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Hire an E-Bike
Available from 1st June 2019
SPECIAL OFFER: Prices from £15 & half price landing fee.
We are pleased to confirm that from 1st June 2019 we will be offering visitors to the airfield the opportunity to hire an electric bike from us. Whether you are a visiting pilot, staying with us for a few days on our caravan site or just popping in for a general sight seeing visit & lunch, why not consider exploring further afield on one of our electric bikes.
We have a small number of bikes available which can be booked when you visit us on a first come first served basis, however to guarantee a bike is available we would recommend you contact us to make an advanced booking.
The Urban 24 E-Bike is an ideal unisex leisure bike ideal for exploring the Herefordshire countryside and local towns, villages and restaurants. With seven gears and an electric motor the Urban 24 has been specifically chosen by us so you are able to not just visit our wonderful airfield, but also explore further afield. The electric motor takes the stress out of riding allowing for a range of 30 miles with a maximum speed of 15mph. This puts many local towns and villages in easy reach when you come and visit.
We have limited availability so we recommend you contact us to book your bike in advance. All bike hires include a pannier, security lock, insurance & cycle helmet. Why not speak to Meg in the Hotspur cafe and take a picnic with you.
2019 Hire Rates (per bike)
Half Day – £15
Full Day – £30


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Good lad, Thommo!
We can always trust our former captain to back his club on Sky Sports, and the European Cup winner has done just that when asked to select his combined Liverpool and Manchester united XI ahead of Monday's clash.
Jose Mourinho's men head to Anfield for the first fixture between the two clubs since last season's spicy Europa League double-header, which we came out on top in.
Liverpool have reduced a wage-cap for Academy players; first English club to do so
Thompson has picked de Gea in goal, which is completely fair enough, but gone with three Liverpool defenders in the back-line. Considering the fact we haven't kept a clean-sheet this term, we think United's Eric Bailly is a tad unlucky to miss out. In the middle, he's gone for Henderson and Pogba, before selecting our three exhilarating attackers behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
A tasty looking side, certainly – but we wouldn't bring any of United's players into our squad. We're happy with what we've got and more importantly, so is Jurgen Klopp.
LFC heavy for Thommo ❤ pic.twitter.com/2UGZmbLIrg
— GOALMAD (@goalmad) October 13, 2016

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By now you know that the 2014 C7 Corvette has been revealed, rights to the first production car have been sold, and renderings of the future convertible model have been posted. If not, well, you haven't been paying much attention. But beyond all the frenzy surrounding the car's debut, Chevrolet decided to let us in on a little bit of insight from Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter on what part he played in the creation of the next-generation sports car. Take a look at what he had to say in the video above.
When it comes to the highly-skilled engineers and designers of GM, we're used to hearing titles like Exterior Design Manager, Design Director, and Aero Engineer associated with their names, but what do these titles mean? Well, for Juechter and his Executive Chief Engineer title, it means that he oversees the combination of all components that went into the brand new C7 Corvette.
While some might think that a car is merely a sum of its parts, designing a car goes beyond that. For Juechter, he's the creative genius at the head of the class, maintaining the ultimate vision for the car, managing the teams that are designing specific components and overseeing the process of transforming individual parts into a full-sized car.
The results of Juechter's efforts and direction are phenomenal, giving the new Corvette race-bred aerodynamics and component cooling techniques, as well as precision steering and a solid base for any type of driving. Because of all these things and more, the new Corvette appeals to a wide audience spectrum, from those looking for a daily driver to those looking for one heck of a factory track king.
As Juechter points out, the C7 is just "more" in every aspect compared to any other factory Corvette produced. It's faster, has better handling, has more comfort and even more functional style (at least some would argue). In all, the new C7 Corvette isn't just a sum of its parts – rather it's a sum of parts, technology, design, ideas, technique, and an overall love of America's favorite sports car, all headed by Juechter himself.


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In 1953 the writer and curator Nancy Newhall assembled, with the cooperation of the photographer Edward Weston, a mock-up for an elegant book featuring Weston's photographs of the nude. It was the only book on this subject that Weston himself participated in creating. The sample book intersperses landscapes and still lifes with nude studies and includes an essay written by Newhall on the artist's aesthetic. In the 1950s, however, publishers of fine art photographs were reluctant to address the subject, and the proposal was rejected.
In 1985 the mock-up was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Musuem with some pages and prints missing, yet it was only in 2006 that curator Brett Abbott recognized the key to reconstructing the unpublished book in its entirety. Now, in association with the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Getty has finally been able to realize Newhall and Weston's vision.
The present volume has been produced with distinctions of paper and ink to indicate those elements that have been added—including a preface by the curator and small-scale reproductions of the mock-up as it now exists—and those elements that were part of the original, including Newhall's essay and all thirty-nine photographs, arranged on the pages as Newhall and Weston had placed them. The book was published to coincide with an exhibition of Weston's work that was on view from July 31 to November 25, 2007, at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Brett Abbott is former associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Nancy Newhall (1908–1974) was Edward Weston's official biographer and cofounder of Aperture magazine.
«Weston is one of America's most important photographers, and patrons interested in photography, art, and history will be drawn to the essays on his work and the efforts necessary in the 1950s to publish a controversial book of nude photographs. Highly recommended.»
—Library Journal
96 pages
10 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches
1 color and 70 duotone illustrations
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Ochanomizu Santa, Tokyo – Whether Santa Claus will be able to visit St Clair shopping center in Ochanomizu for the 14th year in a row in 2020 remains to be seen. It is usually one of the first places the real Santa from Finland visits on his rounds of Tokyo.
The St Clair Santa is not only one of the longest running Santa events in Tokyo, but also one of the most popular. People queue for hours for the chance to meet Santa who has flown all the way from Lapland.
The Santa meet and Greet event for 2020 date is not yet available (December 26th 2019). And due to the Coronavirus it is highly likely that there will be no event this year. In 2019 it was on Saturday December 7th from 11 am to 3 pm.
People queue from early morning to get a ticket to participate in this free event. Tickets are restricted to the first 130 families in line. You still have to line up after getting a ticket to meet Santa and get your photo taken with him. You need to have your own camera with you. In previous years Santa Claus has given a sweet to those he's met.
The flyer and full line up for 2020 will be provided if the event is set to go ahead, which looks unlikely with the pandemic. Generally, the event runs from 11 am to 3 pm. During which time Santa meets and greets for just over an hour. Last year that was from around 12.50 pm and finished up around 2 pm.
Each year they hold a number of different events in conjunction with Santa's visit such as live music performances and the shopping center has other Christmas events on such as Christmas concerts and workshops.
Ochanomizu Santa Access
St Clair shopping center is located close to JR Chuo Sobu Line Ochanomizu station. It is also close to Exit B1 of Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line Shin Ochanomizu station.
The shopping center is one kilometer from Kanda bashi interchange. There is parking for 39 cars in the center and for a further 80 nearby. It costs 300 yen for 30 minutes.
For more Santa locations in 2019 click here.


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A proper class is a set that is too big to be a set. Exactly what this means depends on the foundations of mathematics, but something must be said about it to study large categories.
There are several ways to deal with this and define a proper class.
A proper class is a large discrete category. But since a large category is usually defined as having a proper class of objects, this just moves the bubble under the wallpaper to 'large category' and something must be applied there.
A proper class is a collection that can be put in bijection with the class of all ordinals, . But this requires the global axiom of choice to be correct.
A proper class is a class that is not a set. So now we have to define 'class'.
A proper class is a class whose cardinality is not the cardinal number of any set. This is a version of the previous definition not violating the principle of equivalence; however, in some foundations these are actually equivalent (using the axiom of replacement).
A class is a collection of sets. Here the bubble is moved to 'collection', but we will be able to pop that bubble below. Also we might want to allow the members of a proper class to be other than sets (such as structured sets); certainly it is true, however, that a pure class is a collection of pure sets.
A class is a formula in the language of set theory for a truth value, equipped with a specified free variable for a set. This is a formalisation of the previous definition, but it must be interpreted metamathematically: a formula for a class in a given context is a formula for a truth value in the extension of by one more free variable for a set.
A class may even be an undefined concept; the real definition is to define a set as a class that is itself a member of some class. With appropriate axioms, this is equivalent to the previous definition (and conservative over set theory without classes), but it's also possible to apply stronger axioms here; this choice is the difference between and as extensions of ZFC.
A class is a subset of a Grothendieck universe , while a (small) set is merely an element of . This gives a relative notion, depending on . As stated here, we get a concept of class like that of the strong theory ; to be more like (and therefore conservative over set theory without an axiom of universes) we should define a class to be a subset of that is definable in the language of set theory.
A large category is a category whose class of morphisms is a proper class. It is sufficient that the class of objects be a proper class, which is also necessary if the category is locally small.
Category theorists care about proper classes because many examples of categories in practice (such as Set, to begin with!) are large.
The category of classes is a large category that is not locally small. It admits all colimits, understood in the following sense.
First, given a class , we define an -indexed family of classes as a map of classes . The preimage is precisely the class with index . Such families can be pulled back along maps of classes and pushed forward along maps .
Next, given a category (not necessarily locally small), we define an -indexed diagram of classes as a pair of indexed families of classes that satisfies the obvious reformulation of conditions in the definition of a functor.
We now claim that an arbitrary -indexed diagram of classes admits a colimit.
First, the standard reduction of -indexed colimits to a coequalizer of a pair of arrows between coproducts indexed by and still works in this context since class-indexed families of classes can be pulled back along source and target maps .
Secondly, class-indexed coproducts of classes can be computed simply by taking the total class of the corresponding class-indexed family of classes.
Thirdly, coequalizers of classes exist by Scott's trick. Observe that given a pair of arrows between classes, we can define an equivalence relation on by saying that if there is a map such that , and for any there is such that and or and . The quotient of by this equivalence relation exists by Scott's trick and is precisely the desired coequalizer.
If one is working in the category of (definable) classes for ZF or ZFC, or the category of classes of NBG, then all finite external diagrams have colimits. The reduction to a coequaliser of a pair of finite coproducts works as per usual. Finite coproducts exist as one can use finite disjunctions of the defining formulas (in ZF(C)) or Class Separation (in NBG) to define a new class. Coequalisers then exist by the above argument, as Scott's trick is available due to the class of sets having well-founded stratifications by sets (for instance the von Neumann cumulative hierarchy ).
Just as an elementary topos is an axiomatization of basic properties of the category Set, a category with class structure is an axiomatization of basic properties of the category . See also algebraic set theory.
A paper detailing one approach to the technical side of how classes appear in category theory (namely using Grothendieck universes) is
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BELLIURE was founded in 1953 by Vicente Belliure in Calpe, (Alicante), Spain. Its main activity was the construction and repair of wood fishing boats. In 1974, a division for construction has emerged to build pleasure boats using newly introduced materials; Polyester reinforced with Fiber glass. More than 170 boats in Fiber glass, including models of 30, 35, 40, 41 and 50 feet of length, were constructed and all designed by Peter Ibold with the collaboration of D. Vicente Belliure.
This lovely Belliure 50 has been well maintained by the present owner. The yacht went through a total refit in 2004, among many things a new engine was installed as well as a generator, winches, the boat hull and desalinization of water, fuel deposit etc...She was also treated for osmosis in Tarragona. The teak deck has been redone in 2013 and a total new upholstery in 2015. Belliure 50 for sale had only 2 owners, the actual one bought Maitila in 1995 and used it very little to navigate with it on the coast and in the Balearics. She is up to date with the electronic equipment and engine revisions. She has her navigation certificate as well as navigation permit valid until July 2022. This Belliure 50 sailing yacht for sale is a fine vessel providing great comfort and a spacious living space. She is a classic yacht, in very good conditions, at a very reasonable price, an opportunity not to be missed.
Viewings are available through Network Yacht Brokers.
This Belliure 50 1985 has is a 3 version cabin design with 2 double cabins and 1 single. The en-suite aft cabin has a vast confortable bed and many cupboards for storage. The electric head is fully equipped with shower. Coming out of the aft cabin, you will go through a hall. On starboard, you have access to the engine room and on port, you have cupboards as well as a bed for the captain or crew to sleep on. A beautiful vast saloon is on the right with big table (8 people can easily be accommodated there). The charter table with all the navigation equipment is on the left side. Just after that, you have another hall where you have the galley. The galley is equipped with electric cooker, 3 fridges, a microwave and 2 sinks as well as cutlery and crockery. On the right side, you find a single cabin with 2 beds. In the forward area, you have another double cabin with cupboards and another head fully equipped.
The colour scheme is white with colours, with beautiful wood.
Navigation Aids
Plastimo Compass
Raymarine speed meter
Raymarine wind meter
Simrad GPS
Simrad Plotter
Raymarine Echo sounder
Raymarine Log
Simrad Radar
Raymarine VHF
Raymarine Autopilot
2 fuel tanks, 1000 litres, Stainless Steel
2 water tank, 1000 litres, Plastic
Water System
Water heating system
Water maker 100l/hour
General Equipment
Boarding ladder
Bilge pumps: 1 manual, 2 electrics
Fenders: 4
Navigation lights
Bathing ladder
Sun Awning
cockpit table
Cockpit cushions and sun bathing
Radio with CD
Safety Equipment
Liferaft (8 people, 2018)
2 Lifebuoys
Life jackets
2 Fire Extinguishers,2019
The vessel has been completely re-fitted between 2004 and 2015
The Belliure 50 1985 is in very good conditions and at a very good price.
Vetus DT 64
No. of cylinders 4
Shaft drive to prop
Type of prop: 3 blades
Bow thruster Vetus
Voltage: 12 V
6 batteries, year 2019
240 Battery charger
Engine Alternator : Vetus
shore power cable
Rig and Spars
Mainsail reefing, furling
2 Genoa, Lewmar, hydrolic
2 Spinnaker, Lewmar, hydrolic
Main sail
Ground Tackle
2 Anchors (Anchor, 50 m chain, 10 mm)
Warp: 4
Electric Windlass (07/2018)


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Autumn, 252
So while last season took a ridiculously long amount of time and was played across 3 different builds of the game, we still made excellent progress. Workers were "better" organized, an above-ground farm was started in earnest, a good bit of mining happened, and mysterious trails of vomit appeared throughout the fort.
Our current top priorities are textiles production and housing improvements. I've queued up some of our pig tail stockpile for processing and will have to schedule 2 more batches to finish it all. By then, maybe we'll be looking at some rope reeds to augment things. I don't plan on getting into dyes any time soon – we can always expand out to that later.
I've also requested that all of the rocks salt apartment floor walls be smoothed to match those we constructed after digging out the initial iron strike.
1st of Limestone
An animal has grown to become a Stray Mule.
Whelp, time to process him I guess.
3rd of Limestone
'Gulfmine', mayor cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Taken by mood.
'Gulfmine', mayor is taken by a fey mood!
This ought to be interesting.
He's claimed a workshop and started collecting lumber, but now:
Gulfmine screams "I must have logs!"
Gulfmine screams "I must have yarn cloth!"
Gulfmine screams "I must have plant cloth!"
Gulfmine screams "I must have cut gems!"
Gulfmine screams "I must have rough gems!"
This is going to be interesting. We have a LOT of logs, I'm kind of scared that he's not claiming any more…
Designating all of the remaining undug gems for immediate extraction, building a jeweler's shop, and cutting one of each type of gem we have available at the moment.
ARGH. Just realized that it's our clerk who's in a mood – so I can't request new jobs through the manager interface. Manually requesting that cloth it is then, and requesting that 3 new trees be cut down, each of different types…
7th of Limestone
'Channelslid', Brewer cancels Fish: Interrupted by Albatross.
Le sigh. Sending the whole army to deal with the stupid bird because reasons.
10th of Limestone
The liaison and caravan just arrived, but because our mayor is having a little snit, he wouldn't talk to them – and the liaison apparently gave up and went home immediately. Joy.
11th of Limestone
Gulfmine has begun a mysterious construction!
Woo! Saved him 🙂 Also, yeesh, couldn't the liaison have been more patient?
I'm also noticing that some of my older dwarves are wearing worn out clothing. Nothing is bad yet, but it will be soon enough – so serious textile industry work is definitely in need of happening. Maybe we can buy everything relevant that these merchants just delivered.
But first off, I need somewhere to set up dedicated thread processing. Afterwards, the miners are going to dig a new bedroom for Gulfmine – behind the "throne" room, methinks. Twinklebasements can move into the old mayoral office, since it's near the barracks already.
12th of Limestone
An animal has grown to become a Stray Dog.
This brings us up to 11 adult dogs (with 5 more puppies in the wings – all of whom I believe are part of the same litter).
I really need to come up with some sort of plan for dealing with dogs – like a target population level to maintain. At the very least, I think each military squad needs one dog. Ideally every soldier and noble will have one?
Two of these adult dogs are pets, so that really only leaves us with 9 potential work dogs. I already have 5 trained for war and 2 for hunting. Two of the war dogs are not assigned to owners yet… feh. I'll wait until the next puppies grow up to really worry about this.
Meanwhile, I've also decided to stop chasing after the albatross, all of the military can go back to whatever it was they were doing – doesn't help that only 4 of them had crossbows to begin with 🙂
13th of Limestone
The merchants are almost done unloading and two more puppies (bringing us up to 7) were just born.
Dwarves are also having problems finding one of the goslings that has escaped the pen somehow… so I guess I'll unlock the chicken coop and see if that lets them figure it out.
Merchants have fully delivered everything… and our broker is on break of course.
15th of Limestone
'Gulfmine', mayor has created Imeshatul, a willow scepter!
This is a willow scepter. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is decorated with willow and encircled with bands of willow. This object menaces with spikes of alpaca wool and pig tail fiber. On the item is an image of a centaur in plume agate. On the item is an image of Sarvesh Squeezingroads the dwarf in plume agate.(12,000 dwarfbucks)
Well, we have our mayor back and yup. Legendary (lvl 16) woodcrafter. Should probably enable woodcrafting to allow him to make things in his spare time now.
Time to look at what they have for sale. Generally speaking, we want ALL the cloth. And since we've started wearing out clothes, we may be able to offload some of those in the deal. Free money.
As far as useful animals go, they have a lot this time around:
- 4 sheep (2 male, 2 female)
- 5 pigs (3 male, 2 female)
- 1 cow (male)
- 1 goat (female)
- 1 yak (male), 1 reindeer (female), and 1 water buffalo (female)
- 1 guineahen (female) and 1 turkey (female)
I definitely want the pigs and sheep for permanent livestock (though we may butcher ourselves down to the 2 youngest adult male pigs). I probably want the cow, goat, and hens as well. The large livestock are… tempting. They'd each cost 220$ and should process into significantly more valuable raw resources. I think maybe I'm done dealing with ridiculously large livestock. If I can afford it, I'll buy the whole lot and start culling the herds – leaving myself with more manageable animals.
We currently have about 200 uncooked protein, 170 plants, 810 drinks, and 1675 finished meals. We will be trading a number of those finished meals for this caravan – but should more than make up for it in the process.
In addition to the animals, we'll also be attempting to buy:
- 13 bins of pig tail cloth, 12 of leather, 10 of silk, and 5 of wool
- 5 bags of cave wheat seeds, 1 of pig tail seeds
- 3 barrels of beer, 3 of wine, 2 of ale, and 1 of rum
- a copper pick (cheapest quality)
They have cheeses and meats and things, but I'm not interested in that right this moment. Maybe we'll do another trade if everything works out here.
The total bill is just north of 17k$. The worn out clothing that made it to the depot in my random selection of barrels and bins is worth 248$. If I add 4 barrels of grilled fish and eggs, I almost make up the difference.
Am going to attempt to fill the rest of the trade with individual crafts… Giving him a 3$ profit, let's see what happens. He's requesting another (smallish) barrel of food in response, which brings his profit up over 2500$. I'll haggle that to under 1900$ by switching out which barrels we offer… and now he's wanting to make a profit of 10.5k$ Sigh. Dude has no patience. My merchant must have completely botched the roll.
Tried giving him a few presents worth a total of 200$, but it isn't improving his mood. Let's break this up. Going to trade him for all of the livestock first (at a loss of about 2k$). This has made him pleased. Let's do one more – for the booze, seeds, and pick (at a loss of 800$).
Now that the dude is very happy, let's try for all of the cloth at a 3k$ profit to myself… Aww. He won't trade at any sort of perceived loss. So fine, here's an offer with a 9$ profit for him.
He countered, increasing his profit to 287$. I'll take it.
So final damage was a loss of about 3300$ vs his original counter that would have only cost me 2500$. Sigh.
Oh well, we've got a lot of things to process now as a result – and our farmers should be able to fill out the underground plot again now.
First off, we need to empty all of the animals from their cages… and it looks like I may have missed a few pigs in my initial trade? Fine, we'll set up the animals we did get, then worry about everything else after the broker wakes up.
18th of Limestone
Stray Horse (Tame) has given birth to a horse foal.
Stray Reindeer Cow (Tame) has given birth to a reindeer calf.
One of the missing pig cages has mysteriously appeared. I guess someone had been hauling it? So only one pig is missing now…
And the merchant woke up, but I don't see any other pig for sale. So I either miscounted, or there's a hauler walking around somewhere with a pig in a box.
While all of that mess was going on, the miners dug out a spot for us to set up plant processing. It'll house a farmer's workshop and a small stockpile allowing only pig tails and rope reed (and wool just because).
I also just realized that we don't have room in the current textile mill for all of the cloth I just bought… We'll need to set up a much larger workspace for all of this, probably behind the workshop I just finished digging out.
20th of Limestone
Oh. Immigrants are arriving…
Woo! Our piglet just grew to adulthood, and Gulfmine just crafted a batch of masterpiece wooden crossbow bolts 😛
23rd of Limestone
It looks like the migrants have finally all arrived, 13 dwarves and a pet pig:
- Odordance – a lvl 11 soaper with ridiculously good social skills, lvl 3 pikeman, lvl 1 marksdwarf (and other military skills), and lvl 1 fishing
- Agewheeled – a lvl 11 tracker, 3 speardwarf, 1 fisher
- Tradedhair – a lvl 2 miller, lvl 1 brewer/milker/presser
- Cobaltpaddled – a lvl 2 animal trainer
- Glovedsearched – a lvl 2 dyer
- Walledtramples – a lvl 2 gem setter
- Gleefulwheel – a lvl 2 siege engineer
- Strappedcrystals – lvl 1 fisher
- Distincthammers – lvl 1 tanner/milker/beekeeper
- Weakglazed, Gearedspeakers, Papergranite, and Rimdawned – children
This brings our total population up to 86 adults, 23 children, and 15 babies.
And Gulfmine just made two more batches of masterpiece ammo.
Twice now, DF has crashed while I tried to name my people via Therapist. Something funny is going on. Also – Odordance is now showing up as named Handlebelt…
Two more attempts at setting nicknames have failed…
Trying to just nickname the new children resulted in Papergranite getting named '386' and nobody else getting any names. Something VERY weird is going on. I'm going to set the nicknames the old fashioned way I guess.
Setting nicknames the old way started to work, but crashed DF when I tried to scroll to the second page of dwarves?! I suspect it was corruption introduced by the failed attempt to rename the children.
Sixth time's apparently the charm. Renamed everyone by hand from scratch this time. Odordance can stick with being named Handlebelt I think after all he went through just now.
And running everyone through the optimizer didn't crash. Good.
Designating 3 more mason's workshops down by the rock pile on the clay floor since I realized I was running short on those – and heavy on spare rocks now that we're actually digging in stone.
In keeping with our recent textiles acquisition and the large population, I think it's time to look over the state of everyone's clothing.
- 23 dwarves have one or more article of clothing in need of replacement. Most of these have almost entirely all worn out clothes. Many of these are our original colonists.
- 2 of our children are missing shoes.
- 22 dwarves are missing tools of some sort or another. These are mostly military requirements, but one is a miner in need of a pick.
Since the merchants are here, I'm going to try to purchase some military hardware to flesh things out. I need 3 axes, 2 swords, a mace, and a pick to make people happy currently… but I'm going to be trading a barrel of food for things, so will get a bit more than I actually need.
We wound up bartering for 3 picks, 2 spears, 2 axes, 2 warhammers, 2 shortswords, and 2 maces. This leaves us a with a small surplus of general weapons but is still one axe short. I guess I can try to craft one? 😛
As far as things we are in a position to craft ourselves, I've queued up production of 15 backpacks, leather shields, and waterskins as well as a few more crossborws, quivers, and wood/bone ammunition.
Back to the question of clothing… we need to craft at least 25 sets of clothes. I am going to queue up the following:
- 10 vests, 10 dresses, 10 robes
- 15 trousers
- 20 socks, 10 shoes
Half of these will be from cloth and the other half will be from yarn.
And we definitely need to expand the textile mill. I'm thinking we make room for 2 looms, 2 clothiers, 2 leatherworkers and the understanding that dye industry will be coming along eventually. Actually, we may as well build a dyer's shop just because.
Meanwhile, Gulfmine has made 3 masterpiece wooden crafts. Make that four.
1st of Sandstone
The battleaxe has been successfully forged. Yay. Unless I'm remembering incorrectly, this is our very first metal anything.
2nd of Sandstone
Rackspeech has given birth to a baby girl, Swordscrapes.
And the exploratory mine has struck damp stone. Interesting.
Silveryfortunes has grown attached to a bronze crossbow.
8th of Sandstone
Championpully has given birth to another daughter, Ragorders. This is their fifth child – fourth born in the fortress.
Not to be outdone, Patternmines has created some masterwork wooden ammo.
Most of Gulfmine's furniture has been installed in his new quarters. Time to reassign ownership. The stone smoothing is still underway.
The archers are still whining about ammo, so we'll forge 20 batches of copper bolts (this is half of the copper we've smelted so far), and burn 20 more charcoal to replace that spent.
Most of the exploratory mining on the first rock salt floor has found nothing, I'm queueing up another search pattern on the next floor down while I remember.
4th of Timber
Nothing of significant interest happened over the last couple of weeks – things went well. Very few dwarves sat idle, clothing and equipment were produced in large quantities, work on the throne room continues to progress steadily.
Tradedtomes has given birth to a son, Hallsneaks.
5th of Timber
Hatchetscalds has given birth to a son, Crowdedbusts.
Vesseldips has given birth to a daughter, Channelblunt.
7th of Timber
Monklenses has grown to become a Dwarven Child.
Hrm. Nobody's letting the pigs out of their cages… or the buffalo or birds… The sheep are all free in pasture, but most of the other new animals are still sitting in boxes. It doesn't seem that there's a way to prioritize that particular task? Hrm. I'm going to tear down the cages and hope that prompts people to relocate the animals.
Standardblocks has made some masterpiece bone ammo.
10th of Timber
Wheelsyrup, a child, has organized a party in the newly designated dining hall… that didn't take long at ALL. Seriously, I hit the button and the kid practically teleported downstairs into the new room and called everyone to a party.
And a very messy mongoose corpse has appeared in one of our food stockpiles… I get the impression that it snuck in there somehow before being killed. Ahh, it looks like a dog killed it.
12th of Timber
Silvermiles has given birth to a baby girl – at the party.
And the second pet piglet has grown to adulthood. This gives us 8 adult pigs – 5 of which are male. I'm tempted to queue two of them for butchering but since pigs don't actually eat anything, I think I'll leave them for a while longer.
I will go ahead and butcher the one adult male yak we have, and will also refrain from killing any of the other livestock for now.
15th of Timber
21 dwarves are currently attending the party. I think it's time to break things up.
Broke up the party… and IMMEDIATELY afterward, Eyemetal has re-organized a party.
Broke up the party… and Bridgewild has organized a party.
Broke up that party and Bridgewild has organized a party.
Broke up the party AGAIN, and I think they got the point. Yeesh.
17th of Timber
Eyemetal has organized a party… *cry*
Mastercoal has grown attached to a bronze crossbow!
Broke up the party, designated the dining hall as an activity zone. Let's see if that fixes the problem.
19th of Timber
Two goslings have grown up. This prompted me to look at the nests only to discover 4 batches of new eggs, with dwarves en route to collect. Forbidding all of them for now.
Glowtours has crafted more masterpiece bone ammo.
And we've finally got all of the animals out of their cages – so I'm going to put this glut of cages to good use. We're going to build cage traps 🙂
I've also realized that we need to work on housing. I've got about 19 or 20 adult dwarves without their own bedrooms. This needs to be fixed. Thankfully, the exploratory mining project has made a lot of space available. So I think we're going to dig out some more rooms there.
32 new 2×2 rooms ought to suffice for now. But that also means I need to make more beds (24), doors (32), and cabinets (31). Queueing all of the doors and cabinets out of stone this time just to maximize parallellization.
Once this new housing is dug out, I think it's time to do a bit more downward mining…
28th of Timber
Godsilver has cooked a masterpiece!
The year is almost done, and it feels like our economy is humming quite nicely.
We've been churning out new clothes – but the people demand more. 24 dwarves currently own a piece of old clothing, but the majority of those are now gloves. We'll fix that next season.
We also need to figure out a way to consolidate all of the old clothes for export. I've dug out a chamber behind the trading post for export goods… just need to populate it now.
Our population is 130 dwarves, and our food and drink supplies are holding strong. We have over 100 animals, and as soon as a few more grow to adulthood, we can start producing domestic meat in a very serious way.


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A true story, Jacker & Baker throws fascinating new light on the famous race, drawing on the only known copy of the unpublished memoirs of Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson (in the possession of the author). This audio play is based on the story of two undergraduates who became lifelong friends when they were unexpectedly chosen to represent Great Britain in the 1500 metres at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
One went on to be a war hero, wounded in action three times, awarded the DSO and three Bars (a record) and becoming, in 1918, the youngest Brigadier-General in the British Army. The other was a Quaker and a pacifist who created the Friends Ambulance Unit, serving on the front-line in WW1. Devoting his life to campaigning for disarmament, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.
Jacker & Baker recounts how the two friends – out-classed, inexperienced and beset with problems – set about preparing to take on the unscrupulous American team, containing the World Record holder, in what has been described as "the greatest race ever run".
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Meyer Sound has appointed John McMahon to the newly created position of vice-president of solutions and strategy.
Working closely with CEO John Meyer and executive vice-president Helen Meyer, McMahon will oversee "the broad-based strategic planning for new products, product management and multi-product solutions across various vertical markets".
McMahon's new solutions and strategy division brings product management, design services, technical support and education under one umbrella with the goal of creating "a common understanding of strategic initiatives" among Meyer's technical and customer support teams. McMahon will also continue to lead the company's digital product concept group in accelerating new digital solutions into the market.
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Whether you're staying in Austin this spring break or paying a visit to the "music capital of the world," there are TONS of exciting things you can do while you're here.
SXSW is always a great way to spend your spring break. If buying a pricey ticket isn't your thing, don't worry, because there are TONS of free events for people of all ages to enjoy. Check out this link for more info.
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- Street Salsa Classes on March 13th
Dance Studio Austin will be holding a Cuban salsa class on March 13th. This would be a fun and unique place to take a date and it is super inexpensive too!
This is a great event to attend on March 17th if you're looking for a cultural way to celebrate the holiday! There will be lots of performers, including those showcasing Irish traditions. Plus, there are tons of family-friendly events at the festival.
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- Austin Poetry Slam
The Spiderhouse Ballroom hosts Austin Poetry Slam every Tuesday, so head on over during spring break on the 15th! If you're feeling daring, you can even get up on stage yourself.
- Sahaja Yoga meditation on March 16th
The North Austin Business Center will be hosting Sahaja Yoga meditation classes on March 16th. Definitely check this event out and find some time to de-stress with a FREE class. The classes are open to all ages.
- Lamppost Comedy Open Mic Night
On March 17th, Lamppost Coffee will be having an open mic night. This event is actually in Round Rock, but it's only about a twenty-minute car ride away. This would be a fun event and is sure to have you laughing. It's free to get in, which is always a huge bonus. If you think you might be one of the funny ones, you can show up 30 minutes early and sign up on the spot!
- Rodeo Austin
The Austin Rodeo is definitely a must if you love food, carnivals and live music. Grab a group of friends and head to the carnival for the day, or get tickets to one of the amazing concerts as well!
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Washington, DC (TFC) – The GOP is not known for brilliant campaigning. In 2012 they nominated a man for president who was so boring, he made watching paint dry as exciting as The Final Four. That same idiocy is on display thanks to recent comments made by official or presumed presidential candidates regarding cannabis.
In an interview with Hugh Hewitt, possible GOP nominee John Kasich related cannabis to heroin by calling the drugs, "a scourge in this country." Kasich also voiced his opposition to Colorado and Washington legalizing cannabis. His view on cannabis goes against a demographic his party should be going after if they expect to take the Whitehouse.
According to a recent Pew Research poll, 68% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 want marijuana to be legal. In 2012, Barack Obama received 67% of the votes from people in the same age bracket. Young people could lead the country as Republicans if they vote for the GOP, yet the current crop of presidential hopefuls are ruining a great opportunity to get elected.
Chris Christie, who has destroyed any chance of one day becoming president, took an extreme stand against state's rights. On the same show where Kasich made his ill-informed comments, Christie said, "Marijuana is a gateway drug. – we need to send very clear leadership from the White House on down through the federal law enforcement. Marijuana is an illegal drug under federal law. And the states should not be permitted to sell it and profit from it."
The belief that marijuana is a gateway drug is a lie spread constantly by prohibitionists. Even the federal government says, "most people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances." They cite a person's social environment and meeting people who take hard drugs as factors in abusing hard drugs. Christie's ignorance towards cannabis is a losing game Republicans like him are playing, and if they continue down the road of stupidity they won't get elected.
Even young people in the Republican Party have started to recognize current cannabis laws need to be changed. In a different Pew Research poll, 63% of Republican millennials support marijuana legalization. These people are the future leaders of the country, and getting them to vote for your party is key to winning future elections.
In Texas, a number of bills have been introduced to legalize, or decriminalize recreational and medical cannabis. One group, Texas Young Republicans, voted to support decriminalization in the state, by a rate of over 75%. Speaking to the Dallas Morning News, policy director of the Texas Young Republicans, Brian Bodine spoke of the "different reasons," members of the organization support decriminalization; including, "personal liberty and responsibility," but Bodine made one point all Republicans should pay attention to. According to Bodine, "-there are some that want to see the incarceration rate go down, there are some that want to save money, and then use that money for other law enforcement purposes."
Currently, more than half of all prisoners in federal jails are incarcerated on drug offenses, the majority of those are there for marijuana. The number of prisoners has increased nearly 790% since 1980. In the 2011 fiscal year it cost more than $28,000 to jail each inmate in federal prison.
The War on Drugs started by Nixon and amped up by Reagan; two Republican presidents have contributed to the country's massive debt, and the loss of millions of lives through drug war violence, or the permanent poverty caused by current drug laws that prevent economic opportunities for Americans who at one point in their lives, had a bag of weed in their pocket. Those people could be working, paying taxes, and contributing to the economy. The money used on the drug war could be used for education, housing, or the rebuilding of America's broken infrastructure, but Christie, Rubio, and Kasich believe federal money should be continuously wasted on a drug war that has never worked, and won't ever work.
The GOP claims to be a party of state's rights and individual liberty. In the 2012 election cycle the party bemoaned Obamacare for stripping Americans the right to chose their healthcare, but then and now, the party is showing massive hypocrisy when it comes to cannabis. They are telling Americans their liberty is negotiable. They are saying they will fight for the freedom to choose their healthcare plan, but when it comes to what medicine they can use to treat their ailments or diseases, Americans will be threatened with jail.
Rubio threw his dunce cap into the ring by claiming states should not be allowed to write federal law. Colorado and Washington did not do that; they learned marijuana criminalization has failed all over the country and decided to end the madness. Rubio also went to the same tired excuse by saying, "I don't believe we should be in the business of legalizing additional intoxicants in this country," which of course is the antithesis of liberty. If Rubio truly believes in it he should know the government has no right to dictate what intoxicants are good, which ones are bad, and what drugs a person should be putting into their bodies. The more informed know cannabis has not killed a single person in recorded history while pharmaceuticals, tobacco, and alcohol kill thousands each year.
The GOP is full of stubborn idealogues who are too stupid to know they have a huge demographic problem. Women refuse to vote for them, so do minorities and young people, and when it comes to the issues of importance for those voters, the Republican Party is completely out of touch with Americans. Marijuana legalization is one of the most passionate causes for the young people the party should be appealing to, and by making ridiculous comments about cannabis, whatever fool they nominate is sure to lose.


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Becoming pregnant can be one of the most joyous occasions for women in Massachusetts. Sadly, for some it can also mean the end of an otherwise promising career. Although retaliating against an employee for becoming pregnant is an act of workplace discrimination, some employers continue to treat pregnant workers unfairly.
After spending approximately 12 years working for Jeffries Group, an employee was under the impression that she was one of the company's top picks for future managing directors. Still, she was concerned that her pregnancy might be viewed unfavorably by her superiors, and she put off telling anyone at her workplace for as long as possible. Her supervisor's immediate response to her pregnancy was to offer a less demanding job. She turned down the offer and stated that she was happy on her path toward becoming a managing director. The next superior that she informed offered her the same deal, which she also declined.
After several months passed, she was accused of slowing down in her work, which resulted in her being denied her typical year-end bonus. However, the previous year she had brought in about $1 million less revenue and had still been awarded the end-of-year bonus. She could not understand why she had been denied the bonus despite improving the annual revenue she created for the bank, and was especially confused when her co-workers who had failed to bring in any type of revenue were given bonuses.
She ultimately left the company while on maternity leave, an act she felt forced into based on the ongoing workplace discrimination, and has since filed suit. Although Jeffries Group claims that the former employee left of her own volition, discrimination against women -- particularly pregnant women -- is still an ongoing issue in investment banking. In 2013 alone, 97 complaints concerning pregnancy discrimination hit the finance industry. Holding these types of institutions accountable for their actions is not only effective at achieving compensation for direct victims, but also for creating more acceptable work environments in which all Massachusetts employees can expect to be treated with respect.
Source: thinkprogress.org, "Investment Bank Allegedly Retaliated Against Employee After She Announced Her Pregnancy", Bryce Covert, Aug. 19, 2016


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I questioned the value of No-Fly lists since quite a while as I read all these story about how people get on the list but this is kind of the strangest story I ever heard. A UK Immigration officer put his own wife on the No-Fly list as he wanted her to stay in the US – their marriage was kind of challenged.
Once more, airport and flight security as a comedy (or a tragedy if you are part of it): Immigration Officer Fired After Putting Wife on List of Terrorists to Stop Her Flying Home
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A survey of 100 apps found that many are storing a high percentage of unencrypted personal data, making mobile devices a more attractive target for identity thieves and hackers.
If you're in love with a favorite mobile application, a recent study may cause you to think twice about how intimate that relationship is.
A survey of 100 apps found that many are storing a high percentage of unencrypted personal data, making mobile devices a more attractive target for identity thieves and hackers. Seventy-six percent of account user names for all the apps tested were able to be recovered, along with 31 percent of application data, such as location check-ins, and 10 percent of passwords.
Overall, 39 percent of the apps were given a fail rating by the survey, called "appWatchdog" and conducted over an eight-month period by ViaForensics, a digital forensics and security firm. The rating indicates that a variety of sensitive information, including passwords and personal identification numbers (PINs) used through apps are regularly stored and recoverable from smartphones.
Andrew Hoog, co-founder and chief investigative officer of viaForensics, said that while he understands that getting access to a user name is only going to get hackers part of the way in their efforts, a lot of websites are only protected by a username and password, so getting one-half of that information is a big first step not to be taken lightly.
"We recognize it is not the most significant piece of information, but a user name is an [identifier] you need to access your account," Hoog maintained, saying that app developers could easily create an app that doesn't store unencrypted personal data.
"We think the developers should take that precaution, because it's one less thing they [malicious hackers] know about you," he added.
The study looked at apps for use on Android and iPhone devices in four categories: financial, productivity, social networking and retail.
ViaForensics would install an app from the iTunes App Store or Android Market, populate it by using it with data that they would specifically be looking for (user names, passwords and other app data) and then analyze the device, searching the entire file system to see if they could find the information.
A rating system of pass/warn/fail was used to judge the app. If an app passed, that meant that various personal data is either wasn't present or encrypted. A warn rating means the personal data was discovered but didn't put the owner at risk, while a fail showed that sensitive data such as account numbers and passwords were recovered from the smartphone.
Some of the public's most heavily downloaded and used apps fall into the social networking category. Of the 19 app in the four categories tested by ViaForesnics, none passed the company's user name test. All 19 apps stored a user's login name in plain text on the device.
In addition, none of the 19 apps passed the "app data" test, with 14 apps receiving a fail grade, indicating that items such as instant message logs and passwords were stored in plain text.
Android apps for LinkedIn and Foursquare and Kik for iPhone and Android all stored a user's password in plain text. Skype received a fail rating for both Android and iPhone, while Facebook earned a warn grade after testing.
Hoog said that the social networking category was an interesting one, because by default, most people intend to share information with certain people. But he believed users are getting wiser and have discovered that it probably isn't a good idea to let everything about them be easily accessible, especially if you work for a governmental entity.
"There are a lot of successful attacks against our government agencies and one of the primary ways is getting people to click on malicious links," Hoog explained. "So once [a cyber-criminal] knows you're on Facebook, or sees you use Yelp, or you 'check-in' a a restaurant, they can use that information for a targeted attack. The success of those attacks is incredibly high."
In the productivity category of the study, e-mail apps such as Yahoo Mail, K-9 Mail and blogging app WordPress all received failing marks. Fifteen total apps in this category received failing marks (11 of them focused on e-mail), with content being stored on the user's smartphone.
Hoog said that if someone grabbed a government worker's smartphone that used various e-mail clients, they could potentially recover that e-mail and find out who someone is working with, what you are working on and get access to sensitive information.
"It is really inexcusable if you ask me, to store somebody's user name and password in plain text. We see quite a few of these apps that do that on the productivity side," Hoog said. "They also store e-mails attachments and the [e-mail message] bodies. I think that is a big concern in the government space."
Although it may not be the most reasonable precaution, Hoog said the simplest way to make sure sensitive data on your mobile device isn't recoverable is to simply not store it there. He said that while he's not suggesting developers have to do that, the realities of how someone uses a personal device should dictate what measures are taken.
"Do I need to see every e-mail that has ever been on my phone, or do I want to see new things as they come in?" Hoog asked rhetorically. "I don't really need them to be stored on the phone; what I really need is access."
Hoog mentioned that laptop computers allow more sophisticated security implementations and may be a more viable solution in certain cases. He also added that various mobile software solutions are emerging to add additional security, but he wasn't fully confident in their effectiveness.
"When we're asked directly by a government agency whether they can deploy a mobile device in a secure fashion, I think at this point, we'd say that is very, very difficult," Hoog said.
Google wasn't shy in defending itself against ViaForensic's study. A Google spokesman told Wired.com that the company disputes the claim that data is "insecurely stored on Android devices" and "the data is not accessible by default unless the phone has been rooted to gain full privileges" which Google claims Android "actively protects against."
Hoog disagreed.
"The reality of it is that I can get into the device, there are remote exploits that give root privileges on both iOS and Android," Hoog said. "One of the more recent batches of Android malware actually gets root on the device. It's done over the network, I don't need physical access. What happens is, you install this app, it basically installs another payload, gets roots access on the device, and now I can suck the information out and send it over the Internet.
"The other one, if you look at the iOS platform — if you want to jailbreak your iPhone 4, you go to Jailbreakme.com, a remote exploit of an iOS device that escalates root privileges," Hoog added. "Both of these platforms are susceptible to remote privileges being escalated without physical access to the device. So it actually is a problem."
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Trump supporter Suarez a no-show at DACA forum
December 13, 2017
With the collaborations of student clubs and faculty, student senate held MCTC's Dreamer Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 3 p.m. in T building.
The forum was started by student senate representative Yvonne Hernandez, student senate Vice President Jazer Mauricio and student senate's Director of health and sustainability Abraham Rizvi. These students joined with other students, clubs and faculty to create an informative event concerning the realities of what it means to be a Dreamer.
"We want to let everyone know that this is a safe space, everyone is welcome and to please help us keep it that way," Hernandez said, mentioning the hashtag #MCTCDreamers created specifically for this event.
The event panelists included MCTC President Dr. Sharon Pierce, MCTC Director of Diversity Dr. Jay Williams, community-based lawyer Susana De Leon, Executive Director of the Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs Henry Jimenez, Executive Director of the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota John Keller; and Rev. Tony Suarez, a part of the Faith Advisory Board for the White House, though Suarez was ultimately absent from the event due to a missed flight. It was shared that he was to provide a letter that explained his perspective on the questions posed to the panelists that evening. In his absence, Keller, De Leon and Jiminez expressed disapproval of Suarez's support for President Trump.
Dreamers are individuals that are undocumented childhood arrivals to the United States. The DREAM Act, introduced in the Senate in 2001, is intended to create pathways for undocumented minors to acquire conditional residency and eventually to attain permanent citizenship. The bill has been proposed several times since 2001 and has failed to pass.
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals is an Executive Order enacted during the Obama Administration on June 15, 2012. Working on an application basis, it prevented the deportation and ability to apply for a work permit to undocumented immigrants that were younger than 31 on the day of its implementation. The applier also had to have been under 16 when they arrived to the U.S. as well as have lived here since 2007. In September of this year, the Trump administration rescinded DACA.
As the event began, several students gave personal accounts, citing the challenges they face because they are DACA recipients.
José Madrigal is an MCTC student that will be graduating from the Nursing program on December 16.
"Although this is a great accomplishment, I'm not as excited as my fellow classmates who will graduate with me,"Madrigal said, expressing his frustrations of knowing he will be a registered nurse in January. "Even though I've been offered several job opportunities, I will be a registered nurse who will not be able to apply for jobs because of the lack of a work permit."
Karina Vega, Jazer Mauricio and Mai Jonapa each gave their own unique accounts as well.
One of the questions posed to the panelists was what they thought Minnesota could do to further support DACA students.
"Let's simplify the financial aid for every student that needs and wants an education in Minnesota. That's my message to the legislature here [in Minnesota]," Jimenez said.
Keller echoed Jimenez's sentiments, as well.
"As Henry mentioned, we can, and should, fully fund the Minnesota DREAM Act and take away the Pell Grant exclusion or penalty," Keller said.
The idea that DACA only affects minors was highlighted by Dr. Williams.
"One thing, another federal initiative didn't pass – states can seek to establish something like DAPA [Deferred Action for Parenthood Arrivals] too, or argue for it's existence, to protect the parents of arrivals, and to keep families intact," Dr. Williams said.
Dr. Williams also agreed with Keller and Jimenez on the status of student loans.
"Let's fix the student loans through the DREAM Act. You have to have a citizen as a cosigner," Dr. Williams said. "Well, if you're in DACA, the people who will most likely be your cosigners are your parents. If they were citizens, you wouldn't be in DACA, so it's almost like a false promise. We can do better than that, and make it more equitable."


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Published: 10/26/2010
Bank lent $871 million to small business in FY 2010
One of the many banks that received a bailout from taxpayers is well on its way to making amends, after it recently announced that it was the leader in small business lending.
Wells Fargo announced recently that it had become the No. 1 lender to small businesses under the U.S. Small Business Administration's 7(a) program. During federal fiscal year 2010, which ended on September 30, 2010, the bank lent $871 million to companies throughout the United States, up 5 percent from last year. The numbers were considered positive news for small businesses, many of whom have struggled to obtain funding since the credit crunch began.
The changes that came about as a result of the recently passed Small Business Jobs Act will help America's small businesses grow, and we stand ready to do our part by providing the credit to meet their financing needs," said David Rader, head of Wells Fargo SBA Lending Division. "As the nation's No. 1 SBA lender in dollars, we remain committed to ensuring business owners have access to the capital they need and we want to say 'yes' to as many qualified borrowers as possible."
Wells Fargo made other news for small business when it honored small companies in Arizona. Nine businesses were honored on October 23 with the Wells Fargo Copper Cactus Award for being one of the best places to work, Inside Tucson Business reports.
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Are you looking to get a tattoo in your belly button area? This is a cool place to get yourself inked as you can keep it covered on a formal occasion, or show it off when you wear low-rise jeans. The best part about Belly Button Tattoos is that the design can be made a circular one, and expanded or made tiny according to what you want. You can get a small tattoo just surrounding your belly button, or an elaborate one that spirals out with the belly button as the center.
If you are looking for ideas for a tattoo around your belly button you can go for simple designs with flowers. You can also get a tribal motif with spiral shapes to spread from the belly button to the stomach area. If you have great abs and a navel piercing you can highlight the area with a colorful tattoo. Whether you have a cute tattoo of a monkey face or a large one showing a monster face, the tattoo around your belly button is sure to be the talking point. Check out some interesting Belly Button Tattoos:
If you liked our selection, perhaps these other posts will interest you too, Lower Back Tattoos, Cute Tattoos For Women, Collar Bone Tattoos and Upper Back Tattoos.
Leaf Jewel
A green jewel on the navel looks pretty with a leaf pattern tattoo.
Pattern Belly Button
With a jewel in your navel a leafy pattern tattoo can be very pretty.
Vertical Design
You can try this vertical motif around your belly button.
Colorful Sun Art
This sun tattoo around the belly button looks really colorful.
Special Spiral
You can get this really elaborate spiral inked around your belly button.
Insect And Flower
Get an insect and flower inked on one side of your belly button area.
Circle of Fire
You can get this blue circle of fire around your belly button.
Cute Monkey Face
This cute monkey face with a banana is a great tattoo idea.
Roses And Butterfly
A circle of roses with a butterfly on top completes this belly button tattoo.
Delicate Design
A delicate design can look great around your belly button.
Winged Design
You can go for this intricate black tattoo with a winged design.
Pretty Rose
A simple pink rose looks great below the belly button.
Abstract Belly Button Tattoo
If you want an abstract design you can get this cool spiral tattoo.
Sun Belly Button Design
A fiery orange sun makes for an attractive belly button tattoo.
Fierce Dragon
You can have a fierce dragon inked right near your belly button.
Belly Man
You can get a man with a big belly design as an elaborate tattoo.
Sun And Moon
The sun and the moon combine in this amazing belly button tattoo.
Two Birds
You can get a bird inked on either side of your belly button.
Sun Lettering
A sun with lettering in the circle is an interesting tattoo design.
Show Off Belly Button
Watch this small boy show off his version of a belly button tattoo.
Forget Me Not
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Pretty Sun
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Clint "Gladiator" Gault is a professional fighter set to take on an undefeated Russian champion. But over this glitzy Las Vegas spectacle, a specter looms: that of a dead, mysterious boy named Bobby Williams. Having tormented Bobby as a child, Clint learned firsthand that he'd possessed strange and terrifying abilities. Now, fourteen years after almost dying at Bobby's hands, Clint must grapple with the demons of his past while facing the ultimate challenge. Don't miss this action-packed sequel to "Bobby's Dream" by Reno-based author, Jesse Lynn Rucilez.
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Luis Manuel Morillo's finished tribute to Optimus Prime. The transformation sequence starts at 1:05.
A few weeks ago, we reported on VFX artist Luis Manuel 'Luima' Morillo's 18-month struggle to recreate ILM's Optimus Prime/Jetfire model from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
His finished model, which is fully rigged and textured, weighs in at 8,380,430 polygons and thousands of individually modelled pieces.
Now you can appreciate the intricacy of Morillo's work in even more detail, thanks to the making-of tutorial he has just written for Max Underground.
It's more of a general overview than a step-by-step guide, but it includes some interesting information on Morillo's 3ds Max modelling workflow, and on why he switched from mental ray to Arion for the final render.
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On 1 November 2015, a new Swedish Corporate Governance Code ("SCGC") enters into force, following broad consultations between the Swedish Corporate Governance Board and the users of the code. The aim of corporate governance is essentially to mitigate the risk that conflicting interests between the owners of a company and its board of directors or management may lead to sub-optimization in management from an owner perspective (meaning that the company is not managed as efficient as possible in the interest of its shareholders). This may be the case as regards, for example, long vs short term return on investment, risk levels, executive/board remuneration and financial structure. This risk increases when ownership and management is separated and none, or only some, of the shareholders take part in the management of the company.
The work of the Swedish Corporate Board is mainly focused at companies listed at a regulated market, such as the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, but the SCGC also inspires companies listed at non-regulated market places, such as the Nasdaq First North and Aktietorget, and is generally applied by companies owned by the Swedish state (where all tax-payers are indirect stakeholders). However, the principles expressed in the SCGC could function as guidance also for private companies with a broad shareholder base, where shareholders' agreements may not be a possible or practical instrument to implement a governance structure. This may be the case in, for example, crowdfunded companies. In such cases, the annual general meeting could instruct the board to apply all or parts of the SCGC, or give a separate instruction based on principles derived therefrom.
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Use smartphones to vote for president
Over the weekend, my 94 year-old father-in-law asked what I would do to assure that every American who could vote would do so. That was an unexpected question, but one I addressed gingerly. This post is my answer restated for a public venue.
Simple answer: Smartphone. According to PewResearchCenter, nearly 70 percent of Americans own one of the devices, but the number among voting age adults tops 80 percent, according to other estimates. Surely a program could be in place by the 2020 Presidential race, and if lawmakers were truly serious about universal suffrage, a Manhattan-like project could make it happen by the next Mid-terms.
The program would demand commanding commitment from state and federal governments, starting with the development of voting apps for each and every state and building secure server infrastructure. Then there is the two-pronged problem of making sure everyone who is eligible to vote has a smartphone and every device owner is registered to vote. Authentication, to prevent fraud, is another concern.
The the progam would have three fundamental goals:
- Achieve as close as possible universal suffrage
- Provide real-time voting results, even for absentee voters
- Increase voting accuracy, while eliminating need for absentee ballots
App Development
If built around an adopted standard accepted by all states, the smartphone app could resolve many of the problems with voting today. The process for voters would be similar, regardless of local variances, such as referendums in some locales. Registered voters could cast their ballots, captured in real time, right up until the polls close.
Of course, the result of that could send the news media and pollsters into a frenzy—candidates, too—if large pools of undecided voters watch and wait to cast their ballots based on early returns. But, hey, that's democracy.
For critics who argue that smartphones would be too complex for older voters, come to my ophthalmologist's office where many of the patients are elderly and tap on smartphones just like youngins.
The biggest problem I see is contractual, meaning who gets to make the app(s) and the RFP (request for proposal) process dictated by local governments. Fairness and cost should be lower considerations, and perhaps even ignored. Few mobile apps ever developed would need to be as reliable and absolutely secure; these priorities matter more. Quality should be priority over bidded price.
There would need to be safeguards that ensure votes are captured during times of network congestion, like before polls close, and clear mechanisms (such as text message receipt) that assure the citizen that his or her ballot was registered.
The apps could be built to decrease the likelihood a ballot would be invalidated. Mistakes like marking two candidates go away, for example.
Something else: The apps could enable voters to make more informed decisions. Each candidate's name would be hot-linked to open the smartphone's default search engine, so that citizens could do additional last-minute research on contenders. However, the app should not provide any additional information. Going that route would add unnecessary complexity, increasing the chance the ballot wouldn't be completed, and lead to all kinds of messy ethical/influence problems. Smartphone in hand is a last-minute opportunity for citizens to do additional research—those who choose to do so.
The more challenging part would be on the back-end. The Affordable Care Act shows that state and federal governments can build big back-end server systems suitable for the purpose. Likewise, problems encountered when launching sites like healthcare.gov spotlight how and where failures can occur.
I expect jurisdictional and states rights issues to complicate the creation of a single-connect server system or local ones that are interconnected.
Security is a worry. Consider the problem of a complex DDOS attack swamping servers during polling, interrupting voting and leading to some ballots being invalidated.
Smartphone Program
Not every voter owns a smartphone, and not every smartphone owner is registered to vote. Solution to both is intertwined. Using a federal subsidy program, perhaps, people who don't own smartphones could get one for free. Flagship phones from the top-five vendors, based on sales, would be eligible for the program.
RFP would be based on lowest bids. Meaning: To be included in the program, manufacturers would not collect from the government, say, $649 for 16GB iPhone 6s. The cost of getting millions of new customers, and at the same time serving the public good, justifies less profit on each device. By limiting the program to flagship phones, government could deter, or even prevent, manufacturers from dumping older or less-desirable handsets.
To participate, citizens would either need to be registered to vote or do so when entering the program. Voters who, by cellular carrier check, do not own a smartphone or possess a device that falls below a minimum standard (such as manufactured more than years earlier) would be eligible for the hand-out.
Registered voters who do not participate in the smartphone program, and are verified to own a device, would receive an income tax credit equivalent to the value set by the aforementioned RFP. Government could encourage any laggards to register by making voter registration requirement to receive the tax credit. Additionally, government could promise, and deliver, a larger tax credit for previous smartphone owners who do vote and a smaller, but in total value equivalent, credit to program participants casting ballots.
Voter fraud has to be a concern, and there will always be some regardless of the polling system used. Authorized apps would be distributed through official app stores, mainly (and perhaps only) Apple App Store and Google Play. The dilemma: How to authenticate voters without adding complexity that prevents them from voting.
One idea: Distribute four-digit codes by mail that the citizen combines with the last four digits of his or her social security number when voting. Simpler still: Social security number is authentication mechanism, which also should enable processing of real-time votes, assuming voter registration already is tied to the SS#..
Since the goal of the program is to achieve, as close as possible, universal suffrage, security must be balanced with simplicity.
That's my basic proposal, understanding that bureaucracy, local and federal laws, logistics, special interests, and other factors likely would be wrenches in the works.
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Hi Everyone! I hope you all enjoyed seeing the amazing new products that were revealed with the BEE BOLD release last week. I've got so many ideas and will be sharing a lot more projects using them in the coming weeks right here on the blog.
For today's project I decided to have a little fun and make an interactive card using the Bee Hive stamp set. The hive itself is almost completely symmetrical so it worked perfectly for the spinning focal point.
I stamped out 2 hive images and a few of the bees. I colored them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. For the front panel of the card I used the Hexagon Cover Plate Stipple Honey Cuts to add a little interest. I did apply some very pale yellow ink to the cover plate before running it through my die cut machine. That gives just a hint of shading to the stipple honeycomb texture.
Next I used one of the circle dies from the Double Stitched Circles Honey Cuts to die cut a circle in the front panel and also in the exact same position of the front of the card base itself. Before I started assembling, I stamped the sentiment from Hi Honey and some of the bee trails.
Now for the assembly. I covered the back of the front panel with foam tape. Adhered the 2 hive images back to back with a length of clear nylon thread sandwiched in between. I centered the hive within the circle and secured the thread to the foam tape. Make sure you have the thread pulled tight from top to bottom. I added this panel to the card base being careful to line up the circles. I added the bees and a scattering of sequins from the Raw Honey sequin mix.
Lastly I used some light blue ink to shade in the area behind the hive on the inside of the card. I just used the same circle die to make a stencil. And that completes this fun spinning hive card. Thanks so much for joining me today and I'll see you next Thursday!


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There are some things in life I just can't make a decision about. Perhaps you have the same problem?
Well do you or don't you? Make a decision for goodness sake!
Take advertising, for instance. I've seen thousands of adverts on TV and at the cinema. Some were entertaining but many were just plain baffling.
An expensive advertisement shot on glamorous locations featuring impossibly good-looking models can misfire, if you can recall the exotic images but not the product it promoted.
There's a current TV ad for indigestion relief that I find intensely annoying.
There's nothing wrong with the product.
I've used it many times and bought a bottle for the festive season on the off-chance I might… possibly….perhaps…over indulge.
What makes me angry is the ad's claim that "It's two-times more effective!"
Two-times? Is the ad aimed at five-year olds?
Americans may say "Two-times", but in Britain we say "It's twice as effective".
Why? Because 'twice' is the correct word.
I've posted an English dictionary to the advertising agency responsible. Twice!
As for many 'humorous' ads on commercial radio, surely the only people they amuse are the advertising 'creatives' who wrote them.
Another problem with radio ads is how frequently they're repeated – sometimes three or four times an hour, which can transform having the radio on all day into a form of aural torture!
To show how mixed my feelings are about advertising, I'm worried about the welfare of everyone involved in the world of television advertising. I know. I'm just a sentimental old fool.
I fret about the futures of executives, accountants, writers, directors, actors and technical crews involved in multi-million pound advertising campaigns aimed at convincing us to rush out and buy the food, drink, clothes and household items they're promoting.
In 10 years time there may only be a handful of advertising agencies in the UK because TV ads have much less impact today.
Many of us don't watch 'live' TV, thanks to the brilliant electronic box that allows us to digitally record several programmes at the same time.
Then, when we catch up with them, we can skip through the ads – even ones featuring foxes bouncing on trampolines.
That's great for us, but bad news for the advertising agencies whose careers could well be in jeopardy because fewer people watch TV ads as they're broadcast than ever before.
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The journal Islamic Economic Studies (IES) publishes leading research across all fields of Islamic economics and finance. Established in 1414 Hijri (1993) it is one of the oldest and most respected scholarly journals in the Islamic economics and Islamic finance profession. IES is targeted at professional and academic economists and students.
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