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Anzum (foaled 6 April 1991) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for his performances in National Hunt racing. After failing to win in eight races on the flat he made an immediate impact when switched to hurdle races, winning his first six races over obstacles including the Summit Junior Hurdle and taking third place in the Triumph Hurdle. After winning only once in the next three years he established himself as a leading staying hurdler in 1999 with wins in the Stayers' Hurdle, Champion Stayers Hurdle and Long Walk Hurdle. He ran his last race in April 2001 and was retired with a record of ten wins and fourteen places from thirty-two starts.

Background
Anzum was a bay gelding with no white markings bred by the Herefordshire-based Cobhall Court Stud. He was sired by Ardross, an outstanding stayer who won thirteen Group races including two runnings of the Ascot Gold Cup and was British Horse of the Year in 1982. As a breeding stallion he made an impact as a sire of National Hunt horses including the Champion Hurdler Alderbrook, Young Kenny (Scottish Grand National), Avro Anson (Dipper Novices' Chase) and Burgoyne (West Yorkshire Hurdle): he is also the paternal grandsire of Coneygree. Anzum's dam Muznah was a fairly useful racehorse, winning two of her nine races and achieving a Timeform racing of 92 in 1983. She was a great-great-great granddaughter of the broodmare Lost Soul whose other descendants included Hethersett, Neasham Belle and Doyoun. Muznah had previously foaled the Top Novices' Hurdle winner Jazilah and went on to produce the Grade 2 winning hurdler Sh Boom.

As a foal, Anzum was sent to the November sale at Doncaster and was bought for 3,400 guineas by David Minton Bloodstock. A year later, he was offered for auction at Tattersalls and was sold for 9,800 guineas to Margaret O'Toole. During his racing career, the gelding was owned by The Old Foresters Partnership. He was initially sent into training with David Nicholson (best known as a trainer of steeplechasers) in Gloucestershire.

Racing career

Flat racing career
Anzum made little impression in four races as a two-year-old in 1993, producing his best effort on his final appearance when he finished third in a ten furlong maiden race at Nottingham Racecourse in October. He failed to win in four attempts as a three-year-old, but showed some signs of ability in maidens and minor handicap races, never finishing worse than third. His best effort probably came when he finished second to the future Chester Cup winner Silence In Court over fourteen furlongs at Nottingham in May.

1994/1995 National Hunt season: novice hurdle races
Anzum made his debut over obstacles in a novice hurdle at Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse on 28 October in which he was ridden by Warren Marston and won by nine lengths from Symbol of Success. Marston was again in the saddle when the gelding won a similar event at Newbury Racecourse on 9 November, beating Khatir by nine lengths at odds of 13/8. Two weeks later, ridden by Adrian Maguire he started odds-on favourite at Nottingham and completed his hat-trick, beating Tulu by one and a half lengths. On 10 December, Anzum was moved up in class for the Grade 2 Summit Junior Hurdle at Lingfield Park Racecourse in which he was ridden by Robert Massey. Starting the 10/11 favourite in a seven-runner field on heavy ground, he took the lead approaching the second last and held off the late challenge of the Toby Balding-trained Brave Tornado to win by three-quarters of a length.

Anzum took his winning run to five at Warwick Racecourse in January when Marston rode him to a six length win in the Red Rose Novices' Hurdle at odds of 4/9. The gelding's winning streak stretched to six in February when he led from the start in the Stroud Green Hurdle at Newbury and won by twenty lengths from the filly Karline Ka. On 16 March 1995, Anzum raced for the first time at the Cheltenham Festival where he was one of twenty-six four-year-olds to contest the Grade 1 Triumph Hurdle. Ridden by Marton he started the 9/1 third favourite behind Balanak (winner of the Dovecote Novices' Hurdle and Silver Wedge (Queen's Vase, Tolworth Hurdle). After losing ground at the fourth hurdle he made steady progress in the closing stages without ever looking likely to win and finished fourth behind Kissair, Silver Wedge and the subsequently disqualified Dr Leunt. On his final appearance of the season he was sent to Ireland and finished sixth behind Shaihar in the Champion Four Year Old Hurdle at Punchestown.

1995/1996 National Hunt season
Anzum appeared only twice in the 1995/1996 National Hunt season. He finished seventh behind Jibber The Kibber in the Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle at Chepstow Racecourse in November and third in a handicap hurdle at Sandown in December.

1996/1997 National Hunt season
After a break of almost a year, Anzum returned in a handicap hurdle over two and three quarter miles at Haydock Park on 26 November 1996. Carrying 160 pounds he was prominent from the start and stayed on well in the closing stages to take the lead in the final strides and won by a head from Burnt Imp with Dally Boy a head away in third. In February he carried top weight of 164 pounds in a two and half mile handicap at Chepstow and finished third behind Brave Tornado and Moorish. Two years after his defeat in the Triumph Hurdle, Anzum returned to the Cheltenham Festival to contest the Stayers' Hurdle over three miles. Starting a 25/1 outsider he was ridden by Richard Johnson in a field which included Escartefigue, What A Question (Long Distance Hurdle), Urubande (Aintree Hurdle), Trainglot (Cesarewitch Handicap), Ocean Hawk (Long Walk Hurdle), Pridwell and Derrymoyle (Tipperkevin Hurdle). Anzum was not among the early leaders and made several jumping errors but stayed on strongly on the run-in to finish second, two and half lengths behind Karshi and two lengths ahead of Paddy's Return.

1998/1999 National Hunt season
Anzum missed the whole of the 1997/1998 season before returning in the Grade 1 Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot in December 1998 in which he started a 40/1 outsider and came home seventh of the eight finishers behind Princeful. In January he started at odds of 40/1 in a seven runner field for the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham and finished  fifth, more than fifty lengths behind the winner Lady Rebecca. Anzum began to show improvement in his next race, the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton Park Racecourse on February. Carrying a relatively light weight of 147 pounds he stayed on well in the closing stages to finish second, eight lengths behind his stablemate Pharanear, with the joint-favourites Pridwell and Ocean Hawk finishing fourth and sixth respectively.

On his third appearance at the Cheltenham Festival, Anzum was ridden by Richard Johnson when he started a 40/1 outsider for the 28th running of the Stayers' Hurdle. The 2/1 joint-favourites were Deano's Beeno (winner of the premier Long Distance Hurdle) and Le Coudray a leading French hurdler who had recently been transferred to the Irish stable of Aidan O'Brien. Lady Rebecca, Paddy's Return and Ocean Hawk were also in the field as well as Juyush (Ascot Hurdle), Turnpole (Cesarewitch) and Kerawi (Christmas Hurdle). Racing on good to soft ground, Anzum was not among the early leaders, came under pressure from the seventh hurdle and was only eighth at the third last at which point Deano's Beeno, who had led up to that point, began to weaken and was overtaken by the Irish mare Sallies Girl. On the final turn Lady Rebecca took the lead from Sallies Girl as Le Coudray made rapid progress on the outside and Anzum began to make progress. Lady Rebecca landed in front over the last but was overtaken by Le Coudray who looked certain to win before Anzum produced a very strong late run to take the lead in the final strides and win by a neck. Lady Rebecca finished third ahead of Sallies Girl and Juyush. Nicholson said: "I watched the race from the lawn and when they passed me I thought he might get second, but as I went towards the winner's enclosure Arthur Moore told me I'd won it."

In April, Anzum was sent to Ireland to contest the Champion Stayers Hurdle at Punchestown Racecourse and started 7/1 third favourite behind Le Coudray and the mare Marello, with the other runners being Mister Morose (November Novices' Chase), Pharanear and Khayrawani (Coral Cup). In contrast to the tactics previously employed, Johnson sent Anzum into the lead from the start and held off several challenges before staying on strongly on the run-in to win by two and a half lengths from Khayrawani.

1999/2000 National Hunt season
Anzum began his next campaign in the Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury on 27 November in which he started at odds of 11/2 and finished third, beaten eighteen lengths and a neck by Deano's Beeno and the six-year-old gelding Just Nip. When David Nicholson retired in December, his assistant Alan King took over the stable. On 18 December, Anzum faced Deano's Beeno yet again in the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot in a six-runner field which also included Pharanear, Ivor's Flutter, Boss Doyle (Mildmay Novices' Chase) and Count Campioni. Anzum tracked Deano's Beeno before taking the lead at the twelfth hurdle and drew well clear of his rival over the last two obstacles to win by seventeen lengths. Anzum started 5/4 favourite for a Grade 2 event at Haydock in January but after making the early running he was overtaken three hurdles out and finished third behind Behrajan and Merry Masquerade. He missed that year's Cheltenham Festival owing to the prevailing firm ground.

2000/2001 National Hunt season
Anzum was off the racecourse for just over a year, during which time he was moved to the stable of Richard Phillips at Adlestrop, before returning for the Cloeve Hurdle at Cheltenham on 27 January 2001. Starting the 25/1 outsider against six opponents he finished third behind Lady Rebecca and Mister Banjo with Barton in fifth. On 31 March at Ascot he started 13/8 favourite for the Grade 2 Weatherbys Hurdle and finished second to the Martin Pipe-trained mare Maid Equal to whom he was conceding thirteen pounds. The 2001 Cheltenham Festival had been abandoned owing to the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak, but a series of substitute championship races were run at Sandown at the end of April. Anzum contested the Distance Championship, a substitute for the Stayers' Hurdle and started 8/1 third fourth choice in the betting behind Baracouda, Bacchanal and Behrajan. He was never in serious contention and finished last of the eleven runners behind Baracouda.

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Escalating disputes threaten the future of the Unified Command Room (Azm)
The Unified Command Room (Azm), operating in northwestern Syria, ended in a stalemate; As a result of growing differences between its factions related to the economic and administrative aspects, which may pose a real threat to the Room's future, after the significant gains that have been achieved at the security level during 7 months of actual active work, which are summarized as follows:
• The decrease in the pace of infighting between the factions of the Syrian National Army, after raising the level of coordination between prominent factions within Azm, which contributed to the use of security and military solutions with undisciplined groups, which over the past years had caused tensions and clashes between the factions or with the military police.
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Recently, some disagreements began to appear in the relationship that brings the components of (Azm) together on two levels, namely, the economic and administrative levels, as shown below:
1. Economically: The components of Azm, specifically the "Third Corps" and the "Revolutionaries for Liberation", were unable to resolve disputes about the mechanism of work of the commercial crossings, and the resulting financial return, which was reflected in the project of establishing a body emanating from the Unified Command Room; whose aim is to control the roads and combat smuggling, so the project was suspended on the grounds that the work of the security room had almost stopped.
Because of the economic disputes, the Revolutionaries for Liberation tended to communicate with Hayat Tahrır Al-Sham (HTS), with the aim of discussing commercial and security cooperation between the regions of Idlib and northern Aleppo, which is an indication of the depth of the differences within Azm.
2. Administratively: Azm, by the way, has not been able, since its inception, to put a clear definition of the relationship with the institutions emanating from the Syrian Interim Government, which prompted official figures and some factions to oppose the room's activity. Although it was originally represented by the body of the revolutionaries. The foregoing also reflects a major organizational imbalance among the components of the Unified Command Room.
In general, if the unified leadership model as in (Azm) is undermined without presenting an alternative or reforming the system of governance as a whole, the region will be threatened with losing the security gains that have been achieved during the past period, in addition to the possibility of compromising key economic opportunities.
This would take place in conjunction with high expectations suggest that the United States of America tends to grant exemptions to the regions of northeastern and northwestern Syria from the Caesar Act sanctions, which may provide a legal environment to attract capital and investors, which also needs an appropriate security environment.

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Launch of TOTE 1, aka Isla Bella, on April 19, 2015. Photo: NASSCO
General Dynamics NASSCO is getting ready for the launch of the second of two LNG-powered containerships being built for TOTE Maritime.
The launching ceremony will be held next Saturday (August 29) at the NASSCO shipyard in San Diego and is open to the public.
The launch of 'TOTE 2' follows the successful launch of the Isla Bella in April during a ceremony that drew thousands of spectators.
The two ship's, part of TOTE's Marlin-class, will be the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered containerships in the world and used to provide Jones Act shipping services from Jacksonville, Florida and San Juan, Puerto Rico. TOTE's contract with NASSCO includes options for up to five ships total, but so far only the two ships are planned.
Delivery of the Isla Bella is expected for the Q4 2015, followed by the second ship in the Q1 2016. The vessels will operate under charter agreements with Sea Star Line LLC.
By switching to LNG, TOTE says that the vessels will be the most environmentally-friendly containerships in the world, reducing NOx emissions by 98 percent, SOx by 97 percent, carbon dioxide by 72 and particulate matter by 60 percent in the Puerto Rico trade.
As was the case with the Isla Bella, the name of TOTE 2 will be unveiled at the launch.
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Who does climate change impact? You may think that you can avoid its effects for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, climate change isn't a distant problem that the next few generations have to handle. It's already started to influence our lives. What do these implications look like now – and how can we expect them to grow?
Take a look at how climate change impacts may evolve over time.
Why Does Climate Change Happen?
In a nutshell, the term "climate change" refers to how the Earth's average climate continues to fluctuate. A historically cold area like Northern Canada may experience a warm, sunny week. That occurrence doesn't indicate climate change impact itself. What happens if those weather patterns become more common? When mountain glaciers shrink and ice caps melt, it's apparent that the location's climate has altered.
The greenhouse effect isn't unnatural. It helps our planet stay warm enough for human and animal inhabitation. But when we burn excessive fossil fuels, it's those actions that create climate change. As a result, our planet becomes a little warmer – we've almost doubled our carbon dioxide output since the Industrial Age. The world's oceans, land and air experience harm when this process happens.
If our environment takes on more and more stress, it's more difficult to sustain human life. We can't continue about our days when our daily practices don't work anymore. How are we supposed to import goods when our sea levels rise? There are many reasons why climate change affects humans.
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Kerala Governor's policy address | Special quality assurance drive planned for detection of Aflatoxin and antibiotic residues in milk, milk products
Aflatoxins are naturally occurring toxins primarily produced by fungi of the genus Aspergillus which can pose serious health threats to both humans and livestock
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The Dairy Development Department will conduct a special quality assurance drive for the detection of Aflatoxin and antibiotic residues in milk, milk products and cattle feed, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan said in his policy address in the State Assembly on January 23.
Aflatoxins are naturally occurring toxins primarily produced by fungi of the genus Aspergillus which can pose serious health threats to both humans and livestock. The National Dairy Development Board has noted that strict control of Aflatoxin B1 level in feeds for lactating dairy cattle and buffaloes is required in order to minimise the level of Aflatoxin M1 contamination in milk and milk products.
The government also plans to complete the Quality assurance drive for certified milk, the policy address said. Interventions by the Dairy Development Department to supplement clinical and animal health management practices have helped the State attain self-sufficiency in milk production, it noted.
The policy address also reiterated the Animal Husbandry Department's plans to revamp the Special Livestock Breeding Programme with emphasis on doorstep veterinary services to farmers and roll-out of mobile veterinary surgey units.
In the Agriculture sector, thrust will be given to organic and natural farming systems during 2023-24. ''Farming systems that can regenerate degraded lands and prevent losses to the arable lands using adequate conservation measures have been attempted by the Agriculture Department,'' the policy address noted.
It also reiterated the government plans to float the Kerala Agri Business Company (KABCO) to accelerate agribusiness programmes.


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Angela Bassett scooped the Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Golden Globe credit:Bang Showbiz
Angela Bassett paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman as she accepted her Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture on Tuesday (10.01.23).
The 64-year-old actress became the first woman to win an acting award for a superhero movie at the ceremony when she beat off competition from Kerry Condon) 'The Banshees of Inisherin') Jamie Lee Curtis ('Everything Everywhere All at Once') Dolly De Leon ('Triangle of Sadness') and Carey Mulligan ('She Said') for her performance as Queen Ramonda in 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever', and she took the time to remember her late co-star - who died of cancer in 2020 after thanking her husband Courtney B. Vance, her family, and others who had worked on the film.
She told the audience at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California: "We embarked on this journey together with love. We mourned, we loved, we healed. We were surrounded each and every day by the light and the spirit of Chadwick Boseman.
"We have joy in knowing that with this historic "Black Panther" series, it is a part of his legacy that he helped to lead us. We showed the world what Black unity, leadership and love looks like, behind and in front of the camera. To the Marvel fans, thank you for embracing these characters and showing us so much love."
Earlier in the evening, Ke Huy Quan picked up the Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for his work on 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' and paid an emotional tribute to his first ever director, 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom's Steven Spielberg, and his latest movie's filmmakers, the Daniels.
He said: "Thank you so much. I was raised to never forget where I came from and to always remember who gave me my first opportunity, so Steven Spielberg, thank you.
"When I started my career in 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' I felt so very lucky to have been chosen and as I grew older I started to wonder if that was it, if that was just luck.
" For so many years I was afraid I had nothing more to offer, that no matter what I did I would never surpass what I achieved as a kid.
Thankfully, more than 30 years later, two guys thought of me. They remembered that kid and gave me an opportunity to try again.
Everything that has happened since has been unbelievable, Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert thank you so much for helping me find my answer, you have given me more than I could have hoped.
He beat of competition from 'Babylon's Brad Pitt, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan of 'The Banshees of Inisherin' and Eddie Redmayne for 'The Good Nurse' to take the honour.


ZBrush isn't quite like other 3D packages because of its 2D elements: it doesn't have a 3D scene, but rather has a 2.5D canvas document on which you can draw 3D objects. Many of ZBrush's signature and most powerful features are made possible by the fact that ZBrush uses a depth-enabled canvas rather than a full 3D space.
The Zoom controls in the Document palette act on the canvas, enlarging the pixols. So if you zoom in far enough, you will start to see the individual pixols and the image will lose definition. It is just like enlarging an image in a photo editor.
When you are working on a 3D model in Edit mode and want to get in close, you don't use the canvas zoom. Instead you Scale the object. Scaling the object means you'll be able to get in as close as you want and work on tiny details without any loss of definition. Note that scaling doesn't change the true size of the object; it only affects how much of the canvas your object takes up.


Previous models of this product range.
The CXDI-501C shows its particular strength where precision, sensitivity and maximum flexibility are required. Therefore we have made it lighter and thinner for more portable freedom in your everyday workflow. The highly sensitive caesium iodide (CsI) scintillator guarantees diagnostic images of the highest quality, with the lowest possible radiation exposure for your patient. This makes the CXDI-501C ideal for pediatric and orthopedic use. With its large 350 x 426 mm imaging area the CXDI-501C accommodates a wide range of examinations, including skull, spine, chest, abdomen and extremities.
centers or ICUs. The device is compatible with standard sized cassettes and comes with a convenient handle for flexible and versatile use. And both patient and technician can easily hold the unit in place during image capture.


Dr. Herdiman is a Internal Medicine in Grogol Petamburan, Jakarta and has an experience of 44 years in this field. Dr. Herdiman practices at Praktik Pribadi Dr. Herdiman in Grogol Petamburan, Jakarta,Apotek Lautan Berkat in Grogol Petamburan, Jakarta and RS Medistra in Setiabudi, Jakarta. He completed dr. from Universitas Indonesia in 1973,Sp.PD from Universitas Indonesia in 1978 and Diploma in Tropical Medicine Health from Mahidol University, Bangkok in 1976. He is a member of Perhimpunan Dokter Spesialis Penyakit Dalam Indonesia and Ikatan Dokter Indonesia. Some of the services provided by the doctor are: Diabetes Management,Geriatric Medicine,Anemia Treatment,Fever Treatment and Bronchial Asthma Treatment etc.


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#include "geometry_msgs/TwistStamped.h"
#include "control_msgs/JointJog.h"
#include "ros/ros.h"
#include "sensor_msgs/Joy.h"

namespace moveit_servo
{
static const int NUM_SPINNERS = 1;
static const int QUEUE_LENGTH = 1;

class SpaceNavToTwist
{
public:
  SpaceNavToTwist() : spinner_(NUM_SPINNERS)
  {
    joy_sub_ = n_.subscribe("spacenav/joy", QUEUE_LENGTH, &SpaceNavToTwist::joyCallback, this);
    twist_pub_ = n_.advertise<geometry_msgs::TwistStamped>("servo_server/delta_twist_cmds", QUEUE_LENGTH);
    joint_delta_pub_ = n_.advertise<control_msgs::JointJog>("servo_server/delta_joint_cmds", QUEUE_LENGTH);

    spinner_.start();
    ros::waitForShutdown();
  };

private:
  // Convert incoming joy commands to TwistStamped commands for servoing.
  // The TwistStamped component goes to servoing, while buttons 0 & 1 control
  // joints directly.
  void joyCallback(const sensor_msgs::Joy::ConstPtr& msg)
  {
    // Cartesian servoing with the axes
    geometry_msgs::TwistStamped twist;
    twist.header.stamp = ros::Time::now();
    twist.twist.linear.x = msg->axes[0];
    twist.twist.linear.y = msg->axes[1];
    twist.twist.linear.z = msg->axes[2];

    twist.twist.angular.x = msg->axes[3];
    twist.twist.angular.y = msg->axes[4];
    twist.twist.angular.z = msg->axes[5];

    // Joint servoing with the buttons
    control_msgs::JointJog joint_deltas;
    // This example is for a UR5.
    joint_deltas.joint_names.push_back("shoulder_pan_joint");

    // Button 0: positive on the wrist joint
    // Button 1: negative on the wrist joint
    joint_deltas.velocities.push_back(msg->buttons[0] - msg->buttons[1]);
    joint_deltas.header.stamp = ros::Time::now();

    twist_pub_.publish(twist);
    joint_delta_pub_.publish(joint_deltas);
  }

  ros::NodeHandle n_;
  ros::Subscriber joy_sub_;
  ros::Publisher twist_pub_, joint_delta_pub_;
  ros::AsyncSpinner spinner_;
};
}  // namespace moveit_servo

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  ros::init(argc, argv, "spacenav_to_twist");

  moveit_servo::SpaceNavToTwist to_twist;

  return 0;
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: How come new Audio("./mysound.mp3") works regardless of the path? There is a javascript file main.js that has this code:
const mySound = new Audio('./sound/alert1.wav');

function playAlert() {
   mySound.currentTime = 0;
   mySound.play();
}

And I have the following structure of my project:
sound/
     alert1.wav
src/
   main.js
index.html

And the index.html includes the src/main.js as the script.
The page has a button that plays the sound by calling playAlert().
I use VSCode live server extension to run this.
And when I press the button, the sound plays just fine.
Now, when I change the path to:
const mySound = new Audio('../sound/alert1.wav');

or
const mySound = new Audio('../../../../../sound/alert1.wav');

It still plays!
I tried to search why, but honestly, I am not even sure what to search for.
Who can explain how does it work?


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How the U.S. Is Being Held Hostage by Its Own Worst Companies
July 9, 2019 by Contributor
By: Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver.com
If you know where to look, the markets are telling you that they understand we're moving into a new phase of US-dollar decay.
With the most recent dovish statement by Jerome Powell, the wheels have been set in motion for a fresh cycle of rate cuts. Going so far as to say he would do what it takes to "sustain the expansion", I believe the Fed chair is preparing the market for a series of cuts that will send the Fed rate to 0%. This is the best possible news for America's worst companies.
Junk bonds, the riskiest of all corporate bonds, should offer a significant percentage return to US Treasuries. As the chart below indicates, this is especially so when a recession comes into play.
It makes all the sense in the world when you learn that for the last 32 years, sub-investment-grade bonds, the junk rated CCC and lower, has defaulted at a spectacular 26.85% rate.
So we see that the spread between junk bonds and T-bills has soared during times of market crisis, maxing out at around 37% during the Lehman Brothers collapse.
So how is it that with 60% of National Association of Business Economics economists predicting US recession by 2020, a result that would be ordinarily be fatal to many if not most of the riskiest junk-bond-issuing companies, junk bonds on the whole are returning a mere 8% percent premium above the perceived global safe haven of US Treasuries?
Because while a free-market recession would indeed be fatal to heavily indebted, money-losing companies, a free market is not what we have. Even before he came out and told everyone it would happen, the bond market predicted that Jerome Powell would meet the wet blanket of recession with a roaring forest fire of zero-interest rates and more QE.
With its decision in December 2018 to stop raising rates and signal a softer approach, the Fed basically said, "We know you're a debt-ridden, operationally hopeless, industry dinosaur of a company. But here's an unlimited source of almost-no-interest debt. We dare you to find a way to go out business."
"We continue to operate in a challenging environment and see significant and sustained near-term headwinds, but remain optimistic about the future."
According to the Bank of International Settlements, fully 16% of American companies can now be classified as such so-called "zombie companies." This is eight times higher than in the early 1990s and is a both a direct consequence of ZIRP (zero-percent interest rate policy) and the primary reason the Fed has no choice other than to return to ZIRP (and QE), probably for good, until the dollar is finally printed into oblivion.
Among these companies? We're talking about former vanguard of American industry that globalization has rendered increasingly uncompetitive, household names like General Electric and US Steel. It's entirely unclear how these companies turn things around in a world that leaves them further behind by the day.
But at the other end of the spectrum, how long could consumer darling Netflix survive if the cheap debt spigot were abruptly shut off? Nobody doubts the ongoing demand for their service, but that demand has been built on the back of $12B in primarily-content-acquisition-related debt. It loses money hand over fist, burns cash at a staggering rate; since 2011, the company has lost $13B.
So here's the part the Fed really can't say: 16% of American companies failing or faltering at the same time would be economically catastrophic. Which is to say the most indebted, most unprofitable American companies, put together, may have become 'too big to fail'.
Which is why I believe interest rates are headed back to 0%.
Given that, what's the real near-to-medium-term difference between the risk of default by companies that will never again (or, in some cases, won't ever) be operationally self-sustaining (but who have already proven they can survive as long as they have access to super-cheap debt) and US Treasuries?
As the market is indicating, incredibly and realistically, not much.


A hand full of selected blocks are now on offer with a big bonus when you buy at Harmony.
*Completion must occur by 14 June 2019, 5pm AEST. One gift card per contract. Offer not available in conjunction with other offers. T&Cs apply.
As a Harmony resident, when you refer a friend or family member to Harmony, we'll send $1000* your way when they settle on a block. They will also receive $1000* as a thank you and welcome to Harmony. So, share the love, and let us reward you and your friends or family and say thanks for suggesting Harmony.
New land now selling in Harmony's greenest neighbourhood, Unity Release 9A, with blocks up to 450m2. Surrounded by tree-filled reserves, lush playing fields and swathes of green, the Unity neighbourhood is where community and nature come together.
A wide choice of House & Land packages are now available at Harmony. Don't miss this opportunity to purchase your dream home, right in the heart of the Sunshine Coast. These packages are updated regularly to include the latest designs and lot availability.
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KAI COFFEE is Harmony's first café and is already a much visited destination. As coffee becomes ingrained in Harmony's coastal lifestyle, the alfresco deck provides the perfect opportunity to catch up with friends and family with a full breakfast and lunch menu on offer.
Enjoy the glorious Sunshine Coast weather at Harmony with a grand network of parklands and green spaces that will thread through and connect the entire community. With more than 90 percent of all Harmony residents within 250 metres from a local park, getting the family outdoors and active will be easy.
There are several early learning and childcare centres just minutes from Harmony. Chancellor Park High School and Siena Catholic School are just around the corner along with other options nearby. It's also good to know that there are plans for even more schools in the Palmview area.


It has been far too long since my last blog post. I guess because things have just been chugging along, mostly normal as usual. Or in the case of our house, abnormal as usual.
My parents came for a visit from Wyoming. We hit the aquarium and the zoo and had a blast! We've been loving our Texas spring weather with lots of bike rides and picnics.
We spent an amazing spring break camping with awesome friends.
One of our recent awesome highlights was Grace's 9th birthday. My baby girl is so not a baby anymore. I get emotional on all of my kids birthday's, but this was such a fun day for Grace our whole family that I didn't cry once. We started the day with a family breakfast at Waffle House. I played hooky from school to spend the day with my sweet baby.
After breakfast I took Grace for a special treat haircut and one of those obnoxious little girl spa places. It was early on a Wednesday, so we had the whole place to ourselves.
After her haircut, we came home and played until dinner. She choose Chinese takeout as her special birthday dinner treat and a cookie cake for desert. Then presents and more play. After she had opened all the gifts from her brothers, sisters, grandparents, and aunts, she turned to me with a brilliant little lit up face and said, "Thank you so much for the wonderful birthday. I loved everyone of my presents!" Music to a Mama's ears!!!
Someone stole our travel trailer. Our brand new to us, only owned since November, present from Brian's parents, our beloved family travel trailer was stolen in the middle of the night from the storage facility, just a few miles from our house. Someone broke into the area, cut through a back gate and through an alarm cable. They took someone else's trailer first and then when no police arrived (because it turns out the alarm system was not turned on) they came back and stole ours, too.
It has been over a week now since it was taken. No, it hasn't been recovered. Yes, we have insurance. Yes, we will get back some kind of settlement. No, we don't have any idea if it will be enough to get as nice a trailer as we had before.
We are all understandably very blue about this event. It's, of course, just a thing, just a piece of property. But even in the short time we owned it, we filled it with a million lovely family memories. We also filled it with a lot of personal items and sentimental things. The pink fleece blanket from Grace's first big girl bed is in that trailer. The Spider-man sleeping bag that JoJo got for Christmas is there. Five brand new pairs of kids hiking boots in all different colors of the rainbow are tucked in a storage bin under the couch. Our hammock that held all my kids for hours and hours of swinging.
They all just drove away in the night with a mean spirited stranger.
But it's just a thing. And we'll get new things. And we'll go camping again and make new memories. JoJo is already scouring the Craigslist pages for the perfect new trailer. Say a little prayer for our trailer search, that we can find just the right fit for our just right sized family. Sleeps 8 and doesn't weigh too much for our van are sort of hard to find.
And hopefully sooner than later. I just read an article that hiking is good for your brain and that it improves the symptoms of kids with ADHD. I'm a believer. I need to get my kiddos back to the woods and quick!!!


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The BH-20 was the first PPV fan with integrated battery and the compact and ergonomic ErgoFold design. This fan has paved the way to current battery powered PPV standards, and has yet to be outperformed by other companies battery powered solutions. With a 20 inch blade and 700W, this fan will produce 10,200 CFM AMCA rated airflow with great entrainment values. Light weight, easy to carry, infinite variable speed, and infinite set angle positioning from 0 - 90 degrees make the BH-20 a quick and flexible fan to work with. All in all, the ventilation performance, the durability, the convenience, the service has been proven effective and superior for nearly a decade now. The solution the BH-20 provides is proven effectiveness in a rugged package with a high 2,000 life-cycle battery. Tried and true. Strong dependable performance from day one.
Expanding on the technology and benefits introduced in the BH-20, the Quickee is engineered to increase performance while taking up less space. Its innovative sleek design allows for a more powerful, smaller, lighter, more maneuverable fan, ultimately increasing the performance of the firefighter. Using BlowHard's unique ErgoFold design, it is the easily stored and carried while reducing stress on the firefighter. And High Flow Jet Technology uses an expanded, powerful jetstream significantly increasing entrainment and maximizing pressure for ventilation performance that is superior in its class. The solution is a more effective firefighting process.
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Samsung Galaxy Note on AT&T. We reviewed the international version of the phone, and in this video we show you what's different on the AT&T version, and explore the phone in detail. The Note has a 5.3″ Super AMOLED HD display running at 1280 x 800 resolution, a 1.5GHz dual core Snapdragon CPU, a 2500 mAh battery, a digital pen for note taking and precise, pressure sensitive drawing and an 8MP main camera with LED flash. The Note runs Android 2.3.6 and will get an upgrade to ICS.


As part of the company's continued focus on providing the highest levels of customer service, sales and aftersales support throughout the UK and overseas, Tong Engineering is pleased to announce a number of new representative appointments in its home and export markets.
Currently exporting to over 50 countries worldwide, Tong has recently appointed sales and engineering professional Eddy Deschuymer to develop sales of the company's advanced range of potato and vegetable grading, washing and handling equipment in the French, Belgian and Dutch markets.
Based in Kortrijk, Belgium, Eddy will be responsible for visiting customers to discuss their handling equipment requirements, generating new business leads whilst providing local sales and service support for existing customers.
Closer to home in the UK, Ken Jackson, of Jackson Machinery Services near Taunton, has been appointed official dealer for Tong Engineering in Somerset.
"Ken is a very well-known agricultural machinery specialist in the South West of England, having serviced Tong equipment for many years," says Nick Woodcock, UK Sales Manager at Tong. "Appointing Jackson Machinery Services Ltd as an approved Tong dealer to continue to provide excellent local service support, as well as new equipment and spare parts sales, has been a natural partnership for us. I look forward to work alongside Ken in this area, where he has a great understanding of the ongoing requirements of our customers," says Nick.
The latest appointments are part of a wider growth strategy at Tong Engineering to increase export sales and regional customer support. In 2018, Tong announced International expansion with the opening of a new Tong USA spares, service and sales facility based in Fremont, Michigan. The Tong USA office provides additional support to Tong's USA-based customers, with very responsive spares and service backup, including a wide range of spare parts available with a quick turnaround, when they are needed the most. "The Fremont-based office is proving to be the ideal meeting place for Tong and customers who operate locally, as well as a base from which we can visit customers all over the USA," adds Charlie.
Pictured: Eddy Deschuymer (left) and Charlie Rich (right).


Kerala State Rural Road Development Agency (KSRRDA) invited applications for the post of Overseers & Other. The eligible candidates can apply to the post through the prescribed format on or before 08 February 2018.
Kerala State Rural Road Development Agency Job Notification: Kerala State Rural Road Development Agency (KSRRDA) invited applications for the post of Overseers & Other. The eligible candidates can apply to the post through the prescribed format on or before 08 February 2018.
State Quality Monitors in KSRRDA: Graduation in Civil Engineering from a recognised university.
Overseers: 3 year diploma in Engineering.
Eligible candidates can apply to the post through the prescribed format and send the applications along with other necessary documents to Executive Engineer of PMGSY, Programme Implementation units in District Panchayats on or before 08 February 2018.


I'm waiting for the Tiger fire hydrant pic.
Those pictures were actually in Golf Digest one month. How Tom Kite was convinced this was a good idea is one of life's mysteries. You think he took some heat on the driving range that week?
Actually, I had forgotten about Tom in diapers until I just saw that again. How could you ever live that down? I can't laugh, I can't hardly look, just in shock - again!
Made $14 the hard way!
Thinking of the navy v-necks and back to the pics, this image BEFORE he breaks my heart has always been a favorite.
This is just SO Phil, so it's my favorite, and because I took it!
Edit: favorite Phil photo - just for clarification!
Because he's asking them to pay up the $100 he just won from them?
My buddy wore this to a halloween party that year and I'm still laughing about it.
Rolex liked this photo of Arnie with Bart Starr, Al Kaline and some other guy.
Elvis showed up just after that was snapped.
One of my favorite Arnie pics, and tells a story of a changing golf world!
And not trying to start anything, so don't get into this, except just ponder that I'm not sure I've ever (have you?) seen a picture of Arnold Palmer in jeans. Again, let's not get into the merit of this, or take away from this thread (unless of course your dog also wore glasses, then post 'em up!) - just an observation to quietly consider - oops, consider quietly. And not saying that is at all unusual for men of his era.
I ran around my living room even more than Tom ran around that green.
Darn this thread, out of likes for the day apparently.
Edit: HaHa - took one away from dicko to see if I could use it on PZero because that pic is absolutely incredible and it worked!
I'll streak on in here and fix it tomorrow dicko!
Some great photos on here far more deserving of your approval. Trust me, I don't have photos of streakers hanging in my home or office.
Well, judging by your avatar, lol!


From IFC Films and acclaimed writer-director Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart, 24 Hour Party People) comes intense new hostage thriller The Wedding Guest – a heart-racing journey through the shadowy underworlds of Pakistan and India.
Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel stars as Jay, a mysterious mercenary-for-hire who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding – armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Despite his experience and extensive preparation, his plans quickly spiral out of control, sending Jay and his hostage, Samira (Radhika Apte), on the run across dangerous borders, crowded railway stations, shady back alleys, and the black markets of New Delhi – all while attractions simmer, loyalties shift, and explosive secrets are revealed.
Pulsating with the sights and sounds of the Indian subcontinent, The Wedding Guest conjures a colorful world where danger lurks at every turn, and nothing is quite as it seems.


Review: The story is very adventurous. It is about a girl called Laura and she has had many troublesome times with a villian called Mr A. Mr A is imprisoned and Laura and her Year 6 class visit Australia during her school year. While Laura is in Australia ,Mr A escapes from prison and when Laura finds out,she thinks he cannot find her. However, how wrong she..
I give this book a rating of 5 out of 5, for excitement,adventure and keeping me on the edge of my seat!
Review: The book is about some children who each have amazing powers which a villain has given them. The villian had taken some children away from their parents and gave the children some strange powers like "knife throwing" and "the strongest child". The villian called Rattigan is trying to destroy the world and the children try and stop him. The children perform in a show where a lot of events happen and unravel. 5 out of 5 rating for adventure!
Review: This is a story about a girl called Emmie who is really shy and a girl called Katie who is really popular. The story has touches of humour in it - and Emmie is finding it really hard to make friends and hardly looks up at people,because of her shyness. This book shows you how Emmie makes new friendships and how she changes her school life from bad to good. This book was interesting from start to finish and the illustrations are very colourful. I give it a rating of 9/10.
Review: First of all I did not like the book,however then it got a little better. It is about a wizard in the olden days,who telliports to the modern day and he is stuck there and does not know what to do. Then unfortunately,I as the reader could not remain interested in this book. I perservered until page 91. However it was not my cup of tea and I became bored of the story.
I'm an incredibly famous film star! I get interviewed in magazines and I'm friends with other celebrities and I know it's bad to gossip so I hardly ever do. And that means I am very good at keeping secrets. Right now I'm keeping loads and loads! For example, I've never told anyone that my chaperone Jeffrey likes to sing in the toilet and . . . oh dear.
Review: I think this was a fun and exciting book. The story was about a girl who was a famous actor. She meets a famous lady who tells her a secret. The girl called Ellie May then told everybody the secret. Then Ellie May tries to fix this.
I would have liked more humour and variation as it only stuck to the main plot. The middle of the story had less humour and was a little boring and repetitive.
The story did grab my attention from the start and kept me interested. I enjoyed the end of the story because it was funny.
Review: It was a very funny book Norm's life never goes to plan...he always knows it's one of those days....and he steps into something that he is not supposed to. Like his brother or stepping into dog poo! Then he finds out his best friend has an iPad.now he is the only one who doesn't have one. There is a girl called Chelsea who is very annoying,she also has an iPad. She has found out that Norm's brother bed wets from Facebook. Norm finally gets an iPad but it isPink! He is not happy. At the end of the book,he gets an iPad from his grandpa after carrying out chores. This results in norm being nice to everybody including his brother.


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This forum has now been more or less replaced by the Club's Facebook page at
The weblog below is for naturalists to use to report interesting sightings, ask questions, report on field meetings and generally post pictures and any information or questions generally relevant in some way to the wildlife and geology of Essex. You will need to register and be logged-on to post to the forum, and you need to upload pictures first, for use in posts. Find out more
Fri 30th July 2010 14:23 by Graham Smith
The Breeding Season at Blue House
Blue House Farm EWT Reserve, North Fambridge : The breeding waders enjoyed their fourth successful season on the trot. The number of Lapwing pairs on The Flood increased from 12 in 2009 to 20 this year and Redshank from 10-12 to 15+. Single pairs of Snipe and Little Ringed Plover also summered. Avocets were also on course to increase but several of the early nests failed to hatch. Three of these were in front of the New Hide and my notes indicate that the clutches were brooded for over five weeks (long past their normal incubation) before the adults began to lose interest and the nests were subsequently robbed by Coots (see my entry in May). There may also have been some losses to other predators but there was no evidence during the summer of any widespread predation by foxes, the usual culprits. I suspect that the myriad young rabbits along the railway embankment are a counter attraction to most predators. In the end, the five pairs of Avocet that did hatch young all succeeded in rearing at least some of them, ten youngsters fledging. The poor hatching success may have been due to the cold night-time temperatures in spring as Avocets are emotionally incontinent and more than once I saw a brooding bird leave its nest on a cold day to chase off birds as inocuous as a Pied Wagtail!
As for the Lapwing, the 20 pairs on The Flood reared around 35-40, an excellent return for a ground nesting bird such as this. Elsewhere, 6 pairs on The Fleets reared 8 young; Kestrels (which bred on the reserve this year) probably taking at least some of the chicks, while the 6 pairs on the Flat Fields failed completely; their first clutches probably being lost to cattle trampling and their second due to the extreme dryness of the fields later in the season. Many Redshank young were seen and this species definitely benefits from its close association with Lapwings and Avocets, which offer a far more effective defensive shield than they can provide on their own. An example of this occurred when a male Kestrel was foolish enough to venture on to The Flood and found itself on the losing end of a dogfight with ten Lapwings and five Avocets!
Among the wildfowl, a total of 24 broods of Mallard were seen along with 5 Shelduck, 3 Shoveler and single Wigeon, Pochard and Mute Swan. Around 40 pairs of Coot and 15 Dabchicks also nested. A pair of Water Rails with two fledged young was a bonus. Again, predation was very low; a brood of 13 Mallard ducklings in early May remaining intact (and nearly fledged) four weeks later and a similar number in early July losing only one of their number before fledging. Similarly, the Shovelers reared 9, 6 and 6 young respectively.
Wetland passerines included 80 pairs of Reed Warbler, 28 Sedge Warbler, 38 Reed Bunting and 5 Yellow Wagtail (up from one the previous year). On the downside, we lost our few remaining pairs of Corn Bunting and the two pairs of Turtle Dove that usually nest on the railway embankment failed to return this year. Both are red listed species in sharp decline. To end on a more cheerful note, a pair of Swallows nested under the eaves of the New Hide and reared four young.
Sun 25th July 2010 16:58 by Graham Smith
Blue House Moths
Reading Ben's account of his moth night at Canvey Wick and his description of the site reminded be of a friend, the late Bob Glover, who in the 1970s wrote an article entitled "All Waste and Lonely Places" for Birds Magazine, extolling the virtues of brownfield sites long before their value to wildlife became widely known. Being a country boy I scoffed at him at the time but see things differently now, having spent the past thirty years helping to monitor the rapid decline in farmland birds and other wildlife hereabouts. Anyway, Ben might be interested in the results of the past two years moth trapping at Blue House EWT Reserve, North Fambridge. Nick and Tim, warden and assistant warden, kindly set the trap for me once a week and this is gradually building up a picture of the reserve's moth population. Around 225 macro species have been trapped to date and as you would expect of a farmland/wetland reserve, grassland and reedbed species figure prominently in this list, Viz :
Grassland/Scrub : Cream Spot Tiger, Six Spot Burnet, Narrow-bordered Five Spot Burnet, Mother Shipton, Latticed Heath, Burnet Companion, Small Yellow Underwing, Yellow Belle, Plain Pug, Mullein Wave, Antler Moth, Hedge Rustic, Northern Drab, White Point, Shark, Chamomile Shark, Star Wort, Black Rustic, Feathered Gothic, Dusky Lemon Sallow, Lesser Spotted Pinion, Crescent Striped and Small, Large & Feathered Ranunculus.
Wetland : Brown-veined, Bulrush, Fen, Large, Matthew's, Obscure, Shoulder-striped, Silky, Southern, Striped, Twin Spotted and Webb's Wainscots, Reed Dagger, Small Rufous and Pinion Streaked Snout.
There are also a surprising number of woodland species, the most unexpected of which was a Festoon; perhaps a wanderer from Hockley Woods across the river.
The latest catch, on July 20th, consisted of 198 Dark Arches, 49 Rustic/Uncertain, 45 Common/Lesser Common Rustic, 40 Smoky Wainscot, 19 Silver Y, 16 Scarce Footman, 16 Cloaked Minor, 15 Dusky Sallow, 9 Bright-line Brown Eye, 6 Light Arches, 5 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, 4 Crescent Striped, Common Footman, Common Wainscot and Clay; 3 Lesser Yellow Underwing, Drinker and Lunar Spotted Pinion; 2 Shuttle-shaped Dart, Silky Wainscot, Svennson's Copper Underwing and Yarrow Pug; and single Brown-veined Wainscot, Buff Arches, Buff Footman, Chinese Character, Common White Wave, Dark/Grey Dagger, Dingy Footman, Dot Moth, Double Square Spot, Dusky Brocade, Early Thorn, Elephant Hawk Moth, Fen Wainscot, Flame Shoulder, Heart & Dart, Herald, Latticed Heath, Lime Hawk Moth, Mouse, Nutmeg, Oak Eggar, Paerly Underwing. Peppered Moth, Riband Wave, Small Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Small Scallop, White Point and White Satin.
479 macros of 50 species (I think!) - too many for one trap; they tend to batter themselves in these numbers and the object of the exercise is to survey the reserve's moths not beat them up! One curiosity of the site is the disparity between Noctuid and related moths and Geomtrids; and I mean disparity - 80 or 90 to 1 overall, which is difficult to explain. Apart from common species the only migrant of note has been a Ni Moth in August last year.
Thu 22nd July 2010 16:13 by Graham Smith
A Little Bit of Luck
Sunday July 18th : Some birds are notoriously difficult to see. You can visit the Bittern Watch Point in the Lee Valley on a month of Sundays and not catch a glimpse; or you can pop in on the offchance and see three! The Corncrake is another skulker, taunting would-be observers with its harsh, monotonous "crex crex" call from deep in the hayfields; a sound that can apparently cause sleepless nights and have you reaching murderously for your shotgun in the few places where it is still common. Sadly, it is over a century since that was the case in Essex. A third recluse is the Quail, like the Corncrake a summer visitor in small numbers to Britain. If you are lucky you might hear its distinctively jerky "wet my lips" call from the cornfields; Elmdon and Chrishall being one of its favoured haunts in the days of my youth. Blissfully quiet it was there then, before the advent of the M11 and expansion of Stanstead, the call of the Quail often forming a prelude to that of the Stone Curlew, another lost Essex bird. As for seeing them - in your dreams! After fifty years of walking the farmland around Ingatestone (since I was first given permission to go freelance at the age of twelve) without even hearing one call my luck finally changed today. I was sitting under a tree on the edge of a cornfield at Mill Green, enjoying my elevenses, when four tennis ball sized gamebirds came creeping along the edge of the field towards me accompanied by a slightly larger ball - their mother. I had been expecting to focus my binoculars on a brood of Pheasants - which have precociously feathered young -and it took some moments before the striped faces and stripe-flecked backs registered. The female was the first to cotton on to my presence and she dived into the corn but the youngsters panicked and sprang into the air, flying a few yards on furiously beating wings before plopping back into the wheat. To say I was chuffed to bits or - to use an alternative cliche - over the moon, is a slight understatement! The record will be entered in the relevant tetrad on the BTO's Bird Atlas - a rare case of proved breeding for this species - but context and meaning has nothing to do with tetrads but resides in long cherished areas, such as parishes, and as the same walk produced not only a Quail but a Marbled White - another new parish record - it was truly a red letter day for this tribal East Saxon ploughboy!
Thu 15th July 2010 15:44 by Graham Smith
U3A Visit to Hitchcock Meadows & The Backwarden
Saturday July 10th : 21 members of the West Suffolk branch of the University of the Third Age Botanical Group visited Hitchcock Meadows and The Backwarden EWT Reserves. They ranged in experience from the botanically inclined to heavy duty botanists but all were marvellously friendly and energetic and it was a pleasure to show them around. Youth can indeed sometimes be wasted on the young! According to the Met Office the first six months of 2010 have been the driest for eighty years and as the temperature on the day was 30`C in the shade (40`+ in the sun!) it was both surprising and pleasing that it was the plants, rather than their observers, that were beginning to wilt by the end of the afternoon. The following morning was a different matter though! Both reserves were parched but we still managed to find a few things of interest. At Hitchcock most attention focused on a Corky-fruited Water Dropwort - a new record for the reserve - and a species still rare in Suffolk. There was also a fine display of Harebell in Dell Meadow and Zig-Zag Clover in Broken Back while Lesser Calamint was showing well in its enclosure on Toot Hill. Also, we were able to identify the hybrid between Tormentil and Creeping Cinquefoil on Toot Hill, although there was no sign of the pure bred Trailing Tormentil which I had found a couple of weeks earlier. After lunch at Danbury Park we went on to The Backwarden, dodging from sunshine to shade. Highlights here were a small patch of Lesser Skullcap (5" high and displaying signs of sunstroke) which many people had not seen before, and a few green specimens of Floating Club Rush among their sun crisped brethren in one of the bogs. Slender St John's Wort is a plant that we in Essex take for granted on our acid soils, but that is not so when you come from the calcareous grasslands of West Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, while other species of note included Oval, Pill and Green-ribbed Sedges (only the first and last still in flower), Common Skull Cap, Blue Water Speedwell and Wood Small Reed. Thanks are due to Peter Squire and Dave Williams, warden and volunteer at Hitchcock respectively, for helping me to show the group around their reserve, and also to the U3A group themselves for making it such an enjoyable day despite the heat.
Mon 12th July 2010 08:38 by Peter Harvey
Beautiful Snout
Brian Goodey in the Moths of Essex (2004) states that records by Reid (1916) from the Kelveden area were erroneous, corrected in The larger moths of and butterflies of Essex (Emmett & Pyman et al., 1984), and also notes an unpublished and unsupported report of an adult from Basildon on 9.vi.1997. He notes that the moth is found in many southern counties that support its foodplant, bilberry. This is a plant probably now extinct in Essex (with single record from Sunshine Plain Epping Forest, not seen recently ) and this is also a very scarce plant indeed in the Kentish Weald. So the presence of Beautiful Snout at Canvey must be as a vagrant unless there is an alternative plant which occurs in the area. Is there anything that might be possible?
Canvey Wick is certainly an astonishing place, representing an excellent example of 'brownfield' Open Mosaic Habitats on Previously Developed Land habitat (who ever thought up that name for a UKBAP habitat!), and one which keeps turning up more rare invertebrates and many a surprise. The SSSI contains a range of habitats with support assemblages representing species associated with, for example, dune, coastal levels, saltmarsh, fen and scrub habitats. As well as the extensive dry grasslands on calcareous sand, brackish ditches with sea club-rush etc, there are extensive dry Phragmites areas, and it is possible to stand in some places and imagine one was at Minsmere.
Sun 11th July 2010 13:31 by Ben Sale
Rumblings down at Canvey Island...
Last night was the night of all nights! very warm all day and the evening was dead calm on the edge of the mouth of the Thames down on Canvey Island, it really is a strange and almost messy place being made up of huge areas of waste ground but it has to have something good as i has been awarded the SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and Moths from what I had heard from my friends Graham Bailey & Don Down, were no exception! We started off walking through the rough ground and then set about getting the lights on. We had Don's 125w MV bulb on a tripod with sheets and egg trays around the base, Graham set his dual 40w Actinic and halogen combination up and I had a 26w Daylight bulb attached to a pole, dug into the ground and sheets placed underneath.
Clear skies prevailed but this did not affect the catch, estimates of 1500 Moths wouldn't be far wrong...they were literally everywhere!
(1) Beautiful Snout (the best Moth of the night and I believe only the 2nd ever Essex record?
other species of note
(1) Garden Tiger (15+) Kent Black Arches (5+) Slender Pug (1) Shaded Pug (10+) Cream-bordered Green Pea (3+) Brown Scallop (1) Round-winged Muslin (3+) Southern Wainscot (5+) Obscure Wainscot (10+) Lappet (5+) Rosy Wave (1) Lesser Cream Wave (5+) Star-wort (8+) White-line Dart (3+) Brown Scallop (10+) Oncocera semirubella (30+) Melissoblaptes zelleri (10+) Pyrausta despicta (5+) Platytes alpinella (1) Schoenobius gigantella (3+) Catoptria pinella
More details can be fiound at my blog. http://bensale-essexmoths.blogspot.com/
Deptford Pink
John. With regards to Deptford Pink there are no modern records for the Colchester area listed in Terri Tarpey's and Jerry Heath's 'Wild Flowers of North-East Essex' (1990) and at that time there was only a single site in Essex, in the south of the county. In Gibson's day (The Wild Flowers of Essex, 1862) there were twenty -six sites scattered around the county. That is not to say that your plants could not be genuinely wild : gardens freee of herbicides can turn up an amazing variety of species, simply from the seed bank in the soil. I suggest that you contact the County Recorder, Ken Adams, via the Essex Botany Group website and he will be able to give you an update on recent records. Graham Smith.
Fri 9th July 2010 13:29 by John Hartwell
Deptford Pink in Colchester
Looking through the Biological Records in Essex website I see that there are "about 5 sites still extant, 'gardened at 2 sites'". I have a population in my garden (CO4 3UP) (TM0301225378), which is previously unrecorded.
They were growing here when we moved into the house 25 years ago, and have seeded themselves around ever since. When we moved in the house was only 3 years old and the former owners had done little to the garden. Formally the site had been agricultural land, but I don't know of what type. But it certainly seems that the plants are of wild stock.
If anyone has any knowledge of any other nearby sites I would be interested to know. My email address is j_hartwell@sky.com.
Wed 7th July 2010 09:24 by Graham Smith
Butterfly & Dragonfly Walk at Blue House
Sunday June 27th : Helped Tim Lawrence, the reserve's assistant warden, with a butterfly & dragonfly walk at Blue House EWT Reserve. The temperature at 10am, when the walk was due to start, was around 28'C and rising - great weather for insects if not their observers! Around a dozen people attended and as Tim had kindly set the moth trap the previous evening we were able to start the day by showing them a range of the more colourful moths including two Elephant Hawk Moths . Any fears we had about people being bored were dispelled when it took us the best part of an hour to cross the field nearest the farm, there being so much of interest to see. Our walk conincided with a mass emergence of Common Darters, around 40 being counted along the ditch in this first field, all of them brown individuals, either females or immature males. Several Ruddy Darters were also present, again immatures or females. Among the numerous Common Blue and Blue-tailed Damselflies we picked out a few Azures and a dozen Scarce Emerald Damselflies. As the last are lazy insects, prefering to sit on the vegetation rather than fly, we were able to note the often difficult to observe differences between this species and the Common Emerald, half a dozen of which were also present. Other species seen included six Broad-bodied Chasers, which are normally scarce on the reserve, plus its relative, the Four-spotted Chaser; also Emperor Dragonflies patrolling their territories and Black-tailed Skimmers behaving as their name suggests. The walk was rounded off with a single Hairy Dragonfly, a slightly tatty specimen now approaching the end of its breeding period. Among the grassland butterflies, Meadow Brown are having a poor season but Small Heath, Common Blue, Large, Small and Essex Skippers were all present in excellent numbers. My weekly transects have recently produced totals of 380 Meadow Brown (down from a peak of 1000 in 2007 and 780 in 2008), 360 Small/Essex Skippers (10 : 1 in favour of the former), 53 Large Skippers, 99 Common Blues and 179 Small Heaths. On July 1st three Marbled Whites were recorded, a new species for the reserve; remarkbly, four days later one was seen at The Backwarden EWT Reserve, Danbury, another new reserve record, so they are obviously on the move this summer. We eventually ended up in the New Hide, overlooking the flooded fields, where people were able to relax in the welcome shade and enjoy views of young Avocets, Lapwings and Redshank a few feet from where we sat. The walk seemed to go well and all those who attended enjoyed the day. Later that afternoon I returned to the hide and was treated to a spectacular aerial display by two Hobbys, birds that are far better at spotting dragonflies than I am, and which caught and dined upon around two dozen on them in less than twenty minutes!


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a period of repentance and fasting.
approach to this last indulgence before Easter.
The beads on the bedpost are blurry.
And hope to come clean in a hurry.
They fast and they pray without jest.
We're all glad to give parties a rest!
Who thought up this racket?
And why'd the Church back it?
Don't people know God's not a fool?
Makes you sound like the worst kind of tool!
Delusions won't help you this season.
And just stop all this jive.
I'm quite sure that your liver will thank you!
"You can say that your liver's the reason!"


Virtualization vendor VMware celebrated the first anniversary of its Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) today with a mid-day soirée at its Palo Alto, Calif. offices, the announcement of several new partnerships and the launch of a new deployment tool.
The deployment tool, dubbed BOSH, is a tool chain designed to facilitate the operation of production instances of Cloud Foundry, explained David McJannet director of cloud an application services in VMware's Application Platform group. It is aimed at large Cloud Foundry implementations, he said, and it's used for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large-scale distributed services.
BOSH is actually technology that VMware has been using to run its own 500+ virtual machine Cloud Foundry cluster, McJannet told this site.
The company also announced that it has simplified the open source project management of the CloudFoundry.org Web portal with a new repository system. CloudFoundry.com, the public instance of Cloud Foundry, supports applications written in Spring Java, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby, Node.js. Scala and other JVM languages/frameworks, including Groovy and Grails. In addition, the Cloud Foundry open source project (available at www.cloudfoundry.org ) offers languages/frameworks support via partners including PHP, Python and .NET.
"I have no doubt that a huge part of the success is putting this code in Apache Licensed Open Source," Hilwa said today in an e-mail. "From an engineering perspective, the technology appears solid. VMware is being a disrupter with Cloud Foundry, trying to expand its infrastructure leadership and transform it into a platform and ecosystem play. The monetization strategy is still a work in progress, but these are early days and there is a platform land-grab starting with developers. The industry is waiting for large enterprises to bite in a big way, but everyone wants to be well positioned before this happens."
The company reports 75,000 downloads of Cloud Foundry during the past year.
"As a developer, this style is really compelling," McJannet said. "The developer experience doesn't involve downloading an app server, a Web server, or a messaging server, make sure that they have the right configuration, wire them together, and then starting writing my applications. That's how we've been writing apps for the past 10 to 15 years. All I have to do is write my app anyway I want to write it, push it to Cloud Foundry, connect it to a database or messaging service, and the wiring is done for me. It allows developers to focus on their applications."
The list of new Cloud Foundry partners includes Cloud9, CollabNet, ServiceMesh, SOASTA and X.commerce. "By leveraging hybrid cloud environments, including vCloud Director clouds, and providing policy-driven orchestration of the entire software development lifecycle for Cloud Foundry and vFabric applications, ServiceMesh and VMware help speed the adoption of DevOps methodologies," ServiceMesh vice president Steve Henning said in a statement.
More information about BOSH is available on GitHub. Information about Cloud Foundry can be found on the company's Web site and the new open source community site.


With Independence Day coming up soon, I thought it would be fun to find a fun and easy treat to make for the kids. The concept of this is simple enough for the kids to do a lot of the work, which made my boys think I was the greatest ever. In addition to being able to make these a day ahead, these are also super versatile and could be made to fit any holiday (red and green for Christmas, red, pink and white for Valentines Day, etc. ).
Follow the instructions on the box to make jigglers. Or use 2 C boiling water for every 2 boxes of jello (or large box). Do NOT add the cold water. You need to use less water than needed for regular jello in order to make it manageable. Refrigerate until solid.
Using a sharp knife (preferable dipped in hot water to make it easier),slice the jello into tiny cubes.
Top with the other color of jello cubes. Optional top with extra cream.
Lick Jello pan. Spoons optional.


What to wear: a pair of glasses or contacts? Tips to improve eyesight!
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A short while ago, yours truly went back to wearing eye glasses after having worn contacts for over 30 years. My eyes had 'run dry' and as a result an inflammation snuck in, causing an inability to wear (hard) contacts. Despite having worn glasses as a kid and young adult, it took me longer to adapt to them than expected. This has much to do with the fact I now need two pairs of glasses: one for reading and another one for further away. With two pairs it seems as if you are always wearing the wrong pair and.. where did I put them down again?
As it goes, you start to watch other people wearing glasses. Contrary to how it used to be, wearing glasses now is mostly a voluntary choice and if you do have them, they can be a fashion statement. Going back to wearing glasses made me think again about the pros and cons of glasses versus contacts.
To start with the most obvious part, the costs. When you don't buy an expensive brand, eye glasses are cheaper than contacts. Hard contacts will last you a few years when you treat them with care and don't lose them, but soft contacts need to be replaced at least every few weeks, which can be costly when your prescription isn't a common one. You will also need to put aside a fair amount of money for cleaning and conservation liquids.
For athletes, choosing contacts is mostly a no-brainer, because contacts offer the best all around view, will not get fogged up from sweat or wet from rain, nor damaged as easily.
But when you spend a considerable amount of time in a very dusty and dirty environment, you may want to forgo contacts, as you will not be able to remove them in a safe and hygienic way. As we age, we will be bothered more by dry eyes, which is when especially wearing hard contacts can become too uncomfortable.
When you have (grand) children and would like to see them grow up without needing eye glasses, make sure they spend a lot of time outside.
Contrary to what was thought, the amount of time a child spends reading books or doing home work does not predict whether they will need glasses or not, even though it seems to have a direct correlation.
Instead, the amount of time they spend (playing or even reading) outside is the biggest determinator of near-sightedness. Apparently children's eyes need direct exposure to sunlight, especially UV-B rays in order to make enough vitamin D. It is thought children need to spend at least 3 hours outside in broad daylight.
Being able to spend a lot of time outside, may be one of the reasons why this particular Kindergarten in Japan is so cool! Not just small children should spend more time playing, this is true for adults too.
Apparently, especially memorizing tasks get easier when this task is followed by a break, which involves physical exercise. When this is done outside, it may even result in not needing glasses until the late 40s when nearly everyone needs them.
Even when you are over 40, you don't need to despair. There seem to be methods which allow you to improve your eyesight naturally, such as the Bates method. On this particular website, you can read about a few of the simpler methods that can be used.
Of course, make sure to eat a varied diet with enough foods promoting good eyesight. This past week, it was revealed a young Australian boy nearly went blind because of his extremely poor diet, shunning not just all veggies but also other regular food, while subsisting on nothing but junkfood without even an added multivitamin.
This is deeply tragic, not just because his parents had visited several doctors before meeting an expert, who recognized the symptoms from past experience in Africa, where blindness due to vitamin A deficiency is quite common.
It's also tragic because vitamin A deficiency is so easy to prevent with carotenoid rich vegetables (with added fats for better absorption) or fat sources like butter, full-fat dairy products, liver(wurst), eggs and fatty fish.
Vitamin A deficiency doesn't just cause (night)blindness, but can also cause respiratory infections, gastro-enteritis, stunted growth as well as weaker bones. Whomever despairs over kids refusing to eat vegetables: hide them in smoothies, pureed soups and rich (pasta) sauces!
Nearly every magazine devoted to parenting will have articles devoted to this very topic as every baby initially has a healthy distrust of new foods. It is a true art of balancing between giving it just often enough and forcing it upon them, which makes them resentful and stubborn. You may even succeed in making adults like vegetables!