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NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams turned around the demo gap week-to-week to top ABC World News With Diane Sawyer in all key categories last week. Nightly logged 8.249 million viewers – 647,000 more than ABC (7.602 million) and 1.98 million more than CBS Evening News (6.281 million). In the news demo, Nightly averaged 1.970 million viewers – 38,000 ahead of ABC (1.932 million) and 467,000 ahead of CBS (1.503 million). Season to date, Nightly noted it's posting its largest total-viewer advantage over ABC since the 2009-10 TV season. (ABC notes its newscast has cut its year-to-year demo margin with NBC by 88%, from 32,000 to 38,000). The NBC newscast has held the top spot in total viewers for 241 consecutive weeks, and in the younger adults 18-49 demo for 298 consecutive weeks.
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They should use this platform to promote their shows instead of pimping erection pills and blood pressure tabs. It's their biggest audience and they're using it to hawk big pharma… on and some weird Marvel show.
The Brian Williams "rap" videos are working.
NBC is simply a better broadcast news show than CBS. CBS re-uses footage from the morning show along with reporting from the morning show which is not fresh. Cost cutting I guess.


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Kouremenos beach, Lassithi Crete
The long (some 1,5 kilometer) sandy beach of Kouremenos is situated at a distance of 91 kilometers eastern to Aghios Nicolaos , 21 kilometers far from Sitia at the East and 2 kilometers northeastern to Palaekastro, within the cove Grantes. The beach is affected by the winds blowing in the area.The area from Palaekastro to the beach is full of hotels and rooms to let and it is a good idea to choose it for staying. Food and drink are good at the two fish taverns of the beach. The sea is crystal clear with a rocky seabed ideal for divers and for snorkeling. The strong winds blowing in the area make the beach ideal for wind surfing; surfers from all over Europe come here to conquer the waves and fight with the wind. And, if you are "fresher" in this sport, don't worry! A windsurfing school is here for you.
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A Minoan settlement not walled has been found at the site of "Roussolakkos"; the settlement seems to have been established since the Early Minoan period, but it flourished during the Late Minoan times. There have been found several burials, mainly of the early periods of Minoan civilisation. Within the area of the settlement the visitor can also see the sanctuary of Zeus Dictaeos (the ancient city of Itanos), active since the Geometric times, up to the Roman era. There have been found parts of buildings and several mobile finds, the most important of them being the stone inscription with the hymn of the Couretes to Zeus (the Couretes were the guards of Zeus when he was a baby; they protected him from his father Cronos).
If you have a yacht or you can find a boat, it is worth visiting the islets of Grandes, within the homonymous cove.
At a distance of 7 kilometers southern to Palaekastro you may see the gorge of Chochlakies, with exit at the beach of Karoumbes.
The visitors liking to know how everyday life in Crete used to be some 60 years (and more) ago should visit the Folk Museum. In fact, the Museum is an old, traditional Cretan house, restored and enriched with authentic traditional items used by the people in everyday life. It took some ten years (from 1987 to 1997) to collect the exhibits and establish the Museum, but the result was a reward for the Cultural Associations of the village, the Toplou Monastery, as well as the Municipal authorities and organizations who were involved in this task. The Museum was inaugurated in 1997.
The result is amazing. In fact, it is not a usual Museum. Entering it, you think that you have been received in a house and the owners are somewhere around; all the necessary house equipment, from the Ottoman domination up to the early post-world war II period are present, at their place, as if they were still used.
If you feel like wandering around, you should visit the traditional villages of the area, with few permanent residents each: Karydi, Sitanos, Mitato, Adravastoi, Agathias, are some of those villages where the population, unfortunately is declining from one day to the next and the traditional way of life is disappearing; Agathias is the closest to Palaekastro, at a distance less than 1 kilometer far away, just before arriving to the beach.
Two local feasts ("panighyri"), celebrating the Holy Trinity, in June and the Assumption of Holy Virgin on the 15 th of August, take place in the village. The feasts attract a lot of people, both Greeks and foreign tourists, as well as the locals; music, dance, drink and fun last until the next morning.
Access from Aghios Nicolaos is possible by rented or private cars and motorbikes. The village is also connected with Sitia by public bus with frequent service, running to Palaekastro, Zakros and Vai and back to Sitia; the duration of the journey Sitia – Palaekastro is some 40 minutes. From Sitia , you can also take a taxi.
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Lets get something going in cuse. Ive seen more and more subies out since its gettin nice out. got a few waves but we should get together and talk about what we love, CARS!!!! Any suggestions accepted :D. Lets get one started!
Nobody? Dang.
Didn't realize anyone else on here was from Syracuse. I would come out to a meet if it was more than just a couple people.
Yea ive been in cuse for 14 years. but just got my car. I wanna see more rexes from around here. Know anyone else that will come out?
No chance. Where I live it's all rednecks driving the biggest possible SUV or raised pickup.
Hahahah that sucks. Everone around here meets out on thompson rd and yesterday there was like 5 subies out there. And a blue bugeye with a front mount that i wanted to borrow.
This sat at 9pm. As of right now i got about 4 people going to a lil meet at arbys on erie blvd. If anyone is interested ill be there. Come check it out!!!!!!!!
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London (CNSNews.com) - The Israeli government has complained that European aid money sent to the Palestinian Authority is being used to fund terrorism.
The E.U. currently provides about 10 percent of the PA's monthly budget of $90 million. Another $55 million is contributed by Arab nations.
A spokesman for the Israeli embassy to the E.U. in Brussels said Friday that Europe was inadvertently funding terrorism by continuing to donate money to the Palestinians.
"Indirectly, the E.U. is using its money to support terrorism," an embassy spokesman said. "Very good intentions can sometimes lead to negative consequences."
The allegations are part of accusations by the Israeli government that PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has supported terrorism by signing "terror invoices" to pay for explosives and suicide bombings.
"Arafat and his men used the funds donated to them by other countries, including the European Union, to finance terrorist activity," stated a recent Israeli report based on documents found by security services during raids in the occupied territories.
Israel also says some of the foreign aid is being used to pay salaries to activists who are then free to plot terrorist attacks. The E.U. central office in Brussels denied the claims Friday.
"We are investigating the documents and examining them seriously and carefully," a spokeswoman said. "There is no evidence that the (European) money has been used for terrorist ends."
The external aid goes through a double accounting procedure overseen by the International Monetary Fund that records both incoming and outgoing PA payments.
The E.U. spokeswoman called the process "very rigorous" and said that if the investigation turns up terrorist finance links, the E.U. would seriously reconsider its support.
"The reasons for our supplementing the Palestinian Authority is to keep it in a such a condition so that it can use its influence to stop terrorism," she said. "We would reject absolutely any use of E.U. funds for terror activities."
On Wednesday, the European Union authorized an additional payment of about $3.1 million to "victims of the conflict in the Palestinian Territories." The money comes on top of a $4.5 million payment allocated at the beginning of April.
Instead of going to the Palestinian authority, however, the additional funds will go to the Red Cross and other non-governmental organizations operating in the region.
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Is my dog just really tired?
I'm sitting for an 8 year old black lab, full of energy. All day long she just wants to play, so I've been playing a LOT with her (fetch in the yard). Even after we play for a long time, she still wants to play more. When we're inside she whines that she wants to play. Today she has been really slow at moving around and climbing the stairs was near impossible and I had to lift her onto the bed to avoid her crying. All of these were so simple for her before. Is she just worn out from all the playing? I don't think she plays much with her usual parents, as they have to go to work. I'm really worried that she will try to go down the stairs and hurt herself. Do you think she just needs to rest and I should take it easy on her for the next couple days? Besides this, she is acting fine and happy and is still begging me to play with her... I don't really understand.
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It sounds to me like she has been way overexercised without any time to build up to it. An 8 year old lab is considered late middle age and most likely she has arthritis beginning if not already advanced and all that racing around, especially if she is not used to it, is taking a toll on her body.
Imagine if a 60 year old office secretary suddenly started spending all day running and biking and all without any time to build up all those muscles. The joints are going to take a real beating and it sounds like hers have!!!
Keep her quiet and rested... a short walk at a slow pace might help but NO leaping and running and jumping. Hopefully no permanent damage has been done and she will recover fully.
Many labs do not know when to quit on their own and it is up to you as the sitter to make sure she does not over extend herself!!
I would certainly block off those stairs so she doesn't end up falling down them. And, let her rest!!!
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I agree with Alfie. It sounds like if her owners don't play with her (even half as much as you did!) then her body is going to be really hurtin' right now.
I would definitely take it easy with her. Find ways to play that don't involve running like that, and make sure you don't do ANY playing with her until she is not in any pain.
She is a typical lab and wants to play, play, play, despite her obvious pain. But at this point, it can really do some damage to her to keep up the fetch like this.
Give her lots of loving and cuddling as a substitute for the fetching and definitely try to block off the stairs.
Good luck!
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City election night means I had to work late. Not late like "better order in dinner" late. Late like "wow when did it become 2 a.m.?" late. Elections always pump a little suspense and excitement into the newspaper business, but they always leave me with nagging guilt. I consider myself a fairly civic-minded person, but I carry the deep and secret shame of not having voted in a public election since 2002. The last presidential candidate I voted for was Ralph Nader (in 2000, not '04). I have a lot of excuses. I moved around a lot. I was out of the state at all the right times. But the truth is really much more superficial.
My name is Jill, and I am incapable of dealing with bureaucracy.
I know, it sounds completely silly. But it's true. I dread and put off simple things like registering a vehicle or filling out a change of address form at the post office. I've neglected to get an Alaska driver's license because that requires waiting in line for a new social security card. I wait until midnight on April 15 to do my taxes even when the IRS owes me money. I had the option to apply for public housing while I was homeless my first weeks in Juneau, but couldn't face filling out the stack of required forms. I carried Idaho plates on my car until a couple weeks ago, and only changed them because a cop said I had to. I'm afraid of cops. But nobody with a gun is telling me to register to vote in the state of Alaska.
I know it's unforgivably simple. But it's like that with everything government-related in my life. I can't deal with it. It's a sickness.
That said, I had a beautiful couple of days to ride some 30-milers before work. I go with Geoff, who likes to ride comfortable and site-see. I haven't been working my legs very hard, but I did get a chance to explore all sorts of new corners of town: narrow roads wrapped around cliffs, rainforest paths, footbridges. Say what you will about life in Juneau (and dreary is one I hear often), but I never imagined that the simple appearance of sunlight would have the ability to snap me into a instant, almost involuntary good mood, with a shot of free energy to top it off. What can I say? Deprivation breeds gratitude.
Deprivation breeds gratitude ... hmmm. Maybe that's why Afghan citizens waited all day in the hot sun just for a chance to cast a ballot in their first democratic election. Maybe therein is a lesson for me to learn. Their example tells me to get out and vote. And yet, all I wanted to do this morning was get out and bike. I blame the sun.


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The Tempest unmanned aircraft -- a University of Colorado Boulder-developed system that was the first to intercept a "supercell" thunderstorm -- will be exhibited at a Capitol Hill event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room 902 of the Hart Senate Office Building, located on Constitution Avenue between 1st and 2nd Streets NE in Washington, D.C.
Faculty and students from CU-Boulder's Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles teamed with researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to achieve the "supercell" interception by the Tempest in May 2010, collecting important meteorological data about severe storms that can spawn tornadoes. The fieldwork was part of the second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, or VORTEX2.
VORTEX2 was the largest tornado field project in history, involving more than 100 scientists and 40 support vehicles. Researchers literally surrounded severe storms with the latest technology to learn more about their birth, duration and wind speeds and to assess their potential to inflict death, injury and damage.
Tempest team leader and aerospace engineering sciences Professor Brian Argrow and aerospace engineering sciences Associate Professor Eric Frew will exhibit Tempest at the Capitol Hill event showcasing National Science Foundation-funded hazards research in recognition of National Preparedness Month.
Also displayed will be research on earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, oil spills and hurricanes, as well as human responses to these types of events.
Honorable guests and hosts include Sens. Harry Reid, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Bill Nelson.
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No. 11/9/5 Alabama used two Gator errors and a 9-inning pitching performance from starter Lance Cormier to defeat No. 6/5/7 Florida 4-1 Friday at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The loss drops Florida to 24-8 overall and 6-4 in the SEC while Alabama is now 26-6 overall and 7-3 in the SEC.
Florida has now played its first 10 SEC contests against nationally ranked teams. With the win, Alabama won its 24th straight home game. Game two of the three-game series is Saturday at 5 p.m. ET.
Cormier (8-0) struck out eight of his 35 batters faced and allowed just six hits and one run. Cormier retired 14 straight batters from the fourth through eighth innings in registering his school record 28th career victory. Cormier threw 118 pitches.
Florida starter Jimmy Ramshaw pitched a career-high tying 8.0 innings. He allowed just four hits, walked one batter, gave up one earned run and struck out seven batters in 112 pitches. It was Ramshaw's second career and second season complete game. Ramshaw is now 2-3 on the year. He has now thrown at least 5.0+ innings in six of seven starts on the year.
Alabama went up 3-1 in the third inning as it took advantage of two Florida errors. Allen Rice led off the inning with a single, Zac Welch reached base on a catcher's interference call on strike three and Adam Pavkovich walked. With the bases loaded, Peter Stonard looped a single over UF shortstop Mark Kiger's glove into left field driving home both Rice and Welch. But UF leftfielder Aaron Sobieraj threw to an uncovered third base enabling Pavkovich to score for the third run of the inning. The throw
Florida grabbed a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Mark Kiger reached base on a four-pitch walk, advanced to second and third on a balk and ground out respectively and scored on Mario Garza's RBI ground out to second base.
Brent Boyd gave Alabama a 4-1 lead with a leadoff home run to left field in the seventh inning.
The Gators made several outstanding defensive plays in the field including Jeff Corsaletti's catch at the fence in right field in the first inning, Mark Kiger's backhanded stab of a ball and throw to first in the second inning and Aaron Sobieraj's catch at the fence in the third frame.
Florida stranded seven baserunners to Alabama's two and outhit the Crimson Tide 6-4. Ryan Shealy and Matt Goss finished with two hits apiece.
*Florida catcher Brian Rose committed his first error of the season on a catcher's interference call in the bottom of the third inning. It was Rose's first error in 36 consecutive games and 215 straight attempts.
*Florida is now 8-6 on the season vs. nationally ranked teams. The Gators have now won 13 of their last 18 games.
*Jimmy Ramshaw pitched his second career complete game, a career-high tying 8.0 innings. He has now thrown at least 5.0+ innings in six of his seven starts on the year.
*Florida has now lost nine games in a row to Alabama. The Gators played Alabama for the first time in three years. The last time the two teams met was in 1999. Florida drops to 30-42 in its series against Alabama including 13-21 in Tuscaloosa.
*Florida assistant coach John Cohen is a Tuscaloosa native.
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Has anyone used this is it worth getting for the road trip that I am taking through oregon california and such?
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Has anyone used this is it worth getting for the road trip that I am taking through oregon california and such?
I have not seen this book, but
I would assume that it would be
a good thing to have!! :D
Have a great trip.
There are alot of board members that live on the I-5 corridor if that is the area you are talking about. You could always ask for reccomendations if you let us know your route :wink:
I've never heard of it.
Will have to Google it to check it out
edit....looks pretty cool!
Well we are going more then there, we are going home to Oregon so we can pick up hubbies boat. We are then meandering are way to missouri, via oregon, california, grand canyon, and texas.
I am starting to plan our move/road trip for next may time frame. But seeing as we are in Hawaii and I am obsessive when it come to vacations and moving I am allready starting to pack.
It seems far away but I am leaving for almost a month and half, DH gets back from Iraq around christmas, then we need to ship one of the cars in march time frame get the movers to come and clear post. So really with all I have to do at work it is not that far away. :)
Or I could be just a crazy obsesser about my vacations.
I've used them in years past. I like them because I can plan on seeing the shops ahead of time instead of trying to look up shops in the phone book. I use them as reference too.
However, the phone book will also list shops that are not in the quilters book. If it were up to me, I'd make it mandatory that all quilt shops be listed in one book that we all could get.
But then half the fun is discovering some of these hidden gems off the beaten path.
Well!!! Lucky you!!! Covering that much ground you may want to purchase the guide. You could also repost your question specifically asking for shops in the states you are passing though and then check out your responses. Something like, "Help locating quilt shops in: Or roadtrip planned need help finding LQS......." We have enough members you should get a lot of feedback!! There has to be hundred of shops on your journey, envy....I am so envious :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I have considered buying this book in my area but i really don't do much shop hopping so I have not made the investment. I maybe should have gotten the one that was on sale for half price last year that was out of date, but didn't.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, so if you want a list of LQS's I can help you out. Also, if there are other things you like to do, let me know and I'll fill you on what's big here. E.G. Museums, music, theater, shopping, etc.
My friend and I used this book to go from Fl to NC. It was wonderful and we found fabric stores we never would have found. Tell them you found them in the book as they have to pay to be put in there.
Another method is to put fabric stores in your GPS If you have the kind that will do this. They will list them and give you the phone number so you can call for hours and times of openings.


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There are too few of us in the hobby anymore as it is to escalate a conversation to the point where toes get stepped on.
I think arguing on the internet is counterproductive.
I have to. in part. disagree with you… lots of societies have named their weapons, written poems about and TO THEM and developed a mystique surrounding them and especially their making…Damascus and Toledo, Soligen and Sheffield, Dan'l Boone and Davy Crockett, the Danes with their blade sagas, the Gauls, Britons, Angles, Mongols etc…
The sabre isn't a point weapon and the law of the sword is "the point will always beat the edge"…What is considered to be the best cavalry sabre ever designed was done by Lt. (later General) George S. Patton and is called the US M1917 Sabre, Cavalry…Large enclosed handguard and a straight, fairly narrow blade but with an angle to the handle to aid in the slash…Just think, finally a proper cavalry sabre when the horse soldier is a thing of the past…
The manual of arms for horse shows the attack to attacking or retreating persons is with the blade "in reverse" the hand turned up so that the point is down and the sharpened part is up to be able to pierce the person and the edge will cut through the body…If taken with edge down the point is then up and it happened many times where the blade may have cut the person but didn't piece the body as it just rode up the front/back…Also with it in reverse, more power was asserted to the slash when encountering the enemy…The retreating soldiers were for the majority of times slashed to the face as the rider went past as "speared" from behind because they would still the haversacks on and those would deflect any stroke…
OP, comparing a katana to a broadsword is like comparing a Model T to a skateboard! Both are wheeled vehicles of transportation but there the comparison ends…They are swords from two different time periods, two different cultures and more importantly two different styles of fighting and with two totally different purposes of usage—one cuts and the other bludgeons…
Comparing fighting techniques between them isn't that easy as one used boiled leather around metal strips and the other used plate steel…Not everyone on the battle field wore a full set of armour, only the gentry and men at arms who could afford it and the others made do with mail or a front piece and pikers would have shin guards and steel covered footwear…Another fallacy is that the nights fought with swords—they did but only as a last resort—they would use hammers, maces, cut down halberds and other pole arms as their primary weapons when afoot and of course the war lance when a horse…
BB --, go player wasn't stating that the katana was better but that the metallurgy was not exactly as you pointed out…Scottish and Irish blades were supposed to be better then the Roman ones because of the raw ore they used—somewhat like the Danes et al used…All Wootz (just recently rediscovered by Al Pendray) Damascus steel is, is the matching of impurities of today's steels to Damascus steel of a couple of hundred years ago…multiple steels, folded together came west from India and Persia probably around the 3rd century AD…
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I forgot, here is a list of Jim's books and some other titles you might find of interest:
Hrisoulas…..Jim…..The Complete Bladesmith: Forging Your Way To Perfection
Hrisoulas…..Jim…..The Master Bladesmith
Hrisoulas…..Jim…..The Pattern Welded Blade: Artistry In Iron
Burton…..Richard F.…..The Book Of The Sword**
Coe…..Michael D.…..Swords And Hilt Weapons
Davidson…..H. R. Ellis…..The Sword In Anglo Saxon England
Ffoulkes…..Charles…..Sword, Lance And Bayonet
Hutton…..Alfred….. The Sword And The Centuries
Oakeshott…..R. Ewart….. The Sword In The Age Of Chivalry**
O'Connell, Robert & Batchlor, John…..An Illustrated History Of Weaponry And Warfare
Thompson…..Logan, Major…..The Armoured Knight Of 1200 AD
Wagner.....Edward….. Cut And Thrust Weapons
Waite….. Adrian…..The Medieval European Sword
Weland…..G.…..A Collector's Guide To Swords, Daggers And Cutlasses
Wilkinson…..Frederic…..Edged Weapons
Wilkinson…..Frederic…..Swords And Daggers
Lovino….. G. A.….. Traite d'Escrime
Norman.A. & Vesey B.…..Small Swords And Military Blades
Clements…..John…..Renaissance Swordsmanship
La Rocca…..Don….. The Academy Of The Sword
Waller….. John…..The Academy Of Dramatic Combat: Sword Fighting
Wilson….. William…..The Art Of Defense: A Practical Guide To The Study Of The Rapier
Training - Broad
Brown….. Terry…..English Martial Arts
Clements…..John…..Medieval Swordsmanship
Davies…..Jonathan…..Tudor Swords And Swordsmanship
Deladrier…..Clovis…..Modern Fencing
Hobbs….. William…..Fight Direction For Stage And Screen
Hutchinson…..Fred…..The Modern Swordsman
de Beaumont…..C. L. …..All About Fencing - Foil, Epee, Sabre
Lane….. Richard J.…..Swashbuckling: A Step-By-Step Guide To The Art Of Stage Combat And Theatre
Lindholm…..David…..Sigmund Ringneck's Knightly Art Of The Longsword
Rector…..Mark…..Highland Swordsmanship
Sanchez…..John…..Slash And Thrust
Talhoffer…..Hans…..Medieval Combat translated by Mark Rector, Intro by John Clements
Wagner…..Paul…..Master Of Defense: The Works Of George Silver
Zabinski…..Grzegorz…..Codex Wallerstein: A Medieval Fighting Book
The Code of the Duel
Bal****…..Robert…..The Duel: A History
Keen…..Maurice Hugh…..Chivalry
Kirchner…..Paul…..Dueling With Sword And Pistol
Price….. Brian R.…..The Book Of The Tournament
Wilson….. John L.…..The Code Of Honor
Kapp, Leon & Yoshihara, Hiroko…..The Craft Of The Japanese Sword
Kapp….. Leon….. Modern Japanese Swords And Swordsmiths: From 1868 To The Present
Kawchi, Kunihira & Manabe, Masao…..The Art Of The Japanese Sword As Taught By The Experts
Nagayama…..Kokan…..The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords
Parulski…..George R., Jr.…..Sword Of The Samurai: The Classical Art Of Japanese Swordsmanship
Sato…..Kanzan….. The Japanese Sword : A Comprehensive Guide
Tuchiko…..Tamio…..The New Generation Of Japanese Swordsmiths
Japan - Military
Dawson…..Jim…..Swords Of Imperial Japan 1868 - 1945
Fuller….. Richard…..Japanese Military And Civilian Swords And Dirks
Fuller….. Richard…..Military Swords of Japan 1868 - 1945
Slough…..John…..Modern Japanese Swordsmiths 1868 - 1945
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my choice is langes messer, short enough for home defense ,and good balance for fencing , can be used against armor, and you can use like tool if need.
falchion kind of machete of middle age, it has good balance, more slow than messer for fencing, but better for chopping
Messer was used from 14th to 16th in germany and nord europe , falchion from 11th to 16th in england, france and south europe. Both was home defense swords of peasant , and for fencing in cities. Easy for untrained person to use effectively.
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I've practiced both western fencing and Japanese fencing, as well as a Japanese sword art. I've seen my JSA teacher show the Kyudo teacher how to cut with a sword, and the Kyudo teacher was cutting mats in about 5 minutes. It's not hard to learn how to cut with a Katana, it's just basic mechanics. Most of the older schools were effectively neutered post WWII, and they don't practice cutting at all. My particular school taught a Gendai art, which was all standing and cutting, no seiza. For me, I'll stick to a two handed saber, whether Japanese or European. I prefer to have the power to cut through somebody and not worry about steel armor that no one wears anymore. If they're sporting mail or plate, I'll pull my 10mm out and end the problem.
For home defense
This is my weapon of choice.
A mere 3 inch piercing of the torso or the eye socket of any potential burglar ends their career.
Mine has been slightly 'Italianized' ala the 1900's Italian Foil. 120 cm bell guard and strap for the wrist. My blade is differentially tempered D2 and the foible is slightly wider than the one shown in this photo.
That, 3 barrel chested hounds and a pitbull-greyhound mix make my house an unlikely target.
The second point that did not seem to be addressed is that the Tanto point is a preferred point for many tactical knife users because of its most excellent penetration capabilities. A Samurai sword tip design is far superior for cutting through metal than other sword designs. At least to my limited experience. I have not stabbed through metal armor but have buried Tanto style blades and more conventional blade shapes through fire doors with all things being equal the Tanto style blades penetrate easier deeper
A couple of things
1) Japanese metallurgy, especially their smelting technology was greatly inferior to late medieval european metallurgy of the same period. European metallurgy utilized sophisticated blast furnaces to mass produce high quality steel. The japanese were using very primitive tatara. This superior metallurgy was one the the reasons Europeans could create large amounts of sophisticate plate armour. European metallurgy as amongst the best in the world, because it had to be...you need good metallurgy to be able to create high quality church bells.
2) Monosteel is better. The Japanese used lamination and folding because their metallurgy could not produce large amounts of consistent steel. Folding the steel is done to work out and even up the carbon content. It is entirely unneeded with good quality steel. Folding can actually structurally weaken a blade by creating microscopic imperfections between the folds.
3) Japanese blades mixed soft pearlite and harder martensite to overcome the difficulties brought on by their inferior quality iron. A monosteel martensite blade is stronger and more structurally sound.
4) Armour is proof against cuts. Even hardened leather will make you fairly cut proof. there is no saber, no Katana, no euro longsword made that will cut through mail or plate.
5) A typical longsword was about 8 inches longer than a Katana, but weighed only a few ounces more on average. They were light, sharp, well balanced, reasonably flexible, made from high quality steel and agile as all hell. THEY WERE NOT THE HEAVY CLUMSY DULL BEATERS OF COMMON LEGEND!
The idea that a culture capable of creating extraordinary armour, huge church bells, perfected cannon manufacture and spent 1000 years constantly fighting everyone never actually learned how to make a sword is, well...
5) Most Katanas, like most Euro blades were mass produced junk. The ones that survive are the really fine ones that were passed down in the family and never used much in battle.(for the same reasons you never use your ferrari in a demolition derby) But the majority were quickly turned out, disposable beaters.
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Two of his blades. The Arming sword is the "economy" line. The Cutlass is from the mid grade.
Let's see if the colors in the blade show in the pic:
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Nice thread and some good info here.
When choosing a sword we must know how we are going to use it. The basic working principle is that it applies shearing force and has an edge to act as a multiplier of this force.
The intended use will guide the choice of the design. Important factors are mainly maneuverability and balance, speed and energy transfer.
There is always some sort of compromise which makes the choice in accordance with the use very important.
A long heavy sword will have a lot of striking force but it is not as maneuverable as a shorter lighter one.
Many prefer to have the ability to make repeatable, fast blow, others like one huge blow to do the job.
This makes individual style important too.
Some swords throughout history were made to combine striking force and handling. Those had relatively shorter blades but wider at the same time.
It is basic physics. Energy is all about mass and speed.
I would personally prefer a shorter and wider blade. Wider will increase the available mass and being shorter will make it more maneuverable than a longer one. Also, longer blade geometry have a smaller (or should I say shorter) so called "sweet spot" which is the part of the blade where, when striking, most of the force is transfered through and not wasted in flexing and bouncing back.
Shorter blades have the advantage regarding their sweet spot as it is proportionally bigger.
In today's firearms world, I don't see many advantages for the longer blades. They are better at thrusting but I would much rather have a short wide blade to deliver a close range strike rather than having to thrust into an opponent who most likely will be carrying a firearm.
As for the dilemma, Japanese or European, I would strongly prefer a European sword that meets my criteria any day.
European two-handed swords can cut through armor with ease, Japanese swords are more for cutting down unarmored men, dueling or an emergency in battle if your primary weapon is damaged or lost.
In actual tests the two handed sword will match the katana in everything except speed.
Gotta love the 9mm vs 45 debate goin on here
that said I concur with the others who have stated the japanese stagnated in tech development
as to the vikings being the most advanced in europe or that WMA weapons were crude clumsy and slow are grossly ignorant and are succumbing to hollywierds presentation of it
but I digress heres some stuff from days gone by
pattern wielded viking spear circa 1100ad
last sword to be used in warfare by any modern army
I must say the one advantage of the WMA is that unlike the east when the gun came onto the scene it died out and remained in its full combative glory in fight manuscripts where as the asian counterparts being mostly oral have been sporterized and have lost there real martial roots
and as to blade evolution early norman swords and things like that vs viking without getting into the oakshot typology the early blades are based largely off the design of the spatha and then morph into there own deal
heres a good video talking about some of the european stuff
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The Katana was originally the sword of the infantryman. It began as a sword of the common masses. The preferred sword of the samurai for much of their fighting history was not the Katana..it was the longer and more acutely curved Tachi. The Samurai began to adopt the Katana when they started fighting on foot. Its smaller size and blade up mounting made it much handier as a sidearm for footsoldiers fighting in spear formations. Eventually the differences between tachi and katana vanished until the only difference was mounting..if you wore the sword sharp side up you had a katana. If the sword was worn sharp side down you had a tachi.
'Additionally, a japanese sword was designed primarily for cutting light targets like an unarmored opponent.'...
I suggest that the reason the curved blade as we know it were originally made was to cut through Mongol armour.Legend ascribes it's conception to the swordsmith Amakuni
Au contraire.. During and up to the Sengoku period Katana was used extensively against opponents in full Japanese battle armour....Seikigahara?...
The targets were the insides of the limbs ;joints,eyesockets fingers etc...anywhere that was weak...not the armour per se.
Have a look for... Secrets of the dead..Samurai...Secrets of the dead Crusaders....both on liveleak.
Also..War of the Roses ..Towton Graves ..youtube...which is not far from where i live.
I think you may find them interesting....considering their content.
Swords, especially in Japan were a back-up weapon in battle.
""The targets were the insides of the limbs ;joints,eyesockets fingers etc...anywhere that was weak...not the armour per se.""
In the chaos of battle with bodies in melee, wearing full armor with a helmet fancy targeting of elusive areas like that is near-impossible or absurd. You'd be aiming to put your opponent down first and foremost.
There was rarely a melee at the start of a structured Japanese battle..usually a succession of one on one duels with verbal introductions too...not absurd at all ..that is how it was done.
...but the subject is swords is it not....
......Not Naginata,Nagamaki,Bisento or Yari....
Bills didn't exist in Japan nor are they used like a Naginata..they were used to chop down spear formations during our middle ages....especially at Flodden.
First and foremost the Samurai were mounted archers.
Monks and women tended to use the Naginata... [see also the tale of Benkei.]
Naginata do is still practiced mainly by women in Japan today.
Spears for the Ashigaru.
How exactly do you think you 'put' a ..experienced..sometimes more experienced, samurai down [or any opponent for that matter] ....without disabling a weak spot, an experienced swordsman will kill you very quickly.. Japanese or any other.
Melee ?... a properly wielded katana makes a whole lot of space real quick....and is an excellent melee weapon.
Have you done any sword training?..can you use a Katana?..do you own and use one?...your answers suggest not.
Yes to all for me.
When the battle progressed further, the Samurai went purposely looking for a skilled opponent to test his worth or to take his head for reward...or favour..not just killing peasants.
Peasants usually killed peasants...Samurai killed Samurai...the strict social order also bled into the battle procedures..for so long...so to speak.
Not been funny ,but,.....
Try the works of Dr Stephen Turnbull...they are quite informative.:thumb
Samurai Warfare....and his other informative works.
Then ...Miyamoto Musashi ....Gorin no sho
Yamamoto Tsunemoto Hagakure. ..two of my favourites....
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Learn about memory straight from the horse's mouth. In this experiment, you'll tempt a horse with a delicious carrot and see if he can remember where that carrot may behidden.
Can you traina horseto remember pictures?
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- 2 pictures of a carrot
- Picture of an apple
- Picture of a pear
- 4 identical boxes
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- First, create your boxes. Label two identical boxes with a picture of a carrot on the front, and put a carrot into one of the boxes. Put the other box aside.
- Mark another box with a picture of a pear, and a third box with a picture of an apple.
- If you train a horse to come to a box with a picture of a carrot on it, will it still go to that box if you take the carrot away? Can horses notice pictures and remember? Create your hypothesis.
- Put the boxes in a row: apple, pear, and then carrot. Put a carrot in the carrot box and leave the others empty.
- Bring the horse to the boxes, and show it the carrot in the carrot box. Feed the horse a piece of the carrot.Do this five times in a row.
- Replace the carrot box with the other empty box with the carrot picture on it, and move all the boxes around. The new box won't smell like carrot.
- Bring the horse toward the boxes, and see what box the horse goes to. Does the horse visit the carrot box?
The horse will go to the box with the carrot picture on it.
If you have a horse, you know that it can be frustrating to train it. Sometimes it can feel like a horse has forgotten everything! However, horses have a great ability to remember objects and pictures, even if it's been years since they've seen them.
In this experiment, you used a training technique called associative learning. You showed the horse the carrot and put it into the box marked with the picture of the carrot. When the horse nudged that box, you rewarded him with a piece of carrot. In the horse's mind, this makes the connection between the carrot and that box.
Once you've made that connection, you can get the horse to choose the new box with just a carrot picture on it. This is because the horse now associates the picture with getting a carrot treat.
Why did you switch boxes? Like people, horses can smell tasty food, and you want to make sure that you're testing his memory and not his smelling ability. Switching to a new box that looks the same as the old one helps you make sure that the horse is not just sniffing the box to find the one with the carrot.
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Beyond AE
Although AE modes are pretty useful for the novice, and well worth experimenting with, you can do a lot more using careful adjustment of shutter and exposure. Not every camcorder has this level of control, however.
Manual Exposure
A camcorder's auto-exposure system can be fooled by mixed lighting conditions, with a particular culprit being bright sunlight with lots of shadows. When such uneven lighting causes high contrast between areas, shadows may end up being completely dark and lacking in detail. You can bring shadowed areas back out by artificially overexposing the brighter areas a little, so the subject matter becomes visible. Although it's also possible to do this with editing software, for example with Adobe's excellent Shadow/Highlight filter, you can't resuscitate what your camcorder didn't pick up in the first place, and the results won't look so natural.
Looking at the image above, on the left we see the results with the exposure left on automatic, but on the right we've increased exposure to bring out the shadowed areas.
It should also be noted that camcorders usually offer video gain as well, which simply increases the intensity of the electrical signal and doesn't directly alter the shutter aperture. This can be very effective in low light, as Canon's HV20 shows. But it won't have the effects on depth of field that opening the aperture has.
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As with digital still cameras, a camcorder also has a shutter speed, and it can be different from the 25 frames / 50 fields per second used by the PAL video format itself. Setting a higher value than 1/50th has the same benefit as a fast shutter speed does for a stills camera -moving objects will be less blurred. This is how the Sports AE mode described earlier works. For the same reasons, increasing the shutter also has the same drawback that less light is captured, so the video will look darker. Exposure may need to be boosted to compensate, assuming your camcorder allows you to vary the two separately. However, you can't set the shutter speed lower than 1/50th without causing a stuttering slow-motion effect, as one shutter exposure will be spread across multiple fields and frames. Some camcorders don't even support lower shutter settings except when in still image mode.
Looking at the image above, on the left the standard shutter speed has caused a blurring of the image, but on the right shooting at 1/1000th makes the moving objects much sharper.
So there you have it - some of the obscure settings hidden in your camcorder's menu explained. In future weeks, we will return to other advanced camcorder techniques. So keep checking out TrustedReviews' camcorder section.


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I have played in a 10-team keeper league for a decade, with essentially the same corps of buddies since the league's inception. For better or worse, we have always drafted in late July-early August, prior to the preseason getting into what many would consider the relevant games before the regular season kicks off. I had never given much thought to the timing of our draft, barring major injuries, as my guys in late July were often my guys in late August. However, much of that changed after a deal I made prior to the kickoff to the 2008 regular season. It was a four-player deal, but for all intents and purposes there were only two relevant players. I was giving up Thomas Jones in order to obtain DeAngelo Williams . Jones was coming off a relatively successful year in 2007, 22nd amongst all RBs despite only scoring 2 TDs. Williams, despite massive success in college at Memphis, had yet to take over what many considered to be a rather weak backfield in Carolina. Saving the specifics of my thinking in offering the deal, my league-mates were flabbergasted that not only had the deal been accepted, but also that I was the one who made the offer in the first place. Why would anyone deal a high-end RB3, borderline RB2 for a guy who had never proven he was good enough at the NFL level to win a RB competition involving the likes of DeShaun Foster? Not only had Williams not been able to win the job, but the Panther offense had been abysmal in Williams' first 2 seasons, averaging 13 points a game in both 2006 and 2007. As we all know, Williams finished 2008 as the top RB, scoring 18 TDs along the way and even though Jones was no slouch either finishing 6th overall, I had clearly won the deal. Again, barring any lengthy specifics, I targeted Williams after watching his performance in the preseason. However, given most saw it as a stroke of luck, is there anything that can consistently be panned from the preseason? What, if anything, should owners be paying attention to as 2nd and 3rd stringers battle on national television for two and sometimes 3 quarters?
Perhaps the most tangible, objective measure to warrant owners' attention in the preseason, injuries tops the list of things to take note of during the preseason. The 2011 preseason saw the end to both fantasy relevant hopefuls Mikel Leshoure and Ryan Williams. Leshoure looked to be the battering ram on a high-octane offense that had struggled finding a closer at the goal line. However, Leshoure never made it to the field in 2011 after he tore his Achilles in early August. Unlike Leshoure, Ryan Williams actually did make it into preseason action, but a ruptured patellar tendon on his first carry led to the end to his 2011 season. The impact injuries will have on a season are not always so easy to discern, however, as Leshoure's and Williams' were. In 2008, proverbial top 3 QB Peyton Manning had two surgeries on his left knee stemming from an infected bursa sac. Manning still finished 7th overall for QBs in 2008, but after finishing in the top three every season since 2003, it was an unexpected drop for most Manning owners. Never a poster child for health, then Falcons QB Michael Vick suffered a fractured fibula in an early preseason game in 2003, forcing him to miss the season's first 10 games. Injuries are obviously impossible to predict, but owners can do themselves a favor keeping an eye on the injury report as teams play their way through the preseason.
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For me, offensive role is the biggest predicator for continued success in the regular season. With veterans there is some obvious leeway, but in places with new faces, the preseason is a great spot to get an idea where a team is leaning. I saw a drastic shift for DeAngelo Williams from 2007 to 2008. Williams wasn't playing with the first team in 2007, nor did he obtain the same amount of carries. The Panthers were unhappy with their backfield, as they drafted Jonathan Stewart in the first round, but rookies rarely stepped in day one and took the starting reins. The role was there for Williams with Foster gone and the preseason numbers backed up my feelings about his potential going in to the regular season. Arian Foster is another case of offensive role being defined through preseason play. Foster had ended the 2009 season as the team's starting back and did a great job taking over that starter role in the Texans' final two games, posting 200+ yards and three TDs. If there was any question going into 2010, Foster ran rampant on the Cowboys in the 3rd preseason game. Like the Panthers, Houston had spent an early pick on a RB in the 2010 draft, but the Ben Tate season ending injury early in the preseason left the Texans with little more than Foster to rely on. When looking at offensive role, RB may be the most telling position about what players' roles in the regular season may be.
While production has the potential to back up gut feelings about certain players, I think it is important to take numbers with a grain of salt. If your targeted player is healthy and has a clear, defined role then the production can be an added bonus. Having drafted Cam Newton last season, I didn't like what I saw out of Newton as a passer and looked to deal/drop him. In no way did his preseason production as a passer (42% passer, with 300 yards and one TD) translate to the regular season (almost 900 yards in his 1st two games). No way did I, nor anyone else, expect Newton to produce like he did, but I let the façade of the preseason production cloud my judgment going into the regular season. C.J. Spiller is another player I was hypnotized by in 2010. With both Marshawn Lynch and Fred Jackson injured, Spiller exploded in the preseason, rushing for 122 yards and three explosive TDs. Spiller's role was, at best, part of a three-way RBBC but more than likely 3rd on a depth chart with two uber-talented RBs ahead of him. Again, my judgment was clouded by production, forgetting to take role into account and found myself reaching for the rookie RB out of Clemson. Another highly productive player during the preseason in 2010, Victor Cruz never had the role in that offense until injuries forced him on the field in 2011. Cruz showed tremendous big play ability, scoring four TDs and accumulating nearly 300 yards receiving in the 2010 preseason, but failed to record a single catch in the 2010 regular season. While the production was certainly there for Cruz, the role was not.
So, does the preseason matter for fantasy football purposes? Well, yes and no. It is important to note, ironically, that a game which revolves entirely around stats and production demands those same things be mostly ignored when watching preseason football. Take the preseason games for what they are, football on television after months of baseball and basketball. Take the stats you hold so dear during the regular season and push them aside, but pay attention to who is getting time with the starters and any injuries, serious and nagging alike. There is much to be learned in these supposed meaningless games; owners just have to know what they are looking for.


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Grounding With Metal Boxes
How do you guys do your ground? I've seen this a few times with metal boxes. They say you can ground on the wire nuts like that and then when the metal outlet tabs and screws are screwed into the metal box that it grounds itself without using the ground screw on the outlet and in the box. What are the pros/cons of this?
In side the box is a grounding screw, that is where it should be grounded both to the box and the device. The way it is now if by some chance the ground becomes hot it could melt the casing and start a toxic fire in the wall.
Doesn't seem like the most secure connection for a ground. Should make a pigtail from the box, pigtail to outlet ground screw, and connect those to incoming ground(s)
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Why people throw out comments at will is beyond me.
It seems to be ok as long as you don't remove the outlets because then the ground would be gone?
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The grounding install is all wrong, for whatever reason, that technique was used early on, but the grounding conductor must be made up inside the box, the metal box and device all bonded together.
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Probably 40 years ago or more.
The sheath must extend into the box at least 1/4". All grounds need to be connected together and to the box and device.
Yes it is sloppy, but let's back up for a second. My entire house was grounded in a similar manner. House was built in 1959, I a guessing that the technique of wrapping wire around a screw on the outside of a metal box was pretty typical in 1959. And the technique likely violates current NEC requirements, since the grounding wire is apparently supposed to be connected to a green grounding screw inside the box. But the technique certainly works electrically, since the copper grounding wire is mechanically connected to the box.
Assuming the outlet grounding wire is connected to a grounding screw inside the box via a pigtail, the system is electrically grounded. I would class this as a technical violation of NEC, and if the wire was installed some years ago, it may have been compliant with regulations at the time, in which case it may be grandfathered. Is it worth fixing? Probably, but does not look like a really high priority. If the outlet is ungrounded, that is a more serious problem, but you can't tell from the photo.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Security forces operations against Taliban militants in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, the former stronghold of Taliban militants 450 km south of capital city Kabul, have left two dozen militants dead over the past two weeks, deputy to provincial police chief said Thursday. "Twenty four Taliban rebels have been killed during series of operations over the past two weeks elsewhere in Kandahar province," Rahmatullah Atrafi told a press conference here.
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Przyjechalismy do Sofii o 6 rano. Na dworcu PKS mieli darmowy internet, z ktorego skwapliwie skorzystalismy :). Ania i Marcin spali na lawkach dworcowych, zostawilam ich wiec z Arkiem. Sama poszlam szukac kosciola katolickiego, ktory moglby nas przenocowac. I wtedy uswiadomilam sobie, ze jest prawoslawna niedziela wielkanocna... Wszystko bylo pozamykane, ulice niemal puste, a zamiast parafii katolickiej, znalazlam przypadkowo najwieksza Synagoge Sefardyjska w Europie... Szkoda, ze byla zamknieta. Nie mogac znalezc nam potencjalnego miejsca na nocleg, wrocilam na dworzec. Nikt z HC nie odpisal na moj email, wiec w czworke, z plecakami, poszlismy znalezc polska szkole, o ktorej powiedziala nam pani w okienku informacji. Niestety wywiozlo nas w srodek niczego, i nikt nic nie wiedzial o jakiejs polskiej szkole. Siedzielismy pod jakims (czynnym!) supermarketem i zastanawialismy sie, co dalej. Zdecydowalismy, ze wyjezdzamy
Rano kazde z nas wzielo prysznic na stacji benzynowej, po 20km zjedlismy sniadanie - zupe w przydroznym barze, a jeszcze przed Belgradem Jaser zaprosil nas na kawe
We arrived to Sofia at 6 in the morning. They had a free internet there at the station, which we were happy to useJ . Ania and Marcin were sleeping on the benches at the station, so I left them with Arek. I went to look for a Roman Catholic church by myself, that would let us stay there in the following night. And then I realized that it was an Orthodox Easter Sunday... Everything was closed, the streets were nearly empty, and instead of a Catholic church, I found the biggest Sephardic Synagogue in Europe... A pity it was closed. I couldn`t find any potential accommodation for us, so I went back to the coach station. Nobody from HC would reply to my email so four of us, with backpacks, we went to find a Polish school that we were told about by a nice lady at an Information point. Unfortunately we got to a middle of nowhere, and nobody knew about the Polish school. We were sitting in front of a supermarket (strangely enough it was open!), thinking what to do next
In the morning each of us took a shower at the gas station, 20 km later on we ate a breakfast - a soup at a bar, and right before Belgrade Jaser`d invited us for a coffee. He was really sweet, he wouldn`t stop offering us a food. We could travel with him through Croatia, up to Budapest, but frankly saying we had enough of his... music. It was something like a Turkish disco-folklore. You could listen to it for about an hour or two, but we`d been listening to it for almost 24 hours! We got off the lorry in Belgrade, even though you could tell Jaser wished we could haved stayed with him for a bit longer....


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The future of wastewater
As the global population approaches 9 billion in 2050, the same life-threatening water issues we've been facing will only continue to get worse. That is, unless we come up with some solutions.
Luckily, for as many questions as there are about the future of water, there are just as many answers. Seventeen of these "answers" were awarded at the International Water Association's (IWA) Project Innovation Awards, which recognizes excellence and innovation in water engineering projects throughout the world. The projects are judged based on originality and innovative application of technology; future value to the engineering profession; social, economic, and sustainable design considerations; complexity of the situation addressed; and degree of meeting clients' needs and expectations.
One of the largest concerns regarding water relates to energy and climate change. Within the next generation, 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities or urban areas requiring massive water and energy services and infrastructures, according to the IWA. Plus, potable water and wastewater management remain crucial issues in developed and developing countries. One of the biggest questions regarding our future becomes: How can we use every part of wastewater to our advantage?
"Energy and nutrient recovery are the big issues related to wastewater collection in the developed world," said David Garman, Ph.D., president of the IWA. "Wastewater sludge can be a great source of sustainable energy and the nutrients, when extracted from sludge, provide a source of fertilizers. Effective wastewater collection also provides water for reuse and protects public health."
A project focusing on decreasing sludge production comes from Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Eau, Terre & Environnement (INRS-ETE), Université du Québec. The project offers two ways to decrease sludge production: reduce sludge at the source by improving the existing wastewater treatment plants, and reuse the sludge for value addition. INRS-ETE, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is carrying out a scientific project to develop and commercialize low-cost technologies for the production of value-added products (bio-pesticides, bio-plastics, bio-fertilizers, and bio-inoculants) using wastewater and wastewater sludge as a raw material. The project would provide a significant contribution to sustainable waste management, produce alternative value-added products, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by recycling the carbon contained in wastes. Plus, the cost of production is 40 to 60 percent lower than conventional processes.
A question countries with large populations face is: How can we provide our citizens with enough water during a severe drought?
The answer to this question for South East Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, came in the form of the Western Corridor Recycled Water (WCRW) project. The largest water recycling project in the Southern Hemisphere, the WCRW project provides a new source of pure water to power stations and in the future, will provide water to industry, agriculture, and Wivenhoe Dam to supplement drinking supplies when needed. To do so, the project consists of more than 200 kilometers of large-diameter underground pipeline, three advanced water treatment plants, 12 major pumping stations, and nine balance tanks. The system has the capacity to produce as many as 232 megaliters of purified water a day — around 40 percent of the region's daily water needs. The project also aids in improving the health of waterways and the environmentally significant Moreton Bay by reducing the amount of nutrients that would otherwise have been released into rivers.
At the other extreme, what can high-population, high-rainfall areas do to retain water for its residents?
Singapore, for example, is 700 square kilometers in size with a population of 4.9 million and a limited catchment area. To solve this problem, PUB, Singapore's national water agency, built three estuarine reservoirs and introduced alternative sources such as high-grade reclaimed water branded as NEWater and seawater desalination. This expanded the country's local catchment from half to two-thirds of its land area.
Conventionally, constructing dams across small canals can only support the continuous operation of very small water treatment plants because of low storage capacity. On the other hand, building high-capacity plants to harvest the large quantities of runoff whenever it rains increases the yield, but the plants will be idling 85 percent of the time, resulting in extremely low plant utilization. To balance these two extremes, PUB created a variable salinity plant to harness water from estuarine catchments. The plant treats the surface runoff that is stored in the canal behind an inflatable rubber weir when available and switches to treating seawater when the canal is dry, thus affording high plant utilization. Because it's a hybrid plant, it has a lower operating cost than a conventional seawater desalination plant.
The civil engineers awarded by the IWA offer a glimpse into the future. With ideas like these, we can be sure there are even more exciting innovations to come.


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The Yasukuni Shrine occupies a pretty corner of downtown Tokyo, a short stroll from the moat that surrounds the Imperial Palace. The grounds, with a koi pond and the cherry tree used to mark the city's famed blossom season, are the quiet opposite of the loud role Yasukuni has played in an increasingly tense dispute between Japan and its neighbours. Deified here are 2.5-million soldiers, among them leaders who dispatched Japanese soldiers onto neighbouring soils, where horrifying atrocities were committed.
That was all supposed to be in the past, left long behind by a country with a pacifist constitution and a heavy dependence on the U.S. for its modern defence. But in late December, under the glare of live television coverage, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walked through Yasukuni, a place that has also drawn visits from neo-Nazis and ultra right-wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
That is jarring company to keep, but Mr. Abe represents a fierce kind of nationalism that has long simmered in Japan, although not often expressed at such a high level. His shrine visit has echoed viciously across Asia for nearly three months now, sparking a nasty fight with China and sharp criticism from other neighbours. They see the Yasukuni visit as a sign that Japan, with Mr. Abe at its helm, is reverting to something ugly.
This week, he will attempt to soothe at least some of that ill will, with plans to meet South Korean President Park Geun-hye on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands. On Sunday, he also visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, walking through a monument to Second World War horror – a jarring irony to his critics, who see him as overseeing a concerted attempt to minimize Japan's own wartime horrors.
Mr. Abe is placing new money into the country's military, with spending up 2.8 per cent in the 2014 fiscal year (although mostly for wage increases). His government has worked to rewrite history textbooks; late last fall, advisers to the Education Ministry proposed rejecting school texts that fail to adopt a patriotic tone. He has sought to "reinterpret" the country's constitution to allow a more assertive military – or, failing that, to simply rewrite the country's chief political document, which has never been amended since its adoption under U.S. occupation in 1947. He has, perhaps most provocatively of all, warned that even strong economic allies – Germany and Britain – have in the past gone to war, calling the current tension between China and Japan a "similar situation" to prewar Europe.
"He's the most ideological prime minster Japan has had in the postwar period. Full-stop. There's nobody even close," said Jeff Kingston, a professor of Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo. "And so it's not surprising at all that he's made revising history education and Yasukuni Shrine visits part of his agenda. That is who he is."
Indeed, the philosophies underpinning Yasukuni, which minimize Japan's war wrongs and cast it as a victim that owes no apologies, in many ways underpin Mr. Abe. He is not alone. A growing Japanese taste for right-wing books, magazines and movies suggests a mounting sympathy Mr. Abe's ideology. Those close to the Prime Minister argue for Japan's right to adopt a more assertive tone, even if that includes reviving armed forces that once brought much bloodshed to the region.
"Any country must have a military. A nation without the military, that's a very liberal idea. It's not the real world," said Hisahiko Okazaki, a former Japanese ambassador and long-time political adviser who has been called Mr. Abe's "brain."
"We have become a hopelessly pacifist nation. So it's a normalization, not a remilitarization," Mr. Okazaki said. He believes going to Yasukuni has done Mr. Abe more harm than good – international relations were already sour before the visit. At home, the Prime Minister's approval ratings are up.
The Japanese government, for its part, has argued that "there is no possibility that Japan will change course of being a pacifist country," according to Koichi Mizushima, deputy press secretary for Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Our foreign policy has not changed, and will not change at all." Gerry Curtis, a respected Japan expert at Columbia University in New York, added: "The idea that [Mr. Abe] seeks to recreate the kind of Japan that was militaristic and aggressive and colonized Korea and so on – I think it's total nonsense," he said.
But, Prof. Curtis said, Mr. Abe "has a view of history that makes Chinese and Koreans particularly angry, and for good reason."
That view is encapsulated at Yasukuni, whose shrine-run museum, Yushukan, is filled with edited history, actively devoted to celebrating Japanese soldiers by diminishing the atrocities they committed against their neighbours over the past century. Outside Japan, the Japanese campaign against Nanjing is widely remembered as amongst the ugliest in modern military history, with tens of thousands of Chinese women raped and at least 100,000 killed. At Yushukan, a paragraph-length description of "The Nanking Incident" merely says Japanese solders were told "to maintain strict military disciplines [sic] and that anyone committing unlawful acts would be severely punished."
Elsewhere, a large display honours 14 wartime leaders convicted as "Class A" war criminals. Guilty of "crimes against peace," they are made gods at Yasukuni. Their pictures are displayed alongside a description of an Indian judge who questioned the legitimacy of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials, and the guilt of those who planned and carried out Japan's military campaigns.
Mr. Abe's own grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, was once charged with war crimes, although he was never convicted. Mr. Kishi was part of the cabinet that ordered the Pearl Harbor attacks; he later ardently opposed the country's pacifist constitution.
"Abe, I think, feels a familial obligation to defend the honour of his grandfather, who he didn't think was an evil man. And I think that has a lot to do with his view of history," said Mr. Curtis.
Mr. Okazaki sees it differently. Mr. Abe is less interested in his family history, he says, than "the honour of Japan."
Yet Mr. Abe also faces a certain irony: if he is to defend Japan's honour, it's more likely to be through the Nikkei than Yasukuni. He has sought to restart the long-moribund Japanese economy by drenching markets with money in hopes of devaluing the yen and sparking growth. Even to Mr. Okazaki, Mr. Abe's will be judged primarily on his ability to manage that process. Economic failure means political failure. But economic success?
"If the economy goes smoothly, I think he will be alright," Mr. Okazaki said. "People will support him. Historical issues won't matter."Report Typo/Error
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China's coal use warms planet
The generally accepted cause of global warming is the expanding production of carbon dioxide from the combustion of carbonaceous fuels. The U.S. population is now 370 million, and planet Earth's is approaching 7 billion. China now pours out 9 billion tons of CO2 per year, 30 percent of the global total. It currently consumes 400 tons of coal equivalent per $1 million of GNP, roughly double the rate of the United States or Europe.
Rising sea levels and desertification of formerly arable farm and forest lands are evidence of global warming. These issues far outweigh the incremental income from an expanded coal export facility.
The old adage "keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole" would seem to apply to this issue.
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Pac-Man and Galaga Haiku Friday Winner!
Posted on Monday, August 8 @ 17:32:38 PST by Josh_LaddinThis week was a toughie. I bounced back and forth between a few great entries, but like the Highlander, there can only be one!
*Ahem* Sorry, urge for melodrama just kicked in. Anyway, newcomer econnick blew me away with the honest-to-goodness poetry of his entry (plus a little humor to boot!).
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