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Nairobi Senator Gideon Mbuvi Sonko yesterday fired his lawyers in a Kibera court before the hearing of a case in which he is accused of assaulting Jomo Kenyatta Airport police officer Allan Shimoli.
Sonko fired Cliff Ombeta and Alphonse Mutinda, in their absence, after finding that they had asked the magistrate to postpone the case because they were engaged elsewhere. Lawyer Mary Wang'ele, who is prosecuting the case, told senior principal magistrate Lucas Onyina that Mutinda had written a letter to her saying he will not be ready to continue with the case as he was handling an election petition in Machakos.
Ombeta, who was in court, said he had another case at the Milimani law court and would not be available for Sonko's hearing.
Wang'ele told Onyina that she was ready to proceed with the hearing but agreed to an adjournment of the case.
But before the magistrate made a ruling, Sonko stood up and said he wanted to address the court.
Onyina declined his request saying that one of Sonko's lawyers was in court and could speak on his behalf. But the legislator insisted on speaking forcing the magistrate to give in.
Sonko said he had fired both lawyers and was ready to represent himself in the case. He also made an application for the prosecutor to disqualify herself "because they were playing some games with the matter" claiming that he is not likely to get justice.
He said the three are wasting time.
Sonko claimed that he had paid Sh120,000 as compensation to Shimoli.
The former Makadara MP said negotiations are ongoing and he is ready to compensate the police officer for damages and medical expenses incurred after the incident. He said he has documents to prove that he paid for the medical expenses of the officer.
Ombeta told the court that he had only received Sh50,000 from his Mutinda and that no money had been given to Shimoli. He said Sonko was lying about the negotiations with Shimoli.
After Sonko got rid of the lawyers, the case proceeded with the first witness, who is also the complainant taking to the dock. The officer said that on the fateful day- September 19, 2011, the police were expecting a huge crowd at JKIA because Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto were coming back from The Hague.
He said that a number of politicians including the now Kiambu governor William Kabogo, Sonko and former Embakasi MP Ferdinand Waititu had been accompanied to the Airport by their supporters. Shimoli said that the supporters insisted on using the VIP entrance but the police resisted causing a commotion.
He said that it was then that he was slapped and kicked by Sonko, who apparently was on crutches then. The officer said that he suffered bruises in the face from the multiple rings in Sonko's fingers. He later reported the matter to his boss and sought treatment at a clinic in the Airport.
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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsProject Vehicles
The First (and Probably Last) Comprehensive Guide To Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords Project Cars
Pieces, Parts, and Performance
The year 2006 will mark the 18th anniversary of Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords. During its nearly two decades of existence, the magazine has seen more than its share of project cars come and go.
Some were true successes; some weren't. Some were stolen; others never lived up to their potential. We've had a few that spilled their guts on the track in the name of low elapsed time, and others that have held up to daily driving as well as track torture for years.
Whether you liked them or not, we went through the archives to dig up every cool car, truck, and/or lame-brained idea that we felt was recognizable. We had to access some rather unused brain cells to remember a few, as well as many of the details regarding them. We've listed them here in chronological order and given them a brief history and a report card of sorts to sum up the project.
Project vehicles have been an integral part of MM&FF's history as they have allowed us to test the numerous aspects of high-performance parts, and we pledge to further beat on our machines in the name of product scrutiny for years to come.
Official MM&FF Project Cars
Project Name: Excalibur
Car: '87 Mustang LX
Timeline: April 1992-July 1999
Goal: Project mule for late-model Mustang speed parts when the market was still in its infancy. Some of the legendary parts we use today were first seen in print on this car.
Result: First magazine project Mustang that was a legitimate street car to go in the 10s.
Grade: B
Best Performance: 10.21/131 mph
Biggest mistake: High compression with a supercharger on pump gas; others too numerous to mention (like low-buck retreaded radials).
Best move: Lowering the compression. Proving you could have a truly bad-ass, daily driver Mustang.
Many remember former Tech Editor John Hunkins' black and chrome LX with its cheapo red vinyl interior. Hunkins ordered the car as a stripped-out model to save weight. We're sure he earned a few gray hairs from the project, and it was a track-only car in the end, but to date, Excalibur remains MM&FF's quickest project car.
Project Name: Pit Bull
Car: '83 Mustang GT
Timeline: December 1994-February 2000
Goal: Low-buck buildup of a carbureted Mustang GT.
Result: An amazingly fun car to drive that cost little to build.
Grade: B+
Best Performance: 13.00/105 mph
Biggest mistake: Starting with a completely used-up T-top Mustang. Even with subframe connectors, we all thought parts were going to fall off every time we powershifted it.
Best move: Replacing stock exhaust system with headers and true dual exhaust; using Weiand Stealth intake; proving then-Tech Editor Hunkins completely wrong about carbureted performance.
This was the epitome of el-cheapo speed. We even reworked the factory emissions carb for maximum go. Too bad we started with such a pile.

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Top 5 Castle and Beckett Moments From Season 5, Episode 8: "After Hours"
Rick Castle and Kate Beckett have disagreed in the past, but this week's episode of Castle, "After Hours," featured the couple's first fight, that, in the end, had nothing to do with subway schedules, locked cell phones, or Castle's lack of real world solutions. Their tension, and not the fun kind, centered around their own fundamental differences as an odd couple.
Whether you agree with their assessment or not, one thing we certainly know is that this episode offered come of the cutest Caskett exchanges to date. Take a peek at our Top 5 Caskett moments from Season 5, Episode 8: "After Hours" below.
5. Castle Offers Takeout … Kinda!
One of Dolan's men can't find our "trusted" trio in the basement, so Castle opts to make a break for an open Chinese take-out restaurant, while Beckett stays behind with an injured Leo. She is all kinds of concerned, knowing that she could potentially lose the love of her life if he's not careful.
As Castle prepares to travel into the Bronx at night all by his lonesome, he's still the same, humorous knight in shining armor that will always use sarcasm to make Beckett smile. "Don't worry," he tells Beckett before planting a sweet, goodbye smooch. "I'll bring you back a doggie bag."
Too bad the joke didn't turn that frown upside down, but we applaud you for your effort. We think she might've laughed if the mob wasn't chasing you.
4. Beckett Reveals Her Latest Caskett Insecurity!
Beckett and Castle's snide bickering came to a halting head when Kate revealed her own insecurities about their relationship. She wonders how an ordinary cop and a best-selling author can last, because they sure as heck don't make sense on paper. Castle can barely respond before being interrupted by, of all people, a trucker over the radio. (Wait, does that mean all those years of watching MacGyver actually paid off?)
By episode's end, our killer's been caught, and Castle only has one minor major debacle to clear up at the 12th. He assures her that they are in this relationship together, no matter their unspoken differences. "So what if we don't make sense on paper," he tells her while staring deep into her eyes. "We don't live our lives on paper." We just hope debunking this is the only bubble that bursts around here.
3. Mom (and Dad) Know Best!
The Caskett partnership has finally dipped into a "partnership," but no one, not even mom and dad, has forgotten that when their lives are on the line, it's each other they ultimately count on the most.
Martha and Jim can't help but be concerned for their crime-solving kids' safety when they learn Castle and Beckett are on the run to protect a witness. But in a touching heart-to-heart between these parental units down at the precinct, they reveal that C & B are at their best when they are together. "She does say she always feels safest when your son's watching her back," Jim tells Momma Martha, to which she responds, "He says the same thing about her. At least wherever they are, they have each other to lean on."
2. Joke's Over!
When Castle appears from around the corner with Dolan, Beckett lets out a huge sigh of relief that her brave beau is still alive and intact. But how in fact did he know to escape the car and leave it sitting there for Leo to find? "Once you made that comment about my mom enjoying baseball, I knew we were about six months away from joking about that. Something had to be up."
Beckett can't contain her infectious grin and they share a cute moment just like they always do, in a showdown with the Irish mob.
1. "I thought I lost you!"
Kate's sigh is only half as adorable as what she does next. Beckett barely waits for the police to take down Leo and Dolan's mob crew before she, still cuffed in duct tape, makes a beeline for Castle and tightly wraps her arms around his neck. "I thought I lost you," she whispers in his ear. "No, never," Castle replies as he hands her back her lost gun and badge. It might be a bit chilly outside, but our hearts completely melted at that moment.
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Father Quotes and Sayings about dad
The best thing a father can do for his baby, is to love his mother.
Whether you fall or fail, whether you cry or sob, all you can look forward to is that your dad believes in you. He picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again.
A good father is a man who supports his children even when he has no money.
The only man a girl can trust is her daddy.
Your father may have passed away. But you can still look up to the sky and wave goodbye. You can't forget him no matter what. But at least the sky has one more angel to say hi to. Love and miss you dad.
Some people don't believe in Heroes. They've never met my DAD.
A man can have many children, but a child can only have one father.
Fathers are angles, without father the world seems to be nothing. I love you papa I miss you very much.
A happy family needs a loving and caring father, and he who knows how to be a mother sometimes.
A happy family is a reflection of a good father and a loving husband.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. God bless your soul my father. !
That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.
– Markus Zusak
Good fathers make good sons.
Being a father
My feeling of responsibility for the safety and well being of my children is so strong, (perhaps pathologically so) that should an asteroid threaten to wipe out all life on earth, I would still hold myself responsible for their fate.
Dad's favorite sayings
10) When I was your age…
9) A little bit of dirt never hurt anyone.
8) Go ask your mother.
7) Were you raised in barn?
6) You don't know what hard work is.
5) It builds character.
4) Don't make me stop this car!
3) You're grounder till you're thirty.
2) Money doesn't grow on trees.
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Serve this party appetizer with the toasted-baguette rounds or your favorite crackers. You can also double the tomato topping for a great pasta salad.
YIELD: Makes 8 to 10 servings
Preheat oven to 400°F. Stir coriander seeds in heavy small skillet over medium heat until aromatic, about 1 minute. Cool seeds 10 minutes. Place in plastic bag; crush coarsely with mallet.
Combine tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, and crushed red pepper on rimmed baking sheet; toss to blend. Sprinkle generously with salt. Bake until tomatoes are golden brown and soft, about 15 minutes, then broil until brown in spots, about 2 minutes. Mix in coriander and marjoram. Cool topping on sheet 15 minutes.
Arrange bread slices on baking sheet. Bake until just beginning to color, about 5 minutes. Mound tomato topping on toasts. Arrange on platter and serve.


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The Power of Independent Thinking
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
Recorded: Saturday, August 2, 2014
David J. Theroux, founder and president of The Independent Institute and the C.S. Lewis Society of California, discusses the writings of C.S. Lewis and Lewis's views on individual liberty, natural law and statism.
The presentation was the keynote talk at the first annual conference of Christians for Liberty, that was held at St. Edwards University in Austin, TX, August 2, 2014.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: Other EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Culture/ Society, Education, Family, Freedom, Government Power, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Privatization, Property Rights, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion, Science, Taxes, Welfare
David J. Theroux on Price of Business Radio Show
Recorded: Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Host Kevin Price and Independent Institute President and Founder David Theroux discuss the topic How to Maintain Liberty in this segment of the Price of Business on KTEK 1110 AM of the Wall Street Radio Network.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: RadioIssues: Culture/ Society, Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Political Ideology and Philosophy
David J. Theroux Discusses Libertarianism on WichitaLiberty.TV
Recorded: Sunday, December 1, 2013
Independent Institute Founder and President, David J. Theroux discusses libertarianism and gives liberty-based perspectives on current events with host Bob Weeks on WichitaLiberty.TV.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Political Ideology and Philosophy
C.S. Lewis Challenge in our Secular Age
Recorded: Saturday, September 14, 2013
David Theroux and panel members Andrew Dósa and Roy Carlisle speak on C. S. Lewis perspectives at the "To Everyone an Answer: 10th Annual EPS Apologetics Conference" at Biola University. David is President of the C. S. Lewis Society of California.
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David Theroux Discusses Youths Political Future
Recorded: Friday, April 12, 2013
Independent Institute Founder and President, David J. Theroux discusses libertarianism, politics, and today's youth with host Gary Franchi on the Next News Network.
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Recorded: Monday, December 24, 2012
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A Gala for Liberty: Special Tribute from Ron Paul
Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary with Congressman Ron Paul and Independent Institute President David J. Theroux.
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Vicki Alger on a Cyber School Education
Recorded: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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A new farming issue: SustainabilityBILOXI, Miss. — Farmers who think they have won the battle over climate change when they stopped the cap and trade bill in Congress now face a related challenge that may be harder to fight: Pressure from their own food processor and retailer customers to prove that commodities and other ingredients are produced in a "sustainable" way.
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Destiny - PS4 Beta Launch Trailer
Celebrate with Bungie the launch of next gen gaming with new in-engine Destiny footage.
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Looks like another broken link on gamespot. This site has really gone down the drain since they did the rebuild.
Oh boy oh boy, last gen MS fucked up with the thousands of RRoD Xboxes and Sony fucked up with a late launch of a higher priced console... let's see how will each fuck up this time! D:
PS: Please console god thou art in hardware heaven, be merciful and let my pre order be born healthy and without sin! I will have to wait until sunday... there will be a lot of prayers
PC master race? Anyone?
Looks dope in HD. Can't wait to pick this up for PS4
@johnd13 oh no dear boy, you're in the wrong article with the "peasants" or whatever you superior beings like to call the console gamers. Go on with your master business and have a nice day, ta-ta!
@johnd13 y sure thats why LIKE ALWAYS u gonan wait like a nab to play this you guyz are always last hahahahahahahahahhaa
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2012 (FRESHMAN)Redshirted ... part of Indiana's NCAA title team.
PREP/PERSONALAs a junior helped Loyola to an undefeated regular season, Mission League championship and a quarterfinal berth in the California Interscholastic Federation Division I playoffs ... as a senior helped lead the team to its fourth-straight Mission League title and a trip to the CIF Division I semifinals ... Loyola went 42-7-9 over the last two seasons with 35 shutouts ... first-team All-Mission League as a senior ... All-CIF Division I team as a senior ... played club soccer for South Bay Force from 2001-2012 under head coach Todd Saldana ... played in CSL Premiere League and Division I Southern California Developmental League ... Surf Cup champions, Nomads champions and National Cup semifinalists in 2012 ... parents are Stu Goldfaden and Karen Goldfaden ... born August 26, 1993.
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Stockholm Shore Excursion: Stockholm Grand Tour by Coach and Boat
- Stockholm Grand Tour shore excursion
- 3.5-hour combined bus and boat tour of Stockholm
- Audio-guided coach tour through Stockholm
- Boat cruise through scenic waterways to admire the city from the water
- Audio guide in English, Swedish, Italian, German, French and Spanish
- Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Finnish audio guides available on specific tours
- Covered by Viator's worry-free policy: guaranteed on-time return to your ship
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What You Can Expect
You'll then transfer to a boat for a cruise through the islands and waterways that make up the city. As a third of the city area consists of water, Stockholm is especially picturesque from a boat; while cruising, you can take in great views of top Stockholm attractions. Snacks and beverages are available for purchase onboard.
Worry-free Shore Excursion:
We will ensure your excursion ends with ample time for you to return to the Stockholm port for your ship's departure. In the extremely unlikely event your ship has departed, we will arrange for transportation to the next port-of-call. If your ship is delayed and you are unable to attend this activity, your money will be refunded. See our terms and conditions for full details.
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A half century after its waves were showcased in the seminal surfing film "The Endless Summer," Dakar is becoming an essential stop for globe-trotting boarders looking for the perfect ride.
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The socio-economic challenges faced by Taiwanese youth require drastic adjustment to the nation's wage structure to counter exploitive policies that expand the problem, a panel of scholars concluded yesterday in Taipei.
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No one can argue that Apple hasn't changed the way people live their lives. The company's iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad have shaken up music, phone and computer markets worldwide. Is the Apple Watch going to be able to do the same?
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German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk kicked off eight nights of concerts at an iconic Berlin museum Tuesday with a multimedia performance of their classic album "Autobahn."
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Actor Colin Egglesfield wasn't in the classic baseball film "Field of Dreams."
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Connecting Social Networks to Innovation
According to social media expert Mike Brown, there are specific ways to make social networking an observable part of your innovation efforts. Here is a rundown:
How to Identify Needs?
- Initiate a social media monitoring system to track what customers are talking about your brand and service.
- Organize a contest where customers can identify challenges that they face.
- Sponsor your own Twitter-based chat for your target audience/customers in your industry to talk about topics of interest.
- Engage customers in activities like publishing ideas, issues, and problems they face. Post the ideas and reward the ones that get used. This can be really helpful to get genuine feedback to work on.
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COMPANIES are making forays into Britain's universities in record numbers, seeking academics who can help to solve their technological problems. This year's Innovation Trends survey, compiled by the Confederation of British Industry and the NatWest bank's technology unit, shows an unprecedented level of collaboration between industry and academia.
Companies of all sizes and in all sectors of the economy now realise the value of working with academics. "We had to do a double take on the figures because we didn't believe them at first," says Philip Wright of the CBI's Technology Group.
The survey was compiled from interviews with almost 400 companies in manufacturing and service industries, ranging in size from multinationals to firms run by "one man and his dog".
The 2 per cent of manufacturing companies reporting that they intended to reduce their links with academia were heavily outnumbered by 48 per cent which said they would increase ...
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Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile will mark World Aids Day by joining in the "yarn bombing" of a tree at the Hillcrest Aids Centre outside Durban.
Yarn bombing (or "guerrilla knitting") is, according to Wikipedia, a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre in the place of paint or chalk.
"This unusual visual arts project aims to raise awareness around HIV and Aids in a fun, playful manner. It will also create employment for those infected and affected by the disease, specifically the community within the Valley of 1000 Hills," Mashatile said.
The plan is to wrap the tree at the entrance to the Hillcrest Aids Centre in crocheted squares made by the centre's crafters.
"The squares will be sewn together around the trunk and branches; it is going to be bright and cheerful," said the centre's Paula Thomson.
The initiative has resulted in over R170 000 being put back into the community.
As part of the initiative, at least 140 crafters have been taught to crochet, along with 130 school children from five different schools. Local religious bodies, old age homes and businesses are also contributing crocheted squares.
"We are supporting this initiative because we too believe the creative economy can be at the centre of our endeavours, to grow the economy, create jobs and build sustainable livelihoods," said Mashatile.
"The work being done by the Hillcrest Aids Centre and the surrounding community is a great example of how using arts and crafts can empower and up-skill even the most marginalised amongst us."
The Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust (HACT) is a faith based, non-profit organisation that supports and empowers people infected and affected by HIV and Aids.
Woza Moya is the income generation faculty of HACT. Woza Moya proactively equips people through training and job creation to be self-sufficient. Some of its well-known "Dreams for Africa projects" are the "Dreams for Africa Chair', "the Green Suit", "the Little Traveller" and the four-metre long beaded "African love letter".
"We have brought an international concept to South Africa and are the first to do it on such a grand scale," Thomson said. "We are hopeful this will be the largest yarn-bombed tree in South Africa, if not in Africa."
The public is invited to join this year's World Aids Day celebration under the beautifully yarn-bombed tree at 26 Old Main Road, Hillcrest.
There will be entertainment, crafts, a kiddie's area, yarn exhibition, tea garden and food stalls. For more information, visit www.hillaids.org.za.


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In Visual Studio 2010 Essential Training, author Walt Ritscher demonstrates how to use Visual Studio 2010 Professional to develop full-featured applications targeting a variety of platforms. Starting with an overview of the integrated developer environment, the course covers working with code editors, navigating and formatting code, and deploying applications. Also included are tutorials on running performance and load tests, and debugging code. Exercise files accompany the course.
In this movie, I want to show you how to connect with Team Foundation Server. A word of caution before continuing: I am using my open source project on CodePlex site for this movie. You can see the screen here. I'm logged into CodePlex, and I have two projects that I am a coordinator on: my open source project called Shazzam, which is a pixel shaded editor, and this one I created for this week's class called TruffleSoup. Now I can connect to these sites, because I'm the coordinator on them, but you do not have permission to connect to the CodePlex projects. In order to follow along, you need to talk to your administrator and get information to connect to your copy of Team Foundation Server.
Of course, if you don't have a Team Foundation Server of your own, you can always create a project on CodePlex. It's free, after all. I'm going to start by clicking this TruffleSoup project. I will click here. This is a temporary project. It's only here for 30 days, and I need to go to the Source Control tab, and then over here, I can find the information necessary to connect with different source control engines. As you can see, CodePlex allows you to connect with Subversion, Visual Studio Team Explorer, and Team Explorer Everywhere.
I am going to choose this one here. Next I am going to copy this piece of information, because I am going to need it to connect to the server. Now, I am going to open up Visual Studio, and I am going to go to File > Source Control > Open from Source Control. Over here, you can see the Servers tab. If I open this up, this is where I can choose to servers that I want to connect to.
I am going to remove this one and re-add it. Choose Add. Here, I am going to paste in the text I've got from the web site. I am supposed to connect using HTTPS, so I'll select this radio button here, and then I'll click OK. The next thing is it is going to ask me for my credentials. My credentials are listed down here--at least some of them are. My username is listed here, so I'll copy that, and then my password is the one I used to log on to CodePlex.
I will come over here and type in the name and then my password. I have successfully connected to the server. Now, I can close this dialog. Now, it shows that it is talking to TFS with my credentials, and it shows that there are two team project collections: one is for Shazzam, my open source project, and the other one is for this fictitious site I created called TruffleSoup.
And what I can do next is create workspaces for these. I will choose trufflesoup and click on Connect. It says, "Would you like to open from Source Control?" I already have an existing project up there. I can download it, but this movie was just about connecting to the source control. In the next movie, I'll show you how to set up your projects, create new projects, upload them to source control, and work with the files in version control.
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This course examines gender (especially notions of the feminine and the sexed bodies) in pre-modern Chinese religions, the mutual impact between religious women and Chinese society from early to late imperial times, and explores strategies to read writings about religious women from pre-modern China. We will read modern scholarship on this subject as well as primary texts in translation: Buddhist and Daoist hagiographies, anecdotes, temple gazetteers and inscriptions, and relevant records in other types of sources. Basic knowledge of Chinese religions and history will be introduced in order to facilitate discussion. Students will learn, through the case of pre-modern China, how religion can be used both to reinforce and to challenge gender norms, and how gender often plays critical and constitutive roles in religious traditions.
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Edited and translated by Anne J. Cruz
Rejecting marriage and the convent, the Spanish noblewoman, poet, and religious activist Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (Jaraicejo 1566–London 1614) led an uncommon life of adventure and spiritual devotion. Orphaned as a child, she lived first at Philip II's court, and then with an uncle, the Viceroy of Navarra, who enforced harsh discipline on his ward. Through her contacts with the English Jesuits, Carvajal traveled secretly to London as a self-appointed missionary, where she was jailed twice for preaching against Anglicanism. A tireless writer, Carvajal left a small but impressive collection of spiritual poetry, an autobiography, and over two hundred letters. This volume provides a scholarly introduction and translations of selections from her writings.
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To view an excerpt from the introduction, please click here [PDF]
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Anne J. Cruz is professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. Her publications range from studies on Spanish Petrarchism, Cervantes, and the comedia to women's writings and the picaresque novel. She is a member of the Bibliografía de Escritoras Españolas (Bieses) Research Team, coeditor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and editor of the Ashgate series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies. She has recently been named corresponding member of Spain's Royal Academy of History.
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Will a sharper screen make your e-reader better?
By Alex KIDMAN
I've been testing out Kobo's Aura HD over at Fat Duck Tech (unsubtly, my review link is right here). It's a premium priced eBook reader with a number of specific hooks for truly dedicated bibliophiles. The battery lasts for ages -- Kobo suggests that if you only read for thirty minutes a day you'll get two months out of it. It's got 4GB of storage onboard, and that can be bumped up with a microSD card. But the factor that it sells itself on more than any other is its 6.8" high definition screen. Specifically, it's sitting on a resolution of 1440x1080, higher than any other e-reader you can buy.
You can read my full review to get the complete picture, but in terms of the screen quality, while I can't doubt its clarity -- and indeed, fellow tech writer Leigh Stark has done a bang-up job looking right up close to see the differences -- I'm left wondering if in the case of digitally printed words, it actually makes that much difference.
You're still not reading on paper, so there's always a resolution gap. You're reading alphanumeric characters that you're no doubt familiar with anyway, so the resolution bump isn't going to be that massive in terms of aiding reading comprehension. Yes, for things like technical drawings and illustrations there may be some benefit, but at that level, there's a strong argument for buying a high resolution tablet instead anyway.
Within the e-reader space, I'm having trouble seeing the argument for "higher" resolution, because I don't think it makes the reading experience "better". Am I alone in thinking this way?
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Xbox One: Microsoft's still keen on your second screen
By Alex KIDMAN
The big news this morning in consumer tech land is Microsoft's unveiling of the Xbox One. Not the big and spectacularly ugly original Xbox. We already knew about those, although I am curious to work out where all the original Xboxes (Xboxen?) that sold ended up. Those things weren't small.
Then again, neither is the Xbox One, a device that looks rather like the mutant lovechild of a VCR and a Blu-Ray player as envisioned in a drug-addled dream by HR Giger. It's certainly striking, and, as I've noted over at Fat Duck Tech, it's both a play for the broader entertainment space as well as something that could appear in a quite different guise when it reaches Australian shores, because we simply don't have the same kinds of services or expectations locally.
Still, while Microsoft's launch was heavy on the TV side of things, it's not forgetting mobile devices either, and that's worth keeping in mind. Xbox might now be all about entertainment, but then so are tablets and smartphones, and Microsoft would very much still like to sell you some of those, too. This morning's launch lingered very briefly on the use of Microsoft's Smartglass, which already exists for iOS, Android and Windows noting that it'll be part of the Xbox One experience. Again, that's part of an inclusive play; Microsoft isn't ignorant of the fact that while TV still draws in a crowd, it's often a crowd that's also tablet surfing or taking text messages while it does so.
That kind of second screen market is a big challenge for incumbent console game producers, because not only does it divide attention, it also takes away valuable income streams as gamers -- especially casual gamers -- adopt mobile friendly games rather than the latest Call Of Duty title. Which is to say that while Smartglass may have been only lightly touched on at this morning's reveal, I strongly doubt it's the only cross-Xbox mobile play Microsoft has planned for the Xbox One.
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5G ain't 5G
By Alex KIDMAN
For many years, Castrol used the advertising tagline "Oils ain't oils" to spruik its particular brand of processed dinosaur. Possibly it still does -- I don't buy much motor oil or, for that matter, watch all that much commercial TV any more.
In any case, it jumped back up in my mind when Samsung announced its "5G" wireless network trials, in which it claims to have managed 1Gbps speeds over the air at a distance of 2km. That's pretty impressive stuff from a technology point of view, and naturally enough it reignited the debate over whether it was worth spending NBN-level money on fixed broadband at all.
The thing is, there's a load of unanswered questions in terms of both how Samsung has tested and how (and when) it would be deployed. As ITNews points out, it could be highly susceptible to rain problems. As I pointed out at length over at Fat Duck Tech, there are mountains of red tape, spectrum and power issues to overcome. As Adam points out, it's more likely to be a compliment to fixed line, not its replacement.
But even that's aside from a very simple and basic point. Want some 5G? I could sell you a plastic bucket with 5G written on the side of it, and it would be exactly as legitimate as the wireless solution that Samsung is currently testing. There's no such standard -- as yet -- and with 4G having been so heavily mucked with, to the point where it's an advertising term much more than a "standard", it's entirely feasible that there may never be a 5G "standard". What Samsung is essentially doing is drumming up some hype for a product which even it admits isn't going to be market ready before 2020, and that's at a level where carriers might start buying it, not where you might start flinging movies around on it.
For what it's worth, I've got the 5G plastic bucket ready to sell to carriers right now. Starting price is a very reasonable $1,000,000 per bucket. Check around -- you can't beat those prices for 5G today. Please, please, form an orderly queue. I've got plenty of 5G buckets for everyone.
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Can Chromebooks bridge the tablet productivity problem?
By Alex KIDMAN
Tablets are incredibly popular right now. Quite phenomenally popular for both work and play, but there's a problem there, and it's the fact that tablets aren't quite as good for productivity tasks as they're normally defined as an equivalent laptop or desktop. Yes, I know, Windows 8, but say "tablet" to most folks, and they'll think iPad or, increasingly, Android. They're full touch interfaces, and while there are some neat vertical apps that'll work better than straight notebook ones, and it is feasible to latch on any of a number of bluetooth keyboards, it's still not quite the same thing.
I've been testing out Acer's Chromebook C7 recently -- you can read my full review over at my new site, Fat Duck Tech -- and while I'm not entirely sold on the Chromebook for my own needs (because I'm a helpless tinkerer, and it's only as cheap as it is by being, well, cheap, it strikes me that it sits at an interesting intersection between a full-powered laptop -- which will typically cost more and require more maintenance tasks -- and a full powered tablet -- which can be had for similar prices and skips the maintenance issues for the most part in return for less flexibility.
The challenge there, of course, is that you have to be happy with both handing over info to Google, and the quality (or lack thereof) of Google's inbuilt apps. Chromebooks won't be for everyone, but there's arguably a niche in the budget space for those who want online productivity tools.
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A month with a Blackberry: Is it berry good?
By Alex KIDMAN
Apologies upfront for the lack of a column last week; personal matters intervened. Now, on with the show?
I was reminded last night at the Samsung Galaxy S4 launch -- you can watch my 30s worth of opinion on it here -- that there are plenty of premium smartphones out there at the moment. Indeed, I can't think of a period where we've seen quite so many "flagship" phones launched in such a short period of time. There are differences between Android handsets, but they can be subtle, especially when you consider that it's feasible to reskin Android to be just about anything, and the scale runs from low-end phones with terrible screens to high-end models with all the bells and whistles, and a price point to match. The same is true to a lesser extent in the Windows Phone world, albeit with Nokia doing much of the jostling in terms of hitting different price points. It's even partially true in the iPhone world, albeit only because Apple keeps the previous generation iPhone around to keep the budget US market happy.
Then there's the Z10. It's not only the flagship of the BB10 world, but it's also the only BB10 device you can buy, at least until the Q10 actually launches. Even then, that's a small market offering, pitched at the premium end of the market.
After a month using the Z10, I was rather split. There are aspects of the BB10 interface that do work well, and it's at least doing something different from the rest of the pack. At the same time, though, it's very clearly a device for the information junkies in the corporate world, something that was rather heavily highlighted by Blackberry itself at the BB10 launch. Consumers won't need -- or even access -- Blackberry Balance, for example. That doesn't mean that no consumers should consider it -- indeed, there's a strong argument here that those who "just want a phone" might find the simplicity of approach quite appealing. Then again, they may very well be the market that just buys the cheapest Android handsets instead. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a phone with a specific focus, especially if it can do so well, and the Z10 does perform those basic information tasks well. For my own purposes, though, I've jumped back to Android? at least for the time being.
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The Panasonic WJ-HD716 16-Channel H.264 Digital Disk Recorder (1 TB) combines the H.264 (High profile) codec with Panasonic's UniPhier proprietary System LSI platform to generate quality video images while keeping file sizes to a minimum. This DVR features 16 video inputs which can also be used for coaxial PTZ camera control.
Video is captured at speeds up to 480 ips for the combined 16 channels, resulting in natural-looking motion video for each camera input. Video playback is possible at up to 960 ips on 2 separate monitors via the BNC outputs. Video can also be outputted through the DVR's 2 HDMI ports at a resolution of 1080i (1920 x 1080 pixels) per monitor.
For expanding your surveillance system, up to 5 DVRs can be linked together (cascaded) to provide central control for up to 80 cameras from a single DVR. This DVR features 4 front-accessible HDD bays for ample storage space on the DVR. Storage capacity can be further expanded by attaching up to 3 external WJ-HDE400 Hard Disk Extension Units, each having 9 HDD slots, to this DVR. By adding an optional RAID card (WJ-HDB601), a RAID configuration can be applied to multiple HDDs for fail-safe, redundant recording.
Recording & Display
- H.264 (High profile) codec with UniPhier Panasonic's proprietary System LSI platform provides high-quality and high-compression encoding simultaneously
- H.264 image transfer at QVGA resolution for reducing network bandwidth
- Real-time recording at 480/400 ips (field) and 240/200 ips (frame)
- Up to 960 ips at 16 channels 2x monitors real-time live
- Dual 1080i (1920 x 1080) display output for both Live and Live/Playback
- Live/Playback monitor out (HDMI, BNC) and Live monitor out (HDMI, BNC)
- 4, 7, 8, 9, 12, or 16 split screen display modes
Intelligent Video Motion & Object Detection with SD5
- SD5Link (Super Dynamic 5 Link) capability with i-VMD (intelligent-Video Motion Detection) alarm provides disk saving and easy search
- i-VMD automatically learns the background movements (tree, rain, shadow, waves) and detects only the subjective movement
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- 16 analog video inputs including 16 Panasonic coaxial camera control inputs and 4 audio inputs
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My life and business are intertwined with food; I cook for clients and then cook for myself, in hopes of providing the best and most delicious nutrition- it consumes me you could say. But so often I find the people know very little about whole foods, processed foods and how to make the right choices.
Today's guest post shares how to live healthy with whole foods and debunks any misconceptions you may have.
Top 5 Whole Foods Tips For Healthy Living
With many families striving to be more health conscious and eat more whole foods, it's important to stay informed about the facts about what is best. Because of all the marketing for both processed and all-natural foods, it's hard to know what foods are best for our bodies. Here are few myths about healthy eating you should know about:
Myth 1: Low-fat foods are automatically better than whole foods
Many foods are being packaged and touted as healthier because they are low-fat or have no trans-fat. The truth is many fats are beneficial, especially those in avocados, almonds and peanut butter. However, processed foods that are low-fat most likely doesn't have the nutrients and benefits that you can find in whole foods.
Myth 2: Processed foods enriched with vitamins and other nutrients are healthy choices
The truth is that the same manufacturing processes that cause oils to become trans-fat also degrade the vitamins in food. When artificial, inorganic vitamins are added to processed foods, the body cannot assimilate them. In fact, they may damage the digestive system over time. Getting your daily vitamins from foods that already have them like fruits and vegetables are a healthier option.
Myth 3: Farm-grown foods are intrinsically better
Some processed foods claim they are healthy because some of the ingredients are farm-grown. However, constant, high-volume farming, engaged in by large corporations, can strip nutrients from soil. To replace them, many farms use chemical fertilizers that leach into the foods. Whole foods come from farms that use organic fertilizers. Be sure to look for organic foods when you are looking for farm-grown options because they are not all equal.
Myth 4: Low-calorie processed foods are healthier choices
Healthy eating is not a numbers game. While it is true that excessive calorie intake makes us gain weight, we must consider quality over quantity. Many low-calorie foods offer little nutritious benefits and leave us feeling hungry still. Eating more fiber found in fruits, vegetables and other whole foods will keep your hunger satisfied and give you the vitamins that you need. While it's important to not overeat, simple counting calories will not keep you healthy. Eating all-natural products, despite the calories, will be a much healthier option for your body.
Myth 5: Processed foods claiming to be "all natural" are healthy
Recently, a major potato chip manufacturer removed all artificial flavors and colors as well as preservatives from its products. It then marketed the chips as "all natural." The problem is that the food contained genetically-modified organisms (GMO's). These are biologically-altered crops created to be more drought-resistant, among other things. The problem is that no one really knows what long-term effect these have on human health.
Eating healthy is important for many reasons, so it's important to take the time to know what is really best for your body. Don't get caught up in believing these common myths that can affect your health; keep it simple- eat whole foods!


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By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia
Our top story continues to be the winter storm that pushed through Northeast and much of Georgia on Tuesday.
The storm left us with icy conditions on the roads and that sparked numerous accidents in numerous counties in Northeast Georgia Tuesday afternoon and evening.
And with temperatures dipping down into the teens in most areas last night, that meant wet roads turned to icy roads overnight.
As a result, a winter weather advisory is still in effect for Elbert and surrounding counties until noon, according to meteorologist John Tomko with the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg.
"Actually we have a winter weather advisory that goes until noon today, and that is for black ice and the counties boarding the north Savannah River border", said Tomko.
The good news in all of this however, according to Tomko is that conditions should begin to improve as the day wears on and the sun comes out.
"We're going to warm up, but not very much, just above freezing. We are hoping that the little bit of warmth today will help to melt the ice on the roads", said Tomko.
And even more good news, by the weekend temperatures should be back to normal for this time of year – in the 50's and even 60's.


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During the eighteenth century, the manufacture of porcelain required many workers, raw materials, stone factory buildings with furnaces, and timberlands to supply fuel. These resources were abundant in America, but because England viewed the colonies as a market for its exports, it discouraged the manufacture of these products. In the 1760s, however, when Americans were boycotting English luxury goods, Gouse Bonnin (American, born England, circa 1741–circa 1780) and George Anthony Morris (American, 1742/5–1773), founders of the American China Manufactory, were among the first colonists to establish a porcelain factory. Although they succeeded in producing close imitations of English wares, Bonnin and Morris closed imitations of English wares, Bonnin and Morris closed their factory after only two years, owing to the resumption of trade with England in 1770 and the difficulties inherent in the startup of a new enterprise.
- Makers: Gousse Bonnin; George Anthony Morris; American China Manufactory
- Medium: Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze
- Place Made: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Dates: 1770-1772
- Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (13.3 x 18.4 x 18.4 cm) (show scale)
- Markings: Marked on base: "P" in under glaze blue
- Collections:Decorative Arts
- Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Everyday Life/A Nation Divided, 5th Floor
- Accession Number: 45.174
- Credit Line: Museum Collection Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
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Morning Preview: The Biotech Bubble Might Burst And Microsoft's Surprising Strength
- By Stefan Cheplick+ (@scheplick) editor @stocktwits |
- March 25th, 2014
1.) Biotech has been one of 2014's major themes. This year already, several biotech stocks have spiked 100% or more in a single day. @ReformedBroker shared a great post yesterday about this and it caught everyone's attention. Is biotech a massive bubble ready to burst? The chart of the day is this one, which shows the largest biotech ETF, $IBB, at a paramount moment:
And here's the chart $IBB Note vertical line is start of the trend http://stks.co/h0QVc
— HCPG (@HCPG) Mar. 24 at 10:37 PM
2.) Biotech isn't the only momentum sector rolling over. @Ivanhoff recently pointed that 4 of the most watched momemtum sectors are all down big since early March:
The 4 pillars of momentum under pressure: $IBB -biotech, $CQQQ -ChinaTech, $TAN -solar, $SKYY -cloud http://stks.co/a0MlK
— Ivaylo Ivanhoff (@ivanhoff) Mar. 24 at 03:45 PM
3.) Any stock that has the term "tech" in it is worth watching right now. Some of the largest Internet tech names like Twitter ($TWTR), Facebook ($FB), and Netflix ($NFLX) all dropped more than 4% yesterday. The Nasdaq-100 ETF, $QQQ, closed near an incredibly important level too:
$QQQ closing right near 50-day MA on high volume. This is def an area to watch the rest of the week http://stks.co/s08I9
— David Fabian (@fabiancapital) Mar. 24 at 04:13 PM
4.) During times of market weakness it's important to find relative strength. What stocks are holding up better than the rest of the market? In this case, Microsoft ($MSFT) should be on everyone's radar. Microsoft is up 8% this year, and it's outperforming both Apple ($AAPL) and Google ($GOOG). Imagine that:
Updated $MSFT chart from 2-3 weeks ago. Very interesting how strong this one has been standing http://stks.co/s08H2
— Trader Stewie (@traderstewie) Mar. 24 at 03:13 PM
"@AnalystWire: UBS Raises PT on MIcrosoft ($MSFT) to $46; Sees CEO Nadella as 'Right Person for the Job' http://stks.co/f0QZ8"
— Darcy Keith (@eyeonequities) Mar. 25 at 07:05 AM
5.) What are insiders doing right now? According to one index, which is compiled and shared by Thomson Reuters, they've been selling all year. Just look at the massive spike that happened in January. Luckily, the index appears to be making lower lows, but you should still be watching this if you think insiders are a good barometer of the market:
$spy, $iwm insiders haven't been interested in over a month now…still in sell mode.. http://stks.co/e0MpC
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Amounts of people are used to assembling a bulb with low light intensity in dinning-room, convenient for midnight use. But that's not enough, and the innovative lamp 'Switch Candle' can help to avoid those unnecessary matters that may disturb your family. Adding the aesthetic appeal to the light switches, the designer has created an electrical candle with LEDs, which can be used to illuminate the room as a night lamp. It also serves as a candle for candlelight dinner when necessary.


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ST JOHN'S College boys basketball are taking no prisoners this season in which they are unbeaten in the matches they have played so far and have pledged to keep the momentum going in their remaining games.
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Their second victory was against Eaglesvale who they beat 51-33 in a one-sided affair.
The St. John's first team remain undefeated this season, it is a different story for their second team who registered a 10-10 draw against Eaglesvale in their second match after losing their opening game 21-19 to St Georges.
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06 Mar - In the dark...
Date: Sunday 06 March 2005
Position @ 1200 Local (GMT): 53°09'1 South, 038°00.0' West. Off Bird Island, South Georgia
Next destination: Mare Habour, East Cove, Falkland Islands
ETA: Thursday 10th March 2005 : Late PM
Distance to go: 754.5 nmiles
Total Distance sailed from UK: 17841.0 nmiles
Current weather: Overcast, with rain. Moderate visibility
Sea State: Rough sea and swell. Pitching and rolling heavily
Wind: SSW, Force 9-10
Barometric pressure:989.4 mmHg
Air temperature: 3.7°C
Sea temperature: 2.9°C
For the most up-to-date chart of the ships position, visit sailwx.info
When we last left you we were steaming from Halley towards South Georgia with a proposed arrival at King Edward Point midweek. There was little enough on the voyage North to mark the passing of the days as maintenance continued onboard, handover notes continued to be written, and the snow kept falling in flurries. Not that you folks back home need to know anything about SNOW ! From all accounts you guys have had more snow in Europe than we have down here in Antarctica ? Go figure ?
Back on passage, there were bergs and growlers enough to keep the Navigating officers on their toes and especially at night when the Ice Spotlights were turned on, and the speed reduced to avoid any unsuspecting bergs from crossing our path ! It's an intense period of 'looking out the window' despite a bridge full of technical gismo's – we still rely on the good old-fashioned eyeball for safe passage through the Southern Oceans. The Mates take it turn and about for 4 hours on the bridge and are accompanied by a 'watchkeeper' A/B (Able-bodied Seaman) who keep vigil where two sets of eyes are deemed better than one. It is usually very dark on the bridge at night and it is something that we seafarers have become very blasé about, however, visiting scientist Stephane Bauguitte mentioned how impressed he was by this very strange working environment and is happy to give us his impressions.
In The Dark !
First night-watch on the Ernest Shackleton Bridge, or the christening of a French 'Marin d'Eau Douce'*
* Fresh Water Mariner
After a winter floating on the Brunt Ice Shelf at Halley, what better way home, but to sail back home on the ES? I am a complete novice seaman, with only a few cross-Channel and Irish Sea ferry crossings in my kit bag. And I find myself discovering the nautical world in possibly the most privileged way: onboard an ocean-going ship sailing around Antarctica! So far, the highlight of my cruise is my first experience of a night-watch on the Bridge, in the middle of an iceberg strewn Weddell Sea, heading 350 degrees (North, at last!) at 9 knots. After a rough day feeling sea sick, a (not!) perfectly timed fire/search & rescue drill, and a late dinner, I swerve my way scrambling up three decks up to the Bridge, just to see 'what's it's like up there'. After a good five minutes waiting for my eyes to acclimatise to the near complete darkness, I finally can distinguished three figures in front of the various control screens. It's not easy to recognise who's who, but at least the crew easily guess who I am as soon as I open my mouth. And no, my anonymity is not given away by my garlic breath, but by my Gaelic accent.
Above: Click on images to see the Night time Bridge (with flash) and as it really is – without flash !
Apologies for the poor photographs but holding the camera still for 1 second on long exposure whilst the ship is dancing around under your feet – is a task that produces less than perfect results !
The atmosphere is a bit tense, everyone is concentrating on the job in hand. And what a job! To loosen up the ambience, Tony, the Officer in charge of the Bridge for the 00:00-04:00 watch, jokingly announces that tonight's job is 'dodge the bergs'. My already messed up guts tense up a notch: This sounds a bit like a bad joke voiced on the Bridge of the Titanic just before that fatal crash; and I am on the ship! Soon I realise that the night-watch isn't a place to joke about. You may speak to the Watchman, the Officer, the sea cadet, but they won't look at you. Everyone's eyes are focussed towards the front of the ship (the pointy bit), scanning the dark waters swept by the powerful search lights. Being so high above the sea level, the scenery is rather spooky: all around us the Bridge windows are dark, except for few faintly reflected multicoloured control lights. I had been on the Bridge at daytime before, but this is a different place: no great vistas on the ship's deck and to the horizon Everything is quiet, except for the gentle purring of the ship's engines, some equipment ventilation fans, and the whisper of the night watch crew. Through the front Bridge windows, snow flurries are sweeping across the three forward search light beams which illuminate the cold sea. In the dark swell, white horses reflect our lights in their wind blown spray. Once in a while, a sea bird, albatross, petrel, flies away in front of the ship bow, a white ghost disappearing into the darkness.
'Spock' the watchman, is keeping a sharp eye open for bergs at the very front of the Bridge with his binoculars. He's mainly concerned by those insidious growlers: large lumps of ice barely sticking over the water surface, and lurking downwind of the larger tabular bergs, from which they've been carved out by the constant weathering action of crashing waves. Although the ship's hull is ice-strengthened, I am told one large growler could do some serious damage. Best is to notify the Officer to change the ship's course at the slightest sign of a growler, to be on the safe side. I couldn't agree more! 'Spock' explains to me how to spot them. An extra pair of eyes might help I'm thinking: I'm all ears!. Growlers, - what kind of beasty is that? Despite their darker blue colour blending perfectly with the dark waters, and being mostly underwater, the swell washes over them, and the resulting spray and wave break/surf are a tell-tale sign of danger ahead to a trained watchman eye.
Today's technology is also helping the night watch. Sea cadet Zoe spares some time, sharing her knowledge of the ship's radar system. The Collision Avoidance System radar scans and plots any solid objects floating around the ship. And sure enough the large bergs, invisible to the naked eye at night, appear on the radar. They slowly drift, assisted by the strong Sou'Westerly wind and the water currents, and their course is plotted alongside the ship position in the centre of the scanning screen, slowly escorting us about one nautical mile away, like an armada.
Click to see picture of radar screen with three bergs escorting us on the starboard side.
Obviously, in busy channels and coastal waters, this radar screen would be littered by bright spots indicating the position of other vessels and buoys'. But here, in the middle of the desolated Weddell Sea, icebergs don't carry warning lights or foghorns to broadcast their position, hence the added importance of a Collision Avoidance System. Zoe explains however that this modern technology can create a false sense of security. Growlers, for instance, escape radar detection with remarkable stealth. Being mostly immersed with the swell washing over them, the yoyo-like sink/float motion of a growler, render radar detection useless, and a 'target lost' message soon appears on the radar control screen. I then recall reading 'olden days' accounts of the first Antarctic waters exploration, the Discovery, the Endurance, those famous ships with these brave and daring crew. Surely then, the watchmen must have had a hard time spotting bergs without a radar! Ships have grown bigger, smarter, and yet the job of the watchman has gone through the centuries, and is still as critical, and I now understand what's it's like 'being up there' for a watch on the bridge.
Says he's so careful with his money, that when he moves house … he takes the wallpaper with him
Did you hear of the cannibal who wanted to become a Private Detective (see last week's webpage),… because he wanted to give all the suspects a good grilling ?
There was a time when Wavey Davey was thrown out of the Serious Crime Squad,.. for laughing !
And finally, some definitions according to the gospel of Saint Wavey …
MUSHROOM – A place where Eskimo's train their dogs.
OCTOPUS – An eight-sided cat !
On departure from Halley our Fast Rescue Craft, pictured below in action in the North Sea, was removed from it's davits and lowered into the 'garage' ! In the Upper Hold, the engineers were to give it a 'good going over'. Some electrical problems were needing to be rectified and Mike the 2nd Engineer had the main console off and in bits on the bench to refurbish switches, fuses and plugs. Considering the age of the FRC and the good service it sees, she does very well to continue to operate in all weather and all climates from tropical to freezing.
Above: In action near an Oil rig in the North Sea and in the Upper Hold Garage !
Working in the relative warmth and protection of the garage was far preferable to working on it in the 'falls', open to the elements. Having spent the voyage back to South Georgia below decks, we then took the first opportunity to put it back in the water for a thorough test, and to reposition it back in the falls. This happened when were reached the Island and entered Drygalski Fjord.
And incidentally, just as we hove into sight of South Georgia, we saw a rather unusual but sad sight when a congregation of seabirds on the sea surface highlighted something floating up ahead. It was on the 8 –12 watch when the watchkeeper (one of those 'two pairs of eyes') spotted something floating just ahead and it turned out to be a dead whale.
Click to see the bird surrounding the floating 'object'.
It is not a sight you normally see and I suspect it has not been seen so often since the days of the old whaling ships. It was a sad sight to see the single, deceased, gentle giant of the deep motionless, how much more macabre to have witnessed the days of whaling when many dead whales would be towed back to the Stations for processing ?
DRYGALSKI FJORD is situated on the southern tip of the Island of South Georgia, and conveniently on route to King Edward Point. Finding the relative 'safe haven' of the sheltered fjord, the Captain took the vessel in to view some really awesome glaciers. The weather could have been better for the photography, but despite the heavy overcast obscuring the tips of the vertical wall cliffs, there were still snaps enough to fill an album. By virtue of the camerawork of Dave Rees in the FRC and accompanying Rigid Inflatable, here are a very few examples of what we saw !
Above: Part of the Gisting Glacier in Drygalski, and the Rigid Inflatable dwarfed in comparison.
Above: Excellent shots from the small boats to show the Shackleton at rest in the secluded natural harbour. After a good look around the absolutely awesome vistas of Drygalski, the Captain repositioned to another small bay named Gold Harbour, thus filling in the remainder of the daylight hours. The FRC was successfully tested, recovered to decks and then we resumed our overnight passage plan to Grytviken and King Edward Point.
Then morning broke on Thursday 03rd. But don't worry,… Mike the 2nd Engineer was on hand to fix it !
The 12 – 4 watch saw the most stunning of sunrises over the seas to the East which lit up the approaches to Cumberland Bay and allowed the most marvellous display of Lenticular Clouds.
A/B Mike Brown stayed up after his watch to click away on the display of clouds that are 'moulded' by the topography of the Island mountains and again there were far too many shots to choose from. I'm not even sure I chose the very best of them ?
The Technical Bit.
For approximately 1 year now, RRS Ernest Shackleton has been fitted out with our new Satellite System – the Vsat.
It's an impressive piece of engineering involving a stabilized dish housed in our very own white 'mushroom' radome atop of the Funnel area. The below deck rack involves an array of flashing lights, modems, routers, computer dish controller and more flashing lights !
What this allows us to do on the vessel, is to now send and receive emails above the old '1 megabyte allowance' per month. We can now stream the internet which includes radio stations from back home via the world wide web. We can even investigate, shop and buy for Mother's Day presents direct over the internet or even catch that elusive bargain on Ebay®. We can even use our 24 / 7 connection to stay in contact with telephone too.
Of course all this is subject to two limitations !
- We don't get a signal in certain extreme weather conditions – like when it is snowing – in space !
- When the signal gets obscured by some obstruction in the view of the dish to the satellite.
This week was one such circumstance when our fantastic communications system failed us. No, it wasn't snowing in space this week, but our view of the satellite was obscured … by US !
– a picture is worth a thousand words.
We were maintaining a course of 345 degrees on direct track from Halley to South Georgia. However, the conning tower was directly in the line of sight of the satellite out in space and our blind sector was on a heading of about 340 to 355 degrees ! The only way to have a successful email sched or that all-important telephone call was to turn the entire ship onto a new heading of 360 degrees or 335 degrees in order for the satellite to 'pop out' from behind our conning tower ! Thus it was that if you could follow the track of the vessel across the Weddell, you would find the occasional 'snake' appearing in what would otherwise be a straight line… and not necessarily when 'Heff' was at the helm !!! (see below).
Therefore, if you wondered why you weren't getting any mails from your loved ones on the Shackleton this week, it was because we were in 'stealth mode' !!!
Author : Communications Officer
We arrived at KEP early on the morning of Thursday March 03rd, and were fast alongside the KEP Jetty by 0730am.
The Fisheries Officer Ken, and Base Commander Alison were onboard directly to inform all the ex-Halley FIDs about the required conduct at Grytviken and the restrictions on where you could go. After breakfast, the FIDs were all at liberty to go and stretch their legs and explore and the crew got to work on the loading of cargo and waste from the Base. Due to the small amounts, this was all finished shortly after lunch and then it was the turn of the crew to get ashore and do some exploring too, even if it was just another walk to Grytviken to inspect the t-shirts and postcards, or chat to Pauline Carr, the resident proprietor there.
On Thursday evening after everyone had come back fresh and wind-blown from their walks, the Base threw us another of their infamous BBQ's near the boatshed. The bill of fayre included burgers, sausages, chicken, fish, more sausages, and the T-Bone steaks were so large that they draped over the sides of the paper plates that were supposed to accommodate them ?!!! Although I stayed only long enough to help deplete the burger pile, apparently the congregation went well into the small hours as they huddled around the dying embers of the BBQ Grill and gazed at the stars in an exceedingly clear and beautiful sky. Did you know that you can see Orion from the Southern Hemisphere, except that he is 'upside down' ??
The weather was being kind to us for our stay in KEP. Besides the spectacular cloud display on our arrival and bright blue skies throughout for the walks during the Thursday, we also had good weather on the Friday for the return football match of Shackleton All Stars with South Georgia United Vs Halley Academicals !. Apparently it was a foregone conclusion with the current champions holding onto their undefeated crown, but at 7-6. I believe the South George team gave a very good account of themselves and Shackleton's team had to work every step of the way to retain their title. More walks (and even Runs = Ben the Dentist) were had during the course of the afternoon apart from the few crew who were working on projects and taking advantage of a solid platform whilst the vessel was tied securely alongside. There are some planned maintenance jobs that cannot be attempted while the vessel is bouncing around at sea, and while vital plant and machinery are churning away doing what they are supposed to do.
By 1700 hours it was all over. Shore leave had ended and it was a final 'Goodbye' to King Edward Point for the last time this season. RRS Ernest Shackleton will not be making a return to these waters until next season, so hearty farewells ensued and for the Shackleton crew, we were truly on our way home.
Overnight Friday, the vessel slow-steamed around to the North of the Island to our final call of Bird Island. With 1 person to transport to Bird Island from King Edward Point, and a ship full of Halley FID's, the vessel was near to full capacity at 70 compliment. But we could do even better than that ! We dropped of Mr. Davies on Bird Island and took on an additional 3 scientists who were returning to the Falkland Islands in time for flights home. 72 persons in all. The vessel has a berth capacity of 72 persons, so it really is a full ship, with every bed taken and room for no more. Some of the smaller cabins are now very cramped but it is only for the 4 day transit to Mare Harbour when the majority of our 'passengers' will disembark directly to those North-bound flights. It is not often that the Shackleton gets to full capacity, but somehow, there is always enough food to go around in the mess at mealtimes and the Catering department continue to produce the very best eating despite the additional workload. Well done guys.
Before departing Halley and heading back north, there was an evening or two of 'stoogying' around waiting on weather and waiting for the last of our passengers to embark at the Creeks. Stoogying is what we do when the vessel heads up and down the same bit of water in the most comfortable direction, avoiding ice and those courses that make the ship wobble around too much. One particular evening during the 4-8 watch, Mr Heffernan was at the helm and there was much wonderment about the number and types of turns the ship was making whilst stoogying ? I went along to Heff to ask 'what's going on then' ? In reply he simply pointed me in the direction of the Seamaps navigation screen which draws the 'ships track' upon the display and the answer was plain to see…
Click on the image to enlarge our 'track'
Two things spring to mind. Firstly, how thankful are we that Ian's short-form name is 'Heff' and not 'Rumplestiltskin' ??? Secondly, it is a good thing that he didn't run out of 'page' on which to write. Luckily the Weddell Sea is rather sizable and easily accommodates the adventurous sky-writer (or sea-writer) as the case may be. The 'wobbly start' to this project was possibly not so much a shaky hand on the tiller, as opposed to evasive manoeuvres to avoid brash and ice.
Author : Unknown ???
Forthcoming Events: Depart Bird Island and track direct to East Cove. At East Cove we offload the waste we have collected, offload the FID's and finish off the Handover notes for the on-coming team. In East Cove, the Graham Chapman crew will hand over to the John Marshall crew and prepare to fly home to Europe. During this time, the vessel will reposition to FIPASS at Stanley to embark one supernummary and prepare for the onward voyage down the Antarctic Peninsula and Rothera.
Contributors this week: Thanks to Stephane for his evening account of a night on the Bridge ! Once more Dave Rees, Mick Brown, Stevie B, and the occasional 'unknown' photographer have provided adequate pictures to back-up another fulfilled week's events. Thanks to one and all.
The next diary, number 14 should be written on Sunday 12th March and published on the Monday 13th March 2005, handovers and operations permitting.
Stevie B
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60-year-old Mr. Samson Adekunle, 60, has urged the court to dissolve his 43 year old marriage with his wife, Shafiat.
Mr Adekunle, a driver who resides at Iyana Ipaja says his marriage of 43 years crashed following his wife's complaint of his poor attitude to sex that prompted her moving out of his house.
He said his wife was fond of quarreling over small issues. "When she was living with me, my family could not visit me. She left my house eight years ago", he said.
The petitioner pleaded with the court to dissolve their marriage, and Shafiat should cease to bear his name. The respondent was not in court, while president of the court, Mr. Lateef Omilola, adjourned the case for further hearing.