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The Blackheath Poisonings: A Victorian Murder Mystery by Julian Symons
Symons won the Edgar Award, the Gold Dagger Award, and the Diamond Dagger Award Wealth can have its drawbacks. Case in point: The Collard and Vandervent families, who for decades have shared a large estate in the elegant London suburb of Blackheath. It's now the 1890s, and over the years, the families' near-incestuous entanglement has grown into a toxic web of lies and bitterness. While Mama keeps an iron grasp on the purse-strings, an unmarried daughter sucks greedily on her own disappointment, a son raises corruption to an art form, and an ethereal daughter-in-law casts come-hither glances at anything in pants. She casts them frequently at young Paul Vandervent, who responds by filling his journal with fevered love poems. And when one member after another of the extended clan falls victim to "gastric misadventure" – and his beloved falls under suspicion –Paul embarks on an equally feverish quest to clear her name, resolving to solve "the extraordinary series of crimes ... read more
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One More Beautifully Epic Poster for 'Battle: Los Angeles' Unveiled!
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February 18, 2011
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No need for a tagline… or any words. Sony has debuted one more awesome poster for Jonathan Liebesman's Battle: Los Angeles and it's the beautifully epic kind of design we've been waiting to see. As I was driving home from a movie last night, I had to stop and turn around because I caught this poster on display at a bus stop (see on twitter here) because I'd never seen it and it looked so awesome. But when I got home, IGN had already debuted it in high def online, so here it is. We've already seen plenty of trailers and footage for this and I don't want to see any more because it hits theaters in three weeks! This poster just rocks. Check it out!
A young Marine platoon, lead by Aaron Eckhart, faces off against a surprise alien invasion in Los Angeles.
Battle: Los Angeles is directed by South African-born director Jonathan Liebesman, of Darkness Falls, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and The Killing Room previously, but he is really breaking out in a good way with this. The screenplay credit, according to IMDb, goes solely to Christopher Bertolini, of only The General's Daughter and Madso's War previously. Sony / Columbia Pictures will be bringing Battle: Los Angeles to theaters everywhere starting on March 11th this spring! I'll be there on opening day, will you?
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Lessons about race relations and unrest still don't sink in
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From the Watts riots in 1965 to the unrest in Ferguson, experts say lessons about race and civil unrest sometimes get learned. But sometimes, they say, police failings and racial inequalities almost guarantee future wrongful killings and riots.
Officials also say there are ways to prevent such unrest, which many departments have failed to act on. This includes rules like having officers live in the areas they patrol so they can build relationships in their local community.
Another way to prevent unrest is for law enforcement officials to put out information about the case as soon as possible and own up to any mistakes.
Protesters say that has not happened in Ferguson.
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Aerobic biodegradation of diphenylamine Kim, Jenny Gi Yae (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-12-20)Diphenylamine (DPA) is a primary pollutant used as a stabilizer and as precursor for pesticides, pharmaceutical products and dyes. It has recently been found that a dioxygenase enzyme is responsible for the ability of ...
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Located on Oregon's beautiful central coast, Newport is a town with many faces. Tourism is only one of the forces that creates a dynamic environment for visitors. Its fishing industry, with the colorful boats that enter and exit the harbor daily, provides bounty from the sea for all the wonderful restaurants. And visitors may gather seafood themselves - fishing, crabbing, and clamming abound.
The large scientific community at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University's marine biology headquarters, engages in many forms of research that the scientists gladly share with visitors in the public wing renovated in 1997. This facility with its hands-on exhibits makes it easy for everyone to learn more about the wonders of the Pacific Ocean. Nearby, the world-famous Oregon Coast Aquarium houses many forms of the Pacific's creatures in exhibits designed to educate and amaze visitors.
Newport boasts two lighthouses - Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, now a museum, overlooking the dramatic entrance to the bay, and Yaquina Head Lighthouse, on a basaltic promontory three-miles north of the city, providing a beacon to ships at sea. Between these two lighthouses, you can explore over five miles of wide, sandy beaches -- Nye Beach to the south and Agate Beach to the north. Also at Yaquina Head, visitors can enjoy the newly-built interpretive center in the upper rock quarry and the human-made tidepools in the lower rock quarry. Yaquina Head has a black-rock beach replete with tidepools, a bird sanctuary, a seal haul-out, and an area to look for gray whales which are frequently spotted from the headland. You might also take a whale-watching trip to experience our resident population of gray whales up close and personal.
In Historic Nye Beach, you encounter the city's large artistic community. Theater, concerts, dance, and other arts are at home in the Performing Arts Center, and artists and artisans display visual art forms in the Visual Arts Center and Yaquina Arts Center at the Nye Beach Turnaround. Historic Nye Beach and the historic bayfront, home of the fishing industry, have many shops, restaurants, galleries, and activities.
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The first night of an unusual "bring your own booze" event at a controversial nightclub has passed without incident.
Funky Mojoe, in High Road, South Woodford, lost a landmark High Court bid last month to overturn a decision to cut its opening hours to 11.30pm.
However the venue is bypassing the restriction and staying open until 3am by allowing customers to bring their own alcohol.
The club is also not allowed to have DJs, play CDs, computer files or any other recorded music media past 12am, but is allowed to play music from a live radio broadcast.
However the venue insists noise tests have been done and gave evidence at the hearing that music was not an issue for residents living close by.
Licensee Kerry O'Reilly insists the venue has never breached its licensing conditions and says she runs a "military operation" to ensure there is limited disruption.
Yesterday the venue tweeted: "A big thank you to everyone who came last night to support us. More updates tomorrow."
Police confirmed this morning there were no reported incidents at the venue.
However, there is still concern about the future of the venue.
Cllr Richard Hoskins said: "It is obviously a desperate last attempt to stay open.
"It is disturbing and I believe the situation will be much worse. Customers will be walking in and out all night, with the venue having no idea how much anyone has drunk.
"It is potentially very dangerous."
Jenny Lamb, 34, of Churchfields, South Woodford, said: "It is scary to think how drunk people are going to get.
"It is obviously less regulated – who knows what people are going to bring in.
"I didn't see anything on Saturday and have never been bothered by the noise, but it could be disastrous."
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I have studied computer science at the University of Utah and Cal State Hayward, and computer animation at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. I have also been a Macintosh programmer at Efficient Networks and Blue Falcon Networks (formerly Static Online), a software tester and developer at Pixar Animation Studios, an English teacher in Japan at America Eigo Gakuin, and a missionary in Chile for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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by Melissa Osgood for Cornell University
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 11, 2014
Although feelings are personal and subjective, the human brain turns them into a standard code that objectively represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people, reports a new study by Cornell University neuroscientist Adam Anderson.
"We discovered that fine-grained patterns of neural activity within the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with emotional processing, act as a neural code which captures an individual's subjective feeling," says Anderson, associate professor of human development in Cornell's College of Human Ecology and senior author of the study. "Population coding of affect across stimuli, modalities and individuals," published online in Nature Neuroscience.
Their findings provide insight into how the brain represents our innermost feelings - what Anderson calls the last frontier of neuroscience - and upend the long-held view that emotion is represented in the brain simply by activation in specialized regions for positive or negative feelings, he says.
"If you and I derive similar pleasure from sipping a fine wine or watching the sun set, our results suggest it is because we share similar fine-grained patterns of activity in the orbitofrontal cortex," Anderson says.
"It appears that the human brain generates a special code for the entire valence spectrum of pleasant-to-unpleasant, good-to-bad feelings, which can be read like a 'neural valence meter' in which the leaning of a population of neurons in one direction equals positive feeling and the leaning in the other direction equals negative feeling," Anderson explains.
For the study, the researchers presented participants with a series of pictures and tastes during functional neuroimaging, then analyzed participants' ratings of their subjective experiences along with their brain activation patterns.
Anderson's team found that valence was represented as sensory-specific patterns or codes in areas of the brain associated with vision and taste, as well as sensory-independent codes in the orbitofrontal cortices (OFC), suggesting, the authors say, that representation of our internal subjective experience is not confined to specialized emotional centers, but may be central to perception of sensory experience.
They also discovered that similar subjective feelings - whether evoked from the eye or tongue - resulted in a similar pattern of activity in the OFC, suggesting the brain contains an emotion code common across distinct experiences of pleasure (or displeasure), they say. Furthermore, these OFC activity patterns of positive and negative experiences were partly shared across people.
"Despite how personal our feelings feel, the evidence suggests our brains use a standard code to speak the same emotional language," Anderson concludes.
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Although I am off, I'll try to keep tabs on whatever volleyball action I can on Tuesday. (I need something to keep me occupied between frames during bowling)
To the naked eye, there does not appear to be any real must-see matches, but there are a few that could be interesting.
I've pegged Ardsley at Byram Hills as my "match of the night" since it will be the first game for the Panthers against a Bobcats team that has two very nice wins (Croton-Harmon, Ossining) under their belt. I'm going with Ardsley — either sweep or four games — but think the match should still be relatively close. I think if Byram takes a game from the Panthers it will be the first game out of the gate. Coach Dave Ponterio's girls must be chomping at the bit to finally get out on the court for a match, while coach Jared Christian's girls would probably love nothing more than to hand their Class B foes a season-opening loss.
My prediction: Ardsley wins in four, 21-25, 25-18, 25-17, 25-22.
Here's the full schedule, along with my predictions:
Tuesday, September 16
Riverside at Yonkers Montessori, 3:45 p.m.
Palisade Prep at Yonkers, 3:45 p.m.
North Rockland at Nanuet, 4 p.m.
Suffern at Nyack, 4 p.m.
Pearl River at Clarkstown North, 4 p.m.
East Ramapo at Albertus Magnus, 4 p.m.
Mount Vernon at New Rochelle, 4:15 p.m.
Lincoln at Scarsdale, 4:15 p.m.
Roosevelt at Hastings, 4:15 p.m.
Tuckahoe at Dobbs Ferry, 4:15 p.m.
Eastchester at Woodlands, 4:15 p.m.
Saunders at White Plains, 4:15 p.m.
Kennedy at Good Counsel, 4:30 p.m.
Ardsley at Byram Hills, 4:30 p.m. — Match of the night
Mamaroneck at Port Chester, 4:30 p.m.
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For information, call Diane Wasson at Jewish Family and Children's Services, (415) 591-8991.
Interfaith couples to begin offered workshop at Albert L. Schultz JCC
A workshop for interfaith couples takes place Thursdays beginning Feb. 15 and continuing through March 28 at 7 p.m. at the Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto.
Former director of San Jose State Hillel Lisa Sinizer is the leader. The workshop, co-sponsored with Lehrhaus Judaica, costs $50 for members and $60 for non-members. For information, call Leah Bernstein at (415) 493-9400.
Course explores differences between Judaism and Christianity
Cantor David Unterman teaches a class on "Judaism and Christianity: A Difference in Priorities" at 7:30 p.m. Mondays through March 25 at Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto.
Cost is $40 for members, $55 for non-members.
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Formal inference, in short, is the eduction of all that a proposition implies.
It will be seen that the current of steam can be regulated by moving the tuyere, D, from or toward the eduction orifice.
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The eduction and equilibrium single valve, performing the functions of both.
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Greetings Masha.I am sorry that your question was unanswered for long.The causes of not starting a period is called as primary amenorrhea. Following are the causes;1) Congenital abnormalitiesa) Isolated GnRH deficiencyb) Forms of hypopituitarism c) Congenital central nervous system defects d) Constitutional delaye) Congenital absence of the uterus and vaginaf) Cervical atresiag) Intersex disorders include androgen insensitivityh) 17-ketoreductase deficiency2) Endocrine disorders (hormonal diseases)a) Congenital adrenal hyperplasia b) Cushing syndrome c) Pseudohypoparathyroidism d) Hyperprolactinemia
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Thus a thorough investigations by a gynecologist would be recommendedMinimal fluid in cul de sac is likely due to infection. This is collection of inflammatory fluid at the base of uterus. This is not likely to be responsible for the absence of period.Please feel free for your follow up questions.
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You are very welcome,Masha.Since her hormones are perfect, she would need a CT scan of abdomen and other blood work to rule out any systemic illness or a subtle chronic infection, which usually does not give any symptoms and is detectable only by the further blood work. Following would be advised (some of them may have been done) for the evaluation of the cause;1) Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), prolactin, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH) measurements
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KENDAL Town's match against FC United of Manchester at Gigg Lane has been abandoned due to a severe frost last night. A pitch inspection took place at 1.30pm and the referee decided the pitch was unfit for action tonight. The area close to the South Stand caused particular cause for concern as that section receives very little sun at this time of year. Kendal's next scheduled game is away to Stafford Rangers this Saturday.
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Formicinae, Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
Additional images: minor worker, dorsal view of mesosoma (reduced, original).
Guatemala to Brazil. Costa Rica: northern Pacific lowlands (one record from Atlantic coast).
Minor worker: Propodeum lacking spines or tubercles of any kind; propodeum somewhat box-like, dorsal and lateral faces flat or nearly flat and meeting at an approximate right angle; dorsal face of propodeum subrectangular; pubescence on first gastral tergite dilute, appressed to suberect, not obscuring integument; color uniformly orange; integument generally mat; erect setae sparse, short, stiff.
Natural History
This species is a very common and conspicuous ant in the dry lowlands of northwest Costa Rica, south to Carara Biological Reserve, and as high as 900m elevation on the road to Monteverde. The bright orange workers are common diurnal foragers on low vegetation and treetrunks. They are common in xeric and synanthropic habitats. I usually find nests in dead branches and stems in low vegetation. A dry xeric ridge near Playa Naranjo in Santa Rosa National Park had many bulbous-based Tillandsia on the branches of low shrubs, and I found several C. rectangularis nests in these epiphytes. Several times I have found lone foundress queens in dead stems, suggesting monogynous claustral founding.
I have one Atlantic side collection. I was collecting along the beach margin at the Casa Verde turtle research station in Tortuguero, and I found a nest in a dead vine stem.
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Emery, C. 1890. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 22:38-80.
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"Jersey Shore" Cast Mates Launch Season Six in NYC
With the sixth and final season of 'Jersey Shore' underway, fans got a chance to see an early look at a changed Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino last night (October 4).
The MTV reality star was best-known for his numerous arguments with his housemates, especially with Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi in season five.
But with his rehab stint to kick an addiction to prescription painkillers back in March, "The Situation" hopes to repair damaged relationships.
Sorrentino, 30, explained, "Ever since I've been out, I'm not gonna lie ... it's not easy. But at the same time, where I'm at right now, I'm at a good place. But it took a little bit to get there. In the beginning? A lot of rainy days, so to speak. A lot of rainy days."
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Sebastian Kehl is frustrated that Borussia Dortmund have to wait until after the mid-season break to arrest their worrying Bundesliga form.
Jurgen Klopp's outfit have slipped to third in the table, 12 points adrift of leaders and reigning champions Bayern Munich, after suffering a third home defeat in a row on Saturday.
Marco Reus' seventh-minute goal was not enough to prevent a 2-1 reverse at the hands of Hertha Berlin that left Dortmund dejected.
"The defeat is very, very disappointing – it's our third home defeat in a row and we're going to have to wait until the start of next year to put things right," said Kehl.
"We stopped playing football after making a good start to the match. We let Hertha back into the game with those goals and we couldn't break them down in the second half."
Midfield partner Nuri Sahin echoed Kehl's sentiments, urging the team to be more ruthless.
"We should have added to our lead after going in front, but we took our foot off the gas," he added. "We need more of a killer instinct to win these types of matches.
"Had we scored the second goal, Hertha wouldn't have got back into the match. They defended well in the second half and took advantage of our errors in the first. We're very frustrated."


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I have Adonis Blue growing next to buddleia Pink Delight. While Adonis Blue does attract some butterflies, Pink Delight is covered with them.
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Great Flowering shrub for landscapes, perennial gardens. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Finally, colorful buddleia varieties that won't crowd their neighbors! Roughly a third the size of other butterfly bush varieties, the English Butterfly Series plants are extra bushy and loaded with colorful flowers.
Adonis Blue has deep blue flowers of good size and with a delightful fragrance.
The compact size of these new cultivars is perfect for smaller gardens and the mixed border. They can also be used as a container plant in milder climates.
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I loved its many blooms, beautiful color, and its reasonable size.lynda griffithVirginiaUnited States5 years ago
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I'm pretty quiet the first time you meet me, but if I like you, I warm up quick. Similarly, I'm terrible at being the first at anything. First one in the pool, first one on the dance floor, first one to introduce themselves, whatever. But with some healthy goading, I'm up for just about anything.
I love adventures and adventuring, just not in your typical Colorado-an sense. I prefer my death-defying in the form of castle spelunking, reverse escalator riding, road trip navigating, and/or various other events that may or maynot someday get me lost. (Suggestions welcome.)
I'm really bad at: whistling, bowling, mini golf, astrophysics, folding my laundry, cleaning my room, t-stops, calling my parents back, remembering to clean my skates, not reading the comments sections, actually eating my weight in waffles. Not like any of that stops me from trying.
Something not work related? I don't ski. I don't ski, I'm not paleo, I don't drive a Subaru, I hate my bike. Been there, tried that, not interested. Sorry? Except for the Subaru part. I'd really like to learn how to drive stick.
ii) Videodrome, Josie and the Pussycats, Mystery Men, Groundhog Day, every Christopher Lambert movie ever made. Post-apocalyptic thrillers and meta-referential comedies.
Music) Things that bleep and boop and crash, theremins and keytars preferred. The Weakerthans, Holy Fuck, Brainiac, The Faint, Justin Timberlake, DEVO, John Zorn, Nirvana, bands you've never heard of, blah blah blah. You don't need to love what I love, you just need to love that I love it. (People who love "everything but classical and country" make me nervous.)
d) The only way I'm going paleo is if I actually get to eat a sabre toothed tiger. My favourite kinds of sushi are uni and ankimo, but roe is weird. Don't ask me how that works.
Are the people who I score 100% enemy with just people who haven't answered enough questions, or are they really fervent creationists who answered Yes to "Do women have an obligation to keep their legs shaved" or "Most claims of sexual harrassment in the workplace are LIES made up by a scorned woman"?
You're willing to give things a second, sometimes even a third, chance. Experience has taught me that first meetups from the internet are almost universally awkward.
I hate to add this, but after a slew of abusive messages, here it is:
If it's within your wheelhouse to respond to/take polite rejection like a sane, mature human being. If you've ever responded to a woman who didn't respond to one of your messages, or politely turned you down, with "whatever, bitch!" or something similarly childish and degrading, please just don't even bother to contact me. As a sane adult who has the ability to learn from previous data, I can tell you that we will not be a good match. You will not neg me into attraction. Hot stove is hot, dude who lashes out at rejection lashes out.


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Friday, November 10, 2006
Worth a look
If Pacific blogs are your thing, this one is worth a look:
The sidebar is very good as well.
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The old
Research Links
These are a set of useful links in a general miscellaneous category that I've been using for some time. I'm posting them here as much for my benefit as yours, since I'm afraid of losing them (such is the speed that I've been gathering nefarious links across a range of subjects). I'll populate this list some more as I dig the links up.
Update (May 06): I've heard some blogspot URL's are disappearing if you don't use them, so I figured I'd repost this one to keep things ticking over. I may even update some time.
The Head Heeb
The Head Heeb
is a political blog written by
Jonathan Edelstein
. Jonathan is a New York-based lawyer who nevertheless has excellent information on South Pacific politics and terrific insights. His blog does not concentrate solely on the South Pacific, he has other interests in the Middle East and Africa for example, but you can still search through
his South Pacific posts
using the blog's category function and find a wealth of information. This is certainly a blog I would recommend bookmarking or adding to an RSS feed.
Link to the
South Pacific section of the Coconut Blog
A few interesting links particularly in regard to Niue, Nauru and Raratonga. It's hard to get good links from on the ground in these sort of small, out of the way places, but this is a start. More to come I'm sure.
The Google Oceania directory
Perhaps you already knew about this capability, but it's only something I recently found. In a word, invaluable. Lists hits against each country in the region (whose names you probably didn't know for starters). Everything is there: News, maps, photos... A good place to start in any search.
Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library
"This research tool is provided by the Internet Publications Bureau,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
at the Australian National University (
), Canberra, and is regularly updated."
This is a very powerful web site that remains quite up-to-date. The site provides the typical library search facilities for the South Pacific that you would expect from an academic site, but it also provides links to Pacific mailing lists, reviews of various types, maps, new services, bibliographies, databases and various other archives. The link provided above is the portal to all of these services. I recommend a visit just to know what's there.
One of the best parts of the site is its very own list of online resources called
Pacific Region Resources
. Some of these links you will see in other places, but I get the feeling this is the most professional and up-to-date forum of its type that deals directly with the South Pacific. It's certainly right up there with New Zealand's
Te Puna Web Directory
. Although these two Web directories arrange themselves differently, I would say that it makes them complimentary. Te Puna may actually have more links, but I get the feeling the Pacific Studies WWW-VL is more up-to-date. That's just my opinion. I recommend you visit both if you're researching something on the South Pacific.
Te Puna Web Directory
"The aim of Te Puna Web Directory is to provide a subject gateway to selected New Zealand and Pacific Island Internet information resources that help libraries, their users, and all New Zealanders meet their professional, educational, cultural and personal information needs."
As I mentioned above, probably one of the most comprehensive Web directories concerning the South Pacific that I have found. (I'm just sorry it took me so long to find it). If you're serious about researching something, you have to look here.
Pacific Studies Initiative
(University of Hawaii): "This site seeks to make available online instructional materials for teaching about the Pacific Islands, primarily in higher education. The site includes course descriptions, reading lists and bibliographies from specialized courses on the Pacific as well as non-specialized courses that may facilitate teaching about the Pacific in general humanities and social science curricula." This link is to its Internet Resources page.
Radio Australia
The link is to Radio Australia's
Time to Talk
online program area. Radio Australia has lots of resources devoted to the Pacific and certainly lots of online material to examine. The
Time to Talk
page is an excellent place to start and has a fantastic PDF download which lists the political arrangements of all the South Pacific countries. Invaluable for this discussion. They have an excellent map on this page as well which provides links to each country. This site is probably directed to children as well, so expect some things to be explained very simply. Nevertheless, still very useful. Lots of discussion from South Pacific residents found here as well.
Radio Australia also has another excellent section called Charting the Pacific. This section also has lots of links and background on individual countries as well as regional issues. Definitely worth a look.
Jane Resture's Oceania Homepage
Jane Resture's Oceania homepage provides an enormous set of links, photos and direct first person commentary on daily life in the South Pacific.
I can strongly recommend that you visit this site if you're looking for first person accounts of life and particularly photos. Jane has constructed individual homepages for each country and, as I found when I was researching Nauru, she sometimes has access to oral histories which cannot be found anywhere else.
Jane is not an academic as far as I can tell (just in case it's important to you). Nevertheless, combined with information from other professional sources, Jane's information is essential to rounding out your knowledge of a particular South Pacific location (from the comfort of your armchair).
Dan MacMeekin's Pacific Island Research Links
This site specialises in South Pacific Island Law with a particular focus on Micronesia and Hawaii, but there is still quite reasonable material concerning the remainder of the Pacific and other topics.
A list of
Oceanian Governments on the Web
Supposedly includes political parties in those countries as well. Not exactly sure how up-to-date this list might be. Last change noted in May 2002.
Wansolwara Online
The online journalism training website at the University of the South Pacific. There are some unique stories here.
Pacific Island's Report
"Pacific Islands Report is a nonprofit news service of the Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. The web- publication offers an edited digest of news, commentary and analysis from across the Pacific region, Mondays through Fridays."
This link
describing the contributing partners to Pacific Island's Report is of itself
an excellent list of Pacific Island media outlets
across a range of countries. The list contains online links to each outlet.
The website of
Pacific Magazine and Islands Business
The July 2004 edition has an excellent cover story on
the danger of AIDS in PNG
. Another four-part special has an excellent look at some of
the political leaders in the Pacific region
Asia-Pacific Network
A collection of links to South Pacific media reports, seemingly from a radical/left-wing/alternative viewpoint. Nevertheless, seems to be a genuine champion of free speech in the South Pacific and may have insights to certain stories not covered in home countries due to political pressure.
FFA : Forum Fisheries Agency (Solomon Islands)
Aims: "To enable member countries to benefit from the sustainable use of the region's tuna resources. The FFA is the key regional fisheries agency for the Pacific. The FFA gives technical assistance in the development of fisheries management policies and the negotiation of fisheries access agreements, and plays a key role in the collection of fees and the surveillance of exclusive economic zones."
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission aka 'The Tuna Commission'
" The objective of the Convention is to ensure, through effective management, the long-term conservation and sustainable use of highly migratory fish stocks in the western and central Pacific Ocean in accordance with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement. For this purpose, the Convention establishes a Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.
FORSEC : Forum Secretariat (Fiji)
"The Pacific Island Forum represents Heads of Government of all the independent and self-governing Pacific Island countries, Australia and New Zealand. Since 1971 it has provided member nations with the opportunity to express their joint political views and to cooperate in areas of political and economic concern."
PIDP : Pacific Island Development Program (Hawaii)
"The Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) conducts a broad range of activities to enhance the quality of life in the Pacific islands. The founding mission of PIDP, established in 1980, is to assist Pacific islands Leaders in advancing their collective efforts to achieve and sustain equitable social and economic development consistent with the goals of the Pacific islands region's people. PIDP began as a forum through which island leaders could discuss critical issues of development with a wide spectrum of interested countries, donors, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector."
SOPAC : South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (Fiji)
"SOPAC is the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission. It is an inter-governmental, regional organisation dedicated to providing services to promote sustainable development in the countries it serves. SOPAC's work is carried out through its Secretariat, based in Suva. The work programme is reviewed annually by the Governing Council assisted by: Secretariat representatives, a Technical Advisory Group (TAG), and a Science, Technology and Resources Network (STAR)."
SPC : Secretariat for the Pacific Community (New Caledonia)
SPTO: South Pacific Tourism Organisation (Fiji)
aka. Tourism Council of the South Pacific (TCSP)
"The South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) is a regional inter-governmental organization formed by thirteen member countries in the mid-1980's for the joint promotion of the region as a tourist destination.
SPTO is the only organisation in the world totally dedicated to assisting any organisation, large or small, regional or international, involved or wanting to be involved in South Pacific travel and tourism."
USP: University of the South Pacific (Fiji)
"Established in 1968, USP's academic programmes are recognised worldwide, attracting high calibre students and staff from throughout the Pacific Region and internationally. The University has 12 Member Countries: Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu."
SPREP: South Pacific Regional Environment Program (Samoa)
"SPREP is a regional organisation established by the governments and administrations of the Pacific region to look after its environment. It has grown from a small programme attached to the South Pacific Commission (SPC) in the 1980s into the Pacific region's major intergovernmental organisation charged with protecting and managing the environment and natural resources. It is based in Apia, Samoa, with over 70 staff."
Pacific public health surveillance network (PPHSN)
"The Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN) is a voluntary network of countries/territories and organisations, dedicated to the promotion of public health surveillance and response.
The PPHSN was created in 1996 under the joint auspices of SPC and WHO. The PPHSN goal is to improve public health surveillance in the Pacific Islands in a sustainable way. The first priorities of the PPHSN are communicable diseases, especially the outbreak-prone ones."
Pacific Islands Internet Resources
The map (and hopefully the links) displayed below have been shamelessly pinched from a site called the Pacific Islands Internet Resources. To be honest, I think the site has been inactive since about 1998, yet it still contains a huge array of information relevant to each particular country, and perhaps some of the links might still be useful.
Mostly, I just love maps that do cool stuff like this one. My regards to Michael Ogden and the University of Hawaii who run the site. PS. Seems the links to each country on the map don't work on my site, but they still do on their homepage.
Centre for South Pacific Studies (University of New South Wales)
"The Centre for South Pacific Studies was established in 1987 to collect, collate, and distribute information from a diversity of disciplines, in printed and electronic form, about the peoples and places of the Pacific Islands.
Inside the University of New South Wales (UNSW) the Centre acts as a home for research in the Pacific region, co-ordinating exisiting projects, furthering such investigations and attracting outside funding both for this research and related activities, including postgraduate, visiting and research associateship research programmes. Outside UNSW, the Centre monitors work done in Australia and overseas on the Pacific islands and contributes to the national database in a variety of disciplines involved in the region."
AusAID Country Programs - South Pacific
This page describes some of the details of Australia's aid to the South Pacific. Specific countries or areas covered by this Page include Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Niue and Tokelau, Nauru, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, Regional Pacific and Micronesia.
A UN Report on Human Settlement, Urbanisation and Habitat in the South Pacific [my title]
This publication outlines the unique features of urbanization and urban problems in the developing countries of the South Pacific (
see map
). It also suggests possible approaches to address those issues. An abridged version of this publication was presented, as an issue paper, to the South Pacific Forum Economic Ministers Meeting, held at Apia, Samoa, in July 1999. After reviewing the paper, the Meeting endorsed a proposal to convene an expert group meeting to prepare an action agenda on human settlements in the Pacific based on the Global Plan of Action in the Habitat Agenda of 1996 and the Regional Action Plan on Urbanization of 1993.
The European Centre on Pacific Issues (ECSIEP)
"was set up in 1992 to improve the quantity and quality of information flow from the Pacific to Europe. It functions as a service bureau for the Europe Pacific Solidarity Network."
This outfit isn't actually as 'alternative' as it sounds. I find their commentary to be quite objective and informative. They have an excellent section on European fishing activities in the Pacific which I definitely recommend.
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Well the old blog is gone but the idea has not. Another time in another format perhaps. Until then...
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In fewer than 24 hours this horrible season will finally come to an end. We, as fans, can officially start to look forward. Forward to a future without Eddie Jordan. The draft, trades, free agency, new leadership, the possibilities are endless. When the final buzzer sounds tonight I'm going to put the 2009-2010 season out of my mind for a day, or a week, or possibly more. For now, though, let's take a brief look back.
For me, the high point of the season came early on in. Late in November, after Eddie Jordan threw Elton Brand under the bus and cut his minutes, Marreese Speights went down with a knee injury, forcing Jordan to play Brand. For about a four-game stretch, Brand pretty much dominated. During that stretch, I thought we were finally seeing the player we'd signed and it looked like maybe that contract wasn't a mistake. I'd love to be able to bottle that feeling.
The pleasant surprise of the season, and the thing that has me feeling the most hopeful about the future is simply Jrue Holiday. He's the real deal and I'm pretty much convinced we've got the point guard position locked down for the next decade.
The low point was the day I realized Eddie Jordan wasn't just feeling things out. The day that my worst fears were confirmed and Jordan proved that he could care less about defense, his offense was nothing more than a gimmick designed to shake "shooters" for 20-footers and to top thing off he had the interpersonal skills of a rattlesnake.
Strike that. The low point was the day I realized Ed Stefanski didn't have the sack to fire Jordan during his first regular season at the helm.
Give me some of your highs and lows in the comments. Let's get it all out, enjoy tonight's game and then turn the page when the clock strikes midnight.
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My name is James Thomas Laffrey. I take responsibility for my free speech of identifying the enemy of our race and urging the solution. (Even my picture is openly displayed on various pages of this site.) It is not a right of government to say who the enemies are and who should be killed and then oppress us for disagreeing with the government.
But "our" government has no concern about what is a right of government, does it? Nor does the government care about our rights as members of the race who founded and built this country, our White race.
We know that our government breaks its own laws every day, our members of government break their oath of office every day, and our government commits unConstitutional acts against us every single day. Therefore, there is no law. The only freedoms we have, such as Freedom Of Speech, are the freedoms we use, maintain, and enforce by all means. On this website, I employ Freedom Of Speech to the fullest. I identify the enemy and urge destruction of that enemy. And I am always ready to enforce this freedom by all means.
Qualities, Qualifications
- Race: I am White. (Our White brothers in Europe usually call our race the "European race," and we cannot disagree. But most of us Americans prefer "White" rather than "European" because "European" implies an improper geographical limitation. Our White ancestors invented and built this country. Americans = Whites.)
- White subraces makeup: German (father's side) and Irish (mother's side).
- Nationality: In the true sense of the word "nation," I am White, a mix of German and Irish blood. In the secondary sense of that word, I am an American, born in Mount Clemens, Michigan (in the metropolitan area of Detroit) in 1957. My parents were born in Detroit. (And they were killed by a tornado in Tennessee in 2002.) Their names: Edward Alexander Laffrey and Mary Loretta Brown Laffrey.
Profession: Educator, Journalist. Lately, a common, struggling, big-box store wage slave.
- Previously, in reverse order:
- Taught and trained foreign teachers of English.
- Taught English in Honolulu, Hawaii (during my grad studies there, earning my master's degree in teaching).
- Published the weekly live-arts magazine Marquette Jam in Marquette, Michigan. (The city library may still have all 12 issues.)
- Taught English in Japan.
- Taught English in Marquette, Michigan (during and after my grad studies there, earning my master's degree in writing).
- Worked as a copy editor, the Copy Desk chief, and the Wire Editor at the former Nashville Banner daily newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. (Yes, in my complete ignorance of jewry at that time, I worked for the enemy jews who steered that newspaper into oblivion so that their Tennessean newspaper could have the monopoly in Middle Tennessee. Please note that jew monopolies are never broken up: media, gold, silver, fashion industry, Hollywood, banking, insurance. But back when Whites naturally controlled those fields because Whites created and built this country, jews insisted that our "monopolies" be broken up and "integrated." Rule of thumb: jews cry until jews control. And jews take control by every illegal and immoral means available.)
- Worked as a motel front desk clerk while earning my bachelor's degree in journalism.
- Worked the night shift in the basement of Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Also in L.A., I was a driver-messenger for Music Express Co., and I was a driver for a struggling movie producer (former brother in law, apparently White).
- Assistant-managed a great PopInGo video rental store in Nashville, Tenn., until the PopInGo chain was bought out by National Video and both the quality and the joy went to hell.
- Worked as an unusually mature! courtesy clerk — bag boy — at Kroger, and was later promoted to the Seafood section, where the smell of fish and their illegal practices drove me to quit.
- Managed a small musical instrument and record shop.
- Among my other jobs: worked in a furniture factory, pumped gas, was a waiter, short-order cook, house painter, maple-sap hauler.
My Struggle, My Awakening
On September 11, 2001, I was training another grad student as my replacement in writing and publishing a newsletter for the College Of Arts And Sciences of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. A phone call urged us to go to a tv.
As my grad-student friend at that time (who since rejected me because of my teaching of Truth) watched the televised atrocities in New York and Washington DC, I remarked that the attacks will be used by the government to take more freedoms away from us law-abiding, honest, real Americans.
And yet, seven years later, as I was teaching English in Japan, I bought into the corporate media's selling of the product called Barack Obama. I admit it. I regret it. Shame on me. At that time, I was still race-blind, as we all have been taught and brainwashed to be.
But in late 2008 and in Obama's first month as president, it became clear to me that Obama was a traitor. His appointments of previous criminals over banking and the "justice" system who had infested previous administrations proved Obama's betrayal of real Americans.
Thus, I began to do my own research to find out who was behind the entire system of treason — in which both the Democrats and the Republicans are partners in a false feud.
I followed the money, which led me to the Rothschild family, the most infamous criminal banking family in history. I learned that the Rothschilds are jews. Yet, I still suffered from race-blindness.
Later, I followed the jews to learn if there really are crypto-jews across the country, and to learn if there really is a division among jewry between the bad and the good. I learned that crypto-jews (secret jews, usually pretending to be Whites) have infiltrated our entire country. Also, I finally cut through the religion scam to know that jews are a race, as many of their leaders have stated in published accounts. Also, I confirmed that Israel's test of jewness is by parentage, blood, race, not religion at all.
In retrospect, I realized very clearly that I have known quite a few crypto-jews. And I learned that jewry is not divided. Jews are united, not only in the USA but also internationally, against the "enemy." Who is their stated, published "enemy"? All non-jews.
Yes, as the jews' racial Rule Book, The Talmud, makes clear to the world (but few of our people will read it and believe it because it is so disgusting, so foreign to our White mentality), jews consider all non-jews to be nothing but "cattle" for the jews to exploit in any and every way. The jews even have specific, official words for non-jews that include the meaning of inferiority, such as "gentiles" and "goyim." We Whites have no specific words for all nonWhites. You see?
At that point in one's personal education, the larger truth about race becomes clear and explains every large problem on the domestic and world stage.
The jews, as a race, are using the other races — the African race (Blacks), the Mongolian race (Asians, and American Indians), the Mestizos (the mix including Mexicans, Latinos, etc.), and the Arabs — as tools to disturb, displace, race-mix, rape, and murder Whites. The jews in control of government policy on immigration have opened the flood gates allowing massive incompatible immigration. We Whites are the jews' most capable enemy — when we are aware of the problem! Therefore, the jews' focus is on destroying the White majority population in every White-founded country.
Destroying us, and our racial qualities toward creativity, inventiveness, fairness, and generosity, can be as easy as duping us to intermarry with other races and breed our own blood into oblivion. Other tactics simultaneously used by the jews (a brief, partial list):
- Discouraging us from having many children, if any.
- Overworking us and underpaying us so that we cannot afford to have a proper family.
- Shipping our jobs overseas so that we must scrape to survive.
- Draining our financial blood through usury (theft by banking) on mortgages, car loans, and credit cards.
I do not accept this situation. I do not accept that a traitor race can illegally take from us our country, our livelihoods, and our future and get away with it.
Not on my watch.
I am an American man. I am a White man. Finally, my White traits of problem-solving and administering Justice are completely awakened and engaged.
It is in Self Defense that we react to jewry's war against us. Remember the World Wars. Remember the Depression they deliberately inflicted on us, which killed by starvation one-million to two million Whites of America. Remember the U.S.S. Liberty. Remember 9/11. We are fully justified in defending ourselves. By All Means. Until it is done.
I used to say, before I overcame the pacifism that had been indoctrinated into me, that we have two paths to victory within our lifetimes.
- Path Number One was the public and so-called "legal" organization effort to elect our people in 2014 and make a clean sweep of Congress's House Of Representatives — where we could mass-impeach jews and all other oath-breakers from the government! We would have needed only a few public candidates from each state (and armies of voters) to have made this a reality. But as I said, I overcame that pacifistic, currently impossible notion.
- Path Number Two is the ongoing, stealthy, killing of the enemy among us. We can not win if we leave the enemy standing! This is the job for new heroes, a job left almost completely undone by our previous generations. Be smart, be secret, be lethal, be proud. See articles of advice linked at the bottom of this website.
It is my duty, and it is yours, dear reader, to end and undo jewry's multi-generational crimes against our people. What will happen if we don't? What will happen if we only continue the "waiting and educating" strategy that nearly every famous name in White truthtelling has regurgitated? Everything will continue to get worse.
It is not enough to know the truth. It is not enough to write the truth. Words do not make the bully stop beating the honest gentle man. Words do not make the jew-controlled military and law-enforcement agencies stop the false arrests, renditions, false trials, false imprisonments, tortures, and assassinations against us.
Words of Truth did not save Adolf Hitler's great and happy Germany of the 1930s. Words did not prevent the deliberate murders of our people by jews on 9/11 in New York City and Washington DC.
Words today will not prevent jewry's next big atrocity against us, nor will words prevent the ongoing genocide against us by non-White immigration to displace us, by welfare to non-Whites, by jew banking, by jew insurers, by jew doctors, by jews in control of our government.
It is not enough to be Right.
We must Fight Back.
Be Right and Fight — By All Means, until it's done. The more help we get, the sooner our victory.
Whites Will Win! — again.
James T. Laffrey
I invite emails from likeminded Whites in the USA and around the world. Update, Aug. 2016: Hushmail.com deleted my WhitesWillWin account there. If you find an email address on the homepage at the bottom of the right-hand column, use that.
Note about email: Both Yahoo and Google are trying to force us to reveal all of our connections among email accounts, our websites, people we email with, and then Google wants phone numbers, too, which would allow GPS tracking of your mobile phone location, anytime, all the time. So, I will not open another email account with them. You know what needs to be done with those jews and their companies.
Expose and Oppose jews in every way that you can. Discourage them permanently from residing among us. The most effective and necessary way is to kill them. Now, and every day, until the job is done.


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According to a survey conducted by TODAY Moms and Parenting.com, 6000 American mothers said they were planning to spend an average if $271 per child this December.
Only 1 in 4 of the mothers said they were planning to spend less on gifts than they did last year.
Three-quarters of the respondents said they thought they were spending more than they should.
I don't know who these mothers are. Presumably, they celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanza. And they are the sort of people who visit the TODAY Moms and Parenting.com websites, which probably indicates a group of people who are wealthier than average.
I also suspect these parents have fewer kids than the average American. They may not have to stretch their budgets very far.
Still, that $271 per child surprises me, especially in light of the graph that Scott Adler posted last month about the current distribution of incomes in the United States.
Are real people spending that much on gifts for their kids? Remember, $271 was the average. Many respondents planned to spend more. About 10% said they were going to spend at least $500 per child.
So I'm curious. What are kids actually getting for that kind of money? I realize that some expensive gifts are smart investments. Like a computer. A bicycle. A digital camera or a guitar.
But I also wonder how much of that money is getting spent on trendy, media-hyped toys that will soon lose their appeal. Are kids getting gifts that will really entertain them? Stimulate the imagination? Maybe they are. I'm not passing judgment here. I'm just wondering.
And I'm particularly curious because lots of people around the world don't have a tradition of massive gift-giving every December. So what if Christmas–as we know it–didn't exist?
Would American parents end up spending the same amount of money each year on gifts for their children?
Maybe they would. According to a survey of ethnic groups in Australia, Sino-Vietnamese parents don't view holidays as particularly important occasions for gift-giving. But they "give gifts as the need arises or to reward their children's academic progress rather than wait for special gift-giving occasions."
So maybe, if the big-spending December holiday tradition were mysteriously forgotten, parents would still spend the same amount each year. But it would be distributed on a more personalized, quirky schedule.
Somehow, though, I doubt it. Christmas is ritualized, even for people who don't identify with the religious origins of the holiday. And part of the ritual is the unveiling of exciting, new, impressive gifts. Some parents feel pressured to spend more than they can easily afford.
And it seems that parents' standards–what toys rate as exciting and impressive–are getting more expensive. In an article about Christmas spending in the United Kingdom, Adam Lusher compares this year's top three best-selling toys with their counterparts fifteen years ago.
Top three best-selling Christmas toys in the U.K. today:
1. LeapPad Explorer £79.99 ($125)
2. Lego Ninjago Fire Temple £91.99 ($144)
3. Fireman Sam Pontypandy Rescue Set £29.99 ($47)
Top three best-sellers 15 years ago (with prices adjusted for inflation):
1. Buzz Lightyear action figure £36.58 ($57)
2. Crime Buster Action Man £36.58 ($57)
3. Strolling Sisters Barbie £27.81 ($44)
People today aren't any wealthier than they were 15 years ago, right? But the gifts are getting more expensive. It seems pretty clear. We're running some kind of race. Against the neighbors, against the memories of our own, more modest childhood celebrations, maybe. Or against whatever impression we made on our kids last year.
More reading
For more talk about the social forces at work during the holidays, see my recent post about the politics of who hosts the big family gathering.


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Two women were allegedly killed by their husbands in different parts of the Capital, in two separate incidents. HT Correspondent reports.delhi Updated: Sep 23, 2009 00:23 IST
Two women were allegedly killed by their husbands in different parts of the Capital, in two separate incidents.
In the first incident, reported from the Nangloi in West Delhi, a 30-year-old woman Sunita was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband Sandeep (32) near the Nangloi railway station.
"The couple today met near Nangloi railway station where the husband allegedly stabbed Sunita with a sharp-edged weapon. We believe that Sandeep had come to meet the deceased with intent of killing her. The two had an argument and in a fir of rage the accused killed Sunita," said a senior police officer on the condition of anonymity, as he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The police said that initial investigations revealed that the deceased was allegedly having an extramarital affair in Rohtak where she was staying with her husband. After the two repeatedly got into fights over the issue the deceased left his house and came to stay with her parents.
In the second incident, a 33-year-old woman was allegedly poisoned by her husband in Mandawali area of East Delhi on Tuesday. The woman has been identified as Bharti Gupta.
The police said that the reasons behind the incident are still not clear. The police have registered a case and are on the lookout of the accused.


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Democratic Rep. John Mayo, who proposed the bill, wants the tax to fund obesity prevention programs. One estimate figured the excise tax could raise $200 million a year in the state, while adding approximately 40 cents to the cost of a 20-ounce soft drink at a convenience store, and prices for 12-packs at grocery stores would jump $2.88, according to the report.
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i picked some up in chicago last year and add to my collection whenever we go back. there are fizzy bath bombs and bubble bars. so glorious.
i usually break off some of the bubble bar and add it to a bath bomb.
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Current commercial tractor guidance systems present to the driver information to perform agricultural tasks in the best way. This information generally includes a treated zones map referenced to the tractor's position. Unlike actual guidance systems where the tractor driver must mentally associate treated zone maps and the plot layout, this paper presents a guidance system that using Augmented Reality (AR) technology, allows the tractor driver to see the real plot though eye monitor glasses with the treated zones in a different color. The paper includes a description of the system hardware and software, a real test done with image captures seen by the tractor driver, and a discussion predicting that the historical evolution of guidance systems could involve the use of AR technology in the agricultural guidance and monitoring systems.
Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that presents a synthetically generated environment to the user though visual, auditory and other stimuli [
By contrast, Augmented Reality (AR) is a VR-like technology that presents to the user synthetically generated information superimposed onto the real world [
In the agricultural field scientific literature some authors have presented works employing VR over Geographics Information Systems (GIS), see for example Lin
We have developed and tested an agricultural guidance system that uses AR technology. This paper presents this system and the visual results obtained. Moreover, in the Discussion section, this paper presents the evolution of guidance techniques in agriculture, which predicts the use of AR technology in future agricultural systems.
The guidance system is composed of a software application that runs over a hardware system. The application acquires information from some hardware sensors, processes this information and presents a video of it on
There is a hardware implementation that is employed when the user is driving the tractor, which we call "tractor equipment". There is another hardware implementation employed when the user is walking around the land. We call it "exterior equipment".
A GPS receiver was used for positioning the user on the land and, therefore, to locate the video camera that obtains the user's vision field. A
The software of the system was developed in
The developed system shows information superimposed on captured real world video images. For that reason, it needs to process the data and render 3D information to match the real video.
The treated zone is displayed using small rectangles that approach the tractor path. Each rectangle has position information formed by the x and y position in UTM projection, the z = 0 plane, the working width and the heading vector. The vertices of the rectangle are computed with this information and passed to the
The computer screen is a 2D visualization device. In order to display 3D information on it, the application needs to project this data over a 2D plane.
The camera definition parameters of the user camera
The camera definition parameters of the
In agricultural tasks, tractors usually need to follow a trajectory equidistant to a previous pass. Using GPS guidance systems, this can be accomplished through an autonomous guidance system or through an assisted guidance system.
Autonomous guidance systems employ control laws to steer the tractor taking into account two inputs; (i) the distance of the tractor to the desired trajectory, and (ii) the orientation difference between the tractor and the nearest point to the tractor in the trajectory. A typical control law used in high precision guidance systems is:
Assisted guidance systems work in a similar way, but they do not steer the wheel. Instead, they show the tractor driver information about the amount and direction the steering wheel should be moved to follow a desired trajectory. Usually this information is provided by means of a light bar or by an on-screen bar.
In the assisted guidance system developed here, this information was put in the screen by means of a quantity of arrows. This arrow quantity was computed using a fuzzy logic control law, which was experimentally tuned.
Tractor guidance systems need to store the complete trajectory followed by the tractor in the agricultural task. This trajectory consists of mainly the tractor positions received by the positioning system, in our case just the GPS receiver. When a tractor guidance system is working, some new positions must to be stored every second. In our system, this number was five, because we employed a GPS receiver with a 5 Hz update frequency.
Tractor guidance systems need to continuously compute the steering turn and the treated zones map. To do this, it is necessary to process the tractor fragment trajectories near the spatial position of the tractor in each time instant, but taking into account the usual trajectory followed by a tractor working in a plot, it is easy to perceive that some trajectory points near in space are far in time. Due to this, the spatial points of the trajectories must be stored in the guidance system memory following spatial data structures. These structures allow access to all trajectory points near in space to the spatial tractor position.
The spatial data structure employed in the developed guidance system was a quadtree [
_child is a four pointers vector to four child nodes. Nodes without children have the zero value.
_objects is a list of pointers to objects stored in the structure. When this list reaches 16 pointers, four child nodes are created and objects of father node are distributed between child nodes. The maximum depth of the quadtree is 11 levels, because more levels increase the insert and extraction times. These numbers, 16 and 11, were obtained with simulations using real paths followed by a tractor working in plots.
_bbox contains geometric information about the objects of the node in order to speed up processing time. It contains the four vertices that include all objects of the node.
_depth is a number that represents the node depth in the quadtree structure. Fader node has 0 value, children from father has 1 value. Children from children of father have the 2 value and so on.
The guidance system was developed using software components from the Spanish commercial tractor guidance system
The developed system allows the tractor driver to receive the guidance information in a very natural way. Thanks to the augmented reality, the tractor driver can see over the land scenery some information about the treated and non-treated areas. The developed system also provides (i) the speed and total area values, (ii) a two-dimensional map of the treated areas and (iii) some arrows that provide the driver with information about the magnitude and sense of turning the steering wheel in order to follow the correct trajectory.
When the user was driving the tractor, the user camera captured the front wheels and the frontal parts of the tractor, the upper part or the steering turn and some other parts of the tractor cab. The map superimposed over these images produced a strange sensation. For this reason, processed images of the land (
The developed system also allows any observer to see the treated areas in the plot.
Some agricultural tasks, such as plowing or harvesting, produce changes in the color or in the texture of the treated areas, but no visual effects are produced by other tasks, such as fertilizing or spraying. Moreover, agricultural tasks are continually increasing their working width and this makes tractor driving difficult. Due to this, different strategies are used by farmers in order to guide the tractor along the plot, when a visual guidance cannot be easily performed. One of them is the use of mechanical markers, which produce a trace to be followed by the tractor in subsequent rounds [see
The development of GPS technology and the reduction in price of the necessary receivers has made possible their use in different sectors. One of these is agriculture, where nowadays GPS technology is widely used to assist in the guidance of tractors and other agricultural vehicles or even to autonomously guide them. The information offered to the tractor driver by commercial tractor guidance systems can be categorized into two types:
Guidance systems that only provide information about the magnitude and sense of turning the steering wheel in order to follow the correct trajectory. They are commonly named Guidance systems with a wide screen that can display much more information, including a map of the treated areas referenced to the tractor position. The screen usually offers touch control possibilities, and some of these guidance systems are integrated in the tractors by the tractor manufacturers.
Guidance systems that only provide information about the magnitude and sense of turning the steering wheel in order to follow the correct trajectory. They are commonly named
Guidance systems with a wide screen that can display much more information, including a map of the treated areas referenced to the tractor position. The screen usually offers touch control possibilities, and some of these guidance systems are integrated in the tractors by the tractor manufacturers.
Mechanical markers, foam markers, or the
Guidance systems with a screen that provides a map of treated zones are easy and comfortable to use, because the tractor driver does not need to create, actualize, and retain in his mind the treated zones map. He only needs to make a mental association between the map presented by the guidance system display and the land layout.
The system presented in this paper is another forward step in the simplification and comfort of the farmers' work, because it allows them to always see the treated zones. They do not need to manage maps in their minds, nor do they need to make associations between the map and the terrain.
The use of AR technology in a tractor guidance system is viable and useful. It allows the tractor driver to see the treated zones in a natural way. The driver does not need to manage maps in his mind or make associations between a map and the terrain when no visible effects occur after a task, as occurs in many real agricultural scenarios.
The information contained in the treated zones maps of an assisted guidance system that uses AR technology must be complemented with information about the magnitude and sense of the steering wheel rotation required in order to follow the correct trajectory. In this way it is not necessary to have a very precise projection of the treated map over the field of vision. The presented system works fine over flat lands. A digital model of the terrain might be necessary in non flat lands.
The system could be used inside the tractor cabin for guidance tasks, but it can also be used outside, when the farmer is walking along the land. A future improvement of this AR system could provide it with the ability to introduce, show, and manage the spatial information of a
This work was supported partially by the regional 2010 Research Project Plan of the Junta de Castilla y León, (Spain), under project VA034A10-2. It was also partially supported by the 2009 ITACyL project entitled "Realidad aumentada, Bci y correcciones RTK en red para el guiado GPS de tractores (ReAuBiGPS)". The authors are grateful to the Spanish tractor guidance company AGROGUIA (
Hardware of the system. (a) "Tractor equipment", the hardware of the system when the user is inside the tractor cab. (b) "Exterior equipment", the hardware of the system when the tractor driver is outside the tractor cab.
This figure shows the diagram of the application modules. There are three main modules. The central one processes the information provided by the positioning and video camera modules to generate the 2D projection over the real time video acquired.
Camera view fustum showing in red the camera definition parameters:
Screen capture of a quadtree visor developed to preview the quadtree splitting.
Visualization with
A possible scene that the tractor driver sees: (
Another possible scene that the tractor driver sees: (
A possible scene that an observer sees: (
Another possible scene that an observer sees: (