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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:41 pm EDT
"Global manufacturing capacity for LCDs has risen to tremendous levels, expected to support the sales of 3.5 billion panels this year alone"
Has LCD Innovation Reached the End of the Line?
El Segundo, Calif. (May 14, 2014)—The rise of the liquid-crystal display (LCD) has made high-quality electronic displays ubiquitous, enabling the new era of flat-panel TVs, smartphones and media tablets. But is the innovation phase that propelled LCD technology to dominance coming to an end?
Find out at the IHS/SID 2014 Business Conference, to be held June 2 in San Diego, Calif., at the San Diego Convention Center.
With the theme of "Creating a Path to the Future of Display," the Business Conference will feature a notable lineup of top industry insiders and IHS experts that will reveal the key market and technology trends shaping the future of the panel display industry.
"Global manufacturing capacity for LCDs has risen to tremendous levels, expected to support the sales of 3.5 billion panels this year alone," said Sweta Dash, senior director, display research and strategy, for IHS. "However, innovation has not kept pace with the boom in manufacturing. At this point, the question must be asked: Are we at the end of the line for innovation in the LCD business?"
The morning session of the Business Conference will be entitled: "TV everywhere: Anytime, anywhere, any device format." The session will feature a keynote presentation from Dr. Bernard Kress, lead researcher, Google X, entitled "The coming of age for consumer HMDs and smart glasses."
Topics covered during the session will include:
- Connectivity and content consumption driving the display device market
- The resolution revolution driving the high-performance display market
- Whether the shift in form factors to flexible wearable electronics will drive the next-generation display market
The afternoon session will be entitled "Display everywhere, anytime, anywhere, any device format." The afternoon session will feature a keynote from Takuya Shimamura, president of electronics, Asahi Glass.
Topics covered during the session will include:
- Touch-gesture-motion market, technology and business outlook
- New technology, materials, market opportunities and challenges, as well as growth momentum and outlook
- Financial and investment outlook, including cost and profitability issues
The 2014 Business Conference will also cover the latest technologies and trends in the display marketplace, including:
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For more information on speakers at the event, please visit: http://www.ihs.com/info/events/display/business.aspx?utm_campaign=PC4954_eT4_2014_SID_BC_Speakers_RM%20VD&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=8bca6f3fdd284c39b306a89c2a7be38c
Early-bird registration for the IHS/SID 2014 Business Conference, expiring May 16, is priced at $595; the standard fee is $650. Press registration is free. For more information, please visit the IHS/SID 2014 Business Conference registration page.
The conference will be held Monday, June 2, at SID Display Week 2014, at the San Diego Convention Center, in California.
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I got Half-baked in my naked palette, and find it interesting that the single and the Naked Palette one look almost a bit different. It might be me but the the single looks like it has a bit more of an orangey bronze to it, while half-baked in the palette looks more golden. However I find that Half-baked does swatch a tad bit orange based on my hand, but on my eyes it evens out to a bronze tone. Honestly, don't be put off by the shade if you think it swatches too orange. It is blendable, and if you use another color with it the shade transforms into something even more lovely.
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Half Baked was one of the eyeshadows in a UD palette I received in a swap. Out of all the colors in this palette, I love and use this one the most. My complexion is NC42/43ish (summer), very warm, and this is a beautiful highlight color for me. It sheers out nicely, doesn't have too much fallout, and creates the most flattering soft glow. Some UD colors (YDK, Midnight cowboy) have glitter in them-chunky, fallout bombs-this is not one of those. Definitely recommend!
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Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium
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got this in m naked palette and i must say i maybe use this color 4/7 days of the week. its so pretty and blends flawlessly with other colors. it looks really nice paired with browns feathered in or even smoked out . i just love this color , and when ever i do my friends makeup they always point to this color
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Villa | 4 bedrooms | sleeps 8
|Key Info
Situated in a tranquil residential area of Montana Roja a few minutes drive or a twenty minute walk to the centre of Playa Blanca. It is here you will find a wide variety of local amenities, including bars, restaurants, shops and a lovely sandy beach.
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The Canary Islands region
Mixing authentic Spanish charm and a fun holiday spirit, the island of Lanzarote offers sun, sea, sand and so much more. With its golden sands and black volcanic beaches the backdrop to most resorts, you'll find relaxation on its shores and amazing sights inland, including the incredible geysers of Fire Mountain.
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9 Oct 2014
The inside area is modern, clean and well equiped. It has lovely rooms - well, two out of four are, the other two are okay. But none of that matters as the outside is amazing.The pool is a good size a… More
4 Sep 2014
"Great villa but needs a good clean"
This is a great villa, however the overall cleanliness was poor. When we arrived the villa looks just as the photographs depict but on closer inspection the villa was unclean. Dried food from previous… More
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I finally dusted off my DK last night, and thought "hm, if I'm going to level this guy for PvP, maybe I'll try UH instead of mongo Frost this time".
After spending 20 minutes trying to figure out how to fit in all of the keybinds as UH, I finally gave up and just redid my frost spec. I played a lock back in vanilla, and even there I didn't feel like I was so overwhelmed with keybinds the way I was looking at that UH DK setup last night.
Anyone that is able to keep track and optimally use all those abilities must be pretty darn sharp, and UH must be so much better than frost for people to be willing to put up with that complexity.
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If you're still interested in trying Unholy I'd suggest approaching it in increments.This is exactly what I did to learn Unholy.
Do this.
OK, thanks both. It's completely overwhelming to me, especially picking up the DK again for the first time in a year or so, having played frost in the past. I'll try doing it in increments.
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too true buddy, i wouldn't get worked up about ppl saying this, ppl get mad because they are bad at their class so they point the op finger or point the, your class takes less skill finger, or i have a pet that makes me have 7 more keybinds than frost im pro.
Edited by Andersnsilva on 2/24/2013 2:33 AM PST
Unholy is more difficult to master than Frost is. You can, uh, say it's not.
But it's true anyway.
To the OP I would say that the initial advice is good. Make sure your gear is purple and that you're gemmed right so it's not hindering you from success; then do a ton of BGs just getting the rotation down. Worry about the ghoul stuff later.
You're just dumbing down the actual spec mechanics with your choice of wording, which anyone can do to make anything sound simple ("If I want to become the president, I just need people to vote for me").
Unholy, unlike frost, needs to know when to refresh/apply diseases. Doing so incorrectly will ultimately result in DPS loss. It needs to know when to pool its Runic Power in order to increase the up time of Dark Transformation. There's also the entire rule of thumb to NOT line your CDs up with Heroism. All this and I haven't even gotten to wtf your do when AOE arises.
I mean...sure you can hammer away at keys and say you're doing it right, but then again, I once met a homeless lad who thought he was the president.
Edited by Kassadin on 2/24/2013 3:00 AM PST
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hate to break it to you but no spec in this game is hard to play..
You rarely get an opportunity to manually use Gnaw? What? Even with Claw on auto-cast, it's never a problem to use, give or take a second (max) because of pet energy. Leap should be bound too, and @focus Leap for interrupts. These are very easy to employ, and I say that as a true loather of pet management.
Edited by Ëmpy on 2/24/2013 3:39 AM PST
@Morsyn, i notice you are from my realm, and you seem to be very whiny an enjoy the use of profanity, no surprise really.
But here is the thing, using the pet's Gnaw and leap is no hassle in the least, you can add the pet's ability into you actionbars by simply making a macro for it.
It also seems you are completely missing the point everyone is trying to make as well. UH is by no means, really hard to learn or play, it just has a higher level cap then frost does at this point in the game. Unholy can't simply go in and burst a Warrior face to face, mano a mano, 1v1. It would take a pretty well skilled Unholy DK to line up the kill, as for Frost just simply trying to burst down the Warrior first. Some people, like myself, like setting up our kills against a class/spec that is supposedly OP, it gives me a thrill in PvP, something Frost doesn't offer me.
I hope I cleared somethings up. And please, if you are just gonna quote me and call me a idiot and such, by all means go ahead. :)
It's not any harder for me to hit my S key, which I have Gnaw on, than it is to hit Kidney Shot on my rogue. The benefits of not overlapping CC speak for themselves, and that is guaranteed to happen if you leave half your control up to the pet's awful AI.
/cast Gnaw
/cast Leap
Put those macros on a bind, and voila you're done. Mix in some focus macros and you're even better off. I'm not saying pet babysitting is an esoteric and precise art to be mastered, just the opposite in fact.
K, this is cool and all and I admit I forgot adding not to use Frenzy with Heroism. But that's probably because I actually read the opening post, unlike you, and realized that his whole complaint was based around the KEY BINDS and too many buttons~!... which is what I was addressing in my post. And I don't exactly see how that's difficult to grasp either, it's more like a thing that would just be obvious and natural after you figured it out. And the timing on saving up RP can be difficult because I don't even think there's a built-in mechanic to tell you when DT runs out. But your first point? How is it MORE difficult to refresh/apply diseases with the spec that has a spell that refreshes ALL of your diseases (hi Festering Strike). I'm assuming you're talking about in AoE situations and even then, being Frost means you're only at ease for applying Frost Fever, you STILL have to apply Blood Plague yourself by using Plague Strike so it's the same exact problem. Yeah, you actually have to use that Pestilence spell (if Unholy Blight is on CD or you didn't choose Rolling Blood).
You are ignorant. You lack even the most basic knowledge of disease playing for unholy, to which I must ask....have you ever truly sat down and try to play unholy at all? If you're spamming all those Festering Strikes you're ultimately losing out on Scourge strikes. Besides...diseases are bound to fall off at some point, be it down time or target swapping (this is true for both PvP and PvE). Any person who had the slightest knowledge of unholy would know you'd want to maximize DPS be lining up your Unholy Strength procs with trinket procs and such to increase the damage of said diseases... hence more difficult. Unlike frost (not including master frost), diseases do not make up such a large part of their damage rather than buffing Obliterate damage. this disease play is another reason why even considering taking Roiling Blood talent is considered a DPS loss.
Now as for your AOE argument, it isnt as simple as applying Plague strike, or pestilence-ing, because you're required to prep before AOE even comes into play (i.e. to set up your runes and even your ghoul's DT), as doing your 'method' would ultimately lead to starvation from rune desynchronization... thus leading...to a DPS (yeah, I'm sure you figured it out) loss.
I even forgot about the pet micro-management.
At any rate
There...you have a draft as to why it is more complicated.
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#KeepAdamHome: Stop Adam Crapser's Deportation Now
#KeepAdamHome: Stop Adam Crapser's Deportation Now
In 1979, Adam Crapser arrived in the United States as a Korean adoptee. Accompanied by his older sister, Adams life in this country quickly became a nightmare.
First adopted by the Wright family in Michigan, Adam found himself the victim of physical abuse. In 1986 and without completing Adams naturalization papers, the Wrights relinquished their parental rights to county services in an effort to rehome the adopted siblings. As wards of the state, the county separated Adam from his sister and sent him to live in a group home.
One year into life in the group home, Adam was adopted the by Thomas and Dolly-Jean Crapser in Oregon who along with their biological children subjected Adam to unspeakable physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and torture. Four long years later, the Crapsers were arrested, charged, and plead guilty to multiple counts of child abuse, child sex abuse, and child rape.
No doubt, Adam Crapser is a survivor. And like many survivors of abuse and violence, he bears the life-long marks of trauma. Despite this, Adam is building a life as a married father of three children, with a fourth due this spring. Now, hes focused on living a healthy, productive life in the country he calls home.
But the federal government isnt so quick to let Adam call America his home. In January, the Department of Homeland Security slapped him with deportation papers. Just a few short weeks from now, Adam will begin the proceedings that will determine whether or not hell continue building a life with his family in the only country hes ever known as home, or if hell be deported to Korea a land to which he has no connection.
With Adams hearing bearing down on April 2nd, there is a way to bring the threat of deportation to a full-stop. Raphael Sanchez, the person at the helm of the Office of the Chief Counsel (OCC), has the power to completely end these legal proceedings against Adam. The OCC is the office that prosecutes immigrants before the Immigration Court. In an act of prosecutorial discretion, Sanchez could call for administrative closure essentially walking away from the case and having it closed by the court. Once this happens, Adam can renew his green card indefinitely.
Even more, legislative efforts are underway to grant retroactive citizenship to all international adoptees whose naturalizations were not originally covered by the Child Citizenship Act (CCA) of 2000. An amendment to the CCA would allow Adam to stay home with his family and finally receive the citizenship that was promised to him but this can only happen if he isnt deported.
Adams children need him. His wife needs him. This country is his home, and he should not be deported because his abusive adoptive parents failed to complete his naturalization paperwork.
Demand that Raphael Sanchez #KeepAdamHome by enacting administrative closure on Adam Crapsers deportation case.
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Posted by me b zola | Tue Mar 31, 2015, 10:22 AM (0 replies)
Adoption records released
Posted by me b zola | Thu Mar 26, 2015, 09:43 PM (2 replies)
New law allows adoptees to request once-sealed birth records
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A new law that took effect yesterday unseals the adoption files of some 400,000 adoptees whose Ohio adoptions were finalized between Jan. 1, 1964, and Sept. 18, 1996. Advocates had long pushed for the change, decrying a three-tiered statute whereby records access depended on when the adoption took place.
Now, adults adopted between 1964 and 1996 the group that had been barred from obtaining their records can request their files. Such records usually contain the adoptees original birth certificate.
The law that kept Ohioans from learning their personal and medical histories was cruel, Vercellotti said, and hollow in its attempt to shield birthparents who didnt want their identities hidden.
I dont know anything, she said. But I have no bitterness. Im just happy that I might be able to get at least a part of me a piece of my heart thats been missing for a long time.
The Ohio Department of Health Office of Vital Statistics at 614-466-2531 or go to www.odh.ohio.gov/en/vitalstatistics/legalinfo/adoptfnl.aspx. Other information: Adoption Network Cleveland, 216-325-1000, www.adoptionnetwork.org; Ohio Birthparent Group, www.ohiobirthparents.org.
Posted by me b zola | Sat Mar 21, 2015, 10:55 AM (0 replies)
Thinking Outside the [Baby] Box: Reframing the issues before imposing another solution
An excellent article from Gazillion Voices about baby boxes in general, and the horrible rw movie about them:
Imagine a large river with a high waterfall. At the bottom of this waterfall hundreds of people are working frantically trying to save those who have fallen into the river and have fallen down the waterfall, many of them drowning. As the people along the shore are trying to rescue as many as possible one individual looks up and sees a seemingly never-ending stream of people falling down the waterfall and begins to run upstream. One of other rescuers hollers, Where are you going? There are so many people that need help here. To which the man replied, Im going upstream to find out why so many people are falling into the river. Saul Alinsky, in Shelden & Macallair
On March 3, 2015, The Drop Box, a documentary film, was released in select theaters for three days throughout the United States. Directed by American filmmaker Brian Ivie and presented by Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group, this film tells the story of Korean Pastor Lee Jong-rak who built a baby box outside of his home. This baby box makes it possible for anyone, specifically unwed mothers, to anonymously abandon their children. The Drop Box celebrates Pastor Lees efforts by presenting a narrative of his life, his rationale behind creating the baby box, and the work he is doing to care for his own adopted children and others he temporarily fosters, mainly children who face mental and physical challenges. As described on The Drop Boxs official website, this film explores the physical, emotional, and financial toll associated with providing refuge to orphans that would otherwise be abandoned on the streets. The website points out that this is also a story of hopea reminder that every human life is sacred and worthy of love.
That being said, I also believe The Drop Box presents a limited, distorted, and strategically contrived perspective of the baby box. The baby box is a temporary band-aid fix for systemic problems, and the film does little to address these. The Drop Box glorifies the baby box and, in doing so, exacerbates these problems by presenting child abandonments as inevitable while demonizing unwed mothers. What concerns me is that the film does not examine nor even acknowledge any of the economic, cultural, or social factors that have forced many unwed mothers and vulnerable families into relinquishing their children. What is even more alarming is the films inaccurate and harsh portrayal of unwed mothers as potential baby killers or selfish women who will recklessly abandon their children on the side of the road.
The film cites that 60% of the mothers who abandon their children in the baby box are teenagers. They will kill their own babies or leave them on the side of the road if it were not for the baby box.
This citation inaccurately describes, dehumanizes, and demonizes unwed mothers in Korea. According to Dr. Helen Noh of Soongsil University from the Department of Social Work, the average age of unwed mothers who are raising children is 25.1 years, and 77.3% of adult unwed mothers have college degrees. Moreover, according to a New York Times article in 2009, nearly 96% of Korean unwed pregnant women choose abortion. Among the 4% who carry their babies to full term, about 70% are believed to give up their babies for adoption. Though illegal, abortion is widely practiced in Korea. Therefore, it is possible to deduce that a woman who carries her baby to full term has considered the possibility of raising it herself. I want to emphasize that abortion is rarely an alternative to abandonment. Relinquishing a child to adoption or leaving it in the baby box is an alterative to parenting. Baby box abandonment is certainly not the best solution. But to some who are unaware of their rights, options, and obligations, it may seem like the only viable one.
Reclaiming Abandoned Children
According to an article published by SBS (2014), 383 babies or children were left in the baby box between December 2009 and February 2014. Of these 383 babies and children, 120 of their parents returned to the baby box to reclaim them.
The Drop Box highlights the number of children who have been abandoned since the creation of the baby box. However, it makes no mention of parents who returned to reclaim their babies a day, days, or any period of time after leaving their child in the baby box. The fact that 120 parents changed their minds, returned to the baby box, and brought their babies home to raise them, suggests these parents did not have the intention of killing or leaving them on the streets to die. To put it another way, if you build it, they will come. The baby box provides women, who are most likely in an emotionally vulnerable state, with a quick, easy, yet illegal solution to parenting struggles. I believe that many mothers would exercise other options if the baby box did not exist, such as legally giving up her child for ethical adoption or choosing to raise her baby. The baby box facilitates and encourages illegal abandonments. Abandonment is illegal in Korea. A more constructive action would be to educate expecting mothers on their rights, options, and obligations to their children. Additionally, there will always be mothers who are unwilling or incapable of raising their own children. In this case, I support legal relinquishment at adoption agencies, hospitals, police stations, etc., and legal and ethical adoptions.
In Korean adoptee Susan Coxs essay collection, Voices from Another Place (1999), she writes: Adoptees are usually identified and defined as children. That we mature, grow up and come into our own wisdom is often not acknowledged. We can and wish to speak for ourselves. I am a Korean adoptee who has struggled for ten years to obtain my adoption records from Holt, my Korean adoption agency. I have never even been allowed to touch my file. I spent eight years searching for my Korean mother, only to stumble upon what may or may not be her burial site last year. I recognize the challenges she faced as an unwed mother, and the mental health issues that affected my Korean family. I know that I was never an orphan that needed to be saved.
The babies who are left in the baby box are not orphans. Moreover, the baby box is creating a population of people who will never have access to their own information, including personal and medical histories. It is a human right, not a luxury, to know this information. For adult Korean adoptees, birth family searches can be filled with multiple challenges. Some searches may take just a few weeks before adoptees and original families are reunited, while others may span years or even decades and yield few answers. Restricted access to adoption records, incorrect information, and falsified records are some of the obstacles that hinder the reunion process. Children who are anonymously abandoned in the baby box will never have access to their information. Pastor Lees intentions are sincere, but the baby box is a temporary solution that facilitates illegal abandonments and grows the population of Korean adoptees who will never have access to their personal histories.
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Although an outstanding article, I cannot understand the respect given to the creators of this film and their horrible ideology. I certainly would never. The baby market craves infants and young children with no history, no link to their family, and to human traffickers baby boxes are a gold mine.
Posted by me b zola | Thu Mar 19, 2015, 01:34 PM (1 replies)
Philomena urges forced adoption victims in Britain to speak out
Philomena urges forced adoption victims in Britain to speak out
The Philomena Project calls on the Irish Government to work with the Supreme Court to reverse a 1998 ruling that adoptees do not always have the right to know the identity of their natural parents.
The law currently prevents both parties from being given any information that could be used to identify one another, Ms Lohan claims.
The lives of vast numbers of those women have been ruined, Ms Lohan added.
You can identify these women at 30 paces, she told The Irish Post. There is a frailty and a vulnerability about them because what happened to them has turned them into shadows of themselves.
Among the many people who have contacted the organisation since the release of Philomena are some who claim they were given no choice about giving up their child for adoption.
I am aware of a case from the 1970s where a woman in her 20s was locked in a room with a solicitor, a social worker and a nun who all shouted at her and said she could not leave the room until she had signed the papers to hand over custody of her child, Ms Lohan said.
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Posted by me b zola | Tue Mar 17, 2015, 06:56 PM (3 replies)
We are not what we seem .
We are not what we seem
Dr. Phil had posted this on his Facebook page about 48 hours ago:
Working on a show: Should a birth mother retain visitation rights to a child she chose to place for adoption?
Well, that post has garnered over 14,000 comments and nearly 550 shares .in 48 hours. I have been watching what has been said on that one post since roughly 3 hours after it was posted . And I am absolutely blown away by what people are saying. Comments referring to relinquishing mothers as not a mother, dysfunctional teen agers, and a new one for me a birthing pod and not a birthing mother. I have seen them refer to adoptees as somethings, bought and paid for, and belonging to their adoptive parents .their real mom and dad. They have called adoptees chosen, lucky, special, and gifts. It is enough to make the strongest adoptee or natural mom sick to their stomachs and the weakest end up curled into a fetal position in bed. Talk about a triggering conversation!
We want to believe we are so progressive these days .that society is filled with people who think better of each other who want peace and love to abound who understand we are all the same on the inside and we are all equal. Wow! We are SO WRONG! We are still in the dark ages! Like the 1980s group Tears for Fears sang (I heard that one on the radio today) turn your back on mother nature Everybody wants to rule the world.
We all want to think that the Baby Scoop Era of the 1950s through the 1970s is so far in the past that we will never go back there . but I am not so sure anymore. I think we could see a return to that sentiment at any time and it scares me. If these kinds of people ruled the world there would be no end to the pain and dysfunction because they cannot see the big picture married with a lack of vision. I really thought sentiment had changed that moms who relinquish were largely no longer thought of as shameful, dysfunctional, twisted, selfish women who refused to keep to societal norms and decency, and who needed to be punished for their wayward ways .AND BOY WAS I MISTAKEN. I saw enough people writing comments that basically expressed sentiment of wanting to punish them to last me a thousand lifetimes! That sentiment is absolutely shamefully alive and well and living in society at large (at least among what I must assume are watchers of the Dr. Phil show).
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It is alarming the things that people say to adoptees and to and about mothers of loss. On one hand you see people begging on line for women to relinquish their children, promising that they will be exalted or something, on the other hand is the reality of how they are treated (once the adoption agencies have their hands on the infants). And be an adoptee who dares to speak about our experience and/or feelings and sweet Jesus, we go from being the "chosen" child to ingrate.
I am very proud of the younger generation coming up that speaks up and out.
Posted by me b zola | Thu Mar 5, 2015, 09:25 PM (4 replies)
Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries
Memorial event remembers women incarcerated in Magdalene laundries
MEMBERS OF THE public gathered today in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin, to remember and honour all of the women who were incarcerated in the Magdalene laundries.
The annual Flowers for Magdalene event was attended by many who came bearing flowers to place on the graves.
Speaking at the remembrance event Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Mary LouMcDonald said that it was one year after Taoiseach Enda Kennys apology to the Magdalene survivors and still many surviving women have been excluded from the redress scheme and just a fifth of the eligible women have yet to receive their payments, she said.
The nuns have still not apologised, nor will they contribute to the compensation fund, added McDonald, stating the women should not have to suffer further due to additional delays in the restorative justice process.
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They have not begun the process of apologizing for the children that were stolen from the Irish mothers and sold to be legally adopted.
Posted by me b zola | Thu Mar 5, 2015, 08:08 PM (11 replies)
Chinese police bust four major baby trafficking rings rescuing 382 abducted infants
Chinese police bust four major baby trafficking rings rescuing 382 abducted infants and arresting nearly 2,000 suspects
Hundreds of babies have been rescued by police in China after a crackdown was launched on trafficking infants.
The nationwide bust saw 1,094 people arrested as officers acted on information relating to four major internet-based baby trafficking rings.
China's Public Security Ministry said 382 babies were rescued after four websites were found to be selling children under the guise of adoption.
Hundreds of babies have been rescued by police in China after a crackdown was launched on trafficking infants.
The nationwide bust saw 1,094 people arrested as officers acted on information relating to four major internet-based baby trafficking rings.
China's Public Security Ministry said 382 babies were rescued after four websites were found to be selling children under the guise of adoption.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570484/Chinese-police-bust-four-major-baby-trafficking-rings-rescuing-382-abducted-children-arresting-nearly-2-000-suspects.html#ixzz3QWVQOg3V
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If this story isn't sick enough, read the comment section, where people opine that they would love to take one of the trafficked babies for their own, or the suggestion that adoption laws should be more lax.
Procuring infants and young children for people who desire them is big busine$$, and the black market has always had their hand in the cookie jar.
Posted by me b zola | Sun Feb 1, 2015, 02:36 PM (9 replies)
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American to Face Trial in Guatemala Adoption Case
GUATEMALA CITY Jan 8, 2015, 6:46 PM ET
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A Guatemalan court has ordered an American woman to stand trial on charges of participating in illegal adoptions.
The prosecutors' office for human trafficking says the court found sufficient evidence to try Nancy Susan Bailey, who is being treated for high blood pressure at a Guatemalan hospital.
Bailey was apprehended in El Salvador and turned over to Guatemalan authorities at the border between the two Central American countries Dec. 17.
The arrest warrant for Bailey was issued in 2008 and charged her with taking children and putting them up for illegal adoption for fees as high as $40,000.
Bailey founded the orphanage Seeds of Love outside Guatemala's capital in 1996.
Guatemala's International Commission Against Impunity said in a 2010 report that it found 3,342 irregular adoptions, mostly to U.S. couples.
This, unfortunately is not that uncommon among inter county adoptions. It is true, though, that most inter country adoptions "launder" the children to make them seem legal. The reality is that almost every one of these children has family who loves and wants them.
If adoptee where given the right to their own name and family histories child trafficking would significantly decrease. Become involved. Demand human rights for adopted people.
Posted by me b zola | Fri Jan 9, 2015, 03:10 PM (2 replies)
Adoptees "Flip The Script" on National Adoption Month** (Extended Version) ** Please watch-Important
Earlier I posted an abbreviated video on this subject. This video is extended and explains so much in such a short period of time. I could write a post on what each of the women in this video say, I agree to the tee with all of them and would love to expand. If only people actually wanted to hear from adoptees when speaking about adoption...
The conversations that could come from this could be numerous and insightful beyond words. Easy to break down into smaller conversations, and easy for commenter's here to jump into the conversation~you just have to be willing.
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Big day today.
The petrol tank, which is the most complex fabrication on the aircraft, was offered up to the fuselage for the first time.
Ian Harris and Rick have been sweating blood over this for the past month, and so it was a very nervous moment for us. Thankfully, it all went pretty well according to plan, though until you've tried it you don't realise how many things there are for it to bump into.
Designer Frank Barnwell was obviously aware that he needed to fit as much petrol on board as possible, and made the tank as BIG as he possibly could. The result is that it's a very close fit at the front, bottom and back, and we had to spend ages making sure it wasn't going to contact anything.
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I visited Ian Harris yesterday where he and Rick were hard at work on the petrol tank.
One of the oddest features of the design is the back edge of the top cover. The picture below shows it more or less straightened out and you can see two things.
First, because the tank is more or less semicircular in cross section, and the back is sloping to match the slope of the cabane struts, the back edge is curved.
Second, the edge has been doubled over onto itself.
We don't know why it's been doubled over like that, but we'd spent weeks worrying about how to make that doubled-over edge, and considered abandoning it altogether, making the flange of the rear end stick outwards instead of inwards, and making it out of a separate curved strip of steel that would be soldered to the top cover.
In the end, Ian decided to do what it said on the instructions, and folded it over our wooden former to get the initial fold in the right place, then continued tapping it all the way over, and finally running it through the rolls to even it up. The result is absolutely perfect, and only took about half an hour, apparently! It's also much easier to form around the back end than we feared.
So now we just need to find out what it's for…
By the end of the day, the tank was as you can see. The sump and mounting channels are permanently riveted and soldered to the bottom, and the top and bottom are permanently riveted to the back.
So what's left to do – in order – is:
Rivet the rear baffle plate to the top and bottom.
Rivet the front baffle plate to the top and bottom.
Rivet the front plate to top and bottom .
Solder the filler neck in place (it's just loose at the moment).
Easy. Except that each rivet has to be fiddled into place from the inside using a pair of tiny pliers. Then you hold it in place using a magnet while you move the tank over a specially-built anvil, consisting of a long piece of steel bar, about 30mm x 75mm, clamped to a very solid post on the floor and a machine tool, to leave sufficient overhang to reach the full length of the tank. On the end of it is mounted a 'set' – a tool like a punch with a hollow nose which the head of the rivet sits in. Once you've got that all in place without dropping the rivet, pop a copper washer over it and rivet it in place using a hammer and a LOT of skill, as one false move will send the rivet crooked and it will have to be very carefully drilled out before starting again.
It probably only takes about three good taps using another set on the top to complete the process.
Now take a look at the number of rivets in each seam, and you begin to get an idea of the time and effort involved in making the b***dy thing.
But it, along with the propeller, will be the piece de resistance of the build, and we think that we're looking at another two or three days to completion.
Can't wait!
A month ago I made a list of outstanding jobs which went into as much detail as I possibly could. It ran to three pages of closely-packed words, and I sacred everybody with threats that it had to be completed and we mustn't lose focus.
Since then, Theo's been up for a day, taken some work back with him and got it all completed. This means that for the first time since 2009 there are no Bristol Scout parts in his house.
And today I actually came home at 1530, since there was nothing more I could do in the short term.
It's a very strange feeling; for the last five or six years, we've been climbing the hill, with no sight of the summit. We've said vaguely that we hoped to have it finished by the end of a particular year (2012 was the first one, I note!) Suddenly, we've come over a ridge and there is the summit, and the idea that it will be ready to fly in May seems entirely practical. Of course it's nice, but it's also a rather unsettling feeling.
Theo has made up the cable connections for the shoulder straps for the modern harness. I've cut the slots in the back of the cockpit for them to fit through, and they are now fitted and complete.
The ply cover is now covered in fabric, and awaiting completion of the petrol tank before it's finally fitted. I've started sewing the leather cockpit surround to the ply cover with copper wire.
Rick and his partner Marian are well on with a protective sock for the propeller, and is ordering a HUGE socket with a torque wrench for bolting the propeller boss to the engine.
He's also making progress with the instrument panel. It had developed a bit of mould, but it's all come off with a light sanding, and we've got the captive nuts to go on the back.
The next big event is to fill the oil system and see if it leaks, and I've got castor oil on order. The tank is about 32lt capacity, but at about £10/lt I've only ordered a part tankful!
Of course the most important work is the petrol tank, and Rick and Ian got two days at it last week, some of which was filmed. They're working on it again on Thursday, and I'm told there's a possibility it might be finished, though I think that's a bit optimistic. Nevertheless, it's certainly getting close.
And then we have to connect up the last bits of petrol piping, and we can take it outside and see if we can start the engine…
All civilian aircraft are required to have registration letters so that they can be easily identified. That's why they all have the BIG letters on the underside of the wing, on the side of the fuselage and / or on the tail fin. The requirements are all in CAP 523, if you want to check it out.
So if you want to apply military markings – and that includes every warbird on the display circuit – you have to apply to the relevant arm of the military for special dispensation to use their markings, and they check carefully to see that you aren't planning to surreptitiously start an uprising by impersonating the real thing.
Thus our aircraft will have a civilian registration applied to it – G-FDHB, using Granddad's initial – but we want to use exactly the original markings from 1916, and this week we got permission from the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff (Air Engineering) at Whale Island in Portsmouth officially giving that permission. It officially allocates serial number 1264 to our aircraft, which is great news. I've sent the letter off to the CAA, but it means that we are officially allowed to apply the exact original markings, and the only place the civilian registration will appear is on a small metal plate which has to be attached to the airframe somewhere.
No-one has ever offered a satisfactory explanation for this form of identification; it's not as permanent as the serial numbers on cars, for example, which are welded permanently in place or etched into the engine block. These can be bolted to the airframe, and thus can be easily removed. I understand they were originally intended to aid identification when the thing crashed and caught on fire, and everything including the occupants were fried to a crisp and completely unidentifiable, and it occurs to me to wonder how many times they have actually proved useful…
But not in the hangar. This was the view outside the hangar on Sunday morning when I started work on the Scout.
It's been a while since I wrote on the blog. This is partly because there hasn't been as much progress as I'd have liked and partly because what progress we have made hasn't been very photogenic.
The need for progress is becoming urgent if we are to keep on schedule for the first flight in the spring. Essentially we have two major items waiting to be made, and a long list of little jobs, some of which have to wait on the large ones.
We are still waiting for the petrol tank, and the cowlings and side shields.
The side shields and tanks were going to be made by Steve Moon in Southampton, who is said to be the go-to man for these items. Since the side shields are attached to the petrol tank, this meant that the tank had to be fitted first. Poor Steve had had a heart attack in the autumn which had slowed him up a bit, but he said that he could get onto our project in March. This meant that we had to have the tanks completed and installed by the end of February.
Then a couple of weeks ago, Ian Harris picked up the work on the tanks again and we were able to get them away for tinning, which has to be done before assembly. The results of the tinning were frankly disappointing; the plates were distorted by the heat, and the finish was decidedly patchy. But Ian felt it was possible to carry on and we could rectify the situation later on.
What he also said was that the tanks would now take top priority, and that if we wanted he would take on the manufacture of the side shields.
This was a big help, since it meant that Steve Moon could make the cowlings without needing the aircraft in this works. This meant that the manufacture of cowlings and side shields could take place in parallel, and we shouldn't need the trailer to be complete until a good deal later.
In the meantime, there is a long list of relatively minor parts we can be getting on with, and progress on these has been slowed by the fact that Rick had an argument with a circular saw – and lost – and while his hand is strapped up I've had to help out with some other urgent work of his. That's now done, and I've been able to get back to the Scout. We've now got engine controls in place and working; the oil pipework is complete, and the petrol pipe from the Tampier valve to the bloc-tube carburettor is all in place.
The ply cover has been covered in fabric and doped, and we've made a rebate in the front engine former for the petrol tank when it arrives.
Rick and Ian have one good hand each, and so are able to do the riveting on the tank (!), and are expecting to get a good chunk of it done in about a week's time.
Theo has taken a list of jobs away with him to do in sunny Dorset, and we have done much of the work to install modern seat belts (a requirement if we're going to be allowed to fly it). I have some old seat belts off another aircraft (in fact I've got four!) but we've decided that all of them are a bit too tatty to go on the Scout so I need to order new ones…
So progress is being made, but my detailed list of jobs to be done before we can go flying runs ot five pages, closely typed, and there are a good few sleepless nights wondering if we'll make it to the next centenary if we miss this one…
I've spent a satisfactory day getting various bits installed – at least temporarily – on the fuselage.
The engine controls and mixture valve are mounted now, though they'll all have to come off again for painting, and the pushrods haven't been fitted. The picture shows them both with strings showing where the pushrods will be.
I've also had a fun day routing the oil piping.
The pipe from the tank to the oil pump is enormous – 35mm diameter. I assume this is because the castor oil is very high viscosity, and although the flowrate isn't huge – 5 lt/hr – you need to be sure the oil pump suction doesn't dry out. In fact the actual oil pump suction connection itself is only 28mm dia., so it's been fairly straightforward to use copper pipe and fittings for domestic water. We've included a lever valve in the system so that we can leave the aircraft stored for long periods without worrying that all the oil will work its way past the pump and onto the hangar floor! It was an option on the original drawings, so we're making sure it's included. The rubber hose connections at each end should ensure that any vibrations or movement of the engine are isolated from the pipework. They also make access for maintenance and repair easier.
One downside is that the long bit slopes upwards when the aircraft's on the ground, making it possible to get an airlock in the system. There doesn't seem to be any way around this, and I think we'll just have to lift the tail into a flying position when we fill the tank for the first time to make sure no air bubbles get in.
The output from the pump is in an awkward position at the bottom of the pump facing inwards. I've had to use a combination of rubber hose and 8mm copper pipe and fittings to get a sensible run.
The pump outlet has a rubber hose connection to reduce vibration, then there's an elbow and a tee, all in 8mm. The pipe that curves upwards goes to the engine inlet; the other one goes to the oil pulsator.
I've tried to route it as straight as possible so as to get as few airlocks as possible, but once again it's impossible to eliminate then when the aircraft's on the ground.
The location of the pulsator makes connecting to it rather difficult; we were going to make a hole in the plywood gusset plat underneath, but this would (a) weaken the fuselage structure and (b) make it difficult to remove the pipe, so I've come up with another solution as you can see.
(You may remember that the pulsator is an open-ended pipe covered up by the glass dome. The idea is that the strokes of the oil pump will show as pulsations in the surface of the little bit of oil inside the dome. In practice, I'm told, it never works, and it's much easier to go by the smell of castor oil and the film of it on your goggles. If either stops, start worrying!)
Finally, Rick and I spent much of the day in Hereford A&E yesterday, after he came very close to losing the tip of his middle finger in a circular saw. It's looking as if the damage may be relatively limited, as all the tendons appear to be intact, though probably damaged. But part of his index finger was sliced off, and the top joint of his middle finger is dislocated and broken. Thankfully it's his left hand (he's right-handed) so it's not as disabling as it might have been, but it was a very shocking and unpleasant experience, and the result of just a moment's inattention. Rick's a professional, and uses the saw all the time for his work. He is very, very careful at all times, and it's hard to see how he could have done more to protect himself. Let's hope he makes a quick recovery and can get back to work without too much delay.
I've been puzzling over how to fit the fuel system into the aircraft for a week or so.
The only drawings we have are for the Gnôme engine installation, and the carburetion seems to have been significantly different. The throttle lever was fitted on the right hand side of the cockpit above the top longitudinal, so that the lever would have stuck out above the cockpit coaming. The mixture was operated by a knob which you twisted underneath the instrument panel, also on the right hand side.
It's conventional to fit the engine controls on the left side, since most people are right handed and would prefer to have the control column in their right hand. It's possible that's how the Gnôme installation worked on the Scout, since the cockpit is so tiny that it was probably easier to reach across with your left hand to reach the controls!
But the throttle lever operated a Bowden wire, and it didn't seem to be compatible with the bloc-tube (carburettor) for the le Rhône engine which is a reasonably stiff sliding motion. All the other le Rhône installations we've seen use standard parts made by Tampier, including the levers and mixture valve as well as the bloc-tube, and we've decided to go with these in order to make things as simple as possible when it comes to flying it. It also means putting them on the left side, since they can't easily be handed, and this will be in line with all the other installations, making it easier to transition from one type to another.
The controls are operated by pushrod, rather than cable, and we need to make sure there's a sensible run for them, clear of feet and so on.
The first lash-up looked like this, with the mixture valve mounted on the rear engine mount on the left side, where it would be accessible from the inspection panel. The inlet would run just outside the line of the fuselage frame (but inside the side shield), and the outlet would run straight through to the bloc-tube inlet. One downside was that the pushrod would be contacted by the pilot's left foot.
The throttle lever bellcrank is mounted just above it. This photo shows the pushrod runs, which looked to be reasonably clear of the pilot's feet. There was one major flaw in this arrangement, however; the throttle was operating the wrong way round!
This wasn't a major problem, however, as we found it wouldn't be too much of a problem to raise the bellcrank up to the top of the opening in the engine mount and move the pivot inboard. This kept the pushrod well above the toes of the pilot and was a pretty simple and solid mount.
But we weren't happy about the mixture valve, and on a trip to the Shuttleworth Collection it was apparent that their Sopwith Camel had the mixture valve mounted aft of the levers, which would mean that there were no pushrods in the way of the pilot's feet.
And we've come up with this location, which has the benefit of being reasonably easy to mount and a sensible run for the pushrod. There's a strainer in the top, and this location makes it reasonably accessible from the cockpit too. The bits are on order, and we'll be looking to get it installed – along with the oil pipework – in the first couple of weeks of 2015…