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Well. An almost sleepless night.
The night's drama began when our power went out due to a storm in our area about 7:30 PM. The younger children freaked out, and I am not exaggerating! It was really dark. I don't know if street lights in town still work when the power goes out (like are they on some sort of generator back-up or something), but out here in the country, when the power goes out, it is dark.
So we used flashlights and candles. We visited with one another a little bit (we had the Olympics on prior to the power outage), and I read some of Johnny Tremain to Leah. Sam fell asleep in Jimmy's lap before 9:00. By 9:30, we just all went to bed!
I woke up at 10:30 when the power came back on. Then I slept on and off (many people in our house were coughing, coughing, coughing, and the dogs were howling and barking) until 1:30 AM. That is when Leah woke up me to tell me her ear hurt (a slight infection in her newly pierced ear) and that she could not sleep because she could not stop coughing. Really? I could not sleep because she could not stop coughing!
Leah and I worked on her ear, and I convinced her to take some cough medicine. I cleaned the kitchen and started the dishwasher (we had not done that in the pitch black dark before going to bed, and anyway I couldn't have started the dishwasher without power anyway.) I set up the coffee pot to come on in a few hours. We turned off all the lights that had come back on at 10:30. We had a cup of tea. We read Facebook. She watched me play spider solitaire. And finally at 4:00 AM, I told her that we had to go to sleep!
So I slept until 6:50 when I thought I heard Sam calling for me. (He wasn't. I must have been dreaming). He actually slept until 7:30. Thankfully, Jimmy is off so we are not doing school today. I need to run and make a grocery list.
As you can see, I am putting off running by blogging instead. Even after almost 7 years of consistent running, I still struggle most days with the motivation to exercise. I am always, always happy once I am done, but it's the getting started that is hard. I used to think that I did not need a marathon or half-marathon looming in the future to motivate me to run. But I have changed my mind. I think I do need that accountability and I need the weather to warm up so I can meet friends to run in the early morning.
Finally, thank you to everyone who has left comments, emailed me, texted me, and contacted me on Facebook with your suggestions for my Moms' Night Out talk. Thank you! I have a place to begin now. I really appreciate your ideas.
So. I am off to the treadmill.
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thess. 5:16-18
Friday, February 21, 2014
A Sleepless Night
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As the weather is getting colder, please be reminded of the Terrebonne Parish Dress Code Policy.
Hoodies, Sweatshirts, and Sweaters:
Students may wear the following solid-colored hoodies, sweatshirts, and sweaters: white, navy blue, khaki, black, and gray. Mulberry's hoodies and sweatshirts are allowed to be worn.
Turtlenecks must be white. In fourth through sixth grade, turtlenecks must be worn underneath a uniform shirt.
Leggings and Stockings: Leggings and stockings must be solid-colored.

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Fire lights. Winter nights.
Places to Sit and Sip by a Real Wood Fire in Mystic Country Connecticut
Dec 27, 2010, 10:00 ET
MYSTIC, Conn., Dec. 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --There is nothing more inviting on a cold winter's day or night than the snap crackle pop of a real fire in the hearth.
Lots of places offer gas burning flames but below are a few spots in Mystic Country offering a place to sit, sip and relax beside that old-fashioned magic:
Overnight spots:
Mansion at Bald Hill, Woodstock, CT www.mansionatbaldhill.com Beautiful stone mansion set in the woods on a hill. Wood fires in common areas.
Bed & Breakfast at Taylor's Corner, Woodstock www.taylorsbb.com New England classic with wood burning fires in common areas.
Daniel Rust House, Coventry CT www.thedanielrusthouse.com Historic B&B in the Quiet Corner. Restored building decorated in period antiques. Enjoy a good read fireside in their Stone Room. Fire logs in individual rooms.
Inn at Woodstock Hill, Woodstock CT www.woodstockhill.net Historic inn set in the heart of the Quiet Corner. Wood fires in the common areas. Gas fireplaces in some rooms.
Inn at Lower Farm, North Stonington www.lowerfarm.com Country farm setting. B&B hosts woodburning fires in common rooms.
Branch Place B&B, Lisbon www.thebranchplace.com Circa 1790 B&B. Wood fire in the keeping room. Fire logs in individual rooms.
Hilton, Mystic www.hiltonmystic.com Modern hotel with all of the amenities. Large fireplace in bar.
Steamboat Inn, Mystic www.steamboatinnmystic.com Individual water view rooms with wood burning fireplaces in the heart of downtown historic Mystic.
Inn at Mystic, Mystic www.innatmystic.com Central Mystic inn with rooms with wood burning fireplaces. Close to downtown, Mystic Seaport and Mystic Aquarium.
Bee and Thistle Inn, Old Lyme www.beeandthistleinn.com Quintessential New England inn with fireplaces in common areas. Across the street from the Florence Griswold Museum.
Another Second Penny Inn, Stonington www.secondpenny.com Historic B&B on outskirts of town. Fireplaces in common areas. Gas in individual rooms.
Vineyards to sit and sip:
Sharpe Hill Vineyards, Pomfret www.sharpehill.com A beautiful vineyard that hosts an award winning restaurant with wood fires.
Heritage Trail Vineyards, Lisbon www.HeritageTrail.com Outdoor fire pits that glow every winter night. Enjoy them from the greenhouse while you dine or from the patio under heat-lamps. Post dinner marshmallow roasting is free.
Chamard Vineyards, Clinton www.chamard.com A winery offering a full bar with entertainment on select evenings. Large stone fireplace beckons you to linger.
Mystic Country is a destination that blends the tranquility of classic New England seascapes and scenic rolling hills with rich cultural heritage and sophisticated, top-flight entertainment. Home to Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Seaport, Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, Mystic Country covers the eastern third of Connecticut and coastal Rhode Island -- a convenient escape, 42 towns located just a few hours by car or train from both Boston and New York City, and easily accessible from Hartford and Providence airports. For more information on Mystic Country Connecticut, visit our website at http://www.Mystic.org.
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I thought I would do a nice quick post just to show off some of the things I've been wearing this week, trying to brighten up my mostly mundane life!
This is another Temporary:Secretary treat from my goody bag. I like to think of it as 'My Lovely Horse'
And this next one is more about the nails. . . Barry M - bloody love the stuff! I was discussing when I win the lottery how I'm going to walk into a Superdrug store and just walk off with the Barry M cart.
Now unfortunately, I can't tell you either of the colour names as I've had them so long everything has rubbed off apart from the numbers (Yellow: 134 & Pink: 272)
I'm sure you'll have noticed my other Temporary:Secretary piece - the Owl ring! I've often debated wearing my owl jumper, hair grips and ring to see if anyone would point it out or just think I was mental!
So, I'm done - again!!
Peace y'all
P.S I may be quiet over the weekend as I'm going home to get a tattoo and see the family, hopefully I'll get a good Sunday Roast out of it!
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Animal Magic
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I love Barry M aswell. Do you think we're wearing the same yellow nails (in my post last week). If so, the shade is called Lemon Ice Cream!ReplyDelete
I'm going to put your link up on our Press blog, keep an eye out for it on the "Blog We Love" page. xxx
It is possibly the same, I'm not sure how many shades of yellow Barry M do, and as I said there, I've had it so long that the descriptions have rubbed off! :(ReplyDelete
Just got some lovely ones last week, Lilac and Raspberry colours, I think I need them all!!
And I will keep an eye out for it! Thanks :)
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Truckers are among those paying close attention to a measure in Oregon that would allow certain vehicle owners to opt out of paying the state fuel tax if they agree to having a flat fee levied on each mile they drive. Although the measure does not apply to heavy trucks at this time, truckers are outspoken about what could amount to paying substantially higher taxes to travel.
The measure, SB810, currently resides on the desk of Gov. John Kitzhaber after passing votes in the Senate and the House.
If Kitzhaber signs the bill into law, the tax on vehicle miles traveled, or VMT, would take effect in July 2015. It would allow up to 5,000 Oregon residents to voluntarily pay by the mile via GPS vehicle-tracking technology or at the pump via a wireless transponder that communicates with their vehicles.
The tax would amount to one and a half cents per mile for light vehicles.
The concept to may seem simple but it's not, according to those paying attention to efforts that essentially amount to converting every mile of roadway into a toll road. One who is paying attention is Ryan Bowley, director of government affairs for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.
"It is one thing to have a user fee for transportation – which is what we have today. It is another thing to have a tax on mobility, and that is what VMT proposals and tolling systems largely are," Bowley told Land Line.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report in January that analyzed three scenarios involving vehicle mileage taxes.
The GAO showed that truckers could expect to pay in the range of 3 to 8 cents per mile depending on the scenario.
That means a trucker currently paying an average of $3,363 in fuel taxes into the Highway Trust Fund would see that amount increase to $5,792 under a VMT tax.
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Bowley says it's unnecessary to create a new bureaucracy to supplement or replace the current user-fee system based on fuel taxes.
"Outside of the GPS and privacy-related issues, there are significant concerns with the cost of implementing and continuing a VMT system," Bowley said. "The costs of policing the taxing on individual vehicles – 250 million cars alone – when compared to today when the actual tax is paid for at the rack – just a few thousand, nationally – are huge and will likely only result in more money going into the hands of vendors and administrators and less into improving and maintaining our roads and bridges."


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An Open Letter to Swindon Borough Council's Conservative Group
Swindon Council's Cabinet has decided to propose to the full Council meeting on July 16th that the Council tenants be balloted with a view to transferring all the housing stock to a Housing Association. This is a result of the recent 'options appraisal' which examined Housing finances over the next 30 years. The 'consultation process' was one sided to say the least. Based on a 30 year projection which is questionable (there will be at least six governments in office in this time span) we have been told that there is 'no alternative' to the transfer of our Council homes to a Housing Association.
The timing of this is somewhat ironic since we have seen in the last eighteen months how rapidly economic 'orthodoxy' which is widely accepted can be shown to be false, and discredited. In place of the maxim 'there is no alternative' (to free market economics and 'neo-liberalism') we rapidly moved to almost universal acceptance of the need for an alternative because of the crisis into which the world had been plunged.
Housing was a major component of this crisis, partly based on credit unrelated to earnings. In Britain, the housing crisis, including the chronic shortage of 'affordable housing', resulted from the sale of Council housing, the ban on building new Council homes, started by the Tories and continued by New Labour; the worship of home ownership, and the 'irresponsible lending' on which much of the mortgage selling was based.
Swindon Council appears to have learned nothing from this. With all its resources, it has consistently driven home the message to tenants, that owing to financial circumstances, 'there is no alternative' but to transfer the housing stock. Yet despite all their efforts (according to the Advertiser) the Council was able to gain the support of only 191 tenants who ticked a box saying they agreed with transfer – yes, that is one hundred and ninety one. The ruling group on the Council has determined to ballot for transfer on the basis of the apparent support of such a tiny number of the 10,500 tenants.
The Tory group has complained that they have no choice because of government policy. It is certainly true that that the current Housing Revenue system is fundamentally flawed. Swindon, like the majority of Councils has a 'negative subsidy', receiving less grant from the government than rent we collect from tenants. The Council has asked the government for the right to keep all the rent they collect from our tenants. We agree with such a demand and believe that all Councils should be able to keep all their rent. But we have some questions for the ruling Conservative group.
Why do they think it necessary to press ahead with this proposal when the chances are (barring some planetary catastrophe) they will have their own government elected to Westminster within a year? If they are demanding that this government allow them to keep all the rent paid by tenants in Swindon, have they sought a commitment from their own party leadership that they can keep all the rent? If so what have they said? If not, why have they not pressed Cameron on this? Unless they press their own party on this question, then people in Swindon can only conclude that their demand on this government is only political posturing; that the same financial position for tenants is likely to be maintained by a Conservative government.
If a new Tory government at the national level was offering anything better to tenants we suspect that we would have heard something about it. Investigate the Conservatives' national website for their Housing policy and you will see very little. Other than the obligatory reference to the need for new housing, their site says little about Council tenants, except insofar as it pledges this:
" Whereas Labour have curtailed the right of social tenants to own their home, a Conservative
Government will make it easier for social tenants to own or part-own their home. This will not only help people up the housing ladder, but also ensure residents have greater pride and a greater stake in their community."
That's it. They want to sell-off more Council housing with no commitment to build any more! So whilst their spin doctors present the picture of a new 'moderate', centre ground Party under the leadership of 'Dave', they in fact appear to be returning to Thatcher who helped to create the housing crisis by the give away of public assets on the cheap. Or as Harold Macmillan called it "selling the family silver".
The comment on "greater pride and a greater stake in their community" is in fact an insult to Council tenants, implying that only home owners have an interest in their local community.
David Renard made a public commitment that if tenants were opposed to transfer then he would be prepared to accept that provided that they recognised that the service provided 'could not be as good as in the past', given the financial constraints they faced.
According to the figures quoted by the Advertiser 298 people were completely opposed to transfer, 366 were "concerned" about the possibility of transfer, with 191 in favour. In other words barely more than one in five of those who ventured an opinion were in favour of transfer.
Why did so few people participate in the 'consultation'? None of us have sufficient information to make a definitive judgement. Some will no doubt speak of 'apathy'. Others would suggest that many are sceptical about Council 'consultation', believing that they have already made up their minds. There is much real evidence for this scepticism as the experience of the Coate and other consultations have shown. When the last 'options appraisal' took place the overwhelming majority of tenants expressed their support for staying with the Council; around 90%. Have their opinions changed significantly? We don't think so.
Last time the Council organised meetings on the Council estates at which there was a debate, and any tenant could express their point of view. This time round, with the exception of sheltered housing, where there is so to speak a captive audience, the Council did not organise meetings. Asked why this was, a senior officer told us that "the problem with meetings is that people with strong opinions have a lot to say". It is hard not to conclude that they were frightened of an open debate about the options.
What they are implying by refusing to organise meetings, is that these poor unsuspecting tenants will be misled by opponents of transfer who will "dominate" the meetings. This is ironic given the resources that the Council has to put their view. So they organised events at which tenants were given the 'facts' by Council officers and the so-called 'Independent Tenants' Advisers', in individual discussions.
It says a great deal about the patronising view of tenants held by the Council and some officers that they appear to believe that tenants can somehow be bamboozled into opposing transfer and that the officers are defending tenants' right to 'make up their own minds'. This is a travesty of reality, since tenants are naturally suspicious of those in authority selling them promises. Perhaps the Council leaders and the officers can explain to us why after all their money and effort they could only convince 191 people despite the fact that they can write to all of them, as they have done, consistently pushing the 'no alternative' line.
Finally, we have a question about the ballot process. When the ballot takes place will tenants be provided with arguments for and against the proposal? Or will the Council just send out their own propaganda? Will they make a commitment that the campaign against transfer will be given the opportunity to put our case to the tenants, so that they can read material putting the arguments for and against and then make up their minds?
With the numbers on the Council house waiting list continuing to rise, transfer will not address the housing crisis. We need more Council Housing, not less. The campaign for Councils to keep all their rental income must continue, whatever the complexion of the government. It's high time to end the discrimination against Council tenants.


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Check out the Indigenous Art
There are some gorgeous murals by artist Phillip Cote along the paths in King's Mill Park . This public art was commissioned for the Pan Am Path, an 80 km trail meant to connect walking and cycling paths across the city. Come out and have a look at them on this week's Saturday Morning Ramble! For details: http://www.torontowalking.com/additional-hikes/


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My imaginary anthology for 2005 is starting to have a shape:
Joseph Lease, "Free Again" **
Jerome Sala, "A History of White People"**
Jim Behrle, "New Pussy"**
Blas Manuel de Luna, "Huron"**
Anne Boyer, "A Reader for Those who do not Live in Cities"**
Henry Taylor, "Vision at Wood's Edge"**
John Ashbery, "Interesting People of Newfoundland"**
Gary Lenhart, "Garbage and Gravy"**
Noelle Kocot, "After His Woman Is Killed, Conan the Barbarian..."**
Reamy Jansen, "How I Became a Sensitive Soul"**
Kevin Fitzgerald, "Lumière"**
Lawrence Joseph, "The Game Changed"**
Cynthia Sailers, "YOU ARE HERE"**
Alice Notley, "Oath"**
Lisa Isaacson, "Viable Pack (The Collar)"**
Sarah Manguso, "Spectacular Pyrotechnics"**
Juliana Spahr, from "Unevenness"**
Jesse Glass, "The Passion of Phineas Gage"**
Jenn Habel, "Thoreau Entered His Cabin Fifty Years Before Freud..."**
John Minczeski, "Japanese Tree Lilac"**
Gonzalo Millan, tr. Annegret Nill, "Domestic Apocalypse"**
Nikolai Oleinikov, tr. Eugene Ostashevsky, "In Service of Science"**
David Shapiro, "Don Quixote Reading"**
Ted Mathys, "The Hole in the Fog"**
Cynthia Huntington, "Shot Up in the Sexual Revolution (The True Adventures of Suzie Creamcheese)"**
Susan Tichy, "One, Two"**
Robert Creeley, "Old Story"**
Eric Paul Shaffer, "Mozart and the Mockingbird"**
Jen Bervin, from "A Non-Breaking Space"**
Young Smith, "What It Made Him Think of Was the Sea"**
Alfred Corn, "Connectedness of All Things"**
Thomas Dukes, "Gospels from the Lower Shelf"**
Lola Haskins, "Sky Shots"**
J. Allyn Rosser, "Q and A Step Out"**
Anselm Berrigan, "Some Notes on My Programming"**
Kevin Davies, "Excerpts from an Ongoing Narrative of Some Length"**
K. Silem Mohammad, "Driving Into the Wreck"**
Anne Pierson Wiese, "How We Memorize"**
John Colburn, "in sales"**
Brian Dewan, "The New Face of Business"**
Dara Wier, "A Stick, a Cup, A Bowl, a Comb"**
Marlys West, "We Made You Out of Wax"**
Bob Hicok, "My new neighbor"**
Amy Gerstler, "For My Niece Sidney, Age Six"**
Mark Halliday, "Cleaning the Apartment"**
Heloise, tr. William Levitan, "First Letter"**
Ange Mlinko, "Poetry as Scholarship"**
D.E. Steward, "Novembris"**
G.C. Waldrep, "City in Search of a Death"**
Ed Smith, "Paterson"**
Matthew M. Byrne, "Hangover"**
Cyril Dabydeen, "Communal Living"**
James Grinwis, "Ode to the How"**
J.J. Blickstein, "Signs"**
Ken MacKenzie, "The Importance of Things"**?
Katherine Taylor, "Rules for Saying Goodbye"**?
Abraham Smith, "For Fear a Bear"**
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, tr. Alexis Levitin, "Tree Trunks"**
Louis Scutenaire, tr. Jan Baetens & Michael Kasper, "My Accounts"**
Michael Ryan, "No Warning No Reason"**
Joe Kane, "The Boy Who Nearly Won the Texaco Art Competition"**
Frederick Seidel, "France for Boys"**
John Koethe, "Hamlet"**
Jane Wampler, "More Sinking than Standing"**
Alberto Blanco, tr. Elise Miller, "It's Not for Nothing"**
Katherine Soniat, "Red Again"**
Mary Ruefle, "A Poet's Dictionary"**
Tim Seibles, "Douglass, a Last Letter"**
Jeffrey Skinner, "Poem Beginning with Submission Guidelines"**
Marie Harris, "Flight Lines"**?
Nicole Walker, "Falling, Self-Admonition"**?
Paul Muldoon, "Alba"**?
Hadara Bar-Nadav, "Rumination"**
David Lehman, "On a Line from The Following Story"**
Linh Dinh, "The Endless Bar"**
Honor Moore, "Wallace Stevens"**
Jeff Baker, "Charcoal and Ochre Constructions on a Bone Black Ground"**?
Jonathan Weinert, "Variation on the Theme I Am"**?
Laura Kasischke, "At Gettysburg"**
Franz Wright, "Woods Hole Ferry"**
Guy Goffette, tr. Marilyn Hacker, "Construction-Site of the Elegy"**
Chase Twichell, "Tech Help"**
Mary Jo Salter, "A Phone Call to the Future"**?
George Guida, "My Mother's Ink"**
F. Daniel Rzicznek, "Buying a Christmas Tree"**
Andrzej Bursa, tr. Kevin Christianson and Halina Ablamowicz, "Letter to My Wife and Little Son on Vacation"**
Elaine Equi, "Conversations with Fountains"**
Ray Gonzalez, "Findings (2)"**
Priscilla Atkins, "Wood"**?
Sara Johnson, "It Is Autumn, And"**?
Gwendolen Gross, "The Woman Who Collected"**
Mary Diane Hausman, "Poem for 21st-Century Bohemians"**?
Susan Browne, "If Not Now, When?"**
Barry Sternlieb, "The Way to Maine"**?
Matthew Sisson, "A Higher Love"**?
Jay Leeming, "Not"**
Dore Kiesselbach, "Rim"**?
Meghan Gardner, "The House with the Missing Roof"**
K.E. Duffin, "Betty the Barking Airedale Burns"**?
Anselm Berrigan, "To K"**
Ron Padgett, "The Death of Empedocles"**
Nicolas Hundley, "Impressive Ambassador"**
Sima Rabinowitz, "Notes to My Biographer from Rosalind Franklin (b.1920-d.1958)**
Chris Casamassima, "The Strange Case of the Internal Dialogue"**?
Chris Casamassima, "The Incident in the Living Room of a Famous Dentist"**?
Charles Harper Webb, "I Can't Stop Thinking of Harold Von Braunhut"
Erika Meitner, "The Night Before the Wedding"
John Yau, "Robert Desnos Writes"**
Scott Inguito, "Soweto Lash Dismay"**
Suzanne Doppelt, tr. Cole Swensen, "extracts from Some Sound Bell"**?
Don Share, "Squandermania, or: Falling asleep over Delmore Schwartz"**
Vinay Dharwadker, "Walking toward the Horizon"**
H. Masud Taj, "The Travelling Nonvegetarian"**
Eunice de Souza, "Outside Jaisalmer"**
Gopal Honnalgere, "You Can't Will"**
Jennifer K. Dick, "Invisible Palaces"**
David Samoilov, tr. Alexandra Dubinskaya, "At This Moment"**
Abd El-Rehim Youssef, tr. Samy Ismail, "Signs"**
Tony Trigilio, "Oh, Death"**
Brendan Galvin, "Sergeant Crocker Newton's Indie Film Debut"**
Liz Beasley, "Hippocampus"**
Justin Sirois, "globs of blogs"**
Richard Wirick, "Siberian Postcards"***
Lauran Goodwin, "Mermaid"**
Laura Kasischke, "The Thigh"**
George Kalamaras, "Pharmacology and Despair"**
Rob Cook, "Wolf Meadow"**
Phil Crippen, "Babylonian Bride"**?
Nate Pritts, ":The Hole in the Sky:"**
Jenny Browne, "Halloween: Pregnancy Test Negative/Blood Sugar High"**
Jenny Browne, "Spring Psalm"**
Gale Renee Walden, "Philosophy 101"**
Peter O'Leary, "To Suffer to Pass Through"**
Stephanie Young, "Happy Equinox, Happy Valentine's Day"**?
Ryan Philip Kulefsky, "To My Dearest Leftus..."**
Andrew Schelling, tr., "Twelve from the Sattasai of King Hala"**
Anna Moschovakis, "Critical Writing"**
Clay Matthews, "Mississippi Moon"**
Clay Matthews, "Poem Ending with Hands on Handlebars"**
Chris Vitiello, "Against Metaphor"**
Erika Howsare, "What found led to is"**
Ray Craig, "Three Collections at the Risk of Repetition"**
John Sullivan, "Scrabble Blues"**
Andrzej Sosnowski, tr. Bill Johnston, from "Zoom"**
Tony Gloeggler, "Thoughts and Theories of Space and Distance When Your
. Girlfriend Says She Wants to Live Together..."**
Rebecca Lindenberg, "Confessions of a Sensualist"**
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
life has been crazy! crazy busy, but good. let me give you a little update because I haven't blogged in a while! surprising? no... back in august right before school started and after we finished selling we were lucky enough to go up to Seattle and visit with steve and angie and everyone else was there too!(except for jared :(...It was so much fun! They had a big family bbq for work and we got to play on the big blow up slide and had so much fun having races and competitions :) There is also a blueberry farm right next door to their house, and boy do i love blueberries! :) i was so happy. & I ate so many. and then we made blueberry shakes.YUM
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Italian name of Piedmont.
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Contemporary Examples of piemonte
No discerning Italian is going to buy Piemonte mozzarella or tome from Lazio.Elegy to Italian Cheese
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Historical Examples of piemonte
In order to save time, the Lombardo, which was much the larger of the two vessels, was to take the Piemonte in tow.Out with Garibaldi
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We had the famous white truffles from Piemonte supplied exclusively for the King.
These truffles exist only in certain forests belonging to the Crown in Piemonte.
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The three-masted topsail schooner 'Oosterschelde' is the last remaining representative of the large fleet of schooners that sailed under the Dutch flag at the beginning of the 20th century. As the largest restored Dutch sailing ship the 'Oosterschelde' is a monument for Dutch shipbuilding and maritime navigation under sail.
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As you noticed, one can only define simple layer visibility dependencies in GAL using SetRequired() method. Effectively, you can quickly disable a whole layer when another is invisible, but it does not handle well cases of e.g. texts whose visibility should depend both on the layer and the parent object visibility.
Perhaps we should define visibility rules per class and not per layer, so we can check additional conditions. Regards, Orson On 02/08/2018 01:02 PM, kristoffer Ödmark wrote: > I started investigating this some more, there is much more rendering > problems here. > > for example, disbling rendering of front footprints disables all the > F.Silk, F.Fab, adhesive and many more. > > Disabling the rendering of Text on the front only disables text > belonging to a footprint, no other. Basically the Render tab does not do > what it says at all. > > A lot of this seems to because of what is set in pcb_draw_panel_gal.cpp:417 > > There is a lot of SetRequired-> (layer, layer) > > And that implementation seems broken, could someone shed some light on > the purpose there? > > > On 2018-02-07 22:32, Kevin Cozens wrote: >> On 2018-02-07 04:25 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>>> If you use legacy renderer then turn off Pads Front and Pads Back under >>>> the Render tab on the right the pads disappear. If you are in GAL mode >>>> they remain visible. >>>> >>> >>> Given that the legacy canvas will hopefully be removed in the v6 >>> development cycle, I guess this issue will go away. >> >> True, but I wanted to point out that as far as I was concerned it >> hasn't always been this way. I would still expect the pads to >> disappear if I turn off display of front and back pads. >> >> [Oops. Sending again as I meant to send it to the list.] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : email@example.com > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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Sharon Lerner is an author, producer, lyricist & writer. She also served as CTW VP & Creative Director for all SESAME STREET toys, books & records for 10 years.
Lerner was 1 of the 1st 10 people hired at CTW, originally as an educator & researcher & eventually joining the products group to create SESAME STREET products.
Lerner was immortalized in The SESAME STREET Dictionary under the entry for "unusual", as drawn by Joe Mathieu. She is the author of many SESAME STREET Books, including BIG BIRD's Busy Book (1975), BIG BIRD's Copycat Day (1984), BIG BIRD Says...A Game to Read & Play (1985) & Follow the Monsters! (1985).
Lerner currently writes children's books for Random House, including a 2009 retelling of Black Beauty. Lerner also writes political satire songs with Emily Kingsley for a cabaret in New York City.
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Do you know where West Texas starts?
How do you know when you're in West Texas?
That's the question Texas Standard asked Monday on its podcast and many Texans want answers.
According to Michael Marks, a producer at Texas Standard, the clear answer is the "sharp edge where there are oaks to the east and none to the west."
His reasoning?
"Oaks need more rainfall than they can get in West Texas, which is what gives the western part of the state its iconic blend of mesquite trees, red dirt and cowboy culture."
Many who are not familiar with West Texas believe the region starts from just west of Fort Worth runs up to Amarillo and down to Del Rio.
Cities like Midland, Odessa, El Paso and Marfa often define West Texas whereas some consider anything north of Lubbock as the Pandhandle, but not West Texas.
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Hot Springs has no shortage of music festivals for all tastes: Valley of the Vapors hosts various punk-flavored acts from all over the world, The Hot Springs Music Festival offers a bounty for classical music lovers and the blues and jazz festivals - both coming up next month - draw big crowds.
The good folks at the nonprofit Low Key Arts are adding another feather to the Spa City's cap with the Hot Water Hills Music & Arts Festival, scheduled for Oct. 8-9 at Hill Wheatley Plaza downtown.
In addition to showcasing the work of a couple dozen visual artists, the festival includes performances from Big Smith, Ben Nichols of Lucero, Grand Marquis, Mountain Sprout and The Extraordinaires.
There will also be plenty of good old-fashioned family fun, with a pie-eating contest, dunking booth, egg tossing, a hay-bale pyramid and more. All for just $5 a day and free for kids 10 and younger. Food, beer and wine will be available.
The festivities kick off Friday, Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. and resume the next day at 11 a.m. The live music schedule is after the jump.
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[Oracle] SQL to optimize performanceApril 4, 2007
You can try to run the following statement to improve the performance of table querying.
ANALYZE TABLE <table_name> COMPUTE STATISTICS;
If your table is big enough, it will drastically improve the query timing.
This may not be the best way to improve the performance as some school of thought suggested that this is 'old-fashioned' way of performance optimization.
Do read more if you are serious about performance optimization. I found this link which may be useful to you: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/text.101/b10729/aoptim.htm


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Plastic stool materials, it sounds as if only plastic, but if you want to subdivide the words can be divided into: tempered, original plastic, plastic, and so on, these materials of plastic stools in performance and quality is not the same, in which tempered plastic stool is relatively strong and durable.
Plastic stools are a variety of colors, as long as the human can do out of the color can be used in plastic stools, plastic stool children use more, is this rich color is also to attract children's eyes one of the reasons, colorful plastic stool will certainly give us a lot of fun in life.
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Have you considered artificial wedding flowers? According to the most recent Brides magazine the average bride and groom will spend £638 on their wedding flowers. That is £638 on a part of your wedding day that will wilt and die within a few days after the event! We met Rachel from Budding Sensations at the National Wedding Show in February and got her top tips and advice on why you should think about artificial wedding flowers instead…
Wedding Ideas & Inspiration
Why You Should Choose Artificial Wedding FlowersMonday, September 18th, 2017
5 Totally Stunning Alternative Wedding DressesMonday, September 11th, 2017
Long gone are the days when alternative wedding dresses were snubbed by industry. In todays society many brides are choosing to embrace the more unique look for their special day. Choosing your dream wedding dress is all about what you want – whether that be a classic white wedding dress or a colourful and modern two piece. So we took on the task of finding 5 unique alternative wedding dresses (well actually 3 dresses…) to help give you a little inspiration. We won't lie it was also really fun to look at so much prettiness all afternoon!
This dress is the stuff fairytale dreams are made of! The intricate embroidery detailing on both front and back of the dress will seriously wow your wedding guests. The mix of soft and bold colours create such a beautiful mix of fairytale and modern wedding. Chotronette create some of the most amazing non-traditional wedding dresses we have ever seen. Plus they are SO affordable it really is quite unbelievable. The designers Silvia and Laura, based in Romania make these stunning dresses in their studio and ship them worldwide. Prices range from just £100-£850. Read the rest of this entry »
5 Ideas For Your Wedding Dress After The Big DayTuesday, August 22nd, 2017
In the midst of this busy wedding planning have you thought about what you are going to do with your wedding dress after the big day? Some brides spend £50, others spend £5000, but after the wedding day has come and gone – what do you do with the gown? Today we have researched 5 different options for your to take a look at. Spoiler – our favourite is the 3rd and 4th option 🙂
One of the most popular options is of course storing your wedding dress. The best way to do this is to source a reputable company that will professionally store your wedding dress in the correct way. For example many dry cleaners offer to not only properly clean your wedding dress after the big day but also provide wedding dress storage boxes. These boxes should eliminate light, protect from accidents and be made from a breathable material lined with acid free tissue. This offers the safest long term storage and protects the dress from natural elements, preventing the loss of colour or "yellowing" over time. The price of this will vary from company to company but Connoisseurs Dry Cleaners in London usually charge around £150-£200. Read the rest of this entry »
How To Plan A Festival Themed Wedding DayMonday, August 14th, 2017
In recent years you may have seen a festival themed wedding day pop up on your Pinterest or Facebook feed – they are becoming increasingly popular! It's not hard to see why either, a fun atmosphere and a laid back wedding day – what more could you ask for?! Some festival themed wedding day ideas even include camping for the guests – others are more of a day festival. Either way we have found some great inspiration and ideas for you!
No festival themed wedding day is truly complete with fun games for your guests to play through the day or weekend! Many of these will be super easy to DIY however you can also hire all sorts of festival inspired games from various companies up and down the country!
How To Create A Wonderful Woodland Wedding ThemeWednesday, June 21st, 2017
Wedding statistics for 2017 are showing us that one of the most popular themes for the big day is a woodland wedding. So naturally we thought to ourselves – why don't we have a blog about wonderful woodland weddings and how to create them?
A woodland wedding can come in many different variaties such as whimsical, botanical and eco-friendly. Today we would like to show you a few options we have found that would make your woodland wedding really come to life.
Of course we are going start off with one of our own wedding stationery designs. Fauna was created by Ivy Ellen's own Stephanie Miller, with details from floral paintings by artist Jo Corner. The stationery is printed on 50% recycled flecked 350gsm board. This floral stag wedding stationery range is perfect for a rustic woodland wedding day. Fauna is available in a full selection of wedding stationery items including: Save the Date, RSVP cards, Menu, Order of Service, Place cards, Table numbers, Bunting and Thank You cards.
You can find Fauna from £1.95 right here: Fauna Wedding Stationery Collection
Wedding Planning – Top 5 Ed Sheeran First Dance SongsTuesday, April 25th, 2017
There is no point trying to deny it, there are many good choices for Ed Sheeran first dance songs. The majority of his music is soft, romantic and oh so sweet. Of course this is no exception for his latest album release. Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few months you probably will have noticed that the new Ed Sheeran album is EVERYWHERE! Of course as someone who works in the wedding industry I can't help but listen to songs and wonder how many people had this is as their first dance music, or even to walk down the aisle.
So for a little bit of fun, in no particular order, I have put together the top 5 Ed Sheeran first dance songs, enjoy!
Wedding Flower Displays with The Blossom CompanyMonday, April 10th, 2017
Today we have the lovely Izabella from The Blossom Company here with us to discuss wedding flower displays. I met Izabella whilst blogging at The National Wedding Show back in February. I of course fell in LOVE with the stunning floral arch on display! So much so that I felt the need to share it with all you wonderful brides and grooms. So I conducted a quick interview about The Blossom Company, and here are the results…
What is your favourite piece that you have created for a wedding?
That would definitely have to be the Marie Antoinette floral arch, it is just such an extreme statement piece to have for your wedding day, and it is very unique. I believe it's really beautiful and adds that extra glamour to the big day.
The floral arch starts from around £500 to hire however this can vary if you are ordering a larger or smaller package deal. You can also ask for different colour or varieties of flower to match your wedding day theme/look.
Stunning Wedding Cakes with Little Cedars BakehouseMonday, April 3rd, 2017
Today we welcome Nisha from Little Cedars Bakehouse – creator of stunning wedding cakes! I met Nishi whilst exhibitng at the National Wedding Show back in February. It was safe to say I was pretty amazed by the wonderful creations that Nisha was displaying. The traditional boring cakes are a thing of the past, these new modern, chic and stunning wedding cakes are in and hopefully here to stay!
A little about Nishi and Little Cedars Bakehouse: "It was all a mere coincidence when I was gifted my first cake mixer for Christmas. My hobby to bake became so addictive, I couldn't stop. All my efforts to perfect my recipes was only the beginning. Every cake is a canvas that I can express my creativity and individuality. My favourite ingredients are a combination of a perfect colour pallette and finishing it off with just the right accessories."
"Choose from our unique selection of wedding cakes and our cake flavour menu to create your perfect wedding cake. Alternatively, we can create a personalised design just for you."
So without further ado here are a few tips and answers from Nisha about her wonderful wedding cakes…
Our Top 5 Stunning Real Life Wedding ThemesFriday, March 17th, 2017
Choosing the right wedding theme for your big day can be a little daunting. The world of Pinterest is a very easy place to get in lost in, trust us! However over the years we have seen many different looks come and go, of course a few have really stuck with us. So we decided to show you a few our favourite wedding themes from the real life weddings we have supplied stationery for!
Why You Should Have A Cheese Wedding Cake with GodminsterWednesday, February 15th, 2017
On the blog today I am so excited to welcome Sarah from Godminster (who make the most amazing cheese wedding cake creations!). Whilst exhibiting at The National Wedding Show last year in London I stopped by the Godminster stand in awe of their cheese wedding cake tower. I believe my first words were "Oh my word, please can I have some cheese?".
After a quick chat with Sarah I realised that everyone needs to know why they should be looking at having a cheese wedding cake for their big day. So here we are…


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Anyone still thinking about using the Kinect with their Xbox One S or X consoles now has one more reason to stop. Microsoft has confirmed it is no longer manufacturing the adapter needed to use the device on those models.
This move is more of a final nail in the coffin for Kinect than anything else, as the camera itself was discontinued by Microsoft in October 2017. The Kinect adapter was free for a brief period of time for Xbox One S users, but eventually went on sale at retailers for $39.99.
Even before being discontinued, the adapter was not often stocked regardless, often making prices for the adapter on secondhand markets go well above the MSRP. Now that the discontinuation is official, it is currently being offered for anywhere from $100 to $300.
Xbox consoles will still support the Kinect for anyone still interested in using it, but anyone without one will have a hard time getting a hold of it going forward.
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IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation [Table of contents]Publication Year: 2013, Page(s): C1| PDF (629 KB)
IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society - Executive committee officersPublication Year: 2013, Page(s): C2| PDF (615 KB)
Electrostatics [Editorial]Publication Year: 2013, Page(s): 1473
The 8th Conference of the French Society of Electrostatics was held in Cherbourg from the 3rd to the 5th July 2012 and was organized by the Laboratoire Universitaire des Sciences Appliquées de Cherbourg (LUSAC), a research laboratory of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. The French Society of Electrostatics (S.F.E.) was founded by Professor Gérard Touchard in 1998. Under his leadership, this ... View full abstract»
Analysis of flow electrification in micro rough capillariesPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1474 - 1480
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In this paper we analyze some experiments made previously on streaming current in glass capillaries. As the "classic Poiseuille flow" and the hypothesis of smooth pipes do not seem to give a good agreement with the experiments, we have tried to see if a model taking into account the roughness of the tubes and a possible slip on the wall could give a better agreement. Indeed, for a liquid flowing i... View full abstract»
Electrohydrodynamic secondary flow and particle collection efficiency in spike-plate multi-electrode electrostatic precipitatorPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1481 - 1488
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In this work the results of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) secondary flow measurements in a spike-plate type electrostatic precipitator (ESP) are presented. In the investigated ESP two-sided and one-sided spike electrodes were used as a discharge electrodes. The results of 2D PIV measurements showed that flow pattern obtained for a different spike tips positions in respect to the primary flow direction... View full abstract»
Experimental study of the tribocharging process of plastic granular materials on a vibratory feeder devicePublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1489 - 1496
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Triboelectrostatic separation of granular plastics wastes is a technology that is more and more employed in the recycling industry. The paper is aimed at characterizing the tribocharging of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), Polyamide (PA) and High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) granules on a vibratory feeder tray covered by a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) sheet, in order to evaluate the possibility of usi... View full abstract»
Streaming electrification current model in a round pipe in turbulent regimePublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1497 - 1509
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The paper presents an analytically derived model of electrification phenomena in turbulent flow. Mechanisms of diffusion, convection, and conduction were taken into account. Distributions of current density where determined for the whole range of liquid conductivity and viscosity. The equations are derived assuming an isothermal incompressible Newtonian flow in a pipe in the steady state in time a... View full abstract»
Tribo-aero-electrostatic separator for coarse granular insulating materialsPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1510 - 1515
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The tribo-aero-electrostatic separator achieves the selective sorting of mixed granular insulating materials in a fluidized bed affected by an electric field orthogonally oriented to the direction of the fluidization air. The aim of the present paper is to optimize the design and the operation of such a separator, i.e. maximize the total mass of the granules collected at the two electrodes that ge... View full abstract»
AC corona neutralization of positively and negatively charged polypropylene non-woven fabricsPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1516 - 1522
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The insulating materials can acquire high levels of electric charges, which are susceptible to generate electrostatic discharges. The present article aims at evaluating the efficiency of AC corona as neutralization mechanism for positively- and negativelycharged polypropylene non-woven fabrics. The samples were charged for 10 s, in ambient air, using a triode-type corona electrode system of positi... View full abstract»
Effect of isolation mode and surface condition of an insulating barrier on the performance of a non-uniform field electrode system under positive DC voltagePublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1523 - 1529
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The aim of this paper is the study of the effect of the isolation and the surface condition of an insulating barrier on the performance of a non-uniform field electrode system. The study is carried out under positive DC voltage. The dielectric properties of the material were measured using the Schering bridge. The effect of the material isolation mode in the point-plane air gap system on the optim... View full abstract»
Computation of the electric field in aged underground medium voltage cable insulationPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1530 - 1539
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In this paper, the distribution of the electric field in the polyethylene insulation of a medium voltage power cable is computed in the absence and in the presence of water trees and space charge. The computations are made in variable regime, from the voltage switch-on up to one hour of application of the electrical stress. The water trees are considered of semi spherical shape and of known permit... View full abstract»
Study of DBD precipitator energized by a modified square waveform voltagePublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1540 - 1546
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This experimental work is aimed at evaluating the effects of high voltage waveform (modified square waveform) on the collection efficiency of a wire-to-square tube electrostatic precipitator using dielectric barrier discharge. The experiments are performed with incense smoke particles having a mean size of about 0.32 μm. An aerosol spectrometer is employed for characterizing the size distribution ... View full abstract»
Modeling and simulation of the effect of pressure on the corona discharge for wire-plane configurationPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1547 - 1553
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This paper aims to analyse the behavior of dc corona discharge in wire-to-plane electrostatic precipitators (ESP) depending on the pressure. Current-voltage curves are analyzed particularly. Experimental results show that discharge current is strongly affected by the pressure for a given atmospheric condition. Changing the values pressure does not only changes the property of the gas but also affe... View full abstract»
Effect of dielectric aging on the behavior of a surface nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier dischargePublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1554 - 1560
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In this study, surface Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) actuators powered by a nanosecond pulsed high voltage are investigated. The goal is to experimentally analyze the effect of dielectric aging on the electrical behavior of the discharge and the surface plasma morphology. The used actuator is made of two conducting electrodes separated by a thin dielectric made of polyimide and arranged asymm... View full abstract»
Additives contents in PAG and synthetic motor base oils and their effect on electrostatic phenomena in a rotating shaft-oil-lip seal systemPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1561 - 1566
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The paper presents the results of experiments on the electrostatic aspects of anti-wear (AW) and friction modifier (FM) additives (agents) when these are added to PAG (polyalkylene glycol) and PAO 6 (synthetic) motor base oils to obtain their blends. Experiments are carried out in a rotating shaft-oil-lip seal system (a friction junction) which is a specially built experimental facility to be the ... View full abstract»
Numerical analysis of DC-field-induced transmembrane potential of spheroidal cells in axisymmetric orientationsPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1567 - 1576
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This paper presents the electrostatic analysis of direct-current and steady-state transmembrane potential of non-spherical biological cells. The purpose of this analysis is to clarify the influences of different cell geometries and conductivity of the extracellular medium on transmembrane potential. The cells are modeled as spherical or spheroidal and as having different ratios between the radii i... View full abstract»
Physico-chemical diagnosis of EPDM electrical aging by tree phenomenonPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1577 - 1583
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This paper presents a physico-chemical experimental study of treeing structures expanding in EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer) in a point - plane electrode geometry. Accelerated electrical degradation tests, under alternating 50 Hz electrical field, were realised on this polymer to initiate trees and to follow their propagation (i.e. the tree length) by measuring the partial discharges (PDs)... View full abstract»
Experimental analysis of a cyclone tribocharging device for free-fall triboelectric separation of plastic particlesPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1584 - 1589
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A cyclone can be employed as tribocharging device for free-fall electrostatic separation of granular plastic mixtures. The objective of this work is to validate the possibility of modifying the "standard" operation of such a device, so that the turbine of the cyclone to participate in the charging process of the granules. Thus the granular product is introduced through a funnel into the turbine an... View full abstract»
Feasibility analysis of reduced-scale air breakdown tests in high voltage laboratories combined with the use of scaled test cagesPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1590 - 1597
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Breakdown and corona extra- and ultra-high voltage tests are expensive, time-consuming and require large and extremely costly high-voltage halls, of which there are very few worldwide. Some of these limiting requirements may be minimized by using test cages and by applying reduced-scale tests. In this work the feasibility of performing breakdown reduced-scale tests combined with the use of test ca... View full abstract»
Comparative study of the electrostatic charging tendency between synthetic ester and mineral oilPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1598 - 1606
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The growing demands for improved fire safety, source material sustainability, environment friendliness, and asset life extension have driven the research and development efforts of synthetic esters, less-flammable fluids. However the relatively limited number of work on these esters and their cost still limit their uses to specific applications. This contribution reports some investigations onto t... View full abstract»
Plasmatron for simulation of re-entry conditions in a planetary atmospherePublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1607 - 1615
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The characteristics of segmented plasmatron are presented. The arc is sustained in argon plasma and in plasma stream, argon, nitrogen and carbon-dioxide are introduced. The numerical simulation of argon electric arc and plasma stream is carried out and the temperatures and densities of electron and heavy particles are presented. Experimental and theoretical investigations determine and explain the... View full abstract»
2-D simulation of dual frequency capacitively coupled helium plasma, using COMSOL multiphysicsPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1616 - 1624
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A two-dimensional (2D) self-consistent fluid simulation of dual frequency capacitively coupled radio discharges of helium plasma is presented. The model solves the continuity equations for charged species and the electron energy balance equation, coupled with Poisson's equation by finite element method, using COMSOL Multiphysics software. In this study, the low frequency (LF) is set to 13.56 MHz w... View full abstract»
Surface tracking on pressboard in natural and synthetic transformer liquids under AC stressPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1625 - 1634
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Experimental investigations were carried out to study the tracking process on pressboard in esters under ac voltages. The evolutions of creepage discharges were analyzed by correlating the visual records of surface tracking, the phase resolved PD patterns, the discharge current signals and the high speed shadowgraph images. It is found that the impregnated pressboard is susceptive to discharge ero... View full abstract»
Investigation on creeping discharges propagating over pressboard immersed in mineral and vegetable oils under AC, DC and lightning impulse voltagesPublication Year: 2013, Page(s):1635 - 1640
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This paper deals with the experimental characterization of discharges (namely the shape and stopping length) propagating over pressboard of different thicknesses immersed in mineral and vegetable oils, under AC, DC and lightning impulse voltages (1.2/50 μs) using a pointplane electrode arrangement; the point being perpendicular to pressboard. It's shown that the thickness of pressboard and the typ... View full abstract»
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To operate power transformers long-term, as well as ensuring their insulating reliability, an adequate study must be conducted on the age-related decline of various insulating oil characteristics and the method to inhibit the same. Accordingly, in the present study, 1,2,3-benzotriazole (BTA) and 2,6-dibutyl-4-methylphenol (DBPC), which are expected to be effective in preventing oxidation degradati... View full abstract»
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UPDATE 3rd July 11.43am Within the last hour Stirchley stabbing suspect Leon Harrison has handed himself in. West Midlands Police thank everyone who shared their appeal.
Update 2nd July 5pm: Police have named the man wanted in connection with the stabbing – click here for description and image
Updated 2nd July 12.50pm
West Midlands Police have launched a manhunt yesterday (1st July) afternoon following an attack on a woman outside Fitness First gym in Stirchley.
The 31 year old woman was stabbed in the car park of the Pershore Road gym at around 2pm yesterday afternoon before her attacker made off in a silver coloured car. Police believe her attacker was known to her.
The woman, who suffered multiple stab wounds, is underwent surgery in hospital yesterday after sustaining life threatening injuries. Her condition today is described as critical but stable.
Detective Inspector Justin Spanner, from Force CID, said: "This woman is lucky to be alive.
"We have spoken to a number of witnesses who were at the car park at the time but there are still a number of others we have yet to hear from.
"There was also a long queue of traffic along Pershore Road yesterday afternoon and someone sat in that traffic may have seen the suspect we are looking for.
"If you have any information, or if you saw anything suspicious in the area at the time, please contact us as soon as possible."
Detectives are appealing to any witnesses to call them on 101 (or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111) and are particularly keen to hear from the driver of a blue Renault which was leaving the car park at the time of the incident as they may have witnessed the incident.
If anyone knows of the whereabouts of the man, they are advised not to approach him and to call 999.
Will provide updates as we get them.
Update 2nd July 5pm: Police have named the man wanted in connection with the stabbing – click here for description and image
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text: This extra-virgin is cold pressed in one of the last mills from Drôme in Provence still using the ancestral granit millstone. This type of fabrication has the advantage of retaining all of the olive flavor in the oil. Rich and delicious, this fruity olive oil is a true crowd pleaser. Presented in an elegant decanter with a pewter label (marked "huile d'olive vierge" - virgin olive oil).


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|Cottage garden lovely and we have a beautiful one. But what do you guys do to store the rake , hoe , fork? We have been finding it really very difficult to store them and now we are planning to build this garden shed ( http://inthebackyard.ca/produc... ) for our place. What do you guys feel? I found some wonderful ideas in http://cutediyprojects.com/org... . I love the idea of garden storage bed as well. What do you guys feel? Please feel free to suggest your views or ideas.
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|Looks good to me. Our tools go in the garage but not everyone has a garage. Our neighbor has a shed similar to the one you show. It looks very nice in the yard.
I garden for the pollinators.
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|You can buy nice tool storage racks at the big box stores for long-handled tools like your garden tools. The handles just hook into the rack and they store neatly against a wall.
Or if you have small children and want to keep them up out of reach, a pair of hooks screwed into the studwall, big enough for the handle of the tool will store them horizontally. Some people just hammer in a couple of long nails at a slight angle . . (my Dad's favorite solution)
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a nice relaxing time
2 Night Cruise To Nowhere (Boston Roundtrip)
Sail Date: October 28, 2011
Ship: Norwegian Dawn
Cabin Type: Oceanview
Traveled As: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review SummaryI liked the whole package. Guest seem to have an agenda set [as did I ] I saw only contented individuals.
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2 days/1 night
Destinations: Karelia Tours
Activities: Sightseeing
Visit to Kizhi and Valaam Islands on a two-day trip from Petrozavodsk
- Walking tour to the open-air Museum of Wooden Architecture "Kizhi";
- Visit to Valaam Island with the excursion to Valaam Monastery;
~07:00 - Arrival in Petrozavodsk by train from St Petersburg (Moscow). Meet at the train station by a local English-speaking guide who hands over a roundtrip voucher Petrozavodsk-Kizhi. Transfer to the port.
~12:30 - Departure for the Island of Kizhi located in Lake Onego by hydrofoil (without guide).
~14:00- Arrival at the Island. Meet a local English speaking guide.
~14:10 - Walking tour to the open-air Museum of Wooden Architecture "Kizhi": Churches of the Trasfiguration and the Intercession, chapels and traditional wooden houses.
~18:00 - Departure back for Petrozavodsk.
~19:30 - Return to Petrozavodsk
Meet by the driver in the port.
Stop for dinner (if required).
Transfer to Sortavala (250 km)
Overnight in a hotel in Sortavala.
Transfer to the pier in Sortavala.
~09:00 - Departure by boat for Valaam Island located in Ladoga Lake.
~10:00- Arrival and meet a local English speaking guide.
Walking tour to the Central Monastery Manor and the Cathedral of the Trasfiguration.
Concert of Church songs.
Lunch in the Monastery refectory.
Excursion to "New Jerusalem" (second walking tour to the Monastery).
~15:00 - Departure back for Sortavala.
~16:00 - Return to Sortavala.
Transfer to St Petersburg.
Stop for dinner (if required).
~21-22:00 Estimated arrival time to St Petersburg.
Accomodation in a hotel in St Petersburg.
1. Rountrip Petrozavodsk - Kizhi- Petrozavodsk;
2. Transfer to Sortavala and roundtrip Sortavala-Valaam-Sortavala;
3. Transfer to St Peterburg;
4. English-speaking guide's services;
5. Entrance fees.


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Battle of Perception
Business Aircraft Operators Association's (BAOA) biggest battle is fighting the 'battle of perception' that business aircraft is for the rich and famous. BAOA is determined to engage, engage and engage with government to propel aviation growth.
The refrain at the second edition of the BizAvIndia conference of the Business Aircraft Operators Association in Hyderabad has been to fight the biggest battle, the battle of perception that business aviation is a rich man's tool. The association has vowed itself to come together on a stronger note and engage the government at different levels, not just the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA).
Though no representative of the MoCA or government was present at the BAOA conference (Anil Srivastava, Joint Secretary of MoCA did not turn up), industry leaders and experts said it was imperative for all to keep going after the 'big optics' of aviation (5/20 rule and other issues) got sorted out.
The BAOA President, Jayant Nadkarni, reiterated that the association which is celebrating its fifth birthday, has been continuously working on how to fight the perception battle. At the conference it had a video presentation and has avowed itself to deal with this at different levels – seminars, reports, meetings with powers that be, etc. The association will soon be presenting a comprehensive report on the issues affecting the business aviation sector which is being done in association with Martin Consultancy.
Waiting for 'big optics' to fade
The BAOA President said that business aviation which had enormous potential was presently stagnating due to various issues. The projection that it would contribute Rs. 3,400 crore to the GDP between 2016-20 had been downsized to Rs. 2,300 crore due to growth stagnating. High input duties was one of the dampeners. "If the duty differential regime is removed, the business aviation fleet will grow," Nadkarni said after the big optics of '5/20 rule, 160 airports development etc' which the government was now seized of, it would be the turn of the general aviation / business aviation sector.
The Director General of the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), Kurt Edwards said IBAC is to business aviation like what IATA (International Airport Transport Association) is to airlines. IBAC is working with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in taking up several issues affecting the community and one of the priorities is aviation safety. International standards in safety, environment, etc, were being established and member organisations were working together to have them implemented.
Owner / Operator Narrates Benefits
The Chairman and Managing Director of the Saraya Group, Captain S.S. Majithia, who has over 6,000 hours of flying under his belt, made a splendid case for business aviation as a business tool and not a rich man's toy. Recalling how his grandfather had stakes in pre-independent India, extending from Lahore to Delhi to Gorakhpur, Captain Majithia said in those days the trip is used to take three days and the last mile invariably used to be by road which were not really roads. It was in 1935 that the group bought a small airplane which did the journey in half a day with one fuel stop. "Our sugar unit in Gorakhpur survived because of the airplane as we could connect and ferry engineers and consultants quickly from plant to plant."
He added: "The small airplane was never a wasteful expenditure. It is totally beyond me that it is a rich man's toy." Industries, he said, are increasingly being set up in backward regions as land is easily available and the only way to access these plants in quick time is through airplanes as the road network in most places are underdeveloped." Despite the anguish, Captain Majithia said the industry should not despair but should strengthen the association to resolve issues. He mentioned how the sugar industry survived because of the sugar associations.
Panellists Rally on Points to Get Attention
There was consensus that though the National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) totally ignored business aviation segment, there were several issues in the NCAP which took care of general aviation / business aviation aspects and that the association had to educate those in power. Rohit Kapur, former President of BAOA and Managing Director of Arrow Aviation, who moderated the first session quizzed the panellists on whether the NCAP was a big departure from earlier instances; whether regional connectivity which was the buzzword was the policy initiatives enough to kick-start the sector; infrastructure issues, etc.
Amber Dubey, Head Aerospace & Defence, KPMG, complimented the government for the 'big departure' from the fourpage policy to a comprehensive once. Regional connectivity and MRO reforms were captured majorly in the NCAP. Though the NCAP does not specifically mention business aviation, the draft had several points and by extension it had implications on the business aviation segment. Nevertheless, he urged upon the industry to 'engage, engage, engage' with the government if it had to have a policy conducive for growth.
Dhiraj Mathur, Executive Director, PWC, said it is the beginning and there is need to leverage capacity as per the regional connectivity scheme. Though the budget does not have provisions for the sector, it was essential for the industry to interact with different ministries well in advance.
Confusing Terminologies
Captain M.K. Valsaraj, President & Chief Pilot, Deccan Charters and Colonel Sanjay Julka, Vice President, BAO & CEO, IndiaFly-Safe, were of the view that categorisation such as general aviation, business aviation, private operators, non-scheduled operators, etc, were terminologies which were confusing the authorities and others. There was need to simplify the categories. Captain Valsaraj was critical of the draft on helicopters stating that it was completely wide off the mark on several points. Group Captain R.K. Bali (Retd), Secretary of BAOA, talked about viability gap funding (VGF).
Arun Sharma, Managing Director, Aviators India, spoke about helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) and asked whether it was possible to grow this business with costing of Rs. 1.5 lakh per hour. There was need for landing of helicopters on site for HEMS to take off and hoped it would happen soon. Vinit Phatak, Managing Director, Invision Air asked 'When are you happy in business aviation?' and answered by saying "First when you buy the plane, and then when you sell it." The charter aircraft business is not making money. Rajeev Wadhwa, CEO, Baron Aviation, said charters are primarily driven by metros and we are not reaching out to markets outside metro. Now thanks to app driven portals such as bookmycharters and Jet-SetGo, it was possible for anyone to get a charter from any part of the world. Nevertheless, he said it was imperative for operators to comply with the bookings. Kanika Tekriwal, CEO, Jet-SetGo, talked about how her company was making profits and that the industry should not get despondent.
Kapil Kaul of CAPA talked about developing institutional infrastructure which needed to be aligned to industry needs. Prashant Bhushan, CEO, Taj Air Metrojet Aviation, said the country was faced with inadequate manpower. Group Captain Pankaj Chopra, said there were 360 unused airports in the country and it was totally skewed towards five-six cities.


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According to the Trader Vic's drinks menu, the recipe for this cocktail, with its name evocative of morning-after woes, comes from Sheppard's Hotel in Cairo.
2 flat wide cucumber spears
2 limes
8 oz. Trader Vic's mai tai mix
2 oz. light rum
2 oz. gold rum
1 oz. dark rum
1. Score flesh side of cucumber spears in a diamond pattern and set aside.
2. Rinse limes in warm running water, then halve them. Juice limes, reserving 2 of the spent halves.
3. Put lime juice, mai tai mix, and rums into a cocktail shaker with plenty of crushed ice and shake well.
4. Strain into two 14-oz. old-fashioned glasses filled with crushed ice. Garnish each glass with a cucumber spear, a reserved lime half, and a sprig of fresh mint.
This recipe was first published in Saveur in Issue #80
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Day 6 - Cork and Organs but Neither Floating(Part 2)
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Nice photos and nice blog.ReplyDelete
Pretty small room but looks like fun haha :DReplyDelete
that castle looks pretty cool!ReplyDelete
great shots as alwaysReplyDelete
nice clouds in the top two!ReplyDelete
I want to visit Ireland so badly.ReplyDelete
beautiful picture!ReplyDelete
great photos.ReplyDelete
Nice photos, you (or whoever made those pictures) is a great photographer.ReplyDelete
It was me, thanks for the compliment teutorix!ReplyDelete
I see why they call it the Emerald Isle.ReplyDelete
Awesome pics! Glad I'm following!ReplyDelete
I want that warning sign on my wall.ReplyDelete
i like the sign.ReplyDelete
cool stuff, were you tempted to mess with the breaker box?ReplyDelete
Best sign EVER!ReplyDelete
Someone has driven into the water like that, thats the only reason why a sign is there.ReplyDelete
Nice room. I'm guessing you probably played it smart, and didn't tamper with the breaker box.ReplyDelete
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I laughed a little on the 5th picture.ReplyDelete
I'm sooo jealous. I'm stuck here in the US with our crappy 120V :(ReplyDelete


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Raising Compulsory Attendance Age Needs Further Study, Report Says - Rules for Engagement - Education Week: "Eleven states raised their compulsory school attendance ages between 2002 and 2011 in hopes of reducing dropout and discipline rates, but none of them followed through with studies to determine if the policies were actually effective, a study by the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance found.
"The evidence for raising the compulsory school attendance age is inconclusive, so no clear policy implications can be drawn," says the report, released Wednesday.
But a review of other materials suggests that states that adopt higher attendance age requirements "should do so in conjunction with complementary retention and dropout-prevention policies that create a comprehensive approach," the report says."
a mother and citizen blogging about compulsory attendance laws and democracy, in support of deschooling, homeschooling, unschooling, school at home, community-run schools, democratic schools, cooperative schools, DIY, publicly-funded open-source learning centers in neighborhoods and networked across wider communities, learning commons, and all grassroots alternatives
policing our way to a better world?
Compulsory attendance laws are still the primary policy lever used in the US public school system, even when their efficacy and costs are unknown and unexamined. Do schools provide more services or only enforcement? Full report, released by the US Dept of Education, Dec 2013, PDF
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The Government wants more people to benefit from saving. New policies aimed at ensuring that all people, including those on low-incomes can build a financial asset have been proposed. This is to be welcomed but, as any financial adviser knows, savings decisions need to be placed in a broad context.
The Government has recognised the need for strong incentives for low-income people. But so far, insufficient emphasis has been placed on the disincentives to save. There are important disincentives that public policy creates, which need addressing.
There are good reasons for wanting people to accumulate financial assets. It will help to provide for themselves in times of need and provides access to other capital, such as physical capital. Research has also suggested that holding an asset in early adulthood will lead to positive welfare outcomes later in life. This, it is argued, is because financial assets produce a psychological comfort zone allowing long-term thinking and a sense of security.
The Government has recognised this and has a keen desire to increase the levels of saving among low-income groups. This has taken concrete form in the development of new progressive asset-based welfare policies.
The saving gateway will be a new savings account for low-income adults with strong incentives to save. Individual deposits will attract a mat-ched Government deposit, probably at a rate of one to one. It is likely that only individuals who are in receipt of a tax credit will be able to open such an account.
More fundamentally, the proposed child trust fund is designed to provide all young adults with a pot of money to invest. An initial Government endowment will be paid to all newborn children. Additional contributions from the Government, the child and their families will enable the fund to grow until the child has access to the funds at 18.
Policymakers have recognised that people on low-incomes do not benefit from the traditional tax-based incentives to save. The Government has rightly proposed policies which provide new ways of incentivising saving.
The match provided by the saving gateway is particularly noteworthy. However, the flipside of this coin – disincentives to save – has not been addressed. There are dangers that a contradictory policy will be implemented – encouraging saving by low-income groups on the one hand, while penalising saving on the other.
There are, of course important issues about disincentives to save for retirement. However, the priority for the people we are discussing here is for short-term or rainy day saving.
Consequently, the important disincentives are not related to structure of state pension provision. Instead the main culprits for potentially undermining new savings incentives are capital limits in the benefit system.
Receipt of a number of benefits and services is means-tested according to income but also according to the capital that a claimant has. If an individual has capital over a certain limit then they must support themselves.
The current structure of capital limits is restricting and incoherent. A person on a low income deciding whether to save faces a confused situation. There is no coherent rationale for the treatment of capital across different policy areas. For the social fund, the eligibility limit for a person under 60 is £500, for receipt of income support the lower limit is £3,000 and the upper limit is £8,000, the limits for different parts of the legal aid system vary from £1,000 to £8,000.Different rates are set within specific departments and while from the perspective of spec-ific policy areas this might make sense, from the indiv-idual saver's perspective the outcome is confusing.
What clarity there is for low-income savers is of a negative nature. The perception that capital limits give is that saving will not be worth it.
Research from the US suggests that the perception that the benefits' system will penalise saving does affect behaviour. The specific asset-based welfare policies are important breakthroughs but if a culture of saving is to be fostered among low-income groups then a consistent message needs to be provided by the Government, including a reform of capital limits.
There are some signs of change. The proposed pension credit will relax the current capital rules. There are similar moves for the new wave of tax credits designed as the successors to the working families tax credit. In line with the tax system, they will merely account for any income derived from capital that people hold.
This should be welcomed and encouraged. Those in receipt of tax credit, more than any other, could be caught in the contradictory grip of concurrent Govern-ment incentives and disincentives. More needs to be done though. A coherent understanding of when public policy should require people to save and when it should force people to run down any assets and provide for themselves needs to be found.
The advent of new savings policies such as the Saving Gateway should serve as a catalyst for thinking more coherently about incentives and disincentives to save for people on low-incomes.
If IFAs are to advise the people targeted by the Government to save, then greater attention needs to be paid to the disincentives created by public policy.
Clarity begins at home
The Government wants more people to benefit from saving. New policies aimed at ensuring that all people, including those on low-incomes can build a financial asset have been proposed. This is to be welcomed but, as any financial adviser knows, savings decisions need to be placed in a broad context.