of robbery, have been identified by police but have not been arrested or named as suspects.
Nov. 27, 2011, Danny Vega: Vega was attacked about 7:45 p.m. Nov. 15 as he walked along the 4200 block of South Othello Street in Seattle. His cell phone was stolen, along with his house keys and black jacket.
July 26, 2011, Demiko Chatman: Chatman -- who police say was a gang member with a long criminal history -- was found unresponsive outside a white 2001 Dodge Stratus at 114 19th Ave., a house just north of East Yesler Way. A woman in her 30s told police Chatman had driven her to the house for a drug transaction, and they hadn't been there long when another person came up behind the vehicle and fired at least three shots into the car. However, evidence later showed at least one of the shots entered the vehicle from the right, contradictory to what the woman said, according to police. Police were also told of a woman named “Slim,” who had allegedly been dating Chatman and another man who had threatened to kill him. Investigators have not publicly named a suspect.
July 26, 2011, Demiko Chatman: Chatman -- who police say was a gang member with a long criminal history -- was found unresponsive outside a white 2001 Dodge Stratus at 114 19th Ave., a house just north of East
July 8, 2011, Donald Meyer: Neither police nor the medical examiner could determine exactly when Meyer died, but his dismembered body was found July 8 at the CDL Recycling plant in the 7200 block of East Marginal Way South. His cell phone hadn't been used since June 17, the last day anyone saw him. Investigators determined his body had been dumped less than a block from his apartment and a neighbor said a man who had recently lived with Meyer was upset that with his marijuana use. Investigators said that when they searched there was still a fresh paint smell and pieces of masking tape along the baseboard trim. CSI detectives used a chemical process to find blood stains not visible to the naked eye on the bathroom floor and counter, and a bloody footprint trail to the kitchen sink. That roommate hasn’t been arrested or named as a suspect. Read more here. less
July 8, 2011, Donald Meyer: Neither police nor the medical examiner could determine exactly when Meyer died, but his dismembered body was found July 8 at the CDL Recycling plant in the 7200 block of East ... more
March 11, 2011, Zachary Lewis: Lewis died of head trauma and was found in a vacant lot at East Republican Street and Federal Avenue East. About 11 p.m. the night before, police contacted Lewis and three other men in the 400 block of Broadway. Witnesses had reported that the group was involved in a fight. Lewis told the officers he was simply trying to break the fight up. None of the people involved had significant injuries, and all were released from the scene after being identified by officers. None of the other men has been named a suspect.
March 11, 2011, Zachary Lewis: Lewis died of head trauma and was found in a vacant lot at East Republican Street and Federal Avenue East. About 11 p.m. the night before, police contacted Lewis and three other
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Jan. 7, 2010, Kaari Higgins: Higgins’ case isn’t officially ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, but police who are investigating it say there is no other way she could have sustained the injuries she had. Medics were called to Higgins’ West Seattle home and presumed from the caller’s information that she’d fallen after drinking. She later died at Harborview Medical Center. Homicide detectives were not notified until a second pathologist determined her body had five different points of impact. Police believe she was badly beaten that New Year’s Eve – her 47th birthday.
Jan. 7, 2010, Kaari Higgins: Higgins’ case isn’t officially ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, but police who are investigating it say there is no other way she could have sustained the injuries she
Sept. 17, 2010, Jonathan ChhonnShortly before 3 a.m. Sept. 17, Seattle police responded to the 2500 block of 29th Avenue South where Chhonn was shot in the face inside his ground-floor apartment. Investigators said he was shot through an open window and are looking for two men in the crime. Police described the suspects as Asian men, 5-foot-7 inches to 5-foot-8 inches tall, in the late teens to early 20s. Investigators say they wore wearing blue jeans and dark jackets or shirts and left the apartment building in a white sedan with a low back end. less
Sept. 17, 2010, Jonathan ChhonnShortly before 3 a.m. Sept. 17, Seattle police responded to the 2500 block of 29th Avenue South where Chhonn was shot in the face inside his ground-floor apartment. Investigators ... more
Aug. 21, 2010, Arturo Delarosa-Martinez: Rosa was shot to death after attending a Quinceanera party at the Center for Wooden Boats hall in South Lake Union. Homicide detectives have said it was gang related, and one of the two men who feuded with Delarosa-Martinez shortly before his death also was investigated for two other homicides. Delarosa-Martinez had been beaten, was shot once in the head and found about 3:20 a.m. in a fenced-off area of the 1000 block of Valley Street. Police have identified him as Arturo Dela Rosa Jr., though the King County Medical Examiner identify him as Delarosa-Martinez. Read more here. less
Aug. 21, 2010, Arturo Delarosa-Martinez: Rosa was shot to death after attending a Quinceanera party at the Center for Wooden Boats hall in South Lake Union. Homicide detectives have said it was gang related, ... more
Jan. 11, 2010, Franklin Wood and Andis Peterson: Wood and Peterson were killed in a home-invasion robbery near Northgate. About 11 p.m., three masked gunmen forced their way into the home at 1407 N. Northgate Way. Investigation documents show a safe with marijuana OxyContin tablets and cash was found at the home. Those documents also indicate it was another roommate who may have been involved, trying to get drugs and money but not intending to kill the victims. Read more about that case here. No arrests have been made. less
Jan. 11, 2010, Franklin Wood and Andis Peterson: Wood and Peterson were killed in a home-invasion robbery near Northgate. About 11 p.m., three masked gunmen forced their way into the home at 1407 N. Northgate ... more
Aug. 9, 2009, Daniel Robert Bolof: The 26-year-old was found face down near the Extended Stay Hotel at 13300 Stone Way North. There were nine .40-caliber shell casings near his body on the grass, road and sidewalk. Bolof was dead when officers found him. His girlfriend, who was staying in hotel room 244, told police he left about 3 a.m. to meet someone outside. The woman believed the man owed Bolof some money. Police interviewed at least two men who might be connected to the case, but no charges have been filed. less
Aug. 9, 2009, Daniel Robert Bolof: The 26-year-old was found face down near the Extended Stay Hotel at 13300 Stone Way North. There were nine .40-caliber shell casings near his body on the grass, road and ... more
July 22, 2009, Warren J. Bothwell: Bothwell’s death was the second 2009 homicide in "The Jungle.” The 45-year-old was found near the 1700 block of Airport Way South, dead at the scene. Police got a call about 12:30 a.m. and found him with a chest wound. Witnesses heard a shot about 20 minutes before police arrived. The shooter ran away, and police have not released a detailed description. No charges have been filed. less
July 22, 2009, Warren J. Bothwell: Bothwell’s death was the second 2009 homicide in "The Jungle.” The 45-year-old was found near the 1700 block of Airport Way South, dead at the scene. Police got a call ... more
June 27, 2009, Bernardino Maceo-Toirac The 55-year-old was shot multiple times in "The Jungle," a wooded area near the interchange of Interstate 5 and Interstate 90 that's known as a camping area for homeless people. About 11:35 p.m. the night of his death, West Precinct officers responded to the report of about five shots fired near South Royal Brougham Way and Airport Way South. Officers said Maceo-Toirac was shot after an argument with another person who camps in the area. He was struck at least once in the chest and died in surgery at Harborview. Two or three suspects ran south under the freeway. Officers contained the area and brought in police dogs, and the King County Sheriff's helicopter joined in the search. But the men were not located, and no charges have been filed. less
June 27, 2009, Bernardino Maceo-Toirac The 55-year-old was shot multiple times in "The Jungle," a wooded area near the interchange of Interstate 5 and Interstate 90 that's known as a camping area for homeless ... more
Feb. 16, 2009, Tyrone Love: Police have not tied Love to gang activity, but have said his death investigation might be hindered by the “no-snitch credo.” Shortly before his death, Love left the Crimson C nightclub where he had hosted a President’s Day event. He was walking in the 2600 block of East Cherry Street about 2 a.m. when he was shot multiple times. Police have said he wasn’t robbed and didn’t appear to have done anything to cause the shooting. Witnesses saw two possible suspects in a vehicle, described as a red Dodge Charger or Chrysler 300, driving west on East Cherry Street from 26th Avenue. The driver was described as a man wearing a puffy jacket with a fur-lined hood, police said. The place where Love was killed was about a block from where Justin Ferrari, a father of two, was killed by an errant bullet in May 2012. Police say Ferrari’s killing was the result of a gang-related argument, and his suspected killer, Andrew J. Patterson, was charged in July with second-degree murder. less
Feb. 16, 2009, Tyrone Love: Police have not tied Love to gang activity, but have said his death investigation might be hindered by the “no-snitch credo.” Shortly before his death, Love left the Crimson C ... more
Jan. 21, 2009, Chris Thompson: The 55-year-old was found stabbed to death in the basement of his home in the 1100 block of E. Roanoke St. Thompson's home sat at a dead end on a steep, narrow stretch of Roanoke Street beneath homes with panoramic views of Portage Bay. Neighbors said Thompson lived there for more than a decade and that he lived alone after his longtime partner, Gerald Duval, 72, died of natural causes in 2007. Thompson had bought a small dog and had a sign in his yard advertising his home-security system, neighbors said. The King County Medical Examiner's Office said Thompson also had blunt force injuries to his head. No charges have been filed in the case. less
Jan. 21, 2009, Chris Thompson: The 55-year-old was found stabbed to death in the basement of his home in the 1100 block of E. Roanoke St. Thompson's home sat at a dead end on a steep, narrow stretch of Roanoke ... more
Nov. 23, 2008, Nate Thomas: Thomas was killed after being shot once in the head inside Vito's Madison Grill in the 900 block of Ninth Avenue. He died on a November weekend when gun violence left 11 people wounded or dead in the Seattle area. Thomas, 22, was believed to have ties to the 74 Hoover Criminals. Though Thomas’ case is technically unsolved, the person prosecutors believe shot him is now in prison for a drug conviction. That suspected shooter was the victim of an earlier drive-by – one in which authorities say Thomas either was the shooter or knew of the gang-related attack. After the victim recovered, investigators believe he found Thomas at Vito’s and shot him in the back of the head. There is surveillance video of the shooting, though prosecutors do not believe the quality is sufficient to make a definitive identification of the shooter, who is shown in the baseball cap. less
Nov. 23, 2008, Nate Thomas: Thomas was killed after being shot once in the head inside Vito's Madison Grill in the 900 block of Ninth Avenue. He died on a November weekend when gun violence left 11 people ... more
Oct. 19, 2008, Corey Trainer: Police found Trainer with head, neck and torso wounds after he drove his Dodge Durango through a fence and yard in the 1400 block of Northeast 123rd Street. Medics rushed the 22-year-old to Harborview Medical Center on Oct. 18, where he died a few hours after the 11 p.m. shooting. A witness told police he heard about five shots, a pause, then five more before a newer-model Chrysler 300 fled. As many as 18 shots may have been fired, police said. Authorities believe his death is gang related. less
Oct. 19, 2008, Corey Trainer: Police found Trainer with head, neck and torso wounds after he drove his Dodge Durango through a fence and yard in the 1400 block of Northeast 123rd Street. Medics rushed the ... more
Aug. 5, 2008, Pierre Lapoint: Police have said Lapoint, 16, was peripherally associated with the South End gang Down With The Crew and was fatally shot while walking in the 6300 block of Rainier Avenue South. Officers from the gang and homicide units believe the shooting may have been in retaliation for a confrontation earlier in the day. But, similar to other gang cases from 2008, investigators have been hindered by people reluctant to come forward for fear of being labeled a “snitch.” No arrests have been made in Lapoint’s death. less
Aug. 5, 2008, Pierre Lapoint: Police have said Lapoint, 16, was peripherally associated with the South End gang Down With The Crew and was fatally shot while walking in the 6300 block of Rainier Avenue South. ... more
July 22, 2008, Troy Peters: Peters, 56, was shot July 21 near 26th Avenue and East Columbia Street. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots just before 11:45 p.m. When officers arrived, they found Peters on the sidewalk, shot in the chest. Firefighters worked to revive him and took him to Harborview Medical Center, where he died the following day. Police have not released details about the case since 2008. less
July 22, 2008, Troy Peters: Peters, 56, was shot July 21 near 26th Avenue and East Columbia Street. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots just before 11:45 p.m. When officers arrived, they found Peters on the ... more
Jan. 26, 2008, Maurice "Moe" Allen Jr.: Allen, 25, was shot outside the Baltic Room nightclub on Capitol Hill as patrons left a hip-hop-themed night called "The Lick." He was shot in the chest just before 1 a.m. The Baltic Room owner said that before the violence erupted, staff members turned Allen away from the door several times because he was wearing athletic gear and a hat, which were violations of the dress code. Allen also lacked identification. Security video footage shows him apparently smoking a cigarette near the curb before the shooting. Police have said they suspect a gang connection in the case, but there have been no arrests or additional details since 2008. less
Jan. 26, 2008, Maurice "Moe" Allen Jr.: Allen, 25, was shot outside the Baltic Room nightclub on Capitol Hill as patrons left a hip-hop-themed night called "The Lick." He was shot in the chest just before 1 ... more
Jan. 10, 2008, De'Che Morrison: Morrison, age 14,is the youngest Seattle homicide victim in the last four years. His body was found partially hidden behind several parked cars in the 4200 block of South Rose Street. He’d been shot in the stomach. Police have received tips about the case, but prosecutors do not have enough information to bring charges. At Morrison’s memorial, several teenagers wore T-shirts spray-painted green and printed with the numbers 74-53. The color refers to a section of South Cloverdale Street, a South Seattle area popular with some members of the 74 Hoovers, gang expert Gabriel Morales said at the time. The number 53 points toward an allied group, the Down With The Crew, whose members hang out near 53rd Avenue South and South Henderson Street. less
Jan. 10, 2008, De'Che Morrison: Morrison, age 14,is the youngest Seattle homicide victim in the last four years. His body was found partially hidden behind several parked cars in the 4200 block of South Rose ... more
Jan. 3, 2008, Allen Joplin: Joplin’s case is one of several where police have an idea of who shot him, but not enough information or cooperating witnesses to bring a charge. Joplin, 17, was shot multiple times during a party at 116 Elliott Ave. W. A group of Franklin High School students pooled money to rent the space, called Studio One-Sixteen, and charged $8 admission that Thursday night. About 11:45 p.m. uninvited guests arrived and a young man lifted his shirt to show a pistol. Another man obscenely mocked a gang, pulled out a gun and fired several times. That shooter also struck a teen girl in the leg. Though there were more than 100 people at the party, no one has come forward with enough information for prosecutors to bring charges. Police believe Joplin had ties to the Deuce Eights, a Central Area gang and court records show he had the number 28 tattooed on his arm along with two bullets - another sign of suspected gang affiliation. less
Jan. 3, 2008, Allen Joplin: Joplin’s case is one of several where police have an idea of who shot him, but not enough information or cooperating witnesses to bring a charge. Joplin, 17, was shot multiple ... more | {
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Marvel, Harley-Davidson seek fan to star in new digital superhero series
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Attention, defenders of freedom: Harley-Davidson and Marvel Entertainment want you to star in a new digital series.
Inspired by the recent success of “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” which grossed $159 million in the United States as of April 11, the end of its first week in theaters, Harley-Davidson and Marvel are organizing a rider fan online casting call for someone to star as "Agent 1" in a new digital franchise.
The franchise will introduce a new chapter of action and new characters created by Marvel's custom division exclusively for The Motor Co. Captain America, who has long been associated with Harley-Davidson, will be revving a brand-new Street 750, and the series will also be built around the new model. The mini-movie and digital comic will debut in Marvel and Harley-Davidson online and social channels this summer.
"Our collaboration with Marvel puts fans directly into the center of the action like never before," said Dino Bernacchi, Harley-Davidson U.S. director of marketing. "Starring as the hero in this new chapter with Marvel is not only the new Street 750 – but a real-life fan as well. The Street's features are right in line with the authenticity, toughness, action and individualism for which Captain America is known and revered by fans around the world, and sourcing our new hero directly from that pool is equally as real and authentic."
To enter the Harley-Davidson “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” contest, special agent hopefuls are invited to complete an online skills assessment and select a custom bike of their choice at www.h-d.com/marvel. After completing the assessment, each candidate receives a badge and special promotional offer. Legal residents of the United States who are at least 18 years of age can enter through April 30.
One grand prize winner will not only land the role as the eponymous "Agent 1," but he or she also will win a brand new custom Harley-Davidson Street 750 motorcycle and a rider training course, including a stunt riding lesson with Marvel's “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” stunt rider Riley Harper. | {
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Does Richard Branson personify the ideal style of the man in the 60s? He is, after all, 62 years old. Love him or hate him, you can’t usually ignore him which is what fashion is all about at some level. Not everyone of course can be like him.
However, this post isn’t about Richard Branson. It is about men and women and their interest in fashion. And why the younger generation care.
But it’s worth remembering that, notwithstanding their aging, the boomers are still the generation that gave us the famous boardroom credo “Nobody wants to see old people on TV/in the movies/in advertisements.” … So it’s not the new old who are driving this fascination. It’s the young. Scratch the surface of youth culture, and a kind of Eldertopia is revealed, a pro-aged paradise lovingly promoted by people who are themselves not even close to middle-aged.
For whatever reason, the younger generation and the youth culture, or at least a smaller sub-culture, is fascinated with old age and older fashion. Whether this is out of genuine interest or a way to conceal and hide the fact that we all get “old and different” is up for debate. However, this cultural revolution does bring us some very interesting fashion tidbits.
It is an interesting combination of both men and women. While the men are seen more ‘macho’ like Branson above, women are seen as more ‘classy’ as Betty White below. Of course such gender differences shouldn’t come as a surprise, and of course you have elegant men and raunchier women but the part of the subculture seems to have a preference already.
The cultural values of the younger generation also, to a great extent, revolve around themselves. When they are interested in the older women or men fashion, they still want to see a part of themselves, a part of their culture reflected. This is why concepts and images that include a combination of older women with younger men or younger men with older women are so popular. Think of Ryan Gosling with his mom, for instance. Now wouldn’t that be a weird combination for the boomer generation to appreciate! | {
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Tyler Wayne Band
Overview
I perform traditional country music I sing all the older country music songs. As I also write my own country songs. I grew on the old country music and that is what has inspired me to sing and write the traditional country music.
Reviews
Booking Info
What to Expect
We would give you a traditional country show we also have own sound and lights we are very professional at our shows.
About
Meet Tyler Wayne from Nashville, Tennessee. Tyler is known as a modern day country singer with the old style flair of country music past. He has played from coast to coast in the US and performs in many types of venues both large and small.
Tyler's originals music reminds you of his influences.
Tyler performs with his band which is comprised of experienced road musicians. He loves to entertain audiences young and old. He is very dedicated to his fans. Tyler performs songs off of his latest self-titled CD "Tyler Wayne" and also performs classic country favorites.
Set List
Pickup Man, Some Beach, Two Of A Kind, Working On A Full House, Don't Close Your Eyes, Honky Tonk Woman, Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down, Good Ol Boys, Don't Take Her She's All I Got, Big Green Tractor, Chattahoochee, Eleven Rose's, Your Man, Pretty Woman, Runaway, She Even Baits My Hook, Pontoon, Copperhead Road, Friends In Low Places | {
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Julien Laurens is given the tough task of choosing whether Real Madrid or Barcelona should be considered La Liga favourites. Alejandro Moreno says D.C. United need to think about the big picture if they’re going to pursue Luka Modric. Paris Saint-Germain superstar Neymar has tipped compatriots Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior to make successes of themselves with | {
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
358th Fighter Squadron A-10Cs returned to D-M from Green Flag - West
By Joachim Jacob, Warthog News Editor
On February 1, 2013, the 358th Fighter Squadron "Lobos", 355th Fighter Wing (ACC), Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, returned to D-M from Green Flag - West at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Warthog News contributor Ned Harris from the United States had the opportunity to take arrival shots of all 15 "Hogs" which participated in the exercise. As Ned reported, they arrived in five groups of three aircraft each.
The first of five groups with three aircraft each. (Photo by Ned Harris) Full size
Thanks to Ned, all 15 "Hogs" (wearing the black fin flash of the 358th Fighter Squadron) were logged and are identified now by their serial numbers:
A-10C 80-0151. BTW: What a side view!!! (Photo by Ned Harris)Full size
Question: Is it boring to watch 15 (!!!) "Hog" shots, most of all taken from the same angle? Or do you like it? If not, which angle of shots would you prever? I would like to get your feedback to improve my personal contacts to A-10 photographers.
Please note: Much more photo interpretation and background info will be posted soon.
Dedicated in Love
This blog is dedicated to Marina Naumann, my latest female partner who died after incurable pancreas cancer on June 17, 2010, just only a half year after diagnosis. Marina was the second true wife in my life, and she always supported my long-year enthusiastic research work on the Hog, especially since the beginning of operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Rest in peace, Marina. | {
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About Mengening Villas
Welcome to the private beachfront residence that is Bali Mengening Villas! This six bedroom estate is located in the midst of Canggu's vibrant rice paddies with uninterrupted views of the Indian Ocean and the horizon beyond. Housing two private villas connected by antique wooden doors, Bali Mengening Villas is ideal for multiple families and large groups of friends who wish to stay together but also have their privacy.
Facing west, this villa's location is arguably one of the best in Bali for watching the sun go down over the sea, especially from the inviting rooftop terrace. The two infinity swimming pools, indoor/outdoor bar and living space, as well as the poolside deck also offer guests the perfect place to host a party or sunset dinner.
So come relax, unwind and treat yourself to a holiday stay at the all-inclusive Bali Mengening Villas.
Photos
Bedrooms
Bedroom 1
3 pictures
King bed
Aircon
Bathroom
Tv
Bedroom 2
2 pictures
King bed
Aircon
Bathroom
Tv
Bedroom 3
2 pictures
King bed
Aircon
Bathroom
Tv
Bedroom 4
2 pictures
King bed
Aircon
Bathroom
Tv
Bedroom 5
2 pictures
King bed
Aircon
Bathroom
Tv
Bedroom 6
2 pictures
King bed
Aircon
Bathroom
Tv
Outdoor areas
Swimming pool 1
3 pictures
5x14m
Swimming pool 2
3 pictures
5x14m
Indoor areas
Dining area
5 pictures
Living room 1
3 pictures
More pictures
Drone pictures
4 pictures
Others
7 pictures
Surroundings
地図
カスタマーレビュー
9.8/10
(この評価は3 口コミ評価の平均です。)
10/10
It was simply luxury. I've never been before in such property. So beautiful !! Here I've forgot about everything except of that breezy air, beautiful ocean and unbelievable views. The house has no bright colours, but that was right idea, because the brightest thing in here is beauty of the nature from all around. Also a lot of people maintain the villa, I even don't know exact number.. from the very beginning in the airport driver Wayan picked up us and told us that he will be our driver during our stay for free ! But in real he was not only one. Also we received a chef ! Her name was Made and she cooked for us delicious grilled seafood and so on. But before we ordered a fisherman who came to our beach in front of the villa and caught for us crabs and lobster. It was surprise, but nice, fresh and tasty surprise. Unforgettable impression ! Thank u Costa for such an option !
Liliya (Indonesia) stayed at Mengening Villas with his/her family from 01/05/2016 to 04/05/2016
10/10
Our stay was even better than great ! Villa was accurate and clean. Very comfortable space ! Chef Made cooked for us delicious dinner. Free car every day. Nice and helpful staff. Perfect sunset place
Michael (Australia) stayed at Mengening Villas with his/her family from 01/03/2016 to 03/03/2016
9.6/10
The sunset that you will never forget on your life, is in Mengening Villa. Nice pool and deck with great view to the sea, you will find a very friendly staff, Gusti, Made, Putu, Aril, all of them are here to serve and help you all the time. Me and my family will never forget this vacation, we will try to comeback.
WA stayed at Mengening Villas with his/her family from 01/03/2015 to 07/03/2015
サービス/特徴
Facilities:
Additional bed
(extra cost)
(30 USD/night, 2 pers. max.)
Back-up generator
Bar counter
BBQ
Hairdryer
Household supplies
Iron and ironing board
Jacuzzi
Local phone
Mosquito nets
Off-street parking
Outdoor bar
Pets allowed
Pool towels
Pool umbrella
Printer
Safety box
Swimming pool
Terrace
Wardrobe space
Wi-Fi Internet
Transport:
Airport transferincluded: 2 car(s) maximum, both ways
Bicycles available
(extra cost)
Car available
Driver
Kids:
Baby cot
(extra cost)
(+15 USD)
Babysitter
(extra cost)
Entertainment:
CD music player
DVD movies
DVD player
International channels
Stereo
TV
Meals:
Coffee maker
Daily breakfast (extra cost)(cost of groceries + 20%)
Dinner
(extra cost)
(cost of groceries + 20%)
Fully equipped kitchen
Lunch
(extra cost)
(cost of groceries + 20%)
Teppanyaki grill
Services:
Gardener
Housekeeping
Laundry
(extra cost)
Massage
(extra cost)
Security service
Welcome drinks
More information:
最高宿泊人数: 12
スタッフ: 12
ヴィラの広さ: 650 m²
庭の広さ: 1550 m²
Terms and conditions:
チェックイン after 02:00 pm
Check-out: until 12:00 pm
Late check-out: until 06:00 pm charged 50% of the daily rate (subject to availability)
利用規約
Please read these terms and conditions of use ("Terms", "Terms of Use") carefully before using the Website operated by the Company. By using the Website, the Client agrees to be bound by these Terms.
Definitions
This website (the "Website") is operated by C ASIA Pte Ltd, a Singapore private company limited by shares (registered under the number 200718423H) (the “Company”).
The villas on the Website (individually a “Villa” and collectively the “Villas”) are offered for short term furnished holiday rental from their owner or their legal representative (the "Owner") to the renter (the "Client") under the following Terms of Use. Some Villas may also have related terms and conditions of rental (the “Villa Specific Rental Conditions”), available on the Villa page on the Website. When making an inquiry on the Website or via phone or email, the Client accepts and agrees to these Terms of Use and to the Villa Specific Rental Conditions. These Terms do not apply to Villa Specific Rental Conditions, and the Client shall carefully review the Villa Specific Rental Conditions. In case of contradiction between these Terms and any Villa Specific Rental Conditions, the Villa Specific Rental Conditions shall prevail. The Client shall be held liable for any breach of these Terms and the Villa Specific Rental Conditions by any Party.
For the purposes of these Terms, “Party” means any other person than the Client who stays in the Villa with the Client.
The Company on the Website provides an online platform through which Owners can advertise Villas for reservation. By making a reservation through the Website, the Clients enters into a direct, legally binding, contractual relationship with the relevant Owner. The Company sends the details of the reservation to Owner and sends the Client a confirmation email for and on behalf of the Owner and is not a party to the direct, legally binding, contractual relationship between the Client and the Owner.
Reviews
Clients' reviews may be uploaded onto the Villa page for the sole purpose of informing future Clients of other opinions of the service level and quality of the Villa. The Company reserves the right to adjust, refuse or remove reviews at our sole discretion.
Reservation
To reserve a Villa, the Client must pay to the Company an initial non-refundable deposit (50% of the total rent due, unless otherwise specified in the Villa Specific Rental conditions). Upon reception of the confirmation email and deposit, the Company, on behalf of the Owner, will send a Villa confirmation voucher. The reservation is not effective until required payment is received. Reservations can only be accepted from Clients aged 18 or over at the time of the reservation.
Price and payments
The Client is responsible for the payments of all rental costs and for compliance with these Terms of Use.
The rental prices are all in United States Dollars (USD) and include the following, unless otherwise specified in the Villa Specific Rental Conditions:
- Use of a furnished and fully-equipped villa for the duration of the period specified in the confirmation voucher
- Household linen, crockery, cutlery and electrical household appliances. All villas are privately owned, so decor, colors and inventories will of course vary.
The balance of the rent is payable 60 days before arrival, directly to the Company, unless otherwise specified in the Villa Specific Rental condition. If full payment is not received as specified, the Owner reserves the right to cancel the booking and refuse admission to the Villa.
The rental prices are all in United States Dollars (USD) at the time of the reservation. Any later discount or price increase of the Villa will not be applicable to confirmed bookings. Payment can also be made in AUD, EUR, SGD, HKD, NZD, GBP or CNY at the prevailing Citibank FOREX public rate of the day of the payment (NB: the rate of the day of the payment will be used, thus deposit and balance payment can have a different amount). Payments can be made by Bank transfer, Credit Card, Cash (SGD only), Cheque (SGD only). The Client must pay all bank charges and Credit cards are accepted subject to a 3% service charge.
The Company has direct contracts with Owners where Owners guarantee to give the Company their best prices and special offers on their Villa – thus the Website can guarantee the best prices for the relevant Villa. The Website does not add any service fee on top of the Villa prices. In the event that the Client finds a cheaper and valid price for the same Villa at the same period, on a website duly authorised by the Owner, the Company will claim the difference for the Client from the Owner.
Cancellation
Deposit and balance payment are non-refundable unless otherwise specified in the Villa Specific Rental conditions. Any modification or refund on the Client’s booking is in any case subject to admin fees of 200 USD (Two Hundred United States Dollars).
Conditions of stay
The rental period shall commence 2.00 pm on the first day and end at 11.00 am on the last day of the rental period, unless otherwise specified in the Villa Specific Rental conditions. The Owner shall not be obliged to offer accommodation before the time stated and the Client shall not be entitled to remain in occupation after the time stated.
The maximum number of people residing in the Villa cannot exceed the number stated on the on the Villa Pages on the Website without explicit permission of the Owner. The Owners reserve the right to refuse service or rentals to anyone at their complete discretion.
Upon arrival and departure of the Villa, a record of the state of repair of the Villa and its contents might be made with the Owner. If no record of the state of the Villa and its content is made, the Villa and furniture will deemed to be in good state of use. Certain Owners ask for damage deposit as specified in the Villa Specific Rental Conditions. Unless otherwise specified in the Villa Specific Rental Conditions, damage deposits are fully refundable upon departure, provided there is no breakage, damage, missing items, no additional cleaning for villas left abnormally dirty, long-distance calls charged to the villa's telephone, and no other charges incurred before, during or after the Client or its Party stay, still outstanding. The Client agrees to pay the Owner for the cleaning or replacement costs for all damages to personal property or to the real estate, which may occur as a result of the Client's occupancy, excluding normal wear and tear. The Client shall report to the Owner without delay any defects in the Villa or breakdown in the equipment, machinery or appliances in the Villa so that arrangements for repair and/or replacement can be made as soon as possible.
Accommodation is provided for the sole purpose of tourism and any commercial use of the Villa is strictly forbidden. The Client represents and warrants that he is renting the Villa for the purpose of tourism only and under no circumstances may he establish residence at that address. The Client understands and agrees that it is solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules and regulations, that may apply to its use of the Website.
As a consequence, the Client undertakes not to engage in any illegal, illicit, immoral or business-related activity within the Villa. The Client agrees to be a considerate tenant and to take good care of the Villa and to leave it in a clean and tidy condition at the end of the rental period. The Client agrees to lock villa's windows and doors securely at all times when not on the premises, and must exercise care in securing all personal property. It is forbidden to fix objects to the walls and to displace furniture and appliances. For reasons of hygiene, pets are not permitted in the Villa unless authorised in writing by the Owner or the Company or otherwise specified in the Villa Specific Rental Conditions. The Client must respect the rules and regulations applicable to the Villa in which his accommodation is situated: he must not be the source of excessive noise or other disruption, which might disturb neighbours, and he must respect regulations concerning the use of the communal areas of any apartment building.
Liability
The Company is a technology company that does not provide any accommodation services in the Villas and is not a travel agent. It is up to the Owner to offer accommodation services in the Villas to the Client and it is up to the Client to accept such accommodation services in the Villa. The service of the Company is to link the Client with the Owners but does not nor is it intended to provide accommodation services, travel agent services or any act that can be construed in any way as an act of an accommodation provider or a travel agent.The Company is not responsible nor liable for the acts and/or omissions of any Owner and/or any accommodation services provided to the client, nor any travel agent services provided to the client by any third party.
The Company shall not be liable for events beyond its control which may interfere with the Client’s scheduled occupancy, including but not limited to Acts of God, acts of governmental agencies, fire, strikes, terrorism, war, inclement weather, flooding, disturbance or noise coming from outside the villas such as private or public construction, traffic, animals or neighbours. No rebate of refund will be offered by the Company in these circumstances.
The Company reserves the right to substitute comparable or better accommodations without liability if the Villa reserved is sold or rented long-term, out of order, undergoing renovation, inadvertently double-booked, or deemed substandard by the Company for any reason. If comparable accommodations are not available, the Client will receive a refund of the nights that have not been honoured.
The Company may organise transportation for the Client or the Party. Transportation is supplied by providers who operate independently of the Website and/or the Company. The Company shall not be liable for property loss or damages, injury, accidents, death, delay, cancellation or irregularity occurring during such transportation, including, but not limited to, damages which may be occasioned either by reason of defect in any vehicle, ferry, or aircraft or the acts of any company or persons engaged in conveying the Clients or its Party.
The Company shall not be liable to the Client for any injury, loss of limb or life of the Client, any member of Party, or any visitors of the Client to the Villa during the rental period. The Clients represents and warrants that it and all members of the Party have sufficient travel insurance, medical insurance cover, personal injury and personal liability insurance for the duration of their stay at the Villa.
The Client acknowledges that the use of the some facilities, including but not limited to the swimming pool, terraces and stairs, and of furnishings and appliances, particularly those in the kitchen and bathroom (the “Facilities”), may prove dangerous. The Client and the members of the Party are fully responsible for taking all precautions before using the Facilities. The Company shall not be held liable for any death or injury arising out of or in connection with the use of the Facilities.
In no event will the Company’s aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms and the Client’s use of the Website, including, but not limited to, from the Client’s booking or any Villa via the Website, or from the Client’s use of or its inability to use the Website and in connection with any accommodation in any Villa exceed the amounts the Client has paid for bookings via the Website in the Twelve (12) month period prior to the event giving rise to the liability or One Hundred (100) USD if no such payments have been made as applicable.
Termination
Any breach of the above Terms of Use will lead to immediate termination of the rental of a Villa Twenty Four (24) hours following a formal notice to cease such breach. In such case, the Client will be required to vacate the Villa immediately and with no compensation whatsoever.
Severability – Changes
If one or more of the provisions of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect by a court of competent jurisdiction, then the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms shall be unaffected.
The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, the Company shall try to provide at least 30-day notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at the Company’s sole discretion.
By continuing to access or use the Website after those revisions become effective, the Client agrees to be bound by the revised Terms. If the User does not agree to the new Terms, he shall stop use the Website.
Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
The Client hereby acknowledges and agrees to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore.
The Company’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the Company and the Client regarding the use of the Website and any booking thereto, and supersede and replace any prior agreements the Client and the Company might have regarding the Website or any booking.
Language and Applicable law
These Terms of Use are written in English. The English writing will prevail over any translation available. | {
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Attorney says the sites posted false information, then tried to charge her to have it removed
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The attorney, whose identity is not being revealed, claims the defendants violated RICO laws "through a pattern of racketeering activity, including, but not limited to extortion of plaintiff by requiring payment to remove defamatory statements from the website ReportYourEx.com," Courthouse News Service reports.
The suit claims the sites "knowingly and maliciously portrayed the plaintiff in an entirely false light, as a victim of domestic violence, committing criminal acts ... and violating bar ethical rules, amongst other false allegations."
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Heritage Minister James Moore said groups who testified before MPs about the proposed changes to the Copyright Act won't be asked back to comment again. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press )
Heritage Minister James Moore says he's hoping for long-languishing amendments to the Copyright Act to pass by Christmas, but the Supreme Court of Canada could wind up forcing more tinkering with the law.
Canada's top court said Thursday it will rule on five separate intellectual property cases together as a bundle, and what it decides could directly impact the Act or at least its interpretation.
Moore told The Canadian Press in an interview that the Conservative government will re-introduce its copyright bill this fall, in exactly the same form as legislation that died with the last Parliament.
The measures will go back to a legislative committee for study, and Moore said groups who testified before MPs won't be asked back to comment again.
"We've taken a couple runs at it before in minority Parliaments, but we think that we have a very good formula with the old Bill C-32 and when we come forward with our legislative agenda this fall we want to pick up where we left off, which is to continue the study of the legislation," Moore said.
"This is long overdue in Canada. We did so much consultation, so much preparation, there was such a depth of understanding of the legislation that we tabled that we want to continue the study of that legislation."
Educators head to top court
One of the hotly debated issues around the bill, around how educators are able to use copyrighted materials, has now popped up before the Supreme Court.
NDP heritage critic Charlie Angus said the government should be listening to criticism of the bill and making changes before it is forced to by the courts. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
The justices will be hearing a case about whether grade school teachers who make copies of textbooks for their students should be shielded from paying tariffs.
The same issue came up before the Commons committee last March. Groups who represent educators and provincial ministers of education would like to see more explicit protection for classroom copying included in the "fair dealing" section of the Act, while those who represent publishers say they deserve to be compensated for the textbooks they create.
NDP heritage critic Charlie Angus said the government should be listening to criticism of the bill and making changes before it is forced to by the courts.
"There are problems that need to be fixed and we can do this in a collaborative way or a confrontational way, but I would prefer to get this bill done," Angus said.
"I want to know that they're actually listening to the witnesses, because witnesses have identified some serious shortfalls with the bill that can be fixed."
Successive Liberal and Conservative governments have struggled to modernize the Copyright Act and bring it into line with international treaties for more than a decade.
Often the changes have become mired in a cabinet tug-of-war between the industry and heritage ministers, who are lobbied intensely by consumers, big entertainment companies, education groups, creators and especially the U.S. government.
Wikileaks revelations
Internal U.S. embassy cables posted by Wikileaks this year suggested former industry minister Maxime Bernier offered to show American officials a previous copyright bill before it was tabled in Parliament.
The cables also detailed how the office of another former industry minister, Tony Clement, suggested Washington include Canada on an international piracy watchlist in order to push legislative efforts along.
Critics have suggested that a controversial provision of the bill that makes picking a "digital lock" illegal — circumventing a company's technology to share a piece of music, for example — is about protecting the interests of powerful North American corporations.
Moore rejects the criticism that the Conservative government has crafted its legislation to appease the U.S. He notes that elements of the bill run contrary to what Washington would have preferred.
"Our approach is a uniquely Canadian approach, it's balanced, the legal dynamic in the United States is entirely different from that in Canada as well," he said.
"They have over a hundred years of copyright litigation and jurisprudence behind them that is different than the dynamic that exists in Canada, No. 1. No. 2, with regard to seeing legislation, I can tell you that nobody saw Bill C-32 before Canadians saw it when we tabled it in the Parliament of Canada." | {
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Video Game Review: Kingdom Hearts III
When you consider the number of one-offs, remakes and remixes that Square-Enix has churned out it’s easy to forget that it’s been nearly 15 years since the Kingdom Hearts series got a proper numerical sequel — hell, it’s been almost six years since Sony gave fans their first taste at E3 2013. Finally, however, Square-Enix and Disney have brought Kingdom Hearts III to the masses, even giving Xbox fans their first chance to experience the series. Amid huge hype and expectations, it’s time to see if Sora, Mickey and the rest can deliver.
CONTROLS (4/5)
Combat is probably best labeled as third-person hack n’ slash, though that’s a very basic overview of the game’s often frantic encounters. You once again control Sora, who is flanked by Donald Duck and Goofy, as you square off primarily against loads of Heartless and Nobodies. You’ll also be joined at times by additional world-specific characters, but that trio remains the core unit.
Although mashing the attack button constitutes a fair amount of what you’ll be doing, the game adds plenty of bells and whistles to keep things moving at a brisk pace. In addition to melee attacks, Sora can also use magic and switch between keyblades on the fly, allowing you to utilize a number of unique attacks. As you land blows you’ll also build momentum to change forms and unleash more powerful strikes.
Your allies generally hold their own, and you’ll be able to team up with them for various tandem efforts to deliver extra damage (and plenty of visual pizzazz). Attack an enemy designated with a green circle and you’ll unleash something called attraction flow, which allows you to summon a handful of Disneyland rides to lay waste to entire groups of foes. With all the various strikes, switching between keyblades and flashy attacks there’s rarely a dull moment during combat.
Not everything works great, however, and that begins with flowmotion, a system designed to let Sora do things like spin around pillars or slide down rails. Objects that you can interact with have a rippling shimmer of sorts, making them easy to spot, but in the heat of battle it felt sloppy and not as instinctive as it should have. Locking onto and cycling through enemies often seemed to be more trouble than it was worth as well.
GRAPHICS/SOUND (4.5/5)
Given that all the previous entries were native to either handhelds or the PS2, it goes without saying that Kingdom Hearts III is far and away the best looking of the bunch. It’s pretty cool to see how well the various Disney worlds were recreated, and the addition of Pixar allows for arguably the game’s top two locations. The way Sora and company change visually as they visit certain worlds is a nice touch, too.
Even though most of the Disney characters voiced in the films by stars have been replaced by anonymous sound-a-likes the familiarity works to the game’s advantage, allowing them to appear and instantly carry context. There’s good music, plenty of fun sound effects and Haley Joel Osment returns to anchor everything as Sora.
GAMEPLAY (4.25/5)
Kingdom Hearts III opens with Sora seeking to regain his lost power of “waking” in an effort to take down the villainous Xehanort, who nearly defeated Sora previously. It’s an arc that most should be able to follow, at least at the big picture level, but it’s fair to say that anyone who hasn’t kept up with the series over the years will spend time scratching their heads — the game does contain some refresher tutorials, but they’re not remotely comprehensive.
On the one hand, Square-Enix did yeoman’s work in trying to prep a new audience for KH3 by updating and re-releasing previous games on the PS3 and, eventually, the PS4. On the other, none of that was available to Xbox One or 360 owners, making this a pretty challenging point of entry for those loyal to Microsoft’s systems. Suffice to say longtime fans will get more out of the game since they’ll understand the story’s various sub-threads and payoffs.
Minus that context newcomers will need to rely on action and locations to carry the day, and thankfully both areas offer up far more pros than cons. In addition to the chaotic combat outlined above, each world conjures up some type of unique twist to keep battles fresh such as piloting toy robots in the Toy Story world or ship-to-ship encounters in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Exploring the locations of Disney movies is (and always has been) one of Kingdom Hearts‘ most endearing aspects, and it’s not hard to smile when directly interacting with Woody and Buzz or Baymax. That being said, some worlds are undoubtedly more interesting than others. Of the group, we found Tangled to be the most disappointing — it just felt kind of empty, and we never warmed to the dancing mini-game.
Getting from Point A to Point B is still done via the Gummi Ship, and though it has received some much needed attention, allowing you to do some exploring and customizing, it never felt like something we actively wanted to do. Instead it’s just the thing we did to advance the game and reach the next world. No more, no less.
If you’ve tracked the series this long, then Kingdom Hearts III is a no brainer as it brings closure to a lot of plot threads that have been left open for years. Newcomers simply won’t get the same experience even though the game is full of enjoyable elements when viewed purely as a standalone. One disappointment for us, though, is the marginalizing of the Final Fantasy influence, making this feel more like a pure Disney game than its predecessors.
OVERALL (4.25/5)
In the face of some lofty expectations, Kingdom Hearts III delivers the goods. While it’s by no means perfect, its fast-paced combat and endearing characters make it worth your time. | {
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What I like about Bernie — and my recommendation
ONE: A movement is building. People are questioning the fairness of capitalism and looking at socialism with fresh eyes. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been a major spokesperson for bringing the term “socialism” back into our national dialogue. I like that about Bernie.
I should say right up front, I have blogged on questions I have about Bernie Sanders: his “communist dictator” remark about Hugo Chavez, who did lead a “political revolution” and moved Venezuela toward socialism, HERE; and Bernie’s possibly becoming a “sheepdog” for a corporate candidate like Hillary Clinton, HERE.
TWO: The second thing I really like about Bernie is that he backs up his rhetoric about casino capitalism and the billionaire class by taking no corporate money. The “contribution rules” on his website include:
This contribution is made from my own funds, and funds are not being provided to me by another person or entity for the purpose of making this contribution.
I am making this contribution with my own personal credit card and not with a corporate or business credit card or a card issued to another person.
Bernie is following the example of Richmond, California. The Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates, whatever their political parties, refuse corporate and developer money in their campaigns. When they win elections — and they have won, even against millions of dollars that Chevron throws against them — they follow through on their campaign rhetoric and stand up to giant corporations, not just Chevron but also developers and Wall Street banks. Good for Bernie for following the Richmond example.
THREE: The third thing I like about Bernie Sanders is that he includes on his website a list of all the states with the rules for voting in primaries in each of the states. The California link is HERE. That leads me to …
MY RECOMMENDATION
Friends who are “feeling the Bern,” and yet who are disenchanted with the two big political parties, have asked me for my recommendation. Here it is for California; much of it applies to other states as well.
(1) Wait as late as possible before the primary to make any changes if you want to vote for Bernie. The last day to change voter registration in California, for example, is May 23, 2016. To be safe, mark your calendar for MAY DAY. On the 1st of May, change your voter registration, if and only if there’s a solid chance that the Democratic Party institution — which is different from the people — would allow Bernie to be its nominee! How could the DP institution stop Bernie if the people vote for him in droves in Iowa and New Hampshire? Easy, it uses “superdelegates” and control of the corporate media.
(2) Use the power of your voter registration to the max. Do the least damage. Don’t give the parties of the 1% your seal of approval via your voter registration. The Democratic Party has made its decision for 2016: people who are registered “No Party Preference” can can vote in the Democratic primary. California online voter registration happens at http://registertovote.ca.gov/.
(3) After the primary, come back! Mark your calendar for June 8, or maybe INDEPENDENCE DAY. Say “No!” to the 1%, their corporations, and their political parties. Help build that strong third party so many Americans want. It’s no surprise to my friends and colleagues that I recommend changing your voter registration to the no-corporate-money Green Party. The practical and idealistic reason is this: the Green Party is the strongest third party that we have for working families in this whole country. You can bet the system doesn’t make it easy for third parties to become strong — that’s where people power comes in: votes and voter registrations. Jill Stein has a good chance of being the Green Party nominee, and your vote for her in November will help build a real political revolution.
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About Laura Wells: SolutionsI ran for Controller in California in 2014 on a State Bank and Tax The Rich platform. I am part of the “No Corporate Money” Campaign, in which candidates pledge to take no corporate money and voters declare our intention to vote for no-corporate-money candidates. As a Green Party candidate for Governor of California in 2010, I was arrested outside a gubernatorial debate for “trespassing at a private party.” But we won't stop, and so let's create a "public party" where we debate solutions to California's finances, like implementing a State Bank and taxing the rich -- to reduce the disparity and open up opportunities. Twitter: @LauraWellsCA | {
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One of my mates had a repeat Math exam yesterday and he aint too confident with how he did and now he’s quite sure he’ll have to repeat 1st year, I feel partially responsible for this as I skipped out on most of the math lectures since I’d already covered most of them during the course of higher level math for leaving cert and I thought he did as well, towards the end of the year I found out he only did ordinary and so we presented ourselves at more lectures.
The bones of this post will be however on the Math course, not how he did in the exam. One thing that has eternally annoyed me about Math is that, after a bit of basic knowledge, it is completely pointless. I remember sitting in Math classes for Leaving Cert and just thinking ‘What’s the fucking point? When is differentiation ever gonna benefit me in real life? Why would I ever wanna integrate anything when there are other easier methods?’ ‘You’ll need it if you wanna go on to teach math’ was my teacher’s usual response. This circular argument always annoyed me too, many a class was wasted on these arguments between my teacher and me. I wasn’t bad at Math (I got a B) but it always just seemed so utterly pointless.
Secondly, a lot of it has no real reason or proof behind it, or maybe it does but we were never shown it. This was especially shown during Calculus I + II sections of the course. There was a lot of guess work and taking parts of equations away to nothingness or assuming that something was equal to something and other such nonsense. Even without taking that into account we were always given steps to doing something,but never actually told or shown why these steps were important or true, just to do them and nothing more. So we got the ‘How’ part of the formula, but not the ‘Why’, another thing that seemed pointless to me.
In summary, a lot of stuff I’ve been told concerning Math is down to believing that it works without being given any proof, indeed that’s how it seems to be with even the big Math-heads who come up with the rubbish, it was only proved a few years ago that 1 + 1 actually does =2 up until then its was just taken for granted that 1+1=2. But what if some of the stuff taken for granted in math is actually wrong? What then? After all, science doesn’t put faith in belief,everything is down to rigorous testing and proof, because of this I reckon Math isn’t really a science… It’s a religion!
I wonder if my mate declared himself as one would he get a free ticket to second year? | {
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Yes – Luna Park 1999
Tracklist:1. Intro (1:01)2. Yours Is No Disgrace (12:46)3. America (11:34)4. Lightning Strikes (4:37)5. Time And A Word (1:02)6. New Language (9:30)7. Survival (0:27)8. Perpetual Change (11:03)9. Ritual (0:38)10. Homeworld (9:10)11. It Will Be A Good Day (6:15)12. Nine Voices (3:26)13. Owner Of A Lonely Heart (5:54)14. Roundabout (8:40)15. I've Seen All Good People (8:05)Download link: | {
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There's one thing that will always make him laugh, no matter what - a fart. And this clock will make him smile at the top of every hour. It's a ridiculous gift that he might be too embarrassed to actually put on his wall. More | {
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Wow, I'm lazy. With the lockout in full swing I can't say I've felt all that motivated to get back into blogging, music or otherwise. Anyways, the following post has been kicking around in my head for weeks now so I'd thought I'd throw out into ever gentle pools of UTP.
A few weeks back I made a terrible mistake. While reading some news article or another on Punknews.org I sunk down to the comments section and floundered about in the questionable content that often swirls in frightening Internet eddies formed in the info streams of the .Org. One particular comment caught my attention that day. A reader of the site remarked that the problem with modern punk music is that is simply is not the dangerous music that it once was. I found the statement intriguing and since then I have been tossing it back and forth in my mind in attempt to gain a really thorough understanding of how I feel danger relates to modern punk rock music. | {
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The Senate Democrats’ sharp-elbowed leader is warning Republicans against blocking President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, claiming such an action would be a radical abdication of their duties as senators.
“Pursuing their radical strategy in a quixotic quest to deny the basic fact that the American people elected President Obama — twice — would rank among the most rash and reckless actions in the history of the Senate. And the consequences will reverberate for decades,” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wrote in an op-ed published at The Washington Post.
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According to Reid, the Senate’s constitutional duty to confirm Supreme Court nominees trumps “partisan battles” and is essential to the country’s system of checks and balances. Failing to allow a nominee to proceed, he wrote, would mean the Republican majority had given the party over to GOP presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.
“My Republican Senate colleagues should know, too, that they will be unconditionally surrendering their party to hard-line presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Donald Trump,” he wrote.
“Behind closed doors, many of my colleagues complain about the direction their party has taken in recent years,” Reid continued. “But if they cross this Rubicon, they will be as culpable as Sen. Cruz or Trump themselves, having resigned any claim to leadership and enlisting as foot soldiers in a radical effort to obstruct and delegitimize the president at all costs.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has stressed that no nominee should replace Scalia until after the 2016 presidential election.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” he said in a statement Saturday. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”
Scalia was found dead Saturday at a West Texas Ranch. He was 79 years old. | {
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The Los Angeles-based home builder created the position after Chairman and Chief Executive Bruce Karatz agreed to leave the company after an internal investigation found he backdated his own options grants to increase his pay. Mr. Karatz was succeeded as chief executive by Jeffrey T. Mezger, the company's chief operating officer. | {
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Angry Santa Claus
This Santa Claus is very angry! He fell out of the sleigh and his reindeer run away. Collect all the pieces of this funny online jigsaw puzzle game. You can choose any level of complexity for the more fun. Merry Christmas! | {
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Growing up in the cities, I wasn't exposed much to the Minnesota outdoors. It wasn't until I came to Morris, Minnesota where I met many outdoor enthusiasts! The associate pastor of my local church even came up with an apostolic ministry called, Outfitters for Adventure, that plants churches through relationshop building!
Do you need your roof shovel? It should get done before your roof collapses when the weight of snow increases, roof starts leaking inside your house (sometimes caused by ice dams, and/or your ventilation pipe might be covered with snow/ice...
Post Winter Storm (Dec. 16th 10') Roof Shoveling
"It's very important to watch the level of snow on your roof after frequent large amount of snow. Especially what we have been having here in Minnesota this Fall-Winter (officially starts December 21st) so far. I'm demonstrating roof shoveling in my 1-story house rambler as I'm on top of a ladder after 8" + of snow today (Thursday, December 16th 2010).
Another tip I've heard is leaving some snow on the roof to serve as insulation during the long frigid cold winter months.
Need your roof shovel? If your in-town (Morris, MN). Feel free to contact me at..
"These pictures above were taken from February 7th-8th of 2010 during a 2+day Winter Storm
Contact me (Sal) to schedule an appointment about a "possible" (certain roofs can be shoveled with my long "Avalanche" rake shovel) roof shovel project.
"HOPKINS, Minn. -- Heavy snow and ice caused the Metrodome's roof to collapse just more than two weeks ago. Now, it's creating ice dams, which can cause serious damage to homes and give homeowners headaches.
The Ice Dam Company out of Hopkins simply cannot keep up with demand. They are booked as solid as the ice that currently is frozen on several metro area homes.
"All of my calls today, they are saying 'this is an emergency. I need it done today, my house is leaking," said Nikki Wakal with the Ice Dam Company.
The ice dams didn't necessarily sneak up on anybody. You can find them everywhere, but it's the leaking which has forced people to call in.
With Wednesday's temperature in the 30s, it's doing enough melting to kick-start what appears to be quite a year for snow and ice removal services.
And at 300 bucks per 10 feet of ice, it's going to cost you if you want a professional to take care of it safely, rather than risk getting up on the roof yourself.
"It hurts to spend the money before you have water coming into your ceiling, I know that I totally get that, when at the same time you have to wait a number of days which some people do now to stop that leaking it's pretty heartbreaking," said Steve Kuhl with the Ice Dam Company.
Heartbreaking too, that you can't just do the job yourself. Experts say if you do not have the appropriate equipment, you can do more harm than good.
Climbing on top of a roof with two feet of snow on top of it can not only damage the roof, but you could injure yourself. People have died while attempting to clear roofs on their own.
The experts have all of the harnesses and equipment to do the job safely.
"It's a question of risk versus reward and frankly I think that often times it would be better to spend a few hundred dollars to risk your body and we have had clients fall and hurt themselves and it's a real serious thing," Kuhl said.
Ice dam removal businesses have had so many calls, they'll be working through the holidays to try to keep up with demand.
(Copyright 2010 by KARE. All Rights Reserved.) "Homeowners Beware: Ice Dams Could Cost You
December 23, 2010 9:02 PM minnesota.cbslocal.com"The problem is called ice dams, which form at the edge of roofs when the snow melts and refreezes. It is a type of problem homeowners want to address right away. If they don’t, they could be looking at some expensive home repairs.
WCCO-TV employee Sonya Goins experienced the problem firsthand when melting snow and ice seeped into her kitchen. She will have to pay to fix the damage as well as pay to get rid of the source of the problem, the ice.
So, preparing this year’s Christmas meal will be a bit of a challenge for Sonya Goins.....
his people are melting ice on 30 homes a day.
It’s a service that can be a little pricey — typically hundreds of dollars.
"I’m looking at like $300,” said Goins. “Plus, I have to paint now and sand the wall down, so it’s adding up.”
Savings can be found if homeowners are willing to add their roof to the list of areas to shovel.
There are a few items that could help control those ice dams so homeowners don’t have to call a professional.
"Heated Roof Coils," which cost $40 to $50, go up on the roof and melt the ice.
Also, "Roof Melt Pellets," which cost $23, are small salt pucks that can be thrown on the roof.
Both are much cheaper than the alternative."
DANGERS:Former Girls Hockey Coach Dead After Falling Through Roof While Removing Snow , Updated: 02/01/2011 4:08 PM KSAX.com"..With the heavy snowfall received this year, Sheriff Wetzel said that at least one barn roof has collapsed from the weight of the snow, and many people have climbed onto their roofs to remove snow. Sheriff Wetzel urges people to exercise extreme caution when atop their roofs removing snow... | {
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Content packsMay 9th, 2015, 1:49 am
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well as the comic says im releasing a bit of the conjured up content though some of it is still unfinished its simply a portion of whats in the future for author battles i dont have time to say much so ill just give you guys the files to download and call it a night
this time i gave you the choice of dropbox or mediafire.
just lemme know if you want me to use a different site.
and lemme know if there are any problems with the downloads the files or the
content
@abro: ... Claude is weird. And I meant weird as in "having glitches/bugs".
This happened after Claude's "rage" special attack (Claude got stuck, hence why he couldn't turn around even when BH Kevin jumped over him, got farther and then taunted. BH Kevin is just here because I tested the special attack on him, and he survived): http://i19.servimg.com/u/f19/18/44/82/18/mugen010.png
@Extremmefan: Yea, um hes still in beta since this was really just meant to be a show off thing. The bug is pretty much Claude attempting to do his rage special, but since he doesn't have one yet he goes straight to the empty state, thus getting stuck
EDIT:
hmm, actually i was wrong, the rage move discharge which is always activated after the rage rush
Uses the same animation as some gethit states but claudes gethit animations are much shorter than other characters.
so when the character uses the state discharge hes suppose to leave that state during the second frame... that he doesnt have
so i just had to change that to a fixed place in time like ten tics later
to fix the bug just take this file here and put it in Claude's character folder
@abro: "Well that's embarrassing" I assume you said that the fact that not one, but TWO bugs were discovered in less than a day is embarrassing.
Fun fact: Before this content pack was uploaded, I was OP with Chrome and Lemon (on Team Arcade mode). After downloading it, I became OP with BH Kevin and the new version of JKT Student (on Team Arcade mode).
@Extremmefan: yea, but both had to do with beta characters so its something that comes along with unfinished content
Honestly I wasn't even sure if the other three were ready to be released to be frank Sonic, Claude, and Sans really shouldn't be played with religiously yet as Sonic has moves incompatible with non RI characters such as his "down forward down forward punch" special Speed storm
Claude is less then halfway finished and while there aren't really any bugs with sans he still is missing a small portion of his move list and his rage bars haven't been updated(not really game breaking just annoying)
Two replies to one same comment, because I didn't know which duo of characters you were talking about
@Josephk: I was on "Simul" (that means I was playing with Chrome, and I had Lemon helping me while being controlled by the computer) and my opponents were on "Solo" (that means I was against ONE character per battle).
Now I am playing on "Simul" (that means I am playing with BH Kevin, with JKT Student's new version helping me while being controlled by the computer), while my opponents are on "Solo" (that means I've fought ONE character per battle).
Edit: I used the F3 cheat (which makes my energy bar full) for Chrome and Lemon (so many times). I only used it once per match for BH Kevin and the new version of JKT Student. | {
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From the Playground to the Sidelines
Lebron’s Leaving Impacts the Little HEAT Fans
It’s amazing how much one person can impact a city. But that’s just what Lebron James does, he can ignite hope or devastation in the blink of an eye to millions of people. Though it’s just basketball as some say, sports do matter. And not just to adults.
So I told Lila that the team has changed, and Lebron is moving home. Considering her love for James, Birdman and Burnie, I was surprised by her sensitivity. “Aww mommy, he’s your favorite player. I’m sorry, but at least now he will be home with his family. And we still have Birdman and Burnie right?”
Well…yes on Burnie. (whew!)
Clearly she wasn’t really phased, but some of my friend’s children were. I thought of my friend Heather who has a six year old that is a die-hard HEAT and Lebron fan. She ironically sent me this text early this morning:
“Oh man Kyle took the news really hard. He’s crying :(“
On a phone call afterwards she relayed that he was upset for about 30 minutes this morning. “When I told him, it was like I was telling him someone died. He was shocked…it was utter disappointment.”
My obstetrician (and friend) sent me this iTouch message from his eight year old son Logan today as well. Logan loves Dwyane Wade and Lebron James, and told me he heard about his departure on the news last night. He said he felt sad though, not angry.
Miami, we have a problem.
And our waitress at lunch today at Yardhouse was worried that her 11-year-old daughter took the news hard. “She called me crying when I was at work yesterday. There was nothing I could do, I told her we were lucky he came here.”
We are indeed lucky that Lebron came to South Florida, bringing those famous talents with him. He led Miami to four straight NBA Finals appearances, a feat only two other NBA teams accomplished: The Boston Celtics twice, and the Los Angeles Lakers led by Pat Riley. James helped deliver two more Larry O’Brien trophies to this city, along with immeasurable amounts of hope and happiness.
Though our kids may not understand the business of basketball, they will now learn an important lesson: appreciate what you have. Enjoy it, embrace it, soak it in. We all witnessed something we may never see again in our lifetime, and for that we can be thankful.
The one thing these exceptional children all can agree on? They will still be Miami HEAT fans this season. Though they still love Lebron, and are sad to see him go, they will not be cheering for the Cavs. Their loyalty is to the HEAT, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, the remaining players and of course Burnie.
So if your child is sad, or angry, or shocked and disappointed, remind them of this very apropos quote from Dr. Seuss:
Life and basketball goes on.
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It’s funny that I immediately thought of YOU when I heard the news. My stepson and husband were happy and my kids are not really into basketball yet so there was no real effect. However, we had my brother and his family visit this weekend and all of our kids are very close. One of my sons cried when his cousins left and cried again several hours later. This was the first time this has happened after a visit. It broke my heart and I told him we could “face time” with them in the morning. Poor little guy. I’m going to have to tell him the quote from Dr. Suess when he wakes-up! Thanks for that and sorry about LeBron 🙁 | {
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The number of hate crimes reported in Florida last year nearly matched 2009’s record low, suggesting criminal acts rooted in racial, religious or sexual animus could be on the wane in the state.
There were 149 instances of hate crimes reported to law enforcement in 2010, one more than in 2009 but way off the all-time high of 395 set in 1992, according to Florida attorney general’s annual hate-crimes report, released Tuesday.
Broward County again led the state in reported instances of hate crimes with 19 — three fewer than in 2009. One-quarter of all of Florida’s reported crimes motivated by sexual orientation occurred in the county.
A direct-mail solicitation for Paul's political and investment newsletters in the 1990s warned of a "coming race war in our big cities" and of a "federal-homosexual cover-up" to play down the impact of AIDS.
Let me share what I have learned in the last 24 hours. I have learned, thanks to Glaad.org's website, that the term "tranny" is used as a dehumanizing slur to describe transgender individuals and is oftentimes the last word someone hears before they are brutally attacked. Similar to the anti-gay F-word, the term "tranny" is commonly used to humiliate and degrade transgender individuals," writes Bass.
LONDON -- Fighting back tears, singer George Michael appeared outside his London home Friday to acknowledge that he had nearly died during his monthlong battle with pneumonia.
He said it had been "touch and go" while he was in the intensive care unit of a Vienna hospital battling an extremely dangerous form of pneumonia but that his representatives had "played it down" to avoid alarming his fans.
"They spent three weeks keeping me alive basically," said the singer, who appeared to have lost weight during his ordeal. "I don't want to take you through all of it because some of it I want to protect my family from and I'm sure I'll get it all written down but it was by far the worst month of my life."
The BRC is Here For You! The BRC has produced a video in response to one by a bi teen on the North Shore of Massachusetts. She described how she's been bullied and beaten up by fellow students and how it's affected her self-esteem. She's strong and brave for sharing her story and the BRC offers encouragement and resources for her and for many others out there who need resources about bisexuality.- http://biresource.net | {
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Digital Views
January 31, 2013
By MARK TURNER
For those who aren’t familiar with the name Sam Raimi, my guess is you are aware of the movies he’s made. Lately, he’s been associated with the first Spider-man trilogy starring Tobey McGuire. But long before that Raimi was a director whose first major film of note was THE EVIL DEAD, still one of the scariest movies ever made. That being said I guess it’s no wonder that Raimi got into the producing side of the business. The latest film to find him in that seat is THE POSSESSION and it’s one of the scariest movies I’ve seen in some time.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as Clyde, a basketball coach recently divorced from his wife Stephanie (Kyra Sedgwick). The couple has two pre-teen children. Hannah (Madison Davenport) is the older of the two and of course the standard troubled pre-teen. Em (Natasha Calls) is the younger of the pair and still has high hopes of her parents reuniting. With a new man in her life that’s highly unlikely.
On a weekend when Clyde has the girls staying at his place they stop at a yard sale where Em’s eye is attracted to what appears to be an antique box with some writings carved into it. Of course she’s allowed to buy this and then takes it home. It seems like a puzzle box with no way of being opened, but eventually Em does get it open. And that’s when things begin to happen.
Small things at first, like a single moth in a room. But that escalates when during the night a bunch of these moths show up in the bathroom while Hannah is there which leads them to Em’s room which is filled to the brim with them. A phone call to an exterminator and a trip him ends this visit.
As the story moves forward Em begins to show signs of becoming different. Her parents think it’s nothing more than her reaction to their recent split. But there’s more to it than that. A fight at school is described as more than a simple altercation with Em showing a substantial violent tendency that has he withdrawing from her friends as well.
Clyde begins to suspect it has something to do with the box and takes it to school with him to have a colleague look it over.
The friend reads the inscription which is in Hebrew and says that the box contains a Dibbuk, an evil demon whose spirit is said to be contained therein. Clyde considers this the possible reason for Em’s outbursts and throws it away. When Em finds out, she makes it appear he’s hit her and runs to rescue the box from where Clyde threw it away. She also causes Clyde to lose any and all custody of the girls.
More strange things occur and Clyde continues to seek a way to save his little girl. With more research he travels to meet with a group of Hassidic Jews and shows them the box.
They are the ones who finally give him the information he needs to know about what the box actually is. But will they help him rescue his daughter or is she condemned to whatever evil was contained inside the box?
The film could seemingly boil down to being called a Jewish EXORCIST. But it’s not quite the same. How the case is handled is much different. Yes, there are some similarities but on the whole the story is handled at a slower pace with quite a bit less of the gore effects. This story is more a battle of good and evil. It also deals more with the question of how far a parent will go to fight for his or her child and just what they are willing to accept.
There isn’t a bad performance in this film. I’ve become a big fan of Morgan since his days as the father of Sam and Dean Winchester on SUPERNATURAL. His portrayal of Clyde here shows the concern of a real parent for his child and the hopelessness he feels once he discovers what is causing the problem.
Sedgwick does a great job as well although her time onscreen seems somewhat limited. What time she does have is well played. Both Davenport and Calls turn in great performances for actors so young. Calls especially stands out as Em, showing the two characters contained in one body convincingly.
It’s obvious from the box art for this DVD as well as the commercials that ran when it was in theaters (the ones that showed fingers trying to work their way out of Em’s throat when she looked in the mirror) that this is a movie intent on scaring the viewer.
I’ve seen plenty of horror films and this one actually did give me a start now and then. But more than just offering a few jump scares, this movie had you in its grip from start to finish. It didn’t feel like it had wasted space or time spans that made you want to reach for the fast forward button. This movie keeps your attention till the end. And if you get scared along the way on this trip, then that’s just icing on the cake. | {
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Hardy to USDA Zone (5)6 There is confusion regarding this selection and/or its name (i.e., 'Nana'). It might be similar or the same as 'Nana Compacta' or 'Gracilis Nana,' which has dense growth, attains a height of about 30 cm; released by T. Smith, Sussex, England, in 1909 (Krüssmann, 1976). | {
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2012 MLB Season Preview: Detroit Tigers
Victor Martinez out for the year with a knee injury? No problem when you have an owner who desperately wants to win a World Series and will spend whatever it takes to try and make it happen. The Tigers dropped $214 million on Prince Fielder, more than making up for Martinez’s lost bat and reestablishing the Tigers as heavy favorites to win the division. But Jim Leyland’s plan to shift Miguel Cabrera to third base could make for some ugly baseball along the way. It’s hard to tell if the Tigers are prepping for 2013 with Martinez back at DH; if they’re trying to prop up Martinez’s trade value by pretending they don’t have two other DHs in the lineup; or if they’re just being delusional about a player nine years older and 30 pounds heavier (even after some major offseason weight loss) than he was when he broke into the majors. The Tigers could field the worst defensive infield baseball has seen in years and still roll into October.
Only three teams scored more runs last season than the Tigers, and this year’s offense figures to be even better with Fielder on board. Detroit could benefit from some subtler factors too. A thumb injury cost Brennan Boesch more than one-quarter of last season, and Ryan Raburn could provide 600 plate appearances of above-average offense at second. Even with potential pullback seasons for Alex Avila and Jhonny Peralta, this is the best offense in the division by a wide margin.
Porcello is going to cry himself to sleep this season. A lot. Only two AL Central starters, Justin Masterson and (the former) Fausto Carmona, induced groundballs more frequently than Porcello (51.4 percent GB rate) last year. If Cabrera sticks at third all year, he, Peralta, Raburn, and Fielder are going to befoul everything Tom Emanski ever stood for. Brandon Inge might’ve hit a buck-ninety-seven last season, and he’s not happy about being demoted. But he should get into as many games as possible as a defensive replacement, if only to make Detroit’s infield slightly less awful.
Defense aside, the rotation has some upside. Doug Fister (57-to-5 strikeout-to-walk rate in 70 1/3 innings with the Tigers last year) will be around for six months instead of two. Jacob Turner can’t yet drink legally, but he’d be hard-pressed to do worse than 2011 Brad Penny (5.02 FIP). In the bullpen, Al Alburquerque and his slider of death are out indefinitely, though an offseason Octavio Dotel signing should help for shutdown situations against righties. If Turner needs more seasoning or the pen needs reinforcements, the team that just spent $214 million won’t hesitate to add an arm.
BREAKOUT PICK
On a team full of mostly established talent, Boesch might be as close as the Tigers will get to a breakout player. Entering his age-27 season and given a full year of health, Boesch could tap into the power that fueled his 28-homer season at Double-A three years ago.
IF EVERYTHING BREAKS RIGHT
The American League could be a bloodbath this year with the Yankees, Rangers, and Rays loaded again, the Angels making major upgrades, and the Red Sox sporting enough talent to fulfill much of the promise they had last year. But with Verlander, Scherzer, and Fister atop the rotation and a loaded offense potentially getting even better, the Tigers have the talent to win the pennant. In a weak AL Central, they also have the easiest path to make the playoffs and give themselves a shot.
IF EVERYTHING GOES WRONG
A hell of a lot would have to go wrong for the Tigers to miss the postseason. But Detroit’s infield defense could be historically bad, Jose Valverde won’t go 49-for-49 in saves again if he pitches for 400 more years, Delmon Young’s more likely to be his usual out-machine self than the guy who destroyed postseason pitching and … even after all that, they’re probably still getting in, unless the Indians or Royals go nuts. | {
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“This is the conference that attracts the best minds in industry, academia and government and our attendees know they will gain insights into the future of high performance computing technologies and how they will affect everything from scientific discovery to product development to education,” said Scott Lathrop, SC11 General Chair.
The Android Builder Summit, to be announced by the Linux Foundation on Wednesday, February 16, will bring together OEMs, device makers, systems builders and kernel community to collaborate on the Android platform.
The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people.
Canonical, the corporate sponsors of Ubuntu, announced today its partnership with Dell to offer Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers that will ship with tested reference architectures, guides, and support from experts at Dell and Canonical.
In this exclusive Linux Pro Magazine interview, tell-it-like-it-is, Linux Today editor Carla Schroder talks about her latest book, The Book of Audacity , shares facts about herself you won’t find anywhere else, a peek into her current projects, and offers advice for women on making their own paths, encouraging children, and more. | {
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4 Singles Bouts (each best-of-2) - each bout worth 1 point (total 6.45% of the scoring) 8 Doubles Games - each also worth 1 point (total 12.9% of the scoring) 12 Trips - each worth 2 points (total 38.7% of the scoring) 13 Quads- each also worth 2 points (total 41.9% of the scoring)
62 points available in total. Half of all games are home for each clan. One Quadruples game will be Random, escalating, chained, sunny, no trench.
A round limit of 20 rounds (for singles and doubles) and 30 rounds (for trips and quads) will be set - there will be no result if there is no winner within the limit. It is anticipated that this will only occur extremely rarely and is only introduced to prevent a stalemate-game from holding the tournament up.
12 hour Fog of War courtesy rule applies.
Individual players can play a maximum of 12 games (counting a 1v1 bout as 1 game). Individual players can only play in one 1 v 1 bout per round.
Maps
Each map can only be used twice per clan per clan war but can only be used once per game type (e.g. once for singles and once for quads). No Beta maps. 'Random' Map can be used unlimitedly.
Settings
No freestyle No speed No manual deployments No Beta maps. Nuclear spoils games are only allowed in 1 v 1 and doubles games. Unlimited reinforcements are only allowed in triples and quadruples games. No more than 4 games per round per clan can involve unliminted reinforcements. Trench settings can be used although no more than 4 games per round per clan can involve trench settings in team games (there is no limit for 1 v 1 games).
Scores have been updated, and as you can see this matchup is now much closer. The 1v1 bouts came back as completely draws, so no points are awarded through either of them. Right now we sit at MD: 18 and GR: 16
24 Points are still up for grab, making the magic number to win 30.
So, that means we've got 12 trips/quads games going right now, and MD will need to win at least 6 of them to secure the victory. | {
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Alex's Cycle Blog
Friday, March 29, 2013
In my previous post, I reviewed the concept of Average and Normalized Power, more as an introduction to some further thoughts about the topic of NP Busters. I also said that this would be a two part discussion, with Part II on the topic of NP Busters. Well I am getting to that but it will actually require three parts, so here continues the discussion on Normalized Power, as another prequel to an NP Buster chat. I will at least introduce what is meant by an NP Buster.
Previously I demonstrated by way of an example of a proposed interval session how average power can be a misleading indicator of metabolic strain, especially when power output is highly variable, and that Normalized Power represents a better means of measuring metabolic strain. Well we don't need to make up theoretical examples, we can turn to real data.
Criteriums versus Time Trials
Let's consider the Normalized and Average power from hard rides of different types but of similar durations. An obvious example would be to compare a time trial with a criterium race.
A TT is typically ridden solo and involves sustaining a high power in a relatively steady state manner, with perhaps some variability if the terrain is not flat or has some technical elements, while a criterium involves substantially variable power outputs as one deals with or dishes out the attacks and surges, the braking and/or coasting into and accelerations out of turns, the inevitable driving of the pace in or to establish a break, and sitting in the slipstream of others when recovering. As rides, they are poles apart.
The following chart (click on it to see a larger version) shows a comparison of the power output over time for a time trial and a criterium race by the same rider, performed within about five weeks of each other and both on relatively flat courses. There are two plots for each race. The lines that jumps up and down are the second by second power data trace, and the two straight horizontal lines are the average power from each race. The time trial (blue) is a little shorter in duration than the criterium (red).
The instantaneous power output is a little hard to follow since it jumps up and down so much, but even so, it's clear that the criterium power line (red) is far more variable than the time trial power line (blue). This is pretty typical. So while both of these races were hard efforts by the same rider and over reasonably similar durations, there was a substantial 40 watt difference in the average power.
On closer inspection we can see a period in the crit race from around the 33-minute mark where power dropped substantially. It happened that the rider had a puncture and "took a lap out" to replace a wheel and rejoin the race (annoyingly as they had established a breakaway prior to that). So we would expect this lower power period would account for some of the lower average power overall, even so, the average power up to that point was 272W, still 25W less than the average power in the time trial.
But let's not forget that time spent not pedalling affects what you can do when you are pedalling, and so that mini break no doubt meant a little freshening up before rejoining the race, and an ability to go a little harder than might have been the case with no recovery.
A good way to gain some insight is to view the power trace after applying a filter to the data, and one simple filter is a rolling 30-second average (i.e. each point on the chart represents the average power for the preceding 30-seconds). Here's the same plot showing the rolling 30-second average power:
The vertical scale is now halved which means variances are amplified. The 30-second rolling average makes it easy to spot differences in the power sustained during sections of a ride. In this example we can readily identify periods during the criterium of sustained harder and easier effort. Likewise, the time trial also shows two brief drops in power output, which correspond to a steep decline on the course with speeds too fast for continued pedalling.
A 30-second rolling average power filter is of particular interest as metabolic responses to changes in effort really start to kick in at around that time frame - many have what we call a "half-life" of around 30-60 seconds. Very brief forays (a handful of seconds) at higher powers are not all that metabolically stressful but sustain the higher power for longer (>20-30 seconds) and it gets ugly, fast. How fast depends on how hard you go.
Hence it's no coincidence the algorithm used to calculated Normalized Power is based (partly) on a rolling 30-second average power filter. There's a couple more important elements to the NP formula than that (although it's not a very complicated formula) but it starts with this 30-second rolling average.
So what was the Normalized Power for these two races? Well here they are plotted on the chart as the two horizontal lines:
In effect, the Normalized Power from each race was the same (OK, one watt different). So even though the races were very different in style, they were both hard and produced a Normalized Power that was more representative of the metabolic strain experienced.
OK, so that's pretty nifty, and is why Normalized Power is a good way to glean from races how your fitness is tracking despite the lack of a formal testing protocol.
It should also be of no surprise there is very little difference between the Average and Normalized Power for the time trial (297W and 299W respectively), since the effort was already relatively steady state, and NP is about providing a steady state power equivalent (hence the name "Normalized").
By definition, Normalized Power will be equal to or greater than Average Power, and the gap between them will depend on the amount of variability there is in the rolling 30-second power, and especially the duration and number of forays at very high power levels.
Using Normalized Power to estimate Functional Threshold Power
Since Normalized Power is providing a steady state power equivalent for longer (dominantly aerobic) durations, then it follows that one can consider NP from hard rides/races of about an hour as one means to estimate FTP.
The well established rule of thumb is for durations of about an hour, Normalized Power will be no more than 5% higher than the maximal quasi-steady state power a rider is truly capable of. Since maximal quasi-steady state power for about an hour is the definition of Functional Threshold Power, then we can simply state:
~1-hour NP <= 105% of FTP
or at least that it will be for the large majority of riders, a large majority of the time.
So if you notice from a hard ride/race of about an hour that NP is > 105% of FTP, then it's quite possible your FTP is higher than you think it is.
Caveats and fruit salad
There are of course caveats to this rule of thumb. I'll go over these as they impact the definition of an NP Buster and can help explain what some perceive to be anomalies when interpreting their own NP numbers.
The duration caveat
Since we are primarily concerned with obtaining a measure of equivalent aerobic metabolic demand/strain, then the duration of any comparison of highly variable versus steady state efforts needs to be sufficiently long to reduce the confounding impacts from individual differences in anaerobic work capacity and neuromuscular power capabilities relative to a rider's aerobic capabilities.
For this reason, NP numbers from rides or parts of a ride of less than 20-minutes duration are not suitable for such comparisons, nor as an indicator of a metabolic steady state power equivalent. I generally take more notice of NP for durations of at least 30-minutes, but it depends on the rider's individual circumstances and capabilities. As the duration of a ride reduces (e.g. down towards 20-minutes), then the difference between NP and a rider's actual maximal steady state power can become somewhat wider.
Another might be comparing long steep hillclimb to flat terrain, or on a road race bike versus an aggressive time trial bike position that might compromise power output for some aerodynamic gains, or really hot day, or at altitude and so on. Another is the use of frequent out of the saddle efforts engaging upper body musculature versus staying in the saddle.
So while Normalized Power enables a comparison of some apples with some oranges, we need to be thoughtful when using it to compare all types of fruit.
The power meter data accuracy caveat
Well it should go without saying that power data needs to be accurate for the interpretation to make sense. While basic accuracy is a factor, there are ways in which data integrity can be compromised even though the individual data points might still be accurate. This mostly concerns the way some power meter head units collect and store data, especially the sampling rate. If the fruit is bad, well no point in trying to use it.
An example of this is/was Garmin's use of "smart recording", which should in current firmware versions be automatically disabled when using a power meter, but it makes sense to ensure it really is disabled. This was also a factor for older model power meters with memory space restrictions, and options to "down-sample" data (e.g. older Powertap head units). You could get away with 2-second sampling (just), but any more than that would compromise data integrity to the extent that the data might not be all that useful.
The software algorithm caveat
While the Normalized Power algorithm is pretty straightforward and in the public domain, not all software (be it commercial desktop software such as WKO+, home designed spreadsheets or websites) produce the same results. There may be a number of reasons for that, e.g. use of an incorrect algorithm (I've seen it many times with people claiming an NP that was incorrectly calculated) or more subtle matters such as how gaps in power data or variable duration time stamps are handled.
So when doing such analyses and/or comparisons, then consider the software you are using as well and validate it is correctly applying the algorithm. Some food processors take the goodness out of the fruit.
So what is an NP Buster?
An NP Buster is a ride that breaks the rule of thumb, or put this way:
~1-hour NP > 105% of FTP
provided:
the above caveats are taken into consideration (especially power data accuracy, correct calculation of NP, but also the circumstantial caveats), and
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I recently had a NP for a very hard 2 hour race that was the same as my FTP. I found this odd because I thought my FTP was reasonably right. Is there any relationship between 2 hour NP and FTP? Nice blog BTW, really enjoying it. | {
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Visit to the IOC Headquarters by a delegation of Chinese press representatives
A delegation of representatives from the National Association of Chinese Journalists and several Chinese newspapers today visited the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne. The delegation met with the IOC President's Chief of Staff, Mr Christophe de Kepper, to discuss the work and functioning of the IOC, and preparations in Beijing to host the Olympic Games in 2008. The visit concluded with a tour of the IOC.
This occasion was part of a study visit to Switzerland organised by "Présence Suisse", part of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Swiss Press Club. | {
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Craig Fugate say social distancing is only answer; Waffle House-index for hurricanes can apply to pandemic
Former FEMA director and Florida Emergency Management Director Craig Fugate said the U.S. is not keeping up with supplies, testing, equipment, protective gear and care when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re behind and we’re losing,” Fugate said. “The problem with pandemics and the problem with COVID-19 is people are the vector and it doesn’t move any other way. And too often what we have seen is by the time we have enough cases that people take it seriously, it’s lost containment and it’s much worse than we know.”
Fugate is one of the only Democrats to have been appointed by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. He served as Florida's Emergency Management Director for almost a decade. After that, President Obama appointed Fugate as FEMA director for seven years.
“We had done a lot of planning for H1N1 [the Swine Flu] when I was at FEMA,” Fugate said. “And the thing that I try to remind people is most of our disaster response is always based upon one part of the country gets hit hard, the rest of the country can go help. But in a pandemic, or cyber attack, there’s no political or geographical distancing of the event.”
Fugate said Florida's hurricanes taught him not to wait.
"I think the thing we learned is you have to be in a push mode," Fugate said. "If you wait for a local and state governments to make requests, you're too late. What I learned in Florida is we had to be responding like it was bad and in many cases we had to respond to a population not sure how bad it's going to be, we know it couldn't be worse than how many people live there. And I took that to FEMA. That if you wait for the request to come up, you're too slow in fast-moving events so the lesson I learned that I would hope people apply in this pandemic is this isn't about just enough time, just about right-sizing it, this isn't about having enough. Quite honestly if you don't have too much you're probably losing."
Fugate coordinated the emergency responses for hurricanes Charley, Francis and Jeanne slamming Central Florida in 2004 but for a pandemic it’s different.
“When a hurricane hits we know how bad it is and we work to get everything fixed. A pandemic doesn’t do that, we don’t know how bad it’s going to be," he said. "And until we actually see the numbers coming down and staying down, we don’t know how bad its going to be, and we don’t know when this is going to end.”
Fugate said his "Waffle House Index" still applies to the Coronavirus pandemic.
He’d gauge the storm damage to an area by the status of Waffle House restaurants. Waffle Houses are open 24 hours a day and are among the first to reopen after hurricanes pass through.
"We did the observation that the Waffle House was a pretty good indicator," Fugate said. "If the Waffle House was open and serving, and everything was normal, you may have trees down and sporadic power outages, it's not that bad, keep going. If you got there and a Waffle House is open and had a limited menu, it probably had much more expensive power outage and probably more impacts to families and businesses and such. And if you got the area where the Waffle House was closed or destroyed by the storm, that was the most critical area and that's where we should we should go to work."
Fugate said closed Waffle Houses are now an indication of a city on lockdown. Waffle Houses with limited or take-out service are an indication of a city practicing social distancing or stay-at-home.
Social distancing is the most effective way now to stop the spread of the pandemic, according to Fugate.
"Some places were very aggressive on their social distancing, they were able to flatten the curves, others got behind and it exploded," Fugate said. "The big thing is for those who can stay home, stay home. So the people who have to go in there's fewer interactions. This is an airborne disease and it is spread by people."
And wear masks, Fugate said, following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
“And likely for us it’s going to be several more weeks, several more months before we have enough testing and enough tools to start talking about reopening the economy,” Fugate said. “We may be slowing down in a few areas, that may be reflective (of) social distancing but numbers are still going up (overall).”
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Background
The association of human papillomavirus (HPV) types to neoplastic lesions increase as a function of their oncogenicity and the duration of the infection since lesion severity progresses from low-grade to high-grade and cancer. In an outbreak, the prevalence of the HPV type involved would increase and the proportion of the associated low-grade lesions would predominate over severe lesions. In this study, the prevalence of HPV types and their association to neoplastic lesions was determined in women subjected to colposcopy in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
Results
Overall HPV-DNA prevalence was 67.7 %, that of HR-HPV was 63.1 %, and that of LR-HPV was 21.3 %. The highest prevalence (78.2 %) occurred in the 15–24 year group, whereas that of single infections was 52 % and that of multiple infections (i.e., by 2–6 HPV types) was 48 %. The most prevalent HR types were HPV33 (33.1 %), HPV16 (16.6 %), HPV18 and HPV51 (6.7 % each). HR-HPV prevalence was 29.6 % in normal cytology, 26.7 % in ASCUS, 63.3 % in LSIL, 68.2 % in HSIL, and 90.5 % in CC. Three prevalence trends for HR-HPV types were found in neoplastic lesions of increasing severity: increasing (LSIL < HSIL < CC) for HPV16, HPV39, HPV18, HPV58, HPV31 and HPV35; asymptotic (LSIL < HSIL ≈ CC) for HPV51 and HPV68; U-shaped (LSIL < HSIL > CC) for HPV33.
Conclusions
Two-thirds of the women subjected to colposcopy from 2007 to 2010 in San Luis Potosí have HPV infections which predominate in the 15–24 years group. Around half of the infections are by one viral type and the rest by 2–6 types. HPV33 is the most prevalent type, followed by HPV16. Overall HR-HPV prevalence increases with the severity of neoplastic lesions. HPV33 prevalence is highest in LSIL and its U-shaped trend with progressing neoplastic lesions differs from the growing/asymptotic trends of other HR-HPV types. An ongoing or recent HPV33 outbreak is consistent with its high prevalence and anomalous association to LSIL.
Cervical cancer (CC) is the second cause of death by cancer among Mexican women [1]. In Mexico, 4031 deaths due to CC were reported in 2008 and the mortality rate was 9.7 per 100,000 women [2], around three times higher than that in developed countries [3]. In the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, where this study was conducted, the CC mortality rate in 2008 was 9.3 per 100,000 women, similar to the national mortality rate [2].
The prevalence of HPV types infecting the cervix serves to predict the efficacy of the vaccines that prevent both HPV infections and cervical neoplastic lesions [9]. Although the prevalence of specific HPV types varies with the geographic region and the severity of neoplastic lesions [9–11], international meta-analyses show that HPV16 and HPV18 are the most prevalent high-risk types associated to cervical neoplastic lesions and CC [12, 13].
A previous study of our group on cervical infections by HR-HPV types in women from the capital city of San Luis Potosí demonstrated that HPV16 had the highest prevalence, 59 times that of HPV33 [14]. The present study identified 13 HR-HPV and six LR-HPV types in cervical scrapes of women from the six state sanitary jurisdictions that were subjected to colposcopy between 2007 and 2010. HPV infections were found in two-thirds of them, with three times more HR-HPV than LR-HPV types. The predominant type was HPV33, whose prevalence doubled that of HPV16, the second most prevalent type. The association of all HR-HPV types to neoplastic lesions increased as a function of their severity, except for HPV33, whose prevalence was highest in LSIL. An ongoing HPV33 outbreak is consistent with its high prevalence and anomalous association to neoplastic lesions.
Study design
This cross-sectional study of women attending the five colposcopy clinics of the state of San Luis Potosí was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee of the State Health Services. Informed consent from each participant included her authorization for colposcopy, cervical scraping and biopsy sampling, HPV DNA detection and genotyping and the use of clinical and sociodemographic data. Personal data of the participants are strictly confidential. The official Mexican guidelines for cervical cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, control and surveillance are mandatory at all Mexican hospitals and authorize health personnel to take samples both for cervical cytology and HPV infection tests to any sexually active woman less than 18 years old who requests them. Women are referred to colposcopy if a cervical anomalous result is diagnosed through gynecological examination or cytology; HPV tests are offered to women subjected to colposcopy and may be performed through hybrid capture or PCR.
Setting
Recruitment was based on the availability of sociodemographic and clinical data, and of the cervical cytological and histopathological diagnoses of the women attending the clinics located at the Health Center of the capital city, the general hospitals of Matehuala, Rioverde, and Ciudad Valles, and the Tamazunchale Community Hospital, between June 2007 and August 2010.
Participants
Eight hundred and thirty-seven 15–85 years-old women were eligible for the study. Those with incomplete or missing clinical records, inadequate conditions for cervical scraping (menstruation, pregnancy), or refusing to participate were excluded. Those with complete records, cytologic diagnosis before colposcopy, histopathologic diagnosis after colposcopy and informed consent were included.
Variables
The variables analyzed were age at the time of the cervical scraping, prevalence of the HPV types identified and the cytologic and histopathologic diagnoses formulated with the 2001 Bethesda System [15]: normal, atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS), low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL), high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) and cervical cancer (CC). “Normal” diagnosis corresponded to women seen for the first time or followed up. Histopathologic diagnoses of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), formulated with Richart [16] nomenclature were reclassified as follows: CIN1 as LSIL, CIN2/CIN3 as HSIL [15]. Prevalence of each DNA HPV type was correlated with the severity of cervical neoplastic lesions.
Sample size
The minimum size of a significant random sample (n = 682 cases), calculated with the OpenEpi 2.3.1 software [17], was based on the 1080 CIN and CC cases recorded during 2006 in the state of San Luis Potosí [2] assuming 50 % HPV prevalence, a 99 % confidence interval and a 3 % error.
Cervical scrapes
From every woman an expert gynecologist took a cervical scrape for cytology, and less than two months later another one for the HPV test that was immediately placed in a tube containing 2 mL of fixative (1 mL of phosphate buffered saline supplemented with ethylenediamine tetraacetate and 1 mL of 96 % ethanol). Fixed scrapes were short term stored, transported at room temperature and maintained in the laboratory at 4 °C until DNA was extracted [14].
DNA extraction and quantification
Each fixed sample was centrifuged at 13,000 rpm (16,250 × g) for 5 min in a Mikro 20 centrifuge (Hettich, Cologne, Germany). The supernatant was discarded and to the pellet were added 500 μL of TES (10 mM Tris-HCl, 2 mM EDTA, 0.4 M NaCl, pH 8.0), 50 μL of 10 % SDS and 20 μL of proteinase K (20 mg/mL). The mixtures were incubated 3 h at 56 °C in a thermoblock to digest proteins. After this incubation, 151 μL of 5 M NaCl were added and each mixture was centrifuged 15 min at 16,250 × g. The supernatant was carefully aspirated, transferred to a new tube to which 577 μL of isopropanol at −20 °C were added, and allowed to stand 10 min at 4 °C to precipitate the DNA. The tube was centrifuged at 16,250 × g for 10 min and the supernatant discarded by decantation [14].
The DNA pellet was washed twice with 1 mL of 70 % ethanol at room temperature and centrifuged 1 min at 10,000 rpm (9615 × g). The supernatant was carefully discarded by decantation and the pellet allowed to dry at room temperature for 15 min with the tube inverted on a paper towel. Pelleted DNA was dissolved with 50 or 100 μL of TE (10 mM Tris-HCl, 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0) and 2 μL were applied to the Epoch Micro-Volume Spectrophotometer System (BioTek Instruments, Winooski, VT, USA) to determine optical densities at 260 and 280 nm.
HPV detection and genotyping
The procedure was performed in 25 μL mixtures using the nested multiplex PCR E6 gene amplification method of Sotlar et al. [18], which identifies 13 HR-HPV types and six LR-HPV types but does not differentiate HPV6 from HPV11. Genotyping is based on the size of the amplicons of the identifiable HPV types. Initial PCR mixtures contained the GPE6/E7 consensus oligonucleotides purchased from Integrated DNA Technologies (Coralville, IA, USA) which amplify a ~630 bp product from E6 viral genes. Nested PCR was carried out in four separate mixtures, each containing 1/25 volume of the initial PCR mixture and cocktails of type-specific nested oligonucleotide pairs, also purchased from Integrated DNA Technologies. To avoid contamination, aliquots of each reagent were kept and managed separately and each stage of the HPV test —DNA extraction, PCR, and electrophoresis— was performed by operators using new gloves in separate laboratory areas that were decontaminated each time after a group of samples had been processed.
The four nested PCR mixtures contained a total of 18 oligonucleotide pairs specific for 13 HR-HPV types (HPV16, HPV18, HPV31, HPV33, HPV35, HPV39, HPV45, HPV51, HPV52, HPV56, HPV58, HPV59, and HPV68) and six BR-HPV types (HPV6/11, HPV42, HPV43, HPV44 and HPV66). Mixtures without DNA were used as negative controls, whereas mixtures with DNA of the SiHa cell line (transformed by HPV16), DNA of the HeLa cell line (transformed by HPV18) or the pHPV33 plasmid containing the complete HPV33 genome were used as positive controls.
Incubations were performed in a 2720 thermocycler (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) under the following conditions. Starting PCR mixtures: initial denaturation at 94 °C for 4 min; 40 cycles at 94 °C for 1 min, 40 °C for 1 min and 72 °C for 2 min and a final extension at 72 °C for 10 min. Nested and β-globin PCR mixtures: initial denaturation at 94 °C for 4 min; 35 cycles at 94 °C for 30 s, 56 °C for 30 s, 72 °C for 45 s and a final extension at 72 °C for 4 min.
Five-μL of nested or β-globin PCR mixtures were applied to SB-2 % agarose [20] 5-mm thick gels run at 120 V for 35 min, stained with ethidium bromide and visualized under ultraviolet light in a ChemiDoc photodocumentation system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA).
Statistical analysis
Was performed with the Epi Info 7.1.1.14 software [21]. Age was expressed as the mean and standard deviation (SD) and as a categorical variable (age groups: 15–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54 and ≥55 years). The grades of neoplastic lesions were treated as absolute measures or proportions. HPV DNA prevalence (overall, of HR-HPV types, of LR-HPV types and of each of the HPV types identified in single and multiple infections) were calculated with 95 % confidence intervals (CI). Prevalences of single and multiple HPV types were calculated independently. HPV DNA categories: general, HR-HPV types, LR-HPV, single and multiple infections, were stratified by age groups (15–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54 and ≥55 years) and the prevalence in each group calculated with 95 % CI. The same HPV DNA categories were also stratified by the severity of neoplastic lesions, and the prevalence of groups with normal, ASCUS, LSIL, HSIL and CC diagnoses were calculated with 95 % CI. Single and multiple infections were stratified by the severity of neoplastic lesions and the corresponding prevalence calculated for each lesion group.
Sociodemographic and clinical features of the participants
The 837 women subjected to colposcopy were assessed for recruitment. Seventy were excluded for having incomplete or no medical records. Among the 767 women recruited and allocated to HPV diagnosis, 67 were excluded for having unidentified cervical scrapes (n = 31) or DNA of insufficient quality (n = 36) (Fig. 1).
Prevalence of HR-HPV and LR-HPV types. The prevalence values of HR-HPV types (red bars) and LR-HPV types (blue bars) are presented in descending order
The highest overall HPV DNA prevalence (78.2 %) occurred in the 15–24 years group; decreased to 67.4 and 62.8 % in the 25–34 and 35–44 years groups, respectively; increased slightly to 65.8 %) in the 45–54 years group and to 69.1 % in the ≥55 years group (Fig. 3, Additional file 1: Table S2).
Fig. 3
HPV DNA prevalences by age groups: overall, HR-HPV types and LR-HPV types. The overall HPV prevalence trend has a slightly pronounced U shape with its highest value in the 15–24 years group (78.2 %), followed by that of the ≥55 years group (69.1 %)
The highest HR-HPV DNA prevalence (72.3 %) occurred in the 15–24 years group, decreased to 65.6 % in the 25–34 years group and was slightly lower and similar in the groups of 35–44, 45–54 and ≥55 years groups (59.3, 59.8 and 58.8 %, respectively) (Fig. 3, Additional file 1: Table S2).
The highest LR-HPV DNA prevalence (29.7 %) corresponded to the 15–24 years group, decreased to 21.4 % in the 25–34 years group, was maintained in the 35–44 years group (21.6 %), reached its minimum value in the 45–54 years group (14.5 %) and increased slightly to 19.1 % in the ≥55 years group (Fig. 3, Additional file 1: Table S2).
The most prevalent HR-HPV type in all age groups was HPV33, followed by HPV16. The third most prevalent type varied with age: HPV56 in the 15–24 years group, HPV51 in 25–34 years group HPV52 in 35–44 years group, HPV18 in 45–54 years group, HPV68 in the ≥55 years group (Additional file 1: Table S2).
HPV33 prevalence was similar in the 15–24 years (35.6 %) and 25–34 years (35.3 %) groups, decreased in the 35–44 years group (28.6 %), was highest in the 45–54 years group (38.5 %), and decreased in the ≥ 55 years group (26.5 %). In contrast to HPV33 prevalence, the highest HPV16 prevalence (20.8 %) occurred in the 15–24 years group, was slightly lower but similar in the 25–34 and 35–44 years groups (16.8 % and 18.1 %, respectively), decreased to 8.5 % in the 45–55 years group, and increased in the ≥55 years group (20.6 %) to a value similar to that of the 15–24 years group (Additional file 1: Table S2).
HR-HPV DNA prevalence was close to the overall HPV DNA prevalence found in lesions of increasing severity, except for ASCUS (29.6 % in cases with normal cytology, 26.7 % in ASCUS), 63.4 % in LSIL, 68.2 % in HSIL and 90.5 % in CC. In contrast, LR-HPV DNA prevalence was only 7.4 % in cases with normal cytology and increased to 26.7 and 28.6 % in ASCUS and CC (Fig. 4, Additional file 1: Table S3).
Prevalence of a single HPV DNA type was highest in ASCUS (53.3 %), clearly lower in cases with normal cytology (14.8 %), and intermediate and similar in LSIL, HSIL and CC (36.4, 33.1 and 33.3 %, respectively) (Fig. 5, Additional file 1: Table S3). Multiple HPV DNA types were not found in ASCUS, whereas their prevalence was 14.8 % in normal cytology cases (Fig. 5, Additional file 1: Table S3). In contrast with the similar prevalence of single HPV types in neoplastic lesions of different grades, the prevalence of multiple types increased as the severity of neoplastic lesions increased from 31.3 % in LSIL, 39.2 % in HSIL and 57.1 % in CC (Fig. 5, Additional file 1: Table S3).
Fig. 5
Prevalence of single and multiple HPV infections in neoplastic lesions. The prevalence of single infections was highest in ASCUS, decreased in LSIL and had similar values in HSIL and CC. The prevalence of multiple infections was null in ASCUS and increased gradually from LSIL to HSIL and CC
HPV types by age group and severity of neoplastic lesions
The prevalence of HPV-positive cases associated to LSIL, HSIL and CC increased from the 15–24 years to the 25–34 years groups (Fig. 6). In LSIL it increased before, reaching their maximum value in the 25–34 years group and then decreasing gradually in the older age groups (Fig. 6). HPV-positivity in HSIL peaked in the 35–44 years group and declined in older age groups, whereas in CC it peaked in a plateau spanning the 35–44 and 45–54 years decades and then decreased slightly in the ≥55 years group (Fig. 6).
Fig. 6
HPV-positivity in neoplastic lesions by age groups. Prevalences of HPV-positive cases were highest for LSIL in the 25–34 years group, for HSIL at the 35–44 years group and for CC in the 35–54 years group
Three prevalence trends as a function of neoplastic progression were identified among HR-HPV types (Fig. 7a): 1) increasing (minimum in LSIL, intermediate in HSIL, maximum in CC) for HPV16, HPV39, HPV18, HPV58, HPV31, and HPV35; 2) asymptotic (minimum in LSIL, maximum with similar values in HSIL and CC) for HPV51 and HPV68; and 3) U-shaped (maximum in LSIL and CC, minimum in HSIL) only for HPV33. Such prevalence trends for HPV16, HPV68 and HPV33 are illustrated in Fig. 7b.
Fig. 7
HR-HPV types with increasing, asymptotic and U-shaped prevalence trends for neoplastic lesions of increasing severity. a HR-HPV types with the three groups of trends (increasing, asymptotic, U-shaped) are placed in the x-axis in descending order of prevalence of the CC cases. The height of the bars is proportional to the prevalence of each viral type in lesions of increasing severity: LSIL (green), HSIL (blue) and CC (red). b Examples of prevalence trends of three HR-HPV types as a function of the severity of neoplastic lesions: increasing for HPV16, asymptotic for HPV68 and U-shaped for HPV33
This is the first study on the prevalence of cervical infections by anogenital HR- and LR-HPV types and their association with the age and severity of neoplastic lesions in women subjected to colposcopy in the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. HPV33 appeared to be causing an outbreak at the time of the study since it was the most prevalent and the only HR-HPV type with the maximum association to low-grade neoplastic lesions.
Two-thirds (67.6 %) of the women included in the study were infected by HPV, a prevalence five to six times higher than that reported for women in the general population of Mexico [22] and other countries [23].
Nearly half of the HPV-positive women (47.9 %) had multiple infections, with a prevalence value in the upper end of the range of international studies [24].
In the state of San Luis Potosí circulate all 19 HPV types identifiable by the nested multiplex PCR method [18] used in this study. The order of prevalence of the major HR-HPV types (HPV33 > HPV16 > HPV18 = HPV58) contrasts with that reported in international studies (HPV16 > HPV18 > HPV31) [10, 12]. It is especially striking that in this study HPV33 prevalence duplicates that of HPV16.
The most prevalent LR-HPV types were HPV6/11 > HPV43 > HPV66. Although the typing method used does not distinguish HPV6 from HPV11, international and Mexican studies suggest that HPV6 may be the most prevalent [25]. The order of prevalence found for HR-HPV types differs from those described in global and South and Central America studies [13] as well as in other Mexican regions [26, 27].
The overall HPV prevalence found by us is higher than that reported for women of the general population or with normal cytology, and the age-specific prevalence curve is U-shaped, as expected, although less pronounced than the curves found in international studies of the general population [28–30]. Both differences are presumably due to the fact that the women included in this study were not from the general population but had been previously diagnosed with cervical neoplastic lesions. The highest prevalence values at both ends of the U curve correspond to the 15-24 years (78.0 %) and ≥55 years (69.0 %) groups, and are similar to those previously found in Mexico [22] and Latin America [12, 28, 30].
The overall HPV infection determined correlates with the severity of neoplastic lesions as has been observed in international studies [13, 31] and in Mexico [26]. The HPV prevalence found by us in cases without lesions (29.6 %) is also within the range found in international studies [23] and in Mexico [22, 26]. Furthermore, the prevalence of HR-HPV types found by us in CC (90.5 %) is similar to that of global studies [31] and consistent with the concept that persistent HR-HPV infection is a necessary cause for CC [5, 10].
The discordance between the diagnosis of neoplastic lesion and HPV infection probably derives both from the cytological overdiagnosis in cases of apparent lesions without infection (32.4 %) and the lower sensitivity of cytology and colposcopy in cases of infection without apparent lesion (29.6 %). These results reinforce the notion that HPV DNA detection is preferable to cytology as the primary screening test for CC [32, 33].
In this study HPV33 was the most prevalent type in LSIL, whereas HPV16 is the most prevalent type in several multicentric international studies [13]. Moreover, the order of prevalence found by us in LSIL for HR-HPV types (HPV33 > HPV16 > HPV56) differs from that found by Clifford et al. [13] in HSIL and CC (HPV16 > HPV33 > HPV39), and indicates that HPV16 is also the most oncogenic type in the state of San Luis Potosí.
A previous study of cervical samples taken between 2004 and 2005 from women of the city of San Luis Potosí with similar sociodemographic and clinical characteristics to those of the present study found that HPV16, HPV31 and HPV18 were the predominant high-risk types [14]. HPV33 prevalence in the capital city (1.1 %) compared with that of the present study (23.6 %) corresponds to a 21.4-fold increase and is consistent with an outbreak that may have originated from several municipalities located in the middle region of the state whose average HPV33 prevalence in the present study is 56.2 % (data not shown). Since the severity of cervical neoplastic lesions progresses as the duration of HPV infections increases, in a steady-state epidemiologic situation (i.e., with no outbreaks by any viral type) the prevalence trends of the HR-HPV types as a function of the severity of neoplastic lesions would be increasing (i.e., LSIL > HSIL > CC) for the more oncogenic types and asymptotic for the less oncogenic ones (i.e., LSIL > HSIL = CC). In the present study both trends were found for all the HR-HPV types identified except for HPV33, whose highest prevalence was in LSIL, the most recent lesions. Besides its predominance, HPV33 was also the only viral type whose prevalence as a function of the severity of neoplastic lesions was not increasing or asymptotic but U-shaped (i.e., higher in LSIL and CC and minimum in HSIL). Both of these anomalies suggest that an HPV33 outbreak was taking place during the sampling for the present study.
A recent study performed by Chen et al. [34] in 30 countries discovered new HPV33 variants that were classified in four phylogenetic groups. We are currently sequencing the ORF E6 from HPV33 single infections in order to identify its circulating variants and to determine their geographic distribution and network connections.
Current prophylactic vaccines prevent both the infection and development of neoplastic lesions caused by the HPV types to which they are directed [35]. They also induce partial protection lasting six months to three years against a limited number of HR-HPV types phylogenetically related to HPV16 or HPV18 [36]: Cervarix® against HPV31, HPV33, HPV45 and HPV52, and Gardasil® against HPV31 [35]. The prevalence of the circulating HPV types found in this study suggests that both vaccines could have prevented 23 % of the infections, as well as 25 % of the HSIL and 62 % of the CC due to HPV16 and HPV18 among the women included in the study.
This work is being complemented by the identification of the HPV types present in paraffin blocks of CC specimens to estimate the prevalence and relative oncogenicity of the HPV types as well as which prophylactic multivalent vaccines would be most effective in this region.
Two-thirds of the women referred to colposcopy in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, were infected by all 19 HPV types identifiable with the method used. Overall HPV prevalence was higher than that expected in the general population because the women included in the study had been shown to have abnormal cytology results. The unexpected order of prevalence of the major HR-HPV types was HPV33 > HPV16 > HPV18 = HPV58. HPV33 appeared to be causing an outbreak at the time of the study because it was the most prevalent and the only HR-HPV type whose association to LSIL predominated. The prevalence of the circulating HPV types and their association to neoplastic lesions suggest that the divalent and quadrivalent prophylactic anti-HPV vaccines could have prevented 23 % of the infections as well as 25 % of the HSIL and 62 % of the CC associated to HPV16 and HPV18.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the enthusiastic support and collaboration of the colposcopy clinic directors Julio Ortiz Valdez, Olimpia Porras Flores, Héctor Narro Tristán, Rubén Navarro Torres and Claudia Mireya Gutiérrez Arteaga. We thank Yolanda Terán-Figueroa for helping in sampling and data collection during the initial part of the work, and Alejandro Garcia Carrancá for providing the pHVP33 plasmid. This work was partially supported by a grant from Fondo Mixto CONACYT-San Luis Potosí (FMSLP-2006-C01-62319) to RLR, and the scholarship awarded to RDRM by CONACYT.
Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors’ contributions
All authors designed the study, analyzed and interpreted the data, read the final version of the manuscript and agreed on its submission. MSG and RDRM collected the data and cervical scrapes from the colposcopy clinics. RDRM performed the DNA extraction, HPV detection and genotyping. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. | {
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Interbike—the biggest annual bike business trade show in the U.S.—is in full swing right now. I suspect that while there, the bike manufacturers will proudly display their latest 14-pound road bikes, and their latest 36-inch-travel mountain bikes. I wouldn’t be surprised if both Shimano and Campagnolo announce (coincidentally, natch) that they have innovated a new 11 cog cassette. And I would be astounded if these same two companies did not announce that this year’s cranksets are (at a minimum) 30% stiffer than last year’s models.
If I were in Las Vegas attending Interbike, I would make a special point of walking up to the bike manufacturers, giving them a firm handshake, and saying, "Well done, bike manufacturer."
And then, once I had them comfortable and feeling good about themselves, I would grab them by both shoulders and shake them soundly while I shouted, "But your stupid-light, crazy-expensive bike innovations don’t mean a thing if you haven’t mastered the very simple task of actually shipping that bike to your customers." I would be very careful to become red-faced while I said this, and I would foam at the mouth a little, too.
I Am a Patient Man About a month ago, I got really excited about buying a track bike. I looked at what I could afford, and decided on a Bianchi Pista. I then went to my local bike shop and pulled the trigger. They said I would have the bike in a week. That was August 29. A couple days later, the bike shop guy called and said that Bianchi didn’t have the bike in the warehouse they thought they had it; it would be a couple weeks before I got the bike, instead of one.
And then nobody called ever again.
So after three (not the promised two) weeks elapsed, I called the bike shop again. He apologized, and said that Bianchi didn’t have its act together, that it turns out they didn’t have any 2005 Pistas anywhere. They’d be getting me a 2006 model instead, and it should be here at the end of the week.
And then another two weeks elapsed.
Yesterday, I called the bike shop again, and he said that this time he has a tracking number, and that the bike would arrive and be built sometime today. I have elected to not hold my breath.
But Not That Patient Meanwhile, Bianchi is two days shy of taking an entire month to ship a bike. Let me rephrase this so as to make my astonishment and frustration clear: Bianchi, a company whose sole business is to sell bikes, has taken a month to sell me a bike. During that month, the great weather of September—during which I had planned to ride my bike—has come and gone. I’ll get it in October (if I get it at all), which is not exactly a prime outdoor velodrome riding season here in the NorthWest.
So there goes the Cyclingnewsseries, "Track Racing for Absolute Beginners" I was going to write. Too bad for Bianchi.
I’m pretty sure it’s not just Bianchi that’s doing this, either. If you don’t want what’s in stock at the bike shop—and if you’re looking for anything special, that’s going to be the case—you’re going to have to wait for it. And wait for it. I don’t know any other industry that keeps its most important clients dangling like this.
OK, I’m nearly done venting now. I mean it, though: Bike manufacturers, stop spending quite so much time telling us about the wonderful bikes you make, and consider thinking about how you can actually deliver them on a reasonable timeline.
[Update: 20 minutes after posting this, I got a call from the bike shop. My bike is ready to go. I should point out that I have no gripe whatsoever with the bike shop that sold me this bike -- they've been very good to work with.]
PS: If you’ve had a good or bad experience with ordering a bike, post a comment. I’m riled up enough right now that I’m thinking of emailing a link to this post to a number of different manufacturers. They should know who’s doing well, and who’s not.
leroy – i should probably let BSNYC know that a few months ago i sold my pista for $300, in order to finance my new lemond ss road bike. not sure how / whether a pista sale in ut (where there’s no velodromes for hundreds of miles in any direction) would affect the pistadex, tho.
I had similar trouble getting my Jamis Aurora when I ordered it. It didn’t take a month though, more like 2 1/2 weeks. My main problem was finding a bike shop that would order me one though. Ended up having to order it at a shop almost 40 miles away since none of the five local shops dealt with Jamis.
I work at a LBS, we have a great relationship with Cannondale. We can normally get ANYTHING they sell within 3 days. It helps that they are only 2 1/2 hours up the road, but still, I think that isn’t bad. We’ve driven up there to pick one up for a customer before so they wouldn’t have to wait for shipping. Some of our other brands are a bit tougher, but in general I think this problem is getting better. Now if we just could just keep all the companies from “closing out” 2008’s in June…We actually have a couple 2009’s in the store already!
I had a WONDERFUL experience when I bought my SEVEN. They said the bike would be ready on X date (sorry, it’s been a few years, so I don’t remember the EXACT dates anymore) but my first Olympic tri and last big race of the season was 3 days before X date. I said, “Oh, that’s too bad. I was hoping to have it for the tri. Oh well.” The bike shop called Seven, they moved me to the top of the list and got me my bike 2 days before the race. SEVEN ROCKS!!!!!!
OK, I have to leave a good news story- last year, I found year old (but new) Fuji Finest all over eBay at $900. I went to my bike shop, who called Fuji- and got me that price (retail was supposed to be like $1700). And they shipped it so fast from California to Kentucky that I was riding the bike within 4 days. Kudos to Fuji for excellent service, a great bike at an extremely reasonable price, and superfast shipping. And superkudos to Mike at Outdoor Adventures in Radcliff, KY, who made it happen and put the bike together so fast it made my head spin. Hooah!
My local shop who is a long time Bianchi dealer as well as Giant can’t get any Pistas or the Giant Bowery to his shop. In the meantime, the Origin 8 folks now sell a single speed with flip/flop hub, cowhorn bars and cool brown leatherette bar tape and saddle for approx $500.
If your buying Bianchi you’re on Italian time.
I think the bike industry overall is having a tough time delivering. Electra is making some good-looking cruisers but the shops can’t get them because Electra is trying to maintain quality while ramping up volume. The customer suffers because they can’t get the bike but if Electra sacrificed their principles and delivered crap the customer would be perturbed.
I’ve been waiting for a Cannondale for the last five weeks. The LBS has now done the 5-7 day routine 5 times. Not exactly sure who is shining me on at this point but the LBS hasn’t exactly been volunteering information. Nobody ever calls to update me. If I never called them, there’d be no contact at all. If I ran my small business like this I’d be closed by now. It’s pathetic.
Had a similar experience last year. I ordered an Orbea Orca in Orange at the end of December 2006. I was told that it would be about 3 months. Well, living in the northeast, I wouldn’t be riding it for the first 3 months of the year anyway so I went ahead. The end of March rolled around – No Orca, but an assurance that they were about ot ship. The end of April, No Orca, but it might be a couple of weeks. The end of May, No Orca, but they were to ship in a week. June 15 – Ordered a Specialized S-Works Roubaix. I got that in about 8 days in the new Quick-Step Innergetic paint. At 14 lbs and top end components I couldn’t be happier. I really wanted to support Orbea, but they couldn’t deliver. I really think 7 months is sufficient time for a company to deliver its products.
Okay fatty I know you don’t pay much attention to us canucks but listen up. I have Dupuytren’s disease. They call it the the ‘Disease of Northern Europe’. It takes the desendants of Northern Europians. What happens is that the sheath underneath the skin on your hand shrinks and your hands close up into two fists. Enough said.
My Doc who is now retired operated. They cut your hand open and cut out this sheath and free up your tendons. There are two ways to do this. Knock you out for three hours with all he complications that come with it or take a nerve block.
For a nerve block they go in through your armpit and find the nerves to your hand and freeze them. Works like a charm. You are awake the whole time and watch what they do and don’t feel a thing. The best part is there is no recovery room. You get up put on your cloths and go home.
What they do tell you to do is don’t move a thing after the three hour operation for two days and keep it up on your shoulder. And then a week after soak it once a day in hot hot water for forty-five minutes.
Thirty stitches and after I did what they said, was up and riding my bike in three weeks after the operation.
Do what they tell you and you’ll be fine. Don’t be the doctor and listen.
Bluenoser–A North European biker I know recently learned he has Dupuytren’s. Apparently your doctor doesn’t see a connection with intense use of the hand and Dupuytren’s, fortunately, and he’s probably right. If there is any research done on a possible connection it isn’t easily available by Googling. Does anyone know to the contrary? | {
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All Bets Off rallies for victory in Rooney
All Bets Off, a son of Bettor's Delight, won the $300,000 Art Rooney Pace at Yonkers Raceway on Saturday night, scoring in 1:52.2 over Some Playa, with Maxi Bon third an Unlocked fourth.
Odds-on favorite All Bets Off (Matt Kakaley, $2.60) was both anxious and effective in winning. In play from post position No. 3 as the 3-10 favorite, All Bets Off made the first lead in the 24th Rooney. He then handed the baton to second choice Stevensville (Tim Tetrick) right around a :27.1 opening quarter-mile. The song remained the same at the 55.1 intermission and early in the backstretch the second time.
That's when Maxi Bon (Dan Dube) moved from fourth, and he was in a hurry. He disposed of a no-fight Stevensville just after a 1:23.3 three-quarters. Good thing for All Bets Off that nothing was moving behind "Maxi,” as he was able to extricate himself.
All Bets off collared the new leader early in the lane, then held off a rallying Some Playa (George Brennan) by a length-and-a-half in 1:52.2. Maxi Bon held third, with Unlocked (Brent Holland) closing from last to grab fourth. Bondi Hanover (Jason Bartlett) earned the final pay envelope, with Gold Rocks (Eric Goodell), a tiring Stevensville and Ideal Fashion (Jordan Stratton) rounding out the order.
For All Bets Off, a son of Bettor's Delight co-owned (as Burke Racing) by (trainer) Ron Burke, Frank Baldachino, Panhellenic Stables and Rosemary Shelswell, he's now 3-for-4 this season (earnings of $180,250). The exacta paid $15.80, with no triple returning $44.20.
"Oh, yeah, I was worried,” Kakaley said. "I thought giving up the lead (to Stevensville) was the right thing to do.”Then I saw Danny's (Dube, with Max Bon) coming fast and I knew I was in trouble. I was lucky to get out. If I don't, I'm shuffled out, and probably last.
"He's (All Bets Off) handy enough for the half-mile , but I think he can carry his speed to bigger tracks, too,” Kakaley said. "Every start, (All Bets Off) has been on his toes. Give Ronnie (Burke) and his crew an A-plus. I'm just fortunate to have the drive.” (Yonkers) | {
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The attached picture, of a Facebook playboy's sweethearted proposal to his Googler girlfriend, did not come cheap: It was shot in a private air taxi above the Maldives, a remote haven for wealthy tourists. Dave Morin has struck again.
But Morin has ways to paper over those problems. Millions of ways, we hear: With all of three years at Facebook, an eternity in the world of startups and social media, he's believed to have built up quite a nest egg of Facebook equity — and made a nice bundle cashing them out, thanks to the employee liquidity provided by the social network's new Russian backers this past summer.
It helps, of course, that Morin spends his money wisely. Or at least, that's the conclusion one is led to by the Flickr set he's published in connection with his Tumblr-ed marriage proposal. She said yes, after all. | {
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This smart little car makes its own fuel from water and automatically turns when it hits a barrier. But that’s not all. Through guided, hands-on activities, this car also helps students understand how fuel cell technology works. Lab includes a reversible fuel cell, car chassis, motor, hydrogen and oxygen storage, electric power supply to perform electrolysis, fuel cell experiment guide, and user manual. | {
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Exactly, that's the appeal of Street Mod for me. I can do pretty much anything I ever wanted to my Sube and it fits within the class. My RB5 Prodrive wing is the only "mod" that probably makes me slower.
To follow-up on Eric's note about the suspension mods, you must use the stock mounting points on the frame or unibody. As long as you're not drilling new holes into the frame, it's legal.
Moreover, all the typical Turbo/SC electronics are legal too. If I remember correctly, the only drivetrain stuff that starts to get you into trouble (of the stuff I remember from this board) are non-stock injectors or fuel pump. This next statement may end up confusing the issue, but as of today any production *Subaru* engine part would be a legal install. I haven't quite figured out if 22b like parts from Subaru would be legal. Anyone else know?
There is SOME ambuguiy about bumpers, but the intent is clear. Most of the stuff on your car (except for quarter panels, windows, doors, and the trunk) can be replaced with any off the shelf part. As long as the bumper swap is "technically" a bumper, it's legal. | {
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So here it is, finally. Today sees the international release date of DJ Supermarkt's first How Do You Are? compilation (comes as CD, 2xLP and Download). TOO SLOW TO DISCO compiles 19 tracks of "Late 70s Westcoast Yachtpop you can almost dance to", featuring long forgotten diamonds by bands like Photoglo, White Horse, Alessi Brothers and tracks by the megalobands like Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Brothers or Chicago. Release Date in Germany was friday already and the album just entered the "compilation-charts" at No 22, which is a miracle if you see, what kind of ugly crap (BravoHits) is in there with TSTD. Here is a new minimix to give you an idea of what to expect. | {
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Rabat – Paraguay’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, Hugo Caballero, has reaffirmed his country’s firm support for Morocco’s territorial integrity.The official made the remarks on Friday, October 19, during the first session of the Morocco-Paraguay consultations in Asuncion, according to Maghreb Arab Press (MAP).“Regarding Morocco’s territorial integrity, Paraguay reiterates its unconditional support for Morocco’s position on this conflict and for all initiatives in support of the kingdom” to reach an agreed upon and mutually acceptable solution to the conflict. He added that Morocco can always count on Paraguay’s support to find a peaceful solution to the conflict that has lasted for more than 42 years.Paraguay’s foreign affairs minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni reiterated his country’s support for Morocco at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in September.“We are very pleased that relations between Paraguay and Morocco are at their best and we are working to make them even better,” said the Paraguayan minister.Recently, Morocco has received the support of several countries backing Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as a just solution to the conflict, including the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Guinea Bissau.The support is positive for Morocco, especially as the Security Council will meet on October 29 to adopt a new resolution on the Western Sahara conflict.The Security Council will also decide on the mandate of MINURSO, the UN mission in Western Sahara.The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, called on the Security Council to extend the mandate of the mission to one year. In April, the Security Council renewed MINURSO’s mandate for only six months. | {
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Mark Richt stands in what will soon be his old office at Miami’s Hecht Athletic Center and gazes through the window as construction workers bring to life what might as well have been a dream when Richt returned to his alma mater as head coach in December 2015.
The Hurricanes’ new $34 million indoor practice facility and football operations building are scheduled for completion in August. Richt still recalls what longtime Miami baseball coach Jim Morris, who will retire following this season, told him at the groundbreaking ceremony.
Morris looked at Richt and said, “You don’t understand. This is a miracle, what’s happening right now.”
With Mark Richt at the helm and new and improved facilities, the future looks bright at Miami. Logan Bowles/USA Today Sports
The Hurricanes, who have long lagged behind in the facilities arms race, are finally getting up to speed, and it’s no accident that $28 million of the total cost was raised in nine months after Richt got the job. Not only did Richt play a leading role in the fundraising effort, helping to secure the $14 million lead gift from Carol Soffer and her family, but he also ponied up $1 million of his own money.
This is home for Richt, and so was Georgia before he was pushed out in November 2015, and he’s very clear about why he’s back where it all began for him in college 40 years ago as a backup quarterback to Hall of Famer Jim Kelly.
“I keep telling people that I didn’t come here just because it was my alma mater,” Richt told ESPN. “I came here because you can win. If you do things right and get the support you need, you can win. It’s been proven. The players have always been here. You just have to make sure you get the right ones, and a lot of the other things they used to ding us on, our facilities and things like that, they’re not going to be able to do that anymore with this brand-new building and the improvements to Hard Rock Stadium.”
Richt turns casually to the shelves on the wall behind his desk and points to some of The U’s most cherished memorabilia from the glory years.
“There’s five national championship footballs signed by the national championship coaches here,” Richt said. “It can be done again, and that’s what we’re working toward every day: to bring this program back to where we all expect it to be.”
In just two seasons, Richt has Miami racing in that direction. The Hurricanes won 10 games last season for the first time since 2003 and captured its first ACC Coastal Division title. The finish to the season wasn’t what Richt or anybody in these parts wanted. The Hurricanes lost their last three games, including a 38-3 blowout loss to Clemson in the ACC championship game. But Miami climbed as high as No. 2 in the College Football Playoff rankings, signaling to the rest of the college football world that The U is indeed relevant again for all of the right reasons.
The challenge now is going from relevant status to championship status.
Miami fans have reason to be excited after Mark Richt led the Hurricanes to their first 10-win season since 2003. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
“We limped into the end of the year,” Richt said of last season’s disappointing finish. “Our three best offensive players got hurt, and we don’t have a lot of depth still, dudes that can step right in there and play championship ball. That’s where we need to catch up.”
The good news is that the returns on the recruiting trail have been promising. Miami finished No. 8 nationally in ESPN’s recruiting rankings for the 2018 class, ahead of in-state rivals Florida State (11th) and Florida (13th) and just a couple of notches below the teams that have accounted for the past three national titles, Alabama (sixth) and Clemson (fifth).
Richt is equally encouraged by the way the 2019 class is coming along. The Hurricanes already have 12 commitments, 11 from the state of Florida.
“If we recruit like we’ve been recruiting for four or five seasons in a row, then we’ll have that kind of depth, the kind you see at Clemson and Alabama,” Richt said. “At least we’re battling Florida, Florida State, Clemson, Georgia, Alabama and Auburn. Everybody is down here in South Florida trying to recruit players, so if you get your share of the local kids and the kids in the state, you’re going to have a team that has the ingredients to win championships.”
As much as anything, Richt offers stability to a Miami program that has sorely lacked it, be it a result of coaching turnover, NCAA sanctions stemming from the Nevin Shapiro scandal or a roster in flux.
“When I got here, Miami was still on probation,” Richt said. “We still haven’t gotten our [scholarship] numbers up to 85. Last year we were at 73 but could have been higher. It just takes time to get your numbers back. You have a max in any given year, and that can only get you so far, and then you have attrition. You can’t make it up in one year. We lost kids to the NFL, lost kids who knew they weren’t going to play here and wanted to go someplace else and play, which happens everywhere.
“You will also have some discipline issues: not guys who were bad guys, but guys who weren’t going to do what they were supposed to do -- go to class, be prepared, be respectful and do your best. That’s really all I’m asking.”
In return, Richt, 58, is promising that he has put down roots, despite who else might call. Like in his 15 seasons at Georgia, Richt had inquiries this offseason about other jobs.
“But I never let it get to a point where I talk to them about the job,” Richt said. “It’s happened my whole career. I never once have tried to leverage another job for more money. I don’t think that’s right. The day we took the job, my mentality has always been, ‘If you’re the head coach, too many lives depend on you.’ If I just say on a whim, ‘You know, I think I’d rather go here,’ well, all these recruits you said something to, all these coaches you said something to, what about them?
“Every time you hire a coach, you’re taking the coach, his wife and his kids on an adventure. They’re trusting you and believing in you enough to become a staff member. I don’t want to just walk into a room and say, ‘Hey, guys, thanks for helping me get to where I really want to be.’ It’s the same thing with these kids. They’ve had enough disappointment, enough men leave their lives. You’re trying to build trust, and then you bolt on them because of money or because of whatever? I’ve just never been able to get past that part of it.”
Richt isn’t judging. He certainly understands coaches “wanting to stay ahead of the chopping block” if they’ve been somewhere for a while and there’s a push to get rid of them. He was well aware that he was on that “chopping block” at Georgia, but he had other priorities that were more important to him than getting out of town before he received a pink slip.
“I got to raise my kids in one city for 15 years,” Richt said. “My daughter, Anya, went from pre-K to graduating high school in the same school. You can’t put a price on that.”
Although he never would have left Georgia had he not been fired, Richt is grateful for his time in Athens and equally grateful to be back coaching at a place that means so much to him.
“I spent 15 years of my life at Georgia. It was great. We embraced it and poured our lives into it. But when it was time to go, it was time to go,” Richt said. “We really do trust God with what’s going on. There have been so many awesome things that have happened here at Miami. It’s been incredible. It’s a time in our lives when [my wife] Katharyn and I are empty-nesting. We live in Coconut Grove and are having a ball, and I’m also getting a chance to help my alma mater. Even this new building right here, whenever I’m gone -- whether it’s a year from now or 10 years from now -- we would have made some kind of impact on the program in a big way.
“Everywhere you go, there are people who need you.”
Well, Miami needed Richt, too, and he and the Hurricanes are building back to the future. | {
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State Must Grant Murder Convict A Sex Change Operation, Judge Rules
A federal judge in Boston today "ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison" for murder, The Associated Press writes.
According to the Boston Globe, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark Wolf ruled that the surgery is the only way to care for Michelle Kosilek's gender identity disorder and noted that the treatment "had been prescribed by Department of Correction doctors, and that the only justifications for denying the treatment were based on public opinion."
Wolf, who was nominated to his seat by President Reagan in 1985, "is believed to be the first federal judge to order prison officials to provide the surgery for a transgender inmate," the AP says.
The then-Robert Kosilek killed his wife in 1990 and was convicted of her murder three years later. Also in 1993, he legally changed his first name to Michelle. Kosilek "lives as a woman in an all-male prison," according to the AP.
"Diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID) by prison doctors, Kosilek sued the state corrections department for not providing her gender reassignment therapy. In 2002, she won, on the basis that the Eighth Amendment requires prisons to pay for all medical care deemed necessary. She's been receiving female hormone injections ever since. ...
"Pretty soon, though, Kosilek was back in court, claiming that the hormones weren't enough; she wants gender reassignment surgery. ...
"The case reverberated across the country. Inmates from Massachusetts to California started requesting hormone therapy and a lot of them got it."
As for what will happen if Kosilek does get the surgery, WBUR said that whether she is then transferred to a women's facility could be the subject of further litigation. | {
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Quality Assurance Field Manager/ Team Leader/Architectural Lead 2006-Present NYC School Construction Authority/ Building Condition Assessment Survey NYC Housing Authority/ Architectural and Engineering Needs Assessment As Team Leader, my responsibilities encompass the supervision and coordination of a team through interview meetings with Principals and Custodian Engineers, to obtain information pertinent to each school. I perform a complete visual walk through of each asset inspecting all interior spaces, exterior elements and the site. This data is then entered into a prescribed menu on a lap top computer. This information is utilized to produce a baseline capital improvement plan for the Department of Education’s Division of School Facilities. I am involved in the on-going training of Associate Architects which commences with each new contract. This involves the presentation of all training manual guidelines, specifications and methodology to insure accurate surveys utilizing the menu set forth by the School Construction Authority. As Quality Assurance Field Associate, I conduct review inspections of Associate Architect’s site assessments. I was the Architectural Lead for the NYCHA assessment survey in 2011-2012. The requirements for this position are similar to the BCAS survey which included the supervision of Architectural inspectors approving site assessment reports and the daily management of the project.
As Interior Designer, my responsibilities encompassed the design and sale of fine furnishings for client’s homes and offices, home design services, surveys for design layouts, coordination of fabrics, decorative accessorization, and on-going customer service to guide clients through the decorating process. | {
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2012 has been a good year for us! Maybe not as exciting as 2011, but we’ve had a lot of fun! Rather than send out a holiday card, I think it’s easier to blog about our year!
Pete and Kimmy’s best moments of 2012:
January: This was a pretty chill month for us. Pete finished up his internship at the embassy and I went back to teaching after a Christmas break. At work, I did a week long course for teaching business to ESL learners. I gave a pretty sweet presentation on the large number of Mercedes in Albania. (3 out of 5 cars in Albania are Mercedes!)
February-March: Lots of work and school for both of us! Pete hung out with the missionaries a lot, and we had a blast hanging out with friends we made.
April: This was a busy month for us. We were getting ready to head home. In the meantime, Pete went to Malta (while I froze in Estonia, teaching). We also went on a winter adventure with a family in our branch! We also were able to visit Tartu and Pärnu.
May: Pete finished his first year of grad school! Now time to buckle down and work on that thesis. Also, we made it back to America! Coming home to America is the best, whether you’ve been gone for a few months or a bit longer. We were sure happy to be in a home that made sense to us.
An eventful Bird summer: Katie and Kevin visited when Ali and Austen got married and Tyler left for his mission in Riga, Latvia.
September: A proud daughter. My parents went to Italy while I told everyone around me how brave they were to rent a car, ride trains, and more! While they were abroad, we got to hang out with my little sister, Carly.
October: We moved back downtown. We love the city, trax, and overall feel of downtown, so it’s sure nice to be back. We live a 5 minute walk away from Trader Joe’s which is our new favorite place to shop.
November: A new niece was born! Little Evvie is precious and it’s fantastic getting to know Hadley.
December: We watched the whole season of Arrested Development. Again. Might be round 3 or 4. But more importantly, we got a puppy! His name is Zoltán. It’s a Hungarian name. We call him Zoli for short. He is half mini Schnauzer and half Brussels Griffon (another terrier type dog). We are working on potty training, crate training, and sleeping at night. So far, it’s going well, considering that he’s only 8 weeks old!
Pete and I have been back for nearly 4 full months! We’ve had plenty going on in these last four months, however, I haven’t seemed to be as interested in blogging.
The biggest news around here is that Pete found a job a few weeks ago. He’s working at a digital marketing company called White Label Marketing. It’s just minutes (walking) from where we used to live in Salt Lake City! It’s a great location, one I’m jealous of. There’s just something great about downtown. Pete is a copywriter there. The two other copywriters are either leaving soon or have already left, so as of this Friday, he’ll be their only copywriter. He likes that it keeps him busy, and that it’s a challenge. It’s writing with a plan; so there is more to it than simply writing something interesting. From what he’s said, he gets along with the rest of the employees there; overall, they’re around the same age as Pete, which is nice. It is so great to have Pete working again. The time with him working freelance was great, but I think the structure of a job is good for him.
On another note, my parents left for Italy yesterday morning! We were so happy to see them off, and I couldn’t be a prouder daughter. After my many trips abroad, they have finally taken the plunge and will be in Italy for two and a half weeks! They flew into Rome, and then are driving from Rome to Florence, the Cinque Terra, and Venice. They are going to see it all! I’m a bit terrified for them, simply because I remember all too well how stressful travelling can be, but I think that the two and a half weeks will be perfect for them. My mom has done an amazing job at planning the entire trip, and I think they will be forever changed. Once the travel bug bites, it’s sure hard to stifle! Pete and I reminded them that this is not a vacation, it’s an adventure. Don’t plan on being relaxed–that’s not likely.
Usually I’m the one leaving! It was weird going to the airport, early in the morning, and then being the one driving back home.
In the meantime, Pete and I are hanging out with Carly and Ellie (my little 12 year old sister and our dog). It’s a blast to hang out with Carly! She and I haven’t spent much time in the same house–I moved out when she was 3 and have only spent one summer living here since. She is a hoot. We can’t wait to make her branch out with eating. So far, we’ve already got her to eat beefalo burgers. Which she loved!
And, I’ve been in charge of cleaning out my stuff that’s in the basement. I found a million pictures of me during my travels in Russia and Ukraine (before I had a digital camera) and have been scanning them into the computer. It’s been years since I’ve seen a lot of the pictures (and luckily, I put post it notes on the backs of pictures with students’ names. I had no idea what some of their names were). What good memories.
A few of the girls from my Russia 2004 group
Girls in my oldest group who I taught at an all-girls’ school in Boyarka, Ukraine. 2006
My bathroom in the apartment I shared with another teacher who was Ukrainian. 2006
This is a birthday post for my mom, but if you’re in need of travel advice (or you just like to read blogs), then keep on reading! Also, a special welcome to any of my Year 12 students who might be reading!
Happy Birthday, Mom!
I figured a fun (virtual, rather than literal) birthday present would be to have my students write you (and dad) letters of advice about travelling abroad. They’re my Year 12 Exam Course students, and they’ve all been abroad for travel, so I knew they’d have some great advice for you!
I told them about how the two of you are going to Italy this Autumn, and that it’s your first time leaving the US (other than Tijuana). And I also printed out a few pictures so they could see who they’d be writing to (hope you don’t mind, mom and dad).
I hope you enjoy reading their letters! I think they all gave excellent advice. (I’ve corrected any grammar mistakes, but there really weren’t that many–these students are fantastic at English in all areas).
Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading these letters! (They’re in no particular order)
Dear Steve and Suzy,
We are writing you to cheer you up a little bit. We heard that you are going to Italy, so we would like to give you some advice about how to deal with the local people and how to understand the atmosphere.
First of all, Italy is a very multicultural country, but in general, the way of thinking, manners, and habits are very close to Mexicans.
The second thing is that they have such a thing as “fiesta”. Yep, they sleep during the day. It is normal if you find that all the shops are closed for one hour.
All Italians drink wine. No exceptions. And we strongly recommend you try the local sorts of wine.
We would also recommend you to their local ice cream–it has a special taste. If you are considering to eat at McDonald’s–forget this idea. Italian food is the best thing you can find.
Rome has a special way to travel–so named “Hop-on-Hop-off” buses. You can buy a ticket for a day and enjoy Rome’s sights by listening to a guide using earphones. We would suggest you enjoy the first bus tour from the beginning to the end. It helps you to understand which is interesting for you and during the second tour you can “hop off” where you want. Also, it is easy to travel by underground.
And the last but not least. Do not ever mix pasta with ketchup. Locals wouldn’t appreciate that.
We are glad to hear that you are having a holiday in Italy. The country you are going to visit has a very open minded view. People there are very friendly and talkative. One thing to bear in mind is that their way to greet people is to kiss on the cheeks which may cause culture shock. Do not be afraid of it, just go with the flow because they actually wish well.
However, there are some things to be aware of while being on a tour–you should keep an eye on your things because you cannot trust anyone 100%.
We would also like to recommend to you some places to visit there. First of all, you should visit the Vatican, which is the smallest country in the world and home for the Pope. Another place you should go to is Venice where you definitely have to ride the gondola. It is good for you, Suzy, that the gondola men talk a lot about the history and culture of Venice and Italy in general.
It is a must-have to eat the dessert called gelatto (ice cream), that you have to try there. They offer many kinds of tastes for every person.
We hope that this will be your new anniversary since Italy is a very Romantic country. We hope you find some good tips from our letter.
We are writing to you to give advice about how to prepare for travelling abroad. We will talk about travelling in Central Europe.
Firstly, we recommend you to be informed about what the weather will be like in this area, where you are going, because that can help you prepare most of the clothes. Secondly, you should know that there is no need to take any specific transport like a taxi because you can use public transport. It is cheaper and more effective. Also, you can get some useful information from passengers that could help you find some places that you should visit. The last thing but not the least important is money. Don’t take with you too much money in the local currency because if you change currency in your homeland you get less than if you change them in the place you go.
Another few things you must know, because it is very important, that if you go to Italy, Italians are very emotional people. Because they are very emotional, they cannot control themselves sometimes. So, if you are talking with them, carefully choose your words.
Sometimes, you just don’t learn about the cultural differences of a place till something awkward happens. Or, you don’t realize it’s awkward… until you learn about the “rule”.
Example: I learned, just last week, that Estonians do not compliment each other unless good friends (not even acquaintances compliment each other). Of course now that I’ve learned that, I’ve been thinking about all of the conversations I’ve ever had with an Estonian (um, I’m a teacher to Estonians–this thinking process has taken me awhile). I don’t remember complimenting any Estonians unless I consider them good friends (like at church or something). But I talk a lot. So who knows? I might have complimented an Estonian and completely freaked her out!
I’ve asked my students what their reaction would be if they did get complimented in a strange situation (trying to assess the type of damage I may have caused), and all they’ve told me is that it’s weird and that they don’t understand why someone would compliment them. I guess they’re just confused and don’t understand what the person doing the complimenting wants.
So. Well. In America (or at least the America I know), it’s normal for girls to compliment each other, even when they’ve just barely met. Is that right, American friends? Or am I super weird for complimenting a girl’s cute shoes or something when I don’t really know her?
I need to know–is it ok for a girl to compliment another girl (just casually, like about her clothes or something normal) when you aren’t good friends or have I been breaking some rule that I didn’t know exists?
It’s clear to me that I shouldn’t EVER compliment girls who I don’t know well here. Now I just need to know if I should give up on compliments while in the US, too.
UPDATED: I have learned a few things through this post–1) Posts with dramatic titles will bring people to my blog. I don’t know if that means that I should continue with such sensationalism when posting or not. Probably not. My life isn’t that crazy to make every title so exciting. 2) Russian-Estonians do compliment each other like normal. So it is just Estonian speakers who are uncomfortable with it. 3) Americans (thank goodness) do compliment complete strangers!
I can now rest easy and spend the last bit of my time here complimenting the heck out of my Russian speaking students while terrifying my Estonian speaking students by introducing them to my habit of complimenting. Very good news.
Hello! I’m not very good at blogging ever since we’ve arrived here in Tallinn. So, maybe I should get better at that. I usually think about writing something, but then it never happens because I’m too busy or not really in the mood. But it’s Saturday morning here, and it’s suuuuper windy outside so Pete and I are too scared to go outside to go to the market for some cheap food. Luckily we have a little pancake mix left, so Pete’s making that as we speak.
I started my new semester of classes this last week. So far, so good. The amount of teaching hours is fine, even though some days are a bit spread out (on Mondays and Wednesdays I get to the school at 8 and leave at 7:15 or so).
Mondays and Wednesdays I teach a one-to-one with a guy who used to play football (aka soccer for my American friends). He’s pretty chill and laid back. I think it’ll be nice to keep working with him.
I’m also teaching an in-company class at a factory out near the airport (it’s always really foggy out there because it’s right by the sea and huge lake–very mysterious scenery). There are three guys and I think I’ll like the class. They want a lot of technical language that has to do with the machine they work with, so I’m using my amazing internet skills to try and figure out how I can go about teaching them about something that I don’t understand at all.
M/W I also teach an elementary level (they’re adults, but they are new at learning English) class at the school. They’re are 3 Estonians and 4 Russians, and they seem to stick together. They’re all super nice and I can tell that they have a lot of great things to say, but their language abilities limit them. But we can still talk about most things at a basic level.
Tuesdays and Fridays I teach at another in-company. I’ve been teaching them since September, so it is fun to see them advance. I really like the class; they are willing to do whatever I throw at them, and they always do their homework.
Tuesdays and Thursdays I teach a one-to-one. He’s still in high school (I’ve been teaching him since September, as well). He’s a really dedicated student and takes learning English very seriously. He’s quite advanced, so we’re able to have great conversations. He loves history, so we seem to talk about that fairly often.
Fridays I teach a Year 12 (grade 12) test prep course. At the end of their 12th year here, students have to take a test (basically like the ACT/SAT in the US). The students are 16-19 years old (because kids don’t start at school until 6 or 7 here, so they are older when they graduate). They seem like a good group of kids. It’s kind of funny teaching teenagers, because there is a completely different feel to the class. When we talk about our interests, it’s things like music, dance, etc. I like the variety. They are all at a decent level of English, so I’m sure we’ll be able to have some nice conversations in the future (yesterday was my first class with them).
So, I don’t know if anyone really is interested in what classes I’m teaching, but hey, I don’t really journal anymore, so this way I’ll remember what I was teaching. Anywho, the classes are great, and hopefully they will stay the same throughout the semester so that I can get into a great routine! I love it when my weeks are fairly stable and consistent.
Pete’s still out of school for the rest of the month. He has two papers he’s working on that are due soon. They will be interesting, I think. Of course I’m super jealous that he gets to be in school studying such interesting things (too bad he isn’t studying something that I wouldn’t be interested in–then I wouldn’t be jealous at all). He keeps busy by working as an intern at the Embassy (his last week is next week, though). He also has a freelance job as a proofreader/editor for a local company. They’ve given him one assignment, so hopefully they’ll give him more–yeah for money! He’s also working on a story that he might start posting snipets on here. It’s pretty dang funny, if you ask me (but I’m biased). Pete’s also keeping up with the Republican candidacy race–we have plenty of fun watching the debates/ads/The Daily Show/The Colbert Report.
My goodness, it has been nearly two months since I’ve last posted. I didn’t expect to be such a slacker, but really, I don’t feel like we even have much to update or say!
Maybe I can share some random Estonian-isms that I’ve discovered while here? Is that ok? Ok, yeah, here you go:
People wear little “reflectors” on their coats or purses. They are little reflector buttons to make sure that you are more visible at night. Pete and I each have one and I sure feel like a local at night!
Speaking of night–it’s getting light later and later and dark earlier and earlier. Apparently, in December, it gets dark as early as 2 pm.
Tallinn Old Town is getting ready for Christmas; they are setting up the cutest little wooden market and there is a giant Christmas tree in the middle. According to Wikipedia, the Old Town in Tallinn was the location of the first Christmas tree! I love Christmas decorations, so I can’t wait for the market to open.
I walk home through the Old Town nearly every day, just because I can. It has such a great personality, even at night. I love the architecture, cobble-stone roads, and town center.
Pete got called as the branch mission leader at church, so he’s pretty involved with the missionaries and whatnot. He likes it a lot and he’s working on his Estonian so he can understand the meetings he goes to at church.
We may or may not have watched several seasons of The Amazing Race in our evenings (after lonnnng days at work, I generally prefer to relax at home, watching tv or something else that doesn’t cost money).
I like the classes I teach and am sad that a few of them are ending just before Christmas (although I can’t wait for the 2 week Christmas break!).
Teaching articles (a/an/the) is not as simple as you would think! I am working on a chart of all of the different ways we use articles, and it is quite intense! It has been fun putting it together, though.
Anyway, that’s all I can think of! And it turned it more of an update than Estonian-isms–oh well! On this Thanksgiving day (or evening, as it is now), Pete and I are grateful for a comfortable apartment, an income, family, and a lovely (pre-cooked from the grocery store) chicken kiev dinner! Happy Thanksgiving!
I teach adults, right? So you would think that language barrier troubles happen all.the.time. in the classroom. However, I feel like I have a harder time understanding the other native English-speaking teachers rather than the students! Crazy, right?
Example:
An English teacher and I were talking about language. Because that’s what you do when you’re a language teacher. In fact, I think we were even talking about how it can be hard to understand other English accents. And then this happens (pronunciation according to how I heard it):
Guy: Yeah, there’s a group in London that I can’t understand at all. Called cottonandbriming. It’s like a different language to me.
Me: Cottonandbriming?
Guy: Yeah. They have all of these different words when they speak.
Me: Cottonandbriming? {Still not believing that that’s what it was actually called} What do they do?
Guy: Well, they roym words with each other when they speak and then they change the words. There’s a website that shows you how it works. It’s mental.
Me: How do you spell it? {Me getting ready to type it into my computer}
Guy: C O C K N E Y
Me: Ohhhh, cockney!
Guy: Yeah, cottonandbriming.
Me: Cockney and what?
Guy: Royming.
Me: Ohhh, rhyming!
Guy: Yeah…. {I think by this point he thought I was crazy a.k.a. mental}
Since moving to Tallinn, it’s rained almost every day. This can get a little depressing, but my main focus since coming has been trying to find a job. Going on the job hunt is never fun, regardless of where you are, but looking for a job in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language is confusing and very tricky. Like if I was in the US, I could actually go in to various locations and ask if they were hiring; my abilities and job options are much wider in the US. But here, what could I do? Teach English…. And that’s about it! While Pete has been in school, I’ve been spending hours at the local mall using their free WiFi (our internet took 2 weeks to get set up) to search for different places to work (public schools, language schools, etc).
Anyway, here is the looong story of what’s been going on lately (and it does have a happy ending to those crazy enough to actually read this whole thing).
About two days after arriving in Tallinn, I found out that a job that I had arranged while in Budapest had fallen through. This was a huge hit and Pete and I started doubting our choice in coming here. One day, Pete and I were walking around a store, trying to get pillows and other things for our apartment. We had just come from the immigration office, and had been very discouraged with how complicated visas and becoming a resident of the country was for us (especially with me being not employed; it is impossible for me to be a resident of the country if I didn’t have a job). At the store, we both were contemplating flying home—not at all what we were expecting to consider after arriving to Tallinn, but in the situation we were in, it sounded like a good (and easy) option. After wandering around the store, trying to figure out life, we decided to go forward and figure everything out here.
Later on, we discovered that we didn’t need to get residence permits asap, as we had thought, so that was a relief. Pete started going to his orientation and classes, and was enjoying the university (I’m super jealous of his classes, so luckily he takes great notes and we continue his class discussions at home). We also went to the branch, and were instantly welcomed in and felt quite at home there. But, after two weeks job of searching (I emailed every single kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and high school in search for teaching jobs), I was beginning to get pretty hopeless about the situation. I even emailed a bunch of hotels to see if they were hiring cleaning ladies, but even those positions require speaking Russian, Estonian, and English! So, after lots of dead ends and prayers, I had several strange things happen within a very short time frame:
Wednesday, September 7: I had emailed a language school (let’s call them Language School A), seeing if they were interested in hiring me. They responded in Russian, saying that they teach generally in Russian, could I handle it? I responded saying that I didn’t know Russian, but that I am a competent teacher who has taught students who didn’t know any English, and I was confident that I could help their school, and my language limitations wouldn’t be an issue. (This email I sent was in desperation, obviously, and is much more confident than usual. Being unemployed makes you do crazy things).
Thursday, September 8: Got a phone call to do an interview from another language school (let’s call them Language School B) where I had applied online. He wanted to meet that day, so I went in. From my point of view, I was not quite qualified for the position—it was a position who was searching for a teacher of adults, and I’ve never taught students older than 14. But, he still wanted to give me a chance to prove myself, so I set up a time to come in on Monday to do a lesson with a group, while observed by the school, to see how I am as a teacher. After leaving the interview, I got a call from the Language School A, saying that they’d like me to do a mock lesson for very beginners on Monday so that they can see my teaching style.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Freaking out about the fact that I was doing to test lessons on Monday—scary!
Monday: Went in to Language School A and did my presentation. It went really well! I was impressed with myself, and they liked it, too. They didn’t have any specific classes to put me in to right away, but they were still interested in trying to make something work. Went to Language School B and had 45 minutes to prepare a lesson. Taught a 45 minute lesson to adults. I enjoyed myself, and the evaluator thought that I did a nice job. Said that they would call me to let me know if they had any classes for me.
Tuesday: Went to the elementary school where I’ve been teaching 4 hours a week (but it was terrible pay, and took a super long time to get there and back, because it wasn’t actually in Tallinn, and it was expensive to get there by bus). On the way there, that morning, I got a call from Language School B, saying that they could take me on for a 2 hour class that was held once a week. I accepted, but was bummed that it was such few hours. Nevertheless, I figured it was a foot in the door, and if they were impressed, it could possibly grow into more hours.
Wednesday: Went in to Language School A to film a little “about me” video that they could put on their site. Got a phone call from Language School C (you read it right, a third language school!) who wanted to interview me that day. Went in to Language School C to interview. Liked the school, told them I was interested in the full-time position. Knew we had to work out some technicalities to start working, so I wouldn’t be able to start for about 10 days or so. The pay offered was ok, but not awesome.
Thursday (today): Went to Language School C to work out visa process. Told them that I needed to call Language School A and B to tell them that I wouldn’t be working for them. Went home, emailed Language School A (sad day) to tell them. Was literally seconds away from calling Language School B to tell them, but then Language School B called, I told them that I had found another full-time position, so I couldn’t work that 2 hours for them, but then he said that they had a full-time position they’d like to offer me. Decided that I would go in to Language School B to chat with them about the position. Went in to Language School B, decided that it would be best for me to take this position for several reasons: better pay, potential to get certified as a Business English Teacher in January, and by teaching mainly adults, it is a great way for me teach adults in the future. Chatting with Language School B went really well, and I feel great about the position! I signed a contract, and I start Monday! Woot!
So, after a lot of faith-filled prayers, stress, and tears, I am finally employed full-time! Pete and I are so happy that we’ve decided to stay. And we surely can’t get over how when it rains, it pours, here in Tallinn!
Today was the last day of teaching, and I must say, I am so sad to be leaving the kindergarten and Budapest! I had such a memorable summer with some of the funniest kids out there. I tried not to cry too much while the kids sang a goodbye song during lunch. The school director asked me to write a little article about the summer camp for their quarterly magazine, so I figured I’d include that here, seeing how I haven’t really talked about how the summer camp was, day to day.
One of the English Garden Summer School teachers was Kimberly Bird from Utah, USA.
Here is Kimberly’s summer diary:
The first week’s theme was Cooking, where we were able to cook together as well as take a day-trip to Nobu and Sugar. What a fun first outing! We were all excited to see the “behind the scenes” of a sushi restaurant. I loved watching the kids learn to roll the sushi and make their fruit cocktails, but I think the most memorable part of the trip was at Sugar, where the kids saw all of the incredible different cakes and desserts. The students talked about all of the different creative cakes, such as the Japanese styled cakes, volcano cakes, and animal cupcakes. The students also had a wonderful time decorating their very own cupcake.
After such a successful first week, I was excited about the second week’s theme, Musical Theater. Fae from Dramaworks came to direct the students. The kids focused on learning songs from “The Lion King,” “Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang,” and “High School Musical.” The Juniors group especially loved singing and dancing to “I Can’t Wait to Be King” from “The Lion King.” It was so fun to watch them singing the song to themselves while they were coloring or playing. I must say, the performance was quite impressive! The Juniors sang and danced energetically to “I Can’t Wait to be King” and the Seniors were incredibly powerful and enthusiastic while they sang and danced (especially to the “High School Musical” songs).
Week three’s theme was Drama, and Fae came back from the previous week to coach the students. The students all became very attached to Fae and her friendly personality! After a day of practicing, we had the Juniors draw a picture of the Aesop’s Fable that they were going to perform; we then had the students dictate the story to us. Hearing the stories in the children’s words was wonderful. It was fun to hear the parts that they emphasized. The week ended with another successful performance, and the kids were so proud of how well they had memorized their lines!
Digital Photography was the theme for the fourth week. Each child brought in their own camera with much excitement. Throughout the week, we talked about different types of photography, and then the students were able to try it out on their camera. I loved how the different themes (portraiture, architecture, and nature) allowed the students to truly observe the world around them. I was also impressed with the quality of nature photos—the students loved capturing pictures of flowers, bugs, or plants.
Week five was Puppetry and Storytelling. This week, the children were able to really use their imagination while they told stories with the hand puppets and mini theater. Also, this week’s highlight was the trip to NOHA studios where the children made innovative spoon puppets (either Red Riding Hood or the Big Bad Wolf). After the exciting craft, we watched one of the funniest plays I’ve seen—it was a creative version of Little Red Riding Hood, but the actors used unique props. The performance was so entertaining that everyone had a great time laughing and watching the actors.
Design and Technology was the theme for week six. We were able to make and design all kinds of fun devices! The Juniors designed their own mobile, painted their own castle (as well as designed the wallpaper and flooring for the castle), and made their own felt ball. This week, we also visited the Challengeland Ropes Course at Orczy Park. The kids were able to test their minds and bodies to figure out all of the different rope routes. I had fun helping the kids from rope to rope!
Week seven’s theme was Film and TV. Each day, we talked about a different type of film (cartoons, black and white, and real-life). We were able to practice our filming skills by doing interviews, advertisements, and reality TV shows. The most memorable moment was watching the final film clips with everyone. The Seniors were incredibly creative with the script-writing and storylines, and the Juniors loved participating in all of the films, so once the filming was finished, we had quite a wonderful film to watch. The students were also all excited to design their own DVD cover and take home a copy of the week’s filming.
The final week, week eight, was all about Dance. We had Kristy from Fusion Dance come, and she choreographed three fantastic dances! The boys loved dancing to their very cool sailor/pirate dance. The girls took their dance (an Indian inspired style) very seriously and enjoyed practicing their dance moves in the garden. Throughout the week, we had fun talking about different international dance styles by looking at pictures and videos of the different styles. And of course, the students loved the final performance, and they even got to take home their tie dyed shirts!
Overall, this has been such a wonderful, fun-filled summer! I had loved all of the themes, and most of all, I have loved getting to know all of the students at the summer camp. Whether it was playing in the garden, doing creative crafts, or telling stories, it has been fantastic to work with and create relationships with all of the students at the English Garden Summer Camp!
And finally, some pictures of the kids I’ve been hanging out with this summer (a lot of the kids are on holiday this week, so I didn’t get any pictures of many of my favorite kids). And don’t pay attention to my sweaty face (it was nearly 100 degrees and super humid today) or terrible undereye circles (anyone know how to get rid of them?):
Ilona, from England
Rebecca and Charlotte, sisters (mom is from Chile, dad is Irish)
Riccardo from Italy
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"He was a bright spot," coach Kevin Ollie said of Hamilton after the game. "He has a point guard mindset. He can make passes. He just has vision and he's a great rebounder. He's a great player once he starts settling down and is more consistent on the defensive end. But I can't find fault in his game in the last two games, because his energy has been great. He's going to keep getting better and better because he's obsessive for approval. He's in the gym every day. And that's what we want from our basketball players."
The Huskies led 33-25 at the half. Assumption got it to within five points before eventually losing by nine. UConn outrebounded Assumption, 35-34, and committed 14 turnovers.
"Rodney (Purvis) had five in 16 minutes (and) a couple of charges," Ollie said. "We've got to have him take care of the ball a little better if he's going to be out there. I think he was just trying to go through too many people, but that's something we can correct. Daniel did a great job with six assists and no turnovers. Boatright was four assists and no turnovers. I'll take that any day."
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Man pleads guilty to violent robbery of heroin dealer
Twenty-seven-year-old Marquice Hawkins pleaded guilty today in Superior Court to carrying out a violent robbery in New London on Oct. 13, 2013, just five months after he finished a prison sentence for carjacking a man and forcing him into the trunk of his car.
Hawkins, who was living in Middletown at the time of his arrest, will be sentenced Oct. 1 by Judge Hillary B. Strackbein to eight years in prison followed by seven years of special parole for first-degree robbery, possession of narcotics and violation of probation. In pleading guilty, he accepted a deal that was negotiated by State’s Attorney Michael L. Regan and defense attorney Bruce B. McIntyre.
According to Regan, Hawkins and 28-year-old Dehanna Nobleza conspired to rob Nobleza’s roommate, a heroin dealer who lived at 848 Bank St. Called to the scene by a person who said the victim appeared to be “bleeding to death,” police found the man standing in the doorway, covered in blood, his hands and feet tightly bound by zip ties.
Nobleza, who was a drug user, had exchanged several text messages with Hawkins as they conspired to rob the unidentified victim, according to Regan. The victim told police he was walking up to his third-floor apartment after buying candy for Nobleza when a man wearing a ski mask and rubber gloves struck him hard on the back of the head. He said he wrestled with the man, and they both fell down the stairs. He said the man threatened to kill him if he moved, bound him with zip ties and stole his wallet, cash and his cell phone.
Nobleza stole five grams of heroin from the victim and had it in her possession when she was arrested in Middletown after the incident, according to Regan.
The victim was hospitalized with gashes on his head, a broken hand, a small fracture to the spine and cuts to the abdomen, according to the police. Now in prison on unrelated charges, the victim is in agreement with Hawkins’ recommended sentence, according to Regan.
Nobleza’s case is pending and she is due back in court on Sept. 3.
Hawkins, who Regan said was found in possession of 11 bags of cocaine while incarcerated at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Institution, also pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine.
He also admitted to a violation of probation. He had been released from prison on May 30, 2013, after serving seven years for carjacking a man on Cedar Street in Norwich. A condition of his probation was that he obey all laws. According to court testimony, Hawkins and another man, wearing masks and carrying gloves, robbed the victim of his belongings, including $12 in cash, and drove around with him in the trunk of his car before eventually leaving him bound and gagged behind a vacant building.
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