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Town secure grant to build bumper new stand
Harrogate Town will build a new covered terrace at the CNG Stadium this summer, with the aid of a Football Foundation grant. (S) Artist's impression courtesy of Peter Arnett.
Published:13:59Thursday 19 June 2014
Harrogate Town will develop the CNG Stadium over the summer and create an enclosed ground “more akin to professional football” according to chairman Irving Weaver.
Town have received a bumper grant from the Fooball Foundation’s Stadia Improvement Fund to develop the west end of the ground and build a covered standing terrace.
FSIF, the largest provider of grants towards projects to improve safety and comfort in lower league football, has presented the club with £117,017 which will form more than half of the £200,000 investment.
The stand will hold up to 800 supporters but Town chairman Irving Weaver said there would not be a change to the official 3,200 capacity the ground can hold.
He said: “It’s a big influence when someone gives you more than £100,000. we really couldn’t miss it.
“Anything that is coming at half price, you have to take that opportunity.”
Town received planning permission from Harrogate Borough Council for the stand planned for the Hospital End in June 2013.
However, building work was delayed as the club pursued a grant from the FA.
After receiving the grant, Town’s management board have decided to wait until after the Tour de France’s Grand Départ and the home friendly against Leeds United on July 12. The first bricks are expected to be laid the day after United’s visit and take seven weeks to complete, local firm SB Utilities winning the contract to tender for the work.
This award will enable Town to build the new covered terrace, toilet block and food outlet at the Lancaster Park Road Hospital end.
Erecting the stand will allow the club to partition the stadium for home and away fans should they achieve promotion into the Football Conference.
Town will also begin upgrades to corporate facilities, with new sheltered seating erected for junior teams on the patio outside.
Weaver said: “We have now had three years and we have tried to build everything together gradually.
“The first thing was to sort the pitch out, the next thing was to get the 1919 events facility so it can become a revenue source.
“Whilst we also have planning permission for the Wetherby Road stand, the fact we decided to enclose the ground so it’s four-sided was a major step to creating an environment more akin to professional football.
“Over a long term plan, each year we have to make improvements, or it all comes at once. We want to develop the club over a long period and to be able to segregate.
“If we went up, and every club has to have an ambition to go forward, segregation would be important when you have the likes of Torquay United. You have to expect a bigger crowd from away fans.
“Maybe we are also starting to provide facilities that people expect.”
The chairman also hinted further grant applications would be made for the Wetherby Road stand improvements.
If successful, the club will look to renovate the stand before the 2015/16 season.
Weaver added: “We are confident that we could get a grant for that, and then we really have started to improve around the ground.”
Garry Plant, Managing Director, said: “This is a huge step forward for Harrogate Town. We owe the Football Stadia Improvement Fund a warm handshake of appreciation.”
Peter McCormick, chairman of the FSIF, said: “I am delighted to be able to awardHarrogate Town AFC this grant to enable them to build a new terrace stand.”
The club is looking for a sponsor for the stand. Any company/individual interestedshould contact MD Garry Plant.
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Despite carrier and retailer indications of delays for certain editions of Samsung's new Galaxy S III, the company triumphantly announced its launch right on schedule tonight. Of course, here in the US we're sadly on the outside looking in at the launch action going on in 28 countries as a new day dawns for the 29th, but at least there's rumblings that our localized editions aren't far off. In July, its world tour is expected to have swung through 145 countries and 296 carriers. As long as you're looking for a 16GB Marble White quad-core Exynos juggernaut, you should be able to find it right away -- if the machine translated Korean press release (Update: English link added) is too tough to bear, remember we've got all the launch details (and a review) right here.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Paneer Bhurji
Paneer Bhurji is a quick, easy and very tasty to prepare dish at home. This delicious recipe is made with paneer or cattage cheese crumbled and then cooked with a choice of onion, tomatoes, green chilly and spices. It tastes yummy, with perfect combo of masalas added.
And It makes for a good side dish with roti, chapatti or with fried rice.
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This recipe looks so, so good! Another plus: I am a vegetarian and I love Indian food (especially Paneer). One question--what is the 'Bhurji' in Paneer Bhurji? If I can locate an Indian market near me I'll have to try this out for sure.
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Times says it was wrong to have writer on Kavanaugh story
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times said Tuesday that it should not have assigned a writer who criticized Brett Kavanaugh on social media to its news story about the Supreme Court nominee’s alleged…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times said Tuesday that it should not have assigned a writer who criticized Brett Kavanaugh on social media to its news story about the Supreme Court nominee’s alleged involvement in a bar fight in 1985.
The newspaper said that it stood by its story, published Monday, which said Kavanaugh was questioned by police in New Haven, Connecticut, after he was accused of throwing ice at another bar patron. Kavanaugh, who was not arrested, was attending Yale University.
The White House had questioned the Times’ motivation in writing the story because one of its authors, Emily Bazelon, criticized Kavanaugh in July after he was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump.
Bazelon is an instructor at the Yale Law School and a writer for the Times’ magazine. She also writes occasional opinion pieces for the newspaper. She shared a byline on the Kavanaugh story with Ben Protess.
“She is not a news reporter,” said Times’ spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. “Her role in this story was to help colleagues in the newsroom gather public documents in New Haven, where Emily is based. In retrospect, editors should have used a newsroom reporter for that assignment.”
In a July tweet, Bazelon wrote that as a Yale Law graduate and lecturer, “I strongly disassociate myself from tonight’s praise of Brett Kavanaugh. With respect, he’s a 5th vote for a hard-right turn on voting rights and so much more that will harm the democratic process & prevent a more equal society.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders made note of Bazelon’s comment in a tweet of her own, tying it to what she called a desperate Democratic attack on Kavanaugh.
“What motivated New York Times reporter to write this ridiculous story?” Sanders wrote. “Throwing ice 33 years ago, or her opinion of Judge Kavanaugh in July?”
Sanders’ deputy, Raj Shah, tweeted that Bazelon went on record “trashing Judge Kavanaugh on purely ideological grounds, previewing her bias. This is supposed to be a straight news reporter.”
Murphy said that “the story is straightforward and fact-based and we fully stand behind it.”
These situations are precisely why many news organizations have strict rules for their employees against delivering political opinions on social media.
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County
of Santa Cruz
PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE
First
Report in 2005 –
West
Nile Virus (WNV) has been detected in a bird from Santa Cruz County
INFORMATION
·The
dead bird was picked up to the west of Pinto Lake.
·Positive
birds have now been found in several counties in CA in 2005.Detection of the virus in our county means
that it is not too early to take precautions to protect yourself from WNV.
·While
the dead bird was found in South County, it is likely that WNV is present in
birds throughout the county.
·WNV
is transmitted to humans and animals by mosquitoes and is not transmitted by
casual person-to-person contact.Rarely, it has been transmitted via blood transfusions or organ
transplants.Blood and organ bank
procedures now screen for WNV.
ACTIONS
·Mosquito
and Vector Control technicians will be setting mosquito traps in the area near
Pinto Lake to determine the abundance and species of mosquitoes that are now
active.
·Mosquito
and Vector control will respond to mosquito activity by eliminating mosquito
larvae where they breed.
RECOMMENDATIONS
·The
best way to protect yourself from WNV is to prevent exposure to mosquitoes.
·Drain all standing water around your
home at least once a week to prevent mosquitoes from breeding.Dress
in long sleeves and long pants when outdoors.Use mosquito repellent that contains DEET on exposed skin when outdoors.
·There
is a safe and effective vaccine for horses.Horse owners should vaccinate their horses now.
·Residents
are urged to report dead birds by calling 1-877-WNV-BIRD (1-877-968-2473) or
report online at www.westnile.ca.gov.
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Valentine’s Day is all about showing your love. With the focus this week on candy, flowers, and romance, there’s still a little room to show love to your home. Update your window blinds and create a new look. When it comes to window blinds, you can choose real wood, faux wood, vertical blinds, aluminum mini blinds, or shutters. And with so many color and style choices, you could make every room in your home unique and stylish.
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Drought Woes: Farmers Forced to Cancel Marriages in Arid India
India is in the midst of a drought of epic proportions. The severity of drought is such that people from rural areas are migrating to urban areas for greener pastures. Whereas in some parts of India citizens are being forced to postpone their daughters' marriage due to the lack of water.
Crop failure and water crisis due to back to back droughts have created panic in rural India. Almost all of central India and parts of northern and southern India are in the grip of drought and water shortage.
Sixty-eight percent of India's population lives in rural areas and 15 percent of its GDP come from agriculture. But due to the drought agricultural work in many parts of India is at a standstill.
Due to the prevailing situation of drought, which owes to the failure of a monsoon season for the last three years, rural folks are leaving their homes and migrating to big cities for greener pastures. There are several instances of farmers desperately trying to sell cattle as there is little agricultural work left in villages and farmers cannot afford to feed their cattle.
For the past several months farmers of the hardest drought hit areas of Marathwada, Vidarbha and Budelkhand have been migrating to urban areas. But their situation remains precarious as not all of them have been able to find work in cities. Further large migration is also putting the cities' infrastructure under pressure.
The situation is somewhat similar in other parts of Jharkhand where parents are forced to cancel their daughters' weddings due to the severe water shortage.
People fill their containers with water from water at n Indian a village
Sundarpur, in the eastern state of Jharkhand, which also happens to be the native village of Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, is also facing a severe water crisis. Sputnik talked to some of the villagers and found out that parents are shunning marriage ceremonies as there is not enough water for daily chores.
Usha Devi of Sundarpur told Sputnik that, "We have to postpone the marriage as we cannot guarantee the availability of drinking water for our guests. To fetch a bucket of water we have to travel a distance of more than 5 to 6 km."
Schools in many parts of drought-stricken Marathwada and Budelkhand are closed due to the severe heat wave and water crisis. Due to the drought children have to walk miles to fetch a bucket of water. One 12-year-old girl lost her life while fetching water due to exhaustion and the intense heat in the Beed district of Marathwada region. In another freak accident, an 11-year-old boy fell into the well while fetching water in the same area.
Better late than never, Central government will now send a team to study the water situation in drought-affected areas in the country and prepare a long-term plan of possible actions to tackle the drought. Further, Central Water Commission and Central Ground Water Board teams have been asked to analyze the causes leading to the drought and identify challenges to the water resources. Central team will also find out long-term solutions and suggest measure for protection, management and restoration of water bodies. The Central fact finding team will submit its report to the Water Resources Ministry till June last.
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Adventure and Possibility: Exploring America on an ATV
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I will never forget my first ATV ride. I was visiting relatives who had access to hundreds of miles of trails. Their love of the sport and stories of faraway trails and adventures made such an impact on me, that I went out and bought my own ATV the next day. I had nearly 500 acres of my own land to explore, and within a year, I rode over 2500 miles on my small plot of land. I checked the deer stand, went fishing at the pond, built a tree house in farthest corner, looked for the dog, and escaped when the in-laws came to visit. This was enough to satisfy me for a while, but then I started thinking about riding some real trails, and I made arrangements to revisit the place where it all began for me. I met more people who shared my love of adventure and filled my head with spectacular campfire tales of wandering trails, dramatic scenery, and the thrill of discovering uncharted territory. I was hooked all over again. I questioned whether my back yard oasis would be enough any more. I knew I had to find these places I had heard about and experience the terrain first-hand. I made phone calls, wrote letters, and even explored the Internet to plan my next adventure. Thus began my career as an adventure tour guide.
That was 14 years ago. I started by taking family and friends–then strangers who became friends. The next thing I knew, people were calling to book adventure tours with me, and they were even willing to pay! They started sending me thank-you cards and booking trips for the next year. I seemed to be on to something. I was taking people to locations in five different states and showing them the adventure of a lifetime. I couldn’t keep up with the demand, and eventually began producing off-road adventure DVD’s for people who are interested in exploring America’s beauty. Showing people where they can ride their ATV’s or off-road vehicles is not as personal as taking them, but the logistical nightmare of planning trips such as these have been solved. I can now give more attention to each rider’s individual needs.
Many people that live in the Midwest, East Coast, and even the West Coast have never seen the Rocky Mountains, and have no idea of the beauty that awaits them. The mountains are every bit as majestic as the songs describe them. The awe you feel as you crest a ridge is indescribable. It is amazing how quickly you become captivated while watching wildlife grazing in meadows of wildflowers or while crossing the various bubbling creeks that are created by the many waterfalls…then to realize that you are only a few miles from your tow rig. As you continue to explore, you may find the remains of old mines and mining equipmen,t or former homesteads of our pioneering forefathers. You may even discover the railroads that once carried ore and precious metals through the Continental Divide during the gold rush. These are just a few of the many backdrops to your adventure.
Maybe traveling at 13,000 feet isn’t how you want to start. You may want to experience the changing season at a slightly lower elevation. When the fall colors are changing, and red and gold leaves are in full contrast to the blue skies, the sunset below 10,000 feet just as breathtaking, and you can still see waterfalls, old mines, living ghost towns, wildlife and post card landscape, but you will also see petroglyphs, saguaros, Indian ruins, and a thousand miles of trails that take you to the wild and remote land of the southwest.
Perhaps you’re a beginner, or you are looking for easy-going and family-orientated trails that allow you to discover the thrill of traveling were Native Americans or hopeful prospectors once roamed. Maybe the navigation of a more challenging route is the only way you can get your buddy or brother in-law to realize who is really the better rider or has the better ATV. Either way, you’re bound to have the time of your life.
Planning your next off-road trip or vacation is a lot harder than purchasing a couple maps and making reservations. There are many factors to consider in your adventure planning equation. How about the skill level of everyone in your group or actual difficulty level of the trails? Is your ATV up for the challenge? Did you purchase the right maps and what about points of interest along the way? Will the place you’re staying be able to accommodate your rig? Will you have to park far away? Do you know the state and local laws for the area you’re going to? Do you need registration and/or special use permits? How about a place to get repairs? You don’t want your fun ruined on the first or second day. What about a place to eat? I’m not talking fast food, I’m talking about great local grub where the proprietors welcome you with open arms.. These are the questions that you must answer to ensure the best experience possible.
Who says that ATV’s or off-road vehicles need to be limited to back yard or empty lot recreation? I say when you limit yourself, that’s when riding becomes dull and boring. Riding ATV’s or off-road vehicles in our great outdoors has its rewards and responsibilities; I hope you gain both on your next adventure. I’ll see you on the trail!
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Enigmatic songwriter and singer Sia has filed for divorce after a 2½-year marriage.
The performer (whose real name is Sia Furler) married documentary filmmaker Erik Anders Lang in August 2014 after a two-month engagement. But they announced their separation earlier this month, saying they were “dedicated to remaining friends.”
The “Chandelier” singer cited irreconcilable differences in her petition to end her marriage, which was filed Dec. 20 in Los Angeles Superior Court. The former couple has no children together and has a prenuptial agreement.
As well as performing her own songs, Sia, 41, has written hits for Rihanna and Flo Rida, among others.
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The 2012-2013 Penn State basketball schedule features the typical Big Ten schedule as well as some great out-of-conference games. Penn State this year has OOC games with Boston College, Duquesne, Bucknell, and will play NC State and either Providence or UMass in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Big Ten as usual will be one of the top conferences in the country as Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and Wisconsin are all pre-season top 25 teams. In fact Indiana is the nation's pre-season #1 and Ohio State and Michigan are in the top 5. This means a grueling Penn State schedule but some great matchups.
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Gossip blogger Perez Hilton, whose famously misogynistic blog was popular at the height of Juicy Couture and Ed Hardy in the mid-2000s, is feuding with Demi Lovato once again. And this time, Mariah Carey is involved — well, sorta.
The digital drama erupted Monday (July 25) after Lovato cryptically tweeted at Hilton, "Do something with your life." (The tweet has since been deleted.)
He then proceeded to call the singer "petty" for messaging him and asking him to "let it go already." Hilton then published his and Lovato's private discussion for all the world to see on Twitter and Instagram in an effort to expose her Kim Kardashian-style.
But expose her for what, precisely?
In Lovato's DMs, the pop star (understandably) expresses her frustration over Hilton's seeming support of her supposed feud with Carey. She then tells him, "It's unnecessary and the type of s*** that made me unfollow you."
After the blogger shared screenshots of their one-on-one exchange, a #PerezExposedDemiParty hashtag began trending on Twitter, with some using it to drag the "Confident" singer for voicing her feelings in a private space. Others, like us, were left wondering, "Where is the exposure?"
Here's the thing about "exposing" someone: There has to be something to expose.
Whether it's an ulterior motive, a lie, or simply two-faced behavior, to "expose" is to uncover and make something known in an effort to bring some sort of justice. In Hilton's case, he didn't uncover anything about Lovato; he simply (and unethically) shared her private messages with the world, likely to humiliate her.
In the case of Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift's now-iconic — or should we say, in-"Famous"? — feud, the difference is that an otherwise private conversation was made public after one party seemed to repeatedly misrepresent their conversation.
Here, the only person Perez Hilton exposed was himself. And in the words of Kardashian, "Theres a BIG difference between shading someone and speaking the truth!"
Do you think the "almost 40" father of two was right to share a private message publicly, or was Demi out of line? Weigh in.
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Canonical analysis of the classical general equilibrium model demonstrates the existence of an open and dense subset of standard economies that possess fully-revealing rational expectations equilibria. This paper shows that the analogous result is not true in urban economies under reasonable modifications for this field. An open subset of economies where… (More)
This paper characterizes the properties of equilibrium location patterns in an Anderson-Neven-Pal model and uses these characteristics to comprehensively find the subgame perfect Nash equilibria, most of which are not yet found in the literature. Since the external competition effect may be exactly canceled out, or internal competition strictly dominates… (More)
An (A) expected (strong) bubble is said to exist if it is mutual knowledge that the price of the asset is higher than the expected (possible) dividend. By requiring common knowledge instead of mutual knowledge, the new concept of common expected bubble (common strong bubble) is developed. In a simple …nite horizon model with asymmetric information and short… (More)
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Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at higher risk of stroke than those without COPD. This study aims to explore the impact of inhaled pharmacotherapy on stroke risk in COPD patients during a three-year follow-up, using a nationwide, population-based study and a matched cohort design.
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METABOLISM OF NEPETALACTONE AND RELATED COMPOUNDS IN NEPETA CATARIA L. AND COMPONENTS OF ITS BOUND ESSENTIAL OIL*+
George R. Waller** and Ronald D. Johnson++
*Supported in part by Research Grants GM-08624 from the National Institutes of Health and GB-20926 from the National Science Foundation
+Journal Article No. J-1751 of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
**To whom correspondence should be sent
++Present address: Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, IN 46285 USA.
Metabolism of [G-14C]nepetalactone by Nepetacataria plants yielded significant amounts of [G-14C]dihydronepetalactone that were bound to plant components. Isomeric forms of [G-14C]dihydronepetalactone and [G-14C]nepetadiol were synthesized from (G-14C]nepetalactone. Upon administration of synthetic G-14CC]dihydronepetalactone to N. cataria plants, label was incorporated into 4aa,7a,7aa-nepetalactone (1), 4aa,7a,7ab-nepetalactone (2), a new nepetadiol (6), and de-4-methylnepetalactol (7). Feeding of [G-14]nepetadiol casued incorporation of significant amounts of label into new dehydrated derivatives of nepetadiol. Analysis by GC and GC/MS showed that treatment of the plant residues with hot 2N HCl liberated four times as much steam-volatile material, which contained diastereoisomeric dihydronepetalactones. A metabolic scheme is proposed, and possible biological significance of the results is discussed.
Nepeta cataria L., commonly known as catnip or catmint, produces the feline attractant 4aa,7a,7aa-nepetalactone (1) along with a number of other volatile compounds including 4aa,7a,7ab-nepetalactone (2) and 4ab,7a,7ab-nepetalactone (3) (1, 2). Another feline attractant, 4aa,7a,7aa-dihydronepetalactone (4), has also been isolated from N. cataria (3) and its metabolism there studied, while 4aa,7a,7ab-dihydronepetalactone (5) was synthesized by catalytic reduction (4, 5). Figure 1 shows the structures of these terpenoids. The structure and stereochemistry of isomeric nepetalactones and related methylcyclopentane monoterpenoids were the subject of a recent investigation (6), and the newly established stereochemistry has been represented where possible. Compound 1 is a powerful insect repellant (7). Most studies have been carried out using the essential oil of the plant, obtained by steam distillation of the leaves and stems. This paper describes metabolic studies of N.cataria by feeding carbon-14-labeled nepetalactones (1 and 2), dihydronepetalactones (4 and 5) and nepetadiols (9) to plants and identifying metabolites after steam distillations and other separation procedures.
Plant Material.Nepeta cataria L. plants were propagated from cuttings and grown in vermiculite-soil mixture in the Oklahoma State University Horticulture greenhouse; they were approximately 8 to 12 weeks old when the experiments were initiated.
Preparation of [G-14C]Nepetadiols. [G-14C]-Nepetalactones were prepared by allowing young Nepeta cataria plants to photosynthesize in the presence of 1 mCi of 14CO2 for 36 hr and isolating products according to the method of Regnier, et al. (8) and Mitchell, et al. (9). The specific activity of [G-14C]-1 and [G-14C]-2 purified by TLC varied from 11.6 × 103 dpm/mg to 20.6 × 103 dpm/mg. These products were not further purified but were injected into N. cataria plants and used for preparation of [G-14C] dihydronepetalactones. Their identity was confirmed by gas
Hydrogenation of Nepetalactones to Form Dihydronepetalactones. Varying amounts (50-429 mg) of 1 and 2 and the carbon-14-labeled forms were placed in a thick-walled glass hydrogenation vessel with 30-50 ml of dry ethanol and 25-175 mg of palladium-on-charcoal (10%) catalyst. The vessel was then wrapped in a heating tape and the contents hydrogenated in a Parr pressure reaction apparatus at 4.5 atmospheres and 45-60 C for 36 hr. The yields of 4 and 5 were 80-95%; the product was analyzed by thin-layer chromatography (TLC), GC, and GC/MS. Previous results of such hydrogenation had indicated that 4 was the major product and 5 the minor one, the former being predominant in N. cataria (2). Catalytic hydrogenation produced 4 and 5 in a 90:10 ratio corresponding to the ratio of the reactant nepetalactones. Traces of the 4b isomers of 4 and 5 were detected. When 1 was used as the GC standard (retention time Rt = 1.00), 5 showed an Rt of 1.38 while 4 had the value of 1.70.
Preparation of Nepetadiols. The reduction of 4 and 5, as described by Regnier et al. (4), with lithium aluminum hydride was used for the preparation of [G-14C]-9. Both labeled and unlabeled 9 were purified by TLC using hexane:acetone:ethanol (40:10:4, v/v/v) or by preparative GC. The yields varied from 86-95%. The purity was established by GC/MS on the free compound and the trifluoroacetyl derivative. The 7ab isomeric forms of nepetadiol were not detected.
Isolation of Essential Oils. The plants were harvested, cut into small pieces, and homogenized in a Waring Blender with deionized water. A current of steam was passed through the homogenate for several hours. The condensate was saturated with sodium chloride and shaken four times with 200-ml portions of diethyl ether. The combined ether extract was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and the ether removed under nitrogen gas. Thin-layer chromatography, GC, and GC/MS were carried out on the oil. The residue from the steam distillate was dried and extracted three times with methanol in Experiment I. The residue from the steam distillate was made 2N in HCl and heated for 2 hr at 90-100 C. The residue was then neutralized and treated with steam a second time and the isolation procedure and analyses repeated.
Administration of Precursors. [G-14C]Nepetalactones (1 and 2), [G-14C] dihydronepetalactones (4 and 5), and [G-14C]nepetadiol (9) were injected into the plant stems with a microsyringe.
Thin-Layer Chromatography. The reaction mixtures, essential oils, and preparative GC fractions were analyzed by use of TLC on silica gel plates, both analytical (5 × 20 × 0.01 cm) and preparative (20 × 20 × 0.2 cm). The developing solvents used were hexane:acetone:ethanol (40:10:4, v/v/v). The bands were scraped from the plates and the fractions eluted with ethyl acetate and dried under nitrogen.
Preparative Gas-Liquid Chromatography. Preparative GC was performed on a Varian Aerograph Series 700 GLC unit equipped with a hydrogen flame ionization detector, a variable stream splitter, and an automatic collection apparatus. The column used was a 16-foot × 1/2-inch silanized glass column packed with 25% Apiezon L on Anachrom ABS and operated at 180-240 C. Compounds were trapped in special spiral-path traps cooled in acetone/dry ice.
Analytical Gas-Liquid Chromatography. Analytical GC was performed on a modified Barber-Coleman Model 5000 gas chromatograph (11) equipped with a hydrogen flame ionization detector. The columns used were 1/4 inch silanized glass tubes packed as above, 8 to 12 feet in length. The column oven was kept at 160 C, the injector at 230 C, and the detector at 275 C.
Metabolism of Nepetalactones (1 and 2). A mixture of [G-14C]-4aa,7a,7aa- and [G-14C]- 4aa,7a,7aBeta-nepetalactone (1 and 2, respectively; about 90:10) was prepared as described in the Experimental section. An 8.3-mg portion of this mixture with radioactivity 14.9 × 105 dpm was administered with a microsyringe to a plant that weighed approximately 200 g, which was then kept in a closed chamber for 3 days (8,9,13) and worked up as previously described. The recovered radioactivity was: 10.4 × 105 dpm as CO2, 0.025 × 105 dpm in the essential oil fraction, and 3.63 × 105 dpm in the residue remaining after distillation, for total recovery of approximately 96%. There was no significant carbon-14 in the water remaining from the steam distillate. The dried solid residue was subjected to the following treatments: hexane extraction (three times), which gave an extract with 1.97 × 105 dpm, then ethanol extraction (three times), which gave an extract with 0.35 × 105 dpm; the remaining residue contained 1.29 × 105 dpm. The hexane was evaporated at room temperature under a gentle stream of nitrogen and the residual products were separated by TLC. An unresolved mixture of 4 and 5 gave the dominant peak (86% of radioactivity administered); the TLC showed three additional minor compounds and a spot at the origin but these were not studied further, nor was the ethanol extract or the remaining solid residue.
The average amount of dihydronepetalactones found in the steam-volatile fraction was about 0.002 mg/g fresh weight of the N. cataria plants. This was in contrast to nepetalactones, the major organic components of the steam distillate, which contributed about 1-2 mg/g fresh weight. Since the steam distillate from a plant fed with [G-14C]-nepetalactones contained only about 1-2% of the total radioactivity recovered, it was not further studied.
Metabolism of 4aa,7a,7aa- and 4aa,7a,7aBeta- Dihydronepetalactones. A mixture of [G-14C]-4 and [G-14C]-5 was administered to catnip plants (14 mg/plant), the specific activity fed varying from 7.9 × 103 dpm/mg to 28.1 × 103 dpm/mg; the plants were allowed to grow for 14-24 h.
After steam distillation of the essential oil from plants that had been treated, the residue was hydrolyzed in 2N HCl as described in the Materials and Methods section and then subjected to steam distillation a second time. Both essential oils were analyzed. Figure 2 shows the GC tracing for the essential oil before hydrolysis (essential oil I) and that following hydrolysis (essential oil II). As shown previously (13), 1 (rel. Rt = 1.00) is by far the major component of essential oil I, but this also contains components of essential oil II. Essential oil of unmodified N. cataria plants yielded a small peak for 4, con-
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firming that this isomer is the naturally occurring one in N. cataria. Essential oil I was divided into four fractions by preparative GC. Table I showed the identities of these fractions established by mass spectral characteristics and comparison of relative time with those of authentic samples.
Unknown 1, a methylcyclopentane monoterpenoid of molecular weight 166, was assigned the structure of D4a- or D4a(7a)- nepetalactol (6) on the basis of its mass spectral fragmentation pattern (2,4,13). The mass spectra of Unknowns 1 and 2 are shown in Fig. 3 along with the proposed structures.
The spectrum of Unknown 1 resembles that of methylcyclopentane monoterpenoids but there are a few key exceptions. The (M+1) / (M+2) ratio for M+• at m/ 166 fits the molecular formula C10H14O2. The molecular ion undergoes loss of water to yield an ion at m/ 148, a dehydration confirmed by a metastable ion at m/ 132.0. The series of odd-electron ions at low abundances at m/ 67, m/ 69, m/ 81, m/ 95, m/ 109, and m/ 123 in the spectrum of Unknown 1 is typical of the methylcyclopentane moiety found in nepetalactones, but one more double bond is present so there is also a series at m/ 65 and m/ 67, m/ 79, m/ 93, m/
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107 and m/ 121. Significant peaks at m/ 77 and m/ 91 indicate that benzyl and tropylium ions result from loss of neutral hydrogen molecule from the ions at m/ 79 and m/ 93, respectively. These transitions are verified by the signals of metastable ions at m/ 75.1 and m/ 89.0, respectively. Since the molecular weight is 166, the same as for nepetalactones, the additional double bond in the cyclopentane ring must mean a loss of unsaturation elsewhere. The loss of H2O from the molecular ion indicated that the lactone carbonyl group had been reduced to a hydroxyl group and thus converted to a cyclic hemiacetal group. The position of the double bond in the methylcyclopentane ring was not determined but it is probably conjugated with one in the hemiacetal ring. Other fragmentations were like those found in the mass specta of the nepetalactones, which have been discussed previously (2,4).
The GC analysis (Fig. 2) of essential oil II, obtained by steam distillation of either normal or treated plant residues after 2N HCl hydrolysis, yielded new compound 7, the second unknown, not found in essential oil I. This compound must have been released or formed by the treatment, perhaps via an ester or glycoside hydrolysis. The mass spectrum of 7 shows a molecular ion (M+•) at m/ 154, which is consistent with the (M+1)/(M+2) ratio; high-resolution mass spectrometry gave the empirical formula C9H14O2. The high-resolution data shown in Table II, the similarity of fragmentation pattern to those of the nepetalactones, and the loss of H2O yielding an ion at m/ 136 indicate that this component is also a cyclic hemiacetal but with one fewer methylene group and one fewer double bond than nepetalactones. The loss of unsaturation is again attributed to the reduction of the lactone carbonyl group to a hydroxyl group and hemiacetal formation. The odd-electron ion series at m/ 67, m/ 81, m/ 95, and m/ 109 indicates that there is no unsaturation present in the methylcyclopentane moiety. The missing CH2 unit was identified as part of a methyl group (C-8) in the numbering scheme shown in Fig. 1. Since the fragmentation pattern resembled that of methylcyclopentane and no peak at m/ 124 corresponding to loss of two methyl groups, was found, the obviously missing CH2 unit came from this methyl group. From these data the structure for 7 and the name de-4-methylnepetalactol shown in Scheme 1 are proposed.
Hydrolysis with 2N HCl released relatively large quantities of 4, 5, and 7 (Table III); these do not normally steam distill readily. Essential oil I was 0.24% of the wet plant weight while that of essential oil II amounted
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to 0.92%. Therefore, the 2N HCl hydrolysis released four times as much steam-volatile material as was free in the plants originally, including some components not found in essential oil I. This observation is significant for distillation of essential oils and biosynthetic and biodegradation studies of nepetalactones; these compounds, especially the immediate precursors, are now shown to be present in large part in non-steam-volatile form in the plant. Acid catalysis would promote hydrolysis of a glycosidic linkage in precursors of 4 and 5. 7 may also have been formed or released by acid hydrolysis since its specific activity was similar to that of 4 and 5. The 30 to 40-fold dilution of the specific activities of 4 and 5 indicates that a pool of these compounds in unlabeled form was either present or released by acid hydrolysis.
6, not detectable in plants not treated with 4 and 5, is probably a catabolite of the exogenous dihydronepetalactones. 7, found in essential oil II of both (4 and 5)-treated and nontreated plants, is also likely a catabolite of dihydronepetalactones and/or nepetalactones. The catabolism of [G-14C]nepetalactones to 14CO2 has been demonstrated previously (9,11) and such degradations could proceed through a degenerate monoterpenoid intermediate.
Metabolism of [G-14C]Nepetadiol. Two [G-14C]-9 biosynthesis experiments were conducted. In Experiment I, 5.7 mg (15 × 104dpm) of [G-14C]-2 (specific activity 26 × 103 dpm/mg) were administered to a twelve-week-old N. cataria plant. The plant was allowed to metabolize for 10 hr, then the plant was analyzed as described previously. In Experiment II, 12.4 mg (15 × 193 dpm/mg) were administered to a sixteen-week-old N. cataria plant. After 18 hr the plant was analyzed as described for Experiment II.
In each case only a small amount of the label was found in the initial steam-volatile crude oils (3.2 × 103 dpm in Experiment I and 1.1 × 103 dpm in Experiment II). Since 9 is not steam-volatile, any of it that was unreacted would be found in this fraction. The methanol extract of the residue from Experiment I contained 89 × 103 and the solid residue 55 × 103 dpm; thus 98% of the total radioactive material was recovered. When this methanol- extracted residue was treated with 2N HCl and steam distilled again only a negligible amount of label (560 dpm) was contained in the volatile fraction. In Experiment II the steam-volatile fraction contained 12 × 103 dpm while the residue contained 130 × 103 dpm - a 94.5% recovery of the administered radioactive label. The lower total recovery of such material may be due to further catabolism of [G-14C]-9 to give 14CO2. The same residue extracted with methanol gave an extract containing 72 × 103 dpm and a solid containing 15 ×103 dpm; the discrepancy between the total of these and the 130 × 103 dpm previously referred to is unaccountable.
The oils from the initial steam distillation yielded purified 1 and 2 with negligible incorporation of label: 0.08% and 0.25% for 1 and 0.03% and 0.25% for 2 as shown in Table IV. These values are only about 25% of the comparable incorporation values for [G-14C]-4 and -5. 6 was not present in the nepetadiol-treated plants.
The methanol extract of the steam distillation residue from the first experiment was shown by TLC to contain 1 and several diastereoisomeric dihydronepetalactones but no 9. Since the essential oil from the HCl-treated plant material had negligible radioactivity, no analysis was done.
In Experiment II, GC analysis of the essential oil from the HCl-treated plant material showed several peaks. Preparative GC produced several diastereoisomeric dihydronepetalactones 4 and 5 and unknown compounds that proved to be 10 and 11. Un-
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fortunately, 7 was represented only as a shoulder on the peaks of 10 and 11 on the column, and all gave the same molecular ion, M+• 154. The mixture consisted of about 75% 7 and 35% 10 and 11. Their radioactivity amounted to 14 × 103 dpm. The base peak in the mass spectrum of each unknown was at m/ 81. Some similarities were found in the mass spectrum of 7 and those of 10 and 11 but the transitions that differed were more important in structure elucidation. In 10 and 11 the transition from m/ 154 to m/ 123 involved loss of a CH2OH fragment (M+• -31), but this was absent from the spectrum of 7. The transition from m/ 93 to m/ 91 was indicated by the spectrum of 7 but not by those of 10 and 11. Other ions had the same nominal mass but the pathways of formation of these ions were different (3). No detailed fragmentation study is described here, but has been reported (10); however, comparison of the three mass spectra indicated that the structures assigned are reasonable. Separation of these compounds by analytical GC was achieved; the specific activity of a mixture of 10 and 11 was 4.5 × 103 dpm/mg. We propose the following structures, which are dehydration products of 9, and probably represent the first metabolites of nepetadiol (shown in Scheme 1).
In Experiment II radioactivity of the methanol extract of the HCl-treated steam distillation residue was 72 × 103 dpm. Analysis of this extract failed to yield any [G-14C]-2.
Components 1 and 2 were oxidized to CO2 by N. cataria to a significant extent-68% in 3 days; 25% of the radioactive carbon was in the plant residue remaining after distillation, and only 1.8% in the essential oil (13). Redistillation and analysis indicated that the key compounds bound to the plant residue were 4 and 5, which contained 85% of the radioactivity remaining (13).
The specific activity of 7 was 11.3 × 103 dpm/mg, that of 6 1,003 dpm/mg, and that of 3-hexen-1-o1 (8) 505 dpm/mg, when they were formed in the metabolism of [G-14C]-4 and -5 (specific activity 18.4 × 103 dpm/mg) in N. cataria plants. On the other hand, nepetadiol (9) was transformed by N. cataria plants to 10 and/or 11, which could be converted to de-4-methylnepetalactol (7). No radioactivity was then found in 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6. It was concluded that these catabolites are formed in the sequence 6, then 7, and still later (8). The suggested pathway for partial degradation of nepetalactone and nepetadiols in N.cataria is shown in Scheme 1.
The carbon atoms eliminated in forming 7 from 6, and 8 from 7 probably are introduced into the plant's one-carbon metabolic pool and ultimately oxidized to CO2.
The new compounds observed in this study are of interest both biosynthetically and catabolically and suggest the need of tracer experiments to determine how they originate and how they fit into the metabolic scheme of the plant. These experiments also reveal a new method of obtaining interesting and important methylcyclopentane monoterpenoids, i.e. by steam distillation of extraction of plant material after hydrolysis in 2N HCl. The isolation of major quantities of the compounds 4, 5, 7, and 8 bound in a nonsteam-volatile form is of interest since they may become the essential oil of the plant. The liberation of essential oils by acid hydrolysis presents a new and interesting method for studying the biosynthetic and biodegradative pathways in plants and a possible source of new natural products.
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Folksinger, Storyteller, Railroad Tramp Utah Phillips Dead at 73
Nevada City, California:
Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for
audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday of congestive heart failure in Nevada City,
California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his
wife, Joanna Robinson, a freelance editor.
Born Bruce Duncan Phillips on May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of labor organizers.
Whether through this early influence or an early life that was not always tranquil or easy, by his
twenties Phillips demonstrated a lifelong concern with the living conditions of working people. He
was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World, popularly known as the
Wobblies, an organizational artifact of early twentieth-century labor struggles that has seen
renewed interest and growth in membership in the last decade, not in small part due to his efforts
to popularize it.
Phillips served as an Army private during the Korean War, an experience he would later refer to as
the turning point of his life. Deeply affected by the devastation and human misery he had
witnessed, upon his return to the United States he began drifting, riding freight trains around the
country. His struggle would be familiar today, when the difficulties of returning combat veterans are
more widely understood, but in the late fifties Phillips was left to work them out for himself.
Destitute and drinking, Phillips got off a freight train in Salt Lake City and wound up at the Joe Hill
House, a homeless shelter operated by the anarchist Ammon Hennacy, a member of the Catholic
Worker movement and associate of Dorothy Day.
Phillips credited Hennacy and other social reformers he referred to as his elders with having
provided a philosophical framework around which he later constructed songs and stories he intended
as a template his audiences could employ to understand their own political and working lives. They
were often hilarious, sometimes sad, but never shallow.
He made me understand that music must be more than cotton candy for the ears, said
John McCutcheon, a nationally-known folksinger and close friend.
In the creation of his performing persona and work, Phillips drew from influences as diverse as
Borscht Belt comedian Myron Cohen, folksingers Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and Country stars
Hank Williams and T. Texas Tyler.
A stint as an archivist for the State of Utah in the 1960s taught Phillips the discipline of historical
research; beneath the simplest and most folksy of his songs was a rigorous attention to detail and
a strong and carefully-crafted narrative structure. He was a voracious reader in a surprising variety
of fields.
Meanwhile, Phillips was working at Hennacy’s Joe Hill house. In 1968 he ran for a seat in the U.S.
Senate on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. The race was won by a Republican candidate, and
Phillips was seen by some Democrats as having split the vote. He subsequently lost his job with the
State of Utah, a process he described as blacklisting.
Phillips left Utah for Saratoga Springs, New York, where he was welcomed into a lively community of
folk performers centered at the Caffé Lena, operated by Lena Spencer.
It was the coffeehouse, the place to perform. Everybody went there. She fed everybody,
said John Che Greenwood, a fellow performer and friend.
Over the span of the nearly four decades that followed, Phillips worked in what he referred to as
the Trade, developing an audience of hundreds of thousands and performing in large and
small cities throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. His performing partners included
Rosalie Sorrels, Kate Wolf, John McCutcheon and Ani DiFranco.
He was like an alchemist, said Sorrels, He took the stories of working people and
railroad bums and he built them into work that was influenced by writers like Thomas Wolfe, but
then he gave it back, he put it in language so the people whom the songs and stories were about
still had them, still owned them. He didn’t believe in stealing culture from the people it was
about.
A single from Phillips’s first record, Moose Turd Pie, a rollicking story
about working on a railroad track gang, saw extensive airplay in 1973. From then on, Phillips had
work on the road. His extensive writing and recording career included two albums with Ani DiFranco
which earned a Grammy nomination. Phillips’s songs were performed and recorded by Emmylou
Harris, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Tom Waits, Joe Ely and others. He was awarded a Lifetime
Achievement Award by the Folk Alliance in 1997.
Phillips, something of a perfectionist, claimed that he never lost his stage fright before
performances. He didn’t want to lose it, he said; it kept him improving.
Phillips began suffering from the effects of chronic heart disease in 2004, and as his illness kept him
off the road at times, he started a nationally syndicated folk-music radio show, Loafer’s Glory, produced at KVMR-FM and started a homeless shelter in his
rural home county, where down-on-their-luck men and women were sleeping under the manzanita
brush at the edge of town. Hospitality House opened in 2005 and continues to house 25 to 30
guests a night. In this way, Phillips returned to the work of his mentor Hennacy in the last four
years of his life.
Phillips died at home, in bed, in his sleep, next to his wife. He is survived by his son Duncan and
daughter-in-law Bobette of Salt Lake City, son Brendan of Olympia, Washington; daughter Morrigan
Belle of Washington, D.C.; stepson Nicholas Tomb of Monterrey, California; stepson and
daughter-in-law Ian Durfee and Mary Creasey of Davis, California; brothers David Phillips of Fairfield,
California, Ed Phillips of Cleveland, Ohio and Stuart Cohen of Los Angeles; sister Deborah Cohen of
Lisbon, Portugal; and a grandchild, Brendan. He was preceded in death by his father Edwin Phillips
and mother Kathleen, and his stepfather, Syd Cohen.
Utah Phillips is the reason I became a Wobbly. He’s also a big part of the reason that I got as interested as I got in the anarchists and the labor radicals of the early 20th century. It’s a much poorer world now that we no longer have his voice among us; the only consolation, if there is any, is how much richer it is from having had it all these years.
The old songs, these old stories… why tell them? What do they
mean?
When I went to high school—that’s about as far as I got—reading
my U.S. history textbook, well I got the history of the ruling
class; I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and
the Presidents who didn’t get caught. How about you?
I got the history of the people who owned the wealth of the
country, but none of the history of the people who created it…
you know? So when I went out to get my first job, I went out armed
with someone else’s class background. They never gave me any tools
to understand, or to begin to control the condition of my labor.
And that was deliberate, wasn’t it? Huh? They didn’t want me to
know this. That’s why this stuff isn’t taught in the history books.
We’re not supposed to know it, to understand that. No. If I wanted
the true history of where I came from, as a member of the working
class, I had to go to my elders. Many of them, their best working
years before pensions or Social Security, gave their whole lives to
the mines, to the wheat harvests, to the logging camps, to the
railroad. Got nothing for it—just fetched up on the skids, living
on short money, mostly drunk all the time. But they lived those
extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the
living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more
beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more
useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most
radical idea in America….
— Utah Phillips, The Long Memory, on Fellow Workers (recorded with Ani DiFranco)
Mark Twain said, Those of you who are inclined to worry have the
widest selection in history. Why complain? Try to do something about
it…. You know, it’s going on nine months now since I decided that I was
going to declare that I am a candidate for the presidency of the United
States. Oh yes: I’m going to run. … So I created my own party. It’s
called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I am running as an anarchist
candidate, in the best sense of that word. I have studied the presidency
carefully; I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing
presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding…. When you have a
president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does
anything at all—if he gets up at night to go to the bathroom—somehow,
mystically, trouble will ensue. I guarantee that if I am elected, I will
take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not
do a damn thing. Which is to say, if you want something done, don’t come
to do it for you; you’ve got to get together and figure out how to do it
yourselves. Is that a deal?
I spend a lot of time these days going to demonstrations and vigils, talking to people who support the war. They can be pretty threatening. But I always find there are people there–and I don’t mean policemen, but there are people there who will protect you. I don’t go there to shout or to lecture, but to ask questions. Real questions. Questions I really need answers to.
When I joined the Army, it was kind of like somebody that I had been brought up to respect, wearing a suit and a tie, and maybe a little older, in my neighborhood. Think about yourself in your neighborhood, and this happened to you. He walked up to me, put his arm around my shoulder, and said, See that fellow on the corner there? He’s really evil, and has got to be killed. Now, you trust me; you’ll go do it for me, won’t you? Now, the reasons are a little complicated; I won’t bother to explain, but you go and do it for me, will you?
Well, if somebody did that to you in your neighborhood, you’d think it was foolish. You wouldn’t do it. Well, what makes it more reasonable to do it on the other side of the world? That’s one question.
Well, now hook it into this. If I was to go down into the middle of your town, and bomb a house, and then shoot the people coming out in flames, the newspapers would say, Homicidal Maniac! The cops would come and they’d drag me away; they’d say You’re responsible for that! The judge’d say, You’re responsible for that; the jury’d say You’re responsible for that! and they would give me the hot squat or put me away for years and years and years, you see? But now exactly the same behavior, sanctioned by the State, could get me a medal and elected to Congress. Exactly the same behavior. I want the people I’m talking to to reconcile that contradiction for themselves, and for me.
The third question–well I take that one a lot to peace people. There’s a lot of moral ambiguity going on around here, with the peace people who say, Well, we’ve got to support the troops, and then wear the yellow ribbon, and wrap themselves in the flag. They say, Well, we don’t want what happened to the Vietnam vets to happen to these vets when they come home–people getting spit on. Well, I think it’s terrible to spit on anybody. I think that’s a consummate act of violence. And it’s a terrible mistake, and I’m really sorry that happened. But what did happen? Song My happened; My Lai happened; the defoliation of a country happened; tons of pesticides happened; 30,000 MIAs in Vietnam happened. And it unhinged some people–made them real mad. And what really, really made them mad, was the denial of personal responsibility–saying, I was made to do it; I was told to do it; I was doing my duty; I was serving my country. Well, we’ve already talked about that.
Now, it is morally ambiguous to wrap yourself in the flag and to wear those ribbons. And it borders on moral cowardice. I don’t mean to sound stern; well, yes I do, but what does the Nuremberg declaration say? There’s no superior order that can cancel your conscience. Nations will be judged by the standard of the individual. Look, the President makes choices. The Congress makes choices. The Chief of Staff makes choices. The officers make choices. All those choices percolate down to the individual trooper with his finger on the trigger. The individual private with his thumb on the button that drops the bomb. If that trigger doesn’t get pulled, if that button doesn’t get pushed, all those other choices vanish as if they never were. They’re meaningless. So what is the critical choice? What is the one we’ve got to think about and get to? And, friends, if that trigger gets pulled–if that button gets pushed, and that dropped bomb falls–and you say I support the troops, you’re an accomplice. I don’t want to be an accomplice; do you?
And I don’t want to dehumanize anyone. I don’t want to take away anybody’s humanity. Humans are able to make moral decisions–moral, ethical decisions. What do we tell the trooper who pulls the trigger, or the soldier who turns the wheel that releases oil into the Persian Gulf, that they’re not responsible–just following orders, just doing their duty, have no choice–bypassing them, making them a part of the machine, we deny them their humanity, their responsibility for their actions and the consequences of those actions. Look, I’ve been a soldier. I don’t want any moral loophole. I need to take personal responsibility for my actions. And if we don’t learn how to do this, we’re going to keep on going to war again, and again, and again.
There I am in Spookaloo, city of magic, city of light, ensconced upon
my front porch in broad daylight — long about noon, my rising time —
drinking something of a potable beverage, playing my guitar, long after
everybody else in the neighborhood has packed up their lunchbox and gone
off down to Kaiser Aluminum to put in their shift. This enrages my
neighbors. One in particular across the road, little retired banker
fella, has been known to cannonball his rotundity across the road, and
stand there and publicly berate me for my sloth and indolence.
Why don’t you get a job? he says. Lot of you heard that, I’ll bet.
Now, me being hip to the Socratic method, fires back a question. Why?
Why? he says, taken aback. If you had a job you could make three,
four, five dollars an hour.
I said Why? I asked, pursuing the same tack.
He said, Hell, you make three, four, five dollars an hour, you could
open a savings account, save up some of that money. I said, Why?
He said, Well, you save up enough of that money, young fella, pretty
soon you’ll never have to work another day in your life.
I was out of town visiting relatives all last weekend and didn’t even see the news that Phillips died until Tuesday afternoon.
I was just listening to “We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years” last night, Charles. Have also listened to “Fellow Workers” and “The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere.” I definitely appreciate what was the man’s world view and his wonderfully stubborn, smart-ass, no-bullshit-allowed, individualistic spirit.
It sucks that he died. On the other hand, it looks like there’s a whole wealth of art left by this man that I have yet to explore, and that’s a beautiful thing.
Coalitions of the Willing
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Ex-Chicago Bear Sam Hurd Allegedly Tried To Buy Drugs Again
A federal judge ordered former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd to be jailed indefinitely Tuesday for failing two drug tests and allegedly buying drugs while already facing charges he tried to distribute marijuana and cocaine.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeff Kaplan indicated that he was less troubled by the drug tests than the allegations that Hurd had tried to buy drugs while he was out on bond. He revoked Hurd’s $100,000 bond.
After the hearing, Hurd turned toward his family and supporters in the courtroom and said: “Lies.” He spoke briefly to a few people watching before he was led out of the courtroom.
The 27-year-old Hurd, who played for the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys, was arrested again earlier this month. Prosecutors say he tested positive for marijuana at least twice this year. His cousin also allegedly told authorities he tried to buy five kilograms of cocaine (about 11 pounds) and 200 pounds of marijuana on Hurd’s behalf.
The cousin, Jesse Tyrone Chavful, also told prosecutors he sold Hurd 30 pounds of marijuana for $10,500 in May.
Hurd was arrested in December after allegedly accepting cocaine from an undercover agent at a suburban Chicago steakhouse. According to court documents, Hurd took 1 kilogram (about 2 pounds) of cocaine and told the officer he wanted to eventually buy five to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week to distribute in the Chicago area.
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BLM Seeks Public Comments on Oil Shale Research
Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the release of the Oil Shale Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Environmental Assessment (EA) for a 30-day public comment period, which closes on October 18, 2006.
This preliminary EA analyzes Oil Shale Exploration Company's (OSEC) proposed project to conduct RD&D operations at the site of the former White River Shale Oil Company's mine site. The 160-acre project area is approximately four miles south of Bonanza, within Uintah County on public lands administered by BLM's Vernal Field Office.
This RD&D project is part of the federal government's efforts to initiate a phased approach to oil shale development. This effort would increase the knowledge regarding the viability of innovative technologies for oil shale development on a commercial scale on federal lands. The phased approach would also allow environmental affects to be carefully tested and assessed in a controlled setting, prior to determining if commercial operations should be authorized.
The proposal would have three phases of demonstration and development. Phase I would involve the off location testing of surface stockpiles of oil shale from the site. Phase II would involve the on-site small scale processing of oil shale stockpiles and testing the former White River Mine for potential reentry. Phase III would involve larger scale oil shale process mining and on location disposal of spent shale.
The processing of the oil shale involves it being heated to be converted into a petroleum product. This is also known as "retort" technology that involves mining rock and heating it above ground as the former White River Oil Shale Company proposed when they had oil shale leases in the same location in the 1970s and 80s.
The EA may be reviewed online at: http://www.blm.gov/utah/vernal.nepa.html. Hardcopy and CD versions are available at the BLM Vernal Field Office. The BLM recommends submitting comments by mail to ensure your suggestions are received. Only comments that are postmarked or otherwise received on or before October 18, 2006, will be considered. Comments may be submitted in writing to: Attn: Stephanie Howard, Bureau of Land Management, Vernal Field Office, 170 South 500 East, Vernal, UT 84078. Comments may also be faxed to (435) 781-4410 or emailed to [email protected].
To maximize the value of your comments, the BLM suggests they be as specific as possible and cite suggested changes, sources, or methodologies used in the EA. The BLM will compile and incorporate public comments into the final EA.
Comments, including names and street addresses of respondents will be available for public review at the BLM Vernal Field Office and will be subject to disclosures under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). They may be published as part of the NEPA document and other related documents. Individual respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your name or street address from public review and disclosure under FOIA, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your written comment. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by law. All submissions from organizations or businesses will be made available for public inspection in their entirety.
The RD&D leasing program is a separate initiative from the commercial oil shale leasing program that is being examined through a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). To the extent possible, information available from the RD&D leasing program will be incorporated into the PEIS. The BLM's RD&D leasing program and the PEIS are being developed as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
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Magic Run Ends for Berlin All Stars
BERLIN- After four tough games in as many days, the Berlin Little League 9-10 All-Stars finally ran out of gas, and pitching, last Friday, falling to Massapequa of New York, 22-0, in the Mid-Atlantic championship in Rhode Island.
Berlin’s magical run started with a District 8 championship back on July 13 and continued a week later with a first-ever state championship. The victory in the state championship game propelled Berlin to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament in Cranston, R.I., where the competition and the stakes were ratcheted up.
The Berlin All-Stars got off to a shaky start in pool play, falling to Delaware, 12-3, in the opening round. Two days later, Berlin responded with a resounding 12-2 win over New Jersey to pull even at 1-1. The very next day, Berlin lost to New York, 8-7, in dramatic fashion as the Massapequa team scored in its final at bat to secure the win.
Against New York, Berlin led 3-0 early and 7-5 going into the final inning before New York snatched the win in its last at bat with a two-out base hit to score the winning run. With the loss, Berlin fell to 1-2 in pool play and needed a win over Pennsylvania some help to advance to the championship game.
Berlin got what it needed last Thursday morning when New Jersey edged Delaware, 11-10. The loss dropped Delaware to 1-3 in pool play while New Jersey was 2-2. The final game in pool play placed Berlin against Pennsylvania with a trip to the championship game on the line. If Berlin beat Pennsylvania, the two teams plus New Jersey would all be tied at 2-2 and Berlin held the tiebreakers over both teams by virtue of beating both of them head to head.
Against Pennsylvania last Thursday, Berlin fell behind 2-0 early as Pennsylvania scored one run in each of the first two innings. Berlin got the bats going in the third, however, and kept them going through the middle innings. Berlin scored three runs in the third, one in the fourth, two in the fifth and three more in the sixth to start to pull away. Pennsylvania scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth to cut the Berlin lead to 9-6 and had two runners on with one out before Nicholas Pletcher got two big outs to close out the win.
The victory propelled Berlin into the championship game and a rematch with New York, but the three big games in three days had exhausted Berlin’s pitching staff. The primary Berlin pitchers had all used up their allocated number of innings going into the championship game against New York.
Facing a Berlin team that had burned through its pitching staff just to reach the Mid-Atlantic final after three games in three days, New York scored early and often on the way to a 22-0 win in the title game. Just two days earlier, Berlin had taken New York to the limit before falling in dramatic fashion in the last inning, but New York left nothing to chance in the title game.
“We played our guts out over the last three days and this was our fourth day in row,” said McDonough following the loss. “It kind of tore our pitching up and I think the boys came out a little flat today. They were tired. They’ve had a big week.”
The loss did little to tarnish a remarkable run by the Berlin team through the District 8 championship, a first-ever state championship for the program and a deep run to the Mid-Atlantic championship.
“Just unbelievable,” said McDonough. “We knew we had a good group when we started. I don’t think any of us realized quite how good they were.”
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Letter: A plea for modesty in dress
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PrattTribune - Pratt, KS
Writer
Posted Oct. 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Posted Oct. 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Pratt, Kan.
Dear Editor of Pratt Newspaper,
I have been noticing for a long time now how girls dress and the effects it has on boys/men. So here is what I would like to say to all the girls and women out there...GIRLS/WOMEN: PLEASE dress modestly. I am a mother of 3 boys (and 1 girl) and I have taught them to respect girls but I ask you, how are they suppose to treat you with respect when you dress with low cut tops that shows your cleavage and other parts of your upper chest area, your belly showing, tight fitting shirts that show every bit of
curves you may or may not have or short skirts? Just FYI: it is NOT attractive AT ALL like you may think. The only thing that it attracts by dressing this way are guys who only want ONE thing and THAT is the kind of guy you DO NOT want. And the guys who are trying to be respectful and godly, it makes it very awkward for them. So please, for your sake and the sake of your fellow brothers in Christ and male gender, please dress modestly.
You may say that I sound judgmental, but I am just making an observation. Yes, guys should also show respect to girls/women by keeping their eyes on her eyes and not "gazing" upon the rest of her body. It can be frustrating to teach our kids purity and have to watch them be tempted in this world. I will also agree it is a "heart issue" and "decency issue" with both girls and guys to respect themselves enough to not dress in an inappropriate manner or look at the opposite sex with lust.
One of the things that girls may not realize by dressing this way is that it tells the opposite sex that you are "selling yourself" and that you are "defrauding" who you are. I believe that most girls REALLY don't want to "sell" anything they have; unfortunately, the world tells them this is the way to dress. If we can teach our children the value of Self Respect and keeping private that which should be private, then maybe the temptation wouldn't be so great.
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Minecraft Plane
Introduction: Minecraft Plane
This is an original design by me ogaitan ( orlando gaitan) I really like this plane it's simple but looks awesome it's more like an old school plane I use it in my world war 2 map!(haven't put it to download) so let's begin!!
Step 1: Meterials
Ok so first the materials you'll need
Stone
Stone brick stairs
Stone slabs
Half walls(not mossy)
Glass
And light grey carpet
Step 2: To the SKY!!!
Make a tower as much as you want(to make your plane in the air) I making mine right beside my 1st one so that it looks as if their friends!
Step 3: Replace
Replace the topper block on the tower with a double stone slab
Step 4: Body
Place 2 upside down stone brick stairs in front and back of the double stone slab and 1 stone slabs after that on both sides
Step 5: Tail
Make a 5 block long tail using stone(starting on the double slab) you should have 2 stone hanging on the back.
Step 6: Place
On the last block of the tail place a stone block on top and a stone slab beside it
Step 7: Back Wings
On the last black place 2 stone slabs on both sides
Step 8: Make Seating Area
Ok using stone make this shape (place a stone on top of the stair an place the 2 blocks on the sides then remove the 1st block on this step).
Step 9: Front
Next make a 3 block long front using stone starting on the slab(it should nave 2 block hanging over
Step 10: Add Glass
Add 2 glass block on the front(as showed) and light grey carpets on top of the glass
Step 11: WINGS
Make wings starting on the seating area make them 4 slabs long :)
Step 12: Missile Holder
Ok now you can skip this step if your planing on a friendly plane but if you don't then place a slab under the second slab of the wings
Step 13: Propeller
This is what makes it look old school add the propeller on the front place a half wall then extend it by one half wall on the top and bottom of the first half wall
Step 14: MOAR Materials
Equip the following
Cobweb
Nether brick
TNT
Rail
Cart
Step 15: SEAT
Make a seat on the middle of the seating area with a rail and a cart on top
Step 16: Missiles
Under the missile holder make place a nether brick and two beside it then a TNT on the front on both sides (optional)
Step 17: Option
If you want you can make the missile fire use the cobwebs as effect but remember that the missile takes the holder with it it does not stay on the plane
Step 18: Make More
More=more awesomeness, I made 3
Step 19: Done and Thanks
That's it how to make a plane hope you liked it I mean look you can even ride it please follow me for more cool stuff and THANKS!!!!
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Inspiration from Monticello
Last week I was in Charlottesville, Virginia with my daughter. We took some time to tour Monticello. I don’t know what Charlottesville looks like the rest of the year, but last week was absolutely beautiful. The weather was perfect. Trees were budding. The tulips were overflowing, and the views from Monticello were breath taking.
Even when I’m not in my studio thoughts of glass and designs are always close by. As we toured Thomas Jefferson’s home I stopped to take pictures of a bench and some railings. I’m sure the people around me wondered what the heck was so interesting about the bench. I saw design inspiration and possibilities in them.
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Simone Biles just put body-shamers in their place!
Attention body-shamers, haters and Twitter trolls: If you want to make Simone Biles feel bad about her body, you might as well give up now.
The Team USA gymnast is proud of the shape she's worked so hard to achieve.
While it's difficult to look at Biles and imagine someone offering up anything other than admiration for the athletic physique that helped her win four gold medals in Rio over the summer, some on social media inexplicably responded to recent pics she shared with words like "fat" and "ugly."
Well, she has some words for them, too.
"You all can judge my body all you want, but at the end of the day it's MY body," she wrote in response to the insults. "I love it & I'm comfortable in my skin."
As for why anyone would write those unkind comments at all, many of Biles' followers on Twitter and Instagram came to the same conclusion.
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Working With the Public
MM Events Group aims to provide the shopping public with options to choose from a range of quality foods, crafts and unique and hard-to-come-by goods which are rarely found in High Street shops.
Each week from March to Christmas our touring market of top class traders visits a different town or city in the UK to set up in a pedestrian precinct or market square.
Foods, crafts and unusual goods to delight in – from around the world
Typical stalls sell products including fresh foods and produce from across the UK, Europe and the world, fine crafts from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America and an ever-changing unusual and interesting gifts from across the globe. We select from 200 stalls each week to create a market which typically contains only 20 stalls, each selling different products so you are always assured of the highest quality and the widest possible choice.
Our hot food and street-food traders use the finest ingredients to prepare authentic dishes genuine to their origins: spicy curries from the Subcontinent and South East Asia are almost always on the menu whilst Europe is always generously represented with paella from Spain, Wurst (sausages) and other cured meats on the swing grill from Germany. For those with a sweeter tooth we bring delicious patisserie from France and biscuits and nougat from Italy along with a number of other delicatessen foods. Our market was described by one commentator as “a glorious epicurean delight – a genuine movable feast”.
We maintain the highest standards on all our markets so food traders comply with all UK food hygiene requirements and their ratings – the so-called “scores on the doors” are prominently displayed. Our non-food traders sell goods which delight, but also which comply with all UK safety standards.
Invite our market to your town!
If you have visited one of our markets on holiday or a day out and would like us to consider visiting your town—or you want to recommend a suitable location or event to host our market—please supply details on the recommended site form provided. We will check out any suitable sites and keep you posted as to how we get on.
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building social media comunity
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and MySpace are some very fantastic social media platforms that many people, especially marketers, employ to create awareness of their purposes and a community that allow them to stay connected with their followers, target market or general public. It is certainly true that as social media are gaining popularity and attracting […]
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common type of autoimmune arthritis. It is caused when the immune system (the body’s defense system) is not working properly. RA causes pain and swelling in the wrist and small joints of the hand and feet. Treatments for RA can stop joint pain and swelling. Treatment also prevents joint damage. Early treatment will give better long term results.
Regular low-impact exercises, such as walking, and exercises can increase muscle strength. This will improve your overall health and lower pressure on your joints. Studies show that people who receive early treatment for RA feel better sooner and more often, and are more likely to lead an active life. They also are less likely to have the type of joint damage that leads to joint replacement. It is important to get the help of a rheumatologist. A rheumatologist is a doctor who treats arthritis and autoimmune disease. There are diseases that can be mistaken for RA. It is important to get the correct diagnosis without unnecessary testing. A rheumatologist will help find a treatment plan that is best for your disease.
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in time (and space :-): this was by no means disparaging to the amazing feat by Dr Katie Bouman et al, just to some of the clueless reporting around it. kudos to those who've turned another page of science fiction into science
Fedorov, A. (2019). Cinema in the Mirror of the Soviet and Russian Film Criticism (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 3340958). Retrieved from Social Science Research Network website: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3340958
Moving away from Facebook - ProcessOne
ProcessOne is a company deeply invested in building the Open Internet. We build ejabberd, a leading Open Source product, implementing the XMPP protocol, an IETF standard. It is used around the world to power tens of thousands of instances, used for community servers, small companies or huge internet services. We also support MQTT and SIP standards, all of which are used to power interoperable services.
If you read “Become A Facebook-Free Business“, by DHH from Signal v. Noise, it becomes painfully apparent that even having a minimal presence on Facebook is not helping the Open Internet.
That’s why we decided to join this Basecamp’s initiative and remove our fanpages from Facebook, as well as the Facebook links we had on our websites. We hope this statement will help promote a more open and decentralized web. We invite you to join us in having a Facebook-free online presence. If you used to follow us through Facebook, I now suggest you subscribe to our RSS feed on our blog.
Everyone is panicking over that China has backdoored the BMC ... but hey, we can accept Intel AMT backdoor because it is made-in-USA? Don't you dare forget the superpowers are all equally guilty of supply chain hacks. NSA invented it first. https://blog.f-secure.com/intel-amt-security-issue/
Did you phrase that sarcastically, or are you just not aware of what https://ipfs.io/ is?
There is a https://gateway.ipfs.io/ already, but it's a bit underpowered. The real solution around that is to access IPFS natively, using your own peer. Cloudflare would prefer that you send all your supposedly decentralized data straight through their datacenter instead, where they can report your activities to their overlords.
Cloudflare: Recentralizing the redecentralized web, one service at a time.
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FieldSaver Weighted Track Protector 15' x 50' (ArmorMesh)
Let CoverSports Track Protectors take the beating in high-traffic areas so your track can stay smooth. Great for areas where visitors frequently walk. Top surface retains its tough durability, even when walked or run on by cleats!
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Track covers take the beating in high-traffic areas!Let CoverSports Track Protectors take the beating in high-traffic areas so your track can stay smooth. Great for areas where visitors frequently walk. Top surface retains its tough durability, even when walked or run on by cleats!
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Testofen - Reviving Power
An herb was found that is raising high hopes for improving libido and sexual function and enriching the sex lives of both men and women. That herb is fenugreek. Contains 600 mg of Testofen, a highly-concentrated fenugreek seed extract, per 3 tablets (about one day’s worth), you can take the same amount as in the clinical trials. An herb produced in India that is from the family Fabaceae, in clinical trials conducted in Australia they observed benefits more than twice as large with no side-effects. It was also found to be effective for increasing the hormone testosterone, lack of which is believed to be the cause of male menopause.
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PATRIZIA raises forecast for 2010
In the third quarter of 2010, PATRIZIA Immobilien AG (ISIN DE000PAT1AG3) continued the strong development it enjoyed in the first half of the year: Cumulative revenues for 2010 to date increased by 43.0 % year-on-year to EUR 221.2 million (previous year: EUR 154.7 million).
EBIT for the first nine months of 2010 amounted to EUR 44.7 million, up 19.4 % year-on-year (previous year: EUR 38.1 million). Operating earnings (EBT adjusted) improved by EUR 11 million up to EUR 8.2 million (previous year: EUR -2.8 million). This was primarily attributable to the positive business performance in the Residential Property Resale segment: sales figures increased to 245 units in the third quarter of 2010 (+13.4 %; third quarter of 2009: 216 units). With 605 units sold in the first three quarters, the segment has already achieved 92 % of the sales recorded in 2009 as a whole (657 units). Block sales exceeded the prior-year figure by 31 %, with a total of 380 units sold in the first nine months (2009: 289 units). All in all, 985 units were sold by way of residential property resale and block sale in the first three quarters of 2010, 4 % more than in the whole of 2009 (946 units).
The Management Board is taking this positive development as an opportunity to raise its forecast for 2010. It is now forecasting operating earnings (EBT adjusted) for fiscal 2010 of between EUR 12 million and EUR 13 million (previously EUR 10 million).
This increase is due to the notarized transactions that will be recognized in income in the fourth quarter. Three development projects will be handed over to their new owners by the end of the year. In addition, a further 281 units have been notarized as part of block sales, the sales proceeds from which will also be recognized in the fourth quarter. In the Residential Property Resale segment, sales figures in the region of those generated in both the first and second quarters of 2010 – i.e. around 180 units – should be achievable.
The complete interim report for the third quarter of 2010 can be found here.
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Operation Overlord, the seaborne and airborne invasion of the German-occupied coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, proved to be the largest amphibious operation in history. Once ashore on the continent of Europe, the Allied armies were to drive across northwestern Europe and strike at the heart of Hitler's Third Reich. This gripping history features remarkable first-person stories of some who took part in the operation, including those paratroopers who dropped out of the sky through heavy fire, those who survived the mined waters to wade onto heavily fortified beaches, and members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, and Air Force who provided crucial support.
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Category: Analog Photography
I have no style and never had, maybe never will. More than through a few series of shots when I feel for a more wrapped feeling. It have nothing to do with that I don’t want to add a more personal identity to my photos in general.
This is, as usually, yet another confused post of my thoughts. This time about my search for identity in my photography. But also some words about digital vs analog, and what is freedom of choice. All photos in this post are old analog photography, shot with my iPhone, made with as little touch up as possible to look just as they do physical. Some photos, of me, like the cover photo and me lightning a cigarette, is not my shots. They are made by friends that borrowed my camera. I often used to let others make photos with my camera back in this time.
It would actually be a big relief if I could find my own style and stick to it because it would simplify my life as a photographer a lot.
The problem is that I change my mind too easily of how I want things and quickly get bored when I repeat myself in same patterns. I wish it wasn’t so. But that’s how I am.
And that’s the huge drawback of digitalism that gives you almost endless freedom of choice. Not bad as in bad, but bad as in freedom of confusion.
The possibilities with the digital format is almost endless. How do you find the perfect choice out of billions of ways how to treat your photography? Especially when you know that in the same moment you find that perfect it’s no longer perfect anymore – it can always be better. Or better in a different way – in eternity.
For a person like me these possibilities are not of any help but Help!
In this case, the time of analog photography was far more easy to deal with. You had to work hard to tame the circumstances and create possibilities instead of be given them. Same, same but different you may think. But think again – it’s a big difference between be given and creating possibilities.
And I think that creating possibilities is far more creative and satisfying than be given possibilities. Somehow I think we actually get less creative and simple minded when we are given to much freedom. Making us spoiled and craving or confused.
A false conception of freedom that kidnap and capture our mind in a readymade jail of identities.
But no hard feelings, after all. I’m not an reactionist, definitely not. This is just a personal issue of myself and my own problems with myself in conjunction with my relationship with the digital photographic format.
But I can’t help it. I still love the heart and soul of analog film and workflow more. So why don’t I just shut the fuck up and go shooting analog film? I’m actually thinking about it, a lot. Going back doing it. But not completely retro – doing both.
Cause, after all. I actually really like the possibilities with digital photography. Not at least the simplicity – just shoot, shoot and shoot, being childish creative, experiment, just do it and the instant fail safe process in the making of the final photography.
No waste of money on failure and no time consuming struggle with chemicals and dark places to hide and wait and see the result. That’s worth al lot in comparison to think about. Just focus on the making of photography here and now.
At the same time. You lose the art of of slowing down when everything is about instant pleasure. The waiting involved with the analog workflow has its own values.
My biggest problem is – finding my analog soul in the digital format. My heart is there, but I haven’t found my soul in the creation of my identity. How I want it to look like.
Another problem with digital photography. The quality is often too good, to close to almost perfect that it almost feels sterile. Like you have deleted the filter of emotions between the camera and life and get a technical anatomy of reality without flaws.
I still hold on too tight to the amazing quality that my camera is capable of. Feeling guilty if I scramble my photos too rough and degrading the quality at free will. This is my number one mission to deal with – how to kill the presence of too much technical quality aspects.
But I don’t think I will find the origin of myself in my photography through this expedition either but more versions of my many myself.
Maybe I just should keep on experimenting and vary my photography as I do. What if that’s my style and identity. After all, my personality is of a restless changeable nature. So maybe that’s my way.
The future is unknown, so meanwhile I just do as I do. Why try to be and do something I don’t know is what I want.
I think I will know the day it happens. But probably just another for the moment.
Some One Some Where
Amateur photographer living on the the north side of the globe in a town called Mölndal in the land of Sweden
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Police: YouTube shooter was calm in interview before attack
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and SUDHIN THANAWALAApril 5, 2018
This Aug. 12, 2009, photo shows Nasim Aghdam, right, as she joins members of People for the Ethical for Animals, PETA, protesting at the main gate of Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif., against the Marine's killings of pigs in a military exercise. Law enforcement officials have identified Nasim Aghdam as the person who opened fire with a handgun Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., wounding several people before fatally shooting herself. (Charlie Neuman/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
This Aug. 12, 2009, photo shows Nasim Aghdam, right, as she joins members of People for the Ethical for Animals, PETA, protesting at the main gate of Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif., against the Marine's killings of pigs in a military exercise. Law enforcement officials have identified Nasim Aghdam as the person who opened fire with a handgun Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., wounding several people before fatally shooting herself. (Charlie Neuman/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)
MENIFEE, Calif. (AP) — Just hours before she shot and wounded three people at YouTube headquarters, Nasim Aghdam calmly told police who found her sleeping in her car that she was having family problems and had left her home.
During the 20-minute interview with officers early Tuesday, she did not mention being angry with YouTube or having accused the company of suppressing her video posts. She gave no indication she was a threat to herself or others.
“It was a very normal conversation. There was nothing in her behavior that suggested anything unusual,” said Mountain View Police Chief Max Bosel.
Later that day, she went to a gun range before walking through a parking garage into a courtyard at YouTube’s campus south of San Francisco, where she opened fire with a handgun and wounded three people. She then killed herself.
The sequence of Aghdam’s activities emerged Wednesday as police continued gathering information about the attacker and her motives.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched two Southern California homes where Aghdam had lived. Spokeswoman Ginger Colbrun would not confirm the locations but reporters saw agents entering homes in the communities of Menifee, southeast of Los Angeles, and 4S Ranch, north of San Diego.
Aghdam was a “really good person” and had no history of mental illness, said a woman named Leila who identified herself as an aunt as she entered the family home in Menifee. She did not give her last name.
The shooter’s family later distributed a statement outside the home saying it was “in absolute shock and can’t make sense of what has happened.”
“Although no words can describe our deep pain for this tragedy, our family would like to express their utmost regret, sorrow for what has happened to innocent victims,” the statement said.
Investigators do not believe Aghdam, who was in her late 30s, targeted anyone in particular, and there is no reason to believe she illegally obtained the semi-automatic 9mm pistol used in the shooting, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said.
Aghdam walked onto the YouTube property through a parking garage and it’s not clear whether she encountered any security.
Two women wounded in the shooting were released Wednesday from a San Francisco hospital. The third victim, a 36-year-old man, was upgraded from critical to serious condition.
The day before the attack, the shooter’s father, Ismail Aghdam, said he warned police that his daughter was upset with how YouTube handled her videos and might be planning to go to its offices.
Nasim Aghdam “hated” YouTube and was angry that the company stopped paying her for videos she posted, Ismail Aghdam told the Bay Area News Group. Her video posts included segments about veganism, animal cruelty and exercise, along with glamor shots of herself.
Police in Mountain View said they spoke to Ismail Aghdam twice after contacting the family to report finding his daughter and that he never told them she could become violent or pose a threat to YouTube employees.
When officers found Nasim Aghdam, she was in her car near a strip mall in Mountain View, about 25 miles from YouTube and home to the company’s owner, Silicon Valley giant Google. She told Mountain View police who spoke to her around 2 a.m. Tuesday that she had come to the area to stay with relatives and was looking for a job, police said.
They let her go, saying there was no indication she needed to be detained.
Later in the day, she went to a gun range not far from the YouTube headquarters. Police visited the range Wednesday.
Nasim Aghdam used the name “Nasime Sabz” online, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the case.
A website in that name decried YouTube’s policies and said the company was trying to “suppress” content creators.
“Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!” one of the messages on the site said. “There is no equal growth opportunity on YOUTUBE or any other video sharing site, your channel will grow if they want to!!!!!”
People who post on YouTube can receive money from advertisements that accompany their videos, but the company “de-monetizes” some channels for reasons including inappropriate material or having fewer than 1,000 subscribers.
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The GeForce 8M Series more or less follows in the footsteps of the desktop G84/G86 products. Here's a quick look at the specifications of the latest mobile NVIDIA hardware.
GeForce 8M Series Specifications
8400M G
8400M GS
8400M GT
8600M GS
8600M GT
Segment
Mainstream
Mainstream
Mainstream
Performance
Performance
Stream Processors
8
16
16
16
32
Core Clock
400 MHz
400 MHz
450 MHz
600 MHz
475 MHz
Shader Clock
800 MHz
800 MHz
900 MHz
1200 MHz
950 MHz
DDR RAM Clock
1200 MHz
1200 MHz
1200 MHz
1400 MHz
1400 MHz
Maximum RAM
256MB
256MB
512MB
512MB
512MB
RAM Interface
64-bit
64-bit
128-bit
128-bit
128-bit
RAM Bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
19.2 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
22.4 GB/s
Texture Fill Rate
3.2 GT
3.2 GT
3.6 GT
4.8 GT
7.6 GT
Similar to previous mobile graphics solutions, the feature set is nearly identical to the desktop offerings but with slightly different clock speeds. Power requirements are a far larger consideration, so for now we don't have any equivalent of the desktop GeForce 8600 GTS, and the 8600M GT has a core clock speed that's quite a bit lower than the desktop 8600 GT. Still, the new chips should provide more performance than previous generation mobile hardware, and there are other benefits.
Besides the addition of DirectX 10 support, NVIDIA has overhauled their video processing engine. We discussed this in the desktop G84 article, but the short story is that H.264 decoding is now handled completely by the GeForce 8M processors. We actually think the feature is quite a bit more important in the notebook market, simply because we feel more people are likely to use portable computers to watch movies than regular desktop computers. Our reasoning is simple.
Most houses have a set-top DVD player that comes with a remote and probably costs less than $100, and adoption rates of Blu-ray and HD-DVD in the computer market have been relatively slow. The most likely owners of next-generation HD formats are the people that went out and bought PlayStation 3 consoles. On the other hand, anyone that owns a notebook computer and travels on a regular basis has probably watched a DVD at some point or another. Blu-ray and HD-DVD adoption is still in its infancy on laptops, but that will certainly change with time and the high system requirements for decoding such content can easily overload the processors on even the fastest notebooks. With NVIDIA's new VP2 hardware pretty much any new laptop will be able to handle playback of the latest high-definition H.264 video content.
The decoding of CABAC and CAVLC bitstreams (the two types of entropy encoding supported by H.264) greatly reduces the CPU requirements for decoding Blu-ray and HD-DVD content. Not all content uses H.264, however, and the CPU is still required for handling certain aspects of video playback like AACS decryption. Still, anyone that hopes to watch next-generation video content on a laptop will almost certainly need something like one of the new NVIDIA mobile GPUs for the time being.
NVIDIA provided the above information on expected CPU utilization during H.264 decoding. Their results are similar to what we measured, though a bit lower in CPU use. You can read more about the performance NVIDIA's VP2 offers in our latest PureVideo HD article.
While we are unable to present any concrete benchmarks at this time, NVIDIA is claiming up to a twofold increase in 3D performance within the same power profile relative to their last generation hardware. Twice as much performance would definitely be welcome, especially if the price doesn't change much, but the charts in NVIDIA's presentation show 3DMark05 and 06 as delivering the highest performance gains over GeForce Go 7400 and 7600 hardware. We're hopeful that we will see large gains in other games like Oblivion and some of the latest DirectX 9 titles, but until we can investigate the situation more we would take any claims of twofold performance gains with a grain of salt.
Noticeably absent in our discussion so far is any mention of a new high-end mobile graphics chip. It appears that for the time being NVIDIA's GeForce Go 7950 GTX will remain their fastest mobile GPU. (Or if you really want to go nuts, you can get a notebook with GeForce Go 7950 GTX SLI.) NVIDIA hasn't given us any official word, but they're certainly not standing still and we would expect to see some higher performance DirectX 10 mobile solution in the future. Whether that will be in a couple months or a half year or more from now is currently anyone's guess, but the GeForce Go 7950 GTX is more than six months old as is the 8800 GTS/GTX, so we're hopeful that a more powerful GeForce 8 series part will make its way into notebooks in the not-too-distant future. We also hope that NVIDIA will manage to incorporate the VP2 hardware into whatever enthusiast solutions they might launch in the future. As we just finished explaining, we feel such hardware makes a lot more sense on notebooks than on desktop computers (though ideally we would see it in both locations).
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Not to nitpick, but the introduction comment about nvidia dominating ati at the midlevel is not right. The 7600 and X1600 Mobility were competitive with each other. The mobile version of the 7600 had only 8 pipelines, instead of the desktop version's 12. Consequently, depending on the game, one was faster than the other or vice versa. This was extensively benchmarked on notebookreview forums. Reply
That makes the 1600M a replacement for the 1500m, based on 8600GS and midrange ('performance'). The 5700 should be under 'mainstream'. The enthusiast or perhaps 'heavy cad' cards - the replacements for the 2500M and 3500M - are, just like the enthusiast gaming cards, not released and likely waiting for a die shrink. Reply
I'm going by the classification NVIDIA gave the various cards on one of the slides. Note that existing products are not included in the tables, only the new stuff, so outside of the mGPU parts (business) all of the cards are presumably DX10 capable. I would expect that the "enthusiast" 1600M is no faster than the other 8M parts listed, but there were no details on clock speeds or features of the workstation chips. I'm not sure any of the workstation parts listed are even shipping yet; most likely they are only being announced right now pending actual use in notebooks. I can check with NVIDIA for more details on those parts, though.... Reply
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_42274.html">More details on mobile Quadro cards are available here. Basically, they are all DX10 parts, and the 1600M will probably be similar to the 8600M GT. Possibly it will be tuned such that the performance offered in workstation apps will be worthy of inclusion in the "enthusiast" range, although I'd say "workstation enthusiast" is a bit of an oxymoron. :) Reply
Thanks for the link. And yes, its the same for mobile workstation cards as for mobile gaming cards: the top performing ones ('enthusiast' or 'serious cad user' or just lets say 'expensive' :) ) have not been announced yet as the hole in the model numbers shows. They will likely need a die shrink to get the heat down for mobile use. So the 7xxx series still hold top place for mobile.
Plus of course the workstation models will be released a little after the gaming ones, due to the need for ISV certification. Reply
No idea, although since Mac doesn't use DirectX for graphics and may not really matter much. Those who want to use a MacBook Pro and run Boot Camp could potentially benefit if they run Windows Vista, but for now I wouldn't count on Apple using the new NVIDIA parts. I could of course be wrong, as I don't really stay up-to-date on Apple plans. Reply
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a recent listen left me cold to it as an album, if it was my first exposure to the band I'd have been "ah'm oot...!"
Further Listening is a great collection of their singles that's a great entry point and has the triple whammy of Valentine Card/Kantina/Where, Are and Was Or Is which is one of their finest moments, Nirvana level of greatness.
I started with Repetition and in retrospect that was a good move. What I do know however is, do NOT start with Leaves. If you do it won't blow your mind enough in the context of the rest of their back catalogue.
I own all the Unwound releases on vinyl in mint condition btw, a fact I'm very proud of. :)
got it shipped over, left it at work (in cardboard mailer) overnight and the cleaners threw it out, couldn't believe it, then i ordered it again and it got sent with a corpse pose 7" as a free extra
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Cloud company Salesforce.com has a new industry-specific strategy to help drive its own growth and popularity to the next level. With its new Industries Business Unit in place, Salesforce plans to target a number of vertical markets individually with optimized solutions for customer relationship management (CRM), sales automation, and social marketing, offering both and -connected services.
Why an Industries Business Unit -- and why now? Salesforce points out that with the Internet of Things (IoT), the world is becoming completely connected. Millions of new products, apps and devices from every industry are connecting to the Internet every day. That brings new opportunities as well as new challenges for customer service and sales organizations.
In fact, Salesforce projects there will be more than 50 billion connected things, from smartphones and wearable smart devices to jet engines and cars by 2020. Beyond every product, app and device, the company points out, there is a customer. As Salesforce sees it, the world is moving not just toward an Internet of Things, but even more so toward an Internet of Customers, an era where CRM and customer relationship management is more important than ever.
A Huge Opportunity
Salesforce president and vice chairman Keith Block says the company is looking to grow to $10 billion and beyond. He expects the new industry-specific strategy will help Salesforce.com achieve that goal by expanding its footprint with existing customers and also by helping reach new customers.
The company is leveraging its popular Salesforce1 customer platform to power the Industries Business Unit. Salesforce markets its platform as a way for companies to implement new solutions, and eliminate the costly operational expenses that many legacy, on-premise solutions demand.
The new vertical-market strategy also depends on a team of industry experts, developing a partner ecosystem, and creating solutions that tackle major challenges in each of the six sectors Salesforce has identified.
“Entire industries are seeing the power of social, mobile and connected cloud technologies up-end decades-long business models. This is no small disruption; it’s a complete re-imagination of industries,” explains Vivek Kundra, executive vice president of Industries at Salesforce.com. “We’ve only just begun to see the transformational power of the Salesforce1 Platform and the innovative, scalable industry solutions."
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We caught up with Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research, to get his take on the new Salesforce initiative. He agrees that the Internet of Things will be initially driven by a handful of verticals.
“Certainly, state and local government is a huge vertical for the Internet of Things. When you look at the other verticals Salesforce is focusing on, you’ll see the commonality is massive amounts of data,” Kerravala said “These are the verticals I would expect to see lead the IoT trend and it’s prudent for Salesforce to align itself with."
Kerravala points out that has also aligned its IoT initiatives to meet the needs of certain industries, and he expects other companies trying to capitalize on this IoT trend to follow suit.
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PINPOINT Conductivity Monitor™ is an instrument for the measurement of hardness in freshwater. The conversions are 33 µS=17.9 ppm=1dH. Good quality reverse osmosis water measures 5–15 µS, while de-ionized water typically measures 0–1 µS. The Conductivity Monitor is automatically temperature-compensated and has two ranges, making it useful several different applications. Both freshwater fish keepers and those who use deionized/reverse osmosis systems often rely heavily on this meter.
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Why send a thank you letter to follow up with an employer after a job interview? Jobing.com's Rosanna Indie covers the importance of sending thank you letters and emails to follow up after the interview.
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South Dakota Game Fish and Parks had received a call for help at 11:30 a.m. Three Nebraska Game and Parks officers, NSP Troop B officers in Norfolk, the Santee Police Department and Bloomfield Fire and Rescue responded.
The hunters said no ice was on the river when they put their boats in at 5:30 or 6 a.m. Thursday. The 18-foot flat-bottom boats were left in the river following the rescue.
Tom Zimmer, Game and Parks law enforcement supervisor for northeast Nebraska, said sportsmen must take precautions outdoors in changing conditions.
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Lakeshore eagle could provide punters with some value and it should be paying nice odds.
The So-trained runner is fresh up after winning and placing from three starts last season. That form should stack up nicely for this and although it has been five months off the track, it found form quickly last time in work.
The light weight of 52kg is only going to help its chances and we’re confident of a big run.
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Week 1 Weigh In (everyone welcome)
Please feel free to post your weigh in results from today, if you weigh in on a Monday, or any other day if you wish. Everyone is welcome!
So... today was my first weigh in and I lost 10lb I am very pleased with this result.
I have another 18lb to lose in the next 20 days, thats around 6lb a week! What a challenge, but I'm focused and determined.
Hey Vixie! Thank you and well done on your results so far!!! You have done amazingly well just sticking to SS and 2.5lb in your second week is good, a lot of people only lose a lb or nothing, due to losing so much in the first week, I would be happy if I lost that this week, but as I am on a tight deadline I am really trying my best to lose as much as possible.
Good luck for week 3!! x
Thank you Debs!!
Well done on your loss so far, 7lb in 6 days is amazing, thats almost a lb a day! I wish I could lose that all of the time haha
I feel hungry, all of the time, not sure Im in ketosis, my sticks arent pink, they dont change colour so thats a bit rubbish.
Im doing it until the 12th April at the moment, and then I have a holiday for 15 days, and I really REALLY want to lose 2 stone by that point, but Im not convinced its going to happen.. but we will wait and see.
Yes Im doing SS at the moment, with the odd day as SS+. Im actually thinking of getting some white fish tonight, and having that with spinach, as apparently that makes a biggish looking dinner and I really feel like I might need that soon as Im so hungry all of the time.
How are you finding it so far? And are you on SS also? How much would you ideally like to lose?
Ooooh Saturday will be fun...?! That will certainly test your determination, I find it harder when people are eating, especially foods that I love. The other day I made my son a chicken kiev, with skinny fries, baked beans and cheese... OMG I had to resist from rugby tackling him for it! - poor sod
so you don't have a lot to loose really do you hun.. I unfortunately have around 5 stones to loose ;o(, sheesamondo that sounds soo much.
I don't feel that hungry to be honest, although I do get a few rumbles in the tum tum, but I just keep drinking water. peeing all the time,so the exercise is good
15 days hols, you lucky woman, where are you going?? are you gonna do this while there, or enjoy and be as good as you can be??
me and hubster are going away in middle of May and I am already thinking of salads and protein and then get right back on this as soon as I am back.. I am hoping that I wouldn't put
any weight on doing that.. mad isn't how you think while on this .. Its a mental diet that's for sure..
You could loose 1stone easily hun, its cos your not that big that's why its slower.
Yep I weigh in on monday.. you fancy buddying up???
haha, your son's dinner does sound right up my street too, so look how determined you are to not lick the plate
I haven't done the ketosis Sticks. you must be in ketosis hun. If your hungry, are you drinking all your water? as that seems to save me sometimes. I am on SS and have 5 stone to loose ;o(, are you loosing still on the SS+? did you do that in your first week with your fab 10lb loss??
wow, 15 days holiday, you lucky woman, where are you going??
We are going on hols in middle of May and am hoping to stick with fish/chicken vege and salads, I am sure I can't put on weight doing that ??? this diet is such a mental diet isn't it.. I feel bit obsessive with it as I am thinking about it all the time.. Nice to chat with someone who is doing it too ;o)
your sons dinner sounds lush, right up my street too, but look how well you did by not licking the plate ;o). that's control hun.
Well I still havr around 50ish lb to lose (not sure what that is in stone, maybe 3.5?) Thats loads!! haha - Im only on a tight deadline now because of a holiday Im going on but then I will be straight back on it when Im back (no doubt to lose the weight I gain whilst im away..)
I think Im drinking enough, Im having between 4-5 litres a day, Im used to drinking lots of water anyway so that isnt really any different for me but I notice its a real challenge for some people!
Yep last week I done mixture or SS and SS+ (mainly because I was starving so badly that I was literally on the tip of cheating so my consultant told me to do that rather than risk falling off the wagon) so yes the 10lb loss was inc about 4 days on SS+
We are going to Mexico, and I really cant wait but hence the determination to lose as much as possible as I have size 12 bikinis to get into (which I am currently no where close to fitting into) challenge and a half!! This is definitely a mental thing like you say, Im literally telling myself every few mins to just stick with it and you can do this - which is why everyday drags for me now!!! :/
Yes when Im away Im going to be sticking to salads and meat and thats it, Im not carb binging as it will only make me ill and bloated and I really dont need that when Im wearing swimwear everyday!
Oooooh where are you going in May??? Is that your goal your aiming for? How much do you want to lose by then?
Monday is weigh in day for me, we should def buddy up! I tend to rant a lot of the time on here and thats mainly because I find it helps with the constant starvation torture Im going through! Haha
Also... did you measure yourself at the beginning??x
Morning,
Wow mexico, amazing, you will have a fab time, have you been before? I haven't but a friend of mine just got back and she said it was amazing ;o).
we are going to portugal 19th May - only for a week, but I would love to loose 2 more stone by then - but we are going to vegas in october for a friends 40th which we are sooooooooooo mega excited about, that I would
love to be slim by then, but really I want to be 11 stone by august if I can. I am worried about the steps, thinking I wouldn't loose on the next steps, which is mad, as everyone could loose on the 1000 cal couldn't they. My relationship with food is soooooooooo messed up through years of dieting and putting on blah blah blah.
so you doing the 810sometimes makes me feel better considering you lost 10lb.
have you weighed yourself ? how much do you wanna loose by Monday.. i really would love another 7lb but not sure I will..
defo up for buddying up. it does get you abit obsessed this diet eh.. shall we take it off here and email ? or keep on here? bit annoying on here as you never know if you have a reply.
Morning,
Wow mexico, amazing, you will have a fab time, have you been before? I haven't but a friend of mine just got back and she said it was amazing ;o).
we are going to portugal 19th May - only for a week, but I would love to loose 2 more stone by then - but we are going to vegas in october for a friends 40th which we are sooooooooooo mega excited about, that I would
love to be slim by then, but really I want to be 11 stone by august if I can. I am worried about the steps, thinking I wouldn't loose on the next steps, which is mad, as everyone could loose on the 1000 cal couldn't they. My relationship with food is soooooooooo messed up through years of dieting and putting on blah blah blah.
so you doing the 810sometimes makes me feel better considering you lost 10lb.
have you weighed yourself ? how much do you wanna loose by Monday.. i really would love another 7lb but not sure I will..
defo up for buddying up. it does get you abit obsessed this diet eh.. shall we take it off here and email ? or keep on here? bit annoying on here as you never know if you have a reply.
Hope you have a good day.
Debsx
Hey Debs, sorry for my delayed reply, its been a crazy few days at home (teenage son issues!!) if you go on subscribed threads it should let you know people who have replied to threads that you have, thats the only way I can keep track!
Im not sure it was the 810 Ive done, with the 200cal meal, its more like 650 for the day?
I havent been before no, but I just cant wait to be on a beach for 2 weeks and not doing anything haha - Ive heard great things so Im really excited!! Portugal will be lovely and warm, and May still gives you enough time to get lose the weight, I think you can lose the 2 stone by then, just need to be really good and Vegas too how amazing!! have you been before? I went 2 years ago and bloody loved it, it really is my kind of place, big, dramatic, over the top and plus casinos galore, where I got hooked to the slots haha - you will have an amazing time out there and what a great incentive to keep you on track!
I have been weighing myself yes and it seems Ive only lost 3lb this week (boooo, half of what I actually wanted!) and my weigh in has changed to tomorrow as I had a stupid meeting at work that i couldnt get out of which is when my weigh in time was meant to be. Have you been weighing yourself this week? What time if your weigh in today?
To be honest Im not that annoyed at the 3lb as I have had about 4 meals SS+ meals this week, so I guess that might have slowed things down a bit? Im going to try SS only for the next 7 days straight, really have to focus now with 13 days left!!
Nice to hear from you ;o), I have now subscribed, didn't realise I had to do that bit too.
Do you have a teenage son?? you not old enough woman..
3lb is amazing if you have had a little food too. and yep your right, you wouldn't be having 810 cals if its only a small meal.. and a week of SS should shift a nice amount for you. Just think of your lush holiday..
Not been to vegas before but am mega excited, I do love a bit of over the topness . Just been looking at the helicopter ride which we are gonna do and the Cirque de solei.. need to start saving some casharoony sharpish.
I get weighed at 7pm tonight and been weighing every day.. haha, shouldn't really do that, but I like to see what's happening..
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Carrying a cup of thick Simba, a talk about home, talk floor or other, feel the warmth of the festive atmosphere. December 23, 24 days two days, in Jinsheng International home Jiangdong stores, love Nova Sai floor, organized by the "Winter Sonata - South American style flooring sentiment shopping festival" for the guests to create a rich passion and romantic shopping environment.
The reporter was informed that in the shopping festival, the organizers not only large-scale promotional actions, but also ingenuity for each of the customers to provide free coffee. "We do not have home appliances donated, there is no precious gift, no cash feedback, there is only a thick cup of coffee." Nanjing headquarters said. It is understood that the floor and the global chain Starbucks coffee shop cooperation in the floor mood shopping festival day, every scene to purchase the floor of consumers can enjoy free Starbucks coffee, unlimited drinks. A special Christmas gift for those who wish to visit the shopping festivals is to be able to feel the love and warmth that come from the love of the floor during the special day of Christmas.
In this shopping festival, Ainuo France race flooring, Fulin floor, South American style flooring three series, will also participate in none other promotional activities. 5000 square meters, not limited to the color of the laminate flooring and imitation wood floor, with 18 yuan / ㎡ price, heavy volume Nanjing, throughout the city. Another, 2000 ㎡ ten best-selling solid wood flooring, 99 yuan per square meter price of limited sales. According to the person in charge of love Novartis, the customer must be a VIP exclusive VIP customers can enjoy these benefits before the start of the shopping festival, consumers can live, telephone, network, SMS, etc. to apply to become VIP exclusive customers.
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Risk assessment and risk management is inherently about the management of unplanned events. Unplanned events which occur on a mine site have the potential to impact on the viability of a mine. The process of assessing and managing these risks is aimed at reducing the likelihood that these negative events will occur and increasing the likelihood that positive outcomes will be realized. In the11th Safety Conference held on 4th & 5th July, 2013 at New Delhi, DGMS recommended that every mine should employ a sound risk analysis process, should conduct risk assessment, and should develop a safety management plan to address the significant hazards identified by the analysis/ assessment.
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Connect to 0.5mm, 1.0mm and even some 2.0mm pitch connectors that you may run across with an FPC stick. We designed this for use in house, to quickly connect to FPCs we need to test. But we also thought it might be useful for our customers. On either side is a 20 pin 0.5 or 1.0mm pitch connector with long pads and one very long 'mechanical' pad. Each pad is broken out to a 20-pin long 0.1" spaced header. It can accommodate most ZIF and snap connectors and will make prototyping much easier on you!
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New Zealand win 1st T20 against England
London: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum led from the front with a typically quickfire innings as the Black Caps beat England by five runs to win the first Twenty20 international at The Oval on Tuesday.
The skipper's 68 off just 48 balls, including two sixes and seven fours, was the heart of New Zealand's imposing 201 for four and although England had a bold stab at a target of 202 it proved just beyond their reach.
Defeat meant England had again lost by five runs after going down by that margin in a Champions Trophy final against India reduced to 20 overs per side by rain at Edgbaston on Sunday.
England needed six for a tie off the last ball that would have taken this match into a 'super-over' and that proved beyond Ravi Bopara, who finished on 30 not out.
The hosts fielded just four players from Sunday's side in stand-in captain Eoin Morgan, Bopara, Jos Buttler and James Tredwell.
McCullum shared a second-wicket stand of 114 with opener Hamish Rutherford, man-of-the-match for his dashing 62, after Boyd Rankin struck early on his England debut to leave New Zealand one for one.
After Morgan won the toss, it took fellow Irishman Rankin just four balls to take a wicket when James Franklin was out for a duck, wicket-keeper Buttler holding an inside edge.
Brendon McCullum saw a top-edge off Rankin fly 83 yards for a six over Buttler's head and Rutherford was even luckier when, on 25, a mistimed cut off Jade Dernbach's first ball was dropped by Bopara at point.
Rutherford used his reprieve to slog-sweep and drive off-spinner Tredwell for two sixes in as many balls.
But, going for another big hit, off medium-pacer Wright, he holed out having faced just 35 balls including four sixes and six fours.
Wright, who led the bowling with two for 31, struck again when he yorked Brendon McCullum before Ross Taylor's rapid 32 not out helped New Zealand beyond 200.
However, the runs kept coming from a side still missing star batsman Kevin Pietersen, set to return to England duty in the second match of this series at The Oval on Thursday.
Brendon McCullum's move to bring a slip in as late as the 14th over was rewarded when Taylor took a brilliant leaping one-handed catch off a fiercely edged cut by Morgan as the dangerman fell for just seven off paceman Ian Butler.
And when Wright, who made 52 off just 34 balls to complete a fine all-round match, was caught behind by Tom Latham, off Mitchell McClenaghan, England were 139 for four.
England needed 26 off the final 12 balls under the floodlights in front of a capacity crowd of 23,500.
Buttler then produced his trademark 'ramp' shot for a six off Butler but, three balls later, missed with the same stroke and was run out after Latham, who didn't take his gloves off, hit the bowler's end stumps with an underarm throw.
England needed 16 off the final over, bowled by Corey Anderson.
Ben Stokes promptly hoisted Anderson for a huge legside six to make the target 10 off five balls only for the bowler to hold his nerve.
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Potty Training frustration!
05-02-2010, 01:34 PM
I did a potty training thread a few months ago and decided that I would switch to cloth diaper and let her lead the way. I've had some new developments with potty training and i'm just not sure what to do.
I did the switch to cloth diapers my dd hate them. She digs ant them and say's "No mommy, i want disposable" I suspect the snappy is digging into her hips, but i'm not sure if it's the reason or one she's giving because she doesn't like them. Anyways so we're back to using disposible. She will not potty at home. I have little potty's and potty insert for a grown up potty. We've decorated the bathroom in princesses stickers because she likes them. We've gotten her a stool to get on and off on her own (without needing mommy to be around). We bought funky colour soap for her to wash her hands because she LOVES to wash her hands. But she will not potty at home. I say she will not potty at home because she loves to potty in public washrooms (much to my distress because i HATE public washrooms. I've even went and bough a portible lysol spray for the toilets because she won't sit on a potty with tp layed down) and at other peoples houses. She can tell me when she needs to pee because she tells me in the malls. I know she can hold it because i have had to run her from one side of a store to another to make it to a potty. If we spend a day in the mall she will not use her diaper once. But at home she will not use her potty and only want diapers!
I'm getting frustrated because i get all the stress and hectic stuff associated with potty training when i'm out but none of the benifits of her using it at home (not having to buy as many diapers or washing cloth). I will also mention that she does not poop outside of her diaper ever whether at the mall or at home. when ask she will agree that she is scared to poop outside of her diaper. and i have discussed that it's ok to poop in the potty and she has had much modeling of using the toilet in general. She is very bright and most people mistake her for three because she is so verbal. But i just don't know how to get her to use the potty. at this point i'm only gently encouraging her to use the potty and she doesn't show intrest in using it at home and i'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions? Sorry for the long rant!
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Yes, that is what will happen! At first. But the longer you can continue to go diaper free, the more successes you will have in getting it in the potty. At first, I would expect very little to actually go in the potty, which means lots of clean-ups for you. But it does get better.
With the weather getting nice, it might be helpful to spend lots of time outside diaper-free, if you have a backyard and that's an option for you. If not, going diaper-free in your house (which you are probably trying to keep clean and generally not get pee & poop all over!) will help you get very tuned-in to her potty cues. You will start to learn when to quickly rush her into the bathroom to go pee. With my son, even we has a "miss" and he had just finished peeing on the floor, I would still rush him to the potty to "see if anything else could come out". I'd ask him if there was more pee that he could put in the potty, but of course he was always all done. But it didn't matter to me...I wanted him to associate pee with going to the bathroom, even if it was already too late. I just wanted him to get that concept. Every time.
The pooping thing is harder...for many children going poop on the potty takes a lot longer than learning how to pee on the potty. My daughter would "save" her poop for naptime because she always got her diaper back on for her nap. She did this for at least a year after she was pee-potty-trained and in underwear during the day. Pooping just happened naturally much, much later for her.
But what I noticed from your post was that she did, in fact, poop outside of her diaper! Right? I realize it was on your floor, which is not ideal, but it was going one step beyond needing a diaper on to go poop. Now the next step is to get it in the potty!
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Thanks for this post, this is all so encouraging! We are just starting the potty journey.
Sorry you are having these frustrations, and I hope you are seeing a little of the humor in it. I sure need that reminder
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I am trying to see the funny side of things and now that we are having nice weather here i'm trying to do this outside instead of inside. However I'm begining to wonder if she's not ready. The other day we were having naked time at my MIL and she was picking up stones in her driveway. She went pee in the driveway stood up and said "Ohh mommy I need to go potty". I had to do my best not to chuckle. SHe'd already gone pee! Do you think she's just not ready?? Should i have put her on the potty anyways??
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I would. I would say, "Oh yes, I see the pee! Let's run to the potty!" And while she's on there I'd ask,"Do you have any more pee to come out? No? OK, we'll try again next time!" I would always take the opportunity to create an association between going pee and sitting on the potty.
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Have your say on cycle quietways in Earlsfield
The Council has just launched a public consultation on the introduction of cycle ‘quietways’ through the borough.
Cycle quietways are a London wide initiative aimed at providing safe and accessible routes for cyclists off the busy main roads. It is hoped that this will encourage more people to use their bikes, particularly for non-commuting purposes.
One of the proposed routes (quietways 4 – Clapham Common to Wimbledom) passes through Earlsfield via Magdalen Road, Swaby Road, Waynflete Street and Trewint Street. The route then continues to Wimbledon via the Wandle Trail.
Proposed changes
The proposal contains a number of changes to road markings, layouts and access. Some of the significant changes to Earlsfield roads are as follows (see also map below):
removing the pelican crossing on Garratt lane (opposite the post office) and introducing an informal pedestrian crossing and refuge island further south of the junction
removing bollards and railings from the entrance to the Wandle Trail at Trewint Street
the removal of a number of parking spaces on Waynflete street and Garrat Lane near to the junction.
Have your say
Residents have the opportunity to comment on the proposals. You can do this online (www.wandsworth.gov.uk/quietways) or by sending your comments to: Quietways Consultation, Transportation Section, Wandsworth Council, SW18 1DA.
You can also discuss the proposals directly with officers who will be holding a drop-in sessions on the following dates:
Wednesday 3 February, Earlsfield Primary School, 7-9pm
Wednesday 10 February, Wandsworth Common (skylark cafe), 9-1pm
Saturday 13 February, Earlsfield Library, 11-1pm
The consultation runs until 14 February. If you submit a response, please feel free to share with me at [email protected]
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Back when I started my career in SEO, content marketing didn’t exist—at least not in the way it exists now.
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A recent study shows that 86 percent of all B2B marketers use content marketing strategies to gain exposure and ultimately generate revenue, but only 38 percent believe they are effective at it. Testing a few different tools and strategies allows you to figure out what works best for your organization.
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Despite the spattering of headlines that have popped up over the past couple years proclaiming “infographics are dead,” infographics are, in fact, alive and well.
We just checked — they’re totally healthy. I mean, there are a lot of them, but when marketers spend the time aligning the topic, content, and style of their infographics with the needs and preferences of their target audiences, they’re still finding success. (And by “success” I mean driving traffic — and potential leads — to their websites and generating social buzz through people sharing and commenting.)
A 2014 study shows that the use of infographics among B2B marketers increased 9% from 2013 to 2014: from 43% adoption to 52% adoption. And a recent report from Social Media Examiner shows that original, visual content is the number one form of content that marketers want to learn more about in 2015.
But how can those who don’t necessarily have a design background — or the budget to commission an agency, hire a dedicated in-house designer, or purchase expensive design software — create professional-looking infographics that are able to captivate their audiences?
We’re so glad you asked! Here’s a little secret: You can do it using the software you probably already have installed on your computer. That’s right! PowerPoint can be your best friend when it comes to visual content creation.
And in this post, we’ll highlight five of the infographic templates from the download and teach you some PowerPoint infographic creation basics along the way. Just be sure todownload the PowerPoint templates for yourself so you can easily customize the designs you see below!
5 Infographics That Teach You How to Create Infographics
1) How to Create an Infographic Filled With Data
Infographics and data visualization are the peanut butter and jelly of the visual content world.
When you have new data to reveal to the world, you can use an infographic to display that data as part of a cohesive, visual narrative. And that’s exactly what the “Data Geek” template is for.
The Data Geek Template
We’ve loaded this template with a variety of different charts and graphs, which you can easily update with your own data. (Just right click on a graph, choose “Edit Data,” and you’ll be able to customize the values in an Excel spreadsheet.)
Not sure which types of graphs to use for your different data sets? Here are some best practices to keep in mind:
Column chart: Use for comparing different categories or for showing changes over time (from left to right).
Pie chart: Use for making part-to-whole comparisons. (Note: They work best with small data sets.)
Line graph: Use for showing data that changes continuously over time. Ideal for displaying volatility, trends, acceleration, or deceleration.
Doughnut chart: Use like a pie chart. This stylistic variation allows you to put a number, graphic, or other visual in the center of the chart.
Bar chart: Use like a column chart. (The horizontal bars make it easier to display long category names.)
2) How to Make a Timeline Infographic
Telling the history of a particular industry, product, brand, trend, or tactic can be a great topic for an infographic. And while there are a variety of different ways that you can visualize time — including in a circle, which is what we did with our Google algorithm updates infographic — the timeline is by far the most common and easiest design method to use.
To tell your story with our timeline infographic template below, update the time periods in the center circles, replace the placeholder text, and adjust the visuals and colors to your liking. For those latter adjustments, you can choose “Insert” > “Shape in PowerPoint” to add in different visuals, and use the paint bucket (a.k.a. “color fill”) icon to change the colors of different elements.
The Timeline Template
Want to make sure your timeline infographic hits all the right notes? Here are some tips to consider:
Research. Research. Research. The best timeline infographics aren’t just beautifully designed — they also tell a great story based on extensive research. So before you start the design phase of your infographic, put in the time to surface the best information possible.
Narrow the scope: Timelines that cover hundreds or thousands of years can certainly be interesting, but they can also require weeks or months of research. To keep your sanity, stick with shorter time periods.
Keep your copy concise: Infographics are supposed to be visual. If you find yourself writing 100+ words for each date on your timeline, a blog post may be the better content format.
3) How to Design a Totally Hip Infographic
Ok, so “hipness” is definitely in the eye of the beholder. But for this infographic template we wanted to do something that reflected modern design trends, including using banners and arrows.
In terms of content, we provided plenty of space for both stats and copy. There’s also a column chart at the bottom. But remember, you can always add different charts and graphs to the template wherever you see fit. Just select “Insert” > “Chart …” and you’ll have several options to choose from.
The Hipster Template
To make sure your end result is as hip as possible, here are some design tips to follow:
Experiment with new color palettes. There are tons of free color palettes online. Don’t believe me? Do a Google image search of “color palette.” When you find a palette you like, drag the image directly into your PowerPoint presentation. Next, select the “color fill” bucket, choose “More Colors …” and click on the eyedropper icon. With the eyedropper tool, you can select colors from your palette and use them for elements in your infographic.
Take the time to manipulate shapes. PowerPoint has an extensive library of shapes — including banners, ribbons, and arrows — that you can use in your infographic design. By clicking and dragging on the little yellow diamonds that appear on these shapes, you can customize them. For example, you can make the pointy ends of a ribbon longer or shorter, or make the body of an arrow thinner or thicker.
4) How to Create a Flowchart Infographic
Warning: Creating a flowchart-style infographic is not for the faint of heart.
While on the surface a flowchart infographic may appear simple and fun, a lot of thought and planning need to go into making sure the different sections flow into each other in a logical way.
In our flowchart PowerPoint template, we created a basic flowchart structure, with positive responses guiding viewers to a conclusion at the bottom left of the infographic and negative responses guiding viewers to a separate conclusion at the bottom right of the infographic.
The Flowchart Template
To ensure your flowchart infographic makes sense and is easy for viewers to navigate, follow these tips:
Draw out the branches beforehand. Before you dive into PowerPoint, get out a pen and paper and do a rough outline of your flowchart. Test for weaknesses in your logic by answering questions in every possible combination and seeing where you end up. For best results, have a friend or coworker run through the flowchart too.
The smaller the scope, the easier the execution. The more questions or stages you add to your flowchart, the more difficult it will be to create (and the harder it will likely be for viewers to understand). So try to narrow the focus of your flowchart.
5) How to Design an Image-Heavy Infographic
So far, the infographic templates we’ve looked at have relied primarily on illustrations that you can create within PowerPoint. But of course, there’s no reason why you can’t bring external photos and other images into your infographic design.
We’ve created this image-heavy infographic template for that exact purpose. It’s great for comparing different categories, ideas, or results, and since you don’t need to create or customize a lot of shapes, it’s a lot less work.
The Image Heavy Template
Here are some suggestions for ensuring your image-heavy infographic is easy on the eyes:
Use high-quality images. It’s better to scale down a big image (e.g. 2,000 pixels by 2,000 pixels) than to scale up a small image (e.g. 20 pixels by 20 pixels) in order to fit a particular space. The latter approach will result in images appearing pixelated and grainy.
Use borders. Adding borders to your images will help make them feel like their part of a cohesive design. In PowerPoint, you can control the size, style, and color of borders under the “Format Picture” tab.
Save your infographic as a PNG file. This is a best practice for all infographics, but is particularly relevant when publishing an infographic that contains photographs. The PNG extension offers better quality than other options. To save your finished infographic as a PNG file, you simply need to choose “File” > “Save As …” and select PNG from the dropdown.
Looking for precise specs for your Facebook cover photo? This handy cheat sheet from Spredfast has the answer to that and other social media photo details. The post Infographic: Optimal Image Sizes For All The Social Networks appeared first on Marketing Land.
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WASHINGTON — While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration's lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance drones for law enforcement and other uses in U.S. airspace, spurring growing concern about violations of privacy.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it had issued 1,428 permits to domestic drone operators since 2007, far more than were previously known. Some 327 permits are still listed as active.
Operators include police, universities, state transportation departments and at least seven federal agencies. The remotely controlled aircraft vary widely, from devices as small as model airplanes to large unarmed Predators.
The FAA, which has a September 2015 deadline from Congress to open the nation's airspace to drone traffic, has estimated 10,000 drones could be aloft five years later. The FAA this week solicited proposals to create six sites across the country to test drones, a crucial step before widespread government and commercial use is approved.
I found this line in the story interesting:
Companies have marketed drones disguised as sea gulls and other birds to mask their use.
I was in Verizon one day last week and they have one in there that you control from an Ipad or most any Android tablet... it flies for 10-15 minutes... up to 500 feet high... has both front facing and down facing combination video/still camera that you control right from the tablet. Under $300!!!
The bird and dragonfly models are pretty fascinating. I can see lots of potential uses for prevention of crime and forest fires, maybe even search & rescue. Then there's the more nefarious uses, such as government spying on innocent citizens and personal stalking.
OLYMPIA — A bill regulating the use of unmanned drones in Washington state cleared the House Public Safety committee Thursday after heated public testimony about privacy rights and crime prevention.
House Bill 1771 sponsored by Rep. David Taylor, R-Moxee, would require agencies using or buying drones to get approval from the Legislature or local governments. Drones could only be used with a warrant or in emergencies. The legislation doesn’t address private use.
Taylor said law-enforcement officials urged him to offer the bill as they are interested in using drones, but uncomfortable with the lack of rules governing them. Bill co-sponsor Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane, said he signed on because of public concerns about violations of privacy.
“This issue is really about freedom,” Shea said.
May the force be with you friends! Michigan local govs still fighting big oil for local oversight. Some think they don't have the "standing" for it (sound familiar?).
Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahearn says his office would employ the drone mainly for search-and-rescue missions and "public safety and life preservation missions" {like the birds in Monroe eh} where it might be too dangerous to send a live officer, according to a five-page draft document released by the department. “We will not use this for surveillance,” Ahearn told the board. “We will not use this for weaponry.”But when the sheriff's office first applied for funding, it also listed "intelligence gathering," "suspicious persons," and "large crowd control disturbances," as some of its planned uses for drones, bloggers at MuckRock found in a public records request."All drones carry some sort of camera with recording capabilities," activist Trevor Timm of EFF told the county board in his testimony. "Some newer high definition cameras—previously used only by the military—are so powerful they can see the color of your shoelaces from a mile away."
At least eleven states are considering legislation to restrict the use of "unmanned aerial vehicles" by police departments, including California, Oregon, Texas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota Florida, Virginia, Maine, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, the AP reported.
According to the Department of Defense Report to Congress on Future Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training, Operations, and Sustainability (April 2012), Michigan has two locations that have been designated as potential basing locations for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) [i.e. drones] (p. 8 ff.). It is disclosed that the RQ-7B Shadow is operated from Grayling, under the status "Locations Requiring COAs [Certificate of Waiver or Authorization]". ("Locations where the Army currently conducts operations outside of Restricted Areas that require a COA from the FAA. In the majority of these locations, the purpose of the COA is to transition from the launch site to adjacent Restricted Areas. Additionally, the Raven can be operated using DoD-FAA agreed-to Class G airspace notification procedures for flights flown over Government-owned or -leased land." (p. 20)) Grayling has also been designated as a potential basing location for the RQ-11B.
The report also discloses that Lake Margretha is the other Michigan location included in the Department of Defense's list of 110 potential UAS basing locations. Lake Margretha is designated for the RQ-11B.
University of Michigan is one of 25 schools nationwide —and the only entity in the state of Michigan— once authorized to fly drones in U.S. airspace.
According to reports from DeadlineDetroit.com and Salon.com U-M was one of 25 universities authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones. Records show the school's authorization has expired, but DeadlineDetroit.com reports that U-M flew drones over Fort Grayling and Lake Douglas and had authorization to fly drones over Grand Traverse Bay.
The drones —which included a student-designed glider and the first unmanned autonomous seaplane ever developed— aren't being used to spy on individuals, but instead are the products of ongoing research by aerospace engineering students and faculty that could have military and commercial applications, DeadlineDetroit.com reports.
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the FAA has issued 1,428 permits to domestic drone operators since 2007 and noted this was “far more than were previously known.”This new number points out again how difficult it is to answer the most common questions EFF gets from reporters about drones — just how many agencies have applied for drone licenses? How many licenses has the FAA issued since it started issuing licenses (which was earlier than 2007)? And how much has domestic drone use increased over the years?
Why can’t the FAA provide accurate drone license information that the public can rely on? Is it because the agency doesn’t want the public to know? Or is it that the FAA, itself, doesn’t know because it hasn’t kept track of its own program? Both of these possibilities raise serious issues about how the government is managing drone licenses and whether drone use should be allowed to expand in the United States.
The only way we can have an open and full debate about domestic drone flights is if we have accurate, complete, up-to-date and reliable data on how many entities are licensed to fly drones, who those entities are, and how many licenses the FAA has issued for each year it’s issued licenses. EFF shouldn’t have to keep suing the FAA to get this information.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show.
The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department's unmanned Predator B drones, which are primarily used to patrol the United States' northern and southern borders but have been pressed into service on behalf of a growing number of law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Secret Service, the Texas Rangers, and local police.
Homeland Security's specifications for its drones, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, say they "shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not," meaning carrying a shotgun or rifle. They also specify "signals interception" technology that can capture communications in the frequency ranges used by mobile phones, and "direction finding" technology that can identify the locations of mobile devices or two-way radios.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center obtained a partially redacted copy of Homeland Security's requirements for its drone fleet through the Freedom of Information Act and published it this week. CNET unearthed an unredacted copy of the requirements that provides additional information about the aircraft's surveillance capabilities.
Concern about domestic use of drones is growing, with federal legislation introduced last month that would establish legal safeguards, in addition to parallel efforts underway from state and local lawmakers. The Federal Aviation Administration recently said that it will "address privacy-related data collection" by drones.
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"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms." ~ Socrates
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude." ~ Karl Popper
"What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy." ~ Ludwig von Mises
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” ~ Socrates
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
I must admit, I've become a little obsessed over the issue of the presently shitty G.I. Bill and the efforts of two Senators that aim to give it an overhaul fitting to the service our military has performed the past seven years. I wrote about the topic yesterday for Vet Voice before I chanced upon another piece. With a hat-tip to Blackfive, who linked to the Army Times.
The money quote:
The Bush administration has remained wary of the bill, because of its $5.4 billion cost and concerns that significant improvements in veterans’ education benefits might encourage people to get out of the military to go to college, which in turn could hurt military readiness.So the ridiculously out of control spending of the war in Iraq aside, Bush is all of a sudden fiscally sagacious when it comes to $5.4 billion clams. You might recognize that as the amount spent in Iraq over a period of nineteen days. So if this is the best argument they have to reject a new G.I. Bill, I have a little spending advice of my own: stop paying Blackwater and other mercs a cool half million to go gun crazy in Baghdad, and leave Iraq three weeks ahead of schedule, whenever that happens (unless McCain is elected, then we'll be bomb-bomb-bombing our way into a recession as soldiers prepare for their deca-deployments).
The second half of that quote is so finely crafted by the non-serving administration that my head is still spinning twelve hours after I read it. It should be taken like a fine brandy, swirled around the brain, every syllable savored for its underlying neglect for our veterans - not only is the administration aware of how woefully inadequate the current G.I. Bill is, they aim to keep it that way. Exactly what veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan deserve for their multiple deployments and dedication to this country is being held hostage. They must be living in a world where half a trillion dollars spent in a needless war, creating more insurgents, sending back hundreds of thousands of veterans, some of them disabled for life, and telling them to fuck off when they get back from war is building military readiness.
Go to Iraq for a year. No, make that fifteen months. Shut the fuck up. Take this Humvee with plastic doors and do your patrols while KBR counts their money. Risk your life on behalf of an ungrateful nation, and when you want to finally get out and make something of yourself, too fucking bad. By the way, care to reenlist?
The military, government et. al do not have our backs. That is nothing new. But even civilians are lining up to take credence out of a reformed G.I. Bill. From the acclaimed Findlay Courier:
For many, but not for all. We need to face the fact that not all of our military veterans are college material. Just last week an analysis of Army enlistee education levels was released by the National Priorities Project, revealing that those with a high school diploma dropped to just under 71 percent in 2007. The increasing unpopularity of the Iraq War has made it an extreme challenge for recruiters to get enough quality young people to sign on. The original goal, established when the draft was replaced with an all-volunteer military, was to have no more than 10 percent of recruits lacking a high school diploma. But current desperation has eroded that plan. The report also indicated that at least 70 percent of Army recruits in FY 2007 were not high school graduates.I imagine the guy who wrote this had his feet kicked up on his desk, tapping his loafers and imagined all the po' folks who stopped gang banging, dropped out of high school and joined the Army. I would surmise that I know a lot more people in the military than this anonymous editorial scribe, and there are a considerable amount of them already drawing their paltry G.I. Bill money two months after separating from the Army. Yes, shadowy figure of Findlay, Ohio. We want to use the G.I. Bill. A friend of mine is going to the firefighting academy so that he may continue to serve his community. Will he be able to pay for it all with the current bill? I don't know. The editorial doesn't offer any ideas besides vaguely asserting that not everyone deserves a full G.I. Bill and enlightens us that "If a new GI Bill is written, it should be one that realistically benefits all deserving troops, not just those who are suited to college." Thanks for the insight! And who deems someone "deserving" anyhow? No one is certain if they belong in school until they get there. Rising from the depression and World War II, there was a whole generation of folks who weren't properly educated but needed a new start. The G.I. Bill of 1944 educated fourteen Nobel Prize winners and two dozen Pulitzer Prize winners, including authors Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, and Frank McCourt. Giving everyone a shot is not as risky and expensive as this editorial alludes to. Not even a little bit.
Hey, Findlay, Ohio. Do you like the acting style of Gene Hackman, the music of Johnny Cash and the poetry of James Wright? They all used a full G.I. Bill not afforded to the hapless goons of today's military. Another generation of young volunteers waiting to become tomorrow's lawyers, doctors and firemen are being stifled by this inane reasoning.
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Rob
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Thanks for this post Alex -- I'm consistently dumbfounded by the way our bureaucrats conveniently deploy the phrase "support our troops" to whatever political purpose of the moment, only to completely abandon it when it comes to honoring that commitment.
Maybe the worst thing is that they truly believe they are supporting the troops, even while fighting a fair GI Bill tooth and nail.
I don't think our politicians are so much worried about the $5.9B as they are the fact that troops might actually dump the military for a hotter, more attractive (and less deadly) college education. The administration needs volunteer troop levels high, and a fair GI Bill is a threat to that goal.
The problem is, that mindset can't be called "Support The Troops" -- it can only be called "Support the War".
And that consideration, as much as any, should demonstrate that those phrases clearly don't mean the same thing anymore... if they ever did in the first place.
Look out, America, Alex has got his mission. He's cocked and locked, good to go and ready to launch. I wish I could remember who wrote this phrase, but anyway, it fits. I firmly believe that in finding his voice in the advocacy of America's deserving veterans, Alex has "laid his hands on the great shaft of his destiny."
Thanks for advocating this! I always told everyone who was getting out to go to college. It's not so much about making money afterwards, but rather a more coherent way to think about the world and understand different perspectives. Meeting a variety of different people is important, and with guys coming out of the service, I believe they will have a very interesting viewpoint to share. Good luck!
I "PCS'ed" back in late 96, and i have yet to adorn my car bumper with that idiotic, yellow ribbon with those empty, meaningless, hollow, rhertorical words. I have always hated that bumper sticker, both while i was in, and particuarlly since ive been out - its the biggest lie in America.
You are right about all but one thing..This nation does care about our soldiers.I am 48, I remember watching the news as a child during the Vietnam War. I remember Walter Cronkite, the evacs, the bodies, I remember Mei Lei (?). My mother was a Hippie, was a member of Mothers against the War. My neighbors had gone off to war. I remember some of them not coming home and some of them coming home to what was at least an unpleasant situation.
My cousins Mark an MP and David a helicopter gunner came home but part of them had died. They were only perhaps 8 years older than myself. The stories they told me are not much different than yours.
Mom is still anti war and military. I am anti-war but pro-military! I am so very proud of all of you! Many of my peers have children on their 3rd tour.
It isnt the every day person that doesnt care about you or any soldier. It is the power brokers, all of those that stand to make a buck over every death or injury. It is Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush. Halliburton and everyone else that makes a profit off of this war. It is them that feel...I got mine who cares how I got it as they lie by their pools or fire up thier jets.
Every soldier deserves college free when they get home, they deserve every bit of medical attention they need and support for their families for life. That includes the National Guard!
In closing I will continue to read your posts and you continue writin them! I cant wait to buy your book and I will! And I will have my 11 year old read both also. She needs to see the world as it is. The good and the bad.
It never goes away...those memories of Nam never have left me and I wasnt even there...I was young but not too young to learn to respect our soldiers. They are doing their duty and are there to protect us...even if that is not what the government has you doing.
The GI Bill was the single most successful social welfare program in the United States and paved the way for the most successful generation our our country has ever had. Interestingly enough, it seems to me that same generation is doing it's best to disable it.
Keep up your fight. The GI Bill should be reinstated as it was originally written for the soldiers and for this country.
This blog was created by a veteran of the United States Army and in no way should be taken to reflect the sensibilities of the Department of Defense, The Department of Veterans Affairs or any other credible organization.
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Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, his best known works include the novel Tarry Flynn and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger".[1] He is known for accounts of Irish life through reference to the everyday and commonplace.[2]
Patrick Kavanagh was born in rural Inniskeen, County Monaghan in 1904, the fourth of ten children born to Bridget Quinn.[3] His grandfather was a schoolteacher called "Keaveney",[4][5] which a local priest changed to "Kavanagh". The grandfather had to leave the local area following a scandal and never taught in a national school again. Patrick Kavanagh's father, James, was a shoemaker and farmer. Kavanagh's brother Peter became a university professor and writer; two of his sisters were teachers; three became nurses; and one became a nun.
Kavanagh was a pupil at Kednaminsha National School from 1909 to 1916, leaving in the sixth year, at the age of 13.[6] He became apprenticed to his father as a shoemaker and worked on his farm. For the first 27 years of his life, he lived and worked as a farmer of a small holding. He was also goalkeeper for the Inniskeen Gaelic football team.[7] He later reflected, "Although the literal idea of the peasant is of a farm labouring person, in fact a peasant is all that mass of mankind which lives below a certain level of consciousness. They live in the dark cave of the unconscious and they scream when they see the light." He commented that though he grew up in a poor district "the real poverty was lack of enlightenment [and] I am afraid this fog of unknowing affected me dreadfully."[8]
Kavanagh's first collection, Ploughman and Other Poems was published in 1936, notable for its realistic portrayal of Irish country life, free of romantic sentiment often seen at the time in rural poetry, a trait he abhorred.[7] Published by Macmillan in its series on new poets,[8] his work made a commitment to colloquial speech and the unvarnished lives of real people, a trajectory which made him unpopular with the literary establishment.[7] Two years after his first collection was published he had yet to make a significant impression. The Times Literary Supplement described him as "a young Irish poet of promise rather than of achievement," and The Spectator commented that "like other poets admired by A.E., he writes much better prose than poetry. Mr. Kavanagh's lyrics are for the most part slight and conventional, easily enjoyed but almost as easily forgotten."[8] In 1938, he went to London and remained there for about five months. The Green Fool, a loosely autobiographical novel, was published in 1938 and was accused of libel.[6]Oliver St. John Gogarty sued Kavanagh for his description of his first visit to Gogarty's home: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife or his mistress; I expected every poet to have a spare wife." Gogarty, who had taken offence at the close coupling of the words "wife" and "mistress", was awarded £100 in damages.[9] The book, which recounted Kavanagh's rural childhood and attempts to become a writer, garnered international recognition and good critical reviews.[8]
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knew
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue;
I saw the danger, yet I walked along the enchanted way,
And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the ledge
Of the deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passion's pledge,
The Queen of Hearts still making tarts and I not making hay –
O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.
In 1939, Kavanagh finally settled in Dublin. In his biography John Nemo describes Kavanagh's encounter with the urban, literary world: "he realized that the stimulating environment he had imagined was little different from the petty and ignorant world he had left. He soon saw through the literary masks many Dublin writers wore to affect an air of artistic sophistication. To him such men were dandies, journalists, and civil servants playing at art. His disgust was deepened by the fact that he was treated as the literate peasant he had been rather than as the highly talented poet he believed he was in the process of becoming".[8][11] In 1942 he published his long poem The Great Hunger which described the privations and hardship of the rural life he knew well. Although it was rumoured at the time that all copies of Horizon literary magazine in which it was published were seized by the Garda Síochána, Kavanagh denied that this had occurred, saying later that he was visited by two Gardaí at his home (probably in connection with an investigation of Horizon under the Special Powers Act).[12] Written from the viewpoint of a single peasant against the historical background of famine and emotional despair, the poem is often held by critics to be his finest work. It set out to counter the saccharine romanticising of the Irish literary establishment in its view of peasant life. Richard Murphy in the The New York Times Book Review described it as "a great work" and Robin Skelton in Poetry praised it as "a vision of mythic intensity."[8]
Kavanagh worked as a part-time journalist, writing a gossip column in the Irish Press under the pseudonym Piers Plowman from 1942 to 1944 and acted as film critic for that same publication from 1945 to 1949. In 1946 the Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid found Kavanagh a job on the Catholic magazine The Standard and continued to support him throughout his life.[13]Tarry Flynn, a semi-autobiographical novel, was published in 1948 and was banned for a time.[7] It was a fictional account of rural life and would later be made into a play and performed in the Abbey Theatre in 1966. In late 1946, Kavanagh moved to Belfast and worked as a journalist and as a barman in a number of Public Houses in the Falls Road area. During this period he lodged in the Beechmount area in a house where he was related to the tenant through the tenant's brother-in-law in Ballymackney, County Monaghan. Before returning to Dublin in November 1949 he presented numerous scripts to the family all of which are now believed to be in Spain. His personality became progressively quixotic as his drinking increased over the years and his health deteriorated. Eventually, a dishevelled figure, he would move about the Dublin bars drinking whiskey with a predilection for turning on benefactors and friends.[14]
In 1949, Kavanagh began to write a monthly Diary for Envoy, a literary publication founded by John Ryan, who became a lifelong friend and benefactor. The Envoy offices were at 39 Grafton Street and most of the journal's business was conducted in the nearby pub, McDaid's, which Kavanagh subsequently adopted as his city-centre local. Through Envoy, he came into contact with a circle of young artists and intellectuals including Anthony Cronin, Patrick Swift, John Jordan and sculptor Desmond MacNamara whose bust of Kavanagh is in the Irish National Writers Museum. Kavanagh would often refer to these times as his "poetic rebirth."[15] In 1952, Kavanagh published his own journal, Kavanagh’s Weekly: A Journal of Literature and Politics in conjunction with, and financed by, his brother Peter. It which ran to some 13 editions (12 April-5 July 1952).[6]
In 1954, two major events changed Kavanagh's life. He sued The Leader for publishing a portrait of him as an alcoholic sponger. The highly skilled lawyer John A. Costello, acting in defence of The Leader, won the case when it came to trial.[6] (Costello had been Attorney General of Ireland (1926–1932) and would go on to become Taoiseach (1948–1951 and 1954–1957). The two would later become good friends.)[8] Shortly after Kavanagh lost the action he was diagnosed with lung cancer and was admitted to hospital where he had a lung removed.[7] It was while recovering from this operation by relaxing on the banks of the Grand Canal in Dublin that Kavanagh rediscovered his poetic vision. He began to appreciate nature and his surroundings and took his inspiration from this for much of his later poetry, and a new phase of poetry followed.[7]
In 1955, Macmillan's rejected a typescript of poems by Kavanagh, which had left the poet very downcast.[16] Patrick Swift, on a visit to Dublin in 1956, was invited by Kavanagh to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published. Swift arranged for the poems to be published in the English literary journal, Nimbus[17](19 poems were published). This proved a turning point and Kavanagh began receiving the acclaim which he had always felt he deserved. His next collection, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus.[18]
Between 1959–62, Kavanagh spent more time in London, where he contributed to Swift's X magazine.[19] During this period Kavanagh sheltered on and off with the Swifts in Westbourne Terrace.[20] He gave lectures at University College Dublin and in the United States.[7] He represented Ireland at literary symposia and became a judge of the Guinness Poetry Awards.
In London, he often stayed with his publisher, Martin Green, and his wife Fiona, in their house in Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia. It was at this time that Martin Green produced Kavanagh's Collected Poems (1964) with prompting from painter Patrick Swift and the poet Anthony Cronin".[21] In the introduction, Kavanagh wrote: "A man innocently dabbles in words and rhymes and finds that it is his life".
The poet "pondering the Stony Grey Soil of Monaghan at his native Inniskeen" in 1963.
Kavanagh married his long-term companion Katherine Barry Moloney (niece of Kevin Barry) in April 1967 and they lived together on the Waterloo Road in Dublin.[6][7] Kavanagh fell ill at the first performance of Tarry Flynn at the Abbey Theatre in the Dundalk Town Hall and he died later that week in a Dublin nursing home on 30 November 1967.[7] His grave is in Inniskeen adjoining the Patrick Kavanagh Centre. His wife Katherine died in 1989; she is also buried there.
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney is acknowledged to have been influenced by Kavanagh.[22] He was introduced to Kavanagh's poetry by the writer Michael MacLaverty when they taught together at St Thomas's Belfast. Their poetry shares a belief in the capacity of the local, or parochial, to reveal the universal. He said that Kavanagh's poetry "had a transformative effect on the general culture and liberated the gifts of the poetic generations who came after him." Heaney noted: "Kavanagh is a truly representative modern figure in that his subversiveness was turned upon himself: dissatisfaction, both spiritual and artistic, is what inspired his growth.... His instruction and example helped us to see an essential difference between what he called the parochial and provincial mentalities". As Kavanagh put it: "All great civilizations are based on the parish". He concludes that Kavanagh's poetry vindicates his "indomitable faith in himself and in the art that made him so much more than himself".[23]
The actor Russell Crowe has stated that he is a fan of Kavanagh. He commented: "I like the clarity and the emotiveness of Kavanagh. I like how he combines the kind of mystic into really clear, evocative work that can make you glad you are alive". On 24 February 2002, after winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in A Beautiful Mind, Crowe quoted Kavanagh during his acceptance speech at the 55th British Academy Film Awards. When he became aware that the Kavanagh quote had been cut from the final broadcast, Crowe became aggressive with the BBC producer responsible, Malcolm Gerrie.[24] He said: "it was about a one minute fifty speech but they've cut a minute out of it".[25] The poem that was cut was a four-line poem:
To be a poet and not know the trade,
To be a lover and repel all women;
Twin ironies by which great saints are made,
The agonising pincer-jaws of heaven.
There is a statue of Kavanagh beside Dublin's Grand Canal, inspired by his poem "Lines written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin":
O commemorate me where there is water
canal water preferably, so stilly
greeny at the heart of summer. Brother
commemorate me thus beautifully.
Every 17 March, after the St Patrick's day parade, a group of Kavanagh's friends gather at the Kavanagh seat on the banks of the Grand Canal at Mespil road in his honour. The seat was erected by his friends, led by John Ryan and Denis Dwyer, in 1968.[26] A bronze sculpture of the writer stands outside the Palace Bar on Dublin's Fleet Street.[27] There is also a statue of Patrick Kavanagh located outside the Irish pub and restaurant, Raglan Road, at Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney in Orlando, Florida. His poetic tribute to his friend the Irish American sculptor Jerome Connor was used in the plaque overlooking Dublin's Phoenix Park dedicated to Connor.
Me I will throw away.
Me sufficient for the day
The sticky self that clings
Adhesions on the wings.
To love and adventure
To go on the grand tour
A man must be free
From self-necessity.
See over there
A created splendour
Made by one individual
From things residual
With all the various
Qualities hilarious
Of what
Hitherto was not
“
”
From "The Self-Slaved"
In 1986, Peter Kavanagh negotiated the sale of Patrick Kavanagh's papers as well as a large collection of his own work devoted to the late poet to University College Dublin. The purchase was enabled by a public appeal for funds by the late Professor Gus Martin. He included in the sale his original hand press which he had built.[28] The archive is housed in a special collections room in UCD's library, and the hand press is on loan to the Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen.
Ownership of the copyright is vested in Trustees of The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Trust by virtue of the terms of the will of the late Kathleen Kavanagh, widow of the poet, who in turn became entitled to the copyright on the death of her husband. The proceeds of the trust are used to support deserving writers. The Trustees are Leland Bardwell, Patrick MacEntee, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Eunan O'Halpin, and Macdara Woods.[29] This was disputed by the late Peter Kavanagh who continued publishing his work after Patrick's death. This dispute led some books to go out of print. Most of his work is now available in the UK and Ireland but the status in the United States is more uncertain.
^Quinn, Patrick Kavanagh: A Biography, 2001, p. 359: "Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)".
^Martin Green (Patrick Swift 1927–83, Gandon Editions, 1993): "...but it was in that basement flat that Patrick Kavanagh sheltered on and off for a while. And it is the mention of Kavanagh that brings back to me that infectious gaiety and generosity that is at the heart of my memory of Paddy Swift.... It was he, together with Tony Cronin, who initially put up the idea of bringing together Kavanagh's poems for the Collected Poems."
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"We're going to stay here possibly," the 39-year-old Project Runway host told reporters Saturday at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles gala. "We're going to get a big Christmas tree and we might go to Disneyland. We go all over the place."
"I don't know if we're the greatest friends right now, especially because of the things that he said," Klum admitted to Katie Couric in September. Things got ugly for the former couple after Seal, 49, commented on Klum's romance with Kirsten to TMZ, saying, "At least wait until we separated first before deciding to fornicate with the help."
Seal's rep later told Us that his words were misconstrued, and Klum told Couric they were speaking to each other again.
"We were talking and we're in an okay place," she said. "You have to take it one day at a time."
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Contentworks sponsors Decentralized Blockchain Conference
July 28, 2018
Contentworks Agency will be participating at the University of Nicosia’s upcoming Decentralized 2018 blockchain conference as media sponsors. Taking place from 14-16 November at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, Contentworks is looking forward to meeting some of the brightest minds in the finance and technology sector. The emergence of disruptive blockchain and crypto-related technology is a hot topic for the region and the Agency is excited to be part of this eagerly anticipated summit.
Hosted by the University of Nicosia
The event follows the highly successful Decentralized 2017 networking conference and will again be organised by the University of Nicosia – a leading global establishment in the blockchain and crypto field. As pioneers for innovative tech, the university is leading the blockchain revolution in Cyprus and is the first to offer a cryptocurrency course taught by renowned thought-leaders Andreas Antonopoulos and Antonis Polemitis.
Decentralized 2018 looks set to welcome over 1,500 attendees from 50 different countries as well as an esteemed panel of speakers including Susanne Tarkoswki the Founder & CEO of Bitnation, Larry Sanger, CIO of Everipedia and Eva Kaili, a member of the European Parliament. With the high caliber of speakers sharing their latest knowledge and opinions on this cutting-edge technology that is shaping not only the finance sector but society as a whole – expect to see a wealth of hot debates, engaging discussions and revealing insights on future projections about decentralised concepts.
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Prosecutor in bomb plot case: Teen predisposed to terror
Prosecutors have made their last effort to convince a 16-person jury that an Oregon teenager was predisposed to terrorism when undercover FBI agents posing as members of al-Qaida helped him devise a plot to detonate a bomb.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight said Wednesday in closing arguments that Mohamed Mohamud was predisposed to terrorism when he was 15 years old, the age he told undercover agents he began to think about committing violent jihad.
Knight says jurors may disagree with the FBI's methods in its undercover sting operation, but they cannot argue that Mohamud intended to kill thousands at Portland's 2010 Christmas tree-lighting.
Mohamud's trial on terrorism charges began Jan. 10.
His defense attorneys will make closing arguments Wednesday afternoon. They contend he was entrapped by the FBI.
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Puig’s return not enough against Bumgarner
Joe Resnick
12:19 a.m. PDT April 6, 2014
Bumgarner struck out 10 while working into the seventh inning
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner delivers against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first inning in a baseball game on Saturday, April 5, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)(Photo: Alex Gallardo, AP)
LOS ANGELES – Everything went right for Madison Bumgarner. He pitched well, the Giants provided him more than enough offense and they played strong defense behind him. The bullpen pitched in, too.
Bumgarner struck out 10 while working into the seventh inning, and the Giants got home runs from Michael Morse, Pablo Sandoval and Buster Posey in a 7-2 victory on Sunday.
Right fielder Yasiel Puig returned to the Dodgers’ starting lineup, batting leadoff a day after he was benched by manager Don Mattingly for arriving late for stretching and batting practice before Friday’s home opener. Puig went 1 for 4 and was picked off first in the third inning for the final out with cleanup-hitter Adrian Gonzalez at the plate.
Bumgarner (1-0) was charged with two runs and eight hits over 61/3 innings in his second outing.
“I was throwing a little bit of everything,” the left-hander said. “It seemed like they had a lot of baserunners today, but I felt like I made good pitches all day. The command was there and my stuff was pretty good.”
Bumgarner is 4-1 with a 1.53 ERA in his last five starts at Chavez Ravine.
Puig came up in the seventh with the bases loaded and one out after Giants skipper Bruce Bochy replaced Bumgarner with Santiago Casilla. Puig’s flyball to right field was too shallow to score Scott Van Slyke, but pinch-hitter Andre Ethier followed with an RBI single.
A.J. Ellis tried to score behind Van Slyke and was thrown out by Hunter Pence for the third out. Mattingly came out to discuss the call with umpire Joe West and used his one challenge for a video replay ruling, which upheld the original call.
“I had to make a pretty good throw and Buster had to make a great tag,” Pence said.
Paul Maholm (0-1) gave up five runs and seven hits through 41/3 innings in his first start for the Dodgers.
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How to build or inspect a wood-framed chimney chase:
This article describes wood-enclosed metal chimneys, how a chimney chase should be constructed, and how those structures can be inspected for leaks, damage, or unsafe conditions.
This article describes how to perform a visual inspection of wood framed chimney chases used to enclose factory-built metal chimneys for safety and other defects. Chimney inspection methods and chimney repair methods are also discussed.
Chimney Chase Construction SNAFUs to Avoid
Our photographs show a typical wood-framed chimney chase constructed to house an insulated metal chimney and/or a Type-B gas vent. The photo at above left shows an incomplete chimney chase with poor workmanship - incomplete installation of housewrap, missing chimney flashing, and who knows what at the chimney top.
Our photo at above right shows vinyl siding has fallen off of the chimney chase, permitting leaks into the structure. Below we show common leaky conditions at the top of a wood-framed chimney enclosure.
The most common defect we find at wood-framed chimney chase ways is an improperly-constructed top flashing that is not sloped to drain properly (above left). Often people try to fix a leak at the the chimney top by smearing on roofing mastic (above right). We find that this is not a durable repair.
A close-look at the top of a mastic-coated wood-framed chimney chase may show that the top is still concave, sloping in towards the chimneys and that the combination of heat and sunlight has dried and cracked the sealant. (Photos above).
Because the top of chimneys is not readily accessible, leaks in this location may remain un-diagnosed for too long, risking insect damage, rot, and mold in the structure below.
The result is leaks inside of the chimney chaseway where water may lead to a damaged and unsafe fireplace insert or heating appliance, rot, and insect damage.
Our photo (left) shows how the interior of a wood-framed chimney chaseway may be constructed using common framing lumber and drywall. In this particular chase no chimney has (yet) been installed.
But leaks at the top of this structure wet the drywall sides leading to a (hard to see) mold contamination.
How to Build a Wood-Framed Chimney Chase
Watch out: before buying materials and starting to hammer away at constructing a chimney chase for your home, be sure to check with your local building code officials.
A building permit is required in most jurisdictions, and the applicable building codes and inspections are important fire safety checks on your chimney chase design and construction.
Common Specifications & Construction Details for a Wood-Framed Chimney Chase
Dimensions for a wood framed chimney chase may be as small as 24" deep x 36" wide, but are more typically 3ft x 5ft x the necessary height to meet roof clearance requirements. Some builders frame the entire chase, beginning inside the structure (where for example a zero-clearance fireplace is to be installed) as wide as six feet to accommodate the fireplace insertion and to support a mantle.
At our REFERENCES section you will find referrals to chimney construction & fire building codes. Framing nailing and structure is typically the same as structural wood framed wall construction in dimensions and spacing of framing members.
Properly framed and constructed, the portion of the chimney chase that extends above the roof surface at a height to meet the roof clearance distances will not require extra bracing.
Framing the chimney chase: typically uses 2x4 structural members sheathed with OSB or plywood exterior building sheathing. For wind resistance, if the chimney chase is passing through the roof structure (rather than abutting the roof structure end, it should be framed continuously through the roof structure, not simply tacked on top of the roof sheathing. Take a look at the photo above showing the inside of a wood-framed chimney chase.
Watch out: the chimney chase support at its base must be able to accommodate the weight of not only the structure and the chimney that may be routed through it (and its supporting brackets) but also the exterior siding (or stone) that may be applied. Extra supporting beams, headers, or a footing may be needed.
A chimney chase cricket is recommended between the chimney side facing the roof and the roof surface, otherwise you're asking for leaks in this location. In some jurisdictions (check with your local code officials) builders leave a one-inch space (see local and model building codes such as IRC code R1001.17) between the cricket edges and the chimney chase vertical side and similarly between the cricket and the roof deck.
Assembly of the chimney chase: some builders construct the wood-frame of the chimney chase on the ground, perhaps in two sections depending on overall chimney height. By capping each section with solid plywood at each floor height, fire stopping has been added.
Our photo (left) shows the remains of a metal chimney passing through the framed chimney chase enclosure as it passed through the first floor of occupied space in a building that suffered severe damage from a chimney chase fire. The factory-built insulated metal chimney was venting an oil fired heating boiler.
Chimney chase fire blocking requirements: fire-blocking (perhaps 3/4" thick plywood or OSB (fire rated?)) is intended to slow or even prevent the movement of a chimney chase fire between building floors, and to prevent the increase of fire intensity and spread by the chimney effects that would occur inside the chimney chase without fires topping.
Fire stopping installed in a wood framed chimney chaseway must comply with local codes
Also see IRC 602.8. Fire blocking is also referred to as fire stopping or "fire stops". Factory-built metal fireblock shields may be required by and provided by the manufacturer of the metal chimney to be installed through the chimney chase.
At CHIMNEY SHROUD FIRE we describe and illustrate serious fire damage caused by an unsafe and un-listed chimney top decorative shroud installed on a home in Moorpark CA.
Chimney chase insulation - is not normally used; the fire rating and fire safety of the chimney will depend on proper selection and installation of the insulated metal flue that will pass through the structure.
If for some reason you are insulating a chimney chase be sure that your insulation is kept back from the metal chimney itself in accordance with its instructions and fire codes.
Securing the chimney chase: The chimney chase must be adequately secured to the building to withstand storms and wind loads for your area.
Builders use steel framing connectors such as Simpson Strong-Ties™ to secure the vertical framing of the chimney chase to the building structural wall. Connecting the chimney chase sheathing to the building framing adds stiffness and support.
Sealing the chimney chase against leaks: we find a lot of leaks into wood framed chimney chases, including at
How to Identify Common Leak points & Hazards at Wood Framed Chimney Chases
The chimney chase top, (chimney chase cover) is usually metal, constructed of formed aluminum or stainless steel.
We find leaks here especially where the top is framed and enclosed "flat" and the top flashing lacks adequate pitch and stiffness to avoid collapsing, even becoming concave" where there are snow loads. (See our chimney chase top photo at left).
At the flashing between the chimney chase box and the roof and roof cricket - these leaks are almost always because someone was not careful to follow normal roof -to-chimney flashing detailing about flashing size, using step flashing and counter flashing. Do not rely on roof sealants and mastics instead of proper flashing.
Through the chimney chase final covering: especially if faux stone or brick are used, but also if vinyl siding or other siding is not properly installed and sealed.
Builders installing a stone or brick veneer often cover the entire chimney chase exterior with a stick-on flashing membrane such as WR Grace Ice and Water Shield.
Watch out: for animals entering the chimney chase. A bird or squirrel nesting in the chimney chase is likely to create a fire hazard. Building owners or maintenance staff (such as at condominium complexes where many wood framed chimney chases may be installed) should inspect for evidence of squirrel-chewed openings in the chase sides, lost or open combustion air screens, and blown-off siding or chimney top seals.
How to Replace a Defective Chimney Chase Pan & Installing a Listed Decorative Chimney Top Shroud
Details of this topic have been moved to a new article found
at CHIMNEY SHROUDS. Excerpts are just below.
A "Chimney Crown" as popularly used in the fireplace industry may refer to a decorative top shroud installed atop a wood-framed chimney chase, as illustrated here. Steve Werner, a home inspector and chimney shroud installer with Chimney King [6], a custom chimney "crown" designer in Gurnee IL, provided us with the following wood framed chimney chase top pans along with comments.
In the photo at above left, the top of the chimney chase was too small to allow for a decorative shroud to function safely according to our UL/OMNI test labs certification.
We designed what we call a ‘super chase pan’ to increase the size of the top of the chase so a legal labeled shroud could be placed on top.
At above right we can see the newly fabricated chimney chase top pan that has been corbelled out to increase its footprint or horizontal size dimensions to accommodate a decorative top shroud.
Mr. Werner continues:
In the fireplace industry we use the term “chase pans” for the covering at the top of a wood framed chimney chase.
Our company, ChimneyKing, has bought lots of fireplaces, pipe, and made many decorative shrouds for testing in these labs to assure that our products are labeled and safe.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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Question:
(July 17, 2012) Anonymous said:
So it is not standard or code to insulate the chimney chase below the roof line? Mine had some rotted siding and when I was tearing the old wood off there was fiberglass insulation from the ground floor to the roofline fire stop.
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Anon,
right, since the chimney chase carries an insulated metal flue rated for "zero" clearance, possibly actually requiring an inch or more of airspace, and because the chase is outside the building, it's not normally insulated;
But a rot problem would better be blamed on construction or flashing errors that allowed leaks into the chase. I agree that once wet, insulation in such a space slows drying and increases damage, but it's the leak that caused thte trouble.
Question:
(Oct 24, 2012) grant said:
does the chimney flue need to be completely enclosed in the attic?
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(Dec 26, 2012) Paul said:
We are planning on installing a wood stove on the ground floor of a two story home and running the stove pipe straight up. I want to get as much heat as I can from the chimney pipe on the second floor. The chimney pipe will be in a corner of the room and I would like the other two sides to have large wall vents to allow heat into the room. Does the chimney pipe have to be completely enclosed by sheetrock?
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(Dec 28, 2012) Steve said:
Paul,
It all depends on the type of vent pipe you are using and their clearance to combustibles rating. For Instance.. HT 103 chimney pipe for wood hardly gives off any ambient heat at all
(Jan 6, 2013) Paul said:
The chimney pipe requires two inches clearance. Although there may not be much heat, it still seems like a waste to fully enclose it in sheetrock.
(Jan 27, 2013) Greg said:
We have a wood framed chimney chase and a gas insert. We want to raise the fireplace so we can install a hearth for seating. It is currently just a bit above the floor level. We are going to be tearing this area apart. How difficult is it going to be to raise the level. I am thinking it might be simple and only require re-trimming the metal flue after raising are re-supporitng the insert. Any comments would be appreciated
(Feb 7, 2013) Celeste said:
I've been having problems for almost 2 years now with a leaking (severely rusted) 28 - 30 year old chimney Pan. The strata council in my complex after having a chimney mason inspect it (the chimney chase has no masonary, it is framed & stucco) has now deemed it my fault because I removed a WOOD burning zero clearence fireplace box from my second story townhouse (the home inspector condemned & said it can't be used). I had the Chimney professionally capped off but left the chimney in tacked to avoid issues with the three other chimneys coming out of that same box. Now I need to have my own instection done... What is the best route to take & who would be qualified to assess my situation, not only the actual leak but the possible water damage etc. that has occured over the past 2 years?
(Nov 2, 2014) Virgil said:
My problem is that I have a 64 inch wide wood farmed fireplace enclosur that broadsides the roof and a valley about three inches in from one side. That means that water coming down the roof has to travel horizontally for about 60 inches. Water leaks at the fascia board on both sides. Adding a saddle would cause a dead end at the valley. The solution seems rather complex.
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(Nov 4, 2014) Robert A Wilson ll said:
I've been a sweep for 34 yrs. Finding in my area prefab fireplace double wall chimneys coming apart in condos build in the early 80's. At that time there was no codes or inspections. Am now blamed for latest find. The owner thinks I damaged her chimney with my 8" poly brush. Do you know of any information to support my case? I believe lack of support straps inside chase is the real reason for pipe collapse and separation. I have given up cleaning metal flues over 2 stories now. thank you robert
Reply:
I agree Robert. Sometimes the solution is a very large saddle (cricket) or even roof mods. At the very least, use absolutely bulletproof flashing and detailing to minimize the leak risk.
Question:
(Nov 13, 2014) paul said:
Having a 2nd floor split system HVAC unit replaced. Contractor wants to run new refrigerant lines inside of the chimney chase from the crawl space to the attic. Is this allowed? Won't it ruin any fireblocking?
Reply:
Paul
I would NOT do what is suggested for several reasons if the chimney is or is ever likely to be in use.
If the chimney has been abandoned and if fire sealant is used at penetrations that might be ok.
(Nov 13, 2014) paul said:
I could not find any IRC codes that say don't run a refrigerant line in a chimney chase other than the fire blocking issue.
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Paul:
Re no code prohibition for refrigerant lines in chimneys: in my OPINION there are so many possible variations in SNAFUS in construction that building codes do not and cannot list every thing NOT to do. Rather codes list more general guidelines including "follow the manufacturer's instructions". Probably a chimney chase - if we're speaking accurately - is less worrisome than running refigerant piping in an actual chimney where heat from combustion gases could ruin the piping and overheat refrigerant.
Question:
(Nov 17, 2014) Chris said:
I am installing a wood stove and because of the pitch of the roof I decided I need a false chase due to the exposé 10 foot piping. . Do you do this (its a stone/siding house) or could you refer me to someone in Cincinnati. Thanks.
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(Dec 20, 2014) Keith said:
I have a minor draft at my fireplace. Blows back in the room enough to make it unusable. It is an insert with a 22 degree offset. I have covered the chimney to see if it is down draft not the problem. I have also covered the outside air intake not the problem. Help!
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Keith I don't think we could find a draft by e-texting. A careful on-site inspection by a fireplace mason or installer or possibly an experienced home inspector may be of some use. Or you could try some smoke testing. You could perhaps also do the test in reverse: fans blowing into the home to pressureize it and smoke released in and around the fireplace, spotting smoke appearing outdoors.
See inspectapedia.com/Energy/Heat_Loss_Tools.htm#Leaks5 for smoke test suggestions
See inspectapedia.com/Energy/Heat_Loss_Tools.htm for examples of detecting air leaks
See inspectapedia.com/Energy/Smoke_Pencils.htm for sources of smoke testers
Question:
(Feb 16, 2015) Brian said:
I have a 3 story house that had its chimney destroyed by an earthquake. The chimney serviced first and second floor fireplaces traveling up the inside of the house and transitioning to the outside as it passed through the third stories mansurd roof. From the first floor to the mansurd roof the existing chase where the brick chimney used to be is fairly wide and deep, however, it narrows where it passes through the mansurd roof.
At this point the new internal dimension of the wood framed replacement chimney is only 24 inches wide by about 18 inches deep. This section is about 8 feet long before entering a 5 foot tall metal sleeve/cap that sits above the roof line. I need to pass a 8" class A metal flue through (10" outside dimension) along with a 6" B vent.
That totals 16 5/8" of flue leaving 6 3/8 " of space left for clearance between combustibles and the two pipes.
Even though I can achieve 2" clearance between the chases plywood walls and metal flues, I am more than a little worried about applying these clearance criteria to 8 feet of plywood surface that the city would like to have fireblocked. It would seem to me that I would be creating an oven made of plywood. Do I have a problem?
Reply:
Yes.
I would 1. ask for details of what the city wants you to do
and 2. check with a design professional
Question: is there a fire-retardant paint to use inside of a chimney chase?
(June 6, 2015) Anonymous said:
I just replaced my chimney siding (T11) after 7 years since the new roof was installed. The usual cause due to rain rot around the edging. I noticed the discarded T11 where the side facing the flu appeared to be painted with some form of (possibly) fire resistant paint or it could just be discoloration from the Heat.
Is there a paint available? The new job is tight as skin. Let me know if I needed some type of interior coating.
You can send me a reply via my email [email protected]
Reply:
Anon:
In a properly constructed chimney chase with the proper-rated and type of chimney installed there should never be enough heat emitted to char the interior surface of the T111 siding. I would ask for an inspection by a certified chimney sweep to be sure your chimney is the proper type and properly installed. The risk is a house fire.
If your chimney is venting a UL listed appliance you do not need and should not require any type of insulating or fireproofing coating on the interior of the chimney chase, though some writers such as my friends over at the JLC (Journal of Light Construction) like putting a fire-resistant covering inside of a chase (keep those clearance distances though).
To build a fire-retardant chimney chase one might use FIRE RETARDANT PLYWOOD and sure one could try spraying a fire-retardant coating, but those are not common practices.
Codes allow a maximum of 90 degF temperature rise above ambient inside the the chimney chase - well below the combustion or pyrolysis point for plywood.
A greater fire risk in chimney chases might occur if birds or squirrels can get into the chase where it's a lovely place for nesting.
Do check that the chimney chase has the code required fire blocking.
[Readers with masonry chimneys will want to take a look at Chapter 10 of the 2003 (or later) IRC: Chimneys and Fireplaces.]
Question: ok to run pipes through the chimney chase?
22 July 2015 Tom Brackett said:
Can I run my sewer pipe thru the fire place chase
Reply:
Tom:
I doubt your local code officials will permit running a sewer line through a chimney chase. There are issues with fire blocking and clearances to combustibles.
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[3] Wood Heating Alliance, "Building Inspector's Checklist for Factory Built Fireplaces", appearing in Baird, David J., C.B.O., "Factory-built Chimney Chase Fires: A case for More Detailed Inspection", Building Standards, March-April 1991, pp. 14-17. Note: The Fireplace Institute (FI) and the Wood Energy Institute (WEI) united to form the Wood Heating Alliance in 1980. The name was then changed again in 1983 to the Hearth Products Association (HPA) a non-profit organization, in order to better reflect the diversity and range of products and services within the industry. The name was changed once more to, Hearth Patio and Barbecue Association (HPBA) in 2001. Pacific HPBA, 2304 Huntington Dr., Suite 218, San Marino, CA 91108
(626) 237-1200 or (888) 332-2472
Fax: (626) 237-0721- [email protected], Website: http://hpbapacific.org/
Fireplace Safety Tips - Barbecue Safety Tips from the HPBA - see http://hpbapacific.org/pdfs/safetytips.pdf
[5] Stephen Werner, General Manager, Chimney King LLC., P.O. Box 8, Gurnee, IL 60031, Tel: (847) 244-8860, Email: [email protected], Website: www.chimneyking.com . Mr. Werner is also a licensed home inspector serving clients in Wisconsin. Chimney King sells their products through a network of fireplace dealers, chimney sweeps, roofers and builders. Each decorative shroud is custom built because no two chimney/chase are alike.
[6] Residential Masonry Fireplace and Chimney Handbook, James E. Amrhein, S.E., MIA, Masonry Institute of America, 2d. Ed., 1995, ISBN 0-940116-29-4. The MIA is in Los Angeles, CA 213-388-0472. This manual reflects the 1994 Uniform Building Code, Energy Conservation Requirements of California, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - HUD. The complete UBC is available from the International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), Whittier CA 310-699-0541.
[12] Fire Inspector Guidebook, A Correlation of Fire Safety Requirements Contained in the 1987 BOCA National Codes, (newer edition available), Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. (BOCA), Country Club HIlls, IL 60478 312-799-2300 4th ed. Note: this document is reissued every four years. Be sure to obtain the latest edition.
[14] New York 1984 Uniform Fire
Prevention and Building Code, Article 10, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Requirements
New York 1979 Uniform Fire Prevention & Building Code, The "requirement" for 8" of solid masonry OR for use of a
flue liner was listed in the One and Two Family Dwelling Code for New
York, in 1979, in Chapter 9, Chimneys and Fireplaces, New York 1979
Building and Fire Prevention Code:
[17] "Rooftop View Turns to Darkness," Martine Costello, Josh Kovner, New Haven Register, 12 May 1992 p. 11: Catherine Murphy was sunning on a building roof when a chimney collapsed; she fell into and was trapped inside the chimney until rescued by emergency workers.
[19] "Chimney Inspection Procedures & Codes," Donald V. Cohen was to be published in the first volume of the 1994 ASHI Technical Journal by D. Friedman, then editor/publisher of that publication. The production of the ASHI Technical Journal and future editions was cancelled by ASHI President Patrick Porzio. Some of the content of Mr. Cohen's original submission has been included in this more complete chimney inspection article: InspectAPedia.com/chimneys/Chimney_Inspection_Repair.php. Copies of earlier editions of the ASHI Technical Journal are available from ASHI, the American Society of Home Inspectors.
[20] Natural Gas Weekly Update: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngw/ngupdate.asp Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
[24] Ceramic Roofware, Hans Van Lemmen, Shire Library, 2008, ISBN-13: 978-0747805694 - Brick chimneys, chimney-pots and roof and ridge tiles have been a feature of the roofs of a wide range of buildings since the late Middle Ages. In the first instance this ceramic roofware was functional - to make the roof weatherproof and to provide an outlet for smoke - but it could also be very decorative.
The practical and ornamental aspects of ceramic roofware can still be seen throughout Britain, particularly on buildings of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Not only do these often have ornate chimneys and roof tiles but they may also feature ornamental sculptures or highly decorative gable ends. This book charts the history of ceramic roofware from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting both practical and decorative applications, and giving information about manufacturers and on the styles and techniques of production and decoration.
Hans van Lemmen is an established author on the history of tiles and has lectured on the subject in Britain and elsewhere. He is founder member and presently publications editor of the British Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society. Also available at the InspectAPedia Bookstore.
[26] Chimney & Stack Inspection Guidelines, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003 - These guidelines address the inspection of chimneys and stacks. Each guideline assists owners in determining what level of inspection is appropriate to a particular chimney and provides common criteria so that all parties involved have a clear understanding of the scope of the inspection and the end product required. Each chimney or stack is a unique structure, subject to both aggressive operating and natural environments, and degradation over time. Such degradation may be managed via a prudent inspection program followed by maintenance work on any equipment or structure determined to be in need of attention. Sample inspection report specifications, sample field inspection data forms, and an example of a developed plan of a concrete chimney are included in the guidelines. This book provides a valuable guidance tool for chimney and stack inspections and also offers a set of references for these particular inspections.
International Mechanical Code IMC (2000), M74-98 806.6, ratified 9.98, model building code for the United States,
806.6 Decorative Shrouds. Decorative shrouds shall not be installed at the
termination of factory-built chimneys, except where such shrouds are listed
and labeled for use with the specific factory-built chimney system and are
installed in accordance with section 304.1.
Reason: Decorative shrouds have been the cause of roof and chase fires
International Residential Code (IRC) (2000), R1002.2 ratified 9/99, 1000.2 Decorative Shrouds. Decorative shrouds shall not be installed at the
termination of factory-built chimneys, except where such shrouds are listed
and labeled for use with the specific factory-built chimney system and are
installed in accordance with the manufacturers installation instructions.
Reason: Decorative shrouds often allow for the creation of temperatures in
excess of those permitted in UL 103 and UL 127. Decorative shrouds have
been the cause of chase top fires ...
International Fire Code (IFC) (2000), IFC 603.6.3, 603.6.3 Decorative Shrouds. Decorative shrouds installed at the
termination of factory-built chimneys shall be removed, except where such
shrouds are listed and labeled for use with the specific factory-built
chimney system and are installed in accordance with the manufacturers
installation instructions.
Reason: Decorative shrouds have been the cause of dozens of chase fires.
As a non-listed part to a listed assembly, their use should not have been
allowed in the first place.
R1001.11 Fireplace clearance. Combustible material shall have a clearance of not less than 2 inches (51 mm) from the front faces and sides of masonry fireplaces and not less than 4 inches (102 mm) from the back faces of masonry fireplaces. The air space shall not be filled, except to provide fire blocking in accordance with Section R1003.12.
Exceptions:
1. Masonry fireplaces listed and labeled for use in contact with combustibles in accordance with UL 127, and installed in accordance with the manufacturer's installation instructions, are permitted to have combustible material in contact with their exterior surfaces.
2. Combustible materials, including framing, wood siding, flooring and trim, shall be permitted to abut the sides and hearth extensions, but not the backs, of masonry fireplaces, in accordance with FIGURE R1003.12, provided such combustible materials are a minimum of 12 inches (306 mm) from the inside surface of the nearest firebox lining.
3. Exposed combustible mantels or trim may be placed directly on the masonry fireplace front surrounding the fireplace opening provided such combustible materials shall not be placed within 6 inches (153 mm) of a fireplace opening. Combustible material within 12 inches (305 mm) of the fireplace opening shall not project more than 1/8 inch (3.2 mm) for each 1-inch (25 mm) distance from such opening
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'Gotta Catch 'Em All': Clinton Campaign Targets Pokémon Go PokéStop
'Battle Each Other While You Register Voters and Learn More About Sec. Hillary Clinton!!!'
"I don't know who created Pokémon Go," Hillary Clinton said on the campaign trail Thursday, "but I'm trying to figure out how we get them to have Pokémon go to the polls." You can watch her deliver that bit -- and grin at her own joke -- courtesy of CNBC:
Join us as we go to the Pokestop in Madison Park and put up a lure module, get free pokemon, & battle each other while you register voters and learn more about Sec. Hillary Clinton!!! Kids welcome!
Though the combination of Sec. Clinton's groaner of a soundbite and the presence of the event on her website is drawing attention to her Pokéstrategy, Ohio-based Hillary Clinton supporters have already been namechecking Pokémon in attempt to lure volunteers:
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Understanding of data Processing with various schemas like structured unstructured and semi structured data.
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Prepping Food with Kitchen Utensils and Gadgets
Easily prepare food with kitchen gadgets from Crate and Barrel. Now you can slice, grate, chop and shuck more easily using the right tool for the job. Flip omelettes and pancakes using spatulas, and quickly add icing to cakes, cookies and cupcakes using rubber spatulas. Prepare steaks for grilling with a meat tenderizer, and extract the juice from lemons, limes and oranges using a hand-held juicer.
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What Your Eye Color Means
The old adage says "eyes are the window to the soul." Some people take this to heart and believe that you can deduce a person's personality simply by looking at the color of their eyes. Alternative medicine even has an field dedicated to the study of how eyes display a person's health. Although pop culture often uses eye color quizzes to predict your personality for entertainment, some academic study claims there might be a link between personality and eye color.
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People inherit eye color from their parent's DNA. DNA determines the amount of pigment in our eyes and their pattern, according to Sewanee University. You can also accurately predict a child's eye color from the parent's eyes. The brightness of eyes depend on the amount of melanin in eye pigment. Eye color changes as we grow; toddlers often have blue eyes because the body takes a while to start producing melanin.
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A survey taken by CyberPulse shows that people sometimes correlate certain eye colors with personality traits. It should be noted that this survey does not establish a scientific link between personality and eye color and is for entertainment purposes. Some respondents of the survey chose certain traits for eye colors significantly more than others. Brown eyes, for example, had 34 percent of people associate the color with intelligence. Blue eyes exude sweetness, believe 42 percent of participants.
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One sector of alternative medicine, called iridology, believes that eyes can reveal certain medical conditions in a person, according to Creighton University's Alternative Medicine website. According to iridology, three different types of eyes exist: blue, mixed and green. An iridologist matches colors with a chart of the eye to make a diagnosis; yellow, for example, means a certain area is getting "sick."
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A study by a Rowan University graduate student showed that the link between personality and eye color may have some potential. Dana P. Huff selected random preschoolers for a behavioral analysis by their teachers. The results of the study showed that blue-eyed children were more socially active than green and brown-eyed children. However, shyness is not a physical trait and social intelligence can be learned, claims Huff.
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According to scientific reviews, iridology does not hold much credential within the medical community. Creighton University reports that a 2000 iridology study in "Archives of Ophthalmology" showed that eye color diagnoses are poor medical evaluation tools. A 1979 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association resulted in iridologists incorrectly diagnosing sick patients as healthy in most cases. The medical community advises people to not rely on iridology medical assessments.
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• (potentially) QRPGuys Digital Power Port - $15Unfortunately, it hasn't yet shipped, so I'm worried it won't be here by this Sunday.
As usual, I'll have a couple of Soldering Irons and the various tools and supplies needed to build these kits, but I encourage you to bring your own iron, solder, and various tools as well. Also, if you do, please bring some cardboard or some kind of material to cover your workspace so that we avoid burning the conference room table.
Hope to see you there!
P.S. We'll also be conducting a FREE license testing session from 12 PM until 2 PM, just before the tech session, same room. So if you've been meaning to get that test out of the way, this is also a good opportunity for that as well.
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Letter: Leaders should think about long-term goals
Richard E. ConnawaySt. Augustine Beach
Published Thursday, November 13, 2003
Editor: Meanderings - very poetic. But to worship a flag -- while disregarding the economics of its foundation. With the ever-increasing export of U.S. production jobs and services and so the continued global weakening of the U.S. dollar (presently contained and hidden by the actions of international banks), are the leaders of this country concerned with the long-term existence of the nation or, rather, the short-term grandeur of their respective political careers?
Regardless, it should be considered that when (not if) the dollar crashes, those leaders will be exposed in their subterfuge perhaps even as traitors to their Constitutional oath. For indeed, the "terrorists" would better fulfill their objective of death to the United States by just letting history unfold -- much as one does to discover an origami design. And of note: While these foreign wars are being used to unite the people, is the armed conflict also being used to distract the citizenry from the looming economic disaster?
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Construction underway on house powered entirely by sun
The University of Minnesota’s solar decathlon team will be displaying the completed house at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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After 15 months of planning, University of Minnesota students are finally getting to fire up their drills and saws to begin construction on a fully functioning house powered exclusively by the sun. The students are members of the UniversityâÄôs solar decathlon team, which will be taking its completed house to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in October to compete against 19 other schools in a biennial national competition. The Solar Decathlon competition, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, will last three weeks and will judge teams based on all aspects of their house, from energy efficiency to interior design. The UniversityâÄôs solar decathlon team started preparing its proposal for the competition in the fall of 2007, Ann Johnson , project manager and director of the construction management program, said. In January, the team was chosen as one of 20 participants and has been working on designing and planning their house since. Although initially hoping to have the house constructed by graduation, Johnson said the team is now aiming to finish by July 1 so it can be put up for display on the East Bank campus in August. âÄúWe decided it was too stressful for us to try and rush,âÄù she said. âÄúWe didnâÄôt want to stress ourselves with having to make design decisions too fast.âÄù The house being built by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is about two weeks from being completed, project manager Patrick Chapman said, and the team will spend the rest of the summer calibrating and repairing the house. At the ReUse Center in Minneapolis Friday, where the house is being constructed, about 10 students were on hand, unloading 800-pound pieces of wood from supply trucks, installing insulation and working to finish the houseâÄôs base. Construction management senior Bradley Fasbender , who was at the building site Friday, said it took a while to get the construction rolling, but now that itâÄôs underway and with summer around the corner, he said he expects the pace to pick up. Construction manager Craig Hohensee said when completed the house will cover 800-square feet and will include a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room and porch. The house is being constructed in three modules to make it easier to transport to Washington, he said. After the competition, it will return to Minnesota and be placed at UMore Park in Rosemount where it will be open for tours and educational visits. Hohensee said he hopes someone will eventually be able to move into the house and live there full time. Working on designing the house and coordinating the efforts of the 150 students working on the project has been challenging, team president Shengyin Xu said, but seeing the house start to take shape has been rewarding, if a bit nerve-wracking. âÄúWhen it starts to come up itâÄôs exciting âĦ but itâÄôs also really frightening that something you designed could be wrong, maybe it wonâÄôt stand,âÄù she said. When designing the house, Johnson said the team focused on making the solar house look like a regular residential home, she said, something that many hi-tech solar houses fail to do. âÄúItâÄôs not a new age, space age, Star Trek house,âÄù she said. âÄúItâÄôs really meant to look like something you might see in a neighborhood, something that would blend in.âÄù Also helping make the house unique will be how it incorporates the solar panels into the design of the house, electrical engineering graduate student Brian Henke said. Because the team is building the house from the ground up, Henke said the team has been able to build the panels into the roof instead of mounting them on brackets. âÄúThe roof system is the solar system,âÄù he said. The house will also use solar energy to provide hot water and solar panels will be integrated into the windows to provide further energy efficiency. When all the costs associated with building the house are added up, Johnson estimated the project will cost a total of $400,000 to construct. Many of the materials used in construction were either donated or bought at a reduced price, Johnson said, and seed grants from the Department of Energy and the UniversityâÄôs Institute on Renewable Energy and the Environment have also helped defray costs. The IREE decided to support the project because to bring together students from varying disciplines to collaborate on a project relating to solar energy, an important resource IREE director Richard Hemmingsen called âÄúunderutilized and underappreciated.âÄù The project will help demonstrate the effectiveness of solar energy, he said, and students will get a chance to work with and find new applications for cutting edge technology.
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Stool color: When to worry
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Stool comes in a range of colors. All shades of brown and even green are considered normal. Only rarely does stool color indicate a potentially serious intestinal condition.
Stool color is generally influenced by what you eat as well as by the amount of bile — a yellow-green fluid that digests fats — in your stool. As bile pigments travel through your gastrointestinal tract, they are chemically altered by enzymes, changing the pigments from green to brown.
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With an eye on curing diabetes, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have successfully transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells destined to produce insulin into diabetic macaque monkeys – all without the need for risky immune suppression drugs that prevent rejection.
The transplanted cells, known as primordia, are in the earliest stages of developing into pancreatic tissues. Within several weeks of the transplants, the cells became engrafted, or established, within the three rhesus macaque monkeys that received them. The cells also released pig insulin in response to rising blood glucose levels, as would be expected in healthy animals and humans.
"The approach reduced the animals' need for insulin injections and has promise for curing diabetes in humans," says senior investigator Marc Hammerman, M.D., the Chromalloy Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine. "The transplants worked without a need for immune suppression and that is a major obstacle we have overcome."
The researchers' results appear online and will be published in the journal Xenotransplantation in November.
Although the transplants fell short of producing sufficient insulin to cure the macaques' diabetes, Hammerman predicts that with additional research, including the transplantation of additional embryonic pig cells into the animals, he will be able to reduce their need for insulin injections entirely.
The new research follows on the heels of reports by Hammerman and his colleagues demonstrating that transplanted pig pancreatic primordia can cure both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in rats, without using immune suppression drugs. Other scientists have tried different types of pancreatic cell transplants – in animals and humans – as a stepping stone to curing diabetes, but they all require anti-rejection drugs. These drugs must be taken daily to stave off rejection and have adverse effects of their own that limit the success of the transplants.
As a treatment for diabetes in people, pig insulin typically works as well as the human form. Before recombinant DNA technology enabled pharmaceutical companies to manufacture human insulin in the 1980s, pig and cow insulin were routinely given to diabetic patients.
The primates in the current study had type 1 diabetes, the form that occurs when islet cells in the pancreas stop producing insulin all together. The Washington University researchers transplanted 19 embryonic pig pancreatic primordia into each diabetic monkey. Each primordium is smaller than the diameter of a period that ends a sentence and is transplanted into a membrane that envelops the intestines and other digestive organs.
The transplanted cells were retrieved from the pig embryos early in their development, which is believed to render them "invisible" to the primates' immune system or induce a state of tolerance, either of which eliminates the need for immune suppression.
The researchers determined by multiple methods that the transplanted cells became established within the primates. And as the cells matured, they began to release pig insulin. "We found using every method that the cells engraft long-term and, thus, are not rejected by the animals' immune systems," Hammerman says. "It's been more than two years since our first transplant was carried out. That particular primate doesn't produce any primate insulin, but has pig insulin circulating in its bloodstream that has reduced by more than 50 percent the amount of injected insulin the animal needs, compared to levels before the transplant. The animals have never received immune suppression drugs."
Two of the macaques remain healthy. One, however, became anemic about six weeks post-transplant and was euthanized a month later after developing acute respiratory distress. The researchers could not find a link between this animal's illness and the pancreatic cell transplants.
The two remaining macaques have each received two transplants of embryonic pancreatic cells. One of the animals has been followed for 23 months after his first transplant, and the amount of insulin he needs to have injected has declined by some 55 percent over baseline levels. The other macaque has been followed for 10 months after his initial transplant, and his need for injected insulin continues to decline over time.
Hammerman and his colleague Sharon Rogers, research instructor in medicine, are leaders in the emerging field of organogenesis, which focuses on growing organs from transplanted embryonic organ precursors known as primordia. Unlike embryonic stem cells, which can become virtually any cell type, primordia are locked into becoming cells of a particular organ.
"We are encouraged by these results," Rogers says. "The absence of a need for immune suppression in diabetic rats gave us hope that we were on the right track. But many findings in rats do not hold true for species that are more closely related to humans, such as non-human primates. This one did."
The team will now determine how best to eliminate the need for injected insulin in the diabetic macaques that receive transplants, thus demonstrating long-term effectiveness of the technique, and establish the absolute safety of pancreatic primordia transplants. If these experiments succeed, the researchers plan to conduct clinical trials in humans with diabetes.
"We hope to find out how to apply our findings to human type 1 and type 2 diabetics because the embryonic pig primordia would represent an unlimited source of tissue for transplantation," Hammerman says.
For photographers and scientists, lenses are lifesavers. They reflect and refract light, making possible the imaging systems that drive discovery through the microscope and preserve history through cameras.
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Scientists from the University of Zurich have succeeded for the first time in tracking individual stem cells and their neuronal progeny over months within the intact adult brain. This study sheds light on how new neurons are produced throughout life.
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Let’s say the armrest is broken in your vintage car. As things stand, you would need a lot of luck and persistence to find the right spare part. But in the world of Industrie 4.0 and production with batch sizes of one, you can simply scan the armrest and print it out. This is made possible by the first ever 3D scanner capable of working autonomously and in real time. The autonomous scanning system will be on display at the Hannover Messe Preview on February 6 and at the Hannover Messe proper from April 23 to 27, 2018 (Hall 6, Booth A30).
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The 2009 International Conference on Mechanical and Electrical Technology (ICMET 2009) will be held in Beijing, China during August 8-11, 2009. ICMET 2009 is sponsored by International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology and Beijing Technology and Business University, and co-organized by Beijing University of Technology, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications and University of Karachi.
The Head of the Department of Beijing Technology and Business University, Prof. Wenzheng Li, Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Academician, Prof. Xubang Shen, and Head of the Department of University of Karachi, Prof. S. M. Aqil Burney are the conference chair of the ICMET 2009.
aims at bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in all areas of Mechanical and Electrical Technology, and provides an international forum for the dissemination of original research results, new ideas and practical development experiences which concentrate on both theory and practices. The conference focuses on the frontier topics in the Mechanical and Electrical Technology subjects. The Conference proceeding will be published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Press. All the accepted papers will be submitted to the major indexing service for indexing, such as INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI (ISTP), and other indexing services.
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STERLING -- Northeastern Junior College was buzzing with budding science researchers on Thursday. Approximately 66 students were there, from surrounding middle and high schools, to present their work at the 58th annual Northeast Regional Science Fair.This year there were seven schools participating, down from nine last year. In 2006, when Penny Propst first started as director, there were four schools and roughly 70 projects.
"I don't think there's any other thing like science research to help improve English, writing, presenting, public speaking," Propst said, also noting it helps with critical thinking. "Keep up your interest in science research; it will never ever fail you."
This year's Best of Fair Overall Winner in the senior division was Emma Scholz, a 10th grader at Sterling High School. For her project she studied the effects of gliadin protein levels in hybrid wheat on the segment regeneration in lumbriculus (blackworms).She said she came up with the idea because a lot of people are starting to get Celiac disease and develop gluten allergies, which Scholz herself has. Scholz wanted to know if going gluten free really makes people healthier and if there's a link between the amount of gliadin in different hybrid wheat and the way it affects human and animal health.
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This was the second time she has participated in the Science Fair. She said she enjoys doing science research because it allows her to explore areas that are unexplored.
"I love being able to learn new things. You can learn however much you want to," Scholz said. "I love being able to find things that no one else has found before."
Alex Fernandez, also a sophomore at SHS, took sixth place in the senior division for his project on the effect of silencing the IL27 gene with the use of RNAi on Caenorhabditis elegans.
He said he stumbled upon the idea for his project on the Internet.
"It was something I didn't know a lot about," Fernandez said. "I thought it would be cool to know how the body works."
Recently the IL27 gene has been linked to inflammation in autoimmune responses. Eliminating the gene may inhibit the autoimmune responses in conditions such as allergies and multiple sclerosis.
This was Fernandez's first time at the Science Fair. He wanted to take part in it because he wants to go into the medical field and he thought this is something that could help him with that.
Bodie Hume and Tevor Smith, seventh graders at Sterling Middle School, took third place in the behavior category for the junior division. Their project was on what effect listening to music has on test scores.
Hume said they chose that topic because they have a big interest in music. This was Hume's second year participating in the Science Fair and Smith's first year. Both said they wanted to do it because they like science.
It was also Alexa Tena's first Science Fair. The seventh grader from SMS took second place in the behavior category for her project on a cell phone conversation's affect on reaction time. After conducting a ruler drop test with 20 students, she found cell phone conversations do slow down reaction time.
She too said she wanted to participate because she likes science.
A number of awards and scholarships were handed out during an awards ceremony at the end of the day.
Scholz and VanDuren were also finalists for the International Science and Engineering Fair, May 12-17, in Phoenix. The Walsh Foundation also awarded travel expenses to the two students to pay expenses for the ISEF.
Plus, Scholz received the Outstanding Sustainability Award from the International Sustainable World Energy, Engineering & Environment Project, and VanDuren received the Recognition Award. Both qualified to participate in the I-SWEEP Fair, May 9-13, in Houston.Other senior division finalists for the Colorado State Science and Engineering Fair, April 11-13, at Colorado State University, included Fernandez; Ivan Estupinan (Sterling), seventh place; Valeria Arambula (Wray), eighth place; and Callie Deterding (Wray), ninth place. Alternate is Allysa Valko (Wray).
Shaw, Beckman, Meisner, Anderson and Beckner will be nominated for the Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering for Rising Stars) competition and if selected as a finalist they will receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. to showcase their projects.
Visitors look over projects at the Northeast Regional Science Fair during a public viewing time. There were 66 projects from seven schools entered into this year's event. (Callie Jones/Journal-Advocate)
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Blenheim Ginger Ale Company; the earliest, smallest and many say finest, independent soda bottling company in the United States of America. Located on the grounds of the massive South of the Border Tourist Attraction in Hamer, South Carolina, the company retains the same small town, family-style production as when Good Ole’ Blenheim Ginger Ale began being bottled in 1903.
The natural mineral springs in Blenheim, South Carolina that are the genesis of today’s ginger ale were chanced upon in 1781 by James Spears, a Whig, who was attempting to elude Tory troops. As legend has it, Mr. Spears lost his shoe in a water hole. When he came back later to recover his lost shoe, he sampled the water and discovered its potent mineral contents. News of the natural spring circulated around the countryside and before long, folks were arriving from far and wide to try out the cold, invigorating water supply of the spring. Numerous affluent plantation owners constructed summertime houses in the area surrounding Blenheim Springs to take advantage of the constant supply of the soothing, refreshing spring water.
In the later part of the 1800′s, Dr. C. R. May counseled his patients with stomach troubles to drink in the water from the mineral springs. When his patients complained about the noticeable iron-like taste of the mineral water, Dr. May supplemented it with Jamaican Ginger to help make its flavor more appealing. In 1903, Dr. May and A. J. Matheson started the Blenheim Bottling Company next to the Blenheim Artesian Mineral Springs and began making Original Extra Pale. The structure which housed the original bottling plant was constructed in 1920 and operated as a working Bottler’s Museum for a number of years before tragically burning to the ground in December of 2008. In 1993 the Blenheim Bottling Company was bought by the Schafer Family, who also own the South of the Border Tourist Complex. They instantly refurbished the aging industrial plant to conform to modern criteria, and set about bottling our unique ginger ale.
Within a few weeks, however, it was clearly apparent that the antiquated plant would never be able to fill the demand that existed for Blenheim Ginger Ale, so a brand new modern plant was constructed with greater capability, though preserving the character and uniqueness of the original facility. The current proprietors believe the continuing production and evolution of Blenheim Ginger Ale is a “Labor of Love”. They unwaveringly trust there’s a marketplace in America for a small-scale, but distinct, bottling company with an altogether unparalleled artesian product.
Although the Original Extra Pale #5 Not as Hot was gingery enough for many customers, our extra spicy and fiery Old #3 Hot has surpassed it in popularity. Now supplemented by the waistline conscious #9 Diet with low-calorie sweeteners, Blenheim continues the century old tradition of crafting straight up, hot as blazes old time ginger ale. Blenheim Ginger Ale is bottled ONLY in 12 ounce glass bottles, never in cans or plastic, assuring that it never tastes “tinny” or “off”. All Blenheim products are now being packaged in packs of 6 bottles and cases 24 bottles. You can know for sure that today’s Blenheim is just as fresh, clean and pure today as it was over 100 years ago.
Blenheim’s had two sodas in the running here, and our tasters preferred the Not As Hot.
Despite the “Not As Hot” moniker, this ginger ale still managed to burn our throats more than almost any other soda in the taste test. “Feels like my nose and mouth are on fire!” said one taster. “Ginger’s off the scale,” noted another. So if you love ginger and think Canada Dry’s for wimps, this one’s for you.
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On the Singles Chart, Danish band Lukas Graham pick up their first #1 with 7 Years.
The volatility at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart continues this week with Danish band Lukas Graham becoming the fifth artist in as many weeks to claim the #1 spot. It’s one of three titles to make big jumps into the top ten this week (see below). Further down the top 50, both in their second week in the chart Coldplay’s ‘Hymn For The Weekend’ and Conrad Sewell’s ‘Remind Me’ have made respectable climbs, they’re now at #25 and #28 respectively.
As well as debuts from Tim Minchin and Daya (see below), there’s also new entries for Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ #39), Cyrus (‘Keep Talking’ #44) and Ellie Goulding (‘Something In The Way You Move’ #44).
Singles Chartifacts:
#1: Lukas Graham ‘7 Years’ – After debuting at #20 last week, ‘7 Years’ by Danish group Lukas Graham jumps to the #1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart. They become the third Danish act to hit #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, following on from Cut 'N' Move [‘Give It Up’ (#1 Feb. ’94)] Aqua [‘Barbie Girl’ (#1 Nov. ’97) and ‘Doctor Jones’ (#1 Dec. ’97)].
#7: Flo Rida ‘My House’ – A jump of eight spots for ‘My House’ in its fourth week in the top 50. It becomes Flo Rida’s eleventh top ten single in Australia and the first since ‘Can't Believe It’ (#7 Sept. ’13).
#9: Hilltop Hoods Feat. Montaigne & Tom Thum ‘1955’ – After debuting at #25 last week, ‘1955’ moves up 16 places to give the Hilltop Hoods a fifth top ten single. Its parent album ‘Drinking From The Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung’ is out this week (w/c 19/2).
#11: Tim Minchin ‘Come Home (Cardinal Pell)’ – Australian writer, comedian, musician Tim Minchin makes his ARIA Singles Chart debut with ‘Come Home (Cardinal Pell)’. Money raised from sales of the satirical track will go towards a crowdfunding campaign set up to pay for abuse victims to travel to Rome.
#33: Daya ‘Hide Away’ – American singer-songwriter Daya makes her ARIA Charts debut with ‘Hide Away’. The 17 year old from Pittsburgh current sits at #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the track.
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MARS ILL
My Life Lyrics
(Hook)
my life moves at the speed of the light
my life, I'm in the fight of my life for all of my
life
my life is in the limelight, my life here is finite
so gather round tonight and take a look at my life
verse 1:
I live the high life with lowlifes who want life to go
right/
they blow like amateurs while I'm a professional who's
pro-life/
in rap olympics Moabites hold records against physics/
and make my words a guillotine so that heads can roll
with it/
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that i lead/
might just touch enough minds with rhymes, develop
thousand lifetimes/
bring sentences to life while you serve this life
sentence/
just a slave to every hour, counting seconds by the
minute/
me, I start where many finish, and my life to me is
endless/
trip towards the infinite coz life to me's a
pilgrimage/
skywalk like phantom menace, against all odds like
Jeff Bridges/
to live life first 'til second coming, hype verses/
verse words written down, world wishin' I might curse/
but my heart beats to the stroke of my pen and I'd die
first/
flirt with disaster and transfer life lessons on wax /
and make a soundtrack for life with every track/
hook:
my life moves at the speed of the light
my life, I'm in the fight of my life for all of my
life
my life is in the limelight, my life here is finite
so gather round tonight and take a look at my life
my life moves at the speed of the light
my life, I'm in the fight of my life for all of my
life
no money, broke life, breain' life down to a science
(my life might be a tragedy, my life will be a
triumph)
verse 2:
I got my mind on my money and my money in the next
man's bank account/
put my hand to the plow, close my mouth, and just say
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Photos: Most anticipated new U.S. theme park rides for 2013
Funtime
The once-famed Steel Pier on the long-faded Atlantic City Boardwalk will invest more than $100 million on new entertainment venues and amusement rides, including a 385-foot-tall Funtime Star Flyer dubbed the tallest swing tower in the world.
The once-famed Steel Pier on the long-faded Atlantic City Boardwalk will invest more than $100 million on new entertainment venues and amusement rides, including a 385-foot-tall Funtime Star Flyer dubbed the tallest swing tower in the world. (Funtime)
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk plans to replace a 20-year-old steel coaster with the $5.5 million Undertow spinning coaster in summer 2013. The 50-foot-tall Undertow will reach speeds of 40 mph along a 1,400-foot-long track.
Let's take a closer look at the new attractions planned for U.S. theme parks in 2013, including some major projects by big industry players and several significant additions by smaller parks. Here are our top 13 for 2013:
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Trump vows he won't let China 'do nothing' on N. Korea
'I am very disappointed in China,' Trump wrote.
People watch as coverage of an ICBM missile test is displayed on a screen in a public square in Pyongyang on July 29, 2017. Photo by AFP/Kim Won-Jin.
US President Donald Trump warned Saturday that he would not allow China to "do nothing" on North Korea, after the hermit state launched an intercontinental ballistic missile test it boasted could reach the United States.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un boasted of his country's ability to strike any target in the US after the ICBM test that weapons experts said could even bring New York into range -- in a major challenge to Trump.
Under Kim's leadership, North Korea has accelerated its drive towards a credible nuclear strike capability, in defiance of international condemnation and multiple sets of UN sanctions.
In his critique of Beijing, which came in two tweets, Trump linked trade strains with the Asian giant -- marked by a trade deficit of $309 billion last year -- to policy on North Korea, after South Korea indicated it was speeding the deployment of a US missile defense system that has infuriated China.
"I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk," Trump wrote.
US 'within striking range'
Kim said the test "is meant to send a grave warning to the US" and demonstrated the North's ability to launch "at any place and time," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
The "leader said proudly the test also confirmed all the US mainland is within our striking range," it said.
Trump denounced the launch as "reckless and dangerous" and rejected Pyongyang's claims that such tests helped ensure its security.
He vowed to take "all necessary steps to ensure the security of the American homeland and protect our allies in the region."
Weapons experts said the altitude and flight time of Friday's missile suggested it was significantly more powerful than a July 4 test, with a theoretical range of around 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) meaning it might be able to reach east coast US cities like New York, depending on the payload size.
International response
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said he held telephone talks with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and agreed on the need to put "the heaviest possible pressure" on North Korea.
"We confirmed that we will closely cooperate in adopting a fresh UNSC (UN Security Council) resolution, including severe measures, and working on China and Russia," Kishida told reporters.
In a standard response to the test, Beijing urged restraint by all sides, after the US and South Korea conducted a live-fire exercise using surface-to-surface missiles.
The heads of the US and South Korean militaries also discussed "military response options" after North Korea's launch, the Pentagon said.
China, Pyongyang's main economic and diplomatic ally, opposes any military intervention and calls for a resolution through dialogue.
The US military will also roll out "strategic assets" to the South following the North's missile test late Friday, according to South Korean defense minister Song Young-Moo.
Song declined to specify the nature of the mobilization, but the phrase usually refers to high-profile weapons systems, such as stealth bombers and aircraft carriers.
The THAAD missile defense battery comprises six interceptor missile launchers. Two launchers have been tentatively deployed at a golf course-turned-US military base in Seongju County, 187.5 miles (300 kilometers) south of Seoul.
China has long argued the deployment will destabilize the region.
The North's KCNA news agency ran a statement warning of a "miserable fate" for the South's government if it persists with the scheme, in a typically bellicose piece railing against THAAD.
Rising alarm
The North's previous July 4 test triggered global alarm, with experts saying the missile had a theoretical range to reach Alaska.
There remain doubts whether the North can miniaturize a nuclear weapon to fit a missile nose cone, or if it has mastered the technology needed for the projectile to survive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
But since Kim came to power there has been a series of technical advances, including three nuclear tests and a string of missile launches.
In all, six sets of UN sanctions have been imposed on North Korea since it first tested an atomic device in 2006, but two resolutions adopted last year significantly toughened the sanctions regime.
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Wildrose Party Rolls Back On Statement Affirming Equal Rights For All
Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith at the 2011 Speech from the Throne. February 22, 2011.
RED DEER, Alta. - Alberta's Wildrose party members have backtracked on a definitive statement on equal rights for all — one year after they passed it overwhelmingly to remove the stain of being anti-gay bigots.
Party members voted 148-109 against adopting as policy a statement approved last year that affirmed the rights for everyone regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, and other differences.
Instead, the party voted to go with the current policy definition, which broadly promises to "recognize that all Albertans have equal rights, privileges and responsibilities."
The expanded definition had been held up by the party for a year as the shining example of a new moderate centrism palatable to Albertans across the political spectrum.
On Friday, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, in her keynote speech, even hailed the motion as a triumph and a symbol of a mature party ready for power.
"We needed a definitive statement to protect the equality of all Albertans, including our friends in the LGBTQ community. So we drafted and we passed one," she said in the speech.
On Saturday, Smith said she was out of the room when the rollback vote was taken, and would've voted for the expanded definition.
She said the defeat doesn't change anything.
"The nature of the debate was (the members) were concerned that there might be something excluded in that long list," said Smith.
"I think that was a reasonable position to take. I certainly don't think anyone should take offence.
"In the last year we have demonstrated how much we support members of all communities, in particular our LGBTQ community."
She said she has noted her party has donated money and time to support events and causes in the gay community.
"I think our actions speak very loudly about our support," she said.
Kris Wells, with the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies for the University of Alberta, said the Wildrose party has taken a giant step backward.
Wells said refusing to identify to minority groups denies them critical visibility and recognition that they are deserving of equal treatment.
"Obviously the Wildrose has not learned the lesson of the recent byelection (losses)," said Wells.
"They remain out of step with the majority of Albertans. They had a chance to show they had changed and had recognized the vulnerability of minorities, and they failed."
The right-centre Wildrose party has historically struggled with the perception it is bigoted and extremist.
In the 2012 election, the party was on the road to winning government when it was derailed by controversies including comments by one of its candidates, Allan Hunsperger.
Hunsperger, in a blog, urged gays to repent or face an eternity in hell's "lake of fire." The storm of controversy grew when Smith refused to remove Hunsperger as a candidate.
She also refused to remove a second candidate for remarks deemed racist.
The 2012 defeat prompted party soul-searching that culminated in an emotional vote in October 2013 at the annual general meeting, also in Red Deer.
Wildrose house leader Rob Anderson, in a emotional speech at the time, told delegates it was time to adopt the expanded definition and wipe away a deceitful smear of intolerance.
"We believe, in this party, in the equality of all Albertans," Anderson said at the time.
"We need to be loud and proud and put this to bed once and for all.
"Let's pass this and send those PC fearmongers scurrying back under the rocks from where they came from!''
Seconds later, the 500 delegates in the room voted by a large margin to endorse the resolution.
Saturday's vote wrapped up a two-day convention that saw the party discuss and suggest ways to move on from four recent byelection defeats to Premier Jim Prentice and the PCs.
Earlier Saturday, party members told Smith in a bearpit session that the Wildrose should not have run negative ads against Prentice in the byelections when the electorate at the doors was looking for positive solutions.
In Friday's speech, Smith blamed the media for slanting or ignoring positive Wildrose announcements to foster the narrative of a negative and angry party.
Smith said her team will now work outside the media to create a buzz for the Wildrose through community events, potlucks, and one-on-one ambassadors.
She said they will also ramp up their social media presence with a hundred Wildrose bloggers.
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The list of radio programmes you favourited in BBC iPlayer are stored in an old system we call “Dynamite”. A request to retrieve your favourites from Dynamite would not give a complete list, it would only return those programmes which are currently available to listen to.
One of the advantages of enhancing this webpage is that we can now have just one homepage that gives a taste of all radio across the BBC. We hope this will make it less confusing for users who previously had a different experience on the radio page in BBC iPlayer.
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Cry On My Shoulder, Im a Friend Song by James Blunt
I'v Seen Peace,
I'v seen pain,
Resting on the shoulders
of your name.
Do U See the truth through all their lies ?
Do U see the world through troubled eyes ?
& If U want to talk about it any more,
Lie here on the floor & Cry on my shoulder,
I'm a Friend.
I'v Seen Birth,
I'v Seen death,
Lived to see a Lover's final breath.
Do U see my guilt ?
Should I feell fright ?
Is the fire of hesitation burning bright ?
& If U want me to talk about it once again
On U I depend, i'll cry on your shoulders,
U r a Friend.
U n I who have lived though many things,
I'll hold on to your HEART.
I would'nt cry for anything,
But dont go tearing your Life Apart.
I'v seen fear,
I'v seen faith,
Seen the look of anger on your face.
& If U talk about it what will be,
Come & Sit with Me,
& Cry on my shoulders
I'm a Friend
& If U talk about it any More,
Lie here on the floor,
& Cry on my shoulders........Once Again.
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🏆🏆🏆 Winner of 6th eighth of TEΛMVΛNE WORLD CUP 🏆🏆🏆 «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» 🏆🏆🏆 Photo by @marcoduenki 🏆🏆🏆 «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» 📌 Crestasee , Switzerland 📌 «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» 🎊🎉 CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎊 «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» Follow @teamvane - www.teamvane.info «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» 🔹Tag #teamvane 🔹 «»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» Happy Saturday guys! Crestasee is a small lake shared by the municipalities of Flims and Trin in the Grisons, Switzerland. From 1892 a guest house on its northern end served as pension and still is a restaurant today in its original state. There is no tributary to the lake and whilst walking along its shores you may be surprised by finding the lake both ...
This way to the weekend! ☀️ Where’s your day leading you? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ P.S. Check the link in our profile if you need some weekend reading!⠀ 📸: @twintheworld
'The price of greatness is responsibility.' - Winston Churchill. When I was in the Flims area in the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland, the snow and avalanche situation was moderate compared to now, where we are at a severe level. It was then when I took this beautiful winter wonderland shot of the Crestasee, which must be solid frozen by now. Each day there are several avalanches launched on purpose with explosives to bring them down in a controlled way to avoid even more danger. I’ve seen a few videos these days and I’m amazed by the sheer ...
Photo of Gislaine. “As espécies que sobrevivem não são as mais fortes,nem as mais inteligentes. Sobrevive às espécies mais predispostas as mudanças.”(Charles Darwin). “Non è la specie più forte a sopravvivere,e nemmeno la più intelligente. Sopravvive la specie più predisposta al cambiamento.”(Charles Darwin). “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptablr to change.”(Charles Darwin). #sicilia#joshua3760_
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INTERVIEW WITH TRACEY LAMB OF ROCK GODDESS
Roger Berzerk Fauske
Rock Goddess have reformed with the original line up of sisters Jody and Julie Turner and bassist Tracey Lamb.
The band was formed in Wandsworth South London as early as 1977, by sisters Jody Turner (Guitar and vocals) and Julie Turner (Drums) when they were thirteen and nine years old respectively. They recruited school friend Tracey Lamb on bass guitar.
MetalTalk's Roger Fauske interviewed Tracey and here's the lowdown on the reformation plans.
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If you are familiar with my site -or just take a look around it- you know that there was a 'Wedding' topic in the menu. I created post about our wedding but since it happened in August 2014, the topic is not actual anymore. I really enjoyed writing them, and those post has become the most popular ones. That is why I was very happy when they asked me to create and manage a blog for the DekorÁlom az Esküvőm webshop (it is a Hungarian wedding decor shop). In this blog you can find wedding inspirations and decoration ideas every week. It is only in Hungarian language. You can check it out
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In the spirit of intermunicipal cooperation, Bolton Point, City of Ithaca, and Cornell water systems provide unified Drinking Water Quality Report...
The Cornell Water Filtration Plant provides the Cornell campus, Forest Home, and Cornell Heights with safe and reliable drinking water. In 2015, the plant produced 497 million gallons, an average of 1.362 million gallons per day.
Many water-related resources are available on the Sustainable Campus website, including information about the drought of 2016, water conservation, storm water management, watershed protection, and the promotion of water at events on campus and throughout the community.
Big thanks to all customers and departments for their understanding and assistance during the recent drought!
2016 was a challenging year for local water purveyors. Voluntary water restrictions were put in place at Cornell on July 7, and mandatory water restrictions put in place on July 28. Stream flows were at record lows and therefore, such conservation efforts were necessary to protect valuable water resources. The Cornell Water System worked closely with the City of Ithaca, Bolton Point Water System, and the Tompkins County Department of Health to manage the situation successfully. We remain in a voluntary water restriction until groundwater levels and stream flows recover. The recent precipitation has certainly helped but we remain below normal for the year.
Water ProjectsA multi-phased water-supply renovation project began over the summer of 2016 on North Campus. A large percentage of the water mains on North Campus are 80-plus year-old cast iron and need to be replaced over the course of the next four summers. The section of water main along Forest Home Drive, from the MVR parking garage to the Thurston Avenue intersection, was replaced in 2016. In 2017, the section from Thurston Avenue to Anna Comstock Hall will be replaced.
FactWater coolers are available at no charge for Cornell University events. Please check out the student Take Back the Tap website for information about taking advantage of this program. Borrow a cooler!
The staff of the Cornell Water Filtration Plant is proud of the service it provides. We strive to operate and maintain our system to ensure the highest water quality and the most reliable delivery. As the campus evolves, we add to or modify our system to accommodate changing needs.
Views expressed in News posts may not be those of Cornell University. No endorsement is implied.
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What do you say about a 70-year-old woman who was in a ridiculous, mega-hit? That she's a "saint," and "barefaced, long-legged, stunning in jeans and a white kurta." Well, for starters:
Starting when I was a teenager, my friends and I (universally single and fancying ourselves jaded) made a Valentine's Day ritual of eating cookies and watching not just Love Story but the sequel, Oliver's Story, howling with laughter at the stilted would-be sophistication of the repartee and marveling at its success. You've all seen it: Brahman preppy meets beautiful working-class girl; he defies name and family for her; she (spoiler!) dies one of the most famously attractive deaths in Hollywood history. All the while they snipe at each other in arch faux-profanity. There's also plenty of rolling around in Harvard Yard. In the sequel, the bereft Oliver courts an equally wooden Candice Bergen, then gets disillusioned by her business practices and...well, it's hardly worth getting into.
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Love Story became a phenomenon and saved the studio. It made Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal huge. The films are, for people of my generation, a time capsule, aesthetically and otherwise. We can all appreciate MacGraw's beauty and O'Neal's sheepskin jacket, but I think it's probably hard for us to assimilate what the author describes as a seismic shift from the revolutionary sexual politics of the 60s to a new romanticism that tinged the old-fashioned with a gloss of hipness. (Lord knows its themes were hardly politically groundbreaking.) In that regard MacGraw's appeal is eminently understandable, and her style was undoubtedly on-point. But to those of us not reared to the cult of Erich Seagal, let's just say this puff-piece is squirm-making. A few choice quotes:
She was a Wellesley-educated aesthete who fantasized about living in Paris and who, as a girl, had checked Nijinsky's biography out of the Pound Ridge, New York, library 16 times.. He was a motorcycle-racing reform-school kid who had worked as a towel boy in a brothel, had spent 41 days in the brig as a Marine, and generally had the kind of street cred Jack Kerouac would have killed for. Theirs was one of the great love affairs of the past century.
And from Candice Bergen: "You fall in love with her; she's always been more alive than most others, so artistic and enchanted, with that refined, intellectual, bohemian glamour and a little bit of the Bedouin." At another point, someone literally describes her as "a saint," which is sort of when things get weird. They stay weird when, discussing The Getaway, the author observes, "MacGraw looks wildly beautiful in the film, especially when, after Carol gets conned out of the suitcase of cash from their bank heist, Doc slaps her."
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The beauty benefits of domestic violence aside, the need to venerate the poster-child of an era is understandable; it's rare, after all, that an actress has been so fully identified with a period - or so clearly defined Romance. We might find the movie risible now (and I do, in a way that compels me to watch it at least once a year and quote it constantly while tipping up my chin insolently) but there was something going on there. Love Story's kind of like Valentine's Day itself: inexplicably, wildly popular despite its commercial underpinnings. And maybe with a kernel of something real there. And we can't let it go. That said, Ali MacGraw seems like a very nice lady.
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Posts Tagged: long term real estate investing
One’s real estate investing is merely a reflection upon one’s own life. As I sit poolside enjoying a sunny weekend afternoon, I am reminded of two powerful thoughts with my phases of real estate rentals. While most fall for the thoughts of ‘passive real estate investing’ (as even I), the truth is that real estate… Read more »
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>It has been a crazy first semester and this past weekedn I got to go on the freshman spiritual retreat..it RAINED the whole time…but it was perfect the rain just furthered Gods call for us all to relax and just enjoy the weekend…I’ve felt a strong calling on my heart recently. And I know it’s God telling me to finally give over the last pieces of my life to Him…what that is I haven’t exactly figured out…I’m realizing it’s time to abandon all that I know and have known so I can pick UP MY CROSS. I have never felt such a pull on my heart until now…as everything around me changes GOD stays constant. I’m asking Him to become my best friend…before all else I want Him! He is the one who I need and want to live for! I am so excited for all that He is going to bring into my life…I feel like I’m growing closer and closer to Him even know. I know God has a calling on my life that is so SO much bigger then me! Guess it’s time to find it!
Missing everyone back at home! I wish you all were here!I love you Mr. Gamble! Don’t forget your my best friend!
Lots and lots of things have been going on with me recently! This past labor day weekend has been super CRAZY!
Friday: Stoplight party (Dressing up in green if your single yellow if you don’t know and red if your taken!) It was a lot of fun but I was mainly excited to get to Austin to visit Sterling!Saturday: Woke up around 830..quietly packed while Lindsey was still sleeping, got on the road to Austin around 930 and probably got to Towers around 11? It’s not too bad of a drive but I wasn’t in the mood to drive so it wasn’t just super fun! Anyway got to Towers and met Sterling’s sweet mates, Phillip and something else that starts with a R…not Richard lol they were both nice and are rushing figi… don’t know how to spell it anyway after that Jed(Sterling’s roommate) Sterling and I went to eat then headed back and got ready for the game! Before the game we went and tailgated with BYX..which was fun but SO SO SO stinkin hot! Like killer hot! Sterling and I grabbed some TCBYice cream before the game and then headed to the stadium with some of SterlingsBYX friends….Texas won the game…surprise surprise and the fans were a little toovulgar for my Baylor taste but all in all it was alot of fun to meet Sterlings new friends and see all the UT fans! After that we got Taco Bell and then went to 6th street and walked around just to see what kinda crazy stuff we could see!Sunday: woke up went to Austin Stone Sterlings new church that I loveeeeee! Can’t remeber where we ate after that but we had lunch and then went to Barton Springs in Zilker park…Way fun but the water is 68 degrees yr round BURRRRR! Rushed to get ready for dinner and then went to the most beautiful restraint called Oasis in Austin over looking Travis lake…we got there right at sunset! Then we watched a movie called Doubt…which was really weirdMonday: Woke up…starbucks…. shopping and then back to Waco!
I’m home now typing this from my dorm room..thinking about my best friend Mr. Gamble who fell resently and is in ICU..I wish with all my heart I could be there with him..they have him medicated so he isn’t aware of peoples presence but I would love to talk to him anyway…I had wnated to go home today to see him but I had to get back to Waco to start on some homework I’ve post poned…Dear God,I pray that you will be with my Mr. Gamble and take away any pain he may feel. I pray you will give Denise, Sam, Greg and his wife, Jackson, Rebecca, Kimberly and both Matts peace and comfort as our sweet Mr. Gamble stays in the hospital for a while. I pray he isn’t hurting at all and I pray they will wake him up soon so he can go home…Please give me hope and I pray that you will remind Mr. Gamble how loved he is by everyone. I miss my best friend and I can’t wiat to see him again God, thank you for bringing Mr. Gamble into my life and heart. I pray you will love on him all the time while he is in the hospital. I love him and I love YOU God! Please hear our prayer for my sweet sweet precious friend! In Jesus name! Amen!
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