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There is something so lovely, so Darwinian about slasher flicks, even forgettable nonsense such as "Wrong Turn."
The TV commercials make you anticipate seeing young, cute people getting murdered in the woods of West Virginia, and a choppin' and a hackin' we go.
The problem with this film is that it hews so rigidly to genre convention that it irritates instead of entertains. All the expected elements are there, a plot-by-numbers effort that includes the smart guy, the plucky girl, the devil-may-care types and the lovers. Oh, and this trio of creepy mountain men who may or may not be cannibals. You know who will die, and who won't.
Med student Chris (Desmond Harrington) is running late for an important job interview. In an effort to get around a six-hour highway backup, he takes a back road, only to collide with an SUV occupied by a quintet of lovely youths. Turns out the SUV has been disabled by a strand of barbed wire placed across the road (cue sinister, minor-keyed music). The group heads off to search for a phone, and the party begins.
Jessie (Eliza Dushku) and Chris become leaders and, ultimately, the prey in a hunt being conducted by the killers. Not surprisingly, the two decide to fight back, and what luck, Jessie has just been dumped by her boyfriend, so those moon-eyed looks shared by her and Chris ultimately won't be in vain.
Think of "Wrong Turn" as being like "Survivor," and you'll have a great time watching characters get croaked in direct proportion to their degree of annoyance. You can even root for individual deaths, because this film so faithfully follows the arc of every other slasher film you can predict when your wish will be granted. "I sure wish somebody would kill her," you think, and in comes the machete.
There's the predictable malleability of the characters' intelligence, as well. They're smart or stupid, depending on what the plot needs. This keeps viewers from being really surprised because the typical young teens who will go to see this movie want to see something they already know.
Making the hunters these hairy, rat-faced mutants is an irritating, but anticipated cop-out. Of course we hate and fear them just look at them. If the killers were real people, the filmmakers would have to invent reasons for their sociopathy no time for that.
Nor are the blood and guts particularly inventive. You see the odd body part being hacked off, and fun ways to use barbed wire, all droll and obvious.
The sole saving grace of "Wrong Turn" is its honesty. You get exactly what you expect blood, guts and people being taken to the killing floor.
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Fig beetles.
(Slightly blurred due to it being windy and a telephoto shot with a light handheld point-and-shoot…)
Fig beetles.
(Slightly blurred due to it being windy and a telephoto shot with a light handheld point-and-shoot…)
Saw all the fluffy stuff on the ground. Took me a while to "cotton on" and look up:
(ceiba speciosa.. "silk floss" tree. click for larger view.)
So I discovered a terrifying (but also kind of fascinating and beautiful at the same time) new element to the garden this morning. We're having a heat wave here, and so this morning before leaving for work I thought I'd give the tomato plants a spot of moisture. I passed one of the tomato clusters and noticed that one of the (still green) tomatoes had a large bite taken out of it. I assumed it was an experimental bite from a squirrel (my nemesis – or one of them), and muttered dark things under my breath and then prepared to move away the strange coiled leaf that seemed to be on top of it. Then I noticed.
It wasn't a leaf.
It was a HUGE caterpillar! Enormous! Giant and green with spots and even a red horn at one end! There's a moment when you're unexpectedly close to a creature like that where your skin crawls for a bit. Well, mine did for a while […] Click to continue reading this post
Given that you read here at this blog, you may well like to keep your boundaries between art and science nicely blurred, in which case you might like to learn more about the coral reef forests made of crochet spearheaded by Margaret and Christine Wertheim. The pieces mix crochet (a hand-craft I know and love well from my childhood – I got to explore my love for symmetry, patterns, and problem-solving by making doilies) with mathematics – hyperbolic geometry in particular – as well as biology (mimicking and celebrating the forms of corals – and drawing attention to their destruction in the wild). You can read much more about the projects here. I've mentioned the work here before on the blog, but the other day I went along to see a new set […] Click to continue reading this post
(From a walk near my hideout a couple of weeks ago…)
I don't know. That's a bit of a desperate title. But in exchange, a rather nice cloud formation, don't you think?
This was from the sky over Los Angeles yesterday evening (a shot of the sky in the other direction is to the right – click for larger), and my first thought was "what's the physics behind these beautiful structures?" There's enough regularity here to expect there to be a mechanism, but I do not know what it is. Some combination of atmospheric conditions like wind speed, temperature, perhaps some layering of different bodies of air, and so forth, resulted in this and I'd love to know more. What factors set the roughly regular size of the structures, their pretty uniform distance apart, etc? (These are typical physicist's questions, in case you're […] Click to continue reading this post
Staying on the weather/climate theme a little bit, I should mention that we've been having some rather splendid sunrises these last few days. Spectacular colour combinations are run through in a matter of minutes as the sun emerges. I captured this image two days ago, stopping down a bit to get the cloud colours right, silhouetting a palm tree in the foreground to give a bit of context (also cropping some of the bottom off for better balance). Within a few minutes of taking this all the red had gone, pushing rapidly through yellow to white as the bright sun emerged.
By contrast, this morning was all billowing fog. The resulting visual range was […] Click to continue reading this post
You might recall that last year I gave a talk at TED Youth, in their second year of short TED talks aimed at younger audiences. You'll recall (see e.g. here and here) I made a special set of slides for it, composed from hundreds of my drawings to make it all in graphic novel style, and somehow trying to do (in 7 minutes!!) what the TED people wanted.
They wanted an explanation of string theory, but when I learned that I was the only person in the event talking about physics, I kind of insisted that (in a year when we'd discovered the Higgs boson especially!) I talk more broadly about the broader quest to understand what the world is made of, leaving a brief mention of string theory at the end as one of the possible next steps being worked on. Well, they've now edited it all together and made it into one of the lessons on the TED Ed site, and so you can look at it. Show it to friends, young and old, and remember that it is ok if you don't get everything that is said… it is meant to invite you to find out more on your own. Also, as you see fit, use the pause button, scroll back, etc… to get the most out of the narrative.
I'm reasonably pleased with the outcome, except for one thing. WHY am I rocking […] Click to continue reading this post
I seem to be having a bit of friction with Nature right now. Need to sort this out. Monday, waking up in the desert (family visit – staying in a house not a tent), I put my hand on my pants to put them on and go out into the world. There was a strikingly sharp and hard jab, as though I'd grabbed a needle with my finger. I thought it odd, not having had a needle or other pointed object in my clothing. I decided to have a look… There, partly visible in one of the pockets was a scorpion! I thought about this for a few seconds and tried to recall whether there was some kind of venomous variety in this area, and whether this was one of them. Pausing for a while, I felt slightly dizzy for a tiny moment and then decided that was my imagination, and then I carried the pants out to the kitchen to discuss the matter with one of my hosts. After some research (and his rapid dispatching of the unfortunate beast), I decided that it was the wrong sort, and moreover, at only a few inches in length, probably too juvenile. Also, my finger showed no signs of distress, and so I got on with the day.
Last night, back home in Los Angeles, I discovered an unwelcome visitor in my crawl […] Click to continue reading this post
I stopped off in LA after Amsterdam, to recharge and to just be home for a bit. The garden is now bursting with tomatoes of various types, I'm happy to report, and you only need to wait a day or two in order to pick a variety pack such as the lovely one above. (Click for larger view.) I brought a bunch of them to Aspen with me, and continue to work through them, in cooking, sandwiches like the ones I'm just about to eat for lunch, and so forth.
I've had none of the rodent problems with the tomatoes this year, since I […] Click to continue reading this post
This is is part of Lake Powell, formed from the Colorado river. It is just off route 95 in […] Click to continue reading this post
Well, after an hour and a half or so of struggle up (see previous post), a rest, some picture taking, and so forth, I headed back down from the Maroon Lake area, leaving the magnificent view of the Maroon Bells behind and coasting down back to Aspen on the Brompton. I found a nice way of mounting the camera on the bike bag near the handle and so made a video of the descent, so that you can share in the view. Guess who ran out of charge on the battery before getting to the end? Never mind… the most scenic bits are captured. Best to turn down the sound of the air rushing past […] Click to continue reading this post
I was in Joshua Tree for a couple of days on the weekend, camping and hanging with some friends. It was a very pleasant time indeed, with groups of us taking turns making meals, and with bouts of talking and walking here and there, and sleeping in our tents listening to the evening wind howling at times.
Here's a closeup (click for larger view) of a flower bundle of the Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens ), which is just a stunning plant.
The whole bush is pictured below.
There are a lot of silly, ill-informed things said about Los Angeles, mostly in the form of lazy clichés. Sometimes said by people who are otherwise quite sensible, but the power and groove of a truism is hard to resist, even when it is an untrue one. One of them is that there are "no seasons" here. This is just a silly thing that people say in place of saying that they are used to seasons from a different climate and they have not taken the time to listen and watch for the march of the seasons that is evident here. (I think also that we have it amplified by popular culture that the standard symbols of the Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter cycle involving snow and red and gold leaf colours and bare trees and jack frost nipping at your nose and so forth are "the way things are supposed to be".) A friend of mine has in her email signature the slogan "I have a life. It is just different from yours", and so I will retool it here: "We have seasons. They are just different from yours."
Just like anywhere else, the seasons wink or call (sometimes even shout) at you through certain combinations of colours, smells, temperatures, and so on. I think people miss a lot of cues in Los Angeles because they don't get out of their cars and walk the streets very much. Even a few gardens or hedgerows passed along the way can show a lot about the mood of the season the city is in. For me, colours and smells are very big cues in Los Angeles, and there are times when large parts of the city seem to be dominated by a single plant's smell or colour or sometimes both. For me, it is the Jasmine time of year now. This is when the night-blooming jasmine bushes (cestrum nocturnum, apparently) of the city all seem to work in concert and fill the air with a great scent, and lovely clumps of creamy […] Click to continue reading this post
So today's rain-storm-driven activities involved staring out of the windows at various impressive downpours and marveling at the lightning and thunderclaps. This latter formed an interesting coincidence since I was reviewing grant proposals this morning, and one of them was about the science of certain types of high energy phenomena associated with lightning bolts. They were good to see, since Southern California (at least the LA part) has relatively few and relatively lame offerings in the way of thunderstorms. I miss them terribly.
In the early afternoon, we finally decided to go off to a museum. A good indoor activity. However, we got caught in a downpour between parking and museum and decided that, despite the two giant umbrellas we had deployed, our coverage was wanting and we were all too damp to continue. So we returned home. It was a good […] Click to continue reading this post
Phil over at Bad Astronomy has posted about my childhood cradle (although I am sure he does not know that), the (still beautiful) island of Montserrat. I grew up there for ten years from ages 4 to 14. Many years later, in 1997, a volcano erupted there (in the "Soufrière Hills") and devastated much of the Southern part (where I grew up) of the island wiping out almost all traces of where I lived. Much of the stuff of my childhood memories is buried under tens of feet of ash. In my more tender moments, this thought still brings me to tears, actually. (Yes, of course I do know that it is much more devastating for those whose lives it affects due to their living there in the present.) On a side note, I always find it slightly chilling that the mountain that erupted was one of a pair that I used to love to sit on a giant rock and stare at, for long periods, when I was in a contemplative mood (as I often was) when I was young. Furthermore, two weeks before the eruption I was actually visiting the island for the first time since I'd left it as a child. And guess what I did? One day I was in a foul mood over an issue, and I went and sat on that rock again and while brooding, looked over at the mountain for a long spell. (Just in case, I try not to get too angry these days… )
It turns out that the volcano has continued to rumble and burp over all these years, sometimes dangerously, with a growing dome that forms on top of the whole […] Click to continue reading this post
Yes, I know: (1) Large head doesn't make one smarter, but it was just so I could use the post title. (Maybe one or two of you see where it comes from…) (2) The final resort of a busy blogger: – cute animal pictures. Well, I already regularly share pictures with you concerning what I had for dinner, so no change there.
This is Yun Zi, ("Son of Cloud" I hear) who arrived in the public eye (at five months […] Click to continue reading this post
A shot (click for slightly larger view) from a lovely afternoon walking on the beach recently…
Happy Holidays, one and all!
I always like an excuse to look for blue skies, and to have others look too, even in the worst of times. I had a great reason to do it today.
Early this morning before sunrise I settled down to write my ten o'clock lecture for my Electricity and Magnetism class. On Tuesday I had ended with a computation that is the essence of the reason the sky is blue, which is a nice enough thing to talk about, but today I wanted to go more in depth on the whole thing, and show that you can in a few steps show that the blueness has a particular pattern to it. I wrote out the final equations in a few steps and looked at them for a moment or two and realized that with the sun rising at that very moment, it was the perfect situation to have! So I went outside to enjoy the beautiful Autumn day and the beauty there is in seeing an equation writ large in the sky – and it really was all there.
It is particularly at times like this that one remembers why it is that it is hard not to just love Physics! (I hope you'll forgive my unashamed love of what I do.)
Here is the sky I saw, looking toward sunrise, and directly in the opposite direction:
Oh, you're wondering what I am talking about..? Why is the sky blue? What pattern in the sky? Thanks for asking! There are two things I'm looking at. First, light from the […] Click to continue reading this post
Following hot on the heels of Margaret Atwood coming to town last week (over at UCLA), we have A. S. Byatt over at USC today! Very exciting. It is actually partly one of our College Commons events as well, and last week as a College Commons event (with a Darwin tinge) we had a viewing of the film of her book Angels and Insects, which I thought was really excellent!
Her lecture is entitled: "The Novel as Natural History", (and will resonate with some of the themes I talked about in my report on the CC event about Collections) and I expect it is going to be quite wonderful. Details here, and the blurb goes:
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It has been too long since I have seen rain here. Many months, in fact. Today's rain is very welcome indeed. Also welcome has been the opportunity to feel enough of a […] Click to continue reading this post
Just went to a marvellous talk by Jane Goodall here on the USC campus, in Bovard auditorium. She's signing her new book as we speak! Among the many things she said, she emphasized one of my favourite themes with regards the environment (and so many other things, like community, education, etc): Act locally.
Have a look at her roots and shoots organization for example. It is very youth driven […] Click to continue reading this post
Well that was fun! I'm sitting on the bus on the way home [editorial note: I wrote most of this on Thursday afternoon], with the memory of the College Commons event that I just went to still fresh in my mind. (That and the tasty food at the end of the event.)
This event ("Discovering the World: Collections, Curiosity and Evolution") was all about collecting and collections, from the institutional collections we have in our society today such as museums and libraries, through the "cabinets of curiosity" of earlier centuries, to the sort of obsessive collections of random stuff that sort of becomes a disease (I mentally glance over at the shelves, piles, and boxes of old New Yorkers in my house; I've not been able to throw away a single one since I started subscribing in the early 90s. Yes, I know, I know… I know.)
So many of these types of collections (and the resulting books and compendia which they themselves become the objects of collections and subjects of books and so on and so forth) formed the foundations of the culture, the raw material for scientific study, the inspiration for more collections and for more study, and so on…. So the event used that as a basis and dug out some wonderful articles for us to look and marvel at. The digging was done at USC's own splendid Doheny library (original Audubon volumes, Cook's journals, etc) the Huntington library (several illustrated tomes of natural history and an actual plate used long ago for printing Audubon illustrations which were then later hand-coloured by artists) and the Los Angeles Natural History Museum across the street. A number of my colleagues who are scholars in areas that these objects pertain to gave short, informative and […] Click to continue reading this post
I'll blog a bit more about the significance of this scene, but right now, I hope you'll […] Click to continue reading this post
Hey, it's Earth Day today! (Remember Earth Hour last month?) Take some time out to reflect, and maybe join in with one of other (or more) of the events taking place near you. Look here for a link trail that'll lead you to such activity… Enjoy! -cvj
I promised a report on last week's College Commons trip to the Page Museum at the Tar Pits, here in Los Angeles. It was an excellent trip. The usual thing I do for blogging these things is, some time later, as time allows, I sit down and do a sort of brain-dump. I tried to do something different this time, and walk on the tour with my Palm Tungsten (yes, really really old technology, I know) and simply write a sort of narrative into it as I went along. Then I combined the uploaded file with the images I took as I went along, and supplemented with some extra sentences here and there. The overall effect should be a sketchier description of the event than I usually do, which may or may not be an improvement given that everybody seems to skim everything these days anyway. (Click on the photos for larger views.) So, here goes:
And so it begins. And it begins well – after a name tag is given out, upon check in for the bus, we are given a little brown paper bag of snacks. Hurrah!
3:39 and we're off! (We run by the excavations for the Expo line and since it is an elevated bus, I get a nice view of what's going on for quite a way. Wish I'd had the camera out to make a video for you.)
My colleague David Bottjer, a paleontologist, gives a little run down of the history of the region (both social and paleontological) as we go north on La Brea (appropriately – they are the La Brea Tar Pits… Or given that La Brea means The Tar, they are The Tar Tar Pits…)
4:05 We're here! Somehow, the little bag of goodies is all empty already. Except for […] Click to continue reading this post
Today's shooting circumstances (see previous post) produced an unexpected bonus: Snow. Lots of it! It is always a pleasant surprise to me how quickly you can get from Los Angeles to some good snow cover. I was not expecting to see any snow – or trudge through any – this season, but it turned out that lots of it had fallen where we were scheduled to shoot. So much so that we could not get to where we wanted to […] Click to continue reading this post
I thought I'd share with you a little video of one of my favourite visitors to the garden! These hummingbirds love Mexican sage (salvia leucantha). I grow quite a bit of it, and they flock to it when it starts blooming in the Fall. As I said over a year ago in talking about the sage and the birds, in a post "Soon They Will Come": […] Click to continue reading this post
Looking toward the source of some of that lovely evening light I remarked upon in an earlier post. View from the grounds of the Observatory in Griffith Park, not too long after 6:00 pm.
Oh, boy this was fun. Christine Louise Berry organizes a series she calls The Speakeasy, and I'll tell you below about the really great one that took place on Sunday. You'll remember my mentioning Christine's work earlier. She (the main force behind SmartGals) did that marvellous McArthur Park event with the fragments of plays to be found all over the park, and had the excellent taste to combine it with Mama's Hot Tamales. A couple of months ago, at a party of hers (to celebrate car-independence in LA!), I met Erik Knutzen, with whom I ended up talking a great deal about lots of things because we seem to be on the same page on many things with regards biking and public transport (he's part of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition), gardening and sustainability (he's involved in a lot of land use issues for his day job). So we talked about lots of topics, from composting to the Velib system (and why Los Angeles has essentially already decided not to take that wonderful route, sadly).
Erik, with his partner Kelly Coyne, write a really great blog called Homegrown Evolution (excellent title), which is all about urban gardening, and they are passionate about getting more people to do gardening (as am I, you might have gathered). You've probably read my posts on gardening from time to time and thought that it isn't for you since you're in a big city in an apartment on the nth floor (where n is some integer greater than one or zero) with no access to garden space. I've […] Click to continue reading this post


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Posted: 12/04/2007 - One Wiregrass municipality fulfilled a new requirement issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Updated: 12/04/2007 - An area university is looking to expand one of its programs, one that could help the community and give students a chance to further their skills.
Updated: 12/04/2007 - A Bonifay man is arrested for growing marijuana. Investigators with the Holmes County Sheriff's department and the Bonifay Police Department arrested Robert Matthew Larry.
Updated: 12/04/2007 - A Henry County man accused of smashing into stores with trucks and dragging away anytime teller machines was sentenced in Ozark.
Updated: 12/04/2007 - Another Eufaula textile plant is closing, leaving more than 100 workers without a job.
Updated: 12/04/2007 - The city has been diligently working to provide better living conditions for misplaced animals at the Dothan City Animal Shelter.
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Updated: 12/04/2007 - Authorities in Bay County are looking for a woman they say has been missing for more than a week.
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Updated: 12/03/2007 - A man who was arrested over the weekend for making terrorist threats in Cottonwood had his first court appearance.
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Updated: 12/03/2007 - Emergency warning sirens could be heard across much of Abbeville.
Updated: 12/03/2007 - A local business and a Hollywood star have designed a fabric to help victims of Hurricane Katrina have a roof over their heads.
Updated: 12/03/2007 - Two Vietnam veterans were honored Monday afternoon at Fort Rucker in a new housing area on the post.
Updated: 12/03/2007 - Hartford Police are investigating a shooting incident that left a man wounded.
Posted: 12/03/2007 - State troopers say at least seven people died in weekend traffic accidents across Alabama. Three fatalities occurred Sunday.
Posted: 12/03/2007 - One man is dead after an accident early Sunday morning.
Updated: 12/03/2007 - The death penalty case of a Dothan man goes before a jury this week.
Posted: 12/03/2007 - Former Lieutenant Governor Lucy Baxley hopes to make a political comeback next year. Baxley lost the race for governor last November and then suffered a stroke.
Posted: 12/01/2007 - A federal appeals court temporarily blocked construction of Bay County's new airport, granting a request by local pilots and environmental groups opposed to the project.


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I got things up and running following most of this guide. I kept installing successfully, but when I booted into OSX I got caught in reboot loops and I couldn't read what the errors were, but I caught something about "efi_inject_get_devprop_string NULL trying stringdata" and tried various boot options.
I reinstalled using the default bootloader (AsereBLN), just to make sure it's not the bootloader tripping me up.
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The Bakoko, also called Basoo, people have lived along the western coast of Cameroon for centuries. They do not have a written language. They do not have a Bible. They are one of the 3,000 people groups that don't have a single verse of God's Word.
In their secluded environment, numerous rivers fed by heavy rains continue to expand the deltas, which flow into the Gulf of Guinea. Many of the swamplands are covered with mangrove trees and other vegetation. From the coastal flats, the Bakoko can see the plains gradually rise upward to inland plateaus.
The Bakoko are mainly subsistence farmers. They occasionally raise goats and sheep, but their cash crops include rubber, oil palms, coffee, tea, cocoa and bananas. Their main staples are cocoyams, cassava, maize and plantains. They eat dried and fresh fish and meat when available. They also enjoy tropical fruits.
More than 50,000 Bakoko live throughout the Littoral Province of Cameroon. The men normally wear Western-style clothing. The women wear both Westernstyle clothing and African wrappers (skirts) with a colorful head tie. Their homes are usually rectangular and made from wattle and daub (clay and cow dung mixed together). They also used sun-baked myd bricks. For those who can afford it, cement blocks are replacing the mud bricks.
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Pretty much what the title says really, I followed the instructions on the orchard project website to install v0.9 with the web platform installer.
No error whatsoever until I tried to access it with my browser, when I just got an error 500.19
I have issues finding what's wrong with my install as IIS/ASPX error messages are less than explicative (at least compared to apache/PHP), and enabling error logging leads to the creation of 200+ kb XML files where I can't seem to find anything that points me in the right direction for troubleshooting
Any ideas where I might start looking for what's wrong? Even better, any known installer issues with orchard 0.9?
Error given is:
Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'WebData' does not
exist in the namespace 'WebMatrix' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - U.S. Army Europe selected local women for their positive impacts within the community to kick-off Women's History Month observations in March. Christi Ham, wife of Gen. Carter Ham, commanding general, USAREUR, called on senior leader spouses to nominate a woman from each of their communities for the first "USAREUR Phenomenal Woman Scroll of Impact."
The purpose not only serves as an observance of Women's History Month, but also "highlights those women who are making history now during Women's History Month," Christi Ham said.
"Not that these selectees are the 'most' phenomenal in our communities - but they stand to represent the kinds of sisters living amongst us," she continued. "Their selection recognizes the efforts and accomplishments of many. Hence, I don't view it as selecting winners, I view it as selecting strong examples of the kinds of folks we have with us."
The Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program - an Armywide program designed to increase the resilience and enhance the performance of Soldiers, Family members and Army civilians - was the guideline for the submissions.
Using the CSF five dimensions of strength (family, social, emotional, physical and spiritual), nominators considered how the attributes of the individual selectees have contributed to three or more of the five pillars in their military communities.
USAG Grafenwoehr is proud to have two selectees in the community. Nicole Barnard and Christina Vaughn are two phenomenal women who are volunteering their time to benefit the communities that they live in.
If Barnard is not shuttling kids to school or working, she is volunteering. In addition to being the mother to three children and a Parent to Parent cadre member for the Military Child Education Coalition, Barnard is very active in her community. She volunteers with many organizations like the Grafenwoehr Community and Spouses' Club, the Protestant Women of the Chapel and her battalion family readiness group.
When asked about the honor of being selected for the U.S. Army Europe Phenomenal Woman Scroll of Impact, Barnard expressed surprise and gratitude.
"After reading the narrative, I was glad to know that I am a representative for our community," Barnard said. "I'm just like any other mom trying to juggle everything; kids, jobs and volunteering but, you get into this community and you start to see that all the women here are pretty phenomenal."
Becoming an active volunteer has given Barnard the opportunity to meet many women in the community. Her hope is that her efforts are helping to empower these women to become independent, well-informed and to create camaraderie among them. Barnard feels it is difficult for many families coming to Germany because they believe they are alone on tours without the support of their families. She wants Soldiers and families to know they are a part of a community that is here to sustain them.
Barnard stresses that the organizations Soldiers and family members become a part of will be their support system while they are in Europe. As a battalion FRG advisor, she feels that she is making a difference. Her goal is to help Soldiers and families realize that the FRG is there to help them through the good times as well as the bad.
Barnard says two good places for people to start learning more about their community are by taking the Army Family Team Building classes and Welcome to Bavaria program through Army Community Service. Although there are a lot of class opportunities online, she suggests that these classes be taken in person, "that way you get to meet new people and ask questions in person."
Like Barnard, Christina Vaughn was surprised to have the honor of the USAREUR Phenomenal Women Scroll of Influence bestowed upon her.
"I feel extremely honored to be included in this category with so many others who continually give so much to our community," Vaughn said.
Vaughn regularly volunteers in the USAG Grafenwoehr Vilseck community with the Vilseck Community and Spouses' Club (VCSC). But, she doesn't stop there. Vaughn also reaches out to Vilseck's furry citizens.
Helping animals in need is one Vaughn's pet projects. She is often conducting food and supply drives for the local animal shelters.
"I have been a volunteer for many years; it is my passion," said Vaughn. "It makes me feel good to know my efforts really do help those that need it most whether it is people or pets."
Vaughn also recommends joining the local spouses' clubs to get involved.
"Our club works really hard to support our community as well as give back to our community. VCSC provides various volunteer opportunities no matter what your skill sets are," Vaughn said.
The spouses' clubs often provide a variety of activities to help newcomers to get to know the local area and become more comfortable living in Germany. Vaughn stresses that inclusion in a local community organization can help people get to know their neighbors and the people in their community, can ease transition into a new country and provide fun and leisure activities.
Vaughn is no stranger to volunteering and her energy for helping others is infectious. This is one reason she was selected as a phenomenal woman. She encourages others to volunteer where and when they can.
"Once I saw there was a need in an area where I could contribute, I jumped right in with both feet," Vaughn said. "It is such a rewarding feeling knowing that if a spouse, family, community member or pet needs help, somehow, someway, I can give back by finding a way to help them. Using my life experiences I hope I am paying it forward."
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I am leasing my pony out to one, possibly two lesson students. I have to - I am pregnant and can't ride and I have to stop working there soon (working there pays his board.) I have been trying to sell him, and i've been unsuccessful - I'm kind of happy about that. I am HOPING that after being ridden by a bigger variety of kids he will get used to it and not develop any bad habits.
Here are the 'rules:'
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That's all that I can really think of. Anything else I should add to that list??
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Directly Operated Railways[1] is a holding company set up by the Department for Transport in the United Kingdom in July 2009 to run rail franchises should it become necessary to bring them into public ownership.[2]
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Subsidiary East Coast Main Line Company[3] trading as East Coast, took over the running of services on the InterCity East Coast franchise from 13 November 2009 following the government assuming control of the franchise from National Express East Coast after it defaulted on its contract.[4] East Coast ceased operating on 28 February 2015 with the franchise passing to Virgin Trains East Coast the following day.[5][6]
West Coast Main Line Company[edit]
In September 2012 with the potential that the Department for Transport would not be able to enter into a contract with its preferred bidder for the InterCity West Coast franchise (FirstGroup) as a result of Virgin Rail Group seeking a judicial review, it was suggested that subsidiary West Coast Main Line Company[7] would take over running of the franchise from December 2012 pending a resolution.[8]
In October 2012 the competition for the franchise was cancelled following the discovery of technical flaws in the franchise process. The Secretary of State for Transport announced that an investigation would be conducted, with the running of the West Coast line likely to be passed into the hands of West Coast Main Line Company Limited to ensure that train services continued uninterrupted.[9][10] Directly Operated Railways confirmed that it had been asked in mid-September 2012 to prepare to mobilise for temporary transfer of the InterCity West Coast franchise in December. With the announcement the Department for Transport was opening negotiations with Virgin Rail Group about operating the franchise on a short-term basis, Directly Operated Railways stepped back from mobilising, but remained on standby.[11]
See also[edit]
- South Eastern Trains - the previous occasion the government has run a TOC having taken back a franchise
- East Thames Buses - a similar entity created by Transport for London
- ^ Companies House extract company no 6950819 Directly Operated Railways Limited
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- ^ Companies House extract company no 4659708 East Coast Main Line Limited
- ^ "East Coast rail change confirmed". BBC News Online. 2009-11-05. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
- ^ Stagecoach and Virgin win East Coast mainline rail franchise BBC News 27 November 2014
- ^ More seats, more services and new trains for East Coast passengers Department for Transport 27 November 2014
- ^ Companies House extract company no 4659516 West Coast Main Line Limited
- ^ "Government team in place to run West Coast Main Line". The Daily Telegraph. 18 September 2012.
- ^ West Coast Main Line franchise competition cancelled Department for Transport Press Release 3 October 2012
- ^ "West Coast main line rail contract halted in shock move". The Guardian. 3 October 2012.
- ^ Directly Operated Railways ICWC Comment 15 October 2012


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I had my grey mare at a trainers for awhile and she would get those scrapes on her hocks and pasterns from laying down in her stall. He put some sort of oil on them to keep the flys out but now I can't get the oil out. Would it be safe to try plain old dish soap just on the oily spot?
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Consuming six city block in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood, Columbia University is as much a part of the fabric of New York City as the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. Columbia University, part of the elite Ivy League, was founded in 1754 by royal charter of King George II. It is one of only nine Colonial Colleges – schools that began before the American Revolution – and it is the oldest university in New York.
Columbia University is a prestigious school with a long list of equally prestigious graduates. The school has produced three Presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Barack Obama. It has also produced nine Supreme Court Justices, 25 Academy Award winners, and influential authors such as Upton Sinclair, J.D. Salinger, and Jack Kerouac.
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Exeter Northcott
The Exeter Northcott offers the very best in professional theatre, dance and opera. Talks and backstage tours are available on request. Visit the Exeter Northcott Theatre website for more information.
Barnfield Theatre
This city centre theatre presents a varied programme of theatre and music events both in the main auditorium and in the Clifford Room. Clare Teal is the patron of this theatre and is a popular artist who regularly returns to perform here. Regular events include a monthly Open Mic Night (first Friday of every month), Monkey Music (for small children) and drama classes for older children.
Cygnet Theatre
The Cygnet Training Theatre Company trains a group of actors aged between 18 - 35 years. These young people are chosen for their special abilities so that the acting standard is very high. They perform a varied programme of public performances throughout the year at the Cygnet Theatre and also at Poltimore House. Studies lead to graduation. For more information please visit the Cygnet Theatre website.
Telephone: 01392 277189
The Bike Shed Theatre
The Bike Shed Theatre was founded in February 2010 by two graduates of the Cygnet Training Theatre Company. Programmes feature a range of work, from full production of brand new plays to major revivals, from music to comedy to dance. For more information and to find out what's on, visit The Bike Shed Theatre website.
Box Office: 01392 667080
Exeter Phoenix
This contemporary arts venue presents a varied programme of live music events, dance, theatre, live art, spoken word, film and visual art. Regular events include Jazz Nights, Jumping Beans (weekly activity classes for 2 - 5 year olds in term time only), Messy Beans (a weekly creative art session for under 5s) art and jewellery classes, photography and film events. There is a Quiz Night on the last Wednesday of the month.
See the Exeter Phoenix website for more information.
Theatre shows are also performed from time to time at the Exeter Corn Exchange.
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Give us suggestions. Are we on the right track? What would you like to see? Keep it clean! We hope you've found this information useful. Help us get the word out.
Do send us any industrial action that your participating in either intentional or accidental! Your feed back is vital to us. Particularly what we've missed! We love a good correction. Keep sending your articles in.
To our critics, our readers just want to know what to expect, no more, no less. When holidaymaker's go on vacation they have little tolerance for hanging out in ports, airports, train stations and incurring extra costs with hotels and alternative transportation. They just want to sit on the beach with the kids and support your economy. No vendetta here.
Viewer called us the drudge of travel, very witty... We wish.
Another viewer "not exactly drop dead gorgeous, but gets the point across" and another "A really useful site (though guaranteed to give you a few sleepless nights!!!). Will definitely check regularly on this one".
Jeez, thanks..
Another viewer
I appreciate what you are doing and I agree totally with your sentiment.
I am an international traveler for business on average one international trip a week, all year long.(maybe more lately).
I have been extremely inconvenienced like yourselves. I have slept on the floor in Narita airport, I have been treated as an animal in a mob of passengers at Milan Malpensa, and scrambled for an emergency place to
stay near JFK, etc, etc.
Can't you just feel this passengers pain.
From Karen:-I just want to thank you for the warning...unfortunately, I did not heed it, and my husband and I, traveling from Nice to Savona, Italy, were kicked off the train at the last stop in France, Menton, along with 3 others, with no prior warning of any troubles ahead. There WAS a strike in Italy, and we had to catch a cruise that evening, so ended up splurging on a taxi to Savona. But this is a great website...keep up the good work!! We went to the Nice train station to buy tickets a couple of days before we planned to travel to Savona, and I even asked at that time if there was any word of a strike in Italy. The man looked at me and said in a very disinterested manner, "We do not know about Italy. We sell French tickets.". Well, OK then!!
Our table mates on the ship had a flight cancellation on Iberia for their return, which was to be on Easter Sunday. They ended up leaving the ship early, in Marseille, in order to get home. Too bad....
Do you have a particular app that you can't live without?
Why do we leave information up you ask? Because travel agents, insurance companies and passengers refer to it.
We get emails on a regular basis asking did this strike really happen or I need proof it happened?
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So Avoid all your strikes during holidays
All papers regularly, suitcases packed and the house is on side. You're ready for your vacation and head towards the airport. Where you really do not fancy, is an unexpected strike at the airport. Fortunately, you can at home enough to figure out through a convenient web site, so you will not be confronted with unpleasant surprises.
With the holiday season approaching, the chance of latency. But it gets worse if your flight is canceled completely, for example by a strike. That happened to a lot of travelers in 2014, with strikes at Lufthansa and KLM partner Air France. In 2015, the chances of flights canceled suddenly also provided.
Just before the website is easytravelreport.com created. The page displays a country where at the moment strikes, but also countries which are risky in that area. Not only airlines but also by other carriers. The site warns especially for France. French air traffic controllers union is vehemently against the retrenchment of employment - a plan of the government. The eyes are focused on the Italian air traffic controllers, who have threatened to strike.
From Dee
We found your fantastic site two weeks after leaving our luggage at Brussels airport due to the May, 2013 'industrial action'. Along with 78,000 other pieces of luggage, our 2 were eventually returned, once we were home, four weeks later. We were not informed of the 'industrial action' when we checked in in Rome, thank you Brussels Airlines. So we, experienced travellers of 30+ years, learned the hard way that we have to inform ourselves. And your site is excellent. We have sent it to many, many people. Keep up the fantastic work! - Sincerely, thankful Canadians
May I just say how wonderful your website is and how it has helped me this year. I travel to Europe quite frequently and with all the strikes in France and Italy particularly, it has been an incredible help and always so topical - much more so in fact than the individual airlines webpages.
I have recommended it to several of my friends. Thank you so much for making life that much easier!
Very best wishes
This issue with Australian Border Force is not going away. Workers face heavy wage cuts. Be prepared for missing connecting flights.
Update:- Border Force will strike again today 11 November, 24 hours. Contingency plans in effect. Conflicting news at Sydney International varying from pandemonium to 15 minutes delay's.
Saturday November 7, 2015 - 10,000 Australian Border Force threaten 24 hour strike action again this Monday. International travelers urged to get to your airport (or seaport) Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney International early and go right to security. Your airport will have a contingency plan in place....
Sydney International Airport
Be aware largest transport project in Australia effecting routes to airport. Allow extra time.
West Connex Road
Project ends 2019
Italian Public Holiday's for 2015 - Nationwide
Tuesday 8 December 2015 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Italian air traffic control strike
Update Monday 23 November 2015 Strike by air traffic control has been cancelled. Except, if you are flying to and from Venice, Verona, Treviso and Bologna
. Padua is the home of one of the four Italian control centres. These controllers will strike from 12 noon to 4pm.
Strike is planned for November 24, 2015 between the hours of 1pm and 5pm local time (just in time for American Thanksgiving travel plans, Thursday the 26th)
By law a certain percentage of flights must leave. Italian government will tell airlines the percentage of flights to come and go.
Your flight will be delayed, canceled or brought forward. Call your airline. It's not just air traffic control, other aviation unions across the country will strike that day. Bad day over all Italian airports. (Remember, Italian strikes are notorious for canceling strikes at the day before)
Puglia Region
Bari and Brindisi Airports ground workers will strike from 11am - 3pm
Aviapartner Baggage Handlers
Rome's Ciampino and Fiumicino Airports will walk out between the hours of 1pm and 5pm.
Venice Airport
Marco Polo Airport Aviapartner baggage handlers will walk out from 1pm - 5pm.
Jubilee Year of Mercy
Celebrations start December 8, 2015 ends November 20, 2016. Over the year Rome expects 33 million pilgrims
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Beyond the Obvious
Madeline Jhawar this lady knows her business.
17 November 2015 Kenyan aviation workers threaten strike action, down tools if management doesn't address their grievances.
Easy Travel Report.Com "Priceless Travel Information" a travel guide!
Transportation strikes for 2015. We just want to give you the "Heads Up" of a potential travel disruption, disaster! Find out whose ripe for industrial action. Check here first, even before you've bought your airline ticket. Be prepared for next trip. 2015 shaping up to be contentious between shareholders, unions and employees.
El Al
Ben Gurion Airport
Call El Al to confirm your flight
El Al in Israel 03-977-1111
El Al Departures board
El Al has a pilot shortage. Sunday night flight leaving Ben Gurion to NYC gets delayed often due to no pilot scheduled. Management scramble for a pilot to do overtime.
This airport closes at night. Airlines must leave and arrive on time.
Greek General Strike
Will involve public and private sector workers.
Strike is planned for Thursday, 3 December 2015 and will last for 24 hours. Midnight Wednesday to midnight Thursday.
The National Seamen's Federation (PNO) Dockers will strike, ferries will be tied to ports nationwide.
Journalists will strike 24 hours starting 6am day before.
You will find monuments and museums closed that day.
More news to come regarding will air traffic control join in, public transportation, airport workers, Aegean Airlines, Olympic Airways, taxi drivers.
We will update as the news comes in.
Aegean Airlines
Olympic Airways
might get delayed, cancelled or brought forward starting Wednesday the second.
If Greek air traffic control strike you may have trouble catching your international flight, particularly if you are coming from the Greek Isles or Cyprus.
Greek air traffic controllers re-iterate the need for a new upgraded air traffic control system is desperately needed along with more staff. It's not unusual for controllers to bring airline landings in by eyesight only.
The Greek Air Traffic Controllers Association (GATCA)
25 million tourist have came to Greece this year naturally airport's are over capacity and under funded.
ourairports Thessaloniki
Athens airport
Athens flights delayed today? see
Informative sites
Living in Greece
United States
Over the years we've learned:-
Take a picture of the departure board, with time and date of cancellations. Document everything.
Save all receipts, you never know.
Put airline phone number in your phone as sometimes it's easier to call them when you have 30 people in front of you at the check out desk.
Know which other airlines are going your way.
Wear as many clothes as possible and pack just hand luggage.
Make sure you have room on your credit card to put the expense of another flight on it and it probably won't be a low cost flight!
Competing airlines love it when your airline strikes. It's not unusual for them to up the price fares at this time and add extra flights or planes with larger passenger capacity.
When Spanish air traffic control went on strike a few years ago. Only hotels available were the really, really expensive high end or hotel's you wouldn't put your enemy in.
When German Lufthansa Airline strike rental cars across Germany get more expensive and scarce.
October 2015 Ottawa taxi drivers have been causing problems/delays at Ottawa International airport and will amp up protests.
Cyprus has a shortage of air traffic controllers, causing constant flight delays. If you are flying to Athens to catch a long-haul flight you can get caught up in a Greek aviation strike.
Ryanair taking over Paphos to Athens route due to Aegean pulling out.
Dominican Republic
Dominican air traffic control, day of protest
Put together by a real human
Penny Ciocchi.
Not a news aggregator, with the same old, same old.
Only link to articles that interest me.
Nizhny Novgorod (400 km east of Moscow) preparing for World Cup 2018
Nizhny Novgorod International Airport - No Ryanair, BA or Air France at the moment.
Paris Police
stay updated.
French Ferry Strike
National Society Corse Méditerranée (
Popular car and passenger ferry to Corsica, Algeria,
Update:-Tuesday 24 November 2015, strike is still going on today. Ships will still be tied to ports tomorrow.
11 November 2015 SNCM union workers back on strike Saturday 21 November 2015. 500 - 600 jobs to go. Strike is to last 24 hours. Call them.
See important notice posted at
Air France
Access to Paris Charles de Gaulle and Paris Orly airports will be highly disrupted on Sunday 29 November and on Monday 30 November.
Air France
CGT union.
French Air Traffic Control
Reims air traffic control strike
From 5am, 23 November till 28 November 2015 5am.
Expect delays and re-routing.
Keep an eye on this blog
(We've never seen this type of strike action, new to us.)
Police arrest Air France workers after kerfuffle
Globe and Mail
Air France Pilots
Update:-20 September, 2015 Air France management threaten cutting long-haul routes by 10% unless pilot's accept more productivity ie:- longer shifts without extra wages. Every route cut back effects 300 jobs.
Air France Pilot Strike
Two pilot unions call for strike action -
Wednesday and Thursday 2 and 3 December 2015.
These two pilot unions (SPAF and Alter) do not have a lot of members so disruption is expected to be limited. More news to be released on Tuesday.
On the other hand
Ground workers will have work stoppages on Wednesday and Thursday. As usual it's vague. We will update regularly as the news comes in.
French air traffic control
National Union of Air Traffic Controllers
SNCTA (40% of controllers)
Paris Orly Airport
Air France
Charles de Gaulle
RER train lines - watch out tourist being targeted by thieves.
Heathrow Express
Stoppages and delay's you will want to know
Tube Strike
21 October 2015 Piccadilly Line train drivers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action. No date set. Piccadilly Line goes to Heathrow and carries 600,000 passengers daily.
General Strike Threat
New strike rules and regulations to come into effect. Unions planning general strike.
National Gallery
Union workers are on an indefinite strike. Chances are you will find several exhibits closed.
Air France
Arik Air Lagos, Nigeria
November 15, 2015 Nigerian airline Arik Air under new strike threat this time from pilots and engineers. Unions threaten strike action in three weeks. Flights to JFK, Heathrow, OR Tambo, Abuja...
Just in time for December's Christmas holiday's.
Tuesday, 3 November, 2015 Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Pilots threaten strike action again. PIA pilot's already had a strike in October which cancelled flights and left stranded some 5,000 passengers.
Border Force
Adria Airways Pilot Strike
27 November 2015 Pilots and management make wage deal. Strike canceled.
11 November 2015 Slovenia pilot's for Adria Airways announce strike action on Monday, 30 November 2015, 5am to midnight. Flights from Ljubljana, Pristina, Maribor, Lodz Poland and Tirana Romania.
Codeshares with to name a few, troubled Lufthansa, Air Serbia, Aeroflot, Air India, Turkish Airlines, Swiss International Airlines.
Stay in touch with Adria, strike maybe cancelled last minute.
Pristina Airport
Star Alliance member
Negotiations with flight attendants union and pilot union are going nowhere. I'd be worrying if I had a booking with Lufthansa over the Christmas and New Year season. Change to another airline, incur any penalties. You just don't want to deal with this stress over the holiday's. Whatever you do, don't choose Air France or Portuguese national airline Sata! Sata is prone to strike action over the holidays. Airline is under new management.
Three hours notice is all they have to give. By that time you have already left home and coming through security!
As a precaution Lufthansa has booked some 2,500 hotel rooms in Frankfurt.
Passengers who have booked via a travel agent likely to get help, otherwise your own your own. Make sure your phone is charged.
Lufthansa Strike
Update:-Good news, late notice, strikes are cancelled.
Lufthansa strike, by flight attendants - again.
Thursday 26 November 2015
Friday 27 November 2015
Monday 30 November 2015.
they have a notice up. Flights will be delayed, canceled or brought forward.
flight attendant union also has a notice up. "Union would like to refrain from strikes on 1 Advent weekend in December"
Last strike
Thursday 12 November 2015 Lufthansa two legal battles fail to get strike stopped.
Tuesday 10 November 2015 UFO Union step up strike action, painful. Flight attendants will strike from 4am Wednesday till Friday midnight, all flights will be grounded. Lufthansa management working frantically to get strike deemed illegal. New wage offer expected this afternoon.
Later today - Dusseldorf Airport - court deems strike at Dusseldorf Airport by UFO Union for flight attendants illegal - union was not clear with it's demands and aims.
Monday 9 November 2015, Effected flights tomorrow will be long-haul's to Munich, Frankfurt. Dusseldorf long-hauls and domestic flights to be hit. Talks today were fruitless.
Sunday 8 November 2015 Strike details are out for tomorrow. All day walkout at Frankfurt and Dusseldorf Airports from 4:30am to 11pm and Munich 4:30am to midnight. Lufthansa management to make an "announcement" 5pm Monday.
Saturday 7 November 2015 520 flights cancelled, 58,000 passengers displaced. Domestic and European flights cancelled. Long hauls went except for Dusseldorf - New York. 1,600 hotel rooms mainly in Frankfurt. No information out regarding Monday's flights yet.
Friday 6 November
List of cancelled flights
. Flight attendant union announced today strike will take place between the hours of 2pm and 11pm (local time) today. Flights to and from Frankfurt and Dusseldorf only will be involved.
Flights to Munich will not be affected. Lufthansa website states 290 flights will be cancelled.
For Saturday the 7th November flight attendants will strike from 6am to 11pm and will involve domestic and European flights and long-haul fliers. Again flights to and from Frankfurt and Dusseldorf will only be involved see UFO. Still, that's 10,000 displaced passengers. You can of course change your flight for free with Lufthansa.
Sunday no strike action to take place.
At present Lufthansa is the only European airline on strike. British Airways, Air France (!) Iberia all employees are so called happy.
Let's hope flight attendants get a big blow back from this and change this obnoxious late notifications or Lufthansa lawyers get the strike deemed illegal.
Thursday 5 November Strike will not start till 13:00 GMT tomorrow. More information to be announced Friday morning. All we know it will last for eight days. Euro Wings, German Wings, AUA and Swiss will not be affected.
Monday 2, November 2015
Lufthansa flight attendant union announce today strike details.
19,000 Flight attendants will strike this Friday 6, November. Strike will end a week later the 13th. This will ground the airline. Negotiations broke down Saturday. Still time for this strike to be cancelled. Flight attendants state Thursday 5pm the deadline for an agreement. Fingers crossed. Best get informed of your flier rights. Pure speculation - You could be transferred to Eurowings or Austrian Airlines.
Lufthansa Airlines
urges passengers check site for updates.
1, November 2015 Flight attendant union to make an announcement tomorrow regarding strike action. We will be updating.
21 October, 2015 Flight attendant union UFO state talks have failed. 19,000 flight attendants threaten strike action. Agreement should be made by
November 1, 2015...
Lufthansa Strike
for updates
Lufthansa Pilot Strike
Cockpit union
Hamburg Airport
Road works. The most important north-south connectors - construction of the A7 Bordesholm - South of Hamburg Airport delays.
General Strike


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Character Counts
So far we have learned about the first three "Cs" of soul winning in the last few devotionals. Today let me share the fourth "C"—character. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, particularly verse 27, tells us the importance of character in witnessing to others,
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
Paul said he was temperate in all things, that he disciplined his body. He would bring it into subjection, meaning he had problems keeping his body in subjection, just like you and I do.
Every one of us has a propensity toward certain sins. It is important, though, that we rein in our flesh and that we are temperate in all things because our lifestyle affects our message.
Take just a moment and do the following exercise. Imagine you are an employer. If you wanted to hire an efficient, competent, trustworthy employee, would you hire yourself at your present salary?
Or let's say that you were going to have to spend the rest of your life with someone just like you. Would you look forward to it as a great opportunity and privilege? Or not?
If your character is out of whack, people are going to have a hard time hearing what you have to say. Character counts!
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PlayStation 4 or Xbox One?
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- Alexander Sliwinski (@Sliwinski, Twitch): I may finally get into Saints Row 4. Checking out all the PC options is a bit overwhelming.
- Danny Cowan (@Sardoose, Twitch): [...]
- David Hinkle (@DaveHinkle, Twitch): Most of my weekend is going to be spent growing my criminal empires in GTA Online and Payday 2.
- Earnest Cavalli (@Ecavalli, Twitch): Having beaten the Elite Four in Pokémon X, I've got a ton of post-game content to dig into. Beyond that, I think I'll dive back into Europa Universalis IV; It's been far too long since I've dismantled the perverted blight of the Tudor lineage.
- Jess Conditt (@JessConditt): I'm babysitting my 2-year-old niece this weekend, so obviously we're going to play GTA 5 and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Obviously.
- Jordan Mallory (@Jordan_Mallory, Twitch): Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F! Also I'll be streaming XCOM: Enemy Unknown on my Twitch channel, so watch out for that.
- Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK, Twitch): I was told I'd be doing a lot of pie-rating for my next review game, but apparently it was "pirating." Not as delicious, but I'll take it.
- Mike Suszek (@MikeSuszek, Twitch): Still trying to figure out why my Xbox doesn't want to run GTA 5 for more than 10 minutes. In the meantime, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate has taken hold of me again, and Rathalos refuses to drop a plate my way to complete a set.
- Richard Mitchell (@TheRichardM, Twitch): I've picked up Persona 4 again. I'll probably dig into some kind of horror game as well? Knock Knock maybe?
- Sinan Kubba (@SinanKubba): Pokemon X. I went with X. If I could have, I'd have chosen Z.
- Sophie Prell (@SophieJKL, Twitch): The girlfriend and I have recently gotten back into Guild Wars 2, so I will likely be racing her across Tyria when I'm not trying to scare myself senseless with horror games.
- Steven Wong: Cutting things open in Shadow Warrior.
- Susan Arendt (@SusanArendt, Twitch): Knock-Knock is sooooo scary. It tells you to play alone, and in a dark place, but don't listen to that. That's what the Visitors want you to do...
- Thomas Schulenberg (@T_Schulenberg, Twitch): I'm bouncing between The Wonderful 101 and Animal Crossing until Pokemon Y shows up.
- Xav de Matos (@Xav, Twitch): I'm on an indie kick while I'm in Canada. It's nothing but Papers Please, Lone Survivor and Kentucky Route Zero.


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