With the 2018 hurricane season in full swing, preparing for a storm should be front of everyone's mind. And while late summer and fall hurricanes do pose serious concerns for the Cape, winter Nor'easters are often just as damaging with the additional possibility of freezing temperatures. To make sure you and your house are prepared to weather any storm here are some specific recommendations to consider.
Trees are a major threat to structures, cars, and people in storms. In particular Cape Cod has a lot of pitch pines that tend to snap off large limbs or drop the entire top in large wind events. If you have them, make sure they are far away from your house so that, if they do fall, they won't land on anything important (see right. This was the 'Freaky Friday' storm in December 2005. Luckily no one was hurt but the driver had only returned home ten minutes before). Obviously it is important to take a good look at any tree that is close to a structure, not just pines. Additionally limbs that overhang the roof cause more lichen to grow, shortening its life, and leaves and needles clog up gutters adding to drainage issues in heavy rains.
We are big fans of self reliance. To that end preparing for the worst is a good way to make the best of a bad situation. Have a grab bag ready in case you lose power for several days. Here is the FEMA website with good instructions too. Crank flashlights and radios are great since they don't need batteries, also make sure you have some way to eat. Your gas may work in a storm but your electric sparker won't so don't forget matches. Also have enough canned food in the pantry for a few days in case cooking isn't an option. Also if you don't want to live rugged at home without power, your bag should include what you need at a shelter, bedding, toiletries, medications and some personal items (games and books!) will make smart additions to a prep bag. During major storms emergency services are already stretched to the max so make sure to get to a shelter before travel gets dangerous or you become an emergency yourself. In winter this becomes a serious decision since power loss often means loss of heat as well. If you have a working fireplace or wood stove stock up on plenty of good dry wood. And get out all those ugly old wool sweaters and down comforters!
If you are planning on being out of town or leaving your home for a shelter, turn off the water. This is true even in the summer but especially in the winter. We can't stress this enough. With no heat in your house there is nothing keeping your pipes from freezing and turning your house into a skating rink. Even if your pipes do burst, with the water off, there is a limited amount of damage that can be done. Boarding up windows is a good idea for people who leave for long periods of time. We see it less and less these days since windows are more durable, but it won't hurt. If you aren't boarding up and high winds are expected, consider taping your windows or drape sheets against the inside to reduce broken glass damage. Mind you, those sheets will blow away if a window breaks but they'll also help keep the glass contained. Here is a fun anecdote. Off the coast of Maine, where many small private islands exist with seasonal cottages, many people intentionally leave their door unlocked. Why you may ask? This not-so-secret secret is well known among the fishing and maritime community as a means of survival. Homeowners leave food and blankets on the kitchen table in case a stranded fisherman (or a wrecked one) needs some help. Our favorite part of this story, no one betrays this trust and loots - ever. The lesson here is don't forget to help your neighbors.
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Don't Shoot the Airline Company- CBSA's IAPI is the other side of the eTA
There is no doubt that Canada's electronic Travel Authorization ("eTA") regime, set to go into full legal effect a little over a month from now, will be disruptive to the process of travelling to Canada.
As I have covered in an earlier blog on the topic, the eTA will create several consequences for those seeking entry by air into Canada. Some of the expected follow out could include permanent residents being trapped outside Canada with expired cards, Canadian dual citizens lacking proper documentation unable to fly home, and foreign nationals being unable to board planes to Canada. It will also have spillovers to those seeking to enter by land via private vehicle. One immigration lawyer suggested jokingly that a local U.S. land border was likely to get very busy due to the number of individuals forced to drive across in private vehicle in order to return to Canada. Individuals who drive by private vehicle are not under a requirement to produce a valid PR card upon entry.
This all begs a question. How will the eTA be enforced from the other side – by airlines companies? To look more closely we need to study Canada Border Services Agency ("CBSA") Interactive Advanced Passenger Information ("IAPI") system and the increased role airline companies now play as the front line to screen out individuals flying to Canada with improper/expired documents.
Prior to the eTA, individuals with expired permanent resident cards has several options. One of them (for individuals who did hold travel documents), was to present a visa-exempt passport in order to get past airlines and hop the plane. Upon arrival they would then attempt to enter Canada on the basis of the expired PR card and a confirmation of permanent residence. For many passengers this worked. Very little was done to keep the individual off the plane and little was enquired of the passenger's immigration status.
IAPI changes that by requiring that "pre-departure traveller and flight data to be submitted by commercial air carriers prior to an international flight's departure for Canada."
For all international flights for Canada, CBSA will both require the advanced passenger information and ultimately issue a board/no-board message for each passenger. This means that prior to the flight, CBSA will no whether an individual is required to have a valid travel document (eTA or visa), is a permanent resident, or a Citizen. They will also be able to track if the individual is subject to a removal order or an Authority for Negative Discretion ("AND").
The technical nature of the IAPI system is at first glance very confusing and complex. I expect that the airline companies that already have state of the art IT will likely try and figure out internal systems to facilitate the provision of passenger information to CBSA.
Exit Controls Coming Soon.
The next major development will be the implementation of exit controls, which to my best estimate will occur sometime in early-mid 2017. From my review of CBSA briefing material for airline companies, much of the technical infrastructure is in place for this already. Once exit controls get rolled out, I think we can see integration with both PR and Canadian passports as well allowing the CBSA to better track and record the entries and exits of all air and land border.
For more information about the eTA, IAPI, and how it may affect your travel plans feel free to email me at will.tao@larlee.com
Canada's New Electronic Travel Authorization Regime: 5 Things You May Not Have Known
Because the actual requirement to hold an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) does not kick in until March 2016, the regime has been understudied and largely unreported outside of the immigration legal community.
On the surface, the new eTA requirement conceptually seems quite simple. Up to now, those exempt from the temporary resident visa requirement process did not undergo any prior screening or vetting. Decisions were made solely at the port of entry and concurrently Canada's border/immigration system was susceptible to allowing in visitors, who had not made prior applications to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and who are ultimately inadmissible, into Canada.
Importantly, Canada made some commitments in the Canada–U.S. Beyond the Border Action Plan several years ago where they pledged to introduce an eTA regime. They were bound by those commitments to introduce the regime.
I want to highlight in this piece, five things you might not know about the eTA regime.
By the way, I will not go through a comprehensive review of the regime. For those who want to read more about the policy changes in general, check out CIC's Program Delivery Update for August 1, 2015 and the text of new Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR) via the Part 2 – Gazette in April of this year. Check out also my colleague Steve Meurren's post for a summary of the new regime.
#1 – The eTA now allows for visa-exempt visitors to Canada to be issued removal orders from outside Canada. Until that removal order is enforced, the visitor will not get an eTA and not be allowed to come to Canada.
This authority is created by by subsection 240(2) of IRPR which states (emphasis added):
240. (1) A removal order against a foreign national, whether it is enforced by voluntary compliance or by the Minister, is enforced when the foreign national
When removal order is enforced by officer outside Canada
(2) If a foreign national against whom a removal order has not been enforced is applying outside Canada for a visa, an authorization to return to Canada or an electronic travel authorization, an officer shall enforce the order if, following an examination, the foreign national establishes that
(a) they are the person described in the order;
(b) they have been lawfully admitted to the country in which they are physically present at the time that the application is made; and
(c) they are not inadmissible on grounds of security, violating human or international rights, serious criminality or organized criminality.
And until that removal order is enforced (i.e. they meet the above requirements), s.25.2 of IRPR applies:
Electronic travel authorization not to be issued
25.2 An electronic travel authorization shall not be issued to a foreign national who is subject to an unenforced removal order.
#2 Cancelling an eTA (at least from a legal perspective) is not as easy as CIC makes it seem (from a policy perspective).
The intersection between policy and law always play an interesting role in Canadian immigration law. As the Federal Courts have made clear on several occasions, online instruction guides, processing manuals, operational bulletins (which now can be extended to include program delivery updates) do not constitute law.
Often times CIC will provide instructions that summarize the law without providing its full details or make recommendations that aren't legal policy (e.g. when they tell applicants they should apply for extensions 30 days before expiry for several programs, when often times doing may hurt their implied status).
CIC writes on their webpage regarding eTAs:
For how long is an eTA valid?
Section 12.05 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations indicates that an eTA is valid for five years or until the applicant's passport expires, whichever occurs sooner.
Section 12.06 of the Regulations indicates that an eTA can be cancelled by a designated officer. Once cancelled, an eTA is no longer valid.
While this statement is not incorrect per-se- it omits a few important details.
12.06 An officer may cancel an electronic travel authorization that was issued to a foreign national if
(a) the officer determines that the foreign national is inadmissible; or
(b) the foreign national is the subject of a declaration made under subsection 22.1(1) of the Act.
Subsection 22,.1(1) of the Act (Immigration and Refugee Protection Act) is an interesting one.
This section allows the Minister, on his or her own initiative, to declare that a foreign national cannot be come a temporary resident for a period of three years, justified by "public policy considerations." The underlying provisions has been in force since August 2013 but it appears no Federal Court jurisprudence (at least none that I could find) talk about this provision. To me it is a very discretionary provisions.
Could we see an increase of cancellations of eTAs on s.22.1(1) IRPA grounds where inadmissibility has not yet been made out but there is some concern about the individual's background? I certainly think so.
#3 – Adverse Information on your immigration file may mean your eTAs might take a while.
CIC has made available by way its most recent program delivery update, updated instructions for how to assess adverse information on file for an eTA applicant.
CIC writes (emphasis in original and added):
If the applicant previously applied for entry to Canada (either through a CIC program or through the CBSA at the port of entry), or if they are already known to CIC (through intelligence, for example), and if there is adverse information on file for the applicant, it will be uncovered through the automated eTA screening process, which will cause the application to be referred for manual review.
Officers should consider:
Did the adverse information result in a previous refusal?
If so:
What is the full story behind the refusal? Look at the case notes to fully understand the reason for the previous refusal. It is not sufficient to only look at the refusal ground(s).
Was the applicant previously refused because they did not meet the specific needs of the category to which they were applying? For example, if they were refused a work permit because they did not provide a labour market impact assessment, would this impact their eligibility to come to Canada as a visitor?
Have their circumstances changed since the refusal? Is this still a concern?
Has the applicant received an approval between the time of their eTA application and the adverse information on file? Note that the automated eTA screening process will not take this into account when determining if a case should be referred for manual review.
If not:
What type of adverse information is on file?
How long ago was it entered?
An officer must be satisfied that an applicant is not inadmissible to Canada under A34 to 40 prior to issuing an eTA. Officers initiate and conduct admissibility activities as needed. This may include screening requests to partners, criminal record checks, info sharing, medical exams and misrepresentation activities.
I find CIC's example of applying for a work permit without an LMIA kind of curious, as not meeting program requirements does not directly lead to an inadmissibility. However, it appears to suggest that for these type of cases, a procedural fairness letter may be sent to eTA applicants asking them to "explain the circumstances", with the ultimate fear being that an applicant is attempting to enter Canada to work without authorization.
What this all means, is an Applicant needs to be very careful with misrepresentation (a topic I have written about quite extensively, so see previous posts!).
#4 Permanent Resident Problems are Coming
Strategically for a permanent resident, there may have been reasons in the past to enter Canada on a separate passport or travel document (particularly if their permanent resident card had expired or was lost and/or they no longer met the residency requirement).
eTAs effectively end that practice and create an added barrier – the e-relinquishment process.
CIC writes in their website section titled "Manual processing Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) applications") (emphasis added):
Based on case history, is the applicant indeed a permanent resident?
Based on case history, has the applicant renounced their permanent resident status? Often, even though a person has renounced their status, their GCMS profile still shows them as a permanent resident.
Level 1 decision-makers at the OSC will query for these applications by performing a search in "IMM activities, Auto Searches." The "Activity" will be "Derogatory information," the "Sub-activity" will be "Client Derogatory Information," and the "Status" will be "Review Required."
If the applicant is a permanent resident and has not already gone through the formal process of relinquishing their status, they should be contacted to determine whether they would like to voluntarily relinquish their status
If the applicant does not wish to relinquish:
The officer must withdraw the application
Advise the applicant that they will need to get an appropriate travel document that demonstrates that they are a permanent resident, which may necessitate a determination of their status (PDF, 665.91 KB)
If the applicant would like to relinquish:
They may do so electronically
Once they have done so, and assuming they are otherwise admissible, the officer may issue the eTA
Again, expect this new eTA to increase the number of residency determinations and will likely trickle through to more appeals at the Immigration Appeal Division.
#5 Interactive Advance Passenger Information (IAPI) and Carrier Messenger Requirements (CMR) make Airline Staff the Front-Line Messengers for the new eTA program
An Applicant holds a valid eTA and is now booking a plane ticket. Now what?
There is a whole process that runs in the backdrop between commercial Airline Carriers and Canada Border Services Agency to inform them of who is on the plane that will be arriving in Canada. A lot of the front end information sharing will essentially begin with you entering your name into a flight reservation system to buy tickets all the way until you arrive in […]
Increased Canadian Immigration Obligation on Transportation Companies (Pt. 1)
This is the first part of a multi-part series which will look at the effect of the Canadian Government's increased security and information sharing measures may have on transportation to and from Canada.
On June 27, 2015, the Federal Government introduced new proposed "Regulations Amending the Protection of Passenger Information Regulations" through Part 1 – Canada Gazette.
While these regulations are several months away from being in force, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to see how the Immigration and Refugee Protections Regulations are being amended by the new legislation. In essence, I wanted to ask the question – "what will change?"
You will see below in the embedded pdf that I have taken a particularly interesting snippet from the proposed regulations, those placing obligations on commercial transporters to report information about their passengers, and done a comparison.
IRPR-Proposed-Amendments-Transport
The highlighted portions represent major changes.
Lessons Learned from this Exercise
I think the one thing we can take away is that the legislation in this area is becoming much more specific. The broad language that governed previous rules is being replaced by specific steps that commercial transporters (with a heavy emphasis now on both air and ground transport) must take and when they must take it.
It is very interesting to note that the requirements will be placed on commercial transporters to provide information about not only who was on the vessel but who is expected to be on the vessel. While not clarified in the legislation, it can be reasonably assumed that the Government wants to know more about the entire process – from the reservation to who actually boards the flight.
Another very interesting revelation is that the proposed regulations suggest that there will be much more communication between Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the commercial transporters. CBSA will let the commercial transporters know in advance who may be inadmissible and who may not have adequate documentation. This makes a lot of sense in the context of the electronic-Travel Authorization (eTA) requirement being implemented on August 1, 2015. Meanwhile, commercial transporters appear now to have increased obligations to guarantee the swift exit of those who are not authorized to enter Canada, including strict time deadlines.
What does this mean for the traveller? I think it means that much more vetting will occur at the front end with many airline/transport companies playing the role of a "quasi-2nd line CBSA officer." I think travellers also need to be very careful when questioned by CBSA officers that they provide accurate information about their travel itineraries. What does this mean for the transport companies? I think it is time to seek competent counsel (either in-house or external), as I expect the liabilities and compliance costs to increase drastically under several of these new regimes.
More to come in future posts on this topic!

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Буртни — упразднённое село в Лакском районе Дагестана. На момент упразднения входило в состав Ханарского сельсовета. В 1944 году все население села переселено в село Новолакское Новолакского района.

Географическое положение
Село располагалось в 5 км к северо-западу от районного центра — села Кумух у подножья горы Кунарибаку.

История
До вхождения Дагестана в состав Российской империи селение входило в состав Казикумухского ханства. Затем в Ханарском сельском обществе Мугарского наибства Казикумухского округа Дагестанской области. В 1895 году селение состояло из 28 хозяйств. По данным на 1926 год село состояло из 27 хозяйств. В административном отношении входило в состав Ханарского сельсовета Лакского района.

В 1944 году, после депортации чеченского населения с Северного Кавказа, все население села (31 хозяйство) были переселены на в село Банай-аул (ныне Новолакское) бывшего Ауховского района.

Население

По переписи 1926 года в селе проживало 107 человек (32 мужчины и 75 женщин), из которых: лакцы — 100 %. Кроме того числилось 20 отходников.

Примечания

Упразднённые населённые пункты Лакского района

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Renunciation of Citizenship
Please select the applicable form:
Form No. 1 – For adult applicants (18 and above)
Form No. 2 – For applicants with minor children
Form No. 3 – For applicants who acquired German citizenship while still a minor
Form No. 4 – For applicants who already acquired German citizenship through marriage
NOTE: Specific requirements can be found on the second page of each form.
Dual Citizenship (Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft philippinisch-deutsch)
Currently, Germany does allow dual citizenship in the following cases:
Those born in Germany after 01 January 2000 to parents who, upon said birth, 1) were both foreigners and 2) one parent has stayed in Germany legally for 8 years, and 3) the child has grown up in Germany, can now opt for both German citizenship and the citizenship of their parent's country when they turn twenty one (21).
The same exemption from the obligation to choose is applicable to those children of foreign parents who were born in Germany between 01 January 1990 and 31 December 1999 and were naturalized, becoming German citizens in the year 2000.
Those children born of mixed marriages (e.g. Filipino-German) are entitled to both citizenships (dual citizenship) by reason of blood.
Children born in the Philippines who were naturalized by adoption of German citizens.
Note: Former Filipinos who have been naturalized citizen of Germany may apply but they may be required to renounce their current citizenship in the absence of the relevant dual citizenship law in the host country.
Re-acquisition (Rückerwerb der Staatsbürgerschaft)
Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of 2003; Act 9225:
The Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of 2003 (Republic Act 9225) shall apply to former natural-born citizens of the Philippines, as defined by Philippine law and jurisprudence, who have lost their Philippine citizenship by reason of their naturalization as citizens of another country.
Corollary to the above, a former natural-born citizen of the Philippines who is abroad and is not an alien registered with the Philippine Bureau of Immigration shall file a petition under oath with the nearest Philippine foreign service post for the issuance of an Identification Certificate (IC) under Republic Act 9225.
Qualified applicants shall submit the following documentary requirements personally at the Consular Section of the Philippine Embassy in Berlin, Germany.
NOTE: All documents should come in one (1) original and three (3) photocopies
i. Duly-accomplished application form in triplicate.
ii. Any of the following documents showing proof of Filipino citizenship:
Philippine birth certificate;
Old or valid Philippine passport;
Voter's affidavit or voter's identification card;
Marriage contract indicating the Philippine citizenship of the applicant; or
Such other documents that would show that the applicant is a former natural-born citizen of the Philippines as may be accepted by the evaluating officer.
In all cases, the evaluating officer may require the submission of additional documents if there is reasonable ground to believe that the applicant is not a former natural-born Filipino.
iii. Eight (8) recent passport-size photographs of the applicant, six (6) of which are taken against a white background and the two (2) against a royal blue background (BI Memorandum Circular No. MCL-08-006).
Original Marriage Certificate, if applicable.
Proof of acquisition of foreign citizenship (Einbürgerungsurkunde) from the Landkreis Emsland. This document must have an English translation by a licensed translator (vereidigter Übersetzer) and certified by the State Judicial President (Landgericht) where the translator is registered.
If all initial documentary requirements are found in order, the Philippine foreign service post shall issue an Order of Approval and request the applicant to pay the processing fee of €45.00 and €22.50 for each qualified dependent plus €22.50 for the authentication of the Einbürgerungsurkunde.
vii. As a final procedure, the applicant shall be required to personally take his Oath of Allegiance before an authorized official of the Philippine Embassy.
viii. The Philippine Embassy will issue an Identification Certificate (IC) to applicants who have taken the Oath of Allegiance and whose papers have been forwarded to the Bureau.
Re-acquired Philippine citizenship under Republic Act 9225 may be revoked by the competent Philippine authorities upon a substantive finding of fraud, misrepresentation or concealment on the part of the applicant.
Derivative Philippine Citizenship.
Republic Act 9225 provides for the acquisition of Philippine citizenship by children, below 18 years old, of former natural-born Filipinos who have successfully re-acquired Philippine citizenship under the provisions of the same law. For concerned qualified applicants, the same documentary requirements shall be submitted to the Embassy (include the original marriage certificate of parents).
If born abroad (for minor children included in the petition of the applicant), the Birth Certificate issued by competent foreign authorities. Payment of processing fee of €22.50 per child included in the petition (per BI Memo Circular AFF. 05-002) plus fee of €22.50 per child for the Report of Birth that will be submitted to the Philippine National Statistics Office.
Name: Philippinische Botschaft
IBAN: DE 83 380 700 590 1950229 00
BIC: DEUT DE DK380
Please be advised that the Embassy follows the "NO REFUND POLICY " on fees paid by applicants for actual services rendered by the Embassy. "Actual services rendered" include, but are not limited to, services rendered from receipt of documents for review by the Consular Officer or, in case of payment, from the time of its receipt, and not merely restricted to the issuance of document. Fees for unserviced applications/applications no longer pursued are non-refundable.


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Luis is Vice President at FTI Compass Lexecon, an international consulting firm that provides research and analysis in the field of applied microeconomics, including the economics of competition, regulation and finance. Luis belongs to the Energy Practice group and is based in Madrid. He joined FTI Compass Lexecon (previously LECG) in May 2004. During his years in consultancy he has specialized in the energy sector. Luis has actively advised energy companies in Spain and Europe on issues related to natural gas price reviews and arbitrations, assessment of damages from breach of contracts, assessment of merger effects on market competition from important energy mergers in Spain. He has extensive knowledge of the major economic issues in relation to Spanish natural gas and electric power markets. He has worked and led project teams working on behalf of different producers in relation to three price reviews involving long-term supply contracts for LNG in Spain. He has also worked on a number of other price reviews involving LNG and piped gas in different parts of Europe. Luis has provided expert advice and written expert and oral testimony before antitrust, regulatory authorities and tribunals. Additional work relates to economic analysis of energy markets from a regulatory perspective including cost benefit analysis and the impact on competition of newly introduced regulation. Luis is also co-author on several articles related to the liberalization of the Spanish energy market, competition in the Spanish power market, and the role of renewable energy in the Spanish power market.


Best method for joining boards edge-to-edge?
I want to join eight 2.25" wide by .75" thick by 18" long boards (alternating boards of walnut and maple) to form a single 18" by 18" panel. I'm thinking that wood glue alone would be strong enough for that, because it would all be glued on edge grain.
However, after making the 18" by 18" panel, I need to cut it into 8 boards again (making the cuts perpendicular to the grain) and then join those together to reform the 18" by 18" panel (ending up with a panel that is made from sixty-four 2.25" squares, i.e., a checkerboard). The problem is, I'd be dealing with joining end grain to end grain at that point, and I've heard that glue isn't as effective on end grain as it is on edge grain. Would I need some form of mechanical joints (like biscuit joints maybe?) in addition to wood glue?
Re: Best method for joining boards edge-to-edge?
Why don't you get a thin piece of mdf and then glue the squares to the bottom board?
That's an option, but I like the idea of it just being solid hardwood and nothing else. By gluing it down to a substrate, it would then need some sort of edging/trim/molding to hide the edge of the substrate, which never looks as nice as if the edges were just solid hardwood through-and-through in the first place.
I know that the solid blocks of wood thing can be done effectively, because the Drueke company has made checkerboards like that for ~60 years, and they have always been highly regarded. I've heard that Drueke uses tongue and groove, but I don't know if that is true or not.
I built one of these back in high school. I used a biscuit joiner for most of the joints. I then added a edge piece to hide the edges. It is currently on display at my parents house otherwise I'd take a closer look and a picture because it has been a little while.
A friend of mine made a checkerboard the exact same way and AFAIK, has had zero problems with its integrity.
If you are really, really concerned, the easiest way out might be to use tongue and groove. It can even be created on your table saw if you don't have a router.
Bisquit Joiner as already said.
You could also use dowels. Not as nice as the biscuit joints, but cheaper if you don't have the tools.
I think you'll be ok with just glue, because of the relatively large surface area, unless you need it to be super strong. biscuits are more for getting the joints lined up rather than adding strength anyway. If you need it to stand up to a beating, I would use Tongue and groove. You could make a slot in each - t moulding style - and then insert a separate piece for the Tongue.
I made a chessboard like this in junior high woodshop. Just used glue, it's still around to this day, in fact my mom uses it as a table/plant stand with a wooden base that she had. It's pretty strong. Held up over 20 years.
Like many others have said - Biscuit Joiner or Dad Tounge and Groove. But both of those require special equipment. (table saw w/ dado blades or biscuit joiner).
If you're on a tight budget, dowl rods, a hand drill and some paitence go a long way.
If you do buy a biscuit joiner - don't go cheap. The $150 Dewalt (amazon.com) is about as low as I'd go.. anything cheaper usually has a plastic fence and you'll end up redoing things a lot because of drift.
Your right, gluing end grain is going to be weaker, but it is still going to be a really strong joint. I would likely use dowels, but I have a Dowelmax jig, and I wouldn't trying to align mating dowel joints with a cheap jig.
I might suggest just using a spline if you're really concerned. If you you have a slot cutter you can do this with a router, and then glue a spline in the grove you cut. You can stop short of making a full length groove, and you will see no evidence of a spline on any exterior edge.
Again, unless your going to really abuse this, the end to end glue joint is still going to be really strong.
method I use for wide panels is to not plane the boards down to finish thickness at first. I then glue up "mini" panels that are not wider than can be handled on the planar I have. I then plane these mini panels down to the final thickness. You then have fewer "boards" to worry about a precise glue-up. You can now glue these mini panels together using whatever method you wish. (dowels, biscuits, splines, cawls, etc.) This cuts down on the final sanding or scraping or whatever method you use before applying finish. This works for me and I have made several tables, or cabinets requiring wider panels.
Dude. The last post was from 2011.


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For the second year in a row, ADEA staff has conducted a comprehensive review and analysis of state legislation recently enacted as well as state rules and regulations either pending or finalized regarding prescription drug and opioid abuse. The information has been compiled into a chart organized state-by-state, in alphabetical order. The chart also provides links to resources with additional information.
To stay updated as relevant opioid legislation is introduced for the 2018 legislative cycle, please visit the ADEA United States Interactive Legislative Tracking Map and the ADEA United States Interactive Regulatory Tracking Map; select "Prescription Drug Monitoring" from the drop-down menus. Information on the ADEA interactive maps is updated daily.


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We are looking for an organised, motivated and enthusiastic Community Outreach and Recruitment Assistant to take a key role in the promotion and recruitment of Born in Bradford research studies in pregnancy and the early years. This will include taking a lead role in engaging families from Central and Eastern European countries into the Born in Bradford's Better Start (BiBBS) birth cohort study
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an initiative which will have real impact for families in Bradford. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, Better Start Bradford aims to help children in three wards of the city, Little Horton, Bowling and Barkerend, and Bradford Moor, to get the best start in life. They provide more than 20 projects for pregnant women and families with children aged 0-3 years. The Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub, part of Born in Bradford leads on the evaluations of all projects to find out the best ways to improve the social and emotional development, communication and language development, and health and nutrition of young children. BiBBS an established birth cohort study, part of the Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub and will be used to support these evaluations
The post holder will have the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of day to day running of the BiBBS study, including recruiting families by working alongside antenatal clinic at Bradford Royal Infirmary, arranging and undertaking interviews at families' homes and by phone; and collecting data and samples.
The post holder will play a key role in the engagement of families from Central and Eastern European communities with Born in Bradford projects, particularly focusing on recruitment into the BiBBS study. The post holder will need to have experience of working with families in the community and be able to speak one or more common Central and Eastern European language. You will be organised and able to work under your own initiative to meet tight deadlines as well as having an approachable and friendly manner. The post is fixed term until April 2023. We are happy to consider part time hours and job sharing for this post.
For informal enquires please contact Sally Bridges, BiBBS Programme Manager [Email: Sally.Bridges@bthft.nhs.uk, Tel: 01274 383914
Born in Bradford is a registered charity (no. 1061753). This post is funded by the National Lottery through the Community Fund.
We can offer staff gymnasiums on both hospital sites, excellent pension scheme and advice on childcare.
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If you define yourself and your approach to software development according to a technical platform then I fear for your future and your customers.
Being this limited in your software development approach will for sure cause you a lot of problems down the road because you're limiting yourself too much.
Being a .NET or Java developer says nothing about how to use your platform/language skills. Mentioning a technology carries no promise that would assure me, as a customer, that you know how to tackle my problems.
How do you analyze my problems?
How do you make sure that you have identified my core problems and don't start tackling just the icing on the cake?
How do you assure me that the solution you will build is sufficiently well designed (separation of concerns, sufficiently small domain model that wont get me into all kinds of trouble, will be maintainable, etc.)?
How do you assure me that you know how to deliver a quality solution without essential bugs?
How do you assure me that my maintenance costs wont skyrocket because you hacked together a solution?
If you can tell me that you can draw upon many approaches, such as Domain Driven Design (DDD), Use Case analysis, Transaction analysis, Service analysis, Domain modeling, SOLID, GRASP, SOA, CAP, EDA, CQRS, Hexagonal Architecture, Model Driven Development (MDD), Specification by Example, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile, Lean etc. then I will start to believe that you're balanced and will do your very best to pick the approaches and solutions that will work best for my particular problem.
As a wise man once said: "I hire for attitude and train for skills".
If you tell me you can a have made god architecture based on all the mentioned acronyms, I know you are the over-engenering-type, that focus more on the technology and being bussword compliant than actually solving the customers problem.
I you tell me you have delivered successfully projects the last x years, and you only know one platform, I'm happy. Not because of your language, but because of your track record.
Is it bad to know a lot of Design Patterns? In my opinion No.
Is it bad to apply a lot of Design Patterns? In my opinion Yes, because they often end up causing more problems than they solve.
The list above focuses primarily on the mental approaches that focus on understanding the customers needs.
When you understand their needs, you will stand a much better chance of picking the right solution(s).
I've seen so many poorly designed projects, because people focus on technology first and fore most.
I want those that I pay to solve my problems to explain their attitude/mental approach before they explain their technology.
The technical part is mentioned to show that there's so many ways to use your platform/technology and you should know as many of them to be able to choose the best design, which will hopefully be a minimalistic design that solves the problems best measured against time-to-market vs cost-of-maintenance in accordance to the customers wishes.
This means you need to know the cost and trade offs for all the technical approaches you hopefully have in your bag.
What I'm after in this blog post, is that you can tell me, as a customer, more than you're using platform/language/technology X.
I'm requesting that you either show me (preferred) or tell me something that will convince me that you know how to deliver a good solution that solves my problems. Different problems calls for different solutions, so unless you can show me a Track Record that lists many happy customers, that match my profile and problems, then I would request you tell me more on how you would approach my problem. Just saying you do platform/language/technology X will not cut it.
Telling af customer that you can do: "Domain Driven Design (DDD), Use Case analysis………" is just as meaningless as saying you can do .NET, Java, Ruby or PHP.
Those "acronyms" does not show that you "… focus on understanding the customers needs". It shows that you care more about the technology and architecture than solving the problem at hand.
I'm not saying that you should not use any of the mentioned methods/patterns/architecture… but your customer does not and should not care.
A customer needs to feel that you understands their problem, and the the solutions you propose makes sense. Also the customer would ideally get confirmations from other customers that you are reliable and fair.
Technically, all a customer needs to know is whether you can do Web development, Windows development, iOS Apps, Android Apps etc. And if you can write software that is maintainable, reliable, fast and can handle a lot of users. Throwing a bunch of buzzwords after the customer, will only scare them.
But your blog was arguing that .NET vs. Java was a bad measure when position your company. I agree… they are both capable of doing just about everything. All they need to know if what kind of software you can develop.
Save the buzzwords for when you look for new employees.
Thomas, I'm surprised you say that DDD and Use Case analysis is meaningless and that it doesn't show a focus on understanding the customer needs. How can it be anything else than an attempt at trying to understand the customers needs?
The definition of DDD is: DDD is not a technology or a methodology. It is a way of thinking and a set of priorities, aimed at accelerating software projects that have to deal with complicated domains.
I think explaining to a potential customer how you will approach understanding their needs, before talking technology details, is essential. I will not sell them on the fact that I can do DDD, but I will explain them the process and the approach that I would suggest using for the project (given the understanding that I have of it).
– How do you analyze my problems?
– How do you make sure that you have identified my core problems and don't start tackling just the icing on the cake?
– How do you assure me that the solution you will build is sufficiently well designed (separation of concerns, sufficiently small domain model that wont get me into all kinds of trouble, will be maintainable, etc.)?
– How do you assure me that you know how to deliver a quality solution without essential bugs?
– How do you assure me that my maintenance costs wont skyrocket because you hacked together a solution?
What I was after is your mental approach first and foremost.
When you've explained that, then I would like you to explain how you will solve my non-functional requirements (that's where technology/patterns becomes relevant and where Java, .NET or I do Web applications doesn't answer this).


Students will be better prepared for professional life if they leave law school with an ability to conceptualize legal theory, a sensitivity to the contexts in which legal rules operate and a concrete understanding of the lawyer's role as a professional problem solver. While retaining the methods used in traditional legal education, this text uses numerous exercises designed to engage students beyond the realm of traditional legal reasoning and to develop a core skill set crucial to employment discrimination attorneys.
Employment Discrimination: A Context and Practice Casebook asks students to view legal problems through different lenses, from the perspective of a plaintiff's lawyer, a judge, an in-house counsel, a defense attorney, a victim of discrimination, a person accused of discrimination, a human resources professional, and an employer. It helps students gain an understanding of what each of these individuals might consider in resolving a legal problem. The exercises' fact patterns involve both litigation and transactional contexts to help students understand the multi-faceted roles of employment discrimination attorneys.
Perhaps most importantly, this book also tries to help students understand how the policy and theory underlying discrimination law affect the doctrine. The book contains numerous problems challenging students to question the underlying theory of American employment discrimination law and to consider how the law might work differently if it were based on a different set of theoretical assumptions.
One of the highlights of the text is the Capstone Experience. The Capstone Experience gives students an opportunity to combine the theoretical, doctrinal, historical, and practical knowledge they have gained throughout the casebook and to use that knowledge to resolve real-world problems. The Capstone Experience provides five different exercises, each focusing on a different skill set.
"Thus, in addition to promoting traditional legal reading and analysis skills, the casebook also aims to promote the ability to conceptualize legal theory, sensitivity to the contexts in which legal rules operate, and understanding of the lawyer's role as a professional problem solver through background reading on the history, theory, policy, and practical considerations that have impacted the law's development and the outcome of particular cases and by emphasizing the importance of statutory interpretation alongside case law." — Book News Inc.


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And then I saw The September Issue, this weekend and in it, Grace Coddington considers an over the top couture black dress...with fuschia gloves appliqued across the front. The scene came and went in a flash so I can't recall the designer. Please let me know if you see the movie --which is worth seeing -- but not for any more insight on Anna Wintour but for a view inside the corridors of Vogue and a real hats off to Grace Coddingtonand her artistry.


Expand your critical thinking skills with Latino Equality Alliance, Las Fotos Project and Girls Today Women Tomorrow by watching the Half the Sky documentary! This film addresses the issue of women oppression in the United States and worldwide. Join us for the film and in-depth discussions. Do not miss out!


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Caratterizzazione – nelle opere narrative, processo di creazione e descrizione di personaggi immaginari
La caratterizzazione dei personaggi può essere fisica, psicologica, sociale, culturale e ideologica ed è funzionale al lettore per comprendere i comportamenti e le azioni dei personaggi.
 Caratterizzazione – in biologia, procedura di verifica della presenza di un microrganismo in un campione di materiale
 Caratterizzazione dei materiali – studio analitico finalizzato alla determinazione della composizione chimica dei materiali
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Roger Inc., an Ann Arbor based provider of software to fitness professionals and enthusiasts, announces two new partnerships with UM Department of Recreational Sports and Ypsilanti High School Athletic Department.
PushXL, Roger Inc.'s flagship product is now installed at Ypsilanti High School. The software will allow Ypsilanti High School football coaches to plan and monitor the strength and conditioning workouts of their student athletes.
Roger Inc. has also signed a Letter Of Intent with the University of Michigan's Department of Recreational Sports. Recreational Sports personal trainers will use PushXL to perform fitness assessments as well as plan and monitor the progress of their clients.
"Both of these installations take advantage of our ability to custom tailor PushXL", says John Gary, President of Roger Inc.
"We're building an administrative module based on Ypsilanti High's requirements, to allow the coaches to more easily manage all of their athletes. We're adding fitness assessment modules to PushXL based on Recreational Sports' requirements, to support the PAR-Q and Health History questionnaires as well as several fitness assessment and body composition modules," Gary adds.


Spokane Chiefs blogger Frank Guill (@gochiefsgoblog) joins Scott (@ssepich) to talk about the outlook for the Chiefs this season and why they might not be as bad as everyone thinks. They also touch on the labor investigation going on in the state of Washington, as well as the rumblings of a new arena in Tri-City. This podcast was recorded right after the opening weekend of the WHL season, so about a week before it was posted.


Discover the beautiful surroundings of Split, enjoying beautiful views and mountain fresh air.
This tour is going to take you to the top of the Mosor mountain, mountain range in located to the East of Split and its highest peak- Veliki Kabal peak at 1,339 m.a.s.l.
We meet at the designated shuttle point and continue to Sitno Gornje, small settlement above Split, beneath Mosor mountain.
From Veliki Kabal we follow the crest of the mountain to just 14 m lower peak which bears the same name as the mountain but is now better known as Vickov stup (Vicko's pole), which is the name of a small red shelter that stands several meters from the peak.
After the break, it's all downhill from there, a sharp descent takes us all the way to the settlement of Sitno Gornje standing at 575 m.a.s.l. where the shuttle is waiting to take you back to the hotel.


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This interchange lies within the Municipality of Iraklio, at the northern terminus of Kymis Avenue. It provides free flow access to Attiki Odos from northern Athens, i.e. from Galatsi, Lamprini, Patissia, as well from the Municipalities of Psychiko, Filothei, N. Ionia, Iraklio, Maroussi and Pefki. The structures' design and construction allow for a future extension of Kymis Avenue to the north, in order to complete access to the Athens - Lamia Motorway and provide fast access to the Olympic Village in Thrakomacedones.


Great guest post from TicketChain. Their main goals are to reduce touting & eradicate fraud in the secondary market ticketing industry.
Touting scandals have been hitting headlines recently, and all eyes were on Ed Sheeran this week to see if he has come up with a way to outsmart the touts. Artists such as Mumford and Sons, Rag'n'Bone Man, Adele and Chance the Rapper have previously attempted to enforce ticketing methods that address this pressing issue, but with limited success. The most recent iteration opted for by the Ed Sheeran team involves attaching a ticket to the original purchaser's identity. This requires the purchaser ultimately to attend the event, in order for any tickets in the group to be allowed entry. Problem solved? Apparently not.
Although Sheeran's approach has certainly reduced the extent of touting, a quick scan of secondary markets such as Viagogo will see hundreds of tickets on sale for 115% to 400% above face value. Evidently, the demand for the event and the subsequent profit margins remain substantial. Demand exists such that people are even willing to go to an event with a complete stranger or hope they will ultimately forgo checking IDs on the night.
Aside from not comprehensively addressing the problem, this method of ticketing presents other issues. Primarily, parents who wish to buy tickets for their young teenagers and do not want to attend the concert themselves may encounter issues with venue entry. Given that Ed Sheeran's target audience consists largely of young people, this is certainly a contention point. It also remains unclear how these additional ticketing procedures will affect queuing times.
Ultimately, the presence of physical tickets limits the success of any anti-touting strategy. Unless you can completely control how tickets are transferred in a secondary market, there is always the propensity for touting. If paper tickets or e-tickets are in physical circulation, tickets and cash can still be exchanged outside of the system regardless of anti-touting measures. A comprehensive solution, therefore, should not contain any physical tickets.
As more ticket issuers migrate towards the use of email for issuing "e-tickets", the opportunities for fraud have multiplied. The prevalence of peer-to- peer unregulated marketplaces has created an ideal environment for individuals to engage in fraudulent activities. This includes photoshopping fake copies of tickets, or simply selling the same ticket printed multiple times.
The growing 'sharing' culture on social media has also played a role in the rise of fraudulent activities. Innocent fans uploading photos of their newly purchased tickets risk them being stolen if they fail to obscure the barcode.
A novel solution to the issue of touting and fraud can be explored through digital tickets that cannot be printed. Secure digital tickets coupled with a secondary market controlled by the venue presents a powerful platform to eradicate touting.
Genuine fans unable to attend an event can resell their ticket on the hosted secondary marketplace, which restricts pricing to face value. Tickets can then be purchased by individuals remotely in an instant, for a fair price, and without exorbitant fees.
The benefits of this? No more printed tickets means no more trading in unregulated marketplaces. No more identity tied to tickets means transfers are possible, and no more static barcodes means fraud through ticket duplication is eliminated. Paperless ticket systems have been trialled in the past, but with mixed results. In a desperate move to beat touts, Ticketmaster opted to utilise their Ticketmaster Paperless offering for the West End show Hamilton and the U2 Joshua Tree tour. Tickets were permanently tied to the credit card used by the ticket purchaser.
The internet was flooded with complaints about these heavy restrictions, which made it near impossible to get refunds or transfer tickets. The additional identity checks and credit card swiping resulted in waiting times of around two and a half hours for U2, even causing some fans to miss the supporting act. It is clear that this approach massively impacted the overall fan experience.
A system without flexibility will always involve compromises from the consumer, but this does not need to be the case. It is at this point where digital startups are making themselves known. Startups such as Dublin-based TicketChain and London-based Dice are both leading the charge on secure digital ticketing solutions. In doing so, they are aiming to educate end users about the benefits of new ticketing methods and highlight the advantages of secure resale markets.
According to the FanFair Alliance in the UK, over £1 million was made last year by touts in the UK alone. A large percentage of this was also retained by secondary market providers. Therefore, it is clear there is a long way to go. However, with the advent of innovative paperless solutions and new approaches to validating tickets, the future of ticketing looks increasingly bright.


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The Ohio River Flood, 1937
Although it was not the first, the flooding of the Ohio River in January of 1937 is the worst recorded flooding of the river in history. This flood drove millions from their homes along the Ohio River Valley, and claimed nearly 400 lives. The flood was caused from the thawing of the Ohio River combined with 19 days of pouring rain. The total cost of damages in 1937 was estimated to be $500 million, and today that would be inflated to $7 billion. A flood wall was constructed by the Huntington District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after this devastating flood.
The Princess Shop, located at 911-913 3rd Avenue, Huntington, WV, shown during the Ohio River Flood of 1937.
The early settlers along the Ohio River claimed that the river had very drastic changes, as one day it could be a mile wide and a foot deep, and then it would rise quickly and dramatically with the rain. In January of 1936, the Ohio River crested at 55.2 feet in Wheeling, fifteen feet above flood level, making it the worst flooding of the Ohio River to date. The Wheeling Island was completely submerged in this flood and all residents of the Island were evacuated. During the 1937 flood the Ohio River in Wheeling only crested at 47 feet, however it still managed to cover most of the city. In Parkersburg, the Ohio River crested at 55 feet, but the police and fire departments still worked even though they had to travel by boat. Huntington, WV was hit the hardest during the flood of 1937; the Ohio River crested at 69 feet, which was 19 feet above flood level. Downtown Huntington businesses were forced to close for two weeks, and drinking water was hard to come by. Five people were found dead after the waters receded, and many businesses and houses were left in ruins.
Collis P. Huntington chose the land that is now Huntington to expand his railroad ventures so that the railroad and steamboat industries could become one. Collis P. Huntington's selection was extremely successful, however the town was flooded by the Ohio River almost every year. When Huntington was first developing and the Ohio would rise and recede, the people would quietly clean up the mess and go about their business, but no one was prepared for the flood of 1937. January of 1937 was unusually warm, and the thawing of the Ohio along with 19 days of rain caused the waters to rise to the worst levels in recorded history. First responders, volunteers, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers traveled around downtown Huntington in rowboats when the waters crested 19 feet above flood level to help assist people to nearby relief centers.
This devastating flood resulted in the creating of the Huntington Flood Wall, built by the Huntington District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the wall has since protected Huntington from an estimated $238.8 million of flood damages. The Huntington Chamber of Commerce president, Col. Joseph H. Long, pioneered the efforts for the creation of the flood wall, and fought for the wall all the way to the West Virginia Supreme Court. Huntington City Engineer John S. Gillespie traveled to Washington D.C on June 15th to urge Congress to provide the Ohio River Valley with future protection from potential flooding. Chief of Engineers Edward Markham presented to the House Committee on Flood Control and showed them pictures of the flood in Huntington, and also provided statistics on past floods and how local businesses have suffered. Congress approved the flood wall on the terms that they would supply the wall if Huntington supplied the land. Huntington City Council sold bonds to finance the land acquisition, and then repaid the bond money with a new "floodwall tax" that was levied on all property the wall would protect. Cabell County Circuit Court tried to fight the new taxation, but the West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the decision.
The Flood Wall was built in three phases: Huntington, Westmoreland, and Guyandotte. The Huntington flood was started construction on August 1st, 1938, and was completed in early 1940. The flood wall was the only project of the Corps to not be halted and postponed due to World War II. This was because the flood wall was to protect the International Nickel Co. that was suppling materials vital to the Manhattan Project. The flood wall was fully complete in 1943, and a bronze plaque was placed at the entrance of the 10th Street gate.
American Red Cross. "Ohio-Mississippi Valley Flood Disaster of 1937." Washington, DC: 1938. Casto, James E. "Flood of 1937." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 21 December 2012. Web. 19 January 2016. Johnson, Leland R. "Men, Mountains, and Rivers." Washington, DC: USGPO, 1977.
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17/06/2014 / cats
The Wrong Number of Cats
In my opinion there is only one wrong number of cats to have, and that is none.
I wasn't always That Cat Guy. When I was very young my Mum had a dog - a poodle called Freddie. I don't remember him well, only that he died while I was a kid, in my Mum's arms as we left the vet. He had a heart attack right there in the street and by the time we ran back to the vet's surgery he'd gone. He was fairly old, I think, but of course that didn't help any. It doesn't. Mum was distraught.
A few years later we got a rabbit. He was jet black all over and - this being the 70s, before political correctness had been invented - Mum named him Ayatollah. Go figure. He died before very long, as it happened - there was an accident involving me learning to ride a bike... The indelible picture in my head is at least as grim as you are probably imagining it to be. At least he didn't suffer.
We got another black rabbit the same week, and Mum struck again with the naming scheme by going for Cassius. Cassy, as he was inevitably known, lived a long rabbity life and was joined along the way by Sandy, Crystal, Measles and Inky, and when it turned out that Inky was in fact (contrary to assurances) female, a couple of litters of little black bunnies. Five adult rabbits and eleven kittens (baby rabbits are called kittens - FACT) was plainly Too Much Rabbits, and eventually Inky and her brood were taken to a rabbit shelter leaving us with just the remaining four adults, who dropped off one by one over the following few years, until eventually we were a petless household.
I've glossed over the hamsters here, which is remiss of me. The exact chronology of this eludes me but I suppose the string of little hamsters that started with Screwball and included such luminary characters as Miss Ellie and Snatch (yes, really) probably started around the time of Cassy's arrival and ended some time before the last of the rabbits - Sandy, the original hard bastard - departed. They were hamsters. There isn't a whole lot else to say about them. One story: the first day we got one, that evening Mum got him (Screwball) out of his cage and was walking across the room toward me with him just sitting in the palm of her hand. We'd never had little rodents before and knew nothing really about them, and so it as with horror and a simultaneous inward shriek of "Oh Christ he's going to die!" that we watched him swandive straight off Mum's hand, five inexorable feet to the floor. Of course, he didn't give a toss about our ignorance or expectations, and simply bounced once and ran off behind the telly. This same hamster once climbed to the top of a doorframe, around 6'6" off the ground and performed a very similar dive, with exactly the same result. Bounce, twitch whiskers, run away and (presumably) journal the results. (NB: I have no idea if this is normal. Please do not try this with your hamster. It may be that Screwy was just tough and/or A Mental.)
By the time the rabbits had all gone, I was a moody teenager with frustrating hair, acne and no luck with girls, and the last thing on my mind was pets, but it turned out that that wasn't the case for my Mum. One day in 1991 or 1992 I was walking home from college across the field when I saw Dad's car arrive in the driveway. Thinking no more of this - a perfectly ordinary event - I entered the house, wandered into the front room and chucked my college bag into a corner, then turned to regard the tiny little kitten sitting alone in the basket in the middle of the room. It was a little pretty grey kitten with long fur with a splash of white and sky blue eyes. It peered over the edge of the basket at me and said "Mew?" I honestly had no idea how to reply to this, so went to quiz my father. It transpired Mum had always wanted a pretty grey cat with blue eyes, and so he had gone out and bought her one. She was at work. This might have been a wedding anniversary thing, but I honestly cannot remember if that was the case or not. It's equally possible that Dad had just gotten around to it.
This little kitty was named Selina, and she was utterly beautiful, though she knew it. She would demand a fuss in exactly the way she wanted it, and if you got it wrong or continued it for a picosecond too long or dared retract the fussing hand a femtosecond too soon she would let you know that you had incurred her wrath in a very painful way. In latter life I swear she was sponsored by Wilkinson Sword. When Selina eventually passed on Mum got a rescue cat called Lucia, who she still had when she (Mum) died in February this year. Lucia was always a difficult cat, at least for most people. Mum told me she was a sweet thing to her and Dad, and in later years she eventually warmed to me and let me fuss her for up to five minutes at a time, but for anyone else she was a streak of black and brown fur legging it out the door and hiding until the strangers had gone. After Mum went she got rehomed with a family who had young children and I hear they hit it off famously, which fact makes me very happy.
At some point during Selina's tenure, I moved out of the parental home and in with my girlfriend Louise, and her enormous (I think I'm remembering this right) Setter/Wolfhound cross, Aslan. Louise's brother - my mate Paul - described Aslan with a phrase that still kills me to this day. "Aslan strong like bull! Smart like tractor!" I've honestly never got on well with dogs, and me and Aslan never saw eye to eye. He was a soppy slobbery thing, full of love and a burning desire to bark down anything that came within two-hundred yards of the letterbox. I'm saying "was" - for all I know he's still going, but this was 15 years ago, so perhaps not. It's not for me to know. It was in fact during my time living with Aslan that I discovered I'm actually a bit scared of big dogs. Not a fact I'm proud of, as it goes, but hey-ho. Chalk it up alongside all the other neuroses and move on.
I lived a pretty animal-free life for a bit, save the amount of time I spent with my good friend Jon, who had around that time got himself a whacking great Alaskan Malamute called Balto. I used to crash at Jon's place quite often, and around this time I would often wake up with my arm around Balto. I might not like big dogs, but they seem to like me well enough.
In 1999 I met a nice girl called Saffron, and in 2000 I moved into a flat with my mate Paul, and in May 2000 that went all kinds of Janice Long, so I moved in with Saffron and her family for a few months before moving to London that August. This is relevant because they had five cats: Gizmo, Kitty, Rusty, Sultan and Oscar. Sultan and Rusty were elderly black creatures who loved a fuss, their food, and lazing around on whatever you might be trying to read. Kitty was mischievous and lightning fast with his razor-sharp claws. Gizmo was (and still is) a highly-strung Persian/Norwegian-Forest-Cat cross with ginger cotton-wool fur and a little girly meow, and Oscar was a big loveable dope. I was commuting from Hastings to London at this point and I was the first one up every morning. And every morning I would come down to the kitchen for a glass of milk, and Oscar would be sitting bolt upright on the kitchen table waiting for me to come and scratch him behind the ears and tell him he was a big cuddly boy.
In August 2000 I moved to London (Saffron following the month after - she went into halls at South Bank University) into a shared house with two other programmers who also worked in what I thought was called New Media, but later found out was actually called advertising. This was just after the first dotcom crash, as the second dotcom bubble was still inflating. Many were the late night all-staff parties, the little metal scooters, the nights crashing on a workmate's sofa. Around this shared house there was this ginger cat who would occasionally appear in the back garden, and who would sometimes come down to the back door while you were cooking and scratch at the door until you opened it and gave him some of whatever you were making. It was obvious he didn't have an owner - he was basically a stray and was making good with all the terraced houses, getting by on whatever people would give him, and sunning himself on our shed roof in between.
In mid-2002 it was time for me and Saffron to get our own place, which we did (renting alas), and we took that big soppy ginger cat with us and named him Trevor. Trevor was the most wonderful cat I could ever have imagined, and remains to this day one of my very best friends I've ever had. It was crushing when he got ill just after Christmas 2011 - we never really found out what he had, but hyperthyroidism was initially suspected and other suspected problems linked to his declining health over that six months included asthma, heart disease, and even cancer. Whatever the case, right at the end he ballooned in size and couldn't look after himself, and we had to make the impossible choice for him, and send him to play with the big ball of string in the sky.
RIP Trevor the cat, 11/6/2012. We still think of you every day, Trevley-Paws.
As mentioned previously, the giant furry hole in our lives was made bearable by Shira, the little black and white 18-year-old moglet we inherited when we moved into our current (still rented, dammit) house in Hemel Hempstead. In those early days in 2012, the pain of losing Trevor was so hard on Saffron that she almost shunned Shira for a little while. She just couldn't move on from Trevor, she loved him so much and it didn't help that Shira had actively hissed at and attacked Trevor pretty much every time they met over the 6 or 7 weeks that they coexisted in the same house. She had of course lived in this house with no other cats for 18 years, and then we go bringing a huge great boy cat into her domain. But any hardness or resistance between Saffron and Shira melted away in next to no time, once the rawness of loss had started to scab over a little, due to Shira's innate loveableness.
Shira wormed her way into both our hearts in no time and soon I had more pictures of her on my phone than I did of guitars, or of me looking cool in the band. Soon she was all we thought about when we went away on holiday, and I even set up a spy-cam so that we could watch the cat sitter feeding her when we were on holiday in Santorini last year.
Well, as also mentioned previously, Shira recently got very ill. She just stopped eating, and once again we will never know exactly what it was she had. And it is with the very heaviest of hearts that I report that we lost her this morning. She'd seemed like she was going to bounce back again and again, but in the end it seems she had used up all her 18-or-so lives, and it was finally time for her to go. I knew this morning when I came down and found her sitting next to the sofa, having been unable to get up onto it in the night, that the time had come. The vet was wonderful as always, and now our beloved Little Bear is buried at the bottom of the garden here, at the house she lived in for all that time, and next to Trevor.
RIP Shira the cat, 16/6/2014. Our darling Little Bear. Bobble, Shouty Bob, Feetsie, Queen of Tail, the Little Minx. Do excuse me, I have something in my eye.
So now, for the first time in 12 years, we have the wrong number of cats. And there is only one wrong number of cats - and that number is none.
Clive Murray
Rock guitarist and gentleman adventurer from a land before time.
AotY
Clive's Album of the Year, 2018
We appear to be smack-gob in the middle of another golden age of music, at least for the music I like.
Mirror cube solve
Solving my mirror cube in 4:06. (Video, duration 1:14)
4x4 solve
Here we see our hero solving the Supernova WuQue 4x4 M in a pretty poor time of 5:00. (Video, duration 1:13)
If R' D' R D means anything to you, you know the kind of thing I'm talking about.
G is for...
...Jon Gomm
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Priti Patel resigns as Home Secretary as incoming PM Truss plans to fill key posts
In her resignation letter to Boris Johnson, Priti Patel says "it has been the honour of my life to serve our country as home secretary for the last three years and to deliver on our commitments to back and reform our police, stand up for the hard-working law-abiding majority, reform our immigration and asylum system, and fight terrorism".
"Your support over this period has delivered an unparalleled package of reforms and investment."
Speaking about policies on migration and slavery, including the Rwanda asylum scheme, Patel said: "As we know, there is no single solution to this huge challenge and the Government must tackle the full spectrum of issues to halt the illegal entry of migrants to the UK."
"I congratulate Liz Truss on being elected our new leader, and will give her my support as our new prime minister."
She continues: "It is my choice to continue my public service to the country and the Witham constituency from the backbenchers, once Liz formally assumes office and a new home secretary is appointed."
"From the backbenches, I will champion many of the policies I have stood up for both inside and outside government."
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