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21st century BC
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The 21st century BC was a century which lasted from the year 2100 BC to 2001 BC.
Note: all dates from this long ago should be regarded as either approximate or conjectural; there are no absolutely certain dates, and multiple competing reconstructed chronologies, for this time period.
- c. 2100 BC – c. 2050 BC: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was built.
- 2091 BC: Beginning of the Patriarchal Age was traditionally set in this year.
- 2080 BC: Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt.
- 2080 BC: First Intermediate Period of Egypt ended. Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt.
- 2071 BC: Magh Ithe, first recorded battle in Ireland myths.
- 2070 BC (disputable): Yu the Great set up the Xia Dynasty, which isn't verified by archeological findings, some propose the Erlitou culture.
- c. 2064 BC – 1986 BC: Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
- c. 2055 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt. Start of Middle Kingdom. (another date is 2040 BC).
- c. 2055 BC: Mentuhotep II from Thebes managed to reunite Ancient Egypt and began to rule (other date is 2040 BC).
- c. 2055 BC – 1985 BC: Funerary Stele of Amenemhat I was made. Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt. Excavated in 1915–1916. It is now kept in Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- C. 2050 BC: The Eruption of Mt.Mariveles in the Philippines, cause a great Ash falls.
- c. 2049 BC: Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
- 2040 BC: Beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty and government system in China.
- 2034 BC – 2004 BC: Ur–Amorite wars.
- c. 2009 BC – 1997 BC: Funerary temple of Mentuhotep III was built. Eleventh Dynasty.
- 2004 BC: Elamite destruction of Ur.
- c. 2000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age ended.
Significant persons
Legendary people
- According to Abrahamic religious tradition, the era of the Patriarch Abraham (however, other datings include 19th century BC, and/or 17th century through 15th century BC)
- According to Hindu tradition, lifetime of Rama, the 7th Avatar of Vishnu
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- 2100 BC—Earliest extant law code in Mesopotamia, the Code of Ur-Nammu
- 2037 BC—Emperor Shen Nong makes first herbal medicine named as "tea" (different from modern tea) and a few herbal poison.(perhaps mythical)
Sovereign states
See: List of sovereign states in the 21st century BC.
Decades and years
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Perseverance & Endurance: Necessary Elements For Every Film/
By Jane Weiner
No one ever said filmmaking was easy (at least I don't think so). That said, what is required to get a film to completion sometimes awes me beyond comprehension. I can not think of a better testament of faith to think we can reach the place where is our work is projected in front of an auditorium of people. Sometimes people I meet think it just comes down to the material. But when a beautiful inspiring work about one of cinema's key figures requires so much effort, even technology to change, it demonstrates the opposite. Without the courage and commitment of the artists behind the work, many great movies would remain incomplete. Today, Jane Weiner shares with us some of trials and tribulations behind her latest film.
It's madness. Yes, it is completely crazy to have launched a Kickstarter campaign while working 70+ hours/week in the editing room. More nuts was to pretend that we could make regular video updates (as simple as they are) when we're pushing the clock to complete RICKY on LEACOCK in time for a festival roll-out in early 2012.
Yet, we launched it, so we're trying... and, it's no exaggeration to say that this is like doing three full-time jobs at once!
RICKY on LEACOCK is a film that I started shooting in 1972 using a prototype of the MIT Super 8 Synch Sound System designed by Jon Rosenfeld and Al Mecklenberg. I sought out Richard Leacock at the 'Summer Institute' (held that year at the U of New Hampshire) because I was interested in the new 'small-format' filmmaking system that he was developing at MIT. I didn't know Ricky except for references in film history books – and, at that time, the major reference was Robert Flaherty and LOUISIANA STORY. So, after seeing Leacock's films, I became fascinated by the fact Leacock's mentor had been Flaherty and that, after launching the Cinema Vérité period with Drew, Pennebaker, Macartney-Filgate and Maysles, his obsession was now to make film equipment smaller and more available to young people; being a young person who was benefiting from this experiment, I proposed to make a documentary about him. He agreed on two conditions: 1) No interviews and 2) that I shoot on small format i.e., Super 8.
But to make a film about a filmmaker, one needs to obtain rights to certain examples of their former work – in this case, clips from Flaherty, Drew Associates, Pennebaker, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. Quite daunting. And, as a novice filmmaker, I never imagined what the response might be from the funding organizations. NEA was automatically out because Leacock was the head of the panel that decided on filmmaking/Media grants. All others just laughed: A film shot on Super 8 with no formal interviews about a major filmmaker? Ha, ha, ha.
But I pressed on, following Leacock to his father's banana plantation in the Canary Islands (location of his first film) and then on to Paris to meet Henri Langlois, Chris Marker, Carole Roussopoulos, and others. In the USA, many were mocking Ricky's obsession with small-format filmmaking, but not in Europe. It was refreshing and encouraging - but this didn't help the financial situation.
Back in the States, Jeff Kreines (who was 17 or 18 years old at the time) helped out enormously. We worked together; he's a fabulous filmmaker and, in those days took very good sound when I was shooting and, when I couldn't be there, on his own initiative, captured the extraordinary and memorable sequence of Ricky and Ed Pincus at MIT.
But, eventually it became obvious it was time to put this unfunded project in storage and go out find a real job.
Every decade or so, I pulled out the proposal and show it around...
You get the picture.
Flip forward several decades. Ricky's dream comes true. Small-format filmmaking is a reality, readily available to almost everyone.
After retiring from MIT, Leacock met Valerie Lalonde, whom he called the love of his life and moved to France. Here, he re-launched his filmmaking career and, with the support of French and German television, started experimenting in small-format video. He revamped Hi8 cameras to suit his needs – changing to super-wide lenses, adding a side-window viewfinder – long before anyone else. While most other serious filmmakers were cautiously 'looking into' the relative quality of video versus film, Ricky jumped in with both feet and, once again, was way ahead of the times…
By the early '90s, we were both showing our films around, so we ran into each other quite frequently. At a film festival, he once loaned me his camera to shoot events and conversations with Jonas Mekas, Ross McElwee, and others. In 1995, I made an educational program about the digital revolution for French TV and went out to his home Normandy to shoot him at work on his last film, A MUSICAL ADVENTURE IN SIBERIA. In 1998, for a 'Thematic Evening' on Arte about the opening of the Euro Tunnel between France and the UK, I arranged that Leacock-Lalonde be commissioned to make a charming and remarkably prescient environmental film, LE TROU DANS LA MER that, by the way, has never been screened in America (DER - Documentary Educational Resources is releasing 'The Paris Years' on DVD – films made by Richard Leacock and Valerie Lalonde between 1989-2009).
Then, in 2005, I decided to seriously re-launch my own film. Ricky had written his life story and, totally fascinated by digital innovations, had decided to release his autobiography – not as a book but rather, what he called a DVD-Book – wherein, while reading along, one could immediately access the films he made reference to by simply clicking on an icon. This idea came to him, he said, because reading about filmmaking was like reading about tasting wine: How do you describe a taste? A still image from a movie doesn't tell you what's happening in the sequence and describing it always falls short of actually watching it. Most publishers scoffed at him (he wanted the impossible), but one said that he'd found the solution ('holy grail' were his exact words) to a problem that has always plagued film study literature. However, since Leacock did not own the rights to most of his work, licensing the 100 film clips would be a challenge.
So, I made a 20-minute DVD sample and, once again, I shopped around my film proposal. However, except for seed money from the LEF Foundation, everyone else said 'No'.
Why? The head of a major film institute told me privately that my film was to 'arty'; the heads of two major TV documentary series said Leacock was not well enough known, plus they found my approach was too offbeat and risky. Bottom line: Come back and when your film is finished.
But, in order to finish, I needed cash: I had 15 hours of Super 8 footage (with synchronized audio on 16mm mag) that had to be transferred to digital. And, while I could do almost all the other jobs, this was beyond my means.
I don't see my film as arty or offbeat, although in some ways, it is very personal: We see Ricky (and others) in situations that are unexpected. As I mentioned before, when I started this project Ricky declared that he would not do any interviews. There was a reason behind this for, although Ricky gave interviews to anyone who asked, privately he mocked TV crews who would come in with their big cameras, lights, and tripods and ask him to sit down and talk about Cinema vérité.
However, sometimes you need to find a way around these 'rules'. There came a moment in 1974, when I realized I needed words from him about his past – so, Jeff Kreines and I took a Super 8 camera and Nagra over to his apartment and, in the middle of preparing dinner, asked him to just sit down and just tell us the story of his life. He had 30 minutes. We didn't ask any questions or prompt him in any way and, as a result it's especially dynamic, pure storytelling.
Also, in my film we see Ricky doing things: Teaching, grocery shopping, cooking, fussing with technology, editing, etc. Nothing is ever 'faked' or set up. I would just show up and shoot…
Years went by, Ricky was getting older and, after being seriously injured in a fall down a flight of stairs, his memory was failing fast. Last year, he made one last trip to the Telluride Film Festival to screen Monica Flaherty's sound version of her father's film MOANA (1926), which he had helped make happen in 1975. I screened a work-in-progress of my film there, with Ricky in attendance. Everyone was quite moved and it was incredibly well received, even in its unfinished state and, without the original footage shot in the early 1970s.
Following Telluride, having spent years sending out proposals, making DVD samples, paying for everything, I was truly penniless. I knew I should have listened to sage advice from a filmmaker friend who told me I was on a futile mission because, he said, film biographies are rarely financed while the person is still alive. Winter was coming; I couldn't heat my apartment or pay the rent. Friends helped keep me alive, but I'd lost all hope.
Re-enter Jeff Kreines. Jeff, whom I'd not seen in 35 years, is the inventor of the Kinetta Film Archive Scanner (see Kickstarter Update #8) – an amazing machine designed to gently transfer ANY film format to 4K digital without using the treacherous sprocket pull-down claw that rips and destroys celluloid made fragile by age or bad storage conditions. By total chance, in October 2010, I discovered that AS'Image, a postproduction house (literally next door to my apartment) was awaiting delivery of a Kinetta. Jeff arrived in Paris on Easter Day 2011 and, thanks to AS'Image's generous 'in-kind' participation, we started the transfers…
Sadly, one month before Jeff arrived, Ricky Leacock died on 23 March 2011, so he never got to see how marvelous his Super 8 Synch Sound invention looks on the large screen.
On the day he died his legendary fame, which broadcasters didn't trust, was evidenced in the hundreds of obituaries around the world. At the memorials at Lincoln Center and MIT, friends and family finally were finally able to view segments of the newly transferred Kinetta footage. Several people generously offered private donations to help match a grant that finally came from the same media fund that he had started and once headed.
In the last 6 years, having raised less than one-fifth of the actual budget, we desperate to finish.
How do you make a feature-length film on less-than-nothing?
Here's how: My co-producers say the 'thank-you' list on the closing credits is much too long. I say my biggest fear is that somebody's name might accidentally be left off. Someone important, someone who gave something or did something that really made the difference. Of course, after 40 years, a no-budget film would not exist were it not for a lot of help from friends. It could be no other way. And, I have to say I am deeply indebted and extremely grateful to everyone – so many have contributed so much – it's impossible to list here – but, hopefully, one day soon you can read the credits!
If we continue working this crazy schedule, Sebastián Eyherabide (my WONDERFUL editor) and I believe we can get to a fine cut edit by the end of December.
However, in order to release we need to locate the masters of some 60 film clips, conform, color correct and find someone to do the sound editing and mixing, etc. And, malheureusement, these kinds of expenses require we that spend real cash money...
So, we've turned to Kickstarter and, boy, it's a killer.
Less than two weeks left to finish the film. We're SOOO close! Almost there by doing double-time in the editing room and a Kickstarter campaign running at the same time.
The most wonderful response from Kickstarter is that people love the video updates -- plus, it seems that festivals are watching, too. We've gotten several requests in the last couple days from major festivals wanting the film.
After all these years, it's coming down to the same thing as always – perseverance, endurance and the help of dear and new friends. None of us could do it without the support of everyone else in the community. Ricky's ideas on small format cameras, technology and how to make a documentary resonate stronger than ever, and the community that has supported his work has been incredibly supportive of my struggle to get this film out to the world. I hope to share it with you soon.
Since her first film, "7th Street Depot" (1971), Jane Weiner has made many films; her credits include SILVERLAKE LIFE, JUPITER'S WIFE, HOME PAGE, RAVI SHANKAR, and THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF BEES -- all international co-productions. LA CAMERA PASSE-PARTOUT and RICKY on LEACOCK will be released in 2012. Her next film, LES ABEILLES DE VEZELAY is an up-close portrayal of an agricultural community set on defending itself against the onslaught of chemicals.


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text: 10 feel-good stories you can't missBy CNN StaffUpdated 12:40 PM ET, Fri July 26, 2013 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: The best of the Human Factor40,000 hugs served here – Tim Harris, who has Down syndrome, always dreamed of owning his own business. His restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and hugs. Read more. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human FactorMLB pitcher never quits – During his rookie season in 2006, Jon Lester was diagnosed with anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer. A year after his diagnosis, Lester was back on the mound, winning Game 4 of the World Series to clinch the championship. Read more.Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human FactorCrossFit trainer has cerebral palsy – Stephanie Hammerman wasn't always in love with going to the gym, but it's something that became important to her after she lost one of her best friends. Hammerman is the first certified CrossFit trainer in the world with cerebral palsy. Read more. Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human Factor8-year-old's book on hearing loss – Samantha Brownlie was diagnosed with nonsyndromic sensorineural bilateral hearing loss when she was 3. She wrote a book to explain why she wears a hearing aid in school. Read more.Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human FactorWhy man pushed wheelchair 3,000 miles – Ryan Chalmers was born with a birth defect called spina bifida, which leaves him with limited use of his legs. He recently pushed his wheelchair across the United States to raise money for a scuba program that helps people with disabilites. Read more.Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human FactorFrom 58 pounds to thriving – At 15, Chelsea Roff had a stroke brought on by her severe anorexia. When she was admitted to Children's Medical Center Dallas, she weighed 58 pounds. Roff is now a writer, speaker and yoga instructor. Read more.Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human FactorParkinson's didn't stop spacewalk – Rich Clifford kept his Parkinson's disease diagnosis a secret to follow his dream of being an astronaut. "Having Parkinson's disease is no reason to stop living life to its fullest extent," he says. Read more.Hide Caption 7 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human FactorCountry star living with MS – As a teenager, Clay Walker dreamed of being a country music star. Soon after he topped the music charts for the first time, he was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. But Walker hasn't let this chronic disease slow his career down. Read more.Hide Caption 8 of 10 Photos: The best of the Human Factor50 marathons in 50 states – Don Wright ran 50 marathons in 50 states -- all while battling cancer. Read more.


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Almost. If it hadn't been for Grant Davis of The Stephen Sherwood Letters, who was kind enough to leave a congratulatory comment on this blog, I would have forgotten my blogoversary.
My relative lack of blogging activity notwithstanding, I have not abandoned genealogy and it has not abandoned me. As you can see from my previous post, I recently broke through a brick wall. I am taking this as a sign not to let my research go dormant, and to keep plugging away, even if it is just a bit every night.
My husband and I have reserved hotel rooms in Richmond for NGS 2014.
We have a trip planned next month to my favorite ancestral stomping ground, the Greenville-Anderson area of South Carolina. We are even discussing possible future research trips to Dallas, Texas and Greene County, Illinois.
And even when I am not doing much of anything, this blog (as well as my website, Greta's Genealogy) continue to work for me. So while I miss the regular interaction with readers that accompanies regular posting, the blog is still doing what it was created to do.
Many thanks to those of you who have "stayed tuned." There are a few posts in the planning....
Friday, August 9, 2013
Continuing a Tradition: Forgetting My Blogoversary
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Maybe we can meet face to face in Richmond . I've got a hotel room too. It remains to be seen whether I will make it.
Looking forward to upcoming posts. It's always great to hear from you.
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A very belated Happy Blogoversary! Nice to read about your brick wall tumbling down too! All the Best, Dan (www.thepersonalpast.com)ReplyDelete
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FLORENCE, S.C. – The No. 3-seed and No. 9-ranked Georgia College & State University baseball team (38-15) used stellar defense, solid pitching and timely hitting to get past No. 2-seed and No. 4-ranked Columbus State University (44-12) 5-3 Saturday, day three of the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Championship Tournament.
The Bobcats advance to Sunday, playing No. 1-seed and No. 6-ranked Francis Marion University at 1 p.m. should Georgia College win again, it will advance to the World Series for the first time since 1995. If the Bobcats lose, they play FMU again at 4 p.m. with the winner of that game taking the region title and World Series bid.
The victory over CSU tonight makes the Bobcats 5-0 against the Cougars this season, including two wins in the last two days at this region tournament.
Defense got the Bobcats out of a few sticky situations today, as a diving effort combined with a backhand toss by shortstop Chandler Snell (Loganville, Ga.) started a double play with two on in the fifth. Then, with a runner on first in the sixth, centerfielder Sean Harrell (Martinez, Ga.) leapt above the fence to pull back a home run off the bat of Wes Adkins that would have cut the Bobcat lead to one.
"When you go about building a team, you want to be strong defensively up the middle," said head coach Tom Carty. "Chandler is a guy that is a four-year starter that really raises his game on the tough plays and in the big games. (Second baseman Jason Veyna (Lamar, Colo.)) has been a great compliment to him all year at second. Sean Harrell robbed a home run that was huge and made all the difference as we could still be playing right now."
The Bobcats got another solid start from its pitching staff tonight, as junior righty Eric Pettepher (Gordon, Ga.) went 6 1/3 innings fanning three and allowing just three runs on 10 hits. Senior righty Brendon Malkowski (Schenectady, N.Y.) entered in the seventh with one out, tossing the final 2.2 scoreless for his second save. He struck out four and surrendered just one hit, retiring Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Player of the Year Jason Rogers twice with runners on base.
"I just wanted to get the ball downhill, get ahead of hitters and close things out," said Malkowski. "The team played so well tonight I didn't want to let them down."
The Bobcats struck first in the first, when Kyle Allen (Conyers, Ga.) doubled and scored after a couple of productive groundouts. In the second, the 'Cats plated three more when catcher Richard Pirkle (Norcross, Ga.) tripled home first baseman Matt Pitts (Brunswick, Ga.) and designated hitter Benton Yaun (Marietta, Ga.), who both reached on singles. Another groundout later, Pirkle scored to make it a 4-0 Bobcat lead.
After two runs for CSU in the fifth on RBI singles by Alex Montes and Rogers, Georgia College got one back on an RBI single by rightfielder Shawn Ward (Marietta, Ga.). The Cougars got another run in the seventh on an RBI single from leftfielder Ryan Lewis, but could inch no closer thanks to the closing fastball of Malkowski.
Pitts finished 2-for-4 with a run, while Pirkle went 1-for-3, driving in a pair and scoring once. Leadoff hitter Allen scored twice on a 1-for-3 day.
CSU starter David Lane (6-2) couldn't get out of the second inning in the loss. The Cougars' top hitter was leadoff man and centerfielder Montes, going 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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On Wednesday, a fight between Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva appeared to hinge solely on the former Pride FC champion's health. Less than 24 hours later, however, the bout has reportedly gone off the rails.
Sonnen continued his pleas for the fight with Silva on Wednesday's Fox Sports Live. UFC president Dana White, an in-studio guest on the show, said he was ready to make the fight and designate it the UFC 167: St-Pierre vs. Hendricks co-main event, as long as Silva was healthy.
Silva's health doesn't appear to be a factor, but what he wants for compensation seems to have killed any hopes for the bout.
"(Silva) said he won't fight (Sonnen) unless he gets PPV (points), so I guess he's gonna retire," White wrote via text message to MMAFighting.com on Thursday, effectively saying the fight was not going to happen.
Pay-per-view points are a percentage of the revenue that the promotion receives from pay-per-view purchases of the event.
Vitor Belfort and Lyoto Machida could have been other options for Sonnen, but Belfort has already agreed to a rematch with Dan Henderson and Machida has signed on to fight Tim Kennedy.
So where does that leave Sonnen, who has indicated he wants to return to middleweight?
"We will figure it out," said White.
For now, however, Sonnen's future doesn't appear to include the Axe Murderer.
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Nation & World
From sorrow to song in a Berlin stadium, a set piece on soccer solidarity
Ten years ago, a tight-knit group of fans of an always struggling professional soccer team watched their club lose at home, 2-1, to a club, called Wacker Burghausen, that was no more impressive than it sounds.
As the losing fans slogged home in the twilight of a day that never got much above freezing, a number realized that the dismal performance of their team, Union Berlin, had made them forget momentarily that this was the last match before a winter break – a five-week span without games before the season resumed. The loss had left them too down even to share Christmas wishes with each other.
But these weren't just any fans. They were a group bound by a friendship that was tied to supporting this second-division team _ think AAA baseball _ from the old communist East Germany, the sort of bond that only really comes of living and dying on weekends with a team of lovable losers.
So these fans started calling around and trying to convince people to return to the stadium on the night of Dec. 23, 2003. The idea was to bring some cookies and maybe some gluhwein and share a good moment during this pause in play.
In all 89 fans showed up at the team's dark, locked stadium, affectionately known as Alte Forsterei (the old forest keepers' hut). They scaled the fences, with their cookies, and met at midfield. In the dark, someone had brought candles, so they lit those and sang some Christmas songs.
It was such a good time they decided they should do it again. And they did, though it did get a bit more crowded.
Dec. 23, 2003, was hardly the first time the fans of F.C. Union Berlin (nickname "the Iron") gathered to sing. As is the case with most European soccer clubs, their fans start singing before each game begins and finish shortly after the final whistle. Union fans, though, have a reputation around Germany for how their songs aren't necessarily about soccer.
Between the club's official beginning in 1966 on the east side of Berlin and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, its fans were known to sing about free speech, democracy and their dreams of a united Germany.
Club officials insist there was never anything too overtly anti-communist state.
"Standing up to the state directly was not possible," explained club spokesman Christian Arbeit. "They had to be subtle."
Still, Union fans were such a strong voice for democracy that East Germany's feared secret police, the Stasi, listed being a fan of Union as one of their top warning signs of dissidence. Or, as the oft-repeated saying goes: "Not every Union fan is an enemy of the state, but every enemy of the state is a Union fan."
And that dissidence was always expressed in song.
As longtime fan Heiko Kulleng, 49, explained, before the Berlin Wall fell being followed by Stasi agents was normal.
"There were two meanings to what we'd sing, talking about the wall between West and East, but it could also refer to the wall of players in a free kick."
And that, he said, unified the fans: "We are a family."
As fans admit, the club hasn't always inspired on the field, so they find their sense of community in each other. It's about being a club, not just about soccer games. As one song they sing several times at each game goes, "Iron Union, it's my love, Iron Berlin. It's my team. It's my strength. It's my club. Iron Union."
In 2008, in what Arbeit describes as "that very special year," the fans actually took that to an extreme. Union Berlin was told by the German soccer federation that it could no longer play in its ramshackle stadium on the edge of Berlin's Koepenick district. Koepenick is a sleepy part of Berlin, away from the famous club scene, and far enough from the wall that it was clearly and totally in the east.
The district is best known for the Captain of Koepenick, an unemployed shoemaker who in 1906 dressed up like a Prussian military captain and marched into the town hall, ordering around the lower-ranked police around him, and eventually demanding the town treasury be handed over to him for safekeeping. That he got away with it is seen as a cautionary tale for Germans that their love of the trappings of power can cause problems.
In 2008, the fans of Union learned from the officials of their club that they either had to move to a new stadium or build one, and that the club had money for neither option. So the fans, a total of 2,500 of them, donated more than 100,000 work hours and built an updated and legal stadium on the Alte Forsterei grounds.
Just years before that, in 2004, when yet another mediocre season reached the winter break, the 89 fans who had organized the Christmas sing in 2003 returned and again crawled over the fence to share some holiday joy. This time, though, they were joined by a couple hundred others.
The following year, on hearing that the Christmas sing crowd would approach 1,000, they finally approached city and team officials, asking if perhaps a gate could be left open for them. Union fans are dedicated, but they are not necessarily spry, they noted.And, as simply as that, a tradition was born.
As the years passed, the size of the crowds grew. Last Dec. 23, 22,000 fans filled the new stadium they'd built, as well as the field. For reference, the stadium held about 20,300 for a game last weekend and looked packed. As three-quarters of the stands are actually "stands" _ meaning without seats _ people pack in pretty tightly, but it's tough to know what capacity might be.
It's a happy fan group these days. The team is hardly champion caliber, but for second-division mediocrity, it's not bad. In fact, Union Berlin won 4-2 Saturday, and that left it in fourth place in its 18-team league. And while the fans won't pretend to be the Soweto Gospel Choir when they sing (during Saturday's game they attempted to sing "Winter Wonderland" with an F.C. Union theme, but clearly most of the many thousands enthusiastically joining in were repeating "la-la-la-la-la" for lack of knowing the words.)
Still, at 7 p.m. Monday, the stadium lights were switched off and 27,000 packed into the stadium, with thousands more turned away. After 27,000 candles were lit, the fans sang, with all their love, all their strength, all their friends.
"It's impossible to look at that without tears," Arbeit notes. "So Frohe Weihnachten."


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First Congregational Church of Los Angeles Hosts Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles' Spring Concert in March
The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) will continue its 34th Season in the Gothic setting of First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (540 South Commonwealth Avenue) on March 16th and 17th with its performance of "Awakenings," featuring special guests Vox Femina Los Angeles (VOX) and the new youth chorus, Outside Voices.
"Awakenings" will be conducted by GMCLA Artistic Director E. Jason Armstrong, and will feature the powerful voices of the 200-member GMCLA chorus alongside the female chorus members of VOX and the talented young stars of Outside Voices, the new mixed chorus formed by GMCLA and LifeWorks at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center.
Vox Femina made its on-stage debut in 1997 with GMCLA, and returns for another concert of eclectic, powerful songs. The concert will include "The Awakening" by Joseph M. Martin; "When I Fall In Love," arranged by James Mulholland and originally featured in the motion picture "Sleepless in Seattle"; "The Song of Purple Summer," arranged by Mark Brymer from the hit Broadway musical "Spring Awakening"; and "Into the West," the Academy Award-winning song from "Lord of the Rings," written by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore and Annie Lennox, among many others.
"We are very excited to have the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles back for another concert at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles," exclaimed Dr. R. Scott Colglazier, Senior Minister to the congregation. "Last year's concert was a definite highlight for us, and we are thrilled to welcome both the Chorus and its dedicated audience back this year as we continue to strengthen the burgeoning relationship between our two organizations."
GMCLA's 34th Season, presented by Wells Fargo, has been filled with a line-up of amazing performances and mission-driven work. On December 15th and 16th, GMCLA performed its annual "Holiday Spectacular." On June 22-23, 2013, GMCLA will feature the music of Stephen Schwartz in "Not Entirely Wicked" at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. The 34th Season program also includes the release of Joel A. Martin's 7th CD in the Jazzical series, entitled Jazzical Meets Menken, which will feature the choral sounds of GMCLA; the Alive Music Project (AMP), and the Chorus's own recognition event, The Voice Awards, to be held May 19, 2013.
Tickets for "Awakenings" go on sale Thursday, February 14, 2013. They range from $35-$75 and are available online at www.gmcla.org. Performances are Saturday, March 16th at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 17th at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles (540 South Commonwealth Avenue). For information about GMCLA, please visit www.gmcla.org. For more information on First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, please visit www.fccla.org, for Vox Femina please visit www.voxfeminala.org.


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I've been wanting to try out a waffle cone recipe for quite a while. The only problem was that I couldn't make a waffle cone recipe without a waffle cone maker. Lucky for me – Chef's Choice sent me a Petite Cone Express waffle cone maker to try out!
Rather than making one big cone, it makes three little ones. You know that I like things mini, so this waffle cone maker was perfect for me!
The waffle cone recipe that comes with the maker tells you to use the Chef's Choice waffle cone mix, but since I am a from-scratch kinda gal, I decided to go a different route.
I used a waffle cone recipe by Gale Gand that I found on the Food Network. In the comments on that recipe, some readers complained that the dough was too cookie-like. But, if you think about it, a good waffle cone is essentially a crisp sugar cookie. I found that Gale's recipe was ideal for making fresh, crunchy, sweet waffle cones. The recipe contains cinnamon and nutmeg, which gives the cones a slightly different flavor than the ones you get in your local ice cream shop. I liked the spices, but if you don't, you can always leave them out.
I've reprinted the waffle cone recipe below, along with step-by-step instructions for making the cones in the Chef's Choice PetiteCone Express (obviously, the recipe would work in any waffle cone maker). I didn't count how many waffle cones it made, but you can look at the pictures at the top and bottom of this post to get an idea. It made a lot!
- 1 C heavy cream
- 1 1/2 t vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 C powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 C all-purpose flour
- 1/4 t ground cinnamon
- Pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 T cornstarch
In a bowl with a whisk, whip the cream with the vanilla until mousse-like (it won't form peaks).
Sift the remaining ingredients together and stir them into the cream to make a batter.
Let the batter sit for 30 minutes.
Heat up the waffle cone iron. I used heat setting 2.5.
You'll know that it is ready to go because the light turns green.
Grease the top and bottom of the waffle iron. I used a non-stick spray.
Put a dollop of batter onto each of the three waffle molds. The waffle maker comes with a spoon to scoop the batter with so you know exactly how much batter to use. If you use too much, the three waffles will stick together. If you use too little, the waffles will be hard to roll. Tip: The first time that you do it, I would highly recommend doing only one at a time. That way, you can make sure that you've got the technique down without wasting any batter.
Close the lid.
The light will turn red. When it turns green again, it's time to roll your waffle.
The waffle maker comes with a cone shaped mold to roll the waffle around. Here are a couple of rolling tips:
- Work fast. The waffles harden super quickly.
- Protect your hands. The waffle will be really hot and you could burn yourself. You might want to use a towel or wear gloves to help you roll.
- As soon as the cone begins to overlap itself, press down firmly as you continue to roll to make it stick closed. It also helps to hold the waffle in the position shown in step four for a few seconds.
- Use your fingers to pinch together the hole at the bottom of the cone.
- If you are making three waffles at once, take them off the iron one at a time. Don't take a waffle off of the iron until you are ready to mold it, otherwise the third waffle will be too hard to shape by the time you get to it.
Store the cooled waffle cones in a Ziploc bag until you are ready to fill them with ice cream or whatever else your mind dreams up. Mine are going in 4th of July cupcakes.


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Hard-drive fails to boots if suspend Was activated prior to Restarting. Booting a lives USB/CD fixes the issue (temporarily)
I am running 12.04 64-bit and am dual booting with Win7, for full disclosure, although I suspect that has nothing to do with my problem.
The boot-loader(GRUB) fails to load often and I will be presented with a black screen with a single blinking line. This has happened to me eight out of ten power cycles now and I can fix it consistently, however, I have no idea why it happens.
My current fix is to boot a live CD (I've tried both KNOPPIX and Ubuntu with the same result) and that's it. Somehow booting with the live CD is enough to "wake-up" my hard drive. I then reboot and GRUB magically appears again.
So what is going on? Is it possible that a program is corrupting my MBR and the live CD is restoring it? How can I narrow down the possibilities? Thanks.
This is still a problem. I'm convinced now that it is not hardware related as I've spent the last month and several boot cycles on Windows without a hiccup. Recently when I started using Ubuntu again the problem started again.
I am more interested in figuring out what is going on rather than actually fixing the problem. Are there any tools, logs, etc. I can use to unravel this mystery?
I can now consistently recreate the issue. It seems that if the computer is put into suspend mode at any point prior to restarting, the problem comes up. The computer goes into and out of suspend mode just fine but when I restart the system it fails to boot. I've tried this command before and after suspending the computer:
sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda > hdsettings.txt
Then I ran a diff on the two files and found that one thing changed: under security settings frozen changed to not frozen. I have no idea what that means but it's a difference anyhow.


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You HAVE to eat these!!
It's no secret that I hate being gluten-free. I hate all of the substitutions and I despise GF bread. It sticks to my teeth. However, this is the *first* gluten-free bread food that I've eaten and liked.
Not even just liked... loved. I *really* love them! They are so good. My husband was devouring them as well.
I adapted this recipe from the back of a Bob's Red Mill bag.
This recipe was originally for banana bread and I was pretty excited to make and eat it. However, I couldn't find my loaf pan, so I decided to turn it into muffins instead. Also, I made several alterations + substitutions to the recipe because I just can't help myself. It turned out really well though, so it was for the best!
1 3/4 c. Bob's Red Mill All Purpose GF Baking Mix*
1 large egg
3 mashed medium bananas (ripe, ripe, ripe!)
1/2 c. chocolate chips
1/4 c. raisins (optional)
1/3 c. unsweetened applesauce
2/3 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. almond extract (sub in another tsp vanilla if you haven't got almond)
1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
*I like this mix because it's relatively inexpensive and available almost everywhere. If you don't have access to it, you can use a mix made from 1 c. white rice flour, 1 c. tapioca flour, 1 c. potato starch, 1/2 c. sorghum flour & 1/2 c. garfava flour (as seen in The Idiots Guide to Gluten-Free Cooking). You could also try another GF baking mix. It seems to me that they're all made of the same flours, just check the label to be sure as I can't guarantee it will turn out otherwise :)
First, stir the applesauce, eggs & extracts together. Next add in the flour, xanthan gum, salt, baking powder and spice. Mix in the mashed banana. Add in the chocolate and raisins (optional).
Be sure to grease your pan and then fill it up! There should be enough batter for 12 muffins or one loaf. Fill the cups to nearly full.
(3) Bake it. For the muffins, bake them at 350 for 25-30 minutes. For the bread, bake it at 350 for an hour. Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool on a wire rack. I ate my first one while it was PIPING hot. So good.
I *promise* that you will enjoy these muffins. They are so awesome. We stored ours for 3-4 days in an airtight container and they kept just fine. GF baked goods tend to get a little watery when stored, so you may want to reheat them before eating. Try popping them in a toaster oven for a minute or two to warm them up. I ate mine as they were and they were awesome, though.
Another option is to freeze them. Individually wrap them with aluminum foil and then place them in an airtight container/freezer bag. Defrost as needed :)
Now it's time for French lessons! One of my favorite parts of the week. My beautiful ballet instructor is also my brilliant French student. That means I need to finish up this awesome Michigan salad at my favorite little cafe and get moving! Have a wonderful weekend, and as always, thanks for reading!


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I've got a number of little pieces of information that may or may not concern the event tomorrow and I wanted to wrap them up so everyone has the maximum amount of time to chew on them and let them digest. First up are a few bits of information from the conference call this afternoon. First up, a senior Apple executive hinted towards updated iPods, saying:
that the final phase of a complete iPod lineup revamp would be revealed before the holiday shopping season, hinting that full-size iPods would soon receive a makeover and new features
iLounge makes the logical connection to tomorrow's event, however, it wasn't directly or indirectly implied in the executive's statements. Tim Cook, Apple's VP of worldwide sales and operations, had his hype-o-tron beam set to stun when he started talking about what's up for holidays:
[Apple has some] very innovative new products that we have yet to introduce" for the holiday season. Cook noted that Apple began working on "revolutionary" new versions of its iPods more than a year ago, and that last quarter was the final quarter for the older models.
Unrelated to the event (or is it??) is the statistic that Apple sold over 1 million nanos in its first 17 days on shelves. The MacObserver is reporting that Tim Cook also confirmed that x86 Macs continue to be on schedule for a June 2006 launch. More relevant to the topic at hand, he made the following statement about future PPC Mac products:
I will tell you that we have some very cool PowerPCs in the pipeline, and we are very focused on our current line-up.
TMO also reports that the iTMS is showing a profit and continues to sell songs at a substantial rate (put this on your "one more thing you'll hear about tomorrow" list):
Apple reported that the iTunes Music Store turned a profit in the fourth quarter of 2005, during its quarterly financial statement Tuesday. Customers are purchasing over 1.8 million songs per day, and the iTunes Music Store controls over 80 percent of the U.S. digital music market.
That 80% figure mirrors the 78% quoted in the The Street article I linked in my previous post, so well in fact that I'm betting they're using the same research. To wrap up everything else, MacNN has everything we haven't covered yet:
Apple said its overall music business accounted for 40 percent of revenues in the quarter.
Tiger revenue for the fourth quarter was around $35 million.
Higher eduction Mac unit sales grew 38% year-over-year
Apple retail stores saw 14.8 million visitors during the quarter, or about 9800 visitors per store, per week. The company plans to open 35 to 40 new retail stores in fiscal 2006.
Apple would not comment on specific plans for its multi-billion-dollar cash stockpile -- which now equates to approximately $10 a share -- other than to "invest in the business."
Enjoy and I'm wishing everyone a happy 'mysterious event' day tomorrow.


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World-renowned brands that define luxury, style and technology come together to create the ultimate shopping experience at Stanford Shopping Center. Set in a distinctive open air environment surrounded by exquisite award-winning gardens, the center is a mix of iconic retailers, singular shops and exceptional dining. Stanford Shopping Center's casual elegance has captivated Northern California residents and visitors from all over the world. It is unmatched by any other shopping destination in the market.
Located 35 miles south of San Francisco and 14 miles north of San Jose, the center is lead by Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Macy's and features more than 140 world-class specialty shops and restaurants, including American Girl, Anthropologie, Apple, Cartier, Burberry, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, Louis Vuitton, Stella McCartney, Tender Greens, True Food Kitchen and vineyard vines. Local attractions include Stanford University, Hoover Tower, Memorial Church, Cantor Arts Center, Sunset Magazine Gardens, Rodin Sculpture Garden and the Palo Alto Art Center.
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From high-style luxury to a coastal eco-adventure, a getaway here is anything but ordinary. Try the Four Seasons Silicon Valley, Rosewood Hotel, Stanford Park Hotel, The Westin Palo Alto, Epiphany Hotel and The Clement Hotel. A standout among luxury Menlo Park Hotels, and located just across the street from Stanford Shopping Center, the Stanford Park Hotel offers a treat for your special someone: an American Girl adventure! This fun package includes a bathrobe and slippers, perfectly sized for your American Girl doll, and yours to keep! At The Clement Hotel, Palo Alto's newest and most inspiring urban retreat, no detail has been overlooked, providing personalized concierge services and privacy in a luxurious residential environment. The Clement Palo Alto offers an exclusive shopping trip to Stanford Shopping Center's iconic and newly renovated Bloomingdale's. This exciting experience can include such things as: Complimentary Style Advisor and beauty consultations, Little Brown Bag welcome amenity, 15% off Savings Certificate, Exclusive event invitations and car pick-up service.
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Russian airline UTair has obtained a seven-year, $45-million financing package from British bank HSBC on a security from French insurance agency COFACE to purchase 19 Eurocopter AS350s and AS355s. The agreement represents the first time that UTair has secured financing and insurance from an international export agency. Plans call for UTair, which already operates five AS350/355s, to take delivery of four additional helicopters by the end of the year, with another 10 coming during 2013. Russian Helicopters subsidiary, Ulan-Ude Aviation, has handed over three Mi-171s to UTair. The helicopters will operate out of Peru for UTair's HeliSur operation. The three Mi-171s represent the initial deliveries of a 40-helicopter order between UTair and Ulan-Ude in 2011. UTair currently operates more than 40 Ulan-Ude produced helicopters.


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"1600 PENN""TO THE RANCH"02/21/2013 (09:31PM - 10:01PM) (Thursday) : THE GILCHRISTS TAKE A FAMILY TRIP TO THE RANCH-When unable to make a decision about who to nominate to the Supreme Court, President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman) decides to take a family trip to their ranch to clear his head. During their getaway, Skip (Josh Gad) finds himself moping over his failed relationship, while Becca (Martha MacIsaac) contemplates major flaws in her own relationship. Meanwhile, Emily (Jenna Elfman) attempts to spend some quality time with Marigold (Amara Miller) and Xander (Benjamin Stockham), who both struggle with their loss of technology while at the ranch. Andre Holland also stars.


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Mother Nature gave all of the local deer hunters a big present today: 2" of nice, packy, perfect-for-making-a-snowman, snow. My chickens came flooding outside today, like they usually do, only to discover that the ground was covered with a mysterious white substance that wasn't all that tasty. Today, they weren't much in the mood to play in the snow. I think they were talking about joining the snow birds.
This was a challenge for Ruth to get a clear photo with so much white to get washed out. She tried several different settings and settled on this one, which shut down the aperture and allowed the camera to decide on the shutter speed. If you can click on the photo below, check out the amazing feathers on these chickens. They are less than half the size of my regular chickens! I think I need to find them a girlfriend. Maybe someone will trade me a bantam hen for one of these roosters?


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Milestone 2 Reached!
Today at 6pm, one of our PR2 alpha robots successfully completed Milestone 2 by performing a circuit of 10 plugin goals in just under an hour. It had previously completed the first part of the milestone, which was successful navigation around the office for 26.2 miles (a marathon).The first accomplishment required four days, with about 32 hours of actual robot navigation time.
For this second goal, there were doors that were closed, partially open, open and one that was locked (successfully detected). This was our second attempt, after a first attempt on Friday failed at the ninth plug. The team here worked hard over the weekend and, with the latest failure recovery code, it passed with flying colors.
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The Folkestone Warren landslide (Figure 1) is a very large, deep-seated coastal landslide that is well known to geologists and engineers (see references). It is about 3 km wide, and up to 350 m in length. There are nine Surveys in the National Landslide Database IDs 1774/1 to 1774/9.
The village of Capel-le-Ferne is situated behind the landslide at the cliff top, and the wide undercliff is given over to a country park.
The Dover to London mainline railway (via Cheriton) passes through the entire length of the Warren, with the Abbotscliff Tunnel at the eastern end and the Martello Tunnel at the western end. Since its construction the railway has been regularly disrupted by landslide activity, and considerable expenditure has been, and continues to be, involved in remediation and monitoring. The old Dover road is situated close to the cliff edge. This has also been disrupted, and re-routed in parts, for the same reason.
The geology of the platform at beach level varies along the length of the Warren. At the eastern end the platform changes from Gault Formation to Lower Chalk (see below). The change occurs approximately in line with the eastern end of the concrete toe-weight apron (constructed in 1953), near Horsehead Point. Rock revetment has been placed to the east of the concrete apron by Network Rail. It is notable that westward of Horsehead Point the platform is displaced seaward by about 50 m due to movements of the various slide masses (Trenter & Warren, 1996).
The geology consists of the White and Grey Chalk subgroups overlying the Gault Formation and the Folkestone Formation; the principal slide surface being located at the Gault/Folkestone junction.
The upper part of the chalk sequence here is the White Chalk Subgroup comprising from top to bottom the New Pit Chalk Formation resting on the Holywell Nodular Chalk Formation. The lower part of the chalk sequence is the Grey Chalk Subgroup formed by the Zig Zag Chalk Formation resting on the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation. Superficial deposits forming the Clay-with-Flints overlie the chalk.
Beneath the chalk sequence lies the Gault Formation, with the thin Chloritic Marl bed at their junction. The Gault Formation consists of between 44 and 48 m of over-consolidated clay. Beneath the Gault Formation is the Folkestone Formation (Lower Greensand Group) with the Sulphur Band at their junction. The Folkestone Formation consists of calcareous and glauconitic sands and sandstones with some argillaceous horizons (Trenter & Warren, 1996).
The Folkestone Warren landslide is one of the largest on the English coast and is a classical example of a deep-seated (approx. 40 m below sea level) multiple retrogressive, compound mechanism, having translational, rotational, and graben features.
The Folkestone Warren cliffs are divided into the chalk 'High Cliff', essentially the overall landslide backscarp, and the sea 'cliff' consisting largely of landslipped material. The 'High Cliff' as such is not directly influenced by the sea, unlike the Folkestone Warren landslide as a whole.
The landslide has been extensively studied since 1915 (Figure 2), when a major re-activation occurred throughout the complex seriously disrupting the railway constructed in 1844 (Hutchinson, 1969; Hutchinson, et al., 1980; Trenter & Warren, 1996; Warren & Palmer, 2000). Included in this event were chalk slides from the High Cliff, in particular the 'Great Fall' landslide. Hutchinson et al. (1980) describe the three dominant sub-vertical joint sets within the Chalk and their influence on the form of the High Cliff and on landslides within it. In recent decades a large amount of instrumentation and remedial works has been installed and maintained by Network Rail within the Warren.
The age of the original landslide event is not known. Most landslide movements in recent times have been confined to the undercliff in the form of re-activations of existing deep-seated landslide slide masses. However, numerous significant slope failures of the High Cliff are believed to have occurred since the 1800s.
As part of a programme of work monitoring coastal erosion and landsliding at several sites around the coast of Great Britain, BGS has surveyed the Folkestone Warren landslide complex — see Terrestrial LiDAR Survey Techniques. Results from this work will be published soon.
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Hutchinson, J N. 1969. A reconsideration of the coastal landslides at Folkestone Warren, Kent, Geotechnique. Institution of Civil Engineers. London. Vol.19 pp.6–38.
Trenter, N A, and Warren, C D. 1996. Further investigations at the Folkestone Warren landslide. Geotechnique, vol 46 (4), pp.589–620.
Acland, C. L. (1869), The late landslip on the Warren. Q. Jl Folkestone Nat. Hist. Soc. 3, 48-51.
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Barton, M.E. & McCosker, A.M. (2000), inclinometer and tiltmeter monitoring of High Chalk Cliff, Landslides in research, theory and practice, Thomas Telford, London, 2000, pp.127-132.
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Haselock, P. J. (1998), The Folkestone Warren landslip: a model for the decay of fault scarps?: Abstracts : Tectonic Studies Group 19th annual meeting, December 1988 / convenors - Nigel Woodcock and Bryan Storey
Hutchinson, J. N. (1965), A survey of coastal landslides in Kent. Building Research Station Note No 35/36.
Hutchinson, J. N. (1969), A reconsideration of the coastal landslides at Folkestone Warren, Kent, Geotechnique. Institution of Civil Engineers. London. Vol.19 pp.6-38.
Hutchinson, J. N. (1986), Cliffs and shores in cohesive materials; geotechnical and engineering geological aspects. In: M.G. Skafel (ed). Proceedings of the symposium on Cohesive shores, May 5th-7th 1986 Burlington, Ontario. pp.1-44.
Hutchinson J.N., Bromhead E.N. and Lupini J.F. (1980) Additional observations on the Folkestone Warren landslides. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, Vol.13 (1), pp.1-31.
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Muirwood, A. M. (1971), Engineering aspects of coastal landslides. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol.50, pp.257-276
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Price, F. G. H. (1877). On the beds between the Gault and Upper Chalk near Folkestone, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol 33, pp.431-448.
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Hack/Slash Series 1 Issue 1
Okay so quick review today, just cause.
Hack/Slash: not exactly a new series, the first Issue came out in 2007, but has been around since 2004 in a series of one-offs with some interesting names.
Based around these two people:
Cassandra and Vlad (guess which one is which), hunt "slashers" which is a colloquial term for some crazy people who do equally crazy things to other people for the giggles. Cassandra herself was a survivor of a slasher attack, but the Slasher was her mother, who did this to her face before she was caught.
I think you're meant to assume she is dead, but obviously she is not dead, I haven't even read that much cause I just started it, I'm on issue 8 or something, but seriously she cannot be dead. It's too simple, maybe I'm wrong but just cause you deep fry 'yo' face, (silly b****) does not automatically mean you're dead.
Think of it like the TV series supernatural, two people go travelling around America killing bad people, there can be some supernatural stuff involved but mainly it just people who have gone a bit cray-cray
Whats good: Good story, good art, nice use of violence. Thankfully there is a deeper story to it (by the looks of) and you don't need an extensive background in 3 years' worth of one-shot comics.
What also is good: Use of strong female character, with a musclebound partner, reminds me of a modern-age "Han and Chewie"
Whats bad: looks like it may end up relying on sex appeal and that sort of debauchery which will be classed as storylines. And I'm not sure how long this concept can work, but I say that but since this is an old comic, it must be doing well to keep running.
And there you go, until next time.
Whats also bad: Stealing, all images belong to creators of the comic, but images come from my own copy.


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While in Chicago promoting his new album, B.o.B interviewed with ChicagoNow.com at the Hard Rock Cafe.
When speaking on his new album he says "Strange Clouds is everything that I have wanted my album to be since I've been making music. I finally feel like I've executed on this album and it's really just as exciting as the first album. I feel like it has better production and I'm actually doing a lot more production myself-displaying a lot more of my musical passions from playing the piano to guitar to producing a song..."
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Angels Of Death (dub)
13-year old Rachel awakens to find herself trapped in the basement of an abandoned building. Without any memories, or even a clue as to where she could be, she wanders the building, lost ...
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Horror
Actor: Haruka Chisuga
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Just days before the US Senate begins debating new gun control measures proposed by US President Barack Obama, thousands of people, many holding signs with the names of gun violence victims and messages such as "Ban assault weapons now," joined a rally for gun control in the US capital.
Leading the crowd on Saturday were marchers with "We Are Sandy Hook" signs, paying tribute to victims of elementary-school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, last month. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray and other city officials marched alongside them. The crowd stretched for at least two blocks along Constitution Avenue.
About 100 residents from Newtown, where a man killed 20 students and six educators, went to Washington, organizers said.
Participant Kara Baekey from nearby Norwalk, Connecticut, said that when she heard about the shooting, she immediately thought of her two young children. Baekey decided she had to take action and traveled to Washington for the march.
"I wanted to make sure this never happens at my kids' school or any other school," Baekey said. "It just can't happen again."
Once the crowd arrived at the monument, speakers expressed support for Obama's proposals for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and for universal background checks on gun sales.
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told the crowd it is not about taking away gun rights guaranteed by the US Constitution's Second Amendment, but about gun safety and saving lives. He said he and Obama would do everything they could to enact gun control policies.
However, in the Senate, some of Obama's fellow Democrats may frustrate his efforts to enact the most sweeping gun control measures in decades. These Democrats from largely rural states with strong gun cultures view Obama's proposals warily and have not committed to supporting them.
"There's a core group of Democratic senators — most, but not all, from the west — who represent states with a higher-than-average rate of gun ownership, but an equally strong desire to feel their kids are safe," Mayors Against Illegal Guns director Mark Glaze said.
"They're having hard, but good conversations with people back home to identify the middle ground solutions that respect the Second Amendment, but make it harder for dangerous people to get their hands on guns," Glaze said.
All eyes are on these dozen or so Democrats, some of whom face re-election next year. That includes senators Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas.
The Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on Wednesday.
Interest groups, lobbyists, lawmakers, crime victims and others with a stake in the outcome will be watching these senators closely for signals about what measures they might support.
Leading the charge against those ideas is the National Rifle Association. The gun rights lobbying group wields enormous power to rally public sentiment and is a particular threat to Democrats in pro-gun states who face re-election.
At Saturday's rally, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington's non-voting representative in Congress, said the gun lobby can be stopped and the crowd replied: "Yes, we can."
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington's Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march. Organizers said that buses of participants traveled from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others flew in from Seattle, San Francisco and Alaska, they said.


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|A 3-hour pulled pork that is tender and juicy and tastes like it simmered in the crockpot all day - no kidding.
The Easiest (Cheater) Pulled Pork Ever, No KiddingThis cheater pulled pork recipe kind of came on a flashback. No, not that kind y'all. But... years ago I really got into frugality, and one of the many places I frequented back then included the Dollar Stretcher website. Now I admit, I had kind of forgotten about Gary until I found him on Twitter and rediscovered him again.
Well one day, Gary tweeted an article from his site called The Pork Barbecue Secret, so of course I checked it out. The article is written by Dave Kessler, author of Skinny Cooks Can't Be Trusted, a collection of his recipes and articles from a column by the same name. With a title like that, I already liked the guy, because this is one of my most popular things to say when I watch these super skinny cooks on television. No offense to anybody who happens to be a skinny cook. I actually used to be one of those. Until my metabolism went south about the same time that I started blogging about food! Just sayin'...
Anyway, I was intrigued to say the least, so I marched off to the store, picked up a pork shoulder butt - isn't that such a funny contradiction in terms? First thing we all think, hey, how can a shoulder be a butt.... Well, I gave this method a try and my skepticism was doused with the first bite. Despite no seasonings, that's right, NONE, this was the most flavorful, tender, juicy pork, perfect for dousing with barbecue sauce for pulled pork sandwiches. There is something to be said about the natural fats in meats y'all and this is a winner, believe it or not. The bonus is that you get a wonderful broth leftover that is just perfect for a pot of soup like bean with bacon, or for a mess 'o greens.
Of course, many of us do a great pulled pork in our slow cookers, but the beauty of this is that it is done to perfection for pulling in much less time.
And to think all these years I've been paying high dollar for a pulled pork sandwich because I was intimidated by all those hours of smoking that you had to do in order to get a juicy, tender and flavorful pulled pork. Well, guess what? It's not true! I know the die-hard smokers out there will argue this point, and yes, a good smoked pork butt is awesome indeed, but... this is the easiest way to get pulled pork without all that smoking and waiting and honestly, the taste is so good, nobody but you has to know how easy it was.
On doing this in the crockpot: I do love this method for cheater pull pork, and I have done a Carolina style cheater pulled pork and a Spicy Crockpot version in the slow cooker. Cook overnight, for anywhere between 8 to 12 hours on low (depending on size of the butt), shred, return to the crockpot and add barbecue sauce, or leave plain, and sauce individual sandwiches, which is the way that I prefer to do it.
On doing this is a pressure cooker: Pressure cookers used to scare me to death ... until I got me one of the new-fangled electronic ones here recently. Well, I have to tell you that is a pretty cool method for making a pulled pork that's even faster than this! You can read about it here - just remember that it is written for the new, electronic kind of pressure cooker.
So you see, you have all sorts of methods besides smoking that will give you a nice, tender pork for pulling.
Recipe: The Easiest (Cheater) Pulled Pork Ever, No Kidding©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 3 hours | Yield: Depends on roast size
- 1 (6 pound) pork shoulder or butt
- Large bottle of commercial smoky barbecue sauce, or your favorite homemade
- Dash or two of Liquid Smoke (like Colgin), optional
- Some nice hamburger buns or rolls
- Butter
- Vinegar sauce, optional
Place the pork butt into a large stockpot and cover it completely with water. Put a lid on the pot and bring the water up to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 hours.
Remove from heat and take off the lid. Let the pork rest in the water for about 30 minutes. Remove to a plate and using a fork and some tongs, begin to pull the pork into bite sized shreds. Place into a storage container or on a serving platter, blend liquid smoke into the barbecue sauce, add some of the barbecue sauce to the meat, and gently toss. Can also sauce the meat on individual buns, if preferred.
Spread butter on the buns and toast them in a skillet. Pile the pork onto the buns and spread a generous amount of additional sauce over it. Serve immediately.
Cook's Notes: For Carolina style, prepare a vinegar sauce. I like to douse the pulled pork with half of the vinegar sauce, putting the remainder in a squirt bottle; then add enough barbecue sauce to the pork to coat it. When I make my sandwich, I put the sauced pulled pork on the bun and give it a generous squirt of the vinegar sauce. Nice and tangy!
Crockpot: Place into crockpot and add 2 cups of water. Cover and cook on Low for 7-8 hours or on High for 4-5 hours, or until meat is tender.
Leftovers? Build a BBQ Sundae!
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