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I had a pet fish once We didn't really speak I kept him in a fish bowl Feed him twice a week I used to watch him swimming I'm sure he watched me too I used to watch him watch me There was nothing else to do Every time I approached him He'd swim up to the top I used to really enjoy that too bad it had to stop You see although we were friends Like I said we didn't speak It really was all my fault I forgot to feed him for a week When I finally went to see him He wasn't looking very good Sort of sat there floating Just like a piece of wood I knew I had to say goodbye But I didn't really rush Because as you can probably guess I said it with a flush
Elysian Fields
Anguish consumes me, swallows my soul Waves crashing taking their toll The winds are blowing the horizon lost Wrapped in torment now the cost The ferryman waits to receive this day Stands in silence awaits his pay Through hells water he'll ferry me My soul now captive, never free Tears once wet, now are dried Wailing souls judged and tried Styx and Lethe we've sailed past There waters black where souls were cast Nerves are flailed I await the dawn We sail on now all hope is gone My journey now cast in stone In the prow I stand alone The river Cocytus waters flow Sounds of wailing grow and grow Lost souls now search for life Look to me to relieve their strife My journey done my future torn Beleth waits his legions sworn Valac's dragon near brings dread To the fallen scourge devoid and dead I call to Gabriel to come take my hand And free me from this tortured land Areal responds and shakes his head Leaves me burning in lands of dead Taken now to Hades halls Souls in pain hung on walls Jury stands to judge remorse To keep me here their stated course Tried and convicted I stand and wait Gadreel will sentence me my fate Cast down now in eternal fray I kneel clasp hands and quietly pray Blinding light now fills my mind Uriel come my hands unbinds Save my soul I cry with, zeal Uriel cries and calls Azrael Damned in dark now damned in light Taken from loves true sight Sent know to Styxs dark shore There to wait for a lifetime more Never now my soul will yield And walk upon Elysian Field
Hearts Content
I stand alone on Hearts Content My spirit broken my soul now spent A storm is coming and bearing down It sought me out and now I'm found It moves of will, where I go If it will pass me, I cannot know The winds scream, howling a name I reel and twist hammered by rain My soul is crushed, under weight I push, it holds, it won't abate I should let it win tear me asunder Push my soul into darkness under The anguish holds me as I look to the sea The storm rips as I turn to flee Where to hide this anguished night When will this beast be gone from sight For it is said that all storms pass I pray and hope this is the last She's upon me now I feel her grip I lose myself my soul will slip In the eye I have lost the shore I have given myself and pray no more Rules that held me down and still Have cleaved my soul taken my will I look to set the balance straight Battered and hidden it must not wait Still I give and shall for always stay True to the storm every day I have bared myself to the storms will The truth stays hidden and now lays still My soul revealed I stand on height Will I give in and fall this night I have pledged to live through this storm and shall hold dear my oath now sworn And someday soon the storm may see not what was then but what could be Someday maybe the storm will pass I am as I have been and so will last The winds may calm and my soul will be Upon the edge and cast to sea I step out now my soul is spent And stand no longer on Hearts Content
The Battle of Elysians Field
I am branded Furcas, a purveyor of death Angels above concede my breadth Words lose worth when spoken many Who's left to listen if there be any Heed my sins for they cast me down Now dark legions my fidelity found I've slaughtered and defaced many a man Left leas of blood now none command I've destroyed souls from children lost Taken lives and paid no cost I stand here now to reveal the story Of a war in heaven in all its glory There was a night that saw Angels cry Hades came they knew not why Angel warriors by Michael's side Lesser Angels in horror cried Clouds rose menacing in heavens sky Darkness falls as Angels die Lands once shone in all Gods glory Filled with armies awaiting quarry Smoke now conceals the fields once bright Celestial soldiers stand ready to fight The legions awaited trumpets to hear Sworn to God their faith held dear Our allegiance to God taken back Fallen Angels our souls are black Bathin's gallop into the night Began the war to set things right Angels stood and held their ground And legions fought as trumpets sound Lines were drawn, dark legions held Nameless Angels now soon fell Baal standing high sends commands His dark forces to make a stand God now heeds Lucifer's demand Calls the seven to take a stand Michael stands and heralds all Gabriel and Raphel heed his call Uriel and Zerachiel now appear Remiel and Raguel now are near Seven Archangels stand in light Together now defend the night Lucifier summoned his demon horde To arise and fight against the Lord Beelzebub comes to seduce with pride Leviathin's heresy now is cried Asmodeus and Berith come this night Astroth and Verrine prepare to fight Battalions mass under Archangels guise Force the battle and fight the lies Raphel stands to face the horde Unsheathes his lethal holy sword Strikes down Astroth with a mighty blow Stands victorious swathed in a glow Leviathin strikes Uriel with force Ureil's demise may alter the course Uriel now broken and lost his sight Must forsake the field, leave the fight Zerachiel draws a mighty bow Takes aim and lets one go Staying true the arrow strikes Verrine's life it now does take Asmodeus and Remiel now do fall Raphel too can't heed the call Angels and demons fall this night Twelve now total removed from fight Lucifer stands dark and cold Michael answers an Angel bold Two now meet on heavens fields From the dawn of time fates were sealed Lucifers holds with a defiant stance Michael's sword begins its dance Two angels under crimson skies The intent of two that one will die Noise rang throughout the night Angels fought into the light Mornings rises both still stand Balance reached throughout the land A blinding light outshines the day Two angels gone now sent away Lucifer damned from Gods' grace Michael rises and resumes his place Heed my words and pray thee tell Thy children of war, the war from hell For Satan's hordes in darkness wait We have no love we live to hate
The Horsemen's Last Ride
Darkness covers the horsemen four Hunt by night bring blood and gore Riding horses forged of steel Souls now stone they do not feel Searching grounds not their own Horsemen hunt through sand and stone Magic used guides their way Leading horsemen to weary prey Closer now the prey does come Soon their souls to be undone Rumblings rise through the night Thunder crashed flashing light Horses carry prey on high Fight and scream before they die Weapons drawn the horsemen stand Tearing souls from a foreign land Screams that rose fall away Flashes blind, nights now day Quiet comes the cost unknown The horsemen split their souls alone Fate, Destiny, Pestilence and War One will stand where none before Now alone he sees the sight Horsemen's carnage of the night Spiritless eyes now look upon Souls once there now are gone Standing stooped now bent and torn War stands still tired and worn Fate now wanders lost and blind Searching for what he now can't find Pestilence now gone from our view Destiny's heart, pain passed right through The horsemen have wrought their mighty will Blood and life their job to spill Time is past War's now gone home Standing lost and on his own An Angel sent to help will stand To give his soul a guiding hand Gone and forgotten his soul is lost The horseman War now pays the cost A Specter now he bows his head And thinks of souls long since dead The Angels soul is here no more Darkness shrouds the horseman War Time now done he bows his head Breathe now children the Horseman's dead
Black Storm
She rose in height surrounding me Shattered waves and broken sea Hid things from my watchful sight Hit hard and cold turned day to night
Tossed and turned I lost my way Live I would within that day Battered bruised and broken back Lost confused swells so black
Words of fury rose in height Day so turbulent turned to night Screams of winds looked for me Wraith and fury set so free
Dark as pitch the sea does choke Waves lunge over sides of oak She rises throws me aside as waste Salt frozen bitter mouths taste
Turn for home now lost to sight Life on balance through this night Waves alive now smell the fear Reapers time draws quite near
The fight for life leaves me hollow Death and mourning I feel will follow She rises now in her pride and breadth Wants to hold me in her depth
Cold and silent I scream no sound My voice is gone and can't be found Moving forward I fight it back Through the day of night now so black
Push and struggle to see the shore Tired and beaten I want no more Waves subside from mothers hand Winds die down close to land
I look towards to passing storm My body beaten tired and worn I lose myself no words are spoke My body slides over sides of oak
Dragon Dreams
I have dreamed of life in a magic way Gone to places in the light of day Stood on shores in a far off land Walked with Queens hand in hand
I've climbed mountains that touched the sky Watched as centaurs marched on by Battled demons with dark dead eyes Talked to trolls who told great lies
I've flown in worlds far away And conquered kingdoms in just one day Walked with a wizard under a foreign sky Lived with Elves as time went by
Ran with Dwarves underground Hide treasures that couldn't be found Chased a Sprite through wood so green Laughed with Wisps although not seen
I've danced with fairies in the pale moonlight Spoke to witches in the dark of night Rode a unicorn through crashing waves Spoke with specters at their graves
Taught a Giant to speak to me Chased a Griffon up a tree But all that I've seen and done Nothing can compare to one
Flew on a dragon, scales bright red Massive wings, a broad smooth head Talons like obsidian glisten bright Eyes that saw like day in night
We flew through together like hand in hand Explored the mountains seas and land Saved a princess from her keep Teased and played and scared some sheep
Fought together in times of war Protect souls by the score Stayed together through thick and thin Together we knew we'd always win
We flew together since I was young Made up songs to be sung We've play hide and seek in fields of gold Now we don't we've grown quite old
We'll fly on together into the sun When it's right and our time is done Until then we will fly and ascend My dragon and I …. my only friend
The Last Waltz
As fluid as mist she dances across my floor Fingers delicate moving in unhurried motion She has waited and time is now hers Grace and beauty I am now witness She moves without motion, floating on air Coming to me, an angel of dark and light
We dance
Eyes penetrating I am left without breath I am consumed by this illusory phantom A heart beat reverberates heard by none She draws closer and I am laid bared No voice have I as she passes ghost hands my soul She smiles as I am given unto her
We dance
Spiritual sounds heard within my mind Assemble as a symphony lacking a score Her eyes shine as I twist in desolation I am with her I am alone I am all and nothing All I have given is now called to be judged She is judge jury and executioner
We dance
Her lips touch my ear with a whisper lost She folds me unto her and the silence screams Surroundings fade lost in grey, she smiles, the score now written The symphony begins as I lay in her arms She dances, fluid and seamless embracing my soul My path she will choose when her judgement is complete
We dance
The Last Waltz
The Horseman War
Standing alone on a forgotten shore The Horseman War feels no more Too much pain wrought on many Forgiveness gone if there be any What care he for those once there Admit his need he would not dare Attention given, words once heeded His soul now stoic none are needed Pestilence once held called a friend Now forgotten his time did end Destiny now lost from others sight Things once held destroyed in night Fate now lost in the eternal abyss War heeds none, none be missed All the wraiths once firm by side All now gone, all have died In solitude now the Horseman War Standing alone on a forgotten shore
Harth the Troll
This is the story of Harth the troll It's better spoken in the ways of old For it's a story of his waning heart And the forest he could not part You see he was a quiet troll He loved big hugs, had a gentle soul He used to spend many a day Watching a fairy in her joyful play He met her on a morning bright She smiled at him his heart did light Since that day she's been in his heart He loves that fairy and dares not part Sadly though it was not to be A trolls are mean and quite ugly When they met they felt the same But the trolls' behavior was to blame At first they'd talk, laugh and play There together as one each day The fairy loved to feel and talk The ugly troll would growl and balk She tried so hard to help him change But a troll is dark and very strange Time went by and she grew quite weary His mood was foul and awfully dreary She wanted only to live in peace He didn't seem to care the least She waited long and hoped he'd come To be with her, play in the sun And then on a fatefully day She no longer came to play Harth knew he was not nice Knew sometimes his soul was ice He never told her how he felt Never told her his ice she'd melt He never told her of his love He knew was sent from above He never talked of his fear Of losing one he loved so dear So many things never told He'd love till he was old All the things he should have said Didn't come from a soul now dead Harth the troll now sits alone With a broken heart a soul of stone Although he had changed his heart It took too long for him to part So all of you who read this story Don't forget he's alone and sorry Brought about by his own fate For making the lovely fairy wait If the truth you refuse to see Once she's gone alone you'll be Harth the troll has slipped from life Never to have her as his wife Although he prays she'll forgive Alone he knows he'll always live
Dragons Flight
Red wings spread across the sky On invisible winds we do now fly Rising in the morning breeze Our flight of fancy done with ease Floating here we feel the sun Our morning flight has just begun
Lands that passes far below Holds no concern we do not go We travel on our unseen line Head through hardship, life and time How long our flight will finally last We cannot know until it's passed
We see below a broken man Can't feel it now but know we can From this height we can only stare To save ourselves we cannot care These winds keep us on our flight Our eyes now wait the solace night
Over oceans we do now soar Sent to serve for half a score Banners now we wear with pride Our flight now will take a side Scorching now the earth below Dragons' fire consumes our soul
We turn now from this chosen line Look for peace we hope to find Soaring now we coast through clouds Our sight and thoughts in fog now shroud Coasting now we seek new hope Seeking help for life to cope
Light from above assaults our eyes Shred the clouds and clear the skies Descending now a Seraph appears Fills our void our souls now hear Seized now by this heavenly sight Fear now holds this precarious flight
The battle now within our soul Forgiveness not to be foretold In panic now of what we've sought Our flight we know is worth naught Turning now from angels sent Fear of triumph our flight now spent
Winds now calm clouds fill the sky Onward now we so do fly Spiraling down we slowly fall For the Angel we now do call Seeking pardon from time gone past We offer what we know will last
Wings now hold a precarious flight Higher now for the coming night My dragon and I hope for the best To find a place we both can rest Holding hope we stay our place Waiting for the Angels grace
Springs Dance
The troll stomped his feet, it was another gloomy day He wished he could send those dark clouds away February skies were never that nice They threatened with rain, with snow and with ice He wondered what to do to make it more fun Bring back the spirit that he got in the sun He tried signing songs but his voice shook the ground Scared all the creatures who lived close around He dressed in bright colours that would sparkled in light But in the grey of the clouds it looked more like night He tried painting flowers but the day was too glum Nothing he did really felt like much fun What could a troll do to chase away the blues He tried tap dancing in his beautiful suede shoes Nothing he tried seemed to help him at all He had no one to talk too no one to call He decide to go out and walk through the town To see if someone could help, someone he found He walked to the ocean to see who was there When he spotted a maiden with golden brown hair She was sitting by the shore with a journal in hand She was the prettiest maiden he had seen in this land He looked at her face and she didn't seem so happy How could she be when the weathers so crappy The troll knew right then he just had to try To help make this maiden see the sun in the sky As she looked out the troll suddenly appeared He was dressed like a clown he looked really weird She was stunned by this troll he came from nowhere He was dressed like a clown with flaming red hair His nose it was round just like a ball His pants held by strings, she thought they might fall She watched as this troll started to dance He moved like a log with baggy blue pants He wasn't very graceful as he moved all about He stumbled and tripped and his shirt it flew out She shouted "Dear Troll tell me why is it you dance" "With your red flaming hair and baggy blue pants" He said "I'm trying so hard to drive out the grey" "I wanted so much to see you smile on this day" She couldn't help but smile how could she not A dancing blue troll who would have thought He then sat by her side and held her small hand She was the prettiest maiden, in all of the land "Take heart my little one" he said with a wink "Spring it is coming much sooner than you think" "The sun will soon shine and brighten the way" "Taking away the dull February day" He took her hand and asked her to walk So they strolled down the beach and giggled and talked As they walked away into the day that was grey They skipped and sang and brightened the day It is said that in February when it's just about spring If you listen really closely you'll hear the two sing They share it together, the grey of the day They sing and they giggle and chase it away So remember this story whenever you're down About the lovely fair maiden and dancing troll clown
The Troll
Well now my dear he said with a wink I'm not what you see and not what you think Before you, you see what might be a bird But that's the silliest thing that I've ever heard I don't have a beak or a bright fancy tail I'm certainly not a budgie or cute little quail I'm not a fairy with buzzing bright wings Nor a jester who dances and sings I'm just a troll with baggy blue pants You must remember the time that we danced I'm here today to ask you once more Can we hold hands and dance on the shore We could watch the waves as they break The day could be ours, ours to take I've looked to the sky and it's bright and it's blue It made me think of a smile, a smile that's you And so my fair maiden before you I stand Ready to dance and explore life in hand
He shook his head and came back to the day His dreams always seemed to take him away He couldn't tell her, there were no words Troll weren't seen, trolls weren't heard He stood in the shadows hidden from sight The maiden he loved, the beauty so right He dreamed his dreams they made him feel He wished her love could again be real He dreamed his dreams they're all he had But when he awoke it made him sad In his dreams he was a handsome young man She looked upon him and smile and held his hand They danced and they swirled it was a beautiful sight The troll and the maiden on that moon lit night They laughed and giggled as they twirled in dance They dared and they loved they lived the chance So he cuddled and pulled the covers over his head And lived in his dream throughout the night in his bed
The Monolith
The silence is deafening I hear the emptiness it echo's the hollow spot within me reverberates as I stand upon the giant A monolith rising from the depths Perched on its pinnacle I stand Gazing out I stare upon all that is, all that was Time lost beyond the curve of the earth I stand "Father" my voice lost to the winds "Father heed my cry" Nothing …. just gusts born upon the waters below "FATHER" I fall to my knees, "father I have been abandoned" Why? The earth breaths I stand on a bastion towering from the seas I step out not a single word I speak I fly


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Going by COPO protocol, Butch retained the stock wheel, column, dash, heater controls, white standard interior, and even the lowly (and frequently discarded) radio-delete plate. But don't think Butch chose to clone as an easy way out: in the process he had to find a 140-mph speedometer, a factory tach, and the requisite center-mount fuel gauge that accompanied tachometer cars, which didn't get the console-mounted gauges. "The hardest thing was finding some of the little things that were missing that they don't repo," he said.
The Beast
Regarding the big-wheeled RS, "I wanted to build a car the way I wanted;" Butch began, "reliable but with way too much power." And over a two-year span, and with the help of friends, among them Walt McPherson, Brian Sales, and Tim Harris, he did just that. "I found the car in AutoTrader," he continued. A woman had purchased the car new in Central California and brought it with her when she moved to Washington State. "She was losing her eyesight and wanted to quit driving. It was in fair condition and had an older paintjob, but it was mostly un-restored."
For the most part he stuck to the Pro Touring theme. Rather than force the front suspension to do things it was never intended to do-handle, specifically-he replaced the entire subframe with a Chris Alston Chassisworks g-Machine assembly. Above and beyond revised pickup points to improve camber curve and roll centers, it features tubular control arms, VariShock adjustable-damping coilovers, a billet steering rack, and dropped spindles. Bolted to those are 13-inch Wilwood rotors and four-pot calipers.
As he did with the front, Butch replaced the entire rear suspension, this time with a triangulated four-bar crafted by Brian Sales of Redline Race Cars in Longview. He similarly dispensed with the 10-bolt in favor of a Dutchman 9-inch that, like the COPO clone, spins a 3.73:1 cog on a limited-slip differential. That axle also sports Wilwood discs, albeit 12-inchers. Unlike the front, the rear rides on Aldan Eagle coilovers.
Cornering performance may take precedent over straight-line acceleration nowadays, but one thing remains the same: big power still rules. The GM Performance Parts ZZ572 delivers it too; even though it's the low-compression pump-gas variety, GM reports that it produces 620 hp (and at that, some say it's underrated).
Butch left the engine alone but adorned it with a Barry Grant 850-cfm Speed Demon carburetor and Chassisworks 13/4-inch headers. Those, in turn, feed 3-inch aluminized pipes that Tim Harris built with an X-pipe and Spintech mufflers.
The front of the engine drives a Billet Specialties Tru-Trac accessory drive system. Ahead of that is a BeCool aluminum radiator and electric fan. The back of the engine drives a 700-R4 prepped by Bow Tie Overdrives in Hesperia, California. Butch controls it with a stock horseshoe shifter that he updated with a new detent plate and lens to match the overdrive's pattern.
Just because the car was solid to begin with and basically looks stock doesn't mean Butch didn't invest a lot of effort into its body. In anticipation of wider tread, Butch opened the rear wells with Detroit Speed mini-tubs. He replaced the hood with a 4-inch cowl-induction unit, and to give the engine a bit more presence he shaved the firewall.
Though seemingly more intense, Butch says those mods paled in comparison to the work that the Rally Sport package took. "I spent a lot of time trying to line up hidden headlight parts to make them look straight and aligned with the opening," he said. He replaced the vacuum-operated headlight actuators with electric motors, and hid the A/C hoses. Longview's Larry Barnett painted the car Hugger Orange using PPG Concept-series urethane base/clear.

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FANCY trekking through the Malaysian rainforest? Sailing over an ancient volcano? Spending months on ice in Antarctica? Then you may want to consider an exotic location like one of these for your PhD. There is much to be gained from carrying out your research in another country, not least the fact that the experience should mean you'll stand out from the crowd when applying for your first job.
Just don't make the mistake of thinking you'll be in for an extended holiday. You'll need to be highly focused, motivated and have the skills and experience to manage your research. You'll often find yourself alone, and your supervisor won't be down the corridor to help out if things go wrong. Careful planning and preparation are the key to success. New Scientist has spoken to students who have lived through the experience, to find out how you can get the most from your time abroad.
A leap of faith
The unfamiliar culture and climate - not to mention possible language barriers - can be difficult to cope with, and on top of that you'll have to deal with the stress of collecting research data in an unfamiliar environment.
If, despite the difficulties, the thought of studying abroad appeals, the most important questions you'll have to ask yourself are why you want to go and what you expect to get out of your time away.
"Whether you're in a rainforest in Borneo or a genetics lab in London, you've got to be passionate about your PhD, not just because you want to travel but because you want to work on that particular project," says Rosie Trevelyan, director of the Tropical Biology Association, an organisation that works in partnership with African institutions to build expertise in biodiversity conservation.
So what are the benefits? After spending three years as an undergraduate student stuck in the library and the lab, you might find that you want to broaden your horizons both personally and professionally. By taking advantage of the different research facilities in a foreign country, you'll develop an understanding of how science operates globally. Being abroad also opens up opportunities to form an international network of contacts for future research collaborations and careers, and the possibility of learning a new language.
If you survive a spell working independently in a foreign environment, it should inspire confidence that you can cope with any challenges thrown up in future. "Employers are likely to view your experience abroad favourably, as you'll show adaptability and flexibility, and an understanding and empathy for a different culture," says Jennifer Milford, international projects officer at the University of Birmingham.
The best way to discover whether you are suited to research abroad is to try it out for yourself. "Doing a master's degree is a common way to get a taste of an area and see if it's for you," says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, who spent months on end in Ghana, surveying wildlife for his PhD in conservation biology.
If a master's doesn't appeal, there are plenty of other opportunities to help you test the waters. Organisations such as Global Vision International and Real Gap offer expeditions and fieldwork experience that lasts from a few weeks to many months. Trips like this can be expensive, though, and may not be in the specific field you're looking for. As an alternative, you could look for paid employment as a research assistant, or voluntary work; either of these could give you more choice to study within your preferred area of research.
"Volunteering is the best way to find out if you enjoy researching abroad, even if it's just for a few weeks," says Aisyah Faruk, who collects her PhD data straight from the Malaysian rainforest, where she researches the effects of encroaching palm oil plantations on frog species. "I know a lot of students who found that fieldwork was not their cup of tea and were relieved to discover this while volunteering, rather than in the middle of their PhD."
Faruk's first experience of doing research abroad was volunteering for Operation Wallacea, an organisation that runs expeditions for biologists in some of the most remote parts of the world. Undergraduate students can volunteer as field assistants on conservation projects, working with experienced researchers. Faruk travelled to Indonesia. "It was the most difficult two weeks of my life, but after that I was sure I wanted to pursue a research career," she says. She returned for six weeks to collect data on frog spawn sites for her undergraduate thesis. "I was supervised for about a week, then I was left to fend for myself, with a local guide for help. It was the best time of my life. I could work at my own pace, I got really good data, and I developed a long-lasting relationship with the people at the village I was working with and even learned how to speak some Indonesian."
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Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture
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Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has...
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We are a competitive club Ice Hockey team in the ACHA (American Collegiate Hockey Association). We carry around 30 men on our roster and look for guys with competitve ice hockey experience and a desire for excellence both on and off the ice.
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C.J. Wilson took the mound on Sunday against one of baseballs' best, Felix Hernandez. Hernandez and the Mariner bullpen were able to hold the Angels offense down limiting the Angels to just 2 runs. The difference maker was Justin Smoak's 18th homerun of the season. Angels fall 3-2.
C.J. Wilson finishes the season 17-7, 3.36 ERA and the lefty hits the 200 innings pitched mark for the 4th straight season. Wilson was awarded the "Nick Adenhart Award" voted on by his teammates as the Angels best pitcher of the season.
Yesterday's oddity was a 20 minute delay by a softball sized bee hive in right-field.
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You can be excused for assuming that Senate Democrats don't even particularly want the DISCLOSE Act to proceed to the floor today, otherwise they would be making arrangements to have all the Senators in the caucus available for the vote:
Senate Democrats will be one vote down when they consider sweeping campaign finance disclosure legislation this afternoon as Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn) has told party leadership he will miss the vote to attend a friend's funeral.
The senator's absence reduces the caucus's numbers from 59 to 58 voting members, all but assuring that the DICLOSE Act won't pass when it comes up for a cloture vote Tuesday afternoon. The legislation's authors were already having difficulty finding a 60th vote to break a likely Republican filibuster. Without Lieberman, they will need two Republicans to cross party lines as opposed to one. Already two of the three most likely defectors — Sens. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) — have said they will oppose the measure.
The concern, said the leadership aide, "is that it will allow [Senator Olympia] Snowe (R-Maine) to vote yes and yet we fall short."
If the Democrats wanted a bill, they'd find a way to vote on it with Lieberman present. If they wanted a talking point, they'd vote on it whenever, so they can keep it under discussion and paint Republicans as special interest-worshipping tools. So this delay allows more time for grassroots organizing and general blasting of the GOP.
The Democratic caucus does appear united. Even Ben Nelson plans to vote for the motion to proceed today. Therefore, all the no votes will come from Republicans, and Snowe may or may not join them, though it won't affect the final outcome. I'd expect the Democrats to take up the DISCLOSE Act a second time when Lieberman can make the vote. But I don't think they're exactly sad about him missing it today, as it helps them extend the debate over it.
Hilariously, Mitch McConnell said this morning that the DISCLOSE Act vote is an unnecessary pivot "away from a small-business lending bill." Who knew McConnell was for that? In fact, he and most of his caucus voted against the small business lending fund at the heart of that bill, and he'll probably vote against cloture and final passage of it when it comes up. [continued, with updates, after the jump]
Ultimately, if enough pressure can be placed on Snowe, the Democrats may be able to get this version of the DISCLOSE Act through. But they'd welcome some time to apply the pressure on the GOP.
UPDATE: Snowe is saying what she's said for a while, that she'll vote against the DISCLOSE Act because it's "premature" and needs additional time… to gestate, I guess. I think that'll suit the Democrats just fine.
UPDATE II: Interesting. The AFL-CIO has just formally opposed the Senate's version of the bill, because of the "affiliate transfer" disclosure issue. The House version would not have forced disclosure on transfers between union affiliates within a federation, but the Senate killed that provision in their version. In a statement, AFL-CIO Government Affairs Director Bill Samuel said: "The Senate bill imposes extraordinary new, costly, and impractical record-keeping and reporting obligations on thousands of labor (and other non-profit) organizations with regard to routine inter-affiliate payments that bear little or not connection with public communications about federal elections."


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Discussion in 'Fly Fishing Forum' started by Skyler Evans, Jul 11, 2013.
Montana my friend
I have not had leave in 2 years i dont think my wife would be too happy if the only leave i got in 2 years involved a multi day fishing trip to Montana lol. I will keep montana in mind though i think i have some family somewhere around there.
well if u have that much leave on the books why not use a week devoted to Montana at some point.
remember because ur smart enough, good enough and dog gonnit people like you
ha ha im planning a family trip for april of next year to take about 2 weeks to get to oklahoma from here (stopping to fish), and then ill be going to the bahamas and try my hand at bone fishing.
Utah too. Went to school there and the browns were monsters.
There are no fish to be caught in Montana by out of staters.
Move along. These are not the browns you want.
Sometimes even the people that live in Montana don't catch fish.....
Wyoming !! Wyoming !! Grasshopper !!!


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Expecting to find hard-core gamers drooling with anticipation to rip into the boxes and settle in for marathon gaming sessions, I instead found a group of young entrepreneurs.
Although its retail price is $500 for a 20GB hard drive and $600 for a 60GB version, those in line said they believed a single PS3 console could bring in $1,000 to $3,000 if auctioned on eBay, Craigslist, or to family and friends. That possibility definitely trumped the honor of being one of the first U.S. owners of the next-generation system.
"This is better than an hourly job," said Stan, 19. "It's better than minimum wage."
Like many I spoke with, Stan declined to give his last name as he plans to turn around immediately and sell his console to the highest bidder. He and his friends, decked out in hooded sweatshirts and baseball caps, played cards to while away the hours in line. Because he heard that eBay was restricting PS3 sales to sellers with a 98 percent feedback score and at least 50 previous sales, Stan said Craigslist would be his best bet.
A Sony representative told me that, by its count as of 6:30 Thursday morning, 750 people were lined up. Though the line officially began at 8 a.m. Thursday, Sony said the first people showed up at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
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The crowd of mostly young men protected themselves from the cool, damp weather with hats, beanies, sweatshirts and puffy jackets, some nervously eyeing the darkening skies from beanbags, lawn chairs and sleeping bags spread out on the sidewalk. The first line snaked south down Fourth Street and east around Howard Street. A second queue ran down the Minna Street alley that dead-ends into the front of the SonyStyle store entrance.
One man, already in line for 16 hours by Thursday morning, said he planned to keep one console and sell three.
"There are some true gamers here, and some who know you can make a profit," said Jesse, 32, of San Francisco. Jesse considers himself both. He said he was the third person in line to get a PlayStation 2 a few years ago, and made $3,500 selling it right away. But still, he said, he was looking forward to playing the new game system, despite the complaints of some that the initial game titles were not anything to write home about. "Just let me play Madden, and I'm good," he said.
Besides their business sense, many brought their buddies, siblings and girlfriends to wait it out. Thomas, 28, arrived at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday alone, but with a portable DVD player, dominoes, a radio and a chessboard in tow.
As to why he was waiting in line, he shrugged, "I've always followed trends and the market. And this came out on my day off." Thomas has already come up with a strategy on how to make the most of the launch event's serendipitous timing. "It sounds like maybe $3,000 may be the starting bid. I got bills and stuff. I got a credit card I have to take care of."
Lucky for them, Sony isn't just tolerating the huddled masses taking up sidewalk space outside its store. I watched (a bit envious) as baristas from the Starbucks across the street ferried pastries, eggnog lattes and peppermint mochas to the crowds. And Sony said there's more where that came from.
"Everything today is about the people in line," said Sheila Bryson, a spokeswoman for Sony Computer Entertainment America. A taco truck was scheduled to make the rounds at noon, and dinner will be served by Mel's Diner. Later in the evening, the Red Bull Street Team is scheduled to pass out sugary energy drinks, I imagine, to keep the sleep-deprived PS3 faithful from passing out.
Robin, 24, of Davis, Calif., and Frank, 25, of San Francisco, both said they were "undecided" about whether to keep or pawn the players. Though there is money to be made by selling, "it is the PS3, and there's not a lot (of them) out there," Robin said.
Andre, 31, was one of the few more interested in playing the PS3 than profiting from it. Reclining in a lawn chair outside the Metreon, he said he had claimed his place in line at 4:45 Wednesday afternoon. "I'm interested in the graphics for sure," he said. "I really don't know about (the Blu-ray Disc player), but I know it's going to be fast, have better control and better memory."
But his brother, John, 20, was not wasting time salivating over features. Settling into his lawn chair, he snorted, "It's already gone."
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- Yeah this is getting out of hand
- Someone sold one for $10,000:
[Edited by: admin on Nov 20, 2006 9:21 AM]
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- Sony's missing an opportunity...
- If Sony was really smart about it, they would have short-circuited the resale market (not to mention made a handsome profit) by directly putting the first 50,000 units up for sale on eBay to the highest bidder, and releasing the remaining consoles for general sale in two to four weeks...
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- Brilliant!
- You know, camping in line outside of a major retailer to pay $500 for a PS3; and then turn around and sell it on ebay making over $1000 profit, is not a bad days work...
Although, it seems to me that everyone is doing this, meaning someones going to get stuck with a $500 console they don't want (and possibly can't afford).
It'll be interesting to check ebay tommorrow morning and see how many results are returned for the keyword "PS3"...
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- thanks guys
- Just to point out, that the gaming community does not consider these 'line-waiters' to be gamers. They've been referred to as such, and quite frankly it's an insult.
These are opportunists. Plain and simple. While I (and as do many) applaud their brilliant and well reasoned arguments about buying-and-reselling, I must object to them being labeled with the very group they've set out to destroy.
I've personally been planted in all three waiting queues...XB 360, PS3, and Wii. Of the three, only one group had intentions on actually playing their system: Wii.
So buy these over-priced PlayStations and XBOXES, and continue to make them even more overpriced still. That's your right, and I certainly respect that. I applaud you, even, as nothing makes a common middle-American more happy than to see an overly rich person being seperated from their excessive cash... I'd love to see that action.
But these people are not gamers. Far from it.
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- Ebay Rocks!
- Well... this just tells ya! This PS3 is IN DEMAND!
Check out the price for this PS3!
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Names and places: The streets of Bernard's childhood
Last updated at 12:02, Thursday, 26 July 2012
NUMBER 4 Albion Street, where I was born in 1927, wasn't exactly salubrious; being situated in the bottom corner of a rag warehouse, it was draughty, having the front door and back door in line with each other.
On the ground floor was a kitchen, parlour and passage and two rooms upstairs. The front faced Albion Street and the other side looked out onto Dobsons Court. There was a water tap outside the back door and the lavatory was one of a row of six, up some steps at the back.
(It was hardly a des res, says Bernard, but he nevertheless has fond memories of it and the people who lived all around him and his family).
There was Walter Smith who lived in the last house in Dobson Court. He was a collier and the whole family were Salvation Army people. I liked him.
Then there were the Calvins, Alex and Annie his daughter and the rest of the family living at 1 and 2 Albion Street. Alex was a road ganger and later worked for the electricity company. Ethel Thompson lived at No 3, and used to look after me if my mam had to go out. The Hanrattys were at No 4 and Nos 5-7 was the store.
Then there was the Vulcan Foundry which was run by Alex Dickson, a Scotsman who had bought it from the Lindow family and installed electricity and machines to the engineering department. He seemed to have plenty of work what with the pits and the harbour, the tannery, the coke ovens, corn mills, brickworks, iron ore mines and drifts at Cleator Moor, Egremont, Beckermet and Millom. By the 1930s, however, those heady days had gone and it was simply a case of surviving.
Across the road at 21 Rosemary Lonning lived the Maulkins family – Richie, Billy and young Billy, who was my friend, and his grandma. My dad owned the flat and the garage below.
No 12 Albion Street was Ramsay's office (later to become our house) and No 14 was Ramsay's Phoenix Foundry. It was an old grain mill and the Whitehaven Hardware Co was run from there by Ramsay Bros, founded in 1866, a well-established business with cast iron and brass smelting and finishing facilities. They employed a lot of men, directly and indirectly. Unfortunately I only remember the gates at the end of the archway as being closed.
No 13 was the home of the Frays, Mr and Mrs and two sons. Mr Fray was a fireman and probably looked after the foundry premises. The family moved away to Southport.
No 15 was the Connaways (later occupied by the O'Neil family), then Fye's bakers and then Nurse Knox's house. The O'Neils were a nice family. Mr O'Neil was a winding man at the pit, brother of Joggera O'Neil at the pub (the Kings Arms). His wife, a quiet lady, was a friend of my mother and they had a son, and a daughter Doris, who became deputy head of Bransty School. And the Fyes were Mr and Mrs Richard Fye with their two sons, Henry and Albert, and two daughters, Gladys and Violet. Henry was badly burned in the war when his tank, in the desert, was hit by a German shell. He later worked for the corporation building department until his retirement. Albert worked with his dad and was later employed reading electric meters.
The Dusty Miller was kept by Mr Gibson, who was to fall into his cellar and die. Below the stobbs lived Mrs Pye and her daughters, Sally and Edie. Then there was Mrs Cooper and next door to her, James Stewart had his boot and shoe repair shop. Finally there was Routledge's printworks and newsagents.
Old Town to Barkers Court: Starting at the two stobbs outside the Dusty Miller front door, next door lived the Kilbain family, then there was a passage, always clean and whitewashed, with houses at the end. Among others living there were the Robbs and the McDonalds.
After that there was Crewdson's house, in front of them forming a square, Florrie Tunstall's shop and Miss Rae's shop. Outside her doorway were steps leading up to a house and next to the steps was a passage to James Street and the big building occupied by Roans' furnishers (previously the Refuge School). On the other side was Fish Inn Yard and Mrs Fee had the house next door (her son Lennie had drowned in the harbour, near Devil's Elbow).
Next door was the Fish Inn pub (kept by Mrs Hudson), then the McGlashen family, who were mostly girls, and then Billy Wilson, cattle buyer and butcher, and so on to Steele's seed shop and Barkers Court.
No 1 Barkers Court was the side door of Steele's shop and Nos 2 and 3 were occupied by a lady called Sally O'Fee (married to Dan O'Fee, and aunt to Alex O'Fee who kept the The Canteen pub at Low Road). My Uncle Jimmy stayed with her until he moved to South Shields where he set up a very successful scrap business. Next door, at the end house, lived George and Annie Tinnion, William Sheppard and Oswald Joseph and family.
Facing down the court towards the market was the back door of the Foundry Engineering workshop which stretched to Rosemary Lonning. There were two houses where Billy and Miah Crofts, and Mrs Bates lived. Billy was later killed in the William Pit disaster of 1947. There was a short passage and wash houses and lavatories and coming back down on the left lived John Bell and his family. At the bottom was Dickie Pearson's pub.
On to the Back Lane (Swingpump Lane). On the left hand side looking down towards Quay Street was Harmless Hill, a cobbled square in front of Joggera O'Neil's pub, the Kings Arms. To the left of the pub were two houses and a gateway to the yard at the rear where various small businesses and stabling took place. In the first house lived Danny Graham and some of his wider family, the Cowans.
Mrs Mulholland, her mother and daughter Elsie lived between Danny and the pub. Joggera O'Neil had two sons, Harry and John and two daughters, Elsie and Winnie.
The first house past Harmless Hill was occupied by Joe Curran and his family and the next house belonged to Pilkingtons. Ribton Lane was one of the first slum areas in the town to be demolished. There was Mrs Todd's shop, her husband had been killed in the Great War. There were storage buildings, Cowan's warehouse, Benny Leech's barber shop and Leech's furnishers and upholsterers on the corner.
Across from the Butter Market was the Queen's Cinema yard, entrance to the Queen's itself and Barker's sweet shop (incorporated in the cinema frontage). Mrs McVay lived next door and had a shop selling soup.
Quay Street started here and across the road was O'Conner's barber shop, Lappin's dairy and Kinsella's house, a back lane entrance, then the Vine Hotel. Next door again was either Carr's furnishers or Billy Wilson's butcher shop (I can't quite remember who was there first). Walter Willson's grocers were on the corner.
In pride of place was the Butter Market (the Market Hall) with its imposing construction and town clock. On market days farm women brought eggs, butter and poultry and sold their produce from trestles inside the hall. Outside, between the buttresses, opposite the Pineapple pub, the butchers sold their wares. I particularly remember Mr Atkinson, a big man in his butcher's apron.
The top floor of the building had been a silent picture house but in my day was a billiard hall with 11 tables, owned by Mr Charnley who had a second hall in King Street (where Woolworth's was).
At James Street there was Routledge's on the corner with Albion Street, then Bewshers, then Clem Jackson's butchers, the lane to the Old Town and Roans. Across the road, Barra Jack's pub, Charlie Cross's sweet shop and cafe and next door, but in the same building his fish and chip shop which made the best scallops I ever tasted (a slice of potato fried in batter). He made his own ice cream too in old zinc containers and sold it in the shop and, originally, around the area by horse and cart.
Next was Allan's grocery shop then a passage and a house where old Mary-Ellen Grearson lived. She had been there, with her husband Jack, until it was demolished with the rest of the court... she would rise at daylight and go to bed when it got dark. She had a six feet high wall in front of her house and behind another wall and an oil lamp. Mary-Ellen ended her days in 8 Albion Street with the luxury of electric light and big windows. The furthest she ever travelled was to Bransty and had no idea about anywhere else outside the town, but she was an avid reader.
A flight of steps led to where the Douglas family lived and next door was the Presbyterian Church. Past a couple of houses then Drurie's watchmakers shop and Mrs Lithgow's shop and bakery. At Irish Street, facing down the market was the YMCA and the other Routledge's tobacco shop.
Outside the YMCA the buses for Kells and St Bees would stop and I often used to take messages for Uncle Frank to his Croft Terrace home and the fare to Basket House was a penny. I saved half the fare by running back down the hill.
The square in front of Roans to No 41 (Peter O'Hare's) was at one time, according to my Uncle Billy, known as Paddy's market and sold old clothes and secondhand items.
Next to No 41 was Hugh Gibson's grocery, owned by Mr Gibson and his two sons. Then there was Fanny Stafford's confectioners (I am still nostalgic for her pies), Snook's grocery, Donaldson's butchers and Peeney's fish and chip shop and cafe (a Peeney's 'mixture' of a bowl of chips and peas with plenty of salt and vinegar was wonderful).
Ike Bewick had his barber shop next door, then there was Tom McCoy's fruit shop and the Pineapple pub. Thomas W Dixon's was fish merchant, trawler-owner and importer of Loch Fyne kippers. In between Dixon's fish shop and Kennaugh's the ship's chandlers lived Joe Carr and his family, upstairs in the flat.
Across the road inside the Green Market were Ferguson's grocery and ships provisions, Callander and Dixons stationers and printers, Whitehaven Dairies and the chemists, Timothy White & Taylor's, later bought out by Boots.
At the bottom of Roper Street, and the building is still there, was the Golden Lion Hotel and next door by Aunt Ellen's fruit shop with a flat upstairs.
Mr and Mrs Davidson and their son Colin owned the shop and lived above it. The market post office run by two Reynolds sisters was next, then Stacy Gees chemist shop (later Fare's), Joe E Brown's grocery shop was next with a narrow passage opening into a court with a few houses... John Salari, amongst others lived there. The Big 13 belonged to Mrs Cowan who sold fireworks, there was McGrady's and Youll's barbers and tobacconists next door.
Trainor's pub was the Queen's Head with a passage and yard at the rear. Then there was Miss Aplin's fruit shop, and S J West's pork butchers with its gleaming black and white tiles. I remember Mrs Ginnie West, who wore large amber beads resting on her ample bosom, and her two daughters were always immaculate in their starched white coats.
Gazzi's shop and cafe sold sweets and tobacco and the seats were open cubicles that ran back to back along the wall. Next door was another butchers, Ernie Kemp, then Dodgsons Court, a fruit shop and Martin's pub, the Anchor.
First published at 11:08, Thursday, 26 July 2012
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk
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My grandfather Harry Bewick was born in Whitehaven, and his half brother was Ike Bewick who looked after the barber shop at 51 Market Place .. enjoyed reading your story.
Fab read! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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The world's experts in research and public relations measurement and evaluation came together in Barcelona this past week under the umbrella of AMEC (the Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication). The CIPR's Measurement Group joined with organisations such as the Global Alliance for Public Relations, the IPR's Commission on Measurement and Evaluation, the PRSA and the ICCO to agree a set of measurement and evaluation principles. The Barcelona Principles, which will be refined based on detailed participant feedback, will be built on by AMEC and its partners over the coming months and years.
I guess the standout headline from the principles is that "AVEs are not the value of public relations" - a strong statement that participants hope will allow the PR profession to move forward and to develop more sophisticated techniques that measure organisational impact.
The principles are listed below and we will review and consider these as we update the CIPR's guidance on measurement and evaluation. One thing we want to ensure is that the breadth of public relations activity is reflected in our guidance - so media and non-media activities.
You may be interested in listening to Philip Sheldrake, Chair of our Measurement Group run through the principles and interview AMEC's Executive Director Barry Leggetter and Katie Delahaye Paine of KD Paine & Partners (the 'Queen of Measurement'!) about the conference output:
And I use the word 'output' diligently. As you may note from the principles and from the audio, the PR profession must move from measuring outputs towards evaluating outcomes, and, of course, whilst we now know the output of the conference, the outcome remains to be seen. As Katie Delahaye Paine points out, it is up to us to provide and assert the consultancy and guidance to our clients and/or our own organisations.
Each principle will be explained in more detail in an accompanying explanatory text from AMEC, due for publication soon, but for now the headlines are:
- Goal setting and measurement are important
- Media measurement requires quantity and quality
- AVEs are not the value of public relations
- Social media can and should be measured
- Measuring outcomes is preferred to measuring media results (outputs)
- Organisational results and outcomes should be measured whenever possible
- Transparency and replicability are paramount to sound measurement.
We'll be sure to let you know as soon as the AMEC team has taken the feedback from conference delegates into account and finalised the detail.
Barry Leggetter and other members of the AMEC team are joining me and other members of our Measurement Group on the 6th July for a roundtable at Russell Square. This will also help the Social Media Measurement Group achieve its objectives for 2010 (part of our broad review of M&E guidance), as listed on its wiki, specifically the updating and communication of the CIPR's measurement and evaluation policy.
Note: You may also find a previous interview Philip Sheldrake conducted with Katie Delahaye Paine, 20th June 2010, of interest:


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A second place finish in the women's distance medley relay paced the Holy Cross men's and women's track and field teams at the Yale Invitational in New Haven, Conn. on Saturday afternoon. The relay team, ran by junior Courtney Burgess (Dracut, Mass.), freshman Rachelle Sylvia (Westerly, R.I.) and sophomores Katelyn Hartnett (Danvers, Mass.) and Sarah Mellea (North Arlington, N.J.), took second place with a time of 12:39.62.
Holy Cross also had a top relay finish in the 4x800, with junior Cassandra Anderson (Saugus, Mass.), sophomore Alison Nadeau (Norfolk, Mass.), senior Olivia Pruszko (Monroe, Conn.) and sophomore Kara Bownell (Cherry Valley, Mass.) teaming up to take fifth place with a time of 9:52.12.
The Crusaders were paced in the distance events by a 14th place finish in the men's 3,000 by senior Kyle Rougeot (Torrington, Conn.) with a time of 8:56.63 and a 15th place finish women's 3,000 by junior Jacqueline Imse (Simsbury, Conn.) with a time of 10:58.88.
In the field events, Pruszko finished fifth in the high jump with a height of 1.55 meters, while freshman Nicole Hanlon (Lynn, Mass.) took eighth in the shot put with a distance of 9.57 meters. Sophomore Cassie Canastra (Rochester, Mass.) placed seventh in the women's weight throw with a distance of 12.39 meters, while junior Tim Paquette (Malden, Mass.) finished 15th in the men's weigh throw competition with a distance of 10.87 meters.
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Analytic Techniques
Classifying Multispectral Imagery
The purpose of this assignment is to get some hands-on experience with the fundamentals of image classification. Multi-Band images of the Earth's surface are becoming a very important source of information about land cover and land use. Because satellites beam back information every day, this imagery can be a terrific source of very current information or historic (perhaps back to 1972). Of course, subtracting the historic from the current can provide an estimate of change in the landscape, provided one can be sure that the classification of the images yields consistent results.
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We have an elegant tool for extracting information from images, which we train with samples of cleared, wooded and innundated areas on each image. The image classification software yields classified versions of our 1970 and 1990 images, which we can bring into our GIS.
Finally, we use a raster function to find areas that were (if we trust our classiciation) cleared and places that were (evidently) reforested between 1970 and 1990. The work we do training the classifier in a control area is carried out accross the entire image.
Remotely sensed data is very unstructured. It is in most cases simply a record of relative reflectances (sometimes emittances) of particular wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. Therefore there is usually a lot of interpretive work that goes into extracting useful information from these images. There are many software programs that can assist in this task. This assignment has been written for a very good, very compact and very inexpensive image processing package called MultiSpec, from Purdue University.
In this project, we will investigate land use on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This setting is interesting because of the sensitive landscapes which were under considerable development pressures in the latter part of the 20th century. This pressure led to the establisment of the Cape Cod Commission in 1990 and the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961.
The overall goal of this assignment is to extract some useful information from a multi-band image. To extract information about forested and unforested areas from both September 18 1999 and July 6, 1976 to make an assessment of how much forest was lost.
The Overall Outline
- Introduce the datasets
- Open the satellite image, shape file and scanned map in arcgis.
- Get familiar with the MultiSpec interface.
- Isolate particular spectral signatures on the 1999 image using a supervised classification of a few features.
- Georeference the new classified image in ArcGIS.
- Repeat the procedure for the 1976 image for a change detection study
- Reclass the images, converting them to GRIDs
- Use a combine function to extract the specific differences between the two grids.
Introducing the Data
Right-Click here to download the zip file containing the sample databases for this lab. Open the ArcMap Document at the top level of this folder. The images in each of the grouped layers, mss_tifs and etm_tifs are the original tifs downloaded from The Global Land Cover Facility at the University of Maryland. Each of these represents a single band of the multispectral images returned by the MultiSpectral Scanner the first landsat satellite, active in the 1970s, and from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper, which is also known as Landsat 7. You can see the metadata for each of these bands on the Landsat Technical Documentation.
To prepare these images for import into multispec, a couple of models were created. YOu can find these in the toolbox, named Composite_Img Note that the cell size and the extent is set specifically for each of the models, using the Properties for each model. It is common practice to use the Red, Green, and Near Infrared bands to diferentiate vegeation and development, so we havge chosen the apropriate image bands to include in our tif files (which can only hold three bands).
Part of the problem of classifying an image, is making training samples based on some understanding of land cover in part of the image. To aid you in this process, we include a land use shape file of The Town of Barnstable from MassGIS.
You will also find a subfolder named "multispec" which contains the multispec program and its documentation which is named Intro5_01.pdf
Open the data in ArcGIS
Because ArcGIS is a more full-featured GIS than Multispec, we will use it as a reference for our GIS data. We will also use it to help analyze our results.
- Open the ArcMap Document, map1.mxd.
- Explore the images and the land use map.
- Take a look at the models in the Image_COposite toolbox. One version of the 1999 image was composited with bands 1,2 and 3 which allows us to make a "True Color" image. BUt first we should adjust the image symbology properties it so that the Red Green and Blue channels are in the correct order. For the Enhanced Thematic mapper imagery, the Red band is band 3, blue is recorded on band 1.
- When looking at the infrared imagery, such as 1999_ess_234 or 1977_mss_123, it is customary to display the infrred channel with red, the red channel with green and the green channel with blue. Check the assignment of spectral bands to image chanels in the Landsat Technical Documentation,
- Play with the image display proprties: Look at the histogram, which shows the frequency of pixels at each reflectance level for each band. Set the stretch to Histogram-equalize Notice the difference? Play with the different stretch options and choose the one that you think brings out different land uses.
- CLick around on the image and the land use layer with the information tool. Zoom in on a detail in the land use map that you feel has a spectral signature that is distinct from the area adjacent to it.
- Using the information tool, identify the land use for your selected area.
- Using the information tool, get the relative reflectances from each image band for your selected area and the area adjacent. consult the table of image bands, Landsat Technical Documentation, and think about the spectral signals that make these areas distinct in the image.
Get Familiar with the MultiSpec Interface
I have intended to be complete as possible in writing these instruction, but where not otherwise specified, follow these general rules:
- Save your work often. The "Project" contains all of the training samples and classifications you have done since opening MultiSpec, or opening a different project. Save these projects into your own folder each time you have accomplished something interesting and especially before you do new classifications or clustering operations. on top of old ones. This will prevent you from losing work (and patience.)
- When you are confronted by a list of options, and don't know what to pick, choose the defaults.
- Don't be afraid to look up things in the manual.
- When you take a break, or are finished, save your projects to your working folder. This will enable you to start from where you left off, instead of starting over.
Perform an Unsupervised Classification
- Start the Multispec application by double-clicking on the multispecw32.exe file.
- In MultiSpec, use File->Open Image, to open the 1999_etm image. YOu may want to adjust the stretch here. Linear Stretch in MultiSpec corresponds with ArcMap's Minimum-Maximum, Equal Area corresponds with ArcMap's Histogram equalize. Then click OK.
- Zoom in and out using the "mountain" buttons on the tool bar at the top of the multispec window. Recenter the image in the window using the scroll bars.
- From the Processor menu, choose Cluster
- Click Single Pass, accept the defaults in the single-pass options dialog. Then back on the cluuster dialog,click Image Area, if your image area parameters don't start at 1, click the little 'Full Image Area Icon' at the left side of the little image area section of this window.
- Text Disk FIle Unclick Text Window
- Then click OK to begin the clustering.
- Once the clustering is finished you can open the result as an image. You will have to set the Files of Type pulldown to All Files in order to find it. The file will have a .clu suffix.
Examine the results of the unsupervised clustering
The clusterer has found the modalities inherent in your data. Clustering is a good way to start an image classification because there are classes of pixels that are deciferable because of their distinct signatures. Some of these signatures will be readily identifiable as land cover classes (water for example.) But the clusterer has not done such a good job distinquishing certain other classes, such as Wetlands and Residential.
It will be useful to consult the land use data in ArcMap as a reference. We will find the cluster classes that worked well, and assign names to them, then we will delete the clusters that didn't work, and then we can help out the clusterer by adding our own classes.
Fine Tune your Cluster-Classes
- YOu can change the color of the clusters on your map to make them easier to associate with land-cover characteristics. Try to find good classes and ambiguous ones.
- Notice the Project Window that showed up on the right side of your screen when you did the clustering. It has some buttons on it, Classes, Fields or maybe Select.
- Put the project menu in Classes mode
- It will display a list of the classes that were found by the clusterer. These correspond with the classes on your cluster map.
- Rename the good classes that you found by shoosing their entry from the list and clicking Edit Class Name.
- Delete classes that are ambiguous by selecing their names and choosing Edit->Cut.
- Classes can also be merged together, by selecting a name in the Classes list, then selecting Cut Class from the edit menu. YOu can then select another class, and click Edit->Paste Class to merge the first class with the second one. Be careful, though because merging two classes that are very dis-similar in their signatures. Remember that the the outputs of your clustering and classification can always be merged with a reclass operation at the final step.
Perform a Supervised Classification
Now, we will add our own input to help the classifier distinguish features that we feel are important.
- Make your original image the active window
- Set your Project Menu in Select Mode
- Check the box in the Select Field menu that says "Polygon Enter" This will allow you to create irregularly shaped training samples.
- Notice that there are areas of wetland that are in the same class as other areas that are residential, we will delete this class, from our class list, and then use Select mode to define two training samples, one named Wetland and another named Residential.
- Now choose Classify from the Processor menu. In the Set Classification Specifications dialog, make sure to uncheck the box that says "Write Classification Results to Project Text Window" and do check the one that says "To disk File". The rest of the defaults should be fine. You will be asked whether you want to update statistics, say yes.
- You will be asked to name the file that will be your classified map. Use a name you will be able to remember. If you are smart, you will create a folder for this sort of thing, and you will give the maps and projects you save names that will make sense if you want to find particular ones later.
- After a while, the classifier will finish and you can use File->Open Image to open it. It will be a file of type "Thematic".
- Look at the image. You can also go to your Project Text window (bring it to the front by selecting it from the Window menu.) and look at the statistical summary of your classification. If you are curious about what all of these statistics mean, you can look at the MultiSpec documentation; but you will not be tested on this.
- If you want to understand the signatures that multispec has identified from your training samples, go to the project window, push the "Classes" button and choose "List Stats..." from the second pull-down menu. Statistics for each class will be listed in the project text window. YOu may need to go to the "Windows" menu to find this.
- To throw away a set of classes and start over, choose Project->Close Project, and then open a fresh project with Project->New Project. If you want to save your classes, then use Project->Save Project. Use a name that is meaningful, like "suprvised2.project".
- Save your MultiSpec project.
Open the classification result in ArcGIS
Now that you have extracted some new information from your satellite image, you may want to bring it into ArcGIS to use it with other datasets, including the results of other image classifications. Multispec makes this fairly easy, allowing you to save the thematic image as a geotiff format image, which, you probably know, is georeferenced and will automatically line up with your ArcGIS layers.
Georeference your Classified Image
- Use Multispec to save your new thematic image as a Geotiff file.
- Open the new image in ArcMap. It should align with the other data.
Repeat your classification for the 1977 image and calculate the change in development
- Start a new MultiSpec project with the 1972 image, and repeat the supervised classification.
- Georeference the new image and open it in ArcGIS.
Reclass your New Rasters and Combine Them
Now to systematically extract the differences between these two rasters. For this we wil use the raster function combine. Combine is a local function, which for each cell in the output grids, assigns a new value that represents the combination of the values for that location on the input grids. One of the zones on the combidned grid will be those cells that were forest in 1977, but unforested in 1999. But before we combine these two rasters, we should make the values for forested, unforested and water, consistent between the two.
- Choose values for your three types of land use.
- Reclass each classified layer appropriately.
- Make each of the layers a permanent grid with the names class70 and class90.
- Remove the classified tif images and the reclassed grids from ArcMap and open your saved permanent reclassed grids.
- Use the combine function in the Raster Calculator with the following
[combined77_99] = combine([class77],[class99])
- Check out the attribute table of your new grid. The rest should be obvious.


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Hi CSSers,
I am creating a website that will need to have 2 languages (English and Indonesian). I have seen sites that have the EN FR ID links to switch languages. Not sure how it works, but does that mean that we have to create multiple websites for each of the different languages? Or is there some trick or workaround?
Thank you for your advice!
My answer is not specific to website but programming in general.
I often have to make programs in two languages. And then you have a choice. Or you make to programs (websites) or you load the text for the program (website) from a database.
It all depends on how big your website is going to be. If it's a static website that never changes (and you have no knowledge of database), maybe it's better to make two websites.
If your website gets updated constantly, you would be better off with a database driven website but that complicates things
Thank you for your input.
I think that your proposed solution #1 would work for me since the information on the website is going to be unchanged for most of the time. Anyway it isn't really that hard a thing to do. It's harder to even comprehend how databases and things like that work :)
Thanks again!
Check this out:
Chris, that is very cool! Although I'm not sure if it will work for a page that needs everything translated :)
I know that this is an old thread, but I've just arrived here at CSS-Tricks.
For sites that have few pages say 8 for example, that will nicely fit a navigation bar, I include a drop-down menu from that original nav-bar. On the home page I place a comment in the other language to point the viewer to this option. Copy and paste all the pages in the original language as a sub-page to each original page, change them into the proper alternative language, as I personally don't much like automated translation, to avoid mis-translation by a machine. And that's it! (Professional graphic designer for many years, now building websites with weebly, some coding experience, but design and simplicity and clarity of use is my thing).
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