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Hey Dance Moms nation! Did you know that everyone is replaceable on this team?! And also that no one is safe?! Have you heard? About a million freakin' times??
I gotta hand it to whomever titles these bad boys, though. This one was actually officially called "Nothing's Fair in Abbyville." So at least we're no longer pretending it is. Maybe next week's can be called "Nothing Makes Sense in Abbyville" and the one after that "Nothing is Fun in Abbyville."
Admitting you have a problem is the first step, people.
Anyway, we start out in LA where Abby and the Zeigler/Gisoni ladies are at "Recording Studio" "recording" Mackenzie's first single. Abby — who is wearing a shirt mysteriously bedazzled with ama@inc on the front — says she must make sure that the child has the appropriate amount of energy when she sings. She demonstrates. I wish I could show you, but Lifetime's moratorium on providing Dance Moms screeners is still firmly in place, so I'm going to have to improvise again. It actually did look a little something like this, only just from the waist up.
Also, I know a bunch of you are big fans of Mackie's singing but here is the truth: the kid can sing like your basic, not-tone-deaf kid and that is about it. I would dearly love to pretend otherwise. But that's the truth. Energy, ama@inc, "recording studio" or otherwise.
Then Mack, Melissa and Abby fly back to Pittsburgh, while Maddie stays behind in LA "doing a job" and "tending to her own deal." So sayeth Abby. This means she must find a replacement Maddie back in PA.
Let's start with the pyramid.
NIa is bottom of the bottom. Her solo was bad. Plus, she cried. No and no.
Then Kendall. When Kalani dueted with Maddie, they won. When she dueted with Kendall, they lost.
But maybe it was Kalani's fault, too. Because she's next on the bottom.
Row 2 starts with Chloe. Her duet won, but her facial expressions were losers.
Then Mack. She was outstanding with that candy box.
Yes, says Christi, but Chloe was part of the winning duet and the winning group. Yes, says Abby, but she wasn't outstanding with the candy box. One candy box trumps two winning dances in Abbyville.
This is the first image that comes up when you Google "outstanding with the candy box" — with the safe search on, mind you. I am not responsible for what happens to you if you search that with it off.
Congratulations to this guy for being outstanding the with the candy box, too. Or getting a candy box for being outstanding. I didn't stick around long enough to find out.
Maddie is top of the pyramid. Jill says that' so predictable. Isn't that sad, agrees Abby. I give Abby the last word on this one.
This week, we will be going to Masters of Dance Arts in Ft. Wayne. Abby says she has 7 consecutive group-dance wins in a row and she's gunning for 8 with a routine called The Bite. Anyone who thinks that's random after the Battle in the Bronx? Anyone?
Mack gets a jazz/gymnastic solo that at first I think is called Wreck, but is actually called Red.
Kalani gets a lyrical dance called Swan Solstice. The longest day of the swan? Whatever. It makes sense to Abby. This is what you get when you Google "Swan Solstice." Also a nebula and a close-up of plums.
That's very pretty, Amanda Clark. I award you a candy box in art.
Chloe gets a lyrical solo that I think Abby calls Heat, but I'm not sure.
Then Abby announces that we will be doing an improv competition to determine who takes Maddie's place in the … I'm not sure what .. but anyway, the Moms will judge and they can't pick their own kid.
After the first go-round, Jill picks Kendall anyway, then Kalani.
Kira picks Chloe.
Holly picks Chloe.
Melissa picks Kalani.
Christi picks Kendall.
Nia and Kenzie are ousted.
Kalani is eliminated in Round 2, because Nia and Kenzie get to vote, too.
It's down to Chloe and Kendall.
Kendall takes it. Whatever the hell it is. The lead in the group, I guess. Time to practice the solos.
Upstairs in the Mom Loft, we half-heartedly discuss whether Abby will ever put Maddie up against Kendall. Then Christi's phone rings.
Kelly calling!!! She invites Christi to catch up over lunch. Kira wants to come, too. Kelly says whatever, buttinsky, but allows it. Christi extends the invite to everyone.
Holly and Melissa flat-out call Kira weird for wanting to go, but Kira persists. Secretly (not so secretly) she just wants to come along make sure Kelly and the girls are not coming back. Oh, Kira. This really isn't you.
Lunch will take place at D'Imperio's, where hospitality has been an art since 1977 and they have a special menu for Homecoming and prom. Here is D'Imperio's in the '70s. I think you should still have to dress like this to go there.
Kelly and Christi arrive first. An eerily somber Kelly says she doesn't miss anything about the ALDC. Christi says she has never felt so alone. Kelly says with friends like Melissa, who needs enemies. Then the rest of the gang shows up. Kelly formally introduces herself to Kira, to make the point that the Kelly she met at the studio and in the Bronx is not the Kelly she's getting here.
Then she tells the women that her girls haven't said boo about coming back, and Holly tells us that it's very clear that there's no going back for Kelly, either.
Jill gets nosey about the charges and Kelly flat-out tells her that the only people who called to inquire about her and the girls' well-being after they were pretty much sold up the river by the Dance Moms producers were Holly and Christi. Jill takes a sip of her drink and tries again. Kelly stares at her hard and tells her there is more going on than what went down in NYC.
Back in the studio, Maddie's back but Abby says Kendall gets to keep her starring role and Maddie needs to be graceful about it. But then she walks it back. Christi notices that Kalani actually appears to be leading the dance.
Jill is indignant. "Abby you're not even pretending to stand by your word and I think it is ridiculous," she huffs.
Jill used to wear stuff like this. It was ridiculous, too. I miss those days.
Abby says the Chloe vs. Kalani solo battle is intended to see who will lead the team when Maddie is not around. According to this, that should happen long about episode 16, when we get a whole raft of new dancers.
Then we talk about the possibility of a Maddie versus Kalani showdown. Melissa says she doesn't believe anybody can beat Maddie with a solo. Sorry. But them's the facts. Then we go back to fretting about who gets to bite the apple the most in the group dance.
All this talk about biting the apple makes me miss Rachelle Rak. It's her signature move. Actually, she seemed to have a lot of them.
But, anyway, we didn't know there even was an apple to bite until Maddie was holding it. Not. Fair.
Rehearsing her solo, Abby tells Mackenzie she has to start moving like a teenager if she wants to be a pop star. Melissa is more practical. She likes that the dance is more grown up because Kenzie's going up an age group next year.
Plus, now Abby can chew Mackie a new one for every other move like she does the rest of the almost-teenagers, except her sister. So bonus!
Up in the Mom Loft, Kira rags on Abby a little, but only a little, to try to win the trust of the Pitt Crew. And speaking of Abby, here she is. She starts out by telling Melissa that she's not sure Mack belongs in the group dance, but that's just an excuse to gain admittance into the treehouse. She's really here to chastise the group for going for a "lovey-dovey" lunch with her sworn enemy. Jill protests that it wasn't all that lovey-dovey. But Abby says they're stupid anyway. Traitors. People who are no longer members of the ALDC should not know what's going on inside the ALDC. The first rule of Bite Club is you don't talk about Bite Club.
So the moral of the story is they can stab her in the back all they want, but she'll retaliate by taking their kid off the team. Nothing's fair in Abbyville.
On the bus to Fort Wayne, Abby says she isn't sure this group dance is a winner. And speaking of losers, she heard that Christi gave another dance parent a door-ding in the parking lot and instead of apologizing, she told them not to even think about suing her, because she doesn't make any money. And that's just ignorant. And if Christi doesn't like her saying so, she can just get off the bus.
There is not a drinking game called Get Off the Bus, but there IS one called Ride the Bus. You can learn to play it here. Also, good God, Lifetime, please give me my screeners back. This having to Kerouac it is just plain weird.
After tormenting the various soloist before they perform, Abby climbs back on her soapbox with her whole "Whoever is not with me is against me" spiel — only less biblical — and reminds the mothers that Kelly is a cancer and a poison and you can either be Kelly's friend or Abby's client, but not both. And that's a promise.
Chloe's solo goes first. It's pretty and expressive, but nothing terribly memorable. Still, Christi says it reminded her of the old Chloe.
Maddie coaches Kalani backstage before her solo, which highlights her ballet background, and, for those of us who watched Abby's Ultimate, how much more mature she looks than when she was on AUDC. I'll get past it, but she was such a leggy, dainty little filly not so long ago that this teenager-looking version is tripping me up a little. Abby emotes her head off in the crowd.
And must every friggin' solo end with the dancers lying on the stage? Abby, for my sake, get a new capper.
Melissa makes sassy face in the audience during Mackenzie's sassy solo. Then Mack's hairpiece falls out, which we all know is the Kiss of Death in Abbyville. But at least she can't blame this one on Christi.
Backstage, the mothers decide that everyone did really well, until Abby gets there to set them straight. Kalani was great. Chloe was good. Mackenzie was EMBARRASSING! Abby will not let her fail at music for the sake dance or fail at dance for the sake of music. Or fail at hair piece for the sake of drama.
Jill decides to fail at hush the hell up . She goes after Abby about what Kendall's special part might be for winning the dance off. Abby fumbles around about showing up for class on time and being devoted to dance and then basically just flips her @#$% and says Kendall should open her damn mouth if she wants a special part.
The camera angles for the group dance are deeply hideous, catching a lot of empty stage space between dancers and giving no real sense of what the thing looked like as a whole. Hopefully they will post the full dance tomorrow, so we can see what it was really all about. And whether apple-biting responsibilities were shared equitably.
Come Awards time, Mackenzie, Kalani and the group dance win their divisions and Chloe gets second. The awards lady says Kalani's and Chloe's scores were very, very close.
Kira says Kalani's skill level is far above Chloe's and backstage, she tells Abby that it's only fair that Maddie and Kalani go head to head. Abby looks like she's speaking a foreign language and says it will never happen. Maddie's been beaten and she knows it. But that's not the point. The point is that Kalani is able to win every time Abby enters her in something.
That's the same thing, Abby. Unless you mean every time you enter her something Maddie's not a part of, too. Then it's just weird.
Then she turns to Chloe and tells her she has earned the right to private lessons again and Christi protests that she has been taking them. Abby calls her Satan and flounces out.
Next week, Kira gets a special trip to NYC with Mommy!
So what say you, Dance Moms nation? Is it about time we get to see Maddie and Replacement Maddie go head to head? Are you surprised that the dancers weren't dressed like Kelly for a dance called Bite Me? Would it have been a better dance if they had been? Should we just get on with introducing the new team already? Sounds off in the comments section below.
New episodes of Dance Moms air Tuesday nights at 9/8CT on Lifetime.


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WT-5721 433 MHz Radio Controlled Projection Alarm Instruction Manual PR OJECTION...
Topic Inventory of Contents/ Additional Equipment About WWVB Quick Set-Up Guide Detailed Set-Up Guide Battery Installation Program Mode Programming Sequence Function Buttons Time Zone Setting DST (Daylight Saving Time) Setting Adjustable Snooze Time Setting Date Setting 12/24-Hour Setting Selecting °F or °C Features &...
1) WT-5721 Alarm Clock 2) TX2U Remote temperature transmitter 3) AC adapter/transformer 4) Instruction manual and warranty card. ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT (not included) 1) Two fresh 1.5V AA batteries (optional for alarm clock) 2) Two fresh 1.5V AAA batteries (for remote transmitter) FEATURES OF PROJECTION ALARM Operation of these features is in section III.
4) If there is no WWVB reception, manually set the time and date (instructions in the Program Mode). 5) Program the settings. 6) Mount the WT-5721 in a suitable location, where WWVB and transmitter signals can be received. 7) Mount the transmitter where remote temperature measurement is desired (on the North side of a house for example).
BATTERY INSTALLATION A. REMOTE TEMPERATURE TRANSMITTER 1. Remove the battery cover. Observing the correct polarity, install 2 AAA batteries. The batteries will fit tightly (to avoid start-up problems make sure that they do not spring free during installation). 2. Replace the battery cover. B.
To enter the Program Mode hold down the "SET" button for 1 second, until the time zone ("-5" default) flashes in the lower left. The Program Mode Guide is laid out in a manner that allows you to program each function separately, or you can follow the instructions entirely to program the Projection alarm.
displayed to the right of the time display. Atlantic Time Eastern Time (default setting) Central Time Mountain Time Pacific Time Alaskan Time -10h Hawaiian Time -11h, -12h Next two time zones West of HAW Greenwich Mean Time -1h, -2h, -3h Three time zones West of GMT 4.
Note: When the WWVB signal is found, that time will over-ride the manually set time. 1. Hold down the "SET" button for 1 second (the selected time zone will flash), press the "SET" button 3 more times, until the hour flashes in the time LCD.
A. FEATURES 1. Radio-controlled time and date 2. Projection of time and/or remote temperature 3. EL backlight 4. Six modes of date/seconds/temperature display 5. Indoor temperature 6. Remote outdoor temperature 7. Dual alarms 8. Adjustable snooze B. RADIO-CONTROLLED TIME AND DATE 1.
1. When plugged into an AC outlet, the projection alarm can continuously project the time and/or remote temperature. 2. When operating on batteries alone, the Projection Alarm will only project when a button is pressed. 3. The projection will auto-focus for display from three to six feet away. A dark surrounding will be necessary to clearly see the projection.
than not the temperature will not be exact with one another. This is not a defect, but simply reflects the difference in measuring methods. The remote temperature is designed for changing temperature at a wide range. F. REMOTE TEMPERATURE 1. The Projection Alarm comes with a remote temperature sensor. When set up properly, the Projection Alarm will receive and display the remote temperature.
After entering the alarm setting mode, the alarm is activated (either ALM1 or ALM2). b. To toggle between activating and deactivating the alarm, press either the ALM1 or ALM2 briefly. "(((1)))" or "(((2)))" will be displayed to the right of the time display when the alarm is activated.
A. The Remote Temperature Transmitter can be mounted in two ways: 1) with the use of screws, or 2) using the adhesive tape. B. MOUNTING WITH SCREWS 1. Remove the mounting bracket from the Remote Temperature Transmitter. The bracket should snap off easily. 2.
Problem: The Projection is faint Solution: 1) Change intensity setting 2) Use AC adapter 3) Darken surroundings 4) Use fresh batteries (if AC is not used) Problem: The LCD is faint. Solution: 1) Replace the batteries. Problem: "OFL" appears in the indoor temperature LCD. 1) Move unit to an area with warmer or cooler surrounding Solution: temperature.
Temperature: Measuring range: Checking intervals: Power source: AC Adapter (included) Battery type: Battery life: Dimensions (L x W x H): 32°F to 122°F with 0.2°F resolution (indoor) -21.8°F to 140°F with 0.2°F resolution (outdoor) (0°C to 50°C with 0.1°C resolution) Every 10 seconds indoor, 3 times in 10 minutes for remote temperature.
WARRANTY INFORMATION La Crosse Technology provides a 1-year warranty on this Projection alarm. Contact La Crosse Technology immediately upon discovery of any defects covered by this warranty. Before sending the Projection alarm in for repairs, contact La Crosse Technology. The Projection alarm will be repaired or replaced with the same or similar model.

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Six-vehicle crash ties up traffic
A large portion of a major downtown Monterey intersection was shut down for 40 minutes on Tuesday during a six-vehicle crash that included a Pepsi delivery tractor-trailer.
One person was extricated and taken by helicopter to Santa Clara Regional Medical Center with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The accident occurred about 12:30 p.m. at Del Monte Avenue and Washington Street.
The delivery truck was westbound on Del Monte when it ran into the back of three vehicles stopped at a red light, police said. One vehicle and the delivery truck were pushed into the intersection, where they hit two other vehicles eastbound on Del Monte, police said.
Gas station robbed at gunpoint
A gas station was robbed at gunpoint late Monday, police reported.
Police said the robber entered the Chevron station, 306 N. Main St., shortly after 6:30 p.m., brandished a handgun at the clerk and demanded money.
He left with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said.
Driver of stolen car runs away
A sawed-off shotgun and ammunition were found in a stolen car after it was stopped and the driver ran off late Monday, police reported.
Police said an officer saw a white Honda Civic he recognized as stolen being driven on North Main Street shortly before 5 p.m.
When he tried to stop it, police said, the car sped off to a dead end on Maryal Street near the entrance to North Salinas High School, and the driver ran away.
Boy, 9, followed by man on bicycle
A 9-year old boy reported being followed on his way home from Robert Down Elementary School on Tuesday, police said.
The boy said the man followed him on Junipero Avenue near Locust Avenue to Spruce Avenue and Locust at 12:20 p.m.
When the boy saw two adults in the area and asked for help, the man following him could not be seen.
The man on the bike was described as 60 to 65 years old, curly dark gray hair, circular rimmed glasses and riding a black and gray mountain bike with curved handlebars.
He was wearing a black cap and black T-shirt.
Police seek residents' aid in solving thefts
Marina police have seen a spike in burglaries and are asking residents for information that can help solve the crimes.
The spike involved theft of tools and electronics, including items taken from rented commercial storage units, police said. Nine burglaries were reported in the past week.
Police said they will use social media and an automated telephone notification system in an effort to stop the thefts.
People who have witnessed suspicious activity can call the investigation bureau during regular business hours at 884-1228. Those who want to remain anonymous can use the 24-7 crime tip link at www.marinapolice.com.


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Great series indeed. It's a nice way to parody two alike concepts and mash it into an awesome sprite series! Although I will admit I'm a little bit disappointed with the cancellation of episode 9 and all episodes after, I'm still happy with this. It was kind of my inspiration when I first started. I don't really make sprite animations like this anymore, but it's nice to look back every now and then.
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Cover Girl has chosen another pretty face and this time around it is country singer, [lastfm]Taylor Swift[/lastfm].
"Taylor is beautiful and inspirational with an effortless-chic style, making her the perfect person to represent a new, luxurious collection of products debuting on Cover Girl next year," said Vince Hudson, general manager for the brand.
Swift will appear in television, print and in-store advertising. Details about the product line she will be attached to have yet to be released.
"I like a natural look in my everyday life, when I'm going to the grocery store or hanging out at my house in Nashville. When I go onstage, I get to play with my look. So you get to play around with all these different characters, and I think that's one of my favorite things about makeup- you can put on a new character," the self-professed "make-up junkie" said when explaining her interest in Cover Girl.


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NICK POPE has signed a new contract at Charlton that will keep him at The Valley until 2018.
The 22-year-old goalkeeper, a key part of the York City side that pushed into the League Two play-offs, has been rewarded for his efforts at Bootham Crescent with the new deal.
Pope will be in the frame to be Charlton's first-choice custodian next season with Ben Hamer due to sign for Leceister and Yohann Thuram-Ulien returning to Belgian outfit Standard Liege.
He kept 14 clean sheets in 20 matches for Nigel Worthington's side.
Pope told Charlton's website: "Things change in football and you have to go with it, but I think I did all I could at York. I didn't leave anything there. I gave my all and did my best so I'll work hard at Charlton and see what happens.
"I think this is the right place to develop and, with the right coaches around me, hopefully I can do that. This is where I want to play my football."


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text: The purple Cosmos I shared a picture of the other day is being eaten alive Both blooms have one of these little critters munching away on them. I have done a search, not a real thorough one because my time is limited lately. But was hoping that someone here would know off the top of their head what this one is and whether I need to get rid of it.


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Durban - The saga of Addington Hospital's on-again, off-again radiotherapy machines is well known, but for two Durban families, the pain it caused hit home.
Gayna Ontong, 63, lost her husband of 13 years, Keith, last year to cancer and said they faced long delays and queues because of problems at the hospital's oncology unit.
Ontong said her husband developed cancer in 2012 and it rapidly got worse.
"The cancer was on the outside, it was eating his neck away," she told the Daily News on Wednesday.
"We did not have money for private radiation therapy," she said, so they had to go to public hospitals instead - first to RK Khan Hospital in Chatsworth, where they were referred to Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital.
There they also found long queues, hearing from doctors that this was because others had also been sent there from Addington, whose radiation therapy linear accelerator had broken down again.
Ontong said she was told by doctors at Albert Luthuli that her husband would not be able to get the help he needed in time.
She described the ongoing problems with the treatment machines at Addington as "ridiculous".
Both chemotherapy and radiation therapy patients from Addington Hospital were at Inkosi Albert Luthuli, she said.
"We were devastated with everything… I have no faith in government hospitals whatsoever."
She said the experience had been traumatic for her and her son, because her husband had experienced a lot of pain before he died.
Despite his pain, her husband had always tried to keep her and others in high spirits, she said.
"Keith was a person who was always up and wanted to keep the spirits of the people around him up despite the fact that he was going through excruciating pain. I was with him all the time; in the end he could not even walk," she said.
Jean van Aswegen said she had been receiving radiation therapy at Addington when the linear accelerator machine broke down in December.
This caused a four-day delay in her treatment.
She said she was not given referrals to other hospitals at the time. Van Aswegen said the government should invest more money in hospitals.
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She said Hospersa had contacted the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate the matter. This was based on a damning letter to the commission by Professor Amo Jordaan, a former head of the oncology department at Addington Hospital.
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American Airlines has spent some $400 million in the past few years to retrofit its existing fleet for the planned NextGen flight environment in the U.S. But at this stage it has not seen the operational benefits it had hoped for, according to the airline's director of airspace modernization and advanced technologies.
Brian Will, an American Airlines captain who has responsibility for NextGen-related equipment and procedures, said the carrier installed GPS on 120 Boeing 757s and 767s at a cost of nearly $2.5 million per aircraft. It carried out the retrofits anticipating that the Federal Aviation Administration would require aircraft to have RNP-2 capability in continental airspace above 28,000 feet. It also spent more than $60 million to equip its MD-80 fleet with new displays for terminal area navigation (Rnav) requirements.
In July 2003, the FAA published a "Roadmap for Performance-Based Navigation" that outlined its strategy for implementing Rnav and required navigation performance (RNP) routes and procedures in three phases through 2025. In a 2006 update, the document indicated that RNP-2 would be mandated in en route airspace at and above FL290 (29,000 feet) during the mid-term phase of 2011 to 2015. RNP defines the ability of an aircraft's navigation equipment to achieve a specified level of lateral accuracy for 95 percent of the time. During operations in airspace designated RNP-2, which requires GPS as the primary navigation sensor, the aircraft must keep within plus or minus 2 nm of its required track.
Will said the expected mandate lapsed after American Airlines committed to retrofitting its 757/767 fleet. "We told our executives, the 767 can't fly from New York to LA at 26,000 or 27,000 feet, and they said 'we agree.' After we put that program in place, unfortunately, the [FAA's] intent to do that went away. It just disappeared," he said. "But the check had already been written."
On September 10, Will participated in a panel discussion at the NextGen Ahead conference in Washington, D.C. He later spoke with AIN regarding American Airlines' investment in NextGen equipment. His comments shed light on the sizeable investments airlines will have to make to comply with NextGen communications, navigation and surveillance requirements. It has been estimated that completing the NextGen modernization by 2025 will cost government and industry $40 billion or more.
Will said airlines will also be challenged to equip their fleets for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), the surveillance piece of NextGen, by 2020 as mandated by the FAA. "We have some concerns about ADS-B domestic because the United States is the only country that has said you have to have some augmentation scheme for ADS-B positioning," he explained. "The cost for that is going to be really, really significant. We have to replace multimode [navigation] receivers across our entire fleet. The notion of even doing that on some of our airplanes like our MD-80 fleet is almost unthinkable. We can't see how we could justify the cost of that."


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Good job! Shame it's needed though. Great effort by a few to improve things for all!!!!
Thanks for sharing
Lochwinnoch Cleanup Weekend 2012
Well another successful cleanup has passed.
Once again the turnout was terrific with everyone getting stuck in and shifting a huge amount of rubbish.
Every year I keep meaning to take more pictures and every year I keep getting too focused on litter picking that I only end up with a few pictures taken, this your was no exception.
Day 1: Saturday the 31st March at Barr Loch
The RSPB were letting us loose on this loch again to clear away the rubbish. From being a little reluctant at first they are now very happy to let us get stuck in.
The mess left by the fishermen who use this loch (no boating or canoeing is allowed) is unbelievable. Away from where the fishermen are we are seeing a year on year improvement with less rubbish to cart away each year.
On Saturday we had the Ginger Paddlers, Tracy and husband, Teuchter, Chaffinch, Bluecanoe, the Smurfs, Peter Dorrington, brother and son,and myself with the girls and Sam the dog.
We split into two groups and worked a side each. The top end of the loch was not to bad but as we reached the sections used by the fishermen the amount of rubbish increased considerably. We knew we were hitting the bad areas when we found a ladder
Gwen has a keen scavenger instinct and was always on the lookout for anything she could use. She was sure she had a use for a plastic headless swan but never quite managed to figure out what that use was.
She found this at the main section where the fishermen "camp". As the next few pictures show this area is nothing short of a disgrace.
Teuchter hard at work.
Chaffinch making a differnce.
Eleanor and Bluecanoe drawing a line between litter picking and archeology.
Gwen, Eleanor and Sam with our second canoe full.
The final haul at the end of day one was impressive and actually much more than the final picture looks like.
I should mention there was also a slap up barbecue lunch provided by the Ginger Paddlers, with Rocky Road by Smurfxx. And at night a social curry night back at the Ginger Paddlers house. So the warm feeling inside could have been the food, the moral satisfaction or the aching muscles
Day 2: 1st April Castle Semple Loch
This loch has had clean ups for a a few years now and we are seeing a difference with this too. There is always new rubbish but we are managing to get all the new stuff and much of the older. This year at last Papa Smurf finally managed to dig out the traffic cone that has been frustrating us for years.
So today we had the Ginger Paddlers, the Smurfs, Tracy and hubbie, Chansaw and both Jnr Chainsaws, Chaffinch, Peppergirl , myself and of course Sam the dog.
The first job today was to give Aird Meadow a clean and recover the RSPB's boat that they had misplaced. It was not the easiest thing to paddle as Jo and Robbie found out. It was no easier when I helped
Once that was back in the right place it was onto the regular rubbish. at first Jo and I were not finding much but then we hit a secret Fishermans camp where the poached on the reserve. We cleared the rubbish as well as the camp chairs.
After lunch complete with a batch of tablet I made last night we headed over to the river mouth to clear the band and drainage ditches.
We managed to fill our canoe for a second time while Myles was collecting bicycles.
By the time we headed back Myles had quite the collection.
We did not get a group shot at the end or of the overall pile of rubbish as it was getting put into a skip as it was brought back. But I can tell you we not only filled the skip but had enough by the side to half fill the one coming tomorrow.
We do the cleanups to put something back but that is really not needed as an incentive. These are great days with great company. The banter and competition to find the most / best rubbish is something to behold. I'm already looking forward to next years clean ups.
Hopefully others will have more pictures. And add them to this blogg.
Good job! Shame it's needed though. Great effort by a few to improve things for all!!!!
Thanks for sharing
Sterling effort there John kudos to everyone who got stuck in
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Yep great job folks.. shame it's needed mind
the people who leave there rubbish need to hang there heads in shame who ever they are regards dave
great job all of you
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If you think a lot of the rubbish is left by fishermen would a polite notice / "name and shame" poster in all of the local fishing shops help i wonder?
Anyways great job on the clear up


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Sorin Marcovici: R&D in large multinational organizations has become a global activity. New products are being developed in or for emerging markets and exported to different parts of the world. Product development has to be synchronized for each market. Medical R&D executives need to operate within the constraints of relatively limited budgets while sifting quickly through new ideas, identifying the ones that can be carried forward, orchestrating global R&D activities and ensuring products are profitable.
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Cricket is a team game, but like any other sport, it also needs superstars and the talented players to add to its aura. So, when one such undoubted superstar - West Indies' Chris Gayle - is forced to sit out of international cricket for almost 15 months because of a protracted stand-off with his country's board; the sport and its stakeholders are also affected.
Gayle missed 16 Test matches, 23 one-day internationals and seven Twenty20 Internationals, because of his 15-month feud with coach Ottis Gibson and the West Indies Cricket Board. His last international match was the 2011 World Cup quarter-final against Pakistan at Dhaka on 23 March 2011.
In those 15 months, Gayle's absence at the top of the order and a handy off-spinner were obviously missed by West Indies, and though the Darren Sammy led-team impressed in this time with their lion-hearted performances, one felt the 'X' factor was missing.
That 'X' factor was Gayle, and now fortunately, better sense has prevailed amongst all concerned parties and the happy-go-lucky attacking southpaw is on the verge of making his international comeback. The seed for the conflict to be amicably resolved was set in motion by Gayle in May, when he scrapped his deal with English county Somerset to make himself available for West Indies. Then, earlier this month, the stand-off between Gayle and the WICB officially ended after a high-level meeting that was also attended by St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves as well as Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer.
Gayle is used to being in the spotlight, but even he understands there will be increased pressure on him when he makes his international comeback in the one-day international against England at The Rose Bowl in Southampton on 16 June 2012. The pressure will not only be because it took a high-level meeting attended by two of the Caribbean's prime ministers to get him back into the West Indies fold, but also because his absence from the national team was the subject of wide discussion and debate over the last 15 months.
Gayle, Gibson and the WICB have also been making all the right noises since the southpaw's recall to the national team and are presenting a unified front. While Gibson has described Gayle as the "world's best one-day batsman", the tall southpaw has said, "Everything has been rectified (with Ottis Gibson and the board), we are all here as one and our main objective is to try to contribute to West Indies cricket."
His first match back in West Indies colours was a warm-up match against Middlesex in which he hit two sixes and four boundaries in his 30-ball 34 and also took a couple of wickets as the visitors cruised to a massive 228-run win. Gayle admitted after the match that he was a bit nervous, but added "now I'm really looking forward to the first ODI game. I'll be in a better state of mind".
Gayle has been welcomed back to the West Indies dressing room with open arms, but he is aware of the change in attitude and work ethic in Sammy's team over the last 15 months. He is a one-man army and a match-winner, but Gayle will have to adjust to the 'new' West Indies dressing room in a hurry and so will the rest of the squad with him to ensure West Indies continue taking the positive and proactive baby steps to reclaim their lost glory in the cricketing world.
"Once you get settled in everything will come back to normal. You get that feel again in any environment which you have been out of for a year. Once you get back that feeling, once you get back into your comfort zone, things will be much easier," Gayle, who has made himself available for all three formats of the game, recently said.
Gayle has been piling up the runs in Twenty20 leagues across the world, but he is bound to be hungry to make up for those lost 15 months of international cricket and the southpaw will look to make a statement of intent against an England ODI team, which will be without its most influential player in Kevin Pietersen.
He has been missed by the West Indies and fans world over. It's now time for the Gayle show to resume in international cricket. Let the fireworks begin!


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November 14, 2012
Let's get the bad news out of the way first: In October, retail sales dropped 0.3%—the first such drop in several months and a reversal from September's 1.3% gain. Auto sales and online purchases dropped by the most in a year.
Of course, every cloud has a silver lining, and there are several, in this case.
Let's discuss point four, because even with the negative headlines circulating the newswires today, retail sales should be a primary growth driver this quarter.
First, while Hurricane Sandy disrupted October retail sales, the ongoing recovery efforts should boost auto sales as well as sales of construction materials.
And with Thanksgiving just over a week away, the holiday shopping rush is soon upon us. In fact, a survey conducted by Discover Financial Services predicts that shoppers will spend an extra $100 this holiday season over last year—bringing the total to $838 per shopper. And the National Retail Federation forecasts $586.1 billion in total holiday sales—a 4.1% jump over last year.
As to be expected, the nation's largest retailers are doing whatever they can to get ready. In anticipation of Black Friday, the official start to holiday shopping season, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), Target Inc. (TGT), Sears (SHLD) and privately-held Toys R Us are all opening their doors Thanksgiving evening—a move that has bargain hunters rejoicing and seasonal workers petitioning. Speaking of employees, retailers have been bringing in new seasonal workers in droves: Wal-Mart, Target, Macy's (M), JCPenney (JCP) and Kohl's (KSS) will each hire about 80,000 temp workers this season while Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) will add 50,000 to its workforce.
So while October retail sales may have been modest, I expect American consumers to come out in full force in the coming weeks. And I can't wait because the way I see it, the optimism and generosity of the holiday season is exactly what the markets need to be shaken out of its current slump.
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text: I agree with you sometimes the management names only appear, but the Heidoscop general design was based on the Voigtländer Stereflekstocop from 1914 (see the photograph) and Heidecke worked at R&D for Voigtländer, not the Simmon brothers. The Heidoscop was not "invented", it was not a new camera type like the Omega 120 or the _compact_ Rolleiflex TLR (TLR cameras exist from the XIXth century), if the Simmon brothers had some contribution to the Heidoscop it could only be very minor really. Carlos 2010/11/8 Edward Meyers <aghalidebw@xxxxxxxxx>: > Carlos, > > As far as I know, the Simmons brothers were workers in the factory, not > management, so their name would not have been on the design. > > Ed > > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 2010/11/8 Edward Meyers <aghalidebw@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > Carlos, >> > >> > The Simmons Brothers actually invented the Heidoscop in Germany, working >> > for >> > Franke & Heidecke. They then moved to the U.S. >> >> Ed, I'm afraid you are wrong, the Heidoscop is a stereo camera showing >> nothing very special regarding other stereo cameras from the same >> time, it has a clear link with the Voigtländer Stereflektoscop from >> 1914, designed in part by R Heidecke when he worked for Voigtländer, >> Heidecke needed to circumvent his previous designs patented for >> Voigtlämder and then he developed the new reflex finder D.R.G.M. >> 751883 and a new air bracket stereo shutter, D.R.G.M. 779426; the >> Heidescop was developed around the Heidecke´s shutter and the >> Heideckes's reflex viewfinder. You can read several details about the >> Heidoscop development in the Rollei Report 1 where the Simmon brothers >> are not mentioned. >> This is the Voigtländer Stereflekstocop from 1914, you can see that >> the same mind (Heidecke) is behind the Heidoscop design (" ...this >> Voigtländer was the godfather of the first Heidoscop altough it was >> not a copy..." Prochnow RR 1, page 2-38) : >> http://www.lungov.com/wagner/c/026c.html >> >> Carlos >> --- >> Rollei List >> >> - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' >> in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org >> >> - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with >> 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org >> >> - Online, searchable archives are available at >> http://www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list >> > > --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at http://www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list


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A school board member wants to add about $15,000 to Gaston County Schools� budget request to televise board meetings.
It costs $865 to broadcast two hours of a meeting at the Gaston County Courthouse�s public forum room, said school board member Chris Howell.
Gaston County Commissioners and Gastonia City Council both broadcast their meetings there.
�There�s a certain amount of accountability that we owe the stakeholders,� Howell said.
Parents who are interested in topics at school board meetings can�t always be in the audience because they�re attending a ball game or have a busy schedule.
�I don�t always get to go to a county commissioners meeting, but I can watch it on TV, as many times as my heart�s desire with a DVR, and I do on certain things that I�m interested in,� Howell said. �This budget discussion is one thing I think people would be interested in seeing.
Howell�s idea was met with skepticism from some school board members.
�I think that�s a bad idea. That�s money we could pay a teacher,� said school board member David Phillips. �Why do we need to be televised, Mr. Howell? I don�t need an audience. I don�t need an audience for what I do. I think it�s a waste of money, and I think it�s unnecessary.�
Chairman Kenny Lutz didn�t like the idea of going away from the board room and into the courthouse. When board members ask a question to staff, often they can run to their offices and get the information to provide an answer. That wouldn�t be possible at another location, he said.
School board member Dot Guthrie said staff members can�t always answer questions at meetings, pointing out that one school board member�s question Monday night required a cabinet member to find the information and report back at the next meeting.
�I�m not saying I�m closed-minded. I don�t really like it,� Phillips said. �And if somebody watches the commissioners, with all due respect, I�d tell them to get a life.�
Superintendent Reeves McGlohon said he would look into the costs of televising meetings and provide some figures at the school board�s next meeting on Monday. The superintendent�s budget request sought $11.18 million more than last year�s request to county commissioners. The increase would add technology, teacher assistants, pay local supplements, pay for certified staff of Stuart W. Cramer High, expand the literacy program and expand the L.E.A.P program, a program designed to reduce the number of youth in the court system.
The request would mean school leaders seeking about $52.7 million in local funds. County commissioners have approved about $41.5 million in operating expenses for the school system for the past two years.
You can reach reporter Amanda Memrick at 704-869-1839 or follow @AmandaMemrick on Twitter.


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AS Burns Night approaches, reader John Robertson tells us he was in Inveraray's Tourist Information Office where he heard an English visitor ask the assistant: "Do you have a CD of Rabbie Burns reading his own poetry?"
Says John: "After a diplomatic explanation regarding time travel, they left quietly."
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OUR mention of retirement being a difficult adjustment reminds Calum Carmichael: "I knew one fellow, admittedly much too used to an affluent lifestyle, who, not until well into his 60s, happened to find himself in the kitchen of his home. He turned to his wife and said, 'Here, this is a really nice room. Why don't we use it more often?'"
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AFTER our picture yesterday of the Seville oranges marked as "civilian oranges", reader David Duncan recalls: "My mother was brought up in Dollar in the early 1900s and told us of the orange sellers' sales pitch she heard in her youth, 'Seville oranges, an' nane o' yer foreign trash here.'"
WE were closing the door on our Jehovah's Witnesses stories, but a reader jams his foot in the door and asks: "Do you think that Witnesses, when talking about someone not very bright, use the oft-quoted phrase, 'The lights are on but there's nobody in'?"
Animal farm
ACRONYMS continued. Bruce Skivington tells us that during the Euro crisis, some economic commentators referred to the heavily indebted countries Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain as "The Pigs".
However, points out Bruce, that since Hungary, Italy and Turkey have been added to the list, using an acronym has fallen out of favour.
Lessons to be learned
THE popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia closed down for a day yesterday to protest against new laws in America.
"It will be interesting to see tomorrow's homework," a Glasgow secondary school teacher told us.
Play park
A READER pondering on the parking spaces nearest the shops for parents with children asks: "Should they not instead be in the far corner of the car park to give the little pests some exercise?"
Age of reason
A DOOR steward at a Glasgow pub popular with students says he has to check the age of the younger-looking clientele.
One girl not quite clear on the concept was one he stopped at the weekend, and asked how old she was. Holding up a student card she shouted: "My fake ID says I'm 22."
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The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
— George Santayana
Even many experienced Property Investors will find themselves in a situation that is unfamiliar and that they no experience of. Having a Mentor is a great way of always taking a balanced approach to investing. Two heads are definitely better than one.
A Mentor can help you in many ways, both practical and emotional decisions can have a huge impact on your business, here are some great reasons why a Property Investment Mentor makes sense.
Benefits of a Mentor
- Take Action – If you are new to Property Investing, then a mentor can help you have the confidence to take the first step and purchase the property, many first time investors spend too long thinking about purchasing – only to find the opportunity has passed them by.
- Follow your Instincts – A mentor has years of experience, but ultimately they have an instinct for the right property. This is not too say they are impulsive, they still do their research and their sums, but instinct is all part of the success.
- Negotiate the best deal – it is always hard to know what price to offer and what price is too much. A mentor can teach you about yields and knowing what your top price is that you can pay and still make the required yield.
- The Inside scoop – Mentors have vast experience in their field and know many people, they have a good understanding of the legal requirements and the places that you need to check to ensure that your property has no hidden issues.
There are many self help books and seminars that you can attend to help build your confidence as a property investor and these are a great place to start as a new investor. But as you gain knowledge and confidence you will find that you need more help, even experienced investors can struggle at some point and it is at this point that a mentor is really crucial.
With the uncertainty that the last couple of years has shown it has never been more important to have all the right tools before you invest your money or borrow money to invest.
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Aylesham is a village and civil parish 6.5 miles (10.5 km) southeast of the cathedral city of Canterbury, and around 8.5 miles (13.7 km) northwest of the town and port of Dover. Aylesham has been since 1974 a part of the Dover District of Kent in England. From 1951 until 1974 it was a civil parish in Eastry Rural District. Prior to 1951 it was part of the parish of Nonington. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 3,884.
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Deseg order doesn't cause poverty
Re: the Jan. 27 column "Deseg order is holding TUSD back."
Tim Steller sure knows how to throw a cheap shot, noting Tucson Unified School District has lost "16 percent of its enrollment" and that the desegregation order has been "powerless to stop the decline."
He also states that the percentage of TUSD students living in poverty has increased from 60 to 71 percent, and that the district is "browner" because its Latino enrollment has reached 62 percent.
If enrollment loss, browning and increases in poverty are the result of desegregation orders, then perhaps someone has secretly placed a desegregation order on Flowing Wells Unified School District. In a similar period, it's lost 14 percent of its enrollment, its Latino enrollment has grown to 55 percent, and its poverty numbers have grown from 54 to 72 percent.
As for closures, the truth is that big districts have larger numbers of schools, so their contraction will always involve more closures, and no Arizona district has more schools than TUSD. What's more, schools are closing all over the state.
Might Arizona's economic downturn, anti-immigrant stance and staggering cuts in education funding be more to blame?
Salvador Gabaldón
TUSD Curriculum Specialist, Oro Valley
How modern auto assembly lines work
Re: the Jan. 25 article "A world where jobs go extinct wholesale."
As a retired automotive engineer, I would like to clarify an item in this article. While GM and other automakers have significantly reduced their workforces in the last 30 years, only a portion of the jobs were lost to automation.
About 15 years ago, both GM and Ford spun off their parts manufacturing operations into independent companies. Also, much of the assembly work previously done in-house is now done by outside suppliers, including those companies.
For example, the instrument panels are now routinely built up with radios, navigation, A/C components, instrument cluster, switches, wiring and even the steering wheel in supplier plants within a few miles of the auto assembly plant. They are custom built, coded to each vehicle about to start on the assembly line, and delivered in sequence for installation into the correct vehicle, often within minutes of arriving in the assembly plant.
So, many of the auto jobs still exist, just not at the auto companies themselves.
Francis W. Kearney
Retired automotive design engineer, Tucson
What Kozachik, Reagan have in common
As a point of history for the letter writers who criticize Tucson City Council member Steve Kozachik for switching from the Republican Party to becoming a Democrat, I would like to point out that Ronald Reagan began his political career as a Democrat and a union leader. Change happens.
Esther Blumenfeld
Writer, Tucson
Questions unanswered about women in combat
Re: the Jan. 24 article "Pentagon to end its ban on women in combat roles," and the Jan. 25 article "Women in combat: Good to go - if they meet the standards."
What kind of society sends its mothers, sisters, and daughters out to die in filthy fighting positions in defense of the country?
What strained logic connects the military with mistreatment of women, then endeavors to place male and female soldiers and Marines in close proximity for weeks at a time? What sense of equality requires men to register for the draft, yet makes combat service for women completely voluntary?
Has anyone in authority asked the front-line sergeant whether this politically correct brainstorm is worth the agony of implementation?
But we don't discuss these things anymore, do we? It's enough just to trust the pandering judgment of a president who appears to have all the answers to every dilemma.
Glenn Perry
Colonel, US Air Force, retired
Right-wingers hurting Arizona's economy
The United States Senate, with a bipartisan group of eight, four Democrats and four Republicans, is currently attempting to formulate a comprehensive immigration policy. This new policy will include a path for illegals to become U.S. citizens. According to government calculations, there are between 11 million to 12 million illegals living in the United States.
This is an effort to bring these immigrants out of the shadows and make them productive members of our society.
In the meantime some of the Republicans in Arizona, including Gov. Jan Brewer, Attorney General Tom Horne and Rep. Steve Smith, are attempting to pass legislation that will further bury these individuals into the shadows and keep them from being productive members of our society.
This right-wing group of Republicans has been passing laws for several years that have hurt Arizona's economy and its reputation. It is time for Arizona to get in step with the majority.
Harlan Capin
Retired, Tucson


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Ann Charney's third novel begins in Montreal in 1952. Eight-year-old Ellen gazes through her bedroom window, awaiting the arrival of the refugees who will inhabit the empty rooms of her mother's grandiose Mount Royal home. As she studies the frost that has formed on her window overnight, Ellen wonders whether the icy pattern constitutes a coded message: "My goal was to make life resemble the stories I had read in books, where one event inevitably led to another, and each page flowed effortlessly into the next."
From this first inkling of Ellen's literary aspirations, Distantly Related to Freud traces the formative decade of the young girl's life. Like Ellen's mother, the refugees who take up residence in her home come from Central Europe, and represent for Ellen a way of understanding her family history. When they eventually move on, one of the few tangible links to her European ancestry that Ellen is left with is a portrait of Sigmund Freud, a distant relative. The refugees are eventually replaced by Ellen's Aunt Celia, whose obsession with safety becomes a trial for her increasingly independent niece.
Ellen's mother maintains a close circle of émigré acquaintances, including Dr. Henryk Steiner, whose penchant for pleasure-seeking brings further unrest to the household when he becomes Ellen's stepfather. Ellen takes refuge in her friendship with Lydia, whose background is similar to her own. A grisly incident during a trip to visit cousins in New York provides the fodder for Ellen's initial literary endeavours.
Distantly Related to Freud deals with immigrant experience, familial relations, and sexual and intellectual maturation. Charney's narration is elegant and understated throughout. The narrative, however, resembles an episodic Victorian novel, with a meandering and occasionally sensationalistic plot. Characters emerge from the margins of Ellen's life, only to recede and re-emerge once again. The reader comes to know Ellen intimately, but the novel's other characters remain as distant and mysterious as her own family history is to her.
At its best, the novel offers considerable insight into the increasingly complex mind of an ambitious young writer. Elsewhere, it is overly digressive, and the significance of its details is difficult to discern.


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