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Former 76er’s guard Andre Miller had a career night with 52 points and he led the Blazers pasted Dirk and the Mavericks last night. Besides his first shot, Miller went 22-31 in the big overtime win.
After 12 seasons, QB Kurt Warner has officially announced his retirement from the National Football League. He played most of years with the St. Louis Rams and the final few years with the Arizona Cardinals.
Check out some hot pieces from the Nike SB line dropping next month!
Yet another hot Air Jordan release for 2010 is the Air Jordan Retro XI in the cool grey colorway. The sneakers originally released in 2001.
Another reported release for Holiday 2010 is the Air Jordan Retro XI Snakeskin Low. Another fire torch being thrown at us for 2010. No words on exact release date or price.
Well this is crazy news but SneakersNews is reporting that the Air Jordan Retro II will be releasing in the white and cement grey colorway this year. These sneakers are infamous and exciting news for Jordanheads around the world. No specific release date set.
Check out the Air Jordan Retro VI in the LA Lakers colorway. It it mainly black, but does have purple and gold in the sneaker as well. What do you think?
Finally a view at the Dwayne Wade PE’s of the Air Jordan 2010. Nothing special but they look alright.
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It’s been a tough year so far for cryptocurrency investors, and much of the pressure on the markets has come from fears of increasing government regulation.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton spoke to CNBC on Wednesday about cryptocurrencies as investments and whether cryptos are securities and subject to securities laws.
The SEC has no intention of changing its longstanding definition of a security, Clayton told CNBC.
“We've been doing this a long time; there's no need to change the definition."
Companies are free to raise funding by holding initial coin offerings via private placements, Clayton said. And the SEC is perfectly willing to help companies hold public ICOs as long as they are willing to comply with SEC laws, he said.
“If you want to do any IPO with a token, come see us."
Clayton also addressed the nuanced difference between cryptocurrencies, which are not classified as securities, and digital tokens, which are.
Clayton defined cryptocurrencies as “replacements for sovereign currencies,” such as the U.S. dollar, and said true cryptos are not securities.
Many ICOs revolve around digital tokens, which are classified differently.
“A token, a digital asset, where I give you my money and you go off and make a venture, and in return for giving you my money I say 'you can get a return' — that is a security and we regulate that," Clayton said.
The SEC uses the “Howey Test” to determine how a digital asset is classified, Clayton said. The precedent comes from a 1946 Supreme Court ruling that defined a security as an investment in which the investor is expecting to profit primarily off of the efforts of another person.
Clayton and the SEC have been outspoken in warning investors of the dangers of ICO investing, even going so far as to create their own fake website to show investors how easy it is to be deceived.
The cryptocurrency market didn’t respond particularly positively to Clayton’s comments. Most major cryptos, including bitcoin, traded lower on Wednesday.
The Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTC: GBTC) traded slightly higher by 0.6 percent on the day but remains down 43.4 percent year-to-date.
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The student walks onto the stage, through the revolving doors of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library. In front of her is a grand atrium, made of white marble. There are about fifty floors rising above the atrium, each with a gallery, and with walls lined in brown, leather-bound books, their spines embossed with the gold lettering of their titles. Magic book dust© catches the light and sprinkles continuously to the ground. Each footstep the student takes echoes resonantly. There is a female librarian nearby, behind a counter. She wears pince-nez glasses, capped oxford shoes, and a ladies’ tweed double-breasted two-piece tailor-made suit.
Can I help you, miss?
Oh, yes please. I’m here to look at old books.
Ah, very good. Did you bring white gloves?
I’m afraid I didn’t. I don’t have any.
Not to worry, you can sign some out here.
The student walks to the desk, flashes her U of T card, and signs a piece of paper. Over the countertop, the librarian hands her a pair of white gloves. The student walks off-stage and reappears on one of the balconies, wearing the gloves. As she makes her way from one end of the balcony to the other, angelic harp music starts, as if from nowhere. The student carefully pulls a book from off the shelf. The spotlight focuses on her, the rest of the stage gets dark, and the voice of Linnaeus is heard, omnipresent, through the digital sound-system.
I wondered when you would come to say hello. I’ve been sitting here years.
I can’t believe I’m holding you! I feel smarter already.
Melius tarde quam numquam.¹ I feel particularly sanguine today.
The student turns a page or two, looking reverently through the Hortus Cliffortianus, printed in Amsterdam, 1737. The scene then fades to black.
The student walks into the library, through the revolving doors of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library. She has never been to the Rare Books Library before, and is sure that someone will stop her before she touches anything printed before 1979. She is an undergraduate, you see, and therefore feels like an impostor. “First edition books,” she thinks, “are for Ph.D. candidates.” She walks two steps and reaches a reception desk. She feels being positive is her best bet for getting in.
Hi there! I’m here to see old books!
Coat and purse, here’s your vestibule ticket. The elevator is broken, you can take the stairs.
Do I go up or down?
Go down, around the corner, there you’ll see reception, where they’ll make you a Rare Books Library Card. You can’t go into stacks.
Do I need to wear gloves?
Gloves… So as not to contamintate the books.
Contaminate the books with what?
Oh, oops. Haha. To protect the books. Haha. Okay! Downstairs, around the corner. Haha. Ahem. Goodbye.
The student walks down the cement stairs. Fluorescent lights line the way. She comes to the reception desk. There is a man sitting behind the counter. When he looks up to greet the student, he gives her a shockingly warm smile for a U of T librarian. He also gives her colourful forms to fill out.
Your new card is good for two years. Enjoy!
The student walks through one last set of doors into a very quiet room. There are a number of dark oak desks scattered about the room. Looking up, the student sees several stories’ worth of walls lined with books, about five floors high. The room has a special smell. This is too much to be true: it’s the old book smell.² A few people are seated at random desks. Behind a counter there is a wonderful-looking man with glasses and a white beard. He is wearing a wool sweater.
Hello, good day. I signed out some books online last night?
Ah! Have you got the library card that reception just made you? Excellent. One moment, please.
He walks over to a small wooden shelf lining the wall behind him and carries back a collossal, behemoth book the size of fifteen textbooks. He has also brought four small taupe volumes.
So… Hortus Cliffortianus, by Linnaeus. And Pamela, by Richardson. Hoho. Isn’t Pamela the book in which the maid marries the master because he offers her chocolate but she doesn’t even like chocolate? Hoho.
Okay: can you initial these two forms, please? You can take three volumes at a time to any desk. You can’t photograph them unless you sign up to do so on special dates but otherwise, feel free to make yourself at home. Don’t be scared of the Rare Books Library. After all, I am one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet at U of T.
It’s true! You are so nice! I need to come here more often!
The student picks up the books. Linnaeus’ work is very heavy. It is very big. The student walks across the little room to where there is a solitary desk and chair. She puts the books down on the desk. She can’t believe she’s holding an illustrated 1st edition work from 1737. “Either I fooled them with my cool confidence, or this is the best library ever,” the student thinks. She sits down and pulls Linnaeus’ book up close. She opens the front cover and looks around the room.
Silence. The student waits… No voice. No Linnaeus speaking from the other side. Only the occasional swish as the page of a yonder book is flipped. The student turns another page.
“Hortus Cliffortianus: Plantas exhibens quas in hortistam vivis quam siccis, hartecampi in Hollandia, coluit vir nobilissimus & Generosissimus Georgius Clifford.” Holy smokes! A lot of Latin! Best get out my thinking cells.
The scene fades out to black.
² Fariya! I can’t believe it! It’s the old book smell!
³ During our last weekly UpbeaT meeting, Heather brought with her a synopsis of Pamela, written by a friend in an English Lit class. It was short, shocking, and guffaw-inspiring. So in tribute to the salutory works of U of T summaries, I signed the book out online the night before my trip to the Rare Books Library.
I’ve got to visit it sometime. I’ve always just thought that it’s just some broken down, dingy-looking place with extremely scratched wooden desks and no windows! And I’d sneeze a lot because I’m allergic to dust and it’s probably a really dusty place. Anyway, misconceptions..hahah..
The angelic harp music link was a very nice touch.
Always wondered what was in there… although I am quite disappointed that there are no oompa-loompas.
Thanks, Liesl! It was a lot of fun to write.
Lucy: we’ll have to have a declension face-off sometime after the UpbeaT meeting!
That was fantastic … I loved it all!
Haha, so there was an old book smell (as per your footnote)…fabulous!
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callmeserantha | Weirdness, silliness, and some things to think about.
It isn’t often that I want to hide. Sometimes I just need to hide. Do you ever feel like that? Like you’d feel the most comfortable if you were sitting in the hall closet on the floor, in the corner, looking at silvery light just coming in under the door? I did that once. I sat in my mother’s closet (her clothing permeated permanently with Elizabeth Taylor’s “Passion”) and pressed my face against the hem of her faux fur that Daddy bought her. I think I stayed in there for about two hours.
And her perfume on that fur.
But not the feel of Daddy’s cowboy boots (smell that leather!) behind my back.
Weirdness, silliness, and some things to think about.
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bit computers on the part of the general population.
for these limitations, alterations, and possible omissions.
document. Finally, the document is given a .TXT extension.
use the information herein you do so at your own risk.
Guide~, converted to etext by Frank Kontros <frank@kontr.uzhgorod.ua>.
prior written permission of Commodore Electronics Limited.
product are intended for the use of the original purchaser only.
EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY.
Commodore 128 is trademark of Commodore Electronics Limited.
CP/M is a registered trademark of Digital Research, Inc.
dBaseII is a registered trademark of Ashton-Tate, Inc.
is the amount of RAM they contain.
expansion module than with a conventional disk drive.
advantage of the RAM expansion module is rapid retrieval of data.
also be saved on disk, to avoid loss of your work.
"disk intensive" programs, such as dBaseII.
directory of currently stored programs or data files.
you should use and explains how to use the RAM module with CP/M.
1) Turn off your computer and any peripherals.
module to aid your BASIC programming.
1) Turn off your computer.
2) Place the disk in the drive and close the disk drive door.
the screen, and the program loads automatically.
pressing (RETURN) or by typing BOOT (RETURN).
STARTUP is a program that controls the demonstration programs.
that explains what the other programs on the disk do.
To load HELP.BAS, choose option 1 from the STARTUP menu.
you will be returned to the STARTUP menu.
To load RAMTEST, choose option 2 from the STARTUP menu.
LOCATION ON SCREEN IS FLICKERING.
located, an error message appears and the test stops.
SUCCESSFULLY appears on the screen at the end of the test.
you can choose another program.
The rest of the programs on the disk are demonstration programs.
number from the STARTUP menu to load each program.
or Section 4, How To Use The RAM Expansion Module in C128 Mode.
was prepared and packaged with your RAM expansion module.
supplied with your computer supports the RAM expansion module.
use the version of CP/M packed with your RAM expansion module.
which machine it was packaged with.
on the computer. CP/M will boot automatically.
System Guide for using CP/M without the RAM expansion module.
module like a fifth drive.
in the RAM expansion module.
the correct filetype in addition to the filename if necessary.
complete. Now the FORMAT utility is stored in the RAM disk.
question, "DO YOU WANT TO FORMAT ANOTHER DISK?"
Log on to drive M by typing M: at the A> prompt.
drive M> by typing M:FORMAT at the A> prompt.
drive A into the RAM expansion module.
into the 1700 RAM Expansion Module.
of in the RAM expansion module.
only the C128 computer's main memory.
only store it in the RAM expansion module.
transferred, and what expansion RAM bank is being used.
Note: FETCH, STASH, and SWAP only accept decimal numbers.
the outcome of the transfer.
screen looks like, and other computer functions.
reserved for storing absolute values for BASIC programs.
PROGRAMMERS in Chapter 5 for details on accessing Bank 1.
module banks bear no relation to the C128 computer RAM banks.
+---------------+ 65535 FFFF +-------------+ - Kernal Jump Table & -.
Let's create a program that accesses the RAM expansion module.
(C) 1985 COMMODORE ELECTRONICS, LTD.
INST/DEL keys; be sure not to press (RETURN).
the bottom line of the screen.
memory, beginning at address 1024 in the RAM expansion module.
of memory where the current screen contents are stored.
and the image is fetched again.
the expansion RAM banks, only the C128 computer's main memory.
1) Clear the screen using (SHIFT) and (CLR/HOME).
3) Cursor down to the bottom of the screen.
4) When the computer responds READY, clear the screen.
6) Move the cursor to the bottom of the screen.
8) Type (RUN) to view the program.
later fetched without any problem.
monitor is contained in the C128 PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEM GUIDE.
over the RAM expansion module, details about the REC are needed.
the appropriate bits in the command register (see Figure 5-1).
bank, and number of bytes are all programmable values.
5-1 to the base address of DF00.
access the C128 computer's memory.
was set in the command register.
registers at the end of the transfer.
point to one location above the address that failed.
the corresponding mask bits in the interrupt mask register ($09).
the beginning of the same bank.
will also be updated if necessary at the end of the transfer.
64K bytes. Again, wrapping occurs in all modes of operation.
1) The Z80 must not be in control when a DMA is requested.
2) The REC cannot reconfigure the MMU during a DMA cycle.
MMU, not the processor bank pointer.
take precedence over REC DMA's.
controller so it can direct RAS and CAS to the appropriate bank.
jumper which was preinstalled in the factory.
register is the RAM control register in the MMU, address $D506.
pointer and the C128 DMA bank pointer.
40-column screen will contain the wrong information.
Computer System Guide for details on the BANK command.
$FF80. Version 0 contains a 0 while Version 1 contains a 1.
End of Project 64 etext 1700/1750 RAM Expansion Module User's Guide.
This page was last modified on 14 June 2010, at 01:57.
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Radware is a provider of load balancing and cybersecurity services for data centers. Radware's corporate headquarters are located in Mahwah, New Jersey and international headquarters are located in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company also has offices in Shanghai, China. Radware is a member of the Rad Group of companies and its shares are traded on NASDAQ.
Radware was founded in 1997. Roy Zisapel is the president, CEO and director. In 1999 the company had an initial public offering and was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Zisapel holds a 3.4 percent stake in the company. His father, Yehuda Zisapel, is the largest shareholder, with a 15 percent stake.
In November 2005, Radware acquired V Secure Technologies, giving Radware intrusion-prevention system/intrusion detection system (IPS/IDS) technology to run on its Layer 4-7 switch hardware and appliances. In April 2007, Radware acquired Covelight Systems, a provider of web application auditing and monitoring tools based Cary, North Carolina, for US$16 million. In February 2009 Radware acquired Nortel’s Application Delivery business (Alteon) and now offers them under a merged brand, Radware Alteon. In February 2013, Radware acquired Strangeloop Networks, a leader in Web-Performance Optimization (WPO) solutions for e-commerce and enterprise applications.
The company sells its products worldwide through distributors and resellers located in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Its customers include financial services, insurance, e-Commerce, manufacturing, retail, government, healthcare, education, and transportation services and carriers.
^ a b "Profile: Radware Ltd (RDWR.O)". Reuters.
^ Lidstone, Rory (28 June 2013). "Radware DefenseFlow Makes DoS, DDoS Protection a Native Network Service". www.nfvzone.com.
^ a b "Cyber Attacks a Boon to Radware Sales: Israel Overnight". 12 February 2013 – via www.bloomberg.com.
^ Hochmuth, Phil (30 November 2005). "Radware buys IPS/IDS vendor V-Secure for $15 million". www.networkworld.com. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
^ Greene, Tim (April 30, 2007). "Radware buys Covelight Systems: Combined technologies give real-time analysis to Web application transactions". Network World.
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CASS TECH HIGH………where I went to school………majoring in the Art Department……….and almost every student won a scholarship to an Art College.
My scholarship was to the Philadelphia College of Fine Art…..where I attended for four days…………then I quit and passed my scholarship onto my alternate………who was so grateful to receive it. I went back to Detroit and worked at Holland Associates Art studio.
There were 5000 students………all having to choose a university preparatory major.
The school was built in 1917. This photo shows a deserted building that was demolished in 2011. There was a last ditch effort to save the building….led by Diana Ross.……who was one of my class mates.
The auditorium where the DRAMA DEPT staged their performances.
I wrecked quite a few experiments in this chemistry lab………and it was the only class that I failed……..and had to repeat in summer school.
This entry was posted in Architecture, ART, DETROIT, FAMOUS PEOPLE and tagged Artie Fields, Cass Tech High School, CHARLES WYSOCKI, Della reese, DETROIT MICHIGAN, Diana Ross, ELLEN BURSTYN, John Delorean, Lily Tomlin, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, Naime More. Bookmark the permalink.
Very interesting read. I met you in Novi at the ” Art is In “store. Didn’t know you were a former Detroiter.
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0%56°35°Cloudy with a high of 52 °F (11.1 °C). Winds SSW at 9 to 14 mph (14.5 to 22.5 kph).Night - Cloudy. Winds variable at 7 to 10 mph (11.3 to 16.1 kph). The overnight low will be 43 °F (6.1 °C).
0%58°43°Cloudy today with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a low of 43 °F (6.1 °C).
Today - Cloudy with a high of 52 °F (11.1 °C). Winds SSW at 9 to 14 mph (14.5 to 22.5 kph).
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Process - Oodles of doodles.
Here are some prelims for recent pics I've done, starting with the "Witch Hazel" pic from my Cartoon Redheads blog.
This first one is a rough to get the feel of the overall shape of the figure. I establish the simplest outside edges first, and then carve out the negative spaces (such as where her legs part), like cutting into a pie.
I did this next one to give myself an idea of what the main lines would look like. As you can see, her feet didn't line up at first. I later decided that it would look better if the toes of both her feet all followed the same arc (which you can see in the diagram of the final version at the left).
Here's my first attempt at her head, followed by the version I ended up with, in which I tried to make her look less "Sabrina" and more mischievous.
Here are a couple of hat designs. Chuck Jones's original design was more cartoony, so he got away with placing the hat on her head like a coin on an egg, but since my version is slightly more realistic, I had to figure out a sensible way to fit her hat onto the dome of her skull, without intruding on her bangs or ponytail.
And here's the rough of my Viveca Lindfors portrait. (I didn't end up doing a rough for the Lisbeth Salander portrait. The final versions of realistic portraits take longer than the finals of cartoon drawings, so I don't always have time to mess around with roughs beforehand.) In this rough, I'm getting a feel for the three-dimensional shape of her head, and the shadow pattern.
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* = Indicates labs that are training graduate students and/or Post-docs. The availability of training slots in these labs is dependent on the funding status of the PI.
Fields of Interest: Dr. Bailie has extensive experience in a broad array of models for the evaluation of pharmacologic and toxicologic activity of compounds.
Fields of Interest: Our laboratory studies toxicological effects in everyday life that act as triggers in the formation of cancer.
Fields of Interest: A major focus of my work is the application of computational methods to study the signaling and transcriptional regulatory networks that underlie the determination of cell fate, and the perturbation of these networks by environmental pollutants like dioxin.
Fields of Interest: My research interest is focused on postnatal development of the enteric nervous system (ENS) with special emphasis on pediatric related neurogastrointestinal issues.
Fields of Interest: The research in my laboratory is focused on understanding the role of the immune system and hypoxia in the development of liver disease.
Fields of Interest: The Dorrance Lab is committed to understanding the pathogenesis of hypertension- and obesity-related cerebrovascular disease with the goal of identifying novel treatments for stroke and dementia.
Fields of Interest: Dr. Ganey's research focuses on understanding mechanisms by which inflammation modulates responses to chemicals. Of particular interest are chemicals, including drugs, that damage liver.
Fields of Interest: Our research program is focused on neurotransmitter regulation and function in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in normotensive and hypertensive animals.
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Evidence is accumulating that exercise has profound benefits for brain function. Physical activity improves learning and memory in humans and animals. Moreover, an active lifestyle might prevent or delay loss of cognitive function with aging or neurodegenerative disease.
Recent research indicates that the effects of exercise on the brain can be enhanced by concurrent consumption of natural products such as omega fatty acids or plant polyphenols. The potential synergy between diet and exercise could involve common cellular pathways important for neurogenesis, cell survival, synaptic plasticity and vascular function. Optimal maintenance of brain health might depend on exercise and intake of natural products.
‘To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable’ (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891).
Unfortunately for those of us who subscribe to this outlook, physical activity is the most effective way to maintain a healthy body and mind. This might seem obvious; however, the evidence that exercise is beneficial for general health (i.e. prevention of hypertension, heart disease, type II diabetes, osteoporosis and depression) began to be taken seriously in western society only towards the end of the previous century. Indeed, in 1975 it was observed that ‘physical fitness and physical education have no respected place in the American public health movement. Their practitioners have been labeled by at least one elder statesman of public health as ‘‘the big-muscle boys’’, and this contemptuous attitude has persisted to this day’ . However, a decade later, in view of the increasing evidence for the health benefits of exercise ‘the Public Health Service specified ‘‘Physical Fitness and Exercise’’ as 1 of the 15 areas of greatest importance for improving the health of the public’ .
Study after study has now shown that the risk of contracting cardiovascular, metabolic and metastatic diseases is mitigated by exercise and a diet containing fruits and vegetables [3,4]. However, it is not as well appreciated that exercise and a healthy diet also provide substantial benefits for brain function. Physical activity improves cognition and might delay age-related memory decline [5,6]. In addition, exercise protects against brain damage caused by stroke , promotes recovery after injury and is an antidepressant .
Similar to exercise, nutrition affects brain function. Consumption of food high in saturated fats and cholesterol increases the risk of cognitive decline, whereas dietary restriction benefits learning and protects the brain from oxidative stress . There is also increasing evidence that dietary supplements enhance learning and memory. Of interest are the omega fatty acids, certain spices, teas and fruits . Interestingly, these supplements enhance the benefits of exercise for brain function [11–13]. Possible common mechanisms of action for exercise and diet on cognition are discussed.
Few studies pertaining to exercise and cognition have been carried out in children and young adults . However, a positive correlation between physical activity and learning and intelligence scores was reported in a meta-analysis of school-age children . In addition, in college students reaction time and vocabulary learning were faster immediately after intense running . Similar results were obtained in young adults after 12 weeks of aerobic training (average age 33) . This research indicates that, rather than observing a ceiling effect of exercise in young people, being active makes a functional difference. In addition, aerobic exercise in childhood might increase the resilience of the brain later in life, resulting in a so called cognitive reserve. Indeed, a positive correlation between physical activity at ages 15–25 and information processing speed in older men (62–85) was reported .
In aging humans the cortex and hippocampus atrophy and memory function declines . These deleterious consequences of aging might be attenuated by exercise . Physically fit aged individuals, identified by self-report of activity level, performed better on measures such as reasoning, working memory, vocabulary and reaction time than their sedentary counterparts . In intervention studies healthy sedentary adults between the ages of 60 and 85 years participate in an exercise regime several times per week over the course of several months to several years. Cognition and fitness is assessed before and after the intervention. Although studies vary in duration, intensity and type of exercise, overall physical activity improves cognitive function [6,22].
This positive outcome is reflected in neurophysiological measures such as electroencephalogram, event related potential (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies . For example, ERP latency is decreased and amplitude is increased in aerobically fit individuals indicating improved neuronal conduction and cortical activation . Moreover, MRI studies showed that prefrontal and temporal gray matter volume was increased in active elderly subjects as compared with sedentary controls .
Objective measurements of aerobic fitness and exercise intensity, such as VO2 max, would optimize research validity. In a recent intervention study in subjects with mild cognitive impairment all participants wore a pedometer during the 6 month study and recorded the number of steps per day . Independent measures of activity are particularly important given the extrinsic and intrinsic sources of variance within the human population. Indeed, with the advent of the identification of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)-related genes, research has begun to focus on specific population groups. For example, Apoliprotein (ApoE)-e4 allele carriers are considered to be at increased risk for AD .
In recent years the benefits of exercise in ApoE-e4- positive subjects have been analyzed. Epidemiological studies showed that this particular subpopulation could benefit relatively more from maintaining an active lifestyle than non-carriers . In older ApoE-e4-positive women aerobic fitness was positively correlated with better performance on auditory, visual and spatial learning tasks . In another study a positive correlation between exercise, temporal cortex activation during a learning task and cognition was reported that was stronger in carriers than non-carriers of this gene . However, in a 6 month intervention study there was an attenuated effect of exercise in ApoE-e4 carriers that showed symptoms of memory decline . Further studies are needed to determine whether early intervention with an active lifestyle (combined with certain dietary supplements) might be particularly beneficial for this at-risk population.
In recent years many exercise and cognition studies have been carried out in adult rodents. This research strongly supports the benefit of exercise for brain function and has provided insight into the underlying cellular mechanisms. Both voluntary and forced exercise paradigms enhanced spatial memory in Morris water maze, Y-maze, T-maze and radial arm maze tests . Running also improved performance in hippocampus-dependent tasks that require limited movement, such as contextual fear conditioning, passive avoidance learning and novel object recognition [31,32].
Moreover, non-hippocampal dependent, anxiety related behavior, such as performance in the elevated plus maze , benefits from voluntary and forced exercise. Interestingly, it remains to be determined whether voluntary and forced exercise is equivalent. Differences have been reported in the extent of behavioral and cellular effects even when activity parameters in both paradigms are closely matched .
Similar to elderly humans, the ability to learn new tasks decreases with age in rodents. On the cellular level, the number of synaptic contacts, synaptic strength and plasticity are reduced in the hippocampus and cortex . Recent research has shown that physical activity benefits spatial memory in aging rodents, even upon late-life onset. Housing aged C57Bl/6 male mice with a running wheel for one month improved their acquisition and retention of the water maze task . Furthermore, treadmill training (15 min per day for 7 weeks) improved learning in the Morris water maze in aged rats . Similar results were obtained in studies using transgenic mouse models for AD. Specifically, long-term exercise started 5 months before disease onset improved watermaze learning. In addition, running reduced the load of b-amyloid plaques in both hippocampus and cortex . Moreover, short-term running (3 weeks), initiated after disease onset , improved both working and reference memory in aged AD mutant mice. Thus, exercise is beneficial for cognition in normal rodents and in transgenic mouse models of dementia, even if started late in life or after the onset of disease symptoms.
In recent years there is increasing evidence that changes in diet can benefit cognition. The most rigorous alterations are intermittent fasting and caloric restriction. Research in animals has shown these regimens enhance learning, neurogenesis and neurotrophin levels. In humans limited calorie intake correlates with a reduced risk for AD .
However, dietary restriction regimens are difficult to maintain. In fact, the search for caloric restriction mimetics is a focus of intense research . A variety of dietary supplements have been reported to be beneficial for learning in animals and humans. Positive effects on brain function have been reported for fish oil, teas, fruits, folate, spices and vitamins . Particularly interesting are plant derived products such as grapes, blueberries, strawberries, tea and cocoa, which benefit memory in rodents .
The importance of natural plant products for cognition has been underestimated, in part because the active ingredient(s) in the plant extracts remained unknown, limiting data interpretation. In the majority of studies the compounds under investigation are a mixture of ingredients in which the most potent factor is likely to be diluted. Indeed, animal studies were often performed in aged rodents or transgenic mouse models for neurodegenerative disease because compounds had minimal effects in normal young subjects . However, it seems that plant polyphenols, which are the principal sources of flavanols, a subclass of phytochemicals known as flavonoids, might mediate the observed cognitive effects . In cell culture, flavanols have europrotective, antioxidant and antiapoptotic properties . In vivo, individual flavanols can enhance synaptic plasticity and learning [12,46]. The flavanol (!)epicatechin is of particular interest because this compound crosses the blood–brain barrier after ingestion in food or drink [12,42]. Consumption of this flavanol improved retention of spatial memory in the water maze, whereas the approved AD drug memantine did not .
Interestingly, epicatechin was especially effective in enhancing memory function and synaptic plasticity when combined with voluntary exercise . Similar results were reported for the combination of fish oil and wheel running in rats. Omega-3 fatty acid consumption boosted the effect of exercise on spatial learning, synaptic plasticity and hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) protein levels . This research indicates that effects of dietary supplementation and physical activity on brain function are synergistic.
Research pertaining to mechanisms underlying the effects of exercise on brain function has focused on changes in neurotransmitters, neurotrophins and vasculature . Specific to the hippocampus, a brain area important for learning and memory, is the robust increase in new neurons with exercise . The beneficial effects of running on cognition could be mediated, at least in part, by enhanced hippocampal neurogenesis [30,47]. Elucidation of effects of nutrition on the brain, by contrast, has concentrated on the antioxidant and neuroprotective aspects of various dietary supplements. More recent work, however, indicates that diet might exert direct effects on neuronal signaling . The effects of diet and exercise could be additive and/or synergistic through activation of common intracellular pathways.
The robust effect of exercise on neurogenesis is maintained throughout life in rodents. In mice that exercised continuously from young to middle age, the normal agerelated decline in cell genesis was significantly less than in their sedentary counterparts . Moreover, in mice that started wheel running in middle age or old age , new neuron number was elevated. Furthermore, recent studies showed that physical activity can reverse pregnancy- and radiation-treatment-related decline in hippocampal neurogenesis. It should be noted however, that in certain transgenic mouse models for neurological disease the beneficial effect of physical activity on neurogenesis is equivocal . Transgenic mice that express human presenilin-1 variants linked to early-onset familial AD and a mouse model for Huntington’s disease do not show exercise induced neurogenesis. Therefore, the neurogenic and cognitive effects of physical activity should be evaluated carefully across the spectrum of neurological diseases.
Several studies have addressed the issue of whether dietary changes can enhance neurogenesis. Caloric restriction increases the production of new neurons . Dietary folic acid deficiency decreases dentate gyrus cell proliferation . Interestingly, systemic injection of the phytochemical curcumin enhances the new hippocampal cell survival by “15% . Other plant extracts, such as ginseng and the flavonoid containing gingko biloba might also improve neurogenesis [60–62]. It remains unclear which component(s) of these natural products affects neurogenesis. For example, the individual flavanol (!)epicatechin had no effect on new cell survival in the dentate gyrus . Overall, neurogenic effects of dietary supplements are modest in comparison with exercise.
The structural changes associated with exercise are reflected in improvements in synaptic plasticity in rodents that run. Long-term potentiation (LTP) was enhanced in hippocampal tissue slices in the dentate gyrus of running versus sedentary mice and in vivo in rats that had been housed with a running wheel or given forced treadmill exercise . This change in synaptic plasticity seems to be specific for the dentate gyrus, indicating that neurogenesis might be important . Indeed, although the new cells are a small percentage of the granule cell layer, individual new neurons have a transient increase in LTP amplitude and a decreased induction threshold [65,66]. A proposed mechanism is increased expression of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) NR2B receptors in new neurons . Thus, an exercise-induced 3–4-fold increase in highly plastic cells in the dentate gyrus might explain, in part, the profound effect of physical activity on memory function.
Effects of dietary changes on synaptic plasticity have also been investigated. Caloric restriction does not seem to change basal levels of LTP but does protect against aging- and injury-related decline in synaptic plasticity. In addition, several dietary supplements have been shown to influence LTP, albeit all under conditions of aging, drug treatment or injury. The flavanol gingko biloba enhanced synaptic plasticity in aged rats . Ginseng reversed a reduction in LTP associated with chronic morphine treatment . In addition, the green tea polyphenol (!)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate facilitated LTP in a mouse model for Down’s syndrome . The aforementioned studies all include mixtures of polyphenols, leaving the active ingredient unknown. The only study in which a single plant product induced LTP, the hippocampal tissue slices were pre-exposed to a weak tetanic stimulation . Thus, the dietary effects on synaptic plasticity are modest. These mild beneficial effects could be additive or synergistic with those of exercise.
The positive effects of physical activity extend to fine cell morphology. In particular, exercise affects the properties of dendritic spines, which are actin-rich protusions on the dendrites that contain excitatory synapses. Changes in spine size and quantity are associated with LTP induction and are considered to support changes in synaptic strength. In a recent study it was shown that running enhanced spine density in the dentate gyrus, area CA1 and entorhinal cortex layer III , extending previous work . Physical activity also accelerates the maturation of dendritic spines in newborn neurons .
The effects of plant products on neuronal morphology have mainly been studied in culture, in which research showed that plant polyphenols enhance neurite outgrowth . Interestingly, in vivo the effect of dietary supplementation with the flavanols on neuronal morphology was very effective combined with running. Using DiI labeling it was shown that spine density was significantly increased in hippocampal granule cells. Upon microarray analysis of hippocampal tissue of mice that consumed this compound, expression of genes associated with neurite extension and synaptic plasticity was enhanced .
Exercise influences brain vasculature. In particular, physical activity increases the proliferation of brain endothelial cells and angiogenesis throughout the brain . The growth factors insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have an important role in the angiogenic and neurogenic effects of exercise on the brain. Running enhances hippocampal IGF gene expression and increases serum levels of both IGF and VEGF . These factors also play an important part in hippocampal neurogenesis. Hippocampal gene transfer of VEGF and peripheral infusion of IGF-1 enhanced neurogenesis . Blockade of peripheral VEGF and IGF-1 inhibited the increase in neurogenesis observed with running [76,79].
Although vasculature and neurogenesis are closely associated , it is unclear whether cell genesis requires angiogenesis. Using MRI imaging in mice and humans a correlation between exercise, dentate gyrus blood flow and neurogenesis was reported. It was suggested that changes in brain blood flow might be an indirect measure for neurogenesis in humans . However, the MRI findings were not accompanied by histological evidence for runninginduced changes in vasculature in mice . In contrast to theMRI study, in aged mice voluntary exercise did not affect angiogenesis but did enhance neurogenesis . Moreover, in young mice limited running robustly increased the survival of newly generated cells with no change in angiogenesis . These findings provide evidence for an uncoupling of neurogenesis and vascularization.
There is large a body of research showing that physical activity can change the function of neurotransmitter systems in the brain. Initial research into the central effects of exercise indicated that the ‘joggers high’ resulted from enhanced opioid function . More recently, exercise has been found to upregulate genes related to synaptic plasticity. In particular, the glutamatergic system is enhanced . Running increased both NR2A and NR2B subtypes of the NMDA receptor in the hippocampus [64,87]. In addition, in mice lacking the NMDA receptor e1 subunit (NR2A) the increase in neurogenesis and BDNF protein levels did not change with exercise .
Interestingly, the predominant effect of physical activity seems to be on NMDA-receptor-mediated glutamatergic transmission. It remains to be determined whether more subtle changes such as enhanced recruitment of AMPA receptors to the synapse occur with exercise.
Physical activity also activates the monoamine system and promotes recovery from depression . Indeed, the antidepressant effect of exercise in humans has been shown to be just as potent as that of serotonergic medications . Exercise increases tryptophan hydroxylase, which is the rate-limiting enzyme of serotonin biosynthesis in brainstem raphe neurons . The dentate gyrus contains 5-hydroxytryptamine 5-HT1A receptors and receives serotonergic input from the raphe nucleus. Similar to exercise, serotonergic antidepressants such as fluoxetine can enhance cell genesis, whereas administration of the serotonin 5-HT1A receptor antagonists decreases cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus . It has been suggested that enhanced neurogenesis might be a common underlying treatment mechanism between exercise and antidepressants. However, it should be noted that exercise has acute and robust neurogenic effects, whereas fluoxetine requires chronic administration and has variable effects on cell genesis [93–95].
The effects of running on neurotrophin gene expression and protein levels have also been investigated extensively [5,96]. The neurotrophin BDNF is considered to be the most important factor upregulated by physical activity because it has an important role in synaptic plasticity, cell genesis, growth and survival . Interestingly, there is a positive interaction between BDNF expression and serotonin. Serotonin receptor activation enhanced BDNF expression in hippocampal cells , and BDNF treatment increased tryptophan hydroxylase expression in raphe nucleus neurons . With exercise, levels of BDNFmRNA in the hippocampus increased rapidly and remained elevated for weeks. BDNF protein levels also increased with running . Selective knockout of the tyrosine receptor kinase B (trkB) in hippocampal neural progenitor cells prevented the exercise-induced increase in neurogenesis . Furthermore, intracerebral infusion of BDNF increased cell genesis in the dentate gyrus , but not in the subventricular zone , consistent with data showing that the neurogenic effect of exercise is limited to the hippocampus .
cellular signaling pathways, indicates that these compounds might have specific neural receptors, analogous to plant products such as opiates and cannabanoids. If such receptors exist it might open new avenues for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases (Figure 1b).
Exercise is a quantifiable activity that improves cognition in young and aged animals and humans. The beneficial effects of exercise are likely to be mediated in part by hippocampal neurogenesis. Further investigation into the functional significance of neurogenesis, by designing behavioral tasks that are specific for the dentate gyrus, will help to determine the relative contribution of the new cells. The effects of exercise are enhanced by dietary supplements. However, the concept that nutrition has a direct influence on brain function is not well accepted. This is due, in part, to the large number of natural products that claim benefits for cognition, the lack of identification of specific active molecules and the limited number of intervention studies in humans. Future studies could focus on identifying the individual factor(s) in natural substances that are cognitive enhancers and select the most potent ones for further investigation. Of particular interest would be to investigate whether a selective receptor exists for such compounds. Finally, the common cellular mechanisms between diet and exercise remain to be defined. Even so, implementation can be immediate: ‘All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is granted’ (Rabbi Akiba, Perkei Avot, The Ethics of the Fathers, Chapter 3, Mishna 15).
National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging (www.nia.nih.gov). I thank Mark Mattson for comments on the manuscript, David J. Creer for editorial assistance and K.C. Alexander for figure preparation.
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This exhibition of dazzling Kuba textiles presented in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Cone Collection galleries reveals how a central African kingdom independently developed a form of modernist abstraction in the 20th century.
The Kuba kingdom, on the southern edge of the Congolese Rainforest in central Africa, developed one of the greatest civilisations in the history of the continent. Art and design were central to their life. In addition to an elaborate and varied masquerade tradition, Kuba men and women were prolific textile artists, even weaving houses and embroidering currency. As the kingdom grew richer and more powerful, Kuba men and women began to create increasingly abstract designs. Works produced in Kuba’s earlier periods are defined by repeating patterns and minute details. Textiles created at the height of the kingdom’s power and prestige are characterised by bold, inventive designs that are constantly in flux.
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I started this blog in January 2015, a couple of weeks after moving with my partner and two daughters from North London to Auckland. I wanted to share stories of adventures and mundanity in equal measure. It’s called Barefoot Elsie because my eldest immediately adapted to Kiwi life and shunned shoes.
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The New York University Institute of Fine Arts is dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology and the conservation and technology of works of art. It offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Art History and Archeology, the Advanced Certificate in Conservation of Works of Art, and the Certificate in Curatorial Studies (issued jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
The IFA is one of the world’s leading graduate schools and research centers in art history, archaeology, and conservation. Since the Institute awarded its first PhD in 1933, more than 2000 degrees have been conferred and a high proportion of its alumni hold international leadership roles as professors, curators, museum directors, archaeologists, conservators, critics, and institutional administrators. The IFA’s doctoral program was ranked among the best in the United States by the National Research Council’s 2011 study.
Art history became a dedicated field of study at New York University in 1922, when the young scholar-architect Fiske Kimball was appointed the Morse Professor of the Literature of Arts and Design. In 1932, NYU’s graduate program in art history moved to the Upper East Side in order to teach in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1936, the Graduate Department moved to the second floor of the Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue.
Under the leadership of its chairman, Walter W.S. Cook, the program was renamed the Institute of Fine Arts in 1937. The Institute was strengthened greatly by refugee professors from the German and Austrian institutions that had given birth to the modern discipline of art history. Foundational art historians such as Erwin Panofsky, Walter Friedlaender, Karl Lehmann, Julius Held, and Richard Krautheimer set the Institute on its course of rigorous, creative, and pluralistic scholarship and strong worldwide connections.
In 1958, under the leadership of G. Lauder Greenway, the chairman of the advisory committee (and former director), and Craig Smyth, the institutes director, that Nanaline Duke and her daughter Doris Duke presented the Institute with the James B. Duke House at 1 East 78th Street. By the end of the year, Robert Venturi had completed the remodeling of the house for the Institute’s use. Also in 1958, the Curatorial Studies program was established. Two years later, the IFA became the first graduate program in the United States to offer an advanced degree in conservation and founded the Conservation Center, which in 1983 moved to the Stephen Chan House Conservation Center across the street from the Duke House.
Louise Bourgeois, who was married to Goldwater during the time when he taught at the IFA, donated all six copies of The Institute (2002, silver) to the IFA in 2005. One of the copies now resides at the IFA's first floor lunch room also known as "The Marble Room." The sculpture is a silver-plated scale model of Duke House with removable roof and tiny rooms inside.
The Institute is renowned for its influential and long-standing research in the fields of art history, archeology, and conservation. The Institute of Fine Arts offers four degree programs. It confers a M.A. and a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Archaeology as well as two certificate programs in Curatorial Studies and the Conservation of Works of Art. The IFA’s Ph.D. program is normally six years and requires 18 courses, a qualifying paper, two foreign language certifications, major and minor field examinations, and a dissertation. The M.A. program is two years full-time or three years part-time. It requires 10 courses, one foreign language certification, and a master’s thesis. The Advanced Certificate in Conservation is taken jointly with the M.A. program and adds two years of study, including a one-year internship in a conservation lab. The Certificate in Curatorial Studies is taken jointly with the Ph.D. program and it requires a residency at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. IFA students have access to special academic programs such as archaeological excavations, travel grants, global research locations, and IFA-sponsored conferences and symposia.
There are 26 faculty members who teach at the Institute and Conservation Center, with areas of study ranging from early Egyptian to modern and contemporary American art. Some of the most notable faculty members that have taught or are currently teaching at the Institute include: Jonathan Brown, Thomas E. Crow, Walter Friedlander, Robert Goldwater, Horst W. Janson, Richard Krautheimer, Linda Nochlin, Erwin Panofsky, John Pope-Hennessy, Robert Rosenblum, Patricia Rubin, Meyer Shapiro, Leo Steinberg, Robert Storr and Kirk Varnedoe.
The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University has one of the oldest degree-granting conservation program in North America. The Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts confers two degrees: a Master’s in the History of Art and Archaeology and the Advanced Certificate in the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Students undertake laboratory work, seminars, research projects, and gain intensive experience through fieldwork and their fourth-year Internship.
Conservators usually specialize in a particular material or type of object, such as paintings, sculpture, works of art on paper, books and manuscripts, textiles, architecture, archaeological material, or ethnographic objects, or in a field of study, such as preventive care, art transport, installation and storage, or the history of artists’ materials and methods. Collaboration with related fields, such as conservation science, computer science and digital imaging, museum curatorship, exhibition design, or archival studies, is increasingly critical to the successful practice of conservation and enriches the profession accordingly. Students gain expertise in conservation of cultural artifacts and artworks from a variety of New York City's public and private museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and nearby galleries, private collections, auction houses, historic properties, and private conservation studios.
The Institute undertakes excavations at Aphrodisias, Turkey; the Sanctuary of the Gods in Samothrace; at Abydos, Egypt; and Selinunte, Italy.
In collaboration with Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, the IFA is engaged in a long-term archeological study of the history of the significant site of Abydos in southern Egypt. Abydos is known as the burial place of Egypt’s first kings, and later became the primary cult place of the god Osiris, ruler of the Land of the Dead. The excavations aim to build a comprehensive understanding of the ancient activities at the site, how its operations and meaning evolved over time, and its relation to the broader context of Egyptian history and culture.
Since 1938, the IFA has worked in the Sanctuary of the Gods in Samothrace, Greece, uncovering the home of its famous mystery cult with a series of great marble buildings, dedicated by Philip II and his successors, and seminal in the formation of Hellenistic architecture. At this stage, the project’s emphasis is on study and preparation of publications, as well as conservation.
Selinunte was famous throughout the Classical world for the richness of its farmland and monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence from the second half of the seventeenth century BCE through the middle of the third century BCE, and its sanctuaries, temples, fortifications, and houses are well preserved. In 2007, the IFA began its excavation on the Acropolis of Selinunte in western Sicily, focusing on the area of the main urban sanctuary of the ancient Greek colony. The excavations document the social history, as well as the architectural and visual culture of an ancient city in unusually fine detail. Fieldwork to date has already provided important evidence concerning the history of Selinunte prior to the arrival of the Greek colonists, as well as significant finds of pottery and sculpture originally dedicated as votive offerings in the sanctuary area.
Aphrodisias is one of the most important archeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods in Turkey. The city was famous in antiquity for its cult of Aphrodite and for its marble sculptures. It enjoyed a long, prosperous existence from the second century BCE through the sixth century CE, and its buildings, marble sculpture, and public inscriptions are remarkably well preserved. The current excavation focuses on the recording and conservation of previously excavated monuments, establishing permanent systems for documentation and conservation, new targeted excavations, and scientific research and publication.
The Institute publishes the IFA Archaeology Journal, which documents progress of the excavations as well as the involvement of the IFA faculty and students in international archeological research.
The Institute of Fine Arts has some claim to have pioneered the study of contemporary art in the context of art-historical research: Robert Goldwater’s 1937 dissertation “Primitivism and Modern Art” extended its reach to the art of his day. Later, as a member of the faculty, Goldwater was joined by Robert Rosenblum, who enjoyed personal bonds with many New York contemporary artists, especially among the Pop generation, and brought this firsthand knowledge to his teaching over more than three decades. During the 1980s Kirk Varnedoe, like Rosenblum, extended an initial training in nineteenth-century art into the contemporary sphere, as he would famously demonstrate after assuming the directorship of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. Linda Nochlin is the critic and scholar most identified with the emergence of strong feminist art practices from the early 1970s onwards.
At present, the Institute can claim five prominent voices in the realm of the contemporary.Jean-Louis Cohen belongs to an elite group of scholarly and critical commentators on contemporary architecture. Both Alexander Nagel and Robert Slifkin maintain multiple lines of contact with younger artists and incorporate this awareness in their teaching and research.Edward Sullivan regularly publishes essays and organizes exhibitions on Latin American art, one of the most ascendant fields in contemporary art. In New York Magazine’s special 2012 issue on the art world, Thomas Crow, contributing editor at Artforum, was listed in its “Insider’s List of 100 Insiders,” the only art historian among nine writers included.
In addition, three major contemporary artists, Ad Reinhardt, George Maciunas, and Philip Pearlstein, have all studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts.
Each semester, the Institute provides an extensive roster of public programming in the fields of art history, archeology, and conservation.
Beginning in 1983, the IFA Graduate Students Association has been inviting artists to discuss their work at the Institute.
Established in 2011, The China Project Workshop is a discussion forum for work in progress on topics in Chinese archeology and art history.
The Walter W.S. Cook Lecture is organized by the IFA Alumni Association in honor of Professor Cook, Founding Director of the IFA and historian of Medieval Spanish Art.
This visiting professorship, established by an anonymous donor and named in honor of the donor’s grandmother, welcomes a prominent conservator or scientist each semester to the IFA who is advancing new areas for research and teaching in art conservation. The professorship will run for four years through Spring 2016.
The Samuel H. Kress Lecture is delivered annually by a prominent scholar in conservation, who presents important issues within the fields of painting conservation and technical art history. This event is made possible through the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
The Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture invites scholars to share their current research with the IFA community on Ancient Art and Archeology.
This forum invites distinguished visiting lecturers to the IFA to foster greater understanding and recognition of Latin American art around the world.
Planned and coordinated by the Graduate Student Association, this series of lectures invites art historians, archeologists, and conservators, specializing in a variety of periods and genres to share their latest research with the IFA community and the general public. The 2013-2014 Silberberg Lecture Series addressed the complex role translation plays within the production and interpretation of art — considering how images and objects have been mined and recontextualized across time, space, culture, and medium, as well as exploring the limits of visual communication and literacy in fostering new ways of thinking about appropriation, influence, and audience.
The Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures were established in 2006 to honor and perpetuate the memory of Professor Varnedoe’s dedicated and innovative teaching, mentoring, and scholarship at the Institute of Fine Arts.
For this series of informal lectures and panels, leading specialists are invited to the Institute to explore art historical and broader contextual issues relating to the arts of Spain and Latin America. The series is coordinated by Professors Jonathan Brown, Robert Lubar, and Edward Sullivan.
For more than half a century, The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts have hosted a symposium for graduate students in art history. The symposium offers doctoral candidates in art history the opportunity to deliver original research papers in a public forum and to engage with colleagues in the field — novice and expert. This event is preceded by an in-house symposium with presentations by three IFA students, of which one is selected to represent the IFA.
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We launch on the 27th !!!
A new version of the launch campaign plan has been announced yesterday and our rocket, REXUS 15, has the earliest hot countdown opportunity on Tuesday the 27th. It all depends mainly on the weather and payload readiness but chances are pretty high things will go as planned! A communication test between our rocket module and the service module is planned for today, with a bench test following up tomorrow.
We are now in our second day at the ESRANGE Space Center getting our experiment ready for flight! In the morning there are quick meeting briefs with all the teams present and Alex Kinnaird who takes us through the day’s plan. Yesterday we also attended a presentation about the safety regulations of the compound where DOs and DON’Ts where discussed. Unfortunately, riding the rocket in a cowboyish fashion is not allowed during the hot countdown.
We will post a live feed of the launch as soon as one will be set. Stay tuned!
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Waiting for the budget? Here’s what you can do today.
Some of you have been contacting the Coalition asking what actions you as education advocates need to take . We are still recommending that you hold off on contacting your individual legislators. Rather, we recommend that you concentrate on local opinion and try to influence it. How can you do that? Letters to the editor are your most effective means and can have impact immediately. Legislators read their local papers.
What issues should you cover in your letters? Pick only one of the following and keep it within the word limits of your paper.
1. Funding education is the “paramount duty” of the state and further cuts to K-12 education in general constitute a failure of the Legislature in this paramount duty.
The NEWS suit for full funding will be before the Supreme Court of Washington on June 28th. Judge Erlick found the state to be out of compliance with the paramount duty clause and the state is appealing his decision. You can find more information at http://www.waschoolexcellence.org.
3. Highly Capable Programs are not something extra to be funded only when times are good. For highly capable students, access to accelerated learning and enhanced instruction is access to a basic education. Cuts are going to be necessary but HCP can be cut in such a way that it won’t die. It can be cut with some sense of equity. It can be cut in a way that this essential program can survive.
How do you go about writing to your local newspaper?
You can find contact information for your local paper in the print edition of the paper or at the paper’s website. The Secretary of State also maintains a listing of newspaper websites at http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/wa_newspapers.aspx. Most papers will provide contact information on an “About Us” or “Contact Us” page. Many will accept letters to the editor submitted via email, while others will provide a mailing address.
If you have never written to a paper before, the National Association for Gifted Children’s advocacy web site at http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=3148 has some excellent suggestions and examples of where to begin.
Other efforts you can make now are to become active in your local parent support group. Parent groups have been forming at a great rate in recent months as the danger to HCPs has become apparent. They need your support when they advocate with local school districts to continue Highly Capable Programs despite budget cuts.
Most legislators will be holding town hall meetings on Saturday, March 12. Please see the linked listing for a meeting in your area.
What issues should you comment on in these Town Hall meetings?
1. Express support for education funding in general. Revenue forecasts continue to be grim and wrenching cuts are likely for all basic education programs in the next biennial budget. The easy cuts (as bad as they have been) have already been made and only the tough ones remain.
2. Express support for continued state funding of Highly Capable Programs. Please do not compare them with any other programs as the purpose and funding sources of these other programs are very different from HCP. HCP is solely state and local funded which places it in a class of its own. It needs to stand on its own merits.
Some legislators say that since local districts spend up to $5 of their own money on gifted programs for each $1 received from the state, lack of state funding will not jeopardize their continued existence. This is not true, expect in a few exceptional districts. Why spend limited local dollars on a program the state is unwilling to fund.
Express a willingness to participate in the pain of budget cuts so long as they are proportional to the cuts other programs are taking.
3. Strongly support the legislature moving forward with full implementation of the education reforms of ESHB 2261 and SHB2776 as scheduled. Pending bill SB 5475 will delay implementation of all aspects of education reform to an uncertain future date. We need to keep faith with the intent and purpose of the reform legislation and move forward now.
If you have the opportunity to make only one brief statement, this is the most important one.
The following quotes liberally from the Washington State School Director’s Association (WSSDA) Legislative Update for March 10.
As funny as it sounds, for the third day in a row WSSDA has heard from legislators that say they are getting more email and telephone calls on cougars, chicken eggs, and shark fins than cuts to K-12 education. One legislator said they used the folder system in their in-box, and that the chickens were leading. “My ‘eggs’ bucket has 34 messages. Education is pretty empty,” said the legislator.
And while legislators don’t decide how they will vote based on the number of emails they receive, they do keep track of what they are hearing from constituents and what is causing the most concern.
Rep. Pat Sullivan, D-Covington, had a similar message to education advocates at a meeting Tuesday this week. Talking about the House Ways & Means Committee budget hearing in January, Sullivan said human services advocates turned out page after page of witnesses for testimony while education – early learning, K-12 and higher education – had a total of six people.
As reported here previously, the state revenue forecast will be issued March 17. The House writes a budget first this year, which means a draft budget proposal from Chair Ross Hunter, D-Medina, will probably be released Monday, March 21. If traditional patterns hold, a public hearing may be scheduled for March 22 or 23 at 3:30 p.m., with executive session and amendments the day after the public hearing.
This schedule could change if the revenue forecast blows a significantly bigger hole in the projected $4.6 billion gap for the 2011-13 operating budget. Originally lawmakers were hearing an additional shortfall of $500 million; estimates are creeping up to the $2 billion mark. In that case, it is possible the draft budget release and hearings would be rolled back a week.
Regardless, this is the time to be contacting legislators about how the Governor’s proposed budget cuts will affect school district funding and how that impact will play out with staff, programs, and students.
Keep in mind, the Governor’s spending plan was the starting point. Most lawmakers have said funding for I-728 and I-732 is gone. And everything that isn’t in the basic education box is discretionary and subject to cuts. That includes local effort assistance, all-day kindergarten, highly capable students, bonuses for national board certified teachers, dropout prevention, and so on.
Wagifted is back on line after a period away. Fortunately, it was a quiescent period in the legislature without many key votes being called for – and thus we continued to “lie low” on contacting legislators.
That slow period seems to be behind us with the rush this week of floor action on pending bills prior to the March 7 deadline to “pass or die.” You will likely be hearing from us soon regarding contacting legislators on specific issues.
Meanwhile, there is another opportunity for you to directly connect with your legislators. Most of them will be back in district on March 12 for Town Hall meetings. A proposed schedule is attached.
We encourage you to keep an eye out for notices in local media of Town Halls or other public meetings with legislators next week and make plans to attend. If you have any questions about your particular district, be sure to contact your legislator’s office and ask if a Town Hall is scheduled.
Some legislators say that since local districts spend up to $5 of their own money on gifted programs for each $1 received from the state, lack of state funding will not jeopardize their continued existence. This is not true, expect in a few exceptional districts. Why spend limited local dollars on a program the state is unwilling to fund?
3. Strongly support the legislature moving forward with full implementation of the education reforms of ESHB 2261 and SHB 2776 as scheduled. Pending bill SSB 5475 will delay implementation of all aspects of education reform to an uncertain future date. We need to keep faith with the intent and purpose of the reform legislation and move forward now.
Thank you for your continued activism and support of Highly Capable Programs.
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Bonds that make our lives.
The way they live, the way the cloth, the way the talk, their life, everything seems completely different, yet I miss them. Yet I know that in the bottom of my heart if I was actually there in that country I would meet them and hug them, ask them how are they and have an actual conversation, not the dull and formal how-are-you’s in an online site but an actual friendly conversation!
But I am here. In another country, living, breathing, clothing, talking differently. And even here, I feel that part of me does not belong here. That the people who I talk to aren’t meant to be those who I can trust with my eyes closed. Not that I don’t trust them, but the bond that I want to have with someone, it just doesn’t happen to be with them. Is it weird?
Why does this happen? And does that happen to just me? Am I the only one who sometimes sits their while eating their lunch and thinking how weird it is to not have a real bond with someone? To actually know someone deep from their heart, and them knowing me, the bond where they look at me and in an instant moment they know there is something bothering me. Do you have a bond like that? With anyone?
WordPress, bloggger, tumblr, or other?
I have always been thinking why exactly did I choose wordpress.com for blogging. And to be honest, I never find an answer that would actually make sense. I just find it home. You know when you see that specific apartment/villa/house at times when you need one and you are like ” This is it.” Not because it is the most biggest one that will make all your friends jealous, not because it is cheap, but for a reason that you will never really understand, only feel.
WordPress has become that tiny house for me, full of amazing neighbors ( you readers! ) . I mean I can’t believe that someone who wrote some amazing book that I am willing to buy, would actually like my poem! Or someone who I just love and feel so passionate about would come to my blog and comment, saying something good about me. Every single time when I see you the reader writing something for me, and when I check your blog, I feel so good about my self. Because YOU wrote that. And it feels so unbelievable.
Katrin Ann Willis http://katrinaannewillis.com/ who not just helped me by following my blog, but inspired me to continue my blog.
The Iris And The Lily, http://theirisandthelily.wordpress.com/ who was my first follower and I also adore her blog for her beautiful pictures.
You guys are awesome! Thank you for making this kido smile and happy for following her and giving her a chance. And no, you reader who is reading this, you too.
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But now that I’ve grown older, I start to regret that I didn’t have that much pictures to look at – on my funny costumes in school plays, or children’s parties,or family gatherings or videos of me tripping or getting food all over my face, or my sibling fighting or family trips out of town. Back then, every shot consumes a space in your limited film – every shot mattered, so maybe that’s why we didn’t have that much pictures. It’s an upside of technology: now you can just point and shoot and choose the pictures that you want, without worrying if you still have enough film.
So now whenever there’s a chance I try to take pictures, not only of people but also of places that we go to 🙂 Sometimes my parents get so embarrassed because I was the only kid taking their mum and pup’s pictures (It’s payback time!) but I still insist on doing so. The laughs you get after will be all worth it!
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Last night we had a lovely Global Heritage Fund event at the Metropolitan Club featuring Dr. Damian Evans of the University of Sydney, who made headlines last year for discovering a new ancient Khmer city at Phnom Kulen northeast of Angkor.
LIDAR, or more specifically airborne LIDAR, is a laser-scanning technique that manages to provide accurate maps of the surface topography of a place despite layers of vegetation and trees. It allows you to see landforms that may be hidden to the naked eye. Like all good modern technologies, it does what used to be done a whole lot faster. Evans described the past work of a French archaeologist Jacques Gaucher who cut through the vegetation over many years at Angkor Thom to find the surface indications of settlement within the temple complex. LIDAR accomplished the same thing in a few hours, and also demonstrated that the settlement patterns extended well beyond the city walls, a fact Gaucher had not investigated.
The technology is theoretically simple, as we learned in the Q & A. Basically it sends millions of laser points down into the jungle and they bounce back when they hit something. The beauty part is the (very expensive) software that reads the data and then strips away the 95% of it that hit trees and bushes and surface objects and just leaves the layer showing the actual surface.
All we have left in Angkor and related sites are the stone temples, the homes of the gods. Even the god-kings like Suryavarman II (Angkor Wat) and Jayavarman VII (Bayon) lived in wooden houses along with as many as a million people in what Dr. Evans noted was the LARGEST metropolitan complex in all human history before the Industrial Revolution.
LIDAR reveals the remnants of where the lost wooden structures stood, and perhaps more importantly, the hydraulic systems that made this massive conurbation possible. It is the small holding pools next to mounds of settlement detrita that make up the largest part of these scans and the best evidence for the everyday, non-durable society that made those great stone temples.
So the technology is more than a new way of doing things because it suggests we study the whole of a society and not just its stone artifacts. My blog two years ago about visiting Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat in a short period of time, revealed how I was struck by the hydrology of both places. More than their architecture, the engineering that made food production and thus population (and thus architecture and art) possible was what struck me in both the Inka and Khmer contexts.
Not only does LIDAR do in hours from the air what used to take months on the ground with a machete, but it suggests new ways of looking at heritage and new ways of understanding it. When my friend and colleague Simon Warrack showed me Damian Evans’ LIDAR scans of Angkor last year in New York I was immediately blown away: I saw intricate, deliberate patterns in places I had been where I had seen NOTHING. LIDAR captures all the lost palimpsests and creates new, robust databases and new areas of inquiry.
Dr. Evans concluded by discussing the Global Heritage Fund site at Banteay Chhmar, where we have worked more than six years, restoring an amazing bas-relief wall describing the exploits of Jayavarman VII, a face tower reminiscent of the Bayon, and crafting a plan for the complex while working with the community tourism bureau.
I concluded our event last night with a call for action. Last month during a storm, another section of bas-relief wall at Banteay Chhmar collapsed, leaving the stones vulnerable to theft and the wall vulnerable to further collapse. Global Heritage Fund is seeking your support to help restore this wall, so please donate at www.globalheritagefund.org.
Many thanks to Dr. Damian Evans, Joyce Clark and all GHF members who attended the event! More Bob Stanton photos below of Dr. Evans with me and our lovely host Joyce Clark and myself.
This entry was posted on May 2, 2014 at 7:52 pm and is filed under Global Heritage, Interpretation, technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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This entry was posted in Biblical Passages and tagged Apatheia, Cry of dereliction, Darren Sumner, Nick Norelli, Transcendence.
All depends on how you think Jesus’ cry relates to the Psalm in question, i.e., what is Jesus’ purpose? Why’s he saying these words.
I don’t think absolute, metaphysical rupture of the divine relations (Father, Son, and Spirit) that constitute the One God’s very existence is even conceivable. So THAT kind of “literal” meaning is out of the question for me.
What if our doctrines rule out this part of the Bible then?
What do you have in mind? I mean, what doctrine do you have in mind and what truth of Scripture does it rule out?
We definitely don’t want to ignore those words. Jesus is suffering on the Cross and is about to die, and he chooses his words carefully. So we want to hear what he’s saying loud and clear. The question is, just what IS he saying? And there you get disagreements. But I don’t think anybody ignores or sweeps what he says under the rug. I disagree pretty much 180 degrees with Boyd on the meaning of these words. But I don’t think either of us ignores what Jesus says.
Did Jesus think He was forsaken by His Father on the cross?
This is really great, Tom.
Getting to know Peter Rollins’ views more – I think I’m as far as one can get from his view of the Cross. But perhaps I’m misreading him.
I’ve read and listened to a bit of Rollins, but not much. I like what I’ve heard so far – not because I always agree with him, but because he makes me think.
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MPAC stands in the center of McKinney’s downtown square, overlooking a bustling arts scene.
McKinney always offers a wide variety of arts and musical experiences, but August seems to be more chockful than ever! From community theater to a world-renowned rocker (hint: think Fleetwood Mac!), there is no shortage of arts and music from which to partake in McKinney this month.
The McKinney Repertory Theatre is keeping the stage at the McKinney Performing Arts Center busy this month with a couple shows. The first two weeks of the month feature a melodrama, “Return to Calamity Gulch” which encourages audience participation in the way of popcorn being thrown at the performers and much cheering and booing. Then later in the month (Aug. 17-19), the MRT’s Young Actors Guild takes over, bringing “Fox Tales” to the MPAC stage.
Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) to rock the MPAC stage in a sold-out concert Aug. 22.
Rocking the MPAC stage on August 22 is Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Sorry, though, folks – if you don’t already have a ticket, you’re out of luck on this one. This show sold out last month. But those lucky fans who do have tickets are in for a treat! ENJOY!
As always, McKinney’s downtown square comes alive for Second Saturday (August 11) when guests are invited to enjoy a fun filled evening of art, shopping, music, food and spirits. The local art galleries and even a few of the other businesses feature local and regional talents of artists and musicians. Of course, a trip downtown isn’t complete without eating in at least one of McKinney’s fine eateries. (Why not see how many you can visit by enjoying pre-dinner drinks and appetizers in one location, dinner in another, then stop for dessert somewhere else! All the while, there’ll be great music to set the mood for your evening. Also, quite a few shops in downtown McKinney will also keep their doors open for this monthly event.
Garret Art Gallery is featuring watercolor artist Sarah Buie (from Aug. 11 through Sept. 6). At a young age, Sarah Buie enjoyed both drawing and painting. Sarah studied art history at the University of Dallas but painting remained her passion. Her style falls somewhere between Impressionism and Realism with an endeavor to express the good and the truth through everyday objects and nature. Her primary desire is to glorify God through her art by helping people see that despite the storm there can be peace, despite the sorrow there can be joy, and despite the struggle there is hope.
Sarah works as art teacher and in-home caregiver in Grapevine. She continues to enjoy traveling and giving of her time and talents to people close to home and abroad. Stop by The Garret Art Gallery from 7-10 p.m. during Second Saturday to meet Sarah and see her art, while enjoying refreshments.
Imaging on the Square is featuring various local artists, showcasing their many different mixes and mediums throughout the evening. They’ll also feature up-and-coming singer Stacey Whitson during the Second Saturday event.
A sample of art in Laura Moore’s Hideout “open call to artists” juried art exhibit this month.
It’s time for Laura Moore Fine Art Studios’ annual open “call to artists” juried art exhibition, this year themed “Hideout.” Guests can see more than 80 works of art from 45 artists in two locations through September 5 at two locations: the gallery itself at 107 S Tennessee, and hiding out in a second location at the Heard-Craig Carriage House at 205½ W. Hunt Street. There is always an eclectic mix of artists and mediums in this show, so do make a point of seeing it. You’ll be glad you did!
Orisons Fine Art & Framing Gallery features the work of several professional photographers from the north Texas area who have been invited to show their work in a Group Photo Show. The public is invited to the gallery to view and vote for their favorite photograph leading up to the event. Voting patrons will be entered in a prize drawing for free print to canvas services. Photographers winning the People’s Choice Awards will be announced during the Second Saturday reception.
And something even more special at Orisons: The gallery has acquired three extremely rare Bert Stern photos of Marilyn Monroe. Taken six weeks prior to her death, these are from Monroe’s final photo shoot commissioned in June 1962 by Vogue Magazine. All three were originally published in Stern’s 1982 book and are signed and numbered (each is 199/250) with certificates. The plates used to print these were donated to a museum and will never be printed from again. During the photo exhibit, these will be on display and for purchase. Vote for your favorite of these as well through August 10 to be entered in a drawing for a free 16 x 20 canvas wrap.
Main Street Magic & Fun Company’s Chris Gracy performing magic at this year’s Ice Cream Crank Off.
McKinney Wine Merchant features the art of Nick Saia. 120 W. Virginia, 972-542-4636.
Main Street Magic & Fun Company hosts their monthly Cabaret Style Magic Show at 7 p.m. (for adults & children) and again at 9 p.m. (for adults only) in their Magic Attic Theater. Tickets are only $10 and include a complimentary glass of wine for those 21 and older. Seating is very limited so call 214-274-7802 to reserve your tickets.
The following is the live music you can enjoy during Second Saturday.
The McKinney Convention & Visitors Bureau also lists all live music for the month on their Visit McKinney Texas Smartphone app. Click HERE to access a link to download the app for your iPhone, iPad or Android.
Support Local High School Musicians!
The McKinney Boyd Band drumline kicks off their Drum-a-thon on the downtown square.
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February 2002 was the second month of that common year. The month, which began on a Friday, ended on a Thursday after 28 days.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from February 2002.
American football: Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots 20, St. Louis Rams 17—one of the most astonishing upsets in Super Bowl history.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell says that the United States is willing to sign a treaty with Russia on limiting strategic nuclear weapons, indicating a possible shift in administration policy after withdrawing, last December, from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an arms reduction summit meeting in Moscow in May. – Background material: nuclear disarmament, nuclear warfare, nuclear proliferation.
Proclamation by Mayor Martin O'Malley designating February 6, 2002, as "Beverly Lynn Burns Day" in Baltimore, Maryland.
The opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, which are held in Salt Lake City.
John Entwistle plays his last show with The Who. He would die shortly after this performance.
Iraqi club Al-Shorta win the 2001–02 Umm Al Ma’arak (mother of all battles) Cup by defeating Al-Talaba 1-0 in the final.
British Telecommunications plc starts its US federal court case relating to a controversial patent that it claims gives it a monopoly on the technology of web links.
New British digital free-to-air television channels CBBC and CBeebies, launch at 6am from the BBC Television centre, London.
George W. Bush signs a secret national security council directive establishing the goals and objectives for going to war with Iraq, according to the book Rumsfeld's War by Rowan Scarborough.
275 animal rights activists unite in front of the D.C. Neiman Marcus to demand that the company stop supporting the fur industry.
George W. Bush's weekly Presidential Radio Address, titled Asia Trip, discusses foreign relations.
Palindrome day, at 8:02 pm, on February 20, 2002, the date is read officially as 20:02, 20, 02, 2002, or 2002, 2002, 2002.
Chuck Jones, Academy-Award-winning animator, dies at 91.
12 Shiite Muslims are killed in a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Big riot between Muslims and Hindus.
Alicia Keys wins six Grammys.
Today is the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth.
"War on Terrorism": The U.S. sends Special Operations Forces to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help combat guerrilla fighters, though Russia protests.
57 people die in Godhra when a Muslim mob sets fire to a carriage on the Sabarmati Express filled with Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists returning from Ayodhya en route to Ahmedabad. After detaching the burned carriage, the train continues to Vadodara, where Hindus beat and stab people leaving the train, killing one. A 17-year-old is later killed in Godhra by police trying to disrupt mobs.
Comedian Spike Milligan dies from liver disease, aged 83.
Gulbarg Society massacre : During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad. Most of the houses were burnt, and at least 35 victims including a former Congress, Member of Parliament, Ehsan Jafri, were burnt alive, while 31 others went missing after the incident, later presumed dead, bringing the total of the dead to 69.
^ Julian Borger. "Bush 'wanted war in 2002'". the Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
^ "The Gulbarg Society massacre: What happened". NDTV. March 11, 2010.
^ "Safehouse Of Horrors". Tehelka. 2007-11-03.
^ "Apex court SIT submits report on Gulbarg Society massacre". The Hindustan Times. May 14, 2010.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to February 2002.
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See notes, quotes and bios below the video.
If you’ve never listened to one of the roundtable discussions, you should prepare yourself for a lot insightful nuggets of info.
Clif High has a patent on computer-assisted reading technology which allows reading from computer screens at up to 2000 words per minute. Reaching into other areas of hidden potential within language use by humans, he has been developing a system of software internet agents (like search engines use) and other proprietary processing methods to predict future events. The software project, begun in 1997, captures near-real-time changes in language patterns within internet discussions. Then, employing radical linguistic techniques of his own devising, he develops a model which anticipates future events with some seeming accuracy. The processing has, at its core, a method of assigning emotional values to complex content and time carry-values to predict changes in future behavior based on how people are using language now.
Since June 2001 when the work projected a major ‘tipping point’, that is a ‘life-changing event’ with aspects of ‘military and accident’ that would forever change the way we live to occur inside 90 days, the web bot project has continued to give archetype descriptors of future events such as the anthrax attack in Washington, the crash of American 587, the Columbia disaster, the Northeast Power outage, the Banda Aceh earthquake and most recently the flooding of the Red River. As a continuing project, reports are offered from the extracted archetype information at his web site, http://www.halfpasthuman.com.
You can purchase past copies of Clif High’s monthly webbot report at www.halfpasthuman.com for $15 per copy, or $99 for a previous calendar year of issues. Good stuff.
You can follow him here on Twitter and here on Youtube.
Bix Weir Bio: Bix Weir has 30 years’ experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the “Road to Roota Theory” and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix has dedicated his efforts over the last 15 years to exposing the long term manipulation of the gold and silver markets. He has worked closely with the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee helping to pull the curtain away from the Cabal of International Bankers that has taken control of our free market system.
You will be a sheeple no more.
Follow him on Youtube. He does three videos a day on various topics.
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Two friends and schoolmates from Standford University, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, formed Hewlett Packard (HP) in 1939 with only 8 at hand and working from a one-car garage in Palo Alto.
During the years, a large array of products spanning from almost every corner of the information technology field have been produced by HP.
The first inkjet printers and laser printers for the desktop were produced by HP in 1984 and signalled their entry into the printer and ink cartridge market. Along with its scanner product line, these have later been developed into successful multifunction products, the most significant being single-unit printer/scanner/copier/fax machines, often known as MFCs. The LaserJet printer line which they launched 1984 is actually the most successful product that HP every have made. Ironically, the print mechanisms in HP’s tremendously popular LaserJet line of laser printers depend almost entirely on Canon’s components (print engines), which in turn use technology developed by Xerox. HP develops the hardware, firmware, and software that convert data into dots for the mechanism to print.
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It’s strange how things turn out in life. In case you didn’t know, these Turkey Day marathons that I’ve been doing since 2003, were started in tribute to Mystery Science Theater 3000 back when they were on Comedy Central, and used to show 24-hours of their shows non-stop the day after Thanksgiving, which they would call their Turkey Day Marathons. I loved that show and had most of them on VHS at one point. I loved that they brought a new audience to some of the films that I loved as a kid. But then a few weeks ago, I picked up a copy of Frank Conniff’s (TV’s Frank) book on his years on MST3K, called Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films that Changed my Life in No Way Whatsoever. It’s a little book, barely 100 pages, but as I paged through it, reading his thoughts on some of the titles were my favorites, it was almost like my childhood crashing down.
Fifteen years. I can’t even fathom the idea that for the last one and a half decades, I’ve been spending my Black Friday sitting in front of my TV watching some of the finest is cinematic shipwrecks. But even better, for most of those years, I have been watching them with some great friends, which makes the experience even better. Including this year’s titles, we’ve “experience” over a hundred titles in those fifteen years. And I do mean “experience”, because some titles it is so much more than just watching. Sitting there with a bunch of like minded crazy cinephiles, really does make it an “experience”. This year, there was moments when the laughing was so loud and hard, that I actually feared for some of the sanity in the room!
That’s right, folks. October may be over, but that just means that Turkey Day is approaching. And no, I don’t mean the Thursday that we sit around the table and stuff ourselves more than the Turkey you’re eating, but an even more important occasion…our Annual Turkey Day Marathon! And this year marks our 15th year of our little crazy tradition.
For our third year of doing our newer T-Day event in May, I decided to do something a little different. Since there have been quite a few movies screened over the last fourteen years, I know there were more than a few that some of the other participates had missed. So we decided to do a Best Of this time out. I sent out the list of all the movies that had been screen previously, and had everyone pick three titles they’d like to see in the lineup. There were six films that got more than one vote, so we went with those. I know we usually try to get through seven titles, but this year was a little different and a little more relaxed.
On the Friday after Thanksgiving, just like we have for the last thirteen years, instead of fighting the crowds at the stores, a group of us have gathered together to fight another battle…the Turkey! It is beyond me how this event became just that…an actual EVENT, one that everyone seems to look forward to each and every year. But somehow it has. When you have a group of like-minded movie lovers getting together to not just watch, but really experience some cinema, that at their best are third and fourth class citizens, and we just have a blast. At this year’s T-Day, our crew consisted of a bunch of the usual suspects, and one new victim! Of course, Aaron Christensen was there, never having missed one since he started coming in 2005. Joe Wallace, who started popping in and out around 2010, was here again, bringing his girlfriend Sharon Gissy alone for the ride. Jason Coffman first came in 2011 and has made everyone since then. Brian Fukala started coming in 2012, and I think only has missed one event since then. Mr. Martinez made his T-Day debut last May, doubting the whole point to this event, but was soon absorbed into the collective! Matt Harding makes his return for his second appearance and Tim Palace came for his very first experience. Will he survive?
In a mere two days, while most of society will be getting up early to battle the crowds of crazed shoppers out to save a few bucks, sometimes fighting to the death (or so I’m told), there will be a smaller gathering here at the Krypt to celebrate another type of holiday….Turkey Day! Followers of the Krypt probably know exactly what I’m talking about, but if you’re knew here, let me explain. On the Black Friday ever since 2003, I have chosen to spend that day in front of the TV, watching some of the finest in cinematic shipwrecks known to man. Now on our 13th year, having watched over 80 features in that time, with the number of participates growing like Lt. Col. Glenn Manning in The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), we will sit down to view another seven features that will test our strength, endurance, and good will towards mankind. But have no fear…we’re professionals here.
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It is an old post but hope it helps in someway.
Thank you so much for the link. I am so touched that you want to help me. I have actually followed this advice for many years now, and the regular exercise regime did improve my condition greatly. However, I am unfortunately not one of those who were “cured” by it. Changing to a low-carb diet and exercising regularly are the two things that has helped me the most, and I do believe that they are the reason why I can function semi-normally today (even though I feel my POTS everyday I am able to keep a full-time job). So it was indeed good advice you had found. Do you have POTS?
Hey! Explore silva dynamic meditation..one dosnt know what makes a positive impact to your body..
N yes young lady, from what i have understood about this condition, must say u r a brave fighter and a survivor! Every day you will beat POTS to dust :-). Who knows one day you will get up n realise it has accepted its defeat..
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Caching has long been used to reduce average access latency, from registers and memory pages cached by hardware, to the application level such as a web browser retaining retrieved documents. We focus here on the high-level caching of potentially shared networked documents and define two terms in relation to this type of caching: Zero latency refers to the condition where access to a document produces a cache hit on the local machine, that is, there is little or no latency due to the network (we assume that latency due to local disk and memory access is insignificant in comparison to network latency). A document with zero latency usually has been placed in the cache after a previous access, or has been pulled there through some prefetching mechanism. Negative latency refers to automatic presentation, or push, of a document to a user based on a prediction that the user will want that document. With an ideal system, a user would be presented with documents either that she was about to request, or that she would not know to request but that would be immediately useful to her.
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Fantastic…Kim you remind me of Angelina…gorgeous and talented!!!
Thank you for all the laughter. Have you or could you make a video about ” The Twist” dance? I have five sisters and we use to preform this dance for our parents. We had soooooo much fun and lots of laughter during this time. Thank you.
your kinda my mini heros..
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America’s soul ached when it gripped the realities of the kidnapping of a 5-year-old boy, Javier. He was snatched from a Mexico City street market where his impoverished parents operated a fruit stand. The fate of this boy was fatal. His executing vicious captors injected acid into his little heart. Fortunately, suspects are under arrest.
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I.n.d.e.p.e.n.d.e.n.t, do you know what that means? That’s the single lady anthem right?
I’m strong, self sufficient, not waiting for or wanting a man for anything.
I go to sleep at night alone surrounded by beautiful things in a beautiful home.
I bring home the bacon, cook it, and eat it.
The only time I need a man is when I need him to come make love to me then leave. I only need you for some short term intimacy. I need you to unselfishly please me.
I do not need you to provide for me. To protect me. To cover me. I am too independent for that.
I don’t have time for these men anyway. All they want to do is play and cheat with whatever moves. I refuse to be in my feelings over these dudes. Never wanting to face that the issue may be the men I choose.
So I’m yelling I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T, you know what that means?
It means I have been hurt so many times in my past, I no longer believe I am worthy of a King showing up and treating me as his priority. Loving me beyond my mask, beyond my ugly.
It means I have given up on being found by a good man who would love me the way I am design to be loved.
So I settle and give myself away in pieces I can control because I’ll be damned if I volunteer to be hurt anymore.
This anthem is my shield protecting myself from ever having to feel ANYTHING.
But then my soul, my very essence cried out and said, I can’t keep hiding behind my independence, my success, pretending that shallowness could fill a void so deep.
I can not hide behind an anthem of being independent in order to avoid taking the risk of being in love again.
It’s time for us to move into the positions we were designed for. It is time to take our places on our throne rightfully beside our Kings…pushing them forward with our expectations, not telling them to get in formation. Protecting them, but not enabling them. Holding them accountable for being the King they were design to be. Allowing him to provide, protect, and cover me.
To my king waiting patiently in the wings for me to stop with this tomfoolery. I’m ready. I’m waiting.
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In a previous post I mentioned the oft used “if you think X should not be illegal then I guess you’re okay with murder” argument. There is a notion out there in the political ether that libertarians who oppose certain laws are just foolish anarchists who want all laws abolished. While some libertarians are anarchists, most, if not the vast majority of them, are not. “You don’t get to pick and choose which laws are obeyed/enforced,” is the general reply to that. “For if everyone only followed/enforced the laws they liked, that would make the law ineffectual and impotent.” Perhaps, but insisting we have an obligation to obey any and all man-made laws makes the law a tyrannic oppressor rather than a protector of rights. Protecting rights is the true purpose of just laws.
Notice I said just laws. Not all laws are just. Laws whose purpose is to oppress, particularly to deliberately oppress some in favor of others, are unjust laws. But you, O reader, do not have to take my word for it. Smarter men than I have written about this.
Some of you will have recognized that I am quoting from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. I believe he argues very well for the idea that a law’s existence does not make it right or just. And equally well he makes the case that opposition to a law or some laws does not inherently mean opposition to all laws.
I could list and speak of other laws that are currently the law of the land and that I believe are unjust. And in another post at an other time I shall. I want to speak a bit more generally about libertarianism and what it has to say about law and obedience to the law.
And to that end, I want to give you a quote from a libertarian father.
In 1858, hundreds of residents of Oberlin and Wellington, Ohio—many of them students and faculty at Oberlin College—surrounded Wadsworth’s Hotel, in Wellington, in which law enforcement officers and slavehunters held a fugitive slave named John Price, under the authority of the Fugitive Slave Act. After a brief standoff, the armed crowd stormed the hotel and overpowered the captors. Price was freed and transported to safety in Canada […]. I know these details because my son recently borrowed from the library The Price of Freedom, a book about the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, as the incident is called (PDF). My wife and I used it as a starting point for telling our seven-year-old why we don’t expect him to obey the law—that laws and the governments that pass them are often evil. We expect him, instead, to stand up for his rights and those of others, and to do good, even if that means breaking the law.
I sincerely hope that my son never has to run for his freedom in defiance of evil laws, like John Price. I also hope, at least a little, that he never has to beat the stuffing out of police officers, as did the residents of Oberlin and Wellington, to defend the freedom of another. But, if he does, I want him to do so without reservations.
If all my son does is live his life a little freer than the law allows, then we’ve done some good. A few regulations ignored and some paperwork tossed in the garbage can make the world a much easier place in which to live. Better yet, if he sits on a jury or two and stubbornly refuses to find any reason why he should convict some poor mark who was hauled in for owning a forbidden firearm or for ingesting the wrong chemicals. Jury nullification isn’t illegal (yet), but it helps others escape punishment for doing things that are, but ought not be. No harm, no foul is a good rule for a juror, no matter what lawmakers say.
That is by J.D. Tuccille, from an article he wrote which was boldly titled, “Why I’m Teaching My Son To Break the Law”.
In a country where opposition to government control seems to be increasingly treated as a lack of “economic patriotism,” or a threat to national security or just extreme behavior that marks one as possible danger to the public, I believe there is good reason to be revisiting and discussing civil disobedience. I believe we should be talking about that rights, human rights, do not come from laws or the government or even the Constitution. Which means when the choice is between defending the rights of humans and obeying the law, the law should be disobeyed.
We need to remember that the law and what is right are not always the same thing. And those of us who recognize this fact have no need to apologize for opposing unjust laws. And opposing unjust law is not a sign of contempt for law but for the abuses of authority that humans enact by unjust laws. And for that there also need never be an apology.
Those who justify such abuses, on the other hand, have much explaining to do.
There is much more that I could say, but this post is already over 1500 words, so I will leave more for a future post.
This entry was posted on July 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM and is filed under Anti-libertarianism, Argumentation, Government, Libertarianism, Morality, Philosophy, Politics with tags freedom, government, just law, law, Letter from Birmingham Jail, libertarian, Libertarianism, liberty, Morality, Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, philosophy, Politics, rights, unjust law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
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I have so much stuff. Sometimes I forget this because everything is in a spot to some extent. Today though I started packing up my dorm room to bring things home, and there was no way to not notice how much stuff I had.
One of the random learning moments of my first year was realizing just how few clothes I really wear. I’m used to spending summers away from home where I basically live out of a suitcase clothes-wise, and honestly, I probably could do the same in college plus a few extra pairs of things and some random occasion clothing. Yet while packing I noticed so many shirts in particular that I didn’t wear all year, but they’re the kind of shirts that I also can’t bring myself to not have around just in case.
It’s interesting how we accumulate things over the years that we just can’t seem to get rid of. Things like old camp shirts, or gifts, or those things you always think might just come in handy one day so you’d rather be safe than sorry so you keep it around.
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Wednesday – Build your back!
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← The Mitford Society Loves….
Born into an aristocratic family in 1916, Lady Ursula d’Abo (née Manners) was interrelated with some of the most powerful and interesting figures of the 20th century. She counted the famous beauty and hostess Lady Diana Cooper as her paternal aunt, and among those famous aunts were Laura and Margot Tennant, part of the Victorian intellectual group known as “The Souls”. Indeed, her mother was Kathleen Tennant, descended from the extraordinarily rich Scots family who had made their fortune in bleach, and she counted the Prime Minister H.H. Asquith as an uncle-by-marriage. There were fascinating cousins, too, including childhood summers spent with Anne Charteris, the future wife of Ian Fleming – creator of James Bond. Lady Ursula’s father, the Marquess of Granby, was the second-born son of the 8th Duke of Rutland, who upon the untimely death of his eldest brother at the age of nine (he twisted a gut from turning a somersault), became his father’s heir.
It was a magical childhood, with visits to Belvoir Castle – “my playground and fiefdom” – the Rutland seat, where the vast army of servants extended to liveried footmen and the Pig Man. Although Nanny and the nursery were the centre of Lady Ursula and her siblings lives, she and her younger sister, Lady Isabel, were allowed to ride with the famous Belvoir hunt. The Master of Hounds, terrified that the two children would get squashed in the gates, would hold up the two hundred horses so the girls could pass through first. Occasionally the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, would join the hunt and he and Lady Ursula would gallop the twelve miles from Belvoir Castle to Melton Mowbray. But, following his abdication, Lady Ursula’s father (by then the Duke of Rutland), refused to have him in the house; he was shocked at his betrayal of the country. Furthermore, he and his wife’s loyalties lay with their friends the Duke and Duchess of York, who ascended the throne as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
Away from the countryside there were swimming and dancing lessons in London, and having been inspired by the ballet, Lady Ursula dreamed of becoming a famous ballerina. She took lessons with the great Russian ballerina, Tamara Karasvina, who praised her for having “a great aptitude”. However, Lady Ursula could not pursue her training as her parents did not approve of a stage career.
The path in which Lady Ursula’s life should progress was made clear, when, at the age of seventeen, the Duke and Duchess of Rutland hosted a “coming out” ball with two hundred guests at Belvoir Castle for her and Lady Isabel. Their matching white tulle dresses were from Worth in Paris, though they proved a disappointment with the girls who longed to appear grown up. In spite of the dresses not living up to expectation, Lady Ursula realised that her coming out ball would launch her into a glamorous, grown-up world. “Suddenly…I was expected to be a young lady with great social graces, and dressed immaculately in the most beautiful clothes.” The freedom “felt exhilarating” after being chaperoned for years. However, to Lady Isabel it was not enough and she eloped with Loel Guinness, an heir to the banking branch of the Irish dynasty. Sailing for over four months on Guinness’s yacht to Palm Springs and New York City, the couple’s honeymoon was so long that it wasn’t insured by Lloyd’s. Although dismayed at her sister missing out on the social season, Lady Ursula went along to the parties and “had five years of growing up in the most enjoyable way”.
Change was in the air, and a great event in history was about to draw Lady Ursula to the forefront of British society. The coronation of King George VI, following the abdication of his brother King Edward VII, brought a sense of optimism and pageantry to the people who feared Adolf Hitler and the threat of another world war. As her ancestors had done before her, Lady Ursula and her family took part in the coronation. Her father carried the orb in the procession into Westminster Abbey, her mother was a canopy-bearer to the Queen, and her two younger brothers were Page of Honour to the Duke of Gloucester and Lord Ancaster, the Lord Great Chamberlain. Lady Ursula was one of six maids of honour who carried the Queen’s ermine-trimmed velvet train. Dressed identically, the six girls wore matching tiaras and white satin, puff sleeved Norman Hartnell gowns with a motif of corn embroidered down the front.
Afterwards, Lady Ursula joined the royal party on the balcony of Buckingham Palace where she stood next to the Dowager Queen Mary and behind the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. At the end of “that magical day”, she was sent home from the palace in a taxi, still feeling quite overwhelmed by all that had happened. But it was not the end of the excitement as Lady Ursula was to discover. A certain Mr. Laurence McKinney from Albany, New York wrote a poem to The Knickerbocker Press, imploring: “In many of the pictures of the Coronation there is shown at the back of the royal party a statuesque brunette with a widow’s peak. Who is she?” The attention, she freely admitted, “produced a lot of jealously amongst my peers”.
There were duties beyond the coronation, and along with her mother, aunt Lady Diana Cooper and uncle Duff Cooper, and Winston and Clementine Churchill, Lady Ursula accompanied the new King and Queen on their first official visit to Paris. Being the youngest in the Royal party, Churchill nicknamed her “the cygnet”.
Though as much as Lady Ursula had become a society star, her father reminded her that she should set her sights on a good marriage. She recalled: “I had no money of my own and was brought up to be subservient to the male species.” Although she proved her mettle during WWII when she became a voluntary Red Cross Nurse, and then managing two thousand women in a munitions factory, Lady Ursula did indeed fulfill her father’s wish for her to marry.
In 1943, Lady Ursula married Anthony Marreco, a man she barely knew and who threatened to commit suicide if she refused to do so. The swiftness in which a wedding was organised prompted the minister to place a chair for her to sit on at the altar as he assumed she was pregnant. This, she admitted, had infuriated her. Ill-suited and separated by war, the couple divorced in 1948. She married for a second time to Erland d’Abo with whom she had three children. The marriage lasted until his death.
Lady Ursula has experienced a life of many high and lows set to the backdrop of a gilded age, the like of which we will never see again. All of this has been recorded in her charming memoir, The Girl with the Widow’s Peak.
a blessed hundredth birthday to Lady Ursula!!
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↑ 1,0 1,1 Talbert, Richard. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, Princeton University Press, 2000, Map-by-map Directory, p. 980.
↑ Silvas, Anna. The Asketikon of St. Basil the Great, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 41. ISBN 0-19-927351-0. See also Pochoshajew's article below, p.8.
↑ , Igor. Nisa a Capadòcia , (alemany), p. 6. Consultat el 23 d'agost de 2009.
La pàgina va ser modificada per darrera vegada el 26 nov 2018 a les 23:46.
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President Johnson gave the American people the “Great Society” wherein the federal government expanded welfare to millions of Americans to the point there are now at least 80 over lapping means-tested welfare programs administered by the federal government.
And the vultures continue to feast on the rotting carcass of American liberty.
This entry was posted in Government Corruption, Uncategorized and tagged Corruption, government, government lies. Bookmark the permalink.
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The HEIS's linkage of household-level demographic and expenditure data for Zambia provides the foundation for an analysis of household expenditure patterns. For this report, total household expenditure was composed of two broad expenditure classifications, food and nonfood. An analytical emphasis was placed on developing the food expenditure patterns of household groups identified by various socioeconomic characteristics. In general, within the various household classifications, there were three important economic variables: the availability of food items within specific markets, household income, and relative prices that appeared to contribute to the development of the observed food group expenditure patterns. Directly observable, absolute differences in total expenditure, shares of total expenditure, and shares of total food expenditure were used to distinguish groups of households.
Stampley, Gary L., "Demographic and Expenditure Profiles of Zambian Households: Evidence from the June 1991 Zambian Household Expenditure and Income Survey" (1993). CARD Staff Reports. 42.
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Yes, I do watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but I do not consider myself to be A Brony. Yes, it sounds very similar to Sheldon Cooper’s claims that Amy Farrah Fowler is a girl and his friend, but not his girlfriend.
1) Each of the characters has their own talents and faults. This truly bucks the old stereotype of tea parties and bad animation. Each of the main characters has personality traits that I think anyone can find relating to in some manner.
2) This isn’t one of those shows that you just plop your kids down in front of and walk away from. There’s even stuff here that some parents might grow interested in and sit down to watch. For example, in one episode that starts in a bowling alley, the showmakers included a couple stallions that looked like characters from The Big Lebowski.
3) The developer of the Friendship is Magic iteration of My Little Pony is Lauren Faust. That means nothing to a lot of people, but she originally worked on several series for Cartoon Network that some of you might have heard of. Series like The Powerpuff Girls, and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. The writing for those episodes was always catchy and entertaining to me (pity that Warner Brothers stopped distributing Foster’s on DVD after Season 2 a few years ago).
For Season 3 of Friendship is Magic, Hasbro changed up its release schedule, and only produced 13 episodes for the season (compared with 26 episodes apiece for seasons 1 and 2). The downside is there aren’t quite as many episodes to choose from, but I still managed to find enough for this Top 5 list.
Read on, to find out what I enjoyed this time around.
Once the guest-star for this episode was announced, it became one of the most anticipated episodes of the Season. John De Lancie returned to voice the chaos creature, Discord, this time released from his stone imprisonment in hopes he can be reformed. Surprisingly, the task is given to one of the most docile of the group: Fluttershy. While the others wish to use a more strong-arm approach to change Discord, Fluttershy chooses to try and make Discord comfortable, and let him have his way a bit, in hopes this will change him.
After his subtle-yet-manipulative workings in the 2-part “Return to Harmony” opener from Season 2, I think some were hoping for more of the same from Discord. However, the results were much different than expected. The episode still managed to have some fun with Discord, and even had a callback to “Return to Harmony,” in that Fluttershy is not so easily swayed, and neither is Discord.
While the episode has plenty of enjoyable little moments, it feels that resolving the main issue of the plot never really becomes concrete, and seems to come out of nowhere. If there had been a little more ground-work laid out, I think many could have seen the ending as being more satisfactory.
One area where some ground-work was laid out, was some background animation leading to a storypoint/revelation near the end as well. I did think that was a great way to keep secondary information flowing to the viewer without seeming like a konk on the head, and could be something that older viewers would pick up on instead of the younger ones.
When some people talk about their favorite pony characters, Pinkie Pie comes up quite a bit. The carefree, fourth wall-breaking pony is often doing plenty of off-the-wall shenanigans, and is one of the more high-strung of the main 6.
Pinkie’s big problem in this episode, is she wants to have fun with all her friends, but when it comes to choosing between swimming with Rainbow Dash, or raising a barn with Applejack, she is unable to decide, and attempts to do both. When she realizes she can’t, she then remembers a legend about a mirror-pool in the nearby Everfree Forest, allowing Pinkie to create a clone of herself (albeit single-minded in its pursuit of ‘fun’). When it seems there are more things that could be happening at the same time, Pinkie and the clone create more clones, and chaos soon reigns throughout Ponyville.
The episode took the concept of ‘too much of a good thing,’ and tried to make it funny (not to mention re-use as many older Flash animation rhythms of Pinkie’s from older episodes). It also serves as a creative way to learn about ‘prioritizing,’ something I don’t think many children’s programming adventures would talk about.
Much like “Flutter On,” resolving this episode almost feels like a mad scramble as the time left to tell the story ticks down. Some in the fandom also found the solution to resolving the Pinkie-clones situation a little extreme, but maybe that just shows how concerned some are for these characters made up of pixels and vector graphics.
After all, animation is the illusion of life, and if you can make people believe that these characters are alive, then you’ve accomplished a great illusion.
Another fan-favorite pony returned for this episode: the light-blue pony known as (The Great and Powerful) Trixie, a boastful magician. I never did see all the hubbub regarding her character in Season 1, but I thought this episode was one that was a little more fun than it needed to be.
Trixie returns to Ponyville seeking revenge for being bested by Twilight Sparkle way-back-when. Apparently, her being exposed as a magical fraud ruined her career, leaving her wanting revenge. Challenging Twilight to a magic duel, Twilight is unable to counter all of Trixie’s spells, and is banished from the town, which is sealed under a giant glass dome.
Unable to ask Princess Celestia for help, Twilight instead seeks out the help of Zecora, a friendly Zebra she knows in the Everfree Forest, while her friends try to find some way to fight back against Trixie.
This is one of those episodes that has many instances where you could easily go, ‘why don’t they do this,’ or ‘did they ever consider dong that?’ It also raised a furor with some fans for over-exaggerating Fluttershy’s nervousness in tense situations.
Unlike some of the episodes ranked lower on the list, I felt the ending of this one really paid off quite well, and had me wide-eyed a few times. I think that’s why it ranks so highly on this list: starts out with a decent premise, and has a pretty decent pay-off in the end.
There’s also a fun (if tragic) event that befalls Pinkie Pie, and leads to a big laugh right before the closing credits.
As much as some episodes focus on the main story of one individual pony, there have been a few times that main storylines have been given to Twilight Sparkle’s assistant/baby dragon: Spike.
In his attempts to make a jewel cake, he unknowingly ends up eating his supply of jewels. When Fluttershy asks him to babysit her bunny named Angel in exchange for a large emerald, Spike attempts to babysit the other ponies’ pets in hopes to get enough jewels to finish his cake. However, while his thoughts are intent on satisfying his own hungry urges, he doesn’t quite realize the responsibility he’s entered into.
“Just for Sidekicks” enters into a familiar story realm when it comes to a character learning responsibility, but still finds plenty of time to be entertaining, as well as provide viewers with plenty of cameos by the other pony’s pets, a few that haven’t been seen in a long while.
It also lassos in a couple younger ponies named Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo, and manages to make their appearances feel satisfying and funny, instead of adding extra ‘filler’ to the story.
This episode was one of two written by new writer, Corey Powell, and has a decent balance overall between story, humor, and plot.
What was the other episode Corey wrote? Well, scroll on down.
To me, I’m all about character development in episodes, even those that focus on one character in particular. In this case, one of the younger ponies named Scootaloo. Very little has been done with her character in previous seasons, and many had hoped she would get her own episode to tell a little more about her, as her friends Applebloom and Sweetie Belle got. The result, is Sleepless in Ponyville.
Just as Rainbow dash idolizes the pegasus flying team in the series known as The Wonderbolts, Scootaloo is in awe of Rainbow Dash and her flying skills. When Rainbow Dash notes Scootaloo’s ‘cool moves’ on her scooter, Scootaloo tells her friends that she wishes she could spend more time with her hero. They then decide to all go on a camping trip, and invite Rainbow Dash. Things seem to be going well, until Rainbow starts telling scary stories, which secretly freak out Scootaloo, causing her to be unable to sleep. Of course, Scootaloo puts on a brave face to make it seem the stories don’t scare her, but it soon starts messing with her sleep patterns.
Also of interest was that there were several callbacks to previous episodes in the series, and the character development that came forth from them. Plus, one (major) character in the series made a cameo appearance, that seemed to actually help instead of hinder a situation.
What also helps in the episode, is the concept of facing your fears, which is something that almost everyone can relate to, whether its going down a dark hall, or talking with someone regarding something important.
The episode also marked the debut of new series writer, Corey Powell. Corey’s debut to the world of My Little Pony showed a fun-yet-strong episode that truly is one of the highlights of Season 3, and as seen by my #2 episode choice, she has proven to be a surprise and welcome addition to the series’ writers stable.
This is probably the only Season 3 episode that I had no doubts in saying was my favorite. It feels well-balanced, gives familiar character interactions, feels connected to previous episodes, and also helps push forward the development of said characters as well.
And those are my Top 5 episodes for Season 3. As with any rankings of things, keep in mind this is just my opinion, and does not act as some be-all/end-all to Top 5 lists for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Overall, Season 3 was good, but it felt like the height of the series fandom hit around the time of Season 2. Then again, Season 2 had a 2-parter that felt like the series’ The Dark Knight regarding its villain and story structure (minus death and ‘face-scarring clowns’). Season 3’s big 2-parter wasn’t much to write home about, but if anything, its 13th episode titled Magical Mystery Cure, brought about a rather musical-yet-questionable end to the Season, giving the series its first season-ending cliffhanger episode that is said to carry over to the first episodes of Season 4.
Speaking of Season 4, word is that when it starts up, it will return to 26 episodes, so if I decide to do another list for that season, I’ll probably up the ante to a Top 10 list.
I know what you’re probably thinking, and no: the title of this post is not a review of some fanfiction about Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang (besides, I abhor fanfiction!).
Viewing the recent Charlie Brown and the Great Exhibit presentation that rolled into town these last few months, I began to think of some of the unrequited love that had been prevalent throughout the series.
Being that Valentine’s Day is approaching, I did consider a post regarding the fabled Little Red-Haired Girl of the series, but want to save that discussion for another time.
Throughout the 50-year run of the Peanuts comic strip, we were often treated to many situations where characters faced failure, or often were unable to get what they wanted most. Of course, Schulz wasn’t always a sadistic creator who kept his characters from victory or good times. I remember opening the newspaper in 1993, and found a panel showing Charlie Brown joyously rushing home, after having won the game for his team!
Though Charlie’s shyness and “yes-I-can/no-I-can’t” attitude kept him from meeting the Little Red-Haired Girl in the comics, he had some luck with another little girl in the summer of 1990. Going to summer camp (and taking Snoopy along), Charlie became enraptured by a little girl with a bow in her hair.
Of course, Charlie’s not one to make the first move, but Snoopy will (provided a cute girl has sweet treats for cuddly animals).
Wow. This girl must really be something to make him forget the L ittle Red-Haired Girl just like that!
The next day, Charlie meets the little girl in line for lunch (right), and they have a small conversation, leading to one of my favorite last-panel commentations.
Needing comfort from his ‘long-distance wingman,’ Charlie calls Linus, and tells him of the progress he’s made. Of course, one mention of his “Brownie Charles” slip-up has Linus in hysterics. Though a pleasant grin spreads across Charlie’s face at the realization that even though Peggy Jean calls him by this name, he likes it.
Yes, Peggy Jean has unleashed the ultimate test on Charlie Brown (without her knowing it). Of course, having been through this same scenario before, he searches for something to convince him that Peggy is sincere in her intentions.
He first calls Linus, asking if a girl like Peggy will pull the ball away like Lucy does…only to realize that it’s Lucy who has answered the phone!
Quickly hanging up the phone, he returns to Peggy Jean, and decides to go for it…but stops right before kicking the football, still unsure.
Returning to the spot where she was, Charlie finds the football, but no sign of Peggy Jean. Just then, another camper comes up and hands Charlie a note (right). Needless to say, it’s a pretty bitter blow.
The next few days are pretty miserable for ol’ Charlie Brown. Dejected that he couldn’t trust a girl like Peggy Jean to hold a football, he calls Linus for console, and gets a golf analogy (“it’s all I could think of to say,” replies Linus, when Charlie wonders what this has to do with his love life).
Shortly after being reunited, camp ends, and the two say goodbye. Peggy has no problems telling Charlie Brown “I love you,” and requests that he write and/or call her.
The summer camp story arc lasted from late-July through early-August of 1990. Hopeful of Peggy Jean’s correspondence, Charlie eagerly awaited her letters after writing to her like he promised. However, by late-August, Charlie began to grow worried when nothing had arrived for him from Peggy. His worrying makes him unable to realize he caught a pop fly without looking during a baseball game, and leads Linus to think of the worst-case scenario: that the whole thing was just another summer romance, and that Peggy Jean has found a new boyfriend.
Eventually, the case of the missing letters is solved. Because Peggy Jean only knew Charlie Brown as “Brownie Charles,” that was t he name she put on her letters to him. Apparently, Sally told the mailman thirty times (!?!) that there was no such person at their address by that name (and people say Lucy is deplorable!). With this realization, Charlie quickly composes an apology letter to Peggy Jean (and most likely tells the mailman that his stupid sister was mistaken). A short time later, Charlie receives a letter from Peggy Jean, and it seems she still has feelings for him! She even remembers Snoopy, and asks Charlie to give him a hug for her.
In the Winter of 1990, Peggy entered Charlie’s mind (and the comic strip) again when he decided to buy her a pair of gloves. Of course, he was shocked to find that a good pair cost $25! To raise enough money, he ended up selling his entire comic book collection, only to meet Peggy Jean at the same store…where her Mom had just bought her a new pair of gloves.
What’s notable is this story arc actually made it into the 1992 special, It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brow n. It would also signify the only time that Peggy Jean would appear in animated form, but must have left some of the viewers scratching their heads. Why? Well, just look at the color of her hair!
Charlie Brown and Peggy Jean’s summer camp story had never been animated, so to the unintiated, Peggy’s appearance must have seemed quite strange (she even calls him “Brownie Charles” like in the comic story). With that reddish-blonde tint to her hair, I’m sure some viewers assumed this was the animated appearance of The Little Red-Haired Girl (FYI: TLRHG was animated in the specials It’s Your First Kiss Charlie Brown, and Happy New Year, Charlie Brown).
Personally, when it came to the color of Peggy Jean’s hair, I imagined her as more of a light-colored brunette.
The following Spring, Charlie Brown began to wrestle with his feelings for both Peggy Jean, and The Little Red-Haired Girl. Linus recommends that he should tell Peggy Jean about this, even though it could lead to the possibility of Charlie never being with either one in the future due to his honesty. Charlie Brown even consults Sally for help, but she also seems to be on Linus’ side on the matter.
However, Charlie’s emotional rollercoaster ride comes to a screeching halt when his letter t o Peggy Jean is returned! Apparently she has moved, and there’s no way to contact her now. One wonders why she didn’t tell Charlie Brown about this, but not everything is explained in the world of Peanuts (take Snoopy’s active imagination, for example). After his contact with Peggy Jean is cut off, Charlie soon returned to pining for the Little Red-Haired Girl, but had a brief respite with another little girl named Emily, five years later. However, that’s a story for another time.
Even though it seemed Peggy Jean was gone, she was referenced a few times afterwards. During a baseball game, Schroeder mentions that baseball has probably taken her off Charlie’s mind. Later on that fall as he waits by the mailbox, Charlie has hope that maybe Peggy has written to him, but there’s no such luck to be had.
In December of 1997, Charlie Brown’s glove-buying strips with Peggy Jean returned to the printed page in the equivalent of a comic strip rerun (no, not Linus and Lucy’s younger brother). Their appearance fell within the only time Schulz took a break from the strip, when he carved out a 5-week sabbatical to celebrate his 75th birthday.
Yes, apparently, Peggy Jean moved on, and what Charlie probably thought would be a welcome reunion between them seemed more like a casual greeting. One can almost sense Charlie Brown’s eagerness to rekindle their former relationship, but this iteration of Peggy Jean seems more distant than the girl we were introduced to 9 years before. The standard train of thought is that people change, and while Peggy has, Charlie hasn’t. Then again, it does seem that it can take a lot to change someone as wishy-washy as Charlie Brown.
It should also be noted that the reappearance of Peggy Jean occurred in the summer, months before Schulz would be diagnosed with colon cancer, signaling the end of his lifelong dream of cartooning. Would another little girl have entered Charlie Brown’s life if Schulz had continued to draw on into the 21st century? Or was that special moment in the summer of 1990 just that for Charlie: a special moment? We almost all have experienced one sometime in our lives.
Overall, I found Peggy Jean’s introduction in 1990 one of the more memorable story arcs of that decade. Apparently, her appearance back in 1990 had some eager to know where Schulz was going after the first few strips. A reporter from San Francisco managed to speak to Schulz about the summer camp story arc, but even at that time, Schulz was not going to give any further details, other than to say that the tone of the story was more upbeat than his normal ones.
Peggy Jean was also one of the few minor characters to make her way into Peanuts merchandise. One of which was a Westland Giftware porcelain figure featuring both Charlie Brown and Peggy Jean in a small field of flowers (right). What’s a little odd is the title of the piece, which is called Charlie Brown and the Peggy Jean. One has to wonder if maybe they had originally meant Charlie Brown and the Little Red-Haired Girl, but someone caught the mistake partway through production.
Peggy Jean also makes an appearance in the Appstore game, Snoopy’s Street Fair (left). She appears under a pink, heart-shaped tree, and if you play the game properly, Charlie will ‘fly’ over to her, and sit on a bench with her under the tree.
In some circles, Peggy Jean has earned the unofficial title of Charlie Brown’s Girlfriend. One could almost call her that, given she’s kissed him and held his hands, along with actually having verbal contact with Charlie Brown.
While the world knows all-too-well Charlie’s fascination with the seemingly unattainable Little Red-Haired Girl, I felt I should be one of the few to point out Peggy Jean’s time with him. Her appearance showed how Charles Schulz would give his characters little flashes of hope and happiness, even in the face of hardship and failure, which can often seem overwhelming at times.
I’d like to extend my thanks to the Charles M Schulz Museum’s Facebook page, who provided me with some information regarding Peggy Jean’s comic appearances. Click the image above to go to their Facebook page.
A long time ago, in a theme park far, far away, The Walt Disney Company and George Lucas teamed up to bring guests into the Star Wars universe. We wouldn’t get to shake hands with Han Solo, but would make a scheduled space flight aboard a ship known as the Starspeeder 3000, visiting worlds and places many of us had only seen on movie and television screens.
However, our intrepid pilot REX instead goes the wrong way, and very soon, sends us careening through a comet, and even sends us down the famed Death Star trench.
For many years, fans eagerly hoped that Kenner/Hasbro would make a toy based on the ride vehicle. When Star Tours was revamped in the year 2011, that wish was (kind of) granted that fall, with the release of the Starspeeder 1000 Vehicle Playset, courtesy of the Disney Parks merchandising division.
Why 1000? Well, the revamped Star Tours is (somewhat) a prequel. The ships are the same design as the 3000, albeit with a cleaner paint job, and some added accoutrements. Instead of the same journey as the previous ride, your ride journey is based on random choices from a computer system. So, you could ride Star Tours 5 different times, and never have the same experience twice. One journey may take you to the ice planet Hoth, another will put you in the center of a podrace on Tatooine, and so-on.
When it comes to the Starspeeder 1000, there’s quite a bit to cover in regards to this playset. So, let’s start on the outside.
The Starspeeder 1000 is a cool playset, and one can see that the designers wanted to make something that kids would find plenty of things to play with.
In the upper-right of the Starspeeder, is a little square button that when pressed, flips open a pair of hidden blasters under the main viewport. This also activates the blue lights on the front, and some side-blasters light up with red lights too! The button also activates sound effects, that simulate the flipping open of the hidden blasters, and blaster sounds synchronized to flash along with the side-blaster lights.
The ship also comes with its own R2-D2, though this one is little more than a stand-in/statue for the piece. Above, you can see it on the right, next to the Original Vintage Trilogy Collection R2-D2 from my collection.
Just like the Starspeeder 3000, the 1000 model has a slot for an Astromech Droid (aka an R2-unit) to fit, and help navigate perilous Star Tours journeys. The best part is that the slot can fit almost any Astromech Droid that you have! Plus, when you press down on the figure in the slot, several R2-D2 sound effects play, and the front lights on the Starspeeder turn on!
Behind the R2 port, is a small area with the designation, IC360. The compartment opens, to reveal a removable camera-droid (similar to the kind that were seen hovering around the Galactic Senate in the prequels). The camera here comes with no stand, so kids can just take it out, and ‘hover’ it around with their fingers and imaginations, as if it’s filming things around the ship.
On the rear of the vehicle, there are four action buttons, conveniently hidden on the rear gray compartment. In case you can’t find them, they are the little rectangles with two smaller rectangles on each.
The top two buttons activate the left and right rows of doors. Not only do they all open in unison, but small lights go on, and the ‘welcome’ chime from the ride plays!
The lower buttons activate voice features, with Anthony Daniels (aka C-3PO) providing the same vocals as he does on the ride.
The lower right button has C-3PO’s voice going, “Lightspeed, Artoo! Now!” This is followed by a burst of sound effects that we’ve come to know when we see lightspeed in the Star Wars universe.
you will find a stack of 4 grey plastic cards, with several images, and little square slots along the bottoms of them.
It should also be noted that the sounds emitting from the Starspeeder are pretty loud. The speaker for the sounds is located near the rear of the ship, and may shock you the first time you press one of the buttons. This is one toy you’ll be able to hear your child playing with down the hall.
Now that we’ve blown the lid off the Starspeeder, let’s take a closer look inside.
A captain’s chair is provided, just like in the ride. However, you’ll need to provide your own pilot (whether it’s C-3PO, depends on you). The chair’s circular base also hides a hole, that can also be used for the Captain Rex figure that was released some years ago in the Star Tours action figure line. Captain Rex was the old pilot for the original Star Tours, and it’s a great touch that his figure can also be used in this set.
The front of the ship’s interior contains pre-applied decals, based on the interior of the actual ride vehicle.
Of course, some compromises will need to be made in toy designs, and the amount of seats inside the Starspeeder is one of them. The original ride vehicle seats 40 passengers, while the playset here can only seat 9.
One item that is rather annoying, is the 3-passenger seatbelts on each row. I found these to be a pain to fasten, for an adult like me who has larger hands. I think if a kid attempts to fasten the straps, it will work much easier. Two pegs/two holes fasten each of the straps, but the size of them helps make the situation more difficult.
When I was little, I remember going to a garage sale, and being in awe of a used Millenium Falcon toy the family there was selling. To me, it was a huge toy compared to a lot of the other items I had. With the Starspeeder 1000, we have a toy that is pretty big, ranking up there with the Falcon, and the AT-AT for size and fun features.
Yes, those measurements are correct: this toy is over a foot-and-a-half long.
One of the greatest things to see, is a toy that was made with the kind of care by adults who longed for a super-awesome toy themselves. The Starspeeder 1000 is the fanboy’s dream of a ship from this attraction, that definitely feels like the best ideas for a toy brought forward. There’s very little here to criticize, with the exception of the pricetag. This baby will run you upwards of $75, which I’m sure will have some thinking twice before pulling out their wallets. Originally when released, it ran with a price tag that seemed more reasonable: $55. Even so, one can imagine the upsurge in pricing due to this being a Disney Parks merchandise exclusive. Though keep in mind that this playset can only be bought in the stores on the Disneyland and Walt Disney World property, as well as through the special hotline to order Disney Parks merchandise. Bottom line: you won’t find this in stock at your local Disney Store or Target.
The Disney Parks merchandising division handles much of the Star Tours/Wars-related merchandising that one encounters inside the park. I am very happy with the amount of detail and attention they paid to the Starspeeder 1000 playset. Though one thing I think would make for a great exclusive, would be to repaint the ship, and sell it as the Starspeeder 3000 from the original ride, with its less-colorful paint job, and Captain Rex piloting us into all sorts of catastrophes.
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Everyone should have a summer project. If your summer project is to become more of a badass, then you should watch Patton. Are you the kind of guy that would shoot at German warplanes with a pearl-handled pistol? Probably not, but General Patton was. He also didn’t believe in PTSD, so just don’t emulate him completely.
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A CCFL inverter is an electrical inverter that supplies alternating current power to a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL). CCFLs are often used as inexpensive light units in electrical devices that are powered by direct current sources such as batteries. CCFL inverters are small, have switchover efficiency over 80%, and offer adjustable output of light. They are widely used for backlights for LCDs, or for rear lighting in advertising signs.
As for the inverter circuit of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp, a resonance type circuit has been widely used. This is sometimes referred to as the "Royer circuit". However the proper definition of the Royer circuit requires that the inversion of a switching operation be performed in a state in which the transformer is saturated. An inverter circuit which performs the inversion operation by utilizing resonance in the collector circuit of a transistor is preferably referred to as the "collector resonance type circuit" or the "collector resonance type Royer circuit" in distinction from a true Royer circuit. The multilevel inverters are basically classified into three topologies namely, the flying capacitor inverter, the diode clamped inverter and the cascaded H-bridge inverter. All the topologies have same property of reducing the harmonics. The cascaded has the disadvantage to need separate DC sources but circuit layout is compact and voltage sharing problem is absent.
The early designs of an inverter circuit for a cold cathode fluorescent lamp did not utilize the resonance method of a secondary circuit at all. Instead the so-called closed magnetic circuit type transformer having a small leakage inductance was used as a step-up transformer. The leakage inductance was such that it reduced the output voltage on the secondary side of the transformer. Since this was not desirable, it had to be made as small as possible.
Because the resonant frequency of the secondary side circuit of the transformer in the early designs was decided to have no relation with the operating frequency of the inverter circuit, the resonant frequency was set to a much higher frequency than that of the inverter circuit. This greatly reduces the influence of the inverter circuit on the operating frequency. A ballast capacitor Cb is essential for stabilization of the lamp current.
Another design for the inverter circuit of a cold cathode fluorescent lamp is shown in the figure of the “CCFL Inverter circuit of the past generation of technology“. It isn't used any more.
The more recent inverter circuit was invented by Hitachi electronics in Japan. It has come into world wide use as the so-called three-times or third harmonic resonance circuit, shown in the figure as the “advanced technology“. The resonance frequency of the secondary side circuit is three times that of the primary side. A step-up transformer with a greater short-circuit inductance value is suitable for use in this case.
The transformer which is actually used in the so-called three-times resonance circuit has a flat shape. Although the magnetic path structure is closed, the leakage of the magnetic flux is considerably more than that of the conventional type. The transformer therefore has a larger short circuit inductance value. The design (refer to figure of the “past generation of technology“) is such that the short circuit inductance value of the step-up transformer is increased to some degree, whereby a resonance circuit is created by the short circuit inductance (Lsc in the figures) and a capacitance component obtained on the secondary side of the step-up transformer. The resonance frequency of the circuit is set to a frequency three times as high as the operating frequency of the inverter circuit in order to generate a third-order harmonic in the secondary side circuit. The lamp current waveform has a trapezoid shape. The ballast capacitor Crb also functions as a resonance capacitor. As a result the conversion efficiency of the inverter circuit is considerably improved, and the step-up transformer is further miniaturized.
In the most recent circuit design shown, both the primary and secondary sides of the circuit operate at close to the same fundamental frequency. This began to be widely implemented in about 1996, and has greatly contributed to the miniaturization and higher efficiency of the inverter circuit used in a notebook type personal computer.
The short circuit inductance value of the step-up transformer is further increased from that of the three-times resonance design. The capacitance component of the secondary side circuit is also increased.
The next generation's inverter technology for the CCFL Lighting is the current resonance type inverter circuit. The resonance current which causes at the secondary side of the transformer is directly switching the primary side of the transformer through the switching transistor. It simplifies the circuit and improves efficiency.
Jim Williams, "A fourth generation of LCD backlight technology: Component and measurement improvements refine performance", Linear Technology Application Note 65, November 1995.
Descriptions of the Current-mode resonant inverter circuit for discharge lamp for the CCFL lighting.
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One problem with flying to Hawaii, visiting the Kauai plantation, testing a dozen varieties of coffees, and picking out the most expensive is that you can never tell if you are suffering confirmation bias. Thankfully, Jeni told me this coffee tasted good (black even) before I told her my tale.
A full-bodied, multi-region blend of… Who am I kidding? It’s free at work and has caffeine.
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Ever since the Chimera (dark loving ETs with underground bases here on Earth) surrendered in November, my focus has been on manifesting the surrender of the earth’s human dark.
Much progress has been made and it looked like it would happen on a couple of occasions but then obstacles appeared and the surrender announcement did not happen. First the progress…the terms of surrender were agreed last fall and the dark kingpins, both in Europe and in America, have signed off; in fact a signed surrender agreement exists but has not yet been made public.
The earth’s dark power structure is well developed and remains well funded and has been taken over by new dark bosses with the tactic support of several of the world’s elected leaders. These dark structures continue to chug along as if nothing has happened. The world’s financial systems and the media remain under the control of the dark. Dark technologies such as the veil and the illusion continue. These new dark bosses are as ruthless as those they replaced and the signed surrender agreement has become part of the dark’s many secrets. Because the surrender agreement is signed by many elected officials, some have become complicent in this latest cover-up.
My friend Katelon and I continue our daily sessions working at the etheric level, at the level of energy, targeting to manifest the timeline of the dark’s surrender followed by an orderly transfer of power to the Earth’s Light. Disclosure is a major component of this strategy. The timeline we target to manifest is a pubic announcement broadcast worldwide that outlines the surrender agreement and invites the Light loving ETs to participate in an orderly transfer of power. The dark would be done in by this chain of events and a Light based shared timeline would begin at the moment of the public announcement.
There are a number of elected and appointed world officials that support this strategy and an announcement team has been formed. Supporting this team is the work we are doing. The team is already well protected and connected with the ET forces who support humanity’s shift into a shared Light based timeline. Every day, additional Light based resources are added and dark resistance is cleared. It is much like an old fashioned balance scale. The dark side is still heavier but the Light is gaining daily and soon the balance of power will shift and the announcement team will swing into action.
What about the media? Will they cover such an event? That is a major focus of the work taking place in these etheric level sessions. Our target is to bring sufficient media on board such that humans and existing networks provide the coverage and that looks probable. A back up plan also exists in case the media pulls a fast one. This back up plan is to override the network executives and proceed with full world-wide coverage. Humanity’s ET supporters certainly have the necessary technology should this become necessary.
Courage and solidarity for the announcement team are major components of the present work we are doing. The team continues to grow in size and strength and the announcement, including disclosure of humanity’s ET supporters, is not far off.
This timeline births all sorts of miracles. May it succeed.
I see the big problem now is the media! They are so entrenched in their fear of, and belief in the dark that getting ANY Real Truth out is a formidable task! My prayers and thought are with you all!
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What’s in a name? Last Sunday I hiked up Sweeney Ridge, a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area I had never visited. It was a beautiful, if very windy and chilly, day; very clear. The deep purple Douglas iris was blooming, and countless other flowers. Rabbits and ground squirrels were out.
This is the heart of Druid practice, I feel: walking on the land. From high up this ridge so much land can be seen, and water too—from the ridge top, both the bay and the ocean are visible, a rare event. Besides the immediate surroundings, the growing vegetation, the wind sweeping through a grove of eucalyptus, stretches a vista that reveals how dynamic, even at times violent, this land can be: the reservoirs that mark the San Andeas Fault shimmer below. There is history here—this is where the Anza expedition first realized there was a huge bay here. And deep ‘history’ too; I look down on the bay, surprisingly blue on this sunny day, and think of that catastrophic flooding that occurred at the end of the Ice Age, an inundation which drowned a huge valley, and filled it with the waters that today we call San Francisco Bay. The land holds history, memory of prehistoric events, and more recent stories.
I’m bearing my own stories up here also. For I find myself thinking of Mad Sweeney, Suibhne Geilt, a figure beloved from Gaelic lore. This is a common name, so it of course has nothing to do with him, the mad poet living in the wilderness. And yet, I feel it makes perfect dream logic to associate this place with him. On the ridge top in the buffeting winds, I think of him hungry, foraging for berries and greens, blown about, as I look over the ubiquitous coyote brush and ceanothus, and imagine him flying back after a day of foraging into that grove of huge eucalyptus, their bark peeling, hanging lose, and swishing in the wind.
I pay my respects to the spirit of Sweeney and continue on. The land holds more history. Up ahead is a ruinous Nike station (interesting how the US military named these after a Greek goddess of victory). The buildings are covered in wild graffiti and the roofs are half collapsed. In one building a huge Parry’s Nolina grows, the land reclaiming these archetypal Cold War installations. I grew up in the Cold War. I feel personal history resonant in this pace, my mother worked for an aviation company… The passage of time, the past clasped in the present, the land rolling away in great waves down to the ocean far below and the shimmering of the Pacific. The Land, the Sea, the Sky.
I know it’s been quiet here for a quite a while. I’ve just been very overworked. But a week ago we had a lovely Antinous devotion rite in a local park. P. Sufenas Virius Lupus visited from Washington, another devotee came up from the South Bay; it was great to do ritual here in a place I often do solitary stuff. This in Diana’s grove,, a place where devotees of the goddess have long worshipped. I really enjoy seeing statues in public places that have offerings regularly and are obviously foci of contemporary pagan devotion.
I call this spot ‘Lanuvium West’ after a town near Lake Nemi in Italy that had a (funerary) club dedicated to both Antinous and Diana in Roman times. They shared a temple in the town. Members of the club met for feasts and contributed money to a pool for burial costs. The place here is on a bluff high above the ocean in a park, which is the former garden of Adolph Sutro, a 19th century mayor of San Francisco who had many classical sculptures installed in his garden, which were open to the public. Diana is the only survivor. The main entryway is flanked by two huge lions.
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2019-04-22T10:51:49Z
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Ever wonder where your IB alumni are? Me too! This blog is not only for IB alumni but for anyone interested in IB. Your humble author hails from the class of 2004. Suggestions for stories are welcome! Tell us what you’re doing these days! We want to know! For IB Alumni near and far. Wherever you may be we want to keep in touch!
is there a way to get those people that “like” the page from Facebook to automatically get confirmation link as subscribers? There are only 5 e-mail subscribers only.
oh, and I could not find a way to comment at the first time. Possibly, the little symbol on the top-right of each post is quite lost into the background?
oh hey I just get one more thing. Because in the front page, every posts are fully displayed. So I didn’t click the titles of the posts and kept reading the whole articles.
But because I didn’t click the titles of the posts, I could not get into the “leave a reply” section.
So, I think if the front page only display the summary of the post, people will have to click to expand and see the whole post, and then they see a place to “leave are reply”.
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2019-04-21T04:35:51Z
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How much of Dennis Burkley's work have you seen?
(Mid-90s) Appeared in a commercial for Carl's Jr.
[When asked how much he weighed] "Let me put it this way, a few more pounds, I'd have my own area code."
Frequently plays working class guys such as bartenders, farmhands, and bikers.
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2019-04-24T20:46:47Z
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An AOL parody I thought up after watching the new commercials. I thought about having the guy fly off the treadmill but that was too obvious. I started working on this yesterday and finished it up today after finding sounds. Reviews are welcome.
That was freaking hillarious, I think you should make more of them and make them longer or something.
that was pretty funny.you should make it longer tho.
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The hunters who shot the son of Cecil the Lion have been accused of lying about the kill by wildlife researchers from Oxford University.
Xanda (pictured above), aged six, Cecil’s oldest cub, was shot just outside Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park by a paying client on a legal hunt.
But Oxford University’s Wildlife Research Conservation Unit, which had fitted Xanda with a radio tracking collar, has disputed the hunters’ account of the shooting.
The university said the hunters’ claim that Xanda was a lone male who had left his pride and was therefore less likely to breed was false.
They insisted Xanda had no dependent cubs and had moved from the park – where hunting is banned – into a forest reserve where hunters are permitted to shoot one male lion a year.
But Oxford University has disputed this version of events, and accused the Zimbabwe Professional Hunters and Guides Association of misrepresenting its research team’s information, The Times reported.
One of the university’s researchers, Andrew Loveridge, said that Xanda was part of a pride with seven cubs.
When a male lion takes over a pride of females, they often kill their rival’s cubs.
Although acknowledging that the hunt was legal, Mr Loveridge said he had warned professional hunter Richard Cooke that shooting Xanda ‘would be detrimental to the population’.
It emerged last week that Xanda had been killed, two years after the death of his father, Cecil, who was shot dead in a similar area in controversial circumstances with a bow and arrow by US dentist Walter Palmer and took 40 hours to die.
In the immediate aftermath of Xanda’s death, Mr Loveridge had said Mr Cooke was an ethical hunter and ‘one of the good guys’ because he handed the lion’s collar back to researchers.
However, Mr Loveridge has appeared to have had a change of mind, and accused the hunting party of lying about the lion’s death.
‘Ethics is about not just adhering to the letter of the law, but also making informed ethical choices to limit the detrimental impacts of hunting activities,’ he said.
However, he acknowledged that the hunters had contacted the research unit at Oxford University to make checks before shooting Xanda.
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2019-04-21T00:39:39Z
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2019-04-22T07:58:36Z
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Dams have always held a special attraction for humans. Constructed many years ago with the purpose of supplying the population with sufficient water during the dry season they quickly turned into recreational and resting areas for families.
The Cajon de Pena Dam, which was built in the year 1976 and can be found in the southern part of Jalisco, is not an exception. The route to take from Puerto Vallarta is via the highway bound for Colima. After approximately one hour and 15 minutes you arrive at an intersection, where you have to turn in the direction of “El Tule”. About 20 kilometers further on you can admire the beautiful vista of the dam which holds a total capacity of 707 million cubic meters, surrounded by vegetation and offering panoramic scenery.
The three seafood restaurants in the area are ready to receive visitors and their main attraction besides the regional cuisine is their friendliness. To eat there is well worth a wait of several minutes or better yet arrive before two o’clock in the afternoon in order to get hold of a good table and to sample each one of the exquisite local recipes.
Here river prawns are called “shrimps” and it is a dish that you should not miss. The same is true for their fried fish (lobina and tilapia) and fresh ceviche which is prepared in two different ways: the traditional fish ceviche and the “callo” ceviche made out of the same fish but cut into square pieces. Once you are done savoring these delicacies, get ready for the obligatory boat ride offering magnificent opportunities to take pictures around the dam for a very reasonable price. And if you feel like it you can even ask the boatman for permission to get off and explore one of the small islands formed in the middle of the reservoir.
And if that is not enough, the Cajon de Pena dam as well as several of the neighboring zones provides archaeological areas for lovers of the past. In this case there are rock paintings with la Peña Pintada as the outstanding piece, a cave painting unique for Mesoamerica. It is located north of the dam along the bank of the Tomatlan River, part of an inaccessible natural formation that is situated 12 meters above the riverbed. This rock is 40 meters high, approximately 8 meters long and 2 meters wide and is pigmented with red color.
If you start your trip from Guadalajara you can head towards Manzanillo and after that city continue along the Jalisco coast until you arrive at the “El Tule” intersection, where you turn east for about 20 km.
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2019-04-19T00:42:43Z
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With the upheaval in the markets in the not too distant past many people, especially millenials, are hesitant to consider long term investments as an option for creating wealth.
However, it is not long term investing itself that is the issue; it is the type of investments that people often get into without realizing the risks and the long term nature of actually seeing a profit.
Long term investing can include the stock market, real estate, commercial investments and other opportunities. Taking a balanced approach, especially if you start young and build your portfolio, is the best way to plan for our future and protect against those valleys in the investment world that can and do happen.
• Don’t be trendy – trends or hot tips for investment are rarely what they are hyped up to be and often include very risky investments. Financial advisors don’t act on these tips and you shouldn’t either. If a company, stock or opportunity can’t stand up to scrutiny it isn’t a hot investment at any rate of return.
• Have a strategy – another common problem with people that don’t work with a financial advisor is that they invest in different options willy-nilly without any structured plan. This leaves weakness or gaps in your investment strategy that can compromise or reduce the effectiveness and earnings of your sound investments.
• Long term means long term – some people are obsessed with checking money markets, stocks and investments on a daily basis. If you have a long term strategy and have researched your investment options then this is simply counterproductive. Holding investments that are sound investments allows you to see those valleys and know that the mountain is coming on the other side.
• Maximize tax opportunities – while you should never make a long term investment for a short term tax break, maximizing your tax benefits from investments is a good idea. Here is where a great financial advisor can really make a difference.
Read as much as you can from people that you know have experience in making their money make money. The more educated you become the better informed you will be in any type of long term investment plan.
Entrepreneurs are sometimes lulled into winging it, managing by the seat of their pants, and flying blind. They forget about staying on top of the “performance numbers” that are important indicators of their business’s health. They don’t look for feedback that can give them a clear picture of what’s going right and what’s beginning to go wrong.
Now some business owners are simply undisciplined or lazy, and can’t be bothered with the details. In those cases, they deserve to suffer the consequences.
Most often it’s not because they don’t want to check the vital signs. It’s because they can’t find them, or don’t know what information they should be reviewing. The information is not always easy to get or understand.
A morning report showing daily cash balance, daily sales, receivables balances, and payables balances.
A monthly balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.
Monthly sales reports by customer and by product.
Any other numbers you think are vital to your company’s success.
Two other reports I would recommend are the “5-15 report” and the “Go For Broke” report.
The “5-15 report” is so named because it requires no more than 15 minutes to write or five minutes to read. It should be submitted every Friday by most employees of the company.
The first part of the report is a simple description of what was done during the week. Most employees find that, when they have to describe their work week after week, their ability to describe what’s going on becomes refined and more detailed.
If they do not become more adept at defining their work, if their reports become boring and repetitive, that should come through as a danger signal. Your employee requires a, a job needs to be more challenging, or both.
The second part of the “5-15 report” is a blunt description of the employees’ morale, and the morale they see in their department.
The last part requires everyone to present one idea that will improve their job, department, or the company—one idea a week, 52 ideas a year. An unspoken rule is that all ideas, suggestions, and problems presented in the reports are acted upon within one week. A longer delay would be ineffective and demoralizing.
One month a year, suspend the “5-15 report” and make way for the “Go For Broke” report. This report is an attempt by every person in the company to list everything in his or her department, or anywhere else in the company, that the employee believes is broken and needs fixing, including interactions between employees. It is a company-wide inventory of what needs to be noticed, changed, improved, or checked. The writers of the longest, most original, most humorous, and the best thought out “Go For Broke” reports get awards.
In most cases, the things needing repair are fixed by the person identifying the problem. I have not seen or heard about anything that improves a company as thoroughly as these reports.
Advisory boards provide isolated small business owners with an affordable outside perspective. They replace trial and error with experience and knowledge. They function as sounding boards and boards of inquiry. Advisory boards open needed doors and close unnecessary ones while giving management an inside look at the outside world.
Interview-checking for high-level hires and personnel referrals.
Ongoing critique of company effectiveness in addressing them.
There are a lot of very well meaning insurance agents and companies that work diligently to provide top levels of coverage for their clients. They don’t actively or intentionally oversell insurance but, through the years and if people change policies, add to coverage and randomly enroll in policies, you can end up being over-insured.
The term over-insured can be a bit confusing for many people as they only think about the benefits that they can obtain in the event that they had an insurance claim. However, often the monthly, quarterly or yearly cost of the insurance is not as great as taking those payments and investing them in a high interest investment account that will earn you money you can access as needed.
• Health Insurance –depending on your health conditions and those of your family having the top of the line, unlimited type of coverage may not be reasonable. When people are younger opting for top quality coverage that addresses your specific requirements, which typically won’t include comprehensive drug coverage and gold or platinum policies, can help you to save that additional cost.
• Homeowners Insurance – your homeowner’s insurance plan should not cover everything in your home, just the larger items that are going to be costly to replace. Having more coverage than you need for homeowner’s insurance will not result in larger claim settlements as it is based on replacement or actual value. In addition, homeowner’s insurance extra policies that cover jewelry or art items should only be considered if you have substantial investments in these assets.
• Vehicle Insurance – while you have to have vehicle insurance to be legal, you don’t have to cover all types of issues with your coverage. For example, if you have an older vehicle that is paid off and that you only use occasionally you may not want to pay for the more costly comprehensive coverage.
Other types of insurance from high levels of disability insurance to separate types of riders or policy additions to cover items you could live without or afford to repair or replace out of pocket may also be draining you financially.
By having a financial adviser review your coverage you can get tips and ideas on how to cut coverage you don’t need as well as specifics on coverage that you should consider.
A recent study by CBInsights listed the top 20 reasons start-ups fail. (Full study at https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem) This isn’t the first study about start-up failure, but it is different from others in that it provided a much higher level of detail.
No market need was listed by 42%. Almost half the failures were caused because their product didn’t solve a customer problem. This is why we spend so much time in our Sales & Marketing Boot Camp pushing our clients to really discover their customers’ true need (Check out our Boot Camp at http://www.freeisbstrategies.com/sales-marketing-boot-camp-sales).
Running out of cash was listed by 29%. A third of the businesses simply ran out of cash. This is why the business owner must become an expert in raising cash, keeping cash, and budgeting. This is also why the business owner must have good accounting records.
Not having the right team was listed by 23%. Too often a small business owner can’t grow a viable business independently and fails to bring in qualified help. Sooner or later this kills the business.
Being out-competed was listed by 19%. You are often told to ignore the competition and just put out good work. But if they have a solution to the customer’s problem that is much easier to use, or they simply out-market you, they will become the leader in your niche and you will lose.
Pricing/cost issues were listed by 18%. Many businesses have trouble determining what to charge and what pricing model to use. They often build a product or service and say, “This is what I need to charge to make money.” This approach ignores the customer. What is the customer willing and able to pay to solve their problem? Only after you discover this information can you determine if you have a profitable solution (product or service) to offer.
This matches what I have noticed with my clients. They seem to be either doing very well or simply surviving. If you aren’t doing as well as you think you should be, these five things may be a large part of the problem. Read the full study with the comments and I guarantee you will find ideas and solutions that you can apply to your business.
If you talk to a top financial planner you will quickly find out that it is never too late to start thinking about retirement savings. Unfortunately many people think that if you don’t get started in your early 20s or 30s you have missed your opportunity completely.
The reality is that if you are starting later, in your forties or even fifties, you still have options. Generally you will want a lower risk investment to protect your initial investment and to bring in a steady interest amount. This will be a slower but more protected way to save and will still allow you to diversify and, depending on how much you have to invest, even try some higher risk, higher reward types of options.
• Take full advantage of matching 401K or other types of retirement plans offered by your employer. By matching you can literally double your investments will can allow you to save significantly more than you may have thought.
• Take advantage of the option to apply “catch-up” contributions to your 401K plan or other eligible savings plan if you are over 50.
• Eliminate those unnecessary monthly expenses and budget, putting aside money specifically for retirement investment. This may be very different than what you have been doing in trying to just invest what was left over at the end of the month.
• Talk to your financial planner about the option to invest in stocks. While these are more volatile if you are leaving the investment in for 10 or more years you will see steady growth over time even with some drops in value often the time span.
• Consider extending your career by five or more years to help you to have an income to invest. This may be in full or part time work and it can provide a substantial investment amount over retiring at an earlier age.
Work with a financial planner that understands your goals and can help you with realistic, achievable retirement savings goals. Some financial planners specialize in these types of services and have great ideas for people with all levels of income earning potential.
Setting up a well-thought-out customer call-back department can dramatically increase just about any business’s sales.
One of the first businesses I coached was a high quality portrait studio. When customers picked up their portraits, they were offered various upsell packages and frames. Some customers did purchase the extras but many didn't because the cost of the basic portraits was so high.
The owner started calling his customers about a month after they took the portraits home. During this call he would ask about the service they received and made sure that they were happy with their purchases. This allowed him to fix any quality problems and keep customer satisfaction high.
He would then ask them if they had framed the portraits yet. Most had not. He then would say, "It is a real shame to hide such a nice portrait of (enter loved one’s name here). I have a great deal on a frame. Are you sure you don't want me to frame it for you? It will look great when I'm done." Many people took advantage of his offer because they felt bad that they hadn't framed the portraits. They also were more likely to buy a frame because now it was a stand-alone purchase rather than an addition to an already large purchase.
To end his call, he would ask for referrals by asking if the customer knew anyone who was getting married, graduating, having a baby, or any other special occasion. Notice he asked for the referral while reminding them of reasons that people get portraits taken. This is much more effective than just asking if they know anyone who might need his services.
Now he didn't stop there! He used to store the prints that customers didn't purchase. He started calling customers about six months after the sale to offer these prints at a deep discount. He explained that he would rather they took the prints so he wouldn’t have to throw them away. Many people accepted the deeply discounted opportunity to buy more prints simply because the cost was low and they couldn’t stand the thought of their loved one’s pictures being destroyed. After the sale he would ask for referrals again.
The result was almost a 50 percent increase in sales with no advertising costs.
1) Follows up with every customer to receive feedback about the company's services.
2) Answers any questions customers may have about the product or service they purchased.
3) Offers additional products that complement the original purchase.
5) Thanks each customer for their business.
If you have employees make the calls, make sure they are well trained, have good telephone personalities, and are motivated to provide "legendary" customer service. Provide them with a script giving them guidance on how to handle various situations. Finally, establish a system for handling complaints.
Gather crucial industry and marketing information.
Set specific goals and take measurements to assess progress over time.
An annual profit plan is essentially a map to your targeted destination. Ideally, it gets you from your starting point to your goal. It gives you a clear idea of the obstacles that lie ahead and points out alternate routes.
Many people view the annual profit plan as a chore when in fact, it is an opportunity. Creating your annual plan gives you the chance to 1) learn about your industry and market as it is currently; 2) gain control over your business; and 3) obtain a competitive edge.
The annual profit planning process also helps you, as the person most responsible for the growth of your company, gain more control over both the short-term and long-term progress of your business.
Operations. By evaluating and establishing the procedures, labor deployment, and the work flow necessary to run your business from day to day.
Finances. By realistically projecting cash flow, income and expenses, and break-even points while creating channels of information to keep you fully informed of your financial picture.
Long-term development. By setting specific goals and objectives, identifying milestones, devising an exit plan (if appropriate), and determining how to position your company to respond to both internal and external changes.
Evaluating and refining your business allows you to convey your message clearly to your target market so that customers will be better able to distinguish your company from your competition.
Doing a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) gives you a better sense of how to position your company in relation to competitors. We discussed SWOT analysis in greater detail in our February 2013 issue.
A good annual profit plan saves you money and time by focusing your business activities, giving you more control over your finances, marketing, and daily operations, and helping you raise the capital you need.
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., investors have lost $114 million over the last three years to bank failures because they went over the FDIC’s $100,000-per-depositor insurance limit, or because they deposited their money unknowingly in uninsured banks.
• Double check that your bank is FDIC insured. The agency has an online database of insured institutions at www3.fdic.gov/idasp. Or, you can call them at 877.275.3342.
• Review the accounts that you and your family have at the bank. Make adjustments to your accounts to make sure they’re within the insurance limits.
• Check your institution’s coverage amounts on the EDIE, the agency’s electronic deposit insurance estimator, at www2.fdic.gov/edie.
• Review your coverage before you open a new account, inherit or win any money, or if you have money at two different banks that end up merging.
Many times I will review a client’s income statement and discover that they increased their sales but had a higher cost of goods sold percentage, resulting in lower profits.
The first and most obvious thing to look at is the product prices. Have they increased dramatically from the prior year? This is often the cause of the increased cost of goods sold percentage.
Get bids from other suppliers.
Call your current vendors, tell them you're shopping around, and push for a price reduction.
Look into price breaks for larger orders and other special pricing your vendors may offer.
Consider passing the price increase on to the customer. Plan this carefully if your main selling point is having a lower price. Otherwise, you might be surprised at how much elasticity you may have in your pricing.
The problem is often a change in the products you are selling. To discover if this is the case you must know your product costs by product, not just a total. Get your accountant to put all your products on a spreadsheet similar to the one I review in the attached video.
It illustrates a rather simple (and extreme) example where the units sold and the total sales dollars are the same. But the product costs are dramatically different. If I sell the same number of units but sell more of the ones with the higher cost, the gross profit decreases from $4,800 to $3,400. This is even with the same sales amount!
The quickest way to fix a reduction in gross profit caused by a change in product mix is to use the 80/20 rule.
This rule is a useful guide for making decisions in the product management area. Indeed, you’ll find this works just as well in other aspects of your business operation. Let me explain what the 80/20 rule is.
80 percent of the products in your line bring in only 20 percent of the company’s sales, and, 20 percent of the items produce about 80 percent of the firm’s revenues.
Always monitor your product line. Shortly after the close of each year, prepare your product-sales data with the following data: 1) units sold, 2) sales dollars per product, 3) cost of goods sold per product, and 4) the gross profit per product.
Why is this product performing so poorly?
Was it priced too high? Too low?
Were its sales cannibalized by some competitive item in our line?
Could we have sold more if we had promoted it differently?
Is the item in the decline stage of its product life cycle?
Can we redesign the product to make it more salable?
Is there an untapped market for the product?
Is this product required as an add-on to a high profit item?
After due deliberation, start building a list of the items to drop from your product line.
Finally, concentrate on promoting your most profitable products. I have worked with several companies that have done the hard work outlined in this article. Without fail, they experienced a dramatic increase in profits.
• Unplug appliances. Don’t just turn your TV off—unplug it when you’re not watching anything. Even switched off, most appliances such as TVs and computers consume some electricity. Pulling the plug saves on money and energy-related resources.
• Drive less. Cutting your car use in half can save you more than $1,000 a year. Carpool, or use public transportation, to get to and from work. You’ll save on gas, maintenance, and insurance.
• Eat at home. The average person spends more than $2,200 a year eating at restaurants or fast-food establishments. Cook your own meals, and take your lunch to work instead of buying food every day.
• Take advantage of customer reward programs. Discount cards that save you a few dollars here and there can add up to major savings over time. For your convenience, set up an alternative e-mail account at Gmail or Yahoo and use it when you sign up for programs. You’ll be better able to manage the promotional e-mails you receive from joining companies’ mailing lists.
• Wait before buying. Implement a 24-hour rule before buying anything (and a 30-day rule for major purchases). Don’t buy anything on impulse: Wait the required amount of time, and then decide how much you really need or want the item. You may be surprised by what you can live without.
Business owners often use outside accountants to audit their books to make sure they are recording business transactions correctly.
Business owners should "audit" their customers to determine if they are happy with the company and plan to buy from the company in the future. You should consider hiring an outside firm to do this for you. Your customer is much more likely to be honest with an outside firm, and it helps impress upon them that you are serious about providing quality service.
Customer audits should be short and focus only on the most significant issues the business has. Here are 10 questions the company should consider asking.
How would you rate the quality of the product or service provided?
How does this company compared to other vendors in terms of quality of service?
Do you feel this company goes out of its way to keep your business, or does it do just enough to fulfill your needs?
What is the number one reason you chose to purchase from this company?
What else would you like to see the company provide?
What one thing do you think should be improved?
What will be your greatest challenge over the next year?
Publicity is often overlooked as a valuable marketing tool for attracting attention and interest in a product, service, or company. Using publicity as a sales tool is often much more effective than purchased advertising. Your customer is much more likely to believe a human interest story than an advertisement that consumers have been trained to view with great skepticism.
Creating a good press release is important. It is a good idea to hire an expert who can help you prepare a professional press release. But if you decide to do it yourself, do a quick Google search to find some good examples.
Consider making yourself available to the press as the "local expert". Call them in advance to introduce yourself and offer your services. Ask them about submitting stories discussing developments in your field of expertise that may affect citizens in your community. Put in the time and effort it takes to build a strong give-and-take relationship with the press. They know the game, so be a valuable resource and not a nuisance.
It takes work, but the result of even one good story can be a dramatic increase in sales.
They don’t like the fact that they don’t really know how big their bill will be. Value billing transfers the risk from the customer to the provider.
Divorce is a trying time on everyone. There are many issues that need to be resolved before anything can be finalized. This is true with material items and financial matters – especially those involving taxes.
It is both extremely important and necessary for both parties to agree on how the taxes will be handled to avoid huge penalties and expenses that will add up if the situation goes unresolved.
• Filing Status: How you file will depend on whether your divorce is final or not. If it isn’t, you have the option filing “married filing jointly” or “married filing separately.” Obviously there are tax advantages to filing jointly, however there is also one big consequence to filing this way. If it turns out that you owe instead of a refund, you will be responsible for your spouse’s payments if he or she doesn’t take care of it.
• Taxes on Assets: The division of property acquired during the marriage can produce another set of tax issues. Assets transferred between a married couple are not taxable, so to avoid a large chunk of money being paid out for taxes on assets that are transferred after the divorce is final, make every effort to come to an agreement beforehand.
• Taxes and alimony: Typically this is a cut and dry situation – alimony is NON-taxable for the payee and taxable for the recipient. As with any situation, though, there are exceptions. If it is outlined in the divorce agreement that the alimony will end in the case of the recipient’s death, it’s taxable. If the alimony continues after the recipient’s death, it’s non-taxable. The taxes can be avoided completely if a lump sum settlement is agreed upon either as one payment or on an installment plan, the recipient can receive the money tax free.
The best way to avoid these and any other tax pitfalls that can come with a divorce, talk to a CPA who is well-versed in these situations and let them guide you through the process.
Accounts receivable factoring helps in acquiring cash for the product or the services rendered. It results in immediate cash inflow without creating any debt or transferring the business ownership. Accounts receivables are the most valued asset for any company. It is one of the mode for increasing sales and expanding business. The payment is done of the 80% of the invoice value. The 20% of the value is kept as reserved and is paid after deducting the fee once the amount on the invoice is due.
This practice of accounts receivable factoring is most suitable for small and medium business owners. Due to accounts receivable factoring small and medium business owners are able to generate cash and avoid the debt trap. It also helps in representing string financial status and avoids interest on any loans if otherwise taken.
This practice of accounts receivable factoring generates cash to fund the payrolls and taxes due. The funds thus generated also help to increase the inventory or buy new equipment, tools, etc to flourish the business.
Increasing sales is important to any profit enhancement plan. But cost reduction cannot be left out. If you are operating on a 10 percent net profit margin, a $1 cost reduction is equal to a $10 increase in sales.
To achieve lower costs you should perform a cost reduction audit annually.
First, identify your biggest costs and assign them to cost centers. Then use those centers to categorize the rest of the costs. Once you identify your costs and understand their relationship to your business, you can begin trimming your costs. All companies attempt to do cost cutting at some point, but they often fail.
Make cost cutting a continuous activity. Most companies have zealous attempts every few years, but generally only during business downturns. In between, only a token effort at most is made to operate more economically.
You can win big by having all of your managers work on cost cutting every day. Require a written progress report on cost reduction every quarter. This reduces your problems during bad times but it will also increase your cash flow during the boom times.
What’s more, this is a much more efficient way to cut costs. Crash programs tend to result in process hang-ups and quality problems because the measures taken are not very well thought out and are generally implemented in a hurry. Continuous cost cutting gives you the opportunity to carefully test results and avoid false economies.
2. Cut the major costs first. It seems obvious to start where the money is, doesn’t it? Yet I have had to sit through countless meetings where the cost cutting applied to as little as one percent of the total costs. Be creative! Look for ways to cut costs that won’t affect efficiency or reduce your product’s quality.
The answer of course will be no, but you can jar your people out of the rut by rephrasing it. “Okay, suppose we were somehow forced to stop doing this. What would we do instead? Would it be cheaper?” Don't even consider your options for reducing an activity’s cost until you have convincing evidence that it is impossible to eliminate it.
What you can measure, you can manage. The cash conversion cycle is no different.
What we need to measure is the length of time it takes to turn your investments in receivables, inventory, and work-in-process back into cash.
To increase profits, two other things need to be measured. First is the time it takes between first contact by a prospect and the time of the first order. The second is the time between receiving the order and when it is delivered.
Watch the video to see how your cash can be increased by improving your cash conversion cycle.
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I hope that everyone has had a happy and restful break. I certainly did, but have had to cram a couple of weeks work into five days in order to catch up!
Hence the lateness of the greeting.
One of the things that makes Christmas for me is the BBC.
It all starts with the Christmas Radio Times, and then Carols From Kings, The Reith lectures, The Royal Society Christmas Lectures and delightfully this year Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens!
The Reith Lectures by Professor Atul Gawande were a huge pleasure this year and I can highly recommend them.
The first lecture explores the topic of why doctors fail, and explores the factors which affect medicine, Ignorance (lack of knowledge) and Ineptitude (failure to use existing knowledge).
The second lecture is titled the century of the system, and interestingly describes some simple systems that care and nursing homes would do well to copy.
Lecture three is about the problem of hubris and looks at the issues of aging and death and how society has a problem recognising the limits of what professionals can do.
The final lecture the idea of wellbeing is for me the highlight, and explores ideas around end of life care and assisted dying.
If nothing else, for me, the whole series re enforces the importance of the fact that people providing care need to care. A simple concept,but one that’s often overlooked.
This entry was posted in My News, reflection and tagged assisted death, Atul Gawande, Bad care, BBC, BBC Radio 4, care home, care homes, care standards, elderly care, end of life care, health and social care, later life, later life care, News, Nursing Care, older people, quality care, Reith Lectures, residential care by KrisS. Bookmark the permalink.
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Information on diamond rings diamond grading diamond clarity diamond quality diamond buying diamond cut information on pokemon diamond and pearl diamond information diamond information center.
Diamond is one of the natural allotropes of carbon (the main allotrope being graphite; see also allotropes of carbon). The hardest of naturally occurring materials, diamonds cut into multi-faceted shapes are among the most prized gemstones of jewelry, and find use in industrial applications as well.
A scattering of "brilliant" cut diamonds shows off the many reflecting facets.
Color Most often colorless to white. Rarely pink, yellow, orange, green or blue.
Diamond is a transparent, optically isotropic crystal with a refractive index of 2.417, a high dispersion of 0.044, and a specific gravity of 3.52.
Sometimes known as adamant, it is the hardest known naturally occurring material, scoring 10 on the old Mohs scale of mineral hardness. The material boron nitride, when in a form structurally identical to diamond, is nearly as hard as diamond; a currently hypothetical material, beta carbon nitride, may also be as hard or harder in one form. Furthermore, it has been shown 1 (http://www.mrs.org/publications/jmr/jmra/articles/1997/nov/p03109.pdf) 2 (http://www.mtu-net.ru/nanoscan/files/article_03.pdf) that ultrahard fullerite (C60) (not to be confused with P-SWNT Fullerite) when testing diamond hardness with a scanning force microscope can scratch diamond. In turn, using more accurate measurments, these values are now known for diamond hardness. A Type IIa diamond (111) has a hardness value of 167 GPa (±6) when scratched with an ultrahard fullerite tip. A Type IIa diamond (111) has a hardness value of 231 GPa (±5) when scratched with a diamond tip which leads to hypothetically inflated values.
The diamond derives its name from the Greek adamas, "untameable" or "unconquerable", referring to its hardness.
Diamonds typically crystallize in the cubic crystal system and consist of tetrahedrally bonded carbon atoms. A second form called lonsdaleite with hexagonal symmetry is also found. The local environment of each atom is identical in the two structures. Cubic diamonds have a perfect octahedral cleavage, which means that they have four cleavage planes. Diamonds occur most often as euhedral or rounded octahedra and twinned octahedra known as macles. Other forms include dodecahedra and cubes. Diamonds are commonly found coated in nyf, a gum-like skin. Their fracture may be step-like, conchoidal (shell-like, similar to glass) or irregular.
Unlike hardness, which only denotes resistance to scratching, diamond's toughness is only fair to good. Toughness relates to its ability to resist breakage from falls or impacts. Particular cuts of diamonds are more prone to breakage, and thus may be uninsurable by reputable insurance companies. The culet is a facet designed exclusively to resist breakage. Extremely thin, or very thin girdles are also prone to much higher breakage.
The luster of a diamond is described as adamantine, which simply means diamond-like. Some diamonds exhibit fluorescence of various colors under long wave ultra-violet light, but generally bluish-white, yellowish or greenish fluorescence under X-rays. Some diamonds, particularly Canadian diamonds, show no fluorescence. Diamonds have an absorption spectrum consisting of a fine line in the violet at 415.5 nm. Colored stones show additional bands. Brown diamonds show a band in the green at 504 nm, sometimes accompanied by two additional weak bands also in the green.
Adamas Gemological Laboratory (http://www.gis.net/~adamas) makes spectrophotometer machines that can distinguish natural, artificial, and color-enhanced diamonds. Diamond has an index of refraction of 2.42 in the visible spectrum.
Unlike most electrical insulators, diamond is a good conductor of heat because of the strong covalent bonding within the crystal. Most natural blue diamonds contain boron atoms which replace carbon atoms in the crystal matrix, and also have high thermal conductance. Specially purified synthetic diamond has the highest thermal conductivity (2000–2500 W/(m·K), five times more than copper) of any known solid at room temperature. Because diamond has such high thermal conductance it is already used in semiconductor manufacture to prevent silicon and other semiconducting materials from overheating.
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Last week, I wrote a post on how to master the career fair. Doing all that stuff is a good idea, but there’s more to it than just what happens after the career fair, especially in today’s economy.
One thing students tend to forget about the public relations industry is that agencies and corporations rarely hire a set number of people each May when students graduate. Remember that agencies fill positions based on how their business is doing. If you read in PRWeek that Burson-Marsteller recently lost a big account, it’s probably not a good idea to contact the recruiter and ask for a job. However, if you see that Ketchum won a new account, don’t you think it would be a good ideas to send your resume and cover letter talking about your experience with that industry? I don’t think it would hurt.
All in all, remember to be patient and persistent. The job market is competitive right now, so just keep your eyes on the prize and don’t give up.
Don’t send a follow up e-mail; send a handwritten, old-fashioned thank you note. Keep it to a maximum of four lines.
Don’t think recruiters will contact you about job openings. You have to look on their Web site and watch the news to see how business is going.
Don’t call daily or weekly. You don’t want to pester the recruiter.
Follow up if the recruiter wants to you send samples or an e-mailed version of your resume.
If your talk went well at the career fair, go ahead and see if you can schedule an informational interview. If the recruiter likes you but they don’t have an opening, it’s possible they might forward your resume on.
Apply for a job with the company online, and be sure to mention who you spoke with at the career fair.
Consider an internship post-graduation – it is the path to a full-time position.
The video below is another from MSU PRSSA’s YouTube Channel. It features Kelly Rossman-McKinney of Rossman PR talking about the skills necessary to be successful in PR and how to get a job in these challenging economic times.
Any other tips for following up after a career fair? Have you been able to find a job or internship because of a career fair?
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Hansen, Herbert Eugene, "Experimental evaluation of video-tape on instruction in vocational agriculture " (1971). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 4884.
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I am so glad Fall is finally here. I just love the smell of crispy leaves and raking up all those colorful piles to jump in.....Wait...It is NOT here yet? I must be day dreaming big time because I sure could smell the difference in the air, couldn't you? (We did have a day this week where it was cool and breezy with no humidity. That was a BIG change compared to the rest of the summer we have have had so far.) Well it put me in the mood to create something for Fall and to start on my upcoming class schedule. This will be one of the cards featured in a Fall class. I really liked how it turned out and it uses one of the stamp sets from the upcoming Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog that debuts on August 1. Can't wait for you to see all the new goodies and for us to play with them in my classes.
This is for the Paper Craft Crew Challenge Sketch 52 and uses the Stamp Set Truly Grateful (wood 131730, clear 131733) and the designer paper "Sweater Weather" (132184). See, I told you I was in the mood for Fall! ;) I used my Stampin' Write markers and a blender pen to color in the wheat and the sentiment is from the new set Six-Sided Sampler (wood 130953, clear 130956) Add some Rhinestone jewels and you are set. You can purchase these items from my store starting August 1.
Head over to the PCCCS Blog to see what other awesome designs our design team came up with. Don't forget to play along and upload your creation. Can't wait to see it. Warm Fall hugs.
I am just back from convention and not quite awake after going to bed at 3:00 am but wanted to post a few photos just to wet your whistle. First, let me share a photo that our Stampin' Up! CEO and Co-Founder Shelli had on her blog. This picture shows just a "few" of us getting excited about the start of convention. Can you find Waldo?
Next, I have just received the "official" bag. LOVE it!
One of the best things about convention (there are so many) is meeting up with friends that you have not seen all year. Here is Lois Folla and Patty Bennett at ONE OF THE PARTIES that SU threw for us.
Dinner at Buca di Beppo with long distance best stamping friends! Love these guys :) We had the coveted kitchen table.
Have I mentioned the great classes and all the GREAT FREE GIVEAWAYS that SU showered on us to celebrate their 25th anniversary? I cannot post pictures of the stampsets as they are from the upcoming Holiday Catalog but just let me say that SU was VERY generous. Thank you Stampin' Up!
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There’s a rumour that GW will be making a Horus Heresy game. More here on BOLS.
OH GOD PLEASE BE TRUE!
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History of Wolves is an unusual coming-of-age novel, partly due to its teenage narrator Linda, who has been brought up by her parents on an abandoned hippie commune in the backwoods of northern Minnesota. Linda is an outsider at school, where she is commonly referred to as a ‘Commie’ or ‘Freak’. Back at home, her parents offer her little warmth or affection; she is unsure whether they are even her own parents or simply the people left to look after her when all the other hippies had deserted the commune. Within their rural habitat, she is raised to chop wood and gut fish from a young age and knows the harsh yet magnificent setting like the back of her hand.
Towards the beginning of the novel, Linda’s history teacher asks her to be the school’s representative in the local History Odyssey tournament. Rather than preparing a speech on the topics suggested to her such as Vietnam War registers or border crossings to Canada, Linda instantly settles on the more outlandish subject of the history of wolves. She describes how on the morning of the tournament, she sawed a branch from an old pine behind her house which she then ‘props against the lectern to create the crucial atmosphere.’ Meanwhile, a tape of howling wolves plays on repeat as the soundtrack to her speech. During her talk, Linda highlights a particular quote she found in a book: ‘An alpha animal may only be alpha at certain times for a specific reason.’ Uttering these words has a tantalising effect over her, causing her to feel like she is ‘drinking something cool and sweet, something forbidden.’ Their meaning resounds throughout the rest of the story, as themes such as hidden power, ongoing battles for control and passive bystanders are frequently drawn upon. After Linda’s speech, one of the judges dismissively asks, ‘What do wolves have to do with human history?’ She retorts, ‘Wolves have nothing at all to do with humans, actually. If they can help it, they avoid them.’ This reply immediately reveals the hidden alpha dominance that Linda herself has in spite of the senior position and patronising tone of the older man in front of her. It also reinforces her alienated role as a loner in society, who learns just as much from the challenging natural landscape she immerses herself in as she does from the many books she regularly borrows from her school’s library.
The story’s plot centres around the relationship that Linda develops with a family who have recently moved across the river from her house. The father of the family, Leo, is an enigmatic figure who is initially always absent due to his demanding job in Hawaii. On the other hand, Linda develops a close attachment with the four-year-old son Paul and in particular his mother Patra, when she takes up a job at their home as a babysitter. Linda is fascinated by the intimate bond that Patra and Paul share and which she has never been able to develop with her own mother. She relishes the rare feeling of inclusion she experiences at their home where they both treat her with tender appreciation. However, this peaceful atmosphere is overshadowed by the knowledge that is revealed to readers in the novel’s second paragraph that Paul is doomed to die. Teasing references are periodically made in Linda’s retrospective narration to the trial that will follow this momentous event. This insight prevents readers from letting themselves feel happy for Linda in her newfound role. Indeed, the novel takes a turn for the worst when Leo finally returns from Hawaii and his sinister presence pervades the previously harmonious household.
I really enjoyed this novel, particularly for its cutting descriptions of the brutal landscape in which Linda lives. The simultaneous beauty and cruelty of the wild woods reflect the challenging lives of the story’s characters, particularly for Linda who in finding her first slice of happiness also becomes a passive witness of a horrific crime. These powerful descriptions of Linda’s surroundings remind us that it is nature which ultimately assumes alpha dominance. The plot did seem overly drawn out at times, slowly building up a sense of momentum which was not quite fully satisfied in its final scenes. Nevertheless, I was really impressed by this story, especially as it is the debut novel of author Emily Fridlund. Its haunting atmosphere stayed with me after I had finished it, which I always think is a sign of a skilfully-told book.
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The goal of the JW blog is to provide an informal way of relaying news and information about Seattle area junk removal. Our goal is to make every customer a repeat customer. We feel creating a company/customer dialogue is one more way we can help retain customers and provide a better service than the competition.
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THANKS TO LEGAL AID, I was able to get a severely disabled child access to proper treatment.
This entry was posted in Actions against local authorities, Clients with disabilities, Community care law and tagged cuts to legal aid, Legal aid, save legal aid, save UK justice by thanks2legalaid. Bookmark the permalink.
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Did you ever do a code review where you recorded an extremely high amount of WTF/m? And did you ever wonder what the cause of all this bad code is? Most of the time cause number 1 are the use of design and coding antipatterns.
If you like definitions, here is one: An AntiPattern is a literary form that describes a commonly occurring solution to a problem that generates decidedly negative consequences. The AntiPattern may be the result of a manager or developer not knowing any better, not having sufficient knowledge or experience in solving a particular type of problem, or having applied a perfectly good pattern in the wrong context.
IMO an antipattern of frequent occurrence is the lack of knowing the existence of some useful frameworks/libraries. Apache commons lang and commons collections are dependencies that should be present in every Java project.
You can write your own fancy for loop for filtering or selecting some objects in a collection or you can use CollectionUtils.select(…) or CollectionUtils.filter(…).
You can do some fancy not null checks ending up with a huge if-else construction or you can use StringUtils.isNotBlank(…). It’s up to you.
A general rule is not trying to reinvent the wheel. Some people like to write their own Reflection utils while Apache commons beanutils, Spring’s BeanUtils and BeanWrapper will do the trick.
Cargo cult programming is a style of programming in which patterns and methods are used without understanding why. The term “cargo cult”, originally referred to aboriginal religions which grew up in the South Pacific after World War II. The practices of these groups centered on building elaborate mock-ups of airplanes and military landing strips in the hope of summoning the god-like airplanes that had brought marvelous cargo during the war.
Most of the time this way of programming is used by unskilled or unexperienced programmers that copy-paste some code from somewhere else.
Instead of checking for some specific corner case values like null values, some people like to catch a NullPointerException and do some logic in the catch block. This way of coding is called expection handling because the exception is expected to happen.
Exceptions are invented to inform you of the fact that something really bad happened but they’re not meant to be thrown often. That’s why they are called ‘exceptions’. If they occur, please handle them carefully but never abuse them to execute some logic that could have been implemented with a simple if-else check.
Referring to the previous antipattern, when an exception is thrown that means that something unexpected happened. The last thing you should do is swallow these exceptions instead of processing its useful information.
For example, if you have a method that should only return 1 object because you expect it be unique, perfoming a DB query that returns a list of results, checking if the list’s size equals 1 and then performing a query that can only return 1 unique result (if not an exception is thrown). If you’re implementing something like that, it means that it could be possible that the expected object is not unique which means that implementation differs from what the analysis says.
Inheritance should be handled with care. It’s very useful but you should only use it what it’s intended for. If the inheritance tree becomes to bloated, something is wrong. Do not write abstract classes for 1 specific case. Use composition instead. The strategy pattern can come in handy here.
Some people like to enhance their code by continuing to work on it well past the point where the extra effort is adding some value instead of sticking to the requirements. The mistake made here is thinking the end user would be much more delighted to see the additional or enhanced features in the product, than what the user asked for or expected. The user might be disappointed in the results, and the extra effort by the developer might be futile. This process is referred to as gold plating.
Gold plating is related to premature optimization. Premature optimization refers to thinking about possible issues that could arise in the future but that are not the case at this moment. You should only think about what is asked and what is required, not about what eventually could be useful for future purposes. A frequent occuring premature optimization is the premature performance optimization. If there are no preformance issues at this moment, do not try to handle them, handle them when they happen.
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The robot cut a slit in its own arm with its own metal fingernail, then pushed some buttons on its chest. The slit zipped itself up. All silicon–no metal visible.
Swar the robot looked politely confused.
‘You don’t do it consciously, anyway,’ finished Annie.
‘And your robot does?’ asked Kedar.
‘And I am a robot?’ asked Kedar.
My brother and I love Ancient Aliens. We derive that same strange joy out of watching the show that we do from watching movies like Housefull and Singham with like-minded company.
While I do believe aliens exist, I do not like the narrow or no definition of ‘alien’ the show seems to suggest. They never really specify who or what they imply by the term. Sometimes, the aliens are angels. Sometimes, the Hindu gods are aliens. Sometimes, some of the prophets are aliens. Though I do not recall seeing it in an episode, I am sure some of our long-gone creatures must have been branded aliens too, or perhaps their going-away had something to do with aliens.
It is difficult to explain the unknown with the little-known, specially when ‘known’ isn’t as quantifiable as it parades itself.
An occasional episode here and there does provide food for thought, and one such idea had to do with Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Renaissance painter whose work is so familiar with all.
Imagine my excitement, when the opening segment of the show suggested that his paintings contained aliens and UFOs. Load of stuff to do with him being a messenger of aliens and it was they who inspired him to sketch out all those inventions we today take for granted. In the commercial break, I tried hard to remember whether I ever noticed these aliens before. Except that the Mona Lisa has a kind of odd face and that famous enigmatic smile, I couldn’t think of any other. Then just when I was about to place that episode into Rohit Shetty category, the second segment began. That is where they started mirror-imaging those paintings and then superimposing these mirror-images. Before my eyes, the screen was showing how Virgin of the Rocks became an archetypal alien. Then there was The Madonna with Saint Giovannino, and no way could the Unidentified Flying Object in it be hastily dismissed as a cloud or the moon (a moon isn’t ever a grey hexagon with yellow streaks emerging from it, is it?).
To summarize, about half a dozen paintings of the master could be superimposed on their own mirror-images to form what were obviously portraits of, well, aliens; and some paintings depicted UFOs without even having the need to mirror-image them or anything.
After my brain was bamboozled completely, I realized that I could see this for myself. Yes, I had that much time and curiosity. But to be fair, in the spirit of science and statistics, I also decided to do the mirror-bit with another Renaissance painter’s works, just to see whether the appearance of aliens had something to do with the style and approach towards painting back then. And also to see if every well-composed painting would result in a symmetry that bears likeness to a human-face that could be mistaken for… you guessed it right, an alien.
I can’t say whether there are any aliens in the last two, because I have never come across (in popular culture) any looking like the things in above.
To summarize, my photo-editing adventure resulted aliens in four out of the eight Vinci paintings I tested, and zero out of four for Raphael. Visual reference point for aliens was based on how ‘obvious’ the symmetry looked like alien-forms, rather than one having to struggle to see them. This brings us back to the point I earlier mentioned regarding the unknown and the known.
Here’s the said Ancient Aliens episode.
I think I met Melchizedek right outside the Nagpur airport one morning, after a short trip home this July. He was dressed like one of the security guards- in khaki, hiding boredom just like the guards did behind a strict, no-nonsense expression and ample moustache.
I handed him my ticket printout and the driving licence. He peered at it, then at me. At it. At me. At it. At me.
I always over-explain, yes, often before the need arises to.
‘You have a lovely name.’ His eyes didn’t leave the driving licence.
I gave a half-smile that hardly thanked him, and pretended to observe a bawling baby on a cart in the parallel queue.
He smiled, handing me back the licence. At this point I noticed his eyes- brown, shiny and deep. To my shock-surprise, he patted my head. ‘That it is. But what does it mean?’ His gaze was penetrating and held a hint of mischief.
I knew the meaning but thought he would not understand it even if I told him. Prejudice born from growing up in an environment where engineers are considered more brainy than designers.
He spoke. ‘It means one who has risen above and beyond the body and self. Vi-deha. Vi = beyond. Deha = body. Transcending beyond the body. Remember that.’ I must have looked really dumb with my mouth open, because my hair was promptly tousled and I was asked with a smile to move into the lobby beyond.
The past few weeks had been bad in a number of ways. I was cribbing a great deal about the unfairness dealt out to me by fate. Most importantly, I had not asked for help, to myself or others. The daily meditation was not being practiced when I needed it most.
I must have attracted this reminder. Unlike Santiago in The Alchemist, I wasn’t handed any decision-making stones, but the reminder was good enough. The first thing I did on boarding the flight was meditate. The rest would follow.
of the big leaf’s veins.
and that way over this.
that ‘potion’ and पोषण not only sound the same, but also have similar meanings.
Her brother never understood. Devayani threw aside the cube, grabbed his tiny frame by the shoulders and shook him hard, suddenly not sure if he mocked her.
‘I should be asking you that.’ Devayani pointed at the mess on the floor.
He ignored her and lay down on the tiled floor, propped on his elbows. Orange-green-blue stains shone on his chubby palms and sunshine yellow tee.
‘Um.’ He was already flipping through Noddy’s new adventure.
‘Nothing.’ She began wiping the paint from the floor, beside the Rubik’s cube with its six, bright, painted sides.
फलसफा (in common usage, ‘फंडा’) has to have the same origin as ‘philosophy,’ no?
The Sanskrit word root for Kriya (meaning activity, to do something), Kri- is related etymologically to the word create. Both belong to the same family tree.
Sorry for late reply just came back from Hyderabad.
SQ refers to Spiritual Quotient. It is proven that SQ matters most compared to Emotional Quotient (EQ) , Creative Quotient (CQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ). IQ occupies the bottomline of this quotient pyramid.
These are the books , that really transforms a person, that’s why I referred to sublimation from form to formless thinking (metaphor: camphor). From information to knowledge to wisdom to truth.
There are certain attributes linked with being Spiritual or involved in Spiritual thinking and it is totally independent of any religion. I am just exploring what are these attributed involved with Spiritual Thinking or being Spiritual. Some of the attributes are Empathy, Reflective meditation, search for System Harmony, attachment and detachment at will, cosmic connection. The list is vast and the search is still on.
1. Is the human race evolving from primal reactive animal instinct to responding human instinct to a more harmonious reflective system species OR it is just a cycle going back to basic animal instinct.
I feel both reactive animal instinct and harmonious system species are good that respects nature’s law. It is only the intermediate stage which is causing all the chaos.
I think as designers it will be of help in understanding the whole , if we know the what phase of evolving stage we are in.
Most of the ads in Europe target the animal instinct part of humans that which can create the craving and hence leading to purchasing at any cost. India too is following the trend. This might not create a healthy economy.
The products and communication has to be designed for a Healthy Economy….
There was a great lady Hazel Handerson who died in recent years who spoke about “Love Economy”. It talks about the bottomline of any transaction should be based on love for business to survive in current scenarios. But this is also one element of the Healthy economy that I was referring to.
The system gets changed and new perspective emerges and hence all the activities including design associated with that changes, the moment we see the interconnected harmony existing within the ecosystem. This is what the Avatar movies spells out. But the movie has not captured many other aspects probably due to some constraints.
“The maximization” approach followed by the present day driving industries is leading towards many emerging problems right from rich-poor disparity, merciless crimes, unknown new diseases, sense of insecurity and loneliness, sense of dissatisfaction even after amassing huge wealth, business-oriented but not human values-oriented education, intelligence and merits are measured based on amount of exploitation one can do, shallow weak bonds and networking done only for a selfish interests, plastic and materialistic economy etc which does not bother for future generations and which does not bother to give something back. If just the perspective changes from “maximization” to “Harmonization” then with no span of time all the breath-choking problems will melts into a fresh air, leading to an energetic living. The exploitation becomes empathizing, intelligence measurement becomes spiritual measurement, weak bonding becomes inseparable souls, pain becomes peace and bliss.
And Designers have to lead the revolution in changing this perspective through their DESIGNS. Rather than design for consumerism let us design for love, wellness, harmony and dedication.
How true. ‘Save the planet’ is a misguiding phrase. It’s usually understood by most as ‘save the planet as we know it.’ It’s either supreme arrogance or blinding ignorance to even attest ourselves with such importance to actually believe that we can ‘save a planet.’ James Lovelock is probably right, our species are disease-causing microbes the earth is intending to wipe out soon to cure itself.
Why do whirling dervishes whirl?
When asked about their favourite colour, do most people think of their colour preference in clothing before answering? What other reasons can there be for one to call a particular colour their favourite? How can an individual’s nature be linked to their colour preference?
I usually state my favourite colour as greenish-blue.. mostly because it makes me think of plants, greenery, seas, nature and stuff. Most of my friends said they think of clothes before answering the question. Living space and accessories is a dominant factor too. A fellow graphic designer thinks of the eyedropper tool in photoshop/illustrator software every time he is asked. Some go by elimination, arrive on their favourite colour by not liking the others enough. Many say that their favourite colour is the one that ‘cheers’ them up.
A colleague said any soothing, tonal colours work well for him. I know this colleague is a peace-loving soul and somewhere I expected him not to say red, which he didn’t. Am I the one who is prejudiced regarding colour connotations or is he the one who’s unknowingly biased? Another reason given by people is ‘a colour that suits their personality’ is the one they like best. Some think a particular colour is ‘lucky’ for them, therefore favourite. Few people associate fav. colours with brands. Another common reason to choose colours is the emotion it signifies.
It is futile to ask graphic designers as almost all say black, white or both (ideally, we should be loving all colours equally :p). I guess profession is another factor.
I am going to make a time capsule. Thinking how to go about it, what all to include in it, etc. Suggestions are welcome..
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Avoid SOQL queries that are inside FOR loops.
Make sure you don’t have a recursive loop calling a SOQL.
Do not do any DML/CRUD inside a for loop.
Avoid more than one DML on single object in single transaction – because each DML invokes trigger of related object can cause addition of SOQL count.
Avoid too many field updates in process builders in different conditional branches. Each branch runs a DML and initiate trigger execution.
If there are lot of business processes and logic in your trigger then design and isolate processes with help of future and batch if needed.
Recursion Handling – To ensure a trigger is not running recursively.
Because Apex runs in a multitenant environment, the Apex runtime engine strictly enforces limits to ensure that runaway Apex code or processes don’t monopolize shared resources. If some Apex code exceeds a limit, the associated governor issues a runtime exception that cannot be handled. These limits count for each Apex transaction. For Batch Apex, these limits are reset for each execution of a batch of records in the execute method.
There is a limit to the number of records that that can be retrieved by the SOQL Query which is 50000 records. Attempting to query the records having the number more than this will give the error which you are getting.To query the records more than its limit, you need to use a Batch Class which provides a fresh limit of 50k records by resetting the limits.
This error we can avoid by following below….
Make sure not use ‘ALL ROWS ‘ Keyword.
The ALL ROWS keyword can be used to query all records in an organization, including deleted records and archived activities. So, in other words, the usage of the ALL ROWS keyword resulted in fetching some Account records that were in the DELETED state or in simpler words – they were in the Recycle Bin. And this DELETED Account record was assigned to the AccountId Lookup field on the Contact which is not allowed.
For these kind of Error we must need to Debug the code you written..
you must be getting null value. we have to do null check before adding relationship to List/Map Option.
Before u calling your method create dummy data.
In Setup’s “Apex Test Execution” page there is an “Options” button that includes a “Disable Apex Parallel Testing” checkbox. Checking that will probably avoid the problem.
Follow Context Variable considerations to find the solution for this issue.
This error is caused by a line of code that is trying to use an object that has not been instantiated, or an object’s attribute that has not been initialized.
NOTE: If the field Site was left empty, it will generate the error message as well.
This mean your query not returning any values..
Its always a best practice to check if list is not empty before doing any DML operation.
Salesforce throws this error when you assign a query result to a singular instance of an object. If you were assigning to a list (or map) this would not be the case, you would just be given an empty list.
To solve your current issue you should use a try/catch block around the query. Your assignment would be in the try and probably post a page message in the catch indicating to the user what the problem was.
7. This custom field is referenced elsewhere in salesforce.com. : Field Updates.
You cannot delete any field that has been used somewhere. Firstly you have to remove all the reference to that field and then delete it.
To see, where the field is used, click on delete it will take you to the page, as you have in the image attached.
Click on Apex class and then edit that class, remove all the reference to that field and delete it.
We will see this error when assigning the custom object to the master standard object.
Then we get this error.
The fix was actually easy. we just need to rewrote it to assign the master id on instantiating the child object.
Awesome. A very useful article for developers.
Very use full information thank you so much.
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The Mood Lamp is an Arduino-based project created by Italian developer Vittorio Cuculo. As the name suggests, the hacked IKEA lamp adjusts its lighting output based on the facial expression of a user.
The Mood Lamp is powered by OpenCV (software) and the Arduino Duemilanove, an older board based on Atmel’s ATmega168 or ATmega328.The board is loaded with 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button.
Watch the video below as the lamp’s color corresponds with varying emotions — turning blue when it registers a frown, pink with a smile, blue for a ‘surprised’ expression.
Interested in learning more about this project? Read Vittorio Cuculo’s entire paper here.
This entry was posted in Arduino, Maker Movement, Product News and tagged Arduino Duemilanove, Atmel, DIY, IKEA Hack, Maker Movement, Makers, Mood Lamp, OpenCV, Vittorio Cuculo on July 14, 2014 by The Atmel Team.
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sounds like a great opportunity to grab some Sunfish boats or Sunfish gear at the upcoming sailboat swap and sale at Zim Sailing in Rhode Island.
details posted on the Sunfish Forum.
for a limited time (Feb 25 to March 10, 2019), Annapolis Performance Sailing (APS) is offering a 10% off sale on Harken blocks, cleats, shackles, eyestraps & fairleads.
I use the Harken 2135 57mm carbo ratchet block for my mainsheet control on my Sunfish – it was a BIG upgrade over what I was using previously, and a HUGE improvement over the old hook that came standard on older Sunfish sailboats. I also use the H071 stand-up spring and the HSB2 spring cup.
see this blog post that outlines all of the parts I use for a sunfish mainsheet controls upgrade.
with 10% off, now is a pretty good time to update your old gear or improve to a newer system.
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WASHINGTON - Enrico Ciccone is on the move again after the Washington Capitals re-acquired defenseman Monday from the Tampa Bay Lightning for future considerations. Ciccone, 28, returns to Washington where he played 46 games during the 1993-94 season. The Capitals traded him to Tampa Bay in March 1994 for defenseman Joe Reekie, but the Lightning shipped him to Chicago two years later for center Patrick Poulin and defenseman Igor Ulanov. Ciccone had a goal and an assist with 24 penalty minutes in 16 games for the Lightning this season. In 328 NHL games with six teams, he has eight goals, 18 assists and 1,352 penalty minutes.
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Message from Peckham Vision: Local Council elections in London and European Parliament elections are on 22nd May. Join the Vote – Keep our democracy alive! Make sure you vote! It was a long hard struggle to win the right to vote. In many parts of the world, some still can’t vote and some die for it. So it is really important to vote to keep our democracy alive. Let’s all vote for democracy! A national campaign run by ’38 Degrees’ http://www.38degrees.org.uk/ has been supporting us all to help our neighbours to get on to the election register to make sure they can vote in the upcoming elections for local councils (in London) and in the European elections on 22 May. Now we need to encourage people to use their vote. If they don’t want to support any of the candidates or parties, explain they can vote ‘none of them’ by writing that on the ballot paper. These will be counted as spoilt papers so won’t be wasted. See leaflet here to give to your friends and neighbours: leaflet v3 election. Help revive our democracy, encourage people to use their vote even if they vote ‘none of them’.
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Open Energy System holds an exclusive, worldwide license to a solar thermal technology called SunCone™ CSP. SunCone™ CSP utilizes non-imaging optical cones made of reflective composites to concentrate sunlight on rods at the base of each cone. The cones stay cool, but the fluid flowing through the base is superheated, generating steam to drive a turbine and produce electricity.
Infinia's free piston Stirling engines are currently used for aerospace and national security applications, where a high degree of reliability and long, maintenance-free service life is required. Operating without internal combustion, a Stirling engine utilizes high temperature differentials to drive a piston and produce electricity.
The engineering teams at Infinia and Open Energy believes that the Suncone CSP solar concentrating power system can be modified to deliver over 700 degrees centigrade of solar thermal energy to Infinia's engine, thus generating electricity on a cost effective basis without burning fossil fuels or emitting green house gases.
The initial solar Stirling engine design from Infinia calls for 3-kilowatt systems, which roughly suits the power needs of a residential home.
Standard solar photovoltaic panels are generally 12 percent to 15 percent efficient at converting light to electricity, though some can go up to 22 percent. Infinia's planned 3-kilowatt Stirling engine will operate at 24 percent efficiency, said Jim Clyde, Infinia's vice president of sales and marketing..
"We are very excited by the potential of this combined effort," stated David Saltman, president and CEO of Open Energy. "Infinia is already commercializing a 1 kW engine for residential heating and electricity in Asia and Europe. We will begin our product development utilizing a modified version of this engine to prove out the feasibility of the Suncone/Stirling system, before developing a larger version for distributed generation applications."
As kids maybe we burned ants with coke bottles- but this week this company continues to Rock. This is the only press release I've ever seen that doesn't overwhelm me with hype. It seems to be overly modest.
I had meant to paste in Walmarts claims about positive consequences to selling one CFC per customer modified under the following rule of thumb.
If instead they sell one three pack instead of one LED just multiply the numbers they give by two, and put them in the negative,not positive, contribution column.
The original Walmart effort was and still is as linked here dated from 2001. Back then an ethical writer could of been involved. But not since LED's left the fractional watt only arena. Now a five watt LED does generate more usable light then any cheap CFC and costs so little that the savings is much more, many times more then the entire cost in difference so for future prices of LED's to be low enough to justify waiting, obviously, they would have to pay you- which isn't out of the question but don't count on it..... Rather don't expect walmart to take the dead bulbs back for free (one multipack we bought had one dud in it! the onlyh multipack in fact we bought.. . although we did enjoy years ago some bought at target, even though we didn't get the rebate and let an off shore tax shelter lord keep 'em knowing it would just be another victim of his that would get some benefit from them at least. I spent so much time trying to retrofit a tall lamp to produce as much light as if halogen back then only to find out that much less was plenty from the owner I was trying to please. The cost of makling a 100 watt bulb is not much mor then a 40, 25 etc. watt bulb. That's why most people waste so much buying the brighter bulbs, because they think they are worth more, instead of less.
I can't imagine what percentage of walmart customers who care enough to buy these bulbs could have a use even for more then one of them. WHen I paid fortunes for them I did so because of there use characteristics and the ethics of the time- it was wiin win. Now I buy hand painted flowerying halogen fixtures with 10 buck bulb for $5 and aspire to someday enjoy a painting lit up while it's being looked at by the artful amazingly complicated track armed thing of beauty.
WHen I paid $20 bucks I knew they should cost maybe a buck plus the cost of the circuitry. Back then you could buy the bulb seperately. Sine then of course hte seperate bulbs that used to cost almost $20 if not mor then that have been clearancced for a quarter and I have a collection. Fact is they are beter. Making the bulb smaller is not an improvement fo rmost buyers. Yet you can't find the larger bulbs, bulbs with dimmamble, or fthree way seggregation, at walmart. Yet for the price the extra cost is negligible. So customers at the very least run them at full blast as nightlights for example. ANd limelights that deny utitlities all profits get donated to thrift- I just bought about a hundred bucks of them in a bag for I think two bucks. Hopefully enough of us will question Uncle Sam because Sam the Wal Hustling Marter is sstill acting like this millenia was born months ago. It's more then half a decade later! Texas but for DC would be executing kids still in diapers back then! The coffee is all that's left ini th cup! The water evaporated before the first christmass had arrived! The only thing that smells is the mercury from the bulb you just dropped when it wouldn't light up.
SOLANA BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2007 -- Open Energy Corp. (OTC BB: OEGY) announced today it has completed the engineering drawings and performance criteria for a commercially viable SunCone concentrating solar desalination system. This initial design is primarily geared toward decontamination of drinking water in remote, off-grid locations. The engineering team anticipates that it will be coupled with off-the-shelf membrane filtration or multi-stage flash distillation hardware, depending upon the specific water input sources to be treated. This same design can be used to supplant conventional thermal power system applications, such as pre-heating steam for turbine electricity.
CEO David Saltman commented, "While Open Energy's primary efforts to date have focused on photovoltaic building products, SunCone CSP will add breadth and diversity to our technology portfolio. The potential applications of this invention are remarkable, from water desalination to supplying process heat for power generation. However, based upon our mission of harnessing the sun to help meet the resource demands of sustainable 21st Century development, we have made a strategic decision to focus on purification. With thousands of people dying of water borne pathogens each day, the social impacts as well as economic benefits compel us to make a meaningful contribution to solving this critical issue."
The functionality of the SunCone CSP system requires few basic components: the SunCone reflector, a solar tracking devise, a target that absorbs the incident radiation and conducts it into a heat transfer fluid (HTF), and application specific hardware to interface with a particular water purification system. Open Energy plans to utilize outside manufacturing entities for the various components, then package systems for distribution.
Through extensive computer modeling and re-engineering, the Company has developed numerous improvements to the first prototype, which utilized aluminized Mylar film suspended in tension to create the SunCone collector. The current design incorporates a more durable hard shell structure, one which the team believes can withstand higher wind forces and will be less expensive to manufacture, install and service.
With these improvements and the Company's own patent filings, Open Energy will no longer be required to pay a royalty fee going forward to Dr. Pruitt, and will accrue significant potential savings over the life of the product. Based on this decision, as of quarter ended November 30, 2006, the Company has written off the carrying value pertaining to this license agreement. Dr. Pruitt remains a senior scientific advisor to the company, and his ray tracing programs have been utilized to determine the optimum geometries of the new cone design.
Open Energy Corporation (OTCBB: OEGY) focuses on the development and commercialization of renewable energy products and technologies for a wide range of applications including electrical and thermal power production and water desalination. The Company pursues these objectives through technology innovation, acquisitions, strategic partnerships and other business strategies. The company’s mission is to enhance life by harnessing the power of the sun. For more information please visit our website www.openenergycorp.com.
Except for statements of historical fact, the information presented herein constitutes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include general economic and business conditions, customer demand for its products, the Company’s ability to scale up manufacturing to meet demand, the Company's competitive position and other factors over which Open Energy Corporation has little or no control.
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Great information. This is a great blog. It time we start to harness the sun to heat our homes and run are auto and soo on.
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Before the death of arcades and the consolidation of home gaming onto videogame consoles, electronics found their way into almost every toy. Some toys were complete flops, some were extremely innovative and captured kids' imaginations for days. Many of them predicted future videogame interfaces and dynamics.
We asked you to remind us of your favorite electronic games that are already museum-worthy, and we received lots of great submissions. The gallery highlights our favorite reader toys.
Ah, I spent days programming my Big Track: You could program a sequence of up to 32(?) instructions, including move forward or backward by any number of feet, turning left or right by a certain number of degrees, and fire a light-bulb "laser." It taught me about angles (turn 30 degrees right!).... It was great to attempt to pre-program it to "chase" cats as well.
OMG, I loved playing with this. All the bulbs had a different function but would snap together and use a single power-source bulb. You could make cars, tanks, amphibious thingies and tons of useless mechanized machines. I had forgotten about this until today.
Vectrex was the only home gaming system to use vector graphics in its games (think Asteroids). The system was only available for a couple years in the mid-'80s. It was loads of fun and used color "overlays" to help hide its black-and-white-only screen. Amazingly enough, there are even new games being produced today (see classicgamecreations)!
Remember first seeing this in '79 and still have one. Flying saucers drop down the screen in singles or pairs and you have to guide rockets into them. Dead simple, but awesome at the time.
Stop Thief was a board game based on a city grid, where players became detectives tracking a thief. The handheld electronic tracking device played sounds corresponding to the location of the invisible thief. By process of deduction, you could figure out which crime location was the start point and where the thief currently was.
A handheld game system that used cartridges, well before any other. I used to be really good at Star Trek Phaser Strike.
This was my first handheld electronic game. It had six games in one. I think that I lost the manual very early on, so part of the fun was pulling the toy out of the pile and figuring out what game was what and which non-descriptive button caused what to happen. I think the Mind Bender-type game was my favorite and the early pattern-based musical one. It was kind of like a later game called Simon but it had a full keypad of tones. The tones generated sounded like telephone tones."
In order to score the maximum points, you almost had to rely on instinct, using muscle memory to move Mario up and over the falling barrels to rescue the princess; moving so fast, the screen couldn't refresh in time, and you'd only see brief glimpses of Mario to know you were on track. Many hours were spent playing this instead of doing homework!
Who could forget this Mattel classic! In my 1980s home-gaming circuit, this was considered the "poor boy's Atari." For some reason, it just didn't have the popularity of Atari. However, in my mind, there was nothing better. The fact that each game had a slip-in plastic game guide — and a directional disk. Awesome! Burgertime was my favorite!
The Dark Tower electronic board game was created by Milton Bradley in 1981. This game combines a traditional board game with an electronic tower unit and can be played by up to four players. The object of the game is to journey around the board, build an army, collect the three magical keys and successfully attack the brigands in the Dark Tower. Each game-board move is accompanied by pressing the appropriate button on the tower’s keypad.
Nothing like slowly vibrating your way to a touchdown!
Blip was little more than an electromechanical version of Pong that featured an LED that moved beneath smoked glass ... but it was magic for those of us who had yet to enter the technological world of video graphics pioneered by its Atari-powered inspiration.
I remember hitting the sides and throwing those tweezers across the room. Geez, that buzzer was loud.
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Thanks for this, Linda. I don’t know anyone else who is posting such details and I think it is very important information. I’m looking forward to becoming much more knowledgeable about my tax status from your blog.
Thank you! This information is very timely as my husband was just asking me about these things this morning.
Very easy to understand and well said.
Something we all have to think about eventually. Thank you for commenting.
Great information on writers and taxes. I hope I have to pay taxes on a best-seller one day. I wasn’t aware you could start taking deductions now, so thanks for the info.
Just remember you have to be in the business of being a writer, planning on making a profit, and treat it like a business (keep records and receipts proving your expenses).
Hey Linda! I really like the crisp clean look of your blog. Great job.
I’m with Patricia. I don’t think anyone else is giving out this information. My husband and I have a very good accountant who has had experience with writers and seems to know what he’s doing. However, it’s good to be able to check on the tax rules for myself. Very empowering. Thanks.
Thanks for the comments. Is there any particular aspect of tax law you have questions about?
Great post Linda…I’ve started taking deductions this last year…..what can all be deducted however? I’m saving receipts for craft books and online classes I take. Do contests count?
Writing contests, yes. Save proof of payment. Justification, in case you’re asked, is to improve your writing and to get your work in front of editors/agents.
I claim expenses, and include car mileage to get to and from meetings, workshops, and conferences. I use turbo tax, and it works best for me if I note the mileage at the beginning of the tax year, the odometer reading at the end of the tax year, and keep a spread sheet of destinations, purpose, and the odometer readings. Then at the year end, I figure the percentage of those miles which pertains to writing. Thanks for this post, Linda. I see so many talented writers who do not claim taxes.
I will be discussing car mileage in another article. For now just be aware that unless you can claim office in the home expenses the car mileage expense is limited.
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Thought I’d share the bumper for our Wednesday night series. We decided to do a two week series on the Bible’s teaching about worry. Week one was based on Matthew 6:25-34. I posted pics of the environment change. Switching the set up of the room was incredibly effective. Our students not only enjoyed the change but left talking about it. The teaching was challenging because I had to cover the room being that there were students sitting everywhere. I used a resource called Revostock.com for the bumper. They offer After Effects files for purchase that you can easily customize (assuming of course that you have After Effects). Enjoy!
Nail-biter bumper from Phillip McCart on Vimeo.
I’m speaking at SHIFT (our Middle School environment) this morning. We’re in the middle of a series called “NO PAIN, NO GAIN.” We’re walking through the first chapter of the book of James. I put together a little video bumper to set up my talk on temptation. (click here for the first week’s video) Most of our students are aware of my affinity for Mt. Dew along with the fact that I have given up soft drinks for Lent. Hope you enjoy the silliness.
NO PAIN, NO GAIN (2) from Phillip McCart on Vimeo.
I gave our team a quote last week that I'm sure to be reminded of often. I said, "it seems like I keep making Student Ministry more and more complicated for us." While the essence of what we're doing hasn't changed, the pace and level of excellence that we strive for continues to move upward. That's what I meant by complicated.
One of the things that we value highly at NSM is giving our students and adults an irresistible environment and an unforgettable experience. So we try to make the most of our shared space at Northwood. This week we decided to go for it. Even if you change simple things it can be a huge difference in the experience your attenders have. We changed the position of the stage.
A simple idea can create a huge complications. What we went for isn't anything new by production standards but for our attenders it was something that had never been done. Service in the round. We borrowed some 8" high staging and two light trees. We also hung a monitor for lyrics for anyone choosing to sit on our normal stage. I didn't have my camera so I got a few shots with my iPhone. Low light plus a lot of movement equals poor images, but you'll get the gist of what we did.
The result was our students excited about something new, unable to go about the routine of service and leaving wondering what we would do next week. I'm thankful for a great team of people who see the potential in our church. Each week NSM is raising the bar of excellence in production, serving, heart and attitude. I can't wait to see what God does next.
After a long hiatus, I bring you a new installment of “Phillip’s Not Creative.” Jon over at Stuff Christians Like brings our attention to what may be the single greatest achievement in Shepherding since the announcement of Christ himself. This is simply amazing! Enjoy.
This is Brian. Brian is an amazing worship leader.
He has one of the most teachable hearts I've ever encountered.
I'm very proud of him. I believe God has huge things in store for Brian.
One of the reasons I love Brian so much is because he loves my daughters.
They talk about him when he's not around because he genuinely cares for them.
He doesn't play with them because I'm his boss.
Our students experience the same thing as he leads them each week in worship.
We’re starting a brand new series at SHIFT tomorrow. “NO PAIN, NO GAIN” will walk through the first chapter of James in three weeks. Kevin, AJ and I are tag teaming the teaching. At a recent creative meeting we decided to shoot a little fun video bumper (although it became a short length film practically). We shot this on the fly and figured it might be good enough for a laugh. Each week the short film will set up the talk. Week one focuses on trials. AJ will be communicating so he’s the one facing the difficulty in the video. Hope you enjoy.
No Pain, No Gain from Phillip McCart on Vimeo.
Yep, the rumors are true! Anita is pregnant once again. We're very early on (only in the fifth week) and won't have our first ultrasound until the middle of April. We decided there was no way we'd be able to keep it quiet until then so…. what better day that St. Patrick's Day to announce baby number three?!
We are, in all seriousness, praying for a boy. We've been praying and will continue to pray. I love my little girls but man do I need some help in this house. Anita had all sisters and I grew up with a sister so having a boy around the house would be different for everyone involved. Just the reason I see God choosing to allow it to happen.
I'm trusting in Matthew 7 for this request. There are a lot of people praying along side of us. I know the danger of disappointment with such direct request but I believe God is more than capable to answer our very selfish request. We've been blessed with two very healthy and talented children. We're more blessed than I ever imagined. If God chooses to take us down a different road I will be confident in His plan for us.
Thank you to all the many people who have wished congratulations our way. Please continue to pray for our family as we approach November. Here's hoping.
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In Existence and the Absolute, Jean-Yves Lacoste writes about the inseparability of soul and body. “The problem of the body is that it is an I: not some ‘thing’ that we may or may not possess, but something we are: and, more rigorously, something that defines us as man: as someone.” (p.7) Lacoste is not interested in the importance of the body per se. Rather, his point is that the experience of the self cannot be divorced from an existence of place in the world. Lacoste is speaking against the possibility of an interiority apart from an exterior orientation toward place. However, Lacoste’s comments suggest that body and soul exist as a unified whole, both being essential to our identity in the world. Many recent books and film question this premise, suggesting a growing obsession with the life of the flesh and the fate of the soul.
To begin with, the movie Avatar portrays a world in which a manipulating consciousness, through technical support, can switch or even swap bodies altogether. When not in-use, these bodies lie inert, although subject to biological requirements. Not only are these switches between empty bodies undetrimental to self, but seem to offer an opportunity for a more beneficial expression of the self. By finding the right body, a person can inhabit their “true” selves. Predictably, the movie portrays the main character’s disability (he is paralyzed in the course of military service) not as a condition which might inform his person, but that which represses the self and should therefore be rightfully discarded. As opposed to an integrated necessity, the body is presented as an amenity which can be upgraded or exchanged given the right resources.
Along different lines, recent “undead” moves, books, and video games depict bodies animated beyond consciousness. Beginning with the classic zombie flick, Night of the Living Dead, zombies are depicted, not as supernatural beings, but reanimated flesh devoid of the human characteristics of intellect, will, and emotion. More importantly, in the recent undead narratives, the undead are almost always a consequence of some bioengineering project gone wrong (e.g. the book, The Passage by Justin Cronin; the film, 28 Days Later; or the series of video games, Resident Evil). Certainly, these stories express current anxieties about genetic manipulation, but more pointedly speaks to fears about the elusiveness of the soul in spite of our growing mastery of biology. When our cells can be manipulated beyond consciousness, how do we define identity? These stories typically offer an answer no less bloody than the affliction: the infected are inhuman and therefore all forms of retaliation are not only warranted, but demanded. More often than not, these movies completely relieve the living characters of the ethical quandary of “killing” undead family members and friends due to the barbarity of their attack. There is much more that can be said about the amoral forces at work in these narratives (Rowan Williams, in fact, has said much on this point in his The Truce of God). However, the point I wish to make is that these stories seem to forcefully reject that the body is an integrated part of the person.
In contrast to these fictional accounts, I offer the conclusions of Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (the book was also featured on fantastic episode of Radio Lab). In it, Skloot writes about the cells of cancer patient Henrietta Lacks. After these cells were taken without her knowledge, they were then reproduced for research. Henrietta’s cells became central to many advancements in medicine, including the polo vaccine. The cells were replicated millions and billions of times. When Henrietta’s youngest daughter, Deborah, learned that her mother’s cells were still in existence, she was at first confused. She worried that her mother was still alive and was being harmed in some way by the medical experiments. After a lot of emotional and spiritual anguish, she arrived at a comforting conclusion. Her answer was not to disconnect her mother’s identity from the cells, but to believe that her mother’s cells were living out a philanthropic purpose; she was a kind of an angel aiding medical research. As the title of the book suggests, as far as her daughter is concerned, Henrietta continues through her cells in a kind of immortality.
Although I am not anxiously anticipating a zombie apocalypse, the need to readdress the relationship of body and soul has never been more important in light of the very real possibility that our bodies may indeed exist, at least in part, apart from us. When our ability to identify a person extents to an individual cell, what happens to personal identity? When the soul is unquantifiable and the body is potentially reproducible, how do we continue to make a case for the unique human condition of being, at once body and soul?
I love this post! Your discussion made me think for the first time about the ethics of zombie killing. I blogged a response over at filmphilosopher.wordpress.com.
One partial exception to this general rule is Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive" (Jackson, 1992; AKA "Braindead"). "Dead Alive" is one of the only zombie movies with a funeral. Even after the main character's mother turns into a zombie, her son still has enough respect for her body to attempt a traditional burial. And after she is “resurrected” (as the priest’s humorous line suggests), far from dismembering her corpse as is standard in zombie movies, he takes her home and cares for her like an invalid, clothing and feeding her and continuing to refer to he as “mother”. Is this what a Christian response to zombies would look like? A kind of zombie leper colony on the model of the L'Arche Community?
John, Thank you so much for you comments.
I haven't seen "Dead Alive" (although I'll have to look up it now), but another exception would be "Shawn of the Dead," a satirical zombie movie. At the end of the movie, the protagonist keeps his best friend in a backyard shed where he plays video games all day... which is much the same way he spent his normal life. Other zombies are given "mindless" jobs or made to be game show contestants. This acknowledges their limited human capacity while still maintaining their essential humanity.
I don't know about a Christian zombie ethic, but I know so many people who are reluctant about organ donation or participating in medical research or even cremation because of their beliefs about the body/soul connection, especially in reference to bodily resurrection.
Somehow we have to find a way to describe the relationship between body and soul that preserves the possibility of having a unique, human (and therefore carnal) identity, while acknowledging that our bodies do not exclusively belong to us, being composed of material that is and will continued to be recycled.
great post. I really like the way you raised the issues here.
this is slightly off topic, but in our dying-rising in Christ, are we in a sense a zombie people?
interesting!These stories typically offer an answer no less bloody than the affliction: the infected are inhuman and therefore all forms of retaliation are not only warranted, but demanded.
That's an interesting thought, not because i think we resemble reanimated, mindless brain eating machines in Christ, but rather because the terms "dying" and "rising" come into different light in this contexts. Aside from ambivalence Christians might have about what those terms mean, what does dying to self and/or sin and rising in Christ communicate to a culture constantly chattering with stories of the undead? It may be time to revisit the belief behind the words and choose to communicate those concepts differently.
Of course, no Christian should fear death, but we absolutely shouldn't fear what comes after death. A view for a passive, "lethargic" as you say, existence after death is completely unheard of in Scripture and promulgated almost exclusively by a very (relative to Her 2000 year existence) young branch of the Church. "Exuberant" would not even begin to describe it, I think. As Christians, we're the only non-zombie people, having been raised into true life, and so how could the life after resurrection be anything but more alive?
It was not my intention to suggest that the Christian after-life is lethargic or exuberant. I understood Geoff's use of the terms dying and rising in Christ to refer to discipleship (in the manner of Paul in Galatians 2:20). My comments were intended to redescribe Christian life.
Along these lines, I also make the assumption that Christians employed the terms dying and rising partly in response to a cultural anxiety about death and an unknowable afterlife. My intention is to question whether that is still the dominant fear and whether Christian doctrine is better served by adjusting the vocabulary to address current fears about mindlessness or unconsciousness while continuing to insist on the essential relationship between body and soul... therefore I suggested lethargic and exuberant, because both terms have mental and physical connotations.
I appreciate your reflections on this, and your desires to "do theology" in the vernacular of contemporary culture. In regards to your final paragraph, I recently explored this with a brief post at Religion Dispatches that connected theology to The Walking Dead TV series that might be of interest: http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/guest_bloggers/3871/toward_a_zombie_theology/. In addition, I wrote a post on my blog exploring the "zombie Jesus" phenomenon: http://www.theofantastique.com/2010/12/27/catholic-theologian-rejects-zombie-jesus/.
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Seven years after the industry agreed to abolish child labor, little progress has been made.
Eight-year-old twins Hassan (left) and Hussein open cocoa pods in Ivory Coast.
Seven-year-old Sami Sery works in his uncle's cocoa grove in L'Ssiri, Ivory Coast.
(Fortune) -- Outside the village of Sinikosson in southwestern Ivory Coast, along a trail tracing the edge of a muddy fishpond, Madi Ouedraogo sits on the ground picking up cocoa pods in one hand, hacking them open with a machete in the other and scooping the filmy white beans into plastic buckets. It is the middle of the school day, but Madi, who looks to be about 10, says his family can't afford the fees to send him to the nearest school, five miles away. "I don't like this work," he says. "I would rather do something else. But I have to do this."
Sinikosson, accessible only by rutted jungle tracks, is a long way from the luxurious chocolate shops of New York and Paris. But it is here, on small West African farms like these, that 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans are grown - 40 percent from just one country, Ivory Coast. It's not only the landscape that is tough. Working and living conditions are brutal. Most villages lack electricity, running water, health clinics or schools. And to make ends meet, underage cocoa workers, like Madi and the two boys next to him, spend their days wielding machetes, handling pesticides and carrying heavy loads.
This type of child labor isn't supposed to exist in Ivory Coast. Not only is it explicitly barred by law - the official working age in the country is 18 - but since the issue first became public seven years ago, there has been an international campaign by the chocolate industry, governments and human rights organizations to eradicate the problem. Yet today child workers, many under the age of 10, are everywhere. Sometimes they're visibly scarred from their work. In the village of Lilo a young boy carrying a machete ambled along a road with a bandaged shin. He said he had cut his leg toiling in a cocoa patch.
The big cocoa exporters - Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM, Fortune 500), Barry Callebaut and Saf-Cacao - do not own plantations and do not directly employ child workers. Instead, they buy beans from Ivorian middlemen called pisteurs and treton. These middlemen own warehouses and fleets of flatbed trucks that travel deep into the jungle to buy cocoa from the small independent farmers who grow most of the crop. But labor and human rights activists charge that Big Chocolate has an obligation to improve working conditions on the farms where so many children toil. They argue that the exporters and manufacturers bear ultimate responsibility for conditions on the farms because they exert considerable control over world cocoa markets, essentially setting what is called the farm gate price.
The controversy came to a head in 2001, when U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) introduced legislation mandating a labeling system for chocolate. The industry fought back, and a compromise was reached establishing a voluntary protocol by which chocolate companies would wean themselves from child labor, then certify that they had done so. The certification process would not involve labeling of products, but it would call for public reporting by African governments, third-party verification and poverty remediation by 2005. When none of those deadlines was met, the protocol was extended until July 2008. To turn up the heat, the U.S. Department of Labor contracted with Tulane University to monitor progress.
Tulane recently released its first report, and though the tone is polite, the picture isn't pretty. Researchers found that while industry and governments in West Africa have made initial steps, such as establishing task forces on child labor, conditions on the ground remain bad: Children still work in cocoa production, regularly miss school, perform dangerous tasks and suffer injury and sickness. The report criticized the governments of Ivory Coast and Ghana for lack of transparency. And it said the industry's certification process "contains no standards."
In some respects the situation only got worse after Harkin-Engel. From 2002 to 2004, Ivory Coast was gripped by civil war. As militias and renegade soldiers killed and raped their way across the lush interior, income from cocoa exports helped fuel the fighting. Like diamonds and timber, cocoa became a so-called conflict resource. "Blood chocolate" was providing fast cash for armed groups and creating misery for common people. Since 2004, Ivory Coast has settled into an armed peace, with French and UN troops keeping the warring factions apart. But chocolate exporters and manufacturers say the war and its aftermath have hampered their efforts to eradicate child labor.
The industry's two main trade groups, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and the National Confectioners Association, say tens of millions of dollars have been spent on building a socially responsible cocoa sector across West Africa. But the Tulane report criticizes the industry for not providing specifics to back up those assertions. And on the ground there is little evidence anyone is paying much attention. "What protocol?" asks Ali Lakiss, the director general of Saf-Cacao, the largest cocoa exporter in Ivory Coast, which controls about 20 percent of the trade. "The farmers don't get the best price. If the cocoa price is good, then kids go to school. No money, and kids work at home."
Ivorian government officials likewise describe their efforts to stop child labor as robust, but they remain fuzzy about details. "This is our No. 1 export," says N'djore Youssouf, the technical adviser to Ivory Coast's presidential task force overseeing Harkin-Engel compliance. "This issue is taken seriously at every level of the government." But Youssouf acknowledges that remediation "has not yet begun."
Outside Sinikosson, El Hadj Madi Sankara cultivates 27 acres of cocoa, from which he usually harvests ten tons of beans, earning about $9,000 a year but remaining deeply in debt. Sankara and his 11-year-old son, Ibrahim, are preparing a large mound of cocoa pods for processing. "I want to help my father," says Ibrahim, standing on a pile of pods, toying with his machete. "I need to learn how to be a farmer." His sentiment captures the complexity of the child-labor issue here: Typically it is poverty that compels child labor, not greedy overseers.
Soon a group of young men and boys join the work. Among them are 8-year-old twins Hassan and Hussein. The boys, the children of a neighbor, are helping Sankara make his harvest on time. Their payment won't be in cash, but in reciprocal help from Sankara's family to their father. Not one of the kids goes to school. "We're all doing a hard job," says Sankara, "but we do not get a just price."
Cocoa prices have been declining in recent years - currently about 90 cents a kilo - because of corruption and a poorly planned economic liberalization. President Felix Houphou�t-Boigny, who ran Ivory Coast from the late 1950s until the mid-1990s, borrowed heavily against his country's assets and wasted the money on megalomaniacal vanity projects, such as the world's largest basilica - built in the country's desolate interior. During his reign, Houphou�t-Boigny invited in hundreds of thousands of Muslim farmers from neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso to grow cocoa. These immigrants produced abundant and profitable crops, and Ivory Coast became one of the region's more prosperous and stable countries. But the newcomers were not given citizenship, identity papers or legal rights.
When the bills on Houphou�t-Boigny's squandered loans came due in 1999, the government imposed fiscal austerity and liberalized the economy. Its marketing board, Caistab, was defanged, prices were deregulated and new oversight agencies and development funds were created to support the market and aid farmers hurt by lower farm gate prices. According to European Union and World Bank audits, these new government bodies now collect three times as much money from the cocoa sector, much of it from exporters, as did the old system, but they spend little on infrastructure or subsidies. In short, not much money gets past corrupt officials and down to the farmers.
Economic hard times followed, and many native Ivorians turned against the immigrants from Burkina Faso and Mali. Demagogues preached a xenophobic creed that they called Ivorit�, and in 2002 ethnic tensions exploded into civil war. Now, with the front lines frozen and the armed peace holding, the many non-Ivorian cocoa workers, like those who live in Sinikosson, are trapped on remote farms. The dirt roads connecting them to the main markets are controlled by hostile, corrupt police and soldiers who threaten them with deportation or shake them down for bribes. "I've not been into the main town for four years," says Aladji Mohamed Sawadogo, the chief of Sinikosson. "The last time I tried to go I did not have enough money to pay all the bribes at the checkpoints. I am just stuck. These are the conditions in which we live."
With a wispy beard and a thin, weather-beaten face, Sawadogo looks older that the 55 years he claims. He admits that the village children work, including his own. He even allows them to be interviewed. "I'd like to be a mechanic," says one of his kids, who looks to be about 7 but says he is 11, "but I have to farm cocoa." Adds Sawadogo: "We are not happy that we ourselves live and work like this. Of course we don't want it for our children. But there is no choice."
What would make a difference? "Better prices."
Down the road from Sinikosson is the warehouse of Aboulaye Troor�, who buys the cocoa harvested in the area. "It is all going to Cargill," Troor� says, as some of his men unload 150-pound bags of cocoa from a truck.
The farmers in Sinikosson do not know that Cargill buys their beans, but other farmers in the area are on painfully intimate terms with the Minnesota company. In the town of Thoui, members of a local farmers' cooperative say that borrowing money from Cargill has trapped them in debt and forced some of them to take their kids out of school and put them to work. "There is no other way we can buy fertilizer or feed our families throughout the year," says N'guessan Norbert Walle, a former president of the cooperative.
If farmers can't pay back their debts, they risk arrest. When Walle ran the co-op, his manager was jailed, he says, on orders from Cargill. The arrested manager, Lucien Adje, a former accounting student, says he was taken to the port city of San Pedro and put in a small cell. "You had to do everything in one place - you know, urinate, defecate. I couldn't eat much, it was so filthy."
The correct procedure for collecting debts is to go to court and seize collateral, so Adje's arrest was illegal. But, as one farmer explained, "In Ivory Coast, the illegal is normal." An executive at an Ivorian export company confirmed that such arrests take place. "I don't know the specifics, but I do know that some exporters have arrested people who owe them money."
Cargill denies any wrongdoing. "We have never paid for, or requested, the detention of managers or members of farmer cooperatives, and we do not support illegal detention," says company spokesman Steven Fairbairn. As for child labor, Fairbairn says the company is working hard to fix the problem: "We require that all our direct suppliers of cocoa beans in West Africa sign a statement acknowledging that they understand that we are committed to the elimination of the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa supply chain. If suppliers are found to be employing such practices, their contracts are subject to termination."
But Cargill has yet to terminate any contracts over the issue of child labor. And it and other exporters say they don't have an obligation to pay higher prices. "We are just an intermediary," says Saf-Cacao's Lakiss, "between the farmers and international markets in London."
Hershey (HSY, Fortune 500), like other major chocolate firms, signed the Harkin-Engel protocol and maintains it is working. "The protocol's value is seen in measurable progress on the ground," says Kirk Saville, a Hershey spokesman. "It has created greater community awareness of child welfare issues and increased incomes for family farms and access to education."
But Hershey has no direct role in implementing reforms in Ivory Coast. Instead, the protocol required the industry to create a foundation to oversee certification. That body is the International Cocoa Initiative, or ICI, headquartered in Geneva and funded by the chocolate industry to the tune of about $2 million a year. The foundation began its work in Ivory Coast in 2003, and it claims to have six pilot projects underway there. "We are doing high quality, scalable work," says Peter McAllister, ICI's executive director. "We've not yet had a significant effect, but it's a journey." He is unfazed about the looming July 2008 deadline: "We don't see it as ending in 2008. Our process works, and we're committed for the long term."
But the foundation has only one staff member in Ivory Coast, Robale Kagohi, and his activities appear limited. "One of the main problems is the moral poverty of the people," says, Kagohi, sitting in a tiny office in the basement of a building in Abidjan that houses a corporate law firm. "That is why we are spending so much time on education." He explains that the anti-child-labor campaign has so far favored "sensitization" - workshops with local officials, police and farmers to explain that child labor is wrong and that if it continues Ivory Coast will be shut out of world cocoa markets. On the roads there are billboards urging people to say no to child labor.
Farmers describe these efforts as more akin to intimidation than to education. "People are worried that America will not buy our cocoa anymore," says Julien Kra Yau, director of a farmers' cooperative in Thoui. "That would be very bad." Adds the co-op's treasurer, Raymond Kouasse Kouadio: "It would be a total catastrophe!"
ICI's other work involves helping a nongovernmental organization called the Movement for Education, Health, and Development, or Mesad, provide accommodation and education to homeless street children. But no children from the cocoa sector were staying at the shelter on a visit last fall, and the group's director, Kouakou Kouadio Watson, says ICI has supported only eight underage former cocoa workers, who lived at the shelter for periods of between one and four months. The shelter is a squalid mess, smelling of urine, and a few filthy children sleep on the concrete floors.
The industry's evident lack of compliance with Harkin-Engel puts everyone involved in a difficult position. New coercive legislation requiring "child-labor-free" labeling could cause trouble for the large cocoa exporters and chocolate manufacturers if there were boycotts of non-labeled chocolate. But impoverished farmers in Ivory Coast say loss of markets would also hurt them and their children. Since the idea was first floated in 2001, the chocolate industry has taken the same position: Labeling "would hurt the people it is intended to help," says Susan Smith, a spokeswoman for the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and the World Cocoa Foundation.
There is fair-trade chocolate on the market, but it accounts for no more than 1 percent of global supply - and the movement has little traction in Ivory Coast. A more effective way to combat child labor would be for the government of Ivory Coast to invest some of the revenue it gets from high taxes on cocoa exporters in education and social services to help poor farmers. But the government of Ivory Coast is ranked among the most corrupt in the world by Transparency International, a nongovernmental watchdog group. And it seems happier making excuses than changes.
Angeline Kili, head of the government body tasked with financing and regulating the cocoa sector, blames farmers from Burkino Faso and Mali for whatever child labor violations may be occurring. "They need labor, so they have kids working, sometimes with the bad consequences," she says. "Sometimes they traffic children. Child labor wasn't a big problem, but it became a big problem recently. You have to remember, all cocoa farmers worked as kids. Our president worked on a farm with his parents for no money."
Rep. Engel, for one, isn't happy with the lack of progress. He and Senator Harkin plan to travel to Ivory Coast soon on a fact-finding mission of their own. "We have given the industry plenty of time," Engel says. "I am not prepared to give another extension."
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The stitch for Take A Stitch Tuesday http://pintangle.com/tast-faq/ was Sheaf Stitch. This was a fun stitch. It is the horizontal stitch below.
I used the Sheaf Stitch on the curved fan edge of my 4th quarter of my Crazy Quilt Journal Project block for August.
I tatted a smaller flower to complete My Crazy Quilt Journal Project block for August. Eight blocks completed!
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2019-04-20T10:38:45Z
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Let’s put it all on the table, shall we? Loeb’s very successful but ridiculous and terrible Red Hulk series set off a very difficult time in Hulk history. The over-hyped series did more damage than any kind of good to the Hulk mythos and it has been a rough voyage since. The only shining beacon in the rough seas of Hulk issues was the brief stint when Pak returned the monster to us. Even then, though, the issues were plagued with continuity issues – matching with the unreliable Red Hulk story lines – and focused on cementing Pak’s legacy in the Hulk lore rather than serving up fresh new plots for our emerald friend.
Then, we were delivered one of the darkest hours our Hulk history with the Aaron Hulk series. Aaron’s take on the Hulk made Loeb’s whole run look like classic literature. His insulting and laughable “Crazy Banner” was so moronically juvenile it was a wonder if he was letting a elementary school child ghost write for him. He did himself no favors when he had Doom doing brain surgery with, what else? A chainsaw, of course. Each arc got more and more ridiculous as a drug dealing canine/man gave Hulk the chance to do a “Crank” rip-off and ended with a sub-conscious fight with an intruder inside Banner’s brain. Yes, this was the darkest hour indeed – I’d love to talk to Aaron someday and ask him just what he was thinking.
With that series over we were given an genuinely welcoming life line when it was announced that they were going to re-launch the title once again but with Waid at the helm. Things started off really well and continued strong through the return of Attuma, a time traveling Thor adventure and even a few classic Hulk foes sprinkled into the fray. But, with every fun idea presented there were plenty of questionable ones still lingering – that, and a revolving door of artists – were weighing heavy on the readers. Why is Hulk wearing that armor? Which Hulk are we seeing? Why isn’t the Hulk talking? Sadly, none of these questions were answered and Hulk fans were getting restless.
Waid has recently tweeted that Hulk fans seem to be the hardest to please – is this true? I know we are a dedicated bunch – but I think what we’re looking for is a writer who seems to understand the character that we have all grown to love so much. Someone who dips into his history to serve us new and interesting adventures with an evolving Hulk – or at least a reason on WHY he seems to have regressed to a child-like mute monster. Heck, that was the biggest misgiving I had with Loeb’s writing – he didn’t have things happen for any rhyme or reason – just to boost sales or have a tag line for the next inept issue. Waid hasn’t been that type of writer though – he’s never been a joke – he writes the slow burn that you wait for the big payoff… and I’d still been willing to wait, except that Marvel has decided to renumber the series once again.
This time the renumbering makes very little sense – because, other than the new artist on board – the ever consistent Mark Bagley – nothing else has really changed – including the storyline that has Banner being shot in the head. Ignoring the infuriating and unnecessary new numbering system, the first issue is off to a great start. I’ve been excited before though – only to be let down by the second or third issue – so I will hold off on any recommendations to the loyal Hulk base out there until further installments – but for those of you looking for a letter grade summary of my thoughts – the issue is a solid A. I even love the slight twist in the end – and not to give anything away – but mainly I love it because there was a great set-up with a fantastic pay-off. If you’re reading it – let me know your thoughts – if you’re waiting… I don’t blame you.
P.S. – There is also the blank cover – which I have but don’t haven any sketches yet so I didn’t bother posting the pic of a blank cover. Also, for anyone not aware there are going to be TWO different exclusive Comic-Con Hulk #1 covers (A Canadian Fan Expo Cover and a Wizard World Minneapolis Cover ) both of which I may have to head to eBay for – unless a generous reader here is heading to one of these cons and wants to pick up a spare for me? Hint, hint!
I am pretty sure that there are two groups of people coming up with merchandise – one group is a bunch of people interested in making a ton of money and want to use commercialized characters on any piece of crap to do so. The other group is a bunch of people who have generally good, unique ideas on how to use licensed characters in an exciting and fun way! Okay – this is a fallacy, I know, but it’s still more comforting to think that these products aren’t generated by the same people. I really thought that this bike lock showed a small amount of brilliance. Also, the fact that it is password protected rather than just a number lock is a whole different level of cool!
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2019-04-25T12:28:11Z
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A long view comment Andrew. I wrote an article for the TES as far back as 2012, in which I argued, “Teachers can’t mend the crippled limbs of society” to which Sir Michael responded with a confident rebuttal in the following week’s edition. Two years later he made one of the highly publicised pronouncements you note were so unhelpful, blaming lax heads for accepting a “culture of casual acceptance” of bad behaviour.
At the end of Sir Michael’s tenure that problem remains as intransigent as ever and far too many people paid not to be, remain in denial about it.
Some reasonable questions to ask.
Has Ofsted become a more effective or less effective organisation since 2012? Have England’s schools improved? By how much or how little? Has teaching quality improved? If not, why not?
Apart from some considerable doubt on my part about the correct use of “intransigent” this sentence is a succinct summary of the fantasy-land which lies at the heart of English state education.
I am struck, for instance, by the failure of all the UK media outlets to reflect on the fact that the hard working and easily biddable children who populate the peaceful classrooms of England should, within a few years of leaving, so easily be provoked into vicious and mindless violence by the CRS louts in Marseille and in Lille.
Unless, perish the thought, said media are complicit in the very societal fantasy at the apex of which sits Sir Michael.
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Coffee may be made up of beans (aka plants, Mother Nature’s ill begotten son) but that doesn’t make me a coffee connoisseur. If any, I am the anti-thesis of a cup of joe (bitchy and bland), which makes my non possession of the most coveted Starbucks planner my secret pride.
How I ended up with the newly introduced Starbucks Asian Dolce Latte is a long story filled with tardiness run-ins, barista showdowns and arm balancing acts. Quite adventurous but not worth the narration.
To cut this epic short, I found a coupon for a buy-one-take-one Asian Dolce Latte redeemable at the Trinoma branches and since the Bakemon has been triggering my insomnia, this was just perfect.
Let me explain the complexity of the drink: Asian because it is being launched only in Asia, Dolce for this sweet milk concoction that was made for the Asian taste (except me because I hate sweet) and Latte because of the milk composition—non fat thank you very much. The Asian part is stressed because the espresso shots are double the amount because Asians need to perk up because we tend to rise early and work hard. Of course that was a joke because as far as I know, I’m one heck of a lazy cat and no amount of caffeine will turn me into a powerhouse employee of the month.
To properly assess the drink, I only have a line to impart: A strong dose of rich coffee coupled with the sweet velvety and creamy milk close to condensed; it is best paired with eggs or plain toast in the morning. That’s what I think, though I paired mine with a hefty tuna-cheese-lettuce-egg sandwich on wheat with loads of mustard. Perfection.
One grande iced Asian Dolce Latte, no whipped cream, half the dolce for the 100% lazy J.Anne, to go!
Will I ever buy this drink again? Maybe if a coupon magically finds itself in my back pocket. But if say, magic isn’t for real (it is, right?), then I’d best off use my P160 for the Starbucks Classic Tuna Dill Melt.
I warn you though that the Classic Tuna Dill Melt is not for everyone, especially those who hate boiled egg!
That killer sandwich on what tasted like rye bread contains tuna dill salad, egg, cheese inside and mozzarella cheese on top (flavored with paprika). For me, this is Lenten Friday protein salvation for the suffering. It beats the grilled cheese sandwich when I’m looking for that “something else” inside and the egg-cheese combination makes its properly filling.
For those who can’t stand the sight (and taste) of that hardboiled egg yolk, give it to me instead!
I promise to pray for you in return.
My conduct towards the rainy season (or shall I say Hagupit ng Habagat – sadly, I don’t know how to properly translate this) has been rather absurd. Rather than crave for ramen and curry, I’ve been going through a period of vast starvation and moments of just staring at my leaky ceiling.
It’s all this not-a-typhoon-but-still-horrible-enough-to-qualify-as-Ondoy’s-mistress rain that has been pouring with a bladder with no end. Stranded at home with no intent of release, I shudder at the thought having nothing to write about except Skyflakes or Cookie Crisp.
I don’t suppose people would like to read about the magnificent water of Quezon City or how Timmy’s homemade boiled egg is just perfectly powdery either.
Perfect for the weather that’s seasoning us with floodwater, flu and damp walls.
So it’s best to stay within the monsoon theme and get warm, cozy and that liquid high. Sadly, I wish I were talking about the Hot and Sour Soup which has been discontinued by Knorr or Maggi (what a disappointment) but no, it’s best to make do with the only thing dry at home.
And so I’ll let you in on what I’ve been hoarding recently—aside from water and boiled egg—Tea. Well that must sound like old news, I would admit, but since I’ve been dunking teabags here and there, throughout the day, I like to think that I have resuscitated the tea connoisseur that was once drowned milk tea.
And I haven’t been hoarding the cheap kind, like that Nature’s Pride that claims to be green tea but tastes more like oolong, which isn’t that bad, just confusing. We also have the generic Lipton (Clear and Green) which I once adored for its wake-me-up power potential, but lately, has been dwindling in the caffeine aspect for no reason but economy. I’ve never come to appreciate that “Hirameki” Yellow Label Tea because I find its teeth-staining abilities rather off-putting. But enough with the bashing.
My stash has consisted of Celestial Seasonings variants (top photo from old post), partly because I find their packaging lovely and partly because they have Blueberry Breeze. Yes, if any, blame the blueberry on this one. Of course, there are other companions: White Tea, Detox A.M. and Sleepytime Herbal. You can say that I’ve got all time periods covered.
My motto: Tea, all-day, everyday.
However, rather than bring your to a complete bore with a review on tea, I’ve decided to just list down 10 amazing facts (okay, not that amazing, just good-to-know and nice-to-hear which you’ll probably forget once the sun starts to shine again) that I enjoyed with my stash.
Combining green tea with a fairly faint yet distinct flavor of blueberry, Blueberry Breeze makes it to my favorite tea of all time. It surely beats Lipton’s Green Tea Acai which immediately fades after the first steep. Not a good value for a well drinker, despite packing in that Acai greatness.
White tea is an essential tea variant for me, which is a component of many of Celestial Seasonings’ offerings. I have only seen Twining’s as another brand offering such, but the packaging makes me think of my grandma’s kitchen, so forget it. I do not have time to bring out a ceramic kettle with matching cups just to commemorate tea time. By the time I do, I’d be half asleep, my hair catching on fire.
White tea is sometimes combined with green tea for that instant perk-me-up-because when meetings start to create a mental pillow in my head, either it’s that or I douse myself in ice cold water, which wouldn’t be too civilized in a corporate environment.
The tea packs a bitter punch when steeped longer than usual, beating espresso and vodka, in the health department. Plus, no HR rules violated here and my palpitations will be kept within normal limits.
Flavored tea helps on those days when the tolerance for bitter is just way down the scale (like when you’re about to get sick or are just feeling angsty about the traffic). Rather than reaching for juice or fruity teas, it’s best to dunk a teabag and drown it to your heart’s content. Beware the temperature though. I have been a victim far too many times from my enthusiasm and do not care if blowing furiously on my cup purports bad manners or blows germs in the air. Either way, it’s for my protection.
Ah yes, ingredients straight from Professor Snape’s Potions class!
The Detox A.M. helps with the morning rush, in case there’s isn’t any.
Sleepytime is the best boost for sleep for those who’ve had too much fun, too much food or just too much to think about before sleeping. When the sheep can’t help, the try counting tea leaves instead. That should put you out in a jiffy.
The tea sleep enhancer works better than melatonin, sleeping pills, and cough syrup because its sole component is tea. Herbal and organic, you’ll know that when you wake up, there won’t be a zombie facing you in the mirror.
Works better than a punch in the face. No black eye too!
Another perk of the tea is that it gets you to sleep, helps with the digestion process and relieves/relaxes the stomach. That’s like the combination of 3 different pills and a glass of water. But with tea, you’re guaranteed not to pee at 3am, unless you don’t care because you’re over 70.
Lastly, there are other variants for perk-me-up, dozing off, half-and-half chill and K.O. that it’s best that you be your own judge. Tea isn’t that bad—bitter for many, digestion-altering for some—but on the whole, is a grand experience for anyone who just loves to drink. Just like water, but with benefits.
Don’t get swept by bottles and sugary finds, plain teabags are still the way to go, and you can squeeze them until the very last miniscule leaf and that’s economy for the Third World. Some may taste funny or curiously like flora and fauna, but waive these strange flavors for the ultimate benefit of health and wellness.
And weird weather has been strangely bipolar, I don’t need to invest in ramen or force-palpitate myself with coffee, tea’s got that “warmth” covered.
And best of all, being the Lazy Black Cat that I am, a few steps to the water dispenser and everything’s in the bag.
The last spiel has earned me gawks and sneers that the cashier will certainly mark as the zaniest she has encountered in her front-office life, but if I had the time, I’d certainly have told her, better my decisive and time-saving action than the band of kids behind me dishing out statements that sound like “Ummm”, “Hmmm” and all other rhymes. It seems that it will take her forever to get them to order, unless they head for cover at the nearest McDonald’s.
Yet again I digress from my feature photo. Starbucks Hojicha.
I have not been to Starbucks for a while, and curious about this Hojicha drink which has been flooding my dreams and consciousness, I’ve decided to finally confront this poster drink.
Resuming an upper class stance, I’ve decided to drop the hoi polloi Moonleaf mindset, put on my best English and go for “One Grande non fat Hojicha Frap with Earl Grey Jelly for J.Anne!” and since it was lunch, that chicken pesto on panini which looked quite enticing in that flat presentation.
The Hojicha came sans the cream, sugoi! But that was the best part out of this hoj-experience. If I were to rename this gloriously presented drink, it would be: 110% Sweet Earl Grey Frap, further sweetened by the Earl Grey Jelly. This is best partnered with something horribly bland and crisp, and I am glad I went for panini than the Oreo Cheesecake that was winking at me from the chiller.
In terms of the tea flavor, the Hojicha is certainly the supreme being that perhaps contains 10 teabags worth of tea which would please the Queen of England.
Being used to mildly sweetened to bland drinks, the Hojicha certainly blasted my system to hyper-sugar mode—though I needed it at that time, reliving Tom Hanks in his The Terminal experience. Other than this outlier experience, I believe that should I have a tea fix, I would resume to my eternal favorite, the one drink that will never let me down, despite horrendous exams and long drives: Green Tea Frap without whipped cream.
As for that chicken pesto panini, the actual name escapes my mind. Perhaps my subconscious decided to bury it in my mental oblivion since it wasn’t that spectacular to begin with. I’ve had other better tasting and worth recalling Starbucks sandwiches and this surely isn’t one of them. Filled with chicken, pesto and cheese, it was hmmm-kay but not dream-worthy.
Especially when it’s something I can replicate at home.
But still, I am sure glad I didn’t go for that Oreo Cheesecake or the bathroom would’ve been my destination and not China.
As I read my previous top milk tea list (Got Tea? Top 5 Milk Tea Joints in Metro Manila), circa September 2011, I cringe and apologize for showing inexperience and passing off this passé list as a work of a tea connoisseur. Evil dazes and big question marks met my shallow judgment, and I admit that Kozui made it to the list because I found its green tea-inspired theme so kawaii (“cute”)!
The superficiality and naiveté have got to end, and so I proudly bring out the 2011 Top 6 Milk Teas in Manila v2. No list is perfect, as no taste buds are alike, so treat it as a guide to this cat’s pet drinks to end 2011. Before you read on though, please not that I am disorganized, hate tapioca pearls, have a propensity to misquote prices and detest sugar, extra sweetness and creaminess—which my list will considerably reflect. Other than these flaws, tea is my next favorite drink to water, and so I wage war to those who screw up this life-changing brew.
Chatime remains as the undisputed milk tea provider as it combines price, flavor, variety and location. The customizable ice setting brings bias to my decision, being constantly allergic to ice-dominant drinks. Chatime’s got mousse, frap-like concoctions, milk teas, fruit teas and the add-ons that you’d expect from the typical milk tea fares—in large servings, so P100 already ensures one mighty burp. A loyal patron of the matcha mousse with pudding, I’d brave storms just to order this comfort drink. With an extensive offering that includes interesting and novel categories such as QQ Jelly and Oriental Pop Teas, I ought to live beside a branch. With newly opened branch in Unimart, uh-oh, Happy Lemon’s got one less reason to be happy.
Serenitea brews teas right in front of you, so as far as “organic” goes this has got to be the closest to Mother Nature’s green heart. With roasted rice and whatnot topping the drinks, there’s the feeling of natural goodness that every cup delivers. Going 0% sweetness wouldn’t be a problem because the tea’s flavor is strong, vibrant and soothing. Spying the Serenitea branch along Jupiter was awesome sight for the Makati dwellers and workers, who need a break from the sugar-infested drinks and syrupy fares of the central business district. Genmaicha Tea Latte makes my top list, and with pepper tofu, potato and chicken chops in the menu, not to mention Amaretto Tea Latte, there’s always a reason to find peace in Serenitea.
Gong Cha collects lines for a living because every Gong Cha branch is perhaps never without a patron. Gong Cha offers milk teas, even “creams” up drinks for the non tea lover and offers fancy combinations (creative mixes) for the adventurous. Youngsters and yuppies may find delight in the ice cream and coffee offerings, so it has evolved into a tea-coffee place that can’t do without cream. Gong Cha’s tagline is probably: Location, location, location—and has effectively lived by this mantra. Properly situated, even in foodcourts, no one can ever “not” find Gong Cha. It finds you, and so popularity vote goes to this one.
This will sound very immature but I have to say it still: Chris Tiu’s milk tea place. Chris Tiu + kawaii-sounding drink names in that signature smiley cup are enough to send giggly girls flocking to Happy Lemon. In Eastwood, Greenhills, etc. and soon in Trinoma, expect kids to arrive in hordes and sample the “rock salt and cheese” everyone’s talking about. The fancy names do live up to their expectations and produce fun and delightful drinks. I’ve found much love with my Matcha faves (matcha with adzuki bean and pudding and matcha with malt). From yakult to yogurt and lemon series, there’s a lot more reason to visit Happy Lemon than just basketball and boys.
Cha Dao is amazingly cheap, you can expect change for P100—and we’re talking Large with add-ons already! Assam and Wintermelon are crowd pleasers, but you can still expect the common favorites: Green tea, matcha, oolong, chocolate and classic. Why, they even have Kopiko – so very Pinoy! Black sugar seems to be their not-so-secret ingredient, while the popping bobba as an add-on is sure to be a favorite (count me in). A locally established joint and based mainly in the Quezon City area, now there’s more reason to chill at home. Oh yeah, they deliver too!
Flying to the moon may be a rare occurrence, but finding a P55 milk tea in Manila isn’t. Moonleaf’s got a pretty simplified menu scheme, 2 price segments (P45 and P55) for the drinks and add-ons—all offered in those XL cups (they’re really huge). Wintermelon’s still on the list but so is my new favorite Oolong. Don’t be hasty in judging the giant coolers; they contain fabulous and tasty brews of various teas (like Jasmine and Black). Student’s choice award would probably go to Moonleaf as it bests others in terms of price, location (scattered in Diliman area, among other places) and taste (rich in flavor and caffeine). Note for the insomniac: Do not consume after 3pm or you’ll end up a zombie like I did! Note for the students: Now you can party, errrr, study all night!
That’s it for my Best 6 for 2011. I ended up with 6 because I couldn’t choose between Cha Dao and Moonleaf, so I included them both!
Many haters may distrust milk teas and deem them ‘’faddish drinks cloaked in Asian health myths” but since they contain mainly milk, tea, ice and some sweetener, can’t say they’re detrimental to our health either. With inexpensive choices available and unsweetened varieties part of the menus, the appeal is compelling and universal. At least they taste better than coffee (for me), supposedly harbor less calories than frozen yogurt and sit well with the budget friendly.
Gong Cha: Going, Going, Gong Cha!
If you’re going to make saintly references to teahouses, you might as well serve drinks that are so heavenly, people would squeal, “Holy cow, I love it!” in delight. Saint’s Alp Teahouse at 2F Regis Center, Katipunan didn’t get us close to squealing, isn’t situated on a snowy hilltop or is even close to one and is far from heavenly as far as taste goes. We might as well call it Mortal’s Alp, though this particular mortal will think twice before coming back.
So to answer a potential question: No, I don’t suppose Saints congregate and have tea at this place. I surely didn’t see one when I went there. They’re afraid that if they do linger, they’d choke on the tapioca pearls and become mortals again.
The Green Tea with Milk (Regular P105) came with tapioca pearls voluminous enough to clog my esophagus. The milk tea’s sweetness was on the median side, but tasted more like jasmine. I sprinkled a bit of Matcha powder on top, with the hope of bringing out more green tea flavor, but it turned to jelly the moment it hit the liquid. I ended up having messy green residue that wouldn’t stick to the straw and tapioca pearls that I wished the Saints had never invented. The Oreo (Black) Milk Tea (Regular P115) obviously tasted like oreo, barely the tea. The pearls have a way of hogging the spotlight from the oreo bits, which is a really a nuisance especially for the oreo lover. And I admit, the place doesn’t offer pudding, the only add-on I recognize, so my bias is sure to reach the heavens.
Saint’s Alp veers away from the common milk tea trend by 1) Offering unusual add-ons such as agar and wheat germ, but not my favorite pudding, 2) Having no customizable sugar/ice settings, 3) Serving drinks in real glasses (making me Mother Earth’s killer having opted for a plastic cup), and 4) Displaying an extensive selection that includes breakfast, salad, toast, rice, milkshakes in its vast menu with font not-made-to-be-read by the near-sighted.
On a Saturday afternoon, the place was half full with a reasonable turnover of wi-fi seeking and chatty youngsters, who seemed to love their pearls as much as their highlights and gadgets. Good for them. With other milk tea places closer to home and at the malls – cheaper and provide a more delightful experience – I don’t suppose I’ll be climbing this Alp again soon. Unless you call it something more relatable and appropriate, like Mortal’s Mountain or Cat’s Alp.
For those highly prone to get lost in those long-sounding Filipino adjectives of Teacher’s Village, welcome to the club! Maginhawa, Magiting, Mapagkawanggawa, Mabait.. My God! Pronouncing them is difficult enough, but to remember the intersections and landmarks is pure madness, a crisis for the geographically challenged. I propose adding easy-to-remember street names such as Matakaw or Mataba. They have better appeal too, especially for restaurants, but I digress.
Moonleaf Tea House was the reason for this navigation challenge. Described as along Maginhawa St., Teacher’s Village – that alone was vague, since Maginhawa is kind of a long winding road, which hosts denizens of other milk tea joints. Spotting Mini Stop at an intersection, we turned left (that was Magiting St.) and found the green Moonleaf logo at the right side, beside Fancy Cakes. Basically it ought to be called Moonleaf along Magiting, but probably Maginhawa has scored a higher popularity score at the polls, making it a more desirable address name. It doesn’t matter though because WE FOUND IT! Tea time!
The popular choice for the day: Oolong Milk Tea! No one wanted to try the Jasmine or Black tea so Oolong it was. Oolong Milk Tea (P70) with Pudding or Pearls (+P10) was available in one size, but it was huge and not even a well could complain at the height of this cup. I suppose to-go was the trend at this place, having just a few seats that served as its waiting area. Brewing time was fast though and it was more like, checking my watch than waiting, texting and counting the change in my pocket.
The ordered Oolong Milk Tea came with less sugar, giving emphasis to the Oolong Tea. Oolong happens to be my second favorite tea, next to green tea which wasn’t available in their menu. Nevertheless, the flavor was strong (translation: deliciously intense) yet properly complemented by the smooth and sweet taste of the milk. The overall blend bursts with flavor and tea-delight. The pudding is slightly soft – not sure if it’s Moonleaf’s version to mimic the consistency of “taho.” Maybe next time, I would try the Aloe Vera add-on (P15). The drink on its own though, is sweetly addictive, appealing and greatly filling. Nothing watered down or boringly bland going on in their gigantic tea coolers.
I’m this close to mastering the map to Magiting, unless Moonleaf decides to land on the malls on its next sighting. Now that would really make me maligaya and masuwerte, but I don’t suppose mahirap would make it to the list!
Cha Dao Tea Place along Maginhawa St. was seen as the only destination to ward off the potential mad November heat stroke. But no, we couldn’t go there because it was All Saints Day and we had to, well, do the more holy things required by law to make this holiday appear more official.
The only solution to deal with the summer madness: Cha Dao to-go! Brilliant idea.
I watched in fascination as 11 cups of milk tea were delivered, gulped in various degrees of thirst and delirium, and all finished in a matter of minutes, with matching burps and sighs. The assortment was colorful too: from chocolate to assam to the classic milk tea with extra, extra pearls.
I had the Matcha with pudding, less sugar. It came with less ice too, after having been in transit for a few minutes, which I pretty much preferred since too cold a drink would be an invitation for a sore throat with this kind of weather. The matcha flavor was rather diluted by a combination of water, milk and perhaps the ice that had melted. The tea flavor was not as rich as other milk teas, but I spotted a hint of jasmine in the green tea that made it more “fruity” on the side. The egg pudding was all right – sweet and smooth.
It might be safe to say that Cha Dao boasts of quantity over flavor, which might seem appealing to those more into the milk portion of milk teas, the tea novices and those who just like to go for that sweet milky drink. Without the egg pudding, this would’ve been a lighter drink and in that sense, a refreshing treat and life saver for those suffering in this unforgiving -ber month heat wave. Best of all, it’s cheap and with branches scattered in the QC territory (Katipunan and Teacher’s Village – what joy). I guess it’s cheers to Cha Dao!
*Do forgive the crappy photo. Dehydration prodded me to take pictures in haste.
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I am linking up with the Elm Streets April one monthly goal.
My goal for this month is to make 32 hearts in colour fabric to make a heart quilt for #healingheartsforChristchurch. After the attack on the Mosques and people at prayer quilters around New Zealand and around the world have answered the call to make quilts for the families of the dead and wounded. They are all green hearts. I made a few and sent them off to be put into a quilt.
So far I only have a few cut out a bit of fabric for the coloured hearts!
My log cabin heart quilt is drying outside, and when ready will be posted of to the hearts quilts for Christchurch.
Well for once I didn’t complete my one month goal for a start! I did do some of it but a health issue plus another project meant I didn’t get it totally accomplished. Another time.
Quilters all around the world are making these blocks – I sent my four off but many are gathering together to make full quilts. However we send them off to central places and all the blocks that arrive will be pieced into quilts. Green is an important colour for Muslims – signifying peace I think, so for all the victims’ families and those wounded green heart quilts are being made.
Coloured hearts are being made for first responders; police, ambulance, hospital. So I thought of the log cabin heart quilt I had pieced and started to quilt. So I worked on finishing the quilting and next I was going to put in the little square areas above the hearts words like peace, hope, kia kaha (be strong) aroha (love) etc. But I decided finishing was better so going to bind it and post if off.
Which was my goal, to finish off the applique in the wedding ring section and make two more blocks. I did do the applique and finished one of the two blocks.
This one has names of her children embroidered on, hard to see but when you are up close they are discernible!
Earlier in the month I did some more quilting on my bookcase quilt, and so far I’m happy to have got a good way along. I like to stop and let it gel for awhile about what I’ll do next!
Linking up with Elm Street Quilts for the March quilt goal.
I had a big quilting month last month working on the Sunshine Garden quilt, which I am now hand sewing down the binding on.
So something reasonably quiet for March! I have done enough quilting to last me for awhile – so just some piecing would be nice this month.
So I am going to pick up the second memory quilt I am making celebrating my mother’s life. I have four and half blocks finished.
complete two to three more blocks.
This was the first memory quilt that I completed so this one will be similar but will make a few changes.
So at the beginning of February I had begun quilting the inner part of the sunshine garden quilt – bought as a kit. I bought a bit of extra fabric too as it needed to be enlarged to fit the bed its being made for.
My plan for this month was to quilt all the inner part of the quilt, and then add borders using the encased seam method, which I hadn’t used before but I wanted to try. As this is a priority quilt I ended up stopping all other quilting projects and focussed totally on this one.
I did get all the middle quilted and then I added the borders. This involved added a yellow border all around and and at the same time attaching backing and batting that would be enough for all the borders.
This is the back of where I’ll be sewing, the batting has been placed a half inch away from the backing and taped down. On the other side is the narrow yellow border. When this is sewn the backing and batting is smoothed out and the yellow border is on top.
So finally – after a little struggle here and there and wondering if I was doing the right thing all four borders were placed on.
All borders are now on the quilt and I have begun quilting them. So I am very happy to have achieved the goal. I have made the border far larger than the kit showed as my sister wants it as large as I can get!
It measures about 85″ by 96″.
For February I am working on the Sunshine Garden Quilt – a kit designed by Darlene Zimmerman, for my one month goal over at Elm St Quilts. It is a quilt for one of my sisters. I am going to have to enlarge it a little to fit her bed, so will do that in the borders I hope.
I have since added the sashing and basted it together, with the help of my trusty fan!
And now I have started to quilt it.
I am using for the first time Marti Michell’s way of using encased seams to add the border later on as this would be too large to quilt on my Bernina home sewing machine. A little nervous about that – but nothing ventured, nothing gained. The piece I am quilting at present is about 57″ by 68″. Getting the middle quilted is easier this way.
So my goal for February is to take this as far as I can. Goal will be achieved if I advance further than I am now!
Steps I hope to get done, however quilting the middle will be good. Working on starting the borders will also be included in the goal, even if I get two sides placed on.
I am joining in with Elm Street Quilts one month goal for January.
My goal was to add the final sashing to my log cabin hearts quilt and baste the layers together and stitch in the ditch along the main sashing lines – which I have done. Just as well I did this early in the month, as I was asked to make a very large quilt by one of my sisters.
I did what I set out to do, and then had to set it aside but it feels good that I have advanced its cause!
Joining in with the One Month Goal at Elm St Quilts.
This month I am going to further one of my 2019 long term goals to finish some quilt tops.
For January I want to work on my Log Cabin Hearts top. It’s a small lap size I think. Actually haven’t measured it!
I want to add some sashing to one side.
Prepare some backing fabric and link together some pieces of batting for the inner part. I have found three pieces I can put together for it.
Give the top a good iron and some tidy up of fraying threads.
Start some stitching in the ditch.
My goal for December – to keep up with the Splendid Sampler 2 as the blocks are assigned. Linking up with Elm Street Quilts for the one month goal.
The one on the top right was the most challenging as it had EPP and hand applique – which aren’t my favourite ways, but I was happy I completed it reasonably well and felt I had learned something new.
As it turns out after this there were bonus blocks that I won’t be doing as I need only 101 for the setting I am doing. I took the lull for the holidays allowance to make the sashing for some of the blocks already made so I am on track and goal accomplished.
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There are various different types of damages that the bats can have to any person residing in any particular home especially during winter seasons since most of the bats find warmth in most of the homes. As a homeowner it is therefore very important to make sure that some of the various damages that are likely to be as a result of the invasion of the bats are properly controlled or prevented by always ensuring that you implement the various methods or techniques that can remove bats from your home in the right manner.
Bats have also various benefits and this is to the farmers not when they invade your house since for the farmers, the availability of bats is a great way to control the various crop pests like the cutworms, ants, aphids, termites and many others which various bats for example the brown bats consume. Despite of the bats having many important benefits to the farmers while in the field like preventing or controlling the various crop pests or even acting as pollinators, there are a lot of negative effects that the bats have in various homes and hence that is why most of the farmers are advised to have various bat removal methods in their homes. One of the damages that the bats can have to your home is the damage of the woods and other building materials like the iron sheets due to corrosion caused by the black droppings of the bats and hence being necessary to remove the bats from a home. The damage caused by the droppings of the bats to your home will therefore make you incur various repair and replacement costs. There are different types of diseases that the bats can cause to any person living in a particular home and hence this can cause a lot of health hazards. The same can also be said when looking for Le Mars termite exterminators.
The major disease that the bats come with when they come to your home is the rabies which is cause by lyssaviruses and hence putting the life of those living in a home into great risks. It is important to make sure that you first consider some of the bat removal techniques that can help you remove the bats from your home in the easiest way possible. Here are some of the bat removal techniques that one should always consider when getting rid of the bats from his or her home.
It is also important to make sure that you know the various places that the bats might be using to get into your home and hence properly enclosing them to prevent the entry of the bats to your home. Make sure that you do nit handle the bats directly to prevent them from biting you. Replace old screens and shingles in your home. Get in touch with Orange City bat removal services to know more.
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Unable to speak, I could only scribble short messages on writing pads my wife provided. During the day she would transmit my questions and requests to the nursing and medical staff. But looking over those notes, which my wife saved, I can see that constantly scribbling messages, many of which were of no conceivable importance, was my desperate attempt to maintain contact with the world. At night, when I seemed most in need of ventilatory support and suctioning of my mouth and respiratory tract, the nurses would try to understand my written requests and do their best to comply. My neck pain was often severe. I asked for the least amount of morphine to relieve it, because I wanted to remain alert. I feared morphine would suppress my respirations and increase the possibility of pneumonia. However, the record shows that in the first two or three days I received considerable sedation and morphine.
Despite the medication, my physical distress and utter helplessness made these first days in the ICU a terrible ordeal. I survived by concentrating on each physical problem. My life hung in the balance, as did the risk of quadriplegia, but I did not think much about these threats because I was totally concerned with relieving my immediate symptoms.
Worst of all were the endless nights. I slept very little and spent most of the time watching the minutes go by on the big wall clock in my room, waiting for daylight and the return of my wife, and other family members. They tell me that I seemed more affectionate than usual; perhaps it was because I needed them so much.
In “On Breaking One’s Neck” (The New York Review of Books, 6 February 2014), ninety-year-old senior physician Arthur Relman describes his experience of the hospital system. Critically ill after a fall in his home, he has had a tracheostomy and describes the “physical distress and utter helplessness” and the “endless nights”.
Two-and-a-half years have passed and yet I vividly remember “watching the minutes go by on the big wall clock” and, when I finally dozed off, waking to find that only three or four minutes had passed.
My friend Rachel passed away yesterday.
I’ve thought of her so often over the last few weeks and I just realised I only emailed her yesterday morning to wish her Merry Christmas.
I only just got to know you Rachel and I’ll miss you and your wise, funny, beautiful words.
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One of the things I’ve had to get used to about working at a University based on an out-of-town campus is that it’s no longer feasible to walk to work every morning. Fortunately there is an excellent bus service from central Brighton to Falmer, so this isn’t too much of a hardship. I’ve now invested in one of those new-fangled smart cards that makes it very economical not only for getting to work, but also for hopping on and off while pottering about town doing shopping and whatnot.
I have noticed that if I get the No. 25 bus from Old Steine before 8am it only takes about fifteen minutes to get to the University of Sussex. If I’m a bit late starting out, however, and don’t get to the bus stop until after eight in the morning, the trip can take about forty minutes. The problem is that roadworks on the A27 Lewes Road have reduced it to a single lane in each direction; there’s a critical point when the traffic builds up to rush hour levels and then solidifies. Still, I don’t mind getting in before 9am as that gives me useful time before the roll of meetings commences, so I found it quite easy to adapt to the early start.
Anyway sitting on the bus this morning I had a kind of flashback to my schooldays. The school I went to was on the opposite side of Newcastle to where I lived, so I had to take the bus every morning. I did much the same thing in those days as I am doing now, in fact – getting the bus at 7.30 to avoid the heaviest traffic, and often doing the previous night’s homework before lessons started in the morning.
The one thing that was very different in those days (and we’re talking about the Seventies now) was that the “School Run” didn’t really exist. Even the posh kids took the bus or train to School rather than being ferried back and forth by doting parents. I think it did me a lot of good travelling on the bus along with all kinds of other people rather than being transported in the hermetically sealed cocoon of a family car. The famous friendliness of Tyneside folk undoubtedly contributed to the omnibus experience and left me with a lifelong preference for public over private transport. I’ve never owned a car and have no intention of ever doing so.
Whilst I’d by no means be ashamed to be counted a failure according to a Thatcherite criterion, I did once get a bit riled by a version of it when I was conducting a UCAS Admissions Day at another institution (also a campus university). A (male) parent of one of the candidates asked me why there was so little car parking space for students on the campus. I replied that undergraduates were basically not allowed to park on the campus, otherwise it would be overrun with motor vehicles and wouldn’t be so nice and spacious and green. However, I said, that’s not a problem because there was an excellent bus service that could take students to the University from town and vice versa in just a few minutes. The indignant father bristled and announced in a very loud and angry voice “No son of mine is going to get on a bus”. That was the nearest I’ve ever come to losing my temper with a parent on a university admissions day. Fortunately nothing like it has happened since.
It never would have occurred to my parents to come with me when I visited universities for interview and I would have been horrified if they had insisted on doing so. Nowadays, however, prospective students are invariably accompanied by parents, who generally ask at least as many questions as their offspring do. Is this just an extension of the School Run, or is because parents now have to foot the bill (when in my day there were maintenance grants and no tuition fees). Either way, times have definitely changed.
Anyway, I’m about to get the bus home. Tomorrow we are interviewing prospective postgraduate (PhD) students. I don’t think any will bring their parents along. And quite a few may even come on the bus.
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I am aware about the strange borders in Brezovica. It seems that is is no real true Croatian exclave because the small area appears to be connected to the motherland by a very thin corridor, most likely a (former) road. Still this corridor partly follows a road, but the northwestern part penetrates a building. Therefore it is a (2.4 Class) pene-enclave/exclave.
I chose to believe the Arkod.hr map is inaccurate drawn.
After the exclave area of Baarle I think Brezovica is the most special border area in Europe.
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And I’m back! After taking a little more than a month off of blogging, it’s time to get back to it, and first up is a report on my trip to Brimfield Antique Show in mid-July.
For anyone who hasn’t heard of Brimfield, it’s a small town in western Massachusetts that hosts the largest outdoor antique show in the US three times a year (May, July, and September) for about a week (Tuesday-Sunday). I love antiquing, and while I don’t get to go every year, I make it for a day when I can. The show (which is really a collection of different fields) stretches out on either side of a one-mile strip of road. You never know what you will find, from sought-after antiques (and new things that play well with antiques), to repurposed items, to raw materials to make your own upcycled creations.
I love antiquing. A full day of wandering through the fields with a friend or by myself is one of my favorite kinds of days. This July, my best Brimfield buddy Jo-Alice (of Hillcraft Designs) and I managed to get away for the day. We left before the sun was up, drove out to western MA, and got walking! Each show has its own flavor, and July tends to have fewer vendors and fewer customers, because it can be the hottest weather (although sometimes September is pretty toasty, too). Having said that, though, there is still A LOT to take in. A few of my favorite vendors weren’t around, but despite that, we walked from about 7 A.M. to maybe 4:30 P.M. and found plenty to look at.
No, that didn’t come home with me. That dress form made me laugh and cringe at the same time.
I always go with a list of things I’m looking for for our house, my sewing practice, as gifts, or just fun things like jewelry and plants. I save some of my Christmas money toward this end, and don’t usually spend much, but always have a great time. Anything I don’t spend, I roll over for next year. I only get things I can use, because our apartment is small, and we don’t have wall or shelf space for knick-knacks.
Storage items are always useful finds! I didn’t find any affordable pattern storage boxes, though. I’m not willing to pay a lot for those.
I didn’t find quite as much as usual this time, but I still came away with some good finds: deadstock top sheets with a great border print. These were unused and unopened and are 100% cotton. I think they’ll make a great maxi dress.
I found a sparkly necklace and this cute chocolate tin for gifts, but…bonus! It was filled with sewing odds and ends for me!
We needed some enamel ware for camping. Check!
I also thought I would try out this folding drying rack for holding patterns that have been cut out but aren’t sewn yet. Right now I drape them over my husband’s chair and, while he’s very patient, I bet he would like his chair back.
My favorite jewelry lady and plant lady weren’t in attendance, so no treasures from them this time. Not a huge haul, but a good one, nonetheless. Next year, if I get a chance to go, I’ll reevaluate this year’s list and roll anything over that I am still looking for.
After a day full of walking and looking (and eating second-breakfast and a delicious lunch of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream), my friend and went to Cracker Barrel for dinner since it’s on our way home. What a great end to the day, and a wonderful chance to hang out with a dear friend!
Don’t bring your young children. If you plan to make a full day of this, it’s a lot of walking and can get long and hot. Can you do it with kids? Definitely. Will you (and they) enjoy it? Probably not.
Park in the middle so you can drop things off in your car as you go back and forth.
Write down the fields your favorite vendors are in. After walking for a while, things start to look the same and the paths through the fields are sometimes curvy, which can make remembering exactly where you found that perfect item a little tricky when you are tired. My current favorite fields? New England Motel and Quaker Acres.
Pack a cooler filled with water and leave it in your car. Plan to take a midday break with some water and a snack as you drop off your purchases so you can get that second wind to keep going!
Wear sunscreen and be prepared for varying weather.
Have fun and chat up the vendors. They are usually really friendly, really interesting, and great to learn from (whether you want to know the history of your latest find, its provenance, or the psychology of Brimfield).
Do you have a favorite antique fair where you live? Have any tips to share or recommendations for fun flea markets/fairs to visit? Leave them in the comments!
I’ve been thinking for a while about this post. If you’ve been following my blog for a long time or have looked through past posts and seen a Brimfield post or two (or three), you’ll know that I love antiques. I’m not a collector of any particular thing, but I love items from the past that I can use in my everyday life. I like a bargain and a little patina. Wood, metal, glass, ceramic–those are the materials I like to look for, and many of them have been pressed into service for sewing. Thanks to some special items from family and friends as well as flea markets and roadside finds, I have some vintage sewing tools, but I also have some great storage solutions. That is what I want to share with you today. Maybe it will give you some ideas or maybe you have fun vintage storage solutions of your own that you’d like to share in the comments.
Here’s where I sew at one end of our living room. Most of my tools and equipment have been gifts, freebies, or bargains. The sewing table was my Mom’s and the chair belonged to my parents. That cool old medical lamp was a side of the road find.
It’s not very bright, but the head can be moved to direct light onto your project and you can make the lamp taller or shorter.
Here are a few more items I find useful.
This is my fabric cabinet, found at a flea market. Fabric is organized somewhat by color and somewhat by type.
Those are the big items, but I also have some very useful smaller organizers–wooden roast beef and cheese boxes.
Patterns go in the roast beef boxes…and tools (and other items like trim) go in the cheese boxes.
I also use cheese boxes in the drawers of my sewing table for organization. That’s actually where I keep my box of cutting tools.
and really any old container that you like the look of and that will fit what you are trying to store.
I also find old locker baskets useful, albeit somewhat pokey.
For buttons and old, but beautiful spools of thread, I often employ glass canning jars, which look great whether they are vintage or new.
And on my sewing table/desk, I’ve found that an old stamp holder (if it’s not too rusty) can be useful for holding thread and bobbins for your most recent projects.
I also use this old shaving mug to hold binder clips for pattern pieces, mini clothes pins for my pattern instructions, and post-it tabs to help me keep my place in the instructions when I’m sewing. This one features New Hampshire’s “Old Man of the Mountain” who fell off the mountain some time ago, so…I guess it’s even more special now?
Once you get started organizing with vintage containers, it’s not hard to follow that up with a few vintage notions. Often people will give them to you if they are cleaning out and know you are interested. I love having tools and notions that were loved in the past and knowing I can use and enjoy them and give them a second life. It makes my own sewing that much more special.
If you’re looking to add a little vintage flair to your sewing and/or your sewing organization, here are some of my sources. I will tell you, though, that I’ve loved old things ever since I was little, so this collection of special odds and ends didn’t spring up overnight. This is a great long-term hunt. Patience will serve you well.
So, sources! Number one for so many of these items has been family. My parents and in-laws have often passed on things they weren’t using that I fell in love with. Once I started to sew and knit, family and friends also gave me tools from family members who had passed away, which was really special.
If you are near Boston’s North Shore, my favorite flea market is Todd Farm in Rowley, MA. It’s open every Sunday morning from approximately Easter to Thanksgiving. I like early-morning antiquing, so I go before church sometimes. If you are within driving distance of western Massachusetts, I highly recommend Brimfield. The prices there are not as good (in general) as a small, local flea market like Todd Farm, but the selection is unparalleled.
For cigar boxes, you can often buy them inexpensively (or sometimes get them for free) at cigar shops. They may not be vintage, but they often have that vintage look regardless. And consider using any containers that you find useful and beautiful like clean jars or tubs from food or other items.
I also suggest yard sales, side-of-the-road freebies, thrift stores, and super junky bargain antique stores.
Of course all of this takes time, but I love the thrill of the hunt and the opportunity to use things with a history. If you have any great tips for organizing or sewing with vintage items OR great sources for finding said items, tell me in the comments!
Have you seen the new “stickers” from the McCall Pattern Company for iOS? It’s a free app with little sewing-related images that you can use on your phone (if you have an iPhone) or iPad. They are super fun to text to your other sewing buddies.
So, here’s a website/blog that’s new to me, but could prove very helpful: Shop the Garment District. It’s about sewing and shopping for sewing goodies in New York City’s Garment District. I heard about this site while listening to the Sew Forth Now podcast. This is an old podcast that you can still listen to by Lori from the blog Girls in the Garden. I’m finding some great resources through these. Lori’s blog (which she is still posting to) is also a great source for sewing inspiration as she tries lots of different patterns and fabric.
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Ugh, must be spring– the bugs are back. I found a soldier bug in the school room, a spider in the hall, and (worst of all) a centipede in the kitchen sink. As a gardener and nature lover I've come to tolerate most bugs but there's no getting around it: the centipede really freaks me out. It's just downright creepy looking!!
Something killed my Mugwort this winter (Okay– it was me.) so I need to start some of that, as well as Coriander. The rest of the herbs and plants I brought inside in the fall have survived nicely. This weekend I'll get started on the Tomatoes and Peppers, and I'll (miraculously) be on schedule. Also, now that the compost pile is thawing, I've started that back up again.
Other than gardening news, there's not much going on. School is going well; I can't believe that there are only two more full months of class left! The Peeps are excited for summer break, and so am I! The Vernal Equinox is next week and we'll plan something fun to do (I haven't decided what yet.) And oh yeah! Supernatural is new tomorrow!
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Are microwaves affecting population growth by interfering with reproduction? Is our love affair with wireless technology responsible for ill health? These are the question this video explores. I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I think that much of the damage we do to ourselves and the environment is due to a combination of greed, stupidity, and insecurity, both real and imagined. This video is intended as a wake-up call. We are doing with microwaves what previous generations did with lead, asbestos, cigarettes and DDT. Microwaves are making us ill and are adversely affecting other life forms. The sooner we become aware of this the sooner we can use this technology wisely.
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A U of T researcher and her team have developed an app that combines neuroscience with smartphone technology to sharpen memories for people of all ages and could even help combat the looming Alzheimer’s epidemic.
An environmental conference taking place at the University of Toronto this week aims to shift the narrative about climate change away from doom and gloom stories to focus on more positive, aspirational messages.
An experiment led by University of Toronto psychologists has shown for the first time that grapheme-colour synesthesia provides a clear advantage in statistical learning – an ability to discern patterns – a critical aspect of learning language. The result provides insight into how we learn, and how children and adults may learn differently.
The Association of Computer Machinery, with a membership of more than 100,000, with more than half living outside of the United States, named Toniann Pitassi of the department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science as one of 56 fellows for 2018.
Twelve University of Toronto researchers — including two from the Faculty of Arts & Science — have been awarded funding through the Connaught Innovation Award program, which recognizes and supports promising technologies that have strong socio-economic or commercial potential.
The Dunlap Institute, established in 2008, joined the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) at U of T to form the leading centre for astronomical research in Canada.
A theoretical physicist on the hunt for hidden particles that could solve cosmic mysteries hopes Canada will boldly go all in on a project that could make Toronto the nexus of a world-leading research hub.
A Canadian-led team of scientists — including the Dunlap Institute’s Cherry Ng — has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away.
Five American students share their U of T experiences with U of T News.
Is there life beyond Earth? Recent discoveries point to tantalizing possibilities. But to understand the possibilities, we have to do one important thing: Stop thinking that life as we know it – that which depends on oxygen – is the only kind of life.
New research suggests that the exterior of mobile phones could be a source of toxic chemicals, or at least an aggregate indicator of the chemicals to which people are exposed on a daily basis.
The University of Toronto is partnering with Canada’s National Research Council to create a national innovation hub focused on microfluidics – a field in which tiny amounts of fluid are manipulated in small-scale devices to create everything from portable diagnostic “labs” to repair kits for human organs.
Fourth-year computer science student Shweta Mogalapalli, this year’s president of UofTHacks, is passionate about technology.
Assistant Professor Monica Alexander of the department of statistical sciences in the Faculty of Arts & Science discusses her work at the intersection of statistics and social sciences and her passion for making a difference.
Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, an assistant professor of computer science and Kazem Cheshmi, a PhD student in computer science, build high-performance software for applications used in various domains, including computer graphics, robotics and machine learning.
Faculty of Arts & Science professors Pierre Savard and Daniel Simpson among the 21 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs.
Professor Donald Weaver of the Department of Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts & Science discusses how dementia is increasingly entwined with violence in private homes and residential facilities, affecting aggressive patients with Alzheimer’s and also frustrated caregivers.
Edwin Leong’s gift brings three extraordinary international students — two in Arts & Science — with financial need to U of T to pursue graduate studies.
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Help me choose: WIP it or RIP it?
You may recall I was all set to resurrect a WIP from earlier this year – Calyx Hat by Debbie New – to make a multi-coloured tea-cosy for my daughter’s teacher (on request!).
There was the small matter of re-jigging the maths to make it fit a tea-pot, rather than a head; but that was easily got round.
Once the cast-on stitch-count was triple-checked (with stitch-markers in place like there’s no tomorrow) the actual knitting was very quick: one evening’s sitting, in fact. The sewing-up was an altogether different matter, however; but we’ll come to that later.
Which, we agreed, is quite appropriate, considering a tea-cosy is insulation for a tea-pot.
So far, so clever. Then, that minx, Hubris, came to the tea-party and spoiled all my fun! As I was happily sewing-up the lobes, I created a mathematical imponderable – a twist that would not go away.
At the same time, I fell out-of-love with how the Noro striping was becoming a murky melange over such a large stitch-count. You know when you’ve made something really clever in plasticine and then the mean-kid comes and mushes all the colours together so that it looks like muck? That was what my hat was like.
It was an easy decision to rip and start again. Same wool, I decided – after all “multi-coloured” was part of the Brief. My pattern choice should instead let the striping of the yarn play with a shorter stitch-count giving deeper stripes. I went for a classic: the “traditional” fluted tea-cosy pattern. My sister knit one of these when we were in Primary School but I never got the chance. You may be surprised to learn that I didn’t automatically know how it was made – I had to look it up.
First I disliked it, then I revisited. Now I love it! Deliver it with attitude and it’ll be a winner!
I love how this pattern shows off the striping so well – going from cold At the bottom to hot at the top like a fire!
My rule of thumb is would I like to receive this – which usually results in my having to buy two of things – one to gift and one for me!
Anyhow I think it’s far more unique than any soap sets or whatever else it is the teacher will get!
But, that’s not to say it’s not nice, different strokes for different folks and all that.
God, I feel bad saying that. All knitting is beautiful really. Just some yarns are better suited to other patterns?
Ok, I’ll put my shovel away now.
I’m in two minds about it. At first glance, I was inclined to agree with Sinead, but now I’m not so sure. It does have some ‘attitude’!
I kinda like it. I think it needs that OTT finishing touch like a pompom or tassle on the top. You need to go all the way with this one!
I have a love/hate thing with Noro. I want to love it’s wooly goodness, but the striping doesn’t always work for me. I think I am too much of a control freak for self striping yarns.
The teacher wanted a multi-color cozy, this certainly fills the bill. The striping on alternate ribs almost makes it look woven as well as knit. I say give it.
Thanks for you comment. I love how this WIP is getting such mixed reaction.
I gave it to the teacher and, according to DD, it was genuinely well-received. A Cadbury’s Caramel sweet was sent home with DD by way of thanks!
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NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe – March 17, 2011 – Paul Philip Schneider, a mechanical engineer, was no slouch but a patriotic ex-military American who was found garroted to death shortly after publicly exposing a work-site area near the Archuleta Mesa ( between Colorado and New Mexico ) where an event occured while he worked under ‘contract’ for MORRISON-KNUTSON INC. that upon instructions from the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory ( LASL ) Geosciences Division – now known as – Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL ) caused him to be sent down an ‘old nuclear bomb borehole’ ( see further below about “Nuclear Fracturing” ) he claimed was located in a ‘remote area of northern New Mexico’ where his mission was to discover why huge plumes of ‘black soot’ were forcefully being shot up into the atmosphere’ at an active drill site where his team was located.
Schneider, by his own accounts, claimed the black soot atmosphere smelled like a sulphuric gas lingering in the air all around the drill-site, but who ever heard of a ‘carbon atmosphere’ of ’black sulphur gas’?
It is still seriously doubted if Phil Schneider knew what was actually happening down in the cavern he was ordered into through the borehole.
– What those plumes of ‘black soot’ actually consisted of, and ‘why’ it was being ‘forcefully shot-out of the borehole’ with such ‘pressure’;?
– How a ‘huge cavern came to be made’ at the bottom of the borehole?
– What the ‘cavern had been filled with and why’?
– Why boreholes were ‘specifically directed to be drilled precisely where they were’?
From what has been able to be gathered from in-depth research, Schneider was apparently sent by KNUTSON to perform his role as a ‘mechanical engineering consultant’, who totally by accident discovered something beyond his wildest imagination – and many other’s too.
Schneider was lowered down one of the boreholes with an ‘armed black beret military team’ that surrounded him but he could not understand ‘why’ he had such escorts – except for some unknown military security reason he wasn’t cleared to know, and being ex-military, Schneider knew-better than to ask any questions, but to ‘do what was asked of him by his superior’.
Now comes the point within this report that information becomes incredibly bizzare, however by in-depth research Schneider’s claims ( below ) have been pulled somewhat back into ‘more detailed perspective’ by ‘incredibly related facts’ that existed long ago.
Schneider and the other armed U.S. federal military employees discovered a group of what Schneider claims were ExtraTerrestrial Biological Entities ( EBEs ) that he referred to as alien “Grey talls” ( 7-foot extraterrestrial aliens with a bluish purple bioskin color.
Once lowered through the borehole, a deep underground cavern appeared and this is when Schneider claims he instantly got off several rounds of his own ammunition ( from his sidearm pistol ) before being shot by some ‘blue beam of light’ – leaving him cut wide-open in the chest as having several fingers of his cut-off from what the first ( 1st ) alien he encountered ( down there ) apparently aimed at him ( Schneider ).
Schneider further claimed that nearly sixty ( 60 ) U.S. government personnel and contractors lost their lives during this August 1979 ‘unpublicized event’ in what Schneider described having been involved-in an underground cavern filled with alien beings.
Hard to believe, I know because at-first I totally scoffed at Schneider’s claims being utterly ridiculous, until some unrelated research studied earlier portions of what Schneider claimed.
Years earlier ( 2002 ) I was exchanging communications with someone related to Paul Philip Schneider, on an entirely ‘different subject’ related to work his ‘father’ Oscar Schneider was involved-in with the U.S. Navy, and current research now dovetailed back to that which I was researching years ago surrounding a U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA ) ‘precious metals’ scientific recycling process that involved baking ore resulting in low-yield nuclear energy transmutation of material into high-yield elements.
It appeared from further studies that Oscar Schneider’s son, Paul Philip Schneider claims required further detailed clarifications, which he either could not perform earlier due to secrecy agreements with the U.S. government or he may have felt he should ‘not’ provide too many specifics for fear of breeching a “business agreement” he made with the U.S. government, however based upon current research beyond Schneider’s claims, incredible further facts go far beyond this report sufficient to at least warrant a suitable public release of information contained herein.
Phil Schneider mentions that upon drilling “boreholes” the drill-site teams were experiencing “huge plums of black soot’ or “black dust” ( that stank ) and were being ‘rapidly ejected under pressure’ into the atmosphere, which also lingered near the ground, from within these underground hole locations they were being told to drill at.
None apparently knew ‘why’ or ‘how’ these odd occurences were taking place, or why they were drilling where they were.
Initial research indicates that “Nuclear Fracturing” ( 1962 – 2005 ) had been used earlier in ‘underground nuclear blasts’ for what was said to be “oil experimentations,” which was a U.S. government cover for underground testing of nuclear warheads subsequent to Russia having exploded what it called the “Tsar Bomba,” a 100-kiloton nuclear bomb that the U.S. later claimed only yielded 50-kiloton blast with a Circular Error Probability ( CEP ) range for death from irradiation up to 60-miles away from ground-zero.
Did previously ‘large U.S. oil reserves once exist’ until subsequently becoming nuclear blasted underground, creating both a ‘high pressure black oil carbon soot atmosphere’ and simultaneously creating these ‘huge underground caverns’?
Were “Grey” alien “talls” ( 7-foot ) provided with a ‘government secret atmospheric environment’ consisting of ‘large underground cavern living where they were the only ones able to breath a high carbon pressurized atmosphere consisting of gamma irradiated particle elements” derived from ‘earlier U.S. secret military underground nuclear Projects’ publicly called “Nuclear Fracturing”? If so, could an extraterrestrial alien agreement been reached secretly with the U.S. government?
Was the LANL / LASL Geosciences Division ‘borehole drillings’ “Hot Rock” Project – publicly revealed as only seeking ‘new geothermal energy alternatives’ only a ruse?
By ‘drilling boreholes’ ( in highly ‘specific remote locations’ where contractors were ‘told to drill’ ) did that ‘actually and instantly deplete’ all of the carbon dense atmosphere used by these Grey alien “talls” whom were thereby being killed down inside these caverns? If so, why would the U.S. government destroy what it must have worked so hard to build for these aliens?
There is only rumored mentions of a percentage reduction number of Grey talls ( aliens ) being sighted on Earth, whereas “Grey shorts” ( 4-foot to 5-foot tall ) are now only but rarely sighted so, were nearly 80% of the “Grey talls” actually “wiped-out” by ‘another alien species’ – as rumored?
Is there any truth to any of this and are there any other correlations worth researching to such deep underground military bases and caverns albeit for aliens or humans?
Why have ‘sophisticated landing strips’ on “Church of Scientology” ( COS ) ‘remote properties’ been purchased by its “Church of Scientific Technology” entity that has also built ‘sophisticated underground vaults’ and ‘sophisticated long tunnel systems’ that are ‘guaranteed to last 1,000 years’ equipped with ‘sophisticated nuclear blast-proof doors’ built to withstand any direct nuclear hit? All of these have been substantiated through my research and documented by satellite photos, facility diagramatics, and land parcel details and grant information on many of these COS / CST ‘remote installation properties’.
– Google Earth shows a ‘gigantic cave-in’ or ‘explosion hole from something’ where scattered atop is an unusual ‘broken and caved-in lattice pattern’ of ‘huge very-very long beams / tubes’ [ cavern / cave / tunnel support beam cylinders ] that appear ‘snapped like twigs’ and sunken into a remote cave-in area nearest Edith, Colorado of the Archuleta Mesa area.
Church of Scientology ( COS ) and Church of Scientific Technology ( CST ) New Mexico vault tunneling construction performed by INTERNATIONAL GROUND SUPPORT SYSTEMS ( Santa Fe, New Mexico ).
– INTERNATIONAL GROUND SUPPORT SYSTEMS ( Santa Fe, New Mexico ); – CER GEONUCLEAR CORPORATION of EG&G ( Las Vegas, Nevada 89114 ); – MORRISON-KNUDSEN INC. – aka – KNUTSON ( Las Vegas, Nevada ); – MORRISON KNUDSEN ENGINEERS – aka – KNUTSON ( Tulsa, Oklahoma ); – CHANDLER ENGINEERING of EG&G ( Tulsa, Oklahoma ); – Others ( e.g. AUSTRAL OIL, et al. ).
Atoms for Peace program fails oilpatch testing. Atoms for Peace was a grand idea aimed at benefiting the world and was tested in the oilpatch. It never reached its potential in ‘industrial use’, however it did set an active alternative; accelerating the nuclear arms race between the U.S. and Russia.
In the United States, that effort kicked-off OPERATION PLOWSHARE – named for the Biblical passage that referred to turning swords into plowshares. The United States had high hopes for Operation Plowshare. It anticipated twenty-seven ( 27 ) nuclear programs using atomic devices for peace.
Among those plans were proposals to use more than one-hundred ( 100 ) nuclear explosions to blast a 37 mile ( 60 kilometer ) long canal across the isthmus of Panama at San Blas.
Another plan would use at least 250 blasts for a 140 mile ( 225 kilometer ) canal on the Nicaragua Costa Rica border.
Another, PROJECT CHARIOT, almost went into action that would have used several hydrogen bombs to blast out a harbor at Cape Thompson, Alaska in the Chukchi Sea about 75 miles ( 121 kilometers ) from the Russia border in the Bering Sea Strait.
Concerns over the native population reduced that to a 104 kiloton proof-of-concept blast called SEDAN at Yucca Flats, Nevada on July 6, 1962. The blast displaced 12,000,000 million short tons of dirt and released a 12,000 ft. high ( 3,660 meter ) radioactive cloud.
Native American indians of the Tiwa tribe, continue cultural traditions to this day. Around 1903, by Executive Order, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt took over 48,000 acres of Tiwa tribal land ( in the “Sangre de Cristo Mountains” of New Mexico ) making it the “Kit Carson National Forest” (aka) “Carson National Forest” in New Mexico. In 1970, by Executive Order, U.S. President Richard Nixon returned part of that land to the Tiwa tribe.
A ‘tribal disaster’ ( elsewhere ) was mentioned in an official U.S. Administration letter. Pull letter from existing files under Knights of Malta member Thomas Sawyer.
Most of the real testing took place in the oilpatch, starting with PROJECT GASBUGGY – the first test aimed at releasing natural gas from tight sands and the first use of a nuclear device for industrial purposes.
It took place on December 10, 1967 in the Carson National Forest of New Mexico – about 90 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico and 25 miles southwest of the town of Dulce, New Mexico.
The U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ( AEC ) was the oversight agency as LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY ( LLNL ) and EL PASO NATURAL GAS ( EPNG ) conducted the test. They set off a 29 kiloton blast 4,240 ft ( 1,293 m ) underground in a tight shale. According to official figures, the blast created a cavity 80 feet ( 24 m ) wide and 335 feet ( 102 m ) high filled with gas. Unfortunately, the ‘gas was too radioactive’ to use. They didn’t stop there.
PROJECT RULISON ( 10SEP69 ) Rifle, Colorado; CER GEONUCLEAR CORP. ( Las Vegas, Nevada ); Keith K. Millheim ( president of Strategic Worldwide LLC The Woodlands, Texas ) under CER GEONUCLEAR CORP. contract; AUSTRAL OIL ( Denver, Colorado ); TELEDYNE ISOTOPES ( Palo Alto, California ); ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ( AEC ).
The industry moved on to Project Rulison, probably the best known of the nuclear blasts for peace. This blast, also under the control of the ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION ( AEC ), was conducted by CER GEONUCLEAR CORP. ( Las Vegas, Nevada ) and AUSTRAL OIL ( Denver, Colorado ).
In between international assignments Keith K. Millheim ( president of Strategic Worldwide LLC The Woodlands, Texas ) was seconded by CER GEONUCLEAR CORP. to help design the drilling and testing of the Project Rulison Nuclear Gas Stimulation Experiment.
This 43 kiloton blast – 2.6 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan – was lowered 8,426 ft ( 2,568 m ) underground from a drill site on the southwest flank of Doghead Mountain in Battlement Creek Valley in Garfield County, Colorado approximately 40 miles northeast of Grand Junction, Colorado and 11 miles southwest of Rifle, Colorado. During hearings in the area, testimony revealed that the government believed the blast would fracture the tight MesaVerde gas sands and release more gas than conventional fracturing. If they could find a better way of fracturing, they might have the key to releasing more of the 317 Tcf of gas in place in tight sands, according to an article by Chester McQueary ( Parachute, Colorado resident ) writing for the High Country News. Also during the hearings, David Evans from Colorado School of Mines testified the industry would have to set off 13,000 similar blasts to get the kind of recoveries the government wanted. According to Chester McQueary, 1-week before the blast the AEC set up a 5 mile ( 8 kilometer ) quarantine zone around the well site as workers lowered the bomb into the hole. It even paid some homeowners to leave for the day. Unfortunately, winds that could have carried radiation north to Rifle, Colorado or west of Grand Junction, Colorado delayed the test until September 10, 1969. Protesters entered the quarantine area in 2s and 3s so they couldn’t be easily removed. KWSR radio station in Rifle carried a countdown for the blast. Finally, security forces just left protestors, McQueary among them, in the quarantine area. He felt a “mighty thump” that lifted him 8 inches into the air and measured 5.5 on the Richter scale in Golden, Colorado. Again, about 30-days later, the test team found the ‘gas was too radioactive to use’, but that wasn’t the end of the ‘nuclear program in natural gas’.
EG&G CER GEONUCLEAR CORP. ( Las Vegas, Nevada – 1971 – 1973 ) EQUITY OIL CO. ( Salt Lake City, Utah ) C.F. KNUTSON ( 1973 – 1975 ) D.L. Coffin ( 1968 – 1971 ); F.A. Welder ( 1968 – 1971 ); R.K. Glanzman ( 1968 – 1971 ); X.W. Dutton ( 1968 ).
The next test also took place in the Piceance Basin of Colorado, this one on May 17, 1973. It was called Project Rio Blanco and was scheduled in Rio Blanco County about 75 miles northwest of Grand Junction, Colorado and 30 miles ( 48.3 kilometer ) southwest of Meeker.
EG&G CER GEONUCLEAR CORP. ( Las Vegas, Nevada ) and EQUITY OIL CO. ( Salt Lake City, Utah ) conducted the blast where the operators set three ( 3 ) 330 kiloton devices between 5,838 feet and 6,689 feet ( 1,781 meters and 2,040 meters ) to blast out a huge cavern in the tight Mesaverde below the Green River oil shale. The blast went off, but the caverns didn’t connect.
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY ( LLNL – Livermore, California ) DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE ( P.O. Box 60220, Reno, Nevada 89506-0220 ) D.K. Smith; B.K. Esser; J.L. Thompson; J.I. Daniels; R. Andricevic; – 1994 – L.R. Anspaugh ” ; R.L. Jacobson ” ; I.Y. Borg; – 1976 – R. Stone ” ; H.B. Levy ” ; L.D. Ramspott ” .
The federal agency had planned to move next to PROJECT WAGON WHEEL, but that test never took place. Wagon Wheel was scheduled to loosen up the tight formations on the Pinedale Anticline in Sublette County, Wyoming – an area operators have only recently started developing with large numbers of wells.
Unlike PROJECT GASBUGGY, which was a cost-is-no-object technical test, PROJECT WAGON WHEEL was supposed to ‘test profitability of atomic fracturing’ and was the biggest test to-date with plans for five ( 5 ) 100-kiloton nuclear explosions set-off 5-minutes apart and from 9,220 feet to 11,570 feet ( 2,812 meters to 3,529 meters ) in a field discovered by EL PASO NATURAL GAS.
The operators planned to wait 4-months to 6-months before testing the well, and thought radiation released in testing would be lower than normal background radiation. But the project gathered a lot of opposition. Among the statements that killed it was testimony by Dr. Ken Perry, a geologist with the University of Wyoming.
Looking at plans for 40 to 50 nuclear explosions per year, he said for full area development.
After the PROJECT RIO BLANCO blast, officials plugged and abandoned three ( 3 ) wells in the area, but left three ( 3 ) wells open on the RB-E-01 drill pad so they could monitor the wells. When they finally abandoned the surface facilities, the radiation was no different than the background radiation in the area except for tritium readings, which exceeded government criteria in several samples.
In 2002, officials decided to lift all restrictions on surface activity. They did mandate there should be no penetration of the surface to 1,500 feet ( 458 meters ) within 100 feet ( 30 meters ) of the well bore and no intrusion from 1,500 feet to 7,500 feet ( 458 meters to 2,288 meters ) within a 600 feet ( 183-m ) radius of the well bore. The situation was similar at the Rulison well site, but with a recent twist.
Following the $6,500,000 million ( USD ) Rulison well, also called the AUSTRAL OIL Hayward #25-95 in Section 25-7s-95w, the government continued monitoring the subsurface as it had at Rio Blanco. In both cases it wanted to monitor the possible migration of radiation. The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) also conducts annual sampling of deep monitoring wells and water sources in the area. Except for deep radiation at both sites, the areas are clean.
Recently, however PRESCO INC. ( The Woodlands, Texas ) sought permission for 40-acre spacing over an area that would include the Rulison well site.
It already had drilled a well in prolific Rulison field 1.5 miles ( 2.4 kilometers ) from the test site with no sign of radioactivity. Approval would have allowed the company to drill multiple wells near the Hayward well bore. Kim R.W. Bennetts, vice president of exploration and production for the company, said even if it drilled into the cavity, which it didn’t plan to do, very little radiation remained. Bennetts also said the company couldn’t, and wouldn’t, sell radioactive gas. Its planned wells in the area would be 1,200 feet ( 366 meters ) to the northeast and 1,600 feet ( 488 meters ) to the southeast of the Rulison test well.
After a February 10, 2004 meeting of the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, the company then received approval to drill only one well on 40-acre spacing within a half-mile radius of the Rulison test well.
The company even had support from the county until it raised its plans from one ( 1 ) well to four ( 4 ) wells. The Colorado commission said it would approve the wells on a case-by-case basis. Currently, with no plans by any agency to continue work with ‘nuclear devices in the oilpatch’, it looks as if that research has come to an end.
While it lasted, however, it was a daring period of research into ‘advanced methods of releasing huge volumes of natural gas’, and that research continues today.
Our vision is that we can create value in an environment of ever-accelerating change. Value creation is our singular aim and ultimate measure of success. We believe that the increasing drive to create value represents the surest and most consistent avenue for us to benefit our customers, employees, stockholders and constituent communities. Our value creation model focuses on growth primarily derived from internal development.
EG & G Incorporated is a diversified technology company that develops and provides products for public and private customers in the medical, aerospace, telecommunications, semiconductor, photographic, and other industries. The company’s operations are broken into five business units: Instruments; Life Sciences; Engineered Products; Optoelectronics; and Technical Services. Its Instruments operation is based on x-ray imaging systems and provides screening and inspection systems for use in airport and industrial security, and environmental, food, and nuclear industry monitoring. The Life Sciences unit develops systems for biochemical research and medical diagnostics. The Engineered Products unit designs and produces pneumatic systems, seals, and bellows for aerospace, semiconductor, and power generation markets. EG & G’s Optoelectronics division specializes in optical sensing devices for industrial and medical applications. The company’s final unit, Technical Services, provides engineering, research, management, and support services to governmental and industrial clients.
EG & G was established by three nuclear engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shortly after the end of World War II. These engineers, Harold E. Edgerton, Kenneth J. Germehausen, and Herbert E. Grier, had been involved in the American effort to construct an atomic bomb during the war. So valued were their contributions that after the war the government asked them to establish a company to manage further development of the country’s nuclear weapons. The three established a small partnership called Edgerton, Germehausen & Grier on November 13, 1947, and quickly began collecting contracts to advise the government on nuclear tests in Nevada and on South Pacific islands.
One of the first employees of the new company was Bernard J. O’Keefe, another MIT graduate who had worked for Dr. Grier during the war. O’Keefe served with the 21st Bomber Command in the Mariana Islands during the war, and is said to have personally wired the bomb that later destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki. O’Keefe was sent to Japan after its surrender to investigate that country’s progress with nuclear technology and recruit promising Japanese scientists for other atomic projects. A specialist in the design and development of electronic instrumentation and controls, O’Keefe quickly gained an important position in the growing firm.
Inconvenienced by the length of the company’s name, employees soon began to rely on the simple acronym EG & G, which later became its official name. In order to maintain close contact with MIT and its excellent nuclear and electronic engineering programs, EG & G set up its headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, in northwest suburban Boston.
EG & G was involved in the U.S. effort to build a more powerful nuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb. That year, Grier and O’Keefe were present at a Nevada test site to personally witness an H-bomb detonation. After the weapon failed to explode, Grier and O’Keefe flipped a coin to determine who should scale the 300-foot test tower and disarm the bomb. Although O’Keefe lost, he won the special distinction of being the first man to disarm a live H-bomb.
O’Keefe had a second brush with disaster in 1958 when he witnessed an H-bomb detonation at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. There, shifting winds in the upper atmosphere caused a radioactive cloud of fallout to shower his bunker.
These experiences taught O’Keefe the awesome destructive power of nuclear weaponry and the dangers of radioactive fallout. As an engineer and manager he was bound to perform his company’s contracts, but grew personally opposed to the use of nuclear weapons. This sharpened his sense of responsibility toward the emerging form of warfare, a quality that was not lost upon the government’s Atomic Energy Commission.
As a result of EG & G’s experience with detonations, and O’Keefe’s concern for nuclear non-proliferation, the company became increasingly involved in distant monitoring projects, particularly as they related to Soviet nuclear tests. By observing changes in the atmosphere, EG & G was able to determine the incidence and strength of Soviet tests and provide important data on the progress of Moscow’s weapons program. In the process, EG & G gained highly specialized knowledge in environmental sciences. These skills had numerous applications outside the weapons industry, in such areas as pollution control and environmental management.
As early as 1960, O’Keefe and the company’s three founders had considered establishing a new environmental analysis business, which would lessen EG & G’s dependence on low-margin government contracts and permit the company to enter new commercial markets. But at the time, neither public concern nor legislation placed a high value on such endeavors.
Three years later, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom signed a protocol that banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, above ground, in the water, or in outer space.
With this document, EG & G appeared to lose a major portion of its business. However, the protocol did not prevent underground tests, which were far more complicated.
EG & G remained the only company with the proper supervisory credentials to manage this type of nuclear testing.
The company was forced to develop geologic analytical capabilities and become a ‘tunneling’ and ‘mining operation’ as well.
Furthermore, the government had also laid plans to establish a kind of NASA equivalent of oceanographics ( NOAA ).
Eager to take a place in this organization, EG & G invested heavily in oceanographic research.
While the underwater NASA never materialized, the efforts enabled O’Keefe to further cultivate new commercial markets for EG & G, including excavation and water transmission.
During this time the company’s three ( 3 ) founders moved further into retirement, taking ceremonial “executive chairman emeritus” positions.
As a result, O’Keefe became the de facto head of the company.
EG & G also pursued a strong acquisition campaign, taking over thirteen ( 13 ) companies between 1964 – 1967 when a strong environmental movement began to form in the United States.
With legislation still years away, EG & G began laying plans to play an important role in the environmental projects it was sure would result.
EG & G was divided into four ( 4 ) main operating divisions.
EG & G INTERNATIONAL, primarily concerned with oceanography, was the smallest.
EG & G standard products and equipment division produced a variety of machines and electronic devices, grew fastest during the 1960s.
EG & G nuclear detonation and monitoring business segment remained its largest.
EG & G nuclear technology group, most innovative and interesting, involved design of nuclear rocket engines ( ion engines ) for interplanetary propulsion.
Harbors; Canals; and, Passageways ( Tunnels, Pipelines, etc. ).
EG & G CER GEONUCLEAR CORPORATION Unit participations tested nuclear explosions ‘used to fracture layers of rock’ for access to otherwise inaccessible reserve locations of oil and gas for exploitation. Although feasible, these EG & G’public works’ projects failed in gaining public support.
In fact, opposition to nuclear technology in-general ‘increased’ as people grew wary of the safety of nuclear energy.
In addition, nuclear excavation would have required an unlikely waiver of the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
With the evaporation of good commercial prospects for its nuclear engineering expertise, EG & G was forced to rely again on military projects. Despite efforts to step up mechanical and electrical engineering work (partly by acquiring a spate of small research companies), EG & G mustered only four percent annual growth during the late 1960s.
Interest in nuclear power increased dramatically during the 1973 – 1974 Arab oil embargo, in which Americans sought to reduce their costly dependence on imported oil.
Realizing that the world’s oil exporting nations stood to permanently lose their largest customer, the United States, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia promptly called for an end to the embargo. Nonetheless, while Americans regained access to Arab oil, the end of the embargo was disastrous for the U.S. nuclear energy industry and for EG & G.
The end of the embargo removed one of the great justifications for nuclear power, and gave anti-nuclear activists time to properly organize legislative battles.
While EG & G was being locked out of yet another promising commercial application of its technologies, it attempted projects in other fields.
Some years earlier, in an effort to develop a new process for purifying nuclear isotopes, EG & G developed a flash tube that was ideal for photocopiers, but by the time an application could be developed, XEROX had already saturated the market with conventional designs.
In another ill-timed move, the company bet that environmental laws would cause demand for the unconventional Wankel engine to rise.
EG & G purchased a Texas automobile testing agency in hopes of winning large emission monitoring contracts, but the oil embargo destroyed the market for the clean but gas-eating Wankel engine as automobile environmental legislation was abandoned.
During this time, with the encouragement of the government, EG & G established a minority-dominated subsidiary, EG & G Roxbury, in a neighborhood of Boston, hoping to help strengthen the economic structure of the community. The project floundered, however, when bureaucrats failed to properly support the program, causing only a few sales to be made from the subsidiary. After a few years of disastrous results, the entire program was wound up.
In 1976, EG & G environmental division evolved into a comprehensive resource efficiency operation providing complete oceanographic, atmospheric, and geophysical analysis rather than concentrating on environmental compliance languishing after the oil embargo by conserving resources, operations could more easily achieve pollution and waste reduction targets.
EG & G port development was unable to use nuclear devices to carve custom designed harbors, became a world leader in oceanographic studies and channel engineering by designing numerous tanker ports in the Persian Gulf and bauxite harbors in South America.
In 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter asked Bernard O’Keefe to serve as Chairman for the Synthetic Fuels Corporation of the U.S. government. Having already been asked to serve on a transition team for then presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, O’Keefe refused President Carter’s offer.
With the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1980, the United States took a sudden turn toward military armament programs.
MX nuclear underground mobile railroad missile; and, Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) – Star Wars Program.
MX nuclear underground mobile railroad missile; Neutron bomb; and, Europe nuclear missile weapon stationings.
Nevertheless, EG & G pre-tax operating profit doubled from the new business.
EG & G also became involved in the space shuttle program, checking the spacecraft electrical components, loading its fuel, and managing the Cape Canaveral, Florida space center during shuttle missions.
EG & G site management abilities won it a position with the U.S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) elite Nuclear Emergency Search Team ( NEST ) which investigated nuclear extortion threats.
The company also won a contract to manage the U.S. government troubled Rocky Flats installation outside Denver, Colorado facility, widely criticized under ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL for mismanagement, manufacturing nuclear weapon triggers.
U.S. Department of Energy ( DOE ); U.S. Army; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Department of Defense; and, U.S. Customs Service ( now U.S. Department of Homeland Security ).
In 1988 the company hit a record high for both sales and earnings.
O’Keefe retired from EG & G during this period of strong growth, and was succeeded by John M. Kucharski.
Under U.S. President George Bush, and with the subsequent collapse of the Soviet military threat, the number of EG & G nuclear test projects decreased significantly.
As such, EG & G was under pressure to cultivate profitable new commercial ventures to offset the loss of revenue from military contracts.
The company responded rapidly, entering new commercial markets via a series of acquisitions.
One of the first acquisitions of the 1990s was ELECTRO-OPTICS, the optoelectronics business of GENERAL ELECTRIC ( GE ) Canada.
GENERAL ELECTRIC ELECTRO-OPTICS designed and produced advanced semiconductor emitters and detectors for defense, space, telecommunications, and industrial applications.
NoVOCs Inc., an environmental remediation specialist.
In 1994, facing legal pressure from activists’ groups, EG & G announced that it would discontinue its nuclear-related endeavors as its various existing contracts expired. 1994, the company undertook a major reorganization to accommodate its newly acquired interests and the discontinuation of its nuclear business.
One important area of focus for the company was its Instruments division, which was rapidly becoming a leader in the field of weapons and explosives screening systems. After providing x-ray machines and metal detectors for the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1992, the company won a contract to supply state-of-the-art explosives detection systems for U.S. federal courthouses across the nation. A subsequent contract with the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) called for ten ( 10 ) of the most advanced explosives detection systems of EG & G for screening checked baggage in airports.
In 1998, EG & G president and CEO John M. Kucharski was replaced by Gregory Summe ( former president of ALLIEDSIGNAL INC. Automotive Products Group ) known for his ability to streamline and consolidate technology businesses.
2. restructuring EG & G portfolio, sharpen the focus on identified high-growth markets.
Life Sciences; Instruments; Engineered Products; Optoelectronics; and,Technical Services.
The company also began repositioning its portfolio by liquidating assets that fell outside these growth areas and making acquisitions that strengthened the EG & G position within its identified markets.
Lumen, purchased for $250,000,000 million in December 1998, was known globally as a producer of ‘specialty lighting’.
Lumen acquisition served to strengthen the company’s existing position in the medical lighting market, while at the same time allowing it entry into the areas of video and entertainment lighting.
The consolidation efforts that Summe’s management team initiated in 1998 were expected to continue, with the goal of streamlining sites, functions, and processes so as to reduce operating costs and improve quality, consistency, and response time.
The company intended to continue its focused acquisition strategy.
It also planned to continue aggressively developing and marketing new products in its various divisions. Some of the products expected to be introduced were high-volume, cost-effective systems for drug screening, and a Point of Care system that allowed diagnosticians to determine whether or not a patient had suffered a heart attack in just 15-minutes.
In addition to introducing new products, the company also anticipated an increased emphasis on product line extensions and renewals.
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DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE ( DRI ), New Mexico.
Not likely places to be visited by many of us are those secretly hidden underground, and even more-so underwater – since at least the 1930s.
Rarely do ‘government contract worker ants’ ( citizens ) ever realize ‘what it is’ we need to be protected from, and all anyone can think is that it is something bad we could imagine while never being able to comprehend anything ‘unimaginable’ we need protection from. Do any of us really want to know what ‘that is’, which we’re supposedly being protected against?
This report covers ‘unexplainable encounters’ governments decline to publicly explain. Events, buried over time and matters long forgotten about from most memories, that-is until recent events began unfolding a few, putting old stories thought-of as ’myths’ back into perspective today.
Some noteworthy facts, still remain ”classified’ and ‘locked away’ by high level authorities. Some, never revealed on television, motion picture films, books, or newspapers may now be reviewed through selected intelligence bits ‘n pieces ( below ) that may begin to dawn on some of us recalling having once heard of something about one or more but could not recall the source or details.
Williams explained that ‘not all’ areas in-question are actually ‘resting’ or “floating” on the ocean.
Many subterranean cavities are located beneath the western United States but not limited to just “California,” and consist of very large water-filled aquasystem passageways are explored up to several hundred miles inland, by nuclear-powered submarine, particularly in regions of southern California, northern California and southern Oregon.
7. What is being passed-off as the “San Andreas Fault” are large unsupported chambers [ caverns ] that are in the process of collapsing. When the ‘big one’ [ earthquake ] finally hits, many scientists in the know believe that most of California will break off like a cold Hershey bar [ chocolate candy bar ] and slide into the ocean.
Williams continued, “I have no reason to doubt the man. I can’t tell for sure whether or not these caverns and passageways exist or to their extent. The story does sound a bit fantastic but I have no reason to doubt the man [ retired U.S. Navy officer ]. I have seen copies of documentation at least proving he was a high ranking U.S. Navy officer with nuclear-powered submarine duty, and a distinguished scientist. His scientific background and reputation are impeccable. He definitely cannot be labeled as a crackpot, lunatic or publicity seeker.
1963 April 23 – SubOceania One note of interest, in connection with the account of John J. Williams, was a statement made by Virginia Louise Swanson, a prominent investigator of the California elusive creature known as “Bigfoot,” a huge hairy creature that walks upright. Virginia L. Swanson has performed considerale studies on cave connections in relationship to the Bigfoot phenomena and its ability to hide so well, and refers to these California dry cavernous openings saying, “Somewhere I got the idea that a big portion of Death Valley [ California ] is located on a shelf of ‘false bedrock’. A certain type of earthquake would collapse all of it down to an enormous series of caverns that would open-up into another Grand Canyon [ Arizona ].” According to our knowledge, the only nuclear-powered submarines to ever disappear – under mysterious circumstances – were the USS SCORPION or USS THRESHER.
It is uncertain whether the retired U.S. Navy officer, who John J. Williams spoke of, was referring to the USS SCORPION or USS THRESHER, although the USS THRESHER disappearance caused more publicity as a Flagship, the World’s most advanced class nuclear attack submarine designed to operate deeper in sea depths and more silent ( noise reduction propeller screws ) than any of its predecessor submarine vessels, The U.S.S. THRESHER was also endowed with highly significant advanced sonar equipment, fire-control systems, and was the most advanced international submarine in the World at the time of its disappearance so, it could have easily been an ideal choice as a U.S. Naval Oceanographic underwater global exploratory vessel missioned top secret for caverns mentioned by the U.S. Navy officer earlier interviewed by John Williams.
On April 10, 1963 the USS THRESHER, under command of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander John W. Harvey, a total of 129 men comprised of the ‘crew’, ‘civilian technicians’, and ‘observers’ – according to official government reports – disappeared without any explanation, trace or clue as to the fate of the vessel or occupants, nothing was ever recovered, and no indications of any oil slicks, radiation, floating debris, or similar signs of wreckage were ever seen.
It is interesting to note that, at the time almost all reports stated the USS THRESHER “disappeared” or was “lost” but no reports indicated it was “sunk” [ or “buried” or “captured” ].
One woman, whose husband was on the ill-fated USS THRESHER, reported she believed her husband was still alive.
Theologically speaking, the possibility of a long distance connection or “communion” on a deep emotional level between a husband and a wife may not always be consigned to the realm of the occult or psychic phenomena. Many religions believe the very spiritual natures of a husband and a wife are united upon consummation of a marriage and thus become as Christian teachings indicate, “one flesh”.
“What do you believe really happened?” Carson and Joy asked the attractive young woman.
“Deep Springs, California is an area that is becoming known as the site for very strange events. According to the information released both on the air of KVEG AM radio and from other sources, the area is full of strange people wandering around in black suits. There have also been rumors that there is an underground facility in the area.
Checking with gravity anomaly maps proved that there are large cavities under the ground in that area. The wildest claims relative to the area have stated that alien life-forms are being released there … Deep Springs Lake has been probed and it appears bottomless.
“It has always been a mystery to us, in the first place, how Mr. and Mrs. P.E. [ names excised for privacy ] can find and afford the time to do the sort of things most of us only dream of doing. After knowing them for more than 15-years, it is inconceivable to suspect their integrity or sanity – and yet they impose the following excise upon our credulity.
While exploring for petroglyphs, in the Casa Diablo vicinity of Bishop, California Mr. & Mrs. P.E. came upon a circular hole in the ground, about 9-feet in diameter, which exuded a sulfurous steam and seemed recently to have been filled with hot water. A few feet from the surface the shaft took a tangent course which looked easily accessible and, upon an impulse with which we cannot sympathize, the dauntless E.’s – armed only with a flashlight – forthwith crawled down into that hole. At a depth we’ve failed to record the oblique tunnel opened into a horizontal corridor whose dripping walls, now encrusted with minerals, could only have been carved by human hands, countless ages ago; of this the E.’s felt certain.
The end of the short passage was blocked by what seemed to be a huge doorway of solid rock which, however, wouldn’t yield. Their flashlight was turned to a corner where water dripped from a protuberance, which proved to be a delicately carved face, distorted now by the crystallized minerals, and from whose gaping mouth water issued.
As Mr. and Mrs. E. stood there in silent awe – wondering what lay behind that immovable door – the strangest thing of all happened … but our chronology will not be incorrect if we wait until they return to the surface before revealing this, for now the water began gushing from the carved mouth and from other unseen ducts elsewhere in that cave and rising at an alarming rate. They hurried to the surface, and in less than 30-minutes there was only a quite ordinary appearing pool of warm mineral water on the desert floor.
“A great deal of UFO research has also led to the conclusion that various … species of aliens have set up secret underground bases in the United States and other countries. It is logical to assume that such bases have also been established elsewhere in the solar system. If such bases exist, where would we find them? Existing information allows us to make a few educated guesses.
Earth bases, underground, The dark, cavernous world beneath our feet is the source of many baffling mysteries. Clandestine UFO bases may be hidden deep within the earth in natural and/or artificial caverns.
As a former member of the National Speleological Society ( NSS ), I am well aware of the vast extent of cave systems within the United States.
In my own native state of Missouri, for example, there are over 2,500 known caves and dozens of new ones being discovered every year. Many of these caves are intricately linked together by numerous passageways and interconnecting chambers.
One particular species of blind white ( albino ) cave fish, known as the TYPHLICHTHYS, has been found in many widely separated cave systems over several states.
These states rest above one [ 1 ] immense cavern system that comprises a large area of ‘both’ the Central United States and Southern United States where many caves possess rooms hundreds of feet in length, width and height as huge natural caverns only reached and explored with the utmost skill and perseverance.
There are only a few thousand National Speleological Society ( NSS ) members in the U.S. and only a few hundred of this number are active spelunkers so, with few spread over such a large area only a very small fraction of the tens of thousands of known caves in the U.S. have been carefully mapped and explored while thousands of other caves remain undiscovered and unexplored.
Extensive evidence indicates caves in the U.S. may be connected with caves in other parts of the world.
In the Municipio de Aquismo, S.L.P. of Mexico, the cave known as ” Sotano de las Golondrinas ” [ known in English as ] “Basement of the Swallows ” reaches a depth of 1,100 feet ( 334 meters ).
The Sotano de las Golondrinas cave is actually a giant ‘sink hole’ or ‘hole in the ground’. Atop Sotano de las Golondrinas hole is a ‘near circular opening hundreds of feet in diameter that is impossible to climb down the sides of because the walls of the opening are too smooth and “belled-out” so, the only way to reach the bottom is to secure – at its top – a special rope over 1,100 feet long dropped into the sinkhole.
Underground explorers [ spelunkers ] must descend – into the Sotano de las Golondrinas yawning hole – one [ 1 ] person at a time, using special cave repelling gear and climbing techniques. At the bottom of the Sotano de las Golondrinas hole are numerous ‘leads’ ( openings ) that feed into multiple different crevices, passageways, crawlways and rooms never mapped or investigated.
Sotano de las Golondrinas cave entrance is located in one of the most primitive and uncivilized areas of Mexico, and local inhabitants are afraid to approach the cave because they believe it is full of ‘evil spirits’ luring people to their deaths. They tell stories of people mysteriously disappearing never to be heard from again while passing near the cave entrance.
These stories may be based more on fact than fiction as they are similar in some respects to UFO [ unidentified flying objects ] abduction reports.
Because of the Sotano de las Golondrinas huge hole size, remote location and unique geological structure it would be an ideal UFO [ unidentified flying objects ] base. Naturally camouflaged caves, in other parts of the world, may serve as excellent natural bases, way-stations or depots for UFOs.
In December 1968, the ” SCHOONER EXPERIMENT ” was an underground nuclear test conducted that substantiates the theory that caves in North America and South America are intimately linked.
Bourke Lee authored the book, ‘Death Valley Men’ ( MacMillan Co., N.Y. 1932 ), wherein Chapter “Old Gold” described a conversation Bourke Lee had with a small group of Death Valley, California residents speaking of Native American Paihute Indian legends when two ( 2 ) men ( Jack and Bill ) began describing their experience with accidentally discovering an ‘underground city’ after one of them fell through the bottom of an old mine shaft near Wingate Pass where they began following a natural underground quay like tunnel system ( apparently formerly lit by subterranean gas light ) traveling 20-miles northward on an incline taking them to a higher level with an exit out onto a ledge looking about halfway down the slope of the eastern face of the Panamint Mountains, but back down within the tunnel system they came across a huge ancient underground cavern city that contained many sights, including several perfectly preserved mummified bodies ( mummies ) still wearing thick arm bands, gold spears, a ‘large polished round table’ within another huge ancient chamber, giant statues comprised of gold, stone vaults where ‘drawers’ were filled with a variety of precious gem stones and gold bars, stone doors perfectly counterweighted easy to open, amongst other amazing sights, as well as ‘extremely heavy stone wheelbarrows’ designed with scientific counterweight construction for perfect balance so they could easily be manipulated.
From the ledge, they could see Furnace Creek Ranch and its Arroyo ( a water wash ) below them in Death Valley where they realized it was formerly filled with water so, they concluded that having previously seen the underground city system of huge archway openings could have been ancient waterway docks for large boats.
Bourke Lee was further informed that they brought some of the treasure out of the caverns and tried to set up a deal with certain people, including scientists associated with the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE ( Washington, D.C. ) to garner assistance in further exploring and publicizing this ancient underground city as one of the wonders of the World, but there efforts ended in disappointment when a friend of theirs stole the treasure ( their ‘evidence’ ) and were consequently scoffed at and rejected by scientists because when the discoverers went to show the ‘mine’ entrance after a then apparent cloud-burst brought such severe rains upon the entire hillsides were washed down over entire countryside landscape areas rearranged to obscure the entrance location.
The last time Bourke Lee heard from his friends, Bill and Jack, they were preparing to climb the eastern face of the Panamint Mountains to locate the ancient tunnelled-out ledge opening – located half way up the side of that steep slope. Bourke Lee never saw or heard from his discoverer friends ( Jack and Bill ) again.
An alleged ‘subterranean race’ living in deep underground caverns beneath the ‘former seabed floor area’ of what is now the desert area of Death Valley, California.
There was another conversation about a remarkable Native American ‘Paihute tribe legend’ similar to an ancient myth of Greece.
The Paihute legend surrounds the death of the wife of a tribal Chief who, according to Native American tradition, took a ‘spiritual journey to the underworld’ to locate her, and amazingly upon returning with her he forbiddenly ‘looked back’ and was then prevented from bring his wife the remainder of the back from the dead.
This would not be the same as a more tangible earlier report from the Native American Navaho indian Oga-Make who conveyed that a Native American Paihute indian tribal Chief was alleged to have been ‘physically’ taken into the Native American “Hav-musuv” tribe subterranean cities beneath the Panamint Mountains.
Paihute indian legends, of the Hav-musuvs indicate these ancient Panamint Mountain dwellers abandoned their ancient city within by migration deeper into larger caverns below.
Could these reports coincide with the Paihute legends of the Hav-musuvs?
“… The ‘professor’, ‘Jack’ and ‘Bill’ sat in the little canvas house in ‘Emigrant Canyon’, and heard the legend all the way through.
‘It’s very interesting,’ said the professor.
From that point forward the conversation went onto another subject.
An area in the [ southern California ] Mojave Desert region, that may connect to the U.S. Western Region subterranean ( subsurface ) drainage network, involves “Red Mountain” ( also known as the “Iron Mountain Range” ) [ 1-mile northwest from the old ghost town of Garlock, California ] where one [ 1 ] of its [ southeastern ] peaks in the “El Paso Mountains” – [ about 20-miles ] northeast of Mojave, California where there are many bizarre accounts connected with this mountain that apparently got it’s name in-part from the many old mines which can be found there, along with numerous natural cavities which open out to the surface in many different areas.
The area has allegedly been the site of certain activity concerning Native American Indian ritual and occult practices, as well as the site of alleged secret government activity, some of which reportedly involves the observation and monitoring of strange [ biological ] creatures and ‘automatons’ [ half and half, “Man-Machines” (aka) “Manchines” ] said to stealthily ( night cloakers ) emerge from seemingly out-of nowhere ( faint sound of electronic whirring ) that travels up and down and into the [ canyon ] areas on occasions.
Just exactly what these ‘bionic creatures’ are is uncertain, but some accounts indicate that they are dangerous!
Could it also be a ‘magnetic’ zone due to the high iron content [ within the “Iron Mountain” range ]?
During the early 1970′s, on ‘no less than’ two ( 2 ) seperate occassions have U.S. federal government employees mysteriously disappeared from ”Red Mountain” range areas, and not reported back for work the following day.
The second [ 2nd ] occassion was, when a U.S. government employee went missing while investigating the previous disappearance of the U.S. government employee during the first [ 1st ] occassion.
Some years ago, a woman by the name of Joan Howard – at the time living in eastern Canada although originally from Britain ( UK ) – wrote a manuscript in which she described her own paranormal experiences with small “alien” entities.
Joan had experienced several UFO type abduction / encounters while at a very young age when she still lived in Britain ( UK ), and claimed to have had ‘psychic contact’ with [ biological ] beings that claimed to be of extraterrestrial origin.
These experiences were accompanied by a great deal of occult manifestations – such as poltergeist phenomena, psychic dreams, encounters with invisible entities, etc.
Joan even admitted that she often doubted the claims of these [ biological ] ‘beings’ – their actions being manipulative and just didn’t seem to coincide with their claims of being here as some kind-of ‘group of cosmic saviors’ to ‘lead humanity’ into a ‘New Age’ of ‘enlightenment’.
She also warned other researchers, to retain a “keen analytical mind” – when dealing with alien entities – so as not to fall under possible deception or manipulation.
Perhaps, as she suggested to others, they [ alien beings ] ‘might actually be here’ to ‘prepare for a future invasion of this planet’ and were merely ‘using her for various purposes to help prepare the way’, and that all of their ‘benevolence’ talk was just that – talk!
She ‘did’ describe vivid “dreams” in which she saw ‘alien craft hovering over major cities blasting frightened and terrified people in the streets’ with powerful ‘beam weapons’ – ‘dreams’, which she suggested, might be somewhat ‘prophetic’ in nature.
She described the [ biological ] entities as being small or dwarfs, yet was unsure whether they were human or not – although they ‘did’ attempt to pass themselves off as some type of ‘evolved human species’ – something which the ‘Grays’ [ biological alien beings ] have apparently done in order to break down any natural enmity which might prevent their ‘contactees’ or ‘abductees’ from receiving the lies which they intentionally fed them as part of their program of conquest and control.
Joan Howard, incidentally, wrote a privately published book, “The Space – Or Something – Connection,” which is referred to because it dealt with some experiences her husband had – shortly after she came to America.
In fact she devoted an entire chapter of her book ( “The Space – Or Something – Connection” ) to her husband’s account, which involved some incidents that took place while he was doing some field work for a certain company requiring a great deal of activity outdoors, and her husband and his co-workers travelled through some relatively unpopulated terrain in West Virginia regional areas between Newville, West Virginia ( Braxton County ) and Helvetia, West Virginia ( Randolph County ) general around northern Webster County, West Virginia where through mountains of rolling hill forests and wilderness he encountered some very strange things and heard accounts of strange cave related incidents from the locals.
During, which at one point, her husband claimed their group ran across what appeared to be a pipe sticking up from the ground – far away from the nearest town – where there was no other sign of civilization or anything man-made for miles on either side; yet here was this large pipe or tube sticking straight up from the ground.
The most remarkable thing about the pipe was that a flame of fire was shooting straight up out-of the pipe as if it were burning-off some type of gas – they never found out just what it was – but it was ‘within this same general area’ they explored ‘caverns’ containing unexplained issues.
One ( 1 ) of the caves displayed strange hieroglyphic writings on its walls, according to some men, while others claimed also hearing faint volumes of voices – behind the walls of the cave, in-addition to faint sounds – coming from beneath the cave floor – as though machines were moving around within ‘underground’ depths.
Her husband claimed, that after a long work day in the field, one evening two ( 2 ) men fell asleep at the mouth of one particular cave that inside ( a great distance away ) contained an unexplored but apparently very deep chasm ( hole ), and the following morning one ( 1 ) of the two ( 2 ) men awoke ( in front of that cave ) but found his partner had disappeared – no trace was ever found of that missing employee.
That particular cave had been known as a place of unusual occurrences, and a place to stay away from. Some even went so far as to call it “Satan’s Lair.” Whatever the case circumstances may actually be, all the aforementioned information may provide some additional awareness into what may have surrounded that employee’s disappearance.
One of the most remarkable accounts that Joan Howard’s husband heard involved a man claiming, that while exploring labyrinth depths of a particular cavern in the same area of north Webster County, West Virginia ( USA ), he suddenly came face to face with an attractive woman completely void of any hair on her head, and the woman spoke in a language completely foreign to the man – whereupon after unsuccessfully trying at great lengths to communicate with each other they departed and went their separate ways.
During the 1940′s, one of the few specialized publications – that grew out-of the Palmer – Shaver ( Richard S. Shaver ) controversy – was The Hidden World ( issue A-8 ) reporting about a letter released from Charles Edwards ( aka ) Chuck Edwards, a researcher, surrounding what many people ( especially those throughout southern California ) have believed for decades based on having been officially told the United States Western Regional area subterranean drainage ultimately all flows into the Pacific Ocean. Later, in 1962, Chuck Edwards released some of his own discoveries surrounding the “Western Subsurface Drainage Network” ( i.e. southern California, Nevada, and Utah ) that ‘does not’ “ultimately flow into the Pacific Ocean,” but actually flows ‘underground’ through a ‘vast subterranean network drainage system’ dumping elsewhere.
Our foundation has located a vast system of underground passages in the Mother Lode country of California. They were first discovered in 1936, ignored by all even with our best efforts to reveal them.
Recently a road crew blasted out an opening verifying our claims. One [ of the chambers is ] 200-feet long, 70-feet wide and 50-feet high.
We have disclosed what we believe to be a vast subterranean drainage system ( probably traversing the Great American Desert country for a distance of more than 600-miles ).
We believe this system extends out like five [ 5 ] fingers of your hand to such landmarks as Zion Canyon in Utah, the Grand Canyon [ Arizona ], another runs south from the Carson Sink in Nevada, and yet another follows [ below ] the western slope of the same range – joining it’s counterpart and ending somewhere in the Mojave Desert [ southern California ].
We believe – contrary to orthodox geologists – that the existence of this underground system, drains all surface waters running into Nevada ( none, with the exception of the Armagosa, runs out ) and accounts for the fact that it is a Great American Desert. The hairy creatures, that you have written about, have been seen in several of these areas. Certainly there has been much ‘saucer’ [ UFO ] activity in these parts. For 2-years, I have collected material pertinent to these creatures and if you have any opinions along these lines I would appreciate hearing them.
So much for now. I hope that I am still your friend.
Much of my time has been devoted [ to ] helping a farmer near Portland [ Oregon ] who has made a fantastic discovery of incredible stone artifacts. He has several tons of them. They predate anything yet found ( or accepted ) let us say that for now.
We are making slow but steady progress in getting through the wall of orthodoxy.
Following the Sierra Nevada [ mountain ] range from here [ California ] into the northern territories, one arrives at the Cascade Range [ mountains ], consisting mostly of dormant or extinct volcanic mountains rising at intervals through the U.S. northern State of California, Oregon, Washington, and into southwestern Canada.
The Cascade Range [ Cascadia Fault zone ] is not without it’s own peculiar accounts of subterranean recesses occupied by unknown beings – both human and non-human – apparently rediscovering what are portions of ancient antediluvian underground networks, which some say were inhabited by a race of intelligent [ biological ] but war-like hybrid reptiles genetically resembling instances of humanoid shapes.
There are many unanswered questions as to just how the subsurface world was used or exactly what role it may have played in relation to subterranean ancient legends of inhabitant races, but the following account may explain some mysteries by envisioning a clearer and broader perspective.
“In beginning this narrative and the unexplained events that befell my friend and myself, I offer no explanation, nor do I even profess to offer any reason. In fact I have yet to find a clue that will even in part offer any explanation whatever. Yet as it did happen, there must be some rhyme or reason to the whole thing. It may be that someone can offer some helpful information to a problem that just should not exist in these times of enlightenment.
To begin with, if we had not been reading an article in a magazine telling us about the great value of guano, ( i.e. old cave bat excrement / dung droppings as being highly valued fertilizer ] that have accumulated over a great number of years, we would have continued to mend our merry way through life without ever having a thing to worry about. But having read the article as we were at the time living near a small town called Manten in Tehama County, California we thought that would be a good country to explore for a possible find of this kind.
After talking it over for some time, and as we had plenty of time just then, we decided to take a little trip up the country just back of us.
As we were almost at the foot of Mount Lassen, that seemed the best place to conduct our little prospecting tour.
Collecting a light camping outfit, together with a couple of tents to sleep in, we started out on what we expected to be a 3 or 4-day jaunt up the mountain … I guess we covered about 10 or 12-miles on the 3rd day and it was fast approaching time to begin to look for a place to spend the night and the thought was not very amusing as it had turned a little colder and we were well over 7,000 feet above sea level.
We soon found a sheltered place, beneath a large outcrop of rock, and set about making a camp.
As I was always the cook, and Joe the chore boy, I began getting things ready to fix us some grub. Joe began digging around for some dead scrub brush to burn.
I had things all ready and looked around for Joe and his firewood, but I could see no signs of him.
I began calling for him, and he soon came into sight from around the very rock where we were making our camp.
And I knew he was laboring under some great excitement and his face was lit up like a Christmas tree.
He had found a cave.
The entrance was on the other side, of that very rock.
He was all for exploration right away.
But I argued that we had better wait till morning.
But he argued that, in a cave it was always night and we would have to use flashlights anyway, so what would be the difference?
Well, we finally decided that we would give it at least a once-over after we had a bite to eat.
I don’t know how far we went, but it must have been 1-mile or 2-miles, as we kept on walking and the cave never changed it’s contour or size. Noticing this I mentioned it to Joe.
And we discovered an amazing thing. The floor seemed to be worn smooth as though it had been used for a long time as a path or road. The walls and ceiling of the cave seemed to be cut like a tunnel. It was solid rock and we knew that no one would cut a tunnel there out of rock as there had been no sign of mining operations ( tailings ). And the rock in the walls and ceiling was run together like it had been melted. Or fused from a great heat.
While we were busy examining the cave in general, Joe swore he saw a light way down in the cave.
We started down the cave once more and found a light. Or should I say the light found us as it was suddenly flashed into our faces. We stood there blinded by it for a minute until I flashed my light at it’s source and saw we were confronted by three [ 3 ] men. These men looked to be about 50 or a little younger. They were dressed in ordinary clothing such as is worn by most working men in the locality. Levi type pants and flannel shirts and wool coats. They wore no hats. But their shoes looked strange as their soles were so thick that they gave the impression of being made of wood.
We came to a place where the cavern widened out a little and we saw some kind of machine, if it can be called that. Though I had no chance to examine it closely at the time, I did later and it was a very strange contrivance. It had a very flat bottom, but the front was curved upward something like a toboggan. The bottom plate was about 8-inches thick and it was the color of pure copper. But it was very hard tempered. Although I have had a lot of experience in metals and alloys, I had no opportunity to examine it closely enough to determine just what it was. I doubt very much if I could.
It had a seat in the front directly behind a heavy dashboard affair and there was a dial shaped in a semi-circle with figures or markings on it. I had not the slightest idea what they stood for, but they were very simple to remember. If there was a motor, it was in the rear.
All I could see was two [ 2 ] horseshoe or magnet-shaped objects that faced each other with the round parts to the outside. When this thing was in operation, a ‘brilliant green arc’ seemed to leap between the two [ 2 ] and to continue to glow as it was in operation. The only sound it gave off was a hum or buzz that sounded like a battery charger in operation.
The seat in the front was very wide.
The only method of operation was a ‘black tear-shaped object’, which hung from the panel by a chain.
One [ 1 ] of these men – sitting in the middle – took this thing and touched the sharp end to the first [ 1st ] figure on the ‘left side’ of the dial.
When he touched the first [ 1st ] figure, the contraption seemed to move almost out from under us, but it was the smoothest and quietest take-off I ever experienced. We seemed to float. Not the slightest sound or vibration.
And after we had traveled for 1-minute he touched the ‘next [ 2nd ] figure’ on the dial and our speed increased at an alarming rate.
But when he had advanced the black object over past the center of the dial, our speed increased until I could hardly breathe.
I can’t begin to estimate the distance we had traveled or our speed, but it was terrific.
The two [ 2 ] horseshoe objects in the rear created a green light that somehow shone far ahead of us, lighting up the cavern for a long way.
I soon noticed a black line running down the center of the cavern and our ‘inner-mountain taxi’ seemed to follow that.
I don’t know how long we continued our mad ride, but it was long enough for us to become used to the terrific speed and we had just about overcome our fear of some kind of wreck when we were thrown into another spasm of fear. Another machine of the same type was approaching us head on. I could see that our captors were very nervous, but our speed continued.
As the other machine became closer our speed slowed down very fast and we came to a smooth stop about 2-feet from the front of the other machine.
Our machine had no sooner stopped than our captors leaped from the machine and started to dash away.
A ‘fine blue light’ leaped from the other machine in a ‘fine pencil beam’ and it’s sweep caught them and they fell to the cavern and lay still.
The figures dismounted from the other machine and came close to us.
Then I noticed they carried a strange object in their hands. It resembled a ‘fountain pen flashlight with a large round bulb-like affair on the back end and a grip’ – something like a German luger pistol.
They pointed them at us. After seeing what had happened to our erstwhile captors I thought that our turn was next, whatever it was.
But one [ 1 ] spoke to us.
I guess we are, as this is where we came from very recently.
If you mean those guys, I pointed to the five [ 5 ] motionless figures, back there a few hundred miles – I pointed toward the way we had come in our wild ride.
That was the first time I had realized that the others were dead. They put their strange weapons away and seemed friendly enough, so I ventured to ask them the who and why and everything we had run into.
I told them of our search for guano and how we had encountered the five [ 5 ] horlocks, as he called them, and asked ‘him’ about the machines, their operation and could we get out again?
He explained to us the operation of the machine and in some way reversed it’s direction. So thanking them, we seated ourselves in the sled, as he had called it, and were soon on our way back.
Our return trip was really something we enjoyed, as I was sure not to advance the carbon far enough on the dial to give us such terrific speed, but we soon found ourselves where we started from. The sled slid to a smooth stop and we jumped out and started up the cave afoot.
We must have walked a long way coming in, for we thought we never would come to the surface. But at last we did. And it was late afternoon when we emerged.
We lost no time in making our way down the mountain, and Joe tells me that he isn’t even curious about what is in that cave. But I am.
What is the answer to the whole thing? I would like to know.
We had been told enough for me to believe that down there – somewhere – there are things that might baffle the greatest minds of this Earth. Sometimes I’m tempted to go back into that cave if I could find it again, which I doubt, but, then I know the warning I heard in there might be too true, so I guess I had better be of the same mind as Joe. He says: ‘What we don’t know don’t hurt us’.
Regardless of Joe’s opinion, however, there is reason to believe that influences from these nether regions can and do affect “us” in a profound way, and even the men whom Ralph and Joe encountered, whoever they were, admitted this fact.
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2019-04-23T09:01:09Z
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Love it!. Be safe on the way home!
Home safe. Let’s get together before I’m off again. Thanks for your faithful comments, both here and on FB.
Wow, I feel almost breathless after reading this uncharted adventure as you high-tailed it across the USA! You are truly now a seasoned road warrior — congrats on your success of meeting your schedule and still managing to see so much. Coeur d’Alene is one place I’ve always wanted to visit, with it’s great location and exotic sounding name. Too bad it attracts crowds.
And thanks for your faithful following and commenting. Even tho I often don’t see them for weeks, I like comments. Hopefully today I’ll find time to finish with the last leg of my homecoming. Hope you’re enjoying Yellowstone this week.
Home now. Sorry you were’t able to come to NAK’s party. Missed you.
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2019-04-21T06:55:51Z
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https://rollingwithxena.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/roaring-east/
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Abby is my youngest sister. I had the privilege and honor to be the photographer for her and Jason’s engagement and wedding. All of the these pictures were shot in Littleton at Progress Park and Belleview Park. If you would like to leave a comment about this page, please click here to visit the comments board.
Just a few other pictures that aren’t necessarily good for engagements, but Abby and Jason could not pass on the opportunity to pose in the jersey of their respective favorite football teams. Whom happen to be rivals.
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2019-04-19T00:52:47Z
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https://nickmophoto.wordpress.com/engagements/moseley-christenson/
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Actually this is one of the best ideas I have heard in a long time. Drop them in the middle of a fire fight and see if they make it!
Such is to be expected from a person like Shaikh Jaber Al Khalid Al sabah with his criminal mentality. It makes me sick to know that we're in league with these creeps!!!
What's wrong with you,Dan? Don't you know that these "creeps" are on our side? After all,we're not paying them for nothing!!!
I feel the same way you do,Dan. Unfortunately the right-wing thugs in Washington don't see it our way.
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2019-04-23T06:06:22Z
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http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/01/kuwait-ministers-fix-for-4-gitmo-detainees-send-them-to-afghanistan/
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Today I managed to get PGP encryption working with my gmail account. I had to install WinPT and PGP on my computer and generate a key pair. I have a private key, and a public key. I encrypt things with my private key, and anyone who has my public key can decrypt it. Decrypting it also proves that it was my private key that encrypted it – so if you got encrypted email from me you would know that it was me that sent it.
To get it to work with my gmail I had to install firegpg, which you can get at the link.
This is what a block of PGP encrypted text looks like.
So you can see, it’s not readable. The following text is a decryption from that email.
So, there we go. My geekery for the day. If you have any questions, feel free to comment away.
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2019-04-20T16:34:52Z
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https://jeffandsamplus2.wordpress.com/tag/gpg/
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