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Note that we first changed the definition of front-facing polygons to be those with clockwise winding (because our triangle fans are all wound clockwise).
Figure 6-20 demonstrates that the bottom of the cone is gone when culling is enabled. This is because we didn't follow our own rule about all the surface polygons having the same winding. The triangle fan that makes up the bottom of the cone is wound clockwise, like the fan that makes up the sides of the cone, but the front side of the cone's bottom section is facing the inside. See Figure 6-21.
We could have corrected this by changing the winding rule, by calling
just before we drew the second triangle fan. But in this example we wanted to make it easy for you to see culling in action, as well as get set up for our next demonstration of polygon tweaking.
Polygon Modes
Polygons don't have to be filled with the current color. By default, polygons are drawn solid, but you can change this behavior by specifying that polygons are to be drawn as outlines or just points (only the vertices are plotted). The function glPolygonMode() allows polygons to be rendered filled, as outlines, or as points only. In addition, this rendering mode can be applied to both sides of the polygons or to just the front or back. The following code from Listing 6-8 shows the polygon mode being set to outlines or solid, depending on the state of the Boolean variable bOutline:
// Draw back side as a polygon only, if flag is set if(bOutline) glPolygonMode(GL_BACK,GL_LINE); else glPolygonMode(GL_BACK,GL_FILL);
Figure 6-22 shows the back sides of all polygons rendered as outlines. (We had to disable culling to produce this image; otherwise, the inside would be eliminated and you'd get no outlines.) Notice that the bottom of the cone is now wireframe instead of solid, and you can see up inside the cone where the inside walls are also drawn as wireframe triangles.
Other Primitives
Triangles are the preferred primitive for object composition since most OpenGL hardware specifically accelerates triangles, but they are not the only primitives available. Some hardware will provide for acceleration of other shapes as well, and programmatically it may be simpler to use a general-purpose graphics primitive. The remaining OpenGL primitives provide for rapid specification of a quadrilateral or quadrilateral strip, as well as a general-purpose polygon. If you know your code is going to be run in an environment that accelerates general-purpose polygons, these may be your best bet in terms of performance.
Four-Sided Polygons: Quads
The next most complex shape from a triangle is a quadrilateral, or a four-sided figure. OpenGL's GL_QUADS primitive draws a four-sided polygon. In Figure 6-23 a quad is drawn from four vertices. Note also that quads have clockwise winding.
Quad Strips
Just as you can for triangles, you can specify a strip of connected quadrilaterals with the GL_QUAD_STRIP primitive. Figure 6-24 shows the progression of a quad strip specified by six vertices. Quad strips, like single GL_QUADS, maintain a clockwise winding.
General Polygons
The final OpenGL primitive is the GL_POLYGON, which can be used to draw a polygon having any number of sides. Figure 6-25 shows a polygon consisting of five vertices. Polygons created with GL_POLYGON have clockwise winding, as well.
Filling Polygons, or Stippling Revisited
There are two methods of applying a pattern to solid polygons. The customary method is texture mapping, where a bitmap is mapped to the surface of a polygon, and this is covered in Chapter 11. Another way is to specify a stippling pattern, as we did for lines. A polygon stipple pattern is nothing more than a 32 x 32 monochrome bitmap that is used for the fill pattern.
To enable polygon stippling, call
and then call
where pBitmap is a pointer to a data area containing the stipple pattern. Hereafter, all polygons will be filled using the pattern specified by pBitmap (GLubyte *). This pattern is similar to that used by line stippling, except the buffer is large enough to hold a 32 x 32-bit pattern. Also, the bits are read with the MSB (Most Significant Bit) first, which is just the opposite of line stipple patterns. Figure 6-26 shows a bit pattern for a campfire that we will use for a stipple pattern.
To construct a mask to represent this pattern, we store one row at a time from the bottom up. Fortunately, unlike line-stipple patterns, the data is by default interpreted just as it is stored, with the most significant bit read first. Each byte can then be read from left to right and stored in an array of GLubyte large enough to hold 32 rows of 4 bytes apiece.


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Cambridgeshire County Council owns 8 Local Nature Reserves (LNRs).
- Beechwoods
- Isleham Railway Cutting
- Kingston and Bourn Old Railway
- Mare Fen
- Melwood, Meldreth
- Ring's End, Elm
- Somersham
- Worts Meadow
All local authorities have powers under Section 21 of the National Parks & Countryside Act 1949, to acquire, declare and manage LNRs. The process of designation involves formal consultation with Natural England, local communities and other interested parties. LNRs are normally greater than two hectares in size and are managed for people and wildlife. This management ensures that the LNR will continue to make an important contribution to local wildlife for future generations to enjoy.
The council is working with local volunteers from the community to develop 'Friends of' groups. It is also working with Parish Councils to provide local input to help with the management of the LNR sites. The council currently has groups for 5 of the nature reserves, including Isleham, Melwood, Ring's End, Somersham and Worts Meadow.
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text: Del works hard and has little time for play. Once Leila is committed to the playmate holographic lover I really fell in love with her. She has funny moments and quirks that pull me in. This plot did bring up interesting questions. To get a bit technical, a holograph wouldn't be able to touch her, would it? Aren't holographs visual? Would holographs be better than the real thing? Instead of any annoying issues or personality clashes with the real Del wouldn't she just keep the holographic Del? The three of them do get together. Erotic definitely fits this story description! The ending also isn't really an ending. They all have sex, Leila says goodbye and is excited about the next time they meet. There wasn't really a storyline. I think if it would have been longer with maybe another plot thread in there it would have come together more. Overall, this is an interesting story and I'll definitely check out other books by this author.


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Kent Sorensen spent eighteen years doing business in Far East Asia and Russia, learning that success is best achieved when the culture of local people is understood and respected. He writes in the genre of cultural fiction where differences between people can either lead to powerful alliances or diabolical conflicts, depending on the effort each side is willing to devote to understanding each other. Popular books in this genre include Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See), among many others.
Sorensen did not fully apprecite the meaning of John Donne's poem, No Man is an Island, until he began to write. He is grateful for the generous help support from many friends, business colleagues, and family members given to him.
The original idea for his first novel, The Dark Horse of Shanghai, came when he managed a golf course and expat housing community in Shanghai. He regarded the managers reporting to him as the finest. Those who distinguished themselves far beyond his greatest expectations were Sherry Wu, Martin Ajobe, Chris Brooke, Denise Zhang, Paul Haviland, Sabrina Yu, Annie Sat, Paul Wong, Zhou Yuan, and Mr. Zhuang (my loyal driver).
As Sorsensen began to first envision the storyline for the first novel, help came from an unlikely source, a Hollywood screenwriter, Skip Press. After reading his The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting, he made contact with Skip and revealed his intentions to write a novel about China. Without hesitation, Skip offered sage advice of immeasurable value and a friendship to Sorensen that continues today.
Along the way, he periodically received thoughtful e-mails from Lisa See, the bestselling author of many outstanding novels about the soul of Chinese people and their deeply rooted culture. Her repeated advice to Sorensen was simple, yet cogent: keep writing.
Lastly, he thanks his writing critique group and considers them his second family. They are: Marlene Cullen, Arletta Dawdy, Robin Moore, Ron Davis, Shane McGarrett, and Sharon Hamilton. With patience, love, and diverse literary skills, they helped Sorensen learn the craft of writing.
The Dark Horse of Shanghai is the first of a series of novels by Sorensen that reveal the exploits of Kip Duchene in China and his frustrating attempts to understand the Chinese way of doing business. It is a story of cultural clashes between the United States and China that takes Michael Crichton's Rising Sun into the 21st Century and plunges the reader through a maze of deeply-entrenched Chinese business traditions and back alley tactics most American cannot understand.
On May 7, 1999, the U.S. deliberately bombs the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo War. Six years later, Kip Duchene, a business icon in California known for turning troubled companies around, is prodded by his best friend, Sal Estrada, to join him in China to save Shanghai Shores, a failing housing development, and to discover the mystery of its eminent demise. From his first day on the job, he is handicapped from using his well-honed business skills and for good reasons: he doesn't speak Mandarin, has no idea how Chinese think, and is unprepared to cope with widespread corruption. Rico Niu, a giant in the Chinese underworld, emerges as a deadly adversary willing to do anything to take over Shanghai Shores in his quest to revenge what happened in Belgrade. As Duchene begins to falter, help comes from the beautiful Angie Li, a savvy local who knows how to get things done in Shanghai. Working side-by-side, the unlikely pair plows headlong into one crisis after another while Duchene struggles with his growing attraction to her. When Rico Niu becomes frustrated with his take-over attempts, he gives the order to insure that Duchene makes the ultimate sacrifice – his life.
Hearing about the setbacks at Shanghai Shores in the news, local people start calling the once heralded housing development the hei ma Shanghai . . . The Dark Horse of Shanghai.
Sorensen is presently working on The Jutaku Affair, a story that emanates out of the great Kobe earthquake in 1995, and uncovers the hidden world of the Keiretsu and feared Yakuza underworld in Japan.
He's also completed the story outline for the next Duchene novel, The Dragon's Head of Shanghai.
Sorensen's recent short story submission, An Unlikely Connection, was accepted for publication in the 2012 Anthology for the Redwood Writers Club in Northern California. The memoir tells a story of Sorensen's interaction with a mentally disabled woman with the assumption that he was making a connection with her. In the end, however, it is she who touched him.
His second memoir, An Undisclosed Odyssey, placed third in a short story contest sponsored by the Redwood Writers Club in April 2012. While photographing in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris, he encounters an elderly French woman hunched over an ancient water pump. What happens in the next twenty minutes is retold in this poignant story.


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By RA Monaco
The distinctive sound of this ensemble is derived from Tom Harrell's compositions and the notable chemistry between these musicians.
Those who have some familiarity with the storied trumpet-composer Tom Harrell know "typical" isn't what keeps jazz listeners fascinated and wanting more. A sensitive and excitingly complex drummer, two magnificent bassists, two fire-breathing saxophonists and the dark sounding flugelhorn of Harrell, isn't the typical instrumentation of most jazz groups. But that's Harrell's newest group—Colors of a Dream.
Their performance at this year's Chicago Jazz Festival might be described as something like "50-First Dates," to borrow a cliché. There was a constant and vague familiarity in the music. Yet, it was different—new, fresh and exciting too. Maybe the familiar was in the roots of the musicians and Harrell himself—but there was nothing unimaginative about Harrell's compositions or the ensemble's risky melodic improvisations.
As a composer and arranger, Harrell has works in different genres, including classical music which isn't surprising given that he graduated from Stanford University with a music composition degree.
Live ensemble performances are always about the precise interaction between musicians but rarely is an audience given such a heightened sense of the evolving melodic risks unfolding in the performance of a composition. Colors of a Dream had that exploring quality that drew Saturday night's audience into the probing improvisations of Harrell and the entire ensemble—you could say it was an experience never to be duplicated but likely to evolve.
Like many aspiring trumpeters, Harrell rode the buses of notable bands including Stan Kenton's orchestra and Woody Herman's Big Band. He worked with the Horace Silver Quintet from 1973 to 1977 recording five albums. He was a vital member of Phil Woods Quintet recording seven albums with him between 1983 and 1989. Harrell was also featured on Bill Evans' final recording, We Will Meet Again, which won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group.
Saturday night the Pritzker Pavilion filled to hear Colors of a Dream which Harrell debuted last year. The piano-less and guitar-less ensemble is comprised of Harrell on trumpet and flugelhorn, Wayne Escoffrey on tenor saxophone, Jaleel Shaw on alto saxophone, Johnathan Blake on drums, Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Esperanza Spalding doubling on bass and vocal. The distinctive sound of this ensemble is derived from Harrell's compositions and the notable chemistry between these musicians.
The unpredictable and, at times, threatening weather forecasts didn't discourage many and to the delight of those attending the 36th annual Chicago Jazz Festival, jazz is alive and well in Chicago.
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Home Solar Systems to Be an Option for Honda Customers
By DIANE CARDWELL Automakers have long resorted to incentives like zero-percent financing, rewards points and rebates to inspire customer loyalty. Now Honda is offering a different deal: inexpensive home solar power systems for customers. Through a partnership with SolarCity, a residential and commercial installer, Honda and Acura will offer their customers home solar systems at little or no upfront cost, […]
Obama Administration Approves Roadmap for Utility-Scale Solar Energy Development on Public Lands
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today finalized a program for spurring development of solar energy on public lands in six western states. The Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development provides a blueprint for utility-scale solar energy permitting in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah by establishing solar energy zones with access to existing or planned transmission, incentives for development within those zones, and a process through which to consider additional zones and solar projects.
Today's action builds on the Administration's historic progress to facilitate renewable energy development. On Tuesday, with the authorization of the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project site in Wyoming, Interior reached the President's goal of authorizing 10,000 megawatts of renewable power on public lands. Since 2009, Interior has authorized 33 renewable energy projects, including 18 utility-scale solar facilities, 7 wind farms and 8 geothermal plants, with associated transmission corridors and infrastructure. When built, these projects will provide enough electricity to power more than 3.5 million homes, and support 13,000 construction and operations jobs according to project developer estimates.
"Energy from sources like wind and solar have doubled since the President took office, and with today's milestone, we are laying a sustainable foundation to keep expanding our nation's domestic energy resources," said Secretary Salazar, who signed today's Record of Decision at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada with Senator Harry Reid. "This historic initiative provides a roadmap for landscape-level planning that will lead to faster, smarter utility-scale solar development on public lands and reflects President Obama's commitment to grow American made energy and create jobs."
The Solar PEIS establishes an initial set of 17 Solar Energy Zones (SEZs), totaling about 285,000 acres of public lands, that will serve as priority areas for commercial-scale solar development, with the potential for additional zones through ongoing and future regional planning processes. If fully built out, projects in the designated areas could produce as much as 23,700 megawatts of solar energy, enough to power approximately 7 million American homes. The program also keeps the door open, on a case-by-case basis, for the possibility of carefully sited solar projects outside SEZs on about 19 million acres in "variance" areas. The program also includes a framework for regional mitigation plans, and to protect key natural and cultural resources the program excludes a little under 79 million acres that would be inappropriate for solar development based on currently available information.
"The Solar PEIS sets forth an enduring, flexible blueprint for developing utility-scale solar projects in the right way, and in the right places, on our public lands," said David J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Interior. "Never before has the Interior Department worked so closely and collaboratively with the industry, conservationists and sportsmen alike to develop a sound, long-term plan for generating domestic energy from our nation's sun-drenched public lands."
The signing of the Record of Decision today follows the July release of the Final PEIS, a comprehensive analysis that identified locations on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands most suitable for solar energy development. These areas are characterized by excellent solar resources, access to existing or planned transmission and relatively low conflict with biological, cultural and historic resources.
Today's action is in line with the President's direction to continue to expand domestic energy production, safely and responsibly. Since President Obama took office, domestic oil and gas production has increased each year, with domestic oil production at an eight-year high, natural gas production at an all-time high, and foreign oil imports now accounting for less than 50 percent of the oil consumed in America – the lowest level since 1995.
Click here for a fact sheet on the Solar PEIS.
|The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
Solar Glut in China
By KEITH BRADSHER
BEIJING — China in recent years established global dominance in renewable energy, its solar panel and wind turbine factories forcing many foreign rivals out of business and its policy makers hailed by environmentalists around the world as visionaries.
The result is a looming financial disaster, not only for manufacturers but for state-owned banks that financed factories with approximately $18 billion in low-rate loans and for municipal and provincial governments that provided loan guarantees and sold manufacturers valuable land at deeply discounted prices.
China's biggest solar panel makers are suffering losses of up to $1 for every $3 of sales this year, as panel prices have fallen by three-fourths since 2008. Even though the cost ofsolar power has fallen, it still remains triple the price ofcoal-generated power in China, requiring substantial subsidies through a tax imposed on industrial users of electricity to cover the higher cost of renewable energy.
The outcome has left even the architects of China's renewable energy strategy feeling frustrated and eager to see many businesses shut down, so the most efficient companies may be salvageable financially.
In the solar panel sector, "If one-third of them survive, that's good, and two-thirds of them die, but we don't know how that happens," said Li Junfeng, a longtime director general for energy and climate policy at the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning agency.
Mr. Li said in an interview that he wanted banks to cut off loans to all but the strongest solar panel companies and let the rest go bankrupt. But banks — which were encouraged by Beijing to make the loans — are not eager to acknowledge that the loans are bad and take large write-offs, preferring to lend more money to allow the repayment of previous loans. Many local and provincial governments also are determined to keep their hometown favorites afloat to avoid job losses and to avoid making payments on loan guarantees, he said.
Mr. Li's worries appear to be broadly shared in Beijing. "For the leading companies in the sector, if they're not careful, the whole sector will disappear," said Chen Huiqing, the deputy director for solar products at the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products.
The Chinese government also wants to see the country's more than 20 wind turbine manufacturers, many of which are losing money, consolidate to five or six. "Wind does not need so many manufacturers," said Mr. Li, who in addition to drafting renewable energy policies is the president of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association.
Chinese solar company executives blame their difficulties partly on the United States's decisions last spring to impose antidumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on solar panel imports, and on the European Union's recent decision to start its own antidumping investigation of imports from China.
"It is not a Chinese industry problem, it is a global solar industry problem," said Rory Macpherson, a spokesman for Suntech Power, one of the largest Chinese solar panel manufacturers. "It is primarily the result of an imbalance between supply and demand, and the U.S. and E.U. trade investigations."
Mr. Li said the solar industry's problems were the result of overcapacity in China, and not the fault of trade restrictions.
Yet he insisted that if the Chinese government could turn back the clock and revisit past renewable energy decisions, it would not do anything differently.
The problem lies in the eagerness of Chinese businesses to rush into any new industry that looks attractive and swamp it with investments, he said. Chinese companies and their bankers are then far more reluctant than Western companies to admit defeat for investments that prove unprofitable.
Mr. Li added that banking regulators had not yet decided what to do about banks' exposure to the solar sector. The central government tried without success to learn from local and provincial government agencies how much of the solar industry's bank debt they have guaranteed, Mr. Li said.
Chinese solar power companies are making some cutbacks. Suntech, based in Wuxi, is temporarily closing a quarter of its solar cell capacity. It will transfer a majority of the 1,500 affected workers to other operations and provide severance payments to the rest.
Jiangsu province, where Suntech has its headquarters and most of its factories, issued an unusual appeal to state-owned banks several weeks ago to continue lending money to the company, a step that Mr. Li criticized as inappropriate. Mr. Macpherson of Suntech wrote in an e-mail that the Jiangsu government had not guaranteed any of the company's debt, which totaled $2.26 billion at the end of the first quarter, including some convertible bonds in addition to bank loans. Trina Solar, one of its biggest rivals, also has said it will "streamline its operations" and shrink its work force, but did not provide details.
Trina shares have dropped 85 percent in the last three years and Suntech shares have fallen more than 98 percent in the last five years. Both trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
The modest cutbacks in production barely put a dent in China's overcapacity problem. GTM Research, a renewable energy consulting firm in Boston, estimates that Chinese companies have the ability to manufacture 50 gigawatts of solar panels this year, while the Chinese domestic market is on track to absorb only 4 to 5 gigawatts. Exports will take another 18 or 19 gigawatts.
The enormously expensive equipment in solar panel factories needs to be run around the clock, seven days a week, to cover costs.
"You want to be up at 80 percent, so they're half of what they need," said Shayle Kann, the head of GTM Research, which is a unit of Greentech Media.
Chinese companies have struggled even though a dozen solar companies in the United States and another dozen in Europe have gone bankrupt or closed factories since the start of last year. The bankruptcies and closures have done little to ease the global glut and price war because China by itself represents more than two-thirds of the world's capacity.
To reduce capacity, foreign rivals have clamored for China to subsidize the purchase of more solar panels at home, instead of having Chinese companies rely so heavily on exports. But the government here is worried about the cost of doing so, because the price of solar power remains far higher than for coal-generated power.
The average cost of electricity from solar panels in China works out to 19 cents per kilowatt-hour, said Mr. Li. That is three times the cost of coal-fired power. But it is a marked improvement from 63 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar power four years ago.
China's official goal is to install 10 gigawatts of solar panels a year by 2015, using 20-year contracts to guarantee payment for electricity purchased from them. If costs stay where they are now, the subsidies would be $50 billion over 20 years for every 10 gigawatts of solar power installed, based on figures supplied by Mr. Li.
Even if solar power costs fall by a third, as the government hopes, he said, "it's big money."
A version of this article appeared in print on October 5, 2012, on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: Strategy of Solar Dominance Now Poses a Threat to China.
REC Energy Plans Bankrupcy For Norway Solar Unit
Renewable Energy Corp. ASA (REC), a Norwegian solar company, will stop funding and file for insolvency for its only manufacturing unit in the country after halting production of silicon wafers there.
REC Wafer Norway AS's liabilities exceeded its assets by about 1.2 billion kroner ($203 million) at the end of July, making a solvent winding-up of the unit dependent on more money from REC, the Sandvika, Norway-based group said in a statement today. The company that said in April it would close the unit expects about 400 million kroner of costs from the bankruptcy.
REC is suffering with the strength of the krone along with a slump in prices for the raw material used in solar cells. The shutdowns already have resulted in the the firing of 700 employees. Most of the remaining 600 staff at the wafer unit will lose their jobs in the second half of the year.
The bankruptcy of REC Wafer Norway won't affect REC's solar and silicon units, it said today. The company will continue manufacture polysilicon in the U.S., where it is able to produce at a lower cost than competitors. It also makes solar modules in Singapore.
"Although we had looked for potential savings of up to about 1 billion kroner, we believe the news is positive as REC has been somewhat vague when discussing this topic in the past," Pareto Securities ASA said in a note to clients. The move will save REC about 800 million kroner, it said.
The wafer unit has already been removed as guarantor from REC's bond-loan agreements and wasn't included in a new bank loan agreement which came into effect earlier this month, REC said.
REC, whose shares have slumped 97 percent since listing six years ago, rose as much as 5.4 percent and traded 3.4 percent higher at 2.01 kroner as of 2:43 p.m. in Oslo.
European solar-component makers are under pressure from Chinese rivals that expanded capacity just as demand slowed, causing wafer and cell prices to plummet. Demand also shrank as France, Italy and Germany reduced subsidies to cap booming installations.
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Lowell, Mass. – June 1, 2012 – Konarka Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy protection under chapter 7 of the Federal bankruptcy laws. Under chapter 7 proceedings, the company's operations cease and a trustee is tasked with liquidating the company's assets for the benefit of creditors. Creditors will be asked to submit their claims to the Bankruptcy Court and are unable to obtain payment from the company.
Howard Berke, chairman, president and CEO of Konarka, said, "Konarka has been unable to obtain additional financing, and given its current financial condition, it is unable to continue operations. This is a tragedy for Konarka's shareholders and employees and for the development of alternative energy in the United States."
Konarka was founded by Mr. Berke and by Dr. Alan Heeger, the winner of the Nobel Prize for his work in conductive polymers. Among the Company's assets are over hundreds of owned and licensed patents and patent applications in the field of solar energy and a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Mr. Berke noted that several large international companies had expressed interest in financing or acquiring the company. He further noted that, given the worldwide interest in the company, including from the Chinese government, the company had not entirely given up hope that a rescue financing or acquisition would emerge in the bankruptcy. Under Chapter 7 proceedings, however, any such transactions are evaluated by a trustee and not by the company itself.
Further information about the company, including a copy of its petition in bankruptcy, is contained on Konarka's website, http://www.konarka.com.
As a leader in OPV (organic photovoltaic) technology – a 3rd generation solar technology that is rapidly emerging to compete with silicon based 1st and 2nd generation solar technologies. The company holds over 350 patents and filings covering every aspect of our proprietary chemistry and processes. Our current research efforts are exploring exciting new OPV chemistries as well as advances to our existing technology that will produce greater power output at a lower cost.
At the heart of Konarka's technology is a photo-reactive polymer material invented by Konarka co-founder and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Alan Heeger. This proprietary material can be printed or coated inexpensively onto flexible substrates using roll-to-roll manufacturing, similar to the way newspaper is printed on large rolls of paper. The resulting Power Plastic can then be manufactured into a wide range of end-use products.
Konarka's Power Plastic offers several advances over other OPV technologies:
Power Plastic's tunable cell chemistry can absorb specific wavelengths of light – as well as broad spectrum
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We've all seen ice cold glasses and bottles dripping with condensation after cooling water vapor in the air, and though grabbing water out of thin air is not new, it took French inventor and Eolewater founder Marc Parent's umpteenth emptying of his air conditioner's condensate to envision harvesting atmospheric moisture on acommercial scale using wind turbines. After years of designs and prototypes, his proof-of-concept device, essentially a wind-powered refrigeration/condensation/filtration unit, was put in operation in the dry desert air of Abu Dhabi last October where it's been reliably extracting 130-200 gal (approx. 500-800L) of clean, fresh water a day ever since.
"Access to drinking water is a condition for life and cannot be considered a luxury reserved to developed countries," Parent said. "Humanity cannot ignore the pain of those deprived of water access and has to find new solutions." The turbine units are not designed solely for desert-use. Being self-contained makes them suitable for any isolated areas that lack the infrastructure for water and/or electricity distribution, including islands, disaster areas, etc.
Housed in a 19.7 ft x 6.5 ft (6 m x 2 m) nacelle, Eolewater's fifth generation WMS1000 water condenser system sits atop a 78 ft (24m) mast and is powered by a 30 kW wind turbine (minimum 15 mph (24 kph) wind speed required) with a 42 ft (13 m) diameter rotor. Since our atmosphere contains a reasonable amount of water (even the Sahara desert has an average relative humidity of around 25%), it's simply a matter of using the wind to generate electricity for the on-board cooling units to chill the air until its moisture condenses out.
Once the water is collected, it is filtered and sent to stainless steel tanks for storage – simple as that. Apparently, the units are so durably built that, with routine maintenance, it's estimated they'll last up to 30 years. In areas where sun abounds but the winds are unreliable, Eole has also designed the WMS-30kW Solar Panel to drive the condensation/filtration equipment. For the millions living in or adjacent to deserts and drought-prone areas around the world, that's welcome news, indeed.
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After waking up I went to make some tea, something that I do not normally drink at home in the morning. Time went fast and sometime before eight my journey towards London started. When travelling, it felt like everybody else was in a hurry, going really fast and just looked so busy. Except for me. Not walking too fast, trying to look around, seeing new things to enjoy. After dropping of the document to legislation office, the direction was towards St. James Park, this time just sitting on a bench and enjoying the weather. Took some selfies, no new thing, but I try to take pictures so that the change might show in them.
|St James Park
|Selfie Time, even felt pretty when taking the picture.
Then came getting the document back, I decided to tempt the fate and visit a Lush store on Oxford Street. It's really huge, there are three floors full of products and I just love it already, have to visit again. Before going there, I decided to have a limit of 20£ that I can use, so that I would not be broke after one trip. The total that I used was only 15£ so I'm good with that, even if I only got three different products.
I have been wanting to buy a moisturiser to workplace, because my hands are getting really dry after washing them. At the store I tested few and even got some good tips on products, but in the end I chose a Charity Pot. It's called Charity Pot, because they donate everything to charities except VAT, because that goes to the government. A very good thing to do. It smells really nice and feels good to use.
After starting to walk more, I wanted to spoil my feet little bit, so a good product for my feet were on the list. There was huge amounts, but Pumice Power gave me the best impressions. I'll be trying it next weekend, so then I'll tell more about it. It smells good, not too strong.
Yesterday I noticed that my toothpaste is almost done and it was time to buy more. Luckily did not buy some generic stuff from grocery store, because I have been wanting to try the Toothy Tabs from Lush and today I bought some. Have not brushed my teeth yet, but hopefully they are good and work for me. There were so many different products that I wanted to buy, but did really not need them.
After London I went to the office for few hours, came home and went for a small walk, so that I could get the 15 000 steps. But got even more, almost 20 000 steps and I feel great, so awesome. Tomorrow is weigh in day and I really hope to have lost more than few pounds. We'll see.


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If you are looking for gift ideas for a baby or young toddler we have compiled some of the best selling Baby Musical Toys on Amazon in 2018. Obviously it depends on the child's age but we have tried to include a cross section of toys to suit different age ranges.
When it's time to buy a toy for a new baby, it's sometimes very difficult because the toy range is very limited – soft toys that are baby-friendly, things that clip on to baby equipment and toys that are really for mum. But there is a theme that runs through toys for babies of all ages and that is baby musical toys.
New Babies
Do new babies want musical toys? Well of course they do! First of all, no baby cot is complete without a toy mobile and very often these are musical. Lullabies to sooth babies to sleep accompanied by familiar toys going round and round…what could be better? And there are lots of different baby mobiles to choose from.
Another musical toy for baby are those little toys that go round babies wrists and ankles. They have soft toys attached with bells in, and as babies develop they love grabbing their feet, and these toys perk babies interests in their limbs and feet, and their hands.
Nowadays, there is a focus on tummy-time, when babies are put on their tummies, under supervision, to improve their skills and flexibility, and as preparation for crawling. There are a multitude of baby mats available and lots of them have a musical component. Take a look at the Fisher Price Kick and Play play mat for babies to use either their hands or their feet to pat or kick a keyboard, which both lights up and makes a noise. Nearly all the baby gym play mats have at least one musical toy.
Older Babies
Babies quickly learn to enjoy a bath and this is another time where baby can enjoy musical toys. There are many different musical bath toys depending on babies age. From six months there is "do rae me dolphins" by Tomy. As they get old babies might enjoy musical toy boats, or when they get to about a year, why not give them "bath flutes" which make noise and squirt water too!
It's not just in the bath that older babies from 6-12 months will enjoy musical toys. Toys that make a sound are always popular. There is the Fisher Price Laugh and Learn toys for instance, with Laugh and Learn Puppy and his Laugh and Learn Piano. Great robust toys that babies will love.
Once baby can sit up, then drums are always a great choice. Patting a drum is a very independent thing to do and babies will love the cause and effect of their own choices. There are a huge array of drums available but the best ones are the ones that give baby lights that flash as well as sounds, giving them the stimulation they require.
As they get a bit older then why not give them a set of musical toys such as Aideal set of toys with lots of things they can rattle, bash and crash with? Along with making a noise they improve manual dexterity and they are a whole lot of fun!
Below are some of the best selling Baby Musical Toys available on Amazon at the moment with the best reviews from people who have already purchased.
- 1 Fisher-Price CGV43 Bright Beats Dance and Move BeatBo
- 2 LeapFrog My Puppy Pal Scout (Green)
- 3 Musical Dancing Penguin Toy For Boys and Girls Kids or Toddlers
- 4 Lamaze Cosimo Concerto Soft Touch Musical Baby Toy from ages 6 months
- 5 Toomies Jumbo's Jamboree Musical Preschool Toy
- 6 Leapfrog Sing and Play Farm
- 7 LeapFrog Musical Rainbow Tea Party
- 8 Early Education 0-1 years Olds Baby Musical Instruments Toy Set
- 9 Halilit Baby's First Birthday Band Musical Instrument Gift Set
- 10 Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes
Fisher-Price CGV43 Bright Beats Dance and Move BeatBo
LeapFrog My Puppy Pal Scout (Green)
Musical Dancing Penguin Toy
For Boys and Girls Kids or Toddlers
Lamaze Cosimo Concerto Soft Touch Musical Baby Toy
from ages 6 months
Toomies Jumbo's Jamboree Musical Preschool Toy
Leapfrog Sing and Play Farm
LeapFrog Musical Rainbow Tea Party
Early Education 0-1 years Olds
Baby Musical Instruments Toy Set
Halilit Baby's First Birthday Band Musical Instrument Gift Set


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what are you having / what did you have?
I've got a vege moussaka in the oven. It's looking kinda ropey tbh. Expectations are pretty low right now, but on the plus side I've made fucking loads of it.
- japes this'd this
this is a fucking disaster
Aw Hun don't worry your wee head, I am having a quick easy veggie midweek meal
Storahe wars, prosecco and doing some "medical research" just do that, I feel a bit better than 100% pissed off/angry/fed up that I have since last week
my dinner is a fucking 100% success
cans of lager and listening to Television Marquee Moon. Would eat again. LAD
I just made this squid dish with a nice spicy salsa:
Tasty as fuck even if it looked fuck all like it did in the photo!
Baked beans.
can't go wrong
I jazzed them up a bit
By doing nothing to them. Normally I'd add a bit of Worcestershire sauce, maybe some smoked paprika, but tonight I add them as the maker intended.
It was alright.
pretty boring
but fish cakes and boiled veg (carrots, broccoli, baby corn)
- japes this'd this
nut roast
roasted vegetables
mange tout
bread sauce
tomato relish
ice cream
stewed apples
a large glass of red wine
yeah the nut roast was from scratch, obviously
bread sauce was packet stuff but that's still great isn't it. apples were from our garden.
Not calling you cheap like, just that paying full price for red wine is a mugs game(unlike white wine which the cheap stuff is normally rancid even after a few)DarwinDude this'd this
yeah there's quite a lot of them in the wine rack so it must be on offer somewhere
or my mum's ordered them
Order them in what way? Guessing Newest to Oldest would be the most appropriate
Open to hearing if she has a different system, my wine ordering system is getting a bit outdated
whatever it is I like to mess it up
by pushing all the wine right to the back where she cant see it so she thinks she's drank it all and buys more. cruel, i know.
I apparently made the best chicken salad ever.
Was good. Just fried some chicken breast instead of roasting it though.
yeah like i'm gonna give jamie oliver my custom
after what he said
8oz sirloin, on the medium side of medium-rare.
Half a packet of gnocchi with a load of stilton melted over.
Massive (well, 500g) bag of reduced broccoli/cauliflower/carrots.
Total dinnerweight probably tipping a kilo, all of it delicious.
Don't know why I added that last line, it's hardly unusually heavy is it?
Was delicious though.
Spicy bean stew + potato wedges + green salad.
Onion, garlic, chilli, red peppers... bung 'em in there, bung 2 x tins of plum tomatoes in there, bung a tin of kidney beans and a tin of butter beans in there. Season and that. Tear some coriander off and get that involved. Did some wedges while that was simmering, rub a bit of paprika up in them bad boys. Served with some romaine lettuce and mixed leaves. Nice.
A lot of veggies on here, I am still doing my midweek-veggie diet, has there been a thread
With any good recipes, the ones I have found searching online all are quite samey and ((Some)...LOL sorry couldnt help that wee in-joke)) people on here normally have good food advice (not £6 toast lady ( I think I know who it was but will spare blushes,hers), that still is sickening)
closely followed by taste
chuck in fuckloads of sweet chilli sauce
Fixes everything.
- Epimer this'd this
*bbq sauce
All good choices.ChintzyLacroix this'd this


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GSC selects its people carefully with skilled employment interviewers, and also provide initial training for new hires. GSC now has some professional personnel in their field. Currently we're looking for a dynamic & experienced talent to join our team for position:
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Health benefits derived from Ganoderma echo Organo Gold vision of building a robust body, improved balance status and wellness that increases one's life. The organic beverages also contain grape seed oil, organic tea, and Arabica coffee. These elements increase antioxidant levels in the body, fight harmful free radicals, and boost immunity. Organo beverages are only available exclusively via Organo independent distributors scattered across 50 nations. The distributors give samples of Organo Gold products, offer individual sale and automated shipping and discounted sales options using the company's preferred customers program.
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Rennie Grove Hospice Care is a local charity providing palliative care for patients diagnosed with cancer or another life-limiting illness.
Our 24-hour Hospice at Home service enables patients to remain at home during their illness, and even to die at home if that is their wish.
Working closely with other healthcare professionals from the statutory and voluntary sector, our Hospice at Home nurses provide specialist and hands-on nursing care in patients' homes at any time of the day or night.
This year marks 30 Years of Care for the charities that came together to found Rennie Grove.
In 1985, Bucks resident Iain Rennie chose to be cared for in his own home after a terminal diagnosis and five nurses collaborated with his GP to make this happen.
Those nurses were the first five clinicians of Iain Rennie Hospice at Home (IRHH).
Caring for more than 10,000 patients across the Chilterns over 25 years, IRHH merged with Grove House, in St Albans, in 2011 in order to extend our model of 24-hour responsive care further into Herts, giving more people the choice to be cared for at home.
Now nearly 60 nurses make around 20,000 visits to patients' homes across Bucks and Herts each year.
In Aylesbury Vale alone, our Hospice at Home nurses have already made over 1,000 visits to patients at home during April, May and June, the first quarter of this financial year.
With this level of support, about 70 per cent of our patients are able to spend their final days at home, compared with just 22 per cent nationally. Rennie Grove also manages a children's Hospice at Home team funded by the Pepper Foundation.
All our care is provided at no cost to patients or their families, but it costs the charity £6.7 million every year to fund the service.
With the number of over-75s predicted to double in the next 30 years, we anticipate a corresponding rise in life-limiting illness and an increased demand for our service.
The local community already funds about 85 per cent of our running costs.
Our 20 shops generate more than £2 million each year and we rely on the support and expertise of over 1,500 regular and part-time volunteers, who save the charity over £1.5 million each year. And we'll become increasingly reliant on your generosity in order to reach everyone who needs us.
We already have plans in place to make sure we can provide the same standard of care around the clock.
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The fantastic bore
A man who worked at a cinema in the United States was fired because he'd watched Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer at a sneak preview and then written a review of it for Ain't It Cool, the movie website. Fox, the company behind the film, apparently put pressure on the theatre's management to fire the guy, the official reason being that he reviewed the movie too long before its release date.
No one seems to believe that party line, though.
Had he written a glowing review of the film, argue net chatters, Fox is unlikely to have minded.
This is plausible. After all, every movie company wants good word of mouth and complimentary reviews, and they usually don't mind if they are somewhat ahead of time. Everyone knows how some net discussion of a movie, ahead of its release date, can build interest in it. The dismissal must have been because the review in question told us how disappointing the film is.
I can't say I was disappointed in the second Fantastic Four movie. But that's because I didn't have terribly high expectations in the first place. The original Fantastic Four was dull; the second is mind-numbingly boring.
It's not that it's incompetent, or that the special effects don't do what special effects usually do—which is allow superheroes to fly and burst into flames and so on. Rise of the Silver Surfer is just so bland, so airbrushed into anonymity, that it might as well have been made by soulless computers relentlessly shuffling all the old plot devices we've seen a thousand times.
Reed Richards, also known as Captain Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd) is the leader of the foursome; his superpower is to be able to stretch his elastic body at will. This makes him look particularly silly, but then he also has a brain to make that of Stephen Hawking look peanut-sized. He's about to get married to his fellow superhero, Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), otherwise known as the Invisible Woman. As her name indicates, she can vanish from sight at will. She can also throw up force fields when she wants to.
The other two are the Human Torch, Johnny Storm (Chris Evans), who can combust spontaneously, and Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis), who transforms into a rocky creature called The Thing. By the time he arrived on the scene, presumably, the people who think these things up had run out of interesting names for their superheroes.
The imminent-marriage theme dominates the first third of the movie, as if this were an interesting emotional issue. Flicking her blonde wig and batting her blue contact lenses, Sue goes on and on about her Special Day. Reed pays nervous lip service to the idea that it must not be spoilt in any way, while secretly proceeding with some high-tech research. He has to do this research because a mysterious being called the Silver Surfer has surfed in from outer space. He is played by Doug Jones, but not so as you'd know it: he has been CGI'd into inhumanity and revoiced by Laurence Fishburne. At any rate, his appearance heralds the Total Destruction of Planet Earth.
And just when Reed and Sue are about to get hitched, and the audience is breathing a sigh of relief that at last this plot-stream can come to an end, lo! the Silver Surfer glides into view and Sue's Special Day is spoilt anyway. I thought that was really funny, but no one else was laughing.
After that, we must focus on the Four's attempts to prevent the Total Destruction of Planet Earth. It's going to be consumed by Galactus, a big woolly cloud thing. Complications also arise because Dr Doom, who died at the end of the last movie, is back: played by Julian McMahon, he wasn't dead, he was just starring in Nip/Tuck and, while dead, was also busy in the parallel universe of another of this week's movies, Premonition, where he repeats the trick of dying, coming back to life, dying, coming back to life, dying ...
By this point, I was trying to go to sleep, but unfortunately I had had a good night's rest the night before. It remained only to see how many old clichés the filmmakers could cram into Rise of the Silver Surfer. Yes, the Human Torch has to learn a moral lesson, and, yes, one of the characters will die and then (practically before you can feel anything) be brought back to life. Another will make the supreme sacrifice to save the others. And then, oh God, Reed and Sue have to get married, properly this time. And in Japan, nogal.
I daresay I am the wrong reviewer for this kind of movie, but unfortunately we do not have on our staff a film critic from the relevant target market. He or she would have to be no older than 12.


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anyway. in honor of the show, besides the fact that i can declare that my #dietstartstomorrow, i thought i would share a couple of my favorite work out classes, along with a few that i have been wanting to try.
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Hey guys,
Brandon here again with a project update. With Diecon coming up this weekend I have decided to dust of the old Khador for the hardcore event. Since Ruin is out I wanted to revisit the Mad dogs of War list.
Kommander Orsus Zoktavir + War Dog
^ Ruin
Doom Reavers x8
In my old list I only ran 6 units and obviously no Ruin. For those people who don't know me I am a world class procrastinator and I have successfully "not painted" myself into a corner. Being a PG I am obligated to support our local game nights which I rarely miss, this leaves me only Tuesday and Wednesday after work to get 13 models painted as well as go back and remark my old units bases in the new arc scheme.
Here is Ruin after his 4 hour paint job. Now I just need to finish the doom Reavers.
If you are wondering about the process. It is preshading with an airbrush.
1. Prime white
2. Prime anything you want to be shadowed or anything that will be a dark color like metallic or black with black primer.
3. Cover entire model with base color (red)
4. Wash base color with complementary colored wash.(red)
5. The base color should be done, simply highlight and weather from there.
I didn't have any time to do weathering or even much highlighting on this guy so far. Hopefully I will get some time to come back and touch him up.
-Brandon "Mutilus"


text: I just started a business making biodiesel. I used the book Cold Calling techniques that really work by S. Schifman http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580620760/103-4543485-9563859?v=glance&n=283155 . I tried several books on selling and this one worked for me even though I was not doing exclusively or even primarily cold calling. I highly recommned it. As someone with an acting background I can assure you if you want to look natural, you have to rehearse. The easiest way to do that is in front of a mirror. As others have said on this list if you strive to meet people you can help and honestly try to help them then word will get around. Think about places where successful people volunteer (or hang out) and go do volunteer IT work there but on the condition that you can advertise/leave a brochure/use them as a reference. I was never a salesmen and never liked selling. Then I found a product I believed in and had no problems telling everyone all the cool things about it and how they could use it if they wanted to.


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The Adventures of Giselle
This is a video project inspired by the some of the work that Dustin from Ocean Shutter has done.
The script is as follows:
Scene 1: Leaving Home
The setting is a home with a couple packing to go on a vacation. Their little girl is busy getting in their luggage.
As the parents are leaving, the little girl gives her mother a small toy, Giselle.
Scene 2: Airplane Over the Island
Mom's bag is against the window and Giselle has a view of the island.
Scene 3: The Beach
Mom and Dad are on the beach. People are all around. The surf is in the background. As the sun starts to set, Mom and Dad leave and Giselle slips out of the bag. She is left on the beach.
The tide comes in. Giselle is pulled into the ocean by the outgoing tide.
Scene 4: Into The Ocean
As the tide takes Giselle out into the ocean, she is first greeted by small fish in the shallow water.


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I watched this on the weekend, just amazing. Sam Worthington does an amazing job in this… his daughter is abducted and killed, he blames God for it. He comes to understand that blame is the not the answer.
The Shack (2017 Movie) Official Trailer – 'Believe'
A spiritual based movie, yet it clicked for me as it aligned exactly with my thoughts on religion and beliefs. They should not be joined as corporations (religious…


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A CAR security device, a charity collection box and a swimming length counter impressed judges at an annual awards scheme for pupil design and technology projects.
Teenagers from 17 of the city's 19 secondary schools and two special schools took part in the annual Rotary Club's Young Persons Awards for Design and Technology, which were held at the Methodist Central Hall in Coventry city centre.
They entered the work they had done in design and technology lessons as part of GCSE and A-level course work.
Six pupils were chosen as winners of the innovation awards.
They each get a £50 prize and an entry into the West Midlands finals in Bromsgrove next month.
Among them is Kyle Pickett, from Cardinal Newman School in Sandpits Lane, Keresley, Coventry.
The keen swimmer came up with a device that counts the number of lengths a swimmer does.
Sophie Tipping, aged 15, from Stoke Park Community Technology College in Dane Road, Stoke, Coventry, designed a charity collection box which lights up when someone makes a donation.
And David Tooth, aged 18, of Coundon Court School and Community College in North Brook Road, Coundon, won an innovation award for his car security device which clamps over the pedals.
The other three innovation award winners are Katherine Greenwood with ideas for a coeliac diet, Sonia Gangar with a children's activity table and Richard Saunders with a sofa table.
There were also a host of other awards sponsored by a range of local companies.
Cllr John Blundell (Con, Wainbody), Coventry City Council's cabinet member for children's services, said: "Young people in Coventry work very hard on producing some amazing innovative designs throughout the school year.
"They deserve to have the opportunity to show off their work and win recognition for it."
* THE exhibition of entries is in Coventry University's Jaguar Building in Gosford Street, city centre.
It's open to the public every day from 10.30am to 5pm until Thursday.


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When Don Fentzlaff joined the Coast Guard in 1962, he hoped to serve our country, but he never imagined to be working alongside prisoners of war in Vietnam to carry out a highly classified mission.
At first, Don worked on a weather ship, going out to sea for forty-five days at a time. On one of the voyages the ship got caught in a perfect storm while at sea.
"At 2:00 AM the ship broached sideways to the waves," he said. "At 48 ¾ degrees, our ship would flip over. Our ship reached 48 ¼ degrees, before finally righting itself."
Sometimes they would arrive back at port on what looked like a ghost ship after the wind and waves tore the radio antennas and paint off the ship.
After two years of working in New York City as a CG radio operator, Don heard Washington DC Coast Guard Headquarters was looking for six enlisted volunteers to assist 18 officers. It wasn't disclosed what they would be doing, but he decided to put in for the position.
He met other volunteers on the train ride down to Washington. After they got to headquarters, the men were checked for top secret clearance until they were narrowed down to six men – including Don.
Once the six men were selected, more details of the operation were disclosed. They would be doing land surveys for a highly classified new technology to help in the war effort. They went through Secret Service training in defensive tactics and weapons handling.
They were told that they were now acting as civilians and not as Coast Guard members. They were given $500 each with orders to get civilian clothes before flying out to an unknown destination.
Within days the team was flying to Thailand.
The surveys were in support of Operation Tight Reign – an operation to set up a newly developed top-secret type of Long-Range Navigation (LORAN) station, Advanced LORAN D.
The land surveys were the preparations necessary to build the 650' radio towers and stations in Southeast Asia used to transmit the LORAN signals. This new LORAN was crucial to the Vietnam War effort and was used by all five branches of service. With this navigation, pilots could enter the coordinates into the system while flying and be flown to the destination automatically.
"The plane would fly you there – just like a GPS . . .," Don said. "It had an accuracy of ten feet, when 1500 miles from the transmitting tower. It was really top secret stuff."
This LORAN was used to find downed pilots, high altitude bombing, low level fighter aircraft support, and more.
The team of 24 would be surveying land for stations in both Thailand and Vietnam. They cleared out tapioca fields, iron wood forests and impenetrable jungle to do the surveys.
In some locations, their living quarters had no windows or roof, and their meals included military rations from 1949. Cockroaches and rats infested their building at night, and the men would bet on whether the cockroaches or rats would win nightly fights.
"We worked with local people wherever we went," he said.
When surveying for one of the towers off the coast of South Vietnam, the team had the help of prisoners of war from the Con Son Island prison.
"The prisoner work was beautiful," he said. "We treated them no differently than any of the other workers."
The team spent over a month working with the prisoners who were initially cautious around them. After a couple of weeks, they realized the Americans weren't going to cut off their heads like propaganda had taught them. In fact, the prisoners grew to respect their new bosses.
"They treated us royally," Don said. "They gave the best coconuts to us first and when we were done they gave us a feast fit for a king. . . A bond was formed with these prisoners. It was amazing!"
Now Don is sharing his story with everyone in his new book And You Thought the Coast Guard Doesn't Go To War.
He didn't think of writing the book until after his son-in-law, Colin, asked about what Don did in Vietnam. After researching Operation Tight Reign on the internet, he found an article with Don Fentzlaff's name. "'That's you!' he said. I said, 'You've got to be kidding.'"
Don contacted the historian from the website. They had been searching for one of the original 24 men for years, trying to learn their story and the details of the first stages of the classified operation that had been declassified just several years prior.
Don was encouraged to write about the events that took place in Southeast Asia. He sent several chapters to the historian, which were published on the official USCG History site, and was encouraged to complete the work.
"The Coast Guard is the most active military service in the United States," he said. "You just can't imagine the different kinds of jobs that the Coast Guard does, with so few people."
Don recently had the honor of presenting a graduation certificate to a friend's son who entered the Coast Guard.
"It's a tough service, but a prouder bunch of guys you'll never find," he said. "It's a real brotherhood."
Don's book can be found on Amazon.com and Kindle Books. CLICK HERE to purchase Don's book on Amazon. It can also be found through book sellers. Find Don's book by searching for ISBN #9781540883131.


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Posted on Do you love your (non woodworking) day job?
#1 posted 02-17-2008 03:27 PM
For the majority of my working life I was in corporate sales in the steel industry. Typical accounts were end users like tool and die shops, plastic mold makers, aeronautical parts mfrs. It was interesting work in that I saw how many things were manufactured, I was on the road all the time and got to see lots of different places, and I was able to develop my own plans and activities.
But it was a job, and I was subject to over-riding corporate structure that could be incredibly short-sighted and ignorant at times, and I sometimes had to deal with people I was just as soon set fire to.
Now I'm a full time woodworker, and literally can't wait to get to my shop each day. For the first time in my life I DO actually love what I'm doing for a living, and wish I'd been doing it all my life. After a working career in which my "results" were no more than a monthly print-out, I like the immediate gratification of seeing a physical representation of my work, and I've found I have some inate talents in design and creativity.
I wonder what percentage of people actually love what they do for a living. To me it's made all the difference.


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The Beauty of Hermanus in Winter
Come Rain or Shine during the winter months Hermanus has something to do for everyone.
Guaranteed the winter weather in Hermanus will always accommodate everyone's visit or extended getaway.
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Although the weather may be unpredictable there are plenty of things to do during Winter in Hermanus.
"Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless." ~Terri Guillemets
- Things to do for kids in Hermanus
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Wallace Howard Mayton Jr.
It is better to live rich, than to die rich. (Samuel Johnson)
Wallace Howard Mayton Jr., 98, Jan. 4, 1914-Jan. 16, 2012, son of Wallace H. Sr., and Minnie Lee (Boykin) Mayton, was a native of Mobile, Ala. Educated at University Military School, he received his bachelor's degree from Rhodes College where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. He married Ann Bolling Eckert of Memphis on April 1, 1943. His career as Director of Continuing Education and Conferences for the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences combined his relational gifts with his respect for medical science. He served as elder and within the Usher Guild of Idlewild Presbyterian Church. He volunteered as leader of its youth ministry, directed recreation for its annual family camps at Camp NaCoMe, and coached a generation of boys in baseball and basketball. Inspired by the ministry of recreation, he envisioned and implemented the beginnings of the church's present recreation outreach, including the hiring of a director and planning the construction of its gymnasium. He was a member of the University Club of Memphis. He served as president of the Alumni Council for Rhodes College.
Upon his retirement, he married Mary Jean (Smith) Johnson of Clarksdale, Miss. He became a member of First United Methodist Church and the Clarksdale Rotary Club in which he served as president and district governor. He was named a Paul Harris Fellow. He was a founder of The Depot community outreach to provide meals to neighbors in need. Moving to Baton Rouge, he became a member of First United Methodist Church and active volunteer at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center, where he was awarded Volunteer of the Year. His most recent years were enjoyed under the care of his son, Maury, and daughter-in-law, Karen, in Dallas.
"Wally" was preceded in death by his wife, Ann, in 1974, and his wife, Mary Jean, in 2009; his sister, Olivia Mayton Johnstone (Mrs. C.A.L., Jr.) of Mobile; and his daughter, Ann Bolling Mayton Gregory (Mrs. Robert W., III) of Memphis and San Pablo, Calif. He is survived by sons, Wallace Howard, III (Lindsay) of Midland and Maury Weisiger (Karen) Mayton of Carrollton, Texas; five granddaughters, Sarah Katherine (Mayton) Gemignani (Mrs. John A.) of Waxhaw, N.C., CaryAnn Eckert (Mayton) Wonderly (Mrs. Christopher R.) of Matthews, N.C., Rebecca Bolling Mayton of Louisville, Ky., Abbott Thomsen Mayton of Midland and Patricia Wallace Mayton of Charlotte, N.C.; two great-granddaughters, Mia Katherine and Lauren Gianna Gemignani; and his cousin; his nephew; and three nieces. He is also survived by stepchildren, Aileen (Johnson) Young of Baton Rouge and Thomas Johnson of Los Angeles; and step-granddaughter, Mary Allison Johnson of Baton Rouge.
A family memorial service will take place 11 a.m., Sunday, April 1, 2012, at the Memorial Garden at Montreat Conference Center, Montreat, N.C.
He especially enjoyed the hospitality of Memorial Presbyterian Church during his summer visits and his involvement with Vacation Bible School. Memorial gifts may be directed to the church for its children's ministries or to Big Brothers Big Sisters in the Heart of Michigan.


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J.D., Order of the Coif, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, 2014
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I keep a Carpenters square at my tying desk mainly because it works great for cutting 6mm foam. But it also doubles as a ruler and straight edge whenever it comes up.
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This limited edition Canvas Print, designed by Mostafa Younis, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. Ready to hang, this image is printed onto a 450gsm white finish, 100% cotton canvas and stretched over 1.5" deep wood stretcher bars (3/4" for XS). Each print comes with wall hanging hardware.
Two little elephant -male and female- are preparing their camp.