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by Tom Utescher
With the high school crew season only recently concluded, many rowers in the area were enjoying some down time last weekend prior to the Philadelphia Youth Regatta later this month, but a pair of Germantown Friends School scullers were back out on the water for the Independence Day Regatta.
Encompassing categories for everyone from young scholastic rowers to venerable masters, the annual event has been staged (under various names) every year since 1880.
The crew roster at GFS may be limited, but enthusiasm for the sport is not, and the holiday weekend found rising junior Andrew Bair and Tigers sophomore Ethan Genyk racing in a quad for the Fairmount Rowing Association. Bair was in the stroke seat and Genyk in the bow, and in between were Episcopal Academy sophomore James Konopka (two seat) and EA junior Nick Mead (three).
Konopka lives in Roxborough and his mother, Molly, is head coach for the successful program at Episcopal, which operates out of the Fairmount club near the southeastern end of Boathouse Row.
Germantown Friends' Bair was the sole competitor for his school when he began to race as a freshman in 2010. Working out of Bachelors Barge Club, which is known for accommodating rowers whose schools have no official crew program, he raced solo in a novice single, winning the gold medal at the Philadelphia City Championships. This spring he stepped up to the JV single, and captured a silver medal at City's.
Bair explained that this summer, "My goals are to stay in shape for the fall season, and to improve my times. I'm always working on my balance, which is really important in a single, and I'm focusing on sitting up more and being more efficient in my stroke."
Ergometer scores are not his strong suit right now, but his times have steadily been improving. With his physique, gaining strength is important. At 6'4", he's a good height for the sport, but he weighs only 155 lbs., which qualifies him to row in the lightweight category, but is a disadvantage when facing open-weight rivals in major regattas.
His schoolmate, Genyk, was a new student at GFS last fall, entering as a ninth-grader. He lives just a few minutes from Boathouse Row and his mother, Daphne, rowed for the University of Pennsylvania. Ethan was introduced to the sport through summer camps he attended in 2009 and 2010. Rowing with James Konopka at the IDR last weekend, Genyk was carrying on a family tradition, since the mothers of the two boys raced together at Penn in several different lightweight boats.
"I tried rowing because of my mother, and I really enjoyed it," he said. "Right now, I'm mainly trying to get stronger and clean up my technique."
He played soccer and basketball this past year, but will probably give up the latter sport to prepare for the scholastic rowing season next spring. This year he was the stroke in a freshman double, with GFS classmate Greg Goldstein ahead of him in the bow seat. Rowing out of the Bachelors club like Bair, they won the bronze medal in their category at the 2011 city championships.
The success of the three Tigers has generated some interest in the sport back at school. After all, GFS is located only 10 minutes away from the start of the Kelly Drive racecourse.
Bair revealed, "We actually may get five more kids out next year, so the program is growing."


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One of the amazing so-called "balcony" roads carved into the mountainside in France. The Vercors region around Grenoble has quite a few, but there are two on opposite sides of Bourg d'Oison that are not to be missed. The first is the "tunnel" road up to Villard Notre Dame, opposite the side of Alpe d'Huez. We rode that two years ago, and it was spectacular!
Shown here is D211A, on the Alpe d'Huez side, and actually intersects the Alpe d'Huez at La Garde, about a third of the way up (right at the infamous Dutch Corner). It's incredibly disorienting to look over the edge, or even just to see the town of Bourg d'Oison a couple thousand feet below you! –Mike–


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My year in reading
I pulled together my list of books read in 2010, which comes to 84 books. It's not actually all the books that I read, but all the new books I read, not the re-reads. There were at least a dozen of those. I have a lot of time on my Metro ride to and from work. Also - no judging, please. As a colleague noted this year, I have "unexpected depths of shallowness" in some of my reading. I read horror and science fiction and mysteries. Live with it.
I need a new way to do this. I was using Visual Bookshelf in Facebook, but its export does not include the data from lists, as in "Read in 2010." I also had a custom filed if I own or borrowed the book -- also lost. I don't do this in LibraryThing because I borrow so many of my books and don't want to include them there. I'm open to suggestions.
Here's the list:
"Yellow Blue Tibia" by Adam Roberts
"Polystom" by Adam Roberts
"Gradisil" by Adam Roberts
"God of Clocks" by Alan Campbell
"Iron Angel" by Alan Campbell
"Scar Night" by Alan Campbell
"Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
"Dead in the Family " by Charlaine Harris
"How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" by Charles Yu
"Dreadnought" by Cherie Priest
"Boneshaker" by Cherie Priest
"Kraken" by China Mieville
"The Love We Share Without Knowing" by Christopher Barzak
"Bryant & May off the Rails" by Christopher Fowler
"Bryant and May on the Loose" by Christopher Fowler
"Seventy-Seven Clocks" by Christopher Fowler
"Ten Second Staircase" by Christopher Fowler
"Full Dark House" by Christopher Fowler
"White Corridor" by Christopher Fowler
"The Victoria Vanishes" by Christopher Fowler
"Rune" by Christopher Fowler
"Seventy-Seven Clocks" by Christopher Fowler
"The Water Room" by Christopher Fowler
"The Tears of the Furies" by Christopher Golden
"Bite Me: A Love Story" by Christopher Moore
"Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa" by Dambisa Moyo
"The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" by Deborah Blum
"The Alchemy Of Stone" by Ekaterina Sedia
"The Half-Made World" by Felix Gilman
"Blameless" by Gail Carriger
"Changeless" by Gail Carriger
"Soulless" by Gail Carriger
"Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World" by Gary Indiana
"House of Fallen Trees" by Gina Ranalli
"Basilisk" by Graham Masterton
"The Fall" by Guillermo del Toro
"The Man from Beijing" by Henning Mankell
"Parasite Eve" by Hideaki Sena
"Stone's Fall: A Novel" by Iain Pears
"The Secret of Crickley Hall" by James Herbert
"O Gentle Death" by Janet Neel
"You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto" by Jaron Lanier
"The Bellini Card" by Jason Goodwin
"The Snake Stone: A Novel" by Jason Goodwin
"The Janissary Tree: A Novel" by Jason Goodwin
"Shades of Grey: A Novel" by Jasper Fforde
"Aurorarama" by Jean-Christophe Valtat
"The Burning Wire" by Jeffery Deaver
"Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files" by Jim Butcher
"Johannes Cabal the Detective" by Jonathan L. Howard
"Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture" by Julian Barnes
"The Passage" by Justin Cronin
"Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia
"The Indian Bride" by Karin Fossum
"He Who Fears the Wolf " by Karin Fossum
"When the Devil Holds the Candle" by Karin Fossum
"Black Magic Sanction" by Kim Harrison
"Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape" by Kirk Savage
"Paradise" by Koji Suzuki
"The Betrayal of the Blood Lily" by Lauren Willig
"Fever Dream" by Lincoln Child
"Far North: A Novel" by Marcel Theroux
"Bad Monkeys" by Matt Ruff
"Critique of Criminal Reason" by Michael Gregorio
"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"In Light of India" by Octavio Paz
"The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"Skippy Dies" by Paul Murray
"The Mao Case" by Qiu Xiaolong
"Kill the Dead" by Richard Kadrey
"2666: A Novel" by Roberto Bolano
"Whitechapel Gods" by S.M. Peters
"The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements" by Sam Kean
"The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters
"Daemons Are Forever" by Simon R. Green
"The Kingdom Beyond the Waves" by Stephen Hunt
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" by Stieg Larsson
"The Slynx: A Novel" by Tatyana Tolstaya
"The Better Mousetrap" by Tom Holt
"You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps" by Tom Holt
"In Your Dreams" by Tom Holt
"The Portable Door" by Tom Holt
"Earth, Air, Fire and Custard" by Tom Holt
"Big Machine: A Novel" by Victor LaValle
"Zero History" by William Gibson
My favorites:
"Zero History." I love the story arc of the characters through his recent books, and his take on international marketing culture.
"The Kraken." I am a fan of novels where someone discovers a destiny that they were unaware of, and unknown societies just hidden from our own. Of course, I also love everything that China Mieville writes.
"Monument Wars." I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of urban planning, or the history of Washington D.C.
"The Alchemy of Stone." I loved this lyrical novel about what it means to wish to be human.
"Kill the Dead." I cannot recommend the Sandman Slim books enough for their gritty portrayal of Los Angeles, by way of Hell. That said, these books are not for everyone, as there is some extreme violence. Not gratuitous violence in my estimation, but more than some might be able to handle.
"Bad Monkeys." I am still not sure I know what the truth is.
Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century novels. Novels that make the steampunk aesthetic make sense, and feature the south and the pioneer west. I also had the pleasure of meeting her this year, and she's a gracious woman with a fabulous sense of humor.
"The Half-Made World." A steampunk western. I was extremely annoyed when it ended and it seems that there will be another book, because I wanted to find out what happened right away. But hooray, there will be another book.
"The Windup Girl." One of the most lauded SF novels of the year, which was highly deserved.
"The Disappearing Spoon." Fascinating personal stories from the history of science, framed through the discovery of elements.
"Aurorarama." I keep having to add that word to spellcheck dictionaries. An amazing concept where a decadent utopia in the arctic is poised for cultural revolution.
Alan Campbell's Deepgate Codex books. I don't know how I missed these intriguing books about a city chained in the sky over a gateway to Hell, and the wars between the gods when Hell opens up.
"Bright-Sided." I am not a fan of the self-esteem movement, especially in education. This book discusses the positive thinking movement, which I find equally fuzzy-headed.
Some of my surprises:
The Christopher Fowler Bryant and May books. I love quirky, and these English mysteries are full of that. I was particularly amused to read "Rune," one of Fowler's horror novels, to find that an earlier version of the characters were featured.
Tom Holt's J.W. Wells & Co books. I read a Tom Holt book some years ago and just didn't like it, even with its quirkiness. For some reason I picked up one of the Wells, book, and it struck the right note with me. The concept of taking the firm from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Sorcerer" and bringing it into present day with clueless employees is a lot of fun.
Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate books. Supernatural historical romance-y fantasies. Silly, yes, but fun.
"2666." This book seems right up my alley -- academics, missing scholars, serial killers. And yet, I just could not finish it. If my friend Mike -- who is in the same boat -- ever finishes it, I have sworn to try it again.
"You are Not a Gadget." I agreed with some of its positions, but vehemently disagreed with others.


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Classic Works in Evolutionary Biology
What is This Page?
This page provides a list of classic books and papers in evolutionary biology that I (Kurt Schwenk) have compiled and partially annotated. It grew out of a graduate seminar I taught in EEB (the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut) during the spring semester, 2008. The seminar was very successful—so successful, in fact, that one student was motivated to prepare a multi-media summary of what he learned. You can download Diego's presentation HERE (Diego is appropriately modest about his achievement). There was a general consensus that it would be useful to graduate students and the EEB community at large to have continuing access to the papers and book selections that we read during the semester, as well as additional papers included in the 'master list' of classic works in evolutionary biology that I compiled along the way. Many of these are available as pdfs on the LIST PAGE.
The list was created based on my own choices, as well as suggestions from EEB colleagues and various web sources. Obviously there are potentially as many lists of 'classic works' as there are evolutionary biologists - this particular list was never intended to be definitive. It reflects, to some degree, my own personal interests and biases. However, an attempt was made to be inclusive - for example, there are a number of very important botanical references (thanks largely to Carl Schlichting), as well as obviously important works in population genetics, molecular biology and other areas in which I can hardly claim expertise. As much as possible, I included only works that are generally important to evolutionary biology, as a whole, rather than the many papers that are of more circumscribed (if nonetheless critical) importance to a particular subdisciplines (e.g., phylogenetic analysis) or within a particular taxon (e.g., vertebrates; although I admit that a couple of important vertebrate papers somehow wandered into the list...). I excluded books and papers that are too recent. Thus, while there is no doubt that Schlichting and Pigliucci's Phenotypic Evolution (1998) (to pull an example out of the air...) will be considered a classic in the future, it is simply too recently published to have achieved this status now (I have added a separate section for such works, with the oxymoronic title, 'Modern Classics'). Finally, I note that several of the listed works are followed by a sublist of related papers that are not 'classics', themselves, but are helpful in appreciating the context or significance of the listed work. This is a type of emendation/addition/annotation that would be particularly useful (see suggestions, below, about annnotations).
Who Can Use These Pages?
EEBians can download all papers on the list where available (LINK HERE) simply by logging in using your UConn Net ID (click on link at upper right corner of the page OR simply click on a pdf icon and you will be directed to log in). EEBians are also encouraged to annotate the list according to the guidelines noted below. If you are a member of the EEB community and haven't done so already, please send Paul Lewis (Mr. EEBedia) your net ID (but not your password). Once you are on the 'acceptable' list, you have full access. Paul has created a system for this page and future course pages whereby it is not necessary to remember a username and password to access pdfs - it is all accomplished by logging in with your Net ID (see EEB Webmaster).
If you have a UConn Net ID, but are not a member of EEB, and you wish to have full access to the list (i.e., the ability to download everything), you can make your case to me (email@example.com) or Paul (email@example.com) for the addition of your Net ID to the user list. Permission can be granted in special cases.
Obviously, you are welcome to read this page, peruse the LIST and download a copy of the list using the link on this page, below, but you will be unable to download most of the pdfs. This is for reasons of copyright. However, a number of items on the list have links to open sources or full text documents on the web. If you have any questions or comments about the list, or wish to make annotations or suggestions for additions/deletions, please contact me directly (email@example.com).
Classic Works in Evolutionary Biology With Annotations and Links to PDFs
Please note that the downloadable pdf version of the classics list may not be up-to-date. For the most recent version of the list and live links, see the web page.
(2) DOWNLOAD A HARD COPY 'MASTER LIST' OF EVOLUTIONARY CLASSICS (version 5/12/09)
Changing or Annotating the List
Useful ways to modify the list:
- add an annotation - a summary or short note explaining the significance or context of the listed work (add your initials here and to the 'key')
- correct or add to an existing annotation
- add subsidiary/supplemental citations below a listed work if it helps inform about the work's importance (see examples)
- add a link to a site with a copy of the text or with supplementary information related to the listed work
- upload a pdf of the listed paper using the form link at the top of the list
- add a book or paper to the list (please do not do this casually - give it careful thought with regard to the comments below about the spirit of the list)
- create your own 'specialty list' of classics in a particular subdiscipine (e.g., vertebrate form and function) - create a new, linked EEBedia page or upload a pdf
- if you own a hard copy of a listed book or paper that is not available electronically and you are willing to loan it, indicate this with your last name in parentheses after the reference
I request that you do not make deletions from the posted list without consulting me (Schwenk) first. While I accept that it might be a good idea to trim the list in some cases, I would prefer to err on the side of conservatism and make the decision to delete through consultation with colleagues. If there is a consensus that a particular work should be stricken fron the list, then it will be stricken! Conversely, if an addition is made to the list that causes widespread grumbling, it might be deleted.
If you make additions to the list, I strongly encourage you to upload pdfs of the new papers whenever possible. One of the principle purposes of this page, obviously, is to educate and one specific way to do this is to help graduate students preparing for their oral qualifying exams. Making sources easy to obtain would be a great service to students and other users. Obvioulsly not everything is available in electronic format, but often more is available than one might think and can be located by doing a Google search on the paper title (i.e., pdfs are sometimes available through web sources other than JSTOR or other standard electronic databases; or in some cases there are entire books online to which a link can be provided) . Scanned documents are good, but watch out for memory hogs - there is a limit of 4 MB on documents uploaded to the list. If you have a document larger than that, or if you don't want to take the time to upload the paper yourself, feel free to send it to Schwenk for posting.
FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON CREATING/EDITING EEBedia PAGES GO HERE
Modern Classics?
Gould, S. J. 2002. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Belknap/Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
[so massive it's got to be a classic... synthesizes all of Gould's favorite themes—theory, history, hierarchy, punc. equil., macroevolution, constraint, adaptation; even better, Schwenk is literally a footnote... (KS)]
Schlichting, C. and M. Pigliucci (1998) Phenotypic Evolution. A Reaction Norm Perspective. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
[Carl intends to hang on long enough to see the day this is moved up to the main list... of course, he might take advantage of EEBedia's editing capacity to slip it up there late one night when no one is looking. Go HERE to buy it now! (KS)]
Schwenk, K., and G. P. Wagner (2004) The relativism of constraints on phenotypic evolution. Pp. 390-408. In: Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes. M. Pigliucci & K. Preston (eds.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford. PDF
[the absolute final word on evolutionary constraint—you can take my word on this (KS)]
Wagner, G. P., and L. Altenberg (1996) Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 50:967-976. PDF
[The merging of evolutionary biology and computer science. An extremely important paper on the evolution of evolvability through modularity at different hierarchical levels; introduces the terms genotype-phenotype map and variability, meaning 'the tendency to vary (as in 'solubility'). An absolute must-read for grad students with an evolutionary or evo-devo bent (KS)]
Questions About This Page?
Contact Kurt Schwenk (email@example.com) or EEB Webmaster, Paul Lewis (email@example.com)
This page would not be possible without the hard work of Paul Lewis who created and maintains EEBedia. Paul devoted considerable additional time to helping me learn the ins-and-outs of EEBedia and even modifying it to make the page do exactly what I wanted it to do. I also thank my colleagues who made suggestions of books and papers for inclusion in the Master List (even if, in the end, their nominations didn't make the final cut): Eldridge Adams, Andy Bush, John Cooley, Charlie Henry, Carl Schlichting, Chris Simon and Gregor Yanega. Finally, I thank the students in EEB 485, spring 2008, for their enthusiastic participation, advocacy of this web page and for teaching me a whole lot: Dave Hudson, Diego Sustaita, Rogerta Engel, Florian Reyda, Frank Smith, Jim Freyermuth, Jason Hill, Kat Shaw, Nic Tippery, Maria Pickering, Thiago Rangel, Tobias Landberg and Trina Schneider. --KS


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Fill-in Swarzak Pitches Twins Past Indians 3-1
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Anthony Swarzak pitched five sharp innings in a fill-in start, Oswaldo Arcia homered and the Minnesota Twins beat the Cleveland Indians 3-1 Wednesday.
Danny Santana scored after two of his three hits for the Twins, and five relievers totaled six strikeouts over four scoreless innings. Glen Perkins finished up in the ninth for his 24th save in 27 tries.
When Kyle Gibson developed a sore back the day before, Swarzak (2-0) was summoned from the bullpen to replace him in the rotation. He threw 75 pitches, well over the limit the Twins had in mind, but the right-hander allowed just two hits and one walk while striking out three. He was only in trouble once.
Trevor Bauer (4-5) finished six innings for the 11th time in 14 starts this season for the Indians, but he lost for the first time in five July starts.


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The Potting Shed
Those who love gardening may find themselves lured away from necessary garden chores. And those gardeners who take a summer vacation need to know that their garden will be home working hard. To keep your garden looking good while you take a break, here are some tips for keeping your garden going and freeing up your time to enjoy the summer.
To help busy gardeners cut to the chase, here's a quick list of proactive measures that payoff by minimizing work or maximizing results over the long run.
Feed, Then Don't – Just as too much water can damage a garden, so can too much fertilizer. As the days grow warmer, especially if conditions are dry, fertilizer is not as useful. Feed only in the summer if it is cool and moist. Especially with woody perennials such as roses, stop fertilizing in late summer and fall.
Stop Weeds Before They Start –To win the war on weeds, focus on their seeds. Pull existing weeds before they go to seed, and stop the millions of dormant seed seeds lurking in garden soil from sprouting. If you did not mulch in the spring, consider mulching now or in the fall. Mulch denies weed seeds the light they need to germinate. It also helps soil retain moisture and keeps soil temperatures even. For maximum weed prevention, apply a garden weed preventer such as Preen atop mulch to further target weed seeds in soil or mulch. Spring is the best time to apply a weed preventer, but it's never too late to start. Apply weed preventers after weeding.
No Lifebuoys for Bad Bugs – When bad bugs like Japanese beetles and others first appear and are few, it's easy to pick them off by hand and squish them, effective but icky, or knock them into a jar of soapy water where they can't swim or fly away and works great and morbidly satisfying. Try to eliminate as many as possible before they decimate your plants or worse, lay eggs that will multiply. If the infestation worsens, consider spraying plants with an insecticidal soap.
While you take time for a vacation from your garden and are traveling, these tips will help you return to your garden, still well maintained and not looking neglected while you were away.
Give It a Good Soak – Before heading out, give flower and vegetable gardens a last good long soak. Depending on how long you are gone and the local weather, more watering may not be necessary. Established annuals can usually last for 10 days without supplemental water. Most perennials can make it through two weeks, and trees and shrubs can go about a month. Healthy lawns can survive four to six weeks without water.
Protect Container Plantings – Container plants usually need more water than in- ground plantings. For prized plants, you might ask a friend for help. To make it easier for them to water, place containers in a group arrangement in a protected area with indirect sun, but access to rainfall. This makes it easier for watering, not to miss a pot and less work for your friend.
Do Pinch Back Now – Check containers for leggy plants that would benefit from a good hard pinch back to refresh their late season growth and appearance. Pinch them now, and your plants can rebound from that freshly shorn 'bad haircut look' while you're not around.
Apply a Pre-emergent Garden Weed Preventer – Midsummer is a good time to apply a pre-emergent garden weed preventer such as Preen. If you had applied it in the spring, a second application atop mulch or soil will stop weed seeds in the soil and mulch from sprouting while you are away and well into the fall. Mulch and Preen prevent new weeds from happening; they don't kill existing weeds.
Don't Feed Before You Leave – Don't fertilize plants before leaving. Slower growth is what you want while you are away and into the fall.
Harvest Produce – Harvest as much produce as possible before you leave. If you can't take it with you or have too much, donate it to a food pantry or share with friends or family. If you are going to be gone for more than two weeks, consider having someone visit the vegetable garden to harvest any produce.
Following these helpful tips for traveling gardeners or gardeners who become side- tracked from gardening chores will ensure an easy to maintain garden and not so overwhelming gardening tasks once you return home from a vacation or take time away from your garden.
Carole McCray lives, writes and gardens in the scenic Laurel Highlands east of Ligonier, Pa. She is an award-winning writer; her most recent award was the Gaden Writers Association Award for her article on native seeds which appeared in The Christian Science Monitor newspaper. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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We are a law firm that handles all types of criminal matters. We are easy to work with and not micro-managers. We are looking for a firm logo which either uses our firm name, Falk & Ross, or simply the letters F& R. The logo can but is not required to incorporate the State of Florida and/or some other symbol representing our legal system. We fight hard for our clients so feel free to incorporate this into the logo. We aren't creative in this arena and hope one of you can create the right logo for us.
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New Statement out as police kettles protesters at Trafalgar Square:
Despite the Scotland Yard's statement saying:
We have set up cordons around this area, with police at exit points. In small groups the protesters are being encouraged to leave the area via these exit points.
The agreed protest time was between 12-2 and this is now over, so we are encouraging protesters to leave Trafalgar Square enabling Londoners to get back to their normal routine.
The National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts was alerted that police is only allowing protesters to exit via police cordon's one at the time!
This is what is considered by the police as "containment", in other words, "kettling", which was several times guaranteed to organizers it would not occur this time.
It is with indignation that the NCAFC sees itself, once more, being betrayed by police officials, who we were keen on cooperating with from the start.
We are denouncing and condemning the Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard for intimidating students and general protesters and their right to free association and organisation, as well as the clear victimisation protesters. We reprove any disciplinary actions taken by any institutions against students for exercising their democratic right to protest.
We heard that NCAFC's Simon Hardy is giving an inflamed speech from Trafalgar's Sq on bottom of Nelson's column! We'll try to get it filmed. — Most London protesters back at Trafalgar Square now
— The London Student reports on our stewards:
Police have been overheard speaking to NCAFC organisers, saying that they will not kettle the main protest at Trafalgar Square, so long as protesters agree not to head towards Parliament or Buckingham Palace. Students will be allowed to rally at Trafalgar Square, but should advances be made towards Whitehall then the Police may decide to kettle the protest.
— The group now turned right to Leicester Square to avoid kettle! — And protesters going down Charing Cross now (Trafalgar Sq next one would imagine…) — Picture sent by our Deputy Press Officer, Patrizia, who's in the scene — Statement from the Met arguing the block of Whitehall:
However, today's march set off at an earlier time than agreed. This meant that the march began without a police escort. The police escort was essential due to gas main works on one side of Whitehall.
Well we saw the police cordon there even before anyone started marching!!! — Bigger group of protesters in London now going down Chancery Lane… — NCAFC and University of the Arts London SU (SUARTS) Robyn Minogue reports:
Thousands of students shut down London with passers by clapping and waving, bus drivers hooting their horns. Chants of 'Students and Workers Unite and Fight!' Police seem pretty bewildered.
— Also: King's College London and University of Nottingham occupied! — Meanwhile in Cambridge: Hundreds of sixth formers and school students are holding a sit-down in a shopping centre in Cambridge town centre — Thousands of students in London (something now getting close to 8000+) running around in orderly line across the centre. Now close to St Paul's but planning to go on running, letting police follow up with them. Race of young students vs police officers? We wonder who'll win… <grin!> — The London Student reports:
A police officer told a London Student reporter to move away from a group of protesters being contained by police or else they would put her in to the containment as well. The London Student reporter was trying to listen to the conversations between police and protesters.
— Our statement just got read out on BBC News LIVE! It reads:
After, in good faith, having provided thorough information and help to the London Metropolitan Police yesterday, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts is appalled with the police aggressiveness towards students protesters in London today. Whitehall had been, despite the Met's agreement with the route to follow, pre-emptively blocked. Several police vans (including one with horses for the mounted police) have been deployed in such a manner that can only be described as conspicuous bullying. Such misleading actions on behalf of a state institution are deplorable and unacceptable. There are rumours of tear gas, unreasoned physical violence towards very young people and general victimisation of protesters. Preventing the public from their democratic right to protest peacefully is a shame to any country describing itself as liberal and democratic.
— Protesters scattered around central London, after running away from police charges, around 4000+ group in Picadilly Circus. In our central we can hear sirens all over London. —
And in Manchester…
— Matthew Taylor in the Guardian: "There is a big police presence around Westminster, scores of vans parked up the side streets on Whitehall including at least one carrying police horses. A couple of hundred people gathered in Trafalgar Square, with a very vocal group gathered underneath Nelson's Column chanting "give us back our EMA" as well as some rather rude things about Nick Clegg. The march set off down Whitehall as agreed, but half way down was a line of few hundred police. Demonstrators turned and ran back up towards Trafalgar Square, sprinting across Horse Guards Parade and generally scattering everywhere. Police are now giving chase across Horse Guards Parade. The demonstration is much smaller than last time, but there's definitely two or three thousand here. There are very large numbers of police in central London today – as this picture from @filkaler on Twitter shows." — In London Trafalgar Square as abandoned pre-emptively and students started marching down Whitehall… police seems to be blocking the way but it is uncertain. Here is a spot of coverage at BBC News – unfortunately we could only able to record the last few seconds, but here you go…


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And then let's assume global warming is real and is man-influenced (stick with me here). Business is against many of the measures to reduce man's impact on global warming because it would raise costs and be anti-competitive. I'm sure there are measures somewhere that show this negative impact to businesses?
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A Human-Centered Perspective
By Louis Rene Beres
A Speech Presented to Purdue University`s Homeland Security Institute Published Exclusively In The Jewish Press
Part I
What is the social impact of terrorism?
As scholars, we like to approach issues of Homeland Security analytically. Analytically, of course, the social impact of terrorism is contingent upon a number of factors, especially:
1. The nature of weaponry involved (WMD terrorism vs. conventional terrorism);
2. The degree to which vulnerability is generally felt;
3. The actual vulnerability of people, structures, and institutions;
4. The extent of area affected (limited/localized attacks would likely elicit more efficient governmental response and recovery);
5. The capacity of society and government to react and recover (itself contingent upon many other factors); and
6. The actual and expected duration of terror.
But, candidly, we don`t have to get too analytical to understand that the social impact of terrorism is normally captured far better by poets than by the physicists or political scientists.
We may recall with benefit a famous poem by W.B. Yeats, with its grievously prophetic imagery of horror: "The blood dimmed tide is loosed/and everywhere the Ceremony of Innocence is drowned."
Like Yeats, Bertolt Brecht was also right on the mark. Says Brecht:
"Truly I live in dark times... The man who laughs has simply not yet heard the terrible news."
We, here in this Purdue University assembly this afternoon, HAVE heard the terrible news. We KNOW, with little hesitation, that mega-terror is already on the way, and that there is little that can be done to prevent it altogether. Whether it be a form of bio-terrorism and/or a "dirty bomb," our enemies are dedicated to enlarging the "blood- dimmed tide," and their capacities to carry this out are undeniably considerable.
Here in Indiana, at the Newport facility, there is enough stored VX nerve agent to literally kill or injure a staggering number of people (some scientists even speak of millions of possible casualties). How shall we extrapolate from such unimaginable levels of lethality to questions of "social impact?"
We seek answers to precisely this question this afternoon. We who are in the Homeland Security field must continue to look for viable remedies. We have no other choice.
As someone who has worked closely for almost a quarter-century with Israeli and American intelligence communities, I know that there ARE ways to deal with even the most barbarous forms of terrorism. But these ways have various unpalatable qualities, and are difficult at times to reconcile with democratic principles and the laws of war. Moreover, as we now face instances of WMD terror, the prospective costs of terrorism are so overwhelming that distasteful trade offs between individual liberties and public safety could become irresistible and altogether necessary.
For a brief look at the true human meaning of terrorism, we have distributed copies of an Op Ed piece that I wrote especially for The Jewish Press with Chicago-area radiologist Dr. Michael Messing. Please read it closely. For another, consider these comments from a physician friend of mine in Israel, Dr. Moshe Rosenblatt (a general surgeon) about one of his many encounters with the victims of suicide- bombing terrorism. These comments were written a few years ago, after one of many Palestinian terror attacks upon Israeli women and children:
"Dear Lou,
``The terrorist attack took place at the other end of my street, some 800 meters from my building. I`ve been many times in this wedding hall, so I could easily have been one of the people there. I would be dead now, and/or my wife and children.... ``Despite the fact that I`m the director of a surgical outpatient clinic, on these events I naturally always go to Hadera`s hospital to help my colleagues. That`s what I did today. I ran to the operating room where I entered into an almost heroic operation to save the life of a middle-aged woman. One of the terrorist bullets had ruptured her liver, stomach, bowels and major vessels. We couldn`t stop the bleeding. So we opened her chest to cross- clamp the aorta, while undertaking direct heart massage. All in vain. She died of massive hemorrhage; blood and feces were strewn everywhere.
``I then changed my surgical clothes and entered another operating room to begin another operation. This time the patient was a young guy with an abdomen full of shrapnel. We had to resect the lower part of his ruptured large bowel, but -- at the end of the operation -- he was still bleeding profusely through his wounded hip. I left the room while the orthopedic surgeons began to operate on his right hip. I`m sure that he will also die.
``Many other patients were treated by other surgeons. My surgical dress was covered in blood. I took a shower and here I am, at 4:00 in the morning, writing to you, my dear friend in Indiana. I just can`t sleep now. Although very tired, I`m too distraught because after all these years of seeing blood and death on my hands, I never quite get used to it."
So here is what lies behind the news reports of terror; behind the sanitized statistics; behind the anesthetized and hermetically-sealed calculations of the scholars.
This report concerns a very "limited" instance of terrorism, at least relative to what we now face in both Israel and the United States. And this report is from a hardened battlefield surgeon. My friend Dr. Moshe Rosenblatt has stitched up countless torn bodies in three major wars.
(To be continued)
Copyright (c) The Jewish Press, 2004. All rights reserved.
LOUIS RENE BERES (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971) is the author of ten major books and several hundred articles dealing with terrorism, war and international law. He has worked for over a quarter-century with American and Israeli counter-terrorism communities, and is current Chair of "Project Daniel," advising Israel`s Prime Minister on nuclear security issues. His columns have appeared in such newspapers as "The New York Times"; "The Washington Post"; "USA Today"; "The Chicago Tribune"; "The Indianapolis Star"; "Haaretz" and "The Jerusalem Post." Professor Beres is Strategic and Military Affairs columnist for The Jewish Press in New York City.


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Puerto Rico and Winter Baseball
I was sitting here at the computer on Sunday morning after the late night news that the Tampa Bay Rays decided to non-tender former catcher Shawn Riggans, who was at that moment was playing Winter Baseball in Puerto Rico. And now that Riggans was a MLB Free Agent and still playing in the Puerto Rico Winter League, who else from among the other MLB squads could be playing or even rehabbing amongst the League's five rosters.
Could there be some of the well known players from around Major League Baseball using this Winter League as an extra workout primer to get into early game shape, or is this the "in" spot for MLB Free Agents to using the league as a visual point for scouts and MLB teams interested in their services for the 2010 season.
I have to be totally honest here, before this season I really did not even think twice about the Liga de Beisbol Professional de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League) when it came to the yearly Winter Leagues around the Carribean.
I guess I have been a bit shortsighted and naive to think that great players are not playing on teams in these Winter months. I mean, the PRPBL does have a great history and respectability around Major League circles. And their League Champion does get a berth in the Carribean World Series. But why is it that as soon as the World Series is over most of us who follow baseball just seem to forget about the game until the pitchers and catchers report in the middle of February?
I mean as of December 14th, there are currently around 37 members of an MLB clubs 40-man roster playing in the League. And some of those players are household names around baseball like catcher Ivan Rodriguez (Wash), and outfielders Lou Montanez (Balt) and Alex Rios (CWS) who play for Crillios (Creoles) de Cagua. Or maybe you are looking for pitchers like Ian Snell (Sea), Javier Vasquez (ATL) or Jake Westbrook(Clev) who are currently on the Leones (Lions) de Ponce squad.
And they are just a small smattering of the current members of MLB team's 40-man rosters that are participating in this Winter's season. Other squads include pitcher Rick VandenHurk (FL) or outfielder Nate Schierholtz (SF) and infielder Ivan DeJesus (LAD) who play on the same Gigantes de Carolina team with Riggans.
Or maybe you are more interested in the Indios (Indians) de Mayaguez roster that boasts players like pitcher Johnathan Albaladego (NYY) or Carlos Beltran (NYM) who is getting extra work in before Spring Training, or Randy Ruiz (Tor) who is using the league to get more time at first base so he can secure a 25-man roster spot.
But the League is not only full of current guys on a teams 40-man roster, but you have a bevy of Free Agents down here playing right now in front of scouts and teams looking for a contract and a possible Spring Training Invite. Players such as Joel Pinero (P), outfielder Reggie Abercrombie (OF),Luis Mateo (OF),Jose Molina (C), Jose Vidro (INF) and Alex Cora (INF) are all down here basically playing for exposure and a possible 2010 MLB contract.
And there are other names of MLB prospects and guys needing some extra fine tuning before reporting in a few months to Spring Training. But it is kind of weird that MLB and the PRPBL suspended play for one season back in 2007-2008 to reorganize and institute a marketing plan, but none of us everyday MLB fans really knew anything about this league.
Maybe MLB needs to better educate the public as to the time tables for these Winter League's so that we can also follow some of our hometown MLB and farm system players as they playing in these leagues. This season is the first time I have been remotely interested in checking up on Rays farm system players in the league. At first it was to see how Riggans was doing in his rehab. But now it is to see the performance of reliever Eduardo Morlan or even to check on how former Rays player Eduardo Perez is doing as the Manager of Leones de Ponce.
And I think other people will also be excited to check up on their players and their progress in the future. This League never crossed my mind before this season, but now I am coming back every few days to see the progress and check to see if Lobos de Arecibo is still in front in the League, and if their winning streak is over. I have discovered Winter League baseball in Puerto Rico, and have also discovered that well known players and MLB prospects are both playing great ball late into December.
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Cora already got re-signed by the Mets, I think…
But the winter leagues are largely uncovered until the Carribean Series, which is kind of annoying. If they put a sidebar on the MLB homepage that showed what the teams were up to (or at least a very, very convenient link) then that would make everything SO MUCH BETTER.
I did not see the Cora signing, but again, this shows that Free Agents must be using the League to get some needed exposure close to the US continent.
I agree, MLB could do a little tab, or even a "Winter League" heading somewhere during the off season to promote and pull us to maybe evn buy merchandise and additional video packages during the off season.
Guess this is another "untapped" market they can expand to in reference to us MLB fans.
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I would love to see Caribbean and Japanese baseball, as well as international amateur competition televised on MLB network…or anywhere, for that matter. I am a die-hard baseball fan, and I imagine every other fan would love to see the Dominican, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Japanese and Caribbean Series games in the offseason.
I would love to see more Winter Baseball League coverage maybe in a package form for the Winter of 2010.
Sure Hot Stove season is incredible, but there is still some awesome baseball being played south of this country that should be seen by the MLB audience.
I mean, really, think of the cross merchandising millions and the broadcast right alone would make these legaue profitable in a heartbeat.
Rays Renegade
Puerto Rico's winter league suffered what I'll call ownership reorganization. They had to suspend operations for one year, 2 yrs ago, leaving just VEN, MEX and D.R. as the operating leagues. The Puerto Rican league has been in existence for 70+years. Many MLB'ers use it to learn new positions, rehab from injury, some do it for country in an effort to "give back", – a rememberance of where they came from. Because of the almighty dollar and the investments made by MLB owners, many are against their players participating. The practice used to be a lot more common. I stay updated on the Puerto Rican league through….my uncle : ) I am 1/2 P.R. and have many relatives there. If you checked out my profile, I mentioned having "baseball" in my family. My cousin is participating this winter season, as is his custom. Be well my Renegade friend….I have a couple of things I can take pictures of and post. Check for it in the near future.
I have gained a good new respect for the Winter Leagues this off season.
I generally looked at it as class-A, or Double-A guys got to these leagues to get "polished", but this off season I have trolled the Winter Leagues and see an abundance of popular players and stars both rehabbing and also fine tuning themselves.
As a matter of fact, I am about to go check out the Venezeula Winter League scoreboard right after this post.
Great to learn something new every day….
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This is a list of the various types of ships.
Civilian TypesEdit
Ammunition shipEdit
Was a fleet auxiliary used to haul ammunition to reload warships after battle or during battle in extreme cases. (SI1)
HMS Volcano was an example of this type of vessel.
Colony shipEdit
A colony ship was a vessel used to transport colonists and materials to colonize a planet. Before the invention of the Warshawski sail, all colony ships were sublight craft. (HH1)
Construction ShipEdit
A construction ship specialized in the building of structures in space or on inhabitable environments. The pre-Alliance Protectorate of Grayson owned some of these vessels. (HH2)
A courier was a small vessel used to transport personnel. It was similar to a dispatch boat. People's Navy couriers used automated message transfer systems to handle message traffic, which only notified the crew of special headers like "immediate response required". Without the proper authorization codes it was physically impossible to decode or in any way access classified message traffic, to prevent tampering or other unauthorized access. The only way to access the files was to use either the addressee's access codes, or StateSec HQ's override software. (HH8)
Dispatch boatEdit
A dispatch boat was a small vessel used for interstellar communication purposes. They typically massed around 40,000 tons and had a crew of ten. In order to provide message security, most were designed with software and hardware firewalls, and physical separation of systems. Dispatch boats were capable of high rates of acceleration, some up to 800 G. (SI1)
Fleet Maintenance VesselEdit
They were operated by the Royal Manticoran Navy to provide on the spot maintenance and repairs to vessels, who are in need of repair, maintenance and upgrade beyond shipboard capabilities but not requiring the services of a shipyard. (HH1)
Fleet Repair ShipEdit
Fleet repair ships were used for front line battle damage repair if the damaged warship was unable to return to a shipyard.
HMS Ericsson was an example of this type of ship.
A freighter was a type of civilian vessel used to transport material and people. The size of freighters ranged from megaton ships to very small ships. (HH1) One of the predominant freight shipping corporations was Hauptman Lines, a sub-company of the Manticoran Hauptman Cartel. (CS1) Manticoran freighters were generally part of the Royal Manticoran Merchant Marine, carrying the prefix "RMMS" (Royal Merchant Marine Ship).
Passenger LinerEdit
A passenger liner was a type of civilian vessel used to transport a large amount of people. They were comparable to both the jumbo jets and cruise ships of the 20th and 21st Century CE rolled into one.
RMMS Artemis was an example of this ship type. (HH6)
Royal yachtEdit
The royal yacht was the personal spacecraft of the monarch of the Star Empire of Manticore.
Survey VesselEdit
A survey vessel was a type of vessel used to scout of unmapped sectors of space and unexplored planets. They were equipped for long term sustainability and packed sophisticated scientific equipment.
HMS Harvest Joy, a converted cruiser, was an example of this ship type.
A transport is similar to a freighter and this type of ship is primarily used by the military.
PNS Longstop was an example of this ship type. (HH9)
Warship TypesEdit
Ship Classes and Abbreviations by MassEdit
- LAC — Light Attack Craft (no hyper capability)
- FG — Frigate
- DD — Destroyer (65 to 80 thousand tons)
- CL — Light Cruiser (90 to 150 thousand tons)
- CA — Heavy Cruiser (160 to 350 thousand tons)
- BC — Battlecruiser
- BC(P) — Battlecruiser pod-layer
- BB — Battleship (2 to 4 million tons)
- DN — Dreadnought (5 to 6.5 million tons)
- CLAC — LAC Carrier[1]
- SD — Superdreadnought (7 to 9 million tons)
- SD(P) — Superdreadnought pod-layer
Ship of the WallEdit
Any warship larger than a battlecruiser.
Arsenal shipEdit
Arsenal ships were warships that were designed as missile platforms. They had limited defense weaponry.
The battlecruiser (often abbreviated as BC) was a warship type used in first and second rate national navies. It was the smallest ship class that was designated as a capital ship. Battlecruisers were designed to straddle the line between medium combatants and heavier combatants, being both fast and well armed and armored. Their design featured some internal compartmentalization and redundancy to help protect against battle damage, but not as much as ships of the wall.
Battlecruisers' roles centered primarily on raiding and serving as a heavy screening unit for other capital ships. Battlecruisers were ideal for commerce raiding since it compelled the enemy to deploy a disproportionate number of battlecruisers to defend against the raids. Similarly, BCs were used in raiding a system since their speed allowed them to run away from any ship larger than a BC. Battlecruisers also served as the heavy combat element and flagship for light task groups.
Battlecruiser Pod-layerEdit
The pod-laying variant was a battlecruiser hull that had been modified to have a hollow core where it could store racks of missile pods, thus protecting them from proximity or "soft" kills, same as with the pod-laying superdreadnought.
Battleships (often abbreviated to BB) were an obsolescent capital ship class by the time of the First Haven-Manticore War. They were larger than the battlecruiser, massing between two and four million tons. The battleship occupied an uneasy space between the better armed and armored dreadnought and the faster, cheaper battlecruiser. On a ton-for-ton basis, a larger ship of the wall was more deadly than a battleship due to sturdier construction techniques and higher proportional tonnage that could be devoted to weapons. Because of this, no major naval power built battleships, though some nations, such as the People's Republic of Haven, maintained them as rear area defensive units.
The corvette was a small, maneuverable, lightly armed type of starship used for system defense purposes.
The destroyer (often abbreviated as DD) was a warship type used in most national navies. Destroyers were small vessels usually tasked with duties such as picketing, escorting, reconnaissance, and other similar duties. Destroyers were larger than frigates, typically massing between 65,000 to 80,000 tons.
The dreadnought (abbreviated to DN) was a warship type that was employed by first-rate navies. Dreadnoughts, along with superdreadnoughts and battleships, were classified as ships of the wall. Dreadnoughts ranged between 5 and 6.5 million tons.
The frigate was a type of warship employed by many national navies, smaller than a destroyer, and mainly used for such duties as picketing, to escort convoys, and other roles reserved for small vessels. This type grew increasingly obsolete by advances in weapons and drone technology, such that by the late 1800s PD, no major naval power deployed them, though a squadron of twelve frigates was privately commissioned and built in the Manticore System for the use by the Anti-Slavery League[2] and eventually became the core of the Royal Torch Navy.
Heavy cruiserEdit
Heavy cruisers (often abbreviated to CA for "Cruiser, Armored") were a medium combatant. Heavy cruisers were designed for longer term independent action as a system picket, heavy commerce protection unit, and as a screening unit for capital ships. Heavy cruisers ranged between 160 and 350 thousand tons.
The term 'LAC' was an abbreviation for Light Attack Craft. LACs were intrasystem craft, incapable of entering hyperspace. Their traditional roles had been that of very light picket ship and for customs duties. (HH2) Third or fourth tier states such as those on the verge of the Solarian League often had navies entirely composed of LACs. (SI1) Improved technology and the advent of the CLAC had reinvigorated the LAC as a war-fighting vessel near the end of the First Haven-Manticore War. (HH9)
LAC carrierEdit
LAC carriers (nearly always abbreviated to CLAC) were to act as motherships to wings of light attack craft (LAC). Size of CLACs varied and was primarily a function of the 'LAC Doctrine' of the nation constructing the ship. For example Manticore favored Dreadnought-sized Carriers because it visualized LACs as an offensive platform and a fast 'carrier' could serve as an effective adjunct to a raiding force. Haven primarily utilized LACs as screening elements for its Wall of Battle, this meant it could afford to build slower Superdreadnought-sized carriers allowing it to field more LACs for a given number of hulls. (HH10) While none had yet been built by the Second Haven-Manticore War, a small "escort CLAC" was a potentially viable option for a small navy interested in LAC based power projection.
Light cruiserEdit
Light cruisers (often abbreviated to CL) were similar in function to the destroyer. Whereas destroyers typically carried all lasers for an energy armament, light cruisers typically managed to cram in the larger, more destructive graser. It was most commonly used for reconnaissance, commerce protection, and commerce raiding. The average tonnage was between 90 and 150 thousand tons.
A Q-ship was a military vessel designed to look like a merchantman. They may have been built from the keel out as Q-ships, or converted from existing merchant ships.
The Q-ship, PMSS Sirius, under the service of the People's Republic of Haven was disguised as an Astra class freighter. (HH1) Manticoran Q-ships were listed on the admiralty's books as HMAMC (His/Her Majesty's Armed Merchant Cruiser). (HH6)
The superdreadnought was a type of warship employed by large national navies, such as the Republic of Haven Navy, and the Royal Manticoran Navy. They were the largest warships to be built, with tonnage ranging between 7 and 9 million tons. They were grouped with the dreadnought and the battleship classifications as ships of the wall. (HH1)
Superdreadnought Pod-layerEdit
The pod-laying variant (or "podnought") was a superdreadnought hull that had been modified to have a hollow core where it could store racks of missile pods, thus protecting them from proximity or "soft" kills. This also allowed a greater number or pods to be carried into battle, and podnoughts could "hand off" pods to other ships in the same formation to tow, although fire-control was still provided by the podnought itself. (HH11)
Small craftEdit
A cutter was a small vessel used to transport personnel and material between vessels, to stations, and to planets. A cutter was too small to have an impeller drive.
A pinnace was a type of shuttle with a capacity for about 100 personnel. Is normally armed, able to form a wedge, and was capable of high acceleration. The Ouragan-class was an example of a pinnace deployed by the People's Republic of Haven around 1905 PD.
The shuttle was a type of small intrasystem vessel that used to ferry officers, crewmembers, and equipment between spacecraft, space stations, planets, and other locations (HH1). Assault configurations were also possible. (HH8, HHA4)
Sting shipEdit
A sting ship was a small atmospheric combat vehicle, roughly equivalent to the fighter jets used on Earth before the Diaspora. They were used as escort ships for shuttles.
- ↑ also infrequently listed by hull type variant, such as DNV for Dreadnought Variant
- ↑ though in reality they where effectively under control of the Audubon Ballroom
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laffy10316 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 129 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
This logo is for Impact.
Here's what I am looking for in my logo:
Firstly, my marquis product is called Impact. The company is CR Race Nutrition. So I need whatever style or design that I go with to be able to be used or adapted to future products, beyond "Impact". Everything needs to synergize.
CR Race Nutrition is all about optimizing performance for speed and endurance athletes. Our products are designed for serious athletes looking for serious results. This includes natural ergogenic aides with clinically demonstrable results.
"Impact" is a powder added to a drink of your choice - typically a sports drink or juice. It contains a number of key ingredients that have been shown to impact speed and endurance.
Impact is designed to appeal to serious athletes such as competitive distance runners, triathletes, and cyclists. The logo should convey strength, speed, and endurance in such a way that a breakthrough performance is garnered. The word "Impact" should be included, but the designer is free to take liberty with a variety of ways of using it. Other images and graphics can be included in any creative way.
Thanks. I look forward to seeing the results.
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From Conservapedia
A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN.
A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessed via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user's Web browser.
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Talkd and the talk command
The "talk" command allows you to talk to other users on the same system, which is useful if you're both SSH'd in from somewhere. Using it is very simple; to talk to someone the command is just
talk <username> <tty>
However, getting it working requires some setup.
1. First, install the inetutils package, which contains talk and talkd. These also rely on xinetd, so install that as well. You might also need the screen command; it's in the screen package.
2. Configure the xinetd service entry by setting "disable = no" in /etc/xinetd.d/talk.
3. Add a tcpwrappers allow entry like this:
talkd: 127.0.0.1
4. Now start xinetd:
/etc/rc.d/xinetd start
5. If you're on the local system, you might need to start a screen session to make yourself show up on the "w" and "who" commands -- you need to show up there or talk won't work.
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Looking forward to lounging on the beach this summer? Me too. Here are some stylish beach chairs that are good for the environment, as well.
1. Sailcloth Deckchairs, £149 from Reefer Sail Company: made from rescued boat and windsurf sails, and FSC certified beech wood. Made in Britain.
2. Deck Chair, $345 from Gallant & Jones: crafted in Vancouver BC, using North American White Oak harvested from well managed forests, and finished with a natural oil. Fabric is custom sewn in Vancouver. Pillow insert is organic cotton, and made in Portland, Oregon.
3. Beach Folding Chairs & Table, $495 from Aether Apparel: Aether Apparel partnered with Environment, a Los Angeles based furniture company, for this project. The chairs and table are made out of ash hardwood, stainless steel hardware, and finished with a matte black water based stain. The set folds down to fit inside a carrying bag that is made from a reclaimed army tent, which was cut and sewn locally in Los Angeles.
4, Wooden Folding Chair, $138 from Laughing Creek Productions: handcrafted in Seattle from recycled cedar decking lumber.
5. Beach Chair, $225 from Oh Yeah Comfy: hand built in Maine from Brazilian Cherry, and finished with pure tung oil.
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Making a List, Checking It Twice: Great Family Portraits
Mastering the family portrait
Every year, I try to take really great group shots of my family - and for many years, most of the pictures I took weren't ones I wanted to hang onto for posterity. Fortunately, I've finally figured out some tricks for making the yearly family portrait work.
So in this blog post, I'm going to share my checklist for taking memorable and keepable family portraits for the holidays. Most of these tips are true of any family gathering, by the way, so please don't feel like you can't use them if you're not about to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa!
- Plan your location in advance. This lets you avoid problems with light shooting into your camera's lens, shadowed faces due to backlighting, direct sun making the subjects squint, etc. If there's a spot that's of key significance, and it's more important to have your family group in that location then to have perfect lighting, you can use a fill-flash setting on your camera to brighten up shadowed faces.
Do avoid an indoor flash-lit shot if possible — the built-in flash on most cameras cannot light a group adequately for an attractive photo. If that's all you've got, supplement with natural light and room lighting to ease the harshness of the flash.
I'd also counsel you to avoid shots where people are leaning back in chairs or sofas. I know from painful experience that my relatives do not like how their thighs get enormously magnified in the foreground of the picture, and leaning back on a sofa to look up at the camera seems to add a couple extra chins to people, too. You can avoid this problem by having them stand, or getting them to sit in wooden chairs and lean forward. If all of your subjects are seated this way, you may want to consider lowering the camera to their head height while seated. And with that in mind, let's move on to item 2...
- Figure out where you'll put the camera, and set it up before you get people in position. First of all, taking test shots beforehand helps you get a sense of how much space your family has available. It lets you avoid problems like cropped heads, or Aunt Edna missing half of her shoulder, or everyone's feet being chopped off. It also lets you figure out the right focal length (or zoom), appropriate focus, and any other settings that need to be adjusted to make the picture turn out right.
And finally, it means you don't waste the smiles and energy of an assembled crowd while you spend ten minutes tinkering with the camera. This is especially important when there are children in the picture.
- Flatter your subjects by grouping them right. Though you have to strike a balance between the subjects' comfort level and the photo's visual appeal, there are things you should certainly adjust if they're throwing the look of the group off. For instance, if three short uncles have chosen to stand behind two tall teenage girls, pull the uncles out of there, and group them all side by side instead. If your group is standing, have parents or siblings hold young children, so they're not relegated to the knees-and-feet area of the photo. If Aunt Flossie is wearing a bright pink print that battles Uncle Milty's red plaid, separate 'em.
And if you're shooting a prearranged family photo for use in a holiday card or as a more formal group shot, it's a good idea to ask folks to simply wear solids or very simple patterns. (Some families even suggest coordinated clothing, such as everyone in white shirts and khaki pants. That's your call, based on your family's style.) Of course, an energized group may not need arranging, because the vibe they have going will often trump a more ordered, aesthetic arrangement. Speaking of which ...
- Get a good vibe going! Having a bunch of silent people nervously eying a blinking red light and tensing as they wait for the flash to go off is a surefire way to get one of those deer-in-the-headlight group shots, with fixed smiles, glassy eyes, and (inevitably) someone blinking. You don't want that, so get your crowd talking. Don't rely on old stand-bys, like "Say cheese," if there are family in-jokes you can shout out instead. If they don't mind being a little goofy, take a few test photos as they're lining up that have them doing the twist or giving each other rabbit ears - anything that will get them to loosen up and smile naturally. And once you get going, along with more standard posed shots, take some fun shots, with props, or silly poses. I have a beloved family photo in which about ten people are grinning and sucking their fingers, in imitation of my (then two-year-old) brother. He alone isn't sucking his fingers, because he's peering up at all of them in wonderment. It's great.
- Click like crazy. If your camera has a setting that lets it take more than one photo at a time in self-timer mode - or better still, if you have a remote for your camera - use it. Memory is reusable and you should snap as many photos as possible before your family gets fed-up. If you have neither of the tools above, then make sure your spot in the group makes it easy for you to slip out of the crowd and run back to push the shutter button on the camera again. The more photos you have, the more likely that one is going to be usable. By the way, the more people there are, the more crucial quantity becomes, so I like to have at least three to five photos per person in the group.
Finally, I heartily recommend that you use a tripod. It guarantees stability and consistent framing from shot to shot. I have an old and very, very inexpensive one, and it's still a thousand times better than stacking up books on a wobbly side table to get the camera to the right height. Not that I've ever done any such a thing - not me!
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Washington Post Editor Defends Anonymous Unmoderated Comments
from the good-for-him deptWhen it comes to major media properties (and even quite a few blogs these days), it seems that "moderating" comments has become the norm. However, it's surprising (though, refreshing) to see a Washington Post editor speak up in defense of unmoderated and anonymous comments, which the Washington Post allows:
I believe that it is useful to be reminded bluntly that the dark forces are out there and that it is too easy to forget that truth by imposing rules that obscure it. As Oscar Wilde wrote in a different context, "Man is least in himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."What's most impressive is that this comes from a guy who wasn't just opposed to such things originally, but was opposed to the whole concept of "blogging." When he finally relented to blogging, he was adamantly against unmoderated comments... but the more he's seen, the more he's realized the value in them:
Too many of us like to think that we have made great progress in human relations and that little remains to be done. Unmoderated comments provide an antidote to such ridiculous conclusions. It's not like the rest of us don't know those words and hear them occasionally, depending on where we choose to tread, but most of us don't want to have to confront them.
I have come to think that online comments are a terrific addition to the conversation and that journalists need to take them seriously. Comments provide a forum for readers to complain about what they see as unfairness or inaccuracy in an article (and too often they have a point), to talk to each other (sometimes in an uncivilized manner) and, yes, to bloviate....We have always felt that way about comments. While they can be frustrating and ridiculous at times, they are also incredibly educational and entertaining. And, the most ridiculous stuff of all is quickly dismantled by others. That said, it doesn't mean that there aren't ways to improve the commenting experience without necessarily moderating or banning anonymous commenters. We're working on some things here that we'll be rolling out in the near future to hopefully continue to improve the overall commenting and discussion experience.
In fact, comment strings are often self-correcting and provide informative exchanges. If somebody says something ridiculous, somebody else will challenge it. And there is wit.... Comments also tell us that readers do not always agree with journalists about what is important.
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Dollarocracy: U.S. Congressmen Refuse to Address Keystone XL Southern Half Spill Concerns
What's the U.S. congressional response to the safety issues with the 485-mile southern half of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline raised by Public Citizen's Texas office? Mostly what Simon & Garfunkel called "The Sound of Silence" in their famous song.
DeSmogBlog contacted more than three dozen members of the U.S. Congress representing both political parties to get their take on Public Citizen's alarming findings in its November investigation (including dents, metal that had to be patched up and pipeline segments labeled "junk"), but got little in the way of substantive responses.
Set to open for business on January 22, approved via an Executive Order by President Barack Obama in March 2012 and rebranded the "Gulf Coast Pipeline Project" by TransCanada, the southern half of the pipeline has garnered far less media coverage than its U.S.-Canada border-crossing brother to the north,Keystone XL's northern half.
Over two dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote a letter to President Obama on December 12 expressing concern over the conflicts-of-interest in the U.S. State Department's environmental review process for the northern half of the line.
But none of them would comment on concerns with the southern half of the line raised in the Public Citizen report after multiple queries via e-mail from DeSmogBlog.
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Only two out the dozens contacted offered somewhat substantive comments.
And one of them, U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) (Left), did not respond to the meat and bones of the question at hand. He did offer some oft-used industry talking points, though.
"The Keystone pipeline will create jobs and help reduce dependence on oil supplies from unfriendly nations," Hall told DeSmogBlog. "The State of Texas has a proven track record of successful oversight of the oil and gas industry, including pipelines, and I am confident that they will be diligent in ensuring the pipeline's safety."
Hall — who took $59,500 from the oil and gas industry before the 2012 elections and has already taken $12,500 for the upcoming 2014 elections — is far from a neutral stakeholder in the debate over anything pertaining to the petroleum industry.
"Since 2010, Hall has earned as much as $1 million from a company that holds mineral rights along the Barnett Shale," explained a March 2013 Sunlight Foundation article. "The money was disclosed as dividends from a company called North & East Trading Co. (N&E)."
On the other side of the aisle, U.S. Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) (Right) also responded toDeSmogBlog's request for comment, offering more cautious words of support for the southern half of the pipeline's commencement.
"Over the past decades, our interstate and intrastate pipeline systems have had remarkable safety records, unmatched by rail or highway modes of transportation," Green stated. [cont'd.]