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Dear Katie
A lot of my friends believe you should be ignored. You, and the squalid lying rag for which you ‘write’, exist only to perpetuate yourselves and the hate-filled bile you, collectively, insist on vomiting upon the rest of us.
I have, hitherto, agreed. I don’t follow you on Twitter, I certainly don’t read the demented ravings you excrete on a depressingly regular basis and ignoring you has been a pleasure.
That changed, however, when a friend forcefully insisted I read your disgusting, breathtakingly-callous, assault on those fleeing for their lives and who ended up drowning in the Mediterranean scant days ago.
To refresh your memory you wrote: “Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.”
Well, look at this. Here’s a little girl floating in the water. She is, or rather was, a human being. This pitiful wee scrap of humanity had probably been sustained on her terrifying journey by tales of the exciting new life that awaited her. As someone remarked on my Facebook feed, maybe she’s wearing her best dress. Her pretty outfit broken out just for special occasions. Only she never imagined that that occasion would be a water-logged funeral. Not just alone and terrified but actively hated, despised and loathed. By you.
When I look at this photograph all I can see is my beautiful granddaughter and it breaks me. Every fucking time. Imagining her there; dead, floating, alone. This little girl has haunted me from the second I saw this image. I doubt it will ever leave me. I wanted to stop what I was doing and rush to my granddaughter’s side and hug her and never let her go. I cried. More than once.
Anyone with any empathy at all will have had similar feelings. It’s the sort of thing we humans experience frequently. You, on the other hand, are the repugnant cesspit where humanity goes to die.
I’ve heard others say they wish violence upon you. I know that you’ve been reported to the police and others are howling for you to be sacked. What I’d like to do, however, is sit down with your children and read them your article and show them this photograph. And then I’d like to sit and watch you explain to them how you could write such things. But I couldn’t, really. I couldn’t inflict wanton cruelty on children. Unlike you. To sneer, to gloat, to glory in the deaths of children is an act in which only the sickest, most depraved and despicable could indulge.
And there, I suppose, is the real irony of your wretched existence. Your continuing survival partly depends upon the rest of us having the sort of decency and humanity you so evidently lack. And also, to be honest, because dealing with you as you deserve is illegal.
I truly pity your children. They don’t deserve you. No one deserves you. And one day, when you see the detestation and contempt in their eyes, when they look at you as though you’re something they’ve picked up on their shoes – and trust me; it will happen – it’ll still be more than you deserve. In the meantime, let’s hope none of your children ever end their days in terror, pain and suffering because that would be Karmic justice of the most dreadful kind, wouldn’t it?
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….those who advised you to ignore KH were, in my opinion, right. The woman has brain damage, she is severly epileptic due to some sort of malfunction of the front part of her brain. I try not to watch, read or listen to her and if I do I just remind myself it is the incoherent ramblings of a damaged brain and those in the media who give her a platform are exploiting not only her and her disability but also the under educated who are incited by her bile. No one can argue with or humiliate or defeat someone who is damaged and deluded, its pointless, pity her.
Today I read an article by Robert Fisk on how the mass mourning over Prince ignores the 500 African refugees who drowned on the same day in the Mediterranean. It wasn’t the article that interested me so much, it was the comments by readers – including statements such as “I do not cry over illegal immigrants” and “they were invaders”. Invaders! This sort of attitude sometimes makes me think groups like al Qaeda have some justification for their actions against the west.Imagine the staggering hypocrisy that involves destroying Libya and Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia, and then blame the people there for trying to run away.
I hope you get cancer Hopkins and die the slowest painful death while watching your children cry knowing there is nothing they can do to save you. How the fuck can any human being be so cruel to write and say the stuff you do. My cmebts were a shock tactic to show you just how evil it is to write such evil heinous articles. And you get paid for it.
One day you will be judged and have to answer to a higher power. One that even you will not be able falter with wicked sick words . I wish to god someone would end your time on this earth.and that your children are watching when it happens. Them and maybe then will you understand pure honest emotion and see the pain you’ve caused others for so long with your vile vile words. You remind me of hitler – Ian Brady – and Ian Huntley all rolled into one YOU NASTY VILE FAT UGLY CUNT IF A WOMAN
I wouldn’t even mention the vile creatures name shes loving all this attention. shes still getting the celebrity status she’s craved for all her life whether it be good or bad feedback she’s loving every minute of it .one word describes her and that’s scum .
She is not mentally ill she has a personality disorder it’s called narcissism google the word you will find she ticks every box evil personified god help her offspring if they have inherited her genes. There are many narcissists among us and Hopkins will eventually dig her own grave!!!!!
‘migrant problem’? Firstly, these people are refugees. Human beings like anyone else.
Personally, I think it’s quite simple, really. When we bomb the shit out of, say, Libya, displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, destroy their homes, murder their families and send them fleeing in terror from the militias we enabled, then we rescue them, save their lives and take them in. We have a moral and humanitarian obligation. To use an old phrase, ‘if you break it, you own it.’
Or, alternatively, we let them drown. Which do you prefer?
We need to sort their countries to prevent a mass exodus to Europe otherwise this will never end , their main priority will be ……. Get to Britain . Sorry everyone but how many more people can we keep on taking. There’s only so many jobs , the Nhs is struggling big time and it will only end up the working people supporting all these foreigner through taxes etc.
I’ll repeat it we need to sort out their countries …. Vast majority are moving because wars and problems in their countries are down to MUSLIMS.
The picture you draw is as billed – sheer bloody-minded intransigence, but based on little understanding. We have made mistakes, no question. But we are not to blame for the monsters who ran/run Libya, Iraq, Syria etc.
Libya wanted our help, begged for it, and people like you (maybe not you specifically, but people like you) were saying that we must do something. So we did. And the Libyans themselves showed what they thought of Gaddafi.
We are not responsible for Isis. These are bad people doing bad things for bad reasons. When we help, we are damned. When we don’t, we are damned.
The point of withdrawing the patrols from the Mediterranean between Tripoli and Italy was in the hope of discouraging boat people. The patrols being there was certainly encouraging them that they would be rescued. But stopping the patrols didn’t work.
So now what, Harry? What’s your solution. According to your principle, we can’t just barge into Libya and evacuate half a million refugees. And you would be right. We can’t.
Attacking Katie Hopkins is a vacuous excuse for the impotence you feel that there is, really, no answer.
If you break it you own it! Really. Can you not do better with your brain and your logic?
“Libya wanted our help, begged for it, and people like you (maybe not you specifically, but people like you) were saying that we must do something. So we did. And the Libyans themselves showed what they thought of Gaddafi.”
No, they didn’t! And absolutely no; I did not!
“Attacking Katie Hopkins is a vacuous excuse for the impotence you feel that there is, really, no answer.”
Yes, there is, as I outlined earlier. If we destabilise a nation then we, and others who did likewise, take in and provide for its refugees. Why do you struggle to handle such a simple concept?
What is your answer ??? I don’t have one but it makes me feel better that someone has at least addressed this horrible woman s terrible opinions! There’s so much bad in the world but do we really need to know callous comments from this woman. That is what this post was addressing – not saying they have answers to the worlds problems!!
Well, Susan, I’m glad that having a crack at Katie Hopkins makes you feel better. This post was, as you say, addressing KH’s crassness. And what I’m saying is, she doesn’t make any difference, and neither does your outrage. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend. So go ahead, be offended. It won’t save one person from drowning, and it won’t provide a solution to the problem. Because there isn’t a solution. Venting your anger against KH is just a display of impotence.
Maybe stop interferring in other countries politics, leaving them without a government to keep things running. Its all very well talking about immigrants but we create most of the circumstances which cause these people to flee violence. We destroy but not stabilise the oppressing govt without helping them to rebuild their country leaving them to the mercy of any fanatics wanting to take control . Britain has to take some responsibility for this!
So Britain is responsible for Isis, is it? And the Muslim Brotherhood? Really? Are we? Do explain how. In any event, I’m not talking about immigrants. I don’t have a problem with immigrants. I have a problem with people ranting against KH because it makes them feel better about a problem they have no idea how to solve. Because, right now, it’s insoluble.
There are 7.5million migrants in the uk and only 1.8million unemployed. EU migrants alone provide £20bn in taxes (after what they cost in NHS usage etc is taken off)- that’s enough to pay our eu membership and foreign aid budget combined. There is not a migrant problem. They are genuinely an asset.
This is not about migrants, Joii. It’s about refugees being trafficked and dying in the process of ‘escaping’ their countries. And people on here appear to think they can assuage their guilt by having a crack at Katie Hopkins. Which, really, in the scheme of things is laughable. Why are they feeling guilty in the first place? Could anyone on here have saved one of those lives? Half a million people trying to cross illegally in boats not fit for the purpose from Tripoli to Italy is a tragedy in the making, on a daily basis. And there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it, apart from declaring war, securing Libya and then running it as a European outpost. No? Don’t like that solution? Thought not. Neither do I. So what’s to be done then – other than moaning about Katie Bloody Hopkins?
You make a lot of, unfounded, assumptions. Why is colonising Libya the only solution? It isn’t. Those nations who played a part in destabilising a country should take in their displaced peoples. What is so difficult about that?
It may be that as it is a child on the photograph (I cried) will make more people take notice but all life is precious and the horror of what is happening should make everyone hang their heads in shame. The Sun is a rag, Kstie Hopkins is just whoring herself in print.
I think the child was wearing more than one outfit, they probably wore as much as they possibly could to save space . God bless her . Hopkins only has one talent and that’s making these shocking posts, sh thrives on seeing her name in print and if this is the only way then she will carry on. What goes around comes around, she will get her punishment from her maker.
What is happening to the world that something as desperately tragic as the drowning of so many people, who have probably already endured more than we can imagine, can be dismissed so wickedly. This image will stay with me forever. I have 2 daughters who a love so much as I’m sure the mother of this child did. I don’t even want to discuss Hopkins…she is not worth my time…..although I think extreme pressure needs to be put on media groups to refrain from giving her a platform to spew her venom. Society seems to be losing compassion for the suffering of others. Yes we can raise millions for good causes after watching a few emotional clips on TV but isn’t it easy to donate ten or twenty pounds and then feel you’ve ‘done your bit’.? The thousands of refugees fleeing Syria, Libya, and many other countries being ripped apart by civil war, terrorist groups and ethnic cleansing are desperate to escape the horrors they have witnessed. Why can’t we reach out and help these people when we have so much? God help us if we ever find ourselves in their shoes.
I WONDER WHAT KIND OF ENVIROMENT SHE GREW UP IN ,, WAS SHE TREATED SO BADLY ,, THAT SHE WISHES TO MAKE EVERY ONE ELSE HURT ? SUCH A SAD PERSON WHEN SHE WILL NOT SEE THE HARMFUL VICIOUS WAY SHE TALKS ON EVERY SUBJECT,,AND THE WAY SHE AFFECTS PEOPLE WITH HER DEROGATORY REMARKS ,,IF SHE HAS ANY GOODNESS IN HER AT ALL,, SHE WOULD RESIGN AND PUT AN END TO ALL THE BAD THINGS SHE SAYS AND DOES ,,,,I THINK ITS HER LACK OF SELF WORTH THAT MAKES HER FEEL SHE NEEDS TO AND DOES SAY THE MOST HORRENDOUS THINGS WE HAVE HEARD ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,PLEASE GOD HER CHILDREN DONT TURN OUT LIKE HER ………
I completely agree with this and also find Katie’s vile comments on the deaths of these people, abhorrent.
I personally don’t agree with immigrants in such a large scale coming in to this country but never, ever, would I wish this fate on anyone , adults and children, alike.
Kate Hopkins is an unadulterated bully with a ‘ Jeremy Kyle’ manipulative, controlling and cruel mentality.
I was stunned by the extent of her ego when I saw her on Celebrity Big Brother and found it very ‘ telling’ that everything she accused others of doing and being, were mostly how she herself is.
She has been made famous by the media for being cruel and hateful which for some sad people masquerades as entertainment but she has sunk to new depths of despicability with these comments.
I can’t believe she actually means these things. How could another human being really mean the things she said.? She obviously thinks she is being clever and controversial but as the man said.. what if those were her children floating on the water?
What do her children think of her comments? And what do they think about how she professes to feel about other human beings?
How is she a responsible person to be bringing up children and influencing them with such thoughts and vile attitudes?
If the media and the public treated her now as she deserves to be treated…. With the same dismissive attitude that she has used on so many of the victims of her insults, she wouldn’t have a platform to spout her venom from.
It’s up to us all to strip her of her so called ‘fame’ and relegate her back to the depths of talentless anonymity where she belongs .
This woman is truly repugnant in her views. How could any person with a beating heart feel anything other than shock and horror at the tragic loss of such young innocent lives? Surely any right thinking person would want to hold those children close, protect them and keep them safe from harm.
What do you expect from a horrible bitch that has sold her sole to a rag like the sun? They belong together in hell being abused with hot poker’s for eternity. The people of Liverpool won’t buy the sun and it’s time the rest of the country followed us. No doubt they will print a half arsed apology just like they did over Hillsborough “the real truth” what a joke!
Lets see if the “lady” herself replies to you. Words once out there can never be taken back. Heaven only knows how she will justify them now. What needs to happen in her life that is soo bad that she sees how good her life is and to be glad of it and respectful to other’s who are not as lucky?
This is so incredibly sad….the photo, that is. Such a well written piece. How I wish that in the U.S. people would call for the firing of such hate-filled fear mongers. Our “Katie” is Ann Coulter and the venom that she spews is outright dangerous. Yes, I could hear her saying the same things as your Katie. smh
What a beautifully written article…. I am disabled and today she launched a scathing attack on blue badge holders…. We teach our children not to bully… But every one of her vile comments is exactly that… How is she allowed to exist… If I had more time on my hands I would seriously campaign for her to be removed from every source of media possible…. People say to ignore her… How can you when her thwarted mind is shoved down your throat daily… A nasty piece of work x
The only way to stop her is to boycott the papers she writes for and the programs she appears on. Starve her and those that encourage her of the oxygen of attention. When they start losing money because of her she’ll be dropped.
I too have tried to ignore the stupid, hurtful, attention seeking comments made my this sad, sad woman. I don’t read the ridiculous comic she writes for but am mortified that the rest of the world is now quoting her vile statements (UN reports in today’s news) and believes they reflect the attitude of our British population. What is that quotation about good men standing by and doing nothing? Perhaps it’s time to get rid of those media outlets – we cannot call them newspapers – that publish this vicious tripe in our name.
I honestly, for the life of me, cannot understand why our society tolerates this vile self-absorbed woman!… I agree with your 1st sentence to ignore her is absolutely the only option for me!. I hear bits and pieces about her and I REFUSE to be sucked in to her world!… great piece well written and if I were to try to write such an article I’m afraid my heart would fail through my raised blood pressure! Thank you.
It may be incomprehensible but if she said she didn’t care, she didn’t care, and though it angers and disgusts us, there’s no point in being angry with *her*. You wouldn’t be mad at a cancer patient, it’s almost in the same vein – she has a sickness. Sociopathy. The lack of empathy or conscience. Some humans just don’t have it, like a very slimy but successful lawyer, or a wealthy but cheating corporate CEO. That’s how they get to the top of their professions, they don’t care about anyone else. In fact, Freud offered that a person without a conscience, without empathy for others, may not fit the exacting description of what a human is. They may be hybrids. To be human means you absolutely must have empathy – if you don’t, it’s easier for you to hurt a fellow earthling because you “don’t care”. A *true* human can’t help but care, deeply.
I completely agree. This woman must be a sociopath to write that crap. But I think even more chilling is that sociopathy and narcissism are media chic. Or click bait. There is, in the words of playwright Tony Kushner, a “psychotic individualism” that celebrates this “I got mine and f*ck the losers”. Oh, you’re a drowned migrant? You’re a loser. It’s okay to scoff at losers. To feel smug that you’re safe and legal and rich or WTFever.
People like Katie have always existed. They haven’t always had giant accepted bully pulpits for their hate.
Peter, some go on for years, perfectly disguised. Still I don’t think this is really about her, more’s the pity we don’t just act to help those we can than waste time, as I did as well, jumping on someone who seems useless. It’s the victims and their survivors that matter.
I didn’t propose colonising Libya. I was very specific that the suggestion was pointless. Rhetorical, if you like. Funny how people like you, Harry, attempt to muddy the waters by deliberately (or maybe not deliberately?) misunderstanding and/or misrepresenting people who don’t fit your world view. And you still haven’t told us what a practical solution might be. (As opposed to your pie in the sky ‘we have to give them a home’). You and Russell Brand, eh!? Posturing, grandstanding, sloganeering – but not really understanding the way things work.
Please stop giving that woman so much damn attention, what is wrong with people. Either your unable to see that it’s exactly what she wants or you have fallen in love with hating her so much you can’t stop yourselves.
A beautifully written piece and spot on! She has no conscience so this won’t ‘touch, her on any level. M truly ashamed to be counted in the same ‘human’ race as this woman. I’m with you on the ignoring; there is only so much that can be ignored. This latest shite from a media whore that puts her need to be noticed over her own loved ones is beyond ignoring.
I have never hated anyone, but I do hate this loathsome woman, she has turned me to this… But I am also a believer that the more we talk about her the more loathsome she becomes, we need to starve her of all press, click bait and general coverage and this will deplete her. But we should not forget this tragedy and ensure that those involved are bought to justice and also try and remedy the situation that those poor people had to put themselves through this to try and find a better life…
Harry
I read your letter to Katie Hopkins and wanted to say thank you for such a well thought piece of writing. I agree wholeheartedly with all you said and like you cannot comprehend any human being who would wish harm on innocent people who are fleeing the worst possible circumstances in the hope of a new life in safety.
I agree 100%. Unfortunately every time we get so far into ignoring this ignoramus woman, she says something so vile and a high profile person, Mr. Paterson, makes a comment bringing her to the top of our hated list again.
I do not listen to anything she has to say, read anything she throws onto a page nor do I give a damn. I personally feel that she has made too many despicable comments and is heartless and rude just to get the attention she gets. If everyone 100% ignored everything she does and says then she would fade back into the cesspit she crawled, into the limelight, from.
The person who provided the image, New York-based immigrants’ advocate, academic and activist, Che Brandes-Tuka, has an impeccable reputation and I would be very surprised indeed if he was involved in anything untoward. I’m assured this image is genuine and, in the absence of anything to suggest otherwise, that’s good enough for me.
However, as one or two have already suggested, I don’t think it actually makes any difference, anyway. Over 500 of the 1700 (so far) who drowned, were children ranging from those just a few weeks old up to teenagers. Whether the image is genuine or not, and I believe it is, it it no way invalidates any of the points at hand.
Katie Hopkins is managing to keep her name on the lips of the nation by always having something to say that shocks the rest of us WE SHOULD IGNORE HER however her comments sometimes work in making people aware of news they usually ignore,perhaps this is her goal ??????
It may be a borrowed image, but does it matter. Hundreds of men, women and children have been picked up out of the water over the past couple of weeks and I’m sure there will be far more sickening images to come out.
Surely you don’t need a photo of the atrocities that happened to know that children and adults alike died floating in the open water. Why does everything nowadays need to be verified by photos? You know this happened so why can’t you understand the point of this whole article is making without the photo being verified?
What a beautiful letter to a horrible heartless person. Can’t even bring myself to call her a woman. I don’t think it will shake her distorted discriminatory and disgusting views. With words written like that I’m sure many people will relate.
So sad as a mum id be heartbroken if id lost a child and Kate is ridiculing her death, someone should start sack Kate she is being paid to upset people, IS do that by killing people, her hateful words create the same feelings
Thank you. This article is very balanced in the circumstances. I too find Katie Hopkins’ rants repugnant but I don’t wish violence on her any more than I would wish violence on anyone. However, I have often thought of her children and what it might be like for them to be influenced by her views. I pray for them. As I do all the other children and humanity suffering in this world.
Thank you. This is a very balanced article, in the circumstances. I find Katie Hopkins’ comments repugnant but don’t wish violence on her any more than I do on anyone. But I often wonder what it’s like for her children to live with her. I pray for them.
Oh yes, Harry, it will happen.
There will come a day when friends with names their mother doesn’t care for, will teach that woman’s children an important lesson or two. Her poisonous influence cannot taint them every hour of every day. She cannot contain them in a hate-filled media bubble forever.
Something puzzles me though; the media keep calling her a journalist. Give her a camera and a microphone. And a boat. Show me some journalism, not petty insults paid by the word. She asked to be shown the tragedy, well, show her; send her to see for herself that which she mocks and insults and cover it for the nation. She’ll either crack at the reality of a human tragedy, or she’ll prove once and for all that she’s a bona fide socio-path and pose for a few selfies with the corpses … I wonder what Ricky Gervais would make of that? | {
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Liao Dynasty
Gold-plated Saddle, Liao Dynasty
Liao Dynasty was a regime founded by an ethnic minority called the Qidan (Khitan) who lived in the northeast areas of China. In 916, a Qidan man named Yelu Abaoji established the Qidan Kingdom. Initially, the kingdom was under the slavery system. Till 947, the title of the kingdom was officially changed into Liao, with Balin Left Banner (in current Inner Mongolia) as its capital city. Its territory mainly covered the northern part of China, with the estuary of the Amur River in the northeast, the middle part of Mongolia in the northwest, Tianjin and Hebei Province in the south.
Under the influence of the traditional nomadic living habits and Han people's life pattern, modes of production of the Liao people were various. Their production methods included not only traditional agriculture and animal husbandry but also hunting and fishery. Still, influenced by the advanced techniques of the Han people, their industries such as textile, mining, ceramics, construction and harness making developed well. Meanwhile, trade between Liao and its neighbor countries were frequent and developed rapidly.
Stirrup-shaped Pot with Engraved Pattern, Liao Dynasty
From the Five Dynasty and Ten States Period (907 - 960), they began to make business with the Latter Liang (907 - 923), the Latter Tang (923 - 936) and the Latter Jin (936 - 946). Through sea transportation, They also exchanged goods with the Northern Tang (937 - 975) and Wu Yue (907 - 978) in the southern areas. After the founding of Song Dnasty (960 - 1279), they mainly exchanged their horses, sheep and pearls for Song tea, silk fabric, porcelain and lacquer ware.
Politically, Liao had its own particular governing system and policies. On the one hand, different social systems were adopted in different regions. In the northern areas, which were the original living place of the Qidan people, the slavery system was adopted; in the eastern regions near the Bohai Sea and the southern 'Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun', the feudal system was adopted. The so-called 'Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun' area was the reward bestowed by Liao for helping Shi Jingtang (the founder of the Latter Jin) to defeat the Latter Tang in the Five Dynasties and Ten States period. On the other hand, a special management system in the court - the North and South Official System -- was established by Liao. The system regulated that officials in the north side in the court dealt with Qidan people's political affairs while officials in the southern side took charge of those of the Han people. In addition, different laws governed Qidan and Han people.
Gilded Stirrup, Liao Dynasty
The culture of the Qidan People was deeply affected by that of the Han people. Most rulers of the Liao adored Han culture. They liked to read the Analects of Confucius and Zhen Guan Zheng Yao written by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907). Especially, Yelv Abaoji, the first emperor of Liao worshiped Confucius and established an imperial academy called Guozijian to impart Confucianism. Under the enlightenment of Han culture, the Liao people created their unique characters - the Qidan language. In that period, the Qidan language and Chinese language were used as the official language. As for religion, Qidan people originally worshiped nature and primitive civilization. Since Emperor Taizu, Yelv Abaoji's reign, Chinese Buddhism gradually spread to Liao. Many Buddhist sutras were translated into the Qidan language and were carved on stone tablets. One of the four Buddhist holy mountains - Wutaishan Mountain (in current Shanxi Province), was a Buddhism teaching center of the Liao Dynasty.
Iron Spear, Liao Dynasty
The Qidan were a warlike people. Rulers of Liao attacked the Northern Song many times, coveting Song territory in the central plain areas. However, due to the evenly matched military forces between Liao and Song, Liao did not finally realize its ambition. In 1005, Liao and Song signed the notable Tanyuan Treaty in Tanzhou (currently Puyang in Henan Province). After that, Liao kept a friendly relationship with Song for almost 120 years during which time the Liao society became more and more prosperous. Liao began to decline later because of the incompetence and tyranny of later rulers. In 1120, Song made an alliance with the newly founded Jin and attacked the Liao Regime. Finally in 1125, the last emperor of Liao, Emperor Tianzuo, was captured by the Jin army ending the Liao Dynasty.
Emperors
Order
Name
Notes
Reign Time (years)
1
Liao Taizu (Yelu Abaoji)
He was originally elected as one of the leader of Qidan tribes. Later, he unified the Qidan Kingdom. In 916, he proclaimed himself emperor and established the Liao Dynasty.
907 - 926
2
Liao Taizong (Yelu Deguang)
The second son of Liao Taizu; He ascended to the throne instead of his elder brother.
926 - 947
3
Liao Shizong (Yelu Ruan)
Nephew of Liao Taizong; died in a coup launched by the generals
947 - 951
4
Liao Muzong (Yelu Jing)
Son of Liao Taizong; Rebellions broke out in his reign. He was killed by his servants.
951 - 969
5
Liao Jingzong (Yelu Xi'an)
He was adopted by Muzong. In his reign, he launched a series of battles with Song.
969 - 982
6
Liao Shengzong (Yelu Longxu)
He ascended to the throne at an early age. His reign was actually controlled by his mother - Empress Xiao.
983 - 1031
7
Liao Xingzong (Yelu Zongzhen)
The eldest son of Shengzong; The Liao Dynasty began to decline from his reign.
1031 - 1055
8
Liao Daozong (Yelu Hongzhen)
Son of Xingzong; In his reign, Liao's title was changed to 'Great Liao'.
1055 - 1101
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Tianzuo Di (Yelu Yanxi)
The last emperor of Liao; He was captured by Jin army in 1125.
1101 - 1125
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Asked by Cliff Riley from CANADA | Sep. 17, 2012 17:22Reply
Formation of Liaoning Province
Does the northern province of Liaoning get it's name from the Liao Dynasty?
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Answered by Truman | Sep. 17, 2012 20:51
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Probably, but the most popular one for the origin of Liaoning is that in the anicent time, Liaoning province belonged to the administration area of General Liaodong. So the province was named after the general.
Additionally, it is also said that Liaoning Province was named after Liao River there.
Asked by Bob | Sep. 10, 2012 12:39Reply
Need facts about the Liao Dynasty please
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Answered by Bonny | Sep. 10, 2012 21:10
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Well, Liao was founded by an ethnic minority called the Qidan (Khitan) who lived in the northeast areas of China in 916. The dynasty made great contributions to societ, with its particular governing system and policies.
You can get more information in the website:
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/liao/index.htm#voice | {
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Yoga Mat: An essential for the abs and stretching portion of your workout. No need to get something super fancy, you can by these at most sporting goods stores but also at discount shops like Marshalls and TJ Maxx.
Dumbells: Invest in a few different weights. Depending on what muscles you are working you will want the variety, plus you want some weights to warm up wtih then weights that are more challenging, making you work harder to get in those 10 reps. If you don’t want to spend money on weights, create your own. If you are doing a very low-weight workout you can use soup cans or try filling water jugs or tennis ball cans with loose change.
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As I sit here the house is quiet and still, the clock's flashing 11:11pm. It's been exactly two weeks since I returned from my month-long overseas hiatus, and I've finally found a blanket in space where it's like there's nothing else here or anywhere and the whole world's just stopped. I can finally begin to come to grips with the tides of life because I'm back and I'm here and in this time and place that's all that seems to matter right now.
If this writing seems rather archaic, rather poetic, please forgive me. There's a knot in my chest, in my mind, in my heart that's unfolding. It's been two weeks since I returned from Japan, it's been about 6 or 7 weeks since I left home for Japan, about a year and a half since I started dreaming and planning with my whole heart to make it happen. There were things I desperately wanted to see and learn, and I won't lie, there were things I desperately wanted to leave behind too.
Myself, mainly. I wanted to both leave myself far behind and find myself again. The way I once knew how. But somehow a person gets so lost in everyday life; at the pointy end of a degree you learn that your only significance lies in the marks of compliance you produce, and your only value seems to lie in the volume of life you can pour out to crowds of people with the training you possess when you leave. I'm to be a teacher; am I to claim a classroom and teach others with such authority when there's so much I still need to grasp myself? Can I bear the hypocrisy? Am I strong enough to sustain 30 hopes and cares, reach out and rescue 30 stories, every moment of every day for the next 40 years? I fled.
But there's an unbearably dizzying amount to explore, there's a gut-wrenching magnificence to the humblest details of life around every corner, in every face in every crowd. A nobility and a splendour hiding behind the veneer of the mundane. There's an honour in treading the steps of others before you and knowing still that the steps may copy but the reality of life experience creates a totally different journey. And the discovery of that journey is ...
I finished my coursework in November, I learned to pass the marking rubric and not to sleep. I learned to bury my heart deep in a vault when necessary, and I learned some of not to care at all, and also to care too well. I learned that the existence of hypothetical students is enough to drag me through it all, that the desire to teach the world's lost children burns in me and is enough to keep me from emptying my veins.
But it is not enough to simply know that there's some thing out there, somewhere out there. It's not enough to hear of stories and numbers or to just read them on a page. The nest of complacency may be too sweet and soft to make you want to fly, but hey, let comfort be there for the dead! I left. I booked accommodation first thing, then made lists and writings and tentative sketches of what this trip could be. A month, I decided, with a couple days of rest either side. I would train at Hombu every moment I could, I decided, live like a deshi, like a sacrifice; losing myself in the training. Well, I must have researched and daydreamed on the internet for 150+ hours. I know that I'd been collecting jackets and winter thermals and whatnot for over a year, hoarding my growing pile of luggage-to-be like a jewel!
I left my family at the airport; from then on they faded to the back of my mind. They may be distressed to read this. I'm sorry, but the truth is all I have. Understand that from then on there was only ever Japanese around me, there was only ever confusion and stark alone-ness, it all blended around like a wash of music, and everything around me seemed to fade to the back too. There was only ever the shadow of myself and the God I love, growing stronger and realer with every passing challenge. I learned to let go of control, to surrender to the circumstances without taking defeat. I learned that you can grow stronger by finding stillness in the terror. And through that strength people can accomplish just about everything. Everything. Things people never dared to dream of because it was too scary to admit they existed as a possibility. I learned that God who I love loves me too, delights to give me moments of unimaginable wonder and beauty, not just a safe guiding hand. If you'll take it. And let yourself be loved. I learned too that you become bolder when you realise what you want, when you throw yourself at your desire, and it's the momentum that makes everything around you happen. So I guess I did find myself, I guess the shadows of and within me did emerge and consolidate (at last!) by the end.
It's funny, though, how things never work out the way you think they will. That's the key phrase - 'the way you think they will'. We're so wrapped up in understanding what's going on, in not missing 'the' thing that'll add to our lives, in trying to pretend to be in control... There are things we can relate to, other things we can understand conceptually, yet other things we know must happen or exist deductively. But if we don't understand what's happening, if it doesn't fit our template or our plan to keep the world spinning, we might bash it to bits and pieces trying to make it fit the mould for what we think should or is going on. We break it, and then we cry.
I thought the goal of my trip was to train aikido. I love it; at times I wish I could just stay on the mat forever. I even had a plan. A plan! Daily: Week 1, I would train for 1-2 classes; Week 2 would be between 2 and 3; Week 3 would be between 3 and 4; Week 4 would be between 4-5 classes per day. Ease into it, I thought. Right!! Ha!! How naive.
Naive; very. Oh yeah. Think about it; how could I wish to give myself up with totality yet wrestle with my urge to maintain a sense of predictability?? There was still nothing there in Tokyo I understood by looking, for example, though goodness knows I tried. So, I trained for about 10 days. And did such a good job on my right knee by the culmination of it that I couldn't bend it without having it pop in and out of place. With a great deal of pain. That darlin' took about three weeks off the mat until I was brave enough to try a beginner's class to test the waters. So to speak. A dozen pops within the hour made me reassess my prognosis. I anticipate a full recovery by the end of the year.
Task: In Japan to do aikido.
Status update: In Japan unable to do aikido.
Degree of mission success: ???
See, the funny thing is (and I mean funny!) is that as people we tend to fixate of our simplistic categorisations to maintain a sense of control, even attempting influence. Processing and working through the wave of guilt when off the mat took quite some time. Embarrassingly longer than anticipated, to be perfectly candid. Trying to escape onto the mat, I began hunting myself down instead and realised that...
I am only accountable to myself. At the end of the day.
My happiness is my own responsibility. In every moment. But then, I am also entitled to it.
I have the right to have joy and to grow in every situation. No matter what the scenery around my body looks like.
'Love your neighbour', it's said. But by learning to place love in all places, we find it everywhere too.
Challenge: Who has the courage to claim it?
Time passed quickly after that. Another lesson learned: Either something is worth chasing or it's not, end of story. If it is, then you'll bleed for it, and expect to for the most shining prize. Another lesson learned: We see more if we let our eyes close now and then. For example, I meant to write all sorts of things about my time on the mat, my impressions and revelations, the details of training in aikido at Hombu, but they seem almost insignificant now since they're part of something so much bigger.
I fought for life and I bled for it, and I returned on that airplane a fortnight ago as a real person amongst shadows. I took stock. I moved house, I caught up with family, I found old friends, I found my fiancée where I'd left him (I almost wish I could say the same for myself!), I started a postgrad course on Special Education. My senseis at my home dojo say my aikido's changed. Maybe, but I was only there for just over one week from 5. The difference is in me - when they speak on it I just look at them and quickly pass to other conversation; anyway, there's plenty to talk about, and it's brilliant beyond words to see my training family again! They tease me now because I'll get married in December and it's quite close, right before I start full-time teaching in the countryside early next year. It's all on baby, and exciting!!
The clock now reads 12:33am. Even the crickets are sleepy.
It's growing more distant now - the things I did and saw and felt, but I carry the shards of infinite moments with me always. It's now, in these quiet moments of the dark when the world's still and small and just breathing, that I can feel a depth in me like a glittering black hole. New and thrilling. Just pulling at me, waiting for my chance to jump again. | {
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Dude! That's a lot of protein! Good for you! I am scared of tofu too.. mostly because of the assumed taste of it.. If tofu tasted great, we'd all be eating right?! 😉
But if you find a good recipe, that tastes good, make sure to post it.. I may try it. lol.. Congrats on the loss, too.. You are doing great with the vegetarian lifestyle (I almost called it a “thing”.. oops)..
Good for you! I have grown to love tofu. If you get the hard tofu, you can make tofu steaks using a little olive oil and frying them with whatever seasoning you like. Serve it with tomato and onion sauce. Or serve it uncooked with a little ginger and soy sauce. Once you get into it, tofu is lovely! Promise!
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↑ In prime. Once I decide what to do with the ornamental panel on the front, the screw holes will be filled and covered over. The panel could be raised ½" or so to add LEDs behind it or it could be laminated to add strength.
Next will be a line for a GTO 8 that I have laying around. I'll probably use it for a computer sub but I might sell it. Then, when the SA-15 I ordered comes in, a line for it. If it works out well, I'll sell it, remove the seat from my truck and put two X-15s in a permanently mounted t-line.
Re: JBL GTO 10 in ¼ Wave T-Line
You don't have to do that but I wanted the wire to enter the cabinet at the back and in order to do that, it had to pass through the line. A transmission line is essentially one long port and the airflow through it is intense, so a wire running across it could introduce turbulence or possible some noise, neither of which I wanted.
Re: JBL GTO 10 in ¼ Wave T-Line
Originally Posted by Spooney
How do you go about designing one of these and what parameters in a driver would one look for to find a good t line driver?
I guess they didnt want my post with outside link to be read on here but if you are wondering about 1/4 wave tlines and how to build one and select good woofers to use for one based off of ts parameters just google "quarter wave tline tutorial" and you will see a nice thread on another car audio forum that explains everything simply and effectively.
Re: JBL GTO 10 in ¼ Wave T-Line
Originally Posted by 98GCLimited
I guess they didnt want my post with outside link to be read on here but if you are wondering about 1/4 wave tlines and how to build one and select good woofers to use for one based off of ts parameters just google "quarter wave tline tutorial" and you will see a nice thread on another car audio forum that explains everything simply and effectively.
Re: JBL GTO 10 in ¼ Wave T-Line
Like 98GC said, there are some really good tutorials on ¼ wave t-lines.
I'll go over the basics here though.
Any speaker will do well in a transmission line but those that do best have a Qts below .4 and a Qms below 7. The box is designed using only the Fs & Sd of the driver and the speed of sound, which is 1130 feet per second.
Fs is the resonant frequency of the driver. In the case above, that's 30hz.
Sd is the effective piston area of the driver. In the case above (can't remember exactly) that is ~56.75²".
To calculate the line length: 1130/30= 37.66' ←That's the length of a 30hz sine wave, but we're building a ¼ wave line so 37.66/4= 9.42' or, 9.5' to make things easy. This isn't brain surgery and slight variations won't be audible.
So what we have to do now is stuff a 9½' long by 56.75²" "port" into the cabin of a vehicle. The one above is 49" gross width and approx 14"H X 14"D. It has one 180° turn and one 90° turn.
From what I've read, there are about as many different ways to design a transmission line as there are people to ask... so do some due diligence before you start and decide what makes the most sense to you.
Save the difficulty in designing them, transmission lines are the loudest and best sounding woofer boxes you can build. They perform well across the widest frequency band and extend as far as one octave below their tuning frequency while still maintaining an above -3dB output.
Also, you don't have to stick to the Fs of the driver when building one. For instance, if you want a 40dB boost, you can put the same driver above in a line tuned to 40hz and you'll still get good performance at the frequency you want enhanced. I haven't done this but I would imagine that the only drawback would be that the driver would probably fall off at a steeper slope on the low end than if it were in a box tuned to Fs. That, of course, is just speculation as I haven't seen one modeled and I'm still in the learning process with these boxes.
Another benefit to transmission lines is that they're extraordinarily efficient. I had the one above in a local car audio shop connected to one side of a Lepia 20x2 mini amp (which actually does about 11wpc) and at 37hz the ceiling tiles started to reverberate. It's getting 1000 watts in my truck but in truth, as little as 250 watts has done well.
And once more to clarify... I'm still in the learning phase with these boxes so please don't take my claims about performance as the end all be all. The formulas I shared are correct but the performance characteristics have not been modeled on an RTA. At least, not by me... yet.
Re: JBL GTO 10 in ¼ Wave T-Line
Have you stuffed the Tline with fibre fill etc or left it open ? often fancied building a Tline for my JBL GT3-10 but it's been the maths bit to work out the enclosure size that put me off as no good at maths
↑ In prime. Once I decide what to do with the ornamental panel on the front, the screw holes will be filled and covered over. The panel could be raised ½" or so to add LEDs behind it or it could be laminated to add strength.
Next will be a line for a GTO 8 that I have laying around. I'll probably use it for a computer sub but I might sell it. Then, when the SA-15 I ordered comes in, a line for it. If it works out well, I'll sell it, remove the seat from my truck and put two X-15s in a permanently mounted t-line.
Re: JBL GTO 10 in ¼ Wave T-Line
Originally Posted by Caveivian
It would have to be for a pair of epic 8's. Design and build me one.
If you mean these little beasts, that will be an almost 12' line and it'll be just a little bit more line area than the one above. Those would probably do a lot better on the lows than the one above also.
Give me dimensions of where it's going and tell me how you want it finished and I'll get you a price.
Re: JBL GTO 10 in ¼ Wave T-Line
Here's the next t-line I'm trying in the truck. It will have a Sundown SA-15 in it and I'll probably end up taking the rear seat out and building a line for two X-15s.
I tried to do more progress pictures for those who want to see how these things go together. This line is identical to the first one, expect of course, for the size.
I actually finished it, less the second layer of baffle, and got it in the truck for testing. But... the only thing I had to test it with was a Skar IVX-15 and it did okay for what it is. Honestly, that little JBL ten can handle a lot more power than the Skar woofer can, so I could only test with it wired to 4Ω, which means 500 watts on my amp. | {
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Atholton student designs apps for Apple store
Atholton High School student Eric Lu whipped out his cellphone and displayed information about the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra on Tuesday. The information came courtesy of mobile application software called Quakes — Earthquake Notifications, and Lu vouches for its accuracy.
After all, it's his app.
Lu, 17, is an independent software developer who has four applications on Apple's App Store sites. They include Quakes, a free app that Lu says offers users information on earthquakes greater than magnitude 2.5, along with data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The app includes maps and seismograph charts that show when and where an earthquake has occurred.
Software development has become a rewarding venture for the Laurel student, whose passion for science also led him to build a hovercraft in seventh grade. He also began writing Web languages like HTML and JavaScript in middle school and began toying with software application development shortly after watching an online presentation of the Apple iPhone.
Lu said his Quakes app has received more than 100,000 hits.
"I taught myself the programming languages behind it; it was something I wanted to do, so I did it," said Lu. He also has an app called Countdowns, which allows users to log the time leading up to and after a particular event. His app Batteryd allows users to determine how much battery power is left in their devices.
Lu's first app to be released on Apple's App store is called HTML Editor; released in June, it allows users to view, copy and paste the source code for a Web page.
Atholton Principal Jennifer Clements said Lu is among many students at the school who are putting their passions toward successful ventures.
"He's an outstanding student," she said. "It's a wonderful opportunity he's taken advantage of. It's something we try to encourage in all of our students, to really think about what their future aspirations are, and how can they start working toward those now.
"For many kids, that comes in the form of the coursework and the foundational skills and information they're learning," Clements said. "In his case, he's taken that to another level and has found opportunities to actually apply his interests and his skills and expertise. He epitomizes what we're trying to foster in all of our students."
Lu's apps are listed on the Apple Store website, with him as the copyright holder and Ming Lu, his father, as the seller, which Eric says was done for legal reasons. Though Quakes is free, it comes with the option of purchasing more features. (Countdowns sells for 99 cents; HTML Editor sells for $4.99; Batteryd is also free.)
Lu earns royalties from his apps, but he declined to say how much revenue he has generated.
"Some apps [that I've developed] I use just for myself to speed things along, like schoolwork," said Lu, who has also written software code for the Android system.
Lu said that it can take days to develop an app and that it can be much like writing a school paper. "You always polish it and update it, and you take the initial steps toward writing it, and sometimes you have difficulties so you have to stop and rethink it," he said.
"Personally, for me, I've always had issues with data management; when you manipulate data, you have to decide when you want to save it so that it's transparent to the user," Lu said. "In the past, my apps have had some issues with that, but I think I'm getting better at it."
The App Store site listed 647 ratings for Lu's Quakes app as of last week, including 280 five-star ratings and 99 one-star ratings. The site also lists more than 470 reviews, with many recent comments requesting that Lu bring back an earlier version.
"There are some negative reviews, but there are a lot more positive in the end," said Lu. "I would always prefer positive reviews, of course, but I learn from them and take their feedback."
Lu said he thinks he could make a living writing apps and is proud that people are using his creations.
"I view this," Lu said, "as a steppingstone for bigger engineering projects that I have in mind." | {
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The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
—Alexander Jablokov
Friday, February 06, 2009
Young Love aka Gak! Hormones!
Around a year ago, I wrote about Little Guy and his girlfriend Hot Cutie. Even though he's not actually in high school any more, he attends their transitions program and sees her there a few times a week. Twice a week they are in an apprenticeship program together so they get to spend a little time together. They also see each other out of school.
Hot Cutie's mom and I have had to get on them a bit because they make plans without consulting anyone and spring it on us at the last minute. Both of Hot Cutie's parents work down in the city, so sharing driving duties is often inconvenient for them.
Anyhoo, last month, Hot Cutie's mom and I were confabbing about their most recent plans and she suddenly said, "We're only going to be able to have Little Guy at our house on weekends now. I don't think they should be alone here without supervision."
Oh no. Did something happen?
Once in awhile Little Guy goes to Hot Cutie's house after school and hangs out for an hour or so. As far as I know, they walk her dogs and play on her swing set. She also serenades him with her bongo drums and he dances for her. Did they decide to make fondue and set the kitchen on fire? Break into the wine cabinet?
"Hot Cutie told me that Little Guy tried to kiss her. And that she told him that she was going to wait for marriage. If he's at that stage, I don't think they should be alone together."
Ok, to be perfectly honest, my first reaction was of indignance. I sort of felt like she was practically accusing my son of being a rapist. I politely assured her that as always, they were more than welcome to socialize at my house, where I would be with them every minute and keep a close watch on her daughter's virtue. Not.
Little Guy is 18, Hot Cutie is 19. They've been girlfriend and boyfriend for almost 3 years now. They are legally adults. What's the harm in a little kissing fer pete's sakes?
What could be a problem is if he was trying to force kisses on her. Or if the bongo drum dancing was done nekkid in their front yard and alarming the neighbors.
So I tried to investigate. Had a talk with Little Guy and tried to impress on him that if he wanted to kiss Hot Cutie and she said "no", he had to respect that.
He looked at me like I was insane.
Hot Cutie came over to hang out last week. As usual, they played pool up in the loft, and watched Judge Judy (she's the boss, applesauce!). Then they went into Little Guy's room to listen to music and dance.
After a while, feeling like a sneak, I crept down the hall to do my due diligence and make sure there wasn't any panty-grabbing going on. I mean the door was open---as always---but I felt that the whole "checking up on them" thing is invasive and shows a lack of trust in Little Guy's ability to be independent.
"Because we're supposed to be married", he answered crossly. "My mom said if I say no, you have to respect that!"
I snuck back down the hall, and went directly outside to the front porch. Where I just about laughed myself into a stroke.
I simply couldn't help myself.
Boy is HER mom going to be in for a big surprise!
After this incident I realized that I am in way over my head and contacted the Independence Center. Luckily, they have a social relationships class starting next week, and the school will provide transportation. Sign us up!
29 comments:
Oh, Attila that is too funny. And sweet. And that mother is a wee bit overprotective about letting her daughter's choices. I would have been a bit offended myself...I'm just so happy the two of them have found so much happiness being together. (big smile)
I think this is great!! And you are right, why shouldn't they kiss, they have been dating for 3 years, I would have expected them to have at kissed by now....of course, I am a ho and would have kissed long before now... ;)
lol thats so sweet and funny , how will you ever tell poor moma that her daughters virtue is not so grand and in need of protection. i have been reading your blog for 4 months now and love it so much . hope all is well with everyone .
I didn't know that kissing was something to protect until marriage. I thought that it was just another way for teens to talk. Oh well. I guess I was racier as a teen than I thought. Good for your son for being strong and upholding what he believes in. | {
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May 2013
Intel today announced that the company’s president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has decided to retire as an officer and director at the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting in May, starting an orderly leadership transition over the next six months. Otellini’s decision to retire will bring to a close a remarkable career of nearly 40 years of continuous service to the company and its stockholders. The board of directors will conduct the process to choose Otellini’s successor and will consider internal and external candidates for the job. Intel had a good run under Otellini’s leadership with generated cash from operations of $107 billion during 2005 to 2012.
“I’ve been privileged to lead one of the world’s greatest companies,” Otellini said. “After almost four decades with the company and eight years as CEO, it’s time to move on and transfer Intel’s helm to a new generation of leadership. I look forward to working with Andy, the board and the management team during the six-month transition period, and to being available as an advisor to management after retiring as CEO.” | {
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Hostage in Sydney siege 'killed by police bullet ricochet'
SYDNEY (Reuters) - One of the hostages held during a siege at an Australian cafe last month was killed by a ricochet of at least one police bullet that also injured three other hostages, an inquest into the deaths was told on Thursday.
Jeremy Gormly, counsel assisting the New South Wales state coroner, said lawyer Katrina Dawson, 38, was hit by six fragments of a police bullet, or bullets, with one striking a major blood vessel.
"She lost consciousness quickly and died shortly afterwards," Gormly said at the opening of the inquest.
Police stormed the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in central Sydney in the early hours of Dec. 16, ending a 17-hour siege by Man Haron Monis after the gunman shot cafe manager Tori Johnson, 34.
Johnson's execution - he was ordered to kneel and then shot without warning at close range in the back of the head - was witnessed by a police marksman, Gormly said.
Monis, 50, who fired 22 rounds from a sawn-off pump action shotgun, was killed instantly by several police bullets and bullet fragments to the head and body, Gormly added.
The inquest is running alongside a government inquiry into how Monis was able to access a gun and why he was granted bail while facing charges as an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. He was also facing more than 40 sexual assault charges.
The self-styled sheik harbored deep grievances against the Australian government and had found little kinship in the city's large Muslim community, where he was seen as deeply troubled.
He was found guilty in 2012 of sending threatening letters to the families of eight Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan as a protest against Australia's involvement there.
Gormly said investigators had so far not established any contact between Monis and Islamic State before the siege. There was evidence that a psychiatric profile of Monis "will throw light" on his motivations, he said.
Monis ordered and consumed a piece of chocolate cafe and tea after entering the cafe early on Dec. 15, the inquest heard. Around half an hour later, he asked to move tables and to speak to manager Johnson, who then asked an employee to lock the doors. Once that was done, Monis stood up, putting on a vest and bandana, telling staff, according to one hostage account: "This is an attack. I have a bomb."
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Over 500 Killed in India's Monsoon Floods
Earth's deadliest natural disaster so far in 2013 is the deadly flooding in India's Himalayan Uttarakhand region, where torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 556 people, with hundreds more feared dead. At least 5,000 people are missing. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, Uttarakhand received more than three times (329%) of its normal June rainfall from June 1 - 21, and rainfall was 847% of normal during the week June 13 - 19. Satellite estimates indicate that more than 20" (508 mm) or rain fell in a 7-day period from June 11 - 17 over some regions of Uttarakhand, which lies just to the west of Nepal in the Himalayas. Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, received 14.57" (370 mm) of rain in 24 hours on June 16 - 17. This was the highest 24-hour rainfall in city history, according to an official from the India Meteorological Department. Dr. Dave Petley's Landslide Blog details that the torrential rains triggered a massive landslide that hit Uttarakhand's Hindu shrine in Kedarnath, which lies just a short distance from the snout of two mountain glaciers. The shrine is an important pilgrimage destination this time of year, and was packed with visitors celebrating the char-dham yatra: a pilgrimage to the four holy sites of Gangotri, Kedarnath, Yamnotri and Badrinath. Apparently, heavy rainfall triggered a collapse event on the mountain above Kedarnath, which turned into a debris flow downstream that struck the town. The main temple was heavily damaged, and numerous buildings in the town were demolished. It was Earth's deadliest landslide since the August 2010 Zhouqu landslide in China.
A record early arrival of the monsoonThe June 2013 monsoon rains in Uttarakhand were highly unusual, as the monsoon came to the region two weeks earlier than normal. The monsoon started in South India near the normal June 1 arrival date, but then advanced across India in unusually rapid fashion, arriving in Pakistan along the western border of India on June 16, a full month earlier than normal. This was the fastest progression of the monsoon on record. The previous record for fastest monsoon progression occurred in 1961, when all of India was under monsoon conditions by June 21. Reliable monsoon records go back to 1961, and are patchy before then. Fortunately, no more heavy rain is expected in Uttarakhand over the next few days, as the monsoon will be active only in eastern India. Heavy rains are expected again in the region beginning on June 24. Wunderblogger Lee Grenci's post, Summer Monsoon Advances Rapidly across India: Massive Flooding Ensues, has more detail on the meteorology of this year's monsoon. There is criticism from some that the devastating floods were not entirely a natural disaster--human-caused deforestation, dam building, and mining may have contributed. "Large-scale construction of dams and absence of environmental regulations has led to the floods," said Sunita Narian, director general of Delhi based advocacy group Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
Figure 3. The summer monsoon arrived in southwest India right on schedule (June 1) in South India, but it spread northward much faster than usual, reaching Pakistan a full month earlier than normal. Solid green contours indicate the progress of the 2013 summer monsoon (each contour is labeled with a date). You can compare this year's rapid advance to a "normal" progression, which is represented by the dashed, red contours (also labeled with dates).
Monsoons in India: a primerDisastrous monsoon floods are common in India and surrounding nations, and 60,000 people--an average of 500 people per year--died in India due to monsoon floods between 1900 - 2012, according to EM-DAT, the International Disaster Database. EM-DAT lists sixteen flood disasters which killed 1,000 or more people in India since records began in 1950. Here are the number of people killed in these events, along with the month and year of occurrence and locales affected:
The monsoon occurs in summer, when the sun warms up land areas more strongly than ocean areas. This happens because wind and ocean turbulence mix the ocean's absorbed heat into a "mixed layer" approximately 50 meters deep, whereas on land, the sun's heat penetrates at a slow rate to a limited depth. Furthermore, due to its molecular properties, water has the ability to absorb more heat than the solid materials that make up land. As a result of this summertime differential heating of land and ocean, a low pressure region featuring rising air develops over land areas. Moisture-laden ocean winds blow towards the low pressure region and are drawn upwards once over land. The rising air expands and cools, condensing its moisture into some of the heaviest rains on Earth--the monsoon. Monsoons operate via the same principle as the familiar summer afternoon sea breeze, but on a grand scale. Each summer, monsoons affect every continent on Earth except Antarctica, and are responsible for life-giving rains that sustain the lives of billions of people. In India, home for over 1.1 billion people, the monsoon provides 80% of the annual rainfall. The most deadly flooding events usually come from monsoon depressions (also known as monsoon lows.) A monsoon depression is similar to (but larger than) a tropical depression. Both are spinning storms hundreds of kilometers in diameter with sustained winds of 50 - 55 kph (30 - 35 mph), nearly calm winds at their center, and generate very heavy rains. Typically, 6 - 7 monsoon depressions form each summer over the Bay of Bengal and track westwards across India.
The future of monsoons in IndiaA warming climate loads the dice in favor of heavier extreme precipitation events. This occurs because more water vapor can evaporate into a warmer atmosphere, increasing the chances of record heavy downpours. In a study published in Science in 2006, Goswami et al. found that the level of heavy rainfall activity in the monsoon over India had more than doubled in the 50 years since the 1950s, leading to an increased disaster potential from heavy flooding. Moderate and weak rain events decreased during those 50 years, leaving the total amount of rain deposited by the monsoon roughly constant. The authors commented, "These findings are in tune with model projections and some observations that indicate an increase in heavy rain events and a decrease in weak events under global warming scenarios." We should expect to see an increased number of disastrous monsoon floods in coming decades if the climate continues to warm as expected. Since the population continues to increase at a rapid rate in the region, death tolls from monsoon flooding disasters are likely to climb dramatically in coming decades. However, my greater concern for India is drought. The monsoon rains often fail during El Niño years, and more than 4.2 million people died in India due to droughts between 1900 - 2012. Up until the late 1960s, it was common for the failure of the monsoon rains to kill millions of people in India. The drought of 1965 - 1967 killed at least 1.5 million people. However, since the Green Revolution of the late 1960s--a government initiative to improve food self-sufficiency using new technology and high-yield grains--failure of the monsoon rains has not led to mass starvation in India. It is uncertain whether of not the Green Revolution can keep up with India's booming population, and the potential that climate change might bring more severe droughts. Climate models show a wide range of possibilities for the future of the Indian monsoon, and it is unclear at present what the future might hold. However, the fact that one of the worst droughts in India's history occurred in 2009 shows that serious droughts have to be a major concern for the future. The five worst Indian monsoons along with the rainfall deficits for the nation:
Historic flooding in Calgary, AlbertaTorrential rainfall on Wednesday night and Thursday has resulted in the most extensive flooding in Alberta Province, Canada in at least 8 years, with some 100,000 people facing evacuations in the city of Calgary. Wunderblogger Christopher C. Burt has a look at the disaster in his latest post. The floods are due, in part to the "stuck" jet stream pattern that brought record heat to Alaska this week.
You got that right. If yer swattin' at skeeters and hittin' 'em most every swing, they's a bunch of 'em. They're bad around here in the morning and evening, and we're by the coast. It gets progressively worse the further west you go.
Morning mik..Here's an info link to the CDC and their last weeks report..
Now that a new day is here, time for a quick catch-up on the Alaskan heat wave. This first image shows the high temperatures forecast for the state on Thursday. Note that temps in the 80s are even predicted for the North Slope:
Here is the NWS forecast for Fairbanks. Some may call this "normal summer weather", and I suppose it would be--if we were talking about, say, Chicago. Fairbanks is on schedule to end the month with June being by far the warmest month ever recorded there. (And with the long-range forecast showing highs in the 90s at least through next Sunday, July may be in the running, as well.)
I realize a few sensitive types took offense at my posting this yesterday, but, well, it is what it is. After all, we can't pretend that it isn't happening, can we? ;-)
Quoting islander101010:floridians need to keep a look out for an encephalitis outbreak going to be no shortage of mosquitos this yr. just waiting for the birds
You got that right. If yer swattin' at skeeters and hittin' 'em most every swing, they's a bunch of 'em. They're bad around here in the morning and evening, and we're by the coast. It gets progressively worse the further west you go.
Quoting StormTrackerScott:Very wet weather continues for the SE US. My monthly rain total is up to 14.42" for June with some areas just to my west in Apopka up to 18" of rain for June. Very impressive considering average is 7.70"
Mornin' Scott...We got a brief shower yesterday morning, but it only amounted to a trace. Over 2 weeks now with no appreciable rainfall. Of course, when it does finally rain it'll probably be a deluge.
Quoting islander101010:what if a 1928 kind of system blew through miami? are you ready?
Good morning Islander! Good question. Nearly 64 years since Palm Beach County experienced a major. A lot of folks think of themselves as seasoned after the '04 storms and Wilma the next year. But max sustained for all three was only 84 mph (PBIA). If a major ever hits, it's going to be a rude awakening.
That UV index seems backwards. If you are in the sun for 30 min. you will always burn but if you are out there for 150 min. you will RARELY burn? That doesn't make sense at any level to me. Even stake would burn more with longer exposure and not be "Rare".If you "Always" burn, then your skin would be light i.e. not black. For this level the graph seems to pick black. Dark skin that would burn rarely would be dark/black and not light. The graph chooses the lightest color for the most sun tolerance.What does the upper limit of the color mean? Everybody burns? Shouldn't that be where the red and pink colors are darkest and not the light, pale, barely burned colors? I give that graph an F on intuitive.
It takes a read and re-read to get it biff..I found looking at the time line helped me..Yes they (WU) could have done a better job of representing the data..
That UV index seems backwards. If you are in the sun for 30 min. you will always burn but if you are out there for 150 min. you will RARELY burn? That doesn't make sense at any level to me. Even stake would burn more with longer exposure and not be "Rare".If you "Always" burn, then your skin would be light i.e. not black. For this level the graph seems to pick black. Dark skin that would burn rarely would be dark/black and not light. The graph chooses the lightest color for the most sun tolerance.What does the upper limit of the color mean? Everybody burns? Shouldn't that be where the red and pink colors are darkest and not the light, pale, barely burned colors? I give that graph an F on intuitive.
Quoting StormTrackerScott:Very wet weather continues for the SE US. My monthly rain total is up to 14.42" for June with some areas just to my west in Apopka up to 18" of rain for June. Very impressive considering average is 7.70"
We have had rain all last week and starting off again this morning with thunderstorms and heavy rain..we have been in either under a flood warning or advisory for a minute now..
Very wet weather continues for the SE US. My monthly rain total is up to 14.42" for June with some areas just to my west in Apopka up to 18" of rain for June. Very impressive considering average is 7.70"
Good Morning All..Very soupy 77 degrees with 94%rh and dew at 75..Overcast with winds barely 3.5mph from the North..
Beach looks ok..A high UV day though..
The UV Index is a forecast of the probable intensity of skin damaging ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface during the solar noon hour: 11:30-12:30 Local Standard Time, or 12:30-13:30 Local Daylight Time. The greater the UV Index is the greater the amount of skin damaging UV radiation. How much UV radiation is needed to actually damage one's skin is dependent on several factors. In general, the darker one's skin is that is, the more melanin one has in his/her skin the longer (or the more UV radiation) it takes to cause erythema (skin reddening). | {
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23 April 2018
Cheap mortgage deals may disappear as lenders anticipate rate rise
Speculation is raging as to whether there will be in an interest rate rise next month, with Swap rates factoring in a potential rise. Several mortgage lenders – including Sainsbury’s, Tesco Bank, Barclays, NatWest, Halifax, Lloyds Bank and Santander – have recently raised mortgage rates on the back of higher funding costs.
Research from Moneyfacts.co.uk reveals that the average two-year fixed-rate is now 2.5 per cent, the highest level since July 2016. However, it is worth noting that this is an ‘average’, so there are cheaper deals available.
In November, the Bank of England raised interest rates for the first time in a decade. There are fears that there will be another rate rise in May, followed by more later this year. However, nothing is absolutely certain. Bank of England governor Mark Carney said last week that a May rate rise is not a foregone conclusion and that Brexit talks could delay any action. Inflation has also fallen to a one-year low of 2.5 per cent, reducing pressure to raise Bank Rate.
So what should borrowers do? The key is to review the mortgage rates available so you don’t miss out on the cheapest deals. If you are on your lender’s standard variable rate, you are probably paying more than you need to – speak to an independent mortgage broker, such as SPF Private Clients, to see whether you can access a cheaper deal.
If you are coming to the end of a fixed or discounted-rate in the next few months it may not be too early to speak to a broker. You can always reserve a rate ready for when you need to remortgage and at that time, if rates are lower, you can choose another deal. But with interest rates seemingly on an upwards trajectory, it is highly unlikely that mortgages will get much cheaper in coming months.
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China will keep driving the world economy
By Axel A. Weber |
China Daily |
Updated: 2019-01-09 07:19
China's economic powerhouse of Shenzhen. [Photo/VCG]
In a year when the US economy accelerated, it is worth bearing in mind that it was still China that drove the world economy, delivering an estimated 25 percent-plus of total global growth in 2018. That is a reality we will have to get used to, with a range of estimates forecasting that China will eventually overtake the United States as the largest and most influential economy in the world within the next 10 years.
But as we move into 2019, near-term challenges, such as trade tensions, debt and the sustainability of reforms, dominate the outlook. We (UBS) do not underestimate the importance or scale of these challenges, but we feel that, if properly managed, China still has undoubted potential to grow sustainably over the longer term.
Looking at trade, we estimate US policy measures will slow China's growth to 6.1 percent this year. China's response here will be crucial.
Policy support is coming to stabilize the economy over the short term but China will have to diversify its export markets in the long term, and new trade deals indicate China's trading future may lie in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America, where growth in both the population and middle class will be highest in the coming years.
As for debt, China's post-global financial crisis buildup of debt remains a concern but, unlike in the rest of the world, China has been aggressive about deleveraging and instilling new discipline into credit flows. These steps are encouraging but more work needs to be done to propel China in the future, not least in ensuring that the financial system works not only for the previously dominant State-owned enterprises but also for the small and medium-sized private enterprises, which are the backbone of the economy.
There also remain lots to do on the reform front, but China is making progress, albeit at its own pace. In the past year, we have seen closures of "zombie" SOEs, easing of urban residency rules, opening up of the auto sector to overseas investment, and rural property rights reform. Our conversations with regulators have revealed there is immense desire to further deepen reforms, and we hope the regulators continue actively to simplify the regulatory framework and promote international standards.
Continuing on the reform theme, one area where there has been marked progress is in financial markets, specifically by the opening up of onshore markets to overseas investors via the Stock and Bond Connect programs.
We believe these reforms, and the subsequent inclusion of onshore markets in global equity and bond benchmarks have the potential to spark a rebalancing of global asset allocation to China. And the evidence shows that this is starting to happen, with overseas investors increasing their allocations to China during the past three years.
This is a significant change both for China and global investors.
For China, it's a positive step because it opens new sources of capital and has the potential to bring longer-term, more fundamentally-driven institutional investors to onshore markets, particularly the retail investor-driven equity markets.
For investors, onshore access creates a large opportunity set of investible companies and securities. The opening up of the market has come at an opportune time, as it brings investors an entry point into thematic trends like data-driven innovations in "new economy" sectors, industrial upgrading, and evolving consumer demand, which we believe has the potential to grow strongly over the coming years.
But for all that we are constructive about China, we're also mindful that it also has risks. Policy can sometimes be opaque and markets volatile. But that is no reason to ignore it. On the contrary, we are committed to expanding in China to build our capabilities to both navigate onshore markets and capitalize on opportunities. As such, we plan to build a majority stake in our existing onshore joint venture, boost our headcount, and expand our range of investible products for both onshore and offshore clients.
Putting in resources like this and aligning with the thematic trends described above shows that we are taking a long-term strategic view around China. This approach has brought numerous benefits to investors in the past and, as China continues to take the lead in the global economy, we expect the future to be no different.
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
Little buns give me a headache.
I have little buns in my hair today...two of them. And while I love the way they look, and always tend to wrap my hair into them for my second-day hairstyling (I only wash my hair every other day during the week...), they hurt my head. Little buggars.
Potentially big stuff is happening. Big, big, big stuff. Not sure what'll pan out yet, but here's the run down: I have a buddy at my old temp agency keeping her eye open for new positions for me. It's been 3 years for me here at my current company, and while things have settled down considerably from the unhappy, shitty place they were a few months ago, I still feel like it's time to move on. IF the right thing comes along, that is. I want to work for a single exec. Not a couple of managers, as well as all their little peons below them. That lends itself to a constant babysitting situation in the admin world, and I HATE babysitting. I want to work for one person who has their shit together and knows what they need from me performance-wise on a daily basis. And who knows that I'm there for them, and only them, all the time. It's the relationship I used to have with my brother-in-law when I worked for him when he was COO of a company and we worked together in northern Cali. It was fantastic.
Anyway, the temp company that originally placed me at this here fine company I currently work for is one that I remain in contact with on a regular basis, because they supply us with our temps 90% of the time we have them in the city I work in. I sent my resume to my contact there about 2 months ago, and she called me today. With a fabu opportunity. It's an exec admin job for the CEO of a company that's in the same field I'm currently in. In the same city. And it's a young, cool environment, it seems. (I guess the other people they've sent over for them to interview were not the right fit. They want people with only 3 - 5 years of experience rather than 20 years. Works for me.) I'm a shoe-in for an interview, which will likely happen tomorrow. AND, they're starting the pay at $40,000, which is the minimum I'm willing to leave this job for. We're set to get raises in the next 2 months here, and my boss told me that he's requested the highest percentage they're giving per person for me this year, but there's no telling what that is. And even if they give me a 6% raise (which is NOT going to happen...), it still wouldn't put me at $40,000.
I have a feeling that if I tell him that I've gotten an offer elsewhere for $40,000, it might kick in some sort of counter-offer. (He really values my presence here in this region. As he should.) But that's all just conjecture, really. He might be so pissed that I went to interview elsewhere that he might tell me to fuck right off. Who knows? He's a cool guy, we get along pretty well, and he has to understand that I'm young, I'm alone, and I've got to do what's in my best interest. But who knows, really.
Anyway, it's making my heart go pitter-patter right now. My contact at the temp agency is submitting my resume, and we should hear back by this afternoon whether they want to meet with me or not. So we'll see...
I'm going to go get some Advil for my bun-head now. I'll keep y'all posted on what happens. (With the job thing. Not the headache thing. Because I know you could give a shit about my bun-head. :) | {
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Friday, May 31, 2013
REVIEW: KYLESA - ULTRAVIOLET
We
all suffer from demons of defilement at some point. I won’t pretend to
totally understand the ins, outs, and what-have-yous of the Kilesa Mara
mentioned in Buddhism, but they seem to represent the factors that
delude us and cloud our minds, like greed and ignorance. Kylesa were
named after some of these strong forces, but after listening to their
newest album Ultraviolet
I don’t think the music is suffering from any of these “mind poisons.”
This is a daring, expansive album building from their psychedelic crunch
and double-drummer pummel , full of large ideas and progressive
melodies. Unfortunately, with great experimentation comes a varying
degree of success. Still, you can’t make progress through the forest
without stepping into a few ditches and bear traps along the way.
The
familiar sludgy Savannah stomp roars from the opening seconds on
“Exhale,” featuring the best tandem vocal work on the album as Laura
Pleasants and Phillip Cope trade barbed lyrics with venom and
conviction. The song feels like riding red waves on a splinter of
driftwood, surrounded by sharks and figuring out how you’re going to
kill all these finned bastards with the guitar on your back as your only
weapon. Opening with the most vicious song on the album may make what
follows slightly disarming for those seeking more of the same mud and
blood. But clearly those listeners weren’t paying enough attention to
the moments of light in Spiral Shadow,
because those seeds of melody have blossomed here, an album later.
Sure, there’s the massive stoner riffs of “Grounded” and the excellent
bong-blitzed burner “Vulture’s Landing,” but most of the album is more
pensive, brooding, and eases forward with entrancing rhythm and nearly
oxymoronic bright melodies that paint the black’n’gray sky with strokes
of turquoise and (ultra)violet.
Some
of these songs work beautifully, like the Porno For Pyro smoking hesher
hash vibe of “Quicksand,” and “Low Tide,” which captures spacey new
wave pop that could get the goth kids at the nearest cellar night club
two-stepping. Others struggle with delivering the melodic undercurrent
without distracting from the main pull of the song, or worse yet, murder
the momentum. “Steady Breakdowns” suffers from the latter, kicking off
with witchy occult rock before vanishing into smoke and space dust as
the song loses focus. “Drifting” is just a mess, unfortunately closing
the album with a bombardment of disagreeing parts played with the
enthusiasm of a guilty elegy. The overall results may be inconsistent,
leading to frustrating so-god-damn-close moments where you understand
that sometimes less is definitely more, but it’s also fascinating and
inspiring. Beneath the proggy spazz-outs and the lightning strikes of
pop melody this is still a loud rock album, just one that values
patience and excitedly experiments with tone. In the middle of the
record Pleasants sings that “You have lost your soul.” After listening
to this record it’s clear she’s not singing to a mirror, because Kylesa
is displaying more soul and courage than any previous recording, even if
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Thanks to the support of additional German research vessels, the MOSAiC expedition will continue, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The new team will start in May.
Despite the current challenges, the MOSAiC expedition will continue. After many national borders were closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, one team transfer had to be postponed. But thanks to new alternative plans supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the German Research Foundation and the operators of the German research fleet as well as the dedicated work of the expedition team currently on board, MOSAiC will soon enter its next phase. An interim review of the project shows: the data to be gathered over the next several months will be indispensable for the scientific community.
After successfully completing the first half of its more-than-a-year-long drift through the Arctic Ocean, the international expedition MOSAiC suddenly faced unforeseen challenges, posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The massive restrictions on global travel hindered the third team exchange, which had been planned as an aerial transfer in early April, using the Spitsbergen archipelago (which Norwegian authorities have since placed off limits due to the pandemic) as a base of operations. Since the current situation also means the international icebreakers that were originally meant to resupply the expedition are also prohibited from making any staff transfers, in the span of just a few weeks the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the MOSAiC Coordination Office and the funding bodies and operators of the German Research Fleet Coordination Centre at Hamburg University developed a completely new alternative plan:
The upcoming transfer will be completed out with the aid of the German research vessels RV Sonne and RV Maria S. Merian. As a result of the pandemic-related measures, both ships have just returned to Germany. Polarstern will meet the two vessels in calm waters off Svalbard, in order to carry out a complete personnel transfer (ca. 100 people), and an exchange of cargo and provisions. Once the process is complete, Polarstern and her new team will return to the ice and continue their expedition in the Arctic Ocean.
Expedition Leader Prof Markus Rex from the AWI: “With this alternative plan, the AWI’s Logistics Team, together with our international partners, achieved a true masterstroke in the face of the enormous challenges posed by the coronavirus crisis. With a host of alternative plans at the ready, the expedition was prepared for virtually every scenario imaginable. Yet the pandemic forced us to devise a complex alternative scenario for wholly new, unforeseen and unprecedented circumstances. It was only the team’s tremendous commitment and flexibility that allowed us to conduct climate research in the Arctic ice two months longer than planned, despite the current conditions. As a result, in spite of the extremely adverse conditions, the continuation of the expedition has been secured.”
The new staff exchange plan will be accompanied by extensive safety concepts developed in close collaboration with the respective health authorities. From early May, the participants in the next leg of the expedition living in Germany will enter a monitored quarantine phase, during which they will be regularly tested for the coronavirus. Due to the delayed exchange, there will only be a total of four, not five, transfers in the course of the expedition, but this will have no effect on its total duration: the planned end date is still 12 October 2020.
Prof Torsten Kanzow from the AWI, the current chief scientist on board Polarstern, had the following to report: “Many of our people have families, and are of course doing everything they can to stay in close contact with their loved ones back home via satellite phone and email. As the expedition leader, I also note the hardships and concerns of the people on board, and pass them on to the Coordination Office and the AWI. This has helped us regain a bit of certainty in our planning efforts.” In addition, on 22 April seven participants, whose personal circumstances made it impossible to stay longer, were flown out with a Twin Otter. According to Kanzow, he’s happy to see that, despite the current challenges and concerns, the participants have continued to carry out their research duties in the ice with great enthusiasm – even though, since 31 March, they have had to do so in the never-ending sunlight of the Polar Day.
Over the past months, Polarstern has rapidly advanced along her projected drift corridor; as a result, she is already between the North Pole and Fram Strait, i.e., fairly far to the south. For the upcoming logistical operation, this position is advantageous. Some instruments on the MOSAiC floe will continue recording autonomously until Polarstern returns, while others will be dismantled.
Depending on how the drift progresses, the Ice Camp may be relocated closer to the North Pole. The possibility of tearing down and relocating the camp was always part of the planning scenarios, in the event that the ship drifted faster than anticipated. This would have only minimal effects on the expedition timeline. As Markus Rex explains, “If we drift too far south, we will set up the Ice Camp again farther north, and continue our observations in a region where the Central Arctic is still covered with ice in the summer. We’re thrilled with the tremendous amount of data we’ve been able to gather over the past seven months. Despite the current adversities, we hope to continue the expedition for the remainder of the year-long cycle, and draw it to a close in October as planned.”
In the context of the MOSAiC expedition, experts from 20 countries will research the Arctic for an entire year. To make this possible, from autumn 2019 to autumn 2020 the German research icebreaker Polarstern will drift through the Arctic Ocean, trapped in the ice. MOSAiC is being coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). To ensure that this unparalleled project is a success and yields as much valuable data as possible, more than 80 institutes have pooled their resources in a research consortium. The expedition budget is ca. 140 million euros.
For news straight from the Arctic, check out the MOSAiC channels on Twitter (@MOSAiCArctic) and Instagram (@mosaic_expedition) using the hashtags #MOSAiCexpedition, #Arctic and #icedrift.
The German Research Fleet Coordination Centre can be contacted by e-mail to: leitstelle.ldf(at)uni-hamburg.de
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) conducts research in the Arctic, Antarctic and oceans of the high and mid-latitudes. It coordinates polar research in Germany and provides major infrastructure to the international scientific community, such as the research icebreaker Polarstern and stations in the Arctic and Antarctica. The Alfred Wegener Institute is one of the 19 research centres of the Helmholtz Association, the largest scientific organisation in Germany. | {
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Of Mice & Men talk Restoring Force
"There's a part at the end that sounds like chaos – and that's what it was."
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Californian metallers on third album
Of Mice & Men talk Restoring Force
Over the last decade or so, metalcore has become the defining popular movement in heavy metal.
Most of the fastest rising acts in that time – from Bullet For My Valentine to Avenged Sevenfold and Bring Me The Horizon – have their roots in its rich soil. Orange County five-piece Of Mice & Men were born in the heart of it in 2009, but took many by surprise when their rampaging last album, The Flood, broke the Billboard Top 30.
Now, follow-up effort, Restoring Force shows a band rapidly outgrowing the scene that raised them. The breakdowns have been scaled down, and thanks to the encouragement of producer David Bendeth (Paramore, Asking Alexandria), long-held but lesser- heard rock and nu-metal influences have been brought to the fore.
"This is the first album that we actually got to sit down and use real cabs and amps."
Feelin' it
How did the success of The Flood affect your attitude towards the new album?
Phil: “It was actually kind of hard to write something that could battle with The Flood, so in our heads, when we were writing this new album, we felt that we had to step out of the comfort zone.”
Alan: “With The Flood we went a little bit heavier, a little bit more nu-metal and a bit more rock ’n’ roll in our approach to writing the riffs, and it gave us a lot of confidence to think that we can do more than just playing breakdowns. We can write riffs and actual parts, so I guess it also gave us confidence in our writing abilities.”
Which one of David Bendeth’s past records persuaded you he was the right choice of producer?
Phil: “I’m a huge fan of Breaking Benjamin, so him making those records [We Are Not Alone, Phobia and Dear Agony] back in the day, it was like, ‘Okay, we’ve got to go with that dude.’ If we didn’t work with him, this album wouldn’t have been the same; it would have been something safe and easy. He really pushed us to our limits.”
Alan: “The dude’s a mad scientist genius! I could go down a huge list of things that he’s done, but for me personally it was Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach [Time For Annihilation] and Paramore’s Riot.”
Did your gear change for this album?
Alan: “This is the first album that we actually got to sit down and use real cabs and amps. With our last two, we’d do pre-production with live amps, but then when it came to the actual tracking, it was mostly POD Farm and plug-ins. With David, he’s got the SSL console, he’s like the real ‘feel’ guy. I can’t tell you how many different guitars we went through on each song just to get tones right – I must have played six or seven different heads and about eight or nine guitars.”
And your favourite guitars and amps?
Alan: “There was this Naylor head, which had a scooped midrange and sounded so good for metalcore riffs, and a modded-out Marshall JCM900 head called a Friedman, which was just awesome. I also got to use the baritone Les Paul Studio that Breaking Benjamin recorded their whole album with, so that was a really cool one for me. Then several of my ESP Eclipses, several Horizons...”
Phil: “We play a lot of active-pickup guitars, but David was all about using his classic gear, so we used a lot of his Gibsons. Every guitar [we brought in] he was like, ‘That’s weak!’ And I’d be like, ‘Yeah, f**k, you’re right...’ I got lucky with a couple of my guitars: I got to play two ESPs – my seven-string and then my Kirk Hammett-issue ESP, but I put the new James Hetfield EMG pickups in it. I was really happy about that because he hated active pickups, but when I brought that in, he finally liked it!”
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"There's a part at the end that sounds like chaos - and that's what it was."
Stepping up
Metalcore has a fairly limited palette of techniques and tones. Were you keen to explore new regions as players?
Phil: “I felt like we did enough of the metalcore stuff. I love that – all of the breakdowns and everything – but we’re a band that wants to keep moving forward. We always want more and we want to be better than everyone else in our scene, so trying rock-style songs was definitely something that we had to do.”
Alan: “The cool thing to me about the band has been that we can do lots of different genres – not pigeonhole ourselves to be a specific ‘metalcore’ band. We’re a f**king rock ’n’ roll band. We like rock music. There’s some metalcore aspects, there’s some nu-metal aspects, whatever, we just didn’t want an album that all sounded like the same song.”
Phil, how did you develop your playing as a lead guitarist?
Phil: “I went from the basics: I started learning older songs and different scales – and just relearning the guitar. I found ideas came out from listening to older songs that I loved. Would You Still Be There, that song was not a normal Of Mice & Men song. When you listen to it, you’re like, ‘Damn that’s like Papa Roach or Breaking Benjamin.’ Or a song like Identity Disorder, there’s barely any guitar in the verse, it’s just the bass part with guitar harmonics and a tremolo in the back.
“They don’t sound like [old] Of Mice & Men, but you can totally hear the band. Both were ones where everyone was like, ‘Jesus, what’s going to happen with these songs?’ But then two days before we finish the record, the guys knocked out the vocals and before you know it, they’re two of the best hits.”
Which guitar moment are you most proud of on Restoring Force?
Phil: “I did have one special moment. Dave was pissed at me – he always got underneath my skin just to push my buttons – it was on the song Another You, then I actually did it in one take. So I definitely pat myself on the back for that, because it was a difficult song to do. That’s the one that I think is the best, mainly because I got the nickname One-Take Phil!”
Alan: “For me, it was a Dunlop Cry Baby wah solo on Bones Exposed. I grew up loving Slash, so I’ve just always wanted to have a f**king Dunlop Cry Baby guitar solo. Everybody was like, ‘Yeah, I don’t really know...’ I was like, ‘Watch this!’ Then I had a few beers, went into the studio for two hours and came out with the solo and everyone was like, ‘Yep – we’re keeping it!’
“There’s also a cool moment on Public Service Announcement where there’s a lot of feedback and it kind of sounds like there’s a guitar just getting thrown around a room – and that’s literally what it was. Dave Bendeth came in and was like, ‘You’re not being f**king mean enough to that guitar!’ He took it out of my hand and was just bashing it up against the cab! So there’s a part at the end that sounds like chaos – and that’s what it was.”
The band will likely go on to bigger things with this record. Do you think you’re prepared for that, personally?
Phil: “We wouldn’t write the album if we weren’t. We didn’t go to the studio going, ‘We’re going to write these kind of songs!’ It just kind of came to us. We just write the music we like and we wrote catchier stuff. You never hope to be one of those Slipknots or Linkin Parks or Blink-182s. You want to be that band, but it’s up to the people and the music that we write.”
Alan: “Honestly? I don’t feel like I’m ever prepared for anything! I just take it as it comes. I feel like the band as a whole is ready. We love playing shows and we’ve been playing bigger shows with bigger bands, so hopefully yeah, that’s what will come with it. No band wants to come out with an album and have less people listen to it. So you could say we’re ready. Individually, I don’t think any of us is ready – we learn as we go, man!”
Hybrid Theories
LINKIN PARK
As with anyone lucky enough to own a set of baggy cords and a drop-tuned electric guitar in the Noughties, the band’s fellow Californians have had an enduring influence. Feels Like Forever’s super-punchy verse riffs are like Hybrid Theory-era Linkin on Lucozade.
Phil and Alan are both massive fans of the currently defunct US heavy rockers’ output. You’ll hear it in Alan’s chorus writing and Phil’s effects-laden lead tones on the likes of Break Free.
PAPA ROACH
Tracks like Would You Still Be There inherit Papa Roach’s God-given talent to rock all the nations, not to mention Jerry Horton’s knack for octave-spanning palm-muted riffs and pull-off-based upper-string lead embellishments.
SLIPKNOT
There’s certainly some ’Knot at work here: Glass Hearts channels the impressive intensity and chugging, percussive bounce of Iowa’s finest, whereas the rage and grimy riffing of Public Service Announcement gets pulses racing in a way not felt since the days of the dildo mask. | {
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Tuesday, March 15
This does not sound like good news for the comfortable. Paul gives his own resume to the Philippians, telling them of how he had all the right credentials, all the advantages and privilege to succeed in life, but now because of Christ he counts it all as a loss.Instead of being a comfortable, upper-middle class Pharisee, he’s in prison.Instead of taking a salary with benefits, he’s beseeching his friends for prayers and support from his cell.How easy it would have been for Paul to go along with the trajectory of what society deemed was a worthy life for this intelligent and passionate man.But Paul reminds us that however easy that alternate path may have been, it would have been a loss.What does he gain besides prison time?He gains ‘the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus.’He knows and believes in the teachings of Christ, so much so, in fact, that any other life would be a loss.Are we living lives that reflect our knowledge of Jesus Christ, or are we looking for value in the wrong things?
Prayer Christ Jesus, when we get too comfortable, shake us like you shook Paul.Help us to let go of the things that lead us to loss.Let us gain the surpassing value of knowing you. | {
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Pebble smartphone can display all iPhone notifications with a hack
Pebble is one of the most promising smart watches we’ve ever seen. It’s still not widely available but has already managed to gain traction among early supporters who pledged more than $10 million for the project at Kickstarter.
The first units have started shipping and the device has already been hacked. You know how Pebble watch can inform you about emails, text messages and incoming calls? Well that capability is now expanded to any iPhone app that supports push notifications. However, this isn’t something everyone should try out as it requires a jailbroken iPhone and an app called “BTNotificationEnabler” which can be downloaded from Cydia. Developed by Conrad Kramer, the application enables any iPhone app to beam information to your hand. Not that you necessarily want that, but you may want to try it out, anyway. Just note that we don’t suggest anyone to jailbreak his/her iPhone… | {
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Black Caviar Has A Rival … Of Sorts
She may be the talk of Australia and indeed the name on many people’s lips right around the world but Black Caviar would do well to even bat an eye lid in the United States. Sure much of their industry is stereotypically... | {
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Introduction
I have been designing and developing mobile applications for less than 1 year, though I'm a professional software developer for 10 years or so, and this new mobile era makes me feel excited. As of today there are two and a half major platforms gaining pretty well reputation by the mobile users. Two of them are iOS (formerly known as iPhone OS) and Android and the half is long debated Windows Phone 7.
In this tutorial article I will try to introduce you to the general development principles of Android by building a real calculator application (TouchCalculator). By the end of this tutorial you will be able to build Android applications with simple user interfaces and backing business logic.
Preparing Yourself and The Development Environment
Before you get started, if you are totally new to Android I would suggest you to read the What is Android? section from the Android Developers site and I would also suggest you to have a look at Android Developers Blog.
If you have not configured an Android development environment already, please follow the instructions in this link.
TouchCalculator MockUp
TouchCalculator, our sample and simple calculator, is a standard calculator supporting four arithmetic operations and three mathematical functions (namely square root, reciprocle and percentage) along with a memory buffer.
Let's start with the mockup of our calculator. Below is a color coded sketch of our application. I've seperated the UI into locigal parts and each part is represented with a color highlight. There is a reasoning behind the conceptual seperation and this will be evident in the next sections of the tutorial.
So, let us see what is intended with each region in our mockup.
We will display the subsequent user input until user presses (=) to calculate the result or C to clear the input buffer
User will press the numeric keypad buttons and we will append each numeric value to the current value of Area #2
If user presses the decimal seperator button placed in Area #5 we shall append the seperator to the current value of Area #2
When user presses an arithmetic operator button placed in Area #7 we shall display the input buffer content in Area #1. If input buffer has enough input to produce a result we shall also calculate the result and display the value in Area #2
When user presses (=) button and if input buffer has enough input to produce a result we shall calculate the result and display it in Area #2, else do nothing.
When user presses the backspace button (<-) we shall trim the last digit of the value displayed in Area #2
When the user presses the CE button we shall reset the value displayed in Area #2 so that it becomes 0
When user presses the C button we shall reset the input buffer and the value displayed in Area #2 so that it becomes 0
When user presses (±) we shall toggle the sign of the user input value displayed in Area #2
When user presses MC button we shall clear the memory buffer
When user presses MR button we shall read the value in memory buffer and display that value in Area #2
When user presses MS button we shall set the value of the memory buffer to the value displayed in Area #2
When user presses M+ or M- buttons we shall add/subtract the value displayed in Area #2 with the exisiting value of the memory buffer
When user presses SQRT button we shall calculate the square root of the value displayed in Area #2 and display the result in Area #2
When user presses 1/x button we shall calculate the reciprocle of the value displayed in Area #2 and display the result in Area #
When user presses % button we shall calculate the result of the input buffer and find the percent of the result and display in Area #2
Creating The Bare Bones User Interface
Since we have our calculator mockup, we can start creating the bare bones Android user interface of our calculator. When you create a new Android project in Eclipse, you will have a default layout xml file named main.xml under res/layout folder. We will create the bare bones calculator user interface declaratively, not from code, inside this xml file. Using declarative xml files, layout files, while constructing the user interface has advantages. The primary advantage of using XML is that you seperate the presentation of your application from the code used to control your applications behaviour. In a team environment this seperation enables designers and coders to work on the same application simultaneously. Designers familiar with HTML can easly design Android user interfaces once they get familiar with Android layout vocabulary.You can read more about Android layouts from here.
Now, lets see how we can accomplish an Android UI to represent different UI parts sketched in our TouchCalculator Mockup. Building blocks of Android UI are Views and ViewGroups. Views are basic user interface bits which provide screen layout and user interaction. For example Button, TextView and CheckBox are simple views extending the abstract View class. ViewGroups are composite user interface bits which can contain multiple Views and other ViewGroups. LinearLayout and GridView are two of the view groups we will use to construct our calculator.
In our mockup, we have actually four sections layed out in linear direction vertically. First three sections are for the areas labeled with 1,2 and 3 and the fourth section is for the keypad, containing sections labeled with 4,5,6,7,8 and 9. Thus, we will use LinearLayout ViewGroup so that we can place Views for each section. Here is our bare bones layout XML
We will use TextView to represent areas labeled with 1,2 and 3 in our mockup. We will use GridView ViewGroup for the keypad. We will place our keypad buttons inside the cells of the GridView at runtime by using an Adapter.
Most of the View and ViewGroup attributes are self explanatory. You can infer easily what an attribute is used for, actually Eclipse xml editor will also help you if you press Ctrl+Space you will be presented a list of attributes. I will mention id attribute explicitly since it has special importance. Any view or view group can have an id attribute, but this is not a must. If you want to get reference to the View or ViewGroup from your code, you should set the id attribute of your Views and ViewGroups. id attribute has some sort of special notation which you can read more about here.
If you press on the Layout tab in Eclipse XML editor where our layout is defined, you will see the bare bones UI as shown in the image below. Note that by using the LinearLayout we have managed to put each logial section in linear direction vertically.
Loading And Displaying The Layout
The XML layout we have defined is not enough by itself, since the users can not get into interaction with our application through the layout directly. As the terminology implies layout XML is used just for defining the placement and visual aspects of the UI bits. What we need in order to enable user interaction is the Activity class, which controls the behaviour of our UI and enables user interaction.
When you create a new Android project with Eclipse, you will be asked for the details of your project and one of them is the optional Create Activity check box along with a name for your first Android activity class. For all practical purposes we have named our activity to be main. Eclipse will automatically create a "main.java" file under the src/package node. Here is the initial contents of our main activity class
package com.pragmatouch.calculator;
import android.app.Activity;import android.os.Bundle;
public class main extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main);
}}
As you can see, we override the onCreate (Line 10) method of the base Activity and perform activity initialization, loading layout is part of our initialization process, inside the overriden method.
setContentView method called on Line 12 belongs to base Activity class and is used to load the UI layout from a resource (main.xml) identified by an integer. Please note how we get the integer identifier of our main.xml. When Android builds your application, it automatically generates a class named R (can be found under /TouchCalculator/gen/com/pragmatouch/calculator/R.java) and generates identifier constants for your resources, since main.xml is a resource Android generates a constant for us and we can use that constant from our code to load our layout.
If you run the application you will see an empty UI with two linear TextViews placed on top with no keypad.
Modeling The Keypad Buttons
In this section, we will model our keypad buttons using Java enum type. Java enums are interesting for a guy like me. Spending too many years with C# I must confess that Java enums are much more capable than the C# enums since the Java enum class body can include methods and other fields.
To model the keypad buttons we will declare a KeypadButton enum class, which will also hold button text and category information.
Each keypad button shown in our mockup is represented with an enum constant and each constant also holds a text and a category value. We also use Java enums to represent the keypad button categories and declare a KeypadButtonCategory enum class.
We will utilize KeypadButtonCategory enums for applying different styles for each category so that our sample calculator seems more colorfull.
Creating The Keypad Buttons
As I mentioned in the previous sections, we will use GridView to display our keypad. We will use a five column GridView and we will declare an Adapterwhich extends the BaseAdapter class and is responsible of providing data to our AdapterView that is a GridView in our case.
// Set CalculatorButton enumeration as tag of the button so that we // will use this information from our main view to identify what to do btn.setTag(keypadButton); } else { btn = (Button) convertView; }
Adapters are responsible for providing data to AdapterViews, in our case the data we will provide to our GridView is keypad button instances. To be able to create these button instances, we define an array of KeypadButton enums on Line 47-52.
Our KeypadAdapter provides keypad button instances to our GridView with the getView (Line 28-44) method implementation where we instantiate or revoke our keypad buttons and set their properties based on their position on the GridView.
Please note what Line 36 does in the code. We set KeypadButton enum instance as the tag of our Button and we will use that tag value during business logic implementation to identify what to do when the user presses a keypad button.
Displaying The Keypad
Now, we have defined our Adapter and it is time to wire-up the GridView with our KeypadAdapter. Here is our main.java file.
Note that we create an instance of our KeypadAdapter on Line 25 and set this instance as the adapter of our GridView on Line 28. Another thing I want you to notice in the code above is the findViewById call on Line 21. As I noted in previous section, we use the value of the id attribute we have assigned to our GridView in our layout XML (main.xml).
When you run the TouchCalculator at this point, you will see the following UI which is almost the same as our mockup.
Implementing The Business Logic
Now it is time to implement the business logic of our calculator. We will utilize Java Stack class in order to implement our calulation logic. We will have two Stack instances; the first instance will hold the user input and the second stack will hold the intermediate calculation results. We will wrap our business logic as an instance method inside our main class. Here is our ProcessKeypadInput method along with some utility methods.
ProcessKeypadInput method is called each time user presses a keypad button and we decide what to do with a swtich/case code block. We also have some helper methods
clearStacks, is used to clear our stacks and the user input TextView
dumpInputStack, is used to dump the input stack as a single line string to the TextView represented as Area #1 in our mockup
evaluateResult, is called when user presses an artihmetic operation keypad button or the (=) keypad button. Inside this method we try to calculate a result by popping values from our operation stack and we push the result as the first item to the operation stack if we were able to calculate a result
doubleToString, utility method which is used to convert a double value to String
tryParseUserInput, utility method where we try to parse the user input, represented as Area #2 in our mockup, as a valid double value
displayMemoryStat, utility method used to dump the memory buffer status and value to the Area #3 in our mockup
The Right Place To Call ProcessKeypadInput Method
In "Displaying The Keypad" section please take a look at the comment placed on Line 34. If you read the GridView Sample in Android Developers site, you might think that this line is the right place to put the ProcessKeypadInput method call since the user will click on the keypad buttons which are in turn items of our GridView that in turn will trigger the OnItemClick event. This assumption is absolutely wrong in our case. If you put the call to ProcessKeypadInput method on that line and run your application OnItemClick of our GridView will not be fired even though a button is pressed. The reason for this misconception is this : Since Button views placed in the cells of the GridView are clickable, when user clicks over a button the Button view handles that click and the action is not propagated to the GridView.
Solution to this problem is pretty straight forward; we have to set OnClickListener of our keypad Button views and we will do that in our KeypadAdapter class. Below is the modified version of our KeypadAdapter class.
// Set CalculatorButton enumeration as tag of the button so that we // will use this information from our main view to identify what to // do btn.setTag(keypadButton); } else { btn = (Button) convertView; }
We set OnButtonClickListener of our KeypadAdapter class on Line 31-42.
Are we done yet?
We have a fully functional (actually I left implementaton of SQRT, 1/x and % to you as an excercise) standard calculator but there is always room for improvement and visual styling. In this last section I will try to show you a simple sample for styling our keypad buttons and the TextViews we have used in our UI. For more information about Using Styles And Themes please visit this link.
Applying Style To Our Keypad
Android has lots of different resource types and it is possible to style your Android application's UI at different levels by utilizing these resources. As a simple example, we will use Drawable resource type (to be more specific State List drawable resource type) for styling. You can check out this link for more resource types though.
First of all we have to define a State List drawable as an XML file under res/drawable. If you installed the latest Android SDK you will see drawable-hdpi, drawable-ldpi under res folder but there is no drawable folder. You can safely create a drawable folder if you do not already have one. After ensuring that drawable folder exists, add an XML file with name keypadclear1.xml. Inside keypadclear1.xml you will have the following markup code which defines a style for Button views.
keypadclear1.xml contains seperate style definitions for each of the three possible states of a Button view. Now that we have our State List drawable resource ready, we have to write some code to make use of this resource. We will set the background of keypad buttons of KeypadButtonCategory.CLEAR to be styled according to the definitions of keypadclear1.xml. We will modify getView method of our KeypadAdapter class slightly
// create a new ButtonView for each item referenced by the Adapter public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { Button btn; if (convertView == null) { // if it's not recycled, initialize some attributes
// Set CalculatorButton enumeration as tag of the button so that we // will use this information from our main view to identify what to do btn.setTag(keypadButton); } else { btn = (Button) convertView; }
btn.setText(mButtons[position].getText()); return btn; }
On Line 13, we set the background resource of our Button views if they are categorized as KeypadButtonCategory.CLEAR and that is all, we have pinky rounded buttons sketched as Area #9 in our mockup.
Accomplishment
We got familiar with Android application development and evaluate different aspects of an Android application's UI. We developed a styled calculator which looks like the image atatched below
Is There Room For Improvement In TouchCalculator?
Yes. There is always room for improvement and I intentionally left some business logic implementation to you. Here is the list of possible improvements
Implement SQRT
Implement 1/x (reciproc)
Implement % (percent)
Handle division by zero cases properly
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Monday, 30 November 2015
Can you squeeze 15mm models into 6mm rules?
Some thoughts on using Laserstorm fast play rules designed for 6mm models with 15mm models.
By Podsy McPod
I wanted the action to start quickly in this test game so used a 4x4 table but on reflection 6x4 would have been better.
I have been a big fan of Fireteam Andromeda rules for the past couple of years. They have great tactical depth with their unique command and control system. They would remain my rule set of choice for serious competitive play. In recent times though I have hankered after a rule set that was a bit lighter and allowed me to get more of my ever expanding model collection on table at once, especially vehicles.
Laserstorm rules are designed for massive battles using 6mm models. The minimum suggested game size is around nine units a side. A unit being three standard vehicles or field guns, 4 light vehicles, 6 infantry stands or one super heavy vehicle or behemoth. This is the sort of size of game I have played so far. Units are arranged into three battle groups of roughly equal size. Weapon ranges seem fine used unmodified in 15mm. The rules suggest infantry stands of 4-6 models but my figure collection would not stretch to that. I chose stands of 3 models so that my standard units of 20 models could form an infantry unit. It also takes up less real estate on table. Purists may argue that three figures do not make a fire team but it looks OK to me.
Deployment and activation is by battle groups which are represented by a playing card. Also added to the deck are snap fire cards which allow one side to make a single unit fire or move out of sequence.
The rules are very simple and elegant to the extent that you find yourself wondering why has no one done this before. Units have a score to hit on their stat line. If there is not a clear line of sight to all of the target unit or if the target is in terrain the firing unit has to roll higher than their base "aim" stat, effectively a -1 modifier. Weapons are divided into three categories general purpose, anti infantry and anti tank. Fire at the wrong category of target for your weapon type you automatically need an unmodified 6 to hit. That is it! It sounds ridiculously simple but it just seems to work.
Targets get a saving roll based on their class. Infantry and light vehicles save on 1D6, vehicles on the sum of 2D6, super heavies on the sum of 3D6 and behemoths on the sum of 4D6. Vehicles save on only 1D6 in assault so are vulnerable to being overrun by infantry. Units will have a saving roll typically in the range of 3+ to 6+ which is modified by the power of the attacking weapon system. For example an autocannon field gun has a save modifier of -2. So firing on a scout walker unit with a save value of 5+ the walkers would need 7+ to save on the sum of 2D6. If they failed any save and were in cover they would get an additional saving roll of 5+. In the above example infantry in the open with an identical save value of 5+ would be destroyed being unable to roll a 7 on 1D6. So infantry and light vehicles get a massive boost to survivability by being in cover. This system means practically anything has some chance (although it may be tiny) of destroying any target.
Casualties are removed from the nearest model to the firing unit working backwards. A score of 1 to hit is a 3" pushback working from the nearest model after casualties are removed. Victory is decided by scoring points at the end of each turn for uncontested control of victory point locations. This casualty and push back system means there is a great degree of uncertainty over being confident you will hold or contest any given objective at turn end.
Disaster struck this super heavy tank early in my last game. Rolling two ones out of three save dice it failed by 1 to avoid being destroyed by the tanks main guns.
When a unit takes sufficient casualties (one or two depending on size and class) it must make a morale test. This is a simple unmodified score on 1D6. A fail means morale has broken for that moment. If playing in 6mm I think I would use the detailed rules on commanders and regrouping but in 15mm it just seems wrong. An alternative given in the rules is that the unit has to retreat 12" and this works fine.
The rules give three options for unit building. From scratch, add weapons to a chassis or ready made units. The first army list book has just been released. The points system if using the ready made units seems fine. It could be exploited by those determined to win. For example you could give your infantry RPG's a massive range boost for only a few extra points. The points system is under review and I am sure will be updated as players report in. You can alter every stat and add traits and special abilities to units and weapon system. There is enough here to cover every conceivable unit type and hero units if you want them. Alas for me this detailed pointing system (which I highly commend) is just too much for my maths skills. It is crying out for computer aid via a spreadsheet or online army builder. Anyone care to take up the challenge? Get the authors permission first of course.
Tanks burst through Naga lines wiping out all opposition.
So does it work in 15mm? For me I will answer yes with a couple of provisos. Even if you have the models you don't have the room to fit in the large numbers of heavy vehicles the system is suggesting to use. Unless of course you happen to have a massive gaming table. On a standard table 6x4 I don't think I would push much beyond 12 units a side, but compared to a lot of games I see being played that is still a huge amount of figures. There is fair amount of luck in the game which is emphasised if using a relatively small number of units. For me it is an acceptable level in view of the fast play time. The photos are from a game with someone playing for the first time and the game completed in 2 hours from deploying to winner declared.
If you do have a collection with lots of light vehicles (with a small footprint) like Battlesuits and lots of infantry these rules may suit you down to the ground. I can't help thinking they would work equally well for modern games. I think they would work spectacularly well if you are lucky enough to have an urban terrain board.
In fact these rules are so good you might just be tempted to start a 6mm collection. | {
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Samsung Galaxy Fold Review: A fragile, uneven step toward the future▼
Every once in a while, I’m lucky enough to pick up something that feels like it came straight out of the future. This is one of those times -- sort of. I've been living with Samsung's Galaxy Fold for a week now, and I can’t understate how important this thing is. It represents a new way of THINKING about smartphones and almost single-handedly changes what we should expect from them. It's a device that is absolutely worth celebrating, but buying one? For $2,000? I’m not so sure about that. Source | {
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Alcohol laws in Olive Branch, Illinois
Olive Branch is a census designated place, which means it does not have a government of its own. This page reflects the hours of sale in Olive Branch and other unincorporated areas in Alexander County.
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So whats the verdict, do I pick up Byrnes or Willingham? Anyone feel free to chime in on this one.
I think it is really close even though Byrnes was rated much higher before the season. But he was over rated. I might be alone here but I lean towards Willingham. He was batting better before either of them got hurt. Florida has been the better offensive team so far. So he is likely to see better pitches. Neither is a sure thing because both men's injuries could bother them all year.
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ORB - Omnia Radiation Balancer - Partner Pack (Protects 6 Devices)
Because of the veryHIGH DEMAND, Please allow about 7-10 days for delivery.
We all love our phones, laptops and tablets. But given the sheer volume of radiation they transmit.. how do we make them safe to use?
Because radiation fields that are passing through our bodies are now 1 quintillion times stronger than just 20 years ago (that’s 1 with 18 zeros!). [1]
You may not realise that all the cells in your body are constantly vibrating with electric potential.
And so your body is like a big antenna, responding on a vibrational level to all the good thingsyou contact (like walking in nature, hugging someone or eating healthy food); and the bad things too(like smelling petrol fumes, ingesting chemicals or walking through microwave radiation fields).
The problem is that your body absorbs the bad vibes of any radiating device. After 40 years of radiation research, Omnia has made an important discovery that these radiation fields have one thing in common - they are imbalanced wave fields and this has an unsettling impact on the human cell.
This is not good for you. Did you know there are thousands of scientific reports linking this type of microwave radiation to very serious diseases (cancer, alzheimers, diabetes, heart conditions, infertility to name only a few)? [2]
And the bad news is that it's worse for kids.
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ORB - Omnia Radiation Balancer - Individual Pack (Protects 3 Devices)
Because of the veryHIGH DEMAND, Please allow about 7-10 daysfor delivery.
We all love our phones, laptops and tablets. But given the sheer volume of radiation they transmit.. how do we make them safe to use?
Because radiation fields that are passing through our bodies are now 1 quintillion times stronger than just 20 years ago (that’s 1 with 18 zeros!). [1]
You may not realise that all the cells in your body are constantly vibrating with electric potential.
And so your body is like a big antenna, responding on a vibrational level to all the good thingsyou contact (like walking in nature, hugging someone or eating healthy food); and the bad things too(like smelling petrol fumes, ingesting chemicals or walking through microwave radiation fields).
The problem is that your body absorbs the bad vibes of any radiating device. After 40 years of radiation research, Omnia has made an important discovery that these radiation fields have one thing in common - they are imbalanced wave fields and this has an unsettling impact on the human cell.
This is not good for you. Did you know there are thousands of scientific reports linking this type of microwave radiation to very serious diseases (cancer, alzheimer's disease, diabetes, heart conditions, infertility.. to name only a few)? [2]
But the ORB can help.
Simply apply this small adhesive patch to every radiating device you own, to harmonise the radiation and make it safe to use.
ORB - Omnia Radiation Balancer - Family Pack (Protects 12 Devices)
Because of the veryHIGH DEMAND, Please allow about 7-10 daysfor delivery.
We all love our phones, laptops and tablets. But given the sheer volume of radiation they transmit.. how do we make them safe to use?
Because radiation fields that are passing through our bodies are now 1 quintillion times stronger than just 20 years ago (that’s 1 with 18 zeros!). [1]
You may not realise that all the cells in your body are constantly vibrating with electric potential.
And so your body is like a big antenna, responding on a vibrational level to all the good thingsyou contact (like walking in nature, hugging someone or eating healthy food); and the bad things too(like smelling petrol fumes, ingesting chemicals or walking through microwave radiation fields).
The problem is that your body absorbs the bad vibes of any radiating device. After 40 years of radiation research, Omnia has made an important discovery that these radiation fields have one thing in common - they are imbalanced wave fields and this has an unsettling impact on the human cell.
This is not good for you. Did you know there are thousands of scientific reports linking this type of microwave radiation to very serious diseases (cancer, alzheimers, diabetes, heart conditions, infertility to name only a few)? [2]
And the bad news is that it's worse for kids.
But the ORB can help.
Simply apply this small adhesive patch to every radiating device you own, to harmonise the radiation and make it safe to use. | {
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Celebrating the Fourth In Maryland
It was a fantastic salute to our nation's independence, capped off by fireworks from Baltimore's Inner Harbor to Oregon Ridge.
People all decked out in red, white and blue lined the streets for parades in areas like Dundalk, Towson and Catonsville.
Huge crowds gathered at the Inner Harbor for the fireworks which were choreographed to festive music. The fireworks could be seen from several locations in downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods of Federal Hill, Fell's Point and Harbor East. | {
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Bobcat Removal Iowa
What Problems Do Bobcats Cause?
Bobcats have a tendency to cause problems for Iowa homeowners who have domestic pets living outside their Iowa home. Though most bobcats won’t attack humans, they will attack small animals. To avoid bobcat problems with your pets, it is best to keep small pets inside at night, when Bobcats are often most active.
Methods to Get Rid of Bobcat Problems
Bobcats primarily go near Iowa homes because they are attracted to the food and shelter opportunities nearby. To keep bobcats away from your Iowa home, try to eliminate all food and water sources they may have access to. Similar to feral cats, if bobcats are continuously fed, they will continue to come around your Iowa home. You should also consider blocking off shelter-like areas, like bushes for example, where bobcats may set up a cozy residence.
How to Implement Bobcat Control & Removal
If you see a bobcat near your Iowa home, it is best to contact the Iowa Critter Control office near your for assistance. Trapping is the most effective bobcat control and removal solution, but for safety precautions, the trapping and removal of bobcats should only be implemented by a professional. If you have a bobcat lurking near your Iowa home and would like a professional to assist with the control and removal of the bobcat, please contact Iowa Critter Control.
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Fitness
Running on a Dream
How I went from 3 to 10 miles in 3 months: Training for the Broad Street Run.
When I get something in my head, I have to do it. No matter what. If it passes through my brain, and gets lodged for even a second, I am done. I have to do it. This may seem a bit obsessive compulsive (it probably is). When the thought of running the 10 mile Broad Street Run passed through my mind, I knew I was done and I was slightly pissed off. Now, I was going to have to carve out hours to train in an already too-tightly-packed schedule. I was going to have to confront the boredom that is a long distance run. I was going to have to sweat. A LOT.
The longest run I had ever done up until that point was 6 miles and mostly, I ran 3 or 4 miles at a time, a few times a week. My training plan was to add one extra mile per week. All was good until I reached 7 miles. I never had any residual pain from running, but at 7 miles, my body started to complain LOUDLY. My muscles ached, my back and hips hurt and my knees felt like they were going to give out whenever I tried to climb a flight of stairs. After my long run every week, I headed straight for bed and would spend the afternoon recuperating in front of the television, making my boyfriend, Patrick, wait on me hand and foot. "Patrick, can you please get me some acetaminophen? How about a glass of wine? Dinner in bed?"
It took me 2 full days to recover. I started to reconsider. Was the goal of running the Broad Street Run worth spending two days doing absolutely nothing worthwhile in bed? And I began to worry - was I on my way to a hip or knee replacement?
Before giving up, I decided to try Plexus's Ease for my aches and pains and their 96 Protein Powder to help build muscle. I had my doubts - if acetaminophen with a wine chaser did absolutely nothing to relieve my pain, why would Ease work? I was literally amazed at the results. Ease and the 96 Protein Powder eliminated my pain COMPLETELY! I could not believe how good I felt after running for 2 hours. I would take an Ease capsule before my long runs and one after. I drank a 96 Protein Shake after each run as well. (Ease contains New Zealand Green Lipped Mussel. New Zealand’s indigenous Maoris have traditionally eaten these mussels, which are packed full of nutrients that help our bodies in so many ways including reducing inflammation and strengthening joint cartlilage. Protein Powder aids in the repair of torn muscle and helps build lean muscle.)
I 100% believe that I would never have been able to run the 10 miles of the Broad Street Run if I had not started using Ease and 96. They were an absolute game changer and were integral in my reaching my long distance running goal.
So now that I have run 10 miles, maybe I should train for a half marathon? Dammit! Did I really just think that and put it down in writing? You know what that means. Now I have to do it - I have no choice. | {
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Multiple Parents in a “Brave New World”
This new world began not in the scientific laboratory, but in the minds and desires of men.
I.
Recently,
the California governor signed a law whereby children could legally have not
just two, but three parents at the same time. This is the fifth state, plus the
District of Columbia, to have such legislation. The law is proposed, naturally,
under the rubric of “helping the child,” of keeping him out of a foster home.
Whether giving a child two “parents” of the same sex is good for the child in
the first place is likewise not brought up. The bill was not clear about who
will have authority when there is a conflict among the three parents about some
course of family action. Will it require a unanimous vote or only a 2-1
majority?
Nor was
there argument over the dubious notion that a single person, or even a couple,
has an individual “right” to a child. The first question is not about a “right”
of a single person or of parents but of their duty to the good of a child. The
focus of our thinking on this issue should be on marriage and its nature.
Children are gifts, not results of “rights.” “Rights” look to something
supposedly inherently “due” to an individual—something that one can demand
others to provide. A man and a woman are free to marry each other. What
marriage is means that their relationship can result in a child. But the child
is his own being. He is not simply a “planned product” of parents with “rights”
to him. The child must be considered at all stages of his being to be for his
own good, to which parents are ordered. The parents’ good is a result, not a
cause, of this good.
The issue
behind the new law had to do with a lesbian couple who decided to have a child,
something they obviously knew they could not have by themselves. Needless to
say, they had, as such, some insurmountable difficulty in carrying out this
“intention.” Their relationship, such as it is, can never result in a child who
is the produce of their exchanges. They can only have a child by an “imitation”
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Vodafone: Soz investors, we wrote down £6.6 BEELLION on Euro ops
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+Analysis Vodafone’s disappointing results pulled down the share price today after it announced a whopping £6.6bn writedown of its Europe operations.
The impairment charges – which resulted in a group revenue slippage of 1.9 per cent from £43.8bn to £43.6bn – were due to competition and regulatory changes in Europe, said the telco.
We recorded impairment charges of £6.6bn relating to our businesses in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic and Romania. These were driven by lower projected cash flows within business plans, resulting from the tougher macroeconomic environment and heavy price competition.
Looking ahead to full year 2015, it said it expected earnings of between £11.4bn to £11.9bn – below market expectations.
To soften the blow, the firm also announced a programme of "organic investment" of "£19bn over the next two years" to improve infrastructure and hence services take-up.
Voda also announced a new non-executive director, Dame Clara Furse, the former chief executive of the London Stock exchange. Furse has apparently had lots of important money-type jobs at Nomura Holdings, Amadeus Holdings Legal & General Group plc, Euroclear plc, Fortis and LIFFE Holdings plc. So just the sort of person to make financial investors feel comfortable.
The infrastructure investment plan will be called "Project Spring", and aims to provide 4G to 91 per cent of the European population and 3G to 95 per cent of the Indian population - all by the deadline of 2016. There is significant infrastructure cost, with fibre being laid to base stations and European residential areas and support being given to grow its Machine-to-Machine offerings (Vodafone fights shy of referring to M2M as Internet Of Things, as has become the fashion).
Vodafone will also modernise its 8,000 shops.
Want growth? Go to the emerging markets...
But the results show that all the growth is in emerging markets, with around 1.3 million net disconnections across Europe and 9.1 million net connections in other parts of the world.
This gives Vodafone a total of over 419 million subscribers.
The share between pre-paid and contract customers is also interesting. Globally Vodafone has 79.9 per cent of its customers pre-paid. In the UK 40.1 per cent of customers are pre-paid, while India and South Africa are almost exclusively prepaid.
Spain and the Netherlands lead contract numbers, with about 70 per cent of customers having a contract.
Just as the number of subscribers fell in Europe, so did service revenues, down 9.1 per cent. In part this is down to steep cuts in the mobile termination rate – the share in call cost a network gets for handling a received call. Generally though, the drop in MTR benefits the bigger players.
Analysis
While earnings are down, the shareholder dividend is up, and the figures are overshadowed by the $130bn sale of Verizon Wireless.
The report on the earnings put heavy emphasis on 4G, with 4.7 million customers across 14 countries now using LTE, although it’s sobering to realise that 10 times as many Vodafone customers use the M-Pesa mobile money system, which has a much lower profile in the developed world.
By contrast, EE has 3 million customers on 4G in the UK, although that network has had spectrum and the ability to sell 4G for longer. Vodafone’s 4G customers use twice as much data as its 3G customers.
Smartphone penetration is now 45 per cent in Europe (up 7 per cent on the previous year) and although Vodafone doesn’t give a smartphone figure for India, the report does say that data traffic increased there by 125 per cent.
Analyst Kester Mann from CCS Insight said:
Vodafone reported a mixed set of results. Performance was once again impacted by challenging market conditions in Europe but growth in emerging markets, notably India, along with strong planned investment in network, convergence and distribution offers optimism for improvement during the rest of 2014.
Spending more on growing coverage – particularly in the developing markets, might be sensible but the stock market reaction, as ever, is more interested in the short term. ® | {
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The Devil’s Hair Dryer
A bunch of neighbors were sitting around the other night, talking yard work, and the conversation returned to a frequent target: a certain ex-neighbor, now long gone, who was unduly fond of his leaf blower. This is a familiar tale, how he tormented the block every autumn weekend chasing leaves around his small yard with his shrieking machine, leaving behind the lingering stench of gasoline fumes and resentment. I never met this fellow—he moved out before I moved in—but his legacy is secure: He is The Asshole With the Leaf Blower.
Perhaps that’s redundant. The tragedy of the leaf blower is that it makes assholes of us all, users and neighbors alike. The aggressively un-civil nature of these devices is the stuff of legend, especially here at Atlantic Media, where The Atlantic’s esteemed national correspondent, James Fallows, has led an epiccampaign against the Leafblower Menace. Those who want to explore all the moral and environmental arguments should consult his deep body of advocacy first. But the short version goes like this:
The crude little two-stroke engines used by most commercial backpack-style blowers are pollution bombs. “Simplest benchmark: running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles,” Fallows writes. “About one-third of the gasoline that goes into this sort of engine is spewed out, unburned, in an aerosol mixed with oil in the exhaust.”
Those emissions—plus all the other fine-particulate crap that the blowers kick up—constitute a public health hazard for anyone in the vicinity, but especially for the poor bastard running the thing. In most cities and suburbs, those most afflicted are low-wage employees of landscaping companies, not residents or homeowners.
SWEET JESUS THE NOISE GAAH MAKE IT STOP. A gas blower at full cry can exceed a 100 decibels for the operator (OSHA requires hearing protections at 85), as these Sacramento blower foes explain, and it carries for hundreds of feet in every direction, irritating all who dwell therein.
Adrian Higgins, the Washington Post’s gardening columnist, explored why this noise is so noisome in a recent thoughtful appraisal of the hated practice. “There is a weird human phenomenon at work here: Sound is far less irritating to its creator than to its recipient,” he writes. He cites the work of Erica Walker, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who undertook a survey of more than 1,000 Boston-area residents and made hundreds of ambient sound readings to come up with her comprehensive 2016 Greater Boston Noise Report. Leaf blowers emerged as prime offenders in this document, particularly in the area’s outlying suburbs.
Other people who tend to complain about leaf blowers live next to (or attend) schools and universities, which doesn’t bode well for the quality of the learning going on in there. “Anecdotally, there are many teachers who have written to me discussing how campus lawn and garden maintenance activities disrupt their classroom instruction,” Walker tells me via email. “Some have had to stop class because students can’t hear their lecture.”
Noise pollution is particularly harmful for children, as decades of public health studies have demonstrated, and most efforts to silence the din of gas-powered blowers have focused on their auditory toll. Campaigns to forbid leaf blowers have been successfully waged from Long Island to Pasadena, many led by a national nonprofit, Quiet Communities, which has a mission to “promote clean, sustainable, and quiet outdoor maintenance practices.” One progressive solution proffered by commercial landscapers with eco-minded clients: high-tech battery-powered blowers like this bad boy, which costs as much as a (crappy) used car and runs for an hour on its lithium battery, but makes a bit less noise and a lot less smog.
You could also use, you know, a freaking rake, like the pioneers did. (Or learn to mulch.) But let’s be honest: We as Americans have set certain landscaping expectations for our office parks, our median strips, and our suburban yards, and it involves blowing. Ours is a nation too vast to be groomed by hand tools. So we must learn to co-exist with these man-machine hybrids, the Blower Guys, as they roam the grasslands, blasting organic debris before them with their mighty nozzles. (A little-discussed complication to the arguments of anti-blower partisans: Like ripping an awesome burnout or firing a machine gun at a roadside gun range in Las Vegas, wielding a pro-grade leaf blower can be a wasteful-but-satisfying projection of power. It’s akin to being some kind of ancient wind deity.)
One might wonder why we’ve chosen to make our homes in places that cannot be maintained without annoying each other so flagrantly. Perhaps this goes to the troubled heart of the suburban promise: These are environments conceived as peaceful respites from human disorder, places predicated on the assumption that other people are fundamentally irritants. And when we move there, we discover just how true that can be. | {
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My boyfriend says I'm the better-looking one of the two of us. Uh, yeah, that was purposeful. What girl doesn't want to be the "pretty one" in the relationship? Although he probably 'primps' as much as I do in the bathroom, and works out probably twice as much, he is in an industry where pretty people dominate and it is hard to avoid comparison. And there is no easier comparison than one of your looks--your skin color, your body, how symmetrical you are, which is which is one way your brain identifies attractiveness in a face. For me, my comparisons favor career accolades over attractiveness. Where they have been published, their titles and affiliations, awards, and "lists" of the Top people Killing It that are Younger than You--that latter is my favorite. They delve into their productivity habits, which Tony Robbins book was their favorite, what they eat for breakfast--as if swapping your egg sandwich for a spirulina smoothie is the secret to the job and jawline of your dreams. I am not saying that I do not enjoy these articles because I am genuinely curious about how successful people as ordained by media outlets make decisions differently than most others. I also enjoy them because it keeps me motivated to stay on my path and to continue to evaluate myself on my own terms.
But that's just it. We should not be comparing ourselves to others, we should be comparing ourselves to how we measure up against our own yardsticks. Meryl Streep's stick is different than yours. Why? Because she has a different Why than you and the roles that are right for her are not the roles that are right for you. You can not compare yourself to others because you most likely have different motives, different exposure to opportunities, different forces working for and against you. We should be more like the career marathoner who compares her own time to previous races vs. the sprinters at a 40-yard-dash race. By all mean, learn from others about how they define success for themselves, but find the benchmarks that define what will make you thrive and carve them somewhere you can see and stand beside. | {
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Rimmer's road began here
Former Brandon Wheat Kings netminder Ty Rimmer, now a member of the WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes, takes a break in the action during Friday night’s game at Westman Place.
In more ways than one, Ty Rimmer has come a long way since breaking into the Western Hockey League with the Brandon Wheat Kings.
By the time this season is over, the 20-year-old Lethbridge Hurricanes netminder will be qualified to write a WHL travel guide, having played for four teams — one from each of the league’s four divisions.
Former Wheat King Ty Rimmer has played in all but one game for the Lethbridge Hurricanes this season. (TIM SMITH/BRANDON SUN)
Less literally, the former Wheat King, Tri-City American and Prince George Cougar has gone from a borderline candidate to stick around in the league — he was one of five goalies on Brandon’s roster to start the 2010-11 season — to having a crease virtually to himself this season in Lethbridge.
Rimmer admits that back then, as an 18-year-old rookie, he had no idea if he had a long-term future in the WHL.
"That was a pretty crazy year. There was five of us in camp, all solid goalies, including the 20-year-olds Andrew Hayes and Jacob DeSerres," said Rimmer, who was traded to the Cougars early that season, eventually becoming the starter, while the Wheat Kings settled on Corbin Boes and Liam Liston as their tandem.
"There was a big question mark back then. I hadn’t proved myself yet. I was grateful for the opportunity to start in Prince George, and grateful that Brandon took a chance on me in the bantam draft."
Chosen in the 14th round of the 2007 bantam draft — Brandon’s lowest ever pick at 303rd overall — the Edmonton native has gone on to post numbers that would be the envy of most other WHL goaltenders, but has never stayed anywhere for long.
After playing 43 games for Prince George in 2010-11, the Cougars decided to flip him to Tri-City the following summer for the more-established overager Drew Owsley. All Rimmer did with the Americans was lead the WHL in goals-against average (2.43) and save percentage (.922) while mentoring 16-year-old phenom Eric Comrie. But with Comrie ready to start this season, Rimmer found himself on the move again, traded to the Hurricanes in a draft-day deal for a pair of picks.
"I think it’s all part of the business," Rimmer said. "… I knew I only had one year in Tri-City with Eric Comrie coming in and me being a 20-year-old. I made the most of my time there and had an excellent season."
The Hurricanes couldn’t be happier to have him and they’ve shown it so far this season, starting him in their first 21 games. After a so-so start, both Rimmer and the Hurricanes have picked up their game as of late, with the ’keeper ranked among league leaders once again with a 2.65 GAA and a .922 pct.
Rimmer is loving the way the Hurricanes are playing and he’s also loving being the team’s workhorse.
"That’s why they went out and acquired me," he said. "I’m here to play every night. I mean, they’ve only got me for one season. It’s my last season and I relish the responsibility and I look forward to playing every single game."
For all of his travels in the WHL, it wasn’t until last Friday when Rimmer finally made his return to Brandon for the first time since being traded to the Cougars, making 35 saves as the Hurricanes handed the hosts a 5-3 loss. Despite all the time that had passed since the trade, it was a game that Rimmer had been really looking forward to.
"It’s good to be back," he said. "I kind of feel like my career’s gone full circle."
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In more ways than one, Ty Rimmer has come a long way since breaking into the Western Hockey League with the Brandon Wheat Kings.
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SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under.
In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers.
The Australian Film Finance Corp.’s annual grant from the government “isn’t enough to support the diverse slate of production that we are supposed to be funding,” FFC chief exec Catriona Hughes tells Variety. “We are running out of fuel.”
Still, as Hughes realizes, the agency isn’t likely to get any increase in the fiscal year starting June 30 as the government strives for a budget surplus while it faces an election before the end of the year.
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Two firms, Macquarie Film Corp. and Content Capital, were licensed by the government to raise private coin for film and TV projects before July 2000 on the condition the money is spent by June 30 the following year. Macquarie found it difficult to board films while it insisted in vain on recouping before other investors such as the FFC, and only committed to its first project, the Bryan Brown starrer “Dirty Deeds,” in March. Content raised a small amount of money and has not invested in any film.
Division 10B of the Tax Act has been used to bankroll Hollywood films lensed in Oz, such as “Moulin Rouge” and “The Thin Red Line.” But the Tax Office has blocked the producers of the second and third installments of “The Matrix” from using that mechanism, which gives investors a big tax break by enabling them to put up a percentage of the coin and borrow the rest. “Matrix” promoters are appealing the decision, sources say.
THE MONEY
Australian Film Finance Corp.: Invests only in Australian productions. FFC receives $25 million per year from the government (fixed for three years) plus revenue recouped from earlier investments (in the 1999-2000 fiscal year it recouped just $6.3 million.) FFC channels 50%-60% of its coin to feature films, 30%-40% to TV dramas and 12%-15% to docus.
Australian Film Commission and state film agencies: provide limited funding, which focus primarily on development.
Division 10BA of the Tax Act: gives investors 100% write-off over 12 months in Australian films made wholly or substantially in Oz with significant Australian content or as official co-prods.
Division 10B: allows a 100% deduction over two years in some international films lensed Down Under.
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SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under. In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers. “In this very difficult economic climate, any […]
SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under. In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers. “In this very difficult economic climate, any […]
SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under. In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers. “In this very difficult economic climate, any […]
SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under. In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers. “In this very difficult economic climate, any […]
SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under. In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers. “In this very difficult economic climate, any […]
SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under. In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers. “In this very difficult economic climate, any […]
SYDNEY — Private coin for Oz films is scarcer than ever, the government’s primary funding agency says it’s underfunded, and the Tax Office is shooting down schemes to finance international films shooting Down Under. In short, the outlook amid a slowing local economy is tough for indie producers. “In this very difficult economic climate, any […] | {
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n Silver Linings Playbook,
we get Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper), a former teacher, newly released
from a mental institution after a violent psychotic incident, heading
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Ana Marie Cox rose to fame as the author of Wonkette, a political blog that exposed the lives of the Washington elite. She’s also worked as Washington editor for Time.com and as a blogger for The Daily Beast. A self-described political junkie, she’s a frequent pundit on cable news channels and is followed on Twitter by more than 1.5 million users. | {
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The actual marriage itself doesn't mean much. The new Mr. and Mrs. Kiriakis live in Salem, where it's a requirement to have at least two divorces before you can get your driver's license.
If TPTB have the cojones for it, Friday's episode featuring Victor and Vivian's wedding should be the episode submitted for next year's Emmy's. I say that knowing full well that Alice's memorial is right around the corner and that tissue-fest episode will reduce me to a blubbering idiot. And I'm aware that other soaps will boast gritty courtroom confessions and/or rooftop shootouts. I don't care. I want this one.
Our beloved DAYS is the only daytime drama that seems to get what primetime drama counterparts understand. Into every drama, some comedy must fall. (See: Desperate Housewives, Friday Night Lights, Brothers and Sister, House, Bones, etc.) On a day-to-day basis, Days of Our Lives is THE most quick-witted and entertaining soap on the market. This week, DAYS put its best foot forward and delivered the goods.
VICTOR and VIVIAN
The actual marriage itself doesn't mean much. The new Mr. and Mrs. Kiriakis live in Salem, where it's a requirement to have at least two divorces before you can get your driver's license. So, I don't see this union lasting long.
Yet, the episode subtly reminded us of all the storylines in that one room -- Bo is with Carly instead of Hope, Chloe's cheated on Daniel, Philip's cheated on Melanie, and Nicole is scheming to snag Brady. The writers did it all while generously throwing out moments of comedic brilliance throughout the thing.
I got those dorky, fanboy chills when Bo Brady, flanked by half the cast, proudly announced that they stayed because they heard there was going to be a wedding.
I'd never tell either of them to their faces, but Kate and Nicole are two of a kind. Their martini-therapy reminded me that they are valuable Kiriakis allies. Kate would never let anything happen to Victor, and Nicole certainly doesn't want to see harm come to Brady.
Maggie, Chloe, Melanie, and Carly bonding and talking about how Vivian is not one to be trusted was wonderful. (I wish Arianna and Adrienne were there too, but whatever) As the show continues the awesome tradition of keeping the "Kiriakis boys" as a package deal, I adore seeing the ladies who care about these men unite over their common bond. It's a funky kind of sisterhood. I couldn't love it more if I tried.
There were drinks at the wedding -- during the ceremony. The JOP had to be reminded of the wife's name. Victor presented Vivian's ring to her with an abrupt, "Here." In lieu of a recessional march down the aisle, Victor announced that he needed a drink. I have a feeling that if Shrek and Cruella De Vil got married, their wedding would be similar.
Finally, I LOVED Nicole's idea to take a picture with Carly, Kate, and Vivian as the past and current Mrs. Kiriakises. I've already put in a request for a copy of the photo for my own study. (Note to self -- Build study.)
SAMI and E.J.I'll give the writers some more credit. They've managed to make the current Ejami storyline come about organically from the baby swap saga. That's good stuff. It's all too common for a new character to introduce a new storyline, or suddenly, one day, current characters start acting differently. But, I've never gotten the "where did that come from?" feeling during Sami and E.J.'s flirtation.
Still, I am getting a bit nervous that the storyline is going to have the predictable outcome where Rafe uncovers the secret, Sami swears off E.J. again, and Rafe can't bring himself to trust Sami.
I hope that the same writers who crafted the twists in the baby swap storylines have something planned. This storyline needs to circle back to what started this whole intricate plot -- Sami. She's the wild-card here. There's just as good a chance that she'll forgive E.J. as there is that she'll plot his demise.
CARLY, DANIEL, and CHLOEI'm not so sure Carly is being a buttinski here. By all accounts, Carly and Daniel are very good friends. Carly introduced him to his first wife, and Carly was the one who called in a miracle surgeon to fix Daniel's double vision. I'm pretty sure that qualifies for a close friendship where you tell your friend if his/her significant other cheated, especially after said significant other admitted to cheating! I'll actually be disappointed in her if she doesn't follow through with her threat to tell Daniel the truth.
Chloe can call out all Carly's mistakes until the cows come home. It still doesn't mean that Chloe isn't a cheating cheater who cheated. I know that Daniel isn't making it easy on Chloe. (The man is even quoting bible verses!) But the longer she waits to tell him the truth, the harder it's going to be. I don't see how this can end well for the Chloemeister.
Normally, I'd be bemoaning how dense Daniel has been and chastising him for finishing Chloe's sentences for her. But Daniel has been a bit preoccupied. In addition to Chloe's hysterical pregnancy and finding out that he has a teenage daughter, the dude is also recovering from brain surgery. Noticing that Chloe's been acting different lately isn't exactly something that should jump out at him since everything in his life is upside-down right now.
RAFE, ANNA, and SHANEIf Rafe was the stand-up guy that the writers want me to believe he is, then why didn't he call Carrie when Anna was poisoned? Carrie is Anna's next of kin, and Carrie should be the one making medical decisions for Anna. The fact that the doctor came in and told Rafe that Anna might have irreversible brain damage and all Rafe could do was pout that his investigation stalled is reason numero uno why I'd like to give this bozo a knock on the head.
On the bright side, Charles Shaughnessy is back and still deliciously delightful as ever. I'm glad that his guest spot has a chance to be juicy as we find out what Shane has been up to (political assassin?!?!), why he wasn't by Kimberly's side during her bone marrow transplant, and where he's headed next.
HOPE and ARIANNAThis storyline has been all Kristian Alfonso. The woman is basically acting the crap out of an eyebrow and a bumpit. Lesser actresses would make this storyline terribly silly. But she makes it work. I can only hope that Lindsay Hartley is up to the task for her end of this plot.
Arianna was thrown into this mess in sloppy fashion. Juvenile records are supposed to be sealed; the Salem PD apparently takes Nicole as a reliable source; and common sense would tell anyone that Ari didn't commit these crimes. But as Tony so brilliantly pointed out, there are two sides to Arianna -- the dumb side and the savvy side. Here's hoping that the latter comes out soon because it' WAY TOO OBVIOUS that Nicole framed Arianna for even a soap junkie like me to give Ari a pass if she's not going to start connecting the dots ASAP.
STEFANO, MADELINE, and KATETick tock, folks. This storyline has been simmering so long I'm starting to lose my appetite. That is, unless the point of this storyline is to see how many different ways the writers can use top-shelf actors to say the same threats over and over again without actually moving the plot further, in which case this storyline is a stellar success.
LOOSE ENDSNicole defended Arianna on the air and Brady bought every word of it. Either she's working Brady with everything she has or John Jr. might just like having a pretty fiancée and a femme fatal longing for him on the side.
Will's math grade plummeted because Rafe is no longer around to tutor him. On the bright side, his psychology grade should sky rocket now that Will and Stefano are besties.
Extra Scoops:
RANDOM THOUGHTS:More info on the DiMera mansion: In addition to the indoor pool, brainwashing chamber, and secret tunnels that lead to Doug's Place, there are 19 rooms on the second floor.
All the references to Ciara or Hope's "treasure box" give me the heebie-jeebies and need to stop right now.
Dumb Sami doesn't entertain me when she's being written that way. But I chuckle when Alison Sweeney plays Sami as "dumb" when trying to avoid confrontation.
HOT:I still think it's too close to Mickey's death for Maggie to be emotionally available to anyone. But, I totally bought her speech to Victor about not wasting his life away. I nodded my head in total agreement when she said that Victor had his health, his boys, and enough money to do anything he wants and then admonished him for playing games with Vivian. The speech means a lot coming from Maggie. She knows better than anyone how life can be taken away from you any second.
NOT:Really, of all people to drag out the lazy and horribly stupid argument that Sami has too many kids, the writers are going to have Kate do it? Kate, the mother of six, is passing judgment on Sami because Sami has four children. That makes no sense at all. Furthermore, do we really need to go over the reason that Sami had to have a paternity test on the twins? Maybe next we can make fun of Ciara for having nightmares or tease Caroline about being single.
LINE OF THE WEEK: Philip: "If people waited to work everything out before they got married, there would be no weddings."
So, who's with me in thinking that this week showcased what DAYS does best? We laughed a little. We gasped a lot. We flirted with danger. And, we even got the chance to do it all with designer duds and martinis. What's not to love? Tony will be back next week to continue the celebration. I'll be sure to let you all know when I get the proofs from Viv and Vic's wedding.
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In a letter submitted to the CBI director on August 13, senior Congress leader Digvjjaya Singh has reiterated that an offence under section 201 and 120 (b) of the IPC should be registered against MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and officials who may be responsible for the destroying or tampering with evidence in the Vyapam scam.
In a letter submitted to the CBI director on August 13, senior Congress leader Digvjjaya Singh has reiterated that an offence under section 201 and 120 (b) of the IPC should be registered against MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and officials who may be responsible for the destroying or tampering with evidence in the Vyapam scam.
Singh, who had been pursuing the Special Task Force (STF) and Special Investigation Team (SIT) for the purpose said, "The STF and SIT responsible for proper investigation turned a blind eye to the material provided by the whistleblower and the Truth Lab report to substantiate the charge."
Backed by Digvjjaya Singh, whistleblower Prashant Pandey had submitted in the Delhi high court an excel sheet file in a pen drive which he claimed to be "original". The file reportedly had the CM's name appearing 48 times as the person who recommended candidates for selection, with the Truth Lab verifying his claim that the "original" excel sheet was tampered with, and the CM's name either deleted or replaced by "Uma Bharti ji" or "Raj Bhavan", "M/s" or "Minister".
"The report of the Truth Lab was not considered by the investigating agency. Surprisingly, whilst the tampered excel sheet -- which is part of the charge sheet filed by the STF -- is without a hash value, doesn't indicate the original hard disk, also shows no seizure of laptop and fabricated elements of data. Yet, the STF was willing, without hearing either the undersigned or the Truth Lab or the whistleblower, to give a statement on tampering and give a clean chit to Shivraj Singh Chouhan," said Digvjjaya.
He further said "I expect the CBI to do a fair investigation in this matter. This is the trust reposed by the Supreme Court upon this agency. It would only be appropriate and proper for the CBI to investigate this part of the scam first as it concerns the commencement of flawed investigation by the police agencies to protect the chief minister. We expect everyone who is guilty -- be it the chief minister or officials of the investigating agency -- to be taken to task for obfuscating justice, for misleading courts, destroying and tampering with evidence, with the sole intention to save and protect the chief minister."
He further urged the CBI director to consider whether students and their parents charged in the scam could be treated as victims and made an approver for the prosecution. | {
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Should have let me know you were getting a new ride. I'm not to far from Guelph and could have picked it up for you and ridden it your way for a few wiggly pops.
It would have been all broken er I mean all broken in for you when I got there.
F.. that ... I'm not going near any water after spending almost $2k on repairs
What did it take to fix it?
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A guard came up from behind on the wagon, grunting as he pulled himself up to the back of the wagon and threw the flap open, casting an orb of light, "No cargo back here, just passengers!" He looked at Asilly. "Damn...this one's looking bad. Is her seed about to give out?" Ital would break her concentration. Merci'er would speak up first, "Please, what is the holdup? Mother may die soon and her last wish is to see the Dome." The guard thought a moment frowning, "If she's gonna die..." "I'm prepared to seal her seed...when it comes to that." she bluffed. "Make sure you do...if it comes to that." The guard would close the flap and hop down. "Clear back here, real sob story."
The guard up front would eye Gual suspiciously as he tried to bribe him, getting a little angry and putting his hand on his sword. "Clear back here, real sob story." the other guard would say, "What's that?" "Woman in the back's about to lose to her seed. Wants to see the dome one last time." the other guard would say as he walked off. The other guard would turn back to Gual, the expression his face changing. He looked at the sack of ada a moment before he grabbed it and stuffed it into his armor. "Val'Smith and entourage..." writing down fake names on the clipboard, "No cargo. They're clear." He would give a signal and the rock wall would ink back into the road. "HYa!" Bob would snap the reins and the cart got moving again.
Asilly would look up at Merci'er with a smile and looking at ital. "Merci'er..... if I live through this and this works me and you are going to have the possibility of a private moment..... and you as well ital but I not dead yet.... besdies I feeling a little better." She would say trying to sit up om her bed as the wagon got moving again shw would place a hand on her chest letting out several heavy coughs but there was very little blood this time looking out the front she would look at Bob. "You know you did a good job to I make sure you get a reward after this you name it....." she says to him as they were know closure to there objective.
It was a tense moment for Gaul as they found Asiliy inside the wagon. If they were bought off by the Nid's or were a part of their organization. It didn't appear to be either of the case. As it looks like they lucked out that the Nid's couldn't think of everything all at once.
He wouldn't breath any sigh of relief until they were far from the post and turned a corner or two... but now they had to get to the Dome. And Sharess knowns, they have Nids roaming in that sex fueled place.. His sword might not be so dry before this ends.
Bob would keep going straight towards the dome, which was slowly getting bigger in front of them. "Yer typical guard doesn't want to do any more paperwork than is necessary. Whereas your typical bureaucrat wants copies of everything and a even some expired permits to show that you had them at one point." He would think on the possibility of his reward as Merci'er took a moment to decipher what she meant by private moment, blushing a little. "Alright." Ital would smile softly, "That was some quick thinking." "Well I'm not one for violence. And that seemed like the least violent thing to do."
Meanwhile across the city..."Stand aside, we are in pursuit of a pair of Heretics that unleashed a demon in our district." The squad of Lancers were facing off against a Squad of Dutan'vir guards at a checkpoint. "You're in our district now, you know the rules. And no women or tainted came through here so there couldn't have been any summoners." "We're not looking for a woman or tainted. We're looking for two males.""Then how did they unleash a demon?" The Kyrol Lances would grumble a bit before they turned and back tracked, "Damnit all! That wagon! Ride out Lances!" They would ride off. The heavily armored Ssu would sigh, "They're gone, Knight Sargent." Paqu and Che would walk out of a building, pulling their horses along. "Thank ye Corporal." "I'm a Captain now." "Lucky me. Knew you'd go far." "Who's the mouthy runt?" "Me Nephew...""Myr'inel's boy? I thought we lost him to the Zealots, and not in the merciful way.""Yeah they'd love to get me in their little reeducation chamber." "Stay out of trouble, at least in our part of town." Che would mount his horse, putting on the cape of one of the lancers and chuckling. "He's a cheeky one isn't he?" "Aye." Paqu would mount his horse, "Alright we're gonna cut along the old Sharen districts." The two would ride off to reunite with the others.
Shw would form a weak smile looking out the front seeing that the dome was almost within reach letting out a sign of relief shw looked at the two of them as they talked. "I do think you for your quick thinking I can barley think at this moment the only option I had was to bribe them but that did not seem to work I believe...... just to tell I feeling a little better it easier to breath know..... I just know right know I not going to he able to use any more mana at this point." She says to them as shw would slowly lay back down on the bed getting as comfortable as she could.
"We got lucky." Gaul said under the visor of his helmet as they trotted along towards the dome. Now all his senses were working over time... now he had to worry some empth wouldn't just rush his emotions and over whelm everything... or his mount, which was more likely to occur then someone risking an experienced Templar.
Animals always panicked.
"Just rest and stay out of sight." Gaul said to Asiliy as they continued. While wondering how Paqu and Che were handling things...
"Please, just rest. We've come this far we don't need it falling apart at the last second." Ital would say as a tear rolled down her cheek. The wagon would keep on going as they got closer to the dome. There would be more Sarghress patrolling around now, looking more like armored police officers than soldiers.
((I'm kind of at a loss on what to do next so I'll let Rhung take more control of the event))
She look at ital as she would look out the front to werw there is a multicolor mana flares would go off into the air she would raise up dispite the pain and of been drain of energy would move to the fron almost right next to Bob with a smile. "So..... the made it before we did those flare are of my childern Anna work fast listen gaul and ital I need you to fire off two flares at once...... I know we are in a dangerous location...... my childern will come to us...." she would says as she would head back sitting down on the bed smiling as it know seems that this nightmare is soon to end.
Gaul did as he was told by Asiliy and tossed his own mana flares into air above them. He had hopped it didn't catch unwanted attention, and everyone would have just ingored it and went on their own way. But this extemplar couldn't help but feel that they gave themselves away.
His mind was watching so much, that it never occured to him that Sharens and Sarghress were only spitting distances between each other during this tenuous times.
Merci'er would stick his head out as he saw the flares off in the distance. Ital would start to break her concentration Asilly's seed. "I'll get it." He would lean out of the front of the cart and send up two flares, a 'black' and white one. One of the guards would look over at them as they lit off flares. "Tourists..." she would mutter before going back to her patrol. Bob would slow down a little as it got crowded in the street, moving around the crowds, "Do ya want me to keep going to the dome or wait?"
Another flare would go up into the air after they return two flares to the first ones to were a hovering platfrom with one person on it would stop in the front of the wagon stop in it the person face nor body could he seen been fully integrated a full suit of armor to were a male voice would speak up. "You are the ones that sent of the flares is that correct?" It would asked them no knowing that asilly is in the back of the wagon as ital work was letting asilly relax a little.
"Keep going. They will move." Gaul pressed as he didn't want to stay here any longer out in the open then he had too. With Che and Paqu still missing, he had to by himself mostly. And he didn't want to be pulled off his horse and get bashed in by a rock. It came close one day, and one day was enough for this ex templar.
When they encountered the male voice coming from a heavily suited figure. "We are." He said while taking himself between him and the cart.
"Y-yes. We did." Merci'er would say with a gulp. Ital's s concentration would be broken, she would peep through the wagon tarp, "Please tell me these are more of your children."
Paqu and Che were at a gallop again, not being chased now as they followed after the flares near the dome. "With all that shit they gave us about permits and papers, I hope they got through alright." They were going the long way around the blocked off district, but quickly catching up with the others. "Do you think those flares were them?""One was Gaul's, I'm sure of it."
"Yes they are..... come with me" she would say to ital as she would move to the front open up the flap and look up at the platfrom to were the person would get closer seeing that asilly eye are red. "Asilly mother..... what happen?!" She would cough slightly as she would look up as shw would open up the flap all the way. "Much has happen is the room ready and is the tower secure and safw?" He would raise up the platfrom slightly from the wagon keeping up with it."Yes it is all ready and we made it safe as much as we can and Anna is getting a few thing ready." Asilly would look up seeing that the tower is getting closer to were other platforms can be see florin around it. "Bob be prepare to slow down." Shw would say to him. | {
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An infantile haemangioma (IH) is a benign tumour of infancy. The standard approach to uncomplicated lesions is 'wait and see', but active intervention is sometimes preferred to avoid the unpredictable risk of cosmetic disfigurement. Topical beta-blockers were recently introduced as an effective alternative in such cases, but data are still lacking. We report the initial phase of a prospective study evaluating the efficacy and safety of topical timolol gel for IH, and present the interim analysis of the first 25 patients who completed a 6-month course of treatment. These 25 patients, with 39 localized, superficial haemangiomas, were treated with timolol 0.1% gel for 6 months and evaluated at 4-week intervals using the Physician's Global Assessment Score; the mean change was an 85% improvement from baseline, and complete clearance was achieved in four children. The treatment was more effective for plaque than for nodular lesions, and for proliferating than for involuting lesions. No side-effects were seen or reported. These early data confirm that timolol is a very effective and relatively safe treatment for small, localized, superficial IHs. | {
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How About a Franchise Career?
Franchising appeals to veterans looking for their next career. But is starting a franchise career as easy as it seems? We weigh the pros and cons.
As Art Morris prepared to retire from the Air Force after 21 years of active and reserve duty, he thought he was ready to own and run a business. So when the aircraft avionics technician came across Golf Etc. in Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500 list, he thought he might have found a solution. After all, he was an above-average golfer.
Morris and his wife, Teressa, both 45, talked to two other Golf Etc. franchisees in California and visited stores from rival franchises Nevada Bob’s and Golf USA. The couple chose Golf Etc., plunked down $15,000 to buy a territory and sent Art off to Texas for in-store management and golf-club repair training.
After renting and rehabbing a store — taking their total investment to about $500,000 — the Morrises opened their Golf Etc. location in June 2005. It was an immediate success: Their store was the chain’s top-selling rookie, with $500,000 in gross sales the first year. “We were kind of on cloud nine,” says Art. “We had real estate agents who would drop $1,000, blue-collar guys who would drop a little.”
Starting a first business can be an alluring option for veterans struggling to find jobs in today’s slow economy. Franchising’s appeal is easy to understand: In exchange for an upfront franchise fee and a percentage of the revenue, the franchisor provides the store owner with business training, a known brand name, a system for designing and running the store, and, often, local and national advertising. | {
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Emma Donoghue pens new mystery with 'Frog Music'
The cover of Emma Donoghue’s ‘Frog Music’ is shown in this image released by Little, Brown and Co. (Handout/Little, Brown and Co.)
Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press
Published Saturday, April 12, 2014 12:24PM EDT
TORONTO -- After the massive success of her harrowing novel "Room," about a young boy held captive in a shed with his mother, Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue didn't want to write anything child-related.
"I just wanted a complete contrast," said the London, Ont.-based Dublin native, who won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and a Governor General's Literary Award for 2010's "Room."
But that changed during the research process for her new novel, "Frog Music," which is based on the true story of French burlesque dancer/prostitute Blanche Beunon and the murder of her cross-dressing female friend Jenny Bonnet in late 1800s San Francisco.
Donoghue discovered that during the inquest into the shooting death of Bonnet, Beunon claimed her estranged beau Arthur Deneve had taken her baby boy away and she didn't know where he was.
"I thought, 'Hang on, where is this baby?"' Donoghue explained in a telephone interview. "And it became clear the baby had not been living with them, the baby had been nursed out or farmed out, and I was fascinated with the notion that clearly they didn't much want this baby and yet here they were having a custody battle over it.
"So I decided that in a way the story would be kind of a double mystery -- first of all, who killed Jenny and what Jenny was like, sort of unpeeling Jenny's character like an onion. But then the kind of secondary storyline of not just where is Blanche's baby, but where is Blanche's motherhood?"
"Frog Music" begins with Bonnet's shooting in a room she and Beunon are renting in San Francisco. The story then shifts back and forth in time as it outlines events leading up to and following the murder during a sweltering August in 1876.
Beunon became a stage siren and landlord after moving to San Francisco from France with lover Deneve and their friend Ernest Girard, who all worked as circus artists in Paris.
She met scrappy Bonnet, a pistol-carrying vagrant who made a living catching frogs for restaurants, when the 27-year-old ran into her with her bicycle in the street.
The two appear complete opposites -- Beunon with her corsets and dresses, and Bonnet with her men's clothing that often got her fined or arrested (it was illegal for women to wear pants in public there at the time) -- but they form an unlikely bond that turns the burlesque star's life upside down.
"I see them each having different kind of wisdoms," said Donoghue.
"And I suppose one thing that really appealed to me about the storyline of this book is that I hadn't expected the baby plot to reel up like this."
Donoghue said she got the idea for "Frog Music" 15 years ago when she read a one-page summary on Bonnet in a piece on Victorian women called "Wild Women" by Autumn Stephens.
It wasn't until about four years ago that she started to write the story, drawing on about 60 newspaper articles as part of her heaps of research into the slew of characters, most of whom really existed. (Donoghue outlines all of her source material in the afterword, as she did with her 2012 short story collection "Astray.")
She discovered many myths built up around Bonnet, whose story has "never entirely disappeared," she said.
"I think she fascinates people, because it's not just that she got killed but that she lived as if she knew she was going to be killed.
"She lived at top speed so playfully and so recklessly. She was an attention-seeker of the highest order. You could tell that she had been a child actress, because she lived as if the city was her stage.
Meanwhile, Blanche seemed to be a pleasure-seeker who "thinks that she really likes this job" until Bonnet makes her question it.
"I knew it would be a bit of a risk, that somebody might start the book and go, 'Oh my God, Emma Donoghue seems to be celebrating the sex trade,"' said Donoghue. "But I just thought it made for a far more interesting story psychologically and ethically."
"Frog Music" is set against the backdrop of the smallpox epidemic and a city rife in racist attitudes toward its Chinese immigrants.
The story also touches on the tragedy of the so-called Industrial Schools and horrific conditions on "baby farms," where infants were sent by parents who were unable to take care of them.
"Those baby farms were real, but I researched them by looking at accounts of really bad orphanages today," said Donoghue. "So I looked at things like how would the children be stunted, the very interesting emotional shutdown that they have from literally not being picked up, and I looked a lot to see whether a child like that could recover."
Donoghue said she had "an academic knowledge of French" prior to writing the story and she frequently has her characters either speaking the language or singing it in real-life tunes.
The author has compiled those tunes into a songlist that she plans to post on http://8tracks.com/.
She said she's also fielding "a lot of interest in film rights" to the story.
Donoghue has already sold the film rights to "Room," which she said has entered the casting stage and could be in production later this year somewhere in North America.
Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson will direct the script by Donoghue, who is also an executive producer.
"He wants to tell a very, very universal story with this book and I think the film is going to be just as good as the book," said the wordsmith, who is now writing a children's book.
"It's just very different, because even though it follows the book quite closely, in the film you'll get to literally see the mother directly whereas in the book you only get a glimpse of her through Jack. So I think it'll come across as much more the mother's film than the book was the mother's book."
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Ontario-based author Emma Donoghue is shown at her home on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (Dave Chidley/THE CANADIAN PRESS) | {
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THE SHOW IN THE SHOE: IT’S THE HOOSIERS FOR HOMECOMING
From Happy Valley to Homecoming 2018, the Buckeye bus just keeps rolling. This week the 5-0 and No. 3 ranked Ohio State football team welcome Indiana into The Shoe for an afternoon matinee. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. with a national broadcast on FOX.
Get ready for gameday right here with a rundown of all the goings on in and around Ohio Stadium and don’t forget this year’s homecoming parade scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday evening …
Homecoming Highlights
Full festivities are once again in store for Ohio State’s 106th homecoming celebration, lasting from Sunday, Sept. 30 to Saturday, Oct. 6. From the parade Friday to numerous alumni and university events, get all the up-to-date information at: homecoming.osu.edu
BTN Tailgate return to Columbus
Get your game day started with a first hand look with the B1G’s best college football preview show. Join host Dave Revsine along with analysts Gerry DiNardo, Anthony “Spice” Adams and Howard Griffith, as well as reporter Michelle McMahon for an inside look at the action around the conference.
The show, which runs from 10 a.m. to noon, once again be located oustide the OSU RPAC near the southeast entrance into Ohio Stadium.
For more visit BTN.com
Buckeye Walk and Skull Session – Ohio State Staples
Always a can’t miss and a great break from the tailgate, join the Buckeyes through Skull Session at St. John Arena and then the North Rotunda into Ohio Stadium. The Buckeye Walk begins at The Blackwell at approximately 2 p.m. You won’t want to miss the thunderous entrance into St. John Arena and as TBDBITL – along with alums – warm up for Saturday’s performance.
Stick around for a special performance each week by the Buckeye cheerleaders on “the grassy knoll” as well. This week, they’re set to pump up the FanFest crowd at 2:30 p.m.
Fanfest and Concert series
Prior to Skull Session be sure to swing by FanFest, located just outside St. John Arena in Remembrance Park. The area offers pregame fun for all ages and also will feature live music again this year. This week, activities will get underway around noon. Also, be sure to be on the lookout to the Ohio State women’s gymnastic team performing demo routines near the Fanfest area.
In Case You Missed it … Palette Pleasers – new eats and treats
Be on the lookout for these goodies inside The Shoe this season …
Buckeye Park at Tailgate Club
Pregame is primetime but can be a bigtime hassle. Let Buckeye Park at Tailgate Club do the work while you enjoy gameday. Buckeye Park by Tailgate Club offers customizable packages to suit your unique gameday needs, catering options to make meals a breeze and a prime reserved tailgate space in Coffey Road Park – only steps from Ohio Stadium. Participants also receive a parking pass in a nearby lot for a smooth arrival into Columbus. | {
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs fired back Thursday at the latest criticism from Dick Cheney.
(CNN) - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs fired back Thursday at the latestcriticisms from Dick Cheney, and suggested the Bush administration did not send U.S. troops into foreign conflicts responsibly.
"What Vice President Cheney calls 'dithering,' President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public," Gibbs said. "I think we've all seen what happens when someone doesn't take that responsibility seriously."
Gibbs' comments come a day after the former vice president issued a blistering a wide-ranging critique of the Obama administration's foreign policy, saying Obama appears "afraid to make a decision" when it comes to troop levels in Afghanistan, and the president's indecision is "hurt[ing] our allies and emboldening our adversaries."
In his comments Thursday, Gibbs said the delay over a troop decision in Afghanistan is largely due to the fact the Bush administration did not adequately assess the conditions in the country ahead of sending troops there.
"I think it is a curious comment," Gibbs also said, "I think it is pretty safe to say that the vice president was for seven years not focused on Afghanistan. Even more curious given the fact that an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House including the vice president's for more than eight months - a resource request filled by President Obama in March."
"I find it interesting that he's blaming us for something that he didn't see fit to do over, best I can tell, seven years of a war in Afghanistan," he added.
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Dick "5 deferment" Cheney calls someone "afraid" from his undisclosed location? I say again that Republicans seem to be born without a sense of irony.
October 22, 2009 03:26 pm at 3:26 pm |
victor madrid
dick cheney will never admiit that the bush admiinistration ever made any mistakes. he should respect his president and let him make the decisions to keep our country safe
October 22, 2009 03:26 pm at 3:26 pm |
victim of republican greed
Cheney/Bachman in 2012!
October 22, 2009 03:26 pm at 3:26 pm |
Dan
8 years in Afghanistan under Bush/Cheney with ZERO results. We need to think about how to get out of this failed state. What are we Russia?
October 22, 2009 03:27 pm at 3:27 pm |
Joe
It's not surprising that Cheyney doesn't recognize rational analysis and deliberate thought when he sees it. Also not surprising that he fears it. After all, what if it works? OMG!
October 22, 2009 03:27 pm at 3:27 pm |
Aaron
Yeah Gibbs, good job, blame the war in Afghanistan on the Bush administration...could it be that our European allies who were gun-ho to support us never really did, or maybe that it took Pakistan 7 years to start assisting with fully military support? The Obama administration is full of cowards and dimwits. The war in Afghanistan went bad not because of the Bush administration but because the Europeans and Pakistani's never helped...the Europeans are still hardly assisting. Obama and his crew are like terriers they just bark, bark, bark and that's about it.
October 22, 2009 03:27 pm at 3:27 pm |
David
I love the Obama administration's willingness to call out the liars and anti-Americans from the Bush administration. You can't really argue with cold hard facts! I appreciate that President Obama is gathering all the information he can before he makes his decision; there is a lot at stake here.
October 22, 2009 03:27 pm at 3:27 pm |
Colin
Excellent point by Gibbs about Cheney's hypocrisy in ignoring Afghanistan for 7 years. Anyway...it's obvious Cheney wants to see the country attacked.
October 22, 2009 03:27 pm at 3:27 pm |
Jerry in NC
What's really scary is that there are MILLIONS of people in this country, that actually think like that war monger, criminal and are supportive of his destructive ideas!
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
sonny chapman
Haste makes waste. In war, it gets people killed needlessly & results in failed military operations. Cheney must have some deep seated- macho insecurity that makes him paranoid about being percieved as "weak". Maybe if he had served in Nam & not taken all of those deferments he wouldn't be so paranoid & insecure. Or maybe if he had been looking at el quida as a National Security threat on 9-10-01 instead of at China(repressed guilt complex) he wouldn't be so over the top on all this. And then when you throw in his infallibility dementia, we're dealing with , to quote Bush the Elder, "one sick puppy."
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
Jimmy
Old Broken record Gibbs, Bush's fault, Bush's fault. That's what you do when you have no plan and no idea what to do. Too bad reasonable people know that. Obama was hired to do a job and not blame everyone else. If he can't do the job, resign.
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
Bonnie C.
Why doesn't Cheny just go away?? Why is his opinion even considered important any more?? He was conspicuously "behind the scenes" for the axis of evil he served, and should retire already!!
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
Colin
Dick Cheney is a traitor as far as I'm concerned. His comments are really meant for the terrorists. He's egging them on. Dick Cheney wants America to be attacked so he can say "I told you so." This is true.
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
Jim
Gibbs is a joke. This guy will be gone after the midterms. As soon as Repubs get more seats, this guy's mouth is going to get him in trouble. Bet on it.
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
James Michael Roberson
Dick Cheney and Bush has left us in the worse shape we have ever been in. Cheney has a lot of nerve and he must be an idiot. Obama has a lot of work ahead of him straightening out the mess he inherited. Wherever you look the economy, health care, or war our country has a lot to do to correct the problems created by Bush, Cheney and the republican controlled houses of congress. Cheney needs to just shut up his fat mouth and learn.
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
Doug
My President Obama is ill served by his own staff. Flack Gibbs and Hack Dunn should be recycled immediately. Chairman of the White House Axelrod has his own money conflicts starting by the sale of his former companies used extensively by Senator Obama. Now Foreign nations are buying their services using his son to pay his father back. As an Obama supporter and a democrat, save yourself and cut these lifelines MR President.
October 22, 2009 03:28 pm at 3:28 pm |
kd
Cheney is a dangerous incompetent and nobody should listen to a single word he says. Countless lives have been ruined or ended by his callous, cold, foolish and selfish decisions. The world is better off without him. Every time he opens his mouth we get a glimpse of the hellish world we've been able to avoid due to his being out of power.
October 22, 2009 03:29 pm at 3:29 pm |
victim of republican greed
Cheney has so much in common with the Taliban. Maybe that is why the Bush/Cheney white house gave them a pass.
October 22, 2009 03:29 pm at 3:29 pm |
Lee
Cheney criticising anyone's handling of affairs in Iraq is like a spoiled brat yelling at the maid because he crapped on the floor and she's not using his favorite brand of paper towel to wipe it up.
October 22, 2009 03:29 pm at 3:29 pm |
peter
Dick Cheney, why don't close your big mouth?
October 22, 2009 03:29 pm at 3:29 pm |
JayG
um 2 wars at once is a little difficult. All you people hate Bush but fail to mention how we have now won the war in Iraq with the Bush/Cheney/McCain strategy and now you dont want to follow it to win in Afghanistan too??
October 22, 2009 03:29 pm at 3:29 pm |
Laurie
Again, thank you Mr. Gibbs. One would hope that President Obama would be deliberative regarding this issue, as there are so many young lives at stake. Mr. Cheney, you are despicable. You were part of an adminstration that brought this country to it's knees. Worse than that, you squandered many Americans most precious possessions, their children, for an illegal war that was a lie.
October 22, 2009 03:29 pm at 3:29 pm |
Dinah
What would you expect from a corrupt Republican and especially one like Dick Cheney who practically ran America into the ground. | {
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Aging Services of California 2012 Annual Conference and Exposition
The Aging Services of California will hold its 2012 Conference and Exposistion from Monday, May 07, 2012 to Wednesday, May 09, 2012. The location is the Renaissance Palm Spring Hotel and Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, CA.
The Annual Conference will feature more than 500 long-term care industry leaders, leading education and the latest innovations. | {
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Regular
Okay, so I should’ve posted this a few days ago, but things have been really hectic this week so I forgot:
Solo just came out, so I’m reiterating my policy about new movies for who might not be familiar with it: you can submit quotes related to the new movie, but they won’t be posted until it’s been out for at least a month. Even though these quotes aren’t canon they can sometimes be spoilery by nature, so I want to give everyone who wants to see it a chance before something gets posted with a potential spoiler. | {
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FrontiersLondon > Shopping > Jewellery37-39 Pembridge Road, Notting Hill, London W11 |
13 minutes walk from KookaiAn extensive range of original ethnic and tribal jewellery as well as a good selection of furniture and pots for the house and garden. The...More
European BookshopLondon > Shopping > Books123 Gloucester Road, Soho, London SW7 |
14 minutes walk from KookaiWell stocked bookshop selling books for European languages and literature, serving Londoners since 1964. Useful for all learners and readers of all ages, and...More
The Italian BookshopLondon > Shopping > Books123 Gloucester Road, Soho, London SW7 |
14 minutes walk from KookaiWhether you're an Italian living in London or interested in learning the language, the Italian Bookshop has something to offer. A wide range of educational...More
C LidgateLondon > Shopping > Food and Drink Shops110 Holland Park Avenue, Holland Park, London W11 |
15 minutes walk from KookaiA fine family establishment, Danny Lidgate is the fifth generation to run the family business. Incredibly, it was established by his great great grandfather back...More
There's an explosion of fireworks on the 5th, Star Wars gets the full orchestra treatment at the Royal Albert Hall and Gainsborough's Family Album opens at the National Portrait Gallery, it's all in London in ...More | {
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Desktop::Editor
From: Martijn van Beers <martijn earthling net>
To: gnome-hackers gnome org
Cc: gnome-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Desktop::Editor
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 12:19:38 +0200
Hi,
I'm gonna try and stirr up the dead Desktop::Editor discussion
again, since dryad is actually going to use it, so we better
come up with something we can all live with soon.
Open questions:
1) Do we or do we not want to depend on bonobo (i.e. do we want
to use the Persist* interfaces) I'm leaning towards yes, but
miguel has some problems with this. Miguel, could you explain
why you don't want this?
2) How to improve get_text. I could really use some input on
this:)
3) If we want to be able to do editor scripting through the
interface, what do we need apart from insert/remove/search/replace
functionality?
cya,
Martijn
--
Martijn van Beers
[email protected]
Zistance is Footile! | {
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Which 10 cultural activities in London helped this author cope with his mental illness?
Author Nick Millman lists his favourite cultural activities in London
Author Nick Millman credits sightseeing around various cultural attraction in London with helping him to change his life.
In 2012, he created a list filled with hundreds of activities and events across the capital that would help him build his self-esteem, make new friends and overcome being a recluse, while also helping him to cope with his schizophrenia and suspected Asperger’s syndrome.
The 37-year-old, who lives in Hendon but grew up in Radlett and attended Watford Grammar School For Boys, is now writing a book about his experiences and aims to keep adding to his list until he achieves 2500 things to do…
Do you know when your book will be finished?
I’m aiming to finish it by June 2019, which will also be my 40th birthday. I’m aiming for 2500 things in London and the 2500th thing will hopefully be a visit to the concentration camp Auschwitz, in Poland.
What will the book be called?
I’m not sure yet. I’ve had some ideas like, 800 Attempts To Change The World As A Londoner, but I’m still working on it.
Where will people be able buy it?
I’m looking to self-publish on all Amazon websites worldwide if I can’t find a publisher in London.
Why did you want to start writing?
It helped me to deal with my schizophrenia and suspected autism a little better, but ultimately I want to change the world and do as much good as possible. My new found confidence enabled me to lose 3 and a half stone too over the past few years, from 17 and a half stone.
Have you suffered with these issues your whole life, but nothing really helped until you decided to explore London?
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007 and psychotic depression in 2004, but have dealt with recluse issues since school. I travelled the world from 2000 to 2004 but always stayed in the hotel as I was too scared to be amongst people. Now, I am trying to rebuild trust with people and be less scared of people and not be afraid of speaking my mind.
How are things for you at the moment?
I’m still doing as many activities as I can and am also looking to do more volunteer work and courses too.
What is next for you?
I plan to keep doing the list until I reach 2500 things and also keep exploring London as much as possible.
What are your top ten activities to do in London?
1. Learning Italian and meeting Italians for language exchange on a one to one basis. I’ve met about 60 Italians in coffee shops through websites such as Gumtree and conversationexchange.com
2. Going to The Royal Academy Of Music and Royal College Of Music for concerts (my personal favourite is film concerts). Going to a lot of concerts culminated in me teaching myself how to read music in the summer of 2015 and getting 97 per cent distinction in grade one music theory in March 2016.
3. Going to Hare Krishna in Kings Cross or Camden or Kentish town for lunch and chatting with homeless people.
4. Learning to draw different locations in London at The National Gallery (my favourite museum and art gallery in London.
5. Trying lots of musical instruments and language classes with tutors around London. I tried about 12 different instruments and about 12 different languages as free trials, with a view to continuing lessons with the tutor.
6. Meeting Alberto Portugeis, the famous pianist who is known for his peace movement with the Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation.
7. Going to meetup groups, whether for social events, language or sports. My favourite meetup event was going for a meal at Brixton Prison, where I was served and cooked for by prisoners.
9. Going to lots of shows and concerts at theatres and arenas around London. I’ve been to around 20 music concerts, 10 musicals and plays, including seeing Danny Devito in The Sunshine Boys and Matthew Perry in The End Of Longing.
10. Doing lots of volunteer work, including distributing sandwiches to homeless people at St Giles In The Field Church, near Tottenham Court Road, or helping packing food and toys for those in need at The Gift Charity in Hendon or to children’s wards around London and Watford.
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life before queso (cheese dip content)
how could this magic food been out of my life so far? i didn't know such joy existed! please, stop what you are doing and make this most delightful of foods, trust me, this is the incredible cheese based food ever. cheesey moments this is the closest i've found on the net, apart from cream cheese added. happy cholesterol! | {
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Surf Securely while Staying at Home
By: ARRC
May 1, 2020
As this COVID-19 crisis drags on, we’ve noticed a few new habits amongst our clients. Some have taken this opportunity to get their business in order and prepare for a resurgence. Some are just gritting their teeth and holding on. Nearly all of them have increased their time on social media. In addition to typical surfing, we’re seeing dramatic increases in people filling out those pesky Facebook quizzes about their first loves, childhood homes, mother’s maiden names, and other little-known facts. These quizzes seem innocent enough at first; however, they are a hacker’s dream. In fact, most of these quizzes are planted by hackers in hopes that people fill them out, innocently reveal their security question answers, and create an easy target to breach. Here are a few tips to keep safe.
Just say no. We know we sound like a Debbie-Downer here, but it’s safest to just avoid Facebook quizzes altogether. Let’s paint the picture. Recently, there was a push to post your graduation photo and year “in support of 2020 graduates.” This sounds like a cute idea, but there’s a dark side. Hackers now have three pieces of information that are common security questions: where you went to high school, what year you graduated, and your high school mascot (they can easily look this up based on the information provided). Your support of graduates just opened you up to hacking. Sure, this doesn’t give up your username and password, but hackers might already have this information based on some previous phishing attempt or breach of a major database (think Target, medical records, or social media profile leaks). Now, they have the secondary layer of protection to your personal data. Alternatively, they use this information to create fake Facebook profiles that appear believable. Then, they send a bunch of friend requests to your existing friends and use it to harvest their personal data when they accept.
Pretend everything you post is public. Regardless of your privacy settings, pretend that Facebook is a wall in the grungiest bathroom on your last road trip. Is this information that you would like posted on that wall? When you excitedly shared about your daughter’s first car, you revealed her security question information. You nostalgically told a story about your childhood neighborhood, there was another security question. It doesn’t matter if your profile is private or not. Hackers will find away.
Give Fake Security Question information. If you just cannot refrain from taking these Facebook quizzes or posting, give fake information for your security challenge questions. For example, if the security question asks where you met your significant other, put something completely incorrect. Make sure it’s something that you will remember, but it shouldn’t be something that hackers could find published online.
Social media opens up privacy concerns that we’ve never had to consider before. We recognize that there is no turning back and becoming a recluse isn’t an option. Through this crisis and beyond, take every precaution you can to protect yourself, protect your business, and protect your identity. | {
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Federer: Nadal can eclipse my Grand Slam record
Roger Federer believes Rafael Nadal is capable of taking his record of most Grand Slam wins, but has revealed he still has the hunger and desire to add to his current tally.
Federer has won 17 majors throughout his illustrious career and overtook Pete Sampras' total of 14 in 2009.
And Nadal, who lifted the French and US Opens last year to move onto 13 Grand Slams, stands at four majors behind Federer, and at the age of 27 is tipped by many to surpass the current record.
"Could Rafa [Nadal] eclipse my [Grand Slam] record? Yeah, absolutely," Federer said on the eve of participating at the Dubai Tennis Championships, which begins on Monday.
"But the good thing is I am still playing and my goal is to add more titles to my count - and not just Grand Slam titles. I love any tennis tournament I play in and Dubai is an important tournament for me."
Federer is gunning for a sixth crown in Dubai, but is likely to face stiff competition from current champion Novak Djokovic, who is aiming to triumph for a fifth time.
The pair have won the tournament in nine of the past 11 years, and have been placed in the same half of the draw, meaning they could face each other in the semi-finals.
Federer, who reached the last four of the Australian Open after solid wins over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Andy Murray, believes he is playing something close to his best after encountering a difficult 2013, where he won just one title and lost during the early rounds of events.
"I am playing top tennis. For me it's just a matter of staying healthy, staying consistent and getting to semis and finals. I feel as if I'm in as good a shape as I have been for a year, so that's very encouraging. I feel my best tennis is around the corner," Federer said.
Federer trained in Dubai during the off-season, and with childhood hero Stefan Edberg teaming up with the Swiss as his coach is pleased with the way his year has panned out so far, having battled with a back problem during the middle part of the campaign.
"I know I've said that a few times, but this time I really feel it's the case. I have zero pain and spent a very encouraging month in Dubai training in December. I am confident for the year ahead," he said.
Federer is also playing with a new, larger racquet frame, one that he briefly tested last year but quickly ditched after a string of poor results. And on the new equipment, he has been encouraged by the outcome.
"I've only been playing with the racquet for a few months now, but it feels much longer," he said. "The good thing is I am not thinking about it. It's been a good switch," he said. | {
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During a speech in 2006, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovksy referred to classified documents held by the Politburo and the Central Committee. The confidential documents spelled out a plan to turn Europe into a totalitarian super-state.
In 1989, during a visit by a Trilateral Commission delegation sent to convince Mikhail Gorbachev to turn Russia over to globalist loan sharks at the World Bank and IMF, the former French president Giscard d’Estaing told Gorbachev: “I cannot tell you exactly when it will happen – probably within 15 years – but Europe is going to be a federal state.” This was several years before the signing of the Maastricht treaty creating the European Union.
“How the hell did Giscard d’Estaing know what was going to happen in 15 years time?” Bukovksy asked during his speech. “And surprise, surprise, how did he become the author of the European constitution? A very good question. It does smell of conspiracy, doesn’t it?”
Six years after Bukovksy’s revelation, we are witnessing the final phase of “European integration” as a bankster devised economic crisis sweeps the continent. On Saturday, the president of the Czech Republic, Václav Klaus, told The Telegraph that “two-faced” politicians are paving the way for the EU super-state. “We need to think about how to restore our statehood and our sovereignty. That is impossible in a federation. The EU should move in an opposite direction,” he said. | {
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Chinese men´s national team continued its preparations for next year´s Asian Cup, as they managed a one-all draw against visitors Jordan during a football friendly in Harbin, the capital city of Northeast China´s Heilongjiang Province.China held to 1-1 draw by Jordan
Across the UK the hunt is on for James Foley’s killer, who authorities believe is a British national. As Richard Bestic reports from London, Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his summer break to lead his government’s response.
As the protests in the town of Ferguson, Missouri turned violent with police facing ´heavy gunfire´ from some ´criminal elements´, cops fired tear gas, stun grenades and arrested 31 demonstrators on Monday night. | {
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Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai To Be Back Again And Here’s The Twist
The popular sitcom Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai saw it’s reunion last year and the stars decided to have yet another season after so many years since it got a humongous number of fans over the years. They indeed decided to follow the trend and come as a web series instead of having a TV show.
The buzz is that Rupali Ganguly has even started preparing for her character Monisha Sarabhai. Indeed, she is already hitting the gym to get back in shape for the show. The actor and director Deven Bhojani, said that the show will be back. But there are certain changes added it. There will be few more characters in the new show. And wait! That’s not all. There is another twist to the story. The show will also witness a time leap to match with the current generation so that the present audiences get to relate to the plot.
The director told the sources that, “We are still in the process, it is too soon to talk about it but maybe we will take a time leap and carry on. We will retain a few qualities and of course all the successful characters. We add a couple of more new characters. It is going to come out very soon.”
Wow! Now that’s some great news for the fans. We just can’t wait for Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai to come back. | {
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Interesting Eats
“Mutant foods” appear to be all the rage right now, from Dominique Ansel’s cronut to Keizo Shimamoto’s Ramen Burger. San Francisco-based Sushirrito, which serves a “sushi burrito” is a natural evolution of that trend, one born from necessity.
Years ago, founder Peter Yen worked downtown in San Francisco and found himself craving sushi for lunch, but did not have time for a sit-down meal. Nagged by a growing concern about overfishing that was decimating the seafood population, Yen began to dream up a new way to consume sushi that was fast, fresh, affordable, portable, and environmentally conscious. The sushi burrito was born.
We stopped by Sushirrito’s Union Square and FiDi locations in San Francisco to try the latest culinary phenomenon.
[…]
Though it takes the shape of a burrito, the sushi burrito definitely tasted like a fresh sushi roll. It was served chilled, for one thing. And each bite offered a distinct flavor and texture. The oven-baked salmon fell apart in my mouth, the pickled cucumbers burst with juiciness, and the rice and avocado provided a welcomed blandness.
This may look like a typical cinnamon roll found in the States, but don’t be fooled.
If you’re like me, your mouth salivates at the thought of a delicious cinnamon roll (fresh and warm out of the oven…cooled just enough for the glaze to not drip off…I really want one now). The above cinnamon roll, however, is not something many people in the U.S. are familiar with. That’s because it’s a Swedish cinnamon roll. And it has cardamom. And less sugar. And no frosting.
Wait. Hold up a sec.
No frosting?
Not as witty as “I’m sick of these motherfucking pastries without the motherfucking glaze”, but it still works.
If you think Swedish cinnamon buns are the icing-covered monstrosities at Ann Sather’s, you’re sadly missing out. Sweden’s cinnamon buns, known as kanelbullar, are far more delicious in more complex and subtle ways completely missing from American imitations. The main differences are:
Cardamom– Yes, they are cinnamon buns, but most Swedish recipes call for an absurd amount of fragrant cardamom as well.Less sugar– much of flavor in the kanelbullar comes from great butter and high-quality spices, so less sugar is neededNo icing– Too much sugar also drowns out the butter and spice flavors and in American buns this often comes from icing. Swedes opt for little crystals of what’s known as pearl sugar instead, which looks suspiciously like pretzel salt.
I’m not totally knocking the American buns, which are good in their own way if done right, but the Swedish kanelbullar are delicious on a whole different level.
The pearl sugar and cardamom can present an obstacle, as cardamom is often sold in pods here and pearl sugar simply doesn’t exist in most American grocery stores. I suggest heading to your local spice shop and pick up either high quality ground cardamom or the seeds to grind at home. I get mine at Epic Spices. It goes without saying that good-quality cinnamon will make a difference as well. The pearl sugar can be acquired online or at the Swedish-American Museum. The Lars’ Own one also has a simple recipe with cup measurements and only two rises if this one is too complicated for you.
The cheese comes from Rogue Creamery in Oregon. While inspired by the practices in Basque and Provencal, Rogue Creamery has made something entirely their own. Rogue River Blue is made only with summer milk, which many find superior in flavor and texture for certain cheeses because of the animals’ fresh diet. The cheese is decked out with local Oregon offerings, wrapped in Carpenter Hill Vineyard Syrah leaves that have been macerated in Clear Creek pear brandy, imparting a rich, boozy savor. After being lovingly hand-wrapped, the cheeses are aged in facilities built to simulate the Roquefort caves in France, but imparting molds local to Rogue River Valley’s terroir. This cheese isn’t kidding around. This cheese is here to party.
Because of its seasonal nature, Rogue River Blue makes its annual debut in early autumn. The festive leaves and bright paste of this beautiful cheese call for celebration and indulgence, as does the hefty price tag of $42.99 per pound and up. Take your jaw off the floor: this cheese is worth it. The aroma is boozy and fruity, while the paste is velvety and soft like set buttercream frosting but with crunchy granules within the pockets of blue. It tastes like lemony fudge, with secondary flavors of yeast, spices and mission figs. Serve it with something a little sweet, like local honey, fig jam and port or barley wine.
On a recent trip to Malaysia, Avicenna (one of the many great bloggers at Freethought Blogs) set out to find and eat durian fruit.
For those unfamiliar with this fruit (me me me), durian is a fruit native to Southeast Asia. Apparently it has a distinctive, strong, and (for many) highly unpleasant odor. Le Wiki has this to say about the fruit:
Regarded by many people in southeast Asia as the “king of fruits”,[3] the durian is distinctive for its large size, strong odour, and formidable thorn-covered husk. The fruit can grow as large as 30 centimetres (12 in) long and 15 centimetres (6 in) in diameter, and it typically weighs one to three kilograms (2 to 7 lb). Its shape ranges from oblong to round, the colour of its husk green to brown, and its flesh pale yellow to red, depending on the species.
The edible flesh emits a distinctive odour that is strong and penetrating even when the husk is intact. Some people regard the durian as having a pleasantly sweet fragrance; others find the aroma overpowering and revolting. The smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust, and has been described variously as rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage. The persistence of its odour has led to the fruit’s banishment from certain hotels and public transportation in Southeast Asia.
After a bit of searching, Avicenna succeeded in finding and eating some of the fruit (it is currently out of season):
Yep. I ate Durian. And here is the thing?
It wasn’t that bad. Okay the smell was strong. It wasn’t nauseating but it smelt a bit like rotting vegetation. It was pervasive. Just having it in the car had me go “that’s a strong smell”. It managed to get everyone in the house realise we had bought a durian and indeed come down to eat it.
Let us just say Hera and her family REALLY like the fruit and I can see why.
So in this trip I ate a Durian Custard Pastry, Some Durian in a Roll and a fresh Durian.
The smell was strong in all of them. You could tell it was durian and I have a strange feeling Hera wanted me to try it so had told various people to get me anything durian to try.
But the taste. The smell is a little off putting but I had one advantage. I had smelt worse things. Much much worse things and we will look at those things on a later date. A little sweet and cloying and strong, but the taste.
It tastes amazing. It’s like a custard tart type of texture and sweet but not too sweet. There is a slight savoury taste to boot. I was sold on the prepared stuff and I am sold on the actual fruit. I would encourage everyone to try it, but I know the problem is the smell.
India’s various odours may have helped inured me to the fragrance and the taste may put people off. Maybe some people are sensitive to it.
IF you would like to reward my culinary foolhardiness then please do so by donating to ASTI. We are donating as open atheists and skeptics from FTB so if you wish to be seen and heard as atheists who do charity then pass the word. Sadly there are no videos of me eating Durian but if I do go in season? We can do that too! | {
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Writes lots of software, sometimes to pay for food. Python, Haskell, Elixir, Clojure, some others. Has his own X11 window manager and works occasionally on his own Wayland window manager. Also has an iOS app, written in ClojureScript. | {
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About Phineas Nigellus Black, Sr. {FICT}
Fictional Character Appearing in the Harry Potter Book Series:
DO NOT merge with real people or into the "big tree"
"...Professor Phineas Nigellus Black (1847 – 1926) was a pure-blood wizard, possibly the son of Cygnus and Ella Black, and brother of Sirius, Elladora and Isla Black. He is the ancestor of many wizards in Britain. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Slytherin house; he later became Headmaster of the school and was said to be the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had. After he died in 1926, his portrait hangs in the Headmaster's office along with the portraits of the other former headmasters, and offers advice to the current headmaster..." | {
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AN expert author, journalist and eco-animal campaigner will be the guest of honour at the first ever Reading Eco Veggie Fayre in December.
Tony Wardle, associate director of Viva!, Europe's largest campaigning animal organisation, will be delivering an inspirational talk at the event on Saturday, December 19, at Reading Town Hall.
'Save the World with your Knife and Fork', starting at 1pm, will examine the impact of meat and dairy consumption on the environment - drawing on Tony's extensive knowledge on the topic following the publication of Viva!'s groundbreaking report, Diet of Disaster.
The talk will be followed by a screening of the award winning climate change film, 'The Age of Stupid,' starring Pete Postlethwaite, at 2pm and a debate: 'Should Reading Adopt a Meat Free Day'' at 4pm.
Reading Eco Veggie Fayre, which runs from 11am - 6pm, will also include lots of information, products, advice and inspiration to help people reduce their carbon footprint by going veggie.
"We're not stupid - we know its time to make changes. In fact the biggest Christmas present you can give your kids this year is to reduce your family carbon footprint. It's got that serious," says event organiser Tim Barford from the latest veggie lifestyle magazine Off The Hoof.
Reading Eco Veggie Fayre, which runs from 11am - 6pm will also include:
Cookery demos including from Viva!'s Helen Rossiter, cooking up a full Christmas dinner
'Meet the Experts' session, with the chance to chat about a variety of subjects including cooking, health and nutrition
Kids area
Stalls, shopping, special offers and freebies
Tasters and loads of veggie food including a caf' with two excellent veggie caterers and even a raw food banquet!
Licensed bar, music and entertainment
Admission is only "3 for adults, "1 for kids and OAP's. There are 200 free goody bags (worth over "10!) on entry to the first arrivals! Happy Xmas Reading, lets reduce our carbon footprint in style!!!
The Reading Eco Veggie Fayre is organised by Off The Hoof and sponsored by Veggie Snow, Beanies Health Foods, Viva! and Naturally Green. | {
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Appeal
from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Texas
Before
WIENER, HIGGINSON, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.
WIENER, CIRCUIT JUDGE.
In the
first of the cases consolidated in this appeal,
Petitioners-Appellees Leonardo Villegas-Sarabia
("Villegas-Sarabia") and his father, Leonardo
Villegas, Jr. ("Villegas"), seek review of the
order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA")
holding that Villegas-Sarabia, a Mexican citizen, is
inadmissible to the United States and ineligible to adjust
his citizenship status because his conviction for misprision
of a felony is a crime involving moral turpitude. In the
second case, the government appeals two aspects of the
district court's decision: (1) that the differing
physical presence requirements for unmarried U.S.-citizen
mothers and such fathers in 8 U.S.C. §§ 1401 and
1409(c) violates equal protection and (2) that the remedy of
the constitutional violation is extending citizenship to
Villegas-Sarabia under 8 U.S.C. § 1409(c). We affirm the
BIA's order in the first case and reverse the district
court's judgment granting citizenship in the second case.
I.
Facts & Proceedings
A.
Factual Background
The
facts of this case are not disputed by the parties. Leonardo
Villegas-Sarabia was born in Mexico on March 16, 1974. At the
time of his birth, his parents were not married, but
Villegas, his father, was a United States citizen, who lived
in the United States from the time he was born in 1955
through 1960, and again from 1965 to the present. In 1974,
when Villegas-Sarabia was born, Villegas was 18 years old and
had only been present in the United States for four years
after he reached 14 years of age.[1] At the time of
Villegas-Sarabia's birth, his mother was a citizen of
Mexico.
Villegas-Sarabia's
parents married when he was 13 years old. He has lived in the
United States continuously since he was a few months old, and
in July 1985, he became a lawful permanent resident of the
United States.
In
November 2011, Villegas-Sarabia was indicted for possession
of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§ 922. He pleaded guilty in June 2012 and was sentenced
to a thirty-month term of imprisonment in June 2013. Between
his plea and his sentencing, Villegas-Sarabia applied for
citizenship, claiming that he was a United States citizen by
virtue of his father's citizenship. At the time of
Villegas-Sarabia's birth, his citizenship was governed by
the 1970 version of 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a)(7), which granted
U.S. citizenship to:
a person born outside the geographical limits of the United
States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is
an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States, who,
prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in
the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or
periods totaling not less than ten years, at least five of
which were after attaining the age of fourteen
years.[2]
This
provision applied expressly to married parents, but it was
made applicable to unmarried parents under §
1409(a).[3] Significant to this case, § 1409(c)
granted an exception to unmarried mothers:
[N]otwithstanding the provision of subsection (a) of this
section, a person born, on or after the effective date of
this chapter, outside the United States and out of wedlock
shall be held to have acquired at birth the nationality
status of his mother, if the mother had the nationality of
the United States at the time of such person's birth, and
if the mother had previously been physically present in the
United States . . . for a continuous period of one
year.[4]
Applying
these statutes, the United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services denied Villegas-Sarabia's citizenship
application, after determining that his father did not
satisfy the residency requirements under § 1401(a)(7).
B.
Immigration Proceedings
In
January 2015, the Department of Homeland Security initiated
removal proceedings based on Villegas-Sarabia's firearms
conviction. In his appearance before the immigration judge
("IJ"), Villegas-Sarabia conceded that he was
admitted to the United States as the child of a citizen and
that he had been convicted of illegal possession of a
firearm, but he denied that he was an alien or that he was
subject to removal.[5] Villegas-Sarabia argued that, because
§ 1409(c)'s discriminatory one-year exception
covered only unmarried U.S.-citizen mothers it
violated equal protection. He insisted that, under a
constitutional reading of the statute, he was entitled to
derivative citizenship.
In
April 2015, the IJ determined that Villegas-Sarabia was not a
citizen and sustained the removal charge. Villegas-Sarabia
responded that he would seek an adjustment of status. The IJ
held that Villegas-Sarabia's conviction for misprision of
a felony was a crime involving moral turpitude
("CIMT"), making him inadmissible to the United
States and ineligible for adjustment of his
status.[6] The IJ explained further that
Villegas-Sarabia could only adjust his immigration status if
he could obtain a waiver of inadmissibility pursuant to 8
U.S.C. § 1182(h). Villegas-Sarabia's firearm
conviction was an aggravated felony, however, statutorily
barring him from seeking such a waiver. The IJ pretermitted
Villegas-Sarabia's application for an adjustment of
status, holding that he had committed a CIMT and therefore
could not attempt to adjust his immigration status without a
waiver. But Villegas-Sarabia's aggravated felony
conviction barred him from seeking such a
waiver.[7]
Villegas-Sarabia
appealed the IJ's decision to the BIA, challenging the
constitutionality of the disparate sex-based residency
requirements of §§ 1401 and 1409(c). He argued in
the alternative that, because misprision of a felony is not a
CIMT, he is not required to obtain a waiver of
inadmissibility to adjust his immigration status. In August
2015, a three-member panel of the BIA dismissed
Villegas-Sarabia's appeal, holding that he was not a
citizen under the statutes that were in place at the time of
his birth and that the BIA lacked jurisdiction to address his
constitutional challenge. The BIA also affirmed the IJ's
holding that misprision of a felony is a CIMT.
Villegas-Sarabia now seeks our review of the BIA's order
holding that misprision of a felony is a CIMT.
C.
District Court Proceedings
In
February 2015, Villegas and Villegas-Sarabia filed a joint
complaint and habeas corpus petition, claiming that
Villegas-Sarabia is a United States citizen and therefore not
subject to detention and removal.[8] They also sought a
declaration that the disparate requirements of 8 U.S.C.
§§ 1401 and 1409 are unconstitutional. The
government filed a motion to dismiss in response to which the
district court applied a heightened level of scrutiny and
held that "the different physical presence requirements
[in §§ 1401 and 1409] violate the Fifth
Amendment's guarantee of equal protection." To
remedy this constitutional violation, the district court
extended § 1409(c)'s one-year continuous presence
requirement applicable to unmarried U.S.-citizen
mothers to unmarried U.S.-citizen fathers,
then held Villegas-Sarabia to be an United States
citizen.[9]
The
government timely appealed and advanced two contentions: The
district court erred (1) in holding that the distinction
between unmarried mothers and unmarried fathers violated
equal protection, and (2) in extending the one-year
continuous residency requirement to unmarried fathers.
II.
Discussion
These
consolidated appeals seek review of the BIA's order and
the district court's ruling on the habeas petition. We
address each in turn.
A. BIA
Order
Villegas-Sarabia
contends that the BIA erred in ruling that misprision of a
felony is a CIMT, so that he should not be required to seek a
waiver of inadmissibility to adjust his status pursuant to 8
U.S.C. § 1182(h). The government urges this court to
defer to the BIA's reasonable decision that misprision of
a felony is a CIMT.
i.
Standard of Review
"When
considering a petition for review, this court has the
authority to review only the BIA's decision, not the
IJ's decision, unless the IJ's decision has some
impact on the BIA's decision."[10] If the BIA
adopts the findings and conclusions of the IJ, this court may
review the IJ's decision.[11] Here, the BIA affirmed the
IJ's findings and conclusions, so we may review both
decisions.
We
review the BIA's legal conclusions de novo but give
"considerable deference to the BIA's interpretation
of the legislative scheme."[12] In appeals addressing
whether a particular conviction is a CIMT, we give
"Chevron deference to the BIA's
interpretation of the term 'moral turpitude' and its
guidance on the general categories of offenses which
constitute CIMTs;" however, we review de novo the
decisions of the BIA addressing whether a particular crime is
a CIMT.[13]
ii.
Subject-Matter Jurisdiction
Pursuant
to 8 U.S.C. § 1252, this court lacks jurisdiction to
review "any final order of removal against an alien who
is removable by reason of having committed a criminal offense
covered in § 1182(a)(2) or 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), (B), (C),
or (D) of this title, or any offense covered by §
1227(a)(2)(A)(ii) of this title."[14] However, this
court retains jurisdiction to review colorable questions of
law and constitutional claims under 8 U.S.C. §
1252(a)(2)(D). Villegas-Sarabia has raised a colorable
question of law, so we have jurisdiction.[15]
iii.
Analysis
1.
Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude
This
court uses a categorical approach to determine whether a
particular crime meets the BIA's definition of a
CIMT.[16] Under such an approach, this court
"focuses on the inherent nature of the crime, as defined
in the statute . . . rather than the circumstances
surrounding the particular transgression."[17]"When
applying the categorical approach, the statute must be read
as the minimum criminal conduct necessary to sustain a
conviction under the statute."[18] Thus, for
Villegas-Sarabia to have committed a CIMT, the minimum
conduct criminalized under 8 U.S.C. § 4 must constitute
moral turpitude.[19]
The
BIA, through its administrative decisions, has crafted the
following definition of "moral turpitude":
Moral turpitude refers generally to conduct that shocks the
public conscience as being inherently base, vile, or
depraved, and contrary to the accepted rules of morality and
the duties owed between persons or to society in general.
Moral turpitude has been defined as an act which is per se
morally reprehensible and intrinsically wrong, or malum
in se, so it is the nature of the act itself and not the
statutory prohibition of it which renders a crime one of
moral turpitude. Among the tests to determine if a crime
involves moral turpitude is whether the act is accompanied by
a vicious motive or a corrupt mind.[20]
We have
further explained that if a crime's essential element
"involves fraud or deception, "[21] or
"include[s] dishonesty or lying, "[22] it is a
CIMT.[23]
2.
Misprision of a Felony
The
determinative question we must answer is whether
Villegas-Sarabia's conviction for misprision of a felony
under 18 U.S.C. § 4 is a CIMT. The misprision of felony
statute provides:
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a
felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals
and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some
judge or other person in civil or military authority under
the United States, shall be fined under this title or
imprisoned not more than three years, or both.[24]
There
is no binding precedent of this circuit establishing whether
misprision of a felony is a CIMT. Under our case law,
however, deceit is an essential element of misprision of a
felony, and "this [c]ourt has repeatedly held that
crimes including an element of intentional deception are
crimes involving moral turpitude."[25]
Misprision
of felony consists of the following elements: "(1)
knowledge that a felony was committed; (2) failure to notify
the authorities of the felony; and (3) an affirmative step to
conceal the felony."[26] "Mere failure to make
known does not suffice."[27] In Patel v. Mukasey,
a petitioner sought our review of a BIA decision which held
that misprision of a felony was an aggravated felony under 8
U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(M)(i).[28] To qualify as an
aggravated felony under § 1101, the offense must
"necessarily entail[] fraud or deceit" and involve
a loss of greater than $10, 000.[29] We concluded that the
final element of misprision of a felony-that the defendant
must commit some affirmative act to conceal the
felony-"necessarily entails the act of intentionally
giving a false impression, i.e., the false
impression that the earlier felony never
occurred."[30]We explained that, because misprision of
a felony requires assertive dishonest conduct, it necessarily
requires an intentional act of deceit.[31] Viewing
Patel in conjunction with this court's repeated
holdings that "crimes including an element of
intentional deception are crimes involving moral turpitude,
" necessarily leads to the conclusion that misprision of
a felony is a CIMT.[32]
Two
panels of this court, (in unpublished and thus
non-precedential opinions), have affirmed BIA decisions that
reached the same conclusion. The panel in Ahmad v.
Holder held that the BIA did not err in holding that a
defendant who was convicted of misprision of a felony had
committed a CIMT.[33] Similarly, the panel in
Aguilar-Cortez v. Gonzales held that the BIA did not
err in holding that the petitioner was "ineligible for
adjustment of status because his conviction for misprision of
felony was a conviction for a crime of moral
turpitude."[34] Although this court has not yet held
bindingly that misprision of a felony is a CIMT, our case law
lends support to the BIA's determination to that effect
in this case.
The
question whether misprision of a felony is categorically a
CIMT, however, has led to a split among other
circuits.[35] In Lugo v. Holder, the Second
Circuit provided a brief history of the existing circuit
split.[36] The petitioner in Lugo sought
review of a BIA decision holding that misprision of a felony
is a CIMT.[37] The Second Circuit declined to rule on
the issue, concluding instead that the question would
"best [be] addressed in the first instance by the Board
in a precedential opinion."[38] The circuit court
explained:
Originally, in [1966], the Board held that misprision of
felony was not a CIMT. The Eleventh Circuit then adopted the
contrary rule in Itani v. Ashcroft,298 F.3d 1213,
1216 (11th Cir. 2002), holding that misprision of felony
is a categorical CIMT. The Board switched to the
Eleventh Circuit's view in Matter of
Robles-Urrea, but the Board's decision in that case
was reversed by the Ninth Circuit. Robles-Urrea v.
Holder,678 F.3d 702, 711 (9th Cir. 2012) (holding that
misprision of felony is not a CIMT). We are thus left to
wonder whether, going forward, the Board wishes to adopt the
Ninth Circuit's rule or the Eleventh Circuit's. We
believe it is desirable for the Board to clarify this matter
in a published opinion.[39]
In an
attempt to clarify this issue, the Second Circuit remanded
the case for further proceedings, but the BIA has yet to
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Councilman Russ Stephenson draws a visual representation of the Raleigh City Council’s workings at a planning retreat at N.C. State University’s Hunt Library on Thursday. Mayor Nancy McFarlane works in the background. [email protected]
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Taxes and 'loathing' in the City of Oaks? Raleigh council talks long-term
With a long election year ahead, the city’s elected officials spent the first day of a planning retreat Thursday grappling with Raleigh’s growth, talking about the future and trying to make nice with each other.
The day brought both an airing out of council tensions, eased by humor, and warnings of new financial challenges, including a multimillion-dollar budget gap.
City leaders also hinted at big plans ahead, such as Mayor Nancy McFarlane’s idea to start an organization that connects corporate dollars with the arts. Meanwhile, the word “bold” emerged as the new touchstone in the civic conversation.
The city is hosting the two-day event, featuring top staffers and a facilitator from Novak Consulting Group, at an estimated cost of $16,000. Thursday’s event was at N.C. State University’s Hunt Library. The retreat continues Friday at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.
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The city’s finances will need some adjusting in the next few months, according to City Manager Ruffin Hall.
Raleigh will be $4 million to $6 million short of the funding it needs to continue current levels of service, according to Hall. As a result, the city may have to choose between lower levels of service in some functions – from public safety to leaf collection – or an increase to property taxes.
That’s because the city can no longer collect the “privilege tax” a special (and unevenly applied) fee on certain types of businesses. Raleigh lost about $7 million when legislators banned the practice.
Raleigh probably can come up with savings or funds to fill the gap, but that won’t leave much money to provide standard services to new or resurgent neighborhoods, Hall said.
“So that would mean not hiring additional police officers, or staff, or things of that nature?” asked Mary-Ann Baldwin. That’s a likely possibility, Hall said, unless the legislature replaces some of the money Raleigh lost in the privilege- tax ban.
Councilman John Odom is dubious that any state money will materialize.
“Even though McCrory says he wants to help us, I don’t see it happening,” he said of Gov. Pat McCrory.
The arts
Could the city government do more to boost the arts? It’s on the agenda.
Councilman Wayne Maiorano suggested that the city make an “arts walk” map, which could lead people to galleries and shops, perhaps under the First Friday brand.
For her part, McFarlane is in early talks to create a new foundation to connect corporations with the arts.
“The convergence of arts and technology is phenomenal,” she said.
Staffers also have been talking about the idea of “hip,” which might play a role in the long-term strategies the council is discussing this week.
“What did we need to do to be hip? Are we hip?” assistant manager Jim Greene asked, shortly before Councilman Bonner Gaylord informed him that he was “not hip.”
McFarlane said that Raleigh’s just hip enough. It’s a city well-positioned to pick up people who age out – or burn out – of Silicon Valley or Austin.
“This is the place that people say, ‘Clearly, we’re cool if anybody’s moving here,’” she said. “But we don’t have to try to be hipper than Austin or more Valley than the Valley.”
Airing of grievances
Early in the day, the mayor and the seven council members took markers to posters in a form of group art counseling.
They drew symbols and stick figures to represent their relationships and mission. They suggested higher ideals, from common ground to next levels, but they also made frank, if slightly oblique, comments about the state of the city’s governing board.
“Sometimes, I see the council as a very stiff body, sometimes inflexible,” said Councilwoman Kay Crowder, the newest member of the board. Though the council has its “high highs,” its lows can be low, she said.
“Sometimes, there appears to be disdain for each other and loathing for each other.”
Maiorano, the second-newest member, said that the day-to-day work of the council can feel like a slog through “wet cement,” with conversations getting stuck in ideological splits.
Developers are proposing high-density buildings in existing neighborhoods, and in some cases their neighbors haven’t been happy.
“We’ve allowed, I believe, a perpetuation of frustration when we talk about growth versus quality of life, when we talk about development versus neighborhood,” he said.
He wants to see a 40-story building in downtown, he said later, as a symbol of the city’s transformation.
Councilman Eugene Weeks said he liked that the council has been more respectful of city staff than some previous groups. However, he thinks there’s a little too much back-channel talk.
“Let’s be a little bit more truthful about some of the conversations that we have,” he said. “If you have something against me, let’s talk about it. Let’s not go behind each other’s back.”
Gaylord said the council was too quick to shoot down ideas, saying it sometimes seemed like a “contest.” He suggested the elected officials give each other feedback through surveys.
And Odom wants concision.
“We could have some very shorter meetings if people didn’t want to, say, pontificate for two hours – including myself,” he said.
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“It’s almost a reminder of how you could appear to be to others – and I think when you’re more entrenched, you don’t see it,” she said.
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Any tips for an overcast sky?
Normally I don’t bother shooting when its overcast; its uninteresting light. But when traveling there is sometimes no choice since you are unlikely to return to a given place.
So I would appreciate any ideas that would mitigate the flat, dull effect of an overcast sky.
(Maybe not the right forum for this question, but you guys are always so helpful!)
When overcast you have a horrible sky buy there are benefits to the light (vs harsh sun) down on the ground. Try to not include the sky in your shots, it'll be a blown out mess. Rather than grand vistas shoot more of the intimate details of the city or the intimate landscape. You might find that the light can be worked with on ground level. I'm not much of a macro guy but the macro guys love the overcast conditions and if they are not there they might even make them via a scrim.
I'd even go so far as to say that the intimate details are really where you can get artistic....think about it, how much are you going to change that oft repeated shot of the front facade of Notre Dame Cathedral? Not much, it's been done to death. But you might be able to find something more creative (and fun) if you explore and observe the intimate details of the cathedral and even the people there. | {
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1000-1300 mm
Polyester
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1000-1500 mm
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The exterior decoration of this hemispherical cup on a high pedestal is organised in superposed registers.
The central band, with a plant background, contains six multifoil medallions with figured motifs.
It features, successively, an infantryman, a cavalryman-falconer, a cavalryman alone, a cavalryman with antelope,
a cavalryman using a bow and a cavalryman accompanied by a lion.
These figures are interspersed with small circular medallions inlaid with gold filled with very small overlapping rosettes.
The same golden medallions punctuate the thin lower band, which is adorned with a frieze of animals passant.
The upper band, also punctuated with small golden circular medallions, is decorated with infantrymen armed with swords and bucklers.
These figures and the animals make up an “animated” epigraph in which the legs of the infantrymen form the ascenders of
the letters of an inscription that has been partially deciphered.
The animated epigraph of the upper band is a decoration attested on only ten or so Islamic metal objects.
The Bobrinsky bucket[1] was the earliest one on which it appeared,
accompanied by writing with human heads. Native to Iran, animated epigraphy appears on a few Ayyubid objects[2].
The latest example of this decoration is on a Mamluk candle ring[3].
The hammered foot is attached to the base of the cup by a ring in light relief,
which is decorated with fine plant-like scrolls. Its decoration is divided into three registers.
The middle register comprises an inscription with high ascenders interrupted by two medallions decorated with lotus flowers.
It is framed by two fine bands with small multifoil medallions on a background of fine foliage.
The inside of the cup is decorated with a multifoil medallion with fine leafy rinceaux punctuated with a star motif.
The decorative technique used is also Iranian in origin.
It was from the eastern regions of the Islamic world that the technique of inlaying metal objects with metal seemed to come,
even though there are examples of inlaid metal objects from the Near East and the Roman world[4].
The earliest Islamic inlaid metal objects are from Khorāsān, where the new process appeared in the twelfth century.
The technique, which makes use of various metals such as silver, copper[5]
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through the works of the artists of Mosul (Iraq) and various Syrian, then Mamluk centres.
The shape of the object should be considered without the foot that as can be seen from the decoration was added later.
Its profile is quite similar to a series of cups produced in Khorāsān (Iran) in the thirteenth century,
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The hunt is the main decorative theme. A princely entertainment par excellence,
the hunt was a popular theme in the Islamic arts from the Umayyad period[7],
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It was just over ten years ago that the swine flu “epidemic” was a hot topic in the media. And I remember it all too well.
A few years after, up in communist Kanada my mom got the swine flu vaccine and subsequently got sick. Not only that, but she was never able to walk again after it was given to her and her health just deteriorated from there until she passed away last year.
But my mother wasn’t the only one to experience such negative and severe side effects. After doing a search for “Swine flu shot, can’t walk” shortly thereafter, I found out that many people had similar experiences.
One story that made mainstream headlines back then was a cheerleader for the Washington Redskins who ended up not being able to walk or read very well after being administered the vaccine. Fortunately for her, she was healed through chelation therapy after a doctor suspected she was being poisoned by the mercury in the vaccine.
I bring up Swine flu because what’s going on now is eerily reminiscent of what was going on back then with people all over the place walking around using facemasks and in a general state of fear.
To me, it seems like some of the previous “outbreaks” were just test-runs leading up to a much bigger “pandemic” scare like the one we’re currently watching unfold.
Especially because many of the past televised “outbreaks” took place before the Rockefeller Institute’s Orwellian brainchild “Lockstep” was born in 2010.
Apart from a glaring initiative like Lockstep in which the “elites” are brazenly overt about their intentions for more authoritarianism in the world, more and more daily evidence keeps mounting up showing just how much of a scam this whole martial law plan is.
Several videos on Youtube have exposed the difference between what people are told by mainstream media is happening in NYC – ostensibly the biggest “hotspot” of the outbreak in the US – and what is actually happening.
The picture being painted of NYC, Brooklyn and Westchester country on CNN and by other MSM presstitutes is vastly different than the reality on the streets.
The tell-a-vision programming keeps saying that hospitals are packed, that NY governor Cuomo is worried that they’re going to hit capacity, that they don’t have enough ventilators, and that generally speaking, the greater NY area is in a complete crisis.
But on the other hand, while Governor Cuomo was telling the media that President Trump couldn’t get him enough ventilators, the NY state government was quietly storing loads of them in warehouses.
Then, you’ve got CBS who made a huge propaganda blunder yesterday when they aired an image of an “NYC” hospital room occupied by numerous patients. It turns out, the hospital picture was actually an older image aired previously by SKY news of a hospital seemingly overwhelmed and at capacity in Bergamo, in Lombardy province, Italy.
Surprise, surprise, the MSM caught in another lie.
Yet as you’ll see in one of the video clips included in my walk and talk video with Lucy and also in this clip of a guy talking to the ambulance workers outside NY presbyterian hospital, the hospitals are nowhere near capacity. Not only that, but there isn’t anyone queuing up outside in waiting for a test or treatment. Most of the ambulances are parked in the garages in front of the hospitals and generally speaking, there is very little sense of urgency displayed by ambulance drivers.
Even Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London who is the mainstream doctor poster boy for this scamdemic has gone back and revised his prediction of 550,000 deaths in the UK to a mere fraction of his original prediction.
Now he claims the number won’t be any more than 20,000 fatalities.
Now that’s a pretty drastic revision!
To see and hear more about the deception going on right now check out my walk and talk video here:
Everything is happening so quickly and there is so much disinformation being put out, it’s difficult to cover even a tenth of it in this short write-up.
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Charlene and Andy Garcia walk near their new home in the Cooks Landing development in Hermitage. They wanted to live close to the airport and enjoy having lakes and green spaces nearby.
Written by
Bill Lewis
For The Tennessean
Andy and Charlene Garcia travel for work, so living a couple of I-40 exits from Nashville International Airport was a requirement when they bought a new house. Having two lakes, wooded green spaces and shopping nearby was a nice bonus.
The Garcias own a home in the Cooks Landing subdivision in Hermitage, a fast-growing suburb on Nashville's east side that is attracting new attention from home builders.
"You're still in the city but feel like you're in the country," Andy Garcia said of Cooks Landing, about a mile from Percy Priest Lake. ... | {
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Gentle Friendly - 'Wild Grass' [405 Premiere]
We first heard Gentle Friendly's 'Wild Grass' back in April and to be honest, it ruined us. We've just not been the same website since we let its textures cradle us. Perhaps the only way to move on is to embrace these new feelings; the rhythms, the layers, the energy. So here goes - check out its hypnotic video above.
The track it taken from KAUA'I O'O A'A, which is released on May 26th via FatCat Records. | {
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I'm Claire and I'm a voracious reader. I've loved books all my life and am lucky enough to have lots of time to devote to my favourite hobby - reading!
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The lead female character, Sinead, is a professional woman who until recently was a popular burlesque performer named Lottie, but is now a museum curator. It sounds an unlikely combination, but it works. We're treated to snippets of Lottie's performances throughout, as Sinead reminisces about her past life. Included in her daydreams is one particular admirer named Niall, a huge Viking of a man that Lottie/Sinead has fantasised about.
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Radio Systems Corporation Unveils New Products at Zoomark
Radio Systems Corporation, owners of Petsafe®, is taking two stands at this year’s Zoomark 9-11 May. At stand A60 in hall 19, PetSafe will be displaying the latest products from its Containment Systems, Training Systems and Bark Control categories.
These products include the Stay+Play Wireless Fence advanced containment system, the ST-100 Remote Trainers, the ST-70 Basic Remote Trainer as well as a range of new bark control products including the Deluxe Outdoor Bark Control and the Ultrasonic Bark Control.
Following the recent acquisition of ScoopFree and FroliCat, visitors to the show will also be able to see these product lines for the first time under the Radio Systems Corporation banner at stand 27 in hall 22.
PetSafe’s products are developed following extensive animal behaviour research and are designed to enhance the special relationship between owners and their pets. The ST-100 Remote Trainers boasts new technology with 16 levels of static stimulation, which are easy to follow on an advanced digital display. The training aid allows owners to train their dog from as far as 100 metres - quickly teaching the dog to associate behaviours with the training. The collars are available in two sizes for little (over 3.6 kg) and big dogs (over 18 kg). The ST-70 Basic Remote Trainer has 12 levels of stimulation and allows training up to 70 metres and is suitable for small and large dogs over 3.6 kg.
Zoomark 2013 will also see a new addition to the Containment Systems category with Stay+Play Wireless Fence which allows dogs to roam freely within a 32-metre radius. The dogs are warned when approaching the boundary, firstly through an audible tone and then by a harmless static stimulation, which gains the pet’s attention. The fence is suitable for dogs over 2.3 kg.
The Deluxe Outdoor Bark Control system, on the other hand, has been designed to curb unnecessary and excessive barking with a programmable timer that allows owners to decide when they want to activate the device. The waterproof and behaviourally responsive system deters barking by emitting an unpleasant but harmless ultrasonic tone in reaction to a dog’s bark; when the barking stops, so does the tone. Similarly, the new Ultrasonic Bark Control collar emits a tone and can be worn by dogs over 3.6 kg. Both products are inaudible to most humans.
PetSafe’s Drinkwell® Ceramic Avalon Pet Fountain will also be on display at Zoomark 2013. These superb pet fountains ensure pets remain hydrated throughout the day through dual patented free-flowing streams of water, which add oxygen for freshness, while replaceable charcoal filters remove bad tastes and odours. The fountain holds up to two litres of water, with two drinking areas.
International Marketing Director, Angela Critchley: “We are constantly looking for ways to expand and improve our product offering in order to meet the needs of today’s pet owners. Having steadily built on our core areas of Containment, Training and Bark Control Systems through NPD, we’ve also expanded into new categories by means of acquisition.”
Following the acquisition of ScoopFree and FroliCat, visitors to stand 27, Hall 22 will also witness these innovative products under the Radio Systems Corporation banner for the first time in Europe. A convenient self-cleaning litter box, ScoopFree cat litter trays offer a sought after solution to indoor pet waste management and are effective for weeks at a time. Disposable trays and premium crystal litter ensure minimal hassle for the owner and eliminate unwanted odour.
The FroliCat range, consists of a selection of cat toys to stimulate and engage; FroliCat Bolt, Dart, Flik and Pounce feature a combination of rotating, zooming, darting and twitching objects for the cat – or dog – to ‘prey’ on.
About PetSafe®
PetSafe® is a global pet product expert in Containment Systems, Training Systems and Bark Control with its headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee. Today the PetSafe brand also encompasses a comprehensive line of Pet Doors including an advanced Microchip Identification cat flap. In addition, a range of specialist products focusing on pet wellbeing fall under the Health & Wellness category which includes the popular Drinkwell® Pet Fountains. The Play & Challenge category further diversifies the PetSafe product portfolio by offering a unique range of treat-dispensing Busy Buddy® toys.
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Horizon Credit Union Talks to State Reps
Horizon Credit Union Talks to State Reps
posted by Nora Revie
on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 2:05pm
On April 16, 2013, several local credit union representatives, including those from Horizon Credit Union, met with State Representatives and Senators at the Missouri State Capitol Building in Jefferson City, Mo.
They discussed current bills and legislation to support credit unions. | {
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There is not a lot of data on haemostatic dressings in the civilian context and human data from the military context is not randomised for obvious reasons. It is therefore nice to see a RCT on this subject in humans. In the study they compare the time to haemorrhage control and amount of haemorrhage in stab wounds to the limbs between 80 patients treated with Celox gauze versus 80 patients treated with normal gauze.
The study is from an emergency department in Tehran and is pragmatic in design. There are some limitations of the study worth mentioning. It was open label, and the amount of bleeding was measured simply by the number of gauze squares used. Weighing the gauze would have been a more accurate way to estimate ongoing blood loss.
The details of how the gauze was applied isn’t that clear. To be effective the gauze needs to be packed into the wound against the bleeding vessel. Was the Celox used in this way to maximise the chances it would work? I can’t tell from the paper. Oh, and the company provided the product for the trial.
Perhaps the biggest puzzle in the design is that patients with really significant haemorrhage (those requiring transfusion) were excluded from the trial. This is the group where you really want to know if the stuff works. You could theorise that this group of patients may have trauma coagulopathy and the method of action of Celox (being by electrostatic attraction and independent of clotting factors) might be particularly useful and a bigger difference between groups may have been found. I guess that will have to wait for another day and another trial that someone works through ethics.
Acknowledging all of this, there was a significant difference in the time taken to achieve haemostasis and the amount of ongoing bleeding with the Celox gauze looked superior by both measures.
This suggests that it remains reasonable to use these products as evidence continues to point to efficacy. Of course these agents are not a magic bullet and all the other principles of haemostasis need to be applied as a package, including urgent transport to a surgical facility. | {
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