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Red mullet
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A fish that tastes as exceptionally beautiful as it looks
The red mullet gets its name from its wonderful, brightly coloured skin, which shimmers under the light. It's a beauty, for sure, but it can also be something of a beast. Aggressive and difficult to handle, it is armed with an abundance of very sharp spines. It is also packed with some rather fiddly pin bones.
Thankfully, any hassle involved in preparing it is more than compensated for by its genuinely exceptional flavour—and Borough Market's fishmongers are more than happy to help.
The fish has been caught for generations by Mediterranean fishermen, but over recent years it has been a common and welcome sight off the shores of southern England. "We tend to catch them when we are fishing for bass," says Paul Day at Sussex Fish.
"They don't come into our inshore fisheries in great numbers, so we don't ever have large amounts on the stall. When they do arrive, they are always among the first fish to be sold."
Real depth
This is a great time to buy red mullet. "We have been getting it in increasing numbers for three to four weeks now, so the season is really getting going," enthuses Peter from Furness Fish and Game, whose stall sources its red mullet from the coast of Cornwall. "It is a lovely fish with some real depth to its flavour—enough to deal with a wider variety of ingredients than some other fish."
The species is unusual in that it is often eaten whole. Paul explains: "In Mediterranean countries, they fry the smaller ones and then eat the lot—head, bones, guts, everything—like we do with whitebait." Even if you're not going to eat the whole fish, it is well worth saving the rich, creamy liver, which is considered something of a delicacy.
One recipe Paul suggests comes from the traditional French celebration of Nouveau Beaujolais Day, which takes place on the third Thursday in November to mark the release of the year's first beaujolais wines. "I'd get some large vine leaves, wrap the mullet in the leaves with half a glass of beaujolais poured in and put it in the oven at about 180C. When the leaves are dry the fish is cooked."
Luke Robinson, Borough Market demonstration chef and newly appointed head chef at Corner Room, is a big fan of red mullet. "It has a beautiful colour, especially the Cornish one—bright red with lovely golden-pink colouration on the skin," he says. "It is quite a delicate fish, so you want to just get it to the point that it begins to flake. It has a good strong flavour, but it must be super fresh."
A good mix
A classic way of cooking red mullet is pan frying it and serving with a tapenade. "Pan fry the fish until the skin is nice and golden, then make an olive tapenade with some finely diced shallots, herbs of your choice, olive oil—a really good extra virgin olive oil with a bit of pepperiness to it—maybe an anchovy chopped through, olives, and give it a good mix," Luke explains.
"Toast a nice bit of sourdough bread and place the fish and tapenade on the toast. Serve it with some salad leaves. It is really simple and very tasty."
You could also try Luke's red mullet with bouillabaisse broth or a salt baked red mullet with mayonnaise and lemon. If you have fillets, Luke suggests you cook the fish skin side down until golden brown, then briefly place the flesh side on the pan for a few seconds, before moving it to a warm tray. "The residual heat will cook the fish beautifully."
If cooking the fish whole, score it down to the bone and fry for about a minute and a half on each side. "Either way, finish the fish off with a squeeze of lemon."


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A new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been agreed by Council and Parliament and is effective from 1 January 2014.
On 13 July 2011, the European Commission presented its proposals for the reform of the EU common fisheries policy and, on 2 December 2011, it proposed a new fund for the EU's maritime and fisheries policies for the period 2014-2020: the European maritime and fisheries fund (EMFF).
In 2009, the Commission launched a wide-ranging public debate on the way EU fisheries were managed. Its Green paper on reform of the common fisheries policy (CFP) outlined the challenges facing Europe's fisheries. The public consultation elicited very interesting responses from EU citizens, organisations and governments. We analysed these and summarised them in a synthesis report on CFP-reform consultation.


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So the saga continues…. I really would like to get down and dirty with some in depth reviews of the different Brazilian approaches products that are at present obtainable. The treatment performs by employing keratin which is a protein already present in the hair shaft to smooth and straighten out curls and frizz. Effectively, It is a smoothing and straightening hair treatment that you can get to help your hair be virtually upkeep free of charge and frizz cost-free. Nonetheless, the flat ironing method and everything that came following that was quite tedious. Devi instructed me to use the sodium-chloride totally free Coppola Keratin Care Shampoo and Conditioner to extend the outcomes of the remedy. I noticed that I did not smell any powerful chemical compounds throughout this entire time, which was refreshing to me right after I've had so several treatment options, the Japanese straightening, cold smoothing, and hair coloring, that has smelled quite strongly.
Soon after that, your hair will return to it is regular state, except it need to be healthier and softer due to the conditioning effect of the keratin. At Stacey'z Salon in La Jolla the Brazilian Keratin treatment fees $250 (promotional value) for the very first time and then $300 thereafter. A single day i go to my regional salon, and my hairstylist recomended that i use the Brazilian keratin treatment simply because of my unruly ethnic hair. So, the third day Lastly came, and I washed my hair with my unique sodium laurel sulfate totally free shampoo.
Brazilian straightening therapies never use the exact same chemical compounds that are used in standard black hair relaxers, such as sodium hydroxide or calcium hydroxide, or chemical substances used in curling perms like ammonium thioglycolate. I would also very suggest that you not go by value alone when you are thinking about any hair straightening therapy.
My hairstylist watered the explanation down by telling me these ingredients located in every single shampoo and conditioner unless otherwise specified would strip all the precious treatment I just paid for out of my hair. It becoming organic, that was my ideal decision, I ordered it on the internet site () and went back to my salon and my hair stylist did the remedy on my hair. Anticipate significantly less frizz and your blow drying approach to finish a lot faster than usual. The therapy will wash out over time with no leaving any lasting damage to the hair. This is my before" photo and I am 7+ months from my last Japanese hair straightening. The Global Keratin method was used on my hair and straightens naturally, according to their website. The hair itself looked excellent, but I admit I had a difficult time seeing myself with totally zero body to my hair.
The Brazilian Keratin remedy doesn't use these sorts of higher pH levels so there is no softening or swelling of the hair shafts. Magic Sleek is WAY better than any therapy i've ever attempted ( and i've completed a lot ) the results are greater and last longer and theres NO FORMALDEHYDE! Just don't overdo the use of smoothing therapies and you will have remarkable hair. With the Brazilian Keratin therapy there is virtually no danger of hair harm or breakage and the results are extended-lasting, reversible and gentle. It's fantastic for these with hair that tends to be frizzy and responds to humidity poorly, such as mine, and it also offers a lot of added shine to your hair, so it tends to make it appear a lot healthier.…


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ICE GLEN by Joan Ackermann. Regional Premiere.
A wonderfully funny romantic drama about a poet who
doesn't want her work to be published. "Beautifully
written." – Talkin' Broadway. "A lovely play." –CurtainUp
Words and Wisdomby Dedalus
Thursday, August 13, 2009
I like words. I believe in words. Words, when put in the right order, when marinated with a certain elegance and passion, can do more than we and all our (other) toys can ever hope to accomplish. Nothing feels as good as a kind word, or as harsh as a cruel one. Sticks and stones may indeed break bones, but words will break spirits, impasses, dilemmas, and, when given with a sneer or a tin-ear, words will even break wind (so to speak).
And, for two people, Sarah Harding and Peter Woodburn, words are at the heart of a classic crossed-purpose dilemma. Living in a familiar, late 19th-Century new England, Sarah is a reclusive poet who uses words to describe, to understand, to converse with her world. They are tiny pieces of her soul, private, life-affirming, protecting. Peter is a publisher, who accidentally stumbles upon a few of Sarah's poems and wants to share them with the world. He, no less than Sarah, loves words and how they make him make sense of life. Unlike Sarah, it is other peoples' words that drive his aesthetics, other peoples' art that he feels compelled to share with the world.
For Sarah, it's as if he has asked her to strip naked before a million strange eyes.
Joan Ackermann's "Ice Glen" is the story of Sarah and Peter, the surprising turns their conflict brings to their lives, the surprising accommodations they are both able to make. In the hands of director Ellen McQueen and the Essential Theatre 2009 Festival, it's a nicely acted ode to words, a love song to the power and beauty of speech and idiom and poetry and emotion.
Performed as an ensemble piece, it's a work that gives each actor a moment to shine, gives them all a swirling stew of interacting needs and emotions and half-spoken, half-felt doubts and insecurities. Dina Shadwell gives Sarah a confidence and depth that rings true – we never hear any of her poetry, but Ms. Shadwell made me believe she was a poet. Not a spinster in the Jane Austen or Emily Dickinson mold (we hear vague references to an ex-husband, a lost family), she is nevertheless reclusive, preferring the company of slow-witted Denby (a marvelous Jim Sarbh) to her socially-conscious landlady, Dulce (Ann Wilson), and especially to the (to her) arrogant Peter Woodburn. She's not lonely, but she's happiest when she's alone with her forest (and its wisdom), with her creatures (and their wisdom), with her words.
Servants Grayson (a marvelous Spencer G. Stephens) and Mrs. Roswell (a nicely broguish Jo Howarth) provide nice comic support, carrying most of the exposition load, creating incredibly precise characterizations and interactions. These may be the two best supporting performances of the year (so far).
If there is a weakness here, it may be with Jayson Smith's Peter Woodburn. I haven't decided if it's a weakness in how the character was written or how it was performed, but I found him, as a whole, monochromatic and unconvincing. He makes some emotional choices (and actions) which seem "out of the blue," then acts as if everything were going "according to plan." He never seemed to evoke any passion for words, any emotion at all, but said his lines as written, with no apparent subtext or causation. Considering the strong characters with whom he shared the stage, this, for me, subverted the overall effect of the play, making it one I liked rather than one I loved.
Still and all, this is a good play, and a welcome addition to this year's Essential Play Festival. The period was nicely evoked by Jane Kroessig's costumes, by the drapery-heavy (and fluidly moving scene changes, and, above all, by the from-another-time, more-literate-than-life personalities of the characters, and the actors who played them.
The title refers to a hiker's goal, a secluded glen that, even in the heat of summer, never loses its rime or reason, a small oasis of permafrost far from the frozen north. Symbolically, I suppose it could refer to that secret and secluded place in Sarah Harding that is circumscribed by her poetry, by the words that protect that secret core, the naked persona that remains hidden from the heat of public acclaim (or even any other reader).
But, even stripped of its meaning, isn't "Ice Glen" a beautiful, evocative phrase in and of itself? And isn't "Ice Glen" (the play) a beautiful and evocative collection of words and wisdoms and characters and moments guaranteed to thaw the permafrost heart of anyone hardy (and hearty) enough to brave the hike?
If my own words have any reason to exist, if I have used them with elegance (and not a little passion), I trust you will know the answer without me putting it into even more words.
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Yacht Deliveries re-commence after the storms
February Already!
Welcome to our latest blog, written to you from Palma, Mallorca. After watching the weather closely – as we often do with our sailing and yacht delivery activities, I am wondering how far along the alphabet we are going to get with our 'named storms' which sweep across the UK causing damage and stop our sailing before the spring!
Newhaven, near Beachy Head. South Coast UK and The Needles, IOW are illustrated.
In many ways, I am glad to be in Palma at the moment, after a brief return to the UK following on from a yacht delivery trip on the ARC Canaries – St.Lucia. The ARC was another pleasant trip across the Atlantic for myself to assist and instruct some good clients onboard their Hanse 54' yacht. This is part of our Skippering Service we provide our clients. This makes my total number of trans-Atlantic crossings now 27. Slightly more to the Caribbean than from it.
Going back to Palma, I have been instructing Yachtmaster courses here for a very well respected sailing school. It is almost 20 degrees and sunny! A light breeze – a little too light at times for our course, but it is very good to be back on the water again.
We have had a steady January in terms of yacht delivery work, which is usual for this time of the year. Although after completing the ARC and meeting many people on it, we have numerous bookings in for the return to Europe from the Caribbean. These are onboard a Hallberg Rassy, Hanse, an Oyster and a one off 48' design yacht. Winter maintenance for numerous clients' who ask us to arrange the servicing and maintenance type work for them is always popular.
If you would like any assistance with relocating your yacht, or advice with an ocean passage / yacht delivery we would be very pleased to assist and advise you. My own experience is in the region of almost 300,000 miles as skipper, in many oceans of the world onboard many different yachts. I am a qualified YachtMaster Instructor and can navigate by the stars if necessary! The Seaway skippers all have well over a minimum of 50,000 miles as skipper and are very competent.
Wishing you fair winds and following seas!
Written by Simon Phillips
Managing Director of Seaway Yacht Delivery
Yacht delivery, Skippering services and our Soft Landings service are all offered to help you, the yachtsman with their boating plans.


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Clubs & Activities
- Dance Marathon
- Yearbook
- Post Prom
- National Honor Society
- Permission Slips
- Springfield Theatre Workshop (STW)
- Community Service
Dance Marathon
Welcome to the Steve Stefani/SHS Dance Marathon!
Utilizing a dedicated and spirited organizational structure of a leadership team, captain positions, and committee members, this student-led dance marathon is one of the most recognizable organizations at Springfield High School.
If you would like to learn more about our event, please visit the Steve Stefani Dance Marathon website linked below. On the website, there are links to many of our fundraising activities as well as contact information for the leaders and the history of our event.
If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact me or one of the members of the Leadership Team for specific questions about their committee.
For the Kids,
John N. Gildea
SHS yearbooks are currently available for purchase at yearbookordercenter.com. Our school code is 10819.
Post Prom
National Honor Society
Requirements for consideration for elections in the NHS include:
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Dear LesbiAnn Landers,
I live in a rural town in Idaho with my husband and two cats. Lately, my husband has been going out for very long drives into the city while wearing his clean underwear— And when he comes back, he smells like lady parts that aren't mine! I think that he's cheating on me! Should I confront him?
– Unhappy in Idaho.
Dear Unhappy,
You should DEFINITELY leave your husband FOR A WOMAN. He's not the ONLY one who should be allowed to smell like sweet, sweet lady parts. You gotta FIND that lady he's been slamming his grotty balls on and RIDE HER OUT GOOD! Also, stop cleaning his underwear so he can't get any.
Yours truly,
LesbiAnn Landers.
Dear LesbiAnn Landers,
I know I'm a LeZbIaN but I'm only 13 and my MoM won't let me date any girls even though I'm SO READY TO DO THIS!!!! I think she's just jeaLEZ because she KNOWZ I'm going to grow up to be like, THE HOTTEST LEZZIE EVER. Like, Tegan N Sara HOT!!!! I REEAALLY want to run away from this LAME-ASS HOME and go live in PoRtLaNd with my friend Snaggletooth! Should I go?
– 13 Going On 30 Ladies.
Dear 13,
Do it! Your mom's a fucking labia Nazi. Say hi to Snaggletooth for me.
LesbiAnn Landers.
Dear LesbiAnn Landers,
I'm a 28-year-old man and I've been living in NYC for about a year now. Lately I've been dating a lot of women and it seems like they just don't stick around. I've been noticing a pattern though, it's usually right after I perform oral sex on these women when they decide to leave me. Are there any cunnilingus tips you can give me or are these women just being superficial?
– Single in NYC.
Dear Single,
What you do is, FIRST— get a SEX CHANGE and become a woman. Once you got a twat, you learn how to use it and what works and doesn't. Learning from your own downstairs is always better! After you figure it out on yourself, you'll have no problem going to town on those hot NYC ladies!.
Labia forever!
LesbiAnn Landers.


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Winter Jasmine is a deciduous shrub native to China with slender arching green shoots which fan out to form a finely branched cushion. The Jasmine flowers profusely, on last years growth, in solitary, bright yellow flowers, before the leaves, through Winter and into early Spring. Winter Jasmine make interesting small and shohin bonsai, with its stark winter branches and starry yellow flowers.
Informal Upright, Slanting, Cascade, Semi-cascade, Literate
Thrives in a bright sunny position, though will tolerate shade quite well too. While the species is hardy to -15°C it is best to grown on in a cool house when temperatures drop below -5°C to avoid any die-back.
Like to be well watered but not water logged. Let soil surface dry out between waterings.
Feeding should be carried out every two weeks from the end of flowering until Autumn. Use a balanced fertiliser. If using a slow release fertiliser feed beginning March, and then again in August. With a liquid fertiliser feed every 2 weeks between March and June, and then monthly between August and October.
Leaf and Branch Pruning:
Flowers appear on old wood and shoots can be pruned back from late Spring to Autumn. Lets shoots extend before cutting back to leave the last 2 sets of leaves.
Re-potting & Growing Medium:
Repot every one or two years in Spring after flowering. Use a well drained humus rich soil. 1 Part Akadama, 1 Part Pumice, 1 Part Bark or Leaf Mould.
Shaping is normally carried out with pruning. If required the branches can be wired after flowering, between March and August.


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This year, the United States is having more reported cases of measles than usual. Most of these cases are associated with international travel. CDC urges healthcare professionals to consider measles when evaluating patients with febrile rash and ask about a patient's recent travel history and contact with individuals who have recently traveled abroad. Centers for Disease Control
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The Best Healthy Foods Hitting Grocery Store Shelves In 2018
Natural Products Expo West is upon us: a time when the country's biggest wellness brands descend on Anaheim, California, to talk about spirulina and probiotics and debut the healthy products you'll be seeing this year on grocery store shelves. We tasted and sipped our way through the hundreds of brands at the convention to bring you our absolute favorite brand-spankin'-new products, from apple cider vinegar you can sip on-the-go to puffed chocolate peanut butter snacks. Get your carts ready because it's going to be a delicious (and nourishing!) year!
Primal Kitchen Vegan Ranch Dressing
Primal Kitchen founder Mark Sisson is committed to science-backed nutrition, and this new vegan ranch dressing has some of the best ingredients we've seen. There's no dairy, buttermilk, gluten, soy, canola oil, or sugar. With an avocado oil base and plenty of spices and seasonings, this will be your new staple for dipping, topping, or tossing with. $7.16 for one bottle.
PopChips Nutter Puffs
These three-ingredient snacks are, in a word, addictive. Made with PopChips signature "popped" technology, these have the texture of cheese puffs and the flavor of a peanut butter cup. There are three flavors to choose from: the Chocolate Peanut Butter is especially good, but the Classic is great as well. The Classic is made from only peanut butter, yellow corn, and peanut flour. They also have 5 grams of protein per serving. $3.99 for one 4 ounce bag.
Pukka Herbs Turmeric Active
This brand-new product debuted at Expo West—the full launch isn't until September. It's worth the wait, though, with medicinal-grade herbs including turmeric, ginger, galangal, and nettle, designed to help fight inflammation while tasting delicious (we love the faint hint of orange). $5.99 for one box with 20 tea bags.
EPIC Baked Chile Lime Pork Rinds
If you love pork rinds but never thought you could bear the gas station version again (it does feel like the opposite of health food, doesn't it?), this new product, from grass-fed, sustainable, ethical meat product company EPIC will blow your mind. The company says these pork rinds are their way of honoring the animal by using every part of it. They're also baked, not fried, and contain 40 percent less fat than traditional versions as such. $15.99 for four bags.
Purely Elizabeth Vibrant Oat Cups
If you want Instagram-worthy oatmeal stocked with superfoods, ready to stash in your bag and for a shockingly accessible price, Purely Elizabeth has the perfect breakfast ready for you. There are three delicious flavors to choose from (we especially love the bright-blue spirulina-spiked Blueberry Lemon), and each comes with some of the brand's crunchy granola to sprinkle on top. Each little cup has 8 grams of protein to help keep you full till lunch. $2.99 per cup.
Birch Benders Frozen Waffles
These waffles haven't quite hit stores yet (they'll start hitting shelves in April!), but be on the lookout, because they're going to change the freezer waffle game. Birch Benders has a commitment to clean ingredients, and these are no exception: The paleo variety (our favorite) has no sugar, gluten, grains, or dairy and is made from a blend of tiger nut, coconut, and cassava. There's also a homestyle, buttermilk, and protein-packed variety. $3.99 for one box of 6 waffles.
Applegate Naturals Pasture-Raised Cheese
Now that Applegate has revolutionized making high-quality meat accessible to people all over the country, they've taken on a new category: cheese. Their new sliced and shredded cheese line is made with milk from pasture-raised cows that are never administered hormones. In line with consumers' desire to know exactly where their food is coming from, the cheese is made from a traceable milk pool from farms in the Midwest. It's also non-GMO verified. With Italian, Mexican, and Cheddar shredded varieties and six sliced varieties, these are sure to be a new healthy cooking staple. $4.99 per package.
CAULIPOWER Make Whatever You Want Mix
Everyone's favorite frozen cauliflower crust purveyor has changed the food game again, launching the first-ever vegetable-based baking mix that can be subbed one for one for traditional flours in any recipe (yes, you heard that right). There are two versions, traditional and paleo, both with a base of dried cauliflower, with the traditional relying on rice flour and the paleo a mix of almond, cassava, and tapioca. $7.99 for one 16-ounce bag.
Califia Farms Probiotic Yogurt Drinks
The makers behind one of the cleanest ingredient (and most delicious!) nut milks around are revolutionizing the plant-based game again with the addition of almond milk yogurt drinks. Each serving contains 10 billion live, active probiotics and can be drunk on its own, or used for yogurt. It comes in four flavors—super berry, strawberry, mango, and unsweetened—and while they're all delicious, the mango tastes just like a mango lassi. The single serving bottles are also perfect for on the go! $2.69 for a single-serve 8 oz. bottle.
AvoLove Avocado Chips
Chips made from avocado. We repeat—chips made from avocado. AvoLove dries fresh avocados at low temperatures until they're crispy and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. They have three flavors: sea salt, chile and lime (the classic avocado-toast combo), and sriracha, which has a fiery heat to it. They just debuted at Expo West and aren't in stores quite yet, so stay tuned to find out more! $4.99 for one 1.5 ounce bag.
The Coconut Cult Single-Serve Cacao Cream Coconut Yogurt
We were pretty obsessed with The Coconut Cult's original yogurt, which is as much a gut-healing probiotic supplement as it is a delicious treat — so you can imagine our excitement when the brand debuted its new chocolate flavor. One of the biggest hits among influencers like Rachel Mansfield and Shut The Kale Up, this creamy chocolate pot tastes like a tangy pudding, but packs a serious gut punch, with 100 billion medicinal human-strain probiotics in every 4 ounce jar. The single serving makes it easier for everyone to try the product, or take it on the go. It's also made of very simple ingredients—no emulsifiers to be found—and the coconut base makes it accessible for all of the non-dairy folk out there. The chocolate flavor will be in stores in a month or two, and the single serve jars will follow shortly thereafter. $5.99 for one 4-ounce jar.
Growing Roots Snack Bites & Clusters
Growing Roots is an organic, plant-based snack brand with a cause—half of all profits support Unilever's urban farming initiative (urban farming helps bring access to healthy food in many previously underserved communities). The snacks are made from organic ingredients, with four flavors to start: Cocoa Chipotle, Pineapple Coconut Rum, Maple Bourbon, and Coconut Curry. They're all gluten-free and are made from ingredients like fresh corn and coconut. You can find them in ShopRite stores in the Northeast now, although they plan to expand nationally imminently. $3.99 for one 4-ounce pack.
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A couple months after Marvel releases Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 they'll follow up with Spider-Man: Homecoming. The Guardians trailer came out a couple months ago, so aren't we about due for the first Homecoming trailer? Quite possibly. It looks like the wall-crawler is set to make a big impact on this weekend's Comic-Con in Brazil. The word is that attendees will also be the first to get a look at the first teaser trailer for the film, possibly as soon as this Friday.
While Brazil's CCXP Comic-Con doesn't get quite the attention as the big one in San Diego, considering the population of Brazil, it's no small event. It's also, considering its timing, one of the first big events of its kind where next year's summer movies first begin to get shown off. It would make perfect sense that this information, provided by the @tomhollabr Twitter account, would be correct.
The question is, once the trailer is shown to its first crowd, how long will it be before the rest of us see it? At San Diego Comic-Con, different companies took very different approaches to the material. Some released it on YouTube almost instantly after it was aired at the show. Marvel, however, was one of the studios that tended to wait. While we have now seen what Thor was up to during Civil War, the fans at Comic-Con were the only ones to have set their eyes on that for a few months.
Assuming there are no leaks, we'd guess that Marvel will probably hold on to the footage at least for a little while. However, there is the little matter of a major release from Disney that is set to come out in just a couple of weeks. If we haven't seen the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer prior to the debut of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, then there's a really good chance we'll see it there.
In addition to the trailer, it appears the first poster for Spider-Man: Homecoming will also debut in Brazil.
While this won't be our first look at the new MCU Spider-Man, as he played a prominent role in Captain America: Civil War, this will be the first time that Tom Holland will lead his own film. Homecoming will be the sixth Spider-Man movie in the last 15 years when it hits theater next July. The most interesting thing that we might see in the first teaser is how the new film will differentiate itself from everything that has come before it.


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The Taylor 810 is the Martin D 28's number one competitor in the US market for a full sized, solid wood construction, rosewood and spruce guitar. ....and I don't care what the Martin nuts, or anyone else says about Taylor guitars - they DO compete, and they do it very, very well.
I do NOT consider this guitar to be a copy of a Martin D 28, it's dimensions are different, and Taylor has it's own unique bracing system, and so their guitars are voiced differently than are Martins, and they do have their very own unique tonal characteristics (as do, in fact, every single last guitar ever made...) - and folks like myself can actually hear the difference between a Martin and a similar or competitive model by Taylor.
I've known about Taylor guitars for quite some time - longer than this guy who's put together this website that I'm going to link you to, but I do like his site, and ....basically, I just already like people that like acoustic guitars!
What you need to know is that though older guitars - played guitars, broke in guitars - always sound better than they did new, and that all Taylor guitars have always sounded great to begin with.....Taylor DID change their bracing pattern....to provide even more volume than they already provided. Taylor guitars, and I do mean this - are built for volume, tone, and clarity - they also happen to be beautiful. Have a bit of a listen:
Now, I truly like this little clip up above, this guy is playing a fine old traditional blues tune that lots of folks play, but is especially associated with Doc Watson. This guy isn't showing off himself at all here, he's playing at a very reasonable temp, playing loud and clear. I think he's showing off his guitar, and as awesome as his Taylor 810 sounds - hell, I'm showing off his guitar too!
Now the Taylor 810 is a rosewood body, spruce top, and mahogany neck dreadnought of all solid wood, fourteen frets clear of the body - and with various and sundry combinations of rosewoods and spruce available - but as is standard for D 28 style guitars these days, we're primarily talking about Sitka Spruce, and East Indian Rosewood.
You can always identify a Taylor guitar by their distinctive pick guard shape, and by their trademark head stock shape - very fine instruments, one and all.
On the net I'm pricing these first rate studio or professional and serious amateur level dreadnoughts based on the Martin D 28 theme, but not the D 28 design used for around $1,300.00 - $1,900.00
I'm finding new ones for just under three thousand dollars. Most Taylor guitars come with Fishman electronics - basically, they're ready to plug in, or play acoustic.
Obviously, if you find an older one that is Brazilian rosewood, or one that was custom ordered with a rare species of spruce for a soundboard - the prices will go higher.
Whenever someone asks me about buying used guitars - I tell them to find the ugly scratched up one that's got a straight neck, and sings like an angel - I'm into tone and play-ability -cosmetics or beauty on an instrument is just icing on a cake.


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|On a mission to find my ancestors!
I was so touched by the reasons The Armchair Genealogist started working on her family history work. She became engaged in family history after the unexpected deaths of her in-laws. I can relate as my father's death opened up family history to me.
A little backstory to the moment that the passion ignited to turn me from someone who casually thought she should do some family history into someone who is fully engaged is necessary.
Throughout my life, I have always lived far away from living relatives. I cherished every phone call, letter, and each rare vacation. Through phone calls and letters, I came to idolize my cousin Boomer was a decade older than me. His photos and Navy piloting stories made him a real-life Maverick from "Top Gun" in my eyes. I even cheered for the Navy football team in the early 80s when Boomer played quarterback.
My Grandpa Lew died when I was two. I don't remember much about him, except the stories his daughters told about him. My aunts and mom told me he was a great dad and a great dancer. They told me of his hobbies, his military service, and how much they loved dancing with him. He was gone but not forgotten because their stories made him as real as a beloved character on television.
The stories did not ignite my passion. I still needed something more.
In the -70s, my mother was introduced to genealogy at church. As I grew up, she'd share the few stories about my Zumstein great-grandparents and the family that lived in Elcho, Ontario, Canada that she had discovered. She had research files, a Book of Remembrance, and photo albums. However, as we aged, my mother had to set family history aside to focus on being a full-time mother.
Her research files and stories were not enough to inspire me, but I won't say they weren't adding to the foundation of a stable fire.
In high school, I started a family history project as part of a self-development program. I struggled because so much of the information I needed was in Ohio and Canada when I lived in Texas. As such, the barriers of distance, cost, and limited technology move genealogy to a low priority once the high school project was complete.
The result of the project was a spark of interest, but the fire couldn't grow without more resources to establish the flame.
After I married my husband, technology had improved, and I pursued genealogy again. It was easier to do at home which was a great fit for my young family with hours that did not allow for research at genealogy libraries or trips to Ohio from upstate New York or South Carolina.
As technology decreased my barriers to the work, my fire started to spread and catch on the fuel that would maintain the flames.
As morbid as it is, my father's death exploded the single ember to a fiery dance of flames. Before his death, association with his side of the family was cut off. His family was small too begin with as he was an only child and his parents were now in a nursing home. A feud with his uncles and aunts and cousins, close their door to their relationships (and genealogy). With his passing, that barrier was coming down.
Cautiously and with child-like hope, I began reaching out to my father's only surviving aunt. I simply asked for the family history of my parents and grandparents. I didn't want to know about the feud and argue who was right or wrong. I just wanted to know SOMETHING about my father's relatives. I knew NOTHING. I had no photos. I only had the information on a pedigree chart, and that wasn't enough.
|Evaline (Peak) Geiszler and her children in the 1920s. A photo I would never have seen had I not contacted my great-aunt (the girl pictured in the middle front)
My sweet great-aunt courageously allowed me to ask the questions and relive her memories of her loved ones. She shared pictures with me, stories, and her voice on tape. It was an exciting time. Since my great-aunt was willing to open up the family tree, I felt I could pursue more relations with other distant relatives.
The moment I knew the importance of family history and my role in it wasn't instantaneous, but it was a series of events following my father's passing. Now, I have an insatiable thirst for more and a desire to capture and preserve my ancestors' stories so future generations will know.
What was the moment you knew family history and genealogy was for you? Was it quick or was it built over time?
Share your story in the comments below, on my Facebook page, or on your blog and share a link below.


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Argentine bishops have joined those from Spain and Peru in voicing their support for Pope Francis, following Archbishop Viganò's claims that the Vatican knew about abuse allegations involving Archbishop McCarrick.
The Argentine bishops' conference (CEA) said their statement, published on August 30 on the Argentine bishops' news site, AICA, was in response to "ruthless" attacks against the pontiff.
"We share your pains and hopes," the letter said, explaining that it was written to express "fraternal and filial" closeness to the Pope.
"We know what you can say with St. Paul: 'That is why I endure this test. But I am not ashamed, because I know in whom I have placed my trust, and I am convinced that he is able to preserve until that Day the good that he has entrusted to me' (2 Tim 1:12)."
The letter was signed by Monsignor Oscar Vicente Ojea, bishop of San Isidro and CEA president, and Monsignor Carlos Humberto Malfa, bishop of Chascomús and secretary general.
"Today, through the intercession of Santa Rosa de Lima, patroness of Latin America, and united in trusting prayer, we ask the Holy Spirit to fill him with wisdom and strength so that, as Peter's successor, he continues to confirm us in the faith of the Church", the letter said.
Spain's episcopal conference issued a statement of its own on August 23, in addition to publishing part of a letter it said was sent to the Pope, saying "Holy Father, you are not alone".
"We ask the Lord to continue supporting you in the daily struggles," wrote Cardinal Ricardo Blazquez of Valladolid, president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, on behalf of the country's bishops.
Cardinal Blazquez said part of announcing the Gospel also means denouncing, with courage, of what God disapproves. He said it was important to ask with humility for forgiveness of sins by members of the Church, both clergy and the laity.
Peru's bishops, in a letter dated August 29, said that "in the face of attempts to destabilise the church," they expressed support for the courageous and firm manner the Pope has shown in navigating "Christ's boat", meaning the Church.
Jesus supports the rock on which he built his Church, the letter said.
"We are sure that the Risen Christ … the church will continue to propel us forward so that without fear and full of hope, we will continue to work with greater energy at the service of the people of God," it said.


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This article will talk about how Tattoo Recognition Technology can impact your freedoms and rights.
Tattoos have always been used to identify people, including suspects of crimes. A tattoo really is a distinguishing feature on a body and while you probably aren't the only person out there with Pearl Jam's stickman, a tattoo can definitely narrow you down in a pool of people. Now, this shouldn't really matter to you if you aren't committing crimes, but you should be aware of a new technology being used by law enforcement called Tattoo Recognition Technology.
How does it work?
Tattoo Recognition Technology started from a joint forces task force in the U.S., where they performed experiments to detect algorithms in the tattooed population. Five different tests were performed and include:
- Tattoo detection – declaring if an image has a tattoo in it
- Tattoo identification – using a tattoo to identify who a person is (much like a fingerprint)
- Region of interest – figuring out if a piece of a tattoo can be attributed to a larger tattoo
- Mixed media – doing a sketch of a tattoo as described by a witness
- Tattoo similarity – matching tattoos to a population of people with similar beliefs
As a law-abiding citizen, you may think that tattoo recognition technology can be highly valuable to law enforcement. It will be easier to identify suspects even if just a part of a tattoo is showing during the performance of a crime or on a surveillance video. Criminals including rapists, robbers, child molesters and more could be identified much easier based on the description of a tattoo.
Consequences of the technology
But, there are some downfalls for even those of us who aren't criminals with this new technology. The tattoo similarity feature of this technology essentially lumps groups of people with similar tattoos into one broad category. This could also be seen as stereotyping, typecasting or profiling and that can be dangerous. Certain groups, including religious groups could be typecast based on their membership into that group. As well, a tattoo may have meaning for one group, but not for another, even with the exact symbol. For example, it was discovered that pedophiles share various symbols, which can be just regular symbols like hearts and butterflies. Law enforcement may be led to believe that someone who unknowingly has one of these symbols tattooed on their bodies is a child molester.
Others believe that this technology threatens free speech and privacy. Because the technology reveals a person's cultural, religious and political beliefs, people who may not have committed a crime may have their privacy rights offended. Opponents believe that law enforcement could use this technology to single out individuals based on their beliefs and create a religious, political or cultural profile based on the tattoo.
At the moment, this technology is under evaluation and improvements still need to be made to ensure complete accuracy.


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As you may be aware, the independent Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) recently published two reports examining allegations of UK involvement in mistreatment and rendition.
It is important to note the context in which the Government, including our intelligence agencies and the armed forces, were working in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. The UK responded to the tragic events of 9/11 with the aim of doing everything possible to prevent further loss of innocent life. With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that UK personnel were working within a new and challenging environment, for which, in some cases, they were not prepared. The Government has acknowledged that it took too long to recognise that guidance and training for staff was inadequate and too long to understand fully and take appropriate action on the risks arising from the UK's work with international partners.
I am encouraged that the Government has clearly stated that it will give further consideration, both to the conclusions and recommendations of the ISC reports, as well as to calls for another judge-led inquiry and I have been assured that the Government will update the House of Commons by the end of August on these issues. We can and should be proud of the work undertaken by our intelligence and security personnel, often in the most challenging of circumstances. It is right that they should be held to the highest possible standards and I am encouraged that changes made in recent years allow the UK to protect our national security and to maintain our global reputation as a champion for human rights across the world.
I look forward to studying the Government's in depth responses to both to the ISC reports and to calls for a judge-led inquiry.


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Indonesia said yesterday it would probably strengthen anti-terrorism regulations to prevent attacks such as last week's bomb blast at a Jakarta hotel, as the US ambassador warned more attempts at attacks were likely.
Chief security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told reporters the Cabinet would debate the issue tomorrow, but added the world's most populous Muslim nation would not copy draconian security laws used by its neighbors.
Anti-terrorism regulations were introduced in the wake of last October's Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners, but are not as far reaching as laws used in Singapore and Malaysia.
Authorities have blamed the Bali and hotel bombings as well as others over the past year on militant Muslims linked to the regional Jemaah Islamiah group and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
"The main idea of the government is to revise the current law. Particularly, we will study whether the current regulation is accommodating enough or not," Yudhoyono told reporters.
However, the government has "no thought" to "plagiarize the ISA [internal security acts] of Singapore and Malaysia."
"The government is not as stupid as that, because our conditions are different, the substance is different," he said.
There have been calls by some officials for Indonesia to follow the Singapore and Malaysian examples of draconian internal security laws since the Aug. 5 bombing at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12 people and wounded up to 150.
But civil rights groups and some legislators have responded angrily to suggestions the government might seek to revive laws similar to those used by former autocrat Suharto during his 32 years of iron rule that ended in 1998.
US envoy to Jakarta Ralph Boyce said he had warned Americans to expect more attempts at terror attacks.
In remarks to reporters who asked him about a meeting of US citizens in the heavily guarded embassy complex earlier, Boyce said a theme of his comments was that "we believe it likely there will be further attempts" by militants at such attacks.
He said he also suggested to those at the gathering that if they left the meeting more concerned or even more frightened than when they came they would have got the message.
The meeting itself was off the record to the media.
Washington has already issued several warnings, most recently on August 8, of terrorist threats in Indonesia, and said places where Americans and other foreigners gather or reside are potential targets.
While all but one of those who died in the Aug. 5 Marriott attack were Indonesians, the hotel was viewed as a Western symbol, and had been used by the US embassy for various events.
Australia issued a warning yesterday for its citizens to avoid all international hotels in Jakarta after new intelligence found the capital could be under threat of further attacks.


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The 1983 anti Tamil riotsMarch 11, 2013, 7:43 pm
Several of your readers have expressed their views on this sad event which remains as a permanent big black cultural blot on the Lion race. But questions arise about provocations and proportionalities centering round the immediate pre 1983 period.
Not a single writer to The Island's columns has mentioned the incisive and spirited speech of Prime Minister JR Jayewardene delivered in Parliament sometime in late 1977 or early 1978 calling upon the leaders of the Tamil political parties to desist from provoking the otherwise peaceful Tamil citizens. For all his Machiavellian ways JRJ made a soulful appeal to the Tamil political leaders to talk peace without taking up arms against the state. Perhaps those who have read the Sansoni Report may be able to say more on the subject of provocation of the rag tag Tamil armed groups indulged in by the Tamil political leaders.
By the time of 1983 the casus belli (reasons for war) had been eliminated with the revocation of the Standardization rule, the main bête noir, and the accommodation given to the use of the Tamil language in official correspondence. It must be admitted that the right to use the Tamil language generally remained on paper only in the Sinhala speaking areas. Finding translators suddenly would have been a major difficulty.
The proportionality theorem comes in considering the fact that the two big hurdles that led to the strife had been cleared by 1983 and Tamil citizens were peacefully coexisting in Sinhala speaking areas along with other Tamil speaking citizens of the country, the Muslims, really Moors, Indian Tamils and Colombo Chetties. Inflammatory provocation of youth by Tamil political leaders to take up arms against the state was responsible for the sedition marked by terror and brutality by Tamil youth visited on their Mayor, a Police Inspector by the name of Bastiampillai and many such unfortunate events in the immediate pre 1983 time. It seems to me that though the average Tamil persona I know is an extremely nice and meek person he could sometimes fall into an emotional trap as a community when provoked by the politicians. Even Leonard Woolf was faulted by a set of Tamil lawyers in the first decade of the last century who accused him of using the whip on them while riding on horseback. He had denied the charge in his autobiography. The anti shri campaign in the late 1950s was another foolish attempt at revolt. Reading the memoirs of Mr. Neville Jayaweera , then Government Agent of Jaffna, published a few years ago in the Sunday Island I couldn't help feeling that the English educated high caste Tamils were in the habit of over reacting and discriminating against their own low caste people. How else can one explain the case of the Tamil Senator carrying a paper weight at a meeting presided by the GA?
I understand that some high caste Tamils had wanted the benches sat on and befouled by low caste Tamils washed and cleaned in the rehabilitation camps in the May June July 2009 period. The letters from Mr. Sebastian Rasalingam from Canada published in your daily confirm the culture of discrimination practiced among Tamil groups who ironically cry genocide without any provocation to the outside world.
The tragedy of looting, blood shed and murder were definitely the work of the goons in 1983 as in 1958. But the lists carried by some Sinhala groups were of those families to be dispossessed and not of those to be destroyed. Who will believe that Mr.Cyril Mathew, a minister then, took steps to protect his Advisor, a retired senior Tamil official from the rabid mob? Mob rule by the goons took over after the departure of the political minded list holders from the scene. About this time I became aware of some instances of Tamil colleagues of mine who suffered at the hands of goons. One of them was the Deputy Head of Pensions, a very cheerful, friendly person who was threatened by a member of the minor staff. He did not fortunately suffer any harm. Till he evacuated to Jaffna by ship he and his family were well looked after by the head of the Department and his neighbour living in the Summit Flats, a busy Cardiologist. A colleague of mine in the Administrative Service and his wife living in Kalubowila were threatened by goons. They left their rented house in time but the wife's jewellery she was wearing was plucked out from her body by a goon and she suffered an injury. The goons set fire to the house which actually belonged to a Sinhala land owner. The couple stayed with the family of a colleague and claimed compensation for their losses but the trauma they suffered remained even after they migrated to Canada. While walking one morning from the Summit Flats to my place of work at Longden Place I took the short cut through the Department of Irrigation. I found that there had been some trouble there and my enquiries revealed that a Tamil Engineer had been done to death by a minor employee who was, it seemed, paying off old scores. All these acts of terror were perpetrated by the goons. I dare to think they were motivated by a multiplicity of factors namely, revenge for the death of the 13 soldiers, a sort of morbid thrill acting as comrades in arms under mob rule, looting and paying off old scores on their strict disciplinarian type of Tamil bosses. They were aware that they were immune from punishment by the government of the day. The minor employee- goons in the public service were those recruited on the "chit system" introduced by the late Minister Felix Dias Bandaranaike and JR's Job Bank when political affiliations were the primary criteria for recruitment.
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I Love Spring
May 15, 2014
Ashley Gudgel, Executive Director – BreatheAmerica Albuquerque I love spring. The baby bunnies, baby birds and my honey bees are all out and about, and so are the beautiful flowering trees. That also means that it's the sneeziest season of all here in New Mexico with spring winds blowing all that pollen and dust about. Trees, […]Continue Reading


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Exam Board: WJEC
Course code / Specification number: 4150
Level of qualification: GCSE
What will the students learn about?
Practitioners and styles of performance (e.g. Brecht, Stanislavski, Theatre in Education, Physical Theatre) and rehearsal techniques used
How to devise a piece of Drama in a particular style working from a stimulus and perform as a group
How to evaluate live performance
Directing and designing from a set play text
How to perform from a script to a live audience
How to evaluate own and other performances/ rehearsal process
What skills will students develop and demonstrate?
- Performance
- Evaluation
- Directing
- Designing
- Team work
- Dissecting a script
How will students learning be assessed?
Unit 1 Devised performance in their chosen style based on their chosen stimulus and produce a written evaluation of the process and final outcome 40%
Unit 2 Scripted performance (in front of an external examiner) 20%
Unit 3 Written exam (based on the play text studied in class and an evaluation of their performance) 40%
What grades can students achieve?
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Loot Catcher
Game description
You and your best friend just won the raid boss and loot is falling from everywhere, but you and your friend are greedy and both want it all for yourself, you came up with an idea who ever gets the most keeps it all! This game is one player or two players.
How to play
Player 1 AD = Moves Player 2 Arrows = Moves Stay away from the Red Slime it isn't loot


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Railway Books of Interest
Site Visits and Field Trips
Edge Hill Locomotive Shed 8A
Edge Hill 8A in pictures
Warrington Dallam and Arpley Locomotive Shed 8B
Speke Junction Locomotive Shed 8C
Widnes Locomotive Shed 8D
8D Shed Commemorative Page
Sutton Oak Locomotive Shed 8G
The St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway
The St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway in pictures
The LNWR Widnes Deviation
The LNWR Deviation in Pictures
The Liverpool & Manchester LNWR
The Liverpool and Manchester LNWR in Pictures
The Cheshire Lines Committee CLC
The Cheshire Lines Committee CLC in Pictures
GC&MR Joint Widnes Line (The Widnes Loop)
The Birkenhead Joint Railway
The Birkenhead Joint Railway in Pictures
LNWR Ditton Jct to Weaver Jct
Garston & Warrington Railway The Low Level
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The Willis Branch Cronton Colliery
The Willis Branch 1969 Journey by J C James
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The LUR and LNWR Wigan to Huyton line
Industrial and Private Railways
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The Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire
Junction Railway.
LMS built Fowler designed Compound 4-4-0 number 1108 passing wrong line through Norton station under the watchful eye of the flag man. Delivered new from Derby works in November 1925 and renumbered 41108 in 1949 by British Railways this loco lasted until January 1957 when it was withdrawn and scrapped shortly after.
Date unknown.
Photo by Roy Gough.
The line was built in an attempt to reduce journey times between Chester and Manchester which at the time
involved travelling via Crewe. Construction was swift and the line opened on 18th December 1850 thus cutting the journey time in half. Stations were provided at Moore, Frodsham and Dunham Hill.
The line was to have two major engineering projects the first being the 1¼ mile long Sutton Tunnel and the viaduct to cross the Weaver Navigation near Frodsham. The tunnel was duly completed as was the impressive viaduct constructed mainly of brick with cast iron spans. The viaduct still dominates the scene today.
Operation and Stations.
Upon opening the line was heavily promoted as the line 'To Chester for the Races' and on race days traffic was very heavy with many extra trains being provided from Manchester and Warrington. It was on one of these race days, within six months of the line opening, that disaster struck. With trains overloaded and running under the flawed Time Interval System there was a collision inside the Sutton tunnel which resulted in nine people losing their lives and many others injured. The report into the accident was scathing of the operation of the line and made several recommendations which were taken up by the BLCJR.
More information on the disaster
A Class 175 Arriva Trains unit approaching the east portal of the Sutton Tunnel.
18th June 2010.
Photo by Paul Wright.
The line continued as the BLCJR until 1859 when it was re-branded as the Birkenhead Railway. This was seven years after the Great Western Railway (GWR) had tried to take over the line. It was on 1st January 1860 that the line was taken under the joint control of the GWR and LNWR. The GWR seeing the line as its route into Manchester in an attempt to break the LNWR's monopoly. This arrangement continued and at the time of the 1923 grouping the line stayed independent being jointly owned by the London Midland Scottish (LMS) and the GWR.
A Class 25 working a mixed goods train near the site of Moore/Daresbury Station.
3rd May 1983.
Photo by John Wilson.
The first station from the Warrington direction was at Moore which opened with the line on 18th December 1850. The station was re-named Daresbury in April 1861 to avoid confusion with another of the same name. The station was in a lightly populated area and this coupled with a poor service, in 1932 it had only seven eastbound and six westbound services a day, led to it being closed to passengers on 7th July 1952 and to goods on 1st June 1965. Consideration has been given to the re-opening of the station.
More information on Daresbury station
Our second station is Runcorn East which opened close to the site of Norton station due to the increase in population in the area with the creation of Runcorn New Town. The new station opened on 18th October 1983 and has a good service in both directions with some services now running as far as Manchester Airport. Passenger numbers continue to increase with 147,634 using the station in 2010/11.
A short distance from Runcorn East is the site of Norton station which opened in March 1852 as a direct result of the Sutton tunnel collision. In the report into the accident it was recommended that two stations be opened at either end of the tunnel and these were to be linked by electric telegraph. This improved safety in the tunnel. As with other stations on the line the population around it was low and this, along with drastic improvements in signalling, led to the closure of Norton on 1st September 1952.
More information on Norton station
Halton station seen after closure.
Photo copyright Halton Borough Council.
Reproduced with permission.
Halton station was at the other end of the Sutton tunnel and was the other station to open as a result of the accident. As with others along the line the area was lightly populated and the site was isolated from the nearest village. Another early casualty the station closed to passengers on 7th July 1952 and to goods on 3rd February 1954.
More information on Halton station
Halton station with an Ellesmere Port to Fiddlers Ferry coal train about to pass.
5th August 2010.
Photo by Paul Wright.
Upon leaving Halton a junction is passed which allowed access to Runcorn and Liverpool for Westbound trains only. This link line has been reduced to single line and cannot be accessed from Runcorn as the crossover has been removed. It is used by coal trains from Ellesmere Port and a parliamentary summer Saturdays only train from Chester to Runcorn. See events page for 2011 to read about a trip taken by 8D members.
A diverted Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston service approaches
Frodsham Junction on the Halton Curve.
Date unknown.
Photographer unknown.
An 0-8-0 passes through Frodsham station on a mixed goods.
Photo by Roy Gough.
After passing over the Weaver Navigation on the large viaduct the traveller reaches Frodsham station which opened with the line on 18th December 1850. Frodsham is a busy station with passenger numbers on the rise. According to Network Rail over 115,000 people used the station in 2010/11. The station is now unstaffed and has been adopted by the North Cheshire Rail Users Group, along with many others along the line, who keep the station clean and tidy. The buildings at the station are now Grade 2 listed and it is a real pity that they are currently unused.
Royal Scot Class 4-6-0 No. 46160 seen on a mixed goods train heading through the impressive cutting near Frodsham. The Derby built loco would be withdrawn on 1 May 1965 and scrapped in the July of the same year.
Photo by Roy Gough.
Helsby station opened in 1852 and is still a junction station today with the line for Ellesmere Port branching off here. It is a charming station and as with Frodsham has Grade 2 listed buildings (unused) and has also been adopted by the North Cheshire Rail Users Group who look after the station. The station is still busy with over 77,000 people using the station in 2009/10. An interesting feature of Helsby is the signal box which is located on platforms 2 & 3. The branch line service to Ellesmere Port is now a sparse parliamentary service. See events
for pictures and a description of a trip on the service.
An Ivatt 4-MT Class 2-6-0 No 43027 awaits the right away from Helsby station in the late 1950s / early 1960s. Both driver and fireman can both be seen posing for the camera whilst station staff complete their duties. To the left of the loco is, a somewhat, homemade sign proclaiming Helsby Junction giving onward stations available such as Little Sutton, Ince & Elton and Ellesmere Port. The branch line train can just be glimpsed to the rear of the sign. The loco was allocated to Sutton Oak 10E, latterly becoming 8G under the Liverpool area, and would finally end up at Lostock Hall 10D from where it would be withdrawn on 4 May 1968 being scrapped by Arnott Young of Dinsdale during September of the same year.
Photo by Robert Whitfield from the Pete Berry collection.
Dunham Hill is the next station towards Chester which opened with the line on 18th December 1850. As with several of the others along the line passenger numbers were low and the station became another 1952 casualty closing on 7th April 1952 to passengers and 7th May 1956 to goods.
More information on Dunham Hill station
The final station before Chester was Mickle Trafford which opened on 2nd December 1889. Also in a lightly populated area it did not generate any substantial traffic. It was an early closure being completely closed on 2nd April 1951.
More information on Mickle Trafford station
A Class 31 takes the Ellesmere Port line at Helsby with a train of empty
tankers for Stanlow Oil Terminal.
Photo by Terry Callaghan.
The line sees an intensive passenger service with local services between Manchester and Chester also services extending along the North Wales Coast Line and to Manchester Airport in the other direction. Freight traffic has declined in recent years the largest flow for many years was from Stanlow Oil terminal have now ceased. Quinn Glass have installed new freight facilities for the movement of raw materials to its plant at Elton with trains now running from Middleton Towers. The main freight flow along the line was the movement of imported coal from Ellesmere Port to Fiddlers Ferry power station although with the run down of the power station it ceased to run in 2015. In 2016 the regular daytime working is the Colas Carlisle to Chirk log train for use in the paper making process. This working can often throw up some interesting traction. The re-opening of the Halton Curve will offer a faster (than using the Merseyrail system via Hooton) service to Liverpool and the possibility of a Liverpool to Llandudno service although, initially, it will operate from Chester.
Further Information.
Cheshire Railways The Age of Steam by Robin Jones.
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In day two of the still theoretical political rehabilitation of Anthony Weiner, his wife, Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, has taken a leading role, pushing for, according to the New York Post's sources for her husband to give a Bill Clinton-like tell-all interview. "She wants to figure out how to get all this behind them so they can get back on track, but he's still in denial," write Beth Defalco and Josh Margolin.
It's not clear whether this is history repeating or simply repeating history, as they point out that Abedin was an aide to Hillary during the Lewinsky scandal. For his part, Weiner denied the idea that his wife is orchestrating a softball interview.
Over at The New York Times, Kate Taylor followed up yesterday's Post story noting that Weiner still has a $4.5 million campaign fund and is trying to figure out how to use it, including potentially running for New York City mayor next year. Taylor reports that if doesn't use them next year he'll miss out on getting around $1.5 million in public matching funds. She writes:
A filing made Friday to the New York City Campaign Finance Board shows that he is still paying rent on a campaign office in Manhattan and that he, or someone working for him, held a meeting on July 7 at Mendy's, a kosher deli in East Midtown.
The meal cost $40.27. Any inkling of the table talk: priceless.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
NLpoli is becoming a cesspool of partisanship. It is getting increasingly difficult to have have a balanced conversation about policy or approaches without some high energy partisan ascribing ulterior motives or hurling insults.
The silly season is here, no objective opinion can go unchallenged. The rose colored glassed are on. Liberals can not be critical for fear of not getting an opportunity when the government changes. The tories are in shell shock. Than there is the the cynics who just want this administration gone, the sooner the better.
The endless campaign to discredit is sickening and a disservice to thinking people who like to participate in a cyber public forum that used not to be a victim of hyper party polarization.
Improving governing capacity, reforming our badly misaligned democracy, determining what the parties will do if given power, how each will make public expenditures more sustainable are very important questions that need to be debated and discussed.
Giving one party or another the flick for irresponsible governing is one thing, giving another a free pass is not a great idea either. Newfoundland and Labrador needs a credible government and a credible opposition. Without that balance we are setting ourselves up for more arrogance and disappointment.
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Crib Sheet
"Sailing to Byzantium to plunder/ Greeks' gold: ikons":
Rus'–Byzantine War:
"Sailing to Byzantium" the title of a poem by W.B. Yeats.
On June 18, 860, a fleet of Russian ships sailed into the Bosporus and
pillaged the suburbs of Constantinople, then moved on to the Isles of the Princes in the Sea of Marmora, where they plundered the monasteries.
"Storming Cuman Field for a/ Drink of Don":
April 13, 1185,
Igor Svyatoslavich's battle with the Donets Cumans:
Igor's Russian forces surrounded and slaughtered.
"Stealing Dmitry's Holy Name":
July 21, 1605-May 17, 1606,
Reign of False Dmitry:
There were three pretenders to the Russian throne who claimed to be the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible: False Dmitry I, False Dmitry II, and Pseudo-Demetrius III. False Dmitry I, supported by Polish nobles and a Russian coalition, ruled Russia as Tsar until shot by a conspirator.
"And a rebel seals his lips/ With cups of blood":
Pugachev Rebellion:
The Cossack leader formed an alternate government in the name of assassinated Tsar Peter III, challenging the rule of Catherine II. Pugachev's insurrection was ultimately quelled by Catherine, and Pugachev was executed in Moscow in 1774. Pugachev, the literary character in Alexander Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter," says, "Better to drink the blood of the living just once than feed on carrion for 300 years." This is the moral of the story of the eagle and the raven: a story Pushkin's Pugachev tells Grinev, the story's hero.
"Crossing into Poland":
Polish-Russian War(s):
War of the First Partition;
War of the Second Partition, or:
Poland: War to Defend the Constitution;
War of the Third Partition.
"Gunning down Decembrists/ On December ice":
December 26, 1825,
Decembrist Uprising:
The Tsar's loyal troops fire on 3,000 army officers opposed to the ascension of Nicholas I. A great many officers are killed fleeing the barrage, slipping on the ice in the square, or shot beside the Neva River.
"Sacking Peter's Holy Name":
(1914, 1924)
Saint Petersburg renamed Petrograd; a decade later,
The name Petrograd is changed to Leningrad.
"…a commissar seals the lips/ Of delicate carrion"
GULAG Labor Camps


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SAP yesterday renewed its enterprise information management (EIM) portfolio with a series of updates aimed at helping organizations better manage, govern and strategically use and control their data assets. "By effectively managing enterprise data to deliver trusted, complete and relevant information, organizations can ensure data is always actionable to gain business insight and drive innovation,"… Continue reading SAP adds new enterprise information management
Month: January 2017
Google upgrades G Suite with tools for IT pros
Google today bolstered its G Suite of productivity apps with new controls and tools for IT professionals. G Suite administrators now have more access to control security key enforcement, data control with data loss prevention (DLP) for Google Drive and Gmail, and additional insights by connecting Gmail to BigQuery, Google's enterprise data warehouse designed to… Continue reading Google upgrades G Suite with tools for IT pros
Meteor JavaScript reworks PaaS, data layer connection
Meteor, a JavaScript Web framework for quick app-building, will gain faster build tools and features like per-module code-splitting this year. The company Meteor will also rework the relationship among the Meteor framework, Meteor's Galaxy platform as a service, and Meteor's Apollo data layer project. The Meteor team will focus on improvements designed to work well across… Continue reading Meteor JavaScript reworks PaaS, data layer connection
Amazon's deep learning darling MXNet hits Apache Incubator
MXNet, chosen by Amazon as its "deep learning framework of choice," has been accepted into the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator to support its future development. This is not the only machine learning project with ASF sponsorship. Apache Mahout provides scalable machine learning resources on Hadoop clusters; Apache Spark has machine learning functionality as well.… Continue reading Amazon's deep learning darling MXNet hits Apache Incubator
Managing compliance is easier in the cloud
Cloud doubters often raise compliance requirements as a barrier to cloud adoption, but in fact cloud providers have many tools to ease compliance with regulations and industry standards. They can help you maintain compliance with the least amount of resources. There are cloud systems for PCI compliance (for credit card processing), HIPAA compliance (for health… Continue reading Managing compliance is easier in the cloud
Untangle OneDrive and SharePoint integration in Office 365
The good news: Microsoft has finally brought SharePoint file synchronization to OneDrive. The bad news: Some details may confuse you and your users about how it all works. Businesses have very different approaches to data sharing among users: Some love the idea of a single portal to shared files, while others hate it. Plus, SharePoint can… Continue reading Untangle OneDrive and SharePoint integration in Office 365
Cloud monitoring: Users review 5 top tools
Cloud technology is becoming a staple in the enterprise—70 percent have at least one application in the cloud—and may become the default option for software deployment by 2020. That makes it even more important that systems administrators can monitor, manage, and optimize data-processing workloads in the cloud. To read this article in full or to… Continue reading Cloud monitoring: Users review 5 top tools


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Supermodel Naomi Campbell is in the news for something other than her bad temper and world-class phone-throwing skills. On Tuesday, war-crimes judges ordered special security measures for Campbell when she testifies at the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Photographers have been barred from photographing the supermodel entering or exiting the courtroom. Really. You mean to tell us that the woman who sashayed down a New York street in an evening gown to perform her community service can't be photographed? Is it because it's a war-crimes trial? Maybe she and the judges are showing respect for the court this go-around. A novel concept for Campbell, indeed.
Read more at TheHeraldOnline.
—Nsenga K. Burton


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Biometric Identity
Solving the Challenge of "Combined" Fingerprints in EBTS 10.0
When the FBI released the EBTS 10.0 specification in 2013, it contained requirements for a number of capabilities which were not yet available on the market. Over time, the biometrics industry and the FBI itself have partnered to...
Biometric Identity
Despite Appearances, the FBI Isn't "All In" on Iris
According to a report published earlier this week, the FBI has amassed over 434,000 iris records as part of a pilot project connected to the Next Generation Identification (NGI) database. This seems pretty impressive at first...
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Happy Labor Day, Sunshine!
This year I'm blessed to be off work officially, but after a good summer's chillaxin' I didn't want to see the day wasted. Instead I decided to labor only for myself. That is, scheduling creative projects like I would meetings in a regular work day. One after another an onslaught of healthy awesomeness. I replaced the morning commute with a jog into North Seattle College campus and back, then got to
work fun. jog & plank shower & nutritious breakfast cut up giant watermelon write this weeks menu
- record glockenspiel for new song, Affirmative
- upload Super Plaid music
make tea
- make mini peach pies
- abstract painting for top secret clandestine project
- sketch denim jacket ideas
We'll see if I make it through the whole list, but so far I'm steaming right along. Hope your day is lovely, honey! I leave you with a lovely dahlia I spied on my jog this morning.


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8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games
8-Bit Jesus is an 18 track album featuring everyone's favorite Christmas tunes, but created using the music from classic NES games. It was all amazingly well made by Doctor Octoroc. I particularly enjoyed "We Three Konami", "8 Days of Master Robots", "Joy to Commando", "Super Jingle Bros.", "Bubbles We Have Heard On Bobble", "What Guardian is Legend?", "Icarus! The Angels Sing", "O Come, All Ye Vampires", "Kraid, Rest Ye Merry Mother Brain", and "Have Yourself A Final Little Fantasy". Okay, they're all good.
You can listen to and download the whole album for free HERE, buuuuuut Doctor Octoroc's ultra-cute, 6-month-old Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Ein (undoubtedly and awesomely named after Cowboy Bebop), has had to have surgery recently. If you donate $15 the doctor will send you a physical copy of the CD, and you'll help Ein in the process (heart-melting picture after jump). Plus, since it's Christmas and all, if you help the doctor I'll steal St. Peter's "no" book and erase your name for that thing you did. You thought I didn't know! Oh I know.
Hit the jump to see a picture of the cute little guy.
8-Bit Jesus: Full Album Release
It's Been a Rough Day - My Dog, Ein Needs Surgery [docotoroctoroc]
Thanks to MoD, who risked his life to save a litter of puppies from a burning building. Thrice.


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Ted Dekker is a bestselling novelist who writes several books each year. According to his website, his early novels were put into the category of Christian Fiction. BoneMan's Daughter has some religious themes too, with the deranged killer thinking of himself as a godlike figure and murdering people in ways that have a special meaning for him related to crucifixion. The plot: Ryan Evans is an army intelligence officer who is kidnapped while on operations overseas, and is forced to witness the murder of children. He is estranged from his Texas wife and daughter, and is rebuffed when he returns home hoping for reconciliation. His wife is a selfish shallow woman who is now dating the local DA. His teenage daughter Bethany has a promising career as a model lined up. But as Ryan returns home, a man found guilty for killing six women is released from prison, because of a reassessment of the evidence that convicted him. The man is called BoneMan, his preferred method of dispatching his victims being to break every bone in their bodies without breaking the skin. So the stage is set, and soon more murders pile up. Ryan becomes a suspect, yet he is on a mission to save his daughter.
The writing is brisk and proficient, taking pleasure in the grim details of death and the unhappy dialogue between characters. The unabridged audiobook is performed by Robert Petkoff, who helps to give some character to the individuals depicted in the book. The production values of the recording are high. The story goes beyond a police procedural, and has more in common with the work of Thomas Harris. Despite the use of religious ideas, this novel has little meaning, and is a quick read that is easily forgotten. It fills a niche in the book market, because the bestseller lists and primetime TV shows demonstrate that people love stories of psychotic killers filled with murder, mayhem and vague allusions to something deep. This is charmless trash fiction that sells.
© 2009 Christian Perring
Christian Perring, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dowling College, New York.
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