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Tiny is extending a high five to say thanks for all your lovely little well-wishes and good advice. Luckily his paw was back to normal size the following morning - big sigh of relief! Tiny is a feral cat at heart so even though we've come a very long way - lots of sweet strokes - he does not like confinement and I simply wouldn't be able to examine his paw. It's a major patience exercise interacting with a feral and as some of you will know, you will simply have to persist if you hope to one day interact with the cat. But the reward is so great - to feel that such a furry little bundle one day come and show you its trust - woo hoo!! It's totally worth it.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Dear poor
... or dear paw to be more specific. This evening as I was feeding all the little furry bundles I almost had to rub my eyes to see if I really did see it right - that Tiny's paw was this size. Double its normal size! It's difficult to say what happened - we've got some seriously horrible brambles around here and even though we tried to remove them all it's difficult to keep cats from walking into neighboring fields. Or it could be a bee sting... the little ones unfortunately love trying to catch anything that flies. Or a snake bite. Wish I knew. Anyway... he was limping but luckily had a healthy appetite. The vet said not to worry unless he was salivating or in a depressed state. He wasn't exactly jumping about with his friends... he took a more quiet approach - watching the games and play from a distance. I'm sure it must be throbbing and quite painful. So fingers crossed that the swelling will have gone down by tomorrow.
More updates soon.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Why I fall in love again and again
Walking through town the other day I suddenly spotted this little black beauty soundly asleep on a doorstep. He never even noticed me as I knelt down and snapped a little bit of the essence of his blissful sleep. Probably just another unwanted cat - or maybe he is lucky to be looked after. I don't know. But living in a country where all these little beauties are up for grabs - I find myself falling in love again and again. Don't they all deserve to feel that there's a such a thing as human care. When your heart is filled with that feeling - it's oh so difficult to not want to scoop up every little precious creature. I once got caught by a sentence written by Barack Obama... "The power to be kind." Yes, that's it. It's a power we have. And the power to love. I'm overflowing.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The motley kitty crew
A question appeared in the comment box in the last post - how many cats do I have? Well, first of all, I believe they have me more than I have them :-) But to answer the question - it varies. In this garden there's somewhere between 12-15. A few comes and goes. Then there's two different small colonies around the island (one of colonies having been abandoned by the person who fed them) so all in all I daily feed around 25-30 cats. Apart from Tiny, Ninja, Benji and Mr. Moggles, here's the local motley kitty crew (as a friend so endearingly named them all) in order of appearance. Well, first of all above there's Stempel (named by a child and refers to the kneading movement a cat makes). I discovered from an image taken a few years ago that she was actually here before we arrived. I've got no idea who she belongs to, but she is extremely friendly and has never walked away. She's definitely the matriarch of the place and gently beats up newcomers until they know who's in charge!!
Then there's Pepper - Tiny and Ninja's kitty mom. She was initially fed by a man who comes to tend to his hobby garden once or twice a week. But as we all know - it doesn't quite work like that... feeding a cat once or twice a week. He doesn't seem to mind I've taken over!
Eddison (above) and Molly arrived at the same time... after a day of a very serious torrential rainfall. I think they literally got washed down the hillside. They are the sweetest little couple - a boy and a girl (not sisters and brothers - he is an adult, she is a kitten). They seem to depend on each other for everything... warmth, sleep, eating. Eddison is very shy and sweet...
Molly is little and scrappy! She hisses at all other cats but is really a little dearie.
Humphrey seemed to belong to a house a bit further up the road, but the people left at the beginning of January and after that he just got skinnier and skinnier. He seemed to get depressed too - you'd never see his tail up in the air - so I decided to encourage him to come for food and for the company of the other cats. He tentatively accepted (I believe he's been used to being a single cat), but he was of course hungry and he actually seems to have taken to the company very well. Now his tail is in the air whenever it's feeding time!
Ruby arrived after a snow storm in early March - very emaciated. I think she needs the reassurance of knowing there will be food, because she literally sleeps next to the food box. She is very sweet and appreciative.
Last but not least - the very latest newcomer - a tropical cat named Harvey. A darling arigumi creation by my sweet blogger friend from Grand Cayman. As you can see he has got the approval by Mr. Moggles - no hissing or fighting, just gentle acceptance :-) Thank you Sunshine, we all love him!!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
The charm alliance
Mr. Moggles has made a few photographic appearances, so let me introduce him a bit further. I first noticed him a cold evening in early January. He was skinny and rummaging around a local dumpster and in the search for a pretty girl. I started leaving a bit of food for him, because there's not really any people living in this area in winter time - hence no scraps in the dumpster to live off. Well, he soon realized there was one house where other cats seemed to thrive and there was a pretty girl too! Silly as I was I thought the pretty girl was neutered, because she showed no interest in the boys whereas Tiny and Ninja's kitty mom was off having fun with the local boys in no time (yes, I've learned a lot about how fast you need to be about neutering!!). Little did I know that just because a girl shows no interest, it doesn't mean you can't pursue her. Whenever Mr. Moggles was fed he was a real friendly cat but when he pursued the girl he'd laid his eyes on - phew... you could seriously talk about a split personality. One day he chased the poor girl up a tree and when I found the two of them up the tree 8 hours later I thought it was time to rescue the poor girl. You could talk about a battle of forces - no way was he gonna come down! I physically had to push him down with a broom and there was a lot of hissing and spewing of mouth water. Ironically, when he was finally down, it was a piece of cake getting him in a transport box and off to the vet I went to have him neutered. When he came home the next day I let him have 24 hours inside to recover. You simply wouldn't believe it was the same cat. He turned into a cuddly jellyfish and rolled on his back to expose his tummy for rubs. He was perfectly content will all the food, fuss and TLC. Well, that was the beginning of Mr. Moggles settling around here. I kind of thought he'd be off again some day - but he's stayed ever since. He will steal your every ounce of attention (he follows me everywhere) and will do what it takes to avert my attention from the little ones - Tiny, Ninja and now Benji.
The other day when I was taking some new close ups of the little ones all the attention with my camera got too much for him and he couldn't resist jumping up right in front of the camera to steal the attention. If you look at his face you can almost see him conjuring up a plan for how to also appear in a real charming way in the images, so he seemed to in the above image to turn his head toward Ninja as if thinking; "Well, maybe if I wash the little one."
It worked! I of course couldn't resist capturing Ninja getting the first proper wash since his mom left in early January.
He loved it...
- but was left asking for more of that nice TLC which only another feline friend can give. It didn't last too long - Mr. Moggles seemed to think that it at least got him in the images. But it did give him the merit of the title nice uncle Moggles. He doesn't care much for the company of the adult cats around but he seem to love the company of Tiny, Ninja and Benji. They play beautifully together and he knows to be gentle with them. Even Benji (to his bewilderment) got a great big wet facial slurp yesterday. Knowing they have different backgrounds, there's something very endearing about seeing how these four male cats have teamed up.
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
In the absence of human interference
An innocent little comment from yesterday - "God never wanted us to mow the yard" (thank you Mark) reminded me of a documentary I saw a while back, which I back then thought worth mentioning here. So upon remembering it, here it is...
This clip above is from a documentary called Chernobyl: Life in the dead zone. It's an eerie portrayal of animals resilience and amazing ability for survival - and most eerie of all; what life on this planet looks like in the absence of human interference (and what a sad dichotomy it is)... it looks like a garden of eden!
I happened upon this documentary quite by chance but I promise it is very worthwhile watching. It's about how animals have survived (even living with radiation) and adapted to life after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. It's nature taking over where there were once humans. Just so beautiful, peaceful and still.
It's chilling in the light of the current situation in Japan but also strangely enchanting and not just a little bit thought provoking.
You can watch the full documentary for free several places online - simply Google the title and lots of results will appear.
P.S. There's a kitty story in it that will capture your heart!
Friday, April 1, 2011
Why the weeds should stay
Well, I simply wouldn't be able to capture these darling wee folk lost in their own time and space if it wasn't because of these tall weeds. It's good for following interesting buzzing insects...
It's good for hiding when you're playing...
It's good for a quiet shaded snooze...
It's good for a shielded place to soak up some warming sunny rays... So they should stay for a while, right?! :-)
Wishing you a lovely weekend.
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For Q2 2013, Google reported $14.11 billion in revenue, which is a 19 percent increase from the year-ago quarter. However, Wall Street expected $14.41 billion.
Google's Q2 earnings took a tumble, coming in at $9.71 per share compared to $10.13 per share in the year-ago quarter. Analysts expected $10.78 per share for the most recent quarter.
These numbers didn't seem to please investors. Google shares closed at $911 yesterday, which was down from a previous close of $919. According to
, Google shares were expected to open 4 percent lower today after brokerages cut price targets as low as $860 from highs like $915.
Another reason for the lower price targets is Google's changes to its advertising system in order to boost revenue from mobile users. The Android maker started offering the same ads on both PCs and mobile devices earlier this year, but the cheaper ad rates on mobile devices hurt the company's margins.
But Q2 showed that advertising revenue went up 15 percent from $11,902 billion in Q2 of 2012 to $12,061 billion in Q2 2013.
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Google's net income for Q2 came in at $3.23 billion, which represented an increase from $2.79 billion in the year-ago quarter.
"Google had a great quarter with over $14 billion in revenue – up 19% year-on-year," said Larry Page, CEO of Google. "The shift from one screen to multiple screens and mobility creates tremendous opportunity for Google. With more devices, more information, and more activity online than ever, the potential to improve people's lives even more is immense."
Some other interesting points from Google's earnings report is that there are now 750 million Chrome users; 900 million Android devices have been activated to date (with about 1.5 million each day); Google Play has had 15 billion app downloads, and the worldwide employee count fell from 53,891 as of March 31 to 44,777 as of June 30 (mainly due to the loss of Motorola Home).
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Hitched: Our Wedding Venue Fell Through 20 Days Before Our Wedding
Of all of the many things I worried about before our wedding — dreaming of accidentally getting huge, hideous chest tattoos or enduring painful silence at our karaoke reception — one thing that never occurred to me to worry about was, "What if our wedding venue falls through 20 days before our wedding date and we have to find an entirely new location at which to get married, two hundred miles away from where we live?" I should have known better.
I should have known when our whole venue cost $300 and getting basic information out of the proprietors was like pulling teeth that we were making a bad decision. I should have known that "We're doing some remodeling throughout the next few months" would mean "On your wedding day."
Shouldn't I have known that? Maybe not. Maybe you can't plan to suddenly not have a place to get married after you've been planning a wedding for eight months.
I thought it was a hilarious April Fool's joke when on Sunday, we met our day-of planner, Tracy, at our venue to walk through the whole evening and she was all, "By the way, did you know the entire swimming pool here has been dug up and it's a construction site?"
Did I know fucking what?
By this time, Hitched readers probably know that Patrick and I are having a tiki-themed wedding, specifically an "enchanted tiki wedding," which is why we originally thought it'd be a great idea to have our nuptials at Dallas' Fraternal Order of Eagles, a local social club and swimming pool. Enchanted tiki wedding at the swimming pool! What could be more perfect?
Certainly not "enchanted tiki wedding at the construction site." That is not more perfect. Rebar is neither enchanted nor tiki.
On Sunday, Tracy and one of my bridesmaids walked me through the bar to the backyard, where just weeks before had stood a beautiful Olympic-sized pool complete with a glistening water cannon. Previously I'd toured the site with my parents, during which time no one there thought to mention to me that they'd be draining and digging up the entire pool and the yard would be turned into a dirt pit rimmed partly with an orange construction fence.
I stood and stared at the giant hole in the ground where the beautiful tiki pool had once been. I put on my sunglasses so nobody could see me cry. I lit a cigarette. And I let other people handle that shit.
The most important thing I learned over eight months of wedding planning is that sometimes it's okay to let other people take the reins. Delegating duties out to people who have different talents or schedules can take a load off a stressed bride, and lots of times, people are happy to help.
So what I did right then was delegate dealing with our venue to everyone who was not named Andrea Grimes, because I didn't want to become the lead in a daily newspaper story the next day: "An Austin woman, 28, was booked for misdemeanor assault 20 days before her wedding."
Right then, I figured my talent was going to be sitting the fuck down, and everybody else's talent could be dealing with it.
The most frustrating part was that our venue didn't really care that they had completely screwed us over by not informing us of their huge remodeling plans — they're not a traditional wedding venue, and it's no problem for them if nobody ever books a wedding there ever again.
That's how I learned the second most important lesson of wedding planning: sometimes, paying for the real thing is totally worth it. When we booked the F.O.E, Patrick and I thought we were getting a great deal with an unusual venue. What we got was an unreliable bunch of folks who were difficult to get answers from and who were totally un-invested in helping us throw a great party. We tried repeatedly to ignore those things and look on the bright side, until we were looking at a pit in the ground.
What could we do? We had 50 people flying in from out of state who'd already booked flights and hotel rooms. We were 20 days from our wedding! There was no moving it. We couldn't get married at a construction site. It was time for action stations.
With Tracy's help — and a day-of planner is yet another financial investment I am so relieved we made, seriously, don't try to go without one if you can help it — we spent the whole of Sunday afternoon calling, e-mailing, Facebooking and Tweeting everyone we knew who worked at or owned a bar, gallery or music venue in Dallas. And we got quick calls and e-mails back from accommodating, motivated people ready and willing to help us out in a pinch.
It was a total 180 from the apathetic treatment we'd gotten at our previous venue. Dealing with event professionals from the beginning would have saved me one of the most stressful and maddening experiences of my life.
In the end, we were able to book of our favorite Dallas bars — Club Dada, if you live in town you need to be seeing shows there every week — and now we're going to get married in an enchanted tiki rock club wedding.
So I'm definitely no longer worried about the karaoke reception.
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The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Kanauga, Ohio, over the Ohio River.
On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed while it was full of rush-hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. Two of the victims were never found. Investigation of the wreckage pointed to the cause of the collapse being the failure of a single eyebar in a suspension chain, due to a small defect 0.1 inch (2.5 mm) deep. Analysis showed that the bridge was carrying much heavier loads than it had originally been designed for and was poorly maintained.
The collapsed bridge was replaced by the Silver Memorial Bridge, which was completed in 1969.
History of eyebar-chain bridge constructionEdit
At the time of the Silver Bridge construction, eyebar bridges had been built for about 100 years. Such bridges had usually been constructed from redundant bar links, using rows of four to six bars, sometimes using several such chains in parallel. An example can be seen in the Clifton Suspension Bridge, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The chain eyebars are redundant in two dimensions. This is an early suspension bridge still in service. Other bridges of similar design include the earlier road bridge over the Menai Strait built by Thomas Telford in 1826; the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, built in 1839-1849, destroyed in the closing days of World War II by retreating Germans in 1945, and rebuilt identically by 1949, with redundant chains and hangers; and the Three Sisters, suspension bridges of similar design in Pittsburgh.
Silver Bridge structureEdit
Low redundancy, high strengthEdit
The eyebars in the Silver Bridge were not redundant, as links were composed of only two bars each, of high-strength steel (more than twice the tensile strength as common mild steel), rather than a thick stack of thinner bars of modest material strength "combed" together, as is usual for redundancy. With only two bars, the failure of one could impose excessive loading on the second, causing total failure — which would be unlikely if more bars were used. While a low-redundancy chain can be engineered to the design requirements, the safety is completely dependent upon correct, high-quality manufacturing and assembly.
In comparison, the Brooklyn Bridge, with wire-cable suspension, was designed with an excess strength factor of ten, which proved fortunate, owing to a contractor's substitution of wire weaker than that specified. This was discovered before completion and additional strands were placed in the bundles (though its overall strength was still reduced to a factor of only six). Wire-cables have extremely high levels of redundancy, with the failure of a single wire almost unnoticeable.
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The towers were "rocker" towers, which allow the bridge to respond to various live loads by a slight tipping of the supporting towers, which were parted at the deck level, rather than passing the suspension chain over a lubricated or tipping saddle, or by stressing the towers in bending. The towers required the chain on both sides for their support; failure of any one link on either side, in any of the three chain spans, would result in the complete failure of the entire bridge.
Design loadsEdit
At the time of the bridge construction, a typical family automobile was the Ford Model T, with a weight of about 1,500 lb (680 kg). The maximum permitted truck gross weight was about 20,000 lb (9,072 kg). By contrast, at the time of the collapse, a typical family automobile weighed about 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) and the large truck limit was 60,000 lb (27,216 kg) or more. Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams on the bridge were also much more common, occurring several times a day, five days each week, thus causing more stress to the bridge elements.
Wreckage analysisEdit
The bridge failure was due to a defect in a single link, eyebar 330, on the north of the Ohio subsidiary chain, the first link below the top of the Ohio tower. A small crack was formed through fretting wear at the bearing, and grew through internal corrosion, a problem known as stress corrosion cracking. The crack was only about 0.1 inch deep when it went critical, and it broke in a brittle fashion. Growth of the crack was probably exacerbated by residual stress in the eyebar created during manufacture.
When the lower side of the eyebar failed, all the load was transferred to the other side of the eyebar, which then failed by ductile overload. The joint was then held together only by three eyebars, and another slipped off the pin at the center of the bearing, so the chain was completely severed. Collapse of the entire structure was inevitable since all parts of a suspension bridge are in equilibrium with one another. Witnesses afterward estimated that it took only about a minute for the whole bridge to fall.
The damage to the link would have been difficult to see during inspection of the bridge:
Inspection prior to construction would not have been able to notice the miniature crack. ... the only way to detect the fracture would have been to disassemble the eye-bar. The technology used for inspection at the time was not capable of detecting such cracks.[1]
The collapse focused much needed attention on the condition of older bridges, leading to intensified inspection protocols and numerous eventual replacements. There were only two bridges built to a similar design, one upstream at St. Marys, West Virginia and the notably longer Hercilio Luz Bridge at Florianópolis, Brazil. The St. Marys bridge was immediately closed to traffic and was demolished by the state in 1971. Explosive charges were placed on the main chains and fired to remove the structure, although a small truss bridge was kept to allow access to an island in the river. The Hercilio Luz Bridge remained in active service until 1991 and still stands at Florianópolis due to being built to a higher safety factor than the West Virginia bridge. Modern non-destructive testing methods allow some of the older bridges to remain in service where they are located on lightly traveled roads. Most heavily used bridges of this type have been replaced with modern bridges of various types.
The collapse inspired legislation to ensure that older bridges were regularly inspected and maintained. Aging infrastructure is still a problem in the United States. In 1983 the Mianus River Bridge in Greenwich, Connecticut collapsed, causing the deaths of three drivers. In 2007, the I-35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis collapsed, causing 13 deaths and 145 injuries. In early September 2009 the failure of an eyebar in the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge was discovered during a scheduled closure, resulting in an emergency repair to reinforce the failed member.
A scale model of the original Silver Bridge can be seen at the Point Pleasant River Museum. An archive of literature about the bridge is kept there for public inspection. On the lower ground floor, the museum displays an eyebar assembly from the original bridge.
A memorial was installed in Point Pleasant to commemorate the 46 bridge collapse victims.
In popular cultureEdit
- Ohio University English professor Jack Matthews wrote a novella, Beyond the Bridge, written as the diary of an imaginary survivor of the disaster starting a new life as a dishwasher in a tiny West Virginia town.
- In the book The Mothman Prophecies (1975), the collapse of the Silver Bridge is linked to the Mothman. This was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2002.
- ↑ "Silver Bridge disaster", West Virginia Culture
Further readingEdit
External links Edit
- "The Collapse of the Silver Bridge," by Chris LeRose in West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly (vol. xv, no. 4, Oct. 2001)
- Image of Silver Bridge
- Point Pleasant Silver Bridge Museum
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- West Virginia Division of Culture and History "On This Day", section-- provides a link to the official WVa state's disaster video the next day, archive 1.6 mb wmv file having good quality, no sound http://www.wvculture.org/history/av/silverbridge256.wmv
- Bridge collapse video to show sequence of events
- Case study of bridge collapse
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Islamabad, Oct 26 : Pakistan has summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest over the 'unprovoked ceasefire violations by India'.
Pakistani Foreign Office lodged a protest with Singh over the ceasefire violations during the nights of October 23, 24 and 25 at Shakargarh and Zafarwal Sectors of the Working Boundary.
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The joinings are made water-tight by a coating of tamarack gum put on hot, or by the pitch of the yellow pine.
"That's the checker, my boy," said yellow pine, when he saw the fish.
The yellow pine is one of the best fire-fighters and lives long.
"Wants to get near enough to see what he can see," said yellow pine.
As the Western yellow pine is the best fire-fighter in the conifer family, it was puzzling to account for this deep burn.
These are the young trees of the long-leaved or Southern yellow pine.
At many places in Utah above these cliffs of red sandstone there are forests predominantly composed of yellow pine.
Do they not send anything at all down here, but yellow pine, Uncle?
In Western yellow pine, the loss is great, and in the Southern red gum, it is probably as much as thirty per cent.
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Book Review: 'A Woman's Servant' by Chris Bellows
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Chris Bellows' A Woman's Servant is an interesting, yet incomplete, entrée into femdom tale bracketed by loosely related vignettes that primarily depict the day-to-day operations of The Institute, a sperm extraction facility where the story's narrator works. The chapters dealing with Nurse Cummings' employment are pure over-the-top diabolical femdom fantasies that don't necessarily resonate with all aficionados of that genre. Just about the time I was wondering how that narrative could possibly be sustained for an entire book, the true story began to materialize.
It seems that the decidedly kinky nurse has recently relocated and is in need of a very special kind of live-in personal servant who possesses sensibilities complementary to her own. A carefully crafted ad placed in the personals section of Craig's List lands her a boatload of "applicants," the vast majority of which are totally unacceptable for a whole host of reasons. One of the hopefuls, an entering freshman at the local college, who has foolishly squandered on a financial domme the money his parents gave him for living expenses, strikes her as the perfect candidate and she proceeds to reel him in.
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Honda launches new 150cc CB Trigger to Indian market. Honda are not just rolling out new bikes but also new production plants (Narsapura) which should keep them on track with expansion targets.
Two Honda Bikes featured in our Top 3 bikes for reliability and this new offering from Honda meets key criteria, not just in terms of a trusted producer of quality bikes but also good 150cc performance and class beating fuel economy. Combine that with aggressive looks, which Honda refer to as "Muscular" and this bike should enter the realistic wish list of many a young man, and no doubt there are plenty of girls that would be proud to own one too.
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The CB Trigger brings advance features, new technology, power for fun and mileage for daily economy.
Specifications include a Combined Braking System (CBS) – A segment 1st feature
Best in Class Mileage of 60 kmpl with superb acceleration
The 150cc – 180cc motorcycle segment contributes approximately 10% to Indian motorcycle industry. HMSI has been meeting varied customer demand in this segment with its CB Unicorn for mature commuters and the premium CBR 150R for riders who desired a global motorcycling experience.
Within the 150-180cc motorcycle commuter segment, there are young Indian riders aged between 18–24 years aspiring for a new 150cc motorcycle offering from Honda. Their expectation from Honda is to create a 150cc masculine & aggressive styled motorcycle that can trigger the fun of riding while being perfect for daily commuting. Thus came CB Trigger – Honda's ultimate answer with latest technology.
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Chiseled to perfection, the CB Trigger comes with a distinguishing contoured tank with unique 3D Honda emblem, floating side cowls and arrow shaped trendy side panel which contribute to the aggressive looks. Muscle lines in the side panel and the all black sporty muffler too emphasize the muscular character of the bike.
Upping the style quotient of CB Trigger is the stylish all black alloy wheels and trendy fully digital advanced instrument panel.
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CB Trigger comes loaded with Combi Brake System – a segment first feature. CBS is an easy to operate feature that reduces braking distance by 32% compared to conventional braking. The high quality mono suspension ensures mass centralization leading to better stability and riding confidence even in the sharpest of road turns.
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The proven 150cc air-cooled 4-stroke Spark ignition engine of CB Trigger produces a delightful throbbing feel in the low to mid speed ranges together with increased output in high speed range. All this, while ensuring the best-in-class Mileage of 60kmpl (Mileage based on internal Honda test ride mode that is close to actual city riding conditions).
The motorcycle delivers superb acceleration and leaves other bikes in the same category far behind with its quick pick-up. Adding fun into ride is excellent peak power of 10.3 Kw @ 8500 rpm (approx. 14 BHP) and a peak torque of 12.5 Nm @ 6500 rpm.
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CB Trigger's upright sitting position and comfortable wide seat is designed for maximising rider comfort during both short city commute and long distance touring. Providing abundance of comfort even in dense city traffic is full gear lever and kick start feature. The full chain case is suitable for variable road conditions while the lightweight and flexible diamond frame offers easy handling and steady control as sports model.
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Taking comfort and convenience to unmatched levels are the 240mm front and 220mm rear dual disc brakes (which enhance braking efficiency and rider safety), wide tubeless tyres, maintenance free battery and viscous air filter.
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MBI opinion
Honda have certainly hit the spot with this bike in terms of what the market segment seeks in India. It's well thought out for varied road situations and we like the enhanced breaking efficiency which should help to keep riders out of trouble.
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Honda as ever have ambitious plans that must be taken seriously setting 2015-16 as a time window for being the No1 motorcycle manufacturer in India.
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Recent weeks have seen the worst wildfires in Colorado history, the breaking of 2,000 temperature records, a mid-Atlantic storm that killed 23 and left millions without power, and a heat wave that sent the East Coast and the Midwest back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But few mainstream meteorologists are talking about climate change.
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Neuroscientists have known for a while that odor receptors in the nose send signals to the the brain's taste center, also known as the gustatory cortex. But does the converse happen? Do taste receptors in the tongue talk to the smell center, the olfactory cortex?
New research suggests the answer is yes.
The smell center gets and uses information from the tongue even if an animal is not consciously sniffing — or even inhaling.
When a monkey is shown a video of one of its friends cooing or grunting, a visual stimulus goes to the auditory cortex, where it changes — enhances or suppresses — sound perception. That doesn't happen when an image of a mechanical disk with a fake mouth accompanies the same sound. In other words, what the monkey sees literally affects what it hears.
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Syria: UNICEF gets assistance to children evacuated
At least 500 women and children were among civilians evacuated from the besieged old city of Homs over the past few days during the ongoing humanitarian operation being undertaken by the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
The humanitarian pause was the first that the UN has brokered in the embattled old quarter of the city which has been under siege for more than 600 days.
"The children who came out looked frail and emaciated," said UNICEF's Tarek Hefnawy who took part in the operation.
Despite coming under attack, the humanitarian convoy which entered the Old City district of Homs on 8 February managed to deliver supplies including sufficient water purification tablets provided by UNICEF to support the remaining population.
UNICEF staff also ensured that children arriving at the reception centre outside the old city were immediately given high-nutrition supplements. A total of 380 children have received on-the-spot vaccination against polio, DPT, Hepatitis B, measles and other preventable diseases. Staff reported the presence of about 20 pregnant women among the evacuees.
UNICEF staff accompanied children identified as vulnerable until they reached safety to ensure they were not separated from their families or otherwise placed at risk.
Before the humanitarian operation began, UNICEF estimated there were more than 1,000 children trapped in Homs.
"This is a very positive break-through but it can only be the beginning," said UNICEF Syria Representative Youssouf Abdel Jelil.
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drharv posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI have programmed business software for a while and have decided to try making a game. I get stuck a lot because I worry that I may not be doing something the "best" way. After searching, I am still stumped on the best way to solve the following 2 problems. 1) I have a randomly generated map. After the map is generated, I generate 2 arrays to keep track of spots where sides and corners should blend from 1 tile to another. While painting, I paint the background and then paint any transitions. The arrays store an offset to determine which transition to paint. [img]http://i.imgur.com/MjKze.png[/img] This works, but I hit a problem when transitioning and collision detection. You can see here that my guy is "floating" in sand because the actual tile at that location is water. [img]http://i.imgur.com/kBTyD.png[/img] My only thought is to add padding to the collision detection when I am in a tile that has transitions. Is there some better way of handling the collision or even an easier way to handle the rounding/corners that I am missing? 2) Collision detection and paint depth on objects bigger than a single tile. I have trees that are 2 tiles high, and I'm sure I will have wider objects in the future. What is the best way to handle the paint depth and collision detection? Should I break it up into multiple tiles and only have part of them paint above the player paint depth and only part of them block in collision detection? This seems like the most straight forward answer, but it seems like a mess in the texture sheet. Right now I am using the second tree in the image shown here, but I am having a problem with painting above the player when he is behind the tree and below the player when he is in front of it. [img]http://i.imgur.com/on62P.png[/img] I think I could solve both of these problems, but I don't want a bad solution that creates messy code to come back and haunt me later. Any suggestions or insight would be very helpful. I am really new to all of these concepts. Thanks! P.S. These graphics are just temp stuff that I found online. Not trying to steal anyone's work, just need something while learning to code.


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HARKER HEIGHTS — As of Sept. 6, local drivers who exceed 65 mph on U.S. Highway 190 between the Killeen city limit and Indian Trail Drive could risk a moving violation.
Citing safety concerns for travelers and construction workers, the City Council unanimously approved dropping the speed limit from 75 to 65 mph in the new work zone, which commenced Aug. 19.
Larry Colclasure, director of Transportation Operations for TxDOT's Waco District, wrote in an email to the city that Texas Department of Transportation guidelines allow a maximum speed limit reduction of 15 mph.
"I don't think it's a hard-and-fast law, but it's something to consider for traffic safety," said Heights Public Works Director Mark Hyde.
Crossing into Killeen, drivers must currently lower their speeds from 75 to 55 mph.
"It's a pretty big drop," Hyde said.
Councilman Spencer Smith expressed concern that the decreased speed limit could generate excessive citations from Department of Public Safety and Bell County Sheriff's patrols, and questioned if the Harker Heights Police Department would exclusively enforce traffic laws.
"The thrust is for safety, not punishment," Smith said.
While Heights police occasionally ride the highway, they mainly patrol neighborhoods, City Manager Steve Carpenter said.
The speed limit reduction will accompany a $9.5-million project adding one inside lane on the eastbound and westbound sides of U.S. 190 from W.S. Young Drive in Killeen to Farm-to-Market 2410 in Harker Heights, as well as a turning lane on the eastbound FM 2410 bridge at the highway's frontage road.
Weather permitting, construction should finish by fall 2014.


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Egyptian Prime Minister projects four percent GDP growth in 2002
Egyptian Prime Minister, Atef Obeid expects the local gross domestic product (GDP) to increase by four percent in 2002 compared with 3.5 percent in 2001, reported Al-Hayat. Obeid attributes his forecast to projected rise in tourism, increasing oil and gas production and privatization schemes.
International credit rating agency Fitch IBCA recently gave the Egyptian economy a negative assessment, stating tensions in the economic policy framework as its main concern. The agency expressed concern that national GDP may come in lower than official four percent estimates, and that the general government deficit may widen to approximately three percent of GDP, according to Prime Securities. — (menareport.com)
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Walked past the crime scene unit and the news van this morning. Terrible.
Woman Found With Throat Slashed In Astoria Apartment
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According to subsequent news stories, her name was Tara Hawes and police want to talk to her husband.
Her name was Tara Hawes... she was my friend and coworker... no news yet... some say that her in-laws found her, but this article say that the call to 911 was by unknown...
Hi Athan, Tara was my neighbor she lived right in front of me and my family. Everyone's shocked that such a horrible thing happened to her. I was wondering if you didn't mind..if you had a picture of her that I could print out because my mom wants to have a picture to remember her by.
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Monday, 18 March, 2002, 09:13 GMT
Campbell surprise Methody
Renault Ulster Schools' Cup final:
Methodist College 10-12 Campbell College
Campbell College produced a battling display to surprise holders Methody in Monday's Ulster Schools' Cup final at Ravenhill.
The match finished amid huge drama with Methody's Ryan Duffy desperately unlucky with a 25 metre penalty in injury-time which came back off the woodwork.
The well-struck effort seemed destined to go between the posts, but Campbell got the break to hang for the victory.
Methody went into the game as strong favourites to earn consecutive successes and stretch their record 30 titles.
It might have been the boot of Thomas Horner who gave Campbell their 22nd sucess in the competition with four sweetly-struck penalties.
But he will quickly admit that it was the fantastic all-round display by the Campbell pack that unhinged the holders.
Skipper Neil McComb superbly marshalled his forwards, who were just to strong for their Methody counterparts.
Time and time again, Campbell were able to turn over Methody possession while the favourites' indiscipline also saw them concede a number of silly penalties.
In contrast, Ryan Duffy missed a couple of good opportunities for Methody including his late unlucky effort.
Ironically, it was a similar late miss by Glen Telford last season, that enabled Methody to sneak past RBAI last season.
Methody, playing against the wind in the first half, started well and spent most of the opening 10 minutes deep in Campbell territory.
Duffy did score a fourth minute penalty but Methody wasted a couple of try-scoring opportunities which would have extended their advantage.
Horner levelled the contest in the 16th minute with a 30-metre penalty.
Methody were awarded a penalty in the Campbell '22 in the 19th minute but opted to kick for the corner instead of attempting a kick at goal.
The move backfired with Campbell comfortably repelling Methody's forward drive for the line.
Four minutes later, Campbell were ahead with Horner slotting his second penalty and another successful kick from the fly-half left the underdogs 9-3 ahead at the interval.
Methody indiscipline handed Horner another three points four minutes after half-time.
The excellent Johnny Cartmill then nearly put Campbell out of sight when he produced a magnificent break in the 46th minute.
However, his opposite number, the equally impressive Mark Kettyle, brilliantly gathered Cartmill's attempted chip ahead and averted the danger.
Then came a moment of controversy in the 52nd minute with the match referee Paul Eakin controversially ruling out an apparently good try by Methody's Stephen Minnis.
Minnis had appeared to have got downward pressure after sprinting from a line-out but the score was not awarded.
Duffy chance
However, Methody were not to be denied when three minutes later, the intense spell of pressure was rewarded by a try for the outstanding Kettyle.
Campbell responded magnificently and pushed Methdoy back for most of the final 15 minutes.
But right at the death, Methody did make a break.
Scrum-half Robbie Sloan chipped and chased from halfway but he was obstructed by his opposite number Neil Wallace.
The left Duffy with the chance to win the cup for his side but his kick rebounded to safety off the left-hand upright.
Campbell College: J Cartmill; J Moutray; R Rea, P McCausland, B Elliott; M Horner, N Wallace; R Kelso, C Thallon, A Stewart, M Willis, J Andress, E Uzoigwe, N McComb, capt, G Moore.
Methody: M Kettyle; O Crossey; M Scott, J McClaughlin, R Duffy; C McCadden, R Sloan; C Graham, R Walshe, R Gleadhill, M Williams, M Graham, S Minnis, D Denny, S Workman.
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Vision of the Seas - Bermuda: Vision of the Seas Cruise Review by rona
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Embarkation was a breeze, since we are Crown and Anchor members. Went directly to our cabin- (since this cruise was a booked as an after thought-since I got a wks vacation unexpected-we had an inside cabin) which was clean and neat. Our steward Raul came to introduce himself and kept the room in fine order. We went directly to the Windjammer dinning room for lunch which was fine and good every day. We only eat breakfast and lunch one time each in the main dinning room. We did not go to Portofinos on this cruise but have been there on previous cruises, and it is well work the additional $20
Even though this is our 4th cruise to Bermuda it is the first time we were docked on the Kings Wharf area. Ferry to Hamilton was quick and inexpensive. We were saddened that Trimminghams is closing after l60 yrs in business. The Maritime Museum was very interesting(my husband and I love museums.)and watching the Dolphin More Quest was entertaining.
One downside was that we like to be seated at a large table (8), which we were -however only one other couple showed up for dinner every night. Even though they were pleasant after 5 days we ran out of things to discuss. I mentioned this to the Head Waiter -why are there not other people here and he said the seats were assigned to other couples however they never came to dinner.
Second downside was the internet was very slow. Aside from this, cruise was great. Went to aquarium bar each nite before dinner since they had a great quartet. The Crown and Anchor cocktail party was small and intimate. We only saw two shows that were so-so but the ice show was outstanding Looking forward to our next cruise to Alaska. Less
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SOMALIA: Galka'yo to re-establish its district council
Galka'yo (RBC) The central Somalia town of Galkacyo will re-establish its district council once again since the last district council was dissolved by the former President of Puntland a year ago, RBC Radio reports.
According to Mudug governor Mohamed Yusuf Jama Tigey, the city has met major set backs on its development because of lack of elected district council.
Last week Puntland minister said the Galka'yo could no longer participate in the UN funded UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery (JPLG) which funds projects for the cities and towns in Somalia.
"The town of Galka'yo has missed one million dollars of development funds because of lack of elected council for the city" Mr Tigey said during a meeting in Galka'yo.
The Governor has called for the public including elders, politicians and women to help in setting a new mechanism which will facilitate in holding selection process of the city's district council members.
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Spring 2011: Professor Occhialino and Justice Ransom
This is a two-hour seminar offered to fourteen first-year students by Professor Occhialino and Justice Richard Ransom, a retired Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. The students read groups of published opinions authored by Justice Ransom on such issues as duty under tort law, strict liability, the drafting of jury instructions for successive torts, implied employment contracts, the parol evidence rule in ambiguous contracts, statutory construction, and liberty interests under state constitutional law. Familiarity with these subjects aids the students' progress in the seminar, but neither facility with, nor the teaching of, substantive law is the purpose of the seminar.
The purpose of the seminar is to teach the reader of case law to understand, evaluate, and articulate the rule of law or principle for which the case is read in full. This is a little different than reading casebook extracts for black letter law. Principles of sound reasoning are applied to analyze the rationale of the case. Under the "law of rationality," conclusions must be justified by relevant evidence that is adequate to its purpose. Relevant "evidence," of course, may include statutes, prior authority, principles of law, legal doctrines, and public policy. Ambiguity and vagueness are identified. The student learns to succinctly translate the opinion's essential position into the student's own words and graphics.
The course meets for one hour on Tuesday and Thursday. The first week is devoted to the exploration of various approaches to judging, using terms such as "values," "beliefs," "pragmatism," and "positivism." At the core of this discussion is jurisprudential responsibility for predictability and fairness (treating like cases alike), adherence to principle, and the importance of plausible rationale, both for the loosing party and for the establishment of legal principle. The purpose of the introductory session is to introduce the judge in the context of judicial selection and independence, diversity in how judges may judge, and the temporizing effect of collegiality on a multi-judge appellate court.
On Thursdays, the students are assigned a scenario and problem to solve by reading a specific one or two of the majority opinions, special concurrences, or dissents authored by Justice Ransom. Each student responds by Monday with a five-hundred-word memo, more or less (six-hundred words maximum), and explanatory graphic when appropriate. The student also turns in at that time a list of questions arising from the reading of the assigned case or cases. These are questions of terminology, procedure or judicial practice the student would like discussed, regardless of whether germane to the problem assigned. These questions are reserved for the next Thursday class.
At the Tuesday class, Professor Occhialino engages the students in Socratic dialogue to "think the thing" of the cases that have been read to resolve the assigned problem. He teases out the students' understanding of legal terminology, rules, and black letter law. He develops graphics (outline, diagram or flow chart) by which the pertinent issues can be seen in relation to the general rules, exceptions, and legal terminology that inform the resolution of the problem. Importantly, with respect to the rationale of the assigned case, Professor Occhialino explores whether conclusions are adequately justified and whether the opinion has evaded principles of sound reasoning. Ambiguity and vagueness are identified.
Justice Ransom provides his own exemplar memo or graphic in response to the problem addressed in the student memos. He will, from time to time, distribute internal court memos that give insight into the structure of the opinion in response to the briefs and oral argument of the parties, the conferences of the court following oral argument, responses to the circulation of opinion drafts, and the intra-chambers work of the judge and the judge's clerks.
On Thursday, there may be a reprise of the topics addressed - or missed - on Tuesday. Then, the students' written questions are addressed. Time is reserved for the students each to ask orally one question yet unanswered to the student's satisfaction.
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Job Chapter 1 - New American Standard Bible
Job Chapter 1 - New American Standard Bible
1. THERE was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
2. Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
3. His possessions also were 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and very many servants; and that man was the greatest of all the [1] men of the east.
4. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5. When the days of feasting had completed their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in the morning and offering burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, � Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.� Thus Job did continually.
6. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and [2] Satan also came among them.
7. The LORD said to Satan, �From where do you come?� Then Satan answered the LORD and said, � From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.�
8. The LORD said to Satan, �Have you [4] considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, [3] fearing God and turning away from evil.�
9. Then Satan answered the [5] LORD, �Does Job fear God for nothing?
10. � Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11. � But put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will surely curse You to Your face.�
12. Then the LORD said to Satan, �Behold, all that he has is in your [6] power, only do not put forth your hand on him.� So Satan departed from the presence of the LORD.
13. Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
14. a messenger came to Job and said, �The oxen were plowing and the [7] donkeys feeding beside them,
15. and [11] the Sabeans [10] attacked and took them. They also [9] slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and [8] I alone have escaped to tell you.�
16. While he was still speaking, another also came and said, � The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.�
17. While he was still speaking, another also came and said, �The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and [12] slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.�
18. While he was still speaking, another also came and said, �Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,
19. and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.�
20. Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.
21. He said, � Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.�
22. Through all this Job did not sin nor did he [13] blame God.[read chapter]
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