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Crowds are expected to gather in downtown Fort Worth as the Main St. Arts Festival begins set up for its 32nd annual event.
The art festival will host a multitude of different artists, musicians and various food vendors from April 20-23.
213 total artists, some of which are award-winning, will be attending this year's festival. Displays will show off artists' skills in the form of photography, ceramics, pastels and more.
Musicians will also be playing songs from all genres on the stages provided. This includes a new fifth pop-up stage that will be placed on First and Weatherford streets.
Two blocks will be dedicated to family-friendly activities like balloons, sand art and face painting.
There will also be the Young People's Art Fair, sponsored by Texas Community College, where 200 aspiring Fort Worth Independent School District students can showcase their art from April 22-23.
Since 1984, the arts festival has evolved from a three-day event hosting 100 local artists to a four-day event with art, music and food with an expected 400,000 visitors, said Claire Armstrong, the public relations director of the Main St. Arts Festival.
Armstrong added that the festival is expected to bring in around 4.6 million dollars in revenue this year.
The festival has become known around the United States, being voted the country's third best arts festival by Art Fair SourceBook.
"Over the past 32 years, Main St. has evolved into one of the most distinguished and well-attended arts festivals in the country," said Becky Renfro Borbolla, chairman of the Festivals and Events Committee for Downtown Fort Worth Initiatives, Inc. "We're eager to see this year's festival transform downtown into an outdoor gallery and stage, packed with fine art, food, music and cowboy culture."
Streets in Downtown will remain closed until 6:00 a.m. on Monday, April 24.


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United Way of Washington County kicked off its 2010 fundraising campaign Friday by winding down as it energized the community.
United Way publicly announced its goals for 2010 during Wind Down Fridays at The Maryland Theatre.
"It's not about fundraising, its about changing our community," Executive Director Leah Gayman said of the campaign. "In reality, we can't raise enough money to meet all the needs of this community."
Together with its partners, the organization kicked off the annual campaign by setting goals that included fundraising, volunteers, outreach and awareness.
United Way hopes to raise $1.6 million between now and Jan. 31, 2011, Gayman said, acknowledging that its 2010 goal is about $200,000 less than its 2009 goal.
"My goal is to blow the top off our goal this year, which I know we will," she said.
The organization also wants to coordinate 1,000 volunteers for its annual Day of Caring this October, said Jenny Fleming, community impact director.


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I went ahead today and had my U/S, we saw a heartbeat!! It has been so long since we have had good news. I told the tech I wanted an U/S every two weeks, to reasure myself! She said that was fine! I will keep ya'll posted!!
What wonderful news!!!!! Congrats on your pregnancy. I will say a prayer that everything continues to go smoothly and the baby keeps on growing!!!!Justme
Celia M,Congrats! I will also keep you in my prayers.Cindy
Amazing news! That is just so amazing to see. that little heartbeat...keep us posted!!!
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A few weeks ago, Washed Out released the lyrics video for "It All Feels Right," off his upcoming album, Paracosm. This week, Greene released yet another song from the album called "Don't Give Up." On this new track, Washed Out sounds a lot more upbeat than usual, with a fast-paced melody and an tropical rhythm section, this could almost be a dance number. Check out the lyric video below and be sure to catch Washed Out at Union Transfer September 19th.


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Conveniently located off Route 145, this Caraquet property provides free Wi-Fi in each room. On-site dining is available from June to October. Acadian Historical Village is just 5 minutes' drive away.A cable TV and a seating area feature in rooms at Auberge De La Baie.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2305?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Andrew McIntyre updated DERBY-2305: ----------------------------------- Attachment: (was: derby-2305-v2.diff) > Convert tests in derbynet that will run via HarnessJavaTest > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-2305 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2305 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Test > Affects Versions: 10.3.0.0 > Reporter: Andrew McIntyre > Assigned To: Andrew McIntyre > Priority: Trivial > Fix For: 10.3.0.0 > > > I was able to convert three tests in derbynet to run via HarnessJavaTest. The problems with the other tests are mentioned in the javadoc for the test. Forking the VM seemed to be a problem in most cases, at least running from within Eclipse, because the forked VM would not have the correct classpath. Attaching patch for review. Note that BadConnectionTest is commented out in _Suite in this patch, as I have a separate patch for converting the very simple bad connection test. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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In her second book of the "PianoPedagogy" series (edition Orpheus - P. Nikolaidou), Liana Charatsi presents a new fingering – technical approach for teaching scales on the piano and also introduces the art of fingering through music scales. The development of piano technique is inextricably connected with appropriate fingering. Correct fingering is the key factor to an effortless Prima-Vista, a faster learning of music pieces and their perfect interpretation.
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TSPITR is a concept that has been around for many years (i think since 8i) however it was very much a manual task.
This has improved greatly over time and has been fully integrated into rman to allow an automatic recovery of a tablespace to an earlier point in time using the transportable tablespace feature.
So by simply running a command similar to the one below directly in the database in question
recover tablespace TESTTBS until time "to_date('11-jan-2014 16:45:02','DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')" auxiliary destination '/oracle/common/oradata/AUX';
We can restore just that tablespace back to an earlier point in time without affecting the rest of the database - this is very neat but shouldn't be directly possible in a single database - and indeed it isn't - rman is just being very clever.
What actually happens is that a brand new database is created automatically (same DB_NAME but different sid/db_unique_name) - a cut down version of the original database is restored to the correct point in time (by cut down i mean just system/sysaux/undo and the target tablespace - everything else is skipped).
Once this other database is at the correct point, an automatic transportable tablespace is done to copy the file and the metadata from the new temporary database to the original database.
This does of course have all the restictions of a normal transportable tablespace operation (mainly the fact that the tablespace has to be self contained - which is pretty obvious - otherwise it won't be in sync with other objects in other tablespace that it relates to).
The command does a huge amount of work and its quite impressive to scroll back through the command output and see what is actually did.
However in the case where I've just had to use this there was a bug and I would imagine it's quite common. If you have a database with a lot of stuff in it then the default memory sizes for the temporary instance are not big enough and the defaults have to be increased. This can't be done in the command line but is done by creating a parameter file in a default location with changed settings.
In my case the shared pool was too small so i added this to this file
I then redid the operation but it failed with this
RMAN-03002: failure of recover command at 01/18/2014 09:46:45
RMAN-04014: startup failed: ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
RMAN-04017: startup error description: ORA-00821: Specified value of sga_target 288M is too small, needs to be at least 1152M
so it took my shared pool size but that then conflicted with sga_target
i then also added
re-ran everything again and this time it all worked fine.
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T Bill has been introduced in Lok Sabha by Home Minister Shinde finally. But before any further development happens, dastardly acts of Seemandhra MPs, especially Lagadapati Raja Gopal, resorted to spraying pepper in the house, causing a commotion. All the members ran out of the house. The act caused great discomfort to the Speaker, Mira Kumar too. The House was adjourned due to this unheard of act of terrorism. The house is scheduled to meet again at 2 PM.
Telangana MPs Ponnam, Gutta and Manda tried to stop Lagadapati, but could not. They were sprayed gas by Lagadapati . The heinous act by Lagadapati caused severe health problems to four MPs who have been shifted to hospital.
In rajya Sabha too, the assault of Seemandhra MPs on Telangana went on unabashedly. CM Ramesh pulled and twisted the mikes of the deputy chairman, upon being chastised by Sri Kurien, he said he would do more than this, which was clearly audible in the mikes.


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Finally. I promise that I'm trying to update the blog as often as possible! It's not that easy though when I'm at school until 16-18.00 every day, have huge amounts of homework and are dancing seven hours per week, but I'm doing the best I can.
Today I had some extra free between my classes, so I went with some friends to take a coffee and took advantage of the situation by asking Amira to take some photos for me agian (Thank you!). I wore the silk blouse I bought at Maché de la Mode Vintage last weekend and my new Aldo shoes. Love the pale blue color - perfect with rose gold! And the boots.. I'm still not over the fact that they're mine.


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During the spring and summer, which are the active growing months for citrus trees, they need fertilizing one to two times. During a young tree's dormant period in the fall and winter, it is only necessary to fertilize every two to three months, according to Gardening Know How.
As a tree matures, it is not necessary to fertilize during the dormant period. When a citrus tree's appearance is healthy, with full, dark green foliage and no dropping fruit, fertilize it less often because over-fertilizing may result in a poor quality fruit. Fertilize the citrus trees with a nitrogen-rich mixture that contains micronutrients, such as magnesium, iron, copper and boron.


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The Fear Machine – Part 1
The Fear Machine, Part 1
"It's going to be alright," Ruth said. "I'm here. It will be alright."
Noise. She tried to inject it into the process, to disturb the small links of time that passed him closer to death. Her arm interrupted the nurse's slow rotation. Rafa lay in the hospital bed, his body shrunken in colour-dead sheets. Even unconscious, the face was tight, locked up. No amount of noise would break his death, would make it any easier. Still, she tried.
"Can't you do something?"
Ruth felt tightened, compressed into a new woman. A terrible new. Nails bitten to nubs. Her worry lines, usually barely-there, had invaded, claimed vast swathes of visage, digging the trenches of years into her architecture. Rafa shifted in the bed, dying. His heart improbably strong, body resilient almost beyond belief, but now 'they' said nothing more could be done. Watching him lying still, Ruth watched Rafa's nervous system try to remember the procedures of deceleration. They'd been overwritten, re-thought ahead of the autonomic – every decision made found a spent axon, a dead dendrite. No signals got through, except for more speed. More speed.
The nurse broke back into motion.
"He's sedated – for now," she said. "They're monitoring him. We'll know more when we get the tests back."
Nothing but repetition. Stresses ignored, sidelined, following the vagary of an encounter pattern. Nurse words from a body in uniform, tracing out the minimum in bedside manner – the nurse built the world in clinical motions, in apologies, in deferrals. Meanwhile, the flesh in those crisp white clothes squirmed like her own, felt the same new stimulus as her own. Those stimuli had been robbed of recognition, and Ruth watched the nurse's face as she hesitated, as she moved and spoke a little more slowly, reacting to the unfamiliar. Decentralized distractions. In this woman's vision, Ruth's features approached. They sharpened, imprinted, then passed by.
"You don't understand-" The requisite clipboard dropped back at the edge of the bed. The circuit had begun again. Unstoppable, this time. The door opened, closed again. The nurse was gone.
A beat passed before she noticed him. In the room. It surprised her and she grabbed at Rafa's hand. She pulled at it, searching for responsiveness, the comfort of presence. It didn't come, only his pulse racing wayward under her touch. The new arrival was shaven-headed or bald, wearing a hat and heavy trenchcoat. A white shirt, a red tie, a light grey suitcase – a recognition when he looked at her.
And when she looked back.
He looked the same, but he wasn't. Without the beard and the hair, as if he was worn smooth, but made from the same mold. Richard was not so big, not quite so oppressive. This man was that. He filled the room, drew the eye. A rough gravity.
"I need to find him," he said. Pulling the clipboard back out of its petty sheath, he flipped through it. Tables, notes, forms. The institution made clear for its members, in neat little lines. It clearly said nothing to him.
Flashing that recognition her way once again – now she wanted to dodge it, to twist away until he forgot. Attacking with his eyes, with his gaze, he made her powerless, fixing her in place and she for an instant wanted to kill him. Then no more. He lay the suitcase on the counter, studying it, and looked at the snowflakes along its edges one by one, slowly. As if they would move. Snapping the case open, he lifted them out of his way.
Ruth saw into a near universe for only a moment, then the case's surface became opaque. Inside, liquid ate at the suitcase's inside edge, forever-never overflowing. Dark, the surface shifted colours, running from soft ash to obsidian as it pushed at its boundaries. Movements played within. Nightmare fluid. The big man reached inside, impossibly submerging his whole arm into it, pushing into the dark oily liquid. He waited a second, arm swallowed, then pulled.
The pistol came easily, so easily it looked as if he'd expected it, expected its weight and dependability in his hand. Bullets had that habit – very short, effective statements. He put it away without even thinking, slid danger out of sight until it became germane to reach for it. She felt a prickling along her skin and couldn't place its source. The machine pulsed against them both, against all of them. Rafa's breathing was getting ragged again.
More ripples spotted the liquid, its surface playing sickly and iridescent against the hospital air. Like an oil slick. He gave it his hand again and she watched the fluid try to climb him, to use him in its escape. As it happened she wondered if she could kill this strange twin if he tried to hurt them. If she could cave in his skull. The liquid was viscous around his skin, slipping away from his grip even as it pulled at his edges. It flowed through his grasp, licking his searching fingers, teasing its rough pollution. Then he pulled again, bringing out a small box. The suitcase's contents adhered, trying to follow him out, falling loose only at the case's snowflake-marked boundary. The retreat was reluctant, but as the contact was broken, the liquid's surface stilled and he closed the suitcase. He opened the box and studied its contents a minute.
"Who are you?" She squeezed Rafa's hand again, their rings overlapping, trying not to think about his pulse accelerating again, trying not to think of the reason for it, so far below their feet. Rafa didn't notice – he was somewhere else. Face contorted, his breathing quickened. Almost gasping, now. She could even see his pulse pounding through a vein in his temple, roaring through his consciousness. Feeding his nightmares.
The stranger was watching Rafa, too, seeing what she saw. Rafa's fear was detached here – palpable. It crawled around the room, probing – developing. It wasn't errant. Then it touched her, multiplied along her limits, looking for connections. She ignored it, tried to shut out her sense of it.
"I need to find him," the stranger said. She tried to focus, to answer Richard's golem. With that gun, his violent clone. A thousand small presences crawled along her edges as Rafa's free hand began to tremble. "What's with him?"
"They don't know. He won't calm down – we can't stop his body. At first, he just couldn't sleep… They've tried for days. Beta blockers. Putting him under. It does nothing, it won't stop. Adrenaline, norepinephrine, catecholamines, he's producing every stress response at once. His heart is getting tired." Exhaustion blanketed her. But even tired, the intensity that held her, that fed her inability to rest, ran along her entire body. She felt a buzzing there, trying to grab at her. She tried to drop her shoulders, to relax them, but they wouldn't comply. They stayed on her, like angry, flightless grey wings.
"He wouldn't stop," she said. "Said it would just get worse if he didn't max it out. Richard just left him. I think he ran." She gripped even harder. "I think he left us to die."
Her hand was shaking. No, her whole body was trembling. He looked at his suitcase as if it was too heavy in his hand and now his arms were shaking, his body now disjointed, disconnected. He hesitated, looked down at himself – and that break was enough. The fear and anxiety they'd felt, the atmosphere that permeated the room, rushed in, flooded perception, taking over. The nurse's studied exit, the dependability of routine – the stony vigil. The waiting room and its cycle of contact. Pent up, those slow spiders exploded inside her.
She was hyperventilating. Had been for perhaps a minute but hadn't realized. Everything was speeding up, beating faster, drawing more oxygen, more need from her body as she became aware of her fragility. Everything had torn loose inside her. Her heart accelerated in her chest, racing out against ribs that now compressed violently, denying space. She watched him draw a deep, slow breath, then another, less slow. She wanted to tell him it wouldn't help but he turned away from her. She tried to ignore the jump of adrenaline, the ready-rush of hypersensitivity. The sound of her heartbeat sprang to life in her skull and she felt its broken, scrambling pumps in her chest. She gasped the next breath, then the one after. Her skin was electric, too-sensing, the eternal informative rush overwhelming. The room was too bright and her senses were beating at her, pushing towards overload.
The patterns of calm weren't working. She let go of Rafa's hand when she fell. Somewhere beyond her the big man also fell, grabbing at his chest. She could imagine this stranger's thoughts as her own began slipping, dodging her attempts to get them back. Nothing had happened. Nothing was wrong. But they were under attack. Something was inside them, was targeting them, was pulling at them with a visceral insistence, then feeding them their own responses. A terrible surge within her chest. The suitcase dropped from the stranger's hand. His gun rested useless in its holster. She couldn't move, couldn't turn her head to look back at Rafa, could only watch a stranger's struggle not to die and feel it mirrored within herself.
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Etape 2008: Pau-Tourmalet-Hautacom
The etape begins in the starting pens at 6.30 in the morning. Riders go off from 7am in groups of 1,000, according to their allocated number. I was 7070 - so that meant a lot of waiting. Now of course you are timed from when you cross the start line (7.25 for us) but in the etape it isn't just you seeking a personal best, its you against the broom wagon. The broom wagon starts at 7.45 and, if it catches you, you are out of the race. Last year 3,000 out of 7,000 were eliminated.
Now we'd woken at 4.15, after a night of thunder and lightning. And the hotel, about 50% of whose guests are cyclists, opened breakfast then. We hadn't managed to persuade them to do Lance Armstrong's recommended pasta (carbs) and egg (protein) so settled for muesli and 2 boiled eggs.
As we waited in the starting pens, the rain started to come down. We chatted to a Dutch couple, doing it together. This was going to be a very wet ride. Finally we are off and, onto the main road into Pau its quickly up to speed. The advice had ranged from 'go as fast as you can, to escape the broom wagon' to 'take it easy, conserve your energy'. The key in cycling is to avoid 'bonking'. In cycling terms this is when you run out of energy and 'hit the wall'. Suddenly it feels like you can hardly move. There is a huge range of entirely contradictory advice on what to eat and what to do to avoid the dreaded bonk.
The Start
We went for a quick start and started looking for the right peloton to join. Tucked in behind a group of riders, it is said to take 40% less energy. But you've got to choose one you can keep up with. They form and reform as thousands head down the road South from Pau. No traffic, police are at junctions to stop the cars and wave us by – and the occasional spectator up early to see us go past.
The first 15 miles are at a cracking 21 mph. I've carefully analysed the broom wagon times and its maximum target speed is 16.8 mph so we've got to keep ahead of that. Turning off the main road we hit a complete jam as cyclists head through the narrow streets of a local village. Its 5 precious minutes lost.
The First Hills
The blogs have described a 50 mile easy flat ride before hitting the mountains. The first 'non-hill' is 500-ft or so but we keep a steady 15 mph up it. The second non-hill takes us to 1,500 ft, higher than any hill in southeastern England, with rain now pouring down and drenching us. We'd cleverly taken off our waterproofs just before going up it. This hill is tougher & I lose Diye on the ascent. Coming down we see our first accidents as some skid on the wet roads.
By the end of the descent my average speed is down to 17 mph, too close for comfort. I sense the broom wagon catching up and need to pile on the speed. A fast group overtakes and I decide to go for it. We steam into Lourdes at speeds of up to 25 mph and my average is up to 17.5 mph. After 3 minutes at the packed feed station (I pick up a banana and a red tube of 'instant energy') the gap from the broom wagon is down from 20 minutes at the start to 12 minutes now. There is no margin of error for a puncture or the like and I need to speed. (Diye tells me later that he is blissfully unaware of broom wagon times but his time reveals he leaves Lourdes with only 3 minutes to spare.) It would be a terrible irony to do all this training and come all this way and be turfed off even before you reach the mountains.
So its full speed again out of Lourdes. I follow a rider jumping the gap to the next group, and decide to take the lead. That is supposed to be the done thing in pelotons, where the leader changes every 20 seconds, but here I'm not sure he isn't insulted. I start to find it tough, and remember the advice that even 60 seconds beyond my endurance limit can lead to a total bonk. What is one's endurance limit? The serious cyclists talk about heart rates, VOX2 limits, lactate thresholds and more. I kind of go with what feels right.
Ascending the Tourmalet
Another serious hill but my sights are set on Le Gripp, 4,000 ft up and 13 km from the top of the mighty Tourmalet. The broom wagon time there is 11.35 and I'm feeling confident. I chat to a guy from Putney who has trained in the Alps. There are increasing spectators, shouting 'Allez' and 'Bravo' and applauding as we go past and that feels fabulous. That first 2,000 ft of ascent up to Le Gripp feels fine and I'm there for 11.15. I'm 20 minutes ahead and allow myself a loo break. Finally I have enough spare time to withstand a puncture, with two-and-a-half hours allowed for the climb.
From here every kilometer is marked with a sign, including the altitude and the % ascent. The first two are 3% and 2.5%, nice and easy. At 13 km it starts to get serious, with 9.5% and we are down to between 5 and 6 mph. My target from here was 2 hours, but I'm feeling I can beat that. It is said you can see the top from here but it is lost in the mists. I take off my rain jacket and put back on my cycle top, which is soaked through. I somehow reckon the heat of the climb will dry it off?!
I had been told people would shoot past in the early stages and warned not to follow them, because they will burn out. But nobody is speeding here, and there is less chatting. Just quiet determination as we head on up. One rider messes up a gear change, can't get his feet out of his cleats in time and tumbles over, taking two other cyclists with him. A group of locals are going wild by the roadside, waving French flags and getting especially excited whenever they see a woman rider (maybe one in 20 of those taking part). I've never before felt identity with people waving union jacks but here I find myself appreciating the couple of people who have brought them.
At 9km the sign reveals we are over 5,000 ft. I ponder on the fact that we are already higher than any mountain in the British Isles – and we still have over 5 miles to go! We are now in the mist and visibility falls as low as 10 metres at times. Fine on the way up but it could make the descent dangerous. With high trees on all sides, it feels like being in the middle of a rainforest. I get a sudden sense of achievement as I pass cyclist number 176 – almost 7,000 people ahead of me at the start.
It is slow and grinding. My eye on the mileage watches as the decimal points inch up. I know the broom wagon goes up at 4.3 mph so I'm feeling safe as long as I stay above 5. There is a feed stop at the ski resort of La Mangie, 5 km from the top. I refill bottles, ignore the strange tubes of energy, and grab a banana and its on and up.
We did this section as a practice on Friday in the bright sunshine and it really built our confidence. But now its after 70 miles and its tougher. There is something very frustrating about knowing you are only 2 miles from the top but it will take you half an hour to get there. I keep myself going with the promise I will phone home at the summit and tell them I've got there. I visualize that glorious moment. The sole spectator applauding wildly in the middle of the ski resort is much appreciated.
I ponder on why none of us can go faster. I don't think I'm at my heart limit, I've gone up steeper hills. But its all in the mind and somehow my brain can't tell my legs to go faster. I burst round a corner on my feet and overtake about 20 people but can't keep it up. We edge closer. Spectators shout "cinq cent metres", "tres cent metres". It has taken the full two hours.
The Top of the Tourmalet
Finally I burst to the top, get off the bike, put my head down on a counter and sob my heart out. There is a statue of a cyclist at the top, in triumphant agony. I understand the feeling.
I've done it. I've got there. I ring home and speak to Rebecca, my daughter. She can tell I've been crying and calls me a freak. It feels like its about a lot more than getting up a mountain. Then my wife Dawn rings and I tell her the big news.
This isn't the end. There is a 6,000 ft descent and then the 5,000 ft Hautacom. But the time pressure is off and I spend probably 15 minutes at the top. Even after this I'm still 35 minutes ahead of the wagon – its downhill and then over 2 hours for Hautacom. Its then not about the broom wagon, its you versus the mountain.
But I can't think straight. I try to calculate if I have any chance of a medal. You get a Silver for under 7 hours 5 minutes but my brain simply can't calculate what time this would be given a 7.25 am start. I don't know if it's the exhaustion or the altitude. Eventually I calculate on my fingers and realize I'd have to do it in 90 minutes, and I know the descent will take an hour so now way. My original target was the time it would take me to get a Silver if I was female – 8 hours, 30 minutes – but all I want to do now is finish.
I take newspaper from the stall at the top. I'd heard about this. If you are not careful going down, the sweat from the ascent will freeze on your chest, leading to pneumonia. So you stuff the newspaper up your shirt to absorb it. Diye missed the newspaper and tells me he saw frost forming on him. He had to stop 5 times on the descent.
The Descent
I hear later it was 7 degrees at the top and going down the wind-chill takes it to near freezing. I'm told if the wind had been NE, there would have been snow, though I don't understand the complex meteorological explanation. I head down carefully at first, brakes on. My fingers do still work. (I had read the blog of somebody who gave up on the descent because his fingers were too frozen to pull the brake levers.) More prepared riders have brought full length gloves to put on here.
I am doing just 15 mph and lots of people are passing me. I am frozen. I am fantasizing about stopping for a hot chocolate when we hit the tourist towns. It is such an attractive idea but I'm worried I've calculated wrong – it will be terrible to be caught by the wagon as I sip hot chocolate in a café!.
Eventually my confidence builds up and I start to speed up and overtake. The difficult bits are well marked with huge Danger signs. We come below the clouds and I'm really speeding, without peddling, hitting 39 mph at one point on a long straight.
We rush through a couple of tourist villages and into a glorious valley, the 'Gorge de Luz' (gorge of light?). No traffic, a road winding down through an incredible gorge and a beautiful clear, transparent river rushing through rocks. It is beautiful and peaceful, possibly the highlight of the ride. It is warmer now but my legs feel like they are still frozen. I realize I must get them working for the final assault. I look out for somebody, not too fast, I can get in behind and start them rotating. Gradually they come back to life.
Onto the Hautacom
I get to the cut off point and am on the Hautacom. It is 2.30, I am 30 minutes ahead of the broom wagon and I now have almost 3 hours for the climb. It is me and the mountain. I am exhausted and promise myself a rest every 2 miles. The crowds are big here and one or two shout out 'superb colours' at me in my bright multicoloured lycra.
There are many legends about the Hautacom. All say the last 3 km are easier and there are amazing views from there. But there won't be any views from there for us and the fact it is shrouded in mist maybe makes it easier. As you get high, you can only ever see two bends ahead. In the lower reaches there are stunning views of the valley below.
There is only one way to the Hautacom, so the road is divided in two and the successful riders are coming down. This is heartening in one way, showing it is possible. But the better performance is daunting, exaggerated by the way they speed down while we are all creeping upwards.
We are 11 km out but a spectator shouts 'seit kilometre'. Dimly in my head I try and work out if this is really 7 kilometre. But the man is wrong and from 10 km appear the 1 km signs. These are agonizingly far apart, I hope always that I had missed one and suddenly we will be an extra km nearer – everybody I speak to afterwards say they had the same hope. My eyes focus as I see the sign, hoping it is 6% and not another 8%. But it is always 8%!
Half the riders seem to be walking up now, just determined to get there. Most of these have 'compact' gears, just two rings at the front. I made sure I had a 'triple'. For the technical I have 30 teeth on the front and 32 on the back, making a better than one-to-one ratio.
Cycle shops scoffed at me when I asked for that. They tried to persuade me I wouldn't need it but I'd practiced up the university hill in Bath. After 3 ascents of the one mile hill (500 ft rise) on my mountain bike I knew my one reassurance would be to be able to go to my 'granny' gears. Those cycle shops assistants had not done the etape and I was grateful for my determination now.
Why do Cyclists Buy Compacts?
I don't understand cyclists. They spend £3,000 on the latest carbon fibre technology to make it a few pounds lighter & able to go faster. (They are obsessed about weight. We met Jean Paul on the train from Paris, he had got a Gold last year and come 200th. He looked at my bike and said "That bell. It is 2 or 3 ounces. It must come off." It did. ) But then they choose a compact gearing that makes it 50% harder (compared to me) to cycle up hill and have to walk!
A police motorcyclist comes by and shouts something in French. I fear I have miscalculated and this is the broom wagon approaching. I ask another rider, who translates: "He was saying 'You will go faster if you ride your bike'." I laugh. I may take breaks but I will have ridden every inch of this route. Again I watch the mileage as it inches towards the point I have promised myself my next rest.
I bump into Andy, who I met in a café yesterday. This was his 4th etape and so far he has been in the broom wagon 3 times! But he was here on the Hautacom ascent and he is going to make it. I hand him one of my Clif Block jelly blobs (90% organic and no gelatine). A Welshman stops and says "Are those jelly babies. Oh please can I have one?" I give him a packet and he is overwhelmed. The truth is I have jelly blocks and power bars and electrolyte drink that I can't imagine eating without throwing up.
I am dropping down near 3mph now. I am only just overtaking the walkers. Should I take the red pill, I ask myself? I mean the red tube of 'instant energy' I picked up in Lourdes. At 4km I search for it but can't find it. But I do have a green tube from somewhere. I open the cap and sip the sickly sweet liquid. It makes me want to vomit. But shortly after I put on a sudden burst of speed and overtake several people. Maybe the green/red pill has worked.
My mind is working this time and I spot that the 4 km sign says 8% again and makes clear we are still 320 metres altitude from the top. That means 80 metres per km or 8% each time. There is no easy last 3km! On and on round bend after bend.
The Final Ascent
At 2km I rest by a stall selling chocolate crepes and hot chocolate. What a wonderful thought. I promise myself a stop there and a chocolate and crepe on the way down. I glimpse a big white inflatable over the road. Can it be the finish? No, it is the 1 km mark.
How can 1 km take so long? Finally the end is in sight and I get on my feet & burst the last 100 metres. The timer says 9 hours 30 minutes from the start, but I know my time will be 25 minutes shorter for starting late. (It is 9 hours 6 minutes.) I am handed water and my medal.
I have done it! I ring home and tell Dawn, and say that I see no reason to ever want to do it again. The first 64 miles were great fun but those climbs were agony and did my head in. I sob again and then join the men relieving themselves over the edge of the mountain (no, its not a big drop). The road has often been lined with men relieving themselves against hedges. I'm not sure what the women cyclists do.
I try and contact Diye but there is no response. (He sent a text at 12.52 to say he was at the Hautacom summit. That would be 13 minutes head of the wagon and I am worried – I know he is a very cautious descender.)
Hautacom is strange. There is no village and no apparent reason for a road, except for the huge car park that marks the top. Presumably it only exists for the Tour de France.
And Down
No newspapers here – Instead they cut holes out of plastic bags and put them over you. I join the queue to head down. I get to 1 km down and there is Diye – followed by 3 gendarme cars, one with a huge clock on top currently at 10:09:52. I suddenly realize this is the broom wagon and he has to get to the top by 10:20:00 or be eliminated. I shout to him that he can still do it but he looks totally exhausted. The car hoots and he turns round (saying later he was wondering 'who the hell is hooting me up here?'). The man leans out and points to the clock.
I stop for my hot chocolate and it tastes wonderful. But they are closing up and have run out of crepes. I carry on. You can't speed down this mountain, the endless bends and turns. It is brakes on all the way. As the valley emerges beneath the clouds, I am astonished. Did we really climb up this height. It seems beyond belief.
I head down to the cycling village, where a meal is promised. I find a barbecue with lamb sausages, but they are not for us You need a yellow ticket. I don't know which lucky folk have yellow tickets.. Instead it is tabouleh & I eat my 'Recovery Bar'. The results are already up. I find myself: number 5564. That means - given I was 7070 and started about half way down the 7,000s – that I overtook 2,000 people.
I look at the end. There is Diye's name, at 10:16:00 (or 9:46 actual time) – he made it! I text him to congratulate. He texts back to say he is coming down. He texts again: "In an Ambulance". He didn't get the plastic bag at the top and was too frozen to come down, an ambulance picked him up – and his bike followed later. He has been completely unaware of broom wagon times but has been a couple of minutes ahead of it throughout. He understood only when he saw the clock and put on a sudden burst for those last 500 metres. He is fine when he emerges from the ambulance.
We did it! 'Team Happy' (as we call ourselves) made it. There are 6,168 finishers, which means almost 2,500 gave up or were eliminated by the broom wagon. We hear of one pour soul who was stopped at Lourdes. I can imagine the panic among the hundreds of riders at the Lourdes feed station as they suddenly see the broom wagon approach and try to escape….
And there is still 10 miles to go, as we need to cycle back to the hotel. We are told of a cycle path along an old railway and we join two young Australians on a glorious ride along the river into Lourdes. Stuart shares his favourite line from Lance Armstrong:
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
It is said riders like Armstrong would go up the Tourmalet in times around 40 minutes. That is just over 15 mph and is an incredible thought. It must take not just incredible fitness but an amazing level of mental determination. (It reminds me of one of his other great sayings: "It is not the fittest cyclist who wins, but the one who can endure the most pain.")
But we are done. We have battled the elements and the mountains and our own demons and triumphed. And that feels good. For the next day, and all the way back to London, we exchange stories with other riders – virtually all proudly wearing the Etape t-shirt. We swap times but all agree the achievement is simply to have finished, especially with the weather conditions. Diye is told the last two finishers were given champagne and interviewed on TV and suddenly regrets his late burst past them!
Cycling time: 8 hours, 17 minutes
Elapsed time: 9 hours, 6 minutes
Allowed time: 9 hours, 45 minutes
Average speed: 12.4 mph
The Bike
I was on a Giant SCR2. It cost me around £525, probably one of the cheapest in the etape. Most seem to spend between £1,000 and £3,000 with carbon fibre frames and the like.
But if you are a newcomer my advice is simple: save your money but make sure you get a triple with a ratio as close to 1:1 as possible. Ignore pressure tot he country and anybody who tells you it isn't possible. It is, I got it.
There seem to be more different approaches to what to eat than there are cyclists. I went for lots of pasta on nights before, a filling breakfast but then probably ate too little. I felt (a) that indigestion was stopping me going faster and (b) I'd vomit if I ate more. But it was probably lack of calories that was holding me back.
I ate: 1 banana, 3 packs of Clif blobs, one small power bar, half an energy gel. And I think that was it. Plus 2 litres of water, half litre of chocolate flavoured SIS drink. Definitely too little. (I had been planning to eat lots of bananas but some guy warned me of potassium poisoning. On Monday I met somebody who did it on 9 bananas, 7 gels and 6 power bars....)
Its all about getting the miles in. Jean Paul, the guy we met on the train (who came 96th in 6 hours 14 minutes) had done 7,000 km since the beginning of the year. Diye had done 3,000 km, which Jean Paul said wasn't enough and I calculated 5,000, which he thought would get me there.
So work up to 200 miles a week, with some sportives. I did four: 67 miles, 95 miles, 115 miles and 105 miles. The White Rose Classic (115 miles) is good preparation - 4 weeks before and as much ascent as the etape - though not all in two climbs.


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Program files folder is in different language than display language
Hi there first time posting although I have visited your site many times in the past..I'm running windows 7 x64 localized to Greek and with Greek display language..The core language is English and I installed Greek through windows update..
Recently I came across a problem that pretty much is described by the thread's title..As a result the program files folder is displayed in English instead of Greek..Other folders like users and program files (x86) are displayed in Greek..
I've done some research and someone was suggesting that the problem relates with the desktop.ini file in the program files folder..In that case desktop.ini was missing and the problem was solved by creating another one (mine is: [.ShellClassInfo] LocalizedResourseName=@%SystemRoot\system32\shell32.dll,-21817)..In my case the desktop.ini file is not missing..
Things I've tried..First,I change the display language to English,then back to Greek rebooted no luck..Second,I uninstall Greek language rebooted then I reinstall through windows update rebooted,same result..Third,I deleted desktop.ini file from program files rebooted,still English program folder..Fourth,I used system restore and I selected a date before the problem occurred and then I decided to ask to this forum because guess what the problem was still there ..That was truly my last resort..
I know it's not a big problem but it's driving me crazy ..So any help would be hugely appreciated..Thank you in advance
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It seems to me that it would have to stay English (or the language the coders named it) as the programs look to those folders and their exact names/wording for files to use. If someone made for example call of duty then translated duty to Greek and the code looked for duty, it would only find the translation and it would fail to find the thing its looking for.
I have no info to back this up but its my theory as why things like documents can change but not program files folder names.
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|06 Oct 2014
Thank you for your reply but I don't think you understand..The program files folder was in Greek as was users folder and program files folder(x86)..Yesterday,only the program files folder,changed from Greek to English and I wonder if there is any way to change it back except reinstalling windows..Besides as I understand when you download a language pack from windows update it doesn't change the core language just the display language,so the folder is always program files and the language packs are responsible to display it in the language the user chose..So I think the problem is somewhere there..Can anybody with more info assist?..I would really want to avoid reinstalling windows
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|06 Oct 2014
I manage to solve the problem,it was the desktop.ini file..It had the wrong value..The correct value is
So I changed it,log off and on and problem gone,back to normal..
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|07 Oct 2014
Good to know thanks for marking solved.
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Spiron I do the same and nothing happens.
Can you send me details?
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It seems that the following weeks it is going to be about mermaids! Not on purpose, but I have different style of cards already made, but they come with some videos and I don't have them edited and I would love to post everything together. So I had to look for some cards I had already made, and this mermaid card is one of them.
On the other hand, Kit and Clowder organized a great party last weekend (celebrating 6000 members already in its Facebook group) and she is raising funds for the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. If you made a donation you can grab some exclusive digital stamps from Yampuff and Tiddly Inks and participate in a coloring competition. The instructions to donate are here. I am not sure if the digital stamps would be available still or there were only for the weekend though. Well, that means the there will be another mermaid soon!!!
About today's card. The image is from Yampuff, great artist, and it si colored with Spectrum Noir markers. I cut a frame with my cricut out of purple cardstock. I hope you like the card.
These are the colors I used:
Skin: FS1, TN4, TN3, TN2, FS4, FS8.
Hair: EB8, EB7, DG4, GB11, EB2, PL1.
Eyes: BT9, TB8, BT4.
Tail: BT9, BT8, BT4, BT3.
Fins: LV2, LV3, PL2, PP1.
Starfish: OR1, GB7, GB9, GB10, LV2.
Fish: FS1, FS3, FS8, CR4, LV1, LV2.
Bubbles: IB2, BT1.
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CAS from Addicted to Stamps and More!.
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I've a lot of cooking photos to add (not as many as I should have, but a reasonable amount nonetheless) but I want to make this a quick post, so I'll just post what I made at lunch today, to eat tomorrow.
Lunch-time cooking - Lentils with spinach
It was done in about 40 minutes or so, which is perfect. Very little chopping as well, so a win-win. I tasted it as it was cooking, and it tasted yummy. But, I've some left-overs to eat first, so it'll be dinner tomorrow night, most likely.
Saturday night, I also made papad. Honestly, calling papad a recipe is cheating, really, since it involves opening a packet of papad, and toasting. Still, I was happy to oblige. Papad is good snack food for me - I can munch on these all evening long. (Which I did.)
Anyhoo - the thing with papad is that you can either deep fry them, or toast them on the stove top. My mom has a nifty little gadget for toasting the papad, which I made her buy for me as well. I tend not to like specialized one-function gadgets, but this one is pretty useful, and about the only way I know to toast papad. (I like the deep-fried ones well enough, but my hips tend not to agree.)
Here is my little papad toaster thingy, hard at work.
Heat element.
Add papad.
Flip papad sides till both sides get brown.
Eat (with beer to accompany it, of course.)
My papad had bits of black pepper in it, so it was pretty spicy. Other kinds have green chili, or cumin, or plain. If you are looking for them, any Indian grocery store will carry them, and they should run between $2 and $3 for a pack of about 10.
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I have pics on my FB page, check it out Redhead and Willow....lol!
Thank you all for the warm wishes!
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This interactive light installation was designed by Luz Interruptus for the Waterman Arts Center in London. The piece stimulates both visual and tactile senses, looking like a still image of a macro rain shower and inviting visitors to squeeze each drop.
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|News archive for September 1997
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Lepre, George. Himmler's Bosnian Division: The Waffen-SS Handschar Division, 1943-1945
Yerger, Mark C. Waffen-SS Commanders: The Army, Corps and Divisional Leaders of a Legend: Augsberger to Kreutz
"For the Serious Student of Conflict"
The "Special Booklist" for Autumn 1997 is on hand from The Naval & Military Press with sixteen newsprint pages of new military books in a broad range of categories. Dare we mention their special offer on Winsome Warriors which appears to feature photos of attractive young ladies more out of uniform than in?
Forthcoming from Naval Institute Press
Wise, Jr., James E. and Anne Collier Rehill. Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services. Due in October.
Now available
Franks, Norman L. R. Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War. Leicester, England: Midland Publishing, 1997.
Coombs, L. F. E. The Lion Has Wings: The Race to Prepare the RAF for World War II: 1935-1940. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife, 1997.
Both these titles are distributed in the United States by Specialty Press.
Forthcoming from Greenwood
Koburger, Charles W. Naval Expeditions: The French Return to Indochina, 1945-1946. A study of the French naval expedition to Vietnam shortly after World War II.
Inventory update
Michael Merrill of Benicia Books has uploaded a fresh batch of "Late Arrival" titles at his website for your browsing pleasure. Notable among them is the scarce set Trial of the Major War Criminals Before The International Military Tribunal, volumes I-XLII, published in Nuremberg in 1947-1949.
New arrivals
Hoehling, A. A. The Franklin Comes Home. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Weiland, Charles Patrick. Above & Beyond. Pacifica, CA: Pacifica Press, 1997.
"Supplement W" for October/November 1997 from Jerboa-Redcap contains six pages of new and used books in its usual naval, military, and aviation categories. Among the titles:
Delaforce. The Black Bull
Now available from Teutonia
Translated by Wulf-D. Brand. The Original Tiger Tank Manual: An Authentic Translation. Newport News, VA: Teutonia Publications, 1997.
Forthcoming from Nautical & Aviation
Mersky, Peter B. U.S. Marine Corps Aviation, 1912 to the Present. Due in October.
Corum, James S. and Richard R. Muller. The Luftwaffe's Way of War: German Air Force Doctrine, 1911-1945. Due in October.
War Crimes
The records of the post-war trials held in Japan by the victorious Allied powers have always been more difficult to access than the similar Nuremberg records. In the 1980s the records were published in a series by Garland, but that has been out of print for many years.
Now Edwin Mellen Press is undertaking the publication of the entire massive collection of The Tokyo Major War Crimes Trial: The Records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in a series consisting of 114 volumes of records and ten accompanying volumes of commentary and research guides. Each book will average 500 pages. Publication will commence in October and continue for 16 months with an average of 6-8 new volumes each month.
Now available from Praeger
Dunn, Jr., Walter S. Kursk: Hitler's Gamble, 1943. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997
Now available from Patrick Stephens
Bowman, Martin W. The Reich Intruders: Dramatic RAF Medium Bomber Raids over Europe in World War 2. Somerset, England: Patrick Stephens, 1997
Tucson, Arizona
In today's snailmail arrived List 97109 from Paul Gaudette Books with 48 pages of new and used titles segregated into several topical headings: Latest Arrivals; Naval Aviation; AVG and CBI; Aviation History; War on the East Front; and History of the Third Reich. As always, Paul also offers an amazing assortment of small press/vanity press/self-published items.
Forthcoming from Greenwood
Kaufmann. The Maginot Line. Due at the end of October
Kaufmann. Maginot Imitations. Due at the end of this month
Now available from Sarpedon
Reynolds, Michael. Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy. New York: Sarpedon, 1997.
Forthcoming from Specialty Press
Henry. Air Gunner. Due in October
Lucas. The Silken Canopy: A History of the Parachute. Due in October
Smith. Rear Gunner Pathfinders. Due in October
Thompson. Lancaster to Berlin. Due in October
Bartley. Smoke Trails in the Sky: The Journals of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot. Due in October
Clarke. Adolf Hitler's Holiday Snaps: Luftwaffe Target Reconnaissance. Due in November
New arrival
Vause, Jordan. Wolf: U-Boat Commanders in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Slip Sliding Away
At the beginning of the year we keenly anticipated two titles in particular considered to be certain front runners for "Top Ten" honors for new books of 1997. Of these, Clay Blair's Hitler's U-Boat War, volume two, has -- as reported here last week -- now been delayed until November 1998 (although the Random House webpage still says Fall of this year).
Yesterday came word from Oxford University Press that Germany and the Second World War, volume IV: The Attack on the Soviet Union, originally scheduled for publication in 1996, has missed its most recent ship date (5 September, although the OUP webpage still says May 1997) and has been postponed until at least the end of November of this year.
Forthcoming from Nafziger
German Armored Tactics in WWII
Soviet Infantry Tactics in WWII
Soviet Armored Tactics in WWII
Soviet Army and Corps Grand Tactics in WWII
These should all be available in early November.
Now available from Classic
Pegg, Martin. Hs 129 Panzerjaeger!. Norwich, UK: Classic Publications, 1997.
Forthcoming from Grub Street
Cull, Brian. 249 at War: The Authorised History of the RAF's Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron of WWII. Due this month in the UK and in October in the US. (Distributed in the US by Seven Hills.)
Now available from Nafziger
Nafziger, George F. The Afrika Korps: An Organizational History, 1941-1943. Pisgah, OH: Nafziger, 1997.
Da Capo
The Fall 1997 catalog from Da Capo includes a backlist of almost 40 Second World War titles and announces three upcoming books:
Zentner and Bedurftig. The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich
Macksey. Rommel: Battles and Campaigns
Leckie. Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines vs. Japan
Now available from NIP
Doyle, Robert C. A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Now available from Dolart
Wells, Arthur W. The Quack Corps. Chico, CA: Dolart, 1992. A USMC memoir.
Motor running
Bob Ruman of Articles of War has added a search engine to his website, allowing visitors to easily and conveniently locate books within his multi-thousand-title online inventory. You can test the engine at his website.
New arrival
Kemp, Paul. U-Boats Destroyed: German Submarine Losses in the World Wars. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Now available from Presidio
Twining, General Merrill B. No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997. Softcover reprint of General Twining's memoir of Guadalcanal where he served as operations officer for 1st Marine Division.
From Lewcock
Catalogue 45 from John Lewcock, Maritime Bookseller, arrived today from the UK. Lewcock offers a few WWII titles amidst his books of the sea.
Ballantine's Illustrated History
Almost thirty years ago Ballantine Books began publishing a series of handy little softcover volumes covering nearly every aspect of WWII in a standardized, heavily illustrated format. With Barrie Pitt as editor-in-chief, Sir Basil Liddell Hart as "Military Consultant", and a stable of competent historians and writers (some already well-known, others just beginning illustrious careers), these somewhat primitive-looking books continued to roll off the presses for years and eventually numbered 154 titles.
Bookman plugs in
The Military Bookman in New York City recently unveiled its website. No sign of inventory lists, search engine, or email address, but you can fax catalog requests to them.
Fall catalog
The Fall catalog from Scholar's Bookshelf of Cranbury, NJ arrived here today with an impressive array of World War II and other military titles.
New on the Web
Graham Palmer's World War II Books -- on the Web for more than two years -- and Ian Wilkinson's The Military Collector -- new to the Net -- have joined forces to offer what should prove to be the largest and most complete online inventory of military books on the Web to date.
First, Ian has established his own new website, now open for visitors. At the same time, for browsing and searching purposes he has merged his online inventory with Graham's.
To Graham's huge collection of WWII titles Ian adds his own massive stock of military books from other eras. The combined inventory will appear on joint webpages -- accessible from either website -- with more categories and more books than ever before. To assist in finding specific books among so many, Graham and Ian have also collaborated to construct and update a fast and easy search engine for locating volumes by title and author. Visitors may use online order forms, email, phone, fax, or mail to purchase any title from either Graham or Ian.
Lastly, for this month's stock list, their "special category" is Battle of the Atlantic.
Random House reports that volume 2 of Clay Blair's Hitler's U-Boat War, originally scheduled for publication this fall, has been delayed until November 1998.
Now available from NIP
Kemp, Paul. U-Boats Destroyed: German Submarine Losses in the World Wars. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
Now available from Pacifica
Weiland, Charles Patrick. Above & Beyond. Pacifica, CA: Pacifica Press, 1997.
Desert Rats on the Web
Frank and Maureen Shaw of Jerboa-Redcap Books -- so-named thanks to Frank's service as a military policeman ("redcap") in the storied 7th Armored Brigade (whose emblem is the jerboa) -- have opened their new website with a wide inventory of books in the following categories: Aviation, Pre-WWI, WWI, WWII, Post-WWII, Unit Histories, Naval, and Miscellaneous Military Books. They specialize in UK and Commonwealth military history, so most of these are from or about the British.
Frank and Maureen also offer a vast and unique inventory of British military badges from almost every formation you can think of (and then some).
Be sure to click over and check out their great books and badges.
T. Cadman of Sacramento has mailed catalog #34 with fifteen pages of military titles.
New arrival
Mitcham Jr, Samuel S. Eagles of the Third Reich: The Men Who Made the Luftwaffe. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997.
Inventory update
Tom Pettys of Aberdeen Bookstore has uploaded fresh inventory pages of almost 1000 brand new World War II titles in fourteen different subject headings. Tom maintains a very complete and up-to-date stock of newly released WWII-related titles, and his pages are a good place to visit to see what's new and forthcoming.
From Brewster, New York comes catalog Number 9 -- amounting to about 500 titles in the Civil War, WWI, and WWII -- courtesy of Stan Kislow of Battlefield Books.
Old Army online and in print
Bruce Halsted has simultaneously mailed his catalog number 65 -- running over 500 titles -- and uploaded the same list of his stock holdings to his online inventory webpages. Some unit histories of interest:
Birdwood. The Worcestershire Regiment
New email
Peter L. Jackson Military Books of Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada -- a long-time stalwart in the used military books business -- recently plugged into the Net and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Subiaco Academy Trojans found themselves in a competitive game against Pottsville, one of the favorites in the 4-4A conference race, with four minutes to play in the first half last Friday.
With Pottsville leading 15-7, Subiaco Academy's offense had the ball and was moving out of their end of the field. Then, a bad exchange in the backfield caused the Trojans to fumble. Pottsville recovered at the Subiaco 35 and punched in the score.
On the next Subiaco possession, quarterback Kelly Hollis, playing his first full game in two weeks after recovering from a hamstring injury, was trying to get extra yardage and Pottsville forced another fumble. Pottsville recovered the fumble at the Subiaco 45 and punched in the score.
Instead of 15-7, it was suddenly 29-7 at the half and the Trojans never recovered. Pottsville went on to win 49-14.
"We're not yet good enough to overcome mistakes made against good teams," Subiaco coach Mike Berry said. "We made some mistakes and they made us pay.
"Two possessions turned it from a competitive game to us being behind," Berry said.
This Friday, the Trojans face the other conference favorite when they host the Booneville Bearcats at Rebsamen Stadium on the Subiaco Academy campus. Kick off is at 7 p.m.
Hollis rushed the ball eight times for 95 yards. He completed six of 12 passes for 69 yards. Julius Lewis rushed 17 times for 46 yards and scored a touchdown. Subiaco's other score came from Brennon Felterman.
Hollis also led the defense in tackles, getting 12. Andrew Komp, playing linebacker in place of the injured Christian Lowery (broken arm, out for season), had seven tackles.
Against Booneville, Subiaco (2-2 for the season and 0-1 in conference place) faces another tough opponent.
"It's a tall order, but we're going to try to get better as a team," Berry said.


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On arrival please ring the bell in the kitchen or call Lesley on 07824770568.
Check-in is from 2.30pm onwards
Check-out is 10.30/11am
SMOKING AREAS – No Smoking in all public access buildings. Smoking is permitted outside only sand bins are provided.
FIRES/BBQ – Permitted in designated areas only. Always attend to and keep your fire under control. Please extinguish prior to retiring for the evening. You are esponsible for any damage/injury caused by your fire/BBQ. Firewood can be purchased on site please do Not cut trees or branches down. BBQ's should be hired on site unless otherwise agreed. Please do not move firepits.
PETS –please be a responsible owner only allow your dog off the lead where appropriate. Clean up after your pet. Bring own pet basket. ONLY Guide dogs are allowed in amenity block WC/Shower block.
WIGWAM KEYS – Please leave wigwam key in the wigwam door on departure. A £10.00 fee will be made in the event of lost keys.
OCCUPANCY/BOOKING – Person making booking is responsible for the booking. The people/numbers stated on the booking information should not be exceeded. Any alterations to bookings are to be confirmed by the Owners prior to arrival and not on arrival. The Owner reserves the right to void/cancel a booking if alterations to a booking are viewed as unapproved or unacceptable. Bookings are non-transferable to 3rd party.
CANCELLATION POLICY – Bookings are confirmed only on receipt of completed booking form together with 50% deposit. Deposit payments are non-refundable. We will endeavor to provide new dates when you can provided sufficient notice . Deposit payments carried forward will be allowed on one occasion only.
BEHAVIOUR & CONDUCT – We wish everyone to enjoy their stay at Hilly cow wigwams Please limit noise during the hours of 11pm – 8am. After 11pm please take your party inside while still being considerate of others. Alcohol is not sold on site, guests are permitted to bring their own and to drink responsibly. In the event of misbehaviour/complaints, the Owners reserve the right to terminate your occupancy immediately without refund of monies.
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AN EXPECTED 10.4% CAGR FOR COMBINED PASSIVE DEVICES SALESDue to the growth of PV, Wind, EV/HEV, Motor drives and UPS, the power device market is in a booming phase to support the power stack market growth.More and more power electronics applications are demanding pre-assembly standard blocks, which can be combined to meet custom requirements. As presented in this report, laminated busbar is then the basis for these blocks, and the market and supply-chain is already being re-shaped. Mersen has acquired Eldre, Methode is partnering with SBE, and Rogers is entering power module packaging activity. All these evolutions are re-shaping a market that is quite small (250M$) compared to capacitors (+600M$) or resistors, but still booming.
Capacitors are evolving in the same way. Specific capacitors for renewable energies are available and so, following this trend, the market is exploding. Growth is supported by these new markets, as shown in our forecasts. The connectors market is also following the same trends. For resistors, inductors and transformers, it is slightly different. We have not observed a noticeable breakthrough. These markets, even if they are more and more structured, are local markets, with family-owned companies (or companies with this spirit), doing business as usual. A few innovative companies can take a big part of the new applications with new product innovations and technology developments such as EBG resistors or Arcol.INTEGRATION TRENDS ARE PUSHING TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTSAn inverter is an assembly of power modules and passive components together. This creates a strong link between components, and a trend toward more integration. This trend not only impacts the growth of the laminated busbar or capacitor market; it also affects product developments. Companies are now working on joint developments. The blocks, designed to fit each other, can provide the expected improvements in compactness, standardization and modularity, efficiency, etc….This report analyzes these trends, technical aspects and the supply chain evolution. Our forecast and analysis projects how these factors will evolve in the future, and what to anticipate.
Executive summary 7
Trends and strategies for passive components in power electronics 45
> Power stack trends> Players landscape evolution> Overall market metrics
Capacitors 68
> Technology introduction> Applications analysis> Competition analysis> Market forecast
Busbar and internal connection 108
Connectors for inverters 142
> Technology introduction> Applications analysis> Competition analysis> Market forecastResistors for power electronics 174
> Technology introduction> Applications analysis> Competition analysis> Market forecastInductors and transformers 203
Conclusions 228


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With less than a week until Christmas, last night in the wee hours was the first
chance I had to start putting out some Christmas things.
I think this golden bird has been patiently waiting...
Floating roses on silver...
How beautiful! I love birds, and yours are just lovely! The candlelight casts such a magical glow, and I really love the potted rosemary, too! What a gorgeous scene you have created! I heard that you are going to get a ton of rain in CA, hope you are ok!!
So pretty! Love th dove...and the candles. Especially love the floating candles. So pretty with the wreath...you have it all put together so nicely!!
~*~*BEAUTIFUL~*~* Merry Christmas to you too!! Hugs, Rachel
*French Farmhouse 425*
What a lovely vignette. I love the warm glow from the candle and your pretty little rosemary trees. Hope you have a Merry Christmas ♥ Tricia
LOVE the silver and the sparkle... and of course, the roses!
Happy holidays,
Oh this is beyond beautiful, peaceful, lovely serene. All the good feelings you and your lovely blog bring to me. xoxo Kathysue
It's lovely! So peaceful and pretty.
just stopping in to wish you a very merry christmas!
All so beautiful and romantic...love it!
Your decorating is so pretty~ I just love the lighting and beaded garland and ornaments...just lovely!
....and Merry Christmas to you too!
I think that roses at Christmas are the most beautiful ornaments - so rich, so luxurious, so precious.
I hope you have a peaceful holiday.
Wow when you decide to buckle down and decorate you really do it well, beautiful job! (Dylan actually loved his balloon!)
Ah, roses and rosemary,
two of my favorites!!
Yowzer, girlie, YOU have
the touch ~ this looks
amazing! And, you are a
"bird girl," like I am : )
I was lucky enough to
receive two new ones
this year, to add to my
ever-growing "flock!"
I would love to use only
fresh greens, someday,
when I live somewhere
milder. The flip side
to that is all the lovely
snow we've had this year,
which adds a very special
Christmas touch. Hope
your project wraps up long
enough for you to ENJOY
these next two weeks, Susan.
Merry Tuesday....and
xx Suzanne
Oh so pretty, Susan! I LOVE all of the natural elements, and your pictures are so beautiful.
Merry, Merry Christmas and happy New Year, my friend!
Jo :)
I hope you get some time off soon. Your images are splendid. Love those roses. Thanks for visiting me. Have a Happy Christmas. ♥O
I absolutely love what you have done. So simple, so natural, so beautiful. Have a wonderful Christmas! Mona
I adore your vignette, just love the bird with it's glow on the wreath- thank you for sharing. thank you for well wishes on my blog and may you have a blessed Christmas dear friend.
Colette x
What a spectacular holiday vingette! The birds, the roses, the candlelight....it all says Merry Christmas!!!
Wishing you and your family all the best throughout the holidays!
xo elizabeth
Coming together it is my friend! What a beautiful post. I hope relaxation is in your future so that you can enjoy your festive surroundings.
Merry Christmas!
Thank you SO much for stopping by New England Style and leaving comments! I love your pictures - the bird is just incredible (I just love birds and need to find some on clearance now for future Christmas's). I'm going to follow you and hope you'll stop back and consider following me too;)
Absolute magic.
So I'm off to take down all my decorations and start over.
Merry Christmas and much love...
How beautiful! You have done a bunch in such a short time. Bravo! I love it all.
Merry Christmas,
Once again, beautiful photos!
All the best for Christmas and the New Year!
Your home is gorgeous! Hope you had the most lovely holiday! XX!
What a really lovely home! Have a wonderful Christmas, Kellie xx
Well you have the gift, as it certainly does not take you long to make the magic happen...I love the elegant simplicity of each tableau...the use of your gorgeous garden roses with the little evergreen trees amidst the soulfulness of other every day treasures...proving that the magic comes not from the material elements from weeks of buying and assembling, but rather it springs from within. Truly beautiful and magical. May you continue to enjoy all the wonder of the season.
Hope you had a FABuLOUS Christmas!
I love this vignette. The golden caramel color of the bird makes her perfect for basking in candle glow... makes me warm just looking :-)
Happy Holidays!
Happy new year new friend!
be blessed and prosper
Your Christmas decorations look very beautiful and festive! It is such a blessing that you have roses even in winter!
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. May the new year be full of good health and happiness!
How amazing to be able to bring roses in from your garden for Christmastime. I get so used to the weather here - and the bare garden at this time of year - that it's hard to imagine how you're having different weather over there! I love the colours of those roses. Beautiful.
I hope you had a marvellous Christmas and that you have a
Happy New Year!
Hi there! :) I like your baubles with the spilling over silver beads decoration - cute! Thank you dearly for such a heartwarming comment. Enjoy a happy and peaceful New Year! Hugs for you, xx


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Framingham, MA | July 19, 2012 – Correlsense, a leading provider of application performance management software, announced that it has closed $3 million in series C financing with investors including Accel Partners, Vertex Venture Capital, ProSeed Venture Capital Fund, eXeed Technology, and Technion Research & Development Foundation.
This funding will enable Correlsense to expand sales and technology partner channels as well as enhance its sales and marketing teams. The company will continue to invest in adding innovative functionality to future versions of its SharePath Data Center and Real User Monitoring products.
"Coming after our recent successes, we remain excited about the exceptional opportunity that exists for operations-focused application performance management tools," said Ken Marshall, CEO of Correlsense. "This financing allows us to build on our new customer wins that enhance our leadership in end-to-end application monitoring for the enterprise."
About Correlsense:
Correlsense develops application monitoring software for IT operations professionals who rely on sophisticated, heterogeneous IT. The SharePath product suite provides the broadest visibility into where and why application problems occur, covering more protocols, platforms and end-user technologies than any other APM product. This empowers business and IT stakeholders with a complete and dynamic picture of overall IT service levels, reducing the cost of troubleshooting and risk with new application rollouts. Correlsense was founded in 2005, is privately held and SharePath customers include some of the world's largest financial, telecom and retail firms.
Media Contact:
Frank Days
Vice President, Marketing
111 Speen Street, Suite 306
Framingham, MA 01701
+1 508 318 6488 x211


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National – Across the India:
1. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has become the most liked Chief Minister on social media platforms, leaving behind Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and U.P. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Her official Facebook page has notched up more than 71 lakh likes so far.
Kejriwal's Facebook page has 70.87 lakh likes while Mr. Yadav has 54.85 lakh likes.
Raje's team closely monitors the opinions coming on social channels and takes follow-up action to ensure help for those who ask for it.
2. Software-enabled mobile app M-STRIPES (Monitoring System for Tigers-Intensive Protection and Ecological Status) launched at Corbett Tiger Reserve for monitoring of tiger reserves in the country.
Foresters of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are participating in training workshop.
The foresters will learn about data collection and software entry under the guidance of scientists of Wildlife Institute of India at Corbett.
After the successful trial at Panna Tiger Reserve, the app has now been launched in these five states in one go.
3. Textile minister Smriti Zubin Irani inaugurated the first-ever apparel and garment making center in Meghalaya.
The event was inaugurated in the presence of Union MoS for home Kiren Rijiju and chief minister Mukul Sangma near Ampati in South West Garo Hills.
The sprawling center, covering an area of 45,000 square feet, was set up under the North -East Region Textiles Promotion Scheme (NERTPS) at Hatisil near Ampati at an approximate cost of Rs 14.26 crore.
There are 105 sewing machines each in the first two units and 70 in the third unit of the center.
4. The Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Rural Development, Narendra Singh Tomar stated that the Ministry of Defence is set to open its Defence Unit in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh.
The unit would be set up in Kailaras and Sabalgarh tehsil areas and span over 969.735 hectare of land at a cost of Rs. 1500 crore.
International – Across the Globe:
1. A legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives which doubles the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to $130,000.
The legislation making it difficult for firms to use the programme to replace American employees with foreign workers, including from India.
The High Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act 2017 introduced by California Congressman prioritizes allocation of visas to those companies willing to pay 200% of a wage.
The act eliminates the category of lowest pay, and raises the salary level at which H1B dependent employer are exempt from non-displacement and recruitment attestation requirements to greater than $130,000.
Sports & Athletics:
1. West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell was banned for one year for a doping whereabouts rule violation.
He was revealed to have committed the violation 11 months ago, after registering three filing failures in 2015.
Tests in 2015 constitutes a failed drugs test under World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rules.
The 28-year-old Jamaican, who helped the West Indies win their second World T20 title in 2016, will be banned for a year.
Awards & Recognition:
1. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh presented the First National Entrepreneurship awards 2016 in New Delhi.
The awards have been presented in order to recognize the entrepreneurial spirit of India's youth and encourage more young Indians to become entrepreneurs.
The Entrepreneurship Awards system has been created through a partnership between MSDE and a few reputed institutions like IIT – Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur and Chennai, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Every year, one such institution will play the role of the lead institution to anchor the awards. For 2016-2017, the lead institution is IIT, Delhi.
Appointments & Resignations:
1. Bollywood Actress Anushka Sharma becomes female face of Swachh Bharat Mission.
She has taken the responsibility of spreading awareness about the same among women.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is already doing his best to make India a cleaner place by joining forces with PM's mission.
PM Modi had launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Campaign on 2nd October 2014, and set a 5-year deadline to usher in complete cleanliness in the country.
Economics & Banking GK:
1. Income Tax Department (ITD) has initiated Operation Clean Money.
Initial phase of the operation involves e-verification of large cash deposits made during 9th November to 30th December 2016.
Data analytics has been used for comparing the demonetization data with information in ITD databases.
In the first batch, around 18 lakh persons have been identified in whose case, cash transactions do not appear to be in line with the tax payer's profile.
2. Mumbai based lender State Bank of India wants to increase its stake to at least 51% from 40% in GE Capital Business Process Management Services, and to 74% from 60% in SBI Cards and Payments, which markets and distribute credit cards.
The move is in line due to demonetization as it increasingly drives consumers to spend online or through cards.
According to a study by global consulting firm BCG, digital payments in India is expected to multiply 10 times as Internet banking and cards replace cash in transactions.
3. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented Union Budget 2017. 10 major highlights of the budget are:
Income tax rate cut to 5% for individuals having income between Rs.2.3 lakh to Rs.5 lakh, 10% charge on individual income above Rs.50 lakh and 15% on income above 1 crore.
Revenue deficit reduced to 2.1% from 2.3%.
Merger of Railways Budget with General Budget brings focus on a multi-modal approach for development of railways, highways and inland water transport.
36% increase in FDI flow.
Agricultural sector is expected to grow at 4.1% this fiscal.
Allocation under MNREGA increased to 48,000 crores from Rs 38,500 crore
Total expenditure in FY18 at Rs 21.47 lakh cr.
Govt doubles distribution target under Mudra Yojana to Rs 2.44 lakh crore for 2017-18.
Customs duty on LNG halved to 2.5%.
Net revenue loss from direct tax proposals to be about Rs 20,000 cr.
Recent Notable Deaths:
1. Indian Union Muslim League national president and former minister of state for External Affairs Minister E. Ahamed passed away at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi. He was 78.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2009.
May 2004 – May 2009 he served as the Minister of State for External Affairs.
May 2009 – January 2011, he was Minister of State for Railways.
2. Former Tamil Nadu left-handed batsman R. Raghavan passed away after prolonged illness. He was 82.
Representing the State side in the 50s, Raghavan played 15 matches making 384 runs with a highest score of 79.
He played against visiting overseas sides such as a team from Commonwealth and represented Mambalam Mosquitos in the first division league with distinction.
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