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Bulls**t. No seriously. Yes, yes, scientists say the Earth is going to end due to some cosmic rays from the sun or due to some bloody ice age/flood that engulfs our planet and demolish us. That sounds so scientific. Scratch that, it's a lame joke. Science is always the truth, but here's my analysis.
Firstly, the Mayans:
I'm not poking fun at them, well basically my blog pokes fun at people and things, but apparently the Mayans created a calendar spanning our civilization's time on Earth and it ends on 21 December 2012.
To keep a long story short, we'll literally die in 2012.
It's been religiously and mystically believed so by us but by the looks of it, Earth's still running pretty damn well. Resources are depleting, yes, but it won't deplete at a rate so fast, by the end of this year, it'll burn to ashes. That's SCIENCE. And if you were to talk about it, there is no evidence that the Mayan calendar and the end of the world are related whatsoever. The calendar doesn't say it links itself to the universe and well...that's enough to prove that it won't end THAT fast. I'm not saying the Earth won't end, it's just gonna end much later.
Firstly, the Mayans:
|Prehistoric guy smoking weed. Period.
|Fudge sticks.
|Coffee, anyone?
|I bet he's vocabulary is limited.
Since the Earth lasted so long ever since the Big Bang Theory * the theory in which different planets collided with each other to form a big explosion, thereby forming Earth, in short*, why shouldn't it last even longer? It isn't just pure coincidence we lasted from the AD times, to the BC times and now to the 21st century. Earth is badass, and yes, it will last for as long as possible.


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Electric Service Department Updates
The Mountain Division Electric Service Department is currently finishing up a big Lift Station Electrical Improvements Project in Estes Park Colorado. The project includes upgrading the entire electrical system at two Lift Stations. Installations include new service feeds, new MCC's, PLC panels, HVAC system, methane warning system, lighting and receptacles. The main challenge to this job is to keep the lift station running as we install and changeover to the new system from the old.
More about the Electronics Shop: Our department is excelling in retro-fitting variable speed drives. This includes replacing older drives and integrating them to work with existing control inputs on pumps, fans, printing presses, extruders and other machines. We have earned the label "Xcel Energy Efficiency Partner" due to the number of drives and premium efficient motors we have installed.
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- Hand injuries account for nearly 1/3 of all reported workplace incidents
- Approximately 75% of industrial injuries that cause partial disability involve the hands
- Over 16 million individuals seek medical care each year for work related hand injuries
No matter what your job is, your hands are a key part of your ability to perform it. Hand injuries can consist of sprains and strains, skin irritation, burns, lacerations, cuts, fractures, and broken bones amongst others. In most cases these injuries are preventable, it is up to each individual worker to be aware of and respect the hazards they face on a daily basis.
Make it a habit to continuously assess the risks for every task you perform, don't take shortcuts, and constantly be aware of the position of your hands while working. More often than not, properly selected PPE (personal protective equipment), regular stretching, and task variety can prevent injuries or at least minimize damage significantly should an accident occur.
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Ripon High's girls basketball team suffered a third heartbreaking straight loss Tuesday, falling at Riverbank, 51-49.
RIPON – Riverbank High is definitely not accustomed to playing subpar basketball, but the Bruins' opening effort coupled with an inspired effort from Ripon left them coping with only its third loss of the season, 58-48.
Things were business as usual for the Ripon Christian Knights, as they continued their dominance over the Southern League with a 78-52 win over Delhi Tuesday.
It's net-cutting week for area basketball teams zeroing in on league championships, while others are looking to improve their postseason standing.
Former East Union High standout Brittany LaMar is making an immediate impact for the William Jessup University softball team.
The Turlock Christian hangover was in full effect at the start of Ripon Christian's girls basketball contest with visiting Delhi Monday.
ESCALON – The Ripon High wrestling program exercised its dominance over the heralded Escalon Cougars on two separate occasions this season.
OAKDALE – When it was said and done Oakdale was still the league's dominant force, but Weston Ranch more than proved itself as the league's second in command.
With the ill effects of their first Valley Oak League loss looming over the East Union Lancers, the squad was able to pull out an always-challenging Sonora road victory with a 52-49 Friday.
LATHROP – After building an 18-point halftime lead, Lathrop put itself in position to post a huge Valley Oak League upset, but in the game's final 90 seconds Sierra's Guillermo Nunez came through with back-to-back 3-pointers to lead the Timberwolves to a 69-61 win Friday.
Brock Swift is East Union High's unsung hero.
SALIDA - The streak lives.
The Ripon Christian Knights clinched a first-place share of the Southern League Friday with a 74-35 victory at Turlock Christian.
RIPON - While putting the finishing touches on a decorated Ripon High athletic career, senior Jake McCreath took a few moments to ink his next commitment to play football for the Morningside College of Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday.
RIPON - Halie Bergman entered the ballgame midway through the third quarter with Turlock Christian trailing Ripon Christian 19-16 in Thursday's encounter between the Southern League's two best girls basketball teams.
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Andrew Brunn threw five innings of one-hit ball for Manteca, and freshman Ryan Ward allowed no hits and struck out five in two innings of ...
Sierra left it in the hands, or feet, of two senior captains to keep its Sac-Joaquin Section Division III title hopes alive in a well-contested ...
The fourth quarter was shaping up to be just like the rest of the game until Manteca's Jorge Cedano got into the act.
Ripon High will move on to the semifinals of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs.
STOCKTON – Sierra's Branden Rullan is going to the California State Wrestling Championships, and East Union's Jaysen Reindel is two wins away as the ...
RIPON - Ripon Christian put its size advantage to good use in defeating Aspire Langston Hughes Academy in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division V quarterfinal Friday.
SACRAMENTO - Ripon Christian gave top-seeded Bradshaw Christian all it could handle in a Sac-Joaquin Section Division VI semifinal on Friday.
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So i had to downgrade my PHP version because my custom menu wouldn't allow me to have any more than a certain number of links (I didn't count, so I don't know exactly). The best solution I could find was downgrading PHP to allow more links (because I use GoDaddy and apparently they don't deal with suhosin). My question is, in general do most plugins support PHP 5.2? I know I can check, but I have a lot of plugins on my site.
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in general do most plugins support PHP 5.2?
in general do most plugins support PHP 5.2?
In general, plugins hosted on WPORG and updated in the past 2 years should support PHP 5.2
I guess what I meant was, are there plugins that only support 5.3 but not 5.2? So downgrading would cause these not to work?
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The Rescue
Reviews of "The Rescue"
Music Existence
Project Grand Slam – The Rescue
Bandleader and bassist extraordinaire Robert Miller has guided the fortunes of his New York based outfit, Project Grand Slam, into garnering one of the most impressive live pedigrees in popular music today. The band has commanded the stages at some of the nation's most respected live venues like New York City's The Blue Note, the Manhattan Center, and the Iridium. Their talents have earned them opening spots for multiple Grammy award winning and multi-platinum artists, but their studio accomplishments are equally prodigious. Miller's influences are wide ranging, including a tremendous affection for fusion jazz from the 1970's, but while he doesn't bring that mode to bear on the band's latest single "The Rescue", everything Miller touches is infused with the same inspiration and daring that initially fired him as a young musician. This immaculately produced affair sparkles from first note to last with warm, robust attention to detail and a firm balance between the song's competing textual elements.
There's never any sense of the song lacking thanks to its instrumental status. Instead, the superb melodic strength of the instrumental voices, particularly brass and guitar, make the lack of a singer a non-issue. The guitar work strikes a startling balance between flash and understatement while the brass vocalizes over the top with a lot of fluency and verve. There are certainly faster tempos, but "The Rescue" pulses with a palpable sense of urgency from the first notes on. The best music always has a quality of musicians playing for their lives with a wide open sense of possibility and joy and the arrangement and execution of this track wholly embodies that ideal. It's nothing short of slightly astonishing how much attack and edge the band capably deliver in such a recognizable vehicle.
Miller's bass playing is the musical center. He's never merely running scales in counterpoint to the other instrumentalists. Instead, he juggles serving the song while still pulling it forward with the sheer focus and will of his bass playing. Miller vigorously pursues lines to their conclusion while never laying on too many notes and thus depriving the music of room to breathe. Virtuoso talents walk a careful line. Their playing can dominate a track and wow listeners with its technical skill, but such performances are rarely remembered. The players who find their own way to shine within the existing confines of a performance and concentrate on connecting with their audience are the performances we collectively remember.
Project Grand Slam's forthcoming studio album promises to be a doozy. As the first single reveals, this musical outfit continues maturing into a fluid articulation of various styles with a common reference point. Listeners are placed in the loving hands of virtuosos and they carry off their mandate beautifully and with great aplomb. Robert Miller and his cohorts in Project Grand Slam will wow many with this song and it promises even more greatness to come.
I-TUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-rescue-single/id1122844054
Jason Hillenburg
Indie Artists Alliance
Project Grand Slam – The Rescue
Robert Miller and Project Grand Slam know how to bring it together. The effortless sound of their latest single "The Rescue" previews their forthcoming full length release The Queen's Carnival with such confidence and off the cuff ease that you'd be tempted to believe the band rolls out of bed in the morning and creates such mini masterpieces with ease. No one who knows music believes that. The astonishing excellence of a song like "The Rescue" comes from the countless years that Miller and his collaborators have put into honing their musical skills and the innate talents that Fate sought to bestow upon them individually. Another crucial part of this puzzle is their instinct for presenting their creations in such a way that fully realizes their sonic potential. "The Rescue "simply couldn't be produced any better – there is such absolute resonance between each of the instruments and they are woven together with such tasteful precision that it is scarcely possible to imagine improvement. This is, again, the product of a superior talent. In this case, however, it isn't a singular superior talent – while bassist Robert Miller is certainly a master of his chosen instrument, the surrounding players on this song more than hold their own and shares his vision for Project Grand Slam's music.
Guitar blasts away to open the track, but the band quickly establishes a full throated groove including brass, organ, percussion, and bass. It's played well in the pocket and the swing Project Grand Slam strikes from the beginning is physically impossible to ignore. Toe-tappers? Nod your head along to the song? "The Rescue" will appeal to you immediately. The various musical elements are brought together with lean economy, none placed over another, and the band's sharp ear for synthesizing these elements plays an enormous part in the song's ultimate success. They emphasize the tasteful approach throughout and never burden their performance with cluttered instrumental passages or an inexplicable desire to hog the listener's attention for themselves. Instead, they play in accord with one another and obviously listen to the path they take.
The drumming and bass playing provide the necessary ballast, while the lead instruments do an excellent job balancing the direct and counterpointing melodies. The song never overstays its welcome and Project Grand Slam concludes the song in rousing fashion without ever conforming too much about listener's possible expectations in that area. It is refreshing to hear a band so successfully combine an aesthetics first approach with a gleeful, romping approach to attacking a song arrangement for everything its worth. The attitude results in constantly fulfilling moments, a satisfying and enduring tribute to their skill and it's earned them a place of great respect in the popular music community. Songs like "The Rescue" are the best possible evidence for why Grammy award winning and widely popular artists have enlisted their services as an opening act. Make no mistake however – Project Grand Slam are no one's warm up band. They are titanic talents and their continued rise is inevitable.
James Parker
Beach Sloth
Stylistically blending jazz and funk into a satisfying whole, Project Grand Slam's The Rescue is a radiant joy! Chock full of energy the thing sings so sweetly. Without saying a word an entire narrative is formed. The chops displayed throughout the song are quite impressive from the taut guitar riffs to the luxurious saxophone to the expressive keyboards. Project Grand Slam lets each of these instruments take up the center stage as they shift from solo to solo, showing off the playful nature of the piece as each has their own take on the track's main theme. By doing this Project Grand Slam presents a song that positively bursts with a celebratory spirit. Jumping right into it the groove starts off quite hot. Everything feels perfectly placed from the giddy percussion to the glistening keyboards that help to anchor the rhythm. Throughout it all the saxophone takes center stage as it careens with great abandon, letting distortion and other elements give it shape. Upon dropping out for a brief bit the guitar shows off its incredible soloing as the saxophone flirts with the overall mood of the piece. For the final solo the keyboard gets a little attention as it allows the song to take a lounge-like melody to grow ever larger and larger. Once everything is tied together the piece follows effortlessly with the saxophone reemerging for the last few moments. Project Grand Slam's "The Rescue" is an infinitely catchy, all-engrossing piece, one that presents a dazzling display of color.
Project Grand Slam new single 'The Rescue'
Website: www.ProjectGrandSlam.com
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One of our favorite groups Project Grand Slam just released a new single and music video entitled 'The Rescue'. The New York Jazz-Rock fusion band lead by bassist/composer Robert Miller has a new album coming out August 19th, and this is the first single to be released from it. The official release date for the single is July 1st.
The intro riff to 'The Rescue' immediately grabs a hold of you and you begin to feel the groove. The song is instrumental, but you don't need lyrics when the music speaks to you. Robert Miller said this song didn't necessarily start out this way, he was originally inspired by Cream's song 'Crossroads' (one of his all time favorite songs, and ours) then throughout the writing/jamming process the song became this funky little gem it is now. Let the song rescue you from your day and enjoy!
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Project Grand Slam – The Rescue
While bassist and bandleader Robert Miller is known as a high-minded jazz afficianado and one of the best players in the genre today, his influences span much wider. The British Invasion had a pivotal effect on his musical education, like it did with so many other young men and women at the time, and provided much of the initial spark that pushed Miller into pursuing bass guitar. Listeners can hear a lot of the same timeless, youthful passion on Project Grand Slam's latest single, "The Rescue". The song never risks self-indulgence and, while it chases after familiar ends musically, it does so with rare style and deceptive sophistication. The cliché about a band playing tightly together is no cliché here. Project Grand Slam are aptly named – every outing from this band steams ahead and over listeners with tremendous skill and power.
The song is aptly titled as well. It is surging from the outset, embodying the urgency of the title with every bit of the commitment it deserves. The rhythm section, particularly Miller's bass playing, certainly clears the way for the rest of the band, but the guitars, organ, and brass instruments ably respond to the tempo. The guitar work carries ample bite without ever attempting to overtake the proceedings and the restraint illustrates a fundamental lesson. It isn't the notes you play, it's the ones you don't. Taste is paramount. The members of Project Grand Slam aren't out to prove anything on this song except that they intend on fulfilling the composition's potential and providing their audiences with the best possible performance.
The organ is an unexpected and thrilling touch. The instrument has largely fallen out of favor in modern music, but its potential for added new textures and rounding out the sound still makes it one of the most unique voices in popular music. The song is primarily led by the horn and guitar work with the six string acting largely as support or counterpoint. The brass soars with wildly enthusiastic melodies, but knows when to pull back on the reins and concentrate on conveying meaning through melody. It is certainly the strongest musical embodiment of the song title – the rising and falling captures the thrilling implications of a rescue without ever belaboring its point.
Project Grand Slam's opening single to their forthcoming new album is reliably inventive, distinctive, and works solidly within established traditions without ever being beholden to them. Miller and his collaborators are expert at bringing together a melting pot of influences, filtering them through their individual consciousness, and producing memorable modern renderings of classic musical formulas. This is far from imitative. It is exactly what genres like jazz, blues, and other forms require for continued relevancy in the 21st century.
Robert Miller, the band's artistic visionary, sounds like he is coming home again, in certain respects. If there was a day when his primary aim was to impress people with his bass playing, that day has long passed. Project Grand Slam isn't the work of callow youth, yearning for approval, but rather a labor of love infused with a singular sense of purpose.
I-TUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-rescue-single/id1122844054
Lydia Hillenburg
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Project Grand Slam – The Rescue
New York City has, naturally, produced a bevy of individual and group talents in popular music. One of two centers for the music industry in North America, the other being Los Angeles, the nation's largest metropolitan area in the United States has traditionally been the home for cutting edge jazz and R&B influenced acts. Bassist Robert Miller can be included in the ranks of the giants who've made this reputation possible. As leader of the outfit Project Grand Slam, Miller has grown a unit capable of tremendous musical peaks and fearless invention. Their stylistic range is wide. Ultimately, they sound like a spectacularly conceived clearing house for the most American of musical forms, and their expression of jazz, funk, R&B, and blues even makes room under its tent for rock and roll attitude and a beaming sense of fun. This isn't morose music. Project Grand Slam might have titled their latest effort "The Rescue", but the new single bristles and sparks with unusual energy. The band's invocation of traditional forms is far from reverent.
The brio they bring comes through in the first seconds. Forceful guitar playing opens things and the band is off, speeding along with a tangible sense of restraint, yet a clear-eyed sense of the limits they can explore. "The Rescue" is an immaculately arranged piece. There isn't a single passage that sounds out of place and the performance unfolds with a comforting inevitability that hits all the right notes for experienced music devotees. Novices will find the song equally entertaining. Despite the pedigree of the band's individual players, the track has a pronounced accessibility that will easily draw many in and leave them with a smile plastered across their faces by the song's conclusion.
The song's individual instrumental parts all shine. The guitar work runs from heavily influenced funk passages over to other bruising moments when an outright rock spirit punches through. The rhythm section work is remarkably powerful, but never bulldozes listeners. Bass and drums lock into a seamless dance featuring a number of surprising and rhythmically exciting variations. Organ makes an appearance as well and pours a smattering of octane on an already blazing fire. The added flair from inspired inclusions like this help push an already great song over the top, but the song's crowning grace comes from the use of brass. The horn playing has a commanding touch that helps the song sing with every ounce of the facility and passion even the best vocalist could have brought to a possible lyric.
Project Grand Slam deserves mentioning as among the best musical acts produced by American culture in the last quarter century. Their body of work isn't yet extensive, but the quality has been at a level suggesting much more than mere entertaining is guiding the day, but legacy building. Few outfits bring such a commitment to exploring musical possibilities and capturing an audience in the palm of their hands. With "The Rescue", Project Grand Slam accomplishes both feats with ease.
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Project Grand Slam – The Rescue
The melodic and musical sophistication of Project Grand Slam helps them standout even in a relatively small field of similarly geared bands. These are musicians with daring and the good sense to use their daring in imaginative ways. The band's output has been distinguished from its formation by an obvious commitment to crafting entertaining, yet musically rich, material that honors the past and presents an uniquely personal face. While Robert Miller can certainly lay claim to ranking among the world's best bass players, he clearly works hard and surrounds himself with like-minded musicians concerned, first and foremost, with structuring the material in a compelling fashion and never risking self-indulgence. His supporting cast is every bit as skilled and help him create a fantastic song with "The Rescue".
The song is one part relentless blues boogie with strains of fusion, R&B, funk, and even a smattering of rock bleeding through. The band sets an impressive pace from the beginning and their sure-footed interplay, with Miller's bass giving everything a sturdy and melodically superior spine, sounds convinced from the opening and never loses its way. Few, if any, listeners will bemoan the song's instrumental status and lack of vocals thanks to the assertive and intensely varied approach taken by the brass. The guitar work provides able support, but it flares to life occasionally with vivid fills and a stirring sense of attack that gives the track added energy.
Project Grand Slam understands that song length is an important component in its success. "The Rescue" stays on track from the beginning, focusing on what is essential and foregoing the rest, and this sort of approach is the natural product of outstanding musicians who know what matters. There are no egos here. Instead, Project Grand Slam personifies in a vivid way what the term "band" ideally means – a collaborative artistic venture where skilled artisans are working together to achieve the same end. On "The Rescue", there's never a second when the band's unified approach is doubtful.
Some of the song's musical highlights arrive by surprise. The inclusion of memorable, but never overwrought, organ peppers the song with a flavorful retro sound. It sharpens the edges of the arrangement as well, doubling the guitars with its meaty musical voice, and further rounding off the sound. Another of the defining qualities setting this song apart is its rambunctiousness and few parts of "The Rescue" better illustrate that than the organ playing. As they pull from various schools of musical thought to shape their sound, Project Grand Slam is likewise unafraid to tamper with their formulas to achieve idiosyncratic ends.
They have opened for national and globally respected headliners and graced the stages of some of the country's best concert venues. Project Grand Slam has earned plaudits from every quarter thanks to their singular talents and their capacity for reinvention. Everything feels new again in a Project Grand Slam song and their obvious enthusiasm makes their talents all the more memorable.
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May 9, 2017
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Airy Acres Vineyard
8011 Footes Corners Road
Interlaken, NY 14847
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Tailgate MeetingMay 9, 2017
These meetings are held every other week at various grape farms around the Finger Lakes, and are intended to be informal, small-group meetings where FLGP staff and growers can ask questions and discuss issues about vineyard management, IPM strategies or other topics appropriate for that point in the growing season. 0.75 pesticide recertification credits will be available for attending each meeting.
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Tailgate Meeting
May 9, 2017Our second tailgate meeting of 2017 will take place on May 9 at Airy Acres Vineyards in Interlaken.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Interlaken, NY
Respirator Fit Test and Training
May 11, 2017The Finger Lakes Grape Program will be hosting a team from Thompson Health for respirator fit testing and training. Growers may sign up for a 20 minute appointment. Thompson Health's standard fees for the service will apply.
8:30 AM - 4 PM by appointment
Penn Yan, NY
For more information, contact the Finger Lakes Grape Program office at (315) 536-5134.
Finger Lakes Spring Grape IPM Meeting
May 23, 2017The Finger Lakes Spring Grape IPM Meeting is back this year! Come hear updates on disease and insect management, proper sprayer operation, the role of weather stations in pest management and more, and then enjoy dinner and social time with fellow growers.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Prattsburgh, NY
This year's meeting will be held at Vine Country Farms in Pulteney NY on May 23, 2017 from 4:30 - 6:00 PM. Dinner will be provided, so registration is required. There is no charge for 2017 FLGP enrollees.
Changes to Agricultural Worker Protection StandardChanges made by the Environmental Protection Agency to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard went into effect on January 2, 2017 and are directly relevant to many farms and workers in the grape industry.
More information can be found here.
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If ever there were a course that needs a book like Raffi Grinberg's The Real Analysis Lifesaver: All the Tools You Need to Understand Proofs (Princeton University Press, 20170, analysis is unquestionably it, and I only wish that Raffi had gotten into the wayback machine and delivered me a copy when I was taking this course more than half a century ago. I got a C+, and almost certainly would have done a lot better if I'd had this book, and so will present and future students who struggle with this course.


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i'm truly sorry to hear you're closing down and will miss all of your great panels and planes however i would like to wish you all the best in the future and will look forward to seeing some more botamer/grabowski work;-)
Bill's still gonna work on panels, and I am still gonna work on planes, but there hasn't been much going on with the site lately, and its easier for me to just upload everything to avsim's file library than try and maintain the site. The EMB-120s, ERJ-145XR, ERJ-140, and the custom version of the panel have already been uploaded, and as I get the time the ERJ-135s, -145s, and Legacy's will be uploaded there as well.
good to here that. what sort of planes are you wanting to work on?
Not so much wanting to work on, but nearly ready to release. Just check the news pages at the various flightsim sites and you should find out soon.
If no objections from Nick and Bill, I am offering a free name + space + support + maintenance + portuguese version for continuity of "Project-ERJ".
Avsim is a great site, but is much more confortable get all things togheter in a unique place.
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Who is your favorite team for the 51st Super Bowl later today? Personally, I don't have a dog in this fight since my Denver Broncos are not involved, but I do have a favorite, though I'm not going to express it here. As an author, I think it's a wise idea to never get publicly involved by taking sides in politics, religion or sports. Sometimes that takes a lot of teeth gritting, but I can do this and it works for me.
With all of the civil unrest and political infighting in our normally peaceful country right now, I think watching a football game for three hours or more will be a wonderful distraction. Have you noticed any additional stress in your own life since all you see and hear on social media or the television is who doesn't like what and how they intend to make it known? Perhaps they will simply peacefully march and protest or they may decide to block a highway, set buildings and cars on fire, throw rocks at the police or totally disrupt and destroy someone's event, no matter what it is.
What all of that has done for me is simply make me spend very little time on social media sights and to watch either a funny sitcom or a good movie on television now and then.
I am reading a lot of good books instead of doing any of those other things and making great strides writing my next book called SNOW ANGEL, a sequel to FOOTPRINTS IN THE FROST. I'm also creating a few entries for the 2017 Public Safety Writers Associations Writing Competition in Las Vegas in July. The deadline for entries is May 1st, so it's looming large.
Odd as this sounds, what is being accomplished is some of us are beginning to start living more productive lives once more and ignoring that which brings unpleasantness into our private world. So, in my opinion, we are slowly, but surely turning something negative into something positive and that's how it should be. There's an old saying, "It's an ill wind that doesn't blow some good." That's not verbatim, but it's close.
Where I live, we have an added contender with a winter storm warning for one to two feet of snow, starting tonight and ending sometime on Wednesday. We've just enjoyed a couple of weeks of sunny, warm, snow-melting days, so looks like it's back to winter, as usual, this time of year.
I hope your team wins today and that you enjoy the game, the legendary Super Bowl ads and the half time show. You can leave a comment and let me know you stopped by and, if you like, tell me what you are doing these days.
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On Friday night, January 6, 2017 at 6:15 PM, one of our carbon monoxide alarms suddenly went live. It wouldn't stop, even when I took it outside. When the second one alarmed, I called 911 and the police and fire department arrived, with us outside as directed, even though it was only 7 degrees. They found carbon monoxide in our master bedroom and master bathroom on what is the third level of our house, the ground level being the foyer, my husband's shop in what is actually a garage, though it's never been used for one. We also have two other rooms and a bath on the ground level. However, they could not locate any source of the deadly gas. So, we had to pack ourselves and the cat up and move to a motel a few blocks away and at which my daughter-in-law had obtained a large suite for us to use for the night.
The following day, as directed by the fire department, I called the heating/plumbing company to check the three natural gas appliances in our home – furnace/water heater/drier and found zero CO. The fire chief had volunteered to come back and check with him and he also found zero CO. However, we were told to have carbon monoxide detectors (we already had three) in all bedrooms and on each floor of our house, which we now have for a total of six.
On Monday, another technician from the heating company appeared at our door to do a courtesy check, to make certain all is well. And yesterday, the heating company came and changed our vinyl exhaust pipe to the gas drier to sheet metal. Apparently, that is a new federal housing code rule. The old vinyl style is considered to be a fire hazard, plus there's always a chance a hole might appear in such a vent pipe.
I can now tell you how scary it is to lie down in your bed at night with the knowledge you just may never wake up again due to carbon monoxide. The fire department moved one of the detectors inside our bedroom and I keep another just outside of it. At this point, that is what I depend on to warn us, should we be in danger. Two years ago, we purchased our detectors after a couple was found dead from carbon monoxide in a motel room in a distant town.
This is something each and every one of you should do for your safety because it is odorless and deadly. With nothing showing CO in our case, the only possible explanation is that earlier, my husband had our Jeep running just outside the open garage door in the basement while he used an acetylene torch to thaw the hydraulic lift on the snow plow. He also had our pickup truck running with the exhaust pointing in the exact opposite direction from the Jeep, but also right outside and parallel to the open garage door. Speculation is that the furnace, just inside the door, sucked the exhaust into the house and spread it through the ducts and upstairs. Our house is an open chalet style, but the bedroom and bathrooms do have walls and doors, though the doors were open.
A weather inversion can also cause carbon monoxide when it doesn't allow your appliances outside vents to work properly. It was unusually cold the night of our own experience.
Also, in spite of the hatred for law enforcement and firemen today, always support and be grateful for your police and fire departments because they may be the ones who save your life sometime.
I'm writing this as a public service announcement to make sure you have adequate carbon monoxide detectors wherever you are. They also might save your life some day or night. Having them saved ours.
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Sitting here in my Colorado mountain tourist town home on New Year's Eve, I discovered that it is sad as we approach the ending of each year because, in spite of the rampant remarks about the bad things that happened in 2016, there were also many good things. But as I was pondering this subject, I wandered many years back to some things that used to be, but are no more. Two recent losses sent me there.
Back in the early 80s, my ex-husband and I bought a lot downtown and erected a commercial building on it. It housed a rental apartment on the top floor, my bookstore just above ground level and a rental store below that. My ex had an office in the back of the bookstore for his CPA practice and the bookstore shared it for its office, as well .
One day I was working in the bookstore alone when in walked none other than Debbie Reynolds, whose parents lived here at the time. Her mother was a rather wonderfully extroverted character, but in a good, down-to-earth way. Everybody local knew and loved her. I only saw Debbie's father one time and he appeared to be a rather quiet gentleman. But our meeting was brief, so I don't really know.
Debbie's father loved books and especially Louis L'Amour's, so she was always shopping for those and other westerns for him. Imagine my surprise when, while browsing the shelves, she suddenly started singing "Tammy's In Love" as I answered my ringing store telephone that day.
Another time, she and Carrie Fisher came in to shop and Carrie volunteered to send an autograph home to my then teenage son, which she signed Princess Leia. She was at the height of her fame for that role at the time.
The last time I saw Debbie was when she rode beside another local resident, Dennis Weaver, in the July 4th parade a few years ago. And now, sadly, they are all gone. Even though I heard it said on a recent show about them that Debbie and Carrie were "big deal and high maintenance broads," neither of them acted that way when they were here and I am proud to have had the privilege of meeting both of them. Dennis Weaver was the same – unpretentious and always out and about and approachable, though we tend to let the movie stars alone around here because I think they come here to escape that sort of thing.
To pull myself out of this roaming back into the past, which was provoked by the two deaths, I told myself that, even though this night was to be an ending, it is also a wonderful, new beginning. I don't make resolutions anymore, but I do have high hopes that 2017 is going to be an outstandingly wonderful year for us all.
The month of December has been an interesting one around our house this year. We have an infestation of those aggravating little black gnats and I finally figured out they secretly sneaked into the house via a bag of planting soil that was open in the basement. For whatever reason, they love hanging out around my computer monitor, which I consider to be odd, not to mention extremely irritating.
We have a cute little ermine that's hanging around in his white winter coat that turns brown in the summer. They've been around our house for years, for whatever reason, and are cute to watch. They turn white in winter to match the snow and have a little black tip on the end of their tail. This photo only shows half his long slim body.
My husband had an 80-mile round trip to the ER the other night due to double vision that lasted about half way there. After a zillion tests, blood draw and CT scans of his brain/neck/blood vessels, nothing was found to be wrong. The family doc and I think he had an ocular migraine. That's so much better than a stroke or TIA.
Five weeks ago, our cat went into congestive heart failure on a trip to the vet in the same town where the hospital is and had an overnight stay. Yesterday, he had to go back for a checkup and his lungs are clear, he's greatly improved and she's cutting his meds down now. He's a Siamese and we bought and flew him here in 2004 as an 18th anniversary present to each other, which makes him super special, as does his loving personality. He's the baby we didn't have together.
I had a lovely surprise when a local newspaper reporter called and did an interview with me as one of many local authors. She wrote a very nice article that appeared this week. And two days ago, I nervously forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and take a leap into an offer from a public relations firm for 2017. What do I have to lose with professional publicity? The bonus is I gain more time to write.
I just noticed Christmas and the beginning of Hanukkah are both on December 25th this year, which seems unusual. So, I want to take this time to wish each and every one of you a wonderful and Merry Christmas or a Happy Hanukkah and let's all pray that 2017 brings us all peace and prosperity. May the unrest and hatred over the election finally disappear and we can, once again, love one another. I think my cousin in San Antonio, Texas summed it up beautifully when he told me, "Blessings abound during Christmas time. Let it be so!"


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Investment companies take perverse pleasure in baffling ordinary folk with obscure products, but they really pushed the boat out with split capital investment trusts. A shame, really, because they offer investors the possibility of attractive, if sometimes risky, returns.
Investment companies take perverse pleasure in baffling ordinary folk with obscure products, but they really pushed the boat out with split capital investment trusts. A shame, really, because they offer investors the possibility of attractive, if sometimes risky, returns.
Split caps - or splits as they are sometimes called - are a breed of investment trust. Investment trusts are companies quoted on the Stock Exchange which invest in the shares of other companies, providing a broad spread of managed investments.
Investment trusts have been around since the 19th century, but splits only arrived on the scene in the 1960s. They are rapidly growing in popularity, with more than 20 new launches in the past 18 months. They are offered by big-name fund managers such as Fleming, Framlington, Gartmore, Henderson, Jupiter and Schroder, plus some less well-known names. Recent launches include Aberdeen European Growth & Income Trust, launched in November.
Like investment trusts, splits run one portfolio of investments, but they issue several types of share designed to appeal to specific investors. Originally, there were two classes of share, income and capital - by concentrating exclusively on either capital or income, investors would potentially receive greater returns.
Splits now come in different share classes, the most common being zero dividend preference shares (aka zeros), income shares, ordinary income shares and capital shares. Splits have a fixed winding-up date, when the various returns are divvied up and paid to shareholders. The share classes are ranked on where they stand in the pecking order when it comes to receiving a payout, with zeros first in line and therefore the safest investment, and capital shares last and therefore most risky.
Mark Dampier, head of research at Hargreaves Lansdown, says: "After a difficult time performance has improved and you can get returns of between 8 and 10.5 per cent. With low interest rates this is an attractive return, and if rates fall further next year as many predict, it will look even better."
Zeros pay a fixed capital return at redemption but, as their name suggests, they pay no income. "You can avoid paying tax on your returns using your £7,200 capital gains tax allowance. A higher-rate taxpayer paying tax on large sums of money sitting in a building society account will find that zeros have a lot to offer."
The Close FTSE 100 Trust-Zero tops the performance charts over the last 12 months, returning 11.55 per cent, say figures from Micropal. Returns typically hover between 6 and 8 per cent. Mr Dampier's preferred zeros are BFS Income & Growth, Jupiter Dividend & Growth and JZ Equity Partners-Zero. The other type of split Mr Dampier uses are frequently ordinary income shares. These offer a high income plus the chance to receive the surplus assets of the investment trust when it winds up, after other higher-priority share classes have been repaid (zeros, another type of share called stepped preference shares, and income shares are paid first). It is a relatively high-risk investment, and dividend and capital returns depend on the performance of the trust managers. "You can get returns of 8 to 9 per cent, and sometimes even 12 per cent, but a fund paying that much would be incredibly volatile," says Mr Dampier.
He says most investors should avoid individual ordinary income shares, and spread their risks by investing in a pooled fund. Hargreaves Lansdown runs its own fund, the HL Income & Growth Trust, for those who want to spread their bets. Legg Mason Utilities has topped the Micropal rankings for ordinary income shares over the last one, three and five years.
James Dalby, investment specialist at Bates Investment Services in Leeds, also prefers zeros and ordinary income shares, but warns: "Ordinary income shares offer the potential for income and capital growth, and can be used by mainstream investors to add oomph to their portfolio. But before recommending them to clients, I make sure they grasp the concept of investment trusts and the greater complexity of split caps."
Mr Dalby uses two other types of splits - income shares and capital shares, only rarely. Income shares offer the prospect of far higher yields than you could expect to receive from conventional shares, possibly with some capital growth when the trust winds up. "Some have offered income well into double figures, but there is no guarantee you will get your initial capital back at the winding-up date. With some you can get next to none of your capital back, which makes income shares more like an annuity," he says. His recommended income share is BFS Income & Growth. "I only recommend these for people who require high income immediately, as their initial capital is very much at risk."
Capital shares are last in line when the assets of the split are shared out, only receiving their entitlement after all other classes of shares have taken their fill. This makes them a high-risk investment, but since they are entitled to all remaining assets, if the trust performs well the capital return can be excellent.
For those interested in capital shares, Mr Dalby recommends Exeter Capital Growth, a unit trust that invests in the capital shares of investment trusts, with good recent performance.
But for Bhavesh Amlani, director of London-based financial advisers Simple Savings, splits are a risk too far. "Most people want something they understand, and they are put off by the complexity of splits."
Doing the splits may not be for everybody, but for more experienced investors, the rewards may be worth the risk.
Contacts: Hargreaves Lansdown 0117 900 9000; Bates Investment Services 0113 295 5955; Simple Savings 020 8863 4100
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