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|About Myself
While my previous job, (23 years), primarily centered around the performance testing of
prototype type, audio signal processors containing proprietary technologies, it also
involved the challenge to constantly adapt testing to newly evolving technologies,
control and audio interfaces.
Prior to testing audio processors I repaired consumer audio for about 2.5 and managed a
service department at several outlets of a major stereo retail chain.
Before repairing stereos, I repaired and operated ground based automatic target
tracking radar systems. I was a crew chief as a member of the First Combat Evaluation
Group, SAC, USAF. My first experience with OpAmps was in the analog balistics
computers of the radars I worked on.
When I was in high school :
I owned a hand fed 12" x 18" letter press that I earned money with :-) The largest
single job that I did by hand, one sheet at a time, 100,000.
I made my own PCBs used to make flip/flops from surplus components.
In 9th grade, in a game of "one ups man's ship", I memorizes the first 70 decimal places
of Pi. Unfortunately over the last 30+ years I have forgotten the last ten that I knew.
If a language doesn't provide Pi for me, I will use 4*Atan(1), in radians, 355/113 works
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|About :
This is my first attempt at a web site. So
things, will no doubt be, dynamic for a
while. Change is the only constant.
|Above is the view looking up at the antenna assembly of an AN-TSQ-96 J-band
Mono Pulse Target Tracking Radar. This picture was taken at Det 23R in Udorn
Thailand about 60 klicks south of Vientiane Laos. The 30' metal antenna
pedestal sits on top of an additional 60' cement pedestal.
AN/TSQ-96 J-BAND Mono Pulse Target Tracking
The above view is the reverse angle of the previous picture. Looking down from about
90' above Udorn RTAFB. The majority of the radar is contained in the cubes on the right
side of this picture. Several hundred feet of cable kept us away from radar seeking
missiles. The walls of these cubes were honey comb aluminium designed to allow
bullets to pass through easily without producing much shrapnel.
|This is a joke I put together
with Photo Paint.
The progressive views start at
the circle in the bottom row,
I am fairly sure that the card is
an IBM Magnetic Core Memory
Card. A whole 100 bits of EMP
proof memory.
|The background of this page is the image of the shore of a lake outside Stanley Idaho. I turned my camera 90' and
centered the shore line.
The picture was taken from point A looking at point B, ( see below )
|The lake is a few miles past the top of this water fall that it feeds and a look at the climb
we had ahead of us.
The text below evolved out of an explanation about why and how I structure my VB projects, contained on the VB 6.0.03 page. I carried this a little past what was
going to be a few lines about how I structure my VB programs, past my little function library, C-Language stories and right over the I-86 begots and into segment
offset addressing.
That explanation basically became what was, the first few days of the lesson plan of one of my instructors, who called it, the "begets". The history of the PC, from
when Bill didn't want to write an operating system for the IBM PC, and C was just some code utilities needed to support writing applications, until an OS was
available, to when the IBM PC came to market and C-Language was a Class Language, that all other computer languages, (except ASM and machine code) could
be made from as an instance of that class. That instructor told us that, although not currently done that way, most other languages could be written with
Personal History :
I would like to generate an income. I would like to exchange my knowledge and skill sets with others who feel they can or could benefit from them. The primary
reason for this Web site is to display visual examples of my knowledge base and skill sets. Typically a list of previous jobs and associated titles can be a functional
mechanism to couple reasonable expectations of an individual's knowledge base and skill sets. However in my case I feel that my current list of jobs and titles
obtained while performing those jobs does not adequately cover the knowledge and skill sets used or gained in the process of doing those jobs. While pictures of
the results of my knowledge and skill sets are I hope at least interesting to others, and or a source of information or ideas to those who view them, that
sometimes a thousand words can say more than one picture.
I have had only 3 full time jobs in my life. If carrying 12 semester unit s and holding a 3 plus GPA, while paying for it with the GI Bill, counted as a 4th full time job.
Then I can add, I worked for a solid 32 years. The titles associated with half of my jobs, covering 28 years, don't tell people what knowledge or skill sets were
involved. What follows is an attempt to fill in job related details as well as personal accomplishments, including knowledge and skill sets acquired or enhanced
subsequent to my last full time employment.
One simple explanation for how I have come to know what I have, is that I need to be learning something, usually technical in nature all of the time.
As an example, I purchased my first computer so I could teach myself how to program ATE. I easily spent 3 times more of my own money to purchase my own ATE
than I did for my last truck when it was new. Because it is fun. It also paid my bills for around 20 years.
I have never purchased a computer game. I find programming a computer to get valuable data from a black box, is much more fun and interesting than playing a
video game. These days, with the Internet at the other end of my keyboard, I simply teach myself what ever I want to, or need to, know to accomplish what I
want. If I need a circuit that I can't find, I will invent it. My parents were both teaches, I could always get an answer to, "why and how", and because of that, I
have never stopped asking.
The combination of an old skill set, programming ATE for evaluating audio hardware and software, when combined with a new skill set of programming micro
controllers, earned me $10k. I was paid for the design of one high quality, audio circuit, comprised of solid state analog audio, serial digital control interface, split
SMPS, with virtual ground, TTL, and fully differential audio I/O, for easily half the component cost of the circuit it replaced. Pictures, schematics technical
specifications can be found on my Fabrication Plan B page.
The combination of a very old skill set, working with vacuum tubes, when combined with a more recently obtained skill set of 3-D modeling with my $3k copy of
AutoCAD and my more recently gained experience with making panel labels and component mounting assemblies with Tap Plastics. Allowed me to have 10 chassis
made at a local machine shop and for me to build five, 50 watt, tube based guitar amplifiers. A project that I am involved in with the engineer who hired me to
work at Dolby Labs, over 25 years ago now. Our list price for the hand built, point-to-point wired amplifiers is $2,300.00. Many pictures on my site of my CAD work
as well as of the amplifiers I have built. Additionally we have a site specifically for the amplifiers at, http://www.translucidamps.com/.
My only 3 full time job were with :
US Air Force, Repair of Ground Based Automatic Target Tracking Radar Systems and associated Computer Systems. Right out of high school.
Pacific Stereo, repair of consumer audio equipment. After some college classes for about 2.5 years, before working 23 years for Dolby Labs.
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Evaluation of Licensed Consumer Technologies.
The associated job title were :
1) Crew Chief, 1CEVG, maintenance and operations, Detachment 5 of the First Combat Evaluation Group USAF. We were directly under Headquarters Strategic Air
Command. I only lived on an Air Force Base for the first 9 months of my 5.5 years in the Air Force, I was paid to rent an apartment, paid for food and to cover
what ever most Airmen received for free while living on an Air Force Base. The closest Air Base to where I lived was 76 miles away. A Tactical Command Air Base
that had no connection to what we did. Of course we received the normal pay that every Airman received.
Combat Evaluation being somewhat miss leading. Our very small Group of individuals, were located at several detachments around the US However we also had
the largest single day loss of Air Force Ground Based Personal of the Vietnam War, only 11 people, simple radar repairmen. These being technicians who were
more noted for using an M-16 to shoot holes in the floor of a flooding radar van to drain rain water than to shoot people, to drain blood. The bodies were never
recovered from where they died in Laos. They were using the radars that we used in the US for Combat Evaluation, in a Black Op that used them for the ground
based radar directed bombing of Hanoi with B-52s. If you would like to read more details about The First Combat Evaluation Group, follow this Wikipedia link,
If you would like to read more details of the Black Op in Laos, follow this link or search on Lima Site 85.
A few other miscellaneous facts about my time in the Air Force :
Tech School.
By the time I joined the Air Force after leaving high school. I had already built my own oscilloscope, a digital adding and subtracting machine from surplus parts and
using circuit board that I designed and made at home. This resulted in my being placed into a special "self paced" Basic Electronics Program. While 99% of the
Basic Electronics students entering the AF attended lecture style classes as would be typical of an normal civilian college. I had a personal instructor who who was
simply there to answer my questions. The were no more than six other students in any of my classes. The instructors had no lesson plan that they presented to us
because we were allowed to progress at our own pace, thus nobody was at the same point in the curriculum as anybody else. When we didn't need the instructors
help they simply read a news paper or book or did their taxes. If we had a question, they put down what ever it they were doing to help us. The students in the
normal lecture format, took their smoke break when the bell rang. We had no restrictions as to how many breaks we took or how long they lasted.
After the Basic Electronics I attended my radar school, where I received 2 letters of commendation for my class work in 2 of my computer classes and I held a 94%
average for all of my class work.
I also obtained the highest student rank obtainable. At a lower student leader rank, it was my job to march my Squadron Shift to class across base, occasionally
employing some fancy foot work to impress on lookers. While I was in tech school it was in the process of gaining accreditation by the Souther College Conference.
If I had attended a year later it would have been possible for me to receive an Associate of Science degree.
Permanent Party.
While performing my normal duties, I voluntarily continued my study of electronics by correspondence school provided by the Air Training Command. That added
several thousand hours to my class credits.
A few years I was playing volley ball at our site waiting for the next B-52 or F-111 to call I.P. at our range. Our Commander a Lt. Col. who normally did not us our PA
system, yelled at me, basically "get in here Leyva", what ever I had done was not good, because he normally did not call people to his office personally, he had
people who normally did that for him. The tone of his voice also indicated to me I that I had stepped into something deep. In general it was best not to get too
much attention from a Commander. I went to his office, where he started to yell at me, then cracked a smile, he was having fun with me at my expense. He then
informed me that my first attempt to take the promotion fitness exams for Staff Sergent, that I had taken several months prior, (because I had to, with basically a
snow balls chances), had resulted in the highest combined technical knowledge and military knowledge score of everybody in the Air Force testing for Staff Sergent.
Who knew ? Making Staff under 4 years was an accomplishment when the Vietnam War was going. The war was over then and the Air Force was down sizing but I
still got promoted. I became a Crew Chief with 9 team members that I was responsible for writing their yearly performance reviews. My crew ranged in age from a
few years on either side of maybe 22 years old. Controlling 9 young men away from home for their first time in a dynamic environment could be a challenge for
most people, I was an old man at 25 years. When my crew was on the evening shift between 4pm and 2am, I was the highest ranking person on our site. Along
with the responsibility for my crew, there was millions of dollars worth of equipment, some classified as well as associated classified documents. We used all of those
materials to simulate Soviet weapons and tactics employed by their area defence systems. We scored B-52 and FB-111 crews on their ability to penetrate those
systems and deliver their ordinance. Kind of like a video game, but with really big knobs.
Unfortunately because I had been promoted to Staff so early, even if I passed all the paper requirements, time in grade and time in service prevented me from
obtaining my next promotion for 5 years and the $50/month pay raise. As much fun as it all had been, waiting 5 years for a $50/month pay raise was not a major
incentive to stay in the Air Force.
Military duties are supposed to be commensurate with rank and position. Because of the down sizing, Staff Sergeants were asked to supplement the Buck Sergeants
and or Airmen to provide security and fire protection at our site when the range was close on the weekend. Among other things on the TODO list for the weekends
was to mop the floors of various rooms on the site. When my weekend came, I felt that moping the floor of and office occupied by an other Staff Sergeant way
beneath my position of Crew Chief. The following week I was asked to mop the floor, I said military rules prevented me from doing so. I was told to do it, I did
and informed Master Sergeant who was directing me to mop the floor, that I would have to leave the Air Force. The Master Sergeant was our administrative head,
and he offered to help me get out. No thank you, I will take care of it on my own. I preceded to do my research, I had found an optimal solution that would
provide me with an Honorable Discharge as well as all benefits including the GI Bill so I could collect money while going to school. One evening while talking with my
crew and listening to the standard bitching about the military, a long held tradition of military personal. I told them, "if you want to bitch about being in the Air
Force, then do something about it, or shut up.". I followed that statement by saying, "watch me". I wrote a letter to my commander quoting the necessary
regulations that would allow me to leave the Air Force. I handed the letter to the Major who was our Operation Officer and my direct boss. I told him they had 17 to
43 day to let me out. Thirty seven days later I was free and clear, I drove off an Air Base for the last time. The first thing I did, was to get a cheese burger at
around 10 am and have my first taste of freedom in 5 years, 5 months, 17 days, 10 hours.
A few other adventures of mine while in the Air Force included but were not limited to.
Going to work when the outside air temperature was around -55 degrees F. In Northern Main.
Working outside on radar antennas at -30 F. In Northern Main.
Working outside on radar equipment while raining and being 80 degrees F. In Northern Thailand.
Working on radar equipment in the middle of an oil field in Wyoming in the Summer, not sure what the temperature was but there were Scorpion under every other
rock. The site in Wyoming was Mobil so that air crews could practice their skills on targets, they had never seen before, as was the case at my permanent site in
Idaho. To prevent any Air Force air crews from seeing the targets we enlisted the help of the Royal Air Force who flew down from Canada with their Vulcan bombers
and helped us align our equipment by running our range and providing targets for our radars to be calibrated on.
I attended a few additional training to repair a Mono Pulse radar system that I worked on in Thailand where I spent six months.
I also attended additional classes for what was called "Combat Sky Spot" this is what was more commonly called ground directed bombing. In that case my
operations duty was to do the ballistics calculations necessary to determine the point in space where the B-52s released their bombs that did a 7 mile free fall into
the target box.
2) Service Department Manager, and consumer audio equipment repair technician. Not much here. Simply a job that was offered to me by the Regional Service
Manager who was friends with a student in my English 101 class. An offer I accepted when I couldn't find enough units to take during Summer break to live off of
the GI Bill until the Fall semester started. Among other things this job paid for my second Super Bike a 70 kilo watt Kawasaki Z-1 LTD B-3 that came stock with over
size 28mm Mikunis, geared for street racing but did 100 mph on the flat at "red line" in 3rd gear. For those who know how steep the bottom deck of the San
Rafael, Richmond bridge is on the Marine side, that bike would do 135 mph up hill in 5th gear on the steepest part. I rode it up to the US Canadian border. I rode
my previous Z-1 up through Oregon and Idaho to Golden and Banff in Canada, to Calgary and back through Glacier National Park in Montana past Stanley Idaho in
the Sawtooth Mountain, back across Nevada and home to the Bay Area. As I remember that was something like 3,600 miles in 9 days.
3) Associate Engineer, evaluation of licenced consumer technologies. My primary job for the first 15 years or so was to work with 4 other technicians and 5
engineers. We conducted all of the technical approval process necessary to obtain a license from Dolby Laboratories. The license allowed equipment manufacturers
to use Dolby IP and obtain the ASICs necessary to build their product. Knowing the technical details of Dolby IP was a given for all Dolby technical employees. My
job differed because it required that I review the confidential designs of audio equipment, while in the R&D phase and before manufacturing could commence. The
designs were from every serious audio equipment design engineering company on the planet. This included often having those engineers at my test bench with
me, while I tested for problems and they corrected them. This face to face exchange between the design engineers and myself could be from a day to several
days. On some occasions the company who employed the engineer simply said stay in San Francisco until their design was approved. In one instance involving the
design of an IC, the 2 engineers who accompanied the new design could not come back to Japan until we approved the chip. We loaned them all of the test
equipment they needed to sit in their hotel room next to the San Francisco International Air Port for 2 weeks, working on their design before they came back to San
Francisco proper, for further testing by us. This took place only a year or two after I started working at Dolby Labs. This was when it could cost millions of dollars or
the equivalent just to get to the final masks necessary to make the first wafer of production silicon. I problems with the design were found after that point, the only
recourse would be to destroy the silicon and go back to the R&D process. For a 4 year period while I was the only person at Dolby testing engineering samples of
ICs containing Dolby IP. I found a very serious problem with an IC manufactured by a company well know to almost anybody. They did start making the production
quantities of their Pro Logic IC before I had tested it. After testing a surround processor at my bench with my equipment, the evaluation continued in a listening
room with a monitor where I watched movie clips that I knew could piss off a Pro Logic decoder. I listened to the audio for defects in sound quality as well as
watching the monitor to find defects in the localization of the audio image relative to the video image. I built a 6 channel A/B switch that allowed me to easily switch
between the processor that I was testing and our reference processor. This way I could put a video clip on loop and easily hear a difference. Listening being a
technical skill that can take years to develop. And for some, simply makes listening to music for pleasure not possible, because their mind is constantly searching
for defects in the audio. I can hear defects in audio program material the first time I hear it. Defects that most people simply can not hear regardless of how many
times they hear the material. I know how things should sound. In a lot of cases a defect in audio performance will be consistent enough that a consumer will not
notice it, because they do not have a reference to compare it to. In the case of the chip I mentioned above. When I first heard the defect, I asked one of our new
engineers to come into the listening room and tell me what he thought of the problem that I heard. He came in and sat down, I played the movie clip several
times so he could hear the defect. He didn't hear it. I asked another of our engineers to come in and listen. He walked about halfway across the listen room floor,
and before he could sit down, he said, "stop the evaluation, it's over, don't go any further". We had no bench tests that showed the problem. I listened to the
same two minute video clip, about 120 time that day and over 200 times the next day. A pad of paper in my hand and a "O" for or OK and an "X" for not that way.
I listened to six samples of the IC. What I found out was that the IC failed from 37% to 41% of the times the clip was played. Failures varied from a subtle pop to
blowing the sound image completely off the screen. Random failures in signal processing can be very obvious to consumers. The manufacturer could not duplicate
the problem in Japan, they were not going to destroy chips they had already produced simply on our word that it sounded bad to us. At that point the only option
was to catch the "Red Eye" from Tokyo to San Francisco so they could hear it for themselves. They decided that we were picking on them, that because we could not
back up our observations with hard data, they would sell the chip anyway.
A corner stone of our evaluation process was flexibility. The flexibility was the result of never testing the same thing twice and keeping up with the current state of
a technology that changed every six month to a year. At that time I knew more about programming test equipment for that type of testing, than anybody else in
the company. The closest equivalent to what I did, would be the ATE programming used on the production lines of our manufacturing division that produced the
professional audio equipment used in movie theaters, recording studios and movie sound stages all over the world. In that case they tested hundreds of the same
very specific implementation of one Dolby IP, designed by our professional audio engineering department. Who could easily drive across town to the manufacturing
facility and help solve production problems uncovered by the test automation that was used there.
I decided what I needed to do, to get the hard data that we needed and programmed my test equipment to produce what, I would call a "repeatable, constant
power matrix encoded quadrant pan". My new test showed graphically on paper exactly what was going on. I sent my test to the IC manufacturer. They found the
defect in their chip. An internal ground trace in the silicon that caused the audio positioning control path to burp. They redesigned the chip and I added a new tool
to my test kit. Done deal,,, next number please ?
The instance I mention above was before I spent about $35,000 out of my pocket, so I could have my own copy of the equipment that I used at work, at home.
I didn't want the fun to stop, just because the work day did. Lots of people spend what I did on a car or a boat or a plane. I can crash my toys while drinking at the
keyboard and recover by simply pressing a button specifically designed to do just that. I am not sure where that button is on cars, boats or planes. But I do know
that I haven't collected even one scratch from all of the crashes I have been involved in. Taking my equipment on a joy ride for one weekend, paid for all of the
parts I needed to build the computer I am using now. And part of the equipment cost was offset my the tax deductions that came along with. My equipment works
as well as it did when I purchased it about 10 years ago now and I still use it. Maybe I should have been the one with the "your crazy smile", when my friends told
me how much they just spent on that new car smell. Something that I can easily afford to add to my toys after paying for them. And will last longer for me because
the only open Windows I have are in the computer.
My time with Dolby Labs covers 23 years there were many more technical experiences there, but the high points are covered in pictures and shorter text else where
on my site. I would rather spend the time working on actual projects that can increase my skill sets and produce some income.
That is enough for now. Questions, let me know


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Gorgeous creation Vannessa, beautifully done, and it's great to see one of our Emerald Faeries being used too. Thanks so much for joining us over at Emerald Faeries Challenge Blog, good luck and hope to see you again.ReplyDelete
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This is lovely! The image is expertly colored and I can see why you love it. Nice flower details too.ReplyDelete
Oh my. She is beautiful. Stunning card. Thanks for joining us over at The Emerald Faeries. Good luck and hope you will join us again.ReplyDelete
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Yellow and green is an excellent combination of colours!! Thanks for joining us in our current challenge "Anything goes with ribbons" at Crafty Ribbons and welcome back anytime!ReplyDelete
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Wow... So pretty... Your coloring is amazing and you used some great colors for her here - love it so much! :) Design is lovely and that sparkle on her wings is a perfect touch.ReplyDelete
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As discussed in the 19th Hole clip here featuring David Fay, John Feinstein, Steve Sands and myself, the course played much tougher than many of us expected and if that's what keeps everyone motivated to return the U.S. Open to Merion in the future, fine. Though as I mention in the segment, players felt some of the setup measures were far from necessary to keep the course relevant.
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I'm excited to say that I had a piece published in Hannaford's Fresh Magazine! They have a sweet little magazine that I like to keep around for dinner ideas. I pitched an idea for a few Superbowl recipes and they liked them well enough to print it.
Read them online here, or pick up the January/February magazine in Hannaford.
I can't link to my exact piece, so you can flip to page 50 to see my story and recipes. Thank you for reading it! I am proud of this. : )


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With the start of each new year, many of us re-calibrate our plans, our agendas, our goals. The resolutions stack up like cordwood and many will get consumed in the fire. But we look forward, hoping to build on the high points of the past year and sweep the lows into the dustbin of history. Hopefully, we learn from it all because even in failure or disappointment there are life-affirming lessons.
2012 was quite a mixed bag for me, as many years can be. There were some glorious and gratifying highs and crushing lows both professionally and personally. And as challenging as it can be as we get older, there is room for further enlightenment and change. Whether it be blind optimism, determination, or naivete, I'm still propelled by the simple motivation that my friend Diana Nyad adheres to: Onward.
For this coming year, I hope to return more to what I do best as a visual storyteller. There is an audience for what I am able to bring forth, affirmed to me by the support of friends and colleagues and by social media. But there is also a larger audience that is still in the dark when it comes to conservation and ocean issues. How do we reach these people? How do we get them to taste and appreciate the passion and commitment that so many of my colleagues feel, and through that gain an understanding as to the importance of the issues at hand? That is the challenge for 2013.
Social media is a strange bird. On the one hand, it is a vehicle through which copious information can be conveyed, shared, and debated - whether through blogs or sites like Facebook and Twitter. However, there are many times when I find it a bit insular, a club of like-minded individuals keeping morale up and the buzz going. And that's fine. We need that to stay motivated. But I keep thinking about that larger audience . . .
Conservation and ocean issues are a tough sell these days. With worldwide economic challenges - which have a profound impact on environmental issues, whether we like it or not - the tendency towards focusing on short-term issues and results dominates. Conservation, while made up of a series of smaller struggles and victories, is a much greater long-term issue and commitment. It requires forward-thinking, often way beyond our lifetimes, if we are to preserve this spaceship Earth and its finite resources.
That struggle, between looking ahead and dealing with the here and now, confronts us all. We all must get through our day-to-day lives, pay our bills, put food on the table, and do what we must to get by. But when we can turn our attention to issues greater than ourselves, we better ourselves as citizens of this planet. Call it noble or call it simply survival - it is the right thing to do for those generations yet to come.
The health of the oceans, of the environment, is important to me as I see it at the top of the pyramid of challenges facing mankind. All other causes become immaterial if we lose our life support systems. So, for 2013, I hope you all are able to continue to fuel your passions and sense of commitment. Bring it to the largest possible audience and let it be the catalyst that brings enlightenment and forms a new way of thinking about the world we are passing through.
Happiest of New Year's to you all!
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
2013: Looking ahead and reaching out
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- Teresa said...
Very well said Richard. I too want to behave in ways beyond myself and affect the greater good of our precious planet. Im not sure what I can do yet, but it starts with an intention. Teresa
- January 7, 2013 at 11:10 PM
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On the evening of June 22, 2012 the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011 project team was officially awarded the Holzbaupreis Baden-Württemberg 2012 by the Minister for Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection in a ceremony at the Chamber of Architects in Stuttgart. Congratulations to the team!
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I have already mentioned before what a fan I am of eggs. And I love the way an omelette can be eaten for any meal {I might like to include here that "Breakfast at Dinner time" was my favourite meal at college}. They are extremely versatile and you can basically mix in your favourite meat, vegetables or cheese. This is one of my favourite flavour combinations.
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Feta and Spinach Omelette
2 eggs
1 handful of baby spinach
olive oil or olive oil spray
1 tablespoon chopped spanish onion
1/2 clove of garlic, finely chopped
15-20g crumbled feta (depends how much you love it!)
balsamic vinegar
Very lightly beat the eggs in a bowl (so you can decipher between the white and the yolk. Add the garlic onion and baby spinach and fold into the egg.
Heat a non-stick fry pan with a little olive oil or spray to a medium heat. Pour the egg mixture into the pan and spread the spinach and onion within the egg. Turn the heat down to the lowest heat and put the lid on. Cook for a few minutes until the top of the omelette is almost set. Sprinkle the fetta over the top of the omelette in the pan. Cover again and cook for another minute until the fetta has melted a little and the egg has set.
Slide the omelette onto a plate and fold it in half. Season with freshly ground sea salt and pepper and drizzle a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar on top of the omelette.
This recipe serves one. It can be eaten by itself for breakfast or add a side salad and turn it into a main meal.Try some other egg recipes: Mini onion and cheese frittatas, Poached eggs with aioli, baby spinach & truffle salt on ciabatta


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Discussion in 'Electric Instruments' started by vchizzle, Jan 13, 2018.
Pretty much speaks for itself, but I nearly spit my coffee all over around the 2:10 mark.
That cat (Greg Koch - I think?) can sure play the "gitar"!
Man I love the Koch-ster. I somehow hadn't seen that one yet, thanks.
I met him at NAMM a few years ago when he was doing demos of the Fishmann pickups. Very nice & intelligent guy. He is the kind of player that literally make any guitar sound great!
Yeah, I saw him do a clinic around here and you could just tell anything he picked up would sound like a million bucks.
Dude slays!
Pete Honore has a good feel.
Beautiful playing and beautiful guitar. Just wish they would fix the 594 by putting on a wraparound bridge
I don't know if the tune-o-matic makes any difference tonally?
The bridge set up on the guitar does look good, but you wouldn't expect anything else from PRS.
Would look good with a wraparound
He demos all the GUITARS for Wildwood Guitars...Lots of videos of him playing all their guitars...utube/wildwood guitars ‼
They are on to how good a guitar player he is!
Nice ebony board
It makes a significant difference; just think about the 4 attachment points vibrating the body, and the different masses of metal vibrating, and you have part of the puzzle of pieces that make a 594 sound different from a wrap tail McCarty.
When PRS went from the wrap tail Singlecuts to the two-piece, the difference was also quite pronounced.
In 1970 I had the wrap tail on my SG Special taken off, and a tune-o-matic installed, and it transformed the guitar (still have it, and yes, dammit, I'm old).
No doubt in my mind that it matters in terms of tone.
I think Paul Smith is right when he says that anything that touches the strings will have an impact on tone.
Thanks Les, my knowledge of bridges affecting tone is limited as I have owned several different guitars over my life, but most have had an S or T style bridge system, I'm now using an S style with a trem, an S style with a fixed Gotoh bridge and most recently I have obtained a guitar with a wraparound bridge, which resonates like nothing I've played before.
I owned a G gold top, with tune-o-matic and tailpiece and was never that impressed with the tone. Maybe it was just my ears!
I'm totally in agreement with what Paul says, there are so many variables. One of the key elements is of course the build, materials, hardware (as Paul frequently quotes, I could go on and on and on and on....)
I might add the most recent guitar has a zero fret as well. Which may also have an effect.
Your age (I mean ahem) experience is appreciated!
What I like about Greg most is his sense of humor. It comes across in his playing as well. I honestly think he is improvising the humor while talking thru these demos, and he is often surprised at what comes out. The Wildwood outtakes are pretty good. A real character.
Greg is a hell of a player! He's looking pretty svelte too
Can we say that on the forum?
I need a ruling on " svelte" please.
Hahahaha. Greg looks like he lost some weight, that's all I'm sayin'
A Moderator using that language!
Whoda thunk it? And, we have women here now! Have they no shame?


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Consumer confidence slowed in May in what is, however, a mixed report that includes some positives. The headline index fell 2.1 points to a lower-than-expected 92.6 vs a revised 94.7 in April.
The assessment of the jobs market is mostly lower but not entirely.
In a negative, those describing jobs as currently hard to get rose 1.6 percentage points to 24.4 percent but April's 22.8 percent was unusually low and a likely outlier.
Looking at the future assessment of the jobs market, more see fewer jobs ahead, at 18.1 percent vs. April's 16.7 percent.
But now the good news and that's modest improvement in future income expectations where optimists rose 4 tenths to 16.2 percent and remain well ahead of pessimists which are at 12.4 percent.
Buying plans are also a positive as more expect to buy a house within the next six months, up 7 tenths at 6.0 percent, and more expect to buy a car, up 8 tenths to 12.6 percent. Inflation did improve, up 1 tenth to 4.9 percent which is still low, however, for this particular reading.
Indications on consumer confidence are generally mixed such as this report and similar indications from the weekly consumer comfort index. Clearly on the positive side, however, has been the closely watched consumer sentiment index which, in last week's update, showed solid strength in May.
The bottom line, however, is whether the consumer is spending and, based on the latest home sales and this morning's personal income & outlays data, the answer is definitely yes.


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The Labor party gynocrats currently playing the Misogyny Monologues in Canberra to an admiring media audience both locally and globally are a political extension of the self-referential and self-regarding feminism that gave us such unwatchable drama as Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues. The Misogyny Monologues assumes, in the manner of such solipsism, that only a single correct position prevails on questions that affect soi disant women's issues.
From this Labor feminist perspective, any plausible or, at least, debatable alternative that conflicts with official orthodoxy must be silenced. To enforce the orthodoxy, Labor's thought police engage in a practice of labelling those who hold alternative viewpoints pejoratively. Not surprisingly, this tactic gives Australian political debate an increasingly Orwellian feel.
Indeed, when Macquarie Dictionary editor Sue Butler feels constrained, after Gillard's diatribe, to change the dictionary's misogyny entry from 'hatred of women' to an 'entrenched prejudice against women', we realise we are entering the realm of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Newspeak.
Unlike the Macquarie, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary definition of misogyny shows that the word compounds a Greek past participle and a collective noun: misos (hatred) and gyne (women). To redefine the first term as 'prejudice' and not hatred both distorts and stretches the concept. In the words of Syme, who worked in Oceania's Ministry of Truth on the 11th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary: 'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.'
Nor does the editor's subsequent comment that 'the entry [for misogyny] now has two definitions' solve the problem of imprecision. As Alice observed in Through the Looking-Glass, 'the question is whether you can make words mean different things'. Ms Butler and her Australian Labor sisterhood seem to reply, in the manner of Humpty Dumpty, 'The question is, who is to be master. That is all.'
In the curious looking-glass world of Australian Labor, the Macquarie Dictionary's redefinition of the term now fits ruling orthodoxy. 'Political chaos,' as Orwell observed in his 1946 essay 'Politics and the English language', 'is connected with the decay of language.' As a consequence of this negative political labelling, it is now impossible to offer even mild scepticism on a range of otherwise debatable policy positions. These range from a woman's right to choose, late-term abortion, gay marriage, maternity leave and female priests and bishops. As a consequence, Tony Abbott is guilty of 'hypocrisy' for daring to raise the question of former Speaker Slipper's attitude to women as the Prime Minister is daily offended by 'the leader of the opposition's sexism and misogyny'.
This is not to say that the Labor and feminist position on these issues is necessarily wrong. What is wrong is that any male or female who might query that position is ipso facto declared misogynist and excluded from debate. 'Misogyny' thus functions like other politically correct terms 'racist', 'sexist', 'imperialist', 'colonialist', 'fascist' to silence alternative positions and ultimately halt debate.
That this is about thought control and power becomes evident when the self-declared defenders of women's rights address what by any liberal, secular and even, one might hope, socialist standard is real misogyny. Where, we might wonder, were Tanya, Julia, Jenny and Nicola when the Taleban gunned down a defenceless 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, who committed the offence, in Islamist eyes, of welcoming a secular education and promoting girls' education and women's rights? The Taleban attempted to execute her for 'Western thinking'.
What have the Labor feminists to say about the practice of forced or arranged marriages of underage girls among minority communities in Australia, which leads to cases like the rape and murder of Sargun Ragi? What are the views of Labor's gynocracy on the male imamate's patriarchal imposition of the veil on teenage Muslim girls in western Sydney?
What, one wonders, could be more misogynistic than the practice among some Australian Muslim communities of female circumcision? At least Eve Ensler had the integrity to add a Muslim woman's viewpoint, 'Under the Burqa', to a revised version of her Vagina Monologues.
On these women's issues, however, we find Labor feminists notably silent. Why should this be? In the leftist feminism that increasingly passes for Labor policy, the neglect of these misogynistic practices demonstrates neither cowardice nor indifference.
Rather it demonstrates multicultural sensitivity, deep cultural awareness and empathy with the non-Western other. Such renaming is not so much a convenient double standard as the classic practice of doublethink. It requires the orthodox to exercise a control over mental processes as complete as a contortionist over her body.
As Orwell explains, 'doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.' Like the inner party intellectual, the Labor feminist knows in which direction memories must be altered and therefore knows how to play tricks with current political reality, but by the exercise of doublethink she also satisfies herself that reality is not violated.
Doublethink over the treatment of women and multiculturalism as well as on a range of economic political and environmental issues now lies at the very heart of AusSoc. As in Nineteen Eighty-Four, 'the essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty'. Its increasingly crude attempts to silence criticism that might expose its contradictions merely keeps 'the lie one leap ahead of the truth'.
The feminist groupthink that flourishes on the wilder shores of academe has now become integral to Labor thought and practice. The growing thought control that pervades Australian political debate progressively corrupts language as official language corrupts thought. Words used in such a consciously dishonest way create a gap between real and declared political aims. As Orwell noted in 1946, politics thus becomes 'a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia'. Ultimately, what the current misogyny monologue reveals is not Abbott's but Labor's rank hypocrisy.
David Martin Jones is a Brisbane-based academic and writer.
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One of the things that I love about online shopping si that you can just sit at home and don't have to deal with rowdy shoppers. Well, when you have growing kids that are in only God knows what size jean now, you can't really get away with doing some quick online shopping. So I decided that I would do some back to school shopping in person with my kids to get the job done quicker and easier.
While I was online checking out some deals before I took my kids out to go clothes shopping, i ran across the site www.WIRELESSINTERNETproviders.net. After I looked through it a little bit, I decided to change over our home internet service to one of the plans I found on there.
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Not in the Fifties anymore
Both the novel "Advise and Consent" and the movie of the same name played on the blackmailing of a gay congressman. Eighteen years after the movie, popular Harford County congressman Bob Bauman's political career came crashing down after a gay sex scandal. In 2012, openly gay candidates were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, the latter a first.
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Now don't judge me - the show is pretty entertaining! I initially thought the show would revolve around just Kim so I avoided the show at first. I figured it would be like the Paris and Nicole show and I thought they were completely obnoxious. Ok, fine, Nicole did make me laugh every now and then.
Anyway... the Kardashians show is very different. It's cute because it's all about the family. I always enjoy those type of shows because I like to see them in their "real" element, away from all the celebrity stuff. Other good ones: Family Jewels (Gene Simmons), Hogan Knows Best, Run's House, and of course, the original - The Osbournes.
In the show, we actually see more of Kim's sisters, Khloe and Kourtney. They're kind of like Paris and Nicole with the antics they pull. Example - bringing in a homeless man to clean up in their parents bathroom and then dressing him up in their step-dad's clothes.
But my favorite episode is when they focused on their brother, Rob (who seems like a total sweetie) and his relationship with a Cheetah girl! I love them Cheetah Girls so I totally approve and they're very cute together - however getting a tattoo of her full name after three months of dating... eeeyikes!!!
Oh, and guess who their step dad is - Bruce flippin' Jenner! That's another funny part of the show... poor Bruce is so out of place with these crazies.
There are two more kids - Kendall and Kylie. They are the youngins and are the kids of Bruce and Kris Jenner. The other four (Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, and Rob) are the kids of Robert Kardashian, i.e. OJ's lawyer. There are some touching moments about him as you can see that the kids are still struggling with the death of their dad.
Anyway, check it out on E! I don't know when it's on but I just added it to my DVR. They've made the cut. :)
Saturday, March 29, 2008
I'll admit it... I've been keepin' up with the Kardashians
Now don't judge me - the show is pretty entertaining! I initially thought the show would revolve around just Kim so I avoided the show at first. I figured it would be like the Paris and Nicole show and I thought they were completely obnoxious. Ok, fine, Nicole did make me laugh every now and then.
Just give up
This just cracks me up.
I've officially become my mom
... because I caught myself taking notes while watching Suze Orman.
Suze is strictly a DVR show for me. But every now and then I'll pull up an episode in the hopes I'll pick up a new thing or two. Also, the show sort of has a Ricki Lake/Jerry Springer factor for me... that is, you hear these people talk about their really screwed up financial situations, and you think, "Boy, I'm glad I'm not him!"
Anyway, on this episode, Suze had a guest from MorningStar who recommended her top five mutual funds for retirement accounts. Turns out I didn't need to furiously take notes, because they posted them online here.
Happy investing!
P.S. Congratulate me - I finally finished my taxes!!! This year was particularly painful because I unloaded some ESPP shares for the first time. Entering the line by line item for 12 different lots of stocks was making my head go dizzy!
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
People are evil
At least that's what I learned when I watched the season finale of The Gauntlet last week. Did anyone else happen to catch it? Poor Eric... he's the big guy on the Veterans team. That guy was never going to make it far on the final challenge. First of all, it looked like a crazy hot day in Mexico. Second, the challenge kicked off with a half mile swim to shore. OK, that would pretty much knock me out. Anyway, each team then had to chain themselves to each other and go for a run and do a series of challenges.
Eric was dying once he got out of the water. He could barely put his shoes on. Honestly, from this point on, he looked like he could pass out at any second. Real wobbly and stuff. His teammates just barked at him the whole way. When getting ready for the run, they decided to put him at the end of the chain so they could, and I quote, "drag him".
And that's pretty much what they did and it made me sick. This poor guy is dying, but he's being dragged by a chain around his waist by eight people who are all yelling at him. San Diego Brad was the only one that cared about his health and spoke up for him.
Somehow, they do manage to drag him for a bit until eventually he keels over and um, is flat out on the ground struggling to breathe! His teammates' reaction? "He cost us $30K!" Ugh... so evil. OK, I should clarify - it was really that Ev chick that came across as pure evil with all the whining about the money. But they all looked like a**holes, in my opinion.
On a random note... I was at the gym last night (I KNOW! Crazy, right?) and as I was flipping through the channels while on the elliptical, I saw a commercial for the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice.
That show is still on? News to me...
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In Treatment...
... is wicked addicting. So I'm glad this season is ending soon. At least I think it's ending, anyway.
When I first saw the commercials for this show, I thought, "Oh boy - that looks super boring." If you're not familiar with the show, here's the deal:
"In Treatment" is an HBO series starring Gabriel Byrne as a therapist named Paul treating a variety of patients. It's a half hour show that airs every day Monday through Friday. And every episode represents the therapy session between Paul and one of his patients. I usually catch the Wed-Fri shows. Wednesday is Sophie - a pre-teen competitive gymnast who has issues with her dad. Thursday is Jake (aka Knox Overstreet) and Amy (aka Natasha from "Bridget Jones' Diary" or McDreamy's sister) - a couple who is considering divorce. And on Friday, the tables are reversed because Paul then meets with his own therapist, Gina (Dianne Wiest).
Monday and Tuesday is Blair Underwood and Melissa George (not sure which is which) but I never seem to catch those. I know the Melissa George one must be juicy because she plays Laura who develops a thing for Paul and Paul in turn thinks he might be falling for her but he's married with kids plus the whole doctor/patient thing and stuff. The Laura drama usually spills into Paul's Friday session with Gina.
Anyway, it's actually a pretty good series that just sucks you in. I guess I like it because I'm a nosy person and I enjoy prying into people's personal lives. Even if they aren't real. :)
Plus, I've got about five different HBO channels (and now, IN DEMAND - woot woot!) so it seems like there is always an episode on. I actually don't even know what time the shows regularly appear.
So if you have HBO, I recommend. Be nosy like me!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
I am fascinated by David Cook
When David Cook began to sing tonight, my first thought was oh no... he's doing the Lionel Richie thing again?
But I really enjoyed his version of Billie Jean. I think his 80's pop-turned-rock interpretations are really amazing - even more creative and enjoyable than the Blake Lewis beatbox stuff that impressed me last year.
I think Chikezie will go home this week. Thoughts anyone?
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Thanks Syesha...
... for making me feel like an ancient old fart.
I was half-listening to her intro part and then all of a sudden I hear her say, "I was born in ... blah, blah, blah... on January 2nd, 1987."
Holy crap, I'm old.
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Expanding the Office fanbase!
I recently learned that my sister has never watched "The Office". Outrageous, I know! Turns out that she always wanted to, but didn't want to just jump in the middle. So a few months ago, I loaned my sister my entire DVD collection of "The Office". Yep, my sister was able to discover and enjoy seasons 1 through 3 all together without suffering through those painful "will they or won't they" cliffhangers!
Granted, she has a 9 month old baby (the CUTEST baby in the world, by the way!) so it's not like she can go in audgepodge mode and hibernate for an entire weekend to plow through the DVDs all at once. So it took a couple of months, but she finished them all and she loved them! Yay! We make a good team, I got her hooked on "The Office", she got me hooked on "Jon and Kate plus eight".
I wasn't sure if she would find them funny because the show is kinda quirky plus she's never really been in a stuffy office environment - before full-time momminess, her previous careers included being a social worker and a nursing assistant at a retirement home.
So I busted out laughing when she asked me (with a completely straight face) - "So do offices really have party planning committees???"
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Random thought...
Tonight, Jason Castro reminded me a lot of a young John Travolta. You know, from the Grease days.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
It's like they read my mind!!!
So thanks to my mom, I've been DVR-ing the Suze Orman show. I caught up on one today and I was thinking, you know, this would be a perfect person to impersonate on SNL. And I'm sitting here watching SNL right now (yes, I'll admit to watching SNL on a Saturday night) and guess what has just popped up??? A Suze Orman sketch!
OK, it just finished. Kristen Wiig did a decent job but I was hoping to see her bust out with a "DENIED! DENIED! You are SOOOOOOOO DENIED!!!" No such luck.
I love seeing how the SNL writers watch the same weird stuff I watch. Amy Poehler's interpretation of Christian "Hot Tranny Mess" Siriano was hilarious.
Maybe there will be a Jon & Kate plus Eight sketch next... :P
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Say wha??????
Hello again, everyone! Yes, I've been MIA. Too much traveling and working and not enough sleep.
But anyway, what an amazing episode of Lost tonight! It was another one of those twisty ones, too. Surprising ending, yes, but I'm still a little miffed at the writers for breaking my heart like that. Didn't watch the episode yet? Well, then you better leave now because I want to discuss!
Normally, I don't find the Jin and Sun storylines that interesting, but I really liked the one tonight. We see Sun getting ready to have her baby intercut with scenes of Jin buying a stuffed panda and rushing to get to the hospital. We soon learn - ta da! - that Sun is one of the "Oceanic Six". So of course, I immediately think, cool, now we know Jin and Sun are the last of the Oceanic Six. But then I remember, wait, we already have five - Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, and little baby Aaron. But then maybe the baby doesn't count???
Anyway, cut to Island time. Jin finds out that Sun cheated on him so he gets all mad and won't talk to her. She's scared he's left her. But in the end, Jin has a heart to heart with Rose's husband (can't remember his name) and forgives Sun later and even makes her a nice dinner. It was such a sweet scene! (I even teared a little.) He admits that he was a different man before the crash and that he didn't show her affection and it was that man that drove her to have the affair which is why he forgives her. Then she cries and tells him she loves him, and he loves her, and the baby is really his, and they hug and live happily ever after!
Stupid mean writers. Cuz this whole time we're being so happy for the couple and thinking how they made it off the island and are going to have their baby and it was all a big fake-out! Sun had her baby alright - ALONE. I'm still trying to figure out when those Jin scenes were from. I'm guessing before the plane crash since he told the nurse he's only been married for two months. He wasn't bringing the stuffed panda to his wife, he was bringing it to the granddaughter or daughter of some big important client.
ANYWAY - we finally get clued in when we see Sun back at her apartment and Hurley comes to visit her. Hurley gets to meet the little baby girl (so cute! and so little!) and he accompanies Sun to visit Jin *sniff, sniff* at his grave!
Dude, it was so sad. This episode reminded me of the season premiere of Ugly Betty. They showed all these romantic, happy scenes with Hilda and Santos after he was in the store robbery. And then in the final scene, you realized she was in her room all alone in the dark, mourning his death. You cruel TV writers! Playing with my emotions that way!
Anyway, we also got another interesting tidbit. Walt's dad (Michael?) must be Ben's spy on the boat. He actually left the show before I started watching but I had heard rumors his character would return. And it's revealed to Desmond that his nemesis is the owner of the boat as well. Interesting!
Uh-oh, I just made another realization... Sawyer doesn't make it!!!!
(Speaking of Sawyer, I saw the little pop-up ad that mentioned you can get your own Sawyer nickname on abc.com... mine turned out to be Betty. Don't get it.)
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In Québec, hunting occurs both on lands in the domain of the State and on lands in the private domain. Special wildlife management provisions apply to certain portions of such lands.
Private lands and wildland urban interface
Private lands covered by a hunting accessibility agreement
Outfitting operations
Wildlife reserves
Wildlife sanctuaries
Nature reserves
Migratory bird sanctuaries and National Wildlife Area
The Nord-du-Québec region
Territories where hunting is prohibited
Territories where hunting is restricted
Private lands and wildland urban interface
Anyone who wishes to hunt on private property must obtain the owner's permission to do so. Moreover, in the wildland urban interface, the hunter must take into account the presence of other individuals when hunting.
Private lands covered by a hunting accessibility agreement
Certain landowners in the Bas-Saint-Laurent, Centre-du-Québec, Chaudière-Appalaches, Estrie and Montérégie regions have concluded an agreement with the Department for the purpose of managing wildlife and access to it by hunters. On such lands, the Department brings proceedings against individuals who hunt without the landowner's authorization. The same is true of hunting on land covered by an agreement concluded between a landowner and an association or a body whose objective is to facilitate access by hunters to private lands, and is recognized as such by the Department, for the purposes of wildlife accessibility. To obtain additional information, please contact the regional office concerned.
A controlled harvesting zone (ZEC) is a hunting and fishing ground whose management is delegated to a non-profit organization that individuals can join by becoming a member of it. To hunt there, you must register and abide by the dates, times and sites or sectors indicated in the registration document. You must carry with you the registration document and show it, upon request, to a wildlife protection officer, a wildlife protection assistant or an area warden. The document may also be placed in view on the vehicle dashboard. Lastly, you must return the document when you leave the territory and declare all of the game killed. To obtain additional information, please contact the organization that manages the controlled harvesting zone (ZEC) that you wish to visit.
The managing organization of a controlled harvesting zone (ZEC) may, in a hunting sector, prohibit small game hunting (except migratory birds) using a firearm, a crossbow or a bow during the moose hunting period and prohibit black bear hunting during a part of the season or during all of the season stipulated in the area in which the ZEC is located. Furthermore, the use of an all-terrain vehicle for recreational purposes may be prohibited there during a moose or white-tailed deer hunting period, except when the vehicle is used to haul the carcass of such an animal. To obtain additional information, please contact Zecs Québec at 1 866 567-0235. You can also contact the organization that manages the ZEC that you wish to visit.
Outfitting operations are private enterprises that offer accommodation and services or equipment for recreational hunting activities. Some operations possess exclusive hunting rights in determined territories. You must then obtain permission from the outfitter to hunt there. The Seigneurie Mitis (eastern part of Area 2), the Seigneurie Nicolas-Rioux (western part of Area 2) and the Seigneurie Kenauk Nature X (eastern part of Area 10) usually benefit from regulatory provisions that apply to outfitting operations with exclusive rights. To obtain additional information, please contact the Fédération des pourvoiries du Québec at 1 800 567-9009. You can also contact the outfitting operation that you wish to visit.
To hunt in a wildlife reserve, you must usually make a reservation. You must also obtain a right of access and abide by the dates, times and sites mentioned on it. You must carry with you the right of access and show it, upon request, to a wildlife protection officer, a wildlife protection assistant or an area warden. The document may also be placed in clear view on the vehicle dashboard. Upon leaving the reserve, the hunter must report on his hunting and indicate the game killed, as the case may be. To carry hunting implements in this type of territory, the hunter must hold a right of access that authorizes him to hunt there.
When a right of access is required and there is no agent to issue it, everyone must fill out the form available at the reception centre of the wildlife reserve and deposit in the appropriate place accompanied by the access fee set by regulation. In this instance, the completed form takes the place of the right of access.
When accommodation is not available in a cabin, a right of access to hunt small game or snare hares in a wildlife reserve authorizes a child under 18 years of age accompanied by the holder of parental authority to hunt.
To hunt an animal other than a black bear in a sector access to which is subject to quotas in a wildlife reserve, an individual must be a resident and have been selected by random draw. If places remain after the random draw, anyone, whether a resident or a non-resident, may hunt there once he makes a reservation. Anyone may also hunt there if he is accompanying a person selected by random draw or who made a reservation. To hunt black bear in a sector access to which is subject to quotas, everyone must make a reservation.
Some wildlife reserves offer sectors in which hunting is subject to quotas exclusively for bow or crossbow hunting. It is prohibited to carry a firearm in these sectors and bowhunters and crossbowmen are not obliged to wear a fluorescent orange garment to hunt the permitted species. A wildlife reserve may also reserve sectors in which hunting is not subject to quotas exclusively for bow or crossbow hunting.
To obtain additional information, please contact the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (Sépaq), which manages the activities of most wildlife reserves, at 418 890-6527 or 1- 800 665-6527.
To contact the Réserve faunique Duchénier, please call 418 735-5222 or visit the reserve's website (www.reserve-duchenier.com). To contact the Réserve faunique de Dunière, please call 418 756-6174 or 1 888 730-6174 (toll free).
The conditions governing the use of resources in a wildlife sanctuary are established with a view to preserving wildlife habitat or the habitat of a wildlife species. In this type of territory, hunting may be regulated in a specific manner:
A nature reserve is a private property protected by a conservation agreement concluded between a landowner and the Québec Minister of Développement durable, Environnement et Changements climatiques (MDDELCC). Its recognition is intended to guarantee the maintenance of natural characteristics that justify the interest in preserving the property. The reserve is regulated by provisions in the Natural Heritage Conservation Act.
In a nature reserve, wildlife harvesting activities may be subject to more restrictive measures than those stipulated in provincial regulations. Before you travel on this private property, you must obtain the owner's permission and find out about the specific measures in force. To obtain additional information, please contact the MDDELCC at
Migratory bird sanctuaries and National Wildlife Reserves
The Environment and Climate Change Canada manages migratory bird sanctuaries and National Wildlife Areas. Hunting and the possession of certain hunting implements are permitted there under certain conditions. To obtain additional information, please contact the Canadian Wildlife Service at 1 800-463-4311.
Hunters in Areas 17, 22, 23 and 24 must comply with the Act respecting hunting and fishing rights in the James Bay and New Québec territories. The territories are subdivided into three categories. To hunt on Category I and Category II lands, you must obtain, in addition to the requisite hunting licence, an authorization from the Cree, Inuit or Naskapi authorities concerned.
In these areas, only hunting with firearms and bows is permitted. Crossbow hunting and hunting using a bird of prey are, therefore, prohibited.
Territories where hunting is prohibited
Hunting is prohibited in the northern part of Area 19, in a national park (provincial or federal), a forest station or an ecological reserve. Hunting is also prohibited in the Réserve faunique Assinica and the Réserve faunique des Lacs-Albanel-Mistassini-et-Waconichi (Area 22) and in the following game reserves: Le sanctuaire de la Grosse-Île (Area 3) and Le sanctuaire de chasse du parc de la Gatineau (Area 10).
Furthermore, hunting is not authorized in the following territories:
Territories where hunting is restricted
Hunting is more restricted at the following five locations than in the area in which the territories are located:


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Giveaway: Win £25 Gift Card!
Who loves fabric? Me Me!
Who loves free fabric? MEEEEEE!
This week I hit 20000 Page Views so I thought it was important to reward my readers as a thank you for your support. Do you want to win a £25 Gift Card to spend at Fabric Godmother's website? Great, then today's post is for you!
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Google Introduces Print Layout to Docs!
The document was in a fixed-width page view; that is the document essentially looked like how it will on the printed page.
Google quietly released this new feature (similar to print layout in Microsoft Word) that gives you the option of viewing your document in either the fixed-width view or normal or "plain" view (the equivalent of web layout in Word). To choose between either, just click on the View menu tab in docs.
Google is continually enhancing and improving Google Apps and updates are delivered without you having to install, patch or do anything. In my view, that's pretty neat!
For more information about Google Apps, please visit goZEROi.com!
Familiar, simple, secure—it's time to give G Suite a closer look.
Organizations are moving to the cloud, and for good reason. Google Apps cloud solutions make it easier to collaborate, access files on the fly, and manage security. Download this free eBook, G Suite: Key Statistics and Use Cases for the Enterprise, to learn how Google Apps are revolutionizing modern work processes.


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The first beta release of Canonical's next Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is now available and promises a more refined desktop and netbook experience in preparation for the final release in October.
Meerkat will arrive six months after the previous 10.04 release dubbed 'Lucid Lynx' and is aiming to be a "Perfect 10", according to Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth.
For the 10.10 desktop edition, the GNOME desktop environment has been updated to the 2.31 version and the Evolution groupware suite is version 2.30, which is said the be much faster compared with the version the previous release, 10.04.
Shotwell has replaced F-Spot as the default photo manager and microblogging tool, Gwibber, has been updated to improve performance.
The Ubuntu Software Center gets an updated look and feel and the Ubuntu One cloud service is better integrated in the to the desktop integration with a new authentication process.
Ubuntu is also pushing ahead with its netbook interface with this release. Ubuntu Netbook Edition has the new Unity interface as the default. The developers say this interface is better suited to netbooks.
At the core the beta includes Linux kernel 2.6.35 including patches for improved multi-touch capability, audio and microphone issues and other driver updates.
The new btrfs file system is an option during installation and the Maverick beta kernel has decommissioned support for the ia64 and Sparc architecture ports - a decision made by the Ubuntu Tech Board.
The 10.10 release will also include enhancements to Ubuntu for cloud deployments and starting with this beta, cloud images can be run outside of an Amazon EC2 or Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) instance environment.
"This will allow you to quickly and easily test function in cloud-init or other features of the image without needing to start a new instance," according to Canonical.
The Ubuntu KDE release, Kubuntu, will be upgraded to KDE SC 4.5 for Meerkat and the desktop and netbook interfaces into one image featuring the Plasma Desktop and Plasma Netbook workspaces.
The appropriate workspace for your machine will be launched at login, you can also change the workspace in System Settings, according to Canonical.
The Plasma Netbook interface now has the Global Menu by default, which sits at the top of the screen.
The default Web browser for Kubuntu is now Rekonq, a browser based on Qt Webkit and the new KDE bluetooth stack Bluedevil is installed. Pulseaudio will be the default sound server to match other Ubuntu variants.
Kubuntu's Ubiquity installer has an updated look and layout.
Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' is slated for release on 10 October, 2010.
Rodney Gedda is Editor of TechWorld Australia. Follow Rodney on Twitter at @rodneygedda. Rodney's e-mail address is email@example.com. Follow TechWorld Australia on Twitter at @Techworld_AU.


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Portland artist OBLVN recently closed a show at Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco. The show, entitled "Different Strokes, Different Folks", was positioned in the project room, while Ryan Travis Christian's solo exhibition, "The Second Banana" took the main gallery space. OBLVN brings the clean brushwork of vintage animation design with a clean eye for interesting character work honed through a background in graffiti. I was seriously impressed with the artist's "100 Paintings" show last spring at Klughaus gallery in NYC. It seems like he's pushed further since then, as this show features some larger works on wood and canvas.
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Ben Venom's Heavy Metal Quilts At Guerrero Gallery
Ben Venom's current solo show at Guerrero gallery in San Francisco looks amazing. If you're in the Bay Area make sure check the only art show that both headbanging heshers as well as your 80 year old grandma will enjoy.
"Guerrero Gallery is pleased to present, I Call The Shots, an exhibition of new works by Ben Venom. Presenting a reinterpretation of two seemingly opposing forces, the extremes of Heavy Metal culture and the tradition of handmade craft, Venom's juxtaposition of the two forces results in a collision that is vibrant and intricate. His ability to associate each component of his primary medium, old band t-shirts which he personally connects with in some way or another, with the grand scheme of his pieces, is evidence of the thoughtful and enduring process behind his craft. Venom's work lends to his ability to masterfully develop relevant concepts, sketch the designs in consideration of the large-scale puzzle piece patterns they will evolve into, and then patiently execute with needle and thread. In Venom's words, his work "is serious, yet attempts to take on a B movie Horror film style, where even the beasts of Metal need a warm blanket to sleep with."
The exhibit runs through July 7th, 2012.
Cleon Peterson's The Brinksman @ Guerrero Gallery
Through Cleon Peterson's paintings, we encounter a world riddled with anxiety, corruption and savage ferocity, where deviance and violence equal the usual state of affairs. Peterson describes his bedlam as "a gray world where law breakers and law enforcers are one in the same; a world where ethics have been abandoned in favor of personal entitlement."
Peterson depicts life as war between displaced individuals in a dystopian world. Acts of brutality, abuse and perversion serve as rituals of power, revealing narcissistic indulgences in violence, sex, religion and drugs. In exploring the tension between the individual consciousness and unconscious psyche, Peterson's paintings bring to light the resulting possibilities when varying moral schemes are personified. When faced with the dilemma of fight or flight, it's fight. We observe an ongoing struggle in the thick of a contemporary world, where the instinctual desire to survive through primitive actions takes reign.
See the above works and more currently on view in San Francisco at Guerrero Gallery. On view until April 7th, 2012
Guerrero Gallery This Saturday!
Our good friends over at Guerrero gallery are having a group show filled to the rim with some of your favorite B/D featured artists such as Ben Venom (pictured above), Richard Coleman, Steve Powers, Ala Ebtakar, B/D magazine cover artist Aaron Noble and many many other talented folks. Get full details for the opening on Saturday here!
Albert Reyes & Group Show @ Guerrero Gallery
Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco is opening a big group show with tons of new work by some of your favorite artists such as graffiti icon Mike (Giant) LeSage, B/D featured artists Ryan Travis Christian and Cody Hudson, and even yours truly. If that's not enough Albert Reyes will also be presenting a new body of work in the galleries project space! A sneak peak of the work in the show, press release, and dates after the jump.
Joey Piziali
Joey Piziali's work takes on abstraction full force with geometric order mixed with a bit of painterly chaos. See Joey's work in San Francisco this Saturday in a group show at Guerrero Gallery. See more of Joey's work after the jump.
Mark Mulroney and Charles Linder
Always psyched to see some new Mark Mulroney jams! Haven't exactly heard of Charles Linder, but I must say, that installation is looking wild. Here's a taste of both artists most recent exhibition endeavor, more after the jump…
Last Chance To See Cody Hudson At Guerrero Gallery
We've been fans of Cody Hudson & Struggle Inc. for over a decade now (Check out our interview with him in Issue: D of B/D!) so it's only right that we urge all of you to go out to Guerrero Gallery in SF and check out his show before it comes down on on June 7th. Cody has dozens of new pieces from small geometric drawings to large scale installations in the show. My favorite works are the above wooden sculptures. They aren't the biggest works in the show but these intimate sculptures pack a powerful punch.
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Tyler Is Becoming A Better Dog City
The new dog park on Baggett Road (CR 166) a little northwest of the intersection of Loop 49 and Old Jacksonville Highway is coming along and should be finished soon.
It will make Tyler more dog friendly than it used to be, but does it make Tyler one of the best dog cities in the US?
The dog park is a project of the Tyler Sunrise Rotary Club and covers about three acres for dogs to run. The mulch and sprinkler systems have been installed along with one poop station, but the park planners say they could still use one more. TylerSunrisePark.com has all the info on donating another poop station if you're so inclined, and they can also set you up with the process of buying an honorary paver if you want to remember or celebrate someone.
Cool! The pups will love the afternoon of fun, and even if you have anti-social little dogs like mine that act tough and bark a lot and annoy people, other dog owners seem to have a high tolerance for pesky. As long as the little squirts are on leashes.
Realtor.com released its list of the Top 10 American Dog Cities this week, and said Charleston, South Carolina is No. 1. They based it on the number of pet stores, dog friendly restaurants, dog parks and trails, and households that own a dog. The only Texas city to make the list was Austin, surprise surprise.
Do you think Tyler has become more dog friendly over the years? I do. Doggoes.com says Tyler has 59 dog friendly locations including restaurants, pet stores, hotels and parks.
Dogs can tag along just about anywhere, except maybe your office building.


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While you're at MUBI, you could start there with an excellent lengthy interview of Christian Petzold, the director of BARBARA and JERICHOW, by Daniel Kasman and David Phelps.
This week, HOLY MOTORS goes into theatrical release in the States. Steve Erickson interviews director Leos Carax for the Village Voice, while at the AV Club Mike D'Angelo goes deep with a review. Also at the AV Club: the best films of the nineties. That is, the 1890s. And in easily the most fun read of the week, Kelly Lynch dishes on Denzel Washington and Bill Murray.
Better late than never, Tim Wong wraps his NZIFF coverage for the Lumiere Reader.
Andrzej Zulawski and Dolph Lundgren almost teamed up? Evan Husney has the story. Elvis Mitchell's interview with Joaquin Phoenix is a whole lot of fun.
Jaime Christley interviews Abbas Kiarostami for Slant.
And finally: not remotely recent, but this discussion between Stan Brakhage and Godfrey Reggio is a good read.