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County has cash flow problem
County commissioners approved the consent agenda at last week's regular county board meeting which revealed the county's cash balance, as of March 31, 2014.
The consent agenda has items that do not come under discussion, unless a change is made to them or a commissioner asks to have the item put into the regular agenda to be discussed.
Cash balances from a year ago, March 31, 2013, were also included as a comparison.
The general fund has a negative balance of -$182,130.46 compared to -$255,796.64 in 2013. Health and Human Services' balance is $33,513.40; in 2013 it was $1,249,302.88. The road and bridge fund has $2,242,631.36, in 2013 it was $5,765,822.56. Land management fund is $1,926571.99; in 2013 it was $1,533,649.83.
A total was shown, which includes "non-major funds," of $4,737,558.13, down $3,832,820.94 from 2013's total of $8,570,379.07.
Several select people and department heads within the courthouse were sent an email from County Administrator David Minke which said "… the county is experiencing a potential cash shortfall." Though the email was not included in the board agenda, the Hinckley News was able to obtain a copy.
Department heads were told, to help avoid a cash shortfall, they were to review current expenditures and, if possible, "delay large expenditures until the county's cash position improves."
Some county funds are dedicated and can only be used to pay specific bills and thus cannot be put into the general fund or funneled to other depleted funds.
Before the April 15 meeting was called to order, the Hinckley News asked board Chairman Curt Rossow of Willow River if he was aware of the memo and if the county was going to be able to pay its bills. He said he was aware of the memo.
Minke said there were no issues other than a "cash flow" problem. He deferred to Auditor/Treasurer Cathy Clemmer who confirmed his evaluation.
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Commissioners Mitch Pangerl of Pine City and Matt Ludwig of Sandstone, board members assigned to the board's facilities committee, met with Pine City Council Member Brian Scholin, City Administrator Holly Wilson and Minke. Commissioner Steve Hallan of Pine City also attended.
Discussion centered around a long-term commitment for space Pine City leases from the county in the old courthouse, now known as the Pine Government Center (PGC).
Ludwig said a few options were reviewed to expand the now leased space. Those options were the county remains owner/landlord of PGC with increased rent, Pine City shares ownership of the building and, finally, the county sells the building to the city.
There is a one-year cancellation clause in the lease which concerns the city.
The county could tear down the building. No cost for tear down was available. Rossow asked to have the cost available by May 1, 2014.
Pangerl said the city would like to know the cost of purchasing the whole building and the cost of the second floor which the city now occupies. Pine City is receptive to purchasing the second floor and would be able to make the changes necessary for the best use of the space. The county would own the top floor and the "garden view" bottom floor. Each floor would have metered heating.
"It's either the rent will be higher or they purchase the building. Either way this would be long term," he said.
All available space is rented, Pangerl said, adding that Pine City leasing the space was the catalyst for the other businesses going into the building.
Pine City pays $6 per square foot and the other tenants pay $12 per square foot. Utilities are barely covered by the rent and Pangerl said he wants to see Pine City's per square foot costs equal the other tenants.
Commissioner Steve Chaffee of Hinckley asked what city representatives' response was to the increased rent.
"Neutral," Ludwig said.
In other business:
- The board recognized the retirement of Chief Deputy Steve Blackwell, effective April 18.


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I was really excited when I heard Noah Baumbach had a new film. Although I was disappointed in his last film "Margot at the Wedding", maybe a lot of people liked it I didn't. However thinking about "Kicking and Screaming" and "The Squid and the Whale" I entered the movie theater with great excitement. I wasn't disappointed.
The story is about Roger Greenberg, a guy who was a former musician and backed out of the opportunity of their lifetime or so it seemed. Now Greenberg works as a carpenter and whose vocation is writing eloquent letters of complaint about apparently minor inconveniences. He appears to be seriously emotionally troubled. The character played by Ben Stiller as a 40 year old with of raw nerves and complex defense mechanisms, Roger returns to Los Angeles after 15 years in New York and a short stay in a mental hospital after a breakdown. He stays in the large hillside house of his brother, who has gone with his wife and children to Vietnam for a long vacation.
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Although he is a narcissist, "Greenberg" is not all about him. There are lots of aspects about this film that I can relate to. It is perhaps the funniest and saddest movie Baumbach has made so far, and also the riskiest. Ben Stiller is absolutely great in this film he was able to suppress his comedian persona, turns Roger into a challenge to the Hollywood axiom that a movie's protagonist must be likable. But Baumbach was brilliant in writing this character that inspires all kinds of emotions he treats Greenberg with compassion, even tenderness.
The question is how do you find yourself? Sometimes against even your best interests, to venture that kind of generosity, Baumbach turns what might have been a case study of neurosis into an exploration of loneliness, friendship and the sense of emotional deprivation that grows in an atmosphere of comfort.
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CINCINNATI – FC Cincinnati announced on Monday it had acquired U.S. U20 forward Victor Mansaray on loan from Seattle Sounders FC for the 2017 USL season. The signing is pending league and federation approval.
Mansaray was named the No. 1 player in USLSoccer.com's 2016 20 Under 20 list, and finished the 2016 season with five goals and two assists in 19 appearances for Seattle Sounders FC 2. He is currently with the U.S. U20 Men's National Team in Orlando, Fla. for the team's final training camp ahead of the announcement of the squad for the 2017 CONCACAF U20 Championship in Costa Rica.
"We are pleased to add Victor to FCC, a young attacking player who is currently with our U20 National Team and voted as the No. 1 U-20 player in the USL in 2016," said Cincinnati Head Coach John Harkes. "We are looking forward to working with him and accelerating his development."
Mansaray made history as the youngest Homegrown signing in Seattle Sounders FC history, inking a contract in 2014 as a 17-year old. He was the youngest player to appear in a fixture for the Sounders when he made his debut in an international friendly against Club Tijuana at 18 years and 34 days in 2015.
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Fatwah angle emerges in Woolmer murder
May 01, 2007 17:05 IST
The fatwah angle has emerged in the mysterious murder of Bob Woolmer, with the disclosure that the Pakistan coach was unhappy with the time spent by the players on prayers.
Woolmer was upset that several members of the Pakistani team were followers of 'Tabliqhy Jamaat', a Muslim revivalist movement, Pakistan's media manager Pervez Mir indicated on Monday night on BBC's 'Panorama' programme, which focused on the coach's murder in a Jamaican hotel six weeks ago.
According to Mir, Woolmer felt players were focusing more on religion than their game. He went on to claim that Woolmer could have even invited a fatwah had he gone public with his feelings.
Recalling an incident, Mir said, "A CD was being played, which was a Tabliqhy CD, and Bob, who was sitting behind me, said 'why don't you tell them to stop? If they want to listen to that they could on their iPods or personal devices', and he thought that he shouldn't be subjected to all that and I agreed with Bob."
Mir said Woolmer had his apprehensions about the players' dwindling focus on cricket.
"He wasn't particularly pleased when players were going out to say their prayers in the middle of the game... and a substitute was coming in and then again... and this continued. He was totally against it," he said.
Mir's observation that Inzamam-ul Haq and his team mates prayed more and played less irked some quarters back home and the media manager had to flee Pakistan after a fatwah was issued against him.
Mir had no doubt that "there would have been a fatwah against him (Woolmer) as well", had the coach made his observations public.
The BBC programme said Inzamam and other key players of the Pakistani squad had become members of the Tabliqhy Jamat and the group listened to prayers and sermons while traveling with the rest of the squad on the team bus.
The programme also quoted the deputy commissioner of Jamaican Police Mark Shields as saying that Woolmer was murdered by someone who came from outside the Caribbean country.
Shields said the fact that Woolmer was strangled has led the police to conclude that his killer came from outside Jamaica where killers tend to use knives or guns.
"The difference between Bob Woolmer's murder and most of these is that Jamaican killers tend to use knives or guns. The fact that Bob Woolmer was strangled has led the police here to conclude that his killer came from outside Jamaica," Shields said.
He said that on March 18, the day Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room, nine murder cases had been registered across the country.
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It's a beautiful, sunny day here and the swallows are out making the most of it.
As I was mopping - yes MOPPING the dust from my windows, I could hear lots of swallow chatter.
One of the houses opposite has scaffolding up and I stood watching the swallows playing "Tick off pole".
About 20 of them were circling the house and landing on the tops of each pole.
I am guessing many were fledglings building up their skills.
They spent about 10 minutes playing then all of them flew off.
My little video won't do the moment justice but it really was a pleasure to enjoy these beautiful little birds at play.
They will be gone from us all too soon but today they are here and loving it!
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The youth at First Presbyterian Church are collecting canned goods, monetary donations, toilet paper and soap for FISH. To help, drop off items at 2101 Utica from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays or Fridays from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Phone 296-2604.
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Those interested in individual Bible study or prayer are invited to telephone 806-774-3575 or 806-774-0338.
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Windows Mobile 7 to Get Delayed to 2011… Unless It Doesn't When Will Windows Mobile 7 be Launched?
m sure the mobile OS still have plenty of fans out there that will
defend it, it s not worth mentioning anymore. Especially since there s
nothing about it to be mentioned these days.What we hear lately
is Android, Android, Android, iPhone, tablet, BlackBerry. Basically
the big guns in the mobile business are all getting Android bullets
while Microsoft, and Nokia while we re at it, can only watch the show
without interfering that much. What about Windows Mobile 7 then?
The OS was mentioned at CES and Microsoft officials said that there will
be some Windows Mobile 7 talk at the upcoming MWC in Barcelona, Spain.
But rumors say that Redmond s latest OS has been pushed back all the way
to 2011. Who s to blame? Well Android and the iPhone of course. These
two brands are dominating the smartphone business with RIM trailing very
close by. I am talking about buzz, news, rumors and leaks and not
necessarily about actual phone sales.
But when it comes to sales we ll find that the iPhone followed by RIM
are at the top of the food chain while Android is definitely moving past
Windows Mobile. These are all reasons that could make Microsoft delay
Windows Mobile 7 even more. Redmond probably knows its needs a killer
mobile OS in order to convince manufacturers to dump Android. Motorola
for example has already publicly declared that it will focus on Android
only until Windows Mobile 7 hits the streets. Other manufacturers might
be thinking similar thoughts as they all want a better chunk of the cash
consumers are willing to throw at smartphones these days.
So Microsoft may be right, we will definitely be talking about Windows
Mobile 7 at MWC 2010. What we don t know is whether we re going to talk
about why Windows Mobile 7 will be pushed back to 2011 or whether we re
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If you are suspected or charged of a crime with break of rules, you will require a criminal defense lawyer to prosecute your case in court and negotiating penalty. There are different steps and rules are followed for different criminal offenses. You have to choose the best defense attorney who have years of experience in the field of particular type of cases. A criminal defense attorney expert knows to submit the required information to the government and also the lawyer knows to provide the information about you in the court, in order to prove the innocence of suspected crime. He will also find out other things that are justifying your actions legally. Newyork criminal attorney will investigate your cases thoroughly and also provides personal service at affordable fee.
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The normal jumping capacity of the person depends on the height and weight. But the sportsperson need to increase their jump by doing workouts. The workouts may help them to gain the vertical jump. The vert shock program provides you the videos and manuals for increasing the jump. Most of them approach the exercise to improve the jumping capacity. But it is better to choose the manuals and videos to do it yourself.
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2DTG offers Barcode Decoding SDK that combines all 2DTG's libraries in one package. The symbologies can be auto-selected by the Decoding Library or selected manually prior to decoding from the Settings Menu (to speed up decoding process).
The following barcode decoding libraries are included into the package:
- Data Matrix, Enterprise Edition (DM_EP)
- QR Code, Professional Edition (QRC_PRO)
- Aztec Code (AZC)
- 1D Barcodes (1D_EP) including:
- Linear symbologies: EAN 13, EAN 8, UPCE, Code 39, Code 128, Interleaved 2 of 5 and Codabar
- GS1 Databar (former RSS14 family)
- Postal codes: USPS PostNet, USPS IMB, New Zealand PostCode, SwissPostCode, and
- Pharmacode
Library features are the same as for the full Windows versions. They are described in detail in the corresponding User's Guides.
The library can be used on any Windows v. 7-10/32&64, Linux 32&64 or Embedded platform.
It's GS1 compliant - returns Symbology Identifier that can be used by GS1 users when building their applications.
Data Matrix decoder includes "Dot Peen capabilities" extending its use to DPM (Direct Part Making) area.
"All-in-1 SDK" for Linux OS is available upon request. Operational Linux version is a subject of Software License and Technical Support Agreement that can be received from Customer Service Representative.
|All-in-1 Barcode Decoding - User's Guide - Windows, Rev. 02/19
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20 July 2016
Two Dollar Question - Aunt Matilda's Double Yummy Blow Your Mind Out Brownies/ Cincinnati Love Song
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RobGems.ca Wrote:
Somehow this "Brownies" song is even more zany than Ron Dante's "Leader Of The Laundromat" with the Detergents (which was wacky enough as is.) Intrepid's two biggest hits were The Leer Brothers' "Mystery of Love" and the Underground Sunshine's cover of The Beatles' "Birthday", both from 1969. Intrepid was distributed by Mercury Records from Chicago. Pockriss & Vance also managed to get Dante in another band, The Cuff Links, for the smash hit "Tracy" on Decca Records. When Dante didn't want to tour as The Cuff Links, they later replaced him with Rupert Holmes for the vocalist.
- 22 July 2016 at 16:59
The Intrepid label put out some interesting 45s during their brief lifetime. The one I'd love to hear is Dennis Linde's "Ballad Of A Blood Crazed, Trained Killer".
- 8 August 2016 at 02:18


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During this Advent season my family has been receiving letters from Traveler, a pilgrim on his way to Zion. This is our last letter from him before Christmas. A promise of Advent for Christmas Eve.
The way is long. I'd grow weary and despairing if I knew not Christ is my prize. The waiting is hard. We know not when he comes, but until he does we will travel on.
Endure, my good friends. Long for the end to come. There is hope in the darkest night, because God is good and his presence is never far off.
Though there be mourning, there will be dancing. Though there be evil, there will be justice.
Though there be hunger and thirst, there will be satisfaction overflowing. Though there be pain and suffering, there will be wholeness and healing.
Though there be toil, there will be rest. Though there be darkness, there will be light.
Watch for the light. We know not the hour or the day he is coming. But we know, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, because His promises are sure and good, that he is coming.
Praise God in the sun and in the rain, giving thanks in all circumstances. Hold fast to the faith.
We go, like our forefathers and the saints before us, not knowing where, trusting in the promise made in the stars. We stand in a hope that is sure, in a colossal, unfading, unbreakable love.
From where I sit, I see the light of Kingdom come. It's breaking forth across the horizon. Embers of sky aglow. I see it! Zion within my grasp!
O tired pilgrim, do not yet give up hope. He is coming, for now we toil, but one day the trumpet will sound and He will come riding on the clouds.
Home is on the horizon. He is coming, for now we wait.
Beseech and pray, for he is coming.
Your faithful friend and pilgrim,
"God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill."
Charles Spurgeon


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I don't mean to be crude, but it was probably the dick that did it. They're kind of a novelty to draw in a not-on-friends'-belongings context.
Seeing all these bits and pieces on here makes me wish I could finish bigger projects. Because I'm always halfway through a few at any given time, few of which ever get finished, leaving me with nothing to look back on but dumb shit like this.
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It is 3 months, 1 week, and 4 days until Megan and I get married. Or, I should say, it is only 3 months, 1 week, and 4 days until our wedding.
So you may be asking yourself, "Where is my invitation?" Perhaps you are a family member of one of us (Hi cousins!) or a friend, and you have been anxiously checking your mailbox, waiting for that bulky envelope that includes your invitation, your rsvp form, and your return envelope.
Let me put you out of your misery: It isn't coming.
Nope. There will not be an invitation in your mailbox. It's not happening.
This week, Megan and I put out our online invitation via email, facebook, and twitter. There was an invitation in the monthly newsletter of St. John Lutheran Church, and it will be in the weekly email of Brenham Presbyterian Church.
This is your invitation. You are important to us. We want you there.
We also did some math. Because we believe that a wedding is an event for the community of faith, we have invited ... well, everyone. At a reasonable middle of the road price, it would cost us $4,000 to send print invitations, at a minimum. Add to that the time to address and stamp all those envelopes.
Simply put, it would not have happened. Our wedding would have been significantly smaller, and important people would not have been included. So, in the interest of making this event as open and welcoming and joyous as possible, we have turned to the gifts of modern technology and social media.
Give us your RSVP at the online invitation, and let us make plans for you to be there. Come by the facebook event page and talk with others who are coming to the wedding or who are planning on watching the live-stream.
(A special thank you to our engagement photographer, Amanda Faucett, who provided the pictures for our invitations. Stop by and like her facebook page, she does great work)


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About this time last year, I wrote a post questioning if Microsoft should bundle Open Source software with any of its products. They've shipped a number of Open Source projects (Wix, Iron Ruby, etc) but haven't taken a dependency on one.
Until now.
ScottGu just announced they're going to be shipping jQuery as an officially supported part of asp.net.
Kind of a surprising move - but a very good one.
They haven't really answered the questions from my post. What happens when jQuery goes out of favour? MS is going to have to support it in perpetuity. And, yes, they're actually supporting an Open Source project. If there are any bugs, they can't issue fixes for it - all patches they submit will go through exactly the same review process as a patch I would submit (realistically, they can issue a bug fix to a customer no problem - it is Open Source after all). In fact, the community benefits more from this support, because they'll also be contributing test cases and an intellisense annotated version. And they're going to be building on it themselves. I guess the goodwill they get from this move outweighs the money they will have to spend supporting it (and the fact that it's a mature and stable framework probably help a lot, too).
Very cool.
There's been a bit of activity on the browser front lately, and a couple of things have piqued my interest about each release. So, I'm going to start by being the least topical I can and look at Firefox.
Now, I've always been an Internet Explorer person. Clearly, I've known about Firefox for years, even dipped my toes a couple of times, but I've never switched. I knew it was more standards compliant, faster, more extensible, blah, blah, blah.
I just didn't feel the love.
And there are two reasons why. Firstly, (and I know this is close to heresy, but it's true) IE is good enough. If you're not a web developer, then IE is just fine. As a user, I don't care if a site is xhtml or tag soup. I don't care how hard it was to develop. I'm using the majority share browser, and you'll make your site work for it. I win. The same can be said for speed. Firefox is faster, but IE is fast enough.
The second point was one I didn't realise until I read a blog post by Paul Thurrott. Firefox left me cold because it's not a native application and the look and feel was like an old school Unix app.
Shallow? Perhaps.
But to quote Mozilla's UI designer Alex Faaborg's blog (referenced in the above post):
Personally I think a unified cross platform UI results in applications that at best feel foreign everywhere, and at worst don't even feel like real applications.
Personally I think a unified cross platform UI results in applications that at best feel foreign everywhere, and at worst don't even feel like real applications.
You can tell a non-native application a mile off. VB6, .net or XUL – there's just something in the look and feel that's not right. A slowness, visual cues or whatever. It matters.
Firefox 2 wasn't very good looking. It didn't use standard OS buttons and other widgets, dialogs had text clipping off the edge of the screen. It was just a bit clunky.
And Firefox 3 was going to fix all of that. Worth keeping an eye on.
As did Paul Thurrott. With mounting disappointment.
So, Firefox 3 got released and didn't quite deliver on the native look and feel promise. Oh well. Along came the Glasser extension to give us Aero Glass, and Vista toolbars. Add the Hide Menubar extension and you've not got a browser that looks nice and native, and not a million miles away from another browser. All of which made it much nicer.
Shame they messed up the tab handling though. Try doing Ctrl-tab in Visual Studio and Word. It cycles through the tabs in a most recently used fashion. Firefox decides to simply cycle left to right. And when you open a new tab, it opens on the far right, rather than next to the current tab. LastTab and Tabs Open Relative fix this.
So yes, extensions. Firefox has an astonishing number of extensions, some useful, some not so. You can, if you choose, turn your browser into something that no longer resembles a browser. Email notifiers, weather forecasters, calendaring reminders, idle-time photo "screen savers". Why you'd want to put these into your browser is beyond me.
It's interesting that the majority of the extensions I have installed are what I'd consider to be functionality that should be part of the base browser…
But what this means is that I'm a convert. FF3 is my default browser, mainly due to 2 killer features. Not the Awesome Bar (which is very nice), nor the password manager, or the database backed history and bookmarks. Not even the rock solid stability, speed of rendering or site compatibility.
Nope. Second favourite killer feature is an add-on: AdBlock Plus. It's only when I'm using another browser do I see how impressive this add-on is.
The best feature of Firefox is it's ability to save the session, between crashes or restarts or just simply closing the browser. It's this feature that made me switch.
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Introducing 7 Best Tips for Healthy Living
- More physical exercise. If you want to be healthy is important to workout at least 2 and half hours, if your an adult.
- Put everything on a paper. At least when it comes to food, you must have small diary. You will feel tempted to avoid writing the foods that make feel ashamed.. This might motivate to stay away from unhealthy foods.
- Sleep every night for about 8 hours. This will help you feel more energetic. And you'll feel also less depressed.
- Keep yourself close to family and friends. This will also help a positive impact on your life.
- Practice the sports YOU ENJOY. Remember that I said exercise is important? One of the best ways to do that is to practice the sports you like not what others say you should practice.
- Set weekly goals. Their easier to accomplish than daily goals. Also, try to stick to simple objective, because they're much to manage.
- Avoid TV. Is important to avoid any kind of activities, including watching TV, in order to concentrate much better on eating. Because this will help you eat slower.
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A Version of She Can Sing
Indu Parvathi
Mrs Sen's palms felt soft and smooth and a little pudgy to the child as they cupped her face. It made her think of Pink Doll. She missed Pink Doll.
It had been busy at the intersection under the overpass, lots of big cars on the afternoon that she'd found the doll. The traffic light had started to flash before changing when a cotton-candy rainbow came arcing across the grey and landed on the road. She'd darted out from Poorvi's hold, picked it up and run back clutching the woolly head accompanied by the other kids' shrieks of 'hurry, hurry', only to have Raji snatch at the doll's brilliant pink hair. 'Let her have it, you cow,'Poorvi shouted and yanked Raji away. 'Kid doesn't have anything, not even a name. Let her keep the damn doll.'Raji let go but bared her teeth and jeered, 'Anaamika'. The child didn't care.
When she closed her eyes now, she could remember 666666666666666666666666666666WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO STAND IN THwhat irwhat what it had felt like to stand in the shadow of the massive concrete arches, hugging the doll to her chest. The sensation evaporated as Mrs Sen removed her hands, leaving a shallow vacuum.
'Sangeetha, that's what I'll call you,' Mrs Sen said. 'Yes, Sangeetha, music, that will be your name. And I will teach you to use that voice of yours.'
The little girl's hair, styled into a fashionable swirl at her nape was still intact, not a hair out of place.She sat stiffly in a corner of the room watching the others play. They were dishevelled and flushed with the excitement of unhindered playtime while their mothers drank wine and gossiped in the next room. Toffee wrappers, ice cream cups and crumbs of cake littered the soft, carpeted floor. Her stomach grumbled. Mrs Sen had forgotten to ask her to have her food, though she did not forget to introduce her to her socialite friends who had complimented her on her magnanimity.
'Oh Mrs Sen you are an angel. Imagine having a street urchin at home, that too with your own daughters...'
The child's ears burnt when she heard the soft tones of the conversation. She had stood there in her frilly green frock for a long time, then drifted to the next room where the other children were playing. Poorvi called her to join them, but she preferred to watch from a sofa. When Poorvi wasn't fighting with Raji or taking a breather from the comics to which she was glued, she was kind to the child. Maybe because she felt a bond. She too was ignored by her mother, except when she was decked up for appearances like this, where they would be paraded as Mrs Sen's daughters, 'so well behaved and beautiful'.
Away from her mother's surveillance Poorvi and even Raji spoke and acted like the maids who had been rearing them since their birth.
The child scrutinised the dolls on the high shelves lining the nursery from her sofa, deciding that none of them were as beautiful as pink doll who had been her friend ever since she had come to Mrs Sen's house as an adopted daughter. She remembered the day when Grump the big Alsatian had entered her room and torn pink doll into pieces. She had sobbed the entire night holding onto the tatters but Susheela the maid had swept the pink and white fluff away the next morning. She had other dolls, the fairy doll with its white crystal studded gown, the prince with his small white horse ... but she missed pink doll.
Mrs Sen never cuddled her after the first day when she was bringing her home from the big yellow building where all the other children like her had been. They were all her friends, who begged with her on the streets. On a blazing hot day Shambu Dada, who set targets for them every day, ('fifty Rupees for you, don't dare to come back without that...'), was arrested and all of them were escorted to the shelter by the policemen.
'Come on, get up, mama is calling us,' Poorvi shrieked in her ears jolting her out of her restless sleep. The party was over.
In Mrs Sen's sprawling bungalow surrounded by manicured lawns she felt lost. She longed to be back on the streets again with the other kids where she could be herself.She could sing then. She mostly sat mute when the music teacher came to train her at Mrs Sen's behest. Whenever she attempted to sing the teacher's ragas she did so badly that she shut up immediately.
'This child can't sing Mrs Sen, she is so besuri...' the teacher had said before she left for good.
'But I heard her singing the other day when we had gone to receive her from the rescue shelter...' a confused Mrs Sen had mumbled.
During the school vacation Mrs Sen took the children to the hill station where her husband managed his tea estates. The child shrivelled up under the steady gaze of Mr Sen who obviously disapproved of her.
'You and your quirks, Manaswini,' he had told Mrs Sen in his deep gruff voice. Don't hurt the child, that's all I have to say.'
The child hated meal times when she had to sit at the high table with the entire family, silently listening to the prattle of Poorvi and Raji. An invisible silver thread of conversation and laughter bound all except her at the table into a family.
'Where is this child, what will we do now?' Mrs Sen's frustrated voice reached her ears. The child was hiding behind a concrete bench outside the temple of Kali where they had all come to pray. It was the last day of the visit. She knew that the flight was at eleven and they wouldn't wait much longer.
'Leave her alone, she will survive, just don't talk about her. If somebody asks about her, tell them that her mother came to take her back. Come on get in, I can't cancel the plane tickets, come on come on come on,' he shouted.
From her hiding place the child's large fearful eyes peeped out through the gap between the concrete slabs of the bench, while the jeep snaked down the mountain roads.
She stood up, took a deep breath and ran lightly towards the beggars who lined the path leading up to the temple.
She was humming a tune.
Indu Parvathi is a writer based in Mumbai. She is currently working on a novel.


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Two weeks ago, we attended what was purportedly a "consultation" on the third crossing scheduled by the City's engineering department for the Friends of Kingston Inner Harbour, WellingtonX, and the McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association. We were not impressed; few in attendance were. More questions were raised than answered, especially with respect to bridge financing and those pesky development charges.
One surprise in the latest batch of third crossing releases is the inclusion of the WSE on the engineers' future traffic flow maps. Conveniently, the Director of Engineering did not include these maps in his presentation, nor were the original on-line versions of a high-enough resolution to determine for certain that the WSE was there. We requested clearer maps, however, and now we can see that most of the WSE is indeed featured in the engineering department's 2034 traffic flow predictions.
The following letter was sent to staff at the beginning of the week, and we await a reply.
Dear Mr. Van Buren, Ms. Wilson, Mr. Keech, Ms. Kennedy and Mr. Franco,
Thank you for the invitation to attend the presentation on the proposed third crossing held at Artillery Park two weeks ago on Monday, April 24.
We understand that the event was supposed to help fulfill the required consultation with community groups; however, it was all rather confusing. The start time was changed, the person at the desk didn't know that the meeting had been postponed (not cancelled) and sent away those who came at 7 o'clock, there was difficulty with the projection equipment, there was insufficient time for all our questions, and the answers to some of the questions were contradictory. We do not feel that this was a "consultation" opportunity and are left with many more questions. Could you please answer the following at your earliest opportunity?
1. Now that higher resolution images have been posted on line ("Strategic Case" travel flow maps) we can see that much of the proposed Wellington Street Extension has been drawn on these maps. Why does the WSE feature in your 2034 traffic pattern mapping?
2. Can you please tell us if there is a stated caveat in the full document that the WSE is currently under review through the secondary planning process?
3. If $20M is predicted to be available from development charges for the bridge by 2019, would there be nothing left for any other road (and related) projects? Recently we were told there was only $11M in the development charge fund. Is this $20M a separate fund?
In answer to a question, Ms. Kennedy stated that if the bridge were not built, the $20M would either return to the development community, or be used for other projects.
4. Whose decision would that be?
5. What is the impact on other road projects if all the roads money in the development charges envelope is used for the third crossing?
Many thanks in advance for your responses.


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Sunday, 23 May 2010
A bigger picture.
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I've been a fan of you work since I were a wee bairn. Could you please tell me what kind of pen or pens do you usually use, on what paper, and at what scale? Also, a work like this one is immensely dense in its detail, how long would something like this take you to execute?ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your imagination with us.
Impressive, I like it a lot -- especially now that I can see what's going on :)ReplyDelete
I was going to ask you about your art processes too.You must have pretty good eyesight to do all that small detailing Russ.I really dig illustrations with lots of detailing, these pieces must have taken you ages!ReplyDelete
Great pieces, the larger version shows off all you wonderful detailing all the better.
Thanks for sharing you great artwork with us.
Do you generally work to a formula of paper type,page size specific type of ink pen, etc?
Thanks again,
Andy T.
Greetings, Mr. Nichols!!ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed your artwork in the Fiend Folio those oh-so-many-years ago and I'm glad to see that you are on the internet. I really look forward to seeing the many new pieces of art and the illustrations that many of us on the other side of The Pond have never seen!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
John Seibel
Milwaukee, WI USA
Yes, I love the detail. I've always loved your line work. It's very inspirational.ReplyDelete
It would be nice to see some posts on your tools and techniques even your drawing space!
The bigger picture is appreciated! I like getting in for a closer look, especially on the folds of cloth in this man's garments... which, along with human proportions and pose, are some of the areas I feel my own skills are deficient.ReplyDelete
I was using a set of technical 'Koh-I-Noor' pens for quite some time until I laid my favorite one aside without cleaning it and fear I may have ruined it. One of my problems was that if I worked too big, when reduced down to reproduction size my hatching tended to look too busy... whereas if I worked too small, the hatching looked either too bland or it looked like the object had a pattern on the surface (rather than looking like tone). Your drawings seem to hit that 'sweet spot' in between, so examining them is helpful to me; many thanks.
Pens and paper? Well, over the years I've used a variety of pens and even brushes [though the brush work tended to be for comic work - that was when I worked as a comic artist in the UK]. When I first started to illustrate, I used dip pens such as mapping pens and Gillot 303's. I also used a variety of technical pens, such as Rotring [various types], Faber-Castell, Marsmatic and Micro-norma [not sure of spelling of this type, even though it was, for a long time my favourite work pen as it tended to not 'dry out'].ReplyDelete
As Limpey remarks, laying a favourite pen down without cleaning it can lead to disaster - don't I know it! You'd think that after all these years I'd have learned my lesson, but no, I can still be careless with my equipment. Sigh.
Paper? Can I leave that till a later post - just remind me. As for having good eyesight - thanks for the compliment, Atom. But you'll realise, I like to show detail, and I like to 'add' little bits to my pictures to emphasis the 'world reality' I'm trying to create. Sounds a bit pretentious, but that's how I 'draw'. Sadly my eyesight worsens a little every year; when I was a teacher this was something I warned my students of, but they often, like my listening to my partners worry about my posture from being bent over a computer, listened but did not 'hear'.
I'll finish for now but will rabbit on more about tools and elephants and stuff at another time. Remind me.
Just wanted to add my words to the many others who grew up loving your work.ReplyDelete
As a child, many happy hours were spent pouring over Fighting Fantasy books and getting lost in your illustrations. A little older and I was still inspired by the stuff you drew for White Dwarf. Your illustrations for adventures like The Ritual and Night of Blood were part of the reason I picked up WFRP as a teenager. The books were filled with great art from the likes of Ian Miller and Martin Mckenna, as well as yourself.
It was, and is, always a particular joy to see your work, however. It has a confidence in its line, a crispness to the piece that makes it stand out. Looking at your work can remind one of Beardsley, of Rackham and even of the engravings of Durer.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you Hal too for your praise. Your choice of artists is good, as all are favourites, but there are so many more. I love illustration art as a medium, and shake my head at the treatment of many who have produced such work in the world of Fine Art, though there is evidence of slow 'change' in its perception. Of course Durer has always been a master of the German [Northern] Renassiance, and both Beardsley, and now Rackham have made that 'crossover'. It can be honestly said, because of its commercial nature, that not all Illustrative work can be considered the best of a particular artist/illustrators work, but there are those who create a quality that is so recognisable, and worthy of such esteem that their work should be recognisable as 'Art'.ReplyDelete
It is high praise indeed to have my name mentioned in the same sentence as Durer, Beardsley and Rackham. I do not consider myself to be in their league but, I appreciate the praise.


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The boats can be unloaded and the cars with road trailers can be left in the free public car park about 200m inland from the slipway. This very friendly club often invites us in for breakfast, and they also serve excellent evening meals.
The tides this year would seem to lean towards a clockwise course. Using the high tide around lunchtime, we will head up to Fareham, then east past Porchester Castle to Porchester Sailing Club. This is another very friendly club that serves superb food. The area between the Fareham and Port Solent channels is very shallow and care should be taken! On the return to Hardway slip, we will have an outgoing tide to assist us.
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Our Stories, Short and Long
there is an approaching chapter
in the plot of Life
that is written in no draft
but the first -- whether in stories
cut short suddenly, or long sagas
that inspire in its craft
of staying buoyant
on a raging sea --
that dusk will one day come
to each and every horizon
that has seen a rising sun,
or in those pages we wrote,
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which we now fold into boats
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to youth gone by on a watery shore,
they will sail their little selves
like all others gone before,
to the last line of the horizon,
to meet the setting of the sun.
so the saying goes -- we're a melody in Life
as it continues with its song;
tiny echoes in harmony
or war that creep along
out into the open
to blend with the wind or
the heart; pulled apart by moments
of happiness and woe,
and as it sings steadily --
though there's no doubt in its beauty
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and as we move along to our own tempo,
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from too much pomp and virtuosity,
for our lives are but chords playing
in a finite sequence -- waiting
in the composition's infinite essence --
for that ever approaching musical cadence.
Suicide Stories, Often Short Sometimes Long
There was Sylvia Plath, a poet, a poet's wife:
who had completely sealed
her room as a shield
to protect her sleeping children,
before placing her head in an oven
to take her own life;
and Kurt Cobain, a musician, a runaway train:
who took a shotgun one day
to make the passengers pay,
and placed it under his chin
to end a brief living
overdosed on pain;
or Virginia Woolf, a writer, depression sufferer:
who put stones in her overcoat
to make sure it wouldn't float,
when she walked into the river
to save her lover
from becoming her carer;
or Margaux Hemingway and the vase-like fragility
of delicate Marilyn Monroe,
or like others we won't know,
their stories are ours too, so
remember them although
they didn't want to be,
and even though we struggle to understand --
when life pushes us on
to fight 'til the final gong --
those that take up the fight
to extinguish life's light
by their own hand,
remember those that prefer death's embrace
to the opposition of living
think themselves undeserving
of anything more than this:
a suicide more blameless
than a life in waste;
for though we make and are made in beauty,
some cannot ever see
past a deep misery
that swallows whole
the very sound of their soul
locked in a sad story.
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Cato's financial regulation guy, Mark Calabria, has an interesting post up suggesting we use the market test to see whether or not the Dodd-Frank bill has credibly persuaded bondholders that they won't be bailed out on the grounds of "too big to fail."
So what do the debt markets say (if they could speak)? The accompanying chart shows the difference between funding costs for the largest banks ($10 billion plus) and the smallest ($100 million and less), the dotted line shows the same relationship for the largest over mid-sized banks, to help determine how much of this advantage might be driven by economies of scale.
This looks to me like a chart showing that the cost advantage of large banks has diminished since Dodd-Frank was signed into law and that it might diminish further if congressional Republicans and libertarian think tankers stopped promising to defund, repeal, or otherwise sabotage it. Instead, Calabria concludes that "[d]espite whatever Dodd-Frank intended, the debt markets are speaking pretty loudly: too-big-to-fail is still with us." That seems like an idiosyncratic reading to me. But it even gets worse. The thesis that looking at the debt market was a good idea sounded compelling to me, but if you look at the chart it shows clearly that during the peak bubble years large banks didn't have a funding advantage. The large bank funding advantage was a consequence of the crisis, not a cause of it. So why are we even looking at this?


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Hunting is no doubt a very serious activity which should be initiated by those people who have a real enthusiast in this field. It takes immense skills, patience and perseverance to be possessed by an individual before being outside for hours, sometime at day and nights. Having the right gear packed in your Bug Out Bag can help you get the job done right when you are out for hunting trips.
Hunting knives is the most important tools you must never forget to take along with you. Hunters are usually confused and not able to decide what the best hunting accessories they should are kept along with them, so that there will not or chance of any threat or so.
Today I am going to give my opinion on the 5 must have knives for hunting. But before that I would like to categorize the types of hunting knives:
Folding Knives Vs Fixed Blade Knives
Folding knives have a blade which gets folded into the handle like any average pocket knife. Whereas the fixed blade knives are just the opposite of folding knives as they do not fold, but usually strapped onto the user with a sheath.
Folding knives have a blade which gets folded into the handle like any average pocket knife. Whereas the fixed blade knives are just the opposite of folding knives as they do not fold, but usually strapped onto the user with a sheath.
Blade Size
When you are out to find the best hunting knife, you should first decide that what blade size would be the best for your hunting trip. If you are a big game hunter, then definitely you will need a long strong blade. And if you think that you will be after rabbits and other small creatures, then the small blade size would be enough for you.
Blade Materials
Hunting knives are generally falling into the main two categories in the context of the materials which are used in the manufacturing of the knife blade. There is always a contradiction between the Carbon Steel knives that maintain their edge longer Vs Stainless Steel knives that resist rust.
Blade Shape
Hunting knives have an optimal shape that assists the hunter in skinning and dressing the game.
It is always said that hunting knives are the best friend of any hunter. So here are my 5 must have hunting knives for all the hunters out there.
Gerber Air Ranger
It is the most tough knife and super-light, comes with a blade over 3 inches long. I like the half serrated blade that chews through cordage, cattails and half-inch branches that some trimming. The open CDC aluminum scales make for a perfect beer bottle opener.
Ka-Bar Becker BK2 Campanion
The Ka-Bar Becker BK2 is a hulk of a knife. It is a thick, full-tang knife that is the definitive massive knife. The thick blade is capable of taking a lot of abuse and I mean a lot. The whole knife is over 10 inches long and has an ergonomically designed handle that will, even with the absence of conventional "grippy" surface, ensure that it will not slip off your hands.
The steel of this knife will cut shrimp for surf fishing and never rust no matter how long it bangs around, forgotten, in your tackle box. Spyderco uses H-1 steel in a number of knives in the Salt series, but this is my favorite. The semi-blunt tip protects waders from gashes, there's an oversized thumb hole so you can open the knife with gloves, and the metal fittings are treated for rust prevention. And the trim, folding design fits in wader pockets.
Morakniv Companion
The Morakniv Companion is a tough and durable knife that can perform well in the outdoors. The Mora Companion has a very sturdy blade made from high carbon steel that holds an edge extremely well. The blade is attached to a patterned high-friction grip that ensures you a safe and dependable handle on things. This knife is great for filleting, skinning and other minor camping or outdoors activity, but is not your knife of choice for hardcore outdoors tasks like bushwhacking. With that being said, the only issue with Mora knives is that the blade is made from high carbon steel which is not resistant to rusting.
Gerber Gator
A fillet knife needs to be flexible and thin and drippy, but most of all, it needs to be sharp. With an integrated ceramic knife sharpener in the sheath, the Gerber Gator fillet is all that, and stays all that, fish after fish.
So that's my take on the 5 must have knives for hunting.
I also want to conclude that there might be several other knives which might also be perfect for hunting, which I might have skipped. But I have made my own assumption for these knives to be the best ones for hunting.
Today there might be many options to buy knives online, but you have to pick the best one for you. I would definitely appreciate any views of yours in the above context or any points I might be missing.