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Serves 1 (fairly big portion), takes 25 mins.
In a deep pan which has a lid, heat up about 1 tbsp vegetable oil, while you chop the onion. You want to chop about three-quarters of the onion into whatever size pieces, and the remaining one-quarter of the onion slice it into nice rings, about half a centimetre thick.
The misc pieces of onion, put them in the pan and give them a good fry to get them softened. Add the three spices and stir around. Then add the chorizo - not too much, it's mainly for flavour. Let this cook for two minutes or so.
Then add the lentils and stir, then add enough boiling water to only-just-cover. Put a lid on, turn the heat right down, and let this bubble for 15 minutes.
In the final five minutes, heat about 2 tbsp of vegetable oil in a frying pan. Make sure the onion rings are separated into circles, and put them in the pan to fry briskly for 5 minutes, turning halfway. While these are getting a little crispy, chop the mangetouts roughly into maybe 3 pieces each and chuck them into the stew, and also add the bits of parsley and the lemon juice.
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The effect is on EU funding in particular. Since the UK hasn't actually left the EU, you might think that things carry on "as normal" until that point - existing projects continue, and you can even apply for new projects. (In fact, that's essentially the official guidance so far.) The problem is that collaborative EU grants are the lifeblood of a lot of research, and they're also very competitive. I know of at least one colleague who's been taken off a grant proposal (which is being organised by someone in another EU country), because a UK partner now means a risk factor that could easily cause a reviewer or a programme administrator to mark the proposal down.
Similarly, at least two colleagues who have been leading on EU grant proposals, they're now in a difficult situation. After having put a lot of work into preparing a proposal, do they submit and risk getting marked down as a risk factor? Do they rewrite the proposal with Brexit backup strategies? Do they stop and wait to see what happens?
(I'm not writing this down to change anyone's mind about Brexit, by the way. Just documenting.)
Less concrete, but in my own first-hand experience: we were intending to invite a good researcher to come and work with us under the Marie Sklodowska Curie scheme (which funds researchers to spend time in another country), but I'm not sure how we can do that now. The funding is still there, but apart from the "risk factor" effect mentioned above, the potential researchers would obviously need to know how it affects their right to work in the UK (will they need a visa?) and what career options might follow on afterwards; and there's pretty much nothing we can say in answer to such questions.
This Guardian article, "UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears" puts the same phenomena in a wider context. This quote, for example:
Joe Gorman, a senior scientist at Sintef, Norway's leading research institute, said he believed UK industry and universities would see "a fairly drastic and immediate reduction in the number of invitations to join consortiums. [...] I strongly suspect that UK politicians simply don't understand this, and think it is 'business as usual', at least until negotiations have been completed. They are wrong, the problems start right now."
This time I had some of my black bean chorizo in the fridge so we did bacups with a layer of black bean chorizo, then an egg on top, then some grated cheese on the egg.
After pre-cooking the bacups we wanted to take them out of the little pots so they would crisp up properly in stage two, but they weren't holding together enough for that so we kept them in the pots. Added the fillings, blast them about 10 mins in the oven, and look at this lovely result:
The egg almost-perfectly cooked, slightly runny yolk, protected from the oven by the cheese - and complemented perfectly with the dark chorizo-y bean mix. Crispy top of the bacon, even though not crispy all through. Best bacups on record, IMHO - taste-wise, at least, even though we still need to work on structural issues.]]>
The ideal way forward is for the next PM to get some informal outline, the likely shape of a UK/EU deal, and put it to Parliament at the same time as a bill authorising them to trigger Article 50. We know that the Leave campaign's fairytale deal is not going to be on the table. So, armed with better information, Parliament could then choose to enable or refuse the triggering of Article 50. I don't know what the outcome would be; but it would be the right way for our democracy to work, and it leaves open a route "back into the EU" now that some of the referendum's consequences (not least, for the future of the UK as a union) are crystal clear.]]>
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A sudden flash flood due to the storms, and all of a sudden it's taken out lots of expensive equipment (amplifiers, mixer, drumkit, and the handsome little piano at the back) as well as obviously ruining the place.
The venue is a labour of love, Rob's been working at it 7 days a week, and it needs our support. Please support the crowdfunder to save this venue.]]>
Then the other day it hit me:
In our research group, in the exact office I work in every day, we have researchers from all sorts of countries, but mostly from the EU. Would they all be here if the UK had divorced itself from the EU? I don't think so. Have you seen the bureaucracy that an American has to go through to work or study in the UK? (I say "American" (meaning USA) to emphasise that the burden is there even for the richer countries.) I don't know how they maintain the energy to go through that!
So if it was much more hassle to study here than in Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, it's clear to me that we'd lose some proportion of those scientific minds coming over to collaborate or to study. I'm not even talking about the people who are directly funded by the EU, and nor am I assuming some massive limitation on free movement. We'd lose out from the multiple little frictions of no longer being part of the big club that makes so easy the sharing of people who have good ideas.
Some people would counter this with suggestions about collaborating with other countries instead: the Commonwealth, China, India. Well guess what? We already do plenty of that too. It's not a zero-sum game.
So yes, our excellent science definitely benefits from the free movement of people in the EU. But if I say it like that, it sounds so abstract again. - The great people I've encountered in my research career, the great ideas they've come up with and developed together, which of them would not be there?]]>
I was hoping this article would be a complete and canonical reference that I could use as a handy citation to refer to in any discussion of evaluating sound event detection. It isn't that, for a single reason:
Just so you know, the context of that paper is the DCASE2016 challenge. For the purposes of the challenge, they've released a public python toolbox with their evaluation metrics, and that's a great way to go about things. This paper, then, is oriented around the evaluation paradigm used in DCASE2016.
In that paradigm, they evaluate systems which supply a list of inferred event annotations which are entirely on or off. They're not probabilistic, or ranked, or annotated with certainty/uncertainty. Fair enough, this happens a lot, and it's a perfectly justifiable way to set up the contest. However, in many of my scenarios, we work with systems that output a probabilistic or rankable set of output events - you can turn this into a definite annotation simply by thresholding, but actually what we'd like to do is evaluate the fully "nuanced" output.
Why? Why should evaluation care about whether a system labels an event confidently or weakly? Well, it's all about what happens downstream. An example: imagine you have an automatic system for detecting events, and you apply it to a dataset of 1000 hours of audio. No automatic system is perfect, and so you often want to either (a) only focus on the strongly-detected items in later analysis, or (b) ask a human expert to go through the results to cross-check them. In the latter case, the expert does not have time to listen to all 1000 hours; instead you'd like to prioritise their work, for example by focussing on the annotations that are the most ambiguous. This kind of work is very likely in the applications I'm working with.
The statistics focussed on in the above paper (F-measure, precision, recall, accuracy, error rate) are all based on definite binary annotations, so they don't make use of the nuance. I'm generally an advocate of the "area under the ROC curve" (AUC) statistic, which doesn't tell the whole story but it helps make use of the nuance by averaging over a whole range of possible detection thresholds.
A nice example of a paper which uses AUC for event detection is "Chime-home: A dataset for sound source recognition in a domestic environment" by Foster et al. The above paper does mention this in passing, but doesn't really tease out why anyone would use AUC or how it differs from the DCASE2016 paradigm.
I want to be clear that the Mesaros et al. paper is not "wrong" or anything like that. I just wish it had a section on evaluating ranked/probabilistic outputs, why that might matter, and what metrics come in useful. Similarly, the sed_eval toolbox doesn't have an implementation of AUC for event detection. Presumably fairly straightforward to add it to its "segment-wise" metrics. Maybe one day!]]>
Soundcamp is a series of outdoor listening events on International Dawn Chorus Day, linked by Reveil: a 24 hour broadcast that tracks the sounds of daybreak, travelling West from microphone to microphone on sounds transmitted live by audio streamers around the globe.
Soundcamp / Reveil will be at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe from the 30th of April to the 1st of May 2016, and at soundcamps elsewhere in the UK and beyond.
So as an experience, it's two things: a worldwide live-streamed radio event that you can tune into online, and also if you're there in person it's a 24-hour outdoor event with camping, talks and workshops, with a focus on listening and on birdsong.
(Photos here are by @lemon_disco)
There was a great group of people involved. I was very happy to be on the bill with Geoff Sample the excellent bird recordist, and with Sarah Angliss the always-entertaining musician/roboticist/historian. We each spoke about bird sound from our own different angles and I think it was a really good mix of perspectives. There was also Jez Riley French the field recordist, who led a workshop on ultrasonic underwater sound, and Iain Bolton who took us on a bat walk: the immersive sound of multiple bat detectors clicking and squeaking away around the pond at dusk was much more of a sonic experience than I expected, quite memorable.
For myself - well, I talked about our work on automatic bird sound recognition, in particular our app Warblr: how it works, and how it has been used by people. But more than that, it was a great opportunity to think about how we listen to sound. Trying to get computers to make sense of sound is a good way to emphasise what's so strange and amazing about our own powers of listening.
It was also a perfect setting for the little collaboration Sarah Angliss and I put together last year. Sarah has built a robot carillon, a set of automated bells, and we worked together to transcribe birdsong automatically into musical scores for the bells. These bells, singing away in the corner of the park, with the warm spring weather and the real birdsong all around, were right at home.
At dawn on the Sunday we took a dawn chorus walk. It was an interesting thing to do, and the star of the show was undoubtedly when we reached the end of the walk, almost ready to go back, and a grasshopper warbler sang out loud and long and strange - an unfamiliar sound to me, and apparently the first time anyone had heard one around there! Is it an insect, a bird, a piece of machinery...?
The main Soundcamp organisers - Grant Smith, Maria Papadomanolaki, Dawn Scarfe - also brought their own great and really thoughtful approaches to listening too. Grant and his son led a workshop on making a soundscape streaming device, really quite simply with a Raspberry Pi and a couple of microphones (based on Primo EM172 capsules). I've been really impressed by the quality of the sound field they get from a pair of mics stuck in a section of poster tube.
Here's Maria mixing the radio stream, in the temporary on-site studio:
There are more photos here from Dawn Scarfe]]>
And yes you're meant to eat the lemon slices, rind and all. You don't have to eat the rind if you don't want, but it's doing the bitter/sour job we've got it for.
Serves 2, takes maybe an hour (including the stewing time).
In a deep pan that has a lid, heat up a big glug of olive oil, and fry the diced onion at a medium heat for 3-5 minutes to soften. Then add the chopped tomatoes. Stir and let it cook for a minute or two, then add the dates/prunes, 1 cup of veg stock, the honey, and a handful of almonds. Put the lid on, bring to the boil, then turn the heat right down to a simmer.
Chop the aubergine into big pieces, maybe 1 inch cubed. Don't go smaller than that. Put the aubergine in a bowl and sprinkle over a good dose of cinnamon, maybe 2 tbsp. Toss this around to coat the aubergines fairly evenly.
Get a big frying pan and put it on a hot heat. (No oil.) Add the aubergine pieces. Let them dry-fry for maybe 6 minutes, tossing them occasionally to turn over. A couple of minutes before they're done, slice the lemon into 0.5 cm slices, remove the seeds, and cut the slices in half (i.e. into semicircles), then add the lemon slices to the dry-fry pan. This gets them a little bit browned too. If you're increasing the quantities, you'll need to do the dry-frying in batches.
Put the aubergine and lemon into the stew pot. Stir around. Now put the lid back on and let this bubble gently for maybe 20 minutes minimum, 40 minutes maximum.
About ten minutes before the end of the cooking time, add a handful of chickpeas.
Then, just before serving: taste to check the sweetness, and decide whether to add a bit more honey. Add 1 tbsp olive oil, and stir. Then finally sprinkle some more sliced almonds over.]]>


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In the Victorian age, if one detail would do, two was considered better. That's why lavish detail often adorns houses of the era. Paint schemes with several colors and sharp contrasts play up these architectural features. The more detail, the bolder you can be, as seen here. The extremely ornate corbels show sharp contrast between light and dark colors, while the less detailed panels underneath are painted in two dark colors.

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Adventure; Beyond The Back Of Beyond
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While on this outing, I conceived a scale for measuring hike difficulty. The hardest hikes would be in the Taylor Zone, named for our college-age daughter, who goes on foul-weather geology hikes for fun. The other extreme would be the Lesley Zone, named for my wife, who believes that our living on the West Side of Manhattan constitutes camping out. And then there is the Me Zone in the middle. This hike was definitely in the Taylor Zone. ''That's where we usually see the Towers,'' our guide said at the end of our walk, ''when it isn't raining.''
''Oh, no,'' I said.
''You'll have other chances.''
After the Nordenskjold hike, I went to my room, ran a bath and slipped down into the hottest water I could stand. (Others took saunas or Jacuzzis or massages.) Lying back, letting the heat work on my sore muscles, I enjoyed the scenery, thanks to a window cut into the bathroom wall. It didn't open onto the outdoors, but rather into my bedroom. I saw my bed in the foreground, beyond it, a picture window and through that, a waterfall.
In the restaurant that evening, I ordered scallops with mustard, followed by mushroom risotto, followed by tomatoes with mozzarella. The dining room is perched over a cataract.
Returning to my room, I hung up my clothes on hooks that lined the olive-green walls. The place had the feel of a comfortable cabin in the country.
That night I slept very well.
The next morning, I boarded a van headed northeast. After 40 minutes, we arrived at a ranger station guarding the eastern boundary of the park. During our two-and-a-half-hour hike through an arid landscape, we rested for a while in a cave in an area originally inhabited by the Tehuelches and other tribes. There we saw ancient graffiti in the form of handprints. The word ''paine,'' as in Torres del Paine, is thought to be a Tehuelchian term meaning ''blue'' or ''the blue land.''
I also saw my first guanacos: handsome reddish-brown animals that are distant relatives of the camel and kissing cousins of the llama. Imagine a combination of a dromedary and a deer. This threatened species inhabits the highlands of southern and western South America. Always seeking higher ground -- the better to spot predatory pumas -- guanacos posed on top of hills. In the valleys, we passed carcass after carcass of guanacos, the victims of pumas.
In the afternoon, I went horseback riding across the pampas -- a plain covered by brown grass about two feet high. We followed a winding river, scared some ashy-headed geese, and disturbed a red fox. After riding for more than a hour, we stopped to rest the horses and ourselves. ''Now we are going to go fast,'' Ann Patterson, our guide, announced. ''Anybody who doesn't want to go fast should take the van back.''
Several dropped out. The rest of us kicked our horses. Ann, who wore knee-high laced boots, let out a blood-curdling cry. Another guide echoed her scream with one of his own. Then the others caught the fever and yelled. Even I managed a heartfelt but quiet, ''Giddyap.'' Thanks to all the noise and sudden speed, I felt an incredible, unexpected rush of emotion: elation, fear, euphoria, terror, exhilaration, panic, sheer thrill ...
We were the Magnificent Seven charging the bad men. Or rather we were the Magnificent Six plus one ordinary guy who was clinging for dear life to his gaucho saddle. What bad form!
Several saddled but riderless horses -- the mounts of the dropouts -- ran along with us. The flapping of empty stirrups added to the pandemonium. I imagined that the desperados had shot some of our gang right out of the saddle. They were now lying behind us in the dust.
In the bar that evening, Ann Patterson looked at me with grave misgiving. Was I serious? Did I really think I was up to making such a grueling hike? What about my bad knee? Didn't I realize that this hike would take eight hours? Did I know I would be facing 60-degree inclines? How was I going to get back down the mountain again? But she finally relented and put me down for the hike to the base of the Towers.
The next morning, we drove north for an hour and a half. As the van neared the starting point, we passed two Andean foxes cutting up in the grass. The guides passed out ski poles to help us in our assault on the mountain. It was raining when we set off. We could only hope that it would clear. Otherwise, our climb might be in vain. Limping slightly, I soon fell behind. A guide named Jeremy Salter stayed back with me. He was 31, with curly black hair, sideburns and a gold earring.
''Does it ever level off any?'' I asked.
''Eventually,'' Jeremy said. ''It gets easier for a while -- and then it gets much harder again.''
Limping on, I thought of the Donner Party and Sisyphus -- but most of all I thought about sitting down. Before long, I did.
While I rested, I asked Jeremy what had led him to Chile. The answer was Ann Patterson, the 30-year-old Emma Thompson look-alike, who was leading the pack high above us. Some years ago, Ann and Jeremy both decided to flee London where she was a commercial illustrator and he was a tennis coach. In May 1995, they embarked for South America. They came to Torres del Paine planning to stay for a week and are still there.
I got heavily to my feet and started to climb once again.
''That crest up there,'' I panted. ''Is that where it levels off?''
''No, it's the next one,'' Jeremy said. ''It's always the next one.''
The wind picked up. The rain hitting the hood of my green windbreaker sounded like hail hitting a tin roof. This hike was definitely in the Taylor Zone.


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The PRS-T2 is a lightweight E-Ink-Pearl-based ebook reader. As with all E-Ink readers, it has a monochrome display, and long battery life – Sony estimates one-and-a-half to two months, or up to 30,000 continuous page turns when reading.
The 2GB onboard storage fits up to 1,300 books, according to Sony – I didn't download that many just to test its limits – and if you need more, a microSD card up to 32GB can be added, providing a possible further 30,000 books-worth of space. It weighs just 164 grams, only a little more than most 4-inch smartphones, and comes with a six-inch, 680 x 800-pixel screen that supports up to 16 levels of grey.
You can read with text at one of eight different sizes, from excruciatingly tiny through to large print-plus, in any one of seven font faces. You can also adjust the darkness of the background for contrast. While text on the lighter settings is readable, if you set the background darker the colour can become blocky. I also found, for readability, that it was worth setting the display to refresh each page – the ghosting from previous pages can get distracting if you use the default no-refresh settings.
Turning the page is done either with a swipe of the screen (left to right or right to left are both supported) or by using the hardware buttons located just below the screen.
Reading was an entirely comfortable experience, and the screen is slightly textured, making the swipes feel almost like paper. The text contrast is good, even on bright days, though if you are the sort, like me, who reads in darkened rooms at night, you'll need either a lamp or the optional Cover with Light ($75).
To obtain books, I hoped I'd be able to download them directly, as I do with my Kindle reader on iPad, especially as the Reader Store is given a front-and-centre spot at the base of the home screen. When I went to access tit, I was told to set up Wi-Fi. The reader helpfully tells you how, via a five-step process. It spotted my wireless network just fine, but if you have a hidden SSID, you can also manually enter details. WPS push-button connection is also available for those with routers that support it.
Unfortunately, upon finishing the Wi-Fi connection process, it turned out that the Reader Store is not available in New Zealand. Instead, you can buy from the Whitcoulls eBook site and get access to new releases – I found Terry Pratchett's new book Dodger for $26.95. You can also download epub, PDF or txt files from other locations, such as Project Gutenberg. I found it easy to locate epub-format books in stores I couldn't buy from, but harder to locate those I could buy, aside from the aforementioned Whitcoulls. However, Sony's Overdrive service gives you access to books in New Zealand libraries, as long as you have a library card – you need to enter the number to request and reserve ebooks. I found all of the books at my local library were already taken out, but the Overdrive service also has public domain ebooks that I could access. Overdrive also allows you to download directly, unlike the Whitcoulls purchases, which must be synced using a PC.
The Sony Reader has a few applications and add-ons that some may find useful, such as note taking, handwriting, the ability to excerpt up to 140 characters to Facebook, and Evernote login. I found the handwriting app to be a little less sensitive than I'd want – it missed chunks of letters unless I went slow. Typing onscreen is similarly sluggish – I didn't have the patience to write more than a couple of words, let alone anything longer, in all honesty. The web browser is mostly useful for bookmarking ebook repositories you find and want to hoover up texts from.
I'd have liked for the Wi-Fi to turn itself off unless the browser or overdrive was fired up, but perhaps I'm greedy in my expectations. Still, this costs only $10 less than the Kindle Touch, which has double to storage of the Reader and allows for audiobooks as well. It's a good choice if you're not interested in extra storage or audiobooks, and it's a fine ebook reader especially for those who want dedicated hardware buttons and a nice swipe action.


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Thinking about returning to work
Returning to work isn't easy, even when you've 'only' had maternity leave of six or nine months, or a year. But it's even harder when you've been out of the workplace for a longer period - maybe three, or five, or even ten years spent at home while your children were young.
The good news is that returning to work after a long break can be done: there are umpteen Mumsnetters out there who've managed it, to prove the point. But it takes a bit of know-how....
Before you start searching for a job
Think carefully about how paid employment is going to affect your life, and what you'll need to change to fit it into what, let's face it, is an already packed existence. Things are going to have to change; things are going to have to give; you can't have it all, remember? So there will have to be new ways of doing things, and it's worth thinking through what they might be.
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Childcare is the obvious one, of course. Don't wait until you've got a job offer to start your search for a childminder, nursery, nanny or after-school club. Also, plan not only your frontline childcare, but also your back-up plan, which, once you're working, will be just as vital.
"Get childcare sorted early, and you need a fallback plan as well as your main one - what will you do when DCs are ill (note 'when' not 'if'!). Have a good think about how you will manage household stuff in addition to work and being a mummy - and a good discussion about it with your partner, if you have one. Consider internet food shopping, a cleaner if funds allow or setting up some routines - but be prepared for how tired you will be after working, and doing all the other stuff - there's not much time left for fun!" abgirl
Don't kill your ambitions, but do be realistic about the sort of job that will suit your family circumstances. Bear in mind that the first job you take is only getting you back on the ladder - you may need to take a job that's not as prestigious or well-paid or senior as the job you left several years ago. That doesn't mean, however, that you can't return to your former giddy heights - and indeed, climb much higher. This is only the beginning, after all.
"Get your foot in the door. Once you are in, you can make an impression. I took five years out, then contacted my old employer to ask them whether they would be willing to provide me a reference (and kind of hoping they had something for me) - they offered me a maternity leave cover, and two years later I have been made permanent and promoted twice." TheFallenMadonna
"Don't be afraid to drop a level or two. If you are good you can climb back up quickly - and you may find it more of a shock than you expected and therefore being a grade lower could help you get in the swing of it better." StillSquiffy
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You have lots to offer and your skills can be every bit as sharp as they were before motherhood, but your situation is different now. Do a bit of blue-sky thinking about how your career goes from now on in. It doesn't have to be the same career it would have been had you not had kids. Think more broadly.
"If you can, consider becoming freelance. I did it. I now dictate my hours around the kids, both of whom are at school - so I'm able to do drop off and pick up. Earning is at a higher hourly rate for generally less hours. In the current climate as well: employers are more likely to go to contract staff when work picks up than risk taking on full-time employees." Spoo
Once you've got a vague plan about what you'd like to do work-wise, it's time to get some experience, dust down your CV, join a job club and brush up on your interview technique.
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AbstractWe plan to implement a planar Molecularly Controlled Semiconductor Resistor (MOCSER) gas sensor on both InAs and InN platforms for the ppt-ppm detection of NOx and H2O. Kyma Technologies and Duke University will leverage Duke"s leading MOCSER based NOx sensor technology which uses surface functionalization of InAs with hemin (chloroprotoporphyrin IX iron(III)) to create a strong affinity for NOx. We will extend its range from ppb to ppt by applying hemin functionalization to InN grown on Kyma AlN and GaN templates, and will additionally characterize its response to H2O over the ppt to ppm range. These sensors have true low cost COTS potential and fulfill several critical DOD needs, in particular that of extending the service life of nitrate ester-based propellants and explosives which are used in a wide range of rockets and munitions. Use of the MOCSER will allow in-situ monitoring in rockets and munitions, enabling individualized end of service life determination, saving millions of $USD in suboptimal maintenance costs. Additional applications include NOx sensing for combustion engine process optimization for increased fuel efficiency and reduced emissions, as well as individualized monitors that can be carried by the warfighter into a wide range of hostile environments.
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A few years ago Oliver was almost euthanized when the shelter he was living at no longer had room for him. But luckily a foster Mom saved Oliver and other kitties from the shelter. Oliver's adoptive parents were so grateful for the opportunity to bring him home. Now he is a confident, affectionate cat with a sense of humor and a loud purr!
Huey arrived at Main Line Animal Rescue in Chester Springs, PA when the shelter in Philadelphia called for their help. He was presumed to have been hit by a car and lost his right eye, and when he came to MLAR, they realized he had a badly broken jaw for several weeks as well. After months of recovery, his adoptive Mom took him home and he quickly bounced back. He is his Mom's constant shadow and her life has been changed for the better since adopting him.
Yuri and Jupiter were adopted from Woodstock Animal Sanctuary a few months ago. Shortly thereafter, 3,000 "spent hens" were being rescued from a factory in California and were being flown to different animal sanctuaries for adoption. The people at Woodstock encouraged Yuri and Jupiter's adoptive parents to take as many as they could and three weeks ago 18 beautiful hens joined their rapidly growing family.
Marvin, Swizzle, and Squirt's family have been rescuing animals for over 25 years! Marvin is a 13 year old cat, rescued at age 1 as a stray who hadn't eaten in days. Swizzle is an 11 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback Cross rescued from a drunk at 5 months of age. She had suffered terrible abuse. And Squirt is a 6 year old Brussels Griffon rescued from neglect at age 3, weighed only 4 lbs. Now, a happy, healthy 8 lbs.
Olivia, better known as 'Ollie' was 3 1/2 years old and a rescue at Animal Haven, NYC—they had taken her from a kill shelter where a couple had dropped her off and the application read, "Can't take care of her anymore." She was extremely frightened, skinny as a rail, and disheveled. This little very lady-like gal is now 13 years old, happy, as you can see, and fond of the good life. Here she is sharing a hammock with her adoptive Mom.
Felicity was adopted, along with her bonded companion Perpetua, from a shelter nearly five years ago. She had a strong personality: curious, skittish, quite reactionary, and always a little skeptical. She also had a strong will and always made her feelings clear with a stomp, a tug, or sometimes even a little growl. She loved to frolic at the park, play in leaves, and would do a little twister-dance whenever she was happy. Sadly Felicity passed away in early October, may she rest in peace.
This is Karl, a very handsome and very lucky Saint Berdaneweiler. His previous owners left him at a high kill shelter in Southern New Mexico because he got too big. Luckily an amazing rescue called Animal Village New Mexico in Alamogordo, NM got hold of him and his adoptive parents drove 9 hours to go pick him up. He is the most amazingly lovable, soft, friendly and perfect dog you can imagine! He now resides and lives the good life with his two poodle brothers in Denver, Colorado.
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Su-34 (Su-27IB) Fullback
A two-seat derivative of the Su-27 fighter, the Su-34 can carry a payload of up to eight tons of precision-guided weapons over 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles). The aircraft will eventually replace all of the ageing Su-24 strike aircraft in service with the Air Force and Navy.
The first aircraft was a Su-27UB, which featured a frontal section with new radar, bigger and widened nose. The new variant was called Su-27IB initially (Istrebityel-bombardirovshchik - fighter aircraft). The new section of the nose had a side by side cockpit. The leading edges were extended until the root of the cabin and had canards. The first prototype was not equipped with fire control systems and was used for aerodynamic tests and arrangement of cockpit. It had an improvement in the maneuverability and characteristics of landing and take-off. The air inlet lost variable geometry, since high speed at great altitude was not as important, as the bomber works most of the time at cruise speed or at low altitude.
Designed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau, the Su-34 will replace the Su-24 Fencer frontline bombers. Sukhoi says the new bomber has the potential to become the best plane in its class for years to come. In Russia one Su-34 costs about one billion rubles. The $36 million Su-34 fighter-bomber is a two-seat strike aircraft equipped with twin AL-31MF afterburning turbojet engines. It is designed to deliver high-precision strikes on heavily defended targets in any weather conditions, day or night, and fields weaponry that includes a 30mm GSh-301 cannon, up to 12 Alamo or Archer AAMs, ASMs, and bombs. The fighter carries a wide range of air-to-ground missiles. Including the Kh-59ME, Kh-31A, Kh-31P, Kh-29T, Kh-29L, and the S-25LD, these weapons can hit both ground and maritime targets.
The Su-32/34 will be one of the three high performance aircraft that are planned to form the core of the future Russian Air Force, along with the Yak-130 advanced trainer and a new multi-functional fighter (PAK-FA). The Strike Flanker was in competition with the Su-30 to replace the Su-24 and was successful due to the potential of growth of the avionics, since it had twice the space in relation to the other airplanes of the Flanker family.
Su-34 (Su-27IB - Istrebitel-Bombardirovshchik) is a two seat ("arm-to-arm") strike variant that first flew in 1990. It features frontal wings and a large flattened nose with sharp edges (like the SR-71) reduce radar cross-section. This new ship-borne fighter is fitted with two AL-31FP engines with vectored thrust. Using them allows either the take-off distance or maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of the aircraft to be increased by 10-15 per cent. In the nose is a new multi-mode phased-array radar with terrain-following and terrain-avoidance for low-level attack. The aircraft has a distinctive large "sting" in the rear which contains the NO-14 radiolocation system, a radioelectronic countermeasures system, and a fuel tank. The NIIP NO-12 rearward radar that monitors enemy fighter activity behind the aircraft, and as needed, direct R-73 short-range and R-77 medium-range AAMs at the targets.
The two members of the crew sit down side by side in a large cabin, with the pilot-commander to the left and navigator/operator of weapons to the right in a jettisonable Zvezda K-36dm seat [that has an inlaid system of massage]. The advantage of the side by side cockpit is not to need to duplicate instruments and controls of flight, which improves efficiency and comfort. As long missions require comfort, it has pressurization that it allows to operate up to 10,000 meters without oxygen masks, which are available for emergencies and combat situations. The members of the crew can leave the seats and be in vertical position and relax. The space between the seats allows that they can lie down in the corridor, if necessary.
A long-range surveillance radar, passive detection systems, system of communication for tactical and strategical voice and data in a single platform with long-range capacity with flight refuelling, transform it into a way of monitoring and recognition in real time and platform of command and control, forming a complete battle management system. The Sukhoi aircraft maker has signed a 1.5 billion ruble ($47 million) contract for the delivery of 184 friend-or-foe transponders for its Su-34 fighter-bombers, the equipment supplier said 19 August 2013. The transponders will be manufactured by the Kazan-based Radiopribor holding company and delivered by 2020, Radiopribor deputy general director Igor Nasenkov said.
The Su-34 will - with the appropriate avionic and weapons systems - provide the air force with a capable long range strike platform, with considerably more punch than the Su-24. Work continued to integrate modern air-to-surface weaponry now in development in Russia on the Su-34, with trials being carried out at the air force test center at Akhtubinsk. It is designed to deliver high-precision strikes on heavily-defended targets under any weather conditions, day or night, and is equipped with a 30-mm GSh-301 cannon, up to 12 Alamo or Archer AAMs, ASMs, and bombs.
Vladimir Voronov wrote in 2015 that "there was a scandal in late 2012 when, in the light of experience of the latest Russian frontline bomber, the Sukhoy Su-34, an evaluation was signed by Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu, reporting complaints from aircrews about all 16 of the aircraft which had been delivered to the armed forces. They had significant defects preventing fully effective operational use. In particular, it was said the sighting and navigation system and radar locator constantly failed, and the factory assembly of the aircraft was not up to standard. Moreover, the aircraft, which had by then been being delivered to the armed forces for six years, had still not been standardized: each plane had its own distinctive characteristics. Defence industry representatives responded that everything was fine and these were just teething problems: the real trouble, they averred, was that the air force personnel were not properly trained and did not know how to program and operate the equipment."
For the first time since the operation's beginning Russian Su-34 bomber jets conducted sorties in Syria with air-to-air missiles on Monday, the Russian Aerospace Forces spokesman said 30 November 2015. "Today, for the first time Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber aircraft went on a mission carrying not only aerial bombs OFAB-500 and guided aerial bombs KAB-500, but with short and medium range air-to-air missiles," spokesman for the Russian Aerospace Forces, Col. Igor Klimov said, adding that the planes are equipped with missiles for protection.
Foreign buyers of Russian-made military equipment will now be able to take a good look at the Sukhoi Su-34 strike fighters which have been actively engaged in the Russian-led aerial campaign targeting extremists in Syria and hailed as the best hardware Moscow can offer, military expert Igor Korotchenko told RIA Novosti 19 October 2015. Korotchenko named Vietnam, Algeria and Iraq as potential buyers but added that other countries, including Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, are increasingly interested in the Su-34 as well.
"Several countries in Africa, including Uganda and Nigeria, which is waging a war against Boko Haram, could buy the Su-34. Strike fighters could also strengthen Ethiopia's Air Force, which operates aging Sukhoi Su-27 fighters," Korotchenko noted.
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"Bunch of baloney as usual,amnesty isn't going to fly this year, next year,or any other time."
Amnesty will fly... in places like Arizona and California were the Hispanic population is significant to swing the vote. Then, like a cancer, it will spread to other states.
It's becoming the eleventh hour for the US. We are in the throes of being taken over by our neighbor(s) to the south.
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"'They work with the understanding that any children born here are not citizens.' Then what are they?"
Of course they're citizens. But their illegal parents are not citizens and should be deported. If the illegals want their kids they should take them with them as they are tossed out. Otherwise the kids will become street orphans. Their choice.
"You can't deport someone to another country unless they are citizens of that country."
You can't enter this country unless you are invited/authorized.
- 5:12 p.m. Nov. 12, 2011
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"A final comment is that it is currently not simple to immigrate legally."
We currently don't need any immigrants. We have 15 million unemployed Americans sitting home on their buttocks drawing billions in unemployment benefits.
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"Asking people that look like immigrants, brown people, to have special documents at all times and can be asked for their documents without reason is not only a violation to legal people and brown US citizens..."
Non-citizen visitors to the US must carry ID with them at all times while here. If visitors can't be asked to show ID then there essentially is no need for anyone to carry ID. Laws that are not enforced/enforceable under all situations are not laws.
"... but sets the US as a terrible place to visit."
If the US is a terrible place to visit, why do so many foreigners want to come here?
"But to argue that visiting people have to have their documents at all times means that legal citizens need their docs too."
What's wrong with that?
"If legal citizens look like immigrants they can be hassled for not having proof of legality."
If you look like an immigrant it'd be a good idea to carry ID... that is, unless you want to be hassled.
"Not a nice country to live in or visit if you are different."
You're welcome if you're legal. Else stay home.
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One more time! Tell me what countries you go to for business purposes that you do not have to carry a passport and produce it upon request?
I went through a red light in Ireland while negotiating a traffic circle and was asked for papers for my rented car and my Passport.I was also there for business purposes. Are you saying Ireland was racist? What is the difference if we do this in our country. I have only been stopped in my own country twice but I had to produce my license. I have to produce a picture ID if I write a check in the grocery store for over $100 . What is wrong with you people.It is not racist! In Germany I had to produce my passport before entering a museum with my German cousin,Canada needed my passport and I had to answer 10-15 questions re reasons for traveling there and for how long.Every European airport customs check does the same to some degree. I am sorry I just do not get it,and I was still able to conduct my business in an orderly fashion.
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In this recent election, it's been heartening to see some commonsense overcome extremism around this country.
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Wanting immigration laws enforced is only extremism to those that support the criminal behavior.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Wednesday that Japan will provide 800 million yen in grant aid to the Palestinian Authority to help infrastructure development in the Palestinian territories, a Japanese official said.
In a meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority Wednesday evening in Ramallah, Kishida also called on the Palestinian Authority to refrain from unilateral action so that stalled peace talks between Israel and Palestine can resume, the official said.
Kishida suggested the Palestinian Authority should halt its attempt to seek statehood by applying for membership of international organizations, according to the official.
The Israelis and Palestinians reached a basic deal last week to revive the stalled peace process.
The Japanese minister was quoted as telling Abbas that momentum toward a restart of peace talks stalled since fall 2010 has been increasing. Abbas said he is positive about resuming the negotiations and that Palestine will make serious efforts toward peace once the talks are restarted.
Earlier Wednesday, Kishida met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and agreed on the need to resume the peace talks, the official said.
Kishida told Peres during their meeting in Israel that Japan is ready to support the peace process and hopes for a frank dialogue. The minister also asked Israel to stop its Jewish settlement activities in occupied territory.
Peres struck a positive note on the prospect for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, saying the two sides should not miss out on the opportunity to start talking again, according to the official.
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London Lions booked their place in the semi-finals of the Herts FA Centenary Senior Trophy after overpowering high-flying Kings Langley.
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PORT ORANGE, Fla. (March 8, 2013)--Employees of Advance Medical, a Florida health care company, are allowed to drink on the company's tab and on company time, thanks to a perk known as "Beer Cart Fridays."
Advance Medical CEO Jennifer Fuicelli told the Daytona Beach News-Journal she's been rolling out the beer cart for two years as part of an "unorthodox corporate culture" that rewards employees for hard work.
She said the company was started in 2005 with four employees and now has 350 workers in Port Orange, Fla., and Broomfield, Colo.
The company also hosts costume days for Halloween, barbecues on the clock and a birthday "get out of jail free" card, which can be used for a paid day off.
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Bloomberg Offers Booker Help, Though He Doesn't Really Need It
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Though weighing in on New York City's mayoral race a week before the election didn't work out so well for Mayor Bloomberg, he's trying the same strategy in New Jersey. In an interview with the New York Times, Bloomberg praised Cory Booker's work in Newark and called him a "solutions guy rather than an ideologue." Bloomberg also compared the New Jersey Senate candidate to Rudy Giuliani, which may be less helpful than he thinks, but he's making up for it by pouring some money into the race. On Monday, with ten days to go before the election, Bloomberg's Independence USA super-PAC will start spending more than $1 million to air TV commercials that describe Booker as a "senator to get things done," in a "divided Washington."
It's a tremendous amount of money to put into the race, particularly since Booker isn't losing. While his campaign has been plagued by scandalous revelations that Booker gets manicures, exchanged tweets with a stripper, and isn't friends with drug dealers, the latest poll had the Newark mayor up by thirteen points over Republican Steve Lonegan. That would be considered pretty damn good in most races, and the Times notes, "Nobody is predicting a Booker loss in the special election." However, it still falls short of the astronomically high expectations for Newark's so-called superhero mayor. "This should be a 20-point lead and not anything less than that," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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Recently I found out about an entirely new way to hunt with my bow in the offseason — and also get in some good practice in advance of deer season: Frogging with archery equipment during the day.
Not long after July 4, I'm pretty well burned out on fishing and already starting to think about hunting season.
The 18th Annual Faux Pas Lodge Rodeo is set to roll next week out of Venice Marina, and this year's event features a brand new five-fish red snapper stringer division made possible because the state waters line has been pushed beyond the old 3-mile boundary.
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Stanley Sevin pretty much grew up in the bait business — his family owns Bait House Seafood in Chauvin — so he knows a few tricks about how to maximize the lifespan of shrimp in your livewell.
"I've been in it since I was a little boy," said Sevin, now 30, who works full-time offshore in the tugboat industry but still helps out at the bait shop located at 6003 Highway 56 on his days off. "You know how we do it down the bayou, growing up in the family business."
Managing wildlife is hard work.
Louisiana has seen its share of hoopla regarding various deer forages promoted to grow wall hangers.
Big changes could be on the way for out-of-state deer hunters returning home to Louisiana if a proposal banning the importation of cervid carcasses is ultimately approved by the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission.
If red snapper management is ultimately turned over to the individual Gulf states through Garret Graves' bill currently moving through Congress, the program would come with a $10,039,000 price tag for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in its first year, according to the state's head fisheries biologist.
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Jackson Bienville Wildlife Management Area has been a special place for several generations of Louisiana hunters.
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The Boise State Broncos and the Virginia Cavaliers have scheduled a 2015 and 2017 home-and-home football series, both schools announced today.
In the first game of the series, Boise State will travel to face Virginia at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville on Sept. 26, 2015. The Broncos will then host the second and final game at Bronco Stadium on Sept. 23, 2017.
The 2015 game will be the first ever meeting between the two schools. Boise State is 1-1 against teams from the ACC, while Virginia is only 1-3 against the Mountain West.
Boise State and Virginia both continue to schedule aggressively out of the conference. From 2014 forward, Boise State only has games scheduled against BYU and teams from the power conferences.
In 2015, the Broncos are slated to travel to BYU and Virginia and host Washington. In 2017, Boise travels to Washington State and BYU and hosts the Cavaliers.
Virginia now has future home-and-home series set with Boise State (2015/2017), BYU (2013-14), Oregon (2013/2016), Stanford (2017-18), UCLA (2014-15), and UConn (2016-17). They will also have to reschedule their 2013 game at Penn State.
"I think our fans will be extremely excited about the Broncos hosting an ACC school," Boise State Director of Athletics Mark Coyle stated. "We continue to work hard on scheduling home-and-home games against BCS opponents and a series like this with an east coast team will help spread the Bronco brand."
"We're excited to announce this series with a program that has been exceptional over the last decade," said Virginia Executive Associate Athletics Director Jon Oliver. "They've done it with great coaching, solid recruiting and a fearless approach to competition. We are trying to do the same thing and this will be an incredible challenge for us as we continue to build our program. The 2015 and 2017 seasons could end up being two of the toughest schedules in the history of our football program and we hope they will excite and energize our fans, student-athletes and recruits."
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Good to see the 'Hoos get more games out west…….
Good to see the Hoos actually scheduling some good OOC opponents. BYU, Penn State, Oregon, and now Boise.
Looks like Boise St made out pretty good here, by the time they play Virginia they will probably be a B1G team, much better than an ACC team.
really? I don't think Boise will ever be in a major conference.
That blue turf is terrible. I hope we cancel the return leg at Boise.
You want the game cancelled three days after announcement? Is it really the turf that has you concerned?
I love this match up. This is the kind of series that buys both schools greater credibility.
Paul he was meaning Virginia will be a big 1G team instead of ACC
Virginia is year in and year out one of the weakest teams in the ACC. This no big deal. When they get Texas, Nebraska or Texas A & M to come to Boise on 1 home game vs 2 away games like Wyoming does then you can say that Boise is serious.
This is good news for Boise State. They need two more of this caliber opponent for home-and-home series to fill out their OOC schedules for the 2014, 2015, and 2016 seasons. Virginia, Ole Miss, BYU, Washington, Washington State, that is the kind of teams they need to be playing their nonconference games against. How about USC, Cal, UCLA, Stanford? Their MWC conference schedule is light enough, they don't need to spend their OOC games playing teams like Tennesee-Martin anymore, that is not going to help them.
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Just a little Zombie baseball action that me and Adam did of Cassie from Hack Slash!
Love it!!
Really funny and cool picture.
I love her! XD This is an awesome piece.
Totally Awesome!!
GAH !! so awesome. What was your inspiration for this?
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I managed to catch a newish trojan that my Anti virus program wasn't able to detect.
I'm usually not that bad at technical stuff regarding computers but I really don't know what to do with this one anymore.
The trojan somehow managed to get my Windows to recover it every time I try to remove it by deleting it's exe (called some weird name located in Programs "asdza/saddasn.exe" (example only)). It also sets an entry in my autostart.
It starts a second explorer.exe and tries to connect to some server obviously trying to steal data. (glad I still have my firewall)
How can I get rid of this trojan, I really need help.
It is new and probably unrecognized by all major virus scanners.