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Construction's Most Used Safety Tool – The Hard Hat
Construction workers rely on many things to maintain safety. Clear communication, awareness of their surroundings, and their clothing choices all play a part in their personal safety. Bright shirts allow workers to be easily visible in high traffic job sites, but also wearing a hard hat allows keeps them safe from unexpected events. Hard hats have been around for centuries and continue to be one of the most influential, and underappreciated, safety tools used in the industry today!
One of the first 'hard-hats' ever discovered was from the 13th century! Archaeologists determined the helmet was from the Bronze Age and was referred to as a 'Boar Tusk' helmet. These helmets were made from a leather cap that was padded with felt on the inside, with slivers of ivory from the tusks of boars attached on the outside. To make these helmets, it is said to have required killing 40 to 50 boars for their tusks. These helmets are also mentioned in the famous Greek epic poem by Homer, The Iliad, which was written 800 years after these helmets were most popular! Although the helmets were not strong enough to protect from weapons and brawls, they were used heavily as status symbols for leaders and family heirlooms. Throughout history, helmets were used for status identification in war until metals and steel became popular. Head protection began to evolve to provide better support for those fighting, which proved successful.
World War 1 is the fifth deadliest war in the world, having killed an estimated 18 million people, 7 million of those being civilians. However, many more could have died had the steel helmet not been created. The 'Doughboy' hat was worn by many soldiers from all over the world, recognized as different names depending on the soldiers region. The steel hat was heavy but provided immense protection from threats, securing under the chin with a leather strap. At the time, Lieutenant Edward W. Bullard was serving in the war for America. When he returned home, he rejoined his fathers business at the mines where they manufactured carbide lamps and other equipment. It was at this time he began making comparisons between the protective gear between the mines and war. In 1919, he began development for a hat like the Doughboy for miners to wear. After different prototypes, he had developed the first design of a true trades 'hard-hat'. He called it the 'Hard Boiled Hat' as the canvas and leather used was steamed to fit the miners head perfectly, similar to boiling an egg. It was then coated in shellac to become hard and sturdy. The design of the hat also made it more available due to costs. The doughboy hat was not ideal for mining as it was very bulky, but due to being steel it cost way more than many could afford.
With the new creation of the safety hat for miners, Bullard began making more catered to specific trades, as well as perfecting the miners hat. He created a protective cap for U.S. Navy workers in shipyards and added a holder for a carbide lamp for miners. He also created a hat made from Bakelite, an early form of plastic, that helped withstand heavy-duty wear in more physical labor occupations. As time continued, construction history was being made. The Hoover Dam was started in 1931, with the Golden Gate Bridge following in 1933. The dam was the first major construction project in the United States to require workers to wear protective headgear due to the immense number of materials, scaffolding, and other dangers present. In photos, you will see many different variations of Bullard's hats, as well as some wearing Doughboys! The Golden Gate Bridge followed suit, and protective headgear is now a requirement all over American construction sites.
With hats becoming a requirement, Bullard continued to reinvent the hat improving it each time. In 1938, the first aluminum hard hat was manufactured. Although it was durable and lightweight for workers, aluminum is a conductor for electricity. With this major setback, a fiberglass heat resistant hat was created; Unfortunately, this material was costly, thus the hard hat material was then replaced with thermoplastics. Since then, hard hats have been made using plastics as it's cost effective, lightweight, and durable for long time periods. Come 1982, Bullard incorporated the strap that is present on all hats. The back strap has a non-slip ratchet suspension equipped with a knob that allows workers to customize their hard hat to fit their head as needed. This hat is the 3000R hard hat, which has become the basic standard for hard hats everywhere. The hard hat continues to be improved for safety, especially with Bullard Co. continuing to be a leader in construction safety equipment to this day! Being struck on job sites is one of the top reasons for injuries, with 65,000 cases in 2012 involving head injuries. Unfortunately, 1,020 workers died from head injuries that same year, and 84% of workers involved across the incidents were not wearing hard hats. Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI's) are the primary type of injury in construction, which can ultimately cost the injured person and the company a lot of money. For a mild case, finances can total up to $100,000 with severe incidents leading up to $3 million or more.
Hard hats can also pose as status symbols like those in the Bronze Age. If you ever look at different sites, you may see a large variety of colors. Different colors help workers identify each other without having to ask around for the correct person. Some colors are also available simply for visibility purposes.
White hard hats are mainly used by Supervisors, Foremen, and Engineers.
Brown hard hats are worn by workers who are handling heat, such as welders.
Green hard hats are used mainly by workers who are conducting safety inspections, or sometimes new hires on site.
Yellow hard hats are used by workers who are handling earth moving or general workers on site.
Blue hard hats are used mainly by carpenters, technical workers, and temporary help.
Orange hats are used by many road workers, and the occasional visitors on site.
Grey hard hats are primarily used for visitors on site as they are kept mainly out of high hazard areas.
Pink hard hats are mainly for high visibility purposes of workers.
As the hard hat continues to reach new standards for safety, it also continues to receive the deserved recognition. In May 2020, Bullard was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, where his efforts in creating new safety standards and tools for the trades will be recognized for the rest of time. The hard hat saves lives every day, all across the world, and its use goes unnoticed by many who rely on it unknowingly. If you liked this blog, please share it with your friends and family via the icons below or leave us a comment!

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The Sydney eScholarship Repository: Settling the Thermal Frontier: The Tropical House in Northern Queensland From Federation to the Second World War.
Title: Settling the Thermal Frontier: The Tropical House in Northern Queensland From Federation to the Second World War.
Abstract: This thesis examines how the thermal performance of the house in tropical Queensland became, during the first half of the twentieth century, an issue located between politics, medicine and architecture. Drawing from medical history, settler-colonial studies and environmental design history the work is concerned with the mobility of architecture's agency in solving the "problem" of climate at the domestic scale, and how the control and measurement of residential indoor temperatures were racialised, politicised and medicalised. The chapters trace the development of a common culture within medicine about tropical housing design, the role of northern Queensland as a counter-case to other colonial housing models, the emergence of the white settler housewife as a privileged subject of housing reform and the eventual accommodation of a physiological world view in Australian architectural practice. The thesis integrates an extensive range of primary sources from medical, governmental and community organisations. It argues that a distinctive medical and political discourse developed during the early twentieth century around the tropical house in northern Queensland – a discourse driven by racial anxieties about white women's role in the tropics, emergent research on physical limits to work in high temperature environments and northern Queensland's unusual socio-political form as a tropical settler-colonial society. Far from seeing climatically responsive design as a recent phenomenon, the study highlights the deep historical links between architecture, climatology, medicine and the politics of regional development—all bound to the history of colonisation and settlement. As such the thesis helps reassess the relationship between architecture, climate, and the colonial project and to the historiography of architecture's response to environmental politics and thought.


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Little Paul visits a museum of musical instruments with his schoolmates. In the museum, one can see instruments from all over the world – very old ones, but also modern ones. Apart from well-known instruments, there are of course many other fascinating things to discover: sonorous stones from Northern Togo, a bone flute, the snake-shaped serpent, a walking-stick violin, an armadillo guitar, a giraffe piano and many more. This picture book continues the successful series of books by Andrea Hoyer. As in her previous books 'In der Musikschule', 'In der Oper' and 'Im Konzert', the story is told by Little Paul. In an entertaining way, the children learn a lot about known and historical instruments and get fascinating information on exotic instruments from faraway countries.As in Andrea Hoyer's other books, the main focus again is on the charming detail drawings which stimulate the reader's imagination and will be enjoyable not only to children. Included in the list of recommended educationally worthy picture books 2004 of the German Gesellschaft für Jugend- und Sozialforschung GJSF [Society for Youth and Social Research].


The call for El vídeo del minuto 2017 is an initiative of Drac Màgic and currently called by TRAMA nationwide, invites all women to record in audiovisual format those aspects of their reality that mean them as subjects. We're talking about audiovisual pieces of one minute length, realized without a cut, whose main topic for the present call is: TRÀNSIT.
The call for this year aims to focus on the debate of mobility of the configurations that build and deconstruct the rebellion against clichés, vital, cultural and symbolic transitions, travel, displacement, sexual identity, dystopia between gender and the imaginary of feminism in transit and the metamorphosis of bodies.
The selected piece was shot in 4:3 format with an old Sony Handycam. The main purpose of this video was to dive into the idea of the roots, in a metaphorical way. I've recently moved out from my hometown and I'm currently seeking and adjusting into my new place. This feeling of changing from one piece of land to another, is what gave me the idea to conceive this piece.


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Ky. students embrace Confederate mascot, flag despite controversy
EASTERN, Ky. — The welcome sign at Allen Central High School is home to a grinning Confederate soldier, proudly waving a banner bearing the St. Andrew's cross of the Confederate battle flag. The courtyard nearby is composed of blue brick that forms the cross and a mural in the lobby pays homage to another rebel soldier, this one carrying the flag on horseback.
More rebel soldiers and Confederate flags cover the same walls that hold posters touting academic achievement, fundraising drives and notable attendance of the all-white student body.
The students know all about the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag, about the many schools that have banned its presence on campus. They know that many associate it with slavery and racism.
Yet, they defend their displays with firm conviction.
"To us it's not about the hatred," said Tiffany Owens, an 18-year-old cheerleader at Allen Central High. "I have colored friends around here and they never say anything."
Indeed, the students at this rural school in Kentucky are willing to risk their image to keep the Confederate emblems they say symbolize nothing more than strength, independence and pride.
Most recently, they successfully took on a local school board member who questioned whether the students should associate themselves with Confederate symbols.
"It's our tradition," said Charles Randolph, 18. "If I was black, it probably would bother me. But if they can understand it wasn't put toward them in hatred, it wouldn't be an issue."
The black students who have encountered Allen Central's school spirit don't accept such views, though they do little to fight back.
"It really makes me mad," said Ted Honaker, one of two dozen black students at Pikeville High School, about 25 miles away.
The 17-year-old plays basketball against Allen Central and says he's sick of looking at Confederate flags in the stands when the two teams face off. The only thing that bothers him more is the assumption that the black students don't care about the displays.
"It brings back slavery and what happened to my ancestors," said Honaker.
Despite his feelings, Honaker and his twin brother, Tim, don't lash out.
"I mean, what good would it really do?" Tim Honaker said.
In eastern Kentucky, some schools districts are nearly 99% white.
The Honakers' black schoolmates make up just under 3% of Pikeville High's 559 students. Black students make up only half a percent of the county's 10,945 students.
In Floyd County, home of Allen Central, there are 33 black students out of 6,348 students in the county, making up less than 1%.
Even Mickey McGuire, the school board member who criticized Allen Central's school flag and mascot, felt outnumbered. No one else on the five-member board, which has no black members, has spoken up.
"I really don't think those people intended it in a racial way, but these are children who don't realize how racially sensitive that flag is," McGuire said. "They have no sensitivity toward what black people feel about that flag."
Lorena Hall, principal at Allen Central, says that every few years, someone like McGuire will "stir the pot" about the Confederate symbols. But her school won't budge.
"It has nothing to do with racism," said Hall. "It's a part of us."
The school should be applauded for standing by its flag and mascot, especially when so many schools are steering away from Confederate symbols, said T.Y. Hiter, division commander for the Eastern Kentucky Brigade of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
"It has nothing to do with race except in the minds of those who think it does," Hiter said.
"This is an atypical situation," he added. "We usually deal with situations where schools are trying to restrict the rights of students who want to display the flag. Here, the school is taking the lead of displaying their heritage."
Therein lies the danger, others say.
"I'm just troubled by the sort of historical amnesia they're exhibiting," said Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of education and history at New York University. "When these kids say, 'This doesn't represent race to me,' they're saying they have forgotten history."
To continue to display the Confederate flag at a school these days — more than 140 years after the end of the Civil War — is irresponsible, said Steven Voss, a political science professor at the University of Kentucky.
"You don't have to buy that the Confederate flag means anything bad to recognize that it hurts people's feelings and should be done away with," Voss said. "Continuing to embrace the Confederate flag symbol, knowing what it means nationwide, is not responsible for a government-funded organization to do."
However, neither suggested taking away Allen Central's symbols by force. Doing so would be unfair to the students who just want to exhibit school pride, said Voss.
He suggested school officials and community members work together to come up with symbols that celebrate heritage without hurting anyone.
Meanwhile, the longtime debate over the issue has pushed several other public schools this year to distance themselves from Confederate symbols:
A student at Farmington High School in Missouri is suing his school district after being suspended for wearing a cap and T-Shirt bearing the Confederate flag.
Officials at Harrison High School in Indiana banned any flag, except for the American flag, from being brought to school after two students brought a Mexican flag and Confederate flag to a pep rally.
The Midland school district in Texas this year considered renaming the Robert E. Lee Freshman High School's yearbook to something other than "The Confederate," after a parent complained.
The Kentucky Department of Education has left the issue up to local school districts.
McGuire, whose term is over in January, doesn't anticipate any changes at Allen Central in the near future.
"But eventually the school system has to take responsibility for that," he said.
Allen Central adopted its school flag and mascot in 1972, when it was established to consolidate four other schools and their teams: the Maytown Wasps, the Garrett Black Devils, the Wayland Wasps and the Martin Purple Flash.
Students from each school formed a committee to decide a mascot. They came up with the Rebels.
"We took the rebel soldier as being independent, ready to stand up for ourselves," said Hall, who was an Allen Central teacher at the time. "The flag just came along with it."
Nearly 35 years later, the students proudly attend school competitions and events locally and statewide, sporting their rebel T-shirts, jackets, hats and, of course, the school flag.
The students interviewed say they've experienced a lot of stares and whispers at events, but no major confrontations.
"We just tell them we don't mean it that way," Owens said.
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The ice groaned. I had my Trekker student leaders out for a mid-January late night walk along the trail to Catfish Pond in the Delaware Water Gap where the Appalachian Trail cuts through New Jersey. The temperature outside the cabin door read 17 degrees. No wind made for a clear, crisp night where we could see the Milky Way. Students were challenged to be silent as we hiked single file along the icy path.
We could only hear the sounds our boots made as they crunched the ice and frozen snow under our feet. After a short while, we approached the pond, one of the southernmost glacial lakes carved out during the last ice age that created the geography of the Appalachian Mountains in New Jersey.
The lake surface was a solid sheet of ice floating on top of the water. To my amazement, not one of my ten students or two young staff members had ever set foot on a frozen lake. They were all in awe as we stepped out cautiously onto the icy surface.
Soon the sounds of the ice creaking echoed into the still night. My Trekkers were concerned: "Mr. C, it sounds like there are animals trapped under the ice." "What are those sounds?" After a while, though, confidence grew. Students felt safe. Now was a time to explore not only the surface and the sounds, but how we might play on this glass-like field.
First off, I had everyone lie down on the ice, put their ears to the cold surface, and listen. They heard the hidden waters sloshing under the solid ice surface and listened to the sounds of ice expanding and constricting from the changes in temperature. We began a game of human shuffleboard- sliding one another across the frictionless surface. A competition was inevitably created with all the girls sitting in a tucked position and in their individual lanes with the boys pushing them to see who could slide the furthest.
We were silly and childlike, making up our games as we played under the stars on a frigid night. We were far from the city. We were all children once again. I loved it.


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"Locally I've secured $85.4 million to fix Lindum Crossing, $12 Million to fix Newnham Wecker Rd intersection in Mt Gravatt, $6 million for Chelsea Rickertt Rd in Ransome, $10 million for the upgrade of Greencamp Rickertt Road and $1 billion congestion busting funding for the M1 including upgrade at Gateway Motorway merge at Eight Mile Plains."
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This project uses an Arduino microprocessor and a DAC0808 8 bit parallel DAC to produce arbitrary low frequency oscillator (LFO) waveforms. These waveforms are useful for driving a tremolo/vibrato circuit in a guitar amplifier such as the Lil Tiger or a phaser effect such as the Liquidator. The second version of this project improves on this design by using a serial DAC chip and an analog speed control.
The initial version of this project was build using the Arduino Diecimila development board and an Arduino prototype shield for the DAC and associated parts. The original assembly can be seen in the photographs of the Lil Tiger project. The second generation version (as shown in the schematic) was built using just the Arduino's Atmega 126 processor chip on a stand-alone circuit board. The microprocessor should be programmed on the Arduino board then moved to the standalone LFO board.
Tis circuit is a descendent of my older waveform generator project.
The 7.5VDC power to the board comes from a full-wave Schottky diode bridge rectifier and filter capacitor that is connected to the 6.3VAC filament winding of a vacuum tube power supply. The 7.5V is regulated down to 5V using a 78L05 regulator. The 5V supply is inverted to -5V with an ICL7660 IC. The various voltages power the processor, DAC and op-amps.
The DAC is an MC1408P8 that is connected to Port D (out0-out7) on the Arduino. The DAC output drives half of a 1458 dual op-amp wired as a low-pass current to voltage amplifier. The 1458 drives the positive side of a front panel display LED and an LED/LVR opto-coupler. The other half of the 1458 creates a negative 1.4V bias for driving the negative side of the LEDs. The bias is set so that the LED is just turning on when the DAC is set to output zero volts.
An RGB LED is connected to the Arduino's port E (out8, out9, out10), the software displays a unique color for each of the three waveforms that the board can produce. An R-C delay is connected to analog input 1 on Port C, this allows the software to determine if the board was powerd on for the first time or reset manually. A 10K Speed control pot is connected to analog input 2 on Port C, the position is read and used to set the waveform clock rate.
The current Arduino "sketch" for this project is DACmulti2a.pde, it generates three different waveforms. The waves are all exponentially weighted sine waves that produce more natural sounds than a true sine wave when driving LED/LVR devices. The three waveforms are limited to 256 steps each, waveforms that are much larger will run the Arduino out of memory.
There is an RC time delay on Analog input 0, when the board powers on the first time, it reads a low value but when the reset button is pushed manually, it reads a high value. That combined with an EEPROM setting allows the board to boot into one of three possible states. One might wonder why I designed the waveform selection software this way instead of putting a mode test inside of the LFO while loop, it was done for speed. An in-loop test limites the maximum LFO speed below the maximum desired rate.
The waveforms were generated by this Python language program: sinegen3.py. The program was run and the output wave tables were stored in a file and transferred into the Arduino source code with a text editor.
The Arduino software (Version 16) is a bit dodgy when dealing with large arrays. It will happily compile a huge array without any warning messages, but downloading the code will either produce garbage waveforms or in extreme cases, overwrite the Arduino's bootloader. Fixing the bootloader involves buying a special ICSP "pod" board (Sparkfun sells these) and using the pod to reload the Arduino software.
This software: DAC3.pde has a 3840 byte wavetable array, it compiles with the Arduino software but when you load the code, it overwrites the bootloader software and crashes the board. Another version of this, DAC2.pde, with a 768 byte array did not crash the Arduino, but the waveforms had partially bad data values on the DAC output. The same data was plotted via a Python program using matplotlib and the waveform looked fine.
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Per Ardua ad Astra [part 7]
Jayne and Vera with 'cargo' heading towards Serenity & co. Mal & others plus Alliance on Aberdeen. Jayne and Vera get diverted.
PART SEVEN
Stream rushing by on a bed of stone. Old goats and sandstone cracking -- All containing -- Squeezing that river like it squeeze your bones. In the long red, red valley people live here too long. In the long red, red valley they only sing the valley song. Valley – Jethro Tull
And who shall wear the starry crown? O Lord, show me the way... O lovers, let's go down... Down to the river to pray. Alison Krauss
[Try to imagine Dame Judi Dench and John Mahoney ('Martin Crane') as Ma and Pa Cobb. A younger, darker, Glenn Close as Matty, Jayne's sister. John in particular is pretty much born to play Pa Cobb, IMHO. I've chosen to make Jayne's sibling female because, as you will find out, the whole family likes gender non-typical names!]
Jayne took the controls first to get them out of atmo whilst Vera dealt with Ping again. He needed another change and a feed. Once that was done, she took a nap. She'd have her turn at the controls soon enough. Jayne kept to the night side of the planet as long as possible, then looped carefully around the back of Deadwood's moon and away towards Aberdeen. He remembered Vera's covert message and sent one of his own Mal's way. 'Rooster and hen flying your way. ETA three days.' To his surprise, a wave came back. 'Chicken coop overrun with foxes. Find safe house.' Jayne swore, "Ta mah duh! That's not good!" Vera opened her eyes, "What is it?" Jayne gestured at the message, "Alliance have got Mal and Serenity. He's tellin' us to lay low." Vera looked at Ping and then Jayne, "We can't do much against the Alliance with one ship. And it's three days away. The Alliance could be long gone or our friends dead by then." "Could push it to two days on full burn." Vera sucked in her breath through her teeth, "And we could still be too late. There's also a slight case of Junior back there chewing on my tee shirt. We promised to keep him safe." "Gonna ruttin' try to do all of those things!" Vera smiled, "I knew there was a reason I liked you!" Jayne fetched out a cigar and popped it between his teeth, "Okay. Wagons roll!" He engaged the drive on full and they began speeding forward. They'd made it out of Deadwood's system when an Alliance ship was detected behind them by the ships on-board sensors.
Vera gasped, "We've got company!" "Damn ruttin' evil hwoon dahn..." They both accessed weapons and fully loaded the aft torpedoes. The Alliance started firing. Jayne and Vera fired back. Something winged them and then the Alliance ship began to break apart. The shock wave from all that put them into a spin. Vera grabbed the baby and buckled down. Both she and Jayne fought the controls. "Looks like Ma and Pa will be getting' a visit after all. This ship's cracking up, can't get her to stop rollin'..." Vera punched a couple of buttons, "Ejector pods! Armed! Got the spinning...yes! Upright again!" "Make it look like we're doomed." Vera overcooked the engines a bit, so that they left a black trail. It wasn't as neat as the job Kaylee would have done, but hopefully anyone watching them would be fooled. Jayne and Vera got the ship to execute what looked like an uncontrolled tumble towards Newhall. Jayne rigged a couple of grenades to blow up the ship in about five minutes.
They stumbled backwards as the ship started a deliberately unstable orbit around Newhall. Jayne grabbed his stuff as he went and Vera managed hers as well as the baby. Jayne opened an ejector pod door and Vera plus baby got in. He snatched one hard kiss, then pulled a small brown paper package out of his bag. "For you. Make somethin' naughty outta it. Find the railway line, head towards the setting sun. Ma and Pa's farm is due south of the line at the Andersonville halt, near the river. Long red valley. I'll find you!"
Then he shut the door, pulled the lever and she was gone. He got into his own pod, the ship screaming all around him. He found the emergency parachute as his pod fell through the sky of his home and saw another parachute way off to his right. Vera was okay – so far. A bright white flaring above him told him those grenades had done their work.
The Alliance guards plus Commander Grayson marched on board. Mal and everyone but River formed a 'welcoming committee'. Grayson was white, tall, grey-haired and urbane, with a clear military bearing. "Captain Reynolds." He held out the valid search warrant. Mal gestured expansively, "Ship's an open book, Commander." Mal performed cursory introductions. Grayson nodded, "Have your crew wait here. Don't want anybody thinking about *moving anything." Mal's smile was all relaxed confidence, "Now why would they do that? We've got nothing to hide." "Hmm. *All of your crew here?" "Doctor's sister is a bit of a free spirit. She's around." "Find her, please." River drifted in from the top metal walkway, "I'm here. I'll stay put."
Three guards stayed on point whilst Grayson and several other goons went through Serenity with a fine tooth comb. This took some time. Zoe and Mal were exchanging glances throughout. Their faces revealed nothing, but there was an unspoken conversation going on, honed by long hours together on the battlefield. River was listening deeply, "They haven't find anything. She's dry to them." Grayson eventually came back with his goons some hours later, "Everything correct; given that you haul goods of uncertain and probably questionable province between planets. Books seem to be in order. I'll have to ask you all to come across for searching and a few questions." Mal gave a tiny nod to Zoe and the crew walked over. River walked near Simon. He'd rescued her once and she'd returned the favour, but for her it was a little bit like Daniel going into that lions' den.
They were scanned and frisked. Mal quietly held his breath, but evidently his digestive juices had done their bit and had made short work of the vidpod. The questioning was tedious and boring; at least as far as he was concerned. Grayson was noticeably unhappy and cross about having nothing to pin on them. He picked up the papers on the bare metal desk and tapped them into shape. "Well, I don't know how you disposed of the evidence you apparently used at the Companion's house on Sihnon, but it's gone now. I will be watching you very carefully from now on." Mal folded his arms, "If you've put surveillance devices on my ship or crew, they will be found and destroyed very quickly." "You may go." Mal got up and left. Everyone else was waiting for him do that they could return to Serenity together. At that moment, the intercoms and computer message devices on Grayson's ship went haywire. Guns cocked all around them. "And it was going so well, eh." River looked at Hori, "It's okay. The ladies are with us!" Grayson tore off a print-out of some of the many communications he'd received in the last few minutes. He sighed, "Well, Malcolm Reynolds; it seems like news of some of what you did has reached far beyond the Companions. I've got submissions from most of the lady Companions, many of whom are up there in orbit right now, from the men here, from the rim worlds and border moons. With varying degrees of accuracy to what I suspect is the truth, they've hailed you and your crew as liberators of the Companions from 'tyranny' and they are making the Alliance – and myself – very aware that hurting you, your ship or your crew will lead to revolt and a popular uprising. And the Alliance does *not want that. Some of them are remembering what you did last time to get the message out in the face of our best Operative. You are notorious, Captain Reynolds and the Alliance can't touch you any more. Well, commit first degree murder or try to rob the banks on somewhere like Ariel and you *will be arrested. Keep yourself on the rim, try to keep your nose reasonably clean," Grayson threw the papers on the floor, "You've become as well known as Robin Hood, Wallace or Robert the Bruce. Enjoy your doubtful liberty."
Mal and the crew walked back onto Serenity, heads held high. Mal grinned, "Vindication! Redemption!" He thrust his hand in the air. Simon copied the gesture, "There was a saying once. Back on Earth-that-was, between brothers in arms in France..." River smiled, extending her own slender fist, "All for one and one for all!" Six fists met in a circle, then clasped firmly together in a big knot. Mal nodded, "Plus Jayne and Vera." Zoe smiled, "And my daughter." Mal gave a mock groan, "Well, if my ship is going to become a nursery, the children too! At least we've got some stability now for raising them." Kaylee grinned, "I'm glad about that!" She looked at Simon, "I'm not absolutely sure yet, but I think all that sexing up we've been doing...." River looked at Kaylee, "Yes. Twins!" Simon smiled a beautiful smile at Kaylee and then fainted on the spot. Hori bent down to help Simon recover and then looked up at them all, "Baby blessings if you want them; free of charge to my whanau, eh!"
Mal followed Inara to her shuttle. She looked up as he stood there on the threshold. "Yes?" He smiled; a full, free and beautiful smile. Something deep inside Inara melted on the spot. He walked over and kissed her, hard, "I love you." Inara gasped, "Mal, I adore you, but..." She placed her slender hands on his chest. Mal smiled, "Not backing out on me, are you? Because I'll follow you across the 'verse if I have to, to win you." "It's what Grayson said to me. The Alliance has independent records on Companions. I'm a lot older than 'nearly thirty', Mal." Mal teased, "So you're maybe older than me? Always had a thing for the older woman!" Inara smiled back, but persisted, "I'm too old to have children, Mal." Mal put his hand on his heart, capturing hers with it, "Don't ruttin' care 'bout that. Just want you all to myself, at last." Inara relaxed visibly, "You've got me!" Mal dipped her and smoothly sank with her onto her bed, "Good! No Companion stuff, Inara." She trembled in his arms, "Not with you. That was sex; this is making love." Mal trailed a finger down her neck and to the top of her dress, "Seem to remember it involves being naked. Most of the time, anyway." Inara started on the buttons on his shirt, "You too, Mal!" He grinned, "You've seen me naked already!" Inara's joyful laughter joined his.
Picking up tired feet. Back from a far horizon. Cleaned up and brushed down. Dressed to look the part. Fresh from God's garden, I bring a gift of roses... To stand in sweet spring water and press them to your heart. But this badge of honour is of tarnished tin. Light your guiding beacon to bring this fisher in. A Gift Of Roses – Jethro Tull
Vera his the escape pod as well as she could in a thicket. She bundled the parachute into one of her emptier bags. It might come in handy as a tent if she had to camp out. She got Ping fed and changed again and then strapped him to her with the sarong. He chortled gaily. Vera picked up her bags and began tidying the contents. She opened one end of Jayne's gift to her. Beautiful, very see-through blue lace with little flowers on it and a small length of matching blue silk. It had been a long time since she had made any clothes, but she knew that the 'something naughty' instruction would be about all she could do with it. No underwear again. She smiled, he seemed to have a liking for that. Once she'd sorted herself out, she orientated herself and decided to head south. From the air she had caught glimpses of something metal and suitably railway-like in that direction, plus some kind of settlement. She headed that way.
At the settlement, there was a stream goods' train in the tiny station. She entered into some negotiation with the driver who agreed to let her ride in one of the box cars to 'go home to see my man and show him his son' for a small price. Two weary and hot days later they were at Andersonville halt. She refilled her water bottle from a low spigot on the overhead spout for the steam train's tender and set off walking south. She had just enough milk for Ping to have two more feeds. Along the way, he needed both, and clean diapers to match. Her water ran out. The temperature got hotter and hotter. She was dimly aware of the river and bent down for a long drink, but it wasn't enough to totally satisfy her stomach. She managed to get Ping to drink some out of one of his empty bottles once she'd given it a good rinse. There was thick lush grass by the river, which opened out into a lovely secluded pool. As much as she might have wished to swim there at any other time, her mind was focussed on getting to the farm. She saw fencing on the other side of the river and there was a small stone bridge across. She stumbled that way. She made it right to the steps in front of a wooden farmhouse when blackness descended.
Vera's eyes fluttered open some time later, "Hungh?" An older woman's voice soothed, "It's okay; you're safe. Drink some more water." Vera did, "Baby?" She heard a smile, "Just fine. Matty's fed him and changed him and he's playing with her brood next door." Vera's brain managed to piece together the information coming to her, "Ma Cobb?" Her eyes refused to open. The woman laughed, "Only my kids call me that! By which I'm thinkin' you're Jayne's woman." Vera managed to open one eye, "Vera. Yes, something like that. How...?" Ma Cobb was somewhere in her upper sixties, bright as a button, with short grey hair and somewhat on the diminutive and dumpy side. Her eyes were the same shade of blue as her son's. She smiled, "Call me Sam. My husband Hillary is round here somewhere, stirrin' up the dustbunnies. Jayne told us in a letter some time ago that he'd met a new woman. From the little I've deduced, reading between the lines, you're the one. You've been mutterin' whilst you were out of it; I got enough to know a bit about you and that you and Jayne have been havin' passionate sex with each other for a while. If you're not his...well, woman, I'd complain!" Vera managed a laugh, "Again...something like that." "You rest; you've got sunstroke and dehydration. Walking from Andersonville in this heat is a tough thing to do. Water's there by your bed. You've got your own bathroom over there and there's salad and stuff later when you feel like food." "Jayne..." "Guessin' you got separated and the baby clearly isn't yours. Heard some wild stories about parachutes coming down three days' back. Kept quiet about them, emphasised the 'wild stories' part back to folk. The Alliance are poking about in the next system and we don't really want a visit. Hillary's got a nice big stock of moonshine coming along nicely, should be ready about now in time for our local festival." Vera managed a chuckle and after being fed some more water, Sam Cobb left her to rest.
When Vera came to properly it was late afternoon. She used the bathroom, had a tepid shower and re-dressed herself in something cleaner. She walked along the landing and carefully down the staircase. On the wall side of the staircase was an electric chair lift. Sam Cobb's voice called out, "I'm in the kitchen, come on through." Sam was making a pasta salad with lots of greens. "There's some home-made lemonade over yonder, help yourself." Vera did, "Didn't see any lemon trees coming in." Sam gestured with her wooden spoon, "Got a few that way, some chooks and a goat or two. Grow potatoes and vegetables mostly." The kitchen was large, with a big farmhouse table down the middle. There was a huge range at one end which wasn't being used at the moment. "We promised Ping's mother that we'd take care of him." Vera filled Sam in on the basic details. Sam nodded, "Matty will look after him as if he were her own. If no-one claims him, he'll be safe and have a pretty good life here." Vera looked out of the window, "It's a nice spot. Grass and trees and the river." "You tryin' to find out why that boy of mine left?" Vera smiled, "Well, Jayne's never said and it looks pleasant here. You don't have to say if it's private or something." Sam grinned. For a moment she looked like a diminutive female version of her son, "You care about him, don't you?" Vera looked pointedly at her lemonade, then lifted her chin, "Yes. Not sure exactly what it is between us, he drives me nuts sometimes...!"
Sam laughed, "Ah, yes. There is that. Stubborn, ornery, loveable critter, but it saved his life. Sent him from us as well, when all was said and done. I still love him. Sit down, this'll take some tellin'. Jayne came along within a year of Hillary and I gettin' together . That was okay, we wanted kids. Then there was a six year gap before Allison arrived, quickly followed by Matty. I got sick after the third birth and Jayne helped me. Hillary would have done that, but he'd had an accident at work, laid him off for a good long time. So Jayne had to go out huntin' food to keep us goin' and help me with two babies, while his Pa got better. No time then for schoolin'; we was keeping body and soul together. We promised Jayne we'd send him back once Hillary recovered. And we did, for a while. Jayne re-learnt his letters and had an early aptitude for handling guns. So Hillary used to bring scrap ones and broken ones home from the weldin' yard. Jayne learnt every type of gun going, right down to the screws. He spent hours dismantlin', oilin' 'em and puttin' 'em back together – and still huntin' with 'em to keep us fed. We was just contemplatin' full time school again for Jayne when Hillary went down with the mumps. Jayne was fourteen at the time. Now we'd 'noculated, just like we should, but this strain got through. Jayne caught it from Hillary and I 'spect you know what mumps will do to a man past puberty."
Vera gasped. Suddenly some of Jayne's behaviour and attitude came crystal clear. Jayne, on some level, didn't feel totally like a 'full' man and maybe he over-compensated, "He can't have children." "Were ya mebbe hopin' there might be children one day?" Vera shook her head, "Not with me. I'm in the same boat for different reasons." "Does Jayne know?" Vera blushed, "Hadn't quite got to that kind of conversation, been a tad...busy." To her surprise, Sam laughed, "Don't be embarrassed. I figured out years ago that he had big appetites in many areas. Here, have some salad."
Vera put some on her plate and helped herself to some more liquid. She was thinking about tucking in when she heard a small motor. Having seen the stair lift earlier, it didn't surprise her much when Hillary Cobb entered the room, driving a motorised wheelchair. He was white-haired, with those same intense blue eyes and a ready smile. He'd also be maybe five foot five inches when standing.
"Hi! Glad to see you're feelin' better. I'm Hillary." Vera went over and shook his hand, "Vera." His keen eyes twinkled back, "Ah. His favourite gun, hmm?" Vera chuckled, "I'm not a gun!" Hillary laughed, "No, but I've 'met' the other one. Way Jayne treats her, can see he thinks fondly of you." He looked at the table, "Ah. Food!" For a moment, there was Jayne's eagerness right there in Hillary's face. Sam smiled wryly, "Come on then, let's tuck in." After several mouthfuls, Hillary looked at Vera, "Wonderin' how Jayne's so tall?" "Actually, I wasn't, but..." "My Pa was big." Sam added, "And both my grandfathers were tall men. Matty's tall. Allison would have been tall too, given time." Vera commented, very delicately, "His name came up and Jayne wouldn't talk about it." She shrugged, "I've got things in my past I don't like talking about as well." Hillary nodded, "If you're Jayne's woman..." Vera smiled, "As I commented to Sam, something like that!" He laughed gently, then sobered, "You darn well need to know. Explains a lot about our boy." Sam fetched over a three D photo, "Last picture of 'em all together. Jayne was fourteen, just before everythin' went pear-shaped."
There was a younger, tousle-haired Jayne, as tall as he was now, but gangly and much less muscled. On his lap was a girl with red lights in her brown hair, blue eyes and freckles. On Jayne's left, and with Jayne's arm around him was a boy of about eight who promised to look a lot like Jayne when he grew up. They all had a big grin on their faces. "That's Allison. He and Jayne both got the mumps really bad. Jayne being bigger and just plain stubborn, fought the thing with help from medicine. Allison got better as well, but it took it out of him. For some reason the mumps didn't touch Matty, thank goodness. Jayne went for a check up some time later and they told him then that any hopes of havin' kids had died right there with the mumps. Allison had gotten flu in the meantime. Jayne came home, hurtin' and angry at the world in general. He'd bottled it all up inside him, which is never good for a body. He let it all out at Allison, sayin' stuff he didn't mean and things that were just plain untrue; at heart he loved his brother. Trouble is, he ended by sayin', 'I hope you die'." Vera looked up, her eyes suspiciously moist, "I can guess the rest." Hillary sighed, "Yes. And then Jayne's grief was extravagant. He went half crazy with it. We was hurtin' our own selves and tryin' to help Matty. Jayne and I had a huge row about nothin' and he ran away from home. Next we heard was a wave tellin' us he was on Deadwood. He's visited since then, we've come to a better relationship, we've made up. We don't blame him, he knows we understand completely that he didn't mean it." Vera nodded, "He can't forgive himself." Another part of how Jayne was fell right into place. Sam put her hand on Vera's "That's it exactly." The rest of the meal was pretty quiet after that. Vera went back to bed to rest because she was still feeling tired.
She woke up early the next morning to the sound of big, familiar feet pounding up the staircase. "Vera?!" She sat up, smiling, "Here!" Jayne burst into the room. He was dirty, dusty and with several day's growth of full beard over his face. He picked Vera up in his arms. They kissed hungrily for quite some time. Jayne lowered her back on the bed, "You feelin' better?" She grinned, "I am now! You're the best tonic I know!" "Could use a shower and a shave!" Vera took his hand, "Together?" His eyes heated, "Hell, yeah!" A couple of hours later, they were damp, contented and wrapped up in towels, sitting together on Vera's bed. Jayne had re-shaved his goatee back in place.
"So, ya met Ma and Pa." "Yes. I like them a lot. Your father's making moonshine!" Jayne chuckled, "Every year, regular as clockwork. You may think it's hot out there now, but we're coming to the first of Summer. Big thunderstorms, then grass and flowers sprouting – that's already happened. When the blossoms come on the trees by the river is the excuse for a big all-night party with moonshine and music and dancin'." Ma and Pa got it together after one of them nights, they tell me. I was the result a year later!" "Sounds like a handfasting." "If folks don't want a preacher or somethin', then sayin' yes at Summertide and joinin' hands and the lady runnin' through the woods until she gets caught and the fella gives her a good thorough nailin' is as good as church around these parts. Just as lastin' if you want it to be." Vera smiled, "Because I lived on Beltane, I'm familiar with the old custom on Earth-that-was. Sounds very similar, but the old way involved being naked and painted with woad, I think!" Jayne nuzzled her neck, "No problem with you bein' naked!" His mind went on another tack, "How's that dress comin' along?" Vera turned and cupped his jaw, "I never said thank-you!" She kissed him, gently. Jayne's eyes heated, "Yeah, you did. In the shower. Twice, as I remember!" "I was going to start on it today." "Well Summertide will be mebbe tomorrow, mebbe the next day. The buds on those trees are ready to burst. Gonna smell glorious when they do." "I might need to ask your mother for some ribbon, if she has matching stuff." "I'm sure she'll help."
Jayne was on the verandah with his father, smoking a cigar the next night. Vera and Sam were inside, working on the dress. "So, son; Are you gonna ask her?" "Hungh?" Hillary fixed Jayne with a look, "She's the one for you; I can see that, even if you can't. I'm thinkin' a Summertide handfastin' would be enough and right for both of you." "Don't wanna get tied down." "You really want to drift from whore to whore till you're grey and old, when you got that sexy, passionate woman all sideways with lust for you?" "I'm a merc, Pa. I kill people!" "Thinkin' she knows that full well, Jayne. If I were unwed and twenty odd years younger and a might taller, I'd be after her myself! 'Cepting she's imprinted on you, I'd take a chance." Jayne staked his territory, "She's *my woman!" "Does she *know that?" "Think she does." "Well, then; tell her how you feel and ask her. I'm thinkin' she'll say yes, if you're scared." Jayne shot to his feet, "I'm *not scared!" "So, say the words, son." Jayne looked at his father, like a deer caught in the headlights. His voice was tight with unspoken emotion, "Last person I told went and died on me and I ruttin' killed him." Hillary looked up at his son with sympathy and stated quietly, "You didn't kill him, Jayne. The flu did that." Jayne looked into the house, "Can't...lose...*her. Can't risk it." "Love's always a risk, son. Got me two bust legs, a sexy wife and a wheelchair and three great kids; one of whom I miss being here, it's true; but I wouldn't trade one moment for all the gold in the Alliance banks." "Does she know?" "About Allison? Yes, we told her. And the mumps. Figured she needed to know." Jayne's voice was full of disgust, "So she knows I'm less than a full man!" "Doesn't see it that way; but why not ask Vera about it? She'll tell you herself."
Jayne's face went into a frown and he stomped inside, "You know about Allison." Vera looked startled for a moment, then she composed herself, "Yes." "And ya know about the mumps." "Yes. I can't have kids either." For a moment or two, Jayne absorbed that and looked sympathetic, but barrelled on, "So how does it feel to be lookin' at a brother killer?!" Vera stood up, "You didn't kill him. His illness did." He slammed both his hands on the table, "Could kill ya with these hands." Vera held hers up, "Ditto; at a pinch. Might take a bit longer, but I studied martial arts." Sam and Hillary began backing off, very slowly. "Pa says you wanna handfast with me!" Vera became regal and glacial, "Not while you're like this, no." Jayne kept on towards her, "So, what am I like? Bug, scary, muscly?" "Big and muscly, yes. Scary – to me – no, never." He came within touching distance, "Not even when I'm this close? I could hit you right now." He lifted up his right arm. Vera kept firm eye contact, "You think you'll drive me away if you hit me? You think I can't kick that tight bum of yours from hell to breakfast?" He got right in her face, "I'm threatenin' you, woman!" "No, I'm not threatened." She reached up her own hand and touched his without looking, "This hand; one of the hands that brings me quivering and helpless with pleasure? You really, truly want to hurt me with it?"
Sam half turned to Allison, "Looks like us when we first started; all fireworks and raw passion." Allison smiled back, "And remember the form 'making up afterwards' usually took?" Sam grinned, "We'll leave them for a good hour or two!"
Jayne was angrier than he'd been in a long while. He punched sideways with his left and put a dent in the plaster, "See? I break stuff!" "So do I!" Vera turned and kicked and there was a dent next to his. He grabbed her, "You're not listening! I lash out at those ruttin' closest to me and they die!" "That. Was. Not. Your. Fault." Vera enunciated very clearly, "And if I die, it's my time and nothing, I repeat *nothing, to do with you!" "Don't want you to die!" "Not planning on it any time soon." "But you want a home and kids and a white picket fence and stuff, don't you?" "Must be some other woman you're having sex with; it's certainly not me! I just want to wander through the stars. That's my home. Maybe with you, if you knock some sense into that head of yours!" Jayne shook her, but not hard, "Dammit Vera; I'm tryin' to save you from makin' a mistake!" "What mistake would that be? Wanting you so much it drives me crazy? Liking the fact that you're dangerous and hairy and sexy all in one gorgeous wan nao package? Thinking of hanging around for as long as you want me? Not minding about not having kids 'cause I can't have them either? I mean, if you want to be a Dad fiercely enough, we'll find another orphan or two like Ping; I don't mind adopting." Jayne let her go abruptly, "Not right; no; gotta go..." He stomped out, leaving Vera bewildered.
Sam approached Vera while they were figuring out the finer points of the dress the next day. "So; all resolved?" Vera shook her head, "Jayne just took off." Sam covered Vera's hand with her own, "Tell me." So Vera did. Sam smiled, "Jayne's crazy in love with you and is determined not to show it, Vera. May not have even fully figured it out yet." Vera laughed softly, "Some tips about now would be a good idea." "Well it's Summertide tonight. The trees are starting to open their flowers. Jayne told you about that?" Vera nodded, "Let's make this a dress that'd stop traffic in the known verse and see how Jayne reacts!" "I'd like to try to get a message to Serenity, let Mal and everyone know that we're safe and where we are. I can word it carefully so that prying eyes won't understand." "Hillary's got a machine in his study. You can use it later." After finishing the dress, Vera sent a wave to Mal. 'Hope foxes not too ravenous. Rooster and hen gone to coop with rooster's brood. Not old building. Eggs intact. Big shindig tonight with moonshine, rooster's pa says you're welcome. South of iron horse near the river.' A wave came back, 'Foxes rolled over and played dead. New D'Artagnan and Musketeers en route to coop; just taking on juice. Got some eggs ourselves. Rendezvous tomorrow, hope moonshine not run out!' Vera went and asked Hillary to keep some bottles back until the morning. Vera hung up her dress. It was mostly the see-through blue lace, with tiny cap sleeves and a plunging neckline. The front laced up with ribbon, peasant style, and there was just about as much ribbon as lace, leaving the whole cleavage exposed. Two tear-shaped pieces of silk covered the whole nipple area. The dress went on clinging to just above the hips, then flared into a floaty skirt which ended mid-thigh. Two tapered rectangular pieces of silk were inserted at front and rear of the dress from about the belly button down. They'd used all the silk and lace to make it. As 'something naughty' it most definitely qualified.
Jayne reappeared later, but Vera kept out of his way, at Sam's advice. Sam sent a tray of food to Vera's room so that she could eat while she got ready. She walked downstairs barefoot and in her new dress some time later. She'd left her long hair untied and sprayed herself with some of the rose cologne she favoured. Sam gave her a small glass of moonshine. "For courage. He's on the porch with Hillary, smoking a cigar." Vera knocked back the drink. Sam gave her one of the blossoms from the trees and Vera tucked it in her cleavage. She took a deep breath and went out into the soft darkness.
Jayne turned, and his mouth fell open. Vera looked like a sexy princess and a hot fairy and a *very naughty elf and all his wet dreams come to life in one delectable package. Blood rushed south so fast that he nearly swooned.
Hillary whistled, "Wow. That's one Summertime dress all right!" He turned to Jayne, "You want her?" "Hell, yeah!" His voice was rough with pure, simple lust. Hillary turned to Vera, "I'm guessing you want him?" She smiled, "Hell, yeah!." Hillary grabbed their hands and joined them in front of him, "That'll do!" Vera turned to him, perplexed, "Huh?" Hillary grinned at her, "Run, Vera!" Her eyes flew open with surprise and understanding and she took off. "Wha...?" Severe testosterone poisoning was slowing down Jayne's brain functions, "I was plannin' on ruttin' kissin' her!" "Jayne, you can get mad with me later. It's Summertide and you just joined hands with consent in front of me." "But that was coz I wanted to..." Hillary grinned, "I know very well what you want to do, son. Better catch her before some other guy gets there ahead of you!" Jayne joined the dots, "You ruttin' handfasted us?!!" "Jayne...your woman is waitin'! And it's not complete until you next have sex together." "Where?" Jayne turned, trying to see Vera through the darkness. His mother's voice came to him, "Try the pool past the bridge; nice and secluded there, away from pryin' eyes." Jayne took off after Vera.
Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:38 PM
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A relief that the Alliance found nothing to arrest Mal and the crew for but really loved the part where Mal and Inara declare their feelings for each other. Hope Jayne and Vera reunite with them soon. Ali D :~)
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So just an odd question - Aberdeen? I use Aberdeen a lot, I grew up there.
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 7:23 PM
Interesting stuff you got going with Jayne and Vera....though I am glad these two crazy kids are finally seeing the point;)
Aberdeen is one of the planets listed in the Firefly Wikepedia entry. along with Newhall and Deadwood.


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The funeral of Kerry-born journalist and author Con Houlihan has taken place in Dublin.
The mass was held at St Kevin's Church on Harrington Street and followed by cremation at Mount Jerome Crematorium.
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His niece, Anne Houlihan, remembered a beloved uncle and the gentlest of giants.
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Переправа на Нижней Темзе () — проект новой переправы в нижнем течении Темзы.
Эта совмещённая (железнодорожная и автомобильная) переправа будет построена на Юго-востоке Англии.

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Переправа должна будет связать трассу А130 в графстве Эссекс (с севера от переправы, ) с трассой A228 в графстве Кент (с юга от переправы, ).

Переправа конструктивно по первоначальному проекту представлял из себя мост, но движение экологов проводит давление на общественное мнение с целью изменения проекта и заменой моста на тоннель.
Планируется сделать раздельным железнодорожный путь и автомобильную проезжую часть, они будут примыкать друг к другу на нескольких участках.

Возможно также создание нового барьера от наводнений, который дополнит сооружение в Ипсвиче.

Правительство Великобритании уже представило новую схему распределения транспортных потоков.
В ней указана транспортная магистраль в обход Лондона, частью которой будет этот проект.

В 2008 году было указано, что стоимость проекта ориентировочно оценивается в 4 миллиарда фунтов.
Кроме того, были озвучены интеграции в планы строительства приливной электростанции в устье Темзы.

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Marcos Luque Martins (São Paulo, SP, 8 de abril de 1974) es un actor, comediante, locutor y presentador de televisión en Brasil. Famoso por sus personajes, con apariciones en el escenario y la presentación humorística en el banco de CQC Brasil, Rede Bandeirantes y por su propio programa llamado O Formigueiro. Se graduó en Artes en la Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado.

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A los 18 años, Luque se retiró del arte para dedicarse al fútbol. Su primer equipo como jugador fue el Esporte Clube Santo André, el equipo de ABC Paulista. A los 21 se trasladó a Numancia (equipo de segunda división en la liga española). Debido a la fuerte y tiró de la vida de un jugador de fútbol, que está por finalizar su carrera siendo muy joven.

Durante 10 años, jugador de la izquierda de Luque carrera futbolística para volver a los artes de la escuela y más tarde convertirse en actor. Participa en el teatro desde la infancia, fue para el humor. Actualmente es presentador del programa CQC Brasil Rede Bandeirantes, junto a Marcelo Tas y Rafinha Bastos, y mantiene una imagen en una estación de radio de Brasil con su personaje, el motoboy Jackson Five. También presentó el 25 de julio de su sólo un programa, llamado O Formigueiro.

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This week we start the discussion with…Do You Have Digital Phobia?
The War between Analog and Digital has been present for years and Digital bass gear has never been more advanced and user friendly then right now.
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American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship
The Second Samuel H. Kress Foundation/AAMD Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome Awarded to Karol B. Wight, President and Executive Director of The Corning Museum of Glass
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and the American Academy in Rome (AAR) are pleased to announce that the second Samuel H. Kress Foundation/AAMD Affiliated Fellow is Karol B. Wight, the president and executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY. During her fellowship, she will focus on research and planning for two major exhibition projects in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture. The first project titled, "Sleeping Beauty" will be an exhibition on the history of glass and glassmaking in the northern Adriatic, and the second will be a traveling exhibit on ancient to modern cameo glass.
This fellowship is an exciting continued partnership that supports AAMD's mission of fostering excellence in art museums. The residency at the American Academy in Rome provides the time and opportunity for a museum director to conduct independent research that benefits both the institution and the field, and gives the Fellow access to a diverse community of artists, thinkers, and scholars with whom to engage and share ideas.
About the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The mission of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (est. 1929) is to sustain and carry out the original vision of its founder, Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955). The Samuel H. Kress Foundation supports the work of individuals and institutions engaged with appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of the history of European art and architecture from antiquity to the dawn of the modern era.
About the American Academy in Rome
Founded in 1894, the American Academy in Rome is the premier overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. The Academy supports innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community on its 11-acre campus at the highest point within the walls of Rome.
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"A live James Taylor album has been suggested, demanded and contemplated for many years," writes Taylor's manager/producer, Peter Asher, in this album's liner notes, and the reasons are not hard to find. For one thing, Taylor has been a successful concert attraction for more than 20 years. For another, an artist who has scored in excess of 30 chart records (on four different labels) over those years is represented by only one, 20-year-old hits compilation. The 30-track, two-hour Live, drawn from a tour staged specifically to record it, is an attempt to address those points. Fronting a typically top-notch band, Taylor ranges across his repertoire, back to 1968 for "Something in the Way She Moves" and "Carolina in My Mind," and up to 1991 for "Copperline," among other songs drawn from New Moon Shine. In between come most of his hits. (The most notable exception is "Her Town, Too," and there is a general paucity of later recordings like "That's Why I'm Here" and "Never Die Young.") Taylor treats the material in his relaxed, assured style, making occasional ironic or self-deprecatory remarks between songs and charming his audience even more. The effect of presenting the songs in a uniform manner is to imply an equality between them, as though the deeper material was less significant and the slighter songs more substantial. But that doesn't keep the set from being a consistently enjoyable listening experience. Taylor remains sorely in need of a retrospective that would bring his work into concise coherence, but this one at least presents most of his best-known material in effective performances. ~ William Ruhlmann
1 Sweet Baby James James Taylor 4:11
2 Traffic Jam James Taylor 2:10
3 Handy Man James Taylor 3:31
4 Your Smiling Face James Taylor 2:53
5 Secret O' Life James Taylor 3:45
6 Shed a Little Light James Taylor 4:16
7 Everybody Has the Blues James Taylor 2:34
8 Steamroller Blues James Taylor 5:24
9 Mexico James Taylor 3:15
10 Millworker James Taylor 4:25
11 Country Road James Taylor 5:39
12 Fire and Rain James Taylor 4:33
13 Shower the People James Taylor 4:40
14 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) James Taylor 7:0
15 New Hymn James Taylor 3:0
1 Walking Man James Taylor 4:35
2 Riding on a Railroad James Taylor 2:42
3 Something in the Way She Moves James Taylor 3:30
4 Sun on the Moon James Taylor 3:44
5 Up on the Roof [Cover] James Taylor 4:9
6 Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight James Taylor 3:11
7 She Thinks I Still Care [Cover] James Taylor 3:25
8 Copperline James Taylor 4:39
9 Slap Leather James Taylor 2:8
10 Only One James Taylor 4:37
11 You Make It Easy James Taylor 5:3
12 Carolina in My Mind James Taylor 5:1
13 I Will Follow James Taylor 3:57
14 You've Got a Friend James Taylor 5:9
15 That Lonesome Road James Taylor 2:46


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Jennifer Holliday to Star in 'The Color Purple' on Broadway~article from New York.com
Published on: Aug 29, 2016
Yet another Dreamgirl will be joining the cast of The Color Purple. Jennifer Holliday will take on the role of Shug Avery, the charismatic blues singer, in the revival of the musical on October 4. Holliday won a Tony for her blazing performance as Effie White in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls. Ironically, Shug was first played in this production by Jennifer Hudson who won an Oscar for her Effie in the movie version of Dreamgirls. Hudson was succeeded in Purple by another Tony winner Heather Headley (Aida) who will play her final performance on October 2. Holliday had previously played Sofia in a touring version of Purple. Since Dreamgirls, she has appeared on Broadway in Grease and Chicago. Read more...
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Many people believe that meditation is only done by Buddhist monks who live in the Tibetan mountains and take a vow of silence for the rest of their lives, or the kind of middle-aged moms who transform into yoga bunnies and spend their days drinking matcha tea. Yet, meditation does not always require you to fold your legs on top of each other, or buzz like a bee for hours on end. Meditation is actually just a time for you to become mindful of your own thoughts and feeling, and for you to take the time to become really in-tune with your body. You could do this on the subway to work, or you could do it in a yoga class. Mediation is what you make of it!
Yep, when your Happiness Set Point has had a knock-back thanks to the stressors around you, meditation can help reset your brain and reset your happiness. It's as simple as that! In fact, Sara Lazar, a famous neuroscientist, has noted that meditating on a regular basis can actually help to thicken areas of the brain which help you deal with the stress and strain of everyday life. As if that wasn't cool enough, meditation also helps to shrink the amygdala – which isn't a part of your brain that you want to get to know. The amygdala controls all of the anxiety and fearfulness that you feel, so shrinking it definitely isn't a bad thing.
If you're up to date on your knowledge of cortisol, you'll know that this hormone is the irritating little booger that causes you to feel stress – thus, higher levels of cortisol will make you feel even more stressed than usual. Yet, one study within the US National Library of Medicine showed a distinct reduction of cortisol in the brains of students' after just four days of meditation. Four days, ladies and gents!
While many people associate meditation with happy-go-lucky hippies, meditation should actually form a huge part of everyday life – because science has proven that it makes you happier. Are you really going to argue with science? We thought not.