domain
stringlengths 2
38
| text
stringlengths 21
166k
| timestamp
stringlengths 20
20
| url
stringlengths 16
3.61k
| V3
stringclasses 15
values | label
stringclasses 15
values | probability
float64 0.07
1
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
livejournal | SUCH good news. They've been saying we might get six more eps of Lost in this way. YAAAAY! (And, of course yay for all the other shows). HURRAH! | 2019-04-24T06:14:30Z | https://halfdutch.livejournal.com/457267.html?thread=7825715 | Porn | News | 0.954424 |
wordpress | The latest (hopefully final) conference programme is now available here on our website!
When you’re registering and arranging travel, it is worth noting that the conference itself begins fully at lunchtime on Thursday 27th August. Prior to that will be a free workshop for postgraduates and early career researchers.
No additional booking is required for this – but if you are you planning to attend, please confirm by emailing [email protected], so we can choose a room and refreshment numbers effectively! And if you’re travelling a long distance, you might like to book the additional Wednesday night’s B&B.
An inclusive light lunch will be provided for attendees for the workshop. Other arriving delegates will be able to buy their own lunch from the university canteen or deli bar.
And talking of booking – one more reminder to register as soon as possible! Registration is via the online form: http://store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=42 (if this doesn’t work, go to store.leedstrinity.ac.uk , and navigate through from there). The final deadline for registration is Thursday 13th August. | 2019-04-20T12:50:20Z | https://victorianages.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/reminder-about-registrationclarification-about-the-pgr-workshop-thursday-am/ | Porn | Business | 0.404134 |
google | These are various items you can request for loan to your school. They are available on a first come, first served basis.
Any other information or question you have regarding the loan? | 2019-04-22T00:20:38Z | https://docs.google.com/a/rcanschools.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfe_uu33nTvI7AhvjC2yGlHtmhgz_NnEAhucl62QrSJrrFs5w/viewform | Porn | Reference | 0.567502 |
yahoo | Target's popular car seat trade-in event returns on Earth Day. From April 22 through May 4, Target stores will accept and recycle car seats, including infant seats, convertible seats, car seat bases, harness or booster car seats, the retailer announced in a statement. In exchange for the old car seat, get a coupon for 20% off "a new car seat, car seat base, travel system, stroller or select baby home gear, such as playards, high chairs, swings, rockers and bouncers." | 2019-04-22T08:34:17Z | https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20040318/ap_on_re_eu/poland_iraq&printer=1 | Porn | Shopping | 0.679982 |
goo | The auditorium is filled almost to capacity.
A crowd of 20,000 filled the stadium.
Pale light filled the room.
Her heart filled with joy. | 2019-04-19T08:27:37Z | https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/fill/ | Porn | Sports | 0.797302 |
wordpress | Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential benefits for the economy, there are significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using a sample of men and women who are predominantly aged in their early forties. To do so we merge survey data on health and health behaviors with register data on person and firm characteristics. We track the health of displaced and non-displaced workers from 5 years before to 7 years after displacement. We find that job displacement has a negative effect on the health of both men and women. Importantly, much of this effect is driven by an increase in smoking behavior. These results are robust to a variety of specification checks.
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to well-being. In this paper, we review the evidence to assess the importance of absolute and relative income in determining well-being. Our research suggests that absolute income plays a major role in determining well-being and that national comparisons offer little evidence to support theories of relative income. We find that well-being rises with income, whether we compare people in a single country and year, whether we look across countries, or whether we look at economic growth for a given country. Through these comparisons we show that richer people report higher well-being than poorer people; that people in richer countries, on average, experience greater well-being than people in poorer countries; and that economic growth and growth in well-being are clearly related. Moreover, the data show no evidence for a satiation point above which income and well-being are no longer related.
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international comparisons. This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity (IEO) across 41 countries, and of the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) for 39 countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and intergenerational mobility. The analysis finds evidence of a “Kuznets curve” for inequality of opportunity, and finds that the IEO index is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both in incomes and in years of schooling. The HOI is highly correlated with the Human Development Index, and its internal measure of inequality of opportunity yields very different country rankings from the IEO measure.
Between 2003 and 2009, Argentina’s social spending as a share of GDP increased by 7.6 percentage points. Marginal benefit incidence analysis for 2003, 2006, and 2009 suggests that the contribution of cash transfers to the reduction of disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory pension program – the pension moratorium – in 2004. Noncontributory pensions as a share of GDP rose by 2.2 percentage points between 2003 and 2009 and entailed a redistribution of income to the poor, and from the formal sector pensioners with above minimum pensions to the beneficiaries of the pension moratorium. The redistributive impact of the expansion of public spending on education and health was also sizable and equalizing, but to a lesser degree. An assessment of fiscal funding sources puts the sustainability of the redistributive policies into question, unless nonsocial spending is significantly cut.
You are currently browsing the NEP-LTV Blog blog archives for February, 2013. | 2019-04-22T06:41:58Z | https://nepltv.wordpress.com/2013/02/ | Porn | Health | 0.363163 |
wordpress | Not the finished product, but its a start.
Some of you – if you have a good memory – will remember this word – Ubuntu.
It can in part of a story I told about some children in Africa which I told last July, There was an anthropologist who was living and studying the tribe, their customs and behaviours, and as he was leaving he piled up all the sweets and goodies he had left and told the children they would have a race and the winner would get all the goodies, However, instead of all the children racing to the sweets, they all joined hands and went together, and shared out the goodies at the end.
The anthropologist was surprised and asked them why they all went together, when one could have had it all for themselves?
A girl replied, Ubuntu – how can one of us be happy when they others are sad?
How can one of us be happy when the others are sad?
Ubuntu us a term for that humanness, that caring, sharing part of our nature who wants to be in harmony with each other.
And it is a term I’ve been thinking about particularly over these first few days of the New Year.
We all start the New Year with the best intentions. Many make resolutions in the hope that we can make this new year better, fitter, richer, happier. Bit this year feels different from other New Years.
Living and being in such close communities, I don’t think a single one of us can feel unaffected by some of the things that have happened in this area of over these few short days.
Whether it is the loss of young life in a car crash, the effects of the storms what have made so many flee their homes and causing such destruction, the loss of the life washed up on Black Rock Sands, or those others who have lost jobs, and homes and businesses over this season. In community – when one is affected, we are all affected.
Ubuntu – how can one be happy when the others are sad?
For so many in our community, old and young alike – it will be hard for them to see the road ahead with any clarity or where to go next.
Where do you turn to when you feel lost and without direction?
The Wise Men turned to the scriptures, for their answer, and the stars for their direction.
We don’t know much about the Magi, thse wise men, the three kings from the orient.
There may have been more than three, we don’t know exactly where exactly where they came from, or when exactly they visited Jesus.
But, in our case, I don’t think the details are important.
What is important is that they made that journey.
They saw the signs, left their familiar surroundings, to a place of uncertainty, and discovered something new and wonderful.
What they found literally changed the direction of their lives.
St Matthew puts it: “They returned home by another way”, The old way, the familiar path no longer worked, they needed a different path, a different way of going forward.
The star the sign they followed to find what they were searching for. The source of salvation.
Our readings are full of references to light.
There, in those verses, is a sense of being saved, of relief, of deliverance and of hope.
The excitement of the magi comes through in our scriptures, and also I think a sense of relief. We are told: “They were overjoyed at seeing the star”.
For us today, this story is about making the journey – changing direction, going into the unknown, and finding something, or someone to rejoice about.
It’s about finding those signs which will lead us to what we are looking for. Finding them, trusting them and following them.
It’s about what happens to those who are searching and those who encounter Christ.
And whether we realise it or not, its about a kind of conversion.
– It’s about finding another way of walking the journey of life. A way that has been transformed by a sign, by a star, by a light, by Jesus Himself.
Next week we celebrate the baptism of Christ, and swiftly following that we will slip into Ordinary time, the season of Christmas a memory.
But before it does we are asked to do something first.
The season ask us to begin a journey.
And then like the wise men, to bring what we have, our gifts and share them – with God and with each other.
As we share in what our community is going through, we can bring our gifts and the spirit of Ubuntu with us.
It may be as simple as a smile to someone you meet in Fox’s or London House.
It might be a tissue – or a panad.
It might be a prayer and a lit candle.
We are all called to journey personally with God and as a community, and to do that there are certain things we must do.
If you have not made a resolution yet, it is not too late, especially when there is so much need within our community. Use your gift, follow the sign and do what you can for yourself, or community, and the Lord who can to bring us light and salvation.
Previous Previous post: Does the God encourage popular culture? | 2019-04-22T16:25:02Z | https://sallyjjones.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/a-sermon-for-epiphany-1st-draft/ | Porn | Kids | 0.457506 |
wordpress | Week 73 is our last week of being full time travelers, as we settle down in Portland, OR. But first, a trip to Denver, a wedding, Oktoberfest, and a Portland pub crawl!
Another awesome week boondocking in Bend and getting in some fun times with fellow full time RV'ers!
Week 71 took us from California to our final border crossing into Oregon! We had a Bertha house guest as Heather and her friend, Nina, prepared for their 50k trail run up Mount Bachelor!
This week we visit majestic Yosemite National Park, then cruise to Santa Cruz for JB's next 70.3 Half Ironman!
Week 69 was a quieter, more productive week as we made our way from Idaho, through Nevada, and into California.
This week we enjoy more time with our fellow full time RV friends. There's hikes, runs, hot springs, breweries, mountain biking, trap shooting...we squeeze a lot into week 68!
Week 67 was all about the solar eclipse - boondocking with fellow RV'ers, hiking, and exploring all the beauty Idaho has to offer!
Week 66 found us giving Bertha some TLC and saying goodbye to family in Minnesota. We set sail toward Idaho, covering 1,120 miles in three days and stopping in some pretty great places along the way! | 2019-04-26T10:48:34Z | https://teamburho.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.788934 |
wordpress | This Saturday I will be presenting the most popular segment of my conflict reduction work. Normally it has been called, “How to Deal with Difficult People” or “Swimming with Different Fish”. In this case it will be called “Power Partnering with Parents.” Please come, but if you are not able to do so, please get the book from http://www.Amazon.com: Peace Skills: Swim with the Dolphins, not with the Sharks.
I will also be presenting the newest hot topic: “Assessments that Help.” Everyone is plunging into assessments. Are you plunging into labeling?
It will be at Northwest Hills United Methodist Church Weekday Educators conference, starting at 8:30AM.
Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: conflict reduction, dolphins, peace, peacemaking, sharks, work groups. | 2019-04-20T08:18:19Z | https://orgstrat.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/upcoming-seminar-on-conflict-assessments/ | Porn | Kids | 0.166945 |
wordpress | This discussion also calls to mind a couple of papers which appeared in a symposium organized by the Cornell International Law Journal. In “Global Institutional Reform and Global Social Movements: From False Promise to Realistic Hope”, Richard W. Miller argues that the search for “institutional fixes” distracts from more productive discourse about improving global governance by thinking about global social movements. He describes existing social movements as “an international bunch of people” who seek to relieve the inequities and burdens of globalization, etc etc. They regard each other as allies, wish each other’s causes well, share information sources etc etc. Their purpose: presumably to change mindsets. Thus, in contrast to Drezner’s rationalist approach, Miller’s thesis appears rooted in constructivism. See (2006) 39 Cornell International Law Journal 501.
We hope to continue our discussion on regime proliferation and on the fragmentation of international law in the very near future.
Meanwhile, Dan Drezner’s paper may be found at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/FILA/pdf/FILADiscussionPaperNo0109.pdf. | 2019-04-22T00:35:42Z | https://fletcherfila.wordpress.com/tag/institutionalism/ | Porn | Reference | 0.944224 |
american | Marcy Fink Campos joined AU’s Center for Community Engagement & Service in 2004. As Director, she oversees all office programs and serves as the liaison to the Office of Campus Life, Academic Affairs, and to other campuses involved in community-based learning initiatives. In addition, she teaches a class in the American Studies and Government Departments entitled The Latino Community of the DC Metropolitan Area.
For over 30 years, Ms Campos has lived and worked in the DC Metropolitan Area. She has extensive experience and knowledge of the nonprofit sector through her work with National Council of La Raza and the NeighborWorks Network.
Ms. Campos has also worked extensively in Central and South America on participatory evaluation projects, the development of women's leadership, and strengthening community-based organizations. She has been a teacher in public and private schools in DC and Maryland, a trainer in various adult education programs, and an Adjunct Professor at American University.
Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching, Teaching for Change, Washington, D.C., March 2004. Authored chapter entitled “Sí, Se Puede! Yes, We Can,” based upon the book by the same title, by Diana Cohn. Discusses how to bring social justice issues into the elementary school classroom. The bilingual lesson plan for teachers is posted on www.cincopuntos.com.
“Teaching as an Art and Science: The Use of Innovative Training Methods,” Stone Soup, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Summer 1992, Washington, D.C.
"Women and Popular Education in Latin America," chapter of Women and Education in Latin America: Knowledge, Power, and Change, Editor: Dr. Nelly P. Stromquist, University of Southern California. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, 1992.
"Issues and Tensions in Popular Education in Latin America," International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1991, Great Britain.
"Mothers Lead Health Projects in Chile," AFSC Quaker Service Bulletin, No. 156, Vol. 68, Winter 1987.
La Evaluación Participativa: Aplicada en Programas de Salud, Centro De Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación, Chile, Mayo 1987.
“Bridging Classroom and Community: Bringing Community-Based Learning and Teaching to Your Syllabus,” Ann Ferren Teaching Conference, American University, January 2009.
“University/Community Partnerships: Rhetoric or Reality?” Community Research and Learning Network (CoRAL) Annual Conference, American University, April 2007.
"A New Perspective on Technology Transfer: Bringing Home Successful Field Projects from the Developing World," Panelist at InterAction Annual Conference, Arlington, Virginia, April 1992.
"Education and Women in Latin America," Panelist at Comparative International Education Society Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, March 1992.
"Popular Education in Latin America," Panel organizer and presenter at Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida, December 1989.
Inter-American Foundation Master's Fellowship, Santiago, Chile, 1985. Study of evaluation and community participation in nonformal health education programs in urban shantytowns.
More than 50 students earn extra credit this semester as part of the Community Service Learning Program. | 2019-04-24T22:08:30Z | https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/mfcampos.cfm | Porn | Health | 0.807443 |
wikipedia | 지코사슴쥐(Habromys simulatus)는 비단털쥐과에 속하는 설치류의 일종이다. 멕시코에서만 발견된다. 자연 서식지는 아열대 또는 열대 기후 지역의 습윤 저지대 숲이다.
↑ “Habromys simulatus”. 《멸종 위기 종의 IUCN 적색 목록. 2008판》 (영어). 국제 자연 보전 연맹. 2008. 18 Jule 2009에 확인함. 다음 날짜 값 확인 필요: |access-date= (도움말) Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of endangered. | 2019-04-20T14:40:01Z | https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A7%80%EC%BD%94%EC%82%AC%EC%8A%B4%EC%A5%90 | Porn | Reference | 0.601091 |
homestead | We're sorry, we cannot locate a Cox Communications Store in Imperial Beach California.
Cable Internet Finders - Cox Imperial Beach California retail offices that sell High Speed internet and cable tv service.
How do I order cox wifi in Imperial Beach CA?
order centurylink telephone service in Imperial Beach.
Is there a Cox cable store in Imperial Beach?
What cable providers in Imperial Beach?
Get the Only 5-Year Price Lock in Imperial Beach CA!
Enjoy High-Speed Internet in Imperial Beach that allows you to stream content, game online, surf, and more. With a Cox Communications High-Speed Internet connection, you can get download speeds up to 7 Mbps, which is perfect for almost any online application. With a 30-day satisfaction guarantee, you can rest assured that Cox Communications High-Speed Internet in Imperial Beach is reliable. If you want High-Speed Internet that is fast and cheap, don't delay. Call now.
If you are searching for a bundle on High-Speed Internet and Home Phone in Imperial Beach, there's no better time than now to sign up. You can enjoy an affordable price on bundled service in Imperial Beach, and get reliable High-Speed Internet and Home Phone Service. With speeds up to 7 Mbps, 10 calling features, and 24/7 technical support, Cox Communications is the perfect choice for anyone searching for affordable and reliable services in .
Did you know that the average Internet speed in Imperial Beach is 12 Mbps? This average speed was discovered by a speed test coCAucted by the FCC. The average w download speeds in State is only 5 Mbps. On the other haCA, Cox Communications Internet has speeds up to 12 Mbps in some areas, and 7 Mbps in most other areas. Call today to fiCA out more about internet in Imperial Beach.
Cox Communications™ Internet Service in Imperial Beach, CA is the leader in making your online Iife more accessible, more affordable, and less complicated. Give us a call today to see what services your address qualifies for. | 2019-04-24T11:19:16Z | http://cableinternetfinders.homestead.com/coxcommunicationsimperialbeachcalifornia.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.292263 |
wordpress | In 2014 there was a large issue in the popular Drupal web platform / framework known as Drupalgeddon. The system is popular tool used for creating web sites but now many use it for building sophisticated applications. This means that it has a large surface area because it can do anything.
The original Drupalgeddon (SA-CORE-2014-005) was caused by SQL injection. This allowed attackers to craft SQL queries to read anything from the database or alternatively modify it at free will. Now there is a new issue that is a simple sanitation issue with input parameters.
The company Zero Reception is developing a smartphone with maximum cellular network smartphone. The device is runs Android, and the improved cell reception promises a fourfold improvement over other cellphones.
The Radientum crew hails from Tampere. The former Nokia/Microsoft engineers who founded the company in 2015 have over 15 years of experience in network simulation. The design of the “super antenna” in the Certum Phone is not a new innovation, it simply has not been applied optimally before. The Certum Phone has been designed “reception first” from the ground up.
Improvements in cell reception allow better connectivity for all purposes. Less dropped calls and improved data transfer over 3G and 4G networks in the wild or challenging city spaces such as the subway. The Certum Phone is a crowdfunded project, with a project on Indiegogo.
90 Million Eurojackpot lottery win still not claimed in Finland – coupon lost?
In February 2018 a 90 Million euro win was won in the town of Loimaa in Finland. None of the 16,000 residents of Loimaa has yet to claim the win a month later. If the winners do not make them selves heard within a year, the prize will be lost. The unclaimed win does not affect any ongoing Eurojackpot games.
The European wide EuroJackpot lottery has prizes ranging from 10-90 Million Euro. Countries participating in the lottery are: Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Poland.
Lost: game coupon; Eurojackpot for round 6/18. Fell on the Prisma parking lot on 8.2-18. Finders fee, if the found coupon is the one having significant sentimental value.
Posted on March 12, 2018 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on 90 Million Eurojackpot lottery win still not claimed in Finland – coupon lost?
WordPress is the most popular tool for building marketing websites and even fully fledged web applications like social networks using BuddyPress and eCommerce sites using WooCommerce. Unfortunately the sprawling ecosystem is an issue that the WordPress community finds hard to contain.
With immense popularity, a large user base and somewhat shoddy architecture WordPress is a tempting target for foul play. The core software has automatic updates, that properly used would have prevented the Mossac Fonseca leak where WordPress had a part to play.
Whether or not unmaintained Open Source was a reason for the Panama Papers leak does not mitigate the fact that the ecosystem of WordPress is a bit of a wild west. The secure core of WordPress does not do good if insecure third party plugins are used. The plugins are the real strength of WordPress, but also it’s biggest weakness.
This is a follow up to the cleanup done of some 5,500 malicious plugins together with Sucuri and CloudFlare in December 2017. With the rise of Blockchain based cryptocurrencies, the current flavour of attacks also use users’ browsers to mine Bitcoin for a direct financial gain.
In 2018 WordPress remains as dominant as ever, but users should take care of keeping their installation up-to-date and avoid installing WordPress Plugins that are not well known and acknowledged. Especially illegally obtained commercial plugins are very likely to contain malicious code.
Police have raided the headquarters of the OneCoin organisation in Bulgaria. OneCoin is a suspected Ponzi scam that is disguised in the veil of the blockchain technology. Since the meteoric rise of Bitcoin, Litecoin and other Cryptocurrencies, the market is attractive to scammers.
Operating since 2015 the OneCoin is estimated to have attracted some 3 Million investors. The scheme has faced action from the authorities before. But the joint raid between Bulgarian and German police as well as the Europol is the most significant so far. The leadership of the scheme has reportedly fled the country before.
Bulgarian police has released a Youtube video of the seized materials from the OneCoin raid.
Contentful is a popular content management tool. It is a fully managed service, where the whole technical development and maintenance is handled by the company for a fixed fee. This takes some fixed cost related to hosting and developer investment from the equation.
The traditional Open Source CMS market is quite well established with a few leading global players like WordPress and regional champions like TYPO3 in Germany. For Open Source Headless CMSes the market is much more in flux, so far there are no clear leaders in the market place. The convenience of Contentful and other proprietary CaaS (Content as a Service) providers is tempting.
Limitations in integrations and sky rocketing costs when dealing with large volumes of content are a deterring factor for some companies. This is why there is a clear demand for Open Source CMS and there are already some enticing options available on the market.
Most of the recent entrants to the market are starting to boast GraphQL as their interface, as REST APIs remain common but less ergonomic for site building. For developers looking for an Open Source GraphQL BaaS (Backend as a Service), there are now new interesting options that use a relational database features to create a thin GraphQL layer on top.
In his State of the Word 2016 speech Matt Mullenweg, the project lead for the WordPress project announced that there will be no releases of WordPress in the upcoming future. Development on the project will continue, but before a new official version is released – there will need to be significant improvement in key areas.
It is best in life to crush your enemies with marketshare, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their proprietary CMS.
The WordPress REST API: The WordPress REST API has been in development for a number of years, but continues to lack many key functionalities, including authentication. WordPress 4.7 adds more endpoints to core, but this is not sufficient according to Mullenweg.
The Customizer: The customizer allows live-previewing to configuration changes done to a WordPress installation. It enables handy previews of theme changes, color changes and widget placement to provide a basic WYSIWYG preview. Competition like Wix and Squarespace are more advanced and for WordPress to stay relevant and remain number one most popular publishing tool it needs to catch the proprietary pair.
With these targets set the project should be well set to continue dominating and even expanding it’s market share and reach. This is key in battling proprietary corporations that have the funding to run multimillion dollar marketing campaigns of their products, where as WordPress is an effort of love and devotion for many – a true community effort!
Let’s Make WordPress Great Again! | 2019-04-22T21:04:20Z | https://janit.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/ | Porn | Arts | 0.090449 |
wordpress | Last week’s headlines focused on Europe falling back into recession, initial and continuing jobless claims soared, and the market remained under pressure. With a Washington status quo, there is little uncertainty as to how or whether the parties will work together. Yet, the combination of domestic issues with global ones suggests a weak economic backdrop in near-term data. Still, a fiscal solution might yield a positive market trend.
Bellwether AAPL has been pounded for 8 weeks, undercutting the low of its prior base and resetting its base count. The nature of its selloff shows a change of trend. Also, AAPL’s recent earnings, sales, and profit margin deceleration suggests that it is time to observe whether another AAPL catharsis can lead to reacceleration, and another eventual uptrend. AAPL is important above and beyond most stocks, because as a leading stock, it is a pure indication of the most intelligent institutional investors, and therefore, perhaps, the best type of indicator of market strength.
By reference to historic models, there is an elevated probability that this correction may develop into a deeper, longer correction. Whether such action fits a technical definition of a Bear Market or not might be immaterial. Corrections serve the twin purposes of wearing investors out and scaring them out of the market. As we consider that the best leading stocks have topped, and the overall trend is late in its fourth year, there is little justification for aggressive investing, even if a confirmed uptrend evolves.
Will America follow Europe into recession?
Has AAPL topped or will it reaccelerate and return as a leader?
What could be AAPL’s next catalyst?
Which stocks will become the next crop of leaders, eventually?
How will the fiscal cliff and tax increases be resolved and how will the market receive them? | 2019-04-21T06:21:53Z | https://kleinmarketforum.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/klein-market-summary-november-19th-2012/ | Porn | Business | 0.874708 |
yahoo | Is Mera SA.’s (WSE:MER) Balance Sheet Strong Enough To Weather A Storm?
Does Mera SA. (WSE:MER) Go Up With The Market? | 2019-04-25T22:05:03Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/mer?ltr=1 | Porn | Business | 0.668282 |
wikipedia | For the Taiwanese actress, see Kelly Huang.
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xiao.
Xiao Xian (蕭銑) (583–621) was a descendant of the imperial house of the Chinese dynasty Liang Dynasty, who rose against the rule of Sui Dynasty toward the end of the rule of Emperor Yang of Sui. He tried to revive Liang, and for several years appeared to be successful in doing so, as he, with his capital at Jiangling, ruled over a state that included most of modern Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam. In 621, however, under an attack by the Tang Dynasty general Li Xiaogong, he, not realizing that relief forces were approaching Jiangling, surrendered. He was subsequently taken to the Tang capital Chang'an, where Emperor Gaozu of Tang executed him.
Xiao Xian was a great-grandson of Emperor Xuan of Western Liang, a vassal of Western Wei and Northern Zhou, who claimed Liang imperial title under the support from those states with his capital at Jiangling. His throne passed for two more generations, to Emperor Jing (Xiao Cong), until it was abolished by Emperor Wen of Sui in 587. That year, Xiao Xian's grandfather and Emperor Jing's uncle Xiao Yan (蕭巖) the Prince of Anping and Emperor Jing's brother Xiao Huan (蕭瓛) the Prince of Yixing, believing that the Sui general Cui Hongdu (崔弘度) was about to launch a surprise attack on Jiangling with Emperor Jing away at the Sui capital Chang'an to pay homage to Emperor Wen, surrendered to Chen Dynasty with the people of Jiangling, an act that directly led to Emperor Wen's decision to abolish Western Liang notwithstanding Emperor Jing's submissiveness. In 589, after Emperor Wen conquered Chen, he largely spared Chen officials, but as he bore a grudge against Xiao Yan and Xiao Huan for rebelling against him, he had them executed even after they surrendered.
As a result of Xiao Yan's death by execution, his family, unlike the rest of the Xiaos, was not treated well by Sui authorities. Xiao Xian himself was poor in his youth, supporting himself and his mother by serving as a scribe. He was known for being filially pious to his mother. During the reign of Emperor Yang, because Emperor Yang's wife Empress Xiao was a sister of Emperor Jing's, her relatives were generally given governmental offices, and Xiao Xian was made the county magistrate of Luochuan (羅川, in modern Yueyang, Hunan).
In 617, several military officers at Baling Commandery (巴陵, roughly modern Yueyang) considered rising against Sui rule. They initially wanted to support one of their own, Dong Jingzhen (董景珍) as leader, but Dong pointed out that he was of a humble lineage and would not be respected by others, but that Xiao Xian was of imperial heritage and would be supported. They therefore sent messengers to Luochuan to report this to Xiao, who then gathered several thousand men. At the same time, the agrarian rebel leader Shen Liusheng (沈柳生) was attacking Luochuan, and Xiao initially could not repel him. However, when Xiao, believing that the act would cause Shen to submit, declared himself the Duke of Liang and replaced all Sui uniforms with Liang ones, Shen submitted. Within five days of Xiao's declaration, he had several tens of thousands of men, and he led them to Baling. Dong sent one of his followers, Xu Deji (徐德基) to greet Xiao, when Shen, believing that his accomplishment would be overshadowed by the contributions of Dong and the others, killed Xu and wanted to detain Xiao. Xiao, in shock, offered to resign, which led Shen to, in fear, beg for forgiveness. Xiao initially pardoned him, but Dong argued that if Xiao did not kill Shen, he could not show the rule of law, and so Xiao changed his mind and allowed Dong to execute Shen. Shen's soldiers fled.
In winter 617, Xiao built a tall altar and burned a wooden pire thereon. He declared himself the Prince of Liang and changed era name to show independence from Sui.
Around the new year 618, Xiao Xian sent his general Su Hu'er (蘇胡兒) to attack another rebel leader, Lin Shihong the Emperor of Chu, who had earlier taken over most of modern Jiangxi and Guangdong. Su captured Lin's major city Yuzhang (豫章, in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi), prompting Lin to retreat from Nankang (南康, in modern Ganzhou, Jiangxi) to Yugan (餘干, in modern Shangrao, Jiangxi).
In summer 618, Xiao took imperial title and established an imperial government with Liang Dynasty governmental structure. He posthumously honored Xiao Cong as Emperor Jing (as Xiao Cong had died with only the Sui title of Duke of Liang), but did not so posthumously honor his grandfather Xiao Yan and father Xiao Gui (蕭璿), honoring Xiao Yan only as Prince Zhonglie of Hejian and Xiao Gui as Prince Wenxian of Hejian. He created seven of his generals princes and sent one of them, Yang Daosheng (楊道生) the Prince of Song to attack Jiangling. After Yang captured Jiangling, Xiao moved his capital from Baling to Jiangling. Meanwhile, the Sui officials in the modern Guangxi and northern Vietnam regions, upon hearing that Emperor Yang had been killed in a coup led by the general Yuwen Huaji in spring 618, largely surrendered to Xiao. Historical records indicate that Xiao's territory went as far east as Jiujiang, as far west as the Three Gorges, as far south as Jiaozhi (交趾, modern Hanoi, Vietnam), and as far north as the Han River, with more than 400,000 regular soldiers under his disposal.
In 619, Xiao made a push to expand his territory to the modern Chongqing and Sichuan region, then held by Tang Dynasty. He sent Yang and Chen Puhuan (陳普環) to attack Tang's Xia Prefecture (峽州, roughly modern Yichang, Hubei), but they were repelled by the Tang general Xu Shao (許紹). In 620, the Tang general Li Xiaogong the Duke of Zhao Commandery attacked Xiao's general Du Ti (闍提) the Prince of Dongping and killed Du.
Meanwhile, Xiao was said to be narrow-minded and suspicious, and his generals, because of their accomplishments, were out of control and cruel. Xiao feared them, and therefore declared that his empire was peaceful and that the military should be cut back, in order to reduce the influences of the generals.
Meanwhile, in winter 620, Dong Jingzhen's brother, a general at Jiangling, was resentful of Xiao and plotted against him. When the news of the plot was leaked, Xiao executed Dong Jingzhen's brother. At that time, Dong was defending Changsha. Xiao declared a pardon for Dong and summoned him back to Jiangling, but Dong, in fear, rose against Xiao, offering to surrender Changsha to Tang. Emperor Gaozu ordered Xu to try to aid Dong, but Xu did not appear to be able to advance much, although he did capture Jingmen from Liang. Meanwhile, Xiao sent Zhang Xiu (張繡) the Prince of Qi to attack Changsha. Dong tried to get Zhang to join him, by pointing out the situation to be similar to when Emperor Gao of Han first killed Han Xin and then Peng Yue—i.e., the people with contributions were being killed. Zhang did not respond and put Changsha under siege. Dong tried to fight his way out of the siege but was killed by his own subordinates. Xiao promoted Zhang, and Zhang became arrogant due to his contributions. Xiao killed him, and thereafter, it was said that all of Liang's generals all considered rebelling, and that Liang's power was weakened.
Around the same time, the Tang official Li Jing had offered 10 strategies to destroy Liang to Li Xiaogong. Li Xiaogong relayed them to Emperor Gaozu, who accepted them. In spring 621, Emperor Gaozu made Li Xiaogong the commandant at Kui Prefecture (夔州, modern eastern Chongqing) and had him build a large fleet and train sailors to prepare for the attack against Liang. He also made Li Jing Li Xiaogong's deputy.
In summer 621, the Tang general Zhou Faming (周法明) attacked Liang's An Prefecture (安州, roughly modern Xiaogan, Hubei), capturing the Liang general Ma Guiqian (馬貴遷). Soon thereafter, the Tang general Guo Xingfang (郭行方) attacked Liang's Ruo Prefecture (鄀州, in modern Xiangfan, Hubei) and captured it as well.
In winter 621, Tang launched a major assault on Liang, with Li Xiaogong, assisted by Li Jing, in command of the forces overall. With Yangtze River's water high and treacherous at that time, Xiao did not expect an attack from Tang, and he was caught by surprise. Li Xiaogong defeated the Liang general Wen Shihong (文士弘) and approached Jiangling. As Xiao had earlier reduced his armed forces, he only had a few thousand men in Jiangling, and he issued emergency orders to the troops in the other parts of the empire, ordering them to come to Jiangling's aid at once. Nevertheless, Xiao's counterattack was initially successful, although Li Xiaogong and Li Jing soon defeated Liang forces again and put Jiangling under siege. Under Li Jing's suggestion, Li Xiaogong floated the captured Liang ships down the Yangtze River, empty, to confuse Liang forces into believing that Jiangling had fallen. The Liang forces were indeed confused and slowed down.
Heaven does not protect Liang, and we can no longer stand. If we fight all the way to being completely worn out before surrendering, it will be the people who suffer. Why do I put them in water and fire just because of myself?
After offering sacrifices to the Liang ancestors, Xiao surrendered, stating to Li Xiaogong, "Only Xiao Xian should die. The people are innocent. Please do not plunder." He did not know that more than 100,000 Liang soldiers were approaching, and after they arrived, they saw that Xiao had surrendered and surrendered as well.
Sui lost its deer, and the heroes sought after it. I, Xiao Xian, was not blessed by Heaven, and therefore was captured. I was merely like Tian Heng (田橫, a Qi prince who tried to revive Qi after the fall of Qin Dynasty) claiming a princely title, who did not rebel against Han Dynasty. If what I did is criminal, I am willing to be boiled to death.
Emperor Gaozu, angry at Xiao's refusal to submit, had him beheaded.
^ The Bo Yang Edition of the Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 44, p. 172, indicated that the Prince of Dongping was actually Xiao Duti, interpreting him to be a relative of Xiao Xian's, but no other source appears to support that interpretation.
^ Using a deer to analogize to the power to rule was first done by Han Xin's strategist Kuai Tong, and this subsequently became a well-known reference to the power to rule. See Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 12.
^ Both the Book of Tang, vol. 56 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved March 30, 2007. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link), and the New Book of Tang, vol. 87 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 10, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2007. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link), give Xiao Xian's era name as Fengming, but the Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 184, gives it as Mingfeng.
This page was last edited on 16 April 2019, at 15:25 (UTC). | 2019-04-20T12:51:58Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Xian | Porn | Reference | 0.387924 |
tripod | Rage Warehouse presents "The Plumber"
In a world where women have been replaced by stuffed animals, a man known only as 'The Plumber' owns the title of "World's Greatest Lover". But what happens when he meets a woman who's sexual appetite even he cannot handle?
One extremely boring Sunday afternoon in October, shortly after I had moved in with Chris, I got tired of watching the Patriots lose, and started looking around for stuff to do. I had, within my reach, a video camera, a teddy bear, and a telephone company helmet. I immediately imagined a heartwarming tale of a lonely bear and the misunderstood repairman. All that was left was to call Chris at work and ask him "where's the gun?".
He loves it when I ask him things like that while he's at work. Like the time I called him to ask why someone would want to kill the president. He was very happy with me for that.
As for why a Plumber is wearing an obvious telephone company helmet, there is a very complicated story for that, which involves a grand piano and several dozen thai hookers, but we'd best save that for another time. | 2019-04-26T00:09:23Z | http://ragewarehouseri.tripod.com/plumber.htm | Porn | Recreation | 0.724427 |
wordpress | we have some shows coming up, more about that coming soon on here.
there are some new bags for sale at the next four gigs. they are all handprinted and handstamped, each one unique design and colours.
come to see us play and go and grab one! | 2019-04-24T08:13:59Z | https://vivianvoid.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/new-bags/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.9812 |
yahoo | 25%74°49°Mostly cloudy with a high of 72 °F (22.2 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 7 mph (3.2 to 11.3 kph).Night - Cloudy. Winds variable at 5 to 7 mph (8.0 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 53 °F (11.7 °C).
5%73°49°Mostly cloudy today with a high of 73 °F (22.8 °C) and a low of 49 °F (9.4 °C).
45%58°45°Scattered showers today with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a low of 45 °F (7.2 °C). There is a 45% chance of precipitation.
35%61°47°Scattered showers today with a high of 61 °F (16.1 °C) and a low of 47 °F (8.3 °C). There is a 35% chance of precipitation.
5%61°46°Mostly cloudy today with a high of 61 °F (16.1 °C) and a low of 46 °F (7.8 °C).
25%63°47°Rain today with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C) and a low of 47 °F (8.3 °C). There is a 25% chance of precipitation.
60%63°45°Showers today with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C) and a low of 45 °F (7.2 °C). There is a 60% chance of precipitation.
Today - Mostly cloudy with a high of 72 °F (22.2 °C). Winds variable at 2 to 7 mph (3.2 to 11.3 kph).
Tonight - Cloudy. Winds variable at 5 to 7 mph (8.0 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 53 °F (11.7 °C). | 2019-04-22T05:20:44Z | https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/france/ile-de-france/chatenay-sur-seine-585062 | Porn | Recreation | 0.167888 |
livejournal | So today I'm driving up one of those steep roads on College Hill, and I have to stop at a red light, at an intersection located at the top of the hill. Now, I love my little VW Jetta. But she's very temperamental and apparently doesn't like going forward up a hill from a complete stop.
Anyway, I'm at the top of the hill, and the light changes to green. There's an airport shuttle van directly behind me. I try several times to go forward. I'm doing everything right, car in first gear, easing out the clutch and accelerating the way I'm supposed to (and with this car I have to accelerate like a LOT when I'm on a hill), so you'd think I'd go forward, right? Nope. I'm rolling backward, getting closer and closer to Airport Shuttle Van with every attempt. Seems my car has decided going to pick the "roll backward into a possible accident" option rather than the "do what's asked and go forward and save the body shop costs" one.
So here I am, with my arm out the window, gesturing frantically for Airport Shuttle Van Guy to please, please go around me. After he does, I figure, there should be enough of a gap to allow for some backward-ness. Airport Shuttle Guy doesn't do a damn thing. I keep gesturing, only now I'm yelling, "GO AROUND ME", louder and louder. Nothing. I try, "BACK UP, THEN!" This for some unknown reason makes the guy GET OUT OF THE VAN. I don't know what he was doing because I was too busy not dying to look. He got back in after only a few seconds, so wtf? By this time, people walking along the road (and this is the East Side of Providence at 5 p.m.; there are a lot of people walking along the road) are looking at me as if I'd lost my last brain cell. I didn't really care much, because again, the whole Not Dying thing.
As a last ditch effort I switch on my flashers and keep making with the gesturing. This apparently buys Airport Shuttle Van Guy a seat on the clue bus, because he finally goes around me. Carefully, because this was rush hour, after all. The space gives me enough room to accelerate like hell and finally go forward. It's taken only one change of the light, but it feels like an hour.
The very same thing happens, only in reverse, when I'm parked on a hill. The car doesn't want to back up, so if there's a car parked in front of me I run a huge risk of hitting it. So far I've managed to sweet-talk her into doing what I ask, but someday there's going to be a Problem, I just know it. I love my car because she's not huge and can maneuver around a city really well, gets good mileage, has great pickup (unless I'm on a freaking HILL) and starts up when I turn the key (okay, there was the alternator problem, but that wasn't the car's fault).
So yesterday I was thinking about how I've had my car for months and she doesn't have a name yet. Obviously it's a female because Jettas is Chick!Car personified. Or carified. Whatever. I couldn't seem to come up with the right name for her. But after today's prima donna act, and all the other stubborn things this car does (and after a LJ-comment discussion with sam80853, whose car DOES have a name), and because I love her, I've named her Ellen. It's so perfect and fitting, I should have thought of it before. The only thing better would be if she were burnt orange instead of Navy Blue. But eww, a burnt orange car? Icky.
Yeah. I have a life, and y'all care. And remind me never, ever to try to go home over College Hill again. Because that's just dumb.
I know I shouldn't laugh but ... ::giggles::, I can picture you gesturing wildly, desperately trying to get the car to work.
And you know, guys don't ever understand sign language. Ever!
Oh dear, I had probably set the brake and had kicked the car, twice.
I have no idea why this guy GOT OUT OF THE VAN. The mind boggles, really.
Having just survived Near-Death by car, I feel your pain! But mostly Yay! you have a Jetta. We used to have one when I was a kid. I learnt to drive in it. Now I have a VW Polo (we've been together 9 1/2 years) and I love her with a passion - though not enough of a passion to clean her as often as she deserves.
Ellen seems like the perfect name.
I don't think we have Polos. I've never heard of them.
My Near-Death was closer to a Near-Fenderbender, but it was still scary.
I think they may be too little to be North American cars!
We have Minis, though. I don't think they're exactly like the UK's, though.
Ellen sounds like she might be a bit of a Princess. Sorry to hear about that - and glad you got through it OK. There are a couple of steeeeep hills in Vancouver with stop signs, and I'd drive miles out of my way to avoid them, so I think you're quite brave.
You might want to check the clutch fluid.
There's fluid in the clutch? Woah.
Obviously I know a whole lot about cars. Or not.
hehehe. So yesterday at work my friend Kathy Hennebury asks me if I am related to Kelly Roosa. I explain that you are my mother in law. We both know her because she was Dr. Marie Reiger's receptionist (the chiropractor on BI and Narragansett). She remember that you wanted to be a midwife and thought you were a very nice person. I told her that I would let you know she said hi.
I just want to know *why* he got out of the van. I thought he was going to come talk to me, but he didn', he disappeared around the side of the van and next thing I know he was back in the driver's seat again. | 2019-04-18T12:36:06Z | https://primroseburrows.livejournal.com/344280.html | Porn | News | 0.194344 |
livejournal | From the FCF list, I've heard that Nook, the liger at Valley of the Kings and the biggest cat I've ever known personally at all, has died.
I could speak at length about Nook, VOTK, or the article, but I have a lake to circumambulate.
hi there. I knew Nook very well and all I have to say is he deserved better as do most of the others there. Nook was so gentle and beautiful.
Since you reply anonymously, I have no way of knowing if you'll ever be back here or are interested in a discussion. But just in case, I'll share my thoughts.
Since I developed a serious interest in big cats, I've visited as many facilities that house them as I've been able to. I've seen a wide range of husbandry practices, budgets, and skill levels among the responsible people, and I've learned enough about reading big cats' behavior that I think that I understand them better than almost all the people I ever talk to when I visit facilities. So I have some delusions that I know what I'm talking about when I say this.
Valley of the Kings doesn't look very good. They don't have the land area to provide the big habitats I'd like to see or the budget to provide features like waterfalls. But I see fewer psychological problems in the animals there than I do in a lot of places. To put it in more touchy-feely terms, the animals there are well loved and happy. They are adequately fed and the caging is adequate to keep the public safe. In short, they're not the best, but I know what bad looks like and they're not it. | 2019-04-25T06:23:08Z | https://tigertoy.livejournal.com/238080.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.14714 |
wordpress | You can read the original posts by clicking on the photos.
Please use the email contact at the right hand side of the page if you’d like me to make something similar for you.
I like this pattern. It’s very easy and quick to make up.
This table topper was made for my sister. It is made from the same fabrics as her sofa pillows.
Just playing around with scraps. The filler was too big!
Easy fence rail table runner. Very Christmassy!
Stitched in the ditch starry table runner.
There’s a very romantic story behind this one! | 2019-04-18T22:39:19Z | https://sewingbesidethesea.wordpress.com/2011-finishes/ | Porn | Reference | 0.616261 |
wordpress | Boston Calendar: April – SPOOL.
Wenders gives two of the season’s Norton lectures.
Start of a six week class on female directors in Hollywood.
Wicked Queer 2018 (cont.) / April 1 – 8 / Various.
The 34th annual Boston LGBT Film Festival continues with screenings at the Brattle Theatre, MFA, and Paramount Center – and closing night at the ICA.
More selections at the MFA from the 17th edition of the Boston Turkish Film Festival.
The series focuses on seven of Hong Sangsoo’s recent films, released 2013 – 2017. Sangsoo’s latest, Claire’s Camera, opens in Boston on April 13.
April’s continuation of the HFA’s Wenders retro brings The State of Things, Wings of Desire, Notebook on Cities and Clothes, Buena Vista Social Club, The Salt of the Earth, A Trick of the Light – and the iconic Paris, Texas (April 7, pictured) featuring the late Harry Dean Stanton. Wenders will attend in person on the 7th and 8th – the full series concludes in May.
“Shattered identity” – mostly screening on 35mm (four of the five).
Harold Lloyd stars. Live piano accompaniment.
Painterly explosions. Original version screens 4/6, the Black and Chrome Cut on 4/7.
Julie Dash’s 1991 landmark of African-American cinema screens at the MFA.
Last of the Hammer Horrors.
Coppola in person for the April 16 screening.
Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero of midnight cult staple The Room reunite on screen. Sestero in person.
What great site! Boston gets so many films we never see.
Thanks for checking out CB’s takes. Anyone who digs Wim gets my attention. | 2019-04-24T04:13:47Z | https://spoolfilm.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/boston-calendar-april/ | Porn | Arts | 0.859712 |
wordpress | I’m generally not a fan of extended warranties. I have only bought them twice. Once for an after market warranty for a BMW that was more hassle than it was worth. The second time for a first generation iPad. The iPad was expensive enough and just came out on the market. I still have it but it quickly became solely an e-reader because Apple quickly stopped supporting the operating system on the first iPad.
I was struggling with the decision to buy the extended warranty when I was near 50,000 miles. The battery and motor are already covered for 8 years and infinite miles. My fellow blogger wrote up a detailed description of the warranty.
In my mind there are several reasons to buy an extended warranty on the Tesla if you want to keep the car for an extended period of time.
The Tesla Motors Club forum is a poll whether or not folks were going to buy the extended warranty. 99 people have responded with the majority opting to buy the extended warranty at some point in time.
Poll – Buy the Extended Warranty?
To my chagrin, I debated this for naught. I was discussing whether or not to extend the warranty with my service advisor, when I was informed that I already had the extended warranty!
During my tire debacle, I received a phone call to offset my serious issues with Tesla. Since this discussion was over the phone and not through email, I had forgotten that Tesla had given me a free extended warranty for my troubles. They did not replace my tires but did refund part of the expensive curb rash removal and gave me the extended warranty for free.
Did I get special treatment? I know Tesla treats all its customers very well. But having a blog that gets a reasonable amount of traffic does not hurt. I tried to remain anonymous to Tesla for several years, but a few years in I did let them know I am a blogger as I needed to include responses from Tesla to write a fair post about the time it took to supercharge.
Would I pay for the extended warranty? Yes, I would. I think there are still a few kinks with the Model S. But the price of parts for the Model S is still quite high. For example a new touchscreen is $5,000. So I think for a new car from a new car company the extended warranty is a good choice for most drivers.
In this blog, I have documented every small issue I have had with my Teslas. I recently experienced another unusual issue, that I think could only effect a very small amount of Model S owners. I have an uncommon setup where my high powered connector is the first Roadster version, and then I have an adapter from that plug to the Model S. I chose to use an adapter instead of purchasing a new high powered wall connector. This setup had many benefits for me. The adapter was lower cost than a new high powered wall connector and is in effect an extension cord. I could still occasionally charge a Roadster at my home, and I did not have to hire an electrician. There may be a very unusual case where I find a Roadster charge station while on the road, and I can charge my Model S from there using this adapter. Everything had worked fine for about ten months.
Then one day late last year, I tried to plug my car in one day at home and struggled for a while. After a while of pulling it back and forth, I heard the audible click and the light changed at the port.
The next day when I got home, I struggled again with the same sequence. I got to a strange point where the plug was physically connected to the car, but the Dashboard indicated that there was a problem with the connection. I tried to jiggle the connection around a few times, and on the second day I simply could not even remove the cord from the car no matter how hard I pulled. I played with it a few more times, and reboot the two screens.
To reboot the 17” display, you hold down both of the scroll bars on the steering wheel. To reboot the speedometer display, you hold down both of the top buttons on each side of the steering wheel.
I was wondering if this was a problem with the new 5.8.4 software that I had just installed a few days earlier. This software had an enhancement to watch for unexpected fluctuations in the input charge level due to bad house wiring. A Tesla owner had a fire in the garage where their car was parked (the Tesla and connector were fine). As a response to this incident, Tesla is sending all the owners of the Model S High Powered Wall Connectors new units with a thermal fuse. The thermal fuse will prevent current from flowing if the wall socket region heats up for any reason. I have no idea if my High Powered Wall Connector has a thermal fuse or not. But after almost five years of use and a house that is less than ten years old, I am not concerned.
Neither of these two reboots worked. I called the Tesla service number and the friendly person told me to reboot the main power also. Rebooting the main power allowed me to remove the adaptor, but not charge the car. Tesla could see that my car had an internal error about power. Since I placed this call at night on a Sunday in the middle of the holiday season, the person on the phone could not find out any more information from the engineering department.
In the morning, I received a call back after the engineers looked at the car’s error logs. A problem was detected in the physical adaptor cable. That same day, I went to the service center and received a new cable free of charge as it was still under the one year warranty period. I was told that my problem was a bit unusual, and the only suggestion they had was to not keep the cable wound tightly. But I just keep the cable splayed out permanently in my garage as there is plenty of space.
I recently went on a road trip throughout California using seven superchargers. After visits to four supercharging stations, I was not really noticing dramatic improvement with the newly installed 120kW superchargers. Sitting in the car at the Hawthorne station, I decided at the next three stations to accurately log the amount of mileage I could get in 30 minutes at the next three superchargers.
Before delving into the detailed data I gathered and also data subsequently provided by Tesla, I now feel comfortable writing that I think it is possible with a very empty battery, a 100% fully functional non-busy supercharging station and reasonable weather, I could occasionally charge 170 rated range (EPA 5-cycle) in 30 minutes.
The scenarios where I would envision charging at the maximum rate would be for home to destination trips on boring drives such as Interstate 5 through California with several supercharger stops. With this kind of driving, one could easily plan their supercharging visits and keep their battery as low as possible.
But I expect to more often be charging closer to 135 miles in 30 minutes as I experienced on my recent trip. I typically do not just drive on freeways and prefer off the beaten path roads. When traveling I like to have space and time for the unexpected detour and enjoy the journey. Keeping the battery at a fuller state of charge for these wanderlust trips will make the trip about the journey not about optimizing the supercharge rates. So more often, I will likely not be able to carefully plan to have a very empty battery at every supercharger.
The key difference between my results and the 170 miles is that I did not arrive at the stations with a very low battery. The superchargers can really fill up your battery very fast between zero and 40% full. After that period, the charge tapers significantly.
Tesla supplied the data in the second column “Time of Charge at Max Rate”. I did not plot my charge on a minute by minute basis. But the supercharger records indicate that for these three charges, the full power of the supercharger lasted for the listed number of minutes. For example at Buellton, the car was charging at the 113 kW rate for 10 minutes.
The battery itself is a very expensive component in the car. With Tesla, car owners get regular software updates to the car, and in a year we have seen a lot of nice software improvements. Asking for dramatic hardware improvements is an unrealistic business model. I owned a very early Tesla Roadster with plastic knobs and no glove box and was very satisfied with my car and Tesla. I think a little more communication up front on these details will be appreciated by the existing and future customer base. But having worked in Silicon Valley for many years, I still give Tesla my highest review even with a few missteps here and there.
Tesla has been very helpful and responsive with my inquiries of my charge times. They pulled my records from the supercharger station and responded with sufficiently detailed data. In response, they also changed their supercharger web page from stating simply a 30-minute charge with 120kW would give you 200 miles of range (without any footnotes) to now stating 170 miles of EPA rated range (85kWh battery).
I plan sometime in January to drive to the Sacramento area and visit the Vacaville and Folsom superchargers with a very empty battery. | 2019-04-19T02:17:00Z | https://teslaowner.wordpress.com/category/warranty/ | Porn | Health | 0.084785 |
livejournal | Virgin burner + greeter at BM2010!
A friend really wants to go with me, but chances are that she won't have the funds to make it. I'm most likely going to be joining a caravan of people who leave from a nearby town, so I'll have a day or two of driving to make some new friends. Has anyone else gone out there relatively solo, especially on your first Burn?
I just... ahhh I'm all over the place. I've been dreaming of dust for months now!! Can't wait to work, play, dance, and rejoice with all of you out there on the playa! | 2019-04-24T14:50:25Z | https://burning-man.livejournal.com/830044.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.874253 |
wordpress | Measure Key Competencies Leaders must have!!!
A reason to live….. mom sent me this pic….so it is special!
You cannot pick your family.
You can pick your spouse.
You can slightly control your exist from this world.
At work, at play at home!
If you were born in America you are among the luckiest on the face of the earth! I am for sure!
« People matter!!! Every day and especially today!
Developing Effective Leaders with Checkpoint 360 Feedback!
Taking the Guesswork out of Hiring! | 2019-04-22T11:58:33Z | https://mcaspole.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/a-reason-to-live-mom-sent-me-this-pic-so-it-is-special/ | Porn | Business | 0.343385 |
wordpress | [O]n Sunday, labourers ignored threats of deportation and refused to go to work, demanding pay increases, improved housing and better transportation services to construction sites.
Ali bin Abdullah al-Kaabi, Dubai’s minister of labour, described workers’ behaviour as “uncivilised”, saying they were tampering with national security and endangering residents’ safety.
But construction companies do not want more workers to leave as they struggle to find enough to complete existing projects following a government amnesty that gave free tickets home to illegal labourers.
In June, the government offered an amnesty to illegal workers and were promptly swamped by 280,000 applications for exit papers.
A booming economy in India means that many Indian labourers no longer see the need to travel to Dubai and the Gulf, said Bernard Raj, managing director of the Dubai-based Keith International, which supplies Indian workers.
“In the past, when we go for recruitment of workers we were able to choose whomever we wanted. Now the turnout of candidates is very low,” he said.
I’ve posted on this before: Dubai , Qatar.
On Monday, oil rose to $93 a barrel, only seven bucks short of its cataclysmic, futuristic high, and the world is still standing, we are not at war with Iran (yet) and there are no riots at my local petrol station.
Oil is the poison in the diplomatic mix. The need to buy it means that energy-hungry giants like China will find another reason not to side with the US at the UN Security Council.
The need to sell it means that countries like Venezuela and Russia can replace the stagger of poverty with the swagger of wealth without reforming their economies.
We are addicted to oil and so are they. The addict and the pusher are equally doomed.
Last year Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist, said he welcomed the doomsday scenario of $100 a barrel, because only this would provide the necessary shock treatment.
It would finally concentrate minds on the strategic price of oil, on the way oil distorts America’s political interests, especially in the Middle East.
I hate to say it, Tom, but we’re only a fistful of dollars short and the world continues to slide, even glide towards the abyss.
California burns, Georgia is dying of thirst, the Dominican Republic is drowning and I’m driving around in my beaten-up convertible with the roof down at the end of October in Washington DC.
Mother Nature is acting weird and virtually every scientist you speak to says it’s not just a cyclical phase or a freakish fit but a fact of science, which should give us sleepless nights.
This article was published in September in the LA Times. It’s about Arba3a wi Noss (literally, 4.5), which is one of Cairo’s many squatter slums. It also happens to be one of the areas where a lot of (especially Sudanese) refugees have wound up. I know a lot of work has been directed there over the years, but without much lasting effect. In recent years, however, as with much work in Egypt, there has been a shift in focus towards more sustainable approaches, such as education and community-building. According to the article, it’s when Egyptian and refugees neighbors came together, that things got better.
When tensions between impoverished Egyptians and even more destitute Sudanese refugees reached a boiling point in March 2005, relief agencies and community leaders assembled an emergency workshop to keep fights from escalating.
The community leaders concluded that the rapid growth of the neighborhood, in a desert area on the city’s eastern edge, had made it particularly miserable. Throughout Cairo it had become infamous as a magnet for criminals, a haven for car thieves.
The Egyptians were suffering just as much as the Sudanese. They began pressing politicians for amenities. The Sudanese, some of them doctors and lawyers well- connected to the aid networks, provided the savvy the rural Egyptians lacked.
According to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, biofuels are a crime against humanity. In a recently submitted report to the UN, he cites the use of food crops for conversion into biofuels as directly responsible for the world price increases. This comes in a year of unusually notable rises in food prices across the globe (mexican tortilla’s double in a year and maize up 70% in 6 months by Feb 2007). Accurate statistics notwithstanding, it’s quite evident in Egypt.
Experts have been for some time now warning of the negative effect of converting food agricultural products into biofuels on world food prices. Because the processes by definition require high-energy inputs to produce another substance to be used for energy, it’s staple products (starches and oils) that are most useful. In the US, federal subsidies (driven by greenhouse and energy dependence concerns) for biofuel production help drive farmers to sell over a fifth (in Jul 2006) and rising of US maize crops to refiners. Unilever, over a year ago, was warning Europe that food prices would soar as a result of shortages in palm and rapeseed oil, that did (20 to 30%) and could continue to result from setting road transport fuel targets.
Ziegler, similar to Unilver’s earlier position, urged for a 5-year moratorium on using such fuels until technology makes it possible to use agricultural waste (husks, cobs, wood shavings) or plants that grow in terrain unsuitable for food products.
The United States is to Europe as Rome is to Greece: a less-sophisticated, militaristic corruption.
With oil prices up, there’s no doubt that (as before), there wave of resource nationalization (or contract review) will continue. It’s no longer just the pesky socialist and soviet revivalists. Nigeria is considering jumping on board.
I think my title has a better ring than the one for this Rami Khouri article about the odd mix of progress on the economic level despite re-entrenched political authoritarianism.
Efforts to paint this country in a single shade of color are common, but not very useful. Egypt is neither structurally diabolic, nor genetically enlightened. I keep coming back to Egypt for visits and make it a point to speak to both critics and members of the ruling establishment, along with independent analysts and citizens, because Egypt continues to be so potentially important for the future of the entire Arab region. It is a barometer that measures the Arab political condition, but also a rudder that defines the direction in which other countries move.
At the regional level Egypt has been politically immobilized for the past quarter century, following its peace treaty with Israel and close reliance on the United States, but it has not been made irrelevant. Politically and economically, the domestic scene has been stirring again in recent years, and the imminent transition to a new president in the coming years might signal an opportunity for change. The problem is that this confounding land continues to send mixed signals on how it wants to change.
I do not know the political implications of, or the answer to, why a police- and army-dominated modern Arab security state can achieve brisk economic reforms, high growth rates and massive job expansion, in a manner that other Arab countries can only envy, without attempting any serious political reform. But I suspect that this is the right question to ask, as we continue to grapple with the enigma of an entire region of nearly 300 million Arabs who have not been able to achieve or sustain a single breakthrough to credible democracy.
Yes, it is a good question to ask. However, my feeling is that the assessment of the (lack of) need for political reform is a little hasty. I think the wave of labor and, most recently, public service strikes and protests is an indication that there is undoubtedly a need. Perhaps it’s more a matter of how long this dichotomy can persist and what will come of it. | 2019-04-23T10:08:13Z | https://acairene.wordpress.com/2007/10/ | Porn | News | 0.25245 |
tripod | Please use the B4U Close Home Inspections "pre-closing checklist" on your last walk through of the property before closing. During the time period between our inspection and closing ---- ------ can happen. Systems can ---- -- --- ----. Defects can ------ ------- ---- ---------- --------- ------- ----------- (------- ---------- -------, etc). We urge you to ------- --- --------- prior to closing. You should also check all ----- --- --- ---- ---- ------ ---- ---- by -------- ----------- or other ------------ that have now ---- ------- ---------. Make sure you bring a couple of ----- ----- to check ------------ ----- --------.
Obtain all --------- ------------ -------, -----------, ---------- for recent --------, ------- of ---- (----------- --------, ------- to -----------, and ------------ ---------------, etc.).
Keep them in an --------------- ---------- -----.
Check the exterior ------------ of the ---------.
Pay particular attention to the --------, especially if there has been a ---------- since the inspection.
Check all interior ------. Look for ------ ------- if the occupant ------ --- between the inspection and closing.
Check areas that may have been ------ ---- ---- during the inspection, by -------- -----------.
Operate all ------- and -----. Check for ------ ------ -----. (Is there ---------- between the -----?) Check for loose --------.
Check ceilings for new ----- ------ that may have ----------------- since the inspection.
Check ------- ----, ------, and --------- of all -------, --------, and -------.
Check all areas that may have been ---------------- during the ----------------- due to ------- ------, ---------, ---- ----, etc.
Check items that were not part of the ---- ------------, such as -------- --------, ------,---------, and ----- --------.
Make sure ----- and ---- ------ have been ----------.
Operate all the -------, ------------, --- ----------, -------- ------, ---- ----, ------- --------, and ------ ---.
Check all ------ to make sure they ----.
Run ----- -in --- ------- and -------.
Look for active -------- ------ and -----.
Check the -----, ------, and ----- / ---- any -------- --------.
Check for signs of -----. Consider ---------- ---- ------- --------- before taking occupancy / moving in.
If possible, check inside the ----- or ----- -----. Look for active -------- ----- or ------.
Verify that the ------ has -------- ---- of any ------- in the condition of the -------- since the ---- ----------.
If you haven't yet --------- a ---- --------, consider doing so now. Your ---- ------ ----- may be able to ------- ------- for ----- ---------. | 2019-04-24T05:57:44Z | http://b4uclose.tripod.com/b4uclosehomeinspections/id14.html | Porn | Reference | 0.364394 |
wordpress | Like a scuba dive gone horribly wrong.
Every third grade staring contest.
The skin that crawls over his bones as a keeper of all things secret?
The fallen angel carrying the burden of a thousand broken butterfly wings.
That only aphrodite herself could weep. | 2019-04-23T12:55:23Z | https://honestdeconstruction.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/another-shitty-poem/ | Porn | Kids | 0.927256 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on Thursday, January 10th, 2019 at 10:00 am and is filed under Catholicism, Events, Prayer, Pro-Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-23T06:23:49Z | https://gospeloflifesisters.wordpress.com/2019/01/10/2019-pro-life-mass-dates/ | Porn | News | 0.6091 |
wordpress | # Superstorm Sandy is a scenario during which the social media, e.g., Twitter, has played an important role.
What can we do with the mobile phone, without going through infra-structure?
Mobile App running on the mobile phone (Android currently) that provides an UI for voice calls, SMS etc.
Desi and I gave a talk! Here‘s where the Prezi lives.
Beacon radiating power is near 2W. Remote activation of the beacon during the searching actions only has to be implemented.
Sometimes, the staff can reach several thousand people.
near field zone won’t work because of electromagnetics.
Dependence of EMF from the distance between the coils (numerical calculations) Experimental dependence of the level of receiving signal from the distance up to the beacon Alternating *magnetic* field instead of *electromagnetic* one is used.
Can also be used by ore industry, ski resort services, diving. | 2019-04-19T09:15:01Z | https://ieeeghtc.wordpress.com/category/disaster/ | Porn | Science | 0.950518 |
wordpress | I recently had an experience where a difficulty showed me my own leading-edge where I needed some self development. The awareness came from just noticing my own inner responses. This quote of Victoria’s expresses what happened to me perfectly. Yes I would have to say that it IS a Gift. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your observations and experiences!
Our bodies are amazingly insightful. If we remember to tune into them, as you so wisely did, we can receive the guidance we need for each particular situation. | 2019-04-26T00:10:22Z | https://dailypeptalks.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/difficulties-and-problems-another-way-to-look-at-them/ | Porn | Reference | 0.758899 |
wordpress | Today is the first day all week that I can actually choose what I want to wear first thing in the morning. Yesterday was the last day of choir tour, and I don’t even get to sleep in ’cause I’m going to the chiropractor. YAY!!! It’s gonna feel so good.
We did a total of 13 concerts in five days. The first one was at Brevard Wesleyan. I don’t remember the man’s name, but the speaker that morning was the pastor there in the early 50s. As sad as it is, the only part I remember is the story he told at the end. When he was pastor there he went to the district convention. The other pastors were making fun of him because he had the most children of any of the pastors. He told them that it was their fault because the parsonage was right next to the train tracks, and when the train went by at 4 in the morning it woke them up. Since they couldn’t sleep, what else could they do? The choir was sitting behind him and I know that we were all rolling. | 2019-04-22T07:58:00Z | https://joyslife.wordpress.com/2005/10/07/ | Porn | Arts | 0.487302 |
wordpress | What is the Relationship Between an Individual and a Community?
What is the relationship between and individual and a community? A community is a group of people who have, “A common feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” And an individual is someone who, “Is not part of a group because of their own goals or interests.” In The Scarlet Letter, the idea of and individual vs. community comes up multiple times throughout the story. Hester is seen as the individual who has to try to survive against the rest of the colonists, a community, who use her when needed, otherwise they throw her away as an outcast. For an individual to help a group, they have to think about how they can accomplish their own goals while still improving the community as a whole. History shows that it has always been hard for an individual to live a good and faithful life without becoming part of a community. In The Scarlet Letter, the community is the colonists that live with Hester. Hester is the lone individual who is secluded from society. The community only gives attention to Hester when they need her amazing sowing skills. He talent of being an amazing seamstress was used for funerals, babies, and fashion. In chapter 5 of the book, Hester’s: “Handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion. Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things…” The community didn’t care about her sin when they needed he talent for their benefit. But once they received what they needed, they again shunned her from their community. This shows the relationship between the community and the individual in The Scarlet Letter; there was only a one way benefit that supported the community and never the lone individual. And the community didn’t think to care that this was they only way Hester was surviving and making money, while they all had businesses and each other as support in case something horrible happens and one of them goes broke or something. Also, the individual, Hester is never allowed to participate in a joyous occasion for the community. As Hester’s’ products and, “Skill was never called in to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride.” This is when they all remember Hester’s sin and decide to bring their society back together. Hester Prynne has no benefits as being the individual in this individual vs. community relationship.
Why Are We So Obsessed With Material Happiness?
Different people perceive happiness in different ways across the entire universe. The generation in which my parents grew up was one where kids were taught that happiness was acquired through making an overwhelming amount of money and being able to buy anything you want. I have now come to realize that this is only one perception on the topic of happiness. Some people see happiness as a very materialistic thing, while others see it as something spiritual and optimistic for what they have.
A common theme relating to happiness that has carried over to today is materialistic happiness. As described by a famous French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, the consumerist choice is expounded by the symbolic of something, not as much the price of this object. And in today’s case this symbol is happiness. When a consumer pays attention to the symbolic side of a material, they are willing to pay as much as ten times the normal price. Current businesses use this idea and advertise how their product can bring happiness to people. A materialistic person is never satisfied; the feeling of happiness is only a temporary one. A person who looks to materials or objects for happiness tends not to care about the happiness of family. People who have a materialistic approach to happiness are generally seen as self-centered. These people focus on trying to waste their money on products that bring them a short-term satisfaction. This is not an approach that society should teach to its youth. | 2019-04-20T19:03:00Z | https://pbandjpublishing.wordpress.com/tag/society/ | Porn | Arts | 0.413351 |
tripod | Rob Vonk free software, can you help?
The success of EasyMTU and Diskcat is growing over my head right now. It results in traffic jams with people who wants to download my free software. That's why I'm looking for some people who wants to mirror my site. Be sure that you have enough bandwith because a lot of people are downloading my software at the moment. Free sites like Tripod, Geocities, Webjump, xoom, freespace etc. just aren't fast/stable enough.
It would be really cool if someone could offer me my own domain in trade of some advertising on my page. All my software is free and always will be free. That's why I can't pay for a domain.
The name must be original. No other diskcatalog program can have the same name.
If you search for the name with Altavista, there shouldn't be much hits so the program is found easily.
The name must say something about the use of the program.
The last thing you can help me with is developing new realeases of the easy skin generator. I'm looking for a delphi programmer who can continue developing the program. I really don't have the time for it. I'll give away the source to any (non comercial) developer who can give some of his program examples so that I can see that it is in good hands. | 2019-04-25T05:49:57Z | http://easymtu.tripod.com/helpme.html | Porn | Sports | 0.08991 |
wordpress | I only got to know of the “Ian Bell run-out incident” itself when I got onto the Cricinfo mobile site.
Yes, the incident is unfortunate and did bring back memories of a match in 2006, when Baz McCullum took off the bails when Murali completed his run and then went to congratulate his batting partner, Sangakkara, on having reached his century. He failed to notice that the ball hadn’t been returned back to Baz. Everyone appealed and it was given out and Fleming didn’t bother revoking his decision to appeal. That dismissal cost us a fair bit as Murali was providing good support to Sanga,who would’ve stretched our lead further to ensure that the Lankan bowlers had more to bowl to in the final innings of the match.
It was the same here, except that Bell had packed in his gloves to go have his hot cuppa tea.
However, this incident was worse because there was the clear egging by Morgan, who has always displayed himself as a very street-smart player, to get back to his crease, all of which went unheeded by Bell.
The umpires asked Dhoni whether he wanted to keep the appeal on, to which he replied in the affirmative.
However, what makes this whole “recalling Ian Bell” incident farficial is this.
Strauss and the coach, Andy Flower, had the nerve to go and ask Dhoni whether he wanted to keep the appeal as such.
Did they really have to be a pair of babies to go and ask Dhoni to return the toys which he stole from them?
Naturally, Dhoni wouldn’t have wanted to be cowered by the demand made by the two, so he said that he wanted to discuss it with the team. The booing by the crowds, as well as the possible negative opinions which may have been formed of him (as if bad publicity about the preparation for the tour wasn’t hard enough to handle), would’ve persuaded him to overturn his appeal.
Besides, how bad would it look if, despite a personal appeal, he didn’t revoke his decision? People might even go to the extent of misconstruing it as disrespect for the two Andys.
Therefore, enough with the praises from the ECB and the ICC about how “the spirit of cricket was upheld by the two teams”.
There was much more at stake for both teams than the Spirit of Cricket (it eventually proved to be less for England as Bell added a further 22 runs before actually getting out), so they decided to revoke it. I don’t think no-one’s conscience felt the pinch!
So, get over it, everyone, and focus on the great batting display being provided by the Englishmen!
To select or not to select Ramps, that is the question!
Ah, the thought of seeing Ramps gracing the stage for one final shot at redemption just fills my heart up with joy!
Yes, I have to make a confession here. I am a true romantic, one of those many people like The Times’ John Woodcock, Wisden Editor Scyld Berry and many more.
Though I was a huge supporter of England during their home series against India in 2007, I kept egging on Anil Kumble to get his maiden Test century in the last test. I didn’t have cable at that time, so the only way that I could really follow the match live was through the BBC Test Match Special commentary. I literally jumped off my chair and was punching the air when the commentator said that Kumble got his century.
That just increased my desire to see Ramps for one last time on the international stage.
However, there is a realist lurking within me who keeps saying “That guy is mentally frail, can’t really rise to the ocassion”. Though the romantic in me tries to diss him, he does realise that it’s true, and there are a number of reasons.
The first is the fact that, for most of his career, he has been playing in the second Division of the County Championship where, as many will know, the standard of bowling is not the very best in the country. A good example is Philip Hughes. He had entered the Ashes with a reputation as big as the Beatles and has now been kicked into a corner by the selectors.
He did make quite a lot of runs (averaging more than 100 in 5 or so matches, if I’m not mistaken) in the County Championship, as well as in the FP trophy matches but was found wanting against international-level bowlers.
Another point that the realist makes is that Ramps did go about 4 – 6 matches without a century when he was on 99 first-class centuries as the spotlight was firmly on him (due to the fact that he could possibly be the last member of this ‘club’). However, after he finally got the 100th hundred, he continued his run-spree, showing that pressure still does get to his head.
As I write this, first BBC and then Cricinfo say that Jonathan Trott is more likely to replace Bopara, while Bell (who’s going to make his Test Debut for the 49th time) will be pushed up to No.3, a position in which he has been an utter failure.
So there goes mine and many other people’s hopes (including that of Alec Stewart and Chris Adams) of Ramps getting a final sojourn, but it was all fun while it lasted!
Aussies sending spies to disrupt England Cricket!
All in English cricket, beware!
Cricket Australia (CA) has sent spies to disrupt English preparations ahead of the ‘all-important’ Ashes season.
The spies, coming under the names ‘Claydon’ and ‘Thorp’ have knocked out the first 5 wickets of the MCC team, including the England hopefuls Vaughan, Key and Bell.
All is gloom and doom for the Poms!
The fate of the England team…..
….is just like a soap opera!
Interim coach Andy Flower says that there’s nothing to worry about.
Once in a while, an abject defeat takes place….
I suppose it’s the timing of the defeat that has got so many conspiracy theories running amok. The ‘KP-Moores’ fiasco, along with the auction of the IPL, has got conspiracy theories being thrown about like money to a bunch of beggars.
For one thing, though people always claim the Indian media to be like a swooping vulture, the English media is no different. I still remember reading an article about the legendary Windies spinner Sonny Ramadin. His actual name was ‘KT Ramadin’. However, Ramadin didn’t know what his initials meant and, since his teachers used to call him ‘son’, he just adopted the name ‘sonny’. However, the English media, when he toured England with WI, relentlessely kept bugging him about what KT stood for!
I don’t think England have too much to worry, except that some heads should be sent rolling (casts a glance towards Ian “I didnt scratch Owais’ eye” Bell)!
As for WI, it’s was just heartening to hear about the victory. I still remember the days (roughly about 15 years ago) when a match against WI would be deemed ‘by default’ to be a victory for them. Their fall from grace has been hard to watch, and i sincerely hope that they keep going up! Nice to see a level playing field.
As for my predictions for this series, its 2-1 in favour of WI!
Teflon King lives another day!
Having no claim than being a ‘classy player’, the Teflon King, Ian Bell, manages to sneak in the side after Owais Shah made a big claim for his spot with an unbeaten 125 against the St. Kitts & Nevis Invitational XI.
Harmison has been brought in, in the hope that he might recapture the glory of 5 years ago (7/12 in an innings in the very same Sabina Park), and SiBo comes back after a very long break from cricket because of a bad back. Great bloke, he is! | 2019-04-21T21:13:40Z | https://offcutter.wordpress.com/tag/ian-bell/ | Porn | Sports | 0.89761 |
wordpress | The locking gas spring can be a sort of flexible component according to the working substance from the gas as well as the liquid. The locking gas spring is created up in the pressure pipe, the plunger, the plunger pole and a few connected parts. The china gas spring supplier is in a position to give different sorts of gas springs like the lockable gas springs and so on.
The lockable gas spring can be a sort of the piston gas spring. In the lockable gas springs is filled with all the N2. and also the ventilate hole is set inside the inner a part of the plunger. So the pressures on each ends from the plunger will be the exact same. Along with the two sides of the plunger have different side areas. The a single finish is connected together with the plunger pole along with the other finish has not any plunger poles.
This type of gas springs are made up from the pressure space, the plunger pole, the plunger, the seal pocket, the filling material, the controlling elements inside the space and outdoors the space, the connector and so on.
This sort of gas springs have the outstanding positive aspects more than the frequent gas springs. Firstly, its working speed is significantly less than the typical gas spring. Secondly, the movement force has tiny adjust within the price of 1:1.two. So it is quite very easily to become controlled. Along with the portable gas springs have less volume than the revolving gas spring, so they’ve the higher expense and comparatively short life length. Diverse in the mechanical gas spring, this type of gas spring has nearly lineal flexible curve. The X, that is the regular versatile ratio on the gas spring, is amongst 1.two and 1.four. The other parameters are in a position to be produced reference flexibly according to the demands and also the practical operating circumstances.
The lockable gas springs are mainly widely utilized in the distinct kinds of health-related gear. This type of gas springs are in a position to quit at any place in the approach from the application, since they are in a position to depend on some release set. Not just that, when the lockable gas spring stops operating, they have the fantastic locking force.
Aside from the lockable gas springs, the gas springs also consist of the free of charge gas springs. They’re also in a position to be known as the help post, which can be most widely used amongst different sorts of gas springs. The free gas springs are mostly utilized for the supporting, so every of them has only two areas: the shortest finish and also the longest end. Not simply that, the cost-free gas spring isn’t able to cease by itself. The totally free gas spring is most extensively used within the distinct sorts of fields for example the cars, the textile, the machinery, the printing set, the office set, the engineering and so on.
This entry was posted in Manufacturing Industry and tagged china gas spring, Lockable Gas Springs, piston gas spring. | 2019-04-21T06:51:45Z | https://oliverwen123.wordpress.com/tag/lockable-gas-springs/ | Porn | Health | 0.262139 |
livejournal | Dark and gloomy human grace.
Ancient streams from far behind.
Take this dark and justfull moonspell.
Slave of puppets raise with sun.
Sharing force with your allies.
With black eyes and Odins spear.
Slave of puppets drown, drown, drown. | 2019-04-22T18:58:09Z | https://nameless-child.livejournal.com/5424.html | Porn | Arts | 0.294149 |
wordpress | Wow, lots of stuff in this month’s Chat! Auditions coming up for a whole range of shows, lots of theatre on the horizon and some fun social events too.
Don’t forget that CDS’s next production, Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith and directed by Breda Gray, opens at the Masque on Friday 23 October and runs until 31 October.
The play revolves around Gus and Honor, a couple who have been happily married for 32 years – until now. This play is a modern, feminist tale that was described by the London Times as a “powerful gripping piece”.
One New York critic called this piece as “a gem of a play”. It’s an insightful and original treatment of the all too familiar tale of a middle-aged man’s mid-life crisis. It is a play that rides on a dense, intelligent script and on the character portrayals of the four actors.
For this production, Brenda Gray has chosen to set the action in modern-day South Africa. With Gray at the helm, “Honour” promises to be a strong, emotional production of the highest standard.
The cast includes some well-known names to Masque audiences, including John Carne who was last seen at the theatre directing “Private Lives” in 2014. Trish Sutton, Hannah Claassens and Gizelle Willows round out the rest of the incredibly talented cast.
For the set and design of the production, Gray has teamed up with David Davidson and Stephan Fourie. These two are well-known names when it comes to design at the Masque Theatre, and both have received CATA nominations and awards for their work.
Book now through the usual channels: [email protected] or 021 788 1898.
There are also still a few open slots for FOH, box office and bar duty so, if you can, please volunteer to help out during the run.
Bookings are also now open for CDS’s foyer show, The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang, which will be on 05, 06 and 07 November at 20h00 in the Masque Theatre foyer. There are three shows only and limited seating so you would be well advised to book now for this hilarious production.
A MADS team won the 2014 quiz and so they are hosting this year’s intersociety quiz in the foyer of the Masque Theatre on Sunday, 15 November, at 18h00 for 18h30.
If you would like to be a member of a team or think you can provide some interesting questions or help on the evening, please contact either Barbara Basel ([email protected]) or Richard Higgs ([email protected]) by 20 October.
The R50 cover charge includes a meal and there will be a cash bar for drinks.
CDS is teaming up with MADS and CTP to host an inter-societal evening in November! Each society will choose a theme (a country or other location) and provide food based on that theme. Everyone will dress up as well. If you have any ideas for what CDS’s theme should be, please contact someone on the committee – they will make the decision at their next meeting.
With Nico Dreyer having resigned from this position, a new manager is being sought. The position has been restructured and the focus is on someone with strong marketing and PR skills who will be able to look for and liaise with outside shows and oversee all aspects of theatre management, as well as have some technical capability with lighting and sound.
The day-to-day administration work will be shared by another portfolio holder, but computer literacy is required by the new incumbent. Interested parties should send their CVs, as soon as possible, to Michelle Belknap at [email protected].
The position will shortly be formally advertised.
The play opens with the arrival of Henry’s wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he imprisoned in England 10 years previously, for plotting against him.
The story concerns the gamesmanship between Henry, Eleanor, the three surviving sons, Richard, Geoffrey and John, their Christmas Court guest, Philip II of France and his half-sister Alais, who is betrothed to Richard, but has become Henry’s mistress.
Henry II, King of England (male; approx. 50): Henry is still very nearly as he was in his youth. His manipulations of family and others are portrayed as spontaneous and emotional as opposed to the well thought-out stratagems of Eleanor and the cold calculating machinations of Geoffrey.
John (male; 16): He is the youngest son of Henry and Eleanor. He is sulky and sullen, with a boyish outlook on his position. He is described by many as a spoilt brat, pimply and smelling of compost. He is Henry’s favourite, but is also the weakest of the three sons. He constantly vacillates throughout the play, not out of cleverness, but out of fear and weakness. He is easily tricked and manipulated by Geoffrey.
Geoffrey (male; 24): Son of Henry and Eleanor, and a man of energy and action. He is attractive, charming and the “brains” of the family; he is also a cold amoral schemer. His view of himself is one of one who yearned greatly for the love of his parents while receiving none.
Alais (female; 23): Half-sister to Philip, she is beautiful and in love with Henry. She is initially portrayed as innocent, but by the end of the play she has acquired a ruthless streak of her own.
Philip II, King of France (male 18): Philip has been King of France for three years. He is not initially as accomplished as Henry in manipulating people, but seems to acquire greater skills as the play progresses. He is impressive and handsome without being pretty.
The Hottentots Holland Dramatic Society and Carnivals of the Heart are each presenting a musical in 2016 at the Playhouse Theatre in Somerset West. We invite actors, singers and dancers of all ages to audition. You may audition for roles in both.
Both societies operate on a not for profit basis in service of the community based theatre complex, the Playhouse Theatre. No party in the cast or crew is remunerated for these amateur productions.
A third musical is being considered for 2017 and will only commence rehearsal after the 2016 musicals. Planning, however, must be done and a suitable cast possible found. There are therefore only five roles open for audition for this musical.
Full details of musicals and available roles can be viewed at http://theplayhouse.org.za/all-event-list/auditions-musical/.
You will be instructed as to what you will need to prepare.
You must book a slot by emailing [email protected]. Call Christalla on 082 701 2319 should you have any questions.
Whistle Down the Wind is loosely based on the 1960s film of the same name. The setting has moved from Lancashire to small town Louisiana in 1959. It tells the story of three children — 16 year old Swallow, sister Bluejay (known as Brat), and younger brother Robin (known as Poor Baby) — as they approach their first Christmas since the death of their mother. Discovering an escaped criminal hiding in their barn, they become convinced that he is Jesus, and agree to keep his location secret. The plot contrasts the innocence of the children with the fervour of the town’s residents to inflict punishment on the supposed evil in their midst.
Preacher (male; 45+): The leader of the revival meetings. Uses snakes to gain religious recruits! Good actor with some singing. Tenor; top note is A. Leads wrestle with the Devil company number. Southern American accent required.
16–18 Oct We Can Do It! | 2019-04-25T15:49:19Z | https://claremontdramatic.wordpress.com/2015/10/ | Porn | Arts | 0.498488 |
wordpress | What strategies, suggestions do you have for a parent trying to help her teen work through feelings of shame and fear of disappointing loved ones in order for the teen to forgive himself?
Self-forgiveness can be more difficult than forgiving other people because we tend to be harder on ourselves than on others. So, I would recommend that you first approach your son with the idea of forgiving someone who has hurt him. Let him get used to the idea of offering goodness toward at least one other person. Then try it again with yet another person. Once he sees that he can offer goodness toward others who have hurt him, then ask him to consider offering this same goodness to himself: unconditionally and compassionately. If he sees the need then to seek forgiveness from those he has disappointed, he could do that.
Are children as young as 6 years old really able to understand the concept of inherent worth? I notice that you introduce this idea as early as first grade (in the grading system of the USA).
When you teach children about inherent worth, a key is for you not to expect perfection in the children’s understanding. The point is to introduce the idea that all people are special, unique, and irreplaceable even if they differ in intelligence, athletic ability, or any other trait that is less important than personhood itself. Children are capable of grasping that we are all human and therefore are all special.
Being bullied can be torturous. We need to be more aware of this silent torture that students undergo in being bullied. It is possible that if those who are bullied could forgive, then their well-being may be protected.
1) For those who have been bullied in schools so that their anger will not turn to rage, depression, or even self-hatred. We were talking with a student from Korea and she related to us that there are many suicides in Korea by those who have been bullied in school.
2) For those who bully in school. These students usually have been treated cruelly by others (outside of school or in school) and this is one reason why they bully. If they can forgive those who have been deeply unjust to them, then their motivation to bully will reduce or be eliminated.
Bullying, Our Forgiveness Blogadolescents, Anger, Education, forgiveness, Suicide, Why Forgive?
How can I know when I have turned the corner and have truly begun to forgive?
The late Lewis Smedes, in his 1984 book, Forgive and Forget, gave wise counsel on this point. When you wish the person well, then you have begun to forgive. You may not have love in your heart, you may have some anger left over, and you may not want to reconcile (if the other’s behavior is harmful to you). Wishing the other well shows a softened heart and a growing compassion for the person.
Suppose that the offender has decided to avoid you at all costs. How can you give a gift of forgiveness to that offender as you suggest as part of the forgiveness process? And even if the offender is accessible, wouldn’t it be dangerous to give a gift if interacting with the person could be dangerous?
There are many ways to give a gift to a person. For example, in the circumstance in which the offender avoids you, still you can donate in his or her name to a charity. If this is a family member, you can say something nice about that person to other family members. If you are a person of faith, you might consider saying a prayer for this person’s protection in life. All of these examples avoid direct contact with a person who is considered dangerous.
Why is it anger in particular that can be so damaging to a person, compared with other emotions?
It is not anger per se that can be so damaging to a person, but the kind of anger that is deep and abiding for many months and years. This kind of anger can put one on alert so that the body does not rest. Muscle tightness, headaches, raised blood pressure, and fatigue can all lead to a changed life-style and a change in mood and emotions. When one feels constantly challenged, one can begin to feel unsafe and so anxiety can emerge. The physical challenges can lead to a loss of hope which can lead to depression. The good news is that forgiveness therapy can reduce the toxic anger so that it is no longer injurious to the person. | 2019-04-21T10:38:08Z | https://internationalforgiveness.wordpress.com/2016/01/ | Porn | Health | 0.086765 |
livejournal | The shoes are truly epic flip flops! Huzzah!
They really are pretty keen. | 2019-04-21T22:51:29Z | https://emeraldsedai.livejournal.com/188804.html?thread=1655684 | Porn | Sports | 0.467027 |
tripod | The Maass Collecton Home Page: Start your tour of my museum quality collection here.
Native American Basketry: Page 1: Start here to view my entire basket collection.
Native American Basketry: Page 6.: <Previous Page.
Native American Basketry: Page 8.: Next Page!
The Maass Collection Gallery Guide.: Your index/guide to the entire Native Americana collection.
50 Pages of Native American Jewelry for Sale!: Zuni, Hopi, Navajo! Sterling, Turquoise, Onyx, Lapis, Mother of Pearl, Red Coral, and more! | 2019-04-23T12:56:37Z | http://maass.tripod.com/basket7.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.657093 |
tripod | Do that for a livin', ya know.
Alrighty-dighty, John. Just an Alka-Seltzer.
to put into effect if you were to be elected?
a ruckus. Guess Ah'd better put this away.
Guess it could be a problem.
(His eyes cross, and he wiggles his mouth.
Uh, Mr. Burdell, are you all right?
followin' me around all the time.
Click here to see this text uncut! | 2019-04-22T22:38:21Z | http://cmcottrell.tripod.com/curtxt/id6.html | Porn | Reference | 0.311431 |
wikipedia | The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California. It is one of the largest zoos in the world with over 4,000 animals of more than 800 species. It is also one of the few zoos in the world that houses the giant panda. It is one of the few places in Southern California to feature an arctic landscape. | 2019-04-23T08:41:13Z | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Zoo | Porn | Recreation | 0.750927 |
wordpress | Michael’s birthday was coming soon, so he asked his dad for a bicycle so that he would not need to walk to school anymore. However, Michael’s dad had lost his job and did not have much money. Michael got a book instead but he did not complain.
One bright and sunny day while Michael was walking past a convenience store on his way to school, he saw a big boy on a bike. The bike was too small for the boy. As the boy was turning around a corner, the bike skidded on a puddle of water and crashed into a lamp-post.
few minutes later, an ambulance came and brought William to the hospital. Michael rode William’s bike to school so he would not be late for class.
After school, Michael quickly rode the bicycle to William’s house with a book and a jigsaw puzzle for William. William was not too seriously hurt. He was discharged after his leg was put in a cast.
To Michael’s surprise, William was getting a new bike on his birthday in two months’ time and Michael could have William’s old bike. Michael was overjoyed. From then on, Michael and William became good friends. Michael visited William every day till William’s leg was healed. | 2019-04-23T23:58:41Z | https://smilekisslovehope.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/a-birthday-bike-kids-story/ | Porn | Health | 0.478378 |
goo | ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Lewis et al. (2015).
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Hammarström et al. (2016).
^ a b c d e Anderson & Ross (2014:322).
^ a b Ray (1938:366).
^ a b Anderson & Ross (2014:324).
^ a b Ray (1938:368–369).
^ a b Anderson & Ross (2014:323).
^ Anderson & Ross (2014:326–327).
^ Anderson & Ross (2014:324,330).
^ a b Ray (1938:370).
^ Anderson & Ross (2014:327–328).
^ Anderson & Ross (2014:328).
^ Anderson & Ross (2014:341).
^ Anderson & Ross (2014:330).
^ Anderson & Ross (2014:331).
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin et al., eds (2016). “Sudest”. Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sude1239.
Ray, Sidney H. (1938). "The Languages of the Eastern Louisiade Archipelago." In Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, Vol. IX, Part 2, pp. 363-384. London: University of London.
Anderson, Mike (1992). "Object classifying morphemes in Sudest." In Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, 23, pp. 193–198.
Armstrong, W.E. (1923). "Report on anthropology of South-Eastern Division (excluding Woodlark Is.), Engineer Group, Bosilai, East Cape, Normanby Is. (South Coast), Fergusson Island (Morima)." In Papua Annual Report for the Year 1921–1922, pp. 26–39.
Lithgow, David R. (1976). "Austronesian languages: Milne Bay and adjacent islands." In S. A. Wurm (ed.) New Guniea area languages and language study 2: Austronesian languages, pp. 441–523. Pacific Linguistics, C-39.
Anderson, Michael (1990). Sudest-English dictionary. | 2019-04-19T01:22:08Z | https://wpedia.goo.ne.jp/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E8%AA%9E | Porn | Reference | 0.232417 |
livejournal | My face feels like a لوف in a desiccated Georgia O'Keefe landscape. Bring on the cow skull!
Well, if you'll recall your notable quotables, "Most men lead lives of quiet dessication."
You've learned well. The smoke curls around your feet like cats in the presence of Fancy Feast. | 2019-04-21T18:09:52Z | https://cbertsch.livejournal.com/547643.html | Porn | Reference | 0.624451 |
wordpress | Poetry on paper; Sculpture on paper using the pencil as the chisel.
Arjun Rampal. Attempted to capture his classic, symmetric and fine boned silhouette. Wish the pencil could englove his sensuous voicel.
Aishwarya Rai. Elegance. Class. Grace under fire.
Milind Soman. The original supermodel. Athletic, suave and comfortable in his skin …and such stunning tawny skin!
Anu Agrawal. Dusky, chiseled, towering legs. Sensual eyes. Sultry lips.
Dusky skin, husky voice. Guess?
Double click on first image to see slide show view. Thank you!
Arjun – in his Image and Likeness.
Do you blur the line between an idolized character and an actor portraying him?
Vanaprastham – The Last Dance is a Malayalam film where Mohanlal, a Kathakali artist finds solace in theatre.
Once, his audience includes Subhadra (Suhasini) of an aristocratic family. In love with the valiant warrior Arjun of Mahabharata, she personifies Mohanlal as her dream hero. The eventual affair leads to the birth of a son. However, Subhadra content to be pregnant with the seed of Arjun – her idolized version, rejects the flesh & blood Mohanlal.
The storyline struck a resonance within me.
Double click on first image to see slide show. Thank you!
Double click on the images in second line to see slide show view. Thank you! | 2019-04-23T15:51:59Z | https://sweetyshinde.wordpress.com/category/my-pencil-sketches/ | Porn | Arts | 0.975491 |
wordpress | Bring on the showgirls…..HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Vintage @ Northwood (50+ dance group) performing at Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London.
Green Candle Dance Company Production 2011.
Introducing some friends of mine…..
These are the fabulous folks from Green Candle Dance Company, in Bethnal Green, London, that I will be working with on my ‘Rethink‘ project (Lyn even has a Rethink cap….how cool is that)! | 2019-04-23T00:24:14Z | https://traceyfahy.wordpress.com/tag/dancing/ | Porn | Arts | 0.916578 |
wordpress | Snow lies on the grass and the fields, freezes, shoved into huge piles graying with macadam and gravel, trash and mud. Winter abides but only just; even with the cold snap, I sense a kind of anticipatory nudge toward warmer hours and longer days. It gets me thinking about my perspective on seasons. The lunisolar calendar I mentioned in a previous post seems more appropriate to my experience than the Gregorian, and perhaps the reason is that NongLi originated as, and essentially remains, an agricultural calendar.
against the inner thigh; and justice.
Which perspective I’m illustrating in the poem above. The poem’s speaker aggregates everything into the personal construct of ownership: what is owned is what matters. Implications of greed, of personal views on justice, of personal definitions (how points of view get tainted as they run through human beings’ individual filters)–those abstract ideas the poem tries to convey through the concrete images of animals, sounds, foodstuffs, geology.
Every time there is a crime, journalists seek the story.
Police talk about putting together the story of the perpetrator. The person’s story assists in determining motive. Motive can assist in solving a crime or prosecuting the perpetrator.
Stories require conflict. What is a drama or novel without plot? There is a whole world of plot for narratives, but they tend to need conflict somewhere.
The narrative vein in poetry follows the same story source, although in poetry much can be compressed. There are nonetheless implications of conflict, sometimes powerfully so.
I have posted before about human beings as “The story-telling animal.” Brian Boyd and Daniel Dennett and others note the ways in which stories help us to understand ourselves and others.
I begin to think that storytelling gives us not merely a method for examining cognition, but that perhaps telling stories=human sentience. That perhaps we would not be sentient if we were not aware of stories, able to invent them, or try to recall our own memories in a storytelling fashion. We could be human beings without them, but we could not be sentient.
This is just a story I’m creating for myself in this moment.
This is my own story about sentience, consciousness, and compassion through understanding of narrative persons, personas, and perspectives.
Do we need better stories?
Last year, I had my first encounter with a grass-carrying wasp.
Today, I noticed some waxy, crumbly, yellowish bits around the post in which last year’s wasp had built its nest. Then I saw an adult grass-carrying wasp hovering to and fro with a stem of grass grasped in its legs, which led me to this year’s nest–in a different hole in our post-and-beam porch. Who knew the wood had so many little holes in it? The wasps sure found them! Today’s wasp has built in a much harder place to photograph, a vertical spot, behind a post. So last year’s photo will have to suffice.
I am not quick at writing poems in response to events, personal or public; generally I need time to consider deeply, to process. I am glad to participate in an upcoming event, however, taking place in Bethlehem PA as a public response to the Orlando Pulse shooting. LGBT citizens of the region, and families, friends and supporters of compassion and awareness, are gathering for a memorial and celebration of support for everyday Americans, which includes–we must recognize, and it would be wise and sane to accept–people who are LGBT/gender fluid & who are just human beings notwithstanding, as are we all.
For those in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, the poetry reading is at Sun Inn’s courtyard on Friday July 1. I may not have a poem of my own to read, but I have been reading through my library and have already located several poems by other writers that will serve well as responses to tragedy, personal or national, or which speak to the human-ness of all of us.
I am doing a little nesting of my own this week, retreating into a metaphorical burrow for a couple of days, I hope. And with any luck, I will emerge with some new drafts of poems. | 2019-04-25T15:44:36Z | https://annemichael.wordpress.com/tag/human/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.089881 |
wordpress | Whew! With no end to this heat wave in sight, I think I’ll stay in and curl up with a good book this summer.
First up, I plan on reading Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision (Lookout Books). Not only did Pearlman win the PEN/Malamud award for this book, she received stunning reviews from Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, and the LA Times. I’m a sucker for stories that take me around the world: in Pearlman’s case, from Jerusalem to Central America, from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from central Europe to Manhattan, and from the Maine coast to Godolphin, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. I can’t wait to travel with this one!
And if you’re a fan of history and literature about North Carolina (of course you are, if you’re reading this blog), you’ll want to know my last pick: The Watery Part of the World, by Michael Parker. This book weaves together two historical anecdotes: the first a tale of Theodosia, daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr, who is left for dead off the Carolina coast after her ship is attacked by pirates, and the second a story of the last remaining residents of the same North Carolina island in 1970. Both sets of island people forge indelible allegiances to each other, linked as they are by blood and water.
Here’s to staying cool and reading some good books this summer!
Spotted: Old Favorite Honey Recipes (Bright Mountain Books) at Savanna Bee Company in Charleston, S.C.!
I recently spent a week down in Charleston and Kiawah, and although I tried not to think about work TOO much, I simply had to when I spotted one of our distributed titles at the Savanna Bee Company shop, next to rows and rows of honey jars.
First published in 1941 by the American Honey Institute, Old Favorite Honey Recipes was expanded in 1945 and reprinted several times. In 1991 this book was published with The Iowa Honey Producers’ The Honey Recipe Book as one handy volume. With this 2010 edition, Historical Images is pleased to see this popular classic back in the hands of American cooks.
Old Favorite Honey Recipes features more than 250 recipes gathered over the years by American honey producers, revised and updated for the modern kitchen. From the classic honey bun to more obscure dishes, this collection showcases honey’s versatility in breads, desserts, vegetables, and more. It also contains recipe variations, interesting facts, and helpful cooking hints, including how to substitute honey for sugar.
Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together 3 times. Cream butter thoroughly, add sugar gradually, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add honey. Blend. Add egg yolks and beat thoroughly. Add flour, alternately with orange juice, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Fold in egg whites.
Bake in 2 greased 9″ layer pans at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. | 2019-04-20T04:29:04Z | https://blairpub.wordpress.com/2011/07/ | Porn | Business | 0.309396 |
wordpress | Locations for all the proposed sites were released, with 1,399 set for Canvey on nine sites, and 2,823 for the rest of Castle Point on 20 sites – with room needing to be found for at least 600 more. At least 4,800 homes are needed, as well as 90 residential care beds.
Castle Point council leader, Norman Smith, insisted the council feels just as ill-informed, insisting it is pressuring central Government for answers – and soon.
Statement However I see nothing on the NPPF or guidance webpage – the technical consultation involved the calculation of housing need and the implication of people over wind.
My Hon Friend, the Minister of State for Housing (Kit Malthouse) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
The National Planning Policy Framework is fundamental to delivering the homes and other development that we need, achieving high quality places and protecting our environment.
Last year we published a revised Framework, which implemented a range of reforms to help make planning more predictable and transparent, drive up quality and support delivery.
A consultation on further updates to the Framework and associated planning guidance ran from 26 October to 7 December 2018, and the Government is grateful to everyone who responded. Having considered those responses, we are making very minor changes to the text of the Framework, which are reflected in an updated version being published today. A copy of the revised Framework is available on the Department’s web site, alongside our response to the consultation.
All of the large sites announced had either been in the announcement two years ago, been admitted since or like Carlisle have been in emerging plans for several years.
Despite the prospectus favouring large sites (10,000 dwellings plus) especially in the Oxford Cambridge Arc, everything else is village scale and even includes additional funding to some old sites where the Ministry and Homes England are furious with the authorities for slow progress. Some of the sites are too small even to support primary school and are just edge of settlement estates that would have come forward anyway.
What does this show? It shows that a short term competitive process removed from strategic plans is no mechanism for working up proposals for strategic scale garden communities. The ministry’s efforts should be focussed on support strategic plans – which are struggling everywhere in terms of expertise, quality of spatial expression and methodology.
I am disappointed that following several requests, my Programme Officer is still unable to upload my letter to the Council of 19 December 2018.
It is now over a month since I sent my original letter, which in the interests of transparency, should have been placed on the Examination website.
I have asked for this to happen on numerous occasions. As, no doubt, you are aware, this situation is highly irregular.
Please ensure that the Programme Officer’s job is facilitated and the letter is uploaded today and without delay.
could be found sound with main modifications. The Programme Officer has, and no doubt, will be receiving further enquiries as to the progress of the Plan.
In such circumstances, I have instructed the Programme Officer, who works independently of the Council, to respond that a letter has been sent to the Council setting out what I consider to be the main modifications which would be required in order that the Plan be found sound. If a request is made for a copy of the letter, clearly the Programme Officer will provide such a letter as it should be in the public arena, and indeed, I have explicitly asked that it be so.
I understand from email correspondence, via the Programme Officer, that the Council is still considering the implications of the potential main modifications.
In early December, following the hearing sessions, and taking into account all representations, hearing statements, together with my site visits, I came to the conclusion that the Plan as submitted was unsound. However, I was of the opinion that with modifications it could be capable of being found sound. I informed the Council of this in my letter of 5 December 2018.
have enabled me, with the benefit of any consultation responses, to write my final report to the Council which would have included the main modifications necessary for the Plan to be found.
need for it for a Plan to be found sound. To put it another way, an Inspector rarely springs surprises on a council, post hearing sessions. If that happens, it is usually for a very small number of modifications, on matters where it was clear that agreement could not be reached on the day, and the Inspector would therefore have to make a ‘final call’.
3.10 Our Inspector did not undertake the examination in this way.
3.11 After most hearing sitting days, participants (including the Council) were left wondering what the Inspector was going to do about matters debated that day. Agreements were often not reached, or a suggested way forward not given by the Inspector. The Inspector catch phrase became ‘I have a lot of thinking to do on that matter’.
heading, and what modifications might be necessary.
3.14 At the close of the Hearing sessions (end of September 2018 in our case), it is normal practice for the full set of modifications to be known, perhaps subject to some detailed refinement of wording to be agreed with the Inspector on a small number of matters. Consultation on such modifications then normally takes place within 2-3 weeks of the hearings closing. In our case, that would mean an October-November 2018 consultation.
3.15 Unfortunately, our examination did not follow this normal procedure.
3.16 First, officers were left wondering what modifications might be necessary.
December, approaching 3 months after hearings closed.
Cooperate provisions. However, we still did not know the extent of what the modifications might be.
nearly 3 months after the Hearings closed, setting out what modifications were, subject to consultation, necessary to make the plan sound. That letter is attached at appendix A.
by the Inspector, together with some brief officer comments.
The redistribution of housing across the Cambridge sub-region (as agreed by all Councils of the sub-region) be removed, resulting in 1,500 homes increase to East Cambridgeshire. Inspectors concluding other Cambridgeshire plans in 2018 (Cambridge and South Cambs) and the almost finalised plan in 2019 (Huntingdonshire), all accept the redistribution and cooperation associated with it to be sound. Our 2015 Local Plan Inspector also found it sound….
ALthough the lack of communication is worrying the striking down of the Cmbridgeshire redribution is even more worrying as this was critical in getting the deal on numbers done.
Council should be mindful of an important implication which will arise, if the recommendations attached are agreed.
‘backlog numbers’ to be added to the next five years. As each year passes, the backlog increases, to the point whereby it becomes virtually impossible to regain a five year land supply (for example, we would need to be building approximately 1,200 homes per year, for the next few years, to ever ‘catch up’, a 400% increase on current build rates).
unrealistically increased housing numbers on allocation sites. Policy within the NPPF will probably mean our five year land supply will be secure, post adoption, until 31st October 2020 (i.e. for about a year after adoption), but realistically the Inspector modifications are likely to make it very hard to sustain a five year land supply beyond that date.
3.31 Thus, in simple terms, proceeding to adopt the Plan will likely mean a five year land supply position is secured from Autumn 2019 to October 2020, but unlikely beyond that date.
3.32 If the Plan is withdrawn, we obviously would continue to have no Five Year Land Supply for the present time.
3.33 However, under the ‘withdraw’ option, and perhaps surprisingly, when we reach April 2020 we almost certainly will, under current national policy, regain our five year land supply position. This is because new (autumn 2018) national policy states that, when a Local Plan is 5 years old (which ours will be, come April 2020), any ‘backlog’ of development not built gets wiped clean (the precise reference for this policy being NPPG Paragraph ID: 2a 017 20180913).
Totally peverse. The para reference refers to every para in that guidance but the issue is the ‘cap’ which is based on the annual rate, and should be withdrawn or irgently clarified it is the average plus the backlog.
Oxfordshire has just launched its first consultation on its Joint Spatial Plan.
At this stage its very high level all goals, aspirations and context. You will recall the last JSP that tried this, Greater Exeter, was widely condemned for being ‘just PR’ and ‘not fit for purpose’.
It sets out transport issues, but no solutions other than mentioning in passing ongoing projects like the expressway. It deals with the future economy in a one sentence motherhood statement without any analysis of how to tackle the labour and housing market challenges in Science Vale. It doesn’t discuss the demographic challenges of an aging population or the challenges of university expansion. It even fails to mention the wider arc initiative.
In terms of housing and spatial challenges it does mention a number of ‘spatial options’ like hub and spoke, new settlements, urban intensification etc. whilst acknowledging that no one will be enough. But it doesn’t give any clue as to the huge scale of the challenge with its growth deal numbers and how and where development might be located on a map in ‘planet earth’ space. Instead ‘options’ exist in a conceptual ‘none space’ with no relationship with real settlements and real fields on a map. It is difficult therefore to see how people can reasonably respond without writing long essays telling Oxfordshire the already held and known views of stakeholders.
The problem here is that the return of strategic planning has ran ahead of strategic planning thinking. Ill be publishing a long essay on this soon. Thew strategic planning challenge is about locating units of ‘strategic scale development – that is development sufficient to support a district centre and secondary school, which depending on school re-organisation can be anywhere between 6-11,000 (likely around 10,000 in Oxfordshire) – see this recent report for Southend and surrounds, where I set out the methodology for them. Suitable places for development on this scale can be narrowed down to reasonable options and in my piece ill be setting out a high level GIS based method for assessing these.
Shows you cant simply rollback one census, it goes back over 20 years. Civitas report here.
Nearly a million more young adults are living with their parents than was the case two decades ago, a study has found.
The figures, in a report by the cross-party thinktank Civitas, will fuel concerns that too little is being done to protect young people from Britain’s housing crisis.
The proportion of people aged 20 to 34 who live with their parents has risen from 19.48% in 1997, equating to 2.4 million people, to 25.91% in 2017, equating to 3.4 million.
The report says the findings have profound implications for the government’s housebuilding targets. It also notes a “collapse in single living” among those who do move out of their parental home, as young people are now far more likely to be living with partners or friends.
The study used data from the Office for National Statistics to look at average household sizes over long periods. The average size fell from 3.3 people per household in 1951 to 2.36 in 2001. However, it flatlined at 2.36 in the early 2000s and had risen to 2.39 people per household by 2017, the highest level since 1999.
This has implications for how many homes will need to be built in the future. The government develops its housebuilding targets using household projections, calculating how many households are likely to be formed in the future by looking at patterns over recent decades. Bentley said if the government failed to acknowledge the drop in the number of young people moving out or living alone, “it will reinforce an undersupply for housing for decades”.
The growth in young people living with their parents has been strongest in London, which saw a 41% increase between 1996-98 and 2014-15.
How can this be reflected in planning? The easiest way is to model those aged over 30 living with their parents having the same propensity to form a household as in 2002. This could be done very quickly to produce variant forecasts using current demographic data..
This website contains a historical archive of the now abandoned plans to bring forward the comprehensive redevelopment of the 46 acre Cargiant site, which is central to unlocking any major development within the area.
Between 2013 and 2017, Cargiant, faced with the possible closure of its business when its land was designated a regeneration area, became reluctant developers and spent £8.5 million trying to bring forward a planning application for their land which could fund their relocation.
For many years fortnightly planning meetings took place with the public sector agency supposedly leading the regeneration, the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC). The scheme, known as Old Oak Park, was taken through extensive public consultation – the full details of which you can see on this website – and which were very well received by the local community and other partners.
However, despite all the collaboration, the OPDC concluded that the scheme wasn’t viable as it couldn’t meet the costs needed for infrastructure and social benefits required for the area.
3. Affordable housing. The planning policies of the GLA and the OPDC set a strategic target across the area of 50% affordable housing, so half of the homes don’t contribute any profit at all to all the costs which are needed.
Since Cargiant’s Old Oak Park plans were developed, the OPDC has also put forward new planning policies that see even fewer homes delivered on Cargiant’s land (5,300 homes to be built by 2038 compared with 6,500) with higher levels of affordable homes required. At the same time, the prices for industrial land (needed to move Cargiant) have gone up substantially, partly because so much has already been lost to residential development along with very large areas lost to HS2 constructions sites, and construction costs have also gone up while the values for residential development have gone down and construction costs have escalated.
In short, the development simply doesn’t stack up and no developer can afford to meet the costs of developing the land. Cargiant’s window of relocation has been lost. The OPDC doesn’t have worked-up designs for the land, doesn’t have a development partner and hasn’t solved the huge technical challenges of delivering the infrastructure to the site.
Despite this the OPDC is pressing ahead with seeking £250 million of Government money and has even started a Compulsory Purchase Order process which will see over 1,000 jobs lost. They have also already spent nearly £30 million in just four years.
Cargiant is calling for an immediate halt to further spending and consultant appointments and a full inquiry into the spending and strategy of the OPDC before any more money is wasted and jobs are lost.
What happened here is that Tony Mendes owner of Car Giant has been attempting to do his own thing at the centre of the area irrespective of the other landowners or the masterplan. As such he would have needed to pay for all the linking connections himself.
He seems to be particularly poorly advised as he seems to be admitting that without the public sector providing the enabling infrastructure the site has a negative residual value – perfectly making the case for CPO at ‘no scheme world’ values, needing only to pay for compensation for loss of Car Giant., not even the full cost of relocation.
Im sure Homes England could find a nice site on land they own or Basildon or somewhere. | 2019-04-24T22:42:52Z | https://andrewlainton.wordpress.com/page/3/ | Porn | Society | 0.386495 |
sfgate | As a natural wood product, each cork section has its own character.
One of the most ecologically sound flooring choices, cork comes in tiles, planks and sheets that many homeowners can install. Sheets and tiles most often require glue for securing the material to the substrate. Planks with interlocking edges are floating floors, which don't need adhesive. An exception is cork planks on stairs, which require adhesive to prevent slipping. Adding a cork floor increases cushioned comfort underfoot, and some varieties are stainable with ordinary wood stain.
Start with a firm, flat substrate free from humps, dips and soft spots so your cork floor will look its best and won’t conform to imperfections under foot traffic. Plywood sheets fastened with screws provide plenty of flat, rigid surface area, and cementitious floor-leveling compound fills and smooths the seams between sheets and screw hole depressions. Sand after the compound dries to remove trowel marks in the compound, then thoroughly vacuum to remove loose debris. Floating cork floors with glued seams have a rigid backing, which lets you install them over old vinyl, tile, wood and concrete. In those cases, cleaning and vacuuming the floor is sufficient.
Contact cement rolls on with a paint or sponge roller and is left to dry before installing the cork. Both surfaces -- the subfloor and the back side of the cork -- require contact cement; it bonds when two glued, dry surfaces meet. Contact cement doesn’t forgive, which has its benefits and drawbacks. Once the two surfaces touch, it sticks and doesn’t slip, so the flooring stays put. For this reason, cork tiles are the best candidate. Roll or sheet cork flooring is too large and flexible, and would almost certainly stick to parts of the floor where you don't want it to.
Cork flooring mastic applies with a notched trowel, and stays wet long enough to permit adjustments. A thick application leads to excessive drying time, so drag the notched edge of the trowel across the floor to ensure even, uniform coverage. The right amount of product slips between the trowel notches or teeth and stays on the floor while the ends of the notches scrape off excess mastic. Because mastic doesn’t bond on contact, tiles can shift if bumped before the adhesive dries. With sheet materials, spread the flooring across the subfloor and adjust it as necessary, then fold back half the sheet to apply mastic underneath. After smoothing and pressing the glued cork, fold back the other half of the sheet and finish gluing the floor.
Glued cork isn’t finished once the last tile is set or wrinkle smoothed. A manual flooring roller presses the cork into the adhesive, which results in the best possible contact. Available for rent at tool rental supply stores and many home improvement centers, flooring rollers are also used for installing vinyl sheets and tiles. Rollers are heavy yet simple tools that almost anyone can operate, but bringing one home from the rental store might require a helping hand. They consist of a large, weighted cylinder that sits on the floor, and a long handle that lets you roll the cylinder back and forth as if using a lawnmower.
Carroll, Lee. "How to Glue a Cork Floor." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/glue-cork-floor-70978.html. Accessed 26 April 2019. | 2019-04-26T13:56:12Z | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/glue-cork-floor-70978.html | Porn | Science | 0.330939 |
wordpress | I wish that Bring your Child to Work Day was this distructive when I was a kid.
Usually, I was stuck in some conference room with a TV and a handful of Disney movies on VHS.
President’s closest political confidants and makes them his playmates.
The concept of such well-known national figures being recreated as younger versions of themselves reminds me of the animated TV show Clone High. The series, which lasted on MTV for less than half a season, featured such historical big wigs as Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, and Gandhi and put them in high school together. Arguably the most brilliant shows ever created for MTV! Currently in it’s second episode, I hold lil’ Bush in equally high regard.
My personal highlights of this episode are when Bush gets bullied in school by Kin Jung Il, the inability of the Cheney’s to utter a comprehensive thought, and Bush bombing lil’ Mikey Moore and the Blue States.
For more lil’ Bush check out the pilot titled “hot dogs”.
I’m impressed with Boy Least Likely To for a number of reasons. Primarily because their videos rock my world.
The English indy rock band also self-produced, self-mixed and self-promoted debut album The Best Party Ever. A success in England, the album was released in the United States in late spring, following their tour opening for James Blunt.
After reading various articles on the band, I would have to agree. But also mention that their videos, are an advert for their already promising career. Having never heard of the band, I found the video title “Hugging My Grudge” on YouTube and instantly went looking for more info on the colorful British duo.
If you like this happy-go-lucky music video, check out I’m Glad I Hitch my Apple Wagon to your Star which features Playmobiles and flowers.
Look what happens when Nobody’s Watching. I think these guys may have managed to get more camera time than the winner’s themselves.
After making it their mission to “get on television as much a possible,” Derrick and Will, two ordinary looking guys, disguise themselves as valets and take over the Emmy’s.
When I came across this video on Google, I had a sneaky suspicion that it wasn’t child’s play. How would these vlogers manage to get the clearances and get the inside the Emmy’s and acquire the costumes to pull of this stunt?
After following a few links, I cracked the mystery: must be easy to place yourself just inside of frame of action with the help of NBC.
The creator of “Scrubs” and “Spin City” is the brain behind the characters. Nobody’s Watching is another scripted web series.
In retrospect, I realize that I have noticed these guys before. Nobody’s Watching Diet Coke and Mentos has been on the most watched videos page for the past few days. And I remember having a similar pang of internal questioning ie How did they make the fire look that good?
So before we have another Who Are They and Where Did They Come From mystery on our hands, let it be known that this playful duo that everybody’s watching is a corporate creation.
The New York Times wrote an article about Nobody’s Watching a few months ago.
Or check out the official website, too see what else happens when Nobody’s Watching.
For most pop culture artists, it would be difficult to keep a niche genre alive twenty three years after they started it.
But Weird Al takes Chamillionaire’s popular song “Ridin (Dirty)” and transforms it into cult-worthy comedic farse.
Best known for song parodies, Yankovic’s cheeky humor is most effective when contrasting the style of the song with its content or when pointing out trends that have become pop culture clichés. “White in Nerdy” is from “Weird Al” Yankovic’s new album “Straight Outta Lynwood” that’s available in stores Sept. 26. | 2019-04-21T18:05:24Z | https://reelfeed.wordpress.com/2006/09/ | Porn | Society | 0.211199 |
typepad | With some proper care and handling you can bring your camera outside to shoot even in the harshest conditions. From frozen landscapes to frozen waterfalls, there are numerous winter scenes that are just waiting to be photographed with your creative eye. Winter also provides an uncluttered canvas of unique possibilities due to its inherent harshness and lack of crowds. Far less people go outside in the winter making it easier to position for that ultimate landscape image of fresh snow.
Whether it’s the combination of frozen ice alongside the motion of moving water, glowing reflections of light on blowing and hard crystallized snow during the golden hour or unblemished grand landscapes after a fresh snowfall, for me there is a magic that happens in the winter and I feel compelled to photograph it!
I am fortunate to live at the edge of a wilderness area in Colorado at an elevation of 10,600ft. I greatly enjoy getting outside in the wintertime pursuing both mountaineering and photographic interest. Winters here are bitter and hard on not only human beings, but also on electronics or equipment of any type. Unfortunately, I have learned the hard way destroying several cameras during my early adventures, to take precautions to protect my equipment. Needless to say, due to experience and learned handling techniques, my camera equipment lasts a lot longer these days.
It isn't really the cold that negatively impacts your camera equipment, it is the abrupt change in conditions your equipment experiences when you leave the warmth that impacts it the most. For this reason I have camera bags that both clasp and zip. The zip closes the camera equipment in the case buffering it from the abrupt changes in conditions. This way, I can transport the equipment to the car or trunk and to the location, giving it plenty of time for the temperature to gradually adjust to the shooting temperature. Upon arriving on location I many times allow additional time for the temperature to equalize in the bag. When I pull the camera out for use, no fogging.
I have found that putting your equipment bag on the ground for equipment changes in the winter can be problematic. Snow tends to blow or fall in to open areas and a nice layer adheres to your bag upon liftoff. Because of this, I have evolved into using packs, bags and lens cases that remain attached to me as I work from them. This also minimizes exposure to the extreme conditions eliminating bending over and removing of gloves. Additionally, I connect gloves and hats to my body with leashes to avoid losing them in high wind.
Speaking of high wind, I use tripods a lot for maximum sharpness and depth of field, it’s important to manage your equipment on a tripod in high wind vigilantly! There is nothing like the experience of watching a tripod and equipment head for the ground after the wind blows it over a cliff in front of you and there is nothing you can do but watch. It’s an excruciating feeling… guess how I learned that one? It taught me to always bring a stuffed sack to hang weight from the center column of the tripod high wind or not. Even with this addition, I’ll add a leash to the camera or manage it closely if I experience or anticipate extreme conditions.
Getting great images in the wintertime is easier if you are comfortable. For this reason, I have acquired mountaineering clothing that keeps me comfortable even in the harshest conditions. I highly recommend buying a fleece glove, outer mitt combination for winter photography uses. You can pull your hand out of the mitt while still in the fleece liners to make adjustments and change lenses. Then reinsert hand in mitt as needed. Also, a boot and sock combination that will keep your feet dry and warm during long periods of standing around. Finally, a thermos full of warm liquid and a snack accompany me everywhere. In extreme cold, it can be an attitude changer!
Many camera stores sell camera coats to protect your equipment in wet weather. Get one of these if you live in or will be traveling to an area that is known for wetness and humidity. In Colorado, it is dry even when it’s cold and snowing, so I bring a simple cloth with me to wipe moisture off equipment if it accumulates. I always use a hood on my lenses to prevent snow or rain from landing on the front element and resulting in a blur or dark blur spot on the image. I check my front element regularly and keep it clear and clean.
Is it snowing outside? it is here. Anybody can pick up a camera and go shoot a pretty flower in the summer time. It takes inspiration, preparation and tenacity to photograph in the winter! So next snow day, get your camera equipment along with these tips, dress up warm and go make some incredible winter images outside! You’ll be thrilled the first time you see incredible winter images on your monitor, while at the same time, warm and toasty inside. It’s a very rewarding experience that keeps me going back for more! Enjoy your photographic passion!
Quite an interesting concept. I agree with winter being a great time to click away as it also happens to be my favorite season! | 2019-04-23T06:53:56Z | https://tamrontechstips.typepad.com/tamron_blog/2014/03/dont-put-your-camera-away-when-its-cold-outside.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.118476 |
wordpress | Where have all the bunnies gone? | Do the twisted.
Recently, I went out to find a bunny wabbit for promotional purposes. I figured it was just like old times, you go to a pet store, and lo and behold, there they are. Wrong. I went to two and after expressing my perplexity and concern over the lack of rabbits, the pet clerk told me that I should look into rabbit rescue groups. Um, okay. I just needed a rabbit for a photo op. I couldn’t be entirely heartless. “Hi, I just want to play with your bunnies. No, I’m not interested in adopting.” Besides, if I did adopt, my dog would encourage me to make rabbit stew and that’s not happening. So I decided to call it a failed mission. However, I began to wonder, where are all the stinking bunnies?
When I was a kid, it seemed like rabbits were hopping all over the place. They were in books, like Goodnight Moon and The Velveteen Rabbit. They were in movies and TV shows, like Bugs Bunny and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. And of course, we can’t forget the silly “Trix are for kids” rabbit. Who knows, maybe since I’m older, I’m missing out on all their appearances. Or maybe that sneaky little Dora the Explorer has them all stuffed in her backpack. Panic attack aside, not all is lost. Luckily, I do know where to find 18 Rabbits.
Based out of San Francisco, 18 Rabbits makes delicious, organic granola bars and cereal. They got the name because growing up, the founder/CEO had a pet rabbit named Blackjack who went off to “play” with a wild rabbit and soon had a family of 18 bouncing all over the yard. Years later, Alison Vercruysse created the company with the belief that everyone has a right to enjoy pure, simple food and to feel good eating it. And she’s right. Their products are A+ amazing.
Now, I’ve been around the block with granola bars and have enjoyed many. However, I always questioned whether I was really getting a healthy snack or not. They’re always so sweet and sugary. 18 Rabbits has the lowest sugar per serving of any granola on the market and they are by far, the best I have ever had. I swear on my lucky rabbit’s foot. My personal favorite is the Cheeky Cherry Chocolate. I’m going to order a box, thankyouverymuch. So check them out and enjoy the yum. Go on, hop to it.
Become a fan of 18 Rabbits on Facebook!
She can’t be trusted. 🙂 love you too JB.
Great post, Jordan. Let’s not forget “Who Killed Roger Rabbit. Maybe there’s some truth to this after all.
There is an older couple who live in my parent’s neighborhood (in the suburbs of Philadelphia) who have a backyard full of floppy eared bunny rabbits. They are adorable! So I presume all the bunnies have moved to the suburbs of Philly. | 2019-04-23T11:51:54Z | https://straighttwisted.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/where-have-all-the-bunnies-gone/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.482849 |
google | A fiber optic RF signal distribution system has a plurality of antenna stations, each station including an RF antenna. A central RF signal distribution hub receives and transmits signals external to the system. A pair of optical fibers connects each antenna station directly to the distribution hub with the connections being in a star configuration. A connectorized laser module permits direct coupling of a distributed feedback semiconductor laser to the end of each optical fiber without an intervening connector. The module accepts an APC connector with the angled end of its optical fiber in an aperture plane in a connector housing. A distributed feedback laser is mounted in the connector housing with a lens for illuminating the aperture plane and hence, the end of the fiber at an acute angle to the axis of the fiber. Furthermore, the illumination is defocused at the aperture plane for loose optical coupling to the fiber and minimized reflection to the DFB laser.
This invention concerns a local area wireless network using optical fibers for distributing signals to and from short range antenna stations. A semiconductor laser is mounted in a connector housing for illuminating the angled end of an optical fiber in a connector for minimized reflection interference. A photodiode is also used for receiving signals from an optical fiber. A "connectorized" photodiode is a photodiode mounted in an electrical or optical fiber connector.
Wireless cellular telephone and similar communication systems have proliferated rapidly and are expected to expand dramatically in numbers of users. Furthermore, whereas present cellular telephone systems have a limited capacity sufficient for voice communications and limited handling of data, much broader band systems are expected for handling vast amounts of information for personal and business communications. New systems are needed for this expanding utilization.
It is common practice to increase the overall system capacity by dividing the system into ever smaller cellular units known as microcells. Optical fibers have heretofore been used to interconnect cellular base stations with large microcells, but it has not been considered cost effective to use fiber optics for smaller microcells. Thus, a low cost optical fiber signal distribution system is desirable for use in such microcells or for local area distribution of other RF signals.
In an RF signal distribution system, an individual building or a campus of buildings might, for example, have numerous short range RF antennas scattered within the building or buildings. Communications from outside this microcell or group of microcells are to and from a base station which is connected to an RF signal distribution hub for the building or buildings. Signals are transmitted and received between the hub and the scattered RF antennas for communicating with telephones or data transceivers within the microcell. Such a local network may also serve as a wireless PBX or LAN for communications within the microcell.
There are a number of advantages to such a system. For example, by handling some of the communication paths in a microcell instead of an entire cell of a cellular system, the capacity of the cell can be increased. The bandwidth that can be used for data transmission can be larger when such local area networks are used. Since a telephone or other portable device needs to communicate only over a short range, its power requirements can be decreased, thereby increasing its battery lifetime.
It is important, however, since a large number of antenna stations are needed in such a microcell, that each of the stations have a low cost. This low cost includes not only the components used, but also the ease of assembling a system with a few standardized devices to keep assembly and installation costs low.
It would be desirable to have a low cost reliable optical fiber system for such an RF signal distribution system for a number of reasons. Optical fibers and the lasers and photodetectors used with them are capable of handling very high data rates at low cost. The attenuation by fibers is very low; negligibly low for in-building distances. The RF levels at the antenna stations are therefore nearly independent of their distance from a distribution hub. Fiber is light, flexible and requires relatively little labor to install. Special electrical shielding is not required for preventing radio interference. Such systems can operate with very high reliability and low power consumption. However, no suitable low cost fiber optic systems or components are known.
There is, therefore, provided in practice of this invention a fiber optic RF signal distribution system for a building, for example, having a plurality of antenna stations distributed through the building, with each antenna station including an RF antenna. A single RF signal distribution hub receives and transmits signals external to the system. A pair of optical fibers connects each antenna station directly to the RF signal distribution hub with the optical fibers being connected in a star configuration.
A typical RF signal distribution system has an RF signal distribution hub for receiving and transmitting signals external to the system or communicating signals within the system. A plurality of electrical to optical converters at the hub convert received electrical signals to outgoing optical signals. Preferably, such an electrical to optical converter comprises an RF modulated distributed feedback semiconductor laser. Similarly, a number of optical to electrical converters at the hub convert incoming optical signals from an optical fiber to electrical signals for transmission outside or back into the system. Conventional photodiodes are suitable optical to electrical converters.
The RF signal distribution hub communicates with a plurality of antenna stations by optical fibers connected in a star configuration. Each of the antenna stations has an RF antenna, a photodetector for sensing outgoing optical signals and means for connecting the photodetector to the antenna for broadcasting an outgoing RF signal. For incoming optical signals, each antenna station comprises a laser and means for connecting the antenna to the laser for converting an incoming RF signal to an incoming optical signal.
The electrical signals may be reconverted to an optical signal for transmission external to the RF signal distribution system. Similarly, the external signals may be originally received as optical signals and converted to electrical signals for processing before being reconverted to an optical signal for distribution in the system.
This invention provides a low cost RF signal distribution system having an electrical to optical connector housing for receiving a connector with an angled end of an optical fiber, such as a standard angled physical contact (APC) connector. An RF modulated distributed feedback semiconductor laser is mounted in the housing with a lens adjacent to the laser for directing light to an aperture plane in the housing. The laser and the lens are offset from the axis of the housing so that light from the laser passes through the aperture plane at an acute angle relative to the axis of the housing. Furthermore, the laser and lens are spaced so that the area of the aperture plane illuminated by the laser is larger than the end of an optical fiber. An APC connector can be mounted in the housing with the angled end of its optical fiber in the aperture plane for illumination by the laser.
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a photodiode in a connector housing.
An RF signal distribution system for a multi-floor building 10 has one or more antenna stations 11 distributed through the building. Each of the antenna stations includes an RF antenna for broadcasting signals to and receiving signals from devices within range of the antenna. Such an antenna station is small and unobtrusive, appearing not much different from the smoke detectors which are ubiquitous in homes, offices and hotels. Antenna stations may be located above drop ceilings in business buildings and not be seen at all. Several such antenna stations may be placed on ceilings or walls on each floor of such a building. Alternatively, such short range antenna stations may be located in several adjacent buildings. The building has one or more RF signal distribution hubs 12 for communicating inside or outside the building.
For purposes of this description a convention has been adopted. A "received signal" means a signal received from outside the system. A "transmitted signal" is a signal transmitted to outside the system. An "outgoing signal" refers to a signal transmitted from the RF signal distribution hub to an antenna station or user. An "incoming signal" is a signal transmitted from an antenna to the RF signal distribution hub. The same convention is used, for example, for designating the optical fibers used in the system as "outgoing" or "incoming".
Signals external to the system may be transmitted and received as radio signals 13 as in a cellular network or may be transmitted and received via a fiber optic cable 14 or copper wires 15. The hub also includes an RF interface unit 16 which converts a received signal into an outgoing RF electrical signal at 17 and converts an incoming RF signal at 18 into a transmitted signal for transmission outside the system. The outgoing RF signal is applied to one or more fiber optic transceivers 21 which convert the RF electrical signal to an optical signal. The outgoing RF signal passes through an RF splitter 19 for application to several fiber optic transceivers. Similarly, multiple incoming RF signals from several transceivers are summed in an RF combiner 20.
In the case of signals entirely within the system, i.e. from one antenna station to another antenna station or between two devices within a sector, incoming optical signals are converted to electrical signals via fiber optic transceivers, processed by the RF interface unit, routed by an local area network server or the like (not shown) and returned as outgoing signals to appropriate fiber optic transceivers.
Each fiber optic transceiver serves a sector of the building. Such a sector may be a floor of the building, a suite of offices, a department or the like. Each sector is served by an antenna station 22. A fiber optic cable 23 connects each of the antenna stations with one of the fiber optic transceivers. Each of the fiber optic cables comprises an outgoing optical fiber for conveying an optical signal from the transceiver to the antenna station and an incoming optical fiber for conveying an incoming signal from the antenna station to the receiver. Typically, the cable also includes a DC power supply circuit for operating the antenna station, or the antenna stations may be locally powered.
In some cases it may be more economical to use a combination of fiber optic and coaxial cables for serving a sector. In such a situation one may add antennas 38 to a sector's antenna station 22 by connecting the antennas to a coaxial cable 24 by RF couplers 25.
The antenna stations are connected to the RF signal distribution hub by fiber optic cables arranged in a star configuration. A conventional network may have the stations connected in a loop or "daisy chain" where each station is connected in turn to the next station around the loop. Another common network configuration is tree and branch as is used for cable television signals, for example, where a signal from a central station goes to a remote location where it is split into branches for a number of users.
The fiber optic system provided in practice of this invention has a star configuration or hub and spoke. By having each antenna station 22 connected directly to the RF signal distribution hub, it becomes quite easy to install additional antenna stations. For example, a connection need be made only at the antenna station and at the hub. There is a reliability benefit in that if a connector cable or laser is defective, only one antenna station is degraded and the balance of the network is still operable. In the event individual antenna stations become defective, they can be easily identified and replaced.
A star configuration for a fiber optic local area system has several advantages in addition to robustness and reliability. Such a star configuration system is easily installed since identical cabling and connectors can be used between the hub and the distributed RF antenna stations. Furthermore, the optical fiber connections in a star configuration can be simple and all connections can be identical. The attenuation of optical fibers is negligible throughout a building or campus of buildings so that no specific site engineering is required to assure that a system operates properly for a given installation. Such a system is easily expanded or modified. Such a system has low power consumption.
FIG. 3 illustrates schematically an exemplary fiber optic transceiver 21. An outgoing RF signal is applied to an amplifier 26 and semiconductor laser diode 27. The laser is adjacent to the end of an outgoing optical fiber 28 in a conventional angled physical contact (APC) connector 29. An "outgoing" optical fiber carries a signal from the RF signal distribution hub to an antenna station.
An incoming signal arrives at the fiber optic transceiver from an antenna station by way of an incoming optical fiber 31 with a separate connector 32 to the transceiver. A photodiode 33 is adjacent to the end of the incoming optical fiber and is connected to an amplifier 34 which provides an incoming electrical signal to the RF transceivers.
The other end of the outgoing optical fiber 28 has a connector 36 which plugs into an antenna station 22 as illustrated in FIG. 4. An outgoing photodiode 37 is adjacent to the end of the outgoing optical fiber. The photodiode signal is amplified and applied by way of a coupler 40 to an RF antenna 38 from which the signal radiates to cellular devices within range of the antenna.
An incoming RF signal from a cellular device is picked up by the RF antenna, amplified and applied for modulating a semiconductor laser diode 39. The laser diode is adjacent to an angled physical contact (APC) connector 41 for an incoming optical fiber 31 which transmits the incoming optical signal to the fiber optic transceiver.
An important feature for making a low cost reliable fiber optic RF signal distribution system comprises the laser and optical fiber connection. At least one end, and preferably both ends, of each optical fiber in the star configuration includes a conventional APC connector. A typical APC connector has a metal body surrounding a cylindrical ceramic plug through which the end of the optical fiber passes. A threaded nut on the APC connector removably fastens it to a connector housing. The details of the APC connector are not illustrated herein since they are conventional and well known in the art. The ceramic plug of such a connector is illustrated schematically in FIG. 6.
In an APC connector, the end of the optical fiber is flush with the outermost end of the ceramic plug. In conventional use of an APC connector, good optical coupling is provided between the end of the optical fiber and an adjacent similar fiber by physical contact between the ends of the ceramic plugs and hence the ends of the optical fibers. By avoiding an air gap between the fibers, there is good optical coupling. To assure that there is good physical contact between the ends of the optical fibers, the ends of the ceramic plugs are made with a very slight curvature instead of being plane. The curvature has a very large radius so that the end of the fiber is nearly flat. Furthermore, the center of curvature is offset from the axis of the fiber so that there is an acute angle (about 8°) between the axis of the fiber and a radius to the center of curvature. All such connectors have a similar angle so that the contact between the ends of the optical fibers is angled relative to the fibers. This type of construction is the origin of the designation APC, "angled physical contact" connector.
An APC connector is one example of a connector useful in this invention. As will become apparent, other connectors with an angled end on the fiber may also be used. "Angled end" means an end plane which is not normal to the axis of the fiber.
Low cost in the fiber optic RF signal distribution system is achieved by employing a connector housing containing a laser and optical system for direct optical coupling between the laser and a connector with an angled end on the optical fiber that is plugged into the connector housing. Such a housing is illustrated in perspective in FIG. 5.
A typical connector housing for an APC connector has a metal body 41 with laterally extending flanges 42 for bolting the housing to the chassis of the RF signal distribution hub or an antenna station. The outer end of the body is threaded for receiving the nut on a standard APC connector. A slot 43 in the threaded end forms a key way for receiving a raised key on the body of an APC connector for correctly aligning the angled ceramic plug in the connector. A tight fitting split sleeve 44 in the body assures concentricity of the ceramic plug of the connector with the optical system in the connector housing. Such an arrangement for receiving a standard APC connector is conventional.
The connector housing may have a significantly different exterior. For example, instead of flanges for bolting to a housing, the connector half may have male threads for receiving a nut for fastening to a housing in the same manner as conventional panel mounting connector halves.
As illustrated in FIG. 7, in the connector housing provided in practice of this invention, there is a hollow insert 46 inserted into the body and laser welded to the body. The insert has a passage from its hollow interior to an end referred to herein as an aperture plane 48. A stop surface 49 is immediately adjacent to the perimeter of the passage at the aperture plane. The stop surface engages the end of the ceramic plug (not shown in FIG. 7) of a standard APC connector when it is inserted into the housing. The stop surface assures that the end of the optical fiber in the plug is located very close to the aperture plane. The split sleeve 44 engages an external surface on the insert 46 as well as the ceramic plug to keep the plug concentric with the insert.
A base 51 includes an upstanding sleeve 52 which fits over the outside of the body insert and is secured thereto by a plurality of spot welds or circumferential laser weld 53. As explained hereinafter, this fit between the sleeve and insert are used for adjustment during assembly of the connector housing.
A header 54 is secured in the base 51, typically by press fitting. Four metal pins 56 extend through glass seals in the header for making electrical connections to components inside the connector housing.
A lid 57 is hermetically sealed on the header to form a laser subassembly. A rigid post 58 within the laser subassembly supports a semiconductor laser 59. In the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 7, a photodiode 61 is cantilevered from another post and is directly behind the laser. Other electrical components are formed on a substrate 62 on the rigid post.
Typical electrical connections are illustrated schematically in FIG. 6. The laser is connected to a DC bias by an inductor 63 and is also connected to ground. An RF modulating signal is also connected to the laser by a resistor 64 and capacitor 66. The inductor, capacitor and resistor tend to isolate the RF signal and the DC bias from each other. The DC bias, RF modulating signal and electrical ground use three of the four pins through the header.
The fourth pin may be used for either a photodiode 61 as illustrated in FIG. 7 or a thermistor 67 (FIG. 6). Either of these additional components may be used as desired for a particular application. When a photodiode is used, a portion of light through the back face of the laser illuminates the photodiode. The photodiode output may be used in an external feedback circuit for adjusting the DC bias current for controlling laser performance. Alternatively, a thermistor which is mounted on the bottom of the laser subassembly monitors the temperature of the connector housing. The thermistor signal may be used in an external feedback for controlling temperature or adjusting the DC bias for compensating changes in laser performance as a function of temperature.
The front of the electrical to optical converter module has at least a center portion that is transparent and includes a lens 68. The lens and laser are aligned for appropriately illuminating the aperture plane with light from the laser. The correct positions of the laser and lens are determined during assembly of the laser subassembly. The sequence of assembly of the laser module into the connector housing fixes the least critical positions first and the more critical positions last.
The laser module is assembled first. A laser 59 is mounted on the post 58 in its correct position off of the axis of the header 54. The cover 57 is then hermetically sealed onto the header with the lens coaxial with the header. The header is then pressed into the base 51. A subassembly of insert 46, sleeve 52 and base with laser module is then loosely assembled. The insert and sleeve are welded together at the appropriate telescoped spacing for placing the focus of the light from the laser near, but not in, the aperture plane for the desired illumination of the aperture plane. Finally, the base is positioned so that the lens is in an appropriate position off the axis of the insert and the base is welded to the sleeve.
This insert assembly is then inserted into the body of the connector housing and spot welded in place. This position is not critical since the optical fiber is positioned relative to the insert 46 by the stop surface 49 and split sleeve 44. The angular orientation of the insert subassembly and the body 41 also has a loose tolerance and the position of the pins 56 relative to the slot 43 is adequate for alignment.
Although this sequence of aligning and welding the parts together is preferred, a different sequence could be used. Parts of the connector can be assembled with epoxy bonding or the like instead of welding.
As can be seen by the schematic illustration of FIG. 6, the laser 59 and lens 68 are not aligned with the axis of an optical fiber 69 extending through the ceramic plug 71 of a standard APC connector (indicated schematically). Instead, the laser and lens are offset at an angle that assures that light enters the end of the fiber in an axial direction after refraction at the angled end. It is for this reason that the laser, lens and interconnecting structures are carefully oriented relative to the key way of the connector housing which positions the connector and hence ceramic plug in its correct orientation.
The semiconductor laser used for the low cost RF signal distribution system is preferably a distributed feedback (DFB) laser. DFB lasers are conventional semiconductor devices. Many semiconductor lasers use cleaved output and back facets to obtain the feedback necessary for lasing. Feedback can also be obtained by periodic variations within the lasing cavity. Typically, this is produced by corrugating the interface between two adjacent cladding layers. The periodic ridges and grooves of the corrugated portion form a diffraction grating so that constructive interference due to the grating provides feedback distributed along at least a portion of the cavity length. As a result, the DFB laser has a single longitudinal mode output. The single output frequency (actually a narrow band of frequencies) is determined by the periodicity of the grating.
A DFB laser is preferred in the low cost transceiver system since it has the lowest noise of semiconductor lasers. A DFB laser, however, is more sensitive to external reflections than a Fabry-Perot laser. The optical system in the connector housing is therefore designed to minimize reflections. This design includes non-axial alignment of the laser and lens and "loose coupling" of the light from the laser to the optical fiber.
An angled end on the optical fiber such as provided in an APC connector is employed with the DFB laser so that illumination from the laser is not normal to the end of the ceramic plug and fiber. Thus, specular reflections from the end of the plug and fiber cannot reenter the laser.
The spacings of the laser, lens and aperture plane are fixed during assembly of the connector housing so that light from the laser is deliberately not focused on the aperture plane. The alignment is set so that about three to five percent of the light from the laser actually enters the core of the fiber. This is a result of two effects. One is that with the defocusing of the illumination at the aperture plane, the wave fronts encountering the end of the fiber are somewhat spherical instead of flat. Only the "flat" component of the spherical wavefront successfully traverses the fiber. Secondly, the area of the ceramic plug illuminated is larger than the area of the end of the fiber core and only light that illuminates the end of the fiber core can enter it.
Another way of loosely coupling light from the laser into the fiber would be to have the light from the laser illuminate the angled end of the optical fiber at an angle that is not optimum for refraction into the fiber in the axial direction. Flooding the end of the fiber with light that is not focused at the aperture plane, but which is at the correct angle for refraction into the fiber, is preferable since the proportion of light coupled into the fiber remains substantially unchanged if the fiber is displaced laterally within the illuminated area. Thus, manufacturing and positioning tolerances are significantly relaxed as compared with a device where the laser light is focused on the core of the fiber.
Since only about three to five percent of the light from the DFB laser enters the optical fiber, any reflections or backscattering from the fiber which could reenter the laser have extremely low power levels relative to the power level of the laser. Such loose coupling of the illumination thereby avoids reflections from the fiber that would destabilize the DFB laser.
As an alternative to loose coupling of the laser output and the optical fiber input, one may employ an optical isolator and couple a higher proportion of the laser light into the fiber. Very small dimension and low cost optical isolators are becoming available. Such an optical isolator can be placed in a passage 47 in the insert 46 between the lens and aperture plane of the connector.
Such an optical isolator is illustrated in FIG. 8 and comprises a sandwich of a plane polarizer 72, polarization rotator 73 and another polarizer 74, positioned within a rare earth magnet 76. Each polarizer comprises a thin sheet of glass including a surface layer containing silver dipoles tuned to the wavelength of the light from the laser and stretch oriented for high quality polarization of the light beam. Such a polarizing material is available from Corning as Polacor. The rotator is a garnet type crystal sandwiched between the polarizers. The polarizers are set at 45° with respect to each other in the optical isolator. Other polarizers may also be used.
A light beam from the laser is plane polarized by the first polarizer. The rotator then rotates the plane of polarization 45° so that it is aligned with the second polarizer and readily passes therethrough. Any light reflected back toward the optical isolator passes through the first polarizer and is again rotated 45° by the rotator. This places the plane of polarization of the reflected light 90° from the polarization of the original light beam. When this rotated reflected light beam encounters the second polarizer, its passage is prevented.
It is important to use an angled end on the optical fiber, such as in an APC connector, for the connectorized laser module. When two APC connector halves are connected together, there is essentially no air gap between the ends of the fibers and there is good optical coupling. In addition, there is very low reflection from the fiber connection. When there is an "open" connector where a fiber end has a glass-air interface, reflected light will be coupled back into the fiber if the fiber has an end that is normal to the axis of the fiber. In this case, light that is backscattered from within the fiber or reflected from the far end will be reflected from the near end and interfere with forward travelling light. That is avoided with an angled end on the fiber. The end of a fiber in the connector described herein has a glass-air interface and reflections within the fiber are inhibited by using an angled end face.
It is also desirable to employ an angled end face such as provided by an APC connector half at the output end of an optical fiber. In a low cost system it is also desirable to avoid having both halves of a connector in use at the output end of the fiber. Instead, one may use a fiber-air interface of an APC connector in combination with a connectorized photodiode. Such an arrangement is illustrated schematically in FIG. 9. Structurally the connector arrangement is similar to what has already been illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 7 and the details are omitted from FIG. 9.
At this output end of the fiber optic cable an optical fiber 169 extends through the ceramic plug 171 of a standard APC connector 81 indicated only as a dashed outline in the drawing. The APC connector is mated with a connectorized photodiode, the housing 82 of which is also indicated schematically in FIG. 9. This connector housing includes a lens 168 positioned close enough to an aperture plane 83 of the housing that light from the optical fiber encounters the lens despite being refracted at an angle from the axis of the fiber because of the angled end on the fiber. Preferably the lens is large enough or positioned close enough to the end of the fiber that the light is incident on a central portion of the lens where optical aberrations are minimized. The lens refocuses the light from the fiber toward the optical axis of the connector.
A photodiode 84 is located on the optical axis in or near the focal plane of the lens. Light from the fiber refracted by the lens is therefore directed onto the photodiode. Precise focusing on the photodiode or exact positioning on the optical axis are not critical. All that is required is that a maximum amount of the light from the fiber actually illuminates the photodiode.
This lack of criticality can be appreciated by recognizing that a connectorized photodiode may be employed without a focusing lens between the end of the fiber and the photodiode. All that would be needed is that the photodiode have a large enough area to receive most or all of the light from the fiber even though the light is off axis. It is preferred, however, to employ a lens instead of a large area photodiode since the capacitance of the photodiode increases with increasing area and such capacitance can limit the high frequency response of the photodiode.
It will be noticed that in a connector arrangement as illustrated in FIG. 9 it is not necessary to angularly orient the APC connector relative to the housing of the connectorized photodiode. A large enough lens can readily be provided on axis for illumination by the light from the fiber regardless of its angular orientation.
As an alternative arrangement, one may provide for angular orientation between the APC connector and the housing of the connectorized photodiode. In such an embodiment a small area photodiode may be placed off axis at a location where it will be illuminated by light from the fiber. Such an off axis photodiode can be a relatively small size for adequate high frequency response.
Thus, a suitable low cost fiber optic signal transmission system may comprise a connectorized laser module as illustrated in FIGS. 5 to 7, an optical fiber having an angled end at each end such as by having an APC connector at each end, and a connectorized photodiode as illustrated in FIG. 9. Thus, each end of the optical fiber has a fiber-air interface, but since both ends are angled relative to the axis of the fiber, reflections do not pose any problems. Such an arrangement is desirable for a number of reasons. Such a fiber optic cable is not "handed". In other words, either end of the cable can be the input or the output. Surplus connector halves can be avoided by reason of the connectorized laser module and connectorized photodiode. The system is low cost since low cost components are used. Installation is easy and does not require highly skilled labor.
Although described for particular utility in an RF signal distribution system, it will be apparent that a connector housing with built-in DFB laser is useful in a number of other applications where a modulated semiconductor laser illuminates an optical fiber. Previously, low reflection laser modules have been constructed which have an optical fiber output. This optical fiber is connected to another optical fiber for long transmission distances by means of an APC connector or the like. Regardless of the excellent transmission characteristics of APC connectors, there is the cost of a pair of such connectors. In effect, applicants have provided a laser module with an output for direct coupling to an optical fiber connector instead of an optical fiber output. This permits connecting the optical fiber directly to the module instead of requiring an additional connector half.
Although described as an RF signal distribution system for communications outside of a system, it will be apparent that a cellular telephone system is merely exemplary of the applications. Such an optical fiber wireless signal distribution system may be used in mobile radio systems for vehicles moving around a warehouse, for example. Because of the broad bandwidth available in a short range system of this sort, it is ideally suited for mobile personal communications. Such a system may also be used as a broadband wireless local area network with or without communication outside of the local area network. Such a system may simply be used as a wireless PBX which permits communication with anyone within range, regardless of their location. Other wireless digital terminal equipment systems will be apparent.
Although the connectors for a fiber optic data transmission system have been described as standard APC connectors, it will be apparent that these are merely exemplary of connectors that may have an angled end on the optical fiber. Thus, in a standard APC connector the end of the fiber is not only angled relative to the axis of the fiber, the ceramic plug and fiber end have a slight curvature so that the ends of adjacent fibers are sure to be in physical contact. Such curvature is not important in practice of this invention since the ends of the fiber have a fiber-air interface instead of a fiber-fiber interface. A connector with a simple flat diagonal end is equivalent for practice of this invention. A standard APC connector with curvature may, however, be useful so that cables may be standardized and used with conventional connectors as well.
For such reasons, it will be apparent that many modifications and variations may be made and that this invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described.
means for coupling a semiconductor laser directly to a connector on the end of each optical fiber without an intervening connector.
means for directing illumination from the laser onto the aperture plane at an acute angle to the axis of the optical fiber.
3. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 2 wherein the laser comprises a distributed feedback laser.
4. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 3 comprising an optical system aligned so that the laser is not focused on the aperture plane.
a socket for receiving an optical fiber connector with the end of an optical fiber in the connector being angled relative to the axis of the fiber and optically aligned with the laser.
6. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 5 wherein the laser comprises a distributed feedback laser.
7. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 6 wherein the connector housing further comprises a lens between the laser and an aperture plane positioned for receiving the end of the optical fiber in a fiber connector, the optical axis of the lens and laser being at an acute angle to the axis of the housing and aligned for illuminating an area of the aperture plane larger than the area of the end of an optical fiber.
a connector housing including a semiconductor laser and a lens between the laser and an aperture plane positioned for receiving the end of the optical fiber of an APC connector, the optical axis of the lens and laser being at an acute angle to the axis of the housing and aligned for illuminating an area of the aperture plane larger than the area of the end of an optical fiber.
a pair of optical fibers connecting each antenna station directly to the distribution hub for transmitting signals therebetween, the optical fibers between the signal distribution hub and the antenna stations being connected in a star configuration; and wherein at least a portion of the antennas are connected to the antenna station by coaxial cable.
a semiconductor laser illuminating the aperture plane.
11. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 10 wherein the means for placing the end of an optical fiber in an aperture plane comprises an APC connector, and further comprising a lens between the laser and aperture plane for illuminating the aperture plane at an acute angle to the axis of the optical fiber.
12. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 11 wherein the laser comprises a distributed feedback laser and wherein the laser and lens are mounted so that light from the laser is not focused at the aperture plane.
13. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 10 wherein the optical fibers between the distribution hub and the antenna stations are connected in a star configuration.
an incoming optical fiber connecting the laser of one of the antenna stations to each optical to electrical converter; and wherein the optical fibers are connected in a star configuration.
15. A fiber optic RF signal distribution system as recited in claim 14 wherein the means for minimizing reflections comprises means for defocusing the laser at the end of an optical fiber and means for aligning the laser at an acute angle to the axis of the optical fiber.
a photodiode adjacent a connector having an angled end on the optical fiber at the opposite end of each optical fiber and optically coupled to the end of the fiber via a fiber-air interface.
a photodetector optically placed for illumination by light from the end of the optical fiber in the aperture plane.
NL9401466A (en) * 1994-09-08 1996-04-01 Holec Projects Bv Lens connector for optically interconnecting optical conductors.
DE68919327T2 (en) * 1988-03-02 1995-04-27 Fujitsu Ltd Semiconductor laser module and method to his-adjustment.
B. Hillerich, "Trade-Off Between Beam Truncation and Defocussing With Taper Lenses on Single-Mode Fibers," Optics Communications, vol. 28, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1988.
Chu et al., "Fiber Optic Microcellular Radio" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 40, No. 3, Aug. 1991, pp. 599-606.
M. Shibutani et al., "Reflection Induced Degradations in Optical Fiber Feeder for Microcellular Mobile Radio Systems," IEICE Transactions on Electronics, vol. E76-C, No. 2, Feb. 1993. | 2019-04-20T12:47:22Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US5457557A/en | Porn | Business | 0.567378 |
wikipedia | Dead Rising is a survival horror video game developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and published by Capcom.
It was released on August 8, 2006 in North America, September 8, 2006 in Europe, September 14, 2006 in Australia, and on September 28, 2006 in Japan.The game was the first in the Dead Rising video game series and was followed by Dead Rising 2 in 2010.
In the game the player controls a photojournalist named Frank West who is trapped in a shopping mall during a zombie outbreak. The story centers around West trying to uncover the truth behind the outbreak while trying to stay alive.
IGN rated the game a 8.3 out of 10 and said it was "one of the more unique and entertaining titles on the Xbox 360.” but noted that the game could have had "a better save system, more intelligent NPCs, a more forgiving story progression, and tighter controls"
GameSpot gave the game a 8.4 out of 10 and stated "Dead Rising's gory, ridiculous, and entertaining action, coupled with its real-time structure and campy stylistic touches, make it one of the most unique games currently available for the Xbox 360."
The game won "Most Innovative Design for Xbox 360" by IGN in 2006, "Best Action Adventure Game", "Best Sound Effects", and "Best Use of Xbox 360 Achievement Points" in GameSpot's Best and Worst of 2006, and won "Action Game of the Year" at the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Awards.
This page was last changed on 4 April 2018, at 11:08. | 2019-04-22T02:21:09Z | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Rising | Porn | Games | 0.8208 |
columbia | "A shape, a volume, a color, a surface is something itself. It shouldn't be concealed as part of a fairly different whole."
A leading American artist of the postwar period, Donald Judd was renowned for his use of such materials as plywood, Plexiglas, sheet aluminum, copper, and steel. Often described as a "minimalist"—a term he detested—Judd was also an influential art critic who disdained the reduction of art to what he called "isms." Judd began painting and writing articles for ARTnews in 1959, and in 1960 became a contributing editor for Arts Magazine. He resigned in 1965 over what he thought was poor editing of his copy, an example of the perfectionism that was a constant throughout his life. Around 1962 Judd started creating sculpture (another term he avoided) with industrial materials. Rather than constructing his work personally, he had it industrially fabricated—a practice criticized at the time but emulated today by many contemporary artists. In 1972 Judd moved to the town of Marfa, Texas, where he bought and renovated a series of buildings in which to create and showcase his own work, along with that of others. By the mid-1980s he was designing furniture for sale to the general public. In early 2004, London's Tate Modern gallery mounted an exhibition billed as the first substantial retrospective of Judd's work in three dimensions since 1988, and the first to trace his career up to his death from lymphoma in 1994.
Judd received a bachelor's degree from the School of General Studies in 1953, majoring in philosophy, and returned to Columbia four years later to study art history. By then, he had started to create art and write. He left graduate school after four years—without earning his degree—to continue his artistic and literary pursuits.
Read more about Judd in the Columbia Encyclopedia. | 2019-04-22T20:36:04Z | http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/donald_judd.html | Porn | Reference | 0.877535 |
wordpress | On this day in 1893 Keir Hardie, the Liberal-Labour MP for West Ham, formed the Independent Labour Party during a conference held in Bradford with other delegates from various labour and socialist organisations. Growing increasingly tired of partnering with the liberals it was his contention that the working classes of Britain would need their own independent political party. This party, socialist in its outlook, was to be rooted in the trade unions, despite being at the time still politically liberal.
Seven years later in 1900 the Labour Representation Committee was formed, which consisted of socialist organisations like the ILP, the Social Democratic Federation (Britain’s first socialist political party), whose aim was to gain independent Labour representation in parliament.
In its early years one didn’t join a body called the Labour Party, it was only possible to join one of its affiliate groups – the ILP being the biggest one. In 1910 42 Labour MPs were elected to the House of Commons, thanks in no small part by Hardie, the Fabian Society and other trade unionists (which given that one year before they could no longer fund political parties owing to the Osborne judgment – passed by the House of Lords – was a major victory; one which was to be short lived however).
As time wet on relations between the ILP and the Parlaimentary Labour Party (PLP) grew rather fractious. The independents, now led by James Maxton, felt they should have a seperate system of discipline than the PLP who did not agree. At this stage, in the 1930s, the ILP started to become very radicalised, heavily influenced in part by Stalinism.
Labour from its outset was a broad church of left wing and working class politics, and so had been used to difference, but with the ILP strategies were very much in conflict. The policy of Clydeside ILP MPs, for example, had been to harass and confront Conservative and Liberals MPs in parliament, especially on the issues of poverty and unemployment. The PLP viewed this as cheapening their standing which led to confrontation, while the ILP accused the PLP of deviating from its socialist principles.
In 1932 the ILP left the Labour Party, along with four of its MPs, evoking a scathing response from Labour leftwinger Aneurin Bevan who described the ILP’s disaffiliation as a decision to remain “pure, but impotent”.
Such, in fact, is the reality for lots of political organisations who supposedly work in the interest of left wing or working class politics – seeing difference and factionalism as a duty rather than a political reality of which to overcome in organised politics.
Take for example Duncan Hallas’ notorious 1985 (published 1987) article, simply called Sectarianism. After disputing the Militant definition of sectarianism (to work towards socialism and the workers’ struggle from outside the Labour Party) and supporting the motion that the Socialist Workers’ Party should support the left inside the Labour Party where need be, he notes that this is by no means the same thing as saying “the SWP ought to dissolve itself into the Labour Party (or to appear to do so whilst secretly maintaining its own organisation)”.
Revolutionary socialists are better placed outside of the party anyway as they can avoid conflicts over positions, candidate selections etc.
I’m not a revolutionary socialist, so this poses for me no problem. However on a matter of principles, Hallas’ first reason disregards the common knowledge that the world’s problems do not begin and end in a political party – no sane Labour Party member on the left would suggest that advancing socialism can only take place within the party, disregarding the work that takes place in the workplace and by unions. This line seems to produce only a straw man argument, when in fact – and as Bevan was wise enough to take note of – by not working from within the largest socialist party in Britain, the dutybound factionalist only makes his “purity” impotent.
The second reason, more revealing in some ways, can serve as a commentary on the reality of a Labour Party being tilted further and further to the right (or in the case of Ed Miliband, being tilted further and further to total silence). While rejecting Hallas’ straw man argument in his first reason, we can accept that it would counter received wisdom to do anything other than maintain presence of workplace representatives, even if “struggle in the workplaces is at a very low ebb”.
This, for me, still doesn’t explain why a socialist, of whatever variety, is better placed outside, rather than within the Labour Party. Which brings me to Hallas’ last point. First thing to ask is how do the SWP avoid friction over positions? It seems obvious to me that this is a reality of any political organisation, and is no good reason to seperate off from a broad church party.
Clearly the more a broadly socialist body of politics is split, the more staurated it becomes, and the weaker it is placed to join in the struggle of the working class. This is not the opinion of many on the left, for whom splits and splinters are an obligation, stipulated by the word of zealous, power hungry Russian dictators safeguarding their own corners. But at what price?
Small, inadequate left wing parties shout in the wind, by the sidelines, while the Labour Party, currently in oppositon to a government demanding ideological cuts over jobs and growth, struggles to tell its arse from its elbow. Refusal to work in the Labour Party, from the ILP back in the thirties to the Greens and the SWP now, is the scourge of left wing politics.
Statue aside (in his words, “am I bothered”) it is so easy for some people; we’ll support our tribe come what may, and that’s that (no doubt you’ve heard the argument before; we should support Blair/Mandelson as they bring in the votes, forgetting the price the party has had to pay for that experiment). Only for anyone in the Labour Party who really cares about it, and are politically committed to boot, this will not do. Surely a nodding dog who promised everything to everyone (like Barack Obama at the start of his term) would be more electorally successful, but the Labour Party is a political party, historically it has been a political machine and a socialist one as well. While it’s trying to please everyone it is pleasing nobody; Blair may have won his pathetic game against his contemporaries in the Commons, he may have smiled at the correct moments in a PR attempt to woo the heartstrings of the electorate, but he had no political fire in his belly to win the argument for socialism (in fact, by the end I’m sure he’d rather do anything else) and therefore we in the Labour Party should not “support” him. No way.
Yesterday I played a game that my Grandad received for Christmas. One of the questions raised – aimed at a certain generation – was: “should it be absolutely right for a person to fight for their country over anything else?” I was the elephant in the room, among mostly ex-service people (my parents and grandparents included) who said no – but I stand by my answer; today more than ever nation is a tribe that can serve only as sentimental value, ideas and convictions is a dish best served political, and in an age of postmodern disdain for ideas that can guide your uttermost convictions, it is the task of the left today to fight against that current – nationalism and tribalism were bad for politics in generations previous (obviously I justify British presence in WWII, but Churchill was an imperialist, it’s an old point, unpopular and often disavowed, but it’s true) and are bad today.
But who today are really to blame? Reading the above may lead you to think I’m not myself slightly tribal to a political party, but in many ways I am, but not in the sort of way damaging to my political convictions. My own brand of Labour Party tribalism means that I think TonyBlair was a monster – and it’s because I care about the party so much that I can say this. Those who send messages, such as the one above, are more damaging to the party than they realise.
Who I blame for the rightwards trajectory of the political party I am a member of is not necessarily those rightist figures themselves – it is young members of Trotskyite splinter parties like the Socialist Workers Party. In the days during the militancy period in the 80s, people were thrown out in a Kinnock, McCarthy-esque, early New Labour drive to rid the party of socialist ideas – history denialism. There were two elements to emerge; an element who embraced the sectarianism of the left who created the far left pressure groups we know awkwardly selling papers today, and then Grantite-entryists who as best as possible worked inside the Labour Party with the intention of bringing socialists together. Younger generations inside those parties don’t face the same problems; for them the Labour Party is sinking ship composed of capitalists and warmongers. However, these people have less fire in their bellies than the right wing of the Labour Party whose socialism has died with the size of their mortgages.
While sectarian factions choose not to touch the Labour Party with bargepoles, so the right of the party become vindicated in their place, and with the slow death of New Labour, and the sloppiness of Ed Miliband, now is the time to work inside and alongside the party, not against it. Owing to the constitution of the small far left parties, and their continual relevance among young socialists as opposed to working inside the longest existing, and historically the most idea rich socialist party in the UK – the Labour Party – they are by their very nature sectarian, and therefore it is justified to shut the door on their personal vindications to the Labour right wing, while offering a place to them if they wanted, and sharing ideas where possible (like the Labour Representative Committee do with smaller parties).
It is not only true, but also necessary, that all that is solid melts into air and change disturbs the inner functioning of people and places over periods of time. This notion is as true as for towns, villages and cities as it is for us as humans.
But there is something significantly more influential about the disruption that is caused by a geographical location unto its human subject, something deeply and incalculably disruptive that cannot be said to be returned in kind. The task of qualifying to what extent the geographical landscape is said to affect the normal functioning of the psychical realm is little more than a footnote in the Situationists’ repertoire, yet it is their work and influence that has gone the furthest into such a collation of results. The word which has come to define the task of qualifying how far a geographical landscape is said to be a determinant on the human subject is psychogeography, and as can be expected it is usually anthropocentric in that it concerns itself with measuring the extent to which passive places alter active minds, but less is said within psychogeography of how minds alter places since this is delegated to the realm of town and country planning.
Equally, urban geography at its elementary stages tended to concern itself with the extent to which towns could influence its surrounding area. Sir Dudley Stamp in his crucial book Applied Geography drew up two points that summarised the raison d’être of urban geography, namely the ‘study of the actual town itself’ and ‘the influence of the town on its surroundings’. Now maintaining allegiance to these two points I would like to supplement them with my own, scilicet the influence with which the surrounding area has on the town itself.
Highlighting the influence furnished upon a town by its neighbouring area sutures the gap present in Stamp’s urban analysis, or what I am prepared to call topographical revealing. It is surely necessary when focusing ones attention to the location and history of a town to look at what makes it distinct, what makes it unique, whilst also observing the part it has played in developing its borders. But if one is to really reveal the power relations at play, one must go further. With this as my backdrop I can begin to reveal the relationship between Pitsea – a small town in South Essex – and London.
Observing Stamp’s agenda for urban geography and applying that to the history of Pitsea will assure some interesting revelations, including the apposite land it once had available to provide an arms factory and accommodate pillboxes during the Second World War, and how being situated on the Thames Estuary made it ideal for exporting produce. But with the inclusion of my third point, I can reveal how Pitsea has always been something of a plaything for London, an extension for its own purpose, an experiment and dumping ground, a place that jumps when London tells it to jump.
With its mention in the Domesday Book, it is acknowledged that Pitsea existed as far back as the Norman Conquest, but according to the Rochford Hundred Field Archaeological Group managed to go unnoticed by local historians. As T.C. Chisenhale Marsh’s translation of the Domesday Book relating to Essex explains ‘Pitsey is rather inland for land,’ one possible reason as to why there is little to no pre-Norman history on Pitsea, other than blind speculation.
It’s the legitimacy of this view that lends itself to the common perception that Pitsea is a kind of product of Basildon new town, a residential remainder. Its geographical location, however, does form its name, emanating from pic (point) on sea. The proximity of the point to the estuary rendered it quite ideal to install a public a railway line, especially given the uselessness of all the surrounding boggy marsh, made even more useless by its agricultural ineptitude, of which more in a moment. The Fenchurch Street line was initiated in 1852, eventually reaching Pitsea in 1854 and commenced proper commercial use by 1st July 1855, joining all other sites linked by marsh and creek, Benfleet, Leigh-on-Sea and Standford-le-Hope.
Most of the designated area for Basildon new town (all the areas once under the jurisdiction of Billericay, with its then Member of Parliament Bernard Braine) – and the south east of England – is covered with London clay, a marine deposit, well known for the fossils it creates and the immense thickness (150 meters) – able to support the deep foundations and tunnels found in and around Essex – of the Ypresian age (which span from 48.6 to 55.8 years ago), which on the geological timescale (time that is used by geologists, palaeontologists and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the history of the Earth) is the earliest stage of the Eocene sub-epoch (which span from 55.8 to 33.9 million years ago). Owing to this, much of the said area is agriculturally unsuitable. And since 40% of the area swallowed up by Basildon new town was originally planned to be agricultural heaven, a re-think was made necessary.
Pitsea and Vange were not part of the 40% of designated land for Basildon new town composing of London clay, instead they were composed of alluvium, the product of a heavy amount of dropped solid rock particles due to fast river flow, but still this meant agricultural incompetence. Production through farming and foods ceased to exist as a consequence, so another method of capital squeezing was needed (this couldn’t be any more apparent, and simultaneously a slap in the face, by the presence of a budget priced, chain supermarket called Farmfoods in Pitsea today).
The commercialisation of Pitsea was not a problem for anyone with political punch near town. Dennis Hardy and Colin Ward in their book Arcadia For All note that the landowners near the railway routes were usually shareholders or board members of railway firms; they profited from diminishing farmlands and the volume of traffic that the development of the railway would bring.
They, too, were probably happy to see the methods used by The Land Company, possibly the brainchild of Protheroe & Morris, who operated from the same address in London and the South East, and their estate agents who used techniques of wooing potential plotland development buyers with free railway tickets or cheap fares refunded to purchasers, not to mention the utterly frivolous champagne auctions they used to hold. It is noted that East London families would go out to the country for a cheap outing and come back property owners. Pitsea was soon turned into a place for Londoner weekend homes – hard to believe now. It wasn’t until 1925 that local entrepreneur Harold George Howard decided that Pitsea was going to be “something really special”. It was he who designed the Tudor style buildings around Pitsea in the thirties, the Railway hotel public house (now a place of brick throwing target practice for local bored youths, sheet metal instead of windows, grand ideas of a neolithic historical museum by idealistic councillors), the cinema (which has since been a successful bingo hall, now closed down, posters advertising local carnivals, shelter for rained-in early morning bus users), Tudor Mansions and Tudor Chambers with its cab firm, kebab shop, and betting office, and finally, Anne Boleyn Mansions used by Lloyds bank.
His legacy lives on in the row of houses bordering the park that bears his name (Howards Park), and one cannot criticise him for his earnest effort. But even he could not have helped what was to happen to the area next, despite the efforts of many men. The German forces’ bombing of East London meant that many families were forced out of their obliterated homes, seeking a safe haven in nearby towns with land to accommodate them (and incidentally, if there is one good thing to be said about the digging up and destruction of East end history for the purposes of the 2012 Olympic games, it is that excavators uncovered an unexploded bomb near to Bromley-by-Bow Tube station). It is precisely here that a parallel with settler hegemony, like that of the state of Israel, can be drawn: the Second World War brought about ghastly deaths and forced evacuations of many innocent people, but how to deal with populating another area of land was mishandled, with Israel it meant making second class citizens out of the existing Arab population, forced into suppression by the Nakba of 1948, with Pitsea, the re-accommodation of innocent people affected by the war gave legitimacy to the compulsory purchasing of over 10,000 homes, some weekend homes, some freehold owners, all for the good of Basildon new town.
After the Second World War the Tory government only had the iconography of Churchill as muscle for their election campaign, needless to say it was Clem Attlee’s Labour government that won in 1945, bringing in many of the institutions we take for granted now such as the NHS. Owing to the housing problem after the war the Labour government introduced two new acts taking control of the issue; namely the Town and Country Planning Act and the New Towns Act of 1946/7. It was the idea to create new homes where possible, but the destruction of existing homes seemed a little counter-productive. It was here that the Residents Protection Association (RPA) took force, which campaigned against the creation of a Basildon new town on the basis that it would destroy existing homes.
The Labour initiated acts generated much enthusiasm at first since it set out to clean up the district, finish unmade roads, fix unconnected sewers and deal with the cramped conditions many people lived under. However in the 1951 elections, due to the first-past-the-post system, and in spite of the fact the Labour party fielded a record number of votes (even to this day), Churchill’s Tories made it back into government. The first thing that Mr. S.A. Perry did, an owner of a London printing firm and a staunch ally of the RPA, was to write to Churchill on the 24th of September 1951 asking him to shelve the New Town plans. He received a reply from Churchill’s secretary on the 27th saying the Tories were not opposed to the act or the forming of a new town, but “the socialist Town and Country Act of 1947 imposed a most unjust basis for compensation”. After much campaigning, and even fielding George Ross, member of the RPA committee and author of The Brink of Despair: A History of Basildon 1915 – 1986, as candidate for the council, with modest success, it was realised that the slogan “Down with the New Town” had become obsolete when in the early fifties buildings were beginning to fall down.
The Rt. Hon. Hugh Dalton MP, Minister of Housing, approved the first Master Plan for the new town, August 1951.
The corporate logic over the introduction and overspill of Londoners had spelt the destruction of many people’s homes and had turned Pitsea into a consumer plot. There is something distressingly logical that Pitsea is the site of the biggest Tesco in Europe straddling over 125,000 square feet of floorspace. The new Masterplan for the area, approved in April 2007, and entitled the Regeneration, will provide Pitsea with 20,000 more square metres of retail space, which among many other things includes an opening up of Station Lane, the path that reaches the train station, which will include a French Market (and if there is one thing Pitsea is not crying out for, it is a French market). It will also fill space with 500 new homes, many of which are flats on the cusp of Station Lane itself, for the sole purpose of designing trendy flats appealing to 20/30-somethings, in order for easy access to the city; an act of blatant London subservience.
No wonder there is an ink daubing of “EC2” on the fence that blocks the site where these flats will occupy; far from being a sign that East end gangs are rearing their ugly heads in Essex, it is a signalling gesture that the re-colonisation of Pitsea through corporate regeneration is imminent.
The sum components of the Pitsea regeneration seemed designed entirely in order to make access out of it easier for part-time lodgers in trendy flats. Why else would Station Lane be such a focal point, why a French Market, why when housing prices in London are so, that millions of pounds are spent creating another bubble just waiting for 15 years of equilibrium elsewhere, before a burst threatens to cause ruin. House prices soar in London, (and so what is the thinking? Thus) let’s just move the problem to the towns, then when house prices soar there maybe the city and suburbs will be affordable again. I smell a rat – the rat of London, telling Pitsea to jump, and jump it does.
Guy Debord’s great work Thesis on Traffic opined that planning and architecture, rather than being designed to accept the automobile as its central theme, should instead phase it out in the aim of reintroducing civil society as the foreground of urban life, social relationships included. Now, in urban planning, the problem isn’t just the automobile, it is area designed only to point to the most efficient way out. As such the opening out of Station Lane spells the antiquatedness of civil society in Pitsea (like it needed any more of a reason). The problem today of urban regeneration is that it is held hostage by the infectious capital centeredness of the city; more precisely it is the influence with which the surrounding area has on the town itself. Practical geographers, under the jurisdiction of Sir Dudley Stamp, take heed.
Ed Miliband is atheist – so what?
An hour ago, the press association ran a piece entitled “Ed Miliband: I don’t believe in God”. This relates to an interview with Nicky Campbell on Radio 5 Live, where the question was raised, and the answer carefully noted how important it is to be tolerant of people whatever their view.
This will not stop the insults unfortunately. Nor will it help matters much that Miliband is the son of a Marxist heathen, unmarried, and the brother of an atheist who at least did his best by sending his child to a Roman Catholic school.
None of these things matter of course; and as Miliband said in his interview, his views should be a private matter, much like the atheism of our deputy Prime Minister.
But remember it is not just believers who have over-fetishised God in politics. Few may remember two years ago, when David Miliband was thought to be brewing a leadership bid, the philosopher and atheist A.C. Grayling making a plea in the Guardian for an atheist Prime Minister.
It levelled many ridiculous claims that should divide a believing PM from a non-believing one; atheists will not receive messages from beyond if going to war; they will be sceptical about giving special privileges to religious organisations; sectarianism through faith schools will be a thing of the past; neutrality between religious pressure groups will be the order of the day; and they’ll take more “down-to-earth” views.
Let’s throw this nonsense out of the water, just in case Grayling tries to write it again.
Of course, nobody can actually receive messages from beyond, but if we are dealing with stupid reasons to go to war here, suggesting this is the preserve of the religious is to forget the wars authored by such tyrants as Stalin and Mao.
This might evoke the redundant reaction given by the new atheists, usually that Communism is merely a demi-religion without supernatural Gods, and thus subject to the irrationality reserved by the religious (nb it also helps the “Ditchkins’” out in their mission to single religion out as only evil; secular reason as bringing only good).
Will an atheist be any more or less sceptical about giving privileges to religious organisation? The infection that says some religions are more evil than others strikes through even the most ardent atheist too. Christian schools have long been a feature in the UK educational system, yet Islamic schools still have the effect of discomfort for some people, whether that person is religious or not. This may be more political than theological, but then many attitudes on religion today are.
By no means am I saying that Ed Miliband will come to favour one religious institution over another, but what I will categorically suggest is that his atheism will not de facto ignore the level of favouritism or ill-feeling that is levelled at some religions, or even the level at which some secularists believe certain religions are far less compatible with secularism than others.
Furthermore, on the question of educational sectarianism, such institutions do not have a state sanction to be sectarian, but to open a school with a certain religious value system. I’ve little doubt that Ed, even as an atheist, will be happy, or even indifferent, to religious values being attached to schools. Sectarianism in schools, where it exists, is kept quiet, and is certainly not allowed as such – in fact admissions in most schools are still subject to anti-discrimination measures.
Moreover, this accusation, made by A. C. Grayling was made about David Miliband; who, as mentioned, did send his son to a Roman Catholic school.
On possible neutrality between faiths, Ed Miliband has already upset Israeli supporters by speaking at at a Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East reception. It is inevitable that a political position will eventually upset faiths when politics and faith have become so intertwined. It is quite clear, therefore, that an atheist is just as liable as a believer – a further element overlooked by Grayling.
And as for the point about Miliband being more level headed, this remains to be seen, but frankly the dividing line is not drawn between believer and non-believer, only in Grayling’s black and white mind.
The claim by the Labour Party is that this shows voters already rejecting the coalition’s policies on cutting the deficit.
But it is also worth noting that the “Conservative-run Derby City Council has found itself lobbying against the Tory-led national government’s spending cuts” according to Chaminda Jayanetti for Liberal Conspiracy recently.
It is a strange set up, but the Tories have a minority administration, held afloat by the Liberal Democrats.
In any case, even in the early stages, tensions across the political spectrum have begun to play out as response to the way the Osborne axe has fallen.
As the severity of the cuts pervades through communites, the angry response will not wear political colours, but it should prove to be the impetus by which the Labour Party – post leadership election – set an alternative narrative to cuts. The welfare of people from all sections of society is, after all, Labour’s natural remit.
Deep down I know that I’m still bitter that John McDonnell wasn’t able to stand as leader of the party – and I know very well that this view won’t be controversial to writers on this blog.
I knew that I wanted to see at least one socialist in the contest – though when I found out which one would be standing, from the Socialist Campaign Group, I remember thinking, in truth, oh but not that socialist!
I hadn’t the same problems with her as had other members of the Labour party I spoke to over the course of the many hustings I’ve attended. For example, her having been given a leg up by David Miliband didn’t make me think she was a token black/female/socialist (delete where applicable) candidate – we in the party have no reason to be tokenistic about such matters – nor did it make me feel that I should write her off full stop – there were other reasons for me to do that.
Miliband the elder obviously extended his hand to Abbott because her inclusion added to the debate – a worthwhile gesture I felt. For some, this was an obvious impetus to view Abbott as a non-candidate and frankly ignore her.
For me, this was not the case at all.
I did however share sympathy with the view Abbott is a hypocrite. Of course sending her child to a private school lost her credibility among leftwingers and many constituents. Though her reasons for doing so were surely worse (that she is a single Mum with a black son who could get involved with gangs, was part of her justification for her move).
This evokes another reason why one would be cautious of her: sometimes her criticisms of fellow leadership contenders went further than simply saying look at these middle class men, call this change? This was cheap, and was made cheaper when their race had been brought into question, like this means anything at all.
Questions of race ultimately lead sound minded people to conclude that it is no matter, that people are people and so on. Raising questions of race as a means to show change in the Labour party is not possible, is dreadful and not sound minded at all.
People said her campaign wasn’t effective. I imagine it just wasn’t loud enough, and let’s face it; we have all been more interested in the family feuds and Balls’ going forth on the economic illiteracy of Ozzy Osborne.
I know the argument: stroppy teenagers and shop floor Mothers can’t relate to men in suits, yet they end up our representatives every time, and we wonder why people don’t engage with politics.
But hold on, how people related to politicians didn’t spur on the anti-politics saga circa the expenses scandal, but rather the other way around, politicians obviously don’t quite understand the electorate – and subsequently fairness and respect for tax payers’ money.
Frankly, this extends further to what politicians talk like, look like and smell like; if they don’t get, they don’t get it, and that trait transcends class, age, race and gender boundaries.
For this reason, there is a strange element to Dianne Abbott’s recent trouble making, when she called the other four leadership contenders “geeky,” in an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
We’re used to the disengaged politician now, but it is patent nonsense for Abbott to suggest that she has more chance listening than they have.
I won’t recycle the fact that the only difference between her and her colleagues (apart from her colour, more of which in a moment) is she has never been a SpAd and that she has been an MP for longer. But she has made decisions, and has said things, where you wonder whether the 20 years spent listening to her voters has counted for anything, particularly the type of thing she implies here which is that she knows what people want.
The paradox: give me a middle class former policy wonk who admits to needing more knowledge any time, over a middle class, Cambridge educated, long time MP, who implicitly likens herself to Obama, and thinks she knows what the people want.
I mean that as much as I do today. But yet – and here is the surprise – I voted for her as my first preference.
Ed Miliband, who I felt was strongest to start with, quickly misread his place as unifier (the party being a broad church and all), holding back from laying into capitalism and instead attempting to spell out how he was going to reform capitalism or make capitalism better.
I must admit, I agree with John Gray, the author, when he points out that both Miliband’s wildly miss the point, raised most notably in this country by their Dad, that capitalism will appear to modify in the face of threat – like it did in the thirties, seventies, eighties and now – the point is not to change it, but to understand it (in a reversal of Marx’ thesis on Feuerbach).
In spite of this, I gave Ed Miliband my second preference. Though I’m sure he is serious about transcending the grip of New Labour folderol, I just don’t think he has it in him, nor do I think he knows what it means to do this. It is not simply ridding the party of New Labour architects, but it’s about coming into a new political landscape, and focusing on the politics to fit it. For me this is socialism, but to hear all candidates talk about socialism, you’d think it was a new idea not yet properly theorised or understood.
Yet – and this was the basis of my choosing Ed for second preference – many trade unions and socialist societies saw in him the man they want.
At a time when the party is moving away from the Fukuyama-type notion that unregulated capitalism has emerged successful and it is non-party political to allow the markets to be unfettered, we need someone to lead who is in debt to unions – who will be at their most pertinent when the coalition government tries to fob off public sector workers with pay freezes while turning a blind eye to outrageous banker bonuses and tax evasion – despite this, too, being a “non-party political” issue.
David Miliband, too, has union backing, and the advocacy of the so-called voice of the intelligent left, Jon Cruddas. But, not only has this Miliband been the most uncomfortable with criticising the record of New Labour, his leadership will be easy pickings for Tories and Liberal Democrats when it turns out – if indeed he was – complicit in the use of torture. Indeed, he has already had his fingers burnt when denying the Britain’s role in torture, and if an investigation turns out evidence of his direct complicity this will be electoral poison for the Labour party – already on its back feet pleading forgiveness for a war gone totally awry.
So at this stage you might be saying: well, Carl, if you dislike your two preferences so much, how much must you dislike your third, fourth and fifth? You’d be surprised at my answer. My third preference was Ed Balls – who I was most impressed by, for all the obvious reasons. He came across the most economically literate, while remaining astute enough to tackle questions on society, particularly the education sector which he still maintains a careful eye on.
So why didn’t I vote for him, in spite of Paul’s well explained reasons as to why I, and you, should? Honestly, for character I find him displeasing – a trait I recognised around the time Sharon Shoesmith fought for and lost her job. But on an economic narrative to counter the one being passed off as orthodox by the coalition government, Balls has it spot on – there is an alternative to cuts in order to reduce the deficit in the quickest speed possible, and he has proved himself totally capable of projecting that – even if some, such as Don Paskini, see this as politically a dangerous move.
In short: I don’t want a Balls leadership, I see in Balls a shadow chancellor; a job he should have probably had anyway under Brown.
But to look at that in isolation doesn’t tell you the whole story.
Ed Miliband is the realistic contender and I prefer him to his brother so, realistically, I hope he gets the job, which is why he got my second preference vote. But I desire to see a socialist as leader of the party, and now I think is the perfect time. Abbott is a socialist, and though I think she is a problematic candidate – for reasons spelt out above – it is for this reason she got my first preference.
Dianne Abbot is the Real Miliband!
It’s a sneaky move, sure, but what better way to try and undercut your fellow contestants in the Labour party leadership election, than to use the words of the Father of two fifths of the panel.
The Fabian Society have commissioned all five candidates to write a Fabian Essay, and Dianne Abbot has chosen to start her one with a quote from Ralph Miliband, Father of David and Ed (Miliband – for clarity).
The message is clear: it has become a tendency for Labour party leaders to assume the only opposition likely to defeat conservatism is meek, mild politics, common among the petit-bourgeoisie.
This exercise is both self-confirming and self-defeating.
Self-confirming in the sense that the more leaders appealed to this type of politics, the less they were concerned with the natural politics of the Labour party. Self-defeating in the sense that the more the leaders lost interest in the politics of the Labour party, the less likely they were going to be electorally successful – which, it would appear, is the case right now.
The implied message is clearer: all the other candidates have their eyes away from Labour, trying to appeal to an imagined voter, who happens to have droll politics. Dianne Abbot is the real Miliband! | 2019-04-25T01:50:07Z | https://raincoatoptimism.wordpress.com/category/labour-party/ | Porn | Reference | 0.300805 |
wikipedia | Is é Clayton cathair agus an príomhbhaile Chontae Barbour, Alabama, Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá. Measadh 2,904 duine a bheith ina gcónaí sa bhaile sa bhliain 2016.
Tugadh an leathanach seo cothrom le dáta an 10 Meán Fómhair 2017 ag 19:08. | 2019-04-21T00:56:29Z | https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton,_Alabama | Porn | Reference | 0.425196 |
wordpress | Well I have certainly been doing a lot of that over the past couple of days and in between that went for an interview to a very special place in my heart; pinewood Studios for an interview for a role on a film. Here is a clue 007. Unfortunately I did not get the role I had been put forward for but at least it is a step further than last time when I applied for a production role on ‘Skyfall’. My motto ‘Never Surrender, Never Retreat’ applies here and for everything else I have been unsuccessful with, but still it is nice to visit the place I like to call my second home.
Despite the unsuccessful outcome, I am having a blast working with a production company in Derby called LightFilms on a really cool (Well I think it is) trailer for an upcoming feature to be shot in 2015. I have completed a lot of tasks so far and have managed to get results at the end of them.
The advice I will give those starting out in the industry is have contingencies places encase something unexpected happens or falls through. The work has entailed researching places that meet the necessary requirements of the director and SFX team for filming, sourcing props suitable for the characters and the background, liaising and hunting down costumes and accessories for the characters, getting call sheets finalised, calling lots and lots and LOTS of people (the phone doesn’t stop ringing, which is good).
In my case it was running around from four regions to get everything done before the day ended; finalising a location in one area, calling and collecting an essential prop from another, calling another person in another area and finally getting a prop personalised.
All of this work I have found has also caused me to have moments I consider fluxes, especially when finding props as half the things the production team will need I would assume were so far away, like down in London or Manchester but no by chance I found everything on the doorstep, more convenient I say.
I pressed on and although I had to deal with an evasive obstacle, I overcame it and got the outcome that I wanted, and everything else afterwards fell into place. Although there was nearly another a solution was found and all was right with the world, and this was near the end of the day.
I only wish that was going to be on set at the weekend for filming of the trailer, but alas I won’t be free, but I am hoping that I have done a good job with the call sheet and getting all info out the to cast and crew and hopefully will see the trailer in a few weeks after it has been shot. To date I am loving every single minute of my time I am spending with lightFilms. More info to follow shortly or at a later time, who know.
Well, what a whirl-wind week it has been for media work and activities.
I spent Monday in a production meeting bringing the producer and director up to speed on everything I have done and what is remaining left to be completed. This was everything to sourcing locations to finding a generator, to contacting the actors, liaising with a company that hires out equipment to a million other tasks to see to and others to add to my list. God I love this business!
Tuesday was devoted to more media work, both pre-production work on the two productions I am working on, and co-presenting a radio show with another person who has more experience than me, and I will say two hours does go by really fast when your having fun, and the fun continued for me having my very first fitness class and although I was the newbie in the group no prisoners were taken so I did everything at the same intensity as everyone else and afterwards my legs felt like jelly.
Wednesday was spent at my local news station learning the art of data wrangling ( taking footage captured and adding them to the system and catalogued on editing software). I met the tech manager, Paul Magor, who allowed me to spend the day with three techno guys, before being invited to watch the news output in the gallery at lunchtime. Afterwards I was taken to the archive department to see how everything is added to the system and retrieved years down the line and the methods used to record footage. It amazes me to see that really big chunky tapes were used then it was CDs to small tapes to memory cards, how technology has certainly evolved. One thing that really surprised me I was invited to a meeting with the days news producer, the director, techno guy and editors for the days output and the East Midlands presenters for news, sports and weather. The surprise was seeing Anne Davis one of the presenters who I know really well, and after the meeting when I was in one of the editing suites Anne came to find me for a catch up chat and to see how I was and of course vice versa.
Before the news feed went out for the evening which I went into the gallery to see Paul took me to the Inside Out team, who invited me to come back in on Thursday to send the day with them to learn how they data wrangle footage they capture, log, duplicate, and using prelude software (excessive notes were taken so I did not forget anything).
Friday would have been a day working on a production in Leicester but they did not need me, however, I was asked to send a copy of my CV for future work with the production company as they are always looking for crew to work with them on productions. | 2019-04-25T22:45:04Z | https://mediadreamz.wordpress.com/2014/09/ | Porn | Business | 0.734204 |
wordpress | ‘Round we go! | "On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea"
This entry was posted in Hay(na)ku, Poetry, Reverse Hay(na)ku and tagged becca givens, carousel, childhood, daydreams, dreams, fun, Haynaku, horse, imagination, journey, lessons, life, magical, reverse Haynaku, round, Theme Thursday, wonderland. Bookmark the permalink.
17 Responses to ‘Round we go!
what an amazing vision you show us as always , bravo !
Thank you! Appreciate you stopping by for a visit.
Carousel’s are magical – especially at night when they are lit u. I always enjoyed looking at them more than riding them. Your words make me want tofind one to admire.
Wonderland tickets available to all! Thank you for visiting, Brian!!
The carousel, was one thing that always looked better, than the ride. But I like your write.
Ahh, depends on if you have problems going around in circles :D! Carousels, especially the older ones, are a work of art and imagination!
Steeds and child’s delight they go together on a carousel. This is a first time ever I got a response from you. Thanks a lot! | 2019-04-23T03:53:31Z | https://beccagivens.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/round-we-go/ | Porn | Arts | 0.577483 |
wordpress | Once upon a time, on a chilly November 2nd, a baby was born. This was a beautiful baby! Word spread quickly throughout the town as this was a special day.
From a telephone booth at the hospital, the daddy excitedly called the grandparents at home. The grandparents called the family members, and the family members called the friends. Soon everyone knew that the baby had been born on November 2nd.
The proud and happy parents named their beautiful chubby baby Carl Vincent, II, after his Daddy. His blue eyes were just like his Mommy’s eyes, and he had brown hair just like his Daddy’s hair. He was a happy baby who liked to laugh, and he loved his family.
Carl Vincent, II grew up loving music. When he was a boy, he studied guitar. First, he played an acoustic guitar, and later he bought himself a beautiful electric guitar. It was very fancy and very fine. He played slow songs and fast songs and serious songs and silly songs and old songs and new songs. He made great music.
When a singer named Elvis Presley became famous, Carl Vincent, II played and sang just like him. He even danced like Elvis. When cousins came over to visit, Carl Vincent, II played his guitar and everybody sang. Every time Carl Vincent, II pulled out his guitar, there was a little family party with lots of music and singing and laughter!
One day, Carl Vincent, II met a wonderful woman named Janis. Janis also liked to sing and play the guitar. The couple was very happy together and were married in the presence of their loving family and friends. After the beautiful ceremony, the younger family members decided to go for a swim in the family pool because it was quite warm outside. Now most people do not go swimming at weddings, but Carl Vincent, II saw the children in the pool, picked up his guitar, walked very close to the edge of the pool and began to serenade the children. Everyone loved this! He even played Rock ‘n’ Roll.
So Carl Vincent, II and Janis loved their family, and their friends, and music, and laughter. And they loved something else — Animals. Mikey, a gorgeous green macaw with colorful, long tail feathers, lived in the dining room in his large birdhouse. He enjoyed watching people when they entered the house and everyone said hello to Mikey. Was Mikey a clever and funny bird? Yes!
From his birdhouse, Mikey liked to call Carl Vincent, II. “Carl, Carl,” he exclaimed, and Carl Vincent, II and Janis would laugh. Sometimes it sounded like the microwave was beeping, but really it was just Mikey making the b-e-e-p sound. When the telephone rang, Mikey said, “Hello.” “Hello.” And when Janis stroked his beautiful feathers, Janis and Mikey would both sing, “That feels g-o-o-d!” Every time someone approached the big birdhouse, Mikey would bob his head up and down; he loved his family and his friends.
On one chilly November 2nd, Janis gave Carl Vincent, II a special birthday present. It was gray in color, had four legs, was very soft, and meowed and purred. Carl Vincent, II named his new kitty “Mrs. Jingles the Cat,” and she lived in the house, too, except she didn’t sleep in the birdhouse with Mikey.
Mrs. Jingles the Cat loved to jump on the sofa and relax with Carl Vincent, II and Janis. Purring like a little motor, she stretched her legs and rolled on her side when they stroked her soft, smooth, pretty, gray fur.
While Mrs. Jingles the Cat and Mikey may not have been best friends, they did well for a cat and a bird. Both animals liked it when Carl Vincent, II played his guitar. The kitty swished her tail, and the bird bobbed his head up and down. When family and friends visited, the animals enjoyed the little party with lots of music and singing and laughter.
Mikey liked special birthday parties most, because the dining room table was right next to his birdhouse. While he nibbled on his favorite delicious little birdie num num treats, everybody sitting around the table nibbled on delicious lemon meringue pie, Carl Vincent, II’s favorite birthday treat. Afterwards, Carl Vincent, II would play his guitar and Mikey would dance a little dance, bobbing his head up and down while people sang and laughed.
This book is also dedicated to the memories of my brother and my sister-in-law, the coolest people ever! | 2019-04-24T13:50:48Z | https://kathygalgano.wordpress.com/category/kitty/ | Porn | Kids | 0.302273 |
tripod | Giordano International Ltd is one of the successful apparel retail businesses in Hong Kong. It was established in 1981 and currently has stores in over 26 territories. Giordano has a clear mission statement: ‘to make people feel good and look great’ (Giordano, 2001), which leads to the success of the company. The mission statement is effective as it is market-oriented and defines the business based on satisfying basic customer needs (Kotler et al, 1999). According to Pitts et al (1996) and Shaw (2001), the business definition should include market segments to be served, the customer needs which are to be satisfied and the process, or technology by which those needs are to be fulfilled in order to set the boundary and direction for the company.
Giordano chooses to serve the young generation segments: ‘Giordano’ for men/women’s casual wear, ‘Giordano Ladies’ for women’s office wear, ‘Giordano Junior” for kids’ casual wear, and ‘Bluestar Exchange’ as an additional line for budget area. The customers in the segments have similar characteristics such as strong self-identification, educated and low to middle income. Giordano is sensitive to avoid product-led and focus on the customer needs, which is the perception of the target segments to view lifestyle as feeling good and looking great.
With the demographic and socio-cultural changes, customers tend to look for higher living standard due to an increase of purchasing power. Customers are no longer satisfied with the basic need of clothing as a protection and look for a higher level of satisfaction.
Feel good is extra benefits perceived by the customers. Value for money is the key component of this concept and it includes quality products, reasonable prices, customer service and speed. Customers would feel good when they perceive that they make a right purchase. Comfortable is another component of the concept as it is the major function of the clothing to feel good.
Look great is to make products compatible to the needs and wants of the customers. Customers would perceive they look great when the products are with right design and brand image as an identification of self.
Giordano is successful in building their brand image as value for money. They intend to use their skills and distinctive competence to create values to satisfy their target segments.
By means of ‘feel good’, they provide quality by doing things right such as using superior quality of fabrics and design. They understand that the success of the company is built from the quality of their personnel assets. So they continuously update and share knowledge with the expertise to increase their competitive advantage. They adopt vertical integration strategy to reduce the costs and prices of their products. Giordano has gained a lot of merits for their good service, which always exceeds the expectation of the customers.
By means of ‘look great’, they understand that innovation is vital in the fierce competition of apparel retail business. The company always encourages their design teams to be innovative and think out of box. They persist that simplicity can make people look great and comfortable for the philosophy of ‘less is more’. The product life cycle of apparel business is rather short and Giordano is able to speed up the process through their just-in-time process. This helps to keep their design always up-to-date.
As a conclusion, the mission statement of Giordano has well-defined their business in the target segments of young generation, who want to feel good for the comfortable of the clothing by the right purchase, and to look great as compatible to their needs and wants. The mission also directs the company to focus its resources in satisfying customer needs for now and in the future. | 2019-04-21T20:22:02Z | http://chiufrances.tripod.com/Mission%20Statement.htm | Porn | Business | 0.572291 |
wordpress | Merry Xmas n Happy New Year!
is this how all men really think?
by OneLoVeOneHarT.xO in Vybz Kartel Tags: andre, popcaan, popskul, waah gwaan chargy? | 2019-04-21T20:51:14Z | https://kimmyliveson.wordpress.com/2011/12/ | Porn | Reference | 0.359226 |
wikipedia | Liquid nitrogen is nitrogen at a very low temperature. It is usually produced by a process known as fractional distillation of air. At atmospheric pressure (normal pressure) nitrogen boils at −196 °C (77 K; −321 °F). Nitrogen was first made into a liquid at Jagiellonian University on 15 April 1883. Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski were the first scientists to liquefy nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide. During World War II the production of liquid nitrogen became common. This lowered the cost to produce it. After the war new uses were found for liquid gases. Liquid nitrogen became a major gas in the US.
Liquid nitrogen has a variety of uses, as it is easy to transport, and compact.
This page was last changed on 14 November 2016, at 16:03. | 2019-04-25T17:51:33Z | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_nitrogen | Porn | Science | 0.971516 |
webs | Polymer Bazaar Subscription charges are as under.
SWIFT CODE of HDFC Bank : HDFCINBBXXX.
How did you come to know about POLYMERBAZAAR?
Interested in Web site access & Email Alert? | 2019-04-20T06:58:28Z | https://polymerbazar.webs.com/paymentdetails.htm | Porn | Shopping | 0.29331 |
google | 2008-05-29 Assigned to ARTHROCARE CORPORATION reassignment ARTHROCARE CORPORATION ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: ALDRIDGE, DAVID, FOERSTER, SETH A.
A knotless bone anchor and method for securing soft tissue, such as tendons, to bone, includes a plurality of discrete components. In one variation of the invention, the bone anchor includes a proximal toggle component, an intermediate plug component, and a distal sleeve component. Suture is looped around the plug component and once the anchor is actuated, the suture is compressed between the plug and the sleeve components. Advantageously, one or more of the components may be made of a biocompatible polymer. The polymeric components may be detachably joined to a drive shaft using a plurality of sacrificial fills. The sacrificial fills are broken or severed during deployment of the anchor. Related instruments and methods are also described.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/913,985 filed Apr. 25, 2007, the complete disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.
The mini-open technique differs from the classic approach by gaining access through a smaller incision and splitting rather than detaching the deltoid. Additionally, this procedure is typically performed in conjunction with arthroscopic acromial decompression. Once the deltoid is split, it is retracted to expose the rotator cuff tear. As before, the cuff is debrided, the humeral head is abraded, and the so-called “transosseous tunnels”, are “punched” through the bone or suture anchors are inserted. Following the suturing of the rotator cuff to the humeral head, the split deltoid is surgically repaired.
The above described surgical techniques are associated with a great deal of patient discomfort and a lengthy recovery time, ranging from at least four months to one year or more. It is the above described manipulation of the deltoid muscle together with the large skin incision that causes the majority of patient discomfort and an increased recovery time.
Various less invasive arthroscopic techniques are beginning to be developed in an effort to address the shortcomings of open surgical repair. Working through small trocar portals that minimize disruption of the deltoid muscle, a few surgeons have been able to reattach the rotator cuff using various bone anchor and suture configurations. The rotator cuff is sutured intracorporeally and an anchor is driven into bone at a location appropriate for repair. Rather than thread the suture through transosseous tunnels which are difficult or impossible to create arthroscopically using current techniques, the repair is completed by tying the cuff down against bone using the anchor and suture. Early results of less invasive techniques are encouraging, with a substantial reduction in both patient recovery time and discomfort.
Unfortunately, the skill level required to facilitate an entirely arthroscopic repair of the rotator cuff is inordinately high. Intracorporeal suturing is clumsy and time consuming, and only the simplest stitch patterns can be utilized. Extracorporeal knot tying is somewhat less difficult, but the tightness of the knots is difficult to judge, and the tension cannot later be adjusted. Also, because of the use of bone anchors to provide a suture fixation point in the bone, the knots that secure the soft tissues to the anchor by necessity leave the knot bundle on top of the soft tissues. In the case of rotator cuff repair, this means that the knot bundle is left in the shoulder capsule where it can be felt by the patient postoperatively when the patient exercises the shoulder joint. So, knots tied arthroscopically are difficult to achieve, difficult or impossible to adjust, and are located in less than optimal areas of the shoulder. Suture tension is also impossible to measure and adjust once the knot has been fixed. Much skill is required to both place the sutures in the soft tissues, and to tie knots while working through a trocar under endoscopic visualization.
There have been attempts to solve the problem of placing sutures in soft tissues and tying knots in an endoscopic environment, and there have been attempts to address the problem and to simplify the process of suture fixation. One such approach is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,383,905 to Golds et al. The patent describes a device for securing a suture loop about bodily tissue that includes a bead member having a longitudinal bore and an anchor member adapted to be slidably inserted within the bore of the bead member. The anchor member includes at least two axial compressible sections which define a passageway to receive two end portions of a suture loop. The axial sections collapse radially inwardly upon insertion of the anchor member within the bore of the bead member to securely wedge the suture end portions received within the passageway.
Although there is some merit to this approach for eliminating the need for knots in the attachment of sutures to bone, a problem with being able to properly set the tension in the sutures exists. The user is required to pull on the sutures until appropriate tension is achieved, and then to set the plug portion into the bone anchor portion. This action increases the tension in the sutures, and may garrotte the soft tissues or increase the tension in the sutures beyond the tensile strength of the material, breaking the sutures. In addition, the minimal surface area provided by this anchor design for pinching or locking the sutures in place will abrade or damage the suture such that the suture's ability to resist load will be greatly compromised.
A disclosure that incorporates bone attachment and eliminates knot tying is set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 5,702,397 to Goble et al. One embodiment, in particular, is shown in FIG. 23 of that patent and includes a bone anchor that has a threaded body with an inner cavity. The cavity is open to one end of the threaded body, and joins two lumens that run out to the other end of the threaded body. Within the cavity is disposed a gear, journaled on an axle. A length of suture is threaded through one lumen, around the gear, and out through the other lumen. A ball is disposed within the cavity to ride against a tapered race and ostensibly lock the suture in place. What is not clear from the patent disclosure is how the force D shown as the tension in the suture would lock the ball into the race. Although this embodiment purports to be a self-locking anchor adapted for use in blind holes for fixing sutures into bone, the construct shown is complicated, and does not appear to be adequate to reliably fixate the suture.
Another approach for repairing the rotator cuff or fixing other soft tissues to bone, wherein suture tension can be adjusted, the suture anchor resides completely below the cortical bone surface, and there is no requirement for the surgeon to tie a knot to attach the suture to the bone anchor is disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,770,076; 7,083,638; and 6,780,198 assigned to Opus Medical, and now assigned to ArthroCare Corporation. These patents disclose, amongst other things, a knotless anchor system comprising a bone anchor and insertion instrument that affixes an anchor in a bone passageway with a toggling structure, semi-automatically tensions the suture until the tissue is in a desired location, and immobilizes the suture by compressing the suture between various components of the anchor. Despite these patents setting forth various techniques for arthroscopically attaching tissue and generally overcoming many of the shortcomings identified above, enhanced anchoring and deployment systems are still desirable.
A significant number of surgeons prefer that the bone anchors they use in the performance of, for example, a rotator cuff repair be constructed of materials that are non-metallic. This allows for easier post operative imaging using MRI. Also, in the event of a revision to the initial surgery, non metallic anchors are easier to work around or drill through. Therefore, it is desirable, for example, to provide an anchoring system having a robust polymeric suture guide that is capable of holding a suture in place while withstanding the forces imposed on it during suture tensioning; to provide an anchoring system made of a wide variety of materials having varying degrees of strength; to provide an improved insertion instrument that can be conveniently actuated to deploy and detach one or more anchor components from the insertion instrument; and to provide an improved bone preparation instrument that can create spaces for the above described devices.
One embodiment of the present invention is a bone anchor for attaching tissue to a bone. The anchor has multiple separate or discrete components including a bone affixing component, a suture guide component, and a suture locking component. The bone affixing component serves to hold the anchor in a bone tunnel, the suture guide component serves to hold the suture during tensioning, and the suture locking component serves to immobilize the suture.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the bone affixing component is an oval-shaped disc. The disc has a first, low profile, insertion orientation and a second, radially enlarged, deployed orientation. The enlarged cross section of the deployed orientation securely affixes the anchor in a bone tunnel.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the suture guide component has a plug or bullet shape. The suture is looped around the plug and is held in position along a path by the suture guide. The plug, due to its robust monolithic design, may be made of a polymer or another material known to have less mechanical strength than various metals such as stainless steel. The plug is positioned distal to the affixation structure such that when a suture is tensioned around the plug member, a proximal surface of the plug abuts a distal surface of the bone affixation structure, thus providing a fixed point to which the soft tissues being repaired may be referenced. The plug member around which the suture is passed is immobile relative to the surface of the bone, and provides a means by which the soft tissues may be held in apposition to the bone at a desired tension.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the sleeve component includes an internal cavity or lumen that is sized to accept the plug component therein. The size of the internal lumen or cavity is such that there is a gap between the inner suture guide member and wall of the internal lumen. However, when a suture is present in the suture guide or channel of the plug component, and the sleeve component is positioned coaxially to the plug, the suture is compressed and therefore immobilized by frictional forces developed between the suture limbs, the plug, and the sleeve.
One or more of the components of the bone anchor may be detachably joined to a driver shaft. The anchor components may be joined to the driver shaft by one or more sacrificial fills. The sacrificial fill may be severed or broken to deploy the individual component, and separate the anchor component from the shaft upon actuation of the driver instrument. In one embodiment, an elongate die tube and driver shaft are concentric. The die tube is disposed exteriorly and includes a distal abutment surface. As the inner drive shaft is pulled proximally, one or more of the anchor components abuts the distal end of the die shaft and is forced off the drive shaft. In this manner the sacrificial fills securely hold the anchor on the shaft during insertion and until deployment is desired.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the sacrificial fills are sized differently from one another. The sacrificial fills corresponding to the toggle have a different size than those corresponding to the plug. In one embodiment, the sacrificial fills corresponding to the toggle member include a set of sacrificial fills that are smaller in diameter than a set of sacrificial fills corresponding to the plug member, or the sleeve member.
In another embodiment of the present invention a method for securing a soft tissue to a bone body includes placing a stitch in the soft tissue to obtain at least one free suture end; threading a bone anchor with the free suture end; inserting the anchor into a bone tunnel; actuating a first component of the anchor to affix the anchor in the bone tunnel; tensioning the suture until the tissue is held under tension in a desired location subsequent to the actuating step; and locking the suture wherein the anchor is detached from the drive member by severing the sacrificial fills. The sacrificial fills join the anchor to the drive shaft and may be made of polymer. Additionally, the actuating step may be carried out by toggling the first anchor component. The method may further be limited to attaching specific tissue such as the rotator cuff. The anchor may comprise a suture guide or channel component including a plug-shaped body having an external groove disposed about an exterior surface. The locking step may be carried out by compressing the suture between a plug component and a sleeve component.
In another embodiment of the present invention, a bone tunnel preparation instrument is adapted to undercut a subcortical tissue mass along a bone passageway or socket. The instrument includes a distal end section and a lateral window in the distal end section that houses a punch member. The punch member has at least one cutting edge and is operatively connected to a manual trigger. Upon actuation of the trigger, the cutting edge of the punch protrudes from the window to the extent that the trigger is actuated thereby modifying and cutting out subcortical tissue in the vicinity of the window.
The punch shape in one embodiment includes a trailing cutting edge that is opposite the leading cutting edge and a tissue capture area that engulfs tissue as the punch sweeps out from the window. The punch may be pivotally mounted within the window so as to pivot when it is actuated. In one embodiment of the present invention, the punch sweeps a tissue area matching that of a bone anchor to be deployed in the bone tunnel. In another embodiment, a distance between the cutting leading edge and a fixed stop along the instrument shaft remains constant as the cutting edge sweeps through tissue.
Still other embodiments of the present invention shall become apparent to the reader upon reading the following disclosure with reference to the appended figures.
FIG. 6B is an enlarged view of the distal end section of the instrument shown in FIG. 6A.
The present invention provides an improved knotless suture anchor apparatus for anchoring a length of suture with respect to a body cavity. In the exemplary embodiment described herein, the apparatus is used to anchor a length of suture to a bone structure, for example, the humeral bone of the human shoulder. The length of suture is desirably looped through soft tissue, such as a rotator cuff tendon, to approximate and fix the soft tissue with respect to the body cavity (e.g., bone structure). It should be understood, however, that the suture anchor apparatus may be utilized to secure a length of suture to body cavities other than in a bone structure, and may even be used to anchor the suture outside of a body cavity, merely to a predetermined location within the body. In this regard, the preferred apparatus includes one or more anchor components within which the length of suture may be anchored without knots. The anchor also includes one or more components or structures to affix the anchor in a bone passageway.
As mentioned herein, the present invention is particularly well-suited for repairing rotator cuff injuries by re-attaching the rotator cuff tendon to the outside of the humeral head. The invention permits minimally invasive surgeries on such injuries and greatly facilitates rapid and secure fixation of the rotator cuff tendon to the humeral head. It should be understood that the same principles described herein apply to the repair of other injuries in which soft tissue is to be re-attached to a bone structure.
FIGS. 1A-1E show a procedure for repairing a rotator cuff tendon injury in accordance with the present invention. Referring first to FIG. 1A, a partial cross-sectional view through the left shoulder of a human as viewed from the front is illustrated. The rotator cuff tendon 40 is shown in its natural position overlying the bulbous humeral head 42 of the humerus bone. In rotator cuff injuries, the tendon 40 partially or completely separates from its attachment point to the humeral head 42, which point of attachment is typically located along an angled shelf, the greater tuberosity. In minimally invasive surgeries to repair the rotator cuff injury, the surgeon threads one or more sutures 28 through the rotator cuff tendon 40 and anchors them to the greater tuberosity. The suture anchor system, as will be described below, facilitates this latter step of anchoring the sutures to the greater tuberosity.
FIG. 1A shows a generally tubular trocar 50 that provides a conduit through the soft tissue of the shoulder. Typically, the surgeon makes an incision or stab wound through the outer dermal layers of sufficient size to permit passage of the trocar 50 through the skin and the deltoid muscle into proximity with the humeral head 42. Various trocars and techniques for creating the approach passageway are known and may be utilized with the present invention. In addition, more than one incision and conduit may be necessary to perform the several suturing and anchoring steps.
After establishing one or more direct conduits to the humeral head 42, the surgeon passes a length of suture through the soft tissue of the rotator cuff tendon 40 so that a loop 34 of suture material is embedded therein, as seen in FIG. 1A. The two free ends 33 a, 33 b of the length of suture are withdrawn from the patient and coupled to a suture anchor system. The anchor may be threaded with the suture 28 by hand, with a tool, or perhaps with a snare or wire loop as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,780,198 the entirety of which is incorporated by reference.
FIG. 1B shows a suture anchor 120 inserted in the bone tunnel or cavity 52. Next, as shown in FIG. 1C, the anchor is affixed to the bone using an anchoring structure or component 130 located on the proximal end of the suture anchor 120. The anchoring structure 130 functions as a toggle member, and rotates from a low profile insertion position to a radially enlarged deployed position. The anchoring component 130 is deployed distal to the hard cortical bone layer 46. In this manner, the suture anchor 120 is prevented from being removed from the tunnel 52 once the anchoring structure 130 is deployed. Although the present invention illustrates a particular anchoring structure 130, any similar expedient will work. Examples of other suitable anchoring structures include those shown in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,770,076 and 6,582,453, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety. Alternatively, an anchoring structure that expands into contact with or is screwed into the cancellous matter 48 may be used. In short, the present invention includes various anchoring structures except where expressly excluded in the appended claims.
FIG. 1D shows the anchoring system in an unlocked position subsequent to tension being applied to the suture. Tensioning of the tissue may be carried out by hand by simply pulling on the sutures or, more preferably, with a semiautomatic or tensioning mechanism as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,780,198 the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. In this manner, the suture may be tensioned until the tissue is positioned in a target location.
FIG. 1E shows the step of locking or immobilizing the suture between two components of the anchor without the use of knots. In particular, the suture is compressed between plug 140 and sleeve 150. Locking the suture between multiple components is also described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,083,638 the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Although not shown, the remaining steps in the procedure involve withdrawing the instruments from the surgical site and severing the free ends 33 a, 33 b close to the suture anchor.
FIGS. 2A-2B illustrate additional details of the suture anchor 120 in operation. In particular, FIG. 2A illustrates the anchor 120 affixed in a bone tunnel subsequent to the suture 28 being tensioned with a force Fsuture. The tissue 40 is positioned at a desired location adjacent the bone body. FIG. 2B illustrates the anchor 120 affixed in the bone tunnel subsequent to locking the suture between plug 140 and sleeve 150. In this embodiment of the present invention, the suture extends along a suture guide on an exterior surface of the plug 140, across a distal surface of the plug 140, and returns in the proximal direction to exit the anchor and the bone tunnel. Sleeve 150 is shown as a tubular shaped component having a lumen or cavity that is adapted to receive the plug. A small gap exists between the exterior surface of the plug and the interior surface of the cavity or sleeve such that there is no interference or compression fit between the plug and the sleeve. The gap is less than the thickness of the suture(s) so that the suture is squeezed when the sleeve is urged or pulled over the plug. Indeed, the suture becomes immobilized or locked once the sleeve surrounds the plug. This permanently attaches tissue 40 to the bone.
Although FIGS. 2A-2B show a particular design, the shapes of the anchor components may vary. The plug 140 may have, for example, a bullet shape, cylindrical, spherical, elongate, tapering, or solid shape. Preferably the plug is substantially robust so as to serve at least two functions 1) provide enough force to squeeze and lock the suture, and 2) provide a suture guide that can withstand forces arising from the above mentioned tensioning step. Additionally, although a simple pin, pulley or cross bar may be sufficient when the plug is made of a metal, a more robust shape such as that shown in FIGS. 2A-2B is preferred for materials having less strength such as certain polymers including for example polyetheretherketone (PEEK). Other biocompatible, bioabsorbable or bioactive materials may be incorporated into the design as well.
FIG. 3A shows an enlarged perspective partial view of an undeployed anchor 120, suture 28, and distal end section of a driver 200. Each of the components of the anchor are shown connected to drive shaft 210. In particular, toggle member 130 is proximal to plug 140. Plug 140 is proximal to sleeve 150. Additionally, a space is present between each of the components such that the anchor components are separated, disconnected, or, in a sense, “free floating”. But for the drive shaft 210 and the anchor's detachable connection to the drive shaft as shall be explained in more detail below, the anchor components would be unconstrained and allowed to fall out of position.
In one embodiment of the present invention, as described above, the anchor is affixed in the bone. To this end, an anchoring component such as toggle 130 is moved perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shaft. This deployment may be achieved by providing relative opposite motion between drive shaft 210 and driver die 220 such that the die surface forces the toggle to rotate to a transverse direction.
Though not fully shown in these Figures, the driver preferably includes a handle, elongate shaft, and actuation lever or trigger. The actuator member serves to deploy the bone affixing structure, tension the suture, and/or lock the suture in place. An example of a driver instrument is illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 6,780,198 which is incorporated by reference in its entirety.
FIG. 3B shows an example of a distal end section of a driver instrument 200. Driver shaft 210 is shown having a generally tubular shape and terminating in two arms or ribbons 236 a,b, that extend longitudinally. A plurality of holes are arranged on the driver shaft including toggle holes, plug holes, and sleeve holes. Each hole accepts, receives, or is filled with a sacrificial fill or link extending from the anchor. A purpose of the sacrificial fills is to securely hold the anchor components on the shaft until the surgeon desires to actuate and deploy the components. When the surgeon desires to actuate and detach the components from the shaft, relative motion between the drive shaft and the driver die 220 causes the distal surface of the die to push the anchor off the drive shaft. The sacrificial fills shear or break as the drive die 220 pushes the anchor 120. As discussed further below, the sacrificial fills may be designed to control the order in which the anchor components are actuated (or detached). Additionally, the anchor and sacrificial fills may be conveniently inserted molded onto the shaft so that the anchor is formed on the shaft and the plurality of holes are filled with molten polymer. When the polymer solidifies, the sacrificial fills are created.
FIG. 3B shows the holes increasing in diameter along the length of the driver shaft. This design encourages the most proximal fills to break first, and to encourage the more distal fills along the length of the driver ribbons 236 a,b to break last. In particular, the sleeve holes 252 have a larger diameter than the plug holes 242, and the toggle holes 232. Similarly, sleeve holes have a progression of increased diameter. Selection of the diameter, location, shape, and number of holes affects the holding strength of the anchor component to the drive shaft. In this embodiment, the anchor affixation or toggle member is actuated and detached from the shaft first. The toggle holes 232 are less numerous and may be smaller than the other fill holes. The sleeve holes 252 a are the largest and require the most force to break. The sleeve therefore is the last anchor component to be detached or break from the shaft 210. This sequence is desired because the suture locking step is the final step.
Walking through the sequence of operation again, and referring to FIGS. 3A-3B, when the delivery system pulls on the driver tube 210, the toggle 130 is forced against the driver die 220, breaking the attachments created by the holes 232 and turning the toggle perpendicular to the axis of the anchor. The suture is then tightened, and when the user is satisfied with the suture tension and is ready to lock the suture 28 in place, the delivery system then urges the driver 210 further proximal. A flange 142 abuts the lower (distal) surface 134 of the toggle 130, which places the bonds created between plug holes 242 and the plug 140 in shear. The sacrificial fills break, freeing the plug 140 from the driver ribbons 236, and allow the sleeve 150 to begin to travel proximally as well. The sleeve 150 slides up over the plug 140, trapping the suture in place. When tabs 152 on the sleeve 150 abut the flange 142 on the plug 140, the sacrificial fills or bonds formed between the sleeve holes 252 and the sleeve 150 are placed in shear. The bonds break, allowing the driver ribbons 236 a,b to be withdrawn from the bone anchor 120, completing the deployment.
Once deployed, the free floating components are held or bound together by virtue of the suture, extending from the anchor, looping through the tissue, and returning to the anchor. The tension on the suture holds the components together and against the cortical bone shelf. In this manner, this multi-component embodiment provides an elegant solution for attaching tissue to bone.
FIGS. 4A-4C show another embodiment of the present invention comprising preparing a bone tunnel 300 for accepting an expanding anchor (not shown). In particular, an enlarged subcortical space 310 is created in this embodiment along the bone tunnel or cavity. Referring first to FIG. 4A, a tunnel 300 is created using a drill, punch, or another instrument 302.
Next, an undercut tool or punch 304 is inserted into the bone tunnel 300 and gradually actuated to modify and create a radially enlarged space 310 in a subcortical layer of bone 322. As shown in FIG. 4B, a cutting edge 350 extends from a window 352 of the punch 304 to carve out, cut, or capture tissue.
FIG. 4C shows the enlarged subcortical space 310 with the undercut punch 304 removed. The enlarged subcortical space 310 is intended to mimic the shape of the volume that is swept or created by the toggle component, described above, during the bone anchor deployment. The creation of an enlarged subcortical space along the bone tunnel is particularly useful when anchors are to be deployed that have a relatively weak, atraumatic, brittle, or flexible bone affixation structure (e.g., toggle ring) because such structures may not consistently or reliably displace bone tissue and achieve a suitable bone lock. It is thus desirable to pre-treat the tunnel and create a subcortical space to receive the bone-affixation structure (e.g., a toggle) such that the anchor may safely lock.
FIGS. 5A-5B show a side view of an undercut punch 304 in a low profile (or insertion) mode. Punch 304 is shown having an elongate shaft 306 connected to a handle 308 a. A trigger or actuator 308 b is joined to the handle to cause the recessed blade 350 to extend beyond the window and sweep or capture tissue. FIG. 5B is an enlarged view of the distal section of the elongate shaft 306. In particular, distal section includes an inner drive shaft 362, a die shaft 364, and a blade 350 recessed in a window 352. The blade or punch rotates about a pin 356 as the trigger is actuated. Additionally, the punch includes a tip 360 shown at a first distance A1 from the end of the drive die 364. The tip is shown having a rounded, atraumatic end. Additionally, the leading edge of blade 350 is spaced D from the drive die.
FIGS. 6A-6B show a side view of the undercut punch 304 after it has been actuated. In particular, actuation member 308 b is shown compressed or manipulated towards handle 308 a. This relative motion between the handle and trigger urges the inner drive shaft 362, and tip 360 proximally such that distance A2 is less than A1.
A link member 358 pivotally connects to blade 350 and holds the blade a fixed distance D from the drive die 364. The blade leading edge 350 thus tends to move laterally during its travel and not longitudinally. This substantially lateral or transverse sweep ensures that the blade's sweep mimics the path of the anchor's toggle component, described above.
Additionally, the trailing edge 354 pivots in a direction opposite to the leading edge 350. The trailing edge is shown having a tissue capturing area as well as a plurality of teeth. It is to be understood that the blade may comprise a number of blade surfaces, tissue capture areas, teeth, and other features to sweep tissue and prepare the tunnel for accepting a bone anchor device.
Accordingly, although an exemplary embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it is to be understood that all the terms used herein are descriptive rather than limiting, and that many changes, modifications, combinations, and substitutions may be made by one having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In particular, it is noted that the procedures, while oriented toward the arthroscopic repair of the rotator cuff, are applicable to the repair of any body location wherein it is desired to attach or reattach soft tissue to bone, particularly using an arthroscopic procedure.
a third component distal to said second component, said third component comprising a cavity and a proximal opening, said cavity being adapted to accept said second component and to compress said suture when the second component is within the cavity of the third component thereby locking the suture in place and wherein said second component is made of a polymer and wherein each of the first component, the second component, and the third component are discrete components.
2. The anchor of claim 1 wherein said first component has a first position and a second position different than said first position, said second position having a larger radial profile than said first position.
3. The anchor of claim 2 wherein said first component has an annular shape.
4. The anchor of claim 1 wherein said suture guide comprises a groove, and a portion of said groove extends across a distal surface of said second component.
5. The anchor of claim 1 wherein each of said first, second, and third components are separate members.
6. The anchor of claim 1 wherein said polymer is PEEK.
7. The anchor of claim 1 wherein each of said first, second and third components are made of an injection molded polymer.
8. The anchor of claim 7 wherein each of said first, second, and third components are detachably formed onto a driver shaft prior to deployment of the anchor, and a first axial space is present between the first and second components and a second axial space is present between the second and third components.
9. The anchor of claim 1 wherein said third component has a sleeve or tubular shape.
10. The anchor of claim 7 wherein each of the components is insert molded onto a drive shaft.
a sleeve member having an internal lumen that may receive said plug and compress a suture between said plug and said sleeve to lock said suture in place and wherein each of said toggle member, plug and sleeve member are discrete components.
12. The suture anchor of claim 11 wherein said plug member is detachably connected to a shaft member by at least one plug sacrificial fill.
13. The suture anchor of claim 11 wherein said sleeve member is detachably connected to a shaft member by at least one sleeve sacrificial fill.
14. The suture anchor of claim 11 wherein said toggle member is detachably connected to a shaft member by at least one toggle sacrificial fill.
15. The suture anchor of claim 11 wherein said toggle member comprises a disc shape.
a handheld tunnel preparation instrument comprising a handle, an elongate shaft, and an actuatable punch housed within said distal end section of said elongate shaft.
wherein said second component comprises a body and exterior surface, and said suture guide comprises a groove disposed about the exterior surface, and a portion of said groove extends across a distal surface of said second component.
EP Extended Search Report for EP09162639 4pgs, Oct. 28, 2009.
EP Partial European Search Report for EP02742470 3pgs, Apr. 13, 2004.
EP Supplementary European Search Report for EP02742470 5pgs, Jul. 30, 2004.
EP Supplementary European Search Report for EP02792506 3pgs, Mar. 24, 2010.
European Search Report for EP 02734649 3pgs, Jan. 22, 2009.
PCT International Preliminary Examination Report for PCT/US01/17689 15pgs, Feb. 9, 2003.
PCT International Preliminary Examination Report for PCT/US01/21905 3pgs, Oct. 17, 2003.
PCT International Preliminary Examination Report for PCT/US02/04231 3pgs, Nov. 13, 2002.
PCT International Preliminary Examination Report for PCT/US02/17493 4pgs, Sep. 8, 2003.
PCT International Preliminary Examination Report for PCT/US02/41018 3pgs, Feb. 22, 2004.
PCT International Preliminary Examination Report for PCT/US03/35695 4pgs, Dec. 21, 2005.
PCT International Search Report for PCT/US01/17689 3pgs, Mailed Dec. 19, 2001.
PCT International Search Report for PCT/US01/21905 3pgs, Mailed Jan. 22, 2002.
PCT International Search Report for PCT/US02/04231 1pg, Mailed Aug. 14, 2002.
PCT International Search Report for PCT/US02/17493 1 pg, Mailed Mar. 27, 2003.
PCT International Search Report for PCT/US02/41018 2pgs, Mailed Jun. 5, 2003.
PCT International Search Report for PCT/US03/35695 1 pg, Mailed Feb. 14, 2005.
PCT Search Report and Written Opinion for PCT/US06/20657 7pgs, Mailed Oct. 2, 2007.
PCT Search Report and Written Opinion for PCT/US06/21125 6pgs, Mailed May 22, 2008.
UK Search Report for GB 0816111.9 3pgs, Dec. 16, 2008. | 2019-04-19T07:10:29Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US8137381B2/en | Porn | Science | 0.282931 |
cnn | Unemployment for blacks fell below 10% in April for the first time since the financial crisis.
Crossing that mark is a reminder of how far the economy has recovered, but also how severe the recession impacted blacks in the U.S.
Blacks got hit the worst of any race when the economy collapsed in 2008. Unemployment peaked at 16.8% for blacks in March 2010. Unemployment for whites was almost half that rate.
Overall, the national unemployment rate fell to 5.4% Friday, its lowest point since 2008. But unemployment is still higher for blacks than any other race -- 9.6% in April.
"That definitely is a positive step in the right direction," says Valerie Wilson, an economist who covers race and ethnicity issues at the Economic Policy Institute. "But it's also an indicator of how much more progress needs to be made for African Americans."
Despite being almost six years into a recovery, the employment picture for blacks looks particularly grim in some states.
Blacks in Illinois have an unemployment rate of 12.5% -- more than double the national average. Michigan, Pennsylvania and California are above 12% too, according to an EPI report. The good news is that those rates have been steadily going down in the past year.
Part of the wide gap in unemployment between races can be explained by education. Fewer blacks finish high school than whites, limiting their job options.
But education doesn't illustrate the full picture. Blacks with the same education levels as whites still have a harder time finding work. And despite more blacks having college degrees than Latinos in the U.S., Latinos have a lower unemployment rate, according to Labor Department and Census data.
Blacks with the same credentials as whites and Latinos also earn considerably less. The median weekly paycheck for a white college grad last year was $1,132. For a black college grad it was $895 -- over $230 less a week. Blacks earn less than Asians and Latinos as well.
Blacks access to employment networks and opportunities -- for example, job training -- play a role too. Discrimination among employers, whether conscious or not, factors into the black employment picture as well, experts say.
"It's not time to cheer and say 'mission accomplished,'" says Wilson. | 2019-04-26T09:53:30Z | https://money.cnn.com/2015/05/08/news/economy/black-unemployment-below-10-percent/index.html | Porn | Business | 0.254854 |
wikipedia | (1991) "Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)"
(1991) "Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa/Keepin' the Faith"
"Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)" is the second single released by De La Soul from their second album De La Soul Is Dead, in 1991. The song is a party jam about overzealous fans who pursue the group with demo tapes in their efforts to obtain an endorsement from the group. It was inspired by one overzealous fan in particular, Breakestra frontman Miles Tackett, who was shopping demo tapes to the group (note "demo tapes by the miles" in the song's subtitle).
"Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)" has been assumed to have sampled the 1982 Fat Larry's Band song "Act Like You Know", but in fact it samples the 1981 The Whatnauts song "Help Is on the Way", in which "Act Like You Know" itself samples. The chorus of "Ring Ring Ring" uses lyrics and melody from the Curiosity Killed the Cat song "Name and Number". The bass in the introduction comes from Lou Johnson's "Beat" and the drum break is from The Honey Drippers' "Impeach the President". The single version's saxophone is original.
A black-and-white music video was filmed for the song, directed by Mark Romanek, featuring the members of De La Soul and producer Prince Paul in a cameo as an artist trying to hand them his tapes.
This song was interpolated on Jaheim's 2009 single, "Ain't Leavin Without You".
The 2013 Little Mix single "How Ya Doin'?" uses the same sampling which "Ring Ring Ring" uses.
All 3 songs use the same beat from "Help Is on the Way".
This page was last edited on 21 April 2019, at 05:18 (UTC). | 2019-04-25T17:05:09Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Ring_Ring_(Ha_Ha_Hey) | Porn | Shopping | 0.774871 |
blogs | Mustafa Abu Bekir, 23, second from left, reacts as he meets with his relatives after crossing the Turkish Cilvegozu gate border, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. Abu Bekir, said he was severely wounded by a bomb dropped from a Syrian army warplane, while fighting with the Free Syrian Army a month ago in Idlib. Public opinion surveys show intense American skepticism about military intervention in Syria, even among those who believe Syria's government used chemical weapons on its people. The United States, citing intelligence reports, says the lethal nerve agent sarin was used in an Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus, and that 1,429 people died, including 426 children. | 2019-04-23T02:14:24Z | https://thestar.blogs.com/photodesk/2013/09/editors-choice-picture-of-the-day-september-9-2013.html | Porn | Kids | 0.890564 |
wikipedia | Snuffles was designed in 1980 by Rita Raiffe who, at the time, led the company with her husband Herbert. She was inspired by the shape of the beautiful crescent moon in the sky, and designed a happy bear looking up at the moon. Snuffles debuted in 1981 and is now the oldest bear in Gund's product line. The initial sizes offered were 12-inch tall models available in brown or white.
Since then, Snuffles has been produced in a number of sizes and colors, mostly between four inches and three feet tall. Available colors have included dark and light brown, white, tan, blue, pink, as well as rare green and yellow versions. In addition to the traditional teddy bear, Gund has made Snuffles into rattles, puppets and slippers. Some seasonal versions have been released. Most of the colored bears have a white snout, ears, and a white patch on their belly. There has been a variety of fur types made over the years including fur, velour, and terry cloth.
Most Snuffles styles have a limited production run and are difficult to locate once they have been discontinued. A number of limited edition bears have been made including ones with mohair fur (tan version and cream version - cream version is numbered). A two-foot 25th anniversary blush colored edition was released in 2006, sold exclusively at FAO Schwartz stores. FAO Schwartz has been the exclusive retailer of a number of other Snuffles varieties including silver millennium editions and 2-foot-high (0.61 m) versions (tan and white versions). The standard size blush colored 12" Snuffles shown in the photo above was produced for Gund's 25th anniversary but was sold through many national retailers. Other editions have been made for Macy's, Pottery Barn, and Barnes & Noble.
Gund Snuffles come in many different sizes. These sizes range from 4" tall to 3 ft tall. There are over 120 styles of Gund Snuffles made, but most are only produced for a season or a year.
Gund Snuffles are available in a variety of different colors and materials. The colors include: Bloo (light blue), Marshmallow (white), Snowflake (white), Pink Bubblegum (pink), Chocolate Truffle (dark brown), light brown, tan, mint green (extremely rare), yellow and blue. Several Mohair versions (light brown with mohair fur - limited to only 1000 made; a cream mohair version limited to 400 made and a brown mohair bear limited to 200 made). Recently, a 25th anniversary blush colored edition was released in 2006 (available in 10"/25.5 cm size and a 2 ft tall version sold exclusively at FAO Schwarz, which is now sold out). Other limited edition versions were made exclusively for Macy's, Pottery Barn and Barnes & Noble.
The majority of colored Snuffles bears feature a small white patch on their belly and snout. The white patch on their belly is coincidentally similar to the spots that sun bears have on their bellies.
30th Anniversary edition introduced 4 new snuffles bears in two different sizes. Snuffles carries a leather medallion commemorating the anniversary of his birthday.
There is a limited edition black snuffles with white collar limited to 1500 pieces worldwide.
This page was last edited on 21 May 2017, at 21:05 (UTC). | 2019-04-22T11:06:12Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gund_Snuffles | Porn | Shopping | 0.792243 |
imdb | Q: Is 'Jurassic World' a sequel or a reboot of 'Jurassic Park'?
Q: Is 'Jurassic World' based on a book?
Q: Are 'The Lost World' and 'Jurassic Park III' ignored?
As a young boy, dinosaurs were the greatest thing on earth (well, the greatest thing that once WAS on earth) for me. I knew most of their names (like Gray in JW) and had my plastic dinosaurs fighting themselves, evil, and sometimes also good. You can imagine my excitement when I first saw Jurassic Park and I was truly blown away by the idea. I still somehow wish that I could actually experience the events in the movie, although I understand the critic that the author of the novel, Michael Crichton, wanted to express. Much of that critic is lost in the third sequel to the original movie, 22 years after its original release, at least it's hidden very deep in the plot. The scientists have created a new super- species, filled the missing pieces of DNA up with genes of amphibians that all have certain survival-powers, and it all goes terribly wrong, much because the dinosaurs are being underestimated as they always were. So is it a reboot of the first movie? At least a bit. They are referring to the first movie all the time, examples: A control guy wearing an Jurassic Park shirt proudly says he got an original shirt (shown in part 1 several times) for $150 from eBay, they run through degenerated original buildings and one time the kids even drive an original van that they repaired competently. New park-owner Masrani says that John Hammond told him on his death bed to "spare no expense", which was one of the funniest scenes in the movie, yet Masrani doesn't want to commercialize the park too much. That's where the movie starts being perfectly self-ironic: one control guy (the one with the classic shirt) jokingly suggests, in order to please the investors, to name newly bred species after companies, "so how about Pepsi-Saurus"? The movie indeed is full of product placements, I counted at least 9 brands and logos that are shown or mentioned during the film. So what is the purpose of the movie? Mainly, I guess, it's meant as a nostalgic, yet up-to-date experience/excuse for all those fans who were bitterly disappointed by the Parts II&III. It's exciting, contains a little love story, it's got wit, social criticism and excellently animated dinosaurs. It shows that 22 years after Jurassic Park, movie heroes are still being chauvinist and women are still stronger and braver as they are pictured in most (other) movies. And, finally, it fulfills every fans biggest desire: man and dinosaur, at last fighting side by side. That's probably why I'd give it an even better rating than the original Jurassic Park movie, although of course classic scenes like the shaking water glass will probably never be outperformed. Résumé: Director Colin Trevorrow manages to create an enthralling and visually stunning homage to the original which at some points brilliantly steps out of the shadow of its role model and finally puts the conciliatory end to the dinosaur universe that we, the fans, truly deserved.
203 of 332 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? | 2019-04-18T17:07:23Z | https://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/?ref_=nm_aiv_t2 | Porn | Reference | 0.859141 |
wordpress | Each year the Teen Librarians at KCPL, BCPL, and CCPL get together to host an event celebrating anime, cartoons, and comics! In the past it was known as NKY Cosplay, and is now called NKY FANDOM FEST!
Fans of everything from Death Note to Dr. Who, Adventure Time to Avengers, Homestuck and Hunger Games are welcome! Costumes are not required for the event, but you do have to be in middle or high school to attend.
NKY Fandom Fest is Saturday, March 29th from 6-8:30 pm. at the BCPL Main Branch. Doors open at 5:45 pm.
At Fandom Fest you can expect these events and activities!
To register and stay up to date with event details check out our Facebook page! | 2019-04-21T05:16:17Z | https://kentonlibrary.wordpress.com/tag/kentucky-teens/ | Porn | Arts | 0.426366 |
cnn | What a game, just not quite enough for Team USA. At the end they gave it everything. Well played, but the World Cup dream is over -- until 2018.
We were so happy to be with you and Team USA today! Your CNN team was Rachel Clarke (defender, Arsenal fan,) Dorrine Mendoza (6th grade goalie) and the amazing knowledge and heart of Eliott McLaughlin -- speediest typing fingers in the West.
I'm an Englishman and that was by a country mile, the best game of football I've seen in this competition. USA were brilliant, brave and never gave up.
We know it's tough to find any joy in today's result, USA fans, but if there is anything at all to look forward to, it's Argentina-Belgium. There's going to be, like, a billion dollars worth of soccer player on that field. It's going to be a monster of a match. Yeah, it'd still be better if USA advanced.
Not to knock my boys, but if they'd played the entire game with the ferocity that they displayed in the last 15 minutes, they might've won 9-0. That was a fine performance against a young, star-studded Belgium team. I know I've been rooting against them for the past two-plus hours, but Belgium played a stellar match.
DeMarcus Beasley blazes into the box and puts a nice cross in, but it ricochets right back to him. He puts his next touch long.
Just some of his great work tonight. Keep it going!
He gets the ball on the left side again but can't outfox Howard.
Jermaine Jones had a shot blocked and tumbled to the ground on the tackle, but he gets up and walks to the sideline on his own.
The Red Devils are taking a defensive posture, and the USA is taking advantage of it. But can they find that magical ball?
DeMarcus Beasley streaks into the box and wins a ball despite being outsized. He drops it to Geoff Cameron, who sends it out of bounds.
He finds a ball on the left side and rips a shot on his Everton teammate, but Timmy saves this one easily.
Vertonghen gets the ball on the left side after a dish from Romelu Lukaku but can't get a shot on goal. More worrisome: Where the heck was the U.S. defense there?
Team USA has almost 25 minutes of soccer left here, so don't give up yet. In fact, remember the Ghana game! We scored the winner with just four minutes left that day.
Damnit. Lots of time left, but Kevin DeBruyne finds the far post.
USA starts with some possession. Nice. Beasley sends in a cross, which finds Jermaine Jones on the far post, but he can't keep his header down. Goal kick, Belgium.
Naturally, the USA wants to win in extra time, but you have to wonder: If we go to penalty kicks, might Tim Howard, with his deft shot-stopping all day, give the U.S. an advantage? More on that in 30 minutes ... maybe.
We'll have two periods of overtime. Both will be 15-minutes long. No matter what happens, we will play both halves (i.e. it's not sudden death or golden goal). If we still have a 0-0 standoff after extra time, we then head to penalty kicks.
USA can breathe, as the game will go into extra time. So 30 minutes of free football!!! It was a terrible half for the U.S. -- with the massive exception of Tim Howard. On the bright side of things, Team USA spent the last 90 seconds in the Belgian half. Let's see if they can keep that up as extra time begins.
Wondo gets the ball about six yards out and can't keep it down. He sails it over goal in what might have been the USA's best chance of the game.
“@_SoccerVines: official new photo of Tim Howard.. #USA http://t.co/YTQCdVli6e”this one is way better than Ochoa's ????????
Belgium 0 vs. Tim Howard 0. U-S-A ????????
The United States of Tim Howard????????
Team USA will have to beat back this assault for three more minutes, the ref says.
Vincent Kompany can't corral a cross and puts it on goal, but with no power. Howard bats it away for another corner.
He looks a little tired.
Three minutes left in regulation and the U.S. has some possession, but easily gives it up, resulting in another Belgian counter. Eden Hazard smashes it left of goal.
Wondolowski gets down the right side, and the U.S earns another corner, but no one can get on the end of it. | 2019-04-19T05:36:24Z | http://worldcup.edition.cnn.com/Event/World_Cup_USA_vs_Belgium_2?Page=5 | Porn | Sports | 0.94582 |
wordpress | Yep, another Valentine’s day is upon us.
I’m not much for it, to be honest. Over commercialized.
But my spouse is sweet and sentimental. He got me chocolates, candy, a dozen roses (some were white with blue tips, blue being my favorite color) and little monkey stuffy and a balloon. And he had some heart covered paper he laid out and put all his gifts out on it so I would be surprised when I got up. The card he got me was lovely, and he wrote a personal message in it.
What matters is, it is important to him to show affection on this day. It is important to him and it makes it important to me.
I have been with him 19 years. Longest relationship of anyone our age we know. We were young when we got together. Amazing we stayed together since at that age people change a great deal. But I suppose, we changed together. I think back on those days as the best in my life to date. We had some good times, me and him. I wasn’t as chronically ill as I am now. We do have fun now, just more mellow and paced.
He wonders why I have never written a character like him. Simple. He is a good man. A sweet man. A thoughtful man. I would never do horrible things to a character who reminded me of my common-law spouse. Couldn’t do it. But his smile was on the face of another. His curly locks. He tall lean frame. So many nuances are then the idiosyncrasies of others. I am using his name, in one version of it anyway, in a recent novel as a tribute to him. The hero, my hero, same name.
We often write about love. We are influenced by the love in our lives. His impact on me is endless. | 2019-04-18T12:39:52Z | https://lilhamilton.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/valentines-day-again/ | Porn | Reference | 0.82234 |
livejournal | Only 3 more Fridays before I'm down to only Saturday and Sunday. Unless weekday shift screwed up my press, I should have some good numbers today. I'm not gonna miss the work, but I will miss the extra 6 hours on my paycheck.
Craving another photoshoot. I really gotta start making at least a basic kimono for instant photoshoots, and work on other backdrops. I still have pics of Radcliffe in two kimono outfits she made to put up in a gallery on my web page, a back burner project that has been simmering for over a month. I'll work on kimono measurement this weekend during breaks. | 2019-04-23T02:23:32Z | https://verminiusrex.livejournal.com/54791.html | Porn | Business | 0.893002 |
wordpress | Deaf children around the world deserve the same access to education as their hearing counterparts. In Afghanistan that is no different. Yet in a country that struggles to provide adequate access to mainstream education, the deaf are beyond the fringes, despite the hard work of the amazing founder, staff, and volunteers at the Afghanistan National Association of the Deaf (ANAD).
There are approximately 10,000 deaf children in AFghanistan. Of these 10,000, approximately 1,000 are being served in Kabul and Jalalabad with rudimentary primary education. The lack of teachers means that the focus is getting the children literate and competent with Afghan sign language. The amazing thing is that the Afghan sign language is a work in progress…the language is still developing and its fascinating to be witness to the creation and evolution of a language.
When we discuss the primary needs for the deaf schools and the deaf community as a whole the picture mirrors that of mainstream education in this country. Yes, schools are needed. Yes, materials and sponsorship is needed. More importantly, for the long term, teacher training and interpreters are needed. Across the board, those we speak with cite teacher training as the next roadblock to education. Quality education is lacking and its much more pronounced in the deaf community.
It isn’t enough to provide literacy and sign language if there isn’t also a basic education in math, science, history, and the like. Literacy on its own doesn’t provide a door for opportunity. It is simply the first step in the journey. The first weapon in the arsenal. If these children are to become self sufficient, and contribute to society, they need to have the same education on offer as their hearing counterparts.
Now on my return visit, the solution became clearer. The first step is basic literacy and sign language communication for all of Afghanistan’s 10,000 deaf. Working in tandem should be the effort to train teachers to provide higher secondary education beyond the fourth or fifth year. Not only does this improve those students directly affected by further levels of education, it develops a feeder system for a future teacher training pool from the same students first affected. Creating an opportunity for employment after school in a culture with few opportunities available for the deaf.
In an effort to tackle the larger question of opportunity beyond teaching, an effort must be made to train interpreters. This would allow for students to integrate into high school and university should they choose, as well as providing access to opportunities in hearing world unavailable at the present time.
Despite the broad and challenging picture of the long term needs of Afghanistan’s deaf community, taking the first step is actually very simple. Literacy, schools, teacher training, all working to grow in tandem to the benefit of all. In the specific case of the ANAD, and its school of 250 children, its a simple matter of funding. They need to build a sustainable school that can house a larger school for more children and space for a teacher training program. As teachers become trained, model schools can open in the key cities of Afghanistan; Mazar i Sharif, Herat, Bamiyan, and hopefully in the south should security allow. Each school educating the deaf children, as well as their families and communities.
Parween, is one of Afghanistan’s biggest advocates for the deaf. A petite woman, usually wearing a lavender headscarf, with a warm smile, Parween is an amazing woman who works full time with UNESCO and still finds time to play a key role in advocating for and guiding the ANAD and its school forward. She passionately guided me around on my first ever visit, acting as interpreter, and explaining long term vision of the ANAD and the deaf community as a whole. This visit she reprised her role as interpreter, taking time away from her family to meet with me after work to brainstorm solutions and where Mountain to Mountain could facilitate ANAD’s desire for a sustainable program for deaf education. I even received the honor of getting my own sign…a sign that represents my name to speed things along when we are all talking.
As ANAD, Parween and Mountain to Mountain brainstorm and make plans, it is our hope that the hearing impaired community in our own country will come to embrace Afghanistan’s, and work as a role model for what the deaf community can hope to achieve in the future. | 2019-04-21T22:44:37Z | https://mountain2mountain.wordpress.com/2009/05/ | Porn | Kids | 0.454795 |
wikipedia | Brazos Valley Sudbury School was a Sudbury school in unincorporated Waller County, Texas, near Brookshire. It was in proximity to Katy.
The school, located in the Brazos Valley region, served ages 4 through 19. Its campus had 4,000 square feet (370 m2) of space.
It was founded by Tomball resident Laura Gabelsberg, who previously taught at public schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. In April 2001, Gabelsberg held a public meeting with 25 others, discussing different educational philosophies for a proposed school, and after the meeting, the group selected the Sudbury system. By September 2001, the group was holding meetings about the establishment of the school.
A woman named Chicha Glass, along with her husband, lent her house, which became a 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) classroom building, for the school's operations and gave $25,000 in startup funds. Her husband and she moved into a garage apartment on the same property. In February 2002, the school began operations, and was scheduled to open in fall 2002.
From Brookshire, the Houston Subdbury Group, which operated the school, moved to the Houston Heights in Houston for the 2005-2006 school year; it aimed to move BVSS to Houston. The school assembly passed a motion to not reopen for the upcoming school year in spring 2006. A spring 2007 meeting was held in which the possibility of continuing operation of a Sudbury school was discussed.
The school allowed students, who were required to attend five hours per day but did not have to conform to a timetable, to choose the direction of their learning in accordance with the Sudbury system. The school did not issue grades nor administer tests. Parents were not involved in the day-to-day administration and the faculty acted as guides instead of using direct control in the classroom.
^ Home. Brazos Valley Sudbury School. Retrieved on February 18, 2017. "38110 Donigan Road Brookshire, TX 77423"
^ a b "Parents create their own school". Houston Chronicle. 2002-07-02. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
^ a b Koppikar, Devika (2004-04-22). "Youths follow their curiosity at Brookshire private school". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
^ a b c Koppikar, Devika (2004-04-22). "Parents split on value of Sudbury". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
^ "Northwest parents group wants to establish school without grades, tests". Houston Chronicle. 2001-09-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18. "For information on meetings, call Laura Gabelsberg at[...]"
^ Home. Houston Sudbury Group. Retrieved on October 20, 2017. "1330 Heights Blvd. Houston, Texas 77008"
^ Home. Brazos Valley Sudbury School. February 3, 2007. Retrieved on February 18, 2017.
This article about a school in Texas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This page was last edited on 11 November 2018, at 14:42 (UTC). | 2019-04-23T10:03:09Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazos_Valley_Sudbury_School | Porn | Home | 0.293347 |
wordpress | I didn’t hear the speech, but I read the transcript. Mr Kahn stood before the Democratic Convention and declared himself parent to a combat casualty. He gained the nation’s sympathy. But then he pulled from that emotion to one of anger, making unfounded accusations about the other Party’s candidate. And when the accusations were rebutted, the media followed lock-step into the same fallacy of considering an attack on the truthlessness of the thin speech as an attack on the speaker. The fallacies of Mr Kahn made him out to be a wraith, a shadow of a man who appears to be one thing, but isn’t.
tempting to conclude that the point of view is false.
then, will the argument be successful.
reason, rather than on emotion, if we want our beliefs to be true.
rejected because of its source, rather than its merit.
You are currently browsing the Mike 4 Mike blog archives for August, 2016. | 2019-04-20T05:06:49Z | https://mike4mike.wordpress.com/2016/08/ | Porn | News | 0.582165 |
wordpress | This weekend I’ve mostly been trying to arrange our holiday in Ausust. It’s stressful! We’re driving round Great Britain for three weeks, and I’ve been trying to tget the dates confirmed so we can book the last few B&Bs. Only problem is, currently we only have 1 day in Edinburgh, and we would like more, but one person isn’t willing to cut Cardiff short (although why we need 3 days there is beyond me?) while a second doesn’t really want to take a day off our final stop as that will leave us with a mere afternoon for relaxing before embarking on the long journey back to Karlsruhe, by car (ferry from Dover to Calais then a nice drive across France). I suppose I could suggest leaving out Fort William instead… Decisions, decisions. | 2019-04-24T14:24:06Z | https://confuzzledom.wordpress.com/tag/holidays/page/2/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.975912 |
wordpress | I ran across this proposed law at DownsizeDC. I absolutely agree that no member of Congress should ever vote to pass any bill they haven’t actually read in its entirety, yet it happens all the time. Worse, far too often special interest items are inserted at the last minute. The truth is that Congress passes laws on a regular ongoing basis, which the majority of Congressmen have never even read.
The failure of our elected representatives to read bills before passage causes multiple problems, the most obvious of which is an out of control bureaucracy with laws either so complicated, or so poorly written, that even the courts can’t agree upon what they mean.
Since Congress has proven that they won’t do their elected jobs properly on a voluntary basis – by knowing exactly what laws they are passing, and what the effect and cost of that law will be – it should come as no surprise that some citizens are suggesting that laws be passed, effectively forcing them to do their jobs properly.
What follows is the draft of a proposed bill along those very lines.
To require before final passage of any Bill the printing and full verbatim reading of the text of such Bill, and each and every amendment attached thereto, to each house of Congress called to order with a quorum physically assembled throughout, the entry of such a printing and reading in the journal of each house of Congress, and the verbatim publication of every such Bill, and each and every amendment thereto, on the official Internet web site of the Senate and the House of Representatives at least seven days before floor consideration and final passage of any Bill, and each and every amendment thereto by each house of Congress; and to provide for enforcement of the printing, reading, entry, publication, recording and affidavit requirements herein.
(a) The United States Constitution vests all legislative powers granted therein to the United States Congress, members of both the Senate and House of which are elected by the people to whom each member is accountable to represent the people of the State and of the House District in the exercise of each member’s legislative powers.
(b) To the end that Congress be politically and legally accountable to the people, Article I, Section 4 of the United States Constitution requires each House of Congress to keep a journal of its proceedings and from time to time publish the same.
(c) To the end that no legislation be passed without effective representation of the people’s interest by the elected members of the Congress, Article I, Section 7 of the United States Constitution states that only those Bills “which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate,” and not vetoed by the President, “shall become” Laws.
(f) According to Sections XXIV, XXV, and XL of Jefferson’s Manual, it was the rule of the House of Representatives, following the parliamentary procedure of the English House of Commons, that every bill received two full readings by the Clerk of the House, and a reading of the whole contents of the bill verbatim by the Speaker of the House before the House voted on each bill.
(g) Under current Senate rules, the Senate has departed from its original practice of a full first and second reading of each bill, and of ensuring that each Senator has a printed or other verbatim copy of each bill before passage thereof, having by Rule XIV limited each reading of a bill to the reading of the bill’s title only, unless the Senate in any case shall otherwise order.
(h) Under current House rules, the House of Representatives has by Rule XVI (8) and Rule XVIII (5) embraced its original practice of full first and second readings of each bill, but has regularly departed from this practice by unanimous consent of the House, and has dispensed altogether its original practice of a verbatim third reading of each bill before passage, limiting such third reading to the reading of the title only, including the reading of the title only even when members of the House have no printed or other verbatim copy of a bill before passage.
(i) Although Section 106, Title 1, United States Code, requires a bill to be made available in written form to each member of Congress before final passage Congress has by statute conferred upon itself the power, during the last six days of a session of Congress, by concurrent resolution, to vote for passage of a bill that is not in form at the time of final passage.
(j) As a direct consequence of the Senate and the House of Representatives departure from the salutary practice of full, verbatim readings of each bill before final passage, and further, as a direct consequence of Congress, by concurrent resolution, having permitted certain appropriation and budget bills to be enacted into law without such bills being printed and presented to Congress in written form prior to final passage, Congress has: (a) imposed upon the American people excessively long bills, largely written by an unelected bureaucracy, resulting in generally incomprehensible, cumbersome, oppressive and burdensome laws, containing hidden provisions for special interests; (b) deprived the American people and their elected Senators and Representatives of a full and fair opportunity to examine the text of said bills, and all amendments thereto, prior to passage; (c) undermined the confidence of the American people by its failure to give adequate notice to the people before a vote is taken on said bills and their amendments in the bills; and (d) has called into question the integrity and reliability of the legislative processes in both houses of Congress by its failure to ensure that each member of the Senate and each member of the House has, prior to passage, either listened attentively to the reading of the full text of each bill, and its amendments, or has personally read the text thereof.
If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid for any reason in any court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or any other application of this Act which can be given effect without the invalid provison or application, and for this purpose the provisions of this Act are declared severable. | 2019-04-20T00:15:17Z | https://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/category/law/ | Porn | Reference | 0.509071 |
wordpress | We did another episode, and it’s a dandy! Poops runs down his first season playing hockey on an 1-11 team, and inspires us to look at some Winnipeg Jets history. Sliiiiip bought a cartwall app and wants to show off some cheesy sound drops! We review a movie so bad that Poops couldn’t even finish it. And then we discuss terrible songs written by some of our favorite artists. Plus we jazzed up the intro to the show. It’s a MUST LISTEN!!! | 2019-04-22T22:52:27Z | https://mezzaninesleepover.wordpress.com/2015/06/ | Porn | Sports | 0.543646 |
google | The Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) consists of licensed amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment, with their local ARES leadership, for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes. Every licensed amateur, regardless of membership in ARRL or any other local or national organization is eligible to apply for membership in ARES. Training may be required or desired to participate fully in ARES. Please inquire at the local level for specific information. Because ARES is an Amateur Radio program, only licensed radio amateurs are eligible for membership.
Amateur radio operators belonging to ARES have responded to local and regional disasters since the 1930s, including the attacks of September 11th, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina. During the Katrina event more than one thousand ARES volunteers assisted in the aftermath and provided communications for the American Red Cross, The Salvation Army, and other individuals related to the relief effort. After Katrina, Hancock County Mississippi had lost all contact with the outside world, except through ARES operators who served as 911 dispatchers and message relayers.
ARES has deployed for a variety of other emergencies and disasters, including the 2003 North America blackout. The blackout covered a wide geographical area of North America. In the United States its scope included Cleveland, Detroit, and New York City. Landline telephones and cell phone systems were overloaded and Amateur's ability to operate off the grid was put to the test. On Long Island in New York many pieces of health and welfare traffic were passed on VHF and HF nets. Because some television and radio stations had gone off the air amateurs helped fill the lack of information. This was not the first time that amateur radio operators assisted during a blackout in New York City. On a warm evening of July 13, 1977 lightning caused a power outage across the city and most of its suburbs. Radio operators started communication nets on simplex and on a repeater located in the Chrysler building.
Licensed Amateurs can participate by contacting Adam Filkins KD8CCX at 810-837-0722 Or Ted Davis KF8ZO AT 810-672-9504. Those who would like to get licensed and participate in all emergency activities contact him also. A visit to the club website ( W8AX.com ) will answer some more questions. There is no better feeling than working for the good of your community. | 2019-04-20T10:57:32Z | https://sites.google.com/site/thumbarc/amateur-raf | Porn | News | 0.298914 |
wordpress | We love showing you how to get the most out of your Mod Bod pieces and we are back to do it again, this time with the Tulip Skirt!
It is PERFECT for bridal parties because of the wide range of sizes and the flattering fit. (The wide waist band is perfect to hide tummies, the flared A line cut hides bigger hips.) The women in your wedding party will love that they could wear the skirt after the wedding and will remember your perfect day every time they wear it, which would be a lot! You could add your wedding colors in the tops and it would make for the perfect economical wedding party outfit. Get one for yourself too!
Make it into the perfect casual, yet chic summer outfit by pairing it with a fun summer Cami or Racerbank Tank, a Mod Bod Tank, Cami or Cap Tease to go underneath.
Transform it into a beautiful spring outfit by adding a flowy cardigan with a Perfect Tee underneath and a great necklace.
In the winter you can pair it with a form-fitting turtleneck to make for a perfect sharp-looking, yet comfortable outfit during the colder months.
This is a great skirt to dress up a bit to use for work, church, meetings, etc. But you can also make it casual to wear on a date, lunch with friends or running around with the kids.
Check out all of the fun colors we carry and visit TheModBod.com to pick up the Tulip Skirt for your wardrobe! | 2019-04-23T18:07:19Z | https://modbodblog.wordpress.com/category/tulip-skirt/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.849176 |
addr | Program started at Mon-08-Dec-2003 02:43.
Analysed requests from Mon-01-Dec-2003 03:00 to Mon-08-Dec-2003 02:39 (6.99 days).
Busiest day: 1/Dec/03 (8,224 requests for pages). | 2019-04-23T06:03:27Z | http://kitsune.addr.com/wwwstat/12.08.html | Porn | Business | 0.1674 |
wordpress | FIVE YEARS PROSTATE CANCER FREE!
YEE HAH!!! Praise the LORD!!! It was 5 years ago today that I went under the knife (the robotic knife, that is) to have my cancer-filled prostate removed. During these 5 years my PSA has been undetectable and I have my LORD JESUS the CHRIST to thank and praise for that. I absolutely do not deserve to be here – let alone to make that proclamation! I am only here by the sovereign grace of Almighty GOD. HE is merciful to allow me to survive to take care of my family and minister to many brothers diagnosed with prostate cancer and inform others about prostate health awareness. I haven’t been keeping score, but I must have talked with about 50+ men who have tested positive within these past 5 years and help them prepare for treatment and life thereafter.
Thank you, LORD! YOU are truly amazing to let me breathe and continue to walk on this planet in order to be used by YOU for YOUR glory! My wife and kids thank YOU, too, and I thank YOU for them! Thank YOU for the surgeons and nurses at UT Southwestern, the inventors of the da Vinci Surgical System, the greatest prostate screening program at Methodist Hospital, my beautiful wife and family, my OCBF family and my First Dallas family (you know who you are).
Wow. I’m truly amazed at HIS grace and I am totally unworthy to receive it. | 2019-04-21T22:26:11Z | https://brokentoserve.wordpress.com/2011/12/ | Porn | Health | 0.806629 |
pair | Create a new customer account in our Store today! It's fast & easy using the form below. You will save time at Checkout with pre-populated forms when placing orders. No purchase is necessary to create your account.
Yes, send me exclusive offers and specials by e-mail. | 2019-04-25T06:47:22Z | https://ssl49.pair.com/postbay/shop/create_account.php?fromlogin=1 | Porn | Shopping | 0.835894 |
wordpress | If you have a crawler, you will know EXACTLY who RC4WD are as they make some of the best products and accessories available for Rock Crawling vehicles in the world. If you didn’t know that before, you do now.
Next is almost as exciting in many ways, a scale V8 Engine and transmission! You can put a standard crawler brushed motor in the V8 and the transmission is a single speed, working transmission, the combination of which looks amazing!
There is a lot of excellent products coming out of the woodwork today, and surprisingly not related to the current IFMAR Worlds.
Viper R/C Solutions is proud to introduce authentic epic1Designs Chassis Armor with the Viper R/C logo. This high quality Chassis Armor provides 21mil thick protection and will reduce friction from contact chassis has with track. With peel and stick, and stick, and stick technology, the Chassis Armor can be removed to work on your car and re-applied multiple times with no issues. Peel it off, fix your car, stick it back and you are ready to go multiple times. The 5.5 in by 13.5 in sheet will fit 1/10 touring cars, offroad trucks, offroad buggies and many 1/8 vehicles. Keep your chassis protected with armor, and show off the Viper logo at the same time!
I have to say I like the look of these, they would be good on my Buggy and my rally car!
Your Vorza goes HOW fast!
Speed runs aren’t something that is in my blood. I’ll do a un ion the street to see a car maxed out, but that is about it. For others there is a little more passion there. The HPI Broza is no slacker when it comes to speed, but the boys at Vorza Aussierc (who can be found on facebook here https://www.facebook.com/AussieRC?fref=ts ) like to go a little faster. How much faster? Is 196 km/h fast enough for you? See their speed run below.
All I can say is I would have enjoyed High School so much more if we had a Remote Control Car Club, and that is exactly what Lucas Heights Community School has!
Best of luck to them with it, and I hope it continues to get young people interested in our hobby.
Famous name and a famous haircut, Robert Reed (Reedy) joins the Proline Australia EP Offroad Team. With a career best performance at the NSW States last week, we couldn’t help but have him on our team!! Check him out whipping it at RC Arena Tonight!!!
I’ve seen some interesting comments and thoughts from some of the top drivers at the 2014 Nitro Off Road Worlds in Sicily overnight so I thought I would post a few snippets of what they had to say.
Practice is finally over! Quals start tomorrow. Plenty of controversy here regarding rules and running of the event. Double coming before the straight will continue to produce lots of controversy this week. I’m doing ok. Having lots of brake issues. Seems having proper brake setup is most important thing for this track. Few clear front runners so far. Biggest thing they have is ability to clear left double consistently and land on inside. Hoping it all comes together for me tomorrow. 10 minute runs vs timed 3 laps should help out. Hopefully the concrete holds up all week.
After controlled practice we are second!! Really happy with our performance, we got a good setup to start qualyfing tomorrow morning so we will try to make clean heats!
Also great talk with Jared Tebo before the ceremony and nice Wc’s Team photo!!
The first couple practices went well yesterday and we are getting the car dialed in, about to leave to the track for day two of practice. I’ll try to post more, wifi is hard to come by here.
Day two of practice is over, everything is going well, relaxing with some gelato after dinner with Tim, Daniel and Torrance.
My car with the new Proline lexan wing.
I don’t think Jared is a fan of the surface.
Anyone need their bathroom tile updated?
This month’s Racing Lines is a good one I have to say, although a slightly different physical print than the last editions.
In between the covers you will find articles on LRP at the ETS season final, an interview with Shane Van Gisbergen of V8 Supercars and RC racing fame, a look back at some cars of the past from AYK, a look at the Latrax V8 Supercar, a review of the Team Associated RC10 1993 Worlds Car re release and of course the reports from the latest major Australian RC races around the country.
One article that caught my attention was Scott Guyatt’s article titled Get a Grip. It’s well worth a read and it examines the latest fad of high traction surfaces such as sugared off road tracks that simply eat tyres. Whilst I don’t often have the opportunity to race on dirt I have to agree that I don’t think high traction, heavily prepared surfaces are the best thing for the RC Racing Scene on the whole. Now I have to confess, my regular racing haunt is a high traction carpet surface, not because we were looking for high traction, but because the concrete in the shed we race on is too slippery to race anything. Also the carpet can be removed when the site owners need the venue for other events. I never thought I would hear myself saying that I have too much grip at any RC track, but it was a phrase I have used on many an occasion now that the track is almost 100% carpet. Have a read of Scott’s article, and let us know what you think, but personally, I 100% agree that at a local level, it’s not good for the hobby I love. | 2019-04-21T08:59:29Z | https://aussierc.wordpress.com/2014/09/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.672866 |
wordpress | Archaeologists reported on Tuesday that they have found the earliest evidence of Neanderthals living in Britain. Two pieces of flint dating back 110,000 years ago were found at a construction site in Dartford, Kent. Dr. Francis Wendan-Smith, from Southampton University, said the finds push back the presence of Neanderthals in Britain by 40,000 years or more. A majority of researchers believe Britain was uninhabited by humans during the time the flint tools date back too.
An absence of archaeological evidence suggests people abandoned this land between 200,000 years ago and 65,000 years ago. However, one researcher said the evidence presented so far did not convince him. Dr. Mark White from Durham University told BBC News he would like to assess the findings in detail before considering whether they posed a challenge to the majority view that humans were absent from Britain at this time.
The excavation that uncovered the flint hand tool and waste flake was funded by the U.K.’s Highways Agency. Wenban-Smith and colleagues from Oxford Archaeology have dated the sediments back 110,00 years, placing them within the “abandonment period.” The discovery comes from a time when sea levels were dropping after a period when they were high enough to make the English Channel impassable.
“We know that Neanderthals inhabited Northern France at this time, but this new evidence suggests that as soon as sea levels dropped, and a ‘land bridge’ appeared across the English Channel, they made the journey by foot to Kent,” Wenban-Smith told BBC. The dearth of evidence for human occupation in Britain between 200,000 and 65,000 years ago has perplexed the archaeologists. The English Channel would have posed a physical barrier to humans trying to cross the continent. However, sea levels fluctuated during this period. There were other times when hunters could walk from France to southern England.
About 130,000 years ago sea levels rose and Neanderthals would have been blocked from entering Britain by the English Channel. However, about 115,000 years ago sea levels fell again. Wenban-Smith and his team said the flint tools from Dartford suggest that humans were able to take advantage of this opportunity. The discovery was dated back by using a method known as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). This exploits the presence of radioactive isotopes in the natural environment. Naturally occurring minerals like quartz and feldspars record the amount of radiation to which they have been exposed.
Some minerals store a proportion of energy radiation delivered and then release it at a later date in the form of light. The amount of light released by these minerals can be used to calculate the radiation dose a sample has received, helping to give an estimation of time that has elapsed since it was buried. White raised doubts over the reliability of OSL dating though, saying the technique was more or less “in constant development.” He added that assumptions about background radiation and average water content could significantly affect results.
Neanderthals split from our evolutionary line about 500,000 years ago. A short, muscular physique, a barrel chest, large brain and prominent facial features characterized them. Wenban-Smith along with other researchers say that the “classic” Neanderthal features appeared about 200,000 years ago. However, other scientists describe much older fossils as Neanderthals. These include the 400,000-year-old partial skull found in Kent and the 230,000-year-old human teeth discovered at Pontnewydd in Wales.
Hornorkesteret comment: I wonder why the Oxford archeologists placed a tiny white, red-eyed rabbit in the foreground of the accompanying picture? | 2019-04-24T12:49:19Z | https://hornorkesteret.wordpress.com/category/nature/ethnography/ | Porn | Science | 0.177996 |
wordpress | Enfin, a new blog post! I cannot believe it has been a full month since I blogged but in truth, I did very little knitting until the last two weeks and I’m committed to only blogging when knitting so here you go. There will be more updates to come because I am on spring break and I’m fully over my post-Christmas knitting funk!
By the way, have all of you discovered the new lines of Knit Picks???? I really want to order some Shine Worsted but I’m still getting through the $50 Knit Picks order from December. Do you know how much yarn $50 will buy you at Knit Picks? Take my word for it – HEAPS!
Before I show you what I’ve been up to, check out this amazing baby blanket my secret pal sent!!!!!!!! It’s the kid’s first hand-knitted gift – how exciting! We haven’t bought or planned anything for the baby yet so maybe this will inspire us to start.
Beth has inspired me to try a couple of diaper covers. She gave me a wonderful pattern that I’ve used to make these two. Sorry for the links to my flickr account. Blogger won’t let me upload more pictures for who knows what reason.
Also, I bought this Phildar layette magazine last year so that I could make this one.
I hadn’t made it yet because I didn’t know anyone who was having a baby girl and planned to use cloth diapers. I still don’t know anyone like that but I just wanted to make the little culotte so I did. 🙂 I also learned how to do intarsia so something good came out of the experiment.
Here is another sweater I’ve sort of finished. It needs a zipper. I don’t know how to sew in a zipper. I need to do some research before I tackle the finishing process.
My current project is a little brassière from the same Phildar book (Layette Spring/Summer 2005). I don’t know what this kind of sweater is called in English but it has a cardigan-style back for ease of use with a small baby. I’m using Kona Superwash wool for the first time. I might knit a swatch to see how well it washes and if it is machine dryable.
I’m spending the first few days of my spring break to sewing. I hate to sew but this mission is entirely outcome-driven. I found some patterns for maternity clothes and I thought I’d try to make them. With labor costs aside, I’m not saving a significant amount of money but I just wanted to make my own stuff. I’ve discovered that it is nearly impossible to find maternity clothes for women whose pre-pregnancy waists and inseams were under 30″. If this graduate school gig doesn’t work out, I might open up a factory to make maternity clothes for 1) short people and 2) people who exercise. Only Fit Maternity makes apparel for real exercise. This is a major source of annoyance chez moi.
I’ll leave you with recent updates in the belly picture series. | 2019-04-26T11:56:04Z | https://exercisebeforeknitting.wordpress.com/2006/03/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.427256 |
iastate | "Mechanistic principles of antisense targets for the treatment of Spina" by Natalia N. Singh, Brian M. Lee et al.
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a major neurodegenerative disorder of children and infants. SMA is primarily caused by low levels of SMN protein owing to deletions or mutations of the SMN1 gene. SMN2, a nearly identical copy of SMN1, fails to compensate for the loss of the production of the functional SMN protein due to predominant skipping of exon 7. Several compounds, including antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that elevate SMN protein from SMN2 hold the promise for treatment. An ASO-based drug currently under Phase III clinical trial employs intronic splicing silencer N1 (ISS-N1) as its target. Cumulative studies on ISS-N1 reveal a wealth of information with significance to the overall therapeutic development for SMA. Here, the authors summarize the mechanistic principles behind various antisense targets currently available for SMA therapy.
This is a manuscript of an article published as Singh, Natalia N., Brian M. Lee, Christine J. DiDonato, and Ravindra N. Singh. "Mechanistic principles of antisense targets for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy." Future Medicinal Chemistry 7, no. 13 (2015): 1793-1808. DOI: 10.4155/fmc.15.101. Posted with permission.
Singh, Natalia N.; Lee, Brian M.; DiDonato, Christine J.; and Singh, Ravindra N., "Mechanistic principles of antisense targets for the treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy" (2015). Biomedical Sciences Publications. 59. | 2019-04-25T18:04:19Z | https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/bms_pubs/59/ | Porn | Science | 0.427923 |
wordpress | You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Committee for a Better Arvin’ tag.
As we discussed in our previous post, residents of Arvin, CA want the truth about what is in the air they are breathing. They know they have the worst air quality in the nation, due to ozone pollution, but could the multiple industries be exacerbating the problem with harmful emissions?
To help them determine what is in the air, they invited GCM to provide them with a Bucket Brigade training in February.
The training kicked off at 10am Sunday: GCM brought the Buckets, and the CBA folks brought the coffee, pan dulces and the sheer passion and determination it takes for grassroots change. And, much appreciation to CRPE for taking on the BIG task of translation between English and Spanish.
The residents of Arvin were organized and ready with a ton of great questions. GCM led them through the basics of air pollution, mapped out pollution sources in relation to the community and went over the need to record and keep track of pollution incidents with the Pollution Log.
We quickly learned that Arvin is growing! There are plans for more houses, jobs and industrial expansions. All great news considering the lagging economy, but this is a pivotal point for the residents who are concerned about the growing air pollution problem that could go hand-in-hand.
Residents want a straight and honest answer about the potential health risks of living so close to industry. Community members are concerned about the bad odors near some of the industrial facilities. They complained of rotten eggs, feces and spoiled fruit; often accompanied by acute health effects.
And what better thing to follow-up that conversation than lunch! We’re met with some surprised faces and laughter, but it usually doesn’t take too long for everyone to re-gain their appetite.
Lunch, provided by the community residents, was spectacular. I put my Cliff Bar away and grabbed a plate of fresh seafood salad, with pulled chicken that had been slow cooked with onions and spices. And to top it off hibiscus flavored agua fresca!
Then, onward with the training: it’s time to build the Buckets! Two teams, four Buckets and two GCM trainers geared up for a little competition. Which team could build it first?
Obviously, the younger team far surpassed their elders! We had one Bucket up and running in no more than 15 minutes.
Full Disclosure- this team had seen the Buckets in action before at our Intro meeting, and did have some trouble with the vacuum on the second Bucket. Additionally, there was no need for translation and so we got quite the head start with instructions.
After the other team caught up, we moved into the essential paperwork for sample data and planned out the pollution monitoring plan. Everything was falling into place. The farmer has the early morning pollution patrol and the High School girls have the mid-afternoon patrols. The community residents decided which four activists would be in charge of the Buckets and circulated contact info so everyone can get in touch with them quickly following a pollution incident. The Arvin Bucket Brigade is ready to go! Stay tuned for sample results…..
Ever heard of Arvin, California? Maybe you’ve seen the exit off Highway 99 near LA or maybe you’ve read something about it having some of the worst air quality in the United States.
More recently, Arvin has made the news for a horrible tragedy at a large industrial recycling and compost facility that is putting a further burden on residents by increasing air pollution in an already overburdened community. In October, two boys were killed at the facility after inhaling the deadly gas, Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S).
This was the last straw for the community residents. They wanted answers: What is in our air? What are we being exposed to? And why is the facility still operating after two employee deaths and multiple violations of their conditional use permit?!
The Committee for a Better Arvin (CBA) staged protests, marches, lobbied elected officials and the County finally agreed with the residents and revoked the facility’s operating permit.
Victory, right? Nope, not in this small community of color, comprised mostly of working class, Spanish speaking population. | 2019-04-23T04:06:29Z | https://airhugger.wordpress.com/tag/committee-for-a-better-arvin/ | Porn | Business | 0.330503 |
wordpress | Big Sunglasses – Coco, Madonna and all modern day celebrities wear big sunglasses to hide from the Paparazzi. To flip the classic into modern, consider going for a tortoise shell or a smokey colorway. How about a new shape rather than square or circle? Tempting, I know!
Pearls – anyone will tell you that pearls are a staple, but why be boring and predictable? Zzzzzzz. In comes The Creekwalk line from Twisted Silver. PRAISE THE STYLE GODS, they heard your prayers. Glass pearls from Japan salvaged for your wearing pleasure. And, seriously, if you are feeling matchy-matchy, wear the bracelet too.
Trench Coat – Ok, I am not sure if you were reading this far down or not. But yes, a trench is on the list and yes not too many people are sporting them these days, at least not in my neck of the woods. That being said, there are some cute options out there. London Fog and Burberry are the monsters that own the market on trenches, as they should, they know how to construct a coat. The trick: buy one that is short in length. The long coats are ok if you live in Minneapolis or Chicago, but most other places the shorter 33” version will do.
Now, wrap up this entire look and OMG you are a Modern Classic.
You hit the nail right on the head with the things that I like: all classics with enough “neutrality” that I can put my own stamp of personality on them! I “like”! | 2019-04-23T04:09:31Z | https://twistedsilver.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/an-urban-darlings-take-on-the-modern-classic/ | Porn | Reference | 0.138026 |
wordpress | Can you think of any other? If so, please leave your response in comments section below!
Apple patents Fingerprint upload to cloud!
Are you CRAZY?? How come CoolaData isn’t there?
Please mention the URL and some details of the company. We will review and then include its name and details in the article. | 2019-04-20T12:36:47Z | https://storageservers.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/these-are-the-coolest-big-data-startups-of-2015/ | Porn | Business | 0.43147 |
whoosh | Editor's Note: With all this Amazon High , Amazon Nation , Amazon Undies , and other various Amazon spin-offs being bandied about in Hollywood, Whoosh! was fortunate enough to be leaked some pages from yet another spin- off, Amazon Talk Show .
The audience is filled with scantily clad women. Applause rings out and Ephiny enters, smiling.
a great show for you today.
just a trail snack any more."
The audience erupts in wild applause except for a lava-covered tornado in the corner. Xena and Gabrielle enter and take a seat.
Enough to drive ya nuts.
Ephiny checks her watch, panicking at the amount of time still left in the show.
Um... So... Xena. Being dead.
Isn't Melosa on today's show?
inhabited the body of a thief.
been queen much more than me.
then ran off with her casket.
playing "name that dead guy"
man I've ever looked twice at.
bunch of suitors down there?
Calls of "koo koo" can be heard in the audience as well as "olay, olay oh la!" The big screen is fuzzy at first, then we see chaos.
Great. What's up in the Fields?
How the hades are ya?
I'm great! Dead, but great!
Phil is suddenly beheaded by a rogue and we see a tight shot of his head.
Ephiny is shouting at the screen. Gabrielle is eating the bread and cheese display and Xena is blowing kisses at most of the men and women from Tartarus. Hades jumps in front of the Elysiacam.
need to worry. Um... Xena?
Be great to see the old gang again.
Wing it. You'll do fine.
Xena grabs Gabrielle by her bilious green sports bra and they exit. Ephiny stands alone on stage for a second then sits down in a chair.
Ephiny, I did, but he died. | 2019-04-25T03:56:52Z | http://whoosh.org/issue12/sands1.html | Porn | Arts | 0.273386 |
wordpress | Woolworths opened in Westcliff-on-Sea in 1927. Westcliff-on-Sea is a suburb of Southend, so it was very close to Store 33, but the difference what that this area was more wealthy. Hamlet Court Road was known as the Bond Street of Essex up until the 1980s.
The store was not purpose built, opening in an existing building. The shops on Hamlet Court Road almost look like houses. From this 1971 photo, the store certainly looks tidy though the window. And an interesting fascia.
This Woolworths closed in January 1989. Today it is an Indian Restaurant that has kept the front as it was. Just look at the doors and the tiles – it’s brilliant. If you ever go for dinner at The Shagor in Westcliff-on-Sea, now you know you’ll be eating in an old Woolworths.
Woolworths opened in the seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex in 1925. It looks like it was a purpose-built single-storey store with an upper floor – perhaps the stockroom.
I can’t find any photos of the store from the old days, or indeed any photos of the store when it was open! But we do know the main entrance was on Pier Avenue, and a second entrance was on West Avenue.
This is the West Avenue side.
The store lasted until the end, when the chain went bust in December 2008. It became a 99p store, but they then got taken over by Poundland, which it still is today.. This store is also Pep&Co, their discount clothing brand.
If you are ever in Clacton-on-Sea, take a look above Poundland and admire the Woolies architecture.
Burtons insisted on having their name on the roof line as the top floor was a Burtons Billiards Hall – to encourage young men to stay out of pubs and play here, and hopefully shop in the store downstairs.
The branch was modernised in the 1960s, which you can see on the left here – typical 60s design, I can imagine it was blue aluminium squares.
Then it burnt down in a very serious fire in 1973 – there is a story about who started the fire here – don’t know if it is true or not. The store has to be built from scratch. It spent some time further along the street in temporary premises, which oddly enough burnt down a few years later.
Today, this building is split into 3 units – Brighthouse, Paddy Power and Santander. Not a very exciting building in terms of architecture, but next time you walk past these units in Colchester High Street, at least you now know they were a Woolworths.
The Ilford store was a relatively new one in the history of Woolworths stores – but the address has a fascinating history. Originally it was the Ilford Super Cinema which opened on 14th October 1922. In WW2, Ilford suffered the most German V2 rocket hits and the cinema was one of the casualties in 1945 – the building had to be boarded up.
In 1959 – 14 years later – the cinema was demolished and a C&A built in it’s place – a pretty eye-catching C&A building too.
Then when all the C&As closed down in 2000, Woolworths took on the lease of 6 of them – Chester, Metro Gateshead, Wood Green, Derby, Slough and of course Ilford.
She also remembers buying a CD on it’s last weekend of trading and how upbeat everyone was being. The Ilford store closed on 2nd January 2009.
In October 2009, a Wilkinson’s opened in it’s place. So although this is not a traditional Woolworths building, it is an iconic one and will probably stay a part of Ilford for many years to come.
Actually, here is an architect’s impression of Ilford after the proposed ‘urban realm scheme’ – it looks like they want Wilko’s gone and a cinema or something movie-themed in it’s place, I’m guessing in homage to the original Ilford Super Cinema.
Woolworths opened in the small Essex seaside town of Dovercourt in 1934.
Known as the ‘3d 7 6d store’, the frontage increased by one half in 1937.
Below is the store just before it closed for good on 30th December 2008. I like this picture as you can really compare the High Street with the 1936 postcard above. It looks like Nationwide was the ‘Developing & Printing’ shop, and what was Boots at the far end of the street in 1936 is now painted yellow. | 2019-04-22T12:03:35Z | https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/category/essex-2/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.945866 |
wordpress | In about three months of therapy Bradley has gone from not being able to sit up to sitting, getting from sitting to laying, getting from laying to sitting, scooting, crawling and pulling onto his knees. Now we are working on getting him to take the next steps to pull up to his feet. He will put some weight on his feet now. He is into everything and going everywhere on his own. I blink my eyes and he has disappeared into the other room.
His eating has greatly improved. He did not like baby food at all. As soon as I started giving him table food he started eating more solids. He pretty much eats whatever we eat. When him and I go to litigation lunch he eats the whole time.
In the last two days we have had a sippy cup break through. We went through about five sippy cups. EI brought us a special straw training cup and while he will drink from it he won’t drink much, maybe 3 ounces in a day. Yesterday I started putting his formula in his NUK sippy cup (that matches his bottles, that were the only bottle he would take) and he drank almost all of it. Today I have put two of his bottles in it and he has drinker both of them. It’s crazy how the first cup we tried now months later and many cups later its the cup he is taking.
Sleeping is a progress. Sleeping through the night is one of his goals. Several times he has gotten to the point that he would sleep through the night a night or two then he’d get an ear infection and he wouldn’t sleep through the night again. He likes to go to bed around 6:30 pm and stay on the bed till 6 am but he will get up one or two times for a bottle. Last night he slept 12 hours without getting up so hopefully we are getting closer to sleeping through the night.
His ears have been a continuously concern. He has had four ear infections but three different occurrences. The last time he had one it was in one ear, he took meds and it moved to the other ear, got more meds and it cleared up. We discussed tubes but that was when his doctor realized he needed one more to qualify for them. However due to all the issues he has had and now that he is finally doing so well the doctor is very uncomfortable putting him to sleep. He said something tells him not to put Bradley to sleep so I agreed no tubes. If he has more ear infections that are worse we will revisit that thought but for now he will not be getting them.
We have had many issues with the insurance company when it comes to getting Bradley’s medicine filled. One of his medicines he was suppose to take three times a day but the doctor said he didn’t have to have it that many times and the possible side affects of it scared me so all he ever got it was twice a day. After he started doing so well eating I decided to stop one of the doses of it. It’s the medicine that made him sleep so we had a few rough nights but it was worth it. Then after his doctor’s appointment we completely stopped that medicine. One down and one to go. Once we saw he was doing well without the first medicine that we stopped it was time to start decreasing the other medicine. He only took it once a day so we cut the dose in half and after about a week completely stopped it. He has now been medicine free for three days.
All and all he is doing much better now. We have to go back to the heart doctor this fall and hopefully he will be released from the heart doctor then. We go to the eye doctor next week and hopefully we will get a good report there.
Every time I make something I always have some fabric left over that is too small to make something big but too big to toss. This time I decided I would make a hat and poncho to match the reversible hat and two scarves I made.
I love Pinterest (now more than reading blogs) and I can always find a project for what I want to make on Pinterest (easier than weeding through a Googe search too). I found this cute pattern here to make the hat and poncho for an 18″ baby doll.
Now to find some other cute baby doll patterns to make!!
I recently found a scarf pattern that I wanted to try out. I had this cute poke a dot fleece that I bought on clearance and I thought this will be perfect for the scarf. You can find the pattern here.
But I wanted to make a hat to go with it. So I started looking and that was when I found the pattern for the hat I made Noah. I used the same pattern to make a hat to match the scarf but I didn’t attach spikes or a tassel because I wanted to make it reversible.
After making it reversible I needed a scarf to match the other side of the hat. Alyssa wasn’t too crazy about the first scarf I made. She prefers a long scarf that she can wrap around several times. I decided I’d make a long tube scarf to match the other side of the hat.
She likes all of them!!!
I had some different fleece in my stash. Noah wanted it the colors to look like Bowser. He is my video game lover!! He plays video games allllll the time. At first he picked green for the hat and tan for the spikes then he changed his mind and said he wants white for the spikes so that was what I did.
Now I have to figure out a way to attach spikes to make it look more like bowser. I have a feeling that will require hand sewing which I hate doing.
The other day I was in Hobby Lobby and saw this fabric on clearance. I always check out their clearance stuff in the sewing and scrapbooking departments. I wasn’t sure what I’d use it for but it was $2 and such fun fabric that I had to get it.
After getting home and unrolling it to wash I thought that’s the perfect cut for a simple skirt. So I decided I’d make a skirt out of it. I started to add some ribbon around the bottom but I couldn’t find anything in my stash that I liked to go with it so I changed my mind.
Now to see what my little one thinks of it when she gets home from school. But since she will tell you her favorite color is rainbow and she LOVES skirts I’d say it will be a win!!
I love to repurpose. I repurposed Noah’s old blue jeans into skirts and now Adam’s old t-shirts into dresses. I found the original post on Pinterest and LOVED the dress. It was so cute I knew I wanted to make one for my girls. You can find the original post here.
When Adam got some new under shirts and went to toss his old ones I kept them. I knew I could dye them any color I wanted and make this dress or a few other outfits I had seen made from t-shirts. Adam was so nice and did the dying for me. I already had some red dye so I decided I’d use it and I picked up some pink dye at the store. It wasn’t as pink as I wanted so we added a few drops of red to the pink to make it darker.
I didn’t have a basic dress pattern so I made my own. I laid Alyssa’s dress on a big piece of paper and drew an outline of it for the dress I made for Taylor. Then I added about 1/2 an inch all the way around my pattern to make a pattern for Alyssa’s dress.
For the most part I followed the pattern. I did things a little different with the sleeves and the neck. I had planned on doing some embroidery to the front of it but I put the dress together and I should have done it before I put the front and back together so the embroidery idea will have to wait for something else. The girls love it!!
One down and one to go! This weekend I decided I wanted to kinda follow an idea I found on Pinterest but I wanted to change it. The original post is here.
I loved the idea of adding the ruffles to a shirt but I wanted more of a dress and the shirt I had was not a long shirt. So I used some fabric I had and made the shirt longer. I started out with this red peace sign fabric. But I wanted more than just it. So I started digging through some fabric and found the green star fabric from a blanket I made years ago. I thought they looked really good together. Right before I was about to ruffle the stripes of fabric I laid it out to show to Adam and I thought tulle would make it so much cuter. So back to digging in my stash to find I had lime green and red tulle, perfect! Then I added tulle to each stripe of fabric before I ruffled it.
The original post said to add the stripes from the top down but I did it from the bottom up and now I understand why. It’s hard to sew the last few rows on when I have so much already below it to bunch up over the sewing machine but it worked out.
Now I have one more to finish and both of my girls will have a cute new dress to wear. It’s a little hard for Taylor to get on and off. She will need help getting it on but it’s super cute on. Sorry my picture isn’t with her modeling it. When I realized I needed a picture she had already taken it off and after the whining putting it on and taking it off I didn’t feel like doing it again.
In my last post I said I would post my list of unfinished projects. Now that I have emptied a plastic tub that was full of fabric I now know what sewing projects I have to finish.
Not too bad on my sewing list. Only thing is while it looks like five projects its really eight because one through three are two separate outfits.
I also have some projects related to my cricut to finish. It has not been very high on my list. Don’t get me wrong I love my cricut but I HATE when I have an issue with cutting and the truth is I probably need some new mats so it cuts crappy.
I also have some scrapbooking to finish. The only thing is, it’s going to take a lot of time and room so I am going to have to finish everything else so I can put up my sewing machines and cricut (well I’ll probably use it for scrapbooking) before I pull out all of that stuff. I bought some stuff and ordered the prints but never scrapbooked our wedding pictures. Hopefully that will be something I’ll have the time and space to work on soon.
After Christmas I started cleaning out, decluttering and organizing my house. Since Bradley is starting to get around baby proofing is a must. I have now basically cleaned out and decluttered my whole house. I still need to buy some stuff to help me organize some stuff and I have a list of things to make to help with organizing stuff but its getting there.
With this mind set over the weekend I decided I wanted to start using up some of my scrap fabric. I’ll buy a yard of something, cut out what I need and stuff the rest of it in a drawer to save to make something else with because its too much to just throw away. I ended up making two baby doll blankets and pillows, a pillow to match Bradley’s blanket and I made an Alabama football blanket. That cleaned out ALOT. Fleece is thick fabric and takes up a lot more room than other fabric.
When I changed the sunroom from a playroom to a craft/homework room I had Adam get all my plastic tubs of stuff out from under the house. I have lots of craft stuff. Slowly I have organized a lot of it and got the room set up nicely. But I have tons of yard and fabric. I decided I’d start going through some of my tubs and cleaning them out. I have a good bit of fleece in one of them. The first one I opened had some fleece from a quilt that I started when Alyssa was a baby. Yes I said a baby and now she is 8. It’s really too young for her now being Sesame Street but I have decided I am going to finish it and this has put me on a mission to finish unfinished projects.
I know as crafters we all have lots of unfinished projects but until I got in the tubs I forgot about some of them. I want to challenge everyone to make a list of your unfinished projects and work on finishing them. I know for me it’s going to mean looking in some plastic tubs before I know what all I have to finish but I am going to work on that list and I’ll share it. I’d love to see other people’s unfinished projects too.
Below is a picture of my unfinished project I am currently working on finishing. It’s the quilt I started years ago when Alyssa was a baby. I also have fleece to make one for a boy too but I never cut that fleece so I am thinking I may make something different with it. | 2019-04-26T02:29:55Z | https://asantbandersonfamily.wordpress.com/2013/01/ | Porn | Health | 0.982009 |
Subsets and Splits