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NAMEnautilus - the GNOME File Manager
SYNOPSISnautilus [options] URIs...
DESCRIPTIONThis manual page documents briefly the nautilus command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
Nautilus is the file manager for the GNOME desktop.
OPTIONSNautilus follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
- --browser
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- -c
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SEE ALSONautilus documentation can be found from the "Help" menu, or by pressing the F1 key. Nautilus also has a website at http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/
AUTHORThis manual page was written by Takuo KITAME <[email protected]> and Dafydd Harries <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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The MOS Sessions compilation brings some of the most fresh house tracks of the moment, mixed in a perfect manner, just like the MOS brand used us. The first CD is very simple and it has a DJ set made of 12 tracks. It starts with Pastaboys' remix for Ricky L Feat M:ck's track, Born Again. The house sound of this track is obvious not only thanks to the rhythm, but also tanks to the rather interesting vocals. The mix passes discretely from progressive house to electro and even tech-house and funky house. Some tracks that are really remarkable here are Soul Elementz Feat. Sabrina Johnston - My Way Out, Prom Feat. Katherine Ellis - Do It, Dumb Dan - Mister Right. Fedde Le Grand brings nothing new on this first CD, he rather gives us some excellent music for dancing in clubs. All this is brought to light by primordial elements like rhythm and energy.
The second CD starts very powerful with electro house. Kenton Slash Demon - Adaptor Included brings a euphoria that remains until the end of the second mix. After Switch - Just Bounce 2 This, the mix continues with two productions of Fedde Le Grand, the first Take No Shhh, and the second a remix for Camille Jones- Creeps. This second mix is more organized and fuller of life than the first one, the genre being more like electro house and house. Some titles that really make the difference here are Microfunk aka 2000 & One & Dave Ellesmere – Pecan, Filthy Rich - It's Like That and Erick E - The Beat Is Rockin' (Fedde Le Grand Remix).
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Forum: On synthetic turf, is Connecticut health department the new Flint, Michigan?
The Connecticut Department of Public Health continues to claim, as it did in 2006 and again in 2010, that synthetic turf fields are safe and shredded waste-tire rubber mulch placed in toddler playgrounds is also safe.
Why has the department not reassessed its claims of safety in light of all the new scientific studies that have been conducted on synthetic turf fields since their claims in 2010, and why is this important?
It is important because their claims of safety have allowed synthetic turf fields and playgrounds with waste-tire mulch to be installed all over Connecticut and beyond, in spite of new evidence showing these fields and playground mulch contain toxic chemicals and heavy metals.
A number of superintendents of schools and a number of people in power who make decisions concerning the installation of synthetic turf fields have said that they will only listen to their departments of health.
This is true in Connecticut and it is now reported in Minnesota as well.
Here's a quote from a Connecticut superintendent of schools: "We will not attempt to place our own reading or interpretation of research ahead of that of the CT Department of Human Health. We will continue to rely on the agencies and officials who monitor and mandate code and compliance for public schools."
A quote from an email sent to Environment and Human Health Inc. from Minneapolis, Minnesota: "Minneapolis schools say they can't be reviewing a bunch of independent studies — and that they can't be researchers on every issue, so they need to trust the approach taken by the regulatory bodies. Even WITH studies like these showing harm, and cautioning against the use of these materials, school districts aren't interested."
What are some of the new studies that should make the health departments in Connecticut and elsewhere reassess their claims of safety?
1. The Yale University analysis of crumb rubber infill and rubber mulch used in children's playgrounds showed 12 carcinogens and 20 irritants (skin, eyes and lungs) in the material.
2. The Empire State Consumer Project (ESCP) 2015 Children's Products Safety Report found arsenic, cadmium, and zinc at "higher than current acceptable limits." This testing turned up levels of toxics that exceed the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for Brownfields, which are former hazardous waste sites.
3. The federal Environmental Protection Agency is now retracting their assurances of safety that they gave in the past and they are now saying "existing studies do not comprehensively address the recently raised concerns about children's health risks from exposures to tire crumb."
4. As of this month, there are 203 athletes who have played on synthetic turf and reported cancers to Amy Griffin. There are now reported 159 cancers among soccer players and 97 of those with cancer are goalkeepers. Goalkeepers are the most heavily exposed players to the crumb rubber infill on a soccer team. There are twice as many lymphomas as leukemias and this is significant because among this age group leukemias are almost twice as prevalent as lymphomas — yet among students on synthetic turf fields there are twice as many lymphomas as leukemias. Lymphomas are heavy responsive to environmental toxins and this reversal of percentages should give everyone pause.
5. Yale physicians are recommending not playing on synthetic turf fields with crumb rubber due to health concerns.
"What concerns us as physicians and health professionals is that there is mounting evidence that the rubber tire infill material can be carcinogenic and therefore there could be a health risk for those students and athletes who play on these fields. We worry that it is possible, in light of the increasing evidence that is being revealed, that students who play on synthetic turf fields may be at risk for health problems."
6. Academic study from the University of Sienna, Sienna, Italy. From the Abstract and conclusion on synthetic turf study:
"We evaluated in nine samples of rubber crumb the total content of some heavy metals (zinc, cadmium, lead, copper, chromium, nickel, iron) normally found in tires. The results showed high levels of PAHs and zinc in all rubber crumb samples compared to rubber granulate limits set by Italian National Amateur League.
"The results of the present study demonstrate that PAHs are continuously released from rubber crumb through evaporation. Athletes frequenting grounds with synthetic turf are therefore exposed to chronic toxicity from PAHs. "
On its website, the CDC notes: "Carcinogenicity of certain PAHs is well established in laboratory animals. Researchers have reported increased incidences of skin, lung, bladder, liver, and stomach cancers."
With all this new science why won't the Connecticut health department reassess their claims of safety as the EPA has now done? Is it because they know it has been on their claims of safety that so many fields have been installed? Are they now afraid that if they retract their claims of safety that they will get sued?
It is Flint, Michigan, this year that has taught us that when government agencies do not act on the knowledge that is available to them, terrible things happen to people's health. In Flint it has been a population that was allowed to drink water ladened with lead — what will it be for toddlers on playgrounds surfaced with rubber tire mulch and students playing on synthetic turf fields infilled with waste-tire crumb rubber?
Nancy Alderman is president of North Haven-based Environment and Human Health Inc.


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Children's kickboxing in South Africa is a great investment in your kid's future. There are numerous benefits to learning a martial art at a young age. Not only does it provide a worthwhile physical activity to occupy young bodies and minds in the afternoons, it also teaches valuable life skills, from perseverance and dedication to self-defence.
There are plenty martial arts disciplines to choose from, each with their own specialised techniques and benefits. For an all-round martial art that develops a comprehensive range of physical strengths and skills, kickboxing is a good choice.
Kickboxing for your child
Children's kickboxing classes are available every Monday to Thursday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Fighting Fit Gym. These classes are designed to keep young kids active and enthusiastic about exercise, with friendly young trainers who are passionate about their work. Kiddies kickboxing develops physical skills such as strength, cardio fitness, core strength, balance and coordination. On top of that, it also helps with self-confidence, discipline and real-world skills that can be used throughout their life. An understanding of self-defence is provided as well, which gives many parents some relief when thinking about current crime statistics in South Africa.
In South African, children's kickboxing is taking off
There is also an optional competitive component to children's kickboxing. Fighting Fit Gym offers grading for kickboxers who want to rise through the ranks. Through the gym as well as national martial arts confederations, children have the opportunity to spar and compete against others. Kids who don't wish to compete are under no pressure to do so, and can enjoy their kickboxing classes without any competitive features. Contact Fighting Fit Gym to find out more or to enrol your child in a children's kickboxing class. There are adult classes as well for parents who want to share in the experience.


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Storing your Show Car in the Off Season
If one of your life's passions is that classic car you show during the summer time, then properly storing it in the off-season if as vital as making sure your children get their yearly vaccinations. If you are thinking of freeing up some room in your garage for new projects, then you may want to visit US Storage Search and look for a good facility that will watch over your old classic, as it was their very mother.
What is involved?
Storing your classic car is not rocket science, as much as you love her. But if you are storing the vehicle for a prolonged period of time you should definitely find a facility that offers indoor storage, as it is safer for the car, better protects it, and will make your insurance cheaper. Also, be prepared to show proof of insurance and ownership of the vehicle. Here are some storage tips:
· Make sure the coolant levels are appropriate
· Change the oil and filter
· Make sure the tires are inflated to proper pressure
· Wax and clean the car
· Cover any chrome parts, as well as the dash and interior
· Crack the windows
· Release the parking break
· Lock the doors
· Bleed the brake system
In an article by Cruise News, the author states that the classic car owner should never neglect the tires. The author advises readers to use a solvent-based dressing to repel moisture that will prevent the tired from drying and cracking. The article also advises readers vacuum the interior and remove anything that you don't want sitting in your car for long term. The author says that a ballpoint pen could freeze and leak ink all over your precious, original interior. Make sure to check under the seats and leave no corner unturned before storing your car.
Finding a storage facility with state-of-the-art security is vital to your car's safety. After all, would you let your daughter skip merrily down the streets of Oakland at night? For some reason, storage facilities (ones with poor security anyway) tend to draw the strangest people. Hobos will claim lockers as their real estate, and they are havens for drug pushers and "ladies of the night". The last thing you want is some homeless guy living and washing himself in the backseat of your 1959 Aston Martin DBR1. Avoid the facility with the chain-length fence, the pit bull growling in the yard, and the padlock security system. Some wire cutters, cold cuts, and a bold cutter are the only things needed to take your car away from you. Instead, use a facility with high, solid walls, 24-hour surveillance, and a security system with a required key code for entry.
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Finding a storage facility to house your car is like finding a trustworthy babysitter to look after your toddler. Do your research and check the facility's customer reviews. You may even want to contact the nearest police station and ask for crime report statistics in that area. Taking the time to look after your automotive baby will give you peace of mind in the winter knowing that she is safe and sound and resting up to be showed in the summer time all over again.
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Disinformation Campaign Continues
Since the early 1990s, the MOIS has aggressively operated a disinformation campaign against the People's Mojahedin, alleging it suppressed the 1991 uprisings in Iraq. No evidence has been brought forward to substantiate the malicious claim, only false allegations by MOIS disinformation agents.
Countering the MOIS propaganda are two UN independent reports, statements by the Kurdish Democratic Party and numerous Shiite Grand Sheiks in Iraq, and the confession of a MOIS agent who defected and explained how he disseminated erroneous allegations about the uprisings to discredit the Mojahedin's reputation.
Still, the falsehood has been widely reported by media outlets and organizations, such as those below:
- Backgrounder on "Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) (aka People's Muhahedin of Iran or PMOI), Council on Foreign Relations, 2013.
- "Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO), GlobalSecurity.org, 2013.
- "Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO), Federation of American Scientists, 2013.
- "My Day With a Real Thrill Kill Cult: the MEK," Institute for Policy Studies, January 13, 2012.
- "The Iranians in Iraq," Washington Post, December 14, 2011.
- "It Makes Sense for the US to Take Mujahedin-e-Khalq Off its Terrorist List," Guardian, August 16, 2011.
- "Grim Decision-Making; Dictators and Violence," Economist, February 27, 2011.
- "Iranian Exiles Told to Leave Iraq Camp," Washington Post, December 16, 2009
- "This Man Belonged to a Terrorist Organization," The Toronto Star, March 21, 2009.
- "The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum, RAND Corporation, 2009.
- "Iraq Threatens to Expel Iranian Rebels; Exile Group Has Protected Status Under Soon-to-Expire U.N. Mandate," Washington Post, December 22, 2008.
- "Protesters Fear Iranians in Iraq," Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2008.
- "Iraq Intensifies Efforts to Expel Iranian Group," Washington Post, March 14, 2007.
- "U.S. Decision to Protect Exiled Iranian Terrorists Fuels Speculation Pentagon is Planning a New War," Ottawa Citizen, August 3, 2004.
- "In a Delicate Balancing Act, U.S. Woos Iranian Group in Iraq," Washington Post, November 9, 2003.
- "The Cult of Rajavi," by Elizabeth Rubin, New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2003.
- "Report on the People's Mojahedin of Iran," US State Department Report, 1994.
The People's Mojahedin urges these organizations to correct the record and accurately report on the activities of the MEK and NLA.
New York Times Blunders Repeatedly
Correcting the record about the alleged 1991 suppression of the Kurds by the Mojahedin can be excruciatingly difficult. An example:
In June 2003, Elaine Sciolino, a reporter for the New York Times, wrote a scathing article about the Mojahedin, based on disinformation from Iranian intelligence undercover agents.1 She interviewed Karim Haghi, a MOIS undercover agent who had briefly been a member of the National Liberation Army. He spoon fed disinformation to Sciolino on the Mojahedin's involvement in the Kurdish uprising and fabricated a quote, alleging "Mrs. Rajavi told us to kill them [Kurds] with tanks and try to preserve our bullets for other operations. We were forced to kill both Kurds and Shiites, and I said I didn't come here to kill other people."
The following month, the tank quote was rewritten in an article by Elizabeth Rubin, another New York Times reporter.2 Rubin changed the alleged quote by Mrs. Rajavi to read, "Take the Kurds under your tanks, and save your bullets for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards." While the quote is more pithy, making the change calls into question Rubin's journalistic integrity.
When both articles were published by the NYT, abundant materials were publicly available about Iran's use of undercover intelligence agents - including Haghi - who were spreading disinformation about the Mojahedin. This includes two independent investigations for the United Nations, reports by European intelligence agencies that discussed the use of undercover agents by the MOIS to spread falsehoods about the Mojahedin, and the confession of a former MOIS agent who defected and publicly disclosed his efforts to discredit the Mojahedin by distributing black propaganda alleging the resistance organization participated in suppressing the 1991 Kurdish and Shia uprisings.
So what does Elizabeth Rubin do in 2011? In an opinion editorial for the New York Times, she once again echoes MOIS lies regarding the Kurdish uprising and Mrs. Rajavi's alleged tank quote.3
Incredibly, in the same article, Rubin recounts positive statements by many high ranking public officials in support of the Mojahedin, including Howard Dean; Rudolp Giuliani; Gens. H. Shelton and Peter Pace, both former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Stagg; Wesley Clark, former NATO commander; Gen. James Jones; Louis Freeh, former FBI Director; Dennis Blair and Michael Hayden, former intelligence agents; Bill Richardson, former Ambassador to the United Nations and Governor of New Mexico; Congressman Lee Hamilton, and others.
Many of the officials specifically address the Kurdish allegation and say it is propaganda by the MOIS. Rubin arrogantly ignored their views and assumed they knew nothing, and reprinted the allegation that the "Rajavis and their army joined his [Saddam's] forces in mowing down fleeing Kurds."
In Rubin's mind, government officials, both Republican and Democrats, former high-ranking military leaders with previous access to classified information, US intelligence agents with expertise on Iran and the Middle East, etc. have all been duped by the Mojahedin. But, in fact, it is Rubin and Sciolinio who were suckered by the MOIS.
MOIS Attack Websites
Hardly a day goes by without the MOIS falsely charging on its attack websites that the Mojahedin suppressed the Kurds in the 1991 uprising. By repeating lies over and over, the MOIS seeks to convince the public, government officials, NGOs, and the media that its false allegations are true. Below are examples of disinformation articles distributed by the MOIS:
- "MKO Trained al-Qaeda for Terror Attacks in Iraq Iraq: Iraqi Official," February 9, 2013. (The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.")
- "Bahrain Regime Aims to use MKO to Suppress Protests: Iran MP," Habilian Association, February 3, 2013. ("The group [MEK] is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.")
- "MKO Training al-Qaeda Operatives in Iraq," Habilian Association, January 20, 2013. ("The group [MEK] fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.")
- "MKO Terror Group Receives UK Support," Habilian Association, January 9, 2013. ("The group [MEK] also cooperated with Saddam in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq.")
- "New Additions to State Department Report on MKO," Irandidban.com, (no date). ("Citing reports that showed Maryam Rajavi encouraged members to 'crush Kurds under the tanks....")
- "US Likely to Use Rajavi Again," Irandidban.com, (no date). ("This move by US, coincident with Saddam execution, and regarding wide range cooperation between the MKO and former Baathist regime of Iraq in suppressing Kurds and Shiites in 1991, has received harsh criticism by Iraqi political parties.")
- "Expulsion of Terrorist MKO, an Honor for Iraq," Irandidban.com (no date). ("This organization [MEK] was involved and played a murderous role in suppressing the uprising of Sha-banish in the south and Kurds uprising in the north.")
For more Information on MOIS disinformation, please see: moisdisinformation.com.
1) "Iranian Opposition Movement's Many Faces," New York Times, June 30, 2003.
2) "The Cult of Rajavi," New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2003.
3) "An Iranian Cult and its American Friends," New York Times, August 14, 2011.


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A classic Doctor Who story, which was destroyed decades ago, is returning to the small screen 50 years after it first aired in the UK.
BBC America and BBC Worldwide have officially announced that they've commissioned a special, brand-new animated version of Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks, a highly popular story among Whovians (it featured the regeneration of First Doctor William Hartnell into Doctor Number 2, Patrick Troughton) — despite the fact that it features no complete film recordings believed to have survived to this day. Why's that, you may ask? Well, I'm glad you are! It's because the BBC destroyed (or, rather, exterminated) the master negatives during an archive purge in 1974. Le sigh.
The animated series will be based on the show's original audio recordings, surviving photographs and film clips and will be released on Nov. 12 on BBC America — 50 years after The Power of the Daleks aired for the one and only UK broadcast on BBC One (from Nov. 5 to Dec. 10, 1966). It will then be available to stream on the BBC America App and BBCAmerica.com on the next day. Here's a description of the six-part episodic story:
The six-part adventure features the regeneration, or as it was then called 'renewal', of first Doctor, William Hartnell into second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, as the Time Lord and his companions Polly (Anneke Wills) and Ben (Michael Craze) do battle with the Daleks on the planet Vulcan.
Produced and directed by Charles Norton, The Power of the Daleks boasts character designs from acclaimed comic book artists Martin Geraghty and Adrian Salmon, and you can have a peek in the gallery below. Here's what Sarah Barnett, president of BBC America, had to say in an official press release:
"50 years after its inception, Doctor Who continues to be a global phenomenon that perpetually reanimates itself – literally, right now. "The Power of the Daleks" is the latest uniquely creative storytelling to spring from the extraordinary mythology of the Doctor Who world – there are only a handful of global franchises that have the depth to evolve in this kind of way. We are so proud to present this work to our BBCA Doctor Who fans, who we think will go crazy for this reverent yet shockingly reinvented "mash up"."
With Charles Norton adding:
"The Power of the Daleks animation is the most ambitious Doctor Who archive restoration ever attempted and we're all very honored to be a part of such an exciting project. Intelligent, suspenseful and magnificently staged, The Power of the Daleks is one of the great lost classics of 1960s television and a superb example of the black and white era at its finest."
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks will premiere on Nov. 12. Are you excited to see this classic Doctor Who story the BBC destroyed being revived as an animated series?


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Establish PAN AFRICAN READING CLUBS!
SRDC Facilitators, Representatives, Observers, Council of Elders and Members should familiarize themselves with the texts listed below. As a suggestion, devote portions of your regular meetings to a Pan African Reading Club involving discussion/analysis of the lessons and wisdom contained in the listed books.
•The Mis Education of the Negro – Carter G. Woodson
•Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah – Kwame Nkrumah
Note: First published in 1957. Re-published in 1971 with author's note to new edition.
•Meeting Maat: The African-Centered Handbook for Conducting Meetings – David Horne
•Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey – Edited by Amy Jacques Garvey.
•More Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey – Essien-Udom, E.U., and Amy Jacques Garvey.
London: Frank Cass & Comp. Ltd., 1977.
•Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggle of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association – Tony Martin
•The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond – Tony Martin
Cambridge, MA. Schenkman Publishing Co., 1983
•Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers – Marcus Garvey (Author), Robert A. Hill (Editor), Barbara Bair (Editor)
•Africa for the Africans – Edward W. Blyden. Washington, D.C. 1872; reprinted, London, 1903
•African Life & Customs – Edward W. Blyden. Baltimore, MD. Black Classic Press, 1994
(First published in 1908. Reprinted from The Sierra Leone Weekly News)
•SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind – Asa G. Hilliard, III. Gainesville, FL. Makare Publishing Co., 1997
•Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success – Keith C. Holmes. Brooklyn, NY Global Black Inventor Research Projects, Inc., 2008
•The Cultural Unity of Black Africa – Cheikh Anta Diop, Chicago: Third World Press, 1959, 1978.
•The African Origin of Civilization – Cheikh Anta Diop, Lawrence Hill Books, 1974.
•The Destruction of Black Civilization – Chancellor Williams
•Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for Decolonisation – Kwame Nkrumah
•Neo -Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism – Kwame Nkrumah
•Africa Must Unite – Kwame Nkrumah
•African Centered Consciousness vs. The New World Order – Amos Wilson
•The Falsification of the African Consciousness – Amos Wilson
•How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney. Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, 1981.
•African and Caribbean Politics: From Kwame Nkrumah to Maurice Bishop – Manning Marable.
London. Verso Press, 1987.
•Moja means One: Swahili Counting Book – Muriel Feelings (Author), Tom Feelings (Illustrator)
•A is for Africa – Ifeoma Onyefulu.
•Two Thousand Seasons – Ayi Kwei Armah
(First published by East African Publishing House 1973)
•The Healers: An Historical Novel – Ayi Kwei Armah
(First published by East African Publishing House 1978)
•Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs – Askhari Johnson Hodari, Yvonne McCalla Sobers
•The Adinkra Dictionary: A Visual Primer on the Language of ADINKRA – W. Bruce Willis
Washington, DC. The Pyramid Complex, 1998
"Africans need to re-learn to rely on Africans to solve African problems rather than to continue being dependent on non-African answers to everything." ~DLH
More to come….


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text: Håkan Mattsson wrote: > Do keep in mind that if you implement a replication mechanism > on top of Ulf's RDBMS or Mnesia's subscriptions (with or without > Dannes extensions), you still need to handle potential recovery > of the last transactions before a node crash. > Thanks for the warning. As it turns out, in our particular scenario, that's not so much of an issue. For the time being, the legacy system's data is recognised as authoritative, and we have a bunch of stuff already in place to re-sync the erlang side to it in pretty much every restart/reconnection scenario (at least, every one we've been able to think of). Definitely something for us to keep in mind, however, as we start to consider shifting the authority to the erlang side. Cheers, Bernard


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An extremely successful young executive was traveling a bit too fast down a neighborhood street in his new Jaguar.
He was closely watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.
All of a sudden, a brick smashed into the Jaguar's side door!
He slammed on the brakes and backed-up his car to the spot where the brick had been thrown.
The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car and screamed, "What are you doing?"
The young boy was apologetic. "Please mister, I'm sorry. I just didn't know what else to do. I threw the brick because no one else would stop."
With tears dripping down his face, the young boy pointed to a spot just around a parked car.
"It's my brother," he said, "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up. I think he's hurt."
Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's too heavy for me."
The young executive hurriedly lifted the boy back into his wheelchair, then took out his fancy handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay.
"Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child said to the stranger.
Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the little boy push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their house.
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar.
The damage was very noticeable.
Years passed and the young executive never bothered to repair the dented side door.
He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:
Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!
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Hand-made Thursdays – Metamorphosi
Architect by training, painter by passion, Ilaria Sadun got her inspiration for Metamorphosi after travelling in Latin America during the early nineties. For two years she volunteered in Nicaragua on a project that helped local artisans effectively market their own art and develop opportunities for environment-friendly public recreation in their outdoor areas. The idea for using previously used glass as an artistic medium came from a woman, who recycled used bottles to make useful homeware, a fifty-year family tradition that had been taught to her by her father. Recycled green glass and green mother of pearl, stainless still wire and cotton thread make this necklace perfect for candle light dinners out in the garden. It will make you feel like a nature goddess! $62 USD. Buy from Etsy, ships everywhere.


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Difference between Conscious and Subconscious
The part of mind that is responsible for reasoning and decision making is known as the conscious mind. For example, if someone asks you to compute one plus one, it will be your conscious mind that is going to add the numbers. Whatever you intend to do; the conscious mind is responsible for controlling actions. The sub conscious mind on the other hand results in our involuntary actions. Subconscious mind controls our breathing rate and heart beat. Our emotions are also performed by out sub conscious mind. Learn the differences between these two terms to achieve your goals and objectives successfully and in quickest time. Conscious mind responds to the lower functions in the brain whereas the sub conscious mind does not need a reason or justification – it simply responds to and follows the guidelines provided by the conscious part of your brain.
Conscious mind
Conscious mind responds to the lower functions of brain. Essentially, it is designed to deal with focus, direction setting and attention to details, awareness and analysis. Your conscious ideas are the logical or sensible ideas, whereas your sub conscious mind is the 'animal' like instinct within our brain. Without any conscious choice on your part, your heart keeps moving blood, your body can sweat and your heart rate remains under control. These are all illustrations of the features that although may seem as if they 'just happen', are actually the consequence of your sub conscious psychological procedures, working hard.
- Image courtesy: social-consciousness.com
Sub conscious mind
Many people never 'think' that they have a sub conscious, although they certainly have to 'think' with their minds. Your sub conscious mind is highly effective and it plays a key role in your psychological procedures, although you are unacquainted to it. Your sub conscious is easily satisfied upon by the ideas and psychological concentration of the conscious ideas.
Your sub conscious can be defined as a ground that allows any kind of seeds to be implanted whether good or bad. Since your psychological ideas are at work; they plant seeds to your sub conscious. Dangerous, destructive and negative ideas due to stress or depressive disorders continue to perform adversely in your sub conscious. Earlier or later, they surface to take form as an external experience that matches to their content.
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Michael and Demetra's first encounter was arranged by friends: Demetra was looking for a new job, Michael agreed to help—and once he had met her, he decided that he wanted to see her outside the office. After their first date, the couple soon became inseparable. Michael proposed during a trip to Greece on a scenic bluff overlooking the village of Stemnitsa, and the pair said "I do" in June 2014 in a traditional Greek Orthodox ceremony, followed by a black-tie reception at Four Seasons Hotel Boston.
The Scene: Demetra designed a neutral wedding palette accented with gold details, which were incorporated into the wedding's stationery suite as well as on the four-tiered wedding cake. Guests enjoyed drinks and hors d'oeuvres after arriving at the Hotel, followed by dinner and dancing in the Grand Ballroom, where reception tables were set with lush white floral centrepieces in towering gold vases.
Magical Moment: Before Michael and Demetra joined their guests for the reception, they waited outside the ballroom to be announced as Mr and Mrs Crotty. When the doors opened, everyone stood to clap and cheer as the newlyweds made their way to the dance floor for their first dance. "We have never experienced a feeling quite like all of our family and closest friends joined together to celebrate our love for each other," shares Demetra. "There were many special moments, but this one stood out above all."
The Bride & Groom: Along with their immediate families and bridal party, the newlyweds posed for formal portraits in Boston Public Garden. "It was the least fast-paced section of the day, and it was amazing to share with each other," Demetra says. To top it off, the group was stopped by Beatles legend Ringo Starr, who kissed the bride on the cheek and took a photo with the couple.
The Bride Wore: Demetra wore Vera Wang's Katherine ball gown in ivory. "It had the princess feel I was looking for," she says. She accessorized the tulle and organza dress with gold Valentino pumps, and gold and pavé diamond earrings made by her father, the owner of Gartaganis Bros., a jewellery store in Boston.
A Personal Touch: "My fiancé and father worked together to make an engagement ring that Michael knew I would love," says Demetra. "My father designed and crafted our weddings bands, too." All three rings are made of gold—Demetra's favourite—and the groom's band is engraved with the couple's names and wedding date.
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i decided to post this image here to get some C&C of the Maya community first.
im posting this one in the Gallery to… but oh… well… here is the image…lol:thumbsup:
i decided to post this image here to get some C&C of the Maya community first.
im posting this one in the Gallery to… but oh… well… here is the image…lol:thumbsup:
WOW Im really glad to be the first to post, i have a few crits, Bottem front widows a tad to relfective and that the roof tiling is a bit to large the side headge looks FLAT and 2D like trees in half life, your skys way to blue even for a clear day might want to add a sun blur and like a tad od discoloration, the out side walls are wy to clean there like so clean add a bump of bricks or sand stone or something.
And 2ns level inbetween the balconys what the hell is that?
Also your cars got to number plate?
How did you do the lighting?
Plus the road and plants and stuff are overlit, simply too bright. Eating away all the depth.
Tho would be interested to know how did you lit it. Add some details, some depth to the ski…some shadows etc and it could look very appealing.
And what is the rendering time?
Eu sou seu fã cara, continue assim muito bom!
Thanks ASW, Splin, im working on some of the modifications that were suggested, i will post a new render soon… (slow computer…lol).Po Ronaldo… valeu cara, mas meu ainda to aprendendo, tem muita coisa pela frente… mais nois tenta… ehehe.
here is a new version of the image, with some of the modifications that were suggested:)
usually those clay roofs are made from many panels that are only about a foot long, not solid pieces. i can also see the gray roof under the tiles. i don't know if the bump mapping works particularly well either, doesn't look like a real material.
hmm… yea… maybe i need try to use a texture map instead of just a simple color,and i agree with you about the roof.Thanks for your comments:thumbsup:
ok… i changed a few things, here is the image.Thanks for all the comments:thumbsup:
Looking much better. There is something bugging me about the door material however, it's really popping out. Maybe lower the diffuse on it just a tad. I think it's also the white trim around the edges and engraved areas. Also the the little round bushes in the front seem to be a little flat as far as the lighting goes, maybe have a little more self shadowing around the bases of them. Great work and keep it up.
Here is a wireframe view of the image, the door as you can see its not a real 3d object, im using a displacement map, i think i will need to model the door as a 3d object:thumbsup:
thats why I were wondering why the door looks so weird.
Hi slipknot, looking better. The backyard looks mighty small, maybe thats just how it is Was this modelled in maya because everything is triangulated so it looks like its been through polytrans. Perhaps some slightly dirtier textures would make it look more convincing, anyway keep up the good work.
HaHa…Looking alot better mate
Muncher It looks triangulated because he has tesserlation enabled on the objects Thats why i think anyway.
Change that 2D Tree
Also find out some one the 3D pain effect because there too bushey.
Also Skys looking grate!
Keep moding it dude.
One other thing I noticed as well, the stone steps leading up to the front door are very uneven. For a house like this they would probably be very eavenly placed and the steps as you have them now wouldn't be very comfortable walking over as it would be pretty easy to trip and fall. Just a suggestion though =)
Hehe, I like your thinking, but i think the steps brake the house away from the garden and give the garden a forest look. Yet again they are very wired and would be a bastard to cut the grass around them!!!
lolll… me too…
Good work slipknot66!
please, you can explain the lighting setup?
the scale of the model is important for the rendering?
Good Job slipknot66!
Please, you can quick explain the lighing and shadow setup?
Is important the scale of the model in relationship with the lights.
Many tnx.
well… im using 3 lights, 1 spotlight for the sun, emitting 10.000 photons, and 2 point lights converted to Mentalray area lights, using a spherical projection each one emitting 10.000 photons. About the size, the only thing i noticed is tah the models need to be centralized in the grid.This house was modeled in Autocad by a friend, i was responsible for all the Textures,lights,compositions…etc… I imported the scene using the 3ds import option, you get that plugin when you install Bonustools for Maya:thumbsup:


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Home Friesfrom Bridget Lancaster, Julia Collin Davison
Serves 6 to 8
Don't skip the baking soda in this recipe. It's critical for home fries with just the right crisp texture.
3 1/2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 3/4-inch dice
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 12 pieces
Kosher salt and pepper
Pinch cayenne pepper
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 onions, cut into 1/2-inch dice
3 tablespoons minced chives
1. Adjust oven rack to lowest position, place rimmed baking sheet on rack, and heat oven to 500 degrees.
2. Bring 10 cups water to boil in Dutch oven over high heat. Add potatoes and baking soda. Return to boil and cook for 1 minute. Drain potatoes. Return potatoes to Dutch oven and place over low heat. Cook, shaking pot occasionally, until any surface moisture has evaporated, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Add butter, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and cayenne; mix with rubber spatula until potatoes are coated with thick, starchy paste, about 30 seconds.
3. Remove baking sheet from oven and drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil. Transfer potatoes to baking sheet and spread into even layer. Roast for 15 minutes. While potatoes roast, combine onions, remaining one tablespoon oil, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in bowl.
4. Remove baking sheet from oven. Using thin, sharp metal spatula, scrape and turn potatoes. Clear about 8 by 5-inch space in center of baking sheet and add onion mixture. Roast for 15 minutes.
5. Scrape and turn again, mixing onions into potatoes. Continue to roast until potatoes are well browned and onions are softened and beginning to brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Stir in chives and season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.


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I first became a father on July 8, 2013, the day I met my then-seven year old son for the first time. Four years later and my husband and I are on the verge of (legally) becoming fathers for a third time as we begin to finalize the adoption of our (biologically) oldest (chronologically) youngest son.
We came to fatherhood a bit late; I was 38 and my husband was 41. I sometimes think we both wished we had started having children a bit sooner, years ago back when we still had the energy to keep up with a seven year old before we started buying pants with elastic waistlines.
But because I know that our kids were always meant to be our kids I also know that starting earlier would not have been an option. The timing would have been off—a day sooner or a day later and suddenly we're in an alternate timeline where Todd has a full head of hair and I hate doughnuts and instead of three kids we have 27 dogs and everything is just wrong.
The five of us were a series of lines, always meant to cross, but at very specific points.
When I was younger I knew I wanted a family, a big family with six kids, but when I was younger I also knew I was gay and because of that I understood that my big family with six kids would never happen. At 11 years old, at 18 years old, at 27 years old, I could never conceive of a time when a gay man could have children.
And yet, here I am.
I get to play ball with A'Sean and help Chris memorize a monologue and laugh when Elijah says really inappropriate words.
I get to celebrate their successes and encourage them past their defeats.
I get to see them grow up.
I get to watch them be brothers.
I get to imagine who they will be when I'm gone and not be sad because I know they have each other.
Being a father is the greatest joy of my life and raising my boys is my greatest accomplishment. My kids make me laugh and they make me scream. They challenge me and they exhaust me. They bring out my best and they bring out my worst. They give me purpose.
Every day is not the best day, but every day is a better day because I get to be their dad. So even when I'm screaming at them (which I do) or sneaking off to the bathroom to cry (which I do even more) or beating myself up for getting everything wrong (which I do every day), I would not trade a moment of this great privilege.
Happy Father's Day – today and every day.


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Eating meals out was not so long ago a rare treat. Almost no one went to restaurants on a regular basis or brought home take-out food. Fast forward to today, where over half of our daily calories are consumed away from home – each and every day. Eating out or take-out is so common that many people have filled the … Read More
Madoc, our own resident coach/Chinese Medical Practitioner/man about town will be offering a couple of simple services to help gym members work out their gnarly parts. Gua Sha, Cupping, Ear acupressure, and traditional Chinese herbal lineaments and salves. He has a special price for CrossFit Portland members for a 3 pack of Gua' Sha, ear pressure or Cupping for $45.00. … Read More
RAW POWER PART DEUX: Condensed and Intense
September 9th a second round of Raw Power will be available for another group of eight athletes. Register here. Your membership must allow you to attend the gym at least three times per week. I'll hold an information session to learn some techniques for lifting and further explain the class for free/open attendance at 11am on Sunday, September 2nd. Email … Read More
WARNING: If you cherry pick "long cardio" workouts for the purpose of losing weight, it doesn't work that way! Monday Warm Up 1) Jump rope-3 min 2) Shoulder Seq + Bully Stretch WOD Strength, strength endurance A. Close Grip Bench Press: 3 x 6-8 @30X0, rest 3 min In your rest break, perform 10/side Ginga Lunges B. Back Squat: 3 … Read More


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Dreams and Nostalgia Small Wood Stove For Tiny House
Small wood stove for tiny house – Strolling down a street with that characteristic smell, awakens longings, dreams and nostalgia: it is the smell produced by wood stoves . This smell is much more common in towns with country homes and spacious than in the city, where one of the handicaps of small apartments is just lack of space.
The woodstoves, despite the years, still a wonderful option for heating our homes, especially in those houses decorated in rustic style. Along with the use of earth colors, natural materials such as wood and stone and furniture with moldings, the small wood stove for tiny house provide a warm feeling of warmth , as they are able to warm the entire stay, creating a magical and intimate atmosphere, ideal for family gatherings.
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There are wood stoves of many shapes and sizes, so you can choose the one that best suits the space of your living room or living room. From elongated and narrow stoves to square and flat stoves, the options are as many as real needs exist to optimize the space of your home to the maximum. The ideal is to place small wood stove for tiny house in the optimal space, allowing the circulating air to heat the other rooms easily and simply.
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HSL moves us all
HSL's customer promise – HSL moves us all – is part and parcel of the daily work of our staff. Most of our 360 employees work in positions providing a comprehensive overview of Helsinki region public transport and transport arrangements. The work carried out by our staff has a significant impact on the daily life of numerous passengers.
Our goal is that Helsinki region has the most efficient transport system and the most satisfied users of public transport in Europe. In the international BEST survey, Helsinki has been voted among the best public transport cities for several consecutive years.
Values in our daily work
Customer focus, cooperation, continuous development and environmental responsibility are valuable issues for HSL. Customers are the focus of our daily activities; we listen to them and receive feedback, we want have to open interaction with our customers and plan our services to meet their needs.
We cooperate, encourage open dialogue and trust each other - both in HSL and our partners outside. We appreciate good cooperation with our stakeholders.
Continuous development means looking forward and improving our professional skills in order to ensure service and expertise also in the future. We strive to identify the future needs of our customers and partners and actively follow the trends in the field of transport and utilize the latest information available without forgetting environmental responsibility. We encourage our employees to develop their skills.
According to feedback from our staff, people have good working relations with colleagues and feel that their skills reflect the requirements of their work. The staff appreciates that HSL takes environmental responsibility into account in its activities.


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Fraternal Greetings Brethren!
On Thursday, February 13th, we conferred the 2nd degree on Bro. Peter McCullough. Congratulations. Bro. McCullough was an excellent candidate for the 2nd degree and very well prepared. Thank you also to the Brethren who stepped in at the last minute. At the conclusion of the 2nd degree, we had some education from Penetrating the Veil by M.W. Bro. David C. Bradley, Past Grand Master – Chapter 9 – Orders of Architecture. Prior to concluding the evening, we had some additional education from Penetrating the Veil by M.W. Bro. David C. Bradley, Past Grand Master – Chapter 7: To Try and Adjust His Jewels – Perfect Ashlar. At the previous meeting, we were educated on the Rough Ashlar. I also read from the Annual Communications of Grand Lodge for 2013 – Toronto West District report from the DDGM. We also had the pleasure of welcoming and congratulating our very own Worshipful Brother Terrence S. "Terry" Fulton on being elected and installed as the Illustrious Potentate of Rameses Shriners.
On Thursday, February 27th, we conferred the 3rd Degree on Bro. Ryan Reid. Congratulations. Bro. Reid was also an excellent candidate showing that he was well prepared. Prior to closing in the 3rd degree, V.W. Bro. Donald Laycock conducted some education by reading a paper presented in Pythagoras Lodge No. 137 entitled "A Moment of Contemplation" which discusses Ecclesiastes. We continued our series on education with a reading from Penetrating the Veil by M.W. Bro. David C. Bradley, Past Grand Master – Chapter 4 -Jacob's Ladder. Once again, prior to closing the Lodge, I read from the Annual Communications of Grand Lodge for 2013 – Biography of our Grand Master.
At our upcoming Regular meeting on Thursday, March 13th, we will be discussing plans for the rest of the Masonic year, where we are with the Cornerstone certification, some Officer instruction/mentorship, fun family/social events as well as some education.
At our Emergent meeting on Thursday, March 27th, we will be conducting our annual step-up night. This is a perfect opportunity for the Brethren who have received their 3rd degree in the last year to prove themselves – please let me or the secretary know if you feel you are ready or require some assistance.
I look forward to greeting each of you at our Regular Meeting on March the 13th and our Emergent Meeting on March the 27th.
Brethren, if you have any comments or suggestions about the Flower City website (bramptonmasons.com), please let me know. All feedback is welcome. Thank you very much Bro. Ryan Reid on the new Flower City image for the website banner. Excellent work. We know also have Twitter and Facebook pages for up to the minute news on Flower City Lodge. Thank you for the comments already received.
Please let me or the Secretary know if you would like to be advanced to the next degree so we can plan accordingly. If you require any assistance in advancing, please let me know so that we can make it a comfortable and enjoyable experience.
At our Thursday, May 8th meeting, we will be welcoming Mississauga Chapter, Order of DeMolay and Primrose Assembly #8, International Order of the Rainbow for Girls for a presentation to our members, friends and family. This will be a Friend to Friend event as well as an Open House.
Finally, to our sick and shut-in Brethren, our thoughts and prayers are with you, and please do not hesitate to contact me or any officer of the lodge if we can be of any assistance. If you require a drive to lodge, please let us know and we will make arrangements.
Sincerely and Fraternally,
W. Bro. James Leutri


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A SERIES of games and entertainment will be staged to raise money for Rugby Myton Hospice.
The fund-raising night takes place at 8pm on Monday February 18 at Newbold Road Engineering Club.
Rugby Mayor Ray Kirby will join in various games including bingo and Play Your Cards Right.
Tickets cost #3 and are available by phoning 01926 838811 or 01788 558260.


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Scientists Discover Cancer Kill Switch Embedded In The Body That Can Brutally Eradicate Any Cancer Cell
The war against cancer is a never-ending one. Even as medical technology and evolution discovers innovative ways to beat the disease, fatalities are recurring and no amount of money is able to make cancer go into complete recession. Cancer knows no boundaries neither does it differentiate between rich or poor, it attacks with a vengeance but is the battle slowly moving in another direction in favor of humans? One group of scientists from Northwestern University feel they have made a path-breaking discovery that may stop cancer right in its tracks.
1Eight year study bears fruit and a fantastic discovery
An eight-year research study that sought to analyze the human genome including the molecules that regulate it has thrown up something fantastic where cancer cells are concerned. The Northwestern team has discovered a pathway that can be programmed to self-destruct and destroy any type of cancer cell. What's great about it is that the process is foolproof. If this is true and if it can be applied to human trials and subsequent treatment, it may well be the breakthrough of the century.
2Tiny naturally produced molecules possess cancerkilling properties
The mechanism for self destruct requires a certain process. It involves production of siRNA's or tiny RNA molecules that trigger the self-destruct process of the cancer cells while not having any effect on healthy cells. These siRNA's are necessary for stopping multiple genes required for the increase and production of rapidly growing malignant cancer cells.
Two recent studies have given research leader Marcus Peter and team several insights to observe how siRNA's initiate the fatal process of events which have been named DISE or "death by induces survival gene elimination"
3Identification of nucleotides necessary for the fatal activity
Not only has the team discovered and observed the process of DISE, they have also identified six nucleotide long sequences which are essential for the fatal activity. This could have phenomenal potential where medication such as chemotherapy won't be necessary. All it would require is a catalyst to trigger the siRNAs in one's body into action by stimulating the nucleotide sequence.
4What are siRNA's?
SiRNAs are also called small interfering RNA (ribonucleic acid) which are a class of double-stranded RNA molecules operating within an RNA pathway. These interfere with gene expression (the process where information of a gene is used for synthesis of a gene product) of specific cells. SiRNA can also be introduced into cells by a process called transfection
5DISE sequences are present in our RNA
The scientists examined nucleotide sequences of non-coding RNA molecules which are produced naturally in the body to prevent various gene expressions. Non-coding RNA molecules are those which do not get translated into protein. They found that sequences associated with DISE process were present at just one end of several RNA strands that suppressed tumors.


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True or false? Gates is a Canal Town. Trick question: T and F are both correct.
Not that the bedroom-and-strip-mall township just outside the city limits is a Canal Town in the Realtor's sense. Gates will never be taken for Fairport, Brockport, or others that have highly developed commercial zones right on the Erie Canal (and as their names indicate, have a historical orientation toward the water). But Gates --- named for a Revolutionary War general, not the vital parts of a lock --- has its own quiet relationship with Upstate's major waterway and historic thoroughfare.
The town and canal have lived side by side for a long time. But there's always been a kind of bundling board between them. "There's very little of the canal in the town's history," says Gates town historian Jack Hart.
Why? Start with geology. The original route of the Erie Canal took advantage of a low area between two geological formations. But when the canal was relocated south of downtown Rochester a century ago, workers confronted some higher ground underlain with the dolomite of the Niagara Escarpment. They hammered a new channel through this formation rather than lifting the canal up and over it. Hence the long uninterrupted stretch of flatwater between Lock 33 just east of Rochester and Lock 34 in Lockport, Niagara County.
And hence, too, the "deep cut" or rock cut in Gates --- the unusual section of the canal on the town's eastern border that has often escaped attention.
The deep cut's problem is, well, depth.
For three miles in the middle of a populated, industrial area, the canal lies as much as 65 feet below the original land surface and runs between almost vertical limestone walls. The cut, says the state Canal Corporation, was the deepest made along the whole canal. Moreover, the effect was heightened when the work crews piled the newly excavated dirt and stone right on the canal rim, says town historian Hart. The impressive construction work had an unintended consequence: It kept Gates from having the access necessary for recreational or economic development.
Gates Supervisor Ralph Esposito acknowledges that this inaccessibility --- the canal's distance from "civilization," as he says --- is a challenge. Yes, heroic earthmoving could be done. But "it all comes back to what you can do with the money they can give you," says Esposito, referring to state and federal programs that wax and wane.
"The canal is so beautiful," Esposito says earnestly. But "it's pretty dangerous," he adds. He recalls "one or two fatalities" in the deep cut "from the Rochester side." His conclusion: "It's a tough spot." But he also highlights one spot Gates might develop --- a five-acre parcel on the north side of canal, near Greece Canal Park. This acreage lies near the Lee Road overpass --- and outside the deep cut.
"At some point," Esposito says, "this could provide some usable access in the town." He says the original plan for the industrial-commercial park mentioned a "possible hotel" on the Gates acreage. "We're not out of the picture yet," he says. "I expect there will be some utilization."
The Western Erie Canal Heritage Corridor Planning Commission, headquartered in Rochester at the Landmark Society offices, is looking at projects and proposals of all sorts between the Montezuma area (a bit this side of Syracuse) and Buffalo. Coordinator Bill Condo says some things might happen at the Gates-Rochester border. One idea that's been floated, he says, is to create an interpretive historical display above the canal near the Lyell Avenue overpass.
Condo compares the deep cut's significance to that of the Broad Street Aqueduct, which used to carry the original Erie Canal over the Genesee River in downtown Rochester. "Here you have a major piece of American history," says Condo, referring to the cut and aqueduct alike.
Whatever their individual plans, towns like Gates and Greece, villages like Spencerport and Brockport, and cities like Rochester and Buffalo all have hopes riding on the canal and nearby greenspaces and development zones.
County Legislator Mitch Rowe, who represents parts of both the city and Gates and has taken a special interest in the canal, says communities like Medina and Lockport are especially focused on such things. "They're struggling," he says. "There are a lot of vacancies" in such canal towns, he says. But he adds that attending meetings in these towns has given him "great hope" for the canal's future.
Some money is on the way, certainly.
Canal Corporation spokesperson Terry O'Brien says the state is poised to spend money on some canalside upgrades west of Rochester. For example, he says $1.5 million will go toward Canal Trail improvements on a 10-mile stretch between Brighton and Long Pond Road in Greece. Comparable sums will be spent on trail links in Erie and Niagara counties. The top priority now, says O'Brien, is connecting as many segments of the Canal Trail as possible, from one end of the state to the other. (State government and the federal Housing and Urban Development agency have pumped large sums into Erie Canal projects in recent years. HUD's share has come to more than $300 million.)
But apart from the trail per se, will anything be set aside for more unusual projects --- like beautifying the deep cut and thus giving Gates a hand?
Not likely, at least not from the Canal Corporation budget, says O'Brien. Over the past seven years, he says, the state has invested $177 million in canal "infrastructure." But this year, he says, there's only $30 million or so for all capital projects. And it takes $65 million per year, he says, just to run the canal, its locks, and so forth. Boaters' fees make up only a tiny fraction of the costs, he says.
The Canal Corporation has primary responsibility for maintaining the Erie Canal multi-use trail system. But that may change.
"We're thinking of handing over maintenance" to the localities through which the trail runs, says O'Brien. The corporation, he says, would prefer to keep both the trail and the actual canal shipshape. By law, the corporation must keep the waterway navigable, he says --- but there's no comparable mandate regarding the trail.
There's an unfortunate symmetry here. The section of paved trail alongside the deep cut in Gates is in bad --- and worsening --- shape. But Supervisor Esposito takes a position much like O'Brien's. Gates, says Esposito, is inclined to leave the trail problem in Albany's hands. "We've taken the position that it's theirs," he says.
Whatever the pavement conditions, the trail and waterway form a significant greenspace along the Gates-Rochester line. And that could lead to low-impact, inexpensive development.
Pittsford resident Thomas Grasso, a retired MCC geology professor who heads the Canal Society of New York State, has some suggestions. "What could be done as a first shot," he says, "is to thin out the brush [at trailside] so you can see the canal."
In general, Grasso thinks it's best to "just make what's there a bit better." He envisions some "overlook points," perhaps with viewing platforms from which people can watch the boats go by --- and see some inspiring sights. "You're in a 'canyon,' so to speak," he reminds us. He recalls taking students there at low water to hunt fossils.
The deep cut, says Grasso, was once compared to the "Culebra Cut" on the contemporaneous Panama Canal. Our local marvel no longer draws such oohs and aahs for its engineering, of course. But if the veil is drawn away, other marvels, and a few new possibilities for an aging suburb like Gates, could be revealed.
Even if this isn't a smashing success, it's got to be better than what's (not) happening now.


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As Dianna Wray writes for the Victoria Advocate, the life of an oilfield worker is bittersweet. When times are good - and times certainly are good right now in the Eagle Ford Shale - oil and gas workers can make around $100,000 per year.
But, on the other hand, booms can take their toll on workers, from strained marriages to injuries and deaths. Wray describes the ways in which workers can get injured: flying debris, moving equipment and well blowouts. But Wray leaves out another major way that oil and gas workers get hurt: in truck accidents going to and from the Eagle Ford Shale.
Despite the danger of working in the oil and gas industry, these workers are finding the pull of an oil boom irresistible. "When you start a boom," said oilfield worker Justin Glass, as Wray reports, "you don't realize how good it is until it goes bust, and then the high rolling goes away and you know what you've lost. Yeah, it's like they say, you don't know what you love until you lose it."
But Justin Glass's father said, "It's unlike any boom I've ever seen. It's amazing."
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Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson: 'We See Dead People'
It is no secret that Hollywood is a big cereal town. Full of fruits, nuts, and flakes, you know? Two of the latest big names who decided to uphold that reputation are Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate Hudson.
Just in time for Halloween, these two decided that TMZ hadn't been giving them enough attention lately — so Kate hit up Alan Carr's Chatty Man Show in the UK.
That's when she decided to tell the world that she once saw "a ghost of a woman with no face." (No word on how close said woman was to the nearest plastic surgeon's office.)
Kate Hudson, along with her Wish I Was Here costar Zach Braff, stopped by to promote their new movie. During a lull in the usually cheeky convo on Chatty, Hudson decided to drop a ghostly bomb as the 35-year-old shared a surprising confession about herself and mother Goldie Hawn: The two "can see dead people."
US magazine clarifies, "It is not really seeing, it is feeling a spirit. A fifth energy. I believe in energy. I believe our brains can manifest into visual things. When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong there. When your brain is freaking out on you, you may have to remind it. Why is being dead funny?"
While Hudson may be in need of a real-life Ghostbuster, the thesp also copped to having a "potty mouth" and admitted that her 10-year-old son, Ryder, is adopting his mom's tendency to curse.
"Well I have three brothers—I'm getting better with language. My son now is just collecting so much, because we do have a swear jar—if I throw out an eff-bomb, it's $5…if it's like s–t or damn."
That's what we would probably say if we saw a ghost, too.


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Breakfast with Santa at Grand Centra for children with special needs
PUBLISHED: 12:45 27 December 2018 | UPDATED: 12:45 27 December 2018
A little Christmas magic was sprinkled across Ely as children with special needs enjoyed breakfast with Santa.
Spectrum Cambridge - which puts on events for children with autism, additional needs and disabilities alongside their families and carers - teamed up with Grand Central Ely, Heart Radio Cambs and Father Christmas himself for the event.
Hosted by Grand Central Ely, the breakfast consisted of an English buffet on arrival and Christmas snacks before Santa dropped in to catch up with everyone on their festive preparations.
He then led an interactive show of Christmas songs and themed magic for all before presenting the children with gifts from Heart Cambs and the Giving Tree, Spectrum Cambridge.
The children also received a Christmas coin from Santa for them to place under their pillows on Christmas Eve.
The Mayor of Ely, Councillor Michael Rouse, attended and thanked the groups who organised the breakfast with santa for supporting local children and families.
He said: "It is a pleasure to work with these organisations to create memorable events."
Justin Heron, operations manager for Spectrum, said: "Christmas magic is very real to a child and something that they just can't explain which makes it both fascinating and a feel good factor for all.
"We owe a huge thanks to Santa, the teams at Grand Central and Heart Cambs for helping us deliver something a little bit special and very engaging for all".
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Ammunition for Propaganda
A critical review of "9/11 Justice"
by Ace Baker
September 12, 2008
I watched the short film "9/11 Justice" last night at the 911TruthLA conference. It's also available on Google Video.
The film advances the proposition that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Richard Myers, and Condoleezza Rice are provably guilty of conspiracy to commit mass murder for the events of 9/11.
I agree. The neo-cons murdered Americans on 9/11. In fact, the film does not go far enough, and does nothing to point the finger of blame at any news media execs and anchors, who are also provably involved. I wholeheartedly agree with the general premise and intent of "9/11 Justice".
But the film is so riddled with errors and false assumptions that I wonder if the filmmakers were just sloppy, or were actually trying to discredit the movement and create potent ammunition for the government propagandists.
For example, the narrator claims: "A specialized explosive used by professionals to demolish a steel frame is called thermate. It is placed in key places, and melts large steel joints in an instant."
This is just plain wrong. Thermate is NOT an explosive, it is an incendiary. It is an alumnothermic reaction which produces very high temperatures, high enough to melt steel. That is what incendiaries do, it is not what explosives do. Explosives produce very high air pressure.
Thermate is NOT "used by professionals to demolish a steel frame". To cut steel, professional demolition engineers use high explosives, such as RDX. It is difficult to control the timing of a thermate reaction, and demolitions require precision timing.
This is not to say thermate was not PART of the 9/11 demolitions. We certainly see molten metal flowing out of the south tower just prior to the destruction. Likely it was used to melt floor trusses and cause floors to sag, which would later be blamed on "jet fuel fires".
But thermate CANNOT, I repeat, CANNOT possibly be responsible for the disintegration of the towers. The towers mostly turned to dust. They didn't melt. They exploded. There was a mushroom cloud. The film makes mention of the extraordinary explosive force of the demolition, but leaves us to assume this was from thermate. Based on this, the critics would be all too happy to dismiss the entire film as ridiculous, and that's a shame.
So total was the disintegration, I suspect it was a low-yield nuclear fusion reaction, sequenced from the top down. This might explain the high tritium levels, the high cancer rates, and the "China Syndrome" meltdown fuming reaction which persisted visually for months, and hasn't completely stopped to this day. Do you wonder why they haven't built anything on ground zero yet? What type of explosives were used is certainly debatable. But it wasn't thermate, and thermate isn't an explosive.
The thermate business comes from Steven Jones, of course. It's understandably seductive to be swayed by an actual Ph.D. physicist who purports to be a truther. But a review of the totality of Jones' work tells us something is terribly wrong. His entire thesis is founded upon the presence of molten metal, "flowing and in pools". Molten metal IS impossible to reconcile with the official story. So why then is there no mention of molten metal in Jones' "Request For Corrections" to NIST? Why is there no mention of molten metal in his "Ten Points of Agreement" article?
I digress.
Another serious problem I have with "9/11 Justice" (and Jones) is that it repeatedly calls the destruction a "collapse". The twin towers did not collapse. They exploded. The word "collapse" is a meme propagated by the govern-media. It's mind control. Truthers would all do very well to avoid that term. Avoid it like . . . like an old cliche.
"Justice" repeats the Larry Silverstein "pull it" quote, perhaps the most infamous of all 9/11 tidbits. But the film leaps to the outrageous claim that "Larry Silverstein . . .accidentally told PBS that he had [WTC7] demolished."
Larry Silverstein did no such thing. A moment's thought will show that Silverstein delivered a very well-scripted, perfect little nugget of ambiguous disnifo. Silverstein was not speaking at some live event, he was interviewed for a PBS official propaganda show. Silverstein was rehearsed. The show was edited. It was reviewed. Rest assured, they WANTED you to hear Silverstein's statement.
"Justice" plays Silverstien saying, ". . .and they made that decision to pull, and then we watched the building collapse". Scandalously, the film claims that we don't know who Silverstein means by "they". That's false. Of course we do. Silverstein said, "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander . . .". "They" would refer to the Fire Department.
The Silverstein statement was deliberately crafted in just such a way that it COULD be interpreted to mean "demolish the building", but it could ALSO be interpreted to mean "pull the firefighting operation". Which, of course, is what his spokesman said he meant.
"Pull it" was NO accident.
Along the same lines, "Justice" uncritically accepts as true the claim that there was an August 6, 2001 White House memo warning Osama bin Laden was prepared to strike. This may be the most suspicious element included in the short film. It's very clear to me that the intent of "leaking" the August 6 memo was to reinforce the idea that "Osama did it", to focus public debate away from "What really happened" and on to "Could Bush have stopped it?" See how it works?
A misuse of a scientific term further discredits the film. Says the narrator, "Jet fuel does not create anything near the heat necessary to melt steel". What he meant to say was, "Jet fuel cannot burn at a high enough temperature necessary to melt steel.
Heat and temperature are not the same thing. Temperature is the degree to which something is releases energy, heat is the amount of energy released. My water heater has much more heat than a burning match, but the burning match is a much higher temperature than the water heater. The intended point about hyrdrocarbon fires and steel is correct, and important. But the botched terminology is just one more distraction.
A silly error needlessly confuses the issue on WTC7. WTC7 was 47 stories, not 42 as the film states. WTC7 is a smoking gun, no question. But if the filmmakers can't even get a simple fact straight, it doesn't bode well for credibility, especially in the minds of the undecided.
Throughout the 20 minutes, "Justice" just assumes the official story of plane crashes at the WTC. There is essentially no hard evidence to support this position, and a mountain of data proving that the airplanes are video composites. I certainly appreciate the contentious nature of the plane hoax debate within the movement, so I'll leave planes to one side for the moment, and deal with that another day. There is plenty else wrong with "9/11 Justice". Please don't promote this film.
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We appreciate very much what you're doing. Thanks.
- September 14, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- spooked said...
Thanks for the synopsis/review. It always amazes me how somehow can put so much work into getting a film out, and be so careless about certain key points. Surely there were more artful ways they could have presented those points you highlight, that could have avoided being easily seized upon as wrong.
- September 16, 2008 at 12:39 PM
I think maybe you give too much to Lucky Larry.
We have to remember it was only 2002, the perps were riding high, were being lionized. Bush called Rumsfeld a matinee idol: Rudi Dekkers, the boer of Huffman Aviation, was being touted by Corpomedia as an expert on 911, and he rose to the occasion like M. Jourdain, bourgeois gentilhomme, when he discovered from his tutor that he spoke prose.
There were no firemen in WTC7 after noon of that day. The famous comments of one fireman to another just post midday:"There are fires in building 7. Are you guys gonna, like, put them out?" ..."Yeah, we know."
Mistakes were made on 911. Plenty of them. Ace has pointed out a lot of them. Mr. Fujita of the Japanese Diet said it looked just like a kabuki show to him.
There's clever disinfo techniques, and Ace seems to be on to them better than most. Being wary of this film, 911 Justice, is more than sensible to me. And Ace's comments are once again discriminating and insightful. But I believe it is sensible as well to understand that Lucky Larry was so self-aggrandizing at this moment in 2002 that he became a loose cannon.
How about a 4.5 billion dollar AceBaker challenge to Lucky Larry?
- September 22, 2008 at 8:53 AM
Fusion devices of any kind cannot cause "China Syndrome". I don't think it was fission devices either.
There would be to much residual radiation.
It must be some other effect causing the fuming.
You are very close. Thanks Bro.
- October 5, 2008 at 10:22 AM


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